davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
Among Our Neixhbor,.

Highwaymen held up Constable VIM.
Merit of Calamus and robbed him of
$4.45.
est business men, committed suicide by
hanging.
The City Council at Oskaloosa has de-
cded to pave with brick one of its prin-
cipal streets.
Joe Roller died at Waterloo as a re-
suit of being struck by street car
few days ago.
Captain John A. Young was nominated
on the 936th ballot in the Republican
senatorial convention at Washington.
In less than four hours two auction
GERS at Creston disposed Of over $4,000
worth of live stock at very high pricese.
Officers at Alton made general raid
on the gambling houses of that city and
captured seven well-developed specimens.
Henry Waukenfeldt, carpenter at
Iowa City, fell from the new brick build
ing, distance of thirty feet, breaking
his neck.
The late school census of Webster
County shows that there are about ten
thousand children in the county of school
age.
The Supervisors of Cass County have
decided to submit proposition for a
$4,000 Jail to the voters at the coming
election.
A small fire scorched the Home Med
zeal and Surgical Infirmary at Toledo,
damaging the building to the amount of
about 5000.
Adolph G. Knocke, native Of Daven-
port, committed suicide by drinking bot
tie of carbolic acid and afterward shoot
ing himself,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16


The signing of the fugitive slave law
and Its attempted enforcement were
the acts which made him unpopular
and prevented his nomination. Thus
one incident might turn the tide of pop
nlarity against a President and do away
with any possibility of his becoming
his own successor, His cabinet was in
entire accord with him throughout his
administration, and the country at his
retirement was enjoying peace and
prosperity. Despite this he could not
command 20 votes in the Wing conven-
ton of 1852. In 1856 he was the nomi-
nee of the American party for Presi-
dent, and only the State of Maryland
gave him Its electoral vote.
Andrew johnson. who succeeded Lin
coin. the first of our country's trio of
martyred Presidents, was born In Ra-
leigh, N. c.. Dec. 20, 1905. and died
near Carter's Station. Tenn. July 81,
1875. His parents were very poor and
when he was years old his father
died from injuries received while saw
ing another from drowning. He was
taught to read by his fellow workmen
in tailor shop, where he was an ap-
prentice. Shortly before he was q he
was married and his wife. being tai
ented woman. taught him writing and
read to him while he worked at his
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16

ond appointed George Washington
general and commander in chief of all
the continental forces, raised or to be
raised, for the defense of american lib
erty;;' the third adopted rules and reg
ulations for the government Of the
arny'-the articles of war, which, mod
lied and amended from time to time,
still govern the army and form the ba-
sis of the military law.
This was the origin of the American
army. In the intervening 1876 years
nearly 5,OO0,00O men have worn Its uni
form; 1t has conducted with success
five great wars. covering period Of
seventeen years, and numerous minor
campaigns against hostile Indians and
Filipino insurgents; 1t has been the
chief Instrument in restoring order and
inaugurating civil government after
the war with Mexico, the Civil War,
and the war with Spain: from its ranks
have come eleven of the twenty-four
Presidents of the United States, and
many hundreds of men occupying the
highest civil offices, Governors of
States, Senators and Representatives
in Congress, Cabinet ministers, ambas-
sailors and judges of the most import
ant courts.
For people who have never sought
war and have only resorted to it when
reluctantly forced to do so, the army
has filled large place In our history.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
Thousands of voices, through many

thousands of voices. through many
years. have been raised in melodious ut.
terance of the beautiful words of LEAD.
Kindly Light" and Nearer. My God, to
Thee" but probably never before have
these hymns been sung with such depth
OF feeling aud such n fullness Of meaning
as during the days following the death
OF President Mckinley. Ever dear, the
TACT that they were the fayorites of the
martyred President around whose bier n
nation mourned has made them more than
ever precious. Bands of music PLAYED
the notes In solemn dirge and in the
churches of the land organs pealed forth
the touching strains and lips uttered the
words, while the mind dwelt upon the
scene where the spirit of William McIlin.
icy went out in sublime submission to the
will of the Master.
How trustfully he yielded himself to
the guiding hand OF the Universe, Into
the Great BEYOND he passed, in the spirit
SO beautifully expressed by Cardinal
Newman's hymn:
Lead Kindly Light, amid the encircllns
-. Lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and / am far from bomo..
Lead Thou me on!
!heep Thou my feet; do not ask TO see
Inc distant scene-one step enough for me.
was not eyer thus, nor prayed that Thou
Shouldst lead me or.
! loved to choose and see my path: but nov
Lead Thou me on! -
l loved the garish day, and, spite of fears.
fnde ruled my Will; remember not past
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
Conservative and Proeressivc.

