davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
EnuIand's Doc Law.

Some misguided person returning
from continental holiday has won
dered why dogs are not used in Eng
land as beasts of burden. The reason
why is nothing less simple than a
statute. AS long ago as 1889 an act
was passed making it a punishable
offense for any person within the met
ropolitan area to use any dog for
the purpose of drawing or helping to
draw any cart, carriage, truck or bar
row" Fifteen years later, in 1854, an
act, passed in the more effectual pre-
vention of cruelty to animals" extend
ed the prohibition to all parts of the
kingdom London Globe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
Blush a sian of Good sense

Sir Arthur Mitchell, K. c. B., of Edin.
burgh, who knows much that ia
strange about dreams, laughter and
other commonplace human character
istics, has just advanced the consolins
theory that blushing is an achievement
of which everyone who can blush
should be proud.
He says it requires brains to blush
Idiots cannot blush, neither can ami
mails. Sir Arthur calls attention to the
fact that tiny infants do not blush, al
though they learn to at an early age
just as soon, in fact, as the brain be-
gins to exercise its functions. In
blushing, he says, the mind always
must be affected. 1t is always and
only bodily expression of a mental
state. 1t is a natural thing for blush.
er to say that he had tried not to
blush, No individual bushes of his
own free will. The blush arises with.
out call instantaneously and vanishes
almost as quickly Neither for its
coming nor its going is there any exer
else of volition. 1t is controlled, Sir
Arthur says, solely by the brain, and
is positive sign that there is an &C
tive brain there,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
The Lazy Venus

She was very beautiful, though her
face showed more incidence than in
telligence-"a sort of lazy Venus" as
Byron once said. While walking a
very short distance in Van Cortlandt
park she observed the golfers and was
asking her companion, a sprightly
young girl, something about the game.
The girl explained.
MY Gawd!" responded the other.
Walking all over these hills"
Then she observed some more play
ers on the links in the far distance.
And do they play it away off there,
too?"
"Oh, yes" replied the girl. They
play it all over the place"
We'll" concluded the lazy one, dis
missing the subject with definite final
ity and a shrug of her lovely shout
ders, that's another of those nice
games I'd like to learn don't think. "
N. Y. Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
AGAINST Laborinq Men.

While William H Taft is travelling
about Ohio and elsewhere making fran
tic appeals for the support of laboring
men, his running mate on the Republi-
can ticket, James S. Sherman, is CIV
ing his endorsement to the statement
that labor unions are composed large
ly of anarchists, socialists and dema-
gogues." Mr.. Sherman heard the or
gained wage worker of the country
thus denounced by a trust magnate
who presided at a me- ing where he
spoke, and gave approval of the senti-
ment expressed. When Mr. Sherman
appeared recently at Akron, Ohio, the
meeting which he addressed was pre-
sided over by c. c. Barber, president
of the Diamond Match Company. Mr.
Barber introduced Mr.. Sherman to the
audience. In doing so he made use of
the following language, as stenograph-
ically reported:
zone of the main reasons for the
success of the Diamond Match Com
pany is that its directors HAVE
NEVER TOLERATED UNION LABOR
IN ITS SHOP. THEY HAVE AL
WAYS BEEN OPEN. We have had
no one to dictate to US what wages we
shall pay, what men we shall hire. and
what hours our employees shall work.
LABOR UNIONS TODAY ARE COM
POSED LARGELY OF ANARCHISTS,
SOCIALISTS AND DEMAGOGUES."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
MUCH RICH LAND IN MINDANAo.
Big Island Has Millions of Acres Now
Lying Idle.

Americans have taken the acquisi-
ton of the Philippines as a matter of
fact. The islands are SO far away
and there is so much of pressing inter
est right at hand, that the manner of
arranging our new responsibilities
and discharging our new obligations,
is left absolutely to the government at
Washington, says Army and Navy
Life. How many American people
know, for example, that Mindanao is
a little virgin empire, with millions Of
acres of the richest land in the world,
now idle and fallow, but capable of
enormous production? An American
officer who has just returned from
there calls it the pearl in the gold
en- setting of the archipelago, the
promised land for the toilers in the
east"
A while ago there was circulated
through the islands petition praying
the American people to grant the same
trade privileges to the Philippines
that have been accorded to Porto
Rico, which island, after getting what
she wanted and what she needed,
jumped her export trade with the Uni
ted States from $S,5OO,OOO to $2S,OO0,-
900 and her imports from $9,60O,O00
to $29,000,000 annually! Porto Rico
is only a dot on the map in compari-
son with the Philippine archipelago,
and the benefits accruing to American
consumers of her products are slight
in contrast with those which would
come with the extension of our Gus
toms to include the Philippines.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
FARMERS RESENT COERCION
Resolutions Passed by Indiana Toilers
Condemn Statements of Pres.
ident Sharples Endless


