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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
suicide was right. There is something
wrong somewhere.

The newspaper may be depressing
reading for the young woman whose
ambitions outsoar her conditions. In
single Issue she may perhaps see the
picture of woman who has climbed
several of the worlds highest noun
tains; may read of another woman who
has achieved success In musical compo-
sition, and of third who has written
a. popular play; and may read the re-
port of IN address by woman who is
dairy commissioner, and who is ready
to throw the light of modern science
on the chemical problems Of butter and
cheese making. These varied occupa.
tions with their rewards may make
the trivial round, the common task"
seem fiat and dull to the village girl
whose activities are bounded by her
Eorizon. She counts over her days
tasks. She has been up betimes to help
with the breakfast, has made an oven
full of delicious pumpkin pies, and has
swept halls and stairs. Then she has
gone through the weeks mending and
has ended the day by sitting for two
hours with a sick neighbor, and BY at
tending choir rehearsal. But noun
tains and music, drama and chemistry
these are all out of her line. Are they
really better than her cheerful house
wifeliness and kindly service? In the
largest view of life, hers is the nobler
task. Music, drama, athletics and even
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Blue FLOWERS OF THE ANDES.
How Pretty Girls Sell the Blossoms
to Mountain Travellers.

Some Of the smaller of the railroad
towns of Chile are we'll worth Drawing
the trip by the slow train to see.
There is one | remember in particu-
J lar, situated near the summit of the
divide between the valleys of the
Mapocho and Llai Llai, where the
great mountain blue flowers and the
little Andean deer are brought down.
The strangely beautiful blue flower
of the Cordillera blossoms only for
few weeks in the spring, at which
time it is gathered high up at the
snow line by the lithesome village
maidens and brought down to the train
F, to sell The petals, blue as the sky.
are as delicate, soft and pliable as
the palm of fine kid glove, and re-
sist tearing almost as strongly. If a
petal is twisted and wrung between
the fingers it exudes drop of liquid
possessing a most powerful and pene-
trating, but thoroughly pleasing odor
This juice is as strong as flavoring
extract, and drop of 1t will give
iperceptible taste to gallon OF water,
from which arises a practice In witch
cry by the willy mountain maids.
They wait until you are finishing
your breakfast, when one slips up to
your side and holds a big bunch OF
flowers for you to bury your face In
by way of sampling, while another ex-
ecutes flank movement on your I'M
protected side and drops some bruised
petals into your coffee. When your
face comes out of the flowers and
you begin to sip your coffee, they
both laugh and clap their hands and
tell you not to be angry. as 1t is only
costumbre del pueblo"-a custom Of
the village. OF course. you are not
angry; and If You are not pretty mean
you are sure to buy blue flowers from
them on till train time at prices as
lofty as their habitat. This blue flower
craze doesn't hold you long, but while
1t lasts it would be cheaper to be an
orchid fancier.
| 1t is much cheaper, in fact, far more
satisfactory In the long run, to buy
deer than blue flowers; the deer you
can ship in the baggage car while the
blue flowers require personal attens
ton. And even If you do enter Val
paraiso with the deer in your arms
your friends will not ask you If you
were drugged into buying it. That's
the trouble with the blue flowers-ev.
cry one knows where you got them.
and from whom you got them. They
don't know how much it cost you
to get them. except that 1t was lot
more chap they are worth..-Los An.
geles Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

