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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-21
Tuesday NOVEMBER 7, 1881.

Ben. Single of Rib Mills took
Thursdays train for Atlanta, Ca, to
attend the Cotton Exchange.
Gen. j. M. Rusk, while in this city,
attended the funeral of Judge Ringle,
whom he had known for many years.
Mrs. w. P. Kelly has the founda-
tion nearly laid for handsome resi-
dence on the brow of the hill in the
eastern part of the city.
j. Homier is now busy packing up
goods to be removed to Mosinee. He
has made preparations to open bank
to be known as the Bank of Mosinee.
Geo. g. Young is the gameiest man
in town. Nearly every day he re-
ceives great lot of wild ducks from
the lower country and the next thing
seen of them they are going off in
pairs to the homes of a large number
of our citizens. Some call George 'a
regular duck of a man."
j. R. Bruneau and family are now
most comfortably located in their new
house.
R. Bauman has his new store fin
ished and already filled with hard
ware.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1881.
j. G. Clarke is four stories high and
has tower. He was elected to repre-
sent Marathon county in the Assem-
bly,.
1t is rumored that the Universalist
Church building has been sold to the
Lutheran church and will be presided
over by Mr.. Reinecke
Mr.. Kolter is now busy repairing
and retitting Music Hail.
Saturday morning the city well in
the street near the McCrossen block
caved in as a team was passing over
it and came near taking team, wagon
and all.
Louis Marchetti has received the
appointment of county judge and has
already qualified for that position.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-21
B. F. WILSON EX-
HIBITS FINE HERD.

One of the herds of cattle that is
attracting great deal of attention
is that of B. f. Wilson of Wausau.
Mr. Wilson is showing a herd of
Guernseys which consists of thirteen
head. The leader of the herd is the
blooded bull, Old Faneuil. In the
herd are four aged cows, two year.
llngs, two calves, 2-year old bull and
a yearling bull. Mr.. Wilson is presi-
dent of the Marathon County Agri-
cultural society and the Great North
ern Life Insurance company. His
farm is his chief hobby. Evening
Wisconsin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-21
FTTER FROM THE EAST.
LITTLE GENEsEE, n. Y,
Sept. IA, rs.

Editor Pilot:
I'VE wandered to the VlIiase' Aoli' We S@'
oenrIt,.- -t. SilIage play ground, that sheltered
yol,.. you a',' yeTe left to greet me, Tom, and few
were ..l15s6 Ia5s - With US upon the green some
14riT wears ago
The quotation may not be quite
..no bnr MS applicable and, in way,
,rne The words came to me as men,
~of long ago, when as STRIPPING of
ofdteen years, siXty-two years ago the
.aming winter, welded the scepter
of.uthoritv, birchen rod, over thir-
tr.three pupils whose ages ranged
from six TO nineteen years. The school
io,so has been a thing of the past
far many years. The forest by which
- uas surrounded has given way to
o,ltiyated fields but the old spring is
+horo and its water is as, sweet and
n,latabIe as in days of yOre. The
iocation is in the township of Brook
faId Tjoga Co., Pa, and this particu-
Iar locality was locally known as Mink
uoIIow or Ililltown, both names be-
ing particularly applicable. | met
but four persons whom | ever saw be-
fore and TWO of those had no remem-
brance of me- One day in that local
i+r WAS sufficient. More than fifty
Years had passed since my last visit
there Many Of the younger men and
boys of the olden time gave their
lives in the Civil war, and young
children then are now grandparents.
Tattended the fOrty-seventh annual
reunion of the S5th n. \. Reg. at
Riyerhurst Park a few days ago. The
entire regiment, except one company
on detached service, was captured at
Plymouth, April 2Oth, 1864, and was
confined at AnderSOnyille, Charleston
and Florence prison pens and paroled
at Wilmington n. c., March 20th,
lsBl. l1uL itO ulGlIOClS VI blidJ ICSl-
ment are now living and about 70|
we're at the reunion. OF course other
veterans were present, 50 that about
l2O Of the "old boys" were present
and enioyed stories Of bivOuac, march
and battle. The address was made
by a man who, as a seven year old
boy went into camp with his father
who was surgeon of the 85th n. Y,
and went to the front with the regi-
ment and was with it two years. The
address was 4 reminiSence of Incl !
dents, marches and battles of the
regiments during the time ne was
with it. The "boys" enjoyed the
talk and the speaker was frequently |
Interrupted by applause.
Two weeks more and the National !
Encampment will be in session at |
Washington go under convoy" of |
a ac0mrade Of the S5th who was an in.
innate friend of my two brothers who |
we're in that regiment. One is buried |
at Andersonville and the other at |
Minneapolis, Mimi. d NJ MAXSONo
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-21
FOR SALE.

