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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
The FOREHEAD.
What its Size and Shape Are Said to
3~ Indicate,

What lite Size and Shape Are Said to
Indicate.
A high forehead to he very good
should be well developed about the
eyebrows.
Breadth Of forehead is always favor.
able 1t is distinctly connected witt
breadth Of character.
A forehead that curves back reveals
q poetic temperament, fondness for
the arts and q talent for either music
or painting.
OF course broad forehead may ba
part of weak face, and weak chin
and mouth Will naturally give truel
impression of character than even q
combination Of q narrow forehead
with an otherwise strong face.
If there is quite u perceptible bulge
Of the eyebrows. combined with higl
forehead, the sign is of calm, cool
deliberate thinker.
II with these eyebrows Is combined
forehead that slopes gradually back
q sensitive. poetic temperament is dis
closed. II, again. they are combined
with short. narrow forehead. the
subject will be successful In business
and In everything connected witt
worldly matters, but he will be in
capable of approaching to any extern
or of creating anything connected witt
. the arts.-New York American.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
WHICH wAs.RlaHT2
sss lf You Can untansls the Knots In
This Problem.

U.s. 10 You Gan Ontan0Ie the Knots In
This Problem.
A young man named Enathlus de-
sired to learn eloquence and art OF
pleading, and he bargained With Pro
tagoras, the ancient Greek sophist, fol
instructions. agreeing to pay one halt
of the fee down and the other half on
the first day he gained case. 1t :oos
the young man SO long to learn that
his tutor came to the conclusion that
he was delaying his start In business
to avoid paying the other bali of the
fee, SO Protagoras sued HIM for the
money.
When the case came up for trial Pro
tagUras said to the young man: You
act most absurdly. young man, be.
cause In either case you must pay me
II the judges decide against you. you
must pay, and II they decide for you
you must pay. for you will then have
gained your case"
You are wrong" replied the young
man. II will win either way. If the
judges are for me, L will not have tc
pay, and If they are against me will
not have to pay. for this last was, the
very bargain between us-amely. ii ]
did not win my case"
The judges considered the case mex
plicable, and as they could not sec
their way to any decision they adj
journed the case to a day that neve,
came for any Of the principals. Or
Protagoras' side 1t was n case of los
ing when he won and on the young
students side winning when he lost.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
Tho Slippery Pronoun.

Many are the circumlocutions which
have been devised by civilized races in
order to avoid the bluntness Of direct
address. In fact, 1t may be said that
ut the moment when nation stand
ardizes its language 1t begins to have
trouble with its pronouns.
"Thoa' has of course become obso-
lete except in prayer, although it flour
ishes coloquially in the north of Eng
land. The second person plural is
substituted. In parts of the south
you all" is heard. II further step to-
ward refined elusiveness.
In France and Germany thou" has
been retained in familiar or semicon-
temptuous speech. In Spain and Italy,
on the other hand, the third person is
substituted habitually In place Of 1T
Harper's Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
ARTISTS BLuNpERs.
A Procession of Monks That Adam and
Eve Enioyed.

A Procession of Monks That Adam and
Eve Enjoyed.
Among the most amusing breaks"
by artists is landscape by Turner in
which Il rainbow is depicted behind
the sun. This occasioned almost as
much humorous comment in English
art circles as did the slip of Constant,
the great French artist, who in his
portrait Of Queen Victoria painted the
ribbon of the Order of the Carter the
wrong color
picture of Adam and Eve in the
garden of Eden hung In the gallery
of the Gesu. in Lisbon. represents the
first couple rs watching procession
Of monks
In the famous galleries ut Antwerp
are certain pictures of old masters in
Which the tumble of ideas is as re-
markable as the technique is fine. In
one picture of heaven the archangels
are armed with bows and arrows, and
in celebrated painting Of ",The Muir
der of the Innocents" the massacre is
represented as taking place in city
of Holland. The parents of the chill
dren are stout burghers the Roman
soldiers are Dutch policemen armed
With muskets. and the innocent infants
are transformed into solid schoolboys
In bulgy wooden trousers and jackets
and hobnailed shoes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
Tn. star Areturu..

