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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
Time for work at Panama.

There is another change in the man
agement of Panama Canal affairs, and
still the dirt is not flying much in Gu
Zebra cut, nor are the contracts let to
make it fly.
If the contracts can be completed be.
fore the retirement of Chairman
Shonts, on March A. doubtless much
of the confusion threatened by change
of management and method at this
time may be avoided. 1t is to be hoped,
at least, that the shifting and vacillat-
ing policy which has dominated the
work on the Isthmus will speedily end
with the introduction of the new sys-
tenn.
Too many cooks have thus far de-
layed the cooking of the broth. If the
work is to go forward with expedition
commensurate with the vast sums ex-
pended, it now seems certain that II
must be done under the supervision
and control of one competent man on
the Isthmus having the largest freedom
of action consistent with responsibility.
If Chief Engineer Stevens is the
right man in the right place, the best
results will be obtained by giving him
full control as long as the earth moved
and other work of construction &C.
complished are adequate to the money
paid out
Results are what is wanted and the
country looks to the President and the
Congress to obtain them
The sanitary work already done has
converted the Isthmus, we are told,
into a model health resort. The govern
ment has some $4,000 men on its pay
roll there. The commerce of the coun-
try is impatient for the opening of the
gate that is to let it into the Pacific
by the shortest and the cheapest route.
There will be trouble for the President
and his party if presently the dirt does
not begin to fly at a rate which prom
ises the opening of the canal within
four or five years.
The engineering problems on the
Isthmus are simple enough. All that is
needed there is work-plenty of steady,
persevering and consecutive work-St.
Louis Republic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26

According to the Indiana Farmer,
man who was in the northwest during
the last wheat harvest said:
1.-The shortage Of labor in the north
west this year brought about some pc
culiar conditions. During the harvest
time many farmers found it impossible
to procure help, and often they had to
call upon the female members Of their
families to 90 into the fields. was
paying a visit to a brother In Mime
sofa, and ascertained that he was uti-
lizing the services of his two daugh-
tiers, refined and educated young wom-
en-, without whom it would have been
impossible to save the wheat crop. The
girls had never done any rough work
before, but they fell to with cheerful
alacrity, and did as clever work as any
men on the place. This sort of thing
was of frequent occurrence In the
wheat belt, and the women proved
themselves real heroines"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26

l555-Bishop Hooper and DIR. Taylor
burnt at the stake.
l5S7-Mary Queen Of Scots beheaded.
s592-James Stuart, Earl Of Moray, as
sassinated.
lT63-France ceded Canada to Great
Britain.
lS14-George W. Campbell of Tennessee
became Secretary of the United
States Treasury.
1S32-Great fast on account of the
cholera in England.
lS41-Sir George Arthur, last lieutenant
governor of upper Canada, retired
from office.
1S49-Pope Plus TX. deposed as tenn
poral sovereign.
Il. 6-Oude annexed to the British terri
tories in India.
1S63-Ship Orpheus wrecked off New
Zealand coast; 100 lives lost.
Jacksonville, Florida, taken by the
Federals.
lS65-Gen. Lee made commander-in-
chief of the Confederate forces.
1857 Nebraska admitted to statehood.
lST2-Lord Mayo, governor general Of
India, assassinated at Port Blair.
1873 King Amedeus of Spain abdicated.
1876 Edinburgh Theater Royal de-
stroyed by fire.
1880" Lohengrin" first performed in
England Two hundred lives lost
in Llanerch colliery explosion in
Wales. Duke of Orleans visited
Paris, arrested and imprisoned.
1S92-Hotel Royal, New York, burned,
with great loss of life. !. John A.
Mccall elected president of the New
York Life Insurance Company
1898 United States Senate confirmed
the Russian extradition treaty. -.
New York and Boston connected by
long-distance telephone. :. {. Count de
Lesseps and others found guilty Of
swindling in the Panama scandal
trials.
1S95--President Cleveland decided
boundary dispute between Argentine
and Brazil in favor of Brazil.
1S97-Union of Greece and Crete PRO
Claimed.
1S9S-Roman Catholic cathedral at
Savannah, Ca, destroyed by fire. -.
President Barrios of Guatemala as
sassinated.
1900-Gen. Roberts reached the Modder
river.
1901-Queen Wilhelmina of Holland
welded Prince Henry of Mecklen-
burg Sehwerin.
1902 Eight million dollar fire in Pater-
son, n. ].
1904-Main japanese fleet engaged the
Russian ships and batteries at Port
Arthur. ). Japan severed diplomatic
relations with Russia.
1905-Soisalon Soinineau, procuratoH
general of Finland, assassinated. -.
Machen and the Groffs convicted o.
postal frauds in Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
clover with Rape.

