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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
Illinois Centre al
EXCURSION RATES.

For the meetings listed below. gan excursion
rate OF one and onethird fare on the certificate
plan has been named from interested territory,
For dates of sale and limit Of the tickets inquire
Of any Illinois Central ticket agent. or address
the undersigned.
Clear Lake. Iowa. Iowa State Camp Meeting
July II, AugustS s.
Iowa Falls, Iowa.-Iowa Baptist Sunday
School Assembly, August 4-l7.
Waterloo, Iowa. Young Peoples Convention
and Camp Meeting, Evangelical Association
August 22-27. rs 80
Cherokee. 1owa.-State Convention, Young,
Peoples Society Of Christian Endeayor. August
1920. j, f. MERRY =
sl-4-w Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt:. Dubuque, Ia.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

The heaviest precious stone is the zir-
con, which is AZ times heavier than an
equal quantity of water. The lightest
is the opal, only twice as heavy as wal
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Centre al
Low Excursion Rates

With long limits to Denver. Colorado springs.
Pueblo and Glenwood Springs, Col, Ogden
and Salt Lake City, Utah, Hot Springs and
Deadwood, S. d. st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth, MINI.
Excursion tickets will be sold from Illinois
Central points to the above named points at
rates less than the regular one way fare, from
August to 10 Inclusive. Tickets will also be
sold July 23 to 81 and August II to 81, at rate
of one fare plus So. Stop overs will be allowed
at certain points on tickets to Colorado and
Utah points For Information concerning stop
overs. and the exact rates apply to any Illinois
Central ticket agent. Final limit on all tickets
October 3lst.
J.F. MERRY,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
B. c. R. & N. R,y.
CEDAR RAPIDS TIME CARD.

Main Line Passenger Train,

MAIN LINE GOING EAST AND SOUTH.
Arrive Leave
500 m No. 2Chicago Passenger. :. $40 p m
$3.50 a m No. Chi: & Burlt'n Pass. .....9:s5a m
$40 m No. Chicago 4 StLouis Elk. $3.50 m
No. IS Burl. 4 Daynp't. Pass 1921 m
No pullman sleeper, free chair car and
coaches to. Chicago. No. 6-Pullfiian sleepers
and through coaches to Chicago and St. Louis.
No. 8-Pullman sleeper and free chair car to
Chicago; arrives Chicago 1860 a. m. Dining car
will serve breakfast from Joliet to Chicago.
Mcknight.
MAIN LINE GOING NORTH.
1885 IN MOL Minneapolis Pass... s:05 a m
1910 p m No.3 Rockford Passenger. $3.50 p m
1903 ngt NO. 8 Minneapolis Express. 1920 ngt
Bias m No. 10 Chicago Passenger.
11:55 p m No. 10 Chicago Passenger.
No. 1-Free chair car and coaches to Al
bert Lea. No. 6-Wide Vestibuild Pullman
st. Paul.
DEBORAH DIVISION.
$40 p M. :. DEBORAH Passenger. -. $3.50 IN
$3.50 am..West Union Passenger. ......3 40 p IN
4:05 p DEBORAH Freight......... 6:20 m
IOWA FALLS DIVISION.
1880 p M. Iowa & Minnesota Pass.. {: rs IN
1920 a. M. Minnesota 4 Dakota Pass. 1880 o m
IOWA CITY, DAVENPORT, BURL. AND CLINTON
1910 m...... Burl. Il Ia City Pass. 1875 p m
7:45 p M. Gin, Ia City Dypt Pass.~..7 10 m
7:35a m....Burl. u la City Pass. ....s:40 p IN
Trains numbers 8, 6,s, IS, 10, and MINI &
Dakota Pass run daily. all other trains daily OK
cept Sunday"
JNO. G. FARMER, J.A. LOMAX.
Gent Pass & Tiki Agt Ticket Agent
Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

The Secret ~
OF the Well
How Boer Boy Proved to His
Grandfather That He
Was No Coward.
a STORY OF THE TRANsvAAL.
BY P. Y. Black.