1t is probable that the star Arcturus
is one of the six greatest OF all the
stars IN the sky. Notwithstanding its
brightness. 1t is SO far away from us
that 1t is not displaced in position in
the slightest measurable degree, as
we change our position 1s8.OOO.OOO
miles In our annual journey around
the sun. Could we be placed midway
between Arcturus and our sun we
would receive thousands of times more
light and heat from the star than from
our sun, and this Notwithstanding that
the stars radiation Is smothered by
dense blanket of metallic vapors. In
spite Of Its immense distance the star
Is drifting slowly In q southwestward
direction over the face of the sky, its
motion changing Its apparent position
by an amount equal to the diameter
of the moon in the course of about
1000 years. So great an apparent mo-
ton must indicate IN enormous veloai-
ty in space.-New York Press
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, a. they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear
There is only one way to cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed
condition Of the mucoue lining of the
Eustachian tube. When this tube is
ipfamed you have q rumblins sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, deafness is the result,
and unless the Inflammation is taken
out and this tube restored to its norm
81 condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caas
ed by Catsrrh, which is nothing but an
inflsmed condition Of the mucuos sur
face.
We will give one hundred dollars
for any case of deafness (cansed by
catsrrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Cstarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free,
F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, Is cents.
Take Halls Family Pills for con
stipstion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
ANIMALS AMBIDExTRous.
Why Man Gives Preference to Right
Hand Over Left.

Hand Over Left.
Right handedness and right eyedness
came with genus homo DR.. George NJ.
Gould has watched for them In squir-
rels that use their front paws to hold
nuts. cats that strike at insects in the
air or play with wounded mice and in
many other animals, but he is certain
no preference is given to the right side
over the left.
But III the lowest human savages all
over the world choice In greater ex-
pertness Of one hand is clearly present.
One cause for its development is In
primitive military customs. In all
tribes and countries since man used
implements of offense and defense the
left side. where the heart lies. has been
protected by the shield, and the left
hand was called the shield hand, while
the right hand was called the spear
hand.
Next to fighting came commerce.
The fundamental condition of barter
Ing was counting with the low nun.
bers, one to ten. The fingers of the free
or right hand We're naturally first used,
and all fingers .today are called diglts.
as are the figures themselves. while
the basis Of our numberings is the deci-
NAL or ten fingered system Every drill
and action of the soldier from ancient
Greece to modern Amerie. Is right sid
ed in every detail. Firing from the
right shoulder and sighting with the
right eye bring the right eye into prom
inence.-Exchange.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19

decade the United States government
reclamation service has worked Won
ders by irrigation. bitches through
sectio s previously looked upon as too
arid for cultivation have literally
caused the desert to blossom as rose,
amply fulfilling the we'll known biblical
prophecy. In western Colorado, near
the Utah line. and in the immediate
vicinity CT Grand Junction and Pail
sades, along the line of the Colorado
Midland railway, there lives today
thousands of wealthy ranch owners
and fruit growers who were but a very
few years ago "colonists," and who
had reached the wise decision that
! going it on their own hook" was pre-
ferable to paying rent and eling out
mere livelihood. On every hand the
new settler receives encouragement of
the sort that spells success" The
government, railroads, commercial
bodies and individuals hold out every
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
Tn. poos of con,ta ntine pie


There are at least 285, 900 dogs In
Constantinople. which has population
Of 100000. They are the vilest Of
towards and are the scavengers of the
city. 1t Is said that scores Of people
are bitten daily by the dogs of Con-
stantinople. but that case of hydro
Ehobia was never known there. Three
centuries ago Nassuf Pasha, grand
yizier to Achmet. III. transported all
the dogs to Asia and would have had
them destroyed there, but the sultan,
on consulting the multi, was told that
every dog had soul and consequently
forbade such wholesale destruction.
After the slaughter of the janizaries
Mahmoud intended to get rid of them,
for he caused an immense number of
sausages % to be made and, having
poisoned them, gave the dogs a feast.
Many thousands We're thus killed In
one day, but the people murmured SO
much that he was afraid to begin a
second days work. He therefore order.
ed them to be expelled to Asia, but the
order was very indifferentiy executed
and in a short tms the dogs were N
numerous as during the time Of tie
5anizaries.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
soMNAMBuLIsM.
Some of the Curious Things Done by
Sleepwaikers.

