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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-14
tsocH uNMoVED BY PLEA.
Latest Victim Of Alleged Bigamist De.
n1andg Her Money.

Chicago, Feb. 14.--Mrs. Emelie
Fisher Hoch, the latest wife of Johann
Hoch, called upon him during the day
to make a demand for her money.
After Hoch had been brought from a
cell into Police Inspector Shlppy's
office the wife said
John, you have got my money and
want 1t. Give ii back to me Ii you
have any heart at all, for | need every
cent"
Unmoyed by the earnest plea Hoch
answered:
Now, my dear, don't get excited.
You will get all your money back and
more If you do the right thing All of
the stories about me are false. You
leave me alone and you will come out
all right, Walt and we will talk 1t
over later"
The woman did not make any reply
and the interview was at an end.
A special detail OF detectives has
been set at work In an efEt to locate
the drug store at which Hoch Is sup
posed to have purchased the arsenic
which the police will endeavor TO prove
was administered to Mrs. Marie
Welcker-Hoch. The postmortem ex-
animation exposed three grains Of ar
senic In the woman's stomach.
Hoch Says He Is Not Romeo.
Hoch made a statement during the
day that his matrimonial ventures
were not love affairs.
Il want to correct one impression
of me given the public" he said. ''All
are led to believe | am regular Ro-
meo. | am not. | did not love any OF
my wives | have no use for women.
1t was purely business proposition
with me. When I found they had
money | went at&er that. When | got
Ii I left them. They had no charms
for me. | advertised for women over
forty-hve. | found they were easier to
separate from their money Flattery
was my chief item in stock You can
win woman quicker that way than
any other"
George Slyter, a carpenter, declares
positively that Hoch was the janitor
of the apartment house or so-called
"castle" OF ri. H. Holmes, who commit
ted many murders in this city. Slyter
claims to have paid rent to Hoch as
janitor OF the building in 1892. Hoch
denies Slyter's statements.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-14

Hundreds of thousands of people us'
Hollister's s Rocky Mountain Tea as ;
family tonic. If taken this month i
viii keep the family well all summer
Ii it fails get your money back. b
cents-Frank Smith.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-14
General Resumption of Work.

Essen, Prussia, Feb. 1.-THE coal
strike is entirely ended. Full shifts
went into the mines during the morn
ing.
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BAcK.AcnE

and all other symptoms of kidney dis
ease are speedily removed when the
kidneys are made healthy, active and
vigorous by the use of
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-14
Special Offer
Chamberlain Cough Remedy Abso
lutalv Harmless

lutely Harmless.
The fault of giving children medicine
containing injurious substances, is some
times more disastrous than the disease
from which they are suffering. Every
mother should know that the Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy is perfectly
safe for children to take. 1t contains
nothing harmful and for coughs, colds
and Group is unsurpassed. For sale by
Stoddard & Halstead.
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ROB. sPINsTER OF SAVINGS.
Thieves Take $4,000 From Home o'
Alexandria (Minn.l Woman.

Alexandria, Mimi, Feb. 14.-Miss
Comerford, an aged spinster, was
robbed during the afternoon OF $4,000
cash, which she kept In tin box In
her trunk. The robbery occurred
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-14

For cracked hands. chapped lips and
cough skin, Pinesalve is the incest
quickest, best cure. One application in
one night proves it. Sold by Stoddard
q Halstead
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-14

ManZan is the pile remedy that
reaches the spot and stops all pile pain
instantly. Ii you suffer with blind,
bleeding, itching or protruding piles and
want TO be cured it is only necessary to
use ManZan, the great pile cure. Sold
by Stoddard & Halstead.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
Mason Wor,

Now am ready to take contracts In mason
wrok Of any description.
III C.P. MILLER.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
CAVE OF THE WINDS.
The Vision Carved In Stone Under
Its Hills of DakOta.


