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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
The STATE FINANCE.

The amount of funds in the State treas
ury at the close of the last fiscal period.
June 30, 1880, including Agricultural
College mortgage bonds, was $l,067,-
301.09. The amount received from ali
sources during the fiscal period ending
June 80, 1901, was S5,sOS, 3O4.36. The
receipts being added to the balance on
hand June 80, 1900, as shown above,
makes S6,S75,G95.45, as the amount to be
accounted, leaving balance due in the
treasury, juno 80, 1901, of 81, 1874. OS1 73
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
Destroying English Sparrow

A paper published in New South
Wales. Australia, tells how farmers de-
stroy English sparrows out there. They
make a double coop and put one or
more fowl or chickens in one compart-
ment. leaving the other empty. When
feeding they scatter n little wheat in
the empty compartment, which is soon
found by the sparrows. After about a
week they soak the wheat In vinegar
and sugar. After the sparrows become
accustomed to this, they add little
strychnine to the vinegar and sugar,
and allow the wheat to soak about
twelve hours, then drsit and scatter 1t
In the empty COOP One or two grains
is enough to finish any sparrow, and If
It is given every day at the same place
in the same way, and dead birds re-
moved If any die in the coop, hundreds
of them may be destroyed, but If the
dead are left it may brighten away the
Others Massachusetts Ploughman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

below the canvas into which the Insects
fall is partially filed with Kerosene. A
sheet with the seam ripped half the
length to permit its being readily
placed around the tree is cheap and
effective substitute for the catcher here
figured. When the sheet is used. the In
sects should be collected in another re-
ceptacle after Earring each tree.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
wide Ti-es and Good Roads.

At the Missouri Agricultural College
they found by actual test that on blue
grass sward the same draft that pulled
two thousand pounds on wagon with
one and 81 half inch tires would pull a
load of 3,24S pounds on a wagon with
three-inch tires. The narrow tires cut
ruts that could be seen all the season,
and If running down hill might be
well adapted to start gully or ditch
In which the fertility of the surface
soil would wash away, while the three
inch tire with the heavier load made no
marked impression on the sward land.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

While threshing on the Martin Church.
i'll farm near Washington, thresher out
fit, including the stacker, was burned. 1t
was the property of Doan 4 Sanders, anil
was not insured. About 1000 bushels
OF grain in stacks was consumed. The
engine was hitched to a long rope tied to
the separator, but it stuck and the teams
could not pull it out. The threshers run
out of coal and we're using wood, which
was the cause OF the fire.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

The Republican game Of amusing the
people by putting up sham legal fight
against the monopoly combines has
been resumed.
This game was begun by the Harrl.
son administration. The Sherman law
vas passed in 1880. before the McKin-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
That Tariff Wall.


When Republicans gather for the
purpose of pointing with pride" there
must be announcement favoring the
continuance of the scheme of protec-
ton of our manufacturers. In the gath
ering of Ohio Republicans this feature
was not lacking. And now the organs
rise to demonstration of the great
benefits flowing from the Republican
policy of protecting the home market.
The convention declared in favor of
tariff schedules which will protect
American labor against the low wages
paid foreign labor" And the faithful
organ points to the steady increase of
our experts of manufactured goods as
evidence of the value of the tariff
wall. 1t is to protect the laborers Of
this country against the low wages
paid abroad.
Now If this is so simple n thing why
will not some of these organs explain
in what manner tariff against i'm
ports of iron and steel can benefit the
American laborere while we are con-
stantly adding to the amount of our
exports of these commodities? 1t is not
to be assumed that foreigners buy our
manufactured products because they
are higher in cost than those made by
the foreign labor to which lower wages
are paid. That is too palpable an alb.
surdity even for Republican organ.
If we can ship our products to England
and sell them, freight paid, In competi-
ton with goods manufactured by Eng
lish labor working for less wage,
what kind of a tariff is needed to make
1t impossible for the English manu-
facturer to ship his products to this
country, pay the freight and attendant
expense and sell them In competition
with our goods which are driving the
Englishman out of his own market?
And when sheer Is pointed at what
Is termed the academic phrase of "Chi-
nese wall" because in spite of the al.
legged wall we have conquered the for
eign market for our goods, it creates a
desire for information as to the real
effect Of these Chinese walls. 1t is well
known that there was Il strictly "Chl-
nese wall' around the city of Pekin.
1t is a matter of recent history that
Americans entered Pekin against the
desire Of the inhabitants. 1t was an
American who first scaled the wall He
entered and carried In his hand the
American flag. Commenting on this
incident in the spirit of Republican
convention, 1t would be claimed that
the Chinese wall had been scaled and
an American had entered the city, and
that, therefore. the wall was not an OBJ
stacle, but rather because Of the wall
the valiant young American rose to
fame he might not otherwise have
achieved. II there had been no wall 1t
could not have been scaled. Therefore,
1t was clearly the Chinese wall that
created the valor of the American sail
or lad. It Is a strange sort of logic. 1t
would not be accepted in the crazy
ward Of a well-regulated insane asy-
lum. But 1t is all right in Republi.
can convention, and it just suited the
purpose Of high-tariff organ.-Johns-
town Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