Some Of the Curious Things Done by
SIeepwalkers.
Many years ago an archbishop of
Bordeaux attested the case of young
ecclesiastic who was in the habit of
getting up during the night in state
of somnambulisln and. taking pen,
Ink and paper, composing and writ
Ing his sermons. When he finished one
page he would read and correct it. In
order to ascertain whether the SON.
nambulist made use of his eyes the
archbishop held piece of pasteboard
under his chin to prevent his seeing
the paper upon which he was writing,
but he continued to write on without
being in the least Inconvenience.
1t is related of Negretti, sleepwalk-
er, that he would sometimes carry a
lighted candle. as If to give him light
in his employment, but on a bottle
being substituted he took 1t and carried
1t without apparently noticing the DIFF
ference.
Another somnambulist would dress
in his sleep and go to the cellar. where
1t was pitch dark, and draw wine from
the cask without walking into anything
and without splitting a drop Of the
wine. but If he happened to awake in
the cellar he had great difficulty In
cropping his way out-Exchange
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
Lness and war.

The origin of chess is shlouded in
mystery. There is little doubt, how
ever, that its birthplace was in India
and that 1t is an offspring of game
called chaturanga. which is mentioned
in oriental literature as in use fully
200 years before the Christian era.
From India CHESS spread into Persia
and thence into Arabia, and ultimately
the Arabs took it into Spain and the
rest of western Europe. The game
was in all probability invented for the
purpose of illustrating the art of war
The Arab legend upon this point is that
1t was devised for the instruction of Il
young despot by his father. learned
Brahman. to teach him that king
notwithstanding his power was depend
ent for safety upon his subjects. The
Greek historians credit the invention
Of the game to Palamedes. who, they
claim. devised 1t to beguile the tedium
of the siege of Troy during the Trojan
war
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
SAW 1t IN A DREAM.
A Lost Check and the Peculiar Way i.
Was Found.

A wealthy New York lawyer sat up
late one night writing letters he had
not been able to finish during the day
1t was past midnight when he went out
to mail them, aud when he returned
and was undressing he paused in dis
may, missing a check for large sum
received during the day and taken
home with him. In vain was the house
ransacked Mt that late hour. He went
ito bed convinced that the lost check
must be III the house. An hour later
NE fell into uneasy slumber and behelG
as with his eyes Of the flesh the pink
check curled about IN area railing -four
or five doors from his own house.
So real was the dream that the trou-
bled man woke up, dressed and, slip
ping down the stairs into the street
walked along the sidewalk to a spot
still seen wildly in his mind, and there,
sure enough, standing edge upward and
partly curled about the iron, was the
missing check. II think" he reported
to the Psychical Research society, "my
subconsciousness must have noticed il
fall from my pocket Us walked to the
mail box and my subliminal self point
ed it out to me in Sleep William G
Fitz- Gerald In New York Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
Peppermint and Tobacco.

If you have boy who has begun
smoking too early and whom you wish
to cure OF the habit. feed him pepper
minis. DR.. o. Clayton Jones of Silver
ton, England. writing in the London
Lancet, is authority for this simple
cure. DR.. Jones writes: ITO break the
smoking habit in youth there is moth
ing better than peppermint drops. He
cannot smoke with a 'bullseye' In his
mouth, and even for some time after
1t is dissolved tobacco will not blend
kindly with the taste that remains.
Socially the cure may seem worse than
the disease, but from medical point
Of view the sucking Of peppermints is
far less hurtful. A common 'bullseye'
will prevent smoking for nearly an
hour. SO the amount of sweets used
need not be great"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
TRICKY JAIL BIRDS.
Many Ways the conviets Have Of
Fsianina Sickness.

