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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
MAY LEAVE THE ARMY.
Wood by Corporations Anxious
to Secure His Services

A special to the New York Tribune
from Washington says: 1t is the be-
lief among officers here that Gen
Leonard Wood will not return to San
tiago, but will resign from the service
to accept one Of the many alluring
offers that have been made to INN by
corporations whose directors have been
attracted by his conspicuous executive
ability and positive genius for organ
izing.
Before he left Santiago he had re-
ceiyed an invitation from Boston to as
sumo the management of New Eng
land concern at salary of $4,000 a
year, according to the understanding
of bis friends here. He also had under
consideration several applications from
New York setting forth scarcely less
lucrative positions, and to-day it is an
nounced he has been in consultation at
New York with the heads of the syndi-
cate which recently consolidated most
of the street railway systems of the
national capital and the local electric
lighting companies.
The officials of the war department
do not think Gca. Wood will resist all
the temptations that are being put for
ward to entice him from the army.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
A DELsARTE THEORY.
Falling without Getting Hurt Is an
Easy Trick II You Only
Know How.

People wonder how an actress can
SELF" says woman who, according to
the New York Times, has tried all sorts
of fads as they have come up, but it is
the easiest thing in the world. tried
the Delsarte exercises at one time, and
for awhile, when my attack of the dis
ease was at its height, my family had
the pleasure of seeing me fall for their
amusement and enlightenment all
around the house The great secret of
falling is to relax. If you slip and fau
some time when you do not wish tn, If
you can only remember to relax your
muscles you will be saved perhaps from
serious injury. Children and drunk
en- people fall relaxed. My mind AZ that
time was filled with my desire to be al
ways relaxed, whenever the Dolsarte
oracles said l must, So it happened
that one day slipped on the street and
had heavy fall. lpulled myself up in
sitting position a little dazed--l was
not sure whether ] had put my prin-
ciples into practice or not. | was
brought to myself by man who came
up, asking me, in n considerate tone:
"'Are you seriously hurt. madam
"'No; Oh, no! thank you said, still
dazed 'rm not hurt And then real
lied that had been thinking so much
of my principles that instead Of getting
up Immediately ! had been sitting there
saving to myself, in a'brown study:
Did relax or didn't I relax| | am
pretty sure that didn't. for | found
later a goodly number of big black and
blue spots, which never should develop
on true disciple of Delsarte."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
MEXICAN ENTERPRISE.
Government to Complete and Operate
the National Tehuatepee
Railroad.

It is announced that the Mexican
government has concluded arrange
ments for settling with the holders of
the bonds of the National Tehuantepec
railway, which crosses the isthmus of
the same name, and has instructed
Pearson & Sons, the contractors, to be-
gin work under the contract made some
time ago to rebuild the line in a sub
stantial manner, and commence work
on two new ports to be created at Zalina
Cruz, on Pacific side, and at Coatcoal-
cos, on the gulf coast This work is of
great commercial and strategical inn
portance. 1t will cost many millions of
dollars, and give Mexico facilities for
doing great trade in international
freight. Several large English COM
panies have been formed for business
at the City of Mexico, and copper Will
be mined by two new London compan-
les with nearly 50, 200, 900 capital. News
cate has bought the steamship line of
Senior Ramos, and also all his valuable
timber lands, with much mahogany
and other woods, 6 10000 being paid
down to close the trade.
The minister of public works is con-
sidering the application for conces-
sion for a great iron works to be estab-
lished at Monterey, with $1o,000,000 cap
ita1. In addition to the Lampaseos iron
mines, belonging to Patrick Milmos' es-
tate, there are two iron mines near
Monclova which will be in the compha
ton.
One prominent member of the con-
Germ is Eugene Kelley, of New York.
There is no doubt the government will
give all proper encouragement to this
great and needed undertaking.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
TROUSERS FOR GERMAN GIRLS
The Kaiser Did Not object, hut the
DurROmaster of Fischhauser
Was Shocked.

