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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-08
Interesting-Looking Mendicant
With the Long Beard.

Sometimes on Olive street you will see a
rost interesting-looking man. His clothes
are old. but clean: there are rents. but the
tears are neatly mended. His step IS IN
steady. for he Is very old. and a gnariei
hickory cane assists IN walking. His eyes
are set deep IN the sockets, are bleared. al
most sightless. and are shaded by gray.
overreaching eyebrows. But his beard!
This is the thing extraordinary. 1t is an
adornment. even though the unpalatable
word "hirsute" may be applied to it, The
beard is white. soft as silk. and caressing
the cheeks and the chin. It descends in sew
eral undula tons as far as the waist
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-08

Tt isn't right for me TO kiss you on sucf
a short Acquaintance"
rs that so? It's too bad We haven't been
longer acquainted"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

chinery. A recent Invention by an
Austrian named AIatitsch renders 1t
possible to reproduce one more variety,
known as torchon lace The real ar
ticle is moderately coarse but pretty
lace and Is used on garments which 1t
is desirable to put through laundry.
Herr Matitsch, after being associated
with the lace industry in Vienna and
inventing machine which did not give
satisfactory results, went to Noting
ham. England, where he perfected the
model in 1899. 1t was then necessary
to make the jacquards for each pattern
that it was desirable to produce. This
part Of the work was performed upon
the inventors return to Vienna. Hith-
erto 1t has been necessary to have a
separate machine for each design.
With the Matitsch machine 1t is only
necessary to substitute one jacquard
for another, as in weaving cloth.
The inventor does not intend to or
ganize company to make lace, says
the New York Tribune, or even the pro-
duction of more machines. He has al
ready put nearly 100000 into his ex-
periments and is now looking for n
company to buy his rights. The Not
tingham lace manufacturers profess
not to be disturbed by the prospect of
competition and say that the Matitsch
machine will injure French manufac-
turers chiefly. In Vienna the papers
think that a new era in lace making Is
n haad
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30


derbilt. Neither of them at that period
had reached the S1O,O00,0O limit. There
were not In the whole country twenty
people worth million dollars. To-day
there are more than one hundred in Pitts
burg alone who have passed that figure.
These vast fortunes, themselves so con-
spicuous, so almost incomprehensible, are
at present more matters of curiosity than
of antagonism. Most of the possessors
of them have shown a wise generosity in
the distribution of their wealth. In 10
other country in the world, at no other
period, have the rich from their abun-
dance given so lavishly to education, phi
lanthropy and patriotism. Last year the
known sums which We're thus contributed
amounted to the high figure of SLOT 300, :
900.
The sudden acquisition of almost ill.,
calculable riches by so many in the last
five years has produced many singular
results. The most CHASTITY misfortune
which can happen to n man who has been
successfully prosecuting and increasing
his business until he has passed middle
life Is to be compelled to sell out and re-
tire. He may receive sum far beyond
any value he ever placed upon his plant
and good will. Nevertheless, the sale is
generally accompanied by an obligation
not to resume and compete. Little cut.
side the factory or Office interests him
because the cells of his brain have be-
come, some of them, abnormally active,
and others paralyzed through disuse. He
can think of nothing and he cares for
nothing but the shop and its results
Books, literature, lectures, travel, politics,
society, and play bore the life out OF
him. know half hundred such men
who have come to this condition within
the last few years.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30
AN HISTORIC STRUCTURE.
Benedict Arnold's New Haven HON
May Re. Torn DnYXu.