Registered Holstein Bull Calf,
months old, we'll bred, we'll marked
well developed. $50.
2w W. R. WOODRUFF, Schofeld.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21

about the Liverpool docks have an often
sive method Of enforcing the duties Of citi
zenship, their brethren In Ireland are not
less patriotic in a quieter way. A few
months ago a frankly anti-Englisb but
likewise anti-German paper Of Galway
was complaining that on account OF re-
cent enhstments it was impossible to get
gang Of lockers together TO unload
ship" ard everywhere In Ireland, as Lord
Kitchener himself admits, the response to
appeals for recruits has been "magnif-
cent" Indeed, it is only necessary to look
over the lists Of casualties to realize that
the Irish have done all that could properly
be expected of them.
The obvious reason is that the majority
understand very we'll that it is not Eng
land they are fighting for, but their own
liberty and well-being, and the well-being
and liberty Of all men. If it were merely
a question of Englands interests there
would be few enlistments and emigration
would not have fallen off as it has fallen
off since the war began. But If there are
men who still believe the cause is not
worth three rows Of pins to them it would
be well to let them emigrate. They cannot
he q serious loss to England, and in Ire
land they would surely not be missed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
Coercing Irish Emigrants.

There Is sufficient justice in the Bishop
Of Limerick's protest against the manner
In which Irish enigrants, or would-be emf
grants, have been dealt with at the docks
In Liverpool. "They are supposed to be
free men," he writes, "but they are made
to feel they are prisoners who may be
compelled to lay down their lives for n
cause that is not worth three rows Of pins
% them"
Seeing national service is not compul-
sorry in England, TO say nothing Of Ire
land, II is impossible by any means to de
fend such violent coerciye measures. and
II the reports we have heard are true it
would be interesting 10 learn upon what
authority the steamship lines undertake
20 discriminate between their passengers.
Most accounts intimate, however, that
popular feeling was the real controlling
factor and that the owners Of the vessels,
no less than the passengers themselves,
were compelled 10 submit by the threat Of
strike.
1t 10 curious 10 remark that II the men
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
Arnold Benefits Advice.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Last week one Of the New York
papers published a few paragraphs from
Arnold Bennett to the effect that England
should call no more soldiers, because soldiers
are extensive and it Is uncomfortable TO
economic. The attitude and the argument
are what one would expect OF the five powers.
Nay ask you through your columns to re-
call TO the Americans whom he addressed
that our action and our faith have been diff
ferent always? lie says. mo nation can do
more than il cam" More than q hundred
FEARS ago we proved (the sentiment is crys-
tallized in the vernacular) that "you can al
WAYS do what you've got to-" II is half a
century or more since Emerson wrote:
$50 nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When duty whispers low Thou mustp
The youth replies 4 cam"
English gentlemen, thank God, have an
swered the call Of honor. Englshmen Of the
humblest have gone nobly to help their fell
lows in the harvest field that was ploughed
with shells and soyn with bullets. Those
that love comfort better than country or hu-
nanity still hang back, and voice must be
lifted, here and there. against such base
D, lily -wisdom, even il IL Is only mine.
R0YALL C0NVERS.
Rosemont, Penn, Nov. 0, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
Preserving the National Heart.

