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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

went to Foxville to attend thu auction
SALE
Everybody was there. They didn't
have an auction sale at Foxville every
day il the week.
Squire Barton was there, with a
vague idea Of buying the old place for
a public entertainment center.
But Simon Lockedge was most deter
mined Of all to have the old parsonage
for his own.
II could fix it up," said he to him
self, "and live there real comfortable.
It's in very pretty spot, and I'm
bound to have 1t, especially since moth
er's investments have turned out bad
and we've got to sell the farm. Moth
Ing has gone right with us since l
broke of with the old parsons grand
daughter. 1t wasn't quite the square
thing to do, out there seemed no other
way. But, 'et mother say what she
will, it brought bad luck to u.s."
And the rustic crowd surged in and
out, and the auctioneer mounted to his
platform on an old kitchen table, and
the bidding began at goo, and ad-
vanced Els, where 1t hung fire for
some time.
"Tnree" said cautious Simon Lock
edge at last
-Four hundred!" uttered the voice
Of quiet, veHed woman In the corner.
Everyone stared In that direction.
Tain't worth that" said the squire
in an undertone "All run down
fences gone to nothing"
But Simon Lockedge wanted it very
much.
"Four-fifty," said he, slowly and I'M
willingly.
Five hundred !" spoke the soft voice
decidedly.
Five hundred :" bawled the auction
eer. "I'm offered $500 for this very
desirable property. Five hundred
five hundred once-fve hundred twice
five hundred three times-and-
gone! What name, ma'am, If you
please?"
And the woman. throwing aside her
veil, answered calmly:
Joanna Fox!"
The old parsonage was rebuilt and
studded with bay windows and medic
val porches. Laurels and rhododen-
drons were set out In the grounds; the
little brook was bridged over with rus
tic woodwork-and Joanna Fox and
Miss Woodin came there to live In
modest comfort.
But Mrs. Lockedge and her son
Simon moved out Of Foxville when the
mortgage on their old place was fore
closed. and the place that had known
them once knew them no more.
And Mrs. Emmons said:
"She's done real well, Joanna has. /
always knew there was something In
her."
And Mrs. Wentworth and the Misses
Barton tried desperately to become in
innate with the young authoress, but
TO no avail.
For there is nothing In all the wide
world so successful as success and 1t
is fetish which has many worshipers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
Nominntion hY Patronage.

Despite the clustering forecasts of
| the so-callel "alIies," the Chicago con-
vention performed its appointed work
with the precise exactness of a perfect
ly regulated mechanism. The Republi-
can party goes to the people with both
ticket and platform machine-made.
Nomination by the force of patronage
is an accomplished fast.
The country is offered a nominee who
is distinctly better than the party that
presents him, but the party so unmis--
takabIy dominates its nominee and is
itself dominated in so many things by
the master who sits in the White House
that the personality of the candidate
is of secondary importance. 1t viii not
be forgotten in the four months cam
paigr that now begins. but the snfn-
ences back Of the domination will be
the real issue before the people.
William Howard Taft is an estimable
American citizen. Of high personal char
| acter and extended civic exDerienee. His
individuality invites no criticism and
he will undoubtedly direct the admin
istrative duties of his Office efficiently
and honorabiy II he should be elected
President But he IS not the Presiden-
tisl candidate Of his party because OF
these things. He is merely the fulfill
ment Of q mandate, the product OF a
patronage machine which has moved
with resistless force as the guiding
hand in the White House has directed.
President Roosevelt RETAINED from
using the machine to nominate himself
as he might have done. but the shadow
of a third term rests none the less on
a nominee who is SO cOEf5ietely Lis ere
affon
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
The Republican Platform.

