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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
"HAML1N, THE BAKER"
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III When Cyrus Hamlln was q student
ut Bowdoin College he added some
thing to his studies which was not q
part Of the curriculum, q proyidential
elective, as was proved many years
later when he became president Of Rob
ert College in Constantinople, and when
the necessity for good bread for the
soldiers of the Crimea was brought to
his notice. In "Cyrus Hamlin, Mis-
sionary, Statesman, Inventor" the
story is given:
One day at Bowdoin, Professor Smith
delivered a lecture on the steam engine
to Hamlln's class, not one of whom,
perhaps, had ever seen steam engine.
Those were the days of the stage-coach
and the OK team.
After the lecture he said to Profess
sor Smith, II believe could make an
engine"
The professor replied, 81 think you
cnn make anything you undertake,
Hamlln. and wish you would try"
He did try, and succeeded. BY work
ing twelve and sometimes fifteen hours
each day. he built steam engine suf-
fciently large to be of real service as
part of the philosophical apparatus
Of the college.
During the Crlmean War there was
great need of good bread, and not a
steam flour mill in Constantinople. The
memory of his steam engine encouraged
President Hamlin to think that he
could establish flour mill and a bak-
cry, and cast good wheat bread upon
the troubled waters CT that Eastern
war.
He Imported steam engine from the
United States, and by the help of Ure's
Dictionary of the. Arts" and after la.
bors which surpassed the legendary la.
bors OF Hercules, he was ready to grind
flour.
Might not chemist make good
bread? He had the theory in his head !;
the next thing was to have the art at
his finger ends. This is the way he
speaks Of the result:
My bread came out as fiat MS nam
cake. and too sour for mortal man to
eat. But the next was better, and the
third was eatable'
He was soon selling bread so sweet,
80 palatable. and In loaves so much
above the legal weight that "Hamlin's
Bread became famous.
One day he was invited to visit the
military hospital at Scutari then filed
with Sick and wounded soldiers The
chief physician said to him, "Are you
Hamlin. the baker?"
"No, SIR replied Doctor Hamlin. "I
am the Reverend Mr.. Hamlin, an
American missionary"
"That is about as correct as any.
thing l get in this country" said Doc.
tor Mapleton. ~ send for baker and
get missionary"
Before the misunderstanding went
farther Doctor Hamlin explained that
he was both n missionary and max.
er Of bread. The result of the confer
ence was that the English secured
good bread at one-half less than the
price they had been paying for sour
bread, which the soldiers could hardly
eat
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
The Haunted World.
r fall Of the leaf, ycnder splash

Is 81
The Haunted World.
Yonder fall of the leaf, ycilder splash,
ing of water,
Have all one meaning to me;
Under the mute, wet rocks, over the
breathing treetops,
A voice speaks breathlessly,
Ushered into the woods mid the still,
slim trunks of the pine,
Waving the Redeemed boughs, and
tearing the tangled vine 4
The wild worlds misery.
Far have sped from men, far from
the steel-stone city,
To meet with God in the; woods,
To see the beauty of earth as 1t spins
with the flaming planets,
And steep myself ip-its moods;
But, oh, not far enough to escape the
anguish of man!
On every leaf it is stamped, on every
blade is its ban;
Into the wind 1t swung, into the
stream it ran,
And, 10! in the sky it broods!
James Oppenheim in the Century.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
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3 POLITICS aaaa 8
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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tov would ho TT, VIZ Tue 'arin
.,oods -. ,, VI siin''"r ioreisn mace
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tho ,noroasoa oaaa nc sta.ls.,ciuiis tnat
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sIon 80 It.. a ~. lainiiy, ls over
&c :, y. w n.en sne government receives
and n,a ,n 80, -, saAes, anu the trusts
Tran, .nis 49, e.s ,eeeiSe apout $s4.
:. .I,i " ueuucteu "hat the
- ea,a,, 1865 - '.e Increased price
hoooa and ..,s $50 a., oe.s' wrapper To-
,,,,e, ~. ~ W. lua. ne selis' How
VOW. o,ana,u Nv. " - eau !" inquired
~ ~ "a. :. ea.n iaiiiies' according
60 H. IT, VI TUE AMOUNT OF those
~ ~ ,...l. s ne iaises. AS salo Defore.
= ,a,,a ., on eu sugar " LOO cents
- o. a .oiu oo-aoo u cent up
80 -, .. W s una enneu sugar. on
~, 20 u'nleuit VI De e2act,
~ 49,, pi.ee uepehus upon
ha ~ 49,. M nm &c, coi'aineo IN the
~ 49,, ~, ST. ss an Tue peets raised IN
s 80. - .,sa.es were SOFA TO the su-
O.. -'t,e' ~ an average OF $4.3S
w. ~ 20 sur ~ say tnat the In
,,ass 'e 80 pion. ~ sne sioMerh coulo not
20 -, oeen ete".et 'ilun 90 cents ton;
~, .ne ISIS iepoi SLOWS that It cost
.ue .aeto.s plo,lie.ors JUST over u a
s ~ eioM Dee's themselves.
~ ~ ~ snss ~ .nis, - enose farmers
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
Tarln Here and Elsewhere,

