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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-23
HIS PRIVATE THEATER.
Man With Money Who Wants
to See Shows Built One. !.


There is town in Pennsyl-
vania, not far from Harrisburg,
but off the beaten track, which
boasts of a theater which for
luxury Of acco nlInodation would
be hard to equal. The tieater
has all sorts of modern convent
ences Of a kind that could hardly
be expected in a city under a
million inhabitants. his parti-
cu1ar city had at the last census
about 10000 inhabitants.
The reason for being Of this
|theater, which gets all the regu-
lar road attractions Of high class,
is that there is in the town an ex-
ceedingly wealthy man who
wants to see shows without 1eav-
ing home. He is worth about
SIC, 100000.
He has lived in and about the
place all his life, making money
out OF lumber and manufactures.
When he had enough tosretire oi,
he didn't want to have to 60 arv-
where else to see shows, and as
the theater the place boosted
was a very dingy one, he had
/ one built.
He runs the, tileater himself at
a considerable loss every year,
but he gets what he wants. The
theater people like the place, too
because it's so very different
1 from the average show house in
the small town. @
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-23
LO;CAL| Z. }. NEWS =

They are off in bunch! The
Saturday News ring contestants.
The Rev. R. L. Palmerton will
speak on County Option at the Bah
cock school house next Sunday, Oct.
25th at p. m. Il
The Wa-Ya-Wa club was enter
tanned last week by Miss Agnes
Sheafe. A very interesting and
enjoyable session was held.
Mrs. C. F. Halbkat and Mrs. Jas.
House left Saturday morning last
for Waseca, Mimi, where they
will spend a few days with their
parents. " "a
Mrs. Viola Derby has accepted a
position in the Gilruth Dept. store
as manager of the dressmaking de-
partment. The department will
be located on the second floor.
Sheriff Wiersbeck is easy money
for the Diamond contest girls. He
has heart larger than the Satur-
day News circulation and that is
admitting a good deal.
j. j. Mcbride has gone to Lem.
mon, S. D., where he has taker
one of Uncle Sans claims. Mrs.
Mcbride and little daughter will
join her husband about the first Of
next month.
Hakon Mathieson, one Of the
merchant princes OF Henry, was {
Watertown visitor one day last
week. Hakon has more friends ii
Watertown than there are flea!
on a setter purp.
The Goss Bros, managers of the
Empire Family Theatre, are put.
ting up large electric sign OF
the west side iof the Goss block.
This will be one of the largest, il
not the largest electric sign in the
state. q
You can save fifty cents by pay.
ing your subscription to the Satur.
day News between now and the
first Of January, as after that date
the Saturday News subscription
price will be raised to 81. 80 a year,
1t will be worth the price too.
]. B. Mondloch, Jr., and his 10.
cal company of Thespian artists
gave an interesting little playlej
at the Orpheum theatre last Satur.
day night which caused gooc
deal Of amusement, with its re.
markable situations and melodram.
attic climaxes. The title of the play
was Texas Sunshine. 2 "a
The breaking Of driving rod OF
the engine of the Northwestern
passenger last Sunday evening
caused a delay of FIVE hours. A
special engine was sent from this
lefty to haul in the train. The
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-23
Rate Collector Seventy Years.

..
The City Of London possesses
a rate collector who has held of
ilce for Just seventy years, and
IS now rapidly approaching his
i've score years. This veteran
IS w. w. White, the ward clerk
Of Broad street, the district Of
stock brokers. His wonderful
age notwithstanding, he will dis
charge unassisted all the, duties
Of the several appointments he
holds and retains TO the full all
his faculties. Until a year or
two ago he was wont to take
two stairs at a time when mount
ing to his Office, and even now he
displays an agility that would
put many men his juniors by
hall century to shame. Pail
Mall Gazette.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-23

Make no common error If you
want to sell your farm, oil il you
want 10 negotiate d farmsl loan, see
Hopkins & Ransom. It's sure way
of avoiding mistakes. tff
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-10-23

u you want good 3 cent oIrar,
buy the Hunoh.g Il 10 The best 5
cent cigar sold III the city. 5ssss
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
EDUCATED Boards.
Whiskers In Paris Reach the pinnacl

