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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
BACKBONE OF OUR NATION.


The Brain Power of Our Country
Comes From the Farms.
''It is from the farm and the country
districts that the great brain power Of
the country has come, is coming today
and must come in the future" writes
Edward Box in The Ladies' Home Jour-
nal. "lnstead Of deprecating country
life and saying that to live in the coun-
try means to live out of the world in.
telligent people know that the free, un-
trammeled life Of the country unques-
tionably gives broader views. The hu-
man mind always grows to suit it's out
ward surroundings. Originality and q de-
velopment for great things have naught
to check its growth whero one can look
with earnest eyes from nature up to ma.
ture's God. To speak Of 'the ignorance
of the rural regions is to stamp oneself
as an ignoramus, not the country peo-
pie. There is soundness of core and
an intelligence in the back country of
this nation of ours that people who live
in cities and think themselves wise
never suspect. We can talk all we like
of social revolutions and kindred evils
that are supposed to threaten this ma
tion. When they do threaten our insti-
tutions, the danger signal will not come
from the back country. Such thoughts
are born and fed amid the foul atmos.
phere of tho cities. In the clear coun-
try air Of the farm nothing threatens
this country, md when anything in the
shape of socialistic, nnarchistic revo-
luton does menace this land the true
voice which will stamp it out will como
from the country. The backbone of this
land rests i'll the country and On the
farm"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Increasing the Profits.


The Meriden Creamery company, of
Meriden, Kansas, lind that their patrons,
who know how to feed get from 8 10 to
$50 income per year from each COW,
while the patrons who do not know
how to feed, get from Sls to s25 per
COW per year, and that the net profits
received from each COW by their best
patrons are II times those received per
COW by their poorest, writes Mr.. II. NJ.
Cottrell. They also find that some of
their patrons get no profit whatever
from the skimmilk, while others who
know how to feed it get from % to 80
cents from each 100 pounds of skimmilk
fed. AS there are 5000 pounds of skim
milk from each good COW yearly, the
way it is handled makes q great differ
ence in the profits from daiFying, The
Meriden company believe that if their
employees are thoroughly instructed in
these lines Of feeding they can help the
farmers who sell milk to the creamery
to largely increase the farmers profits
of the creamery. For this reason the
stockholders of the Meriden company
have decided to send all their employees
to the Kansas Dairy school at Manhat-
tan, and require them while there to
make special study of feeding dairy
COWS and of feeding skimmilk to calves
and hogs.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

"While studying with Rubinstein,
Josef Hoffman, prac.iced three hours q
day." writes Mary b. Mullett of the
famous pianist in The Ladies' Homo
Journal. "He believes that most stu
dents make tho mistake of overpractic.
ing. When he came to this country the
first time, he was practicing an hour a
day. For two years after his return to
Germany he practiced two hours day.
During the next two years he averaged
four hours daily. and after that, until
he went to Rubinstein, six hours daily.
This he regards as excessive.
'One's mind grows stupid and con-
fused, Hoffman, says. 'and one's fingers
follow tho confusion of the brain. An
other mistake of young pianists is that
they use too much force in practicing.
One should play just bard enough to
keep the fingers and wrists from getting
stiff. One is not aiming for artistic re-
suits Us ono is in concert playing. It is
the fingers which need constant prao-
tica -
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

British and American ca pital is now
engaged in putting up modern mills in
China and in tenching the natives to
run them. 1t will be some years before
these mills will supply the Chinese
markets with their products, but each
passing year will record progress in that
direction. American exports of raw
cotton are increasing, while British ex-
ports of cotton goods are decreasing.
When modern machinery and Chinese
cheap labor are combined in the manu-
facture of the staple goods of trade the
question will arise, not of an open door
into the far east, but of an open door
out of the far east.-San Francisco Bul.
letin.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

