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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

Shell wish I knew how I could
make you extremely happy, dear Karl.
He--Well, write to your father and
ask him to double your dowry.- Meg
Gendorfer Batter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
An EDITORS Opinion On
The Chicago Stock Show.
NOVEMBER soth TO DECEMBER It'll.

"A CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS.
The International Live Stock Elk.
position is the clearinghouse of all
the live stock shows of the continent.
fla prize.winner at other shows be
Of sufficient merit to have the
slightest prospect of winning an In
transitional premium. it is sure to be
there. The International show is,
therefore, a contest of champions,
and the ribbons won are held in the
highest esteem. The students con-
tests originated by President j. A.
Spoor of the Union Stock Yards,
and enlarged upon by the generosity
Of Mr.. j. Ogden Armour, are alone
sufficient to place the Chicago In
ternational at the head and front of
live stock educational institutions.
The fat hog, sheep and cattle ex-
hibits surpass anything else of the
kind on the face Of the earth. The
Chicago international is the one
show which no self-respecting stock
man can afford to miss. The Inter-
national show Of 1907 opens on No
vember 30th and continues to De-
cember 7th. Note the sales of pure
bred cattle and sheep advertised in
this paper. National Stock Grower
and Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20

ONE WAY COLONIsT RATES
To west and north west California
points and Mexico City, Mexico, vie
l. c. r. r. These rates are about fif-
Teen dollars lower than the regular
March LIST to April 3Oth inclusive and
September LIST to October 3fst inclusive,
For further particulars and for rates to
other intermediate points apply to the
undersigned H.G. PIERCE. AIT.
5tf
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
Pneumonia Follows a Cold.

Pneumonia Follows a Cold.
but never follows the use of Foley's
Honey and Tar. 1t stops the coug Oh,
heals and strengthens the lungs
and prevents pneumonia.
& Philip.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
Tho Old suez canat

bI9 viz SdVG SdUdts
Few people are aware that there Ind
been canal across the isthmus Of
Suez before De Lesseps ever conceived
the idea Of his monumental enterprise.
A canal across the isthmus was actual
ly constructed GOO years before the
Christian era and served us n water.
way for small vessels until about 1000
years ago, when 1t was allowed to fall
into disuse. Napoleon revived the idea
and instructed one of the great engl-
neers of his daysto Investigate the mat
ter, but though a favorable report was
presented to him, in which NJ. Lepere
recommended the restoration of the
canal, the work itself was never touch.
ed. When NJ. de I4esseps undertook
the task of cutting the canal he thought
at first to follow the idea Of Napoleon,
and restore the ancient waterway, but
this plan was abandoned and the pres.
ent plan determined upon.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-20
D. Ngttt I!lIA.irgr.

The Regular and Reliable t1hi-
cago Specialist, who has visited
Manchester, every month since
1901, will be at the Clarence
House,
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Tuesday,, Dec. 10

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The Nebraska Independent

alton and announcement from my
fellow-citiZens all over the country,
and also in the consciousness that
all the political parties in Nebraska
last year were compelled by the force
of public sentiment to pledge them
selves to carry out the specific re-
forms / battled for two years ago in
my race for governor What We want
is these reforms for the people and
not any office for any individual Or
the supremacy of any political party
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pendent will continue to be an abso-
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speed-yous" given me by the readers
of this paper.
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! have sold The Independent to The
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action because | find that ! cannot
give the time to the paper that
should and at the same time attend
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Will go east to engage in business
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be additionally difficult for me to run
the paper.
During the time that | have owned
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it champion of the peoples rights
as against the greed and corruption
OF the corporations and other selfish
Interests that are continually endeav-
oring to steal away the government
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but | have honestly tried to seek out
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SOLID OR vENEERED, WHICH?

The Nebraska legislature has the
external appearance of virtue. Whether
or not it is composed of genuine ma
terial or is simply wearing a mask of
pretense and hypocrisy will soon be
known. The republicans have an over
whelming majority in both branches,
and are consequently able to redeem
every pledge made by the party in con-
vention and on the rostrum. Will
they do so? Let us hope they will for
the good Of the state
The Independent believes in the
honesty of purpose and good inten-
tions of an overwhelming majority of
the voters of all political parties. The
hope of popular government will have
disappeared from the earth whenever
any considerable minority of the vot-
ers of great state can be found to
violate their conscience in an election.
The rank and file of the republican
party are honest men, having only the
good of the state at heart. The Off
GERS that were elected by the party
last autumn, were elected upon a
pledge to enact certain and specific
laws in absolute good faith. The peo-
pie expect specific performance of the
pledges made without equivocation or
evasion of any kind whatever. Will
they get it? If they do the party
will have a just claim to the future
confidence and support of the voters
But if it be found that the party lead
ers were insincere in their profession
of reform, or are faint hearted in per-
Torrance, then, in that case the party
will pay the forfeiture in the next
election.
When the voters are lethargic and
Indifferent upon issues the party spirit
dominates the mind and they are in.
dulgent toward their representatives
In Office. But when they are aroused
The independent., 1907-01-17
CANNOT ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY

The minority in the state legislature
cannot escape responsibility for fail
ure to enact the laws demanded by the
people, unless they will be able to
show that they exhausted every re-
source at their command to secure
such enactments. 1t will not do to
shirk any of the duties of legislator
on the ground that the responsibility
for legislation rests upon the majority
1t is the duty of the minority to pre-
pare and introduce such bills as they
themselves would enact into law, if
they were in the majority. To do less
than this is to fail in the discharge
of duty
1t affords the minority no sufficient
excuse for Incidence or neglect of
duty that they are not adequately rep
resented on the committees intrusted
by the majority with the preparation
of bills. They must bear in mind
that all bills must pass the commit
tee of the whole before being put upon
their passage in either house. If the
minority are thoroughly prepared with
amendments to offer in the commit
tee of the whole, they can challenge
the majority party to furnish enough
votes for the amendments they offer
to perfect the bill and strengthen it
in every essential particular. Upon
their amendments they can at the
propert time demand roll call and
make record to go to the people
with.
But in case they neglect to prepare
and offer such amendments, they will
forfeit the right to even offer adverse
criticism upon such measures as the
majority may see fit to enact into law.
A legislative body is place for work,
strenuous work. And the minority,
knowing the demands of the people
as they do, by intelligent and unremit-
ting effort, may be able to force the
adoption of their amendments and thus
improve the character of the laws that
finally pass.
1t sometimes happens that minori-
ties in legislative bodies adopt a
course of negation and criticism, but
such course is always regarded as evil
dence of bad faith, and is never pro-
ductiye of good either from a party
standpoint, or any other
This country is entering upon a
period of constructive legislation for
both the states and the nation. In
dolence, or inefficiency in a legislator
at such a time is objectionable. Op-
portunity is ever open TO the minority
to voice the demands of the people.
which If they succeed in doing with
greater precision and force than Is
done by the majority, they win laurels
individually and strengthen their
party.
Note the work accomplished by the
great IaFollette. practically single.
handed and alone In the last sessions
OF the United States senate. Every
bushel OF grain that Is marketed this
The independent., 1907-01-17

the extreme and are incapable of con
doning a betrayal of the trust they
reposed in their representatives
The members of the majority will
be wise if they remember that in the
last election the party took advanced
ground and succeeded in convincing a
majority that the new leaders were
right, and that the old leaders were
in league with the corporations that
had been plundering them for years.
The rank and file of the party respond
ed to the call of the new leaders and
hurled the old grizzled veterans Of
the party from place and power.
Absolute good faith alone will give
the present leaders any future stand
ing with the men to whom they owe
In61F present pUSlIlOHS.
What do the voters expect, and on
what do they insist? First, effective
legislation that will save them at least
ten million dollars per year in ex-
cessive railway charges. Second, that
the free railroad pass evil will be
abolished root and branch, leaving no
loopholes through that pernicious evil
can be no longer practiced. This can
not be done without outlawing the
newspaper mileage contract, and the
half rate fare for ministers of the
gospel. There is no honest reason
why newspapers and ministers should
receive subsidies from the railroads.
And we assert that the newspaper
contract is given as subsidy
to the press and that the half fare to
preachers is intended as subsidy
Just as much so as the free passes
that are given to executive legislative
and judicial officers of the govern
ment No half way measure will do.
The free pass in all of it's forms is
not only intended as bribe, but it
has proved to be efficient as such gen
orally. The free pass must go, root
and branch.
The next thing that the people de-
mand is the enactment of state wide
primary law for the nomination of
candidates for office. Such law to be
so framed that it will include the feat
ures that have been found good in
other states such as Arkansas, Wis
consin and Texas where primary laws
are now in force and effect. The
question of railroad taxation will un-
doubtedly receive proper attention.
But the people will jealously watch the
action of their members of the legis-
lature upon legislation effecting rail
road rates, passes and taxation. and
in an especial manner will they note
the attitude of members on the pri-
mary election law.
The people generally regard the re-
publican reforners as unseasoned tim
ber liable to warp, crack or twist when
put to the test of any considerable
strain. II behooves them to prove
that their professions of reform are
The independent., 1907-01-17

