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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30
var,ctic. of Winter Wheat.

Three varieties of winter wheat were
distributed throughout Ontario in the
autumn of 1902 for cooperative expert.
ments. Good reports of successfully
conducted experiments have been re-
ceived this year from eighteen coun.
ties, extending from Essex in the
south to Halliburton in the north. The
following is the average yield in
weighed bushels of grain per acre for
each variety for five years at the col.
lege, and for 1908 throughout Ontario:
Imperial Amber, $40 bushels; Buda
Pes.h, PA bushels; Turkey Red, 2O.7
bushels. All three varieties are beard
ed. The chaff Of the Imperial Amber
is red, and that OF the others is white.
The grain of each variety is red, hard
and recommended for the production
of flour of good quality. All three va
rieties are rather weak in the straw.
The Imperial Amber is a close rival
to the Dawson's Golden Chaff in yield
Of grain per acre. The variety last
named seems most productive of all,
but the grain is soft.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30

Standard OIL capitalists are reported
to have bought Coney Island. We
may vet be, able to get our Midway
amusements Through a pipe line.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30

Occupants of catboat should al.
ways be prepared for squalls,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30

Cabbages are selling at very high
prices this season. A little extra care
will increase the yield of the crop. Hoe
often, and once Or twice sprinkle lit
tile nitrate of soda along the rows
quite close to the plant. AT the New
Jersey station there was yield of but
80 prime heads per acre when no nj
trate Of soda was used. When three
hundred pounds of the nitrate were
applied per acre in two equal dress
fngs, the number of prime heads OBJ.
tained was 1920. When the same
amount was applied in three equal
dressings the yield of prime heads per
acre was $500. Quantity and quality
are both improved.
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u g
Sharp Practice with Foreign Butter.
The statement made that much Of
the Russian butter re-e&ported to Eng
land by Danish merchants is largely
adulterated with margarine and pass
ed off as Danish produce has attracted
much attention here. The leading
Copenhagen exporters have just adj
dressed themselves, through the Dam
ish consul general in st. Petersburg,
to the Russian Ministry of Finance,
to ascertain if the allegation is correct.
Denmark is now far in the lead in
supplying British markets with butter.
Such frauds rs described will quickly
spoil the business in the same way
that the cheese-exporting trade of the
United States was ruined by shipment
of filled cheese.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30

In the opinion of the Indian Rights
Association the government is not
treating the red man white.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30

The man who got drunk ana took q
monkey home with him unconsciously
paid Darwin warm compliment.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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~ OF THE DAY -
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an universal unrest and even the chief
Of prophets, II in the flesh, could not
predict what the present Republican
President or the coming Republican
Congress will do, Talk of Democratic
disorganization and reorganization,
why 1t is infinitesimal compared to the
Republican factional disagreements.
Every Democrat Is united upon oppo-
sition to trusts, upon tarif reform.
upon equal taxation and upon equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, and that is the winning plat
form.
JuRsled Investigation.
The expected has happened. POST
master General Payne has succeeded
in pretty nearly squelching the post
office scandals. Since the Indictment
Of Machen and Beavers, It Is evident
that but little more will be DONE There
are too many Congressman and Re-
publican leaders mixed up insthe mat
ter, who must protect the looters, and
come Of them too much dread an In
vestigation to allow the matter to pro-
coed. Such competent machine poll
tician as the Postmaster General
knows that the Republican party cam
not receive any more such hard
knocks as 1t has received by the ex.
posture Of even small part Of the
scandals and survive the treatment.
Trusting that other matters may oc.i
cupy the attention of the voters, Mr..
Payne has ordered no information to
be given out about the scandals and
refuses to say anything himself. Look.
ing at the matter from a political party
standpoint he may be wise, but the exc
posure Of the scandals in other govern;
ment departments persistently keeps
these matters in the public eye. How
President Roosevelt and the other Re.
publican leaders must pray for some.
thing big to happen. How quickly the
Beirut incident was seized upon, but
that faux pas only occupied a day or
two, and the scandals are still on top.
There are indications that an attempt
is to be made to take advantage Of the
disturbed condition at Panama a. an;
outlet for the public mind to dwell
upon. But the scandals will not down,
but bob up unauspiciously with q
worse aspect for the administratio n.
One day we hear that Diggs and Mil
Ter will not be brought to trial, the
next day that Beavers snaps his I'm
gers at the administration and dares
the government ofiicers to arrest him,
anyway he y daily seen on the streets
and avenues Of New York, often in the
company Of government ohicials. The
proceedings are becoming farcical and
there is strong impression abroad
that the investigation is being juggled
and the pressure from the machine has
been too great for the President to
withstand ~
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30
R.nubl,c,n pi.orc.nixation.

