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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

that 1T could be made higher If any one
LID, 4 tri,

that 1t could be made higher If any one
dared to maintain the fight.
Phillips is fair and open in all his
dealings, and shows no disposition to
conceal anything or to spring any sur
prises. He says: II believe in legiti-
mate market. If corn or oats are not
in sight the market should be a rising
one. The farmer is entitled to the best
prices possible, and the traders aim
should be to deal on the facts as they
are. am in this business as a busi-
ness man dealing with facts"
Those who admire him most in the
Board of Trade say: HE has done
more than any five or ten of the old
time operators to bring outside trade
to the Chicago market. He has big
line of customers buying corn on its
merits, and ought to be helped instead
of injured
Mr.. Phillips works hard and is mod
est and retiring. He cares nothing for
the glamour of SOCIETY. In an unpre-
tentious dwelling on the edge of the
northwestern limits of Chicago his hap
piest hours are spent with his wife and
three little children. He hates notoriety
and avoids it in every way possible. He
does not wish to be interviewed or held
up to the public view in any way. He
may be deposed Corn King" in time,
but it will not disturb his full and
greatest enjoyment-his modest home
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

Upon sandy loan land which had
been for ten years heavily MANFRED and
cropped with table beets and celery, 1t
was found by the New Jersey station
that the use of nitrate of soda In
amounts varying from four hundred
to seven hundred pounds per acre, In
three equal applications, FASTENED the
maturing Of the crop. AT the first pull
ing and making of two-pound punches,
there was 63 per cent. more on nitrated
plots than on those without the nitrate.
At q second pulling, four days later,
the nitrated plots gave 1876 per cent
more punches, and at third pulling,
three days later, there was 17la per
cent more, after which they produced
about equal amounts. The greatest
gain per acre by use of nitrate was
where they used seven hundred pounds
per acre. $27.1O more than where nj
trate was not used. This was due to
the higher price obtained for the earlier
pullings. and amounted to about So for
every dollar the nitrate cost.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
THE HAWKEYE STATE
NEWS OF THE WEEK coNcIsELx
CONDENSED. 49,.
Losses from LiRhtninx-An Epilep ac
Tramp Faiis Into Fire-Figures Re-
xardinx Blind People In the State
Iowa Capitalists Sell Texas Lands.

The report of the Iowa weather bureau
for the last year, in speaking of the losses
by lightning, says: 1.-The reports probably
do not include more than one-tenth of
the actual casualties from lightning dur
ing the season, but they give some of
the essential details aud convey practical
lessons of instruction as well, as could be
derived from n much larger number. The
total losses reported amount to $41,294.
This includes losses on buildings, $685.
040, and on live stock, $9,254. The total
number of buildings reported struck was
thirty-ive, including twenty-five barns.
ten dwelling houses, two churches and
one school house. OF the thirty-five
buildings struck nineteen were CONSUME
cd, viz: sixteen barns, one house, one
church and one school house. As in for
mer years, It will be seen that the heayi
est loss has been suffered by the burn
ing of barns. or the twenty-five barns
struck by lightning, nearly three-fourths
were consumed, mostly with their con-
tents, which in many cases greatly ex-
ceeded the value of the buildings. In the
months of August and September nine of
the ten barns struck were burned, as a
result Of the combustible nature Of their
contents Mt that season of the year.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
SPRING MAKES HIM HoMEsIck.
rexaIi Afflicted with the AiIment Like
the Critic on the Ranre

