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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-07-02
E. kRUMMHEUER,

SINCE shipments of fruits have been
made direct from Ludington to points
along the line of the Lake Shore Il West
ern, the proprieGors of the grocery stores
which have been receiving better service
than ever before, have written Mr.. Delano
asking if shipments by the route cannot
be made permanent. a number of them
have requested him to accompany them
to LudiDgton so that such arrangements
can be made.
Here is a singular state of affairs; an
express agent developing a business in
the mercantile line simply as an incident
of his employment and customers actually
begging for the establishment of whole
sale grocery store and not a person with
business vim sufficient to seize the op-
portunity and profit by it. 1t seems DIFF
ticult to comprehend such a state of
apathy. This small beginning is certain
to result in the establishment of a whole
sale grocery store either at this point or
at Ludington. If the latter city has the
right sort of men it viii not miss the OPP
portunity. If there is any person engag-
ed in the grocery business up the line"
who appreciates the advantages Mani
tOwCc has to offer for business of this
Kind, he should put in an appearance
promptly and he will be royalty received
by all with the exception of few Oh
Structionlsts. This opportunity will not
probably remain open very long.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-07-02

The Manitowoc Manufacturing c..
elected the following Board of Directors
last week, f. H, Haley, f. H. Preston, DR..
Frazer, Z. C. Shove, Ed Hubbard, T. p.
Jones. The Board elected the following
officers: +. H. Haley, President; T. p.
Jones, President; T. II. Preston,
Treasurer; Ed, Hubbard, Secretary.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
A settler,s cabin IN Early DAYS.

just at the foot of the little bluff
ahead. with a background of trees.
was a log-cabin of hewn timber.
weather-stained aud gray in the sum-
mer sun. absolutely alone aud looking
AS il lost in this untrodden wild. Point
ing TO il, Younkins said. That's vour
house so long as YOU want it,
The emigrants tramped through the
tall. lush grass that covered every foot
of the new Kansas soil. their ewes fixed
eagerly on the log-eabin before them.
The latch-string hung out hospitality
from the door Of split shakes" and
the party entered without ado. Every
thing was just as Younkins had last
left it. Two or three gophers dis
turbed in their foraging about the
premises. fled swiftly nj the entrance
of the visitors. and lock of black
birds. settled around the rear of the
house. flew noisily across the creek
that wound its way down to the fork.
The floor was of puncheons split from
oak logs and laid loosely on rough
hewn joists, These ratified as the
visitors walked over them. AT one
end of the cabin huge fireplace of
stone laid in clay yawned for the future
comfort of the coming tenants. Near
bN q tAAN HCb w NuttNtS Hu&EtSltnS u
pantry, and a table, homemade and
/ equally rude, stood in the middle of
the floor. In one corner was built a
bedstead. two sides of the house fur
nishing two sides of the work, and
the other two being made by driving
a stake into the floor and connecting
that by string-pieces to the sides of the
cabin. Throngs of buffalo-hide formed
the bottom of this novel bedstead. A
/ few stools and short benches were
scattered about. Near the fireplace
/ long and strong pegs driven into the
! logs served as ladder on which one
could climb 10 the low loft overhead.
/ Two windows, each of twelve small
panes of glass. let in the light, one from
the end of the cabin and one from the
I back opposite the door. which was in
/ the middle of the front. Outside. a
| frail shanty of shakes leaned against
the cabin. affording sort of outdoor
4 kitchen for summer use.-Nodb Brooks,
( .,a AecbaTu2
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
Rather an Unpleasant Place.

A gentleman who has been visiting
Butte City. Mont, gives the St. Louis
Globe Democrat rather disparaging
account of the place. He says: ''rhe
day left, what with a winter fog and
the smoke. which pours from the chim-
news of hundred OF rock-crushers and
roasting furnaces, was so dense that ut
noon you could not see ten feet in front
of you. The electric lights were turned
on, but standing directly under one of
the towers used in lighting the city, the
cluster of twenty thirty two candle
power globes looked like a small star.
The death rate is very heavy; for the
week was thee there were fourteen
funerals day. Pneumonia is very
prevalent, quick and fatal in Butte. The
miners who have been there any length
of time look pale and have the appear
ance of being loaded. The real cause
of so much of the sickness is the pres
ence of gases in the air set free by the
process of burning the ores"
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
How to Keep shoes Sort.


