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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10
Renewing Strawberry Bed.

l set out a strawberry bed in 1898
which has continually improved,
both in fruit and plants, each sue
ceeding year under my system of
cultivation, says R. Seaver in Farm
Journal. keep the soil we'll en-
riched and free from weeds. AS
soon as l finish picking the fruit, l
NOV the vines closely and rake them
off. l then rake the bed thoroughly
with an iron tooth rake, making the
whole surface of the bed fine and
clean; then mark the bed crosswise
of last years rows, leaving the row
strips about eight inches wide. |
thoroughly, but carefully, hand cul-
tivate between these strips, SO as
not to injure the roots of the plants
in these strips. In a few days the
best and strongest plants will be up
and running. Ileave enough Of the
best and strongest plants to run and
cover about one-half or two thirds
of the bed; carefully hoe out the
plants not needed, and keep the soil
clean and fine about these running
plants. When the runners have
covered the amount ofspace wanted,
1 cut off all runners as they appear,
keeping the open space well hoed.
If needed, 1 apply a dressing of good
fine manure before mulching the
bed for winter. l set only perfect
towering kinds. l have had good
success with Corsican, Mead, Jessie,
Brandywine, Clyde, Candy and
Parker Earle.-Farmers Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10
Two Meals n Day.

With many persons the custom Of
two principal meals, with slight lunch
between, finds considerable favor, and
it has one or two reasons or solid ad-
vantages which are worth mentioning
1t gives time for complete digestion
before the stomach is again called on
to take care of supply Of food, and it
removes the chief meal from the time
when the nerve force is wanted for the
brain to an hour when it can assist the
stomach.
Persons who are the victims of
chronic complaints and whose digestion
is slow and feeble are often greatly
benefited by taking but two meals a
day if they are careful to eat as much
in the two us would ordinarily be COM
prlsed in three. The neuralgia in par
ticular will do well to adopt this
course, but the first meal should bo
somewhat late and the second reason
ably early.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

The miracle of spring is being
wrought, and yet most people are
missing it largely for the prosaic
reason chat they are sleepy heads!
IT is worth while to see the fields and
the trees take ON their new and
vivid green, to watch the bursting
flowers, to hear the caroling birds,
even if to do SO one must deny him
self the last hour of sleep, which
is proverbially the sweetest. We
wonder at the man who has lived
for years at the foot of Pixies peak,
but never has seen the glorious
panorama from its top; yet what shall
we say Of the persons, sensitive OF
spirit and susceptible to the influ-
ences of nature, who from year to
year are Ignorant of the revival of
all the forms of life, simply because
to enjoy them would entail a
measure of inconvenience ?-Phila-
delphia Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10
Making Good Roads.

G. v. Fowler last Friday complet-
ed one Of the split log drags recon-
mended by the promoters of the
King good special which is touring
the country this spring in the inter-
ests of better roads. Mr.. Fowler
used this drag from three to four
hours on the sketch of road from
the barn on the Grout farm to the
Illinois Central track east Of the city
and finds that it gives more salts
factory results than anything Of the
kind he has ever used before.
Mr.. Fowler states that the appar-
atus used was built by his employees
at cost of only Sc, and results
secured from its use in smoothing
roads are far ahead of those secured.
by the use of any expensive machin-
cry he has seen used. One Of the
good features of this apparatus is its
cheapness. Every farmer in the
country can afford one. Mr.. King
has not been through this portion of
Iowa, on his lecture tour but a great
many have had the privilege Of fread-
ing in which the method Of con-
structing this drag is fully explain
ed He also outlines the plan Of
farmers where this instrument is
used. Each constructs drag and
cares for the portion Of the road be-
tween his residence and the one
next to him toward the town at
which he trades, and it is found by
| this system the roads are always
kept in excellent condition at par,
tically no expense. The time which
can be devoted to this road worl
can be found when the farmer is no
busy with his regular work, the bes
time as far as results are concerned
being just after rain.
In constructing a drag Mr.. Fowle
used timbers the dimensions o
which are 1Oxl2 inches. On tn
foremost piece he attached a pieco o
wagon tire. but on the rear timbe
left the face bare. In portions Q
the country through which Mr.. Kin!
has passed great deal of enthus
iasm has been aroused and prem
iums of from 500 to 5000 hav
, been offered for the best mile c
, road during the season. Thus ia
' the drag made by Mr.. Fowler is tn
r first reported in this county, but
is expected that many others will b
. put in use before the end Of the see
son. If those who construct an
/ use these drags during the seaso
: will report them to the Reporte
, office with report of the cost an
f the result of work accomplished b
il their use, the Reporter will numbe
a them in the order in which they al
d returned and publish an account {
It the work accomplished as reported
n This is the most feasible and chea]
# est method known for keeping tt
y roads in repair and there is L
n reason why Blackhawk count
Q should not have smooth roads du
= ing the coming season. Waterlt
Reporter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

