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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

tofore the operations have been con.
fined to taking slice of bone from
one part of the skull and putting 1t on
another. In Williams case this was
impossible because SO large portion
of the skull had already been re.
moved. Williams has recovered since
a piece of his rib, four inches long,
was put in his head.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
His Disqualification.

When We saw her she stopped pant.
Ing by the road to rest. 1t was the
shell road in Bay st. Louis. and she
was black. Beside her was heavy
market basket filed to overlooking
We smiled at her with sympsthetic
friendliness and she responded with
suil and free confidence.
"Yessam. is some tiahed. An
lame. All painful wild miseries
Yassm. l coulda done SEN some ons
else to mahket TO me. Nah grandson
he coulda done gone. But dasnt
trus' him. He spends nah money too
briefly. "-Housekeeper.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
sue. slayer Of skunk,.

Buffalo, N. Y.-James L. Doty. for
mer coroner of Erie county. but now
trapper, is being sued by his wife
for divorce on the ground that he
smells from the skunks he kills. She
is seyenty-three and he is seventy
four. They were married In 1909.
Doty is the woman's seventh husband.
The old man explained on the stand,
when asked If he had ever told stories,
that he was good hand at coon
stories, but he would not lie in bust.
ness deal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

Orleans. was admitted as a patient
March rs. A year and half before
this he had been struck on the head
with club. and in order to save his
life portion of bone at the back OF
his skull was removed. The pressure
of the scalp on the unprotected mem
brane beneath it caused an irritation
of the brain cells, and the effect was
that Williams because subject to par
oxysms.
DIR. A. H. Sewing, resident physician
at the hospital, says there have been
many cases Of bone grating, but here
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

hard. durable wearing surface placed
upon 1t.
1t is human nature to hunt for some
easy, cheap and speedy way to do
things, and usually no sooner has one
discovered how to make some progress
toward solution, than he announces
a complete revolutionary discovery that
sets aside all experience and prece-
dent, and gains something for nothing.
The split log drag is directly in point.
The people may as we'll make up
their minds now, as to find out later,
that good roads cost money and lots of
1t, but they are worth many times
their cost and they will pay for them
selves over and over again every dec
ade. A well drained and well built
macadam road with Il good binder may
cost anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000
per mile, but such road with mod
crate repairs will last for generations
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

~ 4
Here. however, is an article that can
be readily made to advantage in the
penitentiary and 1t would be well to
have q few thousand turned out.
The writer desires In the outset to
correct misconception that seems
quite general, and that is, that the
split log drag Is solution of the good
-roads problem. It is nothing OF the
kind. 1t has its uses and its limita-
lions. Unfortunately. the man who
made 1t, and for which the country is
nnder obligations, overshoots the mark
n his slogan: Good Roads Without
Money" The drag Is doing good work
lit is pity the inventor is not salts.
fed to put 1t and leave it where it
belongs.
The drag is not only useful for earth
roads, but serves an excellent purpose
In keeping gravel roads In condition,
and 1t may be used at times on macad-'
am roads to advantage.
Dragging should always be done in
or Just following rain. The surface
should be quite wet. The drag should
carry Just enough weight 80 1t win
smooth the surface and NIL the ruts
without clogging the drag with an &C.
cumulation of mud before 1t. 1t should
iron out and smooth the road with
ont disturbing more than surface pro.
5ections. It's main use Is to I'LL the
ruts and keep the center of the road to
the proper crown 30 the water will
readily find its way into the bitches.
The attempt to have the farmers vol
unfairly drag the road by their farms.
or by cooperation have all the roads
dragged, will never work out satlsfac.
torily. Some will respond and do their
duty, but the human hog must be
reckoned with-the one who Is SUI
premely selfish. and takes pleasure in
overturning the good work of another
sometimes just to be mean-pure cuss.
.dness. The writer was told of an In
cident that Illustrated this perverse-
ness. A coarse grained middle aged
man was heard to say: 'T'other day
was coming back from town and seen
old man Jones out with road drag in
the rain-youd thought he owned
the road. Say, you ought to a-seen that
road when me and Jake druv over H..
You wouldn't s'posed 1t had ever seen
drag. jones was hot when he seen
I, US coming. He tore around like q
I crazy man. We wouldn't row with an
old man, so we give him the ha! ha!
and went on"
1t is no use to drag road and then
cut It up again. Let all such work
as dragging be done and paid for and
make 1t a heavy fine for any one to
drive over dragged road until 1t is
dry enough 80 It will not cut up.
Gravel roads while new and com
pacing under the traffic show deep
ruts along the wheel track and less
ones made by the feet Of the horses.
When in this condition one or two
round trips with the drag will fill the
rlts and reform the surface and in do
ing 30 will move very little material.
The forward movement Of the drag
should be at an angle go that when
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

