The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-13
BOOMS!

There are Booms and Booms; big
| booms, little booms, middling booms and
| all other sorts of booms. Booms in cot
ton, wheat and corn, booms in pork and
| lard, booms in iron and other metals,
booms III stock speculation, booms in
| railroad construction, booms in building,
| and booms in the education of the pub
| lie. Booming is one of our greatest ma
tional Industries. Without it we should
! be as dry and dull as some of the worn
out nations of the Old World. A boom
| is not like the cackle with which a hen
| announces that she has laid an egg, nor
yet like the crow which the rooster tells
| us it is time to wake up. 1t is real in.-
petus; push with bounce to it; start
which means go ahead; a going ahead
| which means that those who are in the
way will be run over if they do not stir
themselves.
Grain has its little boom and is tossed
| about by the operators like indirubber
| balls. Now it goes up, up, up; and now
| it goes down, down, down. In it's ups
! and downs it hits some people pretty
hard. The grain operator who becomes
SO big that he was able to fail for six mill
lions, used to drive a milk route in a
small way. Some of the victims of a
grain boom wish they had never done
anything more venturesome than driving
| milk carts. The gig is quiet creature.
yet up goes his little boom. The biggest
pork operator in the country used to be-
poor boy. Sometimes he slips up on
lard, because lard is so greasy that it is
| naturally as slippery as ice. One of the
livliest operators in fancy stocks was un-
til twenty years old barefoot boy on O
canal path. Jay Gould made a very
humble beginning, and there was a time
when Cyrus w. Field was not worth two
cents. Old Vanderbilt used to pole 6.
boat between New York and Staten ISL
and. and Senator Tabor, of Colorado, in
MS earlier days kept country store to
supply miners with big boots and rough
WOODEN shirts, now he buys nights shirts
| at $3.50 apiece.
The boom in rich men is seen not only
| in the palaces they build to live in, but
tae sepulchers they provide for the safe
keeping of their remains. Jay Gould is
building tomb which is to cost 1856, 900.
1t will have room for sixteen corpses. Its
designers are proud to call it "mortu-
ary chapel" 1t is to be miniature
| Greek temple of polished granite. 1t is
to be 20 feet wide, 80 feet long, fanked
| with columns, eight on each side, four
on the ends. No stone used in the con-
struction is to be less than six #. square
in size, and the roof stones are to be six
it. wide by 15 ft. long, weighing severa,
tons apiece. The doors of the chapel are
| to be of bronze modelled by Augustus st.
Gaudens, whose bill for this service is to
be $4,000. Inside, the original plan was
to close each of the sixteen compartments
| with slab of polished marble to be ce-
mented in place. The latest intention,
however, is to finish the inside of the
| chapel in bronze, as being more durable
than marble. Facing the door is to be
window of stained glass representing the
resurrection.
The boom in bitters is one of the big
gest of all the booms in the world. Years
ago it was found out that certain tonics
would cure certain ailments. The ques-
ton was how to administer these tonics.
| They were mostly held in solution in all
| sorts of fluids, chief among which was
bad whiskey. 1t is safe to say that "bit.
ters" of this kind did quite as much harm
| as good. They promoted drinking hab-
| its. They were sought by topers for the
stimulants in them. They were kept in
bar-rooms, and called for by half-tipsy
| fellows who wanted to treat their friends
| They helped to make drunkards; fact
| which was so distinctly recognized by the
| United States Government that the MAX
ers of them were compelled to take out
| licenses as liquor dealers. 1t was bad
| business, that mighty boom in bad whis-
key bitters.
But, for the real good of mankind and
the actual cure of the dyspeptic and bill
| lious and broken down, there came an
other boom in different kind of Bitters.
| This time it was boom with blessing;
big genuine blessing. Instead of soak
ing lot of bitter stuff in bad whiskey,
| principally for topers, BroaO7a's Iron
Batters was compounded with the high
est chemical skill after formulas by ex-
perienced physicians. Not drop of
whiskey in it, or anything else that
| topper Graves. In addition to the naaterio
naedica which entitle it to the name of
''Bitters," it contains the most valuable
preparation of iron known to science.
This is the only preparation of that i'm
portant menal which will not 1njure teeth
or head, and which will not produce con-
stipation. Browns Iron Bitters was in
troduced only three years ago. Of the
way it has 'boomed" you may imagine
when you are told that 720, ,GGG bottles of
it were sold last year. What wonders Of
healing these 720,00 bottles represent!
Dyspeptic stompchs made sound; torpid
livers quickened; thin blood enriched;
sallow compilations made beautiful; ach-
ing heads relieved of pain; rheumatic
twinges driven out of the system; ner-
vous difficulties dispelled; respondent
souls made cheerful, and debilitated con-
stitutions brought into the Joy of new
life and strength. Verify the health
boom is the greatest and most benefcent
of all the booms our country is famous
for. Health and happiness go hand in
hand; and Browns Iron bitters is one of
the most powerful agents in setting them
both on foot.
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