Enormous building operations are
in progress this spring throughout
the Un'tel States. A mercantile
agencyhas figured that $6O0,0O0,000
will berequired to pay the cost Of the
structures put up in 1905-a sum too
vast to be understood by most of US.
More comprehensive is the state
ment that all the former records of
the country will be broken, for as
people, we love to break records and
quite the most interesting of all the
ways of describing the conditions is
an assertionthat never in the history
OF the world has there been witness
ed such o wave Of building. Not
the Hausmannizing of Paris, not the
building of ST. Petersburg. not the
boom that transformed Rome when
that city passed under civil control
is to be compared, in extent and
total value, is to be construction now
under way in the ordinary and
normal course of-the nations prosper
GUS development Boston Tran
script,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

The is. Encouragement has rem
dered an opinion sustaining Sec
retary Wilson of the Agricultural
Department in his contention that
the law requiring stock in transit to
be unloaded, fed aud watered at in
tervals not greater than twenty-eight
hours, applied to terminal railway
companies as well as to through
lines. The secretary says that his
efforts to enforce the twenty-eight
hour law has resulted in 400 viola
tions of the law having been reported
within the past three months. The
violations are being investigated
with view to the institution OF
prosecutions. Certain large railroad
companies have informed the sec
retary that a plea of guilty will be
entered by them in these cases, and
also that arrangements have been
made by them looking to a stric,
compliance with the law in the
future.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

Honor to the hen, says the Spring
field, Mass, Republican. She has
accomplished unaided what the adj
ministr4tion and attorney general
haven't succeeded in doing yet. She
has mashed trust and busted a
corner. 1t is reported from Iowa
that the big packing firms are going
out OF the butter, egg and poultry
business. The explanation is, THAT
for year their attempted egg cor
ner has failed to make good. The
hens went to laying at the wrong
and unexpected time and before the
public had been forced to take the
millions Of dozens Of eggs that the
packing trust had in cold storage
awaiting fancy prices the hen had
smashed the market. Whether this
explanation is complete Or not it is
said to be known that the Armours
have been selling their plants in
Iowa, having dropped large sum
in the venture.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

Earrings were never made for
cows, but every COW in Belgium
must wear them now, for regu-
lation has been issued that all ami
mails Of the bovine species are to be
thus adorned on reaching the age OF
three months. This is hygienic
measure intended to prevent the in
PRODUCTION into Belgium of animals
suffering from tuberculosis. Breed
ers are obliged to keep strict
account of the animals raised by
them, and the ring, on which is en-
graved n number, is fastened in the
animals ear for the purpose of pre-
venting the substitution OF one
animal for another.-Ch'go Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10
MIDDLE AGED FOLKS.
The Change Which Has Come Over
the Spirit of the Times.

