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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-04

indianapolis, Feb. 81. = j. j. Rowe,
mayor of Lakewood, suburb of
Cleveland, was elected president of the
American Bowling congress yesterday
afternoon by vote of III to "a.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-04

Washington, March 2.-The president
today signed proclamation calling
an extraordinary session of the sen
ate Of the Fifty-IIighth congress to as
semble on the 9TH day of March, 1908,
at noon.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-04
Ms. Fairbank. Re-Eleote,

Washington. Feb. 27.-Nirs. Cornelia
Cole Fairbanks of Indiana has been
unanimously reelected president-gen-
eral Of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-04
GEN. "BALDY" SMITH Is DEAD
There Are but Four of the Civil War I'm
ion Corps Commanders
Now Left

Now Left.
Philadelphia, March 2.-Gen. Will
lam Farrar Smith, better known as
Badly" Smith, one of the prominent
figures of the civil war, died at his
home in this city Saturday night. He
was in his S0th year, and was born
in st. Adams, VT. He entered West
Point at the age Of II, and when the
civil war broke out he was made COM
mander of the Third Vermont regi-
ment. He rose rapidly and became
one of the leading figure in that strug-
gle.
Fifteen years ago he became en-
gagged in the work Of improving the
rivers and harbors in Delaware and
Maryland, and made his home in this
city, About u year ago he retired from
this work. General Smiths death, II
is said, reduces the number of living
corps commanders of the civil war to
four
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-04

Washington, Feb. 2S.-Soon after 3
p. m. yesterday President Roosevelt
received the members of the Republic
an National Editorial association at
the White House, and he gave cor
dial greeting and hand-shake to each
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-04

II we are Tong absent from our
friends. we forget them; if we are con-
stantly with them, we despise them
HazItt.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-04
DEATH OF JEHu BAKER
He Was Eighty One, Had Served in Con
gress and Never Permitted Any One
to Pay His Way.

Belleville, Ills, March 2. = Hon.
Jehu Baker, ex-United States minis
ter to Venezuela and representative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
Reform by Surgery.

From the New 1ork 11mes
London is just now very much interested
in two surgical cases. giving results In
changing the nature of the subjects which
promise to render valuable assistance in
pointing the way to the reformation of
criminals One of the patients was a boy
of good family who had developed brutal
instincts which seemed to be beyond con-
troll He gave his time to the invention OF
malicious mischief, delighted in killing or
wounding, was the terror of the neighbour
hood in which he lived, and promised to
grow up a desperate and criminal. A
clever surgeon took him in hand, examined
his head with care, located what he con-
sidered the seat of the trouble, removed a
portion of the skull, and thus relieved the
mediate. The lad forgot his previous
tastes and habits and was restored to his
parents normal and lovable boy, the
complete antithesis of his former self. The
other was a soldier who was injured in a
skirmish, and after his discharge for dis
ability became a thief and burglar. His
previous character had been unexceptfon-
able, his military record was the best, and
the change was naturally attributed to the
injury to his head, caused by blow from
the butt of musket. When he was taken
in hand by the surgeons he had about come
to the end of a career of crime, being para
lived on one side and unable to get about
except on crutches. A depression in the
skull sufficient to bring an abnormal local
pressure upon the brain was found and an
operation was decided upon which restored
his physical powers as well as his mental
and moral faculties. His discharge was
secured and he has since lived an indus
trious and honest life, with no evidence Of
disposition to go wrong.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
IN CHESS CIRCLES

between Monte Carlo and the opening OF
the present Vienna tourney the enterpris-
ing Hastings Club had Pillsbury Black
purne and Marshall for a little carnival OF
chess Among the games is one note
worthy, because Pilsbury. playing the de-
tense to Blackburnes kings gambit, resur-
rected the long dead and buried variation
on the third move, P-KB4, a counter gam
DIT oner. The play is SO old that probably
Biackburne had forgotten all about the
analysis Freeborough's openings disposes
OF the variation in the shortest order leav-
Ing White the better of it.
See game below.
Although the advantage has always been
supposed to remain with Black in the kings
gamp1t, the score In the going tourney at
vienna, devoted entirely to that opening
up to Friday does not bear out assumption
white being ahead at the rate of two to
one.
Two hundred and twenty-five PLAYERS are
now fitting in the Rice gambit tourney
l. e. Mcllwaine of Plattsburg has won the
urst game In sixteen moves of Parkinson of
Newark, Ohio
The eighteenth annual charlottesville
tourney of the Franklin Club resulted in
the winning out in the order named of the
three well-knOwn players M Morgan c J.
Newman and S. W. hampton. A little
practice between the Franklin and Library
Clubs Knocked the latter IA to G.
FROM limited space but few examples
could be shown last week to illustrate the
proposition then advanced that Whites line
OF play third Pos, PIP, 4KtxP left him
In practice with inferior chances. Below
are further lines of play pointing in same
direction. This first game is from, Monte
Carlo, and in the middle game Mieses drop-
ped into the brillancy order
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
FARMERS RARELY BALD.
Disquisition by the Barber on Why
They're Not When City Folks Are.

