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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-03-16


lit ID trne that al the Judges of
Minnesota have either declined to
accept or have returned passes
given by the railroads, then the
bench OF that state has achieved q
most enviable distinction. Il is
claimed that not a single judge Of
Minnesota uses railway pass, and
that the thing was accomplished
through q movement started BY the
district bench of Hennepin county.
The story is plausible in spite Of the
fact that the practice of accepting
favors from railway corporations is
common among many judges and is
almost az old as tho railroads them
selves. The point is just this: II
makes an issue Of this
manifest incongruity, to put it
mildly, and sees that the matter is
put up to each judge personally, not
a self respecting occupant Of the
bench can refuse to join in the
crusade for this reform of total
abstinence. .z.,gst:{:s
How many judges in Missouri
refuse railway passesa 1t would be
pleasure to sec them stand up and
be counted. 1t would be a joy to
give conspicuous publicity TO the
names of all who have declined to
compromise their positions by plac-
ing themselves uuder obligations to
litigants whose cases may come be-
fore them for trial. Are there some
judges on the Missouri bench who
are strong enough on the principle
involved in this question to define
themselves and receive the credit
that belongs to theme Will she
time ever come when Missouri can
cay, as Minnesota can say now, that
not one of its judges-city, county,
state or federal-uses a pass, 2 pri-
vate car or any other frank offered
by a corporation kansas City Star.
St. Peter Free Press: No passes
and two-cent fare should be the
slogan in the approaching legislative
says the Preston Times, |
and this no doubt will be heartily |
Endorsed by the voters generally,
throughout the state. But there is
only one way to force that issue
viz: support no candidate
who is not willing to pledge him
self in favor of a two-cent fare and
no free pass law. If man hesl-
tates to give the pledge or equiv
coates vote against. him. There is
no reason why candi late should
refuse to express himself in public
upon questions of public interest
when asked to do so. AS matter
If fact the public alone is to blame
for the abominable session laws:
II more interest were taken IN
selecting cur Legislative candidates
there would be but little difficulty
in getting desired results at the1
state capitol. If the people really
want two-cent fare and no free I
passes they must elect men favor
able to such q measure.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-03-16
SGI|E1|' / LIE

Y, That's what q prominent
druggist said of SCOTS
4 Emulsion a sh ort time
ago. AS a rule we don't
use or refer to testimonials
in addressing the public,
but the above remark and
similar expressions are
made so often in connec-
ton with SCOTS Emulsion
that they are worthy of
occasional note. From
infancy to old age SCOTS
Emulsion offers a reliable
means Of remedying i'm
proper and weak develop
ment, restoring lost flesh
and vitality. and repairing
waste. The act i O n OF
SCOTS Emulsion is no
more of a secret than the
composition of the Emul-
sion itself. What it does
it does through nourish-
ment-the kind of nourish-
ment that cannot be OBJ
tanned in ordinary food
No system is too weak or
delicate to retain SCOTS
Emulsion and gather good
from it.
- We will send you a
!: !! : ! :: !:
F&eA sample Tree.
81 MA Be sure that this picture In the
N JS6 form of = Label Is on the wrapper
iM Nk11A of every bottle Of Emulsion you
EHMSVAA buy.
?TMy|f SCOTT & BOVINE
81, TX Chemists
Xxx WIS., 400 Pearl St., N. 7.
<@~ SOC. and 81; al druggists.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-03-16

The JnsokS Story" Is a hook ttat tells a
about these nsO Precsssss. ne ssad tt frsl
AMERICAN CIGAR CO., III Fifth Avenue, New York
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
The Old watchmaker,s Epi,,pb.

