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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
LoNDoN's LORD MAYOR.
His Power as Well ns the Area HI
Rules Is Limited.

His Power as Well IA the Area He
Rules Is Limited.
The lord mayor of London is not the
oil powerful official he is thought to be
on the continent He is not the mayor
of all London, but only of the city of
London, and the City is but frac-
ton of the whole. Greater London has,
roughly, a population of 100000, but
in the $50 acres that comprise the City
there is resident population at night
Of only $4,000 and by day Of little over
100000. And even within this area the
powers of the lord mayor and of the
twenty-six aldermen and the two hun
bred odd common councillors are by no
means autocratic.
Much Of what used to lie within his
and their province has been taken over
by the London county council. In fact,
the average Londoner never thinks of
the lord mayor as an edict making,
law giving official. He stands altogeth-
er apart in the popular mind from ques-
lions Of rates and assessments, schools
and police. Very few people could say
WIluI leSlSlullNe lulCtiolis, IL any, liz
fulfills. They may have heard that he
is the chief magistrate of the courts,
but beyond that their knowledge Of his
precise duties does not stray. 1t is the
social and decorative side of his posi-
ton that impresses the public. The
lord mayor is never without his badge
and rarely without his robes and chains
Of office. He rides abroad in a 1hagnif-
icently gilded coach, with powdered
coachmen and footmen in cooked hats
and silk knee brooches, sending a CLEAN
Of gold through the dirty drab of Lon
DON
The lord mayors show on Nov. 8 is
one Of England's few annual pageants
and, uncouth as it is, has warm place
in the hearts of the populace, and, be-
sides all this, he has some rights and
privileges of 400 years standing. Nc
troops may pass the City boundaries
without his leave. The sovereign him
self has to ask permission to enter the
city walls, just as he has to ask fol
permission to enter the house Of com
mons.-Harpers Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
WAVES OF WATER.

The Nile is the only river in the
world that flows for 800 miles without
tributary.
Off the Cape of Good Hope waves
thirty-eight feet high from trough to
crest have been noted.
Prismatic lake, in the Yellowstone
National park, is the largest body Of
hot water in the world.
Three rivers as big as the Rhine
would just equal in volume the Can
ges, three Gangeses the Mississippi
and two Mississippis the Amazon.
The st. Lawrence river is frozen four
months Of the year, and its navigation
is SO difficult that an average Of one
steamer a month is wrecked in its wa
ters
Askel Chin, in Tibet, is the lake
which lies at greater height than any
other in the world. Its level is 10000
feet. The lowest is the Dead sea, 1900
feet below the sea level.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
PRAIRIE.
Happy, happy New Yearl

aoPPy, uhpPy NOW cnI!
-J.- Spang is spending the holidays
with his parents at Hartley, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wheelock of Sterling,
ILL.,, are guests at the home of T. Pope.
Miss Katie Haennig and brother, Leo,
are guests of friends at Placid, Ia.
r. Barry of Farley is a guest at the
Barry and Mcmahon homes. =
M. and Mrs. E. Annis attended the
Robinsop-Re inbird wedding at Silver
Creek, Christmas.
Miss Anna Conner of Fremont Cen
ter, was guest at the home Of A.
McElroy, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Neil of Farley, spent
Christmas at the home of P. Reedy.
Henry Carrothers, a student of Ep
worth, is spending the holidays here
E. Annis was Delaware caller
Wednesday.
Howard Allyn, a student of the Man.
chester High School is spending the hol-
ldsys here with his parents.
Supt. 81. j. Schwietert visited the
schools in this vicinity last week.
Miss Bessie Cooney of Oelwein is q
guest of her friend, Miss Loretta Barry.
Miss Name Mcmahon is spending the
holidays here with her parents.
Walter Bates of Chicago, is a guest
at the home of A. Durey.
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wedding was a large one, the ceremony
being performed by Rev r. f. Paxton,
at noon. After the ceremony the guests
were Toasted.
EAD's GROVE.

Herman Fowler ate Christmas din
ner with his parents here returning to
his duties in Greeley the same day.
Mr.. Wiley, of Edgewood, bought
several head of cattle in this vicinity
last week.
Bruce Hunts beamlng countenance
is again to be seen in our midst, he
having returned from his summers
work in the western part of the state
Mrs. S. E. Way is much better at
this writing.
Mrs. o. M. Eaton is slightly indis-
posed with bad cold. Gertie Fowler
is assisting with her household duties.
Mrs. Culbertson was Manchester
visitor Tuesday.
Died-at his home in Oelwein on
December "a, Mr.. William Williams,
who was an old resident of Delaware
county, and for many years of Esd's
Grove. He has been ailing for some
time but was thought to be improving,
but having reached the ripe age of
seventy-eight he was unable to rally.
He is survived by wife and three
children, w. w. Williams, of Oelwein;
Mrs. j. ]. Edmunds, of this place and
Clint, of st. Paul, MINI. The funeral
was conducted at the home of Mrs
Edmunds on December 81, by Rev
Hubbell, of Edgewood.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
DELHI.

