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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
A Remarkable Family.

John Chandler, who resides in Allen
County, is the father of twenty-nine
children, twenty-one of whom are lIy-
ing and have families. These twenty
one children have an average of five
children to each family, thus making
Mr.. Chandler the grandfather of 105
persons. But this is not the full extent
of his offspring, for he has thirty-five
greatgrandchildren SO 1t will be seen
that Mr.. Chandler stands pater famI-
lias of 162-an achievement rarely
equaled. 1t is certainly not paralleled
when the fact is considered that the
members of this large family are all
living.
Mr.. Chandler Is a remarkable man In
several other respects. Although rs
years of age and residing In the hills
of Allen County, he reads current liter
iaturei and keeps himself Informed ON
the leading topics of the day. His eye.
sight is perfect, and lie reads the finest
print without the aid of glasses. He
is an expert rifle shot, and spends a
great deal of his time squirrel hunting.
He cast his first ballot for n Presiden-
tial candidate in 1913 for Taylor, the
Wing nominee, but for the past fifty
years has voted the Democratic ticket.
His wife. who is three years older than
he, is hale and hearty. Bowling Green
Times. -
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
BIRDS THAT KILL RAITLsRs.
Road Runners of Arizona Deadi,
Enemy to the Snakes.

Eonl Runners of Arizona Deadly
Enemy to the Snakes.
In country where quarter of IL
century ago rattlesnake was to he
found under every rock and in every
hillock, the reptile is rapidly becoming
rarity. With his human relative, the
Apache, the RATHER is disappearing
from Arizona and is now found only
in the most Isolated districts.
To the advance of civilization and the
unremitting warfare of the road run.
ner and the king snake may be attrib-
uted the determination of the rattler.
Wherever irrigation has found its way.
the .rattlesnake has been driven to
higher ground, and there the prospect
or and miner have slain him whenever
and wherever found. The road runner,
that long-legged featfered warrior, the
( fighting cock of the desert, has done
his part, and has done 1t well.
Much resembling, but more lightly
constructed than the lighting cock. tho
road runner is one;of the most dreaded
enemies of the rattler. In fact, SO
great are his snake-killing procliyities
that heavy penalties are provided by
the territorial statutes MS a. protection
to him from the gun Of the hunter. APP
parently immune from the venom in
the poison sac of the rattler, the road
runner attacks the largest snake with
IMMUNITY, and has never been known to
lose fight. Frequently indeed, the
road runner has been known to battle
with and kill pair of large diamond
rattlers, whose total weight was five
times that of his own.
Not SO common nm enemy to the
rattlesnake, but no less deadly, is the
king snake, a large species of the bull
snake family. Rarely seen in the lower
countries. but often found in the North
ern forests and higher mountains, the
king snake wages constant warfare on
the rattler, and when his great 1.-THE
form coils around the body of the rat
tlesnake, the life of the later is a mat
ter of only n few seconds.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
Brief state happenings,

