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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
The USEFUL Wasp.

A Swarm OF Them Nin -Four Hundred to
Five Hundred Files in twenty Minutes.
BY common agreement tie wasp is
accepted as cmblenlat;cal OF iGrit:.h Ely
and petty maIignity; but even ihis
nuch-abused hymcnoptcrous insect
plays beneficial Part in the work Of
nature.
\ number Of wasps we're seen by Mr.
+. NJ. harrington, an Irish naturalist
buZZiug about his COWS. Closer inSrer-
ton revealed that they were all luSv
catching flies, and bouncing With the
rapidity Of hawks after birds on tue
flies as they tried to settle or rest on
some favorite part Of the COW. One
white COW drew more wasps than any
Of the others, because the mo@cnt a
fly alighted it was seen at once against
the skin. When a wasp catches a fly
1t Immediately bites off 10th wings.
sometimes a leg or two. and occasional
ly the head
Mr.. harrington saw some of the VyaSDs
when laden with one fly catch another.
without letting go the first, and then
fly away with both. There WAS con.
slant stream of wasps carrying away
flies, probably to feed the larvae iii their
nests, and returning again to the cows
to catch more. In about 20 minutes
Mr.. Darlington estimated that between
800 and 400 flies were caught on two
cows lying close to where he stood.
Perhaps this narrative of good deeds
accomplished will lead people to think
more lenientIy of the vices of the wasp
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
MARVELLOUS RESULTS.

From letter written by Rev. j.
Gunderman, of Dimondale. Mich, we
are permitted to make this extract: II
have no hesitation in recommending
DIR. Kings New Discovery, as the re
suits were almost marvellous 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 It's work
and highly satisfactory in results.
Trial bottles free at Henry Hinrichs
Drug Store. Regular size SOC. and
Sl0O.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
MOURNING GARB RENTED.
Novel Business Built Up by an Enterpiis-
ing Dealer In old Clothes.

Persons who are forced to undergo
sudden change of clothing because
of the death of relatives, and who
haven't the ready money 10 buy out
right an entire outfit of black for brief
use, have found a welcome assistance
in their embarrassment in q man whose
business is obscure, comparatively, and
of recent origin, but who has an active
trade
The office of this man has funereal
aspect, filled as il is with heaps of
somber garments. but its proprietor is
anything bat grave. He was, until
lately, "a dealer in old clothes, and was
dismayed at the amount of COMPETE
ton. Everybody seemed to him to be
dealing in that commodity.
A friend short Of cash, whose father
died, borrowed a mourning outfit from
him one day, paying a small sum for the
loan. This transaction suggested to
the dealer the idea of hiring out mourn
ing dress as business. He tried II,
and soon found his peculiar trade we'll
patronized.
He began to read death notices in
the newspapers, and to send his agents
to visit those whom he considered were
not in extra good circumstances. Seven
agents now act for him, being paid m
commissions. Each has a regular cir
cult of streets marked out for his can.
vass.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
THE OLD LAWYER.


Community.
know of no more charming member
of the community than the old LAWYER.
says Chauncey Depew. | studied with
4 judge who, as | left his Office. had
completed the S6th year of his life and
the 65th year of his practice The Old
lawyer is the custodian of the secrets
of the community. If he has been
true 10 his profession, and to his best in
stincts and teachings. he has been the
benefactor of the village or the town
or the county in which he has spent
his life. He has settled family dis
putes, he has reconciled heirs to the
provisions of wills. he has adjusted sat
isfactorily to all and to the prevention
OF family feuds the distribution OF es-
tates. he has prevented neighborhooc
vendettas on boundary lines. he has
brought old-time enmities into cordial
friendships, he has made clients and
money by being honest. faithful and
true. The secrets of his register. Of
his safe and of his memory are the skel-
etons of the family closets of the whole
neighborhood. But the process of mod
ern cremation does not more perfectly
destroy the human frame than does
this lawyers fidelity to his oath keep
out Of sight these family skeletons.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
PLATES LAID FOR THE DEAD,
Curious Society of LigonIer, Ind. Pre-.
pares for Annual Banquet.


