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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
ELLEN TERRY'S DEBUT.
Her First Appearance on the Stage,
Says the Great Actress, Was
Not II Success,

From the time that | can remem-
Der it was always an understood fact
that one day l would go upon the
stage. My father. who was very
charming elocutionist, and my moth
err, who read Shakespeare beautifully,
gave me my training.
/ was only eight years old when I
made my first appearance at the
Princess theater. My father and my
sister were members of the company
playing there at the time, which
gave me some degree of confidence.
On the 2sth of April, 1856, [ began
my stage career as Mamillius in The
Winters Tale" The cast was an in
teresting one:
Hermione ...,...........Mrs. Charles kean
Officer of the Court of Judicature,
Mr. Terry
Servant of the Old Shepherd,
Miss Kate Terry
Mamillius Miss Ellen Terry
How my young heart swelled with
pride-I can recall the sensation now
when l was told what / had to do!
There is something, | suppose, in a
woman's nature which always makeg
her recollect how she was dressed at
any especially eventful moment of her
life, and | can see myself as though
it were yesterday in my red and white
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
WORLDS COPPER SUPPLY.
This Authority Tells Why There In
No Immediate Prospect of an
Overproduction.

The dominating position taken by
the United States among the contrib
utors to the worlds supply of copper
has already been commented on, says
the Engineering Magazine. The i'm
mense activity of the Americans, added
to their mechanical genius, has led to
the initiation by them of scale of op-
erstions hitherto unprecedented in the
history of mining. But, if the increas-
ing demand for copper continues, pres
ent sources of supply will soon be in
sufficient, unless production at the big
mines can be still further stimulated.
1t is doubtful, however, whether the
production of mines like the Anaconda
and Rio Tinto can be very largely in
creased.
And there is another side TO the ques-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03

journal to a curious case of color blind
ness. The individual cited was the Off
GER of steamer. and owing to his in
ability to distinguish between white
and green lights narrowly escaped run
ming down another vessel. He had pre-
viously been subjected to the Holmgren
test, winch consists of matching col
ored woods, and after the narrow es-
cape noted he was again subjected to
the test, and on both occasions passed
successfully. The author then goes on
10 state that this form of defective
vision is not so uncommon, and he con
siders it imperative that some other
test be devised, so as to exclude unfit
persons from TIRE merchapt marine
service.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
FOOD AND RAIMENT.
Man Obtains Some Of Both from the
Depths of the Sea.
A Talk with the Scientists of the Ma
tiOnaI Museum DiscIOses Many
Facts of Almost Univer-
sal Interest.
Especial Washington letter.

TNT THE agricultural depart
~ ment few weeks ago we were
entertained by study of in
sects and parasites by the learned sci
entists who propagate those minute
specimens of animal life and devote
their efforts and energies to discover
ing their histories and mysteries.
1t is only a short walk, a little stroll
over beautiful lawns, from that point
of interest to the National museum,
where there are tens of thousands OF
the wonders of nature gathered and
garnered from all quarters of the
world. But for the fact that 1t would
give something of a sameness and dull
ness of routine to these letters, it might
be well for the writer to spend day
each week in this National museum
and tel. you of the fresh wonders which
are disclosed to the students and
philosophers who have opportunity to
go there.
This afternoon we were shown the
treasures of the ocean; the things of
value which are contributed to man
kind by the depths of the sea; the
fruits from those depths, the skins and
scales of fishes which are available for
the industries and the arts; the curious
uses of sea weeds, sea slugs and the
polypi. OF the things of value, many
of them indispensable, which are gath
cred from the sea there appears to be
no end. The animals of the field and
the birds of the air furnish food, raj
ment and ornaments for man and wom-
an, but their value to mankind is
dwarfed almost into insignificance
when we have disclosed to us all of the
wonderful things which the various
tribes of fishes and other inhabitants
of the ocean yield for the general well
fare of the lords and ladies of creation.
Aboriginal man was warrior and
rufllan, and his weapons of offense and
defense predominated in the develop
ment of science. The bow, arrow,
shield and finally the sword marked
the development of man from his low
est estate. Refinement and culture
have come only in the younger cen
turtles of this very aged world. The
Indians of Brazil captured the ray from
the ocean and made arrow points of
its keen-pointed vertebrate. An arrow
thus pointed, with a strong bow string
back of it, would go clean through a
mans body. The teeth of sharks have
been used for arming weapons from
time immemorial. In the National
museum there are specimens regarded
as more than 5000 years old.
The natives of Dacca use, and have
long used, the jawbones of the boalee
for combs, the teeth being small and
smoothly set, so as to make them readi-
ly available for removing loose fibers
from cotton and wool. The Indians of
North America have always used the
jaws of the. sleeper shark" for head
dresses. The Eskimos use large fish
bones for canes and for weapons of
offense.
But the sea products for ornamental
tion and for use in the arts and in man
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03

