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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
SANITARY FLOORS
IN DAIRY STABLE
Concrete Is Best and Should
Be Used When Building Is
Being Erected.

Brick or concrete are the only
floors one can safely say are sanitary.
Brick should be laid upon good sub
base, and if this Is not a good firm
foundation it should be well tamped
before laying the brick.
The brick floor having been COM
pieted the cracks should be filled with
a mixture of cement and sand. The
proportion which will best fill the re-
quirements is one part cement to one
and one-half parts of good, clean sand.
This should be mixed thin enough
to spread easily and then swept into
the cracks with a heavy barn broom
or steel brush. Such floor will be
found very sanitary and not so slip
perry as concrete.
Concrete is the best and most sani-
tary floor that can be used in dairy
barn, and effort should be made to
have such floors installed whenever a
barn Is being constructed. When stable
floors become dangerous, making it
necessary to replace them, concrete
should always be used If the floors rest
upon the ground.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
Judicial Decisions.

The New York Law Jorrnal says
concerning an English decision:
THE English case illustrates the su-
periority of the English law to our
own in that a prisoner may be found
guilty but insane. This English rule
is preferable on many grounds, but Its
adoption is especially desirable here
because of the form of the Interstate
rendition law. The difficulty over Har-
ry X. Thaw's escape from New York
and the unsuccessful efforts for his
extradition would have been avoided
If he had been adjudged guilty but In
sane, instead Of acquitted on the
ground Of insanity. A bill was passed
by both houses Of the legislature at
the last session to authorize verdicts
of guilty but insane Unfortunately
1t contained an incidental clause to
enable defendants to plead guilty but
insane This would have furnished a
subterfuge by which any person, al
though both guilty and sane, might es-
cape the penalty for his crime, and
for this grave defect Governor Glynn
very properly vetoed the measure. 1t
ought to be reintroduced in amended
form in the next legislature"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
MATTER OF COMMON SENSE
After Explanation, II Was Easy to un.
derstand Why Eben Chose
Eliza.

All Morley had expected Eben Joyce
of the Forks farm to marry Ellen
| WINS his nearest neighbor on the
| South Fork road. Ellen was pretty,
| competent, we'll lowered. of suitable
age-Eben was well past his youth
and 1t was not believed that, If prop
erly entertained, she would remain
permanently averse to matrimony.
| When he announced that he was en-
gagged. not to Ellen but to Eliza Little
tree, there was much wonder and Cos
sip, for Eliza, although an excellent
woman and housewife, was ten years
| older than he and Of unalluring voice
and feature.
"Eben, why did ye do X" Uncle Ell
Emmons at last inorired frankly, from
the key which Morley politely always
left free for him, as the dean Of
the social circle of the grocery, until
he appeared to claim it.
Eben, slowly slowing assorted pack
ages in his various bullying pockets,
recognized the questioner as the
spokesman of public opinion natu-
rally and of right concerned with his
affairs. He was not offended.
Il s'pose folks was some surprised"
he explained, amiably, but twas nat
eral enough. Soon's We REILLY give
your mind to it, takin' all the cir
cumstances into constellation, you'll
swing round to my pint Of view-seef
We don't. There's the farm, PUNK in
the crotch Of the Forks. There's Ellen
and l amt got word against FL
len; she's a grand woman in her way
well, there's Ellen long mile
down to the South Fork road. And
scant half mile up the North Fork
road there's Eliza Some of yes mar
ried men, and some Of yes wishful
to be, and the rest Of yes watched
other fellers sparkin', eff they haven't
spanked themselves. Ye all know how
tits. No matter how much sense a
woman's got, she's a woman, and she's
bound to keep We tendin' out and
dancin' round and trottin' to and fro
for goodness knows how long before
We can bring her to plain yes or
no. It's the way Of 'em. 1t has to be
stood. The best a man can do is to
reckon his time and distance keerful,
and that's what did. Eliza saved me
a mile trudge, and quarter Of an
hour time whenever l came courtin'
her, by Jest not Twin where Ellen
did"
GOSH" whispered the man on the
cracker box, gently. He was the
youngest present.
"Eben," said Uncle Eli solemnly-
he was the oldest-"Tve done We an
injustice. l never suspicioned We had
an intellect capable of graspin' details
in sech an amazin' and illuminatin'
manner No, l never did. Yere a
plumb wonder!"
Not at all, not at all, Uncle Eli"
said Eben, departing with fiattered
smile. 1T want anything but jest
plain common sense."-Youth's Com
panion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
ALFALFA AND OATS
FOR DRAFT COLTS
Greedy, Mature Horses Often
Eat Too Much and Suffer
From lmpaction.

