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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03
She Burned the Letters.

In the employ OF one Of the wealth.
lest ladies OF Rochester has been for
some time a colored domestic. The
girl was young, and apparently pos
sessed of large number OF eplStolary
friends, for nearly every trip of the
letter carrier brought her one or more
letters. Receiving so much correspon-
dence excited the wrath and possibly
feeling of jealousy in her mistress,
who was irritated beyond endurance
,,t every arrival of the postman. Final
" . '.oiit two weeks ago, two letters
came tol' the domestic and reached the
hands of the lady. who petulently threw
them into the stove. The following
dav the postman hal ded another letter
to the GIRL herself, and tod her that
she was receiving great "aiy 4e'-
tiers.
Not so many" she replied. That
is the first one l have received in a
week.
The letter carrier asserted that he
brought two only the day before. The
girl went to her mistress and demanded
an explanation. The lady said: Yes,
| did get two letters for You, but
threw them into the stove. You are
receiving altogether too many letters
lately"
Aud she told the story to her hus-
band at night as a good joke. The lat
ter looked grave when the girl threat
ened to bring suit, and the upshot of
the whole matter is That the girl has
been paid an even $4,000 10 keep the
case out OF the courts.
The mistress now has a new girl, but
the old one doesn't care. Maybe she
will go 10 Europe. .-RocteSter Democrat.
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rel used by the way of illumination.
Its one rival is brilliant yellow, shade
becoming to all very fair complexions.
Thes. it makes almost ghastly, the
yellow having tendency to heighten
the ,airness of any skin. Fine French
feltip the browns and bronzes, gray,
daK green's, olive, dark blues. etc, OF
theday, trimmed with velvet folds and
bows, with wooden scarfs and with
fanny feathers, may be fairly pro-
nounced the popular hat for the prom
ena1e. Carriage bonnets are of velvet.
or f clotn matching the dress, while
for evening velvet or plush, with vel
vet towers or full ostrich tips, are the
correct thing. There is new material,
sill astrakhan, which comes in red, in
white, and cream, pale blue,' ETC., and
this, studded with beads, jet. pearl,
wood or garnet, as the case may be, is
effectively used for crowns on hand
some evening bonnets. Following the
line, laid down for costumes, wooden
Iace are "a popular trimming; indeed,
as already iutimated, if the bounet is
higi, and matches the suit with which
it is worn, this is all that is essential
the rest may be left to individual
taste and fancy.-fhttddelphia Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03
NEW TRIMMINGS.

Coat clasps are very fashionable, not
only for cloaks, but on dress bodices ut
the waist, where the jacket is fastened
over the waistcoat. These, too, are in
the metals, but the newest are made in
wood and are square in form. Gold
and wooden hooks and eyes are used
as clasps.
Hand-painting on the material is
still popular, and most exquisite are
some of the dinner toilettes, with their
decorative portions beautifully adorned
with floral designs, tropical birds, and
beautiful butterflies. in one of these
dresses the painting is supplemented
by humming birds and butterflies,
mounted on flexible wires OF regular
steel springs.
A new idea is the introduction of
natural feathers into the trimmings, as
in the fringe made of tir cones suspend
cd in chenille loops, the chenille being
10 the colors of the dry cone. Small
pine burs are also used intermixed
with fla. pointed fringe, resembling
the leaves OF the pine tree. A curious
specimen of this trimming has the
fringe in pine green and the burrs in
brown. and is used 10 trim dress of
odd material woven so that it looks
like a mass of pine leaves, crossing
each other and intermiXcd as if care
less,y thrown down, or just as they lie
beneath the pine tree.
Some OF the new feather trimmings
are made ii imitation of fur; indeed,
unless one is told they are of feathers,
it would be difficult to notice the diff
ference at little distance from the
garment they adorn. A decided nov-
city is a feather band of about four in
ches in width, showing soft, Hat feath-
,@rs ia all the shades of evening silks
pale .Siue, cream. lavender, rose, pink,
Nile eseen, dove color, and white
creating most exquisite results on
wrap of cream, brocaded in dainty
flowers, in all the colors shown in the
feather fringe.
The feather used in place Of and
greatly resembling fur is the shorn
feather marabout, cut smooth, short
and thick. The leading kinds of feath-
er borderings are long cocks feathers
of irregular lengths, formed into bands
and allowed TO interlap. other shorter
ones put on a semi-circular form and
presenting soft mossy surface, and
the ordinary cocks bands come in
plain and mixed coloring. g.-Fhttddet-
phia Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03

