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LEGISLA4IYE P0LITtNESS.

Some of the county caucus nomina- tions have been held up'' in the legis- lature, ostensibly out of politeness to the Governor, who, in his message, rec commended that the Governor be given the power nf appointing the county commissioners and judges of minor courts.
 This makes an interesting situation, but perhaps not situation entirely fa- vorable to the Governors reconnenda- ton. It may possibly be that "the countrymen," as they are sometimes called are ready to relinquish what lit- tie power is left to them in the selec- tion of county commissioners, but we doubt it, They may not care much about the way in which the judges of the minor courts are selected, and per- haps they are tired of the seni-annual disturbances caused by the present way. But we believe they are not dis posed to give up what influence they d1ave in county management.
 Then there are others, both in and out of the legislature, who think the appointing notion has gone far enough, and too far. They would like to see more officers chosen by the people, and in support of their idea they point to some of the appointments and perti- nently ask if it isn't probable that the people would have done as well as that. Candor compels the reply that 1t is. We shall soon zee what the whole per- formance means. Perhaps there is no objection in the legislature to treating the Governor politely, and then politely rejecting his recommendation.
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HSInce she is Mine y

I did not know how fair the days could
 be Before she came, with her sweet smile
 to me- did not know how sweet the wind
 could blow Before she came to me, but now ]
 know. Before she sweetly came to make me I could not guess why all nen were
 not sad. Why ceaseless joy should be for any man I could not guess before, but now can. Her figures fine, her features none ex-
 eel. Shes my stenographer, and she can Her voceais sweet. her eyes are soft and deep She runs tie oface-and I get her cheap.
 Chicago Record Herald.
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ings, peeping out from a mass of clus- tering vines and luxuriant foliage, seemed like fairyland as we approach ed. But on nearer acquaintance the Illusion soon vanished. At that time surface sewage prevailed, and one was greeted at every corner by streams of filthy water over which the stepping stones were placed for the convenience of the pedestrian. At the Myrtle Bank hotel we had our first introduction to pumpkin soup. which retained all its pristine and undisgulsed flavor, and here We had delicious pines, freshly gathered, and served with sugar and crushed ice, which was veritable am- brosia. The guests were complaining of the canned stuffs that constantly appeared on the table, in lieu of fresh fruits and vegetables-the natural products of the island-and what won der? Apropos of this, certain land- lord inquired of an American gentle man, by the ubiquitous name of Smith, what particular food Americans liked to eat Aside from the drawing, read ing and dining rooms the hotel was badly arranged, and the sleeping rooms were hot, unventilated and unsanitary. Mice are as common on the island as are flies with us. I remember waking in a fright the first night we spent at Myrtle Bank, when an unknown some thing was biting my finger. Indeed, one of the ladies at the Park Lodge hotel, whither we finally went, inform ed me that it was her custom to carry crumbs of bread to her room every night for the mice. In this way alone she preserved her garments from de. struction.
 Kingston has a splendid water ser vice; the waters of Hope and Wag rivers forming an apparently mex haustible supply. Running through successive beds of white sand as they do, the water is as clear as crystal, quite unlike the muddy water which flows so frequently from our faucets here in New Haven. Were 1t not for it's bountiful water supply, and were it not for the vigilance of its John Crow scavengers, Kingston would not be as healthful city as 1t is.
 RACHEL ROGERS.
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ESCAPED

