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Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-23

indicate the coming of stranger. If you nip
the stalk and find it soft, the stranger is fe
male; if hard, male.
Again, if you put this stalk on the back of
the left hand and strike it three times with the
back of the right, should it fall off you may be
sure the stranger has turned back
Certain parts of the country have tea super
stitions peculiarly their own In Durham if
you put milk in your tea before sugar you will
be told that you are sure to lose your sweet
heart, wife, husband, or best friend
In many parts of the country, mainly in the
South, it is firmly believed that for two per-
sons to pour tea from the same brewing Dor
tends the very worst of ill-uch
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-23

HE American tourist abroad seldom
fails to pay visit to the great gam
bling place at Monte Carlo as a mat
ter Of duty, without regard to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-23
A Curious Industry

DEW persons ever wonder where clothes
pins come from; few ever heard of
Bryant's Point, Me- and yet a man
VIZ there has been quietly turning trees
intn clnthesnins for vears and snnnlY-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-23
How Stubbs Played Cupid

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Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-23

7I5EN the Swedes go calling they lock
N up and then hang the door-key on
the bell or the door-knob or some
lEE9I other conspicuous place When they
z@sg 90 visiting for a few weeks bolts and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

In the discussion of this paper by
Prof. Slaughter of the University, the
most serious charge made by Mr..
Sheridan, that of subordinating the
undergraduate, was not touched upon
at all. OF course it should always be
borne in mind that the university
should be'a school for higher original
research rather than for piling up of
knowledge through sheer force of
memory, yet that Mr.. Sheridan's criti-
cisms were.really quite just would ap-
pear on making comparison of the
apparently vital things of life, with
such research as was done to produce
the following theses of last year: GA
certain cubic transformation between
two planes and two spaces" Develop
ment of the zygospore of Spirogyra, Z"
and Reconstruction of the liver lobule
of the cat'
The meetings of the Wisconsin
association are certainly productive
of great good. The small sectional
meetings of the afternoon however are
growing in number, apparently to the
detriment of the association. 1t might
be possible to have the work of the
small sections done in the various sub
ordinate meetings of the state and thus
leave the Milwaukee meeting open
entirely for fuller presentation and
discussion of the greater problems of
education and life rather than to a
re-hash of worn out suggestion and
theories and repetition of idle tales.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02
There's Scripture For 1t.

The Pennsylvania Railway company,
which has abolished its free passes, is
quoting scripture in justification of its
new policy. 1t has sent out a New Year
greeting to its former passholders with
such suggestive quota tons as,
"Thou shalt not pass Numbers, X
X, Is.
''Suffer not man to pass Judges,
iii, 2S.
"The wicked shall no more pass."-
Nahum, l., Is.
Though thy roar yet can they not
pass. Jeremiah, v, %
HE paid the fare and went. Jonah,
l., g.
The pass has been a subtle means of
influencing legislation, but it is doubt
full if the railways have been the
gainers-at least, the managers of the
Pennsylvania system have concluded
that it is too costly method of court
ing the good will of politicians and in
fiuential citizens. Hereafter they will
have to pay their fare. If it should
have to fight it viii have the money,
and it is to be assumed the men that
paid it will be glad to get part of it
back.-Milwaukee News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02
"Pis-Hea ded"-CertainIy.

Gov. Wright's characterization OF the
Republican opposition to removing the
tariff wall between the United States
and the Philippines as ''pigheaded
selfishness'' is apt.
Tariff barriers between the states
and the territory of the United States
is as absurd as a tariff between the
s tates would be-a tariff which, for
tunately for the American people, the
trainers of the constitution had tue
foresight to prohibit.
The policy of the Republican party
toward the Philippines is less justifia-
BILE than the course that was pursued
by the British crown toward the
American colonies. The Republican
party is responsible for the Philippine
acquisition and has been instrumental
in compelling the Filipinos to acquiesce
in an unwilling allegiance through the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02
Up And At EN-.

Someone has given it as a maxim of
finance that next to providing for de-
felt the most difficult is to handle a
surplus, and with equal force it may be
said that next to the embarrassment of
a minority is that of an excessive
majority. The Republican party has
been in power more than eight years.
1t has been growing in its majorities
steadily, but has reached that stage
where from its very topheaviness it
shows signs which, properly interpreted,
imply the danger which comes from
such success. The symptoms developed
in the late election in Ohio, Penn
sylvania and New York cannot be
disregarded, nor can the elements of
administrative embarrassment, as dis
closed in the lengthy message of the
president and the discordanG views of
the majority upon number of leading
questions. Therefore, it behooves the
Democratic minority in congress to be
united and vigilant, making no mere
fractions opposition to the majority,
but preserving compact organization
and in all its acts and votes steadfastly
adhering to principle.-Louisville
Courier Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02
ReinState The Democracy.

