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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDIUMS.
Perfectly Healthy People Often
Possess Abnormal Powers.

Possess Abnormal Powers.
Il have had good deal of expert
ence with mediums, and I've come to
at least some small basis Of abnormal
power Is 1t not rather suggestive that
the number Of practicing mediums does
not materially increase? If it were a
mere matter Of deception, would there
not be thousands at the trade? AS d
matter of fact, there are not fifty adj
vertising mediums In New York at this
moment, though, of course, the number
IS kept down by the feeling that it is
bit dsreputable to acknowledge posses
sion of these powers.
There are nice ones Ny own moth
er had this power In her youth, so my
father tells me. Her people were liv-
ing in Wisconsin at the time, and the
settlers from many miles around came
to see her perform. An uncle, when Il
boy of four, lid automatic writing,
and an aunt recently wrote to me in re-
lation to my book, The Tyranny of the
Dark that for two years beginning
when she was about ~ these powers
of darkness made her life a hell. There
are many recent people who are posses
sed by strange forces but are shy OF
confessing these abnormalities. Ask
your family physician. He will tell you
that he always has at least one patient
who Is troubled by occult powers They
call 1t 1lysteria,' which doesn't explain
anything. Many apparently healthy
people possess the more elementary of
these powers-often without knowing
it."-Hamlln Garland in Everybody's.
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TO ACQUIRE FORESTS
SENATE PASSES BILL FOR NATION
AL PRESERVES.
Parks Will Be Located in Southern
Appalachian and White
Mountains.

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 10
The bill providing for acquiring national
forests in the southern Appalachian
mountains and White mountains was
passed by the Senate today. Senator
Teller made an extended speech against
the measure. He SAID he did not object
to the states preserving the forests, but
there was in his judgment no authority
under the constitution for the United
States government acquiring lands Cor
forest reserves under such conditions as
the pending bill provides.
The bill providing for the continuance
Of the inland waterways commission.
introduced Thursday by Representative
Burton of Ohio, was passed by the
House today under suspension of the
rules. 4 remark attributed to President
Roosevelt that he would continue the
commission whether Congress authorized
it or not was the subject of much adj
verse criticism from the Democratic
side, particularly by McssrS Clayton Of
Alabama and Williams of Mississippi.
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story of u War Trophy.

Bose Garth. of Clinton, probably
made the first corn shelter used in Mis-
souri,. Fifty years ago, in 1888, he
devised one from wateroak plank and
tenpenny nails lie used it on his farm
until 1861, when Prices men came
through there, saw it was good thing
and took it down to Jackson'S mill,
where it was used to shell the corn
which was ground into meal for Con
federate soldiers. The old corn shelter
was lost track of for number Of
years by its maker, but afterward he
was Informed that it was being pre-
served at Washington among other Gu
rlous trophies captured from the South.
Clinton Democrat.
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brush. The plan was laid out for
building IA feet high, IA feet long and
I feet wide. He worked with remark
able patience, oftentimes putting in all
his waking hours at his task. After
two years Of almost continuous appi-
cation the job was finished
The walls of the cathedral, the tow
ers and turrets, the galleries and stee-
pies, the ornaments-all are of match
es. 1t took more than 100000 match
es to build the church and more than
100 pounds Of glue used in fastening
the 100000 matches securely-New
York Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
Care of the Eyes.

In the windy months Of March and
April even more than 1T any other times
Of the YEAR many persons suffer acutely
from smarting and painful eyes Wa
ter slightly sailed Is an excellent remedy
for all trivial eye troubles. rs it is nc
once strengthened and 4 disiufectant
famed eyes will be found in bathing
them in iukewarm Salted water, to
which may also be added small guam
tity of horic acid. The application should
be repeated each night and morning I'M
til all trouble has disappeared.
Belladonna, once so popular for rem
dering the eyes brilliant, Is now seldom
used. but much the same result with no
can be obtained from the application of
tepid water with a small quantity of
ordinary table salt dissolved IN it.-New
York Times.
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such painstaking labor as few men are
capable Of performing.
For 20 years Lempertz has been a
coal miner He worked in the mines
Of Germany and America, but few
years ago he had TO give up mining on
account of III health. While he was i'll
he did various things to while away
the time. One day he started to build
a toy cathedral patterned after pic
ture he saw in magazine. His build
his tools a pocket knife and a glue
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
WILL PRESENT NO BILL,
No River and Harbor Measure at This
Session of Congress, Says
Burton

