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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-08-11
MEN AND ISSUES
THAT FIGURE IN
WAR SITUATION
To Count Leopold BerChtoId, AUS
train Foreign Minister, Must
Be Given First Place
BROUGHT ABOUT CONTEST
1t Is Understood He Believed the Time
Ripe for Favorable Action-Career
of Nikola Pashitch, SerVlan
Premier-Russia's Part
In Embrogio.

Count Leopold Berchtold, a quiet
man, with English manners, sitting at
a desk in the foreign Office in Vienna
such is the unimposing presence of
the Austro-Hungarian statesman who
precipitated a situation more serious
to Europe than any that has arisen
since the events that Immediately pre-
ceded the Franco-Prussian war. And
the most extraordinary feature of the
crisis is that it should have arisen di-
rectly out of the assassination, by a
Servian, of Francis Ferdinand, the
archduke who in his life time vas re-
garded as the frebrand of Europe.
Thus the archduke, after death, as he
was in life, remains the great men
acing factor in the affairs of European
Christendom.
Count Berchtold assumed the port
folio of foreign affairs at Vienna upon
the retirement of Count Won Aehren-
thai, who put through the act of an
nexation of Herzegovina, which
set in motion the wild passions that
eliminated in the assassination of the
Austrian heir to the throne.
Russia Back of Servia.
When he took office as the director
of the foreign Office, Berchtold found a
situation full of portent. Servia, in
censed by Austria's absorption of ter
ritories which formerly had belonged
to Turkey and to which Servia consid-
cred itself the heir, because they are
populated largely by people of Serb
race, YVES clamoring for the undoing
of that which had been accomplished
by the decree of annextion. Behind
the clamor at Belgrade could be heard
the sinister undertone of the growl OF
the Russian bear.
Berchtold set himself to work to re-
duce relations to a normal basis. Be
hind him we're the two other members
of the triple alliance--Germany ard
Italy-and opposing him were Russia,
the self-imposed protector of all the
Slavic nations, including Servia, and
the two other members Of the triple
entente, Great Britain and France.
Broke Up Balkan League.
Then came the Balkan war in 1912,
in which the Bulgarian and Servian
Slavs crushed the power of Turkey in
Europe The formation of the Balkan
alliance and the utter defeat of Turkey
were startling events which caught
Berchtold mapping. His next rnove
was to break up the Balkan league
by stimulating the land hunger of
Servia and Greece, with their ally,
Montenegro, and turning them against
Bulgaria, which was the predominant
military factor in the war of 1912.
The Graeco-Servian success, though,
were another development for which
Berchtold was unprepared. After Bull
garia had been defeated by the combi-
nation of five nations, including Tur-
key, the clamor az Belgrade against
the annexation Of Bosnia Herzegovina
by Austria was resumed with re-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-08-11
ADDITION TO HIS EFFICIENCY
Business Manager Would Do Well to
Remember That His Personality
Counts for Much.

He's really very agreeable outside
of business hours" How often we hear
this remark about a certain type OF
man at the head of large enterprise.
He is the man whose office demeanor
is characterized by the GOODNESS of a
SNOWFALL and the Indifference of a
stone
In his desire to become efficient and
make every one about him the same
he squeezes every bit of human feel
ing out of his relations with his sub
ordinates and becomes part of a
working system, as dehumanized as
his filing system or his adding ma
chine or the typewriter which his
stenographer manipulates. During Of
fee hours he is machine which die
tates letters, looks over reports and
develops efficiency Gut-'he's really
very agreeable outside of business
hours"
This man needs to knew that, his
ability being efficient. he becomes
more efficient as he becomes more hui
man, Just as machine is more eff
cient the more machine-like it be-
comes. He needs to learn that the
man at the head of big concern
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Austrian War ReCOrd-300 Years


and to
soblesk
defeats
placuet
f7f7-Prince a
siesa
al MoIE~itz
755-sevn years Austrians
Leuthen
tlansde at Legntz.
1762-Ausrians a Freiburg.
Napoleon Lodi Arcoa Rlvol
1eoo--Deeaed by
by La Montebelo.
1ao5- at Napoleon
soopeae at Essng Defeated
VIennata
1sso-petaed by Napoleon a solferno
Frederick
SadoH
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Japanese Theater,