The Change Which Has Come Over
the Spirit of the Times.
In the middle of the nineteenth CEN
tury n man of forty-iive was regarded
almost elderly, and woman Of the
same age was expected to have long
since cut herself adrift from all ties
binding her to her youth and to assume
the appearance and department of
staid, exemplary matrOn. All this has
changed in Il particularly Interesting
way, OF which the prominent feature is
seeming contradiction. II the three
year-old child of today is as knowing
as was the six-year-old of half cen
tury ago, and the ten-year-old boy of
today is in many respects quite as
much n man as was his grandfather ut
eighteen, one might naturally expect
that in due grndation the modern mid
die aged man should be old beyond his
years. But such is not the case.
Middle age, SO far from hurrying on
into senility, so far even from standing
still, would seem actually to have step
ped backward and marched alongside
of youth. There Is n jauntlness, a
buoyancy, an elasticity, about the mid
die age Of today at which our fathers
would have shaken their heads as un-
seemly. The gulf which once separat-
ed the middle aged parent from his
children has been filled up. The cur
tain which shrouded the middle aged
man generally from the eyes of youth
and which caused him to be regarded
with respect if not with awe has been
lifted, and in obedience to the same in
1uences which have made the school
master the friend of the schoolboy and
the reglmental officer almost the COM
rade of his men the middle aged man
Of today is never so happy us when
working or playing upon an equality
and actually In competition with youth.
AS with men, SO it is with women.
Social statisticians tell us TINT the age
| at which women are considered most
eligible for marriage has been very not
ably advanced Of late years, and we
know that the lament Of many match
making mamma is that the most dread
ed rivals of her darling are not to be
found so much among the girls Of her
own age as among women who not
many years ago would have been rele-
gated to the ranks of hopeless old
maidenhood. The fact that the middle
aged woman Of today is much younger
| In manner and tastes Is, Of course, not
the only reason for this, but 1t is among
the most potent.-London Spectator.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

1t would not be surprising if there
was a revolt some time against the
retired list of the army and navy.
Through recent legislation and rapid
promotions the retired list has
become topheavy. There are now
three lieutenant generals. twenty
major generals and 25O brigadier
generals on the retired list Of the
army. In the navy Of the three
highest grades there are 1913 rear
admirals, eighteen commodores and
fifty -four captains. The act Of con-
gress two years ago raised many
men on the retired list one rank if
they had seen service in the civil
war and had not been advanced a
grade on retirement. This swelled
the list of brigadier generals great
deal, but $50 brigadier generals or
the retired list is entirely out ol
proportion to the size of the army
either now or what it has beer
during the past forty years since the
close of the civil wal. Washing
ton Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10
Worried.

l did forget the chocllates
ineaut to brln ~ ynu.
1 did forget the funny p,gc
From sundays phIrrto,;
did forget tho IS Big noli
You ordered me to bring
DID you rems mber H,ij thtE"
didn't iiot a ting
just r mem red that last night
You cOu he'd SJme In your sieep,
Just remembered awake
And w"fil-,i ju>ta heap.
jas. reile,nb rei ti,st youc cheak
WAS hot wlini pressed tp mine.
Aud that left tsiis morn ng dear
Before tho ua lights shIc.
just remembered. d s'arin mins,
ihs wliOle day, " Mtt -.
That YOU srrm dnp rSri'y vel.
Ana that l,ys, S"li 81!
just remScr..i !llLir rifi.
When uOoiiti.ne', ai,is.irS btsH,
That WAS i.n,tiunSn u a might 90
A-hurring h0uic tD I'M
Aud Then when l drew near. deAr heart
When you were wont 10 run.
No baby cane to me- her Il I'd,
N curls danced in the sun,
Aud no arms went round my neck
And no ono shrielteu IN en!
Aud no one call d: My p.tpn'S tuml"
No lips were .pursed ior me!
And was worried such a lot,
And the old hOusa did seem
Like some place had known OF yore.
Or dreamed OF In Il dream!
My heat WAS way down III my shoes
Until heard y Ii call:
"Peek-a-boO. papa!" tl,on 1t b ,uncod
Upllke u rubber Dnl
And didn't just hunt you out
From where you hid from me!
And didn't just usle you
Until you laughed with glec!
The roses red were in your cheeks,
Again your blue eyes shon-.
Aud yuu were well AS you could be.
My own, my babe! my own!
And that's how came to forget,
thought so mucn of you
could not think to got the things
That you had told me to;
But now when 20 back . town
III get them all. all right;
Be sure to run to meet me now
When come home tonight.
j. y. Lewis In the Eouston Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

At woman's club meeting in New
York recently woman who had made
q witty speech about men in general
was asked by one Of the members If
she could tell just what was the mean
ing Of the expression, "An average
man." "Of course l can," she prompt
ly replied. II think an average man Is
one who smiles and looks pleasant all
day ut the Office, but when lse comes
home acts us cross Us bear with a
sore head, just SO he can make up the
average"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