Its rather absurd of that Mohonk
conference to demand the abolition of
tariff duties on Philippine goods when
most of the members continue to vote
against the reduction of the tariff for
the people Of the United States. There
is. however, one great difference, for
the American people can revise the
tariff by describing the Republican
party, but the poor Filipinos have no
voice about how much or how little tax
they pay. With them the United
States is like the railroads and trusts
to our own people, by making them pay
"all the traffic will bear"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

and they weigh well the advantages they might gain by
marrying
1t cannot be questioned that womans Independence as
to marriage makes for her happiness only as an in
divldual. but If the financial question could
be eliminated, matrimony would be as nearly ideal a.
thing possibly could conceive and 1t seems to be
proved fact that there is little domestic unhappness
among the women who marry from wise choice rather
than conventional necessity Love then becomes the ru
Ing element, as 1t should be always.
The whole situation is simply this: the past there
was but one future for the glrl-matrmony To-day
woman regards herself Individual. She looks Mt
from higher viewpoint and she weighs his powers
Of making her happy With her ability the same
thing Marriage is no longer necessity and when she
has mastered art she take the attitude that
does-of choosing the she wants. If she does
not find what she likes she has the prerogatiye az
the bachelor. IS
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

Senator Dillingham;, discussing Inn
migration in New York, made use of
the phrase, ..the age of discretion"
what Is the age of discretion SEN
ator?' asked one Of his auditors.
II should say" returned Senator Dill
lingham, smiling, that the age of dis
erection is reached when a young man
removes from his mantel the rich col
lection of actresses and dancing girls
photographs, and substitutes the por-
trait Of his rlch bachelor uncle"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
Profitable Parable.

Before the collection was taken at a
negro place Of worship the minister, a
colored man, declared his regret that a
certain brother had retired to rest the
night before without locking the door
Of his fowlhouse, to find in the morn.
Ing that all his chickens had vanished
II don't want to be PERSONAL" he con.
tinued, "but hab my suspicious as to
who stole dem chickens. II I'm right
In dose suspicious, dat man won't mt
any money in de box which will now
be passed round" There was a grand
collection, not single member of the
congregation felgnlng sleep. snow
brederen," announced the minister 81
don't want all yoah appetltes spoilt nv
wondering where dat brother lives who
don't lock his chickens at night. Dot
brother don't exist, nah friends
was parable fob purposes OBJ finance y,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20


