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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29

fatally, and, although only an instant
before they had been on opposite sides
enemies-Will handed him the cup, say
ing family: Here, you are worse off than
| am And if | live to be a thousand
years old l can never forget the look in
that southerner's eyes as he took the cup
He couldn't talk much, he was so far
gone, but his eyes spoke more gratitude
than words could have done.
'As Will lay there suffering for q
drink, and if you've never suffered for
water you don't know what it is. Its
harder than facing any bullet. l saw
ne couldn't last much longer, and | laid
down my gun and raised his head a little
He tried to ask which side was winning
and then smiled and said family: Tel
father'-but what was to tell was never
finished. l often wish l could have told
him that we won that awful battle. but
when he died it looked pretty dark for us
There, my children, you know the
story of that soldier now. and not brav-
er one lies under any of these white
stones"
Silently Frank and Amy knelt down
and covered the grave with their flowers,
and then quietly stole away. leaving the
two soldiers alone with their dead com
rade.
There is one soldiers grave in that
cemetery that will never want for flowers
on Decoration day. and the first violets
that open their blue eyes in the spring
will blossom there, end after they have
faded their leaves will keep this one SPOT
green all summer.-Chicago Record Her.
aid
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
ARLINGTON CEMETERY.
Regarded as One of the Great Sho,
Places of the World.

Regarded as One of the Great Show
Places of the World.
There are four national cemeteries
within a few miles of the White House
Beyond the Potomac mile and a half as
the crow flies, is Arlington, the largest
and most famous Of them all. There on
the annual holiday which a grateful ma
ton has devoted to this memorial duty
the orator employs his choicest speech
in tribute to the virtues of the dead, the
we'll trained military band revivifies the
stirring old war songs and flowers are
everywhere. Arlington is one of the
show places of the world.
In one respect Arlington is unlike any
other of our national cemeteries; at the
others few interments have been made
since the period Immediately following
the war, but beautiful Arlington every
rear sees wearers of the blue brought
from all parts of the country to swell the
forces of the silent army. There are now
buried at this national resting place for
fallen warriors more than 10000. OF
these 4,611 are nameless on the human
record.
Two hundred acres were originally set
aside Tor cemetery purposes. 10 this
several additions have been made from
time to time. This section is inclosed
by a low wall and is entered through
four great memorial gates-the McClel-
Ian, the Fort aiyer, the Ord and Weitzel
and the Sheridan, the last named being
the main entrance. An open circular
colonnade surmounted by a dome is
known as the Temple of Fame. On the
cornice are the names of Washington,
Lincoln, Grant and Farragut. At the
rear of that is the large amphitheater in
which the Memorial day services of the
Grand Army of the Republic are held.
The Sheridan gate is fanked on each
side by marble columns taken from the
old War Department building. They
bear the names of Lincoln, Scott, Grant
and Stanton.
There are many costly and stately
monuments at Arlington of modern art.
1t is doubtful, however, if there is to be
found in the whole impressive panorama
a more fective ensemble than the vast
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John Paul Jones is good and buried
now.
Lord help the clerk of the Russian
douma who has to read the roll
How fast time flies. Here is the sweet
girl graduate again 'in our midst"
The word of the day in the anthracite
regions in Pennsylvania is Back to the
mines ~
That Russian official who caught
bomb thrown at him would mako valua-
BILE man for the Gar to have behind the
bat.
The crater of Vesuvius has enlarged
from 100 to 5000 feet. Getting regu-
lar pie mouth
Remarkable the number of papas COM
PEELED to go to the circus just to please
the children.
Plan on foot to pump the hot air ont
of New York during the summer. Make
it permanent.
In addition to its woes, San Francisco
must now listen to the man who pre-
dicted it afterward.
There is no amendment yet in the rail-
road bill touching the swinish passenger
who takes two seats.
If Congress doesn't settle the rate ques-
ton pretty soon. the college commence
ment orators viii.
Mr.. Shonts cannot build his canal I'M
less he knows whether it is to be a sub
way or a skyscraper.
Col. Walter WeIlman has started on
his undertaking to discover the North
pole via the hot-air rcrtc.
Some of those guards al San Francisco
are handling firearms as if a gun was
cross between joke and toy.
Nine. Homer. the opera singer, in the
reign of terror at San Francisco, escaped
in her husbands trousers. Still, women
have worn the breaches before.
The fact that King Alfonso has declin-
ed TO receive any wedding presents win
relieve a lot of us of anxiety.
The press agents of the opera COM
panies couldn't have made more out of il
if it had been two earthquakes
The San Francisco earthquake also
shook several million dollars out of Ljv-
erpool, England. and Hartford, Conn.
Now the man who had a friend who
once visited San Francisco viii proceed
to tell you just how it all occurred.
The Sight of Caruso, who charges ST.
500 a night for sing hauling his own
trunk around San Francisco must have
brought JOY TO the hearts Of tie plain
people.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
MONUMENT TO SHERIDAN.

