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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

vaults IN putting up heavy masonry,
with plenty Of iron bars, and by man.
ming the building with armed watch
men. But finally they granted the man,
who seemed to talk fairly, chance to
try his plan, and night was named
for the undertaking.
At the appointed time a committee
of the directors descended to the cellar
and heard peculiar scratching sound
under their feet. Two hours later the
ioor opened and the ditch digger bob.
bed up serenely, Like the evil spirits In
the spectacular drama. All around them
lay bars of precious metal, totaling in
value fS,000,0O0. The man explained
satisfactorily how 1t was done, and as
a reward the directors assured him an
income for life on an Investment of
$4,000. The crook was content. and
1t is believed he remained honest ever
afterward.
But other craftsmen were temptel
by his luck to try the same game, and
the directors were Inundated with sug-
geshons and tips on new methods Of
burglary and how to prevent them.
Among other things, they paid $50, 600
for process. invented by young
chemist, for copying the Ink, paper,
watermarks and designs Of the bank
notes so perfectly as to defy detection.
The directors found they could use his
system more satisfactorily and more
proftably than their own in the produc-
ton of their currency.
Despite the fact that these expemdi-
lures have run up into big figures In
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
md paraded before the admlring popu.

and paraded before the admiring popu-
lace that wonderful addition to his
fre-fighting force-a piano box engine.
The department marched around the
lot, dragging the engine behind it, and
then halted at the south end, where the
machine was given conspicuous place
and the firemen drawn up in line
around 1t while the chief and his as
sistants received the congratulation Of
the citizens on the visible evidence of
Chicago's coming greatness. Most of
the population got inside Of the fence
and mingled in free and easy manner
with the firemen, but some of the kick
ers-the men who thought the pur-
chase of fire engine at cost of $3.50
a bit of wicked OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ed on the outside and passed uncom.
plimentary remarks about the outfit,
In taking his picture of the parade by
the old daguerrotype process the artist
set his camera on Clark street, and
this brought into the foreground the
men who were hanging on the outside
OF the fence on that thoroughfare, max
Ing their faring coat skirts and oddly
shaped high hats the most conspicu-
Gus feature Of the scene.
In the '4Os the best men in Chicago
were identified with the fire force.
Lawyers. doctors, editors and business
men did not think 1t beneath their dig
nifty to run with the machine-in fact,
active service as volunteer fireman
brought rewards in the way of polit-
ical and social preferment. to which
even those in the highest ranks of pro-
fessional and commercial life were sus-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
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The Scriptural suggestion, Hide not
your light under bushel," is most per-
tinent to-day as advice to the business
man. If man has good thing-an
a:,-cie of commerce needed by the peo-
ple-and it is something which he de-
sires to dispose of, If he is business
mana progressive one-his first idea is
to advertise it. He may advertise it
with placard placed upon it in the
window. The passer-by sees it and 1t
Is advertised. He may paint dozen
board signs and place them about the
thoroughfares. Likewise that is adver-
tiisng, but on more extensive scale.
But If he is thoroughly progressive
man he will take the surest, the cheap
est and most satisfactory way of tell
ing the people about this article and its
desirability by putting a sign-an adj
vertisement-in the newspaper. The
present decade has revolutionized the
theory, SO long proposed by political
economists, that demand regulates the
supply, because thousands of people,
who would become customers, do not
realize that they are in want of the
article until they read the advertise
ment and are reminded of that need.
Consequently the supply and the pub
licity an article gets, regulates the de-
mand. The modern adaptation of the
oft-quoted passage in Scripture might
well be Advertise"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
Modern solomo,,s ind . mani.

The Greek ecclesiastical authorities
at Aleppo have been called upon to de-
eide case which strongly recalls Sol
omon's famous jud sment. By a
strange coincidence woman and her
daughter both gave birth to female
child at the same time. But the ba-
bies got mixed, and, as one of them
was ugly and the other pretty and
healthy, both mothers claimed the lat
ter. The elder woman maintained
that, as all her other children were
handsome, the ugly child could not be
hers, while the daughter claimed that,
being young, handsome and strong,
she could not be the mother of weak
and ugly babe. The religious chief of
the town settled the affair in a sum-
mary way. He adjudged the beauti-
full child to the daughter on the ground
that, 1t being her first, the occasion
was not to be made one of humiliation
and disappointment. while the elder
mother could afford to forego her
claim, since che had already had sew
eral handsome children. Malumat
Constantinople).
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
of architecture. The downy bird will
none of them.

