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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

"She's such an impolite child"
'Impolite?"
yes, and impudent. She is always
correcting the pronunciation of persons
older than herself"
But isn't she generally right?"
Yes, but that makes it all the more
disagreeable, you know"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
restrained by PoIiteness.

Prisoner, nave you any reasons to
present why the sentence of the court
should not be pronounced upon your
mo. your honor. l feel as If I
should like TO say a few words about
the defense my lawyer put up for me,
but there are ladies present; you can
go ahead with the sentence, your hon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
In Other Words

yes, yes; l know McJeliff quite
well. He maintains public nuisance"
why, the worst thing 1 ever heard
charged against him is that he's a
glutton; he does nothing but eat and
drink"
We'll. blame you. that's what
meant"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Instructive Little story.

Truth was lying at the bottom of a
well.
Il like it down here" said Truth;
the waters fine"
But nobody paid any attention.
Whereupon Truth, Disguised applied
a short and ugly word to itself and
kicked the bucket.-Chicago Tribune
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

What do you understand asked
the teacher. by the 'whirligig of time
bringing in its revenges'f"
Taking a ride around the elevated
loop during the rush hour" answered
the young man with the bad eye.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Harmless Hop.

He Is not old, he is not young,
The Chinese laundryman. Hop Lung,
The yellowed cheek. the slanting eye,
The humble nose, the cheekbone high,
The cheerful face. the willing hand,
That serves the proudest in the land
His back yard you may scan with
care;
No dirty linen airing therei
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

about the size Of your Shoes many people
wear smaller shoes by using Aliens Foot
Ease the Antlseptic Powder to shake into
the shoes. II cures Tired, Swollen, Ach-
ing Feet and gives rest and comfort Just
the thing for patent leather shoes. Sold
everywhere, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen S. Olmsted. lie Roy. y. I.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

DR.. Blunt's $50. 900 Rheumatic Rene
dy gives quick relief and is a perma-
nent cure for Rheumatism. Why suf-
fer? Send for free sample to-day. A.
l.. Blunt. M. D., $50 State ST.. Chicago
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

80, I'm Vox Populil" he said,
With loud and far resounding cry;
And back across the valley sped
The answering echo: Pop, you lie!'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
sos

(By a prejudiced contributor.)
do not like thee. DIR. -
| thought / did, but I mis-.
Thou'rt sure. methinks, to get the
do not like thee. DR.. -
Chicago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Natural Mistake.

Caller-What like about your fiat
is It's fine large closets
Mrs. Wrenter-I beg your pardon.
fut-er-you've been looking at the
oedrooms.-Chicago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

During a brief session the Senate
adopted a resolution by Senator Cul'
lom calling on the Secretary of the In
terror for information respecting min
ing disasters and facilities of the gov
eminent for rendering aid in such dis
asters. Adjourned at lis until Mon
day. The House DEVOTED five hours to
the District of Columbia Appropriation
bill, carrying $10,156,473 for 1911, Mr..
Hitchcock of Nebraska in a speech de-
manded a congressional investigation
of the general land office. He attack
ed Secretary Ballinger in connection
with the so-called Cunningham coal
land cases.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Here md There.

A man was waiting patiently for
street car the other day at a transfer
station, says the Boston Record, when
woman, highly excited, rushed up to
him. and cried, Are you the man
here?"
Il don't understand" he said.
Are you the man here?' she re-
peated.
mo, madam he said, concealing
smile. THE man here is that man
over there"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
HAD Tbinrs Coming.

THE world owes every man liv-
ing"
IF that's true the worlds been let
ting my account run a disgracefully
long time."-Cleveland Leader.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

The Senate Tuesday adopted a reso-
luton by Mr.. Flint calling for all the
papers in the Ballinger-Pinchot case,
and thus put in motion an inquiry into
that controversy. After some debate
adjournment was taken to Jan. 4. In
a ten-minute session Mr.. Mann report
ed to the House his bill for the sup
preston of the white slave traffic and
Mr.. Richardson filed minority report
against Mr.. Mann's bill for the reor-
ganization of the government of the
Isthmus of Panama The House adj
journed to Jan. 4.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
comprehensive Charge.