There never was time in the history
of this country when trusts multiplied
and prospered as they have under the
present administration. The Silver
knight Wstchman is able to see ore
good effect that will result therefrom,
and that is that "when a trust is formed
it turns out of employment an army of
expert travelling salesman, and enables
one agency in each of the great com.
mercial cities to do the work formerly
performed by q dozen or more such
agencies. The ranks of the anti.mo.
nopolists will soon have an army Of new
recruits from this source"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

days work, sometimes as early as a.
M, and attends to the wants of its 65
patrons personally. Last year she han
died over 100000 pounds of milk and
sold over 5000 pounds Of butter each
month.
She has taken large number of val.
liable premiums for her butter exhibits
both at county and state fairs. In
1891 Miss PETER scored 100 points in
her butter, and secured a fine parlor set
offered by the Dairymen's association.
In October, 1893, when she assumed
charge at the Pewaukee creamery, her
butter exhibit at the Worlds fair, at
Chicago, was awarded a diploma and
medal. Since then she has taken many
premiums, and only this year her cream
cry exhibit at the state fair secured
several valuable awards.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

The largest flower in the world, it Is
said, is the bolo, which grows on the
island of Mindanao. one of the Philip
pine group. 1t has five petals. measures
nearly yard in width, and single
flower has been known to weigh 20
pounds. 1t grows on the highest pima
Gle of the land, or about 1850 feet
above the level of the sea.
Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treat,
ment by Ely's Cream Balm, which Is
agreeahlv aromatic. 1t is received
through the nostrils, cleanses and heals
the whole surface over which it diffuses
itself. To test it. trial size for 10 cents
ar the large, for so cents, is mailed by
Ely Brothers, Sc Warren Street, New
York. Druggists keep it. A remedy
for Nasal Catarrh which is drying OF
exciting to the diseased membrane
should not be used. Cream balm IL
recognized as specific.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
The Man Who Has Seen Better Days.


wemeet with a man in the whirl Of the street
From the time-battered hat to the shoes IN his
feet
His garb Is all battered and torn.
The friends whom lie knew when the sun ON
him sh0ne
Upon his condition will Raze
And say III u careless. .dont-care-a.darn tone;
1.-The fellow has seen better days"
Once tho features now marred by tho poison Of
drink
Were clear as MONDAY Of spring.
The feet feet treading close to destruction's dafS
Hit the pave with imperious ring,
But fortune WAS tickle. his life-skies. alas!
Were blurred by adversity's haze,
And now he Is one Of that sOul-brnken class,
The fellows wh0've seen better days.
He feels not tho grasp Of an out-stretching hand
To lift him again to the truck,
The hope-spark within his heart never Is famed
BY brsclng- up pat on the back.
No word OF encouragement reaches his ear,
But men on his misery gaze,
And say, with q sort Of contemptuOus sneer:
1.-The fellow has seen better days"
The ladies' who once Ills society sought
And say to eae oter shssa ss sovenly Se sct
Should not bo allowed on the street.
No thought ut an effort of lifting him from
The web Of adversity's ways
Hos down In the balance. he's only bum,
Tho man who has seen better days.
How many untortunates might be reclaimed
RI, And I1s Into y, activity spnr.ed .,,,s, ,,,,,
aimed
By Just an encouraging word.
From out Of the gutter full many q gem
But no; In our pride We have no use for them,
This mon who have seen better daysl
James Barton Adams In Denver Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
THE CYCLONE.
dow TNIs Wonderful and Destru
tive Air Fury ls Formed.

