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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
MARcoNrs LATEST TRIUMPH.
Scientifically Important, Yet 1t Gre.
ated No SurDrise

scientifically Important, Yet 1t Gre
ated No Surprise.
The world of science was not
amazed by the fact that wireless mes
sages We're received from Cape Breton
by the Kings of England and Italy.
Marconi had previously demonstrated
the practlcability of his system, and,
while the recent transmission of mes
sages proves that perfection has been
reached and that wireless trans-ocean-
ic dispatches are to be eventually part
Of the worlds method of communica-
ton, this is no more than scientific
men have looked for ever since their
confidence in Marconi was established.
One of the messages was in Italian
Neither the sending nor receiving op-
orator understood word of Italian,
yet every word was accurately record
ed. This the inventor considers an
evidence of the perfection of his work
Officials Of the Marconi Wireless Tele-
graph Company intimate that they are
practically ready to accept public
transatlantic messages.
If Marconi is correct in his state
ments wireless telegraphy is now as
practical as cabling. More than this,
nothing can divert the electromagnetic
ic waves from their course across the
ocean. AT present a speed of fifteen
words minute has been reached
When Marconl's sending apparatus is
perfected he expects to exceed thirty
words minute. and distance will
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
House for Smoking Meata,


Many farmers sell off the hogs raised
on the farm and buy the hams and
bacon used in the family, giving rs an
excuse that well-arranged smoke
house Is too expensive for them to
have. The smolehouse shown in the
Illustration, while n homely affair,
gives good service and will cost but
little to build. a dry goods box or a
piano box will answer the purpose
nicely. The bottom is removed from
the box and hinged door is arranged
as shown so that the meat may be
easily put in and taken out. This
cover is arranged so that 1t can be
fastened with staple and hook when
the meat Is being smoked. The smok-
Ing arrangement of this box is an ideal
one. A hole is dug in the ground six
or eight feet from the box and trench
dug from the hole to a point about the
middle of the box Have length Of
stove pipe fastened to an old, heavy
tin Kettle, into which hole has been
cut by the tinsmith. When ready to
smoke the meat build fire of corn
cobs in the kettle, set it in the hole
and add stove pipe lengths to the cen
ter of the house, terminating with an
elbow. After the fire is we'll started
cover the kettle with piece of tin, to
force all the smoke possible through
the stove pipe into the house. All
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
Rosy Alaskan pictnre

Judge James Wickersham, of the
third judicial district of Alaska. paints
u gorgeous picture of the future of
Alaska. He says that 100000 inhab-
itants will find support in the Valley
OF the Yukon, on the American side Of
the line. Time will tell of the unim-
nslnable possibilities of this grand re-
gion beneath the Arctic circle. Good
gardening and farming is being done.
Good roads is one of the crying neces-
stiles of the country, us they are of
any new country. During the winter,
however. he says you can have good
roads in any direction without any
expense. What is needed is n general
system by which road that is great
ly needed can be built. The country
has no such system now and no law.
From this time on Alaska will have
to be reckoned with as residence
country. The whole Yukon Valley is
capable of comfortable settlement and
will support an immense population.
There is popularity of the plant life
of that country in that Arctic veceta-
tons is found at Lake Bennett. and a
country void of trees, the further one
goes north the vegetation Increases.
until at Fort Yukon forests of mer-
camille timber grow. These forests
fade away again before you reach the
coast, and they do not reach the Ber-
ing sea by $50 miles.
The interior is much warmer than
the coast, owing to the dry atmosphere
of the Yukon region. The high coast
range of mountains precipitates the
moisture on their western slopes, leav-
ing dry winter in the Yukon Valley.
Baltimore American.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21

