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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
HOME or THE LILY.
Bermuda Flower Which Has a Place
en- Hearts OF Americans.

W htaS a. AAcc
ia Hearts OF Americans.
The Bermuda lily is one of the foreign
ers which has established place in the
hearts of the American people Its pure
white chalices are found not only lin the
church and chapel. but in the homes of the
people. rich and poor. on Easter morning /;
they carry their message of the resurrec-
ton 20 a life where the spirit will be
freed from the flesh that trammels it.
How fitting that they should come from
the summer islands. where there is no
winter, no falling of leaves!
AS one sits in the air perfumed by the
droppipss from the lily bells the romantic
story of the land of their nativity en-
riches their beauty. No thunder of can
non or long tale of war sullies the pages
of the history of the Bermudas.
They were. TO the best of our knowl-
edge. discovered between 1915 and 1922
by a vessel commanded BY man named
Bermudez. On board was a Spaniard
who was the historian of this discovery.
The vessel was on her way from Spain
60 Cuha. An attempt was made to land
and leave some hogs. with a view to pos
kible future nessis, bur. according TO the
record. storm Gs>-se and the boat did not
leave the vesssI. rhis iS the first time
that any mention of the islands appears
In history.
The terrible storms that freouented this
group led the Spaniards TO believe that
the islands were peopled by devils and
evil spirits. and they became known as
Los Diabclos. Nor were these vexing,
destructive winds and storms unknown 10
the English. In 1923 Captain May, an
Englishman. was one OF a party wreck
ed on the southern shores OF the Bermu-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
Iowa ana the Tariff.

The tariff plank adopted at Des
Moines for Republican campaign uses
in Iowa comedies the impossibility OF
holding Iowa Republicans longer III
line for monopoly taxation. 1t aoan-
dons the stand-pat attitude and prom
ises to consider Republican objections
to what 1t speaks of as excessive du-
ties. In doing this it borrows the Ian
guage of the Ohio tariff plank and
makes additions under which next year
or at some time subsequent to the
Presidential election this year the
Dingley rates of the present will be
replaced by ''such customs duties as
will equal the difference between the
cost of production at home and abroad,
together with a reasonable profit to
the end that adequate protection may
be given without excessive duties
Iowa Republicans to whom this is
addressed are left by it to decide for
themselves, not next year, out at once,
what they themselves understand by
excessive duties. For example. the lat
est reports on the subject published by
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor show that the Dingley tax collected
on wooden goods, Including common
clothing, averages 1912 per cent ad
yalorem. This means that the buyer
of wooden goods in Iowa has tax Of
SS.94 on the $40 real values, protect
Ing" the price demanded from him.
The word excessive" is not now APP
piled in collecting this tax, although 1t
is more than twice the tax which pro
tects the prices of wool. dairy products
and meats and more than five times
that which protects the price Of hides.
The taxes now collected are authorized
by the Dingley law, under which no
tax which shuts out competition and
prevents competing prices IS regarded
as excessive When addressed to Iowa
Republicans now the word challenges
them to force an immediate answer to
the question of its meaning. Will the
men who seek their votes pledge them
selves in writing to cut the taxes on
clothing as low as the taxes on dairy
products or hides?
This is what Iowa voters must de-
eide this year. Next year they will
have no more opportunity to decide
than they have when the tax rate on
clothing, as officially published after its
collection, is not presented for their
consideration as excessive but as ie-
gal. official and orthodox in its Repub-
licanism.-St. Louis Republic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
Holy saturday In Florence.

At Florence on Holy Saturday a
chariot is drawn into the square before
the cathedral Within the chariot are
bundles of powder connected one with
another by means of fuse. and from the
chariot to the high altar of the cathedral
runs a wire. When the crowd has gath
cred at a safe distance around the powder
laden car and just as the bells strike noon
the archbishop releases a toy dove, which
travels down the wire with a bit of flame
in its beak. As the messenger of fire
flies into the chariot its gaudy decorations
are hurled inso the air. with a roar and
a cloud of smoke. If the dove flies stead
lily to its goal the year will be propi-
tious one, but if the bird hesitates there is
evil ahead.-New FORK Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
ON EASTER MORNING.

