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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-09-06
Milo Woodward,

For Shoe Repairing, South Sidt
CreSco. 3otf'
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-09-06

12ac for cream of wheat.
Sc per pound for best rolled oats
why pay more.
Sticky fly paper OF poison fly
paper 1c sheet or per doz. 1Oc
40 bars good washing soap 0hn
SC per bottle for shoe polish, the
very best
Zoe per pound for nice picking
spices. Why pay more.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

An editorial article In Scribner's Mag
azine calls attention to the decline of
hatred" and shows that both in liter
AZURE and in life this passion has be-
come passe. Hatred of certain causes
and principles we have everywhere
treated, hatred of theories and ideas.
But individual, personified enmity, in
tense enough to last a lifetime, and
bending all the events of existence to
its malignant will, is employed charity
nowadays in any literary or dramatic
work that aims to be a faithful present
ment Of the conditions of modern life,
of progressive society,"" The author OF
this optimistic article does not believe
that the counterpassion of love is wan
ing; on the contrary, he declares that
no ancient ever brought love forward
with greater power TO wiring the soul
than has Edmond Rostand in "Cyra
no." OF course, TO prove that individ-
uals are losing the power to hate each
other one would have to make per-
sonal canvass of hearts, but, no doubt,
such an experiment would prove that
the corner in ones heart that hascbeenf
reserved for ones enmities is becoming
more and more occupied blythe furni-
ture Of ones affections. On the other
hand, though we are no longer given to
turning a poisoned dagger against the
bosom of our foe, we sometimes send
him box of poisoned gum drops and
thus pursue vengeance through anoth-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

A writer who studies sociology by
the statistical method has recently dis
covered that among boys and girls be-
tween the ages of Z and II, girls are
more religious, while boys between the
ages of 8 and 81 are distinctly hos
tile to religion. Moreover girls have
a keener sense of right and wrong; the
boys on the other hand look on religion
as objective and external more than
two and half times as often Gas girls);
these conside would seem to in
dictate that girls are more Imaginative,
more actively responsive to their sur
roundings, perhaps are more precocious
than the boys, and that religion has for
them more vital significance" Now
this writer Is n very wise man and
knows all sorts Of fine things. But what
he assumes to be a natural tendency in
woman to religion and natural ten
dency in man against it may be re-
sultant Of natural disposition and So
cial conditions. In fact, that is the
most probable. Given certain condi.
lions and boys viii lean to religion.
Change the conditions and they may
tend to atheism. Whether or not WON
en- are naturally more prone to relig-
ious devotion is question which will
probably never be satisfactorily an
swered, and 1t is Of no consequence
anyhow. To imagine that by studying
statistics one can penetrate the hidden
mysteries Of nature and spirit is one
Of the follies of latter day science.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
Effects of Lime ON Soils.

There are certain soils in which lime
is naturally deficient, though the use
of ground bone, acid phosphate and
wood ashes for the sake of the phos-
phoric acid or potash In them helps to
increase the lime often to the full
amount of its needs. So also does the
use of land plaster, gypsum or sulphate
of lime, which are all the same thing,
though sold under all three names.
While lime will accumulate in dry
soil it teaches out of a damp soil or in
damp climate, which helps to explain
why 1t should and does prove beneficial
to apply dry slaked lime to soils where
The lime rocks abounds. Whatever Of the
lime has become free may have leach
ed away. Good results may be expect
ed from its use where the soil Is nat
urally deficient in it, or where 1t has
become acid or sour, frequent result
Of the presence of stagnant water in
undrained land, where other plant food
elements are in the soil, but largely I'M
available, from n lack of friability and
porousness. This may be in stiff, heavy
soils, and the use of lime will help to
tighten them up. Lime also holds mois-
ture and prevents teaching in loose
soils, and helps to destroy insects and
fungous diseases.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06