Whiskers In Paris Reach the Pinnacle
of Cultivation.
1t is in Paris that the whisker
reaches its highest state of civilization
and development The luxuriant YER
dure on the faces of some of the pari-
Sims who strut along the boulevard
every day can be compared to nothing
but the riot of vegetation In the trop,
les. Every Partisan has whiskers-
much whiskers II he can. but some
whiskers at any rate. He supplements
natures efforts with the best aids of
the barber and trains and nurses his
hirsute appurtenances with anxious
care.
The Parisians spend hours OH their
boards aud educate them into formal
gardens. set pieces, shrubbery. terrace
and vista effects. They lay out hair
scapes with them. arrange them in ul.
dulating meadows and Irvine them on
pergolas. There is the long, spade con-
coction much sought by men With
black boards. which consists of about
a foot of hair cut square across the
bottom and adds much glory to the
wearer, for the whiskers always shine
and glistcn in the sun. There are side
wlnders and pointed ones, the heart
shaped and the curved, the waved and
the plain. A man who can train his
whiskcrs to grow in new way is as
much Of celebrity us u man who
writes n good poem or paints good
Picture Samuel G. blythe in Every
body's Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
THE QUEST OF BEAUTY.
making Up" Is Very Ancient Femi-
nine MT

Making Up" Is Very Ancient Femi-
nine Art.
Making up" rs applied to the APP
pearance, is by no means as modern
an art as many people imagine.
In the days of Roman supremacy
the women tinted their eyebrows with
black in emulation Of COX eyed Venus"
They painted their faces, sprinkled
themselves with perfume and even
wore false hair or tinted their own
locks in accordance With the prevail
ing fashion.
The Greek Indies of the same period
employed maids who rubbed out their
mistress wrinkles, decorated" her
face With red and white paint and
darkened her eyebrows. 1t was then
also the fashion to coat the face with
white of egg and goose grease to pro-
tect it from the sun and wind. 1t is
even said that they had recipe for
turning blue eyes to black.
These fashions all had their origin
in Italy, where in later years the no.
torious Lucrezia Borgia is said to have
dyed her hair different colors, accord
Ing to her fancy of the moment.
In England in the eighteenth cen
fury many women, among them Lady
Coventry, died from the effects of
rouge. So in all ages beauty at all
costs" was the motto Of SMART Ia
dies.-PearsOn's Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15

fly with all his might at the Seryian's
his bawling. On the instant the re-
volver roared loudly in the narrow
kitchen, and Al1nitage seized the brass
lamp and flung it from him upon the
hearth, where 1t fell with great clat-
ter without exploding.
1t was instantly pitch dark. The
SeTian had gone down like felled OK
and Armitage, at the threshold, leaped
over him into the hall past the rear
stairs, down which the men We're STUN
bling, cursing volubly as they came.
Armitage had assumed the existence
of front stairway, aud now that he
was launched upon an unexpected adj
venture lie was an " humor TO prolong
1t for a moment even at further risk.
he crept along Il dark passage to the
front door, found and turned the key
to provide himself with ready exit,
then, as he heard the men from above
bounded up the front stairway, gained
the second floor, then the third and
readily found by its light the room
that he had observed earlier from the
| outside.
Below there was smothered confu-
sion and the cracking of matches as
| Durand ana Chauvenct sought to grasp
the unexpected situation that confront
ed them. The big servant, Armitage
knew, would hardly be able to clear
matters for them at once, and he hur-
riedly turned over the packets of pa
pers that lay on the table. They We're
claims of one kind and another against
several South and Central American
republics, chiefly for naval and mill
tary supplies, and he merely noted
their general character. They were, on
the face of it, certified accounts in the
usual manner of business. On the back
of each had been printed with Il rubber
stamp the words: Vienna, Paris,
Washington. Chauvenet ct Durand."
Armitage snatched up the coat which
Chauvenet had so carefully placed on
the back OF his chair. ran his hands
through the pockets, found them
empty. then gathered the garment
tightly in his hands. laughed little to
| hitiSeil 10 reel lne papers sewn INTO
the lining and laughed again as he tore
the lining loose and drew forth Il flat
linen envelope brilliant with three
seals of red WAX
Steps sounded below. A man was
running up the back stairs, and from
the kitchen rose sounds of mighty
groanings aud cursings in the heavy
sutturals of the Servian, as he re-
gained his wits and sought TO explain
his plight
Armitage picked up IL chair, ran
noisclessly to the head Of the back
stairs and looked down upon CfIauve-
net, who was hurrying up with fam
ing candle held high above his head,
its light showing anxiety and fear
upon his face. He was halfway up the
last flight, and ..rmitage stood in the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15

