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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
The Art Of a Sales LADY,

There is peculiar art in, selling
goods. Some girls are born with that
particular kind Of tact. They are sen.
sitive to every caprice of the customer.
1 suppose one kind of magnetism con-
sists in showing genuine attention to
the customer. If you are really inter.
ested in having customer get just
what she wants you have magnetism.
If you fake the interest your women
customers will detect it. You can de.
ceiye man; but woman never; and
yet there are some women who like to
be deceived. They know it is fake.
but they like it all the same.-Leslie's
Monthly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
DANGEROUS DEVOTION TO DUTY.
How Roosevelt Came Near Missing
the Inauguration Of Mckinley.

the Inauguration of Mckinley.
A Vicce-President seated in solitary
grandeur in the Senate Chamber, while
the ceremony of Presidential inaugu-
ration to which he had been invited as
an honored guest is going on outside,
surely presents spectacle with an
element of humor in it. Few persons
know how near Theodore Roosevelt
came to playing such part on the 4th
of March, 1901. The Senate stickles
so for minor details of etiquette that
even a reformer of Mr.. Roosevelt's
sturdy type would hardly have ven
tured to transgress its rules, and they
require that a formal motion to ad-
journ shall be put before a days ses-
sion can come to an end. After his in
auguration as Vice-President in the
Senate Chamber, Mr.. Roosevelt took
the gavel, and when the routine bust
ness was finished directed the ser.
geant-at-arms, as usual, to proceed
with the ceremony of inaugurating Mr..
Mckinley as President.
1t was then in order for some Sena.
tor to move an adjournment; but in
the confusion nobody seemed to have
his wits about him, and the whole as
semblage, including the Senators,
quilted the chamber for the east porti-
co, where the oath was to be admins
tered and the address delivered. In a
few minutes the Vice-President found
himself alone, with fair prospect Of
remaining so until the days perform
ances were over. But it CHANGED that
Senator Heitfeld missed his hat while
passing through the corridor, and came
back to look for it. Face to face with
the Vice-President, it occurred to the
Senator that something must be wrong
SO with the utmost gravity he moved
that the Senate do now adjourn"
Mr.. Roosevelt, with equal solemnity,
put the motion, declared it carried and
proceeded in Mr.. Heitfeld's company
to the place on the Presidential stand
which had been reserved for him.
From Francis e. Leupp's Some More
Humors Of Congress" in April Cen
fury.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
eLUsHING is A DISEASE
1t Is Due to varions Causes, but Yield,
to Medical Treatment.

to Medical Treatment.
The girl who bushes Is not necessari-
ly modest; she is the victim of a disease
of the nerves and requires the attend
ance of sliillful physician. At least,
this is the declaration of prominent
Vienna scientist, and since the DR..
Lorenz craze any new idea that comes
from Vienna must have something in
1t. The man Of science In question.
who is vouchcd for us both learned
and eminent, AYERS that blushing
should be treated like any other nerv,
Gus disease, and that in many cases it
Is hereditary. One OF his patients
"a mani told the doctor that the fear
Of blushing, kept alive by the joculal
taunts of his friends, had caused him
such dcpressions of spirits that he had
several times been on the verge OF
suicide.
Another PATIENT "a society woman
suffered seriously from nervous prostra,
ton in consequence of the teasing OF
her friends, who made her blush just
"for the fun of It," A colleague told
the doctor of one of his patients who
was driven mad by blushing. Hel
mental condition was greatly improved
by her transfer from chamber paper
ed in red and furnished in mahogany
to green room with oak furniture
This woman is again in society, but
is subject to occasional attacks OF
blushing that affect her mentally al
the sight Of red dresses, red ribbon.
or anything in red. He has discovered
that those addicted to blushing suffer
less in summer than in the cold months
and that summer is the best time o.
the year in which to be treated for til,
! annoying disease.-Chicago Chronicle
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

