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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-12-05
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11
The True Home Life.

What is the central point of the true
home life? Is not this the question
| which we should each, as home-build-
ers, ask ourselves? What are the
things of all that we do, daily, weekly,
or returning in their appointed time,
which are not only not necessary, but
are harmful to the true home life? 1t
may be that the only reason for doing
certain things is because the preceding
generation has done the same things,
| and that, too. in very mechanical ways.
A mother holds her first child while it
sleeps upon her lap; it becomes ac-
customed to it. When she grows
stronger she must lay it down to do
necessary work; it frets and cries and
refuses to take it's maps. The mother
is worn out in her efforts to do the
work and quiet the cries; so she car
ries the child about in her arms. 1t is
slow to walk. She becomes nervous
and irritable, toward her baby, even.
Her second child is cross and restless.
She bears and rears several children.
All through these years the mistake
pursues and wears her out. The child
dren are not taught to depend upon
| themselves to be helpful.
This mother does non-esseutial
things and leaves the essential undone.
Her mental growth stopped long ago;
alas for the time when the little child
ren find that mother cannot help them
in their little studies, and alas for the
mother who has let the knowledge of
her girlhood slip from her. and has not
added it both to herself and family!
=, Il
great sons and daughters asking
mothers opinion of some point which
they are in doubt about, which they
bring to her to have settled before they
return to school? To have them hasten
eagerly to tell her upon their return
that their work was right?
Sometimes it is through suffering
only that woman learns that there
are many things which need not be
done 1t is often in these times of
forced quiet that she sees most clearly
that real living is not part of her
home life. After her experience is
gained and she has but little strength,
She can then think what she would do
| with the strength which still is left to
her.
Temporal wants and pleasures must
be considered, and indeed planned for,
but there are many things done in the
way of cooking food unwholesome
through it's richness, which should be
made rarely, if at all. Sacrifices which
take away rest and sleep to keep up
pride in dress or some adornment,
should never be made.
Let children be taught that they may
have fussy clothes when they can make,
iron, and keep them in order. In a
home where the work is done by the
mother and daughters, this plan is
pursued. She found that when her
daughters were old enough to iron
| much-ruffled white dresses they pre-
ferred plain ones.
Nothing can take the place of neat
ness and order. These depend much
upon good management, for one can
always be cleaning, yet never clean,
always arranging, yet never in order.
Sometimes ones own spirit is restless
which is the secret cause of the lack in
the divine part of true home life
Good Housekeeping.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11
TOMATOES IN ENGLAND

Americans, accustomed to see toma-
toes IN some shape on the table nearly
every day of the year, will scarce
ly appreciate how. nearly that familiar
vegetable comes to being IA rare delicacy
in England. Ten years ago it was an ex-
ception to find this delightful fruit on
the tables of any but the wealthy; but
today they are to De found in most
houses during the season, their extensive
cultivation having brought down the
price so as to make them come within
the reach of all. The tomato, or love
apple, as it was formerly called. original
ly came from South America, but it was
not until the climate of the United States
was found eminently adapted to their
growth that they came into general use
the taste for the same spreading to
Europe.
1t Is, in addition to its valuable hygie-
mic qualities, one of the most profitable
fruits to cultivate, and we know of one
private gentleman who sends no less
than one ton to market daily in the early
season, the price paid for the same aver
aging cd. per pound, all of them being
grown under glass. Few come to per
lection in the open air, owing to the
short duration of sunshine in England.
Like the olive it was long time be-
fore the people became accustomed to
the peculiar and delicate flavor, but each
day they grew in popularity, SO much so,
indeed, that Cape Town has been requi
STONED for supply of the same when
they are out of the season here.-London
Tattler.
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Industrial Items,

