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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1900-11-01
For Congress 18th. Distric..
RUDOLPH KLEBERC.
OF Dewitt County.

The ear of the public is intemtly
5Isiening for a word from Hon.
]. b. Reed, but so far II IS "silence
there, and nothing more"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1900-11-01

the situation, get nut the brass
bands, and set the fireworks going,
thOagh, of course, il cannot in any
way lessen the majority which is
already assured for Kleberg.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1900-11-01

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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
OUR FLAG

Erstwhilc we loved our starry flag. and
stood beneath 1t, fain
To kiss its folds, as wide unrolled 1t waved
DER hill and plain;
Erstwhile, with lips that smiled, men died
to Keep that flag on high
That flag that ever seemed TO US far less of
earth than sky,
With mornings white, and evenings red.
and nOOntde's cloudless blue
Repeated In the glory of Its colors; tint and
hue
AS strong as are our mountains. as deep as
are our waves,
Great flag, that floats above our homes, and
DER our soldiers graves.
Erstwhic We thought we cared for 1t, our
banner of the stars,
And probably c0nned that galaxy and those
pellucid bars;
But now We love it better, and IRE thrilled
with dearcr joy,
And sweetcr songs were learning. and we
count 1t brave employ
To tell our children of the men who In the
BATTLES van
Have borne our flag for freedom and the
lifting up of man;
To tell them of our sailors who have once
again at sea
Shown NIL the world how fearless our mari
ners can be;
Erstwhile we loved our starry lag, today
from shore to shore
We stand beneath 1t reverently, and love
our God the more.
westward the star of Empire" was what
we used to say.
But we are learning now to frame that text
another way,
For eastward drifts our commerce, and east
ward sound our guns,
And eastward we are sending our most
heroic sons.
Our liberty beneath the law we'll send the
ancient East,
And the strong spirit of our West, to work
live heavens yeast;
Our flag shall mean the breaking Of the age.
worn letters there,
Our Dug shall carry love and hope for hatred
and despair.
Erstwhile we loved our cOuntry's flag, bap-
tiled in blood and fire,
To-day we almost worship it-fag of the
worlds desire!
Jehovah guard 1t eyermore. and keep II pure
of Stain,
Jehovah give us wisdom still, right counsel
to maintain.
Let every little child to-day, and every gray
haired man,
Be swift for that dear flag of stars to do
whate'er he can;
And young and old, and rich and poor, and
South and North together
Join hands. to hold that banner high
through all the worlds rough weather;
God bless 1t, whersoe'er 1t fonts, from mast
head or from spire,
God guard 1t everm0re, our hag.-fag of the
worlds desire.
-Woman's Home Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
Snake Imprisoned in . Tree,

The Rev. s. s. Grain, in the city to-
day from Emberson, reported pecu-
liar incident. He had w. NJ. Fears, liv-
ing on the Jesse Caviness place, cutting
posts for him few days ago. At the
end of one Of the pieces of post timbers
was hollow fork. When the cut was
split open a little black snake about
two feet long was found In the hollow.
1t was alive and writhed and squirm-
ed, but could not escape. 1t was dis
covered that an inch and half of the
tail projected through the wood on the
outside Of the bark. The fork of the
tree had completely grown around II.
The supposition is that the snake
crawled into the hollow to hibernate.
that its tail got caught in crack of
the fork and that 1t grew over him
while he remained in the torpid state.
The wood had so thoroughly grown
around the snakes body that when the
chip was split open in which 1t was
encased the snake stuck to one side of
the chip. The snake must have been
held in its peculiar prison for years
Dallas News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
cUEER FISHING in JAM AGA.
You Pound on the Boat with a Gu
anil They Jn,nr Aboard

You Pound on the Boat with Club
AMI They Jump Aboard.
A gentleman who has returned from
Kingston. Jamaica, tells how they
catch red snappers." All you need in
the way of Tickle is club, with which
you beat a tattoo on the side Of your
boat. This seems to charm the fish SO
that they leave their native element
and jump aboard In schools, almost
swapping the boat sometimes. Here
is his account:
~ have just returned from Kings
ton. .Jamaica." said he. "where saw
many interesting things. chief among
them-to an ardent fisherman like my
self-being the method of taking the
red snapper, large fish common to the
waters around that island. Soon after
my ARRIVAL heard how the natives
caught these fish with clubs. which
seemed either to attract or alarm the
fish so much that they jumped out of
the wafer in all directions and many
fell into the boat.
'In order to prove the truth or false
ness of the account to my own salts
faction ! made arrangements with one
nf tn. native fishermen to take me with
lin on one of his midnight excursions,
i'll the fishing there being done at night
an account OF the heat.
''rhr ninpn was high when we start
I'd for liz Huhing grounds, couple Of
nliies outside Kingston harb9r. Az
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
Fourth is celebrated in the smaller towns.

