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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
Hydrophobia Scares.

There is no special hydrophobia season.
In the hot months dogs suffer from in
tense heat and are liable to heat stroke,
especially II they be unable to obtain
water. No doubt the so-called rabid
dogs are often the victims of other dis
orders; but the germs of rabies are TO
more active and general in summer than
in winter. Although this fact has been
presented to the public repeatedly, every
dog which is not plainly in good health
in July and August is pursued to its
death by police and public.
1t is almost certain that the popular
fallacies about mad dogs and hydrophobia
have killed more persons than has hydro
phobia itself. Fairly sensible persons
when bitten by.a cross dog often become
panic stricken and die in great agony
after exhibiting many of the alleged
symptoms of hydrophobia, although the
dog in each case may have been free of
rabies. A typical instance was that Of a
Chicago woman whose malady was dag
nosed by two doctors as hydrophobia,
After her death the dog which bit her
was hunted up and was found to be en-
tirely well. Intelligent people in every
community should stoutly combat every
mad dog scare. Instead of having nm al.
legged mad dog shot they should shut him
up until it shall be determined whether
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10

"There is no need to get down SC
carly" said the other.
MY regular hour" replied the great
merchant; 81 am there at that time six
days in the week."
This merchant is in business in
which quotations from European mar.
kets are important to his other houses
in the West and he is getting quota
tons on the wires while others sleep.
The vice-president of n Wall Street
bank is at his desk at half past eight
every day. The president of Broad.
way bank reaches his desk at nine in
the morning. AS he lives up the Hud-
son, he has to rise at six.
One man said that getting to work al
eight was the greatest help in the
world. He got well started on his day
by nine, whereas few years ago,
when he used to arrive at his office
late, there seemed to be no morning
left in which to accomplish anything
worth while.
'Then, too" he added, 81 get the in
vigorating morning air. BY the time I
get to my office have heard the birds
sing and have had the early sunshine.
l have met not few in the glow of
health, which tends to inspirit me-"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
EhFDIIORIAISAGZ


city hydrant.- The city of Chicago rcn.
dered bill for $65, the cost of n new
hydrant. A few days following Commits
sioner of Public Works Block received
a reply.
The Burlington road held that the value
of the scrap iron should be deducted from
the bill-that scrap iron was worth two
cents a pound. Deputy Commissioner
Brennan figured that hydrant sold for
scrap iron would bring about S1.97. So
this amount was deducted from the bill.
You would scarcely expect great cor
poration to be so particular about the
pennies. But watching the pennies makes
dividends possible. Big concerns pay high
salaries to men who can save more than
their salaries by keeping an eye OH the
little leaks. Great industrial enterprises
are conducted with success by making
their entire profits from the utilization of
what was formerly waste.
Take care of the pennies. The dollars
will take care Of themselves" 1ndivid-
nals rs well rs corporations must learn
this lesson. Most men fail because they
have never learned the old-fashioned les
son of economy. There is n big differ
ence between stingincss and economy.
The manager of business who can make
the distinction, the manager who can run
the line between thriftiness and niggard-
illness is the manager who succeeds. A
large volume Of business on small mar
gin of profit with somebody to look after
the leakage-that is modern business
st. Louis Chronicle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
Emigration to Canada.

