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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
COSTLIEST DRINK ON RECORD.
One That Queen Victoria Took when
She Conferred the Title of Duke
on the Earl of Fife.

What is probably the costliest drink
on record, cost it's recipient ST, 750 says
the Philadelphia Press.
When the earl of Fife-as he was
then-became the husband of Princess
Louise of Wales, Queen Victoria, at the
wedding breakfast which followed the
happy ceremony, drank to the health
of the duke O. Fife"
The drink cost the semi-royal bride
groom the amount of his letters patent
confirming the dukedom.
Letters patent accompany the con-
ferring OF title on an individual.
They take the form of royal man.
damus, and the issuing of the docu-
mentS Is costly matter, which has to
be borne by the ennobled; $5OOis prac-
ticaLly the amount of the fee a new
knight has to pay for the letters pat
emit conveying the royal authority. A
baronet's liabilities are about the
same.
When a "Mr." or "Sir" is advised
of the royal intention to elevate either
to the dignity of baron, the letters
patent conveying the royal authority
carries with it fee of $3.50; of Wis
count, $1,000, an earl, $1,25O, a marquis,
$1,000 and duke, $1,750.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
TO PRESERVE OUR FORESTS.
CIubwOmen of Many states Are In
teresting Themselves In the Work
of Saving the Trees.

Clubwomen are working in many
states for forest preservation. They
have taken an active part in the agita-
tion in Pennsylvania, which has result
ed in the preservation of 700, 900 acres
Of forest lands, placing that state at
the head of all in this matter. The
Woman's club at Wilkesbarre has been
especially interested, securing the ap-
pointment of forester to care for for
ests in the vicinity.
The Maine federation has commit
tee on forest preservation. Maryland
and Delaware are trying to save their
evergreens, of which the states are be-
ing denuded at Christmas time. Now
Jersey wants to ruise fund of 500, 900
for forestry parks along the palisades.
Clubwomen OF Wisconsin have planted
hundreds of trees during the last few
years. Minnesota women, says the De-
troit Free Press, have labored unceas-
ingly to secure a permanent forest
reservation at the headwaters OF the
Mississippi.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
MISFORTUNE OF AN HEIRESS.
The Owner of iran Isle Misses Ducal
Title Because She Was Not
Born Boy.

The recent visit of King Edward to
the Island of Arran, ON the coast of
Scotland, recalls the extraordinary
Luck Of the present duke of Hamilton,
and the misfortune of the owner of
Arran in not being born u boy, OBJ
serves the Chicago Reeord-Herald. The
present duke succeeded to the title in
the most roundabout way. He is de-
seconded from the fourth duke, and his
line branched off in 1742 when Lord
Anne Hamilton (who had been named
after Queen Anne) married. The
senior branch of the Hamiltons from
the fifth to the twelfth dukes, after
reigning 173 years, became extinct in
the male line, leaving plain Alfred
Douglas Hamilton the dukedom. The
late duke, whose mother was II
princess of Baden, and whose sister be-
came princess of Monaco, left an only
daughter, who is now IS. She owns
almost the whole Of Arran, which is
one OF the most beautiful spots in the
United Kingdom and has not become
vulgarized by holiday makers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
MEMORIAL BELL FOR AUTHOR.
Maine Pastor Who Wrote Memorable
Lines Tembered In
Unique Manner.

"To live in hearts we leave behind is
not to de-" said the poet most truly.
1t Is an immortality which comes il
larger measure to but chosen few.
One of these lives in the heart of every
school boy VIII o has detained from the
rostrum on Friday afternoon the stir
ring words of "Spartacus."
He may not know whose brain IA
thered the lines he is making embryot-
ic oratory out of, but the author lives
on, nevertheless. The late Rev. Elijah
Kellogg, for so years pastor ofthe Con-
gregational church in Hauswell, Me-,
was the writer of those oft spoken
verses, says the New York Herald.
In recognition of his writings, as
well as his long passionate, a memorial
bell to his memory has been recently
hung in the belfry of the house of wor-
ship whose pulpit he filled so long with
his kindly presence. His ministry ex-
tended over wide field in the pas
torate along the shore of Casco Bay,
and many out on the deep, as well as
those safe in the harbor of refuge, will
hear the far sounding deep tones of
the new bell and glow with remem-
brance Of good man gone to we'll
earned rest from his labors.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
THE EMPEROR WAS BROKE.
many, Had to Borrow from His
Brother Henry.