Growing draft colts have seldom, II
ever. been injured by eating too much
alfalfa and oats. Mature horses of a
greedy disposition, if allowed to run
to alfalfa racks at will, may eat too
much and suffer attacks of impaction.
Draft mares heavy in foal, and taking
but little exercise, not infrequently
suffer from attacks of this nature. An
alfalfa pasture is splendid place to
develop draft colts with a maximum
OF bone and muscle.
Some complaint comes from the
humid regions to the effect that mares
on alfalfa pasture during the breeding
season are hard to get in foal. This
trouble seems to be more or less local
and can be prevented by temporarily
keeping the mares in other pastures.
An alfalfa patch forms a splendid
night pasture for work horses, provid-
ing they are used to it and are turned
out regularly.
Good, well.co!ored alfalfa is Of prac-
tically the same composition as wheat
bran, and is of equal value to it in the
horse ration.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14

| She'll come agafn-in Is minutes,
said my cynical friend. She'll keep
coming until sometime she forces her
self to the list to see IL his name Is
there. And no doubt she'll faint If she
reads 'Gefallen,' after 1t. She may Sin.
deed, If she reads only 'Schwer YER
wundet'-heavily wounded.
Many Of them do For myself saw
three women and an old man faint
Also / saw one woman go mad there.
/ only went along Dorotheen strasse
once.
All over Germany, with the above
and one other exception, found moth.
ing but courageous hearts-hearts
that believed the fatherland is fighting
for actual existence. The one other
place l mention was in the socialist
camp!
Socialists are Dissatisfied.
/ had asked group of the leading
socialists In Berlin, members of the
reichstag, when l was having lunch
with them. why they voted for the
war.
I'VE were told" they replied, 'by
the government officials that the Rus
slams had already crossed our eastern
frontier. There was nothing to do In
such a case but to vote for the war.
And we had to accept, in such a crisis.
the governments word as the truth"
But do you now think that 1t was
I'll I cd
My friend. said one OF the men to
me, socialist whose name is famous
around the world, I'VE are not living in
America. We cannot say what we
think. Martial law prevails in this
land. But we believe that we, as we'll
as the socialists Of every other country,
were not told all the truth about the
reasons leading up to this war.
And we have not deserted our
brothers in England and France. Nor
have we lost faith in them. And we
have learned things-a war will never
be engineered In Europe again that is
not thoroughly understood and
thrashed out first by the socialists!"
Onc vote OF dissent.
That lunch conversation constitutes
the one note of dissent in Germany in
regard to the great world-war. It
seemed only fragment of tone COM
pared with the laundering diapason
that Is going up in accord from all the
other threats in the kaiser's empire,
but 1t may, in time, swell until 1t
dominates the entire symphony.
1t is too early to say but, in way. It |
was the most interesting thing heard |
in Germany. For 1t is the first sugges-
ton that the outside world has been |
given that the great host Of German |
socialists are not shoulder to shout. |
der In mind, If they are in body, with |
the imperialists Of "das deutsche
Reich"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
Dam Is 351 Feet Hlqh.

Work on the great Arrow Rock dam
on the Boise river, Idaho, is approach
ing completion and could, If necessary,
be finished within a few weeks, al
though probably 1t will 60 on for an
other year. The dam will be 351 feet
high 100 feet wide and about 400 feet
lorg at the base and LOGO feet long at
the top 1t is of REINFORCED concrete,
of which $4,000 cubic yards have
been used. 1t will store water to a
depth of $50 feet. The back water will
extend 20 miles upstream, making q
lake containing 100000 acre-feet of wa
ter. A thousand tons of steel have
been used for the Ave gates.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
lnstructlnQ the Cub.

When Fred Heiskell was city editor
Of the Arkansas Gazette cub re-
porter turned in "story" that ran
like this: Buck Seymour was seen
with two-inch auger going down the
river road this morning. Wonder what
Buck is after now?"
Here, young man." called out the
city editor, this story is incomplete.
We don't print that kind Of items in
the Gazette. Tell what Buck was do
ing with the auger."
T-I didn't find out" the cub
stammered.
"Well, I'll tell you this one time.
Plainly, he was going after grease
fish. You catch em by boring hole
in the water and batting the surface
with dried prunes. The grease fish
comes out, eats the prunes and swells
up so he can't get back in the hole."-
New York Mail.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14

