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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-12-20
E. M. Carr, Hubert Carr: Henry 1ronso
CARR, BRONSON g. CARR,

ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Special at
tention given collections. Real estate
loans and Insurance. Office in Post Of
flee Building. Manchester, Iowa.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-12-20
FRED 3. BLAIR

ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in the
City Hall Block. Manchester. Iowa
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-12-20

THos. r. cARkFEk
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER SUPER
INTENDANT. S. E. corner Sth and Main
streets. Dubuque, Iowa
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CEDAR RAPIDS BRANCH

CEDAR RAPIDS BRANCH
Going South
No 3o5 Pass daily ex Sunday $40 m
No 1893 Pass daily ex Sunday 5:45 m
No $50 Freight daily ex Sunday12:45p m
Arrive from South
No 1874 Pass daily ex Sunday 500 !.
No $40 Pass daily ex Sunday $50
No $50 Fgt daily ex Sunday 1900 a. m.
H, q. PIERCE. Station Agent
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-12-20

Mrs. r. Il. Kennon.
Like butterfly she fits around.
With chatter and pleasantly, does Grace
abound
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
NATURAL CARE OF CHILDREN

The care of children is not prop.
erly subject to theory, but to a con-
sideration of conditions, writes II. NJ.
Alden in Harper's Magazine for July.
Childhood is the season of impress
sions, of plastic submission to these,
OF backward looking and waiting, as
youth is the season of forward look
ing impulses. Nature has made this
distinction, and if in childhood she
makes preparation for the blossom
ing of youth, her processes are hid
den. We are advancing no theory,
but only recognizing this distinction
of terms, when we plead for the
child's free and full indulgence of the
backward regard. 1t is ours to help
him to his natural birthright, to lead
him into the field of the past, with
some sense of what calls him thither
"a sense which determines the con-
tacts we give him-and there we leave
him free to derive his own impress
sions from the scene, the persons-all
that makes the play. We burden him
with no technicalities, which he no
more needs than when he is brought
into contact with natural objects; and
we refrain from distracting him by
ulterior meanings or analytical inter
pretations, which he may himself seek
later.
The past is not cherished simply be
cause it is past. In the lines of cul-
ture the dust of antiquity has been
most diligently sifted for its hidden
wealth; and this wealth is not that of
the market-place, but of the clearing
house of the Imagination.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
THE ART OF LIVING.

Arnold Bennett is making a reputa-
tion not only as novelist, but as
philosopher, says Current Literature
for July. His little books, How to
Live on Twenty-four Hours Day"
"The Human Machine" and Mental
Efficiency" are unique in literature
of our time. With eminent practical
ity and homely common sense, he dis
courses ON such subjects as "Controll-
ing the Mind" Habit Forming by
Concentration" Marriage" Success"
and "The Secret of Content"
The most exciting things in the uni
verse, he reminds us, are those with
which we are most familiar-time, for
instance, and cur own bodies. What
could be more thrilling, he asks, than
time? at is the inexplicable raw ma
terial of everything. With it all is
possible; without it, nothing. The sup
ply of time is truly daily miracle,
an affair genuinely astonishing when
the morning, and 10! your purse is
magically filled with twenty-four
hours of the manufactured tissue of
the universe Of your life. 1t is the
most precious Of possessions. No one
can take it from you" Just as won
derful, in a different way, are the
body and brain. 1t has never struck
you that you possess machinel Oh,
blind! Oh, dull! 1t has never struck
you that you have at hand machine
wonderful beyond all mechanisms in
sheds, intricate, delicately adjustable,
of astounding and miraculous possbil-
tiles, interminably interesting! That
machine is yourself
Considering that we have to spend
the whole of our lives in this human
machine, considering that it is our sole
means Of contact and compromise with
the rest of The world, ii might be we'll
Mr.. Bennett thinks, if we devoted
more attention to it, "My AIM" he
says, "is to direct a mans attention to
himself as whole, considered rs a
machine, complex and capable Of quite
extraordinary efficiency, for travelling
through this world smoothly, in any
desired manner, with satisfaction not
only to himself but to the people he
meets en- route, and the people who
ere overtaking hinr and whem he il
overtaking. My aim is to show that
only an inappreciable faction of our
ordered and sustained efforts is given
to the business of actual living, as dis
tinguished from the preliminaries to
Ewing"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
CUTTING OFF LUXuRIES.