'-'-'-'' TITLE PAUL REUTER-
/; was busy with his herd
/ of wide horned oxen
far more busy than usu-
!: al: The cattle wondered
. !! why on earth he did not
.u......s let them wander afar,
The Conservative, 1901-12-12
CORNSTALK DISEASES.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov 30.-To the Edi-
tor Of the State Journal From all
directions in the state come reports Of
cattle dying on cornstalks. The NOR
tality from this source seems terrific,
and if we can judge from these reports,
already hundreds of cattle are now
dead from feeding in stalk fields.
1t would seem as if stockmen would
all have learned the lesson from the
great master of experience, but in-
stead they let history repeat itself
each year.
We naturally have to take our stock
from green fields and pastures in fall
The Conservative, 1901-12-12
Tbe Conservative.

nowhere under the sun any Subjects
it lies at the basis Of our prosperity
which is the wonder and the envy Of
the world 1t has as matter of plain
duty been extended to Hawaiians and
Porto Ricans, and must er necessitate
rel, be sooner or later extended to the
Filipinos.
What shall be done in this direction
for the Cubans? They cannot hope to
survive and prosper as all independent
nation, unless they are permitted to
share in the prosperity of the surround
ing countries. Under the solemn assur-
ance of the joint resolution they cannot
be annexed to the United States. That
door is shut for the present at least. If
we cannot find another, we should have
done we'll to leave them under the op-
pressive dominion of Spain.
After all have said you will not be
surprised to learn that I have from my
first official report to the present day
urged it, as the highest and most intel
lectual duty of craftsmanship to give
absolute and unrestricted free trade in
natural and manufactured products to
the Cubans also, in exchange for the
same privilege to be granted by them to
us, under the protection of common
tariff, as against all other countries.
This is novel as we'll as radical
measure. 1t was first proposed by me
in my official reports to the War De-
partment; but so far it has received no
public consideration. I contend, how.
ever, that if adopted it cannot fail to
develop the resources of Cuba rapidly
and completely. Under its stimulating
influence wages would rise, profits
would increase, wealth would accumu-
late, and prosperity and progress would
be apparent on every hand. The coun-
try would fill up with Americans, the
Spanish peasantry would pour in as
laborers, and such boom as the world
has rarely seen would prevail through
out the island for the next quarter of a
century. AS my friend, Juan Pedro
Baro, who owns the beautiful sugar
estate of La Conchita, in the province
of Matanzas,--porhaps the very best one
in the world said to me two years
ago, with free trade in sugar and to-
| bacco, "Cuba would be a dream. She
would indeed be cup of gold"
The Conservative, 1901-12-12

from one food to another should al
ways be made gradually and the dry
food should be of the best possible
quality if we obtain best results
There is no better forage produced
in the state than corn fodder when
it is harvested and cared for properly.
There is no forage that cattle and
horses enjoy more or that they eat
with greater avidity--but what excuse
have we for turning our animals into
stalk fields at this time? For weeks
since the corn ripened the stalks have
stood in the fields, they have been wet
and dried, frozen and thawed, indurat-
ed and blackened in the sun and wind
until the nutritive materials in them
are exhausted and there is little left
but a mass of poor woody fiber valu-
able only for stuffing gum boots or for
manufacturing paper, and when these
markets are supplied some Yankee
should invent machine to press them
into faggots for fuel and the balance
be used as fertilizer
There is no other forage that cattle
or horses would eat or that one would
expect them to eat if treated to the
same exposure as the corn stalks
1t is the corn stalks in this condition
that is causing all the trouble. Indi-
gestion, gastric vertigo, delirium and
death.
The animals die so suddenly we find
little or no LESSONS in makin post
mortem. The so called impaction of
the manifold or third stomach is moth
ing more than what might be found
in other disorder The indigestion
and fever would produce the con-
dition.
1t seems to be very hard to make
people understand that it is the corn
stalks in their present condition that
is causing all the trouble.
I have seen serious losses of cattle
on pastures late in summer or early
fall when the grass was very dry and
short, which stimulated very much
the corn stalk trouble. The animal
would stand alone cease eating and
Illuminating, strike the abdomen with
the hind foot, showing colicky pain
the faecal discharge small and heavily
coated with mucus. The second day
the animals would become delirious,
thirsty, and ultimately dying in great
distress. This trouble was stopped by
liberal feeding Of green corn and
fodder, also avoided in other herds on
similar pasture by feeding something
at hand outside of the pasture.
We lose some horses from feeding
in stalk fields. In horses it produces
vertigo or stomach staggers. The loss
in horses is not great as compared
with cattle, for the reason that the
horse eats differently, chewing to a
finish what he eats before swallow
ing, while cattle eat to fill fifty gal
Ion stomach, all of which must be
regurgitated and rechewed.
The remedy for all this trouble is
easy. Harvest the fodder at proper
time and take care Of it. No one ever
knew of all animal dying on good
corn fodder. We waste the most val
liable forage crop produced in Ne
braska by not harvesting the corn
fodder.
The Conservative, 1901-12-12
support from three to five million head