When reliquefying graduated honey
place the receptacle containing the
honey into vessel of water and place
few thin strips of wood between the
bottom of the two cans.
The honey should be kept at heat
ed temperature for at least three or
four hours according to size of re-
ceptacle) to insure perfect liquefying.
Any granules which are not thorough
ly dissolved will hasten the solidify.
ing of honey.
Light and cold are two elements
which also have an undesired effect.
Probably the best condition for pre-
serving honey is to keep it warm, dry
and dark, similar to its condition in
side of the bee hive
Honey has great affinity for mois-
ture, and If comb honey is stored in a
damp atmosphere it will absorb the
moisture through the lightly porous
cappings and become thin and watery.
The bulk of the honey will be so in
creased that it will burst the cells and
ooze out. The honey may become so
thin that fermentation may set in.
Cold is also detrimental to comb
honey, causing it to candy in the cells.
When comb honey is first taken from
the hives it should be stored in hot,
dry atmosphere.
Very few people know how to keep
honey. The average housewife will
usually put the honey in the cellar or
into the refrigerator for safe keeping.
About the two worst places possible.
Honey is kept very differently from
fruit.
Honey is thoroughly ripe when taken
from the hive and will therefore not
ferment unless it is placed in a cool
moist place.
A great many have not learned that
it is just as important to take proper
care of the honey and put it on tie
market in first class condition as it is
to use the best and most economical
means of securing it.
One of the essentials of proper care
is keeping the honey in very dry and
warm place; especially is this true Of
comb honey or extracted honey in
open cans. Honey taints very easily
and for this reason l prefer that as lit.
tie smoke as possible be- used when
taking it from the hive.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
(By +. G. HERMANN

(By F. G. HERMAN)
When nectar Is gathered 1t is thin
and watery. The heat of the hive, aid
ed by the manipulation of the bees,
gradually reduces the nectar to thick,
ripe" honey. When the honey is ripe
the bees seal it over That is their
finishing touch which proclaims that it
is ready for market, or for use. While
there Is an excess Of water in the
honey, the bees will not seal it over.
They will leave 1t to evaporate.
This process Of evaporation is the
ripening process. AS it goes on, the
honey gets thicker and heavier, until
it has reached the proper density.
Then, as already remarked, the bees
certify to its ripeness by sealing it
over.
After honey has been thoroughly
ripened in the hive and is then re-
moved. it's future palatableness de-
ponds entirely upon the care that it re-
ceives. Too many look at honey as
simple sweet, like cane sugar, forget
ting that its flavor, its aroma, are its
chief attractions, and honey, when
first taken from the hive, has very
distinctly the flavor of the flowers from
which it was gathered.
Each variety of blossoms gives a
distinctive flavor. BY tasting Of honey
An expert can very readily tell from
what class of blossoms it was gath
cred.
Thoroughly ripened, extracted honey
should be at once put into bottles, cans
or barrels, and sealed up tight, and
then put in dry place. 1t will of
course, soon candy or crystalline, but
the flavor will be retained indefinite
ly and the honey can be liquefied when
ever it is needed for use.
Care must be exercised in melting
the honey that the flavor is not in
jured by the application of too great
heat. OF course, the honey will not
be burned if it is not heated hotter
than boiling water, but the application
of so great heat as this rapidly
drives off the flavor.
Keeping the package closed and ap-
plying very gentle heat, never above
$50 degrees, is the better way. Put
ting up the honey in such packages as
can easily be put into warm water
makes the liquefying more convenient.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
TALK ON WESTERN
CANADA.
You Don't Have to Lie About
Canada-The Simple Truth
Is ENOUGH.

The naturalT resources of the coun.
try are SO vast that they cannot be
told in mere figures. Man can only
tell Of what tiny portions have done.
He can only say. II am more pros
porous than I ever expected to be-"
And yet Il q farmer expects to sue
coed on LAND that he has been forced
to pay $50 to 500 an acre fov he ought
to feel assured of attaining prosperity
when he finds the richest prairie soil
at his disposal absolutely free. II he
has little capital, let him invest it
all In live stock and farm implements
he will find himself ten years ahead
Of the game. Some day such chance
will not be found anywhere on the
face of the globe. But now the same
opportunities await you as awaited
the pioneer and not one hundredth
part of the difficulties he encountered
and overcame. Success in Canada is
made up of two things, natural re-
sources and human labor. Canada
has the one and you the other. A
postal card stands between you and
the Canadian government agent II
you don't hold these two forces and
enjoy the fruits of the result it is your
own fault
Debt and Canada VIII Not Stand
Hltched.
You want coy home, q free life,
and sufficient income. You want edu.
cation for your children, and some
pleasure for your wife. You want in
dependence. Your burden has been
heavy, and your farm hasn't paid.
You work hard and are discouraged.
You require q change. There Is q
goal within sight, where your children
will have advantages. You can get .
home in Western Canada, freedom.
where your ambitions can be fulfilled.
II the Prairie Provinces of Canada are
full of Successful Farmers why should
you prove the exception? Haven't you
got brains, experience, courage? Then
prove what these are capable of when
put on trial. It Is encouraging to
know that there is one country in the
world where poverty is no barrier to
wealth; own your own car; own your
self; be somebody.
For facts write to any Canadian
government agent. Advertisement,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
Appears as Counsel for Husband.