WASHINGTON ID. C., May 16.--
The announcement that there Will b" no
rivers and harbors bill at this session If
Congress and that nc surveys will be
authorized until the next session. was
made today by Representative Burton of
Ohio, chairman of the committee on riy-
ers and harborS, in response to inquiries
made by Representative Moore of Penn
sylvania. in the interest of lat least
3o.ooD,Ooo people interested in the pro-
posed inside passage from Boston To
Key Vest Mr.. Burton stated that
there will be merely an administrative
bill at the present session. slightly modi-
flying plans already approved, but carry
ing no appropriations and authorizing no
surveys. This bill will comprise certain
notifications and ampliticatious of pro-
jects affecting Chicago harbor Mobile
harbor, the mouth of the Mississippi
river and Duluth.
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DEFICIENCY BILL
GIVEN TO HOUSE
APPROPRIATIONS INCLUDE $4,000
900 FOR COAL ON CRUISE OF
BATTLESHIPS.
LAST OF SUPPLY MEASURES.
Recent Pension Acts Call for Single
Item Amounting to S1O,-
100000.
CORRECTS NAVAL GRADUATION.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 10
The general deficiency appropriation bill,
the last of the regular government sup
! ply bills. was reported TO the House to-
day by the committee on appropriations.
The bill carries S17,342,JT2. OF this
amount $1O,OoO,oOO is for pensions,
made necessary by the widows pension
act passed ut this session and also by
the old age pension act of February u,
1907.
For the laval establishment, there is
an allowance of So. 15G,-,9, partly neces-
citated by the recent increase in the
pay of the enlisted men and officers of
the navy and partly 10y the increased
amount of coal that Will he consumed by
the battleship fleet in going from San
York. The total cost of coal and its
transportation for this purpose aggre-
gates SJ,pDD,OU.
Increase Pay for Soldiers.
OF the total amount. Sl,3lO9O1 is for
the military establishment aud covers
among other expenses the Increased pay
of the enlisted men and officers on the
active and retired lists Of the army for
the remainder of this fiscal year. These
three items aggregate almost Sl5,OOO,O6.
The chief other items are: Printing and
binding, SD, 900; judgments certified Ia
Congress by the court of claims. SS94,-
900: judgments for the Indian deprcda-
tons. Sll4.OOO; accounts audited by the
various departments and certified to Con-
grcss, $299,oOO.
In accordance with an order from
the navy department, the Annapolis
cadets of the class of 1901 were given
an opportunity of graduating in Sep
TENDER of 1906 or February of 1907. \
number of the cadets took advantage of
this opportunity and remained at the
academy during the vacation period
studying, and succeeded in passing the
examinations in September and Febru-
airy. They are now serving their two
years at sea, but recently a decision
was rendered by the adjutant- general
of the navy department that this order
was illegal and that the graduated mid
shipmen could not receive their com
missions as ensigns until two years
from June of 1907.
To Correct Conditions.
The effect of this decision would be
further, to prevent them from obtaining
a reasonable status if they should suS-
tain injuries in the service between the
date of their earlier graduation and the
date of the graduation in June To cor
rect this condition the general deficiency
bill carries a provision authorizing these
graduates to be commissioned ensignS
subject to the usual examinations mt the
expiration of two years of sea service.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21

Rear Admiral Coghan whose vessel, the Raleigh,
dered such conspicuous service at the battle Manila
Bay, tells the Philadelphia Ledger Of the important
changes which have taken place in the navy since that
memorable battle of ten years ago.
The greatest change" said the Admiral, has Of
course been the great increase in the strength OF
navy Never in the history Of the world has nation
increased its power within any period of ten years
we have since the with Spain. We had then four
batteshlls We now have % nearly all of which are In
commission The four others which are under construc
tlon should soon be ready for service You might en-
phasize this that any these newer battleships
which we have built since the battle of Manila would
have been more than match for the entire fleet which
Admiral Dewey commanded
1.-The other advances. They have been notable and
many There Is the Increase in the rapldty fire. We
now have actual rapid fire. But In those DAYS such
appliances as we were introducing might be described
tending to, WELL say decrease slowness Of fire that
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
WANT DUTY ON HOPS.
English WORKERS Make Claim Americans
Have Brought Ruin to In
dustry.

