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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.
SELF TAXATION

People in general seem to enjoy
growing about taxes. This subject
makes a theme for conversation in
the family. 1t inspires the loungers
in the corner grocery, and it puts
life into many political campaign.
Why, our forefathers actually plung-
ed into rebellion, fought seven years,
and finally won our national indie
pendence from Great Britain, on a
question of taxes. If you want to
see "hot" town meeting in a back
country township, just propose an
extra tax for some new road and a
bridge.
And yet there is one sort of tax
that is not grumbled at. That is to
say the taxpayers themselves rarely
denounce it or dispute it. They keep
on paying it serenely all their lives
unless they happen to tumble into the
poor house. Their friends and rela-
tives often scold about it, but they,
while they feel its pressure, go right
on paying out. Even the poor men
keep these payments up when all
others are cut Off.
We refer to the tax which men pay
to passion and appetite The sums
thus Expended every year-say for
tobacco and liquor .only-are stu
pendous. This sort of tax paying be-
gins early in life, when the youngster
gets into the habit Of treating himself
to cider, beer, ale, porter, whiskey, a
cigarette, or a cigar. After a bit he
"can't get along without it," and so he
binds himself to pay taxes to it all
his life. He growls about his road
tax when he grows up, his school tax,
and his church tax, but his self-indul-
gence tax he passes out without
murmer even though it may have
made him a poor man. Sometimes he
is conscious Of it, but he has become a
slave to his habits and cannot free
himself. The socialists do a great
deal Of growing about the burdens
put by capital upon the poor, The
worst burden poverty has to bear is
the tax which it voluntary pays to APP
petite and passion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
WHEN MARRIAGE IS A FAILURE

When there is too much latchkey.
When dinner is not ready at dinner
time.
When either of the parties marry
for money.
When the watchword is: each
for himself"
When children are obliged to clam
or for their rights.
When neither husband and wife
take a vacation.
When "he" snores the loudest while
"she" kindles the fire.
When the vacations are taken by
one side of the house only.
When the children are given the
neck and back of the chicken.
When a man attempts to tell his
wife what kind of a bonnet she must
wear.
When one Of the parties engages in
business that is not approved by the
other.
When politeness, fine manners and
kindly attentions are reserved for
company or visits abroad.
When a mans Christmas presents
to his wife consists of bootjacks, and
shirts and gloves for himself.
When the money that should 60
for a book goes for what only one
side of the house knows anything
about.
When the lord Of creation pays
more for cigars than his better half
does for hosiery, boots and bonnets.
When both parties persist in argu-
ing over a subject in which they new
or have or never can think alike.
When "father" takes half Of the
pie and leaves the other half for the
one that made it and her eight chill
dren.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
Society of Cincinnati.

The Society Of the Cincinnati was
formed in 1888 by officers of the revo-
lutlonary army 10 keep up a spirit OF
comradeship among it, members. 1t
took its name from the Roman ruler
who was a farmer before he was sol
der. At first, membership In the So
from father TO OLDEST son, but Wash
ington persuaded the society to aban-
don this feature. 1t was considered
rather an arstocratic organization and
the legislatures of some of the states
censured it. The city of Cincinnati
was named In honor of Ii.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28