A curious instance of the westward
drift Of the country's population ap-
pears In the latest report of the Pen
sion bureau. The official reports of
the War Department for 1861 '65 show
that New York led in the number of
troops furnished; pennsylvania came
second, ana Ohio third. The quotas of
the respective States in the order
named We're 467,O47, 366, 1O7, and &c.,
659 men. On the pension list this or
der is exactly reversed. Ohio has the
most pensioners, Pennsylvania stands
next, and New York is third. There
are 105,527 pensioners in Ohio, draw
ing 15,45G,0OO; 1O4,6S1 in Pennsylva-
mia, drawing $12,470795; and 1882 in
New York. drawing $12OO3, S54. ILL.,
nois stood fourth in the number of
soldiers furnished, and it also stands
fourth in the number of pensioners,
though Indiana is Sourth in the amount
received for pensions. These changes
may be traced entirely to natural and
Legitimate causes. 1t is nothing against
Ohio that it leads in the number of its
pensioners. If 1t has usurped the place
that apparently belonged to New York
1t is because there has been n steady
drift westward of population since the
war, ana enough of the veterans or
soldiers widows have moved from
New York and Pennsylvania into Ohio
to cause the change. The westward
movement of the veterans explains
why Kansas has now twice as many
pensioners rs 1t furnished soldiers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
GET TlPs FROM CROOKS.


Bank Officials Take Means to Protect
Their Treasure from Thieves.
1t Is said by a police official at City
Hall headquarters that some of the
city banks, whose hoard of surplus
cash has been increasing largely of
late, have been experimenting with an
expedlent long in use by Bank of Eng
land officials Of paying known crooks
for information of any contemplated
raid upon their vaults. The Bank of
England's first experiment of this kind
dates from 1850. when the directors of
the bank listened to Il startling PROPOSE
tion made by ditch digger"
The laborer told the directors that he
had discovered a new and unsupported
method of getting into the cellar vaults,
where the gold and silver bars were
kept, and that he would sell his secret
to them for money. The directors hest.
tated, believing that they had taken
every precauton against loss from the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
"HAuLlNe DOWN THE FLAG"

Republican politicians who are
"crooking the pregnant hinges of the
knee that thrift may follow fawning"
are loud in their protests that the
American flag once run up must never
be hauled down. This appeal to the
bias of patriotism is made to excuse
the war in the Philippines.
But not all Republicans are so bound
to the imperial throne of Emperor Me-
Kinley as to approve an unjust war
simply because the President is moved
by an unworthy ambition. Former
Senator Henderson of Missouri is an
able Republican, but he has ideas of
his own concerning hauling down the
flag" II don't believe" says the for
mer Senator, that you can drive a
people to fall in love with anything or
that you can shoot American patriot
ism into anybody. When the Amerl-
can flag ceases to be the emblem of lib
erty let 1t be hauled down. know of
but one flag, and that is the one which
proudly floats Ger the land of the free
and the home of the brave 1t will
never float gracefully over land OF
slaves"
But, worse than this, the flag in Sulu
guarantees not only slavery, but polyg-
amy as well. In further discussing this
question. Henderson says: 81 would
now negotiate with the Fllipinos to
take Manila as naval station and
ho1r
of their own. the United States agree
ing to aid them in the good work and
to protect them from any threatened
interference with their free institu-
lions, they to return to us the S2O,OOO,-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
All eorta.


