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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02

act-to throwing the tea overboard-to
the scores of acts that drove the Ameri-
can colonies into rebellion. His father
was at Bunker Hill, and Saratoga and
Yorktown, and as a boy he had listened
to many stories of war. He had heard
how the patriots starved and suffered at
Valley Forge-he had heard and read of
the treason at West Point-he had been
told of Cowpens, Kings, Mountain and
Lundy's Lane.
1t seemed to that old man as he sat
there that he could hear the ringing of
the Bell of Liberty after the names had
been signed to the Declaration of INDIE
pendence. There was the popping of the
farmers rifles at Lexington-there was
the roar of the musketry at Bunker Hill.
His face lighted up, his dim eyes opened,
and those who watched him whispered to
each other:
mo man is ever too old to love lib
erty."
Then the. old man remembered his own
battles in Mexico and in the sunny South
how he marched with Scott and Taylor
how he fought under the banners of
Grant and Sheridan, and all at once he
lifted up a palsied arm, and from his
wrinkled throat there came the cheer:
"Hurrah Hurra. for -r
That was all. He fell back, and when
they went over to him they found him
dead. 1t was his last Fourth of July.
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Real Independence Day.

On the Sd of July, 1776, says Paul Lee
land Haworth in Harper's Magazine,
John Adams, then one of the Representa-
tives of Massachusetts in the Continental
Congress, wrote to his wife Abigail
Yesterday the greatest question was
decided which was ever debated in Amer
ica, and greater, perhaps. never was
nor will be decided among mer"
In a second letter, written the same
day, he said:
But the day Is past. The I'd of July
will be the most memorable epoch in the
history of America. | am apt to be-
leve that it will be celebrated by succeed
ing generations as the great anniversary
festival. 1t ought to be comnemorated
as the day of deliverance by solemn acts
of devotion to God Almighty il ought to
be solemnized with pomp and parade,
with shows, games, sports, guns, bells.
bonfires and illuminations from one end
of this continent to the other from this
time forward forevermore''
When the resolution was taken up on
the I'd, all the States except New York
voted to accept it. Thus on The I'd day
OF July, 1776, the independence of the
thirteen United Colonies ftom the throne
of Great Britain was definitely decided
upon. The I'd, and not the 4th, may be
called the true date of the separation.
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Il apt to believe" said he, that it will be cele-
braed by succeeding generations the great anniver
festival 1t ought to be commemorated the day
of deverance, by solemn acts Of devotion to God AL
mighty. 1t ought to be soemnized with pomp and pa
rade with shows games sports guns BELLS bonfres and
Examinations from end to the other from this time
forward forevermore."
And such have been methods Of celebration for
century and quarter, only that have bettered the
instructions by the Introduction of the Chinese fire
cracker That noisy and mischievous device with the
toy the toy pistol has caused national
fete to be most fatal and expensive day.
1t Is high time, therefore, that rational methods
rejoicing should be observed. Let have the pomp
and parade the and shows and sports but dill
gently discard the bonres the recrackers and the
of firearms by the unskfu. Celebrate must for
trotism demands it. but let 1t be done in rational
The exuberance Of youth is past with We no
longer need loud noise to proclaim the glory Of
ancestors and our love of country.-Chcago Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
CELEBRATIN' THE FOURTH.