Sowing clover with rape is a very
successful and popular method with
many farmers who are engaged in
raising sheep and goats, says a farm
ers' bulletin, issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
With The land prepared as indicated
for sowing clover alone in the spring,
from ten to twelve pounds of clover
seed and from two to four pounds Of
rape seed per acre are sown broadcast
about the LIST of May and covered
with a harrow. If the ground is rough
and cloddy, it should be finished with
a roller. If this mixture is sown on
a thoroughly pulverized and compact
seed bed, the rape develops rapidly and
furnishes excellent pasture for sheep,
goats, calves or swine in from six to
eight weeks. The tramping of the
animals while feeding during the sum
ner, principally on the rape, forms a
dust mulch on the surface of the
ground In this way soil moisture is
retained fcl the use of the clover dur
ing the dry summer season. If hay
crop is desired the second season, the
rape Is killed by pasturing it closely
with sheep during the late fall or win
ter Sheep eat of the crowns of the
plants close to the ground and the rape
then dies. If the rape is not killed it
will go TO seed the next summer, anu
the stalks Will give some trouble in
the hay. If the clover is not cropped
too closely the first summer. this
method gives an excellent stand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
100000.
RockefelIer,s Big Gift.

All records for benevolent donations
were surpassed with the announcement
that John ID. Rockefeller had given S32.-
100000 to the general educational board,
a body incorporated by Congress for the
purpose of promoting education through
out the country by means of gifts and
otherwise. While the board is not cons
fined to the distribution of Mr.. Rookie
feller's donations, nevertheless he has been
the principal contributor to its funds
since its organization. having given Sill
100000 on a previous occasion. This lat
est contribution is the largest ever made
by an individual for any social or philan-
thropic purpose in the history of the race.
The only condition attached to the gift is
that Mr.. Rockefeller and his son may
direct the disbursement of two-thirois of
the amount. The younger Rockefeller is
a member of the general educational
board, and it was through him that the
board was advised of his fathers addi-
ton to the endowment. II is understood
to be the purpose of the board to assist
colleges. as distinguished from the larger
institutions known as universities. The
board promptly accepted the gift and ac-
knowledged its gratitude to the donor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26

In concluding a series of lectures on
existing evils and their remedies. DIR.
Felix Adler of New York advanced a
new plan for the solution of the rent
problem. He proposes that the city buy
large tracts of land in the suburbs and
build attractive homes thereon. to be rent
ed at figure within the reach of the av-
erage workingman. while at the same time
the property might return a fair percent
age on the investment. In his opinion,
the worst of the evils now existing in
the city is the high rent that must be
paid by the poor. TO this end he would
form a social league. composed of working
people not in the trade unions, and of
thinkers and leaders, to forward this and
other reforms Although DIR. Adler takes
exception to socialism. he believes the
time is coming when the individual will
be replaced by the group, and says if this
is colIectivism he is for it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
UNCLE SANS COMMERCE BooMs.
His Trade Growth in Two Years Is
Nrora 4g,o, a21 600 00O