"An cheese is spoiled" remarked the
vegetarian boarder; but some kinds
are worse spoiled than others"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
On. Of The AssimiIators.

Stranger-What do you do with the
vast swarms Of immigrants that land
on your shores every Year,
Prominent Gothamite-We don't
have amy throubie. sor. in assimylat-
in Thin
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
No. an Asset.

Crusty Artist-That picture gives
YOU better impression, madam, if you
look at it from proper distance,
Mrs. Chillicon- Kearney-I hardly
think so. Distance can only-er-lend
enchantment. you know.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

II is proved by ancient carvings I'M
earthed in Egypt that the bellows were
in use for forcing fires in the fifteenth
century r. G.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Straight or BETTER,

What do you mean by the glad
hand?"
Anything" answered Mr.. Bloochips.
"that will beat three of a kind
Washington Star
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Norwegian sardines are entering the
United States to the value of nearly
100000 year, a more than three
fold increase in only two years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

It's the judgment Of many smokers
that Lewi5' Single Binder SC cigar
equals in quality most 10c cigars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Greece has a beet sugar factory
turning out twenty tons a day. Sugar
retaiIs in Greece at II cents pound
The import duty is 5 cents a pound
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
The Week
in Congress


There was no session Wednesday of
railroads to make full monthly reports
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and a measure giving the commits
sion power to compel railroads TO pro-
vide uniform equipment for their cars,
were passed by the House. Opposition
developed to the section of the Esch
bill prohibiting the use In any action
brought for damages of the reports
furnished by the railroads. Chairman
Mann urged that the section be al
loved to remain in the bill as an en-
courSgement to the railroads TO give
the commission the fullest information
Of accidents. All amendments to the
section were defeated. The measure
becomes effective at once. The Mann
Panama Canal bill was reported by the
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce and was the subject OF gen
eral debate. The provision for abol-
ishment of the Isthmian Canal Com
mission and the Capitalization of re
sponsibility for the construction of the
canal and the government of the canal
zone under the President. in director
general, aroused opposition. Mr. Har-
rison, of New York, charged that for
mer President Roosevelt had usurped
authority in the canal zone he did
not possess. Mr.. Olmstead, of Penn
sylvania, and Mr.. M2nn defended Mr..
Roosevelt. Mr.. Sterling, of Illinois,
and Mr.. Parker. of New Jersey, at
tackled the section of the bill relating
to the judicial power in the zone. The
reading of the bill was begun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
gS2f7yjI1lg5!aiISis9G
G]gsgg0EZ||!EI!!.;j|=;!;=5!;;!:!;;l'

