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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-05-07
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
Look over tho Seed Corn.

Look Over the Seed Corn..
When 1t is considered that corn Is one
of the easiest crops to grow on soil
that is fairly good and that 1t will re-
spond literally to good cultivation and
to enrichment of the soil, one ought to
be willing to go to some trouble and
expense to have the seed corn of the
best possible quality. In certain sec
tons Of the corn country there was
considerable smut last season, and
there is more or less of it on the corn
now being fed and on ears that are be-
ing saved for seed. This smut corn
ought not to be fed to stock, for the
spores are not destroyed, but are
sown over the fields in the manure.
If a portion of the seed corn ears are
affected with smut they should be
treated by soaking for half hour in
solution of sulphate Of copper in the
proportion Of half pound eof the
chemical to gallon of water. Treat
the corn in this way just before It is to
be used and let 1t dry thoroughly be-
fore sowing. Avoid this smut corn for
seed, however, If 1t is possible to do so.
Select for seed the ears which are best
developed or buy enough of some good
strain to start anew and next summer
select the seed corn while 1t is on the
stalk, paying due attention to all of the
good features of both ears and stalk.
Keep UP this careful selection for two
or three years. and give this selected
seed good soil and good culture and
one will then have corn that is well
worth planting and which will bring
good profit.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16


Look over the farm implements to see
II repairs are needed. Then repair
then. and not wait until they come
into use.
Is your cellar properly ventilated?
Most cellars are damp and the air i'm
pure and are not healthy. The family
lives over the cellar usually and should
not be required to breathe Impurities.
There is difference in men rs well
as in animals. Some will get more
profit from given animal and a given
amount Of food than will another. Is
not that your experience?
Wheat bran is valuable not alone for
Its nutrition. 1t is an excellent alterna-
tive for stock fed on meadow hay. For
mich cows 1t should be made into a
mash.
London requires 100000 cows to SUD.
ply 1t with dairy produce.
Rolling clover seeded ground NAV
prove an excellent MD to prompt ger
mination.
Persian officials say they need agri-
cultural implements of the American
kind.
Plant breeding, the making of new
things from old, just now greatly occu-
pies the attention of skillful horticul-
turlsts.
Wool is the farm product that brings
the most money In proportion to what
1t takes from the farm.
The cause of little peach,,,, is be-
lieved to be fungus which attacks the
very young roots.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
Against Another Flood.

Derrignan lived in crippled shanty
which stood in field near the main
highway. The foundations of the house
were lower than the road, through
which ran great Waterman. AS the
living floor of the house was raised ON
posts to make 1t level with the high.
way, it left n large cellar underneath,
where Derrigan kept dozen hens.
One day the Waterman burst, flood
ed the cellar and drowned the hens.
Derrigan Immediately put in a claim
for damages. After a long delay and
much trouble, influential friends assist
ed the old man to get twenty dollars in
settlement of his claim.
That evening he saw Mrs. Cassidy,
his next-door neighbor, sitting on her
back steps.
81 got me money from the city! he
called to her.
Did We, then, Mr.. Derrigan? It's
glad am. How much did We get?"
"Twinty dollars"
GLORY be! An HOY We the money!
81 hoy not; but had it."
what did We do wild it:"
Sure, bought twinty dollars wort
of ducks wild it,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16


or less anaemic, and disease of tile kid
neys is a common complaint. Very few
of the men live beyond 60.
In the manufacture of bleaching pow
der, chlorine gas is pumped into Stake
lime, and this gas is so poisonous that
barrels with bleaching powder have to
wear goggles over their eyes and some
twenty thicknesses of flannel over the
nose and mouth. They even have to
cover all openings in their dress, so
that no particle of dust could possibly
find its way to the skin.
Danger of quite a different character
is encountered by the workpeople en-
gagged in bottling aeratcd waters. Here
the danger arises from the liability of
the bottles to burst. The pressure of
the condensed gas is very great, and
If the bottle contains the slightest flaw
or weak place it is pretty certain to go.
All the bottlers wear wire gauzc he'll
NETS, and their arms are protected
with full-length gauntlets
The workers in explosive factories,
too, run great risks. They are scat
tered in sheds. only two or three men
working together, with the sheds
placed far apart. No iron is allowed
in these buildings. Visitors appearing
in ordinary boots dare not enter, be-
cause of the nails in their footwear.
All the workers wear wooden guern-
seys and specially constructed over
shoes and the gas jets are III lamps
hung outside the windows.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16