the Colonial Danes of America. Close by
sleep the victims of the i'll fated battle
ship Maine. On the bluff east of the
house is the space set apart for the
graves of officers. In front of the build
ing and near the great central flagstaff
are the tombs of Philip II. Sheridan and
Admiral David d. Porter. Almost ad-
joining are the graves of Gen. j. H.
Baxter, Col. Hiram Berdan, the noted
sharpshooter, and Gen. George Crook.
Close at hand sleep Gems. Meigs, Ricketts,,
Burdette, Watkins and Doubleday. The
most recent addition to this famous com
pany is Gen. Lawton, who was brought
here from the PARKWAY Philippines.
But nature has done even more for
this lovely city of the heroic dead than
the willing and grateful hand of man has
been able to accomplish. All the efforts
of art that have been lavished on the
spot are feeble indeed beside the treas
ures of landscape and wealth of greenery
that have long been the regions very own
Across the Potomac river, spread out like
a mammoth panorama, its foreground the
carpet of greensward Swallowed by the
famous oaks of Arlington, lies Washing
ton, its domes and spires cleaning fairy
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To Crente a ViIIage Of Farms.

To possess a beautiful home in the
country without the isolation of ordinary
farm life and without the expensive
equipment and hired service that are nee
essary to make a country estate either
practicable or profitable, is the aim of a
group of New York business and profess
siOna' men of liberal proclivities. From
a statement published by one of their
number in the EnglewoOd, n. j., Northern
Valley Bulletin, it appears that they have
conceived the idea of organizing a club
OF country home seekers before determin-
ing upon the precise location of their
homes. The new feature of this move
ment is that these people want to insure
certain kind and degree of social and
intellectual intercourse through free in
terchange and personal acquaintance be-
fore becoming neighbors. By limited CO.
operation they expect to reduce the cost
of number of small farm homes within
committing distance of the city. A large
tract of land will be so divided as to en-
able the owners of the small pieces to To-
cate desirable building sites in a cluster
with their lands outlying and with a park
or green held for common use as a sort
of village center. general storehouse
will be established for the sake of CO.
operative buying of necessary utensils,
furnishings, provisions, ETC. They will
employ an expert agriculurist at good
salary and one set of implements, wagons,
horses, etc. Thus it is expected that
the building, blowing, harvesting and
marketing of surplus products may be
attended to in the best manner at tile
lowest cost. This man will operate regu-
lar carriage or automobile service to and
from all trains on a cost basis. One Of
the chief hopes is that such a neighbor-
hood will provide an ideal environment
for the rearing of healthy and right
minded children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
ASSEMBLY OF PREseYTERlANs.
Many Important Questions Consid.
cred nj th.e nes Maine. ..Iaasin

Many Impertant Questions Consid-
cred at the Des AIoincs Meeting.
Desperate assaults on the Westmia-
ster confession of faith. efforts TO pre-
vent a merger of two branches of the
church, attacks on the new prayer book
and campaign to forbid ministers
marrying divorced persons threatened
to make Des Moines a battle-ground for
Presbyterianism. The one hundred and
seventeenth general assembly of tie
church opened in that city with momen-
tous questions up for settlement. Two
hundred and forty-one presbyteries
were represented in the session. Their
communicates number I,115.662.
After the most exciting election in the
history of the Presbyterian general as
sembly, for a quarter of century at
least, Rev. DIR. Hunter Corbett. a mis-
sionary from China, was unanimously
elected moderator There were five
candidates.
The assembly was opened with a
sermon by DR.. Moffat, upon the mis-
sion of the Presbyterian church This
he declared to be the eyangeilzation of
the whole world, and the development
in the members of the PRESBYTERIAN
church of the highest type of Christian
character, and to maintain and inn
prove the agencies of that church.
The hottest fight centered on the
Westminster confession. BY one of its
opponents the Scotch creed as accepted
by the Presbyterian church is declared
to be the worst lie of all the big, bad
fies of the world"
Animated debate occupying much of
the time of the ten days session was
had on the question of the admission
of the Cumberland branch, for many of
the foremost presbyterians at the South
were opposed to the union, while those
in favor of the merger advised'modera-
ton II the treatment of the minority.
Talk even could be heard of legal in
functions in the federal court to pre-
vent the union.
The Cumberland branch is the out
growth of the presbyteries of Kentucky
and Tennessee, which, 100 years ago,
objected to the doctrinal statement OF
the Westminster confession concerning
divine sovereignty and human freedom.
A heated contest has been under way
over the proposed adoption of the new
prayer book, which Rev. Henry Van
Dyke prepared There is violent oppo-
sition to any change of this sort on the
ground that it is an attempt to fix a
ritual and liturgy on a church which
always has contended for freedom of
worship.
A plan proposed to the assembly was
the ministerial sustentation" idea, for
the relief of superannuated ministers.
Rev. j. II. Sutherland of Burlington,
Iowa, is the author of the plan. which
provides for the pensioning of aged
ministers after they have "outlived
their usefulness in the pulpit"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
Better Teaching of Three, RS.

