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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-08
WHO THE OLD MAN WAS.

The New Haven Register is reapon-
sible for the following story: ''Presi
dent Porter took a spin on Lake
Whitney in a shell yesterday after
noon. The noted scholar often makes
a shell fly over the waters of the lake.
Not long ago his presence on the lake
caused considerable discontinue to
two freshmen of the college, who
were decidedly of this class in man
ner as well as IN name. President
Porter was rowing up the lake one
afternoon. and but a little way behind
him were two pretty girls struggling
with the oars. The two freshmen came
up behind, and nothing but the presi-
dents back being visible, one of them
very fippantly shouted out: Say old
man, why don't you take the girls in
tow? The students soon after rowed
into the boat house. Their remark
was heard by the boat-house proprie
tor, who said to them: Young men,
do you know who that old man was
you shouted at?' No. they answered
in a nonchalant sort of way We'll,
that was President Porter The feel
ings of the smart young men as they
quickly escaped from the boat house
can better be imagined than describ-
ed"
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Sugar Statistics.

The worlds production of sugar is
probably well toward eight million tons
a year. OF this, British India and Chi
ma produce and themselves consume
over a million tons each of cane sugar,
their exports being small, and these of
very low grade sugars. The estimated
product Of all countries available for
export was, in 1SS4-5, a year of large
production, 2.162.0 900 tons of cane and
no less than 1857 800 of beet sugar 1t
is estimated that the cane-sugar crop
marketed this year will increase to p
21S, 200 tons, and that the beet-sugar
crop will fall off $40, $50 tons-partly
the result of a lower acreage resulting
from the low prices of last year. Cuba
produces more than a quarter of the
whole export supply of cane sugar, last
years product being $4,000 tons, while
this years will probably equal her larg-
est crop OS75), which was 500, 900 tons.
OF this more than half Gn 1885, $780,
$50 gross tons) comes to this country,
which gets nearly half its total supply
for refining from that island of revolu-
tons. Louisiana produced last year but
$4,000 tons, but its normal product is
nearer 125, 900 tons, to which Texas,
our other chief ugargrowing State,
adds 10000 tons more. Five other
States contribut some cane sugar The
Sandwich Islands crop, under the slim
illus of the treaty which permits its
sugar to enter duty free, reaches $4,000
tons, but it is said that the use of all the
available land, and the poor quality of
native labor, the prohibition of Chi
nese, and the high price of white labor,
fix the limit THE present figure. Ofthe
beet-sugar supply, Germany produced
last year l, 155. 900 tons, Austria 557, 900
Russia 3S0,000 France $4,000, Bel
GUM 10000, and Holland $4,000 tons.
Our chief contribution to this crop is
from a factory at Alvarado, California,
producing about 1000 tons, but it is be-
lieved that this will become an import
ant Pacific coast industry. Beet sugar
is largely imported in this country for
refining purposes, and we get also some
date-palm sugar, called commercially
date iaggery." Our yield of maple
sugar, in which Vermont still leads,
was about $4,000 tons last year. Sorg-
hum, although large quantities of syrup
are made from the large acreage at the
West, has not yet come into the market
as an important commercial source OF
crystalIizable sugar, the largest crop
having been but 5000 tons; our scienti-
fc agriculturists who give good reasons
for looking to this as one of the great
American crops of the future, have yet
to justify their faith by their works.
The manufacture of commercial glu-
cose, or artificial starch sugar, has of
late years reached enormous proper
tons in this country, amounting in
value to Il tuird of our cane-sugar crop.
r. r. BOlOker, an Rarper'S Magazine
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-08
Actresses Love Beer.