tutors OF the gentle arts and engaged to
us children the pery latest fobes culture Take it nil
In ALL the petals of cast in thick soft profusion
IN his PATH while the thorns thrown into the road TINT
the unlucky ones may tread thereon
luck-thats the thing you grumbe enviousy Ieal.
ousv ankes in breast you shuttle along cursnp
the rates that deal thus fortunately with one man and
harshy ana anonymously with another whats the good
OIL stving! you say Luck is against YOU and you might
as well give up Down will, the rich." you cry striking
the universal chord of the unfortunate Instead of study
ing the science of accumuatng money you study the evils
of accumulated wealth.
Thus you go through life, bemoanng your own fate and
IN your heart envying and hating the successful man. You
axe 70 tel the story of So-andSo, the successful man
VINO IN your boyood days proud to be seen playing
marbles with you; and wind up dramatically: "See
MIN today He is ricl-I poor; we are farther mart
emah the poles He scorns me- His money separates U.S.
The Fatcs will 1t SOL" @
AS matter OF factthe faes had nothing to do with it,
The man of sound mind and body the man of will cucrav
perseNeihcethc man Of good heart and spirits master
not only of his destiny but of destines Tho ouoitins
u'e enumerated are the heritage the brthrig of every
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

'" ~ "o11ii' rOWQleSt member Ol
the Austrian Reichsrath, the rowdiest
legislative assembly in the world.
Wolff was the son Of middle-class
parents, and studied at Prague Uniyer-
sity. He failed to take degree, be-
cause he was always occupied with pol
itics instead of with his books, and
when he left college he ut once entered
political life by way Of journalism.
Within year or two he had become
the most prominent Of Pan-German
agitators. He and his party advocate
the disintegration of Austria, and the
addition OF those Austrian provinces,
in which the majority Of the population
are of German nationality, to the Ger
man empire. The result of this policy,
IL carried out, would be to extend Ger
many to the Adriatic, making her more
than ever the predominant power in
central Europe.
| Wolff propagatcd this program of
Pan-Germanlsm on hundreds of plat
forms and in the press and organized n
formidable Pan-German party in Be-
hemla. Some ten years ago he founded
a Pan-German daily paper, the Ost-
deutsche Rundschau, in Vienna. and he
was editor-in-chief of this organ till re-
Gently, when he was forced to relin-
Quish the position. In 1897 he was
elected n member Of the Reichsrath,
and since the day lie entered that as.
sembly scarcely Il sitting has occurred
at which he has not caused n scene
Of some kind or other. AT one of the
great parliamentary riots toward the
end of 1897 the police Were called In to
arrest Wolff in the chamber, and n free
fight took place between him and about
a dozen stalwart policemen, which end
ed in their carrying him out by main
force The same year he fought duel
with the prime minister, and n few
years later met his former friend, Prof
Seidl, in duel His wife alleges
abusive treatment.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

the weaker will not become the prey of
the stronger"
Father Hciter's warfare OH socialism
has brought him International fame.
lie Is Bavarian by birth, is so years
of age and has lived in Buffalo mare
than twenty-five years. There he built
Il $l5O,oOO edilice for the Church of the
Seven Dolors and schoolhousa which
accommodate Loo pupils. Years ago
he took up the study of socialism, find.
ing In the work of combating it IL broad
field in which to exercise his rare gifts
of logic. His writings and utterances
have attracted widespread attention
through The United States, and leading
European opponents of socialism long
ago accorded him foremost position
as an authority on the subject.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

