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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-11
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The orators and disclaimers that are
to take part in the local contest have
been chosen. All the classes except
the Freshmen were allowed to choose a
representative in each contest and the
remaining were picked out by the
faculty. The Seniors will be represent
ed by four disclaimers, Elizabeth
Plantz, Edith Weeks, Florence Thomas
and Bertha Jaesche and by three ora
tors,-Wylie Sampson, Baily Ramsdell
and Herman Block. The Junior de-
Chalmers, Marie Brands, May Roach
and Elizabeth Montgomery, and their
orators are,-Peter Zindell and Conrad
Anthem. The Sophomores have two de-
chalmers, Leah Deutch and Mary Cor
with and one orator-August Schneider.
Thursday, Mr.. Briggs gave his second
talk on the Union army in the Civil
war. His talk this time was on some
incidents of Sherman's march to the
sea.
Last week the Boys Glee club re-
ceived their song books. The books
contain twenty-five part songs and
the few songs that were tried at their
last rehearsal were wholly satisfactory
John O'Brien returned to school
Monday morning after an absence of
two weeks. He has been in the hospi-
tai undergoing an operation on his leg
where it was shot last fan
Edith Boyce is vaIedictorian of the
class Of '0S as her average standing for
the last three and one half years is
something over ninety-one Herman
Block won the honor of salutatorian
but was only small. fraction in his
average ahead of Ina Martin.
The Sophomores elected class officers
last week; President. Curtis Boyce and
Secretary, Robert Anderson.
Wausau lost the game at Marshtield
Friday night by a score of $500.
Marshiield has a fine team and their
cept5r. Warfield is especially good. As
Sizes was sick be did not go with the
teana The lire up OF the two teams
w as follows.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-11

The basket ball team plays here next
Friday night against Stevens Point. As
the Point has beaten Marshfeld, a fast
hard game IS expected
The "Pinafore' IS the name of the
opera that viii be given by the Senior
class st commencement and the play is
be given at the same time is. ''ln the
Sleeping Car"
The following debate will be given
next Friday night before the debating
club Resolved, that further coinage OF
silver in the G S. is undesirable:
Affirmative: Negative.
Henry Coniin Clinton Bismarck
&yron johnson Frank ShekeY.
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Call for Democratic State
Convention.

By the direction of the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee a delegate convention OF the
democratic party Of the state of Wisconsin is
hereby called, to be held in the city of Milwau-
kee, Thursday, February 18th, 1908, at O'Clock
in the afternoon, for the purpose Of proposing
such, 10 the Democratic National Convention to
be held at Denver. July 9TH. 1908, and to pro-
pose electors for President and Vice President
to be voted for at the primaries
All voters of Wisconsin, irrespective OF past
party affiliations, who believe in the principles
of the democratic party, are urged to cooperate
in electing delegates 10 this convention.
The representatives to which each county Is
entitled is designated below. The apportion.
ment being made on the basis of one delegate
for each two hundred votes or fraction thereof
cast for the democratic presidential candidate
in 1904:
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PERSONAL MENTION.

