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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
WEALTH NOT EARNED
STEEL BARoNs HAVE FILcHED
FROM THE PUBLIC.
FInanciefs Of Wall Street, Sheltered
Behind Protective Tariff, Gath
cred MiiIions-Fortunes In Pa.
pers, Not Securities.

The men who builded the steel in
dustry OF America were concerned at
first only with the construction OF
ucts and the meeting of foreign COM
petition. They counted upon returns;
indeed, hoped for enormous products.
But they were all along natural lines,
the margins from sales.
BY the time that the fnanciers Of
Wall street took hand in the steel
industry the producers were nourtsh-
Ing another ambition. They had be-
held the opportunity for swift for
tunes and surrendered the pride they
had developed in the possession OF
widespread mills and cloud-producing
furnaces. These fortunes were to be
made in selling stocks and bonds, IN
raking off enormous commissions and
getting in on the inside OF the market.
The report OF the bureau of corpora
lions shows that the syndicate which
promoted the steel trust provided q
capital of $25,000,000 and incurred
other expenses amounting to $4,000
900. In return for this service the
underwriters took stock Of the par
value OF $130,o0o,Oo0 which realized
about $9o.00000O. The profit was
$62 100000. The report says:
1T should be pointed out that the
syndicate managers were prominently
identified with the management OF sew
eral of the companies acquired by the
steel corporation, and also with the
management Of the corporation itself.
Three partners of the firm of J. p.
Morgan Co.. the syndicate managers,
were on the directorate Of the cor
poration, and one Of them was also
chairman Of the finance committee.
Moreover, the underwriting syndicate
included the heads Of several constitu-
ent companies. These facts are en-
titled to great weight in connection
with this enormous commission al
lowed to the syndicate. In other words,
as managers Of the steel corporation
these various interests virtually deter
mined their compensation as un-
derwriters
"This extravagant compensation to
the underwriting syndicate may fair
ly be cited as further evidence of a
general disposition toward excessive
issue of securities"
The fortunes of the steel barons. in
short, were not made in steel. but In
securities. They do not represent
returns from marketed products, but
from marketed paper.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

gets from four to twenty feet deep,
for their winter range the latter part
of November. The game is very con-
slant in the uses of trails and runs.
Each season they 60 out from their
summer range by the very same trails
and passes en- route to their winter
home.
The pass used In their exit from the
park is about a mile from the Aspen
Hunting Cabin, on Buffalo Flat, north
of Yellowstone Park, and the trail
they travel over is a quarter of a mile
above the same lodge. During this
exodus of elk every morning about the
time the suns first rays of light can
be seen radiating in the gray east, on
the sky line will be observed vast
numbers of moving objects which will
be made out to be elk.
Five thousand were estimated to
have passed along the trail above the
cabin In four days. The cows and
calves outnumbered the bulls about
Ave to one. Very few old bulls were
noticed, probably because a large per-
centage of them stay upon Hell-Roar-
ing Creek
The elk are nomadic animal and
very unlike the deer, seeming to have
no particular country or home and are
more or less on the move most Of the
time. Last fall while hunting with a
party on small creek, branch OF
slough Creek, we came upon large
bull in the woods, and one OF the
party came near shooting him when
it was noticed that the elk only had
one perfect horn. The other antler
was freak which stuck out from his
head like huge club (not unlike the
pictures of Teddy's big STICKY and had
one small point on 1t. Later we saw
this same bull with the freak head on
Palmer Creek, some so miles from
where we had seen him a month pre-
viously This old bull was finally
killed twenty miles down the Yellow.
stone River.
At the rate the elk are increasing
in this section Of Montana and the
Yellowstone Park, it is becoming a
problem to the state of how to take
care of the rapidly multiplying herds.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
How Nome Got His Name
vas for some months rushed night

was for some months rushed night
and day.
Nov, it fell to my lot to draught
a map Of the Alaskan coast that runs
southeast from Behring Strait. This
map was to be made from the field
notes and plats sent by the surveying
party in that district. Such notes and
plats always contained the names of
prominent features in the way Of
mountains. capes, inlets, and such.
Nov, in making the tracing of the
coast down from Behring Strait,
came across headland for which
neither notes nor plats furnished a
name. Accordingly made pencil
note at the point, putting the word
manner with an Interrogation after it,
meaning for the Chief, when he edited
the map, to put in the name, If it had
one, or to think up one II 1t hadn't.
In the hurry of the work, and due also
Of the fact, presume. that I had
written the letter "a in the word
name very much like an o. the mat
ter was passed by the revisers and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
GOES OVER NIAGARA
"RoBBY" LEACH GOES OVER
CATARACT IN BARREL.
Tank With Man Suspended in Canvas
Hammock Shoots Through Space
With Speed Of Cannon Ball.

