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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
WILL BE LONG SESSION.

Assemblyman Aug. Marquardt came
home from Madison Friday night and
will return today. Mr.. Marquardt says
the legislature may not get down to
real business before a week; work is
held up at present until civil service ap-
pointments for positions in the assem-
bly, and senate are made. In this con-
nection Mr.. Marquardt states that it is
apparent that only bluff is being
made to carry out the provisions of the
civil service requirements. There are
a hundred or more applicants from
Madison alone for these positions,
among the university students and it
will be the students who get most of the
plums. From present observation, he
says, this session of the legislature will
be record breaker in point of iura-
ton. Nearly every member, and espec-
tally new members who are looking
for record for themselves, favorable
or otherwise, have one or more bills to
present. Some of them are of about
the same Importance az was the Ar
kansas legislators hen hawk bill. In
moving for the passage of his bill the
Arkansas man said:
Il ask fer the passage of this yere
hen hawk bill in the interests of religion,
good morals, civilization If we don't
have law payin' bounty fer the
KILN of 'em, nobody will kill hen
hawks; if nobody kills the hawks the
fetch-taked hawks will kill the chick
ems; if we don't have no chickens we
won't have no preachers after little
while and whur thar aint no preachers
thar amt no religion; and whur thar
ant no religion, no good morals; with
out good morals thar amt no happy
homes, and happy homes is the bully
works of the state; without 'em, Mr..
Speaker, our boasted civilization be-
comes a bowling wilderness"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
HELPS BUSINESS.

The lasG snow storm has helped bust
ress considerably among our mer-
chants and lumber manufacturers.
There was good hard bottom before
the sncw came, though some of the
hills were nearly bare. Farmers have
begun hauling wood and farm products
with greater activity. Stand on any of
the main thoroughfares leading out of
the city and you will see sleigh after
sleigh loaded with grain, hay, wood,
logs, bolts, bark or rock coming into
town. The Arntsen mill is in opera
ton again, though the supply of logs is
rather, limited owing to The fact that a
great many of the farmers are at pres
ent hauling rock, before the roads get
bad. They can haul larger loads of
rock NV than later, when the snow is
deeper, and then have the balance of
the winter to get their logs to the mill
Lutz & German have camp northeast
OF the city and have several teams haul
ing logs to the Jacob Mortenson mill
every day Pine, hemlock and hard
wood is included in the cut. Jacob
Gensman, Jr., also has camp east of
town and will begin hauling soon,
The farmers find a market for their
logs at the two mills mentioned above,
the Barker & Stewart mill and the Un-
derwood Veneer factory. Prices are
about the same as they were last year.
These products being brought to
town naturally helps business all
around. Large amounts of money are
distributed among the farmers who in
turn leave a great deal of it with our
merchants
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
LOGGER DROPS DEAD.

Ed. Larson, who was working in
Kruger Bros jobbing camp for Barker
& Stewart Lumber company near AL
gonac, a swamper, fell dead at 2
O'Clock Monday p. m. last. Apparently
well, he ate a hearty dinner that day
He was working with companions and
all at once he screamed. His fellow
workers saw blood gush from his mouth
in a stream. He fell across a log
and life became extinct. A coroner S
inquest resulted in a verdict of death
by unknown causes. Mr.. Larson was
little known, and boarded in our city
but no relatives are known Unless
the body is claimed the remains will be
buried in the potters' field at Algonac.
Merrill News
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
OPEN INSTALLATION.

The mems assembly of E. F. U. in
stalled its newly elected officers in
Castle hall Thursday evening at which
there was large turn out of members.
1t was an open installation and num-
ber of non-members witnessed the
ceremony. During the business session,
a signal for admittance was given at
the outer door and when the sentry
opened the same he found the members
of the ladies' assembly awaiting. They
had planned their visit so secretly that
the men were taken by surprise and of
course they were admitted, after giving
the pass word. They were called upon
to offer some suggestions for the "good
of the order at an informal session and
responded Following the installation
ceremonies, sandwiches, coffee, pickles,
cake, ice cream and other refreshments
were served. Cigars were then passed
and those who cared to smoke repaired
to the smoking and card rooms.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
BUTTER MARKET GOOD.