Many Ways the convicts Have Of
Fsisnins Sickness.
Hear the song Of the dear little jail
Birds" said the jailer as burst of
rlbald melody came down the gray
corridor. 1.-The dear little Jail birds!'
He shook his head and sighed.
They are all playing sick in that
ward" he resumed. There's nobody.
Gun malinger like jail bird. His
tricks are amazing.
ITO fake fever he will whlten his
tongue with chalk, flush his cheeks
with red flannel undershirt and dis
order his stomach by swallowing q
qutd Of tobacco. ~
ITO fake consumption he will cut
his gums SO as to spit blood and so
through terrific kind of Swedish
movement In bed so as to produce
night sweats.
Some jail birds have brought on
nettle rash by temporarily poisoning
themselves with struggled crab or lob.
ster. Some chew soap SO Us to froth
at the mouth In fake fits. Some even
thrust needles down to the lids of the
eye to bring on cataract"-Minneap-
oils Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19

fort. Tie result is that they reach
their journeys end in good humor, by
reason of having enjoyed their trip.
Often they desire to make stop at
Manitou. Glenwood Springs or other
notable resorts where there are plenty
of historic sights. During these stop
overs many of the colonists avail them.
selves of the opportunity to see more
of the state by going on the various
excursions out of Denver and Colorado
Springs, and there are frequent cases
of families remaining in Colorado,
though ticketed further west. Why do
we pay such marked attention to this
particular class of passenger travel?
Because we recognize in them the
coming giants of the commercial
world in the territory they are headed
for; the next generation will hail them
as pioneers, and their children's chill.
dren will sing the praises Of their con.
quests"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19

Involvement to him. Suffice to say that
not one new settler in one hundred
could be induced to go back home"
wherever that may be. They follow
the star of the empire with that deter
mination which knows no failure
there is no such word in their bright
lexicon.
G. H. speers. general passenger
agent of the Colorado Midland rail.
way. which annually handles thou.
sands of families to Western Colorado,
California and the great empire of the
Northwest, in a recent interview gave
some interesting side lights concern.
ing how prospective settlers live and
enjoy life while en- route to their new
homes
"a majority of colonists are families
OF from three to SIX" said Mr.. Speers
"and ii many cases it is their first tril
of any consequence. They want to see
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
10 rh. Grave By Als own Hand.

The most deplorable way for man
& to end his existence on earth is
suicide, and while it is seldom that
a case occurs in Dyersville when one
does, it is of more than passing COM
ment.
Those who knew the man during
his lifetime were the ones who would
least expect the commission of so
rash an act. His earthly career is
ended and the mortal wound was in
flicted by the hand that God favored
him for protection in any emergency.
Fred Strict was man of quick tenn
per and he had many traits of char
acter that were out of the ordinary
but for all he generally consider
ed a man just in all things when it
came to the adjustment Of difficult
les. We have talked with those from
whom he has rented and their replies
were of the best for honesty and in
tegrity.
The suicide came to Dyersville Fri
day morning on business and from
what was seen of him it was gener-
ally believed that he was in his usual
mood. An information was sworn out
against him and he was arrested and
brought before a justice of the peace
who placed him under bonds which
he refused to furnish, though 1t was
possible he could do so. He was
placed in the city hall and locked up
and between the hours of 4 and z
o'clock in the evening he committed
the rash deed. The marshal called
at GAS o'clock to arrange for him
to go to supper but he found him
dead, hanging from strip torn from
blanket, which was on cot.
The body of the unfortunate man
was found by the marshall who is
also custodian of the hall, hanging
apparently dead A physician was
summoned, and after an investigation
pronounced 1t as his opinion that the
man had been dead from two to thre
hours. Coroner Ryan was immedi-
ately called and arrived in this city
at about midnight. He Immediately
empanelled jury consisting of p.
]. Butler, j. H. Curran. and E. F. Ma
honey, who rendered verdict In &C.
cordance with the facts from the evil
dence taken from several witnesses a
plain case of suicide.
The deceased was born and raised
in the vicinity of Dyersville and was
widely known. He was a hard work
ing man and his tragic death has
been carried wildly to the communit
at large. 1t is alleged that there has
been some trouble existing in the
family for some time and that dis
couragement and disappointment
worked on his mind until his condi'
ton, mentally was such that in {;
fit Of desperation he ended 1t all
The deceased was about thirty-five
years of age and leaves a wife and
several children. The remains were
taken to his home near Plum Creek
from where the funeral was held
Monday. Interment was made at Far
ley.-Dyersville Newsletter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19

