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Many Men Would not do Without
Poslam, Which Soothes and
Heals

While the application of poslam the
new skin remedy after shaving is one
Of its minor uses. such as for PIN
pies the complexion, etc, shavers
have found II a revelation. as Il does
for abrasions. roughness, and severe,
scrapings what II does In all manner
OF skin fIicultles--heals and cures
In a few hours. Poslam's great anti
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alton possibly could Any infection
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ed, for poslam's primary work Is the
rapid healing OF such serious skin
diseases as eczema. acne. letter, salt
rheum, etc. 'Poslam is the best and
quickest cure that have seen in my
% years experience In the barber
business" says Frank ]. Kammerer,
Racine, Wis.
4 sample OF poslam (maIled free)
will tell the whole story. Write for
Il TO the Emergency Laboratories, 20
West Twenty-flfth street, New York
City. Poslam ia sold in two sizes
trial, 80 cents; regular Jars s2) by
all druggists, particularly W. L. Go.
kay.
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A Card

We the undersigned, do hereby
agree torefund the money on 50-cent
bottle Of Greene's Warranted Syrup
OF Tar IL IL fails TO cure your cough
or cold. We also guarantee a 25-cent
bottle to prove satisfactory or money
refunded.
Thompson's Pharmacy,
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Harwood Drug Store
Q. r and A. b. Hawkins
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-02
PASSENGERS ESCAPE
Coach Of Mixed Train Goes over An
Embankment

Brattleboro. Dec. "A passenger
coach In a mixed train on the West
River railroad OF the Central Vermont
jumped the tracks Wednesday after
noon short distance above West
Dummerston station. The coach tip
ped over on its side and slid down an
embankment as far as the coupling
would permit, II the coupling had
broken the coach would have gone TO
the % foot embankment.
There were about 10 passengers
ana one Of them jumped as the car
was going over the bank
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07

land Belgium Italy,
philosophy theology While
of the
Victoria at the funeral Germany
scented the Vatican
the coronation
pointed Camee segreto Participants which
occupied by the dsnwtng
his residence within the Vatican appointed
Queen
he prepared the King,
His
successfully accomplished.
Shortly after the death of Pope
OF state and he has had to deal with
France Germany Spain Portugal English
Spanish
He created a n "
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
That "Phillpplne Ruin" Dodge.

The apprehensions of Connecticut
senatorial craftsmanship concerning
the ruin" to the tobacco farmers Of
the Connecticut valley, which was
surely to follow II Philippine cigars
were admitted free of duty, must be
supposed to be considerably allayed,
since 1t appears that in the first year
of free Philippine cigars to the extent
of 150,000.0O0 only S0,0OO.00O, or but
a fraction over half the number per-
INVISIBLE. were sent to this country.
In other words, as the New York Sun
puts 1t. the horde of underpaid work
men" had been unable to find market
here for SO much "pauper labor tobac-
co" as 1t would have been allowed to
introduce duty free. Even If the whole
15O,000.000 free cigars had come in,
the amount would have been no more
than drop in the bucket''-in other
words. practically negligible guam
tity in comparison with the vast total
of domestic cigars consumed here. Yet
to head off ruin" like this, Connecti-
cuts senatorial statesmanship-w
1t wasn't planning to circumvent some
country postmaster who had gone
wrong politically-was worrying over
the purely imaginary interests Of
few tobacco farmers. and never lifting
its eyes to sweep that broader horizon
In which was plainly to be seen a
national duty to give measure of fair
play to people who had been incor-
porated under the fag-a duty the
neglect of which meant national dis
honor and an oftense against Justice
and morality.-Stamford Comm Adj
yocate
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
JOKE ON PRESIDENT TAFT
Nothing Was Said About Rubber In
Now Famous Winona Statistics.

