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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26

the republic, but now under the coun'
try-wide plan Of distribution Of food
products and the factory output and
the enormous amount Of city and cor
porate property, all of which ID
benefited by good roads. The plan re-
moves heavy burden from the farm.
ers, by requiring all classes of property
to stand its just proportion of the cost
New York presents striking exam
pie of the growth of the good roads
sentiment and the possibilities of road
construction. This state began state
aid with measly appropriation OF
$4,000, but in five years by a heavy
majority voted a constitutional amend.
ment authorizing the issue of $50, 000,.
900 Of bonds for state aid In road
building. Thus the wave of progress
goes on with increasing momentum,
and it will eventually sweep the whole
country.
When one looks back over the cam.
paign for good roads in any community
he finds that when the subject was
first brought up scores Of good PEG.
pie BECAME frightened at the ex-
pense, and they were loud in denuncia.
ton of the proposal saying and be.
lieving, that it meant the conf1scation
'of their property. That they never
could stand the tax and that good
roads spelled ruin In every case, how.
ever, where the plan was proceeded
with by state aid, the people were sur
prised that they had the roads and
that they did not .feel the tax,
that, in fact. more and more roads
were demanded, up to the lawful limit.
Thus 1t has ever been, and probably
will be, for years to come.
Good roads mean more social life,
more pleasure, less drudgery. They
mean better schools, more enlight-
ened and intelligent citizenship, they
mean progress and civilization.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
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Utilization Of Waste

A distinguished chemist once OBJ
served that my lady writes tender
sentiments to her lord with ink made
from an old copper coffee pot on paper
made from old collars" The utiliza.
ton Of waste products, which is add.
ing SO enormously to the wealth OF
the world, furnishes many such fan.
tastic adaptations.
"Give me-" DR.. Long said, "the sew.
age OF New York, and will return
you yearly the superior milk Of 100000
cows" The waste soapsuds from
wooden factories which used to pol
lutte hundreds Of rivers, Is now precip.
itated and the coagulum is pressed
into bricks and converted into supe-
rior Illuminating gas. These are only
examples Of the ingenuity of man
That the field is far from exhausted is
instanced in the estimate that from
900 to 1000 tons of fine coal are
thrown away every day in the ashes of
New York. It is not impossible that
some one will shortly invent pro
cess for retaining this wasted ma
terial.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
WALL PAPER MEN INDICTED
Members Of Alleged Trust Are Ac-
cused Of Violating Sherman Law
In Cleveland.

Cleveland, Ohio.-Four indictments
were returned by the federal grand
jury, which has been investigating an
alleged wall paper trust. The indict-
ments charge conspiracy in restraint
Of trade under the Sherman law.
The indicted persons are officials of
wall paper jobbing houses. They are:
j. B. Pearce, president Of the J. B.
Pearce Wall Paper company of Cleve-
land; Norton Newcomb of st. Louis.
Edward E. Maxwell Of Chicago and c.
C. Aler of Columbus, O. Bond was
fixed at $4,000 in each case.
The specific charge against the in
dicted men Is that they met in Cleve-
land May 80, 1910, and after secret
session, notified wall paper manufac-
turers Of the country that II they sold
wall paper to and 10 cent stores the
jobbers would boycott them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
Ea.y.Goino individual.

