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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
Pigeons as a Naval Force.

A number of pigeons are now official
~ recognized by the British Admiralty
and form part of the naval force, states
a writer in the New Penny Magazine.
Whale Island at Portsmouth is the
headquarters of the loming pigeons
belonging to the navy--the birthplace
of the birds supplied by other lofts at
Davenport, Malta and Hong Kong.
This particular feature of the Royal
Naval Barracks was introduced In
1893 at the instigation Of Capt. Login,
who was then the commanding officer,
and has been developed and brought to
Its present state of efficiency by that
gentleman's successor, Capt. Bayly.
The cost of keeping the birds-about
f2 per month-was betrayed by the
officers and men. The pigeons are
used, of course, for the conveyance of
messages, of which several thousand
have been received since the establish
ment of the loft. There is electric COM
munication between the huge cote and
the buildings, so that when a bird en-
ters its domicile it,causes hell to ring,
and SO announces its arrival. Many Of
the missives brought by the pigeons
have been of great importance, and
have been telegraphed to the Admiral.
ty. Some of the birds. too, have done
excellent performances. The flight
from Jersey has often been made in
two hours; but the record" at least
for distance, is from ship off the
Eddystone. lS2 miles away-a big sly"
that was accomplished in three and a
half hours.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
mALAo,Es OF reLeeRApAeas


Subject to Tuberculosis, Heart Trouble
and Brain Congest,om.
I Telegraph Operators are kept in a
constant state of ce.ebial tension. .
SAYS Mir. Hun, Piesiu,nt OF The itaIlw;y
and Telegraph Workers Union. "They
are exposed to II great number of malu-
dies, and it can weil he said that their
WORK Is dangerous. ~ telegraph opel-
ator reads better with his ears t..al
With his eyes. He carries out an es,
sentially mental ope.auol by using
the nerves of hearing. This iaculty is
consequently hgnly develop, d in Ii S
case. In the orulnar! work of reading
twenty words i; minute the telegraph
operator must distinguish lao alternate
strokes ur Intervals AMI When the,
is rush of work this figure can 20 as
high as 4JO. There is also the tlaus-
forming tho sounds into visible SYM
bols, or writing. which implies another
mental process. And whereas the nor
NAL amount of varied sensatory i'm.
pulses per minute is 100, the telegraph
operator has to accomplish 100 to 400.
without taking extreme cases into
consideration, 1t may be said that the
sense of hearing in IL telegraph oper.
ator is two and Il half times more pow
crful than In an ordinary Individual,
Again. In telegraph, the continuity OF
the nervous stimulation. the inonotony
OF. sounds and the fxIty Of attention
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
Entertained by a Hen.

The ways of hen are often original
and sometimes mirth-provoking, and a
Plymouth Rock did novel and amusing
things to the joy of carload of pas
sengers, on recent trip from Braddock
to Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Com
mercial Gazette tells the story.
Carrying hen proudly a man who
was evidently a foreigner got on the
trolley-car at Braddock. He was
drowsy and not quite sober, and he
crossed his legs, set the hen on his lap
and went to sleep.
-Four miles out of Braddock the hen
suddenly woke from its own reverie,
and cackled. Its owner opened his eyes
and found himself and his hen objects
Of interest. He was annoyed; but the
passengers had more or less excuse for
staring; they had discovered fresh
egg resting snugly on the mans lap.
No one could speak the mans
language, but every one was bound
that he should know what had happen
ed. Twenty index fingers pointed to
the hen, and forty eyes were turned in
the same direction. Finally the stran-
ger lifted the hen tenderly, and the Sc
cret was revealed.
Then he was wide awake. With his
left hand he held the egg aloft, that all
might see; with his right hand he af-
fectionately stroked the hen. Every
body smiled. All Mt once it seemed to
occur to him that refreshments were
In order He grinned at his fellow
passengers. tapped the shell on the seat
to open way to the interior, and
swallowed the egg.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
A HUMAN HIVE.
A Place Where Most of Our Jewelry
La NADIA

