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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
manitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16.
A Needed Lesson.

A unique specimen of womankind,
says New York letter, was a mother
in n drawing-room car, accompanied
by young hopeful and an immaterial
sort of husband. With much ado she
disposed of her wraps, boxes, AMI bum
dies. In a loud, aggressive voice she
uporaided the car-builders. who had
put too many chairs into the vehicle. A
pleasant old gentleman offered the use
of hook beside his seat for tie hanging
up of cloak that was troubling her.
The son whispered to his mother he
was afraid their nelghbor couldn't see,
as the cloak swung over the window.
That's his lookout said the anna
BILE creature; ''don't you never worry
about other people. See that you
make yourself comfortable; that's all
you're obliged to do"
The boy belonged to some uniformed
school, and wore a uniform. Some
thing was wrong with his cuffs. AL
luding to one Susan, evidently the
laundress, he said:
81 had good mind to hit her when
/ see EN-"
II wonder you didn't, returned ma.
An elegant lady with nursemaid
and two lovely children occupied adj
jacent seats. The little girls betrayed
their careful training. Their manners
we're perfect. The elder, a graceful
creature of ten or twelve years, won
the undisguised admiration of the cub,
while the luxurious appointments and
fine atmosphere of the mother was very
attractive to the cubs keeper. who
made overtures of a friendly nature to
the whole family; but the nurse re-
fused the candies for the children, and
the lady answered in polite but frigid
monosyllables that ended further at
tempts at intimacy. Thrown back
on the society of the cub. the woman's
idiotic counsels amused or incensed her
hearers according to their nature.
All of q sudden, in reply to some re-
mark of her son, she broke out:
Never do anything you don't want
to. Remember that. Through all
your life, never do anything you don't
like to-"
The elegant lady raised her eyes
from her book and, with sweet smile,
said to the boy:
"Will you favor me with your
name?"
james Taylor" answered the lad.
James Carter Taylor" amended
the mother, with an obsequious smile.
Il shall endeayor to remember it"
returned the lady for Mr.. James
Carter Taylor, as you will make him,
madam, will be man l should dread
to have my grown up daughters
meet. The men and women who do
only that which they like to do in this
world are of no good to themselves or
anyone else"
This closed the discussion. The boy
sat and ruminated over it. The moth
er spared the passengers further an
nOyance.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
Ingersoll's Tribute.

TIE funeral of Mrs. Robert Knowles,
says the Peoria Transcript, was at
tended by many people from Gales
burg, the childhood home of both the
dead woman and the husband who
mourns her loss. Her lovely qualities
are forever to remain alive, not alone
for acquaintance but before the En-
glish-speaking world, being hallowed
and embalmed by the following tribute
from Col. Robert G. IngersoIl, who
knew her well, and whose poetic spir-
{ seemed inspired toward the grand
rords on the evening of December 16,
III New York, just before the be-
reayed family started with the remains
to this city:
My FRIENDS: Again we stand in
the shadow of the great mystery-a
shadow as deep and dark as when the
tears of the first mother fell upon the
pallid face of her lifeless babe-a mys-
terry that has never yet been solved.
We have met in the presence of the
sacred dead, to speak a word of praise,
of hope, of consolation. Another life
of love is now blessed memory-a
lingering strain of music. The loving
the sincere friend, who with tender
faithfulness discharged the duties of
life, has reached her journeys end.
A Drawer, a more serene, a more
chivalric spirit-clasping the loved,
and by them clasped-never passed
from life to enrich the realm of death.
No field of war ever witnessed great
er fortitude, more perfect, smiling
courage, that this poor weak and help
less woman displayed upon the bed of
pain and death.
Her life was gentle and her death
sublime. She loved the good, and all
the good loved her. But there is this
consolation, she can never suffer more
she can never feel again the chill of
death-never part again from those
she loves. Her heart can break no
more. She has shed her last tear,
and upon her beautiful brow has been
set the wondrous seal of everlasting
peace.
When the angel of death-the
masked and voiceless-enters the doors
of home, there comes with her all the
daughters of Compassion, and of these
love and hope remain forever.
You are about to take this dear dust
home; to the home of her girlhood; to
the place that was once my home.
You will lay her with neighbors that l
have loved, that are now at rest. You
will lay her where my father is sleep
ing. All l can say is:
Lay her i the dust,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
Let violets spring.
Inever knew never meta drawer
spirit than the one that once inha bited
this dear form of dreamless clay.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16

