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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
DIPLOMATS PICKED BY TAFT.
Ambassadors, Ministers and Secre-
taries of Legation Selected

taries of Legation Selected.
President Taft on Monday sent to
the Senate the following nominations
of ambassadors and ministers:
Robert Bacon of New York. ambas-
sador to France.
Richard e. Kerens of Missouri, am
bassador to Austria Hungary.
Henry Lane Wilson of Washington,
ambassador to Mexico.
Charles Page Bryan of Illinois. min
lister to Belgium.
William James Calhoun of Illinois.
minister to China
Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania,
minister to Chile.
Henry T. Gage of California, minis
ter to Portugal.
r. s. Reynolds Hit of Illinois, min
lister to Panama.
John B. Jackson of New Jersey. min
lister to Cuba.
Fenton r. McCreery of Michigan,
minister to Honduras.
Edwin V. Morgan of New York, min
lister to Paraguay.
Laurits S. Swenson of Minnesota,
minister to Switzerland.
Charles w. Russell of the District
of Columbia, minister to Persia.
Horace G. Knowles of Delaware,
minister and consul general to the Do
minican republic
1t was said at the White House
that no decision has yet been reached
with regard to the post of Great Brit.
ain. now filled by Whitelaw Reid.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Too Many Tax-Eaters.

During the term of Theodore Roose-
Welt as President 99.319 names were
added to the pay roll of the national
civil service. increasing the salary list
SIS. 81, sos ~ Afeg- annum
During the six years Immediately
precedi=g his inauguration the total
increase of civil service employees num-
bered 1929. at an annual cost OF
ss,0,s.4I7.3s.
Tie Roosevelt extravaganza which
left the White House mortgaged by q
deficit Of many millions has not abat-
ed. In 1907 the civil list totaled 306,-
lsI. In 1908 it reached 627 .s12. To-
day it has grown to 370.0s5.
The increase Of $4,000 in two years
Is at the rate Of almost 20 per cent
If this continues for ten years. the
people OF the United States viii sup
port more than $4,000 civil servants.
TIE average annual pay of each civil
service emplOye to-day Is $1,000. II
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
CONVICTED OF SUGAR FRAUDS
All Trust Employees Except Bender
nagel Are Found Guilty.

The Federal jury, before whom six
of the employees of the Sugar Trust
have been on trial in New York for
sugar weighing frauds, returned YER
dict as follows: Guilty as charged:
oliver Splitter, dock superintendent at
the Williamsburg refinery plant of the
American Sugar Refining Company;
Thomas Kehoe, sugar trust weigher;
John R. Coyle, sugar trust weigher;
Edward A. Boyle, sugar trust weigh
er; Patrick Hennessy, sugar trust
checker. The jury disagreed as to the
guilt of James F. Bendernagel, cash
Ter of the Williamsburg plant of the
American Sugar Refining Company
who was charged with passing brides
to government weighers. The verdict
was accompanied by recommendations
Of the mercy of the court for the five
who were found guilty. Together with
Jean NJ Voelker, who was too serious
ly i'll to stand trial at this time. they
were known as the big Six" and all
were charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States government
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Useful studies.

In a recent discussion of illiterates,
William H. Maxwell, the superintend-
ent of New York public schools,
quoted an amusing letter. This letter,
sent to one of Superintendent Max.
wells Brooklyn teachers, ran:
Friend teacher, do not disire for
Claire shall ingage in Grammer, as
l prefer her ingageing in yuseful
studies, as can learn her how to
spoke and write correctly myself.
have went through two grammers and
they have done no good. PREFER her
ingageing in French and drawing and
vokal music on the pianna. Wash
ington Star
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

