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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21
ADVICE FROM CANADA.
Ontario's Instructor in Rond-Making
Tells How to Get Better Roads
Mt Small Expense.

A thorough believer in good roads
is A. w. Campbell, provincial instructor
in road making for Ontario. On ac-
count of the thinly settled condition
Of most parts of the country he finds
the roads in rather bad condition and
the system of caring for them in some
instances rather primitive. lie advises
to do away with the payment of taxes
by labor on the roads. This same
method of payment in labor has been
found unsatisfactory In many parts of
the United States. lie would levy rate
of assessment on the township.
For road purposes the township needs
to be divided into four or five divi-
sions and the money apportioned equal
ly among them. A road commissioner
will be appointed who should advise
and consultwith the town council. The
council would lay down the general
plan, including the width and depth
of the roads, character of drainage,
etc. No road should be narrower than
is feet. Important roads should be
at least "a feet wide. All the direct
work of construction, which is hauling
gravel, ditching bridge building and
drainage, will be done by contract SUI
peryised by the commissioner. Repair
ing will be done by the day under the
direction of the commission, who would
also have the care of road making ma
chimes and full power TO employ or
discharge men without interference by
the council. Finally Mr.. Campbell adj
vises work should be commenced with
definite end in view and continued
from year 10 year if necessary until
the entire r"ad system is brought to
proper standard. - Orange Judd
Farmer
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GROWING CRANBERRIES.
No other Crop Brings Quite as Profit
able Results with an Equal
Amount of Labor.

At recent meeting of Canadian fruit
growers the question of growing cram
berries was discussed and one of
the leading growers offered some testi-
mony from which the following is di-
gested. The land for planting cram
berries should be worked up and sand
ed, the sand to be from three to six
inches deep. The irrigation is i'm
portant-in fact, is essential to cram
berry growing. The land should all
ways be kept damp. Before the frost
comes the patch should be flooded and
kept so ur i'll the first of May. The ber-
ries do not thrive well when exposed
to the winters frost. If long spell
of dry weather. takes place in summer,
irrigation should be repeated. One
speaker said:
II grow the Cherry Bell variety and
! realized $500 net for what / grew on
one acre last year. | would like to
know if there is anything else one
would put an acre to that would bring
the same returns. SAND will correct
all weeds. / now have IS acres under
cultivation, and all my neighbors have
taken up the industry, although they
laughed at me when | started mine.
can recommend the cultivation Of
cranberries as a profitable business,
from the experience have bad"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21
COMPANY DINNERS DREADED.
BY the Majority of Guests and
Keep the Hostess in n State
of Anxiety.

It is a curious fact that American
a dinner with fuss and feathers is
dreaded by the vast majority of peo-
Pile The highest compliment we can
possibly show a guest at dinner is to
let him partake of an ordinary meal;
to let him come quietly in and ''be one
of the family" yet this is the very com
pliment which we withhold from him.
Instead of giving guest what he would
relish most, we give him what he really
enjoys Least. Let Il hostess be ever so
graceful and tactful, let there be years
of experience on her shoulders, yet
nothing can conceal from her guests
that the dinner which she is serving Is
other than an unusual one. 1t is a for
NAL affair, and no amount of grace can
make anything else out of it. For moth
ing speaks so loudly nor so unerring-
ly as a formal company dinner. Every
course shows it; every movement of the
waitress proclaims it; every piece o.
china fairly cries out the occasion. And
Of course no one at the table really
enjoys it. The guest certainly does not,
because he knows he is being made
company of, and that feeling is always
enough to offset every enjoyment. The
hostess does not, for she hasn't the
time. Ter eyes are for the table end
her servants; not for her guest.-Ed-
ward W. Box, in Ladies Home journal
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21
PUT UP THE SWORD.