If ever the Democratic party owed
the weight and influence of its historic
name to an outraged public it is today.
If there ever was need of its deter
mined and united action, in behalf of
the people of Wisconsin, it is now.
Its leaders should counsel and speak
out. The democratic press of the state
should act in concert and give to the
public the delinquincies and dis
crepencies of the factions that are and
have been running riot over defence
less constituencies.
For the past five years the din, the
discordant noise and confusion of re-
publican factions have filed the air.
A disgraceful family brawl has at
tracted the attention, contempt and
disgust of the entire country. The
furnished linen of this divided cabal
has, time and again, been stacked up
before the public gaze for washing but
it has not been cleaned.
Millionaire organs have snapped and
snarled at each other, all this time, in
brazen contention that the other fell
low is the personification of all that's
bad Both sides to this disgraceful
brawl have covered their tracks at at
tempted investigation while an out
ragged public stands aghast at their i'm
pudence and assumed concern for polit-
ical purity.
Who and what are these discordant
factions? Each has been reared and
fattened at the public crib and on the
tainted purses of designing, greedy
money bags who, through their respec-
tive morning organs, taunt each other
with being thieves and fire brands.
1t does seem that with all this fac
tional rancour, and hate, disorganiza-
ton, the good sense and patriotism of
the people await with qualification the
opportunity to reinstate the democracy
for the future management of public
affairs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

hooves us TO let everything else alone
until pure water supply is assured.
Now that the Herald is so sure of there
being only a few people of our city who
are against the building of another city
hall now, why not lend its efforts to
have the question as to whether we
shall have another city hall at this time,
settled at the coming city election?
The PILoF believes that if the question
were SO submitted it would not receive
100 votes.
The Herald says that the city has now
on hand $4,000 for water works i'm
provemenis and the excess of water de-
partment receipts will swell it $4,000
more. Yes, the new bond issue gave
the city $1,000 for extending the water
works and the tax levy $500 for
expenses of operating the plant. The
$4,000 excess receipts from the water
works, which the Herald depends
upon, is figured into the estimates
made to meet the expenses of the city
the coming year. So, there you are.
The Herald further says:
''The city, has right to issue bonds for
water works improvements and these
can be extended over a few years, at
S., 900 a year, for instance, and no one
will ever notice it. Wausau's condi-
ton financially was never better. The
citys funds are all. intact and there are
ample revenues to meet the city's run
ming expenses"
Our citizens have listened to this kind
of talk for 10, these many years. Our
CITY was bonded for twenty years, for
800 900; the bonds came due, but they
were not paid but instead, another
issue was authorized for 1926, OO0 1t is a
queer state of things, Mr.. Herald, if the
will of the people is to be thwarted in
this matter The city hall can wait
until we get pure water
While the Herald wants both of those
mprovements-the CITY HALL and
PURE WATER SUPPLY, we ask it,
in all candor, provided only one can
be had, which does it prefer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

JUDGE WEBB has rendered hiscdecis-
ion in the anti-pass test case, holding
the law to be constitutional, by denying
the motion for arrest of judgment.
The anti-pass law test case was argued
in the circait court of Wood county on
Sept. q before Judge Charles NJ. Webb.
Dist. lAtty. E. f. Kileen, of Waushara
county, and Waiter d. Corrigan were
the prosecuting attorneys The de-
Tense was conducted by B. b. Park, of
Stevens Point.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

a GOOD many so-called Republican
papers are taking up the tariff reform
cry and are hitting the tariff. Some of
them did that in 1892 and we all know
what happened.-Wausau Daily Record,
Stalwart Rep.
That's good way to make Demo
cratic votes. A republican thai has
not got farther along than The necorII
has on the tariff question is a dangerous
one to let loose upon the public Most
of the Republicans-fully So per cent.
of them-want a reform of the tariff,
and they are not to be put off by the
stand-patters' yawp about 1898. We can
not understand how a self-respecting
tand-patter can exercise his lungs
over '93 with never word about '73.-
Milwaukee journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

IT has been generally supposed that,
after MIR. Malcolm G. Jeffris' great effort
to defeat LaFollette last fall, the Mil
waukee Sentinel would at least do him
the honor Of nominating him for gov
ernor next fall. But perhaps the Sen
tinel intends to stand or fall by Charles
F. Pfister as its gubernatorial candi-
date.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

AND don't forget that the eloquent
and irrepressible Senator McGilivray is
also a gubernatorial candidate. Mac
can talk more say less and be on more
different sides at one and the same
time than any of 'em and then again, in
his dear old fashioned Scotch way, how
he does love the Common peepul."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

IT must be admitted that Hon. James
o. Davidson will make pleasant and
affable governor. Whether he can
thrill packed school houseson repre-
sentative government or not remains
to be seen. Every governor is not
called upon nor expected to do this,
you know.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

