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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-06-24

FREDERICKSBURG Va, TUESDAY, JUNE "a 1902 S

Ought 60 Have Remembered Ion.
Congressman Sibiey of Pennsylvania
can never recall name or a face and
Is considerably handicapped thereby.
II Is said OF him that once he was I'm a
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
Concerning Millionaires.

writer who is himself multi
millionaire, says it will be great mis-
take to shoot these gatherers-In of the
yellow metal, for, as he says, they are
the bees that make the most honey,
and contribute most to the hive even
after they have gorged themselves full.
The remarkable fact Is stated, that the
masses of the people in any country
are prosperous and comfortable Just in
proportion to the number of million
aires In that land
In Russia, with its population little
better than serfs, living at the point
of starvation, upon the meanest posi-
BILE fare, such us none of our people
could or would endure, you do not find
scarcely one millionaire excepting the
Emperor and few mobiles who own
the land. 1t is the same, to a great
extent, in Germany. There are only
about two millionaires in the whole
German Empire. In France, where
the people are better off than In Ger.
many, you cannot count one-half dozen
millionaires in the whole country. In
the old home of our race. Britain
which is the richest country in all Eu.
rope-the richest country In the world
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
DEAR TRAVELLING IN CUBA.
1t Is comfortles,, but Change i
Railroading Is Near.

1t Is comfortles,, but n Change in
Railroading Is Near.
Cuba has 124 railways, with more
than 1000 miles of track for the lot, yet
travelling in Cuba is not cheap. There
are lines which charge passengers 10
cents mile.
The average rate is about cents for
first-class passengers and cents for
second-class, and travel on some Of the
lines means many hours of miserable
jolting over wretched roadbed.
Freight rates are as eXorbitant as pas
senger rates. So detrimental Is the
railroad eXtortion to the welfare of the
country, In fact, that modification of
rates by military order was talked of,
but the legality of the step was doubt
full
The entire railroad system of the ISL
and is valued at $70.O00,OOO. But of the
124 lines only seventeen are public lines
in the generally accepted sense.
The rest are private roads, built for
the transportation Of sugar cane to the
grinding mills. is curious fact that
five Of the principal lines, representing
nine-elevenths Of the public roads, are
controlled by British capitalists.
Cuba had railroad forty-three miles
long between Havana and Guines,
which began to run only few years
after the first American line was
opened. but the development of rail-
reading under Spanish rule was on
very different scale. Some people
might not call 1t development at all.
But all that has changed under Amer.
lean occupation. A new line now in
process of construction by Sir William
Van Horne and his associates of the
Cuban Central Railway, connecting at
Santa Clara with the line from Havana
to Cienfuegos, will revolutionize the isl.
and's railroad system, open communi.
cation with Nipe, the best harbor on
the whole Cuban coast line and pre-
pare for profitable cultivation an area
estimated at 100000 acres, or about
one-third of the total area of the island
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
TRAPPERs. knELL SOUNDED.
Fur Bearing Animals Will Probably
Be EARNED" in the Future.

Fur Bearing Animals Will Probably
Be EARNED" in the Future.
The trapper's life is not all beer and
skittles, not one long round of pleasure
and success. Every pelt that comes to
his hand is procured only after vast
amount Of work-work that would
make the ordinary laborer shudder.
And yet when the fashionable woman
selects garment that suits her fas-
tidious taste, out of the many that are
shown her, how little does she realize
what that far may have meant to the
man who got 1t, the man who brayed
the bitter cold that he might contribute
few pelts to the great marts of the
world, and get in exchange bare live
lihood!
But perhaps, after all, the trapper is
a man to be enyied, especially so If his
country Is one rich in fur-bearing AMI
mails, for then he can make a good liv-
ing, and, greatest of all luxnries, be his
own master. The lives of trappers in
different parts Of the country are prob
ably very much alike, varying chiefly
W. .ne eiiiiia'ic eohul.'ois' III fior-
'ua, III eAainpie' Tue me 10 seen III i's
s"s'es' .oelh,lliiia ci'tiia.e "i'u apuh-
uanee VI iooo an'lnais-lurs' ZOO are
pien'iAu'' Due OWING 10 the'r 'h'nhess
they are of much less value than those
irola Tue hor'nerh countries.
IN oaiiaua the iurs are thcker ana
pettef' ou. .he allhcuities are increased
BECAUSE vi the ciihale. me winters are
.olis ana showDouhd. ihere are Gays
'osetheroi raging storm. MOI only must
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

