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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

The singular lack of patriotism dis
played by the vast majority of Chinese
is not confined to the common people,
but vitiates all official circles. A Chi
nese naval officer recently returning to
China after three years study in Ger
many at the expense Of the Chinese
government, was asked whether he
would serve his country in case war
arose, or join some other nation. His
prompt reply was, Wait and see which
comes out best"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
Proved,

Mrs. Boozely--My husband is really
generous to fault.
Mrs. Gaddson-Yes, l know it. james
was telling me last night that your hus-
band borrowed So from him the other
day and then wanted to spend half of
1t buying drinks for the party.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
striped Cucu m her Beetles

The beetle attacks the plants above
ground and not only Injuries them in
that way, but indirectly transmits dis
ease germs from one part of the field
to the other. These attack not only
cucumbers but cultivated plants of that
sort, of such plants as beans, peas, the
blossoms Of the apple, the leaves and
silk of Indian corn, wild plants, as gold
enrod, asters, wild cherries, etc. The
remedies recommended for the cucum-
Der beetle are early planting, covering
the young plants, clean culture, the use
Of slaked lime, arsenites mixed with
ashes, dust or plaster and the like.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Last year the people of the United
States used about II, 900, 900 pounds of
tea, which cost $10,O0O,OOO. The Secre-
tary Of Agriculture favors another at
tempt at raising this commodity in this
country. Several efforts have been
made to grow tea in the Southern
States
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
DECLARED GUILTY OF MURDER.

Trial of Lorel r. Rone at Mason City
Comes to an End.
At Mason City, Lorel r. Bone was
found guilty of murder in the second de-
gree. BY the omission of the word de
libcrate" in the indictment Judge Sherwin
held that verdict of murder in the first
degree could not be found. This mistake
doubtless saved Bone from more ser,-
Gus penalty than will be pronounced. On
Feb. 10 Bone stabbed and killed his cous.
in, James Allison. The penalty for sec
ond degree murder is ten years. imprison-
ment as the minimum or for life.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Mr.. Hanna's platform overlooked the
fact that the worst panic this country
has experienced in fifty years occurred
right in the middle Of the Republican
party's long reign - 1873. = Omaha
World- Herald
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

A New York man has filed petition
In bankruptcy. claiming that the in
come of $4,000 year which he re-
ceives from his grandfather's estate
is not sufficient to enable him to keep
his debts paid. What that poor fellow
needs is a job that will keep him good
and busy about eleven hours day.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Where it is necessary to water large
numbers of plants, or put liquid ma
nure upon them. the contrivance shown
in the cut. which is reproduced from
the American Agriculturist, can well
be used. A barrel Of the water, or
liquid. is placed in cart and driven
alongside the rows. A man walks
alongside and directs the stream from
the rubber tube upon each plant in sue
cession. The liquid flows of itself from
the barrel, because the tube acts as a
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

made misdemeanor; that thousand
and one little errors to which the Gu.
bans have been born and bred must be
stopped forthwith on penalty of fine
and Imprisonment. If our administra-
ton at Havana would devote little
less attention to fool regulations" and
little more to the big problems de.
handing solution, it would be more re.
spected both there and at home.-Nlin.
neInnliS Times
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
M'klNLEY.s eLuNDER.

As a politician President Mckinley
sition whenever such Il change prom
ised the slightest advantage. This
characteristic has served the President
fairly well in his self-seelling career.
but has cost him the title of statesman
and won for him the place Of politician.
But McIlinley's latest political move
his attack Oh civil service-has certain
ly proved blunder. and Republican
editors have not been slow to point out
this fact. There is not a Republican
newspaper of national Importance that
has heartily approved McKinley's act,
and many of them have rOundly con-
demned it.
In this connection i, is significant
that the Chicago Tribune sees in Nc
Kinley's action Il profound political
blunder. Among other things, the
Tribune editorially says:
1t is mistake to believe that the giving
of 10000 offices into the hands of the
bosses will help to strengthen the Repub
lican party. The people are growing ia
care less and less about the political creeds
of the men they place in subordinate and
merely administrative offices. The time
for spoils politics in national affairs is for
ever past No such move has strengthened
the party that committed it since ms far
back as 1872. The exemption order will
strengthen the politicians, but it will no,
strengthen the party.
Why give this vicious and vitiatine
power into the hands of political bosses
when there is no need of it? How can
the friends of The administration justify
defend or apologize for this intoerablc or
der? The President has undone the good
work of years and has put blanket mort
gage upon his political future and that OF
his party. His action is grievous dis
appointment to the friends of good govern
ment.
Under the circumstances it is not
necessary for Democratic newspapers
to worry much over the situation. The
attack on civil service is blunder of
monumental proportions. 1t opens the
way for assaults on imperialism, as ii
shows the hand of the administration
and its intention to send "carpet-bag-
gers" to rob the people of the acquired
possessions Imperialism. which might
not have been an issue had Mckinley
kept his platform pledges, promises to
loom up tremendously, and shrewd Re,
publican politicians are trembling over
the prospect.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
choa,e,s Unwise Comuurisou.