The Declaration of Independence is not
back number" in the village celebra-
ton. 1t is listened to devoutly. When
the school teacher or the prettiest girl OF
the best elocutionist reads the long recital
of the wrongs and usurpations of the
present king of Great Britain" the old
patriotic thrill goes through the hearts of
the old men and the women and the chill
dren. To them it is still an axiom that
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just power from the con-
sent of the governed" And when the
conclusion is reached, that grand climac-
teric of the sublime state paper, "And for
the support of this declaration and n firm
reliance on the protection of divine provi-
dence we mutually pledge to each other,
our lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honor" great and genuine cheer goes
up. To the accompaniment of the church
organ WHICH is ON the platform the choir
sings patriotic songs.
The singing is genuine and hearty.
Then the orator. Whose soul would not
swell within in him in this patriotic en-
yironment? If he is from the artificial
life of the city the genuineness of the
occasion must move him to genuine ut
terance and his soul flies to his lips. He
surprises himself with the true eloquence
eisat moves him. 1t is called great
- sch." The man who could not make
great speech under such influences is
hit for treason, strategem and spols. II
there is any love of country within him
it must come out.
There are sports and firecrackers and
fireworks of course The thew hovv ie
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
Life of Laborers on Beer Farm.

The native laborers on the Boer
farms often thirty or forty miles from
the nearest village-have hard times
compared to their brethren who work
in the dorp Gown; they are badly fed,
badly housed, and too often treated as
If they were cattle. One often won
ders why an ill-used family Of Kaflrs
does not pack up Its few cooking pots
and leave a cruel master; but the real
reason Of the Kafirs' submission is that
they are always induced to make agree.
ment to serve for certain time-per-
haps year or two years-and If they
go away within that period they can be
brought back, beaten, and put in the
tronk las the jail is called). The only
food given Kafirs on the farms is
mealies CORN, Of which they make a
very coarse flour and then boil into a
thick porridge: and perhaps once a
week they get a piece of mutton as a
treat for specially hard work.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04

Welshman; the others We're born in the
colonies. Not of the same occupation,
either, for "a lawyers, IA farmers, mer-
chants, 4 physicians, gospel minister
and i manufacturer were there. Not rep
resenting the interest of single State,
but of thirteen separate little govern
ments, torn by longings, fears and dis
sensions. On the right of the chairman
sat Benjamin Franklin, with his soft hair
flowing down his shoulders. Farther on
was Thomas Jefferson, the writer of the
document on the table, now busy taking
notes of the proceedings. Directly in
front sat young Richard Lee, who had
risen days before to read to the hushed
assembly the daring resolution, THAT
these united colonies are and of right
ought to be free and Independent states,
and that all political connection between
us and the state of Great Britain is and
ought to be totally dissolved
Here, in their quaint attire, with pow.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
Gro HE great independence debate was |
held with closed doors and no rec.

ND HE great independence debate was
held with closed doors and no rec
q ord Of the speeches made was kept,
because it was felt that in case Of the
capture of any one Of the members of
the body that King George would have
him strung up speedily in case there was
written evidence that he had spoken
against the Supremacy of. the crown.
For many months the colonists had
been carrying OH brave, unequal strug-
gle with the mother country. But that
struggle had been as loyal subjects of the
English king, in arms only as against GER
tain acts Of injustice. Now that other
conception, at first passed in hushed
whispers from man to nun and later set
ringing through the colonies by the elo-
Quence of Patrick Henry and the logic
of Thomas Paine, that glorious concep-
stion of American independence was be-
ing finally weighed in the balance against
the claims of George Ill.
And yet all knew there were grave
difficulties in the way Of independence.
Many would have known it better could
they have stood within the east room of
the old statehonse through the long hours
of that hot July day. There sat the
Continental Congress, now pale faced,
grim and cnreworn.
Up to 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that
Fourth of July, 1776, American indepen-
dence hung in the balance. How eyes
and thoughts We're turned that summer
day to the old statehouse at Philadel-
phia! Would the body of men gathered
there take the step? Would they dare
to do it?
At the east side of the chamber on a
dais sat the presiding officer in his red
leather chair. Before him was large
mahogany table, ON which massive ink
stand of silver held bunch of fresh
quilts. document then under discus
sion lay beside it. The men who were
to use the quilts that day in making that
document, Americas Magma Charta, :"
were grouped about in semi-circle.
They were not men of the same nation
atty, for among them were two English
men, three Trishmen, two Scotchmen, one
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
taken. Secretary Thomas arose and an

