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TUNE sprang suddenly from her
little bench overlooking the
RIVER. Mrs. Grogg and her in
- tolerable position persisted in
jumping into June's mind and staying
there. The guests had not yet arrived.
The impulsive girl hurried down and
out of the back door, across the beau
tiful rear porch and down the winding
and twisting little steps toward the
Willard cottages. Mrs. Gregg was sit
ting in the kitchen in stony silence
when June arrived there, a silence
from which weeping had long since
passed.
"Sit down" And Mrs. Grogg gave
up the unbroken chair. "AIs sleeping
II off,
Il just ran in," observed the girl.
Eyes. Tell Mrs. Willard that If Al
gets home with any money tomorrow
I'll save her out what can"
''Oh, didn't come about the rent"
June returned hastily. Il just ran in
to see if there was anything can do
NO. there's nothing can be done. Al
drank before l married him, and he
drinks yet"
June's eyes contracted.
why does he have his own way
about it,"
Because he's my husband I'm scar
ed of Al when he's drunk"
And you're not afraid of him when
he's soberT"
well. no. There don't seem to be
anything particular about Al to be
scared Of"
The horror of drunkenness = that
was it.
Il wouldn't be afraid of him. June
suddenly popped out
The woman looked at her with
v'idened eyes.
The door moved, and al Grogg APP
peared in the doorway in his shirt
sleeves. ccllarless, his hair touseled-
What you got for supper he
growled.
why, ALL didn't think you'd
want any" And the woman's voice
was trembling.
~oh, you didn't think so! Wen, l
want some supperr'
why, Al, amt got any money.
well. why amt youf Come heres
Els fist went up.
"Al." A wall Of terror was In the
voice
June stepped swiftly from behind
the stove and confronted the man. her
small fists clinched- her cheeks fam
ing, her eyes blazing She gls.red at
him ell her contempt and ell her loath-
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ife in many sordld phases. TOOK June

life in many sord1d phases. TOOK June
away.
Have you an evening gown, June,
dear?' asked Mrs. Willard in a matter
OF fact sort of way and eying June
solicitously as she made this abrupt
change in their subject of thought.
Yes" drawled June. 'I'il get it to-
morrow"
I'VE are to have guests this evening"
And Mrs. Willard studied June's height
and figure with calculating eye. Il
have new little dinner dress which
am sure you can wear charmingly. You
are to be my family, my dear" she rat
tied on to cover June's embarrassed
half protests. 81 want you everywhere
with me. We shall have to do some
shopping, you and /. one of these days.
You like pretty things, don't your
why, of course" laughed June, and
she colored under Mrs. Wizards OBJ
vious admiration.
Then you shall have them My,
what pleasure it will be to make
dolly out of you, childi We must run
IlSHL up ana QfeSS.
The new little lace dinner frock did
become June charmingly, but she was
very thoughtful as she sat among the
gay peacocks and elves and gnomes
very thoughtful and very sad, upon
the tiny bench in front of the windows
overlooking the broad river. Her brain
was seething with new ideas. knowl
edge which had been thrust upoI, her,
sympathies which tugged and pulled
at her
First Mrs. Grogg. June had feared
for that forlorn woman, feared for her
at this moment, alone down there with
that animal who had fallen so far
from the image of God. Yet what was
there to fear? Mrs Grogg had en-
dured and was enduring now and
would endure again, and when her
lord and master happened to pe sober
and happened to have any money he
might give his wife little of it, might
take compassion on her dire poverty
and her need. The geraniums proved
that he had trace of the quality con-
cealed in him. 1t was the same old
problem. June's own problem, only in
its most sOrdid form. Dear Nedi There
was no comparison. yet it was always
the man who owned. the man who
gave. The woman could only receive
She could not give because the man
possessing her already owned all that
she had to offer even her love.
On the corner OF Wander street and
Duck alley was Ned. interviewing a
skinny legged girl who SMILED continu-
ously, both while she was pulling up
her stockings and while she was not
In her cheek was a wad Of gum. and in
her eye was all the lively expression
, found in the eye of a dead fish. Ned
Warner dredged for information for
two sordid minutes and went away,
and Officer Herman walked straight
over to the stocking puller.
What did that guy want?" he de-
manded.
HE was astfn' about girl
This party described the girl. didn't
hep"
"Uh-hunh-saw off blond. Say
what is it to you?" And she SMILED
away.
Officer Herman walked back to his
post with a troubled brow. and he
shook has long, narrow head as he
looked after the industrious Ned War
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PERSONALS.