From the New York Sun.
Ever see a real back country farm
e., with a bald head?" asked the sub
urban barber, replying to the request of his
intellectual sitter for reason for the thin
ming of his capillary thatch. Now, have
worked in fully half the states in the
Union, in town and in country, and never
have. The head of the kind of farmer I'm
thinking of may be well supplied with
hayseed and barn dust, but the hair is
generally very silky and well nour1shed.
mo, l don't believe that dust or seeds
are good for the hair Don't make any
mistake there. But 1 am sure that the con-
tinual washing of the scalp is about the
worst thing possible for the roots of the
hair. Now, gentlemen think nothing OF
taking bath every day. Some use little
ammonia in the water to soften 1t. Most
of them make sure of clean scalp by
using soap. The effect upon the head is
the same in both cases. The natural oil
which ought to exist about every healthy
scalp Is completely removed And that
just starves out the roots of the hair. as
really as though you wash a lily bulb clear
of it's soil and set it to grow on that slab.
Pomatum? Say, l can sell you cheap as
you can buy anywhere, pretty nearly every
kind used in the profession! Maybe they
are pretty good; most of them, anyway
But no maker has yet claimed to have dis
covered hair preserver quite as good as
the natural oil which you find about the
heads of healthy young children, for in
stance. If / could discover just how to
make that and how to apply 1t l could
strike a fortune in no time. Now, the back
country farmer l am talking about washes
his head maybe twice or three times a year,
that is in threshing time or when he takes
dip in the creek And you see the result
Then there's another thing to remem-
ber The farmer lives pretty much by
physical labor That means he does not,
as a rule, overhead his head by planning
and thinking, like the city man or the rest
who get their living by their brains Such
men dry up all the natural oil springs
nature stuck about the head by their in
side heat We find when we cut it that
their hair is quite crisp and hard, what
there is of it,
Then your advice would be Keep cool
and let your hair grow as the boys used
to Say?'
Sure, and, more important still. never
wash your head with anything which will
make lather unless your are obliged to.
If you have to, be sure you wash all the
I've and ammonia and such like well out
of the scalp with water, to give the Oil
chance to do its best
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
Sicilian Defense,

l>otes ny he1cbhelmb
tal Inc Italians play, while aarminrl-,
strong mas been OF the genteel order but he's now
on me Drink OF one OF the brilliant smashups
on record. HAD he seen what coming he would
have played Q-B3. ~
10 This move comes on Reggie like thupderbolt
It's immense
move.
i'd There's escape.
tel II QxB, he's again mated in two moves
The British Chess Magazine discussing
the opening in January number this year,
says after disposfng of other lines OF play
that Pos after Black P-QB4 is strong
play. etc; but in regard to P-QB3 before
hand, that II, is Alapin's continuation. and
aims at establishing a pawn center, which
Black must break up and can best do by
POI Now the analysis that White must
push pawn to Ks, because he cannot de-
velop ext to B3 as things are But sup
pose 3, PIP, QxP; 4, Kt-B3, Kt-QB3; 5,
B-kt5, and in a short time White can
with advantage push pawn to QB4, In any
variation.
The following game, reintroduced here
for Illustration, was sent to the British
Chess Magazine with the following note
from the Rev. F. G. Pentelow: ''I send
you the score of a game played between
two amateurs in the backwoods of Cam
ada, thirty miles from any railway"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
Excess in Golf.
From the Lancet.