"People of the best society, when they
come to dine with us, are as easy and
careless as lot of school-children; we
get stiff and formal as we descend the
social scale"
'Who are your best customers?"
Gamblers and their beautiful con-
sorts are individually the best customers
we have had this season. They spend
their money like water, don't care rap
for details, give liberal tips, and are al
most constant customers. Most of them
are exceedingly common beneath their
good clothes and solemn manners, but
they are invariably accompanied by
handsome woman, who know what they
want in the way of wine and food, and
don't hesitate to ask for it. Politicians
are occasionally good patrons. But per-
haps the most utterly reckless of all our
customers is THE man who is undergoing
the first throes of the acquaintance of a
popular actress. 1t makes no difference
whether she is 20 or 60 years old His
actions are always the same. He comes
here early in the day deliberately attired
and noticeably nervous and remarks
that he would like to have little supper
at IL 30 for two, never failing to men
ton incidentally the name of the stage
divinity whom he is to bring to supper.
Then he orders enough for eight people,
with sufficient wine for as many more.
has the room decorated with flowers,
and subsequently drives around in great
shape and ushers the lady in carelessly,
trying to assume the air of man who
does that sort of thing every night Both
OF them are more or less bored BY the
immense pretensions of it all, and most
OF US in the house are aware that the
actress, in nine cases cut of ten, prefers
beer and Schweitzer kase with a man
about town who knows how to talk and
amuSe her rather than the endless dis
play OF set supper, with its carefully
cooled champagne and accurately warm
ed red wines. BY the way, there are
half dozen actresses who sup and dine
out great deal, and whom / know by
observation and experience prefer cold
tea to wine of any sort But their pre-
ference generally runs in the direction of
beer If an actress drifts into our main
restaurant after the play with a man
whom she likes and who treats her with
measured amount of indifference the
chances are that they will sit down and
have rafting good time over a plate
of oysters and a bottle of beer She will
talk cleverly, giggle happily, and enjoy
herself thoroughly on supper that costs
less than 81. Take her the following
night with an aspiring millionaire's son
and place her in $1,000 dining-room.
with 500 supper, and the chances are
that she will assume preposterous airs
and bore herself to death, while she
signs for bottle of beer and bohemian
companion. "-Ne1C York Sun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-08
A BEAR STORY.

Some naturalists aver that bear
has a very keen sense of pleasure, and
that in his ursine majesty even turks d
dim sense of hUmor. Mr.. Bear Is said
to be very fond of climbing, and an
American observer states at hOtei
which is being erected In the great
West a bear the other day began to
climb up the scaffolding. As Brrin
went aloft skyward, he was noticed to
carefully test every cross-pole before
trusting his entire weight upon it.
At last he reached the top, which was
120 feet high. The bear seemed much
pleased by his exploit, and after being
applauded by the workmen, he des-
cended in safety. Another tale from
the same source, tells Of a Siberian
bear, who certainly must be consider
ed to have been wonderfully good
natUued Two peasants lost a couple
of children. They set out to find them,
being filled with the most anxious
forebodings as to what might hage
been their fate In the distance they
saw bear, and feared worst. But then
anxiety changed to wonder when, Oh
coming nearer, they saw the children
actually playing with the bear, running
laughing round it, and even daring
to pull its tail, We have every res
pect for those who narrate what they
have seen, but we might incidently re
mark that such things as travellers
tales are not entirely unknown in the
world of fiction.
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Woman $ Barbarous Dress.

