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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-11-25

the annual Thanksgiving SERVICES will
be held at the Baptist church, Rev
R. A. Barnes. pastor of the Metho
dist Episcopal church will preach the
of the, city united in extending an in
vitation to the people of Manchester
and vicinity to attend this meeting
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-11-25

on Thursday evening. at 7:3o O'CLOCK
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
cUREAT CITY MISSION.
Awful Case of Scabies-Body Mass
of Sores from Scratching-Her
1ortures Yield to Cuticura,

"a young woman came to our city
mission in most awful condition physi-
cally. Our doctor examined her and
told us that she had scabies (the itch),
incipient paresis, rheumatism. etc.,
brought on from exposure. Her poor
body was mass of sores from scratch
ing and she was not able to retain solid
food. Weworked hard over her for seven
weeks but we could see little improve
ment. One day bought cake Of
Cuticura Soap and a bottle of Cuti-
cura Resolvent, and we bathed our
patient well and gave her a full dose
of the Resolvent. She slept better that
night and the next day got a box Of
Cuticura Ointment. In five weeks this
young woman was able to look for a
position, and shei now strong and we'll.
Laura Jane Bates, IS Fifth Ave., New
York, N. Y. Mar. II. 1907
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
Around the Farm.

Have nothing to do with Belgian
hares. Leave the ginseng out. There
is nothing in them for the everyday
farmer. Same way about frog cult
ure, raising skunks, and all that sort
of thing. Be enterprising, but let it
be along lines of legitimate farming.
There is a lot of talk all the time
about the best ways of keeping UP the
fertility of our lands. The best way
that anybody has ever thought out
is to keep stock. Good, old-fashioned
barnyard manure is the most natural
fertilizer in the world. The more we
can get of it the better off we will be.
Keep a steady hand on the wheat
crop. Do not be influenced very great
ly by the fluctuations in the market.
It will all be needed and will bring a
fair price.
Prices for pork have been high and
will be again. That means that we
should get in large crops of corn this
spring Plan for it, work for it. How?
By making your soil rich, by blowing
the very best you can, by thorough cul-
tivation, by using first-class seed and
by caring for the crop after it is on
the way.
Some men never think of bringing
in pail of water at their own homes.
They will go away to somebody else's
home and do lots of such little chores
and smile all the time. Ism your wife
just as thankful for these little atten-
tons as your neighbours wife is?
see our friend Jones never fails
to go to town twice week to help
save the country at the grocery store
congress. Meanwhile his sheep crawl
through the bottom wire fence and
have a good time among the corn
stalks he is too busy to husk out.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
Keep Your Best Stock.

Many farmers are in the habit of
selling their best animals because
they will bring the highest prices. A
greater mistake can not be made. A
difference of 10 or even % per cent
in the price of single animal is q
small matter compared to this differ
ence in whole herd By keeping the
very best to propagate from, the whole
may be made of equal excellence. and
in the cource of few years numer-
Gus animals might be produced having
the excellent qualities that now dis
tinguish some few of the best.
What would you say of farmer
who sold his valuable varieties of po-
tatoes and planted other kinds that
were inferior? In consequence of
this imprudent measure, his next crop
would fall short Everyone will con.
denim this course, and few if any are
so wanting in discretion as to pur.
sue 1t. Yet many take similar
course in selling their best animals
and propagating from the poor. Not
only is this true of animals for breed
ing purposes, but those for work as
well. Who does not know in his own
experience of farmers who sell their
best work horses and keep the poor
est ones? Well, the consequence is
that the poorer one costs a great deal
more to keep each year and does less
work, and in the end is the most ex-
pensive animal. The policy should
have been to keep the better one and
to have sold the inferior.
And doubly so, we believe, when
the farmer has animals for breeding
purposes. There is vast difference
in our cattle in sections where much
attention has been given to improve
ments by selecting the best, when
contrasted with those where little or
no attention has been paid to the sub
ject, and as a matter of course, the
best have been sold or eaten because
they are the latest. Every man who
raises stock has it in his power to
make improvements, and he should
avail himself of all the advantages
around him to turn his power to the
benefit of himself and posterity.-C.
w. Burkett, in Journal of Agriculture.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
OUR COUNTRY PRESS.
II Is Making Progress and Is lmpor.
tant to Wide-AWake Advertiser.