pares for Annual Banquet.
There exists in Ligonier, Ind, q
unique organization of men, the like of
which is not known in the United
States. Twenty years ago ten young
men, the sons of prominent business
men, organized themselves into a So
ciety, the name of which is the A. S. \.
They were joined together by the usual
solemnity of an oath, and the organiza-
ton was created to exist until there was
but one member left. The last survivor,
on the night of the annual banquet
which commentaries each year of the
society's existence, is to have plates laid
Tor ten, eat his supper alone, and thus
end the organization. All members
are row married, and since the organi-
zation 20 years ago there has been but
one of the mystic circle taken away by
death. 1t has been the custom on the
18th day of January each year to have
n banquet, and this has been kept up
during the entire term OF its existence
January II, 1897, will be celebrated as
the twentyfrst anniversary.
The banquets are elaborate, and the
society numbers among it's members
residents of Chicago, Toledo and other
cities. The loyalty and fidelity exhib-
tied among its members is equal to that
displayed by any fraternal or beneficial
organization in existence. a loving
cup, handsomely designed, upon which
the name of each member is engraved,
and the date of the formation Of the
society will be kept by the surviving
member at the final banquet. In the
northern part of Indiana this organize
ton has gained a reputation for its
hospitality and the manner of enter
tanning its friends. 1t has but recently
been made public that the organization
Is to continue until there is but one
member living.
The membership consists of the fol-
lowing: EX-State's Attorney Lon n.
Fleming, c. f. Braden. auditor Hicks
Car company, Chicago: n. S. Knepper
Toledo, o.; ". A. Sisterhen NJ. s. Hutch
fnson, DR.. ". A. Shobe. G. NJ. thinner
man, Charles II. Shobe
Ferdinand Sanbrook, one of the ten
died at Valparaiso. ind, in 1892.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
THE PLEBEIAN PEANUT.
A Valuable addition to Neat Dressings
aud Soups.

A Valuable addition to Neat Dressings
aud Soups.
The peanut, which for so many years
has been the popular feature of the
country fair and the circus, is now
creeping into prominence. Doctors
have found that the peanut is an article
Of food, rich in albumen, of which it
contains 90 PER cent" and are now
recomme Ediug them as valuable addi-
ton TO the diet in the form OF soups,
purces and mush. The following are
some Of the ways in which they may be
used:
Peanuts relied fine and added TO the
bread Stutiing for ducks is a great addi-
ton and greatly improves it. Make d
mayonnaiSe dressing. mash the pea
nuts fine, and stir them in thickly and
spread between thin slices of bread as
a sandwich: or plain buttered bread
may Ice Sprinkled lightly with the nuts.
They may also he finely chopped and
eaten with milk. y very good soup may
be made of peanuts by boiling and
Ilushing. The Chinese boil peanuts,
roll them fine, mold them in a dough.
and bake. Many other ways may he
discovered by the contriving house
wife for the use of this hitherto de-
spiSed article of diet.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH
Sad Effects of Too Much Candor In an
Aristocratic Mansion.

Sad Effects or 100 huch SandOf IN an
Aristocratic Mansion.
Two fair young girls sat in dainty
boudoir gazing into each others eyes,
says the New York Herald.
we are such good friends, Marcia,
said one, and we can afford TO say
to each other just what we think. Now,
| have such splendid scheme. Sup
pose we start out to-day by telling each
other the exact truth, without regard
to any question Of politcness."
How perfectly lovely, Lobel;a,
cooed the younger girl of the two.
Lets begin right away. What do
you think Of me?"
Il think said Marcia, that YOU arc
almost as pretty as you think you are,
and when you don't try to be you are
the most charming girl in the world"
How awfully good Of YOU rejoined
the other, and do you know that when
you came in | was thinking that you
looked just like one of those big feather
busters which had taken notion to
walk? Only your feet are SO very large
that the illusion was not quite perfect
Two disheveled young women, with
their faces cross lined by scratches,
were taloen out of that aristocratic
mansion five minutes later and hurried
in an ambulance 10 the nearest hos
pital
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
10 CONTROL JACK.
Rules Enforced on ShipbOard to Keep tn
sailors In Allowance.