his air of good hHnior and his tame ac-
ceptance of capture seemed to increase
the Servian's caution, and he backed
away toward the inner door with his
revolver still pointed at Armitage's
head.
He began calling Justify up the mar
row stairwel in SeNian, changing in
n moment to German He made a
ludicrous figure, as he held his revolver
at arms length. craning his neck into
the passage and bowling until he was
red III the face. He paused to listen,
then renewed his cries, while Armi-
tage, with his back against the rack of
pots, studied the room and made his
plans.
"There is Il thief here! have caught
a thief" yelled the Scrvian, now eXas-
peratcd by the silence above. Thea, as
he relaxed Il moment and turned to
make sure that his revolver still COW
cred .Armitage, there was sudden
sound of steps above, and voice
bawled ansrily down the stairway:
"Zmai, stop Your noise and tell me
what's the trouble"
1t was the voice of Duland speaking
i'll the Servian dialect, and Zmai opened
his mouth to explain.
AS the big fellow roared his reply
Arlnitage snatched from the rack II
heavy iron boiling pot, swung it high
by the bail with both hands and let it
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
Tennvson's Terror.


There are many stories Of Tennyson
in the Duke of Argyll's book, Pas
sages From the Past" and one of the
most characteristic relates to the time
when tile marriage of his grace, then
the Marquis of Lorne, and Princess
Louise was in the air. One day Tcnny-
son had Il number of guests at lunch
con, among whom was the Marquis of
Lornc. III the course of talk the mar
quis told Tennyson, then poet laureate.
that the queen liked his new volume.
II am glad to hear it." Tennyson
said III his sonorous, slow, musical
bass voice. II have given good ac-
count of her in that volume, but the
newspapers don't like my rhymes-say
they are bad. live in terror" he con-
tinued, "of any of tile queens family
marrying and OF hca:ing from her that
she hopes will write something. l
have no news of that kind yet. but
live in terror of It,"
This with solcmnly sly wink.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
SENSE IN EXERCISE.
The Weakness That Comes With Great
Muscular Exertion.

Muscular Exertion.
1t Is curious fact that perfect health
is not consistent with high muscular
development. Professional athletes and
all men who acquire phenomenal
strength seem to lose in length of life
and activity what they gain for few
years of record breaking powers. was
privileged to see on several occasions
Louis Cyr, the Canadian giant, who
broke all weight lifting records. He
weighed so pounds and was all solid
bone and muscle. saw him hold his
wife out at arms length with one
hand. l saw him raise 300 pound
barrel from the floor to his shoulder,
using only one hand and arm.
saw him get down ON all tours un-
der platform bearing 1900 pounds
of big men selected from the the audi
ence. and he raised the platform with
his mighty back. Yet this remarkable
man was muscle bound and crippled
at thirty-seven, when he should have
been at the height of his wonderful
powers.
Kennedy, the oarsman, who won u
diamond belt for lifting with his hands
from the floor absolutely without ap-
paratus thousand pound weight, was
used up and crippled before he was
forty. Dowd, professional strong man
and teacher of athletics, wore himself
out and died ut forty -seven.-"C Common
Sense In Exercise by Charles II.
Cochrane, in Metropolitan Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
TOLD BY HIS HAT.
The Way q Traveller Picked Out an
Enalishman.