81 don't know any sensation rs hu-
initiating us that of being told after
you have just finished your best
story, I've heard that before-but in
q different way, Of course or 4 heard
that another way or some other po-
lite way Of saying Chestnut" said
a prominent lawyer. IF there is any
thing that dumps cold water on the
story teller and the audience 1t is that
sort Of thing. In some parts of the
country it would almost mean gun
play. entirely agree with the old
Kentucky colonel who used to say.
No gentleman, sab, ever heard story
befoh, SIR San Francisco Chronicle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

provincial as well as the city doctor, is
to send testimonials to some wine or
mineral water importer or to manu-
facturer of sanitary clothing and occa-
sionally to a quack medicine vender.
In this way they get their names con-
stantly in the local papers without in
fringing the rule against advertising.
The worst of 1t all, from the public
point of view, is that 1t is not the best
physician or surgeon who gets the
greatest reputation, but the best man
of business. And while patients crowd
to the fashionable houses Of mediocre
doctors who have clevcrly advertised
themselves the most skillful physicians
and surgeons of all grow rusty and all
but starve in back streets.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10

A Montreal couple, Pierre Forget
and his wife, have just celebrated
the seventy-sixth anniversary ofthelr
marriage. Mr.. Forget is 100 years
and 6 months old, his wife is 96,
and both are in good health. One
of their thirteen children will her
self celebrate her golden wedding
three years hence, though she is only
81 now
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-11

Robert II. Hooe o. p. Merritt, y. q G..
Colvin L. A. Nfarsteller. ] Il T. T. Harnsber-.
ger. w. II. Brown M. X. Reading. ]. T..
lehman. ]. F. Lewis. ]. F. logan, b.
u. r. Rust. T. q. Putnam G. 3. Nash,
w. r Myers. Redman selecman. ] F..
Wheat. w. NJ. Wheeler, T.. II. Lyon. H. p.
Dodge, c. w. Blume, H. j.. Ayers. C. F..
Brewer, w L. Heuser. Al =. Henry. Chas
Farquhar, H. NJ. Duncan, A. o. zortner.
George r. Ratclifsc. B. F. 1den, 8. S..
Simpson. G.. j. Meetze. F. G.. Rora baugh
y. b fHodgkin. "A . w. Sinclair, y. A..
SLarkin,% r. "A. Hutchinson. G, Al nclnir.
j. p. Mason, Fac. Ransdell, G. AZ IIeine-
sken, ~ Up. eachnan, George w. Mutt
n. Wolfe. II ". Weir, G. Ii Hynson. w.
M niee, j.. 4. u Moser. z. w. A.eir, w.
N. Lipscomb, George w. IIixson u O. Z.
Newman, A. .B |. Davis. D. j. Arlington
S. w. Burdge, j. W. Prescott; Robert
II. Davis. John A. Cannon. w. Hill
Brown, C. A. q. Hopkins. Henry Cam
per, r. b. sprinkel, p. K. Mitchell. j..
Hornbaker. y T. Baker, 2. r. Connor.
Geo. Maddox. r. w. Merchant, A. A.
Hoff, George II !. Smith. John A. Nicol.
Walter Hlbbs, Robert J. Evans j. L..
Payne George w. Bell, J Garland Ham
ncr,s John McGil, Father Patrick. e. w.
Feltner, S. X. Cockrell. T. D. D.
Clark, Eugene Keyser, Abraham Con-
nor. j. Jenkyn Davies. w. II. w. Moran
George C. Round. Fl
WALTER edward HARRIS. a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-11

+ n i N ~ i.
station q few minutes after noon and
was met by Graeme Stewart aud other
members OF the reception committee.
The President and party Immediately
started for the auditorium annex The
streets through which the Presidents
carriage drove were lined with police and
men iniuniform and plain clothes mingled
with the crowd everywhere. In addition
there were over fifty detectives who fol-
lowed the Presidents carriage and
watched the crowds closely for any dis
turbers. President Roosevelt addressed
the Mcrchnnts' Club Mt the luncheon
given him by the merchants organlza-
ton at the auditorium this afternoon.
The theme OF his talk was the ;upbuild-
ing Of a great navy for the sake OF the
nations commerce and thesnatllons non
ar He appealed to other commercial or
ganizations to propagate the idea OF big
navy. The president made another adj
dress at the Hamilton Club.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-11
MUST OBEY LAWS.
Presidents Reply to Protest OF
Labor Leaders.