Spanish hordes, armed with muskets
and cannon. Their defense was made
quate, and an endless stream of their
llfe-blood poured over the fertile land
of their birth.
Before the attacks of their powerful
antagonists they gradually faded away
and each day became less able to carry
on the fight. Their lands were wrested
from thea and parceled out to the In
vaders; the captured natives being en-
shaved as tillers of the soil. Unused to
hard labor in the fields, the captives
weakened and died, until at the end of
fifty years persecution 1t is estimated
that 100000 of the original population
had disappeared. All the horrors of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

A new woman asserts that the young
man of to-day is not marrying man;
"he has but puny passions and refuses
to make any sacrifices for his love-"
When you hear n man and woman ar
gfipg that manly love and matrimony
are piayed-out institutions, don't be-
lieve it. 1t isn't true. This is news
age. One divorce with sensational sea-
soning makes more noise than hun
dred quiet love matches. 1t looks like
precedent when it is only an acct
dent. Some persons mistake notoriety
for statistics, and facts get the worst
of 1t. A Castellane weds Gould to
get his itching fingers on millions of
ready money, and somebody at once
asserts that mercenary marriages are
taking the place of love unions. But
all around-in cottages, farmhouses,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
VALUE OF BERMUDA ISLANDS


ihey Occupy for England a Singularly
Commanding Position.
imperial England knows what she is
about. Those islands (the Bermudas)
besides being used as garrison for
her troops and safe-land-locked har-
Dor for her warships, are link In the
chain that connects her American PROV
inces III Canada and Nova Scotia with
her possessions in the West Indies. The
Bermudas occupy for her, politically
and commercially, singularly COM
handing and an unrivaled position,
says correspondent of the New York
Mail and Express.
Spain parted with Cuba because she
was forced to, and she sold to the
American nation the Philippine Islands
for mess of pottage. Denmark, fol-
lowing suit, for a few million kroner,
made over to us her West India pos.
sessions. Catch England parting with
the Bermudas! She would no more
let them go than she would give up
her great strongholds In the Mediter-
ranean Sea, Malta and the invIncible,
unyielding rock of Gibraltar. No pow
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

or will ever wrest them from her-not
one foot of ground-until she has lost
every ship and her last drop of blood.
No; instead of parting with any of her
colonies her policy is to increase them.
Nor will England permit emigration
to or an increase in the population Of
her garrison towns-Bermuda, Gibral-
tar and Malta. With some precautions
airy measures she will allow sightseers
and tourists to enter Gibraltar, but
strangers may not settle there perma-
nently; nor may an alien own foot
of ground in the Bermudas. She wants
only British subjects in these places.
and even British subjects are not Ill
lowed to vote in Bermuda unless they
own real estate there.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
The Demornlizcd Navy

The rutfianly behavior of officers and
men of the United States cruiser Chi.
cago, in Italian waters, is only reflec-
ton of the decentralization of the Amer.
lean navy. The leniency shown the
Chicagos brawlers in Venice has been
rewarded by repeated rowdyism at
Trieste.
1t is disgraceful to n navy of the an,
cient honor of ours that officers wear
Ing Its uniform should have to be put
In irons to compel them to respect the
laws of common deccncy. The Italian
episode will be foul blot on the log of
an American warship.
Washington politicians and favorites
have demoralized the navy of the Uni
ted States. The dlshonorable course Of
the administration toward honored vet
Grams of both army and navy could not
fail to exert a malignant influence upon
both branches of the service.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
A GIANT TREE SECTION.

On exhibition at the American Mu.
scum of Natural History will soon be
seen the largest section of tree ever
brought from forest, which Is consid-
cred the finest specimen of its kind In
the world, says the Baltimore Amerl-
can.
The fast passing away of the giant
redwood trees-due to the AK of the
commercial lumbermen-those males
tic relies of the forest primeval and the
great ice age, is rapidly going on, and
1t will only bea question of time when
all save those standing in the govern
ment and State reservation groves will
be destroyed.
This huge black of redwood. now
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
Minor state Matters.

