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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

There is lesson in the recent illness
of Rudyard Kipling. The cause of the
sickness was severe cold brought
on by his own almost childish disre-
gard of simple health precautions. AS
told by w. E. Curtis, the newspaper
correspondent, Mr.. kipling wore
heavy fur-lined overcoat on warm days
and cold days alike He declined to
change outer garments with the mer-
cury's rise or fall. When he became
ovcrheated in his warm great coat he
took it off. 1t was performance of
this sort while returning home from
social function late at night, that
caused the cold which afterward de-
veloped into Inflammation Of the lungs.
What a foolish origin for so great
calamity as has threatened the world
of letters! 1t is to the general principle
of taking care of oneself that the ap-
plication of the moral of this is di-
rected. 1t is a responsibility that is in
volved in the inherent duty of making
the most of life and its opportunities.
And yet it is duty that is overlooked
perhaps more frequently than any
other one in the every day walks of life.
Every hour men of intelligence and
common sense in all other directions
violate the unwritten vet generally I'M
derstood rules Of sensible living. Usual
| ly the transgression is thoughtless
one, but often it Is done with open I'M
derstanding but reckless disregard of
consequences. 1t is unnecessary to
allude to the innumerable opportuni-
ties to display lack of wisdom in eat
ing, drinking. working, sleeping, smok-
ing, exercising and the thousand other
channels into which carelessness nav
creep during the day or night. The
man who overtaxes his energies in con-
slant work is on the same plane with
the man who smokes too many cigars
or drinks too much whisky or goes out
without his overcoat on n cold day,
One and all are letting their careless
ness shorten their lives and interfere
with their opportunities for doing the
work given to them to do. They not
only throw away their own rights and
privileges but those of their families,
friends and business associates, which
cablyinterwoven with theirs.
No man Of business willfully leaves his
bank book or wallet lying around care
lessly where possible thief might lay
hand on 1t. Nearly any business man
will stand in draft in his shirt sleeves
on a raw spring morning while he
listens to the latest story. That's the
difference in the sense of responsible
ity experienced by the average citizen
as between taking care of ones bust
ness and taking care of ones self. The
first mentioned mistake might cost n
man few dollars. The latter might
cost his life.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

That there may be an opening for the
new woman in the prize ring was dem
onstrated not long ago, when a cham
pion lightweight pugilist was mauled
and thumped into pleasant condition
of submission by his wife-a lady
whom he had imprudently instructed in
the art and mystery of smuggling. Nor
is this the only case on record where
the woman has proved herself the bet
ter man. A number of years ago j.
Lawrence Sullivan, applying for d.
vorce, declared that his wife had treat
cd him with extreme cruelty. AS Mrs.
Sullivan weighed about ninety pounds
and Mr.. Sullivan tipped the beam at
about 200, the case showed clearly that
the fair sex can give away weight to a
surprising extent and still win out.
We gather from these two instances.
therefore, all manner of encouragement
for ladies who are tired OF hammering
typewriters or selling ribbons and who
desire larger and more profitable field
Of activity. Let them enter the prize
ring, where their superior prowess will
insure them victory and where they
will, moreover, be thoroughly able to
take care of themselves in the matter
of profuse conversation-the prime
requisite for success in modern pugi
lism,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

The Kaiser is not only the father of
his people, but also their godfather
when they are unusually populous. The
Berlin correspondent of the Daily News
informs us that he has graciously con-
sented to stand in the latter capacity to
the twin children of coachman at
Geisdorf. He has also sanctioned their
christening as William the First and
William the Second. We cannot help
thinking that thereby he sets some
what dangerous precedent. If it came
to triplets, William the Third, solemnly
christened and registered as such,
would be serious danger to the sue
cession. Meanwhile the William twins
should be certain of brilliant future
on the boards, more especially IL they
could secure powers to add to their
number and so Become a troupe. 1t
will be rather confusing Mt home; but
then, az their father is coachman, the
strap will be handy instrument for
sorting them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
docttnaires were wanted. At TAMPA
Lnwbn was the first man named by