Franklin's epitaph, comparing him
self to an old book, is known to all
readers of his biography. There is
less famous epitaph Of New
Hampshire matchmaker, who died in
the town of Newport in 1922, in. which
he is compared to watch that had
run down.
Here iies-the inscription runs-in.
horizontal position, the outside case
of George Ritter whose abiding place
in that line was an honor to his pro-
fession. Integrity was his handspring,
and prudence the regulator of all &C.
tions of his life.
Humane, generous, liberal, his
hand never stopped till he had re.
lieved distress. He never went
wrong, except when set a-going by
people who did not know his key.
Even then he was easily set right
again.
He had the art of dispensing of his
time SO well that his hours glided
by in one continual round of pleas
IRE and delight. till an unlucky min
ute put an end to his existence
He departed this life September
il, 1922. His case rests and moul-
ders and decays beneath the sod, but
his good works will never die.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
A New Yorker "Abro,a },


Stay young man, you haven't Civ.
en- me ticket for my meals" said
X. e. Dewitt. of New York. at the
Plankington House. He had lust
come from breakfast and had ex.
perienced some little difficulty in ex-
planning matters with the head wait.
err.
Clerk F. G. McGutcheon threw out
ms chest, assumed Sherlock Holmes
expression, glanced at the key rack,
looked sharply at the guest, placed
the forefnger of his right hand to
ms forehead and remarked:
You VIII find the ticket in your
hat, l believe, SIR
MIR. Dewitt snatched off his head
gear and felt under the sweatband
and found the ticket.
We'll, how did that get there?" he
asked, amazed. Il don't remember of
having put it there
Very simple sir" replied the clerk,
You didn't place it there. You
left the desk after registering before
| had chance to hand it to you, and
so had the boy in charge of the
hat rack place it in your hat for
YOU"
And it developed that this is done
twenty times a day in busy hotel
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
-
NOTED NEGRO POET.



Paul Laurence Dunbar, Who Recent
Iy Died.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, the poet of
the Negro race, died at his home in
Dayton, Ohio, recently, of consump.
ton.
June 81, 1879, and was first news
boy and then an elevator boy, and in
his ups and downs for livelihood
tpiacticed writing. His first poem was
written when lie was 1 years old. His
frs1 work to attract attention to him
was a class poem written for the
Steele High School in 1891. His first
of a total of twenty-one books was
oak and Ivy"
His poem best known was when
Malindy Sings" which was written
to his mother. whose name was Ma
linda.
Among other of Dunbar's works are
Majors and Minors" Lyrics of Low
ly Life" Talks from Dixie" The
Uncalled,' Lyrics of the Hearthside, y
Poems Of Cabin and Field" THE
Strength of Gideon" "Tl,e Love of
Laundry Candle Lighting Time"
Lyrics of Love ana Laughter Iii
GAR and Heart of Happy Hollow
Mr.. Dunbar met his wife. who was
Alice Ruth Moore, through poem
written by her and published in a
Boston magazine He was abroad then
and when lie returned he made the ac
quaintance of the author of the poem
From admiration of her writings tc
admiration of the author was an easy
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14

step, and their acquaintance rapidly
developed into something more An
engagement followed and the poet
who meanwhile had received an ap,
ro,ntment in the Congressional Libra.
rv returned to New York, where they
We're quietly married.
Since that time Mrs. Dunbar has
contributed occasionally to newspa-
per3 and magazines and collection of
her stories has recently been brought
out in book form.
OF her literary ability her husband
said:
"She writes much better prose than
do and is invaluable to me as q
critic"
All of his work was typewriter by
her and much of il taken down in
shorthand at his dictation, while her
sympathy and companionship inspired
some of his best efforts. She is an
Episcopalian in creed, and Mr.. Dun
bar, while not a member of any COM
munion, attended church with her.
"I'he peal of the organ. the flowers,
the dim, restful light, the ritual-all
appeal to me- he once said. "Most
men have ut some period of their lives
an attack of agnosticisim, as of men-
sles, but with me 1t has left no scars"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
Doctors Must Know Tastes,