Intelligence floats in from New York
that the large insurance companies and
Il few of the banks are getting together,
the object in view being another gigan-'
tic trust of financial character, which
can dictate prices on Wall street and
make the Secretary of the United
States treasury look and move like a
So call boy.
This, as Il matter of course, gives
point to the query: What has become
of the Roosevelt antitrust program
which blossomed last spring. matured
in the Fourth of July address in Pitts
burg, the home of Attorney General
Knox. and was exploited at "one-night
stands" during the Presidents tour of
New England, with terrific applause
from the galleries? Congress has been
in session two weeks, but aside from
mild references to the topic In the
Presidents message, with caution to
be careful Of the good trusts" the pub
lie has heard little or nothing on the
subject, which was geographically de-
scribed as burning" in August, Sep
TENDER and October last. just prior to
election.
The great Democratic gains In cities
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
the open cars all winter because she so

the open cars all winter because she so
fears close contact with the passengers.
VIII straightway moisten the lead with
her lips, and proceed to write In per-
fectly contented frame of mind, max
ing repeated trips to her mouth with the
pencil. Children seem to be of the be.
lief that 1t is next to impossible to
write with lead pencil until they have
wet the lead in their mouths.
And about fans, have you ever no.
ticed how most people will bite and
bite on a fan that in every way bears
the evidence of old age, and having
been bitten many times? 1t seems to
make no difference In the world-the
fact that the fans are common prop.
erty, and that they as much belong to
the tobacco-chewing men us they do to
the sweet-faced, refined, dainty women
does not matter. They seem to be han.
Ply in the pastime of biting on indefin-
itely.
When sores appear that do not come
from fever, We're to suggest such a
source as have just described, nervous
prostration would be the result in many
cases. "-WaShingtOn Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
TWO SOURCES Of GERMS.

Moistening Lead Pencils with Lips
md Biting Church Fans.
Great attention should be given to
two apparently unimportant things
which assure you can and frequently
do cause no end of trouble said one
of Washington's best known physi-
clans one day last week. "rhe trouble
is seldom traced to its source, viz, the
lead pencil evil and the biting at the
rim of the fans which are placed in the
pcws of churches for the accommodate
ton of the congregation. The lead pen
Gil evil seems to be principally confined
to women and children. In moment of
hurry a woman will borrow n pencil
from an unkempt man whose pencil,
for the most part, occupies the space
behind his ear.
AT the request for his pencil out It
comes, and the fastidious lady who
breads the street cars. and will ride on
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
High Tariff a Pnuic.Bre.der.


We are yet as a people to learn the
precise bearing of extreme tariff legis-
lation upon the industrial prosperity of
the country. Five years of experience
under a particular tariff determine
nothing and ten years of experience
cannot be held conclusive as to its
enduring prosperity producing effects.
1t will probably be seen by everybody
before many more decades have passed
that panics and industrial depressions
result from waves of excessive spec,l-
lation and that q high tariff enactment.
i'll fostering speculative commitment
on an artificial loaning, as 1t certainly
does, tends to produce the conditions
that make panics possible and not to
avert them.-Springfield, Mass, Re.
publican.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21