Chain Among Farmers.
Chairman Mack was informed by
wire today that at a meeting of repre-
sentative farmers of Washington town
ship, Marion county, Indiana, the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted, and
it was also agreed to form an endless
chain among the farmers of the coun-
try:
Whereas, The Associated Press has
sent out a statement issued by p NJ
Sharples, president of the Sharples
Separator Company of Westchester
Pa, saying that the hour Bryan is
elected the Sharples works will close
down, and
Whereas, Such statements as this
will intensity the present financial
panic and will also tend to bring on,
if possible, other and greater financial
calamity; therefore, be it
Resolved, That as farmers who have
the good of our country at heart, we
deeply deplore such unwarranted
statements, and believing they are
made for partisan purposes to intimi
date and influence voters, we herewith
denounce all firms making this and
similar announcements, as narrow and
bigoted, and in these times as disloyal
to the best business interests of the
nation, and in as much as the persons
and firms now resorting to these I'M
fair and unpatriotic methods maintain
their businesses by patronage of dem
ocrats as we'll as republicans, we con-
denim these methods as an insult to
any democratic patron which ought to
be, and which we hope will be, re-
sented.
Resolved, That we hereby call upon
the farmers of the nation, irrespective
of party, who believe in fair play, to
unite with us through their organiza-
ton and as individuals, in crushing out
this unwise and indiscreet spirit which
would sacrifice the countrys welfare
for party success. (Signed) Albert
Blue, chairman; Ross S. Ludlow, sec
retarV
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
LIGHTNING Struck His Watch.

Lightning played strange joke on
]. H. Palmer of Kenwood Springs, Mo.
Palmer was sitting at a table with
friend, when there was a heavy clap
of thunder and a binding fash He
saw the cupola of the church across
the street totter and fall.
A streak of fire leaped through the
door and shot across the table. The
friend fell backward and was dazed
When he came to Palmer was laugh
ing at him. 1T never touched me"
he said.
Later he had occasion to look at
his watch. 1t was golden-hued no
longer The lightning had oxidized it,
and it was a dull, Drowned black. The
chain, too, was oxidized, and along
the line where it had touched his
trousers the cloth was brilliant vel
low.-St Louis Dispatch to Philadel-
phia Record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
Like a Roentqen Picture.

As long ago as 1895 Leipsic house
published German novel illustrated
by something closely resembling 8
Roentgen picture. The story tells OF
the Countess Abillinia, who gave hei
heart to the knight Gibello. This
knightly lover was thoughtless enough
to kill his lady loves father, her at
lection turned to hatred, she vowed
to kill him. In dream she saw the
man who had fascinated her, and she
stood, ready to Stay him, when sud,
denly his form changed, and before
her stood a grinning skeleton, saying:
Il have already been punished" This
scene is Illustrated in the old book.
and the picture is not unlike Roent
gen photograph. When it was pub
hshed no one probably would have be
heved that science within a compare
lively short time would make it pos
sible to produce this picture, which
the authors imagination invented.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
GOOD RIGHT TO RECOGNITION.
Chinese Author of "Poetcal Enigmas"
Brother to Browning.

Andrew d. White tells this story of
Robert Browning. The poet one morn
ing, hearing a noise in the street be-
fore his house, went to his window
and saw a great crowd gazing at some
Cinnamon in gorgeous costumes who
were just leaving their carriages to
mount his steps. Presently they were
announced as the Chinese minister at
the court of st. James and his suite.
A solemn presentation having taken
place, Browning said to the interpre-
ter, May l ask to what l am indebted
for the honor of his eXcellency's
visit?" The interpreter replied: His
excellency is a poet in his own coun-
try" Thereupon the two poets shook
hands heartily. Browning then said:
MAY l ask to what branch of poetry
his excellency devotes himself?" To
which the interpreter answered.:
His excellency devotes himself to
poetical enigmas." At this Browning,
recognizing fully the comic element in
the situation, extended his hand most
cordially, saying: His excellency is
thrice welcome; he is a brother in
deed"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