A Place Where, Most of Our Jewelry
Ii Made.
Providence, RI. has the largest sill
verware factory In the world, the larg-
est screw factory, the largest manu-
factory for small tools and the largest
file works. Perhaps 1t is especially
unique in producing more jewelry than
any other city in the United States,
says the Nashville American, and near
tly as much as all the rest of the coun-
try combined. There is no city which
possesses SO many separate and dis
tinct shops for the manufacture of a
single commodity as Providence does
for the manufacture of jewelry. There
are at least $50 separate factories de
voted to the making of gold. silver,
rolled-plated. electroplated and brass
jewelry and novelties. In addition, the
auxiliary Industries for furnishing sup
plies of special labor to the jewelry fac.
tories number more than seventy-five.
Many Of the jewelry shops are small,
employing only ten or n dozen hands,
while some employ as high as 300, and
In one case l,40O. BY the State census
of 1895 the capital invested In this in
dnstry in Providence is $4,000, 600;
average number of hands employed.
1000; annual wages paid, $500, 600;
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06

met by a greater productveness in the
field, by the substitution of machinery
for hand labor in the factory. and by
the manufacture of varieties of teas
which, from inherent chemical causes.
cannot be brought from the Orient.
Filling Out Garden Corners.
There is a large class of people who
might profitably add the cultivation of
tea to that of flowers and vegetables,
filling out TIE corners of their gardens
and home fields with tea bushes, as
they do in China. or substituting use
full as well as ornamental evergreen
hedges of that plant for the present
unsightly and costly and frequently un-
reliable fences. Cultivated i'll this way,
the outlay of rlme, labor and money
could hardly prove burdensome: and,
as one result. the household should be
able to supply its own tea-pure.
strong and invigorating, instead of the
wishy-washy, often far from cheap,
stuff generally sold throughout the
country.
AS these little tea gardens are ex-.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
As these little tea gardens are : es.

tended and multiply factories will be
established in each neighborhood for
the larger manufacture Of commercial
tea, whittier the products of the gar
dens surrounding may be brought and
sold. precisely as canning factories and
diaries consume the surplus production
of fruit and milk.
One feature in the cultivation of tea
has only to be stated to appeal to every
one who plants, namely. that the season
for gathering the leaf lasts In this eli
mate for six months. Thus crop is
not dependent for at least partial sue
cess upon the weather of any one or.
two months, as is SO apt to be the case
with most of the objects of the has,
bandman's labor and solicitude.
For the present it will be wiser to
limit the production of tea in the South
to the better grades. such rs retail at
from so cents to 81 per pound. The
greater cost of unskilled labor in this
country than in the Orient should con-
stitute a smaller fraction of the total
expense If the product commands a
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
pert chemist, who lived ii q iine house

pert chemist, who lived In a fine house
on Huron street.
When the Haymarket riots occurred
she was only II years old. and fell In
love with Spies when she saw him at
the preliminary hearing. She became 3
constant visitor to the courtroom, al
ways elegantly dressed. She made no
secret of her infatuation. sending flow
ers and meals from expensive restau-
rants to the Jail. Her parents made
no effort to break of the attachment.
When Spies asked her to marry him
she consented, but the sheriff inter-
fered. 1t was then decided to use a
proxy, and Miss Van Zandt was mar
ried to Chris Spies. acting for his
brother. The girl continued her visits
to the Jail. and used every endeavor
to save her proxy husbands life. For
a long time after the anarchists death
Miss Van Zandt shut herself up In her
home on Huron street. and denied her
self to all callers. She had marble
bust of Spies made.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
THE CULTURE OF TEA.
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS ARE
MADE IN THE SOUTH.
Gardens in South Carolina Produce a
Superior Article at Twenty-Five Per
Cent. Profit "A New and Growing In
dustry for the Southland.

