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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28

Mrs, Newllwed-I really must COM
plain of those eggs you sold me on
Wednesday. They are awful:
Farraer-Why. they were perfectly
fresh, ma'am. 8
Mrs. Newliwed-They may have
been fresh, but they were frightfnlly
tough. I made an omelette of them
for my husband. and they were so
tough he couldn't eat them.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
MYSTERY OF the HUMAN BRAIN.
n . o,co,,,, n o

- a. 2. O'Connos. ~ p
The many reported recently In the pa
IN pers of men and women wandering mechanically
~ through the streets like wound-up automata,
M call to my mind experience of my brother.
III In Madras hospital, with which he
nectel, lay a gigantic negro, who was supposed
! y 10 be congenital idiot An idiot he Ger
IN tainly. and Of unusually mindless type-a
60 ] mere vegetable who seemed to eat and
drink mechanically surgeon who had only Just Joined
the staff at the hospital and who therefore it's pG-
tients with eye, after looking long the negro,
all. Here. lay him this bed and let me examine his
SKULL. brief examination of the blacks skull showed
the mark OF old and deep wound "Just thought
cried the surgeon triumphanty II shall ephine his skull
and you'll see When he had sawed the SCARED piece of
skull he found he expected bit Of bone ptess
ing the brain He raised and It, with
suit that the patient the moment he recovered conscious
ness, asked, eagerly where's the army to-dayT where
was 1t yesteray asked the surgeon Yesterday" turned
out to be nine before when this negro had
wounded in battle ON the Indian frontier.
1t is noteworthy that in cairvoyant cases the body
Is through oyerwork. III health fasting, con-
CENTRALLY in the subdued to which the Indian mystic
end miracle monger reduces his own by maceraon. 1t
with Scott and Rousseou and with William Hone when
he had the following experience recorded in him
When out with overwork he shown into GER
tain in certain part of London where he had
been before On looking round everything appeared
fecty familiar to me- seemed to recognize every OBJ
ject said myself, What is this? I was never here
before and yet have all this: and If So there
peculiar in shutter. opened the shutter and
found the knot Now, then, thought here something
cannot explain principles there must be some power
beyond matter" And from being maeriais
he became believer in spirits and indeed eventually
profoundly religious soul.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
.AWolnan Would AK.

Here's an ad in dis paper about
dat dog yer STOLE" said the first tough,
Fan it says Reward If returned an
no questions asked"
..No questions asked?" replied the
other tough. Dat can't be dis dog; I
stole dis dog from woman."-Cath.
ole Standard and Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28

genuses had only ordinary cubic capacity BRAIN sh
as DESCRIBES Tissot and Hoffman. Among the brains Of
Twelve famous Germans. which included Wagner and
Bischo investigated found there were brains Of
either an exceptionally large cubic capacity an excsp-
tionaly small capacity.
Many great thinkers in the realms of literature philoso
ply and history felt real horror music johnson Vic
tor Hugo Katherine H. lola and Napoleon loved best
and simplest music. According to Gautier music Is the
most horrible OF all forms of sound In contadstincon
TO these ouspoken enemies of music the honor
paid 1t By Others such Aristotle who held as one
OF the finest inspirations to good Among modern
writer's are Daudet Darwin. Goethe Carlyle who called
music the language of the angels and Moore who
ceved his first in music Ruskn called music the
hnest and most developed pleasure that any age
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
A Explained.

AZ Explained.
Brown-Glad to see you looking 80
well. You appear hundred per cent
better than you were month ago.
Weeks--Yes; my doctor has been out
Of town for three weeks.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28

Il think Tom ought to consider
what we owe to society before asking
that vulgar grocer to our dance
yes; I told that to Tom, and lie
said, My dear. just think what we
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
COLLEGE ATTENDANCE IS INCREASING.
~ NicAolss Murray Butler,

There are no signs of the development in the
United States of a class Of over-educated depend.
ents The vast increase in the attendance upon
the institutions of higher education is due to an
increasing appreciation on the part of the people
OF the value of training which makes life really
worth living by filling 1t with resources that are
both pleasant and profitable. apart from their
possible practical annlication
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
the BOUNDARY LINE.

