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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
Spinning nm Egg.

One of Lord Kelvin's favorite experi-
ments while teaching natural philoso-
ply at the University OF Glasgow was
to spin an egg which was suspended
in the air. If the egg were hard boiled
it would spin long time; otherwise,
owing to the friction between its con-
tents and the shell, its motion would
soon cease. Lord Kelvin inferred from
this that the interior of the earth can.
not be fluid. or the globes rate of
rotation. would have been checked long
ago. Once the students substituted
raw eggs for the hard-boiled ones pro-
vided for the experiment. Not one
would spin properly. but Lord Kelvin
was not to be fooled. None Of them
boiled" was his only comment.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
WHEN MOTHER SINGS.

By the window mothers sitting, gazing
on the sunset skies,
The lace she has been knitting, in her lap
unheeded lies.
While to herself she's singing, in the sweet
old voice and low,
Songs that through the land were ringing
in her girlhood long ago.
And seem to hear the flies shrill call,
the long roll of the drum,
The tramp of hurrying thousands, as with
eager step they come,
And see the starry banners waving
proudly to and fro,
As mother sings the chorus sung by thou'
sands long ago:
Rally round the nag, boys. rally once
again, ~
Shouting the battle cry, ot &, freedom don v.,
We will gather from the hillside, the VA
ley and the plain, -4
Shouting the battle cry OF freedom
While the northern hosts were gathering,
all the southland was aflan,e,
These men laughed at war as though 1t
were some merry game;
There gallant hearts were leaping, too'
beneath the coats of gray
And mothers smiled through weeping as
their brave lads marched away.
How little dreamed they of long years OF
conflict, grief and pain
Ere peace should bid their weary rAet
turn slowly home again;
No bitterness now fingers in her Thoughts
of them to-day,
So mother sings TIL inspiring song OF t0e
southern boys in gray.
Look away, look away, look away plAs
land,
In Dixie land I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie
Again hear her singing, not the gay q
rallying song,
A strain of solemn majesty now bears my
thoughts along ~
As the hearts of men were lifted to the
King of Glory's throne,
Wrong is strong, but God is stronger,
and he watches DER his own.
Though too we'll our land remembers now
her heroes vows were sealed
In many gloomy prison, on many "a
hard-won field,
By long and weary marches, in the camps
Of sickness, grim,
Yet they failed not nstheir purpose, and
they sang the battle hymn:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the COM 4
ing Of the Lord,
He is trampiing out the vintage where
the grapes Of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the dreadful lightning OF
his terrible, swift sword.
His truth Is marching on.
While weeks and months grew into years,
war swept throughout the land,
And took his toll of blood and tears, with
iron-fngered hand.
The fame-lit clouds of battle spread their
somber pail of gloom
Until the awful shadow shut the sun
from every home.
Oh, the weary hours of watching Oh, the
steps that came no more!
Oh, the hearts that broke with waiting
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
Trusts a. Economists.

Defenders of trusts are fond of pratt
ing about the marvellous economics
effected by great organizations that
control SO many lines of trade. There
is some truth in their statements, but
much that has no foundation.
In every commercial organization
there is a point beyond which addi-
tional capital can not be employed
with profit. Is it reasonable to believe
that more than s50,0OO,0OO is ever In
vested in any single industrial con-
Germ for the purpose of economical
production? Or is 1t not rather ground
for suspicion that the added capital
is to be devoted to suppressing COM
petition instead of to perfecting pro.
cesses or reducing operating costs?
There may be a few exceptions to this
rule, but they are few. indeed. There
seems to be no other way of approxi-
mating the point at which accumula-
ton Of property becomes dangerous to
the community, and improper, limit
which must be definitely fixed if a
legal maximum is ever established.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25

for the loved on yonder shore!
Fain would we shun the memory that
to that conflict clings,
But mothers thoughts are in the past,
and brokenly she sings:
Many are the hearts that are weary to.
Waiting for the war to cease, +
Many are the hearts that are looking to
Z the right,
Looking to the dawn of peace. 4
So when you bring your garlands for the
nations dead to-day
Strew alike the fragrant blossoms DER the
graves of Blue and Gray,
Never foes more brave were vanquished
by brave conquerors before.
They were brothers e'er the. conflict, they
are brothers now once more;
The dawn of peace has frightened till 1t
CLOVIS in perfect day,
The bands of love have frightened till the
nation owns her sway 4
From sea to sea across the land, the flags
of freedom fling
From north and south, united, let the
song of triumph ring:
My country, It's of thee. sweet land of
liberty;
OF thee sing;
Land where my father died, land Of the
From every mountain side Z
Let freedom ring.
Mabel Holmes Koplin, in St. Louis
Globe-D Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
General Lon3.treet,. storv.

