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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Arc Not Consistent,

Except England, not one great nation
professedly upon the gold standard has
consistently applied 1t, and her success
has been possible only because the 9TH
ers have failed, and because large por-
ton of the world has not even made
the attempt.
France uses more than 100000 900
of full legal tender silver, besides rest
ing her $T00,000,000 of paper money
upon both gold and silver support. The
establishment of the gold standard In
all its glory in France, as contemplated
for the United States by pending pro-
pOsals In Congress, would shake the
foundations of TINT republic.
Germany has buffer of some $780,
100000 worth of the old silver thalers
between herself and the pure gold
standard. ltnly made n great ado n
few years since, as did also Austria.
Hungary, and both borrowed vast mill
ions of gold as n support for their mon
ey system.
The former has now n circulation of
$3.50, 100000 of paper not in fact re-
deemable. Austrla, by borrowing, has
accumulated about S200,000.00O in gold,
but 1t is locked up by the government,
does not circulate, and is today Mt n
premium. Similarly Russia has put
about $3.50, 100000 into her war chest,
while her actual circulation comprises
about $9OOO00.000 in silver and paper
not redeemable in gold.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
II they would The amount has grown

II they would. The amount has grown
by accreton of interest compounded
from $25O,00O to over $1,30O,000. The
assessed valuation of the entire county
Is only 100000, so 1t will be seen that
to issue the levy necessary to take up
this debt would contiscate every acre
of land in st. Clair. The people are
willing to compromise and pay the face
of the bonds, but as this offer is reject
ed they keep up the battle.
After few courts had been locked
up in body candidates for the office
became volunteers willing to go to jail
TO prevent a tax levy. For nearly thirty
years the war has continued, and is not
ended yet. Every time Judge Philips
opens court lie finds group of three
patient typical southwestern Missouri.
farmers in court waiting for commit.
ment TO jail. He offers them advice
and admonition. They reply with the
stated offer of compromise, and of
course are turned down. Then the
Judge winds it all up by YEARLY order
ing his marshal to lock them up. But
the bonds have not been paid, nor any
OF the interest. The Federal authorities
are puzzled, and the people of st. Clair
determined. How it will end, If it ever
does get out of court, is question for
chancery to wrangle with.
There are 25,OO0 or 10000 persons in
st. Clair County. These, save 1000 at
osceola, ms many at Appleton City, and
half as many at Lowrey, are farmers
and farmers folk. They are type of
people who have had much to do with
the settlement and development of the
United States. They represent. as it
is represented in Missouri and the
south Alleghanian hills of east Tennes.
see and Kentucky, as in no other parts
of the Union, the simon-pure Anglo.
Saxon stock IN the new world. Their
ancestors came over in the Mayflower
and others of the first of the emigrant
craft They are an ndmiNture of the
Irlton and the Scot, and all their an
cestral characteristics of never-bend-
Ing determination and unyielding stub
bornness are apparent in this UNIQUE
fight of the people of st. Clair County.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
UNCLE DICK oeLEseY.
Farmer, Miner, Lawyer, General; Sem
ator aud Governor.

Farmer, Miner, Lawyer, Genera1, SEN
ator and Governor.
No man in Illinois enjoys to greater
extent the confidence and respect of
his fellow citizens than Richard j.
Oglesby, General, Ex-Governor and
former United States Senator. He
has also been woodsman, teamster,
farmer, California miner, lawyer and
traveller.
Uncle Dick Oglesby, as he is famil-
iarly called, was born in Kentucky in
1924 and was left an orphan Mt the
age of s. He moved to Illinois about
that time. He served in the Mexican
war and in the war for the Union, re-
signing from the army in 1864 to be-
come Governor of Illinois. lie served
as Governor until 1860 and from 1878
to 1879 was United States Senator.
For almost half century he has been
a power in tho Republican politics of
his adopted State.
Speaking of his earlier career Uncle
Dick says: II tried farming one sum
mer and cleared just $3.50. 1t struck
me then that l was not cut out for a
farmer. and decided to study law.
went down to Springfield to read with
Judge Robbins, and, of course,
tackled Blackstone the first thing.
had never read n book through in my
life then, and the big words nearly
floored me. Judge Robbins suggested
that read English history along with
my law books, and asked me what l
could remember of my history. I have
never read any, Judge said.
"'What, no English history? No.
"'No American history? NO
"'Well, what have you read:' asked
the Judge us he looked at me severely.
Nothing, Judge; never read a book
through in my life.'
"'Why, Dick, how in the devil do
you expect to become lawyerY asked
Judge Robbins then.
81 told him." says the Ex-Governor
that knew several lawyers who
never read anything, never had read
anything, didn't know anything, and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
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Under Free Coinage.

