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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-11-22
The Spanish bandit ia coming

The Spanish bandit is coming in
to existence again, fat little man
named Vivillio having committed a
number of highway robberies in An
dalusia. He is becoming popular
idol, too, on account of his daring
performances, but the guardia civile
has determined on his speedy sup
preston. When these officers cap
ture prisoner they tie his arms be-
hind him with a piece of string.
When he walks the string holds, but
if he runs it breaks. Then they
shoot him.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-11-22
The only safe place,

Can you lay this carpet SO the chill
dren won't wear 1t out?"
'Where shall put 1t, madam-on the
roof f%'-Harper's Bazaar.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-12-08

As for Spencer. that worthy also
keeps religiously In the background
since he has learned the astounding
truth from IN. old don,
Jack pTelonds To depart. but koverS
near, and is rewarded by seeing the
ladies escorted to u carriage by their
cavalier
He has his eyes glued ON III" sym
metrical figure: there II II y.arning in
his inI"nS" gaze, Perhaps in some
subtle, mysterious manner II II com
municnt"d to the object Of his mute
alteration: for Jessie without warning
turns her fair head and iOoks straight
at him.
His very heart ceases to beat, but
not by III" slightest sign does he be-
tray himself That hateful promls"
given In Edinburgh stands between
ia deadly barrier.
All. what causes III" blood to leap
III" mad through his veins? \ litil"
web Of lace has been shaken toward
him. Sh" has sccn-Ehc recognize
HIM Heaven IN Kind indeed. Now
nothing stands In the way of his rails
ing his hat EailanIly. and returning
her saluiation: and that on" Smil" is
enough to haun, Jack TrnV"rN. for h."
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-12-08

Is very much In love with his own
wife.
They are gone.
Jack discovers that tho dingy eta.
tIon Is no longer iilumincd. lie seeks
SmIthcrs. and finds that worthy has
had an eye On the party. FOR tho first
thing, he ,docs Is to congratulate his
employer on the progress made.
At tho house Of Lola MontcZ they
find n cool retreat. and do ampl" jus
tiCc 10 the meat that iE soon set be.
fore them.
Jack Is cndcavorinE to study his
companion. but when such human
sphinx is concerned. II requires con.
siderable acumcn 10 penetrate be-
ncath the mask he wears.
The mysterious connection he has
with the remarkable senorita under
whose roof they have found shelter
touscs jacks deepest curiosity. and
he hopes the time will soon come
VIXEN Job Smithcrs will take him into
his confidence.
Then. again. II seems so singular
that Lola MontcZ should turn out Ia
be the same girl whom he was cr.
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Slowly the afternoon pasSeS away
Jack mas not retircd 10 MS room inc
court win l.s rippiihS i"'''t"'h' 10
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-12-08
CHAPTER XIII.
"Dolce Far Niente."

When the train has drawn up in
the shed that good Havana citizens
term station, Jack hovers round,
eager to have parting glimpse of
the woman he loves.
Senior Roblado gives himself away.
now that the danger is thing of
the past. He is reserved and naughty,
his very manner telling more plainly
than words the fact that he has dis
covered the truth concerning Jacks
identity.
He thanks the foreigners for their
assistance. and does not forget to con-
vey the respects Of the ladies', excus-
ing their non.appearance on some
specious plea.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-12-08
CHAPTER XXI.
The War OF the Elements.

