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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
To Grow Fine ceIcrr.

y Michigan gardener writes: Take
any land that will stand drought, put
at least one load of well-rotted manure
on every square rod of ground plow
and fit the ground well, set plants in
rows 1G inches apart and six 10 eight
inches apart in tie row (set with an
old brick troweD. keep the surface
well worked till the plants cover the
ground, after which no weeds will
bother. By raising celery by this
method the plants become Dense and
consequently darken the lower parts
Of the plants, causing the celery to
grow white from the center. None
but White Plume will grow successful
ly this way. White Plume can be
grown in single row and be banched
by placing bundles of corn stalks on
both rows Bundles should be at least
eight inches i'll diameter. grew
White Plume celery 33 inches high
last year on high ground, and it was
as white as snow. | find the Giant
Pascal is best for late winter use,
but it has to be earthed to blanch.
These two varieties are the best to
1-H&y -notion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
"plcklNe" EGGS.
Eastern Story that Is Still Greatly
Enjoy by tn, Boys.

Eastern Story that Is Still Greatly
Enjoyed by tn, Boys.
Il see the shop windows full of all
sorts of pretty things that betoken the
approach of Easter" said Mr.. Snoggle-
ton, but none of the displays attracts
me so much as that in u Main street
window which is largely devoted to dyed
eggs and dyes for coloring Easter eggs.
1t takes me back to boyhood as nothing
else could do. They tell me that here
in the north the children don't have very
much fun with Easter eggs, but in the
south, where l was raised, we used to
have great sport from Good Friday to
Easter Monday, and the old customs still
survive to n large extent. Picking eggs
was the popular sport with the boys. 1t
was not altogether as harmless n form
of gambling as fond parents usually I'M
asined.
THE process is simple. The contest
ants must first be provided with the re-
quisite number of hard boiled eggs, usu-
ally dyed in gay colors. Sometimes we
used TO he able to buy real dyes and boil
the eggs i'll them, but the popular meth
cd in the little town where was raised
was TO get all tine scraps of gay colored
calico that could be obtained, wrap each
egg carefully in the calico and boil it.
This would result in transferring the
pattern of the calico to the egg. and the
gaudier the colors the better we liked
them. The brilliantly colored prints
which are made for the negro trade in
the south are seldom seen in the north,
but they We're just the things we want
ed.
In picking eggs the challenger at
tempts to break the shell OF the other
contestants eggs with his own egg. The
eggs are held tightly in the closed hands,
only the points protruding, and one boy
strikes with the point of his egg the
point of the other, the blows being only
just hard enough to crack the shell Of
one of the eggs. The one whose egg is
broken forfeits the egg to the owner
of the stronger egg. l have known boys
to accumulate many dozen eggs in this
way i'll the course of the Easter holidays,
although if there is no cheating the best
egg is sure to be broken sooner or later.
But the boys in my town used to he
up to all sorts of tricks. OF course all
eggshells are not alike. Some have much
more lime in them than others, and the
eggs of the guinea hen. or guinea keat.
as the fowl is always called in the south,
are ever SO much harder than ordinary
hens eggs. So guinea keat eggs were
barred in egg picking, and every egg
offered for picking was carefully in
spected by the other boy before the clial
lenge was accepted to make sure that it
was not keat egg. 1t is easy enough
to tell the difference ordinarily, the keat
n,yr ta,,, c,nn nd ne fnJ
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
State News In Brief.

