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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Mr.. Dadmun managed to transform
the claw into violin that could be
played. The tone was very sweet, but
not loud enough for an orchestra. Elk
pertinent proved that by changing the
fittings and settings the tone could be
made much louder. AS 1t is now the
violin when played properly sounds
exactly like any other violin. 1t is
doubtless the most curious musical in
strument ever made.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
Dentists Use Much Gold.

Il there is a scarcity Of gold during
the twenty-irst and twenty-second
centuries, dentists, according to a
German statistician, will probably be
more to blame than any one else.
He asserts that they use every year
in filling teeth and other work, about
eight hundred kilogrammes Of gold,
the value of which is $4,000, and
that at this rate the graveyards of the
various countries will contain in three
hundred years from now $50, 900 600
worth of gold.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09


where the too much begins and ends 1t is not to
tastes differ, and what counts dazzling may be
dull to another. Besides brilliant often find much
pleasure in the society of brilliant STILL 1t is the
exception that they demand superior order of in
telect requisite for wife. Clever and able
quite content not to ask wisdom upon the part
of the whom they marry it would though
the being the Tread of the house, felt himself
tent to furnish the family stock Of bains he
plies the family exchequer There is odfashoned
ton with which modern progress has by done
away to the effect that compared with men,
have small need of brains equipment for life Also,
there denying the fact that folly in great
although singular attraction for men, grave
sort.
The foolish be good in her way; she usually
Is which is fortunate, since wicked without bal
last Is than Demon But sins of ignorance
the full disastrous those of wful wickedness
times SO, since provision is efficient against them
foolish woman is to be trusted any
stances She does the things she ought not to have done
she leaves undone the things which she ought have
done. and still worse she is always saying the wrong
thing for she understands the virtue of silence
proverb that fool has passed for wise
simply 10y holding his tongue and letting others speak,
no such aphorsm has been uttered with
woman since the foolish is always chatterbox.
The man who marres such has but to
treat her though she child not expect TOO
much Of her He may count himself fortunate she is
tempered and anxious to win his praise and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
IN oninion.

$50 you think" said the good-na.
tured monarch, "that 1t is absolutely
necessary to humbug the people with
ostentatious display and false prom.
ises?'
Il do" answered the cold-blooded ad-
wiser. IT there is anything that men
seem to resent 1t is taxation without
misreprese Washington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
A Suitable Rebuke.

Henrietta complimented me this
morning." said Mr.. Meekton. I'VE had
little argument and she said would
make an ideal juror
YES" answered the man who loves
to dispel illusions. you know the
less man knows about case the bet
ter suited lie is for jury duty. y" wash
ington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Among nations there is but one way
in which the possession of the prizes
Of nature can be determined, and that
u by force. Arbitration can only
serve where strength is equally bal
anced and the matter in dispute is not
worth the price Of the conflict. So far
as we now know the district in which
iron can be produced cheapest and in
unlimited volume is northern China.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Standard OIL people are worried over
what is reported to be falling off in
the supply Of crude petroleum. 1t
wouldn't be at all surprising If the
price Of coal oil should go up few
cents gallon now, just to make the
consumer understand that coal isn't
the only thing worth worrying over in
the good old winter time.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
The Goo.n Han.. Hiri

Our Secretary Of the Treasury,
Shaw, went over to Wall Street the
other day-he goes there frequently
to get his bearings. Wall Street Is,
You know, a sort of central financial
weather bureau where advance infor.
nation can be obtained about the state
of affairs in industry and business.
He emerged to say that the ..returns
from all sections Of the country indl-
cate n continuance of prosperity" We
may now breathe a sigh of relief. We
We're not so sure TINT all was we'll.
The secretary's representation is Of
fetal and authoritative. Z. &
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

of events They receive nsensbl extremely valuable
expansion of thoughts feelings and views life and the
more capable them quickly learn something of what
Is best in their mistresses and their They pick
much information useful to them afterwards as wives
mothers. cooks and nurses and IL they be careful and
duhfu they can help the people at home save up
money to make little start themselves and their hus
bands when they marry.
What good fortune is If they only realized it to serve
good masters and mistresses How happy and honorable
that condition may be rendered where serving maid
properly sefrespecng proudly repays by faithful work
and humble attachment the fair treatment which has fall
to her lott Good masters mistresses will almost
everywhere draw good them yet does seem
as If the grand old ideas the subject animated
bygone servants of all descriptions the the
present weller of policies and principles That would be
the worst thing possible for progress and above
ALL for those classes which at derive stupendous
advantage from the domestic inermngng Of rank with
rank
The army and navy have been, and STILL the best
schools for teaching obedience, fidelity dafulness to
the youthful male population Its female portion never
had better or happier machinery for the nsruc-
on as customs have created in the passage working
grlhood through the households of the cultured and well
to do. Sorrowful will be the time when this natural and
happy social system end; but 1t will come If
right hearted women do not everywhere repudate the ride
uous creature who fears to call herself Servant"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Jimjones-I told Waggsby this
morning that his trousers were to
short and he said he wouldn't wear
them any longer. Good joke wasn't it,
Ha. ha, ha!''
Mrs. Jimjones-Yes; but what's he,
going to wear instead of trousers?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
Tobacco in Japan.

