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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-06-14

WEATHER PRoBABILITIEs,-For this Sec
ton unsettled weather with occasional show
ers tonight and Saturday; light variable
winds,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-06-14
Stops the Cough
DP"
and Works OF the Cold.

Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a
cold In one day, No Cure, no Pay. Price
20 cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-06-14
Girls Summer
Clothing.

Clothing.
This department Of Girls and Misses Ready
to-wear Clothing offers suitable apparel for
all occasion at most reasonable prices.
Misses White Pique Blouse suits, bias folds
bishop sleeves; gored skirt with three broad
tucks down either side Of front;sizes 10 to 16.
$500 Each.
MisteS Chsmbrsy Suits, broad pique collar;
shield front strapped in clusters Of narrow
bias folds; bishop sleeves; sizes II, ID, and 10
$3.50 Each.
Misses Chsmbray Suits. double breasted
blouse gored skirt with white girdlo; sizes
~ to 10.
$50 Each.
Girls White Duck Russian Blouse Suits
sizes 4 to ~
1926 Each.
Misses Wash Skirts Of Pique, Chsmbray
and crash, suit lble for outing wear with
blouse or shirt waist: % to 80 inches long.
g5c to $3.50 Each.
Mi,ses' Lightweight Venetian 10th Suits
Eton Jacket without color or revers; sizes ID
and 16.
$3.50 Each.
Third floor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-06-14
LACES, YOKINGS. &c.

We showing Lace Department many pretty pieces
Laces, YOkings
WHITE LACE Y0KING $5c SOC 60 &c. 70 and soc yard.
WHITE EMBROIDERY YOKNG, co. 81 49, 81 5 yd
TUCKNG, Soc 80, SO, and 81 10 yard.
PUFRING, 75c and 81 % yard.
BLACK APPLIQUE 15c, &c.,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-06-14
Shirt Waists Reduced.

We place on sale one lot Ladies' Colored
Percale and Madras Shirt Waists. about ten
dozen in all, and these are reduced from SOC,
75c and CSC to
SOC each,
Also one small lot of Ladies' White Shirt
Waists, splendidly made and good quality.
Reduced from 69c, Toe and CSC 10
6Oc each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-06-14

In UnderpriCe Department,
Double.breasted Fancy Mixed
Wool Suits.
Well m'de; very seryicesble oolors-panti
double in seat and knees; sizes 8 to 16.
50 so Each. Value, $500.
Third floor.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
Trees Instenl of seeds.


The Department of Agriculture next
year will vary the garden seed distri-
button with several packages of trees.
Authority for this new departure was
secured at recent session of Congress
and an appropriation was made in the
budget for the coming year. The people
Of this country have been cutting down
the natural forests with SO much reck-
lessness that it las become necessary
to start artificial ones. The division Of
forestry of the Agricultural Depart
ment has made n survey of the coun-
try and has ascertained the particular
trees which thrive best and are most
useful In each locality. According to
the program for the distribution of
trees, next year given number of
seedlings will be allotted to each men,
Der of the House of Representatives,
who will be asked to furnish list of
constituents to whom lie would like to
have them sent. The Agricultural De-
partment will do the rest The seed
lings will be grown in the propagating
houses and forwarded to their destina-
ton, with specific Instructions as to
how they should be planted and cared
for. In this way Secretary Wilson ex-
poets to start several million new trees
growing throughout this country every
ynor
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
Japanese Railway Cars

In cold weather, all japanese travels
ers carry rugs, for the cars are heated
merely by long steel cylinders filed
with hot water and laid on the floor.
Spreading his rug out on the seat--a
Japanese never sits on anything not
perfectly clean-the passenger shakes
off his geta, or wooden clogs and curls
his feet beneath him.
The next move is smoke, in which
both men and women indulge. A tiny
pipe is commonly used, which never
contains more than wisp of tobacco
the size of a pea, and affords not more
than one or two puffs to the smoker.
The ashes are then knocked out on the
floor and another wisp stuffed in and
lighted from the smoldering ashes just
rejected.
AT every station there are vendors Of
the little mandarin oranges. Every
passenger buys dozen or more, and
eats them in a short time, throwing the
skins about the floor. Boys pass by
with ten in tiny earthen pots, cup
placed over the top. The price is three
sen IA cent and half). The teapot is
left in the car.
The japanese throw all sorts of re.
fuse about and the car soon presents a
very untidy appearance, Or would do
so if it were not for the porters, who
come in at odd stations and clean up.
New York Sun.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22