Some years ago few far-seeing men
of the Southern States looked far
enough ahead to see that cotton would
rot always be king. and opened to dis
cussion the problem of raising tea. Al
that time cotton was king, and there
was no denying it, SO the effort to Gre
ate an interest in tea raising proved
abortive. In less than fifteen years
came great war in which the South
was swept clean as by hurricane.
One result of the war; minor perhaps,
besides some of the other results, was
that cotton was dethroned. Into the
new South was introduced other forms
of agriculture. and not only that, but
manufactures which the South hereto
fore had despised with pride in its
splendid ISOLATION
AND now, generation after the war
has closed, after King Cotton has been
deposed, Southerners themselves have
taken up the culture of tea in earnest,
bound to make 1t contribute to the gem
eral prosperity of that section of the
country. A leader among these leaders
Is Prof. Charles U. Shepard, of Pine
hurst, Summerville, s. c., and In a pub
LEGATION of the agricultural department
in Washington he tells of the success
OF his experiment.
Since he has made a profit OF 20 per
cent. on his venture the undertaking Is
entitled to be taken out of the class Of
experiments and put in with tile solid
accomplishments that will endure. 1t
Is seven years since he first reported
on the operations on the Pinehurst es-
tate. He says that 1t seems probable
from the facts SO far gathered that the
cultivation of tea can be made profit
able In the warmer portions Of the
United States in two ways. One is by
establishing a plantation on the scale
OF the experiment at Summerville with
capital sufficient to carry the work to a
point where the product can be offered
on equal terms with teas holding an es-
tablished place in the markets of the
United States. The other is to grow
tea for home use in the farm garden.
In either case tea growing can be I'M
dertaken safely only where the tenn
perature rarely goes lower than 25 de-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06

Whether most people wish well to
their fellows Is q question of locality.
The world over, probably more people
wish each other i'll than good. The saw
age is cruel and selfish The half-civ
ilized races are vain and cOyetous.
Envy and jealousy have still a mighty
show in the politest circles. Yet one
cannot help believing that in prosper
GUS, educated communities of our land
the vastmajority of the people are well
wishers as they meet and greet their
neighbors. A decidedly major part of
such neighborhood are really panied
when misfortune overtakes one of their
number. The sincerity of the regret is
not to be doubted as they lament ones
overthrow, or talk in plying words of
sickness or bereavement The struggle
Of life is so much the same thing in ev-
cry ambitious household, the knowledge
of what must undoubtedly be the inside
facts of each home is so perfect-thanks
to our democratic institutions-that the
sympathy of the average American is
real and worth something. The day
may be far off yet when we shall do as
we would be done by; but we are get
ting to think of others as we would be
thought of. The world is not nearly so
cold" as it was when poets invented
the phrase. In trade, do we not prefer
to see each other get on? Whatever
may be said of harsh methods, is there
not measureless amount of amiable
and chivalric good will among mer-
chants? The keen contentious of mod
ern business and professional life we
do not believe are SO desolating that we
are lapsing into heathenism. The re-
venges of the age of the knights are
rarely pursued, except among politi-
clans. The frank, bustling business
man is disposed to forget and waste no
time on getting even" Injury for the
sake of injury is rare in a commercial
age. In fact, a commercial people take
little stock in purely sentimental sins.
The millionaire who built his own for
tune is rarely vain. He carries light
baggage train Of likes and dislikes, for
they do not nav,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
Hauling SHOCKED Corn.

When Went to haul in my shocked
corn. says correspondent, having no
low-wheeled wagon and no one to help
me. ! found 1t would be poor business
loading by myself from the ground. 1
took good inch plank about eight feet
long; bored a hole near one end, tied
to rod at back end of wagon bed, close
up, so one end would rest on end of
bed floor and other end on the ground;
nailed several cleats on top side to
walk up on, put all on bed from ground
j could, after standing two pieces in
front end between end-gate and rod;
then take up armful, walk up on plank
and load TO front end and walk down.
Let plank drag. Always ready when
you stop. Commence unloading from
the back end. Unloaded under shed
all l,y myself.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
A GOVERNMENT Jos.
e Very Often saps the Energy Of Ms