A great deal of harm Is done by self
drugglng for the relief of various real
or imaginery ills.
There Is nothing easier. The only OBJ
lection to the plan is that what is good
for the cough may be bad for the
congher.
So 1t is with headache. Almost any
pain in the head not due to actual
brain disease may be moderated. If not
relieved temporarily, by some form OF
headache powder; but frequent re-
course to this means of cure may IA
tally weaken the heart. When this
stops beating the headaches cease to
trouble. but the patient is not in con-
dition to know or care.
Every man, of course, believes him
self doctor, and often thinks he is
better able to attack cough or a case
of rheumatism or headache, whether
1t be his own or another's, than those
who make the cure Of disease q special
study. All he haslto do is to make up
his mind what the trouble Island any
one can tell cough when he has it
and then to take something that is
good for cough"
Less serious, but not much so, is the
abuse of tonlcs. A true tonic Is any.
thing that promotes the nutrition of the
body. This may be done by increas.
Ing the appetite and Improving diges
ton, which Is the function of the bit.
ter tonics; or by improving the condi.
ton Of the blood by adding to 1t the
ilor 1t has lost; or by supplying the
system with some needed substance
such as fat in cod liver oil; or finally
by stimulating the tissues to increased
absorption, an action which is ascribed
to arsenic, mercury and others of the
mineral tonics.
But these are not the .tonics" to
which people are apt to resort when
they run down. They take to stimu
lalts, alcohol usually. and think they
are getting strong because they feel
better after each dose. The alcohol
in the tonic" is often disguised, and
the user, perhaps conscientious tee
totaler, would be shocked to learn tina,
what he was taking to give him
strength had more alcohol in 1t than
has the strongest whisky. If the system
is seriously run down. physician
should be consulted, who will be able
to give what is needed. whether iron
or bark, or gentian, or cod liver OIL
to correct the underlying condition that
causes the debility.-Youth's Compan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
STICKS FAST IN BATHrus.
Oregon Man Uses Wrong Kind Of
Enamel for Repairs.

The zinc lining of the bathtub at
the county poor farm became bare of
enamel in spots and the other day
Superintendent ID. d. Jackson sent a
man to town to purchase some white
enamel" He received the package of
enamel, never thinking that only
special brand is used for bathtubs.
He carefully cleaned the t,rb and
applied coat of the enamel 1t soon
dried and left the tub with snowy
interior. Mr.. Jackson showed his
work to his wife and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Fisher. and modestly re-
ceived their words of praise.
The next day he desired a bath,
and filling the tub with warm water,
reclined full length in 1t. He was
tired and under the soothing influ-
ence of warmth fell asleep. He awoke
with start dreaming that an Apache
had seized him by the hair and was
about to scalp him. To his surprise
lie could not lift his head
Then he essayed to move and
found that the soles of his feet were
glued to the end of the tub and that
his limbs were held to the bottom in
the same manner Even his arms were
loosened from the side of the tub with
difficulty. He managed, after suffer.
ing deal of pain and parting from
small patches of cuticle. to extricate
his feet, legs and body, but the tub
chung tightly to his hair and he had
TO howl for help.
In order to get into the bathroom,
where her liege lord was held prison.
err, Mrs. Jackson had to force a hook
off the door. Then she took pair OF
scissors and cut the hair which stuck
to the paint, after the warm water had
softened it. Now Mr.. Jackson will
have the enamel" scraped out and
the genuine article placed in the tub
by an expert-Portiand (Oregon) cor.
respopdepce Of the New York World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Book store shoplifters.

ours is one business in which there
are no women shoplifters," said a
bookseller yesterday. I'VE are trou-
bled with shoplifters, but they are all
men. Women don't seem to have any
time for book-stealing. Its remark
able how many thefts we detect in the
course of week.
Visitors who look prosperous
enough to buy whole libraries are Of
ten caught abstracting 25-cent book.
/ figure that this is due to the great
temptation. You see, in book stores
callers are given the run of the place.
and are at liberty to examine the
stock at their leisure. A man picks
up some little volume he may want.
and seeing no one at hand the tempta-
ton to get something for nothing is
too much for him. He slips the
coveted article into his pocket, but we
have wary statesmen. and most such
offenders are tripped up. Then they
have to pay for the purloined volumes
and are warned that more serious
consequences will follow any repeti.
ton of the shoplifting. Philadelphia
Record.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

Keep your thoughts on pure air In
the home. Don't be afraid If 1t is a
little cold. None of Peary's party
caught cold all the time they were in
regions away below zero. Pure, un-
adulterated cold is healthful. It Is not
all the time pleasant, but one can wrap
up sufficiently to provide against the
discomfort of 1t. That is easy. That
Is what they do with consumptives-
wrap them up warmly and put them
out into the fresh, cold air. 1t is not
the cold that hurts; 1t is the draft
which disturbs the temperature of the
body and consequently the equilibrium
of the circulation. which in turn stuffs
up the capillaries, and there you are
sneezing. wheeling, coughing, hawking.
grunting and making yourself public
calamity.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Arabian Nights Not Stranger.

