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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
In the Fall.

There Is music that entrances. bells dingdongin'
In the glades,
An sweet song in the rattle Of the dryin' foc-
der blades;
Ell the world has aught of worry, you're not
carin' oyermurh
As You pull the watermilons might nigh Dustin
at your touch,
Fer ef there's ono perfect season it is autumn,
When the days is gi,tln' shorter an the nights
little cool.
At such times your memory rises an brings
back past dreams to you,
Like tho scents of lavender stealin from the
keepSakes hid from view;
You recall the sweetheart faces In the quaint
old fashioned days,
With the cheeks that held pink roses maxim
fair the country ways.
An You feel the early raptures fore your heart
had wound or scar
Say, when salie played the ducimer an Jennie
the guitar.
Why, you think of Lijey Dunlap, 'Zekel Jitkins
an the boys
Somehow mixed in fadeless colors with the pic
tur's Of old joys.
An half listen to their laughter an half see 'em
raise again
Them ere towers poets give the name of castles
built in Spain.
Till your eyes git sorter watery spite of sneer an
rldlCule,
When the days is gittln' shorter an the nights
a little cool.
Helghho Them old times is over an the old
songs no more sung,
Fer this ragtime driyel shames the strains we
heard when we wuz young;
Still there's one old iogy yearnin' fer the senti
mental airs
An the friendships that wuz holer than he's
since found anywheres,
An he sends across the distance sighs fer au.
tumn's lyin. far
Say,when Sallie played the dulcimer and Jennie
the guitar.
Win 7. Hale in New York Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
THE GIANTS CAUsEWAY.
Formation and Appearance of This
Odd Freak of Nature

rormnIon ana Appearance Of This
Odd Freak of Nature.
The Giant's causeway is situated at
the northern extremity of County An
trim, a short distance from Port Rush,
Ireland. 1T consists of countless hosts
Of basaltic pillars, varying in shape
from pentagon to an octagon, the av-
eragc length of each column or pillar
being about eighty feet, the whole
stacked SO closely together that knife
blade could hardly be inserted between
them. But the formation of these pill
lars is not the least wonderful part
about them. for, although they may be
counted by thousands and tens of
thousands. each column is fashioned
with Il symmetry that suggests ma
sons handiwork. Their composition is
perfect fusion of one-half flinty earth,
one-quarter lime and clay, one-quarter
almost pure iron, each pillar being di-
vided into regular lengths or joints
which come together as Il perfect, nat
ural ball and socket union.
Although to be found in small de-
tachments imbeddcd in the cliffs,
sands, etc. for some distance along the
shore, the principal aggregations form
ing the causeway proper consist of
three projections or tongues known as
little, middle and grand causeways.
These singular columns are of different
lengths and present an astonishing ap-
pearance as they stand an army of at
least 10000 strong marshaled on the
shores of Erin as if ever ready to do
battle with the rising tide.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

The large ana increasing circulation
of The Iowa Homestead In this county
is matter for congratulation to the
publishers and to good farming, for, of
all the papers of its class in the coun-
try, 1t is easily the best and most help.
full. Its Special Farmers Institute
editions, issued with the regular edition
the first week IN each month, have been
for years the admiration of all practi.
cal farmers. Written wholly by farm
ers, they are full of actual experience,
and smell of the soil. We have been
fortunate enough this season to secure
terms for The Homestead and its Spec.
ial Farmers Institute Editions, together
with The Poultry Farmer end The
Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal,
four of the most valuable farm publi-
cations in the country, that enable us to
offer the four In connection with our
own paper for $1.9O for the entire five,
one year. This is emphatically good
thing, and no farmer in this county
should fail to take advantage of this
offer. For large line of thoroughly
practical farm reading nothing has ever
been offered before that equals Il. A
county paper 9 farm paper, poultry
paper, q farm insurance paper and the
Special Farmers Isntitute, all for $1.9g
Come In and order them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