To foreigner, stage management
in Japan would appear somewhat &C.
centric. When an actor is killed dur
ing the play man in black rushes on
the stage and holds large clock be-
fore the supposed corpse, who soon
rises and runs off the stage.
The scenes are never shifted. but
the whole stage revolves on wheels,
while between the acts the children
among the audience rush behind the
curtain and play until the drum beats
for another act. The performance BE-
gins at 10 a. M, and the audience pro-
vision themselves for "a hours, curling
up on mats and smoking the whole
time.
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cHApTER xxIlI-contirued


The twelve horsemen were now sit
at one end of the lists. Two mounted
monitors had stationed themselves on
either side of the rope-barrier; a third
stood behind the upright from whose
arm was suspended the silver ring.
The herald blew blast, calling the
title of the first of the knights. In
stantly, with lance at rest, the latter
galloped at full speed down the lists.
There was sharp musical clash, and
as he dashed on, the ring flew the
full length of its tether and swung
back. whirling swiftly. 1t had been a
close thrust, for the iron pike-point
had smitten it's rim. A cheer went up,
under cover of which the rider looped
back outside the lists to his former
position.
In an upper tier of the stand a spec
tator made a cup of his hands. THE
knight IF the Golden Spur against the
field" he called. What odds?"
Five to one. Spotteswood." voice
answered.
Good" And both made memoran-
DUN on their cuffs:
A second time the trumpet sounded.
and the Knight of Castlewood flashed
ingloriously down the roped aisle-a
miss.
Again and again the clear note rang
out and a mounted figure plunged by,
and presently. in a burst of cheering,
the herald proclaimed The knight of
the Black Eagle-onei" and Chilly
Lusk, in old-rose doublet and inky
plume cantered back with a silver
ring upon his pike.
No simple thing, approaching leis-
urely and afoot, to send that tapering
point straight to the tiny mark. But
at headlong gallop, astride a blooded
horse straining to take the bit. deed
requiring a nice eye, perfect seat
and an unwavering arm and hand!
Those knights who looped back with
their pixies thus braceleted had spent
long hours in practice and each rode
as naturally as he breathed; yet more
than once horse SHE'D in mid-course
and at the too-eager thrust of the spur
bolted through the ropes. Valiant
made his first essay-and missed
with the blood singing in his ears.
The ring flew from his pike, catching
him swinging blow on the temple in
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repeatedly demonstrated it's prefer.
ence for Austrian rule, the campaign
for liberating the Servian brothers
from the Austrian yoke has been kept
up with frequent outbursts of anti.
Austrian clamor in Belgrade. To this
clamor Russia, always jealous of Aus.
tria,' has lent her secret and some
times her open support.
The annexation Of Bosnia erze.
govina by Austria In 1909 produced a
wild demand in Servia for immediate
war to liEerate the Bosnian brothers
from Austrian rule. At that time,
however, Russia was not ready for &C
ton against Austria, so the clamor
spent itself in torrld speeches and
fervid press declarations.
Occupied AdrlatIc Ports.
Pashitch was premier of Servia in
1912, at the outbreak of tie Balkan
war, He saw an opportunity to block
Austria's long-sought road to the
Aegean sea The first objective points
Of the Servian armies In the first war
were the ports of the Adriatic, in
what is now Albania. These, with the
help of Montenegro, Servia occupied
in the first stages of the struggle.
At this stage, however, Pashitchs
calculations we're upset by Austria
Acting In conjunction with Italy,
which also had pretensions to the
country Inhabited by the aboriginal
stock of the Balkan peninsula, the
Austrian government succeeded in in.
ducing Europe to order Servia, Greece
and Montenegro out of the Adriatic
territory occupied by them, and set
aside this region as an Independent
state, to be called Albania.
Servlsns Nursed Their Wrath.
The negotiations which Pashitch
conducted in this phase of the Balkan
struggle were protracted and delicate,
but eventually the Austro-Italian de-
mand was carried out, and the Ser
VANS nursed their wrath
For the success Of his defiant atti-
tude toward Austria, Pashitch depend
ed almost entirely upon Russia. 1t
was realized clearly by General Put
mix, the Servian chief of staff, that re-
sistance TO Austria upon the field of
battle would be unthinkable, SO far
as an ultimate triumph for Servian
arms is concerned.
In the course of the past score Of
years SeTvia has been conducting an
active agitation among the Slavic
population of southern Austria, and
Pashitch undoubtedly counts upon in
ternal disorders in the rear of an adj
yancing Austrian army to embarrass
the enemy in a campaign into Seryia.
OF the success of this plan there is
grave doubt, however, as the Catholic
and Moslem Serbs Of Austria have
no hankering for Servian rule.
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The car was not the smart Pan
hard in which she had so often spun
down the avenue or along the she'll
roads of the north shore 1t lacked
those fin-de-siecle appurtenances which
marked the ne plus ultra of its kind.
as her obseryant eye recognized; but
it ran staunch and true. The powerful
hands that gripped the steering-wheel
were brown with sun and wind, and
the handsome face above it had a look
of keenness and energy she had never
surprised before. They passed many
vehicles and there were few whose &C.
cupants did not greet him. In iact,
as he presently remarked. it was a
saving of energy to keep his hat off;
and he tossed the Panama into the
rear seat. On the rim of the village
a group raised a cheer to which he
nodded laughingly, and further on a
little old lady on a timid yine-colored
porch beside church, waved black
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-08-11
Fiahtlna PIANO Moths.