out bond issues for current expenses,
in spite of the revenue-killing Aldrich
tariff
Especially acceptable is the intima-
ton that President Taft intends to
construe literally the maximum and
minimum provisions of the new tariff
law, so as to avoid if possible, trade
wars with countries that are injured
by the prohibitive rates of the Aldrich
law, In spite of the bad condition that
the law has already produced in the
trade relations between this country
and Canada, the country will wait pa
tiently to see what can be done toward
averting similar trade troubles with
Germany and France.
The Presidents objection to congress
sional investigation of the sugar trust,
on the ground that it might give i'm
munity to some of the men higher up
in that offending monopoly, would be
received with greater confidence if the
Department of Justice had already
manifested zeal in pursuit of the sugar
officials responsible for the bribery and
theft that have been made notorious.
A rortion of the message that will
attract wide attention is that in which
the President reminds the Republican
Congress of the Chicago platforms
pledge for a law forbidding, except in
emergencies, the issue by the federal
courts of injunctions, temporary or
permanent. without notice to the par
ties against whom the injunction is
sought. Litigants, especially the lead
ers of labor organizations, will await
with solicitude the action of Congress
on this recommendation.
The smile comes involuntarily in
reading of the safeguards which the
President would throw around the
drafting of the organic law for the
coming states of Arizona and New
Mexico. In his opinion the sum of all
evil is contained in the Oklahoma con-
stitution, which lhe people of that
commonwealth, b. overwhelming vote,
refused to rsject in accordance with
his earnest advice, and hostility to any
state constitution like that has be-
come almost second nature with the
author of the message.
What is said about postage, postal
banks and ship subsidy may be COM
mented upon separately. On the whole.
the President does well to postpone
for special messages, to be delivered
later. the knotry problems of the Sher-
man antitrust law, the Interstate Com
merce Commission and the conserve
ton of natural resources, including The
interminable row between BaIinger
and Pinchot.-St Louis Republic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
MADRIz is PRESIDENT.

ZeIaya's Candidate liz gnanimOusIy
Elected by Nicaraguan Con gress.
DR.. Jose MadriZ, former judge OF the
Central American court Of justice at
Cartago and Zelaya's candidate. has
been elected president Of Nicaragua
by the unanimous vote of Congress.
The session was stormy one. but
there seemed to be perfect unanimity
with regard to the election OF Madriz
ap1 when the official announcement
vas made there were vociferous cheer.
ing and cries Of viva Madriz, viva
Leon" Down with monopolies."
Down with tyranny" Long live the
constitution"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
what the People Demand.

The question which this Congress
must answer is whether there shall
be progress in conservation or broader
license given to exploitation. For the
purpose of the followers of AIdrich
and Cannon is plain, even while they
tickle the ear of the President with
promises of loyalty to his pure and
public-spirited desires.
They will give lip service to his
best recommendations Some they
will delude him into postponing. Some
they will ignore. And some they will
distort into legislation that will de.
feat the purposes they profess willing
ness to promote
The revelations of sugar trust in.
EQUITY and the Standard Oil decision
of the Federal Court may cause the
leaders of reaction to do little more
than permit the passage of the appro-
priations bills during this season
fooling the people meanwhile with
some of the invariably futile Congress
sional investigations and postponing
all else until after next falls cleo
tions.
But, however long deferred, the pur-
pose of the forces of reaction and ex-
ploitation will remain unaltered to
proceed with schemes of legislation to
increase the power of the great finan-
cial and industrial organizations and
render them immune from interfer-
ence by the general government. the
crowning feature of the great reac-
tionary program to be the Aldrtch cur
rency and banking scheme.
Against these forces the country
looks to the President for leadership.
And by that leadership the country
will Judge Taft and the Republican
party 1t will not avail him to sub
nit good recommendations to a Con-
gress run by Aldrich and Cannon and
then stand aloof The American peo-
pie demand government, and not es-
says on government, from the occu-
pant of the white house.-Philadelph
North American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
The Presidents message


The one sensation in President Taft's
first annual message is its sharp con,
trast to the stormy epistles which his
predecessor was wont, at short inter
walls, to send to the Congress and
through it to the country. With its
dull talk about fisheries treaties, unim-
portant boundary conventions. Liberia.
the Congo Free State, patent conven-
tions, Spitzbergen, the Chinese opium
trade and reorganization of the State
Department, the message begins as a
soporific and develops into a cold and
practical discussion of the country's
affairs.
There is nothing new in what the
President says about the necessity for
economy in every branch of the gov
eminent, but there is announcement
in the prospect he holds out that by
the economies he recommends and paw
ment for the Panama Canal by bonds
the government may pull through with
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
TWO SISTERS DEAD; sUIcIDEg
One Recluse Is Found Hanged,
Other with Hatpin Near Heart.