A gang of colored crooks in Burl.ng-
ton touched stranger for $40.
The hospital is now an assured fact in
Waterloo, the necessary $4,000 having
been subscribed.
G. Cosgrove Of Burlington was struck
by an engine and pretty badly bruised,
but viii recover.
Miss Elsie Gibbs, Des Moines young
lady, fell from cherry tree and broke
her shoulder blade.
A Des Moines livery man is looking for
u man who hired n horse and phaeton but
failed to return them.
Mrs. Anna Wolf of Lmverne, the larg-
est woman in the State. has just died.
She weighed $50 pounds.
Ernest Heindorf. park policeman i'll
Des Moines, was Frustrated by the heat
and died in a few hours.
Danbury, a town that covers about fif-
ty acres, will vote on increasing its cor
porate limits to about $50 acres.
DR.. Kennedy os the State board of
health snys that the recent hot spell has
killed the smallpox epidemic in Iowa.
John Junkins. n colored man at OF
tumwa, fell from a hay loft and frac-
tured his skull, and death will result.
George Hanson, 12-year-old lal of
Bode, had an arm broken by falling off a
load of hay.
An Ottumwa man is in limbo charged
with attempting to set fire to the pest
house there.
Fire at Creston destroyed the Brennan
foundry and several valuable patterns
were lost.
Leroy OpDenborg, a farmer near La
coma, was crushed by his team so severe
ly that death resulted.
John Killan, a coal miner at Boone,
was shot and stabbed by an unknown
man, but will recover.
Milo H. Geer, member of the SOL
diers' home at Marshalltown, was pros
trated by the heat and died.
Two thousand eight hundred quarts of
Strawberries were picked off an acre
patch at Audubon this year.
A brakeman fired couple of young fell
lows off train near Boone and one of
them sustained serious injury.
Mrs. Webb Rawlings OF Castana, while
despondent, drank a quantity of carbolic
acid and death will result. 81
Frank Trerethan Of Fort Dodge, re-
Gently released from the reform school,
has been held to the grand jury charged
with forging check.
Jacob Thompson, the young Marshall
town man who was so severely scalded,
will recover unless complications set in.
Lewis Unger of Dysart, who was camp
ing at Stonc Point, just north OF Mt.
Auburn, with his family, was drowned
while bathing.
The NJ. & st. l.. gravel pit men at
Pilot Mound struck for higher wages,
hut the company discharged them and
secured others ut the advanced rate.
AT Cedar Rapids FIRE OF unknown or
igin destroyed the contents of Joseph
Gardner's home, ana in an effort to save
the goods Gardner's 15-year-cl | boy, Will
lie, was overcome with heat. He fell
into the flames and was fatally burned
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
Among Our Neirhbor..

Fire at Oskaloosa seriously damaged
the Stein feed mill.
Raspberry crops throughout the State
have been killed by the heat.
August Johnson of Des Moines had his
pockets picked and 500 stolen.
The Iowa Central has purchased sixty
acres of gravel land near Clifford.
The total tax on farm property in
Grundy County this year is $780, 6S.
4 G. Dewey of Logan was robbed of $40
while asleep in n Council Bluffs hotel.
+ A tifty-pound catfish was caught re-
Gently by 14-year-old lad at Red Oak.
Many acres of potatoes have been de-
stroyed by the potato bug at Laurens.
Mrs. L. Fish of Belle PLANE fell down
her cellarway and broke her shoulder.
Eddyville has purchased chemical and
hand fire engine for its fire department.
Work has commenced on the big Wood
bury Monona ditch in Woodbury. County.
Dubuque is enforcing all boarding
house keepers to pay license of So a
year.
A farmer at Maxwell is importing from
England twelve fine stations for his
farm.
Fred Smith and Charles Garrett, scav-
engers, were overcome by foul gases and
killed at Ottumwa.
Indications now are that the industrial
school for Indians ut Toledo will be filled
with pupils this fall.
Two train robbers were captured while
at work near California Junction, bit
| one of them afterMsrd escaped.
Citizens of Laurens have donated rent,
given suppers and raised money to start
blind broom maker in business.
The First Baptist Church at Burling-
ton has extended II call to Rev. j.. O..
Staples of Jefferson to become its pas,
tor.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

Guide of Lu Lu ?. Q. sHAfFER.
temple In Philadelphia. For three
years he was the potentate of the TEN.
pie, and he was elected to the office of
the deputy imperial potentate at the
last meeting of the Shrlners. Mr.. Shat
fer, as may be imagined, is one Of the
most enthusiastic of the shriners in the
country. He is devoted to spirit and
purpose of this order, and few men
have more mystic friends than he has
in his home city and throughout the
country. 1t was believed from the be-
ginning that he would be promoted
from the second highest to the highest
office in the order. M. Shaffer is promi-
nent in the furniture trade of the city
of Philadelphia.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

o
in
of rubber
vehicle
city From the in vehicle will be
will
until first his destination The be lighted
electric
strength Of the driving wheels expected to enable each omnibus
trailer
as we'll The storage battery will used and the vehicles will charged
which
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