The War OF the Elements
Immediately Jack was ON his feet
When danger threatens he is not the
man 10 dream.
You want to tell me something, old
man-some,hins d.uc-ily unpleasant.
unless I'm very much mistaken. Now.
have IL out. without any apology. The
sooner these things aT. known III"
quicker they can b. met"
That Is the greeting Job Smithcrn
receives. lie IL unable To r.prcss his
surprise.
You're u quick one to get ON To
trouble. sir. Hut there's no nSe In dis
guising matters. These soldiers
haven't found out anything wrong yet.
but IL will coon burst on them like "a
thundcrciap. and then you1i nee the
wiides, scurryIns around here imaE'
Unable"
by Joyc. you are right. smI,hcrS!"
In what Jack Instantly cSciaimS. The
wind has changed
1t IL even 50. Presently II VIII
grow stronger. and no,hin. can pre-
vent that raging forest frc from com
Ing down ON us by another route
Scnor Jack Is not naturally dcspond'
ont, and he rs a usual thing does not
let loophoic that promises results
escape him. f.
If IL came To the worst. perhaps ""
might let the carriage swing over TO
the old stand again. There the ire
has burned cycrythinE possible. and
We might bc able Ia stand II. Susgcsis
SmIthcrE. though he advances the idca
dubIousiy. ~ though having little faith
in II hlmself.
Not with n ton Of ammunition IN
the car" declares his'' companion.
quickly: That would be inviting dcath'
A single spark. and away We would go.
every man Of MS"
well. OF course. before the run, was
made that would have to be removed
| and scattered about. since II would no
doubt Kick up quite n neat little circus.
| can see no other plan, unless We all
made for the river.
six miles away. We would never
! reach Il II The wind grew into n gale.
as IL possible. and the fire swung
round. cutting us on"
"Ah, sir. you are so quick TO punch
holes In my poor plans. | am sure you
have one of your own TO submit
laughs Job Smithcrs.
Jack shakes his head and resumes
smoking.
"All can suggest Is that we sit
Quietly down and resign ourselves to
the inevitable
Not give up the ship-that isn't
your way. sir. There's something
tnck of II. You have made n discov-
cry. You believe the situation Is
robbed OF it's tcrrors: hence your Sc
rene manner. Tell me what II Is. that
may Join in your satisfaction
"Thc same old story has gone on
since the world began-that eternal
warfare that will never cease TO be-
.'Eh?" gasps Smithers. dimly. sus'
pecting his employers mind may
have been affected by the many
strange experiences that have of late
crowded upon them.
The war OF the clements-betwecn
fire and water-a vendetta that can
never cease so long as nature exists.
Now you grasp the idea?'
Smithers does. He turns his face
upward to view the forbidding heav-
ems. and as he does so drop of rain
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-12-08
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Ing up against the breeze. but now
/: begins To jump.
The soldiers have been made aware
OF this new danger. They AR. ON tho
qui yiyc. and stand ready To NEE,
thn emergency. IL III. firo ,Iraws loo
close before tho rain comes il IL their
Intention to dispos. II tn. ammunI-
tion and try SmithcTs' plan, dcsp.r-
at" though II seems.
The drops OF rain fall faster thar
before. but as yet without tn. least
benefit. This Is no, what Jack wants.
what he expects. having seen tropical
showers "ro row. Only dciuE- will
satisfy hiS aspiration under these cir.
cumsiances.
The rattling. roaring sound In
cTcaScs In volume. II IL like u can.
honAdo now M the masses OF water
pitch down upon the burning forest.
Another minute and the flood gates
oI heaven seem To be opened.
tropical storm bursts upon them
without tn" slightest warning. Thun'
der crashes. ana vivid lightning
ham"s about them.
jiny. Tor In the everlasting warfare
between these rival elements water
usually proves the victor.
All are relieved. sine" they have
been saved from another grave dan.
ger.
The rain ceases after u time. almost
as suddenly aS II began. though the
electric glow continues for quite u
period.
: sJack. Styndipg In the door of the
carriage. secs singular spectacle
whenever the lightning iilumincK the
scene. The Spanish soldiers who were
uEablc to lind shelter still stand there.
dripping. wet. growing inu-hemas ut
the ncklc,. foDuncr, that threatens TO
roast them one minute and almost
browns them the next.
or course. III. oSpc,lItIon can go no
further. and their, one hope Is safe
return to- Havana. Betrayed. they
have fallen into snare. and will he
lucky indeed TO bring half OF their
number safcly into mort,
One thing TrnvcrE Ig sincerely sorry
for. In asking questions he finds that
tho gallant Gen. Toledo. TO whom they
nr. Indebted for n very great favor,
has not been seen since the disaster
Mt the bridge. and ny he was on the
engine nt the time. tn. chances are
he will never call upon Jack I'm un.
ypna 10 Claim the generous contrIbu.
iIon which the American promised in
return for his Kindness.
The night wcnrs AWAY slowly.
The day breaks with rather dis.
nal prospcct nhcad since there is
nothing IN emf within mnny miles Of
them. Trayers remains In the com.
pnrtmcnt of the guard. He hardly
caros IN fnco the others. since the
srnor shns undoubt.diy seen beneath
his disruisc. and of course Informed
his door friend Sponcer
ahout pino o'clock n whistle is
hoard and whom SNAKE ovcr the ont.
or hill onnounces tb, coming of n
tr,in tho Snnnisb soldiers hurst into
, yociferous cbeer that no doubt con.
siderable s,or,Ies tho driver on the
oryip, inst comIpp into view.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-12-08

splashes in one of his eyes. Never
was such more devoutly received.
"Sir, you are right. It is coming.
The change of wind may precipitate it
sooner. Yes, we can hope for deluge
in time"
Just as they have calculated. the
wind, having changed its course, be-
gins to increase it's force. Presently
things show a new phase. Up to this
time the fire has had hard time eat
The Appeal., 1905-04-08
Human acrifice In Ceylon

