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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
Every woman has an idea that she

Every woman has an idea that she
"holds her age well.'
1t is true that Eve had the devil to
contend with, but Adam had Eve.
A man always feels queer when a
woman tells him she is crying "because
she is glad"
Maybe the reason most women talk
so much and so fast is because if they
didn't they might have to think.
When 18O-pound woman loses a
pound and quarter she tries to act
like she was going into decline.
A woman will confidc n lot more
about her husband to friend than she
will confide to her husband about her
self.
When a girl first gets engaged to a
man she wonders how she was ever
able to live SO long without express
ing herself.
There was never but one really brave
man. He told woman he didn't
think her baby was unusually bright
Tor ltS age.
A man can take crooked facts and
tell them straight; but there never was
a woman who could take straight facts
and tell them anything but crooked.
Among the women n newcomer is
never considered neigliborly until she
has sent the hired girl to borrow at
ilanSt two nutmeps and fhrao o,,,, ne
sugar.
The average woman who begins mar
ried life thinks she lives on love; but it
isn't long before shejgets down to three
meals a day, and she doesn't even try
to stay her appetite on the other.
The average girl has the idea that
the main duty in married life is to or
der things for dinner and to make a
fancy smoking jacket for her husband
to wear when he comes home from
business.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

Again we are confronted by the old
question as to whether women should
propose. This time 1t has been raised
by lecturer in New York and dis
cussed by such authorities as Mrs.
Lille Devereux Blake and Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton both of whom hold
to the view that she should. Mrs.
Blake asserts that many girls are too
shy for their own good; that they do
not give man sufficient encourage
ment, and consequently fail to get the
proposal that they might as well have
as not. Possibly this is true, but il a
girl is too shy to encourage man to
propose, is it likely that she will have
the boldness to propose herself? Mrs.
Stanton admits that girls do substan-
TALLY propose with their eyes and in
many other coy ways" but She thinks
they should have the right to do 1t in
words. Here, however, she touches
upon the point that is the strongest
argument in favor of the present Gus
tom. A girl can propose with her eyes,
and as general thing man can not.
A girl has the intuition and tact that a
man lacks. She is quick to discover
his feelings toward her, and, having
discerned them, she can do with him
about as she pleases. In nine cases
out of ten the proposal rests with
her now, and probably comes quicker
than 1t would IL either could ask the
all-important question and each was
waiting on the other. The little arts
by which a woman altains her ends,
matrimonially or otherwise, are what
endear her to man in Il large measure,
and to replace those by mans direct
ness and bluntness would be to take
away one of her chief charms, A man
in her position would be helpless, but
she isnot. The subtle influences which
she employs In directing the course
of her love affairs are natura. to her,
pleasing to man, and exceptionally eff
fective. Why make any changer
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
How Gloves Are Gathered.

More cloves are said to be used In
America than in any other country, En-
gland and France following in the Or
der named. In this country and In
Great Britain they are used almost
wholly US a condlment, but in France
they are used largely In the manufac-
ture of certain liqueurs To some de-
gree they are employed in medicine
for their tonic properties. The name
Glove is from the French clou, mean
ing nail. The tree is an evergreen,
growing from forty to fifty feet high,
with large, oblong leaves and crimson
flowers at the end of small branches in
clusters of from ten to twenty. The
tree belongs to the same family as the
guava, the pomegranate and the rose
apple The cloves are at first white,
then light green, and at the time of
gathering bright red. Pieces of white
cloth are spread under the trees at the
harvesting time, and the branches are
beaten gently with bamboo sticks until
the cloves drop. They are dried In the
sun, being tossed about daily until they
attain the rich dark color which pro-
claims them ready for shipment. A
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
Map Showing Election Results Of 1885, Republican States Shaded
Republican Vote, 7O49 Representing 271 Eleca Votes
Democratic Vote, G502925; Representing Votes
New York Herald.)