DO doctors know how their own
medicine tastes?" was question put
to group of physicians.
ITO be sure, said one. "but we
have hard work to convince our pa
tients that We do. If you only knew
how this beastly stuff tastes. doctor,
you wouldn't ask me TO take it, is
the complaint they make when dozed
with an especially disagreeable con-
coction. And they are hard-headed
people. too, who say that-people who
are by no means having in delirium.
No matter how sincerely ! may pro-
test it is hard to persuade them that
i do know how the stuff tastes just
as well as they do.
How did you find out about it?'
is one of their trump questions. You
have never been laid up with all
the diseases in the dictionary. How
did you learn what the different rem
edies taste like?
TT never occurs to the average
patient that tasting drugs is a part
CT medical students education, and
that no man is qualified to practice
until he has learned the flavor of the
medicines he prescribes."-New York
Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
lNocvLAr,oN OF PLANTS


NUIue NHnAuS.
At the Kansas station some years
ago soil incubation studies were be.
gun. 1t had long been known that GER
tain plants, notably clovers peas. beans
and the like, formed small punches or
nodules upon their roots. says the
American Illustrated Magazine. 1t was
later developed that these excrescences,
instead of being harmful. as had once
been believed, were the reverse-that
they were the home of the countless
bacteria; that these bacteria take the
free nitrogen from the air and change
1t into nitrogen for plant food. Four.
fifths of the air Is nitrogen, free nitro
gen as it is called. gas. uncombined
with other substances. 1t is estimated
that there are about seventy five mil
lions of pounds of this free nitrogen
resting upon every acre of ground, an
ineNhanstible storehouse of plant food.
When this nitrogen is turned into SER
vice it must be in compound with some
other substance. as in the form of de-
ca&ed vegetable matter. 1t cannot be
used by the plants in its free state.
And here comes in the service of the
bacteria--it is their function to con-
vert the free nitrogen of the air into
food for the plant. The Kansas sta,
ton demonstrated that the process of
blowing under these nodule- bearing
plants, the home of countless bacteria,
who take the free nitrogen, and, Just
how probably no one knows, convert It
into plant food-the blowing resulting
In marked enrichment of the soil
could be shortened by simply adding
to the soil the bacteria which made the
nodules. Soil known to contain the
bacteria was brought from Massachu.
sets. placed in the worn-out Kansas
soil, and restoration of fertility fol.
lowed. 1t was proved beyond all ques-
ton that the home soil once inoculated
was Just MS effective for further Inocu-
lation as the impor:.,d soil The plan
has in 1t immense practical significance,
and it has already been proved of di-
rect commercial value.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
WHEN NATURE CLEANS HOUSE.

Rainy Scnson In Caracas the Clty's
Sanitary Salvation.
Just what Caracas would do with
out Its rainy season cannot imagine,
for the city is far from being clean
and sanitary. Garbage is thrown into
the yards for the vultures to feed
upon, writes George NJ. l.. Brown in
st. Nicholas; dust and papers accu-
mulate in the streets, and the visitor Is
about to pronounce the city the dirtl-
est he has ever seen, when nature sud
denly decides to put things to rights.
An ordinary rainfall would not suf-
flee now; n thorough flushing is need
ed, anad nothing short of deluge will
do 1t.
But somewhere up in the mountain
tops the deluge is forming, and pres
emily great, black vapor overspreads
the valley. 1t comes slowly at first,
as if to warn the people to go indoors,
but when it has acquired sufficient den
sity it falls. In moment, almost, the
streets and courtyards are flooded, the
fantastic watersprouts that overhang
the sidewalks pour out, their streams
like gigantic kettle spouts, and loud is
the noise Of the splashing and spatter-
ing.
Half an hour later one tiptoes along
the shiny pavements, ms if over a
newly scrubbed floor; above him is a
sky of spotless blue, while the only
clouds to be seen are insignificant
patches of white along the mountain
sides. Yet, in m incredibly short
space of time the whole process may
be repeated.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
a School Of Auto Engineering.


