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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

being filed with hay to keep the pump
from freezing. This is not difficult
job, and the results are often worth q
great deal during single winter even.
The pump can be lowered again for
summer use If desired, setting the ele-
waited platform away for use again the
following winter. Where water can he
run Into the barn in the way suggested,
1t will, On standing while, acquire the
temperature of the barn, being then
much more suitable for cows to drink,
while the latter will also be saved the
exposure to cold winds.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Plant Corn Early.

Experiments at the Indiana station
for six years in succession indicate that
corn planted the first week in May
gives the heaviest yield. During the
same series of tests 1t was shown that
three inches is as deep as the cult.
vator should be run in corn fields at any
time. The yields on plats cultivated
two inches deep We're about us heavy
as on any of the others. There seems
TO be but little difference between hill
and drill planting.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Scrape off the rough bark Of apple
trees. Thus you destroy the chance of
the beetles or fiat-headed borers find
Ing a lodging in which later to lay eggs
and trouble. You can destroy 200 OF
more tent caterpillars on apple trees
now about as easy as you can kill n
single worm i'll June. Their nests en-
circle the twigs near the ends, and on a
sunny day they can easily be seen. Clip
and busn.-Nick's Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Judge Bishop, at Des Moines, decided
that If person buys milk with the
knowledge that 1t contains boracic acid
or any harmless article put In 1t for the
purpose Of preserving the milk, there
is not adultertion, and that the statute
does not apply, but that If harmful
article should be added, or If boracic
acid was put in and the milk sold with
out giving notice of its use, it would
amount to adulteration in the meaning
of the statute. In the case under con-
sideration the purchaser had full
knowledge Of the fact that boracic acid
was used
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Tho Diving Spider.

There is nothing new in the diving
bell. Long before man thought he IN.
vented it. the water spider knew nil
about 1t. The water spider shins down
reed, dragging his diving bell with
him, and anchors 1t under water on on a
level keel, so that the air 1t contains
keeps the water out. When this mir he.
comes foul the spider swims to the ton
captures bubble with a flirt OF its
tall and carries 1t down to the bell for
future reference. There the spider
lives in snug comfort and no storm dis.
turbs his lowly home.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Heirs to Maxl,a,n Estate.

By the settlement of the Markham es-
tate at Vineland, N. j., valued Mt $780,
900, Charles Roe of Arlington and Cory
Atwood of Strawberry Point, both farm
ers, have started for their homes, each
with 100000 in cash, checks and securl.
ties, representing the shares of their
wives, nieces of B. ID. Maxham. The
two farmers also bring back with them
about 100000 to give to Daniel S.
Markham of Strawberry Point as his
share of the fortune of Il. u. Markham,
who was his brother.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Child Drowned at VIVA. Cheer.

Freer Rushford, the 3-ycar-old son Of
VIM. Rushford. coal miner living at the
old Cheyenne mining camp near What
Cheer, fell into sink hole and was
drowned. Sink holes are places where
the coal has been removed and the sur
face caved in. These holes are usually
six or eight feet in depth md the recent
rains have filed many of them with
water.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

AT Clinton the body of man was
found among the logs of raft which
was brought from Saltwater, Mimi,
about two weeks before. 1t is believed
the man was drowned Mt that place. a
photograph, silver watch and n small
amount of money was found in the pock-
cts, but nothing which would indicate his
idoufifv
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

A Louisiana correspondent of the
New York Sun notes an interesting in
dustrial change that Is rapidly taking
place in certain sections of the South.
The advent of Belgian, German, Dutch
and French immigrants is changing the
agricultural status, especially in Louisi-
ana. These newscomers are thrifty and
practical farmers and truck gardeners,
accustomed to make the most of every
square foot of their ground. The great
plantations of other days are being
broken up into small farms averaging
thirty acres, for which the Belgian Is
willing to pay $40 an acre. Under the
old one-crop system the planter was
content II lie got II gross income of $40
or $50 a year per acre from his cotton
or corn. The Belgian thinks himself ill
used II he does not get 500 year, and
he often gets 5000. This lie does by n
constant rotation of crops of every sort
The Sun correspondent says these new
( Inhabitants are prospecting so well and
are increasing so rapidly that they are
changing the whole economic aspect of
Southern agricultural interests. They
are producing the early vegetables,
strawberries, fruits, and melons that
now come In increasing quantities from
the South, and at the same time they
are crowding out the negro. Their in
tense, patient, and ceaselcss industry
has nothing in common with the easy
going ways of the colored population
II they. hire help they want men drilled
in the hard European school, who are
willing to work from daylight to dark
every day In tile week and to live as
frugally MS themselves. In such n sys-
tenn the negro cannot hold his own and
is being crowded back upon the plan
tations where the old and shiftless
methods still prevail. Apparently the
blacks of the South ure in immediate
contact with an important phase Of the
immigration movement.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

