Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-09

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lngton, but he has the merit of keep
ing those in service who demonstrate
their ability and truStworthinesS. No
man who accepts clerkship in any
of the departments at the capital can
hope TO, become rich, but if he behaves
himself and gives reasonable attentions
to the work he is assured of employ
ment for about rs long as he cares to.
work The man who has been longest
in Uncle Sans employ is James f.
Hobbs, one of the disbursing clerks.
For more than fifty-three years he has
come and gone in The regular routine
of his work fof the government. During
his half-century of service for the gov
eminent he has paid out over $780,
100000, and there is not one scratch
against him showing an error of
single penny. There are several other
clerks who have worked half a century
and a large number who have been in
the service for more than forty years.
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Backed by the Navy Department,
Fred j. Buenzle. a chief yoeman in the
United States Navy. has begun suit
for $500 damages against the New
port Amusement Association. which
conducts the Seaview Dancing pavilion,
because he was excluded from the.
place of amusement on account of his
sailors uniform. Recovery of the sum
paid for the ticket and $500 for the
modification, indignity and
humiliation are demanded This is the.
first civil action ever taken to eStab-
fish the rights of United States sailors.
to appear at social entertainments in
uniform. 1t is understood that the
Navy Department is paying the legal
fees in order to establish Il precedent.
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Filming of employees as a means Of
discipline in the postal SER
vice, a system that has been in opera
ton for many years, is to be abolished.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock, who has jurisdiction of all
postoffice employees, has reached the
conclusion that it is detrimental rather
than helpful. He proposes to estab-
llsh a uniform system of efficiency rec
ords. To that end he has started AS
sistaEt Superintendent John \. Holmes
of his bureau on a tour of inspection
of the largest postotfices of the United
States. Or. Holmes will confer with
postmasters and their assistants re-
garding the change.
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From a dray in the service of the
United States Subtreasury in New York
City bag containing fifty dollars in
nickels fell to the street, and the coins
scattered in every direction. The crowd
scrambled for the coins. An officer of
the Treasury Department and police
man explained that the money belonged
to the government, and requested that
it be given back. The response was
immediate. Every one of the thousand
coins was returned. There is no reason
to suppose that this crowd had been
specially chosen by fate to represent the
American people.
Preparation for war is an expensive
process. The United States gunboat
Bancroft has just been consigned to
the scrap-heap after but thirteen years
of service; and the battleship Texas
and the cruiser Philadelphia-both
comparatively recent vessels = have
been withdrawn from active duty.
Within a short time thirty British war
vessels have been sold for a sum the
aggregate of which was less than the
cost of the smallest of the vessels sold.
A naval vessel wears out quickly, even
in peace; for a vessel that is obsolete is
worn out for naval use.
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Who owns the champion egg layer Of
all hens? This question is raised by
the Agricultural Department, through
the temporary awarding of the prize to
a fowl possessed by worthy citizen Of
Alexandria, Va. The award is sub
iect to revision and later returns may
deprive the proud Alexandrian of his
laurels The Virginia champion has
since Oct. >, 1905, POI eggs to her
credit and before the close Of the year
will cross the 300 mark. Exclusive OF
the moulting season the hen has laid
an egg every twenty-fv hours.
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Bodies of the pauper dead in the Dis
trict of Columbia are not to be buried
in the potter's field, but are to be ere.
mated, for Congress has appropriated
SIS 600 for building a suitable crema-
tory. Objection to cremation is heard
less frequently than it was a genera
ton ago, possibly because the people
have begun to understand that inciner-
alton is only a quickening Of the nat
ural process that goes on in the
ground.
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The department of Commerce and
Labor finds that the value of raw cot
ton exported in the last fiscal year, for
the first time, passed the S400,000,00O
mark, exceeding by far the value of any
other article of merchandise sent out If
the country Exports of breadstuffs
reached S1S60O0,000, provisions SILL.
100000, and those of iron and steel
$161 100000. Europe is the principal
customer for our raw cotton and China
for the manufactured product.
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Genera lorders issued by the War
Department fix the enlisted strength Of
the army at 62,J1J men. There are 49,.
Ic- II, fhn arti1Iarv coruc "a 400 mon
in the thirty regiments of infantry,
,2S2 in the three battalions of engi.
neers and 4,47S in staff departments.
Bluejackets from the ships of the
squadrons are permitted to
travel free on the New Zealand rail-
ways, as the government considers that
heir talk of the country when they re-
turn home will attract immigrants.