Close estimates show that adver-
Using in country papers has increased
fully 20 per cent the past five years.
This shows that the merchants are
realizing how important 1t Is to adj
yertise and also shows that there is
| merit in the right kind of use of print
| ers' ink, or there would be decrease
| instead of continual increase. There
| can be no doubt that the inroads of
different parts of the country have
| aroused merchants to the necessity Of
| more extensive advertising.
One of the things that has no doubt
| stimulated advertising is the practice
| of many manufacturers supplying deal
ers with electrotypes and ready pre-
pared advertising. There can be no
doubt the trade papers have been i'm
portant mediums in the matter of in
f1uencing merchants to do more and
better advertising. 1t matters not how
the change has been wrought, but it Is
a fact that advertising patronage of
the country newspaper publishers has
been increased about 20 per cent. in
five years. This means that the mer-
chants are getting their eyes open,
and are on the right path for the pro-
lection of their interests.
Now is the time to start at york
on spring and summer advertising.
There will be a heavy trade the COM
ing seasons. The people have abund-
nf nd o1.o
anxious to spend some of it for things
that they want. The live merchant is
going to get his share of it.
He g ge:ng to get just a little more
II he sets out right and does a little
judicious advertising. When we say
eral space and fill it with the right
kind of ideas, of attention attraetors.
Start in early. Take time in studying
out just what you want You should
have ideas that are worth trying out,
some opinions in regard to goods that
you carry and want to shove When
you have carefully weighed the mat
ter, take your printer into your con-
fidence and tell him that he must do
his best to get the ideas in the right
kind of shape. Too often good adver-
tisements fall fiat because the print
er has no knowledge or lacks the
means of setting up an attractive ad
vertisement It will pay the liberal
advertiser to adopt the methods the
great concerns in the cities follow.
Have a certain style of type to use
the printer is too poor to get it for
you, it might be a good investment for
you to secure it yourself and for your
sole use. 1t will be different from the
others, and the people will notice it.
It will be kind of advertising trade
mark for you.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
Farmyard Scrapings.

Manure made from animals fed on
clover hay is worth twice as much as
manure from animals fed on timothy
hay.
A certain farmer spent whole
season growing big crop of sun
flower seed and then began to inquire
where he could sell it. Look for the
market first.
The next time tool handle bothers
about coming loose, fill it with pow
dered rosin, then heat the tang of the
tool enough to melt the rosin easily
and drive it into the handle.
Old tin cans do not burn very well
on the brush heap. Bury them. Most
of the garbage and trash that colletcs
during the winter will burn. The road
side is not proper place for it.
Where the boil weevil is present late
planting of cotton should never be
practiced. Louisiana experiments show
clearly that nothing is to be gained
from late planting, while on the con
trary, the crop Is sure to be much
more seriously injured than early
planted cotton and the yield greatly re
duced
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25

OUT FOR THE CASH.
Organizations Which Prey Upon the
Business People as Well as Others.

Now and then comes the news of
the formation of some new-fangled or
ganization. Many of them are de-
signed to do away with established
systems of business. Most of them are
schemes devised by insincere persons
who think that they can make some
easy money through the work. Plans
proposed are of the most impractical
and visionary kind. Not long since
what was known as the South Dako-
ta' plan was undertaken, and it in
volved complete revolution of es-
tablished business methods. 1t was
proposed to have the backing of
Standard Oil interests to the extent of
$20,000,000, and with this great amount
establish supply houses in large cities,
issue immense catalogues with the
names of merchants who would use
them, and supply all these merchants
with the goods listed. It was bril-
liant scheme. Should such a plan be-
come operative and successful, it
would be the building up of a NAM
moth monopoly to fight the retailers of
the land or compel them to become
merely agents of the concern There
is only one way to fight the trade
away-from-h evil and that is by
educating the people to the fact that
the system is wrong, is unjust and con-
trary to economic laws; that the farm
er and the laborer who patronize other
than home enterprises is working
against his own interests. This is a
tedious process. 1t is an expensive
thing to do, and the only way it can be
done is by the liberal use of printers
ink, by utilizing the home papers that
are as deeply interested in the build.
ing up of the home town and COM
munity as the merchants, the bankers
and as the farmers should be.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
The CALL OF THE SOIL.
DAYS OF FINANCIAL STRESS
MAKE FARM LANDS LOOK
RICH.