Statistics show that the importa-
tions into this country of champagne
during the last seven months were only
half what they amounted to during
the corresponding period of this fiscal
year 1909-10. They also show that
during the same period the importa-
tion of diamonds fell off $7,000,00O.
There are people who think this
good thing, and so it may be viewed
from a moral standpoint, although
moral considerations had little or
nothing to do with it. The reduction
in the purchase by Americans Of the
luxuries named was prompted by econ
omy, and that presents the view from
a very different standpoint.
Whatever may be true of com
paratively small number Of extraya-
giant people, the fact remains that as a
rule champagne and diamonds are
purchased by people who have sur
plus. The money they spend in this
way goes into circulation, and while
that which is expended ON importa-
tons finds its way into European
rather than into American channels |
Of trade, the economy displayed in
'educing such purchases is evidence of !
economy in other directions which af-
ect the home market. Were the rich
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
SAN JUAN QUEEN.

After little more than a week of
work OH the San Juan Queen, leased by
William Zanoni, some wonderfully fire
ore has been taken out, and shi lments
will begin at once. The ore is being
divided into two classes, the iirst-class
ore running from 500 to $500 TO the
ton and the second-class will average
better than $50 to the ton. A sam
pie taken from the bin of llrst-class
ore last Sunday and assayed the fol-
lowing day by Root & Norton gave
SAP OF. gold and 1924 OF. silver, or
value of $335 a ton. In the San Juan
Queen vein there is a narrow streak
almost two inches wide that runs
all the way from 81 900 to $4,000 to
the ton in gold and silver -Silverton
Miner.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

ton record of over. $500, 900. For the
past four years, Mir. Sull ,an, who has
operated the property as wall as own
cd it, has confined his work solely to
development, and already had 10000
of good shipping ore blocked out, be-
for making the aboye-mentioned
strike.
II. r. Low, representative of the
American Zinc & Ore company, is
here and is looking over the field with
a view Of locating a zine plant mere.
If this is done the future Of this camp
is a bright one as the heavy per
centage Of zinc carried by the orc
mined has heretofore been only an OBJ
stacle and our ore has been penalized
by the smelters on that account.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
FADS AND FASHIONS.

The strictly tailored waist as a rule
has the high collar and long sleeve,
but there are youthful looking models
in linen, barred lawn, dimity, etc, with
sailor or Dutch flat collar and short
sleeves which are good for sports and
country wear, though not suitable for
travelling and street use. When one
comes to the blouses of chiffon, color
ed marquisette, crepe, etc, one finds a
bcwildering variety, yet, on the whole,
a certain uniformity. The lines of
almost all are much the same, kimono
sleeve, plainly cut fronts and backs,
Dutch necks with or without guimpes.
The overblouses of chiffon or other
material worn over plain guimpes of
net or lace which forms entire under
blouse, fitting well, staying in place
and yet removable for laundering or
cleansing, are boon to the woman
who has struggled with the problem
of keeping clean the becoming white,
transparent guimpse of her dark
blouse. Some women have several
yoke and collar guimpes which may be
removed and basted in again; but this
is nuisance, and the other arrange
ment, when one has once secured the
guimpse, is much more satisfactory
Big hemstitched collars and cuffs of
white or colored chiffon are the only
ornament of some chic little blouses
in dark chiffon or crepe and some
times hemstitched work in bright color
is used, white chiffon hemstitched in
bright red or green, for example,
forming collar and cuffs on dark
blue blouse.
Frequently the separate blouse is
trimmed in such clever way that it
is brought into the general scheme of
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