Benedict Arnold's New Haven Home
May BE Torn Down.
In dismantled condition, the prey
of relic hunters and the ravages of
time, there stands in Water street, in
New Haven, Conn, house erected by
the most infamous man who ever called
America his home and which was later
occupied by one of the most renowned
Of Columbia's sons. 1t Is n residence
erected by Benedict Arnold in the City
Of Elms In 17T1. Water street in colonial
days was the select residential street
of New Haven. Arnold. then dashing
young fellow, conducted drug store.
He prospered in business, married well
and branched out into the East Indian
trade, in which he made a fortune. He
was one of the most prominent men In
New Haven at the outbreak of the
revolution and the mansion on Water
street sheltered many distinguished
guest. Then came his brilliant career
in the army and his subsequent igno-
minious betrayal of his country.
Time and the encroachments of bust
ness interests have brought the fine old
colonial mansion down to the level now
of Its less aristocratic neighbors, but
traces are still to be seen Of the mag.
ni1cence Of which 1t once was proud
The house is now part Of n lumber
yard, and the parlors and spacious
chambers where Arnold and his bride
lived and received the elite of the town
are now occupied with piles of scant-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

ling. and the colonial staircases are
now changed to lumber elevators. In
a short time what is left of the old
house will be torn down and the space
1t occupied turned into woodward.
While no attempt has been made by
New Haven people to save the old Ar
mold house, as it can be believed that
the reputation of It's first occupant Is
no great source of public qualification,
many of the finest pieces of its original
architecture have been preserved An
tiquarians and unpoetical junk dealers
have banded together to raze the old
place, and what remains to-day Is the
merest shell Of the old structure. The
mantelpieces, carved English oak rail-
ings and the furniture have all been
scattered among museums throughout
New England. But there still remains
the original exterior, and the window
blinds, doorways, cornices and much of
the original decorations are still left.
Not only Benedict Arnold, the traitor,
but Noah Webster, the famous lexico-
grapher, lived in this historic old man
sion. and the rooms that once echoed
with the laughter and gayety of the
days before the revolution also har-
bored In later years the silent scholar,
as the pages Of his great dictionary
grew under his hands. Webster came
to New Haven in 170S. Up to that time
the Arnold mansion had remained I'M
occupied so great was the aversion of
the people toward anything in any way
connected with the traitors life Web
ster remained there until 1872. when he
removed to Amhert, Mass.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

own end. For the woman who wishes
to be agreeable to society naturally
wishes to make society believe in her.
But when she snubs any one whom she
considers beneath her she Is giving am
pie proof that either she or her ancestors
have not been used to the grade of society
in which she finds herself; and that she
is, therefore, not what she would have
others believe.
The woman who has right to the So
cial position she occupies, and whose fam
lily for generations has been in the same
position, will find 1t necessary to snub
no one-neither those whom she meets
socially and whom she does not consider
her social equals, nor those In other walks
of life with whom she is brought into
casual contact.
Graciousness to her friends and to tel
servants. to her acquaintance and to her
sewing woman, to her children and tic
every one asking favor of her, to those
who are gentlewomen and to those who
are tlot--that is the first rule of conduct
for one who fulfills her duty to society
by being agreeable.
The duty of making ones self agree
able to society means simply woman's
duty to let her best impulses rule her all
the time. So this becomes rule for gen
eral conduct as well as for social inter
course.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30
A cANALBoAT VILLAGE.

Every Inch of Space Is Utilized In
Their Tiny Cabins.
People who object to living in snug
quarters and think that love in cot
tuge is altogether too contracted for
continual affection, should go and take
n look at the cabins in the canalboat
village In New York harbor. Those who
are preparing to live in trunks and
grips during the summer could get fine
lessons there of snug existence.
The whole cabin is not much larger
than an ordinary bedroom, but how
every morsel Of space is utilized! If
there is n square inch of interior that
gets away without doing its duty in the
great work of containing things it must
have politicians talent for evasion.
The tidy little Kitchen stove is SO
close to the wall that you wonder If
the latter was not made of asbestos to
guard against fire. The clock is about
us small as our ingenious Connecticut
friends have yet been able to make
contain twenty-four hours. The pantry
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES combined pos
sess the appearance of having been
packed and then put under hydraulic
pressure.
The carpet pattern, says n writer in
Will Carleton's magazine, Every Where
tfor n canal-villager always insists on
having her floor neatly CLAD, is APP
propriately minute. A tiny library
whispers Its titles from an unexpected
corner. Minute bedrooms for child or
adult appear to you now and then like
prone ghosts. Several pictures. mar
rowly but vis!bly framed. cover the
wooden wainscoting.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30