A story is told of New York city
car conductor who had been in the
ministry, and who retained some of
his former ways of speech in his
new calling.
He had been at the front of the
car collecting fares, and when he re-
tuined to his platform well disposed
person told him that man had board
ed the car at Houston street and
had found a place inside.
The conductor stepped inside the
doorway and ran his mild gaze up and
down the car, but could not be sure
which of the tightly packed pas
sengers was the late arrival.
"Will the gentleman who got on
at Houston street please rise!" he
asked calmly.
The gentleman rose involuntarily,
and with bow and THANK you!"
the conductor collected his fare
Youths Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

Hens that acquire the habit of laying
soft-shell eggs should be watched very
carefully in order to break them of it
There are two causes for soft eggs
One is feeding too much stimulating
food; the other, not enough shell-form
ing material being furnished. Toe
much spiced food and meat is general
~ found to be the chief cause, and II
that is cut out the evil can generally
be overcome. If the hens have been
overfed they will show 1t by the lack
of eagerness with which they eat new
food. After you are satisfied that they
have been fed too much, reduce the
supply and add a little epson salts to
their drinking water for about four
days Grit or crushed oyster shells
should be fed If want Of lime is the
trouble.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

The immediate and all-inportant
question is not why the frequent
wrecks are 80 destructive, but why
they should be allowed to occur in the
first place. Steel cars, of course, are
better than wooden, but there would
be no complaint of danger from the
latter IL the number of wrecks could
be reduced in this country to what
experience abroad shows to be the un-
avoidable minimum. The mere pros
pect Of collision-proof cars in the dim
future will hardly divert public atten-
ton from the task in hand, which Is
to prevent the consequences of COLI
sion by abolishing collisions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

! Young men of an adventurous turn
of mind who lament that there is no
longer any real excitement to be had
In the Southwest need only to cross
the Mexican boundary line in the
neighborhood Of Nogales, Arlz., and
go after the Yaqui Indians. They will
not have to hunt very long for all the
excitement that they need. The YaouIs
are brave, fierce and perfect gluttons
for fighting, as the Mexican govern
ment knows to Its cost Indeed, IL there
are any soldiers of fortune out of
work they can secure the contract Of
DISCRIMINATING the Yaquls. They NAV
not complete the jco, but they will
have the time of their lives attempting
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

J All Americans of the future, accord
Ing to one Of the scientists, are to be
like John u. Rockefeller. In other
words. we are all to become bald, and
probably there will be chance for all
OF us to get rich selling stun that we
are to claim will make the hair grow.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
ARlzoNA,s MINERAL WEALTH..
soo,ooo,ooo Pounds of Copper pro
duced Last Year, Valued at
$54,0O0,0oo.

Gov. Kibbey. OF Arazona, in his an
nual report says that unexampled
prosperity for the mining industry
characterized the fiscal year ended
June 30 last
Copper mining particularly" he
says. has had and has the proportions
of vertable boom. From the best
figures obtainable estimate that the
production of copper in this Territory
for the present calendar year will
aggregate 3OO,OO0.000 pounds. which
would be worth at the average New
York price at least $54,0OO.00O."
Gov. Kibbey deyotes a chapter OF
his report to the subject of taxation,
which was one of the most discussed
features of Territorial conditions in
the hearings on the statehood ques-
ton before Congress committees last
winter The Governor admits that
the subject is perplexing, and the eff
forts of the last year to secure a
more equal distribution of the burdens
If taxation have emphasized the state.
1ASlC was A1uS1I NiieASioh1 "a
the assessment of the Territorial
board. particularly that of mining and
railroad properties. Gov. Kibbey esti'
mates the values OF the mines in Ari'
IONA at $1O0.0O0,0O0.
Many families of the White Noun
tain Apache Indians in Arizona, the
Governor says, are living on cactus
and herbs and are In acute distress for
lack of food. The Apaches have been
existing on light diet for months.
Their present condition is due in part
70 the fact that they dislike work and
/ to the further fact that the tribe is
situated remotely from the railroads
and Its members are compelled tc
travel long distances from their homes
to find employment The bucks are
as much averse to travel as they are
| to work,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Tho yellow Peril.

