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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-26
IN TllIIl|l[ll lIl|llDEYE.
DARING YOUNG SKY PILOT

Walter Richard Brookins the youthful sky
pilot who made the successful flight from Chi
cago to Springfield, belongs in the aviation game
by right of having been born In the city Wright
brothers have given such great fame. He is a Day
ton. Ohio. boy. who has been over a great deal of
America and Canada, having been for time a
driver of racing automobiles before taking up
air flying.
Brookins is Just past twenty-five years old. He
observed his last birthday July IL by making rec
ord flights at Atlantic City, Nj 1t was at this meet
that he broke the then world record for high
fight for the third time by driving his machine
in series Of spectacular dashes to the height Of
6.200 fleet. Brookins' parents are Americans.
Both his father and mother are living, and he
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1882
efficient satisfactory administration
selected him for his adutant
Relief
is said
sympathy with him.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-26
NEW GRAND ARMY COMMANDER

John E. Gilman Of Massachusetts,, who was
elected commanderin-chief of the Grand Army Of
the Republic at the forty-fourth national encamp-
ment. has an enviable record as soldier and
citizen. He belonged to the noted Twelfth Mas
sachusetts. regiment which vies with the First
Minnesota as having lost the largest percentage
of the men 1t carried into any single action. Com.
mander Gilman fought bravely with his regiment
through all its battles until at Gettysburg he lost
his right arm by wound from she'll
He Joined the Grand Army in 1858. and has
since been jealous and active in its service Dur
ing the dark days of the order he was one of the
mainstays. and has held nearly every office with.
in the gift Of his comrades as a reward for his
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-26

himself with others the work Of the Roosevelt Country
methods Of improving the life the
| Butterheld
nation from
honest
Anything short Of this will the
~ -
Wallace agricultural TOPICS IN
this country 1896 nr
farm journal -
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-26

A cheap tobacco. called ava grass, is
very much smoked b5 the Malays.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-26
CONSERVED HIS OWN LIFE

Henry Wallace the new head of the National
Conservation congress. is himself living ex.
ample of the possibilities In conservation of hui
man life Thirty years ago, while holding the
pastorate Of United Presbyterian church at
Morning Sun, Iowa. he was informed by his ply
sician that his days were numbered and that his
only hope of prolonging life for even reasonably
short time was to get out Of the pulpit. He did
not walt to preach a farewell sermon; he went
back to the farm and commenced anew the
simple life. Today, at seventy-four he Is Wig
orous and healthy man. doing his full days labor
every day and with intellect as keenly alive to
every issue Of the time.
Mr.. wallace's special interest in the work
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-26
The Worlds Greatest Oil Well

ITUATED two miles north
or Maricopa, in Kern
county, California. in
what is known as the
Kern River oil field,
fbora q, ~ rnoo+.,+ III
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-26
yapanese. Method Of Cold STORAGE

Then he becomes manager of
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ments on one vessel. The seamen.
and the officers as well seem to never
tire of the concerts made possible by
these inventions and they have gone
far, in conjunction with moving pic
lures, to relieve the monotony that
was once disadvantage of life in the
navy. AJAX
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-26
r1uSil in the Unit ! States Nav

when 49, Time comes Tor relsXation
and diversion. That they have the
ability to play hard rs well as to work
hard is most apparent to any person
who watches the bluejackets during
their leisure moments either afloat or
ashore, and the best part of 1t Is
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
Seattle Capitalists Travelling in This
Modern Day With Touring Car
and Auto Truck.

In contrast to the caravans that
.raversed the Oregon valleys fifty
years ago a party from Seattle left
Portland the other morning for an ex-
tcnsive trip through the southern part
of the state and California in auto
mobiles. says the Portland Oregonian
The equipment consisted of big tour.
ing car and a large auto-truck on
which was 2 complete kitchen. ice
box, hair mattresses and all the COM
forts of home. il charge Of a profess
sional chef.
The party consisted of Mortirz
Thomson. E. Cardin, r. r. Spencer
and NJ. H. Young. Seattle capitalists
WHIT. are seeking rest and recreation
on 4 tour that will lead them away
from all business and care. They left
Seattle with their equipment, but the
roads were so rough that the two big
machines were shipped from Kelso
TO Portland. At 10 o'clock yesterday
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
NEW VERSION OF CINDERELLA
Wealthy New York Manufacturer
Finds stenographer's Slipper
Engagement Announced.