Tobacco is both cultivated and CON
sumed oil large scale in Japan. rhe
plant was introduced by the Portu-
guese in the seventeenth century and
the trade iii it is a government mo-
nopoly. Tobacco is almost UNIVERSAL
ly used in small pipe. While cigar.
cites are manufactured in large guam.
ties, they are nearly all exported.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

The new Chinese minister seems to
have the lamented Wu's childlike and
bland sense Of humor. Said he in
recent after-dinner speech: "In fifteen
or twenty years our women will cease
COMPRISING their feet and will COM
press their waists instead"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

An expert killer of cockroache has
taken contract to rid the vessels in
the navy of those insect pests. Might
not swearing be banished from the
navy by calling In an expert profanity
killer?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Carnegie has helped found 100 libra
rtes and has 800 more under advise
ment. It will soon be arranged so that
no young American boy shall be de-
priyed Of his Life of Jesse James,"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
pnrtisan I,ron.a;rtInn.

Two hundred and eight Republican
Representatives have eleven members;
of the new Ways and Means Connie
tee. or one in nineteen. One hundred
and seyenty-eight Democrats have SIX,
or one in thirty.-New York World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

President James Monroe, who gave
to the United States the famous doc
trine to which President Roosevelt is
devoted, waited from six to ten years
before recognizing the independence
of the Spanish colonies in South Amer
lea after they had declared themselves
free. He wanted to be sure that their
governments We're stable and able to
maintain themselves. But President
Monroe was an old-fashioned fellow
with conservative ideas. The present
day diplomacy recognizes new re-
public before 1t has even formed a
Ga, News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Green with an inn
aginary wrong Of
which the man
was entirely inno-
cent. was So years
old, and was one
Of the most prom
inent and public
spirited citizens of
Gre alter N G W
York. B e S de 8
bringing about the
creation of the
greater city, he
had nromOted and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO DoMEs1lcs.
BY MIS-. AIy.h JORDAN earth.

Year by year. generation after generation, the
daughters Of the poor pass in hundreds of thou
sands from the narrow means and lowly culture
of the cottage or the tenement into the atmos-
phere of higher social state They 60 from
what is often pinched and noisy or quarrelsome
home into some family where they will day by
day live amid good manners, measured speech,
and ideas of refinement, progress and the march
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
Tribes Are Related.

Mr.. Jochelson. chief of the Jessup
North Pacific exploring expedition,
states that the tribes which he studied
in Siberia possessed characteristics in
common with the Indians of North
America.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

A chair Of dressmaking has been es-
tablished at one of the universities.
II they leave that chair out on the
porch over night, father is likely to hit
Il with "a AK"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Maud Ballington Booths new book
propounds the query: "After prison
what7" In most cases 1t is more Of
the same.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
Ten, ptation Kfaced,

.'You say dat Mistah Raspberry jim
kins is done reformed an jlne de
church?'
"Yassindeed."
'Gwine to glib up all his bad ways?''
Eyes. You sec he's done got de dys-
pepsia 30 bad dat he can't eat chicken
nohow. "--Washington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
Women WoI

Women Workers In Massachusetts,.
One-half of all the women in Mas
sachusetts who are able to work arc
wage-earpers,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
Asketl ami An,wereti.