A staff contributor of a southern
newspaper has taken up the question
| Of the return to the farm of many who
had forsaken it for the glitter of the
city He says: ut is a we'll known
fact that the history of this Govern.
ment shows that those men who have
been most successful in life and who
have left their impress upon it's peo-
pie and its institutions as statesmen,
soldiers, financiers-have as rule
been those whose youth was spent on
the farm, and it is to such as these
| that there comes with overmastering
power THE CALL OF THE SOIL.
More especially does it come with re-
doubled responsiveness, greater pow
er and sweeter pleading to the man of
affairs when the clouds of financial
unrest begin to darken the sky; when
the cry Of panic causes people to lose
their wits and act like stampeded cat.
tie; when with reason or without
reason there arises before him the
specter of ruin, grinning in his face
and waving its gaunt arms in threat
ening gesticulation.
The pitiable state into which some
men were brought by the recent finan-
cial furry, which happily is now
passed, suggests these reflections.
Some were ruined and very few be-
came insane because of their losses.
Two or three took their own lives.
It is when such times come that the
statesman, the great financier and
the man of affairs becomes tired of
the struggle. He lays down his pen,
turns from his desk and listens to
the CALL OF THE SOIL.
There are hundreds of cases
throughout the United States of those
looking for investment in lands. No
investment is better or safer Take,
for instance, the lands in Western Can.
ada that can be bought at from $40 to
SIS per acre which yield revenue
equal to and often greater than their
original cost. Those lands make a
certain investment. During the past
two months large investments in
these lands have been made, some in
tending to use the lands for farming
purposes of their own. Others 20 re-
sell to farmer friends. The agents Of
the Government of Canada located at
different points throughout the United
States have in their possession par
tieulars of districts in which there are
free homestead grants of 160 acres
each accessible to railways, markets,
schools, churches, &c. These are val
liable lands. These agents will be
pleased to give information to any de-
sirous of securing, and will tell all
about the railway rates, &c.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
Our Common Protector.

Did you ever think that the govern
ment is a great obliterator of prize
schemes, premium games, adulterated
foods, etc.? 1t surely is, and the time
is not far off when it will take hand
in the methods of selling goods, and
let it be hoped cut out such schemes
as coupons and the premiums in gen
eral. Fraud one way is just as bad as
fraud some other way The lottery
principle involves the plan of making
a great majority contribute toward the
payment of sums to a mighty small
minority The average premium
scheme works with more certainty. 1t
means that all the users of goods with
which premiums are given must con-
tribute towards paying for prizes
which only about 80 or 40 per cent. of
the users of the goods receive. There
are two ways Of heading off the
premium deal: One is to educate the
merchants and the consumers to the
truth that the premium racket is a
plan that works against their inter-
ests, and the other is to have the gov
eminent prohibit the plan. The for
mer is hard proposition to handle,
and perhaps the latter is equally so,
but it is more certain and would be
more effective
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
Don't Breed Plugs.

A bulletin of the department Of ag.
riculture prepared by George M. Rom
mel, the horse and mule expert of the
department, discourages the breeding
of small and inferior mares to jacks.
In breeding mules, he says, the first
point is to see that the mules sire
is large jack, recorded in the Ameri-
can Jack Stud Book. He should stand
1853 or even 16 hands high and weigh
up to 100 or 1900 pounds. If mares
sired by light stations, standards,
coachers, ETC., are bred to such jack
mules of good quality and fair weight
may be expected. For small, indiffer-
ent 800 pound mares without breeding,
nothing better can be expected than
the production of inferior cotton mules
or pit and pack mules. 1t is useless
to try to breed good mules from poor
mares, and this is one reason why SO
much attention has been given to the
discussion of the Importance of horse
breeding in the South. There will
probably always be more demand in
the South for mules than for work
horses, which can be supplied by local
ly raised animals, but it is necessary
farm brood mares. It is doubtful If
any jack is good enough to sire a
any jacq is good enough to sire a
good mule from a small, coarse, plug
mare.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
MERIT IN Gil
" 8. Government Int.
Use Of the Re