Beautiful children. whose voices sweet
Echo the carol the bells repeat
All In the Easter morning.
Did ye know that before the red
Had clambered Up from his downy bed
Lovelest carols were sung and said
Early on Easter morning?
Out where the willows are bending low,
Out where the mists drift to and fro,
All in the Easter morning,
Little brown birds in quiet nest.
Twittering low meath mothers breast.
Say, Spring is coming, let's sing our
best"
Carly on Easter morning.
Dainty fernlets. in woolly fold.
Safely hidden from wind and cold.
All in the Easter morning,
Lifting their blankets. peep TO see
What kind Of place the world may be
And waken and rustic merrily
Early on Easter morning.
The clear little brook -ings low and sweet,
Touching the pebbles with dainty feet,
All in the Easter morning.
Spring is coming | make the way
Green, where the flowers shall be some
day;
Singing. herald the suns first rag
Early on Easter morning
Beautiful ones, ere the sun was red
LoYelest carols were sung and said
All In the Easter morning.
The light mist shroudeth the sleepy town.
But the birds and the ferns and the brook
let brown
Sing in the. gray, while the stars lock
down,
Early on Easter morning.
~. C. Waterman, In Youths Companion
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
COST OF LIVING IS DOWN.
Prices of Commodities Decrease but
Are Still Far from Bottom.


It's cheaper to live to-day than it has
been in thirty-three months. That, at
reast. is the comforting assurance just
announced by Bradstreets.
1t was a year ago this month when
the highest general level of prices for
foodstuffs, textiles coal and other COM
modities was reached Since then they
have dropped 12.5 per cent, the decrease
being fairly evenly distributed from
month to month.
There have been some thirty in
creases. but Bradstreet's records show
that sixty-three products, including
provisions and textiles, cost less than
last March. OF the thirty products
that are higher, some are sugar. tea,
potatoes, apples, wheat, corn, oats and
barley soft coal and petroleum.
The low price average of this month,
however is only comparative, and if
the drop is limited to / per cent a
month, as for the year past, more than
three years must elapse before the low
est recorded price average is reached.
Prices are still 40 per cent higher
than the low level recorded on July 1,
1896.
In averaging fluctuations of prices
Bradstreet's uses an index figure rep
resenting a compilation of costs of more
than 100 commodities. The record goes
back sixteen years
Prices for thirteen staples show that
ten out Of the group decreased during
February, one remained unchanged and
two went higher.
The textile group showed the great
| est weakness, with provisions a close
second. Live stock and metals adj
vanced and fruits remained unchanged
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
An Indian Passion Play,

A remarkable Easter celebration is the
Passion plays of the Indians of the
Schelt tribe on the banks of the Fraser
river. Skwa. Vancouver. Its motive is
that of sincere desire to instruct the
Indians in the grand lessons of the death
of Jesus. Father Chirouse. French
missionary, adopted the plan as the best
to reach minds that could not comprehend
the full significance of the spoken word.
Its first representation in 1899 result
ed in hundreds of conversions. 1t has
been continued since. with the result that
Indians OF 90 DER tribes come from great
distance 10 see the spectacle and in many
cases so away believers.
Father Chirouse insists on the most
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
The Tariff stnmnede.


The conference in which Republican
leaders in the house the other day
tried to see what they could do to con-
troll the wild horses" OF tariff sentl-
ment within their party naturally
came to no definite conclusion.
The horses broke from their control
in the Ohio Republican convention and
they will not be rounded up this side
of TIE National convention at Chicago.
Speaker Cannon and his House leaders
kept the animals too long in corral and
they have stampeded all over the prai-
ries of the West
When the roundup begins at Chica-
go the kicking, the biting, the rearing
and the bucking will make circus
worth going far to see. And when
something like order has been brought
out OF the chaos of dust and hoof
marks it will be found that there are
two herds of bronchos pulling violent
" In opposite directions.
1t will nuke little difference which
proves the stronger in the convention.
Neither will suffer itself to be dragged
into the corral of the other and they
will go on kicking and pulling apart
all through the campaign.
Uncle Joe Cannon cannot ride the
bronchos which the Ohio Republicans
have turned loose, nor can he control
:he direction Of their gallop. Neither
Taft nor Cummins can mount or Direct
the unruly steeds with which the AL
drich cavalry will endeavor to ride
down the forces Of tariff reform in the
West.
One force or the other will run over
the other and there will be bruises
that will last. Speaker Cannon and
his aids might as well quit thinking
about 1t and save their strength for
the trouble which IS TO come in June
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

Almost all the Easter cards are dis
tinctly secular. Flowers and doves and
other emblems of peace and purity adorn
them, but there are few representations
of sepulchers and very few religious texts.
To such an extent has the secular card
craze been carried indeed. that those
who refuse to buy them are known as spe-
cialists. and some few ecclesiastical cards,
which no doubt the shopkeepers think in
appropriate to the season and only called
for by cranks, are slowed away for them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
strange Easter Custom.

