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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
ICE STOVES ARE IN VOGUE.
They Are Fed with Salt and Will
Keep the House Cool In
Warm Weather.

There'll be unalloyed joy for the fat
go around with a wilted collar and
with perspiration pouring from his
face. No more will the irritating and
profanity-provoking "prickly heat"
make him feel as II he were being
slowly tortured to death by piercing
with cambria needlea Prof. Willis
Moore, chief Of the weather bureau,
has determined to put on the market
his "ice stove" which is guaranteed
TO make any homes cool enough for
a polar bear to live in with comfort,
says a Washington report
The icepick will take the place OF
the poker, and, instead OF sitting
around welding palm-leaf fan, all
that will be necessary will be to throw
q couple Of hundred pounds of Ice into
the "stove." Instead Of going to the
refrigerator for one Of the compo-
nent parts of high ball." you need
only open the door of the "ice stove"
select a chunk to fit the glass and pro-
coed as usual. Scotch and siphOn wa
ter, together with tomatoes and let
tuce, may be kept together in the
stove.
The "ice stove" like all other stoves,
comes in all sizes. 1t Is big copper
cylinder, which is filled with ice and
salt. These directions accompany each
stove:
"If in a bedroom and the tempera-
ture outside is more than 100 degrees,
put three pair of blankets on the bed.
chuck so pounds OF ice into the stove,
close the wind ows and retire"
users of the ice stove are cautioned
to keep overcoats and earmuffs where
they can be quickly put on. Don't
store in camphor at the bottom of the
trunk. No moths can live where there
is an ice stove.
Don't go into the warm open air
when frostbitten by the use of the ice
stove. Scrape some snow from the side
of the stove and rub ears or extreme
ties vigorously.
"Use the pick, which is sent free with
each stove, to break the ice In the
water pitchers every morning. a ham,
mer or an iron dumbbell may be used
in emergencies, but the pick is better.
Don't put mint and butter in the
same compartment in the stove. Tho
mint is often stronger than the butter.
and when the latter is spread on hot
bread the flavor is often distasteful,
even to those who like julips.
"All bottled goods may be kept In tho
ice stove. The tubular arrangement In
the cylinder is excellently adapted for
keeping bottled goods, even after being
opened"
When tramps visit home where the
ice stove is in use instead OF being
made to chop wood they can be made to
cut the ice into cubes for the stove. In
return they should be given their dim
ner and pernitted to cool off In front
of the stove.
Prof. Moore says that an Ice stove
sufficient to heat a room Is by Is can be
bought for 5000, and that $75 worth OF
ice will keep it going all summer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
FEED CALVES COD LIVER OIL.
Young Animals Said to Make Great
Gains on This Kind of
NOu iAah ment.

An attempt is being made to SUBJ
stitute cod-liver oil for the natural
fat of milk in feeding calves, accord
ing to the Philadelphia Record. Milk
contains, as is generally known, all
the nutrients necessary for the full
development Of young animal life. If
one Of these elements is removed 1t has
to be replaced with substitute Of like
kind in order to insure thrifty devel-
opment. Butter fat and cream, OF
course, are the most highly priced and
valuable Of dairy products and some
resourceful individual suggested that
these might be extracted by pressing
the whole milk through a separator
and their loss be made up to the CALI
by adding an equivalent amount OF
cod-liver oil, another fat nutrient.
Experiments have accordingly been
in progress for some time at one Of the
agricultural colleges in Yorkshire and
recent reports seem to indicate that
they are entirely successful. There
is but little labor involved. The cod
feed than the whole milk and the
calves appear to thrive on it. During
feeding experiment embracing some
% weeks it was found that the average
daily gain Of the calves fed on whole
milk until they were weaned was two
pounds; those fed on skim milk and
oil and continued on an oil ration,
2. hounds, while those which had been
fed oil and milk, but from which the
oil was subsequently withheld, only 81
pounds.
On Strengthening the animals no in
furious effects on the flesh could be
discovered. The daily ration that APP
peared to be successful was made up
Of five quarts of skim milk and two
ounces of cod-liver oil. Fortunately
the calves do not develop that aver
sion to cod-liver oil which Is natural
to most human beings, but, on the con-
trary, readily become accustomed
to it.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
WOMAN PRISON CHAPLAIN.
Ministers Regularly to the Hardened
Chara ct ers Confined in Lar
annie (WyOD Jail.