DR.. Geo. Torrlson of Chicago is here
for visit with his mother, Mrs. o.
Torrisou.
Joseph p Ledvina, clerk OF court,
was at Surfing, Wis.,, for visit with
his sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Gardner have return
ed from short visit with relatives at
Milwaukee.
Mrs. William Stewart of Chicago is
here for visit with her mother, Mrs.
.. Torrison.
I Miss Flora Waldo left Monday for
Florida, where she will spend the rest
Of the winter.
Miss Alice Schroeder returned to
Milwaukee Tuesday after visit with
relatives here.
NJ. j. O'Donnell left Monday for An
tigo to attend the funeral of friend,
Edwara Cleary,
William Pauly returned from Chica-
go Saturday, and was accompanied by
Mrs. Pauly and child.
Jos. Cornell left yesterday for Madi-
son to attend a meeting of income tax
assessors of the state.
Edward Scherer has departed for
Seattle, Wash, where he will be en-
ployed in the shipyards.
Frank Hoffman has returned from
Milwaukee where he attended the state
meeting of insurance men.
Charles A. Brandt has returned from
a visit at Marshfel6. MIR. Brapdt was
formerly located in that city.
Judge and Mrs. John Chloupek were
at Green Bay Friday for a visit with
their daughter, Mrs Goedjen.
Judge kirwan was at Milwaukee
last week in attendance at the meeting
of the circuit judges of the state.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Koch returned
to Brillion Tuesday after visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ziemer Western
ave.
Norman Knutzen, principal of the
Wittenberg high school, spent Satur
day and Sunday here visiting with re-
atives.
Mrs. Z. NJ. Gleason wasat Milwaukee
the fore part of the week attending
the conference of the Wis. Federation
of Women's Clubs.
Eugene Chloupek, who had been
here for visit, left on trip through
the South for the aluminium Goods
company Thursday.
MONEY TO LOAN on real estate
security at per cent. No commission
Also INSURANCE of all kinds at
owest "a S.
FRANZ sCHMITz, KADW co
Mr.. Chas. Opichka returned from
Chicago to his hume in Cooperstown
today While in this city he made a
call at the Pilot office.
Mrs. c. M. Gleason, secretary of the
Monday Music CLUB, has been appoint
ed chairman of the nominating board
of the State Musical Federation ion
1918 90
z. A. Miller has returned from Camp
Custer, Mich, where he visited with
his son, who is one of the men from
that camp who will soon go across to
France.
The widower who has begun to try
to look young, in the hope OF second
marriage, is not likely TO be mistaken
for young man eligible for service
under the selective draft plan.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28

Hugo Luebner, former resident Of
this city who at one time conducted a
grocery store on Washington street,
died al his home at Wausau this week
He was 80 years of age and single.
II is stated that whale meat makes
a good substitute for beef, but as Mr.
Hoover has not caught supply OF
whales it is necessary for the time
being to observe seven whaleless days
a week.
Two notable concerts are given in
Milwaukee this week, one by Joseph
Hofmann, the polish pianist; the other
by May Peterson of the Metropolitan
Opera Co. under the auspices of the
Arion Club.
Messages received here yesterday
from Edwin Schuette at Chicago, an
nounced the death at Miami, Fla, Tues
day of William Neindorf, former pro-
prietor Of the Briggs house at Chicago,
and former Manitowoc resident. The
funeral will be held at Chicago today.
CARD OF THANKS.
To our friends and relatives who by
their kindness assisted to tighten, in a
measure, our late bereavement, we
desire to extend our heartfelt thanks.
We are especially grateful TO the pail
beareas and to Rev. O'Leary for his
kindly administration.
VIM. j. KELLNER
AND CHILDREN.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
SAVE THE HENS.

Every laying hen sold from the farms
before the lst of May. means a loss of
about 80 eggs to the food supply of the
Nation. These eggs are valuable food,
manufactured largely from insects,
weeds and grass, garbage, and waste.
The eggs therefore, are almost wholly
net gain in human food. Moreover,
the hen is just as good meat after she
has laid these eggs as before.
Save the hens is the message that
the United States Department of Agri.
culture is sending broadcast through
press notices and poster and through
its county agents, especially in the
southern poultry-raising sections.
Treasury receipts from the sale Of
war-savings stamps are running at the
rate of SlI,000,000 a week. Savings
bank deposits in the last few years
have been increasing at the rate Of
800, 700 business day. Treasury re-
ceipts show the American people are
putting their small savings at the ser
vice of the Nation through war-savings
stamps at 4 rate far in excess of pre-
war-savings bank accumulations.
Two billion dollars of war-savings Sc
curities will be issued II these are
all sold this year the Treasury will re.
ceive about 81, $50 100000, and at the
end of the five years the Government
will repay the loan together With 1920
900, 900 in interest.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
Rules Only for the Weak.

