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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26
Servia'S Example.

Most OF the ENJOYS OF the foreign pow
ers have returned to Belgrade and re
sumed the ordinary diplomatic rela-
tions with King Peter and his govern
ment. and nothing more is heard OF any
demand from abroad for the punish
ment OF the murderers of King Alex
ander and Queen DraSa, Indeed, nearly
every day brings fresh evidence of the
fact that the head OF the house Of
Karageorgevitch was the principal in
stigator OF the military conspiracy
against the late ruler OF Servia and his
conscrt. and while he did not desire
their assassination. which seems to
have been provoked by IRE resistance
which the plotters encountered the
palace, yet he was fully cognizant OF
the plan to compel Alexander TO abdi-
cate. and TO expel him and he Queen
from Servia.
That in spite OF this completely in one
OF the most shocking outrages In the
annals OF modern or ancient royalty.
King Peter should have been welcomed
, by the Emperors OF Russia, Austria
and Germany, by the Kings OF Italy,
4 Srain, and other smaller countries OF
Europe. as a brother monarch. and that
! his government should have been recog-
nized by most OF the great powers. not
withstanding that at least one of mis-
cabinet ministers and three Of the prin-
7 cipal dignitaries OF his household were
among the actual assassins of the un-
/ fortunate Alexander and Queen Draga
has not been lost upon the disaffected
military officers OF other countries.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26
No Reliance on Rural Population.

Equally hopeless are the prospects OF
the King receiving any assistance from
the middle and lower classes. All the
political life and visor of Portugal, the
intelligence. the enlightenment, the in
dustry, and the commerce of the ma
tion are centered In the principal cities
and towns. the rural districts being of
small account. politically speaking. For,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26
WATER MAIN TO BE LAID.

The Commissioners have approved
the recommendation OF the Engineer
Department. that an item be included
in the next estimates 10 Congress for
laying a water main in California Ave-
nue.. between Phelps Place and Massa-
chusetts Avenue northwest. The esti-
mated cost is $3.50.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26

! incorporated, with mayor and city coun-
Gil
Nobody dreamed of a city coextensive
with the limits of the District, ten mlIes
square-it would have been supreme
folly il they had-there were no real es-
tate expIoiters IN those days. but a
happy, contented people. Cities grow by
Development from within. ON lines OF
particular daptation-commereia or
manufacturing-no by running streaks
of red mud around them. The beautiful
suburbs of Cincinnati we're not the crea-
lions of premature asphalts. but the
natural and healthy overflow OF popula-
ton and business.
Economies Involved.
Washington is nothing but a Govern
ment boarding house. supplemented
with few furnishing houses. Whether
it shall ever be anything more depends
it is not a question of ethics OF senti-
ment. but of applied economies One
thing Is certain-it can never be made
anything more by chopping down the no.
BILE forest trees and calling the devasta-
tion a park or laying down asphalt.
putting in water and gas pipes. and call
ing these abortions the most beautiful
city In the world.
Far better than this emasculation of
our beautiful District would 1t be to
keep sacrilegious hands OF the fair work
Of nature. Visitors coming to the Ma
tional Capital would be more delighted
to see the noble forests, the green
grass. the murmuring brooks. than the
unsightly patchwork misnamed i'm
provements"-more charmed with the
songs OF the birds than with the sound Of
the ak and the pick in the work OF
'butchery," as you very properly de-
scribe IL
A Government of Its Own.
For sixty-nine years Washington had
government of its own The charter
OF Connecticut in Colonial days was mid
ia an oak tree. hut there was no refuge
for the peoples charter of 1902 against
the rapacity OF the exploiters- In 1871
the charter was repealed and the Ter
ritorial" form Of government substi-
tuted, commonly known as the Boss
Shepherd regime.
1t had its defects. but 1T was far SUI
peTfor TO the present system II was a
mixture OF executive appointment and
popular suffrage, and the only redeeming
part Of it was the individuality of one
man, Alexander Shepherd. He lifted
Washington from a mudhole and made
ii an inhabitable city. The modern Shep-
herds are putting the city back in 4 mud
hole as fast as they can, and giving US
nothing but ''streaks of red mud
through the District.
Commissioners or Mandarins?
This Territorial form gave way TO
the present plan in 1874 The people
were told that the scheme was only ten
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26
Unfortunately Expressed.

