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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

The Des Moines Register and Leader
says that: "What ia part of q great ma
tlonal-Eoyement of the Kansas City
platform democrats to sway the next
democratic national convention will be
started in Iowa on Jefferson's birthday,
April 2. On the evening of that date
there will be q grand banquet at the
Savery, attended by 300 leading dis
ciples of Jefferson from all parts of the
state and addressed by William Jen-
nings Bryan and other orators. Atthis
banquet the boom of General james B.
Weaver, Of Colfax, for the governorship
will be formally floated, and in the
afternoon q meeting will be held to per-
feet state organization of the silver
democrats, who propose to regain all
the ground they lost last year and get
full control of the party organization in
preparation for the 1904 national con-
ventlon."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
IOWA STATE COLUMN
Matters of General Interest to
Our Readers Reported by
Telegraph.
PRINCIPAL HAPPENINGS OF WEEK.
State Items of Interest Gathered from
Various Sources for the Benefit
of Our Readers.

Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 1.-THE su.
preme court has decided that rail-
road company has the right to refuse
to redeem tickets purchased of it but
remaining unused in the hands of the
purchasers. O. j. Jolly, of Rand, Ia,
brought suit against the Milwaukee
road, claiming that the road refused
to redeem sixteen tickets that he had
purchased and had not used.
The state law provides that the re-
fusal of tho to redeem ticket
make it .,,-AiPab Sadfa forfeit of 500 to
tl:saiss Nable .tehasing the ticket. In
1roirGerson 'of the suit it appeared that
The ns had purchased the tickets with
no intention of using them. but mere
ly for the purpose of demanding the
forfeit when the road refused to re
deem them. The court holds that he
was not acting in good faith and can
not claim the 500 forfeit.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

~ ~ d. E. ia b D. -
DR.. Hills, in recent lecture, pointed
out how success is often achieved in the
highest degree, by the obscure teacher
who aIR fifty years Of life carries thou
sand boys from igneeFFaahce to wisdom"
Here is paragraph from the Doctors
a lecture which ns,', we o9psder more than
Strictly speaking, therefore. over
against the financial magnate, whose
name and fame fills the world, we must
put the occaaEAl teacher, like that
man in Boscswen, VT, who trained 100
men for the learned professions, includ
ing Daniel Webster. In the long run
many an old maid teacher who dies in
obscurity and poverty has actually Gre
ated more latent wealth, invented more
tools and done more for the commerce
and trade of the nation than men whose
wealth is trumpeted from every house
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Notice TO Contractors.

The city of Manchester, lowe. having deter.
mined TO build a sewer in said city as follows:
stree at n point directly east Of the confer
of the alley as now located between Lots 2s4
and 20 Of the city of Manchester, Iowa, and
the center line of said alley to Let X of said
city. and westward along and through The
center of said Lot X to tho south side OF the
Block of Toogood s Reihels subdivision of
a part of Lot ! of the Iowa Land Company's
subdivision OF part OF the village, now lily
along said alley 10 the center OF the alley be-
tween the southwest corner Of Lot and tie
northwest corner of Lot u Of Block Of said
with the plans ard specifications now on file
In the office Of r. Il. Robinson, clerk Of said
city. notice is hereby given that sealed bids
struction of said sewer. In accordance with
said plaIs and specifications. at the office Of
The clerk Of said city up to tooa twelve O'Clock
Said sewer tobe laid with first class vitri-
fled tile, with Nil joints sealed and all man.
holes ard INJECTIONS placed. located, ana
constructed. in wortmanlike mann In nc
cordanl with said plans and specifications
now en- file in the Office Ct the clerk OF SAID
city.
sion and direction of the city council of said
city, and It's duly appointed engineer.
The work o. constructing said sewer. includ,
| be CON plett d on or before June lst 1908.
The payment of the contract price for the
construction of said sewer shall be made on
| April 10, 1904.
The contract to be entered into between said
| city and the successful bidder for the con
struction of said sewer shall contain claus e
| blNding the contractor to keep the sewer In
good repair for period of one year from and
after Ills construction and acceptance by said
| city.
| with u certified check payable to the order OF
| U. j Seeds. II easurer. In the sum Of Fifty
| Dollars, as security that the bidder will enter
Into II contract for the doing of the work, ard
| that he will give the bond contemplated by
Section sl4 nd sl5 of the Code of lowr..
Said bids win be considered by said city
! at special meeting CT Its city council, to be
held In the council room on Monday, March
| 10, 1908, commencing at 1890 O'Clock p. M, and
| the city reserves the right 10 reject any and
/ all bids received.
Tho checks of unsuccessful bidders will be
| returned.
January, 1908. r. r. ROBINSON.
I3.4w City CLERK.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
An Old Maids Philosophy

