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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
Potatoes Grown in /. Barrel,


A sensation In potato growing has
been created In the neighborhood Of
Ridgley, Md, or at Richardson, a sub
urb. by the discovery that potatoes
grown in a barrel yield enormously.
The experiment was put to local
test there this year, and during this
week the experimenter. Oscar Needs,
invited his friends and neighbors to
come in and see what the barrel con-
tained. Needs, early In the spring,
had planted the eyes Of one whole po-
tato in barrel which had contained
lime, but in which he threw some fer
tilted earth. As the vines grew.
Needs added dirt. and occasionally
added water when the lack Of natural
substance Of the mother earth caused
the dirt to appear dry. Potato bugs
could not reach 1t. and the paris green
men. 1t is said, were gloomy as the
experiment progressed. When his
neighbors arrived to see what the old
barrel contained on digging day"
Needs carefully removed the earth
from the dead vines, and there, sure
enough, and all connected to the vines
by Dame Nature and not by trick.
were 125 prime potatoes. or enough
to fill peach basket. and leave half
peck of small unmarketable potatoes
in the barrel. Now 1t Is claimed at
Ridgely that one man has given an
order for 5000 barrels to be made for
him next season.-The Delawarean.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
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Profession from I,.h,.,.,

Az from 700 to 800 people are killed.
twice as many injured and an I'M
mense amount Of properly destroyed
BY lightning every year, Prof Henry
OF the weather bureau thinks moro ct
tention should be given to protection
from lightning. The professor has re-
Gently prepared paper on this sub
Ject, and It has been published as
Farmers Bulletin No. 367 of the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture.
and will be sent free.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15

You may imagine people give you
the worst of It. but II your stomach
could talk. you would be abused s
good deal more than you are
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
NNoooooooo~
what Is a Republican,

w mat H HepuDlACQnSa7t-IrT
Uncle Joe Cannon needn't swear SO
hard that he is Republican. Every
body knows that he is. For half a
dozen years or more the country has
known him as the Gamaliel at whose
feet neophites Of the majority in the
House have learned that robber tariff,
monopoly greed and avarice are the
fundamental principles of orthodox
latter-day Republicanism.
When Uncle Joe vehemently denies
that he has tried to read Senator Cum
Minis and the other insurgents out of
the Republican party, while declaring
In the same voice that II they are
Republicans he is not one, he strength
ems his claim to orthodox Republican
ism. for latter-day Republicanism aims
to fool all of the people all of the
time, or as long as it can possibly
be DONE
1t fooled the Republican voters OF
the West SO badly last year that they
sent to Washington Senator's and Rep
resentatiyes who Stood and still stand,
for the Republicanism Of Lincoln and
other Republican Presidents who were.
elected in the days when use Of the
word protection was carefully avoid
ed in Republican platforms. These
men know, upon the faith of Lincoln's
word. that all Of the people cannot be
fooled all of the time and that 1t isn't
profitable to keep en- trying to do it.
Therefore they are not Republicans,
though they think they are and their
constituents agree with them.
Uncle Joe proves that his Republic
anism is all wool and yard wide by
making last heroic effort to fool the
people some more. about the way the
tariff plank Of the Chicago platform
was kicked into kindling wood in max
ing Of the Aldrich tariff. Carloads Of
information about foreign and domes-
tic cost OF production, he says, were
dumped into the special session, but
no way has been discovered by which
Information can be put into mans
skull" unless he tries to get 1t there.
The cold record OF the special ses-
sion is that such information was
sought by committees Of the Senate.
and the House only in the case OF
about dozen Of the thousands OF ar
ticles included in the schedules, and
that when the most thorough Of these
INQUIRIES obtained exact information
about the cost of wood pulp and print
paper Chairman Aldrich and the other
orthodox latter-day Republicans Of the
Senate wouldn't read it.-Exchange.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
A.lkinx Too Much.