The illustration, from the Breeders
Gazette, shows very satisfactory
shipping crate. Part of the front side
is cut away to show the inside arrange
ment. A good size for pig three
months old is 10 inches in length, %
inches in depth and II inches in width.
For a pig eight weeks old a length Of
80 inches, depth of 10 inches and a
width of nine inches will be about
right. Crates for shipping by express
must be made as light as is safe from
breakage. 1t is not fair to make pur-
chaser of pig two months old pay ex-
press rates on thirty or forty pounds
of crate when they can be made suff1-
GENTLY strong and weigh but half as
much. For ends and bottoms take FIVE
eighths-inch seasoned spruce or other
tough light wood, one-half-inch stuff
for sides and cover, with space between
Stats. In front is trough (T) for feed
and water. Just above is a sloping
board az running to the top, through
which the feed in transit is given. The
upper compartment is provided with a
slide (S) on top, and inside is the bag
OBJ containing the meal and grain fare
ample for the Journey. In cold weather
the sides may be boarded up almost
tight. To pigs weighing seventy-five
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
Brief Comment.

Speaking of deathbed repentance, we
are afraid that that indicated by Con-
gresham Babcock in proposing to free
list trust articles will not save the trust
party. Its long life of tariff rapine can't
be atoned for In that way.-Johnstown
Pa, Democrat.
The Bingley tariff is, as Hanna says,
balanced on scientific principles"
Every fellow got his share of the swag,
scientifically distributed, and sit must
not be disturbed" for obvious reasons.
If one of the brethren is despoiled Of
his share, he will pull down the whole
house Of cards.-Albany Argus.
Tariff reform ought not to be at
tempted in patches. Duties should be
revised and cut down all along the line.
In all places where the tariff enables
the manufacturers Of trust goods to
sell cheaper to the foreigner than to the
home consumer, 1t should be abolished,
and such articles as trusts produce
should be placed on the free list.-Kan.
sas City Times.
There are some general principles
which are not subject to change to
which the Democratic party adheres.
MS the tariff, strict construction Of the
constitution, the liberty of the citizen.
the foundation of which is government
by consent of the governed. These are
always and everywhere sound Demo-
cratic principles. They are perennial.
Dubuque Herald.
With the example of Great Britain's
claim of suzerainty over the Boer re-
publics before us. Senator Beveridge
admits that this is the relation to Cuba
which the administration is seeking
to establish. And 1t seeks 1t under pro-
fession of carrying out pledge for in.
dependence. What mockery! What un.
blushing falsehood! What despicabls
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

Emperor Macmillan. Again the prin-
cess played a part both romantic and
heroic. When the cause for which her
husband fought was lost she moved
heaven and earth to save the life of the
fallen Emperor. But she pleaded, plot
ted and bribed in vain. When her hus-
band was released they went to Ger
many and there the Franco Prussian
war gave her still another opportunity.
To the sick, as usual, she gave all her
time and the benefit of valuable ex-
perience. More than one person saw
old King William stop her in the street
and salute the princess, kissing her
banda slight recognition of her SER
vice. At the battle Of st. Privat her
husband was killed. Now the whilom
harness-maker's daughter, servant and
circus performer, lives in the university
town of Bonn, respected by all for the
heroic deeds.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