There is an unusual amount of petty
thieving at Dubuque.
Council Bluffs Republicans renominat-
ed Mayor Dell G. Morgan.
Fort Dodge has let the contract for
two miles of asphalt paving.
Burlington business men are agitating
for the abolition of the trading stamp.
Robert Taylor. Plymouth County
farmer, was killed in runaway acct
dent.
H. II. Jones. for seventeen years
guard ut the Fort Madison prison. is
dend.
improvements aggresating $4,000 will
be added to the Ottumwa water works
|sPlunt.
AZ. Fommander McCracken of the cruiser
sHes Moincs is II native of Jefferson
County.
Rev.'J II. Sharpe has resigned the
pastorate of the Denison Presbyterian
Church.
Work will begin Oh the new Iowa
Methodist hospital at Dcs Moines in n
few days.
Woodbury. County teachers have APP
pealed to the boards of education for
higher wages.
There is an epidemic of measles at
Clarion, between fifty and sixty cases
being reported.
The city of Ottumwa has not been
defeated i'll a single damage suit in the
past five years.
William Hatch. a pioneer resident of
Dubuque County. dropped dead at Far
ley while slioveling snow from the walk
in front of his home.
Bids for the Y. NJ. C.. a. building.
which is to be erected at the Iowa State
College at Ames this summer, have been
opened. The lowest bid was $40,400.
Max Seligman. clever insurance
swindler at Des Moines, who defrauded
the Equitable Life Company ont of sew
eral thousand dollars by false repre-
sensations in securing notes which the
company cashed, was sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
In Iowa City A. w. Hannafn COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself with
a steel wire. He was in Mercy hospital
| for treaotment.
Charles Lovelett was terribly burned
| ut Washington. He was starting fire
with kerosene, when there was an ex-
plosion. He may die
j. f. Benckendorf, a prosperous farm
er owning one of the finest farms in
Calhoun County, has sold his property
and Joined Dowie's ranks.
Tie City Council of West Liberty
unanimously granted franchise privileges
to the Iowa City, Davenport and Mus
catine Railway Company.
| A telephone message from Goose Lake
|Sells of the robbery of Charles Buech's
! clothing store of clothing valued at $500.
Suits and overcoats constituted most of
| the loss.
| George Irmscher, of Dubuque, who
| claims title to the Servian throne, has
| employed nj, attorney and will see to
establish his claim and secure what
money may be due him as member Of
royal family.
Veterans of the Franco-Prussian war,
residing in Davenport, are considering
plan for the erection of monument
in one Of the public parks Of that city
In commemoration of the establishment
! pf peace between France and Germany.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
Variety in Easter Offerings.

1t has become so much the custom to
send keepsakes and remen,brances to
ones friends on holidays that ones purse
is agape almost all the year round. This
Easter the shopkeepers have been most
consideratc, and prices for all purses"
is the rule In more than one shop that
makes specially of appropriate holiday
gifts The silver basket filed with grow
ing ferns or the potted lily in jardi-
Mere of priceless pottery is n gift of the
plutocrats, but just as dainty and grace
full is n bit of silver or Rayserzina cost
ing 50 or SO, n photograph of some fam
Gus painting mounted on rough white
bristol hoard and inscribed with an Eas-
ter greeting in gold, n piece OF art glass
for desk, mantel or table. II rosary, II
bookmark, n dnintly bound book or any
one of n hundred pretty tribes. These
little gifts are tied with white ribbon,
with card attached, and all one has to
do is to select, pay and with ones
greeting send off the Offering From %
cents to So covers all expense.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30

Mutton as Il human food Is gaining;
rapidly in reputation. So much i'm.
provement has been made in the metli-
DDS OF breeding, fattening. slaughter
ing and ripening mutton that great
army of people who We're once preju-
diced against 1t no longer find any
thing the matter with it. Good au-
thorities predict that the time is rapid.
ly approaching when as many sheep
and lambs will be slaughtered in this
country as there are hogs and cattle
slaughtered now. History shows us
that in old countries mutton is the
poor mans meat. The reason for this
is that it can be raised ut less cost.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
% Prevent Black ROT.

AS a preventive Of black rot in vine.
yards next season the North Carolins
experiment station recommends that
all dead leaves and rotten grapes be
raked up and removed and rotte,
grapes clinging to the vines and trc..
Uses picked off.
Loose shredded bark that can be
readily pulled from the vines prun-
ings, dead grass and weeds should bs
burned; in fact. anything capable at
harboring the dustlike spore shosld be
destroyed or taken away.
While the vines are still in dor
mant condition, spray with the cope,
sulphate solution. thoroughly wettine
the vines and posts, and paying par
ticular attention to punches of tendrils
or rough surfaces on the posts that
would be likely to retain the specs. II
is much easier to keep black rot out of
n vineyard once cleaned than to keep
it down in vineyard not cleaned.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
EASTER ISLAND.
a Curious Story About One of the
poYr,a.;,,, C,o,-