to coniinne TO spenu- their surplus
freely there would never be much de-
preston in trade. 1t is when they be-
come economical that trade is cur
tailed, and people engaged in employ
ments by which the rich are supplied
with luxuries are deprived of work.
In an ideal state the existence of
class capable of indulging in luxuries
beyond the reach of others may be
thing to be deplored. But where
such class exists, the state gains
nothing through a spirit of Individual
parsimony by members of that class
which results only in piling up sur
plus of individual wealth which does
nobody any good. The display of lux
uries may have bad moral effect by
producing envy and dissatisfaction
among those who would but cannot do
the same thing. But so far as the eff
feet upon trade is concerned, the best
use the rich can make of their sur
plus is to spend it.--Denver Republic
an.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Another Great Circulation Contest
is about to break out God bless the
brother and aid him in the enterprise
In all The years of our newspaper ex-
porience the only thing in the contest
line that we ever instituted was the
piano contest last spring and, the
Good Lord helping us, wen never put
on another, wen put the money into
service where it win make the pa
per better and larger and trust to the
appreciation Of our readers for re-
suits.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
Another Big Strike AT Silverton-
Zinc Plant in Prospect

Special to The Herald.
SILVERToN, June 3O-A big
strike has been made at the Bandora
mine and William Sullivan, the owner,
will begin at OF ee shipping ore. The
find consists of large vein carrying Il
steady value of $500 per ton. The
value of the strike can be understood
only by realizing that instead of the
ore being merely pocket it is found
in large body and Mr.. Sullivan ex-
poets to ship at least fifty tons daily
as soon as the workings are in shape.
The Bandora group has a produc-
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

the linen or silk suit with which it
is worn. A trimming of the material
of which the skirts is made is used. 1t
may be the favorite bib effect; it may
be straps, bands, and buttons. Pip
ings of linen can be introduced sue
cessfully on thin fabrics of net, crepe
silk and voile.
The vogue for the separate collar
is still at its height and there is a
great variety Of them to be found in
the shops. Most Of them can easily
be initiated at home. Silk and satin
collars are smart and are best when
made detachable. This is done by
sewing buttons on the inside Of linen
coat along the revers and collar. The
separate collar should be made larger
than the pattern, so that its edge can
be folded over the coat. On the edge
work buttonholes to correspond with
the buttons.
A summer novelty is Il canvas coat
embroidered in wool. This wool EN-
broidery, by the way, is forging to the
front on the ornate frocks. 1t is used
in cross stitch and croeheted flower
forms on the finest chiffons and batis-
tes.
The latest French and English fad
is evening coats and wraps of knit
ted chenille in bright colors. These
are made after regular models in the
latest style, with diagonal stripes of
fancy raised knitting.
A crossed stole effect is something
new on tailored suits. The collar is
not continuous at the back; it is in
two pieces, and the ends are crossed
and ornamented with braid, buttons
or embroidery.
FLORENCE FAIRBANKS.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
STRANGE MONUMENTS PUZZLE.

