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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
PLAYS pENucH1n WITH HUBBY.
should Wife Let Him Win Just t.
Keep the Peacef

should Wife Let Him Win just to
Keep the. Peaces
"Penuchle is peculiar game" OBJ
served the married woman!i mWhen a
woman wins It's because she tIs lucky,
but when a man wins it's due to his
good judgment and nerve in holding his
cards for big melds. / play the game
two or three nights a week with my
husband for an opponent, aud the way
he frowns when things are not coming
his way is enough to make one smile.
But do not dare smile.
II do not even dare resent 1t when
he says things about my dumb luck
when l lay down kings for an 80 meld
or when he sneeringly suggests that /
should be Spectator IL l quietly
spread out four aces on the table.
If win the first game he demands
that 1 shuttle the cards decently during
the next game, or II he does the shut
fling he takes two minutes to do 1t and
declares that the cards are going to be
mixed all right this game.
IF on his own deal he gets hand
that doesn't look good he murmurs
something about the luck being all on
one side and looks at me as il 1 were
a criminal If meld the first deuce and
pick up the king or ace Of trumps.
& Suddenly his demeanor changes and
/ know he is getting some good cards.
Then he lays down the $50 meld and
tells me what nerve he had in holding
for it. as he had no trumps in the deal,
and was halfway through the hand
before he had anything. smile and
make the same meld on the next play.
Then he becomes angry again and is
vicious in his denunciation of my luck.
There Is u limit to my endurance,
so remark that he should have known
by his own hand that the other cards
were very likely out against him, and
that had he led trumps 1t would have
been all off with me. He has no an
swer to that, but he frowns dismally
and picks up his next card with the air
of martyr. And so 1t goes.
"If he loses three games in succession
he gets up from the table without a
word, puts on his coat and goes out
without saying where he is going or
when he will return From the way
he slams the door after him 1 gather
the impression that he is angry.
"Then wonder IL 1t would not be
the wise course for me to deliberately
lose the games and keep him good ma
tured. But somehow I can't do 1t. l
love to beat him."-New York Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
An Adventure
on Dartmoor

"a promise made under compuIslon,"
observed In the course of argument
carries no obligation"
ut depends" declared Billy Hie.
ginson. II made one once and nothing
on earth would have induced me- to
break it."
/ caught his eye.
"a girl?" queried.
He nodded.
"But it's quite funny story" he re.
marked persuasively.
Billy Higginson loves telling people
about his numerous girls.
"If you must-you must" greaned,
''but wait till I'm ready"
I always take the same precautions
when know I've got one of Billy's
yarns to listen to.
My pipe glowed red before the first
gray crust Of ash formed over it.
"Right!" said, putting my feet on
the mantelpiece.
Billy started off at once.
at was when I was down at Oke.
hampton last year." he said, at was
horribly dull and she was awfullv
pretty"
.'Piease don't describe her." 7
begged, ~ can quite imagine her."
Hair as black as raven" he went
on ignoring my protest, "and eyes as
blue as the sky"
looked at the gray day outside but
made no comment. Billy was never a
poet.
$50, of course, we became good pals.
Her father had small farm ont nv
Belstone"
"How did you meet herr" inquired
maliciously.
There was only one trouble" he
continued "she had been walking out
with the son of neighborlng farmer,
one Peter Collins by name, and he was
jealous, morose sort Of beast"
But she didn't care for him, and we
used to go for long rambles together
over the moor, and that's how the trou-
BILE came about.
She had promised to show me Gran
mere Pool-about the worst bog on the
moor, and we went there one Sunday
afternoon.
had always thought her a sensible
girl, but suddenly as we stood Just BY
Perrot's cairn of white stones-he was
a local guide" he broke of to explain.
"she turned to me and put both her
hands on my shoulders"
"Dyeu love me?" she asked, her eyes
burning Into mine.
"Of course do, little woman" said
lightly.
mo, not like that" she blazed and
stamped her foot 80 the sodden earth
quaked, mot little woman not light
GLOVE! D'yeu love me as my manY'
1t was horribly awkward moment.
and then 1 tried to change her mood.
"Hetty," said. smiling, you're a
dear, good girl, but you've broken a
promise"
"Me?" she queried.
"You said you'd show me the pool
said; come along"
My plan seemed to have succeeded.
for she dropped her hands and turned
towards the bog.
"You'm best follow careful xhs cried
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
a MOTHERS QUESTION.