Too much time is spent over golf. and
men bring to bear on the game an industry
and a devotion to detail which ought to be
expended upon more serious things. This
kind of enthusiasm for form of recrea-
ton cannot be regarded merely strug-
gle to maintain the standard OF physical
health on which mental health depends. IT
must rather be looked upon as immoderatc
attention to the fascinating sport. and must
be guarded against like any other form of
excess. 1t is an admirable thing in golf
which we admit to be an excellent game
even while we desire to say warning
word against its cult-that II clnnot be
played caIeleSSly and that asSiduoCS prac-
tice is required after the position in the
handicap list that is somewhat contemp-
tuously described as domestic twelve has
been reached If higher standard is to
be attained. 1t is exactly here that golf
proves, to our thinking. pitfall to many
men. Whatever is worth doing is worth
doing well is al axiom that every think
ing man must cordially indofse. AS no one
can play golf really well without the sacrf-
flee of much time, the workingman is soon
brought to a parting of three ways. Shall
he leave off playing game in which he can
only excel by much expenditure of time?
Or shall he continue to play moderately a
game which he feels that he could, and he
would, play much better? Or shall he give
more thought than is right to what at best,
is but laborious idleness? We hope that all
our readers will take the middle course. Let
them reap the undoubted good that is Of
fered to them by break in their round of
toll and by brisk exercise on open hill and
heath, and let those of them who are not
brilliant opponents of golf recognize cheer
fully that excellence can only come by the
neglect of more important things.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
Will Paw Fraternal Visit.

The members of Perseverance Lodge, L.
o. G. T., will proceed in body next Thurs
day evening to Tenleytown. where they will
be the guests of Silver Star Lodge of that
place The principal purpose of the visit
is to return to the Tenleytown organizati IN
the membership banner awarded for hav-
ing during the past term initiated more new
members than did any other lodge in the
District. The same evening the members
of the Grand Lodge will make a vista don
to Silver Star Lodge
At the. recent meeting of Perseverance,
Lodge at Scottish Rite Hall, $40 Pennsyl-
vania avenue northwest, letter was re Id
from Mr.. v. A. Hubbell,S the first chief
templar OF the lodge, who stated that the
organiza ton of Perseverance Lodge occur
red May 10. 1881 and that the lodge is con-
sequentIy twenty-five years old. 1t was
decided to hold an entertainment Saturday.
evening, June 49,
Under good of the order the following
program was given: Duet, Mr.. James
Roflfe and Mrs. Rollfe; recitation, Mr..
Gross, who gave several limitations; vocal
duet, Mr.. and Mrs A. H. Frear; violin
solo, Mfr. Carroll; performance with Indian
clubs, Miss Leone Drake; song, Mrs j. s..
Hillman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
Killed by Work Car.
PERFECTING HIS AIRSHIP.
Prof Bell to Give Aerial Navigation
Special Attention.

1t is authoritatiyely stated today that
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell, who yester-
day rendered his resignation as president
of the National Geographic Society, did SO
in order that he might devote his entire at
tention to his various scientific experiments
chief among which is the perfection of his
new tetrahedron kite-flying machine. The
principles of this aerial machine were eX
planned by DR.. Bell in a paper read before
the last meeting of the National Academy
of Science. He is said to be deeply interest
ed in the results of his experiments thus
far, and expects to be busily employed in
his work along the line of aerial navigation
for the next year or SO.
Dr. Bell will leave Washington the lat
ter part of next week for Burdette, Nova
Scotia, where his laboratory is situated
and where he will carry on his experiments
until fall His resignation president of
the National Geographic Society will not
take effect until December next. He will
continue to serve as one of the board of
governors of the society. and later will
constitute one of a committee of three to
select and nominate his successor as presi-
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
Investigation of oyster Beds.

