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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-09-30

To ISDITE well ard 10 write well are
valuable accomplishments, but a good
pen is helpfnl to the one. and iadispen-
sable 10 the other, Tie best known and
most widely appreciated are those of the
Esterbrook make, which can be had of
all Stationer,.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-09-30

Use Lemon Lung Syrup" for derang
ed Liver. Instant relief. If
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-09-30
9anitompr gilpt.
ADVERTISING SCALE.
ONE INCH SPACE MAKES A SQUARE.

Business notices 10 cents per line. When con
timed more than one week, half of the above
rates for each subsequent week.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-09-30
BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS, &C.,

Which heis determined 10 dispose of at prices thai
cannot fail to please the closest buyer. Since
moving into has new quarters his stock has been
largely increased and is now one of the most COM
plete in the city. Call and examine il.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-09-30
sEDGWICK L FORREST,
FRANZ s TREAT,

Z Lt.-.NE4 = = 4 TX =
= AWIE~E aASCE AID ABSTRACT OFFICE
FF4uz HsgeA, south Et-asA street, AlaAito-
Wa. Nl- Collections promptly attended to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
Detroit Bellies as Smugglers.

LADIES of good families who have
wealth at their command make the
most desperate smugglers, and are dealt
with the hardest by the officers, as
they do not deserve as much leniency or
sympathy as the poor woman who has
invested her little all and would be des-
titute if stringently dealt with, and to
whom the good bargain, duty free, is
really great temptation. The class Of
goods which Canadians buy in Detroit
and smuggle to Canada is cotton cloth,
domestic and dress goods. The Detroit
purchaser steps on the ferry and goes
over to Windsor for gloves, laces, silks,
velvets and cashmeres, these articles
being considered much cheaper and
better whether they are or not. There
are hundreds of Detroit ladies wearing
velvet and silk dresses who Struggled
them over folded neatly about their
angelic waists or disposed Of in their
bosoms, while they pass tho Custom
house officer, the lynx-eyed female
detectives, the landing walters, and with
serene countenances walked off with
their spoils. One lady boasts of the
amount of goods she can carry over at a
single trip. The smuggling mania has
taken such possession of her that she
has struggled for her friends, merely to
keep up the excitement. She has ac-
quired such knack of arranging the
goods about her person that whole bolt
of cotton does not give her the least
uneasiness, and she can carry at one
trip half a dozen silk dresses; yet the
lady herself is by no means of insignifi-
cant bulk. 1t is a great mistake the
idea that thin women make the most
successful smugglers. The slightest
additional fullness betrays them. But
a plump divinity can add fifty pounds
to her tournure and no one will be the
wiser. Detroit Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
BORDER-LANDS.

ADows this hazy vista that stretches far be-
fore
1tu,n youths eyes of longing to find a fairer
lOre
Rose riches shower the pathway. with trem.
u1ous diamonds strewn,
EntIanclng voices WOO me to come possess
Some sweet is Just before me. some beckonino
hand beyond
Shows where all dawns are dearer, lures
where all hearts are fond;
On, wake me not to sadness, say not it only
seems,
AS I follow phantom footsteps down the Dor.
der-1and of dreams!
Warm winds bring soft caresses. the white
day whispers "nush.'
Hopes blossoms drift around me! nv trail.
ing garments brush
From myriad buds a sweetness that thrills my
being through;
And my love-my love is Fastening. with
eager heart and true!
See how the swift winged song birds fall fut-
No doubt ,aifrights their bosoms, in this,
Hopes DaIny land;
Soft choruses OF welcome charm all the wait
ing air
Yet q breath would blow me over to the dark
land of despair!
The world is wide and winsome, 1 walk it's
o life. 1 teel your fullness-o earth, sing your
praise!
Yet 1 know a realm immortal, a country
-, strange and dim,
Blooms Just beyond the swelling of each SOL
emn sabbath hymn;
reach with finite fingers, standing, doubtful,
on the verge,
And touch the sands so golden, and hear the
One moment may Iinger-one kiss amid the
flowers,
A sigh-I pass forever from this border land
Celeste NJ. II. Vinslo,c, in Good Company.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
PITu AND POINT.