poor being the laborers or coolies.
Out of the population of 100000, near
ly 10000 are Asiatic, 10000 being Jap
anese and 10000 Chinese There are also
several thousand Porto I,icans, but they
are undesirable, as they would rather lie
in Jail all Of the time than go to work.
The land area of Hawaii Is 4,000,0 900
acres. OF this area 100000 acres are
In the hands Of seventy men engaged In
sugar raising and cattle ranging. The
other 100000 acres, which constitute
the government lands, are rented and
leased to the sugar corporations, the
leases ranging from five to sixteen years.
These government lands want divided
up into homesteads to encourage Ameri-
can farmers to go to Hawaii. Instead Of
dividing the government lands into home
steads of 100 acres, as in the United
States. the best lands could be divided
into twenty-acre homesteads and the pas
toral lands into eighty-acre homesteads,
either of which would give the American
farmer fine homestead to support his
family all the year round.
To give an idea of how fertile the best
land is, the sugar corporations produce
an average of ten tons of sugar to the
acre. The rice planters produce two
crops year, aggregating between 5000
and G,000 pounds to the acre. The same
land planted with taro, plant akin to
elephants ears, which is the staple food
of the natives, will produce somewhere
between 10000 and $4,000 pounds per
acre, and 1t sells at one cent pound.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

What mean Captain Kidd sort of
pirate the substitute" man is! You
ask for somebody's sarsaparilla or
somebody else's powders, and he saws:
Haven't got it, but have something
Just as good.' Then he hands out nm
article made by robber. No other
word fits. The world is full of imi-
tators. A man with genius and ambi-
hon discovers something that is Of real
use to humanity. He manufactures It.
he puts it on the market, he spends a
fortune Introducing it. 1t is the only
way; no matter how meritorious an mr.
dcle As, 1t has to be advertised. You
wound think that the man who bad
FUSED money and time and skill would
We allowed to enjoy the fruits of his
daring and energy. Not SO! Along
comes the robber, the imitator, the
leech. He puts up something in box
or a bottle, copies the successful mans
wares as closely as he can and keen
out Of jail, cuts the price and asks the
dealer, the man who is nearest to the
consumer, to do the rest. 1t is an in
expensive way. There are no adyer-
Using bills to meet-nothing to do but
copy and grow fat on the efforts of a
more honest individual. 1t isn't fair.
II discourages ambition. and very often
It gives to tie consumer something
that Injuries instead of beneftting.
When you know what you want, ask
; for 1t, and GET 1T. That is the only
prompt and efficient way to deal with
the substitute pirate, who has not tne
brains to do business on business lines.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

blue Hudson. and the prettiest girl,
at that, for many mile in all directions.
But. that is exactly what she did do
and what she was, and now as she sits
among the gathering shadows of life's
twilight, waiting for the night to fall,
she can look backward across the CEN
fury and say that the world with NIL
Its teeming millions has been born
again since that far distant time when
she was little girl at play.
Mrs. Stamp was born on the shores
of the Hudson one hundred and eight
years ago. She spent her girlhood
there and saw the trial trip of Robert
Fulton's first steamboat. She remem-
bers when the country rang with the
praises of General Washington. She
remembers the day he died. She re-
members the Marquis de Lafayette.
Andrew Jackson, the war of 1912, and
recalls most of tie principal events
that have taken place in her lifetime.
Mrs. Stamp spends most of her time
at her spinning wheel, which, like her
self, belongs 10 an almost forgotten
time. Every garment that she wears.
as well as nearly every piece of fabric
In her humble homo, is homespun
goods. the work of her own hands.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