ment and railroad extortion their ca
reer will be as short as it will be in
glorious
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-11-26

to any man for any reason. And he
was doing it for mere money-to try
to save, not his fortune, but only an
imperiled part of it. IF Anita could
see him now!" | thought.
To him l said, the more coldly be-
cause did not wish to add to his
humiliation by showing him that |
pitied him: Il can only repeat, Mr..
Langdon, you will have to excuse me.
have given you all the time l can
spare"
His eyes were shifting and his
hands trembling as he said: Il will
transfer control of the Coal combine
to you"
His tones, shameful as the offer
they carried, made me ashamed for
him. For money-just for money!
And / had thought him man. If he
had been a self-deceiving hypocrite
like Roebuck, or a frank believer in
the right of might like Updegran,
might possibly, in the circumstances,
have tried to release him from my
net. But he had never for an instant
deceived himself as to the real nature
of the enterprises he plotted, pro
NOTED and protited by; he thought it
smart" to be bad, and he delighted
in making the most cynical epigrams
on the black deeds of himself and his
associates.
Better sell out to Roebuck," I sug
gested. Il control all the Coal stock
| need
Il don't care to have anything
further to do with Roebuck," Langdon
answered. I've broken with him"
when a man lies to me, said /
"he gives me the chance to see just
how much of fool he thinks l am
and also the chance to see lust how
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-11-26

make 1t up with the Ellerslvs? 7
fancied so, and told Sam you'd simnly
think me meddlesome. The other
matter is the Travellers club. I've
5moothed things out there. I'm going
TO put you up and rush you through"
No. thanks said /. 1t seemed
incredible to me that | had ever cared
about that club and the things it rep
resented, as | could remember l un-
doubtedly did care. 1t was like look
Ing at an outgrown toy and trying to
feel again the emotions it once ex-
cited
i assure you, Matt, there won't be
the slightest difficulty" His manner
was that Of man playing the trump
card in desperate game-he feels II
can not lose, yet the stake is so big
that he can not but be little ner-
vous.
Il do not care to join the Travellers
club" said /, rising. Il must ask
you to excuse me. l am exceedingly
busy"
a huSh apptdltu III MS cheeks dn0
deepened and spread until his whole
body must have been afire. He seat
ed himself You know what I've
come for" he said sullenly, and hum
bly,, too.
All his life he had been enthroneC
upon his wealth. Without realizinf
it, he had claimed and had received
Difference solely because he was rich
He had thought himself, in his owl
person, most superior; now, he founC
that like silly child he had beer
standing on chair and crying: SEE
how tall | am" And the airs, tn,
cynicism, the graceful condescension
which had been so becoming to him
We're now as out of place as crown
and robes on a king taking a swim
ming lesson.
What are your terms, Blackjack
Don't be too hard on an old friend,
said he, trying to carry off his franI
plea for mercy with a smile.
| should have thought he would Gu
his throat and jump off the Batter,
wall before he would get on his knee
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-11-26

ment But heaven knows l never
dreamed of this, and meant every
day to hunt her up; but am still SO
feeble"
He flung himself into his carriage
and ordered the coachman to drive for
life to the house where he had so
nearly passed from life. Coachee de
clined to go nearer than the length of
a square from the pest-house, and for.
getful of weakness, Mac strobe the
distance till he reached the door. And
there in the very same room where
she had held him back from the gates
of death, lay-not Mother Anser, no;
but oh. Cod there lay Louise Selwin.
delirious and raving necessarily for
him
"Oh. Louisel my lost start" cried
Mac, finging himself down in an &C.
stacy of grief.
Slowly but surely she recovered,
and at last one day when the white
frost had come, like a snowy
winged angel of deliverance, and borne
the plague away. they were quietly
married, and went steaming up on the
bosom Of the broad Mississippi to
Visit Mother McCracken.
Leaning over the guards just out
side their stateroom, looking at the
moonlight on the waters like thou
sand fairies in their wake dancing in
their bridal trail, with voices secured
from the ears Of their neighbors by
the ceaseless throbbing of the engine
below, Mac said:
How blest am, my beautiful start
/ To think l dared be blasphemous
enough to believe you frivolous and
heartless, you, my dear angel. But
I where on earth did you pick up that
outlandish name, Mother Anserg
why, you gave it to me. Don't
you remember? You did not call me
an angel then. but something with
wings, all the same. Anser is Latin
for goose, you know. and | was dread
fully afraid your scholarly eye would
detect me, too, and that is the rea-
son l ran away as soon as you regain
! ed consciousness.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-11-26