B E. Walters, of Mosinee, was in
the city Saturday.
Mrs. f. e. Collins of Edgar, spent
Saturday in Wausau.
w. j. Mcqueen, of Stratford, was
in WauSau last Saturday.
w. L. Edmonds was in Milwaukee
the past week on business.
ID. j. Gemmil returned to his
home in Oak Park, after visiting at
the home of DR.. II. It. Schlegel.
Miss Ida Anderes has gone to
Valparaiso, Ind, where she will study
music in the University at that place.
Mrs. j. G. Zimmerman of Birnam-
wood, was Wausau visitor yester-
day and gave this office pleasant
call.
Lester LANCE, a student at the
Wausau Business College, spent Sun
day at his home in Irma, returning
to this city Sunday evening
w. C. Landon departed recently
for Klamath Falls, Ore. He went
from here to st. Louis and then to
Pasadena and from there went TO
his destination.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Heinemann,
called to the city on account of the
death of the formers mother, left
for their home in Saskatchewan Val
ley, B. c., yesterday.
Miss Martha Claussen, who has
been employed in the Wisconsin Val
ley Improvement Co.'S office, has re-
signed, and departed for her home in
Valparaiso, Ind, this noon.
Mrs. Louis Lamb of Stevens
Point, arrived in the city Saturday
for a visit with friends. She returned
home yesterday. Mrs Lamb was a
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. W. Harger.
Among those from Marshfeld who
attended the Wausau high school
triangular debate Wednesday were
Mrs. F. Vollmer and daughter, Miss
G. Vollmer, Mrs. w. ID. Connor, Miss
f. Shattuck, Charles Moore and Will
liam Connor, Jr.
Mrs. Max Young, who has been
remaining at the home of her father,
Nathan Heinemann, for several weeks,
went to Minneapolis on Wednesday.
She will return within a few days and
bring her daughter with her, for
stay Of some time.
Leroy Johnson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edmund Johnson, gave his par
ents a great surprise Monday morn
ing He has been in California study
ing law at the University Of Cali
fornia, for the past three years. He
had a business trip to Chicago and
came to Wausau to visit his parents.
You can imagine how surprised they
we're to see him, when they had no
idea but what he was way of in Cali
fornia. He will only remain for a
short time and then return TO Berke-
| ley.
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"Oh, wen, 1t was dull times on the
beat these nightsw


