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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
R0falOeA Under Mulch.

A writer in the Massachusetts, PLOugh-
man says in relation to the cultivation of
of potatoes III connection with mulching
/. "The usual course is to plough the
ground deeply in late autumn; lightly in
spring as soon as the frost is out; then
make shallow burrows of say three inches
deep, and three feet apart, and at every
one foot plant one bud, from piece of
the potato that had been cut so long that
the real tuber had dried, yet the bud or
eye for future growth was fresh and good
cover this with two or three inches of
soil and Immediately cover the whole
land with a mulch of four inches ofstraw,
wild grass, sea or rock weed. When the
potatoes are up two inches above the the
mulch, furrow of three inches deep is
thrown toward the row on each side of
the row. After that a one-horse harrow
or cultivator will be required, as the cul-
tivation until after the blossoms are well
matured."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

"RADIX," in one of his recent New
York letters, makes good point apropos OF
life insurance Investigations and troubles
generally, by calling attention to the fallaey
OF judging of the reliability of companies
according 10 their bulk. Many such institu-
tons seek to dazzle the public eye by print
ing their large gross assets in the heaviest
type and by laying great stress upon the
nominal millions under their control to win
confidence and prevent any close ANALYSIS of
the whole statement. He points out the
plain, but often forgotten fact, that even con-
ceding the equally good quality of the assets
of two companies, it is not necessarily the
one with the most millions which is safest
for the policy holder, but the one whose net
surplus bears the largest ratio to its whole
property. Judged by this sound aud search
ing principle, :" Radix finds the Etna Life
Insurance Company, of Hartford, to be oen
of the strongest, if not the very
strongest institution OF the kind in
the country. With a little over twenty four
millions of assets, it has about four and a
quarter millions of clear surplus. The special
commission appointed by the Legislature OF
Connecticut year ago, to Investigate all the
life insurance companies of the state, saw OF
the -Etna that it is not only solvent, but
financially sound, and under the manage
ment of officers and directors of large exper.
fence, sound Judgment, and unblemished
character, and entitled TO the entire conf
aence OF policy holders and the public
/ Taking the above facts and this official en-
dorsement together, il is evident that thi,
I writer's estimate OF the Etna is one that car
he everywhere safely Endorsed,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
Thu Crisis

What think you would be the result
II the earth should stop spinning around
the sun? Were you ever near q large and
intricate machine when one of its wheels
became clogged or brOken-near enough to
hear the grating Earring clash, the sudden,
deafening crash? Astronomers assure US
that precisely similar effects, only on an in
eonceivably grander scale, would be pro-
dueed If our earth--oue of the wheels in tie
erse-machine-should suddenly cease
its revola ions. In other words there
would be a general clash and crash CT satet-
lites, planets, and systems. What we term
financial crises are due to similar causes.
One of the wheels in the finance-maehine
becomes elogged, perhaps shattered. The
terrible Wall-street "crash" which follows
is communicated to every part of the hnan-
cial mechanism of the country. But analo-
gies do not stop here. There is that other
mechanism, the most intricate OF all-some-
times called an organism because ii gene
rates its own forces-the human machine.
/ When one of its members fails 10 perform
its office, the whole system is thrown into
disorder. Members before considered I'M
assailable, break down under the unnatural
pressure. The shock comes, and utter
prostration is the result. Reparation can
only be effected by the restoration of the
impaired parts and the reimbursement of its
3
part of the machine more liable to disorder
than any otLrr-ihe liver-the great bal.
ance-wheel Of the machine.
The liver being the great depurating on
blood-cleanSing organ OF the system, set IL
at work and the foul corruptions which
gender in the blood, and rot out as it were,
the machinery of life, are gradually expelled
from the system. For this purpose DR.
/ Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, used
daily, and DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
! Pellets, taken in very small doses, are pre-
eminently the articles needed. They cure
every kind ofhumor from the worst scrofula
TO the common pimpte, blotch. or eruption
/ Great eating ulcers kindly heal under theii
mighty curative influence Nirulent blood
poisons that Turk in the system are by them
robbed of their terrors, ana by their perse
vering and somewhat protracted use the
most tainted systems may be completely
renovated and built up anew. Enlarged
glands, tumorS and swellingS dwindle away
and disappear under the influence of these
great resolventS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
MATER AMABILIS.
- sy EMMA LAzARu'


