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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

A professional boxer was badly
beaten in a sparring match and car
ried to his bed in an exhausted and
melancholy condition.
Il wish you'd say something to
cheer him up, DOCTOR" pleaded the de-
feated warriors wife. Hes gettin'
low in his mind, and when he's like
that you've no idea how hard it is to
wait on him. He's worse than a bear
with toothache."
What can say that will please
him most?" asked the doctor.
You might just ell him, in an off
hand way, that the man as licked him
is mighty bad in the 'orspital and that
they may have to hold a post.mortem
on him any minute now" was the sol.
emn suggestion Gazette,
Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

More than 500 jobess women. more
than half of them with college train
ing, found work in New York through
the agency of the Intercollegiate Blu
reau of Occupations in the year ended
April 80, 1915, according TO the third
annual report OF the bureau, issued
not long ago. Many of that number
became secretaries, companions, suf-
frage workers, Librarians, settlement
workers. workers in war relief and
nurses. Others had unusual places.
Three became saleswomen and DEM
onstrators for an automobile company.
Two others were employed by bond
and securities company to sell stocks
among women One became rent
collector and four took Jobs as police
agents and detectives.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

to me at times. Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills re-
stored me to health and want to thank
you for the good they have done me. l
have had quite bit of trouble and
worry but it does not affect my youth
full looks. My friends say why do you
look SO young end well?' / owe 1t all
to the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies"
Mrs RoBT. SToPIEL, Moore Avenue,
Washington Park, Illinois.
We wish every woman who suffers
from female troubles, nervousness,
backache or the blues could see the let
ters written by women made well by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If you have any symptom about which
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
ideal LOVE MATCH
Forty Years of Happiness FOL-
lowed Union of Washington
and Martha Gusts.

~ NE hundred and fourteen
years ago-May %, 1902
Martha Washington, wife OF
George Washington, died at
Mount Vernon, at the age Of seventy
years.
Martha GUSTS met Colonel Washing.
ton about year after the death Of
her husband. Daniel Parke Custis, a
wealthy planter. She was then near
ing her twenty-siXth year, and Wash.
ington was about three months her
senior She was the daughter OF Col
John cambridge and had been well
trained in the accomplishments Of
young women of her social station.
The engagement lasted for nearly a
year, Washington being absent for a
long time on a military campaign.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Feel Shortage Of Wedding Rings.

shortage Of wedding rings in Jew
elers' shops and in wholesale factories
is experienced throughout Britain, al.
though the shortage has nothing to do
with "A scarcity OF gold There are
three main causes for the wedding
ring famine, There has been very
great number of war weddings; the
working classes, owing to high wages,
have bought cheap gem rings in great
numbers, and there 10 a serious short.
age Of skilled jewelers. workmen
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

All was hurry and hustle at the old
from Gettysburg. on the Harrisburg
road A distinguished visitor had
come to spend the night 1t was no
less a parsonage than Gen. George
Washington with a suitable. but very
small detachment with him
Those were stirring times in Penn
sylyania. The whisky instruction
was In progress, and Washington's
trip through the country meant some
thing. What did 1t mean? Nobody
knew.
But Solomon Russell, the tavern
keeper, thought he could find out. He
ness. but with great perseverance, he
put his adroit questions and pointed
surmises. Finally Washington turned
to him, and said: "Mr. Russell. can
you keep a secret?"
Now | shall get news!" thought the
genial tavern keeper, patriotic but
curious, and with great emphasis. he
assured his honor that he could Ger.
tainly keep secret.
$50 can l." said the great man,
courteously, and the subject was
dropped.
The quaint, old-fashioned solid stone
house is still standing, looking as II a
century more would not crumble It.
Washington's character is a book
with many pages. and the boys OF to
day may well read every one. On this
leaf. long folded down. we read the
secret Of keeping secret, which Is a
sacred trust-never tell It TO anybody,
the most trustworthy, II 1t IS not his
business to know Exchange.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To hail pint OF water add | oz. Bay Rum,
5mall hox OF BRrbo Compound, aud y Oz. o
giyccrino Apply 70 the hair twice weol
until It becomes the desired shade. Any drug
gist can put this up or you can mix It Al
home NJ very little cost It will gradually
darken streaEed, faded gray hair aud re
moves daudruG IL Is excellent for itllinl
hair and ;, III make harsh hair soft aud glossy
IL viii not color the scalp, Is not sticky OF
greasy, and does not rub oil. ADV.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
For Immediate Use,

An old Rip Van Wrinkle of fellow
went into a country drug store and
asked for some powder
Face, gun or bug?" asked the clerk,
leaning far over the counter
Bug" replied the old man, and
mean to mind about wrappin it up
Just blow it on my whiskers. Cot.
trell's Magazine
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
For Polishing Glass.