Under Free Coinage.
1t has been estimated that there are
between $4,000, 100000 and 100000
100000 of longtime indebtedness, con-
sisting of national, State, county, city
and corporation bonds and Individual
promissory notes, owed in this nation.
Over one-half of this is payable in law
full money of the United States.
Under free coinage, silver dollars be
come legal tender for the payment of
all that ten or fifteen billions Of debt.
1t is principle recognized in all politi-
cal economies that If one dollar Is
CATIONS payable In lawful money will
be paid in the cheaper p liar, and thus
If silver should ever go to discount
compared to gold, there would be that
enormous demand created for silver by
the debtors, who owe the $1O,O0O,OoO,-
600 or $4,000, 100000.
With such an enormous demand upon
the limited quantity of silver available
for coinage, is 1t possible that any one
would part with silver at an appreci-
able discount? You must remember
that this silver dollar Is not only legal
tender for the payment of private
debts, but it is also n legal tender for
the discharge Of State, county and city
taxes, which aggregate about $780,
100000 year.
1t is a legal tender for the payment
of all import duties, internal revenue
duties, and postage dues of the national
government, and you must remember
that the national government raises by
those duties the enormous sum Of al
most $500, 100000 year.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
BEN. FRANKLIN's EDUCATION
Only Two Years of Ills Life Spent at
School.

Only Two Years of His Life Spent at
School.
Few men have known more than Ben
iamin Franklin, yet few have had less
education, In the common sense of the
word For not more than two years
lat the age of s to 10) he went to n
grammar school and II private school in
Boston; for the other four-score years
and more of his life he learned without
a teacher. His fathers library was
small, but the lad himself spent the lit
tie money that came into his hands on
serious books and pamphlets. Having
proved deficient in arithmetic in his
early youth, he afterward made n spe-
cial study of mathematics. and for
some time amused himself by con-
structing all sorts of magical squares
and circles, with rows of figures that
would add up alike, whichever way
they We're counted In this connection,
Mr.. Ford-a self-educated man himself
in that his only school was his fathers
immense private library-has this to
say:
His own experience served to teach
Franklin that strong mind needs no
schooling to develop it, and that poor
mind is not strengthened by study.
Poor Richard made merry over the
many witty men whose brains cannot
fill their bellies and of those who
would live by their wits, but for want
of stock "A learned blockhead is
greater blockhead than an ignorant
one he asserted, and claimed that of
learned fools have seen ten times ten;
of unlearned wise men, l have seen
hundred Yet Franklin was far from
showing the usual contempt of the self
taught man for an academic education,
On his settling in Philadelphia he found
two things which he regretted, and
one of these was there being no pro-
vision for the complete edu-
cation of youth therefore in
1743 drew up Il proposal for establish
ing an academy"
The academy was duly founded; but
in time 1t became a hotbed of politics,
and its rector an active opponent of
Franklin himself.-Century Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Ia the regard of ordinary, though I'm.