PEOPLE OF THE CONGO CoUNrRY.-You
will, of course, want some description of
the people in this my first visit from the
great valley. They are for the most part
peaceful on the lower rivers; vary much
10 features, form and color. They have
marks, such as taking out the center
upper front teeth, notching the same,
sharpening all the upper fronts to a point,
picking certain shaped marks In their
forehead and temples, aud making ami
mails, or great many small marks on
their chests aud backs to distinguish the
different tribes. Their dress is very
simple, consisting only of loiD cloth for
the common people, while the royal FAM
lilies and the rich wear long choice skirts
down to the ankle and shoulder str2p
besides. They also wear in abundance
heavy rings on their waist and ankles, the
women wearing strings and strings of
beads around their waists and up and
down their chests and backs. The stiff
bristle from the tail of tee elephant is
also considered fine article of jewerly,
being worn as are the brass rings. Their
religion consists Of all kinds OF supersti-
tons. They have different fetch for
nearly every thing, those for medicine
being worn as is the enc to keep off the
had man, whom they call udoki.-Congo
Missionary in Christian Recorder.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16

AN OLD ENGLISH PRIMER The one
IN the British museum WAS found quar-
ter of a century ago in a deep closet,
built in the thick walls of an old farm
house in Derbyshire. 1t is said that
laborer, engaged in pulling DOM the
walls of the ancient house, recognized
it as that from which his father had been
Taught to read. Upon the back is a pic
ture of Charles [ on horseback, giving
some approximation TO its date. It is
single leaf, containing upon the front
side the alphabet, large aud small, in old
English end Roman letters, ten short coll
umns of monysyllablps founded on the
vowels, and the Lords Prayer; all get in
frame of OAK, now black with age, and
protected by eiice of transparent horn,
hence the name horn book There is a
handle by which to hold it, and in the
handle & hole for string, 80 it could
hang from the girdle. 4 picture of 1720
represents o child running in leading
strings, with horn book tied to her
side.
4 cheap kind of hornbook had the leaf
of printed paper pasted upon the horn,
and perhaps the greater number were
made in this way. If so, it is not sing
ular they should be scarce, for they
would be very easily destroyed. Chris
tan at Work.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
An OLD JEWISH Custom. the u,

An OLD JEWISH CUSTOM -In the home
of Jewish citizen of New York was seen
recently tiny fame burning in hand
some goblet. Examination showed the
goblet to be half filed with water, on the
top of which floated about an inch of
sweet oil. A tiny float of corks, fastened
on either side of metallic ring, rested
upon the OIL On the ring was placed
a wax taper hardly thicker than a thread,
passed through small circle of thin
wood, so that the lower end of the taper
dipped through the ring into the sweet
oil. The upper end was lighted. The
sweet oil drawn through the wax covered
wick served TO keep it alight for several
hours. ''We burn this, said the gentle
man, ''in memory of one of our dead.
When that tapers burns nearly out we
substitute another, so that the flame, like
the yes .al fire, is never allowed TO go out.
We light the taper when our relative
dies and let it burn a year. The last
taper we let go out of itself. 1t flickers,
flames up. sinks, flares again, aud then
goes out, just as human life does in its
last hours. We tend Insight with great
care, and thus keep alive the memory Of
orr loved one. 1t is an old custom,
which is nov becoming less observed
Many now only burn the the taper for
a month, and some but for week
There are still great many. though,
that keep M the custom in its old purity"
Chicago News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
Life in the Capital

There are good many perquisites
connected with official life in Wash
ington that are as valuable as they are
pleasant, says a letter to the Atlanta
Constitution.
1925 per year for stationery. This has
been generally considered by the out
side world as very unfortunate, for it
encourages the members to write often
and much, which is very bad for any
one.
But there is another sort of per.
quisite which is very agreeable and
pleasant as memento only, and
though hardly considered valuable, is
much more highly priced. Every vice
president of the United States has a
private room near the Senate cham
Der, and the moment a new vice presi-
dent is elected, the parties in charge
take down and out the handsome fire.
place appointments, supplying their
place by those of even more magnif-
cent proportions. These fire-sets are
generally very beautiful and the Gus
tom which permits each vice president
to take away the one present during
his office is highly pleasurable.
But returning for moment to the
privileges of the Congressman. These
are not so great as once they formerly
were. There was day, and that not
so long ago, when the contingent ex-
penses of the house included all sort
of things; for instance, there were
toilet sets, cut-glass cologne bottles,
handsomely ornamented mirrors. in
Vulnerable pocket-knives, and the like,
that Congressman were permitted to
buy, and which were paid for out of
the contingent expenses.
OF course, no one will deny, who is
familiar with the habits and lives of
some members here, that these things
were absolutely necessary to their
comfort and pleasure, but upon a
change of administration it was de-
cided that these little luxuries must go,
and go they did. And now with the
exception of his stationery accounts, a
Congressman has no more liberty than
a member of the Georgia legislature,
which l believe can be summed up in
freedom from arrest.
And yet with these few privileges
staring them in the face, a local paper
here the other day had the cheek to
advise hotel-keepers to be careful in
turning off their gas as number of
new Congressman had arrived in town.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
"Baby" ArbuckIe's Philanthropic
Methods.