shelves covered with bottles from floor to ceiling These
bottles rapidly vanishing and the time is not far dis
tant when they Will be reduced to extremely small
number The empty shelves will be replaced by simple
living, suitable Diet plenty Of and plenty Of fresh
air. The astonishing history of certain infectious NAL
aides surpasses in interest every that has
been written. The tubercle Mt this moment is killing
10000 people per Not Of those people need
dle-the disease is preyentabe.
Take consumption. In the years 1885, the mortality
from consunpti In Great Britain twenty-five per
10000 but it has dropped until it is less than twelve
per 10000 This compes to ask whats going to hap
pen If this sort of thing 1t means this-it will
be impossible find deaths from scarlet fever typhoid
cholera diphtheria and the like There used to be 200
eper houses in England There is notone In existence
now, except as curiosity and leprosy has left Eng
land since the eighteenth century In 1865 in the short
period six months If Macauny is to be trusted 1OO-
600 people died of the black DEATH Where is now
1t has vanished Did anyone at that time dream of
suggesting that the day could possibly when death
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
MUSHROOMS AND roApsroo1s.
Really the only genuine sa,. mi. !,

Really the Only Genuine Safe Rule I.
to Eat Your Steak without EN-.
Perhaps there would be fewer poison
ings from the eating of what are called
"toadstoolso IL people both could and
would get 1t through-or, rather, into
their heads that there are no such
things MS toadstocls. ut least in the
sense in which the word is commonly
used, says the New York Times.
The popular impression, which
amounts, to conviction. ls that there
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
CHANGE THE SHERMAN LAW.
By III. b. Ingalls,. Banker.

I would ask our public men to cease
the talk which gives the inference
that everything In our corporation life
Is rotten; which dlsturbs business men
and harms our fair reputation all over
the world. It is not true that our
business generally Is being conducted
on unlawful lines. l can state, and
defy contradiction. that the railroads
of this country, the great interest
about which there is 80 much talk and
abuse, are being conducted today in
accordance with the letter and spirit
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
are two kinds of fungi, one that is .edi-
Bile and one that is nnisnnons md that

are two kinds Of fungi, one that is edi-
bic and one that is poisonous, and that
when the former have been called
mushrooms and the latter toadstools a
sufticieaS distinction has been made.
0Sseour.e words can he SO, employed,
and the name Of thing. certainly is
the name by which 1t is known, but the
trouble is that In this case the distlnc-
ton does not distinguish, that its fall
ure to do so MAKES it extremely danger
GUS, and, not least important, that 1t
causes great range among the scientific
folk and not much less among the folk
who only have a scientific turn of mind.
The danger arises from the fact that
too often the person who has been told
that certain fungus is a toadstool
and therefore not to be eaten, assumes
that If he avoids that particular yarie-
ty in the future he is safe. Had he
been told that 1t was one of the many
poisonous varieties of mushrooms he
would not only have. acquired bit of
accurate information, with incidental
realization of what an immense number
Of varieties Of mushrooms there are
but he would have been put on his
guard against giving undue weight to
having learned to recognize one variety
that should be avoided.
To the. mycologist mushroom is a
mushroom-when 1t isn't something
with much longer name, which 1t usu.
ally is-and for him its mushroom-ness,
so to speak, is not at all affected by the
little detail whether Its consumption as
near-food is followed by death or sur
vlral. AS practical man he does, to
be sure, divide the species he knows
into the edible and the non edible, but
he never calls the latter toadstools, us
If they were something quite different
from the former, for he knows that
they are all Of one family and that
there Is no one popularity by which
they can be divided.
The old rule-if you eat it and live
1t is n mushroom; IL you eat 1t and die
1t Is n toadstool-has an element Of
truth in 1t, though there are certain
signs by which an unknown and uneat-
en- mushroom can be accused of being
poisonous without much danger Of do
Ing 1t an injustice. Perhaps n good
way is to let them all alone. Even the
best of them is Of no measurable value
as food and is Innocuous only when
gathered at just the right time and
promptly prepared in just the right
way. AS for the gustatory merits Of
the mushroom, they are chiefly the
products of suggestion and Imagination.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
Price No Indication.