Fetters have been forged for the
striking miners by some who would
ravish right, who would persecute a
principle. The denial of just wage to
to those who produce wealth will only
serve to strengthen their purpose, and
will arraign on their side the sympathy
of that vast army of people who believe
IN justice ins tead of tyranny, and they
compose 80 per cent of the American
people. There comes a time In the af-
fairs of men and nations when the
moral force of right cannot be inclosed
In prison bars or subject to the bayou
cts of capitalistic Hessians. The brazen
assumption that republican politicians
can adjudicate the differences between
the mine owners and the miners is a
fiimsy political subterfuge that would
not be uttered only by partlzan who
fails to comprehend the difference be-
tween partisan politics and states
msnshlp.-Waterloo Times Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
The word "Joss..

ITS mistake to suppose that Joss
is n Chinese word,' says q retired
ships carpenter i've Travelled a good
bit in the orient in my time, and
among the odds and ends of interest
ing information picked up was a
knockout of the genuineness of Joss
as u Chinese word. Cinnamon only
know joss when they come in con-
tract with Europeans. A Chinese priest
that became chummy with in Han
kow told me that thei was no such
word in Chinese. He explained that
the word was a corruption of the
Spanish word 'Dios' and had come into
use through the missionaries. Many
early missionaries, he said, We're Span
ish priests, and their pronunciation of
'Dios' was speedily corrupted into
Joss by native tongues and applied to
the Chinese deities. It's only on the
Chinese seaboard that the word is un-
derstood by Cinnamon In the inte-
rior, the priest told me, the Celestials
had no knowledge of it."-Philadelphia
Record.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

Years ago, before the corrupt prac-
tlces act, when Scottish parliament
tary candidate was canvassing his con-
stituency he called at the house of an
aged couple. Finding the old woman
alone, he entered into conversation and
asked her to use her influence in get
ting her husband to vote for him.
While they We're conversing the would
be NJ. P. noticed a kitten playing about
on the floor and offered rs for it. The
bargain was struck, and OH leaving he
again expressed the hope that she
would secure her husbands vote for
him.
"Weel, sir,' answered the woman,
"as said afore, Johns man O. his
ain mind and just does what stricks
his ain noddle, but at ony rate, sir,
you've gotten u real cheap kitten, for
yer opponent was in nae farer game
than yesterday, an he gied me f1O for
its brither."-London Answers
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
street Etiouett..

In meeting lady in a public thor
oughfare in America gentleman al
ways waits for her bow of recognition
before lifting his hat or addressing
her. In Europe, however, the contrary
is the established rule, it being the
gentleman's place to bow first, when,
If the lady desires not to recognize
him, she ignores his salutations, thus
giving the cut direct. 1t is not good
form in any place for a lady to stop
gentleman in the street for the pur-
pose Of chatting with him, though she
may with perfect propriety pause to
speak if he take the initiative. Pre-
longed talks in the street are not, how
ever, considered good form, even be-
tween persons Of the same sex, the
better plan being to walk on slowly
until the conversation is concluded
Detroit Free Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
YOUNG RAVENS.
Queer Story of the Changing Color
of the Newborn Birds.

Queer Story of the Changing Color
of the Newborn Birds.
l have not learning enough to know
whether in the earliest times ravens
were accounted "unlucky." If SO, why
were they chosen from among all the
birds Of the air for the merciful er-
rand of carrying EEead to Elijah in the
wilderness? Did fhey steal it? They
are given to theft! Also in the written
word we are assured that "God hear
eth the young ravens when they cry
out unto him. And nothing Of this
is said of doves or of any other white
or heavenly kind of bird. An expla-
nation is given in the Egyptian COM
mentary on st. Luke in the Coptic
script by Epiphanius. A. D. 36S-4O1.
The passage is certainly very curious,
and am permitted to transcribe it
here why, then, did the evangelist
mention no name among the birds ex-
cept ravens only? Because the hen
raven, having laid her eggs and
hatched her young, is wont to fly
away and leave them on account of
the hue Of their color, for when
hatched they are red in appearance.
Then the Nourisher of all creation
sends to them little swarm of in
sects, putting it by their nest, and
thus the little ravens are fed until
the color of their body is. as it We're,
dyed and becomes black. But after
seven days the old ravens return, and,
seeing that the bodies of their young
have become perfectly like their own,
henceforward they take to them and
bring them food Of their own ac-
cord"
1t is for naturalists to ascertain
whether or no this strange account
of the young ravens holds good in our
day Cornhill Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