The only woman in the world en-
gagged as chaplain in prison is Mrs.
May Preston Slosson, of Wyoming,
and she performs her duties with
zeal that is worthy of all praise. She
is a regularly ordained minister of
the Gospel and might be settled over
prosperous church, but she sees her
duty lies among the convicts at Lara
mic and has chosen that as her field
of effort, reports the Chicago Chron-
cle.
Mrs. Slosson received the first de-
gree granted to woman at Cornell
university, where she worked for two
years after she had received the mas
ter's degree at Ilillsdale college, Mich
igan.
After graduating she accepted the
professorship of Greek at Hastings
college, Nebraska, and was married in
1891 to Prof. Edwin L. Slosson, pro-
fessor of chemistry at the University
of Wyoming in Laramie.
In Wyoming the prisoners Of the
state pcnitentiary were at one time
kept without work on account OF the
opposition of the trades unions to
their employment. Men deprived Of
the saving grace of work, no matter
to what part of the community they
belong, soon become thrown out of
their balance. That happened to the
prisoners, who got into peculiarly
morbid and unruly condition.
1t was in that frame Of mind that
Mrs. Slosson conceived the idea which
the authorities permitted her to put
into practice. She arranged for a
series of Sunday afternoon talks and
experimental lectures by the profess
sors Of the university.
She herself gave two lectures before
the convicts, and when the minister
who was acting as the chaplain left
the town the prisoners petitioned the
governor to appoint her chaplain. He
acccded to the request, and since July,
1899, she has filled the Office not only
to the satisfaction Of the authorities,
but, what is more important, to the
satisfaction of those who are the en-
forced members of her congregation.
The prisoners number some 220 and
consist for the most part OF young
men who have gone west from spirit
OF adventure and have got into trou-
BILE either through drink or from get
ting the brand on the wrong CATTLE"
ms cattle stealing is euphoniously re-
ferred to by the men themselves.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21

a molecule Of alcohol is composed OF
two atoms of carbon, six Of hydrogen
and one Of oxygen; so synthetical al
cohol is obtained by uniting these
atoms accordingly. For n long time
# has been known that by direct com
bination Of carbon and hydrogen in the
electric arc, acctylenc can be obtained.
Sufficient hydrogen must be added TO
the acetylcne TO produce cthylenc, n
constituent Of Illuminating gas, In
combining water with the ethylcn. al
cohol Is obtained. Thus, alcohol is pro-
duced in France without the employ
mcnt Of vegetable matter.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
A FATAL OMISSION.
Mother Overlooked an Important
Item In Posting Her Low
ing DAuH hter.

The mothers suspicious were
aroused, and that night when the
young man left the house and the
daughter came upstairs she inter
viewed her, relates the Cincinnati En-
quirer.
elizabeth" she said, sternly,
didn't l hear Mr.. SIMPLIFY kissing you
In the drawing-room as l came along
the hall?"
"No, mamma you didn't" responded
the dear girl, emphatically.
"Wen, didn't he try to kiss your
persisted the mother.
Eyes, mamma" demurely.
The mother spoke triumphantly.
81 knew it," she said. "Did you per-
NIT him to do SOP"
you had always impressed upon me
that l should not permit any young
man to kiss me-"
THAT was right-that was right, my
DEAR" said the mother, encouragingly.
"And what did he say to that?"
The girl blushed, but was undaunted.
"He asked me If you had ever told
me l was not to kiss young man."
The mother began to realize that
possibly she had omitted vital link
in the chain Of her instructions.
what did you tell him?" she asked
nervOusly.
II said didn't remember II you had"
The girl stopped and the mother
broke out, urgently:
well, go on-go on"
~ guess that's what you heard,
MOTHER" and the daughter waited for
the storm to burst.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
DIVORCE IN ROYAL FAMILIES.
The Honse of Hesse Has n Record
That Was Abhorred by
Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria disapproved very
strongly of morganatic marriages, al
most as much as she did of divorce,
and she dealt very peremptorily with
her son-in-law the husband of her
favorite daughter, Alice of Hesse,
who took unto himself a morganatic
wife shortly after the death of the
grand duchess.
This lady was the Grain Hutton
Szapska, with whom Duke Louis
lived only one week, SO vehemently
did his mother-in-law let him hear
her mind on the subject, says London
Sketch.
The Hesse family, indeed, are some
what addicted to both divorce and
morganatic marriages.
Wilhelm Of Hesse was divorced
from Princess Elizabeth Of Schaum-
burg-Lippe; and his sister, Princess
Maria Augusta, divorced her cousin
husband, Prince Won Hcsse-Phillip-
stall, very shortly after her marriage
to him.
A generation ago Prince Alexis
Won lIesse, uncle Of Ernst Louis, was
divorced by his wife for cruelty, as
he used to drag her about in the cor
ridors Of his palace, Mon-Bijou, in
Berlin, by the hair.
While out Of the recent ancestors
Of the family, Wilhelm Ernest Fred
erick Of lIessc was actually married
four times and divorced twicel
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
GIVES HIS WIFE A PRESENT.
bracelet Upon the Empress OF
Which She In Very Proud.