A Mexican paper says that some of
the old conservative business houses of
the city Of Montezumas cling to eight.
eenth century ways as persistently as
do few such establishments in Lon.
don. Several of them are still using
tallow dips.
A bookkeeper, we are told, may be
seen making his entries in a great
ledger by the light of single candle,
and the wealthy proprietor may be
found bending over his big mahogany
desk thanked by two tall and stately
candelabra.
While Mexico holds on to the good
old times and ways, farther north we do
not know how to move fast enough. and
the invention of yesterday must stand
aside for the improvements of to-day.
In California fruit-growers are no long.
err content to let nature take her own
way, and freeze up their crops when
she has mind SO to do. They now
prevent damage by frost by forcing
hot water through number Of burrows
among their groves. The air is heated
by the rising -of the water vapor and
thus the temperature cannot cool to the
degree of frost. Every country has its
own methods,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16

In her widowhood the beloved wife
Of our last martyred President has the
deep sympathy and compassion not
only of the public generally, but In par
ticular of three other ladies' who have
presided over the White House and who
have since been bereft of the noble hus
bands on whom they leaned and to
whom they were source of Joy and
comfort. The eldest of these Is Mrs.
Ulysses s. Grant. Julia Dent had mar
ried plain U. S. Grant Aug. %, 1S4S.
when he was In the regular army, sta
toned at Detroit. Later he went to
Panama and the Pacific coast and, after
leaving the army at 80, began strug-
gle for existence on farm near ST.
Louis, with his wife and one son, now
Gen. Frederick d. Grant. Mrs. Grant
was by her husbands side through all
the hardships which followed. Few OF
the aristocracy of st. Louis in 1858
could have been made to believe that
the Grant who hauled wood for them
and the wife who waited for him at the
farm would be on their way to the
White House ten years later. 1t was in
May, 1861. that Grant entered the SER
vice OF the State of Illinois and began
that career which was to make him
twice President. Mrs. Grant was
essentially an ornament to the White
House, as distinguished in the social
life of the capital as was her husband
In national affairs. When his fatal i'll
ness came and the long struggle against
encroaching disease those qualities
which had at first endeared her to him
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
He Knew of the a,,men,

The bachelor who spends his SUNDAYS
in visiting his friends in the country
proverbially has blue Monday on
his return. Sometimes his depressed
mental state is brought still lower by
disagreeable neighbors ON the home.
ward trip. One downcast traveller in
the double seat of a railway car lately
was greatly annoyed by his seatmate.
n man whose flesh seemed to overflow.
and who smothercd the bachelor every
time he turned leaf of his newspaper.
A peaceable person, and one rarely
moved an anger, the bachelor found
himself on this occasion so irritable
that he could not keep out of trouble:
SO, fully expecting that fight would
follow, and rather hoping that 1t might.
he leaned over and fetched the large
man a fierce dig in the ribs with his
elbow. But only disappointment fol-
lowed, for his neighbor turned and
laughed in his face, and said, with mis-
placed sympathy: aha! Monday morn
ing Crouch. see. Had it myself, lots
Of times!"-New York Evening Post,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16

Il.
cord with their ideas. He had opinions
of his own and determination to carry
them out. He came into direct conflict
with Henry Clay. the Wing leader, on
bills relating to financial affairs and in
his contention received no support from
the Democrats. AT one time his entire
cabinet, with the exception of Daniel
Webster. Secretary of State. resigned.
He was. also at variance with the dom
inant party on the tariff question and
his administration was one of political
strife. The most notable events We're
the signing of the Webster Ashburton
treaty with Great Britain and the adop-
ton of the resolutions admitting Texas
into the Union.
TAYLOR'S SUCCESSOR.
Willard Fillmore was born in Cayusa
County, N. Y, In 1900. and died In Buff
falo. n. Y, in 1874. AT the time he
succeeded Taylor he was nearer in ac-
cord with the policy of the administra-
ton than any other Vice President who
ever succeeded to the Presidency
through the death of his chief with the
exception of Roosevelt, yet only few
months elapsed when dissenslons
arose, and near the close of his admin
istration he was unable to secure a
nomination from his party. 1t is prob
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
VICE=PRESIDENTS WHO
SUCCEEDED TO THE PRESIDENCY
Those Who Have Been Elected to the High
Office by the Deaths of Chief Executives