"what is your wife's new fall hat
worth?
about 45 cents"
ais 1t possible you could buy hat
like that for the money!"
Certainly not thought you asked
what it was worth. The price, be-
lieye, was $12."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
by tho Roadside.

Seldom Fedde-Leary Walker never
sleeps no more.
Siten Doze-wot's de matter1
Seldom Fedde-Afraid he'll dream
dat he's workin'. 80
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

falls to those who seek and to those who possess them
Men become money mad. They want money, for the
privileges which will Afford but endeavor to satisfy
an Unsuitable greed. Our is sadly afflicted with this
inglorious MANIA and endeayorng to get money
honestly II 1t is convenient but they get money
What Instance of this uncomfortable passion of greed
have been seen recently in the dabolica system of
bates by which great corporations have richer
respectable smaller dealers have been to the
WALL and the highhanded robberes and vulgar criminal
e1travagances of insurance oficials
Somebody has been recently insisting that the very
rich are insane that the acquisition of the power which
great wealth brings unsettles minds 1t is true
however that selfshness and arrogance vulgar ex
travagance and foohardness and utter defiance of all
laws Of safety and society characterize some men who
become suddenly rich The awful slaughter of the auto
mobile maniac illustrates this tendency among prosper
people.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
Insult Plus Injury.

ooh, you can laugh all you want to-"
said Green, with show Of Impotence,
but I'm not as big fool as you think
1 am"
WELL" rejoined Brown, ito tell you
the truth, didn't believe it could DO
possible"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

The great Lick telescope Will pick
out star SO small that 1t would re.
quire 10000 of them put together To
be visible to the naked eye
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

did you hear that Jigsby was sent
to Jail last week for speeding his mo.
tor carp
Yes; he hadn't money enough with
him to pay his fine and was sent to Jail
in defauIt."
$50 foolish to start on spin withou.
the amount of ones running expenses"
Baltimore American.
Every man thinks he's a deyIlish
good critic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

'shall raise your umbrella, little
grip
"No, sirs 1t don't raise only car
rlss y fss showls j
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

Does the tariff protect tile farmer?
No. The tariff plumbers every farmer
Oh all that he buys, and but a few
farmers who raise sheep and a small
number that grow sugar cane and SUI
gar beets and certain brand Of wrap
per tobacco are the only ones that re
ceive any benefit. As the farmers who
grow Connecticut Seed Wrapper" to-
bacco are confined to two or three
townships in the Connecticut valley,
who are about the only ones protected
by the tariff on wrapper tobacco, their
number is so insignificant as not to be
worth mentioning. The number OF
farms Of which the principal source of
income Is sugar cane and sugar beet
growing. only exceeds one per cent of
all the farms In two States, namely,
Louisiana 33 per cent, and Utah %
per cent, SO that the other farmers Of
the United States, besides every other
person, pay the tariff tax upon sugar
Of LOS cents per pound to substitute the
Sugar Trust and these few cane sugar
and sugar beet growers, and the prin-
cipal share Of the profit is monopollzed
by the Sugar Trust who control the
beet sugar factories and also the REIN
cries for producing granulated sugar,
which Is virtually the only kind In use
in the United States.
But how about the sheep farmers?
According to the last census there are
81 ,G05,S11 sheep on farms and ranges
in 1900. Of which more than half that
number, or S8,499,669, were on ranges
In the mountain and Pacific States, so
that while the typically great agrlcul-
tural State of Iowa he'd only 1885, us
sheep, the State of Montana had g.
170,4S3. New Mexico 4,s9e,4s7 and
Wyoming 5,o99,813 There were, when
the census was taken, 22S,G22 farms in
Iowa, and only 1880 in Montana, 12,-
Bill in New Mexico, and but COOS in
Wyoming. So in Iowa there were on
an average only An sheep to farm,
while in Montana there was an aver.
~ ee al shssp 70 the farm and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
WHY WOMEN DO NOT MARRY.
By Henry S. prifchetf.

