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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
The chanas.

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Before she went to boardin' school
she useter romp an play,
She druv the COWS from the field an
helped take In the hay,
But she don't do that any more, be-
cause of this, you see
She went away as Mary Jane an
came back Jeanne Marie.
She useter wear made-over clothes,
an always with smile,
But now her dresses every one must
be the latest style.
She don't ride bareback any more.
nor climb the apple tree
She went away as Mary Jane, but
come back Jeanne Marie.
Her hair is all in crinkles now-she
calls 'em Marshal waves;
She's UP in all the etiquette, real
stylish she behaves.
Her ma and me are mighty proud O.
all she's learned-but gee,
We sometimes wish for Mary Jane in
std o. Jeanne Marie!
Mrs. Elsie Duncan Yale in the Wo-
mans Home Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04

their best blood into Oklahoma to give
it cosmopolitan life, and, no matter
where you are from, if you travel with.
in Its borders you will find your own
people. Spots that were grassy
prairies are hustling towns to-day; yes
terday's towns are cities now.
Up-to-dateness seems to be the watch
word Of oklahoma's people in the rural
districts as well as in the populous
cities Every farmer has his windmill,
gasolene engine or mechanical water
power for supplying his house and out
buildings, and many own automobiles.
Telephones bring them into close COM
munication with the towns, and the
rural free delivery bears daily mail to
their doors. Oklahoma can raise any
thing which grows between the Cana
dian border and Florida and Texas.
The cotton yield to the acre is greater
than that in any other State or Terri
tory in the Union.
Only three OF the territories now re-
main, Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico.
The probability is that one or both Of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
sailles and in the house over whioA

sailles and In the house over which
the shadow Of death still chung.
Fred Wilkinson, pale and worn out,
the mere shadow of the man of u
year ago, lay on a couch. Content
was written on his thin face, for Bes-
sic sat by him. holding his hand.
They had been talking of the master
piece that was yet to be finished. The
sun was setting, the room was filled
with a golden glow, and the future
stretching from the dark-background
of the year that had just ended was,
they felt, good to look upon. They
were only one year older than when
they last sat together hand in hand,
yet it seemed as if in that short
time they had learned through pain
the sum total of human wisdom that
man is creature of circumstance
and love the essence of life. Without
the circumstance that brought Ella
into their lives, one of the greatest
masterpieces had never been painted
and neither had ever known how
much they loved.-New York Week
w
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
LIBERTY SPREADING.


a. q ar "a
MeneIek of Abyssinia- to Grant a
Constitution to His People.
The leayen of modern political ideas
and Of free government is constantly
working and spreading throughout the
world. A few years before the middle
OF the last century there was only one
little e-Piedmont-on the Euro
pean continent that had securely won
free government, Even in Great Brit
ain the restriction of the suffrage pre-.
vented the full enjoyment of demo.
cratic government. Now all this is
changed in Europe and even Russia ia
slowly and laboriously falling into the
procession of constitutionalism.
In Asia, too, constitutional govern
ment is advancing The case of Japan.
is known to all. Recently in Persia
that degenerate land Of Cyrus and Xer-
xes, whose power once dominated all
western Asa-a constitution has not
long since been accorded the people.
And now comes Abyssinia, in Africa,
whose King Menelek H., who claims
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
A PARIS HORROR
Cheaper to starve Cab Horses Than
to Feed Them.

1880
10 reed ihem.
Some sensational revelations have
been made in the press by Marie Lut-
gen, who is now a licensed cab driv-
er. notwithstanding the fact that she
bears the title of Countess iu Pin de
la Gueriniere. In the course of her
investigations she has made the dis.
covery that all the decent food that
cab horses receive is paid for by
kind-hearted drivers out Of their own
meagre earnings. In other words,
the proprietors of the cab establish.
ments find that 1t is cheaper to starve
a horse, and when it drops dead buy
another, than it is to keep him well
fed.
A Paris cab horse, she states, hard.
ly ever tastes hay or oats, but is
just kept alive on rotten potatoes.
moldy bran and barley. and the re-
fuse that comes from breweries. She
declares that one establishment even
keeps a poor horse for the purpose
of experimenting. It is harnessed IN
to sort of treadmill and is fed
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
SOME REAL MONEY PANIcs.
Episodes which Make Recent Incon,
veniences Look TriflinE,