The Republican view is quite different.
They prophesy McKinley's reelection on
the following grounds:
j. Mckinley's successful administra-
ton of civil and military affairs.
2. The prosperity that has come from
the Dingley tariff and the gold standard.
3. Gold Democrats will not support
Bryan and the Democratic party cannot
be made to unite on any one.
The study Of election figures Of 1897
and 1898 is interesting at this time. No
one will claim that they necessarily fore
tell the result In 1900, but they do give
pretty correct idea Of what the Demo-
Gratis must overcome in order to win. The
two diagrams given herewith show the
results of the elections in 1896 and 1898,
tine Republican, States being shaded. 1t
will be noted that Mckinley carried a
compact body of States covering the
northeast section Of the country and Ore
gon and California in addition. These
States represented total of 271 electoral
votes, Bryan capturing one In California
and one in Kentucky. The vote for the
two leading candidates was:
Mckinley .........t,lO4,179
Bryan Observation-Disclosures. ,6O2, 925
being the largest vote ever cast in u
presidential election. These totals vary
slightly from some other estimates. as
some persons count the votes of the high
est electors and some the lowest, while
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
Map Showing Election Resls Of 9g8 Republican STATS shaded
Republican Electoral Votes.
Democratic Vote, 5427224 Representing Votes

others give the average. SIcKinley's to-
tai plurality was little more than his plu-
ralities in New York and Pennsylvania
combined.
There were few State elections in 1897,
and in none of them We're the changes
important except that New York and
kentucky went Democratic.
In 1898 there were State elections in
all but few of the States and in all
the congressional districts. The diagram
above shows which States were carried
by each party, those by Republicans be-
ing shaded. 1t will be noted that the
Democrats gained over 1896 only two
States-Kentucky and Minnesota-and
the latter only on the goyernorship, where
fusion elected popular Scandinavian
by 10000 plurality, though the Republic
cans carried every congressional district
by pluralities aggregating over $4,000.
On the other hand, the Republican,
gained Washington, Wyoming, Kansas
and South Dakota, which have twenty
one electoral votes, the same rs Ken
lucky and Minnesota. The total vote in
1898 In the various States foots IN as
follows: Republican, 5,499O65; Demo.
cratic, 5,427,224.
The vote in the electoral college repre.
sented by these States are: Republican.
2I2; Democratic, It's, or within one vote
of the result in 1896 the difference being
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06


@ HE active work of the presidential
campaign of 1900 began recently in
u Chicago, where the Democratic ma
tional committee met and Endorsed the
Chicago platform of 1896 and Mr.. Bry-
an, who was present. Mr.. Bryan ut pres
ent has control Of the machinery of the
party, and there seems little doubt Of his
denomination. Some of the leading gold
Democrats of 1896 are announcing their
opposition to the platform and candidate
once more, but the exact amount of oppo-
sition within the party cannot be deter
mined for some time.
Mr.. Bryan's friends lay claim to sue
cess on the following grounds:
1. Most gold Democrats will vote for
Bryan either because they do not like
the treatment they have received from
Republicans or because they are opposed
to imperialism.
2. Many former Republicans will vote
for Bryan because they are opposed to
trusts and imperialism and because they
think free silver would help the situation
y. A reaction against nm administration
always sets in, and in normal times it is
virtually impossible to re-elect any Pres
ident.
4. Bryan is better known than in 1885,
fear of panic no longer exists and this
country is able to establish free silver on
Its own account and maintain it.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY.
Beers solemniy swore to Defend Thei,
Relnxed Counfrx ...--.