Tho Yellow Peril.
The question between the State OF
California and the United States Of the
admission Of the Japanese into the pub
lie schools at the first blush would
seem to be matter entirely within tho
reserved rights of the State to settle
as the people of California or any
other State may decide. But there IL
another side to the question which.
when given due weight, may turn tho
scale to the side of the United States.
The question hinges on whether the UNI
limited power yielded by the States to
the United States to make treaties,
which, when ratified by the Senate, be-
come the law of the land, is superior to
the laws of the States for their local
government. State laws must be made
in conformity to the Constitution and
the authority of the States Is limited
thereby. The constitution lodged the
power to make treaties in the President
and the Senate, and when the States
ratified the constitution they yielded
up that authority absolutely. 1t must
be remembered in arriving at con-
clusion on the rights of the States, that
distinction be made between laws
and treaties. The former are for the
government of the people in their In
ternal affairs, treaties to the relations
between this and other countries. Ar
ticle vi. of the Constitution declares:
This Constitution and the laws of
the United States, which shall be
made In pursuance thereof, and all
treaties made, or which shall be made
under the authority of tho United
States, shall be the supreme law Of the
land"
That would seem, therefore, to make
our treaty with Japan, which gives the
Japanese people the right to come and
settle here, with the same privileges
as those of the people Of other coun-
tries, the supreme law of the land.
which the people Of California cannot
nullify by any law or regulation for
excluding Japanese from the right to
enter the public schools, II the people
of other favored nations are given sim
liar rights.
If, therefore, treaty, duly ratified
by the Senate. Is 'the supreme law of
the land" the only way that the peo-
pie of the Pacific States can escape
from the yellow peril" is to have the
treaty with Japan modified or abro-
gated. To obtain such modification is
matter of influence with the treaty
making power, which is primarily tho
President and secondly the Senate. As
every Senator and member of Congress
from the Pacific States is Republi-
can, except one Senator from Oregon,
and he takes strong ground for Japa-
nese and Chinese exclusion, the peo-
pie of those States should demand Of
their Congressman to urge President
Roosevelt to help them. If no relief IL
afforded from that source. their only
hope is to reject the Republican poll
cies by electlng electors who will cast
their votes for a President who will
take the necessary steps to protect
them from the yellow peril" and Sem
ators who will support such Presi-
dent in ratlfying such policy. Az
long as the people of the Pacific States
allow Hartman and the Standard OIL
interests to dictate their political af-
fairs they must expect the policy Of
admitting cheap labor to be carried out
at Washington.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

