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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
AMONG Onr Neivhbor.

Bryan is slated for IAN address at
MarShalltown, July l.
lightning struck the barn of Charles
Miller in North Harlan, killing his team
of horses.
The Wellsburg Savings Bank has been
authorized by the State Auditor to do
business.
West Union is suffering from 100 cases
of measles, four OF scarlet fever and
one case of smallpox.
The Burlington depotzat Warren and
its contents were destroyed by fire. The
depot was struck by lightning.
The births in Woodbury. County for
the year ending June 1 numbered 1913,
the deaths 3o6, and the marriages 5GS
A contract has just been let for fifty
new houses for White City, one Of the
new mining camps of Mahaska County.
Adverse sentiment at Conrad threat
ems to block the plans OF the MARSHALL
town Intcrurban Railway to Grundy
Center.
The authorities of Des Moines County
are arranging to care for the mildly in
sane patients under their control at the
county farm.
Eric Davis, n young man living near
Washington, was >found hanging in the
barn OH his fathers farm. His wife dis
covered the body.
Joseph Zach of Cedar Rapids. a young
married man, committed suicide by
shooting himself with revolver. No
cause for the act is known.
During severe storm, Mrs. Shelby
Wolf, living three miles northeast of
Baxter, WAS struck by lightning. She
was stunned, but will recover.
So many false fire alarms have been
rung in at Des Moines lately. that the
chief has offered reward for informa-
ton as to the offending parties.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars has heen
raised and bonrd of directors selected
for company which proposes to con
struct an electric interurban line from
Sisourney to Newton running by way
of Delta and New Sharon.
William Hofmann Of Afuscatipe. re.
Gently defeated for Republican nominee
for Congress i'll the second Iowa dis
trict, is dying as the result of injuries
known. in Iowa as n lawyer.
An ARRAY which may result in murder
took place at Searsboro. William nj.
cola, conductor OH construction train,
was struck on the head by shovel in
the hands of Joseph Antoniello, an Ital.
i'm laborer, and very seriously il not
fatally injured.
Charles Balcer, formerly an officer OF
Cedar Rapids employed. In caring fol
families q,iarantined for. smallpox, was
arrested the other day, charged with
stealing $4,000 from Charles Strakotu in
November, 1902, after Strakota had died
with the disease and his wife was sui.
fering from 1t. He has been watched BY
detective for many months.
Grant Perkins, an insane man, en-
route from Oakland TO his home in Ne.
braska, jumped from moving Rock
Island train mile west of Nicola,
Searching parties failed to fnd him.
The prevailing epidemic of scarlet
fever In the different parts of Dubuque
County has caused the suspension of the
school session in Iowa township, and
there are one or two others that are
threatened.
Edward White, who was indicted fol
breaking and entering, on two counts,
and who pleaded guilty to the charges
was sentenced to three years in the pen,
itentiary at Fort Madison upon each
count, making a total Of ak yenr1
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
IoWA,s MoNUAIENT .AT YICKsBUKG.

n 81
Miss, in 1868, by erecting State, brigade
and regimental monuments and tablets
in Vicksburg National Military Park.
The commission provided for by this net
were appointed by. the Governor and
eacl, was member of an Iowa regi-
ment or battery in the war of the re-
bellion. The commission Is authorized
to mike contracts for the construction
Of monuments as will in their opinion
most appropriately and permanently
mark the positions of Iowa brisades,
regiments and batteries on the invest
ment line during the siege of Vicksburg.
The members OF the commission are:
Capt. j. +. Merry, Dubuque; Judge l..
G. Blanchard, Oskaloosn; ]. A. Fitzpat-
rick, Nevada; Hon. =. ]. @. Bealer &C.
da. Rapids; David A. Haggard. Algcna;
w. o. Mitchell, Corning; W. IL. G..
Jacques, Ottumwa; Col. Henry II. Rood,
Mt. Vernon; J. II. Dean, Des Moines.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
A MASTER OF FATE.
The Turtle Has But single Enemy,
and That Is Man.