More than S31, 100000.
The enormous growth in American
trade with it's noncontiguous territories
in the last calendar year as contrasted
with the preceding one is shown in
figures compiled by the Bureal of Sta
tistics of the Department of Commerce
and Labor recently made public. In
value this commerce aggregates S131,-
100000, compared with less than $780,
O000oo in 1904
OF this trade $59,000,000, in round
numbers, consisted of merchandise
shipped to those territories and $72,-
100000 worth of merchandise received
was received from Alaska over $751;
100000 worth of gold, being its own
production, and $6,500,000 of foreign
gold, principally from the British terri
tory adjacent.
OF the $59,000,000 worth of merchan-
disc sent to the noncontiguous terri
tories about $22,O00OO0 worth went to
Porto Rico, ST., 100000 to Alaska, S12,-
100000 to Hawaii and 100000 to the
Philippines
The following figures show how
American shipments of merchandise
have increased in 1906 as compared
with 1904; Porto Rico from $12,000,000
to $50 100000, Alaska from Sfi,500,000
to SIT, 100000, Hawaii from $11,000,-
600 to $12,500,00O and to the Philip
pines from $5,O00,000 to a little over
100000.
Shipments of merchandise from nom
contiguous territories to the United
States during the same period have
increased as follows: Hawaii from
S25,500O00 to nearly S30000,000; Porto
Rico from $14,O00,O00 to $20,750,000,
Alaska from $10,500,000 to $12,o00,000,
while in the case of the Philippines
there is shown slight reduction.
The gold received from Alaska, the
total of domestic production, was in
1904 little over 100000 and in 1906
1S,500,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
GULF STREAM SHIFTS COURSE.
Moves Many Miles West, According
to Recent observations

to Recent Observations.
Startling reflections in the freakish
gulf stream and strange phenomena ex-
listing in the Mexican gulf. believed to be
an indirect result of the Kingston earth
quake, are revealed in an official report
from Captain John G. Solely of the gulf
division of the photographic office.
The stream has moved many miles to
the west, now passing close to the coast
Of Central America in one big circle, turn
ing to the north and east, instead of keep
ing the sinuous line it formerly described.
Before the earthquake the gulf stream
ran close to the western end of Cuba,
curving and winding its way toward the
American coast from the SOUTH then turn
ing away to the east and passing out
around the Florida peninsula to the
northern waters along the Atlantic coast.
Captain Solely fixes the location of a
vast pool of oil two hundred miles off the
Louisiana coast directly south of the
mouth of the Atchafalaya river. To a
depth of four feet there is nothing but
greasy fluid.
Off the Florida coast an inland sea has
been discovered. An extensive area of
fresh water, surrounded by salt water,
exists. Eddying currents for hundreds of
square miles keep this sea entirely differ
ent in color and quality from the gulf
proper. Seaweed. fotsam and ietsam of
the ocean is washed there and remains.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
22 KILLED IN A WRECK.
Result of Awful Disaster to New
York Central Electric Train.

| result Oh AWFUL DISASTER to new
York Central Electric Train.
Twenty-Five persons are known to be
dead and about 100 are injured, num-
Der of them probably fatally. as a result
OF the ditchiag of a New York Central
Suburban electric train, near Bedford
Park station, Saturday evening. The
train was running about seventy miles
an hour, and when rounding a curve
four of the cars left the track and
turned over. They were dragged sew
eral blocks. being smashed to splinters,
and scattering the dead and injured
along the track The dead were horri-
bly, nangled
The wrecked train left the Grand
Central station in New York City at
6:l2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. AS
the train sped along above Bedford
were derailed They bumped along over
the ties for a short distance and then
fell over the embankment. In falling
they turned on the left side. The two
engines the baggage car and the
smoker kept the rails The shrieks of
the passengers in the upturned coaches
could be heard above the roar of the
train.
Despite the efforts of the engineer
to stop the engine the speed was so
great that the overturned coaches were
dragged distance of several blocks be-
fore the train could be brought 20 a
standstill. Over this distance men, wom-
en- and children who had escaped injury
in the overturning of the coaches were
dragged to death Fol the entire dis
lance the track was lined with the
dead and wounded The coupling that
held the engine to the train did not
break. and the police believe that the
great fatality attending the wreck was
caused by the dragging of the coaches.
Finally the coaches plowed up enough
dirt and snow in front of them to bring
the engines to Il halt. The dead and
dying were strewn along the tracks.
Some Of the victims were utterly I'M
recognizable. IN being dragged along
the cinders and coal dust had been so
ground into their faces and the exposed
parts of their bodies that it was with
difficulty that the rescuers could tell
whether they We're white or black.
Many of them had their clothing torn
off and were almost nude when found.
Scattered over the tracks and along the
path over which the coaches had been
dragged were the mutilated remains of
the passengers There was an arm
here, leg there and other portions Of
the body.
To add to the horror of the situation
fire started in the wreckage and the
shrieks of those being burned to death
were added to those of the wounded.
Fire alarms We're turned in and en-
gines quickly responded, but the fire
was not eXtinguished until many of the
bodies pinned beneath the wreckage
had been charred beyond recognition.
The cause of the wreck is not known
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26