Not counting the estimates for car
rying on the Panama Canal work, the
annual report of Secretary of the
Treasury McVeagh anticipates sur
plus of $35,931,32 next year. But, with
the Panama bill paid, there may be
deficit of $12,192,197. The total ordi-
nary receipts for 1910 are estimated at
s64S, 900, 900, of which S335,000,000 will
come from customs, s253,0O0,000 from
internal revenue and $15,000,000 from
the corporation tax and S45,O0O,OOO
from miscellaneous sources For 1911
the receipts will be $672,000,O00. Re-
auctions in the present estimates have
been made by improved handling and
postponement of unnecessary work.
-
The national reclamation act was
passed in 1902. At that time there
were in the governments name in the
sixteen States affected 100000 acres of
arid land of which it was estimated
possible to reclaim sufficient to sup
port 100000 people. BY 1911 the
reclamation service will have reclaim
ed 100000 acres, at an estimated cost
of $4,000, 00O There are 100000
acres of arid land susceptible 10 re-
clamation by irrigation.
-:
Standard examinations for all posi-
lions of physicians in the classified SER
vice have been established by the civil
service commission in place of the diff
ferent standards set up by the various
departments.
-:
There are 2S,947 persons in the fed
eral employ at Washington, the annual
payroll for them being s31,541,2 25, an
average of nearly $1,1oo each.
President Taft on the suggestion OF
Secretary Knox, has issued an order
which has the virtual effect of putting
the foreign service below the rank OF
minister under the civil service reform
rules. Applicants for all such places
must pass an examination, and when
once in the service their promotion will
be according to an established sched-
ule. The object is to be sure of suita-
Bile men. and then make their tenure
practically permanent, so that they
can acquire efficiency
-:
Two new battle ships and one repair
ship constitutes the modest request of
Secretary Meyer for the next years
naval construction PROGRAM in his
first report The 1wo asked for win
complete the squadron OF eight of the
Dreadnought type. Meyer favors hay
ing the new ships built in private
yards under contract, not only be-
cause these industries should be en-
couraged. but because construction
work is done more economically in pri-
vate Yards than at the government
Yards The estimates for the year are
10000. 900 less than the total appro-
priated for 1910.
The post OF director OF consular SER
vice has been created by Secretary Of
State Knox and Chief Clerk Wilbur ].
Carr was appointed to the place. He
has also established a division OF the
Near East. with Charles F. Wilson at
its head.
According 10 the annual report Of
the commissioner OF internal revenue.
the receipts from taxes on whisky were
$5.5ss.3s1 less during the fiscal year Of
1868 than in the preceding year, and on
ales and beers s.. 444.1S5 less
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Or. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regu-
late and invlgorate stomach, liver and
bowels. Sugar-coated. tiny granules.
Easy to take as candy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

More than $4,000 employees of the
Pennsylvania Railroad have been in
structed in first aid to the injured at
the companys expense.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

If a man didn't have a wife ne
wouldn't know so much about his
neighbors.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Health is wealth. but you can't
make doctors believe it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Mrs. W1nslow-s eoorzrSe STRIP fer Chil1rra
teegh iag. eofrs1s tbs zaK rscrcss anesEEGs1oa A.
LAYS Esz4n- cures wind cole - senss . bottle
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
LuNG nALsAM

has been successfully for years for deep-seated
coughs colds and bronchitis. Everybody should
know about IL. 1t is simple, safe and sure.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Japan is beginning 10 use home
made cigarette paper.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
no Nor ACCEPT a sUBsTTIUTE

whez yOu wzEz Perry Davis PairkllirF. as nothing
Is a. good for rheumatism Neuralgia and SIMILAR
truubaes years. IN constant Use 80. &c and soc
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

According 10 the annual report Of
the commissioner OF internal revenue.
the receipts from taxes on whisky were
.3s1 less during the fiscal year Of
1868 than in the preceding year, and on
ales and beers 81. 444.1 less
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

The Senate was not in session FRI
day Consideration of the District OF
Columbia appropriation bill again oc-
cupied the day in the House. An
amendment providing $4,000 for chill
dren's Fairgrounds was inserted Mr..
Mann, of Illinois, attacked. Auditor
Tweedale, of the District for eriticiz-
ing Congress, and Mr.. Fitzgerald. of
New York, intimated that ex-President
Roosevelt's bad example was to blame.
Adjourned at 1858 p. m. until Monday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

The nomination of Horace H. Lur-
ton to be associate justice of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court, was con-
firmed by the Senate Monday. Sena-
tor Depew made an optimistic Christ
mas cheer speech in reply to pessi-
mistic predictions based on the tariff
made in La Follette's magazine and
in newspapers. A long list of nomi-
nations for ambassadors, ministers
and other appointive officers was sent
to the Senate by the President. The
District of Columbia appropriation
bill, carrying about $10,275,000, was
passed by the House. Mr.. Mondell of
Wyoming upheld Secretary Ballinger
in a speech against the proposition to
enlarge the governments authority
over dams and water power rights in
the different States. The Fitzgerald
unanimous consent" rule was inyok-
ed for the first time and two small To-
cal bills were passed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

The post OF director OF consular SER
vice has been created by Secretary Of
state Knox. and Chief Clerk Wilbur J.
Carr was appointed TO the place He
has also established a division OF the
Near East. with Charles F. Wilson at
its head
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Patronize those who advertise.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Her DisagreeabIe Ways.