Whenever hos seems to be sick, it
should be separated from the well ones
and n rigid examination made to find
the cause. Then the cause should be
removed. In case of infectious disease
this process should be reversed and the
well ones removed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
All over the State.

All ONCE Inc Stutcs
Work has commenced on the new Ma
sonic Temple at Lenox.
At Glidden the Lutheran Church was
struck by lightning and entirely de-
stroyed.
The big barn of A. L. Webster. near
Algona, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground
The c., NJ. & st. P.'s new freight de-
pot in Mason City is completed, and Is
now open for business.
Mrs. John Striegel of Burlington was
badly burned while hunting for Il gas
leak with lighted lamp.
Lightning set fire to n stack of oats on
the Wetzel farm near Dubuque and de-
stroyed over 400 bushels.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union Of
America has decided to hold its next
meeting ut Dubuque, Iowa.
An Eastern cotton and linen concern
has representatives in the State trying to
induce farmers to raise flax fiber. Il
Mrs. l.. Il. Dewitt, of Long Branch.
Cal, has brought action in the District
Court ut Des Moines against Treasurer
John Mckay aud Polk County, asking
that assessments to the amount of S27,-
900, levied against her property for the
years 1896 to 1900, inclusive, be Cancelled
on the grounds that the defendant was
exceeding his jurisdiction under the law
povern;ng assessments of rool md nor.
sonal nronertv in Iowa rho nct;on 10 !,
direct thrust at chapter 30 and section
1874 of rho code which give tn tho conn.
ty supervisors the power to employ tax
ferrets for the purpose of bringing to
light concealed moneys and credits and
empowers the treasurer to go back for a
period of FIVE yenrs beginning with 1896
and make assessments. Section 1874 is
charged as unconstitutional on the
grounds that it is contrary to public
policy. The section is also attacked as
to its RESPONSIVENESS, it being charged
that the law does not contemplate a col
lection of taxes covering period of FIVE
years.
News has been received from the Phil
inn;nes that I'D k,arrcl,. son Of Mr. and
Nrs Farrel, who enlisted In t,,a r1n;tod
States service Mt Audubon venr ago last
January, and is now corporal, had been
captured by a band of Filipino savages
and nearly tortured to death.
Adm Howe Rrackett who is said Ia
have influenced :Indro Hnrney's decision
in the lannon's $4,000 600 CONNER mino
sniff Mt Rutte. Mont. is n Dubunne won.
an, and was married to w. G. Bracket.
Minneapolis travelling man. in 1888.
He some years after obtained divorce
from her.
The insurance comn,nies have ro;sol
the rate 70 about donhlc IN all wbo,asale
borsas in 1--we and tba ;ohhars nro ,.,,oh
dissotist;ed over tho situation Tbn rota
wns FORMERLY q, cents and now II vii,
hc from 81 e, 10 II GA on nav no,iciss
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

the same value as four pounds OF OH
cake, twelve pounds Of pea straw, six
teen pounds clover hay, twenty pounds
of meadow hay, 40 pounds of oat
straw or 120 pounds of turnips. This
last we think he bases upon the fat or
English turnip, which are not as nu-
trltious as the rutabaga. The value Of
the cabbages, as of the roots, is best
found when a small amount is given
along with coarse, dry fodder and a
limited amount Of grain.-Massachu-
sets Ploughman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
Chinese Country Roads,