Its Yills of Dakota.
The great wind cave has the form of
mn eight story house, each story, OF
stratum, containing distinct forma.
ton Of its own and each containing
chambers Of n size and magnificence OF
decoration such as have never been
found in any subterranean cavern of
the world.
1t is dream, nightmare a vision
carved in solid stone maer the green
hills of Dakota, stone as white as the
milk the hired man used to give us tC
drink in the dawn Of n happy June
morning, stone as red as the heart OF
the first bloodroot that you dug in the
spring when the world was all spring
to you and stone that is blue with &
blue that all the painters who have
ever painted Venice have tried to ge,
for generations and have failed.
Frozen fountains are there, white
with the leaping foam of untold ages
sculptured cats and horses and great
monsters to be dreamed about o
nights and feared in dark corners in
the daytime, organs built by the
hands of giant gnomes for a Titan tc
play wild hymns Of praise upon, a
kitchen for the cooking Of weird dishes
never thought of up here in the sun
shine, all manner and all kinds OF
rooms, ninety miles of them, down
there under the hoofs of the gallant
little range horses who pound the
grass into hay the year round, up there
in South Dakota.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
e. &. NEWcoMn,

g. {. NEWCoMa,
DENTIST. Office over Burton Olsrk,e
" store on Franklin street. Grown
bridge work specially.
CHEAP.Kesidenee Property in this city
Enquire Of Bronson 4 Carr.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
Foreign ETIQUETTE.
sumo Things Harmless Here Would
lie Fad Form Abroad.

sumo Things Harmless Here Would
lie Had Form Abroad.
There are some points of foreign eti-
quetle which are absolutely ineXplica-
bic to ulc British! mind, and, indeed, it
is very doubtful whether the nations to
which they are peculiar can themselves
offer amy explanation. Why, for in
stance, is it bad form if you visit n
Frenchman in his own room to lay
your lat Oh the bed? The fact remains
that il is universally considered the
worst OF manners.
Again, in Germany, if you are walk
Ing in the garden with lady and it
occurs to you 10 pick Il flower for her
acceptance, be careful to pluck also a
leaf or two to make the nosegay COM
ple;e, Failure to do so is an insult, for
Wii:e.i you may possibly be called to
account By her nearest male relative.
II yon are unexpectedly asked to stay
to a Zeal in an Englshman's house you
would not think twice of using his
hilia5rilshe3 nor he of lending them.
Tut in Hungary such a thing is impos-
siblc. TO ask for the loan of hair
brush i'll Il Hungarian house is an I'M
speakable barbnrism, and If it were
not known that you erred from sheer
ignorance would bring down upon you
most insulting response or possibly q
chnllenge.-Lonlop Mnil.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
THORPE.

Dick White and A. Clark were
Dubuque visitors last Saturday.
Don't miss seeing the Xmas tree
at the NJ. g. church next Friday
evening.
Dan Sherman is staying at the
George Martin home.
Fred Wendell is assisting A.
Clark in the store.
Jack Reichard was welcome
caller at the jackson home last
Thursday.
There was dance at Jake Cham
bers' last Friday night All report
a lively time. They expect 10 haze
another on Saturday evening, Dee
%. Don't miss it.
Ben Sarks visited several days
last week with his sister, Mrs Kane,
Of Littleport
Harry Kane and Ed Mace, of Liz
t'eport, visited Saturday at ID. Sarks
Will Russell and family went 10
Elkakder Saturday, to attend Mr.
Russell's brothers funeral, which
was held at that place last Sunday
Fred Wonleighton fell from a lad
der while assisting A. Clark with
some work. AS result, DR.. Nash,
of Dundee, was called last Saturday
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
THE HAWKEYE STATE.
TeIegraphic Reports Of Important
Events Occurring During
Past Few Days.
MAIN HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK
Items of Special Interest Caught from
the Wires and Prepared for
Our Readers.

Mount Ayr, H., Dec. 15.-Almost at
the steps of the altar it was charged
that Don Amanda De Cespedes, who
represented himself as wealthy Cos
ia Rican, and was to have been mar
ried to Miss Bertha Shrimplin, senior
in the high school here had wife
and child in Chicago.
De Cespedes had declared he was
Vice chairman of the national Repub-
lean committee of Costa Rica. He
went to the house of his fiancee at
night, where the minister and bridal
attendants had gathered for the re-
hearsal of the wedding ceremony, and
was there when Alexander Shrimplin,
the father of the young woman, was
Shown telegram saying De Cespedes
already was married. There was II
scene, and it was announced that the,
wedding was postponed indefinitely.
The young woman was Frustrated and
had to be placed under the care Of a
UhySician
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20