Beers solemnly swore to Defend Their
Beloved Country.
The accompanying Illustrations refer
to the Boer meeting recently held ut
Paardekraal, South Africa, the scene
of the declaration of independence In
1880. About 5000 Beers were present
and were addressed by Gen. Joubert
and other speakers. The tone Of the
meeting was that not another hair
would be conceded. and Gen. Joubert
called on all present to remember the
solemn oath taken by them in 1880,
when each Boer. holding u stone in
his hand, took an oath before the Al
mighty that they would shed their last
drop of blood. IL needs be, for their
beloved country. These stones were
then cast into one great heap, over
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

1854
The best way to salt COWS is to leay !.
some rock salt under covered place
where the stock can lick 1t at will. They
will then never get more than is good
for them, but will so up and lick a
small quantity once every day or two.
Some farmers make 1t their practice
to salt COWS every Sunday morning. II
is not breaking the Sabbath to any Sc
rious extent, and the owner of the stock
has the pleasure of noting Its condition
and whether there are any animals in
the lot that appear unthrifty. We have
often sailed the cows Sunday morning
by throwing fine salt thinly over grass,
while 1t was covered with morning
dew. Some Of the salt might be lost,
but from the way the grass was eaten
not much was wasted that way. When
we sailed sheep by throwing salt on
wet grass they ate the grass down to
the root.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

A Chicago man had his wife arrested
for insanity because she punctured the
tires of his bicycle with a hat pin. In
extenuation the wife said that her
husband loved his wheel better than
his wife and she wished to destroy its
fascinating influence over him. He
probably did not have more affection
for the machine than for the woman
whom lie had promised 10 love. cherish
and honor, but she probably had rea-
son for believing so, basing her belief
upon the attention bestowed. Men will
refuse to give attention TO their wives
because their bicycle needs special con-
sideratlon. They will neglect the one
for the other. If the inanimate, unre-
sponsive bicycle were an animated,
responsive woman who robbed tie wife
of the attention that by right was hers,
there would be grounds for jealousy
and reason for the use of that hat pin.
To be jealous of a bicycle is unreasona-
ble-to man. Not SO to n woman.
Mans love is of mans life thing apart
Ills woman's whole existence.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
they will prove successful in the outly-
ing districts of Chicago, although
swifter service is thing much to be

ing districts of Chicago, although
swifter service is thing much to be
desired.
So long as the project is wholly IN
the experimental stage no special type
of mail car to be operated automatic
ally can be fixed upon as the style of
greatest utility. But in the cases
where cars have been used general
type has been used. Capacity for the
storage of bundles of letters is pre-
requisite. The express wagons used
have great storage capacity. They are
electric cars with storage batteries as
motors. In the mail cars the same gen.
eral plan has so far been carried out.
The wagons are much like those now
in use. They have covered seat,
where the operator can sit and manage
the machine. They lie low on sturdy
trucks of iron, but light in construc-
tion. They have the covered body with
door in the rear, which can be locked
after the collector has deposited the
contents Of mail box. They have
thirty-inch wheels with pneumatic
tires and are otherwise the same wag-
ons now in use where bedraggled and
melancholy horse is the drawing power.
The principal change to be noted in
these wagons Is that the rear trucks
carry nearly all Of the carrying capa-
city. The gearing will be rugged
much like four-wheeled hose reel of
light steel, with n space back of the
forward trucks for the placing Of the
battery or whatever kind of motor is
to be used. The vehicle back of this
will hang low as the ordinary mail
wagon does, thus providing recepta-
Gle for the collections. The machine
can be operated by one man, as is the
case at present. He Will sit In the box
seat In front, where the motor and
steering gear will come close to the
hand. When the vehicle is stopped
for any purpose he can dismount and
take on or discharge his collections as
readily If not more SO than he does
now while his nag is browsing on the
grass plats near the curb.
Strength and lightness are the two
essentials in the construction. Recent
experiments seem to demonstrate that
the automobile can be used on country
roads with as much success as the BIZ
cycle can.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
OF INTEREST IN IOWA
A DIARY OF NOTEWORTHY HAP.
PENiN0S.
Condition of crop.-Bis Hospital to
Be Erected at Dee Moines- John N.
Irwin to Go to Portugal-Gray Wolf
Killed Near NIuscatine.