A wave motor, for utilizing the
force of the tides, is in semt-successful
operation at Point Lobos, Cal.
Spindles in the town of Oldham,
England. have grown in the last ten
years from 100000 to more than
100000.
Iron making is about to be resumed
in the district of Marquette, Mich,
with coke in place of charcoal for
fuel.
Philadelphia reports her textile
mills to be running on full time and
with prospects of fairly good season
ahead.
Philadelphia iron-makers are un-
happy over state cut in wages that
threatens shutdown and promises to
breed big strike.
The process of electric bleaching
now used in the big paper plants is
from 40 to 20 per cent cheaper than
the use of chloride of lime
Pulp mills have 50 multiplied in
Maine that there is fear of an over
supply unless new mills are put up to
! turn the pulp into paper.
Thirty years ago there were near
one hundred lightning-rod factories in
the United States. Now there are but
four, yet they turn out as many rods
as came from their numerous predeces-
sors.
Arkansas state geologist reports the
coal of that state to be worth, at 81. so
per ton. the sum of S2,957, 900, 900.
He says further that the state contains
more sorts of coal than any other in
the union.
The most valuable marble mines in
America are at Tate, Pickens county,
Ga. New England capitalists own
more than 1000 acres there, and are
rapidly growing richer by the extend
ing use of their product.
Steel, which is rapidly taking the
place of iron. is likely to be even more
widely used now that it is known that
the addition of manganese in consider
able quantities gives greater hardness
and strength without loss of MALE
ability.
The experimental coke ovens now
building at Mansfield. Pa, will have
false bottoms. worked by hydraulic
pressure. 1t is claimed that these will
greatly reduce the labor cost of coke,
90 q man Nsih tti tih thChtk -uNC VI lutIl
day. -Four day is the limit of the
old pattern.
A steel paving-block, said to be
more durable and less costly than
stone, is composed of corrugated
strips, . by inch, and weighing
eleven pounds to the yard. 1t is to be
laid upon bed of gravel five inches
from center to center, and the space
filled in with compound of pitch and
cement.
Judge Blodgett's late decision that
an employer is not responsible for the
negligence or incompetence of an em-
ploye, unless the person injured by
such negligence or incompetence gives
written notice of suit inside of thirty
days from date of injury, will, if sus-
tanned, work mighty upsetting of the
old common law doctrine qui fuit per
alum fuit per se.-NeU York CONNER
csdl advertiser.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11
THE CORAL ISLANDS.

1. has long been the opinion of geolo-
gists that the curious atolls of the Pacific
and Iudian oceans, the circular coral
islands, inclosing shallow basin of the
sea, were to be explained as was. first
suggested by the late Charles Dnrwin,
through the long continued subsistence
of the sea floor on which they rested.
The idea was that the coral first found
foothold around the shores Of volcanic
or other mountain peak projecting above
the sea. 1t was further supposed that
the subsidence of the ocean floor gradu-
ally lowered the original island below
the level of the sea, while the coral reef
growing steadfastly upward, remained
after the mountain had disappeared to
mark its original site.
Alexander Agassz and John Murray
have recently held to the doctrine that
the greater part of our atolls at least are
not thus formed, and that the central
cup of the atoll is not due to the fact that
it occupies the position of a subsiding
mountain, but that it Is brought about
5y a process of solution by which the
coral rocks are dissolved away.
DIR. q. B. Guppy, competent OBJ
server, has, during a recent sojourn on
the Keeling atoll in the Indian ocean,
been able to confirm the opinions of
Messrs. Murray and Agassiz. 1t there.
fore seems probable that wherever coral
reefs attain the surface of the sea the
circular basin will naturally be formed,
and that if Mr.. Darwin's explanation has
any truth in it, it is to be accepted only
in rare and as vet, unascertained cases.
Boston Herald
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11
QUEER THINGS OUT OF THE SEA