Edtor-l am sorry to hear. parson, that you
our last issue
Paron- DiSpleased Read this, sir. Next
Sunday evening the Rev. Mr.. Parsons viii speak
upon the evils Of strong drink. The address
should b. well worth hearing. as Mr.. Parsons is
always full Of his subject. "-Chrstian Herald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26
A Telephone Nurse.

Midway woman, wishing to visit a neigh
Dor pulled .he baby's crib up in front of the
telephone, opened the receiver. and told central
II the baby began 20 cry 10 call her I'D at the
neighbor' s.-Blue Grass Clipper.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26
People Also Disloyal,

Nor are the people of Portugal one
whit less disaffected than the army.
Both the aristocracy and the clergy are
devoted to the cause of the legitimist
pretender Dom Miguel of Braganza. who
occupies with regard to the throne OF
Portugal much the same position as that
OF Don Carlos OF Bourbon toward the
crown of Spain. The feelings of the no.
bility are perhaps best shown by the fact
that while the King was in England last
year the Portuguese house of lords al
most succeeded in passing law repeal
ing the law of exile against the pre-
tender Dom Miguel. the government with
much difficulty securing at the last mo-
ment the defeat OF this measure By a
single vote. The episcopacy and all the
religious orders are opposed to the King.
because he has made an endeavor TO sub
ject them TO the laws OF the land, and
likewise to fiscal obligations from which
they had managed until recently to es-
cape.
The adoption OF this course with re-
gard to the clergy and to the religious
orders naturally has led to an agitation
analogous to that which has been created
In France by the action of the present
| Combes administration in connection
with the church. and as north Of the
| Pyrenees, so also in Portugal has the
cry Of religious persecution been raised
many OF the principal mobiles at court
resigning their offices in the royal house
hold, in token of their disapproval OF
the Kings policy. The clergy and the
religious orders are, OF course, like tho
nobility. all in favor of the pretendeI
Dom Miguel, who in the same way. as
Don Carlos in Spain promises in the
event of his securing possession of th'
throne to restore the old-time power
prerogatives and influences TO the church
and to the aristocracy, which were dc
prived thereof under the reign OF tn,
late King.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26

army or retired therefrom. more vim
dictive against the crown. and more
firm In their determination to get rid
of the King. so that at any moment we
may hear of a military pronunciamento
at Lisbon and of Dom Carlos being
placed on board some outward bound
vessel. fortunate. indeed. IL he es-
capes a more tragic fate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26

This Territorial form gave way to
the present plan in 1874 The people
were told that the scheme was only ten
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Animal superatitions.

Tnere are many animals that the su-
Iperstitious consider it unlucky to kill,
Among them may be mentioned lady
bird, martin, robin, stork and a
money spider, while to kill wren
means that you will break a bone be-
fore the year Is out. Many animals are
also supposed to herald death. and su-
perstttions in this direction are so nu-
merous that only few can be men,
toned here. The most commonly
known is the clicking or tapping Of
the beetle called death watch, which
Is reckoned us an omen of death to
some one in the house.
The bowling of n dog at night near n
house is supposed to predict the death
Of sick inmate, as also the setting of
white pigeon on house bodies death
to some one in the house, while, again,
an old saying among the superstitious
rune, mo person can die on bed or
pillow containing the feathers of
white pigeon"
That the gnawing of furniture by
rats presages death is also a common
superstition. To meet certain animals
is considered lucky, while to meet 9TH
ers is the reverse. For instance, to
meet SOW with litter Of pigs is very
lucky, but it is unlucky If a sow
crosses a travellers path. To meet a
weasel Is lucky, but should hare run
across the road in front of you 1t
eugurs bad fortune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Passed the pott,e Too on,c,.,,.