I. R. Sherwood. Democratic con-
gresham from Ohio, tells this story:
A man had for years employed q
steady German workman. One day
Jake came to him and asked to be ex-
cused from work the next day. Ger
tainly, Jake" beamed the employer.
"What are you going to do?" WALL"
said Jake slowly, Il tink I must go by
mein wife's funeral She dies yester-
day" After the lapse of few weeks
Jake again approached his boss for .
day of. "All right, Jake, but what
are you going to do this, timer"
"Aber." said Jake. II go to make me,
NIT mein fraulein, wedding"
What? So soon? Why, it's only been
three weeks since you buried your
wife," "Ach!" replied Jake, II don't
hold spite long,"
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lets, broken pieces of which had been
coming out of Cappadocia for several
years, and by chain of indications,
some of them obtained on the spot by
Chantre In 1890, had been traced to
Boghaz-Keui. The well-known orien-
talist, Hugo Winckler, began the sys.
tematic search in 1906, and lighted at
once on tablets. In 1907 he got more,
| most of them from the ruins Of the
great building referred to above,
which proved to have been palace
OR rather, two palaces of different
dates, one being built partly over the
other. In word, he found remains
of royal archives, written in cunei-
form script, but partly in the Baby
lonian language, partly In q tongue
unknown. The first kind was readily
deciphered; the other is yielding its
secrets only to slow and painful labor.
But already we have learned enough
to convince the most hardened scep-
tic that history had forgotten
great deal. This is, however, to do his.
tory some injustice. She had not
entirely forgotten the kings of Bog
haz-Keui, but we could not under
stand her records: Egyptian inscrip-
lions Of the eighteenth and nineteenth
dynasties mention four kings of the
Khita under circumstances which i'm
ply that theirs was no mean power;
but the texts give no indication that
those kings ruled elsewhere than In
Syria, where the Pharaohs and their
officers came into contact with them.
All these four names have now been
found in the Boghaz-Keui archives, to.
gether with other names of the same
dynasty, and we see that it was In
Cappadocia that these kings were at
home.
From the tablets already read, the
growth of this empire towards the
south and east can be followed, and
from the distribution of monuments Of
Hittite Class its growth westward as
far as the Aegean sea may be reason
ably be inferred The first expansion
of the Haiti folk beyond the bounds
of Cappadocia seems to have been
as early as about 1900 B. c., when
they raided down to Babylon and up.
set what is called its first dynasty;
but their careers of organized con.
quest was not to begin for nearly
three centuries, till King subbilulu,
whom the Egyptians called Sapararu,
came to the throne. When he died, in
the time of Amenophis ~. OF Egypt,
he was overload Of West Asia. from
the Black sea to Oronotes and from
the Tigris to the Aegean. From cor
respondence with the kings Of Egypt,
Of the Mesopotamian Mitanni, and OF
Babylon, which has now come to
light, the stages of his conquest can
be traced-raids on the Mitanni ter
ritory; raids into northern Syria; war
with the Mitanni; full establishment
Of Haiti domination over north Syria
and north Mesopotamia; recognition
Of the Haiti king as suzerain by the
Amurri or nomads Of the Syrian and
Mesopotamian wastes. Kings of Egypt
and Babylon acknowledged him as
their equal, but as yet there was no
war with the elder empires. That did
not come till the time of Mutallu and
Rameses H. The Haiti king had ad-
vanced south into the Aramaen coun-
try, on the upper Orontes, and estab-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
OXYGEN A. . cutting Tool.

A jet of burning oxygen from a blow
pipe may be successfully employed to
cut sheet iron, iron tubes, and small
bars. The cut made is almos: as
sharp and thin as that made by saw.
In earlier attempts difficulty was en-
countered in clearing the cut Of liquid
metal and in preventing the spread Of
the melting effect beyond the borders
of the cut. In later processes two
blowpipes were used. The first has
an ordinary oxyhydrogen flame, which
heats the iron to redness at the place
where the cut is to be made. This IL
followed Immediately by the second
jet, composed of pure oxygen. whjcai
instantly burns the metal without nett
ing. The liquidized iron is blown
swiftly from the fissure, so that there
is no serious spreading Of the heat to
surrounding parts.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
The Pink Marble Perso nal.

While the Japanese are rapidly as
Stimulating western business notions,
they have not yet entirely Invested
themselves Of Oriental extravaganza
of expression in their advertisements,
especially those Of a personal nature,
as the following, which some time ago
appeared in Toxic newspaper. will
testify:
II am beautiful woman. My abun-
dant, undulating hair envelops me as
a cloud. Supple as willow is my
waist. Soft and brilliant is my visage
as the satin Of flowers. I am endowed
with wealth sufficient to saunter
through life hand in hand with my be-
loved Were to meet gracious lord,
kindly, intelligent, well educated and
OF good taste, would unite myself
with him for life, and later share with
him the pleasure Of being laid to rest
eternal in tomb Of pink marble"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26