Charlie and Nancy had quarreled.
After their supper mother tried to re.
establish friendly relations. She
told them Of the Bible verse. Let not
the sun go down upon your wrath"
Nov, Charlie" she pleaded, ''are
you going to let the sun go down on
your WRATH"
Charlie squirmed little. Then:
Well, how can / stop it?'-Every-
body's.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15

Tho best time to lift old grapevines
for transplanting is in the late fall or
early winter. while the vines are in
dormant condition. The work must
not be delayed till late winter or early
spring. as the necessary cutting back
OF the branches Is very likely to cause
the plant to bleed or lose sap ct the
fresh cuts.
In lifting and transplanting old
grapevines dig up the plant with q
ball Of earth holding the roots together
two or three feet In diameter. Start
to dig we'll out from the base OF the
vino and pry the root mass up In one
solid piece. II the ball Of earth hold.
ing the roots together has q tendency
to fall apart 1t may be bound together
with canvas or old grain bags. The
more ine roots that can be taken up
and preserved from exposure the bet
ter chances there will be for the vine
living. II the work Of lifting can b
done when the soil Is frozen from six
inches to foot deep nearly all Of the
small roots can be secured unframed.
Have the new hole for the reception
OF the vine prepared beforehand and
fertilized at the bottom with well de-
composed stable manure. Old shoes or
old leather makes good fertilizer for
grapevines Place the roots Of the
vine with the adhering soil mass In
the new hole and I'LL about with a.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15

- .1sAsAAs AAkAA kASACEIe
Apologists for the Aldrich-Taft tar
III as a measure Of revision downward
point occasionally to the reduction OF
the schedule on squared timber from
one cent per cubic foot to one-half cent
as an evidence that the poor mans
burden has been lightened.
This is another instance where Mr..
Aldrich's official compilation Of Stats
tics claims reduction which is dis
proved by facts. Admittedly, the fig-
ures have been reduced. Practically
the actual tariff has been increased.
The trick is simple.
The Dingley tariff provided for a
tax on timber, hewn. sided or
squared" To this phrase the Aldrich
tariff adds the words. otherwise than
by saving" Since timber Is now all
squared by the saw instead Of by hew-
ing with an az, which was formerly
the method, the four words inserted
into the new tariff have the effect Of
taking squared timber out Of the one
half-cent7a-cubic-foot class and put
ting 1t under boards
This change In classification results
in practically doubling the Dingley
rate.
Unearthing these concealed schemes
for raising the tariff under pretense Of
lowering it requires no wonderful skin.
Lack Of intelligent criticism by our
national legislators while the measure
was under discussion in congress is lit
tie tribute to the capacity Of those OPP
posed to the. protective doctrine. Chi-
cago Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
The Craze for Biz w.r.Aip..

h. 10 tuOuBnCIul persons the FREQUENT
Washington dispatches telling of plans
for warships larger than anything
European powers have dreamed of are
disturbing. Reports that President
Taft favors such additions to our navy
do not allay apprehension.
Our naval architects promise vessels
of forty feet draft and tonnage that
makes Britain's Dreadnoughts look
like toys. This sounds very fine. Mill
tant and imperialistic ambitions enjoy
such visions Of glory to come. The
taxpaying public takes different
view,
Commensurate men who know both
coasts of North America, and who are
familiar with our navy yards, incline
to the belief that leviathan warships
are not only unnecessary. but would
be, like the proboscidian Of musical
fame. an elephant on our hands.
The Mare Island navy yard cost
100000, and is not available to
some Of our present ba6tleships be-
cause of shoal water. Such ships as
are proposed would be unable to enter
New York, harbor and could not be
locked in any dry-dock in America.
Americans are Justly proud Of their
navy. They have not complained at
wholesale waste Of naval appropria-
lions for political purposes. But such
manifestly Quixotic battleships as now
proposed are too much even for pa
tient America.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
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{ lD6MI cows