rexaIi Afflicted with the AiIment Like
the Cattle on the Range.
you can talk about Christmas and
Thanksgiving and the other holidays
being the high-tide times for homesick
pess, but they aren't circumstance to
she first spring days"
The old Texan looked out of the win
dow of his Broadway office, and eyed
the trees in Trinity churchyard wistful-
ly while he talked with a Sun reporter.
Il can stand this blamed town all
right, in winter" he went on, land 1
can put in n summer at Bar Harbor,
without much grooming; but every year,
when the first spring days come, l get
so homesick that I'm actually maudlin.
Maybe n young mans fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love, in the spring,
but know one old man whose fancy
turns heavily TO thoughts of Texas.
Great Scott! What wouldn't | give to
BIO down there to-day, with a good horse
under ME, and a herd of cattle ahead of
me, and the prairie rolling off, in big
waves to the horizon line. I'm home
sick, tell you.
ITS this soft limiting weather that
has crept into me. That's nature. Why,
the very cattle on the range get restless
on such days and break away. If the
boys miss any of the herd In the early
spring they don't fool around wonder
ing where the brutes have gone. They
know the place to find them is on the
range where they were born.
I've known steers to go across coun-
try, straight as a die, through all kinds
of obstacles, back TO their old range.
Horses will do the same thing. I've
bad wild mustangs break away in the
night and make tracks for the place
where they were foaled. A man is only
higher order Of brute, and he keeps
good many instincts, though he doesn't
always recognize them
I'm homesick for Texas, but I'm
homesick for something further back
than that.
1--WE been sitting here at my desk.
and every little while, without any rea-
son Or warning, l would find shallowy
pebbly stream running across my
ledger and shutting out the figures,
while there by the inkstand dirty lit
tie chap would lie on the bank, fishing
with an old hickory rod. l don't be-
lieve ever caught a fish in that creek,
but l was a tremendous optimist.
Homesick weather call It."
And the Texan blew his nose angrily.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
4 HUNDRED YEARS TO COME.

Who'll press for gold this crowded street,
A hundred years to come?
Whom tread yon church with willing
feet.
A hundred years to come?
Pale, trembling age and fiery youth,
And childhood with its brow of truth.
The rich and poor on land. on sea.
Where will the mighty millions be.
A hundred years to come?
We all within our graves shall sleep,
A hundred years to come;
No living soul for us will weep,
A hundred years to come;
But other men our land will till,
And others then our streets will fill;
And other birds will sing as gay,
And bright. the sunshine ms to-day,
A hundred years to come.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
Allovcrthe state,


The old court house OF Clay County
has been sold for $225.
Centerville will vote May Is on its
Drake library proposition.
Work has commenced on the new Dial
las County court house at Adel
A farmers cooperative creamery has
been organized at Lost Nation.
The postotiice at Rochester is to be
supplied in the future by rural mail car
riers.
A number of weddings are being de-
ferred at Victor OH account of scarcity of
dwelling houses.
So far about twenty-six towns in the
State have decided to hold fairs the first
week in September.
The Illinois Central on account of light
business has withdrawn five crews from
work at Waterloo.
Creston has decided to keep its streets
in better condition and has contracted for
n scraper and grader.
Conrad Shades of Gravity has been
sued by Mrs. Davis for $4,000 damages
for breach of promise.
Fort Dodge expects the Illinois Contra
will expcnd about $4,000 in improve
ments there this summer
9. v Bodell has been designated as a
member of the civil service board fol-
the postofice Mt Waterloo.
A rescue home is being talked Of in
Des Moines because of the numerous
cases Of child abandonment there.
Ten discharges from bankruptcy were
made during the last six months in Mar
shall County, representing debts of $lS,-
S39.65.
III. johnson of Jewell had foot badly
mashed in straw press, but unless COM
plications set in amputation will not be
necessary.
The anti-saloonists at Keosauqua are
fighting strongly against granting per
mits to druggists, and hatchet brigade
is threatened.
Ringgold County has eleven paupers
at it's poor farm, and it cost the county
$1,000 over and above all receipts.
Mrs. 9. l. Thomas, near Kirkham, died
under very mysterious circumstances
Suicide by poison is the theory generally
advanced, but there is some talk of foul
play. The matter will be thoroughly in
vestigatel.
Adam Rockey of Des Noines gave his
purse containing $475 over:to clairvoy-
ant confidently believing in the wizards
power to convert his iife's savings into
$1,000. When he opened his purse sew
eral hours after the operation was over
he discovered quantity of wrapping
paper.
Mrs. Il. A. Kayser of Davenport was
almost fatally burned while burning up
leaves In her door yard. Her clothes
caught fire and before neighbors rescued
her from the flames her body had been
terribly burned.
An old resident of Boone, John McCar-
thy, aged 65 years, committed suicide by
hanging. He had been in failing health
for some time and had become very de-
spondent5of late His daughter going to
the woodshed, was startled to find his
lifeless body suspended from a rafter by
clothesline. Mr.. Mccarthy was one
of the wealthy men of Boone County, his
fortune being estimated anywhere from
10000 to $4,000. \ = /
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