who assert, in the language OF MI
John w. Hayes. President OF tn
knights of Iaoor, that 1.-THE field
Infinite. The National Congress coul
be kept much buster dealing with lapq
matters aud enacting labor laws Oh
national scope than with all Its de
ings with capital"
The most interesting part OF
Hayes interview on this subject IS -
following: ~ might mention the -
migration laws. There--sheufu be a
protective tariff law against the I'M
portation Of cheap labor. We tax the
articles that these men make while
living in their foreign homes; but they
can come to this country and work
Just as cheaply, placing their goods
on the market free of duty and drive
our producers into continued poverty.
Why not have tariff on the men AZ
well MS on the stuff they maker"
This most important point appears
not to have accurately occurred TO-
most labor men. II they understood
1t they would certainly not vote for,
the one-sided protection advocated by
the Republican party. Such protec-
ton, instead of benefiting labor, In
creases the prices of manufactures
goods, and the cost of living and. there.
fore, actually lowers real wages. But
1t injuries labor in another way. Be-
cause most protected industries charge
higher prices than they could charge,
IL unprotected, there is diminished con-
sumption of these products. This
means diminished production, fewer
hands employed and therefore, re.
duced wages-for wages are fixed by
the law of supply and demand in the
protected as III the unprotected in-
dustries.
How the Republicans have duped
labor on this question is beyond COM
prehension. In most protected Euro
pean countries, where wages are low,
1t never occurs to the protectionists
to try to make 1t acceptable to the.
working people by telling them that
tariff OH goods will increase wages.
The thing would appear too absurd.
They find other excuses and pretexts,.
or perhaps the Car just claps tariff
taxes onto the people, without saying
by your leave and without taking the
trouble to invent lying excuses and
sophistical arguments. He does not
need to stultlfy his reasoning powers.
He knows that the people will pay
the taxes and that certain men, none
IF thor, t,.orEiup men will share tho
proceeds With the government. He
needs his share and DEGREES protection
that's all.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

every page IL they take children the source from
which the supply is drawn? How they to discuss and
interpret the style of Itusk of Carlyle of Emerson?
are they to teach the history of the heroes of
dependence many of whom religious in every fiber
of their being and whose work will continue bear the
stamp put upon it at the beginning utterly regardless Of
what has become of religious faith in the interval? How Is
one TO teach the truth history reveals he tences
the whole truth? And yet what has happened: The
quarrelng of religious sccs, OF churches claiming
this book for its and denying the truth whit other
persons find in it, has brought about state Of affairs in
which the English Bible, fountain English literature
been practically stricken the reading of large
portion of the American people.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
that's all


The result of the railroad merger
case is encouraging to the public,
though the final test in the Supreme
Court may reverse the decision of the
lower court. What benefit, those who
travel on the railroads or use them
for the transportation Of their goods
will gain, is also question for tho
future. The intention Of the governs,
ment in commencing mis- suit was to
abolish merger Of competing lines Of
railroad and thus prevent rates being
raised beyond a reasonable rate. I'm
der the terms of the decision the stock,
of the Great Northern. Northern
Pacific and Burlington railroads will
be returned, by the merger company,
to their original owners, this will still
leave the railroads in the control Of
Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Morgan and their
friends, and 1t is certain that they will
agree to maintain the present rates,
merger or no merger.
The fact is, the combination of these
competing lines of railroad took place
three of four years ago when Mr.. Hill
and his friends secured control of the
stock of the Northern Pacific and the
merger company was organized to con-
tinue that combine and prevent any,
one else obtaining 1t by a bold move in
Wall street by outsiders through tho
purchasing of enough stock in either
of the railroads to control either one
or both of them. With the merger
company holding majority of the,
stock Of the three railroads such an
attempt was prevented
The entire interest of the public Of
the states through which the railroads
run is the reasonableness of the rates
on passengers, and freight and this
question is not settled by the merger
decision, but rests OH the action OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
as it has for years gone by. 1t IL
therefore useless to raise the hopes
of the customers of the railroads in
volved, by making them believe that
great victory has been gained, when
the fact remains that no material adj
vantages has been gained; except the
principle Involved that competing lines
of railroads cannot be merged.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
MEN WHO MAKE DYNAMITE.
Extreme Caution Shown, but no I'm
due Anxiety Displayed.