and sent OF In habitat condition.
The expert fattener figures that II no
can make only 10 cents a bird proat
In the process It is good scheme for
MIN. because he can pick up an un.
limited number Of fowls In poor con.
ditton and put pound or two more
weight on them within a very few
days or weeks. Hence his operations
are limited only by the amount Of cap
ital he has to invest, and the fatten.
ing business is method of turning
over" money rapidly. The lesson In
this for the farmer is that he might
as well be making this extra money a.
the other man. In limited way, no
special appliances are required for fat
tening fowls, and II each farmer were
to make only few dollars annually
IN this way, considering the Thousands
OF them that read this paper, the ag-
gregate amount would make very
nice nest egg" indeed. Agricultural
Epitomist.
The Worlds wheat Crop.
For every $4,000 pounds Of wheat
that goes to the city there will go
back to the farmer one pound Of gold.
says Herbert N. Carson In Harper's
Weekly. For every loaf Of bread upon
q Londoner's table there viii 70 a
cent and half to the man behind the
reaper. And 50 the sale OF every
wheat crop means that the gold will
come throbbing out into the arteries
Of business. like the blood from the
heart, and on its way back and forth
nourish the whole body Of the nation.
More wheat and more ehicient or
ganization Of wheat agencies-that IS
the program Of the future. Already
one unsuccessful effort has been made
to hold an International wheat con.
gress, and the second attempt may end
more happily. Not that the world has
become 80 small that cable dispatch
flashes completely around,it in twelve
minutes; now that there are forty-four
nations united by The Hague confer.
ences and flfty-eight by the Postal
Union; now that war has grown to be
so expensive that one cannon shot may
cost as much as college education
and one battle ship az much as q first
class university It Is quite probabls-
that the march Of cooperation will
continue until there is congress, and
a central headquarters and tribunal.
which will represent nothing less than
an International fellowship Of the
wheat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
England's Lesson.

England's Lesson.
Joseph Chamberlain some wears ago
tried to wave the "protection' flag and
WOO the Britishers from free trade, as
a stepping stone toward the fulfill.
ment Of imperia1istic dreams.
Other Britishers are now trying to
galyanize the Chamberlain "protec-
tive" policy. Their motive is the same,
and yet different. They have nut i'm.
T perialism in the background tempo
rarily, and are calling for "protec-
tive tariff as a revenue measure.
In other words, the British classes
are grasping at any weapon in sight
to defeat the demands of the masses
for equitable taxation. Chamberlain's
protection policy is seized upon not
because intelligent Britishers believe
In it, but because it affords an indi.
rect way Of keeping the chief govern
ment burdens on the backs of the COM
mon people.
E Political economy is a familiar sci
ence to Britishers. They know, from
the worlds history and their own, that
protection" ultimately decreases rev.
enue and that the better the protec.
ton the less government revenues
there are
Lloyd-G George may be radical. But
he has the masses OF Britishers with
him for one simple reason. He pro.
poses by income taxes and land taxes
to make the rich pay their Just share
of the burdens of government-some-
thing that the English classes have
never done before.
And. by the same token, the British
people will let Mr.. Chamberlain,s pro-
lection balloon collapse and sputter
out. They don't want more taxes. as
consumers, but less. And they are
welded to direct taxation, instead Of
Indirect tariff robbery.
England's lesson toS America will
probably be clear and distinct when
the British budget has been laid before
the masses Of Great Britain for final
decision.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
How the Tariff work..


The man who imports $1,000 worth
Of diamonds pays tax of but 800
10 per cent. If he imported a thou
sand shirts worth a dollar each he
would have to leave at the custom
house and tack onto his selling prices
10000 per cent. If he decided that
he would bring In thousand dollars
worth OF champagne, one of the. items
upon which there is large increase,
the tax levied by the tariff is $500.
= II he brought in $1,000 worth Of blan.
kets he would pay a tariff tax of
$1,645.42. If ne brought in $1,000
worth Of paintings and statuary, all
he would have to pay as customs du-
ties would be 5000. but If it were SUI
gar he would pay $7sS.7O tax OF. 900
worth. II he brought in $1,000 worth
of jewelry he would have to pay $500
tarinf tax, but If he brought in $1,000
worth of wooden dress goods he would
pay $1,050.9O tariff. If he imported
a $4,000 automobile the tariff takers
would relieve him Of $2,250. If it were
$4,000 worth Of yarns. the tariff tax
would be 5000. If the importation
were $4,000 worth Of furs, the tariff
tax would be 1850, but II it were
$4,000 worth of clothing, that tax
would be $4,330. II some New York
yacht the tariff would be $4,000, but
millionaire brings in 100000 ocean
II the importation were stockings, the
tariff would be $S7,950.--Henrietta
s(Tex) Independent.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-15
Feeding Rations.

