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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-01
Low ono way uolonlst Rates.

On sale via Chicago Great Westssn
Railway on the first aud third Tuesday,
In each month TO September IL, ie09 u
points West and sonthwest. For fur
Their information apply to ahy Gteae
Western Agent, or j. r. Elmer, q. t'.i..
Chicago, Iii. 18sllw Il
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-01
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Twice each month. on specifc dates, the MI.
nois Central will sell at greatly reduced rate
from points on it, line north Of Cairo. roundtrip
tain points on or reached by It, lines In Ken.
lucky. Tennesseee, .Mississippi. Louisiana and
Alab anna. Also 70 certain points West and
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas Oklahoma
and Indian Territory. Particulars Of your iii
For . free copy Of the Homeseekers' Guide
describing the sdvantages and resources O the
South, address J. F. Merry. A. g. p. A., /. @. B.
B., Dubuque, Iowa. For Information regard
issippi. address &. I. Skene, Land Commissioners
Y. I'm. v. r. r Chicago.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-01
Illinois Central
EXCURSION RATES.

Excursion tickets will be sold by the IlliDoie
Central. TO the points. and at rates. ~ follows;
Fare and one-third ON Certificate Plan.
Council Bluffs. owa,-AnnuAl meeting Iowa
Pharmaceutical Association. July 14-l8.
OPEN RATE OF ONE FARE PLUS 600
Home.seekers' Excursions, Northwest, West
N0uth, South east and SOuth-w vest, June 10, July
and ~. August and Is. Sept. and 10,
Boston, Mass.,-Annual Meeting, National
Educational ASSN, July $40.
Ns sSS,ratoga Springs: * I ;n,a hestins
Atlanta. Ga ANNUAL Convention, BAptist
Young Peoples Union Of America, july .eid
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que Convention July 1919, - ~
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and Protective Order Of Elks, July ana. "A
One Faro.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and 6an Diek6. a.
sale July ITO. limited TO August siss, "a
Sioux City. 10. State Firemens ToumarIsss
July 1881.
LESS THAN ONE FARE.
One Way. second. GLASS, Colonlsta. Rates .
points point, a the southeast. South, West md
CLASS one way fates. plus a. 90; tickets on eal4
Juno 10. July 7and 81. Aug. 4 end IL, uspt, I NJ
Unsatisfactory Of Christia0 Kndeavor. July III.
ssh Ekta %asss, Saa Kneampmsas
For particulars % to dates Of sale. RATES, Ga.
apply TO- any Illinois Central ticket agent, 81
adfess the undersigned.
J.F.MERRY Asst. Gen. Pass. Argent.
Dubuque, Iowa.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-01

Are you preparing to def asked
the elderly female Of the condemned
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-01
Notice Of Appointment Of Adminis
traitor De Bonis Non.

STATE OF IOWA. =. M
Delaware County ss' y,
NOTICE ls HRREBY GIVEN, That tho undajs
signed has been duly appointed and qpAlilod a.
Of the Estate OF Jacob 6chweingfubef Inte u
Delaware County. deceased. All per-
sons Indebted to said kstate are requested ~
claims against the same will present them, duty
ance. III
Dated this 10Th. day Of june 1905
JOHN DOLPHIM. A
Bronson q Carr - ss l /; &
Att'ysf for Estate. Il n s
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-01
B. c. R. q N. R,y.
CEDAR RAPIDS TINE CARD.

MAIN LINE GOING EAST AND SOUTH.
Arrive Leaye
$40 m No. Chicago = St.I Louis RI. $50 N
Laos ngt No. Chicago Fast Expfess. l.Ol net
No. 10 Buri. q Davnpt. Pass s:26p d
No Pullman sleeper. free chair car and
coaches to Chicago. No. pullman sleepefS
and through coaches to Chicago and St. Louis.
Chicago; Dining car vii serve brsaSisss from "a
Joliet TO Chicago.
Ngt.-night.
MAIN LINE GOING NORTH.
1908 p m No. Rockford Passenger. 8:aO %
1905 ngt NO. Minneapolis Express. 1880 ngt
li:t0 m No. 10 Chicago Passenger.
No. Free chair car and coaches to AL.
bert Lea. No. wide Vestibuild Pullman
BUFFET !leepers and coaches 10 Minneapolis and
DEBORAH DIVISION.
9;lO m DEBORAH Passeneer s.a0 m
1910 m......W West Union Passelger .....8:t0 p m
4;06 m.... DEBORAH Freisht...... $50 M
IOwATALLs DIVISION.
1880 p m Iowa 3 Minnesota Pass ...... 100 n,
l:06 Q. M. Minnesota 3 Dakota Pass. 1880 m
IOWA CITY, DAvENPoRT,BURL. AND cLIAToN.
1905 m...:.B url. y u City Pass. =. .s;06 p M
7:46 M. Cln., 10 City, Dvpt Pass .....7:i6 n
7:a6s .......Burl & Ia City Pass. ....-9:40 p m
Trains numbers 3, 9. g, y, y, and MINI Z
cept Sunday" No % daily between Cedar
Rapids and West Liberty.
JNO: 9. FARMER. VIII. BUTTON.
Genl Pass ut AIT. Ticket Agent
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