of cattle. All kinds Of tropical fruits,
especially the pineapple, orange, lemon,
lime, banana, mango and alligator pear
can be grown anywhere in abundance
and of excellent quality. Fibre plants
can be cultivated with profit in many
sections. Iron and copper ore and valu
able woods are found in the eastern
provinces. Indeed, the island is natural
garden, every part of which, under fa-
vorable conditions, can be made to
support a much larger population than
it now has and to contribute proftably
from its superfuities to the comfort and
happiness of people living in more
northern countries, where the horticul-
tural and agricultural products are
different and less varied.
Porto Rico is hilly and mountainous,
with but little level land adapted to
sugar growing. Its maximum output is
about 100000 tons, but nearly every
part of it produces excellent coffee, al
most as rich as the best Java and Mocha
i'll caffeine, and of delicious flavor. The
cattle ranges are excellent, and all the
tropical fruits can be produced in per-
fection, but the population is dense and
the land almost entirely occupied.
There is but little room for immigrants,
and any great improvement in the we'll
being Of the people must come from
free interchange of products with the
States. Fortunately, the Porto Ricans
now enjoy this privilege as citizens of
the great republic and may therefore
confidently expect a gradual increase of
prosperity and happiness.
How shall we get the most good out
of these tropical regions without violat-
ing our fundamental national policy?
What shall be our trade relations with
them? Holding as do that unless we
can make them prosperous and content
ed. we cannot make them valuable to us
or to the world at large, the answer to
these important questions must evident
ly turn on the development of their
natural resources. If this cannot be
done so as to make them a source of
profit to the people of those regions
Porto Ricans, Cubans, Hawaiians, and
Filipinos alike, it is impossible that
those people, whether white or colored,
can become profitable or valuable to us
in any sense whatever. Civilization can
grow only upon the superfuities of life.
If wages are not good or do not rise,
and the products of labor cannot be sold
at profit, there can be no superfuities
nor any increase of wealth. Poverty is
the prolific mother of ignorance, un-
happiness and vice, and where they
prevail, all forms of government are
bad. I am not trying to speak to you
in the lanpuape of the pOlitical econ
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
Important Meeting of Winona Lake
Summer school Headship.
SHOOTING ARRAY AT LAP0RTE
WOMAN SHOOTS a MAN y NOW Is
NURSING HIM.
Death of n WELLS nown J~efersonviIIe
woman-SensatiOnai Suit at no
komo-Minor Accidents.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind. Aug. pa party of Ma
rion capitalists yesterday evening visited
Summitville for the purpose OF inspecting
a new process for the manufacture of gas
for Illuminating and heating purposes. The
new process produces a gas at a very low
cost, and the clements combined to gem
crate the fuel are oil, water and air. f.. Y.
Comstock. a Marion man, OWNS a controll-
Ing interest I'm the new process, and 1t was
under his chaperonage that the Marion
party was shown the system. Representa-
tive Steele, local manager of the National
Soldiers Home here. and who has in
charge the matter of installing a new heat
ing system for that institution, was one of
the most interested visitors.
In the new process water and oil are
mixed in certain proportions, which are not
made public. and into this compound is
forced a certain quantity of air. The mix
ture is forced through an iron tube or pipe,
which is heated red hot from the outside.
The combined heat and pressure separates
the elements and reunites them in gas of
excellent quality for heating and illuminat-
ing purposes. The equipment for a plant Is
not expensive, and the gas can be manu-
featured at an estimated cost Of 5 cents per
thousand cubic feet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
GUESSING NOR ALWAYS CHANCE.
Ruling by Attorney General i'm n Post
Office and Newspaper Case.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-Attorney Gen
eral Knox has rendered to the postmaster
general an opinion, on the question whether
n certain Western daily paper has yio-
lated the law prohiting the use of the malls
for advertising lotteries, gift concerts and
similar enterprises. The paper some time
ago inaugurated a guessing contest, adj
vertising that it would give 1.5O0 prizes.
a-ggreSating $1,000 in value. 10 persons
making the nearest estimates OF the NUM-
Der Of paid admissions to the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition at Buffalo from the day OF
opening to the day OF closing h sattor-
ney general says that unless pialnlyy Tor
bidde by law the remedy Is with Congress.
and not with the department. lie says
the contestants must go into careful IN
curry as TO facts about tn exposition, pub
lie interest and attendance to date, and
continues:
such estimates. therefore, while neces-
sarily dependent IN many respects upon
chance. are likewise affected by the inte.ii-
gent calcuIa lions OF a thoughtful observer.
A fair construction of the words depend
ent upon lot or chance excludes estimates
which are based upon mental calculation,
even though the factors which enter into
such calculation may be uncertain and
matters OF conjecture. The drawing of a
lot or the throw of the die are purely de-
pendent on chance. for no mental operation
statutes must be construed strictly, l am
unable TO reach the conclusion that the
giving OF prizes az a reward for superior
intelligence I'm estimates where the human
intellect Is exercised in making such esti-
mates is within the purview of the statute
the demoralizing tendencies TO which you
refer"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
Gas Company Sells out.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FRANKTON, Ind, Aug. IA change
of more than ordinary interest to this city
has just been effected by which the Frank
ton Natural Gas and Oil Company be-
comes the property of the company that
operates the two plants at Elwood. Just
who composes the new company was not
disclosed in the contract further than that
John L. Griffiths Of Indianapolis, Jacob
Loomis of Elwood, job r. Page of An
derson and Leroy Urmston of this city
are made directors. In some manner not
known TO the public the Urmston Gas Com
pany, of this city, is connected with the
deal, end Frankton will receive it's gas
supply practically through one company,
and as a result the rates will be increased
the 1st of October. The Elwood company
controls a large area of gas territory, and
in the midst OF 1t is constructing a pump
ing station, from which ElwoOd and Frank
ton will receive their supply. A six-inch
pipe line will connect this city with the
station. The Frankton Natural Gas and
Oil Company has been in operation since
1897. 1t sold out it's sixty-eight shares of
stock for $50 a share. The low price is
accounted for by the company being I'M
able to get a supply of gas sufficient to
furnish its patrons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
Other Deaths i'm the state.