Ambassador Choate acted very I'M
wisely in comparing Admiral Sampson
to Nelson. and our British brethren
have reason TO feel resentful. Nelson
was fighter who hunted up his man
and had IL out with him al close quar-
tiers. Sampson may lave the fighting
mettle in him. but so far lie has had no
opportunity to show il. Being an Amer
lean sailor, we of course believe that
he would give a good account of him
self II given II chance but we have no
right to assume that he is Nelson's
equal until lie has won his spurs
Memphis Commercial-Appe
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

The lifting power of growing plant
is one of the most astonishing things in
nature. Beans and acorns often lift
heavy masses of earth in their strug-
giles to reach the light. Mushrooms
have displaced tiag'stones in NUN.
Der of instances.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

The parent who offers kldnapers a
reward with mo questions asked
may be doing the best possible for the
return of his own child, but It's pretty
certain that he is helping along the
kidnapping of some other parents child.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

A French doctor asserts that he can
grow hair thirty feet long on bald
head. The statement Is preposterous.
of course; but event If it were true, who
wouldn't rather have bald head than
hair thirty feet long?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

More goats are raised for their hair
in California than elsewhere in the
country, and the eXperimenters In this
line of industry are meeting with
fair degree of success. The Angora
goat yields on an average four pounds
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

do you think character is shown in
the features!" "a,
Eyes, to some extentsAt least. Black
ened eyes and skinned noses are seldom
seen OIL any but hard characters"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

A woman bought husband recently
for $75. Evidently she is not sub
scriber to the sentiment in the song,
81 Don't Want No Cheap Man."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

The sad business of executing the
law in the cases of criminals convicted
Of murder, in the American States
which retain capital punishment, is
undergoing change which cannot
but be regarded as for the better. Two
Of the leading States, New York and
Massachusetts, have adopted it, and
humane sentiment in the country gen
orally favors it. The electrodes are
merciful, and are less theatrical than
the gallows. The purpose OF capital
punishment is not to fill the living with
horror, but, first, to put the offender
definitely and forever beyond the pos
sibility of repeating his crime, and,
second, to convince all persons who
have criminal possibilities in them
that the law will be enforced If it is
broken. Together with the enforce
ment of the. law there goes, in the
States which have already adopted tile
electrical method of execution, a firm
prevention of sensational reports,
which are debasing to the public sen
timent. The word "electrocution.
which is popularity applied to this pro
cess of inflicting capital punishment,
is n bad and incorrect one. 1t is not
properly formed from any classic or
English originals, and is not found
even In the dictionaries which were
written since the word came into use.
No one word describes the method of
execution, which can only properly be
described as execution by electricity.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Someone has discovered that English
sparrows are useful because they de-
stroy dandelion seeds. Almost every
body would prefer the dandelions to
the sparrows, however
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Forty inmates of certain peniten-
tlary struck recently for shorter hours
In order to have preserved the fitness
of things they should have made it
years" instead of "hours."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

The abolition of the exile system by
the Russian government Is step TO-
ward humane administration In Grim
fnal affairs by the czar. Whether this
idea is result of his efforts for uni
ysysal psscs Of whether his rssoHpt
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
Took the Champion Prize.

The Shire stallion Buscof Herold is
the property Of Alexander Henderson,
NJ. p, harrington, Berkshire, England.
Winner of champion prize for stations
at the London Shire Horse Show.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

That French duel over whether
Hamlet" was lean or fat in Its latter
phases somewhat recalls the old con-
tention about Bacon.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Mrs. Willie X. Vanderbilt does all
her own marketing. If Willie hopes
to keep up with his better half he will
have to chop the kindling wood and
food tho cat
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
Fcffer's Whisker. Again.