make no difference in speed, as it does
with the cable. He will multiply mes
sages by multiplying stations. AS to
the expense of transmitting, he is al
ready under contract with the Cana
dian government to send ordinary mes
sages across the Atlantic at 10 cents
word and government and press
messages at not more than 5 cents a
word, and in time lie expects to send
dispatch from New York to London
as cheaply as the same dispatch can
now be sent from New York to Phila-
delphia. Finally. Marconi says he can
send wireless dispatches over land as
easily as over sea.
These are the claims made by Mar
conf which are now attracting the at
tention of tinanciers and scientists. at
course some allowance must be made
for the enthusiasm of Marconi over
his belief that he has Mt last brought
this old discovery of wireless tele-
graphy into practical operation. FL
nanciers also will be Shy of investing
until its commercial advantages have
been thoroughly demonstrated.
In the meantime serious limitation
to wireless telegraphy has been point
ed out by Sir William Preece, one of
the most eminent electricians in En-
gland. He has never doubted the pos
sibility of wireless telegraphy, but he
doubts its practical value, because, as
he asserts, it Is possible to intercept
every wireless message. Besides this,
because of its slowncss in transmit
ting signals. The cables now can send
from seventy to one hundred words a
mlnute-a speed which he says never
can be eaualed by the Marconi sys-
TEN. This limitation would not be
serious one, as the slowness would be
offset by the reduced cost of sending,
but If there can be no secrecy there
will be Il vital defect. Marconi claims
that the tuning can be automatically
changed, as well as the codes, so that
it will be impossible to steal the mes
sages. Time will tell which electrl-
clan is right. The cable was crude
affair and had many defects when De
sauty caught its first signal forty
seven years ago.
Marconi is IS years of age. His first
attempts at wireless tclegraphy We're
made in Italy, and subsequently he
went to England where he sent II wire
less message across the English chan
mel. Subsequently messages were ex-
changed between ships at sea-, which
We're widely separated, and in this
country messages We're sent long dis
tances. But the earliest attempts to
send messages across the sea were flu
tile because the wind intcrfered with
the balloons which were used. Now
Marconi has permanent stations Mt Tai
bic Head, Cape Breton and ut Porlhu,
in Cornwall, England, with special
machinery.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21

Tent gardening, or the growing of
vegetables under cloth, as estimated
by the results of some experiments in
Connecticut, is not particularly prom
Using.
There is an increasing demand on the
College of Agriculture of Cornell Uni
versity for young men and women as
foremen on farms, truck gardens and
In greenhouses.
Watch the wheat fields where the
land is steep and Till in all forming
gullies with small brush or cornstalks
or anything that will prevent further
washing of the soil
An outbreak of foot and mouth dis
case has developed in Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode ISL
and. Every precaution is being taken
to prevent its spread.
All animals of the same variety are
not alike, and scarcely any two will
do equally well on the same feed. Each
animals wants should be supplied if
possible. Cattle of different ages
should be separated for feeding, as the
weak ones will not do we'll with the
strong. Cows are weak and shy; it
takes them longer to eat their meals,
and they should, therefore. be put
where they cannot be domineered by
their superiors in strength.
As much as 800 pounds of sulphate
or muriate of potash may be applied
to an acre of ground, and, while it is
best to do so in the fall ON very heavy
soils, yet early in the spring is an ex-
cellent period for applying. If good
wood ashes can be obtained cheaply
they are equal to the Salts but they
lack in uniformity of quality. some
kinds being low in potash, while the
customer who purchases large guam
tity will incur the risk of procuring
ashes that have been leached
There are two most important things
to be kept in mind by the fruit raiser
pruning and mulching. If those two
duties are well performed success is
nearly always certain. If well mulched
the fertiliziug material is thus supplied
by filtration from the mulching down
to the feeding roots. which is the very
best self-regulating method of fertllz-
ing. By allowing this mulching to re-
main in winter and early spring the
roots are kept moist and vegetation
prevented from springing up around
bushes, or heavy sod from forming.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
Where Ignorance Is Bliss.

a funny story is being told of two
French noblemen and favorite
singer.
The Frenchmcn were suitors of the
lady, and both seemed to be equally
esteemed by her.
1t appears that in France, as well as
in many other countries, lock of hair
is considered signal of tender pas
sion. Mile. b glorics in the pos
session of auburn ringlets. and would
not part with one of them for less than
duchy.
Her admirers. however, happened to
have hair of the same golden hue as
that of their conjoint love. Each
begged a tress of her hair in exchange
for lock of his own, to which the
charming creature readily assentcd,
and, without touching Il single hair
of her head, cunningly managed to
effect a change of parcels. by which
each gentleman received curl of his
rivals capillaries.
The count now wears the baron's
hair next his heart, and the baron
sleeps with the counts lock under his
pillow.-London Tit-Bits.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21

Fewer men are required to handle
heavy freight where this skid is used,
as single cartman can push n heavy
box over the rollers With ease, and the
new device makes the operation prac.
tically noiselcss. There is no chance of
the box sliding down the incline, as the
rollers have automatic locks which pre-
vent them from revolving backward.
The skid can be reversed for unload
ing goods from the wagon. or may be
used as n truck for moving burdens on
level ground by using 1t with the roll,
ers face down. With the time saved in
both loading and unloading, the neces-
sity for fewer men ana the great de-
crease of danger TO both the truckman
and the goods. 1t would seem that this
new skid has much to recommend Its
use by express companies, glass porce.
lain and piano factories and all con-
Germs shipping heavy freight.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
Tip Giving in Paris.