A wELL-wIsHER the man who Is do
ing the digging.-Boston Advertiser. =
DON'T despise the lowly. The under
Jaw does all the work.-Bost0n Tran
script.
The man who can live on himself,
like DIR. Tanner, needs no rich relations.
-Neao Orleans Picayune.
WHAT this country needs- Is aainven-
ton to convince flies het abald-head u
not a skating rink. -BoSton Post. =,
IT doesn't always pay to b heck.
"You are an idiot" angrily exclaimed
q Philadelphia wife. So my friends
said when I married you," replied the
husband. And she got twice rs mad
Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
WHEN q tramp calls at your house
and asks for something to eat, supple
menting his request with the remark
that he "hasn't tasted food for nearly
two days." give him paper containing
an account Of DIR. Tanners fast.-Nor-
rtstoaCn Herald.
THE Detroit Free Press says the
sharks around Coney Island refuse to
nibble at any of the skinny legged bath
ers, but are waiting for Western folks
to arrive. The sharks must like their
man tough, with fever and ague sauce.
--NeU York Commercial Advertiser.
Mrs. LUCY HOOPER writes from Paris
that "the Longchamps rain prevented
the exhibition of two gowns, one Of
Mechlin and the other of Valenciennes
lace, which cost respectively 1000 and
81 800" Paris, as well as Ireland, Is
having more than her share of misery
4. and suffering. The owners Of the gowns
are no doubt heart-broken and can never
smile again.-Norristoao Herald.
WE have endured with commendable
patience the appalling phantom Of the
young man who wears two watches;
with Christian resignation and patience
we have borne with the young man who
wears his watch in the outside pocket Of
his coat; but when we meet the elegant
youth who wears his embroidered socks
outside his slippers to show the mono
gram on the toes, there is going to be
bloodshed, and don't you forget to re-
member it.-HaUkeye.
IT is a remarkable fact that. upon
entering a restaurant, your order for
baked beans with plenty of pork is sure
to be taken by burly waiter, with the
lungs of Stentor, who bawls IL through
the room with startling distinctness;
while your digniied order for roast tur-
key, second joint, with cranberry sauce,
is just as sure to be taken by an insig-
nificant apology for man, with q con-
sumptive cough, who has just force
enough to repeat the order at the deliv-
cry window in a voice scarcely intelligi-
BILE to the head waiter in the Kitchen
Boston Journal of Commerce.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
In the Jaws Of an Alligator.

| A STRANGE and serious accident hap
pened recently to farmers boy,
named Pennel Sharp, who lives in the
country short distance beyond Cres-
son, along the line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. The railroad crosses a small
stream here, a branch of the Conemaugh.
In places it has deep holes, which are
very good bathing places. Young Sharp
and several companions, who had been
out shooting woOdcocS, had gone in to
battle. As Sharp was swimming by
himself some distance from the bank,
his companions suddenly heard him give
an agonizing scream and then disappear
in the water. They saw that he had
been caught by some black animal,
which had one of his legs in its mouth,
where it was held firmly by row of
cruel white teeth. The animal carried
the young man under the water, but re-
appeared in two or three minutes with
Sharp in mis- jaws. He cried to his COM
panions to shoot, but before a gun could
be discharged he was pulled under the
| water again. About two minutes after
he rose with the big black brute still
clinging to his leg, and struck out for
upon his companions to shoot, but being
afraid of hitting Sharp, no one dis
charged his gun. At last he reached
the bank and began climbing up its
slippery side, when the animal, guided
by impulse, gave jerk, which tore a
great piece from the calf of Sharp's leg
and slid with its mouthful of human
flesh into deep water, to reappear no
more.
The wounded boy was carried home,
by his companions more dead than
alive. His leg was terribly lacersted,
and the loss of blood was very severe.
1t was thought for a time that the limb
could be saved, but modification set in,
and it was found necessary to amputate
it just below the kEee. The young man
is now getting alcag very well, and will
probably recover. The exciting ques-
ton is, What WIS the strange animal,
and where did it come from? The
young men only saw part of its head,
but from their description it is sup
posed to have been an alligator. How
such an animal could have come so far
North is a mystery, unless it is explained
by an accident which took place in the
early part of the summer. Some time
in May, as train of freight cars was
coming East, link broke and slight
collision occurred, throwing a car into
the stream at this point. The car con-
tanned general freight, and among 9TH
er things live alligator, about six feet
long, which was on its way to the Phila-
delphia Geological Garden. Nothing
was afterward seen of the animal, and
it was supposed that it was killed by the
fall. But it must have escaped, and this
was probably the animal that attacked
young Sharp. People in the vicinity are
in great state Of excitement, and will
not let their children go near the stream,
as they are afraid they will be eaten.
Almost constant watch has since been
kept on the place by men armed with
shot-guns, who are determined to destroy
the beast, but as yet it has failed to show
itsef.-Aitoona (Pa.) Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
Harper's Hammock.