THE Chicago Record Herald's cut of
the president strutting through the
senate. chamber, arm and arm with
Diogenes and his lantern, suggests that
he ought to have waited for the arrival
of Wisconsin's junior senator, if he's
looking for an honest man.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

In 1908 the Casein Co., of America,
the trust that controls the supply and
price of milk sugar, which forms the
basis of baby foods, was selling it in
this country at 14t cents, and in Ger
many at 81 cents per pound. The same
difference exists in price today. Isn't
the American baby an infant industry?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

The stalwart and halfbreed show
will now do business at the old stand in
New York. 1t will be interesting to
know what side of the scrimmage our
esteemed contemporary, the Milwau-
kee Free Press will take in this engage
mani
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

IF JACK O'BRIEN can't make salts
factory arrangements with James j.
Jeffries he might open negotiations with
M. &. Jeffris, president elect of the
Sinnissippi golf club, of GAINESVILLE,
Wis. M. g. is looking for trouble.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

MISTER LENRoOT is a thinking and
he's thinking mighty hard, but, unless
he has made arrangements to the con-
trary it's his privilege to do some of the
thinking.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02
slaughter of more than 100000 of their

slaughter of more than 300,O of their
fellows, including large proportion of
women and children.
1t has denied to them the right to
order their own affairs. 1t has cut
them off from the markets of the world
and it denies to them access to the
market which in justice and common
decency should be open to them.
Either they should be given justice I'M
der the American flag or they should be
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

SENATOR LAFoLLETTE and speaker
Lenroot were in Milwaukee Saturday,
fixing up the fences for the latter's
gubernatorial boom.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

Gov. LAFoLLETTE has had some in
tercourse with the railroads, friendly
and otherwise, but it is in Washington,
as Senator LaFollette, that he must
look out for the cars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

Planned out right to go ahedd with
the work in the spring. Now, so
far as the present administration
and the board of commissioners are
concerned there is no fault to be
found. They are fighting it out
the best they know how and no
doubt, with the proper backing OF
this administration, will succeed.
Now, what is the real bone of
contention? 1t is this: Just about
the time the water question COM
menced to be discussed, temper
ately, the city council resolved to
build another city hall, at a cost of
from $50, 900 to $75, OOO
This would have met with no
serious objection had it not become
apparent that an enormous sum Of
money must be used for putting
our water plant in a condition that
it should be- The mayor and the
city council were not aware that
more than the presel appropria-
ton would be necessary to give the
citizens pure water. A committee
has been to Superior and if the
Wausau plant has to GO through
what the plant in that city has
had to for pure water, the cost will
be over 100000 if meters are put
on service pipes; otherwise the cost
will run up to $3.50, 900 or more. We
will then only have purified the
water, but the mains will still contain
the accumulated vegetable growth
of years, which Mr.. Wright says is
greatly decreasing the original
capacity of all the pipes" and
which E. G.. Smith, professor of
chemistry of Beloit college, says
chow to get rid of it" will be the
hardest problem our city will be
called on to solve.
Will the entire system of mains
have to be taken up and new ones
laid? This may have to be done,
and under the conditions the people
are not to be blamed for consider
ing the question. Now it is the
belief of -tenths o. our people,
and we believe it is even the opinion
of over half of the gentlemen who
comprise the board of water COM
missioners, that the building of
another city hall should not be
thought of at this time, but it
should be put off until such time as
can be determined what the cost
will be of a pure water supply.
Something may turn up in
the Investigations, which will
positively assure us of a pure water
supply for a little less money
than is anticipated; in such an
event the matter of building an
other city hall can be readily taken
up, arranged for and built on the
market square at the foot of Third
street, where it ought to GO.
There is no doubt but what many
would like to have Mr.. Wright give
his valuable opinion as to what
ought to be done in the real ques-
ton at issue: Should the city go
ahead with the building of the city
hall now or wait until the amount,
which will have to be expended on
our city water works is ascer-
tanned. 1t is no hardship on any
one, with the present city hall, to
let the matter rest. The city can
borroao the money raised for the
city hall and apply it on the water
works, just the same as it has, for
the past twenty years, borrowed"
the money which was raised for the
sinking fund which has to be used
in paying off the water bonds.
\ GOOD many so-called Republican
papers are taking up the tariff reform
| 4 La Al
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

No, dear reader, Chauncey Depew
did not resign his seat in the United
States Senate, he just resigned his
dictatorship in an insurance company.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

WE can't understand why Gov. La
Toilette didn't issue orders to the
boys" to run Uncle Ike for governor
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

CoRTELYoU is courageous to advocate
the abolition of the franking privilege,
but what about returning the campaign
funds?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02
UMaaasaaa 9i1nt.
TUESDAY, JAN. 2, 1906.