the common adoption of a certain cul-
.ture, we do not yet know. 1t is very
late In HAITI history, and long after
Its great period, that Hittites appear
in the Bible story, with one exception;
and when found in Palestine they
seem to be aliens in the land, or
strayed remnants of vanishing
stock. The presence Of Children OF
Heth" at Hebron in Abrahams time
may have been due to such o survival,
and so, too, may that of the hapless
Uriah in David's realm. The promise
made to Joshua and the Israelites, OF
"all the land Of the Hittites" (even II
a gloss Of late date), and the Hittite
mother whom Ezekiel imputes to the
city of Jerusalem, seem to reflect a
current tradition of past Hittite DOM
lnation in South Syria; but when the
army. broke up before Samaria be.
cause word went forth that the
Kings Of the Hittites" were coming.
1t feared a power lying far to the
north, which had once been greater,
though it knew 1t not.
The world of scholars has disputed
about the Hittites ever since the mid
die OF the last century, when the de-
cipherment Of hieroglyphic and cune-
form records revealed the fact that q
people Of their name had filled place
In west Asian history far more impor-
tant than the Israelites were aware,
It has disputed especially their re-
sponsibility for the monuments, ia q
quaint individual style OF art, and In
scribed in some cases with undeci.
phered photographs, which have been
discovered during the last forty years
all over North Syria and great part
of Asia Minor; and it has questioned
most acrimoniously the ascription OF
the Asia Minor monuments to them,
which Sayce first proposed after COM
pairing with the Syrian stones from
Klamath the magnificent rock-relief at
Ivriz, the rock figures near Smyrna.
which Herodotus thought to be repre-
sensations of conquering ASesostris, a
and the far more numerous sculptures
IN North Cappadocia, at the ruined
cities known as Boghaz-Keuf, and
Eyuk. Close resemblance was admit
ted, but the natural corollary, that, at
some time, there had been Hitt1te
Empire" lin the loose oriental sense)
was secuted How should history
have forgotten such a fact? /,
Yet it had forgotten it; for Hit
tite. or Haiti empire did exist once,
with It's center, not in Syria, but in.
far Cappadocia, towards the Black
sea. We know the fact now on the.
best Of evidence, and those doubtings
of the learned are heard no more at
all. Our certainty has resulted from
discoveries made at the site long
known and guessed about, which is
called by the notwithstanding Turk
ish name, Boghaz-K e., defile-
village. Here massive walls and gates
of an early age, the, almost buried
skeleton of mighty building which
might have been palace or temple.
and. most of all, the sculptured sides
of rock-shrine hard by, had puzzled
explorers and scholars for seventy
years. At last in 1906, the excava-
tors spade was put in earnest into
the soil after certain archaeological
scent had been followed up. The
hoped-for quarry was cuneiform tab
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
-5rlt,jies in Enal,nd.

Forty or fifty years ago few people
In England had titles There were
only few decorations which entitled
their owners to put the prefix sir"
before their names. We all OF us
looked down with lofty contempt upon
the counts and barons that were 50
plentiful in continental countries. Now
we can do so no longer, for probably
there is no other country In the world
where the trahic In tltEes is 80 open
and SO indecent as in England. What
the number OF our DECORATIONS Is do
not know, and imagine that few do.
Every few years some new one IL Gre
ated and an Englishman with q taste
that way can easily manage to ex-
hibit himself covered with metal disks
and bits of ribbon like some success
full COW at an agricultural-show These
embellishments may datter the vanity
Of their wearers, but they do not In
crease the prospect thatks felt for Eng
lishmen.-London Truth.
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A trial package of Munyon's Paw Paw
Pills will be sent free t. anyone on re.
quest. Address Professor Munyon, SD .
jefferson SITS, PHILADELPHIA Pa. II you are
in need of medical advict do not fail to
write Professor Munyon. Your COMMUNE
cation will be treated in strict confidence.
and your case will be diagnosed as care
fully as though you had personal inter
view.
Munyon's Paw Paw pills are unlike
all other laxatives or caEthartics. They
coax the liver into activity by gentle
methods. They do. not acour. they do
not grippe. they do not weaken, but they
do start all the secretions Of tho liver
and stomach in q way That soon put!
these organs in . healthy condition and
corrects constipation. In my opinion
constipation il responsible for mott all
ments. There are 20 te,et Of human
bowels. which is really q sewer pipe.
When this pipe becomes clogged the
whole system becomes poisoned, caus'
ing biliousness, indigestion and impure
blood, which often produce rheumatism
and kidney ailments. No woman who
ailment can expect to have a clear
COmPAcAAOA VI envy 8WSa
I had my way / would prohibit the sale
of nine-tenths Of the cathartics that ara
now being sold for the reason that they
soon destroy the lining of the stomach,
setting up serious forms of indigestion.
and SO paralyze the bowels that they re-
fuse to act unless foreed by strong
purgatives. :,
Munyon's Paw Paw Pill. are tonic
to the stomach, liver and nerves. They
invigorats instead Of welRen; they en-
rich the blood instead OF impovsrish
it; they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishmsnt from food that is put
into it. :
These pills contain no calomel, ne
dope; they are soothing, healing and
stimulating. They school the bowels
to act without physic. j.
Regular Size bottle, containing Is pills,
Is cents. Munyon's LaboIltory. nd 3
jefferson Sts.. Philadelphis (
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26

