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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
Al sen.fcIs Hero.

No man is hero while seaslck. La
fayette was sent by Washington and
Congress to France to ask further sup
plies of men and money for the Ameri-
eau colonies. He sailed from Boston
in the frigate Alliance. and passage
had to be cut for his ship through the
ice. Off the Newfoundland banks the
ship was assailed by terrible tenn
pest. which threatened destruction, and
Lafayette was very seasick. His aid
de-camp, the Chevalier de Pontibaud.
who relates the incident In his memoirs,
heard him soliloquizlng thus on the
hopelessness of the situation and the
emptiness, OF glory:
"Diable!Nq have done well, certainly.
AT my time Of llfe-barely twenty
years of age-witf,my name, rank end
fortune, and after having married Mile.
de Noailles, to leave everything ant
serve as breakfast for codfsh!"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
Two Pictures Upper Line Show Winter Homes
Railway In the World; Reindeer Horn Seller.
Two Pictur.

Pictures
Lapps Low-Lapand Women Lapland Most North
ern Railway in the World; Reindeer Horn Seller.
smallest inhabitants
and
native Altogether
height from
and although
they do thrive a
The
long exist Its milk flesh him with food
shaped Sled will swiftly draw the sled load
will thus burdened
in Lapand For the these semiwid
Ave
Arctic regions Deer Laand bays been taken asa they
ass aouFsBns
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
what sfck,ni.y s,ood tso..

What Mckinney stood For.
William Mckinley, twenty-fifth Pres
ident Of the United States, who was
born at Niles In Trumbull county,
Ohio. slxty-five years ago yesterday,
should be best remembered In Ameri-
Gun history for the one policy Of his
administration which difrerentlates
him from all his Republican predeces-
sors In the presidency.
PERSONALLY, we have every reason. to
believe all the Republican Presidents
from Lincoln on have deplored the Sec
tional bitterness which attended and
followed the Civil War. Though attain.
Ing the presidency oh the issue which
caused the war, Lincoln conducted that
struggle more in sorrow than In an.
ger-wlth charity for all, with malice
toward none. Grant had ever askindly
feeling for the South. but owing to en-.
vironment his policy Of reconstruction
was the worst thing that ever happen-
ed to that section.
Mckinley was the first Republican
President who was SO situated that he
could steadily pursue the aim of effac.
Ing the lines Of Civil War secttonaIisni.
From the beginning OF his first term he
sought to accomplish this end in many
tactful ways. His party leaders ac.
ouiesced because, both In the North
and in the South, the old bitterness
was dying out and because astute Re-
publican politicians IN the East began
I to see clearly the danger OF driving the
South into political alliance With the
West
1t was the Spanish War. beginning d
year after McKiniey's first Inaugural.
ton, which crowned his nonsectional
policy with complete success. When
ex-Confederates like Fitzhugh Lee and
Joseph Wheeler were given high COM
mand In the army Of the United States
no additional proof was needed that
the prior war was over.
In the economic history Of the coun-
try Mckinley will, of course, be best
remembered as the author Of the tariff
net of 1880 and as the President who
signed the Dingley act. But 1t should
never be forgotten tint he did not
approve the last-named measure in the
sense In which 1t has been enforced.
1t was no part Of his intention that
the American people should be robbed
as they have been by the Dlngley
schedules.
Dingley standpatters like Aldricii
and Cannon take the name Of McKin-
ley In vain when they claim him as an
exemplar. He signed the act with the
well-known understanding that Its
rates were to apply only to countries
whose commercial attitude toward us
should,be unfriendly, while special rect
Fprocity treaties were to be negotiated
with all countries that should prove
commercially friendly. Mckinley,
though an ardent protectlonist was
not an advocate of robber TARIFF
st. Louis Kcpublic
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

e. rs /. - ~.
with suffering. These are the chapters
that tell Of a weakened and divided
Congress, full of pickering, full Of poli-
ticians, as Congresses were in the begin
ming, are now and evermofe shall be-a
Congress that halted and stammcred and
hesitated. that voted confidence but no
provisions, and allowed men to pledge
their private fortunes for cause that
should have been dearer than their life
blood. There are chapters that tell of
the schemes and Vaccinations of Wash
ington's enemies-of the men who covet-
ed his place and desired to superscde him.
You cannot read dry eyed how he begged
for stores for his dying men at Valley
Forge. how he walked among them, freez-
ing for lack of houses and blankets, and
dashed the tears from his own eyes as he
saw the blood tracks over the snow. Such
man was the Father of America.-Co
San Francisco Chronicle
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
THE CRIME OF WORRY.
HOY This Deadly Epidemic Under.
mines the Health