Another interesting test Of the present
day methods Of public school education as
compared with the known results of teach.
ing more than half century ago, has re.
Gently been made at Cleveland, Ohio. Ac-
cordi1g to the School Journal, lists of
words and arithmetic examples contained
in the examination papers of the Spring
field (Mass.) high school in 1916, which
were submitted to the ninth grade of the
Springfield school in 1895, have now been
tried in one Cleveland school. Following
is the list of words Accidental, accessi-
bic, baptism c,lirography, characteristic,
deceitfully, desc endent, eccentric, evan
escent, ferceness, feignedly, ghastliness,
gnawed, heiress, Mysteries, imbecility, in
conceivable, inconvenience. inefficient, ir-
resistible. The comparative results show
that the pupils Of 1876 answered 40.6 per
cent of the words cor -ectly, those of 1895
51.2 per cent, while the Cleveland pupils
in this year of grace spelled 61.2 per cent
correctly. In the case Of the arithmetic
papsTs, the percentage of correct replies
for 1916 was 40.6. in Springfield last year
il was 52.1, and in Cleveland school al
the recent test was SIS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29

fromr 1 didn't know anyone was near
except my old comrade here"
1--WE followed you from the gate" said
| Frank, "for we thought you could tell US
a story about some brave soldier"
"Tell you story? Well, l guess
| could do that, and a good many of them,
too. No fellow could go through a strug-
| gle like that of 81 to '65 and not learn
some stories, both sad ones and funny
! ones"
Did you know this soldier?" asked
Amy, pointing to the mound OF earth near
whic hthey were standing.
Yes, l knew hiur when he was not rs
big as this little chap here" nodding to
Frank, who did nor altogether like the
idea Of being called "a little chap" but
since it was an old soldier who spoke of
| him in this way he could overlook the in
jury.
az you look closely at the headstone
you can see written there, though it is
getting pretty dim now, Killed at Gettys-
| burg" and the old soldier turned toward
| Frank, while his eyes grew moist at the
thought of the scenes of that bloody bat
! tlefeld. pray that you may be spared
WlIutS5ltiS SUN al dNLut SISnl dS that
battle. Why, a man could have walked
over that field after the fighting was over
without once putting his foot on the
| ground, so thick were the killed and
wounded. Will, here" pointing to the
| grace, was only a drummer boy but the
combined armies of the North and South
| contained no better or drawer soldier"
Gettysburg lasted three days; at first
| it seemed as if Lee and his army would
win the day, but on the third day we put
| them to fight. l can never forget how
that one terrible cannon shot sounded as
/ it broke that awful stiffness that had set
| tied over both armies, after everything
was ready for the fight, and gave the sig
nal for the terrible struggle of that last
! day of the battle. And it was the last
day of any battle for many poor fellow,
and among them the drummer boy, Will.
| can see that boy yet as he saw the
glorious Stars and Stripes fall from the
grasp of the color-bearer, who was killed
instantly by an enemy's bullet. He ran
! forward and seized the flag just in time
| to keep it from being laid in the dust and
| blood, and he waved it as high as he
could, shouting to those around him that
it was still over them, and several poor
| fellows actually smiled as they saw it.
But after a time a bullet struck our
boy. He tried to pay no attention to it,
but soon became so weak from loss of
blood that he fell to the ground, but be-
fore he did so he placed the flag in the
hands of a comrade, saying: Here, Jack,
take Oh Glory; l don't want to drag it
to the ground. and l am going Then
he fell, but he lived some time after that.
Il saw that he was in awful agony
and handed him a little water, the last
had. He put it to his parched lips, but
a groan near by made him pause. There
by his side lay a Confederate, wounded
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
State News in Brief.