to pair Of ropes running over pull
leys and adjustable to various re-
quirements. II
The pupils thus suspended are then
taught how to perform the movements
Of the breast stroke until the action
becomes Utmost instructive. There
is decided advantage in teaching
these NOV ements in sue a way in
stead of in the water, for the pupil
is not distracted by the fear of a
ducking. 1t is not at all easy to learn
the swimming movements even out
of water, hence the advantage of ac-
quiring this knowledge until 1t be-
comes almost instructive before en-
tering the water.-Scientific Ameri-
can.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
u. S. PRICE MAKER |::.|| !.
NEW SYSTEM, SAYS ATTORNEY
GENERAL, in PLACE OF SUP.
PLY AND DEMAND.
COMBINES FIX ALL CHARGES
Commission Similar to Interstate Conn
~ merce Body Is Suggested by
Wckersham to Curb Cor
porations.

Duluth, Minn.-Regulation of cor
that now governing the railroads was
advocated by Attorney General Wick
ersham in an address delivered before
the Minnesota State Bar association.
The cabinet member declared also
that the duty Of fixing prices of COM
modities might devolve upon this COM
mission, though he expressed some
doubt OF the practicabiiity of this
phase of the plan. !S IA
The law of supply and demand, Mr..
Wickersham said, no longer controls
prices in the United States. For
years, he said, the prices in all the
great staple industries have been
fixed by agreement between the prin-
cipal producers and not by a normal
play OF free competition. 81
An interstate commission, the attor-
ney general added, would prevent VIC
lations OF the antitrust laws and aid
business men to maintain continued
status of harmony with the require
ments of the statutes.
ton officer behind them, Mr.. Wicker
sham's remarks made deep impress
sion. There was nothing in the
speech, however, to indicate how far
the attorney general reflected the
views of President Taft. On several
occasions in the last year he has been
regarded as the spokesman for the ad.
ministration.
"That further regulation OF corpora.
lions carrying on commerce among
the states may be necessary" he said,
''is coming to be matter of current
comment It has been openly advo-
Gated recently by representatives OF
some of the largest combinations OF
capital, probably as a means of saliva.
ton and to preserve under govern
ment supervision great organizations
whose continued existence Is menaced
by the recent Interpretation Of the
Sherman act, the disintegration OF
which would be attended with heavy
loss. To such it is a case OF any port
In shipwreck. Better continued co.
operative life, even under a powerful
master, than disseminated properties
and segregated activities without con-
slant government supervision.
"But there are other reasons for
such regulation. The federal depart
ment Of justice Is not organized or.
equipped to maintain constant super
vision and control of business organ
izations. It deals only with cases OF
violation of the law. The activities OF
an administrative board or commits
sion would be directed to preventing
such violations and in aiding business
men to maintain continued status
of harmony with the requirements OF
law.
Whether such federal industrial
commission should have power to reg
ulate prices is, of course, matter for
serious consideration. The interstate
commerce law prescribed Jas legis-
lative rule that prices for transporta-
ton by rail, or wire, or pipe line, shall
be reasonable, and that no unjust dis
elimination shall be made, between In
dividuals or localities similarly stu
ated. A similar rule might be made
by congress with respect to the prices
Of commodities the subject of inter-
state commerce"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26

we should have this year." Emma's
eyes turned to me to know what In
the world could say, and she burst
ont into violent At of laughter.
maugre, her pale. serious cheeks
when, with greatest gravity I replied
that ut depended. l believed, upon
boiled legs of mutton."-Charles
Lamb.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26

Denies Ambassador Will Resign.
London.-The foreign office denied
report cabled from the United States
that James Bryce contemplates retir-
ing from his post as British, ambassa-
dor at Washington, following the con-
clusion of the Anglo-American arbitra-
ton treaty.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
Early Eneroy.

