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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17

out of the question. Artificial purifica-
ton, and the manufacture of fertilizers
from the precipitated solids, would
have been possible. But Gerlin wisely
adopted the better plan of natural puri-
iication by the irrigating of land. I'm
mense research was bestowed upon the
subject, with the result that the Berlin
drainage is the most perfect in the
world, and, so far as physical forms
and conditions are concerned, is dn-
questionably the city's most notable
achievement in municipal housekeep-
ing. The city was divided into IL
drainage districts, called "radial sys-
tems," the divisions being arranged
upon Typographical considerations
The sewers of each district were TO con.
verge at common center, at which
would be located a receiving basin
and steam pumping works. A tunnel
was to connect each of these district
centers with the reservoirs and pump
ing works of sewage farm some miles
distant.
All the houses of Berlin are
now connected with the new
drainage works, which are car
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17

fieath-dealing infusoriae taken into
their bodies with rank water and i'll
smelling odors, even those American
cities which are poorly managed in the
two respects spoken of arc vastly bet
ter off. But hygiene has made such
strides of late years that it is really in
defensible if the utmost care, both as
to water and drainage, be not taken
nowadays. And yet but few months
ago there was bad water scare" in
San Francisco, with reports of many
deaths due to this cause. The Chicago
river and Lake Michigan continue to
be the dumping grounds for the vile
refuse and offal of the worlds fair city,
and her health department continues
to attribute large portion of the NOR
tality to the contaminated water sup
ply. In New York matters in this re-
spect are not so bad, perhaps, but still
very far from satisfactory. And thus
it is with the large number of other
large and progressive American cities.
The need of absolutely pure
drinking water and of perfect
sewage must be generally recognized
in every part of the union before thor
ough reform may be wrought. In this
matter the example Berlin furnishes
may be instructive.
1t was in 1873 that the Berlin munic-
ipality acquired control of the water
supply, and at once proceeded to create
a new and improved system. At the
same time it determined to abandon the
growingly dangerous practice of drain
ing the city sewage into the diminutive
Spree, and it entered not only upon d
marvellous system for the disposal of
sewage, but also proceeded, in the inter
est of the public health, to create q
great series of sanitary institutions.
The sanitary authorities at Berlin had
led the world in recent inquiries into
the relations of water supply to public
health, and now the character of the
service rendered by the Berlin water
works is constantly improving. The
water is taken from the Tegel and
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17

Nugget lakes, two sheets of water Is
and 20 miles from the city. This water
goes through series of publications
SO chemically perfect that all germs of
disease possibly lurking in 1t are de-
stroyed. During the last two years there
was only part of one day when the wa
ter was not as clear and wholesome
as desirable, owing to defect in the
machinery which was at once remedied.
No epidemic ofany kind at all traceable,
directly or indirectly, to the water sup
ply has occurred in Berlin for. 20 years.
More than that, there was not single
case of serious disease which could be
laid to the burden of the water supply
within The same time. The supply is
abundant at all times, and the pressure
is so gagged that there is never any
'water famine" not even in midsummer
up in the highest stories of the tall
downtown buildings.
But greater undertaking still was
the solution of the sewage problem.
Berlin had drained into the Spree, and
had used vaults for solid waste instead
of the modern all-receiving sewers.
Good drainage was as necessary as good
water. and the permanent discharge of
tmpurfied sewage into the Spree WA
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
BRAVE ANDRE ETTIENNE.
Known In History as the Drummer Boy
of Arcole.

Known In History rs the Drummer Boy
of Arcole.
Perhaps no picture more fires the pa
triotism of the French heart than does
that in which Napoleon is represented,
flag in hand, making his final stand
upon the bridge of Arcole at the mem
orable battle fought there.
OF the drummer boy of Aroole even
the encyclopedias are silent.
Andre Ettienne, the drummer boy Of
Arcole, is no legendary parsonage; he
is the hero of an authentic action, and
his native town of Castanet, in Vau-
cluse, is about to erect to his memory a
statue, for which contributions have for
the past year poured in so generously
that the secretary of the committee of
the enterprise is scarcely able to reply
to all the letters from those anxious to
commemorate the brave deed of this
simple hero.
Ettienne, says the clocl<maker of
Malakoff, one of his descendants, was
inactive, as were his comrades; his at
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
BERIIIN'S PURE WATER.
It Passes Through Many Impor-
tant Purifying Processes
But Its Chief Safeguard Lies In the Fact
That 1t Does in No Way Touch
the City's Vast Sewage
System.
Especial 4erlin Letter. |