beat these nightsy'
The dusk had deepened into darkness
when Officer Moran's palm proved not
broad enough to carry away the grin
from under his yellow mustache, and
the grin, escaping, broadened into 8
huge laugh.
Blye Stood it with remarkable quiet
ness.
1T seems to me I've been furnish
ing little amusement for the boys"
he surmised. frowning.
"You have" laughed Moran. ITS
what in Scotland they call chasing the
gowk. As for the girl you mention
ed" and he swung his club happily.
Il don't suppose one of US has ever
laid eyes on her."
Blye's black eyes dwelt on Moran
piercingly; then his suave smile came.
"Have cigar" And he passed over
one which Officer Moran kept for
Christmas.
Blye stopped smiling as he walked
away, and his eyes narrowed in con-
NNhAoSC0 AuOOSAJ. I1c SlIOhCd A1o
black Vandyke with his long, lean.
white fingers. They had had their joke
with him, these thick policemen. They
had made him dash madly from corner
to corner, over many weary blocks. but
without knowing that they were doing
so they had convinced him of one
thing-that June lived in this vicinity
and that they all knew of her.
He was passing the corners as he ar
rived at this uncertainty. The corners
were a tangled knot of street and alley
intersections where one might angle
off in almost any direction and go no
where.
Ned Warner at that moment was
sending a score of detectives into this
neighborhood
Tired and half famished, Blye ate his
delayed dinner in company with the
vivacious brunette Tommy Thomas and
the white mustached, pink faced Grin
Cunningham and with a heavy, silent.
thick eyelidded man who wore short
cropped hair on his big round head.
Tommy and Cunningham and Blye
sat for some time together after the
big man had left. They were evident
ly planning something.
Finally all three went out and step
ped into Blyes luxurious limousine.
Before they had gone very far Blye,
sitting by the girl, leaned toward her
and began talking to her in low tones.
By and by the trace of smile came
to her lips.
In tastefully furnished drawing
room a kindly looking woman held the
bubDling Tommy's hand between both
her own while they talked. There were
both sadness and loneliness in Mrs.
Willard as she drew Tommy 10 a seat
on the couch beside her, but she had
spirit, too, for she displayed a most
eager interest in the beautiful portrait
OF June Warner, which presently peer
ed up at her from inside the lid of
June's little gold watch.
When Tommy rejoined the men in
the brilliantly lighted limousine she
handed Blye June's watch with tri-
umphant laugh.
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June suddenly looked up and saw in
the doorway between the portieres of
heavy velours the dark, handsome face
Of Gilbert Blye!
Tut, tut, Orin!'' came the suaye,
voice of the black Yandyked man. Il
won't have this little runaway bride
taught bad habits"
June flushed and turned with some
embarrassment to Mrs. Willard, who
followed Blye into the doorway.
Blye. Always Blye! He lowered
about after they had lounged into the
billiard. room and conservatory, but
the white mustached man monopoliZed
June. Every time she tried to get
away, from him Tommy. Thomas man
aged by some accident to throw them
together again. June finally left the
guests and went to her room. She had
decided to go back to the O'Keefe
house of refuge.
Closer and closer had gathered the
siege on the house of O'Keefe. Bit by
bit. atom by atom, traces had been
picked up.
Closer and closer grew the tolls until
Marie no longer dared stick her nose
out of the window lest some one
should report her 10 Ned or to June's
father and mother But Ned's detec-
tives finally got definite information.
One day a long, lean slinker with
cadaverous cheeks came up to Ned
from Duck alley and looked up at the
O'Keefe residence with solemn inter
est.
That's the place." he said.
''Yes; it's the place" Ned Warmers
voice was hollow, but there was ju-
bilant ring in it. Go and tell Mr..
Moore"
The lean individual hurried away
and presently came back on the driver
seat of limousine. Inside were the
stern faced father and the gentle faced
mother Of June and June's bosom
friend, the ebullient Iris Blethering,
and Bobbie Blethering.
'This Is the place." said stern John
Moore, looking up at the narrow front
Of the O'Keefe residence, and, stalking
out, he helped the others alight.
Sammy OKeefe came to the door in
answer to Ned's ring, and much
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he reached Traffic Officer Schmeltz Pa
trolman O'Malley had carried the word
10 that corner from Officer Toole, so
that Schmeltz was prepared for the
coming of Blye, and by the time Blye
got away from Schmeltz the word was
all through the district.
"Have you seen a girl wearing fur
cap with green tassel over one carr"
Gilbert bye had asked this question
of fourteen policemen. Something
struck him as familiar in the way this
one held a thick forefinger in the deep
dimple OF his chin. 1t was Officer
Toole again-
Sure" said Officer Toole, with re-
markable promptness. "She went by
here not minute ago. Right that
way And he pointed up the hin to-
ward Officer Morr!sey: then as Blye
started of. painting. he held his side.
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SIXTF EPISODE.
The Siege Of the House Of 0'Keefe
CHAPTER |.

