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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Tho Intention Is What sipnifies.

The Intention Is What Signifies.
The Republican party is to be judged
by what it attempts to do, not by what
it actually does or omits to do. 1t has
attempted to set up an utterly irrespon-
sible military despotism in the Philip
pines, and in this 1t has hitherto sue
ceeded fairly well by keeping its doings
hidden from the American people. 1t
has attempted this not because there
has been any popular demand for it,
for there has been no such demand.
The American people have indicated
that they are disposed to keep their flag
floating over the archipelago, but they
have never intimated that they wish to
keep it there rs a symbol of despotism.
The Republican party is to be judged
by what it has attempted to do i'll the
matter of shipping subsidies also. 1t
passed the subsidy grab in the Senate.
When the bill went to the House the
leaders but thinly disguised their pur
pose to let it slumber in committee I'M
til after the Congressional elections,
and then, after they were secure in
their seats for another two years, to
take 1t mp and pass it.
Their tacit admission of this purpose
was also an admission that they We're
well aware not merely that there was
no popular demand for any such raid
on the treasury, but that there was so
much popular hostility to it that the
party would almost certainly be beaten
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

The farmers of Oregon and Washing
ton do not need any argument or evil
dence as to the supreme Importance
sustained to their interests by the con-
slant activity of flour mills, writes an
Oregonian. Much of the time the mills
are paying more for wheat than the
wheat men, and continuously they are
n buoyant element in the local market.
Our farmers, therefore, can understand
the feeling of those Kansas millers who
yesterday telegraphed to the Senate of
the United States that they are running
on only one-third of their capacity, and
that they confront an entire cessation
of business unless Congress can secure
more favorable entrance to foreign
markets through tariff concessions OH
imports.
Another dispatch of concern to our
farmers is the one appearing i'll yester-
days paper concerning The Central
Federated Union of New York. This
body of workingmen calls upon Con-
gress to reduce the tariff on foreign
meats, so as to destroy the monopolis-
tic power of the American beef trust.
The tariff on meats is for the ostensi-
BILE protection of the farmer, but In
practice it operates for the advantage
of the meat trust. We have tariff on
hides for the farmers benefit also. but
it aids only the packers. What the
farmer gets for his meat and hides de-
ponds not at all on the tariff, but what
the packers agree among themselves to
pay. 1t is very doubtful whether the
farmers as whole gain as much as
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Ancient CITY In Mnxico

Leopold Batres, conservator of arch
geological monuments in Mexico, has
exhumed an ancient city of the Zapo-
tecas in the State of Oaxaca. In its
center is a grand plaza, and rising to
the north of the plaza are terraces, on
which are founded two great temples,
while In the center of the plaza itself
are two massive mausoleums in which
the priests of the temples We're buried
On opposite sides of the public square
there are also twelve smaller shrines,
six Oh either hand, all supported by
heavy columns of basalt covered with
hieroglyphic inscriptions in bas-relief
In the temples the history of the peo-
pie was found inscribed, in the Ian
guage of the Zapotecas, upon fifty
tablets of stone. So much of the sur.
prisingly rare historic import has al
ready been found that Mr.. Batres will
ask the government for more men to
be put at the work of eXliuming and
restoring the buildings of the long
buried city.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Where tho Gluepot Came In.

There was the usual collection of
commercial travellers in the smoking
room Of the hotel, and the inevitable
quiet man was one of them. They had
been asking conundrums. many OF
which had been received with roars of
laughter, as being particularly clever.
Then the quiet man lit a fresh cigar
and spoke:
ut is easy" he said, "to think Of
such riddles as Why is your hat like n
baby! which contain one smile, but
those with two are far more difficult.
For instance:
"What are the differences between
the son of millionaire, an organ and
gluepot?"
81 give 1t up" said the mustard tray
eler presently.
1.-THE son of a millionaire is an heir
to millions. while an organ has n mill
ion airs! Dye see?"
But what about the gluepot?" in
quired the hosiery representative.
"Oh, that's where you stick" return.
ed the quiet man. And the waiter
smothered a gufraw behind a tray he
was busting, while the hosiery repre-.
sentative howled for soda water.-Lon.
don Answers
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