The Way Traveller Picked Out an
Enelishman.
"See that MANI" the lately returned
traveller remarked to friend, indicat
ing an Individual little ahead of
them. "wen. 1 never saw him before.
but I'll lay good sized bet that he's
an Englishman and, moreover, Lon
doner."
"How do you tell?' the friend asked.
"By the way he wears his hat" was
the reply. Notice how it is jammed
down on the head? Englishmen, espe-
cially Londoners, put on their hats for
keeps. No chance is taken of being
separated from a bowler That's what
the derby is called over there. And It's
the same way with top hat or a
straw or cap. for that matter.
THE American wears his hat lightly
in comparison, and so do the people
Of southern continental Europe The
French, for example, have penchant
for hats that seem n bit too small for
them. At any rate, their headgear
doesn't appear to be very firmly fixed
1t may he my fancy, but an Italian al
ways impresscs ME as bit uncom-
Portable In a hat. At all events, he
likes to avoid wearing 1t whenever pos.
sible. But your Englishman wears his
hat thoroughly and seriously. It's tilt
ed back little. as Al rule. and the
nearer 1t is to his ears the safer he
feels"
Just then the man ahead drew pa
per from his pocket. 1t was the Lon
don Times.
"There, what did tell you?" was
the returned travellers comment.-New
York Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
ITO Be coNr1SuEp.1
The Message on His Watch.

In Memories of Eight Parliaments"
Mr.. Lucy, the author, tells Il story
about MI. Pyne, member for West Wa
terford, who. when under the crimes
act warrant was issued for his arrest
In 1887, shut himself up in his Irish
home. Lisfarney castle, had the trench
es filled with water, the drawbrdge
up, took in supplies by ii window in
the battlemcnts and thus lived for
months, While he rokcd fun at the po-
licemcn who were wandering about
below with the warrant in their peck
ets.
The originality Of Mr. Pynes mind"
continues Mr. Lucy, was further indi-
Gated upon his watch on its dial he
had roughly engraved Pay no rent
Whenever in troubled times any of his
neighbors came to him for advice as to
what they should do IN the presence of
demand for rent. Mr. Pync solennly
shook his head. 4 cuinot,' he said.
express my views on the subject, for
Mr.. Balfour says they are Illegal But
I'll tell you what III do. III show you
what time Of day 1t is. and, holding
out his watch, the perturbed tenant
read upon 1t the admonitory legend,
Pay no rent"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
THE JUDGE AND THE vIRAeo
An Ancient Joke of Which There Are
Many Modern Versions,

An Ancient Joke Of Which There Are
Many Modern Versions.
The following tale was translated
from a very old Chinese book for Col
lier's Weekly:
A certain magistrate upon opening
his court observed one of his lictors
whose face was covered with wounds
and asked him what was the matter.
Replied the lictor. Yes terday evening
| was reclining and enjoying the fresh
air under my grape irbor. which was
suddenly upset by Il gust of wind and
fcii on me and caused these injuries"
BIT the judge was skeptical and
said: THAT is too thin. 1t is easy to
see that the marks on your face are
from scratches from nails. 1t must be
that you have had a row with your
wife and got clawing from her. Is
this not 500?
The lictor crimsoned all over and re.
piled, "Your honor has truly guessed
it,
Then said the judge: "Why is your
wife so fierce as this? Wait till sum-
mon her and give her beating and
you your revenge"
While he was yet speaking the judges
o.n wife suddenly came out from the
house and fiercely said, "Who is this
you are going to beatty"
The magistrate hastily announced to
the lictors and ting chat It's: "This
court stands adjourned. Dispense in.
SANITY. 1T seems as though the courts
grape arbor is also about to collapsed
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15

"If l could be out of physical pain"
said lifelong invalid, II would ask
no other heaven" If could be in Il
place where l might know that my
husband never could be killed on the
traln!" cried one of the gentle "wor
riers" whose capacity for suffering is
neither understood nor respected by
the sanguine. IF 1 could take my
children to a world where every time
1 hear Il crohpy cough my heart did
not stand still with terror" urged an.
other, that would be heaven for me-"
The mulatto girl who burst into joyful
tears at first sight/of marble bust of
herself because 1t was white" had n
glimpse of her heaven before its time
Heaven must be like any other form
of happiness, only more so,'" said a
thoughtful man. ".tnd the conditions
of happiness are three-a clean con-
science, something to do and some one
to love. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in
Harper's Bazaar.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15