Over at the back Of the new tariff
law-under Schedule N. sundries"
If you look carefully you will find
the following little item:
Manufacturers of bone, chip, grass.
horn. quilts. India rubber. palm leuf.
straw, weeds or whalebone. not spe-
cially provided for in this section. Is
per cent. ad valorem."
Under the Dingley law the duty was
20 per cent. The house retained that
rate, but in conference 1t was in.
creased to 35 per cent.
Now. If you will turn to those es.
Inmates, prepared under direction of
the senate finance committee = Mr..
Aldrich's committee-which President
Taft used in his Winona speech to
prove that duties had been advanced
hardly at all on articles that entered
largely into common consumption, you
will find that manufactures of rubber
were quite overlooked. Under Seized.
ule N the estimates say that the duty
was reduced on bituminous coal. which
is consumed to the extent of billion
dollars year, and on boots and shoes.
OF which three hundred million dol
lars worth are consumed annually;
that duties were increased on fire
works, which are used to the amount
OF two million dollars yearly; but
there isn't word about manufactures
of rubber.
You would conclude, probably.
that manufactures of rubber consti-
tuted so trivial an item that they were
not worth mentioning: that they were
about equal in Importance to manu-
features of horn. quilts, palm leaf.
straw. weeds and whalebone, with
which they are bracketed in the bill.
Nevertheless we imported last year
about hundred million dollars worth
of crude India rubber. Hence the man.
ufactures must amount to several
times that rather tidy little sum. Ger
tainly Senator Aldrich has discovered
that rubber is not the negligible item
he thought it was when he raised the
duty on it. He has been elected direc.
tor of rubber Saturday
Evening Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Worse Than Cannon.

Crumpacker is spoken of as can
didate for speaker of the next house
of representatives, II it shall be Re
publican, against Cannon. That would
be swapping the devil for a witch. In
the first place, he does not have the
ability Of Cannon; in the second place,
he is bitter partisan; and, lastly and
finally, brethren, he is cruel hater
of the south. These are qualities, we
know, that would command a certain
support for him in his party; but they
do not make him in any sense more
desirable than the distinguished
North Carolinian who now fills the Of
flee of speaker. Crumpacker and Hey
burn and Hollingsworth and the reac-
tionaries Of their sort ought to organ
lie house of their own. Besides, the
speaker Of the next house will be a
Observation-Disclosures Cva.) Times
Dispatch.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Tho Vital Point,

OF course, 1t never occurred to Sen
ator Aldrich that man in his posi-
ton ought not to be a promoter of
combinations which are actively in.
terested in the rates of duty levied
and at the same time dominate tariff
making.
The American people understand
that they cannot well demand that
their public men shall not be inter-
ested in any line of business which
may be affected by legislation, but the
line must be drawn somewhere. The
general impression is that Mr.. Aldrich
is financially interested and is closely
connected with men more heavily in
terested in businesses which are Wit
ally concerned in whether duties are
raised or lowered. They know that
Mr.. Aldrich has more to do than any
other dozen men in congress with say
ing whether duties shall come off or
stay on and whether they shall go up
or down.
That is where the shoe pinches.
That is the moral issue which has
given such impetus to the Bristow
charges. and 1t is not disposed of by
Mr.. Aldrich's letter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
What an Admission.

If it (crude rubber) should be
placed be placed upon the dutiable
list the duty would be added to the
cost Of the rubber to the manufacturer
or consumer, and would not affect the
producer, whose price would still be
controlled by the market price of the
world.-Senator Aldrich.
In the excitement of issuing for the
first time statement in defense of
his political acts Mr.. Aldrich here
permits an economic fact to appear.
Wheat and cotton are also raw mater
ials whose price is Controlled by the
market price of the world" Ameri-
can growers of wheat and cotton are
taxed to enrich Mr.. Aldrich's manu-.
featuring friends. Taxation does
nothing for them in return.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
FIRST DAILY NEWSPAPER.