81 had resigned from the Northern
army" said the late General Long
street at Georgia campfire, "and was
on my way to fight with my State coun-
trymen. One. night reached small
hamlet, and, being almost too tired to
care whether friends or foes were
there, stopped and asked for supper
and nights lodging. A nice old coll
ored aunty opened the door and let me
In. If yon'se u Southerner,' she said,
you can have your eggs fried tender.
If you'se a Northerner they'll be tough
err than leather
II had to laugh while / assured her
l was Southerner. In the morning
asked for my bill. 1T amt nothin',,
said she, If ye're goin' on ter Rich
mond, but eff ye're goin' hum ter think
it over it'll cost yer SlO''-Philadel-
phia Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
A FEW SCIENCE BRIEFS.


81 y j. & s . = y
Interesting Discoveries by the
Genial ONCE Statisticinn.
Research proves. that the smallest
men push the heaviest loads, while
the big fellows hold down the Office
chairs, the New York Times says.
A cubic foot of water is load for
one man. A cubic foot Of near-whisky
will make load for forty men.
One of the most peculiar optical IL
lusions is the fact that a small front
yard looks larger than the State of
Indiana when viewed from the rear of
a dull lawn mower.
Out of the 26,232,615 haircuts adj
ministered in this country last year
thirty-seven were cut just as tho pa
irons desired they should be.
Wild geese fly in the shape of a
V-even on the restaurant menu.
The first green thing to show after
the melting snow is the labels on the
empty tin cans in the back yards.
1t is a peculiar fact that the Chi
nese of this country forget their Eng.
lish as soon as they are arrested and
do not recover it until they are free
again.
Halley's comet first appeared in the
newspapers last October and will he
visible in the Magazines about the
goth of May-north-by-east of the rear
advertising pages.
The driest thing on earth is a
Dutch picnic on a July day in tenn
perance township.
The diamond is SO hard 1T will
make large dent in the hardest
heart.
The destruction of our old apple
trees threatens the supply of genuine
| French briar.
The boll-weevil has wrought IN.
told havoc with this years imrorta.
lions of pure olive oil.
With the invention of the bath tub
in 1923 the number of perfume factc.
ries decreased 80 per cent.
The easiest thing to touch is some
one who wants favor.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
orlsin 81 Decoration nav.

As a matter Of chronology 1t is In
teresting to know that the observance
Of Decoration Day first originps 4 in
Richmond. Va, with little nd Of
New England school teacher on May
30, 1866. and was adopted the next
year, 1867, by Confederate women
Throughout the south, to be systema-
tized the year after, 1868, as Grand
Army ceremonial by order of Gen.
John A. Logan, then commander-in-
chief, until, Its popularity becoming
general. the day was made legal holt
day in all the northern states and SO
observed in the south by the Confed-
crate Veterans Association.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
Advice to Boys.

A New Jersey judge, speaking to
the Orange high school boys as pros
pectiye lawyers, gave them some good
advice. You boys who are growing
up to be lawyers" said the Judge, "al-
ways remember that the most success
full lawyer is the one who, when a
client comes to him fighting mad, in
yestigates thoroughly every detail Of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
CHAPTER WI.

