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rarely done. except In corresponding with
tradespeople. which Is a wise exception,
as a charge account is generally In the
husbands name.
4. Question-Can you give me menu in rhymef
told the other night that there were several,
but have been unable to find any in the books
in my library. FAITHFUL READER.
Answer-I know of many recipes that
are written in rhyme, but the only menu
that I can at 'his moment recall is the
following rather sentimental one:
We dined A FISH from the river beneath,
cltlet. bird from the windy heath
1 Where We had wandered happy and mute;
It was a silent day with US
In the early time II is often thus,
But ny sweet love chatted when came the fruit.
Flavor Of sunburnt nectarine
And the light thai danced thro' wine glass thin.
Filled with Juice Of the grape Of Rhine;
She talked and laughed about this and that
Easy exquisite, foolish chat
While her pretty. huttering hand sought mine.
And thought: Come glory OF come distress,
In this wonderful. weary wilderness.
This hour is mine till the day Of death
The friit OF wine and ms LADY fair,
With the flower Of heath in her dim brown hair
Anu u SlsA u Autt III LEE lFheTauL NEE1Ll.
8. Question-Can you tell me- Mr. Arbitsr. when
the waltz was first introduced into this country and
II the dip" which is 50 popular at the present mo
ment, is entirely new dance or an old one re-
viEedf Sincerely yours, BEAU CLEMENT
Answer-The waltz became popular in
Europe In the early days Of the nine
teenth century. and is supposed 20 be OF
Bohemian origin It was first intro
dueed into washington by the Swedish
charge d'affaires, Baron de stackelburg,
at a public ball given In the winter of
1925 His dancing on this occasion was
regarded as a wonderful performance,
as he managed to steer himself and HIS
huge spurs that formed part Of his uni
form. The dip" was danced here some
thirty years ago. but II was then called
the Boston dip, and differed but little
from the style OF waltz that is now in
vogue.
6. Question-should man visit club where bis
name is up for membership! JOHN RURAL
Answer-It is considered bad taste to
do so.
Z. Qaestion-In sending an invitation 10 a single
man. should you send It to his house or his clab
address when you have bothl HOSTESS
Answer-AIl invitations should be sent
to the address which is given on the
visiting card of the person whom you
wish 10 invite.
s. Question-Was the Corcoran House in I street
which vas built by the late VI. W. CoTooTan and Is
now occupied By his grandson. W c. Eustis, ever
used as a legatiou3 I have been told that one Of
the British ministers once lived there, but car hud
no record Of H.
Answer-The coreoran house was oc-
cupied by the French Minister, the Mar
quis de MonthoIlon, during the civil war
He entertained constantly and hand
somely. His dinners are said to have
been the most elegant that were ever
given here. and he one of the most ac-
complished. suave, and popular diplo-
mats OF his time It was the Marquis de
Monthollon who acted as intermediary
for Austria during the troubles Of that
country with Mexico.
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FACTS ABOUT OUR TREES.
We Use Nor, Timber Per capita
Than ARy other Nation.

- As< aA0AfF N~~kr-~-~
Than Any other Nation.
Emerson HOugh in EYerybody's
All our standing timber is estimated 10
be somewhere between fourteen hundred
and two thousand billion feet. II We use
forty billions per snnum, We can run
thlrty-fve TO fifty years at the present
rate provided we do not have any waste
If we use one hundred billions per an
mum our timber will last fourteen 10
twenty years, on the same basis. If we
use one hundred and fifty billions per an
mum In nine to thirteen years our timber
will all be gone. We have now about l65
million acres in our national reserves. If
we had three times that much we should
not have enough.
If it costs twenty acres a Sunday. or
forty acres q week. or 2.0S0 acres a year
to print one daily newspaper. what does
It cost in acreage 20 print all the news
papers in all the cities and towns Of
America? Add 10 this the enormous edi-
tions OF our magazines. Add to this the
paper ussd in books The total staggers
the Imagination, and yet the amount OF
timber cut for pulp in the United States
annually Is less than per cent Of what
is cut for lumber. Last year we made
more than 3l5 million lead pencils. A
lead pencil is not very large. but the
total number Of lead pencils required
1900 600 cubic feet of cedar We have
cedar enough TO last US just twelve years.
More than 10000 acres Of timber. in
the whole United States. are cut over
every working day. We use many times
more timber per capita than any other
nation We have left not over $50 million
acres bearing commercial timber Cast
up In your mind some Of the small de-
mands of industry upon this supply. Our
railroads are said 10 use one-third Of the
industrial timber cut for ties. Suppose
we could cut 100 ties 10 the acre; We
should require a million acres a year for
ties. We annually reap for telegraph and
telephone poles somewhere between 3o00,
000 ami 4.0o0, coo acres Of land. Our tan-
neries two years ago required 1870 600
cords Of bark In the same year We cut
II S.. .260 shingles and 3.s14.s07 laIhs Then
we had TO timber our mines, and for
that We used l65.0Go.000 cubic feet. not
board measure much Of which was the
best Of hardwood
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TAFT CAV cLEAR THE Desk.
Kansas Editor Thinks He'd Make a
Good working President.