The Courant started I'm London 200
Years Ago by . Woman.
A woman published the first daily
newspaper in the world 1t was called
the Courant and made its first appear
ance in London on March II. 1902. Be-
fore that time the news had been dis
pensed weekly. or. in few cases of
very progressive editors, semi-weekly.
1t was said that 1t was issued by "E.
Mallet, against the Ditch at Fleet
Bridge" Behind that non-committal
"E" was Elizabeth" 1t was the
Imagination of woman that first con-
ceived the idea that man would want
to have the news every morning with
his breakfast, and with the character
istic impulsiveness of her sex she put
the idea into operation.
The Courant contained only two
columns. but they were devoted entire
ly to news For centuries single
copy of bulletin has been posted on
the walls of the royal palace in China.
says Advertising and Selling, but that
cannot be called newspaper. and
there was once sort of daily market
report in Germany; but 1t lasted only
a few days.
The Courant's two columns were
printed on only one side Of the sheet
and contained such items as the fol-
lowing:
"'Tis believed that the earl of Port
land Is by this time at Paris"
Here is talk as IL 100000 pistols
were transmitted hitler from France
for bribing some persons to favor the
designs of that crown"
There were no pictures nor adver.
tisements. The Courant lived several
years, and since its appearance the
world has never been without daily
newspaper A copy. the very first
issue. In fact. is preserved in the Brit
ish Museum. Elizabeth Mallet had a
style and mind of her own, as is ap-
parent from the following paragraph
from that first issue:
1.-The Courant Gas the title shows)
will be published daily. being designed
to give all the material news as soon
as every post arrives. and is confined
to half the compass to save the public
at least half the impertinences Of or
binary newspapers"
She also promises that the editor
will not take upon himself to give
any comments or conjectors of his own,
but will relate only matter of facts.
supposing the other people to have.
sense enough to make reflections for
themselves"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Country Not to be- peceIyed.

Mr.. Aldrich says the tariff has not
caused the rise in rubber prices.
That will not be believed. He says
that the demand for rubber has In
creased while the supply has de-
creased, yet in another part of his
letter he says that his company ia
producing millions Of pounds of crude
rubber from entirely new sources.
The truth is that Mr.. Bristow
turned the light on man Of dicta-
torial authority at the head of Con-
gress deliberately manipulating the
tariff on behalf of his friends. himself
and his son. This exposure has inter-
rupted the proceedings to make one
all-comprehensive rubber trust, but
there can be no doubt that such
design was under way.
Meanwhile, the country is not going
to believe that the Aldrich crude rub
Der company has not had Its share OF
profits out of the enormous increase
In the prices of rubber goods caused
by the increase in the tariff.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Good Record Made BY Women.

Through the activity of women, In
the anti-tuberculosis campaign, sana-
toria and hospitals for the treatment
Of tuberculosis have been erected;
travelling libraries have been circu-
lated, posters, circulars and other
kinds of literature have been distrib-
uted to the number of millions OF
pieces. thousands Of lectures have
been given. large sums of money have
been secured, hundreds of needy cases
have been helped; tuberculosis work
has been started in many commune
ties where no movement had existed;
and millions Of women have learned
the dangers and methods of proven,
ton Of tuberculosis. Tho work Of the
women extends from the drawing room
of the rich to the homes Of the poor,
and embraces all classes, including the
factory girl and millionaire. During
the coming year special campaign Of
lectures to women will be carried on
\ in all parts Of the United States.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
-sut, my dear cir, N, Farley SON !,

"But. my dear siri Ny Farley con,
trolls 65 per cent of the Eeock!"
That is where you were lied to ore
more time" said Tom. with great caol-
ness. 1.-THE capital stock Of C.liawas-
see Limited is divided into one thou
sand shares. all distributed. My faith
er holds three hundred and fifty
shares; Mr.. Farley and his son togeth-
er own four hundred and Atty; and the
remaining two hundred are held In
trust for Miss Ardea Dabney, to be-
come her property in fee simple when
she marries. Pending her marriage.
which is currently supposed to be near
at hand. the voting power of these two
hundred shares resides in Miss Dab
ney's grandfather. and my father holds
his proxy
This was the thunderbolt Tom had
been forging during those quiet days
spent on the mountain side; and there
was another pause while one might
count ten. After which the man from
New York spoke his mind freely.
Your row with these people must
be pretty bitter. Mr.. Gordon. Are you
Dabneys go by the board for the sake
v
II know what am doing" was the
quiet reply. Neither my father nor
Miss Dabney wifi lose anything that is
worth keeping"
Have you figured that out. too? Tho
field Is too small for you down here.
Mr.. Gordon-much too small You
should come to New York"
you will fight us?" he asked.
TN,,o short of cnrp0ro ftopv
laughed.
well put you out of business. II you
insist on it. Anything to oblige."
You have 1t to do. Mr.. Dracott. On
the day you have hammered chiawas-
see Limited down to dead PROPOSE
ton. you can have my pipe patents.
II you will meet me at the ONCE Of
Hanchett, Goodloe & Tryson to-mor-
row morning at 10 o'clock. we will put
It in writing" Good-night"
ITO he continual
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
suppre..ing swearing.