A plentiful supply of pure, whole
some water and perfect-working
system of drainage are among the
prime requisites of well-governed
municipality. In both particulars
many ef our otherwise charming and
prosperous American cities are at
fault. Every once in awhile the hue
and cry is raised of infectious diseases
broken out in city quarters of
teeming population, diseases traced
clearly back to the impure water sup
ply or defective drainage. True, in
comparison with the days of our for
bears, who knew nothing of microbes,
bacilli and bacteria, who were una
ware of the poisonous vapors and the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17

paper notoriety that Dom Piatt aick.
named the attorney general "Landaulet
Williams" name by which he is bet
ter known until this day than by his
proper name. In private conversations
here amongst old-timers, the ex-cabinet
official is always referred TO as
"Landaulet Williams"
Some years ago Count D'Arco
Valley came to Washington as the min
ister from the German empire. When
his equipage arrived it was housed
away; but when his sister, Countess
Leopoldine, arrived. u sensation was
produced which ran,hied the entire
diplomatic and social circles of the city.
The count and countess made MEM
orable round of calls on the cabinet in
dark-blue paneled carriage, attended
by man in full military regalia, The
fellow was really a most splendid look
long-plumed, gold-bullioned chapeau to
open the carriage door for the minister
and his sister, unsheathing a glittering
sword in military salute, he was sight
long to be remembered.
Unfortunately, however, the amount
of attention attracted by this attend
ant finally became so overwhelming
that, finding crowds collecting and
barring the way to and from each
house before the carriage stopped, the
minister was reluctantly compelled to
deprive the man of his gaudy strap
pings, remove the gold stripe from his
trousers, the shining metal buttons
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17

the part of the cold currents in the
upper aid and condenses the vapor
which the sun draws up from the ocean.
A still more striking result can be OBJ
tanned by using n cold saucer in place Of
the warm one. In that case the differ
ence of temperature will be increased
and there is a regular old-fashioned
hurricane.
This very simple experiment was in
vented recently by Prof. Errera, Of
Brussels, and almost any of our boys
or girls could interest a whole class or
q school exhibition with it. Try it. go
Chicago Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
unannhIsticated Yiew.

"Auntie, / haven't seen you since you
got back from the city. What kind of
clothes are the swell people wearing at
the opera this season."
81 don't know, Mandy. The folks I
saw ut the opery didn't have enough on
SOS l could form any idee."-Chicago
Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
What He Feared.

81 don't care that for what the news
papers think about me-" said the states
man, swapping his fingers.
MOP" said the incredulous constitu-
ent.
mo. 1t is what they say that keeps
Inc awake of nights" = indianapolis
Journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
The Thourht Was Hers.

81 suppose that you and your wife
are two souls with but single
thought" said his old friend Tom
Dick, who had not seen him since his
marriage.
That's about the situation" said
Henry Peck, land about half the time
rhe will not tell me what that thought
is."-N. Y. Truth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
why She Took Him.

Mother--Why did you accept Charlie
from among all the young men who
have paid you attention?
Daughter-Because he was the only
one that had the good taste TO propose.
Detroit Free Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-12-17
when She Was at Her Best.

Brown heard your wife sing last
night; she was in good voice.
Jones-You should have heard heA
after she got Hometown Topics.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
The Inventor of the Polka.

