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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

eight or ten inches thick, making ii
impossible to drag the log unless the
bark is at least stripped from the side
which lies next to the skids. The
barkers usually cut through the bark
along the top of the log with thei,
broad-bladed barking axes, then use
their barking irons to pry it Off down
each side of the log. These barking
irons resemble nothing SO much as {,
steel crow bar, with one end hattened
and bent little to facilitate the pry
ing off of the bark.
When the log is parked the '.hook
tender is the next man to take 1t In
| charge. He casts his eye along all
sides Of the log and decides on which
side 1t will ride" most easily, after
which he "snips' or bevels the end of
the log OH that side which it is to ride.
In order to keep the log from bunting
against skid and throwing 1t out of
place. A log well sniped and riding
along easily on its proper side is the
proof ''hook-tender's" skill. The
"look-tender' has charge of the log
until the team takes it away to the
skid-road, and in this connection the
''hand-skidder' comes in.
The latter gets small skids, five or six
inches in diameter, and arranges them
along the path the log is to take to the
skid-road. The log being all barked anu
sniped and the hand skids arranged,
the team comes along with the wire
lope and steel block. The log is frs
rolled Oh its riding side;;" then the
block and tackle are used several times
depending on the distance and the ma
tnre of the ground. until it is dragged
TO the skid-road, where the team
bitches TO it direct and starts for th,
landing. Not the least important WORK
man in the logging camp is the "grea
er," who goes in front of the log witt
pailful of grease and stick with !,
cloth on one end. with which he swipuS
grease on every skid. so that the 10
will slip over easily. On the return tri,
he follows the team and sweeps OF
every skid. so that the road will BIZ
clean for the next log.
From four to ten horses are required
to haul the logs. depending upon the
size of the timber. The locomotive also
plays an important part and 1t winds
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30
totalTor the year of $14,2G5, 175. Here
are the figures in detail:

Totals 80. ...2i002 $55,645 SD, 2G5, 115
The daily output Of the Western
Washington mills alone is astounding.
Each day there are 7,425O00 feet of
lumber turned out and 2S,5SOO00 feet
of shingles. This is the product of $50
mills.
In the Logging Camp
Right in the heart of the forest the
lumber camp is located, and with its
carpet Of fragrant pine needles, its
canopy of green branches and the lit
tie brook Of pure spring water flowing
past the door of the cook house, it is
an ideal spot. 1t is such spot as the
city bred people travel hundreds of
miles to find during the hot summer
months, and vet this is n place where
the men congregate al night, aud after
and swap stories, totally obliyious of
their surroundings and of the beauties
of nature.
But this is their shop-it is to them
what the machine shop is to the me-
chanic; what the store is to the tired
clerk, and the office to the business
man-for 1t is here that they toll for
their daily bread. Many of them have
been bred in the forest. and the scrag-
ly cedars and the tall frs are an old
story to them. 10 them it is nothing
that their daily lifet is one of constan,
danger. for many poor fellow has
been carried into camp before the close
of the days work MANNED and bleeding
and perhaps crushed in hideous manner
by some accident-perhaps n tree fall
Ing on him and pinning him beneath its
tremendous weight, or perhaps struck
by flying stick sent through the air
like rocket when the great tree
crashes to earth. 1t is matter of ev-
cryday occurrence to them.
Fine, husky, broad-chested fellows,
they swing their double bladed axes
from morning till night with slow,
steady stroke that knows no weaken.
ing. Every time the bright blade, sharp
as razor, falls the chips fly and an.
other niche is made. Sometimes, hal
ancing themselves on a rude platform
twenty feet above the ground the
Teller will stand, and when you look
at the great stick of timber perhaps
ten feet In diameter-it seems as
though his task was an endless one,
and yet in an incredibly short space of
time the cry goes through the forest:
Look out! Look QUIT"
There is sharp cracking sound like
the breaking of Il small dry stick of
pine, the great giant Of the forest way
ers as though undecided which way to
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

go: then slowly at first ana with ever
increasing speed the great tree plunges
downward with a rending sound that
can be heard for hundreds OF yards
through the forest. Sticks are flying
IN every direction, and woe betide any
thing in the way. Smaller trees are
crushed like so many eggshells. The
tree reaches the ground, there is Il ces-
sation Of the cracking sound and d
dull thud is heard. The earth trem-
bles and another stately giant has
bowed its head in token Of submission
to the wants Of civilization, while man,
n mere pigmy as compared to the size
Of the tree, stands close at hand wiping
the perspiration from brow and look
ing with n sense of eNultation at the
result of his handiwork.
The days work commences when day
breaks, and the men are hurrying to
their places in the forest. The horses
are taken from the stables, and before
long steam has been raised in the many
small boilers and the forest takes on an
oir Of activity that only few hours
before seemed impossible. All through
the long day the 'fellers' are busy with
their assistants and many giant of
the forest is laid low; the sawyers cut
the big stick up into the proper lengths;
the "swamper" clears away the brush;
the BARKER" strips off the rough bark;
the "hook-tender" performs his part of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