1t wasn't the rent he was after, the
piano man said; he just wanted to
fix the piano. that was ALL
Tune it. do you mean?" the woman
asked.
oh. no" said he. ito light the
moths"
Then he opened the case and tied
little bags OF camphor in the corners
We do that two or three times a
year with all our rented pianos" he
said IF some kind Of preventive
is not used there is danger of moths
getting into the felt back of the key.
board We can't depend upon the
renters to attend to that little job for
Us, so we send one o. our own men
around"
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RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN INDIA
Influence of the West is Being Strong
" Felt Throughout the
Country.

midas religious and social progress
is undergoing important reshapeTnent-
Caste is loosening. Adherents Of Hin
Grism sre divided at present into three
camps: tie ceremonalists, or those
who in orthodox faith adhere TO the
traditional rites of worship and sacri-
fee 20 the ancient gods; the reform
lists, who. holding to the main ten
cts of Hinduism, are breaking away
from caste and idolatry. and the edu-
Gated Hindus. whose views are being
highly colored by influences from the
West and whose religion, as far as any
one can perceive. is often little more
than a name.
Christianity is adding not less than
/ .OO0 900 converts during the past
year. but almost entirely from the low
est Hindu society, which has little in
luence upon the educated communi-
ties. The Indian tendency seems 10 be
to retain the main principles and
forms OF Hinduism. but to reyivify
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doubled appropriateness and noisy
rancor.
This agitation, il has been pointed
out by Berchtold, was the direct cause
of the tragedy at Sarajevo, when the
archduke and his morganatic wife fell
by bullets fired by a Servian. The
Austrian minister of foreign affairs
demonstrated in the judicial inquiry
that followed the crime, that Servian
officials, civil and military, had been
involved in the events that led to the
assassination.
Deemed Time for Action.
The moment for action had come.
Berchtold surveyed the international
horizon.
He observed that Russia Was in
volved in big strike which had a rev
olutionary tinge.
That France was in a turmoil of po-
litical uncertainty.
That Great Britain was facing an
internal CONFUSION as a result of the
Ulster situation.
The Austrian ultimatum to Servia,
demanding an apology for Servia's
part in the tragedy of Saraievo and a
suppression of the anti-Austrian agi-
tation in Belgrade followed promptly
in the midst of the preoccupation of
the triple entente.
Berchtold realizes more clearly than
anybody else that he has challenged
the entire Slav world, with the ex-
ception of Bulgaria; that his quarrel
is not with Servia, but with Russia,
which has stood back Of Servia in her
attacks upon Austria
Nikola Pashitch, Servian Premier.
Nikola Pashitch, premier and min
lister of foreign affairs of Servia, has
twice before been the dominant figure
in Servian politics in the course of his
40 years in the public affairs of his
country. His policy always has been
bitterly hostile to Austria-Hungary
and the present crisis in the relations
of the two countries is largely the out
come of his provocative attitude.
Pashitch throughout his career has
conducted a vigorous fight for the
economic freedom of Servia from Aus
tria. By means of railway tariffs and
inspection regulations on the frontier
OF Austria, Servia's natural road to
the markets of western Europe, the
Austrian government has been able to
control Servian trade in pigs and poul-
try, the staple products of Servia.
Ciamor Against Austria.
But the chief grievance of the Ser
VANS has been the continued domina-
ton Of Austria-Hungary over large
population across the frontier which
the Servians maintain Is of Serb
blood Although a considerable part
of this population has contested the
claims Of the Servian jingoes and has
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SYNOPSIS.