VIII Low, the painter, told story of
the Latin quarter days of Robert Louis
Stevenson. Low and Stevenson were
great friends In their youth. Their
friendship indeed continued up to the
time Of the writer's death.
Louis" said the artist, "was no less
diplomatic than brave. He could be
fiery, and he could also be gracious and
pacific. One night, remember, we
sat in garden in Montmnrtre. The
red wine had been flowing pretty free
ly, and one Of our party got heated
and aggressive.
FINALLY some one said thing that
this fighting chap disliked. AS soon as
the words were spoken he grabbed up
a bottle and hurled it at the others
head. 1t was q strong, true shot and
would have hit the mark had not Ste
venson sprung to his feet and caught
the missile.
Tut tut, George he said to the
thrower; tut, tut. If the bottle is
passed SO quickly, none of us will be
able to stand out the evening."-New
York Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Feeding Experiments are

reeulHg experiments are now IN
Progress.
Prof. WI. Kennedy, head of the
animal husbandry department of the
Iowa agricultural college, has complet-
ed final arrangements for the MAN.
moth cattle feeding experiments to be
conducted this year on the Cook farms
at Odebolt, Iowa
Three distinct experiments are now
being conducted. The first, an accli-
nation test to determine the climatic
influences, If any, on southern cattle
when brought to northern states as
feeders, was started March 1. The
second and third experiments were
commenced this week under the direc-
tion of Prof. Marshall, assistant teacher
in the animal husbandry department.
The cattle for the three experiments,
numbering 500, have been carefully
selected and divided by Profs. Kennedy
and Marshall into ten lots of fifty AMI.
mails each.
The second experiment contains three
lots of fifty head each, to be fed differ
ent amounts of grain.
The third experiment contains Eve
lots of fifty head each.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15

OF their number to purchase the bull,
and the others could use him. paying q
certain price for each service, the same
as they now do for the use of a stallion.
If the farmers are determined to i'm
prove their stock, are convinced that
they must raise better stock, they will
find a way to secure the bull. The first
thing is for them to decide that they are
tired of raising scrubs, and intend to
do better; having decided this question,
they will find way to secure the bull.
Everything now indicates that they
have decided the matter, and as before
stated, they are buying the bulls, and
the result will be wonderful improve
ment in the cattle of Iowa, which will
not only rebound to the benefit of the
farmers, but to the state as WE'LL
Farmers Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
The nutler wn. In Doubt.

The recent st. Andrews dinners, ac-
cordtng to the Westminster Gazette,
have been noteworthy for the profu.
sion Of Scotch stories, which in several
cases fairly set the tables in roar.
Some of them have IN ancient ring,
but there is one that is perhaps not
generally known. A doctor was at
tending dangerous case where a
Scotch butler was engaged. On calling
in the forenoon he said to Donald, II
hope your masters temperature is
much lower today than it was last
night" 'I'm no sac very sure aboot
that" replied the butler, "for he deed
this morning."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
A Most Liberal Offer

All our farmer readers should take
advantage of the Unprecedented club
bing offer we this year make, which in.
cludes with this paper The Iowa Home
stead, its Special Farmers Institute Ed
itions and The Poultry Farmer. These
three publications are the best of their
class and should be IN every farm home.
To them we add, for local, county and
general news, our own paper, and make
the price of the four one year only $1.9O.
Never before was 30 small an amount
of money. The three papers named,
which we club with our own, are we'll
known throughout the west, and com,
mend themselves to the readers favor
able attention. The Iowa Homestead
is the great agricultural and live stock
paper of the west; The Poultry Farmer
Is the most practical poultry paper for
the farmer, while The Special Farmers
Institute Editions are the most practi-
cal publications for the promotion of
good farming ever published. Take ad-
vantage of this great offer, as it will
hold good fof short time only. Sam.
Piles of these papers may be examined
by calling at this office. 53-w21
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Reason to he Happy.