and drive n stake set upright in the
ground 100 feet away.
The sawyers, usually two In number,
follow the "fellers," and having had in
s.ructions from the foreman as to what
lengths are required, they saw the trees
into the proper lengths in n good and
worlsmanlike manner. This is a particu-
lar part of the work, for IL the saw is
allowed to run so that the cut varies six
TO eight inches from straight line, in
a log four feet in diameter or more, It
would entail serious loss.
Following the sawyers comes the
'swamper." His work consists in clear
ing all brush. windfalls, etc.. away
from the space lying between the tree
and the nearest skid-road. Sometimes
the services of a team of horses are re-
quired to haul the old logs out of the
way. The "swamper" is n busy man,
and if SO disposed is always able to
find something to do.
,lon- the Skid Road.
Following the "swamper" are the
"barkers.' Their number depends
largely upon the time of the year when
the cutting is being done In the
spring. when the sap is running, and
the bark comes off easily. two or three
men are able to do the same amount
of work which requires double thai
number later in the season. The bark
of the Douglas fir tree is sometimes
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

the work; the "hand-skidder' causes
the log to be conveyed to the railroad,
and the work of the man Of the logging
camp is over.
1t has been a hard days work, and
slowly the men come struggling into
camp ready for supper and tired. After
the meal they group themselves around
the fire-some one brings out an old
fiddle, and the strains Of the plaintive
songs Of old are heard in the woods.
Some young fellow who has still plenty
Of vitality left gets on his feet and exc
cutcs jig on the grass carpet to the
claDping Of hands and the shouts of
his watchers. Then another breaks into
a song-;l song they all know-and the
chorus is taken UP by the many, until
the welkin rings with the voices of
strong men.
With the completion Of the railroad
and branches, landings, skid-roads from
the landings, camp buildings, consist
ing of cook house, bunk house, barn
and blacksmith shop then 1t is that the
actual work Of logging commences. Ev-
cry man has his particular work to do,
and his business is to do his work we'll
and to keep ahead of the fellow back
of him. The first ones TO start out are
the "feller" and his "helper." Their
business is to fell the trees. The posi-
ton of "feller" requires man of eX-
perience and good Judgment, for he
must fell the trees SO they will not
break up; he must fell them near the
skid-road, so they may be as accessible
as possible. This may, on the face of it.
seem easy, but when 1t is taken into
consideration that the trees lean in all
directions, and that the wind blows
from all points Of the compass, it is evil
dent that it requires experience, skill
and lot of hard work to throw a
tree in a different direction from that
III which it would naturally fall This Is
accomplished, first, by underwriting on
the side toward which it is to fall; and
second. when the tree is nearly sawed
through to the undercut, by driving
steel wedges in the saw kerf on the OPP
pOsite side of the tree to that In which
the "feller" wants it to go. Muny of
these "fellers" become so expert that
they can fell II tree SO that it will fall
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

CAPT. coNNELL. where nearly fifty
Americans We're killed. When the as
surances of those in authority that the
rebellion Of the natives was over were
most confident, along came the report
of a slaughter worse than anything
since Aguinaldo's proclamation of two
years ago. Part of the subjugating
force, grown contemptuous of its foes
and consequently careless. was surpris.
ed and grief came to two score Ameri.
can homes.
Thomas w. Cornell, the captain of
the company which was almost annihi.
lated, was born in New York and was
graduate Of the military academy,
which he entered in 1860. He was in
Cuba during the Spanish war until
August, 1898. then in New York and
again, in 1890. in Cuba rs aid to Gen.
Douglas. He went to China in May,
1901. and thence to the Philippines.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30
TRIPLES AFFECT MEMS LIVES.
Great Inventions Are Suggested bv
Com IL

Great Inventions Are Suggested by
Commonplace Incidents.
Incidents of trifiing character have
influenced the career Of many success.
full inventors. Il. j. Manyille was n
Woodworking machinist, living in Wa.
terbury, Conn.,, when one day he heard
q woman complaining because she had
pricked her finger with pin. A min
that would not prick fingers, he
thought, would have a ready sale. A
week later he had worked out the safe.
ty pin and within five years his inyen.
ton had made him rich. Carlos French
another Connecticut mechanic, in the
course of railway journey noticed the
Earring and jolting of the car and fell
to thinking how they could be over
come. The problem kept him awake
nights for some two years, but in tho
end he solved 1t so successfully that
his car spring is now used on all the
railroads of the land. George Westing.
house was led in a somewhat similar
manner to invent the air brake. He WINS
the son of manufacturer and possess.
ed marked mechanical bent. Once he
was in a railroad collision, the result Of
brakes failure to do its work. He
Immediately started to devise a brake
that would operate more quickly and
with greater certainty than the ones
then in use, and, like Carlos French, he
was completely successful in his eff.
forts. His air brake brought him great
wealth, and for thirty years he has
constantly added to his fortune by in.
venting new devices of his own and
buying those of other inventors. The
result In life-saving has been simply
enormous.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