Profane as well as legal oaths have
been the subject Of many parliament
tary measures in England. No fewer
than five separate bills having the
prevention Of swearing for their OBJ
ject were presented during the reign
of James l.. but it was not until 1923
that an enactment was finally carried
defining and controlling the offense
In 1885 a publ: department was es.
tablished to collect the fines enforced
by this law. The officials of this de-
partment, of whom one was appointed
in every parish. were allowed s. Cd.
in the pound on the money thus col.
lected. and the balances was paid over
to the bishop for tho benefit of the
deserving poor. These penalties ceased
to be enforced after the restoration,
but were revived by Statute of Will.
lam and Mary and still further in.
creased under George I.-London
ScrapS
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
AND THIS ECONOMY!
REPUBLICAN EXPENDITURES Ex-
cEED ALL PREcEpENTs.
Nearly One Hundred Millions In Ex-
cess Of Billion Dollar Appropri-
ated by consress-eudsst
an Outrageous One.

Figures compiled by the clerical
force of congress and printed in the
Republic show that the late session
spent, nearly $1O0,000.000 In excess
Of $1,000, 100000.
In the last hours of that session
Chairman Hale of the senate finance
committee and Chairman Tawney Of
the house appropriations committee
had dispute over the exact amount
spent. 1t came about because out Of
the total spent, $1.Oss.S47.1s4, the
bills for $1,027, 9O1, 629 will be payable
Immediately on presentation, whereas
payment on bills for $70,945.555 will
be deferred.
Because Uncle Sam, out on fren-
zied and recordbreaking shopping
trip, had an understanding that $780,
100000 worth of the things he con-
tracted for aren't to be paid for until
later, Mr.. Tawney insisted that the
money had not been spent at all.
!. That there is as much need for an
insurgency against the way the stand
patters spend money as against the
way they frame tariff and railroad
bills and other legislation is apparent
to anyone who inspects the colossal
totals of this outrageous budget.
When one party has been in uninter-
rupted control Of the government for
fourteen years, $1.00O.000,000 ses-
sions and $4,000, 900, 900 congresses are
precisely what might be expected.
If the people are satisfied with the
stand-pat system that makes appro-
priations exceeding $1,000.000,000 in
evitable at each session of congress,
they can positively insure continu-
ance Of the system by continuing
stand-pat control. If they are not sat
lsfied with It, the only possible way Of
insuring its discontinuance Is by CIV
ing Democrats and anti-standpatters
generally control.
The budget Of the present year is
the more depressing because Mr.. Taft
professed that he was making vigor-
GUS effort to keep down appropria-
tons. II, with the administration
sternly insisting on economy. more
money was spent than in any other
year in all American history, how
much would the standpatters have
spent If economy had not been made
much-heralded administration pol
icy?-St. Louis Republic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Large pr,c. for stamps,

The most ardent stamp collector
would think twice before giving $4,000
for two-cent blue Hawaiian stamp
1S51-1S52 with its right-hand bottom
corner torn off, trust! Nevertheless.
that record price hes been paid in
Paris for the little red postmarked
thing. But we can all be extravagant
once in a while, ard this valued
postage stamp is DOUBTLESS destined
for a royal collectors hook.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
How lightning split. Trees,

:
lightning makes trees explode. like
overcharged boilers. The flame OF: tho
lightning does not burn them up, nor
does the electric flash split them like
an ak. The bolt flows through into all
the damp interstices of the trunk and
into the hollows under its bark. All
the moisture at once is turned into
steam, which by its Immediate explo-
sion rips open the tree. For centuries
this simple theory puzzled scientists.
but they have got in right at last.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Woman's Falthfulness.