The effort now being made by certain
humanitarians to discourage the wear
ing of birds or their plumage by ladies
IN their hats is all very good in its way.
says the millinery TiGde ReUie1c, and
gives opportunities for such persons to
pose as rcformers; but why they should
visit their wordy wrath upon the poor
milliners. as some have done, is as mvs-
FERROUS as it is inconsistent. The MILL
ner does not kill the birds, nor do thew
reach her until they have passed through
the hands of several dealers or middle
men. and she would not sell them were
they not demanded by her customers.
The consumer ola article is the person
responsible for its being offered as mer-
chandiSe. So we advise our benevolent
brothers and sisters to go for'' the con-
sumers.
And while they are about it, let them
not stop at plumes on hats; let them re-
collect the beautiful tortoise-shell comb
Miss Fashion wears in her hair was
originally taken from an innocent Great
IRE which used this material for its only
defense. The kid gloves she has on her
hands were stripped from a babe whose
parents had hoped that its maturity
would be spent IN the harmless amuse-
ment of bounding about on the suburban
rocks and foraging freely on fence-board
circus posters.
The Satchel she carries on her arm
but short time ago formed part of an
amphibious animal whose only crime
consisted of basking in the sunshine on
the mud flats of the St. Johns river,
Florida, occasionally frolicking in its
waters, or watching for an incautious
back plckaninny on whom to make
meal.
The silk dress she robes herself in was
made from the winding threads that
formed protection for thousands of ma
lures beautiful creations. which were
cruelty scalded within their secluded re-
treats lest they might eat their way out
and spoil the continuity of the valuable
tibers.
The sacque that shields her fair form
from the rude wintry blasts once helped
protect beautiful animal, whose native
home is amid the Icy regions of Alaska,
where he was ruthlessly sacrificed for 4
species of skin game; an animal sus-
ceptible of domestication and capable
of high degree of culture. wing with
the average Italian in musical ability,
as was demonstrated by several that
have been exhibited at various museums.
where they handle the barrel-organ with
marked skill.
The portemonnaie she so daintily car
ries IN her hand, and the card-case that
accompanies her on calls of ceremony,
were once part of beautiful tusks that
excited the cupidity of Asiatic or African
hunters, who murdered a possible Jumbo
to secure them tor commercial purposes.
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McnOtOnOus Work,

A writer in the Boston Herald tells of
some of the devices employed in En-
gland to keep convicts employed.
The convicts were marched into large
yard and formed three sides of a square,
standing about five feet apart, facing
inward. Near one end of the line was
a pyramid of twenty-four pound cannon
balls. In the center of the square stood
the officer or guard. When al was
ready he gave the order, ''One," when
every man moved sideways five feet to
the right, which brought the man at the
head OF the line opposite the pyramid Of
balls. 1.-Two" Every man stopped
down without bending the knees, the
first man taking ball from the pile,
the others going through the motion till
ball reached them. Three" The
men moved back to their original places.
-Four" They stopped and placed the
ball upon the ground, not being allow
ed to drop it. And so on the movements
continued, the orders quickened at the
will of the guard till the balls were all
conveyed through the line and piled up
at the other end. it required but few
minutes of these rapid movements to
bring every man into state of profuse
perspiration, showing that the labor
was of the severest kind. A short time
was allowed the men to rest, when they
were again called to order, and, by the
same movement the balls were returned
to their original place; and so on
throughout the day these cannon-balls
were passed forward and back, with no
object only to furnish labor for the
men.
In the prisons established upon the
solitary or separate plan, where the con-
victs work in their cells, they have what
they called the 'crank labor" an iron
cylinder or drum two feet long and
eighteen or twenty inches in diameter
resting upon legs. A spindle or shaft
Is passed through the drum, with a
crank on one end for turning it. At
tached to the spindle within the drum,
which was filled with sand. were fat
arms, making it necessary to use con-
siderable force to turn ia dull, heavy
draw. A dial attached to the machine
registered the number of revolutions
the convict had made. From 5000 to
10000 was the usual daily stint. Can
one imagine a more terrible situation
for human being to be placed in than
to be shut up alone in a cell ten feet
square, and from morning till night
compelled to turn a crank attached to
such an Internal machine, with no re-
suits, nothing accomplished, no object,
no hope except to complete his task, for
upon that depends his supper of Cruel?
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-08
HOW THE APACHES FIGHT

