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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
ALL ITALY IS IN GLOOM
Province of Calabria Scene OF Nio-
Lent Seismic Disturbance.
Monday.
MANY THOUSANDS MEET DEATH
Sicily in Ruins and Entire Kingdom
Terrorized, Fearing Greater
Disaster May Come

Many thousands of PERSONS met death
Monday as the result Of an earthquake
that devastated three provinces in the
southeastern extremity of Italy and
part of the Island of Sicily. Several
thousand persisted in the city of Mes
siaa in Sicily alone and towns cut off
from communication may have suffered
as severely or been destroyed Several
villages are reported to have disap-
peared. swallowed up by the upheaval.
Reports from the devastated regions
indicate that the death list probably
will reach over 10000 and may be
swelied to much larger figures. Scores
OF persons, buried under the ruins, were
said to be alive, with no hope of rescu-
ing them. Xandals found looting and
robbing the dead were shot down by
troops. Soldiers patrol the stricken
towns, and what is practically martial
law prevails.
Incalculable loss to property resulted
from the quake and tidal wave that
followed buildings being piled in ruins
and rich country laid waste. 1t will be
impossible for days to estimate with
any accuracy the total of loss of life or
cost in property, as isolated sections
cannot be reached until railroads and
wires are restored.
Practically all the information so far
received has been brought by boat from
the ruined sections to telegraph points.
Already relief work is under way and
the government is doing all possible to
relieve the survivors of the disaster.
The three provinces of Cosonza, Ca
tanzaro and Reggie di Calabria, COM
prising the department of Calabria,
which forms the southwestern part of
Italy, or 1.-The toe of the boot" suffered
most severely, but the effects of the
earthquake were felt almost throughout
the entire country. In Sicily the de-
struction was enormous, Messina being
practically ruined, and Catania was in
undated.
At Caltanissetta, a Sicilian town of
10000 people, number of houses were
shaken down and the inhabitants fled
for safety to the streets. Vast crowds
gathered in the parks, and the church
es are filed. At Mineo, small town
100 miles southwest of Catana, sew
eral houses collapsed and the scenes
of panic were repeated
At Catania the docks and shore
front were overwhelmed by tidal
wave that rolled in from the sea. Much
damage was done to the shipping De-
tails are lacking, but it is known that
several steamers were damaged. At
Catania the shocks lasted for twenty
seconds
At Agosta. in the province of SYRIA
cuSe. two churches and several houses
were demolished, but no lives were
lost The prisoners in the local Jail
escaped and dashed through the pray
ing crowds on the streets. The troops
were called out and quiet was restored.
There were shocks also at Lindua Clos
sa, Santa Saverina and Noto, all in
Sicily.
Serious damage is said TO have re-
suited and some casualties are report
ed at Mileto. Gonedi and Stefanconi.
At Stefanconi the shock was most Sc
we're. but San Gergorio, San Giorgo,
Majjerata also suffered.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
MOD. clever Girl Blush.

One of the cleverest girls In New
York society bushes every time she
hears the name OF Octave Mirbeau,
the Paris playwright, for it reminds
her OF an occasion on which she be-
trayed ignorance OF one OF the sim
plest of agricultural products. She
went with her chaperon and several
friends 10 the authors Cormeilles
house to see the gardens, Of which he
is prouder than OF bis playwriting
ability. One Of the first things that
caught her eye was a bed Of green
plants tipped with red. The contrast
appealed to her aesthetic sense, and
she gushed little, just the least Bit
in the world Indicating the parterre
with the tip Of her parasol. she cried
What lovely things they are. You
must send me some Of the flowers
when they bloom, dear NJ. dirbeau7
To which, with a largh, the builder
Of comedies returned, You may have
to wait for some time. for they are
cabbages-the kind one eats in your
beautiful America win. eorned beef.
you know
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
Fife wheat.