ID IAN
From the grave and thoughtful van
background of 10, Thomas Jefferson
could look back on the second illness Of
Ardea Dabney as the closing incident
of his childhood. The Industrial
changes which were then beginning,
not only for the city beyond the noun
tain. but for all the region round about.
had rushed swiftly on Paradise; and
the old listless life of the unhastiag
period soon receded quickly into far
away past, rememberable only when
one made an effort to recall 1t.
First had come the completion of the
Great Southwestern. Diverted by the
untiring opposition Of Major Dabney
from its chosen path through the val
ley, 1t skirted the westward hills, pass
ing within few hundred yards of the
Gordon furnace. Since business knows
no animosities. the part which Caleb
Gordon and his gun crew had played
in the right. of-way conflict WAS ig-
nored. The way-station at the creek
crossing was named Gordonia, and 1t
was the railway traffic manager HIM
self who suggested to the iron master
the taking of partner with capital.
the opening of the vein of coking coal
III 2s1oult iAcUduOIl, Tie INSTALLATION Oh
coking ovens, and the undermining and
enlarging Of the furnace and foundry
plant-hints all pointing to increased
traffic for the road.
With the coming of Mr.. Duxbury
Farley to Paradise, Thomas Jefferson
lost, not only the simple life, but the
desire to live It, This Mr.. Farley,
whom we have seen and heard, mo-
mentarily, on the station platform In
South Tredegar, the expanded. hailed
from Cleveland. Ohio; was as he was
fond of saying pompously, citizen OF
no mean city. His business in the re-
awakening South was that of an in
termediary between cause and effect;
the cause being the capital of confiding
investors in the North, and the effect
the dissipation of the same in various
and sundry development schemes in
the new iron field.
To Paradise. in the course of his go
ings to and fro, came this purger Of
other mems purses. and he saw the
fortuitous grouping of the possibilities
at glance: abundant iron of good
quality; an accessible vein of coal. sec
ond only to Pocahontas for coking:
land cheap, water free. and persuad-
able subject In straightforward, SIM
ple-hearted Caleb Gordon.
Farley had no capital, but he had
that which counts far more in the pro-
moter's field: namely, the ability to
reap where others had sown. His plan
outlined to Caleb in sweeping caval-
ry-dash of enthusiasm, was simplicity
itself. Caleb should contribute the raw
material-land. water and the ore
quarry-and 1t should also be his par,
to secure lease of the coal land from
Major Dabney. In the meantime he
Farley. would undertake to float the
enterprise in the North, forming q
company and selling stock to provide
the development capital.
A company was formed. the chartor
was obtained. and the golden stream
began to flow into the treasury; into
1t and out again in the raceway chan
nels of development. Thomas Jeffer-
son stood aghast when an army OF
workmen swept down on Paradise and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
TAILOR IN ONE NE1aHBonHoop.

One Small Trader Whose BUSINESS
Has Not Been. Absorbed.
One small business that hasnot yet
been swallowed up by the big ones
is that of the small tailor who makes
clothes for men and women and cleans,
repairs and presses.
There are hundreds OF such tailors
scattered in residence districts all
over the city employing one. two or
three hands, the New York Sun says,
and there are plenty OF such shops
that yield their proprietors good liv-
ing profit and maybe something more.
Here is business in which polite
ness and desire to please play their
proper part, for the proprietor comes
in personal contact with the customer,
and If to politeness the shop adds
good work and businesslike prompt
ness in completing Jobs at the time
1 specified 1t may in almost any neigh
borhood build up substantial trade
with regular customers and with q
steadily increasing clientele.
Many such shops call for clothes and
make deliveries; few keep a boy, for
there might not be constant employ
ment for him, and in these small shops
everybody keeps constantly at work;
they have to do that to work out
profit. The boss himself on occasions
will carry things home, and do 1t will
ingly and cheerfully. Still for the
most part customers requireing clean
| Ing, repairing and pressing done take
their own things to the shop and take
them away when done, and In this
carrying to and fro the customers show
various peculiarities or they may be
governed more or less by where they
live.
If man lives in tenement house
he may throw his clothes over his arm
and walk with them so to the tailor:
II he lives in an apartment house with
an elevator and that sort of thing he
would be more likely to do them up in
a bundle. And when you get these
clothes at night on your way home,
If you live in a tenement house you
take them back on your arm; the
tailor Will III MI trinity pressed
clothes oYSf ~ arm smoothly; or il
you live ah "a psrtment you have
them dom Fp beApse you want them
so or be9sN9e y6a know that other
people in a. hS Wouldn't fancy see
Ing teng6t 4k3nS through the hall
to the el4ya&o wing lot Of old
clothes. Th9 will ask you whe-
Their you y I'm done up or not,
and II you s will do them up
gladly and en4ider you proud Or
snippy fof 1ng them SO. The
neighborh6 t5iicf knows about
things and hG ts Z man Of business. :
So as tSEm6St 6zsfhe things that find
their way to the tailor over the arm
or in bundle, but the modern young
man has discovered another way which
is not without its merits and advan-
tages. He puts his clothes to be re-
paired n a suitcase and when he goes
down town in the morning he Just
leaves the suitcase at the tailor's and
then when he comes home at night he
stops at the tailor's on the way to
find his things all ready. The tailor
lays them neatly in the suitcase again
and SO the young man carries them
home s
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25