,.ax. the UoIdenest of streams,
Tide of dreams,
The fair Graded man-ehild drifts;
Svayx with cadeneed motion slow,
To and fro,
As the MOTHERHOOD poised lightly, falls and lifts.
He, the drstling,-he, the light
OF her sight
He the breathing pledge OF love,
Meath the hol passion lies
OF her eyes,
smiles to feel the warm, life-giving ray above.
She believes that in his vision,
Skies elysian
Ger angel-people shine
Back to gardens of deli hit,
His aurorai shirt basks ia dreams divine.
But she smiles through anxious tears;
Unborn years
Pressing forward, she perceives
Shadewy muffied shapes, they come
Deaf and dumb,
Bring what? dry chat and tares, or full-eare
sheayes?
What for him shall she invoke?
Shall the oak
Bind the mars triumphant brow?
Shall the daring foot alight
On the height?
Shall be dwell amidst the humble and the low
Through what tears and sweat and pain,
Fruitage from the tree of life?
Shall IL yield him bitter havors
Shall its SAVIOR
Be as mamma midst the turmoil and the strife?
In his cradle slept and smiled
Thus the child
Who Prince Of Peace WIS nailed.
Thus anigh the mother-breast,
Lulled TO rest
Child-NapoIeon down the liled river sailed.
Crowned or crucifed-the same
CLOVIS the fame
OF her deathless love divine
Still the blessed mother stands,
In all lands
As she watched beside thy cradle and by mine.
Whatso gift. the years bestew,
Still men know,
While she breathes, lives one who sees
(Stand they pure sin-deiledl
But the child
Whom she crooned TO sleep and rocked upon he
knees.
-S-ribnsTs UOufbty.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
Deem or Sub.SOil Flowing.

Deep ploughing is not always and in
variably desirable in all soils. Where
twenty inches below there is a crust and
beneath it deeper gravel bed, or sand
stratum, to break through this would be
virtually to knock the lotion out of your
land, and let all your manure, fertilizers
and plant food in tn soil filter through
it. This would be as sensible as milking
into sieve, or attempting to carry wa.
ter in a bottomless pail
Deep blowing IN sub-soil of cold,
damp iron is ruinous always But
when the soil is deep and the sub-soil
compact and holds water to the detri-
ment of the crops grown, and where d
shallow soil dries up in hot weather, deep
blowing is undoubtedly a highly bene.
fetal process.
Deep blowing acts beneficially in dry
soils as in wet soils, where it is at all sd.
Missile. For in one case it permits the
reach the roots of the plants, and in the
other it permits deeper evaporation to
carry off the superabundance of water
it breaks the crust so that hurtful, stag
nant water may escape it; it is, in other
words, most useful kind of cheap drain
Theoretically alone, it is not safe te
base calculations of profit on deep pillow.
ing. Practical experiments are toe
valuable in results to be left out of your
calculations.
Experiments have demonstrated on g
small field that fifteen-inch blowing in
creased the crops over eight-inch blowing
of turuinS sly tons of tha rley sever
bushels, and of potatoes nearly a ton
In superficial blowing the plant element
are soou exhausted by annual groupings
and unless these elements be frequentl,
returned. to this thinly cultivated soil
remuner siive crops cannot long be real
iyed,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
A 9nrfnR BOuauet.