due Anxiety Displayed.
Dynamite factories are in full swing
near Dover and Farmingdale, N. j..
and the men who work in them seem
well content with their dangerous oc.
cupation. They wear rubber-soled
shoes, and their tools are covered
with rubber OF are made of wood. SO
as to avoid the possibility of friction
and consequent accident.
AS further safeguard the various
utensils in which the deadly explosive
is mixed or manipulated are lined
with lead, and mishap is of rare oc.
currence. Nevertheless. these men
know that the fabrication of dynamite
constitutes work of danger and many
of them develop nerves" when they
are new at the business. This trouble
wears off quickly, or, as in some in.
stances, not at all, and the victim is
seized with nervous chills and tremors
whenever loud noise is heard in the
factory. Finally he is obliged to give
up his position and seek work of q
more congenial nature.
The men are paid from 50 to $225
per day, and the labor is not particu-
larry heavy, nor are the hours as long
as those of other worlsmen. No smok.
ing is allowed from the moment they
enter the factory until they leave, and
only men of quiet habits are engaged.
A spirit of good comradcship seems
to exist between the workers, and
when opportunity offers itself they
talk to each other in the most friendly
way. But woe betide one of their num-
Der who earns for himself the
sobriquet of "Butter Fingers a
term applied to individuals who
allow things to slip from their
hands to the floor. He is sure
to earn the enmity of his COM
ranions. This is due to the fact that
sometimes slight jar, such as is
caused by the dropping of even small
substance, will precipitate an accident
and the culprit who evinces such care
lessness more than once may as we'll
resign gracefully before he is frozen
out by his fellows.
The dynamite workers are very in.
te1ligent body OF men. Many OF them
possess a comprehensive knowledge
of chemistry, and can tell visitors to
the factory all about the destructive
agent which they handle under the
direction of scientists.
One of these worllmen, a middle
aged Swede. claims Alfred Noble, the
inventor of dynamite, as relative.
What he does not know about explo-
siyes is not worth knowing. He talks
of the properties OF nitro.glycerine
with the fluency of one who has made
an exhaustive study Of the subject,
and he says that he devotes every
spare moment TO experimental physics.
Why man of his type should elect to
remain in dynamite factory in the
role of an ordinary workman is prob
lem which he alone can solve. But
evidently he likes his job in the nitro
glycerine department. and he talks en-
Enthusiastically of tee results achieved
by his distinguished relatives inven-
ton, not only in warfare, but in the
works Of peace such as the mining
operations of New Works rapid transit
underground system, which will pres.
emily do SO much TO facilitate travel
and traffic.
Men of various nationalities work
side by side in these New Jersey fac
tories, and when representatives of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

step in the evolution of dress and the
result of a natural process Of selec-
ton. 1t came in with the new woman,
with the advanced feminine ideals
anu the emancipation of the SEX and
is no more to be ignored than are the
mental and moral qualities 1t sym
bolizes. 1t might also be said that 1t
Is the one feminine garment that has
excited masculine envy. Men have
plticd women in their bondage to
skirts, but the coatless GOODNESS of the
shirt waist has goaded them OH to an
emulation that has resulted In nothing
but disappointment and, what In mans
eyes is worse, unbecomingness. The
shirt wasted. short skirted woman
may feel herself more cool headed than
the man who is condemned to wool
wearing even in the hottest months.
No, the shirt waist has come to stay,
and, though time may bring about
variations in its style and cut in some
form or other, it will continue to be
recognized as the garment of feminine
| freedom.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

The United States is essentially
composite nation, and 1t i'll becomes
Americans to condemn the bridge that
brought them over. This country has
abundantly demonstrated its capabili-
ty to healthily assimilate the various
natofHa aaA4fff6s 6ff.-the world; and there
has not yet arisen adequate cause for
alarm on that score.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

Woman's suffrage suffers more from
popular Indifference than from positive
hostility. Most men do not care
whether women vote or not. Hence
when measure like the New Hamp-
shire constitutional amendment is SUBJ
mitted 1t fails, but it can hardly be said
that it is defeated. The average voter
yawns and thinks of something else.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

II think there is some one on the
fourth floor" cried the foreman of a
Chicago factory, rushing back into n
blazing building from which he had
just led n crowd Of working girls. A
volunteer followed him, but when the
heat and smoke became unbearable he
shouted to the foreman to escape with
him. 81 could just see Parr through
the smoke" the volunteer said after
ward; "he was going on" PARIS body
was found later near the fatal stair.
His soul goes marching on.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
BREtcH BETWEEN CHURCH AND woRKlNeMtN.
BY Rev. Lyman ABBOTT, D. 0