The health and well-being of the
farmers family demand that strict
cleanliness be observed in the home
surroundings and about the stables
and yards. The foul exhalations arising
from decaying matter. whether vege-
table or animal. from stagnant water
and cess-pools, from manure heaps and
hlthy pig pens. may cause sickness
and death in tie family circle. At
least the rlsk is so great that no farmer
VINO loves his family can afford to take
1t. So clean up every ything and every
where; clean out the cellar-drain, the
stagnant water and cess-pools, and
haul out the manure on the fields, and
sprinkle fresh lime and carbolio acid
IN the cellars and about the door-yard,
and wherever any bad odors may be
found. - National Stockmen and
Farmer.
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The DecadeEce of Dancing.

Last spring while at the house of the
late Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt |
heard one young lady guest remark
that it seemed to her curious how few
OF the gentlemen of families one knows
when one knows intimately the ladies.
Il often think of it." she said, land
wonder how it is, | meet wives, moth
ers and sisters, in society and | visit
them and they me; but l do not know
the husbands, brothers or fathers ex-
cept in q very few cases, and my ex-
perience is that of all other women.
There seems, somehow, TO be a grow
ing distaste on the part of men to social
meetings, and even at balls there seems
to be less of men than women. l think
it very unkind of them when we take
so much pains to appear pleasing, and
they seem to absolutely hate to dance
with US. can not understand it?'
My dear" said an old lady pres
ent, one who was great belle in her
day, and who is now regarded as Il
wise and Influential member of high
society, My dear you will never get
men-I mean ali the members of So
ciety, and those particularly that you
are just now complaining of to dance
with you, or to meeting you oftener
than they are absolutely forced to un-
til two reforms are made. You must
not be vexed any of you when l tell
you that the gentlemen, the fathers,
brothers and husbands of our best So
ciety, will not dance with women who
dress as they do now; and there is
nothing in the dance of the present
day to awaken any enthusiasm in the
heart, or put life into the heels. These
gentlemen, as it is, prefer to stand
aside and let some insane little dude
whirl around and bow and bow, but
real men won't dance until some lead
er OF fashion starts up the brisk, merry
dances like the old-fashioned reels and.
money-musk and such things. Down
the middle and up the outside and
wheel your partners to a tune that
would put life into a rafting pile of
dry bones. That would bring the
loiterers forward, | remember the
time whom all men loved to dance, and
did, too; but it was when we had dane
es like those-not these dreamy, die
away things that to the spectator look
SIS If the people were half asleep, and,
if may add, half ready for sleep be-
side. Of course you young folks will
all say that my ideas are superannuated,
but | can say that in those DAYS [
never heard a complaint that the GEN
tlemen wished to escape social duties.
N Y Star
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Beieaguered Chattanooga.