New York.-The story Of Cinderella,
the shoe and the Prince has come true
IN New York City, with variations.
Miss Mildred Mermelstein was any
thing but a Cinderella in her home in
East One Hundred and Thirteenth
street. She was bright, little stem
ographer. Nor was the slipper made
of glass. It was a real American girls
slipper, tiny and elegant. The lover
was not a prince. either. but wealthy
shoe manufacturer. He is Samuel
Newman.
On her way home in a Madison ave-
nue. car the slipper slipped off Miss
Mildreds foot. She didn't miss it un-
til she put her silk-stockinged toes to
the cold, hard pavement. Mr.. Newman
saw the slipper on the car and has
tened back. hoping to return 1t to its
owner. but Miss Mildred had limped
away. Next day the Prince" adver-
tised for the maiden whom the slipper
would fit. Miss Mildred answered.
And, Just as in the story, too, the
Prince found that the owner of the
slipper was fair to gaze upon and
charming in her ways. That was two
months ago. The announcement of
their engagement was made the other
day. The slipper was No. 2.
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WHEAT PAYS WELL in EAST

OF the few groves Of primeval forests
In western Massachusetts, are on this
property. Farmer Ferguson began
raising wheat to feed his poultry be-
cause wheat was high. For several
years he produced enough wheat for
home consumption, using the straw
for bedding purposes. Its return in
value astonished him. He found II
of good profit and determined upon
an experiment
On the ten acre lot grew sections of
quack grass. He wanted to get rid OF
this growth and plowed the lot and
sowed 1t entirely to buckwheat. This
hardy grain successfully killed out
the quack grass. Its heavy body shut
out the sun from the soil beneath
its bulky growth and the foreign
grass died from the want of sunshine
With the buckwheat well along last
year Mr.. Ferguson had it plowed un
der and fortified the lot with some
fertilizer left over from the spring
planting. Possibly two tons of com
mercial fertilizer was used in pre-
pairing the field of over ten acres fol
red winter wheat, which was sown
From this experimental lot Mr.. Fer
guson has just reaped a bumper cror
of wheat Not only was the wheat
perfect in head. every kernel beins
filed out, but the body of straw was
excellent.
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HE WAS HEIR TO MILLIONS
Mystery of Daniel Sneridan's Disap
pearanee Is Cleared Away After
Many Years.

