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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
THE M'KINLEY DEATH COT.
which the Assnssinated Presi-
dent Brenthed His Last.

Although various people in New
York, Boston, Chicago and other cities
say they nave the cot on which Presi-
dent Mckinley died, they are all alike
in error, states the New York Sun.
According to Francis Almy, of the
PanAmerican exposition. two cots eX-
actly alike were in the Milburn home
for the use of the wounded president.
After Mr.. Mckinley died one of them
was sent to DR.. Matthew ID. Mann, one
of the physicians in attendance. The
other was replaced among the cots
owned by the exposition company.
Both were originally taken from the
hospital at the exposition.
"There has been some talk" says
Mr.. Amy, "as to whether the second
cot should be sent to the Buffalo His
torical society. 1t seemed to be the
feeling that it should not be preserved
as the cot upon which the president
died, but should lose its identity and
be put with the other hospital cots and
sold with them, regardless OF its use
during the presidents illness.
"That was done. The cot was placed
with the others. Its identity was lost,
No one knows who has it now. The
cots were sold to persons and institu-
tions in different parts Of the country
81 cannot tell whether Mr.. Mckinley
died on the cot which went to DR.
Mann or on the other one"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
The Gentle Bunko Artist.

One of the clever little tricks of the
day is the conversion of a circular into
n personal communication. The very
latest device is to have the circular, in
the usual facsimile Of typewriter type,
printed on dampened paper. The effect
delights the heart of the most expert
artist in public deception, says the New
York Press. The slight moistening
blurs the ink ever SO slightly and leaves
the sheet trifle uneven of surface.
thus giving it the appearance of having
been especially dictated for the re-
cipient and put through the Office copy
ing press. Atwo-cent stamp completes
the little fraud, which harms nobody
and may catch a customer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17

Human bodies buried in limestone
countries are often turned to solid
stone by the limewater which pene-
trates the graves. In other soils there
are elements which sometime SO en-
balm the buried dead as to preserve
form and features unchanged. Many
such cases are on record. Robert
Burns body was disinterred in 1915 to
be removed to new tomb. To the sur
prise of all his friends the features
were found to be as perfect as at
burial. When the body of John Hamp-
den, the famous English patriot and
leader, was disinterred by Lord Nugent
200 years after burial the form and
features were as unchanged as il the
corpse had been recently laid in the
grave.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
They We're Slow Coaches

The old newspapers of Boston were
"slow coaches" there is no denying
it, says Frank b. Sanborn, in the
Bookman, but the country itself was
slow compared with the modern pace.
This was a favorite Jest when Mr..
Sanborn entered college at Harvard
so years ago: "Why is the Adver-
tiser like a poor mans pIaster?" Be
cause it is good for n week back"
A few years earlier, j. X. Mills, at
their club, had dared to say to Ma
than Hale, then at the top of Boston
journalism, when the veteran editor
was saying, "Such a thing happened
of a Saturday; | know it, because
that day my son Charles was born"
mo, Mr.. Hale, your son Charles was
born of a Wednesday, but you didn't
find it out till Saturday"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
HERD OF DRIED CATTLE.
Colorado Desert Monument
of q Mans Folly.

"In crossing the Colorado desert
In Arizona one sees a frightful monu-
ment to the folly of man who
thought that he could drive cattle
across the desert with such speed
that water would be unnecessary, -"
said S. Il. James, in the Pittsburg
Press. ''More than 10000 carcasses
remind all travellers of the gigantic
scheme to drive cattle through a
desert country without making any
provision for water. 1T was 80 years
ago that an extensive cattlenan, who
was not familiar with the great des-
ert of the southwest, thought it
would be no barrier to his plan of
taking cattle across it from the west
into the grazing country. When the
cattle reached The Pools, which are
small lakes of foul alkai water, they
were so craZed by thirst that they
killed each other in their attempt
to get at the water. The air in
that country is 50 dry and the sun
so hot that carcasses dry up instead
of decomposing. AS one approaches
that great herd of dead animals the
carcasses look as though they were
poorly fed cattle. The hair has not
fallen from the carcasses, and they
have maintained their original shape
so well that man who is not ia
miliar with the desert country might
easily mistake them for beasts until
he made close examination
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
big Relic Trust,