a Curious Story About One OF the
Polynesian Group.
Far away in the Pacific ocean lies 4
lonely volcanic island which is called
Easter island from the fact that it was
discovered on Easter day, 1922, by nav
isator named Roggereen, Dutch ad-
miral. Its real name is Rapa-Nui, and
its Polynesian inhabitants are fast dy-
ing out. Comparatively few explorers
have visited it, and, contrary to the joy
GUS spring name it has, it is deserted
place.
What makes Easter island of interest
are the numbers of curious colossal stone
heads and busts, called mo- which,
abound there, evidently the work of the
natives hundreds of. years ago. Il few
of these are erect, hut many have fallen.
The legend says that King Tnkuihu
settled in Rapa-Nui and retired into n
cave, where he cnrvedS sand cut all the
gigantic heads, (which removed them
selves to their present position on the
island.
When he became old, he did not die,
hut was turned into butterfly, which
is called in that country by his name.
Tukuihu used to search for eggs in
the nests of the sea birds. and when lie
lost his human form the chiefs who wish
ed to succeed him agreed to search for a
certain number of eggs and the first to
collect them was appointed king. 1t
seems singular that eggs without any
especial significance should have been SO
important OH Easter island.--Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30

iau'oiiHS III tHruiS HOSs
Any one who has tried it will testify,
that it is not an easy task to handle IL
stubborn hog, and most hogs are stub
born. If one has occasion to do this
work the Gevice shown in the cut is
simple and effective. Take strong
rope about the diameter of clothes
line and about ten or twelve feet long.
From this cut off three feet and tie
loop in each end, then tie the remain
ing piece in the center of the Topped
piece and bring the loop over the snout
of the hog after slipping the loops in
the first piece over his hind feet.
Have ring in the long looped piece,
and through this slip another rope, also
Hoped, so as to come over his neck,
as shown in the cut. This rope may be
heavier than the first one, and if the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30

foot of graveyard rabbit killed in the
dark Of the moon represents the last
quarter Of the moon, and on that account
is lucky.
A legend accounting for the rabbit in
the moon is of Hindu origin, and was
introduced into China with Buddhism.
Buddha, according to this narrative, was
hare at one stage of his existence, and
lived In friendship with fox and an
ape. 1ndra came to them disguised as a
hungry pilgrim, and the fox and ape
procured food for the god. But the hare
WAS moi able to capture anything suit
able for the table, and, sooner than be
inhospitable, he threw himself into the
fire in order to become food for the guest.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
How to Market the Butter.

1OW TO gluFket tue EuttCTs
Those who possess the knack of max
ing butter that has that fragrant
flavor that distinguishes the produce Of
many farm diaries, often make the mis-
take of keeping the butter on hand too
long after it is made before marketing
it. 1t will be found that however pal
atable it may be, ard however good
the flavor it possesses when first made.
it will have escaped after too long
keeping. Even when transported long
distances it loses its distinctivenesS
while in transit. In fact, 1t seems that
butter which possesses to large de-
gree this much-desired flavor deterio-
rates much quicker than an inferior
kind. As a consequence of this. the
farmers wife who makes superior
article which has local reputation for
excellence should endeavor to dispose
of the product to local trade, or Mt
least sell it so near home that 1t will
be but Il day or two between the churn
and the customer. This can be easily
managed in almost any locality where
there is n market for it by securing
list OF private customers and furnish
1t to them direct as they need it. This
class of patrons are much more profit
able year in and year out than the city
hotels or the commission houses or
those customers who buy in the gen.
eral market.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30

Suit has been fled in the District
Court by Harry Goodnow, farmer liv-
ing southwest of Ames, against Willis
Ball. also farmer, asking for $4,000
damages for injuries received in a ist!c
encounter Mt the Goodnow home. 1t
seems that the trouble started at the
Ball home a few nights previous. Both
parties had been imbibing quite freely
and Goodnow made some threats that he
would do Ball up. A few nights later
Ball with several of his companions went
to the Goodnow home and called the
young man in question outside and i'm
mediately assaulted him with his fists
and succeeded in breaking three ribs.
breaking his jaw bone and badly injuring
ono exc
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
THE STATE OF IOWA.
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
Sister of Charity Elopcs from Convent
with -BloodhounGs Not Counted
Reliable Witnesses = Wants $4,000
Damages for Physical Hurts.