Can American cmigrants be "assimi-
lated" to institutions and types Of gov
eminent inferior to those of their native
land? That is question raised by the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat in reference
to the American emigration to the west
ern provinces of British America.
1t Is very much to be doubted whether
the institutions and types of government
which the American emigrant will find in
Canada will impress him as at all in
ferior to those Of his own country. He
certainly will find that they guarantee
quite as large liberty as those of his
native land, and that the monarchical elc
ment which is supposed to be injected in
to the Canadian government by its nomi-
nal relations to the British Crown is,
so far as its practical influence in the
affairs of the Government is concerned,
legal fiction. Nevertheless it is quite
possible that any large American emil
grafton to the Northwestern British prov
inces might prove n disturbing political
factor. Not because the Americans would
be at all disconnected with the political
institutions of the country, which in some
respects are freer and better ordered
than our own, but because they would
eeA - hSN impulse 10 Tue STOWlu OIL lue
opinion that the interests of that region
would be greatly promoted by anneNa-
ton to the United States if annexation
Shall prove to be the only means of re-
moving the obstacles to free CONNER
cial intercourse. AT present sentiment
OF loyalty to the British Crown is SO
strong among the British Canadians that
the motives Of self-intercst which prompt
their occasional consideration of the ben.
efts of closer relations with the United
states are held in allegiance. But this
sentiment would probably be gradually
weakened by large infusion of the
American clement in the population OF
Northwestern Canada So that although
Canadian experience heretofore has leer
that American immigrants very readily
assimilate with their Canadian cousins
and adapt themselves to Canadian insti
tutions, they have heretofore been known
In Canada rather as transient visitors
than permanent settlers, and the latter
at least have been too few in number t.
have any particular influence OH Cana
dian politics. But if they get to going
| to Canada in large numbers they are like
~ to preciptate problems Which Cana
dian statesmen desire above all thing
to avoid, or at least to postpone.-St. Pau
Pioneer Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
Church Entertainment,

The prediction lately made by minis
ter in one of the Western cities-Chicago,
we bcliere-to the effect that the only
way in which it would soon be possible
to maintain an interest in church work
would be by means Of "the continuous
vaudeville" startled great many con-
sentative church goers, and possibly
shocked some of them. However, the
stream Of tendency seems to have set
rather strongly in the direction of full
6llment of this prophecy. Billiards, ping
pong, hops, amateur theatricals, secular
concerts, legerdemain, charades. socia-
bles, fairs, suppers, primarily for pur-
poses Of revenue, music of doubtful sa-
|credness-if there is dividing line be-
tween the sacred and secular In music; all
of these have como to be recognized as
adjuncts of more or less value in church
work. The underlying idea seems to be
to make the church an attractive social
club, and thus bring within its sphere
of influence many who value a church
connection at the outset chiefly for the
social opportunities it offers. 1t would
be difficult to find serious objection to
this view of so much of the work of a
church as may properly be considered Sec
ular. There may be a line which it would
be dangerous to cross, but where 1t lies
would probably be MS difficult to define
us Is the Alaskan boundary.-New York
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
AN OUTSIDER.
Rich and Poor NIinrle at Official Re
ceptions in Washington.

Rich and Poor MinTle at Official Re-
ccptions in Washington.
A young girl who has been living in
Washington sets forth in the Post of
that city some amusing and some pa
thetic instances of the strange way in
which fashionable folk in costly clothes
and plain outsiders who have ordina-
rily nothing to do with society at all
mingle at the official receptions.
AT one reception, she says, was
pouring tea, chatting meantime with
half-dozen of the gayest young peo-
pie in society, when l noticed sad
little black figure wandering aimless-
ly about the dining-room. Her face
was scanned and wrinkled, her eyes
looked as If the color had been wash
ed cut by weeping, her shoulders We're
bent with age. But she smiled pleas
antly when l left my friends and APP
preached her.
What will you laveY asked.
MAY | get you some tea"
When had brought the tea and plen-
ty of sandwiches, / sat down beside
her. She seemed grateful for my at
tention, and talked garrulously. 1t
came out that she had little grand
daughter such pretty, good little
thing! convalescing from typhoid fe-
yer.
"She Graves grapes" said my new
friend-"the doctor told her three days
ago that she might have some-and
ever since she has been pining and fret
ting for them. But grapes are hard to
get these days" added the old lady,
signing and turning wistful glance
to the basket In the center Of the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
these Need Eocourauement.