Very few persons know that Charles
Arbuckle who must pay Miss Clara
Campbell S45, 900 for breach of prom
Use, has in his employment more than
200 girls, who average $12 week.
These young women range from 16 to
% years of age, and before they are
employed must bring positive evil
dence that they are of good character.
Girls who use slang or who go to
dances at night and come to work late
the next morning are instantly dis
charged. Every girl is compelled to
pay 10 cents a week into a fund which
is used for providing medical attend
ance and paying S. week TO girls who
fall i'll. When one of the girls dies an
assessment of 90 cents each is made,
so that $50 may be contributed toward
burial expenses. Orphans and half
orphans are preferred for employ
ment, and when business grows dull
the orphans are the last to be laid off.
The girls are employed in packing
coffee in one pound bags. They re-
ceive l74 cents for every 100 pounds
packed. Girls expert at the business
can pack 1000 and 100 a day, and
thus make ST. a week. No girl of
doubtful character is ever permitted
to stay long in the mills. In the last
four years over forty of Mr.. Arbuckle's
female employees have happily mar
ried.-Neto York Telegram.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16

EFFECT OF STAGE FRIeHT-A singular
instance OF the effect of stage fright Is
furnished in the case of a young girl from
Indiana studying music in Chicago
When the time came for her to take part
in competitive performance she was SO
overcome with nervousness that she could
not speak, and she waG no sooner re
moved her to her home than hemorrhage
from fhe nose and ears began. a blood
vessel had burst during the mental strain
Stage fright is something which the old
est as well as The best orators never over
come. John 8. Cough felt it to the last,
and at times felt it severely. But what
is stage fright No one who has ever
feltit can explain il to his own satisfaction
II most cases it is not fright at all; there
is not the slightest sense of fear. 1t is
the result of some magnetic or other in
fuence which goes out from crowd to
an individual. Pittsburg Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16

"Did you ever hear the story OF
Whittier and the cabbage?" asked an
old friend yesterday. at may have
been told before, but it is worth re-
peating now. He hates the odor OF
cabbage, like most sensible men and
has a cordial horror of the right smell
in the wrong place, as Henry James
calls the fragrance of dinner in the
hallway. One day, however, cabbage
was cooked at Oak Knoll. and most of
It was left over. In Difference to her
cousins ol1octories the mistress of the
house directed her cook to put the cold
cabbage on the top shelf in the pantry
until next day.
In the course of the afternoon Mr..
Whittier was seen digging in the gar
den. A member of the family asked
him what he was going to do, but he
put her off with a merry twinkle in his
eyes. When in the course of household
events the cook sought the cabbage, it
was gone. Mr.. Whittier had traced it
to its eyrie; he had climbed up and
born it away in triumph, and in de-
fiance of domestic economy had buried
it in the garden. | tell the story as it
was told to me-" said his friend.
Call it How the Poet Planted a Cab.
bage (boileD. '"-Bost0n Adcertiser.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
DurlnC one of General Bra Co's

During one of General Bragg's cam.
paigns colonel of one of the Confed-
crate infantry regiments was cashiered
for failure to appear with his regiment
at some critical moment. An old
West Pointer who was hanging around
Bragg's headquarters with nothing to
do was ordered to command the regi-
ment in the next battle. When the
regiment was ordered to charge, they
raised the rebel yell and rushed for.
ward; but the coionefs horse-an old
''scrub" he had borrowed-"b ucked, +"
and refused to move. On went the
men: but the coloners beast held his
ground. But about the time the cp-
posing line broke. the colonel got un-
Ger way, and was received, as he
galloped up. with wild cheers. Il don't
wonder" he exclaimed, that Colonel
was cashiered for being in the
rear, there amt horse i'll the army
could keep up with this regiment on a
charge. Editors Drawer IN Harper
MqgQz;1e
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16

STARTED BY A PEPPER CoRNER.-Cor
ners in various articles of merchandise,
and especially in food, from wheat and
pork to prUnes, are characteristic of the
business methods of the present day.
But they are not a modern invention.
The famous East India company, accord
ing to document recently published,
had its origin in Dutch corner in pepper.
Certain merchants in Amsterdam, who
had begun to trade in the eastern seas
about 1895, had by the end of the century
go we'll established themselves that they
raised the price of pepper in London
from three shiliings to eight shillings q
pound. The London merchants there
upon held meeting and resolved to form
an association TO trade directly with India.
Queen Elizabeth at the same time sent
an envoy TO the Great Mogul to secure
privileges for the company, and in 1000
the first British East India company was
Incorporated by royal charter under the
title Of the Governor and Company Of
Merchants of London trading to the
East Indies. In due time this company
established greater monopoly than the
Dutch had ever dreamed of. and the Brit
ish empire in India may be said to have
been started by the Dutch pepper corner.
philadelphia Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
Telling Bad Paper Money by Ear.

