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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
THE JOYS OF a POET.

who wouldn't be poet! like it, don't you
know,
To have the people point me out wherever
| may go.
I've got a Henry Irving stride, nickei-
plated stare
which makes me look distinguished with
my wipsy-wopsy hair.
The ladies call me clever" say my lines
are cute" and mice
Put somehow with the business men cut
but little ice.
To-day a father warned his son as IN thelr
store | went:
.'Dere comes a boet, Shakey; ooht you
trust him for cent?
Betimes I am invited to recite rev re-
ceipts
At banouets where have my fill OF all the
choicest meats.
These dinners cost me nothing Out the
dress-suit must get
To wear on each occasion keeps me very
much in debt.
I've written for the Hentury, for Carpers'
and the rest,
I've burned lot OF mldhlsht OH anu e'''''
them my best,
I've forwarded with stamp inclosed) my
precious rhymes and then
For every half-a-dozen sent fuli SIX came
back again.
OF all my crosses women who keep board
ers are the worst:
In reading human-nature they seem very
strangely versed.
They state the price Of board per week ana
ere | have a chance
To say a word they always ada: ANA SIX
months in advance"
Rut genius always suffers. So l try TO De
content;
I'm quite a second Homer. for he never had
a cent !.
And come to think of it I've got the best OF
him. you see,
For I've heard lots of Homer, but he never
heard of me.
Nixon Waterman, in Il. A. w. Bulletih'
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face above him. Some last glimmer of
reason showed him there his danger,
and without a word he turned and ran
with uneven steps up the little path
that led to the mountains. Dixon quiet
ly cleared away the evidences of the
attempt to burn him out, forbade his
wife to mention it, and bided his time.
Before noon every one. in the valley
knew that DiNon's cabin was still stand
ing and that Hawkins had disappeared.
\ searching party got together quiet
~ and started out TO find him. All the
long sunny afternoon they tramped
and searched over the mountain side,
and just as the sun sank behind the
highest peak, lighting it up with an I'M
earthly, awesome splendor, they found
him. He was lying, face downward on
the COOL moist ground, one arm thrown
up and pillowing his forehead: in the
other hand was clutched tightly little
bunch of faded flowers. a dark GRIM
son stain on the ground beneath the
white face told its silent story of death.
Chicago Daily News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
HIS REDEEMING TRAIT.
4 Terribly ShiftIess Man. But q
First-Ciass Hand To Wipe
His Feet.

'Silas was terrible shiftless Ii IN in
some respects" said the sorrowing
widow, after the last sad rites were
over and her friends had rallied around
her at the tea table. "Yes, | can't deny
that he was awful slack about some
things. He ulster alters be lynn down
his tools an losin' EN-, an wastin'
valuable time fndin' 'em ag'in; an it
generly took him bout a week to git
letter mailed after give it to him; an
| s'pose he was little lazy too with all
the rest of it. Anyhow that's what peo-
pie ulster say. an | often noticed myself
that he never had more'n two days
supply of firewood chopped up ahead,
an I've often heerd him say he'd ruther
90 without eatin taters altogether than
halter fight later bugs all summer to
git mess of 'em.
"Silas never had no great stock of per-
severance to speak of, an | realize that
he was sadly laclin' in many other re-
spects, but now that he's dead an gone
It amt right to bring up all his bad
p'ints an not mention his good ones,
an | wanter say right now that he had
one redeemin' trait which alters helped
vie to put up with everything else that
wasn't Jest ez it should be about HIM
Here the speaker paused long enough
70 wipe away stray tear, and then
went on:
YES. there is one thing l can say in
his praise. Silas was tirst-class hand
20 wipe his feet. He never tracked mud
in on the kitchen floor after I'd nearly
broke my back scrubbin' it clean, thank
goodness"
And with a sigh of composed resigna-
ton the widow resumed slipping her tea.
N Y World
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
The HouseSyife's Daily Burden.