The Marathon County Dairy Co.'s
stockholders held their annual meeting
Thursday evening. The directors
chosen were P. o. Means, II. c. Head,
Chas. Wegner, l.. K. Wright and E. c.
Zimmerman. The old officers were re-
elected as follows: II. c. Head presi-
dent; Chas. Wegner, vice-president, l..
X. Wright, secretary, E. G. thinner
man, treasurer. Reports showed that
since the company dropped the sale of
pasturized milk year ago, the busi-
ness has been prosperous. The milk
routes were losing propositions from
the start. Since early last winter the
company has confined itself to the
manufacture of butter and ice cream
and did a good business. A good
quality of butter is made which has
found ready demand in the Elgin
market at good prices. If the com
pauy's output was several times larger
than it is, there would be the same de-
mand for its product as at present.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
FARMERS COURSE CIRCULAR.

Dean w A. Henry of the Wisconsin
College of agriculture has thoughtfully
furnished the editor with copies of the
circular telling of the next ten days
farmers course, to be given at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Madison, Febru-
arv 9th to 10Th, incl"sive.
Last winter 40 farmers attended this
course, and all were enthusiastic as to
the benefits gained. This year especial
instruction is to be given in regard to
improving the dairy cattle of the state,
through cooperation of the farmers in
grading up their herds.
Any reader wishing copy of the cir
cular, may get one by calling at our
office. We hope this county will be
well represented in the coming meet
ing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Marshfield Leople no doubt are be-
ginning to think Wausau has a tough
class of citizens, after two of our people
were arrested there within week on
burglary charges-Wm. Edee and
"Scrappy" Mccormick The Marsh
field News says of Edee's capture:
"Calamities never come singly, nor
do thieves. No sooner had Mccormick,
the bordiug house thief, been carted
away to safe keeping than there ap-
peared between the police end the red
lights another, whose fingers magnet
lied jewlery. The new actor was a tall
man with a medium crop of whiskers
He was found on the street Monday by
Officer Griffin, carrying a fair sized
cargo of blended goods and selling
watches as a side issue. 1t did not take
Griffin ten seconds to get onto his
game, and not much longer to land him
in the city jail. Upon searching him
three ladies' gold watches and other ar
ticles of jewlery we're found. Being
too much under the influence to COR
rectly give evidence of their owner
ship, he was left to quiet and repose."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
NOTICE.

Bids will be received at the Office of
the city clerk of the city of Wausau for
so cords of green hard maple wood ft /.
and go cords of green hard maple wood
2 #. long. All bids must be in prior to
Jan. 19, 1907. The board of public
works reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
Dated at Wausau, Wis, Jan. Z, 1907.
sw. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
A Sure Cure For 81. Yffus Dance.

''Clark's Nerve Tonic" has been in use
so years and it has not failed to cure a
case where the directions were faithfully
followed. 1t is equally effective in re-
lieving nervous prostration and extreme
nervousness, etc. For sale by Frost
Philbrick Drug Co., also by g. w.
Clark. Send all communications and
mail orders direct to G.. w. Clark, 204
Jackson St., WaEsau, Wis. m22-tf
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
2O,246 S49,S52.s4

The report of school children for the
city is taken from the school census
enumerated last August by the board of
education, and is separate from the
county superintendent report. The
amount due tho city is paid over by the
county treasurer in full, nothing being
held for the purchase of books, as the
city has library fund of its own.
The town of Pike Lake is evidently
rich in children. The figures above
given show that town to have 555 and
the town of Maine 400, yet the census of
1905 gives Pike Lake a population of
1,l75 and the town of Maine 1,185.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
CONTRACT AWARDED.

The contract for building of another
story onto the Wausau postoffice, was
awarded to the Northern Construction
company of Milwaukee last Friday for
500, ,52700, the work to be completed by
October 1st, 1907. Operations will be
co mmenced as soon as the weather is
warm enough.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
NOTICE.

