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The Washington times., 1911-11-25
Times Inquiry Department:

Can you tell me where one can obtain the
herb or root called wormwood. Thanking,
you am. yours sincerely.
A DAILY READER
You can buy wormwood at any drug
store. either the wormwood itself or an
extract made from 1t.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25

Times Inquiry Department:
have q Confederate bayonet and would
like to know II It Is Of any value to SELL
CONSTANT READER.
Unless you can find a person who
especially wants your bayonet fear
that you will be unable to sell It. A
sirl is Of age when she is eighteen
years old.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25
Times Inquiry Department:

Can a resident of Alexandria Va, attend
night school in the District. He wishes
to attend eighth grade and enter the Bust
ness High School. Does he have to pay
tuition? ] would thank you for any infor-
spectfully, VIRGINIA
You will have to pay a certain amount
II you are not a resident OF the District.
If you write to the Board of Education
you can find out just what you wish to
know.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25

Times Inquiry Department:
Will you please tell me how to dive a
-brnwn fur black. Thanking you, I am. re-
spectfully, MISS X. B. r.
The safest thing to do would be to
send your furs to a furrier's and have
them dye II for you.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25

Wnl you please publish in the Inquiry
Column n there Is premium on a hall
dollar dated 1911 and also on a half-doilaI
dated 1913. Thanking you. am, your.
truly, j. H.
There are no premiums attached to the
above coins.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25
Times Inquiry Department :

Times Inquiry Department:
Can a man who Is born foreign soil.
whose parents were citizens of the United
States, become President of this country II
he was fully naturalized citizen?
C. w. s.
The Constitution says that no person
except a natural born citizen of the
United States shall be eligible to the Of
fee of President.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25
ANSWERS TO QUERIES SENT BY READERS TO
The Times Question Box

Times Inquiry Department.
Will the law permit railroads and steam
boat companies to issue passes to people
for any purpose? F. Il.
II the passes are given in strict ac-
cordance with the interstate commerce
laws 1t is perfectly legal to use them.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25

harbor Of the bay, forming the harbor
Of Sahmis. Themistocles, the Grecian
leader, by strategem, induced Xerxes,
King of the Persians, to bring UP his
feet and give immediate battle. Xerxes
drew up his ships, numbering j 200 at
least, during the night previous to the
battle, almost blocking up both ell
frances % the strait, and was confident
of victory IL he himself superintended
operations. "xerxes took his seat on a
lofty throne erected on a height on the
Attica coast. Both Greeks and Persians
fought with great bravery, but the for
mer, though outnumbered almost three
to one, obtained an overwhelming VIC
tory, destroying 200 of the Persian ves-
sells, exclusive of what they captured.
The painting represents the welcome
home of the Greeks and their victory.
Times Inquiry Department:
Kindly tell me II the French Opera Com
thanks. M. c.
The daily papers will give advance
notices II the French Opera Company
comes here this winter.
Times Inquiry Department:
have been going with young lady for
tnc past ten HlDntnS anu tnlnK quite u Uttie
Of her although she is not the kind of girl
] admire because she 10 tall and thin and
am short and stubby. ! have always ad-
mired a short, stout girl something like my
own build. Would you advise me to stop
going with her or continue my attentions
understand htat she. is worth quite q
little money when she becomes OF age and
comes from a good family. L don't like
to throw her down as this would give the
knockers plenty OF room to knock. thereby
putting her name before the public. Hop
ing to see your advice in the Inquiry Column
in the near future, remain. Yours truly,
II your affection for the girl depends
upon her height and the amount O.
money she will possess when she Il
twenty-one years of age, it seems t.
me that she will be very lucky younl
woman If you decide to transfer you
attentions to young lady whose heigh
suits you better.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25

The Misses Boyce, who spent the last
several months in the South, have re-
turned to Washington and are estab-
ter.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25

Times Inquiry Department:
Kindly inform me II it is proper to notify
relatives whom / have not been correspond
ing with regularly of my approaching mar
riage, would 1t look though ! were
doing 1t to obtain u present.
The Washington times., 1911-11-25