A contribution towards the question
of women's emancipation comes to the
Berlin Lokalanzeiger from Fischhaus-
er, small village in East Prussia, says
the Chicago Tribune.
A 19-year-old girl there had been left
in sore straits through the death of her
father, who had been intrusted with
the administration of an estate belong
ing to the community. But she did not
despair.
Though only frail creature she sud-
denly developed an abundance of en-
ergy aud resolved to earn her means of
living by following the same occupa-
ton as her father. As a step towards
the purpose she addressed letter to
the German emperor, asking to be al
lowed to wear mems clothes, which
culties.
The emperor's answer was encourag-
ing enough: "She would be granted
the privilege of donning male attire
conditionally upon the assent of the
burgomaster of the village"
The girls hopes were high when she
went to see the village potentate to in
form him of the emperor's reply. But
they were doomed TO failure, for, alasi
the burgomaster did not see his way to
grant her urgent request.
"He could not give his consent" he
explained, "to such a shocking thing.
which would be most dangerous to the
morals of the community over which
he had the honor to preside"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
IMPROVED SANITATION.
Water and Sewerage Systems of the
White House to lie Complete
Iy Overhauled.

Col. Bingham. superintendent of pub
extensive modification of the water and
sewerage systems of the white house.
The home of the president of the Unit
ed States has been unhealthy for many
years, and hitherto the attempts at the
introduction of modern plumbing and
sanitary sewerage have been spasmodic
and painfully inadequate. Improve
ments made in one corner were offset
by leaks somewhere else.
In making the present scientific i'm
provements an astonishing network of
old cesspools, pipes, conduits, and
drains has been unearthed, many of
them not used, and others which could
not be flushed. The unused drains and
basins are being taken up and the regu-
lar system improved, while provision
for flushing the sewage pipes has been
made. There was no map of the water
and sewerage systems of the white
house, and hence work was done at
random under different administra-
tions.
Complaints of malarial conditions In
the white house have been made by
every president for generations, but 1t
now appears that much of the trouble
is due to an obsolete system, which has
poisoned one president after another
with sewer gas. Col. Bingham be-
lieves several abandoned cesspools just
discovered are responsible for much of
the so-called malaria of the white
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
OUR BEST TEACHER.
1t Is WRESTLING Against Opposition
That Makes Spiritual Giants
of Men.

Culture and character come through
suffering. Life is Gods university;
happiness is the graduating point, but
trouble and adversely are among the
chosen teachers. The world is built for
joy, but man comes to his full estate
through the tutelage of sorrow. If man
washes his eyes in tears and makes his
garments white with blood, he, too, is
promised the throne and scepter of the
higher manhood. Suffering is an al
chemist refining coarseness and trans
muting bad into good, selfishness into
sympathy. Steel is iron plus fire. Tools
are steel plus gashing axes. Statues are
marble plus the chisel, whose every
stroke makes sparks fly. Manhood is
nature plus the temptations that chisel
out character. Bronze doors of old
cathedrals are all of beaten handiwork,
and character is hammered out on the
anvil of adversely; wine comes through
crushing of grapes, and JOY is fine
spirit oft distilled from bruised affec-
tons. Sin and selfshness dig great
burrows in the face, so suffering is sent
in to iron the lines out smooth again.
From Paul to Livingstone, what heroic
leader hath worn soft raiment? What
Luther or Lincoln was reared in kings
palaces? 1t is wrestling against OPP
posing winds that works toughness into
trees and gianthose into men. If the po-
cts vision is ever fulfilled and we judge
the angels doing easy duty at home.
we must first, as veterans of the old
guard, achieve our scars and hold our
tattered flags in fierce battles upon
far-off frontier. Optimists always, let
Us not make believe" and play the~
are no troubles. One form of folly is
always to drag the corpse into the ban
quet; another is to try and triumph
over tragedies by averting our eyes
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, in Ladies
Home journal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
AS BIG AS TOMATOES.
Six Mammoth Berries Make a Quart
and Weigh Over Eight
cen Ounces.

The largest Strawberries on record
at the department of agriculture were
received a few days ago by Secretary
Wilson. There were six of the berries,
and they completely filed quart box.
The largest berry weighed four ounces
and was 1oh inches in circumference.
The total weight of the six was IS 2-5
ounces, and they averaged over three
ounces each. Their size made them
look like ripe tomatoes. They were
grown by Arthur I. Goldsborough on
Wesley heights, just outside the city of
Washington.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
FUNNY FIGHTERS.
EflfpfnOs Initiate the American Wnr
Cry and Then Beat n Hasty
Retreat.