=, r'eiec. ~ the s1ariisnt OF the brain.
: "'ills'
a husband VINO pursues peace will
w 'A' ~ lun Tue house.
me proportion OF sickness In human
NE Is nine days out of the year.
women are far more heroic than men
-as any shoe dealer will tell you.
There is only one sudden death
among women to eight among men.
The player who sweeps the board In
a game Of chance always gets the dust.
Iron mining oives emnlovmant 70
more than ~ mn nersons IN Enc,.ns
AZ least rortv Amor,con Ia a,s -.
endeavor,no tn corn q ,,v,n. =, s.a,,,. az
n 49,, . =. A'
s' euito. VI 'ne LONDON
on his desk while no worLs eN'
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=, Co., nss., y. ~ 50" ~ Tue liaiids
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long heen artinnt me r,,ant en,,ns , 4h
shomroo1, 10 ~ ,,s,.s Ia La. s".'eu tne
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no hasm.,r,,, ,,a..a @ useu ~
ara hast msaa e. az ,rasaot .a..an
: ~ 80 = g p se'
Wn.nesel sili s'ssles NJ every 1901
H.. - 10 yous .nan n asa. sue y Will
= - IVY s ,AA : s''.e. ~ "'li'
women VINO marry the nrst man that
asks asks. .nem presumably tnink 1t 10 bet
Ter 10 pc mistaken than miss not
cro..ho,..,. ...., ..,.
.,sa ~ san.p a.,ea n 1T, mel srea.est
to- 1ans.h - a. sss "n lucy slow
o,,t tan snaho ~ ~ ' anu 'preau
M, - ''
in Spanish bull lights every year aS-
ceeds 5000 while from i n0o 70 : ono
bulls are sacrif,ced --oo
mr..
49,. ., s WAGES VI tne
49, os =. 90 - sne COTTON mis- OF
a .. a,e @,1o, u .ne women $o'oo,
"nu y. tne cu'iuren $@to'
Twelve years ago one sailor out of
every lO6, on an average, lost his life
by accident. Now the proportion has
been reduced to one In 256.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
why ply n WAITING Game

ny Tl'y Wu1IIufs Tame
The administration Is adapting all Its
surroundings to the work of renomina.
ting William Mckinley to the Presi-
dency. Even Congress is expected to
do nothing but that which the admin.
istration especially calls for. The war
with Spain was regularly declared by
Congress, but the war with the people
of the Philippine Islands was inaug-
urated and has been conducted by the
executive department of the govern.
ment. The program was for the army
TO have the Philippine Islands pacified
and ready for the attention of Congress
by the first Monday of December next.
Indeed. there was a good deal of talk
about the probable necessity for an ex-
traordinary session, so that the PEACE
fui condition in the Orient would not
have to wait for necessary legislation.
1t seems plain now that when Com
gress meets in regular session it will
be told to keep its hands off for some
time longer; that the President is not
ready fer 1t; that the fighting is not
over. Meantime, no policy is proclaimed
from Washington. The people and Con.
gresls are simply treated to some rhet-
orlc aboHt the flag and told to wait
longer for facts and plans. Why should
Congress fold its hands? Why should
1t not assert itself? 1t is the legislative
duty to take hand.-Cincinnati En-
ulIirer
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
Chinese Parental Autbor;tv

A remarkable event has occurred at
Using kiang-pu. A man by the name
of King had son who made his father
and mother "lose face" because of the
wild, rakish life he led. He gambled.
loafed, smoked opium, etc. If he stole,
his father would be taken to the va
men and the whole family would suf-
fer for the sons villainy, and the vital
question was, How could the family be
protected? AT last they arrived at the
conclusion that the only way to protect
the father and mother was to take ex-
IRENE measures with the son, which
they did with a vengeance. The ia
ther and uncle took him out among
the graves, followed by curious
crowd Of neighbors and friends, and.
putting rope around his neck, each
relative pulled on the end, and the son
was put beyond running the family in
this wordsworth China Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