of his services in maintaining the au-
thority of the government during the
early years of the rebellion, he was
considered an available candidate for
the Vice Presidency on the ticket with
Lincoln in 1864 and 1t was believed
that he would attract to the ticket the
support of those people who did not
wish to ally themselves with the Re-
publican party. but who were opposed
to the principles of the secessionists.
Shortly after President Lincoln's death,
johnson was sworn In as Chief Magis-
trate by Chief Justice Chase. He made
no pledges, but 1t was known that he
was not In accord with the pacific pol.
icy of Lincoln in bringing about the
reconstruction of the Southern States.
He said, Treason Is crime and must
be punished" This was the keynote of
his policy and 1t soon brought him In
conflict with the leaders of the Repub-
lican party. So wide did the breach
become that impeachment proceedings
We're instituted and President johnson
was sustained by only one vote.
ARTHUR'S ADMINISTRATION
When President Garfield died from
the wounds of an assassin's bullet, the
Republican party was divided into two
powerful factions. known as the stall
warts and half-breeds, the former led
by Roscoe Conkling and the latter by
James g. Blaine. The martyred Presi-
dent had favored the Blaine contingent
while Arthur was allied with Conkling
and his followers. Therefore, when the
Vice President succeeded to the Presi-
dency, the political policy, at least, of
the administration changed. but despite
his large following and the power of po-
litical patronage, he could not control
the next Republican National conven.
tion. He made a good President. how
ever. and the country enjoyed peace
and prosperity while he was at the helm
of State
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
ployed in looking after the plantations
on the estate-such man, who had to
put up' with this danendent nosition for

ployed in looking after the plantations
on the estate-such man, who had to
put up with this dependent position for
fifty years, would be looked upon as es.
pecially unfortunate. And yet, accord,
ing to old traditions and the laws of
the house, the case of the German
Crown Prince Is a similar one."
1t is evident that the old Emperor
William was quite willing to accept
such state Of things. Early in the sew.
entities the artist. Anton Won Werner,
wasappointed to perpetuate the impe.
rial proclamation. He first made a
sketch. to submit to the Emperor. In
this, the various personages were
grouped In the same order as during
the ceremony at Versailles, William /.
standing on n raised platform, with
Bismarck at his left, on a lower step,
and Oh his right the Crown Prince,
whom the artist had represented with
one foot on the upper level. The EN-
peror examined the sketch. and at once
noted the position of the Grown Prince.
He frowned, took his pencil and made a
thick, rapid stroke through his sons
right leg.
ssNot vet" said he
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
PASSING.

Low In the West the daylight dips,
While by the pool the Summer stands
With stain of purple on her lips
And scarlet flowers in her hands.
Within the watery mirror there,
Narcissus.like she sees her face,
80 pale, so sweet, so mortal fair,
And fingers spellbound by It's grace.
The morning red is vanished now,
The splendor of the noon is gone,
And, like veil on check and brow,
The wreathed mist is clinging wan.
A breath from meadows shorn exhales,
A sigh goes down the forest ways,
The dryads of the woody wales
Are mourning for the passing days.
And Summer hears the warning note,
As by the reedy pools she stands,
Her fading tresses all afloat
And scarlet flowers in her hands.
st. Louis Mirror.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
Turned the Tables.