&OQA
william Allen White. in ths American Magazine
What kind Of a President, all things
considered, VIII he (Taft) maker Assum-
ing that the facts hereinbefore set down
are correct it is obvious that first Of
all we may expect President who win
work hard-for he has but two meals q
day. and tolls without resting from 10
until every day; then we may expect
that he will work hard with kind.
self-effaclng spirit; then that he will
work hard, unselnshIy. and without much
Initiative For he has rarely gone from
beaten paths. though he has shown that
he can go alone. The great things he
has done In this world have been done at
the desk. He is no orator as Brutus is. %
He Will say little and do much.
The times demand not a man bearing
promises Of new things, but man who
can finish the things begun. Such man
is Taft, a newer of wood. who has no
ambition to link his name with new meas
ures. but who, with a steady hand and a
heart always kind. and a mind always
generously just. can clean OF the desk.
Roosevelt knows the desk is cluttered
up He knows that it may take six or
eight years merely to get down to the
mahogany under things now pending.
But the American people know that some
way this must be done before the nation
can go farther. And hence. In the Misss-
sippi Valley, at least, there Is a belief
that the man who can make the Hep
burn railroad law as much a part Of our
common life as the postal regulations,
who can grind the rough edges of the
Sherman law through the courts, who can
finish the canal and deal with Cuba
kindly, honestly. and firmly, who can lead
the brown men of the islands farther
into the light, is this big Woodworking.
soft-hearted. fair-minded. unselfish man,
Taft He can clean of the desk.
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CIGAR, PIPE, CIGARETTE.
Their Comparative Merits and De-
merits.