dOctInaireS were wanted. At TAMPA
Lnwbn was the first man named by
Shafer to assist him in the desperate
enterprise ahead. "Pecos Bill" had
been for many years on the frontier
himslf and he knew his officer thor
ougfY. Nothing could have suited
tawpn so well. He was there to kill
Spanards and he thought he saw his
way lear to doing 1t.
Ash brigadler general of volunteers
he vts given command of a division
and In that command stormed Ri
Gang, doing as much as any man could
do tdonvince Toral that his cause was
hopeess. In all of the fighting OF that
terrific day he was up to the firing line,
sayig little, but pacing slowly up and
dow, his gaunt figure mark for every
shabshooter in the enemy's lines, the
MaYer's flicking up the dust about him
or plsing in the air, giving to his men
the pnstant example of how an Amer
icansoldier should act when under fire.
He tas one of the three commissioners
appfnted by Gen. Shafter to arrange
witHToral the terms of capitulation,
ahdlfter the fall of Santiago policed
the lty in very thorough manner I'M
Ill thGstablishment of stable form of
government was made possible. Law
toms lea of policing place Of the kind
is VET simple. "The regulations are so
and d" he would say, land you have
your;un. If anybody violates the reg
ulatips, use the gun" 1t required just
one dy to quiet the city.
Agin 1t was the Geronimo recorder
ratht the record of years in the west
croWed by the Geronimo Incident
Wild sent him to the Philippines to
com and the American forces in the
field The rainy season will have no
effed on him, whatever the effect nav
be o those under him. He is as GER
tainio go strong and fast, even IL he
goeao his death, as the sun is certain
to ne and set. All climates and all
seaSns are alike to that iron frame,
upo which war and peace and the
rigf of the mountains and the sloth
of te Potomac Valley and asceticism
and dissipation have been effectless.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

first Infantry. A yenr later he was
made n first lieutenant. He was trans
ferred to the cavalry arm in January.
1871, had advanced to n captalncy in
March, 1879, was made major In the
Inspectors generals department in
September, 1855, and inspector general,
with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in
1889. That Is his rank in the regular
army today, although he wears the
epaulets of n major general of volnn-
teers. He is slated for appointment to
be brigadier general under the reor-
ganiZation act and when the two years
for which the new soldiers will be en-
listed have expired .iere will be enough
retirements from the service to make
his retention as regular brigadier n
certainty.
He has come upward step by step
solely through personal courage and
personal strength. He has held that it
Is the first duty of the soldier to fight.
and to fight as soon as he gets the
chance. BE has been possessed by no
particular refincments of the art of
war. He has simply gone ahead and
fought like fiend when opportunity
offered and left to others the task Of
explaining why and how such and such
victory was won or defeat suffered.
He has devoted his life to the profess
sion of arms and he understands It, He
does not pretend to be an authority up
on anything else. He is a oneidea man.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
be suddenly transferred from the posi-
ton of hunter to hunted"

be suddenly transferred from the posi-
tion of hunter to hunted"
This rule Inns guided him. He insists
upon being the aggressor. 1t is sup
posed that he would stand q charge all
right, but hitherto he has always done
the charging. He does not believe In
waiting for the other side to act This
trait was signally demonstrated in his
conduct of the right wing of the Amer
lean army at FL Caney. He had men
that he thought could be depended
on. AT any rate he proposed to see
what they could and would do So he
sent them at the blockhouses and
brcastworks hour after hour with a
savage disregard of the chances of
battle and the liability to death that is
one of the marvels of that brief and
glorious campaign. 1t was of Lawton's
men and not of the rough riders that
the Spanish infantryman said: eve do
not understand you American soldiers.
You tried to catch US with your hands,"
1t was Lawton's reputation for dar-
ing and tireless pertinacity that led to
his becoming internationally famous.
II Is Nelc huOWII, Vi
course, to his superior officers as thor
oughly as they were known to the In
dians whom he had been fighting for
dozen years. For the tenth time the
band of Chiricahua Apaches, headed
by Chief Naches and directed by Ger
onimo. had jumped the San Carlos res
ervation, leaving behind them the usu-
al trail of blood and ruin. Ranchmen
were butchered on lonely ranges, chill
dren's brains were dashed out and the
smoke of burning dwellings rose day
and night to the brilliantly blue sky,
General Miles. a trained soldier and an
Indian fighter himself, was In COM
mand. and he selected Captain Lawton
for the task that was set before them.
He started with two troops of veterans,
taking trail that at its beginning was
broad and plainly marked. Then fol-
lowed the most remarkable pursuit In
the history of Indian warfare. Day af-
ter day the ceaseless toll continued.
The men speedily found themselves in
n country where horses without claws
were of worse than no account Their
officer dismounted them. I'VE will
walk them down." he said grimly. The
walk began. 1t was white pluck and
endurance against Indian craftiness
and endurance.
Hunting Geron mo.
Over rocks that blistered the hands
when touched. in ravines so deep and
dark that through the narrow rift far
overhead the stars were visible at
noontide, up the sides of huge hills
down which trickled rivulets of dust,
threading paths along precipices which
frowned upon green valleys 5000 feet
below, drinking of cold clear springs
that gushed above the clouds, some
times in the sun-baked desert, again
clambering far beyond the timber line
Lawton and his followers struggled
on, Frequently wisp Of blue smoke
jutted from some inaccessible crag
and bullet sang Its wicked way to its
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