III
~ ARAIERs Taylor and Biz
liz ings, who had lived neighbors
to each other for fifteen long
years, had always known that the limo
fence separating. their farms was
about a foot or two out Of the way,
but they had been too sensible to care
who was favored.
1t was a poor rail fence at best, zig
xagging ccross the pastures like a
stpsy man going along, and the few
inches Of soil in dispute were, over.
grown with thistles and blackberry
bushes.
Things changed, however, when
Ryder, the broker. and Sanders, the
contractor. bought the two farms
Overlooking the bay for summer cot
tages.
The services of a surveyor were
called in and each man stood on his
rights.
When the surveyor found that the
true line took. in eleven inches more
of the contractors land. the broker
said that settled 1t.
~ diuht however. Inc contractor
.ene lawyer 10 the county seat to
delve among the archives and fish up
rusty documents. determining to con-
tinue the fight any number of years
T,sns A.. e su. esol was Nion.'
go. :. s s.,M was p.anlllhs,
& ...,an :. sass, VIC o1"Aei was
~ -. &C.,. A ~ w. ~. cue .e,ms
o,,4 .na has 80. ~ s ~, WI. Sau''uets
- ..,.,.. C..s',ss aso
,,,arad ~. - H.. ~ ~. nau .na' ,enee
.nohss Az ~ ~. I we s'sseu
trs cta- had !. ,..,a 10. . e eon
..ls,.5.>'' = 49, oaeA.
y was moving ume tnereaster for
."o weeks. rive utnes IN All was that
fence moyed exactiy eleven inches
y ne west anu nve umes did II 10
!. casa 1even : Sin - ss 70 me east.
.nen inc movers rested. Dut only 20
eet q oetter hold
WINE .ney were craving thetr belts
notcn usnter, TWO new actors APP
peareu on .ne scene. one OF these was
: sooo-iooking glri named sailie Saun-
uel on'y aausnter OF tne contractor,
800. $50 ,s.a,, : "ep yunx
~. ~. ,,rp.a. ~ - us'' on's SUI -
tne DroAer,
Young Ryder was home for his "a
caslon, ana SANE saunders had come
nome because Vassar .nad vacation,
o' =. COURSE e4e l.' one neara OF mat 'iI.
lne renee Detore tnes had oeen nome
an nour' nho OF course eacn one was
loyai anu lna'gnaht'
As aad Is pusy IN Wsh street. w
JUST ta.e TINS squarrel on my own
snoulders' observed Harold, VINO was
9 member Of footbah team and
Joyed IN kicking down FENCES OF every
sort Jana KIND. When that scoundrcl
hnds that ne has got me to deal with
instead Of poor old dad, who Is for
peace at any price, there viii be no
more moving, unless he moves To-
wards the hospital.
1T is the most outrageous thing I
ever heard Of! exclaimed the girl
from Vassar when she had heard the
story nave Always tnongnt papa
was nsh'er, pu. y seems thn, ne mas
Doweo ms heaa anu oeeh walked on
Witnout sneudlmg u.op Q! p'oou
We'll tnings wili De oinereht' now !
am nome tnank eoodhess!
Next day the newcomers went out
to view, the scene of slaughter. As
they didn't happen to go at the same
hour no one was killed or wounded.
The fence still rested on disputed
ground.
''That fellow Saunders has made his
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
Physical support.

soubrstte-Yes, De Ham says he
used to support Miss Verne in Romeo
and Jultette."
Comediah-Hs's right. They had
such a fimsy balcony supe had to
stand behind and hold It up.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
STRIKING ptcutlARlIlts OF MEN OF GENIUS.