It Very Often Saps the Energy Of It's
Holder.
r The narcotic effect of government
employment Is notorious. explains an
Eastern newspaper writer, but, as ID
ether cases. the victim of the sedativsl
habit does not believe and cannot real
lie its power until 1t is too late.
There Is a certain fascination to the
old and hardened TO watch the young
struggle against their fate. The same
sensations may be secured by observ-
ing the operations on a sheet Of ny
paper. The victim is "foot loose and
is looking around for a favorable open
Ing. In the meantime 1t seems desir-
able to have some temporary Judgment
-standing-roOm, as 1t were-until the
delayed opening appears. So the az
steps into the soft Government stick
UNI. At first 1t does not seem 30 bad,
and 1t ls only when he feels his feet
sinking that he decides to quit. But
this he finds 1t not so easy. He pauses
and begins to cast about for 4 little
leverage OF a way to wade out. In the
operation he tangles up another mem
Der or two. BY this time he suspects
that the danger is serious and buzzes
frantically. The result is the same,
and while he is resting from the exer-
ton he tangles up one wing. The other
waves for a while, the emblem OF
disappointed and hopeless ambition,
now and then buzzing about the time
IN rnYnn 1vhou ha will rr,,t< tS,< c..
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06

attendanceandbe Observation-Disclosures thus
secured. But. otherwise, there would
be no difficulty in securing an ample
force, as the wages earned prove in
themselves sufficient attraction. The
older children earn from 80 to so cents
Il day; the younger one in proportion.
The ten gardens are picked twenty
times season. or once every ten days.
and 1t takes three days for the average
force Of twenty children to make the
round of the gardens. The more in
dustrious and skillful pick from ten to
twenty pounds Of fresh leaf day. 1t
takes four and fifth pounds of fresh
leaf to make one of dry leaf.-New
York Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06

higherpricc. Other things being equal.
the quality of any tea depends on the
"fneness' of the leaf plucked. If only
the tiny. tender, youngest leaf be pick
ed, the quantity Of the crop must be
comparatively small; but its quality
will be decidedly superior to that OBJ
tanned by coarse" plucking. which also
embraces the older, larger and neces-
sarily tougher leaves.
Problem of Cheap Labor.
Leaf-plucking demands the careful
attention of the tea grower. 1t Is a
light employment. suitable for women
and children. but they must be taught
patiently and their work must be scru-
tinized strictly. AT Pinehurst colored
children do the picking. and very salts
factorily. A free school is maintained
for them; every pupil of suitable age
and size is required TO pick; others are
excluded from the gardens. Regular
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
silarc for Fatteuiur catt,e.


At the Ontario Agricultural. College
they fed three lots Of two steers each as
follows: Lot had 50 pounds Of en-.
silage each, lot 2, 81 pounds Of silage
and pounds of hay, lot 8, 43 pounds Of
roots and II pounds of hay. Each had
about IL pounds day of grain, consist
ing of ground peas, barley and oats.
Lot weighed 2.7s9 pounds at the begin.
ming. and in LAG days gained 555 pounds
or 10 pounds each per day. Lot 2
weighed 2.T35 pounds at first and
gainedin same time AS pounds, or 1.53
pounds each per day. Lot 3 weighed
1872 pounds, and in the time gained 537
pounds, or 1.84 pounds day. The gain
by feeding only ensilage and grain was
not much larger than tina. on roots and
hay with grain, but all estimates indi.
cate that the silage is much more easily
and cheaply produced. the 81 pounds
requiring less land and less labor than
the 40 pounds of roots, to say nothing
Of cost of the hay.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06


The old legal question of the liability
of insurance companies where the pol
icyholder commits suicide has been
ruled upon anew by the Federal Cour,
of Appeals at st. Louis in the affirma.
tive. The decision takes new ground
1T does not assume that the man who
Kills himself is necessarily insane. II
declares that the company is bound to
pay unless 1t can be shown that the de-
cedent took out his policy with the in
tentien of committing suicide-a fact
which it would be practically impossi-
bic to prove. The ruling seems to bear
heavily against the companies, but 1t
is more in appearance than In reality.
Few men will commit suicide because
of the knowledge that their heirs will
get their insurance money. On the
other hand, men will be induced to in
sure by the knowledge that there will
be no quibbling and wrangling should
they die under circumstances which
might favor the suicide theory. The
dsclsloD thus faYors both sides and is
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
killing We.