Editor Threatening to sue us for li- bel! Good heavens! What for?
 Manager Through some mistake we described her as being in evening dress at 5 o'clock tea,-Harper's Bazar.
 1T narrowly escaped having locomotor ataxia"
 Narrowly" Yes: the vote was very close. Four doctors against five "-Louisville Cour- fer Journal.
 Her husband left her fortune on condition that she shouldn't marry again, and you say she isn't satisfied
 No She can't make out whether II means jealousy or revenge. .'-Detroit Free Press. Has your daughter made her society debut yet, Mrs. Comeup?"
 No, she hasn't, and she don't have to, neither. We can get all our society fixens from them Paris dressmakers now Baltimore American. Bishop (who has looked in at rural Sunday school Now, children, can any of you tell what is meant by the visita- tion of the bishop?
 Little girl (after long pause)- Please. sir. an affliction sent from heaven!-Punch. "Jimmy's got great scheme to get out O school when the days are fit for skatinb"
 How does he work it?"
 He goes out an washes his face, an the teacher thinks he's i'll an sends him home. Bits.
 Churoh--What's that piece of cord tied around your finger for? Gotham--My wife put it there to re- mind me to mail her letter. And did you mail it?"
 No; she forgot to give 1t to mel'- Yonkers Statesman.
 why does Woggsley look so blue?"
 His rich aunt died" Thought good deal of her, did her" That doesn't account for his blues. 2
 What then?"
 "she didn't think of him at all" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Mrs. Caterby Gust moved to the sub urbsl you think the people here are awfully slow? Caterby-Pm too busy to notice. Mrs. Caterby-Why. really, my dear,
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it's hardly worth while living beyond our income to associate with them Judge.
 Are you sure your motives are not mereenary rather than patriotic?"
 My friend answered Senator Sor- ghum, If have not been neglectful of this worlds goods it was merely be- cause l wanted to check some of the idle gossip about my beloved country being ungrateful to those who have served t."-Washington Star.
 The dad-My son, I want to tell you that the secret of my success, as it must be of any mans. is hard work. I
 The son-sh! Dad. I don't care to hear other peoples secrets, and I am too much of a gentleman to take ad- vantage of information gained that way. Say no more.-Cleveland Leader.
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Belgian hares are good mathemati- clans as far as multiplying is concern ed. Belgian hares imported into the Argentine Republic have multiplied at an astonishing rate, Some fifty of these hares were introduced into the country and they have now spread to such an extent as to be found at a distance of 800 miles from the spot where they were first turned out and have increased so prodigiousIy that ten hunters have been known to kill 1000 an a day. Their ravages on all sorts of crops are formidable, and some pro- prietors have gone to the expense of fencing in extensive ranches with wire netting in order to exclude them. Some attempt has been made to turn their flesh into a source of profit by sending them to Europe and other markets iii a frozen state.
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JAPAN AND RUSST4.

Statements made in Paris by M. Mo- tono, the Japanese ambassador to St. Petersburg, are interesting and i'm portant, The ambassador seems to have treated the notion that there could be any serious dispute between his country and Russia as something quite beyond the range of probabilities. Rumors to the contrary effect, he de- clared, were absolutely devoid of foun-
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A Vienna newspaper has an inform ing article concerning baseball in that city '"The game has become so popu- lar,' says the writer, that 1t will soon be a rival of lawn tennis. Mothers who object to their daughters taking part in the violent exercise which tennis de-
 mands will have no objection to the new game on that account, Baseball was originally, like cricket, mans game, but in the eighties an English man named Hill changed it so that women might play Then 1t became popular in America, where amusements are always arranged so that women
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ADVERTISING RATES.

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may take part in them. Since then
 baseball has become almost the na-
 tional game there" The writer then gives a long description as to how the
 game has been improved in Vienna, where it is played both in the open and indoors"
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THE CREATION AS REVISED.

