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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-17
Notes from School Hill

A number AZ young people from here
attended the Red Cross dance at St.
Naziarz Friday night and all reported
40 enjoyable time.
Ed. Christel and family are on the
sick list.
Miss Elizabeth Cries was unable to
teach school last week on account OF
severe cold.
The patriotic men OF our district did
not forget the meeting at school Oc'.
sth. A large crowd was present and
they all did their bit toward the Fourth
Liberty Loan.
Some of our people attended the
funeral OF Mat Burkard At St. NazIanz
Sunday afternoon.
Our school is closed this week on &C.
count Of the epidemic OF Spanish indu-
enza, Practically all schools In this
town are closed.
a large number Of men from here
were called TO aid In putting out a FIRE
Saturday afternoon which started In
Langenhahns woods and was moving
eastward toward their buildings. The
crowd OF people that we're there found
1t impossible to fight the flames on ac-
count Of the strong wind. Cleveland
Fire Department was called 10 the
evening but the fire was not gotten out
Until Sunday. The buildings wers
saved and The damage and loss IL not
very great,
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A Test.

When boiled and unboiled eggs get
mixed, spin them and the boiled ones
will spin around quite fast, while
those which have not been cooked
will hardly spin around once.
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Brluhtena Metal,

When the curtain rings and pole
ends grow dlscolored and black they
quickly brighten up and show most OF
their original luster II they are boiled
In vinegar for short time.
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locating the snobs.

Very few millionaires in large cities
are snobs. The snobs are largely
found In small towns, and are worth
from $4,000 to $J0,000.-Atchison
Globe.
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Initiative Enthusiasm.

Alb Adkins says his son-in-law has
The sort of enthusiasm which is large.
ly devoted in starting the APPLAUSE
AtChison Globe.
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Honest Wealth Allowable.

Riches do not bring happiness.
Neither does poverty for that matter
so people might just as well accumu-
late what wealth they can In an hon.
est way.
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Fashion Forced on Women.
In the reign of Philip III OF France
women were forced to wear wells In
obedience to ecclesiastical decree.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-17
Acquiring knowledge.

Real knowledge. like everything
else, is not to be obtained easily. IL
must be worked for, studied for.
thought for and. more than all, must
be prayed for.-Thomas Arnold.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-17
Demand Much.

Quite a few worthy citizens will
never be satisfied with medical prog
ress until some means has been de-
vised for half-soling a worn-out liver.
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Generally The WAY.

Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread-and then depend on an angel
to come along and rescue them.-Chi-
cago Post.
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His Position.

He's a director In a bank" Go
on That fellow" Yes. He tells
the people what windows to go to-"
Detroit Free Press.
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Happiness.

NO man praises happiness as he
would Justice, but calls ii blessed as
peing something more divine and OK.
cellent. Aristotle.
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But Thew Don't.

The value some men put on them.
selves makes you wish they had the
Job of assessing your real estate
Exchange.
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When Friendship is True

In friendship we find nothing false
or insincere, everything is straight
forward and springs from the heart
Cicero
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-17

Using a chemical process a Moscow
engineer claims to have produced a
finer linen yarn than the finest spun,
at low cost.
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Fantastic. All RIoht

A man with cork leg ought to be
able to trip the light fantastic in the
modern dances.-Florida Times Uniou
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VIII se Remarkable Man.

To make a map of the world on the
unprecedented scale of 16 miles to the
inch is project of British scientists.
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To Sharpen Razors.

Pour a few drops of pure olive oil
on the razor strop and dust it over
with a pinch of -four of emery.
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Unusual Character.

Vermont landlady gives up keeping
boarders rather than raise the price of
board. She was too soft-hearted for
that business. anyway.
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RAINS HELP INDIAN VILLAGE
Good Rice Crops Grown In Abundant
Moisture and Region Is Noted
for Good Cattle.

