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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

will succeed? Is it possible that
there is such good fortune in store
for the democratic party?
1t is possible but not probable.
The probabilities are that Secretary
Shaw is very near the end of his
political career. His successor as
Secretary of Treasury has already
been selected. 1t is probable that
he will pose for time as the trusts
candidate for the office of chief
executive of the nation and then pass
on to the shades of retirement like
Carlisle.
The next president of this country
will quite likely be q statesman,
broad minded enough to know that
there is not anything better or more
powerful than the units out of which
it is made, and that man is the unit
in this government of ours, and that
everything which tends to injure
the man or deprive him Of a fair
share of the wealth produced by his
labors, INJURIES the government. Sec
rotary Shaw is not in our judgement
that kind Of man. and for that
reason will never be president.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
No Evading Of Taxes Now.

Commenting upon tle supreme
court decision in the case Of Security
Savings bank Va Chas. D. Carroll,
treasurer, and Linn county appel
lants, the Des Moines Registtr-Lead-
says
Agents who decline to give the
assessors the names of the real own
ers Of personality held by them will
have it assessed against themselves.
The authorities of Linn county will
recover from the Security Savings
bank Of that county a case begun by
it to enjoin the treasurer Of the
county from assessing personality
against it under those circumstances
The supreme court held that the
county could not forego the collec-
ton of taxes simply because an agent
confessing to hold property of an
other does not disclose who the own
er actually is. The institution de-
MED that there was lack of evil.
dence showing the names Of persons
to-whom the property belonged
Personal property must be assessed
to some named individual, = says the
supreme court. "and if the agent
refuses to disclose the name of his
principal, We know of no sound
reason for holding that there can be
no assessment. IL such rule were
to be adopted it would greatly facil-
late the evasion Of just taxation and
might effectually destroy the pur-
pose of the statute"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
4 curIou. co,nei,ence.

The stosr of :, e,ie,er coincidence is
told by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While
travelling upon The continent he visited
"a certain iIoc..t,....i Ian. which was in
winter. he learned, occupied only by
two men. These men, priso:iaa in a
waste of SNOW nld lee. had for all that
period no con. .;.i..ic.;tiol :Tith the
world below. -.'e w.. J Il situation for
ia novelist! And the l.oSc-.st accord
,ingly began to let his imagination play
about the possibilities of tragedy sur
the two men on their a.ouii
tain height. But the story was never
written, for, happening to come upon
volume of Guy-de AIaupnssant, which
was new to him, he found therein, IN
der the title of "L'Auberse," the very
story he had meant to write.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

1T is absolutely impossible" writes
traveller recently returned from n
tour of China, ito conceive of 9 nation
speaking as many dialects as you will
find in China. 4 foreigners ability to
speak Chinese is practically worth
less requirement, rs about every TWEEN
ty-five miles the dialect changes to
such an extent as to be practically an
other language, and even il you are
speaking the best manlnrin-the court
language are quite apt to be told
that your honorable foreign language
Is not understood. Even the governors
of the provinces have to employ inter-
prefers to communicate with the PEG.
pie they govern.
1t is Il common joke among foreign
ers in China that the natives always in
dictate by signs what they intend to
converse about before beginning to
talk, and this is joke with quite n
grain of truth in it.s-Harpel's Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
oritin u the strike Fund.

The earliest mention Of a strike fund
occurred in the strike of the Partisan
stocking weayers In 1924, when a
crown day was subscribed for every
striker and all blacklegs were merci-
lessly boycotted. But the biggest strike
under the ancient regime" was that
of the silk factory hands at Lyons
in 1744, when 1900 men went on.
strike and SO alarmed the mayor that
he conceded everything they asked and
wrote to his brother that he had fla
tete cassee par cette vile canaille."-
The "vile canaille," however had had
their moment, and it was no longer
theirs. Two months later the king
sent down 2QQQg soldiers pour re-
metre fordre~ aRns la bonneville de
Lyon" and we hear no more of strikes
till the supreme strike Of 1889.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
The uader side Of Fish.

Experiments have been made with
founders In order to determine whether:
the whiteness of the under sides OF
those fish Is due to the exclusion Of
light, and the presence Of color on their,
upper sides to exposure to light. The
flsh experimental upon We're kept liv-
ing in glass tank, having mirror
placed beneath, SO MS to reflect light
upon the under sides Of the fish. One
OF these prisoners survived for three
years under conditions SO strangely diff
ferent from its ordinary habits of life,
and all Of them exhibited the develop
ment Of spots of pigment on their lower
surfaces. The experimenters conclud-
ed that 1t is exposure to light that
causes the coloration of the upper
parts Of the bodies, not only Of floun-
ders, but Of other fish, and, conversely,
that it is to the comparative absence
Of light that the wilderness Of under
sides Of fish is due. They extend the
same principle to explain the colorless
conditioner the skins of many animals
that pass all their lives in caves.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
EncIisI, settles.