No dirty linen airing there!
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

There are 2S,947 persons in the fed
eral employ at Washington, the annual
payroll for them being sS1,541, 225, an
average of nearly S1,100 each.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

her place in the councils of the ma
ton. You will find no more fertile
held for the planting of your seeds
OF patriotism, independence of
thought, independence of political
action, than among the representa-
tive men of Birmingham, Ala.
We want you to help US strike
off our hands the shackles of an ig-
norant political system which does
not do the most to develop our re-
sources or to prosper and safeguard
our happiness. We promise you
real, genuine, tangible results for the
greatness and the glory of this sec
ton"
Sound and fury, signifying moth
ing; and when did "Rufe" Rhodes
become a general?
1t is all rot and rigmarole. North
ern and western men are swarming
into the south and have been for
many years. The cotton mills of
the Carolinas, the steel, coal and
iron mines and manufactures of
Tennessee and Alabama, the sugar
and rice fields of Louisiana, the lum-
Der industries of Mississippi and
Florida, these and a hundred other
pursuits have absorbed the immi-
giants; intermarriage and communi-
ty OF interest have drawn fasteners
and middle westerners into the local
civilization and identified them with
the destiny of the section. The
southern boom was born of it's own
natural resources, not of maudlin
mounting over dinner tables or at
the head of visiting delegations.
Wlllett, of Admission, and Rhodes, of
birmingham, are merely tiresome
hucksters of fapdoodle.
Outsiders have seen that the south
offers them many f1attering opportu-
mites. They have gone there with
their money and their activities and
have been assimilated. That's all
there is to it. The new south" be
bowed!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
BECOME BETTER EDUCATED
BUT THERE ARE STILL $4,000
CHILDREN IN GEORGIA WHO
NEITHER READ NOR WRITE.

ATLANTA.-Out of a total school
population of 735,471 children of
school age in Georgia, as shown by
the school census for 1908, figures
for which have just been compiled by
State School Commissioner Jere M.
Pound, there are S4,3S0 illiterates
of children between the ages of
and is years.
The foregoing includes not only
the children who can neither read
nor write, but those who can read
and cannot write This is the prac-
tice in the computation for the Unit
ed States census, and was followed
ed States census, an was followed by
by Georgia for the first time last
year
The total number of children
found last year, white and colored,
who could neither read nor write,
was 42,027, or 81 per cent, as
against 51,801 in 1908, or 7.3 per
cent. According to these figures,
considering only the totally litter
ate, there has been considerable de-
crease in the last five-year period.
Including both classes of litter
ates the report for 1908 shows
twenty-three children out of every
200 who can neither read nor write,
or who can read but not write. Es-
timating the latter class for 1903,
which was not included in the report
for that year, it is stated that there
has been a decrease of the state of
school age, upon the present basis,
of about II per cent. in five years.
Here are some of the figures from
the 1908 report:
Children who can read but not
write-white, 1885; colored, 3d.
$685. total, 42,353.
Children who can neither read nor
write-white, 9.343; colored, 3d.
684; total, ADOPT.
The percentage of illiteracy among
negro children of school age is near
ly three and One-half times that
among the whites. Liberty county,
with 80 per cent. of illiteracy, shows
the greatest, and Epson with seven
tenths of l per cent, the smallest
percentage of illiteracy.
The percentage of illiteracy shown
in other counties is Burke, 81 per
cent; Houston, 81; Macon, 25.2;
Mcintosh, 800; Miller, %, and of
ismaller percentages, Telfair, 2.3;
Catoosa, 2.9; Richmond, 4 Rock
dale 4; and Whitfield, "a.
Fulton county, with an increase
of 692 children since 1903, shows
a decrease of 5.8 per cent. in illitera-
cy This does not include Atlanta.
Chatham county, including Savan-
nah, shows an increase of 1920 in
school population The percentage
of illiteracy in the county is about 5.
Muscogee, exclusive of Columbus,
shows a decrease of 200 in school
population and a decrease of 1872, or
! So per cent. in illiteracy.
Bibb county, including Macon,
shows an increase of SCI in school
population, but has decreased 3O7,
or 5.5 per cent. in illiteracy.
Floyd county, exclusive of Rome,
has decreased 541 in school popula-
ton and Al, or 1874 per cent. in
illiteracy.
While the computation has not
been completed with regard to city
and other local school systems, it is
estimated that it will show a marked
decrease in illiteracy, and a much
smaller percentage of it than is
shown in the state at large-proba-
bly, about per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
"TIRESOME FLAPDOODLEo
From the New York Sun.