When shoes are only blacked the
leather soon becomes hard and dry, the
best-fitting pair will be uncomfortable.
and here aud there little cracks will
appear, which will soon become chasms.
Every week or two the blacking should
be wiped off with a damp cloth. the
shoe should be allowed to dry and then
be rubbed with the best harness oil.
Every part. in ncluding the sole and the
seams, should be oiled. and the oil
given a chance to soak in. The tough
est leather can be made soft in this
way. and good leather will, after this
treatment, feel like kid. The shoe will
wear three times as long and be in
tinitely me = comfortable in the wear
ing. Vaseii1e is thought by some to be
superior to harness oil. The easiest
way to clean rubber oyershoes which
have become muddy is with yaseline.
A little .swaba of flannel on the end
of stick is good for this purpose.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
Origin of the Game of billiards.

The game of billiards was invented
about the middle of the sixteenth GEN.
tury by London pawnbroker named
William Kew. In bad, stormy weather,
when trade was slack. this pawnbroker
was in the habit of taking down the
three balls of his sign. and. with yard
measure. pushing them about the
counter. billiard fashion, into boxes
fixed at the sides. In time the idea of
fenced table with pockets suggested
itself A black-letter manuscript of
1870 contains the following in reference
to the game and its originator: Master
Will Kew did make un (one) boarde
whereof game was played with three
balls; and all the younge men were
greatly recreated thereat, chiefly the
young clergymen from st. Pawles;
hence one of We strokes was named a
cannon having been by one of We
said clergymen invented. The game
is now known by We name of bill
yard. because William. or Bill Kew,
did first play it with yard-measure.
The stick used is now called .kue, or
kew. in memory of Mr.. Kew, who has
been dead sometime.n 1t is easy to
understand how ''bill-yard' has been
modernized into billiard; the trans
formation of kew into ''cue" is
equally apparent.-St. So. Louis Republic.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
SHATTERED az SCIENCE.
All the Romance OF Hog KIlIIng Time Ha,
Passed Away.

An old time hog-killing is hard to
find now. Meat is bought too eheaply
from the West. The prairie farms.
where corr is burned rs fuel, raise
hogs too easily TO allow Southern
farmers the luxury of killing and
curing their own meat. You go to the
packing houses Of the West and drop
a porker into the slot. In fifteen min
utes he comes out elear-ribbed and
sugar-cured lots-with can of pure
lard thrown in, and all the hoof hide
and tallow present and accounted for.
The poetry and plenty of the old plan.
tations have given way to the steam
packing mills with their millions of
pounds a month.
Farmers used 90 make their hams
from necessity. Now they put them
up as luxury. 1t has gotten so that
none but well-to-do farmers can af-
ford to raise their own meat. In those
DAYS of the steaming Gypsy pot. the
hickory ashes. the fat pen and the
crisp sward dyed in purple, we heard
nothing of trichinR or pork corners.
The only meat futures were when the
shote was marked in July for killing
in December. Sometimes a mild win
ter robbed the farmer of his meat. Oc-
casionally his pig-sty and smoke house
were raided between the suns; but
there was grease and plenty in the hog
killing on plantations. 1t was fact
that the Southern slave enjoyed as
large proportion of the products of
his labor as any class of hired labor in
the world, and statistics show that the
slave was larger consumer of ami
NAL food than any class of laborers in
Europe, and larger than any other la
boring population in the United States.
You rarely see that rare spectacle OF
a roasted pig shipped upon the table
entire, like the peafowl in all his glory
on the tables in Florence. There was
the mellow apple iD his mouth, caught
in his expiring effort, and there. pre-
served with culinary skill is the costa
tic twist of his tail. Now the rail-
roads and steamships have brought
about division of labor. Your hogs
are steamed in Chicago. your COWS
pastured in Michigan. your turkeys
DIRE ssed in Vermont, your syrup boiled
in Cuba, your ice-cream frozen In
New York, your cuffs washed in Chi
ma. and your cotton by and by will be
grown in India and Africa. Then
there will be nothing left in this solid
and sunny South but to cultivate mel
ons in summer and millioDaires in
winter aud write abont the good old
! times.-AuquStG (Gd.) Chronicle.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
SaIrey's Son.