Ia the regard OF ordinary, though i'm.
portant, rules of health--so negligent
IN many cases that the necessity of or
binary care must be forced upon them;
and, second, that the law in the present
day is assuming much more RESPONSE
bility than it has In the past. The or
dinance passed by the New Orleans
health officials is an unusual one, in
deed, and, while the wisdom Of its pro-
visions probably Will not be questioned,
the question naturally suggests itself
whether 1t does not touch too closely
upon personal rights and privileges to
be enforceable in its entirety. The
fresh air" ordinance requires all
householders, whether owners or ten
ants, to open their rooms and freely
expose them to the sun and air, particu-
larly in cold, clear weather. The Board
Of Health will send around inspectors
to see that the law is complied with.
The New Orleans Picayune is in thor
ough sympathy with the movement. 1T
says: Let the people open up their
rooms and let the wind blow through
them. Such airing is one of the sim
plest, and at the same time one of the
most important and etficacious, meth
DDS of sanitation. Disease germs are
creatures of filth and foul air. The sun
and the winds of heaven are their
worst enemies. There are bedrooms in
this city where the sun never shines,
and where fresh air is but little known.
Let them be opened up, SO that all evil
germs may be killed. BY SO doing these
people will not only protect themselves,
but they will greatly contribute to the
general health of the city's population"
Fresh air is not appreciated as 1t should
be. There is no medicine that can do
as much for the human system. People
who are not sick need fresh air to keep
them WE'LL ami for those who are sick
there is no tonic like it, Because it is
free fresh air should not be despised.
Physicians say that lack of 1t causes
much of the disease in the world. 1t
should not then be necessary to pass
laws to force the people to take advan-
tage of this heavens gift. Goodness
knows there is no medicine that is as
agreeable to take. Then why sleep In
tight closed bedroom, and why work
in sealed up Office? There should be
fresh air in the home, in the school
room-cverywhcrc. There Is plenty of
1t for all.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

Neuralgia occurs more frequently in
women than in men, owing to their
more delicate organization. A tea
spoonful of elixir of hypophosphite
taken after each meal will build I'D the
strength materially.
Where supposed blood trouble de-
ponds upon constipation and excessive
acidity, 2 grams of cream of tartar and
30 centigrams of flowers of sulphur,
taken after each meal, forms an excel
lent combination for increasing the cir
culation.
The best tonic pill for improving the
blood of anemic girls or women is as
follows: Dried sulphate of iron and
carbonate of potash. each 10 cent?
grams; a)oin, 5 milligrams; extract of
nuX vomica, milligrams; sulphate of
qulnlne. Is mIlllgrams. Take one after
meals.
Painters and great many people
brought in contact with paint, COM
plain of chronic lead poisoning. This
causes constipation, weakness of the
muscles, pains, Stimulating rheumatism,
and debility. Five drops of a saturated
solution of lodlde of potash in a Wine
glass Of water after meals will help
sufferers of this class.
There is no virtue In the color of
f!annel-gray, blue or any other color Is
equally useful. Where children are
subject to bronchitis. flannel should al
ways be worn. The baby should have
no medicine except where there is
fever; an elder child afflicted should
have the chest and back rubbed with
ammonia liniment night and morning.
Thorough rubbing of the back with
chloroform liniment will greatly ease
the pain and stiffness of the muscles
involved in lumbago. but the avoidance
of intoxicants and late hours, and n
Turkish bath every four days, will help
still further. Lumbago is really mus
cular rheumatism affecting the lumbar
muscles. A mixture of salicylate of
soda, grams; oil of wintergreen, 4
grams; fluid extract of cascara sagrada,
Is grams; wine of colchicum seed, 10
grams. and simple syrup up to 90
grams form an admirable prescription
for those seriously affected.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
FIFTY YEARS in A CHOIR.
Three Men Who Can Sing Well q
Seventy

Three Men Who Can Sing Well at
Seventy.
After having sung for fifty years in
the same church choir continuously,
missing very few services, at Reading,
Pa, says n correspondent of the New
York Sun, Daniel Shaaber, Jacob Shaa-
Der and james Hill sent in their resig-
nations because their voices We're posi-
bly, not as good as the large congrega-
tion had II reasonable right to expect.
These singers are now nearly 10 years
old, but are still young and active in
mind and body, and they still can sing
IN manner that Is wonderful to those
who hear them. The brothers Shaaber
say that the vocal organs of the throat
hold out as well, possibly better, than
the eyes, ears, arms or limbs of the
human body If they are properly exer-
cised and taken care Of. They expert
ence no difficulty in singing right along
with the younger folks in the choir, but
they now desire to quit because they
imagine the congregation may want to
hear new voices.
They have sung to five generations
in the church and have kept it up SO
regularly that thousands of people
have been more than surprised. The
Shaabers sang tenor and Mr.. Hill bass.
Besides singing in the choir for half a
century of years, they also sang at
church festivals and private gatherings
of the congregation, always without
charge, as the church had no paid
choir, and the, singers OBLIGATED as a
labor of love. Being comfortably stu
ated in life, they desire no reward from
the church.
The church officers held a meeting,
refused to accept their designations and
consented to relieve them of active SER
vice in the choir, but reserving their
places as long as they live, so that
whenever they wish to occupy seats in
the choir gallery their chairs will be
there and their services will be gladly
received. The semi-centennial of their
connection with the choir was cele-
brated recently, and the occasion was
n notable one. The brothers Shaaber
in reality Joined the choir lifty-four
years ago. Daniel Shaaber was leader
of the choir for thirty years
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Not unluckx rAr Him.