Through all its stilted sentences and
hyperbolical boasting this particular
platform keeps close to one unvarying
theme. The Republican party is great
and Theodore Roosevelt is its prophet.
1t is altogether in the line of expecta-
ton that there should be exaltation of
the President and exaggeration of his
achievements, but the declaration that
in no other period of our civic history
has there been ''such mighty progress
in those ideals of government which
make for justice. equality and fair deal
ings among men" is likely to impress
the most fanatical Republicans rs over
fulsome praise. Even they will recall
that this one of our Presidents more
than any other of his predecessors in
the White House has chafed under the
restraints of the Constitution, stretched
the authority of the statutes arrogated
the powers of the courts and insulted
the judges who have presumed to dis
agree with him on points of law
There is more definite declaration on
the I9riff issue than on any other on
which there is expression. The Repub-
lican party is emphatically committed
to the maintenance of customs duties at
figure that will enable the American
manufacturer to meet the difference be-
tween the cost of production at home
and abroad and to sell at profit. Rec
ognizing the impossibility of protecting
the general public interest along these
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
Currency and the hanks.

When the Supreme Court, in the case
OF McCullock V. Maryland, decided that
the government had the right to char
ter banks to issue paper money under
the provision of the Constitution to
coin money" it opened the way for
all the financial troubles we have been
heir to. That decision opened the way
to the national bank charters which
have since been the pets of the Repub-
| lican party The issue of their bond
secured currency has been the excuse
| for extravaganza and the hundreds of
millions they have made by the manip-
ulation of United States bonds has been
a severe tax upon the people. The
whole financial power of the govern
ment has been used to protect and per-
petuate the national banks. During the
late panic certificates of indebtedness
and Panama bonds were issued to pro-
tect the interests of the Wall street
national banks, not that the government
needed the proceeds of those issues, but
that the Wall street hanks needed it
to carry them through the panic. Even
with those millions added to the funds
already on deposit, the banks could not
pay their depositors except in cashiers
checks.
1t is now proposed to fasten upon the
country a bond-secured bank currency
in perpetuity. by adopting as its basis
"other securities than the United States
bonds" That is the purpose Of the eur
rency bill just passed by Congress, and
the Republican managers are responsible
for it, There was doubt in the minds
of some financiers and economists how
far the Aldrich scheme was intended
to 90. but after the official statement
Of United States Treasurer Charles IL.
Treat in his address to the Wholesale
Grocers' Association there can be no
further doubt of the position Of the adj
ministration.
The Secretary Of the Treasury is
mere putty in the hands Of the Wall
street interests. and the people seem
10 hare no one to look after their In
terests The Standard Oil and Morgan
interests, under this long stride for
ward In rounding out and perfecting
the national banking system as Mr..
Treat explains II, will have good mar
ket for their railroad and other bonds
from the banks which viii now be CON-
PEELED to purchase them.
Can you think Of law, passed by
Republican Congress. which bas not
favored the wall street interests. or Of
Republican Secretary Of the Treasury
who has rot interpreted the law In the
interest Of the same abanciers.
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want to live In such a ruinous old
place and II was their calculation, as
the parsonage was mortgaged much be-
You'd its real value, to sell ii and buy
a new house near the railway station.
with all the modern conveniences, for
the use OF the Reverend Si1as Speak
we'll
So Joanna. who could think Of no re-
manning friend but her old goyerness,
who had long ago gone to London to
Eight the great world for herself. went
there, too. and appealed to Miss woodIn
In her extremity; and Miss Woodin
cried over her, and kissed her and ca
ressed her, ike an old maiden aunt
First on the typewriter, then pro-
NOTED to desk In the fashion de-
partment of a weekly journal; then. by
means of a striking. original sketch.
slipped Into the letter-box of the
Ladies' Weekly with fear and trem-
bling 70 a place on the contributors
list; then gradually rising TO the rank
OF spirited young novelist. untfl she
had her pretty fat furnished like a
miniature palace. with Miss Woodin
and her typewriter snugly installed in
one corner.
Because owe everything to her"
said the young authoress. gratefully.
And. one day. glancing over the pa
pers in the sanctum Of The Ladies'
Weekly. TO whose columns she still CON
tributed. she came across a copy OF the
Foxville Gazette
Hester" she said. hurrying home to
Miss woodIn. sthe old parsonage Is to
be sold by auction tomorrow. and
mean to so and buy it For 1 am quite
quite sure that I could write there
better than anywhere else in the
world"
Miss woodin agreed with Joanna.
Miss Woodin believed firmly in what
ever Joanna believed. In her loving
eyes the successful young writer was
always right
So Joanna Fox and Miss woodin,
dressed In black ana closely yelled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