Sylhet is a city in the most curious
part of India-the great, low lying,
jungly, flooded, tea and rice districts
of the far Southeast. Sylhet tea is
known all over the peninsula.
So low do these regions lie that the
heavy rains of the rainy season result
In their being flooded for many months
of the year. Though far inland, after
the rains this is literally a sea, where
all travel is by boat and even ships of
some size can navigate. The torren-
tial downpours flood the lower parts Of
the country to a depth of many feet.
There Is one little village at the base
of the Khasia hills which had meas
ured rainfall of 60 feet in one year,
an exchange says.
The villages of this curious district
about Sylhet are set on the crest OF
hills. After the rains fall they are is
lands. The people are very expert
boatmen and the children can swim
almost as soon as they can walk.
This is probably the only part of In
dia where the canoe is in use. A craft
not unlike the American Is manufac-
tured by following out tree trunk
very thin. Larger canoes, propelled
by 20 paddles, are made in the same
way, and canoe racing is one Of the
principal sports.
The villagers of these island villages
keep diminutive cattle which they feed
largely on marsh grasses cut from
boats. AS a result of abundant feed
and lack of exercise, the cows grow
fat and sleek to degree unusual
among the lean Indian cattle. Their
milk, butter and cheese are known as
delicacies in the nearby cities. These
same villages raise unusually fine rice,
by planting before the rains begin.
AS the country is flooded, the stalks
of the rice grow with the rising sur
face of the waters, so that rice stalks
ten feet long may be seen when the
Hoods recede.
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IS Survivors Are Taken From
Red fuss Lin

ST. Johns n. F., Feb. 26.-Forty-
three persons on the Red Cross line
steamship Flofizel. wrecked near
Cape Race in storm, were rescued,
Three rescue ships brought the first
catch Of the survivors to port. Others
arc on the way.
Among the survivors are five saloon
and seven Storage passengers. There
were 146 passengers and members Of
the crew on the Florize;.
The Florizel is pounding to pieces
on the locks in Broad Cove, two miles
from the cape.
The first batch Of survivors was TAX
en- off in three lifeboats and four do
ries from the coastal steamship pros.
pero. The sea was so rough they
could not approach the shore. All had
suffered terribly from cold and ex-
nOSure.
Steamships met the boats and took
the rescued aboard. A wireless mes
sage from the Prospero to John Cros-
bic, minister OF shipping, was the
first word OF hope any of those CT
hoard had been saved.
OF the persons on the Florizel when
the vessel sailed from here Saturday
night. there were seventy-three pas
sengers, including sixty nine officers
and men in the crew. Seven bodies
were washed ashore.
The Prospero, a stauneh coasting
vessel, was sent at the first report OF
the disaster from Placentia bay.
seventy-fve miles around the coast
from Broad Cove. After her depar-
ture. government authorities felt her
task was hopeless.
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Three Launches Were Attacked

New York. Feb. 26.-House and the
others mentioned in Washington adj
vices were travelling in a launch on
the Panuco river when band Of fifty
or more bandits beset them, accOrding
to a message received by officials of
the Texas company from Tampico
The attack occurred early in the
morning. While 1t was in progress
another launch owned by the Metro
politan Oil company came up and al
so fired on. The arrival of a thir !
launch reinforced the defenders and
enabled them to drive the bandits
away, but not before part of the pay
roll had been stolen. In addition to
the casualties among the Americans.
several Mexican deckhands on the
launches were shot and severely in
jured.
House was resident of Oklahoma.
His widow will bring the body home
on the first available ship. The mes
sage further said bandits were becom-
lower oil fields.
Officials regarded the incident As a
case of robbery rather than an out
burst of anti-American feeling. The
boat attacked was carrying money
probably in the Panuco river or one Of
the inland lagoons. So far as known
the bandits were not connected with
any of the military forces. The gov
eminent has ea1s>..-Ss-sacsdsn to the
attention of the Mexican government.
Efforts to retake the oil fields about
Tampico from Manuel Palsas have
been resumed by the Carranza troops
with some success. General Dieguez,
commanding the government forces,
has driven the Palsas forces from the
country about the Cerro Azul, one of
the largest oil walls of the Huasteca
company. Saladers. a small town on
the edge of the oil region, has been
captured.
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ONE OF WORLDS CURIOSITlEs
Fir Tree in Belgium Has Characters
tics Unlike Any of Its Kind So
Far as Known.