Anere are nve Glasses OF materials
~ ISSUING s.uns. VIE, protein. car
Donyaates, OIL OF rat. minerals. and
WAFER. Inc mission OF protein u to
p,ouace iean meats IN the body. make
oloou, Duila up new tissues. etc. By
eArponyarates we mean the starchy
.na.eliais, "nicn give neat. rat and
enelsy. lney represent simply that
part OF nay, corn, potatoes and bread
.na. ~ 70 Keep 'ne body warm. pro-
uuce energy LOT work and tat where
Tue amman eniarges.
Go..on SEED mas q good deal Of fat.
OF Oh, WINE corn has moderate
amount. me latter constituent, like
starcn, VIII also furnish heat, energy
ana iat, ana, being more concentrated
eaan ene starcny materials. VIII anord
more tnan twice as much heat, fat
OF energy as VIII an equal amount Of
starcn OF sugar.
mineral substances make teeth and
bones, and to certain extent con-
tfipute TO muscle and flesh. Prof.
burkett OF the Kansas experiment sta
Ton says we take the bran from the
wneat ana give It to our cattle and
pigs, giving only the soft, white part
OF the wheat to our children. which 10
lacking IN mineral materials. This 10
often the way with good deal OF our
food. That explains why our children
often have poor teeth and weak bones.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-01
CHILDREN AND
BEATS WIFE, IS CHARGE.

Patrick Cole, a laborer, 81 years old,
was arrested by Superintendent John
A. Cullen, Of the Catholic Children's
Aid Society at his home, As Lock street,
today, charged with failing to support
his four minor children and being under
the influence of liquor.
When Cole was arraigned before
Judge Herr in the Second Precinct
police. court today. Superintendent Cul-
len told the magistrate h a Cole and
his wife Mary were negleetful toward
their children. He said hot Cole beat
his wife so badly recently that IL would
necessitate her being sent to a hospital,
ALLOW him to proceed, your honor;
/ don't wish to interrupt him." said
Cole, but that's not true"
A right, Cole, we will have those
children in court tomorrow, n prove
It. I'll hold YOU until then said the
Judge.
eYou needn't be afraid, your honor,
I'll not run away"
Il don't think you will, unless you
can furnish $500 bail for your appear
ance.''
Having no bail. he was held at the
station. The children were taken ir
charge by the society.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-01
WORK ON NEW SCHOOLS
GOES ALONG SMOOTHLY.

E.. F. Guilbert, the architect for the
Board of Education, announced today
that work on the schools now being
built is progressing so well that all
will be completed In the time specified.
This does not. mean that all will be
ready for occupancy when school opens,
however, as there have been various
legitimate delays.
On the Lafayette Street School inn
mediately after the contract was
awarded several changes In the plans
were made, so that the work was held
up. The Board of Education, at a re.
cent meeting, granted an extention of
t~hirty-one days on the recitation rooms
and thirty-five days on the auditorium,
The school will be in readiness, there
fore, on October 9. The Fourteenth
Avenue School is finished and ready
for occupancy. At the Morton Street
School the old building, which was al
most entirely demolished and recon-
structed, Is ready for the pupils, and
the work on the addition will be com.
pleted by March l of next year.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-01
COOKS LONG SILENCE
HAD ALARMED HACKERS.

fNEW YORK, Sept, 1.-Dr. Roswell Q.
Stebbins, chairman of the committee
that organized the relief expedition sent
out for DR.. Frederick A. Cook, the
Brooklyn explorer. who is reported to
Have reached the North Pole, said today
that no news of any kind regarding the
explorer has reached his friends and
hackers in the Arctic and the explorers
diubs here since March I. 1898, when DR..
Cook started inland from Etah, Green
land, and they had been alarmed. The
dispatch from Copenhagen today was
the first intimation they had received
chat DIR. Cook had leen successful.
4 The committee of which DR.. Steppihs
is chairman was organized several
months ago. 1t raised a fund which
Vas added to hat used in equipping
fhe schooner Jeanne, which sailed from
St. Johns. N. r., two weeks ago with
the combined purpose of taking sup
faies to Commander Robert L. Peary
and bringing back DR.. Cook and an
ether explorer, Harry Whitney. II they
Gould be found. The Jeanne was bound
for Etah, Greenland, but is not due
TO arrive there until the middle OF this
month.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-01
Ex-HUsBAND;
SU|T0R KILLS HER
Girl Meets Tragic Death on Day
Set for Her We'd
ding.