\ private letter from bugler in Gen.
MacArthur's command in the Philip
pines to his mother in Chicago relates
a laughable incident about the Filipino
method of warfare. The story of Col.
Funston's several advances, and his
wonderful command over men, seems
as well known there as in this country,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
When, shortly after the fla of Calum-
pit, Gen. Macarthur sent detachment
against some insurgents who had
thrown up breastworks on n shrub
covered liiliock, lhe Americans crept
forward just before dawn, and while
heavy rain was falling. With the first
gleam of daylight they rose to their
feet and ran forward silently until a
hurried, nervous discharge of musketry
told them they were discovered. Then
they yelled, and fired, and redoubled
their pace.
Suddenly they heard the Filipino
commander cry out, in fairly good Eng
lish:
.'Come on, boys-give it to emf At
the same time abandoning the position,
and retreating at dead run.
The bugler declares the slogan" was
as effective in Filipino camp as in an
American-only in quite a contrary
manner; "for they no sooner heard
those words--which our officers most
always employ-than the last beggar
of them hoped out of the intrench-
ment. and skurried away"
This" concludes the soldier, "is in
line with the general Asiatic habit OF
doing everything backward
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
STORM.

Storm and stress on the land,
And stress and storm on the sea;
And a wind that tolls for the unbles: souls
That asleep in its green caves be.
The raindrops splash on the pane;
The fogs sweep in from the east;
And the seagulls fly DER the breakers high,
On the hearts of the drowned 20 feast.
A horror lies on the sea-
On the land does a terror fall;
Twas in storm like this sailed the tated
ship
To the death that lay wait for all.
And the laugh of the treacherous sea
Rings out DER their unknown graves;
While its scorn leaps high to the cloud
wracked sky,
With the hiss OF its conquering waves.
For the ships may sail from the east,
And the ships may sail from the west
They may pierce with their anchors its
untamed heart,
And furrow with steel its breast.
II 1t pleasure that heart to wait
1t can smile like some guiltless thing,
And no words can tell of the magic spell
The throbs of its surges sing.
But its hunger is heavy to see;
And its anger is death to feel;
In the awesome hour that beholds its
power,
Like reeds are the ribs of steel.
1t is hungry for souls tonight;
It has won, it would win once more.
It is sick of the wrecks it has dashed on
the rocks
And strewn Ger the sand paved shore.
Oh! the moan of the wind and the rain
Oh. the crash of the seas fierce hand,
As 1t filings the gage of it's Suenchless rage
At the feet of the cliffs on the strand!
God pity the ships that reel
Ger its pitiless breast tonight,
And guide their way through the storm
swept bay,
Ere the dawn of the longed-for light.
And God pity the souls that wait,
In anguish and nameless dread,
Till the morn shall wake and the storm
shall break,
And the sea toss back their dead.
Boston Transcript.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
r@NWe&e&eY.e&N&e&eYo
: In Memory of Martha
\ By Paul Lawrence Dunbar 4
ASAAnNAAa.1 ca