with the Servian alone. The fellow
continued to humble his threats, but
Armitage had resolved to play the part
Of an Englishman who understood no
German, and he addressed the man
sharply in English several times to sig
Nifty that he did not understand
The Servian half turned toward his
prisoner, the revolver in his left hand,
While with the fingers of his right he
felt laboriously for a lamp that had been
revealed by the fitful flashes Of the
matches. 1t is not an easy matter to
light lamp when you have only one
hand to work with, particularly when
you are obliged to keep an eye ON
mysterious prisoner of whose character
you are ignorant. and it was several
minutes before the job was done.
"You will go to that corner" and
the Servian translated for his prison
er's benefit with gesture of the re-
volver.
Anything to please you, worthy fell
low" replied Armitage, and he obeyed
with amiable alacrity. The mans OBJ
ject was to get him as far from the
inner door as possible while he called
help from above, which was, of course,
the wise thing from his point of view,
as Armitase recognized.
Armitage stood with his back against
a rack of pots. The table was at his
left and beyond 1t the door opening
upon the court. a barred window was
Mt his right. Opposite him was another
door that communicated with the in
terror of the house and disclosed the
lower steps of a rude stairway lending
upward. The Servian now closed and
locked the outer kitchen door with
care.
Armltage had lost his hat in the
area: his light walking stick lay in the
middle of the floor; his inverness coat
hung wet and bedraggled about him;
oils shirt was crpmpled and soiled.- But
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
NATURE CURES.
Medicine Helps, of Course, but Faith is
Powerful Factor.

medicine Helps, OF Course, but Faith Is
Powerful Factor.
There's truth at the basis of all
this discussion of disease and its cure
which. despite the fact that it has been
apparent for generations, is still too lit
tie understood by people In general.
In fact, appearances would lead to the
belief that it is not appreciated by all
physicians. 1t is the truth that not
the medicine. but nature. cures the i'll.
The most that medicine can do is to
place the patient in condition most
favorable for the work OF nature.
Here comes in the value of this ele-
ment of faith. 1t is the best possible
help TO nature-the firm belief that
you'll get well. 1t may we'll take the
place of many drugs. 1t may in in
stances diSplace the need of the physi-
clan. Even the surgeon can do no
more. He simply cuts away debris,
puts the body i'll the best trim he
knows how. adjusts merely mechan-
ical breaks or displacements and waits
fer nature to do the rest The physi-
elm who pours in an inordinate amount
Of drugs thinks lie is assisting nature
As a matter OF fact, he is sometimes
Impeding her. The best physicians, in
all except extreme cases. use few med.
icines. and those as mild as possible
New Haven Register.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
MAYFLowER TEAPoTs.
A Warning That May Prove of vaIu,
"a RAlin Aun%ars

a warning That May Prove Of Value
to Relic Hunters.
1t may be trusted that no lineal de-
scendent of the pilgrims would and
no other person foolishly should ever
claim to have or to have seen teapot
that had come over on the Mayflower.
Whatever other articles in whatever
number may be treasured as parts Of
the sacred cargo that was landed at
Plymouth rock in 1920, relic hunters
may rest in the assurance that no rival
owns teapot of Maytlower descent.
The explanation is simple. When the
Mayflower sailed for America an ounce
Of tea was rare enough to have made
up fitting gift for royalty. Yet forty
years later the wealthy and fashion
able people of England were fairly ia
miliar with tea which the East India
company had first brought into the
country, and four years later it wag
on sale in the coffee houses, at which
time pound might be purchased for
the moderate sum Of 60 shillings.
Only twenty-five years later tea was
on sale in Boston, and soon after there
were two tea houses besides those kept
by Daniel Vernon and Benjamin Har-
rls. In the first decade Of the eight
zenith century it could be bought from
Zabdill Bolton at his apothecary shop.
Today the coffee houses of hundred
years ago in London are in reality tea
houses. In England were made the
first teapots of pottery. Later the
most delicate creations in porcelain up.
peared, but as tea became popular the
art of the teapot maker was less ex.
clusively refined.-Boston Globe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-15
Hittinn the Pine.


When Jones got home the other night
he found the family in a panic and the
house being flooded from n burst water
pipe. The first thing he. did was to
scold his wife for not having sense
enough to go down to the cellar and
hammer up the supply pipe to prevent
the water from escaping. Then he
went downstairs and was soon heard
hammering vigorously. After some
minutes strenuous work, giving one
last mighty blow, he asked, "How is II
now?"
"Ihere is no difference in the flow Of
the water" his wife calmly replied
but as the light has gone out very
much fear you have hammered up the
gas pipe. "-EXchange.