Sailors In Allegiance.
The rules regulating the conduct OF
sailors may appear somewhat drastic,
but it is needless to say that they are
necessary in order to insure good gov
eminent on shipboard. \ few of the
more important ones are as follows:
For quarreling, or provoking to
quarrel, he forfeits days pay.
The same punishment is inflicted Oh
the man who carries a sheath knife.
If he brings spirits on board, he loses
three days wages.
For every smoke INDUCED in be
low" he forfeits one days wage.
The same if he ncglects to put out
lights when ordered.
If the lockout man falls asleep, his
nap costs him two days pay.
If the cook has not dinner on the
table at the stroke of the clock, it is
a matter of one days pay.
And for not being shaved, washed
and cleaned spick and span on the
Sabbath he loses a days pay; also in
science TO master or mate means one
days pay lost, and striking anyone or
board double that amount.
While for attempting to smuggle y
few pounds Of tea or tobacco or q gallon
of rum he loses the wages Of a whole
month
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
ATE A BARREL OF EGGS A DAY.
shipwrecked Men Subsisted on Them for
Twelve DAYS

Twelve Days
do yoa like eggs?' was the question
that stirred up "'49er" TO make
some talk in a Bangor store the other
day. He was an old man. says the
Lewiston (Me.) Journal, and he
Strengthened up 10 something like the
height of his prime as he answered:
Il had surfeit of them once. Twas
many years ago when l was on the way
home from California. We left the
isthmus on good brig bound for New
York but ran into a coral reef in the
Caribbean sea and were wrecked 1t
was a patch of sand just out of the
water but you ought to see the fiOcks
of sea fowl that nestled on it. They
bad TO move out of the way Il give us
room 10 stay there and that was about
all they would DO. Their rests were
EVERYWHERE and there were eggs II,
abundance We ate about a ba. rel OF
them evc~y day during the y Gays
we were there. Some of us GOT 'fT in
q beat and went TO San Juan. IN
Nicaragua, where we got a vc:s:'-l to
90 after those we left on the reef. That
vessel was commanded h. William,
Lawrence. of Bath. who was killed by
a man named Wilkinson while he was
policeman there. We 1r'ed to get
to the reef. but bad weather stove Us
10 so We had 10 st in for New Or
leans, Lore we found the rest Of the
men rescued by another vessel. But
cprS'-thc old mans face took on 4 pc
culiar expression.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14

s-lf strongest Achilles never thought
lie would turn his heel to an enemy, but
it w,s III that uuarnored place the fatal
arrow was planted. Il 5 usually the organ
III his body that q man thinks strongest,
that disease assaults and batters down.
Caution a man about negleCtiug his
health and mention consumption, and he
Will pound his chest and laugh YOU to
scorn. He does not realize that con-
sumption beats down this defense imper-
ceptibly, inch by inch. The lungs once
attacked the only weapon of defense IS
the right remedy.
eS per cent. of all cases of CONSUMPTION
are cured by DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. 1t corrects disordered d;ges-
ton, irvlgorates the liver, makes the ap-
petite hearty and assimilation perfect,
fills the blood with the elements that
build healthy flesh and muscle, and drives
ali impurities and disease-gerrns from the
blood. All druggists sell 1t.
| have used Dr. PicreeS Favorite Prescription
and Golden Medical Discovery in my family -
writes Mrs. G. a. Conner, OF Allegheny Springs
Montgomery Co, Va, and have found il TO be
the best medicine that ever used. I have also
used his Compound Extract of Smart Weed, :
and Pleasant Pellets They will do Just what
they are recommended to do
The newly welded wife, above all other
women, needs a good medical book DR.
Plerces Common Sense Medical Adviser
nils this want. II contains over 1000 pages
and 500 illustrations. Several chapters are
devoted to the physiology of the organs dis
unctly feminine. Send 81 oue-ceut stamps,
10 cover cost of mailing only, TO the Worlds
Dispeusary Medical Association, Buffalo
n. y, for a free copy, paper-covered. If
a Cloth binding is wanted, send 10 cents
extra IL cents n all.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
TASTED Nearly Two Years.

Or. Tanners famous fast of 40 days
is thrown into the background as a
starvation feat by the performances of
the big anaconda at the Philadelphia
geological gardens, which was only re-
Gently tempted to eat a nice fat rabbit
after going hungry for % months. 1t
may have been even longer, but the
keepers have no record of the creatures
doings previous to its captivity, and so
can't tell. 1t is not very unusual for 4
snake TO abstain from food for several
months. at he end of which time death
generally results; but the anaconda
case is distinctly different from any
other lis fast lasted mere than twice
Rs long as any in the history of the
200" and during the whole OF its con-
tinuanca there was no evidence of Ill
health. The spell now seems TO be en-
tirely broken, and the anaconda calls
regularly for its meals.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
DEVELOP SOUTHERN COMMERCE
hhe or steamers to Run from South At.
lantic Ports to Europe.