1t seems incredible, yet it is a fact
that Emperor William Of Germany Is
often short of money, and the reason
is because he rarely carries any
money in his pockets.
The other day he was at festival
with his brother, Prince Henry, and
his attention being drawn to new
automobile machine, he resolved to put
a coin in the slot in order to see how
the apparatus worked. When he
searched for coin, however, he could
not find one aud he was obliged to bor-
row from his brother.
On various other occasions, and es-
pecially while hunting, since it is his
custom to give money to the fofesters
and other attendants, he has found it
necessary to borrow from his COM
panions.
The only time when he fills his pock-
cts with money, says the Detroit Free
Press, is on Christmas eve, for it has
long been his custom to stroll at that
time through the streets near the pal
ace and to give money to all deserving
persons whom he meets, but especial
ly to children and old soldiers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
THE OIL SUPPLY OF RUSSIA.
Country Ii Larger Than That
of America.

A bulletin issued by the United
States geological survey on the sub
ject of Russian and American petrole-
UNI production says since 1897 Russia
has produced more petroleum. than the
United States. Last year the outputin
Russia was $4,000, 900 barrelSand in the
United States SO ,00O, 900 barrels. The
facilities for handling the large Rus
Sdan product are at present crude, cost
ly and wasteful. The markets are far
away from the production. 1t is said
that three and one-half barrels of oil
equals one ton of Russian coal, which
is high7priced and inferior in quality.
1t is the irregular supply and the fuc-
tuating price which interfere with the
sale of larger quantities of fuel oil in
the great interior of Russia.
During 1900 Russia produced about
17,S00,000 short tons of coal, the higher
grades of which SELF from 81 to So per
ton. During the same year the United
States produced about 27O ,O00, 900 short
tons of coal. All the countries border
ing on the Mediterranean are poorly
supplied with fuel. Two-thirds of the
total product on of oil ct BIZ ku, about
100000 barrels in 1901, now find a
market as fuel oil. The total petrole-
UNI exports from. Russia in 1901 were
42S,657, 210 gallons, and from the United
States during the same year ,062, $780,
BOG gallons
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
USE AMERICAN COACHES.
Large COnveyances for Travelling In
South Africa Made in tbs
United States.

The coaches used in South Africa are
built in the United States-at Concord.
Most of them hold IL people inside in
rows of three, six people facing and six
back to the mules, says Lippincott's
Magazine. By experience we learned
that the two corner seats back to the
mules are most agreeable. Luggage
on these journeys is consideration,
as it is charged for at the rate of
shilling pound, but each passenger
may take rug-or blanket" as they
are always called-,and small basket
of food. The great object Is to get as
much food as possible into a small
space, for when we travelled we could
only be sure of two lceal,--one break
fast and one dinner-during the three
days and nights OF continuous travel
ing.
We made inquiries about the out
side places, thinking they might be
preferable; but some fellow-pasSen-
gers, who were old hands at such
travelling, explained that when the
coach upset the outside passengers
were those to suffer; those inside come
off, as d rule, with a few bruises, the
others getting broken arms and the
like; and this unbalanced our desire
for the open air. Not that one suffer
ed from want of air, for the coach has
no windows at all; glass would not
stand the jolting for an hour. There
is a tarpaulin that one may unrol and
pull down over the windows when
the rain comes in intolerably. The sun
one must bear, for if the tarpaulin is
down it Is too insufferably hot.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
DRIVING CUPID FROM ARMY.
riaHe of officers Under Captain,
Commended by French Officer.

A we'll known officer of Gen. Andres
encourage sends a letter to newspa-
per on the subject of the marriage OF
officers in the French army. Allusions
were made to the speech in London of
Brig. Gen. Young, in which he spoke
highly of the measure forbidding Of
ficers in the German army to marry
under the rank Of captain.
The writer says that young officers
in the French army now find in married
life the solace which regimentaI enter
tainment formerly supplied, but these
later day marriages, he adds, have dont
much to destroy the army's esprit do
corps.
The German plan is about to be
adopted by the French military author
tiles, and Gen. Andre will introduce
bill registering promotion SO as to
place it beyond political influence.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
WILL NEVER LACK COAL.
There In Enough In the Mines of tha
United states to supply Us
Indefinitely.