A hint of the next fad or fashion in a
curative way may be found in an ex-
pertinent performed at Bellevue Hos
pital in New York. A physician named
Sprague has Invented an oven, which
bears his name, and into which the
patient Is insertcd-all except his head
and subjected to a temperature which
under other circumstances would suf-
fee for n barbecue. The heated air is
withdrawn as rapidly as 1t becomes
laden with the perspiration of the pa
tient, and the process is further encour-
aged by giving the victim constant sips
of water. After lie has been baked
long enough TO be well done he is
taken out, rolled In heavy blankets, and
finished off with vigorous massage.
1t may be called concentrated form
of the Turkish bath. If there is any
sort of badness which DR.. Sprague's
apparatus will not draw out of man 1t
must be of a kind that needs preacher
rather than doctor.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

The Supreme Court has confirmed the
title to $4,000 acres of land in the present
owners. Three children OF John Irving
OF Nebraska Cty--Eltzs Il. Hawlpy.
Sarah f. Lane and Samuel b. Irving
were the appellants in the cases decided
by the court, and were seeking to cstab-
fish a rule by which they might come into
possession of 10000 acres of $50 land in
northwestern Iowa and 10000 acres of
$35 land in eastern Nebraska by setting
aside the tax titles by which the property
passed out of tho Irving estate in 1865.
Irving bought unimproved prairie land,
$4,000 acres of which he allowed to be
sold for tnxes. His children sought to es-
tablish that he was insane and that the
Inv protected his right to redeem. The
courts, District and Supreme, held that
Irving was not insane and his failure to
redeem within one year after the same
was made confirms the title to the land III
the owners.
Federal Law Invoked Against Tramps.
The United States grand jury for the
central division of the southern district of
Iowa is of the opinion that it is crime
against the statutes of the United States
for n tramp, or for that matter for amy
other person, TO steal ride on the trucks
of Il passenger train carrying United
States mails. Henry b. Miller and G. IL.
Clcary of Lucas County are the unfortu-
Mates who are TO be held up to the army
of tramps as horrible examples. They
We're indicted for delaying n mail train.
The Indictment charges that in Lucas
County they swung under n car and on
the trucks of Burlington mail train
and that it was necessary to stop the
train to put them off. II is claimed that
after being put off the first time they got
OIL the trucks and were once more nut off
and that the performance was repeated a
third time. Each time. it is charged, it
was necessary to stop the train and al
together it is claimed that the train was
delayed fifteen minutes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Electric Clock in Londo,

An electric clock has been erected on
the southeast side of Picadilly circus,
London. Electric lamps are fixed
along the moving hands, and there are
electric stars fixed at each figure. The
clock is worked on the Synchronome
syndicate's system in conjunction with
n number of other clocks.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Tom Taylor. a wcll-known lawyer,
stood upon the steps of the postoffice at
Dunlap and as Il. H. Barrett, school
director passed by Taylor fred half a
dozen shots at him. Two balls pierced
the legs and third lodged in the groin.
Barrett was carried home on stretcher
suffering great agony. Tnylor's grown
son took the revolver away from his fifth
err. AT the last meeting of the school
board Taylors daughter fniled of re-elec-
ton and Taylor is supposed to have har-
bored the idea that Barrett was account
able Taylor is in Jail.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

No difficulty is experienced in making
out a rather imposing list of Chicago
millionaires who have removed to New
York. 1t would be easy to make up n
like list Of New York millionaires who
have removed to European capitals.
The reason for the removal is perfectly
plain. Chicago is poor place for an
idle man. New York is better, London
and Paris are best. In the latter cites
being idle constitutes recognized &C.
cupation. provided one has enough
money. Hence eastward the million
alre takes his why, and the richer he is
the farther he goes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

As against the statements that the
Philippine climate is not fit for a white
man to live in, we have tile testimony
of the paymaster at Iloilo, who says he
has in his hands over 100000 deposit
ed by American soldiers who intend,
when their term of enlistment has ex-
PRED, to settle In the islands and take
advantage of the numerous business
opportunities there.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