Why should Mr.. J. G. Willet of
Admission, Ala, go forth into the
wilderness of Chicago and like places
and prate loudly of the new south
and reinstated harmony and all the
rest of the unmeaning yum-yum
which plays part at modern ban
0uets? We have been hearing this
folderol for more than thirty years
There was a time, perhaps, when the
north didn't understand the south,
and when the fluttering of the bloody
shirt by such professionals as Keller.
Grosvenor, ETC., fairly smothered the
hustle of the New England and mid
die western pioneers then settling
down to southern enterprises and
building up the waste places with
their Drawn and brain and duly
financed energy. In those days Hen
ny Grady of Georgia, made a special
~ of northern banquet halls and
Dearly songs of thingumbob across
The nuts and wine. He told us of
the new south, of the fractricidal
struggle which had passed, of the
harvests smiling over the once an
cry scars of war, and of gulps and
ecstasies in general. Why prolong
this food of nonsense?
A month or two ago there was
General" Rufus N. Rhodes of Biz
mingham, who went to Augusta at
the head of a delegation and there
delivered himself of such slush as
this:
Judge Taft, if you knew the
heart and the head of the men of
the south, and particularly of Bir-
mingham, you would know that they
regard the result Of the last election
as a benediction from God Almighty
Himself to the people Of the south
over their own protest. l am a dem
ocrat, most of these gentlemen are
democrats, but we all welcome your
advent into the south, because you
want the south once again to hold
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
The SpOOKS ARE IN SESSION
A GATHERING IN KANSAS CITY
OF THE CLANS FROM THE
EVERLASTING SHORES.

KANSAS CITY.-Hundreds of me-
diums and believers in spiritualism,
accompanied by several millions of
spirit guides, Mahatmas and other
assorted ha 'nts, invaded Kansas City
today to open a great three-days con-
course and carnival of spooks in the
Academy of Music. 1t is believed
that practically all of the spooks
which hang about these parts are
here, and there is likely to be a great
shortage in other cities. In fact, it
is claimed that no less than 17,S46,-
723,41 celestial beings returned to
earth temporarily for this occasion
will be rampant in the displays of
mediumistic prowess.
Such gathering of the clans from
the everlasting shores has not been
known in Missouri since the palmy
days of the old spiritualist camp
meetings at Liberal, a spiritualist
town in Barton county, where in
former years great annual meetings
We're held in the tabernacle and 9TH
er buildings erected by Colonel G..
H. WaIser, a well-known criminal
lawyer who founded the celestial col
ony.
During the session commenced to-
day in the Academy of Music there
will be performances of every diff
cult feat known to spiritualism.
There will be visitatiOns, finding of
lost articles, registrations of the
spirits of those who have long since
departed from the flesh, and actual
visits in a perceptible celestian form
OF advising spirits.
AS a special inducement to Mis-
souri, spiritualists to be in attend
ance the committee in charge of the
convention arranged for the pres
ence of Frank F. Ripley of New
York city, Teputed to be the greatest
performer of spiritualistic stunts in
the world today. w. J. Warren of
Washington, d. c., president of the
National Association of Spiritualists,
IS also here. Talent from all over
the country who can perform extra
ordinary feats in making sOmnam-
bulistic shades do antics for the edi-
tication of lay members is here for
the occasion.