When the cats is still a-prowlin'
Round the corner of the fence,
While the dogs Is still a-howlin'
Jes' fer lack of better sense.
While yer grand'pa's still a-sleepin',
An you hear yer daddy snore,
Then's the time to go a-creepin
Like a mouse across the floor,
Till you find yerself a-peepin'
At the clock to see T it's four.
When the baby's quit It's cryin',
An yer mammy's gone to sleep,
Thens the time to be a-tryin'
How boy the Fourth can keep.
Jump into yer pants an Jacket,
Go out barefoot in the dark,
Fer it's time 10 raise racket,
An It's time to have lark.
Take yer cannons, crackers, rockets,
Pistol, drum, an other toys,
Put some matches in yer pockets,
Fer it's time to make noise.
Then If no ones near to hinder,
Strike a light an start the fun
Jes' beneath yer daddys winder,
Keepin' ready fer to run.
Thund'rin blazes, what a buster
Guess you'd better stop while,
Such a giant cracker muster
Walked the people fer mile.
Hush somebody's speakin' sonny,
Did you hear the breakfast bell?
Seems to me It's very funny
That you like your bed so we'll.
Hang 1t all I've been a-sleepin,
ole folks up ahead of me,
While I dreamed I'd been a-keepin'
Fourth July since hap-pas' three.
Norman ii. Pitman, Llppincotts.
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Scores of years have passed since the first Independ
ence Day. and the scattered impoverished struggling
halfunted colonies have grown to be one of the most
powerful nations earth.
The handful of men who sat In Independence Hall
and listened to the grievances which they were called
together to redress farseeng statesmen though
them Were in their widest moods prophecy did not
dream of empire extending beyond the Mssssip
pi much less that should into the Pacific
and into the Gulf of Mexico.
The Commonweaths of that day, sparsely settled
struggled along the Atlantic Maine to Florida
having outlet upon the Gulf scarcely daring to
peep over the Allegheny Mountains. Grinding necessity
had brought them together for a purpose but
the men of the hour had thought of building I'D
nation that one day would astound the world
They resolved that the United States were and of
right ought to be free and independent but what
after independence they hardly dared to say
But they easily that the day of the declaration
would be a memorable epoch in American history and
sturdily John Adams gave expression to it.
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"Hurrah for---!,,
He was an old, old man.

He was an Old. old man.
His hair was white as snow. his back
was bent. and he was almost blind and
deaf. When the morning Of Fourth Of
July came they noticed a look of longing
on his face. and they placed him in his
invalid chair and wheeled him out on his
veranda. He nodded and a smile came TO
his wrinkled face.
lie could scarcely see the moving
throng or hear the popping around him.
but be had been boy once and he knew
how things were going. He knew that
flags were flying all around him, and that
here and there drums were beating and
some old veteran had brought out his fife
and was showing the younger generation
how marching was done in his day.
Then the old mans thoughts went back
. hundred years and more-to the stamp
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
Don,ts for the Fourth.

Don't allow the frecrackers to go off
in the grass unless you want the lawn
ruined.
Don't wear thin inf1ammable frock.
Put on a cloth skirt if there are fire.
era ckers about.
Don't attempt to set off complicated
pyrotechnics without thoroughly compre-
bending the process.
Don't lay away leftover fireworks for
anotherlyear. They are dangerous thiDfs
to pack away where mice can get at them.
Buy only so many as can be used on the
day appointed.
Don't allow the children to bend over
fireworks which will not go off," They
sometimes do it Unexpectedly with unfor-
tunate results to the little me- Ter.
Don't neglect to send for a physician
at once in the case of serious burn, to
prevent a possible scar or worse still,
blood poisoning. from ignorant or i'm
proper treatment of the wound.
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rected that way, and there are now six
distinct German groups. with a strong
influence in political and industrial af-
fairs. The Pomeranian costume was a
familiar sight for years in the agricul-
tural districts.
The fourth Norwegian colony in Amer
lea was founded in Wisconsin. Three men
came over first, travelling on skis and car
rying their effects in knapsacks. They
found the country good. wrote many let
tiers home, and Rock county soon had a
large settlement of their countrymen. The
colony at Koshkonong is known as the
wealthiest Norwegian colony in America.
Iceanders have a large colony on
Washington island, in Green bay. Swiss
homeseekers, in 1915. after en- arduous
journey of 5000 miles, almost entirely
by water, settled near Mineral Point, and
are an important factor in State affairs.
Cornishmen in large numbers came to the
lead mines in the south. and Poles, Bohe-
mians, Dutch and Belgians form large
percentage of the population.
Wisconsin's Industries.
The lead mines in the southwest were
- NNsJ oNeAe~NetVh' Ahuldtto WOlhCd
them pro6tably. Perrot developed some
of them, France knew of these, as we'll
as others, and in 1719 appointed Francis
Ronault director general of mines in
Louisiana, and early in the nineteenth
century immigrants cans up from the
south to work them with slave labor.
To-day the mineral industry represents
an investment of many millions of dol
lars.
The forests that the early explorers
knew only as hiding places for Indians
now yield a great revenue, two-ffths of
the capital of the State being invested
in lumber manufacture. 1t is said that
the pine planks cut in Wisconsin in the
past quarter of a century would lap
around the earth 2,495 times. Wisconsin
is second in the value of dairy products
among the States, fourth in the manufac-
ture of leather and fifth in that of wood
pulp. Before 1888 Milwaukee was only
the site of Solomon Juneau's cabin. To-
day it is the second largest -four center
in the United States, and sends out daily
over 100 carloads of beer. The corks she
uses amount to eighty carloads a year
and keep 900 people constantly employed
in Spain.
James Jesse Strang, lawyer. journal
list, pedagogue and preacher, recruited
from the Mormons of Wisconsin the sub
jects for the only kingdom that ever ex-
listed ON American soil. He was crowned
king on Beaver island July s, 1850. At
the same time he was a member of the
Michigan Legislature, his island kingdom
being in Michigan territory. He was as
sassinated six years later by two dissat-
isfied subjects. Wisconsin gave the world
Rufus King, Alexander Randall, Hamlin
Garland. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Bill Nye,
DIR. Nicholas Sem, Reuben Gold
Thwaites, Kate Epson Clark and Carl
Jonas, who compiled the first English
Bohemian ctionary.-Frederic j. Has
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An American tourist on a visit to
Glasgow, ON emerging from the rail-
way station, was accosted by a lad with
familiar shout of Garry your bag,
sir?" The gentleman handed the boy
the bag and requested to be shown
through Glasgow. Crossing George
square they came opposite to Sir Wal
ter SCOTS monument, and the boy
said proudly:
THAT is one Of the largest monu-
ments in Scotland"
'Oh," said the Yankee, with an air
of Indifference, "we have threepenny
cigars as big as that in America"
They got on to a tramcar going east
and just as they alighted at the term
mus long circular piece of iron on
lorry drawn by II horses came up the
street. The American, in surprise,
asked what that was for. The boy,
remembering what the Yankee had said
about the cigars, and with resolve to
be even with him, replied:
ooh, new hotel has just been built
in the Trougate, and that is the kitchen
poker"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
A SWISS CELEBRATION.
The Experiences of American I'm
Geneva on July 4.