GIVE been fooli" growled Harper
yesterday as he united q parcel in his
front yard and shook out q new ham
mock. "Here I've been Topping around
all through this Internal hot spell when
might Just as well have been swinging
in hammock and had my blistered'
back cooled off by the breezes."
Any one can put up hammock. All
you've got to do is TO unite about 500
knots, unravel about 500 snarls and
work over the thing until you can tell
whether the open side was meant to go up
or down. This puzzled Harper for full
twenty minutes, but he finally got il
right and fastened the ends to two con-
venie2t trees. ff.T
Then he took off his hat and coat and
rolled in with great sigh of relief No,
he didn't quite rollin. lie was all ready
to when the hammock walked away
from him, and he rolled over on the
grass and came to a stop with a croquet
ball under the small of his back.
"Did you mean to do that" called
boy who was looking over the fence and
slowly chewing away on green apples.
"Did Ip of course did! Git down
off'n that fence or I'll call q police
man!'' :"
The boy slid down and Harper
brought up lawn chair for the next
move. It's the easiest thing in the
world to drop off chair into ham,
mock. Lots of men would be willing
to do it on a salary of $40 per week.
The trouble with Harper was that he
didn't drop all his body at once. The
upper half got into the hammock all
right, but the lower half kicked and
thrashed around on the grass until the
small boy, who didn't mean to leave
the neighborhood till the show was
out, felt called upon to exclaim:
"You can't turn q handspring with
your head all wound up in that ere net,
and Ill bet money on it."
Harper suddenly rested from his
labors to rise up and shake his fist at
the young villain, but that didn't help
the case bit. lie hadn't got into that
hammock yet. He carefully looked the
case over and decided that he had his
plans too high. He therefore lowered
the net to within two feet of the ground,
and he had it dead sure. He fell into it
well. He felt around to see IL he was
all in, and then gave himself swing.
No person can be happy in hammock
uulCSS bIc nduiuOCh u Dcuuuluu
motion. This hammock of Harper's
was just getting the regular saltwater
swing when his knots united and he
came down on the broad of his back
with such ? jar that the small boy felt
called upon to observe:
: That amt no way to level lawn
you want to use regular roller!"
After the victim had recovered con-
seriousness he crawled slowly out, gently
rubbed his back on an apple tree, and
slowly disappeared around the corner of
the house in search of some weapon
which would annihilate the hammock at
one sweep, and though the boy called to
him again and again, asking II min
strel performance was to follow the
regular show, Mr.. Harper never turned
his head nor made a sign.-Detroit Fres
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
The Cost Price.

THE other day rough-looking man
stepped into clothing store in Carson,
New, and wanted to buy suit of
clothes. The price was $50, but after
careful examination of the texture of the
goods he declined to purchase at the
figures named and started for the door.
q Holt on" said the proprietor, "sell
'em at de cost brice." The clerk asked
how much, and the "boss" said in Ger
man, GIG. The .countryman turned
around and said he guessed he'd take
another look at 'em anyhow. He tried
them on and got before the glass.
i" Cost price, you sayP" The clerk as
sented, and. the countryman handed
him S16, remarking: Il
"You can tie the old ones up.'
"Held on, the cost price is $24," said
the clerk.
"Guess you're mistaken; I heard the
boss say SIG"
The boss looked up with: "By Jemi-
ME! can you speak Gherman? thought
you vas an Irishman all de vile."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26

THE California vineyards are creep
ing up the hill. sides, a large proportion
of all the vines planted this year in
Napa County being on the hills, and this
is probably true of other counties where
specia: attention is given to the wine
grape. One of the best judges in the
State estimates that the grape and rails
in crops of 1880 will exceed those OF any
other year by so per cent. He places
the wine crop at II ,000, 900 gallons, with
a probability of more rather than less.
The phylloxera is only working on small
areas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26

puzzled me who Kate resembled; now
know. 1t is Miss -, Miss -;
have forgotten her name, your old &C.
countant, brother"
Perhaps" replied the young man,
smiling across the table at his wife |;
"yes, I can see the likeness myself, al
though it is long time since she was
called away. '''-Boston Traveller.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26