The person who really needs the atten-
ton of the school commencement speak
ers is the man who has passed his college
days and has found to his dismay that
sheer force of circumstances has crowded
him into rut. This is the individual
whose mind has stopped growing and who
fancied that his education was Com
pleted" when he left his high school or
academy or college. Very likely some
misguided professor assured him at the
time that his education would prove in
valuable to him. He looks back and
fails to see where it has advanced him
materially. He has forgotten most Of
the facts he learned save few vague
generalizations. He would be Mt loss
to extract the square root of any number
of four figures; he could not construe a
Latin sentence or conjugate Latin verb
to save his life; physics, chemistry, math-
ematics-all are sealed books to him.
That he decides to put these things be-
hind him, concludes that his time fol-
education is past and puts aside with
sullen resignation all future opportuni
ties for learning is not at all surprising
Chicago News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10

Arrested for beating his wife, we'll
TODD New Yorker addressed the court
MS follows: II am gentleman, sir. and
have an income of $1,000 year.
don't think ought to be held. This
is only family trouble and l don't
tl,Iak 1t is necessary to hold me-"
W'hereupon the magistrate said: you'll
get the same treatment here as any
other gentleman who beats his wife,"
and the bail was fixed at $500. o just
judge! 1t matters not whether his in
come is $500 or $4,000 or $4,000 the
man who strikes his wife Is a brute.
The definition of gentleman has
changed with the centuries. In Plato's
time gentleman was landhOlder who
lived on the labor of slaves. When
Blackstone lived n gentleman was one
given gentility because he bore court
armor. Then the common people as
pired to be gentlemen, and the defini-
ton again changed. A gentleman in
our time is an honorable man, a man
Of high principles who shows his quail
tiles by gentle behavior. In our day a
man may have all the appearance Of a
gentleman and all the qualities of a cur.
The creature who lifts his hand against
woman is of the latter kind. o, just
Judge! Your decision is herald of that
day of which poets have dreamed and
singers sung, of that day 'gainst whose
coming martyrs have poured out their
blood-the day when the real Cadi shall
decide in equity, when the poor nan
shall have his day in court and the
rich brute and genteel rascal shall not
be permitted to interpose his money as
shield against righteous punish
mont
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
ORIGIN OF JOHN W. GATES.
Made Fortune by Legitimate Bushes
Qualities, Judgment and Industry.

Made Fortune by Legitimate Business
Qualities, Judgment and Industry.
Mr.. Gates is now the most spectacu-
lar figure in the financial landscape.
Wall street, that roaring furnace fed
with life and hope" is gazing at him
in open-mouthed wonder. There is u
boldness about him that all admire.
The story of his rise is an interesting
one, and SO far as 1t shows how legiti-
mate success in business is achieved, a
profitable one. One of his earliest bust
ness positions was that of travelling
salesman, and the rise of his income
from modest salary to an almost fab
ulous amount, is an account, not of sue
cessful speculation, but of the results
of common sense and hard work.
AS young man, Gates was selling
barbed wire was just beginning to be
used for fencing; and he erected the
first corral In the State of Texas. He
soon decided that there was more
money to be made in the manufacture
of wire than by selling it on salary.
and with some friends bought three
barbed wire machines and started n
factory on total investment of less
than $4,000. The business proved very
probable and they soon started another
small factory. Here they made SO
much money that they declared divi-
dends of about so per cent per week
Gates seemed to be the entire working
force. He travelled. sold the wire, came
back, invoiced it. billed it, painted it,
marketed it. and collected the money.
AS he was doing all the work. he final
ly arranged to buy out all the partners
but Mr.. Clifford. He and Clifford in
corporatcd the Southern Wire Com
pany;;' and so he pressed from one en-
terprise into another. always enlarg-
ing the field Of his activities.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10

