The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-12-26

Inc SlcuECS sang. IhcY sing no more.
There came frIghtful slump.
The auto banned the horse straightway
Tho smith wise wife was keen
Iron sIuu "GARAGE" 90 say.
"REPAII;S" aud "GASOLINE."
liUt fugcyiSm gained the day.
All stayed as an had been.
Hence qucnchcd is now the forgc's fire.
Rags now the wifcly wear.
The daughters left the village choir,
Her gowns beyond repair;
And aye her old. back number sire
Plucks cobwchS from his hair
NOTES OF INTEREST.
j. B. Gray, Des MoiurS capitalist,
must pay Wnilrod Mckenzie. a lIamp-
ton, Ia, school teacher. $4,000 as balm
for a laccratcd heart because he courted
her for seventeen years and then clopcd
with Marie levckc of DcS Moincs. Miss
Mckenzie brought suit for $50 900 dam
ages for breach of promise. The trial
lasted week and love letters from Gray,
written after his secret marriage, were
produced. Gray's defense was that he
had been pursued by the school teacher,
who had repeatedly asked him TO wed her.
The jury was out thirtyfour hours.
Eleven men held out for $4,000 damages
and one for nominal damages. AS Il com
promise $4,000 was agreed upon.
Throwing Il SNOWFALL may prove fatal
To Mrs. f. \. Schugman of Kankakcp.
Ill. In suoWhalIing friend she lost
her balance, falling hoadlong from Il
porch To the ground, distance of ~
feet, receiving serious injuries
Unlawful use Of the mails is the charge
To ice preferred by the federal authorities
against the Raudlctt Bachelors club Of
tandlctt Ok. who, by writing letters
under fictitious names to eastern girls
have caused dozens of them to come ia
the biz pasture town in quest Of hus
bands and fortunes. Not able to find the
men with whom they correspondent with
a view to marriage, they are now lett
stranded. Several, however, are being
cared for 10y charitahly inclined persons
The ease Of Lois Bamhrrgcr lT-ycur-
old Chicago GIRL is typical. She spent
Iour days u quest of the man whom She
expected to- marry, but could not lud
him. Money has been raised here 90
send her back to her parents, aud she las
started. The girl said the man sent his
photograph and wrote "tho sweetest Of
letters So She could not help falling
i'm love with him and coming to him
when he asked her.
United States Commissioner Bnudiug
Of lnwtuu has taken the case up with
District Attorney John Emhry ut Gutlt-
RE and every effort wlll be made to
prosecute the men, whose real names are
known
4 III, a. n
when Miss Mary Massey of Ballard
county. Ky. after one Iool, at the bril-.
liant red hair of Michael Giyycns, de
cidod that she could not endure married
life with him.
Givycns arrived from Kokomo, Ind.
To meet and wed the girl of his choice.
The girl he had selected from score
of those who answered his Wanted.
wife al In a matromuial paper as the
one best bet.
Miss Massey said that she had always
had horror of red haired people, and
red headed men especially, because they
were all cross Giyvens, it is said. Of
fcrcd to 90 ont and have his hair dyed,
but all to no avail.
When Bertha SHALLOW of Portland.
ore, was born five years ago she was
without an upper lip, n roof to her mouth
" ~ idldl'' IbudN NIf II UTMOST per
feet in all three as the result of a re-
markablc surgical operation completed
yesterday. The patient was born with
the worst form Of what is known as hare
lip and cleft palate.
Two men and two girls scaled the tow
or of the Carnegie institute ut Pasadena
Cat, distance Of siNty-iivc feet. The
Quartctte WAS discovered Just at day
light The wurkmou were astonlShcd and
th" observatory people were i'm terror.
II is dangerous feat to climb this
tower, as there ar" no guard ratings mt
the top, and the spectacle was much IKE
quartctte standing on the main truck
of a man of war.
Stewart Dunbar n prominent iusur-
auce broker Of Honolulu, was saved from
death by n clearing house certificate,
lie was on his way To meet u party of
friends and fell through II cattle guard
on the track of the Northwestern Pa
ciiic railroad. near san Rafcal. Cat His
foot was caught aud he would have been
crushed to death 10y an approaching
haudcar had il not been for his presence
of mind III ignitug u clearing house Ger
tifcate and holding it over his bend as
signal Of danger.
This attracted the attention Of the oc-
cupants of the car, who stopped II just
in time.
Fifty tcamstcrs, twenty cOachmen,
thirty houscgirs, and fifteen women with
babies to give away were waiting at the
porch when Mr.. and Mrs. Theodurc
Lucusmauu uwukc at the brides home.
1903 Morguutord road st. Louis, the
morning after their marriage.
They were summoned there by news
paper advertisements inserted 10y prur-
teal iokprs lucusmauu says lie >a,-
poets young woman stcuographcrS at the
candy factory where lee is Il clcrk.
Frodcrick Wolf. ma 1S-year,old lus-
bar 1, went to jail az atlantic Cts rather
than kiss bis pretty wife, q year Younger
than himself after ii quarrel wAch
brought the husband before Magistrate
Hughes.
'lf you kiss your wife and promise to
be good IN the future | will let you 20. 80
promised the magistrate.
BE hanged if will, I'll go to Jail
first" asserted the young husband. He
was sent e. jail IN default Of $500 bail.
John W. Gates was riding with al
friend and fellow pluuger the other day
in n Pullman ear. II was raining. and
the rain was coursing down the window
pancs Gates watched the drops. Two
were tfickling down side by side.
''Het Nou 5000 said Gates, that nv
drop reaches the bottom Of the window
before your drop gets there
III "a YOU, said tue other man.