Chicago had a fire fighting force as
early as 1885, but the equipment con-
sisted solely of leathern buckets, in
which water was passed by lines of
men formed for this purpose. In case
of fire the fighters would range them
selves in line, with one end at the near
est well or cistern and the. other at
the burning building. Along this row
the buckets of water would be handed
and dashed on the flames. 1t was not
until 1874 that William B. Ogden had
succeeded in working the people up to
the point of buying an engine, and
even then there wns strong protest
against 1t, the assertion being made
by Mr.. Ogden's opponents that 1t was
a piece Of wild and useless extrava.
gance. Despite this the engine was
bought at cost of $3.50. 1t was n
goose neck, piano box machine, work
ed by man power by means of long
"brakes" at the sides. These brakes
were connected with the pump, and
when forced up and down by forty
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

ceptible. One of the most cherished
privileges was that of appearing on
parade in the red flannel shirt and
lealhern hat, which, with pair of
black doeskin trousers, with the lower
eAtremities stuffed into the tops of
long-legged boots, constituted the full
dress uniform. 1t was these. things,
simple as they may now seem, that
gave enchantment to the fireman's life 4
and drew into the ranks. the best men
in town. The actual fire service was
not particularly arduous. While the
city was built almost entirely OF frame
structures, fires were neither numer-
Gus nor extensive, owing to the strin-
gent precautions taken to prevent their
origin. When the department was
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

The jams of India agree with the
Buddhists in disallowing those Brah-
manical ceremonies which involve the
destruction of life. Being rigid veg
etarians, they take extreme pains not
to injure any living creature. They may
drive snake out of the house, but they
spare Its life. A rajah or prince of this
persuasion says: I'VE endeayor to
avoid even green vegetables, under the
idea that cutting the plant may hurt it.
We would not needlessly pluck leaf
from a tree. lest the tree should posi-
bly, feel pain" Similar was the super
stiion of a Kindergarten, who taught
the children that when 1t was neces-
sary to pull up garden weeds, they
should be carefully replanted in some
other place!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

There is such thing as getting on
the right side of tornado, the right
side being the north side. The rule
drafted by meteorologlsts is to face
the approaching cloud and then flee to
the right. Take refuge in n cellar or
cave, throw yourself on the ground
and cling to stake or stump. This
is the surest means of escaping or sur
viving what as yet no human power
can mitigate or prevent.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

The mere possession of great wealth
by an individual is no longer matter
of apprehension. An illegal combina-
ton to monopolize the production or
distribution of the necessaries of life
Is another matter. An active and un-
scrupulous trust promoter or n corrupt
and corrupting plutocrat in politics is
a more serious menace to the welfare
of the country than all the Wander.
bits and Astors put together.-New
York World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

1t was a very pretty compliment that
Lord Kitchener paid TO American gen
lls and enterprise, relative to the quick
construction of bridge in the heart
of Africa, after Englislimen had fail
ed And how regrettable that we do
not push opportunities for such tri-
dmphs in other remote fields, instead
of horrifying the civilized world with
exhibitions of human slaughter.-Los
Angeles Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
An Ami.bla wtfa,s Max.

II have an infallible rule for the man.
agement of a husband" says an amia-
BILE married woman. "If he comes
home at night very tired keep every
thing quiet for him and have very lit
tie to say until after the soup course
at dinner. BY the time that course Is
over the soup has, as 1t always will do,
warmed the very cookies of tired
mans heart, and he is In a good mood
for anything and everything that may
follow" York Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

A young man of Ellsworth, Me-, al
lowed himself to be mesmerized by
travelling hypnotist recently, and lay
for .wenty-four hours asleep In the
show window of one of the principal
stores In the city. For the service he
was to receive $40. While he slept
the city tax collector filed the necessa-
ry legal claim for the $40, and the
sleeper awoke to find his poll tax for
the past three years paid.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
conclude that il must he . weak cans

conclude that II must be weak cause
which has to call to its aid abuse of
this sort. Perhaps they have had
enough of this swash-buckling and will
decide for the good, old-fashioned form
of settling political disputes by means
of argument rather than by roaring.
Ohio was carried by Mckinley three
years ago by a plurality of over Al 600
In a total vote of more than n million.
The Republican candidate for Govern
or this year is unpopular with large
section of his party, Foraker's follow
ers included, and the latter's cham
pionship of the cause of the trusts may
have been decided on for the purpose
of defeating the ticket and admins
tering to both the President and Hanna
lesson.-New York News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