One short sentence in DR.. Charles JEFF
ferson's latest lecture at the Broadway
Tabernacle sums up all of his arguments
on "the perils of preparedness" He elab-
crates the theme and plays all manner Of
variations upon it, but, stripped Of orna-
ments, this is what it amounts to: "Mili-
tary preparedness is perilous because of
the effect it has upon the hearts of ma
tons"
All of the lecturers departures from
this single thought are only apparent. He
wanders at times, and at times appears to
be approaching actual conditions, but no
sooner does he come in contact with plain
facts known to all the world than he re-
lapses again to consideration of the ma
tional heart and the Importance of leaving
IL undisturbed. 1t is a little difficult at
times TO reconcile realities with Dr. Jeffer-
sons teachings, but apparently his aim is
u show that realities do not matter. II
his theory is right the facts must be made
TO fit it, and if the facts will not fit 1t then
they must be dismissed from our minds as
unworthy and more or less disreputable
But the theory must by all means be pre-
served, or something will go seriously
wrong with the national heart.
The essence of DR.. Jefferson's doctrine
IL that war is impossible nowadays. This
may seem 10 matter-of-fact observers a
somewhat daring assumption, but that is
A
because they attach too much Importance
to facts. The proof that war is impossible
IN spite Of appearances lies in the univer
sal dislike Of aggression. IAN aggressive
war;" says DR.. Jefferson, "is outlawed by
the common consent of mankind. No
Christian nation can any longer wage,
with the consent OF its people, war am
bilious or aggressive" Hence, it follows
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
British Losses.
From the Springfield Republican,

FTorn the Springfield Republican,
Terrible as have been the losses OF the
great Continental armies, it is in way more
notable that the British losses should have
mounted up TO practically half million men.
Before the war it would have seemed almost
incredible that so many men as that should
have been sent abroad to fight; English no
lions Of participation in a Continental war
have been on the basis Of the professional
evolutionary army. Before the Boer war
was ended an army Of million had been
created, but few believed that a Continental
war would last long enough for a great force
Of volunteers to be fitted TO contend against
European armies. England still thought OF
the Crimean war rs a great war; yet British
losses apart from disease, came TO but 1907 !;
all England's wars put together would hardly
make up such total Of loss as has been
incurred in the last fifteen months. The total
shows that there has been no Sinking OF
hard hghting, and it is certain that the losses
have been increased by blunders due to *
norance and inexperience.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
RESPONSIBILITY
Rests with Those Who Hesitated
After Peril Was Disclosed.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: So many Democrats, when the Wilson
administration Is criticised for not attacking
the preparedness problem sooner, counter by
the statement that the Republicans did moth
ing In all the years they were in power that
it appears necessary to explain the obvious.
When the Republicans we're In power the
necessity for an increase In the army and
navy had not arisen. We were constantly
being told that another great war was an
impossibility. Under such circumstances any
attempt at preparedness would have been
met with violent opposition.
Even now, with the necessity so painfully
apparent, the opposition is great The need
for powerful army and navy was as plainly
indicated year ago as now and was pointed
out by far-seeng men. How did President
Wilson meet the situation? By speech in
which he announced that 1--WE are too proud
to fight"
If il should be shown later on that our
efforts at preparedness have come too late
to save US from invasion, terrible burden OF
responsibility will rest on the Wilson ad-
ministration and the Democratic party, and
party of incompetence into power.
Your correspondent Mr.. Errington, who
criticses in your issue Of the 18th recent
communication of mine which you were good
enough to print, sees no occasion for any
thing more than the meagre programme OF
the President. He thinks that II we provide
ourselves with plenty of arms, a mob of men
slightly trained "for very brief period each
year" could easily be whipped into shape
TO use these arms.
1t Is quite apparent that Mr.. Errington
has had no experience in whipping men
into shape" for military purposes. The
writer happens to have been one OF the units
comprising the Army of the Potomac and
has an intimate knowledge OF the time re-
quired 70 make man into real soldier. Nr
Errington makes the mistake OF thousands
of others in thinking that three thousand
miles of water forms an inseparable barrier
to an invading army. Nothing could be fur
Their from the truth. With our thousands OF
miles of sea coast, hostile army, as all ex-
perts admit, could land at many exposed
noints in spite of anything our navy could
do at its present strength, and, once landed,
such an army could live "of the country
while it was reducing our cities to RUNS and
Lowing taxes on our people, as poor, bleeding
Belgium is being taxed now.
This country has always learned Its MILL
tarv lessons by dearly bought experience IN
flood and treasure, and probably always will.
New York, Nov. Is, 1915. NJ. l. H.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
THE CERMAN-AMERICANS HARD LOT
He Increasingly the Periodicals Although Germany OIL
Hostile Acts Have Sink the Lusiania and Blow Up
Muniion Plants.