The word derrick for a machine used
to lift heavy weights is curiously de-
rived from London hangman in the
beginning Of the seventeenth century
whose name was Theodore and who Is
often mentioned in old plays. HE
rides circuit with the devil, and Der
rick must be his host, and Tyborne the
inn at which lie will light" occurs in
"rhe Bellman of London" published
in. 1915. The name thus corrupted
came afterward to be applied, by an
easy transition. to the gallows and lat
err still to any frame or contrlvance re-
sembling it In shape.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20

Colophon was city of ancient Ionia,
nine miles north of Ephesus, and near
the sea. 1t was said to be the birth
place of Homer, and near 1t was IA
nous oracle of Apollo. The Greek prov
erb. ITO put colophon to IT." mean
ing to end an affair handsomely, is ex-
planned by Strabo as arising from a
belief that the cavalry of Colophon was
SO excellent in quality that their charge
was always decisive in a battle. Hence
arose the custom Of calling any device
or monogram or printers name or sign
or date Of printing In old printed books
u colophon in the sense of definite.
satisfactory end.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
lockwood.

Harry James took a car load of
cattle and hogs to Chicago last Tues
day.
Mrs. Ida Peet visited her parents
near Masonville last week.
Mr.. w. ID. Davis and wife from
south of town were in Strawberry
Point on business last Wednesday.
Miss Grace Mellen gave party tc
the many young folks in and around
Edgewood last Friday night and all
present report fine time.
l.. S. Fisher and wife visited rela.
tives in Manchester recently.
Miss Grace Pilkinton who has
been working for some time past in
Greeley visited with Miss Leo Glaz
Ter last Friday and Saturday. She
left Saturday for her home in Little.
port.
Mrs. Nettic Martin and Mrs. Nellie
Thomas of Greeley were Thursday
visitors with Mrs. W. d. Davis.
Hesner and Hesner give a Christ
mas dance Monday night, Dec. 25.
Everybody invited.
Hon r. j. Bixby left last Tues
day night for Des Moines.
A. N. Smith of Manchester, was
visiting relatives in town recently.
The Edgewood basket ball team
were defeated by the Greeley team
again last Thursday night.
Blaine Robbins came home from
Grattenger Wednesday for several
months stay with home folks.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20

For a century past, probably longer,
the rule Of the best printers and pub
fishers has been, "Three words in tile
same construction are separated by
commas" Two examples will illus
trate the rule:
John, James and Thomas have come"
AS SO punctuated the first name is
vocaive, the second and third nomina-
tive. Two persons haxe come.
John, james, and Thomas have come. y
And now the three names are all
nominatives. Three persons have come.
The two meanings can be indicated
otherwise only by footnote. - New
York Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
DUNDEE.
A Merry Xnas TO all.

A Merry Alnas TO all.
Rev. Percy Langridge will preach
in the school house Sunday next, and
it is to be his farewell discourse.
The Rowley residence is for rent
cheap. Call on E. A. Nash for in
formation.
DIR. Nash made professional call
near Litcleport last Sunday, to see
Mrs. Fred Williams. Jean Williams
of this place went with the DR..
j. l.. Gilbert had a severe attack
Of lumbago recently.
Art Lee was in Dubuque Monday
Barns has fine line of holiday
goods. Call and see them.
III you want a line time come, Sat
uriay evening, Dec. %, to our Xmas
tree entertainment. Santa Claus will
give everybody a present, and the
little ones two presents.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20

1t was the great eclipse OF Aug. 81,
1860, that turned Tycho Brahe into an
astronomer. He was in his fourteenth
year at the time, II Danish boy of no.
Bile origin, and had been destined first
for the army and then for the law.
But the accuracy with which the
eclipse was predicted impressed him
with the belief that astronomy was n
divine thing. and thenceforward he de-
voted his life to it. The debt of as
tronomy to Tycho Brahe not only for
his own work. but as the man who
shaped the genius of Kepler, can
scarcely be overestimatcd.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
BAILEY'S FORD.

Mrs. r. e. Grommon and son,
Clair, visited relatives in Nashville,
Sunday Of last week.
Mrs. VIM. Raster was in Mauches-
ter last Thursday.
Tillman Grapes and daughter,
Carrie. spent Sunday of last week
at the home of ID. B. Blanchard.
Mrs. G. B. Davis and Mrs. Helen
Mckee we've in Manchester Monday
of last week.
Mrs. r. L. Grommon and son,
Chas, were Manchester visitors last
Thursday.
Lonnis Grapes was in Manchester
on business Tuesday Of last week.
Mrs. Clara Conner and son, Harry,
We're in Manchester last Thursday
j and d. Madison had business
in Manchester last Saturday.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
Composite pronouu wan,ed.