dow TNis Wonderful and Destrue.
tive Air Fury Is Formed.
To get an idea of cyclones forma-
tion imagine large circular pan or tub
with quite large holo in the middle
Of tho bottom. With this hole plugged,
fill the vessel with water; then draw
out the plug and watch. There is first a
rush Of water from all directions toward
the hole and turbulent effort to get
through. Then the water surface above
begins to sink and swirl, the particles
gradually circling around and around
and rushing, ever faster, toward the
center At last there lie actually hol-
low space through the center, around
which all thewater in the tub is whirl-
ing, sluggishly near the rim, but with
more and moro violent rapidity toward
the middle until it rushes downward
through the bottom. Now, if that water
were air, you would be- watching little
cyclone turned upside down, for the al.
rushes upward instead Of downward.
In the cradle Of cyclones during the
summer months, when the land and the
water grow hotter and hotter because
of the longer days than nights, layer
of air, hot. light and full Of vapor, ia
for time held down by denssr air
above it. Restless, expanding, tumultu-
Gus. it moves about like beast at bay
until q thinner place in the air above 10
found. Then up it madly rushes and
into the vacuum left behind the lower
atmosphere hastens from all directions,
pushing and twisting and pouring up
ward until it has fallen into regular
spinning around Q common center.
The CYCLONE, encs formed, rushes
away from tho tropics toward the pole,
and begins it's career Of destruction,
bruising, wrecking and sinking the
luckless ships which happen to be in
its path. More and more of the sur.
rounding atmosphere is drawn into the
whirl until the storm often covers an
area nearly 1000 miles in diameter.
Sometimes it filings itself upon our Al
lantic coast and tears fercely through
forests, fields and cities. Then again IL
sweeps away across the broad ocean and
dashes itself npon the COASTS Of Europe.
Once in awnYia it SO adroitly avoids
the land that we never know it has
passed until ships come in torn and
broken.-St. Nicholas.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
No End 10 Trusta.

There is no end to the formation Of
trusts. New combines are organizing
with rush. Old combines are enlarg.
ing their scope and crushing out COM
petition.
The record for one day in New York
show that five great organizations were
created for the express purpose of de-
vouring the small consumers.
This new bunch of trusts comprises
those on boilers, cereals, candies, wool
ems and clothes.
The cereal trust combines more than
score of great milling companies. II
has clearing house in Chicago, where
1t owns elevators and other facilities fol
the control of trade. The total capac
ity of the mills acquired is 114,00O lar
rels of cereals a day. Then, having
cornered the food which nourishes the
body, the capitalists have organized
another combine to corner the means by
which warmth is produced,
The American Radiator Company, 9
combination of manufacturers of boil
ers for heating purposes, of radiators
and other heating apparatus, has beer
incorporated at Trenton, N. j. The
capital is s1O,0OO,ooO
Then the candy makers have organ
ized. Their organization is due to tht
generally credited report that candy
trust, combining nearly all the prin
cipal candy manufacturers in thu
United States, is practically formed
Among other reported combinations
to come, is one of the New England
wooden manufacturers, with an i'm
mense capital.
1t is said that the clothing manufac
turers of the country ore planning {
trust to be capitalized at S2,OO0,0o0.
Every necessity of life will soon be ir
the clutches of the trusts, and the peo
pie, while suffering from this condition
of affairs, seem helpless to discover I
remedy. If they would reflect that th'
republican party fosters the trusts ant
that the democratic party opposes tn
trusts, they would see that the remedy
lies In placing the democratic party IL
power.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
AWoman,s Creamery.

The Milwaukee Sentinel states that
Miss Kate Peffer, of Pewaukee, Wis, is
an example of what woman possesse d
of grit and determination can do. She
is the owner and manager Of the Pc
waukee creamery, which she has made
great success in the past six years.
Though it was organized as a stock
company, she by purchase, from time to
time, of other interests recently became
sole owner of the property.
Miss PETER is tall, dresses well, is a
fluent and earnest conversationalist,
with CHEEKY bit of advice and a help
ing hand for those who deserve it. A
daughter OF the late Peter PETER, a well
known nurseryman, dairyman and
farmer, born and reared on her fathers
farm just outside the village, she early
learned to follow in his footsteps. and
gradually assumed charge of the affairs
on the old homestead, During the latter
years Of her fathers life the farm, dairy
and nursery were practically under her
direction.
Miss PETER, always willing to learn
something new about agricultural sub
jecte, spent good deal of her time in
study and research, besides attending
the meetings Of the various state socie-
ties. When cooperative creamery was
suggested for Pewaukee, it found her q
ready and enthusiastic supporter. Her
ability as manager was recognized by
the stockholders, and she was elected
secretary and treasurer of the new cor
poration, which place she has filled sat
isfactorily since the organization of the
society six years ago. Since 1894 she
has, from time to time, bought the
shares of different stockholders and fol
three or four years past has held con
trolling interest. About six weeks ago
she purchased the interest Of the last
stockholder.
The creamery is similar to many 9th
ers except that it shows the tidiness OF
the woman's art. Miss PETER under
stands the mechanismEof.: the plant to
the .minutest detail. She begins the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