By the proper selection Of the young
plants 1t is easy and cheap to increase
the acreage Of either Strawberries or
red raspberrles; II one Is skilled in the
work 1t Is also possible to get good
supply Of black cap plants from tips.
1t is not so easy. however, to increase
the blackberry plantation. There is
more or less argument over the rela-
tive value of suckers and root cuttings.
If the plants are diseased, and this APP
plies to any plant, 1t is not wise to
take young plants from them in any
way for the result will be to spread
the disease. If the parent plants can
not be rid of disease. then 1t is better
to buy the young plants needed to ex-
tend the plantation. Last year 1t was
noticed in some sections that the San
Jose scale had attacked the raspberry
plants. In such cases the treatment is
to cut the plants back to within a few
inches Of the ground and spray the
remainder of the canes with a solution
of two pounds of whale oil soap to
each gallon of hot water,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16

A correspondent who has been very
successful in raising hogs of the bacon
variety for market writes that he
makes 1t practice to haul in during
the late fall and at any time during
the winter he can cut it, all of the old
sod he can get. This sod is stored in
a shed and twice.a week it is placed
in clean corner Of the hog pen III
quantities so that each animal will
have piece foot square. This man
also burns corn cobs when he has
them, making charcoal for the benefit
of the hogs. Both of these plans are
good, for something of the kind is re.
CURED to keep up the tone of the stom.
ach and keep the hogs in good growing
condition and this is especially apple.
able to hogs that are largely corn fed.
II this suggestion was generally fol.
lowed there would be little or no eating
of the young by sows which-in some
sections occurs yearly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
Farmers Should Advertise.

A correspondent suggests that farm
ers should do more in the way of ad-
vertlsing. He claims. and with truth.
that farmers are paying high prices to
middlemen for things they need which
might be had Of other farmers for con-
siderable less money and still have the
seller well satisfied. One man may
have large surplus of potatoes which
farmers in other sections would be
glad to buy If they knew of them. An
other has oats to sell which some other
would be glad to buy, and SO on.
Try the columns Of the local papers,
which circulate in rural districts. The
seller will get better price for his
product than by selling to the middle
man. while the buyer will save money
and be assured that, ut least. what he
buys from another farmer is likely to
be all claimed for 1t.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
Travelling in Siberia.

"N1y first purchase in Siberia" writes
Frederic Palmer, who recently made
the transcontinental journey, was a
postage stamp; and, living in country
where officials are public servants it
seemed strange to me to stand with hat
removed, before counter, behind
which man sat with his cap on, dress
ed like a major general, who gracously
consented to sell ME one five-cent
stamp. Great as the postmaster is, he
is nothing compared to an army officer.
On one extremely hot day on the
Amoor. Il wealthy merchant was lying
on sofa in the cabin. He had removed
his coat. A lieutenant in the army,
travelling third-class as a deck passen-
ger, happened to see him in his shirt
sleeves, and just above his head a pic
ture of the Emperor. ordered him to put
OH his coat in the presence of the En-
peror. The merchant appealed to the
captain Of the steamboat, but to nc
ofrnct ,,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
Short State Iten,,.