Never feed laying hens on one certain
diet or any coarse grain that will pro-
duce fat.
1t costs no more to select the best and
improve the flock than it does to breed
without regard to system.
One advantage with ducks is that a
large number can be raised on a small
space, but more is required.
Fowls in the orchard work twofold
benefit, the orchard and the fowls Sc
curing better growth with both.
Geese and turkeys require plenty Of
room and it will not pay to keep them
unless they can have free range.
When hens have scours good remedy
is to feed powdered chalk in their soft
feed, but the best regulatve is variety
of food.
Fowls should be allowed to run out
every day that the weather will permit
during the winter. They will be
healthier.
Geese live many years and 1t is of no
advantage to sell off the old stock, as
they are the best for breeding purposes,
as also for feathers.
If 1t is desired to have the greatest
number Of pounds of meat produced
with the smallest amount of feed select
the large breeds-Cochins, Brahmas or
Dorkings.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

1t has taken centuries for the world
to learn that the man who professional
ly makes us laugh may be respected.
The court fool, the strolling Jester, the
buffoon We're despised; there is a lin
gering reluctance to acknowledge dig.
nifty in the humorist. Great men, great
in other ways, may be droll or witty
incidentally-that is different. Even
then there will be admirers who are
uneasy in their laughter. Some excel
lent citizens Of this republic used to
wish that Abraham Lincoln would not
make jokes. Many more appreciated
his jokes, but would have thought it
nonsense to say, what all historians
now admit, that his humor was in
truth part of his power. To-day we be-
gin to realize how precious quality is
true humor-twin to charity and broth
er to wisdom. Lately, too, we have
had new reason to perceive with what
noble characteristics 1t may be allied
in its possessors. Our own Mark Twain,
long source of wholesome merriment
to his countrymen, has become also
an object of serious pride, for his gal
liant and successful struggle to meet
obligations which he might legally
have disregarded, but which he felt
rested upon his honor. The late Sir
Arthur Sullivan, We learn, was strug-
Cling with cruel malady while he
composed "Pinafore," fainting from
pain between bar and bar Of the mer-
REST music. Shall his courage be less
honored because he made us laugh?
"As the cracking of thorns under n
pot, SO is the laughter of the fool" and
1t is most readily evoked by folly, cru
city and vulgarity. Not SO the laughter
of the sane and sensible. 1t cheers, it
refreshes, 1t Eliminates, it leaves man
friendlier toward man. Those who have
the art to call it forth are benefactors
of their kind.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

Company A, Thirty-tifth New York
Volunteers, and served two years. In
1868 lie was appointed n special agent
of the War Department and was sta
toned at the provost marshals head
quarters until the close of the war.
Colonel Shaw served term in the
State Assembly in 1868 and then en-
tered the consular service, representing
the United States first at Toronto in
1868 whence lie was transferred ten
years later to Manchester, England.
In 1885 he was removed by President
Cleveland. Colonel Shaw In 1896 was
elected department commander of the
G. A. Il. of New York and in 1899 was
chosen commander-in-chief. Last Mo-
yemher Mr.. Shaw was elected to Con-
gress to fill the unexpired term Of
Representative @. A. Chickering and
was also elected TO the Fifty-seyenth
Congress.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
InteIligence of Farmcr..

really don't see why a farmer
shouldn't be as we'll posted in general
matters as any other of the professions,
says contributor to farm paper. As
sure as you live. neither doctors, law
yers nor preachers are burdened with
overmuch knowledge. The wide-awake
farmer is hand and glove with nature.
The first astronomers were farmers
most certainly. Before the North Star
rose above the northern horizon they
were improving the varieties of wheat.
And those of their number who were
largely shepherds had calculated the
time length of the solar year within
seventeen seconds. The doctors had
discovered quick road to death, /. e.,
they had discovered strychnine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
Political PitI,,