AIIL1 NIuII4tI IN14N 21to It41 Ak117711'
 The Church of Scotland has reason to cry. What have I been saying for 300 years?'' Her Shorter Cathechism teaches that in six days the world and all that therein is were made out of nothing. This no longer seems un- reasonable. It did when we believed matter could never be destroyed. In view oE the lectures of Mime. Curie, and the lessons of M. Gustave Le Bon, matter really matters very little. It is
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We don't want to fight, but if we have to we've got the men Thirteen million men of the military age, capa- ble of bearing arms. constitute the de- fensive force of the United States. New York alone can turn out force of 1904 ,O0O. This computation ex- cludes all men over forty-f1ve years of age.
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fast wearing itself out, and human agency precipitates the fall into nothingness-or ether. The latter be- comes the vast puzzle. It is not mat ter We understand matter. Still, it is transmits light and heat. In this way 1t is the general postof11ce of the universe. The more we learn the less we seem to know. We are like child ren in wanting to walk or to ride their ponies to the horizon-London Truth.
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What Is your attitude on this in come tax proposition?'
 Simply this; Give me the income and I care not who tries to collect the tax" Baltimore American.
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There are all kinds of notions. Jul- ian Hawthorne, who says that Presi- dent Roosevelt writes worse English than anybody else he ever knew or heard of, says also that Senator Till- man "has force, sincerity and that nat ural and spontaneous eloquence which is seldom heard at any time, but which, when 1t is heard, stamps itself upon the mind and feelings in way which time cannot efface"
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NEW HAVEN, CONN.

EaE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PBB~
 LISHED IN CONNECTICUT.
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North Dakota has 8 prohibition law and Minnesota has not. The Red River of ther North is the boundary line, and 1t separates the two towns of Fargo and Moorehead. saloonkeepers in Moorehead have carriages in Fargo, and when some one there gets thirsty all he has to do Is to call a carriage, take ride over the bridge and get a drink. All this is at one price.
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A Milanese barrister. signor Ama- deo Bucci, has invented flexible fab ric, somewhat resembling leather, which no bullet or hard steel instru- ment is able to pierce. signor Bucci made tour around a large square in Rome with motor car, the tires of which had been covered with the fab ric. Nails of large dimensions were stuck in the ground, point upward, and the car passed over them without damaging the rubber tires. Later on the inventor called on the minister of marine, who personally experimented upon a piece of the fabric, which he unsuccessfully tried to perforate by firing several revolver shots at it. It is expected that the invention will soon be taken up by the Italian goernment, as well as by motor car manufactur- CTS.
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THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE, 400 STATE STREET.
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From the States formerly classed as the solid South five Republicans will sit in the next Senate, says the Florida Times Union. '"Twelve years ago every Southern Senator but one was . Democrat, and from other States fourteen Democrats and three Popu- lists sat in the Senate. This loss can not be accounted for by Democratic division in 1896, for It Is continuing to grow larger. We believe Senator Pat- terson is right in attributing 1t in part to the fact that the southern extrem- ists insist on Haunting the race Issue constantly in the face of the country"
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, EsEued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
sAPEoopD JOURNEY
THOUGH AegIAN WIDec

It's bed. Every boy had putty blower,
made from a straight piece of alder,
from which the pith had been punched.
leaving caliber big enough for a bird
shot.
Soon the boys discovered a colony Of
rattlesnakes preparing to cross the
creek toward them. Every Pike County
boy who Is not a nature fsker knows
that rattlesnake hates to wet its rat
ties The boys hid In the bushes and
waited Twelve rattiesnakes were in
the approaching bunch. The biggest
started ahead to reconnolter, the 9TH
ers waited on the bank.
The scout snake made his tortuous
way from bowlder to bowlder, and
finally ais rattles, dry, reached the pic
mic grounds. He ratified wireless "all
right" to the eleven, which crossed In
Indian HE. The boys turned their
putty blowers on the snakes and fred
fast and accurate broadsides.
Maddened by the hail of shot the
snakes turned on one another, and soon
every one lay dead, killed by the venom
of each other. The twelve snakes
combined length was sixty-fye feet.
But this was not all the fun. At
luncheon the tempting odor of honey
on the sandwiches attracted a very
small cub bear from his home In a
neighboring wood to the picnic ground.
The boys fed 1t on bread and honey and
took home real but docile teddy bear
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
How BoII. Are Made.