7HILE the library movement has
I~I been strikingly emphasized OF
late by the numerous Carnegie
KHS3NN donations which have scattered
SA@S new library buildings so lavishly
oyer the country the rapid development OF
our established public libraries ana the
wonderful expansion of their work have
not attracted the attention they deserve.
Time was only few decades ago when
free circulating library meant simply
collection of catalogued books, which the
public was free TO inspec[ and TO borrow
for home use, subject to conditions imposed
by rules and regulations designed more TO
preyent the destruction OF the precious
volumes by over-use than to facilitate thelr
circulation. Had the old regime remaineu
undisturbed il is safe TO say that we would
have no great public library institutions
like those TO be found today in nearly
every progressive American city with book
borrowers numbering into the tens Of thou
sands and circulation figures mounting
into the millions. In the year 1901 the
number OF books loaned out by the public
library in tho city of Philadelphia aggre-
gated / 1,s15, ,6S7, the Boston public library
loaned out ,4SS,513 books, the Buffalo
nublic library, although the city has
nopulatlon OF only S52, 900, loaned out
e66, ,45O books, while Los Angeles with only
112S74 people loaned out through its
library 472543 books The test OF useful
ness Of a public library then is not so much
its fine building nor its heavily laden book
shelves as the number Of people utilizing
its treasures and the number and character
OF the volumes kept in circulation among
It's patrons.
The great circulation growth Of American
public libraries rests, OF course, upon the
spread OF education among the people.
lne library filled with all the choicest
volumes of the worlds literature, equipped
with all the most modern devices for max
ing them accessible, II planted in COM
munity where only few people were able
10 read or write or to appreciate the pro-
ductions OF novelists. scientists and philoso-
piers, would be as Improbable as an ice
plant in the Arctic regions or a cotton
mill in the midst OF the SahTa. But even
with a population Of universal literacy and
thorough intelligence, a public library
might fail OF its mission by neglecting tO
make its contents known to those likely to
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

was eighty and the stations and deposit
tories 279."
If it were possible to go into the subject
closer without unduly burdening the reader
with statistics, it could be shown that in
almost every instance the growth of the
circulation from branches and stations has
been much greater than the growth
OF the circulation from the main
library-in some instances at the expense
of the parent institution. That this change
has been reinforced by the shifting OF
population within the different COM
munties and the growth of suburban dis
tricts as against the downtown section
would also be demonstrated by more
analytical examination. The travelling
library and home delivery are simply steps
in advance of the branch library and
delivery station. II it conducos to larger
patronage and greater usefulness to deposit
books in each neighborhood so that the
people may get them without the cost of
time and money necessary for a trip to
the main library, the same arguments hold
good for delivering the books at the home
OF the book-borrower, taking his or her
order there and making an exchange with
out further personal Intervention.
Next in Importance comes the upbuild-
ing of the children's departments. 1t is
conceded that the most inviting field for
library work is to be found in encouraging
children and young people to form the read
ing habit and cultivate taste for good and
substantial books The purpose of getting
wholesome reading into the hands Of the
children has prompted efforts in two
directions. First, children have
been admitted more freely into the
library building-nay urged and tempted
BRANCH LIBRARIES AND STA
TIONS-l9Ol
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