on the moralities and the promises of
the gospel, and more than that, it is by
such sermons alone that he can best
help, comfort and inspire his hearers.
But the peculiar respect which he com
mands as n specialist yanishes imme-
diately when he goes out of his sphere
to talk dogmatically upon questions of
secular controversy about which he
may know much less than some of his
auditors. There are preachers who
seem to have persistent itching dur
Ing political campaigns to bring the
pulpit into politics and who deceive
themselves by imagining that their
partnership comes of God, when it is
just the ordinary kind. They may con-
tent themselves with yelled illusions or
they may so SO far as to express eulogy
or denunciation, but in either case they
are using the church as campaign
wigwam when they should hire hall.
1t Is wonder that such alterations are
tolerated as much as they are, and Ger
tainly there could be no blaming pew
holder for protesting when he believes
that there is more of the devil than of
God In the preachers party. 1t is his
right to protest and to demand that his
temper shall not be rufiled by the dis
ingenious or over-zcalous pulpiteer,
who is taking him at mean disad.
vantage and depending on him for
financial support at the same time.
Aside from the question of authority,
men are sated with such stuff anyway
during the week, and If they go to
church Sunday it is to be recalled to
the spiritual side of life which is too
much neglected. There is still enough
in 1t and in pure religion for centuries
upon centuries of sermons, as there has
been in the past. The speciality is still
rightly considered the greatest of spe-
cialties, and when it is properly full
filed it ministers more to the higher
aspirations Of humanity than any other
and commands veneration that is a
very bulwark against those who would
curtail its just freedom.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

Professor Woodward, of the Natural
History Museum, of South Kensington.
London, who has been engaged for
some time past in excavating ut Piker-
mi, near Marathon, has recently COM
pleted his work. One Of the most VAL
liable discoveries is a collection of
heads Of horned horses. They were un-
earthed at Euborea, where the profess
sor carried on some experimental ex-
cavatlons for archaeological remains.
III addition to the heads of the horned
horses, the heads and shin bones of
rhinoceri and other prehistoric animals
were discovered. 1t is curious that out
of the six places In the world where the
remains of the horned horse have been
found three are in Greece and a fourth
in Samos. in the Greek Archipelago.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
WALKING AND LONGEVITY.
With Many centenarians It Wa. tn
Fayorite Form of Exercise.

With Many Centenarians It Was the
Favorite Form of Exercise.
Walking appears to be the form of
physical exercise most favored by CEN
tenarians. 1t is related of one Mac
Donald, who died in Highlands, Scot
land, in 1901, aged 101: HE was a
great pedestrian, and the year before
lie died, at the age of 100, undertook
on wager, to walk ten miles In two
hours and half, which he performed.
He was accordingly presented to the
king at Windsor"
Colonel George Perkins, of Norwich.
Conn, who died thirteen years ago.
aged 100, made practice Of walking
four miles day until within few
years of his death. Mary Wilkinson Of
Yorkshire, England, who in 1883 died
Mt 100, walked to London when she
was past 90. The distance was 28O
miles. She made 1t in five days and
three hours. Mary Mcdonnell. a Wig
orous old woman of Magheratempany.
Ireland, in 1854, when III, walked
fourteen miles.
sally MOTIFS, WHOs TeCeully uitU uedI
Parkersburg, w. Va, ut the age of 118.
had, up to two years previous to her
death, walked twenty miles to town
and back one day in each week.
A conspicuous number of centenari-
ans have enjoyed their favorite sports
and pastimes even in their very last
days. Sieu Dason de Veger of Lour-
day, France, who died in 1744, aged
11S. rode hunting fifteen days before
his DEATH" Bartholomew Rymer, .
Yorkshire gamekeeper who ended .
century of vigorous life in 1901. ''shot
game flying in his Goth year." One
Hastings. an Englishma1, dying in
1850, rode to the death Of a stag when
near co." In the last century Of his
life he was fisherman and swan the
river after he was 100.
AL these instances. says the Roches-
ter Post-Express, prove the value of
out-of.door exercise as an aid in the
prolongation of life.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
MAKING POSTAGE STAMPS.
How Uncle Sam Manufactures Them
New Series of Portraits.

~
For some time Uncle Sam has been
busily engaged in preparing a new Sc
ries of postage stamps. OF late years
the United States has dropped into the
fashion of changing the designs Of its
mailing franks more frequently than
almost any nation, and gradually the
first republic of the new world has
come to the proud position Of possess
ing postage Stamps that are more ar
tistic than those sent out from any
other country.
1t is not easy to understand what an
immense amount of work is necessita-
ted by the advent of new styles in this
postal currency. What with the men
who manufacture the paper, the 1000
or 5000 men and women who assist in
printing and cumming the stamps, the
toilers who help in transporting the
new products Of the printing presses
and the $4,000 postmasters and clerks
who sell the stamps to the public, it
is estimated that fully 100000 persons
have a hand in preparing for postage
stamp Opening"
For upward of n decade the national
government has been printing its own
postage stamps-that is, the work has
been done at the big institution ut
Washington known as the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving. which is a
branch of the Treasury Department,
and designed primarily for the print
ing the national currency-but the 81
gantic task may at any time revert
to private individuals or corpora
ton If a disposition is shown to do the
work cheaper than the government
can do it. -
Every year the Postoffice Depart.
ment advertises for bids for furnishing
the postage stamps, and the Treasury
Department submits proposition in
exactly the same manner rs the other
bidders, but the plant of the big money
factory Mt the national capital is SO
perfectly equipped that the manufac-
ture of stamps can be carried on at a
cost Of less than 8 cents p 1000, and
apparently the bank-note companies
which formerly supplied stamps have
concludcd-that there would be no profit
in the transaction ut such price.
1t is III the Postoffice Department
that the first step Is taken looking to
the making of n new series of stamps.
This is the important work Of passing
in n general way upon the designs Of
the new stamps and more particularly
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Alma Myers Drowned.