BIDS WANTED FOR WOOD.
Bids will be received at the Office of
the city clerk on or before jan 10, 1907,
for furnishing the city schools with 760
cords of it., 10 cords of 3 it. and 81
cords of 2 it., green body maple or
birch wood. CHAs F. BECK,
jS-2w City Clerk
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
LESSONS IN PENMANSHIP.

Fred H. Criger, late associate pro-
prietor of the Badger State Business
college, of Milwaukee, organized a
special class in penmanship in the
Wausau Business college at Z o'clock
last evening. The term will last for
two weeks, five nights per week. Mr..
Criger has the reputation of being not
only one of the best penmen in the
country but one OF the very best teach
ers, as well. If you want further
particulars phone 1413.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO, ! /.

STATE OF I@oHs GaIS, 6aTE&g. G5Tg OF TOLEDO }ss
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner of the firm of f. J.Cheney & Co., doing
business in the City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLAS for each and every
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use
of Halls Catarrh Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. d. 1886.
(cr A. W. GLEASON,
NOTARY PUBLIC
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and m ucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials free.
e.. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
FIRE INSURANCE,

Kretlow & Lamont wish to announce
that they are prepared to write fire
insurance in approved stock comp anies
at reasonable rates. They also place
plate glass and boiler insurance and
surety bonds. First National Bank
building. Phone 1888. f20-tf
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Every family has some chair or sofa
that needs only new upholstering to be
better than new. Call on John Vogt to
have it done. If.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY.

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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
MORGAN BROS.
Livery,
and
Sale
Stable

Elegant Rigsfurnished on short notice.
boarding By the day or week. Prices the very
lowest. Corner Second and Jefferson streets.
Phone 1885.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
Advertised Letters.

List of letters remaining uncalled for
in the Wausau 2. o. for the week end
ing Jan. Z, 1907. In calling for same
please say advertised"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23

prised them once innocently enjoying
their pipes and whisky and water in
the kitchen.
"They are having trouble at the
school, SIR" observed Bates.
"The young ladies running lftsle
wild, eh?"
sister Theresa's Ill. sir. Ferguson
told me last night. And Ferguson says
that Miss Devereux's devotion to her
aunt is quite touching"
Miss Devereux."
I should call it,
Yes, it is rather odd" 1 said. com
posed again, but not referring to the
name. My mind was busy with a GER
tain paragraph in my grandfather's
Will:
SHOULD he fail at any time during
said year to comply with this provi-
sion, said property shall at once revert
to my general estate. and become,
without reservation, and without ne
cessity for any process of law. the
property. absolutely, of Marian Dey-
ereux. of the county and state of New
York"
Your grandfather was very fond Of
her, sir. She and Sister Theresa were
abroad at the time he died. 1t was my
sorrowful duty to tell them the sad
news in New York, sir, when they
landed"
"The devil 1t was," 1t irritated me
to remember that Bates knew exactly
the nature of my grandfathers will.
Sister Theresa and her niece were
doubtless calmly awaiting my failure
to remain at Glenarm House during
the disciplinary year.
had given little thought to Sister
Theresa since coming to Glenarm. She
had derived her knowledge OF me from
my grandfather, and. such being the
case, she would naturally look upon
me as a blackguard and menace to
the peace of the neighborhood. l had
therefore kept rlgidly to my own side
of the stone wall.
"Batesl"
He was moving toward the door with
his characteristic slow step.
IF your friend Morgan, or any one
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23