taken. Secretary Thomas arose and an.
nounced to the assembled Congress the
final decision and sat down. Suddenly
the chamber, but now so full of words, of
gestures, of flushing eyes and Of impas-
stoned figures, is hushed, and those with
i'll 1t motionless; almost the rapid heart
beats can be heard. Then, in geograph-
ical order, the members signed the paper.
The big bell that had been mufiled to
toll on the passing Of the stump act
(Which the people declared was the
death knell of liberty'O now rang the
out the world, unto all the inhabitants
thereof" SO plain July came to be the
great Fourth of July. And though the
event took place little late in the day
for full celebration, yet good use was
made of the hours that remained, and Of
several days that followed, too, for joy
full recognition of Independence day.
Philadelphia had the start in all this
and showed her rejoicing in illumina-
tons, the ringing of bells and firing Of
cannon. But slowly the glad tidings crept
over the colonies. So slowly it seems to
us in this day of rapid communication.
Copies of the declaration had to be sent
out by riders-men tearing madly through
the colonies upon loan despatched
steeds, yet unable to do in days for this
great message what n moment will ac-
-complish for n prize fight report to-day.
But it was rapid work for those times,
and n rider stopping on his way to de-
liver one of those precious copies would
he. as an old chronicler tells us, '.at once
furnished with fresh horse and dis
patched on his way" How the discom-
forts of the body must have been forgot
then by such news carrier! Here and
there, where the express" stopped, he
broke up grave assemblies. whose men,
bers, putting all else aside, gave them
selves up to the great document. Then
would follow great meetings in the square
where to the sound of flies and drums all
the kings arms, his pictures and all signs
of his tyrannical majesty would be hurled
into the leaping flames amid cheers and
ringing of bells.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04

The postofiice at Enod has been re-es-
tablished.
II. NJ. Bray of Grinnell lost four fine
steers by lightning.
c. L. Clayton has been commissioned
postmaster at Hardin.
Council Bluffs has several cases of scar
let fever and diphtheria.
Work will be commenced soon on Shen-
andoah's new school building.
Sixty degrees We're conferred upon
graduates of Drake University.
The President has commissioned F. L.
Wellman as postmaster at Monona.
So far this year $62S has been collect
ed for dog taxes in Council Bluffs.
The Supervisors of Webster County
are receiving bids for the erection of q
new court house.
Mrs. f. NJ. Spainhower of Fort Dodge
was badly burned by n gasoline stove ex-
plosion.
A barn on the premises of Joel Stew.
art at Grinnell was struck by lightning
and burned.
Mrs. Christina Snyder of Creston has
been elected president of the Woman's
Relief Corps.
The next annual convention of the An
cient Order of Hibernians will be held a,
Council Bluffs.
The liquor seized in the drug store al
Fairfield recently has been condemned
and destroyed.
There is talk of organizing bank al
Hillsboro with capital of $1,000.
a species of tent worm is destroying
fruit trees in the vicinity Of Lamont.
Mrs. George Hurst Of Calvin has gone
insane and has been taken to the hos
pital for treatment. Her case is thought
to be hereditary.
A large quantity of stolen goods has
been found at Lorimer and is being held
awaiting Identification.
Mrs. II. A. Lane of Waterloo has ask.
ed to be divorced from her husband and
granted Sill 900 alimony.
Mrs. Cyrus Burnett, near Burnside
fell, breaking the femur near the hiI
joint and dislocating it at the joint.
The new chapel at the Drake Univer
, sity at Des Moines has been dedicated.
The Iowa State Bankers Association
held their annual meeting in Des Moines
Fort Dodge is overrun with Mormon
missionaries who make personal-visits t,
, all houses and distribute literature by tn,
barrel. They are not meeting with an,
encouragement.
John Rummel, a farmer living two ant
one-half miles south of Ticonic, commit
ted suicide by taking paris green. II,
died short time after taking the drug
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
sac eor AER eoT1Lg oF lux.