&c. D. Jones went to Duluth, Mon
day, on business
w. II. Mylrea went to waupaca to-
day on business
Mrs. A. A. Hoefer went to Mhwau-
kee on brief stay, on Saturday.
e. A. Good.ng went to Madison and
Chicago last evening on business.
u. A. Und erwood left for New
York City, on Wednesday evening.
Robert Freeman. of the town of
Emmett, transacted business in the city
today.
Ed Single departed yesterday for
Tacoma, Wash, to visit his sister, Mrs.
james Jolley.
-Chas. j. Winton returned home this
morning from the South where he had
been on business.
Robert Freeman of the town of
Emmett, is spending the day in the city
on business matters.
Donald Gooding will depart the
latter part of the week for Madison to
enter the state university.
Carl and Henry Kronenwetter, of
Mosinee, were in the city yesterday
having been drawn on the circuit court
jury.
-Chas Guenther one of the circuit
court commissioners was in che city
yesterday at the opening of the circuit
court.
Edgar Wilson will come home from
the University of Wisconsin the latter
part of this week, for brief visit at his
| home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Binzer de-
parted Sunday morning for Menomonie
for the purpose of attending the funeral
of niece of the latter.
Ed Mumm, who is employed by the
Cutter, Hammer Electrical Co. of Mil
waukee, spent Sunday with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. H l.. Mumm.
Mrs. Geo. Thomas, of Milwaukee,
arrived in Wausau Saturday for visit
with her sisters, Mesdames Edward
Ringle and Frank Anderson
Merritt Stinson, L. E Dodge, H. L i.
Bump, and l. Heilman, all of Merrill ARE
in the city today to attend the inspec-
ton of ST. Omer Commandery this
evening.
Herman Glaettli, of Chicago,
1 arrived in the city Sunday and will
spend about week visiting with Mr..
and Mrs Louis KraatZ. He is a
brother of the latter.
w. G. Brawley, who was in Milwau-
kee recently, told, in an interview with
the Milwaukee Sentinel, OF the great
impetus to work, which the heavy snow
has given to Northern Wisconsin.
John King went to Neenah today
He is one of the auditing committee of
the supreme lodge of f F. u and it
was for the purpose of attending to
some committee work that he went
down.
| DIR. Harriet Whitehead of this city,
expects to attend the annual meeting OF
the Wisconsin Osteopathic society which
will be held in Milwaukee Feb. 2l-29'
The doctor was for several years secre-
tary of the association.
! w. N Allen and Geo. Nc Intosh re-
turned Sunday evening from ter days
cruise in Kentucky. looking over timber
and coal lands and came home dis
gusted with the country. They report
that while they were at Middelboro,
that state, the thermometer registered
as low as 20 degrees above zero, the cold
est weather experienced in that country
years. Fuel, they say, is cheap in that
country. Anybody can take pickaxe
aud wheelbarrow and dig load of coal
out of the side of mountain.
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Gu, Of II.

Mrs links no longer in society?
How strangei"
Its her own fault. She would be
a faddist Devoted TO home and hus-
band and that sort of thing"
Still, | don't see"
My dear. / haven't told the worst.
She had baby Just a. the height of
the bridge season
Well. well,s
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first publication Feb. IL, last Feb. p.
Probate Notice.
4 IOEI1eC AFOLlDE-
State Of Wisconsin, County Court for Msrath'

State OF Wisconsin, County Court for Marathon
Co1nty.-In Probate.
Notice 10 hereby given that at the special terri,
Of the county court 70 be held 10 and for gaif.
county, et the court house ia the city of Wan
sa0. in said county. the second Tuesday,
being the 10th day Of March, A. d. 1908. At 10
o'clock .. m. the following matter will be heard
and considered:
The application Of Alice Dinvoodie 10 admit
70 probate the last will and testament Of ID. q
Dinwoodie late of the town Of BergeD, in Sid
county, deceased, and for letters testameniary
70 sole legstee thereon 70 bs Issued 70 Aiics
DinwOodie, Of said town
Dated February 10, 1875.
By order Of The court,
HKsEY MEILKK, County Judge.
BRoww PRApT. GKwRfCu 4 ANDERSON.
Attorneys.
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MUST BELIEVE 1T
When Well-Known Wausau People
Tell 1t So Plainly.

When public endorsement is made by
a representative citizen of Wausau the
proof is positive. You must believe it.
Read this testimony. Every backache
sufferer, every man, woman or child
with any kidney trouble will find profit
in the reading.
j. +. Hoene, of 113 South Seventh ST.,
Wausau, Wis, says: For several
years, attacks of kidney trouble and
backache, caused me a great deal OF
suffering especially at night. | could
not sleep in any one position and often
rolled and tossed until | could endure
it no longer and had to get up and walk
the floor Physicians seemed unable to
help me, and at length was led to try
Doan's Kidney Pills procuring them al
Albers' drug store. Soon after / began
using them the backache left and the
other symptoms of kidney trouble dis
appeared. l afterwards worked in one
of the eompauys saw mills, and though
exposed to rough weather the trouble
did not return" Statement made in
1881
CONFIRMED By Mrs. HoENE
Seven years later, March 10th, 1905,
Mrs. Hoene said MIR. Hoene is very
healthy and hearty man today. He has
not been troubled in the past seven
years with his Kidneys and | think
Deans Kidney Pills made permanent
cure"
For sale by all dealers. Price 90
cents. Foster ilburn Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's- and
take no other.
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county Jail for FIVE days. The person
who sold him the lemon extract
certainly knew what he wanted it for
and could be prosecuted the same as if
he had sold the Indian whiskey.
Johnny had no connection with the
Indian village at the Y. MICA.
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Proxies will only be recognized when pre-
scented by actual residents of the same county
as the delegates represented.
The credentials of all delegates elected TO
said convention shall be certified to the State
Central Committee by the Chairman and Secre-
Committee at Milwaukee Immediately after
their election.
BY order of the Democratic State Central
Committee.
Il. II. MANSON, Chairman.
W. c. BRAWLEY, Secretary.
Wausau, Wis, January 3rd, 1908.
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L. B. REID, of the Appleton Post, is
the latest to be spoken of by republicans
as candidate for Governor of Wiscon-
sin. Tom Reid ought to run like a
steer in a cornfeld. He has a large
acuuaintance
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-11