parts of China and Japan, and even
to Tibet, and sold for food for the
poor people. They use it with rice,
vegetables and fish, and also make
soups of it. The people have acquired
taste for this sort of food, and re-
gard it as most palatable. All of
these sea weeds have salty flavor,
and the natives are thereby saved the
cost of salt, which is very dear in
those countries, although 1T is so
very cheap in our land.
If the people of this continent
should ever become eaters of sea weed,
they can have it in plenty. All along
the Gulf stream there are banks of sea
weeds, miles in extent. Ships in the
Atlantic coastwise trade sail over
great spaces entirely covered with
weeds, some of them in the form of
apparently endless serpents, and the
sailors have long called them "Nep-
tunes gardens" 1t is not improb-
able that these vast storehouses of
weeds may be used commercially for
enriching our soil where it is depleted,
or, as the farmers say, worn OUT
with continuous crops of single
kind. The sea weed is a spontaneous
fertilizer, causing soil long unproduc-
tive to become Immediately rejuve-
mated and verile. 1t is said that on
the French shore of the British chan
mel upwards of 100000 tons of sea
weeds are annually gathered and used
for fertilizing purposes. Thus the
sea is made to enrich the soil.
Just as gourds are used for dippers,
in many places, there are pods of Ger.
tain kinds OF sea weed used for sim.
liar purposes Large pods holding up
wards of a quart are followed out,
dried and filled with whale oil by New
Zealanders, and the necks of these
quaint bottles are tied with tibers of
tlaXen weeds. Other pods are used as
water buckets, and those of smaller
size are used for dippers. The fact
that they are impervious to oil rem
ders them exceptionally valuable to
some peoples.
The foods made from these prod
ucts of the deep are annually increas-
ing in number and variety. One of
the best known in larger cities, but
appreciated only by gourmets, is the
sea slug. 1t is from eight inches to
two feet in length and resembles a
brownish prickly cucumber After
being dried and soaked in olive oil il
is dried again and then minced tic
serve as choice flavor in thick soups.
The sea slug is found in mud banks
and shoals where fishermen wade
knee deep to find it. When their feet
strike Il slug they reach down with
tongs and take it up. 1t stings like
Il nettle, and yet it is net poisonous,
although it usually leaves little burn
ing pin heads on the skin, which pass
away in few hours.
Dyes of many kinds are taken from
the sea, usually from some parts of
the bodies of mollusks, carp, cutie
fish and star fish. Shells are still used
in lieu of money by half-civilized peo-
pie. The shells are also used for
trumpets, horns, pipes, earrings,
brooches, bracelets and other orna-
ments for women, Pearls are the
most valuable of ALL but only the
largest are now held at a great price.
All of these things are wonderful
and yet only little bit Of the whole
story can be told at this tine.
SMITH d. FRY.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
Deep-Lnid scheme.

Mrs. Youngwife-Harry suggests
that give my last summers gown to
the servant girl.
Mrs. Oldun-Is the girl pretty?
Mrs. 1oungwife-Yes, rather.
Mrs. Oldun-Then don't do it. He's
evidently hunting for an excuse to
kiss her in mistake for you.-Phila-
delphia Press
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03

~ writes: at may be OF interest to
pieces, whether French, Italian, Swiss
or Belgian, have current value in
France, if coined since December %,
1865, and the twofranc, one-franc and
50-cent pieces coined since January T.,
1869. Silver bearing the pope's head
and Spanish silver have no currency in
France"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
4 Hopeful View.