PLATOON ofthe finest wheeled
la out Of the station house and
A down Deshley street, their
g brass buttons cleaning in the
light of the sunset. Opposite the little
fountain of the Cupid with the Clipped
nose and in front of Tim Courky's
saloon the platoon halted and saluted
the bent and twisted Widow O'Keefe,
standing on her doorstep. Had not
the veteran Dan O'Keefe been the most
popular man on the force? In all his
life Dan had never made an arrest off
his own beat or On if be could help it
or made trouble for brother officer or
refused to lie for his friends.
Out Of the third story window leaned
a pair of cleaning gums. surrounding
which was the pleasing, high cheek
boned face of the one who was knowQ
stepped across to convey the time of
day to the Widow O'Keefe. Sammy
O'Keefe, a ne, tall boy with a curly
head, came to the door and gripped the
hand of Sergeant Clancy with the grip
of man.
Suddenly the red gummed young
woman in the window frightened until
she glistened and waved a red hand
theoretically, the Widow O'Keefe put
twenty additional wrinkles of joyous
welcome in her countenance, young
Sammy O'Keefe Strengthened a full
inch and pinked with pleasure. Ser
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POTASH AND PERLMUTTER.'

Harper's Weekly speaks of "Potash
& Perlmutter' as marvellous "joy
ride" and du ing its unprecedented
run at the Cob IN Theatre, from which
playhouse the famous comedy comes
direct to the Grand opera house,
soon nearly a million men and women
took that ride and most of them re-
turned for another trip. No other
play produced in New York City ever
drew so many patrons in that length
of time and no play ever created
more pure JOY by its clean, bright fun.
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A WORD FROM CALIFORNIA.

A postal card was received in the
city yesterday from Mrs. w. O. Car
rier, from Clairmont, California, writ
ten on Tuesday, Feb. 23d, in which
she says:
81 am stopping at the Clairmont
Inn tonight and have had a visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Haseltine
from Ripon, Wis. We expect Mr..
and Mrs. James McCrossen and Mr.
Mrs. Hiram Stewart here to lunch to-
morrow. The San Diego exposition
is beautiful beyond description"
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Announcement

| have this day bought the
stock of shoes and rubber
goods in this store at Third
Ave. and Clark ST.. hereto
fore conducted by F. c. Brach
under the firm name of Kuhl-
mann & Brach. | will be
pleased to see all my old
friends and customers and
will assure them of the most
kind and courteous treatment
that it is in my power to give.
February "a, 1915.
Yours for service,
R. c. KUEILMANN.
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wrinkled face poked itself out of the
second story window.
Does June Warner live here?' asked
Ned.
mo, sir
The head in the second story window
was jerked in Immediately. and there
was a hasty shuttle on the stairs lead
ing to the third floor. shuttle made by
setting up the right foot first and pull
ing the left one up TO it. Also there
was a mad scrambling on the third
floor, while Sammy 0'Keefe in the
front doorway looked the throng in the
ere with admirable truthfulness and
sWore that there was Nc June Warner
there. 70 June Moore. no June any
thing; that there had never been any
June In the house except the one be-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-03-02
THE HEART
is THE DYNAMO
OF LIFE

It is the perpetual motion of exist
ence.
One of the commonest symptoms of
heart disease is shortness of breath and
weakness upon the slightest eXertion,
with swelling of the feet and sometimes
abdomen. Many cases of heart disease
exist in persons who are apparently ro-
bust and who are not supposed to have
anything the matter with them. Heart
disease occurs as a complication OF
Brights disease, the heart becoming very
much enlarged and gradually weaker, as
life advances. Rheumatism is also one
of the commonest causes of heart dis
ease.
If you are conscious that your heart
is any more a part of you than your
foot it is a matter for immediate con-
su1tation with DR.. Turbin, the expert
specialist and surgeon. Prompt at
tention oftentimes saves serious after
trouble and possible death. The
chances for recovery depend largely
upon to what extent the disease has
progressed. With the aid of suitable
heart tonics which will act on the
muscles of the heart and enable it to
perform its functions, patients are en-
abled to live to an old age with COM
parative ease and freedom from pain.
DR.. Turbin has specialized on the
heart for twenty years. He has seen
every phase of heart weakness; has
freated everything in the shape of a
weak heart. He has found that often
the so-called heart troubles are not
from the heart at all. He can show
you wherein your hope may lie.
Have yoh futtering of the heart?
Have you skipping of the heart?
Have you palpitation of the heart?
Have you pain in the region of the
heart?
Hav you pain in side of shoulder
blade?
Have you shortness of breath?
Have you weak, sinking, cold or dizzy
soells2
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Gifts of books, games and other ar
ticles of use for the newly opened
reading room of the Presbyterian
church in the west side chapel, will
be gladly received by those in charge
of the work Mrs. Fred Kardeil is
supervisor Hours 4 to 9 p. m. on
Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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spells !
Have you rheu-
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II a We you
throbbing of the
heart IN excite
n1ent or exer-
ton?
If any of these
questions apply
to your case, it
would be W e II
for you to take
immediate steps.
Consult with DR..
T ii r b i n. DR..
Turbin is an ex-
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and medicines.
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PROPERTY PURCHASE.

