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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
IsOlSey.

A citizen, while crossing Fort street
at Griswold, picked from the crosswalk
Yale lock key with tag attachment
OH which was pen printed in capital
letters the word "Pokey." He was
wondering over the significance of the
word when the loser of the key hap.
pened along in search of it. AS the two
men were old friends the key was
handed over to its rightful owner.
excuse my curiosity" said the
finder Of the key, "to know the purport
of that word upon the tag"
Certainly" came the reply. "The
key unlocks my postoffice box. p. o.
stands for postotfice; key. key. Post
Office key. Seea"
Then the two citizens hurriedly start.
ed in opposite directions, each with a
broad grin on his face. Detroit Free
Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

New York, Feb. 27,-The work of Sc
curing jury to try Mrs. Fayne Moore
was proceeded with despite the absence
from this city of Martin Mahon, chief
witness for the prosecution. Mrs.
Moore is ACCUSED Of completely with her
husband. now in Sing Sing. in extolt-
Ing money from Mahon. Six jurors had
been obtained When court onened
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

Mr.. Beerbohm Tree relates an anus
ing story about boisterous voyage
from New York. He was lying in his
cabin. The luggage and fittings were fly
ing round. The vessel was rolling terri.
bly,. Suddenly there was an extra special
lurch. Mr.. Tree was knocked to the
floor by u heavy weight and lay half
stunned. On fully recovering his senses
he looked to see what it was that had
felled him. 1t was All admirable con.
trivance and was marked, in bold let
tiers, Life Saving Apparatus. Lon.
don Globe,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

The highwayman, in grim reality
and without the aureole of romance,
Black Bess and all, was q Common oh.
ject OF Che country" $50 years ago, and
it was the duty Of all good subjects tc
try to cope with him. If you attempted
to apprehend such a desperate and were
killed in the attempt, your executors
could claim $40 from the sheriff. This
indemnity was scarcely enough to kin.
die II burning passion in the English
mind for the extinction of the pest
Gentleman's Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Manchester Wins

The Dubuque Y. NJ. G. A. basket ball
team, which at the beginning of the
season defeated our team, came out to
play our team on Monday night. Du-
buque has improved wonderfully, hav-
ing trained hard and regularly and
made some advantageous changes on
their team. Manchester was known to
have improved in every way and a hard
game was expected.
From the very instant the game
started the field looked like a cyclone
of human muscle. No one player can
be singled out as superior to all the rest.
The feature of the game was Manches-
ter's team work. The passing was re-
markable and a ball was seldom miss
ed.
The audience was large and offered to
be entertained judging by the way the
atmosphere was torn up by shrieks of
applause. The good plays of both
sides received just recognition. The
Manchester team was very anxious that
the visitors should receive every cour-
tesy possible for the Dubuque audience
treated them most royalty at the game
there.
The line up was as follows;
Briggs Left Guard .... Richter,
Dorman. ......... Right Guard. Dennis.
Cameron Can s Right Forward ..wegand
Seeley. Left Forward. 49,. Dickinson
Final score IA to 10 in favor of Man
chester.
The ladies auxiliary gave pleasant
reception to the teams and the y Dung
people after the game.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
An Awful Sentence.

4 celebrated Irish judge once passed
sentence i'll the following manner. The
prisoner was butler who had been
convicted of stealing his masters wine:
Dead to every claim of natural affec-
ton, blind to your own real interests,
you have burst through all the restraints
of religion and morality and have for
many years been feathering your own
nest with your masters bottles. "-Lon-
den Telegraph.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
! SOCIAL NOTES.