The friends of Miss Alma Myers, n
former student of tho Worlds Mission
AIRY Home in Shenandoah, have received
word of her death by drowning during IL
storm on May at Srepat, India. Miss
Myers was 25 years old, and went to
India nine months ago with band of
missionaries under Fredeick Jarvis. The
same information says the storm swept
away an orphanage and all its occupants,
only two of the missionaries escaping
with their lives.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
"Kid. Noble Found Guilty.

The jury in the case of the State of
Iowa against kid" Noble, for the mur-
der of Thomas Morgan, saloonkeeper,
returned a verdict at Muscatine of gull
ty of murder in the first degree. Noble
was sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
The jury was out nearly four hours. No
BILE is prize fighter, "a years of age. He
charged Morgan with having alienated
the affections of his wife, and when Nor
gan did not deny the charge he knocked
him down and moment later shot him
twice. Morgan died from his wounds.
Noble fled and was afterward apprehcnd
ed at Enid, Ok.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Mystery Surrounds Grim c.

William Lucas, aged % years, son of
prominent lumberman of Clearmont,
has been held by the coroner's jury to
answer for the murder of Miss Anna
Moore, whose body was found in ravine
near Clarinda. Mystery surrounding the
crime grows deeper. Lucas protests his
innocence and the evidence is conflicting.
Miss Moore was the 1S-year-old daugh-
ter of p. f. Moore, for many years in
the service of the Burlington Railway.
She had Informed her friends that she
was to marry young Lucas. On the night
of the murder the couple went for n
drive in the direction of Clcarmont and
Miss Moore never returned home.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Selling contrnhnnd of War.

1t was only few weeks ago that a
British officer was openly buying horses
in indianapolis for shipment to South
Africa. And as a matter of course the
State Department knows that horses
and mules are contraband of war. They
are munitions by all the rules of inter
national law, and they We're never
more essentials in a war than they are
in the present one. The British would
never have been able to make Roadway
against the Beers without the horses
and mules furnished to them from this
country. British subjects We're forbid
den by royal proclamation to furnish us
just such supplies during the Spanish
war.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

ou sem.-Cincnnat
they lose by high meat prices. Some of

they lose by high meat prices. Some of
them sometimes reap an isolated bene-
lit, but some of them all the time and
all of them some of the time are heavy
consumers of meat, which they must
buy in the trust-controlled market.
The fact is that whatever concern the
farmer once had in the maintenance of
protective tariffs has about disappear
ed. They We're always more or ,s-s of
Il fraud upon him, thrown ~. to.
reconcile him to supporss protected
manufactures, aud nov they have be
come ~ lily instances a positive bur
den. The reason is the simplest in the
world. The farmer is an exporter, not
n manufacturer threatened with i'm
ports. He wants markets abroad, not
a wall to keep imports out. Hence it is
that a tariff on farm products is prac-
tically imperative. Nobody is going to
send wheat here to compete with the
home products. Nobody is going to send
meat here to compete with the home
product. Free trade in meat would give
us the menace of foreign competition
and force the trust TO play fair, but it
would not to any appreciable extent
bring importations.
What the farmer needs is easy en-.
trance for his products into foreign
markets. Every tariff oil American
grain and meat in Europe lessons the
American farmers proceeds of his la
Dor. The only way to get those tariffs
cut off is to grant concessions on Euro
pean manufactures coming in. Low tar
ifs will help the farmer. High tariffs
hurt him. Tariff reduction here and
abroad will help the farmer i'll two.
fold way by giving him more for his
products and lowering the cost of the
goods he must buy. This is the gospel
truth about the tariff, and it is reason.
ably certain that the farmer is begin
ming to understand it.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
determination the Next Step.

Y 1t must be evident by this time that
benevolent assimilation" is failure.
Soft words have been tried, threats
have been tried and Weylerism has
been tried. The administration has
cried peace, peace, but there is no
peace; there is a military occupation
and Il partial subjugation, govern
ment by armed force OH the one hand
and on the other sullen submission and
hatred. as of an oppressor If the water
cure and Weylerism are to be abandon
ed, what is to be substituted therefor?
If half-savage and wholly hostile peo-
pie is to be subjugated, determination
may very likely be the only effectual
means to that end.-Albany, N. Y, Ar
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

"Labby" philosophically asks why
Cecil Rhodes should not have used his
wealth to send English boys to study
abroad, their university education be-
ing, he says, obsolete" 1t was only
recently, moreover, that the king
wished "the old country would wake
up" All the English universities have
to teach can be better learned on the
continent or in the United States. The
modern age has not yet penetrated into
the medieval dusk of Oxford and Cam
bridge.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Division of Lnhor.