All through the northwest large tracts
of land are now being reclaimed, which
in early days were worthless swamps
and bogs. The soils of these reclaimed
tracts are of a peculiar quality, entirely
different from any of our prairie or tim
ber soils of the uplands. They may be
put into two classes, one, that class of
swamps with little or no peat in their
makeup where black, India rubber
muck covers a stiff clay subsoil, and
the other where the subsoil is covered
with from one to six feet of . peat for
nation. The common prairie slough
belongs to the first class; the wire-grass
slough, wherever found, to the second.
The soil TO the first named class will
usually he found to be charged with an
excess of alkaline matter, this explain
ed by the fact of the burning of the
grass for ages on the water shed Of such
slough and the deposition Of the ash by
the rainfall in such basins, where evap.
Grafton later Incorporated it with other
sedimentary deposits. This soil when
reclaimed is cranky, and will utterly re-
fuse to nourish SONS crops. 1t will
usually produce good potatoes and
good grass, timothy, particularly, liking
this soil condition. The Lest use to
make of such reclaimed tracts is to get
them into timothy to tame them. The
peat soils are wholly different. In these
will be found great excess Of humus,
or decomposed vegetable matter. The
best thing to do with these in their
loose and porous condition, is to pasture
them until they become impacted and
solidified, when they will become the
richest and most productive lands on
the farm. These soils may be faxed to
good advantage, as at first they will be
found too rich for wheat, barley or oats.
j, S. Trigg in Rockford Register.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
A medical authority says, sudden an

A medical authority says, sudden and
wearing attacks of coughing often need
Immediate attention, especially In con-
sumptives and those chemically i'll. In
an emergency. that ever.useful remedy,
hot water, will often prove very effec.
tive. 1t is much better than the ordi.
nary cough mixtures, which disorder
the digestion and spoil the appetite.
Water, almost boiling, should be sipred
when the paroxysms come on. A cough,
resulting from irritation, is relieved by
hot water through the promotion Of SO.
cretion, which moistens the irritated
surfaces. Hot water also promotes ex.
pectoration, and SO relieves the dry
cough.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
FARMERS,
Why Not Sow wheat This Spring

Why Not Sow Wheat This sprineP
Th: time is near at hand when
you should begin seeding. The
wheat question has not received
the attention the past few years
that it should. There is large
demand for good wheat the year
round, and number OF farmers
were fortunate in sowing a few
acres Of wheat last season. with a
good yield, which brought them a
snug sum Of money.
1t pays to SOW wheat and there
is no reason why you cannot sow
a few bushels and be well paid for
it. We are quite anxious to have
lots of wheat sown this year, and
have therefore made arrange
ments for a car Of choice spring
seed wheat, which we will let go
at cost in order to further the in
tercst in the matter. Think this
over and, if possible, put a few
acres into wheat.
QUAKER MILL co.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

"You onght, like us, to have holi-
days in honor of your great men" said
the Russian beauty.
But in tho American year, eaid
the major, "thero arc only 500 days. !"
-Pkiiadoiphil Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Our Business Directory.


HARDWARE, STOVES. TINWARE, ETC
- Keeps firstclass TIMER and docs al
kinds OF repairing with neatn,ss and dispstch
Store opposite First National Bank. Main st.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

Look over our stock be-
fore buying your furniture.
We can and will save
1ou money.
Everything strictly in
STYLE and Up-To-Datc.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
DENTISTS.