< SOCIAL NQTES: :
The Six.handed Euchre club meet
this "wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
F. X. Gregg.
~
Mesdamas j. w. Ford and A. M.
Sherwood will entertain at the home of
the former, on Howard street, Thursday
evening next.
~
The Sunshine club has been again
postponed to meet on Friday evening
of next week, at the home of Miss Dun.
ham, instead of Wednesday evening of
this week, as heretofore intended.
~
Mrs. Anderson very delightfully."- en-.
tertained some twenty-four friends at
cards on Tuesday evening of this week,
in honor of Miss Ringsrud, the charm
ing guest at the Ford home. Whist was
the chief amusement and all present
enjoyed every minute of the time spent
over the game tables. The hostess
served a delicious luncheon at eleven.
Xxx
About fifty of the society young men
Of this city have formed combine and
are going to give AL dance in the
spacious rooms of Pythian castle next
Thursday evening. Under the able
management of a few of the leaders,
everything has been arranged so that
no one able to be present can possibly
fail to have an especially pleasant time.
| M
Mrs. Wi!liston and daughter, Miss
Bessie, entertain the young people of
the Congregational church this
Wednesday, evening. These enter
talnments have been very successful in
the past and this one is to be given un-
der the guidance of such hospitable en-
tertainers that no one can doubt but
that it will be we'll attended, and that
the young people present will thorough
ly enjoy themselves. Games are the
order of the evening, and lightrefresh-
ments are to be served at the close of
the evening.
~
The reception held in honor of the
visiting Basket ball team in the Y. NJ,
c. A. rooms, after the game last Mon.
day evening, was largely attended and
all concerned had an enjoyable time as
is shown by the fact that the crowd Still
held sway even after the clock stroke
of eleven. The sociability evinced du-
ring the reception hours evidenced the
fact that our Dubuque guests have a
warm place in the hearts of the Y. NJ.
c. A. friends of this city. Among other
| pleasures of the evening was an appe-
tizing luncheon of coffee and doughnuts.
~
The Chautauqua Glass will hold their
Sidney Lsnier memorial on Tuesday
evening, March I, at the residence of
MI. and Mrs. 5. A. Steadman, on Main
street. All Chautauquans have the
privilege of bringing some friend with
them, a privilege which all should sure.
ly take, as the evening promises to be
one of more than ordinary interest
After the rendition OF the program,
which begins at 7.sO sharp and which
is given below, delegate to the bien-
NAL Federation will be chosen.
rrover PROGRAM. Pow NJ, p,..,,
Duet. ;..... Selected
Paper. .Reminiscences Of Laner's Early Life,
so,o Mrs. o. b. Durham. so,.,..,
Miss Kennedy,
State sec;y Of &. s. d. sele''e'
Read selections M.s IL from mia isner's poems'
| Music
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

A; A. Hawkins. of Waterloo, Is In town this
week tuning pianos Orders can be left at the
Clarence House or w. w. Moore's. owl :
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

FOR SALE.
one good Book Case and ono China Cupboard
For particulars inquire Of
a-lw MRS. GEO. FORD.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

Ke1cFeeS sale OF Real Estate.
Public notice is hereby given that the under.
signed were appointed referees by the District
Court of Delaware County, Iowa to make prt.
Perry Sisson. Said real estate Is located in the
southern part of Hazel Green township, Della.
ware County bordering the Jones County line,
quarter (4) Of section thirty-tive (s5). township
eghty-seven ISL. north, range five (t) west Of
the 18th p; M. In Delaware county Iowa.
:; Notice Is further given that we will meet for
sale of said real estate on Friday, March Srd.
1899. at o'clock y. M, at the Lowell State Bank
In Monticello. Iowa.
The sale viii be for cash and at not less than
the appraisement.
Dated February goth, 1899.
GEoRGEL. LovRLL,
w. A. MIRIcK,
j. G. ORR,
Swe Referees.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Manchester Market.
The La Flor de Manchester has no
equal. A 10-cent smoke for 8 cents. 2tf

Are you thin? Would you like to get fat and
plump Tried laughing" t'wouldh't work
now take Rocky Mountain Tea-t'will do the
business. IS cents.-Smith's Pharmacy and
Gregg & Ward.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Real Estate Transfers.
(For two weeks ending Feb, Fl, i