The Turtle Has But Single Enemy,
and That Is Man.
The turtle has but single enemy.
and that is man, declares 4 writer in
Leslie's Monthly Magazine. There is
no need for him to fear any other
living thing. OF all his fellow crea-
lures of the deep only the sperm
whale shares this immunity, and lives
without the fear of sudden death CON
stantly upon him.
In other ways, too, the turtle is
one OF the strangest of creatures.
Whales must come to the surface fire.
quently to breathe, and it is fairly
well known what they feed upon. The
seal cannot remain beneath the sea
nearly SO long as the whale, and his
food is very well known; but the tur-
tie. in all his varieties, in all his ways,
is mysterious. It does not seem to
matter to him whether he stays be.
meath the surface for an hour or a
week, nor does it trouble him to spend
an equal time on land if the need
arises.
He is neither fish, flesh nor fowl,
yet his flesh partakes of the charac-
teristics Of all three. Eating seems a
mere superfuity with him, since for
weeks at time he may be headed up
in a barrel, with the buag opt and
emerge after his !!ssng last apparently '
ne9esfsieslTorse for his enforced alb
stinence fr6msf food, from light, and
almost from air.
OF all the warm blooded organisms
there Is none SO tenacious OF -1ffe as
the turtle. Injuries that would be in
stantly fatal even to fish leave the
turtle apparently undisturbed, and
his power of keeping death at bay is
nothing short of marvellous.
AS soon as baby turtle energies
from the egg he scuttles down to the
sea. He has no one to teach him, no
one to guide. In his little brain there
is implanted streak of caution,
based upon the fact that until GER
tain period his protecting armor is
soft and no defense against hungry
fish, and he Immediately seeks shell
ter in the tropical profusion of the
gulfweed, which holds within it's
branching fronds an astonishing
abundance of marine life. Here the
young turtle feeds unmolested, and
knows that his armor is hardening
apace.
Whatever the young sea-turtle eats,
and wherever he eats it, one fact is
certain-it agrees with him immense
ly. He leads an exceedingly pleasant
life, basking in the tropical sun or
cruising leisurely in the cool depths.
Once he has attained weight of
about twenty-five pounds, which is
usually within the first year, he is
free from all danger. After that no
fish or mammal, however ravenous,
however well armed with teeth, inter.
feres with the turtle. When once he
has withdrawn his head from its 10.
sition Of outlook into the folds of his
neck between the two shells, intend.
ing devourers may struggle in vain to
make an impression upon him. They
always fail.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29

are written for women and not me
The charge was an unusual one a
journalists the country through pr
ably would not indorse the ASSERT
Of the ChIcagoan. Yellow Journal.
is not distinctlycly for the feminine
petite.
Mr.. Stone is typical Chicagoan.
the time Of the great fire he wa
young man and was at the head {
small iron foundry. The fire rui
him and he went to work as ne
paper reporter. In 1875 he and
others established the News, the
one cent daily In the country.
venture was expensive and would
failed but for friendly capital.
Stone continued as editor until
experiencing a fair degree OF su
and then retired. Eventually 1
came manager Of the Associated
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
business aud DIPLOMACY.


The open door" into China for
which President Roosevelt, Secretary
Hay and the Republican party have
taken SO much credit seems to have
something wrong with 1t. The new
treaty provides that the door to China
shall be open, but somehow business
with that country grows less. Our
exports of cotton goods to China are
decreasing instead of increasing and
will soon be obliterated unless the
"open door, is opened wider. The loss
is alarming, for while in February,
1903, our exports of cotton cloths were
"a ,642 eco yards, this year during the
same period were only 10, 80G. 444 yards.
The trade situation is growing from
bad to worse, for in March the ship
ments dropped to S,G52,392 yards
against 3T929,363 in 1893. The month
of April was still more disastrous to
our merchants, for exports for that
month were but 1.O41,OcO yards
against 34,G40, 141 yards in April, 1903.
This sudden and extraordinary loss of
trade cannot be charged 10 the high
price of cotton, for the advance in
price has been about equal all over the
world in consequence of the shortage
OF the crop or the increased demands.
The millions in southern China must
still be using and buying cotton goods
from somewhere, for they cannot dc
without such necessaries. But one
sided treaties will not make trade be-
tween countries and calling the door
to China open for political effect can.
not be relied on to increase our bust
ness with that country. The match
less diplomacy" of the present admin.
istratiop is therefore barren of good
results as far as our trade with China
is concerned
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
Edison and His Battery.

On the storage battery which he is
now trying to have patented in Wash
ington, and which is the cause of an
investigation ordered by the Presi-
dent OF the United States, Thomas
A. Edison has been at work night and
day for twelve years. He rises at G.
works till II p. m. as regular stunt,
and keeps his carriage waiting till 2
or 3 next morning before he can be
induced to go home.-New York
Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
Asked and Answered.