1t is doubtless an indiscretion for a
public man to say privately what
would cause trouble if spoken openly.
But the man who gives to the world
what has been said to him in private
confidence commits something more
than an indiscretion, and little less
than crime.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

called out the disagreeable features Of
the work were more than compensated
for when those who had been most nc
tive in fighting the flames were singled
out as members of the floor and recep-
ton committees ut the next dance.
Such was firelnan's life in Chicago in
1874.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11

ably be the first commonwealth to elect
a delegation pledged to support him In
the next national convention. The pro-
posal to elect delegates this fall APP
pears to be favorably regarded by the
Bay State Democracy, and that they
will be instructed in the Nebraskan's
favor there is not the slightest doubt.
Concord People and Patriot.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
From published statement 1t ap-

From a published statement 1t ap-
pears that in eight Chicago high schools
the number of pupils entered at the be-
ginning of this school year was $3.50,
of whom 1,493 were boys and 4,O07
were glrls-2,6O4 more girls than boys,
or only four boys to every eleven girls.
The Chicago Chronicle goes ON to say
that 1t may be stated as partial COM
pensation for this excess OF girls that
the attendance of the English high and
manual training school was $50 boys
and young men and no girls. But re-
garding the manual training as equiva-
lent to the high school. we still have an
excess of 2,094 girls, or more than twice
rs many girls rs boys. This fact sug-
gests the question whether the girls are
not being educated away from the
boys, so to speak, to serious extent.
The boys are taken from school at an
earlier age than the girls and, it Is to be
presumed, set to work in occupations
not requiring instruction In the high
school branches. Is it well that 50
many of their sisters receive so much
more schooling? Do not the latter ac-
quire tastes and ambitions and ideas
of life uniting them for the relation of
marriage with the less cultivated young
men? This is not question which can
be answered positively without much
more information than is conveyed by
the school statistics alone. 1t may be
that many more Of the boys than of the
girls pursue special studies after leay-
ing school to qualify them for the work
in life which they undertake. If so.
these special studies may compensate
for those pursued in the schools by the
girls and not by the boys. There is
some reason to think, however, that
whatever compensation of this kind
there may be 1t Is rot effective in bring.
ing about congenial relations between
the sexes later in life. 1t seems to be
the fact that cellbacy is on the increase:
that the proportion Of old bachelors aud
old maids to the total population is
higher than formerly. And If it is the
fact we may reasonably look for one
cause of 1t in the unequal education of
the sexes in the public schools and the
consequent separation of those who
might otherwise be happily mated. If
such is the case there is no obvious
remedy. The present course in the mat
ter of education is largely matter of
parental choice. and liberty in this re-
soect cannot be restricted. 1t is a mat
ter for Individual study and not for
State regulation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
viii It Always Be This w.v7

When three or four girls are discuss.
ing their new gowns each girl except
the one who is talking appears bored
and wearied to death. But as soon as
one gets the floor she's as lively as a
cricket and won't stop chattering until
the next girl shrieks louder and browns
her out.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
Hanna an 'nitator.

After all Mr.. Hanna has no particu-
lar cause to be abashed at the story
that he solicitously inquired how much
vote was worth in the House of Com
mons. For even If Mr.. Hanna did ask
the question--and he declares he didn't
he does not suffer in comparison with
the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
who, though Minister for the Colonies
admits that he owns stock in the Niger
company, concern whichis trying to
sell out to the imperial government.
The British ministry, indeed, are par
ticularly thick-skinned crowd In mat
ters of this kind. 1t ia not very long
since Sir Michael Hicks Beach-"Mick-
ey the Botch"-admitted that most of
the ministers were Interested in gun
foundries, shipyards and other enter
prises which have large dealings with
the government, and defended the pro-
cedure upon the ground that the states
men found relaxation and relief from
the cares of state in looking after their
business interests! All of which goes
to show that politicians are very much
alike on both sides of the water, and
that Mr.. Hanna, though he may be
somewhat more direct in his methods,
is not, after all, much worse than his
esteemed contemporaries of Downing
street and Westminster. - Chicago
Chronicle.