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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
POLE EASILY DETERMINED.

Scientific men have explained that
there were no hard problems involved
i'm the determination of THE north
pole. A large variety of instruments
are not necessary. A sextant and a
leyelling device are all that are
needed. AS a matter of fact, with
out any instruments one could dis.
cover the north pole. Exactly at the
pole the sun moves along the horizon
at the same altitude above the hori-
zon during every hour in the day.
When DIR. Cook was at the pole,
the sun must have been about seven
or eight degrees above the horizon
and the sun could be seen in that
altitude all the time. The sun rises
at the pole; that is appears above
the horizon at the same time that ii
crosses the equator, that is, on the
2lst of March, and it remains above
the horizon until the .21st of Septem-
ber. That makes the six months OF
daylight. If Cook stood where the
sun rolled across the horizon at a
constant altitude, he was standing
at the pole. Even the Eskimoes could
determine the location of the pole
Cedar Rapids Republican.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
AHwELsH AND ETukisHook.

(trOm the DeS MONIES Daily NeWS.)
Don. forget Ahwelsh and Etllki.
shook.
DR.. Cook tells how. when he reach
ed the frozen north, the ''norther-
most tribe of $50 persons set them
selves to the problem.
The discovery of the pole meant
fame and fortune for the white man
who should accomplish it. 1t meant
nothing to the Eskimo.
Yet this kindly. simple people laid
aside all their interests, and the
whole community threw themselves
heart and soul into the solution OF
the white strangers problem.
And don't think that their inter.
ests are trivial. Their life and love
and frost-bound world is as big to
them as is ours to us.
The capture of walrus is as i'm
portant to Ahweish as the control of
the Southern Pacific is to Hartman.
Etukishook loves his little fnr-clad
babe as dearly as you love your child
But a stranger came and he seem
ed on fire with one great desire. So
the people laid aside each his own
work and pleasure, and bent every
energy to the service of the lone
white man.
Money? These furthest-north peo
pie have no word in their language t,
express that idea. They don't know
what money is.
We ,hink how heroic Cook was
when he left his wife and children tc
face the deadly perils of the pole. w,
honor Mrs. Cook, who bravely await
ed his return.
But fame and glory and wealth
were to be the prize If Cook won.
Let us not forget the quality O
manhood that spurred the Eskimo t,
kiss his wife and his babies goodbye
and leave them to the care Of hi.
comrades when he set out as a volun
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
Short Stories.

The United States ranks third among
the nations In the mates of the impor
tation of ten.
There are less than 500 miles of rail-
way In Colombia, and nearly all trlv-
cling must be done on horse or mule
back.
An oil well in California has beeu
sunk to depth Of 4.7OO feet. the deep
est ever drilled on the Pacific coast.
Two oil wells in Pennsylvania are re-
spectively 5000 and 5.400 feet down.
Hereafter persons not belonging to
the naval establishment receiving per-
mission to photograph war vessels or
navy yards will be required to furnish,
without cost. duplicates Of all pictures
taken. Moving picture films are in
cluded.
4 juror in the municipal court in
Chicago argued for thirteen hours
against his fellow jurors in an effort
to assess / cent damage against the
Chicago City railway. He finally gave
In rather than stay in the jury room
all night.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15

OCSaSuOueu.
The present tax Is one-fourth o.
Il cent pound on uncolored oleo
margarine and ten cents pount
on oleomargarine colored in imita
ton of butter. The secretary has II
in mind to adopt a uniform tax OF
two cents on all alike, and abandon
using the taxing power to protect
the butter maker. ,,
The change will mean flooding
of the butter market with imitation
buster which nobody can detect, for
even the experts are fooled occasion.
ally. Those who do not care for
real butter will welcome the change,
for oleomargarine can be sold at ten
cents less a pound than creamery
butter. But those who believe that
butter should be the cream product
of the COW and those who are en-
gagged in butter making will protest
bitterly.
A great deal has been said in be-
half of oleomargarine, that it is just
half Of oleomargarine, that it is just
as healthy as butter, and much
cheaper. But every effort to force
the sale has failed when 1t has net
been sold as butter. That is why the
butter maker appeals to congress.
,,;, n
inc is not Disseminated against. The
one-fourth of cent pound tax is
mot important even for revenue. 1t
is cleomargarine sold as butter that
is aimed at in the revenue laws. Sec
retary MacVeagh will find he has
stirred up hornets nest for the ad-
ministration if he attempts to open
the door to imitation butter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
POOR MATERIAL FOR
CLOTHES
DEAR