A ia St0sS AAappSuAhk0s
Electric lights are being agitated for at
Strawberry Point.
Anthem voted favorably to the building
of new school house.
The schools in LaMoille have been clos
ed on account of measles.
The postoffice at Pierce has been discon-
tinued, mail going to Decatur.
Guthrie is the only county in the State
that supports county high school.
Robert Canty of Danbury died of heart
disease while driving into the country.
The Vining Creamery Company hopes
soon to be the biggest industry in that
city.
The M. e. parsonage at Humeston was
destroyed by fire. The loss was fully in
sured.
Sons of the Revolution Of Iowa will hold
their annual banquet at Dubuque April
10.
1t has been decided at Denison to sub
nit proposition for $2O,OOO high school
building.
The Commercial Exchange of Colfax
has been organized to advance the inter-
eSts of that town.
The quarantine is being raised on most
of the families afflicted with scarlet fever
at Grand Mound.
The wages of the employees of the Day-
cnport Pearl Button Company have been
raised cent per gross.
Ottumwa will build bicycle track in
order to secure the annual meet of the
Iowa division, L. A. w.
j. NJ. Schmoll has been sent to Jail at
Fort Dodge for stealing coal from the
cars of the Illinois Central
G. Il. Wennerstrum, prominent boot
and shoe merchant of Fort Dodge, has
filed petition in bankruptcy.
The proposition to isue sos, 900 in bonds
for building new high school at Council
Bluffs carried by large majority.
John N. Yount of Dubuque attempted
suicide by taking Rough on Rats" Dis
sipation given as the cause Of his desire to
Hie.
Mrs. Ed w. Duncan, former resident
of Dubuque, was dubbed into uncon-
seriousness at her home in Salt Lake
Utah.
JOuIl NulpeIS VI w was seized
with an attack of heart disease and ex-
PRED just as he reached the door of his
home.
Edward e. Fee, laborer at Des
Moincs, was run over by an engine in the
Burlington yards in that city and instant
ly killed.
Polk County real estate dealers saw
there are but few calls for farm lands on
account of the high prices at which they
are held.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
by the Ravens & Brockmann Coffee Com.
pany of Davenport, with capital stock
of $4,000.
DIR. Oscar Clute of the Unitarian
Church at Des Moines has rendered his
resignation, having accepted pastorate
at Pomona, Cal.
At the school election at Emmetsbure
the people voted to issue bonds to the
amount Of $4,000 for the purpose Of
building Q school house.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

A gentleman of sixty is frank enough
to tell the readers Of Popular Science
that in his youth he was SO complete
ly under the dominion of the passion of
anger that he was brought to the brink
of crime and deliriuln. At twenty he
became discreetly aware of the danger
and ashamed of the weakness. Then
he set about the task of self-conquest,
and with such success that for the last
twenty years he has not once given rein
to anger. In all ages men have COM
mitted acts of violence against each
other In hot blood; but the doctor would
probably say that much greater num-
Der have shortened life, besides impnir-
Ing its quality, by the nervous expendi-
ture wasted upon an irritable temper.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
.ZzNQENl1h4W7l2Y
HM1zz1yG/MGIHINe.

