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The record-union., 1897-06-01
Severe Frosts in the East.

CEDAR RAPIDS Qa.), May 31.-This
section of Iowa was visited by a heavy
frost last night. At some points corn
and potatoes were badly damaged, while
more tender crops were destroyed.
Much fear is entertained for fruits.
MARSHALLTOWN Qa), May 81
There was quite severe frost this
morning Considerable ice formed. Re-
ports from the country indicating ma
terial damage to corn. potatoes, tender
vegetables, fruits. etc.
ST. PAUL, May 31.-Frost was sen
eral last night throughout the State.
with scattering reports of snow and
hard freeze. Considerable damage to
vegetables and small fruits is feared
The record-union., 1897-06-01
Records Broken.

DENVER, May 31.-Alex Struthers
of Grand Junction, Col. won the an
unal twenty-five mile road race over
the Brighton course. Harry Watts of
the Denver Ramblers, finished second;
J. d. Thompson of the Arapahoe Wheel
Club, third. Struthers won the time
prize also. The time was one hour and
thirty-two seconds, the fastest ever
made on course. The weather and
road was perfect.
The record-union., 1897-06-01
Thousands of Graves Decorated.

CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.), May 81
The graves of the 14000 Union SOL
diers, buried in the National cemetery
at this place, were decorated to-day
with elaborate ceremonies. Captain J..
H. MCGOWAN of Washington delivered
the annual ora ton. An immense
throng was present
The record-union., 1897-06-01
Charged With rlurder.

ATLANTA, May 31.-Mrs. F. A God
frey, 40 years of age, the handsome and
wealthy daughter of Hon. Benz. Dugger,
was arrested to-day for murder She
was indicted on the testimony of her
children, who swore that six years ago
she strangIed and buried her daughters
illegitimate child.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
FREQUENT EARTHQUAKES.
Spot in California Stunned by Every.

Spot in California Stunned by Every
one Because of It's Instability.
There is place in California where
earthquakes may be said to be kept on
tap" said a Fresno county fruit grow
er recently. THE spot is at the head
waters of the Keweah, at the border
of Fresno, Tulare and Inyo counties.
You can't hire an Indian or Mexican
to GO near that locality. They say it
is the home of the evil spirits. The
country is rugged and rocky-moun-
tains with deep valleys and precipit-
Gus cliffs. Snakes, scorpions, taran-
tulas, centipeds and all sorts of hid
eous reptiles and insects seem to have
made the neighborhood their paradise.
for they are there in very palpable
abundance.
But, in addition to thesetattractions,
the region may be said to be in a state
of perpetual earthquake. The ground
trembles and quakes continually, and
the rocks themselves seem to be grind
ing and grating against one another
constantly, as if subject to some great
internal force. These phenomena are
said to be more emphatic at night than
in the daytime. Frequent booming
discharges, apparently deep in the
earth, are heard, and men who have
heard both say they are exactly like
the mutterings of distant artillery.
have never heard anyone advance any
theory to satisfactorily explain this
uneasy and perpetually disturbed con-
dition of nature among the Keweah
rocks and hills, but it is there. If you
ever happen to be in that vicinity, ask
the first Indian you meet to guide you
to the spot and see how quickly he will
shy away and disappear"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
ORIGIN OF THE CAKE WALK.
Formerly a Marriage Ceremony-Ias
Lost It's Significance.


Lost It's Significance.
The cake walk proper had it's origin
among the French negroes of Louis
lana more than a century ago, says an
exchange. There is little doubt that
it is an offshoot of some of the old
French country dances. 1t resembles
several of them in form. From New
Orleans it spread over the entire south
and thence to the north. 1t was found
of convenience to the plantation ne
groes. They were not welded by Ii
cense. and it was seldom that the serv.
ices of preacher were called in. Al
cake walk a man might legitimately
show his preference for woman and
thus publicly claim her for a wife. IL
effect the cake walk was not different
from the old Scotch marriage, which re
CURED only public acknowledgment
from the contracting parties. So this
festival became in some sense a wooing
an acceptance or rejection and cere-
mony. This explains its popularity
with the blacks, outside of its beauties
with the accompaniment of music
which is competent at all times to com
mand negro support. Cake walking has
improved as do most things that are
constantly practiced. 1t has lost its
old significance in the south. Negroes
now get married, when they marry al
all, in white folks fashion. 1t has be.
come, however, pantomimic dance
Properly performed, it is a beautiful
one. The cake is not Iuph IF n DriZe
though the negro has sweet tooth
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
A NEW KANSAS INDUSTRY.
Frog Raising Ii Becoming a Lucra-
tive Business.