The genuine English settles often
offered in shops are viewed With dis
erection by travellers who have seen,
such belongings in old English farm,
houses. On their native heath they are
of solid oak, fully five feet high and
running quite across the great kitch-
ems. They are black with time and
are apt to be well seasoned with ham
fat, The duty Of the settle is fourfold.
1t is The family seat, and, as the bench.
part can be raised, In the drawers be-
meath are kept the family rags for
weaving. Above the seat is the family
hat rack. The upright is double, and
in the recess thus formed the family
bacon is lung, doors opening from be-
hind into this cupboard. The dainty
affairs we know MS English settles are
toys compared to the actual thing
New York Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

You given woman $40 end then boz
row u cents fran her a..l see w,lae
will happen. Two days later you casu-
ally inquire what has become of tho
$40. She tells you she has not had $40.
You waive the question whether she
ever had $40 and ask her IL she has
$40 now. and finally get reluctant
admission that she is penniless. Then
You follow up the inquiry and discover
that she has bought nothing. Then you
are ready with the final charge, what.
then, did you do with the $iO?" and
TINT blessed woman will come back at
You like this, you gave me $40 and
then borrowed 1t back" That is. the
way your 70 cents becomes boomer
3ang that smaslies you and your $40 to
smitlereens. And yet, in spite of all,
that same woman will hang on to 90
cents and get more out of it and make
1t do more things and spread 1t round
over more clothes and keep it simmer
ing like bubbling spring--in short,
lake her all In all, n woman is the mas
ter. financler of the world.-Judge.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
The Same cortelyou.

The New York World protests
against the appointment of Cortelyou
as secretary Of the treasury, saying:
"But-Hamilton, Gallatin, Chase,
Sherman and at last in their place
-Cortelyou the Collector! 1t was
Cortelyou upon whose assurances
Mr.. Roosevelt relied when he denied
with heat the true statement of
Judge Parker in 1904 that corpor-
atoms had bought with campaign
contributions the valuable gratitude
of the republican national committee.
1t was Cortelyou who accepted the
money stolen from insurance com.
panies and given to him to establish,
in Platt's cynical phrase, a moral
obligation u pom the dominant
party"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
To Conciltnte the God.

Just at night, If you happen to be
within the gates of Canton, you will
witness one of the little performances
that are supposed to deceive the prowl
Ing spirits OF the night bent upon evil
intent. the while conciliating them
should they penetrate the deception.
Each little and big shop possesses a
miniature fireplace built into the side
of the entrance Prayers printed on
rico paper form the fuel with which
TO offer up incense to the "bogy man."
who is supposed to make the nocturnal
visits. Beholding the smoke, he is sup
posed to assume that no one lives with.
i'll. and therefore passes by; but should
lie catch OH and stop to investigate he
finds that the prayer papers OH the al-
tar bear inscriptions attributing 10 him
such virtues and magnanimity that his
wrath is appeased and he turns from.
his evil intent. = Edwin Wildman In
Cliautauauan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
bird Songs.

Natrralists have long been puzzled
Us to how birds learn to sing. Does it
come natural to a bird of certain
species to sing the song common to its
kind or does it learn to Initiate what
ever song 1t most hears during the
early days Of Its life? Experiments
made by well known student .ese bird
life proved that most birds simply learn
by imitation, He placed young linnets
to be reared by skylarks, WOODLANDS,
titlarks and other breeds, and in. every
case the linnet learned the song Of his
foster parents. Again. a number of lin
nets We're reared where they had no
chance of hearing the song Of any
bird at all. In due course they began
to sing, but their song was entirely
original. The cuckoo, however, seems
to be an exception, for although 1t Ia
almost Invariably reared by foster
parents Of any species but Its own,
1t always sings to perfection its own,
peculiar song, quite uninfuenced by
the vocal efforts of Its guardians.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
tn, true rest Of oy.ter..

i ~The best oyster experts that know
of," said the captain of an oyster boat,
ifjudge an, oyster; by the smell instead
of by the taste. There is something
about the smell of any oyster that ill.,
dicates its condition to me much plain
er than does the taste. People buy
them and eat them probably on tic
count of their taste : So also do they
buy tea, coffee and the various grades
of whisky and brandy for their taste,
but all experts on those things pass
'uponst them entirely by, their smell. The
professional tea faster or whisky tast-
err, SO called, never tastes them, but
simply arrives Mt their taste by their
peculiarlties Of flavor or, to speak
plainly, smell. can tell what price
a load of oysters will be rated at when
they arrive at the wharf here by open
ing up the hold of the boat and smell
ing In eight cases out of ten am
right. 1t strikes oystermen as strange
when they see persons going about
from boat to boat, as they lie at the
wharf, tasting oysters before they con-
;,clude to buy. Taste is all right. but
III they don't smell right they will never
taste right Washington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