Il is one of the weaknesses of man
kind that 1t Is forever establishing
rules, programs, formulate. They serve
their purposes for the guidance of or
binary minds. But the pioneers of
thought ride rough-shod through the
rulers. They gain the ends they desire
by refusing to be directed by what
someone else has thought before them,
by what teachers have insisted upon
as blnding.- Exchange.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

AONAL hlND LIN DON
Henry Depons was Sheboygan cal.
pr Saturday.
Miss Anna Muth was visiting at Chi
hgo Tuesday.
Edward Schwartz has returned from
trip to Neenah.
A. ). Wits left Wednesday on q bust
ess trip to Chicago.
! Herman Pleuss was at Milwaukee
Monday on business.
: Mrs. Reinhardt Rahr is at Chicago
or visit with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Zigmund are the
parents OF a baby girl.
Albert Gutman transacted business
{ Sheboygan Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Flint are visit
|ng at Sheboygan Falls.
Mrs. j. A. Rummele has returned
rom a visit at Appleton.
Henry Burger has returned from a
business trip to Chicago.
Mrs. Louis Schuette and daughter
Ire visiting at Milwaukee.
Mr.. Fred Zutz of Collins was caller
1T the Pilot office Monday.
Russia doesn't look exactly like .
|harging grizzly nowadays.
Mr.. Jos. Sykora OF Kossuth made the
Pilot Office a call Saturday.
Miss Paula Voelker has returned
rom a visit at Sheboygan.
j. F. Herzog has returned from a
business trip to Milwaukee.
Stanley Eckles has returned from a
business trip to Milwaukee.
Mrs. Walter Fricke and son were
Fisiting at Chicago Tuesday.
Henry Clemens has returned from a
business trip to Milwaukee.
Mrs. VIM. Hess of Green Bay is visit.
ny with relatives in this city.
Miss Clara Steffek visited with
friends at Appleton Saturday.
Mrs. Emil Baensch has returned from
visit with friends at Appleton.
Miss Alice Brady has returned from
fe days visit at Milwaukee.
a tty. A. j. Wyseman has returned
rom business trip to Chicago.
DR.. o. G. Esch and wife returned Sat
lrday from visit at Milwaukee.
Mr.. John Rezek Of Kossuth was a
caller at the Pilot Office Monday.
Mr.. Robert GLASGOW of Collins was
caller at the Eliot Office Monday.
Mr. John Baumgart of Gibson was
caller at the Pilot office Saturday.
Mrs. William Wits and her son Earl
we're Milwaukee visitors Monday.
James Morris is visiting with friends
1T Escanaba, Mich, for few days.
Mr.. John Polifka of Francis Creek
was caller at the Pilot Office Monday.
Miss Clara Steffek returned Tuesday
rom visit with friends at Appleton.
Mr.. Henry Scheidt of Centerville
made a call at the Pilot Office Saturday.
Mr.. Peter Brouchoud of KosSuth
made call at the Pilot Office Wednes
lay.
Mr. Frank Havlinek of Francis Greek
vas a caller at the Pilot office Sat.
lrday.
John Barnes of the Richard Iron
Works transacted business at Chicago
Ionday.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
Worth Knowing.

Tie who always receives and never
gives acquires, as matter of course,
a narrow. contracted, selfish character.
Ills soul has no expansion, no henevo-
lent impulses. no elevation OF aim. lie
learns TO feel and think and care only
fir himself.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28

at is for man." says Emerson, ito
tame the chaos; on every side, whilst
he lives, to scatter the seeds OF science
and Of song that climate, corn, ami.
mails, men, may be milder, and the
germs Of love ard benefit may be null
tiplied."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
things; and all should try to have
them do so.

The voice Of duty is never still. 1t
whispers to us morning, noon and
night; it reaches us from the roar of
the wild tempest, the sigh Of the sum
mer winds, the soft, gentle murmer Of
the wayside brook. That still small
voice will not be hushed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28

What volumes our faces sayl Some
speak Of love and kindness. some Of
anger and hatred, others Of pride and
rebellion, and others still Of selfish
ness. We can't help our faces talking
but we can make them say pleasant
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-28
Some Towers.

The height Of the Eiffel tower, Paris,
is 0S6 feet Of the Blackpool tower,
$40 feet; Of New Brighton tower,
$40 feet, ana Of the Woolworth build
Ing, New York, $50 feet.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
Library for Every School