You're right" said AlkaM Ike. he
died very sudden while playin' poker ?
Heart diseaseT~ quersed the tourist
Wal. ye might call il heart. spade.
club and diamond disease. He had
al four aces mp his sleeve
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Patience hear your sisters been
setting married again and gone TO
housekeepingf
Patriee-Yes. she has.
And how does she ike her new
6ate~-Yonkers Statesman
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those who have done wrong, he is ney.
ertheless their friend, and is anxious to
give each one Of them chance ~ live
a good noble life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-11

THE voters of Neenah and Menasha
have extensively signed paper asking
S. A. Cook to become candidate for
the u. S. Senate.
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~BRAY RlNE>
c. n. WEcNER. Prop.

All kinds of light and heavy draying,
Household goods moved. freight de-
livered, etc. Rates the lowest and
service prompt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-11

MANY democratic counties the past
week in convention assembled. have
endorsed w. j. Bryan for candidate
for president.
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hICHARD j. HUkNISCH.
1t was moved and carried that the
delegates attending the state convention
be directed to cast the full vote of the
delegation.
Frank p. Regner, +. W. Genrich and
John Rlngle addressed the convention
on matters relative TO the welfare of
democracy and their words were well
received.
On motion the convention adjourned.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-03
NEVADA FOR FREIGHT
EQUALIZATION

CARSON CITY, New, Dec. s.
The proceeding brought by the
railroad commission of Nevada. at
the instance of the businessmen
committee of the Reno commercial
club, to obtain reduced freight
rates for Reno, and incidentally for
all parts of Nevada, is commanding
the attention of the entire state.
And we'll it may. For nearly 40
years Nevada has suffered the in
justice complained of in this pro-
ceeding, but never until now has
there been anything like con
certed effort to obtain relief.
The Reno business men who
took the initiative in this matter
are to be congratulated upon the
circumstance that they have a
strong and efficient railroad com.
mission ready and willing to aid
in the work
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MISS ELIZABETH PHILLIPS

Ml0O ELlLADE IL IIlliAl<lE ..
ever so little, in this reproducing
enterprise.
And so, if l were the nations
Santa Claus, would, on my trip
across the world on Christmas eve,
1908, drop into every heart "the
gift of the spirit of giving" l
would visit each home where love
and affection had grown cold, and
kindle the fires anew. l would see
that every orphan had not only a
pair of shoes to warm his little
feet, but a love that might take
the place of mothers love to
warm his little heart. / would see
that he had not only a coat to
protect him from the winters cold,
but a sheltering arm that might
take the place of fathers in pro-
tecting him from the blasts of a
freezing world of thoughtless peo-
pie
Were l the nations Santa
Claus" the spirit of giving" would
exist in every heart every day,
and there would be no desires for
great riches and power; no EN-.
ployer grinding down the wages1o
his employed; no public official U.S.
ing his trsut for private gain, and
no religious creeds and doctrines
save that embodied in Christ S
words: do you love me, Simon
Then feed NY lambs"
And so, If it were in my power
to give, l would leave not only II
every city, street and home, but II
every heart, living, loving Santa
Claus, and the world would awal
en-, on it's Christmas day in para
disc, with love as king.
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CLEVER FORGER
GETS AWAY
WHILE VICTIMS HESITATE To
SWEAR OUT WARRANTS
CLEVER SWINDLER ES-
CAPES AND is STILL VICTIM
IZING PEOPLE OF OTHER
CITIES.