London.-The mystery Of the disap
pearance of Daniel Sheridan. the
American claimant of the Blake
Millions" has been solved at last. II
is some months since the Star print
ed a story about the pathetic struggle
of this IrishAmerican farmer to Oh
tain the fortune left by Mrs. Helen
Blake. who died intestate in London.
in 1876. Her property. then 100000,
has been in the hands of the crown
ever since. and, counting the accumu'
lated interest, is now estimated to be
nearly $2.5O0.OO0.
A letter just received by that news
paper from Daniel Sheridan's son. 10
seph, who lives in Quincy, ILL.,. reveals
the fact that an old, homeless. name
less man, who died in Lambeth in
Urinary on December 10. 1896. was
the lost claimant for the millions"
Mrs. Blake was Helen Sheridan. a
beautiful Irish girl, when she was
married to Capt Robert Dudley Blake,
a young officer of dragons stations
in Dublin. He later became gen.
eral. Daniel Sheridan asserted he was
Mrs. Blake's cousin. the son OF her
fathers elder brother. and he came
to London to prosecute his claim from
Kankakee county, Illinois, in 1885. be-
ing then a man of seventy. He could
not, however, obtain the necessary ev.
idence to satisfy the treasury that he
was the next of kin. His money
dwindled away. he was heavily in
debt for board and lodging. and all
the while his family were writing to
him from America upon the idea that
he had obtained the fortune and re-
preaching him for deserving them.
For a time he. was an inmate of a
workhouse. On his discharge from
there he wrote to his son that he was
going to Ireland to find some one who
knew him as a boy. That was the
last his family ever heard of him. He
seems to have wandered about help
less, hopeless, a broken man. until on
December 6, 1896, he was once more
admitted to the Lamberth infirmary
He gave no address, and three days
later he died.
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ropes, which it Is claimed parted one
rope as neatly as If it had been cut
with a knife when the weight of three
men was placed upon it.
The contractor found evidences OF
acid having been applied to the part
of the rope which broke. This, he
thinks. was done by some person try.
ing to kill all the men at work when
the scaffold would fall. He does not
suspect who could have placed the
acid on the rope, which for several
nights has ben put into a barrel and
allowed to remain standing on the
sidewalk in front of the Hotel Antler
Whoever applied the acid to the rope
did SO in one spot only, so that II
would require some htle weight to pull
1t apart after 1t had destroyed the ma
MIA tissue of the rope.
'ihe boss had to climb down a rope
from the fourth story to the scaffold
to release the twisted guy rope and re
lieve the men who were suspended In
the air and holding on by their arms
anu IcS6 III udA6CI VI iOSiAG
their hold and their lives at the same
time He was cheered by the great
crowd that gathered as he slowly
swung himself loose and let himself
slide down the ropes to the scaffold.
The accident happened shortly after
noon. when the three employees. John
Thompson, Herbert Clems and William
Blackburn, were preparing to raise the
scaffold upon which they were work
ing cleaning the granite front of the
hotel, from the fourth story to the
fifth. The rope on the right hand side
of the scaffold parted near the scat
fold without warning and Thompson
who had been pulling on the guy rope
on that side. just frightened his holt
and hung suspended in the air as the
scaffold Tell from him.
Clems and Blackburn. with rare
presence of mind. on the opposite enc
of the swinging ladder each grabbed
as the other end dropped. one catch
ing the scaffold and the other the
ropes on the other side. The guy rope
twisted and held the scaffold from fall
ing clear and each of the men cluns
desperately, while the crowd below
scattered and gathered on the othe
side of the street, expecting any min
ute to see the men drop to certain
death
Contractor Smith was eating in tn
hotel when he heard cry that tn
scaffold had broken. He raced up tn
stairs until he reached the fifth foo
and, swinging out of the window. b.
grabbed the suspended buy rope ant
slid down to where he could releas'
this rope and allow the swinging lad
der to descend to the pavement.
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two feet from Milicent. but not until
1t had splashed her almost from head
to foot.
"Oh, I'm so. so sorry" girls voice
said. The door had been flung open.
Within 1t she saw a fair double of
herself, a girl. blue-eyed and tall as
she was, with the same cleft chin.
straight nose and yellow hair. The
voice. too. seemed her own. as it went
on eagerly:
Get in! You must! I shall take
you home with me-and send you to
the laundry"
There was a bubbling laugh after
the last word. Milicent got in. and
was whisked forward, hardly knowing
whether she were awake or dreaming.
Two hours later she was pinching
herself to determine. This. although
she sat at late luncheon in a fine
country house, clothed in fine alien
garments. eating strange things.
Her double sat opposite her. smiling
soft coaxing smiles. and saying every
little while:
You will! That's a darling! I'll
love you forever and overland II
can't be half so bad, no matter how
1t turns out. as being a governess-
those Alstyne children are young saw.
ages"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
Railroad Men From All Along Line
Drop Deereplt Tables OF All
Kinds and Sizes.