A little cotton-tail rabbit turned the
tables on party Of hunters recently
In rather tragic manner. The Sunny
South tells the story of how the hunted
creature became the successful hunter.
Louis Fries, a boy of fifteen, with his
father, Peter Fries, and Chris Riech,
went out for little sport. They had
walked mile or two into the woods
when a rabbit was started. The dog
kept between them and the rabbit till
the rabbits burrow was reached.
The boy reached the burrow first. He
laid his gun, which was cooked, upon
the ground, and securing a long pole,
began punching into the hole where the
rnbbit had disappeared. The rabbit,
finding this procedure disagreeable,
leaped from the hole so suddenly as to
startle the boy and confuse the dog.
At the first bound the rabbits foot
struck the trigger of the gun. The force
of the blow was sufficient to discharge
the gun, and the soad of shot entered
young Fries left thigh. The range was
short, and the shot went into the boy
in bunch, making wound that re.
CURED an improvised tourniquet to pre-.
vent death from hemorrhage.
1t costs at least $25 to show prope,
appreciation Of having a baby named
for you.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
he was already on the road, 81 have
ordered back the pipes and stills"

he was already on the road. 81 have
ordered back the pipes and stills"
THE dickens you have" roared I'm
derwood, as he paced the miserable
room.
A quarter of an hour later Esme was
in the cozy office Of her friend and ad-
wiser, Mr.. Rance.
at is large sum of money to invest
in landed property, Miss Esme."
II know" said the girl, in her quick,
bright way. "but what does that mat
ter? I have ever so much more when
that is spent. Besides happen to know
the mortgage will be foreclosed IL this
money is not paid, and have other
reasons as WELL"
Beauty trotting along-in the twilight
was within mile of her own warm
stable, when she suddenly swerved
from dark figure walking rapidly
In the shadow.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16

au. lie liau Scurce- II. Il. sToDDAkD.
ly removed to Texas when he took up
arms for the South. serving throughout
the war in the Confederate army. He
was paroled May 10, 1865, at Jackson,
Miss. having risen to the rank of cap
tain from private. Since that time
he has been in the cotton and cattle
business. He is now one of the leading
cotton brokers of Texas. In the Texas
Volunteer Guard Mr.. Stoddard was q
brigadier general from 1885 until 1893.
In 1867 Mr.. Stoddard was prominent in
the relief Of the yellow fever stricken
in Texas, remaining In the little town
OF Millican when there were but three
people left who did not have the dis.
ease. He also did heroic work at Gal
weston during that clty's hour of need.
He Is greatly beloved by his brother
KNIGHTS
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16

became more ana more nationally
known, winning the unstinted admira-
ton Of the people. Mrs. Grant still
lives, happy In the life of her children
and grandchildren.
Mrs. rutherford B. Hayes, as the
successor of Mrs. Grant In the White
House, came into social life of the capt.
tai when much bitterness prevailed.
Democratic authorities and Democratic
wives believed that Tilden had been
elected, and that President Hayes was
an usurper. Mrs. Hayes was Il woman
Of tact, slow to give provocation and
most anxious with her husband to allay
the bad feelings aroused during the
election. She succeeded in doing this
long before her husbands term ended.
One of the strongest steps taken by her
after her arrival in Washington was a
stand against the use of liquor at Presi-
Dental functions. Like Mrs. Grant,
she survived her husband and is still
living at Fremont. Ohio.
Mrs. James A. Garfield is also living.
In wealth, in retirement and in the en-
joyment of her beautiful home at Men
tor, the widow of the President who fell
a victim to misguided political strife
probably now thinks of the days, u
score Of years ago, when millions
watched with her in spirit at her hus-
bands bedside and wept with her at
his grave. The nation never. knew
Lucretia Garfield as it knew the wives
of other Presidents. She never cared
for society and as mistress of the White
House, during the brief period of her
husbands occupancy of the executive
chair, she was little seen. She was in
Ill health much of the time. Mrs. Car
fields maiden name was Lucretla Ru-
dolph. and she was the pupil of her
husband at Hiram College long before
he married her. They began their home
life under modest circumstances and
accumulated little during the Presi-
dents lifetime. His estate, at death,
amounted to $4,000. His life insur-
ance was $4,000. Could he return now
and see the wealth and luxury of his
family he would, indeed, be amazed.
His widow to-day is worth million.
When he died, Congress voted her his
salary for n full year, in addition to an
annual pension of 5000. A fund was
raised by the public amounting to
100000 Cyrus w. Field invested this
for Mrs. Garfield and it has nearly
trebled now. In addition to her vast
wealth, she has what is infinitely more
precious-the memory of the repeated
expressions of her husband. during his
long illness, in which he spoke of her
love for and devotion to him.
OF what Mrs. Mckinley has borne it
is not necessary to speak. The nation
has observed the close union between
husband and wife and 1t has touched
the peoples hearts.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison cannot be
properly called the widow of Presi-
dent. 1t was not, however, until after
he had left the Presidential chair that
she was married to him; so that she
does not occupy place in the same
category with Mrs. Mckinley, Mrs.
Garfield, Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Grant.
The country remembers her as the
widow of an ex-President.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
coAL-HEAvlNo GIRLS.
Feat of Athletic japanese Maidens
Amazed the Bishop.