j. Plerpont Morgan has announced
that he and his ilk will oppose the
nomination of Roosevelt for the presi-
dency and If unable to encompass the
president's defeat, will attempt to
nominate Grover Cleveland. And who
in the devil do they expect will vote for
Clevelandp Any man who attempts to
run for the highest Office within the
gift of the American people with such
an incumbus as Scoundrel Morgan
clinging to him, will get the most
beautiful jolt in the neck that was ever
given or taken. The American people
are tired of Morgan's rule and the next
presidential election will demonstrate
whether the people or Morgan shall rule
this country.-Manson Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

ed the bungling language Of the bill
and said that plain English that would
say just what the law meant, and would
mean just what was meant, would have
settled the whole matter beyond dis,
pute. If the law had said that oleo
colored by any ingredient, or in any
manner, at any time and by anybody
should pay tax of 10 cents pound,
that would have settled the whole
question. AS the law now stands, as
fast as one question is decided against
them, they will try something else and
this hide and seek play will continue
until the law is changed to say just
what it means. Any high school girl
or boy can give them the plain English
that will settle the question for coed.
Farmers Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
Random Notes.

A missionary in London declared re-
Gently that in response to an appeal for
articles for use on an African farm 8
milking stool wasi sent to him from
England, and that one day the negro
farm hand returned to the house with
the stool badly battered, declaring that
the COW refused to sit on it.-Exchange.
Experiments show that milking in a
stable where the circulation of air can
carry the dust out, wiping the udder
with damp cloth and scalding utensils
with live stream of boiling water,
will not only reduce the bacterial con-
tents of the milk, but increase the keep
ing qualities of the milk materially.
The Ypsilanti Dairy association, Yp-
silanti, Michigan, writes US they are
putting up q skimming station at Dix
boro. The association also has stations
at Cherry Hill and Stony Greek. The
report for June shows 4S2 patrons, II
554, ,665 pounds of milk received and
69,9S8 pounds of butter made. The
butter was sold for s14,S96. %, from
which the patrons received s13, ,43s.3o.
An interesting human kink is given
by the London tEng.) Chronicle in the
following item: "Every pound Of but
ter that goes to the West Indies is color.
ed brilliant red. The darkies over
tnsro won't have any other color. They
likered butter, just as they adore red
shirts and red ties or the red liable on q
tomato can. Grocers say that If q
black or white liable should be placed on
canned tomatoes there would be no sale
at all."-Creamery and Dairy.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
The Detroit Conference.

In situation 80 imminently menac-
ing as that resulting from the strike Of
the anthracite coal miners any PROPOSE
tion which looks to relief is worthy of
attentive consideration. The authorit-
les Of the nation lack either power or
the inclination to act in the matter.
The task of finding way out of the
difficulty devolves, therefore, upon the
people themselves.
The invitations for q conference upon
the coal famine which have been issued
by the city authorities Of Detroit should
and doubtless will evoke a prompt
and willing response. The matter is
one which vitality affects more than half
the population of this country. 1t is
next in seriousness to bread famine.
III 8 probably the most critical connition
which the nation has had to face since
the civil war.
The Detroit council may not be able
devise measures for immediate relief,
1t can, at the best, go no farther
han the making of recommendations.
But it can formulate the sentiment of
he country into an i'm pressive express
lion and 1t can inform and develop
public opinion with reference to the
public enemies who controle the an
thracite coal mines of Pennsylvania.
II the conference shall do no more
than this 1t will have accomplished a
great and desirable end. When the
people of the United States fully con-.
pretended the danger which threatens
the country as the result of the contu.
macy of 9 clique of lawless scoundrels
there will be demand for rightlng of
wrongs which neither the blasphemous
coal kings nor the federal authorities
will dare to ignore.
The convention at Detroit will disemE
mate the omnious facts of the situation,
and that is what is necessary to pro-
cure salutary action. Chicago Chroni.
Gle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
Hold on to the Cow.