John Porter, Jr. spent the past week
with his grand parents at Strawberry
Point.
Frank Andrews was up from Hop.
kinton Tuesday.
Friday, January 2, will be installa-
tion of j. M. Holbrook Post and w. r.
G. Dinner will be served to the mem
bers and their families.
Mrs. E. r.. johnson is visiting her
parents at Lake City, Iowa.
Burdette Miller has gone to Kansas
to spend the winter.
Mrs. F. a. Doolittle spent Tuesday at
Greeley.
Considering the bad weather the
Christmas exercises at the church were
we'll attended. The children all did we'll.
Julius Frankfort and family are
spending the holidays with his parents
at Fairbault, MINI.
Harry Main was up from Hopkinton
Thursday.
Misses Alice and Hattie Hunt are
home from Cedar Rapids for the holt
days.
Ira. White and Miss rnice Delano,
both of this place, were married at
Manchester on Tuesday, Dec, 90. Con-
CALCULATIONS are extended them.
f. b. Doolittle and q. @. Perkins had
business in Hopkinton Saturday.
Mrs. E. H. Blanchard and Dale spent
Christmas with her mother at Win,
throp.
Mrs. Dodge has returned to her home
at Lamont.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Stone and Dorance
have returned to their home at this
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. G. Perkins were in
Manchester Sunday.
The Epworth League business and
social meeting will be held on Friday
evening, January 2, with Harlan Stone.
Mrs. r. B. Porter was an over Sun
day visitor at Strawberry Point.
The w. G.. T. U. meets Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. G. d. Stone.
Mr.. Miller is q guest at E. 9. Per.
kins'.
| Rev. Salisbury conducts Quarterl.
Meeting services at Colesburg mex
| Sunday. Rev. Miller has charge OF thu
services here both morning and even
ing.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
RYAN,

Alva Miller and wife are guests Of
relatives in Monticello today.
John McCusker is home from school
at Dixon, ILL.,, to spend the holidays.
Mrs. B. II. Magirl and children are
guests of the formers mother at Farley
this week.
Ed Msngold and Miss Rose thinner
man were united in marriage today by
Rev. Melchert at the Lutheran church
The Misses Maggie Dolphin and
Anna Summers are home from Du-
buque where they have been attending
school, to spend the holiday vacation.
Chas. Coakley, who is attending
school at Iowa City, is spending a part
of his vacation at the home of his
grandmother, NIB. F. Coakley and fam.
lily.
Anthony and Robert Swindle, of Sill
yer Creek returned home last week from
college to spend the holiday vacation
The former is attending school at
Cornell and the latter at Drake Univer-
sity, Des Moines.-Reporter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
A NATURAL BAROMETER.
The RnttIer's Skin swents When
Storm In ApproacI,fnp.

The Rnttler's Skin Swents When a
Storm Is Approaching.
ut is going to rain within six hours"
said the man, with provoking delibera-
ton. The sun was shining brightly,
and only few floating clouds broke
the clear blue of the broad sky. "Rain!"
said the other derisively. "And out of
that sky? You're pessimist. You al
ways carry an umbrella"
"I'll bet you good dinner that it will
rain within six hours" the first speaker
replied with imperturbable good nature
and gravity. The bet was made, and
the bet was paid for by the man who
doubted. 1t rained in less than four
hours.
''Now, If you will come around to my
room l will show you how knew it
was going to rain" said the prophet.
who was without honor in his own
country. So there they went. Now the
prophet was an original sort of chap
and has fastened on the walls of his
room many strange things of the sea
and forest and field. On the floor were
flung skins of bear and deer and noun
tain lion, and on the wall near a win
dow stretched from the top of the high
wainscoting to within half a foot of the
floor was the grewsome skin of giant
diamond back rattlesnake. The prophet
pointed to it and said, "There's my Sc
cret."
The skin was dripping wet. The
sweat, SO to speak, stood out upon it's
scaly back in huge drops, which would
swell and swell and silently run to-
gether in little streamlets, which in
turn would rush down in an avalanche
of other drops and reach the floor with
splash like great tear. Everything
else in the room was as dry as the
humid atmosphere of n city after
thunderstorm would allow.
'Ihat's my barometer," said the
prophet. ~ killed the snake myself in
Florida and had it stripped The skin
is not tanned, but just preserved, like
rawhide. had noticed in some of
the coasting boats along the gulf shore
little strips of snakeskin hung up in
the cabin. The captains had told me
they could always tell when squat
was coming by watching this skin.
have had that for three years now, and
it has been far more accurate that the
weather observer. No matter when
the first indications of storm make
themselves felt in the atmosphere,
whether it be night or day, summer or
winter, the faithful skin shows 1t by
beginning to sweat. II the storm
passes off, the drops dry up and the
skin crisps and shriycls until it is more
like sandpaper than anything else. In
the winter of course the sweat is not
so profuse, because the air is drier than
in summer.
"Why the snakesl;in should be SO
sensitive to changes in atmospheric
conditions do not know. | have asked
expert snake handlers ana students of
reptile life, but they were as much at
floss as ! was. ! do not know either,
whether any skin but that of the rat
tier will yield 10 humidity or not. l
know that the Florida boatmen use the
rattier's skin exclusively for their cab
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
LOST HIS NERVE.
Why 1t Was That Big Pete Failed {,
Hit the Sheriff.