From, the Lancet
Smoking nowadays Is commonly toll
Grated in the house. and even in the draw
ing-room a cigarette is sometimes per-
mitted The smoking of a cigar, pleasant
though It may be to the smoker, and
however irreproaohable its quality, is
banned by most careful housewives in
their sancta sanctorum because its reek
/ is so persistent. The stale smell OF cigar
smoke in a room IS peculiarly unpleasant
and peculiarly difficult to get rid off. 1t
cllngs TO the curtains and to most Of the
articles OF furniture which present any
sort of an absorbent surface. It is not so
TO the same extent with cigarettes or with
pipes. IN the case even of single
cigar. books, papers. and textiles reek of
its stale flavor. and the room requires
abundant airing before that favor is COM
pletely eliminated.
Air is an excellent scavenger, but ozone
is more active In removing the smell. The
effect may be traced TO the fact that the
smoking OF a cigar produces a larger
quantity Of pungent aromatic oils than
does the smoking of a cigarette or pipe.
In the case OF the cigarette oils are prob
ably burned, even if they are formed in
the pipe they eondsnse in the stem, while
| IN the case Of the clear they are probably
4 for the most part discharged into the air.
! In the form of a cigar tobacco would APP
pear TO produce more oils than in the
form Of a cigarette or when burned in a
pipe
/ Such common observations are not with
out hygienie significance. Pyrridine, the
most poisonous oil produced in the semi
| combustion or tobacco, is an abundant
/ product In cigar smoking, as Il is also in
| the pipe, but in the latter there Is con-
densation. while in the former there is
| little or none In the cigarette, so inti-
mately in contact with the air is the
burning portion that the production of
distilled oils is. comparatively speaking
/ trlhIng
The symptoms Of tobacco smoke poison
| ing are not necessarily due to nicotine:
| they are more often due 10 pyrridine. or
poisoning from tobacco tar oils. The to-
| baeco heart Is more often traceable to
| free indulgence In cigar smoking than
/ 10 a similar indulgence in the pipe and
/ the cigarette. Young boys can smoke-to
/ their great damage, nevertheless-a con-
| siderable number of cigarettes. or even
pipes. but an equivalent in cigars more
I than satisfies their tobacco appetite so
| soon are the toxic effects Of cigar smok-
| ing made apparent 20 them. The danger
| of excessive cigarette smoking is that
though no marked symptoms may be
/ manifested or experienced. Yet in the long
run decided harm is done, and a danger
Gus habit akin 10 "nippin." Is culti-
waited which Il Is often found very hard
| to abandon.
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subjected to great Inconvenience. the
railway equipment is being run down,
and the system is being MIXED of every
penny OF surplus revenue for the benefit
Of the impoverished national treasury.
The treasury is empty because Of the
enormous expenditures being made on
military and naval expansion. While this
goes on. and the japanese groan under
the heaviest taxes ever imposed upon the
people of a f1rstClass nation. while the
governments credit is strained TO the
breaking point. and national financial dis
aster Is in sight, while all this goes on.
the concerns III which the imperial house
hold owns stock continue TO declare divi-
dends Of from Is to 20 per cent and the
people make up the deficit
Copyright, l9s BY Frederic ]. Haskinl
TO-mOFrov-Manufa iR ia
pan.
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From the Hartford Times
is this terrible war. which Mr.. Roose-
welt tells the Congressman privately can
only be prevented by the immediate con-
struction of a lot of battle ships. TO be a
1872 war? The Senate Naval Committee
has rejected the big battle ship pro-
gramme, and hence the fighting is a
certainty. according TO Mr. Roosevelt. II
viii, indeed, be wonderful. in view of the
popularity Of our leading jingoes, II we
get through two more Presidential cleo
tons without another war
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WORLDS oUININE PRODUCTION
India Becoming a Factor in It's
Manufacture.

According 10 a recent report, India is
becoming quite a factor in quinine pro-
duetion, there being manufactured in the
province Of Madras last year l5,11 pounds
and in Bengal 1897, making a total OF
p, ,6Ss pounds from ali India The island
of Java manufactured and exported 1850
pounds.
The raw material. quinlne. is produced
as follows: Java, H. 900 pounds; india
2,020 coo pounds: Ceylon, 405 .000 pounds;
South America, $4,000 pounds; Africa,
l7s.S72 pounds; total, 1s107.s7z pounds.
This. when manufactured. would pro-
duce SCI, 000 pounds Of quinine. which, add
ed 10 the manufactured product OF IN
dia and Java, would give total of coo
pounds II quinine produced last year. The
two principal markets for this product
are Amsterdam and London,
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Bad Cigars nn Rations.

From the Youkegs Statesman
BlIl-In the Italian army The authori-
ties recognize tobacco as one Of the essen
tials TO the troops. and cigars are served
out 10 the soldiers with their daily ra-
tions.
Jili-WeIl, I can understand that You
know some cigars do make a man feel
fierce
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One Exception.

From the Boston Herald.
Mr. Carnegfe's statement that in ninety
nine cases out OF 100 the object sought
by big industrial combinations is TO rob
the community Of its right to the bene-
fits Of free competition. is quite sweep
ing and condemnatory. coming from him.
Is the big steel trust, on which he holds
the largest underlying mortgage, the Tooth
case? Presumably.
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Using Their Natural Resources.

Gibbs-say. you've heard OF the man
who cultivated a wart on the back of his
neck TO save collar buttons7 Well, I've
discovered his twin brother!
Dibbs-And what does he DO?
Gibbs-Lets his forehnger nall grow 30
long that he can write with It and save
the cost of pens
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SALT AND THE STOMACH.
Doctor Suggests Il should Be Taken
Apart from Meals.