Congress the other day passed q bill
in which the barbors of Porto Rico
were included among the "nayigable
waters of the United States.'' For GER
tain purposes Porto Rico is American
territory; for others it is not-Savan-
nah News.
Mark Hanna stated some time ago
that he was not going to railroad the
ship subsidy bill through Congress.
There is reason TO believe that he was
telling the exact truth. And he is ,hav-
ing great deal of help in the way Of
not having 1t rallroad.-Peoria Tran
script.
The profit on unprotected American
cotton-seed kernels in France promises
to be large. With high prices for both
cotton and cotton-seed that get no tariff
aid whatever and no boosts from trusts
of any sort, what are we TO understand?
Is it all Mckinley magic?-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
Senator Frye intimated broadly In
the Senate the other day that calls for
quorum might interrupt the sitting
Of the rivers and harbor committee.
The implied threat may frlghten few
Senators, but the general public can
stand q failure of the rivers and harbors
bill quite as well as Senator Frye
Pit@burg Dispatch.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
On Hor Anniversary.

She sat on the top step, a rueful little
object in the noon sunshine. Even the
postman pitied her.
"Sick?"
mo. Only sorry
whats up?"
Its my birthday. I'm A."
The postman shouted with glee, but
she looked soberly sadder than before.
Don't like to be 4. Ell? Don't feel
well, eh?"
eyes, feel well. But Pm hungry"
Had breakfast"
mo. My nurse is away at her we'd
ding, and cooks cross. Mammals maxi
ing me sweet little dress for my par
ty tonight, and I'm not bothering her.
There'll be things to eat at the party
and I'm going"
where's brother?
Brothers making me a jumping
jack for my present, and he slapped me
because peeked."
More blessed to give than TO re-
ceive," unused the postman. And so
you haven't had no food, eh?'
"Oh, yes, haven't not had nothing.
I've had a piece of bread and an icicle!a
Boston Transcript.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

Unimaginative exactness-so the die
tionary defines literallsm-may not al
ways be the highest form of truth, but
commercially it has compensations.
Some American manufacturers recent
" sent to their German agent 10000
show cards in which their agricultural
machines were drawn by tigers, driven
by an airily attired goddess of liberty.
The agent returned the cards with the
criticism that neither in Germany were
tigers available nor adapted for draft
purposes, nor could such women as
work in the fields afford to dress as
seems to be the fashion in wonderful
America,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
Feeding Acorns.

Feeding Acorns.
A writer in Farm and Home, Lon
don, England, says that he has lost
over sixty deer out of herd of 200,
losing from fawns to four years old.
A veterinary was called. who said they
We're poisoned by eating too many
acorns. The husk caused indigestion
and destroyed coating or lining of the
stomach. Also lost several young cat
tie in the same way, while older cat
tie lost flesh, pined away and required
weeks to recover from the effects of it.
Sheep Were taken out when acorns be-
gan to fall, SO had no loss among them.
AS the grass was short because Of
drought, cattle and deer ate acorns
freely. The editor says the hog is the
only animal that can safely eat any
quantity of acorns, and he only when
having exercise and plenty of grass or
other succulent food. When gathered
and well rlpened they are safe food in
limited quantities. Another writer in
the same paper says If ducks feed on
acorns the yolk Of the egg will be a
greenish yellow and nearly black when
cooked. ,U-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