Hit the Sheriff.
There were thirty men in the White
Wolf saloon when the sheriff of Silver
county sauntered in to arrest big Pete
Thompson for murder Pete was play
ing Il hand in game Of poker, and
after nodding to him the sheriff stood
up at the bar and called for drink.
His back was scarcely turned when
Pete laid down his cards, pulled his
gun and fired six shots as fast as his
finger could pull the trigger. The sheriff
never moved. When the smoke had
rolled ont of the open door and we
could see, the sheriff stood in the same
position and wore the same smile. One
bullet had burned his cheek; a second
had grazed his ear; third had cut
through his shirt collar under the left
ear. Big Pete was q dead shot, and
yet he had missed his man at, fifteen
feet.
SCOT through, Pete?' asked the sher-
if, breaking silence that was posi-
lively painful.
"And you-ydu are not heeledv'
gasped Pete us his arm sunk slowly
down.
"No; come on"
"You didn't bring your guns?"
mo; if you are through shooting,
we'll co.
Pete laid his two guns down on the
table before him and walked to the
door and out into the street. His horse
was tied to post block away. He
reached the horse, mounted and then
headed down the long street after the
sheriff, who was giving him not the
slightest attention. In five minutes the
pair were out of sight.
"What allied Pete? was asked Of
the barkeeper, who had come to the
door Of the saloon.
"Lost his nerve" he brusquely re
piled.
"How do you mean?"
"Why, the sheriff coming without 6
gun and standing there to be shot a
took all his sand away and made wo
man Of him."
Suppose the sheriff had had gum
The man jerked his head toward tn,
| field wherein fifteen or twenty victimi
had been buried and said:
"He'd IA bin over thar"
"And will big Pete get clear?"
Likely; but he'll have to leave here
The boys have already put him dow
as N. G."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
DYERSyILLE.

Barney Schultz of New Vienna was
in town Monday on business.
Henry Niehaus of New Vienna was
In Dyersville last Monday on business
Miss Agnes Kelley of Manchester is
visiting her parents, sisters and broth
ers this week.
Miss Mary Mangrich spent Sunday
afternoon in Dubuque.
Mrs. Barney Geistkemper and daugh.
tiers Mary and Josephine of near Peters,
burg transacted business in Dyersyille
last Monday.
Miss Margaret Steger returned from
q pleasant visit with relatives and
friends in Dubuque last Sunday.
Andrew Meyer of Elizabeth, ILL.,, re-
turned home last Friday. He had been
here to attend the funeral of his father,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
COCOON,

DR.. VIM. Donnelly, of Ryan, was in
town Friday.
Mr.. Obersmith, of Dyersyille, had
business in Coggon Saturday.
Mrs. N. B. Richardson was a Cedar
Rapids visitor Saturday.
Miss Minna Merriam is home from
Cedar Falls during the holidays.
Miss Bertha Stambaugh of Mt. Yer
non, is visiting at the home of j. Man
gold, northeast of town.
R. L. Kortright, or Manchester, was
visiting his parents, Jas. Kortright and
wife, southwest of town, Thursday.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Miss Etns Blanch to Mr.. Gler
Forrestal, at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and e. &. Blanch, east o.
town this evening.-Monitor.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
SLEEP ON A COLD SMOKE.
Putting mn Empty Pipe Said to be n