Henry G. McCrossen has recently
purchased the residence property of
Chas. Davidson at $40 Hamilton
street, and he is now in possession Of
the same. The residence was former
ly owned by Philip Murray. Mr.. Nc
Crossen and family DO not vacate
their present home until May lst.
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The concert was a complete success
and Mrs. Abercrombie received an
ovation of beautiful flowers, and
hearty congratulations from her hosts
of Wausau friends.
Her encores were such as to touch
the popular heart and the verdict was
general. To the last encore she re-
sponded with "Home Sweet Home"
playing her own accompaniment,
making the old song ring through the
auditorium till it awakened fond
memories of hometide in every person
within the range of her voice.
Her accompanied for the evening
was Miss Nina Coye of Stevens Point,
whose fine work on the piano added
to the pleasure of the evening.
Mrs. Abercrombie sang at the
Normal school in Stevens Point last
evening.
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ABERClsOMBIE RECITAL.

The song recital of Lulu Jane
Abercrom bic, which had been looked
forward to by our music loving people
with anticipations of much pleasure,
was given at the Grand opera house
on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Aber-
crombie commenced her career in
Wausau and she has always been very
popular and daring the years of young
laoyEaod spent here she was in great
demand on account of her magnificent
voice. All felt at the outset that she
had career before her. The local
public expected much from her on
Tuesday evening and were not disap-
pointed. From the opening number
to the closing she had an audience
that was wildly enthusiastic. 1t is
unnecessary for the Pilot to tell of
her charming stage presence and her
dramatic ability as she has often APP
peared here in concert work. During
the few years in which she gave her
full time to musical work before 60
ing to Europe she gained an enviable
reputation in this country, but her
two years of study abroad has added
much to her already remarkable voice
On Tuesday evening she appeared in
wide range of music from the most
difficult of English, Italian and Ger
man TO simple heart ballads, her in
depreciation displaying musical COM
prehension and fine execution. In
her English songs, there was an OPP
portunity 10 display clear enuncia-
tion and simplicity of style not com
mon with the greatest of singers
The following was the program;
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Continued next week.
This story is being illustrated by
moving pictures at the Grand Opera
House every week.
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First Publication March 2-last March 10.
Probate Notice.

FilSt publication March last MARCH 10.
Probate Notice.
State Of Wisconsin, County Court for Mara
thon County In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at the special
term of the County Court 10 be held In and
for said county at the court house in the city
of Wausau. in said county. on the 4th Tues
day, (being the 23rd day. Of March, A. ID.
1915 al ten O'Clock a. m, the following matter
will be heard and considered
The application of Ella Mass for the ap-
pontment Of Frank Trantow Of the county OF
Marathon. Wisconsin, as administrator Of the
estate Of Ernst Mass late Of the town OF Ber-
lin. in said county, deceased.
Dated March LIST, 1915.
By order Of the Court.
+. f. BUMP.
HENRY MILLER County Judge.
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CHAPTER II.

UNE, busy with her own
thoughts, did not notice the
closed cab which stood at the
u Corners the next morning as