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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
BIRD CASTLES IN THE ROCKS.
Ten Thousand Birds Live Upon n
Rock on the Iagdalen Islands.

Ten Thousand Birds Live Upon n
Rock ON the Magdalen Islands.
+ To see the other rock-dwellers we
must go on farther to the nortn
From the Magdalens to the most
northern lands one will meet the
precipitous islands and headlands
tenanted by the hardy seabirds which
delight in sheer heights such as turn
most men dizzy. Great Bird Rock, of
the Magdalen group, far out in the
turbulent Gulf of st. Lawrence, is the
most accessible from civilization of
any of the colonies Of this sort, says
Herbert X. Job, in Outing. 1t almost
seems like mocker, though, to apply
to 1t the term accessible" 1t is a
question of degree, for even this is
remote and hard to reach at its best.
Yet such place as Great Bird Rock
is one of the seven wonders of the
world. If any one who truly loves
wild nature desires real and unique
thrill. by all means he or she should
somehow visit Great Bird Rock. 1t
towers from stormy, fog-begirt
ocean, lonely, buffeted on every side.
exposing Its towering cliffs to the al
most unremitted assaults of the ele-
ments.
1t has been my good fortune twice
to visit this great castle of the birds.
The first time we went in schooner
of goodly size, were left on the rock,
and called for two days later. The
next time, four years after, the vessel
failed to keep the appointment, and,
rather than give 1t up, we watched
our chance and ran out from the Mag
dalens in an open lobster boat We
were hurled ashore by the surf on the
one bit of rocky beach under the cliff.
Hurriedly hitching ON the steam-winch
tackle. we had the boat hoisted out of
danger, and scrambled up the long
ladder Flo feet to the summit, where
we were loyalty cared for by the keep
err and his family, who had received
but one visitor since the previous No..
yember. q
On the sheer walls of this precipi-
louS isidAo, oA lHe many leuSeS, i've
some ten thousand sea birds. The
sights are impressive beyond the pow
er of any words adequately to de-
scribe. From below, as we approach
in the boat, we gaze upward with
awe at the circling swarm of the
birds. note the rows and companies
upon the lodges, listen to the screams
of the birds and the din of the surf,
which pounds away ceaselessly at the
cliff. Our boat Is plunging, in every
thing there is motion, the height of
the rocky wall is appalling, and the
very universe seems to reel and stag
ger. And when, either by climbing
the ladder or being hoisted up by the
steam winch, we gain the summit
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

feeling we'll this morning, Nan?" he
asked anXiously.
Nan watched him up the hill Then
she lay down on the lounge and had
her cry out. Noon came. She made
tea and drank il. 1t braced her up
wonderfully. Indeed, she felt almost
feverish. 1t came to her that she
would not endure it moment longer.
Jim was there and he was her hus.
band. She would go there, too.
After noon a breeze sprang up
which relieved the hot day. Nan
dressed carefully in white lawn with
| pinkish spots, dress her husband
admired. She loosened her hair about
her face and let it drop little lower
toward the nape of the neck.
She felt that she was girding her
self for battle and she meant to have
no weak spots in her .armor. Then she
locked the door, called Shep to follow
her and, raising her umbrella above
her bare head. set forth.
The walk put heart into her. She
felt ready for anything as she crossed
the last field before the Holman
house.
Mrs. Holman greeted her with a
kiss.
why, Nan, how do you do? I'm
right glad to see you. suppose you
know Molly McClure's here? Jim told
you? Yes. Well. sit right down in this
chair. Well stay on the veranda, for
it's cooler than in the house, She
stepped to the door. "Molly!" she
called. She'll DE down in minute
She's most through dressing" she
said, coming back to Nan. How nice
you look in that dress! You're one OF
the few women ever knew who could
wear pink and keep their complexion
in it."
That did Nan good She was cool
and her heart had steadied down
when a great rustling Of skirts on the
stairs announced Mrs. Mcclure. Nan
rose to met her.
why, Nan Farrell-Nan Lancaster,
should say!" Molly cried, embrac-
ing her ecstatically. II am perfectly
uSH6HCSS. W see you.
She held Nan off and looked at her.
And Nan looked at Molly. In that
moment her doubts, her long fear, her
jealousy. blew away like pinch of
thistle down in strong breeze. She
found herself sitting beside her talk
ing volubly. 1t was all over.
You haven't changed a bit, Man,"
Molly was saying. 81 ask,vl Jim II
you had yesterday and he wouldn't
say. He said should judge for my.
SELF What have you done to keer
your complexion like that, and your
tigure?"
Nan laughed. She could laugh now
Molly's young glory had faded sadly
Her wonderful hair was thin and dull
her cheeks coarse; her teeth had un
mistakably been replaced; her double
chin rested on her full bosom, and
she wheezed as she talked.
Presently Jim came striding VI
with Mr.. Holman. From afar he wav
ed his hand toward his wife.
Just as much in love with you as
ever, isn't he?" Molly said, seeing
him. She disposed her handsome
skirt carefully, so as best to display
its cut and finish. But Nan did no,
notice. She was thinking of Jim
Molly had been an illusion, and the
illusion was dispelled.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
REVIVAL OF sTENc1L1Na.
Adaptation of Straw Mating to Thi
VI -

Adaptation of Straw Mating to This
Style Of Decoration,
Never has Japanese mating been in
such popular favor for decorating and
house furnishing articles as during
the present season, the Boston Post
says.
Now that stenciling is the favorlte
fad in decorating, many and beautiful
are the various decorative schemes to
which the mating lends itself to stem.
CLING. Mating rugs decorated with
a stenciled border are very attractive
and useful for the porch or summer
cottage. Plain white mating is used
for the stencil decorating and the rug
ends are finished by travelling out the
mating to a depth Of four or FIVE
inches and knotting the strands in
punches of six or eight, close to the
last strand of mating, thus forming
a pretty fringe. A conventional Dor.
der for the rugs is the proper style of
decoration.
Porch floor cushions are equally at.
tractive made from mating and bound
together with rata and decorated with
a stencil design.
Screens filled with stenciled mating
always look cool and inviting. Lamp
and candle shades of stenciled mating
bound with rafla are also very popu-
lar for summer use.
Utility boxes, chair seats and tables
covered with mating are also receIv-
Ing their share of stencil adornment.
A screen of green mission filled with
white mating, decorated with flights
of brilliant-hued butterflies and darn
ing needles"-the wasp-like Insect
which our parents often threatened us
would sew up our childish lips for
acts of naughtiness-was recently the
storm center of admiration in an ex.
hibit of arts and crafts.
The work is fascinating, the effect
charming and the, cost next to moth
ing.
Enough said.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
why Amend the Consultation,


Why amend the constitution? Con-
gress might easily, in few words,
apportion an income tax among the
several States, according to their re-
spective numbers" The trainers of
the constitution provided that direct
taxes should be so apportioned. Z,
In the twenty years that preceded
the constitutional convention great
deal had been said about taxation
without representation. The members
of the convention were sensitive upon
that subject. 1t was declared in the
resolution introduced on July 16, 1887,
that representation ought to be APP
portioned according to direct taxa
tion." The debates show that 1t was
the sentiment of the convention that
1.-The apportionment of representation
and taxation by the same scale is
just"
The danger was evident that, II
this rule were omitted, majority Of
the States might combine against one
State and burden it with taxes far be-
yond its proportional representation
in Congress. Accordingly, the consti.
tuition, as adopted, declared that repre-
sentatives and direct taxes should be
apportioned among the several States
according to their respective numbers.
The sound reasons that prompted
the adoption of this principle still ex-
list. So far from becoming obsolete.
they have been strengthened and have
taken on new validity with the lapse
of years.-New, York Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
Faith in True Democracy.


Democrats may find instruction as
well as comfort in the fact that most
of the recent policies of Republicans
have been borrowed from them. In
the states. as in the nation, over
whelming Democratic defeat at the
polls has been fatal only to indfvidu-
ais. Democrats have been excluded
from most official stations, but with
Republican assistance they have writ
ten their principles in the laws of the
land. Democrats go down to defeat
Democracy adds triumph to triumph
The effective regulation of corpora
lions, the warfare upon monopoly, the
direct primary, the popular election
of United States senator's, the tax on
the earnings of corporations, the tax
on inheritances. the income tax and
the regulation and publication of
campaign contributions and expendi
lures, have been Democratic in their
origin, although mainly Republican in
execution. Few Republican platforms
have had anything definite to say of
these things and yet to Republicans
principally is due the fact that the
seemingly defeated principles of de-
feated party have been greatly ad
vanced or carried to victory Demo
cracy thus proves itself once more to
be stronger than the Democratic party.
The lesson which, Democrats should
learn from all this is plain enough to
be self-enforcing. There is great pop,
ular faith in true Democracy The ,
is great popular intelligence in sepa.
rating the false from the true. False
teachers and teachings are not fatal to
Democracy itself. They destroy only
those who adhere to them.-New York
Uorld
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
Not Inherited.

Nothing would induce good old Doe.
tor Dore to believe that govt was he.
reditary. A very young man once con.
suited him in his first attack. -
you call this govt, Willie?" said
the doctor. Pooh! Pooh! You have
not yet earned that costly privilege"
But my father. sir. and my grand.
father?" said Willie. at is in my
blood by right of inheritance"
"Nonsense!" frowned the doctor.
you may as well tell one you have
a broken leg in your veins by inherit.
ance." .
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

In twenty years-between 1873 and
1s9S-6,O0O vessels were wrecked on
the inland seas, marine records show.
The loss of cargo in this period of
less than one-fourth of the years of
navigation on the lakes was $4,000, 900.
From this estimate it is figured that
the total number of vessels wrecked
reaches $4,000 and the amount of treas.
ure at the bottom of the lakes is $780,
100000.
String these sunken vessels with
their hidden treasures over the 1000
mile course from Buffalo to Duluth.
and there would be one every half
mile
The field of romance on the inland
seas is rs great as that of the South
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
SHORT METER SERMONS.
N~~~~~~~~


The soul Is the secret of all values.
artistic. commercial and social. Save
that center of worth< and you save the
whole circle of wealth.-Rev. G. C..
Woods, Episcopalaian, Fresno, Cal.
What the Church Forgets.
The church has often forgotten that
1t can never be divided into classes,
but must ever be the common meet
ing ground of all classes.-Rev. w. H.
Foulkes, Presbyterian, Portland. Ore.
Belief In Future Life.
No intelligent man can subscribe to
creed which eliminates the idea of
future life, thereby sitting the lofti-
est aspiration of his being.-Rev. Muir
doch Mcleod. Presbyterian. Tacoma,
Wash.
Repressive Christianity.
Christianity is repressive. 1t does
cramp. 1t does confine. 1t represses
the animal. cramps the selfshness.
1t confines the OK to his stall.-Rev.
Station. Presbyterian. Ceur d'Alene.
Idaho.
Youths Folly.
1t is the GROWING folly Of modern
youth that 1t thinks that life can be
lived from day to day without any
attempt to settle the final question Of
why and whither.-Rev. ]. P. D.
Lloyd, Presbyterian, Seattle.
Healthy Mind.
Beware Of morbid determination.
Be healthy minded. The current Of
love always flows outward toward the
one loved to benefit and bless.-Rev.
A. NJ. Bailey, Methodist. Akron, o.
Little Faults.
A good wife ought to have patience
with her husbands little faults. II he
didn't have some faults he wouldn't
be man. He would be an angel
Rev. w. w. BASTARD, Baptist, Boston.
The Fatal Mistake.
The chief business of the church. in
the name Of Its Divine Head, is to
save men from the fatal mistake that
life consists in the abundance of ma
terial things.-Rev. w. H.. Stevens.
Presbyterian, Huntingdon. Canada.
SANDER.
Not only the man who originates
ISLANDERS. but the man who idly re.
peats them, or even lends ready Gre
dence to them. is poisoning the
sources of public -opinion.-Rev. A. T.
Hadley. New Haven.
The Struggle.
Your trouble is not so much in what
you have to do; 1t is the coming to
the condition where you are ready to
say In your heart, IT will do It," This
is the struggle.-Rev. ]. G.. Hayes,
True Life Church. San Jose. Cal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

The negro. although proverbially i'm.
provident. sometimes has his weather
eye open.
A man gave a dime to young
darby" who had done him soma
trifling service. The darby handed /.
back. Now. Marse Billy" he said,
you knows doan' want no pay for
what l does for you. Des gimme dat
ole suit O. clo'es youse got on"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
THE OLD PORCH.
BY William Hervey Woods.

-
We did not ask in those old days
II 1t looked east or west,
TO our young eyes the landscape there
OF all the world was best;
The steps led out to hills OF home,
Known fields and meadows low.
With childhood's morning glory lit
What more was there to know?
The little wild things loved 1t, too,
The pewee and the wren
The squirrel from the oak near by
Would frolic there, and when
Our laughing Patty's harmless broom
Had chased him to his limb,
He'd sit and scold at her as If
The porch belonged to him.
The slim, implanted pillars gray,
The roof where MOSES met,
The wabbly banisters, the bench,
The battered croquet set.
I see them all; and all EMPOWERED
When June was at It's height,
With rose.bloom thick as clustered
Some keen December night.
There fathers homemade chair all
day
Its waiting arms outspread,
But might not clasp that sturdy shape
Till dayllght's tasks were sped.
Then in the dusk came mothers
voice,
And Patty's low replies
The honeysuckle's breath around,
The young moon in the skies.
And If at times our glances caught
A glimpse of marble pale
Against the drocp;ng cedars dark
Beyond the gardens rail,
It brought no aching thoughts Of those
Who there in quiet lay,
For even our vanished ones, we felt,
Were still not far away.
They say the house is haunted now,
But Of the tale were true
u Heaven would but single hour
OF those old times renew,
Not all the gain nor ease nor power
That cheats a world of men
Could keep me; on my knees I'd go
To that old porch again.
Youths Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

THE BRIDGEWATER CANAL CROSSING
The Manchester canal
curious than
modern ship canal The aueduc which
aside pivot the water tank two
walls of which formed shin
canal which gives for vessels
opened on the first of 1894 1t
the Mersey estuary miles breadth
M feet the surface
feet. That is being =
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

and look down, the scene is equally
impressive. From some promontory
OF the cliff we gaze down upon hosts
of birds upon their eggs. Some of
the eggs we can see as the owners
launch forth and scale swiftly down.
ward and circle ont over the ocean to
Join the ever-circling throng.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
A Terrible Moment.

Willie Coming into the house
breathlessly) = Papa, hurry up.
There's man with wagon outside to
see you about putting in the coal.
Slimson-Tell him I'm busy Just
now, Willie. I'll go out and see him
In few minutes.
Willie-But you mustn't keep him
waiting, papa. You don't know who
he is. He is the father Of the pitcher
of our baseball -Woman's Home
Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
The Force Of Habit.

One Of the campers had done some
thing peculiarly idlotic. and the dean
said, "Dick reminds me of Thomas
colt"
What about Thomas colt?" asked
Dick, cheerfully.
why" the dean responded readily
where l lived in Maine when | was
boy an old man named Thomas
raised horses. He once put out to
pasture a colt, which had been fed
from its birth In box stall and wa.
tered at the trough in the yard.
1.-THE pasture lay across small riy.
er. and in the middle of the day the
colt swan the stream to go up to the
barnyard for drink of water"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

TITS hardly worth while to buy q
lawn mower for just twenty-five feet.
Let's get one together"
mo. thanks, Mr.. Naybors. 1 value
your friendship too much" -Kansas
City Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

While the Aldrich Senator's with
their prohibitive tariff scheme have
been conspiring against the Treasury
and the President has been driving
hard political bargains with the Sen
ate in the interest Of his inquisitorial
corporations tax, the fiscal wear 1909
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
Quite So.

: New thought will beautify the
plainest girl"
THAT may be SO. but very few girls
are going to give up lotions for no
tions."-Milwaukee Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
has closed with an excess Of expendl.

has closed with an excess of expendi-
lures over Treasury receipts of nearly
ninety millions of dollars.
And this has come to pass in spite
of an increase of more than three mill
lions of dollars in the receipts over
those of the previous year. The trou-
BILE which is driving the President and
the Congress to seek extraordinary
sources of revenue and impelling them
to impose unusual taxes on the peo-
pie Is not in the Treasury; it has its
root in the criminal extravaganza Of
the Congress which, sitting amidst
widespread financial distress, voted
away the peoples money more lavish
ly than it was ever voted before.
During the fiscal year money was
poured into the Treasury at the rate
of nearly million and three-quarters
of dollars day. That is at the rate
of about 81 per annum for every man,
woman and child in the country. This
is in addition to the tribute which ev-
cry man, woman and child has paid to
the protected monopolies.
The monstrous appropriations for
the current fiscal year have already
been made and the money to meet
them must be raised in one way or
another. Yet, while the Senate is
scheming to defeat any tariff that
would produce the needed revenue, the
President has no better remedy to of
fer than a tax whose lawfulness is dis
puted and the iniquity of which is
bitterly assailed.
Lack Of candor and insincerity to-
ward the people is evident in every
move that is made. In the tariff the
Senate cynically repudiates the most
sacred pledges given by the Republic
can party in the Presidential cam
paign, while, in order to remedy the
results of this treachery. the President
springs fad of his own which was
never mentioned in the Republican
platform and was never heard of in
the campaign!-St. Louis Republic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

1t costs more to avenge a wrong
than 1t does to let 1t 60 by default.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

Sometimes the nomination seeks
the man when the office does not.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

A tombstone epitaph isn't necessari-
" q hard fact.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

After you get dollar in your
clutches the faint soon evaporates.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
The Struggle,

Your trouble is not so much in what
you have to do; 1t is the coming to
the condition where you are ready to
say In your heart, II will do It." This
ia the struggle.-Rev. ]. G. Hayes,
True Life Church, San Jose. Cal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-08-12

by the icy wind, we snarled like wild
beasts. our eyes blOodshot, our faces
haggard and unClean.
know not how long it endured
lost all track of day and night.
merely remember this and that out of
the mist, Doris gray eyes ever upon
me, her hand clasping mine; Celeste
lying motionless day after day under
the blankets; De Nova rocking back
and FORTH striving to sing or creeping
aft to the tiller, with his body shaking
as though he had palsy; Johnson
never moving, his head sunk into his
chest his gaze out over the bows; Nc
knight curled up as dog lies. some
times cursiug fiercely, only to break
off and cry like a child. remember
when the boom swung about. pitching
Sanchez headlong and breaking his
leg; how we pulled it back into posi-
ton with a siCkening snap, binding it
there firmly, while beads Of perspira-
ton told the Chileans pain. recall
that other day when Dada suddenly
stood up, his eyes staring duly out
into he fog bank which "~ocaea -
TO BE CONTINUED
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-08-12

curing dawn those within the boat
appeared older. grayer. more deeply
lined: their exposed flesh csked more
heavily with the salt spray: their
limbs cramped from confinement and
cold: their eyes lusterless and heavy
with despair. They cOnyersed with
some effort at cheerfuiness at first,
figuring on the speed with which We
sailed. dividing up the treasure, count
ing the gold pieces, and specializing
upon their probable value. But de-
preston followed swiftly as day
merged into day, with only that same
desert OF tumbling waters stretching
about us. that same wild sky over
head Finally the growing voices
ceased entirely, the fellows becoming
moody and sullen, scarcely answering
even when addressed
If anything the women managed to
bear up better than the men, but
whether this was because of their dis
positions, or failure to comprehend full
l. the desperation of our situation.
am unable to say. Yet Outwardiy they
seemed to retain courage longer.
However, their eyes told me plain
ly enough how heavily the hours
rested upon them. | saw comparative
ly little of Celeste, as she chose a po-
sitiOn near the foot Of the mast. and
remained there much Of the time
wrapped warmly in blankets, minis
tered to by De Nova. who sat beside