Stonington fisherman are continually
drawing queer things, sometimes treas
lres, from the bosom Of the deep. One
of the William brothers of that borough,
| lOlstermeu, was surprised to find in one
Of his pots in Fishers Island sound a
lobster as blue as the sky. and he placed
it on exhibition. 1t was blue all over,
dark on the back, and shading by imper-
ceptible degrees luto a light though vivid
hue at the end of the claws, as delicate as
the pink that etches the inner curve of
some tropical sea shells.
Old fish dealers of StoDington said
that no such beast was ever taken from
the CONNECTICUT waters before; but they
were mistaken. Two blue Holsters were
Gagged in Fisher Island sound last sum-
mer by l. bstermen Wheeler and Story of
this city; yet blue Holsters are exceeding
| " rare. Not a dozen Of them have been
t ken, it is believ. q. in history of the fisl
lug industry of this country; all that have
been caught have been ''chicken" lobster
Science is unable to account for the hue
unless it is due to melancholy
At about the time that Williams cap
tured the blue lobster, Capt. Samuels
( o'al'iiHS, VI S'ouibSeoh, PiChou up
round clam on the shore, and he extract
ed from its belly a neat little pearl, for
which Tiffany & Go. Offered him s25.
Every idle man in Stonington is now walk
ing the ocean beach picking up round
clans and cracking them. One day last
summer Stoningtoh fisherman found a
pearl in clam, and got $50 for it from
Maiden lane dealer in precious stones,
and few days after that happening,
another lucky borough man caught big
fish in whose stomach were a button
hook, some glove buttons, and other
toilet articles that evidently had belong
ed to western belle at Watch Hill
Norwich Telegram.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11
The Old Oaken Bucket.

With what anguish of mind I remember my
childhood,
Recalled in the light of a knowledge since
gained:
The malarious farm, the wet fungus-grown
wildwood,
The chills then contracted which since have
remained;
The scum-covered duck pond, the pigsty close
by it,
The ditch where the sour-smelling house
drainage fell;
The damp, shaded dwelling, the foul barn
yard nigh il,
But worse than all else was that terrible
well,
And the old oaken bucket, the mold-crusted
bucket
The moss-covered bucket that hung in the
well.
Just think of it! Moss on the vessel that
The water l drank in the days called to mind,
Ere knew what professors and scientists
In the water of wells by analysis find:
The rotting wood fibre. the oxide of iron,
The algH, the frog of unusual size,
The water impure as the verses of Byron,
And the things remembered with tears in
my eyes.
And TO tell the sad truth, thou2h shudder TO
think of it,
considered that water uncommonly clear,
And often at noon when Invent there to drink
I enjoyed it as much as I now enjoy beer.
How ardent L seized, with hands that were
grimy,
And quick to the mud-covered bottom it
fell;
Then reeking with nitrates and nitrites. and
Shiny
with matter organic ii rose from the well.
Oh! had hut realized IN time TO avoid them,
The dangers that lurked in that pestilent
draught
I'd have tested for organic germs and de-
stroyed them
With potassic permanganate ere 1 had
quaffed;
Or perchance I'd have boiled it and afterward
strained it
Through filters of charcoal and gravel COM
bined
Or, after distilling condensed and regained it
In potable form, with its filth behind
How little knew of the dread typhoid fever
Which lurked in the water / ventured to
drink;
But since I've become a devoted believer
In teachings of science shudder to think,
And now far removed from the scenes I'm de-
scrihing,
The story of warning to others tell,
AS memory reyerts to my youthful imbbing,
And | gag at the thought of that horrible
well.
And the old oaken bucket. the fungus-grown
bucket,
In fact, the sop bucket that hung in the
well.
Christian Advocate.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11
A Nickel With a History.

'In a restaurant in this city," said q
gentleman, "is hung handsome frame
in which is a nickel set on a plush
background. The history of the coin
is this: During the last campaign a
candidate for one of the county offices
visited the board of registry in one of
the wards. As is customary, a box
was placed in the room, in which were
received voluntary contributions for the
purchase of the dinner aud SUPPER for
the board of registry. This candidate,
having his attention called to the box,
drew handful of coin from his pocket,
and, extracting the nickel, deposited
it in the box. Well it was the means
X turning many votes to his opponent,
aud the framed nickel will remain as a
menace to him in his future political
office-seeking. He didn't have to give
anything, but the smallness of the do
nation injured him more than if he had
refused to contribute. Utica ObSeruxr.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11
The ''Simple Ways" of the Fathers.