The Social Economics Club of Chica-
so has been considering to how low a
point the personal budget of a work.
ing boy or girl or student living at
home can be reduced. Such calcula-
tons have merit in so far as they
teach discrimination in expenditure
and aid persons to live within their
means. In SO far, however, as they
tend to indirse and extend a pinched
standard of living, contends the Trib-
une of that city, or tend to- give the
impression that the primary aim of So
ciety should be to realize and be con-
tent with a low standard of living,
they are not beneficial. Broadly
speaking, civilization consists in the
Increase of production and consump-
ton, both of which interdependent
processes are naturally wholesome and
educative 1t is accordingly desirable
that the propely distributed consump-
ton of commodities should be increas-
ed instead Of decreased, provided pro-
ductive' capacity be not overdrawn.
Nothing could be more obvious, how
ever, than that our productive capacity
is not overdrawn to-day. Notwith-
standing our enormous excess of ex-
ports, 1t Is still one of our great mis-
fortunes that this capacity is not suffi.
GENTLY engaged. The discussion of
ways for eking out life on the narrow
est possible margin may keep itself to
wholesome lines, but it is always in
danger of slipping into that vicious cir
l,cle N which want and idleness are both
condoned. 1t is the problem. of social
craftsmanship to-day to employ stead
lily, according to their capacities and
needs, the casually employed, and
through the gains thus realized ms well
as through more equitable distribu-
ton than now exists Of good things in
general to raise, not lower, the stand-
ard of life among the less well-to-do.
In any effort to deal with that standard
this fundamental problem should be
kept in mind. 1t is also important to
remember that wages should never be
based upon the necessary budget of one
who is boarded at home" without
charge. The person thus subsidized is
constantly depressing the natural level
Of wages. which should never fall to
match all the reasonable living ex-
penses OF the wage-earner.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
Origin of Food Names.

The sandwich is called for the EaA
of Sandwich.
Mulligatawney is from an East In
dian word meaning pepper water.
Waffle is from wafel, a word of leu
tonic origin, nearing honeycomb.
Hominy is from anhuminae, the
North American word for parched corn.
Blanc-mange means literally white
food; hence chocolate blanc-mange is
something of q misnomer.
Forcemeat is n corruption of farce
meat, from the French farce, stuffing
i. e.. meat for stutfing.
Succotash is dish borrowed from
the Narragansett Indians and called by
them m'sickquatash.
Charlotte is a corruption of the old
English word Charlyt, which means a
dish of custard, and charlotte russo is
a Russian charlotte.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
welcome Home from War.

! Captain Frank s. Long and squad
of Burlington soldiers who have just been
mustered out of the Thirty-ninth regi-
ment after two years in the Philippines
were given a reception that will be long
remembered. They were met at the union
station in Burlington by 1900 people and
were escorted in carriages through the
streets by the local military company,
several civic associations and bands. In
North Hill park addresses of welcome
were delivered by Mayor Marquardt,
Congressman Thomas Hedge and ex.
State Senator w. w. Dodge. The city
was gaily decorated with flags and
streamers in honor of the occasion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

It Is as rough as the country in which
1t is located. Who is Whitman? A
millionaire's son. There is home that
is almost palace, waiting for him in
New York. He can have horses and
dogs. he can ride in Central Park
with a groom behind, and hear people
say: THAT'S young Whitman, son of
the old millionaire" He can have any
thing that money will buy, and he is
working for the st. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad Company for $50 a
month. He is building up his body
with beef and beans, when he might
wreck it with champagne and rich
foods. and he sleeps well on bunk in
the box-car station. All this because
Roger Whitman wants to be a rail-
roader. He doesn't believe that trade
can be learned in day, or that one
can cut across lots to success. He is
going to learn as other successful men
have learned, by hard, unceasing toll,
and rise only when he merits promo
ton. That kind of spirit will bring al
most any young man into prominence.
1t will doubtless make a big man of
Roger Whitman. 1t should make even
greater successes of the young fell
lows who, spurred on by necessity, and
who are not handicapped, as he surely
is, by money.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
THE PRINCESS sALM-sALM.
Her Father was Harnes,maker an,
Her Mother a Half-Indian.

Her Father Was Harnessmaker and
Her Mother Half-Indian.
Princess Salm-Salm, whose devo.
ton to our sick soldiers during the
civil war earned for her a captains
commission and captains pay, came
originally from little Canadian town
on the northern shore of Lake Cham
plain. Her father was harness-mak-
err and her mother half-Indian herb
doctor who had gained quite reputa-
ton for her cures. In her younger
days the Princess wasA servant in the
family Of an Episcopal minister. But
the restrain and monotony of such a
life was too much far the Indian blood
in her veins. She ran away with a cir
Gus and became well-known eques-
trienne under the name of mile. Ag-
mes Leclerq." In Washington she
married Prince Felix Salm-Salm, a
younger son of the royal house of An
halt, who had come to America as n
soldier of fortune. At the close of the
rebellion they went to Mexico, where
the prince enlisted under the Inflated
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