Only two-thirds Of the grain in north
west Iowa and adjacent sections of Min
nesota, Dakota and Nebraska is stacked.
Farmers are thrashing from the shock
on account of inability to get stackers.
In Sioux, Plymouth, O'Brien and Wood
bury counties wheat is running very
light, averaging forty-fve to fifty-two
pounds to the bnshel and ten to twelve
bushels to the acre. White Russian oats
will average sixty-five to seventy bushels
to the acre. Early light German oats
will run forty to forty-fiye. There is a
fair, even stand Of corn, promising the
biggest average crop in fifteen years.
Potatoes will run 100 to $50 bushels to
the acre. There is good crop of barley.
Rye promises fair yield of good quality.
The hay crop Is exceedingly heaYy.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

The idea of a roof garden church for
hot weather, advanced by New York
clergyman, is along the line of the
dictum that the devil shouldn't have
monopoly of good music, and this
proposition has long ago received the
assent of most of the churches. We
no longer hear objections to church
organs nor is there any protest against
the rendition of music that is purely
secular, so long as 1t is good. Hence
1t is not improbable that the roof gar
den church will shortly be realiza-
ton rather than n project. There is
nothing unregenerate in physical COM
fort and there is no reason why a
church congregation should not enjoy
the same privileges accorded to the pa
irons of resorts where the wine is red
within the cup and the vaudeville art
list earns his bread in the sweat of his
brow.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

Coal ashes certainly Is valuable ar
ticle for fruit trees, especially the
peach, writes d. A. Shaw. 1 have
tried 1t and find no insects will stay.
where coal ashes are applied, not even
ants. Apply by scraping away little
of the earth around base of tree, and
make little mound of ashes around
the trunk. When the tree is affected
with borers make the mound higher
than when the ruinous worms are at
work. Throw some nshes up against
the trunk of the tree also, and the Dor
ers and other insect pests will leave.
OF course don't claim that this will
protect the fruit on the tree; you should
use the poison spray for that.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

The New York court Of appeals has
recently decided case in favor of the
parents of some children who had been
taken in charge by the Gerry Society
and placed in homes. The parents be-
came prosperous and wanted their
children again and the society objected.
The court has decided that parents
qualified to care for their children have
fnalienable rights. The case is one
that probably will not have many rep
itions, but it illustrates the fact that
no society, however humane its pur-
pose and wise its management gener-
ally, can be allowed to lsurp the pre-
negatives of nature.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
AN ExlLEo MONUMENT.

Germany Would Not Permit 1t, Free.
tion-New York Dedicates 1t.
In Bronx borough, New York, has
been unveiled monument with a
unique and romantic history. 1t is a
sculptured exile driven from Germany
because of the bitter feeling that still
exists against the man whom 1t COM
memorates.
The monument is fountain, repre-
senting the Lorelei, famous in German
song and legend, and commemorating
Heine. the poet, whose verses Of Ger
man legend-and particularly of the
Lorelei-are familiar in every German
household, but whose advocacy Of lib
5erty made him detestable to German
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

accounted for by the Bryan vote in Cal
ifornia.
What Mr.. Bryan must have to win is
forty-nine more electoral votes than his
party carried last fall In all probability
he must have fifty-eight votes, for Min
nesota can scarcely be imagined as
sure Democratic State. AS to where
these votes would come from in case of
Mr.. Bryan's election, those interested in
the subject may figure out for them
selves with the aid of the above maps
and the following table. which gives the
electoral vote of each State: l .
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

n.ad railway, saw woman, few
weeks ago, endangered by an approach
ing train. Springing to save her, he
gave his life in the vain endeavor. The
evils of immigration are evident
enough, and our country wisely rejects
many applicants to our shore; but in
accepting this necessary duty let ius
pause, now and then, to take off our
hats to such brave and worthy INN!
grants as poor Blaz Patric.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

