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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-04-02
80 CANDY cArnARnc .4
eSiS}>cQ)lRtD
Zoe. All
Csc. soc. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Drugsists.
Genuine stamped c. c. c. Never sold in bulk.
Beware of the dealer who tries to sell
something Just as good"
Homeseekers Excursions.

To nesrly'all points in the United
States,on sale at all ticket offices of
the Chicago Great Western BY. on the
first and Third Tuesdays of each
month January to June 1901 at the
very low hOmeSeckers rate of one fare
plus 81 90 for the round trip. Tickets
good for return within 81 days from
date of sale. Persons contemplating
trip will save money by calling on
any Great Western agent and obtain
ing detailed information regarding
the homeseekers rates, or addressing
f. Ha,Lord, Gen. Passenger Agent,
Chicago.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-04-02


and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. If the child urin-
ates foo oftop &c ~.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

The posted order of great Chicago
packing firm against swearing has not
unnaturally attracted public attention.
That profanity should be discounten-
anced, If not also expressly forbidden,
in any respectable establishment is not
strange, says the Chicago Post. The
swearing habit is felt to be not only an
indecency, but an incivility. Whatever
may be thought of swearing or bias
phemy us wanton, impious insult to
Deity, 1t is in the nature $of an insult
to those in respect to whom such ex-
pressions are used. The order referred
to was doubtless issued on the part of
the firm as protection against the
wanton abuse of workmen in their en-
ploy. 1t is felt that the men have a
right to respectful as well as otherwise
just and humane treatment. An over.
seer or foreman who swears at his men
or In their presence shows a disposition
and n temper which so far unfit him to
deal with self-respecting men. If the
foreman has n right to make the air
blue with profanity, then the stenog-
rapher, the Office boy, the elevator boy
md every one else on the premises has
a right to go about doing the same
thing. This. of course, would be intol-
cradle. Any establishment where such
things prevailed would be good one
for respectable people to avoid. 1t is
one of the better signs of the times
that in these days the men at the head
of affairs are presumed to be, If not
Christians, Mt any rate gentlemen
They find ways enough of making their
wishes ineligible and effective with.
out resort to buster or swagger or the
indecencies of blasphemy.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
ROUEN'S AIR FERRY
OLDEST OF BRIDGES.

The "Pont Transbordeur," or over
head ferry, which has been built and
is now in successful operation, over the
River Seine, at Rouen, France, repre-
sents the solution in novel way Of one
Of the most interesting problems In en-
cheering. There is nothing like this
overhead ferry in any other country in
the world.
Among the means which the engineer
has hitherto employed to cross rivers
and channels are boats or ordinary fer
ries, swing, draw, bascule and ordinary
bridges, tunnels under the beds of chan
nels and travelling carriers.
The swing, draw and bascule bridges
can only be safely used over locks, In
land canals or rivers. where vessel
can be under perfect control in all
kinds of weather. Ordinary bridges are
more satisfactory than the others, but
If they are to cross river leading to
an important harbor they should be Of
height to permit ship with the tall
est mast to pass under. Some masts
are 200 feet above the water Inclines
or elevators must be used to reach the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

ter cackerlate, every woman's va
ri'ty jist in herself An hens, so fur
as been able fur to observe, is all
members of the same sect, but dif'rent.
Now l got II hen what don't seem to
have no object but fur to fight the cat.
All the layin' she does is a layin' fur
him, an when he gifts in sight there's
the doggondest row ever you see.
There's another hen in the lot is allus
loukin' fur"
But what's all this got to do with
the price Of eggs? l don't want the
history Of your hennery. I'll pay you
what paid last week, and not a cent
more"
But I'm tryin' to explain. If a hen
is fightin' cats, understan', or detectin'
chicken hawks, or 'lowin' any outside
issue fur to occerpy her mind. she's
not layin' eggs. That's plain 'nougll.
She's not layin' eggs. That's where the
immuter'ble law of supply an deman'
comes in. Ask your man about it, he'll
understan'. Fur instinx, If thirty hens
outen hundred is not occupied by
business. they is less eggs AN if they
was all producin'. Them MS eats eggs
-"
For goodness sake! Give me six
Dozen"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
AN UNHAPPY WOMAN.
SAD LIFE OF DowAaER EMPRESS
OF GERMANY.
Eldest Daughter of Queen Victoria and
Wife of Frederick III, Her Death
Will Be Little Mournel by Her Ger
man Subjects.