LONDON, May 1G.-Fifty thousand
men and women interested in the hop
industry held monster demonstration
in Trafalgar square this afternoon in
favor of imposing duty of SO ON
every hundrcdwrght Of hops imported
,hc multitude ou the ruin Of the indus
try through tllr dumping of American
hops in England, and resolutions were
adopted by acainmation calling upon
the governmen. not to delay IN helping
to re-establi~h the industry and placing
a duty ON all imported hops
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
IS TOO YOUNG TO WE'D NOW.
BOSTON. Mass, May IG.-A

BOSTON, Mass, May 1G.-A girl
cmigrant, Sgrd Larsen, who landed
from Norway % wed her Stoughtun,
Wis. lover, Peter Peterson, il detained
at the immigration station The officials
would not allow her to journey TO wis.
consn unless she married Peterson She
declared she was too young TO wed and
sent Peterson alone to provide the
dopecotc, promising TO journey westward
later. Her sister. who lives at Slough.
ton. will be asked by officials to send an
affidavit to tie effect that she will be-
come responsible for the girl. When
depart.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
DRAG LAKE FOR GIRL.
No Clue Is Found TO Missing Assistant
in Princeton University
Library.

PRINCETON, y. J., May lG.-No
definite clue as to the disappearance Of
Miss Bertha Vanderbilt, an assistant in
the Princeton university library dcyrl-
oped today. 1t is believed, however, the
girl was drowned in Carnegie lake, aud
snarchcrs are today dragging the lake
IrInCetOE.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
The Explosive Force of Water.

Water, looked upon as the tameSt OF
liquids, is as great an explosive as
dynamite, under certain conditions. In
one day water breaks up more earth
and rock than all the gunpowder, gun
cotton and dynamite in the world dc
In year. These explosives can be
controlled by human agency, but water
does not hold itself accountable to man
1t runs into the ground freezes. ex-
pands and splits the soil into little
pieces. Finding Il crack in a huge
rock, it repeats the same process,
forcing It asundcr. IF frozen in the
pores Of a tree it often cXplodcs with
a report like Il gunshot and the force
Of a dynamite bomb.-Dundce Adver-
tiSpr
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
CALLS TAFT "TOO FAT"
Geraldine Farrar Gives Feminine View
of Political Situation in
America.

PARIS, May rs. - Geraldine Farrar
voiced strictly feminine view of the po,
litical situation in America during long
discussion of wide variety OF topics
with the correspondent in the Elyscc
Palace hotel, where she is staying with
her mother. 81 was unable to resist the
maelstrom of American politics." She
said, but now uu my return 10 Europe |
find | have carried away only one def.
mite impression, and that is ! hope Mr.
Taft will not be- elected President rs Ae
is too fat"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
MORE CHARGES FILED,
Defaulting Pittsburg Cashier Accused of
Abstracting Securities Worth
$l2500O.

PlTTSBURG, Pa, May 1G.-Na-
tioual Bank Examiner Folds mad, an
other information against William Mont
gomery, former cashier Of the Allegheny
National bank, this afternoon. charging
him with nbstracting from the bank
securities valued at $50, 900 Mout-
gomery who is at liberty on SluO,OOO
bail for the embe2zlemcnt of 100000.
consented to appear before United
States Commissioner VIM. Lindsay.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
CRUISER HAS RECORD.
South Dakota Breaks All Marks for
Vessels of Her Glass IN
Trials

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 10
A wireless message received this morn
ing from the armorcd cruiser South
Dakota which is returning to this port
from her final trial trip. reports that
she has broken all records for vessels
of her class. Her average speed during
her four hours trial was 2236 knots
under forced draught and 2O07 knots
under natural draught
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
BRY AN IN WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON, u. c., May 10
When the white house conference broke
up the other afternoon Mr. Bryan lin
grrcd in the east room for few minutes
talking with ex-senator Cary Of Wyom-
ing. When they started to 90 out Mr.
Bryan found the door he tried locked.
MIR. Bryan" said ex-senator Carey,
with mock imprcssivcnoss you are
locked III the white house,
II wonder # I'm in for four years?"
said the distinguished Ncbraskan smiling
" as he led The way {, an Open door.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
A RETROSPECT.