CRISFIELD, Md, Sept. Ito meet
death on the day set for her wedding,
at the hands of the maj she had
promised but rejected on account of
love for her former husband, al the
fate of pretty Mamie Gunby, daughter
of j.. n. Gunby, a well-known farm
err Of lower Somerset County. who was
shot and instantly killed by Isaac J..
Waters, at st. Paul's Camp Meeting,
about three miles above Crisfield.
Five years ago Mamie Gunby, then
is, married Joseph Roley, of Worcester
County, from whom she obtained a
divorce after less than a year.. Waters,
who had been her sutton before, began
to press his claim again.
After three years of ardent court
ship, the young woman consented to
become Waters's wife, and the wedding
day was set for last Sunday.
Joseph Roley arrived at the camp
meeting and was Informed of the pro-
posed marriage of his former wife to
Waters. AS q result, he attempted to
effect a reconciliation with his divorced
wife. Then followed hours of pleading
by the two men. Finding her love for
her divorced husband the stronger. the
woman renowned Waters and told him
that the wedding planned for the next
day would not be solemnized. In a
passion. Waters left the lamp.
The following morning after the early
prayer service, Miss Gunby, with three
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-01
"WILL END ARCTIC FAD"
i SAYS ADMIRAL MELVILLE.

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. Rear
Admiral George w. Melville, U. S. n.
retired. who conducted several expidi-
lions INTO the Arctic regions, was In
clined to discredit the report from Co
p~enhagen that the North Pole had been
discovered by p. Cook.
II dfd-not know that DR.. Cook had
ar outfit available for that purpose,
he said. "and ! do not think that tho
report can be true. DIR. cook has been
wandering in those parts for some time
1t Is just possible that the story ema-
mated from some Danish skipper VINO
has returned from the North"
when asked what would be the value
of the discovery if the authenticity oil
the report was confirmed, Admiral
Melville said:
"For one thing. it would put an end
to tine Arctic fad. The only use to
which the discovery could be put would
be of a scientific nature. II the exact
pboint of the North Pole has ben locat-
ed IL would be possible to send a party
Of scientists there and by erecting j
pendulum and measuring its move
nent and later removing the same pen
dnlm to the equator for similar mea-
Mrement there, the exart waight II the
Garth could be computed. The attrac-
ton of the earth to heavenly bodies and
Vice versa would also be thereby de-
termined."
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-01
MAN FOUND DEAD N
HOSPITAL BATHTUB
John Rich, Patient- Employee Of
German Institution, Sudden
ly Stricken.

John Rich, 81 years old, an employee
of the German Hospital, was found
dead in a bathtub in that institution
early today. 1t is believed that while
bathing the man was stricken with
paralysis.
Rich went to the German Hospital
twelve years ago, a sufferer from pa
ralysis. He recovered sufficiently to GO
about in an invalid's chair and was
finally making himself SO useful peel
ing potatoes, cleaning knives and forks
and other things of the kind that he
came to be regarded not as a patient,
but as an employee.
Six months ago Rich was again
stricken with paralysis and four strokes
followed that one. For the past month,
however, he had been well enough to
attend to his regular duties. When
found this morning the mans face was
partially covered by water. His rela-
tives We're notified and they claimed
the body after County Physician Nc
Kenzie had Viewed 1t.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-01

Little is known by them of the de-
tails of DIR. Cooks expedition, although
they follow closely the movements of
an Arctic and Antarctic explorers.
ESome time ago, the National
Geographic Society officers say, Dr.
Cook, II was feared, had been lost on
his daring trip in search of the pole
No news had been received from him,
and his friends reluctantly gave UP
hope of ever hearing from him again.
In fact, q relief expedition "a fitted
out and sent into the frozen North in
hope of finding the explorer, dead or
alive. The funds for this expedition
were obtained by subscription.
Cooks expedition to discover the
North Pole was gotten up in rather a
secretive manner Very little publicity
was given of the lone explorers daring
attempt to attain that much-desired
glory to the first man to reach the
North Pole.