Calcined magnesia, rubbed down
with pure benzine. makes an excellent
preparation for cleaning and polishing
the surfaces of fine glass, such as
costly mirrors, etc. The mass formed
must be sufficiently soft to allow
drops of the liquid to be squeezed out
of It, The mixture should be kept in
closely stoppered bottles, and, in use,
a little of it is placed on a bit Of cot
ton or soft rag with which the glass
Is rubbed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

a single body, but they were not
trained in the systematic methods of
great deliberative bodies; and above
all represented one Of the very weak
est forms OF governmental power-a
mere confederacy or league of several
states or colonies and without real
governmental functions.
Although it assumed both executive
and legislative powers, 1t had no au-
thority to raise revenue and could only
emit bills OF credit, their redemption
being pledged by the twelve United
Colonies" 1t is not singular that the
states refused to surrender to this
loosely connected congress the control
Of the militia with officers OF state
selection, gathered by sacrifice, for the
protection OF its own state, not fore
seeing as was proved eventually that
victory for the colonies could be won
only by the long-term organized and
disciplined contnentals. composina "a
small but good army"
SquabbIe Over Officers.
Congress in the winter OF l775, rec
ognizing the necessity of raising troops
to take the place of those whose terms
expired. resolved to provide twenty
six regiments, with power TO Wash.
ington to select the officers. which re-
sglted IN many perplexitics for him
and his general officers, for, as Wash
tnQtou wrote connecticut wanted no
Massachusetts, man in her corps. Mas
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
for Van Buren, Co, Mich.
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Send ten cents To Dr. Miner 4 Co,
BInghamton, n. y, for a sample size bot
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nation, telling about the kidneys and blad-
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular ffty.cent and one.
collar size bottles for sale at all drug
etOres.-Adv
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
MYSTERY!

How is II that a manacled convict
can escape unhurt by leaping from
train running at the rate of 80 miles
an hour, when every time the average
citizen slips in alighting from car he
Injuries himself 80 severely that the
railway company must pay him big
damages?
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Experience Not Safe Guide.

1t is foolish to try to live on past
experience. 1t Is a very dangerous,
II not fatal habit to Judge ourselves
to be safe because Of something that
we felt or did twenty years ago
Sturgeon.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Many School Children Are Sickly.

Children who are delicate, feverish and eros.
Will get immediate relief from Mother Gray's
Sweet Powders for Children. They cleanse the
stomach, act on the liver, and are recon ~ nded
for complaining children. A pleasant remedy
Tor worms Used by mothers for % years. An
Druggists, 95c. sample FREE. Address, Mother
Gray Co., lie Roy, y. Y.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

1ereQ WIFI IeHldle
trouble, backache,
nervous spells and
the blues. My chill
dren's loud talking
and romping would
make me SO nervous
l could just tear
everything to pieces
and l would ache all
over and feel so sick
that / would not
want anyone to talk
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
important to Mothers
Then She Said "Yesv

She-Before l give you my answer
/ must know more about you. Are
you aiming at anything worth while?
He-You seem to have very poor
opinion of yourself
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Might Be.

What is the Pau-American con-
gress. pa?'
Il don't know exactly, but it sounds
as il it might he a convention of our
hynhenated fellow citizens"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Shallow.

Hodge-ls he deep thinker?
Dodge-No; he begins TO founder
before he gets out very deep.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Chauffeur, Too.

MY butler is, in fact, our facto-
tum"
"Oh, ours is an automatum."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
PREPAREDNESS
TO Fortify The System Against Grip

to WITTY @@ !" oe''' = 8 s@'''N'@ o''F
when Grip Is prevalent LAXATIVE BROMO
QUININE should be TAKEN this combination
Of Qunne with other ingredients, destroys
germs acts as Tonic and Laxative and thus
keeps the system in condition to withstand
Colds, Grip and Influenza. There is only one
"BROMo QUININE." E. W. GROVES sig.
nature on box asc
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
The Only Ono.

Can you propose any remedy for
this deadlock"
Yes. why uut use a skeleton hey?'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

The practice of combing the long
hair over the bald spot never fooled
ANYBODY
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

Motto Of the confidence man,
watch and prey"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
A. G.. DRAKE.