Emperor William has presented to
his wife singular bracelet, which
the empress vows she will wear to
her dying day. 1t consists of seven
disks Of solid California gold Of the
purcst quality, each disk being about
the size of silver 25-cent piece, but
three times MS thick. The disks bear
cnamcled portraits Of the imperial
children, each disk being inclosed
in thickly set diamonds. Hanging
from the bracelet is heart of solid
gold, weighing about two ounces, on
which is n portrait of the emperor.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
PARASITE AFFECTS MINERS.
Twenty Thousand Men In Germany
Disabled by Disease which
LIN fies the Doctors.

The coal mining industry In West
phalia, Germany, is being seriously
hampered by sickness among the min,
ers arising frors an intestinal para
site which recently has spread so
rapidly that the sickness has become
almost universal Twenty thousand
men are affected, and some OF the
pits have 90 per cent OF their work
ers disabled. The disease hitherto
has bafiied the doctors and all rene
dies have failed. The temporary bar
racks and isolation hospitals are be-
ing erected TO prevent the spread Of
the disease and enable a scientific in
vesugation Of the parasite. which is a
sort of worm.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The four greatest needs OF Greece
grain, coal, iron end lumber-are tho
ones which the United States would
best be able to supply.
The yearly gross earnings OF the
United States Steel corporation are APP
proximately equal to the gross revenue
received by the United States govern
ment.
Seventy French firms manufacture
motor cars and their combined output
last year was Il, 900 cars. The industry
employed 10000 workmen, earning on
an average $500 year each.
Large deposits of stone suitable Tor
photographic purposes have been dis
covered and opened in Thessaly. Greek
experts report that this stone is far SUI
perior in quality to the best litho-
graphic stone heretofore known In Eu-
rope.
Under the heading, "a New German
Industry" German papers state that
the manufacture of quartz glass is
rapidly developing IN that country.
Quartz glass consists essentially OF
melted quartz and is perfectly trans
lucent.
The membership of the United Mine
Workers of America, as shown from
the number who paid the per capita
tax during the month of March, is
larger than It has ever been in the his
tory OF the organization. Last year it
reached 232, 1000, While this year 1t is
,439.
Peat fuel in freight locomotives In
Sweden has hauled the maximum load,
the cost being about the same as with
English coal. To avoid the expense u
an extra fireman, however, the peat is
now mixed with an equal weight OF
coal, and the mixture has proven so
satisfactory thatit is to be tried on pas
senger trains.
The shape of the rudder OF vessel
seems to be of more Importance than
has been generally supposed. Expert
ments In Scotland by j. Foster King
indicate that the rectangular form has
decided advantages, as 1T presents a
larger surface at the loda line under
all conditions and requires smaller
stock and working gear than curved
shapes. With sufficient area the mar
row blade is as effective as the broad
one, while it can be set more rapidly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
WORLDS PETROLEUM SUPPLY.
Scientist Declares That Deposits of
the Globe Are Of Volcanic
Origin.