How to Use Commercial Fertilizers.
II fertilizers are used, the following
general rule should govern: On rich
lands use mainly fertilizers that will
stimulate the fruit and not the stalk
growth. On lighter lands use more of
the elements to force growth, combined
| with others which will mature the
fruit.
High grade IA per cent acid phos.
plate may be considered basis for
increasing fruit and Fastening matur.
ity Of crops. Even on the richest land
| it has been demonstrated that small
percentage of nitrogen added to the
acid phosphate gives better results.
Air-slaked lime is of value for use on
stir or gummy soils to loosen them
up, permit the air to enter and pre-.
vent sour condition of such soils
when too wet.
On this or impoverished soils equal
| quantities of cotton-seed meal and
acid phosphate can be used to advan.
tage.
In case the foregoing can not be
obtained. standard-grade commercial
! fertilizer may be used These should
contain in the mixture to 10 per
cent of available phosphoric acid, 2 to
8 per cent Of nitrogen and 11a to 2
per cent of potash, or on some lands
a high grade acid phosphate, IA per
cent may be used.
| Where lands are greatly worn by
years of cropping, more fertilizer
should be used to the acre, and it
should contain about equal parts of
cotton seed meal and high grade acid
phosphate. The beneficial effect of
commercial fertilizers depends largely
upon the presence of humus in the soil,
hence the Importance of using stable
manure and blowing under green
crops. In applying the foregoing in.
structions the farmer must use con-
siderable Judgment and modify his
practice where necessary to fit local
conditions.
The fertilizer should be distributed
several days before planting, as there
is danger of injuring the seed II
brought in immediate contact with
strong fertilizer. A very careful mix
ing Of the fertilizer with the soil is
necessary for the same reason On
all except very rich, waxy lands it
will pay to use commercial fertilizers
somewhat literally. ls
Where as much as 400 pounds offer
tilizer is used for corn, we recon.
mend two applications, one in the fur.
row before planting, and an applica.
ton of from $50 to 200 pounds of
cotton seed meal in the furrow when
the corn is about one foot high.
Where lime is used scatter it broad
cast when the land is plowed. using
about four barrels of air.slaked lime
per acre, or apply in the row about
two barrels per acre a short time be-
fore planting, mixing it thoroughly
with the soil.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
The Pennypacker Army.

1t is said that the Pennypacker fam.
lily Of Pennsylvania sent more soldiers
to the Civil war than any other Amer
lean family. OF the descendants OF
Henry Pennebecker, Dutch surveyor,
who came to Pennsylvania before the
year 100. 144 were in the Union Of
Confederate armies, and 81 of the IA
were commissioned officers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25

the case and then brings both sides to
a satisfactory agreement. That's the
highest service lawyer can perform.
for he not only represents the people
he is defending, but he is uplifting the
whole legal system of the country"
There may be lawyers who will con.
slider, advice to lawyers to keep out
of court as unprofessional.- Boston
Daily Advertiser. as
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
Roo.t. should De movable

Roosts should not be fixtures,
neither should they be placed above
another like the rungs of a ladder.
BY having all roosts movable they can
be taken from their place and treated
in any way that will free them from
vermin. They can be scalded with
boiling water or they can be scorched
with fire or treated in any manner
that is suggestive of good results
Place the roosts so they will be con-
venient for the breed of fowls kept.
They should not be too high from the
floor
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
FRANCIS LYNDE