"Tle origin of the polka is not gen.
orally known, the inventor of the dance
having been a young Bohemian girl
named Haniczka SeleZka. She was a
blooming young peasant maiden, and
the best dancer in the village of Cos
telec. on the river Elbe, and used to
perform solo dances of her own inven-
ton at the various village festivities.
It was in the year 1880, at a farmhouse,
that the assembled guests asked her
to dance a 500, and she said, 1 will
show you something quite new, and
TO the. music of her own singing she
danced the polka step, though with
more elaboration than it is now per-
formed. The dance became so popular
that it was later made a national dance
and Haniczka named it pulku, as she
said it was danced in short steps; from
pulku came polku, and finally polka, the
dance three years later, in $780, be
coming popular in Prague, and in 1888
it was already danced at Vienna balls
and one year later became the most
popular dance in Paris. Haniczka Sc
lezka is still alive, surrounded by nu-
merous grandchildren and great
grandchildren sprung from her own
six sons and daughters. The Etude.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
4 STUBBORN WOMEN

We read thai ,Jove had the order
ing cf mundane affairs. he promised
to send rain on any day that would
be agreed upon by the whole world,
1t was reported at last that they were
all ready for rain at certain date. ex
cept one old woman wEo wanted to
make soap or that particular day.
Women are often accused Of being
capricioug and whimsical; but there
Is one point on which they will all
agree the dosiral iity OF being well,
and looking welt. Every woman, be
she young or old, wants to look heI
best: and in order to do this, it Is
necessary to attain that state of health
which viii impart a sparkle to he1
eye, a bloom to her cheek, and grace
and symmetry to her entire form. DR.
Piefca's Favorite Prescription IS q
pnnacea for al chronic weaknesses,
and deraugemects of u ction peculi al
to the sex: aud is beyond all eompari
son the great healer of woIen.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
GREAT WANT OF IRELAND.
Hotels TO Accommodate Travellers Are
the CrXinp Neod.

Hotels TO Accommodate Travellers Are
the Crying Need.
Washington Post: "One great need
Of Ireland said Mr.. Hugh Darlington,
a Boston gentleman who visited the
aerald isle this summer, to re-
porter at the Hotel Page, "is a sys-
TEN of good hotels for the accommo-
dation of tourists. There is as beau
tiful and picturesque scenery in Erin
as anywhere on the globe, and thou
sands of travellers would go there an
nually if they could only secure suita-
BILE lodging and fare at the public inns.
l should think it would pay the rail-
road companies to put UP such places
of entertainment, and it would cer-
tainly be a godsend to the people.
The canny Scots are not behlnd-
hand when it comes to such enterprise,
and in all parts of the country famed
for scenic beauty are scores OF elegant
hostelries with modern comforts, that
during the tourist season take in great
heaps of coin. It would be the same
way in Ireland if somebody had the
nerve, foresight and capital to pursue
a like course"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
Civil Service Reform.

when l was out west" said the man
who runs about the country selling
windmills, Il struck a saloon in a little
mining town that was called the Civil
Service Reform bar"
THAT was rather queer" said the
man who stays at home and sells shoes.
81 thought so, too, until I found out
the reason of the name. l went in to
get a glass of beer; got it and laid down
a dollar. The man behind the bar took
the dollar, dropped it in the till and
picked up his newspaper to read. Don't
1 get any changer says 1. Nope says
he, this is run on civil service princi-
pies, and we don't believe in making
any unnecessary change As he had
a shotgun in handy reach l concluded
to let it go at that. Cincinnati Trib-
une.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
FOUR BIG SUCCESSES.

Having the needed merit to more
than MAKE good all the advertising
claimed for them the following four
remedies have reached a phenomenal
sale. DR.. Kings New Discovery, for
consumption, coughs and colds, each
bottle guaranteed Electric Bitters,
the great remedy for Liver, Stomach
and Kidneys.-Bucklen's Arnica Salve
the best in the world, and DIR. Kings
New Life Pills,which are a perfect pill.
All these remedies are guaranteed to
do just what is claimed for them and
the dealer whose name is herewith at
tached will be glad to tell you more
about them. Sold at Henry Hinrichs
Drug Store
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
WOMAN AND MARRIAGE.

