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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
Florida Truck Farmers.

There are indications of cooperation
among the truck farmers of Florida.
AS q means of encouraging truck grow
ing along their lines in that state the
Plant system has called meeting to
consult those who wish to cultivate
vegetables, to the end that the people
and the railroads may mutually benefit
each other in producing and marketing
vegetable crops. The proposition is
made by the Plant system that the grow
ers shall meet and form themselves into
an association in order that they may
be effcctually benefited, and 1t offers to
furnish the best seeds that can be Sc
cured Of various crops that can be
grown successfully in that section at
cost, without any charges for tnnspor-
tatiou
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
FIGHTING EDITORS.
scribes Who Were Always Ready for
Personal Encounter.

In the eighteenth century, says the
Gentleman's Magazine, the editor of
the Daily Courant was deliciously
amused when he wrote: II will give no
comments of my own i'm this paper,
as assume that other people have sense
enough to make. reflections for them
selves!" Henry Bate, the editor of the
Morning Post, never picked his words
with care. His savage onslaughts raised
smiles in coffee houses and clubs and
also brought him face to face with
peril. He was composed of stern stuff.
Helived up to the motto: 81 neyerapolo-
gize. l never retract."
Capt. Stoney, buck of the time,
demanded satisfaction for a very per.
sonal paragraph thatappeared in Bates
paper, but he got little. The editors
choice lay between horsewhipping
and duel, and he chose the duel. The
two gentlemen, meeting in the Adclplli
tavern, in the Strand, called for a room,
shut the door. and, being furnished
with pistols, fired at each other without
effect. They then drew their swords
and continued to fight till the door
was burst open by the police" Bate was
not the only London editor called upon
TO use sword and pistol, as we'll as pen,
and at later date an editor in the
north, brayely focusing public opinion
on the instigatOrs of a dastardly
trade outrage, sat night after night
with 4 revolver on his desk, prepared
for q surprise visit.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
THEY ALL GOT a DRINK.
How a Millionaire's Son Driving a Str,
Far Traatad TIis I,ossaDuars

How a Millionaire's Son Driving a Street
Car Treated His Passengers.
After the late George Law was grad.
uated from Columbia college his father
made him driver on the Eighth avenue
street car line in New York, says the
San Francisco Argonaut. One night,
after cold rain had chilled the young
driver to the marrow, a college friend
of his jumped on the car and suggested
that q drink would be in order On
Fifty-ffth street, midway between
Eighth and Ninth avenues, there was a
well-known sporting resort kept by an
ex-boXing master of Columbia. Mr..
Laws friend proposed that he stop the
car, while they ran down the street,
hurrledly took drink, and returned t.
the car. But Mr.. Law preferred to fol-
low his own ideas in the matter Giving
the horses a sudden yank he turned
them sharply toward Ninth avenue and
whipped them up until, by quick eff
fort, they lifted the car off the track.
Over the cobbles the strong horses
drew the car to the amazement of the
conductor and the passengers, and, rat
tiIng down through the street, stopped
in front of the saloon. Mr.. Law alight-
ed with his friend and so did the rest
of the passengers. After they had all
taken Il drink at the drivers expense,
they turned to the vehicle and the car
again started its noisy progress over
the stones. When it was again on the
rails and the journey up Eighth avenue
was resumed it was rather the worse
for wear.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
PURE WATER CORRoDEs IRON.
Use Of Lime IN Boilers VIII Prevent Fur
ther Action.