LAFAYETTE. Ind, Aug. 23.-Henry w.
Shuman, a veteran residing at the Soldiers
Home, was found dead in bed this morning
at $50 o'clock. His wife had arisen and
tried TO awaken her husband. but found
him lifeless. Death was due to heart dis
ease. He was admitted to the home from
Wayne county in September, 1898. He was
born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
on Sept. IL, 1920, and served during the war
as a member OF Company T., Fifty-seventh
Indiana Infantry. He has a son residing In
Chicago and a daughter living in Rich
mond.
John Ries. ex-city treasurer, is dead
here CT a complication of diseases. He was
the proprietor OF the Star City botting
works and an influential citizen. He left
a widow and eight children.
MARTINSvILLE. Ind. Aug. 2S.-Joseph
Robinson, aged eighty-two years. died at
his home I'm Paragon, this county, yester-
day, of Mr.. Robinson was n
member of the Sixty-seventh Indiana Vol
unteers during the civil war. He left a
widow, three daughters and three sons. one
of his sons being ]. E. Robinson, superin-
tendent of the city schools here.
GREENWOOD. Ind, Aug. 2S.-Mr. Daily
Drummer died yesterday at his home, on
East Pearl street. after a long illness. He
left a widow and one son. Mr.. Drummer
was one of Greenwood's most prominent
men, being In the lumber business here for
years. Burial will be in the Greenwood
Cemetery.
MUNCIE. Ind. Aug. 23.-Charles Lou
thain, aged forty-three, a resident of Mum
Gle most OF his life. died this afternoon.
leaving a widow and two children. He was
for several years a contract painter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
GEORGE ALBERT WAIF.
Found at n Doctors Door and Named
by Two Policemen.