John Valiant, a rich society favorite,
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
poration. which his father founded and
which was the principal source of his
wealth. has failed. He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune TO the receiver
Tor the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car. a
white bull dog and Damory court, a neg
lected estate in Virginia On the way to
Damory court he meets Shirley Dand-
ridge. an authenticated beauty, and de-
cides that he is going to like Virginia i'm
mensely- Shirley'S mother, Mrs Dand-
ridge. and Major BIistow exchange rem
lnlScenceS during which Ii is revealed
that the major, ValianJs father, and a
man named Sassoon we e rivals for the
hand OF Mrs. cambridge in her youth
Sassoon and Valiant fought a duel on her
account in which the former was killed
valiant finds Damory court overgrown
with weeds and creepers and decides to
Tehabilitate the place. Valiant saves
Shirley from the bite of a snake, which
bites him. knowing the deadliness Of the
Dlte, Shirley sucks the poison from the
wound and saves his life. Valiant learns
for the first time that his father left Vir-
ginta on account Of a duel in which Doc
tor Southall and Major Bristow acted as
MS fathers seconds. Valiant and Shirley
become good friendG. Mrs. cambridge
faints when she meets Valiant for the
first time. Valiant discovers that he has
fortune in old walnut trees. The yearly
feudal times. is held OF Damory court. At
the last moment Valiant takes the place
or one of the knights. who is sick. and
enters the lists
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mitted hand to him with sweet old
time gesture Katharine noted that he
bowed to her with extra care.
That's Miss Matte Sue Mabry," he
| said, the quaintest, dearest thing you
ever saw. She taught my father his
letters"
Where the Red Road stretched level
before them, he threw the throttle
open for long rush through the
thymy-scented air. The light, late
afternoon breeze drew by them, sweep
ing back Katharine's graceful sinuous
veil and spraying them with doors of
clover and sunny fruit. They passed
orchard clumps bending with young
apples, boundless aisles of green,
young-tasseled corn and shadowy
groves that smelled of fern and sassa-
fras, opening out into more sunlighted
vistas overarched by the intense pene-
trable of the June sky.
r John Valiant had never seemed to
her so wholly good to see, with his
waving hair ruffling in their fight and
the westering sun shining redly on his
face. Midway of this squirt he looked
at her to say: did you ever know a
more beautiful countryside? See how
the pink-and-yellow of those grain
fields fades into the purple of the hills.
Very few painters have ever captured
tint like that. It's like raspberries
crushed in curdled milk
. Ill
she said, her voice jolting with the
speed of their course. Its perfect
pastoral = so different from
our terrific city pace. Of
course it must be a trifle dull at times
seeing the same people al
ways and without the thea
ter and the opera and the whirl about
ore-but the kind of life
one reads about in the nov
els of the South, you know
| suppose one doesn't realize that it
actually exists until one comes to a
Southern place like this. And the
negro servants! How odd it must be
to have a whitehaired old darby in a
brass-buttoned swallowtail for but
lerl So picturesque! At Judge Chal
mers' have feeling all the time that
I'm walking through a stage re-
hearsal."
The car slackened speed as it slid
by a white-washed cabin at whose en-
trance sat a dusky gray-bearded fig
ure. Valiant pointed. DO you see
him?" he asked.
Il see a very ordinarv old colored
man sitting on the doorstep" Katha-
rine replied.
That's Mad Anthony. our local
Mother Shipton. He's prophet and
soothsayer. Uncle Jef,erson--that's
my body servant-insists that he fore
told my coming to Damory Court If
we had more time you could have
your fortune told"
How thrilling!" she commented
with half-humorous irony
He pointed to great white house
set i'll a grove of trees. THAT is
Beechwood,' he told her. ''the Beverly
homestead Young Beverley was the
knight of the Silver Cross. A fine old
place, isn't it? 1t was burned by the
Indians during the French and Indian
War. My great-great-great-gr andfath-
er -" He broke off. But then, those
old things won't interest you"
They interest you great deal,
! don't they?" she asked,
Yes" he admitted, they do. You
see. my ancestors are such new &C
Quaintances, l find them absorbing.
You know when lived in New
York"
Last month"
He laughed little--not quite the
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its rebound, but he scarcely felt it. AS
he Cantered back he heard the majors
bass pitting him against the field.
And then, suddealy, stand and field
all vanished. He saw only the long
level rope-lined lane with its twinkling
mid-air point An eXhilaration caught
him at the feel of the splendid horse
flesh beneath him-that sense of one
ness with the creature he bestrode
which the instructive horseman knows.
He lifted his lance and hefted it, seek
ing its absolute balance, feeling its
point as a fencer with his rapier
When again he bloodred sash
streamed away the herald's cry,
Knight of the Crimson Eose-One,"
set the field hand-elapping. From the
next joust also. Valiant returned with
the gage upon his lance. Two had
gone to the Champion of Castlewood
and two to scattering riders. When
Valiant won his fourth the grand stand
thundered with applause.
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WILL UTILIZE COAL WASTE
Gigantic Central Power Plant is Nov
Under Construction at
.iauto, Pa.