Each wheat has its own life history
and romance Take Fife wheats,
which were the foundation of many
varieties in spring wheats up to the
introduction of Durum wheat Years
ago. nearly century ago, David Fife,
Scotchman of Otonabee, Ont, sent
to a friend in Glasgow for a small
bag of seed wheat to try in a cleared
patch of the backwoodS. The friend
obtained some seed from a vessel Just
in from Dantzic. Unfortunately, II
was a fall wheat and reached David
Fife in the spring. Nevertheless, Da-
vid Fife sowed it in the spring. One
can guess how feverishly the back
woods farmer watched for the growth
of his experiment Only three wheat
heads survived till the fall; but those
three wheat heads were entirely free
Of the rust that had ruined his neigh
bors' crops and those three heads re-
ally represented new variety of
wheat. fall wheat turned into a
spring wheat. David Fife treasured
the three heads and planted them in
the spring. Such was the beginning Of
Fife wheat in America. 1t is thought
il must have come originally from Rus
sia; for, crossed with Russian Lagoda
by DIR. Saunders, of Ottawa, it has pro
luced a wheat splendidly adapted for
the cold climate and long summer sun
light of the northwest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Cardinal Victor Lucian Sulpice Lecot,
archbishop of Bordeaux, died at Cham
berry. France.
Date culture in the Imperial valley,
California. is declared to be success by
J. w. Jennings. an experimental.
Justices of the Court of Special Ses-
sions in New York sat almost all night
in efforts to catch up on cases.
Forty-two steam and thirteen sailing
vessels were built in the United States
and officially numbered during November.
A s,,ecial commission from Porto Rico
is in Washington for the purpose of Undue
ing Congress TO impose a duty of 3 cents
q pound on foreign coffee, the principal
industry of the island.
A bridge three miles in length viii be
built by the Pennsylvania road over He'll
Gate. from Port Morris, a suburb of New
York. TO Long Island. The cente- arch
will be 1000 feet long.
The Rev. John F. McCIoskey. assistant
pastor of the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Toledo, in the pulpit announc-
ed that his days were numbered, accord
ing to doctors, but he would labor to thu
last
The Rev. Thomas A. Kelly of &c. Ag-
mes Roman Catholic church, Paterson,
y. T.. committed suicide in midocean by
jumping overheard from the steamship
Arabic
Chiefs of the native tribes in German
Samoa are threatening trouble. They
want independence and may appeal TO the
United States and Britain for moral sup
port
An energy machine used in the Car
negie nutrition laboratory in Roxbury,
Mass. is said to make possible the calcu-
lation TO a nicely Of every fraction Of en-
ersx exercised By the body and the amount
Of nuszaion needed for the best results.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
NEWS IN LAVENDER.
Splfnters of "GleasOn's PictOrial"
which still Have Point.

Splinters of "GIeason's Pictorial"
which still Have Point.
Somebody with an investigating ma
ture recently got down from his IA
theirs garrett bound volume Of Glea-
sons Pictorial Drawing Room Com
panion, published in Boston, 1854 and
thumbing the yellow pages over he
found on the editorial page of each
weekly issue refreshing compendium
of short facts and editorial humor un-
der the standing title of "Splinters :"
Here are some of them, says the New
York Sun:
Little Cordelia Howard has made a
most decided hit in the National thea
ter in this city as Little Eva.
The engineers of the Erie railroad
have struck on account of regula-
ton whose mandate is that every en-
gineer whose train runs off the track
shall be dismissed
Miss Julia Deans engagement in this
city has been highly successful, though
to us she lacks refinement and study.
A Rochester paper states that the
Rev. Miss Antoinette L. Brown is not
married.
We have had remarkably open fall
and beautiful Indian summer in the
State of Massachusetts.
Kasosky, the celebrated bootmaker
of Paris, works only for people who
ride in carriages His boots cannot be
walked in.
The governor of Arkansas says the
State treasury is short-a very preva-
lent complaint.
1t is now almost as much an evil
dence of foppery to have a close shorn
face as it used to be to wear a mus
tache
AS many as eight dead horses are
carried out of Boston daily to feed Mr..
Wards hogs. Who eats the pork?
Ninety tons of poultry came to New
York for Thanksgiving. Great place,
New York
Mr.. Joseph Brelsford was accident
aly killed at Coney Island, n. Y, late
ly he broke his spine playing leap
frog.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05

which in some cases win mean $45 and
in some sac. with the prevailing price
at $40 and over.
This is difficult to understand If mere
facts are considered, Mexican zinc ore.
mined by pauper peon labor. comes in
as free OF duty as it ever did. And
vet II was that pauper -peon-mfned ore
that drove the price down and caused
all the restitution and hunger and pen
ury in Joplin. We must conclude that
when the faintest prospect of a tariff
comes in at the door. trouble flies out
at the window. And should we argue
that good prices for zinc ore demon
strate that something besides the alb
sence of a duty has affected the price?
Certainly not. Have Cannon, Dingley.
Grosvenor. Dalzell and Payne taught in
vain?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05