young woman to send her forth man.
acled by ignorance to take part in the
strenuous life confronting every man
and woman of today. The educated
woman is the best equipped of her sex
for wifehood, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette. By education Is meant
not, of course, mere book learning, but
that culture which is physical, mental,
ethical and Industrial.
That girl is right who suites: Prom
my Judgment, collegc-b bred, practical
girl is more fitted for n housekeeper or
wife than girls that have been less for
tunate, and you men that expect SO
much want to stop and look at things
from an intelligent standpoint, We are
all born with more or less knowledge Of
housekeeping; we are born with that
motive in view, just as much rs we are
born girls; we are impressed from ba-
byhood almost that we are some time
expected to have the same responsible
ties that our mothers have. Now, l
say that the technicalities of law, medi-
cine. music. art in all Its phases, help to
perfect our understood allotment"
The kind of man worthy wife is
able to select from those who spent
their time in college one who acquired
the knowledge needed for use in all the
walks of life. The true college-bred
woman can give; when called upon,
practical illustrations of useful knowl-
edge. In some instaG Ces-too many i'm
deed-the knowledge of the college girl
has, after her marriage, no call for nc
tive exercises. She marries either an
inferior man or one who places her in
a position without due freedom of ac-
ton. The woman in such case is to be
pitied rather than blamed for lack of
success in housekeeping 1t is not her
lack of knowledge. but her surround
ing that is at fault.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
The LOST GARDEN.

49,
rsomewhere In the distant southland
biooms a garden lost to me
Warm with peoples burning fragrant,
Drowsy fires may not see.
Subtle shadows fit and beckon
Down dim pathways bound with yew,
Where a white wrath wanders lonely
Iwixt the. darkness and the dew.
I'm the ruined walls that echoed
Once to happy-hearted. moods,
Now the stealthy, lightfoot lizards
. unmoiested rear their broods.
And beneath the oleapders,
No clear voice sings as Of old;
But the feet caressing sunbeams
Whisper secrets to their mold.
Though follow us the southwind
Fares his way through wood and plain,
Though question hill and valley,
! shall never find again Il. 81
my lost garden-where lie buried
Joys that swift the glad hours sped;
Only one could bid me enter;
Only Love and Love is dead!'
Ainslee's.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
THE LITTLE WIDOW

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n n the sunshiny room Of Mrs. Endi-
colt there was a buzz of conversa-
q ton and the sound of shipping Of
scissors. and II was evident that the
Embroidery circle of Huxbrt6ge was in
.onclave. Mandy Nichols occupied the
tthair by the window, and as she raised
I her head from the. bit Of satin on which
she was working nm Impossible flower.
the gave an exclamation.
Here is Mrs. Hemenway," she an
.nounced, ..nnd the little widow just
passed her In her carriage and bowed
to her. "a
The impudent thing. Did Mrs. Hem
5enway-oh, here she Isl aud the host
ess arose TO greet her guest, who with
much rustling Of stiff silk entered the
room. Il
so glad you came, DEAR cried Mrs.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
COLLEGE GIRLS AS WIVES,

"rhe Educated Woman Is the Best
Equipped of Her Sex"
1t is now admitted, especially in
America, that woman is rs much en-
titled to education as man; that thor
ough school training may be Of great
benefit In the discharge Of her every
duty as wife. mother aud matron. and
that IT is unfair, as well as unjust, to a
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
CHASING AFTER FIRES.
A New Wrinkle In the Insurance Bn.
ticss Snid to Paw Well

A New Wrinkle In the Insurance Bnsi-
ucss snid to Pay Well.
The latest thing for fire insurance
agents to do is to be on the spot look
ing for new business while old business
Is burning up. One of the; canvassers
of New England company began to
make money SO rapidly few months
ago that some Of his competitors tried
to find out how he did 1t.
They learned that he made u special
ty of following the fire engines. and II
the fire happened to be.in a tenement
house or fiat, he waited until the flames
We're subdued and reaped a harvest by
insuring the other tenants and neigh
bors. Most people are apt to be SO bad
ly scared by a fire near their he.ae that
If not Insured they are glad to take on.
policies on the spot. 1t ididn't take the
other agents long to catch on, and It is
said that the other day after fire
etwenty-one agents wrote seventy poll
cies in the immediate neighborhood.
sIt is a great scheme" said one of
these agents yesterday. "All one has
to do Is to hit the iron while 1t is hot
! Don't talk insurance to any of the ten.
ants or neighbors while tile fire is CO.
Ing on. because they are likely to be
too excited to think of anything but
their personal safety. When every
thing is quieted down and the fire EN-
glnes are going away is the time to
jump in with your proposition. OF
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
The ROBBERY a Fake.