Rev. b. II. Chapman, of Andover,
Conn.,, now SO years old, is living.
refutation Of the 10 superstition. He
was born on the 18th day of the month.
He was 10 years old when his family
made an important move of his boy
hood, and ID years after that he was
married. He is n member of family
of ID, and his wife was also SO situated.
She was born on the 18th day of the
month, and had 10 letters in her name.
Three of their five children saw the
light Of day on the same day Of the
month, and Mr.. Chapman says, in con-
clusion, that he was born and probably
will die in one of the ID original States,
and in county having 10 towns. When
he came to AndOver the usher Mt the
church showed him into pew No. 10,
and he has sat there for 40 years. When
he came to Andoyer the postmaster
offered him No. 10 letter box, saying
that no one else would have 1t.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
POINTS FOR poDuNK's HOTEL,

How to Build an Extravapant Menu
Out of Commonplace Materials.
He winked Familiarity at the landlord
as he paid his bill, and in a confidep.
tial tone remarked:
Il don't mind telling you that l am
thinking of going into the hotel bust
ness myself for change. Yes, sir,
that's so! I've bought the biggest place
for sale in Podunk, and mebbe YOU
wouldn't mind telling me few things
about keeping hotcl-seeln' you're
right In the business. There's the menu.
now; some little points OH that might
work. We don't know everything down
In Podunk."
Inc landlord rubbed the bald spot on
his brow and thought moment.
There's chicken croquettes," he
said; chicken comes high this time of
year."
81 see"
Not one in thousand can tell the
difference between veal and chicken"
"Geewhlllikens! There's pointer to
start with"
ffieu chicken costs money. Fried
rabbit tastes like it, and the difference
goes into your pocket"
"Golly, I'm gettin' rich already"
Quail en- toast reads fine ON the
menu. You don't suppose we folks in
the city pamper our guests ON real
quail? Baby owls taste SO much like
quail you can't tell one from t'other.
And out your way owls must be thick
as pumpkins. Then there's beef or
course you've heard Of the hippopha-
gous thcory?"
'Th-e-the w-h-a-t?"
"Click! click! Yes, old racers. You
can buy them by the bunch of hun
dred for n song"
The man from Podunk turned pale.
II guess I've got all the points can re-
member Mt once, and If you ever come
our way give me call. Good-day.
Fried rabbit Owls on toast! Nippon.
l reckon I'll call the line there. Great
business, this bookkeeping, anyhow"
Chicago Times-Herald,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
HOW plANlsrs ARE MADE.
Padercwski Had to Unlcafn Faults n
Acaulncd