He (despondently)-Our marriage
will have to be postponed. | have lost
my situation, and haven't any income
at all.
She (hopefuIly)-That doesn't mat.
ter now, my dear. We won't need
any. I've learned how to trim my
own hats.--N. Y. Weekly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
Hpstoriup I,usfer of Ernmes

The lustre of old picture frames may
be restored by washing the gliding
with warm water in which an onion
has been boiled. Have all the crew
ices of the frame thoroughly busted
before washing, and dry quickly aud
thoroughly with soft cloths.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
The Daughters part.

Mrs. Westsde-D your daughter
ever do anything about the house?
Mrs. Eastside-Oh, yes; when she
sees me roll up my sleeves to wash the
clothes, she rolls Up her eyes.-Yonkerx
Statesman.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03

A medical paper says that in railway
collisions nearly all the passengers
who are asleep escape the bad effects
of shaking and conclusion, nature'r
own anaesthetic preserving them.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03

Referring to remark as to the diff
Guilty in distinguishing what silver has
current value in France, a correspond
ent in a recent issue of Parsons Week
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
Few wild wife sheen

The wild white sheep is found no.
where in the world but Alaska, and few
specimens for mounting whole have
,,cr been obtained.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03

A New Form of Color blindness.
DR.. J. Fl. Bickerton calls attention in
recent number of the British Medical
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
A jewelers. Story,

Diamonds can be broken, but they
very seldom are. In the course of an
experience of nearly forty years have
known Of only two cases Of diamonds
being broken. One occurred many years
ago, when l was working in shop in
Chattanooga. A lady customer dropped
a cluster brooch from the counter to
the tiled floor, distance of about three
and half feet. 1t struck squarely on
the center stone, which was broken into
a number of small, irregular fragments.
The diamond had weighed about two
carats. The other instance took place
in New Orleans, about six years ago.
A st. Louis travelling man had a soli-
taire weighing one and half carats
set in ring. He was standing in the
store, and while conversing about
something made sudden gesture, and
struck the stone against a metal fix
ture. 1t was split into small, jagged
spllnters, a number of which we found
on top Of the showcase. The drummer
himself was the most astonished man
ever saw. He had supposed diamonds
were indestructible, simply because
they were hard.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20

ing. She rode all evening, and her acts
were even more brilliant than usual.
But even while the applause was ring
ing through the place she tainted and
slid helplessly to the ground. She was
carried to the hotel burning with fever
When she awoke the next morning she
begged her attendants to open the shut
ters. But the shutters already were
wide open. She was blind. Physicians
consulted and consulted, to arrive only
at the same verdict-hopeless. The cir
Gus folk did what they could until the
show had to depart from Nizza. They
left her behind them in the hotel,
whence later she was taken to a hospi-
tai and where she is now dying. All Of
her horses were sold for her mainten.
ance,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
A Dish for an ED cure.

a largs business is carried on in Shas.
burg in the manufacture of pate de foie
gras. In the process of manufacture
the livers used are those of the common
goose, and by special method of stuff.
ing they are often made to attain a
weight of two pounds. AS many as
seven or eight hundredweight of them
are required daily during the season.
The livers must be absolutely fresh for
use, and the sorting is done with great
care. When they reach the factory they
are of plnkish yellow color. 1t was
In 17SS that Jean Pierre Clause, the ia
nous chef de cuisine of the Marshal de
Contades, the Governor of the then
French province Of Alsace, made the
discovery that cold goose liver served
In Madeira jelly was not to be des-
pissed, and that, enclosed in a crust
with truffe de Perigord, 1t was the dish
Of an eplcure. So highly was Clauses s
discovery priced that his master kept
the recipe profound secret, and never
omitted dish at the dinners he gave
to high dignitaries.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
PREFER TO REMAIN IN MEXICO.
Natives of Our Sister Republic Seldom
Emigrate to the States.