The passing of the Indian is attribut-
able to the fact that he resolutely re-
fused to submit to the domination of a
superior race. He died, weapon in
hand. This was more than a negative
service to us. 1t has sharpened the
edge of American courage. Only he
roes dared to face the perils Of Ameri-
can pioneer life. We needed no Castle
Garden inspection in the early days;
the fear of the Indians sifted .emigra-
ton for us. 1t is owing in no small
part to him that America was settled
with the choicest pioneer material that
ever opened up new country.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

staring Mt the case, unable to make out
what that wraith-like, almost invisible
bird-form might be.
! had given it up, when the descrip-
tive tablet, which had been pushed
aside, came to my assistance. The ex-
hibit is designed by a clever American
naturalist to show why Nature has
colored most wild beasts and birds
dark above and light below.
The visible bird was a model clad in
flannel of dingy-gray, and against a
background Of similar hue 1t showed
up distinctly, thanks to the light on
Its back and Its own shade.
It's ghost-like companion, clad In the
same way, owed It's inyisibility to the
application of little dark point on
its back and little white paint un-
derneath after the fashion affected by
scores of birds.
1t seems incredible that such paint
ing could make the difference, but SO
1t Is,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

Col. L. NJ. Martin, general manager of
the Central Iowa road, has been intrust-
ed with the conduct Of negotiations for
the sale of the system to the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul. The company
has SIG miles, nearly all in Iowa. The
north and south line runs from Center
vile in the south to Manley in the north,
almost across the State, and the east and
west line from Oskaloosa east to Peoria,
ILL.,, crossing the Mississippi at Keiths-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
), viii Build a Big Hospital.

The project of building great Protest
ant hospital in Des Moines, under the
nominal auspices of the Methodist
Church. but really non-sectarian, is as
sured Of success. James Callahan, a mill
ionaire of that city. offers site worth
$50, 900 and single cash contributions us
high as $4,000 are pledged. The finan-
cfal machinery Of the Methodist Church
has taken hold of the matter and it is
expected the money will all be raised
within a year. The proposal involves
100000 worth Of buildings, the balance,
$500, COO, to be endowment fund. The
building will be commenced this fall.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

Glove tree begins to bear at the age Of
about ten years; and continues until 1t
reaches the age of seventy-five years,
There are two crops year, one in June
and the other in December. Hot
weather is favorable to the crop, al
though little fog is said to Improve
the favor.-New York Press
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
We'll Supplied with wives.

This is from the Terak, East India.
Ploneer: "Tuan Syed Mahomed bin
Abdulla al-Hadad of Singapore has ar.
rived on visit to his co-religionists.
The gentleman has seen some seventy
eight summers and is accompanied by
his harem, which consists Of four
wives and two slaves. We are told
that he never allows the number of his
wives to fall short of the figure given
above, and that he has altogether con-
tracted no less than III marriages"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06

Plush seats add greatly to the dis
comfort of railroad travel in summer.
They are hot and unwholesome and
they breed microbes. Why they are
retained in view of the manifest supe
riority of leather or cane bottom seats
can be explained on no other theory
than utter disregard for public con-
yenience.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
Accepts Portugal Mission.

John N. Irwin Of Keokuk, who was the
most popular mayor Keokuk ever had,
which position he occupied several terms,
ex-member of the Iowa Legislature and
twice territorial governor by presidential
appointment Of Idaho and Arizona. has
concluded to accept the appointment Of
minister to Portugal rendered him by
President Mckinley and is making prep
arations to leave in the near future for
the field of his mission,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-06
AurocARs FOR THE MAILS.
Postoffice Department Experiment.
with Them in Buffalo.

Postofice Department. Experiments
with Them in Buffalo.
For some time past the Chicago
postal authorities have been expert
menting with autocars for use in the
postal service. Heretofore collection
wagons have been hauled by weary
horses. In the big downtown district
where collections are Of hourly hap
pening men on foot do the work. But
in the outer districts the contract
wagon with its Respondent nag is the
real thing. But the Government has
had Its attention called to the fact that
1t is possible to collect the mails by
means Of horseless carriages. Expert
ments SO far seem to demonstrate the
practicabillty Of the idea. In Buffalo
N. Y, the use of such cars has been
successful, but it should be borne in
mind that Buffalo is city of asphalt
streets and lack of grades. Chicago
postal authorities do not believe that