Helene-How long did you stay in
Paris on your trip to France?
Emma-Oh, Week altogether.
Helene-But. surely. you could not
take in everything in such a short
time!
Emma-But we did all the same. You
see. there were three Of us. Mamma
took in the picture galleries. studied
the shops and things. and papa exam
ined the local color in the cafes.-New
York Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

twenty-five years ago there were
any number of business men to be
found who said that advertising does
not pny. But these have disappeared
utterly from the larger marts of trade.
They either failed in business or they
died of envy and grief, the former be-
cause of the success of their rivals who
did advertise or the latter because
they realized that their own business
was going to the 'demnition bow
vows" as Mr.. Mantalini would say.
The few that survive are restricted to
the small towns, and these are too lazy
to wait upon the few customers who
enter their place of business. In geome-
try one finds what are termed axioms
which need no demonstration, for the
reason that they are self-evident
truths. 1t is automatic that advertis-
ing does pay. This means practical,
common sense, business Advertising
judicious, wholesome advertisinEr--Na-
tiQnal Advertiser.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Extortion Docs Not Pay.

1t is even money that the beef trust
does not make as much money out of
high prices as it would out of low
prices, MS many people simply reduce
their purchases. There is not case
known where low profits failed to bring
Il largely increased business. In fact,
most of the great monopolies and mon
cy-making affairs have been those that
made as low prices as possible but lots
of Salps.-Alilwaukce Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

II the number of red corpuscles In
the blood can be doubled in two hours
in balloon ascension, as DR.. Gaule,
Of Switzerland, has proved, the appar-
ent suggestion for sufferers from ane-
mia is to hurry to an aeronaut.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

plate that would be an exact duplicate
In every delicate detail Accordingly.
the original plate constitutes steel
die, with which impressions are made
on soft steel. and these latter, termed
replicas, are used, after hardening. for
the actual printing.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
A Stone Rather thon Bread.

1t would be the climax of political
hypocrisy to deny the insular territories
of the United States free trade and con.
fer upon them free silver coinage. 1t
was bad enough to break through the
mesh of constitutional Introduction in
order to keep them outside of our tar
if barriers. but to arrange to pay them
for what they have to sell lis III depre-
ciatcd silver and require gold for what
we shall sell them would be adding
p@rfidy to pillage Philadelphia Rec
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Why Does Not Congress Move?

Attorney General Knox has under
taken to beg for equity mt the hands
of the courts in restraint of the eXtor-
ton of the beef trust. This may end in
nothing but clattering of campaign
thunder. But the Republican Congress
has in its power to instantly do equity
by g repeal of the duty on meats and
live stock. Why doesn't the Congress
Record,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

The persons who smoke the objec.
tionable little things may rs well un.
derstand that Miss Lucy Page CASTOR
will not give up the fight so long as life
shall last,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

A London paper SCOTS at Secretary
Shaw, referring to his rs n shirt
sleeved diplomat" 1t isn't likely, how
ever. that the Secretary will let this
cause him to so back to Iowa and sit
down,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Oh Id Is scalded to Death.

The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Phillips, labcrer, of Rock Creek township.
was fatally scalded. A boiler filled with
hot water was on the porch. The child
while attempting to close the door, lost
its hold and fell backward into the wat
err. 1t suffered horribly for few hours,
until death brought relief.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

The newspaper sages who wonder at
the magical spread of craze such as
that for table tennis, or pingpong, do
not seem to take account of the i'm
mense advertising force that is behind
it. With us much publicity behind any
novelty, or one-quarter as much, it
would be possible to spread it over the
habitable globe.-Printers' Ink.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
j z{lI gzg
n ON
S I$$S}jII|gEIi[zI

John Wanamaker pays over $1,000
day for advertising his Philadelphia
store. He uses u page day in five
daily newspapers in that city. They
are as follows: Press, 100000; Ledger,
100000; Times, $4,000; North Amerl-
can, $4,000; Evening Telegraph, $780,
600.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

There is common saying that the
man who advertises never is sold out
by the auctioneer. This scarcely is true,
but it is true that the careful man Of
business who advertises judiciously
does not fail in business, has no receiv-
ers appointed to close out his affairs,
and has no occasion for the services Of
the auctioneer:-National Advertiser.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

Killing man, no matter what the
provocation, is unpleasant and danger
GUS business. 1t ought to be discour-
aged.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Salt Mines in Switzerland.

Switzerland has at Bex salt mines
which have been worked for 24S years.
The galleries are twenty-five miles in
length and the profit $4,000 year.