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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
ADVICE TO EM4eRANTs.
Countries to Avoid and Lands Wher

Countries to Avoid and Lands Where
Opportunities Are Offered.
The Emigrants information Office
in Dublin has issued statement tell
ing intending enligrants some places
to avoid. During the last year, the
statement says, work has been un.
usually hard to obtain in Canada and
wages in many cases have been
lower than in 1907.
New South Wales, Victoria, Queens.
land and Western Australia are cited
as reporting good opportunities for
farm laborers and female servants
but poor chances for mechanics or
miners. In Queensland and Western
Australia farms of 100 acres of land
are offered free to approved settlers.
New Zealand holds out offers for
farmers, farm laborers and female
servants and to this country reduced
rates of passage are offered.
The statement warns men against
Cape Colony and the Transvaal, say.
ing that the demand for work in those
colonies already is greater than the
supply. There is an occasional chance
for female servants. The statement
concludes with this about the United
States:
"Emigrants from the United King.
dom should not go to the United States
in the hope of finding work for some
time to come, and not then unless
there has been marked and sus,
tanned recovery from the depression. /"
New York Sun.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
a story Of Flaxma,h.

Flaxman, the great sculptor, mar
ried quite young, before he had &C.
quired any distinction in his art and
was merely a promising pupil.
'Flaxman is ruined as. an artist"
,said Sir Joshua Reynolds when he
heard of the marriage. Some well
meaning friend repeated this to the
young bride, who at ONCE turned tc
her husband.
Let us work together and econom
ize.' said she; ''for l will never have
1T said that Ann Wenham ruined John
Flaxman as an artist"
So the young couple economical.
and Elaxman undertook to add to their
income by collecting the local rates.
and what with art and industry the
thrifty couple after five years of saw
ing set out for Rome together. where
FlaNman worked at his art until he
acquired the reputation of being the
first of English sculptors.- Home
Notes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
PAT THE HORSES FOREHEAD.
That's the caress He Likes Best, But
Most People Don't Know IL.

Most People Don't Know II.
mot many people know how to
pet horse-tllat is, from horses
standpoint" said the driver of one
of the big trucks that brings rolls
of paper to The Sun Office. III
Every nice looking sleek horse
comes in for good deal of pettihg.'
he went on, as one of the big grays
rubbed his muzzle anxiously against
the truckman's sleeve. Hitch fine
horse close to the curb and you'll find
that half the men, women and chill
dren passing along will stop for q
minute and give him an affectionate
pat or two.
THAT is especially true along Park
row during the noon hour. The trou-
BILE is that they don't pat him in
the right place.
IF you want to make horse think
he is going to the equine paradise rub
him over his eyes. Next to that form
OF endearment horse likes to be
rubbed right up between the ears. In
petting horses most people neglect
Those nerve centres, and stroke the
horses nose.
while we'll behaved horse viii
accept the nasal caress complacently
he would much prefer that nice, sooth
ing touch applicable the eyelids. Once
in while person comes along wig
really does not know how to pet horse
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
waterproofina Fabrlcs.

Fabrics are waterproofed by impreg-
mating them with metallic salts, by
coating them with oil, grease and wax,
by coating them with India rubber or by
treating them with ammoniacal solu-
ton of copper. The first process Is
applied to sail cloth. The canvas is
impregnated with alum or calcium ace
tate, and then immersed in q fixing
bath containing soap, which forms
insoluble lime or alunina soap in the
cloth. The second process is used for
raincoats, imitation leather, etc. Tbs
fabric passes between hot rollers and
then over cylinder OF wax, etc. In
the third process solution OF India
rubber in carbon disulphide. chloro-
form or other solvent is applied. This
process is used for mackintoshes and
bathing caps and is also applied to
thread. In the fourth process, employ
ed in the manufacture Of bookbindings
and Willesden canvas. cotton cloth Is
run through solution Of oxide OF cop
per in ammonia. which dissolves the
superficial layer. and on evaporation
leaves it in the form of uniform coat
ing of cellulose. The process is com.
pleted by passing the cloth between
rollers. There are still other process
es, but these are the most important.
Scientific American.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