A relic trust has been organized by
the Omaha and Winnebago Indians.
The president of this grasping mo-
nopoly is Great Thunder, Winnebago,
whose speciality is making bows and
arrows. Green Rainbow and Prairie
Chicken, makers OF snakeskin belts,
and John A. Logan, manufacturer of
eagle feather headdresses, are direc-
tors. These leaders will hereafter fix
the prices of Indian goods made for
white purchasers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
CRANBERRY FLOWERS.
Beauties of q bog Blossom with
Which Hut Few of Us Are
Familiar,

One of the daintiest of wild flowers
of June is the blossom of that time.
honored concomitant of roast turkey,
the cranberry. While, however, ev-
erybody knows the berry, few are ac-
quainted with the flower, for the peat
boys where it blows in the choice fell
lowship of the stately pitcher plant
and the golden club, and of many
rare orchid, are quite remote from
the beaten paths of travel, says Coun-
try Life in America.
The cranberry plant is small,
slender, somewhat trailing shrub,
with the neatest of evergreen leaves,
from amid which a few threadlike
stalks lift their nodding flowers
When fully expanded the pink lobes
of each coro!la are curled back like a
lily's, and from the heart of them
the compressed stamens protrude in
the shape of n spear-point or bcak
The imaginative may see in this long
beaked little blossom a resemblance
to tiny cranes head, whence some
hard-pressed etymologist has thought
to derive the word crSnberry-that
Is, crane-berry.
Those who like to make a place on
the home table for oddities and rari-
ties of the plant world may well in
clude in their list for June few
sprays of the cranberry vine in
bloom-the unfamiliar, alert BIOS
SONS. looking brightly out from their
green bower. being sure to delight all
hSwer-loving visitors.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17

In London safe deposit vault re
Gently the renter of a safe, anxious
for the spiritual welfare of one of
the ianitors, said, while they were
in the vault together: Are you pre-
pared to die?" For answer the JAM
tor instantly pinned the questioner
to the wall by the throat. Assistance
arrived and the unfortunate renter
was carried out, half "throttled." FIX
plantations ensued and it was then
discovered that an inquiry after his
spiritual welfare had been construed
by the janitor as the preliminary to
q murderous attack.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
STOPPING A STONE WALL.
An Illustrative Instance of the Slow
ness of Congress In Getting
Into Action.

Tie work of preparing all measures
is done in secret, and no one person CT
leader, and no party, is responsib.'
for what is done or left undone. The
country does not know why this item
Is inserted in an appropriation bill
why that economy has been practice
or what is the reason for some bit G.
extravaganza, writes ii. l.. Nelson, in
Century. Sometimes the committee
demonstrates that EVENT. might be en-
lightened by discussion and criticism
and perhaps the letting in of light
would show that advantage might fol
low if congress and its committee
should leave to the discretion of eN
ecutive and administrative officers
some of the details of expenditure. |
have been told Of a "breast-high stone
WALL at West Point, for example
Years waXed and waned while superin-
tendents pleaded for 10000 for Il e
construction of "breast-high stone
wall" on the road leading from the
wharf to the plane. the road runniu"
along the edge of prccipice. At Lass
congress moved. and the 500 900 wall
was built Having moved, it was now
impossible for it to stop, so It went
on year after year appropriating 500
900 each year for "breast-high stone
wall" until "breasthigh stone walls"
became drug at the military acad-
envy. They ran around the post, and
threatened to choke it up. Superin-
tendents beggedcongress to shut them
off, and finally succeeded.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17

An Austrian material for preventing
the rising of dust on sweeping proves
to be cottonseed oil. In a test at Wen
ma 1t was found that floors oiled twice
year could be swept weekly without
any whirling Of the dust, and the ma
terial was recommended for all rooms
receiving many persons, as well as for
laboratories, libraries and other places
TO be kept scrupulously dust free.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
LBUM OF FRENCH PRINTS.
ae I'm New York Public Library Con-
tains Portraits of Men Who
Helped America.