PRINCE GUNrHER Ii. OF Schwarsburg
Soudersh ausen has abdicated.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12

81 sapness of Communication have been
saU bed, like Ae invention of Minting
a. every other beneficial Institution.
u london, where city malls. ara deliv-
ED every TWO houxS with, unfaAing &C.
IcoAcy, the evil ha5 grown evei,worse
tn we know otaAere. ~ During the
season." ths numSgR of notes, on card
I rd paper, with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
tIeeting Of such W lightly subjects as a
tet, drive, an Invitation; q Begging
10 some social prefege who warts to 20
to So and Sos bali IN appo;;ntnentror
n excuse for some party.6 pleasure, is
bewildering, sbnd 2 still greatet- tax on
the time of the recif Mah even their
dbtomary dIly coEespo1dence. How
{vSr, such people Aave 50 much time to
&lr' that they nod not quarrel with
t6f facilities which-Ahe post0fiee gives
0m OF accomplishing their bbjsct and
a seeming imms asely busy; but Tor
Pfdinary human 6eings,: it. is a great
10y that fashion should ; encourage
slnless correspondence to .the-:degree
9al at present. Let us hope that Our
Giles will MOI do more in the way of-re-
hted mail deliveries than exist at
present, and that when letters open
with. excuses forl frevious silence cur
frieHds will take -1he hint-=-FebrxQyu
AtL1Ntic.N -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12
BESIDE THE BARS.

GRANDMOTHER's knitting has lost its charm:
nheeded II lies in her ample lap.
"nlie the sunsets crimson, soft and warm,
I"uches the frills of her snowy cap.
She fs gazing on two beside the bars,
=, Onuer the maple-who little care
For the growing dusk, or the rising stars,
VI the mint OF frost in the autumn air.
One is slender slip of a girl,
And one man in the pride of youth:
The maiden pure as the purest pearl,
The lover strong in his steaOfast truth.
"Sweet, my own as rose of june"
He says, full low, DER the golden head.
1t would sound to her like dQnnnld t1nne. - :
Could grandmother hear the s91 n ldSf y
For it seems but little whio = ~ &
Since under the maple, beside the bars,
She stood girl, while the sunsets glow
Melted away mid the evening stars. 9Iif
And one. her lover. so bright and brave,
Spake words as tender, m tones a. low; = az,
They come to her now from beyond the crave,
The words OF her darling, SO long ago.
GIT p @.Iie irc -
My own one, sweet as arose Of Jmev
Her eyes are dim. and her hair Is white A.
But her heart keeps time to the old love-tuue
As she watches her daughfer's child 70 might.
A world between them, perhaps you say.
One has her beautiful yesterday,
And one tomorrow fair to view.
But little yondream how fond a prayer
Goes up to God, through His silver stars,
From the aged woman gazing there,
For the two who linger beside the bars.
--Ndrydrtt E. Sdngster. in Youths COmpdniO ion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12
A RAG.PICEERS, DEN.

A Night with RaS.Pickers, Beggars
and Thieves I'm New York.
LII you could only get in with the
rag-pickers and beggars You would see
and hear some strange things
l was standing With detective in
Chatham Square, and two or three rag
pickers were quarreling over the '.find''
of an old case-knife in barrel of re-
fuse.
why. can't I?''
You could, but I hardly know how
to work it. They are filthy lot, many
of them wicked, and-hold on I've got
an ideal Down here in Mott street Is a
regular colony of beggars and rag-pick-
ers, presided oyer by old Jezel, and if
he happens to be in can fix it. Let's
GO doWn;there
1t wasFa tenement of brick, dark,
dirty and seemingly ready to fall down.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12