can be averted. Williams disease is
the same malady as that with which
King Frederick William Nv. of Prussia,
grandunclc of the Kaiser, was stricken,
and which eliminated in his insanity.
He was not, however. deprived of the
reins of government and placed under
restraint until he had astounded and
shocked all Europe by his eStraordl-
nary vagaries and extravagant utter
ances.
There are many traits of resemblance
between this monarch and Emperor
William. Both have been remarkable
for their generous impulses and for
their paradoxical combination of lib
eralism akin to downright socialism
with autocratic and absolutist ideas
worthy of the Middle Ages. Like the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

Kaiser, King Frederick William was
animated by the most noble and high
minded Intentions, was anxious to right
every wrong, and to assume the part
toward his subjects in particular of an
all-wise and far-seeing Providence.
In the event of the failure of the
Kaiser's mental powers. the regent OF
the empire would be his eldest son, the
crown prince, who is not yet 10 years
old. Placing the reins of power in such
youthful hands would be n risky ex-
pertinent and hence the grave appre-
hension which pervades the govern
ments of Europe over the Kaiser's con.
dition.-Utlca Globe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

A man can steal from bank, mer-
chant or corporation, but he can not
steal from old mother earth on the
farm. The soil may be robbed in a
sense by being made to grow worthless
products, but the man is never bene-
flied thereby. A man may beat his
neighbors, but he can never beat his
farm. 1t is always and ever true that
whatsoever man soweth that shall he
also reap.-Field and Farm.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

Horses are again coming back in the
harness. A big concern in Chicago
which invested heavily in all kinds Of
horseless vehicles to do their transpor-
tatiou have abandoned them and gone
back to the horse. What with keeping
them in repair and the charges for
electricity, they found that the new
method cost twice MS much as the old
method
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
A New Radish,

The mongri, or edible podded radish,
Is a new vegetable from Java which
is now recommended by the American
Consul in New Zealand. where it has
been tried. 1t is as easily grown as
the ordinary radish, producing enor-
nous crops of long pods; which are
crisp and tender, with delicious fla
vor. Persons who cannot eat the COM
mon radish because of its indlgestible
qualities should hail this new variety
with pleasure.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

It Is desirable that the ripening Of
cream either naturally or artificially
should be at temperature not exceed
Ing 65 degrees, and after the ripening
has been completed-that is, when the
Tactic acid has been well developed-it
should be reduced still lower before
churning, say not to be above 80 de-
grees, and some Of the best butter has
been made at Al degrees. Cheese also
ripens best at low temperature. The
experiment stations have said that
cheese ripened at 65 degrees was bet
ter than that which was allowed to
stand in higher temperature and that
ripened at 55 degrees was much supe-
rior to that at 65 degrees.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

Selling grain and hay from the farm
in bulk reduces the profit in two ways.
1t is expensive to handle and haul,
and 1t takes away elements of fertility
that should be saved and returned to
the soil. Feed hogs, sheep and cattle
and so market your product In the
most condensed form and in the east
est way, on the hoof, and keep up the
land while you are cropping it.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
Capable Sign Artists.

The makers of the big and gaudy adj
vertisements which so offend on every
side are not, as might be supposed
mere inartlstic daubers. They are fire.
Quently real artists. who have had
years of training even abroad, but who
find that more legitimate forms of art
afford them only precarious llyeli-
hood,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
Poor Butter ver.n. Bntteriue.