The reception of the French delega-
IN that came to this country for the
yelling of the Rochambeau monu-
INT adds interest to a fine album pre-
nted to the print department of the
ew York public library not long ago
William +. Havemeyer, reports the
wv York Sun. 1t consists of 1876 por
ats of French personages, both civil
I'd military. who actively or sympa
etically contributed to the success
the war against England for Ameri-
n independence. This collection was
rmed by a Partisan amateur inter
ted in Americana, and demonstrated
e enthusiasm which was evinced for
|nerican liberty by different classes
h French society.
The prints are carefully mounted,
i'd each one is accompanied by bio
['aphical note in manuscript, giving
Ee reasons for its presence in the al
pm. Many of the portraits are con-
mporary engravings, some are litho-
raphs. Special attention should be
fade of the allegories on the declara-
on of war and the defeat of the Eng
sh; the portraits of Louis XVI, Suf-
ZEN, Menou and Necker printed in col
rs: proof before letters of Chof-
lrd's portrait of Admiral Rossel; a
rst state of Vangelisti's 'Du Coued-
/" with Reims instead of Rennes, and
bme yery rare DhysiOnotrace Dor
Rats. The table of contents shows
emarkable list Of names of French
en- connected with our war for indie
endence. and while, as indicated, re-
int occurrences call special attention
this gift, its historical and national
,lue and interest must obviously be
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
POSTMASTER TOO HONEST.
Gould Have Advanced Ills once and
Increased His Pay by n Small
Inves tment.

81 noticed" said an old resident of
Chicago, according to the Tribune, 1.-The
recent story of the Nebraska post
master who bought goods, and stock,
and lands with stamps to such an eX-
tent that his Office went into another
classification and his salary was
raised several hundred dollars year.
THAT reminds me of another post
master out in Missouri who didn't
know half as much, and who, without
any increase in salary, had to buy
drinks for half the town just after
he failed to rise to an occasion.
at was under the first Cleveland
administration. The post Office had
been in the fourth class all it's life,
and as there had never been any pub
lie stir about putting it into any
other class the new postmaster sat
down on his job and sold stamps at
current rates, making the usual set
Elements and thankful for small IA
vors.
"But in the third year of his in
cumbency of the Office things took n
squirt, and when it came to n final
settlement for the year the receipts
showed that the fourth-class Office
had sold things muciaginous to
within $685. of the $1,000 limit, max
ing it third-class office.
"And, don't you know, Smith turned
in the proceeds Of that last quarter
without thought Of buying that
1886 worth Of Is, 3's and SIS neces-
sary to make his Office of the third
class for whole year"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-17
Sentimental Zuuf

The Zuni Indians are sentimental in
the extreme, and marry at young
age. When youth is wooing maid
en- he will goand sit before her with his
back turned to her and untwine his
head cloth. She rejects him by softly
stealing away, or accepts him by run
ming her hands caressingly through
his lookened locka
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25
The Great Salt Lake.

Prof. w. ]. MCGEE, of the govern
ment geological survey. declares that
the Great Salt Lake of Utah is vanish
ing, and that this most remarkable
body of water will be completely dried
up in fifty years, if not sooner. AL
ready it's waters show signs of reced-
ing. and it may not be more than TWEEN
ty-five years before irrigated farms will
be cultivated on what is now the bot
tom of this inland sea, whose waters
are so salt that body cannot sink in
them.
The lake is about seventy-five miles
long and half that at It's greatest
width. and is rather shallow being in
most places not over 80 feet deep, al
though depth of possibly 100 feet
may obtain in certain places. The rea-
son why it is so salt, science says, is
simply because it has no outlet save
through evaporation, and the streams
during past ages have been carrying
salt into it. These contributing streams
are now being utilized for irrigating
the lands around the lake, and before
long immense reservoirs will be con-
structed in the mountains, where these
streams have their sourse, which will
cut off the lakes feed entirely. When
this is done the level of the lake will
be lowered very t.-Washington
Star
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25