He was little, white-haired, ,withered.
up old man, with a weather-beaten
face peering over a scraggy fringe of
chin whiskers. He sat in rear seat
of the last car of the Cape train. gaz-
ing through moist eyes at little
shaver perched opposite. The con-
ducter knew him and stopped when he
punched their tickets to ask: Where
did you get the boy, Uncle Seth?"
He's Sairey's,n replied the old man.
choking a sob. Il never sot eyes on
him afore a week ago Yesterday. Yer
see, when Sairey run off an merried a
good-fer-nuthin' scamp. mother n /
kinder felt we wuz done with her.
Las week got a letter-the fust fur
five years-sayin' she wuz mighty low.
Blud's thicker'n water. an / started
fur town at onct to bring her hum.
But she wuz too fur gone-died the
day I reached her. found that leetle
feller thar an his missile father
wouldn't let me hev him till | bought
him-jes' like he wuz a dumb beast.
But I'd heV had him if I'd he'd to
mortgagei the place-he's gotySairey's
ewes. So Boston IrdUeEer.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
His Wire Is suspicious.

He was standing in a doorway on
Jefferson avenue and presently he
halted pedestrian with a wave of his
hand, and beckoned him to approach
and said:
How do l lookP"
why. you present pretty shabby
appearance, if you want an honest an
swcr," replied the surprised citizen.
That's good. Shabby refers to my
dress. How's my facial appearance?
"Pinched and hungry"
That's excellent. Do look like a
man who had moneyp'
Ne"
Would you class me as hard up and
friendless?"
II certainly would.
Thank you. TO sum up. you would
set me down as victim of unfortun-
ate circumstances who couldn't get out
of this town too fastP'
That's about it."
Thanks. Here is letter l have
written TO my wife, asking for money
to get home. She's q suspicious woman
aud she won't take my word for it.
Please write at the bottom:
ATTEST: It's burned sight worse
than he says it is And sign your
name"
The citizen complied and the letter
was at once taken to the postoffice.-
Free Press
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
DC Turned the Farmer,s wrath.

A young newspaper man who last
spring found himself in Whiteman
county, Washington. 500 miles from
his base of supplies and ''broke," hired
out to a farmer. He was set to plow-
ing with pair of horses, but both
man and beasts being new to the busi-
ness, the burrows looked as if they
were the result of an earthquake rather
than of design, so crooked and zigzag
were they. AT the close of the day the
farmer rather testify criticised the job.
The newspaper man felt that his doom
was sealed, but mustered courage to
reply: Il know the rows are rather
crooked, but the sun was extremely
hot to-day, and it warped them.n The
answer turned away the farmers
wrath. and instead of being discharged
the newcomer was given a much
easier and pleasanler job, and is now
the farmer son-in-law.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20

lef happy smile =
4iy her waking facul-
with all their force. She
his arms Ia terror
me gol she cried. .sNhere
How did | come herea Where
my auute Oh please let me goli
Forgive meln Trevor exclaimed.
You have been walking in your
sleep"
"Oh, how dreadfulN she cried, ready
20 burst into tears. How could YOU
-- Why did you
Forgive me, implore you'll" Trevor
cried. II could not help 1t. have
loved YOU for six long weeks. A pict-
ure-your photograph
Did you have :tgn she said breath
lessly. Yours came TO me, but did
not suppose"
'srell me who YOU arem Trevor
cried. passionately. do not let mere
eonventionality stand between us. You
are mine--I know i'll You have loved
me as l have loved you. Is II moi
sop
lie took step nearer, but she turn
ed and fed from him. Her blue robes
floated out OF his grasp.
A little. yiolet-Scented handkerchief
fell at his feet aud il bore the name o
Alys Vane.
Trevor caught it mp and pressed II
TO his lips.
1t is fater' he said. How could
think il was ehanceP"
The next morning he sent his care
10 Miss Nane. Not she. but an elderly
lady, met him in the parlor.
My dear sir she said, quite stiffly,
my niece has just told me most ex
traordinary tale. She notified me
that n gentleman would call this morn
ing. most likely
"A suitor for her hand" Trevor ia.
terposed. Madam. love your niece.
desire TO have her become my wife. .
But my dear sir,M said the old
lady. 1--WE don't know YOU at ALL You
may be a-a-I don't know whati"
Il see yen register from New York. y
said Trevor with a smile. You know
my father perhaps-James Percy Win
tonps
s.Ahemi No. don't know him
but-are you James Percy Winton's
son?n
Trevor never before knew what s
great thing it was 10 have fathel
worth several millions. He had NJ
Soohei eStaptiSheu nus iuehtitN thah the
old lady said. quite warmly:
We'll. Tn sure l don't understand
this nonsense. bur you aud Alys car
fix il between you.
This is how Trevor found himself
there. holding Alys Vane's two littl,
trembling hands in his. while he asked
her 70 be his wife, and she gave him
glad consent
II have loved YOU ever since the
night my photographs came home.
she said. Your picture was among
them, and knew the moment | saw /
that | should love You forever. Wasn'i
it strange.
No, y said Trevor. kissing her ten
derly. III is not strange. In this life,
my darling, what is TO be is in spite o.
circumstances. Saturday Night
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
his ancestors were shoemakers.