The conclusion of peace In South AZ
RIGA is cause for worldwide congrat-
ulation. The precise terms matter less
than the fact that an end has come at
last to the war which for nearly three
years has desolated the two former
Boer republic and parts of Natal and
Cape Colony. On both sides there has
been heroism. and on both sides, also,
there has been large measure of hui
mainly. 1t is doubtful If so protracted
and obstinate struggle was ever
fought out to a conclusion with less Of
wilful cruelty. 1t is characteristic of
brave soldiers that they learn respect
for each other from the experiences of
battle; and after the bitterness of this
long struggle has passed, there will
abide on either side this sentiment of
respect to temper and ameliorate fu-
ture relations. 1t is highly important
that this should be SO. for the British
and Dutch must live together In South
Africa, and must together work out the
problems Of civilization. 1t would be
a calamity II the work were long in
tsrrupted BY the perpetuation of old
animoddes, whether Of race or politics.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30
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Summer is the time for health, or
should be for those who know how to
profit by It, yet 1t has special dangers
which must be guarded against. These
are mostly due to heat, and the higher
the thermometer rises and the longer
1t stays high, the greater they are.
The chief sufferers are city jewellers,
and it is of them mainly that one thinks
IN very hot weather, and especially of
the poor in the cities. They usually
live in contracted quarters in high tene-
ments, In small, poorly ventilated, sun
less rooms; cleanliness is often impos-
sible to them, for even If certain fami-
lies are clean, they suffer from the dirt
Of their neighbors; it is almost impossi-
BILE for them to get fresh and we'll
prepared food; and the walls of their
houses and the payements of the
streets, baked during the day in the
merciless sun, give out their heat like
SO many immense ovens through the
night.
This can be endured for short pc.
Rod, but as the heated term drags OH
day and night without relief, condi-
tons become worse and worse, and
finally deadly. Children, especially
babies, suffer most, but ALL young and
old alike, are threatened at such q
time.
The two chief ills are sunstroke, the
direct result of the sitting heat, and
digestive disturbances, caused by food
which has begun to SPOIL Much, how
ever. can be done to avert these Ills.
Those who are obliged to be in the
streets during the day should carry UNI
brellas, and be deliberate In theft
movements; they should be lightly and
loosely clad, and abstemious in food
and drink. The less meat the better
and no wine or beer should be taken.
In the house the air should have
free access to every part, especially to
the bedrooms and living rooms. It is
a foolish practice to close the. windows
and draw the shades, as SO many do. 1t
is fact that this often does keep the
temperature degree or two lower
than the outside air, but the confined
air soon grows stagnant and unfit to
breathe. 1t is far better to have an
unappreciable increase of heat, and to
have the air fresh and constantly
changing.
Water is the great supporter In hol
weather; water internally and water
externally-not ice water, but COO
water.
Much water, little food, free air, mod.
crate exercise, long rests, avoidance OF
the monday sun, and scrupulous clean.
liness-these are the preventives of dis.
ease In the worst of torrid spells.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30
SOCIAL INSTINCTS OF ANTS.
Show Strong Sense of Devotion to Com
mon Weal-True to Duty.

Show Strong Sense of Devotion to Conn
mon Weal-True to Duty.
In order not to leave my readers I'M
der the impression Of crime among
ants, l shall give an account Of trait
of devotion to the common veal, writes
August Forel in the International
Monthly. A swarm Of Formica praten-
sis was closely pressed in its nest by an
army of the same species, and crowds
of alarmed defenders issued from the
entrances to the nest and flew to take
part in the fight. Like Satan, the
tempter of old, placed near them n
beautiful drop of honey on piece of
paper.
At any other time the honey would
have been covered in n few instants
with ants gorging themselves, but this
time numerous working ants came
upon 1t, tasted it for scarcely a second,
and returned to 1t restlessly three or
four times. Conscientiousness, the feel
ing Of duty, invariably prevailed over
gormandism, and they left the honey
to 20 and be killed while defending the
community. am bound to own, how
ever, that there are ants less social, in
which gormandism does prevail.
Comapred to the manners Of other
sociable animals, and especially to
those Of man, the manners of ants ex-
hibit n profound and fundamental ag.
gregation of facts Of conveyance, due
to their social life. Let me mention
devotion, the Instructive sentiment OF
duty, slavery, torture war, alliances,
the raising of cattle, gardening, har-
vesting, and even social degeneres.
cence through the attraction Of certain
harmful means Of enjoyment. 1t would
be ridiculous and erroneous to see III
the fultilment of this serios of acts, in.
diyidual reasoning, the result of calcu-
lated reflection, analogous to ours. The
fact that each is fixed and circum-
scribed within one species, as well as
the fatalistic character 1t has In that
species, prove this superabundantly.
But 1t would be as grave mistake to
refuse to recognize the deep natural
laws that are concealed under this con-
vergence. Is the case different as re.
CARDS our actions, though they are In
tinitely more plastic and more complex
individually? do not believe 1t.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30
The Prince and the Painter