Forgetting the devotion to goodness
and the VOWS she had taken to bury her
self from the world in the robes of n
Sister of Charity. the charrning young
Catholic woman who took the name of
Sister Annette eloped few evenings
ago with an old sweetheart from the
mother home at Cedar Rapids. From
Chicago. where the romance was culmi-
mated in II marriage. she has written
friends in Burlington that she is glad
to be again OF the world ana is not sorry
for what she has done. She said: Had
l not been obliged TO teach music to
young men till 8 o'clock in the evening
in all probability would not have taken
the step l have" Last year Sister An
nettc was n music teacher connected
with Lourdes Academy, one of the most
popular of the parochial schools in the
State. Mt Burlington. Last July She
was transferred to Cedar Rapids. where
life became dull monotcny for her Sud
denly there was n change. On one of
her few excursions to the city she met
an old sweetheart. Just what plans
We're laid and how rapidly are not
known. \ few days ago, however, after
night had fallen and just before the-sis-
tiers We're to retire for the night black
hooded creature climbed down the fire es-
cape of tue school and, cnveloped in a
heavy coat, was hurried away by her
lover. who had come from Burlington.
Taking fast train to Chicago, the con-
pie were married, and now all Iowa
Catholicism is discussing the elopement.
1t is the first time in the history of the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
ODD THINGS ABOUT EASTER.
All People Appear to Celebrate the
Spring Festival.


All peoples appear to celebrate Easter
In one shape or another, the festival sig
nifying u rejoicing ut the .reawakening of
nature In spring. Though associated in
this manner with the vernal equinox, it
Is nevertheless particularly n moon-fes-
tival, md most of its folklore has to
do with the lunar orb in one way or
another. The Council of Nice, in the
year 351 A. D., decided that Easter dry
should be the first Sunday after the first
full moon following the vernal equinox;
and il the full moon fell on Sunday,
then Easter Sunday was to be the Sun
day after The moon suggests like
ness to an egg, which is the symbol of
resurrection, and the rebirtli of things.
Now, the Chinese celebrate Easter by
making so-cnlled "moon-cakes," md in
dulging in various amusements that are
supposed to have to do with congratulate
Ing or rewarding the moon. In their ce-
lestial cosmogony the orb of night rep
resepts the female principle in nature,
and they believe that a beautiful woman
lives there-the goddess of the palace Of
! the moon.
On gold throne. whose radiating bright
ness
Dazz!eS the eyes, enhnl0ing the Scene,
Sits fair form, arrayed in snowy white.
ness.
She is Change, the beauteous Fairy
Queen.
Rainbow-wingel angels softly hover DER
her,
Forming n canopy above the throne:
A host of fairy beings stand before her,
Zach robed in light and grit with
meteor zone.
The above is n translation from Chi
neEe poem, describing the Woman in the
Moon.
The Chinese believe that man, frog
and a hare also dwell in the moon, and
the last-named animal constantly appears
In their art and in That of Japan, painted
upon the disk of lunar orb Nearly
all over the world the hare is associated
with the moon mythologically, and it is
on this account that the rabbit has so
much to do with Easter.
There has been much dispute us to
why the hare should have anything to
do with the moon, but nobody has arriv-
ed at any satisfactory conclusion on the
subject. 1t is evidently folklore no.
ton of extreme antiquity, which partly
accounts for its wide distribution. The
rabbit is nocturnal in habit, coming out
at night TO feed. and that may have
started the idea. 1t is asserted by stu
dents of such matters that the left hind
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
A oNE.MAN coRN SLED.

The object of the long runner is to
keep the sled from bucking to one
side, Which is caused by the cutting
being all done on one side. We stand
up to cut i'll large corn, and put OH
box and sit down in small. 1t is
waste of labor to knock the corn down
on sled and pick it UP again. Keep it
up in your arms. The single sled is
now preferred to the double ones here.
am boy II years old. My father
has taken the Practical Farmer since
before l was born.-Archie Orange.
Galesburg, Kan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30

animal is unruly and strong, the end
which is shown over the back of the
hog extending to the hand of the one
who is driving it, may be slipped over
his runp and into the lower loop and
tied, leaving long loop in the drivers
hands for better control. The illus
trations show clearly how the contriv-
ancc is constructed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
DRY of that sorrowfui glance is handed
down even to this rencrnriOn

DRY or that sorrowfui glance is handed
down even to this generation.
The willow was used for the scourges,
and ever since it has dropped its arms
in misery. The elder is commonly sup
posed to BIO the tree upon which Judas
hanged himself, and it is not even to be
touched for firewood. However, it af-
fords safe refuge in warning of the
elements, for not even lightning will
deign to strike it. A fungus that grows
on the elder and is now known as Jews
ears was originally called Judas ears.
The oxalis. or wood sorrel, was stand
ing Mt the foot of the cross and received
some drops of the precious blood. These
she still carries. The Italians have the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
niominr Ont woodchucks.