Daughter of a Queen and mother Of
an Emperor, brilliant beyond the meas
ure Of most brilliant women. and now
unhappy to the last degree, the En-
press Dowager of Germany lies near
death in the gloomy castle at Crons-
berg-on-the-Main. Half deserted by
her imperial son, bereft Of her mother.
and having the contumely Of foreign
nation which never understood her,
this daughter of the throne of Eng
land lies awaiting the end. Only her
iron will has stood off the destroyer for
so long. The world has wondered why
she should care to live. 1t has been
said even that she herself will have
no regrets when ut last she lays down
her burdens. Her position is simply
that of one who sees the inevitable.
but who stands waiting for Fate to
turn the last card.
Alone in the cheerless rooms of the
great gloomy castle the Empress Dow
ager of Germany mourns her life away.
She reads little and at rare intervals
attempts to paint. Twice n week her
youngest daughter, the Princess of
Hesse, comes over from Frankfort to
spend an afternoon. At rare intervals
the German Emperor comes. He
alights from horse or carriage and,
leaving his attendants, strikes through
the broad courtyard. nodding here and
there to an old servant. When he has
had refreshments he goes for a few
moments to the room of his sick moth
er. 1t is u heartless visit His greet
ing and parting are perfunctory. and
when he has gone there is silence and
perhaps tears in the sick room.
The eldest daughter Of Queen Vic
TORN, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise.
was favored of fortune. Naturally bril-
liant, she received every advantage
that education and her royal position
could bestow. Pampered and spoiled.
she exhibited an iron will at the age of
G, a will that even the stern queen
mother could not break. But MS the
child grew toward cultured womanhood
a strong affection sprang up between
the mother and daughter and in later
years the princess took ON the features
of Britain's Queen in marked degree.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
HAS A VIVID IMAGINATION.
One of the Most conspicuou. chara
teriatic. of the T,eraian

One of the Most Conspicuous Chnrac-
teristics of the Persian.
The Persian's Imagination is one of
his strongest characteristics, and it has
found full play in his religion. When
he split with his Turkish brother over
who shouldsbe successor to Mohammed
he did it with the fanatical enthusiasm
with which he does everything-except
tell the truth. The offspring of Eatima
We're henceforth the sacred embodi-
ments to him. and when the Turks
and Arabs with almost equal fervor
disposed of the imams Of various meth
DDS of murder held to be polite in those
days, the scliism was complete The
gulf between Shiite and Sunnite was
fixed for all time. 1t has never mar
rowed. To this day, in periods Of
stress between the sects, the Persian
accounts 1t greater virtue to have
killed one Sunni than a whole COM
pany Of Christians, and his conduct at
all times, whether in war or business,
shows at what value he holds the
Christian.
The cultivation of this religious ten
sion, century after century, has
wrought upon the Persian tempera-
ment like corrosive acid. To the
original formulate he has tackled on
horrors and deprivation, hunger and
liberation, enough to make an ordi-
nary savage turn pale. have seen
gentlemen of Indian tribes, shaken by
spiritual grief, cry like infants over
the atonement service at the burning
of the white dog, and listened to some
touching mutations Mt ceremonials in
the uplands of Mexico. Even the
colored camp meeting has It's fearful
side; but the Persians' doings in men,
DRY of what happened to the imams
make these seem like children's trou-
bles.-Harper's Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

An indignant Woking farmer return
ed to n horse dealers about an hour
after purchasing horse.
Look here. sir!" he exclaimed, 81
don't want this horse you sold me! He
SHES, can't get him to cross the
bridge"
THAT'S the reason sold him." said
the dealer, calmly. why did you come
to me for the horse?'
81 saw your advertisement in the pa
per"
Il thought SO. gave my reason for
selling him."
Yes; to be sold, you stated, for no
other reason than that the owner want
ed to go out of town."
well, If you can get out of town with
him." said the dealer, sit will be more
than can do."-London Answers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