Country roads In China are never
bounded by fences, but are entirely I'm.
defined.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
Leaped from Train Window.

n man supposedly crook Ieaped from
the window of Great Western train
near Churchville while the train was
running at speed of forty miles an
hour. He struck the ground and rolled
over and over for considerable dis
lance, then gathered himself together,
cleared the right of way fence ut Il
bound and dashed off through n corn field
before the train could be stopped and the
train crew give pursuit. The man had
offered Conductor Cavannugh gold
watch in payment of fare to Kansas
City. Cavnnaush became suspicious and
charged him with. having stolen the
watch Tho fellow did not stop to argue
the question, but went through the win
dow at once
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
AROUND A BIG STATE
INTERESTING ITEMS OF LATE
y IOWA. NEWS.
Prominent clarernont Boy Returns
corpse-DarinR Lc.p from Train
Window Magnificent Pearl Found
Near Muscatine-rhe State Finances.

The most promising young man that
the village of Claremont had ever known
was due to arrive on the evening train
from Chicago after long absence, and
the townspeople had made arrangements
to receive him. They We're not aware
that he was in n coffin. until they saw
the casket unloaded from baggage car
and heard the weeping of the sister who
accompanied the body. John Foley,
whom Claremont turned out to welcome,
died in an ambulance while being trans
ferred from the Lake Shore to the North
western at Chicago. Suffering from
quick consumption, his only desire in life
was to reach home to die, but even that
wish was frustrated He had travelled
from Boston accompanied by his sister,
Miss Bertha Foley, and died when only
a few hours from the end of his journey
Foley was n graduate of Harvard, and
held a position with the government
coast survey
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

How to Catch the Curculic.
A Kansas experiment station bulletin
says that the curculio has been con-
trolled successfully by jarring the trees
in early morning and collecting the in
sects In the curculio catcher. The can
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21
DenonuIation Of Era /, =.

The French census shows that the
population Of France has decreased by
1883 in five years.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

A watch may be cleaned by soaking
1t in cup Of Kerosene but that is not
the way watch is usally soaked.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

ley law was enacted. No attempt was
made to enforce it for year or more.
Then Mr.. Harrison's Attorney General
woke up with start and hastily wrote
letter to United States District At
torneys directing them to take that
antitrust law and clay 1t alongside" Of
any combine that came handy and see
whether it would fit.
The result was great activity against
trusts, but 1t was mostly confined to the
news and editorial columns of the adj
ministration newspapers. Some alleged
combines which were not tariff protect
ed were attacked, and one Insignificant
little trust which was tariff protected
was hit pretty hard.
After election the activity subsidized.
The only important application of the
Sherman law was to n railroad combine
which was not tariff protected in any
degree or manner, and that application
was in no wise due to Republican ef-
fort.
Now that sehe discovery has been
made that Representative Babcock
speaks for great numbers of Republic
ans in the West, that he cannot be
turned down and that trouble for the
party is brewing, 1t is perceived that
something must be done or the Repub-
lican party will be in a desperately bad
way long before the next Presidential
election. If the big combines are de-
prived of protection there will be re-
volt in New England and Pennsylvania.
If they are not deprived Of protection
there will be rebellion in the West.
In this dilemma the administration,
we are told by its organs, has resolved
that searching Investigation shall be
set on foot to find out whether certain
great corporate combinations are oper-
ating in contravention of the Sherman
antitrust law" In fact, 1t Is asserted
that the department of justice, presided
over by a great corporation lawyer, is
already secretly carrying on this in
vestigation.
If the department finds something
wrong "the trust question then will re-
solve itself into paramount legal issue
and be fought to a finish. Against the
Federal government will be arrayed
vast aggregations of capital" etc.
Just so. This battle royal is to be
put up to amuse the people of the West
and prevent them from joining Mr..
Babcock in demanding that combines
which can sell in all the markets of the
world without protection shall be de-
priyed of their power to exact higher
prices from Americans than they are
glad to get from foreigners.
The administration game is to fool
Western people by making tremend-
Gus buster over the enforcement of a
law which has been proved worthless
by more than ten years of experience.
1t remains to be seen whether Western
Republicans can be fooled again by a
legal sham battle.-Chicago Chronicle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