Thos. A. Edison positively de
clares that in the spring he will pn'
upon the market storage battery
that will travel without repairs for
fifteen years, at an original cost of
5000 The cost of re charging is
purely nominal. Two factories for
the construction of these batteries
are now nearing completion. If Mr.,
Edison has solved the problem of
economical power, he has conferred
another inestimable benefit upon
mankind, unless trust should be
formed to corner the supply of co.
bait. upon which metal his snccess
depends.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
Secretary Shaw's Tariff Parable in Sup
port of q Prohlbitiye Tariff.

Secretary Shaw, speaking at Man
chester on Friday evening, Nov. 2,
in support Of a prohibitive tariff,
said in part:
'If were asked SO to do, or if /
thought it necessary to defend the
party to which / belong, and to
which l owe my every allegiance for
its conclusion not for the present to
revise the tariff, l think ! would use
a parable in which would have my
father represent Uncle Sam, and !
would say that partly because of
better land and because of better
tillage the feed in my fathers pas
ture was better than in the adjacent
fields.
Naturally the neighbors' stock
continually sought a way ofentrance
to the enjoyment Of the advantages
and privileges Of my fathers en-.
closure. | have seen horses and
steers standing in rows with their
heads over the fence, some Of them
neighing, some Of them mooing, and
a few paving the ground.
But my father fenced for pro-
lection and not for revenue If he
had fenced for revenue he would
have put the fence sufficiently low
to have insured entrance, for be
it remembered, no entrance means.
no revenue. Partly owing to the
controur of the land and partly
owing to the nature of the soil, it
was found convenient and even
necessary to vary the height Of the
fence. In some places relatively
low fence would prove effective, and
in some places high fence was
necessary.
Sometimes the hired man would
come to father and say, j think the
fence is unnecessarily high on the
north side; you can take off at least
one rail with safety But my father
never stopped blowing corn to ad-
just the fence to changed conditions
Of this kind; but whenever the hired
man reported that the stock was
actually breaking through on the
south side, he would quit anything
to correct these changed conditions
by adding another rail.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
A snail;s sense Of Smell.

Professor Z. Yung of Geneva discov-
cred that the Keen sense of smell attrib.
uted to the ordinary snail is distributed
over the entire body not covered by the
shell, the two pairs Of tentacles, the
lips and the edges of the feet being
particularly sensitive. In the experi-
ments made n brush dipped in various
odorous substances In turn was brought
near the different parts of the body, and
responses We're noted ct distances Of
one twenty-ffth of mn inch to several
inches. Only in exceptional cases was
odor perceived rs much as fifteen or
twenty inches away, showing that smell
cannot guide these creatures to food far
removed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

Paper money is nothing but a prom
Use to pay SC much coin. If you de-
stroy five dollar note for instance,
You simply release the government or
the bank which issued the note from
the payment of the So in gold which
the note called for. or course, there
fore, you are not punishable in any
manner for destroying the, note il 1t
is your own. There is no penalty for
mutilating gold or silver coin If You:
keep it in your own possession, but rs
you have thereby destroyed consider
able part of its value you must not
try TO piss II at par after tile mutila-
tino
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
CLAUDE R PORTER
CARRIES DELAWARE
COUNTY.
and Democratic stote Com
nittee Claims that He
Has Carried Stote by
10. 900 Plurality.

w. j. Davis is elected Auditor by
upwards Of 400 majority, and M. P.
Hennessey's majority for Sheriff is
about '275.
Herbert Harris made splendid
run for supervisor. Had lie COM
menced his canvass in time he could
have been elected, and the same is
true Of some Of our other county
candidates. Hereafter let no candi-
date dispair Of election. The voters
of Delaware county are broad mind
ed and intelligent enough to
disregard party name in the selection
of county officials. There should be
at least one democratic supervisor
in this county.
For the first time since the war of
the rebellion, majority Of voters Of
Delaware county cast their ballots
Tor democrat Tor governor last
Tuesday.
W. D. Hamilton, who presided
over the great Waterloo convention
as temporary chairman. defeated
Congressman Lacey in the 9th dis
trict. The result in the LIST district
is still in doubt, but in the other
districts the republican congress-
men have safe plurality.
The republicans concede the cleo
ton Of the entire democratic state
ticket.in New York, except Hearst
for Governor Hearst's committee
does not yet concede his defeat, but
the latest reports indicate thai
Hughes is elected.
johnson, the democratic governor
of Minnesota, has been re elected by
more than 10000 majority. John
johnson is all right.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

The more l think OF 1t / find this
conclusion more impressed upon me,
that the greatest thing n human soul
eyer does in this world is to see some
thing and tell what it saw in a plain
way. Hundreds of people can talk for
one who can think, but thousands can
think for one who can see. TO see
clearly is poetry, prophecy and rell-
gion--all In one Rusl,in.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

+, 'srhe female SEX" said NJ. -Calino
lately, SIS the most illogical in the
world.'
What new proof have you Of the
want Of devotion of women to the.
canons of logic?" he was asked.
i why, take my wife," answered NJ.
iCalino. II had all the trouble in the
world to get her to enter her thirties,
and now, dozen years later, can't
get her ont of them"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
The Mulberry Tree.