the defendant took 1T out one morn.
ing and shot it twice in the head with
rock rife. He thought he had
killed it, but later the same day the
dog came up to its master in the VII
lage and wagged its tail. The de-
PENDANT took 1t home and next morn
ing gave it three blows with cal
hammer on the skull. Again the man
thought he had killed his dog, but
again the animal revived. He then
called in a man. who was better
shot and put the dog out of Its mis-
ery.-London Daily Mail
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Fate Of a silent Husband,

Kossara svetkovitch, who confessed
to having murdered her husband, was
sent to prison for one month at Kra.
guyevats Assizes. Kossara proved
that on her wedding day her husband
had forbidden her to speak to him un.
less he first addressed her.
During four years he had spoken to
her only seven times, and then to use
words of blame. At table he indi.
Gated his wants by pointing to them.
He had never even looked at their
two children. and professed not to be
aware of their existence.
The jury recommended her ia
mercy.-Belgrade correspondence Pal
Mall Gazette.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
RIB GRATED ON MANS HEAD
Remarkable Surgical Operation Per-
formed on Skull at st. Louis Hos
pital-says He Feels Fine.

ST. Louis.-Georse Williams, a City
hospital patient. put his hand to the
back of his head and felt his sixth
rib yesterday, and said he was feeling
fine. He is, perhaps, the only man in
the world who has rib In his head,
surgeons at the hospital say.
Williams, whose home is in New
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Gives Parrot $500 in VIII.

Oklahoma City. Okla.-A will leav-
ing $4,000 for the support and n~inte-
nance of pet parrot has been drawn
by Thomas Billsngsby, capitalist Of
this city. The parrot is twenty years
old. Billingsby was sailor for many
years. and came into possession of the
parrot in Polynesia.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Mint Becomes Warehouse

Washington.--Th historic New Or
leans mint will cease to exist as such
after July l. 1t will be conducted
henceforth as an assay office and a
storage place for 22,0OO,O0O silver dol
lars. Only one of its old vaults is con-
sidered burglar-proof at present.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
The SPLIT LOG DRAG.
USE AND LIMITATIONS OF THIS
DEVICE IN CARING FOR
ROADS.
USE FOR CONVICT A, LABOR
Dragging Should Always Be Done
Just After Rain-Good Road 10
One That Is Coed and disable ses
Days in Year.
By HOWARD HSeRoss.

There is no road implement that will
DO more to make bad roads better
than the split log drag. and none that
is so inexpensive. A handy man can
usually get up one ct cost of IS or "a.
Better ones can be bought of road
machinery companies for So to SIS.
There is no patent on 1t, SO there Is
no reason why they should not come
Into general use
The problem of supplying prisoners
with work that shall not compete un.
fairly with free labor is not yet solved.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Held as White slaxer

White Plains, N. Y.-William Simon,
engineer of the New York Central, is
under arrest here pending an investi-
cation Of the alleged murder of his
wife; who was found dead, towel and
pillowcase bound around her neck.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Prince Arthur = chairman.