I should think it would be best to
notify your relatives of your approach
ing marriage, first because 1t is custom
ary and proper, and secondly it might
cause a misunderstanding If you en-
tirely ignored them by not sending a
wedding invitation or announcement
The Washington times., 1911-11-25

Times Inquiry Department.
Will you please tell me where l can get
eome small silk pieces for sofa pillows and
couch covers and greatly oblige,
A CONSTANT READER.
You can often find very pretty sofa
pillow tops in the upholstery department
Of large stores. They generally have
small pieces of silks and brocades which
they sell as remnants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
Union Labor Must Be Freed From
Politicians Trying to Use Tt.

Meanwhile here is a lesson first of
all to decent unionism. The blow
this will deal the cause is heavy,
and there is but one way to recover
from it and to regain that public
support on which success depends.
The vast, overwhelming majority
of union men who would no more
countenance murder than the same
number of farmers or merchants
must assert themselves. They have
been misgoverned and misguided
and misrepresented in the public
eye by labor politicians and their
accomplices. By many of these
false leaders murder and destruc-
ton of property, violence and cor
ruption have been employed under
pretense of furthering the cause of
organized labor. There has been
too little protest from reputable
union men against this form of
propaganda, and now their weak
ness has cost them dear.
Twenty-one gravestones pointed
the finger of deadly accusation
against these misrepresentation of
worthy cause. The whole sicken-
ing picture ought to be stamped
forever upon the memories of the
American workman, so that he will
make an end of this terrible wrong,
this terrible dishonor.
The American people are just.
They are far more than just, they
are warm heartedly generous, and
they may be depended upon to favor
the good cause and enlist for the
wronged. Chicago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
Tafrs Running Mate.
The following is clipped from the
Merrill Herald (Rep.):

The following is clipped from the
Merrill Herald (Rep.l:
"There is only one man in public
life today that measures up to Presi-
dent Taft and who would make an
ideal vice presidential candidate with
Taft at the head, and that man is
Hon. William Lorimer, senator from
Illinois. The two Bills would m9ke a
fine team.
"That Taft believes In Senator
Lorimer is shown by the fact that he
has honored all of Lorimer's recon-
mendations for federal position. An
Endorsement by Lorimer Is all that is
necessary to secure federal position
under President Taft. On the other
hand President Taft withholds from
Senator LaFollette and other Pro-
gressive Republican Senators patron
age to which, by custom, they are
absolutely entitled
"He must be a simpleton who
believes that the big fraud that now
occupies the presidential Office can
come within thousand miles of
being reelected"
1t is really too bad, Chris, that
Robin Hood, Jesse James, Captain
Kidd and some other celebrities have
been planted in the bone yard, or you
might have a larger field 10 select
from.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
A Good Condition

Evidence accumulates that bust
ness conditions are not so bad as
many persons have supposed-or
some have tried to make out. The
latest is the bank statement recent
ly published. This statement, SO
far as the Milwaukee banks are
concerned and a similar condition
appears to exist all through the
Central West shows an increase
in deposits and of loans, and more
healthy conditions generally.
These increasing signs of good
conditions, like Milwaukee's manu-
featuring and bank record, coming
on top of the much panicky talk
from Wall street, show plainly how
well the West has learned the les
son of 1907. They indicate that
the West has become more indepen-
dent of Wall STREET and is more
able to stand on its own feet, is less
affected by the panics and specula-
tons of that center.
These are good signs, not merely
as showing the immediate condi-
tions but as showing the general
tendency of financial affairs. 1t
has long been recognized that much
of the western money went into
Wall streets speculations and ven
lures, and when panic struck the
spectators the entire country suf-
fered But that is considerably
changed now as shown by the
panics of Wall street during the
year sinces since 1907, which affected
the West scarcely at ALL
This makes it look as if the West
had at last become sufficiently
strong to stand on its own feet and
to carry on its legitimate affairs
without having to beg of Wall
street and its specializing group
every time it wanted to take finan-
cial breath.
A financially independent West
means prosperous, strong and a
developing West. 1t also means
that business conditions are healthy
aud that there is no need of fear,
no need of lodging every time the
speculative market gets scared at
a shadow and cries panic. Mil
waukee News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
Parcels Post Coming.