SAY" queried the. beardless youth,
"does woman always mean what
she says!"
WELL" replied the man with the
absent hair, IF she's married she al
ways does"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
IOWA VETERANS PICK HEADS.
Slate Is Chosen and Hundreds Parade
Before Natiaual Diunitarics.


Before Natinnal Dignitarics.
The Grand Army encampment opened
In Mason City Tuesday. The program
arranged was n noteworthy one. The
cncampment began Mt 2 o'clock when the
department president mud staff OF the
Womans Relief Corps rendered recep-
tion to the department commander, l..
d. Raymond, and his staff, and the Wis.
itins comrades in the assembly room Of
the Methodist Church. At o'clock the
trustees and faculty of the Normal Me-
mortal University rendered reception
to the visitors at the university. In the
evening grand reception and campfire
was given Mt the Wilson Theater. The
meeting was called to order by T.. e.
Markley, chairman OF the local execu-
tive committee. An address of welcome
was delivered by n. NJ. Norris, Mayor
of the city, and responded to by Depart
ment Commander l.. B. Raymond on be-
half of the several organizations repre-
scented In the reunion, and by Lieut.. Gov.
John Herriott. OH behalf of the Stnte.
Gov. Herried Of South Dakota, Gen.
Given and Major Lacey made addresses.
Many prominent men and women Of
the order were in the city. Gen. Oster-
haus, who commanded more Iowa troops
than any other commander; Gen. Dodge,
Miss Clara Barton, founder of the Red
Cross; Gov. Cummins Gen. j. II. Hub
bell, Jennie I. Berry, president of the
State Relief Corps; Adjt. Beyers, G. A.
Newman, j. w. Krapfel were among the
earls arrivals.
The annual elections We're held We'd
nesday, and the officers chosen include II.
I. St. John of Riccville for commander,
Mrs. Frederick Philpot of Cedar Falls
for president of the Woman's Relief
Corps and w. F.. Muse of Mason City for
commander of the Sons Of Veterans.
Much of the day was devoted to busi-
ness. AT 2 o'clock the parade formed
and 1890 veterans fell in and passed
in review before the national aud State
dignitaries.
Ir the evening Wilson's Theatcr and
the Methodist Church, two of the larg-
est structures in the city, were filed to
overlooking. Addresses were mnde by
Gov. Cummins, Gen. Dodge and Eli Tor
reEce.
Thursday the entire encampment NOV
ed to Clear Lake for the closing day
Of the session. Oskaloo.a gets the next
encampn,ent. Senator Delivers pension
bill! was enthusiastically Endorsed.
-
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CLOCK SHOWS TINE IN FIGURES

green with envy. In fa.., Mr.. Thrasher
proposes to tell time in figures the
same as we read on tho time tab.es OF
every road In the country. No longer
would he have us say 1t Is quarter OF
81 or "half-past 81 but as we look at
his invention he proposes and insist9i
that we must say 2:45 or 2;3O. In the
twentieth century hustle and hustle
this proposal seems likely to meet with
more than mere approval. Mr.. Thrash
err proposes to reconstruct the familiar
face with which Father Time has been
wont to remind us of the passing
hours and do away entirely with itha
quaint old dial with Its Roman numeF.
ais in use from the middle ages, and
likewise take away the old clocks
hands. Instead of pointing the way
and letting us figure out the time for
ourselves, Mr.. Thrasher's new time.
piece will tell US In plain figures at a
glance Just what time 1t Is. 1t will
lie no more trouble to tell the hour, the
minute and the second than TO tead
the A. B. C's or gee ut glance in the
time tables the hour aud the minute.
Any one with eyes and the ability to
use them can tell time. and a mere
comparison with time table and
knowledge Of figures and the ability 10
read them Will be the on'y essential
to know the precise moment when
train is supposed to arrive or derart
or any event is to take place.
Three sets Of figures, one cach.1Qr
the hours, the tens and the units OF.
minutes, revolving on separate rolls.
with measured accuracy and appear-Ie
Ing in given space at the proper time
give us the hours and minutes on tftS
wonderful new clock. A pointer col
stantly travelling in alf-graduat'ssa
circle tells the exact seconds Thl&
pointer and the rolls interlock and til III
whole is impelled by device which
simpler than the simplest clock meg
,anism ever made, which seams igF
sible to-get out Of order and
needs winding.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29