London.-Prince Arthur of Con.
naught has consented to act as presi-
dent of the general London committee
for the congress of the universities of
the empire which will be held at the
University Of London in July. 1912.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
ALMOST CAPTURED BIG PRIZE
Mccurdy Was Within Ten Miles Of
Havana When the Lubricatlns
OIL Gave Out.
Aboard the Paulding seaman, hav-
ing no glasses at all, shouted:

Aboard the Paulding seaman, hav-
Ing no glasses at all, shouted:
There he isl"
There he was, two streaks OF black
against the sky. He had come over
the slow boats. passed all the destroy.
ers except the Paulding, and was sail
ing surely toward waiting Havana.
with only one destroyer mere ten
minutes or so-between McCurdy's
two mechanicians aboard the Paul
ding began to grin. Make It? OF
course he would! Everything was evi.
IDENTIFY working well: and ten minutes
only ten minutes-would see the
man landed safely in Havana, with
the big prize to his credit. McCurdy
was coming strong. Every moment
he was growing blacker and bigger
against the sky.
The Cuban coast-the smoke of the
city was within sight.
And then
my God!" somebody said, "he's
fallen"
This was true. The man had
fallen. There was no bird-like speck
in the sky. The man had fallen. The
Paulding was already turning, at 29
knots, to pick him up; and the Terry
was steaming straight on for the
same purpose. There had been an &C
cident; the lubricating oil had slipped
away and the engine was burning to
pieces. There was nothing for 1t bu,
to descend; and this McCurdy did de
liberately, waiting patiently, as he
stood on the seat of the airship, fol
rescue. When boat from the Terry
picked him up-the Paulding was only
moment later-he said:
Dashed hard luck Why, could
see Havana!"
He was only ten miles of.
Dashed Hard luck!" he repeated.
He hadn't wet his feet.-Normar
Duncan. in Harper's Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Curious Things in Bottles.

: Curious Things In Bottles.
The most interesting bottles in Ger
many are not filled with wine, but
with variety Of things. whose marvel
Is how they got there. In one Of the
bottles are five hard-boiled eggs of
good size. Another contains two chairs
and a couch of dolls house size. The
third, which lies On Its side, has full
,rigxed three-master for itr contents.
The fourth has miniature cask. and
the fifth an altar with priest in
,vestments standing before 1t. The eggs
were treated chemically and made
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
viii Bottle Up Wind.

st. Louis.-Peter Homishak has in
vented machine to conserve wind
power and three other men have
Joined with him to put it on the mar.
ket in st. Louis. They propose to
build factory in st. Louis. where
they think the supply of wind is prac.
ttcally inexhaustible.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Quite Literal.

She dndignantly)-Look at this
piece of goods which has just come out
OF the washtub! How could the man
who sold it to me tell me the colors
were fast?
He-I suppose because he knew how
they could run.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Found Guilty of EmbezzIemen

Washington.-For the second time
John Barton Miller, former secretary
and treasurer of the-First Cooperative
Building association of this city, has
been found guilty of embezzlement Of
$135. 900.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

pliable enough to be slipped through
the neck of the bottle, and then boiled.
The other objects were all constructed
inside the bottles by skillful workmen,
who were provided with tools adapted
to the queer task.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Doc Hard 10 XII.

The story of dog with many lives
was told at Axbridge recently when
Francis Ashby was heavily fined for
cruelty to the animal. The dog. re-
triever. was deaf and had become
vicious. According to the evidence,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Brave Doorman in New York Police
Station Alone Defies Popular
Superstition-Fear Hoodoo.