Niagara Falls, N. Y.-"Bobby"
Leach made trip over the Horseshoe
falls in barrel and lives to tell the
tale of an experience more thrilling
than any of his previous feats. Leach,
who is forty-nine years old, was con-
siderably bruised by his drop of 1853
feet, but was not seriously hurt.
This is the second time in the his
tory of the river that such feat has
been accomplished. Mrs. Anna Ed.
son Taylor of this city made the trip
in barrel on October "a. 1901, and
came out alive.
Harassed by the police on both sides
of the river, Leach was forced to make
his start from La Sale, two miles and
a half above the cataract on the
United States side. Two rivermen
took him in launch to Navy Island.
where everything was made shipshape
and Leach was placed in the barrel. It
is steel affair, eleven feet long with
ends of wood. Leach was hung in q
canvas hammock.
The barrel with its passenger was
cast adrift just off the mouth OF
Chippewa creek, hardly mile above
the brink of the Horseshoe, and was
quickly caught by the rush of the
upper rapids. When 500 yards from
the brink the barrel was caught in the
tremendous current and raced to the
chasm.
Within 200 yards Of the brink 1t
stuck hard against rock, and .
large section Of the wooden end was
broken off. AS the barrel reached the
crest, it swung straight and went
plunging down into the abyss on its
long axis.
Hardly thirty seconds elapsed until
it was seen, a red speck, careening
in the spume below the cataract
Frank Bender Of Chippewa swan
out to it with rope and caught the
barrel by one Of its handles. From
that point the barrel was towed
ashore.
Leach was bleeding and appeared in
a bad way, but once out Of the barrel
he raised himself and waved to the
crowds that lined the bank. He was
badly exhausted and 1t was necessary
to apply oxygen to revive him.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

one day it '.just flashed" upon Schwann
that the animal body might be built
upon similar plan. Investigation
proved that he was right, and the great
cell theory" was announced-not so
much a theory as fact, and one Of
the simplest and most natural facts In
the world when understood even su-
perficially, the only way in. which SCI
ence, after the lapse Of IS years, has
been able to master its causes.
Schwann was poor boy who worked
his way through school with little help
from his father. He became the pupil
Of the father Of modern physiology"
Johannes Mueller, and for seven years
the very years during which he made
every one of his great discoveries-he
was employed as caretaker of the
museum at the University Of Berlin.
At %, when he published the announce.
ment Of his cell theory, he still held
the same job, and was earning the
same pay he had received from the
beginning-$7 per month!
In those years-at the magnificent
salary of an Office boy-often in want
Of square meal never with decent
suit OF clothes to his back, Theodor
Schwann dug from the rich soil of ma
ture certain grand nuggets of knowl-
edge, OF which everybody has heard,
while the name OF the digger Is scarce
ly known popularity, even to the vast
majority OF medical doctors.
1t was Schwann who discovered the
gastric ferment pepsin, and gave 1t its
name. Schwann was the first to show
that life could not come into being ex-
cept through the agency of pre-exist-
ing living bodies. To Schwann's orr
ginal work the famed Pasteur owes all
his Immortality; and were it not for
Schwann's discovery Of the minute
structure Of the animal body there
had been no modern medicine.
The poor German boy become the
most honored man In Europe. Kings
gave him decorations, every learned
society placed him on its roll OF mem
bers, and at 20 he was nominated pro-
fessor of anatomy at the University of
Louvain, and later ut Liege, where he
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
Why Roosevelt's Star Waned.