"Say," exclaimed the elderly barber
as he got busy with the lather brush.
"this stubble on your face looks like
week old whiskers."
Don't you care" replied the victim
in the chair. '"rhat stubble beats your
weak old whiskers, all right. all right"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29

Lake electric line as they We're return
ing to Mason City from! the last comp
fire of the State G. A. Il. eneamrnent.
A trailer on heavily loaded train
jumped the track while going Mt high
rate of speed and turned completely over.
A culvert kept the car from falling upon
the passengers WHO had been thrown
front the windows, which was ali that
prevented loss of life. The wrecked
ca: carried nearly 100 passengers. and
the fact that no one was killed outright
is regarded as remarkable.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
Tough on the Old Folks.

Giles-This VIII undoubtedly be q
tough summer on old folks.
AIiles-Think SO?
Giles-Yes; with the opening of the
baseball season the mortality among
grandfathers and grandmothers will he
something fierce.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
Wasn't Particular.

The Duke-Is 1t true that you are
going to marry an American heiress?
The Count-It Is.
The Duke-Nyhat's her name?
The Count-Don't know yet.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29

The ten branch offices of the Russo
Chinese Bank located in China have
since their establishment no record OF
q single protested note.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
Wise Precaution.

Dribbles Does your wife always
laugh when-she reads your jokes?
Scribbles- Sure. I,always mark the
place where she is to laugh before
handing them to her,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
For Friend. to Dr

"When5the airships reac
Of perfection where they
orally used" remarked /.
Of events and things, "a
only have to leave his
when he wants you to d
ksst statsgmap,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
LAYS TAE lLAMl oN WOMEN
For the Yellow Journalism OF the
Present Day. -.

Present Day.
Melville f. Stone, general manage,
Of thu Associated Press, created a sen,
satlon in an address before the Gen
eral Federation Of Women's Clubseii
st. Louis. when he declared that WON
en- were largely responsible for wha'
is known as yellow journalism. he
asserted that the feminine demand fol
salacious news and gossip. served ur
in the daily newspaper, was the primal
cause Of sensationalism. The thing,
which moralists invelgh against mos
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29

Miflsins-Hello, old man! What do
you think Of that cigar l gave you last
night?
Bifkins-Don't ask me to think. Tn
trying to forget It,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
NEW WAY 70 TELL TIME
This Clock win show the Exact Houy
assN NF{rr<> Il, " r. Is

ana Minute In Figures.
With all the modern products of tho
twentieth century clockmakers before
the world and clocks and watches no
longer luxury, 1t seems somewhat
surprising, as well as audacious, for
any one to declare that he will pro.
ftounce all clocks back numbers and
tevolutionize MI systems Of recording
the hours, minutes and seconds az they
go fleeting past
Yet a man from Connecticut the
home of the clockmakers and the land
of clocks, has the precocity to make
such an announcement. He Is not q
clockmaker, but just plain Yankee
genius.
Samuel Powers Tlirasher, of New
Haven. Conn.,. has an invention that
bids fair to make Yankee clockmakers
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
'Tis scandal time!


It's candle time; the day has grayed
To dusk; the low tea tables laid,
And Flo and Phyllis costly
Discuss their world, and sip their
From curious cups of priceless jade.
'Tis now each calls spade spade,
For. II there is one hour made
For gossip most especially,
IT'S candle time!
"Mabella's gowns horrid shade;
Whatever made her choose brocade?"
Owens flirting just outrageously-
She'll soon win Jack from poor
Marie!"-
Alas! I'm very much afraid
'Tisg scandal time!
Caroline Mischka Roberts, in The
Smart Set.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29

American naval oranges are retailed
In BdQsaux. France, at four cents
apiece. -,--.- ----.-,..
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
Under a Cake Of Ice.