!
veniences Look Trifing.
A community which has been CON
fronted with closing of institutions
where 1t kept Its money balances Ill
ways considers its case one of unpar-
alleled misfortune, says the New Yorl,
Post. Yet there have been i.panics,'
even in recent times, when circu1n-
stances were more heart-breaking even
than that Of depositors in the Knicker-
booker and Of the dozen other smaller
banks which went down with it. The
case of 1857, almost forgotten, was one
In which not >only bank deposits, but
the money in the pocket of every indi-
vidual, turned out useless for private
wants. The mood of the man who
learned of the closing of a string of
note-issuing banks under! the older sys-
TEN and who searched his pocket book
anxiously to see if his means of paying
petty bills was suddenly cut off, had a
different aspect even than to-day's
Five months after our panic of 1893,
the two banks in the colony of New
foundland, whose circulating notes
made up the whole currency of the ISL
and, closed their doors, and both were
completely insolyent. The community
was literally left without any circu-
latlng medium until gold arrived from
England; state Of barter existed and
where personal credit did not survive
the tlnsmith took his pans to the baker
to buy bread. A full year after that
extraordinary event-the colonial gov
eminent having in the meantime guar
anteed up to 40 per cent the notes of
one of the two defaulting banks-a
man would get, in his daily currency at
st. Johns, bills for $40 stamped In red
ink, guaranteed for ST." and they
bought Just 81 worth of goods.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
ANCIENT GOLD MINES.
Workings of so1omon's Time ST
Yield Precious Metal.

H. HaHN
Workings of solomon's Time stir
Yield Precious NJ etnl.
Rhodesla, British zambesia, ranks
among the chief gold-bearing countries
OF the world. The ancients mined and
carried away enormous quantities Of
the precious metal, but under the scien-
tific mining systems Of the present day
their operations will be greatly sur
passed, says the Baltimore Sun.
1t has been suggested that perhaps
Rhodesia was the ancient land Of
Ophir, the land of the mysterious King
Solomon's mine, but the theory is
strongly combated by some investlga-
tors. The ancient gold workings are
the basis Of modern operations. For
every ten square miles of Rhodesia
there was one ancient mine; that is,
there are 10000 old holes, which means
that stupendous wealth was dug out
of the earth before the days of Cecil
Rhodes md his companions. Much Of
this wealth must have gone to the
north and east; 1t was probably
wrought Into the crown of the Queen
of Sheba and filed the Golfers Of Sol
onion.
The ancient smelling furnaces are
still easy to recognize. They are sunk
into the floor. The furnace blow pipes
are made Of the finest granite powder
cement, and the nozzles of the blow
pipes are covered with splashes Of gold.
The Innings of the holes are covered
with specks of gold. When the first
lining became worn by the heat fresh
lining of cement of an excellent quail
ity, which has outlasted time, was
smeared round on the top Of the old
lining.
Apparently the ancients wasted gold
layishly. The yellow metal has been
found in large quantities In the forms
of pellets as large as buckshot in the
vicinity of the furnaces and also
thrown away on the debris heaps out
side Of the old buildings.
The tools of the ancient workers
which have thus far been discovered
include a small soapstone hammer and
Furnishing stones Of waterworn rock,
to which gold still adheres. Thirty-fiye
thousand dollars worth OF gold orna-
ments have been taken in the last seven
or eight years from the ruins Of Mata.
beleland alone.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04

The new State of Oklahoma is the
richest and most promising ever ad-
mltted to the American Union. She has
half us many people as all the thirteen
original States combined when they
achieved their Independence. BY ac-
tual count of noses she has six times
the population of any other State ever
received at the time Of admission into
the Union. She has fifty times the
amount Of wealth that could be claimed
by any of her predecessors at the be
ginning of their State life. and has.
what not one of them could show, ill
the arts and sciences, the improvements
and progress that go to make highly
Civilized commonwealth, from wireless
telegraphy to the skyscraper, from the
telephone to chemical farming. More
than million and half persons claim
the new State Us theirs, and 1t will not
be long after tho census is taken In
1910 before the OO,OOO-mark Will be
passed. All the old States have sent
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
CAR FOR ROYAL CHILDREN.

