The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-03-25
ATTEND THE FARMERS INSTI-

andshorticulturist has been in attendance
at the farmers institutes held In various
portions of the state during the past win
ter, and here is what he says of these
gatherings in a note addressed to the ed
itor OF the Green Bay Advocate:
1 have just returned from enc of a
series of farmers institutes which have
occupied nearly my entire time for the
last or weeks. To say that farmers
are waking up upon the subject of inn
proving their farms is to speak mildly
upon the subject. Halls have been pack
standing room, and hundreds have gone
away unable to get inside the buildings
in which the meetings have been held.
Invitations are already coming in for in
stitutes to be held in next winter. The
one to be held in Green Bay upon the
oath, 25th and Goth of this mouth, will
be the closing one of the series. and Mr..
Morrison. the superintendent, has pro-
missed me that he will bring nearly all his
speakers here, and will do his part to-
ward making it the best one of the entire
series. This is promising good deal,
still have no doubt but he will fulfill his
part to the letter. The programmes will
be sent out within few days, giving
names and subjects Of the different speak
ers. A few words to our farmers who
are the readers of your paper.
My friends you cannot afford to ignore
this coming institute. Are You making
butterl 1t has been poor blu siness for
the last year, yet the men who are talk
ing to you upon dairying are the men who
are getting 30cts. for their butter the
year around, and making their cows aver
age over 200 lbs. per COW. They will tell
you how to do as we'll as they are doing.
Are you growing beef for the market?
Practical beefgrowers will tell you howyou
can improve your stock, and how to feed
them in order to get mnch more from a
given amount of feed than it is possible
to do with our native stock.
Not long since | saw 2 carload of cat
tie in Chicago that averaged about Is
months in age. They averaged nearly
1,500 lbs They were sold to an eastern
butcher Gas / was informed) for eight cts.
per Id. live wight. How many Brown
county farmers have done half as we'll?
L fear not. any of them. Now, farmers
and friends, let us do our part, what Mr..
Morrison promises upon his part, viz:
turn out with our wives and children,
with our friends and neighbors, and
make this the gran1est as we'll as the
most useful institute of the entire season.
HOPELESS MINORITY.
Among the Rev. Henry Ward Beech
is his ability as story teller. To much
amused listeners he recently told this
about New York drummer: A typical
"knight of the grip sack" was detained
In small town in Western New York
while ago where revival meeting was
in progress. He had met party of con-
vivial friends during his stay there, and
had what is popularity known as ga load
on" Nevertheless he drifted into the
revival meeting and took seat well up
in the front. 1t was rather close in the
church and the warm air was conducive
to sleep. The drummer yielded to the
drowsy god and after nodding a little
sank into profound slumber and slept
through the minister's rather long and
dry discourse. The audience sang a
hymn and the drummer slept on. Then
the evangelist began his address, ard
wound up his fervid appeal with this re.
quest:
"Will all of you who want to go to
heaven please rise2
Every one in the church except the
sleepy drummer arose. When the evan
gelist asked them to be seated one of the
brothers in the same pew as the sleeping
drummer accidentally brushed against
hin as he sat down. The drummer rub
bed his eyes, and partially awake. heard
the last portion of the evangelist's re-
quest, which was:
"Now want all of you who want to
go to hell to stand up"
The drummer struggled little, leaned
forward unsteadily, and rose from his seat
10 dazed sort of way. A sort of sup
pressed laugh he heard from some of the
younger people, and an expression of
horror he noticed on the faces of some of
the older ones. Steadying himself
against the rail he looked at the eyange-
list an instant and then said:
"Well, parson, don't know just ex-
actly what we're voting on, but you and
1 seem to be in hopeless minority.
The coast of Portugal is defended from
along the shores wherever landing
might seem convenient or where an i'm
portant point had to be protected. Most
of these strong places date from before
the introduction of gunpowder, and we're
afterward restored and received their pre-
sent picturesque form long before guns
and gunnery practice had attained mo.
dern perfection. One of the largest and
strongest is the Castle of Foz, at the en-
trance to the River Douro. 1t is such all
important position that at one time it
mounted at least fifty guns, though pro-
badly little better than toys, if we Judge
by the size of the embrasures. A curl
Gus custom is still kept up of firing at
vessels which try to pass the bar without
q pilot or when the red dag is not flying
at the fort. Luckily, blank cartridges
are used in modern times. The first gun
is fired when the vessel is outside the
bar, and if it at once turns and gives up
its attempt to get IN, it is fined only a
small sum. However, if it continues its
efforts, the gun is loaded and fred again
and again as quickly as possible on the
ship. A skillfully- handled ship escapes
without heavy fines. but badly manag-
ed vessel has to pay dearly; or, in other
words, the greater the danger they have
risked the greater the fine demanded in
punishment.-ArtJ Journal
HOW THE RUSSIAN KEEPS WARM.
You feel nothing of the cold in those
tightly built houses, where all the doors
and windows are double, and where the
rooms are kept warm by big stoves hid
Russian house, and the inmates may
dress indoors in the light garb. which
contrasts oddly with the mass of furs and
wraps which they don when going out.
A Russian can afford to run no risk of
exposure when he leaves the house for a
walk or drive. He covers his head and ears
with fur bonnet, his feet and legs with
felt boots lined with wool or flrs which
are drawn over the ordinary boots and
trousers, and really up to his knees; he
newt aloaks himalf in ton root NTH N