From time immemorial a most extra
ordinary custom has been observed on
Easter Mondays at Hallaton, down in
Leicestershire. In order to retain piece
of ground left to the parish in the good
old days the villagers have to indulge in
the doubtful pleasure of a game of bot
tie kicking. butz before they can begin
to play certain preliminaries have to be
gone through. Two large meat pies and
two dozen penny loaves have TO- be
scrambled for. A huge wooden bottle,
bound round with iron rims and con-
tanning ale, is thrown on the ground, and
the men of the neighboring village of
Melbourne have to wrest it from the
Hallatonian grasp. 1t is hardly necessary
to add that the struggle is invariably
provocative of a good many casualties or
one form or another.-London Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
Rubber Trust Cut. salaries.

The United States Rubber Company,
known as the rubber trust" has sent
out orders to the hundred or more of the
wholesale and retail concerns which it
controls to cut down expenses on account
of the falling off in the rubber trade.
Inasmuch as contracts with the labor
unions would prevent a change at once
in the pay of the manual workers, it was
decided to reduce the salaries of all the
high-priced managers and statesmen on
April / from 10 to % per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
rs m~E4 rs
Little Billy's
Easter Hoard



All the children had a hoard of eggs
hidden away for Easter-all but Billy.
Billy was so small and fat that he could
not climb on the hay mows to find the
nests. Sue, Mary and Teddy were big
ger, and the contest with them went gay
ly on. Easter morning their boards would
be brought forth from their hiding places,
and the one who had the most eggs would
be the best fellow.
Mother would give them some bits of
bright calico and pieces of onion peel; the
eggs would be wrapped in those and
boiled, aud when taken out of the water
the onion ones would have beautiful yell
low shells, and the ones wrapped in cal
leo would have dainty flowers and pat
terms traced or them. Perhaps they might
have some of those gorgeous purple and
crimson dyes FOR certain highclass eggs.
Anyway, there would be a brave showing.
Billy would probably have some given
to hl.l, but they would not be his own
hoard, and the heart of Billy was heavy
within him.
He stood on the barn floor dejectedly
Smelling the kernels off an ear of corn
that had been dropped, and he could hear
the shouts of the other children away off
on the long NOW in the wing.
Easter was very near-only few days,
and then
"Cluck Cluck ~
Billy looked around and saw a brown
hen squeezing out through a hole in the
flooring. She walked straight up to Billy
and began picking up the kernels he had
dropped.
"What you been doin' under We floor,
oil Brown Hen?"
"CIuck cluck !" said the Brown Hen,
which meant, Look for yourself"
Billy looked. Away under the dark
floor he could see a nest, and he counted
-''Two-fve-free -eleventy.' Billy
could not tell just how many, for his
mathematical education was shaky.
as they yours?' whispered Billy
"Cluck cluck =! said the Brown Hen.
"Don't tell the rest, and we'll go shares
on this hoard, and I'll take care of them
for us"
Then she crawled back under the bGa. us
and Billy ran in the house feeling that
he. too, had secret.
Not word did Billy lisp. On Easter
morning he, too, would bring forth his
board. but he would leave some for the
Brown Hen-oh, of course-because they
were partners.
Easter came and the older children
went after their hidden eggs Billy fol-
lowed in glee. How he would surprise
theml His fat legs twinkled through
the barnyard fence and up to the great
door. He heard the Brown Hen cluck-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
Cntton sMtndIer Gets Fonr Year.,

Frank c. Marin, former principal in
the Storey Cotton Company of Philadel-
phia, which swindled investors ali over
the country to the tune of S1.319,o0O, was
sentenced by Judge Holland to four years
Imprisonment, 5000 fine and costs. Mar
rim appealed the case and renewed his
$4,000 bail bond. One of the eonspira-
tors in this same scheme, Francis, is
now sersing a five-year sentence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
A RepuhIicnn ROLF.


The Republicans are suffering from
the ambition of some Of their leaders
and the evident intention OF President
Roosevelt to dictate the nomination of
Secretary Taft as his successor, or him
self. in case Taft is impossible, may
result in split in the party. Even
in Ohio, where the convention was APP
parently unanimous for Taft. there Is
a rebellion. That sta.wart Republican
organ, the Toledo Blade, which has
been faithful to the Republican party
since its organization, leads in an open
bolt against the Taft-Cox- Brown ticket.
The Blade declares that the Taft man
ayers have handed over the party or
ganization to the corrupt Cox-B Brown
machine, and the Sandusky Register
indorses the Blades attack upon the
State ticket.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Taft must have known that in making
this combination with Boss Cox and
allowing him to dictate the most inn
portant nominations for State officers,
they were guilty of betraying the peo-
pie for their own personal advantage.
and it is decidedly refreshing to see
that the honest organs of the party re-
fuse to abide by il.
Such personal politics always leads
to party disruption, and Ohio has too
many independent voters to defeat such
combinations even to the extent Of de-
feating the men who have been guilty
of 1t.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

ing. She must be waiting to divide. He
went in. but she was not in sight He
ducked his head down to the hole and
peeped. She was not on the nest, and
only a few broken shells lay about
Tears welled up into Billy's blue eyes
The Brown Hen had not dealt fairly
Sobbing and stumbling. he went out the
stable door, and ran plump into her.
She was not alone. CHIPPING and peep
ing all around her was a troop of yellow,
fuzzy balls. Billy took one rapturous
look and then fed to Sister Mary, who
was crawling from under straw stack
with her treasure.
Look, Mary; look what me an the
Brown Hen done p he called She's beer
takin' care of our eggs. an they've al
come chickens :"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