Many big things are needed to make
a small doll. She has her beginning IN
a great trough. where workmen knead
up into dingy paste old cardboard,
even old gloves, old rags and gum
tragacanth. They are great brawny
fellows, these men, naked to the waist
wearing leathern aprons. In an ad-
Joining room the paste Is poured into
molds for the busts, the arms, the legs
Of dolls innumerable. There Is a spe-
cial machine for stamping out the
hands. l should not like to confess
how long 1 stood In front of 1t, fas
cinated by the steady stream Of queer
little hands that fell ceaseleSsly from
the iron monster 1t was awful, UNI
canny, hypnotizing. Indeed, the whole
sight was grim and monstrouA This
low factory rooms were misty with
steam and lit by strange, red glowing
fires. Always the great steel machines
pulsed and changed, and through the
mist sweaty giants OF men went to AMI
fro with heaps Of little greenish arms
and legs until you began to think that
some new Herod had killed all the lit
tie people In the world.-Everybody'G.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
N.poleon rru.,ea Hi. omen..

Napoleon always had an unlimited
trust in his presentiments. When the
news came to him that one of the Nile
river boats, the name of which WIS
L'Italie, had been wrecked and the
crew put to death he gave up all hope
OF ever completing his conquest OF
Italy by annexation Napoleon believ-
ed that the stars exercised an occult
influence over human destinies. When
General Rapp, at one time his aid-de-
camp, returned from the siege Of Dant-
sic he found the emperor gazing with
concentrated attention at the heavens
Look there" shouted the emperor.
at is my star. The fiery red one, al
most as large as the mooE. 1t Is be-
fore you now. and, an, how bri6;ant.
Ii has never abandoned me for sla-
gle Instant. l see it on all great oc,
casions. 1t commands me 70 go for-
ward; 1t IS my sign of good fortaae.
and where 1t leads I will follow
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

More interesting to the many suffer
ers, says the New York Evening Post.
is the fact that certain cure for TIE
painful skin blisters Is found In a So
luton Of potassium permanganate.
This blistering effect on the skin
was taken advantage Of by old-time
doctors and administered In cases of
skin disease. One reads that in 1910
the poison ivy was introduced into
England, and in 1893 was used as a
medicine in Europe Even before this
the juice of the plant had been used
as a marking ink, and is to-day widely
employed for that purpost. 1t resists
soap, acids, alkalies and bleaching pow
ders, and yields only to ether. So,
when the nature writer Is out in the
wilds, away from stores and human
dwellings, and his Ink gives out, a
splendid substitute may be found In
the Juice Of the poison ivy-which win
guarantee the physical permanence Of
the record Of his observation not
the veracity Of the facts themselves.
Another commercial use for the Juice
Of this plant is in the manufacture Of
a backing fluid for boots and shoes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15

Rough Riders who went into action only
"Eighty-six were killed or wounded"
The record of the automobile is writ
ten In red-and that red is the blood of
its many victims. The vast majority Of
these persons were killed outright. In
addition to these there were many 9th
ers who were so badly injured that
they died later, but their deaths went
unrecorded in the teeming columns Of
the newspapers.
But this roster of the dead, appalling
as it is, by no means represents the sum
total of the destruction wrought by the
automobile. In this country to-day
there are hundreds of men, women and
children with broken legs, arms, ribs
and skulls, with crushed feet and
marred faces, who have been perma-
nently disfgured or crippled by the
ruthless automobile.
In almost every way that could be
imagined have injury and death been
inflicted by the Red Peril In the hands
Of reckless drivers In many cases the
drivers themselves have gone down to
destruction with the machines they pro-
PEELED.
The long list Of accidents shows that
many were killed and injured as a re-
suit of racing. Speed lovers, crashing
along the highway by day or night,
have been hurled to death against rocks
and trees and telegraph poles. 9th
ers have been thrown from skidding au-
tomobiles on sharp corners and dashed
to destruction on hard pavements.
Many have been killed by collisions
with street cars, fire engines, passing
vehicles, railway trains and other au-
tomobiles Others have met their fate
On the perilous race course, where mad
men had assembled to risk their lives
in breaking an old speed record or to
established a new one.
The Red Peril Is living and fearful
thing.-Indianapolis Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
HOT WEATHER SMOKING.