In a signed letter to the Phila-
delphia Ledger, Mr.. ]. Leonard Kable
of York, Pa, states that since the
ascendancy of the American Woolen
Co.-the greedy Trust which could
not wait for the passage of the new
Tariff bill,b Immediately after the
fixing of the wool and wooden sched.
ules by the Senate sent out circulars
to the trade announcing an increase
of 25 per cent. in prices, to take eff
feet next spring-jobbers are re.
quired, in selling to the trade. to
maintain certain prices, at the PEN
atty of having the line of goods with
drawn. This is one of the favorite
methods of Trusts to maintain high
prices for their goods, and dealers
must comply with orders or be de-
MED the privilege of getting the good
to sell.
Mr.. Kable also says: again, if
goods were better or even as good
as they were. say but five years, ago,
the increased prices might be con.
doned, but we who cut up cloth six
days in the week are face to face
with the fact that woolen fabrics
were never so poor in quality as they
are today. Styles may be better but
the goods themselves ar far infer
ior."
And so it will be seen that the
new Tariff bill, with its wool and
,woolen goods schedules drawn to
suit the Woolen Trust, will doubly
tax the consumer. It will compel hin
to pay higher prices for inferior
goods. It has been shown already
that the increase in prices ordered
by this one trust for next years
trade will make the $40 suit OF
clothes of this year cost $12, the
$14 suit cost $16, the SIS suit cost
$40. and so on.
Here we have the evidence in a
nut shell-high tariff taxes mean
high prices all the time, with the
addition of inferior goods in many
instances. How can high tariff ad.
vocates expect the people to be sat.
isfied with their unjust and oppres
sive policy?-Wilmington Every Ev
ening.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
College and School.

Heidelberg university has received
$50, 500 to found radium institute.
During the coming financial year
London will expend $19,999, ,S25 for ele-
mentary and S4.729.61O for higher edu-
cation.
An, addition Of 1900 pupils to the at
tendance roll Of the various high
schools in Chicago is reported to the
board Of education. This is an in
crease Of 50 per cent over the record
last year.
Professor John Coulter of the Uni
versity Of Chicago in an article In tbs
School Review takes issue with those
who favor the holding of examinations
for entrance into higher institutions,
declaring that such methods are 'she
relics OF barbarism and entirely cut
Of date"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15

No doubt the desire for fat CAM
paign contributions from the pro-
tected interests also induced a few
Republican insurgents to return into
camp.
When l was a boy back in the Hill
Country of Kentucky heard an old
rough and ready doctor, who was a
good deal of philosopher, say that
the most sensitive nerve in the
human anatomy is the one leading
to the pocket-book-a fact under.
stood thoroughly by the beneficiar-
les of exorbitant Tariff rates. am
not claiming or insinuating that any
Senator or member was bribed in
dollars and cents, but everybody
knows that the Tariff Barons take
care of their own, so far as pos
sible, at election times, saving as
many as they can. The corrupt use
of money in elections is one of the
crying evils of the times in which we
i've and there are no worse sinners
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
LOVE is so STRONG.

Love is SO strong;
1t joins our souls forever more Sweet
heart,
No matter though the winds of III
blow long,
No matter how the storms of life
upstart,
Love is SO strong.
Yet Love is weak;
1t can not stand alone amid the
strife,
It can not teach our faltering lips
to speak;
1t can not even save one little life.
Love is SO weak
But Love is strong;
Those whom our eyes have lost, Love
still sees clear,
And thoughts too deep for speech
ring through Loves song,
And Love alone can face Deaths
presence, Dear,
And still be strong.
Constance Johnson in Everybody's
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15