To develop the reading habit
in each pupil should be one of the
chief aims of every teacher, says
the Progressive Farmer. Train
any child so he likes to read. so he
is a real book lover, and he will
educate himself even if he never
goes to school another day. More
over, if a school has a good library
it should aid greatly in educating
the older people whose school days
over, but whose learning days
should never be over. The saying
of old Thomas Carlyle, THE true
university of these days is a collect
ion of books" is true, Selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31

other. And l sincerely hope you,
will accept my cordial good wishes
for the future of our Pierian Chau-
tauqua Circle. May the members
carry out its noble purpose with
ever increasing success as the years
60 on. / offer my warm congrat-
ulations to all who have laboured
so assiduously to found and main
tain this school of learning. which
has been, and shall be. not only an
addition to the great State of
Minnesota, but to the forces of pro-
gress throughout the world. And
may the circle be a lamp unto our
steps; that we may in the distant
future see the dawning of a better
day.
And when this life shall termin.
ate. we may leave without regret,
and with the dignity of true man.
hood prove ourselves a worthy
individual in this social universe.
Without the individual, society
should be nothing. Without society
the individual, should be nothing
we live by and for each other.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31

hope that centralized control and
better coordination would make
for greater efficiency has helped
materially but still the country's
transportation job is somewhat be-
yond the railroads.
In order to relieve them further
for war traffic the government has
lately taken over the New York
and Lake Erie barge canal and it
ID expected that similar action will
shortly be taken in connection with
a number of other canal systems
and navigable rivers.
Several hundred steel barges with
q capacity of about 700 tons each
will be ordered at once for use on
this canal and government experts
are at work designing new type
of barge capable of carrying from
75O to 1000 tons. Impediments
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31

variation among individuals, is of q
low order, and can rise only as its
membrrs develop different adaptat-
ions and abilities.
In high civilization there is not
only a great variety of gifts among
men, but an almost immeasurable
difference in endowments. The
differentiation of labor made the
organization of industry possible,
and powerfully stimulated social
development, and by making the
interdependence of men complete
and obvious induced the new social
self-conciousness, which has raised
society to a higher rank in the
moral universe, and immeasurably
increased its noble possibilities.
Thus the individual and society
are SO related that the progress of
each is conditioned by that of the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31

heretofore in the way of the sue
cessful operation of the waterway
designed for the purpose of giving
the railroads an unfair advantage
will be removed and it is planned
to have in operation barges of steel
and concrete capable of handling
10, 900, 600 tons of freight the first
year.
The use of the country's inland
waterways for carrying freight
will enable the railroads to handle
more expeditiously steel and var
ious other materials for war pur-
poses and will thus be of material
advantage in speeding up our war
preparations.
Transportation experts tell us
that a period of extraordinary de-
velopment is beginning for inland
waterways in the United States.
Not only may we expect traffic on
our rivers and the existing canal
systems to increase to enormous
proportions, they say. but many
new canals will be built and great
numbers of steel and concrete YES
sells will be turned out for use on
our canals, rivers and lakes.
This development of water trans
portion will not stop while the war
lasts because the country's trans
portion needs will remain as great
at least as they are now. Because
of transportation demands the
waterways, growth and use on q
large scale may be expected for
many years after the war.-Ez.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
Canals Aid Transportation

Uncle Sans war activities have
placed a tremendous strain on the
railroads of the country, a fact
which was brought home forcibly
to many in the cold days of last
winter when there was no coal 10
be had because of freight congest-
ion. The governments action in
taking over the railroads in the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
THE MURMAN COAST
An Account of that Part of Russian Lapland
Important to Germany's Military Plans.
In Hanska Mann Herald.

boards, of which the principal one,
the regional council, exercises
general supervision over the town
and the province. This council is
stated as being friendly in feeling
towards the allies. The place is,
indeed, practically dependent for
food and other necessaries upon
supplies furnished by the allies by
sea; and this vital fact doubtless in
fiuences the governing body.
Life in this outpost is curiously
artificial. There are no shops or
hotels; the councils distribute food
and assign lodgings to new arrivals.
The cost of living is low, but house.
room is scarcely obtainable. Wages
are enormously high, 900 rubles
a month for locomotive drivers, 600
for ordinary workmen, 375 for
dock laborers, and so on. Even
allowing for the depreciation of the
paper ruble, the rates are very high.
Alexandrovsk, the naval station
on Ekaterina harbor, was during
the war depot of British submar-
ines and other mosquito craft.
When Russia fell to pieces at the
revolution, and Finland became a
German vassal state, it was to be
expected that an attempt would be
made to seize the Murman coast.
Hopes were held out to Finland of
acquiring an ice-free exit to the
Arctic ocean.
The difficulties in the way of an
expedition to the Murman region
are great. The country is practical
ly uninhabited, SO that military
force must take its own supplies.
There are no roads, and practically
the entire country to be traversed
is largely mountainous, interspers-
ed with tracts of forest and marsh,
presenting many obstacles to mill
tary operations, apart from the
arctic climate. On the coast, it
may be mentioned, the climate is
decidedly milder than in the inter-
ior.
Kola, the port near Murmansk.
where Americans, British and
French marines landed in order to
protect munitions and provisions
originally intended for the Russian
government, is situated at the
junction of the Kola and Tuloma
rivers. Before the war it had only
about 600 inhabitants, according
to war geography bulletin of the
National Geographic society.
In peace times the chief occupat-
ion of the people of Kola is fish
ing, which is pro6tably followed by
the natives from May to August.
Kola is we'll within the arctic circle,
being in latitude 68 minutes 50
seconds. 1t is 335 miles westward
of Archangel, the great White sea
port of Russia.
The Peninsula of Kola makes
up the major part of what is known
as Russian Lapland. 1t is bounded
on the north by the Arctic ocean
and on the south by the White sea.
Its area equals that of the state of
New York and is largely q plateau
having an average elevation of
1000 feet.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-10-31
The Ribbon of White