When working men have Il genuine
grievance, they cannot be blamed for
making it known. The walters of
Paris have lately been holding meet
ings to protest against the prevailing
methods of tip-givins in the restau-
rants of that city. They do not object
to the tips, but to the fact that they do
not get them. All the tips so into a spe-
cial box to be divided up at the end
of the day. The complaint is that the
proprietors take the giant share of
these funds, and the walters, who
have to pay for the privilege of work
ing, get barely nothing. At Il mass
meeting recently held 1000 garcons
demanded the adjustment of the tip
system, and the payment of living
wages to the men who do the work.
A woman's idea of economy is to
have things charged.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
In Line with Present-Day Spirit.
publican.

In Line with Present-Day Spirit.
1t really seems as il the relegation
of the portraits of Washington. Jetfer-
son. jackson and the rest of the earlier
Presidents to the corridors of the base
ment of the rejuvenated White House
is in accordance with the spirit of the
times, as illustrated in much Of the
political argument of the day. We
see no reason why the next national
Republican convention should not put
a plank iii its platform heartily inlors-
ing the action of the leadership which
sends the portraits of the first twenty
three Presidents of the United States
to the kitchen floor of the Presidents
mansion.-Hartford Conn, Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
WHEELED sKIDs FOR TRUCKING.

Our illustration shows new roller
skid, which has been designed by
Eduard Scharrer, of Stuttgart Ger
many, for the purpose of loading and
unloading heavy boxes from wagons.
With its use all necessity for turning
the boxes over and over rs they arc
forced up the incline to the wagon is
done away with, and there is conse-
quently considerably less danger of
damaging the contents Of the package.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
Public Pays tho FREIGHT.


According to statistics compiled by
experts employed on the financial jour
nails in New York City and approved
by the officers of several railroad COM
panies, the increases In wages for the
past year and one-half on railway lines
foot up $43,000.000. The wage Increases
already made embrace about two-thirds
of the 100000 miles of American rail.
roads. Several roads are now revising
their wage scales to meet the general
demand for an advance. and it is esti-
mated by expert railway accountants
that the railroads will enter upon the
new year with not less than $4,000
900 added to their pnyrolls.
But this figure will be met and. like
the collection of taxes III China. enough
extra will be added to pay well for the
trouble. For the past month traffic man.
ayers have been recasting their freight
tariffs so as to yield IN average adj
vance on all classes of freight of about
10 per cent, which has been the basic
percentage of the increases in wages.
Changes in freight rates must necessar-
lily vary widely, owing to the varying
conditions affecting freight transporta-
ton. Grain and -four rates are to go up
% per cent. but the advances in rates
on general merchandise will range from
) cents to 30 cents per 100 pounds.
The freight traffic managers expect to
get at least $2O000,000 more out of the
iron md steel traffic in 1904 thun thp>-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
Coal Trust in Saddle.