We may be better sitter suffering, and
we may be worse; but our conditions
must depend upon ourselves, and should
never be laid to the nature of our cal
antilles
The fountains of the eternally virginia.
spring in every human heart, and keep
the world of new emotions perennially
fresh and beautiful; and to each of us
is given the right not only to possess
them, but the obligation to cherish
them.
The only sorrow worth anything in
this world is sorrow for others, and sor-
row for others means helping Others,
not hugging our woes to ourselves.
For believe that the really brave and
the really great make us forget their
scars, all the records of their hurts and
wounds.
To me it had seemed that those
who occupied centers of affection should
be less concerned with what came to
them as their due, than with what went
out from them as their obligation; that
| like the sun itself, they should be CEN
tiers of centrifugal forces, radiating
through the very fullness Of their joy,
light and gladness into other lives
From "My Old Maids Corner" in the
Century.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

Dover, Del, Feb. Cd. Edward AL
dicks, in statement issued yesterday.
withdrew as candidate for United
States senator in the interest of two
Republican senators. In his statement
Addicks says that his withdrawal is
on condition that the Republicans Of
the house and senate meet in joint
caucus and elect two candidates for
United States senator by aiority rule
His friends in the legislature interrupt
ed his remarks with protests against
their tenor.
The sudden announcement that J..
Edward Addicls had Withdrawn from
the candidacy for United States sena-
tor, which he has urged so persistent
ly since 1895. created an immense sen
sation, but up to this writing there is
no indication that the anti-Addicks'
men will go into a caucus; indications
are the other way. \
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
The surgery Of Light,

The Surgery of Light.
We read In the first book of the Old
Testament that the Creator said: "Let
there be light, and there was light. And
God saw the light that 1t was good
But for thousands of years mankind
has CROPPED around in ignorance of the
wonderful goodness of light. 1t seems
to have been left for Nielsss Finsen, a
Dane who lived in Iceland till he was
twenty lone years of age, to open the
storehouse OF light, and demonstrate
that some of the most terrible diseases
which affllct mankind can be cured by
light alone. There is one grand feature
about Finsen's discoveries, they are
based upon scientific truths, truths
which may revolutionize surgery in the
treatment of many diseases.
Ordinary sunlight is composed of
many colors. The red and yellow rays
possess no chemical properties. They
are the heat rays and physiologically
the same as darkness. But the blue,
violet and ultra violet rays possess won
derful chemical attributes. Before he
had ever seen case Of smallpox, Fin
sen satisfied himself that smallpox
patient could not be scared by the dis
ease, If protected from the chemical
rays Of light, and tests demonstrated
the truth of his theory. He reasoned
that the inflsmed human skin of q
smallpox patient Waa.s sensitive to the
chemical rays ~of light, as a photo
graphic plate, but like the photog-
rapher's plate could stand any quantity
of red or heat rays withoutinjury. This
discovery alone robbed smallpox of its
greatest terror.
1t has long been known that ordinary
sunlight would kill certain disease
germs, If they were long enough ex-
posed to Its action, but Finsen has
made a wonderful addition to human
knowledge on that subject. By expert
menting, he found that certain bacteria
which did not die till exposed to ordi-
nary sunlight for an hour and q half,
could be killed in three seconds by us
ing only the chemical rays of light and
focusing them through lenses. This
may be called Finsen's great discovery,
and by inventing apparatus to filter out
the heat rays and apply the chemical
rays to the cure of disease he has made
this world a better place in which to
live.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
What Father Can Do for His
Daughter.