1t was three o'clock on a clear
March afternoon when Henry Duncan,
ak on shoulder, walked whistling out
of the village of Winterport on the
Penobscot River. He followed the
main road for about hundred rods,
and then took by-path through the
fields that led him down to the wa
ter, nearly half-mile north of the
town.
His goal was dock between two
old wharves, where lay his coasting
schooner, the Elsie, tied up the pre-
vious December, when the Penobscot
froze over, and now, although the
river had been open fortnight, still
thtckly ice-clad from the tapping of
the water against her sides. It was
his mission that afternoon to cut off
this winter coat, and begin to get his
vessel ready for the seasons business.
Duncan sprang lightly down. the
slippery bank, and stood on the old
wharf, with its sodden legends and
brown, rotting cobwork covered with
masses Of clinging rockwell. The
tide has just begun to rise, but was
still some distance below the schoon-
er's rudder; the hard mud bottom
OF the dock was bare, except for few
stranded ice-cakes.
1t had been a cold winter, and the
coating on the Elsie was in some
places more than foot in thickness.
The melting warmth of the March
sun had set the water flowing between
the outside planks and their covering,
SO that the ice had started away lit
tie from the side. If it were creased
into sections with an ak and then cut
more deeply, it would fall off in great
slabs.
Descending a short ladder at the
head of the dock, he took off his coat,
laid 1t upon an ice-cake behind him,
and began chopping away at the mass
that concealed the outlines of his YES
sci near the stern. AT first he worked
with considerable caution; but as the
Ice was unexpectedly hard and came
on in very small pieces, he grew a
little impatient and struck more Wig
orously.
There was sharp cracking, and
section more than ten feet long and
nearly as high as the schooners side
split off bodily.
en.,,t 90 o,,;,1,.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
The Deadly Blight Of treason.


Who would have thought 1T? An
uprising against the sacred tariff in
States that were supposed to be loyal
to the trusts and combines. New Eng
land is developing sentiment OK
tremely antagonistic to Senator Lodge,
announces that staunch Republican or
gan. the-.WashIngton Star, in dis
patch from Boston. Senator Lodge has
become unpopular with Boston bust
ness men, because of his efforts to
thwart them in their attempt to gain
reciprocal trade arrangement with
Canada. Why. that Ia treason of the
deepest dye, for is not Senator Lodge
the power behind the throne of Roose-
welt l., and how can New Eng.anders
be loyal to Roosevelt and denounce
the prime minister?
But alas! this disloyalty extends to
other States of the empire, and true.
culent Stnte Senator in Minnesota has
raised the banner of revolt against
Congressman McC.eary of the Second
Congressional District of that State,
charging him with being stand-patte1
and worshiping Mt the shrine of tho
predatory trusts and railroad com.
bines. The excited populace is de.
manGing tariff revision and reciprocity
with CANADA. To offset this treason
against the sacred rights OF the few to
plumber the many, the rr3tec,iye Tar.
iff League is mastering Its forces to
put down the revolution:sts and re-an-
force the cohorts of Lodge and Nc
Cleary.
Patriotic bands in other States have
also raised the banner of revolt. but it
is expected that the army of officeliold.
ers, who still seem true to the admin
istration, will be able to disperse them
before the regular troops under Gen
eral Cortelyou can reach the scene Of
action.
The latest news from the front is,
the common people are rising and de-
mandins areduct'on In the high pr.ce
of neceessitIss that reryalls by the
present protection on trust products.
a cabinet meeting, to which the higher
officers. of the home guard were invited
to attend, was held. and If the insur-
rection spreads the President will take
the field in person.
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that Congressman Babcock threatened
the steel trust with antagonistic leg
islation unless that giant combine
made a donation to the campaign fund
of 1902, when it was much needed.
If the coal trust, the beef trust, or
any of the other reputed bad trusts
had been persistently proceeded
against by the administration and re-
suits obtained by forcing them to sell
their products Mt reasonable prices,
the suggestion of their connecting with
the campaign fund In lieu of prosecu-
tion would have no weight. But the
fact that no trust or combine has been
exposed by the administration, and
that a private citizen has had to bear
all the expenses of forcing the evil
dence of the manipulations of the coal
trust into public view. certainly al
lows sinister construction to be put
upon the lack of energy in prosecuting
the trusts by President Roosevelt and
his Department of Justice.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
IOWA AT VICKSBURG
STATE TO ERECT MONUMENT TO
vALoRous SONS.

Iowa vicksburs Park Monument Com
mission Mect-Stat Brigade and Reg.
mental Memorials to Be Erected AT
Cost of ST. 1000.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29
How It Happened.

Giles-I had three teeth extracted
this morning and it didn't cost me a
cent.
Miles-How's that?
Giles-Had pull with the dentist.