Now that H. M. Rorke, alleged
swindler, has left town, many per
sons who claim to have been vic
timized by him have complaining
because he got away. Chief Rice
was asked to arrest him several
times but those who complained
would not swear out warrant
Later J. M. Simpson did get a
warrant, but it was after Rorke
had left for other parts.
Rorke was formerly employed
as solicitor for publication call
ed Farm Loans & City Bonds. He
was discharged but continues to
work for the publication and not
turn in hi scollections.
The scheme worked here was to
solicit advertising and secure ad
vance payment by promising that
the advertisements should have a
prominent position on the margin
Rorke is believed to have Sc
cured several thousand dollars in
the northwest He secured more
than 500 in Spokane and is ac'
cused of victimizing people of
coast cities and Montana. The
last complaint received arrived
from Red Lodge, Mont, this morn
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wives on that ground. Likewise
while cruelty is generally the
charge against the husband it is
found that one out of every five
cruelty cases finds the wife respon-
sible for cruelty to the husband.
The most common single ground
for divorce is desertion. This &C
counts for 3S.9 per cent of all the
divorces in the last 20 years. The
next important ground is, for hus-
bands, adultery, and, for wives,
cruelty. Of the number of divorces
granted the husbands % per cent
were for adultery, while 27.5 per
cent of those granted to the wives
was for cruelty. Drunkenness was
the ground for divorce in 3 per
cent of the cases in which the wife
brought suit and in IL per cent of
the cases brought by the husband.
The average duration of mar
riage terminated by divorce is
about 10 years. Sixty per cent, or
three-ffths, last less than 10 years,
and 40 per cent last longer. The
number of divorces occurring in
the first year of married life 70
about half as many as during the
second year, and the number in.
creases until it reaches it's maxi
mum in the fifth year. From that
point the number diminishes.
Children were reported in 1913
per cent of the total number of di
voice cases.
On the basis of the number OF
divorces to the 100000 population
the rate of divorce appears to be
highest in Colorado, where the
total number of divorces granted
in the last 20 years was 1884, or
1873 per cent. Montana comes next
with a rate of 125 per cent, Utal
| with ia per cent, Wyoming witt
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beasts with horns of iron lent va
riety to the torments.
Descriptions of hell in the Koran
of the Mohammedan does not leave
much consolation for the wicked
Musselman. "Flameless smoke
shall envelop them and someless
flame" says one chapter. Another
informs the evildoers that they
shall be dragged into hell by their
forelocks and their feet and there
shall be cut out for them garments
of fire"
Among barbarians and savages
the devil is the chief diety. AS was
aptly put to missionary by a
Maori chief of New Zealand: why
should we strive to please your
God, who is all good, by prayers
and sacrifices? He will do us no
harm. 1t is the evil one who is
forever seeking our hurt that we
must endeavor to appease. There
fore, we offer sacrifices to him.
The negroes of Guinea have lit
tie belief in state of future pun
| ishment. Some of them who live
by the seacoast, however, believe
that the unconsciously wicked suf
fer a continual state of drowning
Ii they are still more wicked they
are turned into white men and e.
beyond the seas"
There were many forms Of hel
in early and medieval Christianity
each according to the characte
and superstitions of the various
peoples of Europe. But, Will
varying in detail, the essentia
form was the same throughout.
was a nethermost uit filed wit
fire of an inconceivable hea
wherein subordinate devils, unde
; supervision of the arch fiend hin
/ self, roasted and turned upo
white hot griddles the souls OF tn
; damned. torturing them In man
minor ways. 1t Is in these latte
: methods that the authorities of TIL
} middle ages differ. Descriptions
= hell abound in the oratory of I'll
D time. Accounts of personal visits
e 10 the internal regions were cor
] mon.
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ACCORDING TO VARIOUS RELIGIONS
HE'LL IS WEIRD AND TERRIBLE