The basis Of all iron and steel making
suited to the Bessemer or the basic
process of producing steel. The Con-
nellsville district in western Pennsyl-
vania carries the largest known seam
(nine feet) of high grade cooking coal.
But the district Is distinctly limited,
and at present rate of mining will be
exhausted within a generation. Ma
ture, however, was lavish in providing
reserves. The Developments of the
past ten years among the vast bitumi-
nous coal regions of West Virginia,
southwestern Virginia, southeastern
Kentucky and eastern Tennessee, have
revealed deposits of high-grade cox
ing coal that would seem to be ample
to supply the blast furnaces OF the
world for centuries to come. 1t IL only
a question of building railroads, open
ing mines and constructing coke ovens.
Not all good bituminous coal will make
coke. Indeed, in all the great coal
fields of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri, and important coal sections Of
Tennessee and Kentucky, there has not
been found an acre of coking coal.
Draw a circle around the Connellsville
section in Pennsylvania, including the
so-called Mountain" operations adj
jacent on the east; another around the
section where Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Tennessee meet; an
other around the Warrior coal fields
In alabama, and fourth around "a
newly-developed district in Colorado
and Utah and you have all the known
sources of fuel supply for iron and
steel making In the United States.
1t is true that anthracite coal is still
used in connection with coke in the
blast furnaces Of eastern Pennsylvania,
but 1t is small and diminishing factor.
The circles above indicated, however,
embrace deposits so reliable and so
extensive that rate Of consumption
many times greater than the present
could go on for generations without
raising the first question Of exhaus-
ZION.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
SEVENTY.FIyE TONS A MINUTE.
Over 5000 Tons of Iron Ore Loaded
in an Hour.
AN Ore Loading Records on the
Great Lakes are Broken.

This rapid work is made possible by
the exceptional facilities of the North
Western line. Large capacity cars and
big docks with large storage capacity
quantities of ore possible. The docks of
the North Western line at Ashland and
Escanaba have a capacity exceeding
that of any other line in the Lake
Superior region, to which is to be added
one new building, which, when CON-
pleted, will increase their capacity al
most 80 per cent and be the largest ore
dock on the Lakes,
Iron ore was loaded yesterday at the
Chicago 81 North Western Docks at
Ashland, Wis, at the tremendous rate
of speed of 5000 tons an hour The exa
act figures were 5000 tons in one hour
and eight minutes, the ore being loaded
into the steamer James H. Hoyt, which
is built with special view to rapid
loading and unloading.
The North Western Line has two big
ore docks at Ashland, each one of them
about of mile long, and it was at
one of these large storage docks that
the Hoyt received its load in record
breaking time. Supt Sampson of the
North Western personally supervised
the loading, and several newspaper men
witnessed it apd corroborated the
correctness of the record. The last ore
was let into the hold, and the lines were
cast off in record breaking time, in fact,
the engineer of the boat hardly found
time to get the water ballast out of the
vessel
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
SAURIAN SEXES CHILD.
Narrow Escape of a Little One from
the Jaws of a Florida
Alligator.

While a number of passengers were
waiting for the morning train at Pablo
Beach one day recently they heard the
wall of child, seemingly in great dis
tress. Jerry Delaney, deputy sheriff
and former Cincinnati policeman,
headed a number who fastened to
search for the cause of the cry. A
short distance away they saw big al
ligator dragging a child away, having
secured hold of its dress in it's mouth.
The child was shrieking in fright, says
a Jacksonville correspondent of the In
ter Ocean.
The posse rushed to its rescue, and
the alligator redoubled it's efforts to-
ward getting into the bay near by. A
big dog belonging to the child came
running along and dashed at the
saurian's head. The alligator whacked
it's tail around with great force and
struck the dog, knocking the animal
toward the gators mouth, which
opened with gulp, taking in the deg
The saurian killed the dog and Nwal-
lowed him with ease, dropping it's held
of the child's dress in the struggle.
The posse at once killed the gator.
1t was IS feet long. 1t is thought to
have been made fiercer by hunger, as
it is seldom they will attack human
beings, and especially so near habita-
ton. The child was uninjured.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
HOW ERMINES ARE CAPTURED.
An Ingenious Method Is Employed
by the Trapper to Save the
Fur from Harm.