utilize them, or by obstructing their use
with over-calticn. The object of the Ii
brary administration to serve the public
to its fullest capacity has only gradually
been impressed upon library managements
until in these twentieth century days all
our Libraries are exerting themselves TO
encourage book borrowing and reading in
ways that previously would have inspired
strongest aversion. 1t is on this score that
the great enlargement of library activity
and the imposing expansion of the circu-
laticn figures are TO be explained. To know
Just what the libraries have been doing to
keep in touch with popular demands should
throw an interesting side-light on this
important factor in our educational
progress.
As II Is related that when the mountain
did aot come to Mohammet, Mohammet
went 10 the mountain, when the limit
seemed to be reached for book borrowers
TO come to the Libraries, the Libraries went
forth and took their books to their readers.
In few of the principal American cities
supporting great libraries is the main IL
brary longer the chief mainstay Of the in
stitution. The main library is simply the
seat Of the administrative force. 1t is the
repository of the more valuable books least
consulted. II is the reference library for
libraries and the delivery stations have
become the great arteries Of circulation.
In Boston, OF the annual circulation, fgur-
ing nearly 100000 volumes, more than
900 600 OF these books were given to the
borrowers through stations, branches and
repositories. The branches there number
TO- tho stations 21, with repositories in a
schools, 80 engine houses and city in
stitutions In Philadelphia, of the 1,9l5,GS7
books loaned out only 526,15O were from
the main library.
So far as mere figures can convey an
insight into the situation as respects branch
libraries and stations and the relative po-
stion they occupy toward the public library
as an institution, a compilation of circula-
tion exhibits authoritatively supplied shows
that for the library year 1901, where 10,
72S,73l books were loaned out in fifteen
representative American cities, ATS, 739,
or nearly one-half, were distributed through
branches and stations. In fifteen American
cities, maintaining each one main library,
the number of branches for the same year
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

to come-and when they come receive
special consideration, whereas formerly
they were either driven away as
intermeddling nuisances, or neglected as
not worth attention. The most progressive
American libraries have now set apart
portion of their building for the exclusive
use of children. The children are allowed
TO regard the children's room their own
property; in it are stored the books they
prefer; they are provided with chairs and
tables in diminutive pattern for their
particular accommodation the walls are
decorated with pictures and posters for
their instruction ard entertainment;
personal attendants are detailed to
their service; their wants are anticipated
and their minds guided by s ow stages from
the stories of wild adventures that con-
form to their natural preferences to the
books that carry instruction as well as
recreation.
At the same time special exertlons arc
made to extend the library advantages to
children who may be prevented from en-
joying the facilities provided by the chill
drens room in the main or branch libra
ries. This is accomplished by utiliz-
ing the schools as distributing agen-
cies In speaking of branches and deliv-
cry stations reference has already been
made to the fact that the Boston public
library maintains book repositories in
forty-four schools. Similar work is carried
on in a number Of other cities, notably in
Detroit, Indianapolis, Omaha and Pittsburg.
In this work teachers usually cooperate,
relieving the library authorities in a GER
tain measure and sometimes assuming re-
sponsibility for the pupils.
1t must be remembered that the clrcu-
lation OF books, like the circulation OF
money, depends not only on the volume
of the circulating medium and the number
of persons to be served, but also upon the
raPidity OF movement All three Of these
elements enter into the circulation figures
of the modern public library. The number
of volumes accessioned and catalogued and
the number OF book borrowers entitled to
the library privileges, must be brought
into relation to the mechanics OF the loan
desk.
In reading circulation figures the FIST al
lowance must be made for the number OF
books which each borrower is permitted u
Continued on Page EleVen.)
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-01
FIRE CLAIMS PAYMENT.

What's delaying the fire claims mon.
cy? is a very general question these
days. Treasury Agent McLennan has
said that he will pay the money as soon
as the properly signed schedule is re.
ceIyed from the Governor and the bond
question Is decided; If claimants would
not take the bonds he would proceed
to pay out the million dollars in coin
on a pro rata basis. A few of the
largest claimants have signified their
Willingness to take a proper proportion
of the bonds and the Governors SEIZED.
ule was said to be finished by the typo.
writers early in the week.
The payment OF the claims seems to
be tied up between the Governors
schedule and the bonds. Meanwhile
the claimants want their money.
Just where the blockade on the
bonds exists has not been made pub.
lie If 1t is known. The public has been
advised that Bishop & Co. one of the
largest claimants is ready to take
bonds and there the matter seems to
have stopped. A meeting of possible
bond'taking claimants has been propos.
ed but nothing has thus far come OF
II. The whole matter seems to lack an
aggressive leadership from the Terri.
torial headquarters to which the peo--
pie naturally look for initiative action.
Certainly a meeting of claimants can.
not be secured by desultory talk that
something ought to be done. If the
Territory cannot whip this phase of
the question into businesslike shape, II
Is up to the business community to
take hand and see If its influence can
raise the apparent blockade. Treas
ury Agent McLennan is ready to act.
Everybody seems willing, but results
are lacking.
As implied in Commissioner Pratt's
communication, this Territory cannot
afford to let the bond issue go begging.
Some may consider one per cent to
be high price to pay for patriotism,
but this Territory will make a mighty
poor showing If 1t cannot go this far
toward meeting the liberality OF the
United States Congress. The Bulletin
agrees that 1t is about time for the
Territory or business bodies to take
definite action which will pull the fire
claims affairs out of the doldrums and
set the wheels of payment in motion.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-01

