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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

him by the throat and strangled him.
1t has been a mighty fight for me, but
| am on top and the serpent is dead.
Edith, will you have me now?"
The girls eyes were bright and shin
ing and her lips were quivering, but
she shook her head-but ever so gently.
Il know" Gerson breathed softly.
Il know what you mean. I'll be pa
tent, but something seems to tell me
that it will all be revealed to you and
you will know the truth"
Miss Grahams eyes suddenly became
filed with AFFECT terror. Her little
body trembled and her cheeks turned
ashen.
Paul! Paul!" she gasped family.
Il feel feel that something terrible
issabout to happen. lists your
Swaying back and forth, his eyes
glittering and an odd, silly smile on his
lips, the man gazed steadfastly at
something in the grass, just at his feet.
The girl. too, watched in fascinating
horror the thing in the grass.
Suddenly the man, with a tremen-
dous effort, shook his shoulders and in
paroxysm of rage flung himself upon
the glittering, writing serpent. Like
flash he had the thing wriggling and
squirming around his right arm and
his hand locked like steel beneath the
reptiles fangs. With one mighty fling
the wriggling ceased and Gerson let fall
the lnanimate body and pressed his heel
upon its head.
A moment later the girl, sobbing pas
sionately, lay limp in the mans arms.
her head on his breast
SIS 1t proven, dear?" he asked.
And she answered-"Yes."- Indian-
apolis Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
WHERE IDEALS QUICKLY DIE.
Comm erciaI Atmosphere of New York
CITY Acts as CramD on Geuiux

commercial Atmosphere Of New York
City Acts as Cramp on Genius.
What ability or skill the great man
of the provinces brought with him to
the metropolis may be only the foun-
dation for real work There will sure
ly be extensive revising of ideals and
methods. A story is told of poet who
arrived in town with a complete epic.
This found no acceptance, so after
cursing the stupidity of the public and
the publishers he took to writing "Sun-
day stuff" Soon the matter-of-fact at
titude of the workers around him. with
the practical view of the market he
acquired, led him to doubt the literary
value of the work he had done in the
sentimental atmosphere of his native
place.
Presently a commission to write a
column of humor week came to him
and he cut his epic in short lengths
tackled a squib on each fragment and
eventually succeeded in printing it all
as humor at price many times larger
than the historic one brought by Par
adise Lost"
Another newcomer brought unsal-
able plays and high notions of the aus
terity OF the artistic vocation. Three
months after his arrival he was de-
lighted to get commission to write
the handbook which a utilitarian pub
IiShar pror,osad fo soil 10 visito-c e1
ing the metropolis. This commission
brought not only fair payment for
the manuscript on delivery but involv-
ed a vital secondary consideration. The
title of the work was Where to Eat
in New York. and its preparation
made it necessary for the author to
dine each evening for month In a
different cafe at the proprietor's ex-
transatlantic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
SaIome Was Ffnfcky.

According TO the New York Suns re-
port of the first night of the play.
there came from the audience the most
incisive and most sane criticism posi-
BILE. The scene was that where the
Tetrarch. Herod. was trying to induce
Salome TO dance before him. She de-
clined. tie offered her wine. She re-
piled she was not. thirsty. He offered
her fruit. She said she was not hun
CRY. Then came the small clear voice
from the pit. TRY her on q cigarette. -
And the laughter almost broke up the
show.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

not rest till had found what my individual
bit OF work for my country ask myself sometimes Ii
love of country dying out? Certainly it looks like It
One hears young sneering openly at the land that
gave them birth; finding actual out of this
or that muddle that this that government has mace
would az those scofers what they personally have
done for our brave country. II were a man, and q
man in position to make laws every should be q
soldier, and be trained in of need fight Every
boys school should range If were done
we should have fewer men playing the fool in ladies'
drawing rooms.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
FOREVER AND A DAY.

Little know or care
If the blackbird on the bough
Is filling all the air
With his soft crescendo now;
For she is gone away,
And when she went she took
The springtime in her look,
The peachblow on her cheek,
The laughter from the brook,
The blue from out the May
And what she calls week
Is forever and day!
It's little that | mind
How the blossoms, pink or white,
At every touch of wind
Fall a-trembling with delight;
For in the leafy lane,
Beneath the garden bouShs,
Ard through the silent house
One thing alone seek.
Until she come again,
The May is not the May,
And what she calls week
Is forever and day!
II. b. Aldrich, in Atlantic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

be pleasing to man; what man demands she gives The
attributes he admres she cultivates Women-most
women-respond readily to the best They admire and
respect whose ideal is above pleasing them at
the expense O truth That is why hold to be- in
a great measure responsible for the shaowness un
reliability of
Marriage means more than a housewives thrift and
the rearing of children 1t is, ought to be- mar
rage of souls If ideals of the husband high so
surely will his wife climb There like mar
red lovers and no heaven upon earth like theirs
If were man l think that however ill equipped
might find myself in intelligence and education, should
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