We talk about the simple Republi-
can or Democratic ways of the foun-
ders of our Government. That is one
of the biggest kind of mistakes. They
could not make any lavish displays be-
cause they had no money to speak of.
Their country was shamefully poor,
but they were an aristocratic old crowd,
after all, and their heads were filled
with the ideas that had come down
to them from the courts of the Old
World. Washington, himself, was
the chief of these. 1t was as hard to
approach him as it was George the
Third himself. He never, as President,
appeared at any reception except in
full military uniform, including his
sword, as became, in his estimation,
Commander-in-C Chief of the Army and
Navy of the United States. He trained
himself to a perpetual reserve, and his
air was like that of the austere English
Judge who had asked some friends to
his country seat. They arrived while
he was temporarily absent, and, the
weather being warm, took seats on the
piazza, which was several steps above
the walk. The Judge came and was
packing so heavy a load of benzine
that he had to crawl up the steps on
his hands and knees. Seeing his
friends as he neared the top step, he
paused, and as plainly as he could with
his thick tongue, look of infinite
gravity on his face meanwhile, he
said: "Gentlemen. | do not desire to
be misunderstood at all. l always
come up the steps this way" and so
he passed on into the house. That is
just what old George would have done
under similar circumstances, and it
was because of that leaning toward
arstocratic forms that caused the
methods of electing the Chief Magis-
trates of the United States to be adopt
ed.-SaH LG6e Tribune.
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ner. She did not give Charles's head
| ache so much sympathy as usual, and
when he began to talk about his nerves
! she looked out of the window and ap-
parently did not hear him.
! Charles felt wronged and insulted.
What did he pay physician for but to
comfort him and give him sympathy?
Especially when that physician was a
woman.
You will be well attended to now,"
| said the doctor, rising to go. '.Dr.
| Stone has returned, and will see you
before night"
Hang DR.. Stone!' returned Charles.
"Oh, no! l thought you had more
confidence in men as physicians than
! in women"
"Who told you SOP"
81 had received that impression.
And thought you would be delighted
that he had returned"
''Well, l am not
"Oh, Indeed!'
NO
"You will do we'll enough now, Mr.
Marion, under any circumstances.
Your arm is in very good coalition,
| and in few days"
at tell you it aches, horribly, and
my head. too. Seems as if you might
have some pity for me-
..Of course, pity you very much 4;
but l cannot stay to tell you so now. l
am rather busy at this time. | have a
great many things to get ready, you
know"
For what-readv for what?n gasped
| Charles. Good heavens! you don't
mean to say that you are going to be
| married?n
Dr. Forney laughed.
No. l am going to America"
"For how long?n
''An indefinite period. For all my
life, if l am pleased with the country.
You know | have my fortune to make,
and there is very good opening in
| Wisconsin,"
Something rose up in Charles Mar
| ions throat and nearly suffocated him.
He put out his hand and drew DR..
| Forney to his side. And the doctor
looked embarrassed and blushed, just
as any other girl would have done I'm
| der such circumstances.
Don't go!" said Charles eagerly
''If it is an opening you are looking for
| there is one nearer home"
And he opened his arms, entirely
forgetting that one of them was unfit
| for service.
''Mr. Marionn'
'.Alice l love you! There-it is out,
thank Heaven! love you with all my
SOUL"
"Nonsensem said Alice. "How a
fellow must feel, making love to fe-
male Doctor"
You overheard my insane talk?
| Well, never mind. l don't care par
| ticle. 1t will give you a chance to exer-
else your spirit of forgiveness. For,
Alice, my darling, you are going to
forgive me, and you are not going
about setting any more broken bones,
for broken hearts are worse than
broken bones, and you will kill more
| than you cure"
DR.. Forney succumbed to Mr.. Mar
ions logic, and became his wife as
soon as he was able to be about his
business. She has not practiced since
her marriage, and Charles has quite
overcome his prejudice for women who
| follow professions.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11

WHAT OUR WEATHER CosTs Us.--The
United States pays 5000, ,0OO:a yearfor its
weather service, Great Britain $50, 900,
Germany $50, 900, Russia S65, 900, Aust
ria $4,000, Switzerland S6,0U0, France
100000. And, though no European
nation attempts to do as much as we do,
or takes general observations more than
once day, the percentage of ve-ifcation
of predictions is rising there, which is
hardly the case in this country. Our
weather service, with its great cost and
thorough organization, ought to be the
best in the world.-Detroit Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11

