Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-17

MI. Dooley says Opportunity
knocks at every mans door once
On some mems doors it hammers
till it breaks down the door and
than goes in and wakes him up and
afterwards works for HIM as night
watchman. On other mems doors
it Knocks and runs away, and on
the doors of some men it knocks and
when they come out it hits themon
the head with an axe. But every
man has an opportunity"
Every little while we read in the
paper that someone has run u rusty
nail i'll his foot or other portion Of
his body and lockjaw resulted there
from and the patient died. If every
person was aware of perfect
remedy for such wounds and would
apply it, then such reports would
cease. The remedy is simple, al
ways at hand, can be applied by
anyone--what is better it is infalI-
IDLE 1t is simply to smoke the
wound or any wound that is bruised
or inflamed with wooden cloth.
Twenty minutes in the smoke will
take..the pain out of the worst case of
inflammation arising from such a
wound. People may sheer at this
remedy as much as they please, but
when they are afflicted with such
wounds, let them try Tx.
Claude Campfeld, a young man
20 years of age, in the employ of
Jed Snow on his Sumner township
farm, had narrow escape from
death BY Tightening last Friday even
ing. He was going into the house as
thunder storm was coming'up. The
telephone ground wire runs down
along side one of the porch posts.
In stepping up to the porch he took
hold of the wire just as a charge
of electricity strong enough to burn
out the telephone fuse passed alone
it. The shock dazed him, but he
staggered into the house, and sat
down, and shortly afterward became
unconscious, and remained in that
condition for several hours. A physi-
clan was summoned, and stated that
the young man had escaped instant
death by only hairs breadth. AT
ter regainiDg consciousness young
Campbell was delirious until Sun
day morning when he became ration
al and has since steadily improved,
and on Sunday evening was taken
to the home of his parents near
A ur a.-Independence Bulletin
Journal.
Hampton Recorder: For years
the Recorder has been telling its
readers, along about this time Of the
year, that crop prospects never
were better" and calling upon our
farmer readers to rejoice over the
in sight. We wish We
could do so now with a clear con-
science but it looks otherwise to us.
From talks with the farmers from
the different portions of the country
and from a limited observation Of
BUR own, we are convinced that the
for crops-corn, oats and
grass, have not been as poor as they
are in Franklin county at this time.
Everybody felt encouraged about
The corn crop ten days ago, but the
recent cold nights and heavy rains
have dispelled some of these hopes.
and unless we get different weather
from what we have had, the season
can hardly be long enough to give
as an average crop. The oats are
hin on the ground, owing probably
% the continued cold weather after
seeding last spring, and the straw
will be short. The grass, too, seems
much of it to be thin on the ground,
although the pastures are generally
good, which is an important thing.
Tho farmers have one consolation,
and that is, when the yield is low,
prices are higher. We hope that
We are mistaken in our estimate of
crop conditions, but our best iudg-
ment tells us that we are not. This
may not be altogether agreeable
reading for the Fourth of July, how
ever no one in this country need
lear any privations or distress even
# the crops should turn out worse
than our prophecy.
A prosperous farmer and stock
feeder living east of Ryan recently
in delivering a load of cattle here
got one of them so badly frightened
that he became unmanageable and
proved himself an outlaw by taking
possession Of the Murray Bros. corn
and oats field for the past week and
was monarch of all he surveyed. He
was passed up by our local butcher
and fell into the hands of the Cog
gon dealers, who, after making sew
eral trips and sizing him up with a
field glass thought perhaps he
could be moved safer dead than
alive. On Tuesday three noted
marksmen armed with Winchester
rifles came up from our
sister town. They all were William
Tell shots before the battle but used
good judgement by not getting in
the same field but stood in their
meat wagon in an adjoining one
about six rods from the intruder
who stood facing them. Several
shots were fired at the steer when he
became disguised and moved away
several rods and laid down in the
tall grass. One of the marksmen
claiming last shot and victory ran
to investigate. To his great sur
prise the warrior was up and after
him with such close chase that he