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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-12-19

Address: Laudelaria Water Works and
Milling Company nimitedI, Candelaria, Es.
meralda Comfy, Nevada.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
WE MAKE OUR OWN PENS.
RAPID GROWTH OF THE STEEL PEN INDUS
TRY. INTERESTING STATISTICS.

every year the citizens of the United
States wear out 40, 1000, 900 steel pens"
said prominent manufacturer to a re-
porter. Twenty years ago most of the
steel pens used in this country were i'm
ported. Now comparatively few are
imported, and there are several factories
in this country in which they are made
in large quantities. At present the i'm
poration Of foreign pens is mainly con-
fined to the high priced articles. It was
first doubted that steel pens could be
made in this country, but ii was soon
learned that the requisite skilled labor
could be obtained for high wages, and
the success of the pioneers led one
manufacturer after another into the busi
ness, until now the field is pretty well
occupied.
"Most Of the work on these little in
struments is done with the aid of very
fne machinery worked by women and
girls. The steel used is imported, be-
cause it is believed that the quality is
more uniform than the American steel.
This unifority of quality is necessary,
because of the very delicate tempering
required in the manufacture of the pens.
That mysterious quality of steel which
gives different colors is q quality that re-
qulres expert manipulation on the part
OF the workman who does the temperipg,
He must know the nature of the mater
ial with which he works, and with that
knowledge he must exercise a CELEBRITY
and skill that seize upon the proper in
slant to fasten the steel at heat which
insures the requisite quality
"First, the steel is rolled into large
sheets. These are cut into strips about
three Inches wide. These strips are an
neeled, that is, they are heated to red
heat and permitted to cool gradually, so
that :he brittleness is all removed, and
the steel is soft enough to be easily work
ed. Then the strips are again rolled to
the required thickness. 1t is the quick
eye for color and the quick hand that
fastens it that constitute the skill to det-
ermine the temper of the steel. When
the steel is heated for tempering, it is
bright. The first color that appears is
straw color. This changes rapidly to q
blue. The elasticity of the metal varies
with the color, and is arrested at any
point by instant plunging in cold water.
The process of splitting, polishing, point
ing and finishing the pens are opera
tons requiring dexterity, but By long
practice the workmen and workwomen
become very expert. There have been
few changes of late years, aud the pro-
cess of manufacture is much the came as
it was twenty years ago, and the prices
are rather uniform, ranging from twenty
five cents to one dollar per gross, ac-
cording to the quality of finish. The
boxes sold generally contain gross.
The best now in market are of American
make. Writers who buy foreign pens
at fancy prices find them far inferior IN
durability to the American article.
Persons who write continuously will
wear out good stee! pen in two deys. F"
New York Mail and Express.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
LOST FROM THE HOTELS.

An old hotel stewart said yesterday
that it is impossible to restrict large
proportion of the loss of portable articles
in hotels. This loss is not so much due
to theft as TO carelessnsss and hurry on
the parts of maids and men and women,
who carry off the teaspoons they have
been using in their rooms, packs up the
hotels towels by mistake, and break a
good deal that is only missed when an
inventory is taken. This stewart said
that a large hotels collects spoons. nap
kins and towels stamped with the names
of almost all the large hotels IN tie
country, and of names IN Europe. The
spoon packed away with the child's
medicine by maid IN Paris ia. perhaps,
next brought TO light in New York
hotel, where it is sent down to the kitch-
en- when no longer needed.
Thus.these little but costly things travel
about defy safe keeping. There IS a
great deal of theft, of course. Servant
women wrap tablecloths and sheet around
their persons, walters pocket forks,
spoons, knives and napkins, and bar
tenders and their helpers carry off bottles
of liquors. As far as possible, large
hotels board and house their help, be-
cause that makes it more difficult for
theft.
But the leakage remains very great.
In one case that can be certified to, a
clever waiter established his wife at the
head of boarding house .aud furnished
her tableware, linen and great deal of
The food that was eaten from his steal
ings from the different places where he
was employed, New York Sun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
DIAMOND SETTING BY MACHIN-
cry.