I hav. sung Of the soldiers glory
AS l never shan sing again;
have .azed on the shsmbles CORY,
/ have smeiied Of the slaughter-pen.
There is nlood il tire ink-we,l c.otted,
There are stains on the laurei-leaf,
And the pages Of Fame are blotted
With the tears of a needless grief.
The bird IS slaughtered for fashion,
And the beast is killed fer sport;
And never the word compassion
Is whispered at Molochs court.
For the parent seal in the water
Is slain, and her child must die,
That scme sister or wife or daughter
Her beauty may beautify.
And the rnerciful thought we smother
For such is the way Of man
AS we murder the useless mother
For the unborn astrakhan-"
But a season Of rest comes never
For the rarest sport of all;
VIII His patience endure forever,
Who noteth sparrow fall?
When the volleys Of he'll are sweeping
The sea and the battle plain,
DO you think that our God is sleeping,
And never to wake again?
When hunger and raveroGs fever
Are Staying the wasted frame,
Shall we worship the red deceiver,
The devil that men call Fame?
We may swing the censor to cover
The o6or of blood-in vain;
God asks Us, over and over:
Where is thy brother Cain?"
james Jeffrey Roche, in Century.
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HUMOROUS.

Bixby-"Oh, you're not so many!"
Mrs, Bixby-"And some day shah be
no more. Town Topics.
We have noticed that after a guest
goes home the people at the house
where she visited do not complain of
being onesome.-Atchison Globe.
On Florida Waters.-Geraldine-''It
would be glorious TO drift on Hike this
forever" Gerald-"We couldn't do it;
the fellow who owns the boat would be
after us for stealing it."-Town Topics,
Proprietor Ito editor)-"Well, the
first number of our new paper looks
well, but here is one thing don't like"
"What?" why. this communication
signed An Old Subscriber "--Collier's
Weekly,
Collector-"This is the nth time sir,
I've brought you this bill" Customer
well, haven't l always received YOU
afrably?" Collector-"I don't want af-
liability, sir; want cash.
lis Journal.
The Lady of the House (to the beg
gar)-"Go away will give you moth
ing" cat this moment barrel organ
on the corner strikes up.) The Beggar
MAY | at least ask for the pleas
ure of this waltz" - Meggendorfer's
Blaetter.
Mr.. Gaswell-'I dropped a cent in the
gutter and it has reduced me to power
ty." Mr.. Dukane--'IIow could YOU be
reduced to poverty by the loss of
single cent?" Mr.. Gaswell-"Don'ty YOU
see that ii makes me penny-less
?" - Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele-
graph.
"Oh, that had the wings of a dove!"
she exclaimed, and sighed and sighed.
The Fates exchanged meaning glances.
"Shes blamed sight more likely 10
get crows feet" observed the Fates,
speaking among themselves. This fable
teaches the unwisdom of hankering
too hard for the unattainable. - st.
Louis Republic.
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DURABLE WATER GATE.
Description of One That Is Easily and
Very ChenpIy Made of Common
Materials.

Farmers whose lands are cut up
with branches or large creeks expert
ence n great deal of trouble with wa
ter gaps. Every heavy rain washes
the gate, or whatever may be used
for the purpose, out of its place and
carries it down the stream. The
stock then have access to fields of
corn and wheat and hence consider
able damage is done the crops and the
stock, too. When building water
gate the paramount idea should be to
construct one that will stay where it
is placed, let the rains come as heav-
lily and as often as they may.
The accompanying illustration gives
Q fair idea of such water gate, one
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21
THE LONG PARLIAMENT.
An Aristocratic English Body That
Did Work in the Days of
the Rebellion.

