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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
"MILLIONu Is COMMON.
Not Long Ago the Word Was seldom
Heard, Bat Now One often
Hears 1t.

One doesn't have to be very old to re-
call time when the word million" was
in much less common usage than it is
to-day, and when it had little more def
niteness of meaning than the word
''aeon" has now. Not so long ago there
frequently appeared in print laborious
computations of the number of weeks
it would take a man working so many
hours day to count a million of this
or that. The effect of such demon
STATIONS, however, was rather to Gre
ate wonder than to give an idea of con-
crete quantity, and for practically ev-
erybody the distinction between in
finity and a million was almost map
precjable. We have changed all that of
late. Not a few men, or at any rate
more than a very few men, handle daily
millions of dollars, their own money or
that of other people, and congress for
the second time has taught us that
actual transactions involving over a
billion are among the possibilities of
modern life. AS for the great railway
corporations and the great business
corporations popularity known as
trusts" they deal with millions al
most as the units of their figuring, the
lesser sums being in effect fractions,
not unconsidered, exactly, yet after a
fashion inconsequential. And it is a
fact that there be men who, when
asked to engineer financial deal, in
quire as to the number of millions in
volved, more in fear that the total will
be too small than that it will be too
large. This was illustrated recently
when a modest schemer who wanted
only S., 100000 was told by some down
town magnates that, while his plan was
good, it was hardly big enough to make
the undertaking of it worth while by
those particular reorganizers. And
this was not sarcasm or distrust. In
sober earnest the prospective commits
sion on $5,000,00O, though satisfactory
as a percentage, did not amount to
enough to warrant diversion of atten-
ton from operations of greater magni-
tude.-N. Y. Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
FERRETS AT SUPPER.

in keepers side pocket. They are, OF
course, carnivorous, but in captivity
thrive on plain bread and milk, with an
occasional rat or bird thrown in for a
luxury.
On this side of the Atlantic ferrets
have been seldom used except by some
men who have made n business of rat
catching, j. e., clearing buildings, ships,
etc, of rats. One reason for this may
be the comparative scarcity of the bur-
rowing rabbit. The methods employed
in hunting rabbits with ferrets are two.
II it is desired to bag the rabbit, j. e.,
catch him alive, for coursing with ter
riers or any other purpose, loose nets
are spread over the mouths of the bur-
row, into which the bunny bolts and be-
comes entangled. More usually the
rabbits are simply bolted into the open,
so afrording very lively snap-shooting,
especially when there is plenty of COW
ert, and it becomes necessary to bowl
the swift-footed little beasts over while
they are crossing some strip of ground
no wider than an ordinary road.
1t is common to find persons mani
Testing the utmost repugnance to these
animals, which may be due partly to
their snakelike way of coiling together
in tight knot in the straw of their
hutch, and partly to the idea that they
are unclean and unsavory.
Like the domestic pig, the ferret may
frequently be unclean-because it has
no chance to be otherwise. This is the
fault of those human beings who will
not clean the hutch or pig pen, as the
case may be. For example, when they
are fed bird or a rat, they never touch
the skin, and this of course should be
removed, as it will speedily become of
fensiye.-N. Y. World.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
AVALANCHE AT NIAGARA
In q Late One Thousands OF Tons OF
Rock Tumble Into the
Gorge.