Among all the public men who have actively
public leading
ment Hazen Pngee who died recently
ndomabe
Detroit
of the BY ad-
possibility
had auen
ocaled He
in
humble walks But
straightforward, and ni1de magni public onica
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

Prof. Triggs of the University Of
Chicago, writing on the subject Of
books, says that "books are mere
camp stragglers in modern life" and
that "our deeds outvalue our literature.
Undoubtedly true. But suppose great
deeds are put into books? 1t is only
when an author puts his soul into a
book that 1t is worth reading, and IL
his soul is a great soul his book is like
~ to be great book. There are books
that are deeds and deeds of the high
est character. Prof. Triggs is not suf-
ficiently discriminating for a univer-
sity professor. Certainly there are
many books that are mere camp
stragglers" and these include the larg-
err number of contemporaneous author
ship. For this reason most cultivated
persons devote their attention to books
Of former generations-books that are
deeds.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
HEN HAD OTHER INTERESTS.


Conntryman Exp,nins Why Ills Prices
Varied from Week to Week.
AS the woman in the suburbs object
ed upon economical principles to pay
ing more for eggs than she had paid
a week before. she held joint debate
on the subject with the man from the
country who supplies her. There was
just the suggestion of an edge Oh her
tone as she respectfully asked him
why eggs should be cheaper the latter
part of April than the early part Of
May, says the Detroit Freee Press.
Hens is hens" lie replied, and 1t
sounded as if he was talking by rote.
You can't tell nothin' bout them;
nothin' tall. / hain't sayin' anythin'
fur or ag'inst the female sect, explain
In which will say that I'm liyin'
with my third wife and wouldn't
make no afferdavid now that any one
Of 'em was alike. Ears been able
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

1O-ualy Her llhelleSS ulSuL Ue ullStukell
for an early picture of the lamented
Queen Victoria. At the age of IL the
princess met the Crown Prince of Ger
inony, on the occasion of a visit of the
young Frederick to England in 1851.
A friendship sprang UP between the
royal children which ripened into love
as the years went by. In 1858 they
were married in the chapel of st.
James Palace, London.
Though the marriage, was well re-
ceived in England. the Prussian king
dom was shaken to its foundations.
Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, set his
face against It and in every way possi-
BILE he used his influence against "the
Englishwoman," as lie called her. His
attitude was reflected in the press and
she was pictured as "A foreign inter
loper, intent upon Anglicizing Prussia.
At Berlin the English princess was
Kissed and derided on every occasion.
Even when accompanied by the Crown
Prince she was not secure from insult.
This treatment by his people, while he
knew that they loved him, was n trial
to the young prince. but he never fall
tered and as long as he lived the prin-
cess was sure of his affection.
That the princess ever became queen
was due to her own indomitable will
and energy. While the old Emperor
Wilhelm lay dying the Grown Prince
was known to have the disease that
finally killed him. Bismarck was
alive to the opportunity. Under the
German law no heir to the throne can
become Emperor If afflicted with an in
durable disease. All tho court physi.
clans were under the thumb of the
chancellor. ami if he could get them to
see the prince and say cancer" lie
knew that he would blight the hopes
of "the Englishwoman.' But no one
knew this better than the Englishwom.
an herself. She shut the doors against
the German tools of the chancellor and
| sent for Sir Morrell Mackenzie, the
great English surgeon. Every chance
of consultation was refused to the
German physicians. A crown was Il,
stake-and the woman won. DR.. Mac
kelzie's opinion was that no incurable
disease menaced the Crown Prince and
no one assailed his finding. AT the
death of the elder William the son as.
sumed the throne Of his father, and fol
the three months of his life remaining
Victoria Louise was Empress of Ger
many.
Following the death of her husband
Frederick H.. which was due to con
Ger of the throat, the daughter OF
Queen Victoria passed into obscurity
followed by the hatred of the German
people which abates but slightly MS the
years go by. Now living practically
in exile, victim of the disease which
carried off her husband, the Empress
Dowager presents sad feature of roy
nj life
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

