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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
PNEUMONIA.
Rational Living is Strong Guard
AGAINST Disease,

The plea for simple life" in these
times of plenty generally falls upon
listless ears, so long as it pertains to
any abstention in the matter of graf
flying appetites and desires. The
average person is impressed with the
need of a return to the simple life.
He frankly acknowledges the value
of the simple life, and says, ITS
good thing'-for the other fellow.
But when the doctor begins to talk
about pneumonia, one of the most
treacherous of all ailments, and urges
the adoption of simple and hygienic
regimen as the surest way of avoiding
it, the high liver" pricks up his ears
and shows signs of becoming inter
ested.
In its last weekly bulletin the de-
partment of public health calls at
tention to the increase in the num-
Der of deaths from pneumonia, and
follows it with timely exhortation
to 1.-THE simple life" 1t does not occur
to the average man, of course. that
his habit of life has any relation to
his susceptibility to an attack from
this disease AS matter of fact,
almost any person in good health may
defend himself against this disease by
the practice of the simpler and more
natural modes of life. On this sub
| ject the health bulletin advises:
A simpler housing with abundant
f,o;l;t;o, fo, tho ocnocc of sNnShipe
and fresh air and space enough for
each Individual; simpler raiment,
which shall preserve the natural pow
err of the skin to resist the effects of
draughts and chilfs and colds"
simpler dietary, which shall not over
tax the digestive system. and less
cookery. SO that the teeth mag have
sufficient exercise to prevent theil
premature decay; more exercise in
the open air, and, in general, resort
to the simpler and more natural
modes of life to which each and every
one of us was born, and out of which
each and every one of us is removed
as promptly as civilization can act.
Pneumonia is an Inflammation OF
the lung tissue. In persons who are
addicted to excuses in eating and
drinking, however, and who give very
little attention to the ordinary laws
of hygiene, pneumonia is very apt TIC
be complicated with some other dis
ease, such as typhoid. Where the di
gestion has become impaired by over
eating or by eating poorly cooked
non-nutritious food, and the respira
tory functions and circulation have
been weakened by continuous seden
tary employment. with very little eX
ercise or outdoor air, there is apt te
lie little resisting or recuperativt
power.
The warning Of the health burea,
is timely and sensible.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

JEAN l.. GEHOME. UVl AoA SANAiSS NAs
Schwab. Although so years of age.
Gerome did not betray his years. His
tall and 1.-THE figure, with hair as
white as snow, was familiar at social
gatherings up to the night before he
died, and his sparkling wit was ever
a source of keen enjoyment to the
guests.
Gerome obtained his artistic train
ing in Rome and Paris and early
achieved fame. He became wealthy
and lived in splendid palace in the
French capital. For two-score years
he followed his calling with the en-
thusiasm of youth. He was n COM
mander of the Legion of Honor and a
member of the French Institute.
Among his best-known sculptures are
equestrian statues Of Washington and
Lafayette. He had nearly completed
a statue of Corlnth, which he intended
to be his masterpiece, when death over
took him.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
st. Louis Chronicle.

Welt has either carclessly or purpOsely
set aside the provisions Of the treaty
of 1S4G is to be found in Senate Docu-
ment No. 10, Fifty-eighth Congress,
Special Session. 1t contains part of
the dispatches and instructions relating
to the disturbances on the isthmus IN
1902 and statement by Captain REFS
niger, GU: senior naval officer in those
seas, asking directions from the Navy
Department rs to what his course
should be. But the captain was very
clear on the main point, for lie added:
81 am fully aware of the fact that by
treaty and convention we are not sup
posed to take charge until the Colom-
bian government has announced its in
ability to guard the road" That was
the law then and was the law the other
day when our officers We're commanded
to prevent troops of the Colombian
government from landing for the pur-
pose of keeping the transit open over
the Panama railroad. Thus only a
year ago we were assisting Colombia
in asserting control over Panama and
now we have resisted her efforts in
that direction.
How do President Roosevelt and the
Republican Senator's justify this course?
The President said ii was III "the in
terest of civilization" That phrase has
always been used by kings and en-
perors when they wanted warrant for
usurpntion; but republic cannot in
dc,se such doctrine, unless it is on the
S.se of imperialism, nor can tile
White House Senators give any better
explanation. Overriding Colombia may
hurry the building of the canal by a
few months, but the people will have
grave reasons for wishing they had
never heard of Panama, if ii hastens
the overthrow of their liberty.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
PASSING OF THE HEARTH.
Where the Family Gathered for Festi-
val and PRAYER,