Republican DisorEnnixation.
The Republican leaders seem to be
unable to agree OH what legislation is
necessary by the coming Congress.
President Roosevelt demands that Gu
ban reciprocity shall be first attended
to, and has declared that he will call
an extraordinary session Of Congress
for that purpose.
The Republican leaders in the SEN
ate are opposed to reciprocity legisla-
ton, and Senators Aldrich, Platt, De-
pew, Hanna, Quay and Spooner have
all advised the President not to call an
extra session of Congress this fall,
land they are known to be opposed to
the Presidents policy. The President
has declared tint such legislation shall
pass, "as sure us fate" and will doubt
less send a message to Congress rec
ommending it. On the necessity for
financial legislation there is like d.
vision of sentiment and even those
who desire a change In the law are
hopelessly divided on the scope Of the
alterations that should be made. On
the trust issue, the President has de-
clared for publicity, but Is very slow
at putting 1t in practice, and major
ity of the Republican leaders are for
letting well enough alone, SO antitrust
legislation will be at standstill. On
tariff revision the party is more near
ly united, but minority of Congress
that are being pressed by their con-
stituents, will demand that some Of
the tariff schedules be revised and II
no recognition is vouchsafed to them,
declare they will carry the fight into
the Republican national convention.
That this tariff revision and antitrust
element will not meet with any sue
cess, unless they join with the Demo-
Gratis, is perceptible to the veriest tyro
in the political arena, and most Of
them are merely playing that way to
fool the voters.
The Panama canal Is another mat
ter upon which the Republican politi-
clans are at odds, their leaders in the
Senate who are controlled by the
transcontinental railroad are secretly
opposed to any canal, others favor the
Nicaragua route and in consequence
nothing has been accomplished.
There is, however, legislation that
the Republicans unite upon with the
utmost celebrity. They all favor ''the
old flag and an appropriation" and Of
fetal graft and loot for themselves and
their political strikers, and they uani-
mously agree that the crops would not
grow and hard times would result
from Democratic victory.
The Republican leaders also pretend
to be unanimous for the nomination of
President Roosevelt, yet more than
half of them are really opposed to
him. The cohesive power of public
plumber holds them together, but the
long-headed ones like Root and Quay
know that the. end is near and are
leaving the rat-infested ship. There is
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30

and hinged to the roof of the house
directly above the front edge Of the
drop board. This burlap-covered frame
should extend across the pen and
should fall an inch or so below the
drop board. When not required in
front of the fowls the frame should
be hooked to the roof of the house.
This frame when lowered, together
with the board sides of the roosting
quarters, form the warm roosting pen.
The fowls will generate sufficient heat
to keep themselves comfortable during
a cold night.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30

Ever remark, asks the Atchison
Globe, that those who become noted in
the world are Woodworking people?
Well. there's Harry I.ehr.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30
Free Coal Hurting the Trust