1t was reported in Wall street, New
York, the other day, that the arrange
ments are now being completed be-
tween the principal railroads having
their terminal at Norfolk, Charleston
Savannah and Brunswick and William
johnson & Co., Limited, of Liverpool
owners of the johnson line of cargo
steamships, under which regular lines
of steamships will be run from these
South Atlantic ports to the chief Eu-
ropean ports.
The negotiations for this impor-
tant movement for the development of
southern commerce and direct south
ern export traffic are the result of the
recent visit of Samuel Spencer, presi-
dent of the Southern Railway COMPANY.
TO England last summer. The object
is not only to strengthen the export
trade from the south by regular re-
liable ocean vessels. but to prevent in fu-
ture the Irregularities in ocean rates
heretofore existing from these ports,
which have been 50 expensive to the
railroad lines of the south
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
ELECTRIC BITTERS.

Electric Bltters is a medicine Tor
any season, but perhaps more gener-
ally needed when the languid exhaust
ed feeling prevails, when the liver Is
torpid and sluggish and the need Ct a
tonic and Alternative is felt. 4 prompt
use of this medicine has often averted
long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers.
No medicine will act more surely in
counteracting and freeing the system
from the malarial poison. Headache,
Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness
Yield to Electric Bitters. SOC. and
SlOO per bottle at Hinrichs Drug
Store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
CHANCES OF LONGEVITY.
Primary Conditions Necessary to Long
and Healthy Life.

=
and Healthy Life.
The primary conditions Of iongeY-
ity," the Medical Record quotes Mr..
+. W. Warner as saying, are hat the
heart, lungs and digestive organs, as
well as the brain, should be large. II
these organs are large the trunk viii
h long and the limbs comparatively
short rhe person will appear tall
in sitting and .,lArt in standing. The
hand will have long and somewhat
heavy palm and short fingers. The
brain will be deeply seated, as shown b.
the oritice of the ear being low. The
blue hazel or brown hazel eye, as show
ing an intermission of temperament,
is favorable Indication. The nostrils
being large, open and free indicates
large lungs. a pinched and half-closed
rostril indicates small or weak lungs.
In the case of persons who have
short-livcd panentage on one side and
long-livcd ON the other side the ques-
ton becomes more involved. 1t is
shown in grating by hybridizing that
nature makes a supreme effort 10 pass
the Period Of the shorter longevity and
extend the life . the greater longevity.
Anyone who understands these weak
and dangerous periods Of life is fore
warned and forarmed. 1t has been OBJ
served that the children of long-lived
parents mature much later and are
usually backward in their studies"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14

When riding IN a tramcar through the
widest parts of Peckham Rye. writes "A
contributor to The London News, with a
friend-we were bound on a journalistic
errand-a bronzed young man of marine
appearance Jumped into the car, and at
once recognized my companion Before
we had gone very far | was deep in one of
the oldest family histories. This new ar
Elval,it seems, when boy of fourteen had
been possessed by the fear of comsump-
ton, that fell disease having carried off
his brother and threatening his father and
mother Accordingly, he read every book
that he could lay his hands ondeaiing with
the Subject, and, as the result Of his read
ing, ran away to Bournemoutb 10 be near
the pines. Having DO funds, be engaged
himself 10 a local fishmonger, carrying his
masters feb to his various customers.
When the days work was done, he should
cred hammock which he had brought
with him and camped among come O..
those pines for which that Southern
health resort is famous.
One night gentleman, sauntering along
emoklng cigar, noticed him, and, being
amazed at this "al freG Co; bed entered H.
10 conversation with him. "Why, know
who you are, exclaimed the comsumptiye
youth at last. You're Mr.. Louis Stev-
enson-tha man who wrote Treasure Is
land How do you know" said the
gentleman. Because / deliver you fish.
You live at SkerryvOre. $50 | do" re
Piled Stevenson, for be it was sure enough.
But you don't talk like a fishmouger's
boy" mo more | do" replied the boy,
and then poured his strange secret into
the novelist's ear, which was sympathetic
enough, you may be sure. The result of
this odd meeting was an invitation to
breakfast, "Oh, and | did eat" SAID the
Young mamie told the story so loudly
that the whole train laughed. end the
servants couldn't make II ont at all, to see
the distinguished author entertaining the
ishmonger's boy"
Then ne went to Paris, and | never
saw him again for long while" The
pines not proving strong enough, the
strange youth was seized with n yearning
for the scent OF the eucalyptus, and per-
suaded his friends to send him to sea-
When he reached Sydney he sold his out
tit and ran away into the bush, and lived
10 the open With eucalyptus galore.
Thence, after many adventures, he sailed
for the South seas, and abode by reef and
palm for many long year. One day,
when cruising as superca-go among the
Gilbert islands q think European swell
IN beautiful white ducks,a great red sash
and spreading panama hat =ith a pea
cocks feather in it, came aboard the
schooner Good morning. Mr.. Steven
soD.' said the supercargo. Mr.. Steven
son looked, and wondered who knew him
10 these far-otf seas. 81 don't know you,"
he said, shaking his head "Bnt | know
you. Don't you remember the fshmon-
gers boy who ate such big breakfast at
Skerryvore?" $50 | do. Well, the world
is small indeed" And no doubt the two
had pegs and tlffin COR whatever they call
such things in the IslaDds) together.
What strange, small world 1t is, indeed.
We'll, one succumbed to the dread disease
the other is as hearty fellow as ever I
saw. 1t was quaint, grim fancy to go
dodgIng phthisis all over the world
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14
First publication Dec. 18th. 1851 Ma