val and Prayer.
An elderly woman in Wisconsin.
who was young wife in the young
west, is telling in local newspaper
few of the things that the young
wife of the older west does not have
to do. And in telling of this. she re-
calls wildly her home as 1t was sixty
years ago. There were no wood, coal
or gas ranges in those days. but there
was fireplace, with a wide, deep
hearth-and chimney that would
draw, built large enough for the sweep
to pass through It.
The fireplace would take log four
or five feet long and foot and half
through. This was piled on andirons,
and as there were no matches in
those days one of the greatest anxi-
cites of the careful housewife was to
prevent the fire from going out. If
it did go out she had to go to one of
the neighbors, perhaps quarter of a
mile away, for a shoveful of live Goals.
One of the signs of neatness in a
housekeeper in those old days was
the way she kept the hearth cleaned,
using the broom and wing, and few
of her many duties were to dip can
dies, put down pork and beef by the
barrel, make sausage for the year
put down lard by the jar, preserved
fruit by the gallon. apple sauce by the
quantity, boiled cider by the key; to
provide dried beef and smoked ham,
to spin all the yarn for the mems
clothes, to weave ii into cloth, and to
send it to the dyer's to be dyed, fulled
and pressed.
The coming of the cooking stove
marked the beginning of a new epoch
in the lives of our grandmothers.
"Oh!" exclaims the survivor, .the
good cheer the fireplace brought to
the children! No corn was quite so
| good as the ears roasted before the
fire. No potatoes SO good as those
roasted in the ashes in the winter.
No apple equal to frozen apples
boiled; then We would melt maple
sugar and sugar off again on the
snow" And she says. in conclusion:
4. with the passing of the fireplace
has passed the word 'fireside' and the
word hearth 1t was around the fire
side we gathered for family prayer
around the fireside we gathered tc
read, to chat, to visit. Gone with the
fireside and the hearth are most Of
my dear ones with whom | knel
every day."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
INSURE CASH in TRANSIT.
Banks Take Great Precautions to avoid
Losses by Express and Mail.

Banks Take Great Precautions to Ayo old
Losse. by Express and Mail.
The careless way in which large
through the windows of the New York
postoiIice this week for transmission
to out-of-town points has excited the
wonder of persons familiar with the
risks involved and the sums at stake,
says the New York Evening Post. The
movement is specially heavy just now.
nggregating from S3,000,00O to $4,000
900 week, and including consign-
ments from most of the large banks
and banking houses In the city. The
currency is sent everywhere in single
packages containing $4,000 or less,
protected. by policies Of insurance pro-
tecting the owners against every posi-
bic hazard at rates varying from 10
cents to so cents per $1,000 of curren-
cy insured. Most of the notes are So
$40 and 500 denominations, besides
supplies of ones and twos for use as
"hand to hand money" for crOp-move-
ment purposes.
These transfers go to all sections of
the United States, Canada, Great Brit
ain and TO continental points. The
business has now grown to large pro-
portions and is written by some of the
strongest insurance companies of Eu-
rope and America. One very interest
ing claim paid n few days ago was
for the loss of a parcel containing So
700 in bank notes shipped through the
mails by Canadian institution. The
| destination was small postofIicc,
where the business was so light that
the postmaster, not having the use OF
n safe in which to store valuables, was
forced to take home every night unde-
livered registered mail that had arrived
during the day. The package of bank
notes was taken out of the office in
this way, and just before the postmas.
ter reached home lie was attacked by
footpads and relieved of the money
The loss was Immediately reported
and the insurance company at once re
imbu. Led the institution. at the same
time offering $500 reward for the dc
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

impossible in the of impure separate
little circle of pure water by chemical process
is impossible to live alone in society with
saints in whole world which lives in violence money
ground and cattle must be bougl> rented relations
he entered into with the exterior Christian,
world We cannot liberate ourselves from It, and We
ought not to- except that in general ought to abstain
from those things which need not do We only deceive
ourselves. The whole work of disciple CT Christ
sss in establishing the Christian relations with this
world
think that not only there Is possibility of illu-
mnatHg and correcting others without being enlightened
and corrected self the last possible limits
that cannot enlightened and improved alone thai
every time is enlightened and works for ameiora-
ton Of ones self inevitably enghens improves others
and that this the only ecacous way rendering
service 70 others the fire only brgens and heats
object which feeds it. but Inevitably brightens heats
the surrounding objects and it produces this effect only
when it burns itself.
Some ask: IF become better will my neighlor be
come better? To cnligtcn and to improve others.
have already said, is done only by enlightening
proving ones self.
We ALL according to Weaknesses removed more
less from the truth know it, but it is important
not to deform the TRUTH to know that removed from
it, and to aspire ceaselessly toward it. to be ready lister
to its voice. at any moment the obstacles weaken
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
FACTS ABOUT CONGRESS.
Senators Appear to Grow More Youth
full in Their Old Age.