The New Fork Times recently con-
tanned an interview with Mr.. George
F. Baer, President of the Reading
railway, in which he said that coal
mines might have to be closed soon
and miners thrown out of work be-
cause of the difficulty Of getting rid
Of coal, especially of the steam size.
The Times report says:
HE said that the plan lie had in
augurated when he became President
Of the Reading of making reduction
Of so cents ton In April, and then
advancing the prices 10 cents a month
until the figure again reached normal
by Sept. had worked very satisfac-
torily."
Yes, Mr. Diyine-rights Baer, 1t does
seem to have worked beautifully-for
the Coal Trust. 1t is, however, lit
tie hard on few millions of us coal
consumers who now have to pay high
er prices for coal than ever before, ex-
cept during and after the strike Of
last year. The retail price of anthra-
cite ut Washington is now 1925 and
at Chicago $50 ton.
Immediately following the Baer In
terview, the Times contained dis
patch from Pennsylvania saying:
THE Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company has issued sweep
ipg order closing every one Of its
washeries that produce small sizes, and
other corporations and individual ope-
rators have followed suit. 1t is esti-
mated that there are 1000, 900 tons of
small sizes now in stock, for which
there is little demand"
The inadequate demand for anthra-
cite coal is said to be partly due to
closed mills and to the Increased use
Of soft coal for steam purposes. But
the statistics of foreign commerce for
the year ending June 80, 1908, offer
some additional explanation as to this
oversupply Of hard coal. They show
that we imported last year 3,S1s, 1s9
tons Of coal, or nearly 100000 tons
more than were imported in any pre-
vious year, and that of this amount
<Vi,oo4 tous were aIluracite. AHis 10
more than 100 times as much anthra-
cite as was imported in any year since
the Dingley Dill taxing anthracite oe-
came law.
II appears, then, that free coal, While
It has not compelled the hard coal
trust to-lower Its prices Tor ordinary
sizes OF coal land this 10 not strange
when 1t Is considered that there 10 no
where else anthracite ike ours-tnat
Is Baers-to take Its place., especially
at interior points, mas competed II 70
reduce prices OF It's smaiier sizes used
lot making steam ana WINCH mere
fore, compete with pitumnoas coal
Nearly all OF TINS imported coal ~ CON
sumed In New England anu on the "a
enc coast. " does great oeai 10
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30

It is appalling to think what life in
America would be II 1t were not for
politics.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-30


ger in Marshalltown. Both legs were
cut off, his spine crushed and his face
and head terribly mangled
The new Burch Hotel burned at Gift
ford and is total loss. The fire is
thought to have originated in defective
aue in the kitchen. The building was
new, having been erected bout two years
ago Mt cost of about $1,000.
The largest original notice ever filed
In Marshall County was published in a
suit to quiet title to 1900 acres Of land
of the old townsite of Marietta. Five
hundred parties are named as defendants
and the notice will cover five printed
pages of-the newspapers. The abstrac-
tors bill is reported to be nearly $500,
as the records are in very bad shape.
A cloudburst occurred Mt Little Rock.
Mrs. August Wempen and two children,
living half mile west of that place,
were drowned. A girl from Germany,
name unknown, visiting there, was also
drowned. Mr.. Wempen climbed tree
and saved his life. A child in his arms
was drowned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Mcneil. known
as DE Eta, have been indicted by the
grand jury at Fort Dodge on a charge
of manslaughter. They are held to have
been responsible for the death of Clara
Rasmussen, the young women who was
killed by falling from the top of the
court house while attempting to perform
the '.slide for life act. July 4.
Race war is imminent at Buxton as
the result of murderous assault com.
mitted by negro in quarrel over
whisky. William Henry, white, was
struck over, the head with a piece of
scantling by James Lobbins, colored and
died instantly. L0bbins escaped and a
lynching is certain If he is captured.
Van Vert was visited by disastrous
fire. The loss will amount to $4,000.
The FIRE burned out II. II. Blades. gen
eral merchandise; w. 4. Buchanan, hard
ware; II. u. Galloway. restaurant; Geo.
Cane, implements, and the new postofiice
building just completed was burned, the
postotiicc not having moved to Il yet.
The town has no fire protection,
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Sir Thomas Upton.
SIR THOMAS LIPTON's BUSINESS CAREER.