HOY This Deadly Epidemic Under-
mines the Health.
Worry is the epidemic OF the day
an epidemic more widespread and dead.
~ than any pestiIence that has ever af-
ficted this long suffering world.
Everybody worries nowadays. The
man worries about his business, his
family relations, and SO on. The won.
an worries about her household. her
children. her clothes. Worst OF ali,
even little children do not escape wor-
ry-thelr lessons, their examinations,
their little failures and punishments at
home or school.
In order to realize the deadly effects
Of worry we must remember that all
the vnrious activities of the body,
breathing, digestion. blood circulation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

however, Just as direct and as disas-
trous.
Worry is durable disease, but he
who would cure it-must cure himself
First of all, he must realize that
worry is never of the slightest use, but
that, on the other hand, by preventing
clear thinking, worry makes matters
worse.
So-stop worrying. Think, plan, de-
eide, act. Then await the result.
Thought, decision, action-these are for
man. Results are with God.-W. R. g.
Latson, NJ. d.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
Cornell Grow. Better,

Along with the growing power Of
Cornell in athletic sponts the CON
duct Of the students Is also improving.
This may surprise the educators who
think that the more athletics the more
moral deterioration.
Just recently at faculty meeting
at Cornell 1t was voted to do away
with the committee on student con.
duct and the committee on student or
ganizations and to create new com.
mittee combining their functions. The
reason was that so little business was
coming before either that one COM
mittee could do the work without any
trouble. Dean Crane also made this
explanation:
Practically the only duties Of the
committee on student conduct this
fall have been to consider a few
cases Of fraud in preliminary ex.
aminers. Cases OF disorderly con.
duct are becoming more and more
rare
"The introduction of the honor sys.
TEN into the colleges of law, agri-
culture and civil engineering may be
responsible for the decrease in cases
of fraud reported, as these three COL
leges take note OF and dispose of their
own cases but l think the improve.
ment is mainly attributable to the
growing sentiment of the students
against cheating and dishonesty
New York Sun.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

)Gcupf all the holidays in the calendar
|mal jhshington's birthday is dearest to pat
Brb pts, for on bleak 22d of February, in
year 1892, was born the man with
IT whom the American commonwealth
9rePuld have been impossible, or, at the
century delayed. 1t is even
~ tier day than the Fourth of July, for
~ ht is but the celebration of the day
len the Liberty Bell announced that
Watependence had been proclaimed. Itsis
M VITO say fine things-it is only lit
~ more difficult TO think them; but to
Carr; them-ah, that is another matter.
\ -shington was man who made his
Ahnrls into realities. He was the first
fierican-un questionably the greatest
ale. No President since has excelled his
Yty patriotism. HeSe is man greater
ian kings-a man whl, declined crown
nd who set the finest example in history
4 Eben he toasted Presto s-elect Adams at
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
Sioux City Journal.
NJ farewell dinner and retired to Mount
Vernon, genuinely glad to relapse into