My boyhood lies far. far away
Down the dim road of Yesterday.
Yet oft the heart within me cries
For just one glimpse of those glad skies,
OF that lost time when hearts were gay.
What joyous, Carc-frcc days were they,
W hat merry games we used to play!
| gaze back whrre-ah. how time flies
My boyhood lies.
SO now, my temples strcakod with gray.
| sit and dream of lifctmr's May.
As Memory Old Time dcuc~;
though smiling, | cannot dcSpiSc
l hose master hctions of their day
My boyhood lies.
Rex II. Lampmau, In Smart Set.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
CATHEDRAL MADE OF MATCHES.

A coal miner named Wilhelm Lem
pertz arrived here few days ago with
a cathedral-a cathedral made Of
matches. He came from Port Arthur
Texas, where he had been employed
until recently. The cathedral repre-
sents two years of Lempertzs labor
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
THREE ARE MURDERED,
New Jersey Farmer, His Wife and Serv-
ant Found Dead in Farm
house.

MATAWA%. \. j., May 1G.-W. T..
Sheppard, Il sarmer who lived about
four miles soutu Of Matawan. his wife
and a servant named Jennie Durdy,
were found dead in the farm house 10.
day. 1t is believed they were muir
dercd. An infaut still alive, but badly
injured was found lying near the bodies.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
BANKERS SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY
BY Senator Depew of New York.

Bankers do not claim that they are
in business for philanthropy or their
health. They do not deny that they
desire to make all the money they le-
ultimately can. to pay good dividends
to their stockholders, and strengthen
their institutions by adding to their
surplus But no student Of finance
can rise from a study of what the
bankers, not only of New York, but
Of Chicago and other large cities, did
in the recent crisis without feeling
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21

DEPEw. that the banks Of the country of
icered and managed by wise leveheaded, exceptionally
able and patriotic men.
No better public service be rendered by bank Of
and directors than to keep the machinery Of
going and to maintain strong and solvent the in
situations upon which the credit and business, the en-
poyment and the living Of the people depend
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quence us the final should be the evolution
of higher and nobler type of man in America and not
deterioration Of the nation.
To this end process evolution should be carefully
studied then controlled by suitable immigration laws
tending eliminate undesirable clinical elements and to
stimulate the admission of elements assimlated readily
by population tend to raise the standard Of
manhood here.
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DIVORCES ONLY FOR THE CHILDLESS.


Throw wide the gates of marriage.
ana where children are produced close
tight the doors of divorce. Every child
is entitled, by nature, to a father and
Il mother, and no people should pro
duce children who are not prepared
TO give them parental care for life.
The grand spectacle is presented to
our eyes of a new people being grad
ually evolved in the United States by
the minglng together of the different
races of the world in varying proper
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making progress If the church did about the
conditions of labor, | tell you right I'd get out
Of the church But the church does Christ
social system He set out to better the individual.
Josh Billings once said Before you have
honest horse you must have honest human race
and guess there lots Of horse in that state
ment. 1t is not much question of mans surround
ings hut what he is within. within himself that has
do with composing the social unrest
The church herself has created this increased social
unrest III showing people the heights to which they might
attain. That is Jesus Christ wod have ita health
full dissatisfaction with personal conditions teach
how to rise higher
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1898
ALA RAMA

would be the best way to express what doing
then Then the minimum Of time required between shots
of the heavy pieces two and a half minutes Now
the maximum is about 40 seconds
The improved gun mechanism permitted Of q vastly
increased rapdty In firing The telescope sight brought
about vast Improvement in accuracy especially when
firing at long range One observer had become much
impressed with this accuracy that he sought to tell
about it in this wise: The captain peering through his
binoculars at ship just above the horizon says to the
captain Of a slx-inch gun: Hit that fellow on the
bridge in the eye Aye aye says the gun captain
which eyer"
Among The numerous other improvements the Ad-
mral noted the advance In construction a prog
great that the II inches which Connect-
cut carries has greater resisting power than the IS
inches which the Oregon and her class carried Still
another important advance Is the powder with
which magazines supplied, this being vastly
superior to the old smoking brown hexagona which
fought out the with Spain.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21