George Albert Waif. IL any person cares
10 know his whereabouts, Is at the In
dianapolis Orphan Asylum. From what -
known OF George Albert il is thought no
one is looking for him. He is but two
weeks old. At that early age he was last
night hustling for himself. II was his
hustling that found for him at midnight
protection from the chilly night winds
and damp air.
Mrs. John Murray. living at 2sll Belle
fontaine street, retired early last night.
She was somewhat restless and cid not at
once fail asleep. In her drowsy moments
she thought she heard noises. She slept
a while and awoke. only to> hear noises
again, but not 20 loud as AT first. After
lying in bed and hearing noises for about
an hour she concluded there was something
wrong and went cut TO investigate. The
noises continued. They came from fhe
front Of DR.. james X. Wflliams'S house. at
800 BellefOntdine street. Mrs. Murray WAS
unable to see any one moving about in
the vicinity Of the source OF the noises.
ana she went over 10 the house. On the
doorstep she found A basket. and in it Was
George Albert Wait. although she did not
know that was his name. In fact. he did
not have "A name, 80 far as any one then
concerned knew Until he got TO mis- new
home.
Mrs. Murray called Dr. Williams. Al
though hc D. a physician he was surprised.
lie ala not want the child which some one
had been kind cnOugh 70 give him. lie
had had enough TO DO with infants. He
called the polcc- PatrOlmen Albert SCrib-
ner and George Johnson were sent Ia the
doctors residence. There they cot their
orders, which they obcyed Dy taking the
child 10 the orphans home. They did even
more. johnston gave the boy the nrst part
OF mis- neme and Scribner did LIKEWISE. The
rest OF the name was easy then.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
Traction Franchise Rejected.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PERU, Ind, Aug. 23.-The Shirks and A.
N. Dukes have refused the franchise for the
use of Canal street for their proposed cleo
trio line from Fort Wayne to Lafayette and
have also refused to turn over the old canal
through the city for the right Of way of the
new c.. r. & NJ. Railroad, claiming hey
want the canal themselves for their cleo
trio line. as the city franchise does not give
them the five years they desire in which to
begin construction and does not give them
fifty years for the franchise TO exist. The
idea had been to have the canal owners
turn over the property to the c., X. x M. In
the city limits and to have the electric line
use the street adjoining the canal. The c.,
X. & NJ. will now have the canal land con-
demned in appropriation proceedings. but it
will considerably delay the completion OF
the work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
FIGHT OVER A CHURCH.


Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
-LOGANSPORT. Ind. Aug. 23.-The mem
bers OF the Evangelical churches AT Ford's
Crossing and at Royal Center. in this coun-
~. are at swords points and the matter
will in all probability find its way into the
courts. The trouble arose on account OF
the action OF the members OF the Royal
Center congregation destroying the church
building at Ford's Crossing and carting the
material TO Royal Center TO be used in the
construction OF the church there. wednes-
day a delegation OF twenty Royal Center
people went 10 Ford's Crossing and began
the work OF demolishing the church buiid-
ing, loading the lumber on wagon a. the
work progressed. taking Il 10 Royal Center.
The workers from Royal Center had not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
HOLDUPS AT
Committee Threatens to
Hang h Robbers IL Caught.

COLFAx, Wash, Aug. 23.-word comes
from Riparia that a holdup, which nearly
resulted I'm murder, occurred in the rail-
road yards at that place about l O'Clock
this morning. Two men were held up and
robbed. after the one OF them had been
shot. less than fifty yards from the depot.
while a freight-train crew was working
in the yards. The robbers escaped and the
wounded man was placed on a train and
sent to Starbuck for surgical treatment.
Eight men were held up the previous night
at Grange City. four miles below Riparia,
and robbed of $104. Two men did the work,
and IL is believed the same men did both
jobs. A vigilance committee has been or
ganized at Riparia and the announcement
Is made that the men will be promptly
hanged II caught.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-24
Mrs. Letitia :. McCampbeII.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVI1LE, Ind, Aug. 23.-Mrs.
Letitia S. McCampbell, one of the most
prominently known women in the city and
the widow of the late James II. McCamp-
bell, who was treasurer of the old j., M. &
I. Railroad and later president of the First
National Bank of this city, died at her
home here at noon to-day after an illness
of eight days. On Aug. 10 she developed a
slight attack OF pneumonia, and her ad-
vanced age made her case a serious one TO
in this city for sixty years. She was a
daughter of DR.. Samuel Merriwether, who
was the first elder OF the Presbyterian
Church in this city. The following chill
dren survive: The Rev. George McCamp-
bell. of Millvale, Pa; Mrs. Mary X. Dem
crest, of this city: Mrs. Mary Smith, OF
New York, and Mrs. Anna Hutchison, OF
this city.