New York. ,-"Yes, I'm going to keep
this pigeon NJ, mascot" says Joseph
Devern. donrman in the East Fifty
first street police station.
Pm nor SO sure about that" re-
torts Captain O'Connor. And every
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
chinaman Wins Yale Prize

CnIndmah Wins Yale Prize.
New Haven. Conn.-The annual De
Forst prize speaking contest at Yale
university was won by Yun-Hsiang
Tsao of Shanghai, China. who spoke
on yale Spirit" The winner receives
gold medal of the value of 500.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

I'm going to put crimp in that
nonsense" said Devern. Think of
big. strong men being afraid of lit
tie. hungry pigeon"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

Kansas City.-Despondent because
her sixteen-year-old son married
against her wishes. Mrs. Nettie Super.
nawa hanged herself in the basement
of her home in this city.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
and did: Today l am well and strong
and 40 al my own homework. Lowe
my health to Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and advise my
em saas c wnS ahe a to try With
ORvILLE Rock, r. r. No. s. Paw Paw.
Michigan.
If you are i'll do not drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at onc,.
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
For thirty years it has been the stan.
dard remedy for women's ills, and has
positively restored the health Of thou
sands Of women. Whydon't you try itp
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

One of the worst things about bear.
ing grudge is that the bearer is the
only one who is likel, TO as burdened
much by It
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Bad for Both.

1t is no better for state to live be.
yond its income than for an individual
Providence Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Law and Reason,

Let us consider the reason of the
case. For nothing is law that is not
reason.-Sir John Powell.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

Two AsPhyxiated In Well.
London. ont.-Two farmers, Elias
and Warren Hicks. were asphyxiated
at the bottom of 75-foot well near
here. Both are dead.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

You can't reform man by sug
costing that he ought to be as good
as you are.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

Constipation causes and seriously agra.
Yates many diseases. 1t is thoroughly curec
by DR.. Pierces Pellets. Tiny sugar-coatcc
granules,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
Here is her own statement.

placement. I could
not be on my feet for
a long time. Ny.
physician treated
me for seven months
without much relief
and at last sent me
Ito Ann Arbor for
an operation. I was
There four weeksand
came home suffering
Iworse than before.
My mother advised
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

Road After Being Year
above
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SRA 10
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21
WOMEN
AlAYAVOID
OPERATIONS
By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

The following letter from Mrs.
Orville Rock will prove how unwise
1t is for women to submit to the
dangers of surgical operation when
1t may be avoided by taking Lydia
D. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
She was fOurlveeks in the hospital
'nnd came home suffering worse
than before.
Here is her own statement.
Paw Paw, Mich.-"Two years ago
Il c,fforad uarr cavoralv 1,,;tl, - AZ
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

Chew and smoke uptaxed tobacco, cheap ant
undoped. Meriwether Edwards. Clarksville, Tenn
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

Charity is too often charity dis
pensed
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-06-21

international Competitions.
II is said that when the time arrives
to consider designs for Shapespeare
memorial national theater the archi.
The evening world., 1911-11-28

Copyright 1911. BY The Prcs Pu
The nDixxIc- Dazzle" Woman.
~NCE upon a time there was a
woman who wanted to dazzie'
~ She craved the limelight' She
The evening world., 1911-11-28
WHAT is A LEADING CITIZEN?

-Yv1HAT is a "1eading cihzen"a Job Hedges raises the ques-
w, ton, but answers it badly. lie fances that the leading
citizen carries a copy of the Penal Code and calls other
citizens "iars." Says Mr.. Hedges: "The man who has a frock coat,
money enough to hire a hall, and persuasion enough to bring people
there to hear him talk, straightway becomes a leading citizen"
None Of these things makes the type. Not all of our leading
citizens know the contents of the Penal Code, and some have learned
that ignorance is no excuse. Leading citizens do not call other people
'H1iars SO often as politicians do, but they seem to mean it, as poiti-
saeans do not. Mr.. Hedges has a frock coat, and so has William
N. WINS, and the two had money enou-h to hire a hall for a joint
.sdebate during the Gaynor campaign and persuasion enough to fill it.
+" But neither Mr.. Hedges nor Mr.. Wins is a leading citizen. Both
men are too wise.
hrS A leading citizen is a mar who does not lead as a citizen. He
leads in something else-the bar, the wholesale dry goods trade,
the banking fraternity, the Elks or Eagles. If he led as a citizen
people would call him a Successful politician" The leading citizen
a. the term is understood has leisure, a large property stake, a con-
descending manner, a desire to hold ofice-and the handicap of
Imagining that government is business, when t il a trade. Fusion
hanovements usually nominate leading citizens, who are usually de-
feated. Tammany never dominates leading citizens, and its cand-
dates mostly win.
The leading citizen has his uses, but they lie in appointive, not
elective, office. His memorials, protests and "accelcrations" keep
elected officials on the gridiron. In appointive office he is not too
% human to be efficient. lie benefits the public in spite of itself, and
makes himself cordially hated for his virtues. 1t must be good fol-
'othe body polite to be well served and sore about it, since it happens
so often.
The evening world., 1911-11-28
"LET US ALONE" AGAIN.