Doctor said the cheap skate, who
was looking for free advice, If man
had the ague what would you advise
him to do2"
"shake 1t Off" CURLY answered the
NJ. ID.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
Owns Half the ships

Nearly half of the 17,7e1 steamships
and 12,182 sailing vessels In the world
are British.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

The more that ship-building trust
matter is explained, the more apparent
1t becomes that there are some very
rich scalawags in this country.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
t}aaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHHH
y POLITICS aaaa q
E3aa98a8aBSAaHA
OF THE DAY !

have got to get, so that the millionaire
is humping as hard to pay bills 40
the $G-a-week clerk. Every time I'M
Gle Sam expands he has to expand
some interchangeable Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Peary announces that there are
three ways Of reaching the north pole.
He doesn't explain how he found them,
though.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Ecuador wants to sell the Galapa-
gos Islands to some European power.
AS they command the western en-
trance of the Panama Canal-in
sense-we'll have to take them our
selves. This being world. power is
like getting rich. The richer you get
the more you spend and the richer you,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Sometimes the man who proudly
wears a campaign button in his coat
lapel has to fasten his suspender with
q nun.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

If you intend to pay your bills. pay
them as soon as possible, and get the
bother over with
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
FATHER OF GREATER NEW YORK.

Andrew H. Green, Who was Shot to
Death by an Insane Negro.
Andrew II. Green. who was shot to
death in New York by Cornelius NJ.
Williams, n negro, who charged Mr..
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

It's wise worm that stays under
cover and deprlves the early bird of
his breakfast.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

! Now that he has the Goelet millions
he ought to change his title to Duke
Of Rocksburghe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Frederick De Cane Goodman has
presented his collection of 10000 South
American beetles to the British mus
cum. I'll
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

1t is unlawful fo- doctor in France
to inherit property left to him BY q,
deceased patient
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
WHEN A MAN MARRIEs A FOOL.
~ Helen oIdnerd.

As rule, women of more than common talent
are rarely belles the beauty the heiress counts
her sultors by the score, where the woman of I'M
usual intellect may reckon hers upon the fingers
OF one hand and still have digts to spare True,
the lovers Of the clever woman may be and prob
ably are far superior to those of the society BELLE
yet the fact remains that many men prefer that
their women should not be too clever, Exactly
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

1 Lawmakers state emphatically that
the toy pistol must be put away.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Thus far no one seems to have
thought to inquire AIMS last name.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

AuNe got 10 get, SO tnat Ine mlluOndlI6
Is humping as hard to pay bills as
the $G-a-week clerk. Every time I'm
Gle Sam expands he has to expand
some interchangeable Journal.
Washing Republican Dirty Linen.
General Wood is very fortunate In
having rs his most inveterate enemies
Senator Hanna and Major Rathbone of
Cuban postal frauds fame. 1t is gem
orally understood that Hanna is OBJ
liged to back up Hathbone, who de
clared that If he was not taken care !,
OF he would pull down the pillars of
the Republican temple. When sena-
tor Hanna was elected to the Senate
six years ago. there were serious
charges made against him of purchase.
Ing enough Republican members Of
the Ohio Legislature to make the ono
majority by which he was elected.
Rathbone was also charged with be-
ing the lobbyist who fixed the leglsla-
tors. Thus there is fellow feeling
between Hanna and Rathbone. The
reward Of the latter was the soft
snap in Cuba,' where he came to grief
and where heNbecame acquainted with
the extravagant regime of the Presi-
dents friend. The charges made by
Rathbone and others against General
Wood are much more serious than ex-s
travagance. but the full evidence has
never seen the light, Wood having
been whitewashed by Secretary Root.
Now Rathbone has the opportunity to 7
prove his charges before the Senate
Committee. z
But these charges, though serious,
are foreign to the real issue against
the confirmation Of General Wood as
Major General. His promotion by
President Roosevelt over the heads OF
veteran soldiers, who have done ten
times as much to merit promotion as
the Presidents particular friend, is the
important question for the Senate to
decide. OF course, if Major Rathbone
can prove his charges against General
Wood, that officer should be court-mar-
tailed and dismissed from the army,
whether he is the friend Of the Presi.
dent or not. but in any event his pro-
motion over the heads OF more deserv-
Ing officers .is scandal and subver.
sive of good order and discipline Of
the army. Favoritism in the army
and navy is un-American and cannot
be tolerated in republic.
Delay That 10 Dangerous.
oct SbOrld fOrDof tho v,<,ek. "A
scandals in the excitement of creating
mushroom republics and other strenu-
Gus, If cratic. doings, 1t is well to Z
again read that Interesting letter writ
ten last spring by President Roosevelt
to Postmaster General Payne, In which
lie said:
There has evidently been some very
bad work in the past in the Postofice
Department, and we cannot afford to
take half measures. We need some
new men, and very possibly rear
rangement of POSITIONS Let Bristow
go right on with his Investigations,
and 3if there is the slightest rottenness,
put the knife in up to the hilt. Bris.
tow is an entirely fearless and honest
mnn.,p' = r. - fs,zs :
This intimation that 1--WE cannot az (
ford to take half measures" has evil
IDENTIFY been overlooked by Mr.. Payne.
for although he has removed three or.
four minor officials, the new men,
have. not materalized In the more Inn
portant positions to any great extent.
After months of labor by host Of I'M.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09
BASIS OF AN tAellsH-spfAklNe ALLIANCE.