Americans poke fun at European
newspapers because of their inade-
Quate knowledge of current events and
Of prominent men in this country. Eu-
ropeans might retort that we are Woe
fully ignorant Of European matters and
men. How many persons in this coun-
try have ever heard OF Ras Makonnen?
Yet this Abyssinian soldier and diplo-
mat is the man Of the hour in the Eu-
ropean press. He is about forty years
of age. a nephew of Menelek, and won
the battle of Adowa, which battle gave
Abyssinia its autonomy rs n country.
Ras Mankonnen is visiting Paris and
is all the rage. His shoulders are COW
cred with gold fringe bertha and lie
wears green hat with broad brim.
His stockings are green and his shoes
are yellow. He wears white silk pan-
| taloons." Also fine black eyes and q
curly beard. Imagine the figure this
handsome semi-savage cuts on the
boulevards Of Paris! The government
rendered him military review of ali
the armies Of France and "the Temps
| spoke Of him as .the Hannibal Of the
Abyssinians, who are the Japanese OF
Africa" The fact is we are SO busy
building up empires in the new world
we fail to note the rise of new empires
and new men in the old. Save when
there is war like that in the Trans.
vaal which lifts the curtain on scenes
and people little known we are MS jg.
norant Of Eastern movements as the
East Is of ours. Until there is world.
knowledge universally diffused the doc.
trine of the brotherhood of man must
wait. The world inhabitants must
know each other better before they car
esteem and love each other more. Sci
ence, discovery. Invention. facilities
these are the heralds of the wider, bet
ter day.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
EXCURSION INTO BIRD LAND


There is more than one way to name
the birds~without gum" for example,
Mrs. Jenks-Smith's way, as 1t is record
ed in "The Garden of a Commuters
Wife" "And as for BIRDS" began Mrs.
Jenks-Smith, bird study is all the
rage.
I've stopped wearing feathers, any
way, till the excitement dies down.
And we's stopped driving birds out of
the fruit trees and we've put up boxes
to draw them. They won't come into
them, though, because, the doctor says,
the rooms aren't separate and the open.
Ings draw draft through. call that
going little too far. AS If birds that
fly all day in the air can't stand draft
Mt night!
SIN the spring, when we return here,
Pm going to have bird class and pro.
fessor to take us out and point out the
birds.
cts awfully nice, my DEAR" contin-
ued Mrs. Jenks-Smith; much easier
than giving garden party; no trouble,
no fuss, managed like Cooks tour in
Europe. He tells you everything you
ought to see, so you don't have to
think, you know.
II went once this year across the
river where was visiting. There We're
twenty ladies, in such becoming out
ing costumes, and such delicious
lunch, served quite in the woods, my
dear! When we were eating we saw
quail! Yes, with it's feathers on and
all! Did you ever know anything so
appropriate?
Eve learned two other birds besides
"A blue Jane, and the other was red.
eyed virago. remembered the name
as SO appropriate, because the bird sang
or scolded, l don't know which you
would call it, all the time we were
lunching.'
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10

Brigandage i'll eastern Europe seems
to have fallen on a new era of prosper
ity, or the hope of it. Besides the cases
of kidnapping in Albania we read Of
four sons Of wealthy Rumanian fami-
lies being seized and held for ransom.
In Greece also the reports speak of a
distinct revival of this kind of crime.
We fear that there is too much truth
In the explanation assigned by more
7shan one intelligent OVERWHELMINGLY,
that the predatory instincts of whole
Glasses of marauders in those countries
have been intiamed by the payment of
the ransom for Miss Stone. The great
coup which her kidnapers effected was
like the drawing of the grand prize in
the lottery. 1t set all their neighbors
wild to rival their good fortune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
Prospect Of Longevity.

Timid people and pcssimists are inclln-
ed to fear that the progress of invention
is increasing the dangers of accident and
disease to such an extent that human life
must necessarily be shortened. This fear
appears to be groundlcss. Collected Sta
tistics show that the average duration Of
human life is steadily increasing. Some
interesting and striking facts along this
lire arc presented in recent report of
the Chicago board of health. The aver
age duration Of life has increased in a
third of century from fourteen years
to more than thirty-one years. Exclusive
of suicides. deaths from violence have de-
creased 6.3 per cent. Deaths from rail-
way and car accidents have decreased
more than 5 per cent. Since the partial
abolition of railways on grade and the
introduction of tenders on cars. six years
ago, deaths from this source have de-
creased 1875 per cent.-San francisco
Arronaut
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
For Livery.