Joseph Burns, a prominent farmer in
the town of Dover, died from the kick of
a horse.
The Pope the other day received in pri-
vate audience Bishop James Schwebach
OF La Crosse.
Mrs. Peter Ofsdahl, aged 20, was found
hanging in a machinery shed on her farm
near Galesville.
The family of Frank Spangenburg, a
Racine farmer, narrowly escaped death in
a fire which destroyed their home.
The 12-yeaf-old son of Joseph Mar,
chuti of Galesville shot and fatally
wounded his 6-year-old sister while play.
ing with a rife.
The Wisconsin Democratic convention
for the adoption of State platform prior
to the primaries will be held in Milwau-
kee June 81
In Racine John NJ. Johnson saved his
little son from being burned to death
while playing with matches, by hurting
him into tub of water.
By the explosion of a kerosene stove
Mrs. Mar; Grange, aged 81, living alone
in WATERFOWL, was fatally burned. She
was preparing dinner when the flames
ignited her clothing, burning her terribly
about the hips, back and arms.
All arrangements for the grand lodge of
Wisconsin odd Fellows have been com
pleted in Sheboygan. The convention will
start June end last until June Z.
Senator ]. II. Stout has announced a
&c b,rr-, 4
furnishing for the Stout training schools,
TO be opened next fall in Menomonie.
Carl L. Zeilka, aged IS, a La Crosse
baseball enthusiast, who became insane
through excitement at games, has been
committed to the insane asylum at Men
dota. Zeika attended all the games and
became so excited that he was attacked
with epileptic fits.
Blackleg has made its appearance
among cattle in the town of Montpelier,
one farmer losing three COWS in as many
days. Measures have been taken to pre-
vent a spread of the disease.
w II. Brandt, Barron druggist, died
from an overdose of tincture Of bella
donna. Mr.. Brandt had cold, and took
a large dose of the deadly drug by mis-
take. lie was ~ years VI age.
Money is wasted by the University of
Wisconsin by spending $500 year to
maintain an auditors department, while
the bookkeeping and auditing Of the unt-
versity should not exceed 500 annually,
an accounting reported to tie legislative
investigating committee at Madison.
An automobile owned by b. +. Steinel,
sporting editor of the Free Press. ran
down and killed Miss Florence White in
Milwaukee. The car struck the woman
when she stepped back in its way after
safely crossing its path. Steinel and some
members Of She Milwaukee baseball team
were riding in the car al the time.
The James L. Gates Land COMPANY
has served an injunction on County
Treasurer Rowland Of Chippewa Falls
to prevent his Offering for sale for taxes
land in the towns of Cleveland and Samp-
son. The Gates company states that
these towns arbitrarily raised only their
assessment There are over 500 back
taxes on Gates lands in these toxna
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
IN THE MOONLIGHT.
Sergeant Jack Had Lost All tina,
Made Life Dear 10 Him.

Sergeant Jack Had Lost All that
Made Life Dear 10 Him.
One dav it was whispered in our camp
before Petersburg that Sergt. Jacks wife
had died. Sergt. Jack was reserved and
rather morose, and none of US knew
whether he had a wife or not until the
rumor came. The sergeant's demeanor
told US that the story was true.
The soldiers mental suffering was plain
TO all who looked into his face. He had
loved her we'll and the blow had come too
suddenly. In a weeks time he grew 50
old and hsggard that one could hardly
identify him as the same man. Some OF
the men whisperingly declared that he
would do some desperate thing-others
that be would bear 1t like q man and get
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
STATE GRAIN LAW VOID.
Judge Rules Against State Commits
sion and Favors Elevator Co.