There are two things that can be done
by father for his daughter, and that,
if they were always done, would, in the
course of single generation, make our
womankind approach level which
they have never yet reached. The first
is to gain the confidence of his daugh-
ter in her earlier years. and the second
ls to keep it unimpaired and to perpetu:
ate it. i'lf he be his daughters friend
and chosen companion, sharing all her
little condolences and impRrting to her
much of what he knows, with the intui.
tion of woman and the breadth and
sanity of a man, the girl will grow up
with mind unlike the minds of the
many women in whom femininity
verges upon faulty. From close asso-
cintion with a father, the young girl
quite unconsciously acquires something
of the largeness of the mans nature
and loses something of the pettiness
and narrowness of the Woman's. His
tolerant, genial spirit will moderate her
tense emotionalism.. His sense of hui
NOR will rid her of sentlmentalism and
Undue her with sense of true proper
ton. His fun, his good comradeship,
his affection, and his knowledge of lite,
will help to send her forth into the
world, strengthened and developed Rs
no purely feminine influence could
strengthen and develop her. February
Cosmopolitan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

in this city yesterday morning. The
veteran statesman had been unccn-
scious since Sunday evening. He els te
his public life ten years ago after con-
tinuous service ias and Hess for thirty
six yearsn, drrnig which he saw the
beginniH.i and end of the civil war
andhelped make history for this coun-
try until 1899.
His personal legislative achieve
ments are these: Establishment of
the fish commission, establishment of
the weather bureau, establishment of
the system of Indian education anu
protection, and completion of theWash-
ington monument He was born at
Cummington, Mass, Oct. 80, 1916, and
graduated from Yale.
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Standing Upright and Dead.

Ann Arbor, Mich, Feb. 9.-Stand-
ing upright. the dead body of Mrs.
Julia D. Colgrove, a widow who lived
alone, was discovered in her home Sat
urday morning by two delivery boys.
The body faced the back door and held
IN empty coal scuttle in one hand
One shoulder was supported by the
stairway. The woman died of heart
disease
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
That Race WAS Fixed.

Clinton, Ia, Feb. 5.-Jake Cerbenir,
a farmer near Marble Rock, came to
Clinton, bet $1,000 on fixed foot
race, lost the money, and complained
to the officials. A special grand jury
was summoned to investigate the case.
Agangof confidence men has been here
for months working such fakes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Head On Collision on tho vnndalia VIII
Probably BE the Death of Two
Others.

indianapolis, Feb. 9.-In a head-on
collision between passenger and a
freight train on the Vandalia road two
miles west of Terre Haute Saturday
night two men We're killed, two were
probably fatally hurt and dozen pas
sengers more or less injured.
The killed are Engineer Kullen and
Fireman Alchoss, Dillingham;. Ills. Sc
riously injured-F. Kelly, express mes
senger, internally; Charles Mckee,
Marshall, Ills, bruised about chest and
head, badly cut. None of the passen-
gers was seriously hurt.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
SEEK MORE DRASTIC oLEo Law
Butter Makers OF the UnIted States VIII
Demand Greater Protection for
Their Product,

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Feb. 6.-The
butter makers of the United States
will make determined effort at the
next congress to make the law taxing
oleomargarine more stringent. At the
meeting of the State Dairy association
Charles Y. Knight of Chicago said the
law last year reduced the sales of oleo-
margarine 10000 tubs, resulting in an
advance of :: cents n pound for butter,
which means an increased profit of
S45,O00,O00 for the butter makers of
the United States.
The oleo men, it is said, have discov-
cred how to mix deodorized palm oil
with cotton seed oil, and thus color
their product so that it cannot be de-
tected by the chemists at Washington.
Buffalo sent delegation to work for
the national convention this year. The
executive committee will take week
or two to consider the offers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
extraordinary offer.