In many foreign cities there is a
marked absence of the gallantry that
In this country habitually characterizes
the attitude of men toward women.
Eleanor Gates, a young American writ
err, who has travelled widely in the
United States, says that Difference to-
ward her sex decreases with the in
creasing density of population. In the
sparsely settled regions of the West
woman stands upon a plane tacitly SUI
perior. New York is the most ungal-
liant city in the United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

Shah, who had six sons and twelve
daughters. showed himself a man of
ideas. This picture is a late one.
The late Shah is succeeded by his
eldest son, Mohammed Ali Mira, who
is In his thirty-fifth year. He Is we'll
educated and in sympathy with his
fathers liberal ideas. Among the an
Gent and enthusiastically Oriental
titles which he will assume are Shah
inshah, or King Of Kings; I'll Allah,
Shadow Of God; the Kibleh Alum,
Center of the World the Exalted One,
Exalted as the planet Saturn; the Well
of knowledge; the King Whose Stand
ard is the Sun, and Whose Splendor
is That of the Firmament.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
LATE SHAH OF PERSIA.

The Shah of Persia, Muzaffer ed Din,
died recently, ia the fifty-fourth year
of his age and the eleventh of his reign.
He was student of philosophy and
literature, a patron Of the arts and a
progressive ruler. He was familiar
with Western institutions, nd made
several visits to European capitals for
a closer study Of them. One of his
last official acts was to sign the new
constitution under which Persia, for
the first time, Is to have parliament.
Muzaffer-ed-Din was born on March
%, 1853. and succeeded his father.
Nazr-ed-Din. on May Day. 1896. The
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
Omen nouse.

Father had just sunk the carving
knife in the turkey when there came
the usual ring at the bell.
Look here, Maud" he said, sternly,
"if that young man of yours is going
to call four nights a week regularly,
tell him to come after dinner"
1T isn't necessary. father replied
the young girl. That's what he comes
after New York Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
Bad Symptoms,

The woman who has periodical head
aches, backache, sees imaginary dark
spots or specks floating or dancing before
her eyes, haS>gnawing distress or heavy
full feeling IN stomach, faint spells, drag.
cling down feeling in lower abdominal or
pelvic region, easily startled or excited.
irregular or painful periods, with or with.
out Helvic cataRrh, is suffering from
weaknEses andherangements that should
have eaYy attention. Not all of above
symptoms aye likely to be present In any
case at one fine.
Neglected or badly treated and such
cases 6itkn run into maladies which de-
manf He surgeons knife ii they do not
restkfatally.
No medicine extant has such a long
and NUMEROUS record Of CUES In such
cases as Qr. Pierce'S -EaYQrite -PreScIIp-
tQQA- No mediclne has such a strong
prQtessiQlaL lndorseIlElL % us
seXeIal InQredien tS=-lynrth- more Than any
HlM1fI, o. aT ~ Don, QleSslona1 les
tlmQllalS.. The very best ingredients
known to medical science for the cure OF
woman's peculiar ailments enter into its
composition. No alcohol harmful. or
habit forming drug is to be found ia the
list OF its ingredients printed on each
bottle wrapper and attested under oath.
In any condition Of the female system,
only good-never harm. Its whole effect
is TO strengt then, invigorate and regulate
the whole female system and especially
the pelvic organs. When these are de-
ranged in function or affected by disease.
the stomach and other organs of digestion
become sympathetically deranged. the
nerves are weakened, and long list of
bad, unpleasant symptoms follow. Too
much must not be expected of this va
vorite Prescription" 1t will not perform
miracles; will not cure tumors-no med
icine will. 1t aoilL often prevent them, il
taken in time, and thus the operating
table and the surgeons knife may be
avoided.
Women suffering from diseases of long
standing, are invited to consult Doctor
Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence
is held as strictly private and sacredly
confidential. Address DR.. r. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, n. Y.
Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser 1000 pages
is sent free on receipt Of Il one-cent
stamps for paper or 81 stamps
for cloth bound copy. Address as above.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
DAYS.
London had last year AGO hours c

London had last year 1,460 hours of
sunshine out of $40 hours between
the rising and setting of the sun. In
other words. about three-quarters of
the time taken by observations YVES
overcast and the balance was clear.
London owes its fogs to triple COM
blnation of circumstances westerly or
Southwestern. winds $50 out of the 1868
days of the year, salt marshes through
much of the territory over which the
westerly or southwesterly winds blow
and an almost universal use of soft
coal. Last year there were more days
of sunlight in London than there had
been on an average for twenty years
before
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
TEACH PUBLIC TO FIGHT DISEASE.
By President EIiof of Harvard