Other with Hatpin Near Heart.
Two aged spinster sisters, Frances
and Isabel Richie, were found dead
in their home in Newark, n. j., under
most mysterious circumstances.
The sisters had lived quietly and
alone for the past twenty years in the
same house. Their source of income
was as mysterious as their secluded
life, but they kept their house in order
and paid their bills regularly. The
elder woman, Frances. was 56 years
old; the sister few years her junior.
Frances was found dead, lying on
the floor, while the body of the sister
dangled from a piece of clothesline
made fast above door leading from
the dining-room to the kitchen. The
first indications were that Frances had
died from natural causes and that Isa-
bel had hanged herself in a paroxysm
of grief. This theory was dispelled
when small box was found in the
dining room, on the cover of which
had been written these words:
Frances hung herself at 25a Sat. Me
too"
This led to the belief that the two
old women had carried out suicide
pact, Frances hanging herself first and
the body being cut down by the sis
ter. But further investigation brought
to light more grewsome details. I'm
derneath her clothing and sticking in
the breast of Frances was hatpin,
buried in the flesh up to its black
head. The pin had been driven close
to the heart to depth of about four
inches. Similar wounds, but of not
such a serious nature, were found on
the other body, which leads to the be-
lief that the sisters may have quar-
relied and fought.
Whether Frances deliberately hanged
her sister, then killed herself with the
hatpin, or whether the sister found
hanging stabbed the other and then
ended her life will perhaps never be
known. The hands of the body on the
floor were carefully crossed and the
head rested on a sofa cushion.
There is a possibility that both were
murdered. but the house shows no
trace of having been entered by
strangers. The women had lived alone
since the death of their mother. more
than fifteen years ago, with a large
dog as their sole companion. Recently
the dog died, and since that time the
women had been respondent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

effort that may be made by Republic
cans of independence and spirit to
make the House representative of the
people.
Searching investigation of the Sug
ar Trust and of the entire custom.
house service should be urgently in.
sisted upon by the Democrats in both
houses. Recent revelations of corrup-
ton in the customs houses and OF
frauds by which the treasury has lost
millions of dollars make this inquiry
an imperative duty-St. Louis Re
public.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

that figure is not exceeded the pay roll
for the 100000 civil service employees
we may expect in 1920. if Republican
rule continues, will be in excess of one
billion dollars per annum.
| There are too many tax-eaters. The
first duty of Congress is to cut down
the army of oficeholders.
easy Money! Trusts.
1t is significant that all the big
frauds against the government are
traceable to highly protected" trusts.
In fact, the more highly protected
is the trust and the more colossal its
profits the more trouble it seems to
give the governments Investigators.
Easy money seems TO breed an insati-
ate greed for more money. When it
is corporate greed the laws of the
country are Knocked at, because cor
porations can not go to jail.
The sugar trust, seeped in ''protec-
ton" to the limit. is caught short
weighing the government by methods
that the average Dick Turpin or Jesse
James would hold in contempt The
Standard Oil trust is convicted of Sc.
cret rebates, in defiance of law and
criminal restraint of traie.
Corporations have no consciences,
we are told. Our Jurisprudence has
not yet progressed to the stage where
directors of powerful corporations are
made to expiate in prison the crimes
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
pevil Fish of Great Sire,

Devil fish Weighing up to 200 pounds
are sometimes caught in Japan. These
fish are amphibious: they are often
seen webbing on t,.eir tentacles like
sweet potatoes The natives kill them
with clubs. In the water they are
caught in jars lowered to the bottom,
which the octopus enters thinking
them a good retreat from which to
catch its food
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Natural Prosres.ion.

