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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24
MAN THE CREATURE OF ENVIRONMENT.
BY Ada May Krecker

Even In the simpler, even in the simplest
matters, but let phenomenon recur or per-
sist and its results are foreordaincd to ram
ify surprisingly and to watt unforeseen eff
fects into unexpected places. OF this the
everyday SCOT of an everyday city supplies
a case in point Its influences on clothes
and compilations and atmosphere and petty
ease doubtless have been ventilated more or
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24
WOMAN's DISCOVERY OF HERSELF.
By Rev. William Busfard.

One of the greatest discoveries of the past
twenty-five years has been woman's discov-
cry Of herself. She has reached that stage
where she knows she is not a doll an angel
or a slave. but a woman, and claiming her
rights and privileges.
Once, to be born girl was to be born n
nonentity; in this age to be born a girl
means q bundle Of possibilities with a power
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24
The Worm

Teacher to clasSl-Dm YOU know.
children, Jhat the beautiful silk dresses
worn Tn ladies come from little worms.
BESSIE teNeitcdlyl les'm That's our
plpas.- uarper's Weekly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24
BITS OF SCIENCE.

\ ''FIhah chemist has invented a sub
Eutulr Tor celInlold which is claimed to
na'r an MS advantages, but freedom
from c'l'puN'IpIIily
According to IN" National Opticians
convention III Philadelphia this month
N"iiyh H'N are weaker than men $
"''' i',.'' W tue lar sex wear SIaSstS.
. Al. rIiLi,NlilAan mas invented a hlryrl"
l"f t"' n..nl. ~ r'aItN' 1t Is y multi
,aoi,.,. , ,'n. lux I"',ie FlIerS req by
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24

water and sweetenlng to taste. To
each quart of the lemonade allow half
an orange, sliced, a tablespoonful of
pineapple, cut into dice small
banana, sliced, and handful of cher
rics or Strawberries or raspberries
Let all stand half an hour before serv-
Ing, and turn into punch bowl or
large pitcher with plenty of ice. Stir
up well from the bottom before pouring
n1t
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24
Raspberry shrub.

For a foundation for this beverage
one must have the old preparation of
raspberry vinegar or raspberry royal.
To five teaspoonfuls of this a quart of
cold water must be allowed, and the
mixture must be served with plenty of
ice. If red raspberries to float on the
surface of the punch cannot be pro
cured, in their place may be used n
cupful Of shredded pineapple or u
banana cut into dice
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24
Finds Great Salt Lake.
River Wrongly Marked.

The success with which Ac had met in
his explorations stimulated INN rp at
tempt the solution Of the problem of the
course Of the Charta lSanpo, biz
tributary of the Brahmapurra. He found
that its course has brrn wrongly marked
OH the maps, and that it is fed from huge
SNOW peaks, a Lake being formed from
Whence tnc river reached the Bralma.
putra.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24

Make foundation of good lemon
ade, allowing five lemons to quart Of
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
Federal Authority Upheld.

Washington-In refusing to grant to
Attorney General Young of Minnesota
writ of habeas corpus releasing from
the penalty imposed by the United
States District Court for the district
OF Minnesota on charge of contempt
of court in instituting proceeding in
state court for enforcement of the
railroad rate law after the Federal
Court had prohibited such course
and in affirming the decision of Judge
Pritchard of the United States Circuit
Court for the western district of North
Carolina discharging from imprison.
ment James II. Wood, ticket agent
of the Southern Railway at Asheville
after he had been sentenced by the
Asheville police court to serve term
on the rock pile on the charge of col
lecting for a ticket on that road a
greater price than was permitted by
the state railroad law, the Supreme
Court of the United States Monday
added another to the series of decisions
which have rendered notable the pres.
ent term of that court.
In both cases the right of the states
to fix rates for railroad transportation
was the issue, and both involved con
ficts between the federal and the
state courts. The decision in each
case was opposed both TO the states
and to their courts.
The opinion of the court in both
cases was announced by Justice Peck.
ham, and with the exception of Justice
Harlan, all the other members of the
court stood behind him in the all
nouncement of the courts finding
Justice Harlan read dissenting
opinion in the Young case, in which he
took the view that the suit was prac
tically proceeding against the state
and therefore not permissible under
the eleventh amendment to the consti
tuition. He therefore characterized the
opinion as an era making history OF
the country. said it had the effect OF
closing the courts of the state against
the state itself and predicted that the
result would be disastrous
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
Gain in five years ...$ s7,9O4.4
Senate Passes Subsidy Bill.