Republican campaign fund four years
ago, when there seemed a prospect that
New York would be lost to the party.
Having abilities and connections of this
character, he is. doubtless expected to
influence great sums into Republican
Golfers during this campaign.
But If fate should decree that he
shall one day become President of the
United States, it is doubtful whether
another national convention will dare
to nominate a man of his sort for the
vice presidency.-Ch Journal Gin
dependent Republican,.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

and scatter sunshine in his home He will make him.
h1ndy the house and not expect anything
be done for him. When his wife him to mend the
sewing machine put wire the screen door, ne
will not pout and say -That not in the marriage
contract"
He removes a burden wherever he cam and moves
around the house like bearded angel blessing every
thing he touches any little weaknesses his
wife may possess, nnead OF calling her "crosspatch,
and then becoming ten times and ugly himself
He sympathizes rather He is not always
insisting he Is right and his wife is He is
jovial and enent and lets the little lave her
own way many things, always allowing her to have
the last word.
he lives He never forgets tell his wife how much
he thinks of He speaks words of praise while she
is living and doesn't wait until the funeral to deliver
sentiments she cannot hear.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

it is proposed that a sliding scale be efi-
tablished with maximum and r,ini-
mum range, within which the President
may regulate duties at his discretion.
This is the most disturbing economic
suggestion put forward for long time
and it can be counted on to play an
important part in the campaign.
The fight ON the anti-injunction plank
produced verbal straddle. What ac-
tua change in the methods of the
courts is proposed can not be determin-
ed by the platform utterance, and that
was probably exactly the effect intend
ed. 1t will be interpreted to meet the
necessities of every occasion and to
mean all things TO all men.
The references to our relations to the
Philippines, Porto Rico and Cuba re-
fleet clearly the indefinite and ambigu-
Gus attitude it is the determined pur-
pose of the Republican party to pre-
serve. What the platform says is in no
sense expressive, but it is distinctly
significant by reason of the fact that it
is inexpensive 1t is the Republican
policy to deny our wards in these pro-
tected islands all definite understanding
of our future plans.
For the rest of the platform it is
enough to say that it is mingled plati-
tude and brag. 1t pictures the woes
that would have come to the country
under Democratic rule, 1t parades the
blessings that a Republican admins
tration has showered upon us. But
this is merely the bombast of politics
which commands no consideration from
the serious student of political affairs.
And where thoughtful consideration is
not invited criticism would be wasted.
So this platform may be accepted as
1t was intended. 1t is a concession to
tradition and nothing more. Except in
respect to the tariff program no new
policy is outlined and the document
may be consigned to that oblivion for
which its makers destined it.-St. Louis
ReDublic
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

the housework. I'm goin' to have a
house full o. summer visitors, and
there'll be deal more work than me
and Elviry can manage. OF course, you
won't expect no pay; but good home
Is what you need most"
81 am much obliged to you," said
Joanna 'but must decline your kind
offer"
And Mrs. Emmons departed in wrath,
audihy declaring her conviction that
pride was certain, sooner or later, to
have fall.
Old Miss Grange, who had 10000,
and who had always declared that she
loved dear Joanna Fox like daugh-
ter, sent down word that she wasn't
very well, and couldn't see company.
DR.. Wentworth, In visiting whose
poor invalid daughters Parson Fox
had contracted the Illness which car
ried him to his grave. was brusque
and short The doctor was sorry for
Miss Joanna, Of course, but he didn't
know Of any way in which he could
be useful. He understood that a fac
tory was to be opened In the neighbor-
hood soon. No doubt Miss Joanna
could get place there; or there could
be no objection to her going out to
domestic service. There was a great
deal of false sentiment ON this sub
ject, and he thought
But Joanna, without waiting for the
result Of his cogitations, excused her.
self. She would detain him no longer,
she said; and she went away, with
flaming cheeks and resolutely repress-
ed tears.
When she got home, she found one
of the trustees of the church await
ing her. He didn't wish to hurry her.
he said; but the new clergyman didn't
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