There is a Washington physician
who numbers among his patients his
sister-in-law, who is something Of
hypochondriac.
Recently she sought. out the doctor,
to whom she confded her opinion that.
in her present condition, she ought to
go to Hot Springs for treatment.
"The very thing agreed the doc
tor. II was thinking OF, that myself.
I'll give you letter to an old friend
of mine there, a most skilled ply
sician, and l have no doubt he'll take
every care Of YOU"
The next day, as the patient sat in
her Pullman thinking 1t over, 1t oc-
Cured to her that, as long as her
brother-in-law had attended her, he
had never given her any precise state
ment of her real ailment. Accordingly
she decided to open the sealed letter
which he had addressed to the Hot
Springs doctor, in order that she might
gain the desired information. The
friend who accompanied her endeavor-
ed to dissuade her from this step.
urging that 1T would constitute a
breach OF confidence, but this counsel
proved of no avail, and the patient
proceeded to read:
Dear Hallett: Keep the old lady a
month and then send her back
Harper's Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
and claim obedience to the peoples

and claim obedience to the peoples
mandate?
How can any Congressman vote for
dearer hosiery, dearer gloves or for
any additional tax whatever on articles
entering into daily consumption by the
people?
TX he does so vote, how can Con
gresham return and face his consti-
tuents with the plea that he voted for
such tariff revision as the people de-
manded? The people are themselves
the best judges Of what they need and
want. They made it clear, before the
recent election, that they wanted gen
uine downward" tariff revision, They
will visit their wrath upon deviators,
in either House or Congress, from the
path marked out by overwhelming pub
| lie sentiment.
1t is bad enough to leave untouched
such schedules as wooden goods, for
instance, which will keep manufactured
clothing as dear as before. A higher
tax ON manufactured cotton Is simply
Il tnoluCl tuAu VI luc bSEcMS IuuL Srluu
wealth out of the "ultimate consum-
ers'" pockets 1t is the same with So
called luxurles that are marked for
higher duties in the Payne BILL The
American standard Of living makes nee
essities out of what other nations call
luxuries.
1t is easy to penetrate the sham and
pretense underlying the claim that
these higher duties are necessary to
guard the national treasury. The
treasury is in no danger from genuine
downward. tariff revision. The rea-
son these higher duties are laid is
because certain manufacturers proved
stronger in the Payne committee couns
ellis than the disorganized consumers
And the agents of special privilege
are not yet through with the tariff
bill. They stand expec at dnatnrpa
bill. They stand expectant and rapa-
cious. Until the last moment when
this bill has finally run the gauntlet
of both Houses they will clamor with
selfish persistence for the kind of re-
vision that suits their individual In
terests. Chicago Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

tends to keep coffee on the free list,
with the provision. however, that COT
fee imported from country that puts
an export tax on It shall pay at the
same rate when-i rs brought to this
country. That means, inevitably, a.
double tax on the poor mans breakfast
beverage, for Brazil and most of the
other countries from which we import
coffee already have the export tax.
The tariff promises on which Presi-
dent Taft was elected are not made
good in the Payne bill. The friends of
Dingleyism in the ways and means
committee have dealt tenderly with
monopoly. We need not expect real
revision until the work Is Entrusted
to a Congress that is not composed of
friends of such tariff as we have had
during the last twelve years.
Unemployed Capital.
The public hears very great deal
about unemployed labor, but not much
about unemployed capital, yet one is
no less to be deplored than the other.
Conditions that deny the workingman
work at fair wage are unfortunate.
Conditions that withdraw vast sums OF
money from business to lie idle in the
banks are dangerous.
There is no more actual cash in cir
culation to-day than there was in Oc-
tober, 1907, Yet, while banks fought
for few millions in 1907, money is SO
plentiful to-day that the government
can sell 9 per cent bonds and Russia
recently borrowed s252, 10000 for fifty
years.
Doing business on paper is the be-
setting sin of American commerce and
finance. The honest toilers Of the
great working west have time and
again suffered through the money mad
ness which CANDLES millions in the
Wall street temple Of luck.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
Revised by It. Friends.