The United States now sends to other
countries every year more than 200.
000, 900 bushels of Indian corn. That is
probably the largest item in the whole
worlds international provision trade,
and one Of Americas most valuable
material gifts to mankind.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
To pumn water Into tic n. :,

Some pumps need only little e!eva-
tlon to make it possible to run the
water by a spout right into the barn,
where the cattle can drink without
being exposed to cold or storms. The
cut shows pump raised and the ele-
waited platform boxed in, the interior
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Cash Deposttor,e,

One small boy-My papa puts tie
money he don't give to mother in cot.
fee pot.
Other small boy Mine don't; he nut.
1t in a Jackpot. heard mother sax 60
Detroit Free Press. 80
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Ex-Quecn Lii announces that she is
going to move out of this country and
never come back again. Now Is the
time for all good Americans to give her
hearty cheer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

carrying Goals to Newcastleo is no
longer joke. Some of the 100000
tons of American coal contracted for
by Walter PARROT, a London banker, is
destined for the town which was SO
long the coal center Of Great Britain.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

If people who tell stories. would not
always begin by saying they are good
or funny there would be fewer disap-
pointments in this void.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

More tree-planting is always desra7
BILE. AS it is the wood game of this
country has been nearly killed off. 1t
would be terrible If finally we had to
go hunting for forests.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

A pair of Kentucky clippers locked the
brides father In church while they
hurried to the altar. 1t is hoped that
the old gentleman said or thought moth
Ing Inappropriate to the place.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

A girl in Jersey City killed herself be-
cause she believed what fortune-tell-
er told her. 1t did not occur to her that
1t was dependent ON herself what would
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

The prevalence OF strikes would
seem to indicate that capital and labor
need n Give and let live" wage COM
mittee.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

We never seem to think it odd that
the man who needs work cannot afford
to indulge in loaf.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Talking of the strength of trusts.
Name one If you can stronger than that
combination of limburger cheese max
ers in New York State.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

pfOpofllU,l IN breast
and body generally.
The Enbden are
W Ii / t e, somewhat
longer in the leg. but
possessi ny ma II y
c h cteri S tico
worthy of attention.
Both of these breeds
r.. ~, -,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
any good The South African war has
simply been the making of the Amerl
can mule. j
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

When man is referred to now as "a
veteran of the war; 1t is necessary to
specify the war--civil, Spanish or Ken
lucky.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

A curious thing about baseball is that
the umpire who does the least growl-
ing is the one that has to wear muz-
Zle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

If a woman faints while being fitted
at the dressmaker's. she is immenselv
proud Of It, and never loses M opportu-
nifty Of telling 1t.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

The helm Ia but little thing, vet IT
governs the course Of The ship,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

EMBDEN GOOSE. necessary In geese.
The Chinese are pretty" perhaps, III
point of fea her, but as table bird
they do not compare with either OF
those named above.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Some men consider themselves horn
leaders but no one considers himself o
horn follower.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

The most popular breeds of geese are
the Toulouse, Embden and Chinese.
The first namel are gray, of excellent
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Msrrisd Women in Portugal
In Portugal married women retain
their maiden names.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23


We have noticed in time of peril that
the man who believes his soul is saved
gets as scared as one whose soul isn't
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

The plain people of this country have
had an elegant sufticiency--a surfeit, in
fact-of PUERTO"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Shorthorn Bull.
The Shorthorn bull Duke of Barring
ton SD 1880 is n red, calved October,
1898, got by Western Lad 1876 dam
Duchess of Darlington 10th by Duke

of harrington 10th, 65s5e. He was ored
and exhibited by Mr.. r. II. Dyke, Ban
bury, Oxfordshire, England. He won
the first prize of 100 in his class at the
recent Birmingham Shorthorn Show,
and was sold for $40 gulneas, or pearly
SO 700
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

The man who itches for fame hns ~
40 as q lot OF scratching before no seH
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

1t is all right to talk about mothers
devotion, but why isn't more said about
a fathers fidelity?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Magistrates are said to impose fines
ind the defendants usually regard it as
an imposition.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