:. y VeSaFe L0NbF0S0.
II we study the brain of the man Of genius
and Its cubic contents we find that the majority
of geniuses surpass the ordinary man in this di.
rection. For example, Petrarch. Kant, Lebou,
who examined the brains of twenty-six French
geniuses, found that their brain, on the average,
contained about 200 cubic centimeters more than
that OF the average man. This result was the
afrikinn "a nnn
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28

A loving wife frequently says Of her
fat husband: He isn't at all well.
but be doesn't say anything"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
THE SIOUX MoIHtR-lN-LAw.
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sesSSrse$<rseSese~
1t Is one of the Oldest customs OF
the Sioux Indians that the son-in-law
shall not look upon the face of his
mother-in-law, or communicate with
her any more than is absolutely nee
essary. This custom is probably the
outgrowth Of family brawls arising
from their crude way Of living, hud-
died together In hnts and tepees. At
oil events, the plan seems to work
well. 's; y 3
When, In case Of sickness, or by in
vitation from her daughter, the moth
er-in-law visits the family of her SON.
-ip:laX. a partition is usually made
iii the hut Of tsspee ~ means ofia!
blanket behind which, the mother-In-
law retires whenever the son-in-law
approaches the home.
In the case Of John Night Pipe. a
young bridegroom living In Ten
Horns camp on the reserve, the In
visible mother-in-law was source Of
great disturbance. Although he never
beheld her person, the sound of her
scolding voice easily penetrated the
blanket wall. John made several
fruitless efforts to dislodge his mother
in-law, and send her to her home on
the other part of the reserve, but
without avail. He finally decided to
appeal to the Indian agent for relief.
This is his letter:
my Dear Respectable Friend-I
have fow v.ords to snv IN yn,I and
they are that am sorry to myself.
It is an old woman that makes me
very sorry every day because she talks
with bad. bad words always to me.
and never gets rested with her tongue,
and I hate this kind of business, the
bad words, mean, holding them al
ways with her tongue that way.
"Now, il you will sending your po-
liceman to take this woman to her
camp, will be your truly friend with
good heart, sir, and we will living
happy again. Now this is all and this
is me.
"YOur acquaintance friend,
"N1R. JOHN NIGHT PIPE.'
The letter proved effective. The dis
turbing mother-in-law was sent to her
home In Black Moons camp, and the
young people We're left in possession
of an undivided teepee.
The story, which comes direct from
an Indian agency In Dakota, proves
that the mother-in-law Joke Is not
wholly the fabrication of the comic
paper
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
"Your ACQUAINTANCE friend.
MoULroN MADE GRAND MASTER

knights Templar.
General George NJ Moulton, com.
luander of the Second Illinois yolun-
teer Infantry during the Spanish
American war, brigade commander of
the Illinois National Guard and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28

thing like this II listen just WE'LL Mr. Jones' I've
got this mail to look Go right talking Do moth
Ing the kind Tell Mr. Brown politely that IL he Is busy
you will call again when he has time listen to you II
says Is ready to give you his full attention and then
begns jot few figures envelope or to read
letters, stop talking. He may say: "Oh I'm listening
I'm hearing. Go right on" You may now be more e1-
pict and say: II have doubt Mr.. Brown, that you
can listen just we'll but talk just as we'll" He
possibly get angry at this and should withdraw
II you not assured of his full attention.
1t to have proper regard for your own dignity
II you allow to treat you with disrespect or naten
tion arguments matter how good they are lose
their to convince because what you are ALWAYS
stands back of what you say either to weaken
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28

GENERAL GEORGE vi. MoULToN.
member of the st. Bernard Command
cry, Il. T., Chicago's famous COM
mandery. was elected Grand Master
of the knights Templar Of America
at the conclave in San Francisco.
Saratoga. n. y. was selected as the
next place to hold the grand encamp-
ment, which will take place in 1907.
All the worlds stase-and all the
women insist on huving speaking
parts.
A spinster hasn't much love for 4
widow who has had two husbands,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28

There is no fool like the one with Z
bald pate and moth,eaten whiskers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-09-28
st SURE Thai he is LISTENING.
By JoAs a. novla.s.