teer bodyeuard to the white stranger
Cook tells us how, in fours and
pairs, the natives turned back tc
take the news of his trip untlS, by
the rule Of survival OF the fittest,
only sturdy Ahweish and Dtukishook
remained. And these two plunged on
alone not to find the pole; not to
earn fame and fortune; not to write
their names on history's. page, but
Just to help fellow man, stranger
who had need of them.
When it is all over, Cook will be
crowned with the praise of achieve
ment.
Ahwelsh and Etukishook will go
back to their snow huts and resume
their battle for life with a frozen
world.
Let's not forget them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15

in this regard than these same Tar.
iff Barons, who were numerously
present in person or by agent in
Washington from the morning of No.
vember 10th, when the hearings be.
gan, down to ana including sos P.
M. August 5th, when President Taft
signed this monstrous and utterly
unjustifiab!e bill. They had their
reward and their way. They do the
dancing but the people must pay the
fiddler and pay him top prices.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
GO TO SCHOOL OR WORK.

AT this time of year some half mil
lion American boys and their parents
are debating the question as to
whether to go back to school this fall
or to cut loose from boyhood and
start out in the world with job.
1t is a big question for the boy.
1t is a big question for the parents.
The day the boy goes to school
the mother loses her baby.
The day the boy leaves school
behind his whole relation to his fam
lily and to the world changes. He
begins a fight that he will have to
wage all his life-the fight for a job.
There are certain things that
school will do for boy and there
are other things that no school nor
college can do.
In the first place it isn't the arith-
l.metic, nor the geography, nor the
tspelling, nor Latin, nor geometry
that the boy learns" in school that
does him the real good.
The only thing that school can do
for boy is to teach him first the
habit of discipline, and of apportion-
ing his days and hours with intelli-
gent relation to the tasks. he must
perform, and second it will teach
him to learn. That school discipline
will teach him how to use that won
derful machine which is called the
brain. All the definitions and dates
and conjugations that may stuff in
to his skull will be useless unless he
shall learn how tou Sc his brain-his
mind-as skilled workman uses his
hands or his tools.
If the boy wants to go back to
school in order that he may wear a
peanut cap on the back of his head
and be free to hang around street
corners after school-then school
won't help him much but by the same
token job wouldn't help him a grea,
deal either.
| II boy wants to quit school and
get job SO that he can be "inde-
pendent' of his parents, stay out
nights and have money for pool,
beer and theatre, then the job won't
help him much either.
It's up to the hoy.
If he goes OF school to dodge work
then success will dodge him all the
days of his life. If he goes to work
to dodge study and discipline then
he will probably never be much more
than a figure in census and police
statistics and will end amounting to
no more and probably less than he
does now.
But boy can leave school and go
to work and yet have all the benefits
of schooling. He can study and
teach his brain to think and to
learn, and can grow, mentally, as
fast out of school as he can in-ii
he will.
All things being equal boy
should go to school as long as his
parents can afford to send him. This
on the theory that he can be taught
by experts how to use his brain
better than he can himself. Also al
Ieducation will probably permit hin
to start a little higher in the worlt
of work than he can without it. But
schooling won't boost any boy to the
top of the ladder. nor it won't keel
him from slipping back. 1t won't fur
nish him either common sense OF
honest ambition.
II And lack of schooling won't keel
any boy back if he has within hin
and keeps nourished the two ele
ments of common sense and homes
ambition.
So the answer to the problem i;
this:
1t isn't up to the school;
1t isn't up to the job;
-Des Moines Daily News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
BUILDING.

What builds the nations pillars higl
And its foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that 'roand it throng?
Not gold, but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who, for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others
sieep,
Who dare while others fly
They build nations pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
INVITING TROUBLE.

(From the Register and Leader)
If Secretary MacVeagh is contem.
plating a change in the tax on oleo-
margarine. as now reported from
Washington, there will be much
more of commotion in the dairy
sections of the west than free hides
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
ouAck GRASS EASILY KILLED.