The Experiences of an American In
Geneva on July 4.
"I7he last time / was in Geneva 1 ar
rived on the evening of July 3" says
a correspondent of the Philadelphia Press.
1.-THE next morning | left my hotel-it
was not one affected by American tour
ists--for stroll through the city. From
the upper window of one of the shops
which looked on the narrow cotble paved
street hung an American flag beside the
flag of Switzerland. l was p1zzled for
minute. Then it flashed over me that it
was the glorious Fourth and that in my
home in the States at that minute hun
dreds of thousands of flags we're flying
and millions of crackers exploding to
celebrate the anniversary. 1t was odd to
De reminded of the occasion by the peo-
pie of another land so far from my own
q people speaking another language and
alien to me in every thing bu. their love
of freedom.
Turning into another street saw
more decorations, and as | reared the
business center of the city they grew
still more profuse. The big hotels show
ed the blended colors from many win
dows. and from the flagstaff of the Ma
tional hotel, which is the one most fire.
quented by Americans, flew the Stars and
Stripes.
1T was inspiring. l felt Ike throw
Ing my hat into the air and crying 'Hur-
rahv That is what a good many Ameri-
cans whom l met were impelled TO do.
Moreover. some of them were setting off
bombs unmolested. On every hand were
the evidences of national sympathy. The
eyuberant American found encouragement
and not reproof in his Efforts TO make an
American Fourth OF July in Geneva.
I'm the evening, they told me. there
would ne the annual MOONLIGHT excursion
down the lake in honor &C Independence
day. Think of it! A Fourth of July
excursion 1000 miles from home,
went. of course. The steamer was beau
tifury hung with Swiss and American
flags and with bunting of red white and
blue. and lanterns displaying our rational
colors were swung from the awning.
About one-sixth of the passengers were
American tourists. the remaining excur-
sionists were Swiss.
There was a band on boar6-s very
bad band, l must admit. but its enthu-
slaSm atoned in some measurs for its
lack of harmony. 1t began with The
Star Spangled Banner and wound Up
with Hail Columbia the American con
tingent singing words of the national
hymn with more vigor than accuracy and
concluding each verse with whoops and
yellS which highly entertained the more
stolid natives"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02