Natives of Our Sister Republic Seldom
Emigrate to the States.
by the last census taken in 1895 the
population of Mexico was 1257S,OOO.
BY the last census of Canada, taken in
1896, its population was 5,125,OOO.
There are thus more than twice as
many inhabitants in Mexico as in Can
ada, and the facilities of travel between
Mexico and the United States are
equally good, but by the last census
there were 100000 Canadians in the
United States and only77,OO Mexicans
"a disparity SO great as to require
some explanation.
1t has generally been supposed that
majority of the Canadians in the Uni
ted States are residents of either the
northern counties of New York or the
manufacturing districts OF New Eng
land, into which there has been of re-
cent years very large immigration of
French Canadians, but it is a fact that
the Canadian-born population Of the
United States Is pretty evenly distrib-
uted, and by the last Federal census
there were 1S1 900 Canadians in Michi-
gan, 26,OOO in California, 10000 in the
State Of Illinois, 1900 in Iowa, and,
more curious still, perhaps, 5000 in
Texas. TwO-thirds of all the MeXicans
In the United States are to be found
within the State of Texas and the other
one-third in the other forty four States
and Territories of the country. BY the
last census the whole number of MeXi-
cans resident in New York was return
ed as $50, of Missouri 13O, of Illinois
143, and of Colorado COZ.
The most frequent explanation given
for the scarcity of Mexican residents in
the United States is found in the differ
ences Of climate. But this explanation
Is not the true one, as is shown by the
figures in Mississippi, State whose
climate more nearly, perhaps, than any
other, with the exception of Texas, re-
sembles that of Mexico; there were
only thirty-one MeXicans In Mississippi
returned by the last census in Ala
bama thirtyfour, and in Arkansas
twenty-seven, while in the North At
lantic States there were $50. Another
explanation of the lack of Mexican emf
grafton to this country Is given in the
unfamiliarity of It's people with the
language, but that view of the case is
not well supported
The republic of Mexico has not been
increasing much in population through
immigration in recent years and the
number of American emigrants to Mex
leo has been continuously small. There
were by the last enumeration 1900 for
eign residents in the capital city of
Mexico, the total population of which
was $40, 5,000.-New York sun.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20

over, who has for years been part Of
the city government
"The Princess looked up and smiled,
and l spoke to her in Spanish and told
her how pleased was to meet her. She
answered that 1 was the first woman
she had met who spoke her own tongue.
We talked for over an hour on Spanish
and American customs. She told me
of her love of horses, music and litera
ture, and of the training of her Spanish
sisters. She asked me to step outside
with her, and l did so. We walked up
and down the deck for about ten
minutes when l saw the master of cere-
monies coming. He instantly recOg-
nized me, and advancing quickly to-
ward the Princess he spoke hurriedly
in Spanish and put his finger to his
lips. looked up to him and said:
I've got my two-column interview,
thank you, and 1 obeyed your orders
strictly. was presented by the
Mayor"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
Is BLIND AND POOR.
BARONESS JENNO VAN RAHDEN
DYING IN AUSTRIA.
She Has Had a Career in Which the
Romantic and Tragic We're Strangely
Blended-Infatuated Husband Killed
Four Admirers.

Wealth and splendor have gone; the
lies moldering under ground with his
victims; the world that bowed before
her beauty has forgotten her, or, if it
remembers, remembers only to pity
for passing moment; the beautiful
eyes that once were watched eagerly
by hundreds for a glance are slghtless.
1t is the end Of the glory of the Baron
ess Jenny Won Rahden. She lies in Nizza
Austria-blind, miserably poor and
dying. The magnificent trained horses
which she loved passionately, and with
which she won applause from all of
Europe, have been sold long ago for
debt, and she does not know who owns
them now. She has made with barely
one step the voyage from magnificence
to bitter misery.
1t was as an equestrian that Jenny
Weiss first became one of the cele-
Drities of Europe. Many wooed her.
or them all none wooed as did the big,
handsome, dashing, prodigally rich
Russian, Baron Won Rahden. He won
her, and became as fierce an adorer of
his wife as he had been her adorer dur
ing courtshlp. He showered upon her
love and wealth and watched over her
with jealous care.
For this man, with his savage love,
there came torment His wealth was
swept away In a night, and he faced
life as beggar. United for work, he
struggled bitterly, until sheer necessity
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
DIET AND TUBERCULOSIS.
Effects of One Upon the Other-Va1ue
of AmDle Feeding.