Perhaps it is not altogether to be re-
gretted that when prosperity comes
and nature smiles man is apt to forget
the times of adversely. At the same
time it is ungrateful, to say the least,
to forget the instrumentallity that pull
led him through, and it is foolish to
suppose that adversely is banished for
good and prosperity will continue for
ever. 1t is not many years since the
dairy cow stood between the western
farmer and very hard times indeed.
Money was scarce. Prices of grain,
of beef and cattle and other stock were
low. Prospects did not seem very
bright to the farmer. In this emergency
the dairy COW stood between many q
farmer and hardship. She brought in
cash every week or every month. She
bought shoes for the children, dresses
for the women folks and-well, in some
cases perhaps tobacco for the men.
She enabled some farmers to float over
the period of depression comfortably
and many to swim where without her
they would have sunk.
The hard times have gone. The pig,
the horse, the steer, grain, are all bring
ing good prices. Money is plentiful
and cheap. Bank accounts are carrying
comfortable surplus. Under these
conditions many farmer is forgetting
the good old cow that pulled him.
through. He is allowing the calf to
run with her. He is forgetting, and
his childrena are not learning, how tc
milk. The usefulness of the COW fol
the dairy is being destroyed. When the
turn of the tide comes and the farmer
must turn to the COW again she will moi
be able to serve him as she did before
not through any fault of hers but be.
cause of his neglect.
Men can not farm high priced land
on horseback. Neither can they alway
afford to sit on the fence and watch
the calf do the milking.-Wallaces
Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
Golf In old Dutch p,cture.

By the seventeenth century golf i'll
Holland had become almost entirely a
winter game. The Dutch painters of
the period seem to have found u pc
cuiar fascination in winter scenes,
with their clear. bright atmosphere and
the moving clouds of figures in their
various occupations Of sledging. skat-
ing OF golf. AS might be expected,
many golting scene is to be found
In pictures by Van de Velde, Van der
Neer, Avercamp, Van Goyen and 9TH
ers Of their school. Several drawings
Of this period showing single figures
or small groups give perhaps n better
idea Of the golf of the time.-Connois-
seur.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
The German soIa,e-,. w.p.

One of the peculiarities about the
military service in Germany is the pa
ternal interest that the officers are re-
quired to take in the frugality of the
men. The pay of the soldier is only
6 cents n day. but the army regula-
tfons guard it jealousy. Each man is
expected to keep his money in little
bag suspended from string around
his neck, and any officer during in
Spection may demand to have the bags
opened and their contents shown. If
it be found that a soldier is spending
his pay too freely-think Of that, with
the pay at SO low u mark-he is rep
rimanded and punished. He is COM
PEELED to make his pay cover his ex-
penses.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
COnsiderntc.

Paterfamilias-See here! What does
this mean? The parlor clock is stop
ped. Mr.. Nicefellow was here last
night, as usual, wasn't he?
Daughter-Yes, pa, and told him
what you said about the cost of coal
and gas in the parlor every night, and
we began to wonder how we could
economize for you, and finally Mr..
Nicefellow decided that we could at
least stop the clock and save wear and
tear on the works, you know.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

A Frenchman was teaching in q
large school where he had a reputation
for making some queer mistakes. One
day he was taking class which was
rather disorderly. What with the heat
and troublesome boys he was very
snappish. Having punished several
boys and sent one to the bottom of
the class, he at last shouted out in a
passion, "Ze whole class go to re bot
tomi'
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
why Coughing Is weaken,nr.

The amount of energy expended in
coughing is very considerable. Indeed
one of the patient statisdcians for
which Germany is renowned has cal.
culated that a patient who coughs once
every quarter of an hour for ten hours
eXpends energy equivalent to $50 units
of heat, which may be translated as
equivalent to the nourishment con-
tanned in three eggs or two glasses Of
milk. In normal respiration the air is
expelled from the chest at the rate Of
four feet per second, whereas in vio-
lent coughing it may attain velocity
Of 300 feet.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
Asking Too Much.