A college youth is rarely as old a.
he talks.
All the worlds a stage. and most OF
US are In the gallery
The things we turn up our noses at
are the things We can't understand
gil may make sweeping asser-
ton without knowing how to handle a
broom.
Strawberries come and 90, but In
boarding house circles the prune is per
'ennial.
A man has to have a mighty good
disposition to be willing to admit he
hasn't
Engaging manners are an asset in
other circles besides the matrimonial
market
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
TURNING THE TABLES

There was great connection In
Foxville when old Parson Fox died
1t was not only because he was the
pioneer of the place, having come there
when the woods were one primevsl
mass of green, aud himself having
erected the old stone parsonage, around
which the thriving village had grown
up with almost incredible rapidity. II
was not that he had preached the Cos
pei to them for forty and-four years
1t was not that his footsteps h,.s been
constantly on every threshold where
sickness came or sorrow brooded
All this had been received as a mat
ter of course. and forgotten as soon as
the necessities were past. But 1t was
because Foxville curiosity was on the
ouI yive about Joanna, his grandchild,
the sole remaining blossom on the
gnarled old family tree, who was left
quite unprovided for.
"She hain't got no common sense
said Sablna Sexton. the village dress
maker: land never had"
There's no denyin' that the old min
lister was as near saint as we often
see in this world" said Mrs. Luke Lock
edge. piously But he ought not to
have let Joanna run loose In the woods
and fields the way she did. Why,
don't s'pose she ever made shirt or
fried an egg In her life! My Simon
will have property. and the girl be
marries must have suthin' TO match
It,"
So that Joanna Fox. sitting listlessly
in her black dress by the window
where the scent OF June honeysuckles
flosted sweetly in, and trying to real.
lie that she was alone in the world
had sundry visitors that day. The first
was Simon Lockedge. looking as II bis
errand were somehow connected with
q police court.
Joanna started up, her wan face
Frightening. She was only 16-a
brown-haired. brown-eyed girl
20 Simon!" she cried. Il knew you
would come when you heard"
Simon Lockedge wriggled uneasily
Into his seat. instead OF advancing to
clasp her outstretched hand
Yes" he said. "Of course. IT'S very
sad. Joanna. and I'm really sorry for
you. But"
She turned and walked into the ad-
ioIning apartment; while Simon. sink,
Ing out OF the door. muttered 10 him
self:
ITS the hardest Job that ever 1 did
In my life. Splitting trees is nothing
10 II. But mother says il must b
done. and mother runs the roost in ouI
house.
Next came Mrs. EmmoRs.
"Jeanha.s she said. I'm deeply
rrleved at this ere a.ssivtiou that's be
sell you"
THANK you, Mrs Emmons," said the
girl. mechanically.
i've come tn ask you about youl
Plans added the plump widow "be
rause. II you have no other intentions
III be glad to hare you help me viii
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
THE LURE OF BoYHooD SCENES

Farewell to the marts of commerce,
Adieu to the fight for fame;
For I've gathered myself a fortune
And builded myself a name.
I'm tired of the city's torrents,
Its clatter. and rush, and blare;
Days blurred and murky and gloomy
Nights that are only glare:
Weary of gray walls, sentinel-like,
That stand like waiting foe
To shut you in with the dust and din
And Crime of the street below.
So here's to the scenes of boyhood,
Upland and meadow and dale,
Each with its harvest of memories
Sweet as a nursery tale.
Fer | want to see the sun rise,
And | want to see il set;
And to get away
Where the light of day
Has the old-time splendor yet:
Where the green hills kiss the heavens
And the woods are full of song.
And the meadows Groom
To the summer moon
In an ecstasy all night long
The Bohemian.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

order perfect the peace of Still wider 1t up
reaches to beings above the human kingdom In infinite
gradations, to the Supreme who Is God not Of wrath
but OF love- whose moral codes bespeak virtue for the
beauty and delight of it When St Paul adds ideal
OF co-worklng with God, Of harmonizng the will with
the will Of the supreme harmony, happiness has
braced the universal nature and penetrated the uni
versal plan touched the utmost bound of being.
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evils of these later years. nseparable from rapid de-
veloment and unbounded prosperity wherein often
times the material has been exalted above the moral
and spiritual the United States may well be proud
of American business and American citizenship.
The spirit that, long hidden in the great heart of
man. struggled up through the colonial through
the revolutionary years. up through the dreadful years
of civil strife that is struggling up through these
Of mighty social economic adjustments the spirit
the builders and defenders Of the republic In every
crisis-that spirit Of the freeman is still with the
American people, and will abide with them If they will
realize and be true to the high privilege of American
citizenship
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