What is claimed to be one of the
most curious trees in the world was
found in Belgium by M. Louis Pire,
president of the Royal Botanical So
ciety of Belgium. 1t is fir tree, still
standing at last account, in the forests
of Aliaz, Canton of Vaud.
"This particular tree" reports Pro
fessor Pire, Stands $500 feet above
the sea and is surrounded by forest
of frs, which it exceeds in height by
so to 40 feet.
THE trunk of this tree is ten me-
ters, or little more than thirty feet,
in circumference at the base. At about
n yard from the ground 1t puts out,
on the south side, seven offshoots,
which have grown into trunks as strong
and vigorous as those of the other
trees in the forest Bent and gnarled
at the bottom, these side-trunks soon
straighten themselves up and rise per-
pendicularly and parallel to the main
stem.
Another most curious fact is that
the two largest side-trunks are con-
nected with the principal stem by sub
quadrangular braces resembling grid
ers. TheS~ beams have probably been
formed by an anastomosing of
branches, which, common enough
among the angio-sperms, is extremely
rare among cOnifers."
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GIRLS! THICKEN and
BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR
And STOP DANDRUFF
Try this! Your hair gets wavy, glossy
and abundant at once.

To be possessed of a head of hea-
Wy, beautiful hair; soft, lustrous,
fluffy, wavy and free from dandruff
is merely matter of using a little
DanderiAe.
1t is easy and inexpensive to have
nice, soft hair and lots of it. Just
get a small bottle of KnoWlton's
Danderine now-ali drug stores rec
ommend it-apply little as directed
and within ten minutes there will be
an appearance of abundance, fresh
ness, fiuffiness and an incompatible
gloss and lustre, and try as you will
you can not find trace of dandruff
or falling hair; but your real sur
prise will be after about two weeks
use, when you will see new hair
fine and downy at first-yes-but
really new hair-sprouting out all
over your scalp-Danderine is, we
believe, the only sure hair grower,
destroyer of dandruff and cure for
itchy scalp and it never fails to stop
falling hair at once.
If you want TO prove how pretty
and soft your hair really is, moisten
a cloth with a little Danderine and
carefully draw it through your hair
taking one small strand at a time.
Your hair will be soft, glossy and
beautiful in just a few moments.
a delightful surprise awaits everyone
who tries this.-Adv.
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WANTED TO KEEP OLD RUSSIA
Desire of Caucasian Princess Was for
independence Without BIemishes
Of lndustrialisr.

l met a Caucasian princess here IN
Petrograd Ernest Poole writes in the
Saturday Evening Post. She sat next
to me one day in the small press gal
lery of the hall in which the duma
used to meet. Now in its place was
the council The woman by my side.
learned, was here as a correspond
ent for a social revolutionist paper
down in the Caucasus.
I had been in the Caucasus years
before, and we spoke of the old town
where she had been born, high up in
the heart Of the mountains. The Rus
slams call the women there 1.-The dia-
monds of Russia" and this woman
was one of these. l was curious to
learn what had drawn her to a scene
like this, so many thousand miles
from home She explained that her
husband had been killed in the first
year of the war and that after that
she had thrown herself into war activ-
tiles.
1--WE don't want to desert the Rus
sian cause. We are all in favor OF
pushing the war through to the end"
she told me- "And at the same time
we are doing our part in the work of
the revolution. The president of the
council here, and half the other lead
ers, too, are Caucasians. We are do
ing our share. But at the same time
we want to be free from too much
rule by Petrograd.'
what do you mean by autonomy?
How free do you want to be-" l asked.
Tell me about your United States.
You have states, and a nation, too"
she said
1 tried to explain the relations be-
tween our states and the federal gov
eminent.
1--WE wish more than that" she said I;
1--WE want more independence"
l replied that in America we were
moving just the other way-toward
more centralized government-and L
tried to explain how the growth of
railroads, factories. mills and huge
interstate corporations was forcing
US to grant more and more control to
the men in Washington.
But" she rejoined. I'VE don't want
an ugly land of mills. We want or
Russia to stay as it isl lnean with
it's beautiful fields and its forests, its
rivers and its mountains. You have
seen the Caucasus and | know you will
feel what l mean"
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Food Consumption.