Colonial Cost and Colonial Trade.
The report that Adjutant General
Corbin has arranged with General
Chaffee for reduction of the army
in the Philippines and that 1t is esti-
mated that expenses for this branch Of
the service may be decreased 90 per
cent suggests a review of the cost of
our war with Spain, which indicates
that we had better stick to Its human
itarian import and ignore 1t us cash
transaction.
Before the war began the maintenance
OF our army came to about $50, 000,00
annually, that of the navy to about
$50 100000. The total for n period Of
four years, reckoning from the fiscal
year ending with June, 1898, to the
fiscal year just closed, would be $780,
1000 in the one case and $140, O0O, 900
In the other. But the actual cost of the
army during that period has been $780,
11O.636 and of the navy $24O, LOG, 1854.
The excess on the first account is $780,
11O,636, on the second 500, 106,9S4.
Adding the $2O,OOO,OOO given to Spain,
the cash investment comes to more
than $520,000,0O0, and 1t has been TAX
en- from the whole American people by
taxation.
OF course the islands we have cap
tured and purchased are worth great
deal more money than that, but what
we have acquired is sovereignty not
property. The same people inhablt
them as of old, and their property
rights remain as of old. If we wish to
make point of material gains we shall
have to turn to the question of trade
and commerce, and even then no man
can tell what the commercial gain
might have been without sovereignty,
since there is no absolute ratio affect
ing politics and commerce. We ex-
ported as much or nearly as much to
Cuba in the year ending with June,
1898, as we did during the last fiscal
year, when the island was under our
control.
Looking, however, to the places that
have been reduced to permanent pos
sessions we discover that there has
been an increase of American exports
to them which may properly be attrib-
uted to n politically stimulated market
for American commodities. The fig
ures for the year just closed, which are
much larger than those for the pre-
vious year, are some $5,OOO,OOO greater
for Porto Rico than they were before
the war and not quite S4,OOO,OOO great,
err for the Philippines. But there are
two things to note in this connection
for the special bearing which they
have on the meaning of the figures.
Part of the gain in the Philippines is
chargeable as an expense to the Amer
lean people as whole, since they paid
for supplies sent to the islands for the
maintenance of their army, and. more
Important still. the gain in Porto Rico
was distinctly gain from tariff CON
cessions. Trade follows low tariffs.
But continued large expenditures on
military account would far more than
offset all possible gains, even IL tariffs
were abolished and it were permissible
to balance a government debit with a
trade credit. For the ratio Of military
cost to exports Is now about as o to i,
and the latter cannot have any very
great expansion because the import
Ing people are not people of highly
cultivated wants.
cultivated wants.-Record-H Herald, Re
publican.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

Another magnificent pearl has heen
found by shell diggers about three
fourths of mile above the bridge at
Muscatine. This is the largest pearl ever
found in this vicinity. 1t is purple in
tint, Of exquisite luster, and weighs
forty-one grains. 1t is lattened on one
side. and when placed on a yard-siick,
measures one-half inch across. This
handsome gem is the property of Norbert
A. Nierel, he having purchased it'at 500
ofthe finder. He has positively refused
$1,000, considering 1t worth 81 800. The
pearl was found in small niggerhead
clam shell. A groove was worn in the
shell where the pearl had slid back and
forth as the 6ivalve opened and closed
his shell.
Marshall County independent., 1901-05-10
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS..