The Princess of Wales Has Designed
Picnic Automobile.
The Princess of Wales has her OWL
ideas about how an automobile should
be built. A car embodying some of hel
own pet features has just been com.
pleted for her by prominent firm OF
English builders Like the king, she
has shown her preference for the Brit
ish-built article, says the Kansas City
Star.
An attempt has been made to make
the new car a picnic vehicle. 1T is de.
signed for the youngsters and folding
table is a feature. This can be put in
position In few moments for the serv.
Ing of tea and light refreshments.
In designing the car her loyal high
ness stipulated that the two dimlnutive
seats intended for the children should
be placed as far MS possible from the
door. SO as to obviate the possibility OF
injury In case of accident. In addition
to the two seats for children there is
room for three people in the compart-
ment.
The car is Of medium power, 2S-3C
horsepower. Its color is an unusual
shade of green and her royal highness
hand is in evidence there also. She is
said to have hit upon the peculiar
shade In unique manner. While stroll.
ling in the grounds of York College
sandrIngham, the princess was strucl,
by an unusual mingling of greens on a
fir tree. A bunch of the leaves was
obtained to match 1t. The princess is
said to be delighted with the result.
The young princes and princess are
overjoyed with the idea of having a
big car which can be said to be theirs
alone. An unusually large window in
the back of the car enables them to
look out at the rear, further delight
especially In fast travelling.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
Deceivins the People.


There seems to be systematic and
malignant effort on the part Of GER
tain class of people to undermine the
reputation Of Americas greatest, men.
Not long ago some scamp announced
in Republican papers that George
Washington was tax-dodger. He had
really refused to pay illegal ta1, just
as John Hampden had done, and lust
as the people of Boston subsequently
did. But the scamp insinuated that
1t was a legal tax which Washington
refused to pay; 1t was not; and
Washington did not pay 1t. The British
crown was afraid to enforce 1t. King
George remembered what had happen
ed to Charles I, as the result Of the
ship money case, in which Hampton
figured. These same scamps pretend
to have discovered that Stephen Cir
ard, founder of Girard College, one of
the greatest charities in the world, had
dungeon under his house, and that
he placed his creditors in that dungeon.
and so escaped the payment Of his
debts, and thereby amassed the great
fortune which he gave for the educa-
tion of American youth. The people
should be put on their guard against
these calumnles. They are not only
lies, but they are intended to disgust
uniformed people with American
ideals.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
MAGNETIC POLE is LIVELY.
Capt. Amundsen Tells How It Wav.
ers and Of the Ways Of the
Nefch fills

NetchJiiliS. 5ss
Capt. Road Amundsen, who discov-
cred the Northwest Passage, lectured
in Carnegie Hall, New York City,
upon his voyage in the little lotion
sloop, the Gjoa. The lecture was
illustrated with numerous pictures
taken during that remarkable trip.
Capt. Amundsen left Christiania
on June 16, 1903, and at the opening
of Winter was at King William
Land. He and his party remained
there couple of Winters, and he be-
gan the magnetic observations which
later led to the conclusion that, the
north magnetic pole is not at all sta
tionary, but jumps about from place
to place in a most erratic way. That
was another discovery of his. Hav-
ing made the Northwest Passage, the
Gjoa anchored at San Francisco in
the Autumn of 1906.
The lecturer told great deal about
the family life of the NetchjiIli Eski-
mo, mentioned by Sir James Ross.
who tried to make the Northwest
Passage in 1880 The lecturer said
that in Netchjilli home the wife al
lows the husband to do most Of the
talking when company is in the
house.
Capt. Amundsen still further horri-
fed the audience by telling them that
when Netchjilli mother wishes to
give her baby bath she takes him
out of the suspended hood at her
back and follows the method used by
tabby cat in dressing down her kit
ten. Suicide is not unknown among
these Eskimos, he went on, and when
they are very sick they consider it
better to kill themselves than to suf.
fer extreme pain.
The customary ceremony is as fol-
lows, explained Capt. Amundsen: A
hide string is stretched across the
house a few inches above the floor.
All the members of the family SOL
emily retire to the outside, leaving
the sick person within. But there
are peep holes, and through these
they watch him. He gets up and
bends down over the string, trying to
force his throat so hard upon It that
he is strangled. If the peppers out.
side decide that he is not getting
along as fast as he should they kind
ly go in and help him strangle him
self
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
Wage reduction.