Many good people seem impressed
with the idea that the Constitution of
the United States is virtually unamend-
able That it may be distorted and
twisted by the changing majority of the
| Supreme Court. but must not be med
died with by the people or their repre-
sentatives. But the power that makes
can unmake. There is nothing sacred
about the constitution, in fact those
who created it provided how amend
ments could be made and that instru-
ment Of government was but a few
years old until twelve amendments
were added to round it out and make it
competent to protect the rights of the
people and 10 cover the needs of the
federal government The amended in
the supreme law for sixty years. when
the Civil War changed conditions and
the radical reconstruction amendments
were added.
The question now arises ifneeded re-
forms shall be postponed, or not even
considered, because the constitutional
provision for amending the organic law
Is difficult OF attainment unless there Is
almost unanimity between the States
on the reforms which the majority of
the people evidently desire. There is
no doubt that the election of Senators
by the people would receive a majority
vote in most of the States. but practi-
cally it has been found that three
fourths of the States have not yet pro-
posed such amendment nor have two
thirds Of the States called convention,
as the legislatures of enough States
have been controlled by those who OPP
pose the election of Senators by the
people, although 1t is evident that a ma
jority of the voters favored such an
amendent
This inability to obtain a needed re-
form, by reason of the trusts and cor
porations controlling the Republican
politicians, has discouraged many wor-
thy citizens, bur they should remember
that faint heart never won fair LADY,
or won great political reforms. By OPP
posing any candidate for Congress or
State Legislature who refuses to pledge
himself to vote to inaugurate this re-
form and by forcing it as a distinct
pledge in all platforms. that and other
righteous reforms will be forthcoming.
It Is perhaps just as easy and probably
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The News y

1t is comforting to know that our pure
food hereafter is to be pure.
Count Tolstoi refuses to corroborate
the cable reports to the effect that he is
dying
The discovery that Limburger cheese is
effective for the cure of tuberculosis
| ought to prove a strong theory.
1t seems to be easier for railroads to
get good presidents than good men to run
the trains and operate signal systems.
1t would take 266 % estates to fur
nish proper dowries to the 500 widows
left by the late lamented Shah of Persia.
HOLSTERS bring only 10 cents apiece in
New England. On the New York chorus
girl circus they bring SO suppers and
diamond necklaces.
Nebogatoff's name is discoura ging one
for man sentenced to death for surren-
dering his ship to the Japs. but the sever
;ty of the penalty insures its non-execu-
ton.
1t seems that the real reason for the
shortage OF coal in the Northwest is not
shortage of cars, but shortage of time. the
local dealers in coal having refused to
stock up ahead of winter
Mark Twain has come back from Ber-
n,uda because Shakespeare and Milton are
dead and he doesn't want literature to
suffer. He needn't have hurried We al
ways have Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Gen. Funston says a San Francisco
bricklayer gets more pay than an army
officer. But he must remember that the
bricklayer works.
The sensationalists who insist on the
United States going to war with Japan
are about 10000 miles from where the
shooting could begin.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse university
Fl upon investigation that the princi-
pal reason why people are poor is that
they haven't made enough money.
The young Swede in New York who
than $1.o00,0o0 for himself and friends
is no doubt a smooth manipulation.
Hicks. entombed two weeks in mine,
sustained life or tobacco. This adds IN
inapeachablc testimony to the nutritive
quality OF cabbage.
Finding it impossible to run trains ac-
cording TO the time tables. the railroads
now contemplate running the time tables
according 10 the trains.
Tie new Governor Of Colorado took the
oath az ogice IN church. and L is natural
- presvnle that the o-fice seekers raade a
srave showing IN he amen corner.
ssr Roszefci.er IS very much afraid
:. ..---,tr-,- ,---ss s.- roo rS-h fsa i 1a;re
I'll e. e1n to - rcnr th;s b. h-lraens-i
s.s.1Se.- .x.sa a los more than he ~ents
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
Republican Demand for Tariff
Reform