Wissen fuer Ale had a symposium to
discuss the value OF salt in digestion
One OF the physicians wrote that while
salt in moderation is good for the stonF
aeh, and often absolutely necessary. It
ought to be taken apart from the meals.
in much the same way as medicine. He
bases his judgment on the way artificial
digestion proceeds in the presence Of ma
rine salt.
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Doing Fairly We'll

From the Chicago Tribune.
Possibly, Congress has the absurd idea
that TO build two battle ships at a cost of
s90,0 O0,o00 viii be doing fairly well for a
nation that is trihe shy on revenue Just
now
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NOTE-The ArbiteF VII be glad to answer sny
questions Of social naturs that may be sub
mitted. Such questions should be addressed 70
The ATbiter. care The Washington Herald
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Since the government railroad monopoly
was instituted the shippers have been
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rarely done. except in corresponding with
tradespeople. which Is a wise exception.
as a charge account is generally In the
husbands name
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war Makes Hernes

TO-mOrrOw-Manufaeture in ia
pan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-06-10

you should add foot to the diane
ter Of your silo and two feet to it's
height giving you ll5 tons of3silage
and requiring from nine to ten acres
of corn to fill it. Where you have
from thirty-five to forty head of cat
tie you should make your silolseven-
teen feet inside diameter and thirty
four feet high, giving you l75 tons
of silage and requiring from
twelve to fourteen acres to, ell it..
If you have from sixty to seventy
COWS or other live stock to lie fed
for the time above mentioned, you
should make your silo twenty feet
in diameter and forty feet in height,
with 300 tons capacity and requir-
ing from twenty-three to twenty
FIVE acres of corn to fill it.
This will give from thirty to
forty pounds of silage per head'
feeding half in the morning and
half at night. With this you should
give all the alfalfa, clover or cowpea
hay that the animals will clean up
readily For the Ordinary class 81
cows this is all the feed that will be
needed, and is the cheapest feed
that can be secured. For COWS that
are heavy yielders, however, you
will need to add a grain ration; for
example, one part of cotton seed
meal to six parts of corn, or, one
part of oil meal to FIVE of corn and
cob meal, or you can substitute bran
to three of corn and cob meal. This
will give a balanced ration, and un-
less the experience of dairymen fol
thirty years is a lie it will pay you
better than any other ration you
can possibly obtain.
We do not propose to go into de.
tails now. The question we want to
press home to our readers. especial
ly those engaged in dairying is
Will it not pay you to build a silo:
If you have determined to do SO, you
want to make your arrangements in
time, for the demand for silos this
year as last will be SO great thai
you will not easily be able to secure
one in time.
There is another matter that ii
worth thinking about. In the west
ern part of our territory, or from
the Mississippi river west, there il
every probability of short hay crol
this year, unless, as last year, ther
should be more rainfall than tn
normal during the last half Of Ma,
and during June Up to this tim,
MAY lD the rainfall in tkat section
has been below normal. What th
future may be we do not know, hu
unless the rainfall is above norma
for the next forty days short ha
crop is about as certain as anythin!
yet in the future. With short ha,
crop you viii need to, utilize you
corn fodder in some way, and th
best way is to build slid, S,S6lliit u
and then utilize the rest Of ii as. fod
der. Homestead. sest
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-06-10
The Leader VS. the Boss.

i The leader is not a man who
thinks for the people but a man who
thinks with the people. The leader
is going in the same direction that
the people are going-far enough
ahead to be in advance but not far
enough to be out Of sight. The
Header is not only in sympathy with
the people but he relies upon per-
suasion to influence them. He pre-
sents his arguments to them but
recognizes the right of the people to
reject any proposition submitted by
him. The leaders, title to leader
ship rests upon his ability to pro-
pose the best thing at the right time
and, as those who follow the leader
follow him voluntarily, he must ap-
peal to their conscience and judg-
ment. The leader is moulder Of
opinion, and a moulder of opinion
does not create public opinion-he
merely expresses it in effective Ian
guage. AS Thomas Jefferson simply
put into appropriate words the as
pirations OF the people, so, today,
the leader-the moulder of public
opinion--coins into current language
the sentiment, like precious metal,
which experience brings forth from
humanity's great store house.
The boss, however, is an entirely
differ mt character If the word
'charact i" can be applied to one
who is often without character. The
boss has no sympathy with the peo o.
pie; he has his own interests 10
rye and whatever authority he can
8 cure he turns to his private al
vantage. The boss is an embezzl-r
of power and, measured by every
moral standard. he is in the same
criminal class with the embezzler OF
money. The loss has introduced
bribery, corruption and intimidation
into politics and he will go out
when these are eliminated. Let
the people rule" is az much terror
to the boss as the commandment,
"Thou shall not steal", is to the
thief. The spread of the primary is
only q reaction from boss rule, and,
like every other plan for the BRING
ing of the government nearer to the
people, the primary system increases
the relative influence of the real
leader and lessons the influence of
the boss.-The Commoner.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-06-10
raffic will pack the fresh earth.