She Wants to Get More Than There -
Mothers with daughters find it diff
cult to get any man TO take them TO his
bosom unless they are well endowed
. with beauty or dollars, says the Satur-
day Review. The more eligible the
bachelor the less inclined is he to bar
ter his freedom for a few chaste smiles
and little practical Indifference lie
has acquired expensive tastes and all
aversion to self-denial which nothing
short of landed property lacking heirs
IS strong enough to overcome. And
even with this inducement to marriage
he is likely to postpone it until the ad-
ventures of adolescence have lost their
SAVIOR. It is true that he may, after 40.
become enamored of the matrimonial
idea, but whether or not he puts it into
effect will depend upon the balance.
both of his vitality and his fortune.
The woman, again, is actuated by dii-
ferent considerations. She is handi-
capped at the start by her numerical
superiority and the consciousness that
her pure and disinterested desire for
an establishment" may fail of reali7~
ton through sheer lack of opportl.nIty
to extricate herself from the herd of su-
perfluous women. Added to this, the
modern maid has thoroughly broken
away from the belief that any husband
is better than no husband at all. The
reproach of spinsterhood has to a great
extent passed away, and since it is now
rot only possible but profitable for wo-
men to work many of them are more
disposed to take up a profession than q
partner for life. The critical faculty
has, moreover, been quickened by edu-
cation, so that the demoiselle marier
now bears little resemblance to the sim
pering innocent who accepted without
question the man of her mothers
choice. To-day proposals of marriage
are addressed TO herself and answered
By herself, and she is more prone to re-
lection than to acquiescence, for as a
rule she is bent upon getting more out
OF marriage than there is in it.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
Highest of all Leavenng Powe-Latest u. S. Govt Report
RH:A!l! q! kskl2s RSxass1!
ABSOLUTELY PURE
BIT OF ROMANCE.
A Cleveland (O) Girl Who Disappeared
for Year.

| A Cleveland (o0 Girl Who Disappeared
for a Year.
In the closing days of September last
year the newspapers of Cleveland were
making frantic but vain efforts to To-
cate Maggie Stofer, a 17-year-old girl
who had disappeared. The police OF
| the Ohio city were also much stirred up
over the matter, but neither they nor
| the generally acute reporters were able
to get the slightest trace of the missing
| girl. For some time previous to her
| disappearance Miss Stofer's eyesight
had been in very bad condition, and 1t
| was determined by her relatives that
she should pay a visit to Columbus,
| where, at the state institution for the
blind, she expected to be benefited. She
| ala not reach the place, and after max
ing thorough search her friends came to
the conclusion that she had in some
mysterious manner met her death as
result of her temporary affiiction. A
day or two ago she suddenly appeared
| at her home, in the best of health and
spirits and with her eyesight COM
pleteiy restored. Miss Stofer says that
Aer disappearance resulted from mere
love OF adventure on her part, and that
Whie she much regrets causing her re-
iatlVes SO much anxiety and sorrow she
mas found that she can earn good llV-
ing on the stage. While On the way to
the state asylum she left the train at
Gallon, going to another small town
there that same evening. There she
met young man whom she had known
before, and they decided to get married.
Accordingly, they started for Buffalo,
the home Of the young mans parents,
who advised against the match on ac-
count of Miss Stofer's ailment and
urged her to return home This she
seemingly agreed to do, but instead Sc
cured an engagement at local theater,
where her vocal talents made her quite
a faVorIte. Later she signed for the
season with travelling company, and
visited Cleveland last winter without
her relatives learning of the fact. WheI
warm weather arrived last spring sb
resigned her position in the theatric
company, the discomforts of travel (
the summer being more than she car
10 face. She was then in Philadelpf
where she at once secured an engao-
ment as governess for the two children
OF rich business man. Long before
this time her sight had been completely
restored. Miss Stofer remained in the
Quaker City for several months, and
then, hearing in roundabout way that
her mother was in poor health, sudden
ly determined to go home, which she
did
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
Tennessee's Centennial.

Tennessee's centennial, to be held
next year, will give the south another
opportunity to reveal to the world the
wealth of its present advantages and
the vast extent of its resources waiting
for development. The southern states
are more disposed than formerly 10
give the hand of welcome to honest and
enterprising settlers, even if their pol
itics is of a different shade The new
comers will make excellent citizens be-
yond a doubt.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
True Realism.