VOU may talk about banjo playing
if you will, but unless you heard
old Ben in his palmy days you have ne
idea what genius can do with five
strings stretched over the sheepskin-
You have been told, perhaps, that the
banjo is not an expressive instrument.
Well, in the hands of an ordinary player
old Ben, as, bending low over the neck,
with closed eyes, he made the shell re-
spond like living soul to his every
mood. 1t sang, it laughed, it sighed;
and, just as the tears began yelling up
into the listeners eyes, it would break
out into a merry reel that would set feet
a-twinkling before enc knew it.
Ben and his music were the delight of
the whole population, white and black,
master and man, and III the evening
when he sat before his cabin door, pick
ing out tune after tune, hymn, ballad
or breakdown, he was always sure of an
audience. Sometimes it was group of
white children from the big house, with
q row of pickaninnies pressing close
to them. Sometimes it was old mas
and mis- themselves who strolled up to
the old man, drawn by his strains.
Often there was company, and then Ben
would be asked to leave his door and
play on the veranda of the big house.
Later on he would come back to Martha
laden with his rewards and swelled
with the praises of his powers.
And Martha would say to him: You,
Ben, dom you git conceity now; you
des' keep yo' haid level. l des' mon
low you been up dah playin' some O
dem ongodly chunes, lax Hoe Con an
Dig Tates.' +"
Ben would laugh and say: We'll,
den, / TEX de wickedness often de ban
jo Swing in, OF 'ooman!" And he
would drop into the accompaniment of
one of the hymns that were the JOY of
Martha's religious soul, and she would
sing with him until, with flourish and
a thump, he brought the music to an
end.
Next to his banjo, Ben loved Martha,
and next to Ben, Martha loved the BAN
10. In a time and region where fire.
quent changes of partners were COM
mon, these two servants were noted for
their singie-hearted devotion to each
other. He had never had any other
wife. and she had called no other man
husband. Their children had grown up
and gone to other plantations, or to
cabins of their own. So alone, drawn
closer by the habit of comradeship,
they had grown old together-Ben,
Martha and the banjo.
One day Martha was taken sick, and
Ben came home to find her moaning
with pain, but dragging about trying to
get his supper. With loud pretended
upbraidings he bundled her into bed,
got his own supper, and then ran to his
master with the news.
Marty she down sick, Mas Tawm,"
he said, IAN rs mighty eneasy in my
min bout huh. Seem lax she dom look
right to me outen huh eyes,
Iii send the doctor right down, Ben,"
said his master. Il don't reckon it's
anything very serious. l wish you
would come up to the house tonight
with your banjo. Mr.. Lewis is going to
be here with his daughter, and / want
them to hear you play"
1t was thoughtlessness on the mas
ter's part; that was all. He did not be-
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Ben come and sit outside his cabin
door, would gather around, waiting,
and hoping that the banjo would be
brought out, but they were doomed to
disappointment. On the high shelf the
old banjo still reposed, gathering dust.
Finally one of the youngsters, bolder
than the rest, spoke: "Aiu't you gwine
play no mo-, Uncle Benz" and received
sad shake of the head in reply, and a
laconic Nope"
This remark Liz dutifully reported to
her mother. mo, o co'se not" said that
wise woman with emphasis; 20 co'se
Brethah Ben aim gwine play no Iuo';
not right now, leas'ways; an don you
go dab pesterin' him, nuther, Liz. You
be perlite an spectacle TO him, an
make yo' 'beJunce when you pass"
1t was several months after this that
number of young people came from
the north to visit the young master,
Robert Curtis. 1t was on the second
evening of their stay that young
Eldridge said: Look here, Mr.. Curtis,
nv father visited your plantation years
ago, and he told me of wonderful BAN
ioist you had, and said if ever came
here to be sure and hear him if he was
alive. II. he?'
"You mean old Ben? Yes. he's still
living, but the death Of his wife rather
sent him daft, and he hasn't played for
a long time"
"Pshaw, I'm sorry. We laughed at
fathers enthusiasm over him, because
we thought he operrated his powers"
Il reckon not He was truly wonder
full"
Don't you think you can stir him
up?"
"Oh, do, Mr.. Curtis" chorused a num-
ber of voices
well, L don't know" said Robert,
but come with me and I'll try"
The young people took their way to
the cabin where old Ben occupied his
accustomed place before the door.
Uncle Ben," said Robert. here are
some friends ,of mine from the north
who are anxious to hear you play, and
l knew you'd break your rule for me-"
Chile, honey" began the old man.
But Robert interrupted him. Pm
not going TO let you say no, 'and he hur-
ried past Uncle Ben into the cabin. He
came out, brushing the banjo and say
ing: ~Whew, the dust!"
The old man sat dazed as the instru-
ment was thrust into his hand. He
looked pitifully into the faces about
him, but they were all expectancy
Then his fingers wandered TO the neck,
and he tanned the old banjo. Then he
began to play. He seemed inspired
His listeners stood transfixed.~
From piece to piece he glided, pour
ing out the music in a silver stream.
His old fingers seemed to have forgot
ten their stiffness as they few over the
familiar strings. For nearly an hour
he played and then abruptly stopped.
The applause was generous and real,
but the old man only smiled sadly, and
with faraway look in his eyes.
AS they turned away, somewhat awed
by his manner, they heard him begin to
play softly an old hymn. twas "Hark!
From the Tomb"
He stopped when but half through,
and Robert returned TO ask him to fin
ish, but his head had fallen forward
close against the banjo's neck, and there
was a smile on his face, as if he had sud-
denly had sweet memory of Martha
Saturday Evening Post.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
Lucky Girl.

Here is marriage notice that recent
ly appeared In the Stockton (Kan.)
News: Miss Della Hill is married.
Her husband is a travelling man of con-
siderable means, and she does not have
to labor, nor even to make her own bed.
Her husband is some years older than
she is aud weighs 256 pounds"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06

Brown hear Jones is sick. won
der If it is anything contagious.
Smith Don't worry; if It is it won't
matter. He's too close to give anything
% anybody.-N. Y World.
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The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-03-11

Huntington, Pa, March THE first
section of the fast newspaper train due
here at o'clock was wrecked one mile
east of this place by a landslide, which
resulted from the heavy fall of rain.
Engineer Robert McCutcheon and Fire.
man j. C. Troce, both of Harrisburg,
were instantly killed, Mecutcheon's
body being burned beyond recognition,
The tender of the engine was driven
half way through the express car, but
the expressman escaped injury, The
passengers on the train were unhurt.