Each of the extraordinary monu-
ments at Quirigua has, besides its
wonderful sculpture, long series of
glyphs. Some of these refer to mat
ters not yet deciphered, hut the chron-
illogical glyphs have been unriddled
by Mr. Morley of the expedition, one
of the foremost in his line The May
as had a chronology fully as complete
as ours, and rather more logical. 1t
has been greatly abused by closet
scientists, who never saw the monu-
ment or the fleas of Guatemala. Their
14,00o-year antiquities are absurd; but
the best evidence to field scientists
warrants am allotment of about 500
to 1900 years to these ruins.
Here, better than almost anywhere
else among the ruins Of prehistoric
America, will be solved the fascinat.
ing problem of how and how far these
'savages' lifted and transported for
miles blocks of rock weighing eighty
to hundred tons apiece, and with
what tools they sculptured them in a
relief of from eight inches to a foot.
If it was with stone implements, as
has been held by scientists, it is the
most extraordinary work ever done,
being not only equal to, but, in fact,
far surprising, the best work of the
lncas with their tempered bronze
and equaling anything in Egypt. An
exhaustive series of photographs of
these carvings, showing every face
and glyph, has been made by the eN-
pert photographer of the expedition,
Jesse l.. Nasubaum, and later, casts
will be taken so that any one of these
monuments can be reproduced in ce-
ment. 1t is expected that some of,
the replicas will adorn the court of the
Southern Museum.
No less astonishing than the mon
oliths are the great pyramids grouped
about this sacred city of Mayas. With
the earth which forms their coreNhd
the cut stone with which they are
faced and terraced, these artificial
eninences contain millions of cub~
feet, and as the stone was brought
from distance of at least three miles
some idea can be had of the labor and
the time required to construct this re-
ligious center of several hundred
square miles. Quirigua is only about
thirty miles in an air line, from the
famous ruins of Copan in Honduras
though it takes a three days rif-|l
by mule, following a fifty-mile rail
road trip, to reach Copan from Quiri-
qua. The latter city survived some
what longer than Copan, as is proved
by their respective date-glyphs.-Los
Angeles Times.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Mrs. W. A. Lewis and daughters
and Mrs. C. C. Mumma and baby
came up from Pennington last night
on their way to Monte Vista. Mrs.
Lewis was returning home from a Wis
it with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
G. Strawn. Mrs. Mumma, who lives
ir Pennington, was on her way to
spend a month or six weeks with her
sister, Mrs. C. l.. johnson, at Monte
Vista. Mesdames Lewis and Mumma
art cousins. They all went out on
the eastern this morning.
j. J. Stroehle, the contractor, was
a passenger to Denver this morning,
on a flying trip.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

have ever undergone an operation, etc.
Among the relics of the past, says
MIR. Box, is that question, How are
you," and, IL anyone asks it today,
he does not expect it TO be answered
by an account of an illness, de-
scription of an operation, or list of
pains. Such reply shows a lack Of
breeding. That is Edward Bols's ulti-
matum, and, of course, settles the
question of talking about your own
aches and pains forever.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Cleanliness is next to godliness in
speech as well as in person. No
amount of wit can make vulgarity ac-
ccptable to clean minds, the tumble
bug is more Industrious than the bee
more resourceful than the ant and
more persistent than the spider, but
the very nature of its employment
keeps it out of good society.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

1t pays to be neat about ones per-
son and to prove it we cite the fact
that man in Utah last week con-
ciuded to wash his feet and when he
did so he found two pairs of socks
which he had entirely forgotten that
he had, and inside the inner pair, he
found dime that at some time had
slipped down his leg through n hole
in his pocket.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

First the men made law, years
ago, that man should not sell his
wife without her consent. Later they
made another law, which forbid u
man beating his wife and, just this
last winter, the Missouri legislature
passed law making il an offense for
a man to cuss telephone girl, but
there are still women who claim that
the fair sex are not getting their
lust Rights.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

If person is really shocked by the
sight of the curves found in n pretty
female limb which is displayed with
out vulgar demonstration they should
at once take something to clean their
mind, the vulgarity is imagined, not
evidenced.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Durango Farmers Co
Operative Mill f. M. & NJ. Co. will
be held at the office of said company
in Durango, Colo, on Saturday, July
20, 1911, at 10 o'clock a. m. for the
purpose of electing a board of direc-
tors for the ensuing year and such
other business as may be brought
properly before said meeting.
f. WRIDE, Secretary.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Mrs. Springer no doubt had Good
Time but when one considers the price
she paid, the loss of her home and
rich husband, one man in the hands of
the law and two in the hands of the
undertakers, we doubt if the Good
Time was worth what she paid for it.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