The plant of the Clinton Bridge and
Iron Works was badly damaged by FIRE.
Postoiiiccs discontinued: Bethlehem.
mail to Russell; Reeder Mills, mail to
Logan.
A movement is on foot ut Fort Dodge
to start cooperative store, the scheme
being backed by union labor people.
A stockman named Delaney, former
resident of Blackhawk County, persisted
in the recent blizzard in North Dakota.
William McNeall, a stranger in Musca-
tine. was assaulted OH the streets of
that city by footpads and robbed, of $40.
Hon. j. A. Lyons. former Auditor of
State, has removed from Guthrie Center
to Colorado, where he will engage in
business.
Rev. B. @. Swank has resigned as pas.
tor of the Presbyterian Church at Deep
River, and accepted Il call to the church
at Stout
w. G. Thomas has been appointed post-
master at Oneida, vice II. Bundy, resign
ed.
Unskilled workmen at the Illinois Cen
trail shops in Waterloo are demanding n
raise i'll wages.
Peter Dyhr, Danish farm hand at
Honey Greek, committed suicide while
Respondent He chose the carbolic acid
route.
l.. G. Besley, brick manufactures of
Council Bluffs, has brought suit against
the Brickmakers' Union for $1,000 dam
ages for threatening to boycott his bust
ness.
The trial of kid" Noble for murder
is booked for the present term of court
in Muscatine County.
a necklace was taken from the stom.
ach of COW slaughtered In New York.
The animal came from Iowa.
The city well at Newell is completed.
The well is 900 feet deep and contains
an abundant supply of water
The contract for the erection of the
Des Moines County poor house has been
let. The cost will be about $1,000.
Emil Kilofsky, an employee in Daven-
port factory, had both hands so badly
mashed in a stamping machine, that the
amputation of the greater part of both
was necessary.
Relations between the Iowa City and
Grinnell athletic teams have become bad
ly strained and the dual field meet has
been declared Off
other has two or three massive steam
shovels on the grades south of Lohrville.
Two new towns will be located on the
line between Lohrville and Carroll.
Some miscreant dumped a can of lubri
eating oil into the churn of creamery
at Clemens, and $50 batch of butter
was spoiled and the churn ruined.
The Iowa Central railway has COM
menced operations with force of 200
men, and three steam shovels, on half
million dollar improvement in its road.
bed between Oskaoosa and Lacey,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
THE MoDERNlzeD MlkADo.
He Has Abandoned the Ultra Exclu-
siveness of His Ancestors.

lie HAS ADanuOned the Ultra EXclu.
siveness of His Ancestors.
The Mikado is the first Japanese SOW
ereign to emerge from the dignified re-
tirement in which his predecessors
lived. This step has only increased the
passionate loyalty of his subjects to-
ward him, and people are already COM
pairing him with the Kaiser as regards
the prominent public role he seems dis
posed to play.
During the army maneuyers his Maj
esty, who followed events with the
greatest interest and enthusiasm, or
dered two privates to be brought before
him. and questioned them through the
medium of his chief aide-de-camp. His
questions were OF the paternal kind,
such as the following:
How did they get on with the hard
ships of barracks life? Did they long
to go home whenever they thought Of
their nearest relatives? Did they not
thing their lot hard one each time
their thoughts wandered back to the
ease and joys Of their home? Were they
not feeling the effects of their daily
exertions in the maneuvers? Did not
the exactons Of the military service
sometimes make them cry in secret?
The young soldiers answered that
they were quite happy iii the army.
and that their only desire was to do
their duty toward their beloved sover-
eign.
A few days before the Mikado. while
travelling by rail, was cheered by a
number of very old people at Shiraishi
station. He sent them all presents
through the local government, an act
of Kindness which moved the old peo-
pie to tears of gratitude.-Yokohama
Correspondence London Mail.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
IN THE JAWS OF THE FIRE.
Great Bravery of the Man Who Stokes
the Eirc Enrinei

Great Bravery of the Man Who Stokes
the Fire Engine.i
The risks that tiremen take are an
everlasting wonder, even though al
most every paper contains stories of
their bravery. But the man behind
the tire-engine-apparently he has only
to keep his machine going, and is as
safe as the man who pulls the lever of
an upright donkey" The story of
Bill Brown, as told by Mr.. Cleveland
Moffett in Careers of Daring and
Danger" shows that the engineers
bravery is sometimes put to tests as
severe as those which the hoseman or
the ladderman even has to endure.
What happened was this: Engine 90,
pumping her prcttiest, stood at the
corner so near the drug-housc that the
driver thought it wasn't safe for the
horses, and led them away. That left
Brown alone, against the cheek of the
fire, watching his boiler and keeping
his steam-gauge at seventy-five
As the fire gained, chunks of red
hot sandstone Desdn t" smash down on
the engine. Brown ran his pressure
up to eighty, and watched the door
anXiously where the four firemen from
his squad had gone into the furnace.
Then an explosion of chemicals in
the building sent flame wide as a
house curling across the street, en-
wrapping engine and man, and setting
fire to the elevated railway station
overhead. Bill Brown stood by his
engine with sheet of fire above him.
he heard footsteps on the pavement
and voices that grew fainter crying,
Run for your lives" He was alone,
and the skin on his hands, face and
neck was blistered.
Brown knew why every one was run
ming. There would be another explo-
sion. 1t was tolerably certain that he
must die If he stayed. But his four
chums We're in the fire and needed the
water. If lie quit his engine the water
would fail.
He stocked in coal and ran the gauge
up another notch, easing the running
parts with the oiler. He was Offering
his life for his friends.
In a few minutes the four firemen
came out of the building. Then Bill
Brown ran for his life with his COM
rades. A second later Engine 20 was
crushed by the falling walls.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16