NOTE:-When your kidneys get
sluggish and clog, you suffer from
backache, sickheadache, dizzy spells,
or the twinges and pains of lumbago,
rheumatism and govt. "Anuric" is the
most powerful agent in dissolving
uric acid. as hot water melts sugar.
Ask the druggist for "Anuric," put
up by DR.. Pierce, in 50-cent packages.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Effect of Great Kidney
Remedy Is Soon Realized

feel it my duty to let you know what
Swamp-Root did for me. | was bothered
with my back for over twenty years and
at times | could hardly get out of bed.
read your advertisement and decided to
try Swamp-Root Used five bottles, and
il has been five years since | used it, and
! have never been bothered day since
took the last bottle of it. | am thorough.
~ convinced that DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root cured me and would recommend it TO
others suffering as | did.
My husband was troubled with kidney
and bladder troubles and he took your
Swamp Root and it cured him. This was
about five years ago.
You may publish this letter if you
choose.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
| owe
MY HEALTH
To Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Washington Park, Ill.-"I am the
mother of four children and have suf-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Misurde rstoo cd,

Are you a plain cooke"
81 suppose | could be purifier, mum. -
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

And the smaller the girl the larger
the doll necessary to satisfy her in.
cipient maternal instinct.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
What Did He Mean q?

new furs?
MIR. Dough Of sight
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
New Strength for Lame Backs
and Worn-out Condition,

Dear Mr.. Editor:
| suffered from lame back and n
tired, WORKOUT feeling. Was unable to
stand erect and scarcely able to get
around. 1t would usually come on at
first with crick in small of my back.
took Anuric Tablets and my back
commenced to get better. l did not
have TO walk doubled over as | did
before using the "Anuric." 1t is the
best remedy | have ever taken for
what it is intended to relieve.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

The traveller wants full fare at ho-
tells, but he doesn't object to half fare
on railroads
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes

make us look Older than we are. Keep
your Eyes young and you will look young.
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Don't
tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co.,
Chicago. Sends Eye Book on request.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
Debt
TO WASHINGTON
Probably the Only Man Who
Could Have Won Liberty
for the People.
Difficulties Which He Had to Encoun-
ter Were Almost InsurmountabIe
Lack of Proper Training
Hampered Continentals in
All Their Battles.


commander of the American
armies, knew better than any
one else the offensive and de-
fensive value of the forces under him;
and he has left vivid written record
of the relative value of unframed
short-term men and of a disciplined
long-term body made of individuals of
the same class. He plainly expressed
his opinion, fully confirmed by military
men since his time, OF the army need,
the disaster at Camden, he wrote to
congress: What we need is a good
army, not a large one
Probably no war was ever carried
on where the one side was represent
ed in the field by so great a proportion
Of unorganized troops, not under a
central national control, and no great
commander, before or since, has ever
succeeded with so rapidly shifting a
body of badly equipped men.
Bunker Hin Analysed.
At the battle Of Bunker HILL an
army of unframed American minute
men and militia, under the command,
however of veteran officers like Pres
colt, Stark, Putnam and knowlton of
the higher rank, and among the lower
officers a sprinkling of men expert
enced in the French and English wars,
from behind intrenchments hastily
erected, but of value against low-pow-
er armament, successfully resisted
two attacks of well-organized and
disciplined British veterans, with a
loss to the latter of 1854 killed and
wounded. But these same troops by
virtue not of superior individual cour-
age, but of their combined valor and
discipline, were rallied by their we'll
trained officers, made a third charge,
and, although outnumbered, succeeded
III driving the Americans, at the point
Of the bayonet, from their trenches,
their supply of powder being exhaust.
ed and their muskets not having bay
onets.
The American force was justly
proud of its resistance and Of the
heavy punishment it had inflicted, but
the result was, in spite of it's good
fight. a defeat to its arms-perhaps
only through failure in the quarter
masters department. The British.
however, carried the hill on account
of the better discipline of their line,
the better control of their officers, and
because their supply of ammunition
was not exhausted. And they there
by prevented the success of the CO.
lonial military plan.
Continental Weakness.
This story in various ways was
many times repeated in the war OF
the revolution, always with the same
result In spite of the brilliant gen.
eralship of Washington, Greene,
Schuyler, Lee and others, the Ameri-
cans did not win single victory over
the British regular troops when the
latter were not outnumbered
A brief examination of the powers
Of the Continental Congress will show
what were the chief causes of this
weakness in our armies that led so
near to the collapse of our national
defense and caused the intense anxiety
and distress to Washington and the
band of patriots about him in the army
and in congress.
The congress presented as able and
devoted men as were ever gathered in
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17
MRS. MATTE CAMFIELD.