The corrosive power of pure water on
new or unscaled boilers was well illus.
trated in the city of Glasgow, when a
new water supply was introduced from
Loeb Katrine, one of the purest waters
in the world which are available for
city consumption. The former supply
had been poor and calcareous, and old
boilers were much coated with lime
scale. TO the dismay of the users, those
who had put in new boilers or new
tubes found them rapidly corroding,
while the old scaled and coated boilers
remained as before; those, too, vino had
removed every possible trace of incrus-
tation from their old boilers by me-
chanical or chemical means, intending
thus to get, as they expected, the full
benefit of the pure water, were also
badly troubled by corrosion; and even
the old boilers, as the scale was grad
ually removed by the unyarying soft
and pure water from the lake, were
more or less corroded when no means
were taken to prevent it. 1t was found,
however, in this case, that introducing
q little lime from time to time-enough
to give the boilers slight calcareous
coating-usually prevented the corrosive
action of the water; then, again, in the
course of time, the effect produced was
that the lime, organic matter, and iron
oxide skin, united in forming protec-
tive oNidiZed surface which prevented
further corrosion.
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$780,
PORTABLE HOUSES.
Made for p Great Variety of Uses and
Exported to Other Lands.

Made for Great Variety of Uses and
Exported to Other Lands.
Portable houses are made of almost
any size and for great variety of uses,
says the New York Sun. There are
portable dwelling-houses and portable
lighthouses, and portable barracks, and
portable clubhouses, lawn pavillions,
engineers, miners, contractors and
other offices, bathiDg-houses, stables,
bowling alleys, billiard-rooms, hospi-
tails and so on. There have lately been
made two-story portable houses. y
two-story portable house of ten rooms
costs $500. \ house of one room,
ski, with one door and one window,
can be bought for $50; with two cots,
two tables and two stools, for $50.
Sometimes a man who owns port
able house hires land on the seashore or
in the mountains and sets his house up
there for a season, takes it down and
stores it in the fall, and next season
hires land in another place and sets his
house up there.
Portable houses are set on stones or
blocks, and on posts, and sometimes
they are set on permanent foundations.
People sometimes have chimneys built
where they set up their houses. The
portable house manufacturers sell terra
Gotta chimneys in sections to be stacked
up, and it is not unusual for the house
owner simply TO run out a stovepipe for
chimney.
We export portable houses to Cuba,
South America and South Africa.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
MISPLACED PUNISHMENT.
Angry Housewife Belabors Her Guest In
stead of Her Husband.

angry Housewife Belabors Her Guest In
stead of Her Husband.
An exchange prints story about DR..
Miller, at one time a popular Congre-
gationalist preacher in England.
lie had been holding services at vii.
age in Yorkshire, and, a heavy rain hav-
irg come on, had accepted an invitation
to pass the night at the house of one of
the villagers. The good-hearted host,
seeing he minister's clothing drenched,
brought out a suit of his own and sent
his guest upstairs to put it on.
The good man had made the change
and was on his way back to the sitting
room when the woman of the house
came out of another room holding in
her hands the big family Bible, out of
which the doctor was to be invited to
read 4 chapter before the family re-
tired.
At the same time she was not in a very
amiable mood. Careful housewives are
apt to be put out of sorts by the advent
of unexpected company. Seeing DIR.
Miller in his borrowed garments she
mistook him for her husband, and as he.
passed in front of her she lifted the,
book and brought itd down pretty smart
~ on his head.
There she said, "tal;e that FOR ask
ing him to stay all night"
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JUST TOO LATE.
Thought Too Long About kissing in tlrs
Tunnel.

Thought Too Long About Kissing in tIrs
Tunnel.
We are now coming to the tunnel
said the cautious lover, reports The De-
troit Free Press. and according TO the
foolish tradition OF others in love we
must kiss each other. / mention it be-
cause l did not wish to surprise you"
Nothing that you could do would
surprise me-" she said.
''D-o-do you see anyone we know?"
Not a soul"
''Nor anyone that knows Us?"
"No, no."
Il suppose there isn't anY sticking
plaster on your face?"
NO. Why?"
1T might betray us. 1 read of a
young man like me, who kissed girl
like you when they were going through
a tunnel"
well, what of it? How slow you
are
''The sticking plaster was on her
face when they went in; when they
came out it was on his"
How lovely. We are nearly through
the tunnel"
Then it must be now or never" said
the cautious lover, and the passengers
smiled audibly, for the train emerged
into the broad daylight just as he
saluted lis girl with the lorg-deferred
kiss.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
UNCLE TOMS CABIN.
Ioweii, Admired the Genius In 1t More
Than the Moral,