The church and the workingman in
this country have drifted apart. The
breach is due to the social conditions of
the age. The falling away of the work
ingman has been gradual, until now it
has reached such proportions that it is
plainly noticeable. The workingman
seems to have lost interest in the
church. The same breach that is be-
tween the workingman and the church
exists between the workingman and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

Girls in Papua, or New Guinea, an
island In the Pacific, have little chance
to elope. Their dads force them 70
sleep in a little house on the topmost
branches of tall tree, then the lad.
der is removed end the slumhar of The
parents is not disturbed with fears Of
an eloDement.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

A newspaper man while on the wit
ness stand in Jefferson City, Mo-, the
other day confessed that lie had two
$4,000 bills in his pocket. Some newspa-
per men are just careless enough to
carry weeks salary around like that,
even knowing that they are among
greedy constables.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

Count Reyentlow, who is n lleuten-
ant general in the German army, and
therefore ought to know all about the
American navy, declares 1t is composed
of antiquated hulks. The count talks
like a spaniard in the early spring of
1898.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

A New Orleans paper has the pleas
ant practice of giving loving-cup an
nually to the citizen who has per-
formed the most noteworthy service
to the community during the year. 1t
is significant that the society which
awards the prize has adjudged 1t for
the last two years to men who have
advanced the educational development
of the CITY
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
BIBLE KNOWLEDGE DECLINING.
BY Prom Butler. President of co,u,

knowledge of the English Bible is passing
out of the life of the rising generation, and
with this knowledge of the Bible there is fast
disappearing any acquaintance with the religious
element which has shaped our civilization from
the beginning. Teachers all over this land are
trying to teach Chaucer and Spencer and Shake.
speare. Tennysol and Browning
How nrp they to ilnderstond mon who rofor
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
President Ia Mistaken,

President Roosevelt said. in his
speech at Sioux Falls, that "the ma
tional government has but # small
field in which it can work in labor
matters The truth of this statement
Is challenged by several labor leaders,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

Richard Watson Glider has referred
TO President David R. Francis, of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, as a
"publicitician." Francis very properly
declines to be interviewed until he
finds out what 1t means.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

Professor Marchand, of Paris, says
the brain has Its maximum weight ut
twenty years. This tallies with the
twenty-year youths estimate of his
own intellect.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

politicians pu bic
career to an igno-
minious end. Wolff,
who is now 40 years
Of age, is one Of the
few Austrian public
men whose names
are known through
out the world. His
fame, however, has
| not been gained for
any deeds of merit,
but for being the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

Even those who have no Celtic blood
In their veins may feel certain SYM
pathy in the effort to suppress the stage
Irishman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

A Boston preacher says that women
who wear birds OH their bonnets cannot
go to heaven, or, in other words, wings
on the mundane hat will keep them off
Tie celestial shoulders.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

Wisdom" said Solomon, sis before
him that hath understanding, but the
eyes of a fool are in the ends of the
earth" Could there have been arctic
explorers in the days of Solomon
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29
God, Thou shalt not covet thy neigh

boris goods
THE state has not the right to rob
any person of his natural rights or the
rights OF his family. On the contrary,
tits the duty of the state TO protect
these rights. 1t is for the citizen TO pro
duce and carry on the business, and it
is the duty of the state 10 protect him
and his business, and to see that nobody
takes undue advantage of him; that
justice and right he supreme, and that
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-29

The contemplated Punishment OF the
shirt waist is not to be taken seriously,
for dressmakers cannot wither or
fashion stale the charms of this gar
ment. The "panier." "polonaise," and
princess" may have their day. but
the shirt waist is for all times and all
places. The reason for this perman-
ency may be found in the fact that
the shirt waist exemplifies the law of
TIE survival Of the fittest; it is high