4 d II u
Soft waves of chestnut hair-gold in the
sun
Red mouth, whose curving lips dimpled
with fun;
Skin fair and soft and smooth, cheeks
tinged with rose,
Eyes in whose smiling depths happiness
CLOVIS,
Never the cloud of tears Swallowed their
blae-
This was the mothers face my baby
knew.
Hair white as driven snow, face scanned
and drawn,
Pale lips with grief-lines marked. all
laughter gone,
Eyes dull and lusterless, faded by tears,
Empty arms, aching heart, all these long
years
Lord, if we meet again, by Thy dear
grace, 9SE 88s
How shall my baby know his mothers
fnce2
The Bohemian,
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Is IT A TREASURE CHEST?
omcers of the Alabama Make Dis
covery in Cuban Waters.

es4 covery in Cuban Waters.
While the various battlcships COM
prising the Atlantic feet We're ut the
rendezvous on the south shore of Cuba
It came to pass on one Silly morning
in April last that one of these, the
Alabama, flagship Of the second squad
ron, must needs lose an awning
stanchion by dropping 1t oversize, says
the New York Times. e
f Now, awning stanchions are not a
very important part In the equipment
Of q, battleship, and Gne more or less
makes no serious difference. This one
had gone overheard in about seventy
feet of water, and at about the same
time the crew was going to breakfast,
80 no effort was made to recover It,
But 1t SO happened that the surgeon
Of the vessel, Surgeon L. Won Wede-
kind, came on deck just then to smoke
an after breakfast cigar, and leaning
over the aft rail- discerned white OBJ
ject gllnmering In the depths beneath
Gazing more intently into the limpld
depth-the ship just then having swung
so as to form lee-the surgeon made
out the outlines of another object rest
ing on the sea bed some seventy feet
under foot, and one which took the
shape OF stout chest, iron-bound and
apparently incrusted with the barna-
cles Of, hundred years or more.
The surgeon called others to look,
. tive 0F 10 al
got a glimpse of the chest before the
sea breeze again blurred the surface
of the water. Then 1t was that re-
sourceful lieutenant constructed a
water glass, and through this made a
careful scrutiny Of the chest, and from
his observations judged that 1t had
rested there upward Of century or
more. The chest appeared to be of very
stout build, bound around with iron
bands and one end of 1t was deeply
sunk In the bed of the sea.
Admiral Davis, the flag officer who
flies his pennant from the Alabama.
was Informed of the discovery, as was
also Captain Comfy, who commands
the battleship. Both came to look, and
both heard with great interest the re-
port of the lieutenant who had In.
spected what is supposed to be some
sunken treasure chest None on board
could guess from what galleon it had
been flung overheard, but all were
quite certain that 1t contained many
fortunes in pieces of eight. That it held
vast treasure Of some sort all were CON
WINGED, and arrangements were being
made by which n diver could be sent
down to pass tackle around the chest
when the flagship Connecticut, anchor.
ed few miles away, made signal for
the Alabama to get her anchor and pro-
coed to the target range.
A half-dozen crate bars were hur-
riedly dashed together, long length
of line attached, and at the other end
a vinegar cask was made fast. This
was thrown overheard to mark the DO
sition Of the chest, and some day, very
soon, these men of the Alabama mean
to fit out an expedition at their own
expense and go down there, drag up
that box and see what 1t contains.
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over her shoulder, ;'else belize your

4
over her shoulder. ;''else belize you'll
get mired."
followed behind her till she stopped,
and then she turned and spoke to me,
| her arms hanging by her side.
Wont you answer straIght?" she
asked.
What, dear" answered, gazing
over the moor.
"Hey you bin playin' with me?" she
said straight out.
YOU'RE very dear FRIEND" I said,
putting my hand on her arm.
"Yeu anime can never be friends"
she answered, with hard eyes.
There was n pause.
"Oh, It's love--your love-I'm thirst
in for" she cried out suddenly. "Ban't
pretty enough for you?"
She threw off my hand and stood
swaylng before me, her hands stretched
out to me.
"you are very pretty" said, SOL
emily.
But you don't love mea' g
mo"
couldn't lie to her, but I longed to
say YES"
Yeu'm playin' with met" she said.
mo, not that" cried, upon nv
honor. never that. only never thought
you'd care for mel thought we'd be
just-good friends"
my hearts broke" she said simply.
Forgive mel said. catching her
dress as she passed me.
She tore 1t from my fingers.
Cant you leave me alone now?" she
cried, her eyes blazing.
"As you WISH" answered, longing
for the scene to end.
watched her figure to the. cairn Of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
Lightning Flashes.