Frog Raising IL Becoming n Lucra-
tive Business.
Speaking of new Industries, word
comes from Butler county that the
frog leg industry is assuming consider
able proportions, says the Topeka Mail.
Many people have supposed that the
frog would naturally seek miasmatic
districts where ague lurked above the
skum of swamps. This, We are in
formed, is a mistake. The Kansas frog
is said to delight in the clear ozone filed
atmosphere of the prairie and sings a
song of unusual clearness owing to the
effect of the clear, bracing air on his
larynx. His ham is whittier and firmeE
in texture than the ham of the frog
reared among the miasma-infected
swamps. Gradually Kansas is becom-
ing the abode of luxury, such as is I'M
known by the unfortunate inhabitants
of other states. II the line of fish,
fruit and fowl Kansas has long since
hit the high notch with epicures, but
we have sighed in vain for homegrown
frog legs and oysters. The frog leg
problem has been solved. The only
thing remaining to be done is to fix up
oyster bays and bring the oyster back
to the home of his ancestor. Plant him
in an artificial ond in western Kansas.
where in a remote, prehistoric age, his
progenitor whiled the happy hours
away. Of course there will be some
sad features about it for the oyster, for
he will see lying about him, unless they
have all been picked up within the last
year or two, the petrified coverings OF
his departed sires. AS he looks On
their stony shells the new oyster will
naturally experience feeling of sad
ness as he thinks of the rocky times ex-
perienced by his ancestors, but that was
because they did not understand irriga-
ton and depended on the natural rain
fall OF the country. Frog legs and ma
tive oysters are among the things that
can be banked on in the future Kansas.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
REFUSED THE TITLE ROLE.
Because of It's ImprOpriety and Was
Upheld by the Courts.

Upheld by the Courts.
A point in theatrical law has just
been tried by the French courts, reports
the Pail Mall Gazette. The manager
of the theater at Cannes engaged Mile.
Rita d'Arzac to play soubrette and in
genue parts. For the greater part of
the season the young lady appeared
nightly, to her own satisfaction and
that of the house, as a sweetly innocent
maid. 1t fell on day, however, that
another lady of the troupe was taken i'll
and had to be replaced. Her role was
the principal one in the piece. 1t was
offered tic Mile. d'Arzac, who, to the
general establishment, Indignantly re
fused it. Never before, perhaps, in
the annals of the theater had an actress
declined to be promoted to the rank
Of leading lady. OF course Mile. d'Arzac
had her reasons. The character she was
asked to play was that of a lamentabiy
Eighty young person. Mile. d'Arzac
was appalled, at the thought of imper-
sonating this incorrigibie baggage, and
ended by fatty refusing the Proffered
part. Whereupon her manager stopped
her salary. She has sued him for the
same and won her case. Henceforth
nobody will be able to say that the
proprieties are not safeguarded in
France: and once more virtue, so often
i'll requited in real life, has met with
its reward on the stage.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE.
Caused Filters and Sly ChuckIes-
She Wasn't His Wife.

Caused Filters and Sly ChuckIes-
She Wasn't His Wife.
A laughable but rather embarrassing
case of mistaken identity occurred the
other day IL u large Diapers shop. say S
Iit-Bits. a gentleman who is a little
too fond of joking entered the shop for
the purpose of meeting his wife at a
certain counter. Sure enough, there
stood lady dressed, to his eye, at least
just like the woman he was after.
Her back was turned and no one was
near her, SO he quietly approached, took
her by the arm and said in voice of
simulated severity: well, here you
are, spending my money as usual, eh o.
The face turned quickly toward him
was not his wife's; it was that of an
acrid, angry, keen-eyed woman ofabout
so years, who attracted the attention of
everybody in that part of the shop by
saying in loud and shrill voice:
mo, l amt spending your money or
no other mans money, and I'll"
II beg your pardon, madam" cried
the confused gentleman. 81 supposed
you were my wife, and"
well, just amt your wife, nor no
other mans wife, thank fortune, to be
jawed at every time 1 buy yard of rib
bon! l pity your wife if you go about
shaking her like you did me. If l was
her I'd"
The chagrined joker waited to hear
no more, but made his way out of the
sAop amid the filters and sly chuckles
of those who had witnessed his con-
fusion
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02