But the Parcel Was Big Enough to
Contain a Safe.
One woman who lives in Pine avenue
went shopping. This happened last
Monday. She left her home with purple
plumes in her bonnet, and she lost not
one Of them in her trip downtown.
She had read an advertisement in a
Sunday newspaper. 1t told her that she
could buy bottle of ink for cent.
The woman bought the ink for a penny
and asked that 1t be delivered to her
home. The clerk said nothing. Neither
did the man in the parcel-room. He
worked by himself. Delivering penny
purchase was ripe walnuts to the man.
Next day wagon with silk hated
man on the drivers seat and freckle.
faced boy as tiger on the rear step
rolled up in front of the house in Pine
avenue.
The freckle-faced lad ran up the
steps and crushed the electric button
with a thumb which he had used but a
few moments before in shooting
craps" This game. by the way. is one
of chance. He held in his arms a box
of goodly size. The woman of the house
opened the door.
Mrs. So and So?" asked the boy with
the freckles.
EYES," was the woman's reply.
Kindly receipt this slip"
why, have nothing coming in such
bulk" the woman said.
But you are So and So?" the free
killed. boy inquired.
Yes" declared the woman, "but
there must be mistake"
However. the box was taken to the
Kitchen and opened with sledge and
hammer. Excelsior was strewn upon
the floor in the woman's wild endeavor
to solve the secret of the Enclosure. II
chung In yellow strands about the pipes
of the sink, pulled Its way into the door
leading to the wild roses in the back
yard and clogged the passage to the
dining-room.
Then the woman in Pine avenue
found her 1-cent bottle of ink. 1t wos
in The center Of this great wad of shay.
ings.
The manin the parcel-room was one of
Jest and merriment. He rolled nonsense
into joke and enjoys the fun. even If
1t did cost penny or two more to the
firm.-Chicago Chronicle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
a Fin.eie.siecle Church

The rector Of st. Mary-at-Hiu
Church, Monument (the Rev. w. Car
lile), in whose church the electrophone
has for some time been installed, is
now arranging for, the introduction of
a large gramophone. to be used at the
1:15 o'clock daily limellght service in
the church. By means of the gramo-
phone the congregation-wholly com.
posed Of city merchants and clerks
will hear brief addresses from the lead.
ing dignitaries Of the church and from
a number Of prominent laymen.-Lon.
don Globe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
OF INTEREST IN IOWA
A DIARY OF NOTEWORTHY HAP
PENiNGS.
Changes in Salaries of Postmasters-A
Lunatic Commits Murder and Suicide
smothercd by caving Gravel
Grasshoppers Destroy Crops.

In Iowa the pay of the postmasters at
the following cities win be increased:
From $1,000 to $780, Des Moines; 3d.
200 to $500, Dubuque; $1,000 to So, 100,
KGokuk; $4,000 to $1,000; Ottumwa; 81
800 to $4,000, Marshalltown; $2,IOO to
$500, Waterloo; $500 to $1,000, Fort
Dodge, Oskaloosa; $2,400 to $500, Ma
son City; $500 to $2,40O, Cedar Falls,
Creston, Boone, Webster City; $1,000 to
$2,40O, Lyons; $4,000 to $1,000, Mount
Pleasant, Newton; $500 to $4,000, In
dependence, Atlantic, Charles City, Fair
field; $1,000 to $2,100, Clarinda, Shen-
andoah; $1,900 to $1,000, Algona, Ames,
Charlton, Emmetsburg, Iowa Falls, Ma
quoketa, Usage, Perry; $1,SOO to $1,000,
Denison; $1.S00 to $1,000, Baskerville,
Indianola, Waverly; 81, 100 to $1,SQO, AL
bia, Eagle Grove, Missouri Valley, Del
vein; $1,000 to $1,70O, Humboldt, Ida
Grove, New Hampton, Osceola, Pella,
Rock Rapids, Sac City, Tama; 900 to
$1,000, Colfax, Logan, Monticello, Mt.
Ayr, Odebolt, Sibley, Sigourney; $1.40O
to $1,000, Avoca, Ackley, Belmond,
Brooklyn, GAINESVILLE, Pennington,
Greenfield, Nashua, Nora Springs, Rock
well City, Sioux Rapids, Woodbine; ST.
300 to $1,50o, Reinbeck; 81, 300 to 81, 400,
Lansing, Lake Mills, Alta, Dyersville,
Keosaqun, Hartley, Malvern, Manning,
Montezuma, Moulton, AIclbn, Ogden,
Rock Valley, Seymour, Correctionville,
Sidney; $1,000 to 81, 400, Sumner, Tabor;
$1,000 to 81 300, Akron, Bellevue, BOWS,
Eldon. Laurens, New Sharon, Parkers-
burg, Rockford; 81 100 to 1,400, Manila;
ST. 100 to $1,000, Armstrong, Bonaparte,
Buffalo Center, Dexter, Dysart, Glad
brooke, Keota, Kingsley, Newell, Scran-
ton, State Center. Walnut; 81 900 to ST.
200, Paulina; $1,000 to $1.100, Alden.
Battle Greek, Cascade, Corwith, Madrid,
Monona, Morning Sun, Rockwell, West
Branch, Sutherland. Decreases-$2, 400
to $1,000, Red Oak; $1,000 to $1,000,
Manchester; $500 to $1,7OO, Anamosa;
$1,000 to $1,500, Lisbon; 1.4O0 to ST.
800. Elkader; $1,000 to 81 200, Sanborn;
81. 200 to SLIGO. Prairie CITY.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04