1t is q great many years since there
has been such an avalanche of rock
from the Niagara cliffs as that which
plunged down onto the gorge road
tracks and the buildings at the foot
of the Buttery elevator on the morning
of Friday. March 81. Nothing but the
early hour of the fall averted loss of
life. During the past winter the gorge
road has not been in operation, owing
to financial troubles, and for this rea-
son the elevator has been given new
life because visitors to the falls desir-
ing to view the famous whirlpool rap
ids 60 there to look upon the wild wa
tiers of the narrowest portion of the
gorge. From the time the elevator
opens in the morning until darkness
falls in the gorge there are usually
many people at the foot of the cliffs,
and had the rock-fall occurred few
hours later it must have crushed some
of them TO death. Fortunately the
mass gave way about five a. M, before
any person was about. The weight of
the rock that fell is estimated at hun
dreds of thousands of tons, one great
single piece of limestone of itself
weighing over 800 tons. 1t fell
directly on the gorge road, smashing
the roadbed' down and crowding it far
toward the water. A little more and
the rock would have plunged into the
rapids and been lost to sight beneath
the waves. Between this rock and the
base Of the cliff rest thousands of tons
of rock and shale which fell with the
avalanche. Some of the rocks fell onto
the buildings below, crushing them into
kindling wood, while about 40 feet of
the elevator shaft was torn away at the
bottom. One of the buildings destroyed
had just been built to replace build
ing destroyed by the fall of an old ele-
yator shaft. wrecked by wind some few
weeks ago.
While there are many places along
the Niagara bluffs where rock falls are
expected, this point is not one of them,
the ledge being deemed too solid to
give way. But lately in the immediate
vicinity there has been much blasting,
and il is thought that the shocks of the
blasts had u tendency to loosen the
limestone ledge so that its weight rest
ed too heavily on the shale beneath.
After the rock fell it was discovered
that another great mass was gradual
y leaving the cliff, and this had to be
blasted away. Such rock falls as these
in the Niagara gorge cause the earth
about to tremble as if an earthquake
prevailed, and dull roar comes up out
of the chasm as the rock strikes below.
The cliff where this great avalanche oc-
CURED is almost straight up, and the
mass plunged 200 feet straight down
before it struck. There is no doubt but
that large quantity of the rock went
into the river.-Detroit Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
BEARS EAT INSULATORS.
They Thought They Were Crab Ap-
pies or Some other Delicacy
Dear to Bruins Appetite.

A railway cannot get along satisfac-
torily without a telegraph line. For
every train that is run on the road
dozen kilograms are sent over the wire,
and it would be dangerous operation
to send out train without this con-
slant supervision. In northern Maine,
some years ago, railroad was laid, and
the usual telegraph line erected by its
side, but it looked for time as if the
road would have to be abandoned. The
telegraph acted as if bewitched; every
day there was a break in certain patch
Of woods, and in nearly every case the
insuators were found to have been
either broken or torn from the wire and
pole. No one could imagine why per-
sons should commit such damage from
mere malice, and there certainly could
be no monetary reward in stealing in
sulators worth few cents each. The
company hired detectives, and finally
discovered that bears were doing all
the mischief. One man suggested that
the bears thought the insulator knobs
were crab apples, but of course no one
knows the real reason. So the company
invited some hunters to camp in that
patch of timber, and in a short time the
bears emigrated to some place where it
was safer to climb telegraph poles
Golden Days.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04

produce a tone the sound of which is
regulated by the length and thickness
of the rod. A pin fastened to board
by its point and put in vibration
(struck) by a nail or a strong needle is
no exception to this rule. Whether
arranged in rows, as shown in figure
1, or in a circle, pins will vibrate when
Struck" and the tone may be made to
conform to a certain scale of tune by
inserting the pins at greater or less
depth in the board.
Figure 2 represents row of pins ar
ranged in a circle and touched by a
needle, which is set in motion by hot
air wheel
Carefully examine figure 2 and you
will easily see how the device may be
made. Half-inch pine boards will do,
or even shingles, for the framework,
and the air wheel should be made of
paper after the manner of the ordinary
whirligig. Waxed Irvine will serve to
connect the whirligig wheel with the
wheel that moves the needle, and the
machine should be made as light and
easy-runninga possible, but the sound
ing board, or base, should be made of
well-seasoned, close-grained wood. To
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
Bank Account for Every Child.

Municipal authorities of Mons, Bel
GUM, have just adopted a resolution
which will prevent children from be-
ing born paupers in that city. Every
child born in Mons, after being regis
tered officially, will have a bank ac-
count opened in its name with the
City savings bank. The authorities
will deposit one franc for the infant,
who, when he arrives at a sufficient age,
will find this as nucleus to augment
with his penny savings. The original
deposit of one franc cannot be drawn
at any time, but the interest accruing
is the property of the young depositor.
N. Y. Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
THE PROCESS OF BAKING.
When YOu Can Make Good Bread
Much Has Been Accom-
plished.