else. should shoot me, or If l should
tumble into the lake, or otherwise end
my earthly career-Bates!'
His eyes had slipped from mine to
the window and / spoke his name
sharply.
Yes, Mr. Glenarm."
Then Sister Theresa's niece would
get this property and everything elsa
that belonged to Mr.. Glenarm."
That's my understanding of thu
matter. sir
Morgan, the caretaker. has tried te
XIII me twice since ! came here. He
fired at me through the window the
night | came,-Bates,"
l waited for his eyes to meet mine
again. His hands opened and shut
several times and alarm and fear con
vulsed his face.
Bates. I'm trying my best to think
well of you, but | want you to under
stand, u smote the table with my
clenched hand,-'that If these women.
or your employer. Mr. Pickering. OF
that damned hound Morgan, or YOU
damn you, | don't know who or what
you are!-think you can scare me
away from here. you've walked up the
wrong man; and I'll tell you another
thing.-and you may repeat 1t to your
school teachers and to Mr.. Pickering,
who pays you, and to Morgan. whom
somebody has hired to kill me.--that
I'm going to keep faith with my dead
grandfather, and that when I've spent
my year here and done what that old
man wished me to do, I'll give them
this house and every acre of ground
and every damned dollar the estate
carries with it. And now one other
thing suppose there's a sheriff or
some kind of constable with jurisdic.
ton over this place. and could have
the whole lot of you put into Jail for
conspiracy, but I'm going to stand out
against You alone,-do you understand
me, you hypocrite. you stupid, sinking
spy Answer me, quick. before /
throw you out of the room,"
'To BE coNTINUEp)
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23

while throw few shovels full of earth
on the dead merchant. lest he stinketh
and polluteth the rest.
EDWARD T. HALE,
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23
DEAD MERCHANT
HE SOMETIMES DRIVES TRADE
AWAY FROM THE TOWN.
HINDRANcE r0LIvE MERCHANT
Are - Much to Be Feared as the
Competition Of the Catalogue
Houses-shouid Be Awak-
ened or Buried.

Why should the home merchant be
patronized instead of the mail order
house? The subject has been ex-
hausted almost and from all points of
view and all sides there is no valid
reason why the merchant at home
should not-excepting two, price and
articles wanted.
It is not the intention OF the writer
to jot down a pleasant flow of Ian
guage or to produce an interesting bit
of reading matter, but merely to state
In few simple sentences what have
seen and learned of the competition be-
tween the catalogue houses and the
home merchants. In the first place no
one community suffers greatly in this
competition. That makes the problem
all the more difficult in solution.
mean by this that the majority of buy
ers in no one community purchase by
mail. The business OF the mail order
house is scattered over a large terri
tory, the number OF orders coming
from any one community compared
with the whole is comparatively small
to the number of orders in the town.
There is an exception to this in a COM
munity where the home merchants are
dead ones and ask exhorbitant prices.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23

or harvest sale OF the like2 But why
not? These two storekeepers are bit
ter against the mail order houses.
wonder why? / talked with the rail-
road agents in that little city and he
said lots of hardware and furniture
was shipped in. He said. One day l
made out an express order for $34 to
pay for a bill of hardware. told the
man to go up and see IL the merchant
couldn't fill the order. He went but
soon came back, saying that he didn't
have half of the stun on hand and that
he wouldn't cut bit on what he did
have"
Column after column has been writ
ten deploring the fact that the buyer
spends her or his money away from
home, that she or he is helping to build
up the mail order house to the detri-
ment of the home merchant. The sem
timent is good and the cause is worthy
of the efforts being made to stop this
undertow: but no amount of writing.
and no amount of home patriotism will
ever overcome the bad effects Of the
dead merchant in the little town. The
truth can be plainly seen.
Let US turn back to the general
stores and look up the proprietor of
any one. He probably will be found
busy waiting on a customer. but II not
he will tell you that it is not the cata-
logues alone that he fears, but also
that 1t is the lethargy of these two
dealers. They are helping to drive
away trade from home.
e,,hi
and gotten over on the buyers side
of the fence; but isn't 1t well at times
to look at the other side of this pitiable
story? 1 started to write few lines on
why People Should Trade at Home"
and have gotten into the field of why
the Home Merchant Should Induce
People to Trade at Home" 1t may be
fair to the little town to once in a
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23