A young man committed suicide the
other day because "his means were
ne. s5I1da. TO his ambition" Probably
he wanted better clothing, more ex.
pensive living and costlier diversions
than his earnings would admit of.
There could have been little genuine
ambition in such case as this. The
ambitious youth looks ahead, and a
great distance ahead. He does not de.
spalr because he is poor, for he knows
that poverty can be overcome. Prop
erly directed, his ambition will arm
him against plain clothing. plain living
and inexpensive pleasures. To die by
ones own hand in early manhood be-
cause ones means are not equal to
ones ambition is to confess an unwill.
ingness to make the effort which ev.
cry ambitious person must make II
there is to be hope of success of amy
sort,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

weeks, but no one complained. The
milkman and the iceman took many
extra steps on account of those two
strips of fence. Transfers drove up,
and. when the fence and big police
man stopped them. and they learned
that Jack" Hannahan's girl was very
Ill, there wasn't grumble. The hearts
Of people, take them as whole, beat
very warmly, and, when they stop to
think of 1t, they are sorry that any
body should be sick or in pain. And
SO for weeks the street was closed.
One morning men tore down the
fences. They hammered softly and
talked in whispers. 1t couldn't make
any difference, for great knot, of
Grape was hanging Mt the door, and
the troubles of Jack" Hannahan's
girl We're over. It's good to remember
the little episode of the barricaded
street, for it shows what universal
thing is sympathy and the kindness
that radiates from human hearts. ;
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10


He has cheeks round as apples. Mine
are hollow.
He Is portly, even naughty am not.
He has big, sleepy eyes. Mine are
dim.
He has paws soft as velvet. Thin
and trembling mine.
He stands ready for a frolic. I've
not time.
He has repose. Worried am 1.
He is, in short, big and beautiful,
sleek and silky, fat and fine-which
I'm not and never can be.
Yet we live the same.
He has no advantage.
The same house shelters us. We
breathe the same air. We eat the same
food, he lingering fondly over all save
fruit courses. being especially devoted
to rice, milk, soup, meat, oil and vegeta-
bles. We even sit upon the same
chairs.
So why this awful difference?
But hold! Though neither has the
advantage in the matter of board and
keep. there is one great. big difference!
He does not work between meals.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
Not Her NECK,

Pretty Angelina Swizzleblossoms had
fallen from her wheel and sprained her
wrist, and Augustus Bloomengarten,
her manly escort, was kneeling by her
side endeayoringt to bind n handkerchief
about the disabled member.
Rubber neck! rubber neck" yelled
a nearby newsboy at a passing wheel
man who turned to look back at the
pathetic scene.
But her neck isn't hurt, don't you
know?" replied the astonished Angus
tus, and the newsboy went and pounded
his head against lamppost.-Los An
geles Herald
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
Some Third.Term Reflection.,

como Ihiru-lerm Reflections.
The Louisville Courier-Journal an.
provingly quotes this sentence from
President McKinley's statement:
''There are questions of the gravest
Importance before the administration
and the country, and their just consid-
Grafton should not be prejudiced in the
public mind by even the suspicion of a
thought of a third term" But our
Louisville neighbor adds that this prin-
ciple applies as pertinently to second
term.
So it does. In the campaign Of last
year every public question was subor-
dinated to the reelection of william
Mckinley to the Presidency. Every
movement in the Executive Depart
ment or in Congress looked to what
would take place at the polls in No
vember rather than to just and final
settlement of Questions Of the grayest
Importance"
And now what will take place? The
personal ambitions of Mr.. Mckinley
having been satisfied, will he drop par
ty and personal politics and devote his
second term to real craftsmanship and
the carving in history of n great name
for himself? We do not wish to disturb
the general availability prevailing over
the Presidents course, but we fear not
AS the first Mckinley term was devot-
ed to the reelection of Mr.. Mckinley
the second Mckinley term may be de-
voted to the election of Hon. Marcus
A. Hanna to the Presidency in 1904
And what would that be but a third
term of the Mckinley Presidency? Mr..
Hanna has "shied" little at the men
ton of his name for the Presidency,
but he surely would not be the first
man in the history of the country to
order the office to get behind him, along
with Satan.
If Mr.. Hanna wants the Presidency
there is nothing in his power that Mr..
Mckinley will not do to get 1t for him.
There is no limit to the Indebtedness Of
the Executive to the Senator. That
politics is war" has come to be almost
universally accepted. Political cam.
paigns are not conducted on Christian
Endeayor or Sunday school lines. What
Mr.. Mckinley might be able to do to
promote the nomination and election of
Mr.. Hanna hesitate at anything for
of his office. He might be called on to
do many things against which his NOR
al sentiment would revolt. He might
be required to take many steps that he
would not regard us in perfect line
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

