The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-03-16

Do you own your real estate? Ask
Manitowoc Co. Abstract Co. and STOP
worrying. 81
Thirty years ago Charles L. Burdet.
tie, brother of the preacher humor.
ist, Bob" Burdette, was accused OF
theft when a registered letter contain.
ing So, 500 disappeared from the Peoria,
Ill.,, post-ofiice, where the man was en-
ployed. The other day an old mail
sack was being repaired and the miss.
ing letter was found securely stuck a.
way in the bottom, where it had re-
manned all these years wandering all
over the country.
America has the unenviable distinc.
ton of having more medical practi-
TONERS than any other country, and it
is propably because in the past medical
diplomas were not very hard to get in
this country. The doctors of France
average one to every 2,l15 of popula-
ton, and of England one physician to
every ,250 of her citizens. But the
United States furnishes at present one
professor of the healing art to every
800 of her population.
DR.. Goddard the Milwaukee Special.
ist will be at the Williams Hotel Mani.
towoc, on Saturday, March 18th and
every four weeks thereafter. The doctor
comes to us highly recommended, and
this is an excellent opportunity to con
suit reliable specialist without going
t. the trouble or expense Of trip to
some large city. Consultation is free
Read his ad elsewhere in this paper.
1t is now just thirty-fve years since
Alexander Graham Bell was granted
his patent for the telephone, and his
early discouragements in contrast with
the present wide extension of the Sys-
TEN may be recalled with advantage.
| Bells device was first used to connect
Boston with the outside world, extend
ing first to Cambridge and then to Lo-
we'll When the inventor went back
to Boston from Cambridge after his
first successful ''long-distance' expert
ment and showed a reasonable degree
of excitement over the event. people
simply thought him crazy, Telephone
stock went begging in those days but
the invention has turned out to be one
of the worlds wonders.
George f. Hoxie, of Westerly, Il. l.,
has found that if you encourage bird
| life on your farm, your orchard will be
free from the insect pest that assaiIs
the fruit from bloom to finish. lie be-
gan to put up bird houses about his
place merely as brd-loyer, in order
to have the enlivening music of the
| feathered songsters, but finding the
| yield of fruit from his orchards largely
| increased he continued the building Of
such houses as a source Of profit. Last
year he had bIuebirds, swamp
robins, orioles, wax wings, wren,, spar
rows, and kingbirds-about 500 birds
in all, distributed over his farm in
eighteen nests. He is enthusiastic in
advising other farmers to follow his
example.
Some large business firms employ a
man whose sole duty it is to read every
trade journal, every technical paper or
pamphlet and every magazine in order
to get new ideas about the conduct of
their business. Such information i,
laid each day before the heads of the
various departments, who in turn pass
it down the line to men under them
and see that the new idea is tested
BY this means each worker is kept in
touch with what other men are doing
in his particular line, and 50 his per-
sonal efficiency is increased. Almost
everything can be done in a manner
little better than the present way, and
modern business demands to know and
practice the best. Diogenes carried a.
round cup to drink water out of till
one day he saw a dog tapping water
with his tongue. He threw away his
cup and afterward drank water out of
the palm of his hand. He got from the
dog a new idea.