1t was the opinion of James Russell
Lowell, says Charles Dudley Warner,
in the Atlantic, that the anti-slayery
element in Uncle Tom and Dred stood
in the way of a full appreciation, at
least In her own country, of the re-
markable genius of Mrs. Stowe. Writ
ing in 1859, he said: From my hab-
its and the tendency of my studies I
cannot help looking at things purely
from an aesthetic point of view, and
what l valued in Uncle Tom was the
genius, and not the moral" This had
been his impression when he read the
book in Paris, long after the whirl of
excitement produced by its publication
had subsided, and far removed by dis
tance from local influences. Subse-
quently, In a review, he wrote: I'VE
felt then, and we believe now, that the
secret of Mrs. Stoves power lay in that
same genius by which the great sue
cesses in creative literature have al
ways been achieved-the genius that
iDstinctiyely goes to the organic ele-
mentS of human nature, whether under
q white skin or black, and which dis
regards as trivial the conventions and
fictitious notions which make so large
a part both of our thinking and feel
ing. The creative faculty of
Mrs. Stowe, like that of Cervantes in
Don QuiXote,' and of Fielding in Jo-
seph Andrews overpowered the narrow
specially of her design, and expanded
local and temporary theme with the
cosmopolitanism of genius"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
NURSING SENTIMENT.
The French Cultivate the Love of Val
orous Deeds


orous Deeds.
Sentiment Is a thing of the heart, an
instinct rather than Judgment. The
French nurse it by that which ,excites
the affections and imagination Dur
ing one of the wars between France
and England 4 French officerj blew up
his ship to prevent its being taken. He
and the crew all perished.
The French government recognized
the officers heroism by entering the
name of his sister, his only surviving
relative. in the place in the navy list
which his name had occupied, and here
it remained till her death, says Youths
Companion.
Napoleon BOnaparte conferred upoE;
La Tour dAuyergne the title of First
Grenadier of the French Army" He
had declined promotion 20 the col
onelcy Of a regiment, because it would
separate him from his brave grena-
diers, but he was not insensible TO the
distinction which the epithet made ap-
parent. When he was killed in battle
the emperor ordered that his name
should be called at every roll call of the
grenadiers, and that the sergeant
should answer: "Died on the field of
honor!"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
Ii HUNG CHANG.
Liberality of the Views of the Chinese
Statesman.

Liberality of the Views of the Chinese
Statesman.
II Is claimed that Notwithstanding
LII Hung Chang has shown some liber-
ality of views toward modern improve
nents and education, he is at heart q.
hater of foreigners, and has an abiding
faith in Chinese institutions and meth
DDS of government. He is, it is true,
q great admirer of Confucinn philos-
ophy, and remembering the enduring
history of his people we can hardly
wonder at his devotion to the institu-
tions which have made that history
possible. When we call to mind the
experience China has had with certain
western nations, it might not be con-
sidered strange If his attachment to
foreigners was not very ardent; but
in all his public life, says John w. Fos-
ter in Century, his conduct shows
that he feels the need of foreign aid,
and is disposed to give it proper well
come, and of all Chinese statesmen he
Is the most liberal-minded and free
from prejudice. He is far from claim
ing that the present system of govern
ment is perfect He has, in fact, urged
upon the authorities at Peking two i'm
portant changes which look to a reform
of the most serious defects in the sys-
tenn; to wit, the withdrawal from the
viceroys of provinces of powers which
should be exercised onlyby the imperial
government, and such a change in the
method of admission to the public serv-
ice as VIII liberalize the examinations,
and make fitness rather than scholar
ship the test. There are other changes
which he would gladly bring about if
he had the poweri but, as he confessed
to Marquis Ito, "China Is hampered by
antiquated customs which prevent de-
sirable reforms
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