Studies of the monthly per capita
consumption of wheat, meat, fat and
sugar in the United States and in Eu-
ropean countries, show that. in gen
eral. people in the United States eat
the most per person. The German
sugar ration for 19lG-1917 was hardly
more than one-tenth of our consump-
ton and in meats we consumed almost
six times as much as the Germans
were allowed. France is on Il slightly
more liberal diet than Germany, vet
The French sugar ration is only IL
pounds per HlOnth per person. as com
pared with "A pounds in the United
States. England. though commonly
considered Il country of hearty eat
rs. uses even less fit than France. and
= about midway between France and
H. United StateS rs regard meat and
llsnr CONSTRUCTION
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OPERATED BY "HAY-BURNERS"
Motive Power of One of the Civil War
Railroads Was Primitive in
the Extreme.

The history of railway operation in
interesting details. Among them none
are stranger than those that concern
the Memphis, Ell Paso &>Pacific rail-
road, 4O-mile line operated between
Marshall, Tex, and Shreveport, La,
during the Civil war.
The owner was John Higginson. He
had many titles: chairman Of the
board, president, vice president, SUI
perintendent, trainmaster, roadmaster,
freight and passenger agent, fireman,
conductor and master mechanic. The
motive power was of the best in those
days, and consisted of several yoke of
oxen, commonly known as "hay-burn-
ers." The oxen were, it is said, gen.
orally on time.
Mr.. Higginson ran his train on tri-
weekly schedule. When he had gath
cred up 'cargo" and everything was
ready for the trip he loaded the oxen
into the first box car in the train. In
the next car he had put the freight and
the passengers, and in the third he
himself rode. The cars started down
the steep grade out of Marshall and,
after they had rolled as far as they
would Mr.. Higginson set the brakes
and proceeded to unload the oxen and
hitch them to the coupling of the car.
Then he released the brakes and start
ed the train up the grade. At the top
the oxen were again loaded into their
car and another start was made down.
hill. By repeating this operation sew
eral times Mr.. Higginsonsa and his train
would finally reach Shreveport.
The passenger rate was 25 cents .
person. Freight charges were any
eaihg the owner OF the iine-5u get.
Since there was no competition. Mr..
Higginson made money. All freight
was marked "red ball" and handled
as soon as received.
This, however, was not the first
"hay-burning" railway In the United
States. Most of the early lines made
use of animals. The Baltimore & Ohio
at one time employed horses to haul
freight and passenger trains over the
first Is miles of track constructed
Youths COMPANION.
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Superstition Concerning Moon.

That the moon can make people
mad is still prevalent belief, and
even most of those who pride them
selves on being free from all supersti-
ton would hesitate to lie where the
moon can shine upon them while they
sleep. For would they not run the
risk of being 'moon struck" Does
not Othello in the agony Of his soul
eXclaim:
IT'S the very error of the moon.
She comes more near the earth than she
was wont,
And makes men mad.
Science ridicules all Of this today,
pointing out that the moon can send Us
nothing but her light, which Is only q
feeble reflection of that of the sun, and
the attraction Of her gravity, which
seems to affect the rise and fall Of the
tides.
First use Of the elephant az a SYM
Dol of the Republican party was In
1874. when Thomas Mast, the first Of
the celebrated political cartoonists OF
America, made the "ponderous pachy-
derm" the G. o. P. emblem. Mast was
born in Bavaria September q, 1910.
and came to America at the age OF
six. In the early sixties he went to
Italy and was with Garibaldi a. IN
artist for British and American news
papers. AS political cartoonist for .
popular weekly, he achieved an inter
national reputation, and his cartoons
were said to have been largely respon-
sible for the downfall Of the Tweed
ring in New York. In 1874 Mast
drew cartoon representing an ele-
phant labeled Republican Party"
about to fall into chasm. Mast also
depicted the democratic party as
fox, but later the donkey was SUBJ
stituted by the cartoonist OF opposite
political faith, and this has been the
democratic emblem ever since. Mast
died in Ecuador in 1902.
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PLAN TO ENTHFoNE CZARINA
Her Brother. Grand Duke Of Hesse. In
Command on Riga Front.

London. Feb. 26.-Germany plans to
restore the monarchy in Russia.
This is stated in q telegram d2tei
Friday in Petrograd to the Morning
Post. It says the Grand Duke g Hes
Sc has been appointed commando" in
the Riga section Of the German front.
His sister," the despatch adds.
the former Empress Alix. as the
guardian of her son. the former Care
witch, is the favorite German candi-
date for the throne.
The former emperor will not &C
cept the throne from German hands.
The BoIsheviki have provided a form
of government which the Russians
alone understand-pure despotism.
They have paved the way for the re-
hurn of the monarchy"
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PRESS WARNS GERMANY
Prepare Public For Enormous Sacri.
flee of Lives on West Front.