Comparatively few persons outside
of those who have themselves trav-
ersed the continent under similar cir
cumstances. are acquainted with the
real significance of the familiar word
"Colonist," SO frequently associated
with the advertisements of various
railroads in connection with reduced
rate announcements. Webster says a
colonist is an emigrant, one who set
ties in. or becomes part off,, colony.
The latter part of the definition only
is the sense recognized by the Amer
lean people today. For the time has
passed when we look to foreign coun-
tries for colonists. Today those sec
tons of the United States which are
sparsely settled are being filled with
our own people.
In years past California and other
, extreme western states have been the
field for colonists.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19

But in later years Utah and Colo
RADIO, as we'll as parts of Idaho, Ore
gon and Washington, have held the
lead. Every spring and fail, usually
between the dates of March LIST and
April goth and again from September
LIST to October 31st q great army of
ambitious, but restless people journey
from the East and Middle West to-
ward the Pacific ocean for the purpose
OF taking new grip on life's success
and the pursuit of happiness in land
of which they know nothing beyond
that which they have heard or read.
They go singly, in families of from two
to five, and even in special car loads,
while entire special trains for the ex-
elusive use of one party from certain
locality arc not infrequent. In Cal
ifornia and Colorado there are yet many
millions of acres of idle land, procur-
able at very small price, and many
hundreds of thousands of acres are yet
open to homestead. During the past
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
A Freak Of the lightning.

| A curious case Of lightning destruc-
tion took place some years ago at Cat
china, an imperial summer residence
not far from st. Petersburg, where
stood stone column fifty feet high,
held together by iron angles. When
rain fell more or less water penetrated
the stones in the interior Of the monu-
ment. One day 1t was struck by light
ming, and instantly the column disap.
peared from view, killing lone SEN
TRY on guard. The only explanation is
that the heat Of the lightning instant.
ly generated steam on coming in con
tact with some of the water and the
terrific explosion followed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19

all there is to see in the Rocky Noun.
tains. AS general rule we find them
fairly well posted on the territory over
which they are travelling. as they near.
ly all write for literature weeks before
starting. But reading about and act.
ually seeing it are two different propo.
sitions. Often we get as many as four
and five tourist carloads of passengers
from given point in Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas or Oklahoma. Land agents get
line on few families who contem-
plate making change, then they go
into the territory with literature and
work up additional interest. When we
receive the cars here at Denver, the
passengers are taken in hand and
treated as guests. In cases of one or
more cars from the same locality, we
manage to send personal conductor
over the line. whose business it is to
entertain the people, point out the
scenery, answer questions and contrib.
ute in every known way to their com.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
Women Who Marry at Thirty.five.

A German doctor lays it down us a
well established fact based on close
observation that women who do not
marry until thirty-tive or thereabout
invariably achieve matrimonial sue
cess. Why women of this particular
age should make more successful mar
riages than those who fall victims to
loves young dream is fairly obvious.
When n young woman marries be-
tween thirty and forty she either does
SO for companionship. choosing her
mate accordingly, or from heed, in
which case she also chooses with II
certain amount of care. She has no
wild dreams of unalloyed bliss.-Lon-
don Lady's Pictorial,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
Touched.

Mrs. Homespun- comic papers
say you fellows never work Weary
Wafiles-i-yes'm; dc comic papers also
say dat mother-in-laws is Il nuisance
VIXEN everybody knows dat dcy are de
most sweetest an angelic NV mortals,
an Mrs. Homespun-You poor, dear
man! Come right In this minute. l
will broil chicken for you.-Judge.