A I the head of the 5000 regulars
~ in the Philippine Islands is
4 \ modern fighting machine. Its
name is Lawton-Henry W. Lawton-
and for nearly forty years it has worn
the uniform of the United States army.
1t has risen from the ranks, this fight
ing machine, leaving behind it other
machines as strong possibly, but less
fortunate.
Henry w. Lawton was born in Ohio
f1fty-six years ago. He was n country
boy and got only common school edu-
cation-not any too much of it. 1t is to
be doubted if he would have learned
great deal if kept steadily at college UNI
til he attained his majority. Emphat-
ically he is not book man. Studying
the printed page has been to him III
ways task and never a pleasure. Men
are his books-men and happenings.
His folk were plain farmer folk. From
them he derived his length and size of
bone. The tremendous muscles, the
tireless endurance which have marked
him In later life had the beginning of
the development in the open air of the
fields of his boyhood. 1t was said of
him that 1t took him longer to learn
anything and longer to forget 1t than
any youth that ever tramped through
the snow to a log school house. His
memory, indeed. has been one of his
strong points since he emerged from
childhood. lie remembers well-par-
ticularly enemies. better hater was
never born. 1t follows necessarily that
he Is true in Friendship. He is, In fact,
a mans man. Women who get to
know him like him well enough, but
not many of them get to know him. In
the age of gray hair he is still a bach
elor, and if he has ever had an affair Of
the heart 1t has been kept to himself,
Lawton entered the volunteer service
of the United States in April, 1861, and
was given the chevrons of a sergeant in
company q Of the Ninth Indiana In
fantry. In August, 1861, he was made
first lieutenant of the Thirtieth Indi
ana. In May, 1862, he was made a cap
tain, was lieutenant colonel in No
Vember, 1864, was breveted colone
FOR gallant and meritorious services
III March, 1865. and was mus
tered out of the service in No
vember, 1865. He had had PRACTICAL.
four years of the most tremendous wal
in the history of the nations. He hat
been n participant in a dozen pitched
battles. He had led his men in charge
and counter charge on the stricken
fields of Virginia. He had stepped up
on the dead upturned faces of his broth
ers. He had been soaked with blood II
his knees.
On the LIST of July, 1866, he was ga
zetted a second lieutenant in the regu
lar army, being assigned to the Forty
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
Fireman,. Head !. cru,hed.

Fireman ]. ]. Healey Of Burlington was
instantly killed on the Burlington fast
mail engine while going into that city. He
was leaning out of the cab looking at hot
box on the engine, when he was struck by
U bridge and his head crushed. Engineer
Pitts did not know Of the accident till his
steam began to run low, and he looked
around to the freman's side and found
Healey's lifeless body hanging out of the
cab. Healey leaves widow and three
children in Burlington,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

retained as one Of Great Britain's out
posts for the control of the Mediterra-
mean, The Sultan, also, is trying to
guess whether or not he has lost an ISL
and that his predecessors struggled for
centuries to hold, and that without the
exchange of shot on either land or
sea. While the island is nominally a
Turkish possession, there is not a flag
bearing the crescent flying upon it, and
1t may be expected any day that Prince
George will go back to Athens, that the
union jack of England will fly from
every fort on the island and that Great
Britain will then ask the powers what
they propose to do about it.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
A Barbarous Affair.

arrest and held in bonds to the next grand
jury for brutal attack upon an old farm
er named Schrivalier. The fellows, who
were all under the influence of liquor,
came upon the old man while he was in a
livery stable seeking his horse to return
home. Without provocation they beat and
kicked him into an insensible condition
They then threw blanket over him in the
barn. He was found the next morning,
still unconscious and almost frozen to
death.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
Evadine the Law.