Prepare Public For Enormous Sacri
flee of Lives on West Front.
London, Feb. 26.-There is every in
dication that the German war office
has given word to the newspapers to
begin campaign to prepare the pub
lie for the fresh sacrifices thu German
people will be forced to make when
the offensive starts in the west, the
Central News correspondent at Am
sterdam reports.
Both the military critics and the
war correspondents are joining in this
verbal battery work.
"a most monstrous, terrible thing
is awaiting this continent" the Vos-
sische Zeitung says. Never in his
tory will the memory of this Febru-
airy be effaced."
In the Tageblatt, the military ex-
pert Of that newspaper, Lieutenant
General Baron A \ md Won Ardenne,
says that from the meeting of the
German and Austrian emperors with
their military advisers at headquar-
tiers it may be concluded that the
nause in the fighting will hoon end
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Royal Reealia Now in Museum.

Hawaii'S famous royal standards and
robes of feathers made probably their
last appearance in a public ceremony
at the recent burial of ex-Queen
Liliuokalani in Honolulu. The feather
relics. regarded by the natives as sa-
cred, are kept in the Bishop museum.
founded in memory of Mrs. Charles r.
Bishop, who was the Princess Rernice
Pauahi, last in direct line of the de-
ScendantS of kamehameha, king
whose name his people pronounced
with accent on the second "meh." The
most valuable of the feather pieces is,
Of course, the royal robe of Kameha-
meha the Great, for which the gath
erng of the feathers alone is said to
nave taken 100 years and to have cost
81 ONOO0n. This mantle was last WORD
l:v K"mchameha II and later on state
ncc.r>;iar~. WAS placed over tn throne
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SENATORS VISIT
HOG ISLAND
&c Graft, But Others
Do Not.

Philadelphia, Feb. 26.-The sena-
torial committee which inspected Hog
Island returned to Washington after
four-hour look around divided in
opinion on whether "stupendops" or
'eXtravagant" should be used to de-
scribe the shipyard.
Only five members of the senate
committee on commerce which has
brought out the excessive cost and de
lays at the ship fabricating yard made
the inspection. Senator Hiram John
son and Senator Nelson. WHO have
been most active in the investigation.
were not in the party.
Senator Vardaman, who has desCr'b-
IS the Hog Island venture il the most
biting terms, was impressed by tie
siZa of the yard but still is OF the
opinion that it is misman8ged. and an
indefensible attempt to get money ont
of the government.
Senator's Harding and R9nsdaN
were much impressed Wi the 90 cent
dinner served them at the yard. and
thought the public unduly alarmed hy
the exposures Of the senate commit
tee
'Nuch of the hubbub in Washing-
ton" Senator Harding rem orked. "is
evidently but an echo of petty criti-
cism''
Senator Reed, whose Missouri con-
stituencv gives him a reputation Of
being 2 "show-me" senator. sid he
had brought no definite cooclU lens
away from his tour of the sh;pva-d
He did remark that the job is a pro-
digiOUs enc. But, he said, he is hold
ing back his views for the senate cCm-
mittee. The other member Of the
committee was Senator Fernald Of
Maine. He had nothing to say.
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EARTHQUAKE KILLS n 600
Enormous Loss Of Life In Recent Up
heayaI in Anoy

Enormous Loss Of Life In Recon. Up
heavaI in Annoy.
Annoy China. Feb. 26.-Nearly 49,
600 persons lost their lives as a re-
suit of the recent earthquake in the
Annoy hinterland, according to the
latest reports from Swallow.
Swallow is a treaty port of China,
province Of Kwang Tung. 225 miles
northeast of Canton It is a center
of the sugar industry and is town
of some 10000. A series of earth
quakes on February 16 and II caused
extensive damage over a consider
able area Of Kwang Tung. Buildings
were wrecked in Annoy and many
other towns. Several villages in the
Annoy hinterland were virtually de-
stroyed-