The question of future punish
ment has interested mankind from
the earliest ages. Darwin found
many races without any idea of a
god, but none without devil.
The ancient Egyptian conception
of hell is found in Per-m-hru, or
Book of the Dead, probably the old
est book in the world. Herein is
described the journeys of the
damned man to perdition. Snakes,
horrid ghosts and nameless terrors
beset his path, and he found con-
siderably more when he got there
To these discomforts were added
fire and sandy desert.
In the old Assyrian hell the spir.
its of the dead fitted about in the
darkness of the underworld and
ate dust: those who broke through
the guarding dragons came back to
earth as vampires.
The penal hell of the Hindoos is
one of the oldest known. Over il
presided Yama the Tanner, with
large teeth and monstrous body. II
is filed with fire, snakes, monsters
insects and other Internal machin
cry. Red hot charcoal figures
largely, with boiling oil as an Incl
dental torture.
Early Buddhism, with its $50,
100000 followers, had a hel
wherein the wicked soul was
spread prone upon a bed of blazini
embers, with bedclothes of tn,
same kind When 1t was hungry
was RECALLED with balls of redho
iron.
The Buddhists OF China and Cey
lon were content with no less thai
q multiplicity OF bells. six of whic
were preserved for the peculiarl
evil.
4 In the Zoroastrian religion a,
cursed spirits sat forever in
cold, dark lane. surrounded b
scorpions.
Future punishment as viewed I
the classic ages was vague, an
neither Greek nor Roman, It woul
seem, had any fixed ideas upon III
subject. There was another place
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CHOP NICKEL
OFF COUNTY
BOARD BILL
COMMISSIONERS REDUCE REV.
ENUE COMING TO SHERIFF
FROM FEEDING PRISONERS
IN BIG JAIL.

Sheriff-elect Mac Pugh will not
have as good thing in boarding the
prisoners in the county jail as his
predecessors have had. The coun.
ty commissioners have just en-
tered an order reducing the price
per meal to be paid for feeding
county prisoners from 40 to 35
cents, this reduction to become eff.
fective December 1.
This figure is still excessive
when contrasted with the. price
paid by the city. Is cents per
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Tartarus, equally as vague, except
as to locality, which Hesiod, oldest
of Greek poets, placed at two
thirds of a mile below the earth
One had to cross a river to get
there. 1t is noticeable that all
hells, except the Christian, has a
river in front of them. Tartarus
seems to have been a penitentiary
reserved for those who had Of
Tended the gods, and ordinary sim
ners had no place there.
The hell of the old Hebrews was
somewhat extensive. "The land of
Egypt" says Gadaliah, lis 400
miles square; that is one-sixtieth
of the size of Ethiopia, which is
one-sixtieth of the earth. The earth
is one-sixtieth of the garden of
Eden and the garden of Eden but
one-sixtieth of Gehenna," or hell.
The Cabalists held that this large
tract lay far to the north, and here
lodged devils and the souls of de.
parted sinners, together with
earthquakes and thunderstorms
There are five varieties of fire in
, Gehenna, according to the Talmud
eac hsuited to the particular kind
of wickedness affected by the sin
ner while on earth.
| AS the hell of the torrid coun
tries is hot, so that of the northern
ATTITUDES is cold and damp. The
old Scandinavians looked upon i
as a place Of ice and darkness
Astounding in venemous reptiles
and wild beasts, especially raven
Gus wolves.
| Our Anglo-Saxon forbears, com
promising between the. two, had ;
''hellewite" whence our Englisl
word "hell') which consisted of
| pit in which the unfortunate SHINE
suffered alternately melting hea
and a nipping frost. A hard 10
was In store for the soul that wa
condemned to this Anglo-Saxol
hell, for it combined all the hol
rors OF all the others. Besides fir
and Ice were serpants with fer
tusks gnawing the flesh from tn
bones OF their victims, while pal
, adders, bloody eagles and TO,
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SELL RELICS OF BOOTH.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-The
clothes of Edwin Booth, the
famous actor, are to be sold in this
city by his daughter, Mrs. Gross
Booth has been dead for fifteen
years and during all this time his
trunk has been kept by. his daugh.
ter as remembrance of her
father, but her circumstances have
become such that she has been
compelled to part with it. 1t is
thought that the articles will bring
big prices.
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ing. H. F. Meyers says he was
buncoed out of SIS.
Rorke uses his own name always
as his credentials of past employ
ment he still possesses. 1t is by
means of these that he secures
introductions and confidence. The
publication has sent out circulars
branding Rorke, as "swindler,
fraud and common thief"
FELL-ONE page
BUTTE, Dec. Sword was re-
ceived here today that Alexander
MacCauley, a prominent business
man and former legislator from
Montana, fell over a precipfce in
Teton county in a remote section
of Montana Tuesday while hunting
and was instantly killed.
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STORE BANK CLOSING UP

The Palace store is going out of
the banking business and as a re-
suit has asked the superior court
to dissolve the corporation known
as the Palace Department Store
bank. 1t is stated that all debts
are paid and that the stock Is en-
tirely owned by the petitioners,
the owners of the store. The case
will come up for final hearing,
as required under the statute, to-
morrow morning.