he cents
fought his
n child things that he
Int sdreamn with determination
continued his education at night school
landed York
srtIngs worked plantation in South
with only few dollars but much
expe wisdom
His poor hundred dollars and loaned Thomas
The bulk OF
was nut into his fathers finest hogs he sapd and
Then he harnessed them to
red wagon painted lons and had them driven
after another was added until
all world
individual land
in h1 IN he mas
in he thgo
food product except beef
OCCASION when he was a
that ren around
raoly painting the words
that &c would carry mem TO
sank the passengers were iN'
by hn TO
WORN
careful judgment anu
This OF business men ""'
carried the lis yachting
opBr Hd8lR Jr
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No country subject To drought Is
without its own peculiar method of
supphcating for rain. That in Kumaon,
northern India, is not the least curious
of them.
In country where the population
is almost entirely dependent upon grain
as means of subsistence drought
means famine and starvation. During
a drought in Kumaon Ilindoo fakir
imposed a penance on himself and was
suspended by his feet from a wooden
beam. In this position he was swung
back and forth for n considerable time
by means of rope attached to his
body and pulled by fellow fakir.
Both men We're hesprinkled with ashes
and mud and were minus all clothing
except for small cloth around the
waist
1t is to he regretted that such pious
zeal should have gone without the eX-
peeted reward, for the chronicler sadly
related that no rain fell until weeks
after
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-10-07

An Augusta gentleman states that
he once cured gastric trouble by eat
ing mt supper plentiful supply of Gu
eumbers and cold blackberry dump
ling, and yet in his ease nothing would
have seemed more pernieious.
Proctor the astronomer, suffered
from excruciating headaches. lie was
satisfied That they came from some er-
ror of diet, and so he dropped from his
bill of fare one thing after another I'M
til lie concluded that nothing else was
left for experimentation, He had for
gotten one article, however 1t was
butter He abandoned that and ale
everything else and never suffered from
headaches again to his dying day. Man
is wonderfully made, aud SO is the
stomach. remedies for dyspepsia are
numerous You may pay your money
and take your choice. Augusta ChrOn-
icip
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1t is said that reporter who had
been assigned to talk with an Ameri-
can millionaire ON an important ques-
ton was repeatedly refused admittance
to his house Then he sought out a
senator who was personal friend of
the millionaire and petitioned for his
aid. Armed with the senator's card
he returned to the millionaire's house
and sent in his talisman. This time he
was admitted.
young man." said the millionaire,
do you know that sixteen l Aporters
have called upon me today about this
very question and that l have refused
to see them all?"
Il ought to know it, sir" responded
the visitor, flor | am the whole six
teen,
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NEVER MET DEFEAT.
Military Lenders Who We're Away
Successful In battle.


Successful In Battle.
The Duke Of Alya. one of the most
eminent soldiers of the sixteenth cen
tury, never throughout his long and
eventful career lost battle The
archbishop of Cologne WIS struck by
his effort to avoid conflict, having on
one occasion urged him 10 engage the
Dutch.
The object of general" replied
Alva, "is not to fight, but TO conquer.
He fights enough who obtains the vic
tory
Oliver Cromwell throughout his mill
tary career never lost n battle, though
he nearly sustained reverse Mt Dun
bar.
The Duke of Marlborough fought
several battles against the most OK
pcricnced generals in Europe and was
never once defeated.
The famous Russian general Suva-
rolf was another commander destined
never TO suffer defeat. lie gained sew
cral victories against the Turks and
against the Poles, and in Italy he was
opposed by Morcau, and, being com
pletely outnumbercd, hc effected n
brilliant retreat over the mountains OF
Switzerland, through Germany, into
Russia
The Duke of Wellington throughout
his brilliant campaigns, both in India
and In the peninsula. preserved TO him
self remarkable record of uninter-
Al. l., 10
in which he was vested with supreme
command throughout the peninsular
war, in which he defeated the ablest
of Napeleon's marshals until the
eventful day at Waterloo.
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ORIGIN OF THE TOMATO.
.hcr, l. No Record of IL Time when
It Grew Wild.