Putting mn Empty Pipe said to DC mn
Insomnia Cure.
After giving fair and patient trial
to each OF many alleged cures for
sleeplessness the writer stumbled across
simple method of inducing somno-
lence that has the merit of being harm
less and inexpensive. To smokers the
remedy involves no cost whatever but
of nonsmokers the capital outlay of
the price of Il pipe is required. 1t must
be a wooden pipe and curved, not
straight.
Having retired for the night, the suf
ferer should lie perfectly fiat on his
back, discarding pillow rests, and puff
steadily at an empty pipe until he feels
thoroughly drowsy. The desired result
usually is achieved after from about
sixty to a hundred puffs have been
made. The putting should be done
slowly, with deep inhaling movement.
The expelling motions must be made
deliberately with narrowed mouth.
During the entire operation the pipe
should not be removed, as each displac-
ing and replacing movement tends to
walefulness.
Those capable Of great concentration
of thought should, If smokers, imagine
they see volumes of smoke, and those
who eschew the burning weed will be
helped by counting the puffs.
AS sleep is often successfully wooed
while yet the pipe is in the mouth,
bowls of meerschaum OF clay are not
recommended, since these are liable to
be broken when the coming of slumber
allows the pipe to slide from the
mouth. Nervous people may be reas-
sured that there is no danger in falling
asleep with the stem edge of curved
pipe caught between ones teeth. Sleep
always occasions the grip to be re.
moved. That may hold also of straight
pipes, but for other and obvious rea.
sons these are less suitable than those
with curved stems.-New York Mail
and Express.
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the late Mr.. Joseph Meyer.

the late Mr.. Joseph Meyer.
Joe Vessels returned from Mason
vile last Saturday to,spend Sunday
with his parents.
Fred Engler of Manchester is spend
ing his Christmas vacation at his home
in this city.
Mr.. Joseph Bagge of near Petersburg
is reported very low with lung fever.
We hope to hear of his improvement
soon.
Richard Ruby of Petersburg was in
this city last Saturday on business.
Prosper Engler of Worthington had
business at Manchester last Friday.
John Schultz of Petersburg, was in
Dubuque several days this week on
business.
Mr.. Geo. Nefzger, one of the prosper.
GUS and well known farmers of Bremen
township was noticed on our streets last
Friday,
Henry lNillenborg, of New Vienna,
called on his numerous friends in this
city last Sunday. Henry is now book.
keeper for the New Vienna Brewing Co
Commercial.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
GREELEY.

John Davis is the guest of his broth
er here.
Harry Burbridge is spending the holi-
days at home.
LIN. and Mrs. Gibson were in Man
chester Monday.
Attorney Hubert Carr was up from
Manchester Monday.
Geo. Skinner has been visiting friends
here for few days.
&C. Topper is spending the holidays
with his children at Nora Springs.
On Wednesday, Dec. "a, 1902, at high
noon at the home of the brides parents
in this city, Miss Estella Micheels, and
Mr.. Sherwood Robinson. The bride is
one of Greeley's most accomplished
young ladies and the groom rising
young man. The couple will be at
home after Jan. LIST, 1903, at 1850 Coulter
Ave-, Dubuque. Home Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
MENTAL TENSION,
Hard to Realize the Difficulty OF
Keeping Natural Pose.

Hard to Realize the Difficulty of
Keeping Natural Pose.
We never know how active our i'm
aginations can be till we let them out
or till they get the better of us for
some reason. y major in the army
recently admitted that when he went
into action for the first time he was SO
scared that he did not know which
way was north, but he had an over
whelming desire to reach it, wherever
it was. Yet, after six or eight battles
and after being wounded Il couple of
times, he regarded battles very much
as people hereabout regard the evening
fight Mt the Manhattan end of the
bridge, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
Cases of wanting to run when bullets
fly are by no means difficult to find.
But young soldier in Brooklyn con-
fesses to more queer experience. His
regiment was in camp and had been
ordered out for dress parade, as usual.
When lined up for inspection, every
man as stiff rs a ramrod and not q
white glove moving, this young man,
lieutenant, began to ask himself:
Suppose should slip, or anything, to
break the quiet? Suppose 1 should
fall?" The idea of falling kept grow
ing in his mind till before the inspec-
ton was over and the regiment was
allowed to use its feet once more he
could hardly keep on his legs and was
in great sweat of agony from the
dread of tumbling over and making an
exhibition of himself.
People who have never tried it do not
realize how hard it is to stand abso-
lutely still and vet appear interested
and at ease. Artists models succeed
at it, especially those in Italy, and will
hold pose not too difficult for an hour.
Actors, when they group about the man
in the center Of the stage, who is en-
joying all the limelight-and how they
hate them for it-are required to keep
still, so as not to distract attention from
the great mans sayings and motions,
and because they must group in such a
way as to form Il picture and keep 1t
till it can be realized by the eyes in
front. But this enforced statuesque-
ness is hard on the supes. They are
not used to it. When they are put I'M
der the strain, and when as Roman
warriors they must stand at the back
without winking while Brutus or Vir-
ginius or some other ponderous person
unbosoms himself respecting loye or
politics, they are in small torture.
One such last season who could no Ion
| ger abide it to listen to the soliloquy by
the head man pitched over on his face
and had to be lugged out by the arms
to the spelling of the scene.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
EHLER,

Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Montgomery ate
their Christmas dinner with VIM. Mont
gomery and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Henderson drove
up to Manchester on business one day
last week.
Mrs. Reed started for Dakota Wednes-
day morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Morse, and MIR.
and Mrs. VIM. Crosier and little son, of
Manchester, and MIR. and Mrs. Jas.
Patton and daughter, Lielie, of Coggon,
and James Furman, of Central City,
spent Christmas at the home of f. E.
Patton.
James Henderson, of Washington, S.
Dakota, is visiting his many friends
and relatives in this vicinity.
Bert Moore and wife, of Hopkinton,
are spending q few days with the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Mont
Conner.
lToolate for last week.
Henry and Will Ehlers were in Cog
gon on business one day last week.
Bert Mcdonald and Don Babcock
were south-bound passengers from
Ehler Saturday.
David Patton, who is attending the
Cedar Rapids Business College came up
Friday evening to spend his holiday
vacation at home.
John Ehlers and family drove to Cog
gon Saturday.
The cottage meeting which was tc
be held at Thos. Henderson's last night
was postponed for two weeks on &C
of the unfavorable weather.
Robert Montgomery and Miss Jennie
Warnock visited Sunday with Herman
Preston and wife near Ryan.
Mrs. II. l.. Reed and two youngest
children, Lionel and Onolee, expect to
start for South Dakota, Wednesday, on
visit to the family of her uncle, who
lives at Mitchell.
Albert Todd, of Monti, visited at
Henry McMullen's Saturday.
Mrs. VIM. Montgomery is expecting
q brother, Mr.. Samuel Patton, from
the western part of the state, here tc
spend Christmas.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31

1t is solemn duty devolving on all
to make tie utmost possible out Of
themselves. Men seek the highest de-
velopment of their flocks and herds
and grain and flowers. The result is
the improved flora and fauna Of these
days over those of prior ones. But
should this evolution cease with the
lower order? Should the body of Gre
alton improve and not the head, which
is man?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-31
EARLvILLE.

MIR. and Mrs. Albert Staehle, who
have been spending the last few days
at the home of Geo. Staehle, 81. returned
to their home in Burt, Iowa, Friday
afternoon.
Pres. II. r. DeBra, of Epworth Semi
nary will deliver lecture in the town
hail on Monday evening on the subject
"The Wonders of the Universe" 1t is
q popular lecture on astronomy, illus
trated with Photographic views, in the
stereopticon.
Bert Cousins and wife, Of Elkader,
were guests of friends here during the
holidays.
Jsss 1roadie left Saturday afternoon
for few days visit at his old home in
Fredericksburg.
Thos. Robinson expects to move to
Waterloo this week, where he will work
for the Waterloo Ice & Fuel Go. of
which j. F. Simpson former resident
of this place is manager.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton of Martelle, Ia,
were guests of Rev. b. w. Soper over
Christmas.
Geo. Bisgrove and Luke Bisgrove
from the western part of the state have
been visiting their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Bisgrove.
Ms w. Merten of Garner, Ia, is Wis
iting her daughter, Mrs. G. B. Rogers.
Ella and Welton Baskerville of Iowa
Falls visited at the home of their grand
mother, Christmas
Rev. j R. Beverage, of Chicago, who
recently conducted series of revival
meetings in the M. e. church at this
place, stopped over here, guest of Rev.
B. w. Soper, a few days last week. He
was on his way from Lost Nation to
Shell Rock.
A. B. Healy has moved from the Mrs.
Grau house to the rooms he formerly
occupied In the Earhart building.
Miss Elsie Klaus, of Charles City, has
been visiting her uncle, S. W. Klaus,
the past few days.
G. E. Mueller, of Tripoli, has been the
friends the past week.
et the home of Elias Faust,
>eesday, Dec. 25th, Mr..
Kiss Herbert. The
a.