hprivate life again.
It Is not merely as conqueror of
gtyrants that Washington still lives in. the
hearts of good Americans In all his
Glory there is no character SO fine or rare.
Those who read faces say that Washing
tons mental makeup was of the most
violent and dangerous passions, all under
perfect control. From youth he was
marked, for he came of a masterful moth
er and had inherited her traits to de-
gree. No other could have pulled the
faltering, bedraggled Continentals through
the struggle with the British and their
hired mercenaries MS did this strappinV
Virginian, who was, indeed, the Father
Of his Country, since he and he alone
was It's creator. ~
1t is a common thing in these later
days to glorify our Revolutionary fore
bears. Everybody who wore the blue
and buff is presumed to have been rum
ming over with patriotism and desire to
defend home and country. The patriot
farmers have been much sung, but the
songs never tell how they went back to
their farms after having been ..embat.
tied" and proceeded to watch the cam.
paign from afar and criticise Its every
move. Students of Continental history
know how the militia fed at the first fire !:
how the innkeepers kept their paint
brushes ready changing George III. on
their signs into George Washington, nc.
coDding to which troops were the nearer.
The turncoat farmers were as willing to
sell feed and forage to the Invading red
coats as to the ragged Continentals-
more willing, in fact, since the redcoats
were backed with good red gold, while
the Continentals had only the depreciat-
ed currency Of the gasping Republic. oh,
At Is great history to read, the splendid
fight of the infant Republic against a
mother country strong and proud and
fighting for prestige, as she is fighting
now. But there are pages in it, torn
and blood stained, and not SO fine-pages
where, II you be a good American, your
own tears blot the pages that are thick
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
QUEER BIRD DEATHS.

Hawks dashing at a bird on the
ground will forget to put on their
brakes in time to prevent a fatal col.
lision with the earth, and the same
result occurs when they try to over
haul a small bird in the vicinity of q
wall.
For barn owls there is no contriv.
ance more perilous than an open
water tank near farm buildings round
(which these useful BlraIare wont to
fsrage for rats and mid continues a.
writer in the Minneapolis Tribune
Seeing its own image Rejected In
the moonlit water. the owl imagines,
apparently, this is an acquaintance.
and going. as 1t were. to shake hands,
finds a watery grave.
I knew man who took four young
jays from their nest, reared them till
they could feed themselves, and had
become very tame-every one of the
four got drowned" three while ex.
ploring the contents OF open water
vessels; the fourth actuallg managed
the deed In a saucer, so intoxicated
was it with the joy OF bathing.
Small birds are not infrequently to
be found hanging dead by nest build.
ing materials, and sometimes during
toilet operations they get their head
and neck fatally locked between tho
stiff quilts of their wing feathers.
wonder how many hundreds Of
young pheasants annually find death
In the meshes Of wire MEETINGS. Even
though they are well able to fly over
obstacles ten times its height, little
pheasants are so utterly devoid Of
'gumption" that they will try to jump
through netting, taking not the slight.
est warning from the bodies Of broth
ers and sisters who have hanged
themselves thus.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

Myths Of the most bewildering kind
spring up and flourish and often bear a
ripe harvest in the minds Of ignorant
Mohammedan populations during times
of crisis. A saint or two can work
wonders among them at the psyche
logical moment, and saints Of the most
truculent type are as common in Mo-
rocco as blackberries are In England
These people have no ideas Of evidence
or OF probability. Though they lie
freely themselves, their credullty in the
word of holy man is boundless. Lon
don Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

Have you a single wish that re-
mains ungratlfied7" asked the indul-
gent father 80
Yes" answered the daughter, who
was beginning to carry weight for age.
81 am 30 years old to-day, and wish
You and mother had postponed your
wedding at least ten years."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
Republican Di..xreement.

It would seem to be as difficult for
the bankers and Congress to get togeth-
er on a currency bill us 1t is for the
Taft and Foraker partisans toSagree on
a division of spolls In Ohio. The cur
.rency commission Of the American
Bapkers' Association met a few days
ago and rejected al the various asset
currency plans now before Congress,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
FULL INFORMATION

A small boy, who had recently pass.
ed his fifth birthday, was riding on
suburban car with his mother, when
they were asked the customary qucs.
ton: How olG is the boy?" After
being told the correct age. which
did not require fare, the conductor
passed on to the next passenger.
The boy sat quite still, as II pond.
ering over some question. and then.
concluding that full information had
not been given, called loudly to the
conductor, then at the other end of
the car:
And mothers thirty-one!"-Moth.
cr's Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
Naturally.