Senators Appear to Grow More Youth
ful in Their Old Age.
In spite Of all reports to the con-
trary, the United States Senate seems
to be growing more youthful. Thir-
teen years ago II careful computation
was made, from which it appeared that
the average age of its members was
60 years. There We're then only eight
who We're less than 45. To-day the
average age is 50 years and 4 months,
and in a slightly larger Senate there
are fourteen men, instead of eight,
WHO are less than a.. This difference
is doubtless due to the new States
which have come into the Union since
that time, whose political leaders We're
naturally younger men. The Delaware
overturn has also given the Senate two
youthful members 1t is almost a rule
that the young States have young Sen
ntors.
But one Senator is more than So
Mr.. Pettus. the junior Senator from
Alabama. who was born in 1921. Four
teen are between 20 and so. twenty
nine are between GO and 10 and thirty
two between 80 and GO. The fifteen
who have crossed tile tllrec-score-and-
ten line include both Senators from
Alabama and both from Connecticut,
besides NIessrs. Teller. Allison, Frye,
Hoar. Gibson. Stewart, Platt of New
York, Quay. Bate. Proctor and Cullom.
The Constitution of the United States
specifies 80 as the age requirement for
the Senate and all the States have
made coed this condition by a safe
margin of ten years. Only one man in
the Senate does not give his age, Mr..
Burton of Kansas, and for the pur-
poses of this computation lie has been
rated ut 80.
A curious case of disguised age ap.
pears among the House members in
the biographical sketch of Mr.. Lover.
ing, author of the rebate bill. The di.
rectory which has just come out an.
nounced that he was born about sixty
years ago in Rhode Island" His bio
graphical sketch has said the same
thing ever since he, has been in Con
gress, and lie was elected FOR the frs
time in 1896 and came here in tho
spring of 1S97.-Ncw York Post
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

If an added proof were need that
President Roosevelt and Sci ltary
Root went out of their way to admin
lister snub to Gen. Miles, lit may be
found in the fulsome compliments paid;
to Gen. Young IN the order retiring
hin when he reached the age limit.
Gen. Miles was dismissed with cold
and blunt order, and administration
apologists claimed that it was not per-
INVISIBLE to do otherwise. But when
Gen. Young retired it was with ex-
IRENE difficulty that the Secretary Of
War found words enough to express
his compliments. BY calling attention
to their own littleness the detractors of
Gen. Miles only emphasized Ills great
Iness.-The Commoner.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

THE PIONEERS.

love the man of nerve who dares to
do
The sturdy hero, stalwart through and
through,
Who treads the untried path, evades
the rut.
And in a forest clearing builds a
hut;
Removes the tares incumbering the
soil
And POUNDS an empire based on
thought and toll.
With wants but few, no pioneer will
crave
A crown in life nor flowers on his
grave.
He leaves behind the slavery of
The myrmidons of pride, deceit and
guile,
Enlisting with the consorts of the
free
The motto on his shield is Liberty
What cares he for the monarch's jew
eled crown
For prince or plutocrat, for fame's
renown?
The turmoil and the strife of endless
greed
When honest toll supplies each sim
pie need?
He seeks not glory, yet the future
years
Weave all their laurels for the
pioneers.
Newton Qa.) Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

c.othes -Four hours later however, he saw PrdeAuN,
then under arrest wearing in court wholly different
Then and there this witness taxed PrideauX with
the change of Dress which the prisoner denied in
confused and Shifting that the magistrate at grant
ed to search the accuseds house. The Clothes
drenched in blood found concealed in the straw stuff
ing of bed third witness testified to threats uttered
by Prdeaux against the deceased with whom he had had
deadly quarrel.
Prideaux in defense said that he passing
the morning of the murder through deceaseds grounds he
lying, dead drunk he thought some distance
from the path On lifting him he found that it his
neighbor, with blood pouring from wounds made
the pitchfork PrideauX adjurcd him to give the of
Ills assaant the effort brought the death
tie and discharge of blood from the mouth which deuged
Frdeauxs clothes. When he had laid the dead down
peril occurred him and hurried him from the spit
such haste 10 change his blood stained clothes that he took
by mistake the murdered man's pitchfork leaving his
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

found dead in his
bed in Paris recent
ly. Gerome was the
instructor of many
American artists
and had executed
III any nota b ! e
works for wealthy
residents of t this
country, one of the
last being an allie
gorical figure Of La
r MI ,,1o- NJ
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
The pbilinpire Tariff Wall.