In point of natural education hos
tile Apache is far superior to any
white man. They are the keenest and
shrewdest animals in the world, with
the added intelligence of human be-
ings, and it is matter of impossible
ity to surprise them in camp The
only kind of surprises ever heard of
was just such as an officer recently
effected near Nogales. There the
Indians tied there horses in cannon
and then, ascending to the rocks above,
allowed the soldiers to find them, and
when the troops had gotten the
animals and were convinced that the
hostiles had left that section of the
country, the Indians from their am
buscade opened fire, and after sharp
fight of a few minutes, killing two
soldiers and wounded three more,
they recovered there own animals and
captured some from the soldiers
During my years of service on the
frontier l have followed the trials of
hOstiles of a dozen different tribes,
but none of them We're nearly so diff
ficult OF dangerous as the trial of an
n pGcut- hS ill tAdLl1 pIS VIII oS4A
you an incident that took place on my
first campaign in Sonora, last year.
We were on hot trial which ran
along the side OF a mountain. My
advance guard was under the immedI-
ate control of one of my Indian scouts,
the best trailer III the battalion. Yet,
with all his lifelong experience among
the mountains, and his knowledge OF
his brother Apaches' skill in hiding
their trial, he actually ran in the
very midst Of four of the hOstiles be
fore he was aware he was near them.
Their first volly killed him. A second
Indian sergeant close behind sprang
into the air at the first fire, then drop
ped fiat on the ground as the second
volley was fired, and ran away before
the hostiles could fire a third time
Had it been body of white soldiers
following that sergeant there would
have been several killed, as white
soldiers always go'bunched'' or close
together.
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A five-ton coal car or jimmy is IL feet
inches in length, from bumper to
bumper An eleven-ton car is y feet l
inch. A car holding from fourteen to
sixteen tons of anthracite is "a feet 2
inches. A gondola of twenty tons ca
pacity is put at y feet inches. A
large gondola, with twenty-five tons ca
pacity, is % feet in length. There will
be AGO of the jimmies to the mile, and
that means $500 tons of coal, perhaps.
There will be 240 of the double jimmies,
and that means 2,640 tons. There will
be 21S of the large ears, and that may
mean 3,270 tons. OF the gondolas there
will be 1913 cars, and this may mean
$40 tons. Then of the larger ones
there are, say, 100 cars, which will
equal in capacity 1000 tons. All which
goes to show that when you see or hear
of mile or two of cars standing loaded
it really does not mean so much coal.
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Mrs. Bancroft.

A topic of conversation in American
society, writes Paris correspondent, is
the lonely state of Mr.. George Bancroft,
the historian, who short time ago was
left widower at the age OF so. had
a short and agreeable acquaintance with
Mrs. George Bancroft, when she and her
husband represented the United States
republic at Berlin. Had she lived
another year she would have celebrated
her golden wedding with Bancroft. who
was her second husband. They were
an interesting couple. She was eere-
monious, without being prim or starch
ed. Her smile showed self-complacancy,
free, however, from conceit, and certain
ly a wish to be very gracious. She
spoke with delibera,ion, and yet avoid
ed drawing, and brought out every word
with clear distinctness. Mr.. Ban
croft, white bearded, hale OLD gentle
man, with a fine eye, that denoted sa-
gacity and quick perception, was, when
She spoke of him, 1.-The minister" or
my husband" He was as ceremonious
and as free from starch as his wife.
Their mental habits and mode of speech
were cultivated before telegraphese was
invented and the reaction toward blunt
Anglo-Saxon phraseology had taken
place. Mrs Bancrofs's conversation
saxored of elegant extracts" u was
picturesquely and prettily old-fashisned.
only knew her when she was staying
in hotel; but was told that she was
a notable, although by no means fussy,
housekeeper, and that the German crown
princess picked up many American
culinary notions when dining at her
table-such as cranberry preserve with
roast mutton, oyster soup, pumpkin pie,
and doughnuts. one day had the
| pleasure of walking round horticul,
tural show with Mrs. Bancroft, who
| found was an enthusiastic rose-fancier
and could teach most of the gardeners
who exhibited improved methods Of
cultivating different species of roses.
She was also walking biographical
encyclopaedia. Who was there within
the last sixty-siX years in Europe OIL
America that either he or she had mo-
known or seen or heard about from
mutual friendsP
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-08
Harmony Among Servants.