1t had always seemed too bad to break
into Lida's engagements. And now
She gaZed, mystitied, at the beseech-
ing young creature before her, whose
yearning eyes were on the saucepans.
"Why, you'd spoil everything" OBJ
jected Mrs. Dillpeck. you run along
Il don't mind doing 1t"
"You never let me-" Ida mourned.
rebelliously. Then she frightened. 81
can set the table. anyhow" she said,
triumphantly, and darted into the din
ing-room.
Mrs. Dillpeck was so preoccupied
that she sailed the coffee and favored
the custard with onion extract. Ger
tainly something was wrong with
Ida The childs conduct was unnat-
ural and her mother was vaguely
worried.
After dinner, when Ida had depart
ed for the theater, her mother sat
thinking and froWning.
whats the trouble?" asked Dill
peck over his evening paper.
II don't know" confessed his wife.
II don't feel right about Ida. She
seems well, but I'm afraid she's COM
ing down with something She doesn't
act like herself! J"
"Pooh," said Dlllpeck. "She looks
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
LOST HOPE.

Alas for the man who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress trees
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play
Who hath not learned in hours OF faith,
The truth to flesh and sense unknown,
That life is ever lord of death,
And love can never lose its own.
John Greenleaf Whittier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
CURE FOR SNAKE BITE.
How Ranchmnn Treated WOaRd
When Far from a settlement,

How Ranchmnn Treated wOaRd
When Far from settlement.
Bitten by rattleSnake in the calf
of the right leg in the Santa Ana
Mountains last SATURDAY, John Nc
Cornick, a rancher of Glapeland, saved
his life by making an incision with his
pocket knife and inserting piece of
the reptiles flesh in the wound, says
the Los Angeles Times. He bandaged
It tightly and walked seven hours be-
fore he could receive medical treat
ment. DIR. Summer j. QGint was
called from Los Angeles to attend Me
Cornlck. When he arrived he found
that his patient was suffering from
slight poisoning. He declares that
Mccormick saved his life by his own
treatment.
Mccormick was hunting through
scrub oak when he felt a peculiar sting
in his leg. He looked down and saw
the snake dragging on the ground as
he walked Its fangs had become fas-
tened in his leggngs and 1t was unable
to withdraw them.
With the butt of his gun Mccormick
knocked the snake off and then crush
ed its head with his heel AS quickly
as possible he ran iniO the open and
carried the snake with him. When he
barred his leg he squeezed all the blood
he could out of the two punctures
which the fangs had made Then he
opened a cash, cutting though the two
wounds and letting out the blood and
poison BE cut a piece of flesh out OF
tile snakes back and inserted IL In the
wound. Mccormick used his handker-
chief for bandages and then tied his
leg again Just above the knee to stop
the poison from working through his
system.
Mccormick was miles away from any
settlement where he could secure med
zeal attention, so he started back 10
Grapeand His leg pulsated with pain
and he soon became deathly sick. In
his weakened condition he was COM
PEELED to rest on the road time and
again. When he finally reached home
he was almost exhausted and bis leg
was dreadfully swollen and almost
black
Mccormick says that his treatment
was famous among the Indians for
snake sites and he has known of a
number Of instances where its applica-
ton has saved lives.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05

western science and taught the cyclic processes
ton evolution periods of activity and passvity
Worlds born attain their apogee and die the hui
manities they have evolved born attain their full
est development then pass to other planets other
unverses The perfected of great world period
become the teachers the guides of the infant humanity
of another planetary cycle. These the wise ones
the holy ones, the gods that walked with whose
presence in the early ages of the world is limited at in
all scriptures all nations To their inspiration
attributable the sacred books
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
RUBBER AND ITS PROGRESS.
1t Has Played "a Sign .fcapt Part in
CiviIixing the World