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great republican weekly newspaper, has
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LEGATION. Until April Is, 1903 we are
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Notice of Amendment to Articles of lncor
p0ration Of 1.-THE Manchester CO-opera-
tive Creamery Company" Of Man
chester, Iowa.

Notice is hereby given, that at an adjourned ,s
stock holders of "'rhe Manchester Cooperative
Creamery Company" held at the City Hall In
1908. the capital stock of said corporation was
Increased from two thousand dollars to four
thousand five hundred dollars. and the number
Of shares Of stock Increased from two hundred
the capital stock of said corporation four thou:
sand five hundred dollars. and the number Of
shares OF stock four hundred and fifty. which
was done by more than lwo-thirds vote Of the
entire number of shares of the capital stock Of
said corporation. and Article Ave (5) of the Art
icles Of Incorporation of said company has been
amended In accordance Herewith. Which
amendment has been duly executed and &C.
knowledged by the President and secretary Of
said corporation. as the voluntary act and deed
Of said Corporation IN accordance with Iesolu-
tion authorizing and directing them SO to do,
and has been recorded In the office of the Re-
corder of Deeds of Delaware County, Iowa, and
In the office of the Secretary of State at Des
Moines, Iowa
Dated at Manchester. Iowa, this soth day of
January, 1903.
JAMES BISHOP, Secretary. 5-4w
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

st. Louis, Feb. 9.-William PAUL,
the barytone of the Castle Square
Opera company, who was killed by a
fall from Il hotel window, was buried
with Masonic honors, and the crush at
the Christ church cathedral, where the
religious services We're held, was os
great that many women tainted and
were trampled upon until the police
succeeded in disperlng the unruly mob
about the entrance
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
REDUCED IN cocoANur TREES
Rescued Had to Swim Three or Four Miles
to the Ships.

" Sho oiApbs
AS the islands were barely twenty
feet abovesea level and not surrounded
by coral reefs it was necessary for all
the inhabitants to take to the cocoanut
trees when the tidal wave began to
cover the island. These trees grow to
great height, many reaching an alti-
tude Of 100 feet. All of tile lower
trees were covered by the raging seas
which swept with pitiless force about
and over them The natives in the tall
er trees We're safe until the cocoanut
trees gave way and then they, too,
We're swept onward, far out into the
| sea.
The 400 survivors brought by the
Excelsior to Papeete gained the ships
side by swimming three and four miles
from the tops of the cocoanut trees.
One Of the many acts of heroism re-
ported is that of woman who climbed
one of the tall cocoanut trees and
dashed her little babe to the branches,
hanging on to the body of the tree
L
There they remained for ten hours suf-
fering great torture until finally res
cued. Thousands of tons Of copra and
over 200 tons of mother of pearl shells
are known to be lost. The pearl shells
are valued at $500 per ton, and many
valuables pearls may now be lost to the
world.
| Among the passengers on the Mart
posa was G. w. Waterbury, formerly
Of Chicago, who was in that portion
of the storm which visited the island
of Raiatea, one of the leeward isl
ands, located some distance to the ives
of the i'll fated Tuamotu. Here mucl
damage was done, although no lives
were lost. A well built road, con
structed by the French government a
considerable expense, was demolished
bridges We're carried away, building
overturned and shattered and piece
Of big ships, old wreckage and cocoa
nut trees heaped high along the coas
line
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

Milwaukee, Wis, Feb. 9.-Anton
Bickel, treasurer of the Family Aid
society of Wisconsin, is missing from
his place of business at All Chestnut
street. Otto Siefritz, president of the
association, and the auditing commit
tee broke open his safe, secured the
books of the society, and are now en-
gagged in examining them. Bickel is
supposed to have had in his possession
from $4,000 10 $4,000 of the funds of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Prs.ident Made ,he MOVIE pub,,c

Washington, Feb. 9.-News of the
Standard Oil company's attempta to
defeat antitrust legislation and that
kilograms signed John d. Rockefeller
for the same purpose had been sent to
senators was made public by the
president. The character of the oppo-
siton is likely to insure legislation in
accordance with the administrations
wishes
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