New York.-As some men collect
coins, Corots or coupons. Benjamin
Baker, assistant yard master OF the
Pennsylvania railroad at West Norris
Vile, N. J.. collects cats. Announce
ment was made that through the I'M
selfish devotion of countless trainmen
on the line Mr.. Baker is now in pos
session of one of the largest collec-
lions of cats extant.
MFR. Baker likes cats. but he likes
them within reason. He has no use
for all the cats that have been thrust
upon him, and he has no place to keep
them. The reason that the supply of
cats In Mr.. Bakers back yard is so
much In excess of the demand is that
almost everybody along the right Of
way who has cat for which he has
no further use gives the animal to a
trsinman with instructions to drop 1t
gently on train miles away and lose
Il. Instead Of obeying these instruc-
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get the day of, to say nothing OF the
rolling stock. and 1t begins to look as
IL he will be an island In a sea of cats
for a long time.
He would not mind 1t so much. he
thinks. :: all his cats were in a good
state of preservation, but many OF
them. either because of their own mis-
takes or the misbehavior of others
have lost paws, ears and tails. A
grand review of the tabbies would dis
close a regiment of badly damaged
felines, few of which are complete. AL
most every train that rolls into Yves,
Morrisville brings additions to the
home for the friendless. and unless
something Is done about this high
cost CT living thing very soon Mr.. Ba
ker will not be able to buy enough
milk aud catnip to go around.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
Women and Athletes Lead Other
Students at University.
Goods Rank 4 Per Cent Higher Than
Men and Average Work Of Frater-
nifty and Sorority Members
Not Up to Standard.

Champaign, Ill-That athletes Of
the University of Illinois rank higher
than the average young men students
In their class work is the interesting
fact discovered by Professor T. A.
Clark, dean Of men, after reviewing
an average of the grades Of every
student at the Champaign Urbana
branch Of the university. This same
Investigation shows that the goods
rank 4 per cent higher in their studies
than men and further that the average
work Of the fraternity and sorority
members is not quite up to the stand
ard.
To get this information Dean Clark
set q number of clerks at work. Each
students grades for both semesters
was averaged according to the mum.
Der Of hours taken in the subjects
Thus record Of more than 300 stu.
dents was obtained, an average in
general made and then the special
classes of students considered were
compared with this general average.
For the general average of the three
thousand men students the figures
were S1.11 for the first semester and
S1.31 for the second semester. or q
general average of 8121 for the year
The seven hundred or more goods
averaged $500 the first semester and
S6.01 the second semester, or 1888 fol-
the entire year.
All the members of the football
baseball, track. swimming and basket
ball squads were counted in the list
Of athletes. The two hundred or more
considered had an average of S2.74
for the first semester and S1.78 the
second semester. or 1925 for the year
The track squad had the high aver
age of S3.07 for the year and the bss
ketball players a low average. An
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
.1klH
Millicent's Masquerade
By MARTHA MeCULLOCH.WILLIAMS
Copyright. 1910. by Associated Literary Press

Behind the frowning providence Of
a sudden summer rainstorm. Fate
hid for Milicent Ware a smiling face.
She stood in the uncertain shelter u
a roadside elm. trying vainly to
shield her hat with ridiculous par
asol. and specializing what chance
had such an object as she knew she
looked of getting the place she sought.
To be exact, the place was that OF
nursery governess in the Alstyne fam
ily-the agency had sent her on the
barest long chance. Because she
needed work so desperately, also be-
cause the morning had promised so
fairly. she had put or her modest
best-her white linen suit. null
trimmed hat and patent leather ties.
She had been pardonably proud Of
herself as she stepped from the train
at the nearest station. There was
nobody to meet her, and her purse
forbade even suburban cab fare.
Armed with confused directions and
the rash confidence Of youth, she had
set out on foot for Overhill. the Al
styne place-and this was the result!
"Hopelessly drabbled." she said
half aloud. looking herself up and
down as she spoke. And at least
half mile to go II this rain ever
holds up. Heigho! II everybody be
rich why is anybody permitted to
own an auto?"
AS though answering the question
an auto. a big limousine. dashed out
Of a cross track upon the hard wide
roadway-and in making a turn
skidded. fetching up, at last, less than
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
Bow Kills Four Bears.