An Englishman who has been collect
ing statistics announces that 80 per
cent of the personages in the Diction-
airy of National Biography were the
children of clergymen," and this dec
laration has inspired the suggestion
that law be passed providing that
no bachelor shall hereafter be permit
ted to receive orders in the Church of
England. Every rectory. 1t is declared,
should be occupied by married man,
to the end that England shall have
more and more citizens who may be
deemed worthy of mention in Diction-
aries of National Biography. Whether
these suggestions are to be taken seri-
ously or not, the fact remains that a
surprisingly large number Of the Eng
llshmen who succeed in winning fame
came, as Tennyson came, from the
country rectories. English clergymen
seem to have an unusual faculty for
starting their sons in proper directions,
and in addition to this there must be
something in the atmosphere of even
the vicarage that tends to greatness.
Here in America, however, this ten
dency Of the sons of preachers to win
enviable renown is not generally notice
able. Indeed, 1t has been the exception
rather than the rule for the sons of
preachers to exhibit evidences either
of careful training or inherited great
ness. Not infrequently the worst boy
in town is the preachers boy, and it
sometimes happens that, while the
good man is exhibiting to the congrega
ton the wisdom Of keeping the Sab
bath holy, his son is out somewhere
stealing peaches or trying to break n
colt whose owner has gone away with
the family to the house of worship.
1t may be that the American preacher
has so much more than his English
brother to do in the way of keeping
the rest Of mankind from going to the
bad that he gets less time to look after
the welfare of his own offspring, or
there may be some other cause for the
fact that the space in our biographical
dictionaries is In no sense usurped by
the sons of clergymen. In any case, it
is gratifying to be able to say that
things are not so discouraging for our
preachers as they used to be. There
are not so many scapegraces among
the sons of ministers as there We're,
say, a generation ago. The families
of ministers, like those of other people,
are becoming smaller as the years pass,
and in some places the tradition that
the minister's boy nuts lead a gang in
order to claim the esteem of his con-
temporaries has actually ceased to be
commanding influence.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06


Pressed steel freight-cars have come
into general use within very few
years. Now, with the design of making
passenger-cars more durable, builders
are making the experiment of covering
them with copper. They say the South
American roads will welcome the in.
novation with special cordiality, since,
owing to the destructive climate, their
cars now have to be covered with ma
hogany, which is not SO enduring but is
almestaas expensive as copper. To the
tfaveling public everywhere the inte-
rior of the cars is the more Important
consideration. Every one has more or
less fragrant memories of cars that
We're much too enduring.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

Eliminate the contributions of the
corporations engaged in domestic and
foreign commerce as factor in cleo
lions and the Republican party would
be In a minority in both houses of Con-
gress. The growth of gigantic trusts
which are such n menace to free gov
eminent would cease. Subsidies and
all the various forms of stealage which
flourish under that and cognate terms
would disappear. Tariffs to enrich the
few at the expense Of the many would
again be scaled to produce revenue in
stead of to build up favored industries
at the expense of the taxpaying con
sumner, war taxes would be repealed or
limited to the actual needs Of the coun-
try.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

Reports Of poor success with the Per.
sian winter muskmelon, which has been
a good deal talked of for several sea.
sons. come from various quarters.
Some who have grown 1t claim that 1t
is about like the old casaba melon and
apparently no better or longer keeper.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
stack HAY.


Feed stack hay before that stored In
the barn to avoid loss. While the hay
will dry out nearly as much in one
place as in another, there is a far great
er loss in feeding value in that put up
in stacks due to spelling on top by the
weather and on the bottom by damp
ness from the ground. The Colorado
experiment station found the loss to be
1874 per cent in feeding value In stack
ed hay and but 2.5 per cent In that
stored in barns, difference of 10 per
cent. Thus nine tons of hay put in the
barn will feed as much stock ms ten
tons put In stack. When this test was
made, the conditions were more favora-
BILE than the average season for feeding
stack hay.--American .Agriculturist.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

A large amount of money is spent in
costly glass packages for honey. The
consumer haI to pay for these pack
ages. When the consumer is as sure
of getting pure honey in tin can as
he is now sure of getting pure rolled
oats in a pasteboard box, then he will
get his honey cheaper. When he can
buy five or ten-pound can Of honey
the cost of the package will not count
in the price.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

Not all the farmers in the West will
care to go into the beef producing bust
ness. There are some sections where
dairying has become established and
successful, and where this is the case
it will doubtless be the most successful
to pursue it, as frequent changes from
one branch of farming to another are
generally demoralizing and unprofit-
able
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

The value of the apiarian product of
the United States is in round numbers
$20,00O,OO0 per year. Prof. Howard,
chief Of the United States bureau of en-
tomology, says that the demand for
American honey abroad Is SO great that
three times the sum named could be
had by our bee men annually IL they
only had the goods to dispose of in the
open market.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
Hay, Straw and Grain Feed.