A writer tells of the nuisance English
sparrows were about his house and
barn. until he got a gun, and In about
200 shots he killed twenty-five of them.
and scared away million. more or less.
We think his Workmanship was not as
good as that of the Beers. We saw one
of our neighbors kill tlirty-three of
them at one shot, and II was not large
flock of sparrows either. at least after
the shooting. Feed them oats few
times in some convenient spot and they
will soon gather there. SO that with a
good charge of fine shot. man ought
eas!ly to kill half the lock every time
- Ares, Those that are scared away
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
Aguinaldo: why do you suspect he
is an American spy?"
Filipino: Hist He has ON I'm
ION suit!'
A Journey or $50 Year,

A well-known astronomer calculates
that II an express train running sixty
miles an hour day and night, without
stopping, kept 1t up for $50 years. 1t
would just about complete the diameter
Of the circle made by the earth in It's
yearly journey round the sun. Now
let this immense circle be representa-
by the lady's finger ring. and taking
that as the standard of measurement,
the nearest fixed star would be a mile
distant, and the farthest visible through
the telecope at least twenty miles.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
PUMA SHOWS ITS GRATITUDE.
Big Cat Amazes Its Keeper by an Ex-
hibition of Friendsl,ip.

Big Cat Arnazes Its Keeper by an Ex-
hibition of Friendship.
Keeper Mullen is constantly exposed
to the wild beasts in the ZOO in giving
them their food and in cleaning their
cages. Last week he was engaged in
the pleasant occupation of Frightening
the outside apartment of large puma
For reasons Of his own he has always
been in the habit Of permitting the ami
mails to roam in the inside cage while
he cleaned the outside one. But this
time he somehow forgot to lock the
door, and the puma walked out upon
him.
There was brief pause, during which
time Mr.. Mullen hastily reviewed his
past life. The puma stood in the door
way blinking at the light and blocking
up the only means of escape. All.around
were the hard iron bars of the cage.
The puma, waving its long catlike tail,
slowly approached, and Mr.. Mullen
Drought his broom to a position which
IN army parlance is known as charge
payonets Great was the keepers sur
prise when the fierce animal meekly
rubbed It's sleek sides against the trem.
ping leg, very much after the manner
OF large cat 1t exhibited signs of
recognition and pleasure and began
purrlng loudly.
Mullen could scarcely believe his eyes.
he fancied the animal was only sham
ming and biding his time, and expect
ed every moment to feel Its sharp fanps
in his leg. Not to be outdone by the
animal. he began bluffing, too, acting as
if 1t were the most natural thing in the
world that he should be pattIng the
puma's head. He tried to make the
animal feel how much he was enjoying
IT, and the result was that they were
soon romping on the ground together
like two friendly children.
This is the explanation of 1t: Keeper
Mullen had removed a tumor from the
side of the puma. The operation was
performed by the aid of catgut and took
some time. The puma suffered great
deal with 1t and seemed relieved when
| it was over
1t has shown great affection for its
keeper ever since, permitting him to
pat Its head between the bars, but not
until he accidentally found himself in
| the same Enclosure with 1t did the keeper
believe that he could ever enter it's cage
and come ont unscathed.
Keeper Mullen naturally attributes
the display of affection to the operation
which lie performed, and he says that
hereafter he will not be afraid to enter
the puma's cage any time he may see
fit. He knows that hereafter they will
be good friends.-Philadelphi Times,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
NINA VAN zANpT.
Woman Who Wa. Married by Pro.,

Woman Who Was Married by Proxy to
August Spies, the Anarchist.
Nina Van Zandt, the woman who
was married by proxy to August Spies.
the anarchist, almost upon the eve Of
his execution, is now Mrs. Stephen
Malato, wife Of a prominent Italian
politician Of Chicago, and has been liv-
ing quietly since her marriage, four
years ago. She now dismisses the esca-
pade of her proxy marriage TO Spies
by saying: II was foolish young girl
then" She is the daughter Of an ex-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-06
Watering Trough for Poultry.

To make watering trough for poul.
try take three pieces Of board 1x6x3
feet long; make a square trough, then
take board that will At inside and bore
1t full of A-inch holes, put into trough
and fill with water. The board always
floats on top, and 1t is impossible for
young fowls to get themselves wet, as
they will do when drinking from an Or
dlnary trough.-W. A, Gwyun