A movement has been started by the
executive board of American Hebrew
congregations, to establish Jewish
churches In every community in the
United States. In the larger towns
synagogues will be built and rabbits
stationed. Sabbath schools will be es,
tablished, In communities where there
is lack of wealth necessary to support q
church circuit rabbits will be provided
who at stated intervals will visit the
community and conduct religious SER
vices.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

New Haven, Conn, Feb. 9.-John +.
Page, an inmate of the Soldiers home
at Noreton, was held to the United
States district court on the charge of
fraudulently obtaining pension. 1t
is alleged that Page. who is now 65
years old, impersonated his father,
who was veteran of the civil war,
having served in II Connecticut regi-
ment. For twelve years past Page has
drawn pension and has lived ut the
Soldiers home for part of that time.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Grand Jury Was Not Partial.

Davenport, Ia, Feb. 1.-THE grand
Jury Joined in the moral crusade here
Thursday, returning indictments
against fourteen saloonkeepers for
keeping gambling resorts. j. F. Whit
son, a magnetic healer, and B. j.
Palmer, chiropodist, also We're in
dicted for practicing medicine without
a license.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Police chiefs Elect New Board.

Washington. Feb. 9.-Niajor Richard
Sylvester, president of the National
Association Of Police Chiefs, has re-
ceived the returns of the election Of
the governing board of the bureau Of
criminal Identification. Matthew
lliely, chief of police of st. Louis, was
elected chairman of the board; George
z. Corner. chief of police of Cleveland,
vice chairman; Major Sylvester, secre-
tary and treasurer; ]. II. Jansen, chief
of police of Milwaukee, was elected n
member of The board to succeed Chief
Deitsch of Cincinnati. deceased.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
PRESIDENT DECLINES TO ACT
set.lsmsnt of the Venezuela Dispute Must
Bs Loft With The Hague
Tribunal.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 9.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has declined to act as
arbitratorsin the Venezuelan imbroglio,
and the negotiations between Minister
Bowen and the representatives of the
allied powers, which were practically
broken off by the three diplomats,
without notice to Mr.. Bowen, visiting
the white house and inviting the pres
ident to act as arbitrator, have been
resumed.
The president has addressed n
letter to Sir Michael Herbert, the Brit
ish ambassador, declining to act as ar
bitrator, and giving his reasons for not
accepting the invitation. The com
munication was turned over to Secre-
tary Hay, who handed it to the diplo
matte representative of Great Britain.
Great Britain, Germany and Italy have
verbally agreed to accept Minister
Bowen's proposal, except on the ques-
ton of preferential treatment, which
viii be referred to The Hague tribunal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
REAR ADMIRAL w1LDEs DEAD
Passes Away as He Is Coming Homo to
Recupernte from Service in the
Philippines.

San Francisco, Feb. 9.-Rear .Ad.
miral George Il. +. Wildes, of the
United States navy, died suddenly from
heart failure on board the steamer
China Friday morning. He was on his
way home from China on sick leave
when death overlook him. Rear Ad-
miral Wildes had recently been in
charge of the fleet in Manila and
about the Philippines, his service on
the station dating from June. 1902.
From the first the trying climate
seemed to be too much for the Of
ficers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Pleads Guilty to Merder.

New York, Feb. Civilian Hopper
Young, on trial for the murder of Mrs.
Annie Pulitzer pleaded guilty to MUIR
der in the second degree and was
sentenced to life imprisonment. After
numbering the woman in his apart
ments he placed the body in a trunk
and threw it into the Morris canal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11
Maud Come to Marry Major Mcbride.

Paris, Feb. 9.-Maud Come, the
Irish Joan Of Are" will he received
into the Catholic church at private
convent Of the Carmelites at Laval
next week. This ceremony will be fol
lowed by her marriage to Major John
Mcbride, lender of the Irish brigade in
the Boer war.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

Sioux City, Ia, Feb. St. G. Cow
gill, an old soldier and well-known res.
ident, committed suicide by turning on
the gas in his bedroom. Grief over the
recent deaths of his wife and daugh-
ter impelled him to end his life.