No member of grange should accept
an Office therein unless he intends to at
tend the meetings regularly and to fill
the position to the best of his ability
Promptness is an essential to success
in grange work, as well as everything
else, and the meetings should ,1. cnnn-
ed at the bylaw hour. All business
matters which members intend to in
troduce should be thought out In adj
vance and reduced to writing in order
to dispatch business quickly and eff
GENTLY. A grange will not prosper
that calls to order an hour behind time,
and then dawdles along waiting for
something to turn up.
Very few farmers know what any
particular crop costs them, or even
keep an account of receipts and expen.
ditures. There is probably no other
branch of business conducted in such
n slipshod manner. The grange should
be-and to a large extent is-a school
in which to learn better methods OF
conducting the business of the farm
and home.-Farmers' Voice.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
A Puzz,e Solved.

Many housekeepers have wondered
what the white powder covering tho
nutmeg is. An old spice dealer Is au.
thority that as soon az The nutmeg is
gathered it is rolled in lime made
from burned oyster shells In order to
prevent its destruction by the weevil,
and 1t is this dust that remains upon 1t
Mace is one of the outer covering of
the nutmeg, and is preferred by many
cooks because of its color.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
How TO Prevent Panic.

An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure, and nowhere more so
than in the stock market. The way to
prevent panics is to prevent imitation
and overtrading. Wise folk will not be
carried away by the magnetism of the
speculative advance now being scored
on Wall street. The country is solid
and prosperous, but that is no reason
for believing that the time has come to
get rich quick by buying whatever
stocks may be offered for sale. Go
slow.-St. Louis Republic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
Hou.ecleaninp Hint.

The best preparation Tor cleaning pic
ture frames and restoring furniture,
especially that somewhat marred or
scratched, is mixture of three parts
Of linseed oil and one pint of spirits of
turpentine. 1t not only covers the dis
figured surface. but restores wood to
Its original color, leaving lustre upon
the surface. 1t should be applied with
a woolsn cloth and then rubbed, when
dry. with silk.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
SIM all Boy the Incen iiary.

Four or FIVE weeks ago fire was dis
covered in stack of straw back Of a
barn owned by Robert Noble at Riceville.
1t was put out without any serious loss.
A short time after stack of hay owned
by Mr. Roberts was burned and few
days afterward new barn owned by j.
@. Coles was discovered to be on fire and
was totally destroyed and it was only
by hard work that his new house and
other buildings were saved More re-
Gently another alarm was given and the
large barn of H. Monholan was found to
be on fire and in short time was burn
ed to ashes. 1t was total loss, as there
was no insurance. Lee Fox, 10-year-
old boy, was suspected Of setting the Inst
fire and was arrested by Marshal Swift.
He confessed to setting all of the above
fires, also setting fire to his fathers shop.
He will be sent to the reform school.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
Sion Rnrrel n Nuisance.

We question If there be greater
abomination about the hog yard than
the average slop barrel, says the Farm
er's Review. Who invented this nui-
sance? Who can give a common sense
reason for its survival? 1t smells to
heaven! 1t renders the digestive organs
of the hogs as sour and unwholesome
as itself! We are at a loss to explain
Its presence. nor can we see what ben
eft is derived from its use. Is it any
wonder that he is filthy when food sup
piled to him is filthy, sour, fermenting.
decomposing, rrlea-inducing? Such
food is unnatural for the hog. He was
intended to root in the earth and Craze
upon natural grasses of the field. To
him fell the nutritious nuts and fruits
of the tree; for him were the sweet
herbs and succulent roots, but no dirty,
smelly, sour slop!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
Brief state Happeninx,.