Where several servants are united
under one roof, there is still need of
self-possession with tact in keeping the
different elements in harmony. There
will be suspicious, among them, some
times of injustice and favoritism, from
the mistress, or of imposition from one
of their own number. Such grievances
can only be adjusted by skillful thought
full management The only course is
that of just and righteous dealing with
each, Independent of favoritism. No
cringing concessions should be made to
one on account of her Importance
some might demur to this, because there
are circumstances, when it seems i'm
possible for a mistress to refuse unjust
demands. Sickness, or number of
visitors may be made the occasion for
discomfort, and concession apparently
become necessity. For young house
keepers, this frequently is the inevitable
course. But experience should teach
one some good system of management,
whereby she can secure herself against
the necessity of yielding to unjust de-
mands. Every woman should strive to
conduct her household upon such plan
during health and quiet, that her SER
vice will be desirable at all times All
are known in the circle from which
they choose their domestics, if they
make friends among them by kindness
and just government then will rarely
be found wanting some who will min
lister to them in sickness or emergency.
Sometimes q most kind and judicious
mistress is not thus requited. Servants
are not always appreciative. Some
times, too, her service may not be de-
sirable on account of a disturbing ele-
ment in the presence of another member
of the family. Many have these disad-
vantages to contend with and it is not
always the fault of the housekeeper. that
she fails, at all times to secure efficient
service. But there are many errors in
the household government which can be
corrected if women give intelligent at
tention to them.-Nrs. E. j. Gurley,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-08
Creyasses in the South.

Crevasses of the banks are the re-
suit of three causes. The gradual
lengthaning of the river, which re-
duces the slope by elongating the bends,
is the first As the average slope from
the river bank back to the swamp
level in either an east or west direction
is over eight feet in the first mile 1t fol-
lows that when new levee is built pro-
vision should be made for these two
factors-to-wit: reduction of the slope
and tie lowering of the bank by re-
ceding toward the swamp. This is the
second cause, and the third is the re-
suit of the two. The sediment of the
river carried in solution is clay and al
luvium with a small portion of the fin
est sand, but with what is held in solu-
ton there is also carried along the bot
tom large amount of coarse sand and
gravel.
The movement of this sand and
gravel is almost imperceptible, and par
ticularly the gravel, and it is only on
the bars that have long slope above,
as at the head of islands No. %, 80. 80,
and several other places. This sand
and gravel require both weight and
follows that when the leyee breaks the
surface current carries off the lighter
alluvium and, lessening the weight and
reducing the velocity, causes I'LL be-
low by raising the bottom, and thus in
creases the danger until in few years
the country will be useless for agricult-
ure.
The fourth cause is the gradual open
inc of the outlets of the swamps and
lakes along the tributaries of the main
stream. These swamps were formerly
reservoirs that held the melted SHOWS
and surplus rains, allowing them to
percolate through the soil, creating per-
ennial springs and rendering the eli
mate more humid. But now all that
are open pour in their volume as soon
as it falls, thus increasing the overflow
and rendering it more difficult to be
met with levees, unless, like China,
they are built back far enough from
the river to allow the river to spread,
and even then there would be a con-
slant necessity of increasing their
height from time to time as the slope of
the river is lessened.
Such are the causes.
The alluvial region begins at Com
merce, Mo. From there to the head of
the passes the distance by the channel
is about LOO miles, and as both places
are on the same meridian it follows
that the average curves of the bend are
two-thirds of a circle, hence it is plain
statement that if we begin below and
make cut-oifs, securing the banks be-
low the cut-offs where the current inn
pinges on it and thus gradually increase
the slope, we can reduce the flood level
within the natural banks and do away
with levees altogether above Bayou
Sara, drain the swamps, destroy the
malaria, and restore to cultivation land
enough to pay for the work many times
over-,St Louis Republican.
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The Fills.

A traveller recently returned from the
FIJI Islands and who brought with him
the skull and bones OF a missionary
friend as curios. declares that the Fiiians
would again become cannibals if they
had the opportunity. Even now, he
says, one cannot so into the interior of
the island with safety. The Government
forbids people TO 90 into the mountains
for fear they will get baked and eaten.
All the clothes the natives wear is loin
cloth; and the Government encourages
the chiefs IN not Introducing civilized
clothing. The women, though, have
some modesty, as is shown by the fact
that only recently eight of them were
sentenced by the Roko, for some offense.
to 90 nude for four months. There is
very little education among the masses.
but the missionaries have established a
few schools for children.