The Philippine Tariff Wall.
We are taxing the people Of the Phil
ippines 70 per cent Of the Dingley
tariff rates on their products that are
Imported into the United States. They
are naturally asking us to abolish. or (.
ut least reduce, that eXOrbitant tax
on their business relations with us. The
United States bought the Philippines
from Spain and we have undertaken to
govern them for our own benefit. 1t
las proven to be costly experiment
and will probably always remain tax
upon the American people: but ia raise
up tariff wall to prevent their pro-
ducts from coming here and our pro-
ducts from reaching them would seem
to he taking an unfair advantage OF
a poor defenseless people. The only
excuse for taking the Philippines and
governing them in the way that irape-
rial governments rule their colonies is
that it will eventually be profitable to
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

When Il girl gets OH a ronnl. ruff
fled apron. With a ribbon bow OIL the
pocket. and .pulates Il chafng dish
the average man is such II dupe that
he imagines she will make success
handling big, black pans and pots.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

In 1870 the German people barely
exceeded forty million; in 1885 they
had risen to nearly forty-seven mil
lion, and in 1900 the census returns
gave 56,3345,014.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

Rural free delivery has advanced
with marvellous rapidity from SER
vice costing 100000 year at its in.
ception in 1891 to one that will cost
this fiscal year nearly 100000.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
MIND SHOULD Be THE STANDARD IN MARRIAGE.
BY Helen ordneld

Men who marry beneath them often have a
most uncomfortable time after the knot is tied
However high may be their own social standing,
they cannot compel society to see the match
from their point of view. True If they are
plucky and persistent, and, what is more essen.
tial, If their wives have tact and certain other
superior qualities which make for social popu
larity the mir usually wins the fight in the end
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
CHRISTIANITY RESTS on SELF pfRffc1loNmtN1.


To live on the top of pillar, to withdraw into
the desert. or to live in community, all this cal
be provisory, necessary to men; but as definite
forms it is evident error and unreason. To live
pure and holy life on pillar or in n com
munity is impossible, because the man is de
prived of half of life-communon with the
world. To live always thus one must deceiv,
ones self; it is evident, indeed, that just as /;
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

The population of Romania is g..
100000, which is nearly that of Ser
via and Bulgaria combined. In area
1t corresponds to Alabama.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
There We're Others.

A lady meeting friend in the rail
road car observed, feelingly:
so poor CID Mr. c. is dead
"Yes. But he died happy" replied
the friend.
rs that so?"
YES" assented the friend. Almost
his last words were that at last he was
going to a place where golf wouldn't
be the only burning question"
He-Think twice. love, before you
refuse HE. She--Why should think
twice? He-Because, my dear, wom-
an never thinks twice the same,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
WEAKNESS OF c.RcuMsIAS1lAL EVIDENCE.
BY r. p. o'con1or

Here is strange case of crcumstantia evil
dence at once overwhelming and misleading: In
the reign Of Elizabeth man named Prideaux
was charged with the murder of n neighbor The
first witness testified to finding the corpse of the
victim, and beside 1t the pitchfork bearing tM..
initials of PrideauX. The next witness deposed
that on the morning of the murder he saw Pri-
deaux pass his house dressed in certain suit of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

100000 voted him to assist i'll PROSE
cutting the trusts. At the rate lie is
working the appropriation VIII run
his department for twenty years. Even
a Republican Congress expected about
twenty times rs much activity as he
has displayed
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
lection of the thieves. The case has
not been cleared up yet.

Packages containing $4,000 of in
sured bank notes We're on the train that
went through bridge in a Southern
State last week. New York under
writer's were much concerned over the
incident until they discovered that the
car in which the insured packages We're
stored remained safe on the rails. The
largest single risk ever written was
taken i'll England some time ago, when
one package containing $25,000,00o was
insured.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

The capital invested in Canada's
fishing industry is estimated at $l1,-
100000
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

Found What 1t Was Iooxing For.
How did you get your black eye,
Snmbo?"
well, boss, yer see was out a!ook.
in fer trouble, and dis'ere eye was d.
furst L find it,"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10

Oar Economic Attorney Gene
Attorney General Knox, in re
an inquiry, reports that III the In
he has expended about $25,ON
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
LARGEST STORM. Tnt WORLD.

The which holds the of being the largest the world
will
establishments
gigantic costs o
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-10
a GREAT FRENCH a=.sr.

Jean Leon Jerome, Instructor of Many
American Painters.
One Of the foremost figures in
French art was Jean Leon Gerome, the
famous painter and sculptor, who was
Gilpin observer., 1904-09-08
Wedding Anniversary.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed O'Neil celebrated she
tenth anniversary Of their married life
at their residence Monday evening. A
large. number of friends were present
and all report having jolly time. The
evening was spent in playing games,
music.a receiving best wishes for the
future. They received many useful and
ornamental presents. Those present were
Mr.. and Mvs. Mike Healy and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fitzgibbons. Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. B. Keleher, Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Lundberg. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Dewhurst. Mesdames: Murphy, Launder
Dewhurst. Messers. Will O'Donnell, Pat
and John Munley. Gerald Costello, Pat
Lynch and Will Hamilton and Master
Everard Fitzgibbons.