Recent events have brought into
strong light a new function of the
medical profession which is sure to
be amplified and made more effective
In the near future l mean the func-
ton Of teaching the whole popula-
ton how diseases are eause5 and
communicated, and what are the cor
responding means of prevention.
The recent campaign against tuber-
culosis Is good Illustration of this
new function of the profession. To
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

Young Mrs. Oldrox seemed to be
in rather Densiye mood to-day"
Il don't wonder. The doctor says
her husbands days are numbered
Really? All. suppose size was
thinking how soon he would legve her. !"
Either that or how muea.' "-Phil-
adeiphia Press
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

Up to the age Of II Turkish girls are
as free and untrammeled as European
children, but with her twelfth birth
day the girl becomes woman. She
adopts the ''tcharchaffv and joins that
silent sisterhood who are condemned to
see the world darkly through veil
without having lost any of their natur-
a, desires TO participate In its gave
rieS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
EnnIinr the Rnx..

Casey-Ye're hard worruker, Doc
ley. How many hods O morther have
you carried up that laddher tn day?
Dooley-Whist, man; Ohm foolln'
tn boss. Owe carried this same hod-
full up an down all day, an he thinks
Dim worrukin'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
Great Work

''The poets have done a great though
unrecognized work for the world" re-
marked the literary person.
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne '.they
have so many good things which may
be quoted that there is no excuse for
one being stupidity original. Wash
ington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

guilty beyond all reasonable doubt and that under pres
either of threats of punishment suggestions
favor the human mind often is prone to falsely admit
guilt as a supposed of obtaining leniency. Yet
the ordinary sheriff. constable police officer detective
is ready to ignore the wisdom of master minds
to regard each exception to the general rule
accept slight suspicious convincing proof The
color to the suspicion the greater the official activity
develop it into rrefuabe proof of guilt This blind
and unwarranted zeal prompts judicial suspicion all
confessions armatively shown be free and vol
aptary.
The methods used to obtain confessions vary with
the circumstances of each case the means at hand the
ingenuity of the officers and the mental char
acter of the prisoners Although physical violence has
often been used persuading influence that feature
will not be considered at this time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
Dreaanauwht,, search,irh,,

The ses,rehliS,te on board the new
British battleship Dreadnaught is of a
new type. being double-ended. so as TO
throw powerful beams of light in ex-
actly opposite directions, to facilitate
samaphore signaling. Each light is OF
nearly 10000 candle power. and. placed
on top of the tripod mast. will be Wis
ible twenty miles
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

Hes a regular jack-of-all trades.
Why, he built his own garage"
Did he? l wasn't aware that he
owned a car"
"He doesn't. The only car that he'd
care to buy is just a foot too long for
the garage be built. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
Eurther PnrficnIar,

The fair Priscilla had just asked John
Alden the momentous question
why don't you speak for yourself,
John?"
Because" he faltered II am merely
the press agent for Capt. Miles Standish."
II don't believe it, john" she said,
with a little toss of her shapely head.
You haven't been doing any pressing"
1t was then that John Alden decided to
resign the position and to assume imme-
diately the leading part.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
LONDON HAS BRIGHT DAYS.

Not Always F0ggy, as Visitors Are
IncIiSad to Believe.
1t is the conviction of many Ameri-
can tourists in London that there is
fog in that metropolis 365 days in
every year, with the exception of leap
year, when there is fog on 500 days.
This exaggerated notion of London
fogs is quite refuted by an official pub
LEGATION of the English government,
which gives compilation of the wealth
er conditions taken twice a day. and
which shows the following result for
last year:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

GfRSONS VICTORY
>ONocooooococoo
o~%~~~~

S7 the two slowly climbed the
5\ hill Gerson drew nearer to Miss
Graham's side. Their shoulders
touched, the mans breath warmed the
girls cheek and again he asked her the
question.
NO. was the reply-the one he ex-
pected.
Gerson stopped, turned about and
looked down upon the ocean and seat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
THE SINS OF MEN.
BY Mrs. CouIson Kernahan.

Perhaps there never was time when wom-
an, the true woman was so little under
stood. Men have growing contempt for
women in these days, for their littleness, their
petty deceits, their unreliability, overlooking
the fact that they themselves are, in the main,
responsible for these defects in women of
which they so loudly complain.
The great, the natural aim of woman is TO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
Not Recently.

Sycophantic Friend-Ive heard that
you can make a good speech, and | sup
pose you sometimes write for the papers,
Did you ever have the cacoethes scrib-
endi?
Mr. Gaswell-I suppose I did when I
was baby. / had everything there was.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
THE NOVEL AND THE PLAY.
By Hall Caiue Author.