NHoi wv WoehS cuulus Eeu', ~, 1888.
John L Allison & VT ct al to Rachel
Allison. Ne sw 4 pit ne sw 4 pit SO
sec % d ne ne sec IS all In twp 50
Griain to 'Ctiiais;Ki Kennedy. NV w
NV NV sec 10 twps7 R 4:............ II
M,Ss n Hughes WI VT to Oh Henry Krag,
j j liirIwo,od wi to Andrew wilson. II
Sh ne 10 A NV ne sec % twp 81 II A..
f 3 Doollttle 8 VT to samI 3 Vesey,
co se All ss sso sfH typ s s. 70 lame,
SeobOda. Nwla nek & nai nell neE
NJ J Brady q VT to VIM Brady. ri "
nwit sex sec 10 twp 90 II 4.......... ;
Isl; 1872, 179, $50. Delaware. ......... q
Adella Logan to Fred l. Logan. 81.
lots 935 & 936, Manchester. .........
Addie L Andrews to Edward l. Grass.
lield; M lot 20 A LOOMS add to .
Henry Kick 4 wi to % Irving t Tyson. "
Nei4 sw14 q swA swl4 & pt nwI sW
4 sec 80 twp SO II G.................., 80;
Amos B Hetherington 4 VT to Henry wv
MIC hllck "a u M mex & sen nek sec 8 80
Geo Elehacker 4 wi to Corneliaa s wv
AtWater, Susa A Kelsey & Mary E
WliliamS. n fr1s sec twp 80 r o.. 1Sc.
Charles H Rabcock & VT to Asa E
Friend: PIT nwA sec % twp so r o.. &
Riley Holdrldge 4 VT to w and II q
Millen. Els sell & pit ny swk sec II
Pauline Martin Williams to Lester j '''
Martin. NJ Of lots z & s In Blk
Carriers End add to Hopkinton. -.
Brayton Il VT to William Esler.
w So IT of lots 80 IS all Of lots 2sl to
500 inclusive b lots 5l5 to $40 In.
chs5es y Kaiel to christopher Coon. Isl
red. VIZ nwA nwk sec twp 80 RS 4
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
The line up was as follows;

The ladies auxiliary gave pleasant
reception to the teams and the y Dung
people after the game.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

Mrs. Anderson very delightfully."- en-.
tertained some twenty-four friends at
cards on Tuesday evening of this week,
in honor of Miss Ringsrud, the charm
ing guest at the Ford home. Whist was
the chief amusement and all present
enjoyed every minute of the time spent
over the game tables. The hostess
served delicious luncheon at eleven.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

james Mcclure is suffering with a
carbuncle on his neck.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Pierce have return
ed from their southern trip.
Mrs. Seth Brown is confined to her
bed with an attack of the grip.
&C. o. ID. Brown quotes some low
prices in his change of ed this week.
j. d. Fause, of Lisbon, was the
guest of friends here part of last week.
Mrs. Hubert Carr visited with her
parents in Waterloo part of last week.
Miss Fac Ford and Lulu Mann re-
turned Monday evening to Iowa City.
B. +. Hoyt left Monday for three
or four weeks sojourn in Denver, Colo
RADIO.
ANY one wishing to purchase book
case or china cupboard are referred to
an adv. in another column.
-Mrs.J. L. Merry, of Dubuque, Wis.
tied in this city part of last week with
her sister, Mrs. j. A. Wheeler.
The eleven year old son of Rufus
Grummons, who resides near Bailey's
Ford, is very i'll with pneumonia.
A very instructive and interesting
letter descriptive of the Thousand
Islands in next weeks Democrat.
Miss Hattie Kortright entertained
her friend, Miss Josephine Petition, of
Center Grove, q few days last week.
The seven year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Engstrom, of this city, is
very i'll with an attack of pneumonia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12

teacher. The scheme may sound comical
on first hearing, and perhaps a totally I'M
necessary institution. For the average
man it is. and should remain so. But it
also has its serious and practical SIDE. Few
people know how many men are com
PEELED to rely on their own efforts in pre-
pairing their meals, and perhaps fewer
know how pathetically helpless they are
for lack of any knowledge of the simp-
lest principles of cooking. The class Of
men compelled to do their own cooking
are usually students with very limited in
comes, men whose wives are i'll, foreigners
unaccustomed to the culinary ways of
other countries than their own, and a few
cranks
The first of these, the students, are in
the majority. In large cities and college
towns, there are always many men with
incomes so slender that existence is bare
ly eked out by turning the sharpest sorts
of corners. Men are Obliged to earn
living while taking a college course, and
stand in pressing need of three Square
meals per day. Usually the student ls
ignorant of how to market, and very rare
ly knows anything about preparing what
he buys. Such knowledge would be Of
inestimable value, for instance, how to
prepare four or six substantial dinners at
money, and in many cases his health In
doubtedly such men will advocate the
cooking classes and should they spread
attend them.
1t is safe to say that one-third Of the
studios an New York are rented to men
who do more or less of their own house
keeping. Many have little corners fitted
up expressly for cooking, and these same
little corners usually look as though the
chef needs a course in dishwashing and
general scientific securing
Countless men attempt breakfast-mak-
ing in hall bedrooms, and cook over the
miniature heaters they adjust on the only
gas jet in the room.
These men are helpless enough, but how
much more so are those who with no SER
wants and delicate wives, are often com
PEELED to face the breakfast and dinner
getting problem?
Sooner or later every man will find that
a knowledge of cookery helps him over
hard place at some time, and these classes
are certainly step in the right direction
for men who have, or are in danger Of
having, new woman for a wife.
Lillian Baynes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
l. WOMAN'S PAGE