Silk is the great industry of northern
Italy, and the plains of the quadrilater-
al are dark with mulberry trees. The
mulberry tree is the hardest worked
piece of timber in the world. First its
leaves are skinned off for the worms
to feed on, then the little branches are
clipped for the worms to nest in, then
the large limbs are cropped for char
coal, and the trunk has not only to
produce new crop of leaves and
limbs for next year, but must act as
.trellis for grapevine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
False Pretense.

"No, madam," said Bridget, "1'll not
rave widout two weeks notice. That
was the conthract an I'll how'd yez
to it."
Blu" replied Mrs. Hiram Often.
"you broke the contract in the first
place by representing yourself as n
cook. "-Philadelphia Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
Too suggestire.

In a small town in California n hos
pital was erected on Salsipuedes street,
and the board of directors, in lieu Of
something better, suggested that the
hospital hear the name of the street.
One more cautious than the rest sug-
gested that 1t would be well to know
the meaning of such name. before
making indiscriminate use of it, and it
is to this man that the success of the
hospital is due, for on finding that Sal
sipuedes meant get out if you can"
the name was hastily changed to some
thing less suggestive of '.who enters
here, leaves hope behind.'-lrgonaut.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

Horses always point one ear forward
when they sleep. Exactly why 1t IL
done no human being can tell. but the
probability is that the practice Is a
relic of the time when they We're wild
and obliged to be on their guard even
when asleep. Cattle, on the other
hand, are apparently Indifferent as to
the position of their ears while sleep
Ing, but no odds what position they
are in both are always pointed alike.
Ask some observing horseman II 1t ia
not fuct that a horse always throws
one ear forward when he sleeps.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
Commerce and I.tteratur

do you think that a commercial ca
reer is to be compared to a literary
careerY' asked the high proved and
melancholy youth.
my boy" said Mr. Cumrox, "in
business you can write your name on
piece Of paper no bigger than a
postal card and make it worth thou
sands of dollars. In4Iiterature you can
write up reams of paper without MAX
ing it worth 90 cents. Washington
Star
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

Ptomaines, according to Quain. are
alkalolds produced by the decomposi-
tlon of animal substances. The word
ptomaine was at first restricted to III
kaloids produced by cadaverlc decom-
position, but 1t is now also employed
to designate alkaloids Of animal origin
formed during life as n result of chem
ical changes induced by some agency
or other acting within the organism.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
Controversy as to who. was the

Controversy as to who was the
youngest soldier Of the Civil War
probably has been settled in, favor
Of Perry Ryan, Of Seattle, Washing
ton. He enlisted as drummer boy
in Company r, oath Iowa volun-
,eers, August %, 1862, at the age
Of nine years and 10 months. He
was born in Kane county, ILL.,, but
enlisted from Mount Vernon, Iowa.
After serving nearly a year he was
honorably discharged on a surgeons
certificate of disability. The pen
sion Office investigated Ryan's pa
pers. He will receive q tidy sum
as back pension.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07

The English brand of humor is Sc.
date and stately. 1t is not intended to
be laughed ut. The man who would
laugh at Punch would 90 into hysters
les at a funeral. Punch's notion of hE-,
NOR is altogether too sublime for any
place outside of an English drawing
room. Bobcnygeon independent, On
tario.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
A Man Of Anaars.

Collector (angrily) - Your master
seems never to be at home. Faithful
Retainer-He's n busy man, sor. Hes
that busy Dim thinkin' he'd find It
hard to sphare tonne to attind his own
funeral, sor-unliss, to be sure, they
putt it off till he wor dead, sor.- Brook
Ign Life.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
Put Her Foot Down.

I Naggin But why don't you argue the
matter ont with your wife? Meekton
Hush! My wife has very positive
ideas on that subject. The moment /
Opened my mouth my wife would put
yssher foot down, and Naggin The
idea! l should think you'd choke to
death,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-07
weed. For weeds.

Fred-So you are really going to mar
ry that young widow, eh?5 joe Yes
F'red-She tells me you have promised
to give up smoking. Joe Yes, sort Of
mutual sacrifice, as 1t were. She agreed
to give up her weeds II l would give
ND mine.