| A sympathetic and accurate record
of each and every COW In a dairy herd
Is valuable for many reasons First,
the owner determines which animal to
retain and which to weed out. Every
COW showing deficient balance sheet
urdcr average conditions should be sold
| to the butcher Mt once. Second, 1t en-
| it enables the feeder to judge the COM
paratiye value Of different feeds.
Fourth, If COW Is not doing properly,
| the fact Is ut once noticed OH her milk
sheet and the necessary changes may
| be made to restore the animal to her
proper condition Fifth, it furnishes a
good way Of checking careless or indif-
ferent mixers. Sixth, 1t shows any
i1regularity, effect of early or late milk
ing, effect Of high or low temperature,
effect of exposure to cold or storms and
the effect Of drinking ice-cold water.
Last, and most important, the daily
milk rece:d tells exactly each month
just what the COWS are doing. No dairy
can be successfully conducted without
It, Keeping an accurate record is one
of the most important parts Of the busl.
ness.
Growth of Useless Animal Organs,
In many animals there are certain
organs which, useful in their earlier
stages, have apparently been so greatly
developed as to become rather hin
ORANGES. The horns of certain deer.
for example, useful weapons of defense
when smaller, have become so large
as rather to handicap the animals in
the struggle for life. The huge over
grown teeth, or tusks, Of certain of the
boar family may be cited as further ex-
amples. These are sometimes explained
as organs which have been more useful
in their present state under former diff
ferent conditions, and which have per-
sisted through heredity. In the Amer
lean Naturalist, however, Mr. f. B.
LOOMS brings forward another explain
alton. He thinks the growth of such
organs is due to what he calls "momen-
| tum In variation" AS a variation pro-
ceeds in a certain direction, 1t ac-
quires, like body moving under the
action Of gravity, momentum which
may carry 1t past the stage Of greatest
utility. This factor in evolution, Mr..
Loomis thinks, has not been assigned
the Importance it deserves
Other evolutionists, however, have
suggested that when an animal or plant
has once started to vary in a given d.
rection, 1t acquires tendency to go on
varying in that direction. And this,
although the word momentum is not
used. agrees with the above theory.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

The Standard Oil Trust will have tol
meet serious competition in Europe.I
for the Rothschild interests have fur
nished increased capital for the Euro
pean Petroleum Union with the idea
of controlling the European markets.
The Standard Oil Trust, like many.
other trusts, has been selling Its prod
ucts cheaper abroad than here, and the
enlarged competition abroad will prob.
ably result in the trust selling there.
cheaper than ever. On the other hand,
consumers in the United States will
find the price forced up las high as
the traffic will bear" to pay for the.
reduced price received abroad. s.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
Pruning pench Trees.

AS the result of experiments Mt the
Massachusetts experiment station, the
following would seem to be the best
method Of peach tree pruning:
/. Prune peach trees moderately, re-
moving not more than one-third to one.
half the previous years annual growth,
when the wood has been injured by
freezing.
9. When only the fruit buds are
killed. the weed being sunintured and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

! Tradition says that the first lochs
were made in England during the reign
of Alfred the Great, but 1t was not
until civilization had progressed to the
middle OF the fourteenth century that
their use became general, and only at
the highly civilized period Of the nine
teenth century that steel vaults, bur-
glar-proof safes and such things be-
came necessary.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
70 CORRESPONDENTS.

Al communications for this paper should b. .oco,.
panied by the of the ,uthor; not necessarily q,
publication but AZ an evidence Of good faith on the psr
u the writer Write only on one aide Of the paper D,
naucuisy CAREFUL In giving and datss to Nm
he lsttsn and figures plain and distinct,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

! There is a man in Philadelphia who
claims to have invented smoke con
sumer which In two years will save
enough coal to pay for Itself. The coal
dealers can hardly be expected to en-
courage the use Of such continuance.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

] Some scientist has discovered that
the north pole is moving southwark at
the rate Of twenty miles year. Now
II he has the courage of his convic-
lions let him go up to Winnipeg and
open fur store.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

! An Amityville. N. Y, man has inner
lied 100000 because he went for
thirteen years without drinking drop
of whisky. 1t ought to be hard after
this to convince him that thirteen is an
unlucky number.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

BLONDES will be only history six
hundred years from now" says the
scientists. In the meantime they are
poetry, romance, fiction-delightfu
fascinating fiction. Feel sorry for the
men of six hundred years hence.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13
The Bitter Truth.

"After all. 1 guess 1t doesn't cost
much to live In New York"
ut may not cost much to live," re-
piled the man who had tried 1t, "but it
costs a lot to make people believe you
are livlng."-Philadelphia Ledger.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

The births in Germany for 1905
were 10000 fewer and the deaths 3d.
900 more than in 1904 The birth rate
has been sinking steadily for some
time. In 1901 1t was 36.9 1000, but
In 1906 1t was only 80.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-13

One of the learned scientists says
that man is made of soap. Perhaps
that is why he so often cleans out the
treasury when he gets into Office.