New York now claims to have the
most complete school Of automobile
engineering ever started. Its instruc-
ton is divided into three courses; day,
evening and special course, the tui-
ton fee being the same for all-s75
The day course consist of eight
hours instruction daily for two
months, beginning at s O'Clock a. m.
and closing at $50 p. M. six days in
the week. A days work is divided off
about as follows First session, a 'ec-
ture; second session, shop; third {
sion, carburetion; fourth session, igni-
ton; fifth session, transmission At
ter about three weeks the subjects
are varied from day to day so that
the student gets four session on each
subject during the COURSE of the week.
Later on the pupil is given outdoor
i .truction behind the steering wheel.
A competitive machine chop is in
siniled besides the outfit for tes''ng
transmissions and ignitioIs and lul,'i-
eating cils.-Leslie's Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
MY PROMISE


00H HEN Irving Peck came to
WNW Hildreth and joined our social
circle my foster mother had
just died and left me the care of her
daughter Cynthia, eight years old.
Margaret" said our mother the day
before she died, you know what have
done for you.'
Indeed dc" l replied.
"Now is your opportunity to make a
return. Cynthia has no kith or kin to
rely on. Without your care l know
not what will become of her Promise
me that you will be mother to her,"
az WILL"
ITO do that you must not have chill
dren of your own. know a woman's
nature. We will never permit any
child's interest to stand in the way of
our own. Promise me that you will not
marry until Cynthia comes of age"
was silent.
AT least until she has married"
Again l made no reply.
Will you not promise me this?"
II promise you that will not marry
till Cynthia has love of her OWN
until she is engaged"
My foster mother sighed and turned
away. She knew she had no right tc
ask such sacrifice. What had prom
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
The Original New England.

Not one man in thousand living on
the Pacific coast knows that MS a mat
ter of fact the accents of our mother
tongue were heard on the beach not FAR
from San Francisco forty-one years be-
fore English was spoken on Plymouth
Rock. More amusing still is the fact
that the original New England was on
the Pacific coast, for Francis Drake
in 1913. at the close of a months stay.
took possession of the country for his
sovereign, Elizabeth, and named the
new acquisition Nouva Albion New
England) because he thought the white
cliffs near what is ROW Point Reeves TO.
sembled the chalk cliffs near Dover
Outing
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14

of book or paper, and is reversible.
At the same time the pointer or fin
ger Is held down in contact with the
page of copy. whereby there is less
difficulty in following the notes than
is the case where the finger is out of
contact with the page The base Of
this copying guide is plate, or any
desired shape or size, upon which is
mounted a pair of tracks. supported
at the ends by blocks. Running on
the tracks is smaller plate, In the
center of which is an opening. Pro-
jecting through this opening is a roll
Ter, which travels along the tracks
with the plate. Connected with this
roller is the pointer, which is of suifi-
cient length to extend across the page
of the book. To hold the finger close
to the book is spring. but the mecfan-
ism Is so arranged that all the parts
move freely, Il slight touch of the fin
gers being sufficient to adjust the
pointer. The roller affords ready
and simple means for accurately NOV
ing the finger from one line to the next.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
THE FARMER BOY.

Pulling the weeds from the garden,
Driving the cows home at night.
Dropping the corn in the springtime,
l, Mailing pale on tight
Hunting for eggs in the barnyard,
Looking for turkeys astray,
Carrying lunch to the rcapers,
Tossing the new-mown hay;
Riding the horses to water,
Feeding the chickens and cows,
Throwing the hay to the managers,
Down from the fragrant mows;
Whitewashing corn-cribs and fences,
Gathering fruit from the trees,
Covering flower beds in autumn,
For fear of an early freeze:
Pumping the clear. cold water.
Choppng an armload of wood
These are the farmboy's gymnastics:
They're cheap, but noHe The less goot
Unknown
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
cola Erom Water Eaucet,