-.l lAsT gouAl'74y.

- kfS
me rich . mam as you ~;
:, ,. time sl see a deepef blue than We do
He cann the sky; -P
IN t .he spiping 5of the birds-a music
a. hears and clear.
swess a .on yaey blinking dulls the mu-
And vet he HAS some pleasures that pos
sess tempting guise-
But he cent die any deader than the
polo, ran dies.
The rich man cannot eat more than
one meal at time.
Nor mbre than his ten pennies will OK
ceted the poor mans dime;
One SUIT Of clothes is all that may at
o1ice his form adorn,
And he's just rs homely as the. poor
man, when he's born;
His truth Is just US honest, and his false
hoods are plain lies
land he can't die any deader than the
l,oor man dies.
Theresmay be some philosophy in lifting
up moan
Because the rich man rides the while the
ppor man walks alone;
because the rich man has his gold to buy
HIS goodly cheer
And yet therell come time when he
81 will have to leave it here.
Old Deaths a spirit level that will brook
no compromise,
And no one dies any deader than the
next man dies.
Baltimore American.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16

lady love. one of the class to which no
belonged-one who. 1t seemed to ME.
was better fitted to be the wife OF an
artisan than Fusa would have been.
The months flowed on. At last, one
night the professor raped at my win
dow.
"a year has passed. Shall we awak-
en- Fusa?"
What answer shall give hint" 1
asked myself on rising.
In telling this story was accus-
toned to pause here and look around
the absorbed listening circle with an
expression which hoped would I'M
ply my belief In some profound mys-
terry. Sometimes one of the audience
would say to my wife:
"And SO you were in hypnotic sleep
for year?'
To which the lady would reply de-
murely, with glance from half-closed
lids in my direction:
1T appears so from the narrative"
"And you did not know what trans
PRED during all that time?"
20, had full possession of my
senses, heard all that was said in
my presence
The professor would give q warning
cough and turn the conversation.
One day, when we were alone. Fusa
said:
II am tired of that fairy tale. 1t
seems to amuse you-you always did
love jest and to carry 1t to an ex-
treme-but do not, and am going to
put an end of 1t If you bring it up
again."
"Why, YOU do not mean to deny that
you vanished from human sight for a
year?"
"Fiddlesticks!"
THAT you died and We're inclosed in
tomb?"
How do you escape the imputation
of connlvlng ut a crime? Why did you
not inform against my father? What
shall say is this: I was foolish
young girl, infatuated with man
whom 1t would have brought me un-
happiness to marry. l would not be
convinced by words. but agreed to test
his faithfulness by going away for a
year. He did not stand the test
should think you would be ashamed Of
yourself-both of you! And shall ex-
pose you If you do not stop It."
We stopped 1t. But this only shows
that Fusa is quite unaware that she
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
Cutting Seed Pot.to..

AS long as different men grow diff
ferent varieties Of potatoes on Differ
ent soils, just so long will thele be. DIFF
ferences of opinion as to the
size proper for cutting the seed
tuber. Success with the sin
gle eye for seed comes oftenest when
the soil is in the best possible condition
for potato growing and when the seed
tubers that are cut are sound, Of av-
erage size and of a strain that is not
run down. BY cutting the single eyes
from the center of potato of average
size and cutting in block form we get
first-class seed, but the pieces at either
end Of the tuber frequently have two
or three eyes. If the soil is not rich
and in good filth or If the seed can not
be planted early, then one had best
not depend upon the single eye plan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16
Minor state Matter.

