Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17


posing in architecture is the Western
.sSSserve university at Cleveland.
Viewing such structures one cannot re-
press exultation at the prospective
benefit that will be conferred upon
American youth for untold generations
to come. We saw many attractive
Universalist church editices, at Nor
walk, Cleveland, Girard, Erie, Buffalo,
Rochester, Syracuse. but the two most
strikingly handsome and massively inn
pressive were of light green granite
and chocolate brown stone, the latter
just completed at cost OF hundred
| Thousand in the s.Garland City, where
we closed our pastorate five short years
AGO
| One gets a comprehensive idea of
the magnitude OF this country OF ours
IN travelling by auto and of the pros
perity and independence of the people.
There are some other things one gets
also,-an appetite such as was never
known by those unfortunates who are
housed mp all their lives, indoors. for
instance; and a real, genuine, dusky,
nut brown color, quite akin to that of
the native aborigines. At noon we
would camp upon the grass beneath
some stately tree, build tepee fire,
broil steak, steep tea, and dine, with
bread and butter, relishes and fruit, to
the kings taste and our solid comfort.
We never realized, before, the sterility
of the East as compared with the al
luvial states of the Mississippi and its
tributaries. 1t is related that a visitor
| in the Adriondacks asked a resident
how much land he had. "Wall, strang-
er," said the man addressed, 81 amt
as poor as ye think, / only own
quarter of an acre" The Mohawk
hills rise so precipitously and slope at
such acute angles that one feels in
clined to speculate whether the mowers
and self binders are ballasted to keep
them from rolling off and whether the
cattle that Craze upon them are claw
footed to enable them to cling on. Not
much like the fat prairie levels of
Illinois where the plow is said to go so
deep that the plowman rubs the skin
all off his krfuckles and where the corn
grows so high the boys have to climb
the stalks to get roasting ears for
dinner.
Was it the celebrated. Mr.. Dooley who
said "The longer we live the more, by
shiminy gracious, we find out" AS
stood talking with -the proprietor of
the Forest City, house in Cleveland, a
man rushed up and exclaimed excited
ly that he'd lost his suspenders. "How
did you lose them?" was asked. "Why,
l sent them with my trousers to be
pressed and they weren't returned"
II raver send my suspenders to be
pressed" dryly remarked the landlord.
but here they are ready for you. !
found them on the floor" "The other
day" he continued, man sent five
dollar gold piece in his pocket to be
pressed, and the boy lost it out. Then
he accused the poor tailor of stealing.
Strange way some people have of car
ing for their property" Old Home
week at Buffalo was ushered in with
elaborate observance. Buildings on
the principle streets were decorated
with bunting, flags and medalions,
bands discoursed music, uniforms
glittered and the brilliant pageant of
10000 workingmen was almost military
in grandeur of display and enthusiasm
of purpose. Yet the celebration was
distinctly an outgrowth, as it was in
the interests of peace,-machinists
dressed in becoming blue, cops in
brighter shade, carpenters in deep
green, painters in buff, paper changers
in olive, horse-shoers in white, (best
looking of them alD and the dago fruit
sellers funny sight headed by the
crack 54th regimental band. New
York and New England are filed with
Hungarians, Fins, Dagoes and other
foreigners to an extent that makes
one wonder what their influence is to
be upon our body polite. One fellow
had squatted on some rocks, whose
slovenly appearance and languid man.
ner disclosed that he was contented 10
cultivate a few acres in thriftless
fashion and suggested the well-known
couplet, Everybody works but father"
In many ways the low class emigrant
| is menace to America.
One never feels self-condemned on
the charge of "cruelty to animals" if
| he lets the auto take an unusually
smooth piece of road with a gait that
suggests the racer. And we made the
run Without puncture or serious
breakdown. Of course the black bug
we rode would occasionally choke,
sputter and sulk, but we would care
fully examine the critter, pour oil upon
his joints, file the points of the anten
nal, wipe the ear of the commutator
| spill water into the mouth of the radia
tor and after awhile he would rally,
the hay-fever would disappear, the
whooping cough would vanish, lung
cylinders would contract and expand.
until the auto-bug would show us a
pair of wings, and sail along over the
Buckeye" and keystone" turnpikes
like graceful bird.
OF course we had some thrills. In
one place an antiquated old jay steered
his land-craft onto us and scraped some
of the polish off the saurian. We
footed the horn but he lost his bearing
pulled first on one rein and then on
the other, while old Dobbin backed
some. In one place we rounded cor
ner and there was narrow bridge over
culvert; we made it by or inches,
but shuddered at what might have
happened had we missed. At another
place we were nearly run over by a
heavy wagon, while almost at a stand
still To let it pass. One alarming epi-
sode was getting past little child