MEXICAN business protests too much. AS reflected IN the
~ National Association of Manufacturers, it rs in mood Tor
= what women call a "real good cry" 1t wants "a cessation
Of agitation" 1t is against "indiscriminate and bunheaded prosecu-
ltons Of trusts The paper box and bag industry is mot quite so
prosperous as last year" and since practically all small commercial
-rrroducts re delivered encascd to the consumer" this industry is
/ u barometer Of trade conditions.
This sounds bad, but is not official. The official report for the
6scal year ended June 80 comes at the same time from the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue. This shows 270,2o2 corporations
! with al aggregate capital Of about sixty-cight billion dollars, swear
ing to a net income that has increased about $235!O0OOoo. While
= the manufacturers deplore the Oppression in the liquor business,
the Commissioner reports n production far IN excess OF the banner
year of 1907. Conditions, ms unoffcaly reported, arc getting better
in the steel industry. To-day nine Western Governors start on a
tour of the East to bring it the message of Western prosperity. SO
far as trade has its troubles, they arise from too high a level Of prices,
but this many traders r stubborn to maintain.
Does American business know when it is we'll oG9 It dcplored
.c"government by denunciation" under Roosevelt, and under Taft it
has what it said it wanted-government by law. IL professed to
fear Canadian reciprocity, and Canada pulled its chcstnuts out OF
the fire. ]; can give no better reason for its perturbation than the
fsct that a twenty-yearod law against trusts has been very DELHI
erately interpreted and is now being enforced. Is not America still
the most conservative Of modern states, the most jealous of property
{. rights? Is wealth anywhere else so lightly taxed? Is industry any
where else so heavily protected? Is the Socialist anywhere else so
negligible?
the places where money is "made," not earned. What are they,
after all, but eloquent testimonial that no more fortunes are to be
taken from railroad rebates, or stock watering, or caphaizng fran
SNchises against the community That created them, or capitalizing the
values of monopolstic combination?
The evening world., 1911-11-28
THE MALICE OF MATTER.

A n empty motor car ran away on a West Shore ferryboat as
~ it neared its slip, broke through the gates, fractured a boys
= - leg, drowned a man and buried itself in river mud. 1t was
nj . cae of what Victor Hugo called "the revenge of the inanimate,"
and suggests his account in Ninety Three" of the cannons that tore
loose in a storm and nearly wrecked a vessel. Car and cannon alike
Z, support his assertion that "Matter lives with a sinister life that comes
to it from the infinite"
That is what is wrong with the sad sport Of joyriding. OF
igther own motion men would not break laws and ruin roads and
nun over people and then run away, whooping with delight while
aa,nthey hang a prudential laprobe over the tcltale car number. Speed
madness is a phase of matter, not Of mind. The motor felon is the
simotor itself, not its master.
a. Primitive Greek law recognized the sinfulncss of matter and
ssavisited punishment on the stick or stone that had taken life. Why
not follow suit and confscate to the State Highway Commission, fol
use in hauling road MATERIAL every automobile through which injury
rbas come to men?