Send II across an occ,tn Inree7 thousand
miles wide than to risk the banks of
this country. l say to you that we
ought to make our banks here so Sc
cure that money will not be driven out
of the United States to find a safe
place of deposit. That money which is
driven to Europe ought to be kept here
and used in the business of this coun-
try. Not only does money go to Eu-
rope, but money goes into hiding, and
this is about the time of year when we
discover some of it. You will see in
the paper every once in a while that
Mrs. So and So for the first time this
fall made a fire and was mortified to
find that her husband, without her
knowledge, had been using it as q
bank. A man in New York said last
fall, when the panic was on, that
billion dollars was in hiding under car
pets. l do not know whether that
estimate is too high or too low, but
know this, that if | were a banker
would be ashamed to have an old rag
carpet running rivalry with me as
safety deposit vault, in time of danger
'If any man says that the banks are
sufficiently secure | will remind him
that there is not a national bank in
the United States that can get dollar
of Uncle Sans money without putting
up security. The state demands Sc
curity; the county demands security;
the city demands security; and each
village demands security; and the fra
ternal orders are now demanding Sc
curity, and believe the time has come
when the farmer, the merchant and
the labOring man should have security
when they put their money in a bank
"In Oklahoma they have had this
plan in operation for now some six
months. I learned of one failure there
and in fOrty-two minutes after the
bank suspended, the man in charge
had an order from the government to
pay every depOsitor in full, and the
business went on without interruption.
And when he telephoned out to the
farmers and said to them, The bank
has suspended, come in and get your
money they answered, We are busy
with the crops now, we will be i'll in a
few days IS it the way you do here
in your state when a bank gets shaky?
Is 1t the way you do when a bank sus-
ponds? No! the very rumor that a
hank is a little uncertain makes a
rush of depositors, and they make it
insolvent whether it was insolvent or
not.
This plan protects the depositors;
It protects the community, and it Is
good for the bank as well.
"a would rather see the banks attend
TO the banking business than to have
it transferred to the government, and
because ! prefer to have the banking
business done by the banks rather than
by the government, | urge the guar
anty of dsocsits as the easiest solution
of our diEicultiss."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
REPUBLICANS HOWL CALAMITY
Seek TO Destroy Public Confidence in
Futile Effort TO Defeat
BRYAN.

Facing inevitable defeat and with a
full knowledge of the fact that Bryt
ans election is as certain as anythlp
reasonably can be in politics, the Re
publicans have been forced TO resort
to the last refuge of political towards
to the calamity howl They are now
engaged in telling the country that
panic and ruin will follow the election
OF Mr.. Bryan. Instead Of being patri-
otto citizens anxious to restore bust
ness confidence confidence which
has been lost under Republican ad-
ministration-to subserye their own
political SELLS purposes they are vain
ly endeavoring to proiong the present
business depression. The question
naturally suggests itself: Why is it
necessary to restore confidence? Why
is it necessary to bring back business
prosperity? What has become of conf
denee, what has become Of prosperity?
Both, under a Republican administra-
ton. have disappeared. Why is an
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

otner nepuoncan administrator neces-
sary to insure a return of confidence
and prosperity?
The very same men who, today, are
going about the country still further
destroying confidence by preaching
calamity. are the men, who, four years
ago said that the Republican party
must e successful in order that there
might De prosperity. The Republican
party was successful, but instead of
bringing prosperity it brought panic,
business depression and commercial
stagnation. Whatever may be said of
the present panic, it cannot be denied
that it is a Republican panic. The
Republican party is in full possession
of the government and must accept
the responsibility. How, then, can a
continuation CT the Republican party in
power cure the evils from which the
business community and the laboring
man now suffer? Let the Republicans
howl about their own panic, and not
make false predictions about what will
happen under a Democratic admins
tration. They predicted prosperity
four years ago, and proven false pro-
phets. Why, then, should any sane
man accept their premonitions now
when they say that Bryan's election
would bring business troubles. Bust
ness troubles are already here. What
business men want is a cure for them,
not prolongation of the disease by
the same sort of treatment which has
produced the ailment.
Because business men and laboring
men both know that a Republican ad-
ministration has produced panic, they
will not be deceived again by these
false cries of Republican calamity
howlers. They know that William
Jennings Bryan is an honest man; they
know that he will give the public an
honest administration. They know that
The calamity howl is for the sole pur-
Of INon-fiAn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

THE GREAT EXPLAINER.

