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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

The PILOT would have its readers be-
lieve that all the money there is on
hand for new city hall is $1,000
when the fact is there is S25, 900 cash in
the city hall fund now. 1t is also fact
there was in the waterworks fund on
the first of January, when the city
books were balanced, the sum of S1S,-
800. Why not let the people know the
truth? It's the peoples right.-Herald.
The Herald, as usual, is trying to
mislead its readers. The PILOT has
not at any time said that ''all the money
there is on hand for city hall is 3d.,
000;" what the PILOT said is this "All
that has been raised by taxes for a city
hall is $15,000." The city council voted
in Sept to transfer $4,000 from the
general fund of the city to the city hall
fund which makes the amount of the
city hall fund, a this time S25, 900.
There is a legal question involved (but
which has been very little respected in
the past by the city as to using the
$4,000 raised by taxes for anything but
the building of city hall, but there is
nothing to prevent council from vot-
ing to place the $4,000 transferred from
the general fund into the city hall fund,
back into the general fund again. This
is the point the PILOT has stated again
and again, but which the Herald has
not seen Tor does not want to see)
clearly.
AS to the $4,000 in the waterworks
fund, this the PILOT has explained to
the Herald several times. The Pilot
has not at any time said that $1,000
was all that there was in the water
works fund. What the PILOT has said
is this; "All that the city has on hand
to put put into the city water works,
outside of salaries and incidental ex-
penses is $4,000" When the city was
recently further bonded for $4,000 the
purchases of the bonds raised the ques-
ton of legality, claiming that the bonds
must be for some specified purpose, so
$4,000 of the money raised by the
bonds was ito be used for extending
the water works." The balance of the
fund $4,000 was raised by taxes as the
estimated expenses of the plant during
the year 19O6-l9O7. The PLOr's state
ments can always be backed up by
facts, but the Herald s-well, the least
said about them the better.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
5000 MILES PER YEAR.

Few people of the city, who enjoy the
benefits of the free delivery service,
ever stop to think how much work is
done by one of our mail carriers dur
ing the year They get their mail daily
and are satisfied. Some even think the
mail carrier has snap job, for he just
spends his time walking about town.
The truth is however that some of these
critics, after a brief trial, would not
trade positions with the carrier. Each
OF the Wausau carriers travels on an
average of eighteen miles each day, or
nearly 5000 miles year. That's
long walk. 1t means that if each car
rier walked in straight line that at
the end of the year he would have
travelled nearly one-fourth Of the way
around the earth. From the time he
goes on duty in the morning until his
days work is over there is but short
time, only when he is making up his
bundles to start out on his route, that
he is not walking.
Another thing which may be interest
ing: Did you ever stop to think how
much mail is delivered in a season?
On an average of fifty pounds is de-
livered daily by each one or nearly
tons yearly. If it were all put in one
pile it would make stack nearly as
large as the court house. The amount
of mail collected daily from the boxes,
added to this, would greatly increase
the pile. Wausau's seven carriers in a
year, if their travel was put together
in relays, would walk $4,000 miles, or
over one and one-half times around
the globe. The combined weight of
mail they carry would be nearly fifty
three tons. The average laboring man,
when it is very stormy or extremely
cold, can lay off from work, but the
mail carrier must attend to his duties
in all kinds of weather
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
PRIVILEGE.

All our laws relating to land, to the
relations of master and servant" of
creditor and debtor, and many other
relations, originated with and in favor
of the land owner, the employer or the
upper classes" Whether sourcing in
legislation or judge-made common law,
the bias was always and distinctly in
favor of the upper classes" Notably
was this the case in the law of master
and servant. From the statute of
laborers of 1880 to the present day
it has been one long struggle of the
servant" against this assumed superb
oritv of the master" class. Traces of
it still inger, but Minnesota wiped one
feature off when it abolished the law
that exempted the employer for injuries
resulting from the negligence or other
fault of co-employe. And the supreme
court of the United States confirms the
decision of the supreme court of our
state which sustained the constitution
atty of the act.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Offices Given For Votes.