ana tnitner ne led the way. The dog
maze tne crossing frst. and stood wag-
sins ms tall encouragingly on the bank
OF sa.ety. Then Thomas Jefferson
passed ms trembling victim out on the
ios,
lou 90 nrst, he directed; 80 t
can .,o eaten you II you Slip
oh, you please go first, so ! won't
nave TO look down at the water!"
mo- I'm coming behind-then can
caIcn you II you get dizzy and go to
TAI, ne said. stubbornly.
WIN You walk right up close. SO
can know you are there?"
inomas Jefferson's smile was cruelty
misleading, as were his words. All
youit nave to do will be to reach your
nand back and grab me-" he assured
ner; and thereupon she began in inch
her way out over the swirling pool.
When he saw that she could by no
possibility turn to look back, Thomas
JEFFERSON deliberately sat down on the
bank to watch her. There had never
been anything in his life so tigerishly
delightful as this game of playing on
the feelings and fears of the girl whose
coming had spoiled the solitudes.
For the first few feet Ardea went
steadily forward. keeping her eyes fixed
on the Great Dane sitting motionless
at the farther end of the bridge of peril.
Ihen, suddenly the dog grew impatient
and began to leap and bark like fool
ish puppy. 1t was too much for Ardea
to have her eye-anchor thus trans
formed into dizzying whirlwind of
gray monsters. She reached backward
/ for fha rea aSllrfnp hand. y, ,f
there. and the next instant the hungry
pool rose up to engulf her.
In all his years Thomas Jefferson
which an Instantly awakened con-
science gave him when she slipped and
fell. Now he was her murderer, be-
yong any hope of future mercies. For
moment the horror Of 1t held him
vise-like. Then the sight of the great
Dane plunging to the rescue freed him.
Good dog!" he screamed, diving
headlong from his own side Of the
pool: and between them Ardea was
dragged ashore, a limp little heap of
satWatton. conscious, but with her
teeth chattering and great. dark cir
cles around the big blue eyes.
I'm awfully sorry!" he stammered.
- Sou S<AAA A1AfA1>S W. " ioESiNo me,
I'm going to have a miser'ble time of 1t
after get home"
1T will serve you quite right. Now
you'd better get me home as quick as
ever you can. expect I'll be sick
again, after this"
He held his peace and walked her as
fast as he could across the fields and
out on the pike. But at the Dabney
gates he paused. It was not In human
courage to face the Major under exist
ing conditions.
II reckon you'll go and tell your
gran'paw on me-" he said. hopelessly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25

In estimating the amount of wall
paper needed during the spring house
cleaning, 1t may be well to know that
the ordinary roll of wall paper is s
yards long and IS inches wide. A
double roll is 16 yards long. Cartridge
paper is usually SO inches wide. Bor-
Hders are usually IS yards long and
either 9 or IS inches wide.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
Both Pierced BY Bayonet..

Notable in the chronicles of the Sec.
ond Michigan infantry is an oficial
report by Its colonel. Orlando M. Poe,
about the battle at Williamsburg. He
found one of his men dead beside q
dead foe, each transfixed with the
others bayonet."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
Loco weed for Feedine.

Prof. L. E. sayre Of the Kansas Uni
versity is experimenting with loco
weed for feeding. In its natural state
1t Is Injurious to cattle, producing
kind of insane intoxication, and cat
tie will eat it to excess. Prof. Sayre
has studied the plant for twenty years,
and believes the poison in the weed be-
comes active only when meeting GER
tain acids in the cattle's stomach. He
is trying to cure the weed SO as to
eliminate Its noxious element and make
the nutritive portion Immediately
available.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25

Now. then, children" said the
teacher. what is 1T we want most in
this world to make us perfectly
happy?''
THE things we amt got!" shouted
the bright boy in the back seat st.
Louis News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
A Discourasins Theory.

WHY UU IHUSe CIIIICb Say SUCH us
agreeable things?" asked the unhappy
actress.
you mustn't blame them," an.
swered the manager. Probably they
want to avoid being overlooked in the
struggle for attention"
But can't they attract attention by
saying pleasant things?"
Not so much. When I was rough.
ing it / learned that the man who
pulls gun on you Is remembered
twice as long as the one who offers
you cigar" Washington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-25
Computation Food for Hogs.

E
For supplying large amount of
early pasture for hogs find that oats,
peas and rape make a very excellent
combination crop. This is, more strict
ly speaking, forage crop, and under
ordinary conditions will grow to pas
turing maturity within eight weeks
after sowing. ] shall this season sow
several acres of this combination crop
during the early part of May for sum-
mer pasture. If best results are de-
sired in producing this combination
crop considerable attention should be
paid to selecting fertile soil possess.
ing a ready amount of available plant
food, as this crop, in order to pro-
duce good forage, must grow rapidly.
Agricultural Epitomist.