Now" said the teacher, suppose
you had a dime and lost 3 cents, how
much would you have -
Pardon me-" Interrupted the pre-
else Boston boy, "but If 1t was dime
I should have had to get 1t changed
first. -Philadelphia Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

DO you think that unconscious spell
which Miss Sharp had at the ball was
a swoon?'
No; ! am sure it was feint."
What do you mean?n
"She had declared her intention Of
making sensation at the ball, and
think she was like her intention-she
wanted to be carried OUT
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

Stranger What sort of an establish
ment Ia that across the way?
Natlye-Oh, It's asplace where draw
Ing, music and dancing are taught.
stranger-Ahza young ladies' SEM
mary, suppose?
Natiye-No; dental college.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
MIl.tools HI. Man.

Green-"I undertook to make Elm
eat his words, but"
Brown-"But what?''
Green-"He turned out to be one 81
those chaps who would rather fight
Z than eat.''
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

Tommy-"I'm going to be the boss
of my own house when I'm man,
Mrs. Henpeck CHS mother That's
whit your father thought when he vas
your age, too"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
officially until the last Of the ensuing
sAMUELpn

April.
One way of disseminating news in
Revolutionary days was by crying it
on the streets, and particular mention
Is made in history of one jealous watch
man OF Dutch antecedents who cried
aloud In the streets of Boston:
Twelve o'clock, and ALL is g-o-o-t,
and CORVALLIS t-a-k-e-n!p
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

! The Boston Girl-See how this Their.
mometer Is falling.
The New York Girl-Of course
You're standing right ,in- front of it
Yonkers Statesman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

How did your son get Along at G

How did your son get along at COL
lege7.
"Well,s replied Farmer Haystack, ut
certainly made new man of him."
Indeed! In what way7''
Hes forgotten everything he ought
to know about the farm and learned
everything he ought not to know about
the city,"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
A FELLOW Feelinr.

De Quiz-Do you know anything
about yachts?
De whiz-No more than l do about
golf.
he Ouiz-Shake
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
THE COIN LEMON GAMr

THE COIN LEMON GAME.
Any number may play this game.
Two of them stand aside, Joining
hands like the arch In London bridge:
they represent the squeezer. The
other players are the lemons, ami
they stand at some distance from
the squeezer.
The sQueezer sings:
Some lemons want for the freez-
er,
Come, juicy ones. come to the
squeezer."
They keep on singing this refrain
while the lemons creep nearer and
nearer. Suddenly one OF them darts
through the arch.
II the squeezer is quick enough
the lemon is caught and squeezed
and stands aside. out of the game
while the squeezer sings:
"A Juicy lemon, squeeze him dry,
Well have another by and BY"
But II the lemon gets through UNI
caught, the sQueezer sings:
See. the rascal's passed US by!
To catch another we must try"
If the squeezer fails three times, It
Is worn out. and new one must
take Its place. In this way the game
can be kept up for long time, for IL
is seldom that all the lemons gets
caught-Home Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

When News Travelled slowly.
In washlngtou's time news Travelled
slowly, and although he was elected
President Of the United States on
March 4, 1850, he did not learn of it
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
strictIy Apnronriate.

strictly Appropriate.
Gladys-Why is Miss Strlctleigh
wearing only half-mournlng for her
brother?
Gwendolyn-He was only her half
brother, you know.-Baltimore Amer.
lean.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

OF oil the songs published. one in
RRiInElestty,AYe a ttttaatins real popularity.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

Mrs. Arson Jones, widow of the
last President of the republic Of
Texas. is still alive at Austin.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
THE CUBS PUNISHMENT.
Sir Bruin sat racking his brains ono