Rev. Wright has resigned as pastor Of
the Christian Church at Laurens.
A new brass band of twenty members
has been organized at Des Moines.
The Bedford water works system is
well under progress. The stand pipe 10
being erected.
Harcourt will! have city park. the
town council having purchased two
acre tract of land.
The store of the Glasgow Wooden Mills
Tailoring Company in Des Moines was
robbed by burglars who carried away
about $500 worth of clothing There
Is no clue.
Superintendent Willard of the Mar.
shalltown schools will enter the employ
of Houghton, Miffiin 4 Co.
A corporation has been organized to re-
build the butter tub factory at Algona
TINT was recently destroyed by fire.
Johnnie Hanley, the 4-ycar-old son Of
John Hanley, laboring man Of Fort
Dodge, was run over and killed by a
street car.
The 2-year-old son of Thomas Philpot
was instantly killed at Cedar Falls by q
west-bound Illinois Central freight train.
The child had wandered from home and
sat down on cattle guarl.
l.. A. Lowery has been appointed post.
master Mt DeSoto, in place of A. j. Ly-
ons. removed.
De Ford Bros, druggists at Iowa
Falls, have sold their place of business
to the Downs Drug Company.
The residence of Louis Halter In Duy-
enport was entered by burglars in broad
daylight, while the family We're absent,
and over $500 worth of silverware and
jewelry were taken. NJ clue.
William Il. Summers of Grinnell, hoy
of 13 years of age, was killed in the
Brooklyn yards. 1t is supposed that he
tried to board train for home, bnt
stumbled on pile of ashes as the train
went past.
A hotel building is being erected Mt
Defiance which Is to be of brick 4Ox4O,
and three stories high. to he heated eth
er by steam or by a furnace.
The Dysart Brick and Tile Company
of lama County has filed amended arti-
cles with the Secretary of State increns-
ing its capital from $4,000 to $4,000.
Work is in progress on new brick
and tile factory which is to be installed
Mt Fraser. The plant will be modern and
mp to date and will cost about $4,000,
Ghouls raided John ODonnell's under
taking establishment in Ottumwa. They
were discovered with the corpse of A.
j. Raymond of Charlton, and were rout-
ed. There were no arrests,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

A man has filed suit for divorce, al.
leging rs the reason why he should be
granted the decree that his wife has
abnormally large feet. 1t has come
out in the testimony that the couple
had never met until half hour before
their marriage. She was standing on
a corner, waiting for street car when
he came along and they became ac-
quainted. A few minutes later they
decided to go to the marriage license
Office, where they were given the docu-
ment that needed but the sequent ap-
parance before Justice Of the peace
to make them one. And then the final
step was taken. OF course this fool
marriage becomes the subject Of liti-
CATION. This is the only possible out
come. 1t is a pity there is not law
to punish people who have such dis
regard for the rules which. are sup
posed to govern the conduct of human
beings. 1t would be fit penalty for
this man If he could be sentenced to
have those feet pressed against his
anatomy for term of years after they
had been thoroughly iced. This might
serve as warning to others inclined
to like folly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
Roosevelt and Jackson.

A correspondent who claims that he
is very near to the heads of authority
| Mt Washington says that he learns from
"the highest sources" that there will be
no war on the coal trust.
According to this source of informa-
ton Attorney General Knox was asked
is there was to be no prosecution of the
coal trust under the Sherman antitrust
act. The curt reply was: mo COM
plant has been filed, no evidence has
been brought to our attention." This
is the Presidents explanation through
the Attorney General.
But the correspondent says this ex-
PLANTATION is not sincere. He adds that
''the actual reason is that President
Roosevelt is afraid to start any more
trust prosecutions lest lie get too much
of reputation as trust buster. He
has all the fame of that sort he cares
for just now"
1t is also added that Pierpont Morgan
is back of the railroad and other cor
porations forming the coal trust. And
there never was a President bold
enough to desire the undying hatred
of SO powerful man as Pierpont Nor
gan"
This is the worst impeachment that
could be brought against President
Reesevelt-that he has not the courage
to fight the coal trust, behind which
Pierpont Morgan stands.
1t is falsehood, however, that no
President ever dared invite the "un-
dying hatred" of man as powerful as
Pierpont Morgan.
In 1880, according to the wealth and
resources of the country and In COM
parison with it's business, moneyed and
industrial interests, Nicholas Biddle
was man of as much power as Pier
pont Morgan Yields at this time of
almost UNNECESSARILY greater CONNER
cial interests.
Relatively as between the condition
of affairs seventy-two years ago and
the present condition the United States
bank of Mr.. Biddle WAS greater mon
ey power than all the trusts which Mr..
Morgan has organized But President
Andrew Jackson was bold enough" to
invite Mr.. Biddle's ''undying hatred"
and was successful in the encounter
which he invoked.
If Mr.. Roosevelt is sincere in his fight
on the trusts lie will study and follow
the example of one of his most illus.
trious predecessors.
In Jackson's history he will firl tho
best precedents. But he will not find
a case In which Jackson feared the
"undying hatred" of any trust mag
nate or the chief of any monopoly
Chicago Chronicle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