The Republican Journals are rapidly
discovering that Senator PETERS wills
kers contain an honest ard faithful
BOSOM, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Arkansas has a woman who claims
to have Tilted Funston and married an
other, but he got along swimmingly
just the same.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Of mohair at shsaring, the product
selling for from 32c to SIC pound. G.
p. Bailey of San Jose, sold last year
trifle more than $4,000 worth of mo-
hair from his flock.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

A trust has been formed to control
the output of patent leather. This
ought to make patent-leather shoes
come higher.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

If, as Coils P. Huntington says, the
"best way to become rich is not to talk
too much during business hours" how
does this apply TO BARRIERS and book
agents?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Mr.. Carnegie doesn't seem to appre-
ciate the kind offices of the multitude
of persons who want to help him avoid
the disgrace of diving rich.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

The czar doesn't let little thing like
a peace conference interfere with the
extension of the Chinese railroads.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

The perfumers have formed trust.
Possibly it is designed to offset the
olfactory invasions of the fertilizer oc-
topus.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Beware of the man who knows more
about the business of other people than
he knows about his own.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

The fact that modern civilization
has been longer established in the Ha-
waiian Islands than in any part of the
United States west of the Rocky
Mountains will come with au element
of surprise to many readers. The
foundations We're laid by the mission
aries, who builded so well that, when
gold was discovered in California, and
the mining camps We're contending
against lawlessness, which necessitat-
ed the organization of the Nigilantes
Hawaii was enjoying constitution
and good laws, electing members of
its own legislature. arguing Its legal
questions before it's own courts, su-
perior and suborf aate, sending its
children TO SCI. and attending
church itself. Some of the Americans
who have recently landed on the Is
lands without capital. tools or trade,
Intent only on developing new
country" have discovered that they
are half century late.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Gradually it is dawning upon the
world that the fountain Of youth is not
fountain at all. 1t is hypodermic
syringe
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
A Cash transaction.

A Cash Transaction.
MA, l made $40 cleaning house yes
terday."
Made $1O?"
Yes; Henry turned the piano to the
wall by mistake and he gave me $40
if would leave it that way until fall"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
Population ana Wealth of siber
The AntomolliIe.

1t is predicted that within five years
the automobile will have supplanted
~ present method Of wheeling,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

"What are technicalities, Uncle
Jlm?'
"Technicalities? Why, they are
what lawyers fight over when the evil
dence gets too weak or too strong"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Caller-Why do you play the piano
constantly when your husband is busy
at his literary work; doesn't 1t annoy
him?
Hostess-On the contrary, he insists
upon my doing it. You see lie is en-
gagged in writing a tragedy, and he
wants something to make him savage
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Paper quilts are extensively used
abroad by the poorer classes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

OF course the corset trust has come
to stay.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Ii there be any meaning in the signs
of the times the producing millions are
firmly resolved that equal Justice shall
be something very much more than a
barren ideally, and the corporations
will do well to sci their house in order
without The least delay. The trend of
events is toward a course of treatment
which will startle the world by It's
rigor and rnlhlessness. Over the
heads of the railway corporations the
sword of Damocles is suspended, aud it
rests with them to say whether inexor-
able justice shall sever the sustaining
hair.-NeM Orleans Times. Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
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sphon, the nozzle of the tube being
kept below the level of the water in
the barrel.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
Fixing Finance.

The Senate Finance Committee is
busy in New York fixing up the tinan-
cial policy of the next Congress for the
Presidential campaign. While profess
ing an eager desire for reform" in the
currency, the committee is not so con
WINGED of the beneyolence of its mis-.
sion as TO suggest changes in the tinan-
cial system that would cost votes for
Mckinley and the Republican party. 1t
is evident. however. that the proposi
ton to allow banks TO issue paper to
the full value of their bond deposit and
to reduce the tax from 80 TO 10 per cent.
meets with favor.
Wildcat currency secured by The Of
flee furniture of banks is not regarded
with favor by the committee. probably
because the people oppose it. 1t is ad-
mitted that there is Il scarcity of small
bills, and that efforts to remedy this
matter are handicapped by the banks
for the purpose of forcing the wild
cat" theory on the Republican ire
formers Ii may be concluded, how
ever, that the Senate committee will go
just as far as il dare toward the estab-
fishing of the single gold standard and
the granting of special favors to the
banks.-EXchange.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
Trusts and the People.