Tits a common remark with hundreds
of men thar they wonder "w hat women
find TODD all day" Sometimes curiosity
gets the better of man, and he asks
his wife what she has done all day. "Oh,
a hundred and one little things" she
says. Then he thinks of some mo-
mentous scheme over which he has been
working all day, and makes a mental
comparison, in which his wife's work
takes second place. He overlooks Che
fact. however, that a woman's life in
the home is made up of little things"
and that these same little things" are
not only necessary, but that they are
absolutely vital to the even adjustment
of the domestic machinery of his home.
They are little" only ina woman's eye;
they would instantly assume proper
tons of magnitude if the mans hands
were TO try to do them.-Edward Box,
In Ladies Home Journal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
BARNEGAT'S CAT COLONY.
Some with Tails, Some Without, and
All Expert Fishers and
Hunters.

speaking of cats" said Capt. Josh
Reeves, keeper of the lighthouse at Sea
| Isle City, n. j., "recalls TO mind the
! time, 20 years ago, when every day for
several years l saw hundreds OF the
most peculiar cats any man ever looked
| upon. At that time / was keeper OF
Barnegat light, on the upper Jersey
coast, and in those days Barnegat was
a mighty lonesome spot. There were
no pretty summer cottages spread out
along the beach as there are nowadays,
and our only visitors were the light
house inspector and an occasional
sportsman in search of wild fowl.
Much of the island, back of the big
sand dunes, adjacent to the beach, was
covered with thick growth of cedar,
holly, oak and half a dozen other varie-
ties of trees.
"Some years before l went to Barne-
gat an English brig was wrecked dur
ing a terrific nor'easter on the beach
short distance from the lighthouse.
In addition to her crew the ship car
ried a score or more Of ManX cats,
which were being carried from the Isle
of Man to New York. Nearly all the
cats succeeded in reaching the shore.
They took TO the woods and no effort
was ever made to reclaim them. For
awhile these tailless animals loitered
around the lighthouse in search of food,
but as the keeper had no liking for so
numerous a family of cats he drove
them away.
when l took charge of the light
house the cats had become wild, and
while l could approach within a short
distance of them, they would not allow
themselves to be caught. The woods
were full of cats. A number of domes-
ticated cats were brought from the
mainland by members of the lifesaving
crew on the island, and several of these
joined the colony of Manx cats. There
soon were tailless cats, cats with half
a tail and cats with the regulation tail.
The animals thrived and soon became
a nuisance. In the thick underbrush
of the woods they raised large litters
of young ones. They found plenty of
IOOu ny prey IhS vi bhC DllbS thut ilNSb
in great numbers in the woods. Rab-
bits, which were plentiful on the island
before the cats were cast ashore, were
soon killed or driven away, for they
were no match for their feline antag-
onists.
"The cats even became expert fishers.
/ have often watched them at work.
IN the spring and fall of the year large
schools of fish swim about in the surf
and these gave the cats many feast.
As the breakers drove the fish upon
the beach, into a few inches of water,
the cats would rush into the surf and,
fastening their claws in the sides of
the half-stranded fish, would devour
them. | have seen dozens of the Sc cats
summing themselves ON the sand hills.
They became so troublesome that cat
hunting parties became quite popular
among the men living on the mainland.
Dogs, were used in chasing the cats 10
cover and the sport was quite exciting.
Many cats were killed, but their places
were soon filled by others. | never saw
such peculiar cats as l found at Barne-
ro N Y Sun
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
AN ORDINARY OLD COIN.
But 1t Served to Bring Ont the Fall
fngs of Weak Humanity.

"Say!" said the street car conductor to Q
mild-mannered man who was deeply en-
crossed In his newspaper. Say, young fel-
Ter, | don't want this quarter L can't use
it," The mild hammered man continued 20
hold out has hand for his change, but paid
no other attention to the conductor.
''See here!" yelled the conductor, getting
red in the face, ''you can't pass no quarter
like that on me. It's slick. l can't take it
for more than 20 cents"
The mild man looked up and said: "Pm
sorry, because you gave me that very quar-
ter yourself last night, and I've been laying
for you since. Well, give it here" He took
the quarter and gave the conductor nickel.
As he took the quarter from the conductor
he suddenly. dropped his newspaper and
gave a chuckle.
well, WE'LL" he exclaimed; "here's luck.
Bless me if that isn't an 1882 quarter with
IA stars and an arrow. Its worth 1882. :"
He slipped it into his pocket with evidence
OF much satisfaction.
A hungry-eyed man in the corner, who had
overheard the conversation, jumped up and
said to the conductor:
Isn't that the very quarter / gave you
yesterday morning? l missed that quarter.
1t was pocketpiece and valuable coin.
remember now that | gave it to you. de-
mand it," he said, looking fiercely at the
mild man II you are gentleman you will
give it to me-"
1T isn't yours. You never gave it to me.
My wife gave me the coin by mistake; it g
part of collection that's been in the fam
lily since 1927" yelled the conductor.
81 tell you it IS mine," said the hungry-eyed
man. Thus they wrangled and quarreled all
the way downtown.
NO." said the mild man to a neighbor, as
he stepped from the car. cts only plain,
ordinary old shiny quarter that I've been
trying to pass off for week. We were all
lying. It's worth about % en.s."-Chicago
Inter Ocean
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
MUST WOMEN WEAR WIGS?
Badness the Inevitable Result OF
Wearing Pompadour
Hnir.