.eolA pleasant anecdote Of Mr.. Ralph
Waldo Euaerson was related by q lady
in Meadville, Pa, the other day, and Is
reported by the Index of that town.
avhen'M Emerson, was travelling, in
Egypt with his daughter they met an
Englishman who did all in his power to
make It pleasant for them, and when
the time came for their separation, said:
You may wonder. sir, at my having
overstepped my usual reserve SO far as
to become 10 intimate with you, but it
Is for the sake Of . countryman of
yours. one bearing the same name
Emerson-Ralph Waldo Emerson. He
has done me much good, and 1 hope
some time to cross the ocean to meet
him" And Mr.. Emerson never told
him it was himself whom he sought.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12
Modern Letter.Writing.
fETrEHswN9f1lQe5llll ID aa10oO1E0Uae of tn
Characteristic occupations of our time
NJ s ELI: y \; Z; r. r D IT, :; !;

characteristic occupations OF our time.
We&eep4Ap mn lied cor RAences
VI VT g rss!J(, v T. [.ss r. D IT, s,i ;s
possess photographs of people Wtfdee'
lives shaSekeut accidentally across our
own, but--wheln- We may. -nexef meet
again: How different from the more
concentrated life Of three or fourgenefei
ations ago, wflen fettcf md Tbrtrait
were solemn tf6l1ts11boh connected only
with persons really interested fHy11'
another! Women especially treat their
correspondence as an affair of statds
magnify its idleness into pressing bust
ness, make it, pretextw a2116st II dA1
versally ayaihbla sss the cid ,ffia,dhioned
''headache," and end by belize Witt them
selves as IMPORTANT 6s6ADANAmfRi listers.
A man in any public position isl gener,
ally assaileQ with letters, manyf6ttHffy
frivolous; editors have ipAfV0tt6eted them
selves only BY the ssV0veAcdbs of tie
waste-basket; but even in the tuietest
walks, of private life, the letter writihk
which affSetiouse0 fflendS ,Rpeft from
one is frequently . ,seyexe, and 3havoid-
able ordeal. Business letters can be dis
patched in five minutes; great iht4fOAs
pressed into half dozen lines aA1afgw
moments Of time; but when it COMES n
| the fhe3diy Beoez nAAac 461iten ,fe;
|4uifes YET dDViAaa ysiasaaek Appefe ssly
round, with the conviction that you will
be dubbed heartless unlesszou deY13 IL
least threH qd4344rS k4AA6dr tdAAdll
ing the stafd Of DhoAltk Yt31r trivial
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12
yers a9d spectators smiled at the. anvil
on y SO 1atto tn

Soon y case was called which seemed
to interest the CoountJnan. 1t in
volved the title to large tract of land
lying in zthef'Gree River country OF
Kentucky. 80 - m
Il Ct y;fgsis 81 ss :sass!
ment of the facts, All at once the
cohntryman stopped munching, and,
tapping the, counsel on the back, cor
rected one Of his y. facts. "'3 iih OF
The lawyer paused, :: frowned at, the
bpsybody, and went on. The country
man resumed his m,,nching,! and in a
few minutes again corrected the coun-
sel!f n 4tR9 thes Coult td protect me
sail Fs9KT Moving m. IL irritation.
Taylor finished his powerful argui
% %sss S a. sss EdSss ts Of
stranger rose to reply. His manner
was wholly changed. He stooE as if
he had practiced in, that court al his
professional life. His argument was so
clear and forcible, and his reply to the
opposing counsel so mastery, that the
bar and coafflo6ked az # they doubted
their eyes and ears.
"a Mr.. Taylor seemed -paralyzed. The
sweat dropped from his face. The
rustic he had sneered at seemed a legal
giant. Every one asked, "Who is
heI" E1'1XxVIG Id.
lawyers and most eloquent orators of
Kantpeky, as ecceptric, as he was
g84t{ sScarSeN one mete4 knew
abalkkE III 4 tsa ai% Ct e5 his
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12
An Important personal 3 4 !, tier

. ~ In pOFtHMt FefpUnaI AteMs y ~
CHARLES 8. PRENrIcB. s6f Toledo, o., went
toParis and thence 70. England to be treated
clans Of both countries had done what they
could for him, gave pp ip despair and returaed
to America to die. Here he received further
treatment from. other slsillful physicians with
out benefit, and while sslistlessiy lingering in
pain and anguish, ;" as he says, heard Of the
Completely es cured Il feS Seeks He a"a gives Tes
eircnmstaatialI details Of bis painful expert
ence and astonishing cure In a,iong- letter to
H. H. Warner u CO.., which WILDE f0rwarded
on DUPLICATION rni cs[n .arr.,,.l d w