According to story now current In
Burlington the celebrated express robbery
in that city about year ago was a fake.
1t was put-up job between the eN-
press company and the railroad to get
the case into the courts to determine who
was liable for the money. For month
after the alleged robbery is supposed to
have taken place the papers all over the
country were full of the matter and the
theft was n years wonder. No one could
be found who saw the valuable package
after 1t reached the Burlington depot.
Detectives and police officials worked I'M
dustriously for time on the case, but
they were completely bafiled. If the
present story is true these people had
good reasons for not finding anything.
It was thought at the time that it was
rather queer that efforts to find the rob
bers were dropped within month or so
after the robbery is supposed to have oc-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
Found couuterfeiter,. outflt.

All the paraphernalia requisite to man
Sufacture nm unlimited quantity of lead
dollars and half-dollars was found hid
den under culvert on the tracks of the
Omaha and st. Louis Railroad about
three miles southeast of Council Bluffs
A son. of NJ Gibbons. while casually in
speeding the culvert and its construction.
ran dcross the outfit and informed the
.ndlice. ~.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
Where Do RepubIican, stand.

Senator Foraker is right, no doubt.
in saying that the Democratic party
has not lately made an authoritative
declaration of what 1t would do, If in
power, about the tariff, the money of
the country, shipping bounties, the Nj
caragua canal, Porto Rico. the Philip
pines. Cuba and other matters.
There has been no convocation au-
thorized to speak for the Democratic
party of the nation for nearly yeas
Mr.. Foraker is warranted, therefore, in
assuming that the Democratic party
has not changed, judging 1t by its own
official record.
But It is just as true of the Republi-
can party as 1t is of the Democratic
party that nobody knows to certainty
what 1t means to do or can agree to do
about most of these matters, which are
9f very great Importance,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

peal to your honor regarding my SON.
s." but the rest was never finished,
as Mrs. Hemenway. swooned, and would
have fallen but FOR Helen's strong
young arms. She sent servant for
the doctor, and then did her best for
the woman who had insulted her. The
physician arrived, and at the same time
Guy Hemenway. One glance at the pa
itient, and the doctor said bluntly:
"Small-pox.'
Helen went white to the lips, and put
her soft hands to her pretty, fiower-like
face. The maids fled from the room.
Il am sorry, Mrs. Sartoris,Y said the
doctor. "but 1 will have to isolate you
until ! AM sure you have not caught
the Infection.
The little widow looked Mt her enemy
as she lay helpless, looked at Guy as
he tried to TAKE her from the room, and
thought OF Bebe.
1T would be easier for you to look
after us together, she said, brayely,
though her face was still white, there
FORE shall stay with Mrs. Hemenway-
II you will promise to look after my
little girl
And weeks later, when Mrs. Hemen-
way took her first drive her son held the.
ribbons, while a little. authenticated
child sat at his side, and Helen, now
Mrs. Hemenway, looked after the old
err woman's Philadelphia
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

On the Oceanic line steamer Ventura
from San Francisco Samuel Macyline,
living near Red Oak, was n cabin passen-
ger for Australia, where he goes to take
possession of an estate worth $4,000
left by his uncle. The boy was working
as farm hand near Burlington, when
notified of his good Fortune
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

and one of the best
known men in that
Z city. He has just
entered upon his
tifty-flrst year and
for more than one
half Of his life has
been a Mason. Up
wards of seventeen
years ago he Joined
the Shriners, and
for twelve years he
ofiiciated IN the
post Of Oriental
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

When a boy is not invited to party
ne lfengs around the outside to see
how things are going.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
PHILIPPE 8. sHAFFER.