Dramatic Author understand that
you are looking for a new play.
Manager-Yes, but l am very hard to
suit / want play which shall COM
bine all the elements Of tragedy, COM
edy, farce, pantomime and spectacle.
That's it. That's what I've got.
Chock-full of tragedy and human suf-
fering, tears and smiles, joy and woe,
startling surprises, unheard of mishaps,
wreck and ruin, lamentations and
laughter"
Whats the titIe?"
"a May Day Moving
whats the plot?"
Hasn't any plot. Just an ordinary
May day moving"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
RELTEFIA SIX HOURS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the NE v
Great South American Kidney Cure. y
This new remdy is a great surprise on
account of its exceeding promptness N
relieving pam in the bladder. kidneys
back and every part of the urinary pas
sages in male or female. It relieves re-
pention of water and pain IN passing II
almost Immediately. If YOU want quick
relief and cure this is your only remedy
towoc, Wis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
Time Changes All Things.

In days gone by when fighters
Fresh from Old England's shore
Came here to meet our scrappers
They brought expressions Ger
That is to say, slang phrases,
And terms meant for rebukes,
Such as, You bloomink duffer,
Hi say, put hup your dukesr'
But now-Ah! time works changes,
We hear these words no more
At least not with the meaning
They had in days Of yore.
Bad scrappers now have vanished,
Prize fights these days are flukes,
'Tis now the gentle heiress
Who says, Put up your Dukesr'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
Ameriean-Made Ships.

The new battleship Indiana is pro-
nounced by experts the steadiest YES
sci of the kind in the world in rough
weather. And yet it was not many
years ago that public men were saying
that American shipyards were no
good. The marked success which has
attended the rehabilitation of the navy
so far shows that Americans can lead
the world whenever they want to.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
The Snade's TestimOnY.

According to recent statement OF
Prof. Sayce, it is now determined be-
yond doubt that there was such per-
son as the Queen of Sheba, and that
there was such a district from which
she hailed; and that her journey to see
Solomon was one of the most natural
things to be expected. The spade did
it. And we were told that there was
no such person. no such place, &c. Won
derful thing that spade. And it has
come to pass that the testimony of a
piece of old crockery is worth dozen
statements from the Bible-ah me!
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02

English SPAWN Liniment removes
all Hard, Soft or CalloGsed Lumps
Blemishes from horses, Blood
.opavins. Curbs. Splints, Sweeney
Ring Bone, Stiles, Spra:ns, all Swol
len Threats, Coughs, etc. Save $50
by the use of one bottle. Warranted
the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever
known. Sold by Z. G. Buerstatte,
Druggist, Manitowcc. Wis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
MARVELOUS RESULTS.

From letter written by Rev. j
Gunderman, of Dimondale. Mich, we
are permitted to make this extract: Il
have no hesitation in recommending
Dr. Kings New Discovery, as the re
suits were almostmarvelous in the case
OF my wife. While | was pastor of the
Baptist Church at Rives Junction she
was brought down with Pneumonia
succeeding La Grippe. Terrible par
oxysms of coughing would last hours
with little interruption and it seemed
as if she could not survive them. A
friend recommended DR.. Kings New
Discovery. 1t was quick in its work
and highly satisfactory in results
Trial bottles free at Henry Hinrichs
Drug Store. Regular size soc. and
S1GG.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02

Mr.. Plummer-"I just found my hat
on the refrigerator, ] wonder on what
ridiculous thing | Will find it next?"
Mrs. Pinmmer-"ProbabIy on your
head, dear"
And Mrs. Plummer smiled sweetly as
Mr. Piummer slamed the door and rush
ed down stairs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-01-02
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SAIVE

TEE BEST SsLvE in the world for Cut
Bruises, S. es, Ulcers, Salt Rh9um
Fever Sc ss, letter, Chapped Hands
Chilblains, Corrs, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or
pay required. 1t IS guaranteed to Civ
Perfect satisfaction, or money refunded
price 70 cents per box. 21 Jan. 50
For Sale by Henry H1nriehs.