John Smith. a carpenter, knew de-
PENDANT for ten years"
The yellow fever. however, has
evolved a new style OF reporting:
John Smith. a tall and angularly
formed fellow with bushy red hair and
flaming whiskers, was sworn. He
kissed the Book with u rosOunding
smack, adjusted his green necktie, sat
down in the witness chair, ran his right
hand through his ruby locks, crossed
his legs. which were closely inCased in
blue and white trousers of the latest
cut, and then looked straight into the
eyes of Counsellor Jones. In solemn
tones the latter asked him his business.
1 am carpenter was the humble re-
ply made in clear and high-pitched
voice that was heard distinctly in the
remotest corner Of the court room.
How long have you been a car.
penter? ask Mr.. Jones with threat.
ening look in his left eye. Il have been
q carpenter. sir said the witness with
great dignity and fully appreciating the
importance Of the question, during tho
past twenty years. Then Mr.. Jones
drew himself up to his fullest height,
and extending his right arm at an
angle OF forty-fve degrees he brought
II down again swiftly until his huge
fist struck the table with horrible
dull thud. DO you know the defend
ant? he shouted in thunderous tones.
I do. was the reply, made in accents
pitched in high key which contrasted
strangely with the cayernous tones Of
the learned counsel. Then Mr.. Jones
with flashing eyes and clenched fist
coiled himself up like a serpent aud
Kissed, How long have you known
him. Ten years, was the answer
tossed back to the lawyer with light
ning-like rapidly"
Well, this method Of reporting may
be very beautiful, but II makes rather
tiresome reading, and in these days
when few citizens can afford the lux.
ury of reading themselves to sleep.
blatherskite reports of murder trials
are very much avoided.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-01

It's simply dream and too lovely for
anything. so cool and restful. The cell.
ing Is done in a cloud effect, and the
walls papered with the cutest blue and
silver paper you ever saw. and dado
OF darker blue burlap with conven.
tional design picked out in silver.
When We went away we just left the
cottage in the hands of Messrs. Sharp
& Wise, the painters, Harold calls
them the Wizards of the Paint Brush
and their charges are so reasonable
too. Mother has just called, so I'll post
this and write you later on and tell
you all the news.
Your dear friend,
MRS. HAROLD DELMA.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-01
KISSED cABMAN; WON WAGER

New York. April 20.-One kiss and a
fervent hug administered to a cabman
by a daintily gowned young woman
who had just stepped out of the Wal.
dorf-Astoria on Sunday night decided
u bet and caused much talk inside the
hotel and out of il.
Miss Elizabeth Trask of st. Louis
had been dining in the Waldorf with
three men, and another woman. She
remarked that she was proud TO say
she never took dare.
I'll wager a box of gloves to a case
OF wine said Frank Fuller, one of the
party, that you are afraid to kiss the
cabman."
The girl closed the bargain by in,
stantly arising from her place at the
table. SHOW me the cabman," she
said. The party adjourned to the side,
walk and Fuller called IA cabman from
his seat Miss Trask threw her arms
around the cabbv's neck and kissed
him. Then Fuller gave him a big tip.
Miss lrask and her party then got into
the carriage and departed After II
was all over, the man who was kissed
said to another cabby. Pinch me; |
cant believe It,"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-01
WARNING TO RANCHERS AND FARMERS
BY JNo. M. HORNER.