O. A. DUNHAM. D. D. $.
nENTISTS. Onice over Carhart 4 Adams
~ hardware store, Franklin St. Manchester,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

C.. w. DORMAN.
nENTTST. ONCE on franklin Street, north
~ Of the Globe Hotel, Manchester, Iowa.
Dental Surgery in all its branches. Makes
s:squeut visits TO neighboring towns. Always
At once on Saturdays.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-12-21
"Prosperityv CIosinp Mills.


When prosperity" results in closing
mills, the people who have worked in
these mills, the merchants who have
lost customers through the lockout and
the people at large who must pay high
er prices for commodities because Of a
forced scarcity are not able to see where
the prosperity benefits them.
These remarks are suggested by the
fact that while the tin plate manufac-
turers are basking in prosperity and
taxing the consumers with exorbitant
prices, they have contemporaneously
closed eighty Of their mills. While the
material which goes to makeup hum
dred-pound box of tin plate has fallen
% cents, the price has been showed up
to $4.65, which Is 81 box more than it
is worth in England.
With open competition tin plate in the
United States would not bring more
than $3.65 box, and would probably
fall to So within a short time after this
competition had been inaugurated.
Moreover, the demand for tin plate,
stimulated by a reasonable price, would
cause the opening Of the closed mills to
create the necessary supply and pros
perlty for the laborers and the mer-
chants would result.
1t is plain enough that in this case
the protective tariff is the matter of
the tin plate trust, and If the protection
were removed competition would fol
low with all its accompanying benefits
No special law would be needed to curb
the rapacity of this trust as the natural
law of supply and demand would be re-
stored and beneficially operative.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-12-21
Getting Ready for Another Flop.

Republican politicians and newspa-
pers are discriminating and recrimina-
ting one another over the financial
plank Of the st. Louis platform. When
rogues fall out, etc. A little truth has
already emerged from under the bushel
of fuStian and fiction
They all acknowledge that William
Mckinley was a wabbler ON the cur
rency until driven to an equivocating
gold plank by the pressure of "circum-
stances" before and when the st. Louis
convention met. That William McKin-
ley will wabble again on the financial
plank Of the next Republican conven-
ton is equally certain. That William
Mckinley is by nature wabbler on all
questions Is now known not merely to
all Americans, but to all living people
Of the civilized world. That William
McKinley's mind is putty lump upon
which the largest or most vociferous
and best pursed portion of his party
may engrave any plank they please
upon any question is out Of debate.
Most Of the Republicans now profess
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-12-21
That Gold Standard Bill.

That great Republican bill to ere
form" the currency proposes to estab-
lish the gold standard, to pay the bonds
in gold, to impound the greenbacks and
ultimately to give the banks a mono
poly of the paper money circulation.
II Congress passes this measure and
it becomes a law through McKinley's
signature there will be a most magnifi-
cent political issue for 1900. The mask
will have been torn from the face of
the money power and the Republican
party with William Mckinley, Mark
Hanna & Co., will go down to a most
spectacular defeat. But II Congress re-
fuses to pass this bill the gold advo-
Gates will be enraged and political war
fare will be declared in the ranks Of
the Republican party.
The promoters Of this bill may not
know it, but they have opened verit-
able Pandora's box Of troubles with
no consolatory hope at the bottom. Is
there anything the matter with the
Government bonds? Are people wor-
ried about their security? Is the cred
it Of the nation suffering because these
bonds are payable in coin instead of
gold? Is anybody anxious to part with
his bonds at discount? If not, why
all this row about gold payment? Sim
ply to get a chance for the money pow
er to snatch the money creating author
ity from the Government and place it
in the hands of private individuals.
Let the Republicans pass the bill IL
they dare. Politically its Introduction
Is a mistake, Its passage would be a
to the very party which hopes
to gain by it.-Chicago Democrat.