Farmers, their wives, sons and daugh-
tiers and those helpers on the farms
must decide whether butterlne shall
have the preference to butter on the
tables of citizens Of cities. Butterlne
now has the preference to much of the
butter which is put on the market.
A good, even quality of butter can
be produced on every farm every week
in the year If pains be taken with the
cows, the feed. the milking. the milk,
the cream, the churn, the churning and
keeping the butter after 1t Is churned.
Much of the spoiled butter is spoiled
after churning by being placed where
1t can take up the odors from vegeta-
bles, meats or the tobacco smoke from
the pipes Of men who sit and smoke
their tobacco in the kitchen while the
crock of butter sits in the pantry or
cupboard near by.-H. w. Phelps.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
Money la Egg. and Poultry.

According to the report Of the United
States Commission of Agriculture, New
York State consumes as many eggs as
England, both disposing of $1S,OOO.-
900 worth of hen fruit annually. The
United States yearly consumes $780,
100000 worth of eggs and poultry.
Canada exports $sO,OoO,OOO worth of
eggs annually. The egg industry is
worth $150,OOO,OOO more than all the
dairy products of this nation. The
poultry products of this country aggre-
gate more in year than any single
crop. OF all the country's industries
the poultry industry is most generally
pursued. Last year the poultry earn
ings of the United States amounted to
over $500, 900, 900, being greater value
by S52,O00,00O than our entire wheat
crop, sos, 100000 greater than our
swine brought us, $3O,OOOOOO more
than our cotton crop. more than three
times as great as all the interest paid
on mortgages during the year, $112,-
100000 more than we spend for schools,
and yet there are people who think the
hen small potatoes"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

The. Belgian hare craze reminds me
of the carp craze of twenty years ago,
when every man with pond could
raise his own meat. But where ave the
carp and the carp ponds now? Gone
.siimmering. a hundred farmers In the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
THE KAIsER's DANGER.
Suffering from Malady the End of
Which IL Insnnity.

Medical papers in various parts of
Europe are now seriously discussing
the mental condition of the German
Emperor and seem pretty unanimous
in their expression that he is suffering
from nervous disease" resulting from
constitutional causes" Along the
same lire purely secular papers openly
discuss the necessity of a regency in
the empire. 1t is said that the newt
able end Of the malady from which the
Kaiser is suffering is insanity. and
thare q no means known to medical
sctepos ~ which this lameptabls result
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

only by corraling them and reducing
them to captivity.
.. J. Jones, better known as "Bnf-
faio" Jones. Of Oklahoma, has herd
OF over 100 full-bred buffalo, which he
wishes to sell to the government. Aus
tin Corbin was the possessor Of ninety
bison, which have been more or less
scattered since his death, some of them
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
treatment Of the Hired Man,


Because a man Is working for wages
on a farm or anywhere else it is not
necessary to make him feel that he is
mental or mere machine to be
wound up every day to run for SO many
hours. l never worked as farm
hand, but during some ten years or
more In business houses in the city /
only had one employer who gave me
to understand that was nothing but
machine to run ten hours a day. l
only stayed with him a year; another
year would have killed me. sEyery
man in whose employ I was, this one
excepted, made me feel that had
some responsibility outside of the gen
eral routine of my work. These men
would discuss methods and ask advice,
and 1t was no unusual thing for me to
be left in full charge of the business
for weeks, and IL one instance several
months. In every day was made to
feel, that the success Of the business
somewhat depended upon me. 1 was
not only to do a certain amount Of
work, but was expected to have eyes
and ears open and be ever on the alert
to further the interests of the firm, and
that succeeded in so doing is one of
the happy memories of life.
II our farmer community would ele-
waite the position Of the farmland by
the same kind of treatment that the
successful business man of to-day en-
ploys toward those IN his service there
would soon be a better class of help in
the field, brainy, thinking, seeing
man about the farm In place of the
careless shiftless. ne'er-do-well farm
hand of bygone days.-New York Trib-
une.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
dedicate a Chapel at Daveuport.