From the Louisville Post.
The government is paving the way
for parcels post, perhaps unconsci-
ously but nevertheless surely, by
cheapening the rate of postage
between points in this country and
Great Britain.
Two-cent postage for letters across
the Atlantic has been in effect for
some months and a new regulation
relative to heavier mail goes into
effect January l. After that date it
will be possible to send three-pound
package from Louisville 10 Manchester,
England, for 30 cents instead of 30
cents, the rate now in effect. Similar
reductions are authorized up to eleven
pounds.
These reduced rates will facilitate
commerce between this country and
Great Britain, and will also serve to
draw attention to the absurd system
still prevailing in this country be-
cause of the lack of a parcels post,
AS stated it will, after January 1,
cost 30 cents to send a three pound
package from Louisville to London
or Liverpool, but it will cost 48 cents
to send the same package from Louis
vile to Shelbyville. Moreover, the
present regulations as in effect in
this country prohibit altogether
sending packages of any considerable
weight through the mails.
There is no longer any question
that the absurdity of our system is
well understood in this country. Nor
is there any attempt TO deny that the
only reason why we have not had a
parcels post years ago lies in the
political activity of the express COM
panies and their malign influence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

THE Democrats of Arizona will
place two members in the United
States Senate and one member in the
House of Representatives, a Governor
at Phoenix, and will make clean
sweep of the state ticket, as result
of the first state election.
The Legislature will be more than
three-fourths Democratic. Carl Hay
den of Phoenix was elected to Con-
gress. George w. p. Hunt of Globe
was elected Governor.
"The people of Arizona simply re-
fused to indorse Taft's dictation as to
what kind of a constitution Arizona
should have" Mr. Birdno said, "and
while they voted to eliminate the
recall it will be returned at the prop
er timen
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
First publication Dec. 10. last Jan. 2.
Notice Of Final Settlement and As
signment

State of Wisconsin. County Court for Mara
thon County.-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at a regular term
of the county court to be neld in and for said
county, at the court house in the city of Wau-
sau, in said county, on the first Tuesday
10 o'clock a. m, the following matters will be
heard and considered:
The application of Ellen Parrett, admins
tratrix of the estate of Francis Parrett, late OF
the town of Brighton. in said county, de-
ceased, for the examination and allowance OF
her final account of her administration, ano
for the assignment of the residue Of the estate
of Francis Parrett deceased, to such Other
persons as are by law entitled to the same
Dated Dec. 10, 1911
By order of the Court
CLYDE L. WARREN. County Judge
HENRY MILLER.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

THF Wausau PILOT seems to be-
lieVe that Gov. Harmon of Ohio,
would make the best candidate for
president on the democratic ticket.
We do not believe that Harmon will
get Wisconsin,, but some progressive
man like Bryan or Wilson will have
the states delegation Shawano Adj
Yocate.
Be that as it may, the Pilot will
support either but it reserves the
right, up to the nomination, to the
man it thinks will stand the best
show to be elected president. Both
Mr. Bryan and Gov. Wilson are ex-
cellent men, but the PILOT does not
believe that either can poll more
than two-thirds of the votes that
Gov. Harmon can. Gov. Harmon is
conservatively progressive, and has
the good judgment not possessed by
either Messrs. Bryan or Wilson, and
it is such man that is wanted at
the head of this government.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
Lightning Kills Few.

In 1906 lightning killed only 1859
people in this whole country. Ones
chances of death by lightning are less
than two in million. The chance of
death from liver, kidney or stomach
trouble is vastly greater, but not if
Electric Bitters be used, as Robert
Madsen, of West Burlington, Ia,
proved. Four doctors gave him up
after eight months of suffering from
virulent liver trouble and yellow
jaundice. He was then completely
cured by Electric Bitters. They're
the best stomach, liver, nerve and
kidney remedy and blood purifier on
earth. Only SOC at w. W. Albers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
Saved His Wife's Life.