Mr.. Roosevelt's extraordinary loss
Of power, prestige and popularity is
carelessly ascribed to the fickleness of
democracies. In reality 1t should be
ascribed wholly to Mr.. Roosevelt's
own folly. The country is still as hun
cry for progressive leadership as 1t
ever was. 1t is as tenacious OF its
ideals. 1t is as determined to have a
government Of the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people. 1t has merely
applied its cold standards Of common
sense to Mr.. Roosevelt's vaulting am
bition and has pushed him aside.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
MORE PAY FOR POSTAL MEN
Clerks and City Carriers to Receive
Increases in Salaries Approximate
ina 100000 4 Year.

Washington. - Postmaster General
Hitchcock ordered promotions for
post office clerks and city carriers
which carry increases in salaries APP
proximating 100000 year. Orders
were issued for promotions in the
railway mail service which will total
$4,000 a year. These increases are
in addition to the increases for rural
mail carriers totaling $4,000,OOO
year. which, became effective July l.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
"A BUNCH OF
IIOUNTAIN SHEEP

There is plenty Of summer range up
the park, but the snow is too deep
for them to stay all winter, so they
must come down to the lower country.
Several large bands of domestic sheep
have been grazed up to the very
boundary Of the park. although the
supervisor of the Forest Reserve has
promised to keep the sheep back five
miles from the park line, but he failed
to do 1t. This drives the elk down the
Yellowstone Valley. In the last three
years great herds Of elk have swept
down this valley, tearing down fences,
eating up the ranchers' hay stacks
and In fact eating everything in the
line Of feed. making the country look
as II bunch of Kansas grasshoppers
had suddenly swept down the country.
This winter (1910-11) the elk are
twenty-five miles down in the ranch
country. It is needless to say they
won't all OF them get to see the beau
tiful scenery Of the great Yellowstone
Park again.
The superintendent of the Yellow
stone park and chief scout, Mr.. Nc
Bride, are taking good care of the
park antelope, mountain sheep, deer
and a small part of the elk 1t is i'm
possible to feed $4,000 elk, which is
the number In the park, according to
the last census.
About 100 tons of hay are fed to the
coyoo ovor1y io -, nv
the government. 1t is alfalfa hay and
is grown in the park on an S0-acre
fiat in front of the town of Gardiner.
There are from 400 to 1900 elk fed
on the fiat. The number varies as
there is no fence to retain the animals
and the game comes and goes at will.
If the storm is severe the fiat is COW
cred with game; when the weather is
mild the feed ground is clear OF game.
The antelope that are fed number
about 200. The other 200 go down the
river, which is their natural range.
The scouts and soldiers try to drive
them back, but it is difficult task
The prettiest sight Of all Is to see
the so mountain sheep around the
feed racks in the Gardiner Canon.
Anyone who has spent all day climb
ing to the top of some high mountain,
thinking he has been very careful to
keep under cover and out of sight of
band Of mountain sheep, to find the
quarry has disappeared, knows how
wary the big horn is. But it is diff.
ferent here. The big 16-inch ram
which ia so hard to oct c1oca RI IN
the wilds will come up and almost eat
out of your hand. At least, he comes
near enough to get good picture.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
Unpaid Genius of Theodor Schwann
N the past five years
~ BY M. A. LANE, sc. g..
Research Fellow in Physiology

One day in great German univer-
sity teacher Of physiology was dem
onstrating to small class of medical
students certain peculiar facts about
the contraction of muscle. To do this
the teacher was in need of a little in.
strument, simple, and yet not easy to
make "by hand" The instructor, how
ever, was busy in an effort to put the
thing together with bits OF wood and
wire.
Among the students who were watch.
ing him was an understood young fell
low of 81 who, after noting several
failures on the part of the instructor,
ventured a criticism.
Doctor" he said, I'VE have three or
four fine instruments of that kind in
the case. They are perfect. Why not
use one of them?"
Now the instructor knew well enough
& of the existence OF the factory-made in
struments in the laboratory, but he
was improvising the thing in order to
teach his men self-reliance and the use
of their brain and hands. He glanced
somewhat contemptuously at the
young student and replied:
Il want to show am able to do
what any other man has done. Don't
you?"
NO" answered the young man. Il
want to do what no other man has
been able to do before me-"
This young man was Theodor
Schwann, afterwards discoverer of the
most startling fact known to modern
science-the fact that the human body
consists of an inconceivably vast num-
Der of microscopic animals called cells,
all working tremendously together for
the common good of all.
We cannot see these little animals
that form our bodies because of their
exceedingly minute SIZE 1t is as If we
were looking at the Sahara desert from
balloon three or four miles above the
surface of the earth, whence 1t would
be impossible to distinguish the sep
arate grains of sand.
Before Schwann made his wonderful
discovery 1t was known that the bodies
Of plants were composed of cells. and
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
EVER L0R|MER7 FOE
MANAGER OF CHICAGO TRIBUNE
TESTIFlES PAPER FOUGHT
SENATOR ALWAYS.
TELLS OF WHITE CONFESSION
Hines Declares Ex-consressman Bou-
tell Give Him Word as to Taft's At
titude on Illinois Senatorial EIec-
tion-Rrinas in Unsigned Note.