snow white and clouded grey gull wings
springing from beds OF violets and the
fashionable artificial violet Us not a fully
expanded blossom. A knot of budding
purple beads interspersed with half IN
folded green leaves. is the preference -ev-
erywhere and the color COM
bned with violets on all head
gear Is pale blue. A crown
Of half blown English violets, on foun-
dalton Of faint azure tulle,i the most cap
tvating cOnceit for theater use. or pud-
ding toque of loose woven violet straw
viii be appropriately wreathed with blue
tulle and forgetmenots all fastened down
with imitation turquoise brooches.
The only brimmed hat Of Importance
this season viii be the soft black chip fiat,
under which a pretty young face shows to
excellent advantage. These will have
their brims faced inside with rows upon
rows of gathered narrow ribbon and can
be allowed to flop at their own sweet Ian
guild will, or tackled up on one side in Ru-
bens form with a great cockade of roses
resting almost on the hair and the crown
trimming done in crushed chiffon. a lovely
millinery drapery new to this season.
Mary Dean
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
A GALLANT FRESHMAN.
He Insisted Upon Giving His Seat to
the Lady.

New York, March lott was nearly
midnight when I left the fiat of my up
town friend and started home alone. Just
as 1 reached the corner of the street
cable car came whizzing along, SO I hailed
il and got aboard. Unused to being out
alone so late at night, 1 was somewhat
relieved to see that there was only one
passenger on the car, an Irishman who
sat near the door, One glance at him
would have convinced the most careless
observer that he had lately looked upon
the wine when it was red, or more prob
ably, upon the whisky when 1t was brown
When he saw me, a look of intelligence
came into his bloodshot eyes, and with a
flourish that would have done credit TO
a dancing master, he rose TO his feet TOOK
off his hat and said, in a voice thick WIN
whisky and emotion:
" 'Pleash thake my sheat, lady
Thank YOU / said coldly, there are
plenty of seats
But inshist, lady, upon giving you
my sheat"
Il sat down near the door, so as 20 pe
able to make my escape easily II my
travelling companion should prove trou-
blesome; but he did not annoy me IN any
way. and seemed to think that by glVius
me his seat he had only done what gar
lantry required of him. Though two lons
lines of vacant seats. extending the "uo'o
length of the car. stretched before NE
eyes, he continued to hold unsteady oi
to the strap, directly in front OF me-
placid smile occasionally illuminng HiS
features, as though he were conscious %
having performed an act of supreme eou'-
tesy.
1aff tln nj
20 take the cross-town line. he SANK W,
ily into the seat I had vacated, and j y,
through the open door of the car a. "A
bowled down the avenue that his ha' ''
fallen forward over his eyes" .r
Elsie Barker
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
AIDED BY MRS. PINKHAM.

Mrs. w. E. PAXTON, youngstown,
North Dakota, writes about her strug-
gle to regain health after the birth of
her little girl:
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-It is with
pleasure that l add my testimony to
your list, hoping that it may induce
others to avail themselves of your val
liable medicine
:" After the birth of my little girl,
three years ago, my health was very
poor. l had leucorrhea badly, and a
terrible bearing-down pain, which
gradually grew worse, until could do
no work. Also had headache nearly
all the time, and dizzy feelings Men
situations were very profuse, appear
ing every two weeks.
took medicine from good doctor,
but it seemed to do no good. l was
becoming alarmed over my condition,
when l read your advertisement in a
paper. / sent at once for a bottle of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and after taking two-thirds of
the bottle felt so much better that l
5Cl4Q AOI tHO A4lCI uS4nS bllICC
bottles / felt as strong and well as any
one.
think it is the best medicine for
female weakness ever advertised, and
recommend it to every lady meet suf-
fering from this trouble"
Maternity is a wonderful experience
and many women approach it wholly
unprepared. Childbirth under right
conditions need not terrify women.
The advice of Mrs. Pinkham is freely
offered to all expectant mothers, and
her advice is beyond question the most
valuable to be obtained. If Mrs. Pax
ton had written to Mrs. Pinkham be-
fore confinement she would have been
saved much suffering. Mrs. Pinkham's
address is Lynn. Mass
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
Character in the Tongue.