Some embarrassing situations relative
to postoffice appointments have devel-
oped here within the last few days and
charges of members trading votes for
patronage have been made. An in
stance of the kind was told today by a
northwestern representative. He had
received notice from Lhe postmaster
general that vacancy was about to
occur in certain postoffice and he was
invited to recommend an appointment.
The statement was made that the in
cumbent's record was bad and that
change would have to be made in the
office. Some time prior to this the
representative had been informed that
the postmaster in this particular Office
came within the class that the depart
ment desired to retain in its service.
What caused the change of front the
representative is now trying to ascer-
tain. The member forwarded to the
postmaster the department letter in
which the announcement was made
that the latter's record was such that he
could not be appointed. The repre-
sentative received reply from the
postmaster that shot right to the point
Il know that the administration
wants votes badly now," he wrote,
land that it is willing to give post
masterships for them. If you were not
willing to indorse me in the first in
stance you should have told me so.''-
Chicago Tribune.
The above taken from the Washing
ton correspondence of the Chicago
Tribune is sad commentary on the
present administration, that it must
have to resort to traffic in government
al positions to gain its ends. In the
first place, if an incumbent's record is
bad, he should not be allowed to hold
government position of any kind We
have not heard of our congressman
from the 10th doing any trading of this
sort, but some of his appointments
would lead his constituents to think
that he had and such statements coming
from such reliable republican source
as the Chicago Tribune must necessarily
set the democrats to thinking.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
BRILLIANT RECORD OF A NEWS
PAPER MAN.

The success which has attended
William E. Curtis, the famous CORES
pendent of The Chicago Record Herald,
is rarely a,oained by newspaper writer's
Beginning his career in Chicago in 1872
as reporter, he rapidly rose to the posi-
ton of managing editor. He resigned
that position on receiving a govern
ment appointment as secretary of the
South American commission. Mr..
Curtis travelled extensively in Central
and South America, while in this posi-
ton, producing several popular volumes
as the result of his literary labors.
Afterward cooperating with Secretary
of State James g. Blaine, Mr.. Curtis
organized the work of the bureau of
American republics, with the result that
he was placed in charge of that organ
ization, and at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition he distinguished himself by
his labors as the executive head of the
Latin-American department. AS CORES
pendent of The Chicago Record Herald
Mr.. Curtis travels have carried him in
to every section of the United States as
well as into all quarters of the globe.
His China and Japan letters were
published in book form; likewise his
letters from England, Germany and
France, as we'll as those written during
his travels in Mexico and South
America.
No newspaper correspondent possess
es the facility shown by Mr.. Curtis in
writing on any of the diversified subjects
embraced in his correspondence and
making it luminous Nor is any CORES
pendent followed so closely year after
year by the thousands of readers of The
Chicago Record Herald On his recent
trip to the Holy Land MIR. Curtis letters
have been read more closely than ever,
and his descriptions of that interesting
section of the globe as it appears today
have been quoted everywhere.
A daily letter from Mr.. Curtis appears
in The Chicago Record Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
LINCOLN SCHOOL NOTES.

Rooms and H had spelling match
last Friday afternoon and it resulted in
tie between the two rooms.
The boys were working in the carpen-
ter shop last week until six o'clock to
finish their sleds so that they could be-
gin a new model this week.
The pupils of room d, with Miss
Moore, went for a sleigh ride Friday,
after school.
Mr.. Lechiel, of the Anti-Saloon
league spoke to the upper grade pupils
on Monday morning.
The Lincoln basket ball team played
its first games with outsiders last Sat
urday afternoon. The Humboldt and
Washington teams had been scheduled
to play, but only the Humboldt boys
appeared to contest. The game started
at two o'clock. The halves were Is
minutes long At the close of the first
half the score was IA to in favor of
the Lincoln. The opposing team
decided that our first team was too
strong and therefore agreed to give the
game to US, considering IA to 2 the
score. Then the second team of our
school played the same team, at their
request. The results of this exciting
and we'll played game was 10 to 10 in
favor of the Lincoln team. Our boys
full of courage and confidence, chal-
lenged any five of the spectators to
play thirty minute game. The chal-
lenge was accepted. The confidence of
these boys Tor men) was something
awful. Most of this picked team con-
sisted of high school students. They
felt little different when at the close
of the game the score stood II to in
the Lincoln boys favor. The Washing
ton boys failed to make their appear
ance. Neither did they notify us that
it would be impossible for them to play.
This is not business, and we trust that
in the future that we will not be dis
appointed through the neglect or for
getfulness OF opposing teams.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Republican Testimony.