ANDERSON. Iud., Nov. Chesterfield
Ind. was almost wiped off the map at an
early hour this morning by the explosion
of eighty pounds of nitro glycerine which
had been brought overland from Mon tpe-
iier and placed in an open. field, half
mile from town.
three ton engine was torn to frag
ments aid every living animal was killed
instantly. The little town OF Chester
field is mass of ruins; every house was
moved from it's foundations, windows
shattered, doors smashed in, every light
put ont and the plasterIng shaken from
the walls. Several people were shaken
out Of bed. At Dalesville, two miles
away, and at Yorktown, five miles distant
the damage WAS almost as great. Many
people were injured and it is a miracle
that none were killed outright.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
Leather in the Old DAYS

There was one Observation-Disclosures
which was extensively used in the
vaunted age of chivalry. Leather could
be nodded, and as "cuir- bouilli" vas
much worn. Even the helm was olna-
mented with cuir-bouilli The helm"
always viii cause wonder, for how
did the wearer see at all? A man in
Tight may have another enemy APP
proach him at the side or back, and
with his visor up the knight never could
tell exactly the whereabouts of has
next foe. In some of these helms the
wearer must have been forced to bend
his neck, if he could bend it, away
down, or away up, to see anything at
all. Perhaps there were many ran
dom blows struck in former fights, anG
tourney was full of blunders.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
sHEAR,No SHEEP BY WHOLESALE
Electricity Used AZ the Power to Run
the Machtnea.

tne MaCntne0
At Great Falls, Mont. which has be
come the largest wool shipping point
of the northwest, great difficulty has
often been experienced N disposing
within given time of the shearing OF
hrge shipments of sheep. This diff
Guilty, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch,
has now been amply met by the use
of elect richly. The shearing sheds are
adjacent to the terminus of the street
railway company's line, and the troll
ley current has been utilized to drive
the shearing machines. The installa-
ton is of the simplest possible de-
scription. A street railway motor was
taken from one of the cars and the
armature pinion was replaced by a
small pulley, which was belted to the
main overhead shaft. So little power
was needed that two rheostats had &c
be put in the circuit to keep the speed
down.
The foreman of the shearers, after
only five minutes instruction, took full
charge of the motor, giving it all the
necessary attention in oiling, starting
and stopping. After the machines were
started the maintaining of uniform
speed was easy and within half ar hour
the 20 machines were ripping off the
feeces at rate which broke the rec,
ord. The power was transmitted to the
shears, which resemble horse clippers
in their operation. through universal
joints. In three weeks 1854 sheep
were sheared by the one motor, aver
aging nearly 100 sheep per day for each
machine
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
WHERE LIVING is CHEAP.
Some Attractive Features of Abyss
sfnian Life,

sfnian Life.
An interesting series of letters in the
Manchester Guardian tells some of the
attractive features of Abyssinian life.
Table supplies i'm Abyssinia are so
cheap that an economical housekeeper
could live luXuriously and yet have pin
money galore. Chickens are ten for a
penny Milk is mad for asking. But
ter is about six cents pound. A good
sheep may be had for from fifty cents
to three dollars. Cows used TO be five
dollars, but are now dearer. Potatoes
are about a cent a pound; coffee from
ten to twenty pounds for dollar Bar
ley sells for about three dollars for
1900 pounds, and wheat is still cheap
er. For transportation almost anyone
can have a horse, a mule or a donkey,
for the former two can be bought for
three dollars each and the latter from
ten to fifty dollars. AL the gold found
is alluvial or surface gold, and the in
dustry is in the hands of few blacks
who seem to make very good living
out of it. They get most of the gold
by washing the clay brought down from
the mountains by the floods that follow
the heavy annual rains. Owing to its
mountains and valleys, the climate OF
Abyssinia varies from tropical to
icicle. 1t is mainly an agricultural
country, and the natives are mostly
herdsmen or farmers. 1t grows cof-
fee, melons, potatoes, cotton; the first
named alone exported under the name
of Mocha would make Abyssinja a
wealthy country.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
Priests on IssaycDeS