dent Wilson are becoming extremely em...
sve There was onlyone nation 10 be xu,,l
ed against, the Japanese-England's alli..
and Germany would have been the n.,r,.,
and best ally of the United States. Ns-.-
would japan have dared to make the sl,,as
est move against this country had she ~.
obliged to encounter Germany. This III ~,
ing between the two nations bound WITH !.
many ties Of friendship and common Inv.
est Is the gain Of Japan, who has gained -
much by the jealousy and stupidity Of \,
white antagonists. Not only is Chin. !.
its mercy, even the Indian Empire seem,
to be shaky; and Japan wouldn't hesitate.
second to hasten its downfall and 10 thr,.,
the dagger into the back Of the ally, eosI,
she hope to profit by this.
1t is well understood that their doctr,n. 4.
Asia for the Asiatics; or, more defnitelv. q.
the Japs. II they could gain this end d
would not be at all impossible tina. Ia,
would make peace with Germany and ,u,,
against England.
This war has brought many a surpr,s ..
Asquith said and II might bring more n
the last elections were eye-openers, the ons,
next year will be a clean knockout, and y
the President now criticises the hyphen-s,
rather German-American- latter will ~
turn the favor then. Hyphen, hyphsn n,
great word Of the hour With the excett,.,
Of the much despised red Indians. we am N
| hyphens-some more, some less. One TIN,
is certain, this turning Of great part Al
the industry Of this country into murder
industry can only end In disaster
If the United States had Kept strictly nsv.
trail, instead Of feeding this terrible conaars
| ton in Europe In the interest Of a few greed,
INSCRIPTIONS individuals, the fire would hsy,
died out this good while, simply for want a.
| food. Instead Of misery and hard .ins
with untold sufferngs, peace would hsv,
brought us boom in business such as thi,
country never saw before, but every day Of
European devastation and ruinstion will l.,
sen the chances of boom. Ruined nation,
are not good customers, and the panic N
the war traffic will counterfeit the benefit. Al,
peace.
As TO the many plots we read 90 much
about. Well, il is a right that no sensibs
man disputes, TO destroy the plants Of he
enemy, and II American neutrality-vhlA
will be byword in Europe for coming ssu.
!. erations-allows Bethlehem 10 be an ammu.
'piton plant of the Allies, you couldn't eou.
plain, even if Zeppelins would come over h
destroy them; and all this talk Of Gemms
disturbing "the peaceable industry Of tbs
peace-lpving nation" is nothing but disgust,
ing, hyppcritical rot II in future war Of
the United States against Japan an Amer.
lean would destroy japanese ammunition n
the krupp works his picture would .bs n
every American paper as hero.
A sTAEHLE.
Jersey City, Nov, IT, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
Muddlers Defiant.
(Curtain.)
itor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: May the writer be permitted to in.
dorse all that w. L. s. said in his article in
yours of the 10th inst, "Muddlers Defiant
To my mind no figure in the worlds catas
trophe stands out in brighter relief than does
that OF Mr. Asquith. From that memorable
day when the brave King Of the Belgian'
sent over his appeal for help to his recent
account OF his stewardship in Parliament, Mr.
Asquith has measured up big timber"
Take his recent account in Parliament, No
ducking or lodging there. no ninching OF
blaming il on some other fellow. When was
such courage in face of such frightful evils
ever surpassed?
Let US make no mistake about this. lie
stands for all that humanity and civilization
hold dear, against scientific barharism, and
the world of democracy will some day pay
tribute to his name. T.. W.
Providence, r. l., Nov. Is, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
The Power of Suggestion.

