The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-06-28


But your family will get killed.
"Flamily! My family alice right
But where are your wife and chill
dren?'
MY wife and family; they happy;
they all right.
Where your family querried Hong
II have no family am Il bachelor
You bach lori"
Yes, Hong"
Il be bach Tor too my tiamlly all
right"
And Hong Lee drove his iron at an ac-
CELEBRATED pace through the bosom OF a
shirt as he laughed heartily over the
joke about his family
A few days ago Circuit Court Clerk
p. j. Mcmahon had an invitation to at
tend party and it was agreed that all
who made addresses should speak in
German Mr.. Mcmahon was unac-
auainted with this condition when he
went to the dinner and he ate his repast
with avidity and relish. After the APP
petizing edibles had been disposed Of
the POSTMASTER got up and made lew
remarks in German. The affable CIR
cult court clerk listened but didn't I'M
derstand. The POSTMASTER merely re-
ferred to the fact that some of the men
would be called on for a speech. MI
McMahon's neighbor ut the table told
him the substance of the presiding Off
GERS remarks and then Pat lolled
backed in his chair, feeling content that
at least he would not be called upon for
d speech.
Imagine his dilemma, however, when
a half an hour afterwards he was called
upon TO respond to the toast for the Ia
dies. Mr.. McMahons friend to the left
minated what the chairman requested
and without moments thought trust
ing to that native wit which has bridged
many an Irishman over difficult pitfalls.
he began in his own idiom
O"Ladies and gentlemen: am an eX-
pert in drinking in German, also eating,
but up to so far am not i'll it when it
comes to responding to a toast for the
ladies in the Teutonic tongue.
And, Mr.. Mcmahon got n cheer for his
admirable tact.
A business man of ManitowOc, who
found time hanging heavy on his hands,
the day last week it rained SO hard, be
gan to figure ont a problem i'll mathe-
matics, taking coffee, in which he deals
largely, as his subject. He put coffee
beans into the scales until they weighed
an ounce and by counting them found
there were just 1872. Then he figured
that in order to sell billion pounds of
coffee in ten years he must sell 100
pounds day. He has been telling all
his customers since that time that coffee
is the only healthful drink on earth. If
he sells billion pounds i'll the next ten
years he has promised himself and wife
a trip to Europe.
1t is not all joy at a picnic, Judging
from an experience at English Lake last
Sunday. A few persons went out to
that sylvan spot to commune with ma
ha
ISOLATION. When one is fairly encamped
on the mound, to the west side of the
lake, and the pots and pans, fishing
tackle and the grub hauled to the top,
and the ground located to make Il tenn
porary sojourning place, then it is re-
freshing. But that which tears IA man :
soul and makes him call on Jupiter for
assistance, is at the preliminaries, when
the picncker reaches the base of the
hillock and surveys the ascent and the
ominous looking tin ware and parcels
which must be carried to the summit,
up through tangled web of under
growth, clinging vines, brush bramble
and overhanging branches.
Truly, man earns his after pleasure
by the sweat of his brow, but ut the mo-
ment, with the sun beating down with
aggravating power, he is apt to forget
the delicacies of speech aud use harder
language than the circumstances war
rant. But picnic is worth all if costs.
There is IN abandon about it which ap-
peals forcibly to ones nature, Men and
women for the moment lose that stiff
ness which artificial environment pro
duces and they harmonic their thoughts
and actions to their surroundings. And
so, to wooded grove, where the birds
sing and the leaves and wild flowers
make poetry and the spreading lake
temps to its breast, will the people he
trending for the next few months.