tell you that women. as rule,
are more faithful than men-ten times
more faithful. never saw man
pursue his wife into the very ditch
and dust of degradation and take her
in his arms. l never saw man stand
at the shore where she was wrecked,
waiting for the waves to bring back
her corpse to his arms, but l have
seen woman with her white arms
lift man from the mire of degrade
ton and hold him to her bosom as If
he were an angel.-Ingersoll.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
DIPLOMAT OF THE VATICAN

No man perhaps occupies more prominent
place in the international limelight today than
the cardinal secretary of state Of the Holy See,
his eminence Rafael Merry del Val, whose
diplomats dispute with Spain has engaged
worldwide interest
The cardinal is Londoner by birth and the
blood of Celt. Briton and spaniard flows through
his veins His father, who was secretary of the
Spanish embassy in London when the cardinal
was born, is descended from an Irish family
which emigrated to Spain at the end of the
18th century while his grandmother on the
mothers side was a Miss Wilcox, daughter Of
former member of the British Parliament.
Cardinal Merry del Val was educated In Eng.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Tlb.tan Penal Code.

The Tibetan penal code is curious.
Murder is punished with fine, vary
ing according to the Importance of the
slain. theft by fine Of seven to one
hundred times the value of, the article
stolen. Here, again. the fine depends
on the social Importance Of the person
from whom the theft has been com.
mitted. The harborer OF thief Is
looked upon as worss criminal than
the thief himself. Ordeals by fire and
by boiling water are still used as
proofs of innocence or guilt. exactly as
was the custom In Europe In the mid.
die ages. And II the lamas never in.
lict death they are adopts at torture.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Reckless.

Can you support my child?" asked
the old man. sternly.
Support her? could support the
whole family" the youth boosted.
Afterward he regretted that he had
not been more temperate in his
speech.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07

Mr.. Ballinger's views on conserva-
ton are of importance because he is
Secretary of the Interior. At the same
time his office requires of him GER
tain personal dignity. BY devoting
his time on the platform to virulent
abuse of his critics he neither helps
the cause Of conservation, IL that is
his desire, nor adds to the popularity
Of the administration, which has stood
by him in his troubles with self-sac-
rificing loyalty. His conduct is best
explained by the conviction that he
has not much longer to stay.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
A Mistake.

You don't want to make any mis-.
take about Philadelphia's being slow
town." said Dobleigh. mo. stree.
discounted thirty-day note over
there once and by lingo. thirty days
pass Just as quickly over there as they
do here!"-Lippincott's
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07

Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means so much
to me that for the sake of other suffer-
ing women ! am willing to make my
trouble public so you may publish
this letter. MRS. CHAs. BARCLAY,
RE-. D., Graniteyille, vt.
No other medicine for woman's ills
has received such widespread and un-
qualified endorsement. No other med
icine we know Of has such a record
of cures of female Ills as has Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
For more than 80 years 1t has been
curing female complaints such as
Inflammation, liberation, local weak
nesses, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, indigestion
and nervous prostration, and it is
unequalled for carrying women safely
through the period of change of life.
Il costs but little to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and,
as Mrs. Barclaysays,it is worth noun
tsins of gold :" to suffering women.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07

DR. Johnson had hcant sympathy
with inconsistent and arrogant indus
try. mo man, Sir. is obliged to do
as much as he can. man should
have part of his life to himself"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
plstlllIna eutta Percha.

A Frenchman has invented pro-
cess for distilling gutta percha from
the leaves of the Malay tree of that
name, saving the trees from the dam
age caused by tapping the trunks for
the sap.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
Moaern parry sgr ,Ie.ico

The Mexican state of Guadalajara
is to have at last 8 modern dairy;
100 American cows are to be imported
and 500 acres of land have been pur-
chased
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-07
An,tomics, Side of GARDENING.

Corn has ears. Potatoes have eyes.
Squashes have necks. Cucumbers
have warts. Cabbages have heads.
Celery has heart. Wheat has a
beard Grapes have skin.-Life.