The long parliament was made up
Of the very flower of the English gen.
try and the educated laity. 1t was
curious how many of the leaders came
from that ancient seat of learning
which was so soon to become, as 1T
for so long remained, the center of
all who held for church and king
Selden was member for the Univer-
sity of Oxford, and pym, Fiennes,
Martin, Nane, were all of them Oxford
men, as we'll as Hyde, Falkland, Dig
by, and others who in time passed
over to the royal camp. \ student of
our day has remarked that these men
collectively represented n larger rela-
tive proportion of the best intellect
Of the country, of its energy and tai
ents, than is looked for now in the
house of commons. 1t is, at any rate,
true that of Englishmen then alive
and of mature powers only two IA
nous names are missing, Milton and
Hobbies. When the parliament opened,
Dryden was boy at the Westminster
school; the future author of "pil-
grim's Progress" n lad of 10, was
mending pots and kettles in Bedford
shire; and Locke, the future defender
of the emancipating principles that
now put on practical shape and power
was boy of eight. Newton was not
born until 1912, n couple of months
after the first clash of arms at Edge
hill.
In the early days of the rebellion,
the peers had work to do not any less
important than the commons, and for
a time, though they had none of the
spirit of the old barons at Runny-
medc, they were in tolerabe agree
ment with the views and temper Of
the lower house. The temporal peers
were 1913, and lords spiritual 26, of
whom, however, when the parliament
got really to business, no more than
IS remained. Alike in public spirit
and in attainments the average of the
house of lords was undoubtedly high.
Like other aristocracies in the seven
teenth century, the English mobiles
were no friends to high-hying eccles-
iastical pretensions, and, like other
aristocrats, they were not without
many jealousics and grievances of
their own against the power Of the
crown. Another remark is worth max
ing. Either history or knowledge of
human nature might teach us that
great mobiles often take the popular
side without dropping the pretensions
of class in their hearts, and it is not
mere peevishness when the royal his
torian says that Lord Say and Sele
was as proud of his quality and as
pleased to be distinguished from
others by his title as any man alive
john Morley, in Century.
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grandmothers and their little charge,
Ellie, dreaming idly away the hours
among the sweet-scented shrubs and
flowers ard drinking in the beauty and
fragrance of that one human flower
the brightest, most beautiful of them
all.
lie was writing poem when an IN
spiration seized him, and in his heart
he knew he should succeed.
Succeed! Aye, why not? A year ago
he had held the world captive with
the magic Of his slender pen-a year
ago he had woven wreaths of poetry,
when his life was laden with tobacco,
wine, gay music, false, fair women, and
the hurried heat and recklessness Of the
great, noisy, laughing, knocking world.
Now the beauty and romance of an
italian summer clothed the earth, the
peace and holiness of Eden prevailed,
and a life fresh and untarnished from
the Creators hands lay within his
reach, to be nodded, fashioned as he
would.
SO he fingered, never daring, yet al
ways hoping to find the courage to
make her quite his own.
A letter brought him to his senses.
What it contained Ellie never knew,
but it took him away.
He came early one autumn morning,
when she was roaming among the flow
ers, and mourning with real regret over
her delicate favorites-c to tell her
that he must say good-by.
You will not quite forget me?' he
asked.
Forget him. Oh, tender little heart!
why had he come to let this shadow
in upon its brightness? Forget him!
No, never! Sleeping or waking, he
would be with her unto the very end of
her life!
And that was all he said to her. y
kiss upon her cheek, touch upon her
hand, and he was gone.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21
No pInce fnr Them

why so pensive, Geraldine?"
Il was just thinking about what the
preacher said Sunday morning. If
there is to be no marrying nor giving
in marriage in Heaven, what will the
young men who are always acting as
ushers have to talk about or keep them
busy ?"-Chicago Times-Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21
why the Months Are So Named.

The word month" is descended
from the Saxons, and simply means
the time when it 'mooncth." Jan
uary" is from the Italian word ia
nus" who was god of the sun and
year. February" is from the Latin
word "Februarius,' and means the
month of expiation, because the Ro-
man festival of publication occurred
in February. March" is from Mars,
the god of war and was the first
month in the Roman calendar. The
Jews began their year at the same
time, and July" was "Quintihus," or
fifth month after March, and its name
was changed to July IN honor of Ju-
:ius Caesar. august" was "Sextilis,"
or sixth month after March In honor
of Emperor Augustus its name was
changed to August. Septem, octo,
novem, decem-scventh, eighth, ninth
and tenth-giye names TO September,
October, November and December
Mary L. NJ. Richardson, in Womans
Home Companion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21
Had Been There Before,

Mrs. Gillian-Now, Mrs. Wyckoff, we
really must say good-by. Dear, while
you put your overcoat on, I want to
tell Mrs. Wyclioff a secret.
Mr.. Gillian-All right. I'll just go
and get my hair cut and meet you at
the corner.-N. Y. Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21
FOR THE ORCHARD.
How to Build Pruning uont for
Hauling Away Limbs and Twigs
Cut from Trees.