Rails the rude wipd-king through the surging
OF swayipg boughs that bending to the blast
Their countless arms, with murmurous rustling
wave,
In wood and forest; and the hedgerows burst
Into the tender gTeenery OF spring.
Now show the elumps of golden erocuses
Their crowns above the freshl e scented mold;
And quivering bells of snowdrops glimmer white,
In roadside garden: purple violets
Lurk mid their green leaves, heayy-eyed with
dew,
Their fragrant perfume scattering on the dawn.
The polyanthus in her velvet robe
Yellow and massachusetts by the side
OF proud aurcula; the splendid stars
OF periwinkle-palest lavender
CLEAN from the ivied bank; ranunculus
All-stately queens it DER her satellites,
The yellow daffodils: narcissus scents,
With his franknceBse sweet, the keen March air
flower OF peerless beauty.
Wall-fowers show
From bed and border their brow orange blooms;
And under them ingereth a vestal pure,
The last pale primrose. Ali the pear-trees bend
Beneath their hOwer-snow the almonds blush
With roseate bloom; the young years minstrel
sweet
The mellow tbrush-his liquid carol pours
From the old hlackthorn.
Nature is astr
che wakes rejoicing from her winter sleep,
And with a thousand voices welcomes spring.
Chambers Journal
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
when "a Prime Fruit Trees,

Long experience shows that when it
is desirable to produce free growth of
shoots and leaves, pruning should be
done when the trees are dormant, as in
the winter season, or early in the spring,
before the sap begins to flow. When
fruit trees appear to grow too rapidly,
and to produce too much wood, they
may be pruned moderately in the sum-
mer season, cutting away a portion of
the wood by degrees; but shoot grow
ing in an improper place may be cut
away at any time. An experiment made
by pruning apple trees every month in
the year, for two seasons, showed that
the wounds of the branches cut in Feb
ruary and March, at the end of five
years, when all had healed over, were
found to be the least decayed under the
the healed surface. When trees are
pruned in winter, or l may say at any
time, it is best to cover the wounds with
hot mixture of tar and pulverized
brick dust or fine sand. A solution of
shellac in alcohol, as thick as can be
applied with brush, is considered by
many as the best preparation that can
be applied.
During the mild days of winter, or
chards may be pruned-while little else
can be done, but good judgment should
be exercised in regard to selecting the
branches to be cut away. 1t is ruinous
to an orchard to cut and slash away one
third to one-half the limbs. Ali that
should be done is to give the trees a
good shape, and only cut away such
limbs as are plainly in excess of the nat
ural requirements of the tree to conform
to the extent of its roots. If we cut
away too much OF the top of tree, it is
like taking blood from a man-the more
that is taken, the less vitality remains in
him, therefore in pruning, only the few
unsightly branches, and those improperly
situated, should be cut away.-Rwal
Ne2r Y0rEer
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

Is there a woman in all this broad
sunny land of ours who doesn't believe
that carving knives were created and
kept sharp and nice for the Sole pur-
pose of splitting kindling and opening
fruit cans?-St. Louis Journal. Yes,
there are hundreds of them-women who
think such knife the only thing ever
invented for gouging grass from between
the bricks in the sidewalk, and digging
holes to plant garden seed.-Norristo,cn
Herald
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

The advocates of superficial blowing
often deny that the soil has been manur.
ed, yet it is found that it is let to rest in
grass for number of years, and gazed at
that, so that in fact the droppings of
stock and the thick carpet or mat of
grass roots doactually and richly manure
the fields where these are turned under
by the pillow, however specifically
plowed. We must SOW if We would reap.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
The Greatest Discovery of the A ge is DIR

Tobias celebrated Venetian Linimenti 80 years be-
fore the public and warranted to Diarrhea,
Dysentery, Collie and Spasms. taken internally; and
Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore Threats, Cuts
Bruises Old Sores, and Pains in the Limbs Back
and Chest, externally. 1t has failed. No fam
lily will ever be without it after giving it fair
trial. Price, 40 cents DR.. TOBIAS VENETIAN
HORSE IMMINENT, in Pint Bottles, at One Dollar
is warranted superior to any other, or NO PAY, TO
the of Collie, Cuts Bruises Old Sores etc Sold
by all Druggists. Depot-iO Park Place. New York
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
THE CHILDREN.
BY LoNGFELLow.