"Ten years ago." said a manufactur
ing jeweler, there was but one diamond
cutter in the city. When he got sick
there was nobody to cut a diamond.
Now there are plenty of cutters, and
they use improved m nchinery by the use
of which they can cut diamonds better
and more cheapiy that it can be done
anywhere in the world. Our diamond
cutters can take many imported stones
and add % per cent. to their value by
improving emitting. The obvious in
crease in the number of diamonds worn
has compelled the education of workmen
to meet the demand.
"Another thing has been done. This
is an invention of the American manu-
facturer, and consists of the application
of machinery to diamond setting. The
old time workman would have consider
ed with horror the idea Of putting any
thing but hand work on a piece of dia-
mond jewelry. Everything about it had
to be done by slow and laborious hand
work. But shrewd workman got the
idea that good deal of the setting Of a
diamond may be dode quite as we'll by
machinery as by hand, and good deal
quicker and more cheaply. The fact is
that where many diamonds are set they
resolve themselves into sizes about as re-
gular as the sizes of any other commod-
ity. 1t is easy enough to prepare set
tings to suit any size of diamonds that
are sold IN any market.
'IS may seem a trifing thing to esti-
mate the cost of settiDg-Or at least the
difference between hand made setting
and machine made setting; but the in
evitable result OF competition has been
to get the cost Of manufacturing even
diamond ieweIry down to the lowest rate,
AS to the value Of the diamond itself,
the experts have become able to fix that
to q nicely. New York Sun
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
WHERE FUR + OBTAINED.

'rhe fur producing countries of the
world are very few in number" said Mr..
UIlmann, " and they ara rapidly beccm-
ing exhausted. Forty years ago America
was The great fur producer, with the
Russian possessions second. Today
Siberia sends out moro furs than any
other region, and American, with the ex-
ception Of Tie fur seal, has greatly de-
creased. 4 few fancy skins come from
Asia and Africa, but nearly the whole
product is from high latitudcs. Many
Arctic countries are destitute of fur bear
ing animals, Greenland, for instance,
while scarcely any are found on the
northern islands. The Antarctic regions
send none st all, the ice fields around
the South Pole being too barren TO sup
port life of any kind. Thus the field is
confined to North America and Asia,
with very small supply from Norway
and Sweden and some from European
Russia.
"The American field is most seriously
denuded, although l expect Northwest
ern British Columbia and especially the
interior of Alaska will in future i'm
mensely increase their output. In Asia
tic deserts fur bearing animals are be
coming rarer every year and the time is
not far distant when furs of all kinds
will become luxury attaipable only by
the very rich. In the northern part of
the Chinese dominious and among the
high mountains of Thibet thousands of
bales of fine furs are shipped every year,
but these are taken exclusively by the
Chinese and do not constitute a factor in
the European market. China is by all
means the best place to dispose of very
fine furs, and three fouths of the most
expensive are bought by the mandarms
of that country, some of whom possess
fortunes far exceeding in amount any
thing known in the western world.
Russia probably comes next and the re-
mainder of the high grade furs are sold
all over the world. / look for great in
crease in the output of Alaska, the in
terror of which is almost totally unex-
plored, but under the most favorable
conditions the supply will grow smaller
and smaller every year, and it will not
be long before the fur trade will be q
thing of the past" st. Louis Post Dis
patch.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12

The AGE OF THE STARs'-In address
delivered by NJ. Jannsen, at Mendon,
France, and published in L'Astronomie,
the principal thought is that the idea of
evolution may be applied to the stars SIS
well as to the terrestrial things. The
stars are not fixed and eternal, but are
subject to change and time. They have
beginning, a period of activity, a de-
cline and end. BY recent advances in
the study of celestial physics, especially
with the spectroscope, We are enabled to
know something of the actual condition
and relative age Of some of the stars.
We assume that the age of stars, other
things being equal, will depend upon
their temperature, and that their temper
atures are higher in proportion as their
spectra are richer in violets rays. The
majority of the stars which as visible to
the naked eye are white or blujsh, and
therefore at high temperature; but many
are yellow or orange, like our sun, while
showing that they have passed their
youth, while others are from dark
orange to dark red, showing that their
sidereal evolution is far advanced.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
Sudden Cure.