I'm days gone by no big work was
undertaken, they say in a whisper,
unless what is known as billa was
paid. The folklore of the country is
stepped with stories of the paying
of billa. 1t is firmly believed by the
masses that hundreds of lives were
sacrificed in the building Of tanks and
of dagobas in ancient days. It is be-
lieved that the tunnels through which
the railway line runs all had bills paid
before their construction. The souls
Of these men enter other bodies and
in the course of the transmigrat tion
of those souls they become snakes,
These snakes are the guardian angels
of many a public work and hence the
disinclination the masses have to de-
stroy a snake found in house
80 it is firmly believed that Mr..
Bostock is in league with the devil
and has got a number of faithful Az
ghans to procure the necessary men
for immolation by a very simple con-
trivance. A little white powder is
thrown on them, and they forthwith
follow the Afghan, who lures them
into some unknown dungeon. Sew.
eral are said to have been taken in
that way already and stories of losses
continue to increase from day to day."
The Appeal., 1905-04-08

I An Englishman writes in the st.
James Budget of St. Petersburg pris-
ops: "Yet more horrible than the
fate of the workers murdered in the
streets of st. Petersburg is the doom
OF those hapless men whom the ten
der mercies of the triumphant bur-
eaucracy have consigned to the dark
fortress of st. Peter and st. Paul, and
the inferno of the Schlussenburg in
Lake Ladoga. Well may the inhabi-
tants of St. Petersburg shudder as
/ they glance beyond the Neva at the
dark fortress whence, each hour, the
north wind brings across the river the
discordant sound of it's melancholy
bells. Melancholy, indeed, for moth.
ing but memories of suffering and op.
preston sit upon it's granite walls.
Here Peter I tortured and mutilated
bis enemies. Here he slew his own
son, Alexis, and to this dungeon, dur.
ing the reigns of the expresses, ON.
ripotent favorites consigned aspiring
rivals. And since then whole genera
tons of men and women for no other
crime than love of their oppressed
country have entered these gates oft
en- to leave them no more.
"A special refinement of the Rus
sian prison system in the case Of
political prisoners and suspects is
! continued solitary confinement until
The Appeal., 1905-04-08

"A very grewsome-and, at the
same time, a very inconvenient-
scare is going the rounds in the north
ern suburbs of Colombo, in Kota-
hena and Mutwal," says the Times
Of Ceylon in a recent issue. Accord
ing to a current rumor there is some
insurniountable difficulty in the build
ing of the new Craving dock. Every
stone and concrete block put down
disappears, goodness knows where.
Mr.. Bostock has had experience OF
harbor works before, and, so says the
man in the street, he knows what is
to be done when stones and blocks
disappear in that mysterious fashion.
It is the work of the devil and the
devil must be propitiated by human
sacrifice! There are III pillars to be
built, says the man in the street, and
accordingly III human lives must be
inundated. Every second man in Ko-
tahena believes the story, and wives
and mothers live in trepidatien, let
alone their husbands and brothers.
Little children who go to school are
waited for by their parents with the
utmost anxiety, and the scare lis
working much distress. One awkward
result of the scare is that servants
will not go out after dusk.
The Appeal., 1905-04-08
DR.. Osler's Quick Diagnosis

, answered that it would require 500
to bring him to Washington on that
particular morning and the old man
wired:
''A1l right; only come at once"
The doctor arrived in due season
and was met at the station by the
husband. During the drive to q the
house the doctor told the man blunt
ly that his fee must be paid in ad'
vance, and the cash was promptly
produced.
After listening to a few details OF
his patients illness from the trained
nurse, DR.. Osler was ushered into the
sick ROOM He felt the woman's
pulse, listeneds to the heart and took
the respiration after the approved
method. Then he went down stairs,
where the husband was anxiously
waiting for him.
"The trouble with your wife," ne
answered coolly, as he carefully ad.
justed his gloves, 'is that she is 70
years old. That is ALL
And before the astonished man
could get his breath, he heard the
cab door bang and the doctor was on
his way back to Baltimore.
The Appeal., 1905-04-08