ny inc Nt. num- ". Es H. LeCky.
The idea has been steadily growing that in
foreign countries the first aim of an English
statesman should be to establish close and friend
5ly relations with the United States. England is
by her position in the world an eminently free
rade country, while America is strongly protec
Zionist. Probably a more serious fact in affecting
the future relations of the two countries, how
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

for the vast flow of European emigration America is
constantly reducing the proportion Of the and
even of the Teutonc in the American population Yet
with all this there remains far greater community of
thought and feeling between England the United States
than between England and other foreign European
country. The English law lies at the foundation
of the American legal system The nations have the
language, In measure the same history and the
same traditional sympathies and characteristics They
have up under the influence of common literature
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-09

Alrs well that ends according to
your own diagram of the apish,
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-16
Tried to Conceal It

It's the old story Of murder will out.
only in this case there's no crime. A
oma feels rundown, has backache or
dyspepsia and thinks It's nothing and
tries to hide it until she finally breaks
down. Don't deceive yourself, Take
Electric Bitters at once. 1t has a repu-
tation for curing Stomach. Liver and
Kidney troubles and will revivify your
whole system. The worst forms of
those maladies will quickly yield to the
curative power of Electric Bitters. Only
soc. guaranteed by all druggists.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-16

gather and publish all reliable mining
news Of the State. sending the docu-
ments under official seal to all the
moneyed centers Of the country.
Each mining company doing bust
ness in the State would no doubt stand
a small yearly tax for the advertising OF
of the mining data gathered.
The great boom in Texas oil lands
followed extensive and comprehensive
advertising Of her resources.
Thunder Mountain is far better
today than Tonopah, simply on account
OF advertising-surely not for any other
reason-and 1t Is safe to predict that
had Tonopah been discovered in any
other State in the Union. her resours-
es and wonderful development would
have furnished. ere now, texts for
schoolboy essays in all the rural dis
tricts Of the North, South and East.
LEWIS H. ROGERS.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-01-16
THE CENTER
OF
Now is Nevada's Opportunity
and She Should Take Ad-
vantage Of it.

Nevada is waking up. Enterprises.
Industries, Districts, Municipalities
and States have their periods Of rise
and fall.
Nothing seems free from change.
The geologist will explain to you in the
minutest detail how the mountain and
valley was formed when the world was
young. and how even now and continu-
ously the surface of the earth is I'M
dergoing constant change; our, diff
Guilty in seeing such TO be the case
arising from the fact that we ourselves
remain here such a short time as to be
unable to note the slow but sure evo-
luton.
The market philosopher will show
you the changes in the market prices
for the last fifty years and Predict the
future more or less accurately.
The historian will write of the rise
and fall Of empires and point out the
moral influences which tend to u
destruction. In short nothing stands
still. Everything from emotions to
worlds is on the move.
A State cannot escape the inevitable
law and all signs now point to Nevada
as being the center of interest for the
mining and speculative world in the
immediate future. That she would
rise from a heightened period Of de-
preston has been tie belief Of many of
her inhabitants but that the causes are
now apparent for such a rise is beyond
dispute.
More than a year ago | submitted
some observations on these points TO
you regarding the duty and work ahead
for those interested in the welfare of
Nevada, taking the ground that Me-
vada as a State should assume that
its main and principal business was
mining, and therefore should set to
work and conduct that business Just as
a business mar would run his store.
Developments have shown since
that time that there is a greater ne
cessity today than then for carefully
considering how Nevada, as a State,
shall reap her proper reward.
There is, undoubtedly, within her
confines, vast stores Of wealth-prob-
ably more than we know OF or con-
ceive. Men of large means and ex-
tensive influence in the eastern money
centers are looking this way. 1t is no
easy matter to advertise a State and
yet Nevada is talked of more in Phil
adelphia money circles than all the
other mining States combined.
This is also beginning to be the
fact in New York and Boston, while
Chicago, st Louis and other cities
have hardly heard of our banner min
ing camp as yet.
With such a magnificent start as
Nevada has at present nothing should
be left undone to make the most of
her opportunities. The legislature.
which meets shortly, has a chance
given-to very few bodies for distin-
gushing action.
1t might be possible and profitable
to take up the question Of a State Min
ing Bureau, whose duties should be to