"My wife would have been in her
grave today" writes o. HI. Brown, of
Muscatine, Ala, elf it had not been
for DR.. Kings New Discovery. She
was down in her bed, not able to get
up without help. She had a severe
bronchial trouble and a dreadful
cough. / got her bottle of DIR.
Kings New Discovery, and she soon
began to mend, and was well in a
short time" Infallible for coughs
and colds, it's the most reliable rem
edy on earth for desperate lung trou-
BILE, hemorrhages, lagrippe, asthma,
hay fever, Group and whooping cough.
SOC, $l.00, Trial bottle free. Guaran-
teed by W. W. Albers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
JUST AS GOOD AS VACATION
Mr.. Gwillkinton Says He Reads the
Booklets and in the End Is
Satisfied.

where am / going this summer!
Well. HIM. I haven't quite made up
my mind yet" said Mr.. Gwillkinton.
"Im still reading the booklets.
Every year / get the booklets, a
lot of 'em, and say, they're wonderful.
Beautifully printed and delightfully."-
illustrated. Why, it's as good as a
vacation to read some of them, and
/ go over all of them and enjoy every
one of them and try to make up my
mind which place I'd like best.
"Of course in a general way one
knows what sort of place one likes.
Some like the seashore, some the
mountains. For myself like the sea-
shore better, but I think it's wise to
alternate to give oneself the benefit
of the various sorts of air, and SO
sometimes I 90 one place and some
times another-when / CO.
II don't always go. There are GER
tain circumstances not always COM
pletely within my control that some
times keep me In tie city all through
the summer. and at the present mo-
ment this looks to me like one of
those summers
but whether I go or not I always
read the booklets. always. as / am do
irg with profound delight now; about
tie shady hooks and the purling
brooks and the grand old ocean and
they are all Joy to me. even when.
as this year, It looks as If I'd have to
take It out of the booklets
Still I am not disturbed by that.
How do know what sort of room
they'd give me In the place where I
want to go? They might put me over
the kitchen or give me cot in the
barn. The table might not be Just
what I had expected and there might
be mosquitoes there. don't know
Just what I'd find: there might be
various drawbacks, while sitting here
at home I can revel in the booklets
perfect charm with absolutely no
drawbacks whatever You can see
that. can't your"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

PRESIDENT TAFT abrogated the
Russian treaty and served notice on
that country last Friday thatit would
take effect Dec. 81, 1912. For forty
years Russia has Disseminated against
American citizens, refusing to honor
passports held by many of them.
How the United States has ever al
lowed this to continue is past finding
out. 1T is now either to bar out
every American or allow every citizen
from this country to be admitted.
We may Ahave to pull the Russ
whiskers before he will realize what
he is doing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
A Sleeping Quarter.

l would suggest that certain streets
not main thoroughfares should be
ciassed as residential. both in the poor
as wen as In the rich parts of Lon
don. for the clerk and shop-girl need
sleep as much as any of us, and that
In these streets between. say midnight
and O. N. or s a. m. or a. m. &C
cording to the locality. the motor horn
should not be blown except for urgent
cases-that Is In case OF imminent
danger to hfe.--Lord Montagu in the
Oar,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