skillfully polished, forms striking
big tree exhibit, whose like cannot be
seen outside of n visit to southern Call.
fornia. An idea of its gigantic proper
tons is wildly shown in the illustra-
ton by the six-foot man standing at
the base, whose figure reaches only a
third of its height The diameter is
more than Is feet and the circumfer-
ence is SO. and it is surrounded by a
fringe of cinnamon colored bark foot
deep in some places.
The tree began to grow $50 A. d., and
was 10 feet in diameter when Column
bus reached our shores, and when cut
down it was 1,34O years old. Some of
the trees in the same vicinity are said
to be from 5000 to 5000 years old.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
Trusts and the Tariff.

Any Democrat who talks about max.
ing trusts the great issue of the up.
proaching congressional campaign null
tiplies words without knowledge.
Great issues are rot made to order.
Not to speak Of that, however, what
sort of an issue can the Democratic
party make of trusts when the Republic
can President is posing effectively as
Jack-the- giant-trust killer?
The only thing the Democratic party
can do to prove that it is the real enemy
of the hurtful sort of trusts, while the
Presidentisnot, is to make war on those
portions of the tariff which shelter such
trusts and give them their power to do
harm. That would be to make the trust
issue subordinate to the tariff issue, as
1t is in fact. The Chicago Chronicle
says 1t would not be very sensible to
put the little issue in place of the great
one. Let us have no kangaroo issues.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

Counselor Abraham II. Hummel, oc.
casionally heard of in connection with
divorce cases, tells the following:
II was retained by an Australian
bankers daughter to secure her a di-
vorce. After having obtained the dc.
cree, delivered it to her, and was sur.
prised when she burst into a roar of
laughter after reading it.
"What is SO funny?' l asked.
"Why, look here replied the iii.
vorcee. Look at the names. "Dono.
hue" Justice; "O'Byrne," referee:
keenan," county clerk. Why She
mirthfully added, when return homo
to my parents they'll say: you went
to Ireland for your divorce-not to
America. "'"-New York Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
A FLOATING posToFFIce.
Handling of Mails for Vessels on Il
Detroit River.

Handling of Mails for Vessels on the
Detroit River.
A small yacht-like white steamer
dances over the swells Of the Detroit
River to meet and exchange messages
and salutes with every one of the pass
Ing ships-a little midget servant to
this enormous commerce. Without this
tiny steamer the lake commerce would
be as helpless as we of the cities and
towns ashore would be without the
postman and the postoffice.
The tremendous advance in shiDpInr
facilities On the Great Lakes m recent
Years has been due to tireless Ameri-
can enterprise, fostered by generous
appropriations by the government in
aids to navigation; SO when the need
of this little messenger presented IT.
self, the Washington authorities were
not slow in making the experiment
leading to its adoption.
This method of handling United
States mail is the only one of its kind
In existence, and the idea of a floating
postoffice that successfully delivers
and receives mail to and from ships at
full speed is only another illustration
of the wonders and far-reaching bene-
fits Of our wideawalse postal system.
The books Of the United States Treas
ury Department in Washington now
contain the names Of nearly 1000 ships
that constitute tnis Great Lakes ma
rine. The fresh-water sailors to whom
this fleet is intrusted would, in num-
bers, make the population of large
city. They are, therefore, fairly en-.
titled to some means of communication
with their homes and families in the
States bordering the lakes, and with
friends far away, and the little white
steamer performs this service as per-
fectly as can be desired.
Before the establishment of this de-
livery it was difficult to send letters to
any one aboard ship, although Maya
ra's wall confined the movement of
vessels to the Great Lakes, and their
voyages back and forth We're past the
shores of eight States, with popula-
ton of 26.OOO,OOO, and their ports Of
call included six cities Of over 100000
population each. This may seem
strange, but 1t is easily explained by
the fact that the greater number of
lake steamers run Wild
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