no doubt, by some girl from the school
or careless member of the summer col
ony. counted the separate beads
they were round and there were so OF
them. The proper length for one turn
about a girls throat. perhaps; not
more than that, If I my eyes and
looked on toward st. atha's.
Child of the red tam-o -shanter, I'm
very sorry was rude to you yester-
day. for liked your steady stroke with
the paddle; and / admired. even more,
the way you spurned me when you
saw that among all the cads in the
world ] am number one in Class A.
And these golden bubbles 20 girl OF
the red tam-o -shanterD, II they are
not yours you shall help me to find
the owner, for we are neighbors. you
and J. and there must be peace be-
tween our houses"
With this foolishness l rose. thrust
the beads into my pocket, and padded
home in the waning glory Of the sun
set.
That night. as | was going quite late
to bed. bearing a candle to light me
through the dark nan 10 my room, 1
heard a curious sound. as of some one
walking in the house. AT first thought
Bates was still abroad, but / waited.
listening for several minutes, without
being able to mark the exact direction
of the sound or to identify it with him.
went on to the door of my room. and
still a muffied step seemed to follow
me.--first 1t had come from below,
then 1t was much like some one going
up stairs,-but where? In my own
room | still heard steps. light. slow
but distinct. Again there was STUN
BILE and hurried recovery, ry,-ghosts, l
reflected, do not fall down stairs,
The sound died away. seemingly in
some distant part of the house, and
though | prowled about for an hour it
did not recur that night.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23
SOME REMARKABLE HORSES.
Wonderful Stories About the Steeds
of Famous Men.

In his letters to Lord Granville, pub
lished by the Royal Philosophical So
ciety, who was also greatly interested
in natural history, Smithson, the
founder of the Smithsonian institution
in America, relates how the horse ea
Alexander the Great, Bucephalus.
would at night, on hearing a blast of
the trumpet from the soldiers on guard
showing the approach of the enemy,
run at great speed to his masters tent
and with his teeth grab the sleeping
monarch and shake him until he sprang
into the saddle and galloped toward
the enemy.
Also that the great Caliph Haroun-el-
Raschid in the eight century in march
ing toward the forces of Queen Irene
of Constantinople constantly had a
number of trained Arabian horses (di-
rect descendants of the famous horse
owned by Ishmael 1000 years ago)
thrown forward as scouts, who from
time to time returned to camp and by
a peculiar whinny and neigh reported
the proximity of the enemy.
But, to come down to the present
uas' ~ 10 iei"'Su Wy relieu NEW
England clergyman, whose sands of
life had nearly run out, that one day
on leading his horse down through a
lane to brook for drink the animal
suddenly halted and. turning its head
round, grabbed up with its teeth one OF
its hind shoes which had just dropped
off. and, holding 1t in its mouth with
the nails dangling IL backed up again st
a stone wall and clapped it onto its
hoof and with few violent kicks
nailed 1t on again.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23
AT GETTYSBURG
Field of Battle Is Forever
Consecrated to the High
ess Ideals of Amer
lean VaIor.

GEE Naples and die!" wrote an en-
thusiast, and gave a new vogue
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-23
By Craues of Heroes

An hour. a flower. memory. perchance
tear or two.
These give we from our life to them:
Nation. what gave they you?
What of the silent partings, too solemn
and sad for tears?
What of the homesick signing which
only the night-wind hears2
What of the waking picket. guarding tho
nations sleep?
What OF the cold and the hunger?-what
of the thirst and heat?.
What of the midnight marching. where,
weary, footsore. drenched.
The pallid weeping morning shows the
enemy intrenched?
What of the shrek of the battle? What
OF the after-hours?
oh. menl in the name of God. can ye
heal such wounds with flowers?
Look to your lilies. Columbia, Stainless
they should be as snow
To rest on hearts burned white in battles
furnace glow;
And your roses. red as the blood that
flowed on fields of death,
Their fragrance full sweet to stine the
smell of battles breath,
Alas! If our flowers were all that we laid
on each nameless grave
Alas. for us and for them and the sac
rifice they gave.
But over those lowly hillocks, as over the
hills of God,
A glory breaks from the fiower-cups
whitening the sod.
For they are the pledge of the promise
What you gave to us we will keep"
The oath of the nations waking sons to
her sons who are asleep.
Frances Ten Eyck.