All what would the world be TO u.
Ii the children were no morer
We should dread the desert behind US
Worse than the dark before.
What the leaves are 10 the forest,
With light and air for food,
Ere their sweet and tender juices
Have been hardened into wood
That, TO the world, are children;
Through them Ii feels the glow
OF a brighter and SUMMER climate
Than reaches the trunks below.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
There's no use Talking

About the adulterated, cheap baking pow
ders in comparison with DOoLEY's YEAST
POWDER. The latter is strictly pure, whole
some, and is put up full weight. Satisfac-
tory results in using are guaranteed every
time
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

No man in his senses should buy
worthless horse and cattle powders, simply
because it is put up in large packages.
Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders are
pat up in small packages but are absolutely
pure and are immensely valuable.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
CHEW
The Celebrated
" NJ ATCHLESS y
Wood Tag Plug
TORACCO.
THE PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York. Boston and Chicago.

JoHNsoN's Anodyne Liniment is, with
out doubt, the safest, surest and best rene.
dy that has ever been invented for internal
and external use. 1t is applicable to a great
variety of complaints, and is equally bene-
fetal for man or beast Find out about il
and thank us for the advice
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

MOTHERS! MoTHERs!! MOTHERS! /!
Don't fail to procure Mrs Winslow Sooth-
ing Syrup for all diseases incident to the
period OF teething in children. 1t relieves
the child from pain, cures wind collie, regu-
lates the bowels, and by giving relief and
health to the child, gives rest to the mother.
1t is an old and well-tried remedy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
At this Season Of the Year,

The human system is liable To- become disordered
from the insufficient efforts Of the liver to dsch rye
the excess of bile If nature is not assisted in her
efforts bilious attacks or Frustrating fevers
necessarily follow causing great suffering and even
death. A little timely p}ecaution, however. will
prevent all this. and he found in that favorie
household remedy, Simnn 0us' Liver Regulator.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
DIR. Graves HEART REGULATOR

DR.. Graves HEART REGULATOR
has sold largely and been universally recon.
mended by druggists as a cure for Heart
Disease, and has given satisfaction, as can
be seen by reference to a letter received
from F. w. Kinsman, druggist, Augusta
Maine.
Having sold at retail more than a gross of your
HEART REGULATOR. l take pleasure in saying
that il has given great satisfaction il every
have heard from. Almost every day receive testi-
mcuials similar TO the one inclosed
+. W. KINsMAN."
Send your name to F. f. INGALLS,, Con
cord, n. H., for a pamphlet containing list
of testimonials of cures, dc.
The HEART REGULATOR is for sale by
druggists at 80 cents and 81 per bottle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

IHE delinquent taxes in Memphis
amount to $4,000, 900, saysthe appeal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

SIMMONS' LIVER REGULAT has been in use
for half century, and there is not one single in
stance record where it has failed to effect cure
when taken in time. according to the directions 1t
Is without doubt the greatest Liver VI ed1cfnc in
the world, Is perfectly harmless; being carefully
compounded from rare roots and herbs, containing
no mercury or any injurious mineral substance. 1t
takes the place of quinine and Calorel. and has
persesed these medicines in places where they have
heretofore been extensively used. Procure bottle
at once from your druggist. DO delay; give it a
fair trial, and you will be more than satisfied with
The result obtained
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

A wonderful instrument. Pat March IL, ISIS. Per
sons quiet passive state for rest of mind and
body will find this Just the thing needed. This instru
ment will produce quiet. sOsthing influence, and
many sleep in fifteen twenty minutes. IL
restores lost vitality gives life and strength to the
weak nd nervous hen all other fail 1t builds
UP the wasted structure and qUckens the
fluids Pain is cured, health restored 1t will produce
the pediumistic state and develop cairvoyancy. If
used for that purpose Sent every where for Ol.05.
Agents wanted. DR. W A. CANDEE. BRISTOL. CT.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

A PATRIOTIC maniac, residing in Ken
nebunk, has painted his house and barn
from foundation to roof with alternate
bands of red, white and blue. At each
corner of the house is a huge "Union
jack about seven feet wide, and the
chimneys are painted with the national
colors and studded with stars
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
CENTRAL
KANSAS. SOUTHERN KANSAS.