There are great many priests to be
seen riding the bicycle about New
York." said a New Yorker, land none of
them has ever looked dignified
enough to make it clear why priests
should be forbidden to ride the wheel
by bishops in other dioceses. That pro-
nibition came first from Paris, where
the clergy were prohibited from riding
wheels because they wore cassocks and
were compelled to ride women's wheels
in order to protect their skirts. That
was easy enough to understand, and it
may be. that a similar reason brought
about the action of the Montreal bishop
who has forbidden the priests of his
diocese to ride wheels. But of the
many priests who have been seen
around New York on wheels, there are
noue of them that ever seemed out of
place or undignifed."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
Air in I.nmna

Comprising air until it will remain
compressed without any pressure upon
it, are the few words with which a
writer in the Electrical Engineer de-
scribes the new product, "aerine," or
hquefed air-remarking that, though
requiring an enormous pressure to get
1T in such a form, it will remain there
for some time in the open air; that is.
until it gets heat enough from the
surrounding air to turn again into its
natural state. 1t viii turn mercury
into solid form as soon as it is poured
Into ii, and freeze thermometer rap
idly. Such is the assumed prospective
usefulness OF this liquid that predic-
tions are made of distant wat er pow
ers now running to waste being soon
employed COMPRISING the very air we
breathe into liquid form and ship
ping 1t to all parts of the globe for
industrial purposes
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
The Kings White Feather.

The Gazette of Moscow says that
while the king of Siam was passing
through the streets of that city white
feather fell from the plume of his he'll
met and was picked up by the peasant
Toukianow, who is in the service of NJ.
Koch. Toukianow fastened to restore
was greatly surprised several days
later upon receiving from this official,
in the name of his Siamese majesty, a
casket containing a portrait of the king
and a massive gold chain decorated
with token of the same metal bearing
the arms of Siam in enamel Toukia-
now has not yet recovered from this
unexpected piece of good fortune.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
CONSUMPTION POSITIVELY
CURED.

Mr.. K. Is. Greeve, merchant, of Chllo-
vie, Va, certifies that he had consnmp-
ton. was given up to die, sought all me-
dical treatment that money conld pro
cure, tried all cough remedies he could
hear of, but got no relief; spent many
nights sitting uo In chair; was induced
TO try DIR. Kings New Discovery, and
was cpred by use OF two bottles. For
past three years has been attending to
business. and says DIR. Kings New bis
covery is the garndest remedy ever made,
as 1t has done so much for him and also
for others In his community. DIR. Kings
New Discovery is guaranteed for Coughs
Colds and Consumption. 1t don't fail.
Trial bottles free at Henry Hinrichs'
Drug Store
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Is the ''Priceless Boon" of Every Citi-
of America.

of America.
liberty to say much which it would have
been indiscreet and utterly wrong for
him to say as premier when he repre-
sented a great nation, says the Illus
trated American. Any man in posi-
ton of delegated responsibility repre-
scnts not only himself, but those who
have intrusted their interests to him.
private tutor is amenable to child's
parents for what he teaches, though
before he was hired he had right to
teach that child what he pleased if he
had opportunity. The college presi-
dent, while a larger independence is
given him, is nevertheless the teacher
hired by the parents, and they have al
ways the right, collectively, to put re-
straints upon his utterances. Freedom
of speech is the priceless boon" of
every citizen of America, but when a
citizen enters into contract with other
citizens to do a certain amount of speak
ing by way of instruction, he volun-
tarily consents to the possibility of re-
straint. There is nothing to quarrel
over in this. No man need forego his
freedom of speech if he does not wish
to. But if he takes another mans
money for his speech, the employer has
an undoubted right to indicate when
the contract shall end, and without
prejudice to the American doctrine
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 26 The first
arrest under rennessee's Johnny bill"
has just been made In this city.
Linn Chamberlain, the son of promi-
nent patent medicine manufacturer. was
placed In the custody of the police au-
thorities for a violation OF the law. The
charge against young Chamberlain was
Tor flirting and walking with Miss Ander-
son, the 10 year-old daughter of one of
the most prominent citizens.
The yonng man had been previously
warned to cease his attentions to the
young girl, Dat his refusal to do so caus-
ed bis arrest for the violation of the
"Johnny bill"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
OLD PEOPLE.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
md the true remedy 10 Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whissey DOR other intoxlcant
but acts as tonic and alternative. 1t acts
mildly en- the stomach and bowels, add
Ing strength and giving tone to the or.
gans, thereby aiding Nature in the per
formance of the functions. Electric Bit
tiers is an excellent appetizer and aids d.
gestion. Old People find it just exactly
what they need. Price fifty cents and
100 per bottle at Henry Hinr,cbs' Drug
Store
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02