When King Edward was still Prince
of Wales, he sat to Julian Story for his
portrait. The Prince could give the
painter but short time, so Mr.. Story
worked at high pressure A little Incl
dent given on the authority of the Lon.
don Chronicle exhibits the manly sym.
pathy of the present sovereign of En-.
gland.
While the Prince walked back and
forth at Intervals to rest. the painter
worked at the background, never nut
ting down his palette The result was
that his thumb went to sleep. Toward
the end of the sitting the painter was
pulling his thumb to get the blood info
circulation. when his royal sitter saw
and sympathized.
The next day, when the Prince cnme
for a second sitting, he said
II didn't sleep very well last night
and thought of you. l was Worrying
about your palette. Couldn't Won have
the thumb-hole paddcdY
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

tached. The surface of the involute Is
perfectly smooth, as is also that of the
wheel attached to the pitman carrier,
the one rolling upon the other. The
mast is of tubing, the pltman being
carried down inside. The wires for
throwing the mill out of gear are at
tached to thimble on the outside Of
the mast. From this 1t will be seen
that the trees are not needed for actual
support.
A number of these mills have been
attached to trees and have been giving
excellent results. 1t is also possible
to carry the mills around on n wagon
and set them to work at any part Of q
field.-Scientitic American.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

people of the whole country to the same
extent as the railway. Great Britain
has retained possession Of the oriental
trade for the reason that she furnishes
the lowest rates of transportation to and
from those countries. We are now pre-
pairing to challenge her for such share
of this business as can be furnished by
the manufacturers of the United States.
In a country us large as ours, carrying
on enormous undertakings, large amounts
Of capital are necessary, and this capital
can be more readily furnished by corpo-
rate ownership than in any other way.
The only serious objection to so-called
trusts has been the method of creating
them for the purpose of selling sheaves
of printed securities which represent
nothing more than good will and pros
pectiye profits to the promoters.
II it is the desire of the government to
prevent the growth of such corporations
it has always seemed to me that sim
pie remedy was within It's reach. Under
the constitutional provision allowing
Congress to regulate commerce between
States all companies desiring to transact
business outside of the State in which
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

Eighty years ago writer in the Lon
don Examiner made sport of the pre-
vailing passion for newspaper person.
alities in paragraph which, with
change of hero. would be pertinent to.
day: 1.-THE Duke of Wellington gener.
ally rises about eight. While he is
dressing he sometimes whistles tune.
He uses warm water in shaving, and
lays on a greater quantity than the or
binary man. While shaving he chiefly
breathes through his nose, with view
as 1t Is conceived, Of keeping the suds
out Of his mouth. The duke drinks
tea with his breakfast, which he sweet
ems with white sugar and corrects with
cream. He eats toast and butter, beef
or eggs. The eggs are generally those
Of the domestic fowl"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

they are incorporated should be held to
a uniform provision of federal laws. They
should satisfy commission that their
capital stock was actually paid up in
cash or in property, at fair valuation,
just as the capital Of the national bank
Is certified to be paid up. With that sim
pie law the temptation to make companies
for the purpose of selling prospective
profits would be at an end. AT the same
time no legitimate business would suffer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-30

More evil is wrought. so says cele-
brated physician, in the systems of
boys from IL to 20 years by lack Of
sleep than by any other one cause.
Franklin's "early to bed" has not lost
Its force. Concerning the early to
RISE" Chevalier Bunsen used to say
that by always getting up four hours
before other people he made his year
into sixteen months instead of twelve
Inasmuch as an hours mental or physi.
cal work in the morning is generally
worth two late in the day, even the
mathematics Of the chevalIer were not
seriously at fault.