Stockton. Cal-James Miller. a
sixteen-year-old boy of this city. has
the. distinction of killing four bears,
and while his friends are praising him
he realizes that he took more chances
than the best hunter in the business.
He was a member of party that has
been hunting in Calaveras county
but stole away alone one day and sud
denly came upon cub in the woods.
The first shot from his rife brought
down the animal, but the mother ap-
peared and made dash for the youth,
who stood his ground and coolly sent
a bullet through the heart of the old
bear. which weighed more than 700
pounds.
Two more cubs that approached the
scene were shot by Miller and when
members Of his party appeared ne
was surveying calmly tis quarry.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
STRAY CATS FOR COLLECTOR

lions the trainmer have hurried to
Mr.. Baker with the cats. He is now
trying to find homes for his charges.
but has discovered that many of the
persons to whom he has applied for
permission to leave a cat on trial
would be as willing to have scarlet
fever in the house as such a pet
The management of a cat circus
wrote to Mr.. Baker not long ago ex.
pressing willingness to take of his
hands couple Of the cats that had
been wished on him. Mr.. Baker packed
two cats out of the multitude In the
back yard and sent them to the circus
man. The latter either never got
them or did not think much OF them
after he did get them, for he has new
er written a line In acknowledgment
OF Mr.. Bakers kindness.
II the assistant yard master could
only get day of and IL the railroad
company would only lend him a
couple of freight cars he could bring
some OF the excess to the Bide-a-Wee
home in New York. But he cannot
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
Interesting Story Of How New York
er's Massachusetts, Farm Raised
Big Crop.

Springfield, Mass. - Although the
wheat fields of the far west are gen.
orally supposed to be very large, the
department of agriculture, has issued
an estimate that in states where the
fields ale the largest their size av-
erages little more than 100 acres. New
England has the smallest wheat fields,
the average in Vermont being only
three. That wheat is indigenous to
the soil of Massachusetts is declared
in the reports of the Massachusetts,
Agricultural college and that it can
be grown profitably in Berkshire
county is asserted by experts who
have made an examination Of the soil
of the hill towns.
A Lenox farmer. George W. Fer
guson, has this year harvested AIT
bushels of winter wheat from ten and
seven-tenths acres of land and sold
the wheat in a Pittsfield market for
$3.50 a bushel. The wheat is to be
used as seed wheat, 80 clean and per-
feet was the product. Mr.. Ferguson
has for 16 years managed Pine Croft
farm, typical country farm in Lenox
owned by Frederick Augustus Scher-
merhorn of New York. Besides over
seeing a farm Of 1886 acres. Mr.. Fer
gusOn has served Lenox as a select
man for several years and last year
was chairman Of the board Pine
Croft comes up to ones idea of a
country farm. 1t is not a city lot,
such as some farms of Lenox million.
aires become. but is the nearest to ma
ture that its owner can make It. One
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
PLOT TO PLUNGE PAINTERS
FROM A HIGH BUILDING
cOWARDlY ATTEMPT TO WRECK
A SCAFFOlD BY THE USE
OF ACID.

Pittsburg.-What at first was
thought to have been an accident.
which almost resulted disastrously to
many pedestrians in Fifth avenue. has
turned out to have been a dastardly
attempt at murder. presumably the
work of a fiend or insane man. But for
the twisting of guy rope on SCAT
fold and the presence of mind OF the
three men working on the Hotel Ant
Ter. they, and possibly some of the pass
ersby four stories below them. would
have been crushed to death.
A reward of $3.50 has been offered
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of the person or per-
sons who put acid on the scaffold
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
CONTRAST ON OREGON TRAIL

morning the party left the Oregon
hotel with no particular destination
In view. The members have a supply
Of fishing tackle. guns and ammuni.
ton and will spend several weeks in
the mountains of Oregon and Califor.
mia. where fishing and hunting are
good.
The chef is also chauffeur and has
charge Of the truck. His kitchen "a
complete in all details. When a stop
is made over night or for few DAYS
camping sleeping tents and a dining
tent are unloaded. The party will
probably return to Seattle by a differ.
ent route.