mere - w Ahftoih VI a. 49,
IL Grew Wild.
The tomato is native Of South
America ard more particularly of Peru
md The .NHdcan region The Indian
name for il is .tumatl" and the Spanish
name tomato" When the Spanlards
arrived in the sixteenth century they
considered nothing Of much Importance
except silver. But in 1888 they took
some Tomatoes home with them as a
matter of curiosity little dreaming
that there would some day he more
silver in them than there was in all
the Peruvian mines. There is n gen
rral impression that until sixty or
seventy years ago the tomato plant
was universally regarded rs a poisonous
weed and thai its handsome fruit WAS
called the love apple" and never cul-
tiVatcd except as something pleasant
To look upon Bnt this story is incon-
sistrnt with itself. The tomato was
called the "lovc apple" for the reason
that it was believed to he an aphrodis-
lac. or cXcitant of amorous feelings.
But it could not even be suspected Of
such a property unless 1t had been
habltually eaten. The truth Is that
there is no record of time when in
South America the tomato was not
an article of food There is indeed no
record of time when it grew Wild.
When the Spaniards reached Peru they
found nothing but the cultivated to-
mato, which was cultivated for food
They took fancy to IT and took it to
Spain, from which place IT found its
way in 1876 10 England.
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FOOLE0 IL FRANCE.
Irnpostor Made Paris Relieve He Was
Ambassador from Persia.

Ambassador From Persia.
Toward the end of the year TIA a
certain Mehcmet Rizabecq, who called
himself ambassador of the king of Per
STA. and the bearer of his commands,
disembarked nj Marseilles
He was received at two leagues from
Paris 10y the Baron de Breteuil, usher
of ambassadors, and the Marshal de
Matienon on the 9th of January,
17l5, he made his solemn entry into
tile capital with great pomp.
He declined the royal carriages gen
orally used on such occasions and en-
tered on horseback, preceded by the
finest he!.scs of the kings stables, SUI
perbly caparisoned and accompa nied
by trumpets and bands of music.
The ambassador, richly arrayed in
the Persian costume, was attended by
a numerous train of domestics and
preceded by herald bearing the Per
l,!aa STANDARD. The presents which he
offered to the king were very incon-
siderable.
After passing Shurt tihir ii France,
during which he concluded, IA the
name Of his pretended master, treaty
of alliance with Louis NV, lac sailed
from Sweden and Denmark and was
never heard Of later.
Rizabecq according to the Memoirs
of the Reign of Louis NV" was Il
Portuguese who had never seen the
prince he represented nor even visited
GintFla .f Dapsia Tho
eminent paid the expenses of his ex-
ccllcney. which amounted to Loco Ii
VreS n day Mirror.
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SIIrtiinPA,

Genuine sardines are the young Of
the pilchard. Their name comes from
the fact that they are most numerous
off the coast of Sardinia. They swim
IN the spring in shoals containing mil
lions fish shaped shoals ten miles long
and half mile wide. The sardncs ARE
melted and taken nj once To the shore
There they are washed, scraped and
sprinlilcd with Salt The salt is soon
removed, the heads and gills cut off
and there is another washing Then,
on beds of green brush, the fish are
dried in the sun Next they are boiled
in olive oil till cooked thoroughly.
The packers women always take
them now and pack them in the tin
boxes we all Know. lilling up each box
with boiling OIL fitting on the lid and
making the box air tight by soldering
the joints together with n jet of hot
steam. Sardincs are more or less per
feet according rs they are prepared
more or less Immediately after their
capture and according MS the oil they
are packed in is more or less pure
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An Odd Picture.

One of the strnngcst sights | ever
saw in II wild country was little min
lister CARRIED in solemn black, white
dog" collar, buttonless vest and stlii
blacl, straw hat The dominic was
standing in lcaky boat in the midst
of primcval woods, fishing the boil
ing waters of mountain torrent. At
his back cataract roared and pound
ed the rocks, churning the water TO
white suds Above him the eternal
SNOW glistened on the mountains and
but a few yards away gaunt CHINA
mon bear was quietly nosing among
the driftWood. Dan Beard in World
Work
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For Pence Only

Ii is well known that the Friends
have always been devoted to the prin=
ciplcs of peace As they had II con
trolling influence In The public affairs
of Nantucket, there WAS no military
organization on that island for several
generations How the matter was man
ngcd is told by the author OF "Scptcm.
Der Days on Nantucket
Whenever military companies came
10 the island for a holiday young wom
On throngcd the windows and waved
handkcrchicfs. but there was no rise of
military ambition in the town. Once II
eoteric of young men formed train
ing company and sent 10 Boston for
equipments hut their elders compelled
them 10 make the first article of their
constitution read. This company shall
be disbandcd Immediately in case of
war"