Though it has long been known
that gold is plentiful in Humboldt
county it was not definitely known
that nuggets flow through the water
pipes until to-day. when word was
brought to Wlnnemucca from Spring
Valley to this effect
Mrs. Slater, young woman who
went to Spring Valley few weeks
ago to teach school, turned on the
water faucet the other morning when
a bright gold nugget rolled out. Sew
eral particles of fine gold also accom-
panied it. It is believed the metal
came from rich placer ground locat-
ed close to the water supply. and
more of the metal is expected.--Reno
correspondence Of the San Francisco
Chrouicla,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14

Old Woman of America the Pionee.
Girl of sixty years ago. who blaZed a
path through the wilderness of wom-
ans rights. Every act of her life has
been consistent with the principles
which she has taught to others. She
has never advocated spinsterhood as n
plank in the suffrage platform, though
it is a privilege she has reserved for
herself.
I1icksite Quaker Settlement, in 1920,
life for the child was very quiet, tran
quill and devoid of events such as
might be expected TO have traspired
to form so strong and resourceful a
personality as the world has known
Miss Anthony to be. AS a child. Susan
Brownell Anthony was as gentle and
obedient as any little Quaker maid
No hint Of her coming worldwide in
f1uence was manifest until she had
grown up. In 1859 she addressed n
large convention of men teachers A
clergyman who was present compli-
mented her afterward.
You spoke ably and well,' he said,
but had rather see my mother and
sisters dead in their graves than to
hear them speaking from public plat
form"
She preached the doctrine of suffrage
and equal rights, and no one grasped
her message not even the women them
selves. Her very name became term
Of derision. She was. caricatured, in
suited, jeered, denounced, and still she
went on preaching Fifty years ago
wOman's rights stood for dress REFORM
for neglected home duties. for so-called
unwomanly women and for rabid pollt-
Teal tendencies. Susan Il. Anthony said
that woman should have the right to
vote. The world gasped and asked
what for. She tried to teach women
their own power with the ballot and
they laughed at her, saying they did
not want 1t.
In 1872 Miss Anthony cast vote
She was arrested and fined for Illegal
voting. 1t was the entering of the
wedge. She never paid the fine. To-
day four States in the Union have
granted the suffrage to women; twenty
three States have given them the right
to vote at school elections, and In New
York women taxpayers may vote upon
all questions affecting the taxation of
property. The wedge has split the
trunk. Some day the tree may fall.
Officially Miss Anthony has with.
drawn from public life. With her SIS
ter Mary she lives in quiet, pretty
home in Rochester, N. Y. Life and
time slip by in the little home as tran
gully as in the old Hicksite Quaker
Settlement.
Visitors call, expecting to find fee
BILE old woman, with memory dulled
and faculties failing. Instead, they
find one erect and stately, with a mind
attuned to every new thought or new
movement in the advancement of wom-
en-. Letters came to her from all over
the world asking her advice or direc-
ton, and she answers them personally.
When she was so she learned to oper-
ate n typewriter. and up in the garnet
of her home she has her own private
"den," where even sister Mary does
not lntrude. aud there she spends many
hours.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14

doubtful If any teaching would have
quaiihed him for attorney work or
made him a master of detail. Yet as
an once iawyer-such as rules the
destinies of our modern corporate in.
,erests-he probably would have
neen Invaluable. His mind compre.
nehded large subjects without the
silghtest effort. Once concentrated on
an issue, ne passed directly to the
point, disregarded the thousand and
one contingencies, all the academic
pros and cons. and reduced the prob.
ZEN TO its simplest possible FORM
from Frederick Trevor, Hills Lin
coin the Lawyer" In Century.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
till Cynthia should become engaged:

till Cynthia should become engaged
With her engagement you are free.
She is engaged or WAS engaged to me.
! have broken the engagement"
What for?"
''1'c marry you"
7 saw 1t all. lie had duped Cynthia
to absolye me from the letter of my
promise.
Did she deserve this? Was Irving
Justified in it: do not know. In a
year after that she married. and then
! accepted my freedom. Rapids
Gazette.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-03-14
COPYING GUIDE.

One Which Can BE Accurately
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One of the greatest problems the
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