Bishop Potter, in the Century, says
that of all he saw in Japan that which
lives most wildly in his memory is the
loading of a steamship with coal at
Nagasaki. He thus describes the scene.
The huge vessel, the Empress of
Japan, was one morning, soon after its
arrival at Nagasaki, suddenly festooned
can use no other word, from stem to
stern on each side with hanging plat.
forms, the broadcast nearest the base,
strung together by ropes, and ascending
from the sampans, or huge boats in
which the coal had been brought along.
side the steamer, until the highest and
narrowest platform was just below tie
particular port-hole through which the
coal was received into the ship.
There were four or five of these plat.
forms. one above another, on each Of
which stood young girl.
On board the sampans men were fill.
ing long line of baskets holding, |
should think, about two buckets of coal,
and these We're passed up from the
sampans in continuous line unril they
reached their destination; each young
girl, as she stood on her platform, pass
ing, or rather almost throwing, the huge
basket to the girl above her, and she
again to her mate above her, and so on
to the end.
The rapidity. skill and, above all, the
Rhythmic precision with which, for
hours, this really tremendous task was
performed was an achievement which
might fill an American athlete with
envy and dismay.
AS moved to and fro on the deck
above them took out my watch to time
the girls, and again and again count.
ed sixty-nine baskets--the number new
err fell below slNty-passed on board in
single minute.
Think of it! The task, l ought rather
to call 1t an art, so neatly, simply and
gracefully was it done, was this: The
young girl stopped to her companion be-
low her, seized from her uplifted hands
a huge basket of coal, and then shoot
ing her little arms upward, tossed it
to the girl above her.
And all the wh.:e there was heard, as
one passed along from one to another of
these chains of living elevators, a clear,
rhythmlcal sound, which supposed at
first to be produced by some bystander
striking the metal string of something
like mandolin, but which discovered,
after little, was series of notes pro-
duced by the lips of these young coal
beavers, distinct, precise, melodious
and stimulating.
And at this task these girls continued
uninterruptedly and bllthely, from 10
o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, putting on board in
that time. l was told, more than a thou
sand tons of coal. am free to say that
do not believe there is another body
of work-folk in the world who could
perform the same task in the same time
and with the same ease.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
Their Second Meeting.

When Miss Swagger met Mr.. Sap
hedde at the seaside she thought he
was millionaire and he permitted her
to think so. although he was humble
clerk in hotel ut the Sqwedunk. On
her return home, some weeks after his
departure, 1t so happened that she
stopped over night at the Sqwedunk
Hotel. Her meeting with Mr.. Sap.
hedde was very embarrassing to him
until she said, "oh, you didn't tell me
you were hotel proprietor"
NO" he said, alrily, 81 own several
hotels over the country, but l didn't
think they We're hardly worth mention
iug."-Ohio State Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-16
Special Taxes in France.

In France doors and windows are
taxed in over 100000 houses and re-
turns made n few years ago showed
that the amount received from such
taxation was just about half as much
as was received from the land tax.
Every railway ticket IN France is taxed
and, in fact, in that country almost ev-
erything of any value or of money-pro-
ducing power is taxed, either by CEN
trail or local authorities or both. Every
thing that goes Into any city or town
in the shape of wine, fruit, poultry, fish
or any kind Of food or drink is taxed
rs it enters.
Any person placing tables, plants or
flowers In front Of his establishment or
an awning over doors or windows is
taxed for so doing. The town authori.
ties of Bonn, in Germany, have decreed
that every projecting window or bal
cony shall be taxed 80 marks, or about
60 10 shillings, year.