To what degree the movies are able TO
incite to crime is, perhaps, impossible to
determine accurately but their power OF
suggestion is singularly demonstrated by
the case of John Stevenson, of Hutchinson,
Kan. Mr.. Stevenson, according to news
dispatch. is a farmland at Hutchinson
dairy, and he came to this country not
long ago as an immigrant. He had holl-
day recently and promised himself day
of pure enjoyment in the city. His pro-
Unfortunately for his days pleasure, one
Of the films showed scenes at sea with the
navy. There was a stiff breeze blowing
and the ships plunged and rocked and the
waves heaved unanimously. 1t reminded
Mr.. Stevenson all too much of his OWL
stormy voyage across the Atlantic, and NJ
became so violently seasick that ne had to
be taken to the hospital. There his case
puzzled the doctors for some time.
Another instance Of the power of sug-
gestion occurred the other day in Mitchell,
S. D., although most people, considering it
from a psychological viewpoint, would not
90 further than to call it pure NERVE" A
prisoner in the Mitchell jail made a saw
out of case knife and then had the happy
thought of using it in broad daylight or
the bars of a window in full view of the
passing populace. Several citizens saw
him at work, but obligingly thought he
was a workman making repairs. With
this tacit cooperation of the suggestible
public, he cut his way through the bars
and escaped.
Powerful as is the influence Of sugges-
ton, there are some natures, however, so
little suggestible that it fails to move them,
and direct injunction must be employed to
obtain results. An interesting case is re-
ported from st. Paul, MINI. It seems that
a very eligible though somewhat obtuse
young man had been calling on a young
woman for a long time without, appar-
emily, perceiving that the kindness of her
reception warranted him in coming TO the
point She had exhausted all the subtle
feminine methods of encouragement with
out effect. Proceeding TO more obvious
means of suggestion, she so arranged that
the gas in the quarter meter played out at
carefully prepared psychological mo-
ment. The young man rose CALAMITY to
the occasion-and produced a quarter.
This happened not once, but every time
she tried the experiment, and finally she
despaired of indirect methods. Being
girl of considerable ingenuity, as, indeed,
she had already demonstrated, she devised
a novel way of stimulating the young man
by direct injunction. One evening as he
was chatting pleasantly along about the
tariff he was greatly startled when the
clock struck ten and instead of the usual
Igentle-voiced cuckoo the well-trained fam
" parrot protruded his head from the
CLOCK and three times hoarsely adiured
him to Pop the question: The galvan-
lied young man popped" Another leap
year is nearly upon US; we retell the story
for what it may be worth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
A Battle Against Greed.

Senator Horizons account Of the work
of the Senate Civil Service Committee, on
which the Governors Budget Conference
is expected to base its estimates and
recommendations, shows that it has been
thorough. It has classified the 1900 sal
aried employees of the state as to duties
and compensation. 1t has taken the tes-
timony of more than 200 corporation
heads and other employers of labor as TO
their business systems, methods and scales
of wages. 1t has obtained data regard
ing the compensation Of the employees of
ten large cities, number Of states and the
Federal government for purposes Of COM
parison. On all this it Is planning to
predicate "a comprehensive and construct
i've reorganization of the entire state SER
vice both as regards the labor to be per-
formed and the compensation to be paid
for it."
The peculiar feature Of this problem is
that the more thorough the work done in
preparation for such reorganization, and
the more comprehensive the recommended
tions for it, the greater difficulties are to
be expected in carrying it out. Reorgan-
ization of that nature inevitably involves
the separation of many political jobhold-
ers from their soft places, and the reduc-
ton of many salaries to fit the work done
for them. All the individuals whose
pockets are thus assaled may be trusted
to fight back with every weapon at their
disposal, as New York Citys experience
is proving. The political organizations
which placed most of them on the payroll
are certain to resist the reorganization.
The Civil Service employees associations
of which employees happen to be members,
seeing reductions for some, are bound to
fear reduction at some later time for
others, consequently are sure to protest,
and their protests are mighty, politically.
This has been the history of such reforms
when attempted; this will be the history II
the Governors Budget Conference at
tempts it again when the Legislature as
sembes in January.
Large sums Of money could be saved
for the taxpayers of the state if the Gov
ernor and his colleagues in the conference
could put into effect their proposed reor-
ganization, and the business of the state
would not suffer one iota. Senator Hor-
toms committee is said to have in hand
evidence that hundreds of places on the
state payroll are unnecessary and that
excessive compensation is paid for an
equally large number. Common decency,
common honesty to the public, requires,
therefore, that the savings be effected
even if individual hardship result Po-
litical and personal greed only will stand
in the way If Governor Whitman and
his co-laborers are willing to make firm
and determined fight against that, in the
states interest, they may be sure of gen.
erous public support. If they are not
willing to fight to the end the bitter bat
tie they will inevitably begin by any hon.
est, thorough attempt to clean the state
payroll, they would better never put their
hands TO the task.