The folly of turning over the Ding
ley tariff to be revised by Its friends"
of the Republican persuasion Is re-
vealed in the discovery on the first
day of tariff debate In the House that
the Payne bill carries custom-house
taxes which, in the average, are higher
than those Of Dingley.
The frlendliness of Chairman
Payne's committee on ways and means
for monopoly rates is further seen in
the reductions upon some western raw
material and the sending of another to
the free list without compensating con-
cessions to the farmers who have to
pay monopoly prices for the daily nee
essaries they have to buy.
+ The claim by Champ Clark that the
bill would Increase the cost of living
to the laboring man while affording no
relief to the farmer is strikingly borne
out by the hypocrisy of what is said
about tax on coffee. The bill pre-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
MICHIGAN FARMERS THRIFT.

Journey Made Profitable by the Many
Changes Along the Way.
Willard Ockerman Is a,.farmer liv-
ing near Owosso, Mich. Recently he
returned from most profitable and
delightful Journey to Lansing.
A. family which was moving to
Lansing offered him $40 to take a
load of household goods to the lat
ter city. He loaded the lares ami
penates on a hayrack sleigh and start
ed out.
The first day he made over half
the distance and stayed with farm
err all night. Came thaw and the
nextsday Ockerman had to zigzag all.
overlook him he turned into the barn
his runners. Finally he reached
Lansing. There he found that the
wrong address had been given him
by the mover. He was several hours
discovering where the goods belonged.
SO the third day rolled around be-
fore he started back.
Stopping for neighborly chat with
a man whom he met on the road ten
miles this side of Lansing an oppor-
.tunity to do little horse trading
arose. Ockerman, after two hours
bargaining, sold his sleigh for s25
cash and traded one of his fine horses
for another horse and COW. Driving
his live stock before him he continu-
ed his journey on foot. When night
overlook him he turned into the barn
yard OF comfortable farmhouse, sure
OF welcome. At supper he learned
that there was to be dance at the
place that night but that the fiddler
had disappointed. Fortunately Mr..
Ockerman is good violinist and Of
fered his services. He did SO well at
the dance that the next morning
the farmer presented him with an
old buggy with which to continue his
! journey.
A few miles further on he got a
chance to sell the horse which had
belonged to the team, and as the Of
fer was advantageous he promptly
closed 1t.
Ockerman had left Owosso with n
team of horses and sleigh. He re-
i turned with horse. COW. buggy
and 5000 in cash.--Detroit News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

Republican babble about Speaker
Cannon having Champ Clark's head sin
chancery," in the lingo of the prize
ring, is moonshine, and very pale moon
shine Mt that.
Mr.. Speakers refusal to consult the
minority leader about minority appoint
ments TO House committees in reality
makes the minority leader more
formidable figure in the House than
he has been since Speaker Reed begun
the treacherous practice of asking tie
advice of the Democratic nominee for
Speaker about such appointments.
1t was all intended to compromise
on the Speakers unsurpations of the
powers of the House, to weaken stern
opposition by the offer Of favors an,l
to avoid full responsibility for the vi.
cious organization by which the House
was gagged.
AS long as the Speaker Yields the
power Of making the committees be
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
MOTHERS DOLL.

Little Babsie stood at the window
looking very disconsolate.
Pm ever SO tired, mother, Of hav-t
ing nothing to play with but these
stupid old toys that don't like"
But, Babsie, lok at that beautiful
wax doll Uncle John gave you at
Christmas. Surely you don't call 1t
old?"
"Well, I'm tired of it, anyway. You
had lots better toys when you were
little, didn't you, mother?"
Mother laughed and shook her
head. mo indeed, Babsie. l didn't
have wonderful French dolls that
could open and close their eyes, and
walk and talk, and that wore silk and
lace dresses, and kid shoes with
real buttons on them. My dolls were
mostly china-headed ones, with their
clothes sewed tightly on to their bod.
les. But I'll tell you OF doll l had.
that l loved better than any of the
others.
Right opposite our house there
lived a little girl called Jenny, and
we always played together. The dolls
we played with most were just two
fat pieces OF kindling- wood we had
begged from cook, and their clothes
were bits of colored paper-brown
wrapping paper for their everyday
dresses, and blue for best.
"Once Jenny got small piece Of
pink, and a small piece Of yellow
tissue paper, and we made them in
to hoods for our dolls. And, one new
er-to-be-forgotten day, J became the
possessor of quite large piece of red
paper, and a smaller piece of bright
green. The red made dresses for
each of our dolls, and the green,
shawls, and you may be sure it was
only on very special occasions that
these dresses and shawls were worn.
I'VE used just to wrap paper around
the wood, and make believe they were
different shapes and things; that was
more than half the delight of our
dolls, just making believe"
Mother, may have doll like
yours? Please. pleased" Babsie beg
| ged.
| Mother laughed, "Run downstairs
and ask Mary, Babsie. and see what
she says" -Margaret Erskine, in
| Jewels.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