Acquired EARLY.
"Six is the age at which would-be
pianists should begin serious work."
says the great teacher Leschetizky, the
Niennese master of music, from whom
Paderewski learned to perfect his art.
When Paderewski went to Leschetizky,
some ten years ago, 1t wassas a concert
performer who had already achieved
success in Russia and mastered an ex-
tensive repertory. Leschetizky heard
him play for awhile and then said:
You have some very bad faults, but
you have talent. You have played too
many things and nothing we'll enough.
Your wrist is hard and stiff. If you
come to me You must forget for six
months that you have repertory; you
must play nothing but exercises for
technique, six hours day for exer-
cises, and nothing else"
The verdict was n serious one and
Paderewski gave 1t serious consider
alton, ending by determining to be-
come the renowned Leschetizky's pu-
Pill. All day long for six months this
finished concert performer worked
away Mt the mechanics of piano play.
ing, at exercises specially devised for
him by Leschetizky, and some devised
by himself with reference to peculiari-
ties of his own hands. Every evening
he was given lesson at the professors
house as n mark of special favor; for
with ordinary pupils all lessons ended
at in the afternoon, and one lesson in
two weeks was the best that even the
most proficient might attain.
One hour, two hours, three hours,
these nightly sessions lasted, for Les
chetizky gives no heed to time, once his
serious interest is aroused These two
men We're together constantly; they
took long walks; they played hard
fought games of billiards, both being
adopts at the game; they talked inces
sanity, for Leschetizky has a fluent
tongue, and what the older man knew
of the art of making music he gave
freely to the younger man.
1t is worthy of record that this store
of musical knowledge. transmitted
thus from man to man, was a sort of
sacred heritage handed down from the
great Beethoven, for Leschetizky's
master was Czerny, and Czerny often
declared that all he knew about music
he got from Beethoven in few weeks
of priceless intercourse with that great
est of all musicians.
Leschetizky accorded this extreme
favor to Paderewski because it pleased
him to do SO and for no other reason.
The young Pole had no special lnflu-
ence and very little money, but he had
conspicuous talent and an untiring res
olution to do the work put before him.
HE would have succeeded in any
thing" remarked Leschetizky, sin
painting. in literature, in business had
he made up his mind to undertake it,
London Mail.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

There are survivals of old-world
superstitions still existing in this coun-
try which, though perhaps harmless,
bring curious sense of wonder to a
rejecting mind. A Pennsylvania Ger
man." whose wife had recently desert
ed him, ascribed her disappearance
solely to witchcraft The customary
method of procedure among his people
in such cases Is to immense pair of
the delinQuent's stockings In pot of
water, place the pot upon hot fire
and keep 1t boiling for twenty-four
hours. This is supposed to be infal-
lible. The belief is that 1t will break
the spell under which the woman is
laboring, and will cause her such un-
easlness that she will gladly return
home, but will also inflct dreadful
pains upon the person who had be-
witched her. The husband followed
the formula, but the result is not
stated
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

shun the bowl; nor did Socrates, who,
to be sure, like DIR. johnson, had the
stronger head. These excuses of the
Pickwlckians are to be taken In n
Pickwlckian sense; they are as SYM
bolical as Materlinek, and infinitely
more entertaining.
AS to the method or plot, Pickwick
has none, and needs none. 1t is not n
novel, but something far better. 1t is
Pickwlck, the breviary of kindly men.
Delightful bookr rs Thackeray
cries when Dugald Dalgettys name
comes into his mind. ITO think of it
is to want to jump up and take it down
from the shelf" 1t opens to us a
world literally crowded with human
beings, of whom the least important
even are permanent creations, friends
whom we do not forget.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

hadn't any sense, either, and guessed
] could be lawyer If they could
"Then buckled down and read
Blackstone and several other law
books, and presented myself before
Judge Breeze for examination. We
had a jug of cider and bushel of
apples to treat the judges and we all
went through
Explaining why he became an nboll-
Zionist while born in Kentucky he
said: "Uncle Tim was the principal
cause of 1t. Uncle Tim was the only
slave in the family, and had descend
ed from my grandfather to my father.
In order to divide up the very little
property that my father left us when
he died, Uncle Tim had to be sold at
auction. l shall never forget how he
looked as he stood on the box ready
Tor sale. He was powerful man,
with manly bearing, fine face,
and skin as black as ebony. He
had always been fond of us children,
and thought almost as much of him
as did Of my father The tears
streamed down his face and he begged
my fathers brother to buy him, but
this could not be done.
"Uncle Tim," said as went up to
him, "l'm going to work and earn the
money to buy you and set you free"
His face lighted up with pride and
pleasure, and then settled back into
Il look of despair.
"Tank yo,' Marse Dick he said.
But yo's n pore orphan au' won't neb-
Der be rich huff to buy Uncle Tim
He was sold and brought $500, being
past his best working days. In 1910
went to California, and, after hard
pull of 1t, got together several thou
sand dollars. / sent the money at
once to my brother, and Uncle Tim
was purchased and freed"