The question of productive and barren
oyster beds on the Potomac and other
waters in Virginia will be thoroughly IN
vestigated by special committee of the
Virginia legislature.
1t will ascertain how much bottom
there is which is so barren as not to pay
tongers for working 1t, and which will not
reseed itself naturally within three years;
how much bottom is worthless and cannot
be leased to planters; how much can be
leased to planters without encroaching on
the natural oyster rocks or injuring or en-
dangering the probable working of them;
whether the leasing of these bottoms would
be to the best interests of the state, and
how much ground suitable for planting pur-
poses and which will probably be taken up
by the planters, there is outside the Baylor
survey.
Senators Julian Bryan and A. d. Watkins
and Delegates w. B. Cardeli. e. c. Jordan
and s. W. Matthews compose the. commit
tee. and they will make two visits to the
oyster grounds during the summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
Sicilian Defense,

british Chess Magaxine.b
la 1t is a question whether QxP should not -
more troublesome for the defense
tb) Passing the rather early advance Of KIT p.
both parties form up on approved lines Of the
Fianchetto Siciian-that is up TO Blacks tenth
move quered fellows.
lc) Most likely inferior to ii Q-Q2 for pressure
the Q p, the weak point OF adverse position.
With that. If Black were to 90 IL 49,, Castles;
then II KR-Q. XIX; then II KR-Q, XIX; Is
B-B5 and the Pawn should fall.
ID Also questionable-especially In face of the
obvious IS -, P-QR4, etc. The White rocks are
somewhat indrerently handled all through the
middle game.
lei As consequence Of this, the Bishop is almost
put out Of action having retire to RI In due
course. 10 Q-Q2 would not be. thus objectionable:
the Bishop might go back TO with compare
tive advantage.
81 Safer % B-Kf3.
(g) Far better 80 ROB. The ending 10 In.
structive.
Pawn.
IN For II Al BIB, P-B5; or IL Al PRS. R-R6;
AZ PxR, P-B5 and though White could struggle.
he would lose last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19

asked price. They are samples from a.
maker. Satin Taffetas and Peau de
Soies-most of them. The buckles alone
on many of them would cost ~
more than the price complete. ZSC.
While they last. SOSe
Belts, LIST floor, Section J.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
Byron.

Mrs. Jennie Clark, of Gaines, was in
Byron last week.-Mrs. Clara Davis,
of West Branch. is in Byron visiting
her mother--Miss Luella Nisley of Sa-
line, and Mrs +. l. Walker attended an
Epworth League meeting of officers at
Flint, Wednesday of last Week.-Mrs.
Williams, of Hubbardston is the guest
of Mrs. l.. j. Braden-Mrs. Elma
Brewster, of Ann Arbor, visited her
mother, Mrs. Jabez Close, Wednesday
Miss Belle Fisher is on the sick list
E. w, Rohrabacher, of Owosso, was in
Byron, Friday-Frank Slovenian, of
Lansing, was in Byron last week.
w. +. Lusk, of Fenton, was in Byron
Friday-Abe Westlake and wife &C.
cupy rooms in the Downer house
Henry Faul has purchased the Salman
house and is remodeling it to live in.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
A FUTILE STRIKE
Big Street Railway Conflict In
Chicago Settled.
COMPANY IS VICTORIOUS
One Small Concession Made the
Strlkers-Arbitration of Scale to
Be According to Wages Paid Out
side of the City.

Chicago, Nov. 25.-The strike of the
employees of the Chicago City Street
Railway was settled at an early hour
this morning at q conference between
the mayor, the aldermanic peace com
mittee, President Hamilton and e. r.
Bliss, counsel for the company, and the
executive board Of the local union OF
the strikers.
The basis on which the settle
ment was reached is a complete vic
tory for the company, as far as the
original demands Of the men are con-
cerned. The agreement reached will
be ratified at meeting on the men
today, and it is expected that traffic
on all the lines of the company will
be resumed at once.
The only important concession made
by the company was an agreement to
reinstate all the strikers, including the
outside unions who went out in SYM
pathy with the trainmen, with the ex-
ception of those who resorted to vio-
lence during the trouble
The arbitration of the wage scale
is to be according to the wages paid
outside of Chicago and not on the
basis of the local street railways.
Ever since the Inauguration of the
strike, thirteen days ago, the company
has been gradually gaining the upper
hand OF the men. Under police protec-
ton traffic was opened on the Went
worth avenue branch of the system
twenty-four hours after the strike was
declared, and the service has been
gradually increased ever since until a
total Of five lines had been operated
with non-union crews while the strike
was on.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
Old Couple Burned to Death.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Nov. 25.-Fire
broke out at o'clock Tuesday morn.
ing in the farmhouse CT George Smith,
four miles south of this city, and at.
tracted the attention Of neighbors.
They hurried to the scene, but could
not eXtinr ash the flames. The old
people were missed, but could not be
found until soon after-7 o'clock, when
Deputy Sheriff Gates found their bod
les in the ruins. They were over go
years old, and 1t is believed they were
suffpcated by smoke. Neighbors have
suspicious of murder. One neighbor
says that Mrs. Smith said last Satur-
day that her husband bad repeatedly
threatened to kill her They believe
that the old man killed her and then
committed suicide after setting fire to
the house.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
Union Plains.