Mrs. McCall-How about your serv-
you complained about her being so
very slow.
Mrs. Hiram Offen-Oh, she's pro-
crossing.
Mrs. McCali--Indeed?
Mrs. Hiram Offen-Yes, she's getting
slower and siower-Catholic Standard
and Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
CHAPTER II


1t was in the autumn of the year ga.
as l was coming of age. that my father
made ready to send me to England
Himself conscience exile from Epis-
ccpal Virginia. and a descendant of
those Nottingham Iretons whose best
known son fought stoutly against
Church and King under Oliver Crom-
well. he was yet willing to humor my
bent and to use the Interest of nv
mothers family to enter me in the
kings service.
Accordingly I took ship. and.
after a stormy passage and over
much waiting as my cousins guest
in Lincolnshire. had my pair OF colors
in the Scots Blues. lately home from
garrison duty in the Canadas
OF the life in barracks OF a young
ensign with little wit and less wisdom.
than was good for him. the less said
the better. 1t was in this barrack life
that came TO know Richard Clover
dale and his evil genius. the man Fran
els Falconnet. Cloverdale was an en-
sign In my own regiment. and we were
sworn frierds from the first His was
a clean soul and a brave.
AS for FaIconnet. lie was even then
a ruffler and g bully. Though he was
not of the army. He was q younger
son. and at that time there were two
lives between him AID Che haronetcy;
but with a mothers heQueathings TO
purchase idleness and to gid his In
EQUITIES. he was a fair example of a
gamester He was brave as tiger is
brave. and to the full as pitiless He
was a boon companion OF the officers
mess; and for time-and purpose
posed as Coverdale's friend. and mine.
Since 1 would not tell my poor Dick
story to Richard Jennifer. 1 may not
set II down in cold words here for you.
II was the age-old tragic comedy OF a
false friends treachery and a woInan's
weakness: q duel, and the wrong man
slain. And you may know this: that
Faleonnet's most merciful role in II
was the part he played one chill No
vember morning when he put Richard
Coverdsle TO the wall and ran him
through.
AS YOU have guessed. I was Cover
dale's next friend and second in this
affair. and but for the upsetting news
OF TIE Tryon tyranny In Carolina,
should there and then have called the
slayer 10 his account
/ had no heart TO continue in the
service Of a king who could sanction
and reward such villalnies as those OF
the butcher William Tryon- 50 I. threw
M my ieutenant's COMM ssion in the
Blues, took ship for the Continent. and
after wearing some half-doxen uni
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Punish the Sugar Thieves.


Criminal conspiracy of the sugar
trust, Republican politicians and Re
publican government officials to de-
fraud the customs department ia adj.
mitted. Speedy punishment of the
trust and every individual implicated
in its stealings is imperative.
Fine words butter no parsnips. AR.
rests, prosecutions and convictions are
what the people demand They are
not content with Washington dis.
patches in which administration or.
gans relate the eagerness of the Taft
cabinet to punish the sugar thieves.
They insist on action.
In the first place, the public is en-
titled to know whether the sugar
smuggling conspiracy originated with
trust officials or with government Off
cials.
In the second place, the compromise
verdict last spring should be thor
oughly ventilated, so that the public
may know by whose authority the
sugar thieves were let off with a re-
fund of s2,OOO,0O0 after United States
Attorney Stimson had declared that a
penalty of s65,0OO.0O0 should be col
lected from the trust
Sugar trust lawyers make no secret
of their boast that the trust was given
a clean bill of health dating back to
1894 by the verdict of last April. Nor
did they conceal at that time their
rejoicing about great victory over
the government.
The Taft administration cannot af-
ford to delay for one day prosecu-
ton of sugar trust Chicago
Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
k,,Iea Nv aotIer ExpIo.Ion.

David Hines and Daniel Abraham
we're killed when boiler at the plant
If the Robison-Clay Product Company.
In New philadelphia. Ohio. blew out.
Parts of Kinds body were blown an
sighth Of a mile away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
That Real Estate Agent.

House-hunter- Seems to me this
house isn't very well built The floor
shakes when we WALK.
Agent-Um-y-e-s that's the new
kind Of spring floor for dancing, you
know
Househunter - And these stairs
creak terribly.
Agent-T-e-s; we furnish this new
paent burglar alarm staircase with
out extra eharge-LesIie' Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
ReJeca Ixansa. city franchise

The extension Of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company franchise
was overwhelmingly defeated By the
voters OF Kansas City at the special
election. The result OF the election
means that Kansas City viii continue
10 pay scent fares for the next SIX.
teen years. at which time the com
pany's franchise expires.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

and then 1 took two strides to front
him fairly.
"Sir Francis Falconnet. you are
foul-lipped blackguard." / said; and,
lest that should not he enough. smote
him in the face so that he fell like an
OK in the shambles-
ITO be continued.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
And 1t surely Is.