soon as we got there my boatman
ceased rowing and peered round for
signs Of the fish. Suddeny he whis-
pered and pointed to spot where the
otherwise calm surface was ruff1ed, as
If by sudden squat.
"Squall or fish, 1t was gradually APP
proaching, and presently the ripples
were all round the boat. Now, massa
Buckra, start de racket, cried my boat
man, ut the same time commencing a
loud tattoo on the side of the boat with
his club. followed suit, and in an in
slant the air seemed to be full of fish,
coming from all points of the compass.
Zone big fellow struck me in the chest
and knocked me fiat on my back in the
bottom of the boat, where l lay fioun-
dering among the fish that had fallen
aboard.
ut was some moments before
could scramble to my feet. When L did
so. the school had passed on and the
flight was over. At least score of the
snappers had fallen on board. They
were large fish, resembling sea bass,
except in color. which. instead of being
black, was red.
During the night we ran into sew
eral more schools, and the same per.
Torrance was repeated, excepting that
/ kept my seat and did not again min
gle with the fish in the bottom of the
boat.
ION the way back to Kingston
asked the darky fisherman how they
first discovered this method OF taking
the red snapper. He could tell me moth
ing about 1t; all he could say being:
Him take dat way long time, massa.'
Il heard later that Chinaman was
the first to discover that red snap.
per could be persuaded to leave its
native element at the sound of club
applied to boats side, but how he
found 1t out nobody seemed to know
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04
Judicial Respect for Cash,

Counterfeiting was once punishable
by death in England, fact which led
Judge in passing sentence on man
convicted of that crime to say: 81 can
hold out to you no hope of mercy here
and must urge you to make prepare.
ton for another world, where hope
you may obtain that mercy which a
due regard for the credit of our paper
currency forblds YOU to hope for now"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-04

boys, as well as large assortment of sky
rockets and Roman candles. Some of the
crackers were of the giant variety. He
cautioned his boys not to touch any OF
them until he gave them to them on the
Fourth, and he put them away in the
china closet in n shirt box. Then he went
to the office. No one but an amateur in
faith would have done such thing, but
Mr. Podgers thought he knew his boys
They were such good little fellows!
For one whole day the boys withstood
the strain, but the next afternoon they
decided it would do no harm just to peep
into the box. 1t was wonderful! Such
an array they had not even dreamed of.
Teddy handled one Of the big crackers
carefully.
81 wonder how much noise it will
maker he said.
"Oh. awful lot said 10. Won't it
be fun!'
YES" said Ted wonder if we
mightn't just try one?"
YES" said 10; you go ahead and do
it. Papa won't care for one.'
So Ted got match. and 10 lighted the
cracker. That was all in the china closet.
Lets take 1t out in the yard" said 10.
Dill JuSL luen MT. ~ uSerS Unopened 10
come home. The boys heard his tread in
the hall.
PUT it back. quick!' exclaimed 10;
maybe papa wouldn't like it,
SO they put it back.
In a moment there was terrific explo-
sion in the china closet. Then another
Then the closet seemed to grow too small
for the noise. Dishes began to dash
around its interior in wild ecstasy. 1t was
like cross between a boiler factory and
an earthquake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Podgers rushed to the
scene. A few skyrockets were still gyrat-
ing in confinement.
Two very quiet little boys stood outside
the closet door.
Mr.. Podgers stood silent a moment, and
Teddy looked up into his face doubtfully
'They's good firecrackers, papa" was
all he said
And his father went out to find linn
her pine board.
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