William Black has moved from the
Redson house to F G Coles tenant
house--John J Easement, of Fenton,
was in this vicinity last week taking
orders for the American fence-John
Graham and wife, of Fowlerville,
ate turkey with Mr. and Mrs George
Hall Thursday--B + Miller was in
Owosso on business Saturday-B S
Fosket and Walter Cossleman went to
Corunna Tuesday-Levi Newman is
building an ashery plant on the Can
trell place-Mr and Mrs Scott and
children, of Bancroft, visited at Fred
Springs Sunday.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
SAN DOMINGO FALLS.
President Wos y Gil Surrenders to
the Rebels

Washington, Nov 25.-In a cable
gram received here from Minister
Powell, dated Santo Domingo, Nov. 90,
he announces that the president OF
San Domingo has agreed to surrender
the city to the revolutionists. The
articles of capitulation are being
drawn up. The surrender, the cable
gram said, will occur today.
The following cablegram was re-
ceived at the state department Tues
day from Minister Powell, dated San
Domingo Monday:
Proposition Of San Domingo gov
ernaent is not acceptable. The revo-
lutionists refuse to consider any other
terms than immediate surrender and
resignation of the president. II the
terms are not accepted an assault on
the city will be made, but the armstice
has been extended until 6 O'Clock this
evening"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
Reads Like a Novel.

Chicago, Nov. 25.-After having
been bound and gagged by colored
thief in the residence of Mrs. r. A.
Barclay on Grand Boulevard, pluchy
l6-year-old girl, employed as do
nestle, burned the cords from her
wrists and chased the Intruder from
the house with carving knife. This
is the story as related by the girl.
whose name is Anna Hastings, Open.
ing the cellar door In response to a
knock, she says colored man seized
her by the throat, dragged her to the
kitchen and after tying her forced a
napkin into her mouth. while he pro.
ceeded to ransack. the house, The
girl dragged herself to the range and
succeeded in freeing herself. receiving
a severe burning In the operation,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
Probate Order.

State of Michigan, County of Shiawassee, S.
At session OF the Probate Court Tor
county, held at the Probate Office in T.
of Corunna, on "Wednesday irc-T5thAd
vember, in the year one thousand nj 6o-ins..
and three. = Tx
Present, Matthew Bush, Judge OF Probate
In the mattey~ of the estate of Abram
Whitman decea5ed: on reading and fling the
petition Of Esther E. Whitman, praying that
administration of said estate may be granted
to petitioner or some other suitable person. ~
II is ordered, that the 2lst day OF December
next, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon at said
Probate once be assigned for hearing said
petition.
Anc 1t is further ordered. that a copy of this
order be published three successive weeks
previous TO said day of hearing, in The Owosso
Times, a newspaper printed and circulating in
said county of Shiawassee.
MATTHEW BUSH,
Judge OF Probate.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
Corunna.

DIR. w. S. Jones was able to meet with
the pension board at Owosso, yesterday
"A. E. Ball, Of this city. has been
drawing beets to the new factory, and
they tested IA to II per cent, which is
pretty good for this season-The Ma
sonic.fraternities of this city, have given
an order to Lilly & Co., Columbus, for
lodge Orders are coming
in quite freely to the U. S. Robe Co.
b. r. Marshall has been engaged for
another yea. as caretaker at the park.
He made considerable improvement in
the looks of the park last year, and we
are pleased that he is to have charge of
it for another year. -Journal.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-11-27
Men Killed by Exploding Boiler.

Saginaw, Mich, Nov. 2S.-At S:9O
o'clock Saturday the boiler at the
shaft of the Carbon Coal company
two miles and half from Verne, in
Albee township, this county, exploded
with terrific force, blowing the engine
house and boiler into atoms, killing
two men and wounding five others.
Two OF the latter will likely die, and
the others are severely hurt. The
dead are: August Mortina, miner;
August Moshner, miner, both badly
mangled