There is the general suppositlon that col
lege women do not marry; that higher edu-
cation Is leading them away from the home
This Is true, but 1t also applies to women
outside Of colleges-women who have mas
tered an art or a profession. Marriage with
them is not necessity from the point of
support; they have their liberty and indie
pendence and self-support in their own hands,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20


Those who doubt Mr.. Roosevelt's pro-
testations of peaceful designs in con-
nection with the dispatch of the fleet
to the Pacific remember that, in ad-
dressing the Naval War College when
Assistant Secretary of the Navy-pre-
sumably after mature consideration
he said: NO triumph of peace is quite
SO great as the supreme triumph Of
war;" And that he has emphasized
this bloodthIrsty doctrine with
sheer: "Scant attention is paid to the
coward or weakling who babbles for
peace"
All of Mr.. Roosevelt's policies have
not abated by one penny the extor-
lions Of the trusts. His wild declara-
ton has unsettled trade and destroyed
confidence, but 1t has benefited no man
on earth, except the Republican office
holders on whom the 100000 special
fund to investigate trusts has been ex-
papdod
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
WHY THE MEp1c1NE MAN IS PASSING.
BY Frederick Treves.

/ am afraid that long time will elapse
before people break OF the extraordinary
habit Of taking medicine when they are sick
1t is prejudice deep down in the hearts of
the people. Why 1t exists 1t is hard to say
but there 1t is, and suppose it must con.
tinue some little time longer.
If you picture the environment Of doc
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
F1NANc1ERs AS MONEY MANAGES.
By Rev. Or. Charles 3. Locke.

Americans are manifesting an itching for
money beyond all reason. Money has its good
sides as well as Its evil It can. purchase
privileges and multiply chances and ami
hllate distance. Money makes possible the
greatest phlanthropic schemes and generos-
ties. Money makes the world 60, and 1t can
be made humanlty's supremest blessing.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

from leprosy and plague would be unknown? Yet black
death has now place in the British AS Irish
man would say: "Black death has found that England
Is no place to 1--we in"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22

These figures give total OF over
$4,000 suicides in England and Wales
in 20 years-a number larger than
the casualties on both sides In The
great battles OF Blenheim. Austerlitz,
sadowa, Wagram or Gravelotte, and
far exceeding the deaths at Water
loo.
TO an American representative
Gen. Booth said:
''The act of selfdestruction is a
violation Of the sacredness of life, the
law Of the land and an outrage upon
the moral sense Ok the people. Sui
eide is indefensible.
"Yet it is on the increase In every
land and among all classes. Modern
civilization cannot claim that It has
fostered and developed the bonds that
bind men to a just appreciation Of
life. Statistics Of suicides are alarm
Ing, especially In such countries as
Denmark, Bavaria and several parts
Of the German empire But. nd doubt.
many more perish by their own act
whose names never appear on the
statistical roll Of suicides.
aThe offense Is either committed in
way that baiiies human skill in Its
effort to determine the cause OF
death, or means are found by influan
tial and wealthy friends to hide away
the crime.
But II so many with suicidal intent
find courage for the sad deed, who
can calculate the number who wouls
cut the sacred thread which binds
them to this world If they dare? Nay
how many Of the gay laughins
crowds around Us have at one tint
o. ano.iler contemplated suicide. ant
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-22

South Norwalk, Conn.-South Nor
walk has fire department horse that
turns on the electric lights when an
alarm Of fire comes In Jess Is the
name Of this intelligent creature. be-
ing named after Jesse N. Ferris. treas
urer Of the Manhattan Rubber COM
pans, Of New York,
Once, putting its head over the edge
Of the stall. the horse chanced to turn
the switch. Now when an alarm OF
fre comes IN at night Jess reaches
over and turns on the lights before the
driver has an opportunity to touch the
button which releases the stall doors.
Previously the lights were burned
in the firehouse all night Now there
is 3 saving for the city. as Jess Is al.
ways on the alert.