First publication Dec. 18th, 1861 No. "a
STArE OF WlSCoNSlN-CoUNTY COURT ron
- MANiIoWuC COUNTY. In probate
In tie matter OF the estate Of .iOhn Ditmar
deceased.
To all whom II may concern:
Letters testamentaTy on said estate of john
Dit mar. late OF the clty Of Nanitouoc in taid
county dece ased tosiaIe. having been Issued Ia
Gustave Dittmar on the 18th day Of Decemher
A. ID 1876, and Fix months from and after said
day being allowed and Hmfted for or. ditors e.,
present their claims for eyaminHtio and allow
ance, notice is hereby given that the conf above
named VIII a. REGULAR terms thereof TO lie held
on the first Tuesday in each of n. mnntLs tf
February and May 1885, and at a special term 10
be held on Tuesday June H. 1897, all AZ the Pro
bate Office IN the city of Manitowuc IN SAID
County, receive, examine, and adjust all claims
and demands of all persons against sand
deceased.
Dated December Il. 1896.
Dy tine Court.
j. y. ANDERSON, County Judge.
schmtZ & Kirwan attorneys. Janli
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14

New YORK, Jan. 8.-A Key West dis
patch to the World SAYS: Evidences
OF awful butcheries at Guanebacoo accu-
mulate daily. Advices from Havana re-
port that a great pit filled with corpses
and human fragments was discovered
Monday in canefield not more than a
mile from that place. A care
ful investigation revealed at least twenty
whole bodies and many more legs and
arms, other parts of the dismembered
bodies being missing. OF the bodies re-
malng entire, four were those of women,
three of young misses, one of a girl not
more than 10 years old, four of boys and
the rest of men.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14

Inc dry goods merchant was explain
ing the situation to the new drummer he
had just employed. "Your predecessor"
he said, has gotten his business all tan
gied up and If you take his place you will
have difficult task getting order out OF
chaos" II don't know who Chaos is"
cheerfully replied the drummer, "but |
bet I'll sell him a bill of goods If | have
to hang onto him a week"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14

Madge-"l was so sorr, to-day. 'ner-
was rCor woman tn II ;sh.,i ne Tor lO
cents TO buy soHe milk for n r tab, She
said the little this e WAS stnrvaE. ard |
believe IT was. Oh. dear how It did i,ok /!
Helen-"And You didn't lave 81, n;o.
neo with Yen leo bad. wasn't iif"
Madge-'l had only dollar and | wan
ted 10 hny Christmas cards win that.
But | was awfully sorry FIR that poor
wOWep and her INV"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-01-14

Excuse me-" observed the man in
spectacles, "brt | am IA surgeon, and
that is not where the liver is" Never
you mind where his liver is" retorted
the other. IF it was IN his big toe or
his left ear DeWitt's Little Early
Rlsers wOuid reach 1T al shake it for
HIM. On that you can bet Jour gig
lamps" Henry Uenrichs.