Quackery and superstition are not
peculiar to any one country. An oldresi-
dent of Australia supplies an instance
of what may be called imagination
healing, as he witnessed it among the
bushmen. 1t illustrates wildly the
power which a mental impression has,
first to make a man sick, and then to
make him well again.
In the center of the group. close to
one Of the fires, lay stretched at full
length a man who appeared to be very
ILL., His chest heaved visibly and hur
rledly under the opossum rug which
was thrown over him; the perspiratiOn
stood in big drops on his brow; the
whole expression of his face was one of
unmistakable anguish and terror Mr..
I. explained in 4 whisper that the man
thought himself bewitched; he believed
that some secret enemy had, by super
natural means, robbed him of his kid
ney-fat!
This part of the body was, by the
Australian aborigines, considered a.
mong the most vital of their frame.
when they killed an enemy, his kid
ney-fat was carefully extracted. Some
times it was eaten, but more generally
preserved as charm. No threat
could terrify the savage more than that
of depriving him of this important
substance
On the present occasion the terror
and distress of the man who believed
himself to be so deprived were so in
tense that | am convinced he would
have died had not his mind been set at
rest.
The medicine man belonging to the
tribe had retired to a distance from the
group, and was invisible in the dark
ness. He was supposed to engaged in
struggle with the supernatural
power that had afflicted the sufferer,
and his hoarse voice, audible through
the death-lihe stiffness, rs il rose and
fell in n kind of wild chant alternately
pleading and menacing. Once he came
TO the camp to look at the patient.
and babe him take courage. as he
hoped to prevail over the evil spirit;
then retired again and was lost in the
darkness, where he resumed his mean
tations.
Finally, he came back, with a tri-
umphant air, making feint of con-
cealins something in the folds of his
rug. STOPPING over the recumbent
form of his patient, he pretended, with
many gestculations and other cere-
monies, to restore the missing fat
The effect was magical. The sick
man, who had moment before been
trembling and shivering in the most
abject fear, presently rose steadily
from the ground, his distorted coun-
tenance recovered its serenity, and
about five minutes later he was SQUAT
ted among the group and perfectly
happy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12

CHANCES FOR THREE INVENTORS
have often taken occasion to remark that
the world is awaiting the appearance of
three inventors, greater than any who
have gone before and to whom it will &C
cord honors and emoluments far exceed
ing all ever yet received by any OF their
predecessors. The first is he who will
show us how, by the combustion of fuel,
directly to produce the electric current;
to produce the beautiful light of the
glow worm and the freely, light with
ont heat, the production of which means
the utilization of energy without that
still more serious waste than the thermo
dynamic now met with in the attempt to
produce light; while the third is the, in
ventor who is to give US the first practic-
ally successful air ship.
The first two Of these problems are set
for the electrical engineer, aud we may
be pardoned excess of faith should it
prove to be such, when, contemplating
the enormous gain to humanity which
must come of such inventions. we look
confidently for the genius who is to null
tipfy the wealth of the world to an ex-
tent beside which even the boon confer
red by the creators of the steam engine
and the telegraph will not appear over
shadowing. When this inventor comes
forward, and most probably not till then,
it is very likely that we shall see steam
superseded by a rival.-Thurston In
Forum.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
BRACE Up.

You are feeling depressed, your appe-
tite is poor, you are bothered with Head
ache, you are tidgetty, nervous, aud
generally ont of sorts, and want to brace
up. Brace M, but not with stimulants.
spring medicines, or bitters. which have
for their basis very cheap, bad whisky,
and which stimulate you for an hour.
and then leave you in worse condition
than before. What you want is an alter
alive that viii purify your blood. start
healty action of Liver and Kidneys,
restore your vitality, and give renewed
health and strength. Such a medicine
yOU will find in Electric Bitters, and
ouly 90 cents bottle at Henry Hinrichs
Drug Store. 3
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
GREAT INJURY TO HEALTH!