be won. A shade below 1J2 Is the tenn
perature now, and the stretcher bear
ers are called. The patient. placed be-
tween blankets, is carried off to a
ward, the doctors rejoicing as they fol-
low. He reaches the ward alive. Sud
denly. however, in twinkling, the life
that has five times been brought out OF
the shadow, leaves the body forever.
The stretcher bearers, again taking up
their burden, wend their way to the
morgue, and the body Of the man who
was picked up in the street awaits
Identification.
This is the story of an actual case
that came to Bellevue Hospital.
In large majority of cases the pa
tient reaches the ward living. He is
then put in cot and his temperature
carefully watched. This Is the great
danger in heat prostration, and is met
at once with spraying and by stimula-
ton If necessary. If there should be
moro than one rise in temperature the
chances for recovery are very small,
congestion and clogging Of the veins
being almost certain to snap the feeble
thread Of life.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25
Worry Causes Dyspcpsia.

Worry is Il cause and Il source OF
much unhappiness. 1t seams the face
with line and burrows and has a most
depressing effect upon that hypersen
sitive organ, the stomach, which al
such times becomes a most unwilling
and laggard servant. Indeed, it is safe
to say that unless encouraged by a
cheerful temper and bright or, at least
hopeful thoughts. the stomach will play
truant or sulk or do no good work. The
physiological explanation of this is the
ciOse alliance of the great sympathet
nerves, which are worse than the tele.
graph for carrying bad news; the work
and anxiety which depress the brain
cause simultaneously semi-paralysis
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25

instant of warning, the breathing ceas-
es. Dropping, as though it were red
hot, the hose with which he has been
spraying the patient, the physician
falls to his knees astride the senseless
body and begins the work of superin-
ducins artificial respiration. The pa
a il gov on ths brink S Sf aeSth
Anodyne is injected into his veins and
the water and ice continue to be ap-
piled. the work of inducing respiration
still going on.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25

used for this, while with the other the
physician keeps careful watch of the
pulse, listening closely at the same
time to the breathing.
Hard Manual Labor.
Ten minutes of this work-and it is
hard, manual labor-and perhaps the
breathing becomes better, the pulse
more regular and the temperature
lower. The work goes on now with
some hope of living issue. the water
splashing over nurse and doctor and
the ice still melting rapidly. There is
no cessation Of the slapping and rub
bling, for normal temperature has not
yet been reached, and, notwithstand-
ing the work that has already been
done. the patient is still far from safe.
Suddenly, perhaps, and without an
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25
Remedies for Wrinkl les.

One of the best preventives for wrin.
kles is to learn facial repose. Keep the
body so well nourished that the face
will share in the general we'll being,
giving evidence to this by its plump
ness and lack of angularity. Then it is
important to keep the teeth in good
condition, so that there will be no sag
ging in of the cheeks where teeth are
missing. Massage for the face is like
exercise for the rest of the body, and if
used for the purpose of toning up the
muscles it is beneficial. The general
direction of the strokes on the face
should be upward and outward in or
der to lift up and strengthen the fall.
ing muscles.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25
Cure for Uneven Shoulders.

Doctors and tailors have noticed that
the number of patients and customers
who have even shoulders is increasing
The right shoulder is usually higher
than the left. This is true especially
OF men engaged in literary wor... The
effect is due to the way men sit or
write at their desks. The right elbow
rests on the desk. throwing one Shout.
der higher than the other. Few per.
sons when writing keep the shoulders
erect. The reason that few women
clerks are so affected is because the
most OF them use the typewriter, which
forces them to sit more erectly. When
yon notice that you are affected the
best thing to do is to change YOUR way
of sitting ut your desk. Two simple
exercises will help you out. The arm
of the lower shoulder should be OK
tended upward. the hand grasping a
dumbbell; that OF the higher shoulder
should be lowered and be made to SLID
port Il heavy weight.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25
DOROTHY QUINCY.
HncOck's Fiancec Resented Il Prema'
turc Show of Authority.