The output of bicycles this year Is
something for those to explain who
have been declaring that the wheel has
seen its best days. and is declining in
popularity. The production will far
surpass that of any year since the mod
ern two-wheeled vehicle was invented,
and many of the most successful man
ufacturers have been unable to keep
up with their orders. The trouble is
that many people lose interest in any.
thing as soon as it ceases to be a fad
and becomes common. The bicycle,
having reached its proper status as a
useful, health-giying vehicle. and hav-
ing been brought within reach of PEG.
pie of small means, no longer confers
distinction on the fortunate few, but
it has won stronger position in adding
to the comfort and convenience of the
many.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

The effect upon the Democratic party,
of the South, of legislation looking to-
the elimination Of the negro from poll
tics, is looked forward to with the grav-;
est sense of danger by Democratic lead.
ers whose thoughts extend beyond the
mere gaining of an office to-day. Two
evils they foresee. One is the moral
certainty of the South losing in Inn
portance by having Its representation
cut down in Congress and in the Elec-
toral College; the other, the possible
consequence of the Southern white peo-
pie dividing and fighting on political
lines us soon as the fear Of black doml-
nation is removed by the elimination Of
the negro as a voter.
Congressman Livingstone, of Georgia.,
and Ex-Governor Oates, Of Alabama,
are among the Democratic chiefs who
foresee these dangers and have raised
their voices to sound the alarm. So
far they have been unheeded. 1t is not
certain that their stand will call n halt.
The men who make laws, themselves
officeholders and representing the office
holding class, take no thought of the
morrow. 1t is popular now to move
against the negro. To so with the cur
rent is easier than to oppose 1t.
Charles Sumner and Thnd Stevens
far-seeing MS they were, committed the
blunder of making voters of negroes
and adding to the political strength Of
the South almost as much MS was rep
resented by the addition of the negroes
to the white population. They thought
the negro vote would hold the South
ern States Republican. with the help of
the white Republicans In those States.
Their error lay in not taking account
of the truth that solid negro party
would compel solid white party, and
array the political forces along ethno-
logical lines. The addsi votes of the
Southern States due to the enfranchise-
ment Of negroes gave the Democratic
party control of Congress and enabled
it to elect Cleveland the first time. Dir
franchising the negroes means the SUBJ
traction Of their representation in Con-
gress-and this representation is ex-
pressed in Democratic terms.
The Democratic leaders in the South
who perceive these dangers and do not
cry out against the present tendency
are failing in duty to their people,
Fort Worth Register
-i
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
SANTOS DUMONT,
AIR SHIP INVENTOR.

Santos Dumont, who claims to have
invented m air ship which will beat all
records for efficiency and speed, is a
crafty young Frenchman who has al
ready made reputation as clever
man. He is at present experimenting
the construction of the machine which
is going forward at Nice. The air YES
sci which Dumont thinks SO well of is
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

made of the strongest silk, shaped like
cigar, and bearing suspended from it
the apparatus by which the ship is
isteered. This mechanism derives its
propulsive power from electricity gen.
Grated by the force of the pedaling
done by the operator, who sits in BIZ
cycle saddle under the balloon, and
works vigorously with his legs. NJ.
Dumont pretends to tell about his prin-
ciples of construction, but the work at
Nice is nevertheless conducted with
the utmost secrecy.