The revelations of political corrup-
ton in the east show that no party has
monopoly of virtue or of grating All
parties are professedly virtuous when
out of power and too often dishonest
when in power
Republicans used to say that their
party was "the party of great moral
ideas" Republican spell Flinders point
ed to Tammany hall. "Behold itp'
they said, "There it stands-the exem-
plification of all that is corrupt in
public life. Vote the republican ticket
or ye shall all likewise perish''
Recent disclosures in New York and
Pennsylvania do not support the pleas
ing doctrine of invariable republican
virtue. Tammany hall is no worse
than the republican ring that robbed
Philadelphia for many years. 1t has
stolen everything in sight. Tammany
itself could do no more. The Philadel-
phia ring has debauched the franchise
more scientifically and completely than
Tammany ever did Seemingly the re-
publican rascal is smarter than the
democrat rascal and harder to turn
out"
All the political grafters and corrup-
tionists who have been brought to book
lately in the north have been republi-
cans. Possibly that is because the re-
publican party has controlled most of
the northern states during the last ten
years. Republicans have had oppor-
tunities which have been denied to
democrats. How well the opportuni-
ties have improved in New York Sen
ator Platt's testimony has revealed.
Tammany hall levied tribute in the
city, but the republican organization
levied it in the state. 1t did a whole
sale business while Tammany did re-
tail business. Both the United States
senators and the late governor of New
York all repu blicans have been
smirched in the insurance investigation.
If they are not convicted of grating
they are on the anxious seat by their
own confessions.
Republican bosses have not fiourished
exclusively in the east. Cincinnati has
had its Cox. There have been bosses
nearer home who have protected" for
price the corporations that were will
ing to hire them.
Three republican United States SEN
ators in western states have been in
dicted for malfeasance in office; one
of them escaped. Another is now on
trial. A third has been convicted and
has appealed to the supreme court to
save him from the penitentiary.
cago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

ter of the leader, and the motives and
quality of the leadership are forgotten
to the detriment and degradation of
the causes involved and of public
morals in general. In the civic battles
to come, the need is great not merely
of disinterested leadership, but of
leadership.in thorough sympathy with
the ways of thinking and with the
needs and legitimate aspirations of the
masses of our people. Our politics
must be concerned more and more
with the practical matters of civic
administration; there must be swell
fare" government, not according to an
impracticable and demagogic program,
but in the spirit of conservative radical
ism; radical, because thorough and
just; and conservative, because what
ever is good in existing conditions
must be conserved, and because adj
vance must be made through calm in
vestigation and reasonable experiment,
by evolution not spelled with an r.
Century.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
The Tariff Graft.

The maximum and minimum tariff
scheme, which has received the admin
istration's approval, is before congress
in the form of a bill introduced by Sen
ator Lodge, which places the maximum
duties 20 per cent. higher than the ex-
listing duties and makes the Dingley
schedules the minimum duties.
When the Dingley act was passed it
was explained by its authors that the
duties had been made unnecessarily
high that they might be used for
trading purposes" in negotiating re-
ciprocity treaties. The duties have
not been used for that purpose, but in
stead have been made an instrument
for trust exploitation of the American
public.
Now comes the Roosevelt administra-
ton, through its mouthpiece III. Cabot
Lodge, and proposes that for lighting
purposes" the duties shall be increased
25 per cent.
Mr.. Roosevelt may be popular idol,
but he is not popular enough to con-
vince the American people that it is for
their interests that he is championing
the tariff graft.
There is no surer way to rid congress
of its republican majority than to use
the maximum tariff scheme for increas-
ing duties and inviting tariff wars
Milwaukee News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