The great danger in the traffic In
aduiterated food arises from the decep-
ton that is practised by manufacturers
usually chasing such goods as pure.
This is almost invariably done when the
adulterant is one that is injurious to
health. For instance, manufacturers of
Ammonia, Alum or Lime Baking Pow
ders not only fail TO inform the public of
the real character of their goods, but
carefully conceal the fact that they are
made from the poisonous articles. Most
OF these manufacturers also claim that
their articles are absolutely pure. No
consumer will buy Ammonia or Alum
Baking Powders knowingly, for it Is well
understood that they are detrimental to
health. The sale of Ammonia and Alum
Baking Powders as pure and wholesome
articles, is, therefore criminal.
The official analysts have recently been
active in the pursuit of these dishonest
articles. The Baking Powders OF several
states have been carefully and critically
examined. The officials are surprised at
the large amount of Ammonia, Lime and
Alum goods found.
1t is q suggestive fact that DR.. PRICES
CREAM BAKING POWDER has been found,
by several State Commissioners, Govern
SITS, to contain neither Ammonia, lime or
Alum. While the Royal Baking Powder
was found to contain Ammonia and Lime
In large quantities. The chief service of
Ammonia is to cheaper the product; but,
being caustic OF powerful nature, pro-
duces serious effects on the delicate
membranes of the stomach, intestines and
kidneys; more particularly of infants and
al Il T.ll " 10
is taken into the system day after day,
and with almost every meal. This is said
by physicians to be one of the causes of
indigestion, dyspepsia, and those painful
diseases of the kidneys, now so prevalent.
Adulteration with Ammonia is quite as
much to be dreaded as with Alum, which
has always received the most emphatic
condemnation from food analysts, physi-
clans and chemists.
To determine the purity of any Baking
Powder, make this simple test: Mix in
TIN cup two heaplng teaspoonfuls of
the Powder with three teaspOonfuls of
cold water, place it over the fire, stirring
constantly, allow it to boil thoroughly,
or until the gas escapes freely; then
smell. If adulterated, that unspeakable
oder, proving the source of Ammonia,
will be plainly detected. The presence
of Ammonia in most cases, indicates that
Alum is used, as nearly all the Alum of
commerce contains Ammonia. Pure
Baking Powder will not give the faintest
Ammoniacal odor.
A BAKING POWDER CONTAIN
ING THE DISGUSTING DRUG, AM
MONA, IS NOT FIT FOR USE BY
ANY MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD WHO
VALUES CLEANLY DIET AND
GOOD HEALTH.
We would advise all housekeepers to
use DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder,
which is free from all drug taints and the
most perfect made.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12

I have been a great sufferer from cat
arrh for over ten years; had it very bad,
could hardly breathe. Some nights l
could not sleep had to walk the floor. l
purchased Ely's Cream Balm aud am
using it freely, it is working cure sure
ly. I have advised several friends to use
it, and with hnppy results in every case.
1t is the one medicine above all others
made to cure catarrh, and it is worth its
weight in gold. l thank God L have
found remedy | can use in safety and
that does all that is claimed for it. It is
curing my deafness.-B. ". Sperry,
Hartford Conn.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
HOW BAKING POWDERS ARE
MADE

While rival companies are disputing as
to what ingredients are to be found in
the ."best baking powder" the public
will be interested in the following defn-
ition of these now Indispensable articles
as given by Appleton's Cyciopedia, the
acknowledged American authority.
The best baking powders are con-
posed OF bitartrate Of potash Cream Of
tartar,) tartaric acid. carbonate of am
monia, and soda bI-carbonate, bound to-
gether by little starch.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
THEIR BUSINESS BOOMING.

Probably no one thing has caused such
a general revival of trade at Henry HIM
richs Drug Store as their giving away to
their customers of so many free trial
bottles Of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. Their trade is simply
enormous in this very valuable article
from the fact that it always cures aud
never disappoints. Coughs, Colds,
Asthma, Bronchitis, Group, and all
throat and lung diseases quickly cured.
You can test it before buying by getting
trial bottle free, large size 81. Every
bottle warranted, 3
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
BUCKLIN'S ARNICA SALVE.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and al Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piless, or no pay
required. It is guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction of money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by e.
Hinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
FARM FOR SALE OR RENT.

An improved farm of 60 acres in the town of
Cato, krc5n as the James Nelson Farm is for
sale OF rent on reasonable terms. Enquire of
G. q. SEDGWICk. or
Il J. W BARNES.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12
L I M = :!

contractors, masors. farmers or any one who
needs lime, can he furnished any riIne and with
any quantity, with the celebrated Erillion Lime,
which Is free from stone. gravel or sand, At the
store o. CHAS. BACHMANN, Washington street.
ASaitowoc, Wis. iuIv26
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Take Notice.

That Ever Hanson the first class boat builder
has AGAIN started building boats Of every descrip-
ton. His work is warranted. Any one wanting
a good boat should not forget to give him a call
at Richards ship yard or at Nation al House.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-12

DOES YOUR HORSE OOUGH2
if so, use, Hinrichs Improved Horse
Powder rs best Ia The world for coughs
and colds,
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KICKAPoo Indian Medicines sold at
Hinrichs' Drug store.