A Philadelphia halter says that Pan
amas are now used for livery: A
young millionaire came in here last
week and bought four-one for his
head coachman and his head grooms
He had the hats blocked stiff and
straight-like livery derby hat-and
he put brown ribbon, his color, around
them. He paid fifteen dollars apiece
for the livery hats and fifty dollars for
a small hat for himself. The small hat
is very fashionable now. 1t is of the
same shape as old men used to wear.
Last year l sent back to my importer
dozens of these small hats, because
they wouldn't sell. But this year they
are selling like hot cakes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
EARLY RISING.
BENEFITS that Modern Business Men
Begin to Realize.

BENEFITS that Modern Business Men
Begin to Realize.
A few years ago nearly all wealthy
men, bankers. brokers, the heads of
great establishments, did their work
between ten and three. The New York
Sun tells us that the younger business
men. who are often accused of being
degenerate sons OF hard working faith
ers, are making great change In the
matter of hours, beginning the day
earlier. The business day has thus
been heightened, not for the paid I'M
derlings, whose hours have always
been from eight or nine until five or
six, but for the men who manage the
great transactions in the worlds COM
merce.
Not long ago the head of a great
house in the lower end of New York
City was asked when lie could be seen
the next day. r
IN be at my desk at seven-thirty
in the morning." be answered.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
The cure of rheumatism by bee stings,

The cure of rheumatism by bee stings,
an old, and, as it was supposed, ex-
ploded, remedy, is being exploited again
in some parts of the east. 1t should be
used with great care and discrimina-
ton. The Philadelphia Ledger relates
that one William Snively, an old farmer
of Shady Grove, Pa, who had lost the
use of his arms by rheumatism, was
stung by bees and ran from them so
fast that he discovered he had left his
rheumatism behind. ThereGpon he
made much boast of the bee cure, hear
ing which one Carl Aprogle, also rheu-
matte victim, decided to try it. So con-
WINGED was he of it's efficacy that he In
vited his neighbors to witness the cure.
He made the experiment clad only in
long, thin robe, hobbled up to the
hives on his crutches and upset two
of them. Instantly the bees began to
apply the remedy with oil the industry
characteristic of the insect, and prob
ably would have improved a whole shin
ing hour had it not been that Aprogle
yelled most Justify for help. AS he was
unable to run away, some of his neigh
bors came to his relief by lassoing him
and dragging him away from the in
furiated bees. The unfortunate man
has such a beautiful case of bee stings
that it may be some time before he
knows whether he has been cured of
rheumatism. 1t may turn out that what
is one mans cure is another mans poi
son.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10
is YOUR THUMB MAD ?
1t Is an Infallib1e Rcvealer of til,
Presence of Insanity.

II 1S an Ncyealcr OF the
Presence of Insanity.
The thumb is the most tell-tale mem
Der of the human beings body, and it
is well-known device of employers Of
large amount of labor to carefully
scrutinize the thumbs of every appli-
cant for situation before finally en-
gazing him or her for any position in
their business. In fact, SO far has this
thumb science been carried that many
lunatic asylum doctors are now en-
ploying it in detecting the numerous
frauds who endeavor each year to en-
ter the asylum on the plea of insanity.
No matter how carefully the individ-
ual may attempt to conceal incipient
insanity. the thumb will reveal 1t in
fallibly. 1t is the one sure test If the
patient in his daily work permits the
thumb to stand at right angle to the
other fingers, or to fall listless into
the palm, taking no part in his writing,
his handling of things. his multiform
duties, but standing isolated and sulky.
it is an unaswerable confession of men.
tai disease.
Specialists in nerve disease. by nm
examination of the thumb, can tell IL
the patient is affected or likely to be
affected by paralysis, as the thumb sig
nails this long before it Is visible in any
other part of the body. If the danger
symptoms are evidenced there, an on.
Grafton is performed on what is known
as the thumb center" of the brain, and
the disorder is often removed.
We believe that the very worst sight
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-09-10

The German Emperor is not noted for
his humor, but If this story, told In
Leslie's Weekly, be true, he may add
humorist to his other titles-soldier,
sailor, poet, musician, and SO forth.
He has a habit of pulling his ear
when he is deep in thought.
why do you do that?" asked one
of his royal nephews.
Because ! am annoyed" was the
answer.
"And when you are very. very much
annoyed what do you do?"
~ pull somebody else's ear"