Teacher was telling her class little
stories in natural history. and she
asked II anyone could tell her what a
grounding was. Up went little hand.
waving frantically.
Well. Carl, you may tell US what
3 grounding is"
Please, ma'am. it's sausage
Everybody's Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
1--WE Strive 20 Please

Customer heard you tell your last
customer that this weather would last
another week. Do you thing it viii.
really?
Barber-No. don't, but he's a very
good customer here-F7iegende Blaet-
ter
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
their respective corporations

OF their respective corporations
But the point to be chiefly remem-
bered is that so-called protection" is
breeder of crime. The history of
American trusts proves it beyond
cavil.
Protection itself, according to the
economists, is morally unsound. How
can we expect those who riot in the
easy money" of protective tariffs to
obey the moral law?
Some day the American people will
make no distinction between conspira.
tors who steal millions from the gov.
eminent and the ordinary porch climb
er or pickpocket.
And to lessen the crop of trust
criminals the people will wipe out the
protection" farce and adjust the
tariff to the country's real needs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Jacks Escape.
she married Jim. chr

$50 she married Jim. eh?"
Yep
why, when I left here she was lg.
orally throwing herself at the head Of
Jack
well, you know what poor aim a
woman has. Houston Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
charge Aged Woman Win Crime.

Detectives arrested Mrs. Sarah Hig-
gins, an aged woman Of Portsmouth,
Ohio, on a charge OF being accessory
to the murder last summer Of William
Culbertson, & ticket seller In the rail-
ruad station at South Portsmouth. KY.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Miss Moonlite-Er-let me hold the
reins. please
Mr.. BashphuI-Whaf win do, them
Mss Moonlite- You might hold the
holder OF the reins.- Boston Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
bank Robber~ c~f $1,000.

Robbers dynamited the vault or the
,ank Of Exeter (caI) and secured
s.. 900 in cash.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Though money talks. It's safe TO bet,
Wha<e'zf It has 10 say.
It nev,r has been known. rs yet
To g-e itself away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
ell,
Have those explorers any eyewit-

nessesT
1T depends" answered Miss Cay
enae, ~on how you spell it. Their
testimony Is chiefly of the first person
singular "--Washington Star.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-09-15
THE ONION, LONG DESPISED, A
NEAR FRUIT IF COOKED RIGHT

doesn't possible
human since sire them
tables
We have come To appreciate the nusre
and prise also for the seasoning which nothing supplies
Onion juice 10 Indispensable the
and u adds much Co tbs stufilns and lamb
luncheon composed OF
seasoned and covered with . for = kiax
Stuffed rived With
large onions In aled water until carefully
cold the
them third OF their quantity OF minced ham Moissen
and the beaten yok 81
this btu Of In
battered bake DISH little
20 minutes Uncover sprinkle
Onion cusard II really delicious
onions tendar In drain
Thicker pn Of hot milk with OF
smooth With two teaspoons butter and gradually
beaten stirring Gil
the onions. Bake until eussard ia
Those who like cheese
large onions into thick slices ard
bake
grated cheese and bits Of butter and brown
then
but dislike the odor will ada
onions sailed 10 boil an
covered there will little
Rinse the mouth thoroughly With
which three Of
perfectly free from the odor
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-09-15
MAINLY ABOUT
WOMEN

Don't take IL for granted that a
man II In iowa With you before he
tells you so. 30 many girls make
that mistake. and In their anxiety to
show that the Affection In recipro-
Gated. thinking In that way to
bring him TO an open confession.
they spoil every chance they might
have had Of winning II.
When a man IL In love he will
out with II sooner or later. He
may be long in declaring HE love
for several reasons: probably he
feels his present financial position
does not warrant his doing so. or
he may he overwhelmed for the
time being with an extreme shy
ness and feeling Of utter lgnor-
ance as 10 how to proceed In such
matters That win wear off. how
svsr. a. his love increases, which
It IA bound to do II IL be true. No
sensible man ever yet lost a chance
Of winning woman merely
through being too shy TO tell her
OF his love.