If the pompadour head prevails much
longer women viii be bald and wigs
a crying necessity. Already from across
the water come rumors of wigs worn
by smart Parisians, whereat our men
eroan in spirit and beseech their wom-
ankind not TO adopt this latest freak
of fashion. But it isn't a freak of fash
ion; it has reason for being, and many
woman will hail with delight this OPP
portunity to hide her badness.
Why are women getting bald? Be-
cause for three years they have been
abusing their hair in a manner most
outrageous. First it was tongs. When
wayy hair came into fashion some wom-
en- started in to wave it on patent way
ing pins. No destructive tongs should
touch their hair, they declared. But
women found they had no time to both
er with the pins, on which the hair had
to remain ever so long before ii waved,
and so they took tongs.
In other days these same women
would have done their hair up on wav-
ing pins over night, but the time has
passed when women are willing to go
to bed looking like rights. And that
is another reason for increasing bald
ness-that so many women keep their
heads overheated by the~use of the POM
padour roll.
Dame Nature submits to abuse just
about so long and then she takes re-
venge. She is taking revenge now
nice little bald spots on women's heads,
the result of hair dropping out by the
handful.
Subjected to incessant use of tongs
and the scalp overheated by the roll,
bair dies a natural death. Hair must be
stimulated to live. Constant brushing
does this, and nothing else will. Our
grandmothers, and even our mothers,
knew this so well that hair brushing
was one of the most important features
of the toilet. Half an hour at night and
half an hour in the morning were
thought none too long time to devote
to this, and no woman would have
dreamed of going to bed without her
hair down.
dour fashion. They have decided as to
what arrangement of the hair is becom-
ing and what is not. Unanimously they
declare the pompadour is not. One and
all voice the sentiment that the hair
should be so arranged as to show to
best advantage the contour of the head.
Men are great on lines. So are women
who understand to perfection the art
Of dressing; but all men know that no
monstrosity is too great for a woman
to adopt once it becomes the fashion.
Wigs may be exceedingly pretty and
most becoming, but they are not likely
tc have "A long reign in spite of their
advantages, for they are very hot things
to wear. Some of the French women,
driven to wearing them because of rapid
ly increasing badness, have practically
shaved their heads, and are starting III
to raise a new growth of hair. Heroic
measures, these, but most sensible, for
nothing is so beneficial to the hair as to
cut it. So, after a bit, when their heads
have recovered from the deadly reign
of the tongs, they will discard wigs and
once more wear the hair 'au naturel.'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
Before He JOine IL .