Judge Rules Against State Commits
sion and Favors Elevator Co.
An appeal from the decision of Judge
Sanborn of Superior in the case of the
Globe Elevator Company against the Wis
consiA grain and warehouse commission
viii be taken to the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals at Chicago. The
decision of Judge Sanborn in the suit,
which was brought for the purpose of
testing the constitutionality of the Wis
consin law, held with the elevator com
pany. which claimed that the law inter-
fered with interstate traffic. The tempo
rary injunction which was secured at the
time of the iiling of the suit and which
was subsequently made permanent by the
decision of Judge Sanborn will remain in
effect until the case has been passed upon
by the Court of Appeals.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29
GETS FAKE DIVORCE DECREE.
Wisconsin Farmer Leans He Vas
Caught nv Chica.o SharDer


Fritz Clements. a Rock county farmer,
drove to GAINESVILLE the other day and
consulted the law firm of Ryan < Oest-
reich regarding what he termed a ''di-
voree document" that he obtained in Chi
cago for 500 cash. Clements has been
in this country but a short time and mar
ried the daughter of Frank Aacker, north
OF Janesyille Clements could not speak
English. nor his wife German, so they de-
cided to separate. Clements then went
to Chicago to see a friend about his
trouble and evidently met bunko game,
as his supposed divorce certificate" is a
fake written in German. Clements and
his wife have been living apart, thinking
the paper was genuine, and his suspicion
was only aroused when he revealed his Sc
eret to a neighbor. Clements does not
remember the Office where ne got his de
cree" but says it was in tall building.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-29

1310-Jacques de Molay, Grand Master
of tie Templars, burned at Paris.
of the peasantry of
France began.
1501-Amerigo vespucci started on his
third voyage, going as far as Pata-
gonia.
1502-COlumbus sailed from Cadiz in
search of passage to the South Sea.
of Henry ". by
Ravaillac.
161S-Calvanists seized the castle of
Prague.
1621-Wedding of Edward Winslow and
Susanna White, first couple married
in Plymouth colony.
1632-Marechal de Marillac beheaded for
conspiracy against Richelieu.
1641-Earl &C Stratford beheaded IN
Tower of London on a false charge
of treason.
1T02-England declared war against
France and Spain.
1747-Admiral Arson defeated French
feet off Finisterre.
1767-Prof. Cassini discovered the revo-
luton of Venus.
1775-Continental Congress met in Phila-
delphia.
1791-Slavery abolished in French do
minions.
1T96-Treaty of Paris concluded.
1796-Vaccination for smallpox first APP
piled by DIR. Jenner.
1S1O-Lord Byron swan the Darda-
nelles
1S14-Louis XVIII. entered Paris (the
first restoration).
1S26-Famous State prison at Sing Sing,
\. Y, opened.
1S37-New York banks suspended specie
payment.
1S46-Gen. Taylor defeated the Next
cans at Resaca de Ia Palma.
1s49-Riot at Astor Opera house, New
York.
1s53-City of Schiraz. Persia, destroyed
by earthquake.
1S55-Universal Industrial Exhibition
opened at Paris by Louis Napoleon.
1S59-NapoIeon III. declared war against
Austria.
1S6O-Japanese embassy received at
Washington.
1S62-Ironclad Merrimac destroyed by
Confederates.
1865-Trial of assassination conspirators
begun in Washington.
1S67-Russia ratified Alaskan cession
treaty.
1S69--Union Pacific and Central Pacific
railroad completed.
1S76-Centennial Exposition opened in
Philadelphia.
1SS4-Mexican Congress ratified treaty
with United States.
1SS6-Thirty- persons killed by hur-
ricane at Madrid
1SSS-Phonograph exhibited for first
time in perfected form, New York.
1S92-Union Printers Home :. Colorado
Springs dedicated.
1S94-Torpedo boat Ericsson, first vesse!
of modern navy, built on inland wat
ers, launched at Dubuque, Iowa. -.
Brazilian government severed diplo-
matte relations with Portugal. 80.
Earthquake shocks in Greece.
1898 100000 fire in Pittsburg, Pa.
Burning of charity bazaar in Paris;
$50 persons perished.
1S9S-Execution of men who attempted
to assassinate King George of
Greece.
1902-EruptiOn of Mount Pelee.
1904-Japanese battleship Hatsuse sunk
by mines; $50 persisted.
1905-Many killed in tornado at Snyder,
Oklahoma.
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PALLBEARERs BURIED ALIVE.

Grave Caves In as Body Is Being
LOVvered-AhnOst Suffocated.
BY cavern at the grave two pail
bearers were buried alive at the Sheldon
cemetery while the body of High Samples,
a Houston county charge, was being low
cred into its last resting place. They
were preciptated to the bottom of the
grave beneath the coffin and covered with
several feet of earth. The frantic efforts
Of the remaining pallbearers and the
gyavedigger resulted in their being liberat-
ed before they suffocated. Both men
were almost dead when released from
their weird predicament. The cavern
was so large the entire day was devoted
to redigging the grave and the interment
of the cOrnsp