When Horace Fletcher proposed a
complete neral quarantine for waits.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23


expired Immediately. Heart disease was
the attributed cause of his death.
Joe Ward, n stranger at Marshalltown,
had leg badly lacerated in the accor-
deon pleats of vestibule car while steal
ing ride.
The body of n child was raked up in
the river bed at Dubuque by clam dredg-
ers, Just below the city dump. There was
no odor and it is thought that the body
had been in the water only short time.
Mrs. Henry Krack of Davenport has
sued the Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany Mt Marshalltown for $4,000 dam
ages for the death of her husband, who
was killed by the bursting of steam
pipe last New Years day.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
extended the corporate existence of the
First National Bank of New Hampton
until May 3, 1920.
During the month of April S5,331 cars
passed over the Northwestern Railway
Company bridge at Clinton, pulled by
2,1S1 engines, making total Of 37,512.
During the same period 211 boats passed
through the drawbridge.
Charles Essex, charged with wrecking
the Burlington fast mail train last fall,
was acquitted at his second trial at Char.
iton. He was Immediately rearrested OH
Federal warrant charging him with
obstructing the United States mail and
taken to Des Moines.
Gold has again been discovered in pes
Moines County, and the owner of the
large farm near Mediapolis where the
find was made will work The claim, as
he is convinced that it is in paying guam
titles.
Sixteen thousand dollars to local and
national religious and charitable instit,,
tions form the requests of the will OF the
late w. r. Bentley of Dies Aloines. The
local Y. NJ. G. "A. comes in for 5000;
Congregationalism in Iowa receives ST..
600: foreign missions nre richer by 49,.
600, and American missions receive 49,.
600 from, the fortune of the man WHO
! was ouch all ardent worker and contrib.
| utor to them while alive
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
Heirs 70 Great Wealth.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Is heir to
more millions than any other young
man in the country to-day. He is not
yet % and his whole life has been a
preparation for the enormous task of
caring for the estate. Theodore A.
Havemeyer. Jr.. is the heir of the Have
meyer millions and will be worth close
upon S5oo00.000 In spite of this he
works every day at his office in Wall
street and for recreation plays golf and
polo. He is married and is a member
OF several of the smart clubs During
the present century the Gould fortune
viii be pretty well cnt up. for there
are many heirs. the richest of whom
win be kingdom Gould. George Gould's
eldest. Az present George Gould's rat
Ing is $4,000. 600 kingdom Gould,
though mere child, speaks German
and French and knows considerable
about yachting.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
Trade and Industry.

About 2.0O0. 100000 bicycles have been
made in Europe and America.
Kansas has 300 flour mills, with ca
pacity of 100000 barrels year.
The coal famine in Germany is lessen
ing the output of pig iron materially
a, f. Nathan of Kansas City is plan
ming to build smelling works 10 combat
the trust.
The wholesale price Of English shoes
laid down in Sweden averages from 81 90
to 1888 pair.
France consumes SO, O0O. 900 gaIloss Of
wine annually, equal to 24.25 gallons per
capita of population.
The proposed ocean cable from Copen-
hagen to Iceland will be 4O4 miles long
and cost about $S50,000
1t is estimated that the losses By bust
ness failures during the last ten years
amounted to 81 800, 000, 900, which is over
twice the amount of the country's c5rcu-
lating medium.
Child labor in North Carolina mills has
decreased 80 per cent in the LAST ten
Years
Susnter, s. c., has a factory for making
golf sticks OF persimmon timber. II Is
claimed they are the best that can be
made
Walnut logs % to % inches ia diameter
are worth from sos to Sis a thousand
feet in Rotterdam. Poplar is wori. S3S.
white oak S45 and hickory ssh
A bill has been introduced in the Brit
ish House of Commons By Sir Charles
Dixie, John Burns and others for the es-
adjustment Of wages board to FIX the
rate Of wages to be paid In particular
trades.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
(To be continued.)


An Englishman and his wife sat near
me in cafe on the avenue the day
before yesterday. | knew they were
English as soon as | saw his coat and
her hair Even If l had not seen these
two Enthusiastically English Thugs, l
should have guessed their nationality
from name they gave to an American
dish The man was ordering luncheon.
II don't see it on the bill of fare" he
said to the waiter, but bring me some
flute corn if you have it,"
Flute corn?" repeated the waiter, in
surprise.
Yes" said the Englishman, "fute
corn"
The waiter still hesitated
Why went on the Englshman,
don't You haze it? The sort of corn,
you know, that one eats like playing
the flute"
And as delicate euphemism for corn
on the cob. think flute corn" can
hardly be surpassed. Correspondence
Washington Post