Washington.-The ship subsidy bill
was passed by the senate Friday. 1t
pays to sixteen.knot vessels plying be-
tween this country and South Amer
lea, the Philippines. Japan, China and
Australia, 81 per mile. the amount
awarded by the act of 1891 to vessels OF
twenty knots only.
The bill was amended in the senate
so that twelve-knot vessels will receive
So per mile. which is the allowance un-
der existing law to siXteen-knot yes
sells Amendments were also adopted
providing that if two or more lines
of steamships ply from Atlantic ports
to South America under the provisions
of the bill. one shall stop at two ports
south of Cape Charles, and stipulatins
that no more shall be paid for sub
sides than is received from such ser
vice by the government.
During the consideration of the
measure, Mr. Hale made spirited plea
for an auxiliary navy, declaring that
without auXiliaries our navy is de
pendent upon foreign countries and
that in case of war we would be help
less.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
sPEER WINS IN DENVER.
Democratic State commItte Endorses
Davoren City Committee.

Denver.-The Democratic state com
mittee Monday night voted to recog
nize the Davoren city committee, known
as the Speer committee, as the author.
ity to conduct the coming municipal
campaign for the Democratic party in
Denver and ordered the Bailey, or Pat
terson committee for the city and
county of Denver to take part in and
abide by the city primaries.
1t further ordered that the Davoren
the primaries to be held by the Bailey
committee as the central committee for
the county of Denver in the fall cam
paign.
This action was taken by a vote OF
92 to 27 on the resolution presented by
former State Senator Frank A. Moore
of Florence, which demanded the recog-
milton of the Speer-Davoren committee
as the Democratic power in the city of
Denver as distinct from the county or
ganiZation.
Senator Moore's resolution was as
follows:
Whereas. The last Democratic
state convention recognized the
Bailey committee as the Democratic
county committee of the city and
county of Denver; and
Whereas, The Davoren committee
is the only organized city committee
On the CITY and county of Denver;
therefore. be 1t
Resolved, by the Democratic state
committee, That the Davoren organ
ization is the regular Democratic city
committee of the city and county of
Denver: is entitled to the use of the
party name in all city matters, and
authorized to file city ticket in Den
Yer, for the May election, under the
name Democratic; be it further
Resolved, That We order the men,
bers of the Bailey committee organiza-
ton to take part in, and abide by, the
city primaries to be held by the Dav-
oren committee, under the rules of
our party; and We further order the
Davoren organization to take part in,
and abide by, the primaries to be held
by the Bailey committee under our
party rules, for all committee matters,
in order that the Democratic party of
Denver and the state may present
united front to the common enemy
The committee selected Glenwood
Springs as the place for holding the
convention June 18th to select dele
gates to the national convention to be
held in this city July 18th, and made
the apporiionment as follows: Dele
gates at large for every county and
ore delegate for every 100 voters i'll
each county or fraction thereof. The
convention itself will select six dele
gates at large.
Pueblo was chosen for the nominat-
ing convention in the fall, the execu-
tive committee to name the date. The
apportionment was one delegate at
large for each county and one dele
gate for each seventy-five votes cast
for Alva Adams in 1906.
A resolution was adopted endorsing
William ]. Bryan for President.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
Miscellaneous.