Lightning flashes in storm are
found by an English observer to be
much less irregular In period than they
appear. Such storms have usually two
focl, sometimes three, from which the
flashes radiate, and the discharges from
each come at regular intervals. The
apparent Irregularity is due to the
varying rates Of the different centers.
In one storm noticed the two foci were
about mile and half apart, and in
an hour the northern center emitted
thirty flashes at intervals of fifteen,
thirty, forty-flve, sixty and ninety sec
onds, and the southern center gave six
teen flashes Mt intervals of seventeen,
thirty-foursand fifty-one seconds. An
other unexplained observation is that
just before each great flash there is
a momentary faint lighting up of the
sky in the stormy region.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10

and the mills with 1t, until they soon
were the largest in the world. In 1899
Mr.. Smith bought out the Pillsbury in
terests In the business. Since then the
big company has been composed of but
one man, G. A. Smith, who says he be-
leyes he owns more standing timber
today than any other one man. Either
Mr.. Smith or James B. Walker Of
Minneapolis owns most. 1t is ques-
ton OF which is entitled to the title Of
Largest" owner in the world.
When the vast woods of Minnesota
and Wisconsin began to disappear Mr.
Smith led the way to the wooded slopes
OF the Pacific, where he now owns more
millions of standing trees than his mills
can convert into lumber during his life
time. And he is well aware of this
fact. He admits 1t. and is buying more
every week, almost every nour. He de-
clares he will never sell a single acre
of timber land. His aim Is to secure
enough standing timber so that his sons
and their sons and grandsons may
make planks and shingles from the
family forests long after the rest of the
North American continent has been de-
nuded.
III 1873 Mr.. Smith married Johanna
Anderson. whose parents came from
Wermeland, Sweden. They have five
children.
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stones, and then the mist and the twl
light hid her,

light hid her.
lit cigarette and started off nv
self, but every step l foundered more
in the mlre, and in the end shot sud
denly up to my shoulders in the bog. /
didn't dare struggle much, was afraid
of going In farther, but 1 lifted up nv
voice heartily enough, though how far
could be heard don't know. II
seemed ages to me, and 1t must have
been several hours before saw light
flashing In the distance. called ont
frequently, and 1t gradually drew near.
er me, and presently lantern flashed
in my eyes
heard low laugh.
81 was told by Hetty some 'un were
mlred," he said, and then realized
1t was Peter Collins, "but 1 didn't az
who un be"
Pull me out" said, blinking In the
glare of the lantern.
"Wait WHILE" he answered; ''I be
master, you'd best keep that to mind. !"
What do you mean7" / demanded.
"only this, you'll stay where you be.
else" he stopped.
go on" I said.
elise you promise me never to see
Hetty again."
didn't want to see her again, you
may imagine, but didn't like giving
in to the fellow.
you wouldn't dare" rejoined.
Don't fox yourself" he retorted.
mo soul knows I've trapsed here
seven miles cross Dartymoor. You'll 20
in further yet before you'm missed"
He swung his lantern to and fro.
1t didn't take me long in the end to
make up my mind.
81 promise" said.
THAT'S enough" he answered. and
had me out In few moments.
He walked home almost In silence
but in the morning went to see him.
what for?" asked.
"He saved my life, and-well, some
how wasn't very proud Of what I'd
DONE"
looked at him approvingly.
II wouldn't have thought 1t Of you,
Rilly," I said
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10

swept about, one being that mutlny had
spread throughout the entire army and
that 1t would be impossible to check
the winegrowers' revolt. Following the
desertion of the Seventeenth Regiment,
half of the Eighty-irst Regiment, sent
against the mutineers. Joined them.
The One Hundredth Regiment also
mutinled. Fresh troops from the north
OF France were hurried into the dis
turbed district.
The authorities Of Narbonne issued
orders that specific routes should be
followed by those attending the funer-
| ais of the riot victims. The routes were
5entirely Isolated by troops In the hope
of preventing dangerous demonstra.
lions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10