tratnc VIII pack the fresh earth.
The drag does the best work
when the soil is moist, but not
sticky. The earth then moves freely
along the faces Of the slabs. If the
roadway is very badly rutted and
full of holes, it may be well to use
the drag once when the ground is
slushy. This treatment is particu-
larly applicable before cold spell
in winter, when it is possible to
have roadway freeze smooth. A
smooth road surface is secured by
this method. Clay, when mixed
with water and thoroughly worked.
becomes remarkably tough and
impervious to water. If compacted
in this condition it becomes ex-
tremely hard.
Another valuable result of drag
ging is the reduction of dust, for
the particles of clay cohere so te-
naciously that there is but little
wear when the surface is smooth.
Dust on an earthyoad is due to the
| breaking up nndtr .trafficf of the
|frayed and upturned edges of ruta
and hoof prints. If the surface is
smoothed after each rain and the
road dries hard and even, no edges
are exposed to crushing and the
only dust which forms is that due
to actual wear of the road surface.
There are SO many influences at
work and conditions are 30 varied
in different localities that it is quits
impossible to lay down general
rule for the varied treatment needed
to keep a road in condition. Atough
clay or a stiff sandy clay will resist
the action of wheels and hoofs for a
a longer period than loan, othe,
things being equal. Certain sections
of a roadway will require more at.
tention than others because of steel
grades, seepage, exposure to hillside
wash, etc. The best guide in meet
ing these conditions is the know
ledge and experience gained while
dragging the roadway.
There is one condition, however
in which special treatment shoule
be given to road. Clay hills aunde
persistent dragging frequently be
come too high in the center. T,
correct this it is best to drag tn
earth toward the center of the roa,
twice and away from it once"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-06-10
How About a silo?

Do you intend to build silo this
year? lfso, you had better be think
ing about it very soon and planting
corn for the purpose of using it for
silage. You don't need any other
kind Of corn than that which you
usually plant, but you should plant
it little thicker.
Whether you should build silo
or not will depend on circumstances.
We do not advise it where there is
less than fifteen or twenty head of
cattle to be fed silage through the
winter A small silo, costs good
deal more proportionately than a
large one. 1t is not profitable to
feed few cows out of medium
sized silo, for the reason that unless
about two inches day is fed from
the top of the silage, after the feed
ing is once begun, the silaee is like
ly to deteriorate in quality through
exposure to the air. If you are
merely roughing cattle through the
winter as stockers, we would not
advise silo. You would get better
results by feeding them on hay and
corn fodder, with the addition Of
enough corn to keep them in good
growing condition.
If dairying has considerable
place on the farm, however, or il
you are feeding steers where you
have first-class shelters and protec.
ton from the storm, then we would
unhesitatingly advise you to put
up a silo.
These silos may be constructed
of slaves, of boards and tar paper
or made of cement or cement blocks
the material to be chosen depending
on the circumstances surrounding
the farmer. If you have from e
to % cattle or milk cows to be fec
for 200 days you will need sill
about fourteen feet inside diamete
and twenty-eight feet in height
holding 100 tons approximately
and it will require about eight o
J nine acres of corn to fill it. If 20,
have from twenty five to thirty cows
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-06-10
Lion and unieofn5.

The animosity which was supposed
to exist between the lionandfthe uni,
corn. as referred to by spenser In his
"Faerie Queene." is allegorieal of the
deep rooted Ill will which Sanriently ex-
listed between England md Scotland.
Ever since 1903 the royal arms have
been supported. us now. by the Eng
lish lion and the Scottish unicorn in
token of the fact that st George and
St Andrew had at last. shaken hands
and forgotten their old difference