The house committee on public
lands has made favorable report
on the senate resolution authorizing
the attorney general to bring suit to
recover 900, 900 acres of land granted
to the California and Oregon Rail
road company on condition that 1t be
sold to settlers at $3.50 per acre. a
condition with which the road refuses
to comply.
Following a series of conferences
at the White House between the pres
ident, members of congress and rep
resentatives of business interests a
new legislative program is to be at
tempted and will be urged upon con-
gress through special message from
the president.
At monster mass meetings held at
Canton the Chinese of that province
expressed great Indignation respect
ing the governments action in yielding
to the Japanese demands in releasing
the Tatsu Maru and a boycott on Jap
anese goods was organized.
The death of Senator Bryan of
Florida makes the seventh member of
that body that has died since the ad-
iournment of the fifty-ninth congress
March 4, n year ago.
While entering New York harbor the
Alta Z. liner Kronprinz Wilhelm had
a hole ten feet in diameter torn in her
stern by the steamer Crown of CASTLE.
Nobody was injured.
The route of the New York to Paris
race has been changed to include Los
Angeles.
The profits for the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph company for the
past year were s23,479,000.
Abe Hummel, the New York divorce
lawyer, has been released from Sing
Sing after serving a year for suborna-
tion of perjury.
Five indictments have been returned
against A. c. Tisdell. whose private
bank in Chicago failed several months
ago.
On his plea of guilty of numbering
ex-Gov. Steunenberg, Harry Orchard
was sentenced to death by Judge Wood
at Caldwell. Idaho, with recommen-
dation to the state pardoning board
that the sentence be commuted.
Atchison has adopted plans for the
finest high school building in Kansas.
A shortage of between $1,000 and
Sc 900 has been discovered in the Of
flee of the surveyor of customs at st.
Louis.
The United States steel derelict de-
stroyer Seneca. the first of her type
was successfully launched at New
port News recently.
At Linton, Ind, three men were
killed and four injured by an eXplO.
sion in a powder mill.
The situation in Haiti has been
greatly relieved by th- arrival of war
ships at Port Au Prince and no imma-
diate danger of further trouble is aD-
pretended
The supreme court of Missouri has
decided that city ordinances prohibit
ing persons from lounging or loafing
on street corners are unconstitutional.
The Missouri supreme court has
handed down n decision upholding the
constitutionality of the local option
law of the s;ale.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
Earthauakes in California.

Los Angeles, Gala special to the
Times from Imperial. California. says:
Three distinct earthquakes were felt
through Imperial valley Sunday morn
ing. No damage is reported from the
various towns other than the breaking
of a few dishes at Brawley and El Cen
tro. The first shock occurred three
minutes before 6 o'clock and was the
most severe of the three. The second
followed in FIVE minutes and the third
in fifteen minutes, each quake lessen
ing in severity At Brawley the peo
p,e rushed out of their homes.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of tt:
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the Wor!I Condensed
Into Small Space Tor the Benz
eft of Our Readers.
Congressional,

Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin has
introduced bill providing for tariff
commission. The body is to be com
posed OF nine members not more than
five from any one political party.
The American Federation of Labor's
statement of grievances has been laid
before the senate.
| After a spirited debate the ship sub
sidy bill was passed by the senate
recently.
BY vote of 14S to 115 the house
tabled the resolution calling upon the
president to supply the information on
corporations collected by the bureau
of corporations.
Speaker Cannon and Vice President
Fairbanks are authority for the state
n,a,. .,, new employers liability
.ot w,ll be passed ht the present ses'
sion of congress.
The conference of labor leaders at
Washington has presented to congress
memorial and protest against the In
difference of that body to the interests
of the producers of the country.
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin re.
sumed his speech in the senate on the
Alirich bill recently, declaring that
the recent panic was helped along by
the big insurance companies whose
headquarters are in Wall street.
The pension bill, carrying an appro-
priation of $15O,SGO.G00 and providing
for one general pension agency at
Washington, has passed the house.
Before the house submarine investi-
eating committee Secretary of the
Navy Metcalf declared that no mem
ber of congress had attempted to in
huence his department in the matter
of furnishing submarine boats for the
navy.
A bill to create national univer-
sity at Washington has been intro
duced in the house by Representative
Mckinley of Illinois.
! The house and senate adjourned
| for the day recently out of respect
for the memory of Senator Whyte OF
Maryland.
United States Senator William
Pinckney White of Maryland. died re-
Gently at his home in Baltimore OF
erysipelas. He was S4 years old.
Senator La Toilette delivered
speech in the senate on the Aldrich
bill in which he declared that the re-
cent financial panic was brought about
for political reasons by the wall
street manipulators.
| The senate committee on finance has
amended the Aldrich bill by eliminat'
Ing railroad bonds as security for ma
tional bank note circulation.
Before the Lilley submarine boat
inquiry committee Lawrence Spear
vice president of the Electric Boat
company OF New Jersey, positively de
MED that he had promised Representa-
tive Hobson to have him appointed
on the house naval affairs committee
as sworn to by Mr.. Hobson.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