Quack grass can be exterminatet
easily, though it is one of the worst
of pests if 1t gets fair start. The
agricultural school of Dane county
Wis, has been experimenting on this
line. 1t was found that wherever
sulphuric acid was thrown on the
ground, that was the end of quack
grass. But the acid kills everything
else and nothing grows there until
the acid is killed. This is done by
giving top dressing of lime and
stirring 1t into the soil, which re.
stores the original fertility. The acid
treatment is not so expensive as tc
be impractical. AS preventive, b.
applying it wherever small patche.
of quack appear, a farm may be
kept free of the pest.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-15
The commoner would like to kne

The Commoner would like to know
how much time the President will
give to the income tax amendment
during his tonr. And there are 9th.
ers who would like to know at the
earliest moment possible just how
far ''the interests" will succeed in
silencing Mr.. Taft. Up to date "the
interests" have been reasonably sue
cessful i'm managing.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23

competitors or connections. But ,hese
considerations should. and no doubt
viii, enter into the dealing with this
business by every connection and every
competitor of the Union Pacific road.
10 is ineXpedient. indeed, impossible
for the Union Pacific officers Co assume
that they have the right and, in ms
Judgment, IL Is improper, for any per-
son or body OF people 10 think or 90
assert Il to be- the duty of the Union
Pacific 10 determine the question Of n
rate which involves the services and
the revenues Of practically an the carr
riers I'm the country.
According 10 past experience, thu
largest number Of delegates to this
Grand Army meeting win originate at
and start from points more or less re-
mote from the lines of the Union Pa
cihc railroad. Considerably more than
half viii originate AT and start from
points east of the Missouri river. the
eastern terminus OF the Union Pacific
railroad; therefore. it seems proper, as
IL has in large measure been the Gus
tom, that the rates 20 De charged
should be taken mp with the initial car
riers and by them determined by con-
ference and suggestion with the lines
west OF the Missouri river.
with the limitations that the rate
shall not be less than / cent per mile
for its service. the Union Pacific is
willing 90 join it's connections iu any
rate that they are willing to adopt for
this proposed meeting OF the Grand
Army.
III I might venture a suggestion, It
would be this That you take up this
question with the Western Passenger
association the headquarters Of which
are at Chicago. It's chairman is MT.
Eben r. Mcleod. II you think Il will
help you. ! have no objections TO your
sending Mr.. Mcleod a copy OF this
letter.
Personally. I think that the rate
from Chicago ought not, under any cir.
cumstances, TO be more than $50 for the
round trip between Chicago and salt
Lake City. and ] may say that / think
fair rate would be one fare for the
round trip, or $50 ] think you would
need only TO suggest that rate 20 Mr.
Mcleod for consideration by the lines
he represents. TO secure favorable ac-
ton II the lines IN the Western Pas
senger association, and their connec-
tons other than the Union Pacific
should regard a lower rate as expedi-
ent under al the circumstances, I think
what I have said above will be suf-
icient evidence 90 them that the Union
Pacific viii join them on a pro rata
per mile basis in any rate that they
win adopt subject 10 the 1 cent per
mile limitation. Yours truly,
(Signed) -. G.. STUBS.
Chicago, H., Jan a."
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23
PINK PILLS ARE
THE ONLY MEDICINE
THAT HELPED me-"
A Knoxville, Iowa. Woman Cur
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DR.. Williams Pink
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a majority of those who have been
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MY stomach trouble had often COM
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23
If COnStipatGd
Test II Free

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lion to their health. No person cats
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n De-. az you see. much more a. ques-
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23
Taste Is Sure
Stomach Guide
4 Barometer Which Never Fails,
Thouuh Seldom Believed.

Taste is the direct guide 10 the
stomach. ana the taste buds are con-
NecieH hy the nerves with the stoin-
..h ITSELF $50 that thcy represent us
o"aI.h or disorder. II the stomach or
~ Juices are out OF funC, ihe blood De-
ifimDntcd by a change in the alkaline
on ag.d condition, and these roach the
MOUTH both directly and indirectly
Ihe taste buds are in the tongue,
and are mounted hy hairliko prolec-
.ons called papillae, they cover the
.Nl.Hc ot the tongue"
Whom you taste these buds rise up
.hN absorb the liquid Inform the
nerves tho nerves ten the stomach ana
..e food Oh acceptable or not just a.
M stomach feels"
above remarks on taste comes
Nom an eminent authority and sim-
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