At the experiment station in Fargo,
N. D.. they have been trying some OF
the various feeds for horses, and find
that hay from bronze grass was as good
as that from the best timothy, but
when oat straw was used they needed
25 per cent more grain than when they
fed good hay. Barley did not give as
good results as oats for horses. Ear
corn proved good for the working
horses. q pounds being equal to 100
ponds of oats. Bran and shorts mix
ed proved equal to oats.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
Working Butter.

When butter making We used to
work our butter in the churn. After it
reached the granular form or perhaps
little coarser than is now thought the
right thing the buttermilk was drawn
off. If any butter ran out with 1t, it
was skinned or strained out and put
back. Then 1t was washed in clear
water once or twice, and once in water
to which salt had been added. A little
stirring in this cold brine brought the
Jumps together in solid mass and
took out the last yestige Of buttermilk.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
col. a. o. SHAW.


G. A. r.. Circles.
BY the death In Washington, D. O.,
recently, of Col. A. d. Shaw, of Water
town, man prominently known in po-
litical and G. A. r. circles passed away.
Mr.. Shaw was at the time Of his death
serving as Representative from the.
Twenty-fourth New York District In,
Congress and before taking this office
had acted as commander-in-chief of the
G. A. R.
Albert Duane Shaw was born in
lyme, Jefferson County, Dec. 81, 1s41,;
and was educated in Belleville Acade-
my and Canton University. When 20
years old he, enlisted as private in
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
About Seed wheat,

The experiment stations and farmers
who have trained themselves to close
observation of cause and effect have
given evidence many times that the
amount and quality of the wheat crop
and of other grain crops depend large
" upon the quality Of the seed used.
The larger and plumper seed gives the
most vigorous growing plant. 1t stools
out more, usually has sitter straw,
If 1t is not forced by the use of too rank
fertilizer, by which we mean one too
rich In nitrogen, and therefore the bet
ter the crop. But there are other things
desirable In a good grain crop. One is
to secure large heads we'll filled, and 1t
may also be desirable to have the grain
grow rapidly and mature early either
to obtain the best result in short sea-
son or to escape insect attacks. The
best way to secure this would be to Sc
lect the earliest maturing large heads to
be found and reserve them for seed.
The farmer who sows large areas may
think this too much trouble to get all
the seed he needs, but he should remem-
Der that If there is a profit in doing SO
for one acre there would he greater
profit in doing so on n hundred. A mod
ification of this plan Is To select in this
way enough to sow small plot very
thin, SO that each plant will have a
chance to do Its best, and then reserve
a piece of the best land to sow that on
1t to produce seed wheat. A continue
ton of this process for few years
would result in the production Of an
extra early, hardy and prolific wheat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
1t Wa, 10 His interest.

The steel combination charges MIR.
Carnegie with having been dlst,rber
for years. And possibly the charge is
true. Through unjust tariff taxation
foreign competition was cut off for the
enrichment Of Mr.. Carnegie, and why
should he not have taken all opportuni-
ties to cut off American competition?-
st. Louis Pos. Dispatch.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
Foraker. Reversible Views.

In an interview Senator Foraker gives
at some length the reasons for his posi-
ton that Congress can have nothing TO
do with the constitution Of Cuba. There
is no doubt of the soundness Of this po-
sition. Yet Senator Foraker was as
fully convinced that Congress has IL
constitutional power to establish a dis
eliminating tariff for Porto Rico and
he drew ZIP his Porto Rican bill Oh II
free trade basis. 1t did not take long,
however, for the administration to
bring him around to the contrary posi-
ton Philadelphia Record.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06

1t should not and 1t will not be for
gotten by the American people that
whenever there Is an assault upon
American principles or a raid upon the
American treasury 1t is Democracy that
is found combating the crime and halt
ing the loot.-Buffalo Times.