THE Herald, in its last issue, infers
that the PILOT has advocated the build
ing of a tower on east hill at once,
in accordance with the recommends
ton of the water commission; that the
PILOT would have had the city council
tear up the streets and clean the mains
at once. The Herald cannot publish
one line that the PILOT has said
IN the water controversy that will
justify the assertions the Herald
has made. Every reader of the
PILOT knows that it has not, at
any time, advocated anything but con-
sentative moves in the great work
which is about to be commenced, to
give Wausau a pure, clean water sup
ply and ample fire protection. But the
PILOT has strenuously advocated the
side tracking of every public improve
ment, and especially the city nall, until
such time as it can be determined what
the cost of putting our water system in
prime condition will be, After
that, if the finances will permit, let the
city hall be built if they will not per-
NIT of the outlay, the city hall can wait
for a few years. There is no getting
around the fact, that our people now
stand in a beseeching attitude, asking
the city council to give them a pure
water supply, and they want all the
efforts of the city administration to be
conferred on that one, all absorbing
question,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
BAPTIST.

Corner of Fourth and Grant streets.
Albert Il. Patch, Pastor
Services-Sundsy, Preaching sc 1880 a. IN. and
7:S0 p. m.
Sunday School at II M
Junior Society at $50 D. m.
Ladies' Aid and Missionary Societies. Wednes-
days at $50 p. m.
Prayer Service, thursdays at 7;S0 %. m.
Seats free.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet with Mrs.
G. s. Curtis on Wednesday afternoon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
A PRETTY PLAY.

grotesque dances by the animals. The
specialties were all good, the double
sextet and bowery dancers making the
greatest hits.
Misses Elizabeth Buch and Ida Noe
deserve much praise for having trained
so many children to such proficiency as
they displayed in such short space of
time. Each performance was attended
by large audience, the assembly hall
being filled to its utmost capacity.
The program was as follows.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Radical Conservatism.

Our people need to take account of
the whole situation and go on with the
work of purifying and upbuilding the
state in the spirit of wisdom. 1t would
be well if the sincere devotees of re-
form causes would say, when impure
hands seize the banner of good cause:
Hands off, We will follow the flag
only in clean hands and towards no
selfish endsp' But too often the charac-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

WEB BROWN will have hard Shedding
to get the nomination again for con-
gresham at the hands of his party, if
present indications are any criterion.
All that is necessary is for some popu-
lar republican to make the announce
ment that he will be a candidate.
There are able men in every county of
the 10th congressional district. Web
Brown has been elected for three con-
secutive terms, and wants to run again
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

GEN. E. S. BRAGG will return home
from Hong Kong, and will retire from
the government service, as consul
general, on the 1st day of May. At
that time, Amos p Wilder, of the Mad
ison State Journal, will succeed to the
,nnsitinn
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METHODIST

Rev. f. II. Brigham, Pastor.
Services at 1880 m Sunday.
Sunday School at IL o'clock.
Services at Il 80 Sunday evening.
Mission Sunday School els Lincoln Ave-, (ofi
9Th street, $50 pm
West Side Mission meets in the church audi
torium at three o'clock.
Epworth League. Sunday at 6:45 D. m.
The Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society will
give their annual tea to the members and their
husbands at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. b.
Wheeler, S07 Fulton street, Tuesday evening at
6.l5
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
A LIQUID Cold Cure.

For coughs and colds no remedy is
equal to Kennedy's Laxative Honey and
Tar-the Liquid Cold Cure. 1t is diff
ferent from all others-better, because
it expels all cold from the system by
acting as cathartic on the bowels.
Gives strength to weak lungs. Affords
immediate relief in Group, coughs,
colds, whooping- cough, ETC. Children
love it. Sold by w. W. Albers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

Gen. WHEELER, the veteran con-
ferate and United States army officer.
was stricken with pleurisy which de-
veloped into pneumonia one week ago,
Sunday. On the 25th, of Jan. this
brave old soldier passed away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
PRESBYTERIAN.