During the Cleveland Administra-
ton Secretary of War Endicott was
Que of the best entertainers in the
National Capital. At one or his famous
dinner parties Senator Ingalls, found
himself placed by the side of Mrs.
Endicott. In the conversation which
ensued the lady dropped some remarks
about the Endicott family, which had
done so much for New England in the
days of its earliest settlement.
20. yes" remarked the Senator. II
know all about the Endicotts. My own
ancestors came over with them from
England in 1928"
Indeed" said Mrs. Endicott, evid-
emily wondering. "and yet | cannot
recall the name of Ingalls,, though | am
almost certain that l have in my men,
ory all the names of those on the May
flower that needed to be kept record
ed" And then the blue -blooded woman
looked puzzlingly and questioningly at
the Western Senator.
1T is hardly surprising" said Mr..
Ingalls, in reply; Indeed, should be
astonished if YOU could recall their
names for" and his voice was strong
enough to be heard far down the table,
my people who came over in the May
flower were shoemakers, and | under
stand that they made good shoes"
Mrs. Endicott smiled. aud ever since
the blue-blooded Massachusetts woman
and the bright Senator from Kansas
have been the kindliest of friends. N.
Y. Star.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20

John Karpela, one OF the keepers at
the lighthouse at Point Reyes died
suddenly March 8.
One day recently while Bloomfield
farmer was riding home ON load Of
balcd hay 1t took fire from his pipe {
fortunately neighbor saw the flames
and warned the occupants of the
wagon. They might have had roast
pork, done 70 turn, as there was a
pig I'm the outfit which had begun TO
pefspire little.-Courier.
soIAso COUNTY
james Morgan was killed for a
coyote while hunting those animals
with some friends In American canyon
March g.
The vacaville incorporators are
active
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
SHOES !!

Childs button. heels and tips. Stout 5 % g. 50 To
65 cents; Misses goat, lace. everyday heels. II
to 1Sts. IS cents Misses goat lace. everyday
heels, 20 ?, $ cents: Childs goat. lace. every
day heels 20 10. so and 65 cents: Ladies' goat.
button. neat style, Sl50; Ladies' kid, button, ali
sizes 70 y Sl-5o; Ladies' slippers, fair quality.
neat, IS cents; Ladies' low cut shoes. latest
fashion. 81 so; Misses clo9h and Kid, lace, IL TO
l35s, 30 cents; Mems low cut shoes, summer
wear. 81. Mems low cut shoes, better quality.
Sl-25. Job lots of shoes OF first quality bought
here and there at reduced prices, viii be offered
70 our patrons at the smallest margin OF profit.
II you want to see full list of these ask for
March Home Circle. It is worth your while
70 look IL over. Cost you nothing but the trouble
Of sending your name and address 70 Smiths
Cash Store. 416 and AIS Front ST., 8. II,
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
Royal Saxon China.

The royal Saxon collection of china.
the finest lot of Dresden china in the
world, has Just been greatly increased
by the addition to it of the II, 600
pieces of DR.. Gustav Spitzner. The
museum now contains about "a, 900
pieces from the Meissen factory.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
Hydrophobia From an Old Bite.