The London Telegraph tells story Of
collier who amused himself with fly.
ing pigeons. He had occasion to 20 to
town recently, and took with him n
bird In bag. He was about to toss
up the pigeon in the town hall SQUARE
when policeman came up and told
him that he must not fly the bird there.
"Why not?" asked the collier.
Because 1t is forbidden, and shall
have to lock you up If you do"
The collier, with the usual sharpness
of his kind, thereupon took the pigeon
out of the bag, set 1t on the ground,
stroked its wings aud said to It: Jaw
corn'd toss thee up here, so thou mun
walk whoam; dost yer? thou nun wall,
whoam."
The bird, of course, rose in the air.
leaving the policeman petrifled with as.
constituent.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

hair is now literally sprinkled with
gray, and the white amid the brown is
about his only sign of age Army sur
geons who know him say that he may
live to be 100 unless bullet cuts short
his strange and sanguinary career.
Henry w. Lawton was gallant aud
serviceable officer of infantry during
four years OF the civil war, but his
peculiar talents were properly envir-
oned only when he was transferred to
the cavalry and stationed in the SOUTH
west. This was more than quarter
of a century ngo, and for two decades
he was remote from the large cities of
the east. He found New Mexico and
Arizona Overrun and terrorized by hos
tile binds of Indians and lie set him
self, along with his comrades, to hold
them down. They were held down. The
work that the cavalrymen of the United
States did in those years will never be
appreciated until n circumstantial his
tory is written and 1t is not probable
that the history will ever be written.
BIT was life of foray, long rides. des-
perate battles in remote valleys, mid
night surprises, combat with foe that
often was not seen, disheartening and
fruitless chases, danger and frequent
death. In fifteen years the officer saw
every friend he had made when he
went to the mountains taken from him
by removal, age disease or the bullet.
The entire personnel of the force
changed more than once-the entire
personnel-that is, except himself, He
was always left, lonely, self-contained,
earnest, indefatigabJe and silent, save
when giving commands or cheering on
his men In fight His name became
household world in nll of the tepees in
that WILD land. The Chlricahuas, the
Mescaleros, the Jicarillas, Apaches, all
had for him the mixture of hate and
grudged admiration compelled by
dauntlass foe. They found in him,
after little while. man who was
learned in every phase of their peculiar
warfare, and in ten years they dreaded
him rs they have dreaded few white
men since the winning of the West be-
gan. Lawton's method Of handling
them was singularly his own. When he
struck trail he kept to 1t with q
logged tenacity which knew no such
thing as quit. Whether the pursuit
was maintained for day or week, it
was maintained with steady, unre-
lenting earnestness that did more to
strike terror into the hearts of the red
men than would have been possible to
all the rifles on earth. The mans phil
osophy was wholly expressed once in
a chance remark to newspaper ac-
quaintance.
"1f man is hunting for you," he
said, "get gun and hunt him. Do it
! right away. 1t discourages anyone to
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
Wage. Go Up on a R.ilrood.

An announcement of a rise of wages for
the trackmen employed by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad Com
pany has been made. The 5000 men who
are affected will hereafter receive 81. a
day, instead of 10 as in the past. Labor
will also be benefited through construction
plans Of the Chicago Great Western Rail-
way. The company intends to begin work
at once on additional sidctracks, buildings
and other improvements, the cost to aggre-
gate $5OO,OOO. The officials of the road
say the traffic is the heaviest ever known.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

A Filipino woman who carried a gun
In recent raid was not permitted to
accompany the bearers Of flag of
truce to the Americans, but was or
'dered to the rear. The Filipinos let
their women fight, but shut them up
when there is talking to be done. Over
here we let our women talk till they
are black in the face, but when the
fighting comes they are shut up in the
house with locked doors and barricaded
xviOdous
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
A Phflinnine Animal

AT the National Geological gardens In
Washington has just been received n
tarsier from the Philippines. The
tarsier may best be described as hav-
ing face like an owl, and body,
limbs, and tail like those of monkey.
His sitting height is about that of the
squirrel. AS his enormous optics would
lead one to suppose, he cuts cupers In
the night and sleeps in the daytime,
concealed usually in abandoned clear
ings, where new growth has sprung up
to height of twenty feet or more.
Revenge generally seeks refuge in a
pretty small head.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05
Hot Fire at Prairieburg.

Sliker's wagon shop and blacksmith
shop burned at Prairieburg. The fire was
discovered shortly after II o'clock, both
buildings being ablaze on the inside at the
time of the discovery. They were of
wood and adjoined each other. There is
no idea as to how the fire may have start
ed. Mr.. Sliker had insurance to the
amount Of $500 on the two buildings and
the goods in the blacksmith shop, but the
insurance will not nearly cover the loss.