vydness lies in the conspicuous fact that the grandes
intellectual have been abors Of love- wrought by
leisured men whose genius could flower because they
lived above the level of sordid Above the intellect
ara born still loftier and loyeer phases conscious
ness still farther away from brute experience-the
ecstasy of the saint the beatifc vsion the spiritual
illumination the souls awakening.
These pleasure experiences reflect in the outer world
as pleasure societies and pleasure religions Not so.-
ton nor fear nor pain, but growing solidarity Sc
cury ease Under the completed pleasure regime there
will be no national boundaries Happiness ex-
banded to degree that overreaches the powers
of any one realize II alone 1t is social enjoy
mcnt a collective happiness Many must be glad in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
BmttreneId Logic

Among the men who served With
Roosevelt's rough riders In Cuba was
a little Dutch Jew, who, according tn
the men in his own troop, was aths
very Incarnation Of cool, impudent
brayado in a fight" He was a con.
sistent fatalist
One day be Observed comrade dodr.
ing a spent bullet that had whistles
pncomfortably close TO him.
.vat's de use to todge dem puIlets p
sang out the little Jew. .Dey1l hit you
shust as veil we're you are as we're you
asn'tr'-Everybody's Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

According TO authorities from s. to
% per cent Of the men in civilized lands
are right-handed and have developed
the low right shoulde-. This, however.
Is no new phenomenon, for even the an
Gent Greek sculptors had noticed IL
and posed their subjects 50 as to make
tnrn appear more symmetrical
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
THE BUSINESS MAN AND POLITICS.
BY Secretary of the Treasury CorfeIyou.
The business man should realI

The business man should realize
that 1t Is as much OF his interest
to participate actively in political
primaries and conventions as it Is
to attend to his daily business af-
fairs. We need all over this fair
land to-day revival of the spirit of
the old town meeting, where there
were general interchange Of views,
the discussion Of public questions.
the ascertainment of the needs of
the community, and the shaping of
plans to meet them.
Notwithstanding the mistakes and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
PROPER TREATMENT OF WIVES.
BY Rev. J. L. Scudder.

Selfishness Is the rock upon which domestic
bliss generally goes to pieces. A model hus-
band never plays the tyrant- He treats his
wife as an equal, not as a subordinate Or
slave Some women are married to bears.
Some are c,lged birds, too sad to sing Others
have that word "obey" eternally thrown at
them Another quality In a good husband is
his determination to cultivate cheerfulness
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

namnatory ebulitons Of professional agtators whose
only claim being based upon their ability
to work the workingmen, men who make out
of trouble and who fatten calamity. 1 you
against these disurbers of public peace these
of honest labor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07

A Treasury Department circular has
been issued carrying into effect the
new currency act. The main points are
that in organizing the currency asso-
Citations there must be at least ten
banks I'm contiguous territory for each
association and named for the locality
In which they are formed, that State
lines be observed as much as possible
and that l per cert upon the average
amount Of public deposits held will be
paid by the depository banks
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
EMPLOYER HAS HIS RIGHTS.
By Rev. John Wesley HIN.

The employer has a right to what he has
honestly earned. Deny that and you have
shattered the corner stone of our civilization.
The proposition to abolish private property
and make the State the general proprietor IL
false to every principle of equity and justice.
The employer also has a right to decline the
services of all intraetable men. l believe In
the rights of free speech, but deprecate the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-07
HUMAN HAPPINESS HAS NO LIMITS.
BY Ada May Krecker.

There are certain big things to which l be-
laughing flowers and merry brooks, but some
times are quite irrational about the sorrows
of man. They seem to regard all nature as
gay and only man as mournful; whereas, did
they but appreciate it, If beasts and plants
are happy at all, man is happier. Above the
senses the intellect oyerfows blisses denied
savage and animal One testimony to their