A novelist ought, first and foremost to be
a man who can tell story. But this is per-
haps the easiest qualification. If there is
not some ethical value to his works fear his
force and power are not likely to become very
great 1 am not now speaking of plays. In
play a writer's work is so much what others
make it. Its charms lie so much in the repre-
sentation of it that it is not wholly his own
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

Then Mr.. Richly didn't really give
according to his means? said the min
ister's wife,
NO replied the minister. merely
according to his meanness. PhiladeI-
phia Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
II the Furniture STORE.

Irate Customer (energetically)- II
want square deal in this establish
ment
Placid Proprietor-All right sir.
Show the gentleman some kitchen ia
bles.-Baltimore American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
Perennial.

Ruggles-Is Lolliper as full Of good
stories as he used to be?
Ramage-You wouldn't think he'd be.
He has unloaded them ca all his friends
at least a dozen times But he is, Rug
giles he Is.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

He ought be given credit for all the exceences
which may accompany its presentation he ought not
suffer all of the humilities of its failure for he Is
apt fully responsible for either But in book
is responsible for what he puts into it and for
that which he leaves out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19
INNOCENT MEN FORCED TO ADMIT GUILT.
BY John F. Geefing.

The application of the term sweat box" Is
not limited to any peculiar prison, apartment,
or cell, but that term together with that Of
sweating" when applied to police practices,
indicates methods used illegally 20 obtain con-
LESSONS from prisoners.
The judicial experience of ages has demon
strated that each person accused of crime
should be presumed innocent until Droven
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

As long as Father retains any rights
at aIl ae is pretty sure to remove his
shoes out by the sitting room fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

Il can get along with any woman l
am not married to- a divorced man
aald to-day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

Since 1883 the average passenger rate
in the United States mas dropped from
3.5 cents a mile to 2.01 cents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

There is one mich COW to every four
inhabitants in the United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

But few people appreciate the rose I'M
II they encounter the thorn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-19

Its as easy to annoy grown folks
as 1t is difficult to amuse baby.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-22
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS
Holiday Season at Hand, but
Business Is Good All
the Same.

The Christmas shoppers have held
the belt during the past week. and as
the most of them are women, the gal
liant real estate agents readily surren-
tdered The real estate men always look
Tor dull business just preceding and
just following Christmas. and 1T was
but natural that they should settle
down to holiday season even before
tho season opened. However. it is a
fact that Richmond realty cannot be
held down even by the holiday joys.
The auction sales announcer for the
past week We're we'll attended, and the
figures named by the bidders We're In
the main satisfactory to the sellers
and n ,number OF sales We're made on
the spot.
Dcnls Closed.
Among such sales made during the
week was that of q two-story frame
dwelling and large lot, No, li1S IL
West Cary Street. by j. Thompson
Brown & Co., which was sold to Mr..
III. l.. .Baumgnrtner. Baumgartner pur-
chased the property purely as an in
vestment. The8lot is one of the largest
in that section OF the city, and is
adapted to many purposes.
j. Thompson Brown 4 Co. also re-
port private sale of lot sixty feet
front on the corner OF Dock aud EIgh-
teenth Streets. near the Trigg ship
yards, to Mr.. S. I. Beveridge, for 81, 400
While Mr.. Beveridge would not commit
himself as to his object in purchasing
Iit is understood that DIS soon as the
present lease on the property expires
which has year or more to run. It is
his purpose to improve. It, to be used
ms manufacturing plant. The lot
has peculiar, advantages for this pur-
pose, not only from the fact that II
4 has good railroad connectlon but II
runs back 500 feet or more to James
River and the sale carries with 1t al
riparian rights.
The same firm closed Il sale the pas
week OF u lot on Randolph Street t,
1 Messrs. Charles and OTTO Schneider
}who purchased the same for the pur
Continued on Second Page.l i,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-22

AS an, evidence of the growing pros
gperlty Of Virginia. figures taken from
the advance sheets OF the Auditors
report for tho year 1907 show total
increase in the assessment of taxes on
property, exclusive OF banks and in
surance companies. of upwards OF
S. 04, 900 over the record OF 1905,
To be exact, the figures given in a
table printed above are 2Ot,32I.6S. OF
this Increase, the sum of $l494750 is
levied for poll taxes upon young men
in the State who have arrived at the
voting age since the 1905 assessment
was made. This means that 1895 new
voters were assessed for taxation. and
that If they have paid these taxes they
may participate in all OF next years
elections. An increase of s54,bll.5i
comes from steam railroads. and
$S,S1l.54 from electric lines
Next to railroads the heaviest In,
crease Is In the personal property as
sessment. The net figures are s5s,-
G7294. while sS3,46l.29 additional was
assessed against incomes.
a The Increase in the value of real
estate is Si0,S22.S2, though this is only
OF, account OF improvements. and not
upon the land itself, the latter being
|reassessed only once in four year.
Some Interesting Figures,
Some interesting deductions may be
drawn from the personal property re'
turns. There have been steady In
loreases In nearly every direction Tbs
kshoep industry. for example, shows 2