The growth of Industrial trusts has
been SO rapid during the last two years
that no intelligent person can now
plead ignorance either of their exist
ence or of the principle which controls
them. The trust is usually organized
TO monopoliZe the manufacture and
sale of some article of merchandise.
The first question to be settled is
whether such an organization is an evil
or a blessing. Monopoly finds an occa-
sional defender who argues that pro-
duction upon n large scale can be car
ried on more economically, but this ar
gument is not complete. The trust can
not be justified unless it can be shown.
first, that it effects an economy in pro-
duction or distribution; second, that the
consumer will receive fair share of
the benefits in a reduced price of the
product and, third, that the economic
advantages of the trust are sufficient to
outweigh the social and political evils
wrought by monopoly
To establish the first proposition, it is
necessary to show that Improvement in
the processes of production will be
greater under monopoly than under the
competitive system, whereas it is gen
orally understood that competition is
the greatest stimulus to invention. The
effect of rivalry is seen in the effort of
each producer TO furnish to the public
the most perfect article at the lowest
price. TO accomplish this end each
firm seeks TO secure the brightest and
most skillful operators and the most
improved machinery 1t is not in ac.
cord with human experience to expect
this struggle to continue when a mon
opoly has been secured.-W. j. BRYAN.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

Not hat he Meant to Say.
Are you still at work ON your new
novel, Miss Scribbs:"
mo, haven't had an idea in my
head for several weeks, so have been
writing lot of letters to my friends"
Population and Wealth of Siberia.
Siberia is not the land buried in
snow and peopled with exiles only that
it is imagined 70 be, even by many
Russians In its >outhern parts it is
as rich II. natural productions as are
the southern parts of Canada, and be-
sides 100000 of natives IL has a popu-
lation of more than 100000 as thor
oughly Russian as that to the north of
MOSCOW
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28
The Free y Cubuns.

Newspaper readers are advised that
smoking in public conveyances has
been forbidden in Havana: that work
man employed outdoors. or where he
may be seen by the public. must wear
something more ,ban Il gauze under
shirt as a covering for The upper part
Of pie body that eocktghting has been
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-03-18
Williams and Wilco,

Messrs. Williams and Wilcox. a firm OF
grain buyers ut Canton, have been ar
rested by the United States authorities
Tor violating the internal revenue law by
not placing stamps upon their wheat
checks. They have followed this prac-
tlce since last September and have
issued over 1000 checks which thew
claim were receipts and not checks and
therefore not subject to the stamp act.
They claim to have acted under the adj
vice OF their attorney in not placing
stamps upon their checks. When
brought before L. S. Commissioner
White at Yankton they disclaimed any
intention Of defrauding the government
and offered to place stamps on all the
checks issued. They were held
however, in $500 bonds each to the next
term Of I. S. court. The enternsl rev.
enue law makes the man who cashes an
nnstamped check equally liable with
the man who issues it.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-03-18
cached an arrangement. in the nature

reached an arrangement. in the nature
Of a modus vivendi. roughly defining by
certain landmarks the boundary be.
tween the British and American posses.
sions in the klondike section, down 10
British Columbia. The officials here
cannot tell from the vague report
brought by the Vancouver dispatch Just
where the collision took place between
the American and Canadian miners. So
il is impossible TO tell who is al fault.
1t is said. however. that the Canadians
have been particularly aggressive in this
boundary matter right along: that they
have several times advanced the lines IF
the boundary claimed 10y them. and
that IN each case this extension com.
cided or followed very closely the dis.
covery OF new gold fields in the vicinity.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-03-18
PACE O FAST.
Indications That Iron Prices Will No.
soar FOrAver
Cook & ODEE.

Indications That Iron Prices Will Nos
Soar Forever.
NEW YORK. March 1.-THE Iron Age
In its review of trade conditions saws:
In all the leading distribution centers
the iron and steel interests are excited
and advances are being made with be.
wildering rapidity. The demand keeps
up surprisingly we'll, and for prompt
and early delivery it is not a question
Of price, but simply a matter Of obtain
ing the material. Still, indications are
cropping out that the pace is too fast
and instances have come to our notice
repeatedly of late of work which is be.
ing delayed or postponed because prices
are regarded as too high. Such cases
are isolated still and do not cut any fig
ure when compared with the urgency
OF the demand from many quarters.