A telephone exchange is being. estab-
lished at Monroe.
A horse was stolen from the barn Of
ID. Versteg at Pella.
DR.. John G. Howell, pioneer physi-
clan Of Pella, is dead.
A clothing store at Keswick was rob-
bed of large quantity of goods.
Burglars plundered the general store
of Sands Bros, at Ainsworth. No clue.
Pulaski has mad dog scare, and it is
feared much stock will have to be killed
The Burlington fire department re-
sponded to 126 alarms during the fiscal
year just closed.
The son of Editor Frsbee of the Sloan
Star was seriously injured by falling
from n hay nov.
Arthur Chambers. Des Moines mail
carrier, committed suicide while despon-
dent over i'll health.
A number of merchants of Mason City
were caught by forged checks passed by
n smooth stranger.
II. l.. Ingersol of Waterloo was pain
fully injured while out hunting by the
explosion of a shotgun.
Ten boys, ranging in age from 8 to 10
years, were arrested for plundering load
ed freight cars ut Davenport.
The residence of Joseph Zenisek ut
Fort Dodge burned to the ground, togeth-
er with contents. The loss was heavy.
a movement is oil foot to organize
district fair association at Agency. Near
ly the required sum has been subscribed.
A Kentucky young lady was bequcath-
ed $4,000 by the will of the late Peter
Barclay, Il resident of Ringgold County
and her former lover.
Washington merchants were made the
victims of smooth check forger, who
decamped with small amounts secured
from several business men.
Robbers entered Burlington saloon,
brutally assaulted the proprietor and
made away with $500 in cash and checks.
The bandits made their escape.
The Chicago Great Western has com.
menced operations on the Omaha line
south of Lake City. One contractor las
one hundred and fifty teams at work on
the cuts over the Coon river, while an
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16

and in gas works and factories where
fumes of ammonia, etc, are liable to
escape 1t is often necessary for Il kind
of diving apparatus to be worn by the
men who have to enter such places.
Another kind of danger arises where
the grinding of metal or stone is car
ried on. The fine dust gets into the
lungs of the workpeople and is apt
to produce a species of pneumonia.
Many devices are used to prevent this
Specially constructed fans are used to
carry off as much dust as possible, but
this is not sufficient IN the case of sand
blasting, which is a process of engrav-
ing or polishing by means of power
full blast of fine sand directed against
the object. The workers here have to
wear a helmet and jacket, much like a
fireman.
1t would hardly appear on the sur
face that The handling of skins is at
tended by any great danger, yet, as n
matter of fact, persons engaged in the
tanning and Undressing trades are
SApOScu W grave ljeiu
There is peculiar kind of dust, min
gled with minute fragments of hair
which gets into the lungs and sets up
Il special form of irritation, which
sometimes results in serious Illness. In
the flax spinning and other trades con.
nected with the making of textile ia
brics great danger, as we all know,
from irritant and poisoned dust, is Of
ten present, and has to be guarded
against by various precautions in the
way of ventilation and personal clean
illness.
One of the most perilous of all man
ufactures IS seen in the alkali indus
try, which is carried on principally
around Widnes and st. Helena. The
testimony of medical men, says
Harmsworth's Magazine, is unanimous
that men employed in the alkali works
rarely live to an old age Their appe-
tites disappear. the foul gases destroy
the tone of the bronchial tubes and
bring on asthma; all the men are more
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16

A farmer who had sold flock of
sleep toa dealer lent him Il dog to drive
them a distance of thirty miles, desir-
ing him to give the dog meal at the
journeys end and tell it to go home"
The drover found the dog SO useful that
he resolved to steal it, and instead of
sending it back, locked it up. The ami
NAL grew sulky, and at last effected its
escape. Evidently deeming the drover
had no more right to detain the sheep
than he had to detain ITSELF the dog
went into the field, collected all the
sheep that had belonged to its master,
and, to that persons intense astonish-
ment, drove the whole flock home
ouoipf N"