II intend to wake congress up be.
fore I get through" said the new
member.
my friend" said senator Sorghum,
don't stop with merely waking con.
gress up. See If you can't do some
thing to make the trainers of the
United States Constitution turn over
in their graves."-Washington Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
Manoeuvres of the Humorists
Exclaimed.

Two ladies, previously unacquaint-
ed, were conversing at reception.
Il cannot think what has upset that
tall blonde man over there. He was
SO attentive little while ago. but
he won't look at me now"
Perhaps" said the other, "he saw
me come in. He's my husband
Penny Pictorial.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26

stand the drain, handicap and the
losses that bad roads impose.
Again, may we ask, why is it that
In this land, where SO many great
successes have been scored in 40
many fields that we have utterly
failed in dealing with the highways?
In the writer's opinion the reason will
be found in certain fundamental mis-
conceptions. They date back to CO
lonial times. In the early days the.
people settled along the water courses,
in the valleys. Farming was done in
a primitive way. It was the day Of
the homespun. The hand loom and
spinning wheel were found every
where. The people lived very simply;
what they wore, they made; what
they ate, they raised. The community
was self-centered and had. very little
to do with the settlement over the
hills in the next valley. The spirit OF
home rule was everywhere dominant.
The roads were regarded purely as Of
local concern. They were just such
roads as the people cared to build,
and whether good or bad 1t was no
ones business but their own.
Thus the concept that the highways
were purely local matter and did
not concern any one outside Of the
immediate vicinity became firmly es-
tablished and held undisputed sway
until about 20 years ago, when New
Jersey man made discovery that
was far more important than finding
the north pole, and that was that the
roads were public property-they be
longed to all the people and as such
It was the states duty to take up the
question Of highway improvement and
not leave the whole burden upon the
township where the amount of taxable
property was limited. It was shown
that the worlds food supply had to
pass over these roads and that bad
roads increased the cost Of delivery
made the food supply intermittant in
stead of constant, and that bad roads
produced a heavy burden to every one
and was serious economic error. A
movement was started for state aid
in road building. It met great oppo.
sition, and principally from those who
would most greatly benefit from it
the farmers. They feared 1t was a
scheme to take the roads out of their
hands, and no telling where they
would land or what taxation would be
put upon them, but the movement
grew because 1t was right. In two or
three years after the people had had
the experience of building roads un.
der the plan, had used and paid for
them-they found 1t was splendid in
vestment and that instead of adding
to their burdens the good roads took
many burdenr OF. The plan became
so popular opposition died out and
those who at first were strongly
against the plan were soon among its
foremost advocates.
New Jersey began state aid with an
appropriation of $4,000 per year, this
sum was soon increased to five times
the amount. The state aid plan Of
road building spread from state to
state, until now fully half of the states
have adopted it, and it has everywhere
proved popular and successful. It is
the plan that gets the roads and so
distributes the burden that the taxa
ton is not appreciably higher than 1t
was before. State aid would have
been impractical in the early days OF
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26

United States Warns Of Hay Shortage.
Washington.-A shortage of clover
hay threatens the central western and
northern states. The agricultural de-
partment advises farmers to replant
by disking stubble about three inches
deep and sowing clover and grass
along with a nurse crop by August Is.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26
The Last Luxury.

Ten-year-old Arthur had been telling
lmpressively of the number OF serv.
ants employed in his home. He con-
tinued: And our house is fixed so
that II you want drink. or window
raised, or to go upstairs. or anything.
all you have to do is to pull chain!"
But what do you want with so
many servants U l.: that sort of q
house?" asked one of his hearers.
Oh" replied Arthur, I'VE have the
servants to pull the chains"-Judgel