The tariff tax on window glass.
which ranges from 1917 per cent to
over 100 per cent, does not seem to
protect the glass blowers and other
worlmen employed in Its manufacture
in continuing to obtain higher wages.
The new scale Of wages just adopted
for 1907-0S makes a reduction Of 80
per cent and over. The National GLASS
Budget, In reporting the new scale,
says. ut is generally conceded that
a reduction Of from 35 to 40 per. cent
over last years wages Is now required
to meet conditions. So protection Aoes
not protect the workingman, although
1t protects the Glass Trust from som.
petition and allows 1t 10 keep up tho
price Of glass to the American con-
sumner. 1t must also be borne in mdnd
that most Of the glass factories have.
been closed down for over SIX months
during the past year, 30 that the high
wages then paid have been cut In half
by idleness.n
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
Leading Results.

Amongst the practical results Of thd
panic are these: =
The steel trust has gained control o.
the Tennessee Coal and Iron company,
Its chief competitor thus becoming 4
more complete monopoly than ever.
( Armour and company, the meat mo-
nopoly, have gained control Of the Ma.
tional Packing company. It's chief com.
petitor.
Hartman has gained control of the
Central Railroad Of Georgia, thus In.
creasing his power. The sharks are all
fatter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04

When a young woman tells a clerk
in shoe store that she is not prepared
to try on shoes. Il .yeans she has hole
In her stocking
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
what the Election. show.

Wnnt th6 ELECTIONS Show.
While the elections throughout the
country were too scattering and local
in character to show any general trend.
few significant facts are observable,
Among these are the overwhelming re-
election Of District Attorney Langdon
In San Francisco and Of District At
torney John B. Moran in Boston. Both
results show that the people do appre-
ciate fearless and efficient public ser
wants. These men have not only
preached, but have practiced, equality
before the law. They have shown
themselves us ready to prosecute big
criminals as little ones. The people
will uphold such officials when they
are In earnest.
Even more significant Is the great
majority given Tom L. johnson in his
fight for fourth reelection in Cleye-
land. Against Mr.. johnson was all
the power of the public utilities corpor-
ations and of the national administra-
ton. So desperate was the fight that
Theodore L. Burton, one Of the Repub-
lican leaders Of the national House Of
Representatives, was drafted to run
as the opposition candidate. President
Roosevelt and several Cabinet members
openly wrote letters III Burton's be-
half. But for once Federal interfer-
ence went too far. Despite the fact
that Johnson had to make the fight
slngle-handed, and that he had nor,
NAL Republican majority OF perhaps
10000 to overcome, he reversed this.
and was elected by. plurality Of more
than 5000.
So signal is this victory that It has.
sent Taft presidential stock down In
Ohio. and may even result In forcing
the administration to bring new cam
dfdate to the front.
The people not only do support their
honest champions. but they resent
Federal brigade methods quite as much
as of DID, Chicago Examiner.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
"scourinr the LAMA,

| have just been examining an old
book containing the accounts of the
charity estate Of West Haddon, en-
bracing the years 1773-1S5O. Under
date Aug. II, 17T6, is the following
entry:
paid Richard Worster seven days
work, cutting thorns and scowering and
STOPPING of gaps. los. 3d."
The term SECURING the ditch" is
used on Jan. s, 1881, and appears
many times after this date, the last in
stance being on April %, 1S2O.-Lon-
don Notes and Queries.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04
seems to have departed like Republi.
can prosperity.