\ quarter of pound Of blasting
powder will usually do the work. 1t is
done up i'll n stout paper bag with a
yard of common blasting fuse tied into
it. Poke the charge as far down as
possible. lamp the hole solid with
stones and earth, light the fuse and
proceed to the next hole to repeat tho
Operation,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
nne.Muu Corn s1ed.

Make two runners, one 8 feet and
one or 8 feet long; use. 2S6 stuff;
place feet apart and nail boards on
top as shown in cut. Fasten scythe
blade on for knife. 1t is better than
the steel plate knives. Knife should
run high on edge and at an angle of
about 10 degrees from the runners.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
THE sEN1RYs CLOAK.

cel S,t n IL, the starlight Jerusalem sleeps.
WIN her white temple upreared to the
Cold : :s the night wind that plalntively
Der the weird shades that on Calvary lie.
One w .9;,, has heard the dear lips that IRE
vanqaish with love the vain Pharisee
Waits at the tomb on the wind beaten hill
Ihrough the night watches, SO dark and
20 long.
Lonely is she, for the scntinels doze.
wrapped In their cloaks. upon buckler
Al save one Roman, who, spurning rcpose,
Guards the dark grave OF the crucifed
Lord.
Not on the Cross Is he thinking tonight.
But on the wife and children at home;
Loved ones whose smiles were fathers
In that far cot of imperial Rome.
True unto Caesar md PLATE Is he;
Firm is his footstep and stern is his
He who to Him never lowered knee
Feels not thrill at the sepulchre now.
Hark! from the gloom comes sorrowful
As from a heart that Is bursting with
Files t tsivR mailed hand to the sword on his
.'Nny.Nhe exclaims, "'Tis that woman
"she who with tears yester-even WINS here.
Pressing her babe to her rag.covercd
breast,
Watching this cavern of Arimathnea,
Where the bold Nazarene now is Mt rcst!
seizing the emp torch he hastes to the
Saying, THE night breeze is chilly and
stake thou my cloas-lt is heavy and
Cover tlyself and thy shiverlng child"
Kindly he fondles the baby TINT hides
In the thin robe of that watcher sin
Then to his dreaming companions he
From his dark cheeks roughly dashlng a
tear.
Bright dawns the sun upon ,oliyet.s BROW s
Bringing from Heaven the first Easter
duty aaa saltn both .nrs s!umberlng now,
One standing near that bright Form from
the dead
Sees the lone woman In sleeps heavy
Cries, as he wrenches the robe from her
head.
What dest thou here in the lnndcrs
FL cloak?'
Then from the lips of the Savior there
Words full of tenderness. sorrow and
''Lo, Of My mission the substance md sum,
by you poor soldier told over again.
81 Thomas Frost.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30


One hundred plants will furnish the
average family with a supply Of this
most delicious early vegetable. They
Should not cost over 81, and hence in.
stead of being looked upon as luxury
it should be common in every family
garden. Rich sandy soil is best. but
1t will thrive in any soil il given
reasonable show Palmetto, Conov-
er's, Colossal and Baris Mammoth are
recommended as very satisfactory va
retics The plants should be set as
sarly i'll the spring as possible, in rows
80 inches apart and 10 in the row.
Plant in holes or trench, six inches
deep. filling it up gradually. and do not
cut the stalks. except sparingly, until
the third season. 1t readily responds
to good care and fertilization and
should be literally top-dressed with
manure each fall.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30
Easter Plant Leeands.

The Christian legends connected with
plants generally explain their behavior
during Passion week. Tie aspen still
shivers with -Teniorse because, when
Christ passed, it had boldly faced the
heavens Instead of bowling its head in
company with the other trees. The
Savior cast one look on it. and the nem-