Net Up to the Average of the Pleas
anter Seasons of the Year.
That very hot weather or very cold
weather--in fact, any sort Of uncom-
Portable weather-is bad for trade is
the opinion of the great majority Of re-
tailers, says the Tobacco Journal.
There are a few dealers who take
the contrary view, asserting that the
per capita consumption of cigars is not
at all affected by the Notwithstanding
~ not by hot weather.
Here is the principal thing that
makes dealers believe that men do not
smoke much In hot weather." said one
experienced and observant dealer in a
small city. I'm hot weather sales are
very short during the day. Lots Of
regular smokers so all day without
smoking.
But II you want to convince your
self that they do still smoke just make
a round of the places where cigars are
sold after dinner, Every one Of them
has its bunch of patrons, who stay
around all evening and smoke.
THE man who has not smoked all
day makes up for it in the evening. If
he is in the habit of smoking six CT
CARS in a day he will not quit with
less than four or five during the even
ing. Then there will be a cool day oc-
casionally, when he will make up for
any shortage that may exist
This may be true Of small towns,
Int we are still Of the opinion that a
lot spell in New York decreases the
consumption Of cigars. OF course this
is In large measure. due to the fact
that when the temperature is abnor-
nally high people endeavor to get out
OF town as much as possible.
But there is also that considerable
class Of occasional smokers who only
smoke when they can do SO In comfort
and most of whose smoking is done out
of doors. Those men who have never
got into the habit of smoking at home
or at their places of business are prone
to stop altogether when weather condi-
tons are unpleasant.
OF course their individual consump-
ton is small. but in city like New
York the aggregate Is considerable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
uov 40 Enloy whist.

.How can one learn 10 enjoy the
game Of whist ?"-Aspirsnt
Get yourself roped into a game as
mariner 10 some one who helped Hoyls
write his book. The other two players
must also be experts. Start la pleas
ant,v to enliyen the game with a few
well-cnosen anecdotes, now and then
making the wrong play. After your
partner has slapped your ears and
sworn at you and put the black curse
on you and all your ancestry and called
you a fool few times you will awake
to the real Joy OF the gentle and Intel
lectual game. We have tried this sew
eral tines but not at frequent inter-
walls, and we can guarantee its efficacy
Chicago News
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
AUTOS DEADLY AS WAR.

Figures Prove that Automobile Is
cred Peril of Civilization"
The automobile, with its terrifying
and daily increasing list of permanent
ly injured, dying and dead, abundantly
proves itself the Red Peril of Civiliza-
ton. Wherever it gees upon the high
way. when guided by the hand Of a
speed-crazed devotee, the motor car
leaves in its wake a trail of destruction,
desolatton and death
The long list Of accidents this year
show that the execution wrought by
the motor car Is more deadly by far
than that of the Spanish guns at San
Juan hill.
Since Jan. 1, 1907, at least ia per-
sons have been killed and 362 injured
in the United States by automobiles
a total of 476 After the battle of San
Juan hill Lieutenant Colonel Roose-
velt's report showed that Of the 400
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A WOODLAND DANGER.

However, the Poison Ivy Is Not
Utterly without Merit.
There are few persons in the eastern
part of America who are not familiar
with the common poison ivy-its sim
lister three-hngered leaves creeping
alongside the harmless flve-fingered
woodbine or Virginia creeper. Some
persons are immune and may pick the
leaves at will, but others are 50 sus-
cepttble that the wind will carry the
poisonous vapor and bring discomfort
without contact with the plant itself.
Cows and horses feed with impunity
upon the vine, but it is terribly poison
Gus to dogs, producing commissions
which result in death. A volatile SUBJ
stance which forms salts when COM
Dined with alkalis has been isolated
from the leaves, known as toxicoden-
dric acid. This resembles formic acid
and is the source Of the poisoning.