Results.
In his indianapolis speech Of May 3d.
1907, opening his campaign to dictate
the Presidential succession, President
Roosevelt stated explicitly that rate
reduction is no part Of his program.
He argued for high rates as necessary
for prosperity" declaring that ANY
unthinklng movement to cut them
down may be equivalent to putting a
complete stop to the attempt to pro
vide a better transportation"
AS this view is extended to prices in
general, 1T leaves no one at liberty to
misunderstood the Presidential pro-
gram, as ex-senator Pettigrew, of
South Dakota, must do IL he expects
what he understands as s.results" from
1t.
When the Federal courts are used to
attack corporation or combination of
corporations, which in either rates or
prices is taking money unfairly or In
violation Of law, the results expected
by the people of the Dakotas, Of the
West and Of the country generally, are
a reduction Of the expenses of business
and of living to basis Of fairness.
Not considering at all the question
Of whether rates are too high in any
psrtsof the country to be fair, or
whether prices dictated by protected
monopolies are generally too high to be
fair, the President waived all this
openly at the start, and In doing so
waived with 1t the results the public
expects, as Mr.. Pettigrew does.
There can be no such results from
the Presidents policy" He is using
the whole power of the Federal Gov
eminent, its vast machinery Of Offices
and the millions paid monthly from
the treasury In salaries with no con-
icealment of his purpose to control
State after State In a way that will
deprive 1t of Its local power of choice
in politics. He does this openly and
he reaches openly even down to city
elections in doing 1t; At the same time
and in-the same connection, he uses the
Federal courts for carrying out the
campaign he planned before he out
lined 1t at Jamestown and Indianap-
oils.
The result 1t Is intended to reach
first is the dictatlon Of the Presiden-
tial succession. 1t is then proposed to
assume control Of business IN tho
States, us he has now assumed control
Of politics in States the Federal ma
chine has subdued. But: in no case
have such results as the public expects
followed his activities. In no case are
they to be looked for. The prices die
tated by protected monopolies go high
er, but he is not fighting extortionate
prices. He is not attempting to cheap
en- rates. No such results can follow
his work, and any organization he
dominates will be used to prevent them.
st. Louis Republic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04

The herring catch off the shores Of
England represents s15.ooo.ooo annu-
ally -,t-'--
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04

The worlds record for the greatest
number Of divorce cases is held BY the
Hungarian city Of Arad.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-04

"A stiff upper lip has nothing In com
mon with timber tongue.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-06-20
STERLING RUN.

Agnes Miller of Brookville is visiting
at Mrs. Ed Writings.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs Lou Jones, an
eight pound girl, June 16.
DR.. DeLong took W. Il. DevhDg to
Willamsport hospital on Wednesday.
Mrs. A. L. Miller OF Williamsport, is
the guest OF Nrs. Geo Strawbridge.
Mrs A. w. Mason was an Emporium
visitor Saturday.
Geo. Hulsinger and wife returned to
Remove Monday
Mabel Wylie, who has been teaching
at Altoona, returned home Monday
Children's Day was observed last Sun
day in the NJ 4. church and large
audience greeted the little tots as they
displayed their ability as orators, readers
and singers.
Nellie Mansfield of Westport, is the
guest of Cora Yocum
Alice Strawbridge has been suffering
several weeks with ielon.
Mrs. Margaret Mason returned to
Remove Monday.
Mrs. Martha Smith and Mrs. l.. G.
Summerson attended the funeral of Mrs
Rachael Spanser.at Whittemore Hill
Sunday.
There will be surprise family reunion
at Mrs. n. X. Jordan's Friday.
There was family reunion at James
RusselPs on Tuesday.
Mrs. Edna Schwab and little Helen
Robinson of Cameron were visitors in
town Sunday.
ID. w. Eastman, who has been on the
sick list the past week, is able to be out
again.
Mabel Stephens of Emporium has been
home, sick, for few days.
j. Il. Smith went to Erie Wednesday
for treatment. At times his throat is
very painful.
Mrs. Harrison and children, of Dents
Run, were guests of Lulu Lewis, Wednes-
day.
The Lady Maccabee's had quilting
for Mrs. Frances Hewlett at the home of
Mrs. Ella Whiting Friday.
Malvin Whiting, of Ridgway, was in
town Wednesday guest of j. Il. Smith
BLUE BELL.