Mrs. Louise Nelson appeared before
Judge Ryan as counsel for her hus-
band. George Nelson. She won the
case, and received a "fee" of $110
from the Judge. Nelson and five 9TH
ers were arrested in raid on a dice
game. All but Nelson were fined one
dollar each, with costs Of three dol
lars.
my husband is good man, and
works steadily" Mrs. Nelson pleaded.
Hes not a gambler"
you have won your case" Judge
Ryan said. "As a fee, Mrs. Nelson,
you can have this"
The Judge then handed Mrs Nelson
$1.10 seized when the dice game was
raided.-Chicago Tribune.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
MUTE TALKS ON DEATHBED
Woman Born Speeches. StartIes Her
Daughter by Telling Of Her
Suffering.

GAINESVILLE, O.-The rarest case Of
the kind In local medical annals
proved a puzzle to physicians when
Mrs. Melissa Fouts Of Cannelvllle, born
mute, was able to talk just before
she died.
Her daughter, Mrs. Mary Mclntire.
nearly tainted when her mother told
her how much she was suffering,
these few words being the first she
had ever uttered She called her
daughter by name several hours later
and then passed away. Her husband.
who died several years ago, also was
mute
Mrs. Fouts was seventy years old.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
Soma Notable Streets.

The highest street In the world Is
Main street, in Denver; the richest is
Fifth avenue. in New York city; the
widest is Market street, Philadelphia,
and the shortest is the Rue Bic. in
Paris. The dirtiest street is that Of
Tchanksti in Marking; the cleanest Is
the Via CASTLE, in Seville. Spain; the
most aristocratic one Is Grosvenor
place, in London: the most beautiful
Is the Avenue des Champs Elysees,
Paris. The narrowest street is Via
Sol, Havana, Cuba, which has width
Of no more than forty-two inches.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
''CASCARETS" FOR
SLUGGISH BOWELS
No sick headache, sour stomach.
bi|iousness or constipation
by morning.
Get q 10-cent box now.


Turn the rascals out-the headache.
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases-turn them
out tonight and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions Of men and women take
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by . lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom'
ach.
Don't put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison IN the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret tonight straightens VOC
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means q clear head.
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chill.
dren love Cascarets because they
never grippe or sicken. Adv.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
OLDEST WOMAN DIES AT III
Been Born in Russia, Succumbs
In New York.

New York-Mrs. Hannah Koskoff
said to have been the Oldest woman
In the United States. died here. &c
cording to the most authentic rec
ords in the possession OF her descend
ants, she was one hundred and sew
enteen years old. having been born in
Kief, Russia, in 1897.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14

Ions OF dlslnfectant with no lasting
effect, and all who pass rough the
halls OF learning are impressed with
the fact that the unwelcome guest
was present Hunter thinks it will be
months before he, tho teachers and
pupils can forget It.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
TOOK PET SKUNK TO SCHOOL
" the Jsnitor Finds Out Who the
Someone Is He viii Do Some.
thing About II.

Pasadena. Calf A. L. Hunter,
5anitor Of the Pasadena high school,
ever learns which one OF the pupils 1t
was who brought pet skunk" to
school recently he says he will 80 far
forget himself as to do bodily harm.
Since the visit OF the little white
and black animal Hunter has used gal
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
The Brood Sow.

Hogs require attention regardless Of
condition. age or sex, but the manage
ment of the brood SOW is the surest
test of the breeders skill. II sows are
carelessly fed during pregnancy trou-
BILE of some kind is sure to ensue at
narrowing.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14

Shredding the corn fodder is a great
deal better than leaving the stalks in
the field or working them up without
cutting or shredding. 1t is more con-
venient and it gets more of the feed
Ing value to the cattle in a shape that
they can use.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14

Antwerp.-The Germans at Liege
sold the seats OF the Theatre royal
for 30 cents each and have made q
shoe factory out OF the beautiful foyer
From the windows of the provincial
palace, the former abode of princes
and bishops. they hang their wash.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
Value Of Plants,

Plants build up the dead matter in
which process they store up the heat
and energy of the sun. Animals eat
plants and set free the heat and
energy which the plants have stored
up. Plants grow that animals may
live
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-14
No ESCAPE,

Great Britain is arming her wom-
en-"
ton"
How SOL"
They'll use both face powder and
gunpowder."