Perfect fur, of the delicate ermine at
least, would be married by the ordinary
snare, SO the trapper deyises as cum
ming a death for the ermine as the
ermine devises when it darts up
through the snow with its spear teeth
clutched in the throat of poor rabbit,
writes Agnes c. Laut, in Leslie's Month
ly. Semaring his hunting knife with
grease, he laysit across the track. The
little ermine comes trotting in dots and
dashes and gallops and dives to the
knife. That greasy smell Of meat it
knows, but that frost-silyered bit or
steel is something new. The knife Is
frosted like ice. Ice, the ermine has
licked, so he ticks the knife. But alas
for the resemblance between ice and
steel! Ice turns to water under the
warm tongue; steel turns to fire that
blisters and holds the foolish little
stoat by his inquisitive tongue, a hope
less prisoner till the trapper comes.
And, lest marauding wolverine or lynx
should come first and gobbe up price
less ermine, the trapper comes soon.
And that is the end for the ermine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
The New Field Gun.

1t has been decided by Secretary
Root that the new field gun to be
supplied to the artillery of the army
will be combination of the best
points of the field guns designed by
Herr Erhardt, the German expert,
and Capt Wheeler, of the ordnance
department. The chief feature Of the
Erhardt gun which will be incorpo-
rated in the new gun to be manufac-
tured is the breech mechanism. The
chief distinguishing characteristic of
the new gun from the old is the til rec
foot long recoil This prevents the
kicking of the gun carriage from its
original position when the gun Is
fred
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
TRADING IN FURS TO-DAY.
some Interesting Particulars of the
Business In the Hudson
Bay Country.

First of all, when an Indian arrives
to trade at Hudson bay post, then,
furs in the pack must be sorted, sill
yer fox worth $500 separated from
cross fox and blue and white worth
from ten dollars down, according to
quality, and from common red fox,
worth less. Twenty years ago, says An
article on Hudson Bay company, In
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, it was
no unusual thing for the Hudson Bay
company to send to England yearly TO-
900 cross fox skins, 1000 blue, 100000
red, hal. a dozen silver. Few wolf skins
are in the trapper's pack, unless par
ticularly fine specimens of brown arc
tic and white arctic, bought as a GU
riosity, and not for value as skins.
Against the wolf the trapper wages
war as against a pest that destroys
other game, and not for its skin. Next
to muskrat, the most PLENTIFUL fur will
be that of the rabbit or varying hare.
Buffalo was once the staple of the hunt
er. What the buffalo was, the white
rabbit is to-day. From it the Indian
gets clothing, tepee covers, blankets,
thongs, food. From it, the white man
who is manufacturer of furs gets
gray fox and chinchilla, and seal in
imitation. Except one year IN seven,
when rabbit plague spares the Land
by cutting down their prolific numbers,
the varying hare is plentiful enough to
sustain the Indian.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
SEEING FOOTBALL BY PROXY.
Blind Enthnsiast in England Who
Never Misses n Match When
He Dan Get There.

Blind since he was four years old, a
well-known Blackburn (England) man
is @ self-taught musician, playing the
piano and other instrumen by ear and
earning his living by that accomplish
ment. Many blind people, however, are
musicians, and that is not the curious
thing about Mike, says Golden Penny.
His penchant is not only for music,
but for football. If you ask him on
a Saturday night where he has been
in the afternoon, he will invaria bly, tell
YOU he has been to "see" football
match. A blind man going to see a
football ma tch-Nonsense! But it is
not nonsense. Mike is so fond of foot
ball-especially of his own pet team,
the Blackburn Rovers-that he never
misses a match if he can possibly help
it in the season, frequently travelling
with the team to matches out of town
not for the purpose of playing music
for coppers, as some may suppose; no,
he goes purely and simply to "see the
game"
True, he sees 1t by proxy. He stands
among the crowd, and as the shouts go
up and the remarks and criticisms of
those about him are expressed, he can
follow the game as keenly as any man,
and when time is called he will tell
YOU more about the details of the
match than anyone else. Mike is
proud of the fact that he has scarcely
missed seeing match on a Saturday
afternoon for the last 20 years-to say
nothing of extra games on other days.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
SOLVE SERVANT PROBLEM.
pare Meals and Deliver Them to
Homes of Patrons