JULIET v STRAUSS wound but 1t is loving pain. marred
by unkindness cruel recollection, but the old
friendship that return! The queer sound
of the once familiar and beloved voice when falls
the stiffness of hears is ke sweet bells tangled
Of tune
The man or woman who would be your friend II you
hadn't penny to fortune is the you want to
cherish whose abuse YOU should take clleerfuly, and
whom should not snub for those who love you when
you wear the and BELLS who care little enough
you when you no longer amuse them.
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They're married now,a he concluded,
knocking his pipe out, "and Collins
sometimes writes to me"
Writes" CALCULATED "why?"
II wanted an investment" replied
Billy Higginson awkwardly, 80 lent
him some money on his farm."-Phlla-
delphia Telegraph.
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one. Point of view.

II liked that play we saw last night
because 1t has happy ending"
"Why, man, the husband in 1t terror
Ices his wife into trembling and sllen,
submission and ends by killing hi,
mother-in-law!."
81 said it had a happy ending
Baltimore American.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
unreli.ble In.truction,

"Do you regard the stage as an edu-
cator9"
mot exactly" answered Miss Ca.
yenne. ut would be unfortunate If we
were to get our Ideas of society from
the problem play and our ideas Of cos.
tune from the musical comedy
Washington Star,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
The Term for 1t.

'My weight" said Huskie, as exact
ly $50 pounds"
you mean with all your heavy
clothes on?" queried Ascum.
"No, sir! That's my net weight"
met? Most folks would call that
gross"-Philadelphia Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
Serious business.

Gladys--I am going to buy an auto
mobile. and want you to go along
and help me select one. Cousin Jack
Not for me. little girl. Why, / even
wouldn't pick you out husband
Puck,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
MEN ARE TRUER FRIENDS THAN WOMEN.
BY Juliet v. Strauss,

1t is true, friendships are 50 seldom
dlsinterested that it is hard for those
who never had real one to believe
that they exist, but there Is genuine
affection sometimes, tie of natural
affinity, that 1t is a pity to have
broken.
The saddest thing In life is to have
outgrown love; the next is to have
outgrown friendship. We may bury
our friends out Of sight, and long
years of grief will not cure the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10

stubb-He complains that the street
cars in Chicago are too hot and stufry
during the summer.
PENN don't see why. Many of tho
Chicago street cars have fans in them.
4 stubb-Fans? What kind of fans1
Penn-Baseball fans,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10

air and escape the The intensity speed
istence marks the amount of friction The amount Of
permanent loss to the depends the ability of his
constitution to recuperate, and whether not the
friction be resumed before the collapsed tissues Of brain
and body completely rebuilt.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
IIlu sion,

Woman expecting call from he,
lover)-Oh, this waiting is something
terrible! can't stand 1t. (To maid. J
Sophie, go outside and ring the bell
three or four times. hard !-Translated
for Tales from Meggendorfer Blaetter
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
Breakers Ahead.