from General Grants paper. in the
November Century, describing the
campaign and battle of Chattanooga,
wequote the following account of the
condition of the supplies that reached
the besieged city: '.All supplies for
Rosecrans had to be brought from
Nashville. The railroad between this
base and the army was in possession of
the Government up to Bridgeport, the
pont at which the road crosses to the
soith side of the Tennessee River; but
Bragg, holding Lookout and Raccoon
mountains west of Chattanooga, COM
msnGed the railroad, the river, and the
shortest and best wagon roads both
south and north of the Tennessee, be-
tween Chattanooga and Bridgeport.
Tie distance between these two places
is but twenty six miles by raIl; but ow-
ing to this position OF Bragg all sup
plies for kosecrans had to be hauled
By d circUitous route, north of the riv-
CT, and over a mountainous country,
Increasing the distance to over sixty
miles. This country afforded but little
food for his animals, nearl y ten thous-
and of which had already starved, and
none were left 20 draw a single piece
of artillery or even the ambulances to
convey the sick. The men had been
on half ratious of hard bread Tor con-
siderable time, with but few other sup
plies, except beef driven from Nash
vile across the country. The region
along the road became so exhausted of
food for the cattle that by the time
they reached Chattanooga they were
much in the condition of the few ami
mails left alive there, 'on the lift In
deed, the beef was so poor that the
soldiers were in the habit of saying,
with faint righteousness, that they
were living on half rations of hard
bread and beef dried on the hoof.'
Nothing could be transported but food.
and the troops were without sufficient
shoes or other clothing suitable for the
advancing season. What they had
Was well worn The fuel within the
Federal lines was exhausted, even to
the stumps of trees. There were no
teams to draw it from the opposite
bank, where it was abundant. The
only means for supplying fuel, for
some time before my arrival, had been
to cut trees from the north bank of the
river, at considerable distance up the
stream, form RATS of it, and float it
down with the current, effecting a
landing on the south side, within our
lines, by the use of paddles or poles.
1t would then be carried on the shoul-
ders OF the men to their camps"
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The Swiss Guard.

The Pope has his own soldiers, who
are not very many, and who generally
act as guards to the various parts of
the Vatican. Behind the bronze doors,
which are enormous barred gates, we
saw some of these soldiers. one of
whom will ask US for our permoss0S, or
permits, / am sure you never beheld
military gentlemen like them before.
They are called the Swiss Guard, and
are dressed in uniform of flowing
tunic and breeches, formed of broad
perpendicular stripes of black, red,
and yellow. long stockings striped in
black and yellow; and on state occa-
sions they wear brass helmets with
heavy white plumes, and carry hall
herds, or pixies with ax-heads at the
ends. The officers dress, of the same
design. is of bright silk, and they make
dazzling appearance. These men
appear as ii they belonged to the Mid
die Ages and had nothing to do with
our modern times; and they very
properly seem so, for their uniform
was designed by Michael Angelo, not
long after the discovery of America,
and their costume has never been
chan ged. 1t used to be the custom of
many of the potentateS of Europe to
have personal guards composed of
Swiss soldiers, as they were considered
more honest and trustw orthy than any
others. In Walter Scott's Quentin
purward' you will learn great deal
about the Swiss guards of France In
Paris the porter at the doors of great
L e. Ia
although he is almost always French
man. And these guards of the Pope
are now Italians, but they still retain
the OH name.-Fraisb X: stockton, IN
ase ST. Nicholas Jor Aorsna6er.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03
Putting on his coat the quartet slow

Putting on his coat the quartet slow
ly, solemnly. and silently returned to
the city, which they reached just as
the sun was going down. Augustus
coat was Of the short-tailed variety,
and it was not long until 1.-The small
boy" was contidentially imparting the
information to him that There was
letter in the post-office" for him.
''Mr. De Jones', said Clara, "did l
understand that young lady to say
that there .as a letter in the post
Office for you?"
Augustus bushingly murmured that
she had correctly heard the informa-
ton.
.'Then," said Clara, scornfully,
''perhaps you had better go and get
that letter. We can go home alone.
Clara now has young Smith for
steady company. The new gallant
laughed heartily when told oil De Jones
misfortunes. He doesn't understand
nutting, Clara" said he; Il will go to
the woods tomorrow and bring you
all You want" He accomplished the
feat by hiring a buggy and buying a
busheI for q dollar OF a farmers boy
Chicago Tribune.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03
Life Worth Living.

How beautiful it is to be alive;
To wake each morn, as if the Makers grace
Did us afresh from nothingness derive,
That We might sing. How happy is our case,
How beautiful it is 70 be alive!
To read in some good books, until we feel!
Love for the one who wrote it; then to kneel
Close unto Him whose love our souls will
shrive
While every moments joy doth more reveal
How beautiful it is to be alive.
Rather TO 90 without what might increase
Our worldly standing than our souls deprive
OF frequent speech with God, or than to
cease
To feel though having lost our health and
peace,
How beautiful it is to be alive.
Not to forget when pain and grief draw nigh,
into the ocean OF time past to dive
+ or memories of Gods mercies; or to try
10 bear ali nobly, hoping still TO cry,
How beautiful it is to be alive!
Thus ever toward Man height of nobeness
Striving some new progression to cOntrive.
I'LL, just as any other friends we press
Deaths hand, and, having died, feel none the
less
How beautiful il is TO be alive
Every Other Saturday
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The Princess Metternich-on