Rev s. N. Wilson, d. D., pastor
Preaching at 1880 q N, and $50 p m, Sunday.
Sunday School at II m
UPS &C Il meeting at $50 pm
intermediate p s G K meeting, $50 pm
Junior s q meeting at 500 d m
Sunday school at west side chapel every Sun
day at 300 o clock.
Sunday school at the He'll Memorial Chapel
every Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 7:S0.
cordial invitation is extended to all services
and privileges.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet with Mrs
James Montgomery, 612 Franklin street, on
Wednesday afternoon
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
First publication an. so, last Feb. IS.
Notice of Final S ttlement and AS
signment.

Segment.
State of Wisconsin, County Court for Marathon
County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at regular term
of the county court to be held in and for
said county, at the court house in the city Of
Wausau, in said county, on the first Tuesday,
(being the 9th day. of March, A. ID. 1906 at 10
o'clock g. m, the following matter will be heard
and considered:
istrator of the estate of Barbara Dammit, late
of the town of Easton. in said county. deceased,
for the examination and allowance of his final
account, of his administration, and for the
assignment of the residue of the estate of Bar
bsra Dammit, deceased, to such other persons
as are by law entitled to the same
By order of the court
Dated Jan. 90 1906. HENRY MILLER,
County Judge.
Brown, PRADT q GENRIo H. Attorneys.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
UNIVERSAyIST.

Rev. B. B. Gibbs, Pastor.
Morning worship, with sermon, at 1890. All
welcome.
Sunday school at ~ m.
Young Peoples Christian Union devotional
meeting at $50 D. m.
Women's Mission Circle meets on the second
Tuesday of each month.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet in the
church on Y. ednesday afternoon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

CONGRESSMAN Brown has introduced
bill authorizing the sale of blown
down timber on the Menominee Indian
reservation, which was swept by a
cyclone last summer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

'Alice in Wonderland, given under
the auspices of the public schools Fri
day and Saturday evenings at the high
school, was real wonderland, beyond
the power of the ordinary pen to des-
cribe. The costumes were elaborate,
the light effects were satisfactory, and
each and everyone portrayed the parts
assigned them in a manner that was
deserving of honor. There were songs
by the fairies with a glimpse of dream
land, dancing song by the elves, and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
GERMAN M. K. CHURCH.

Rev. A. W. Wieting Pastor.
Preaching l0:i5 g. m. and 1880 p, n. Sunday
Sunday School at 900 q. m.
Epworth League, Sunday at 100 D. m. and
Friday 1880 D. m.
Junior League on Saturday at HIS a. m.
Prayer meeting in church at 1880 p. IN. Wednes-
DAVIS
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ST. JOHNS CHURCH

Rev. f. NJ. Thompson, Rector.
Sunday morning service at 1880.
Sunday school at IL N.
Sunday evening service at $50.
Evening services every Friday at 1880.
Celebration of Holy Communion every Thurs
day morning at 7:30 O'clock.
The ladies will conduct cake sale every Sat
urday In Y. ). Express office on Third 81,
The ladies of st. Martha's tfGild will meet
with Mrs. VIM. Gillian on Wednesday after
noon.
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GERMAN BApT1sT, 1912 sIxTH ST.

Rev. Albert Tilgner, pastor
Preaching at $3.50 m I'D 7:39 pm
Sunday-SchOol at ii
Prayer meeting at 1880 Thursday evening.
Women's Missionary Society meets on the first
Wednesday of each month.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

DAVID ROSE is out again for mayor of
Milwaukee. w. G. Bruce is also in the
field for the nomination.
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@a1asa11 9i1nt.
TUESDAY, JAN. 80, 1906.

Published weekly and entered at the Post Office
at Wausau q second class matter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

Phillip Hollis, dentist, will make
metal and rubber plates and porcelain
inlays. Office over the Continental
clothing store. nov21-tf
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Il AZ
N. Campbell, Secretary.
Gospel meeting for men, at D N, Sunday.
Special singing.
Bible reading Tuesday at $3.50 p. m.
Bible class for ladies meets in TIE Association
parlors every Tuesday afternoon at $3.50.