Some people," remarked the drug
gist to his clerk, "are frightfully un-
reasonable"
"ls the man who just left an exam
ple?"
"Yes. He wanted me to give him
something to cure cold"
THAT'S very simple.''
Yes, but he wanted me to give him
guarantee that the medicine wouldn't
make him feel worse than the cold
id."-Washington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

The managers Of the republican
campaign find themselves placed in an
unusual and perplexing position. 1t
takes money and considerable amounts
of 1t to successfully run republican
campaign. The clients Of the republi-
cans,-the trusts and the protected cor
porations-are prosperous as they new
er were before, but instead of coming
forward, as might at first glance be ex-
pected, with liberal campaign contri-
buttons for their benefactors, they are
displaying Indifference and in some
instances even hostility. The reason
however, is plain and he who runs may
read. If the election of republican
house of representatives were deemed
necessary to the continuance of the
conditions favorable to the trusts, a
goodly percentage of their profits, de-
rived through the abuse of over-pro.
lection, would be promptly poured into
the laps of the republican campaign
managers. But the trusts see clearly
that the election of republican house
would in no way interfere with their
fattening process. The trust controlled
senate would promptly squash any
democratic tampering with the tariff.
On the other hand the antitrust atti-
tude of the republican administration
has made some of the worst trusts. and
those which have heretofore contributed
most liberally to the republican fund,
are decidedly lesry of new republican
house which might force through some
antitrust or tariff revision legislation
which would put them out of business
or interfere with their enormous profits
Thus they would view with indiffer-
ence, not to say actual satisfaction, the
election ofa democratic house which
would make such legislation Impossible
And so 1T is that the purse Of the re-
publican managers hath that alean and
hungy look" which is usually attributed
to the democratic campaign fund
l-Reinbeck Standard.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
A. He Called IT.

"But why" asked the man who al
ways wants to know-"why do you call
that little jump you make from tower
into the water a leap for life?' They
tell me it is not at all dangerous"
We'll" replied the "artist," don't
l make me ivin' by it?"-Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

Secretary Roots announcement of the
long list Of t,Fillipfnos who have been
appointed judges, provincial governors
and put in other high offices is crafty.
ing per SO. But tits somewhat stunning
to that familiar argument that the Fill
pinos are all ignorant savages, utterly
incapable of political action.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
Business Opportunities For All.

Locations in Iowa, Illinois, Mime
sofa and Missouri on the Chicago Grea,
Western Railway; the very best sgri
cultural section of the United States
where farmers are prosperous and bust.
ness men successful. We have 9 demand
for competent men, with the necessary
capital, for all branches of business.
Some special opportunities for creamery
men and millers. Good locations for
general merchandise, hardware, harness,
hotels, banks and stockbuyers. CORES.
p0ndence solicited. Write for Maps and
Maple Leaflets. w. T. Reed, Industrial
Agent, 604 Endicott Building, st. Paul,
MINI.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
Counting ON 1t.

Wife Of Eminent Philanthropist-My
dear, what were you thinking of? You
gave that POOR man only 10 cents.
Eminent Philanthropist-I know It,,
Amanda. It will be $40 when it gets
into the anecdote column. = Chicago
Tribune,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
Relatively Speakinp,

"He must be put out of the way"
said the feudal king. But. your maj
esty," protested the lord high execu-
toner, "he is your first cousin.' Il
know; but prefer to have him my
cousin once removed '"-P philadelphia
Record.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

A celebrated physician declares that
the increase in height and weight OF
Britons and Americans during the last
half century is chiefly due to the in.
creased consumption of sugar.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08

"Help! Help!' came the cry of dis
tress through the midnight stiffness.
The policeman in the neighboring
doorway stirred uneasily. Advertise
in the want column" he muttered and
resumed his nap.-Philadelphia Press.