The lumber industry OF this country
ranks among its most important. In
the New England States, in New York
and Pennsylvania, in the Nirginias, in
the Southern States, in the Northern
Central States, and in the far West, es-
fecially in the Northwestern States, it
employs millions of capital and thou
sands Of men. 1t is true that in the
New England and Middle States the in
dustry is declining. the stock having
been depleted, still it is yet important
as the statistics show. During the past
season Maine has manufactured nearly
half billion feet of logs, Pennsylya-
MA over half billion and the Virglnias
nearly as much. Michigan has exceed
ed It's record, and Wisconsin and Mill
nesota have nearly equaled their best
outputs The Southern States, with
the assistance of modern and improved
machinery, have increased their output,
especially Texas, whose operations are
reported larger than those of any other
state east of the Rocky Mountains.
The Northwestern States, however, are
to be credited with the largest increase,
says Williamsport Grit, though Idaho
has made strides which will soon place
1t In the foremost rank of lumber pro-
ducing States. OF the former, WASH
ington at present stands out most CON
spicuous and supplies G most interest
Ing subject for consideration.
The lumber business of Washington
Is represented by figures that are al
most incomprehensible The Pacific
Lumber Trade Journal presents statis-
tics relating to the State, which show
total of 24,OO2 men employed the
year round, receiving daily wages
amounting to $55.645. making a grand
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

Encke's little comet, named after the
French astronomer who first discovered
Its periodicity, is now on one of its
every Observation-Disclosures visits to
the earth's gaze. No other known com.
ct has a period SO short, and probably,
In consequence, none other has n re.
corded history SO large. Many other
comets are domesticated, SO to SPEAK
celebrating occasional old home weeks
of their own. TWICE had a well-known
astronomer hunted down comet, onlv
to find that rival comet-hunter was a
few hours ahead of him. The third
time he was confident the prize was
really his. and the news of the new
discovery was circulated. 81 Think
wrote his friend, you will find It ia nv
comet Of six years ago come back"
So 1t was, and the disguised reply on mo
by wire, why don't you keen vonr
comets chained upg
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

That we live too fast in this country
has long been conceded. Fundament-
ally the cause of it is the old mistake of
considering the means as the end. We
pursue business and attainment Of
whatever sort as If the pursuit were
the thing and not the results of the pur-
suit, and therefore as If the tiercer we
pursue 1t the more 1t is to be desired.
The result is that we wear ourselves
out without getting the finest fruit or
favor of anything.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

II political party is worth perpetua-
lion the young man is worth cultiya-
ton. 1t Is not necessary to place him
In position of responsibility or to give
him SO much as an equal opportunity
with his elders. 1t would be an ex-
ceptionally concelted young man who
would expect as much. All he asks. as
rule, is to be allowed to serve an an.
premiership 80 that when the responsI.
bility Of propagating correct doctrine
has fallen upon his generation he viii
not be entirely unworthy or unpre-
pared.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

In the long run education is the uni.
versal cure for anarchy. It is better
than law. 1t is especially superior to
special legislation. AS soon as the edu.
cational systems of the States are com.
prehensive enough to draw all classes
and conditions of people within their
influences we will have the nearest ap-
preach to millennium that can be OBJ.
talned by mortal means. Great prog
res has been made and is still going on.
Compulsory education is the only kind
OF paternalism that is tolerable under
our most beneficent system of a union
of States.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

The theory that the monkey is de-
scended from man now confronts civil
lzation with serious question. How
tar ought human being be allowed to
degenerate from the Hottest ideal Of
manhood before he is compelled to
shed MS clothes, climb tree and re-
frain from conversation?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

Any anti-foreign feeling that may be
engendered by the attempt on the life
Of the president should be checked by
the reflection that the would-be assas.
sin 10 an American by birth.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

II the world concludes to put all its
anarchists together on an island it
might not be bad plan to send along
such college students as insist on hay.
ing the privilege of hazing.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