How many young men and young
women are cut off just as the future
seems brightest and fullest of prom
Use! They are taken away by the
disease which causes over one sixth
of all the deaths in the world-ths
disease which doctors call consump-
ton. There is absolutely no reason
in the world why consumption should
be fatal-why it should be even seri-
Gus. 1t is disease Of the blood, and
can be cured absolutely and always
by purifying and enriching the blood.
The only exception to this is the case
where the disease has been neglected
and improperly treated until it is
stronger than the body-until the
body has become so weak as to have
lost the ability to recuperate. DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
will cnre 50 per cent. of all cases Of
consumption if used according to
directions. 1t also cures all lingering
coughs, bronchial and throat affec
tiOns.
Send II cents in one cent stamps to
Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
tion, Buffalo, n. Y, and receive DR..
Pierce's zoos page COMMON SENSE MEDI-
CAL ADVISER, illustrated.
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CATCHING A TARTAR.
The Brave and Effective Resistance of an
Intended Victim.

Iuc oTaNo anu L1HeCtISo AeSblstAHC6 VI -
Intended Victim.
Highway robberies, even under mod
ern name of "hold-ups," which alters
nothing Of their character, have become
decidedly rare in the far northwest; and
they are likely to become still rarer if
MI intended victims make as brave and
effective resistance as did q grocer of
Rainier, Washington, recently.
This grocer, whosee name is Hubert,
started from Rainier with his wagon
one night to go TO Tacoma to buy goods.
With him was 13-year-old boy. He
carried $1O6 to pay for his purchases.
While he was about two miles from
Roy and on a lonely road two highway
men stepped out, confronted the grocer,
pushed O. pistol into his face, and COM
manded him to dismount and hand over
his money.
Hubert had no notion of giving up the
money, but he did not waste any time in
thinking up a plan for beating the rob-
bers. He began to get down from the
wagon as If to comply, and as be did so
he struck the rascal who held the pistol
a terrible blow which felled him to the
ground. Hubert then came down with
one heavy foot upon the wrist of the
hand which held the revolver.
While the robber was in this position,
the grocer snatched the weapon away
from him and pointed it at the other
rascal. It turned out that the second
robber had no pistol. Hubert COM
manded him to put up his hands, which
he did.
Meantime the first man was insensi-
BILE from the terrible blow which HUI
bert had dealt him. Hubert made the
second hold up his hands for ten min
utes, until the first had recovered his
senses. Then he commanded tie first
to get up, and told them both to march.
which they did.
Thus the grocer took them both into
the town of Roy, the boy driving close
behind with the horses and wagon.
At Roy the thwarted highwaymen were
turned over to constable and locked
up, and the grocer went on his way to
Tacoma
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
JAPAN'S MONOPOLY.
All the World Must Now Go to Her for
Camphor.


Camphor.
One of the unconsidered triiles that
the mikado has picked up as the result
of the Chinese war is the monopoly of
camphor, says the Indian Agriculturist.
That drug is produced only in Japan
md Formosa, and, though a variety
known as Borneo camphor is obtained
from Borneo and Sumatra, it cannot
compete with the product of the ever
green laurel Of the eastern Asiatic
islands. Inasmuch as camphor, apart
from It's many and varied therapeutic
uses, is an essential ingredient in the
composition of nearly all the new ex-
plosives, the demand for it is very large.
The japanese are well aware of the
valuable monopoly they have hlundered
upon rather than sought and have al
ready begun to limit the export by i'm
posing duties. AS a natural cOnse-
quence, the price of the drug has risen
rapidly since the war came to an end
and bids fair to Use higher. Happily,
the commercial instinct Of the japanese
statesmen is as sound as their political
instinct, and they are not likely to abuse
the monopoly they have acquired by
forcing the price up to prohibitive rates.
The chief concern of the japanese
government will, for some time to come,
be the finding of money to pay for the
ships and munitions of war which viii
secure the mikado in the possession OF
the spoils he has already won. Proper
~ handled and wisely administered,
caUphor should prove valuable source
Of revenue and contribute a handsome
quota toward the cost of the military
preparations which pertain to the peace
of the dragon kingdom.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01
snbfecta Of Conversation.