We are hearing good deal these
days about the d-sirability of closer
acquaintance with our South Amer
lean brethren, but before many OF us
dash down there it will be well to wait
the result of the relief expedition
which is being organized In Boston
to search for DR.. Rice, the explorer
who it is feared, has been eaten b.;
cannibals in the interior of Colon
bia. If. says the Indianapolis Star
the relief party gets away with
out being eaten also it will then
be early enough to consider neighbor
ly overtures.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
Ala at Canon City.

Canon City, Colo.-Alia, the con
demned murderer of Father Leo, was
received at the penitentiary late Sat
urday night and was taken immedi-
ately to the execution house. where he
will be confined until the date set for
his execution. He was taken to the
photograph gallery this morning,
where his picture was taken for the
prison register. He was given No.
1885 and Bertillon measurements were
taken. ALA manifested no interest in
the photographing and registering.
Two guards will watch him day and
night in the death house. One of the
guards is an Italian and will listen to
any communication Ala desires to
make.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

According to Marquis de Fontenoy
the French government does not con
slider the two pretenders to the French
throne of enougt Importance to con
tinue the police surveillance of them
that has been conducted in the past
This must be terrible jar to the van.
ity OF these gentlemen whose chief
stock in trade has heretofore been the
fallacy that they may one day over
throw the government. 1t is one oi
those cases where to De abused is bad
but to be ignored is worse, and they
will in the future be unable to pose as
prosecuted martyrs.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
One Woman's Wrongs.

Mrs. Smallpurse (who found only a
few dimes in her husbands pockets
that morning)-I am just sick of this
plodding along year after year. Why
don't you do something to make
money?
Mr.. Smallpurse-I can't make any
more than living at my business, no
matter how hard l work.
Mrs. Smallpurse-Then do some
thing else. Invent something. Any
American can invent.
Mr.. Smallpurse (some months after)
My dear, I've hit it, and I've got
patent. My fortune is made.
Mrs. Smallpurse (delighted)-lsn
that grand! What did you invent?
Mr.. Smallpurse-I have invented a
barbed-wire safety pocket for hus-
bands.-New York Weekly.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
Injunction Made Permanent.

Washinston.-Th American FEEDER
alton of LaECr, President Gompers and
others of that organization were per
manently enj5ined from "conspiring
agreeing or combining to restrain, OBJ
struct or destroy the business of the
Buck Stove & Range Company, in a
decision rendered by Chief Justice
Clabaugh of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia Monday. making
permanent the temporary injunction
cf Justice Gould against the federation
in that case. The fedcration's counsel
noted an appeal.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

Millions of tons of sand. flung on
the seacoast by winds and waves. are
carried back again in the undertow
but a New York man owned property
at Coney Island recently found way
ito put it where it would do the most
good" and keep it there. He moored
an old schooner near the beach. In is
months the sea built up behind 1t an
area of 100000 feet; and little grains
of sand" make pleasant land in
deed at that spot, for the Coney Is
land beach is worth dollar a square
foot
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

A young man in Philadelphia tried
to kill himself because an actress
with whom he was in love. had sensi'
bly, advised him mot to be lobster.
Evidently, he took the only way known
to his limited intelligence to follow
her advice.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

A Chinese editor says that his peo
pie are getting ready to drive all
Europeans out of China, but they
have not the same feeling toward
Americans, as they have learned the
United States is not the only nation
with a conscience. 1t would be rather
difficult to imagine any OF the others
letting go slice of tempting terri
tory or large part of collectible
indemnity. They would look on 1t
as objectionable folly. If not gener'
osity, of the most pernicious type.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

A noiseless gun may be great i'm
provement, but it does look like
cold-blooded process even in war to
shoot a man down without making any
noise about it. Besides. we should
have to throw away all our war poetry
and get a new line, which would be
almost impossible. since all the great
poets are gone.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