When going to call ON Her the
young man should remember that
while the soft rays of the moon have
power to cover up many defects in
facial beauty they are entirely without
power TO disguise the fact that one
ate onions for supper.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Several of the churches in Kansas
are holding daily meetings and insist
ing that the preachers lead in the
prayers for rain. They must overlook
the fact that if the preacher could
really get rain by praying for it he
could be travelling over the country
and making a million dollars year
instead of preaching on a $500 salary.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Another incident which proves that
there is absolutely nothing in name
is found in the fact that a Kansas
man by the name of Sharp tried To live
in peace and harmony with two wives
at one and the same time.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Springer is making great fuss
over what was second hand when he
bought it but it does seem to make
a great deal of difference whether it
is our OK, or the neighbor's, which
gets gored.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

It's all very fine to talk about pa
triotism, but what ineffable JOY it
must have given Madero to ride into
the capital of Mexico, the victor over
the half-breed president who once
threw him into prison because he had
run for officel-Kansas Industrialist.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

If we had nothing more to worry
us than the fact that johnson is still
champion we'd sleep so sound that
glass of beer could be held under our
nose without waking us.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

In the list of those who are re
ported as having worn knee pants at
the coronation ceremony we are sur
prised to find only the names of male
persons but then we must confess we
are not familiar with the English Ia
dv's costume.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Our advice to the preacher who was
SO greatly shocked at what he saw
while strolling on the bathing beach
at Asbury Park is To stay away from
the beach and rot take up the space
which some other man might like to
occupy.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

There is this much to say for the
crouch, that he is usually less of a
bore than the sunshiny chap who is
highly pleased with any old thing.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

The Illinois girl who went into a
trance and slept for seven weeks may
only have been working a scheme TO
get out of helping her mother do the
house work.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

When two women living in the same
house quarrel it is usually over the
fact that one of them shirks on the
other in the matter of "doing the
dishes"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

If the best you have been able to
do is to have kept out of Jail it is
of course better than to have failed
in that respect, but it isn't really much
TO brag over.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

While we are not posing as spir-
itual expert we want TO submit that
the conversion which reaches down
into mans pocket is the only sort
that will produce lasting results.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

June 81 is the longest day in the
year but Sunday is, with the average
man, always the longest day in the
week.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

The poet asks what is so rare as
day in June" but we should think that
in Kansas, where the mercury has
been posing around the 40 mark
steadily, the days would be baked
brown instead of being rare.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

The main trouble with the wisdom
that comes with age is that, with
the ordinary man, when he gets il
he is SO blamed old that il does not
do him n bit of good.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Haven't you noticed that people who
demand the most, in the way of self
sacrifice in others, are the ones who
give the least in that line.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

When a mans wife is capable of
going into business and making more
money than her husband is able to
make things ought to be so arranged
that he would stay at home and do
the housework and have the babies.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

When an old man has good job
he appreciates it and takes care of it
but to offer a young fellow good
job is usually simply casting pearls
before swine.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

The two books that have done the
country the most good are the Bible
and the checkbook. The one teaches
how to live and the other provides the
living
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Our idea of talking Too Much is
when one man tries to tell another
how to run his business before being
asked for advice on the subject
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

If some people whom we meet would
coniine their conversation to just ex-
pressing their thoughts they would
not take up much time or fill the air
with many words.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

The clerk who does nothing more to
secure promotion and increased salary
than just to wait for it is liable to
have To wait long time.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Edward Box, in the current number
of the Ladies' Home Journal, says that
it is ill-bred to talk about your all
ments, or to mention the fact that you
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

And now since they have discovered
that there are germs which are trans
mitted by kissing we want to urge all
married men to quit strange women.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Many men who think that they have
a clear conscience really only have a
casc-hardened affair They mistake
numbness for approval.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

Maybe your success would reach
greater proportions if you tried hard
er. Remember that a faint heart
never won fat pocketbook.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03

If you are rancher and had lot
of hay down you probably do not see
much to enthuse over in the nice rain
we have just had