When an American has nothing else
to say he talks of the weather. An Eng
iishman talks Of his tub" French
man of his arnours, German of his
stomach, Russian of his beard, Span
lard Of his dulcinea, an Italian of his
country, Swiss of his mountains and d
Turk Of his last tourney.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is an
antisceptic, soothing and healing ap-
plication for barns. scalds, cuts,
bruises, etc, and cures piles like ma
gic. 1t Instantly stops pain. Henry
HinrichS.
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20 HORSE OWNERS.

For putting horse in ine healthy CON
dition try DR.. Cady's Condition Powders.
They tone up the system, aid digestion, cure
loss Of appetite, relieve constipation, correct
kidney disorders srd destroy worms giving
new life to an old or over-worked horse. 25
cents per package. For sale by druggists.
Henry Hinrichs. druggist.
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T. Thomas Fortune, the weII-known

T. Thomas Fortune, the weIl-knoWn
negro writer, tells in the New York Sun
of the experience Of Rev. Juno Moore,
who went from South Carolina to Lii
beria p7 years o,lnade a fortune there.
and has returned to South Carolina for
o visit. He is o Baptist minister, but
hnds time for successful business enter
prises. He reports that tie climate
Of Liberia has been greatly maligned.
and that there Is very rarely such
weather as the United States has been
suffering from of late. There is fever.
but there Is no great danger for those
who take care of themselves. Coffee IS
the chief product, but ginger, sugar
and cotton can also be raised with profit
The great need at present is industrial
education. He finds that negroes from
the United States do not have sufficient
independence and energy to make their
n-or
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

L. f. Anthony, Ex-Postmaster Of Prom
ise City, Iowa, says: 81 bought one bot
tie of mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and
took two doses Of it did more good than
anY medicine / ever took" Sold by f. G.
Buerstatte, Druggist.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

No person need be afraid to die if
be or she can remember having done
something to make even small sec
ton Of humanity letter or happier
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

Speed and safety are the watch
words of the age One Minute Cough
Cure acts speedily, safely and never
fails. Asthma, brochitis, conghs and
colds are cured by it. Henry Hinrichs.
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chamberlain's Eye and Skin oinrmea

IS uneQualIed for Eczema, letter, Salt
Rhcum, Scald Head, Sore Nipples, Chappcd
Hands, Itching Piles, Burns, Frcst Eites,
Chronic Sore Eyes and Granuiated Eye Lids.
For sale y druggists at % cents per box.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

Cigarettes are said to be good for a
bad breath; that is, they add to its
strength every day.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

Never grumble ct the result of your
own mistakes; it only aovertises to the
world that you consider yourself u
fool
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

Some woman are never quite 80
happy as when they have an oppor,
tumty to he shocked.
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There is as much difference between
a newspaper and an organ as between
a bag of gold and bladder of putty.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-01

Dropping old friends in the search
for new ones is an indication that a
man has become so brainy that his
head slops over.
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LADIES, / make big warcs at home. ard want
all Il have the same opportunity. The work Is
very pleasant and Wi eHs5Iy pay SIS weekly
Tnis Is no deception. 1 syart no money and u q
gladly send full particulars to allseudiug stamp
Miss NJ. A Stebblus, Lawrence Mich.
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Y are SO little von hardly know

They are SO little yon hardly know
you are taking them. They cause no
gripping, yet they act quickly and
most thoroughly. Such are the fam
ous litsle pills known as DeWitt's
Little early Risers. Small in size,
great iii lesnits. Henry Hinrichs