A FAMOUS PAINTER.-Benjamin West.
the famous American painter, was born
OF Quaker parents in Springfield, Pa, q,
Oct. 10, 1913, When a child he drew a
picture of the baby in the cradle, and
for his first painting obtained his colors
from leaves and berries. He taught
himself, and at the age of 16painted pic
lures in Philadelphia and neighboripg
villages. 1t was at this time that he
produced his painting of the Death of
Socrates. In 1760 the generosity of
friends enabled West to go to pursue his
studies. Soon after he settled in England
he obtained the favor of George III, ind
in thirty years painted over 400 pictures.
He died in London on March 10, 1S20.-
Philadelphia Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11

Rev. H. Fl. Fairall, d. D., editor of
the Ioeca Methodist, says editorially, in
the November QSS3) number of bis
paper: eve have tested the merits OF
E!y's Cream Balm, and believe that, by
thorough course of treatment, it will
cure almost every case of catarrh. Min
listers, las class, are afflicted with head
and throat troubles, and catarrh seems
more prevalent than ever. We cannot
recommend Ely's Cream Balm too high
ly." IL
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11

LIVE AND DIE ON THE WATER I took
ride on the river this afternoon. Can
ton has about 100000 people who live
on the water. and there is no buster city
in the world than this city of boats.
Crafts of all kinds, from the small steam
er, the great Chinese junk aud the river
cargo boats to the sampans and the little
tubs rowed by spoon like paddles, move
here and there, or dart in and out
through forests of masts. Whole fami
lies live on boats twenty feet long and
no wider than ordinary city vestibule.
Here children are born, grow up, and
de.
Marriages take place and the whole
business ard action of life so on. Little
children swarm over them, aud tots two
years with cues hanging down their
backs play about upon their decks. The
toys have little round barrels or drums
abont foot long and six inches in diam.
eter tied by strings to their backs, and
many girls of the same size have nothing.
If the girl fall over board it would be
good fortune to the poor family to get
I'D of the expense of raising her, but the
boy must have his life preserver.-Frank
! G. Carpenter.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11

Two SMART MAINE WoMEN.-Two
spinister sisters up in Maine who run a
sixty-fve acre farm, are credited with
being the smartest women in the state
One of them chops every winter the
years supply of fire wood, going into
the woods early in the seaaon and ie-
naming until the work is completed.
She works in the bayfield, in summer and
digs from seventy to one hundred bush
els of potatoes yearly and puts them in
the cellar. The other sister is the car
penter of the family and has added all
manner of improvements to the farm
Pttsburg Dispatch.
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Infantile Definitions.

Stability-Taking care of stable.
A Mosquito, being the child of white
and black parents, means mestizo.
Obelisk-A mark of punctuation-0
something omitted-means stars
Tocsin-A sense of intoxication.
Monastery-a place for monsters.
A Rehearsal-Going back from .
funeral ia hearse.
neutrality-suspicious. prepared for him
self; incense.
A Turbot-A rhetorical, turgid style
Expostulation-To be pitted with
smallpox.
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Bad blood causes dyspepsia and dys.
pepsia reacts by causing bad blood. So
both 60 on, growing worse, until the
whole system is poisoned. The surest
means of relief for the victim is thor
ough and persistent course of Ayers s
Sarsaparila.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-11
The HANDSoMEsT LADY IN MANIToWoC

The HASDsoMEsT LADY IN MANTTowoC.
Remarked to a friend the other day
that she knew Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs was superior remedy,
as it stopped her cough instantly when
other remedies had no effect whatever
So to prove this and convince you of its
merit, any druggist will give you a
Sample Bottle free. Large size SOC aud
81. 1uovS9.
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CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED,

To THE EDIToR-Please inform your readers
that have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use thousands of
hopeless cases have been permanently cured.
| shall be glad to send two bottles of my rene
dv FREE to any of your readers who have con-
sumption if they will send me their express
and post office address. Respectfully, 1locts9
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Il know It's a sin-to
It / m bent on the nOtlOl
I'll throw myself into
UII - I11. 1900,

ri, II thToW H9seil ihIo,
The deep, briny ocean,
is the mental exclamation of q suffer
er from headache, indigestion, constipa-
ton, torpid liver, etc. The use of DIR,
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, however
would transform these unfortunates, and
cause them to sing
But my spirit shall wander
Through gay coral bowers
And frisk with the mermaid,
1t shall by the powers