The pruning boat is a handy, home
made necessity noticed in a Washing
ton orchard. 1t is used for hauling
away the limbs and twigs cut from the
fruit-trces to convenient place,
where they are burned. The boat is
nothing more than q sled eight by
twelve feet, with a platform of inch
boards to receive the prunings. Three
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"You are not yourself at all, Ellie"
said Grandma Nentnor, day after day,
as the light faded from the brown eyes
and the color from her cheeks.
Il am always your own little girl
was the reply, but never smile from
the sad, sad lips; and her life was
desolation, blank but for one tome,
whereupon she had engraved the name
of Rex" There was nothing else in
all the world.
At last, out of the great voiceless ST.
lence, there came a message. 1t was
a copy of his new book, and on one
pencil-marked page she found herself
portrayed. 1t read, sang, laughed of
Ellie, Ellie! Ellie!" and she lived
again for many long, long week,
buoyed by that cruel phantom, hope.
But nothing came.
When her heart and brain could
bear no more she went one day to
Grandma Nentnor and Grandma
Thornton and laid her heart before
them.
Now you know all" she added,
y y
to London. l will soon be ready to
come home, dear grandma; so take
me, please. Just now my heart is
breaking, and only London can heal
i'll"
In all. their lives they had refused
her nothing, and now, when she looked
at them with those strange eyes, they
did not dare. SO to the great metrop-
oils they went, these three women, as
guileless of heart and simple of mind
as little children.
Then in that great wilderness they
wandered-here, there, everywhere, up
down, in, out, to find that one man,
that the sad brown eyes might look
at him just once again.
And one day, when they were we'll
nigh heartsick and discouraged, they
found him. They had found their way
into picture gallery one gala day,
and there they suddenly came upon
him. In all his grace and elegance
he stood the center of a gay party. a
woman stood beside him--a woman
even more beautiful than the pictured
faces upon the walls. She had white
skin and big, lustrous eyes, shining
hair and cleaning teeth. Her silken
dresses lay in heavy folds along the
carpet; there were long, rich feathers
in her hat, diamonds glittering in her
ears, and the hand that rested on his
shoulder was sparkling with gems.
One of the attendants came near
just then, and Ellie whispered:
"Who is she?"
pauline Delafrere."
Not his wife, then?"
The man laughed.
"No."
But she will be?"
"Not in this world" laughed he.
MEN do not marry Paulines."
She saw him then as he was, her
broken, shattered idol, with all the
stain of worldliness, making black and
terrible the life she had deified in her
heart, and she put her hands blindly
out
Home! Take me home, grandma"
AID then the white lips quivered,
the slender limbs gave way and the
tender, loving heart gave up its strug-
Cling, its WEAKNESS and pain. Rex
Meredith, with Pauline Delafrere, hur-
rying with the crowd to the poor old
women who were filing the gallery
with their lamentations, saw little FL
lie lying dead, like some white lily
torn from its stalk in its first open
ing-dead broken-hearted. but pure
as the angels in Heaven. - Chicago
Herald.
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Not to lie MiHIcI.

The Court-Is this the man you ar.
rested. officerf
The Ofiicer-Let me feel az his head,
sor; i! know the shpot whir me billy
hit.-Phladelphia North American.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21

Farmer.

Radish seed will keep in the ground
through the winter. If little pace is
prepared in some out-of-the-way corner
and sowed late this fall, the plants will
be up and growing with the first warm
weather next spring. They will prove
most acceptable then.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21

Roots stored in boxes or barrels and
covered with sand are much better than
when left to shrivel in dry cellar,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-21

BY planting a few fruit trees of diff
ferent varieties each year the orchard
will never be old.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-17
ROARING EARS
Caused by Coffee Drinking.