II mas Aaycu Sig meant faFN
CiviIixing the World.
Two interesting facts with regard to
rubber have been brought out by the
international rubber exposition In pro-
gress at London, says the Columbus
Dispatch. One is the great variety Of
important uses to which the substance
has been put, and the other is the pro-
gress that is being made in increasing
its production. Thirty countries have
sent exhibits to the exposition In ques-
ton, and it is estimated that there is
displayed in the building where the ex-
position is held 100000 worth of
rubber in its natural and manufactured
forms.
In his speech opening the exposition,
Sir Henry Blake declared that during
the last half-century rubber has played
a greater part than any other substance
In expediting human progress" With
out rubber. no ocean cables. with all
that they mean of friendship and COM
merce among nations, would have been
laid. The working of every factory is
in some way dependent upon rubber; 1t
Is used for valves. washers, etc. 1t en-
tiers into the preparation of multitude
Of things, such as telephone mouth
pieces, musical instrupent moutlpieces,
pumps, vessels for holding acids, cleo
trical batteries, and all kinds of levers
and switches for electrical work, while
made into betting, 1t is said TO be SUI
perior to leather.
1t has been used for street paving,
and 1t is Only its cost that prevents its
general use for this purpose, since its
advantages are manifest. Rubber-pav-
ed streets would be clearly and noise
less and are said to withstand the wear
of heavy traffic better than brick or
stone.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
Success. of the Corn show,

The Chamber of Commerce, the bust
ness men of Springfield. the exhibitors,
the newspapers and the people who
have patronized the exposition, have
all been sowing corn show seed. They
have visited the Illinois Corn Exposi-
ton which closed last night, seen the
glorious exhibits, realized the value of
the show as an entertainer and edu-
Gator, and are sowing the seed of in
dorsement right and left. Now let's
see that the fields are well cultivated,
the growing plant of future corn show
enterprise properly nurtured and a
magnificent crop reaped in the form of
still better and greater corn show I'm
1909 than the brilliant show of the
present year, the magnitude and sue
cess of which were sufficient to war
rant making the Illinois Corn Show a
permanent institution In Springfield
Springfield Register.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
[EzgI I|zn ): ~ 'af s ~
: ( DoMCtMs

tie country is close. to the great river
system which furnishes much Of the.
transportation and lies principally inn
mediately west of Ruemos Ayres.
As fine herds of cattle as you ever
saw are produced in Argentina without
Is mouthful of grain, simply on grass
and alfalfa. and these cattle were never
In stable. Breeding cattle In axtra
fine flesh were seen on alfalfa pasture
One COW in particular showed actual
rolls OF far On her runp, and yet she
had never tasted anything else than
alfalfa from her birth, CRASHED nut
ton has gone to London market too fat
to sell. One ranch or estancia visited
contained 100000 acres and had on it
1880 cattle, 10000 sheep and 1000
horses. Most of the cattle country is
fiat and level.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
A Mere Miracle.

After all. the tariff is a marvellous
thing. 1t is constantly working new
wonders. 1t makes the rain fall, the
sun shine and the crops grow, as we
have not only heard, but as so distin-
guished an authority as James Wilson,
Secretary of Agriculture, has proved by
statistics, accurate and eloquent. 1t
makes two blades grow where one grew
before, it promotes industry and brings
employment to the unemployed, as in
yestigation will show.
But the tariff is not only eeffctiise in
esse. but in posse. 1t can work won
ders not only when 1t is reality, but
the mere suggestion of it can accom-
plish considerable. Thus, little over
a week ago a delegation CT suppliants
from Joplin went TO Washington to
pray for a tariff on zinc ore. The in
dustry was languishing The unemploy-
ed In the district had TO draw their
warmth from the sun and their susie
nance from the air. Pale want and
gaunt hunger stalked the streets. the
price OF zinc was that low.
But what was the result of the trip
TO Washington? The delegation was
received In friendship. and 50 great was
the moral force OF the exposition Of the
demand for right. justice and duty
ON zinc ore that the market price was
elevated The Monday quotations show
Cd sales On an assay base price OF S42,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
FOE 0FFREE SPEECH
BRYAN TO PRESIDENT
Nehraskan Calls the Message on
Panama Case Dangerous
Doctrine.
HITS FEDERAL PROSECUTION
Indianapolis News Regrets Roose-
velt's NPitiable Exhibition
of Rage