Here is a copy of poster, headed
"Laboring Men-Attention!" which has
been circulated in advance of Judge
Tafts appearance in a number OF
cities:
Come out and hear
HON. WILLIAM n. TAFT
Republican candidate for President.
HE WILL EXPLAIN
how he secured his appointment
as United States Judge through
the influence of Senator Foraker,
the attorney of the Standard Oil
company.
HE WILL EXPLAIN
why, as United States judge, he
put railroad men and mechanics
in Jail by means of his INJUNC-
TON process.
HE WILL EXPLAIN
why he is opposed to giving the
laboring man trial by jury
HE WILL EXPLAIN
to you why the capitalistic class
and the trusts and the syndi
Gates of Wall street are support
ing him, while the laboring men
are opposing him, almost to a
man.
By Order of the Committee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
A University In PoITtIcs.

Josephus Daniels. chairman of the
Democratic publicity bureau. com
mented as follows on the appearance
of Prof J. Laurence Laughlin of the
University of Chicago as stump
speaker attacking the guaranty OF
bank deposits:
at is not surprising" said he. ito
see a professor of the University OF
Chicago on the stump opposing a
measure so beneficial to the poor man
as the guaranty of bank deposits. John
D. Rockefeller and the other Standard
OIL manufacturers can not be expected
to favor Mr.. Bryan's plans.
Doubtless Mr.. Rockefeller has com
municated TO the university which his
money supports and has indicated that
ne would be gratified TO have the uni
versity do effective work for the can
diiate he favors in this campaign"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
Where Rnnets Flew.

David Parker, of Fayette, n Y, a
veteran in the civil war, who lost a foot
at Gettysburg, says: The good
Electric Bitters have done is worth
more than FIVE hundred dollars TO me.
/ spent much money doctoring for a
bad case of stomach trouble, to little
purpose. then tried Electric Bitters,
and they cured me. | now take them
as a tonic, and they keep me strong and
we'll" soc at ". W Albers' drug store.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
The Silk\Norm.

The silkworm, which spins or pro
duces silk threads, was a native OF
China. For thousands of years the
Chinese would not allow the eggs OF
The silkworm to go out of the country
About $50, two monks are said to have
brought to Europe a few eggs hidden
in their canes. Now it is quite domes
ticated and has been so long fed by
man that the female is as nearly mo
tionless as if she had no wings, and
the male merely flutters without leav
ing the ground.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
PRESBYTERIAN.

Preaching at 1890 m, and 7'8O p IN, Sunday.
Sunday School at IL III
YPSC Il meeting at $50 d m
Intermediate p 3 L. meeting, $50 IN
Junior p 3 G. meeting at 300 D IN
Sunday school at west side chapel every Sun
dayat 500 o. clock.
Sunday school at the Hull Memorial Chapel
every Sunday afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 7:80.
cordial invitation is extended to all services
and privileges.
The Ladies' Aid Society meets Wednesday
after moon ia the church parlors. Mesdames W.
c. Landon and Ray. Charter will entertain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

But for the blessed Dingley tariff
>erican newspapers could buy news
at paper in Canada for s175. On
mis- side they are paying all the way
from s235 to $3.50 Canadian paper is
as good as the domestic product and
the labor employed in making it is as
well paid as that on this side the
border-Johnstown Democrat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
sTRkUS GIVES REASONS
The New York Merchant and Phi,
lanthropist Declares Election of
Bryan Means Business


Prosperity.
Nathan Straus, the great New YorJ
merchant and philanthropist, in an.
nouncing his reasons for supporting
Mr.. Bryan, said:
81 feel sure that he will be elected,
and say, as business man, one who
is as much interested perhaps as any,
in the general prosperity of the coua-
try, as one who is bound to feel per-
sonaliy any lack of prosperity among
the masses, that | believe his election
will be benefit to all the country,
and to all of the people. Those that
talk otherwise, those that predict panic
and disaster, as the result of the eiec-
ton OF an honest man, chosen by an
honest majority of the people, are mar
row minded ard short-sighted, or pre-
tend TO believe that which they know
is not true, or they are seeking to OBJ
scure the real and vital issues of the
campaign. Mr.. Bryan will make a
safe, reliable, conscientious president,
a president for all of the people, the
rich and the poor, the big man and
the little. He will represent the
American people, not any class, and
for that reason ! shall work for him
until election and vote for him on
election day."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