While passing Whitehall the other day
stranger TO London asked a police
man If he could point out the window
through which King Charles passed out
10 executions:
The policeman asked:
"Who was hep"
King of England, OF course" was
the answer.
But when was that?"
over 200 years ago"
"Ah! ali! that was long before my
time, sir. only entered the force in
is62, was the pohceman's reply. "Sor-
~ can't tell you."-Spare Moments.
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rect cut down the mountaiH side to the
little settlement in the sheltered valley.
Swiftly and skiilfully he did his work.
AS he watched the tiny tongue of flame
that had crept up the heap of kindlings
he had prepared, he thought of the fiery
barrier that would soon cut his enemy
off from escape with fierce exultation.
Then he turned and ran down the path
with stumbling footsteps, toward the
lonely, half-ruined cabin that he called
hope, and threw himself on his hard
bed with a groan of physical weakness
and pain.
Meanwhile the tiny tongue of flame
crept slowly upward with soft crack
ling sounds; once it blazed brightly for
minute, then sank to feeble point of
blue flame, struggled weakly as if for
life and went out. A little curl of smoke
wound upward and marked the place
where the flame had been. Then it dis
solved slowly in the clear air, and moth
ing was left but the heap of kindling
on the rude doorstep, with the few
charred sticks, to mark the spot where
it had burned, as a silent witness of
the frustrated design of the avenger.
AS the first early rays of the sun
peered over the mountain and sent ray
of light into the window of the cabin,
Dixon swung open the heavy door and
stopped on the sill in dumb astonish-
ment at the sight that met his eyes.
Then in a moment he had grasped the
truth. This was what the sly looks
and unusual manner of his neighbors
meant, was it? And they had failed in
their cowardly work. What if they had
succeeded, Jennie and the young ones
would
With an imprecation strong and deep,
the man turned and called his wife to
his side. She came, looked where ne
pointed silently at their feet and then
raised her eyes to his dark face in
frightened, questioning glance. Before
he could answer the unspoken inquiry
he caught sight of shambling figure
coming. Something in the mans pallid
face made Dixon turn to his wife and
say quickly: You'd better 60 inside.
=
obeyed silently.
Dixon kicked the debris from the step
and advanced toward the advancing
| figure until he and Hawkins stood face
TO face in the narrow worn path. The
visitor looked into his face with way-
ering, uncertain glance, his thin lips
parted in meaningless smile that was
horrible to see and then he began to
speak in a tone in which treachery and
cunning were strangely mingled.
80 Dixon was burned out last night,
Ell? Too bad! Wife and young ones
burned. Poor Jennie! Might "a told
her, but then she would "a warned
Dixon"
The listener knew at the first word
that the poor wretch before him was
insane. AS the hollow voice went on,
betraying the whole fiendish plot to
his quckened intelligence, he caught
the man suddenly by the shoulders and
held him with a grip that made him stop
short in his rambling talk and give a
little cry of pain.
See here cried Dixon, turning the
man around in the path so that he faced
| toward the mountains, you get out of
here quick while I've got enough hold
on myself to keep from shooting you.
Got" and he gave him push as he re-
leased the motionless figure.
Hawkins staggered, recovered his
balance and looked up into the stern
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
InluCkN Accident.

why, Johnnie, you've got big lump
on your head. Have you been fighting
again."
Fighting? Me? l guess not"
But somebody struck your"
Nobody struck me. wasn't fightin'
at all. 1t was a accident"
IAN ACCIDENT"
Yep. l had just trun Tommie Scan
lon down, an was sittin' on him, and /
forgot to hold his feet. "-Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
Quite Fitting.

Il wonder why your neighbor put 20
many blind windows in his new
house,"
"As sort of confession, l suppose,
that the house had poor site. Rich
nond Dispatch.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
Blasted Homes.

In moody silence, with lowering brow and
folded arms, the young man stood before
her.
He was returned soldier, volunteer of.
fcer, honorably discharged from the service
of his country.
He had come back, as he supposed, to
make the dear girl happy who had hung
upon his neck when he babe her goodby to
go to the wars.
But the dear girl had received him coldly.
A hustling commercial traveller had taken
advantage of his absence and supplanted
him in her affections.
So" he said, at last. "You have 40 re.
morse for your faithessness!"
None whatever" she replied.
1ou prefer that chap with the sam pie
case to me, do you?"
Rather"
He drew himself up stiffly
Miss Grenaddne Corkins," he said, II
leave this house forever. | leave it." he
added, picking up his hat, "drummered out,
but not drummed out"
And as he marched out of the room with
a military step the heartless girl called out
Left! left! left! left" after him-Chicago
Tribune.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
A Strong Mans Secret.