Effects of One Upon the Other-Va1ue
of Ample Feeding.
An important feature of the fresh
air" system of treating tuberculosis, as
most readers are already aware, is
ample feeding. The sanatorium at
Nordach is famous for its requirement
that the patients shall eat certain
amount Of food at each meal and take
their repasts in the presence of u medi-
cal supervisor.
Fresh illustration of the benefits to
be derived from an abundant diet by
persons who suffer from tuberculosis
are afforded by DR.. Jane IL. Walker,
physician to the New Hospital in Lon-
don, and superintendent Of the East
Anglican Sanatorium. a particularly
striking case was that of housemaid
who was under DR.. Walkers care at
one time. The maid exhibited some
unusual SYMPTOMS. Her temperature
would run up to 105 or even 10 de-
grees without apparent cause, and then
drop down to the normal level. The girl
was exceedingly obstinate and difficult
to manage, too. She was so deter
mined to preserve her figure that she
would not at first comply with the de-
mand that she either relax or abandon
her stays. However, she lost weight
steadily for six weeks, and in other re-
spects appeared to be losing ground.
She then became alarmed and consent
ed to obey the doctors orders. She left
off her stays, began to eat heartily, and
at the end of single week she had
gained twenty-three pounds. Suspect
ing that there was some mistake, the
physician caused the patient to be
weighed on three different sets of
scales. These figures were fully veri-
fed however. During the next week
she gained only six pounds. She i'm
proved In other ways also, and was
soon afterwards discharged. The girl
is alive and well to-day, and hard at
work in her old place.
DR.. Walker expresses the opinion that
the perceptible falling off in mortality
from tuberculosis in England of late
years Is due to the fact that the work
ing classes there are better paid and
consequently better nourlshed than for
merly. 1t Is probable, however that
they are also housed more comfortably
and amid better sanitary surroundings.
Possibly more than one cause operates
to produce the observed effect.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-07-20
TO INTERVIEW A PRINCESS.
How n Clever New York Woman Man.
aged to Converse with EulaIia,


Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, who
conducts the woman's department of
the New York Tribune, is credited with
the following in the Saturday Evening
Post:
zone day when l was writing for the
now defunct Recorder l was assigned
to interview the Princess Eulalia, the
Spanish royal representative to the
Worlds Fair at Chicago. l missed her
in New York, so l paid my own eX-
penses to Washington to interview her
there, but did not succeed. She would
not see reporters. l interviewed the
master of ceremonies, an American
who had charge of the royal party, and
asked him to help me. He replied that
Her highness would return to New
York the next day, but you cannot
meet her unless you are introduced by
Mayor Gilroy himself
81 went back to New York crest
fallen. The next day 1 induced the
editor to send me on the chartered boat
which took the royal party up to West
Point. The boat started and Eulalia
and her escort took up a position on the
main deck. The Mayor stood on one
side and navy and army officers on the
other. All about were soldiers with
crossed sabers. The procession of in
vted guests started two by two to be
presented to the Princess, but when
saw that they did not get near enough
to her to touch her hand l determined
not to take my place in the line, but to
devise other means of being introduced.
Finally q bright thought occurred to
me, and, breaking through the ranks,
l said to the soldiers:
Let me pass; I've message for
Mayor Gilroy.'
Il went through. l walked up to the
Mayor and said: Mr.. Mayor, everybody
has met the Princess but myself. VIII
you present meY
He recognized me and replied 4 am
delighted to have the honor. Your
hlghness. this is Miss Cynthia West