It long ago was discovered
dition Of a small proportion OF
coffee gave the combination tfS@
taste and flavor as are found In the inost
EXPENSIVE Arabian mixtures selling up to
several dollars per pound; ms aHr. Iact mas
rope, but only recently mas TINS face
been recognized by American consumers.
Now the government IS lnterested and
has conducted searching inquiry into
the merits and uses of chicory. Recently
in Bulletin 10, U. s. Department of Agri-
culture, page Il. the government says:
It was found that small quantity Of
chicory added to good coffee improved the
flavor and reduced the peculiar nervous
single exception referred to; an inferior
grade of coffee was sold for the high
grade. In all these trials the purity OF the
chicory was undoubted, 1t having been
sent by prominent chicory firm for an
alysiS and experiment.
"Analysis of both the raw and the pre-
pared product have so far failed to reveal
the presence of any positively. harmful
substance. Neither the National nor the
U. S. Dispensatories condemn its use.
.'Chicory,!' says the former, is thought to
Increased the appetite, promote the d1ges-
ton and stimulate the liver
'In France and Germany use is made
Of chicory as an aperient for infants and
young children. mothers preferring it to
ordinary medicine on account of its be-
ing agreeable in flavor and harmless in
effect. Since no evil effects are apparent
when mixture of chicory and coffee is
used, and since remarkable symptoms fol-
low the excessive use of straight coffee,
1t appears that the use of chicory in mod
Grafton is not fraught with greater evil
than the use of coffee. Either beverage
affects different temperaments in differ
ent ways and it should be left to the indi-
vidual himself to choose chicory, coffee or
mixture. The very general use of chic
Dry for the last one hundred and fifty
years, and the proportions which It's Gull
tivation have assumed, indicates that it
Is beneficial and agreeable to at least
some constitutions.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
BUSINESS EXPERTS.
Every Merchant Should Be One If He
Intends to Meet with Success.

During recent years number of
self-styled business experts have come
into existence They are apparently
the outgrowth of the advertising
school, They are business builders,
men with ideas, and ready to dispense
services at SO much per dispense. One
of the reasons why this class of experts
exists is the lack of proper business
education on part of merchants. Were
the average retailer the well-informed
man that he should be there would be
little field for the business specialist.
1t behoyes the business man these
days to be in the front rank of the
well-informed or he is likely to be in
the front rank of bankrupts. There is
hardly underground. One may be
a plodder for while, but it sooner
or later becomes evident that the re-
taller or the jobber or the man in any
branch of business who does not keep
up to advanced methods is supplanted
by some one more enterprising. 1t is
only necessary to study the failure re-
ports Of any of the large commercial
agencies and the cause of disaster can
easily be discovered. 1t is the knowl-
edge of these truths which encourages
the business experts. But strange as
it may seem, these men who are spe-
cialists and know all about how to
run affairs of someone else quite often
lack the ability to properly and sue
cessfully conduct business for them
selves.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
COFFEE EYES.
It Acts Slowly But Frequently Pro
duces Blindness,

The curious effect of slow daily poi.
soning and the gradual building in OF
disease as a result, is shown in mum.
bers of cases where the eyes are af.
fected by coffee.
A case in point will illustrate:
A lady in Oswego, Mont, expert
enced a slow but sure disease settling
upon her eyes in the form of increas.
Ing weakness and shooting pains
with wavy dancing lines Of light, SO
vivid that nothing else could be seen
for minutes at a time.
She says:
"This gradual failure of sight
alarmed me and 1 naturally began a
very earnest quest for the cause
About this time I was told that cot.
fee poisoning sometimes took that
form, and while l didn't believe that
coffee was the cause of my trouble, I
concluded to quit it and see.
Il took up Postum Food Coffee in
spite of the jokes of Husband whose
experience with one cup at a neigh
boris was unsatisfactory. Well, 1
made Postum strictly according to di.
rections, boiling it little longer, be-
cause of our high altitude. The result
was charming. l have now used Pos
tum in place of coffee for about 3
months and my eyes are we'll, never
paining me or showing any weakness.
l know to a certainty that the cause
of the trouble was coffee and the cure
was in quitting it and building up the
nervous system on Postum, for that
was absolutely the only change made
In diet and took no medicine.
My nursing baby has been kept in
perfectly healthy state since I have
used Postum.
Mr.. -, friend, discarded cof-
fee and took on Postum to see If he
could be rid of his dyspepsia and fire.
quent headaches. The change Pc
duced a most remarkable imN
ment quickly
There's Reason" Name g.
Postum Co.. Battle Greek, Mi
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
A GARDENING Nation,

In Sweden gift is made once a
year to each school pupil of trees or
shrubs to be planted about the home.
By law each parish must grant GER
tain amount of land to be devoted to
the purpose of school gardens. There
are scores of horticultural societies
which employ gardeners to give the
public free instruction and advice on
fruit and vegetable culture. The nat
ural resources of the country are be-
ing increased in this way to a won
derfui extent.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
SHOCK.
SYMPATHY.

TITS a serious thing, Verena,"
sighed Mrs. Upmore, ITO be the wife
of man who holds public office.
1t demands SO much of his time and
keeps him away from his home.'
II know just how you feel, ma'am,"
said the elderly domestic. "My first
husband was the grand imperial out
side guard of the Amalgamated and
Solidified Order of Fuzzy Guzzlers,
and sometimes he was that busy tryin'
to remember the signs and grips that
l couldn't get word out of him all
day long,"
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25

Sermons in Sims.

II think it's shame that wine
should be used at launchings. We
temperance women are going to try to
stop it."
after all, instead of kicking about
1t, why not use the custom to point
a moral?''s
"How do you mean?"
"Why, simply by drawing attention
to the fact that after her first taste
of wine the ship Immediately takes
to water and sticks to it ever AFTER
Boston Transcript.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
The Farmers Retort.

What do you call yeour red auto
mobile, mister?" drawled the old farm.
er at the drawbridge.
THE Fool Killer" bantered the
man in goggles. Il call it that because
1t kills all the fools who happen to
cross in front of it.
The old farmer cleaned his pipe
with straw and then replied, evenly:
THAT so, mister? Wall, is there
any chance of it blowing up and kill
ing the fool inside?"
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
The Golden Rule of Three.

Three things to be-pure, just and
honest.
Three things to goyern-temper
tongue and conduct.
Three things to live-courage, af
lection and gentleness.
Three things to love-the wise, the
virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend-thrift, in
dustry and promptness.
Three things about which to think
life> Death and eternity.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
Machine-Made Proposal,

Annabel-How queer! Here's a
story about man who made fortune
out OF an attachment for a sewing
machine.
Arthur (softly) That's nothing.
I've formed an attachment for the
sweetest little sewing machine in the
world, and would consider my fortune
made If she'd have me- (No cards.)
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25

TOOK E.,

A Scotsman, having hired himself
to farmer, had cheese set before
him that he might help himself After
some time, the master said to him:
Sandy, you take a long time to
breakfast
I'm truth, MASTER" said Sandy; "a
cheese O. this size is ma sac soon eaten
as you may think"
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25

Musty or dusty hay is undesirable
always; and If horse has the
heaves, it should be sprinkled enough
to lay the rust. 1t would be better
still to feed better hay.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25

Neither hen nor an incubator can
raise thoroughbreds from poor stock.
Nor will chicks do any good from good
eggs unless they are well brooded. AL
most any old hen or machine vii,
hatch them, but it takes good mother
hen or a good foster mother to raise
them
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25
It Cures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot-Ease is a certain cure for
hot, sweating, callous, and swollen, aching
feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price 25c Don't
accept any substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N. Y.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-04-25

Hope, without action, is a sad un,
doer.-Feltham.