These are some of the facts in relation to
the agricultural possibilities of this region,
and these, coupled with the story of the
past harvest, are sufficiently confirmatory of
the inducements this portion OF the Great
Plains offer.
Under the liberal policy of the govern.
ment, and the Kansas Pacific Rdaaoay COM
pany, immigrants are invited to this really
superb region, with the assurance that it's
beauty and inducements cannot be exag-
gerated by any pen-picture.
For further information about Kansas, and
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21

LAND COMMISSIONER KANSAS Pa
CiFIc RAILWAY,
SAUNA NSAS

Men in each State for the De
tective Servic-, and to report
Enclose stamp and address Amer
Secret Service Co., Cincinnati. q.
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Catalogue free. J. Ia. BUFFORD'S son
RostOu. Established 1897
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Rails the rude wind-king through the surging
OF swayiDg boughs, that bending to the blast
Their countless arms, with murmurous rustling
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-02

constipated bowels, inward piles. COS
tiveness, fevers, torpid liver, yellow
ness ofthe skin and eyes, indigestion,
dyspepsia, and all arrangements of the
internal viscera, are cured by 'Swayne's
Tar and Sarsaparilla pills" Unlike
many other purgatives, they do not IT.
ritate the stomach and bowels by fire.
quent use. They keep the system in
the healthy condition by arousing the
torpid liver to healthy action and ex.
peliing by the bowels and kidneys the
matter that poisons the foundation OF
life. Be particular to obtain 'Swayne,
pills" price % cents box, at all lea
dings druggists, and in Rock Island by
John BengstOn.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-02
An Undeniable Truth.

You deserve to suffer. and if you
lead miserable unsatisfactory hfe i'll
this beautiful world. it is entirely your
own fault and there is only one excuse
for you,-your unreasonable perjudice
and skepticism, which has killed thou
sands, Person knowledge and common
sense reasoning will soon show you
that Green's August Flower will cure
you of Liver Complaint. or Dyspepsia
with all it's miserable effects, such as
sick headach. palpitation of the heart
sour stomach, habitual costiveness
dizziness of the head, nervous prostrat
ion, low spirits, &c. It's sales now
reach every town on the Western Con
tinent and not a druggist but will ell
you of its wonderful cures. You cal
buy Sample Bottle for 10 cents
Three doses will relieve you.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-02

Can any of the Nationals" or Work
iugmen's Party" explain why it is that
they, protesting to be par erceltGnce the
champions OF labor and of laboring mems
interests, have such mortal antipathy to
the Chinaman. Certainly the Chinaman
is as much Of workingman as any Of those
who deride him and are so clamorous for
his expulsion from the American soil. Il
is understood that one great means of sue
cess by which the "Kearneyites" OF Cali
fornia carried the state was the prejudice
against and the demand that the Mon
golian should be sent back to his native
land The mercilless war en- the Almond
eyed foreigner was more bitter if possible
than against the capitalists and corpor
atoms. And yet such is the inconsistent.
Of the position, that it is not possible to re
concile the demand for the rights Of labo
with this equally fierce demand for its ex
clusioD There is no political consistenc
10 the case of all events.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-02

w. L. Chandler claims that he secured
the appointment of at least thirteen Flor
idians by tho President Mr.. Chandler
was one Of the visiting statesmen who
went to Florida to see the state counted for
Hayes. His expenses were, it seems,
thirteen presidential appointments, and
perhaps after all cheap at that. There
was nothing wrong DONE. no illegality, no
stuffing ballot boxes with little iokers,'
and all these visiting statesmen came home
with clean hands and white souls but the
appointments upon their representations
and recommendations followed all the
same. Even Minister Noyes says he
promised to use his influence to secure
appointments for those men in Florida
whom he had persuaded to so nobIy per
form their duty, and says Moves / did
what some others don't do. | was as
good as my promise and saw that they
got the appointments. Still there is moi
the remotest suspicion that anything
wrong was done for which men we're thu,
rewarded. or il possibly any wrong wal
committed it was by few rascally demo
Gratis who protested against the wholesale
addition of names and votes to the list
after the election was over. Since so muct
can be done which looks like evil aud ye
everybody connected with it be inuocen
aud pure, may it not be possible after al
that politically speaking fraud and cor
rup;ion are mere symbolic terms an,
have NO reference to things actuall
existent.