If your stove chances to have a cook
ing-thermometer attached, which many
of the best new stoves do have now, it
should register 400 degrees when you
put YOUR Ioaves in the oven to bake.
Bake the bread from 40 to 60 minutes;
see that it browns properly, lovely
golden color, but don't let it scorch;
needs, and when it has a hollow sound
when you thump it sharply with your
knuckles you may feel quite sure it is
done.
You may have a failure or two in
baking, or it may not rise to suit you,
but don't be discouraged; keep on try
ing, and you'll come out all right. You
will gain experience from your very
failures, and you will find also that you
are gaining Judgment which L be.
lieve | have once defined for you as
knowledge born out of experience"
You may fly the American flag over
your kitchen when you can make good
bread, for you are independent of cir
cumstances and ready to face almost
any household emergency.
In the next lesson we will take up
cake-making in its simplest forms. Yes,
know that is what you have been wait
ing for, and it has come all in it's own
good time, just as other things will
if you work patiently on until you
reach them.-Saliie JOY White, in Wom-
ans Home Comnanion
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
FERRETS ARE USEFUL.
In Europe They Are Used as Aids by
Sportsmen and for Kidding
Houses of Rats.

The ferret, practically unknown in
this country, is an almost indispensa-
BILE adjunct of country life in England.
There this fierce, snakelike little animal
is used for hunting rats and rabbits
from their burrows, and never game
keeper but has a hutch that serves as
d home for the little ''varmints."
The ferret is regarded variously by
naturalists as an albino variety OF
weasel. or deviation from the usual
type of the polecat. 1t differs from the
polecat mostly in color, which is usual
ly yellowish-white, though the coat
sometimes runs considerably darker,
or pure white. The eyes are pinky-red
and sharp as needles. The animal
measures about ii inches, exclusive of
its tail, which is about five inches long.
In practical use for the purpose OF
boiling rats or rabbits from their holes,
the ferret has to be used when hungry,
so as TO make it fierce, and is almost in
variably muzzled to prevent it from
killing it's quarry and then sleeping off
its gorge in the burrow. 1t often has n
bell attached to its neck to aid in To-
eating it's whereabouts when under
ground.
Ferrets are very susceptible to cold,
and need warm hutches and bedding
while in the field, and they often travel
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
a RAINY DAY.

''Oh. dear!" said Ned. what shall dof
IL rains so very hard
I can't go out to play at all,
Not even in the yard.
It's just as mean as II can be
That il should rain to-day,
And / am forced to stay indoors
And have no chance to play"
Come up into the attic. Ned"
Called out his sister Bess.
There's lots of curious things up there.
Wen have some fun, guess
And soon they climbed the attic stairs.
Against the window pane
And on the shingles overhead
They heard the beating rain.
Around among the curious things"
They played and romped and ran;
Ned found a cap and sword and gun,
And was a soldier man,
While Bessie dressed in trailing gowns
That swept the attic floor,
And played that she was very rich
And kept a ten cent store.
Then Bessie she was very sick.
And Ned was Doctor Gray:
He felt her pulse, and hawed and
'hemmed,"
And Their. he said good-day.
When he got home he sent his bill
Twas cheap enough, she said
Twas forty dollars were she well.
And fifty were she dead!
Then Ned became a circus clown,
And played beneath a tent:
And when the circus came along,
or course Miss Bessie went.
The clown he hoped and danced and SANG
Till Bessie laughed: "Oh, dear
l never seed a funny man
Who acted quite so queer"
And while they played 1t ceased to rain,
The sun shone in the room.
"Oh. dear!" said Ned, Il hate to stop
From playing quite so SOON"
ME, too" Miss Bessie said.
We've had such fun at play
A splendid. jolly time-l wish
'Twould rain most every day"
William G.. Patten, in Golden Days.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
POVERTY STRICKEN GENIUSES
How the World Has Treated Aspire
ants for Literary Fame for
Centuries.

Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned
a mill; Terence was slave; Boetius
died in Jail; Paul Borghesse had II
trades, and yet starved with them all !;
Tasso was often distressed for five
shillings; Bentivoglio was refused ad.
mittance into a hospital he had him.
self erected; Cervantes died of hunger,
and Vagelas left his body to the sur
geons to pay his debts rs far as the
money would go; Bacon lived a life Of
meanness and distress; Sir Walter RAJ
leigh died on the scaffold; Spenser, the
charming, died in want; the death of
Collins was through neglect, first caus-
ing mental arrangement.
Milton sold his copyright of Para
disc Lost" for Is at three payments,
and finished his life in obscurity; Dry
den lived in poverty and distress; OF
way died prematurely and through
hunger; Lee died in the street; Steele
lived life of perfect warfare with
bailiffs; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wake
field was sold for trife to save him
from the grip of the law; Fielding lies
in the burying ground of the English
factory at Lisbon, without stone to
mark the spot; Savage died in prison at
Bristol where, he was confined for a
debt of G s; Butler lived life of perjury
and died poor; Chatterton, the child OF
genius and misfortune, destroyed him
self.-Homiletic Review.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
TWO CLEVER DEVICES.
Simple Instruments Tint Are
Full of Sweet Music.

There is in Scandinavia popular be-
lief that all lost pins are gathered by
gnomes or mountain sprites and used
as weapons in subterranean battles
among hostile factions of those myth
zeal and diminutive hill dwellers.
One need hardly seek, however, such
remote places to find good use for stray
pins. They can be employed in making
at least two different patterns of music
al Instrumentation instruments, per-
haps, but nevertheless full of sweet
music.
1t is well known that the vibrations Of
a metal rod fastened at one end will
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
YOU AND |,

II you the moon were and were the sea,
ID yearn to you whenever We should
meet;
And when TIE storm-clouds hid your face
from me.
In wrath. against my rocky bounds I'd
beat;
But when you smiled again and heaven
were free,
I'd build shining pathway for your feet,
If you the moon were and were the sea.
If you mortal were and I were a bird,
I'd sing to you within summer dell:
I'd tell you things that never human word
With such a thrilling ecstasy could tell;
I'd sing the sweetest music ever heard,
Until your soul were caught within it's
spell;
II you a mortal were and l a bird.
II you the sun were, / violet,
I'd ope my eyes to see you every morn;
My chalice with a dewdrop would wet,
So that your glory on my heart were
worn
I'd blow to you all day until you set,
Then sleep and dream of you till day were
born;
If you the sun were, violet.
j. A. Edgerton, in Boston Budget
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04

properly place the pins to make the de
sired tune drive them in very slowly
testing their sound frequently, and as
soon as "a pin is at the proper pitch
or gives the desired sound leave it and
pass to the next one. The pins must be
straight and strong and placed in per
feet circle.
When the pin-music machine is com
pleted ARE 1ge it on a shelf or box, SC
that it will stand with the air-wheel
portion six or eight inches above an
ordinary lamp. The hot air from the
lamp will make the air-wheel reyolve;
this will make the needle move along
the circle of pins and play tune.-J.
Christian Bay, in Chicago Record.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
Most Temperate Nation.

The Greeks were perhaps the most
temperate of the ancient nations. True
they had their wine, but it was of a
mild character. containing but little
alcohol, yet they never drank it with
out the addition Of water, and to drink
it otherwise they deemed would be the
act Of a barbarian. In short, the Greek
drank for eXhilaration, and never al
lowed lis cups to carry him beyond it.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
The savage bachelor,

persons who stammer," said the
pseudo-scientific boarder, do so be-
cause they think faster than they can
talk"
rs that the reason" asked the saw
age bachelor, that we so seldom meet
u CONAN who stammers2"- Indianap-
oils Journal
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
VIII soon strike Terra Firmn.

The Inexperienced-He says he can
hardly restrain himself from falling
down and vorshiping her.
The Rejected-Tell him not to get
nervous: she'll throw him down .oon
enough. Puck.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
Are Like Som,

The more you stir up plate of soup
the cooler it becomes-and you'll find
it's the same way with some friends
Chicago Daily News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04

The parsnips arc first cooked over a
gentle fire, and when nearly ready are
seasoned with salt and pepper and
mixed with about one wineglassful of
cream Puritan.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
How Spain Raised Money,

Under Spanish rule chief source of
income to church and state in the Phil
ippines was a lottery, which yielded
Sa00O00.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
1t lis Hard to Read

An oculist's bill is apt to affect the
ryesight.-Chicago Daily News.
The Newtown bee., 1899-12-08
Lord aud Of hi Chris; and Iae shall
Ign forever and ever"
TWO POINTED QUESTIONS AaswxREp.