The want of composite pronoun to
express both he and "she," and, what
Is sometimes more important, to ex-
press neither he nor she, must have
embarrassed every one at some time or
another There are ungrammaticul
ways of shelving the difficulty, such as,
for instance, by translating the CON
venient French '.on" as they" when
we really mean one person who may
be either masculine or feminine. The
lack of Il portmanteau word to express
both sexes without specifying either
did not, however, trouble the new maid
who approached her mistress with the
ingenious remark, "Please'm, u friend
OF mine has called-and may l ask it
to tea"-London Chronicle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
LAMONT.

Rev. I'll. Strauss has moved into
the Tyrrill house on south side.
Sherman Jones visited his brother
Beldon and family in Dubuque the
past week.
Mrs. Phoebe Hicks is here visiting
relatives and friends,
Mrs. Gartz of Strawberry Point
visited her daughter, Mrs. Ami Win
denburg and family last week.
Mrs. Mable Young visited her
parents, Joseph Franks and wife
also her brother, j. M. and wife last
week.
T. w. Stephenson purchased the
Frank Sharp residence on Pine
stre ct, consideration 1919. Mr..
Stephenson will soon move into it.
1t is with sincere regret we pen
this item that Rev. I'll. P. Langridge
and his amiable wife leave us. They
will soon be residents Of Waukon.
They will win friends wherever To-
Gated but oh! its hard to let him go
as all love him who know him.
Mrs. Kate Vanderhoof and little
Grace have returned to Wasco, Ill.
The T. B. Ladies Aid served din
ner Dec. 10.
Ross Porter of Manchester renew
ed acquaintance here Wed. Dec. Ii.
Grandpa Role accompanied by
his grandson, Grin Role, departed
for Florida Dec. III to spend the
winter.
Born to Frank Drake and wife
Dec. s, son and dandy too.
Willis Wolfe purchased a house
and lot in York, Nebraska; and is
here now preparing to move there
in Feb. 1906. Now Wilkes why
don't you let some of our Fable leave.
We do hate to have good people
move away, we hope his health will
be improved by the change.
Mrs. W liam Weston and son,
Henry, were Waterloo visitors last
week.
Rev. G. w. Rogers Of Strawberry
Point and w. E. Ross Of Lamont
will hold special meetings at the
county corners church the rest OF
December.
Mrs. E. May entertained the bible
class Monday evening.
Henry Becker held public auc-
finn IN bic farm Dec Is
Mr.. Henry Fowler and wife were
Manchester visitors Dec. y.
The proper thing-a quiet,
thoughtful Xmas eve-it has be-
come habit to get and to give pre-
sents SO that the real blessings that
should be ours by thinking serious
ly of the real meaning Of Christmas
eve has been forgotten but this
year Christmas eve comes on Sunday
good program will be given in the
M. E. church Sunday evening, the
Sunday school treats will be given
but no general exchange Of presents.
We hope the church will be we'll fill
ed and that it will be Thanksgiv-
ing Christmas time preparatory for
the New Year that is fast-in pursuit.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
JEWISH HuMOR,
Its Flavor of bitterness and Its Sat.
fire of judaism,