+. Coste, the president of the Cana
dian Mining institute, recently read an
interesting paper before that body,
says the New York Commercial Adj
vcrtiser, setting forth his reasons for
believing that the petroleum deposits
Of the world are Of volcanic origin. lie
points out a number OF facts which
render the theory at present generally
held by geologists-that it has arisen
directly from the decomposition Of or
ganic remains, animal and vegetable
untcnable.
He calls attention to the fact that
no such process is at present under
way; that all organic decomposition Of
animal matter is so rapid and com
pletc that there Is no opportunity for
the cntombment Of anything but
bones in sedimcntaTy rocks; that as
the oil deposits Of the lower silurian
limestone Of Ohio and other fields are
below the carbOniferous beds and as
1t is generally admitted by biologists
that previous to the latter age there
was very little vegetable life on the
earth, these enormous deposits could
not have arisen from organic remains,
because there were few organisms at
that time, and, finally, that If petrol
cum was due TO the destructive distil-
lation Of coal, there would now be no
coal beds, all having lo1g ago been
transformed into petroleum and a
cokclike residue.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
THEHORRORS OF WAR
Red Cross Conference at Geneva to
Seek to Lessen Them.
Important Steps Contemplated when
the Delegates from the Different
Nations Have Dom e Tog eth
er in September.

The delegation which will represent
the United States at the Forthcoming
international Red Cross conference to
be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in
September has been completed with
the appointment of Commander
Nathan Sargent, of the United States
navy. The other members of the del
egation are Francis b. LOOMS, assist
ant secretary Of state, and Gen.
George B. Davis, judge advocate gen
eral of the army. The conference is
to be held for the purpose of revising
and extending the Geneva treaty OF
1864, under which the various Red
Cross societies are recognized.
The delegates from the United
States are men of wide experience In
international affairs. Gen. Davis is
an authority on military law and the
author of o textbook on interna-
tional law. Francis b. LOOMS, the
assistant secretary of state, was min
lister to Venezuela during a trying
and important period and during a
wide and active consular service has
given careful attention to interna-
tional questions. Commander Sar'
gent is Admiral Dewey's aid and for
ten years was naval attache Of the
United States in Italy and Austria
during the formative period Of the
new navy. lie is an accomplished
hnguist.
Many important topics will be con-
sidered by the international confer
ence in Geneva next September, chief
ly looking to the amelioration of the
suffering and horrors of war. All
the principal nations will take part in
the conference.
Many important amendments to
the treaty are to be considered. 1t
Is proposed to provide for careful
examination Of bodies on the field
prior to their burial or incarceration,
as 1t Is q well-known fact that hasty
burials after battle sometimes con
sign living men to the grave. II IS
also proposed TO enact that every Of
fcer or soldier shall bear on his per
son mark rendering it easily posi-
bic to establish his identity.
The suggestion will be made that
field hospitals and other temporary
establishments Of that sort follow
ing troops on the field Of battle to re-
ceiye the sick and wounded shall be
considered neutral under all circum-
stances, and that if they fall into the
hands Of the enemy 1t shall be the
latter's duty TO return them to the
army from which they were taken
when they are no longer required for
the care Of the sick. The adoption Of
this provision would mark an impor-
tant and humane advance.
1t Is also proposed to discuss the
question whether there is substantial
reason for retaining as the sole dis
tinctive sign red cross on a white
field or whether it would be proper
TO allow exceptions In the case Of
non-Christian countries, such rs Tur-
key, which has substituted a red
crescent for the red cross.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
RUSHING TUNNELS.
Yerkes Says Londoners Are Grow.
ing to Like American Energy.
The Railway PromOt e r Declares That
work on Underground Railways
Has Been Source of GRAFT
incation to Them.