''Insolvencies were very heavy in the
five large central States, liabilities for
that section being more than three times
as large as in the same months last year,
Illinois supplying $3,500,000 of the in
crease Ohio about as much, and Indiana
about $2,000,000. While the total amount
was not as large in Michigan, the rela-
tive increase was as great, liabilities ris-
ing over 200 per cent. Every State in
this section also recorded a larger num-
Der of failures, the increase in Illinois
being about $50. That State also sup
piled two large banking failures and there
were four in Ohio, although the amount
of money involved was much smaller.
"1he number of failures by States for
the first quarter this year and 1907 and
liabilities both years are compared below !:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

reverent presentation. Three hundred
Indians take part in the twelve uableaux.
First comes the garden of Gethsemane,
next is the betrayal, and then in order
follow Christ before PLATE, the hooking
of Christ by the Roman soldiers, the
famous "Ecce Homo" and all the other
incidents until finally the climax is reach
ed in the ENTHUSIASTICALLY Eagle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
A $1,000 Easter Egg.

In extravagant Paris an egg was man.
ufactured some years ago for certain
Spanish infanta which cost 10000 francs,
or $4,000. 1t was white enamel on the
outside and. had the whole gospel of
Easter engraved on the inside. mys-
terious mechanism within it sent forth
a little bird who sang twelve popular airs
from the opera.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

If the sun shines on Easter morning,
it will, according to the same authority,
shine again on Whit Sunday. A Sussex
piece of weather lore goes further, de-
claring that if the sun shines on Easter
day it will shine "a little every day all
the year round,i while there is CORE
spending notion that if it rains then it
will rain little, if only few drops,
every day during the ensuing year.-New
York Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
Good Match.

Mrs Stubbs-John, now that / have
this beautiful blue hat / would lika
something to match it when / go OUT
walking.
Mr.. stubb-Well, wait until the bin
comes in. Maria, and then l will go
with YOU
Mrs Stubb-You?
Mr.. stubb-Yes, 1 viii be blue
enough then.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

Insanity will be the defense in the case
of Richard A. Horne of Kansas City. on
trial there for killing III. ]. Groves, man
aging editor Of the Kansas City Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

During 1907 baby was born in New
York City every three and half minutes
and one death occurred every five min
utes, according to statistics made public.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

Leopold Eidlitz. well-known archi-
tect, died a. his home In New York, aged
81. He rela1deled the State capitol in
Albany in 1915
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

John W. Riddle, the American ambas-
sador TO Russia, has left St Petersburg
for the Riviera on leave of hsence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

1.-The number Of failures and amount OF
liabilities during the first quarter this
year and last in different sections of the
country are compared below:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

Brig. Gen. Elisha L Baily, Z. 6. A..
retired. died at the army general hospital,
Preside, Cal. He was 81 years old
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

Henry j. Daveen, who not long ago
Maid more than S5,000,000 for the fam
Gus Rudolph Kann art collection, be-
gan life as blacksmith.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

VIII have to pass. in a judicial way,
upon all the contests, will put their
virtue to a test that most Of them
Will be unable to withstand.
Corruption will rear its hideous head
and with both factions trying to fix
the committee to pass favorably ON
their side of the contests, there is al
most a certainty OF scandal and per-
haps split that will tear the hide from
the tough old elephant of the G. o. p.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

"a good deal of rain on Faster day
Gives crop of good grass, but little
good hay"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
S12TO22 nA


Attention is called to the fact that
New York State furnishes 90 per cent of
the bank failures of the entire country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14

According to an old English proverb,
wet Easter is not favorable to the con-
sequent crop of hay:
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corrpption and scandal.

The Federal office-holders in the
Southern States are expected TO turn
out delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention with quickness and
dispatch at the disposal CT the admin
istration. But somehow the old ma
chine is squeaky and the plan does nor
work well. The negroes are opposed
to President Roosevelt and his man
Taft. The Lily-Whites are somewhat
divided and there will be contestIng
delegations from nearly every Southern
State. This offers a good chance for
the Republican national committee to
s.fix things" The fact that any of
those States have the same power in
voting on contests as other States have,
and that those members who are in
volved In the contests nom their States