Published weekly and entered at the Post Office
st Wsusau as second class matter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

Hi. Dunfield has returned from
trip to the South.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

permitted to depart in peace and direct
their own affairs. Milwaukee News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02

Has safety deposit vault. Boxes
for rent at 50 per year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-02
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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-02-09
ED HOWE ABROAD

At II O'Clock this morning we
left Hong Kong in tender, and
went out to the P. & 0. ship
"Simla" lying at anchor in the
harbor, and advertised to leave fol-
Singapore at noon. Arrived at the
ships side, we climbed another stair
way, and went on board to look al
our rooms, and complain about
them; people are never satisfied with
the rooms they draw in ship lot
terry.
The Simla is an old single screw
boat, about 500 feet long, and runs
between Shanghai and London, but
but we are to leave it at Colombo.
cross India by rail first reaching
Calcutta by another boat and then
take another P. & o. boat at Bonn.
bay for the trip to Port Said,
The crew of the Simla is made up
of natives of India, and very queer
they look in red caps, red sashes,
and blue night shirts. All the In
dian sailors go barefoot, and l note
that many of them wear rings on
both their great toes. The walters
in the dining room are also dark
men from India, and the firemen are
negroes; very Dlack men from some
where In India.
, One of the passengers, a Mrs.
Williamson, an English woman, ac-
companied us all the way from San
Francisco. The tutor and his four
American boys, who accompanied
us from Kobe, are also on board,
together with the mother and daugh-
ter from Kansas City; l today saw
them looking over a Kansas City
Star of October IL. But We are
the olly passengers who have been
TO Manila.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-02-09
Why They Oppose the Lodge

Letters have lately been addressed
by The American Protective Tariff
League to some of the leading man
ufacturing and selling concerns in
the United States, asking for a
statement of the effects to be ap-
pretended from reduction in ex-
isting Tariff rates such as is pro-
posed in the Lodge bill. From one
of the largest importing, jobbing and
wholesale houses in the hosiery and
knit goods trade the reyly is as fol-
lows
New York, January 2S, I9o6.--In
reply to your inquiry, "What would
be the effect of a cut of 10 per cent.
in the Dingley Tariff rates in con-
nection with the importation OF
merchandise from Germany" l beg
to say that if there was cut of 10
per cent. made it would drive out of
business all the full-fashioned hosi-
cry manufacturers in the country,
unless they could reduce wages to
an equal amount, which under the
present conditions 1 do not think
they could because at present it is
impossible to get people to run the
machines.
Prior to the time the Dingley Tar
if was passed approximately so
per cent. of our goods was foreign
manufactured and 20 per cent. were
domestic; today the percentages ar.
practically reversed, 60 per cent.
domestic and 40 per cent. foreign.
Mr.. A. G. Houghton, president
of the Arnold Print Works, North
Adams, Mass, one of the largest
manufacturing concerns In its line
anywhere in the world, tells US over
his signature that:
As manufactures of a wide range
of cotton fabrics, the production of
whice gives continuous and success
full employment to several Thousand
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-02-09

and on Saturday, May 9, 1916, the
exasperated President writes that he
had assured the G. binet that day of
his intention to send war message
to Congress on the following Mon
day. No word had yet come
from Taylor and Bancroft, then
Secretary of the Navy. urged that
the President wait for some overt
act of aggression by Mexico Polk
refused the advice, but that same
afternoon Taylor's report of The
first skirmish came, and he deter
mined to base the appeal to Con-
gress on the Texas news.
The President worked all day
Sunday on the message. His at
tempt at public deception did not
distress him, but he piously observes;
81 regretted the necessity for me to
spend the Sabbath in the manner l
have" The real purpose of the
war-the spoliation of Mexico--is
emphasized in another diary entry a
few days later. To make better
appearance before the world,
Buchanan. then Secretary of State,
had prepared a circular to be sent
to American ENJOYS abroad, DIS
claiming any intention of seiz'"g
Mexican. territory and asserting that
the United States would be con-
tented with the Rio Grand bound
airy. Polk refused to allow this
message to be sent. 81 will not tie
up my hands," he writes, ''by any
such pledge. In making peace with
our adversary we shall acquire CALI
fornia and New Mexico and other
territory as an indemnity for this
war il we can"
The inference from all this is un-
mistakable that Polk, under the in
| fuence of his manifest destiny
| beliefs, would have forced war upon
Mexico in order to seize its north
ern territory even had Taylor mo-
been attacked. The defamation
on the shedding of American bloot
on American soil was an after
| thought and hollow pretense.
This was the view taken 10y Bentor
and other critics of the administra
ton. The documentary proof
| however, was lackin 6 until Bancroft
| copied Folks diary.-Kansas Cit.
Star.