The government tobacco expert for
the Transvaal, in South Africa, has Ia
formed the Transvaal Agricultural
union that the colony can produce as
good cigarette, pipe and cigar to-
bacco as America and Cuba. He re-
CARDS the industrial prospects &C very
bright.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

That story from Minnesota about
the farmer who has found in his flock
n hen which has no BILL but instead a
perfect human nose, with perfect nos
trils, and human mouth and chin be-
low, cheeks puffy and pink, and in
place of comb hairy feathers, part
ed as If by barber, is very inter
esting indeed, but Virgil Eaton can
beat it with his hands tied behind
his back
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

The ideal theater to be built In
New York will be so arranged that
occupants Of boxes will be enabled to
speak to friends In the orchestra
This arrangement will facilitate the
how of conversation while grand
opera is in progress. Naturally, So
ciety will concur in the idea that the
theater Is to be ideal.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

Various American fishes, such as
the sheepshead and the bluetsh,
have lately appeared in large numbers
in the Bay of Biscay. Is 1t possible
that the financial stringency has af-
fected even the waters of our coast?
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
A Diplomat.

$50 you gave your husband box
Of cigars?"
YES" answered young Mrs. Tor
kins
did he appreciate them?"
Indeed he did. He values them so.
highly that he is smoking pipe SO as
not to use them up too fast"
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

A New York society woman ap
peared at a charity entertainment
as Salome with a huge sEake rolled
around her neck. All least. rs,c.Hnrters
thought they saw It,
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
He Wasn't Afraid.

Mrs. Spenders-I wonder how you'd
like 1t il ever got 'new-womanish' and
insisted upon wearing mems clothes? !?
Mr.. Spenders-Oh, l haven't any
fear of your ever doing that. Mems
clothes are never very expensive
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

The New York suffragettes have
given up their open-air parades and
will substitute teas and bridge-whist
parties. Naturally, earnest leaders of
the cause can see the ladylike blight
settling on the crusade.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

No surprise is created by the news
that Brooklyn rug manufacturer has
been leading a double life. Any man
who has to live in Brooklyn cannot
be blamed for wanting another exist
ence, says the Chicago Journal.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

A Pennsylvania youth recently COM
mitted suicide because he was repri'
manded. Such degree of sensi-
tiveness would indicate that the rod
had been spared too much and the
child very evidently spoiled.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

A western man has invented bal
loon that will go 60 miles an hour
II nothing happens.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

The German lottery agent who has
Just been sentenced to 1,461 years in
prison has obviously drawn an un-
lucky number
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

Chicago youths do not need coming
out parties. They just come out A
few going-in parties might help.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
School of Mines Growth.

Golden, Colo.-Few people fully re-
alize the remarkable changes that
have taken place at the School of
Mines during the past few years, and
the following comparisons, compiled by
Registrar T. c. Doolittle, will no doubt
prove surprise. These changes have
all taken place since Mr.. Doolittle be-
came an official of the institution five
years ago:
March 1, 1908, buildings and
grounds ............-... $39S ,UOo.ij
March 1, 1908, buildings and
Gain in five years $22S ,O92 ~
An increase of l34.5 per cent.
March /, 1908, furniture, ap-
paratus, fixtures. etc. .$lG3,5iO.SO
March /, 1908, furniture, fix
lures, apparatus, etc. 80. 75.G36.3S
Gain in five years ........$ S7,9O4.4S
An increase of 116 per cent.
During the school year of 1902-3
there were PA students registered
while at present there are 34S. This
is an increase of 134, or G2.5 per cent
in five years.
AT present the valuation of the build
ings, grounds, apparatus, furniture and
fixtures is $56l, ,GO6.C9. Chemical and
other supplies on hand will bring the
total close to 5000, 100000.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

A New York wrongdoer was convict
ed after Identification by his voice
alone. He should have eaten a
Glove.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

The simplified spelling board has
found an absolute cure for phthisic.
They spell 1T "tisic."
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

- ,.nors who we're
fined $50 each because they tossed j
penny for the purpose of arriving AZ
verdict are likely to give up the
idea that the law is joke.
The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27

Garfield Tea-a simple and satisfactory
laxative, Composed of Herbs, it regulates
liver and kidneys. overcomes constipation
and brings Good Health.