1he Princess Metternich-on this
point all Paris agrees-is always charm
ing, but she is said to be at her best
when following the hounds. At pres
ent she Is accompanying Prince Met
ternlch on shooting expedition in
Bohemia, where her skill in handling
the gun is greatly admired. Unlike
the majority of modern Amazons, the
Princess is said to be quite regardless
OF her personal appearance when hunt
ing, as long as she is at her ease. Her
hunting costume is described as con-
sisting OF short gray skirt, darker
jacket, straw hat, and pair of
boots, which, as she jcstingly remarks,
''make her feet look like the feet of
young elephant. Her one anxiety is
to prove herself Il good shot, and her
one vanity to show :; good bag of
game at the end of each day. In the
dominions of the Amazon Empress
these qualities will no doubt be more
fully valued than even IN the circles of
the haute voice at Paris. PaH Mall
Gazette.
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THEY WILL SURELY FIND YOU,

They are looking for you everywhere.
Drafts of air in unexpected places, going
from hot rooms to cool ones, carelessness
IN changing clothing: In short anything
which ends in common cold in the
head" Unless arrested this kind of cold
becomes seated in the mucous membrane
of the head. Then it is eatarrh. In any
and all its stages this disease always
yields to Ely's Cream Balm. Safe,
agreeable, certain. Price SOC.
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Every now ard then some genius dis
covers ''a principle" by which exces-
siye abnormal quantities of butter can
be made from given quantity of milk.
Since 81 TO 90 per cent. of milk is
water, about 10 per cent only can be
converted into solid form. From 8
To per cent. of fat exists in milk, and
with the small quantity of water con-
tanned in the butter this is all the but
ter that can be gotten. Hence the sem
sible man will not be gulled by any
one who clains to get all the way from
10 to 90 per cent. of butter from milk,
The secret OF which he will impart con-
tidentiully for consideration.
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\ Sheen InIOXiCant.

In reference to the statement pub
lished elsewhere in regard to two hun
dred bucks being poisoned in eastern
Oregon, Il gentleman who has extern
sive interests in that section and who
has spent several years on the sheep
ranges there gives the following infor-
nation. There is a low weed growing Q
on certain ranges which, when eaten
by the sheep in the fall, proves fatal.
The sheep run on these ranges in the
spring without damage. Then they
are driven to the mountains for the
summer, and when they come back on
the range in the fall this poison weed
is ripe and the seeds have fallen on
the ground. The sheep feed on the
weed and probably the seeds. Pres
emily their ears droop. they froth at
the mouth, and their brain is affected.
After standing for awhile in dazed
condition they start off in any direc-
tion they h@ppen to be headed, and
keep going till they walk over a cliff
or into a gully or fall dead. They can
not be turned or stopped, but walk of
a bluff as composedly as if it was level
ground. So far as known there is no
cure for sheep which have eaten this
weed. Cattle and horses are not pois-
oned by it.-Porti0Rd Oregonian.
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VERY REMARKABLE DISCOVERY

MIR. Geo. '. Willing, of Manchester,
Mich, writes: "My wife has beel almost
helpless for five years, SO helpless that
she could not turn over in bed alone. She
used two bottles of Electric Bitters, aud
is so much improved that she is able now
to do her own work. F" Electric Bitters
will do all that is claimed for them
Hundreds of testimonials attest their
great curative powers. Only fifty cents
a bottle at Hinrichs' drug store. 2
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03
Bucklin's Arpica Salye.

The Best SALvR in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions.
and positively cures Piless. or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction of money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Fl.
iIinrichs.
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How to Make Coffee.