In an endeavor to assist Pittsburg
families in solving the servant problem
a company, to be known as the Dinner
Delivery company. is being organized
and will be domiciled in large brick
residence, recently purchased by the
president, Mrs. Bertha L. GimeS, at s.
cost of $4,000.
The main object of the organization
will be to select, prepare and deliver
dinners and other meals at private resi-
dences in any part of the city.
The organiza ton is being effected by
Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, teacher of cook
cry and president of the Cooking
School Teachers league. Each meal
will be inspected by Mrs. Ewing or an
other culinary expert.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
A UNITED STATES ARMY SANiTARIUM
To be established in the Black Hills
The healing waters al Hot Springs expect.
cd TO restore quickly the health of
sick and exhausted troopers.

Congress has authorized the establish
ment of Sanitarium for disabled sol
diers at Hot Springs, S. D.. the famed
health resort of the Black Hills and a
Board of Managers has selected q site
for the purpose, bordering on the main
street of the town, and including two of
the best known springs. Its officials
name will be The Battle Mountain SAM
t.rium.
The Board of Survey went into the
question of climate water, etc, in u
most scientific and thorough manner and
has declared unqualified in favor of
the great South Dakota resort M being
wonderfully well adapted for the Gov
ernment's purposes
These springs are not recent discov-
cry the Indians having known their
healing qualities for almost 300 years
In fact the Sioux about year A. ID. 1917
fought great battle here with the tribe
then in possession aud drove them out,
to hold possession of the healing waters
from that day to the time when in 1878,
they coded the land to the U. s. Gov
eminent 1t is the great fight OF three
centuries ago that gives the name to the
mountain near the springs, and to the
Governments new hospital and resting
place for troops.
The material development of the Black
Hills region and the Sanitarium project
Il of much interest to the Chicago d
North Western Railway which has a
direct line from Chicago to Hot Springs
Deadwood and Lead
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
OLD CATHEDRAL CRUMBLING.
French Governme nts Neglect in Re-
pairing Church of St. Denis
Causing Alarm.

CONSERVATION has been caused at
Paris by the St. Denis cathedral's in
terror crlmbling. One of the bottom
nave windows had to be filed. The
bricks Of the north tower are ex-
tremely full of cracks.
The statue of st. Denis on the ga
BILE of the nave was decapitated by
a Prussian bullet in 1870, and is grad
ually going to dust, while the font
Of woodwork is decaying for want Of
a coat of paint.
The edifice Is one of the most Otter
visited by foreigners, but is allowed
to 60 to ruins for lack of small
outlay by the government.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
The Left Leads

The left lobe of the brain, govern
ing the right side of the body, is known
to be superior to the right lobe in it's
influence upon the bodily functions.
DR.. Phelps, recent investigator, in
sists that the left brain is also the
intellectual half, He has studied
nearly 300 cases of brain injury and
disease, and has found that the right
side may be severely injured with out
materially affecting the thinking pow
ers
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
A Trick of Sailors

Sailors have very simple, and what
is said to be very effective way of
determining the edible or nonedible
qualities of any new varieties of fish
they may happen to run across. In
the water in which the fish is boiled
is placed bright silver coin. II the
coin retains It's natural color during
the boiling process the fish is good to
eat. But if 1t turns dark, the food Is
rejected
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
In Europe's Armies.

Out Of every thousand men from the
ages of 81 to go there are In service in
France 5s.4; In Germany, As; in Rus.
STA, 43; in Austria, a. and in Italy, 80.
In case of war these figures are in.
creased in Germany to 1879; in Aus
tria, to 90; in France, to III; in Italy,
to LOT, and in Russia, to 81.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13

Philadelphia claims to possess the
most marvellous specimen Of needle
work in the world. 1t is tapestry
measuring ~ feet in length and 10
feet s inches in width. The ground
work is silk and 1t is superbly en-
broidered with figures telling the his
tory of America from the landing Of
Columbus until 1892 A Polish artist
was engaged six years on the work.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-11-13
Reason for Pride,

A former typewriter Lady is now
making big hit as a Non tanner In
Paris, says the Chicago Record. Her
aid. The man who used to dictate to
her must be good and prouduof himself
now.