-Billingsgate from the White House.
is w. J. Bryan's description of recent
Rooseyeltian utterances. In an editorial
discussion of the tilt between the Presi-
dent and Congress, Mr.. Bryan says in
his newspaper:
President Roosevelt has sent to Con-
gress a message which announces new
and dangerous doctrine. 1t is the duty of
every publisher and every believer in free
speech and press TO resent the Presidents
attempt to use the government to terrorize
those who would criticise the action of
prblie officials. No official can claim ex-
emption from criticism merely because he
Is an official, and no act of the govern
ment is so SACRED dhat the huhblest citi-
zen may not eEpress an adverse opinion
upon it. ~
1t is matter Of little consequence
whether the charges made by the World
are true or false--that can be determined
by suit at law in the ordinary way-but
it is marter of great importance that
every editor and every other individual
shall be free to express his opinion on
any subject connected with public af-
fairs. The World demands an investiga-
ton of the Panama purchase, and it is
for Congress to determine whether the in
vestigation shall be made. The fact that
the President thinks no investigation is
necessary is immaterial
Mr.. Pulitzer is on solid ground when he
resists the Presidents attempt to convert
newspaper criticism of officials into a
criticism against the government itself
The Presidents message is indefensible in
so far as it asserts the right of the gov
eminent to prosecute the World or Mr.
Pulitzer, and he will find that he has
overstepped the limits of his authority if
he attempts TO use the Attorney Cen
erals Office in the way that he has pro-
posed. The President is not the govern
ment !; a criticism of him is not criticism
of the government.
The indianapolis News mentioned in
the special message on the Panama
canal deal, in reply to the chief execu-
tive, says in part:
1t is difficult to characterize fully the
latest outbreak of the President without
nified and blameworthy as that which put
ehc AieSiuont uCleldHcc III a CLASS ny
itself in the official literature of the high
Office he holds. Whatever provocation Mr.
Roosevelt may have felt pricking his soul
nothing could justify or much extenuate
the torrent of invective and virulence
which he poured out in state paper upon
the head of private citizens. No one in
his sober senses can fail to regard the
performance as grave derogation to the
dignity of the presidential station, pitia-
BILE exhibition of towering rage on the
part of the chief magistrate and the source
of humiliation and chagrin to the entire
country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05

cold bloodedy, go through the outward of
those contrary dispositions which prefer cultivate
The reward Of persistency will infatbly in the
fading of depression and the advent Of real
cheerfuness and kindness in their stead Smooth the
brow brighten the eye contract the dorsa rather than
the ventral of the frame, and in major
key pass the genial compliment and heart must be
frigid indeed If it does not thaw.
There is doubt that there is mental gymnastic
that be practiced by reasonable who wish to
keep their mental faculties correlated and under
troll just bodily gymnastics do for the muscles and
the internal organs
One is for every for period of each day to
indulge in quiet bit Of solitude and communing with
himself. Most Of nowadays read and speak far too
much and think too little
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05

Two days later Mrs. Dillpeck had
she found her daughter rearrangtng
the tables and chairs.
Don't you think II looks homer
this way. motherT asked Ida.
Up TO that time Ida, with her
laughter and harumscarum ways, ap-
the chairs were placed on the ceiling
or side walls. not 10 mention the floor.
MIRA Dillpeck sat down heavily.
II guess So" she said, anxiously. as
she gazed at her daughter.
The rose bloom on the cheek was
perfect, the eye was bright Still,
Mrs DiIlpeck was not satisfied She
felt Lida's pulse.
y JUS know you're going TO be III
or something" she lamented "Oh. |
don't know bave a feeling No.
you look all right. but one can't tell
by that l never saw any one look
better than my own cousin the very
day before she was taken down with
typhoid!N
I. was the cooks day out ead when
Mrs. Dillpeck started into the kitchen
TO prepare the family dinner Ida fol
lowed her. There was a hesitant loos
upon her face and she stumbled In hel
speech.
Mother" she said, won't you
please let me get the dinner tonight
Honestly. I'd like to try. never
have, you know
Mrs. Dillpeck held to the gas range
Through her mind flashed the succes
sion OF Thursdays since Ida had
grown up and the cook had been out
A book or a call always had interferet
with her mothers desire that bel
daughter should learn TO keep house
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
Needless Expense.

He-The astrologer described you ex-
actly. and said that should marry
you.
She-Don't you think 1t was a waste
of money to consult him?
He-Why?
She-I could have told you the same
thing myself if you had asked me =
Tit Bits.