Never talk business unless you are sure you
have the attention Of your listener You only
cheaper yourself II you do, cheaper the idea you
and you accomplish nothing You are
ushered into Mr. Browns office, for instance and
after listening moment, Mr.. Brown drops his
eyes and begins to finger his mail. Stop talking
wen in the midst Of sentence. and walt till
Mr. Brown looks m He will nroha hlv 40 y .or,o
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-01
e. e. HAMILTON, N. Z

12s East Douglas avenue (Bhting block,
third floor. Take elevator at Market
street entrance
Practice limited TO Eye. Ear. Nose and
Throat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-01
FARMING BY NIGHT.

Many of the large farmers OF the west
are taking profound interest in some
power which viii supercede horses and
oxen. Some are using steam tractors,
but these. however. endanger the crops
by fire, especially in very dry weather.
One Dakota farm is now experimenting
with an electrical device for this pur-
pose. BY this contrivance the power is
generated by a mill some distance away
perhaps several miles. and Transmitted N
the usual way 10 a power mast forty feet
high set in the open ground
At the ton Of the mast a double conduct
ing cable is connected. this in turn being
connected TO the tractor. which consists
Of a twenty-five horsepower motor on
heavy carriage. 4 spar ten feet high -
carried on the carriage with a universal
Joint pulley on top. over which the cable
is led 20 a drum on the carriage. which
automatically takes up any slack cable
connections through the drum TO the mo-
tor.
The tractor when II operation is hltched
20 a gangplank. cuItivat0r. or harvester.
the cable being kept from saggiag by the
action u the drum. With a cable OF about
go feet fl length twenty-five acres can
be worked The work has proved 50 sat
isfactory that IL is proposed to extend the
system 10 cover eoo acres, which viii re-
quire twenty-four Easis AZ suitable in
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-01

te-vals
The devise should prove quite essential
during the sprIng wheat operations. as
each days delay IN seeding Is detrimental
TO the future crop The owners OF the
farm on which they are using this meth
81 propose xhea planting tire CORES for
The sprirg whea, &c install arc lamps On
the .nasts ard earning poles. 50 that
their operations may go on rigst ard
day. TINS saving valuable tirne.-In1lzs-
zpolis Star.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-13

From Massachusetts ia Kansas AD-
wlicants For Positions Are Trying
to sENnke Good" Though In Far
Different Ways-One Teacher Re-
Hes ON High Heels to Aid Her.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-13
THE DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE CHARITY

The greatest development of Japan In
charity has been in the institutional
care Of able bodied adults and of de-
pendent children, says Charities. Prog
ress in the care of the former dates
back to 1898, when a commission
was appointed to consider the problem
in all its bearings. This commission
recommended, first, the erection,
through funds furnished by the state,
of workshops in which the INDECENT
poor of Tokyo could be put at work
and their earnings applied to their sup
port: second, to supplement these work
shops, or until they could be erected
by the establishment of agencies for
furnishing drivers of vehicles, mowers
of lawns, ETC., men with simple occu-
pations, the employee to remain under
control of the agencies and his earnings
to be applied to his support, and, third
the support under sanitary conditions
of the aged, the cripples and those in
capable Of any form Of labor, and the
rearing of their children at public eX-
pense and under public oversight AS
a result of this plan it is not unusual
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-13

to find that workshop inmates such as
the blind, the paralytic, the inf1rm, the
high or middle grade idiots and persons
who have lost one or more limbs be-
come we'll trained in some particular
task and acquire a degree of skill that
enables them to earn more than Is
necessary for their support.
In the children's institutions boys
over seven are placed largely in the
hands of older boys, more experienced
and more serious companions. Young
girls 60 to school carrying upon their
backs infants that have been intrusted
to them so as to tighten the tasks OF
the regular attendants. The attendants
are fourfold, those watching over the
child's clothing, the food, the cleanll-
ness of person and the physical train
ing. In the training of institutional
children a kindly demeanor Is required
on the part of the attendants, and IN
every way there is encouragement OF
the effort to provide a mothers tender
ness and sympathy. Foundlings are
boarded out for three years with nurses
who are paid So or So month.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-13
A FARM SWALLOWING RIVER
Land is Literally Being Eaten Up
by the Missouri River.