What is the use of making better ar
tiele than your competitor IL yeu can not
get better price for 1t?
Ans.-As there IL DO difference In the
price the public will buy only the better,
go that " ils our profits may be smaller
on single sale they will be much greater
in the aggregate.
How can you get the public to know
your make Ia the best?
Ii both articles are brought prominent
~ before the public both are certain TO be
tried and the public viii very quickly
pass judgement on them and use only the
better sne.-r--
This explsfng the large sale OF Ehanb-.
erlain's Cough Remedy. The people
have been using Ii for years and have
found that it can always be depended up
on. They may occasionally take up with
some fashionable novelty put forth with
exaggerated claims, but are certain to re-
turn to the one remedy that they
know to be reliable and for coughs,
colds and Group there Ia nothing equal TO
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Tor sale
BY 3. 81. Beers a Co., Newtown; Taylor,
Curtis 3 Co.. Sandy Hook; 4. b. Blake
man, Botsford; W. ii. Hurd, Long Hill;
4. B. Fancher, tHawleyville.
The Newtown bee., 1899-12-08

would result from their had citizenship
and bad morals, but like many other
prophets he also instructed them that 1t
was the purpose OF Jehovah to bring
about In later times better state OF NOR
ala and religion and consequently nap"
pier personal and social life both In ehe
Jewish and Gentle worlds. His minis
try commenced some 10 years later than
did that of Isaiah and continued some
so years. Indeed the passage have read
bears q close resemblance to passage In
the writings of that prophet. He 10 the
authority to whom the chief priests and
scribes appealed when, Herod demanded
OF them where the Chriat should be born.
'tBut thou Bakhlahem Euphratah though
thou be little among the THOUSANDS OF
Judah, yet out Of thee shall he come
forth unto me that ia to be ruler Of Isrs-
ell; whose goings forth have. been from
old, from everlasting"
The concluding words OF his prophecy
are: stWho is God like unto thee, that
pardoneth iniquity, and. passeth by the
transgression Of the remnant OF his heEi-
tage? he retaineth not his anger forever,
because he delighteth In mercy. He win
turn again, he will have compassion on
us; he will subdue our iniquities; and
thou wilt cast all their sins into the
depths OF the.s sea, Thou Ewilt perform
the truth 60 Jacob, and the mercy to
Abraham, which thou hast sworn nnto
our fathers from the days OF old"
/. This performance of truth and mercy
embraces q wide diffusion Of rational
and wholesome religious life and Of a
pure and improving worship. "But In
the last days it shall come to pass, that
the mountain Of the house Of Jehovah
shall be established in the top OF the
mountains and 1t shgll BIO exalted above
the hills; snd people shall fow unto it.
And many nations shall come and aay,
Come and lat as 60 mp to the mountain Of
Jehovah, and to the house of. the God OF
Jacob; and he will teach as of his ways,
and we will walk In his- p@thas. for the
law shall 60 forth Of Zion, and the word
OF Jehovah from Jsrusalem."
We do not understand that this superi.
or elevation Of the mountain of the h0use
of Jehovah was 60 be the result Of q
change In the conngurstion OF the earsh'a
surface whereby Mount Moriah was &c
be made In q mathematical or ge0metri
cal senses that is In feet or inches highes
/ than all other hills and mountains where
on so-called religious rites were ~celebra.
ted, or higher than 1t had been In earlier
times; bat rather that Jehovah .would
secure for himself Q. higher place LIN the
regard and veneration OF tina earsh's pop,
ulations, and Like regard and venerasior
for the special. locality where he was
pleased to record his name and to mani.
fest his presence. Because his name had
been lightly esteemed by these 20 whom
The Newtown bee., 1899-12-08

A piece OF flannel dampened with Cham
berisin't Pain Balm and bound on 20 the
affected parts 10 superior to any plaster.
When troubled with pain In the chest
or side, or q lame back, give IL . trial.
Yen are certain TO be more than Pile
With the prompt relief which IL Affords.
Pain Balm is also certain cure for rheu-
NATHAN. For sale by r. Fl. Beers
q Co., Newtown; Taylor, Curtis q Co.,
Sandy Hook; A. B. Bsakeman, Botsford;
w, 81. Hurd, Long Hili; Abb. Fancher,
H4wIevviIle.