Il was twonty years Old before learned to
Ike coffee. but about that aga | was occupied
where l felt the need OF a stmu'ant OF some
sort. and took up coffee in earnest
when tried leaving on coffee sick head
ache invariably followed every breakfast with
out coffee. so stuck to 1t. but other troubles
seth serious catarrhal condition set In and
grew worse until began to lose seep and tbs
ears began that peculiar roaring sound which
continued steadily. finally lost the use Of one
year altogether. and the other one became
very bad
Il am satisfied that coffee was the cause Of
the nervous troubles that showed In the loss AZ
my hearing for when left 1t on and took up
Postum Food Coffee my hearing began to i'm
pgove mn my general condition rapidly changed
for the better. | feel less on a strain all the
time That terrible pulsaton has practically
left my ears: s'eep very much better: bowels
are never constipat"d now IA they were while
was using coffee. am ranidy getting back 10
whcr" wa- seven years ago. You can imagine
that esteem Postum Food Coffee very highly
Indeed Chas WOrrali, 622 Lawrence street,
TOpcka, Kan.
Postum is a natural food drink. strong In the
clements that huld US the nervous system
throughout tho body. II would richly pay any
one who il troubled with coffee drinking 10
leave of coffee and take Postum In It's plaza
Bold by all grocers.-Adu
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-17
OUIo6 GOEs rNsClTHFD.
Not n District Leader Raised His Voice
Against Him In tho County Committee.

Not District Leader Raised His Voice
Against Him In tho County Committee.
None OF the Republican district leaders who
have been active In d-nnuncing the policy rur-
sued by President Quigg during the fall cam
paign attempted to reprove him at tho
monthly meeting OF the County Committee In
tn. MURRAY Hill Lyceum last evening. II
was snid that President Quigg. in order TO
head OF any outbreak. had decided not TO give
any opening for one. In announcing the sut-
committees. which. under the Constitut on.
are appointed by him. he omitted the Commit
tee on Elect on Officers. the mem bers OF which
he said he would announce later.
The Executive Committee held a meeting at
l Madison avenue In the afternoon. at which
they discussed the report Of the special COM
mittee. headed by As.embyman Slater
OF the Thirty.nrst District. to pro-
vide uniform rules and regulations
lor the Assembly District organizations.
The report provides for organizations each
with chairman, vice chairman. treasurer.
9ss ns tSol
oughly 10y the district leaders. ard some
S Smsn5S form We,e ua saop'% on,sa ~
County Committee recommended that the
trIct organizations may do as they please about
The night against Mr.. QugR was to have
been made on the appointment OF tho Com
mittee on Elections officers. which has charge
OF tho selection Of the Republican organiza-
tons share OF tho poll CLERKS and In
snectors. According 10 Mr. OuIgg's or.
ponents he Is anxious to retain con-
troll OF this committee 40 that he can
select the LOO or LOO men who are
employed at the polls Many leaders. among
whom Ia the Hon. Abraham Gruber want the
power OF selecting these officers themselves
II was said last evening that Mr. Gruber went
to Mr.. Quigg after thu Executive Committee
meeting. and said to him
III you appoint that Election Officers Com
mittee this evening and attempt 20 keep con-
troll of II. will nght you on the floor"
Mr.. QuigR said las evening TINT this was not
true. hut that. on the other hand. Mr. Gruher
Ind promised him his contn support. and
hal said that the stories alleging that he
tGruherl was going 70 oppose him were untrue
The Hon. George w. Wanmaksr Of the FIJI
teenth district produced n resolution calling
on the Legislature 10 rnss bill TO be drafted
by the County Committees Law COMMITTEES
provi ting FOR an equitable increase in the
compensation Of poll clerks, ballot clerks,
and inspectors Of election. Mr. wanmaker
said that once upon time the election officers
got $50 each Tor their work. but that
now. with much more arduous duties TO
law. they received only $40 Mr. Wan
mnkei said he hal experienced much
d. ficulty IN getting competent officers In his
district. and that lie believed II was because
the pay. was ton snail The committee
adopted his resolution.