We are to thank The backward spring
for the destruction of the locusts, which
were about to hatch out in uneountable
numbers. The same frost that laid its
frigid fingers on the apple blossoms and
the lilacs also gave tweak to the locust
eggs. At least this is what rural per-
sonages who are posted on such things
say. But the locusts probably wouldn't
have Matched out, anyway. There are
two things that never happen when peo-
pie say they will one is the coming OK
the end Of the world and the other is the
appearance of the focusts We have long
given up the end of the world as practi-
cally hopeless and have resigned ourselves
to being deprived of that matchless spec
tacle which some more favored genera
ton may possibly Witness and we have
been so often disappointed in the locust
representations that we now rank them
along with weather bureau indications.
We have heard stories by our grandsires
that once the ''17-year" locusts filled the
woods with roaring like the sound OF
Niagara and that the bark of the trees
was split asunder by the insects, and that
the surface of the earth was made to look
like pepper box by the holes whence
they had issued. And we have waited
expectantly for repetition of this won
der of nature but, like the end Of the
world, it is always being postponed. The
locusts appear to be great procrastinators,
or else their human prophets are great
prevaricators.
1t may be. of course, that the locusts
are mixed up in their calendar and not
being able to decide whether the seven
teen years of their Information" has ex-
pired have decided to remain in seclusion
until the matter is Strengthened out, rath-
Ell than appear at a time that would ruin
their arithmetical reputation. 1t is peril
Gus to be premature, TO arrive on the scene
before the curtain is up or the audience
seated, especially when your performance
is so rarely given that the only thing
that ranks with it is the Oberammergau
passion play which is presented only once
in ten years. One can understand the
deep modification seventeen-year locust
would feel in appearing at the end OF
thirteen years o. ten years, or any num-
Der of years except exactly seventeen
A miscalculation never could be forgiven.
1t would be as humiliating as Mark
Twain's experience in Switzerland when
wrapped in a blanket he sought to wit
ness the glorious spectacle of the rising
sun and did not realize until he saw the
smiles of promenading ladies and gentle
men in afternoon costume that the sun
was setting Punctuality is of the utmost
importance, Every properly reared locust
knows this If the time set for the great
periodical conclave is every seventeen
years, then let it be observed to ths in
slant. Hardness is not to be extenuated-
If they prove false to their name and
appear any old year, they should be con-
signed to the ranks of the locusts which
appear annually and have no ancient
ancestry or traditions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

Here 1t Is, the Fourth ag'in!
Sakes alive, how time does spin
Don't seem like it's sixty year.
Since | first begun to hear
All the loud, tarnation noise
We stirred up when we was boys,
All of US a-wishin' powder
Was lots cheaper and lots louder
Recollect with what delight
Used to be up half the night
Helpin' fire the anvil or
Maxim other sounds of war?
Used to wish the earth was drilled
Out inside and powder filed
And that | could somehow just
Touch her off and hear her bust!
Weren't no cannon crackers then.
Kind o. wish there had "a been
Then they would "a sounded sweet;
Now they lift me off my feet
I've begun to think that noise
Was invented just for boys.
Fourth o. July don't seem to me
IT all like what 1t used to be.
Jus, as patriotic, still
Son chow / don't catch the thrill
OF the loud, tumultuous JOY
Like l used to when boy.
Nothin' dom then but l
Had a finger In the pie.
But that finger, as you see,
Got bowed off eventually.
New York Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
Odds and Ends.

There are 234,00O telephones in New
York City.
Light-haired people live longer than
dark haired ones.
The largest vineyard In the world is
near San Gabriel, Cal.
The Baptist women Of the world are
supporting 300 missionaries.
The government runs the pawnshops
of Italy, and no interest is required on
loans
The manuscript Of Swinburne's
First Book of Balladg has been sold
for $1,000.
Is is estimated that three thousand
marriages are performed daily through
out the world.
The newly elected Mayor of Glaston-
bury, England, was formerly tailor.
So he was able to make his own official
robes.
The latest addition to the London
Museum Of Natural History is a colec-
ton OF 100000 beetles bequeathed by
Alexander Fry.
The recent regatta on the Zambesi
was so successful that it is proposed
to invite English university crews to
compete next year.
Sir Conan Doyle and other pGhl:c-
spirited men have started in to ascer-
tain whether tobacco can be cultivated
probably in Ireland.
From the windows of British tai
lor: 1--WE have cleared Scotch mer-
Grants remains Of high-ciass overcoat-
ings at big reduction"
A new sulphurous spring has burst
forth at Hamman- Meskoutine. In AL
gerla, with a temperature Of 90 degrees
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
COCOA GUSHING TEAAND COFFEE
ImportatiOns of Two Latter show
Decline In Last Ten Years.