Robert Buchanans fine farm in the
town of LakepOrt, Ia, is being literal
ly eaten up by the Missouri river, says
a Sioux City dispatch to the Chicago
Inter Ocean. 1t has taken but tive
years for the current to swallow 2OO
acres of this 400 acre farm, which is
valued at $75 an acre Great sections
of rich earth, with the growing crops
thereon, tumble into the river day and
night, and the encroachment is ap-
preaching the buildings,
when the river gets near enough to
take the buildings" Mr.. Buchanan
says, at practically will have got the
entire farm. / have had opportunities
to trade my farm, but l would not dis
pose of it to persons unfamiliar with
the destructive character of the river
l would rather lose it myself"
At one time the Buchanan farm was
worth $4,000. Several other farms in
the vicinity have been damaged by the
river. and the Lakeport shore, contain
ing the postoffice, is in the path of the
greedy stream.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-13

SIS there much of what I might call
IN ilitary display along the Transsibe-
rian route?"
"Well, from Vladivostok to Irkutsk
there was a soldier to every verst Cess
than a mile) of railway; at each station
there were many. On an average
train passed us every two hours, every
one of which was either a transport
or a Red Cross train. A great number
of them also carried horses and artil-
Iery. After Irkutsk we saw the first
passenger train"
when did you arrive in Moscow
Last Saturday week, and l stopped
there for six days. During that time
I paid several visits to various old Rus
sian families, friends of mine. 1t struck
me rather strangely to hear them say
they had never known such unpatriotic
feelings exhibited in Russia as during
the past few months. Everywhere the
people are discontinued at the turn
affairs have taken, and each of my
friends was free, as free as one can be
In Russia, in expressing a hope that
this war would be lesson to Russian
arrogance and tend to make them more
prepared in the future"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-13

us stop conversing in English Con
versing in public had to be in the Rus
sian language or not at all. One queer
thing l ought to mention was that the
Chinese coolies resident in the town
were refused railway tickets. AS the
only other way out was to walk many
thousands of miles in an inhospitaDIe
country it was a capital scheme for
keeping them in the place. The bulk
of the manual labor in Vladivostok is
carried on by the Chinese.
Had you any difficulty in getting
away"
"None, except that they would not
book me through to Moscow. My first
ticket took me to Pogranichni; from
there l renewed to Hardin, thence to
Manchuria station, where l finally got
a through ticket to Moscow.
81 left Vladivostok at SIS a. m. on
May IS, and we went slow to lrutsk;
from there, however, the express trains
are again running to Moscow. l ar
rived at Irkutsk at about p. N. on
Nav 81. When about a days journey
from Tanhoi, the station at which pas
sengers disembark in order to cross
Lake Baikal, we stopped at station,
the name Of which | forget. Standing
in it was a train consisting of ten
wagons, upon which were being con-
veyed five boats, which were, as far
as | could see, Russian submarines.
Each boat was loaded upon two trucks,
and was, l think, about sixty feet long
Amidships was a manhole, just as you
see in a British submarine, with a
hand rail around it; forward was ahood
with an appliance which might have
been periscope
"All the boats are exactly alike, fitted
with one torpedo tube only Tin the bow
and propeller with two blades. Each
boat was painted bright red. Rus
sian marine was on guard with fixed
bayonet over each of the vessels, and
on one mans cap noticed the Russian
equivalent to Torpedo Fleet In reply
TO the question whether the craft were
torpedo boats or submarines the man
simply replied, va ne znieu' Il do not
know. At Oby Station. which is the
other side of Lake Baikal, we passed
a similarly laden train, each Of the YES
sells being identical with the first batch.
I noticed also at Oby Station several
large guns, possibly six inch, all going
south"
"How did you find travelling on the
Siberian railway~
travelling is fairly comfortable. 1t
would be much more SO if one could
have meals prepared on board. AS II
is, each passenger on starting has 10
purchase a kettle, teapot, sugar ana
tea. At every railway station boiling
water is supplied freq