/
| turc Show of Authority.
Every schoolboy remembers from his
history that when Paul Revere rod"
Though Lexington he stopped ut John
Hmcock's house. and that Hancock
seized his musiet and babe them riN D.;
the bell; but not every one knows that
the young patriot, who was destined to
become governor of the commOnWeHll II,
had an encounter with a fairer foe
than the British. in which he was also
victorious.
Saying at the house of IIancock's
aunt Mrs. Lydia Hancock, was Miss
Do'othy Quincy. Hancock's atlianced
vie. The part she played in the events
of hat exciting day when the British
cane is told by her great great-nicce in
recent volume, dorothy Quincy"
Hancock and Adams were hurried
by their friends to Woburn. for they
were too valuable in the council cham
Der to risk their lives in battle. Mrs.
Lydia Hancock and Dorothy were al
lowed to remain in the Lexington
w
After the troops passed on to Con
cord, Hancock sent a letter to his aunt,
asking her and Dorothy to come over
and bring a salmon. which was to be
served for dinner
So the lovers were again united, but
not for long. They had just sat down
to the salmon when a man rushed in,
crying:
"The British are coming"
When the excitement of this an
nouncement abated, Hancock and
Adams, the prizes for whom the Brit
ish We're seeking especially. were con-
Quoted quietly to Billerica.
Before the separation Hancock and
Mistress Dorothy had a lively skirm-
ish. The young lady's nerves We're very
much shaken, and when the lovers
were walking for few minutes talk
in the woods. Miss Dorothy turned on
Hancock and announced suddenly that
she was going back to her fathers
house in Boston.
Hancock protested vigorously. The
roads We're still prowled by redcoats.
NO. madam" he said. you shall not
return as long as there is ii British
bayonet left in BOston?"
The fair Dorothy was astOunded at
this premature display of authority
on the part of her lover.
"Recollect. Mr.. Hancock" she re-
piled, IL am not under your authority
yet. shall go to my fathers house
to morrow
But it was many months before Dor
Othy Quincy returned to Boston. The
good Aunt Lydia interviewed and made
peace and Hancock's Judgment was
finally accented.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25
BATTLING WITH DEATH
How Hospital Doctors
" Heat Victims-Work Calls NJ
~ Vast Amount of Energy and ~
Often in the End

60 HE average person who reads of
the great number of deaths and
prostrations from the heat in
New York has very little idea of what
a work the hospitals do in caring for
the army Of sick the torrid weather
brings to them, writes correspond
ent. Their work is constant and
fierce hand to hand fight with death,
and the battle never begins until after
the dread messenger has a strong grip
on his prey. The heat has fired the
blood Of the victim to such point that
he lies helpless and inert, the blood
thickening and threatening every min
ute to clog the veins and bring about a
condition in which the heart cannot
perform its accustomed office. The
lungs labor, and life hangs in the bal
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-08-25

At the last session of the Maryland
legislature a law was passed making
women eligible to admission to the bar.
Miss Eta ii. Maddox has successfully
passed an examination and has be-
come the first woman lawyer in the
State of Maryland.
Ping-pong has become quite the fash
ionable game in Turkey where it is
played with the greatest enthusiasm
by ladies. The khedivah. mother to
the khedive OF Egypt. has Il ping-pong
table in her magnificent new palace
on the Rosporus and her ladies play
every day. One great advantage that
they have is a number of slaves in at
tendance, who save them the trouble
of picking up their balls.
Quite Il number of titled ladies have
fOrsaken the luXuricS of their home
life to devote themselves to charitable
works in nunneries. TWO sisters of
the Duke of Norfolk. Lady Frances
BERTHE, Lady Edith Denbigh and many
others are thus living out their princi-
pies. 1t report is to be believed. no
less Il person than Queen Marghorita of
Italy is contemplating the taking of
the veil. Rumor is also busy with the
name of the cX-Qucen Natalie of Ser
via. who is described as Il likely can
didate for the religious life,