New Imperial Potcntate of the Mystic
Shriners.
Philip g. Shaffer, the new imperial
.potentate of the Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, is a native Of Philadelphia
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

Triplets are problems that can BE-
solved only by the rule Of three.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
Cents and Nickels in Demand.

According to United States Treasurer
Roberts. cents and nickels are now be-
ing used to a much greater extent than
ever before.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

Villa formerly meant a farm. and
not q house.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

Don't stand by your colors when you
ought to fight for them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24
AROUND A BIG STATE
INTERESTING ITEMS. OF LATE
IOWA NEWS.
Father Rescues His Two Daughters
Severe Fire I1oss at Leiyard--Express
The ut Burlington Thought to Have
: Been. Bogus unfortunate Farm Hand.

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Word reached Des AIoines of q thrill
ing rescue of the two daughters of NJ. ".
McQuaid, a wholesale grocer of that city.
The two girls, Bessie and Edith, aged 10
and %, We're out. on raft in the lake
with two of their companions. In some
way all four girls lost their hold on the
raft Mt the same time. How it happened
none Of them is able to state. None OF
them was able to swim. and they had TAX
en- the raft along for the purpose of keep
ing themselves above water when they
got out beyond their depth. The two
girls nearer shore managed to get to land
with safety and Immediately raised an
goutcry. McQuaid. who was some dis
lance from the shore, rushed down to
the waters edge, plunged into the water
with. all his clothing, and swan out to
where his two daughters were. The wat
er was clear, and he was Mortified to see
both of them lying at the bottom of the
lake motionless. He was in quandary.
One of them might be beyond rescue and
the other vet alive, or both Of them might
be still living. Yet he was able to take
only one of them at time with him to
the shore, 100 yards distant. He finally
succeeded in clutching the clothing Of
Bessie, the younger of the girls, and
started to the shore with her. He had
gone only little way when he met
George NJ. Dimmitt, a friend, to whom he
gave the unconscious girl, and returned
aud rescued the other. Both were taken
to the shore, and after superhuman eff
forts were res,lscitated
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

Leiyari Suffers Sever, Loss.
At Ledyard FIRE burned all of the north
side of the city, including the hotels and
livery barn. A special train brought peo-
pie from Gilmore and Bancroft to help
fight the flames. The fire started short
" after p. M, and was not under con-
troll until after o'clock. The total loss
is estimated at about $4,000. The losses
In detail are as follows: ]. w. Neister,
hardware stock. $500, insurance $500;
building $1,5O0. no insurance.; State
Bank, $4,000, no insurance; II. B. Bleich.
drugs, building and stock, $500, insur-
ance $1,000; w. A. Wright, general mer-
chandise, building and stock, $4,000, in
surance $1,000; N. Tillmeny, general mer-
chandise, stock, $4,000, insurance So, 600;
State Bank building $4,000, no insur-
ance; jerks hotel and livery barn, "a,
600, insurance $1,000; Gene Wescctt,
blacksmith shop, $500, no insurance;
Fred jerks, dwelling $500, insurance UNI
certain. N. Tillmeny, Il. Weimer and Fl.
+. Bleich all lost considerable household
a. Z g.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

Straws show which way the wind
blows, as the world has been told be-
fore, and significant straw is the fact
that the New England Free Trade
League reports a gain of fifty new
members last month, and is receiving
many requests daily for its tariff trust
articles, mainly from the West. Peo-
pie everywhere are taking lively in
terest in the tariff question for the
reason that there is fresh evidence
every day that our commercial and in
dustrial future demands revision of
the Dingley bill to meet new condi.
lions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

Perry s. Heath is destined to make
a sensational finish. He has figured in
Journalism, in politics and in banking,
and he is now in railroads. The fact
that he has not as yet achieved great
success in any of these lines does not
prove that he will make failure in all.
The strenuous life has charms for him
and nothing short of worldwide panic
which will freeze up all the sources of
speculative wealth is likely to stop him.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-24

The matter of completing the work of
equalizing the assessment on real estate
and personal property was more quickly
reached than anticipated and tho State
executive council has given out the re-
suits of both the equalization and direct
assessment. The result shows UP in n