L CHICAGO, Ill., May 1o.--A5 strongly
,vorlca protest against the sending of
Federal troops to Chica so was submitted
10 President Roosevelt this afternoon.
The protest is signed by G. p. Shea, presl-
dent OF tho international Brotherhood Of
Transfers Charles Dodd, president Of
the Chicago Federatiousof LABOR, and by
other labor leaders. S2 SS
lVThe employers have repeatedly spurned
the request Of the labor leaders for arbi-
t1ation, the protest declares. and boastcd
that Federal troops would back up the
cmnloyers' side of the controversy.
Peace" says the protest OF the labor
leaders, rests not upon the militia rsthe
army, but upon the patience and long
suffering of the toiling mass. Can a few
soldiers scare the men who make armies
and who compose the flower OF Anerichn
manhood? 2. Declaring that the workers
will abide by The decision OF an arhi-
tration, even should that decision fail
10 be all that might be hoped for, tn,
appeal TO the President closes with the
request that he consider ali the facts
in the case before he permits any abuse
Of Federal power in complying with a
request for troops.
The PRESIDENTS S Ntply.
The committee presenting the protest
wus received BY the President in person
MT the auditorium annex. The President
told them that no demand had been made
upon him for the use Of troops In Chicago.
He said he regretted that the protest
should have spoken Of the Federal army
as il did. He declared that Major Dunno
had his hearty support in suppressils
mob violence and concluded
II am believer In unions. am
an honorary member of one union"
| But the union must obey the la"
Just as the corporation must obey inc
| law, just MS every man, rich or poor,
| must obey the law. AS yet no acton
has been called for by me. and most
certainly, If action is called for by
me-. / shall try to do exact justice
under the. law to every man SO raj
as have power But the first es-
scn,ial is the preservation OF law and
! order, the suppression OF violence by
mobs or individuals"
Disturbances in City.
/ II was generally understood by boil
sides to tho strike that there would III
no disturbances while President Roosc
welt was in the city. Notwithstanding tn
tarit agreement, there were number Q
4 outbreaks, one of them taking place II
Michigan Avenue, n short time ate
President Roosevelt had passed the spot
In this riot several negroes were Gu
and shot
George S. Pierce, union teamstel
was shot and killed tonight By Geors
II. Waldorf deputy sheriff, VINO wa
guarding n Wells Fargo express wager
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-11
DRUNKENNESS
GAN BE CURED
The great good done by Orrine. the
liquor habit cure, is Just Begin
ming to be realized by the
people of this city.

We have had number OF horrible cases
resulting from tllr excessive use OF whls-
key beer or other alcoholic slimulnntH
attract our attention In the last few days.
and We wish 10 say that 40 haye The
greatest confidence in Orrinc. and do not
hesitate to recommend IT 10 any one for
The positive cure OF the Liquor habit.
The OIrne Company Inc. Washington,
D. c., have so much eonildenae That Or
refund t.e money # 1t falls 10 cure Or
riue No can be given IN tea, coffee or
food, without tho knowledge Of tlte pa
tieut as Il Is absolutely colorless. taste
less and harmless. Orrln@ No. is-in PHI
form, Tor those desiring 10 be freed from
this disease. Either form 81 Per package.
ASK us about Orriner We are the agents
in his city.
Polk Miller hiidrey Co. l1i Y. broad
Street, corner First Street.
Polk Miller Drug Co.. S2i 2. Main
Street. Richmond.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-11
Summoned BEFORE
SENATE COMMIT TEE

WASHINGTON, y. G., May 10.-Chair-
ran Elldns. of the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee, to-day summoned by
Telegraph to appear and testify on the
rate question the presidents of the Ten
nessce Coal ana Iron Company, tho Col
orado Fuel and Iron Company the United
States steel Corporation, the Falrmont
Coal Company and the Ptlsburg Coal
Company, The principal witness at to-
days hearing Was President Joseph Ram
scy, Jr., OF the Wabash Railroad. who
opposed legislation empowering the In
ters,ate Commerce Commission to fix
rates