Charles II. Yerkes, who is managing
director of the company which is
building the London underground
railways has arrived In this country.
He comes to attend to some of his in
terests in California, and expects to be
in this country about three weeks.
Speaking of the work on the London
subways, Mr.. Yerkes said:
THE people Of London are getting
used to having their streets tunneled
under, and therefore are not kicking
as much as they did at the beginning.
They now appreciate the magnitude OF
the work we have undertaken and the
great benefit they will derive from a
speedy completion of the work. They
are saying to us, therefore, in sub
stance, God speed and more power to
YOU And yet we are not digging up
London to anything like the extent
New York has been dug up in the
building OF the subway.
81 don't say this By way Of CRITICS
ing New York methods of constrGc-
ton. Far from it. But owing to the
nature of the London subsoil we are
able to push our way forward, while
you have to dig 1t out or blast it out.
II we had to meet similar conditions
IN London l don't believe the people
would ever stop kicking.
az think the British people are bit
surprised at the way work has been
rushed. No public work, or private
work, for that matter, in England ever
has been pushed as this work has been
pushed, and I think the people there
are not yet over the surprise that so
much could be accomplished In com
paratively so short time.
"But that which interests the British
public most, ! think, and that which
interests our company most, is the
great power station on the bank Of the
Thames which will supply all the pow
er we will use on the entire system.
The building covers four acres, and
when completed will furnish ten 1900
horse power engines, which will fur
nish power to generate all our electric
ity, and when the machinery is all set
up which will be by July Of next year.
we shall have room enough in the
building to increase our power capa-
city by at least so per cent.
"One Of the properties we acquired
was an old steam road that ran from
Ely to Harrow. This road we have
equipped with what we know in this
country as the third rail system. We
have three rails but we have also what
has not yet been introduced in this
country-namdfy: n fourth rail This
we use TO conduct the surplus and
waste power back to the power house.
I would not like to estimate the
amount we save by the use Of the
fourth rail, but it is an amount that
IS worth while saving, I assure you.
On this road we are schooling our
motOrmen for future service"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21

The war between the white corpus
cles of the blood and the microbes of
disease was first described by the
Russian pathologist, Metchnikotf
While devoting himself to the study
of determinations he in each case noted
the presence of white cells in the blood
currents in abnormal numbers. Inside
these two cells he invariably found the
specific microbe Of the disease under
onsideration-it seemed that the big
corpuscles were devouring the poison
Gus microbes. Sometimes the number
taken up by a corpuscle was too great
and 1t died as n result. If this over
coming Of the white corpuscles by the
microbes was general the patient
ied.-Medical Journal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21

The original manuscript Of Edgar
Allan Poe's 'Ihe Bells" has been sold
at auction at Philadelphia for 81, 100.
IL was part Of the Harold Peirce IL
braTy. The manuscript Is little
scorched. Itconsists Of slips Of blue pa
per pasted together, and originally
Formed a strip eight inches wide and
57H feet but IL has been divided into
three more or less equal parts- IT lacks
the last fourteen lines Of the completed
poem, but it Is believed that they aeyer
formed part Of this sheet.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21

Many English doctors are now con
WINGED that the eating Of pigs flesh
in different forms is greatly respon-
sible for the increase Of cancer. They
point ont that II u most common
among the poor, whose chief meat il
that Of pigs, while the disease is ex.
trcmcly rare among the Jews.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
New England Dish.

An old-fashioned New England dish
is made by boiling green peas and new
potatoes together. Boil the peas for
go minutes. then add the potatoes,
which should be small; put In a tea
spoonful of salt, and boil 20 minutes
longer. Pour off the water, add tea
spoonful OF butter, a cupful of cream
or rich milk. heat through, and serve.
IN. Y. Post.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21

A regularly constituted eastern au-
thority says hats may be taken of In
an elevator when a lady enters, il the
elevator pertains to hotel or an apart
mont house, but should not be taken off
II il is an adjunct Of an Office building
or public institution. An unsophisti-
Gated public, says the Chicago Tribune,
will be grateful for the information. 1t
IS horrible TO commit n blundcr in n
case Of this kind
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
Unique Expedition.

With the object Of obtaining speci-
mems Of every dialect spoken in the
United States, Prof. Scripture, of Yale
university, is touring the country In
n special railway carriage fitted with
Photographic apparatus. He will visit
the Indian tribes first, and afterward
the poorer white people Of the south
and foreign-born populat.on.-N. Y.
Sun
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
Strangers Now.

II never wear the same dress twice"
said the spinster who had more money
than beauty.
And is it true" queried the girl
whose face was her fortune, that you
really have different set Of teeth for
each day in the week?"-Chicago Daily
News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-05-21
How Nice of Him.

Blossom,-Well, | have found that
Mr.. Geldsky returns your love in full
Flossie-Oh, isn't that delightful.
Then III have the fun Of giving it to
somebody else. was really afraid the
selfish thing was going 20 keep it
Baltimore American.