What is believed to be the largest
central power plant in any coal field
In the United States is now being con
structed ey the Lehigh Navigation
Electric company. at Hauto. Pa
AS is well known. the fine sizes Of
anthracite. such as buekwheat No. 5
aud smaller, although containing a
high heat content. possess but little
present value at the mines. The fun
damental idea IN building this power
plant at Hauto. says Coal Age, is to
convert this low-prieed and, from the
monetary standpoint, comparatively
worthless fuel into commercially valu-
able electric current
A considerable proportion of the
fuel mined in the country today is
used in the generation OF electricity
Particularly during the past few years
the idea has been gaining force that il
IS cheaper to manufacture power al
thc mine and transmit it TO the point
Of application than II is to ship the
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MEN WHO SHIELD THE CAR
Palace erenadiers, ESQ Strong, Sc
Iected for Honorable Task for
Their Bravery.

Everybody knows that Russia is
honeycombed with anarchists and no
ruler is In more danger OF assassina-
ton than the car
Foi this reason he is guarded day
and night by intrepid soldiers and a
large corps of detectives in civil dress,
SAYS an exchange. From a standing
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-08-11
Maeician's Mistake

Now" said the magician. SINKING,
Il am not about to extract from this
hat a rabbit That trick is too easy.
will remove from this hat a choice
porterhouse steak. the sort you pay
% cents a pound for After which I
win show you how the trick is done.
so that each of you may easily"
But the magician got no further.
In its eagerness to learn the audience
fairly mobbed him--Puek's Quarterly.
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Iackson.s VICTORY over lndIans.

One hundred years ago the desnl-
tory warfare which Gen. Andrew Jack
son had waged\agsinst the Creek In
dams for. some months culrninated in
the battle of Oakfuskas. The battle
continued for three days. and was
conducted with much ferocity on both
sides. Two hundred of the Indians
were slain, while of General Jack
sons force is were killed and 40
wounded. The victory was particular
IL gratifying TO General Jackson. Dur
ing the winter his troops had been
poorly provisione5 and as a result
much dissatisfaction began to mani
fest itself. Many of the soldiers had
dsss<ssd and returned to their homes
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must have personality if he is to hold
his business together, and that per-
sonality is good thing to keep on
top.
The man who subordinates his per-
sonality to his position is the man who
lets his position run him and who is a
Jobholder before he is man A pitia-
BILE state, indeed, for anybody to find
himself in. Being man with per-
sonality as well as an executive with
a high degree OF efficiency is an ideal
which every business man might well
hold before himself, inside of business
hours or otherwise. -Milwaukee Jour.
nal.
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selected In recognition Of their bravery
in the field and their long service.
Without. exception they are deco
rated, and among the decorations they
can boast the st. Georges cross for
noncommissioned officers and men ia
the most important mark OF distinc.
ton. This was created ty the En-.
peror Alexander / In 1907 as a fifth
class Of the Order Of st. George. II
was designed for those not eligible for
the order proper--that is, for Ion.
commissioned officers and men dis
tinguished by singular acts of bravery