The strongest man on earth says the Sc
cret of his wonderful power is perfect di.
gestion. Hostettes Stomach Bitters makes
digestion easy, and cures all complaints
arising from weak stomach, such as indi,
gev amens anu bIand ygr Snu hpd
nerve tonic it is marvellous. 1t is recon-
mended by all physicians, and is sold by
every druggist in the country. Everybody
needs it at this time of the year.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27

Soakington-"I think 1 am good Judge
of whisky" Boozington-"Oh, no, you are
not judge; you are an advocate at the bar"
Town Topics.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27

At a table d'hote, five to eight o'clock,
with music: Waiter--"The conductor pre-.
sents his compliments, and asks if there is
any piece that you would like to have
played" Diner-"Yes; ask him to play
THE Midnight Serenade,' and to put it off
until midnight and serenade somebody about
a mile away. Town Topics.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27

Fair Warning--Visitor lin Brooklyn)-
docs the trolley line lead to the GENE
terry" Citizen-"Yes, if one isn't very care.
ul"-Iife
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27
"Courage and Strength
in Times of Danger. -

Read the zuarning between
the lines. What IS that war,-
ing? IT IS of the danger from,
accumulation of badness in
the blood, caused BY the
usual heavy EVing of the
Winter months. Spring Is
the clearing cleansing time
of the year; the foreranner of
the brightness and beauty Of
glorious Summer.
Follow the principle that Nature lays
down. Start in at once and purify your
blood with that great specific, Hoods
Sarsaparilla. 1t nerer diSappOints
Tumors-" tumor as big as a large
marble came under my tongue and instead
Of letting my physician operate on it, I used
my favorite spring tonic, Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla. The bunch soon disappeared Mrs.
II. M. CoBURN, $40 Mer'k St, Lowell, Mass,
Rheumatism--"I had rheumatism for
five years and can conscientiously say that
Hoods Sarsaparila has given me entire
relief AS blood purifier it has helped my
children wonderfully" Mrs. S. A. SAGAR,
S3 Franklin Avenue, Passaic, n. j.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27

The newly-organzed coffin trust is doomed
to failure. The members will be sure to
run things into the ground.-Town Topics.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27

SANDER is like mud; it only sticks where
it finds affinity.-Ram's Horn
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27

There's no denying the fact that Boston
is one of the -beans.-L. A w. Bulletin.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-04-27

Life is a big poker game in which every
body is bluffing the loser.-Atchison Globe.
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Use OF sense makes no one poorer.-Ram's
Horn.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-02-15
City CsurtI Rill ra,,su.

In the Texas senate on tho 9th
tie city court bill was taken up.
Various amend nents were made.
Yantis offered one changing the
mode of appeal, instead Of APP
pealing to the court of criminal
appeals same shall he made to
the county court except when the
latter has no jurisdiction, when it
shall go to the district court un-
less there is criminal district
court, in which event appeals are
to be taken to the last named.
In appeals to all three the trials
shall be de novo, the same as if
they originated in said courts.
Amendment was adopted. HDi-
brelps amendment, providing that
in all cities and towns not incor-
porated or having special charters
the rules of practice and proce-
dure in justices courts shall pre-
vail, was adopted The amended
bill passed.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-02-15
Has Full Authority.

Secretary AlEer says that - in
strrotions havsiL-er coAs &c Gen.
Manila. He realized, he
said, that the general being on
the ground and having proved his
fitness was in better position to
deal with the Situation than any
one at Washington. Should the
general ask permission to do any
thing he will be told to exercise
his own discretion.
The Filipinos at Caloocan fired
just before midnight on the 7th
upon the Kansas outposts on the
extreme left of the American
line. They maintained a fusilade
of musketry, supplemented by an
occasional shot from two big can
mons, for about twenty minutes.
The enemy fired at long range;
nobody hurt. The, Americans
did not reply.
The Tennesseeans have gone to
Iloilo.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-02-15

"a word to the wise is sufficient"
and a word from the wise should be
sufficient, but you ask, who are the
wise? Those who know. The oft re-
peated experience OF trustworthy per-
sons may be taken for knowledge. Mr.,
w. M. Terry says Chamberlaln's Cough
Remedy gives better satisfaction than
any other in the market. He has been
in the drug business at Elkton, KY, for
twelve years; has sold hundreds Of bot
ties of this remedy and nearly all 9th
er cough medicines manufactured,
which shows conclusively that Cham
berlain's is the most satisfactorily to
the people, and Is the best. For sale by
all druggists.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-02-15
Tragic Death.

Mrs. Harmon called at the res
idence of Mrs. Oscar Jannasch
at Waco to pay a call and waS
Mortified to find that lady lying on
the floor with several gashes in
her throat which had severed the
windpipe. Mrs. Harmon gave an
alarm and several physicians re-
sponded, but Mrs. Jannasch died.
An inquest was held and the ver-
dict self-inficted wounds due ia
temporary alteration of mind.