Noul ATust III SSulules
There is no more reason for tariff
tax on coal than for one on ice, and
the latter necessity-nnd it almost is
necessity--is OH the free list of the
Dingley tariff act
Coal is taxed GT cents ton to pro
tect the coal barons aud allow them to
charge that much more proft-in fact
the duty was intended as a subsidy.
The coal barons are important people.
They control United States Senators
and congressman from number of
strong Republican States, and when
the subsidies have been dealt ont in
the tariff bill they demanded that coal
should be protected from competition.
This, of course, was conceded by the
Republican majority that passed the
bill and the Republican President that
signed 1t. SO there is no escape from
the fact that the Republican party is
responsible for ut least 81 cents Il ton
of the extortionate prices for coal
which the trust is now charging.
1t is also not difficult to prove that
the Republican party is also RESPONSE
BILE for the coal strike, and, until cleo
ton day was near, made no serious at
tempt to stop it. There is n commu-
nifty Of interests between the trusts and
the Republican party leaders. A Wire
less telegraph keeps them in constant
touch with one another and when i'm
portant elections are about to occur
the contact becomes closer, like the
embrace of lovers.
The party in power Is responsible
for the execution of the federal laws
and, in times of stress, at least, when
the antitrust law was VIGOROUSLY be-
Ing nullitied, the same party should
enforce 1t. When the beef trust began
to hold up the American people, as 1t
did last winter, il the administration
had begun proceedings against the beef
barons under the criminal section of
the Sherman law, there would have
been but little doubt of their convic-
tion. Mr.. Armour or Mr.. Swift con-
victcd and in Jail for combining to
fleece the people, would have at once
stopped their eXtortions and would
have been n warning to other monop-
olists, especially to the coal trust mag
mates, when combination to restrict the
output of coal and keep up prices was
notorious. The fear of an impartial
enforcement Of the law would have
made the coal barons think twice be-
fore they declined to make a small nd
vance i'll the wages Of the miners. Ten
cents ton advance in wages would
have settled the coal strike, ten days
after it began. A threat, at that time,
of prosecution by President Roosevelt
or his Attorney General, even il the
beef trust had not been dealt WITH
would have brought the naughty bar.
ons to time.
No such effort, or even attempt, was
made. The trusts are still! III the sad
die, booted and spurred, riding the
long suffering people to their undoing
The President has washed his hands
of the wretched business and his com
mission" drags along without much
prospect of either miners or people be-
ing helped by its deliberations. The
only relief in sight is balmy spring,
which nature fortunately will provide
in due course of time.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
How to Handle Incubator ;.

have had an experience of ten
years, with four different makes of in.
cubators, and have learned few nec-
essary things. One is that any incu-
pator, If rightly handled, will give good
results, or when poorly handled will
make failure. The best hatch have
ever made was 90 per cent, the poorest
oo per cent of fertile eggs have raised
with brooder 20 per cent of chicks, and
without brooder only about so per cent.
have found that child cannot oper-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21

Don't put ice in the churn.
Don't let your tubs get moldy.
Don't churn the cream Mt too high a
temperature.
Don't ovcrchurn the butter and make
1t salvy.
Don't handle your tubs with dirty,
greasy fingers.
Don't let the tubs stand in the hot
sun after they reach the station.
Don't mix grades without marking
them and think they will all pass as
extras.
Don't think that the commission men
are all trying to beat you in weights
and prices.
Don't weigh too heavy and expect
your weights to hold out at the other
end of the line.-Creamery Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21

AND LADY CURZON
the central
sion of King Edward married Wash.
IN 1850 Wien the Viceroy
dpomacy win baony
ms by hard work and considerable
IN East HIS
this he was peforce required to learn something
ana psychic life
Pan Siam,
embodied in books which
His with
both .t - : A"'A "
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21

thus teach them to be led and become
bridlewise. Ride them about now and
then when YOU have time. In the
spring when it is soft hitch them with
gentle horse to sor:e light work for
few times and your rolt is about
ready for service.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-21
A Crow Farm,

The latest thing in novelty farming
is a crow farm. The owner of this
farm lives near the Susquehanna Riv-
err, In Pennsylvania, and his business
is said to be quite profitable. The de-
mand for crows is from the millinery
trade, the crows being used to decorate
hats. He matches the crows in incuba-
tors. In fifteen days they hatch and
two weeks later they are in condi-
ton to be bcheaded. The head and
feathers are sold to milliners.