been revived SO strongly by the letter.
For an instant she thought that 1t
was all part of the walking night
mare in which she had spent the last
"a hours, but the next moment Ned
Darlington was shaking her hands
with grip that was anything but
ghostly.
i've been here a whole week." he
cried, jubilantly, shut there were
some things to be done before look
ed you up. j was coming to call this
morning. did not suppose that you
left for the office before 10 at least"
Il was not feeling we'll and
thought that a walk might do me
good" she explained, and Ned turned
and suited his pace to hers.
Then by all means let us walk"
he agreed gayly. Its been long
time since we used to walk together,
Agnes. i suppose that you don't mind
walking with a man with a hat like
this?"
Agnes gave a glance at the light,
soft stetson that spoke of the west.
you look like cawboy; but you're
not cowboy to be ashamed Of" she
said. with admiration. you seemed
to have stretched out and up, Ned.
Only your face is not changed"
Prosperity" he explained. after
we had our last talk came to the
conclusion that you were going to be
better newspaper woman than ev'
or could be painter, so scraped my
dollars together and.went west. hap
pened to stumble against a very real
mine, and I'm worth pot of money
now. Are you still sticking to your
old job and telling the lovelorn what
they want to know?"
That is only part of the work
now" she explained. II can't seem
to get rid OF It,"
L And you are still telling them what
you would do yourself?" he asked, re
Herring to the platform on which Ag-
mes had taken her stand when the
work was first given to her and which
he had declared would never do.
81 am still giving real advice" she
said, with an attempt at her old gay
ETY..
Then we'll go in here and get the
ring" he announced abruptly. as they
came to, halt before famous jew
elry store.
What ring?" she asked, in confu
sion.
For answer. Darlington drew FROM
his pocket folded paper and pointed
to the home page displayed on the
outside.
II guess you wrote that" he said
quietly. Il was afraid that you nigh!
guess that. had the question sent in
and chuck it into the waste basket
The girl stenographer at the hote
wrote it for me-"
Agnes glanced at the answer thai
had stirred her so strongly. In =
half-dozen sentences she had advised
the writer that, If the man could sup
port her, 1t was better that she-shoult
abandon her career than that II
should interfere with her love.
That's advice from an expert" re
minded Ned. exultantly. Are yor
| ready ito follow your own advice?'
and Agnes proved her willingness b,
following him into the store, wonder
| ing that the happiness she had coun
seled for another had suddenly be
come her own.-New Orleans Pi
| cayune. u !
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
TILE BEST WAY.

A little fellow came home from
school the othe- day full Of talk about
new rule against whispering. The
teacher had devised some new pun
ishment for the child caught doing it.
"1'll stump her to catch me" he
chuckled boastingly.
The mother reproyed him gravely
for the remark, saying that whoever
breaks rule is sure to be caught
sooner or later, and deserves to be.
'Hub!" he answered, how'll she
catch me If I don't do it? I'd like to
know. amt a-going to whisper. not
once"
There was his assurance Of safety.
The one who simply resolves on hon
est faithfulness in every instance
is secure christian Endeavor World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

The panic of 1907 was simply another
instance, aggravated by the cold-blood-
ed greed of the steel trust, needless of
the public 30 it gained its own ends
through the license of an oyerfriendly
executive.
New York. the gambler, felt the blow
most, because she had gambled with
the money Of the working west, and
lacked productive resources of her
own. The great west, the actual pro-
ducer Of the nations wealth, regained
lost ground rapidly.
And the high fnace gamblers of the
east await, with avaricious eagerness,
the day when the golden tide shall
once more flow in full force from tho
west to replenish the Golfers Of war
ring factions and bring Wall street to
lifoI ~
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
HE ALMOST REMEMBERED il.