In St. Petersburg :Bastiles
lrss-,.Ilnr Ilnrss~~1crss--,|3c~ss~s|0c'

as in the case of that splendid intel
lectual reformer, Dimitri Passaren,
they can be reported as harmless.
Some prisoners here were relieved OF
their senses quite gently and almost
politely. They were shut up in COM
Portable cells we'll lit by electric light
and for mental pabulu:m they were sup
piled with only religious and technical
works. When insanity or suicide
supervened the appointed end had
been secured. But the doom of 9TH
els presents even greater features OF
horror Imagine a dark, damp cell,
measuring about 10 by 6 feet, be-
meath the level of the surrounding wa
ters, in which the chained man or
woman is condemned to lie in abso-
lutte idleness, studiously isolated from
any intercourse with human beings.
"For ten minutes every second day
the miserable wretch is allowed TO see
the light and breathe the air in the
prison yard For the rest intolerable
loneliness, absolute silence, occupa-
ton of not the smallest kind; no
books, no writing materials, no instru-
rents of manual labor. Madness
comes to such gradually with the
passing years. In the majority OF
cases the mind rots slowly in the en-
feebling body. Suicide and madness
are the two great weapons in which
Russian autocracy puts it's trust
The Appeal., 1905-04-08
Charity Machine a Wonder

a while. Then he turns with the left
hand. At fifty he stops to rest, and
with a grunt he wipes the beads from
lis brow. Finally out drops a cent.
"The tramp grins. He thinks he'll
turn ten hundred times, and get ten
cents for two beers. He is pretty
tired; though, by the time he's turned
500 times, and, besides, the morning
is pretty we'll gone now. So he stops
at the five hundred. He goes off with
five coppers, rubbin' his arms. His
arms'll be stiff next day.
"Hard-earned coppers! Edison
Murphy calls his invention charity
machine, but there's not much charity
about it. Edison gets out of the ma
chine enough electrical power to light
his house, pump his water, and run
his freight elevator, and all it costs
him is 20 or 80 cents day that goes
into the pockets of poor deluded
tramps''
The Appeal., 1905-04-08
NEAT SCHEME OF REFoRMER
Bids Fair to Discourage Workers for
"Charity."

Bids Fair to Discourage Workers for
"Charity."
" One of the addressing companies
has a special list of names to which
are sent all appeals for charity, says
the New York Press. This includes
tho almost weekly receipt Of tickets
to unheard-of affairs, to which the
recipient is 'invited'' with the request
to send SIS or $40 with his acceptance,
or else return the tickets.
Jones'; who has spent several dol
lars in the past few years returning
tickets he cannot afford to purchase,
has gone on strike. A return envelope
always accompanies the tickets, but it
is never stamped. He slips the tick
cts into the unstamped envelope and
drops it into the nearest mail box.
In the course of time the postal
authorities send the patroness a card
notifying her that there is letter ad'
dressed to her upon which the reQui'
site postage has not been placed. AS
the letter may contain money, she
sends the stamp and pays out another
as postage for the first, with the re
suit that there is received a pair OF
tickets instead of the anticipated re-
mittance.
Jones hopes, in the course Of time
to comp}et ~ discourage, tho prac
tire
The Appeal., 1905-04-08
When Giants .Roamed Earth

found a skeleton whose head held a
bushel of corn and which was nine
teen feet in height. The giant Bacrt
was twenty-five feet high.
In 1923 near the castle in Dauphine
a tomb was found thirty feet long, six
teen feet wide and eight feet high, on
which were cut in gray stone the
wards, "Kentolochus Rex The skel
eton was found entire and measured
twenty-five and one-fourth feet high
ten feet across the shoulders and five
feet from breastbone to the back.
But France is not the only country
where giant skeletons have been un'
earthed. Near Palermo, Sicily, in 1916
was found the skeleton of giant
thirty feet nigh. Near Magrino, On
the same island, in 1916, was found
the skeleton of giant of thirty feet
whose head was the size of a hogs
head and each tooth weighed five
CnnceS
The Appeal., 1905-04-08