Decline i'm Last Ten Years.
According to a report issued by the
bureau of statistics of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, cocoa importations
into the United States are now averaging
more than a million dollars q month,
against an average of a quarter of a
million dollars month decade ago.
Meantime importations of both coffee and
tea show a decline, especially during the
last two years.
The total quantity Of cocoa imported in
the Grade state in the eight months end
ing with February, 1907, is 61,299,427
pounds, valued at $S,344,42e, against
2. 100, 059 pounds, valued at $1,930,S31 in
the corresponding months of 1897.
The total quantity Of coffee imported
in the eight months of the fiscal year
1907 is 647 ,206,151 pounds, valued at
SOL, S69,152, against 6,204,372 pounds,
valued at $59, 320,60S in the eight months
of 1897.
The quantity of tea imported in the
eight months of 1907 is 72,475,44 valued
at $11 ,606,05S, against 81 ,220,S22 pounds,
valued at $10,247 500 in the correspond
ing months Of 1897.
Taking the value alone there has been
an increase Of about $6,500,000 in the
importations of cocoa, a decline of ST.
100000 in the importations of coffee and
an increase of $1,333,333 in tea importa-
tons.
The average valuation Of the cocoa inn
ported in the eight months ending with
February 1907, is 1875 cents per pound,
against 9.3 cents in the corresponding
period of 1897, that of tea is cents,
against 1876 cents a decade ago, while
coffee shows a fall averaging cents per
pound in the eight months of 1907,
against lila cents in the corresponding
months Of 1897.
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Hoard Heads Regents.

At meeting of the university board
of regents former Gov. W. d. Hoard of
Fort Atkinson was elected president The
board received the resignation of Prof
Fletcher A. Carter. director of the uni
versity school of music, and elected in his
place Rossiter g. Cole of Chicago. The
board will elect Prof. Parker professor
emeritus.
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FIGHTING FARMER ARRESTED.
Vincent Semrad and Town Chairman
CIaxh Over Ro1d

Vincent Semrad and Town Chairman
Clash over Road.
Blows and broken heads we're the out
come of the action of Vincent Semrad
and his wife in blowing up the public
road to which they lay claim and then
moving building to the middle of the
highway near Muscoda. Town Chairman
Henry Harms with crew of men went
out with the intention of moving the
house from the road. They met Semrad
armed with a. ak, his wife in the mean
time standing guard with a heavy club.
Mrs. Semrad was compelled to surrender
and then her husband was oyerpowered
During the fight Chairman Harms was
struck over the head by Mrs. Semrad
The husband and wife were arrested for
assault and were taken to Lancaster for
a hearing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
CITY LIMITS SALOONS.
BelOit Says Thirty-One Upon Reques
of Temperance Element.

BelOit Says Thirty-0ne Upon Request
of Temperance Element.
The Beloit common council was besieg.
ed the other night by large delegations
both of the temperance people and saloon
men of the city. The Aldermen, dividing
their favor, passed those of the temper.
ance people, making proprieters liable fol-
all acts of the bartender; making it
license condition that the lcensee shall
have been a resident of the city for at
least six months before final application
and limiting the number of saloons to
thirty-one. Then the Council passed an
ordinance proposed by the saloonkeepers,
allowing them to keep their places open
on Saturday nights until II o'clock, in
stead of 10 80, as has been done.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-02
Remeaies FOR Burns.

On the Fourth of July always have
some remedies for burns at hand. When
the skin is not broken by a burn scrape
a raw potato, place on a piece of soft
linen and use as a poultice. Bicarbonate
OF soda-the ordinary baking soda-is ex-
cellent for burns whether the skin is
broken or not. II broken apply the dry
soda, if unbroken dampen the soda with
water to make a paste and apply to the
spot. The pain will be instantly re-
lieved