Washington.-Jame Kelley, gen.
eral manager and editor OF the
Chicago Tribune, which first printed
the confession of Charles A. White
on graft in the Illinois legislature, tes-
titled before the senatorial committee.
He said the Joseph Medill estate
was the largest stakeholder Of the
Tribune corporation.
"Was the Tribune always an enemy
of Senator Lorimer?" asked Attorney
Marble.
Il would say that the Tribune al
ways was opposed to Mr.. Lorimer,'
said Mr., Kelley. "but the next day aft
er he was elected to the senate it
printed an editorial which would show
that it had no distinct hostility to
him."
The editorial was read into the rec
ord.
Mr.. Kelley said he obtained posses
sion of the White confession approx
mately March 4, 1910, and 1t was print
ed on April 80, following. He said its
publication had no relation any un-
pleasantness with Mr.. Lorimer or Mr..
Hines.
The only unpleasantness, If it could
be called such, between himself and
Hines, said Mr.. Kelley, grew out OF
the lumber tariff.
Mr.. Kelley said Hines had come to
see him about the lumber tariff and
when they disagreed as to the Trtb-
une's course on lumber, Hines re-
marked:
why, 1 have given you 5000 re-
Gently"
The witness said Hines explained
he had page advertisement in the
Tribune and given 5000 for it.
"He seemed to regard it as a gift"
continued Mr.. Kelley.
Il explained that there was abso-
lutely no connection between the ad-
vertising and editorial columns of our
paper, and SO l gave him back the
$500"
Before the publication Of the White
story Mr.. Kelley said he had discussed
it with Governor Deneen. He asked
the governor, who had been states
attorney for eight years, how to verify
the story.
Can you tell me what the cost to
the Tribune of this investigation
was?" asked Attorney Marble for the
committee.
About $4,000. Here are the vouch-
ers"
Edward Hines, the Chicago lumber
man, preceded Mr.. Kelley on the wit
ness stand.
One of the most interesting parts OF
Mr.. Hines testimony had to do with
an unsigned note to him from former
Congressman H. S. Boutell. This note
was as follows:
II should like to have the senator
know who was the only man in Wash
ington to 60 to the president In his
behalf and bring off the goods"
Mr.. Hines said Mr.. Boutell saw
President Taft few days before SEN
ator Lormer's election and reported
that the president had promised him
to support the Lorimer candidacy The
note was only found by Mr.. Hines
among his papers a few days ago and
had not previously figured in the case.
Introduction Of this evidence con-
corning the part played by former Con-
gresham Boutell caused speculation
as to whether he was not the person
who asked President Taft to send
telegram to Illinois politicians urging
activity on behalf of Mr.. Lorimer.
The president has stated that he was
asked to do so and declined.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
"eox scoutv movement spreads.

The hoy scouts" movement has
reached the Malay peninsula. and
Singapore Ia to have fine organizar
ton under the patronage Of the gov
ernor and chief justice. 1t Is a good
thing in many ways. aside from the
military training, and bids fair to
become one OF the permanent and
most popular institutions Of the PENN
sula All through the British colonies
hoy scout" organizations are being
formed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
Really Good Definition.