THE CUBS PUNISHMENT.
Sir Bruin sat racking his brains ono
day
In the midst Of the forest scrub,
To think what punishment best would
His smallest and widest cub.
For Cubby this morning had been so
That his parents We're both in de-
spair.
He fatty refused to wash his face,
AS well as to brush his hair.
He pinched his mothers stub OF a
tail,
And he chewed his sisters ear;
He ate every smitch of the breakfast
up
And greeted his pa with leer.
He played every trick his brain could
devise,
Till his mother said to his dad:
"l'll leave to you to punish. my dear,
For me he's entirely too bad"
And what do you think was the pun
ishment that
Sir Bruin prescribed for his SON?
Said he: IF you wish to penave
like a boy
I'LL see that you really are one"
So he hurried the cub to the barber
shop
And shaved him so close and clean
You never would think to look at him
He ever a bear had been.
And all of the cubs in the forest wild
Refused to play with him then.
So I think whenever his coat grows
long
He'll never be bad again.-May
Barclay in the Washington Star.
MAKING ASSURANCE DoUBLY
SURE.
A 7-year-old had a great appetite
for buckwheat cakes, and could stow
away an amazing number. One morn
Ing his grandfather. who was watch.
ing the performance, asked:
Have you ever in your life had
all the buckwheat cakes that you
could eat?"
Yes. sir" replied the boy. Lots
of times I've felt had enough"
How do you tell when you have
had enough ?"
~ Just keep on eating until get
pain, and then eat one more to
make sure."-Christian Register.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

ers think Of proverb. Tne number
of words in the proverbs must divide
evenly into the number OF persons
playing. Each person takes one Of
the words, until they are used up,
when, If there are more players. the
,proyerb is repeated. The player who
goes ont should be told many times
the proverb Will be given. She asks
each one In turn question, and the
answer must contain the word given
to that player. Let us suppose the
proverb is. Waste not, want not
The first question asked Is:
Are you fond of work."
Yes. like patchwork the best,
as you can use up the smallest
pieces. and 1t does not waste any.
thing
Are you fond of sweet thlngs?"
No; l am not"
Have you been to the theater
lately?'
NO, but want to go very much"
who is your favorite poet?"
The fifth player. II there are more.
would use the word waste" asaff,
etc. II the ques,ioner cannot guess
the proverb from the answers, she
must go out again. II she guesses
1t. the one whose answer betrays 1t
Must go out. The following are very
good proverbs to choose:
"A friend in need, is a friend in.
deed"
"a stitch in time saves nine"
"All is not gold that glttters."
Honesty is the best policy"
ut never rains but 1t pours."
ut is an ill wind that blows no
body good"
IA penny saved is penny earn
ed"
Better late than never"
Make hay while the sun shines"
MANY hands make light work"
"A tree is known by its FRUIT
Home Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

PROVERBS.
One player goes out, and the 9th
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

De Quiz--shake.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19

Natiye-No; a dental college.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-04-17
LOCAL PEOPLE INTERESTED.
Had Friends and Relatives in the Ter
rible Chelsea Fire.

Several friends aud relatives OF Brattle-
horn pcople suffered partial or total losses
IN the ronragratiun at Chelsea, Mass,
sunday. Among those were Joseph Kim
hall brother OF ;. W. kimball, who sui
fsrcd a total lOss. His house was situated
ON 5tb street. W. l.. Hobart, brother OF
4, T.. Hobart, suffered a complete loss OF
his provision and grocery business as well
a. his residence. The store was located
al the corner OF Shawmut and Suffolk
Streets and the house was situated at the
corner of Essex and Suffolk streets; A
sister of MIR. Hobart, Mrs. J.. Il. Belden,
who lived on Pearl street, also suffered
complete loss OF her residence. Robert
WilIard son of Mrs. Elizabeth A. VIII
lard. lost most of his personal property
and his residence. \ sister oi ;. w.
Edgett. Mrs. c. \. Barnes, who lived on
Chestnut street, was another who suiered
a loss OF home and business. Her husband
was engaged in the livery and hack bnsi-
ness and all that was saved were lew
teams which Mr.. Barnes was using to as
sst the grief-stricken people. MIS-.
Rarnes was formerly a teacher IN the
Brattleboro high school. She had the
French and Latin department here under
her charge. Another relative OF Mr..
Edgett, Alderman 4. Z. Gates, who
owned one of the finest residences IN the
city. stood by helplessly watching ms
home 20 up in smoke. NJ. II. Edgett,, an
other brother of $. w. Edgett, lived m
another part Of the city where the hre
swep,. \ sister of Mrs. Grouse, "a Elliot
street. lost her house but saved her valu-
able papers.