An Eng,,sh wr,tor hos fo,,,a IN ,,.
latest statistics of tba Rritish censu,
Office much food for commant on On rlr
marriages and thn cond,tions undo,
which thew arn made Tbe f,cnrey oro
rather imposirp Inf 10 thev should
tend to excite some alarm in conservn,
| tive students Of soc,o,oov comnor,.
son with those Of n few reors 400
NAV somewhat olloy n In 1874 ~ wos
noted that In London nut of overr
1000 welded connlos tbora Wow g,
husbands and oo7 wives undor tho,,
majority. but there wos a ,rodroi do
crease of nronort,on thoro, etar oma tn
1895 II was ns to tha first tom -
and fr,ction 70 I 400 ona ,a 80 ~.
second 100 ~ ooo ,ro-,nu ero,, ths
standnoint of tho social consarvot,ra
the outlook is vet moro choarfnl t,oro
being only IN husbands ava 1aE wiz.
in each 1000 connles who nra nndo,
age. or conrsa tho onastion snaoos.,s,
by these hold f,ouros 10 ont,ra,,, Wi.
tive one, AS climate makes lepjt,m,te
difference Of morn,s CO oconom,o and
educational conditions n,ora rann
preot d,fferonco In Tho oyno,,a,o,, =,
marriage Tho tronhla With tha mo NV W.
mn rrio pas of nersons r,,,a ana 49, ~,
lep,l,y MON onh ,ronon l., -. ~.
of controst,no m,soru ona -.
like London is TINT tho nraoad.nt aa,,
ditions in most Of tha casas oro W.,
such ms 70 nromoto honn,,,o.s T., Ivy
riape. The Rrit,sh wr,tar a,,,a.,'a,
thronph tho locL =, ,a,,am.,,, ..sn,.
women of which his na.Ian :. a..'.s
or throuob ,no,oro,,,a s,,S.,ss s ~.
which n oiso hoe so,,a s,.,ts.,s W
cludes fiat tho nnstnass ~ .,.s -. .on
most of tho cb,,d ar.,no ~. 80. 81. 49,. -
moor 10 tho oh,or oa,,. e 49, ans .ne
OFTEN tho child Vie ,s nat -. .a. .,.es.
ia yeors old sha +, ,. n .note =, 'nan
az fbo arts of torsan,;ean,. w. y. "ns
.oyer 10 o,arso =. 49,, 81, "nu ti'ote'
or rn,y,,,,no =, -. 49,. sne ~, ~. un''pie
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

The domination of the trusts, the flu
voritism in the War and Navy Depart
mepts and number of other similar
abus~s have disguised the people, and
now the disgraceful doings of the army
officials in the Philippines have brought
this disgust to the point of being tntol-
cradle. The policy of the War Depart
ment will be turned wrong side out be-
fore the question is settled and the
guilty punished, be they high or low, or
1t will be serious thing for the Gov
.ernment which protects them.-Peoria
Herald-Transcript
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11
She Had "sized" Him Un,

There is an institution in Duluth
that employs about fifty people, and
among others is a genial. jolly, good
fellow, who long ago lost faith In hair
restoratives, and is the pcssessor Of n
waist measurement of many inches.
An East End lady dropped into the
store a day or two ago, accompanied
by her pretty little 4-year-old daughter.
The big man was somewhat attent.
i've to the child, and when the lady had
finished the business she had come to
transact the little girl said, in clear
voice, as they left the office:
who is the man bigger round IAN
our rain barrel, with the awful shiny
head?"-Duluth News Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

dragged out until after the congress
sional elections, and then in all proba-
bility they will end in n iiasco. MS some
similar wars have done. Incidentall-
ly, the President may succeed in con-
vincing the trusts that IL they do not
want TO run up against the real thing
in his favor as against the willy Hanna.
-Johnstown, Pa, Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-11

SAINT bloodshed. Her natives were of
mild disposition, happy temperament
and easily satisfied. They did not re-
sent the coming of the Spaniards, but
extended to them hand of generous
hospitality. The invaders abused this
good feeling, however. and began at
once an unparalleled system of OPP
preston, which continued for centuries.
Rapine, pillage, torture and butchery
fell upon the unfortunate islanders. The
Cubans had only bows and arrows,
pointed with fish bones, and clubs hard
ened by fire. with which to resist the