ERIE, Pa, Nov. 26.-The wife of Anto-
MO Milagno died to-day a horrible
death. Thanksgiving day Antonio be-
came drunk and went to the cellar to get
more liquor. He fell. and his wife came
to his assistance with Il lamp, but he
threw a hammer at her head and missed
the mark. He then came upstairs with
can of oil and tar, which he threw in
his wife's face. In an instant the NIX
ture caught fire from the lamp, and she
was enveloped in flames. Help arrived
10 time TO prevent her from burning up
where she stood. The woman was laid
on her bed and when the officers arrived.
they fouGd Antonio standing over her
piuckiug the cooked flesh from her
breast and arms Ia fiendIsh glee and
cursing like demon. When he was ar
rested he raved and had to be subjected
TO rough treatment before he could be
taken to the police station.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
kLONpIkE TREMENS.
the Victim Always Sees Something
Good to Eat.

Good to Eat.
The Seattle Times prints this inter
esting letter from Klondiker:
"Dear Friend: You can surprise the
dear people of Casper by telling them
that / am worth $4,000, and that next
summer l will start back to buy the
town. Some people will want to kiss
me when l get back who wanted to
kick me when l left. 1t is a bad trip
up here, but it is worth making if
money is what man wants. 1t is the
only place l ever saw where there is SO
much money that people don't seem to
care for it.
I'VE sit around and talk about good
things to eat. That is what everybody
is thinking about. If a man gets to
talking about fruit he is put out of
the camp. We can't stand it to hear it
talked of. 1 have dreamed of seeing
peaches as big as a car wheel. and they
say when q man gets the tremens up
here he always sees fruit or fancies
that he is pulling radishes or Smelling
peas. This is "a hard country to a man.
1t will make young man look old in
two years.
"YoE have heard of the golden calf.
Well, l have something that beats that;
have golden dog. A dog of mine
died and l have used the hide as sack
for my dust j have him as full of gold
as he was of meat. I sometimes lay my
head on his body and dream of what
I will do with my dough when / get
back to the states.
''My partner has ten onegallon sirup
cans filed with dust. Pneumonia is
bad, and many die from it, The scurvy
is bad, too, but it don't Kill many, after
all. If a man could have what he want
ed to eat up here it would not be so bad
You can dress warm and fight the cold
but it is hard to be hungry every day
and get nothing to eat but the things
you detest. My paper has run out, and
there is no more in CAMP"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02

A very curious circumstance occurred
during the recent riots in Calcutta.
The Bengah Babu is a Hindoo and is
usually close shaver. But of late years
the Babus in Calcutta have suffered
their boards to grow, while the Moham-
medans never shave their boards. Dur
ing the recent Moslem riots in Calcutta
the Bengali Babus found that they
were mistaken by the police for Mo-
hammedans, and so they immediate
~ rushed off to the BARRIERS to be
shaved. The rush and excitement was
so great that many Babu was COM
PEELED to pay rupee, and found it
difficult to get shave at that.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-12-02
The RECORDS SHOW CURES OF hAN1
Rheumatism &
BY THE USE OF eEOR'Ooe"
NFlAMnAroeY DENYING " CURES
The late ike at the expense of the

The late joke at the expense OF the
French Scci.;y for the Protection OF AMI
mails is TO thu following effect:
A country nan, armed with an lmrnenee
club. presented himself before the presi
dent Of the society and claimed the first
pr,ze, He was asked to describe the act
OF humanity on which he founded his
claim.
81 have saved the life OF wolf,' re-
Piled the countryman. Il might easy
have killed hlm with this bludgeon," and
he swung his weapon 10 the air, TO the
intense discomfort OF the President.
But where was this wolff" inquired
the latter. "What had he done to your
He had just devoured my wife" was
the reply.
The president reflected an instant, and
then said:
my friend, 1 am OF the opinion chat
you have been sufficiently rewarded