Reform.
The petition of the Governor and
Legislature of Massachusetts to the
President and Congress for a special
session Of Congress to consider tariff
revision will undoubtedly fall on I'M
willing ears and meet evasive eyes, but
it shows that tariff reform will not
down at the bidding of the standpat
Republican majority. Governor Crane
and the majority of the Legislature
Of Massachusetts are Republicans, and
they would not force the issue unless
backed by the great majority of the
people and of the manufacturing and
business element of that State. The
petition demands, In addition to the
calling of a special session Immediately
after March 4, that the subject of max
imum and minimum tariff be consider
ed as a basis for reciprocity with other
nations 1t also significantly declares.
''In all cases of tariff revision the test
should be- not is such a duty demand
ed, but is such a duty needed" Nor
is Massachusetts the only State whose
Legislature is demanding reform, for
the Oregon Legislature wants the tariff
on jute bags-45 per cent--abolished
and the Minnesota and South Dakota
Legislatures want the tariff on lumber
-15 20 Ga per cent-abolished.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
starr Back from Africa.

Prof. Frederick Star of the university
OF Chicago, department of anthropology,
has just returned from the Congo, where
he spent over year studying the pygmy
races along the Kafai and Batua rivers.
The pygmies average feet 10 inches in
height. To a reporter he said: Their
most interesting game is nothing more
nor less than cats cradle a game known
to most American boys. l saw them
playing the game just after / reached
the Congo, and | spent much time inves-
tigating the game and its origin. l found
that the natives played over 100 different
forms of the game. The negroes of the
Congo Free State are bright, intelligent
people. / went up the Congo as far as
the fails and then continued around them
to the upper stream. The trip up the
Oiku river was most interesting. | was
the second white man to go into that
country to such an extent. | kept near
the stream, however. l had number
of narrow escapes"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
News of Minor Note.

Prof. Charles f. Garman OF Amherst
college died in Amherst, Mass. aged 81
Frank Banisik was hanged at Newark.
n. j., for the murder of Thomas Hof at
Montclair two years ago.
Vice Admiral Topete, it is stated will
be made admiral of the Spanish navy in
place of the late Admiral Beranger.
A large number of cranberry growers OF
southern New Jersey have organized the
New Jersey Cranberry Sales Company
10 promote the market.
Charles f. Simmons, aged 40 years,
was shot and killed in the presence of his
wife by Matthew Meehan at Wilmington,
Del. Meehan boarded with Mrs. Simmons.
The interstate commerce commission
concluded a session at Omaha after in
vestigating the recent rise in grain rates
put into effect by the Union Pacific rail-
road.
Four rare paintings were lost IN the
fire that destroyed John Wanamaker's
home near Philadelphia. They are Our
Lady of Madrid. "Nymph," by Murillo;
1.-Two Angels Holding Garland of
Fruit by Rubens. and The Savior" by
West.
Michael Ryan. aged s., of Wilmington,
De-; his wife, Mamie. aged p, and their
infant. Mary A., were asphyxiated by
Illuminating gas.
Hobert Reeder and Henry Harkins,
former attendants at the State hospital
at Athens. Ohio, who were arrested for
kilIirS ". ]. Barnes. an inmate, were
bound over to the grand jury.
The largest dry dock in the world. with
a stone and concrete basin big enough to
hold any two of the battleships of the
United States navy at one time. is about
to be Constructed al Hunters Point. CAL,
by the San Francisco Dry Dock Company
at a cost Of s., go, GOO.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26
Purchn.inr NurserY stocl.

1t is best to purchase trees that have
been grown in the State or in nearby
States, the nearer your home the bet
ter. In this way we may avoid the
danger of importing diseases that do
not already occur in the State. 1t is
very important to make the purchase
of nurseryman who is familiar with
the yellows. root-liee, scale and other
enemies. for such man will be guard
ing against propagating diseased trees.
II possible, 1t is a good plan to see the
trees before purchasing. Some grow
ers think that trees grown further
South or further North are better, but
| know of no evidence TO support either
of these views, says the author OF a
New Jersey bulletin. In general, it is
better TO get trees from your own To-
cality. IL good nurseries are located
there.