Fourteen dental students graduated
this week in .Des Moines.
West Liberty's library has been for
nally opened to the public.
A number of quarrymen at Waterloo
are on strike for higher wages
So far seventeen new buildings have
been started in Conrad this spring.
A site has been secured In Waterloo
for the proposed new gas plant.
Vandals in Dubuque broke windows in
factory, doing 5000 worth of damage.
The Council at jefferson expects to
gravel all its streets to the corporate linz
its.
The labor unions in Des Moines contem-
plate operating n grocery store of their
own.
7 A grain and live stock company has
been formed at Doven. 1t has $4,000
capital.
N. Parse, farmer at Bloomfield, has
died of blood poisoning, the result Of vac
cination.
A chancel to cost over $1,000 is to be
added to the Christ Episcopal Church
in Waterloo.
A gasoline explosion in the cellar Of
hardware store in Ottumwa caused
some $500 damage.
The secretary of the State Board Of
Health is of the opinion that smallpox
Is dying out in this State.
The O., NJ. & st. P. will make consid-
cradle Improvements at Tama this year.
A threshing engine went through a
bridge near Dayton carrying its engineer
along, but he escaped injury.
Greer McWilliafls. an aged man in
Waterloo was knocked down by an en-
CINE and sustained severe bruises.
The. building now used as detention
hospital in Des Moines Is to be abandon
ed and new one built elsewhere.
A resident Of Cedar County had to pay
$20O4.SS back taxes on property that es-
capped taxation for the past FIVE years.
II. b. Kirby, convicted In Des Moines
Of passing forged checks. has been SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
James Dick, aged GO, of Cottonwood,
was thrown from his wagon and fatally
injured.
Fire in Des Moines destroyed two
dwellings, doing damage to the amount
Of about $1,000.
Mrs. j. e. Robinson of Des Moines ate
sardines and came near dying by
ptomaine poisoning.
Lindsay Smith, young man of Gin
ton, recently hypnotized himself and was
with difficulty aroused
Tramps broke into the c., X. i. u p.
depot at Sigourney and stole two trunks.
scattering the contents along the track
md keeping some ysluAbles, s.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

In many an urban street and avenue
boys and girls going home from school
are seen to be carrying thick and
weighty bundles Of books. Is 1t not pos
sible that they are expected to study
to excess outside Of school hours? Is
there Aot now and then tendency to
do too much stuffing in too short
time in our methods Of education?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22
change Back to the Ola EIo,.

Let us get away from sectional poll.
tics by all means. The sooner the bet
ter. But let us not accept corrupt and
corrupting politics for enlightened poll.
tics. Either way, north or south, the
"bloody shirt" was most misleading
shibboleth. Under cover of the pas
sions it called into being the people
We're robbed right and left, and hardly
less by rascally Democrats in the South
than by rascally Republicans in the
North. 1t is good to bury this bloody
shirt" and in its place to hoist the fair,
free ensign of the republic, the glorious
Stars and Stripes, that wave for ALL
Louisville Courier-Journal. !.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

Bordeaux mixture containing three
pounds of bluestone to a barrel of wat
er applied the last of May is likely to
injure peach foliage somewhat, but In
our experience the injury is not enough
to do any serious harm. The same is
also true of bordeaux containing two
pounds of bluestone applied the last of
June. Black spot was almost entirely
prevented and the texture and size of
the fruit were decidedly improved by
two and three applications. The spray
ing should be continued well up to the
time of ripening of the fruit.-Mary.
land Station Bulletin.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

An article In the Cosmopolitan calls
attention to the advantage Of mo
fence law" and presents the startling
figures that Indiana alone has fences
whose computed value is 100000. 900,
and which If placed in single line
would fourteen times encircle the
globe. These figures suggest the enor-
nous amount of capital invested in
fences throughout the United States.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

Miss Lizzie b. Cottman, the Nebras-
ka school teacher whose pluck, inge-
nuity and endurance saved the children
of her school from almost certain death
in flood, has furnished an example
Of heroism which should be heralded
throughout the country as an inspira-
ton and a model.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-22

A recent writer on nitro-glycerin
says the stuff makes a fatalist Of any
man who handles it. You never can tell
just why it does or does not unhinge
itself. Once ten-quart can of 1t drop
ped off a house and did not explode; at
another time man struck with his
cane an empty can that had once con-
tanned the stuff, and he thought he had
been kicked by a battery of mules.
Sometimes mere look seems to be
enough, again it requires a hammer. At
the best the compound is ''touchy," and
1T is always well to stand over in the
other lot and let the hired man play
ball with 1t.