A bank cashier tells Kansas City
Star reporter that the best way to tell
counterfeit bill is by sound and feel
ing. Take bill firmly between the
thumb and index-fnger of your left
hand pull it quickly through your
fingers like this. Now listen to the
sound it makes. 1t IS not just like rub
bling silk, and neither does it resemble
a paper sound closely. It's noise
that is too peculiar 10 admit of de-
scription."
do they make counterfeit paper so
near like the original that you can't tell
the differences"
You can't tell by looking at it. 1t
is only by the sound and touch. Now
listen to the sound made by this
counterfeit $50 bill. You see, that's a
slick noise, something like pulling
glazed or oiled paper through the
fingers. A child could tell the differ
ence between that bill and n genuine
one. But look at it and you will think
your eye is on something that would
pass muster for $50 worth of grocer
les"
"Who taught you this business"
80, my first lesson was given by an
old man who has been all over this
country and Europe teaching the
business. lie has in his possession over
a thousand specimens of counterfets.
He obtained them from the authorities
of the different Governments. He has
no peer i'll the business, and every ex-
pert in the country owes his knowledge
to this old man"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
PrOdigies.

There is boy in Yonkers years OF
age who can blow by ear any tin horn
in the market.
Mr.. Albert Won Konigsberger Krautz,
a recently-acquired citizen of this
country, has little daughter 10 years
of age who recently played the hose
on the piano, entirely without notes.
A 10-months-old baby in Augusta,
Me-, cries Historically every time she
hears Sweet Violets." Such critical
Judgment is wonderful at this age.
A Philadelphia boy, Charley Hoffen-
berg by name, a lad of 6, can play one
of Chopin's waltzes SO that the musical
enthusiast can not tell it from the
"Boulanger March. "
1t is SAID of Wagner that when two
weeks old he yelled three acts of "Sieg-
fried" in an evening.
A member of the senior class at
Vassar College played the Battle of
Prague" from beginning to end II
times in a half hour last Tuesday eve-
ming. This beats the record by seven
bars. Life.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
A SOUND LEGAL OPINION.

j. cambridge Munday, Esq. County
Atty, Clay Co, Tex, says: "Have used
Electric Bitters with most happy results.
My brother was also very low with
Malarial Fever and Janndice, but was
cured 10y timely use of this medicine.
Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved my
life."
KY, adds like testimony, saying: He
positively believes he would have died,
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy Will ward off, as
well as cure all Maiarial Diseases, and
for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach Dis
orders stands unequaled. Price Soc,
and 81 ut Hinrichs. 6
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
The Liiy's New York House.

Mrs. Langtry has been making i'm.
provements in the quaint little house
in Twenty-frst street, New York, that
she rents and has tried in vain to buy.
A noticeable change in the arrange
ment of the little front yard attracts
attention. The entrance was formerly
footpath in the middle, with a lot OF
shrubbery on ether hand. Now a
driveway sweeps in a semi-circlo
through the space of about S0x40 feet.
WIDE entrances on each side. between
heavy brick-work pests, with q gutter
bridge for eaen, enable carriages to be
driven to the very door. There are
no gates yet, and apparently none in
tended. The effect is liniitedly bar
onial.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16

VARIOUS DIAMOND SwINDLEs.-The
blue diam onde, anilina diamond, or wash
diamond swindle, as it was variously call
ed, was invented a few years ago. It is
applied TO off coored and slightly yellow
diamonds; these, if painted on the back
with a dilute solution OF anj:iue and
alcohol, viii lose their yellow color and
appear either perfectly white or q brilliant
blue white. This steel hiua tint cannot
be removed by ordinary washing; alcohol
or some other solvent is required 20 do
this, and If such diamond thus tYeated
is mounted in water tight or close box
setting it will pass for long time IL de
tected. The first illustrions discover IN
this field received six months impTison
ment in Paris for his reward.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
HOW'S THIS!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can not
be cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Prop'rs, Toledo, o.
P. S. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces of the system. Price,
IS cts. per bottle. Sold by all Drug
gists.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED.

TO TUE EDIToR.-Please inform your
readers thai have positive remedy for
the above named disease. BY its timely
1se thousands of hopeless cases have
been permanently cured. 1 shall be
glad to send two bottles of my remedy
FREE to any of your readers who have
consumption if they will send me their
express and post Office address. Re-
spectfully, L. A. s,LoCUM, M. O.,
June II isl Pearl st., New York,