Boy at Least Had Combination Some.
where Near Right.
Donald had returned from a visit
to the country, and was full of rem.
iniscences of persons and things that
had interested him. Il met a boy
mamma" he said, shat hsd the queer
est name ever heard. He said his
folks found It in the Old Testament
It vast was-let me see-yes, II
was Father William. or William En-.
Their; I've forgotten Just now which
But it was one or the other
Put, Donald" said his mother
there is no such name as Father
William or William Father in the
Old Testament
Are you sure, mammal"
81 certainly am. dear. have reao
1t through several times. William is
a comparatively modern name. II
isn't anywhere in the Bible"
We'll, but-oh, remember now!'
exclaimed Donald. ut was Bildad!s
Youths Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
Hope Springs Eternal.

He was addressing crowd one Sun
day morning on the quay at New.
castle.
Il can safely say that no man ever
attempted to bride me, gentlemen"
said the speaker.
Don't be downhearted. old chap,
your luck may change. =" shouted a
man In the crowd it-Bits.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
The Old Gate Made o. Pieksts.

j Z
The Old Gate Made o. Pieksts.
There. was moonlight In the garden
and thee chirr and ohirp Of eric
kets;
There was scent of pink and peony
and deep syringa tickets.
When a-down the pathway Whitley
Where the FREELY glimmsred bright
ly,
She came stepping. oh, SO lightly!
To the old gate made Of pickets.
There were dew and musk and muir.
muir, and voice that hummed
low snatches
OF u song, while there she hurried,
through the moonlight's silyery
patches,
To the rose-grown gate, above her
And her softly-singlng lover.
With It's blossom-tangledS cover
And Its weight and wooden latches.
Whom she met there, whom she kiss
ed there, mid the moonlight
and the roses.
With his arms who there enclosed
hes. as tigerlily closes
Some white moth that frailly set
ties
On its gold and crimson petals,
Where the garden runs to nettles-
No one knows now or supposes.
~
Years have passed since that last
3 meeting loves have come and
loves departed.
still the garden blooms unchanging,
there is nothing broken-hearted.
In Its beauty, where the hours
Lounge with sun and moon and
showers,
Mid the perfume and the flowers,
AZ In days when these two parted.
Yet the garden and the flowers and
the cheerily chirring ,.rickets
And the moonlight and the Fragrance,
and the wind that waves the
thickets-
T0ey remember what was spoken,
And the rose that was token,
And the gentle heart there broken
BY the old gate made OF pickets
Madison Cawein, in Smart Set.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
Pretty Slow.

Horace L. Moore was Lieutenant-C Col.
onel@of the noted 18th Kansas Cavalry.
He could lead men for longer period
without rest, on single ration of
cheerful humor, than any other officer
Though not given to Jokes, he was the
reputed author Of as many astonishers
as the great Lincoln.
One time on the march he sent an
orderly with message to an officer at
some distance. Before the man was
out of hearing Moore shouted: "Hey,
orderly! Come back here!"
He came galloping back, sitting
Imply in the saddle.
Moore dropped his voice, and assum.
ing half confidential manner inquir.
ed: Orderly. in the course of your
life have you ever seen snail?"
Yes, sir" was the astonished re-
ply.
"You met him, then.' replied Moore.
"for you'd never overtake one!'--
Kansas City Journal
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21


olutton that might wreck many a
stronger nation than this, From all
points Of the compass come the most
indignant protests and threats of ven
geance. From .suffragettes." our WON
ems clubs have been transformed into
"stockingettes," who purpose march,
ing upon the tariff revisers and put
ting them to rout. This is mot femi-
nine excitability, it is justice, and
when the women OF the nation demand
Justice they usually get 1t In some
shape. The fate Of the new tariff
seems to hang in the balance as yet
and unless hole be found in the
stocking there can be no escape from
ruin.-Dunlop's Dispatch.