After an affecting scene at play
the men all blow their noses vigorous
ly and the women pat their eyes. A
mans way Of crying is to blow his
nose.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-05-21
THE CHURCHS INTEREST IN LABOR.
By Rev. Charles SfeIzIe.

The labor union is not the labor question.
If all the unions were wiped out Of exist
once the question would remain. This is the
era of the common man. The common man,
the workingman, is coming to his own. I'm
less that victory is based on sound principles,
the last state will be worse than the first.
The square deal for every man should be our
ideal We are making mistakes but we are
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mond. where br has ir.t rndargo,a an
operation. performed hv DR.. Stuart No
Gu.rc. who removed nearly 100 pounds
of suuer.Iuuus flesh from The mans an
dDmen Baz2le experienced great relief
after the removal of the adipose Tissue.
He probably will be able TO return to
his home N Rockingham county within
few days. Bazzic weighed 400 mounds
before the operation.
Living on farm mt NORTH Raadiny
Mass. and enjoying the best of health
is a freak calf II has II perfect dos,
face. and its owner. Nick Prehle mas
The animal has ALREADY h..ru r. at.
tract much attention. ana arge p,tn,bers
of people have visited tho farm FIR rho
uurnnsr of lonkirr ~ hin, -rL a,if
is n very intrIIignmt anirnaI IT, +o',b
are ur,Inr,Gnr III" fI".,' w., p,
terrier aud L,r,,. va -, '''>luH
mnn,ir, IN .,,t,,,t ~ ~ - ~.
nni ,,, ,,I -, =. ''N ,''I - mar
,''' ~ ,'I" - ."'s ''ND'"oe nose 'I
"'H an" ., N''A "P on JUS HAuhrheS
LiAr the canine race. Ih" front logs
n' ,III;,' H'"t l"e n'ld ones are long,
Ss'"'"l'h- III some degree Il kangaroo.
''I aIN' M uahit "i growing Ike
,I"E' ana ne takes great delight in
eating meat ana mik.
Ihr other night man. name UNI
known, walked down Turner street. Al
wearing a Merry Widow" hat the size
of bicycle wheel. The man foiIr-I
to notice the hat. and when he was
near the woman the latter turpa.
around The sborn ana hraidad oJ,,
OF the hat struck the man o%rn.s ~.
.vns N-;,b -, ~ 49, '''
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EMOTIONAL CONTROL BRINGS POWER.
By SHvain Rcu5e.

When we yield to an emotion our sentiment
always transforms itself into movement
Joy, fear, love- anger are expressed in I'M
conscious gestures, in a perfectly clear man
ner. The strong man is master of his emo
lions and his unconscious movements In or
der to expend our strength to the best advan-
tage is is needful to give out as little as
possbe under that base form of energy
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der control The choeric man, violent, exuberan is
feeble fellow at the mercy Of his environments With
him the nerves dominate abolish individual In
itiative He is creature Of impulse no matter where
1t originates He is u moral and social slave
The man is lively too peulant dispenses his
forces as quickly they are produced He never has
but small amount Of energy to concentrate on some
thing really useful, although he attacks his problems
with vim and even with violence man who wishes to
strength for the right occasions must husband his
resources and hold careful watch his daily
mens
Such man has the advantage in that by his vic
tory Of will power his emotional tendencies,
bis animal centers and human instincts he has purified
his Judgment reinforced his mental powers and given
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Broke the Law.

"What got me into trouble? Failure
to ignore the law"
"That seems odd"
"Not at all. | couldn't resist the
temptation to give the law swift
kick."-Louisville Courier Journal.
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, himself the capacity discrimination in many other
between the important and the insignificant, the
useful and the idle.