What is the use of being ut odds
with the world? What is the use Of
being blue and Respondent? The world
is full Of trials for us all-has plenty
OF trouble and worry to hand out even
to the best Of US from time to time.
But there would be no need for men
and, women-we could all be babes-it
there were no great life problems to
solve, no burdens to bear, no sorrows to
live down. These are the balance
wheels Of life. They are the trials we
have to face in order to strengthen us
and broaden us to the opportunities
and the real happiness that riches do
not command nor poverty bar.-New
York Mail and Express.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
A i.u..orou= snake.

In Marianne North's "Eecollections
of Happy Life" is description of a
tame snake.
! Its mistress would sometimes twist
the pretty bronze creature in the great
plait of hair she wore around her head
and once threatened to go down thus
decorated to dinner party of rather
stiff people.
But one of the snakes own eccentric
tiles serves to distinguish 1t among all
other reptiles Of a similar nature which
have served as pets.
1t was as fond of glittering things as
Its mistress herself, and when she took
off her many rings and placed them on
different parts Of the table 1t would 60
about collecting them and string1ng
them on Its 1.-THE body. Then It would
tie itself in a knot, SO that the rings
could not be taken OF until it was
pleased to unite itself again.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Knock, Knock, Knock.

Along comes proposition for Improvement Of
the town;
Up bobs the chronic knocker, for he'd like to
knock 1t down.
He'll set his jaw a-waggn' for he cannot stand
the shock
Oh progress In his village, so he'll
Knock, knock, knock.
He's gueerly constituted that he doesn't like to
His neghborhood progressing-as 1t surely
ought to be.
He hates to see extension of his city. block by
block,
For his favorite occupation Is to
Knock, knock, knock.
When he meets this proposition he will greet IT
And boiler bout the taxes-and take another
Then his talking apparatus he'll wind up like a
And set the thing a.goin'-hear him
Knock, knock, knock.
But the people favor progress, with feelln
good and strong.
When they meet this proposition they'll help
push the thing along.
so IL DOESN'T hinder progress, nor 1t doesn't stop
For this industrious objector to
Knock, knock, knock.
-Birnamwood (Wls.) News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Poison Cowbane.

The press dispatches few days ago
gave an account of the poisoning of
three children in Glenwood, ira aged
ten and Ross aged eight years, children
of I. Y. johnson. Two of the children
died of the effect, while John aged
seven years, son of Mrs. Amanda Kin
gerry, ate of the root but was not fatally
poisoned. Some of the material was
forwarded to me by Mr.. Irwin j. Erhli-
man of Glenwood. The plant proved
to be cowbane, also known as the water
hemlock cr mdskfst root or beaver pol
son, plant belonging to the carrot
family. This order contains many eco
nomic plants like the carrot, carroway,
celery, parsnips, but also many very
poisonous plants like the poison hem
lock. Frequent cases of poisoning
have been reported caused by different
members of this family. Inssmuch as
this plant is frequently met with In var
ious sections of the state it seems ad-
visable to describe its characteristics.
A full account of this weed was given
in Bulletin No. % of the Iowa Aglicul-
tural Experiment Station but this bulle.
tin is out of print. We shall shortly
describe it in detail in forthcoming
bulletin. 1t is smooth marshy peren-
NAL, 2 to 5 feet high, with large COM
pound leaves, the leaves having long
stalks. The flowers are white, growing
in umbels like the carrot. The stem
springs from the thick branching under.
ground roots that are collected together
in fascicles, something like the dahlia
only very much smaller. On cutting
the root sharp, pungent odor is given
off which is intensified on boiling. 1t Is
advisable to leave alone all plants that
have thickened roots with pungent odor
that grow in marshes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Business Opportunities For All.