Owe love on the fields of France,
Where the battle grim is raging.
Like valiant knight he II couch bis lance,
Fell tyranny engaging.
The glorius day he sailed away
With heart of pride gave him
A ribbon of white to wear in the fight,
And prayer to God to save him.
A ribbon of white
That tsands for the right
And the army of Gods command,
My love will be true
To his colors too,
God, Home and Every land.'
And now my battle is raging high
The struggle of duty and longing,
Am / a coward to mourn and cry
In world with heroes throngings
So it's work and weave and forever believe
In the God of the just and his might;
Safe in my arms my love I'll receive
With the victor's ribbon of white.
The ribbon of white
Gives strength for the fight,
And ever for courage stands;
And I'll be true
To my colors, too
God Home and Every land''
The Springfield herald., 1918-07-12
TORPID LIVER, DIZZINESS
INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION
All These Troubles Relieved One Family By The Use Of edd
BlaekDraught Nothing Found That Could Take Its Place.

Springerton. Ill.-Mr. W. F. Rlster.
Of this town. says: For fifteen
years we have used Thedford's Black
Draught and have not as yet found
anything that could take Its place. 1
have used 1t for Indigestion a number
of times and 1t gives relief. For sour
stomach. and heavy. bloated feeling,
1t is splendid. And when the liver
gets torpid. 80 when you stoop and
raise up auds.sly you feel dizzy. a
few doses will set you straight. We
keep 1t and use 1t for constipation and
the above troubles and find 1t most
satisfactory.
! can recommend 1t to others and
gladly do so. For the number Of
keara I'ye used Black-Draught NOW, Q
The Springfield herald., 1918-07-12

ought to know. This Is given volun.
tarily."
Seventy years of successful use has
brought Thedford's Black Draught IN.
to common use in thousands Of Amer
lean homes. Every member Of fam
lily. at times. needs the help that
Black.Draught can give. in cleansing
the system and thus relieving the
troubles that come from constipation.
indigestion. lazy liver. etc. You can
not keep well unless your stomach.
liver and bowels are in good working
order. Keep them that way. Try
Rlack-Draught. It acts promptly.
gently. and in a natural way. II you
feel sluggish. take dose tonight. You
will feel fresh tomorrow. Price e5o
q packages costs one cent dose. An
druggists. XJR2L
The Springfield herald., 1918-07-12
DEMOCRATIC

hereby announce myself candidate for nom
inntion to the Office of sheriff of Boca county
subject to the decision of the county assembly
and the primary. would respectfully ask the sup
p 'rt Of all parties interested in sotd government.
and promise II elected to faithfully perform the
duties of said Office.
H. j, Clifton,
The Springfield herald., 1918-07-12
Democratic.

We are authorized to announce the name Of
Roy Winters n candidate before the primaries
the democratic ticket for county assessor.
subject to the dc cison of the Bacn county demo-
cratic assembly.
The Springfield herald., 1918-07-12
Democratic.

hareby announce my candidacy for the office
II cotnty treasurer. subject to the will of the
doia"cr q C part, in the assembly and the prima-
,li, wing and promise If terminated and elected
i The oiilce to the best of my obili'y-- Asking
,or our ty'support and thanking you for the
no.
Lucius Nc Adam.