A Brooklyn man lived without miss.
Ing his stomach for fourteen months
after the surgeons had removed it. 1t
was nothing remarkable Many men
never know that they are without
brains.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30
Fell Beneath the Wheels,

j. II. Ament of Webster City, n young
school teacher, teaching the Lyon Cen
ter school near Jewell. fell off the night
flyer and was quite seriously injured at
Jewell. Mr.. Ament was trying to get
off before the train stopped moving and
was thrown under the cars but not be-
tween the rails. The fingers of his left
hand We're entirely severed and his skull
cut severely in five different places, but all
this injury did not kill him.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

ish against the Zu-
lus its Isandula
and that of the
B rltish al S q
against the Niata-
beles Its Bulu-
wayo, SO the con
fict in the Philip
pines has its mas.
sacre which will
pass into history
that of Balangiga,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

Wanted Wife and Found Slater.
The most remarkable romance ever
brought to light in southwestern Iowa
has befaifen James Coppington, pros
porous farmer residing in the Nishnabet-
ma bottom twenty miles east of Council
Bluffs. Coppington advertised for wife
and received response from widow
in Georgia. They exchanged number
of letters and he sent the woman money
with which to come to him. They were
to be married on the day of her arrival.
He met her at the depot and they We're
mutually dumfounded when it was dis
covered that the intended bride was none
other than Coppington's sister from whom
he had been separated in youth. He
heard she was killed In railway wreck
and mourned her as dead.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

The trouble about long hair is that
you can't tell whether its wearer is a
poet OF u football player.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

According to the testimony of some
witnesses, the log book is a record kept
BY ships for the purpose of not record
Ing important incidents in 1t.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

John Armstrong Chanler has re.
turned to Virginia and proposes to
prove his sanity. But he can't deny
that he married Amelie Riyes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

1t would, indeed, have been sad ex-
emplifcation of the irony of fate if
Funston had been undone by little
old vermiform appendix.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

Franklin Price, grand old Chicago
man, read in a newspaper some "ad-
vanced doctrine" tending to show that
marriage is failure and declaring for
anarchy in affairs Of the heart and in
the relations Of men and women. 1t
didn't please Mr.. Price. He had Just
celebrated his golden wedding and was
happy with that chastened kind of af.
lection that comes with years and pro-
longed association with good woman.
To show that marriage is not failure
this old lover got together list of 1876
couples who have lived together from
fifty to seventy-fye years in peace and
happiness. They were all persons that
had either come within his knowledge
or were personal acquaintance. The
institution Of marriage is in no danger.
and attacks on it are unworthy of serl-
GUS thought. The marriage ceremony
is simply the part that society and the
State play in n union that should have
nothing but love for its foundation If it
is to be true marriage. People who
really love seldom trouble the divorce
courts. They may have differences.
There are thorns all along the way Of
life and few escape them. But consid.
erateness is one of the fine qualities
that comes from love and is developed
by married life. 1t is easy to forgive
when there is sincere affection. Stand
ing alone divorce statistics are appall.
ing. They present panorama of self.
ishness, deceit, lying, greed and the
mistakes Of humanity. Most of the
people concerned should never have
married. Compare the divorce stats.
tics with the great list of happy mar.
riages, and they are nothing. There is
not material left for public scare nor
ground for an attack on an institution
that will endure as long as hearts are
the foundations on which good men and
women build happy homes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

A German scientist now claims that
monkeys are descended from man.
There Is some evidence for this belief
on Halloween night.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30
MASSACRE OF BALANaIeA.

Military Disaster in Philippines Take.
Place In Worlds History.
AS the American campaign against
the Sioux of the Northwest had its Lit.
tie Big Horn massacre, that of the Brit
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

1t is hard for the professional poll
tic:an to understand why any man
should ever ask for a court of inquiry.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30
ITS ABIG INDUSTRY
Lumber Business Ranks Among
the Most Important.
GREAT in THE WEST.
Description of How Operations Are Con.
Quoted in Washington.
- - q

The Lumber Camp and Its Equipment,
the Days Work and the Part that
Each Man Takes in It, the Telling of
Great Trees and Moving Logs to the
Landings, and the Biggest, Saw Mill
In the World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

Austrians and Italians must go fsom
home to find chance to better their
fortunes. II the low birth rate Of
France 10 an evidence of physical de-
cay 1t Is of course calamitous and
threatens final destruction. Otherwise
1t has Its congregations,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

If Lieutenant Peary has the least pro-
fessional pride, lie will proceed to get
lost again,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

Anarchism is. briefly, colossal ego
tism, as the crime Of Czalgosz and the
philosophical tommyrot of Emma Gold
man sufficiently prove.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30
How to Get Rid of 1t.

Trolley Car Conductor-say, this
nickel is no good.
Mr.. Endseat-Well, never mind; give
1t to the company.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

Secretary Roots proposed war col.
lege embodies fresh effort to teach
the young idea how to shoot.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-30

The mob spirit develops much more
easily than 1t dies.