Joe Brown. colored. was bitten by a
dog in Bobinson county, North Caro-
lima. in 1872. On the same day the
same dog bit white man and a horse,
both of whom died the same day. The
negro Brown was attacked with hydro
phobia, but did not die. Periodically
at the same time of the year ever
since. he has a return of the disease.
He is now suffering the most excruci-
ating torments of well developed
case of hydrophobia.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20


Atcg lie must ford 1t or
eked the roadV He must climb
clin.
tempest cry .Halt's what are tenn
stA to hfm2
service admits not "butf or an slf"
silie the hrcath's Ia his mouth he must bear
without fall.
AaallM
From alec 10 rose-oak, from rose-oak 10 fAr,
From level 10 upland, from upland 10 crest
From rfco-neld 10 rock-rldge. from rock-ridge
20 spur,
Fsy the scft snnaaicd recs strains the hrawny
brown ehCet.
From rail 70 faviuc-to the peak from the
vale
n teTpash the night goes the Overland
Mail
There's spcck on the hillside, dot on the
4 sineie OF bells on the foot palh below
There's sc1fiie above in the monkey s abode
The world i awake. and the clouds are
Tor the great sun himself must attend 10 the
haf.
IN Tie name Of the Empress. the Overland
-Rudyara Kipling.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20


was edgin up to Randy Sherman in
les'n six months, pleasant rs n barsket
of chips, Jest as he always is. / tell
you, you en- hev some hopes of man
or woman as sometimes rares up and
is mad, and gifts in the wrong, and is
sorry. But when you find one that's
always in the right and never gives in,
look out, / tell ye! Randy Sherman
was teachin' school in that very same
schoolhouse where Mr.. Rankin lives
now when he began to shine up to her.
l s'pose she thought he was sweeter
nor honey. Anyway. she married
him, and l don't reckon she's seen
many happy days sence. Women is
fools! Fools, l say!'
Maria Jane made such violent ges-
ture that the peas fell out of her lap
and rolled over the floor. Max rose
slowly from under the bed and cas-
ually ate all the peas he could find.
Most everybody blames Randy, of
course. They say there never was n
pleasanter man to git along with than
Mr.. Rankin. There's only Il few as
has kind of sense of what me really
is. Wall, whatever he is, he's got to
F,,rl his soils now fnr do holiava as
said, that the Lords gon to take
him. He's sick, and Randy, soon's
she heard of it, which was night be-
fore last, was gone over to nuss him.
She's wuth fifty of him, say"
Evidently we should not spend the
day at present with Mrs. Rankin.
The story that Mrs. Yates had told
kept in our minds. The next after
noon an least turn" came up, so that
it was really cold sitting out in front.
We started out for walk along the
cliff road, which winds along above the
sea and close to it. Carriages were
whirling by us and the dust flew. BY
! this time we knew just where were the
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-12-31
An Ideal Studio,

In my experience there is nothing like
a gondola to paint from, especially III
the summer-and it is the summer time.
Then all these Venetian cabs are gay in
their sunshiny attire, and have laid
aside their dark, hooded clOaks, their
rainy day mackintoshes-their felsi-
and have pulled over their shoulders a
frail awning Of creamy white, perched
upon a delicate iron framework, with
snowy curtains at sides and back. under
which you paint in state or lounge lux
~uriou5ly, drinking in the beauty about
you.
[ have i'll my wanderings tried al sorts
Of moving things to paint from; tartanas
in Spain, volantes in Cuba, broad sailed
luggers in Holland, mules in Mexico. and
cabs everywhere. One remember with
delight-ln old nighthawk III Amstcr-
dam-that offered me not only its front
seat for my easel, its arm rest for my
water bottle, and Il pocket in the door
flap for brushes q am likely to expect all
these c~Onveuierces i'll ven the most dis
reputable of cabs, but insisted IN giving
me the additional luxury of Il knot hole
in its floor for waste water.
But with all this a cab is not a gon-
dola.-F. HopkinsOn Smith III ~Scribner's.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-12-31
OuIy One on His Side.

A capital story is told Of a we'll known
Judge who is noted for his fOndneSs for
conveying to jurors in his charges to
them his own opinions with regard to
the merits Of the case. In one case he
had done SO with great plainness, bat to
his a1naZement the jury remained ont
for hours without coming to an agree
ment. The Judge inquired Of the bailif
what was the matter, and learned from
him that one juror was holding out
against the other eleven.
He sent for the jury at once, and stat
ing to the jurors that lie had plainly
intimated how the case ought to be de-
cided, said he understood the one Juror
was standing out against the other
eleven. He proceeded to rebul,e the
juror sharply. The obstinate juror was
a little man, and as soon as the
judge was done he rose and said:
my lord, may | say a word:'
eyes, sir" said the indignant judge:
"what have you to say.
well, what l wanted to say is, | am
the only fellow that's on your sid -
London Tit-Bits.