It's Flavor of Bittcrncss and Its Sat.
fire of judaism.
Renan said of the Jews, "The Sem
itic people are almost entirely without
the power to laugh" Surely had he
looked for traces of Jewish humor in
the light which Heine casts back upon
its dark tradition he would never have
made so sweeping statement. For
eight years Heine lay upon his mat
tress grave in Paris suffering excru-
ciating agony. He deserved, he said,
to have awarded to him "the grand
medals of pain and misery" Leopold
Zunz said almost the same words of
the whole Hebrew people, "If there are
ranks In suffering, Israel takes prece-
dence Of all the nations" The humor
of Israel is favored with bitterness and
plays round the greater subjects Of
thought and of speculation; plays like
the humor of man in pain.
listen to the lament of satirist
born at Aries In 1887 who finds the
works Of the Jewish law an intolerable
burden and seems to have come, like
Hclne, to the bitter conclusion that
Judaism is not a religion, 1t is mis-.
fOrtune:"
Oh. hapless sire. distraught with cares.
Whose wife to him male children bears.
For all of them, or rich or poor.
Have only suffering to endure.
This is caused by the Jewish creed,
Whose yoke Is hard to bear indeed.
Its many laws and regulations
Which nrp unknown n other Nations
Every Hebrew must observe
With watchful eye and straining nerve;
Fen though lie shares in public functions,
He still must follow their injunctions
The Bible is not half enough;
Closes there are and other stun
In which he erudite must be,
Especially in theology.
| In all the Talmud may relate,
| In authors quarrels and debate,
| In things particularly small,
| OF no Significance at all.
One more medieval quotation, this
time from the pen of Barcelona Jew.
| The lines can hardly perhaps be called
humorous, but they illustrate with q
| certain terse comedy the great value
set by the race upon three things
money. knowledge and domestic hap.
piness. If n man has none of them the
poet has no better advice to give him
than to hold his tongue or to hang him.
self:
| What is the most useful thing to any
| man In life?
Knowledge or wealth or good and Low.
| ing wife.
| But If none of these commodities man has
1 ever got
Then by keeping golden silence he might
improve his lot.
And IL he cannot do SO. that poor and hap.
less knave,
Then let him go away at once and dis
himself n grave.
On his deathbed Heine made his las
joke, and 1t is typically Jewish. RE
Viewing his by no means irreproacha
BILE past" he hoped that God might for
give him, "for c'est son metier"-(that 1.
his trade). Another story illustrate.
yet more perfectly the bitter humcr O
the Jew. 1t is the story of dying
rabbi "who had been all his lifetim,
extremely religious. but had likewis,
always suffered much want and mis-
cry. DO you know lie said to thos'
In the sickroom, If after all the sad ex
periences have had in the past Their,
is no future life l shall be great,
amused London Spectator.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
Dinner In a Dell,

In the tower of Erfurt cathedral
hangs huge bell ten feet high and
thirty feet in circumference, weighing
thirteen tons. Within this In July,
1713, dined ten of the towns most
opulent burghers on dishes cooked in
a kitchen temporarily erected OH the
beam that supported the ponderous
mass of tintinnabulary metal. To cele-
brate this repast medals were struck,
having on the diverse the portraits of
the guests and on the reverse the rep.
resentation of the curious scene.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
PARTED FOR FoRTY.Two YEARS
Mother and Daughter Separated Since
the Latter Was but Two
Years Old.

Mason City. Ia, Dec. 16.-An inter-
esting chapter in human life has Just
come to light in the meeting of Il
mother and daughter after separa-
ton of forty-two years. The central
figures are Mrs. Putney, of Nashua,
and Mrs. Jennie Meloy, of this city. The
former is Go years of age and the lat
ter is A years. The story Of the sep
arntion and the reunion is told by Mrs.
Meloy.
She says that when an infant her fa-
tier died, leaving her mother, then liv-
ing in central Illinois, in destitute cir
cumstances. She said she was taken
by her aunt, who abandoned her, and
later she was adopted by Mr.. Liche, of
Nora Springs. A Floyd county man,
Mr.. Dean, heard the story from the
mother, and knowing her daughter he
arranged a meeting ut Nashau.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
buck, kin g'oves from II. j. Stew

+" Stetson hat from j. II. Allen.
Arthur Brown. Jartineer" a. y. Peterson.
Luther Sly, Surry whip % b. j. awmal
Geo. lister. pkg Stock feed from q. smith
W l. Dudley lbs tea from S,earn' 4 Nc
CormIc
LG Clute, mertorious mention
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20

Canon Nicholl used to tell how on one
occasion he had visited the famous
house of the Thrales in that suburb Of
London where DR.. johnson was at
home. Johnson" said the canon in
recalling the visit, had occupied two
rooms, and these were left as he last
used them. The sight was an cxtraor-
binary one, for ink was splashed all
over the floor and even on the walls.
II was one of the doctors habits to dip
his pen in ink and then shake It,"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-20
Courted Girl Ten Years.

Iowa City, Ia, Dec. 1G.-A court.
ship Of ten years standing was termin.
ated here when Rufus Choate, cousin
of Hon. Rufus Choate, was welded
to Miss Edna Dennis, niece Of former
Attorney General Milton Remley.
Theodore Roosevelt, cousin of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, was best man. The
groom is Il civil engineer,