As see public attention is being d..
rected to the injury done and being
done by suffering the lantana to null.
tiply and spread over large and useful
parts of these Islands, rendering such
parts so encountered by the lantana
useless to man, and see plans are for
mulating and money expended for its
destruction or at least against it's fur.
Their spreading | wish to direct the at.
tention of those interested to two
plants, one of which is equal to the
lantana in encumbering the ground TO
the exclusion of all useful plants, and
by the sharp, strong thorns, prevent all
four.footed animals from entering the
land or maintaining even path
through them. One multiplies by its
seed as rapidly as the lantana. the
other more rapidly, as It multiplies by
both seed and roots. The first is the
Canadian thistle, which grows from
six to eight feet high and four to FIVE
inches at the butt. II seeds and dies
within one years time. 1t entered our
pastures from the east end of Mauna
Kca. At first we did not fear it. know.
ing nothing and hearing nothing about
It For some years heretofore We have
waged a feeble war against IFS spread.
ing; but 1t has continued to spread un.
til 1000 acres Of our pasture has been
monopolized in one field. and as much
more scattered over the upper part Of
the ranch. and II is spreading over ad.
joining ranches with like rapidity.
We are now waging a more vigorous
war against it than heretofore. We
now have fourteen men working at
them, and If they are kept at 1t until
IL seeds. they cannot more than check
them. All ranches on this Island will
surely he afflicted by 1t, and il they
let 1t run on, their pasture land will he
as surely taken from them as though IL
was covered by lantana. We hear 1t
has reached Maui.
The other plant is the imported
raspberry. It was imported here for
the berries ii was supposed to yield. II
has no worth as berry plant; but its
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-01
THE BRIDES DREAM.

A Honolulu bride has written to her
friend as follows:
Dear Elsie:-In your last letter you
wanted to know where We spent the
honeymoon and whether we went to
the coast? NO indeed we never left the
Islands. We went to Hilo for a few
days and had lovely time, but | was
glad to get back to dear old Honolulu.
We have had the cottage all fixed up
and you wouldn't know it. You re.
member that southeast room, where
the sun poured in all day; you know
we called It the oven on account of it
being so hot; well you should see 1t.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-01

seeds are distributed over the forests
and pastures by the birds. After the
seed starts il require no more seeding
or care to cause 1t to multiply, as in a
few years IL will multiply from the
roots to cover acres of ground. On &C.
count of its multiplying from the roots,
we consider II a more expensive plant
to be rid of then either the lantana or
thistle, as 1t spreads more rapidly and
no stock. horses, cattle sheep or hogs
will attempt to go through 1t, and no
grass or weeds can hold against It.
We warn all owners of land to be-
ware Of 1t and destroy the first plant
that shows itself on their land.
The Government should also brace
up against this pest before 1t is too
late, as no settler or ranCher would
ever buy or lease land covered by 1t.
If the Government takes no action, in
few years IL will have no good land
for sale or lease. Even many of the
homesteaders in Hamakua must look
sharp after their possessions. particu.
larly those who have left their home
steads after erecting comfortable
houses upon them and fencing them,
then gone down to the plantations to
work They are wanting TO sell, hav.
ing abandoned all idea of trying to get
living by cultivating their home.
steads. One was heard to say when
being asked why he had lett his home
stead, "If could have realized sixty
cents per day by cultiyating my home
stead should not have left"
Let me say to those wanting to sell,
they must be sure to keep the lantana,
the thistle and the raspberry from TAX.
ing possession Of their lands. The ku.
kaiau plantation has expended consld.
cradle money the past two years to
prevent this raspberry from taking
possession of the lower part of their
ranch, some twenty-five workmen hav.
ing worked at least four months at IL.
The same land has to he gone over
several times before the plant is sub.
dued because OF the vitality OF tho
roots
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-01
ANCIENT AND MODERN REPORT.
ING.
New York Sun. !

In old times there was three ways
to report testimony, the verbatim, the
sketch and the summary. Let us give
an example:
John Smith sworn and examined
by Mr., Jones:
%. What is your business?
"A. am carpenter.
q. How long have you worked at
your trade?
"A. have worked at my trade foi
twenty years.
%. Do you know the defendant?
"A. ! do.
q, How long have you known him ?
"A. / have known him for the past
ten years"
So much for the verbatim. Now for
the sketch:
John Smith on being sworn said he
was carpenter. He worked at his
trade for twenty years and knew the
defendant for ten years"
And the summary: