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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
A p;nlo,,.t

Docs he always speak the truth?"
II guess not. All his friends praise
his judgment."-Detroit Free Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
Willie Speaks.

Willie Speaks.
Fathers takin down the stove,
Swearin' like to bust.
Mothers chasin' him around
With a pan for dust
Maggie's got the winders out
Cold as anything!
Sisters dustin all the chairs
Gee. don't mention spring!
Joe Cone in Boston Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
Like clubnnen..

A lamp that's run by kerosene
Is not the best of lights.
The reason is a common one
II smokes and goes out nights.
Judge,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07

He who swears distrusts his own
ords.-Latin Proverb.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
Hoping For the Best.

30 you are uH OptIIHISlE
'Tn certain sense" answered Mr..
Dustin Stax. "Wheneyer I go into a
deal hope for the best Of it."-Wash-
ington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
PROVING Her Point.
But now If ! had a

A winsome young maid of Toronto
Said: II haven't learned golf. yet want
to-
But now II had "a
What is it?-a caddie
I'd not know which end to hold on to-"
Nixon Waterman In Pittsburg Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
That FaultIess GUY

That FaultIess Guy.
whats his greatest fault?"
Ills habit of claiming that he hasn't
any."-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
Modern Jack Horner

MODERN Jack tHorner.
Little Jack Horner on wheat got a corner
And sent up the prices sky high.
He feathered his nest
And skinned all the rest
And said, ''What a big man am II"
Judge.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
His Employment.

We passed yard half bare. half bog,
Wherein upon a molding log
There sat man,
Who said, IT plan
Pictures for a seed catalogue"
Chicago Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-07-07
.Lovett & Davis,
Manchester, Iowa.
Phone 1853.
27-4
With the Minority.

WIN the Mtnoflty.
Wait not TO be backed by numbers
Wait not till you are sure of an echo
from crowd. The fewer the voices
on the side of truth the more distinct
and strong must be your own.-Emer.
son.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

giant pines, stirred by breathS or not
air. seemed to moan of thirst and
parched roots. the wire-grass pony,
drawing the clumsy cart, laden with
Jethro Dismukes's wife and her sick
baby strained YEARLY through the
heavy sand. Jethro walked beside
the cart on the slippery grass, to
avoid the baking sand of the road.
Jethro had been "chilling'' all the
spring, and weakened by malaria,
was in poor condition for walking;
but he staggered manfully along,
striving to cheer Lauretta, his wife,
with comforting words faint
much further, honey" said he, cheeri-
ly. We'll git thar by evenin',
shore, and then the doctor'n be
mighty apt to ego little Sis. Yes,
sir! 'spect he'll ego her right away.
How's she seem to be dom, Lau-
retta?" He reached over the side of
the cart and touched the little head
on Lauretta's bosom.
Such a hot little head, throbbing
with fever! Lauretta sat on a mat
tress with the baby in her lap-a
pitiful baby indeed swollen almost
to bursting, it's skin transparent
yellow from hamilton, hardly red
blood corpuscle in the poor, palpita-
ting body, breath coming in short
gasps from cracked lips, which Lau-
retta strived to moisten with rag
dipped in tepid water in jug at her
side.
Don't seem to me her heads hot
as twas" said Jethro hopefully
Lauretta looked up, despair in her
hollow eyes. "My baby's a-gwine to
die, Jethro," she said, with dreary
calmness.
The baby stirred from a fitful
sleep, peering from swollen lids into
her mothers face. MAN, MANI"
she cried weakly
''Mammy's lamb, mammy's lamb"
crooned the mother, holding a tin cup
filled with the tepid drink to the ca
ger lips; but, when she tasted it, the
baby pushed the cup away, with a
feeble wall of disappointment.
Nanny knows the old waters
hot, but hits all she's got to give her
baby" murmured the distracted
mother rocking the child back and
forth in a vain endeavor to soothe it,
Never mind" said the father
cheerfully, "we're most to town, and
pappy'll git little Sis drink O. nice,
cold ice water soon's we git thar
Don't you go to givin' up, Lauretta,
honey. I make shore the doctor'll
cyo her"
Lauretta made no reply; the cart
swayed heavily through the sand, the
silence unbroken save for the baby's
piteous wall, MAN, mani" and the
mothers ready answer, "Mammys
lamb, mammy's baby!"
Jethro Dismukes and his wife, Lau-
retta, were not natives of this fiat,
sandy, desolate country, with malaria
rising from stagnant sloughs and
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

mothers desertion.
1t was late next morning when
Nurse Lathrop sought a few hours
repose in her own quiet cottage. Be-
lore leaving the baby to Laurettas
care she sponged it's swollen body in
cooling alcohol, clothed it in clean
linen, and gave it the morning
draught of nourishing stimulant
Day after day she did this, coming
back punctually at nightfall; and
eagerly did Jethro and Lauretta
greet her return, for her presence
brought renewed hope and courage
Even the baby learned to recognize
her touch as more skilful than it's
mothers, her ample bosom as a
emaciated arms, and hushed it's
feeble wall at the sound of her voice
singing soothing lullabies in the
quiet nighttime.
And the baby grew better; the
fever and swelling subsidized, the fee
BILE heart grew stronger, and gradu-
ally the red blood began to creep
slowly through the wax-like limbs.
Nurse LathrOp, from taking a pro-
fessional interest in her patient, be-
gan to feel sincere affection for the
tiny being whose walls were hushed
at her approach, and who nestled on
her bosom with sigh of content, or
regarded her with curious look of
satisfaction in it's great dark eyes
eyes full Of pathetic beauty, set in a
tiny dark face, in which the nurse
began already to see signs of posi-
BILE loneliness.
One morning she sat rocking the
baby to sleep before she left it in
Laurettas charge for the day, gaz-
ing into the pale face and stroking
the sleek, dark head with tender
touches. Finally she rose, sighed,
laid the baby on the cot, and after
her usual careful Instructions to the
waiting mother, wendell her way
through the quiet, shady streets to
her own home. She lifted the latch
of the white-painted iron gate, walk
ed up the neat path, with it's bor-
ders of dewy, night-freshened YER
benas, unlockd the front door and
entered the dusk of the cool hall.
A big Maltese cat trotted up, rub
bling against her gown with loud
purrs of welcome. In the sitting
room could be heard the dolefuI
chirping Of a pair Of canaries-
which speedily changed into IL song
of rejoicing as she open,G wide the
windows to let IN tie morning
freshness, uncovered the cage and
hung it in the window, then filled the
birds drinking-glass with fresh
water, and their saucer with bird
seed.
Out in the backyard could be
heard the hungry cries of broods of
young chickens, impatient for their
morning meal. She lighted fire in
the shining kitchen stove, set the
kettle to boil and before making
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

to the turpentine company for which
Jethro worked they had settled in one
of the rough board shanties, hastily
put together for the shelter of the
employees and their families.
But nothing seemed to prosper
with Jethro and Lauretta. Provis-
ions were scant and prices high at
the companys commissary. Jethro
took chills and was often unable to
work; and Lauretta, alone as she
was great part of the time, fell
victim to that most hopeless of dis
eases, named by physicians nostalgia,
by it's victims inconsistencies. She
thought of her fathers little farm
in the mountains, the log cabin
where the cheerful mother, while her
spinningwheel whirred busily, sang
old ballads brought from oversee by
long-forgotten ancestors; and the
troop of hardy children roasted
chestnuts in the ashes of the wide
hearth, and ate them with appetites
made keen by the tonic mountain
air.
And when the sun beat down on
the baked earth and she drank, with
loathing, the warm, bitter water from
the lime sink, how she longed for the
cold, deep spring, whose icy waters
gushed from the mountain-side
Lauretta might have pinned away
and died but for the coming Of the
baby to ease her aching heart. Life
seemed full and happy after that till,
with the hot weather and the teeth
ing, the baby sickened growing
steadily worse as the summer ad-
vanced. The simple remedies to be
had at the commissary were tried
without avail. Driven to despair the
parents decided to take the child to
the nearest town, where there were
skilful physicians, and where, also,
certain good women of the place, the
Kings Daughters, had built and sup
ported an emergency hospital for
such children of their Father as
these.
The weariest journey must come
to an end. At last the roofs of the
town, in groves Of moss-draped oaks
and huge pecans, came in sight, then
the buildings and then the dusty
streets, where the sand was even
deeper than on the country road
Here Jethro stopped to inquire the
way to the hospital. 1t was close by.
The Kings Daughters had built on
the outskirts of the town, where lots
were cheap. Jethro helped Lauretta
and the baby from the cart at the
door of the small white building and
rang the bell.
An old colored woman, the care
taker Of the place, came to the door
and babe them enter. II spec de
baby sick!" she exclaimed sympa-
thetically. ''Come right in de front
room, where it's cool, and lay it on
de bed; den I'll go fetch you some
ice water and phone for de doctor.
Amt no patients tall here now, so
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22
As q Bird TO the Mountain Ann, hsopssp

suff1ced to show him the gravity of
the case, but he cheered the parents
with hopeful and hearty words, and
going vigorously to work soon had
his tiny patient as comfortable as she
could be made under the circum-
stances. This accomplished, the doc
tor INDUCED in some equally vigor-
Gus thinking. Only the most careful
and experienced nursing could save
the child, and this the young mother
could not give Nor could the col
ored nurse whom the Kings Daugh-
tiers hired when extra attention was
necessary. There was only one way,
decided the doctor, and that would
be to beg Miss Lathrop to take the
case Now, Miss Lathrop was a
trained nurse who, though she had
retired from professional life, could
sometimes be persuaded to help her
friends out in an emergency. DR..
Lorimer was her pet physician; he
had recently pulled her through a
waiting for a chance to pay him
back"
Its a shame" he thought, Ito
take advantage Of her gratitude, but,
by George, I'm going to do it," With
the impetuous young doctor to think
was to act; in few moments he was
in his buggy speeding on his way to
Miss Lathrop's pleasant cottage, and
in an incredibly short time that lady
somewhat breathless from her hur-
ried preparations, was seated beside
him, dashing rapidly back to the hos
pital.
Lauretta sat beside the cot, placed
near an open window, to catch the
faint breeze, and moistened the
baby's lips with a tiny bag of crush
ed ice. Jethro sat at the foot of the
cot and looked on, in helpless man
fashion. Hope had revived in Lau-
retta's breast at the doctors first
visit, and now, when he entered with
the capable, strong-faced woman,
whom she instinctively recognized as
a nurse, a power to save only less
than the DOCTOR her face grew lu-
minous with joy.
"Oh," she whispered as the nurse
placed her firm hand on the baby's
wrist, you'll cyo my baby, won't
you? You'll shore and certain cyo
my baby?'
Il hope the doctor and l together
can cure it," replied Miss Lathrop
kindly, "but you must try and be
brave if the worst should happen,
for your baby is very sick"
''You just keep your courage up in
the meantime, Mrs. Dismukes, y
spoke the CHEEKY young doctor
Eve got lots of hope since Miss La
throp has consented to nurse the
baby The best thing you and your
husband can do now is to go to bee
at once. You're both worn out, and
Miss Lathrop will call you if help is
needed"
And Lauretta, gazing into the calm
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
SickrOOm Mirrors.

"Only a hand Mirror should find
place in a sickroom," said doctor,
land it should be one f1attering to the
patient-the kind, for instance, which
if the face is too broad will lengthen
it little And the patient should only
be allowed to look in the mirror at
propitious times. Many patient has
been frightened literally to death by
his haggard refection-has looked,
sighed and renowned hope. But many
another patient in a really bad way
really desperate, too-belng given a
look at himself just after he has taken
q stimulant has bucked up wonderful
ly. In fact, sickroom mirror wisely
handled is a curative agent, while reck-
lessly handled it may kill"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
LOWERSLUMBER RATES
Interstate Commerce Commission Orders
Reduction East and West of
State of Montana

WASHINGTON, D. c., May IL
Two decisions of notable Importance to
the railways and to the lumber interests
of the northwest were handed down to-
day by the interstate commerce commits
sion, the complainants against the rail
ways being victorious in each instance.
Many months ago the Kalispell Lum-
Der company and others, and the Big
Blackfoot Milling company and others,
engaged in the lumber manufacturing
business in Montana, instituted com
plants against the Great Northern rail
way and other lines asking that they be
accorded differentials on the rates estab-
lished in the Spokane case. The differ
entails requested were an average OF
about 21a cents a hundred pounds.
In the opinions announced today the
commission sustains the contentious of
the compliments and issues orders that
the differentials are to be established by
the railways not later than August /,
next The orders have the effect of low
ering rates on all lumber and forest prod
ucts from the Montana mills both east
and west.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
CHAPTER VII

must have been asleep for some time
-SD a sudden sky-cracking crash of
s-U1uer brought me wide awake. An in
yg.'IeIIVe movement made me jump out of
W. and go to the front window which
WAS out upon the sea. The blackness
y, ne pit, and only the roar of the
raves against the cliff! Then while [
tvFSea into the night came flash of
~sD'hlng revealing the beach and the
5o'eS and the open sea with startling
tg"'ness, The scene was over in the
~Ie II takes to tell it, but l had seen
ssS .,, long ships boat, oar-blades
:. sung half way between the light OF
t,T shifting Shoal and Alastair. There
W blackness, and another crash of
ae sky's guns.
80 waited, ny eyes trained on the spot,
n11 again came the flash, and now. out
~ "' The Shoal, l saw long, black
n.9 bare of canvas, pitching like
a ~su In the moil of an angry sea. She
A.; -S not on the Shoal-she might be some
r. sauce off it-but she was tasting a
10y nasty squall. Darkness, another
~ ,a' more lightning, and now | saw that
ny long boat, shooting furiously land
;r ,~'u' was heading towards me, was max
straight for the beach as fast as the
"'es and the oarsmen could drive her.
~ ,.O'ner lifting of night, and | saw tau
ne seemed strangely, uncannIly tau
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
FIND LOST JOHN ORTIZ
ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA A MACHIN-
IST IN CLEVELAND.
Prince of House of Hapsburg, Missing
for Nineteen Years, Works for
SIS a Week.

CHICAGO, H., May 1.-THE journal
today devotes its entire front page to
the elaboration Of an unequivocal state
ment that it has discovered the lost
John Ortiz" otherwise Archduke Johann
Salvador of Austria, Prince of the house
of Hapsburg, who disappeared nine
teen years ago after marrying Ludmilli
Stubel an opera singer. Briefly sketched,
the story says:
John Orth was discovered at Paines-
vile, o., working as a machiniSt at SD
per week. Previously he had followed
this occupation at Grand Rapids. Mich,
and Cleveland, o. His reason for MAX
ing his identity known at this time, the
Journal states, was due to his advanc-
ing age ana his desire that he might be
buried in Austria.
Johann Salvador, as the alleged arch
duke has always been known since he
left the court at Vienna, was married
in London, and he and his wife after
wards sailed to South America in the
''Sant Margarita,' schooner which
he had chartered.
1t has always been believed that the
archduke lost his life when the schooner
sank off the coast of Chile. According to
the story of the gainesville machinist he
and his beautiful wife were not aboard
the ship as was generally thought to
have been the case They went ashore
at Cusavana, a small port on the Rio
de La Plata. 1t was planned that they
should meet the ship at Valparaiso but
the craft sank en- route.
The romantic couple drifted all over
the world, finally taking up plantation
on the island of Martinique. When the
first rumblings of Mount Pelee gave
warning of the catastrophe which fol
lowed soon after, Johann Salvador made
a hurried visit to the city to arrange to
get his family away. But the warnings
had come too late. His wife and then
two children were killed. Salvador was
rescued by French gunboat, and came
to the United States.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
REPUBLICSHEAL BREAK
Diplomatic Relations Are Once More Re-
sumed Between Colombia and
Venezuela.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 10
Diplomatic relations between the govern
ment of Colombia and Venezuela have
been resumed after break of several
years. Senior Cobo, the newly appointed
diplomatic representative of Colombia,
has just arrived at Caracas, according
to a dispatch from American Minister
Russell, and has been received by the
Venezuelan government with marked
corGiality. The Colombian representa-
tive will take up with Venezuela the ne
gotiations of a new treaty in regard to
navigation, frontiers and frontier and
transit commerce.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
TO CROSS ATLANTIC
IN GIANT BALLOON,
Boston Professor and Lee Stevens Will
Attempt oyage with Air
ship

NEW YORK, May 11.-That the gil
ant balloon in which Prof. Henry ii.
Clayton of Boston promises to cross the
Atlantic this summer will be construct
ed in this city. and that Lee Stevens, the
builder, will accompany Prof. Clayton
on the voyage, has been learned here.
1T may sound wild to say that such
trip can be accomplished as easily as a
balloon voyage over New York city, but
it is true, nevertheless said Stevens.
prof Clayton and | have been planning
the voyage for long time, and though
we have not yet begun work on the bal
Loom, l feel certain that within a few
weeks it will be under way.
'It will be the largest balloon ever
made and will take nearly ninety days
to make. The start will probably be
from Governors island, and the passage
will take three or four days, according
to the weather 1t is possible that
may accompany Prof. Clayton.
Instead of a regular passenger basket
we have planned a combination boat and
basket This will be made of aluminium
and canvas so 50 that if the balloon
gives out we will have a vessel to resort
to.
We will use the water as ballast and
when the water is drawn off, the tanks
will be alright compartments. enabling
our car to float, even though the seas
break over it and fill it.
Lee Stevens is the builder of the bal
loon Pabst and directed the preparations
for it's initial ascension from the Sol
diers' home grounds last Friday.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
ELECTRIC ROADS SOLD
Rockford Traction Interests, Including
Line to GAINESVILLE, Wis, Go to
Eastern Syndicate.

ROCKFORD, ILL.,, May 1.-THE
Rockford and Interurban Railway com
pany, operating the local system anc
lines to BeIvidere, ILL.,, Freeport, ILL.,, an(
GAINESVILLE, Wis, has been sold to an east
ern syndicate which owns gas PLAN
in Peoria, ILL.,, and street railways OF
Springfield, H., Portland, Ore, and 9th
er cities. The change of ownership i:
to take effect July 1. Holders of pre-
ferred and common stocks will receive
par value for their shares. There il
$4,000 preferred stock and $1,OOOO0t
common. The new owners will take
over the entire property and assume the
bonded Indebtedness of 50. 725, 600.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
CHAPTER VIII.

Whom T avoke in the morning l was
moro than half of the mind that L had
draamed of the lightning's singular pic
+,,ras or at least that, being suddenly
.tor+1ad from sound sleep and dazzled by
successive flashes and stunned by the
go. Of thunder, my imagination had
n1aved some trick on me. Anything else
seemed too remarkable to be oeleved. 1et
T could not quite convince myself that
bod not seen the tormented schooner, the
landing on the beach of the long ooat' the
march into the pines, and the maj pic
t1,re of that tall, gaunt figure gazing sea
,.ord could not believe that my lmagl-
no+ion or nv dreams could be so vivid as
NV remembrance of those scenes.
questioned Charles closely at break
eo-+ as 70 how he had passed the night
r. seemed that he had slept stolidly
+brouph all the uproar Even had ne not
be would probably have seen nothlng' 1or
b;s room was at the back of the house.
Tho storm continued though with les
od violence. After breakfast l ven
+,-rod ont. dressed for a wetting, and
r,.o,t first to the place where, as l re-
,,,o,,,hared the long boat had been beach
ad The waves had done away win al
trooas of the keel Then | followed as
naorIv ms | could the path which the
rtrangers had taken to the pines; but
81 wind and rain had obliterated the
footsteps. if there had ever been any
tbore | poked into the pines, only to
- drencbed by waterfalls for my pains
Tho mystery was as deep as ever when
+ snaIlv desisted and went back to shell
After some thought, | determined to
,-,on nv secret to myself. Charles would
.s;tbo,,t further evidence he would be
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
TRAIN MEN WILL MEET.
Delegates to Convention of International
Brotherhood Are Arriving in
Columbus o.

COLUMBUS, o., May 10-Prepara-
tory to the convention of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Trainmen more
than 1000 persons had registered at the
Hartman hotel and at the union station
office of the brotherhood after this morns
ing's trains had arrived. w. G. Lee,
the grandmother of the organizations
with nearly all the other grand officers.
are here. Officials of the ladies' auxik
larry ore also arriving. The convention
begins tomorrow and will continue a
fortnight or more.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
A Lover of Strong Drink.

Horace Bixey, the doyen of Missis-
sippi pilots, is still at the wheel at 80.
To him Mark Twain served his appren-
ticeship.
A Vicksburg reporter asked Mr.. Blk
ey recipe for hale old age.
Temperance, young man." the pilot
replied. ''Intemperance is what kills us
off. Oh. the Victims" he said, in his
whimsical way, .the sad victims of in
temperance I have seen!
"Once / remember. passenger of
ours fell overheard. We fished him out
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-14
Radium and Vaccine.

An Italian physician who exposed
fresh vaccine virus to the emanations of
radium for varying periods and then
made use of it in vaccinating children
found that there was no effect on the ac-
ton of the virus produced by the ex-
posure to the rays, but tlat the pustules
produced by the virus were entirely free
from any septic suppurat ton; there was
no inflammatory area and no fever. He
finds that this is an efficient method of
purifying vaccine virus, but on account
of the expense of radium not one that
can be commonly followed.-Il Policln-
leo.