The average reader Of newspapers
pays very little attention to stock mar.
ket reports; but at this time these re-
ports are both interesting and instruct
i've, and deserve to be carefully scanned
by every voter. They are really more
interesting than the latest novel. A
few days ago we had the following,
statement: The entire country is suf-
fering from financial strain, and appre-
hension Is acute"
In confirmation of this statement,
there was an Important failure on that
-day-the Milliken failure, involving So
co., 0O-besides a severe decline in
several leading stocks, including Union
Pacific, Northern Pacific preferred, Pa
cific Mail, Reading, and others. On
that day, 1.-THE japanese war talk reach
ed the eminence of stock market fac.
tor" for the first time, because "the
present situation of affairs between
Japan and this country has dangers
that are recognized by all students Of
political affairs" So the reports say.
Perhaps it is the design of the enemies
of this country In Europe and Asia to
press this idea far enough to create
panic more destructive than actual
war. But whatever the cause-bad
weather, bad crops, prospective wars,
general cussedness of conditions under
Republican rule, the Socialistic tidal
wave caused by the HAYWOOD trial or
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10
C.binet and machine.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT spoke with good
sense and sound reason when he said,
some time ago, that every President Of
the United States ought to have in his
Cabinet at least one man whom be can
implicitly trust to go before the people
and explain, sympathetically and with
Intimate knowledge, the policies and
acts Of his administration.
1t has turned out unfortunately for
Mr.. Roosevelt that he chose for this
confidential duty Secretary Elihu Root,
OF the State Department, who in his
address before the Pennsylvania Socle-
ty of New York too lucidly expounded5
the centralizihg, imperlalistic and alto
gether revolutionary views of our Con-
stitution. laws and traditions advanced
In the last annual message to Congress-.
In this address Mr.. Root held up tho
mirror to the President faithfully, and
|tthe country is well satisfied to have
had this additional light upon the posi-.
ton in which the President stands
while directing his movements to CON
troll his party In Its coming national
convention and to dictate his SUCCESSOR.
But 1t is another thing to take half
the Cabinet or more. from their duties
In Washington, and send them on SPELL
binding tours of the country advocating
perpetuation of the policies which the
President has announced and his Sec
rotary OF State has explained.
The inspection tours prepared for
Secretaries Cortelyou, Garfield, Meyer,
Taft and for Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Hitchcock will enllven the sum.
mer dizziness of the off year, but they
will cheaper rather than dignity thu
important Offices which these gentlemen
are supposed to hold MS advisers of the
President.
Other Cabinet officers in more limias
ed numbers have gone upon the stump
and the crowds have turned out to hear
them, as the crowds all around the cir
cult will do this summer. But this, iti
is believed, will be the first time Cab
met officers have been sent out to per-
form political work of a kind hithertn
monopolized by the practical politi-
clans" Of party.
Though Secretary Taft, with the adj
vice and approval Of President Roose-
velt, denounced the machine methods
and underground practices Of Boss Cox,
1t will, 1t seems, be part Of the duties
of Mr.. Roosevelt's summer tourists, in
their inspections" to round up thu
Office holders and harness them tightly
to the administration chariot.
The Postofflce Department seemed de
graded into aspolitical machine when
Mr.. Hitchcock was sent among theSpost-
masters and other Republican once,
holders for the purpose OF binding
Southern delegations mostly negroes.
they will be-to the Interests Of Mr..
Taft or any other, candidate the Presi-:
dent may back in next yeas's conven-
ton. The Cabinet will be thrice scam
dalized when the Treasury and the In
terror Departments are ordered to SIM
liar machine work.
President Roosevelt Is arduous and
impetuous. Instinctlvely he grasps the
first fundamentally that comes to
hand. A President of nicer scruple
would know. instinctively, that mem.
bers of the Cabinet are not the proper
tinstrumentalities to be used in corrall.
ing his partisans for political con.
vention.-St. Louis Republic. II
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The loudly boosted activities Of the
Administration In relation to the Har-
riman case are greatly beclouded by
oscillations and delays. II Hartman
were to set about investigating the
Administration he would hardly hitch
a team Of snalls to his car.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10

No wonder there is difficulty in se-
curing firenen for our warships since
the scandal about the conspiracy In
furnishing defective boiler tubes has
been exposed and the plugging of rivet
holes with wood and soap.
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inals nearly doubled.
The signal dimnution in Australia may be explained
the ground of its social reforms Tor the pro-
etarlan there stands better economically than official
in Europe. Another lies in the scattering of the
people In isolated outlying farms and the rule of pas
toral life which la little predsposed to crime and,
finally, in the continual uninterrupted warfare that is
fwaged against the corruption of the young.
Further than this, many judges and attorneys, who
feel themselves pledged to n1Ict punishment
for the crime, will find another way and transform the
social revenge into healing which will be far
more efhcacuus than punishment.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-10

As Democrats we must submit to
having been classed by the President
as undesirable citizens long before
"My Dear Hartman" was an invited
guest at the White House.
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TO LESSEN cR1M1NAL1TY.
BY cesare Lombroso.

From material submitted to me came the
evidence that crimes in Australia are dimin-
fishing both in number and in gravity. How
can this marked decrease Of crime be ex-
planned, with all the statistics elsewhere being
in contradiction? For even In Germany, one
of the most advanced of European nations,
one sees crime and dereliction steadily In
creasing sees the number of renegade Grim