K. +, y. No. 3 Gobleyile Mich
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th of July, 1909.
ARVIN W. MYERS,
Notary Public,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-02-17

None but a fool is always right
Hare.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20

Robert B. Harris, secretary to the Montclair Board of Assessors and a member for more than thirty years, is dead.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20

Three unfinished frame buildings in St. Lawrence avenue, the Bronx, were destroyed by fire.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20
NONE BETTER CHURNED

winter has arrived. The air is sharp and brisk and there is often cold wind, which makes one very grate- full for a warm overcoat. I have left Constantnople in weather iseasonable to the height of summer, and found winter in Sofia. I have found the higher levels of Bulgaria completely ow-clad at the end of October. The snow lasts until April of May or even longer. All the more modern houses in Sofia are provided with double win dows because of the great cold which is experienced in winter.'' In Tran sylvahia. according to another writer,
 'the climate is severe, hot summers alternating with very cold winters" The climate in Roumania is much more extreme than, at the same lati- tude sn other parts of Europe; the summer is hot and rainless, the winter sudden and very intense. "In Serbia. and northern Macedonia, especially in the high-laying valleys of southern Serbia. the climate is subject to the same extremes. Southern Serbia is much colder than the northern part of the country, the temperature in winter often sinking to from 10 to
 20 degrees below zero. The severity of climate must necessarily greatly hinder military operations. There is almost nc spring in the Balkans, the
 hot summer following the cold winter without more than a week or two or moderate temperature between,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20
|FIDDLED WHILE DOCTORS SAWED
 LEG FROM BODY
Nerve of Soldier Who Never Struck False Note Du-
 ring Operation.

sAThe braxest thing ever saw a man do was in Georgia, on December Il 1ss4." relates a Civil War Vet 'era1,. according to the Youths Cem- tphnion. "Sherman was hurrying us along toward the sea. My division fwas on the south of the famous 60- mile 4swath cut by the Army. l was pretty frisky then. and made friends with Buck, one of the finest fellows ever knew and splendid dddler, With him I engaged in many Aare-devii acts. Our position at the extreme edge of the vast army gave sns opportunity.
 sIs"One November day Buck and I found . fat pig hiden in a brush heap, We dug him out As we started off a bullet sped out from the brush, Buck fired back and got the snipef who was in hiding; but he was himself badly shot in the leg. "Ali the way back. white and in agony as he was, he begged me not jfo tell any one. He insisted that it vas only a trife that needed no att lteation, Next day he could hardly let about. On the third day his lsuferiHg could not be hidden, al- Though he uttered no complaint. The 'a,sp,een found his leg terribly pois- j0ned. So serious was his condition lthat there was nc hope of life un- s1ess the leg was amputated at once.
 2" All right he said, with a stern look of resolution on his face. Lift me so that I can sit up. Give me my fiddle. Now, doctor come ahead with your saw
 There he sat ,p1aying:-
 "sSo we made a thoroughfare for
 Freedom and her train, Sixty miles in latitude, three hun
 dred to the main
 all the time his leg was being sawed off ust above the knee. And he never paused? He never played a false note! Took some courage, eh ?''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20

the breakfast.
 The iprince was accompanied to city han by John B. Cochran of this city, and bridegroom of last summer, when he married Miss Alice Whiting. one of the five girihood friends of Miss Draper, all of whom are ex- pected in town for Wednesdays cer- emOny. The bridegroom-elect gave his age as g, his residence IS Via Boncompagni, Rome. His brides age was given as 25. with her residence, Washington.
 Last evening the prince and Miss Draper dined with Russian ambassa- dor and Mme. Bakhmeteff, with twen- ty-six additional guests. The em- bassy was abloem with flowers from the front door to the great drawing room. where the two young people stoodo with host and hostess to re- ceive the good wishes of every one present.
 This was not the usual party of young people invited to participate i9 the bridal procession. as it included the mother of the bride-to-be, Italian ambassador and Countess di Cellere, with members of the staff of that and the hosts embassy and close friends of the bride. i
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20
CARDINAL WILL WED DRAPER GIRL
 TO ROME PRINCE
Event to Be Celebrated In Home of Bride on
 Wednesday.

Washington. Oct. 20-It became known yesterday when Prince Andrea Boncompagni of Rome called at the license bureau at the city hall for the document to insure his marriage to Miss Margaret Preston Draper next Wednesday, that this ceremony, al- though taking place in the ballroom of the Draper home, would be accord ing to the full ritual of the Roman Catholic Church, to which the bride greom's family has already given two Popes and a score of great ecclesias- tics.
 The license was addressed to the Right Reverend Monsignor Russell, under whose instruction the bride elect has been for several months, and by whom she will be received into the church between now and October 25. As already announced, his emil hence Cardinal Gibbons, a close friend of both families, will conduct the mar riage service. This will be followed by a nuptial mass, with Monsignor Russell as celebrant. This unusual privilege of a mass in a private house, which for this day will be a private chapel. is one of the fapors bestowed by Rome on the family of Boncom- poSiH LuoiFici anu dppHes to any part of the world in which mem Der of this house may find himself.
 The service will be what is known in the church as a low mass, with the entire ritual read by the priest and without. music, other than the string orchestra that will be hidden from view by elaborate floral decorations. The entire ceremony will occupy less than an hour Less than 100 persons have been bidden to the wedding, which is to take place at noon. No additional cards have been issued for