We have the only abstract of Mara
thon county. We have a thoroughly
qualified abstractor and make abstracts
at reasonable prices. We are respons-
ible for all abstracts made by us and
guarantee that they show the condition
Of the title properly as it appears on
record.
An abstract of title is useful if you
desire to sell or mortgage your prop
erty. and is very valuable in ascertain
ing defects in your title that can be
easily remedied and yet might be suf-
ficient to spoil sale. If you desire an
abstract of the title to your property,
call and see us.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

SPECIAL INTERESTS VERSA
EQUAL RIGHTS.

In every utterance and every
, has shown great concern for the
welfare of the TRUSTS and SPE-
D CIAL INTERESTS.
, He is afraid that the guaranty
; of bank deposits will be a burden
on few big bankers. That thou
! sands of small depositors may lose
D everything does not worry him.
! He is afraid that a reduction of
. the tariff may hurt protected In
dustries. He does not worry for
) the consumer, who bears the bur-
, den of the heavy tax.
He is afraid to oppose the
> TRUSTS, for he considers them
; benefit. He does not mind the
) extortion they practice upon the
, public.
. He is opposed TO jury trial in
, contempt and Injunction cases be-
J cause the SPECIAL INTERESTS
) want the unfair injunction process
, continued. The Father of the
! Injunction does not worry be-
CAUSE TIC iGDOt CT may tlOl SCk
: square deal.
. The Republican candidate be-
: Iieyes in an income tax only when
. the present oppressive means of
> taxation fail to furnish enough
! revenue. In other words, he be-
. Iieves that the wealthy should not
: be taxed until the resources of the
. masses are exhausted. Not a word
2 from Mr.. Taft because the masses
; bear an unjust share of the burden
. of taxation.
: MIR. Taft stands for the favored
. FEW and SPECIAL INTERESTS.
: Mr.. Bryan stands for the PEo-
. PIE as opposed to the INTER
. ESTS.
: Mr.. Taft stands for PLuToc-
. RACY as opposed to DEMoc-
: RAcY.
. Mr.. Bryan stands for EQUAL
. RIGHTS as opposed to SPECIAL
. PRIVILEGES.
. WITH WHICH DO YOU,
: STAND?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
EMPLOYEES VS.. Mr..
TAFT.

. The Brotherhood of Locomotive
. Engineers journal, in May, 1898,
: said: Judge Taft's decision pro-
claims members of the 3. of L. E.
band of conspirators."
Q Also, 1--WE can not accept Judge
. Taft's decision in any other light
3 than treason to republican institu-
. tons and the liberties of the peo-
= Pile. 1t is, will be, and ought to be
. denounced and repudiated by all
. liberty loving men,"
. The impudent false
hood that trusts and monopoIies
= cheaper products and benefit the
Q consumer is disproved by the fact
. that the price of commodities con-
. troIled by these monsters has been
. arbitrarily increased for no cause
= except to pay dividends on ficti-
. tious capital by methods that
: make larceny respectable.
. Ex-senator John j. Ingalls,.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

Services-Sunday, Preaching at 1890 a. M and
1870 p, IN.
Sunday School at ~ m.
Junior Society at 800 p. m.
Prayer Service, Thursdays at 1880 p m.
Seats free.
Ladies' Aid and Missionary Societies, Wednes-
days at 2:30 p. IN.
The Ladies' Aid Society meets Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. 8. b. Tobey.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
CHURCH ITEMS.
FIRST oHuRoH OF CHRIST. soIENrIsT

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST.
On Mcclellan Street, between Second and Third
Streets
Services: Sunday, lO;45 a. M; Sunday School
II M Wednesday Evening. Testimonial Meet
ing 7:45.
Reading Room, $40 Third street, Rohde block,
op ID daily, except Sundays and legal holidays,
from a. m. to p. m, and Tuesday and Satur-
day evenings from to 8.
Subject of lesson sermon for next Sunday,
Everlasting Punishment"