w. Fl. Bissell returned home from
the south on Monday.
Otto Mathie transacted business
in Milwaukee last Thursday.
Miss Clara Roach, who is teach
ing at Sparta. arrived home Saturday
to spend her vacation.
Mrs. Celia Braun of Athens, who
| had been visiting in the city, re-
turned to her home today.
-Leander Douville and Con. Roberts
of Mosinee were in the city last night
to witness the wrestling bouts.
Mayor J. f. Lamont returned
during the week from Chicago, where
he had been lecturing before the land
show.
Fred Swope will come home from
Chibago to spend the holidays with
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Leander
Swope.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Alexander
of Bloomington, ILL.,, are expected to
arrive in the city Friday to spend the
holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Milne returned
home Sunday morning from points in
Louisiana, where they spent about
three weeks.
Miss Mollie Merklein will arrive in
the city Saturday morning from her
school in Chippewa Falls to spend her
holiday vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. E.. J. Goodrich, of
Amigo will arrive in the city Friday
and spend Christmas with Mr.. and
Mrs. Leander Swope.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. H. Markstrum of
Bessemer, Mich, arrived in the city
Saturday and will remain during the
holidays with Mr.. and Mrs. j. Okon-
eski.
Miss Emma Pardee is expected TO
arrive IN the city Friday to spend the
HOLIDAYS, from st. Paul. Also her
brother Franklin, from Madison uni
versity.
DR.. Monroe Robbins, of Kelly
Lake, Wis, and w. A. Vosburg and
daughter Elizabeth, were among those
who were here yesterday to attend
the funeral of A. B. Wheeler.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Grout have re-
ceived word from their son Clyde that
he will be home for Christmas. lie
is connected with the Canadian-Paci
railway, with headquarters in Peter
boro, Can.
N. E. Pardee came home last
evening from St. Paul, and will re-
main during the holidays. He came
sooner than he intended owing TO the
death Of Donald PIoss' mother, and
to look after the interests Of the
Pardee Drug Co. during Mr.. Ploss'
absence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
rst publication De-. 10 last IAN. o
Notice To Creditors.

State of Wisconsin. County Court for Mara.
thon County I'm Probate.
Notice is hereby given that the time up to
and including the first Tuesday of July 1912, IL
hereby allowed to creditors OF Adolph Wiech-
mann, deceased, to present their claims fol
examination and allowance Also that all
claims so presented. will be examined and adj
justed at regular term of said County Court
to be held at the Court House in the City OF
Wausau on the first Tuesday of July, 1912. and
on the first Tuesday of August 1912.
Dated December 19. 1911,
BY the Court.
CLYDE l.. WARREN. County Judge
HENRY MILLER
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

The following were licensed to wed,
by the county clerk, the past week:
Edward Westphal and Adela Mar
quardt, both of Wausau.
Henry Kruger and Bertha Beh-
rend, both of town of Johnson.
Chas. Kalchek and Alma Kath,
both of Wausau.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

THE Sherwood pension bill, which
provides that every soldier of the
civil war who served one year shall
be given S1.00 per day, if he is over
10 years of age, has been passed by
the house of representatives. The re-
publican senate must either pass the
bill or run the risk of turning away
thousands of old soldiers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

AT the Eighth district progressive
republican meeting held in Marsh
field last week Endorsed A. w. Prem
OF this city and E. E. Winch of
Marshfeld as delegates from the dis
trict to the 1912 republican conven-
tion. Edward O'Connor was elected
as alternate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

THE voters will please take notice
that Gov. Harmon, while as able a
talker as any of them, tends to the
duties of his Office and is not gala
wanting about making speeches. He
is attending strictly to business.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
AGAINST COMMISSION FORM

The local branch of the German
American Alliance met last Sunday
and passed resolution to oppose the
movement for a commission form of
government for Wausau. 1t is the
intention of the alliance to use all
honorable means to defeat the meas
ure.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

But the hour for change is at hand
and a congressional act creating a
parcels post is as certain some time
in the near future as anything except
taxes and death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19
WAUSAU MARKET.

The following are the current retail
prices of the various articles of pro-
duce as reported for the Pilot on
Dec. 10, 1911;
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

When your feet are wet and cold,
and your body chilled through and
through from exposure, take a big
dose of Chamberlaias Cough Remedy,
bathe your feet in hot water before
going 10 bed, and you are almost GER
tain ~ ward OF a severe cold. For
sale by all dealers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

Published weekly and entered at the Post
Office at Wausau as second class matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-11

. HRISTMAS.- in this
+ instance not merely the day.
but the whole holiday season,