80, this prehistoric belle was good
to look upon, more especially now
with her hair tastefully smeared with
cave bear oil and the wishbone OF an
ostrichosaurus stuck jaunti1y through
her nose.
"Ah, Miss Yaya," exclaimed Cholly-
wog Stonehatchet admiringly, "you
look beautiful, and so young, so very
young!"
At this Miss Yaya burst into tears
and coquettishly SHE'D a rock at her
admirers head.
81 know look young" she pouted
petulant1y, "but I'm worrying about
the future! I have a pr@menltion
that a thousand aeons from now some
bald headed American professor will
dig up my fossil remains and say to
The Appeal., 1905-04-08

President Roosevelt was inaugural
ed with great 'tpomp and 'circum-
stance" There was spectacular pro
cession with banners and brass bands.
There were hundreds of thousands OF
people to witness the procession and
when the president took the cath OF
Office he looked upon the upturned
faces Of a multitude. The newspapers
printed page after page of descrip-
tive articles, later on the weekly pa
pers showed it in pictures and then
Eahe magazines had their say .as.z,v.- -,~..-.z,.
In what strange contrast all this
is with the. Inauguration of Thomas
Jefferson, just one hundred years ago.
The National Intelligencer, the lead
ing newspaper of Washington at that
time, gave the following report of
Mr.. Jefferson's inauguration:
ION Monday, after Thomas, Jeffer-
son had taken the oath of Office as
president of the United States, the
oath Of Office was likewise admins
tered to George Clinton as vice:presi-
dent of the United States. After the
delivery 'of the speech the president
was waited on by a large assem-
blage Of members Of the legislature,
citizens and strangers of distinction,
and procession was formed at the
navy yard, composed of the several
mechanics engaged, which marched to
military music, displaying with con-
siderable taste the various insignia. of
the professions"
On the 18th of March following, the
The Appeal., 1905-04-08

DR.. Williams Osler of Baltimore,
the famous medical specialist of
Johns Hopkins, who set the country by
the ears because of his assertions con-
cerning the uselessness of men after
they reach the age of go, has the
reputation among his brethren for
getting the biggest fees for the least
work of any man in the procession.
A story which is current among
Washington physicians is about
rich old man whose wife has been all
ing for months. All the local doctors
bad tried their hands without much
result The Old lady had passed the
allotted term of life, 20 years, and
was suffering from the general break
ing up of her vital organs.
The old man, genuinely fond OF his
wife thought the doctors did not
know what the trouble was, and when
some one suggested the renowned
Giasnostician of Baltimore he jumped
at the chance. He telegraphed to DIR.
Osler, but that learned gentleman was
very busy and could not come. The
distracted man wired again, telling
DR.. Osler to leave his work and come
no matter what the cost. The doctor
The Appeal., 1905-04-08
From Simplicity to Pomp


Boston newspapers heard the news
and announced Mr. Jefferson's "ap-
pointments, one of them adding that
1--WE understand these cppoint
have received the unanimous sanction
of the senate
An account more in detail was Civ
en- in July by Augustus Foster, Brit
.ish minister in Washington at the
time. In one of his letters home he
said:
Il don't know whether I:lhave yet
transmitted to you an account of the
installation of the successor OF Monte
yuma in last March. On the 4th he
proceeded on horseback from the pal
ace, which is of white stone and the
largest building here, and attended by
his secretary and groom, rode up the
long avenue of Pennsylvania to the
capitol, which is an unfinished rlva!
| in stone of the Roman building OF that
name and dressed in black and SIR
stockings, delivered a speech of some
length to a mixed assembly OF sena
tors, populace, representatives anC
| ladies. It was too low spoken to be
heard we'll. He then kissed the BooA
and swore before the chief justice tc
be faithful to the constitution; ther
| bowed and retired as before. WheI
! he received all who chose attended
| the levee, and even toward the close
blacks and dirty boys drunk his wine
and lolled upon his couches before US
all. There was nothing dignified II
the whole affair" r."-Birmingham Age
|
The Appeal., 1905-04-08

new hat she couldn't have, but, any
way, she wouldn't talk to him at all,
and he made innumerable efforts to be
pleasant. I was thinking what goose
she was, when another man came in
the one she is smiling at now. Both
bowed to him and Madame's husband
Invited him to their table, and Mad
anne, for the sake of appearance, of
course-she couldn't afford to be dis
agreeable before him-began to chat
brightly Chances are she really does
not care straw about this newcomer,
but she is nice to him. If she had as
much wisdom as l." continued. the
blonde, "she would have been as sweet
to her husband-much more worth
while. e."-Chicago Inter Ocean.