Locations in Iowa, Illinois, Mime
sofa and Missouri on the Chicago Great
Western Railway; the very best sgri-
cultural section of the United States
where farmers are prosperous and busi-
ness men successful. We have q demand
for competent men, with the necessary
capital, for all branches of business.
Some special opportunities for creamery
men and millers. Good locations fol-
general merchandise, hardware, harness,
hotels, banks and stackbuyera. Cores.
pondence solicited. Write for Maps and
Maple Leaflets. W. T. Reed, Industrial
Agent, 604 Endicott Building, St. Paul
MINI.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15

Old soldiers are still strong in con-
gress. Although it is thirty-eight years
since the surrender of Lee, yet 30 per
cent of the senate and 13 per cent of the
house fought on one side or the other in
the civil war. or seventy.seven in the
house forty-seven were iu theunion army
and thirty In the confederate. In the
senate there are thirteen ex-conreder-
ates and thirteen former union soldiers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Not Quite What H. Meant.

The man who thought he had the
knack of saying pleasant things calcu-
lated to warm the cookies Of the Oldest
heart was reyisiting the town in which
he had spent summer twenty years
before.
I'm Miss Mears. l don't know that
you recall me-" said coquettish ell
derly spinster, approaching him in the
postoffice the day after his arrival.
The ready heart warmer turned with
his most beaming smile and wrung her
hand.
Recall you," he echoed, rcproach-
fully. "As II one could help 1t, Miss
Mears! Why, you are one Of the land
marks of the town."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Sahara. o..e..

Some of the oases of the Sahara are
quite large, one Of them being 100
miles long and flfty-eight miles wide.
The springs are Of various kinds-hot
cold, mineral or gaseous. The Kargha
oasis has population of 5000. They
raise grain, onions and dates, but live
on the least possible amount of food,
work and reasoning power. Marshes
abound and fever prevails.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Great Demand for Pure-bred Bulls.

=
at a combination cattle sale, and at
the Bigler sale at the State Fair grounds,
representative of the Tribune talked
with many cattle men from Iowa and
other states, and declared that there
never had been such demand for good,
purebred bulls by the farmer, as there
has been during the last year. The
breeders all reported that they were un.
able to supply the demand, and at
no time in the history of purebred stock
raising, has the bulls been sold out as
closely as they are now. This was seen
in the Bigler sale of 254 head, and only
thirteen bulls were left to bring to the
sale.
There is no breed that has the pre-
ference, the demand for the Shorthorns,
Herefords, Angus and the Gallowsys all
being good. The market for the last
year has been great educator; farmers
have seen the well-bred high grade cat.
tie sell for much higher prices, than the
common cattle, and they know that the
only way they can produce better
grade of live stock-a grade that will
top the markets. by improvement of
the native herds by the infusion of pure
blood. The farmer finds that he cannot
afford to raise the common stock, that
sell at low price, on his high priced
land, while his neighbour, by raising Inn
proved stock, is outstripping him in the
race for success.
Some farmers say that they cannot
afford to buy high priced bulls. What
are high prices for good purebred bulls
Good purebred bulls have been
selling at $50 to 5000. A steer from
such bull will sell for 800 more when
put on the market than one of the same
age that has consumed as much food
from scrub bull. So it will only take
ten calves when they are matured al
two years old, to sell for enough mort
than ten scrubs, to pay for the bull
then, too, you have your herd on the
high road to improvement, and all you
future sales will be clear profit.
If q few neighbors who wish to i'm,
prove their stock will club together
they can purchase bull thatwill do fo
all of them, and win not cost each o.
them but little. Or they.cou get on,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15

Funniman-Now, there's your hus-
band coming, Mrs. Candor. Let's make
a little surprise for him. Mrs. Funni-
nan and will hide behind the curtains
here, and you tell him that your ex-
pected guests haven't come. Then we'll
step out and surprise him.
{ enter Mr.. Candor.)
Mrs. Candor (obeying orders)-Well,
Henry. our expected guests have dis
appointed us-Mr. and Mrs. Funniman
haven't come.
Mr.. Candor (heartily) Thank heaven!