ser, and nobody there suspected the
erstwhile bright and winsome thing
that was hidden within the bent fig
ure hobbling in by the aid of a stick.
The blazing southern sun seemed
scorching into the very marrow as
Louise hung breathlessly over the be-
loved sufferer cooling the fevered
brow, while he babbled necessarily OF
mother"
He has cast me out of his thought"
she sadly mused as she kept the large
palm-leaf fan swaying over him. He
has never mentioned my name once"
Water" pleaded the patient, and
Immediately she took the cup. and.
lifting him in her arms, held him
against her breast while he drank.
Something in her touch seemed to in
spire him with half recognition, for
as she laid him gently back upon the
pillow. shaking and turning it over
at the same time, he murmured:
"Oh, Louise, my lost star, how dark.
how very dark it is without youi"
Instantly her lips were pressing his.
unheeding the danger, and that kiss
was the kiss of death. But it seemed
to be life to him, for he fell at once
into a sweet sleep, during which the
fever passed away, and when he
awoke there was reason in his eyes,
Who are your" he asked, when he
first saw her with seeing eyes.
Il am Mother Anser,' she replied.
And the attending physician, who
was present, added: And the person
to whom, under God. you owe your
life more than anybody else"
When he awoke again, another
nurse was beside him, and in his deep
thankfulness for this renewed lease OF
life, Mother Anser for a time passed
/ out of his mind. He grew stronger
day by day, till in fortnight he walk
ed the streets-feebly it is true, but en-
tirely recovered.
Did you know, Mr.. McCracken, that
old woman who so cleverly nursed you
is down." said one of his clerks, one
morning soon after Here is her name
in the list Mother Anser,' that was
it. was it not?"
Yes; oh, my Cod What an in
CRATE / am To let business perpIexi
ties make me forget her for one mo
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-11-26

ever. certainly as self-assured. But l
could now. beneath that manner | mad
once envied. see the puny soul win
its brassy glitter of the vanity OF
luxury and show. l had been some
what afraid of myself-afraid the
sight of him would stir up in me a
tempest of jealousy and hate; as
looked. realized that did not Ano"
my own nature. she does not !oFo
this man." | thought. IF she ulu y,
could she would not be the woman
love. He deceived her ineXperlehce
as he deceived mine.
what can I do for your" said 10
him politely. much as If he We're d
stranger making an untimely inter
ruption. 49,,
NV look had disconnected him; my
tone threw him into confusion lou
keen out of the way, now that you We
become famous he began with d
hating but heroic attempt at MS Gus
tomary easy superiority. Are you
living mn in Connecticut, too? sam
EuereIv tells me your wife is stopping
there with old Howard Forres'e'
sam wants me to use my good offlces
in making it up between you two ana
her family. -.
was completely taken aback oy
This cool ignoring of the real situation
between him and me- Impudence or
ignorance?--I could not DECIDE, !.
seemed impossible that Anita had not
told him; yet it seemed Impossible
too that he would come to me II she
had told him. Have you any DUST
ness with me?" said l.
His eyelids twitched neryously' ana
- adjusted his lips several times be-
fore he was able to say;
You and your wife don't care TO
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-11-26
XXI.
LANGooN COMES TO THE SUR.
FACE

! shall not estimate the vast sums
1t cost the Roebuck-Langdon clique to
maintain the prices of National Coal.
and so give plausibility to the fiction
that the public was buying eagerly.
In the third week of my campaign.
Melville was so deeply involved that
he had to let the two others take the
whole burden upon themselves.
In the fourth week, Langdon came
to me.
The interval between his card and
himself gave me chance to recover
from my amazement When he en-
tered he found me busily writing.
Though | had nerved myself, it was
several seconds before | ventured to
look at him There he stood, prob.
ably as handsome, as fascinating as
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-11-26
e. DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS. 4U1bor oF THO


she wishes" said l, ignoring his ques.
ton. Then come to me-"
Ills look made me shake hands
with MIN. AS | did it, we both re.
membered the last time we had
shaken hands-when he had the roses
Ior my homecoming with my bride
IL seemed to me I could smell those
roses.