An Atlanta lady, who is an excellent
housekeeper. and whose coffee has
been praised time over time, gives the
following as the rules and regulations
for making that delightful beverage:
1T is an easy matter to have good
coffee. In the first place, the coffee
must be kept in an air-tight canister,
and must be of good quality, and be
ground as needed. The coffee pot
must be kept scrupulously neat, and
must be kept in sunshine, whenever
there is any sunshine. The tea kettle
in which the water is boiled must also
be kept clean, and fresh water must
be used for making the coffee. The
amount Of coffee used must be bounte-
Gus, else the product will have a limp
taste and will fail 10 give satisfaction.
If god supply of crisp, freshly
ground coffee is put into a clean pot
and fresh boiling water is poured on
and the coffee is allowed to boil a
while good coffee is the result. At
our home we make coffee extra strong,
use about third OF cup of good
fresh milk with the cream on it, and it
is delightful. 1t is far different from
much of the alleged coffee that COM
bination of stinginess and careless
ness force helpless people to drink. "
The lady is right. Eternal vigilance is
the price of good coffee. Atlanta Con-
StttHttOH
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ALL RED RnNNETS

Red is popular color in millinery
just now. and many all red bonnets
will be worn for evening. Most of
those also which are intended for wear
either with dark green, navy blue,
gray, or brown suits, have more or !sss
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03
Z. K. PAINE, NJ. D..

II TOMGOPATEEC PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
In and Accoucheur, late resident Physician at
ohe Hahrema Hospital, Chicago, has peIman-
emily located at Manitowoc. Office, on Bafalo
streets, west of Rands store.
oxv,cx uorys 3 to 8 A. NJ,
! / to and TO p. NJ
Diseases of the eve and ear treated
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CHAS. FL. SEEGER,

nENTIST. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN ANDER-
~ ons Block, Corner South Eighth and Ouay
Streets, Manitowoc, Wis. Prompt attention will
be given to all work entrusted 20 me. apr27-S 81
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DR.. O'Donnell, of San San Francisco.
the ant-Chinese crank. announces his
intention of running Tor the Governor
ship of California. and has started an
organ called the -4ntl- Cooly DyH2asite.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03

T. G. Buerstatte and Fl. Hinrichs dis
tinctly state that Acker's English Remedy
has and does cure contracted consump.
ton. Ask for circular. An entirely new
medicine, guaranteed.
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OILS.

Buy your machine oil of the Wagner
Hardware Co., they sell the best oils,
sucs as Lard and Eldorsdo oils, very
cheap.
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WILLIAMS HOUSE,

JOHNSTON, PROPRIETOR, Corner of
Il. Eighth and Franklil streets, Manitoyoc
A frst-class American Hotel, centrally located
offers every inducement 10 the travelling public.
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NJ. KETTENHOFFEN,

NORTHWESTERN HOUSE, FRANKLIN AND
IN Ninth streets, Manitowoc. Travellers will
here fud the best Accommodations, Sample rooms
attached
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DYES DYES DYEs-for Gotten, wool
os silk, the most beautiful colors sold at
ucuIy Hiurichs drug store.
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A TToRNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
IN Office in TorrsOn's brick block, north end
sth street bridge, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Collec-
tions promptly attended to.
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S. SANDERSON.

kIANEFACTURERAN AND DEALER IN BOOTS
WI Shoes, Leather, &C, sc. Shop on Buffalo
Street, the corner of Eighth Repairing
neatly and promptly executed.
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BARBER SHOP.

4tARL PANGBURN'S Barbershop. in Barnes
Nblock on North Eighth street. Work done in
good taste. Particular attention paid to Ladies
and Childrens hair cutting and shanpooing. BY
all means call and see Carl.
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E0RREST 4 RIESCH-

+. TToRNEYS g. CoUNSELLORS AT LAW
~ Ofics in Carus' Block, first faor, in door
.eading to County judges Office, South Eighth
Street. Manitcwoc, Wiz. Collections promptly
attended to. JULIO
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HUPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION.
~ OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED
Louisiana State Lottery Comnanv

Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the Legis-
lature for Educational and Charitable purposes
with capital OF Sl,000o00-to which reserve
FUND of over S550,00O has since been added.
BY an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
was made part of the present State Constitution
adopted December 2nd, 1879
Its Grand Single Number Drawings will take
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