The Canadian farmers In Manitoba
are strongly in favor Of reciprocity.
In voicing their opposition to the high
tariff policy advocated by the oppo-
nents OF the trade agreement they
gave to the protective theory new
definition They declared 1t to be
nothing short Of license to practice
grand larceny on the people" Isn't
that closely descriptive? Doesn't 1t
cut to the quick?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

my map sent to the engravers in that
shape.
"A few weeks after was astonish-
ed, on looking over stack Of maps
just engraved from my original to see
this particular headland designated
thereon as Cape Nome" When
shortly after gold was discovered in
there the town took the name of the
cape. and is called Nome to this
day."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
"Not Guilty" Gompers Plea.

"N0t 0UIIty 0Un1PeT1 F1eA'
Washington.-In lieu Of formal an
swers to the contempt charges against
them, Samuel Gompers. John Mitchell
and Frank Morrison of the American
Federation Of Labor entered oral pleas
of mot guilty" before Justice Wright
Of the District Supreme court.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
e,oht Shot BY crazed Hindu.

ET9nt oHUt " 0ra1eo
Chicago.-A man wearing soldiers
uniform and carrying modern
Springfield rife went suddenly insane
in front of the Chicago opera house,
Washington and Clark streets, and
shot eight persons, none fatally. After
a terrific struggle the man was arrest
ed and said he was M. Husian, Hin
du. He said he had determined to kill
100000 persons and had just started.
Husian gave the police terrible tight
before he was subdued.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

Two Killed in Boat Speed Trial.
Portsmouth, England-In a speed
trial of the British torpedo boat de-
stroyer kangaroo of Beachy Head
one of the boilers Of the vessel ex-
p1oded. Two men were killed and sew
eral injured.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

Speaker Clark talks like a wide
visioned statesman instead Of mar
row provincialist, and If the Democrat
ic house shall act as he talks the
party will have every reason to enter
the next national canvass full of con-
f1dence and enthusiasm.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
Senate Rattle. Seal Treaty.

Washington.-The north Pacific fur
seal treaty, prohibiting pelagic seal
ing and regulating the killing of seals
on land, was ratified by the senate.
The treaty does not take effect
until accepted by all signatory
nAXerS.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
r,.o De,d In Trolley Crash.

WO OSdu TT 1Eo''Hy OFdo7'
Hackensack, N. 1.-TWO men were
killed and dozen or more passengers
were seriously injured when two cars
on the North Jersey Rapid Transit
company's trolley line met in q col
usion,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
Missouri Educator is Dead.

Kansas City, Mo-. V. c. Karnes,
a widely.known attorney and educa-
tional worker, died at his home in
this city, aged seventy. For years he
was a member of the board of cura-
tors of Missouri university.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
Dreams. Falls Four Stories,

New Worthwhile dreaming he
was witnessing prize fight, Dennis
O'Meara, an express driver, rolled
from his bed out of an open window.
and fell four stories. O'Meara was
badly bruised, but not otherwise hurt.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

The Democratic party is rehabilk
tated and reestablished in public CON
fldence. The country is on a sounder.
saner political basis than it has bssa
in decades.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
n.k,lb po.t office Robbed.

Aurora, Ill.-Robbers gained en-
trance through a window to the post
Office at De Kalb, ILL.,, blew open two
safes and secured $500 in stamps
and cash, $4,000 of the amount being
in stamps.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
AI.xandr, stiII Mourning.

NIeXaHuTa StIII WoVTH1H8'
London.-Queen Mother Alexandra
has let it become known to her friends
that she intends to prolong her period
of mourning. She will not participate
in any other gayeties for some months
to come.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
r,,in III, Auto; Ono Dies.

NJ ram Vt'es '<u&0I
Bloomington, Ill.-While crossing
tracks of Chicago & Alton railroad in
an automobile, Mrs. Howard Stevens
was killed and her husband and child
seriously injured, when their car was
struck by train.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

Having to make yourself over is no
easy job, but you can do 1t, il you
work hard enough and long enough
to beat into shape that miserable crit
tcr-your worst self.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

When fellow removes the cigars
from his waistcoat pocket before en-
bracing her she may be justified in
her suspicion that she isn't the only
girl he has ever kissed
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02

Those who think themselves the
most superior, are the onss who are
the most inferior. If you cannot be
taught anything, you - hopeless
case.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-02
Catch Alleged counterfeiter,

Hartford, Conn.-Secret service
agents arrested Jesse Schroeder,
charged with being the source of the
supply of counterfeit bills which have
been in evidence for some time in
Ohio and Kentucky.