The dedication of the new $4,000
chapel at the soldiers orphans home in
Davenport was made gala occasion.
Gov. Leslie NJ. Shaw made an address
and all the members of the State board
of control and prominent members of the
Legislature We're in attendance. tx
Gov. William Larrabee has presented the
chapel $1,000 organ.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

drilled in -thickly. yet 1t contained a
higher per cent Of moisture and was de-
ficient in protein and in fat.
While the money value Of the broad
casted corn is not very different from
the value Of that grown on the other
plat. this estimate does not take into
account the digestibility of the various
products.-Country Gentleman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

Artemus Lamb. millionaire of Gin
ton, died at the Hotel Coronado at San
Diego, Cal, of dropsy. While on his way
home three months ngo Mr.. Lamb was
injured in a railroad accident in Wyom-
ing and his death is attributed to the in
juries then received.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

Deaf-Mutes and Blind.
The number Of deaf mutes in the
United States is over III, 900; the mum.
her of totally blind is ss,924.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

having been presented to New York
City. The animals, when kept in cap
tivity, show tendency to increase in
numbers, and Buffalo Jones has pro-
duced thousands of desirable cross.
breeds from his herd.
1t Is stated that there are not no
pure-bred American bison outside Of.
this country.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

Drones do not live SO long as work
ers.
Bees can endure dry cold, but not
dampness.
Good vinegar may be made from
honey.
More bees are lost in winterlng than
by disease.
Lack of ventilation is the cause of
dampness in many hives.
Combs cost the bees about ten pounds
of honey for every pound of comb.
The life of the. bee depends on the
work 1t does. When 1t labors most
Its life Is shortest.
1t is a serious mistake to let a colony
of bees become overstocked with
drones.
To secure the best results in bee
keeping good movable hives should be
used.
Guides for the brood frames and
boxes need not be more than an inch
in width.
Bees should not be moved during the
winter, nor should they be disturbed
or molested in any way.
All empty frames of combs should be
well taken care of during the winter
when not in use.
The worst enemy to empty combs in
winter is mice; IL allowed access to
them they will destroy them.
Successful wintering of bees depends
to great extent on the right kind Of
fall management.
If colonies are found short of pro-
visions during the winter they may be
supplied with food in the shape of
candy.
The entrance to the hives should be
contracted during the winter. Three
inches long and three-eighths wide is
sufficient
Bees seldom. If ever, take fly while
there is much snow on the ground. If
they are in n proper condition they will
not fly at all.-St. Louis Republic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08


DIR. l.. w. Dean, professor of physi-
ology in the University of Iowa and a
prominent oculist OF the State. read a
paper on the causes of blindness in chill
dren in the State Of Iowa. The cases
Illustrative of the paper were all drawn
from those in the school for the blind at
Vinton, for which DIR. Dean Is physician,
during the last eighteen months. The
total number Of cases was 1877. DR.. Dean
discharged twenty-five children from the
school on the ground that they could see.
He found them disputing about the col
ors on the wings OF bird on church
steeple some distance away and thought
that they would be able to find their way
in life without further State instruction.
Diseases of the eye due to specific causes
costs the State of Iowa over $4,000 an
nually
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08
Tramp Burned to Death.

A tramp, whose name is unknown, was
burned to death near the Chicago and
Northwestern depot at Slater in pecu-
liar manner. He and companion had
built fire alongside the track out of bits
of wood and brush. Before lying down
to sleep one of them informed the other
that he was subject to epileptic fits and
that IL he should have one during the
night he asked to be looked after and
cared for. He had hardly finished speak
ing before he had tottered over back
wards into the fire. His comrades res
cued him at once, burning his own hands
slightly. He then went to the depot to
see il he could find place to stay, leav-
ing the one who had had the fit to put
out the fire. AS the latter did not make
his appearance as soon as he should have
done the first tramp returned to the fire
and was Mortified to find his companion
lying across the fire, lifeless and burned
to crisp.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-08

Economy supplies old age with an
easy CHAIR.