Glossomancie is a new science intro
duced by Miss Erbere No of Paris, con-
sisting of reading the character by the
form and size of the tongue. The guild
ing principles are as follows: If the tongue
is long 1t. is an indication of frankness; if
1t is short. of discrimination; II 1t is broad,
of expansiveness; if narrow, of concen-
tration. When the tongue is both long
and large it implies that the possessor is
a great gossip, frank to disagreeableness,
and thoughtless. If the tongue be long
and narrow, its owner is only half-frank,
thinking as much as is uttered but not al
ways uttering all that is thought If the
tongue be short and broad, there is prom
Use of plenty of gossip-and falsehoods; il
talks great deal, but says little of what
is really thought. If short and narrow
1t indicates deep cunnig and lying; impen-
etrahllity and great prudence. This tongue
belongs to those persons always ready to
make mistakes but eager to inspire CON
fidence.
So then. not the physician alone Is &c
be guided by the tongue, but before you
become intimate with any one, ask him OF
her to put out his or her tongue, that you
may be certain whether they are 10 be
trusted or not.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12

women exhaust admiring adjectives over
the mauve silk roses, each one the size OF
a youthful cabbage The smaller posies
have sneaked out OK sight, and the pride
Of the mnliner's heart is centered in the
large wedge and sail-shaped wings of net
decorated with arabesques of fine gathered
ribbon and embroideries of jet steel or
chip beads. She can truthfully tell you
that the proudest plume in the ostrlch's
tail wall not be 50 fashionable later on as
the least OF these artificial ornaments and
she can show as well large spoon shaped
wings made Of thin silk shirred onto loops
Of wire, beside handsome crystal beetles
and butterflies, to serve as buckles and or
namcnts.
Delicate and lovely bonnets promise to
take all their plumage IN the shape of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
NO EXCUSE ron UGLY GIRLS.

Any Woman Who Takes the Trouble
Can Achieve "A Large Measure of
Beauty.
Society has quietly accepted the fact
of late that rouge Is de rigeur The tint
Is laid on so delicateiy, so artfully, 50
plausibly, that it requires not only a lynx
eye to detect it, but a long acquaintance
with a woman TO make sure she does not
resort to this artihce. Her cheeks are
never vulgarly red, but a faint sweet
bloom appears on either side and seems
to come from beneath, to grow down into
the chin and show ever so family along
the rim of the pretty ears.
This is all due to the fact that grease
paint is not used at all; it is too loud in
tone and coarsening to the flesh to be
tolerated; Furthermore, a clever woman
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
MILLINERY PAGEANT.
NOT POSSIBLY UNBECOMING
SHAPE IN THE SEASONS
NOVELTIES.

Among the Freshest and smartest
Creations for the Season Is the
coolers TREASURE" Cream
Straw with Plaid or Scarlet Briin.
Next in order of Merit for Walk
ing Wear Is the Cape Town" or
"Homburg." These Last Trimmed
with Cock PIumes of Gorgeous Di-
Had to Match COIOred Cotton
Gowns.
New York, March 1O.-The spring pa
geant in millinery is opening most propi-
tiously, and with fun a score of novelties.
The first corners in the shop windows are
always the walking and travelling. golfins
and shopping straws, and there is not a
possibly un5ecoming shape in the list
A style that commands attention Is the
golfers treasure, with a stiff cream straw
alpine crown and brim Of scarlet, or
plaid, or tan brown felt, bound with a
broad gros grain ribbon. A wing and twist
of silk, or a belt Of gros grain ribbon,
drawn through a gay enameled buckle at
one side, is the type of trimming advocat-
ed. These comfortable, sensible little hats
won't out-rival. though tho inevitable
straw sailor. which is already bobbing up
serenely in a new guise. Mixed straw is
what the best sailor is woven of, and a
good pliable. fine straw at that 10 allow
. of rather wider brims and very much larg-
er, taller crowns than we have had in
long time.
Novelties for walking Wear.
A great many of the prettiest outing hats
are in an exaggerated sailor shape and