Winter wheat-No red. 721EG741zc: No;
red. 1d73c; No . hard. 7212a7312c; No. 3
hard, 72q722c. Spring wheat-No. l
7lAc; No. 4 spring, 6714Q697sc. Corn--No
2, 472ic; No. 2 yellow. 4sc: No. 2 white.
4i2sc: No. 3. 434M433sc: No. 3 yellow, 4SAc.
Oats-No. 2. 27l4c; No. 2 white, 2Sl2d29c: :
No. white 2sl2@29c; No. white. 2I126O
Zel4c. Hay-Choice timothy, $l3. 500l4: No
!. Sl2dl3.j0: choice prairie. sl2Ql3; No. /.
Sl0dl2
Cattle-Natlve shipping and export
steers. 81 15u5.S0: dressed beef and butch
er steers. 81 30G530: steers under l,co9
lbs. S3.4045.20; stockers and feeders. $2.SO
d4.>0: cows ana heifers, S244; Gamers.
sl25d3; bulls. s3d4.25: Texas and Indian
steers. s3.2505: COWS and heifer9. S2.50Gi
4l0. Hogs-Pigs and lights. 50 60@ 5. 20 !:
packers. S5.60Q5.75; butchers, 5.75Q5 80.
Sheep-Native muttons, s4d4.65: lambs.
81. &.15Q650: culls and bucks. s3d3.S5; stock
ers. s2.75G3l5; Texas sheep. s3.S5q4.35.
Eggs. cases included, l2c; eggs cases
returned 1l34c: cheese ched.. 9&Gl0c !:
twins. 1OQ11Ac: flats l014c; daisies. ll@
11l2c; young Americas, 111aG11&c: but
ter, creamery extra. lsc; tirsts. l6Gllc:
dairies. choice. Ice: live turkeys. lb., ,5d
SC; live hens. 912c; ducks. lOc; spring
chickens. dOz., s2G5: ROSTERS. iced. &C;
iced geese. 6usc: beans. pea. handpicked,
81 .ssql90: apples. good TO choice. So 25G1
553o; apples, fancy. s3.5004.25; potatoes.
Burbanks. 3Sq39c: Peerless. 34d3sc {:
Rurals. 37d45c: Hebrons. 31a37c: mixed.
SSMSsc: Kings. 33Q37c: turnips. bu.. 2s
N30c,
Marshall County independent., 1901-05-10
To Control Big Coal Mines.

From an authority which seems in
dsputable there comes the information
to Athens, o.. that almost the entire
coal industry of the Hooking and Sun
day Creek valleys will come under the
management of the gigantic combina-
tion of capital of which ]. P. Morgan
is the head. According to the infor-
nation it is the intention of the syn
dicate to get control of all the mines
now in operation and to secure as
many acres as possible OF undeveloped
coal lands. This deal will practically
Include all the coal lands and mines
IN the three counties of Athens, Perry
and Hooking. Conservatively estimat-
ing the amount of the deal it can be
approximately placed at from $1,000 900
to $4,000, 900. The total daily output
Of all the mines in the three counties
when they are operated at their full
capacity is conservatively placed at
&c. 900 tons
Marshall County independent., 1901-05-10
MayOr of AleIerS Il Shot.

NJ. Max Regis, the anti-semite mayor
of Algiers and the editor of La Revan
Che du Peuple, each of whom was ac-
companied by friends, had a fight in
an Algiers restaurant Tuesday over
statements which NJ Regis had circu-
lated regarding the editor. The furni-
ture of the restaurant was hurled
about. and then pistols and knives
were used. N. Regis was hit in the
head by two bullets and his brother
and two friends were all shot. none
Of them, however, seriously. One COM
lieved to be dying. Various noncom-
batants who were dining in the res
taurant at the time were injured.
Marshall County independent., 1901-05-10

John Buckles. James Caldo. Fred Ell
lott, and Frank Rhoden. who recently
ruined Indiana's monument 10 Thomas
A Hendricks by despoiling ii of the
scales of justice and other bronze
pieces. which they sold for junk. were
convicted in the police court at Indian
apolis. The following sentences were
imposed: Caldo was fined $3.50 and
costs and given $50 days for malicious
trespass. 500 and costs and thirty days
for lettering, and $3.50 and costs for
petit larceny: Elliott. $3.50 and costs
and $50 days for malicious trespass.
and 500 and costs and thirty days for
lettering; Rhoden, $50 for petit lar
ceny, and 500 and costs and thirty
days for lettering; Buckles. 500 and
costs and thirty days for lettering.
Marshall County independent., 1901-05-10
Gass Workers Wages Raised.

AS the result of national confer
ence of window glass interests in In
dianapolis it was decided to close down
nearly all cooperative factories in the
United States on May IL and give all
employees an advance of wages of 10
per cent The conference was attended
by representatives of all the co-opera-
tive glass factories In the country, In
Guiding President Cole of Lancaster.
o.. who is at the head of an indepen-
dent combination, and Simon Burns.
president of the l.. A. 800 There were
also present members of the Wage
Workers committee and President
Chambers of the American Window
Glass company. commonly called the
trust. The result of the conference af-
fects 2,750 glass blowers and $4,000
other employees, all of whose wages
will be increased 15 per cent.