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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
-FOUR BOYS GO JoYING RIDING.
Machine Sent to Repair shop When
They Leave It.

Grinneu, July 1L-Dr. z. M. Beckley.
the well known veterinary of Tweed,
had nice REQ automobile last week
but now it isn't SO nice. The doctor
left the machine standing near the city
of Tweed while he was away attending
to business. A pair Of 17-year-oId boys
sons Of George Harrington and Bin
Wright seized the machine fo- a Joy
ride and something happened Meth
er one of the boys knew a thing about
an automobile, but they finally got it
started on the low speed. They took
a couple of smaller boys in the car
with them and proceeded to burn up
the prairie to the full extent permitted
by low speed. The engine got hot, but
the boys didn't know it and so didn't
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Best Granulated where you leave
an order amounting to $500.

Stop I'm at Brunt's Drug Store ana
get free sample of ZERO and ZE-
MO SOAP,
The surest and most economical
treatment for eczema, pimpIes, dand-
rnf and all diseases of the skin and
scalp. Do not neglect this. They VIII
give you prompt relief and nut Won
on the road to cure. Good for infants
as wen as grown persons
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stop. The engine got SO hot that il
simply blew up, tearing the cylinders
and crank case into old junk. and they
stopped.
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
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IhIPD DTGRE.,
.NCI1ARLES KLEIN \
AND
ARTHUR HORNBLOW
ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY WALTERS

at the exclusive and expensive As.
truria, where he was living in great
style He went there determined to
see him and demand his money, but
the card always came back mot at
home"
Underwood had always been mys-
terry to Howard. He knew him to he
an inveterate gambler and a man en-.
tirely without principle. No one knew
who his family were or where he
came from. His source of income,
too, was always puzzle. At college
he was always hard up, borrowing
right and left and forgetting to pay,
yet he always succeeded in living on
the fat of the land. His apartments
In the Astruria cost small fortune;
he dressed well, drove smart turn
out and entertained lavishly. He was
not identified with any particular bust.
ness or profession. On leaving col.
lege he became Interested in art. He
frequented the important art sales
and soon got his name in the news
papers as an authority on art matters.
His apartment was literally museum
of European and oriental art. On all
sides were paintings by old masters,
beautiful rugs, priceless tapestries.
rare ceramics. enamels, statuary,
antique furniture, bronzes. etc. He
passed for man of wealth, and moth
ers with marriageable daughters, con-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
The Meat Trust and tho Tariff.

The total business of the six great
meat-packing companies amounts to
$945. 100000 year. The profits. ex-
elusive of those of the National Pack
ing company, are set at $23,379,644.
Estimating the profits of the National
Packing company as equal to those
of Sulzberger & Sons, the total would
be raised to about $25,000.000.
Some Of the detailed figures are as
impressive as the totals. When con-
Germ like Swift & Co., can progress
from $10,OO0,f tai to upward
of $S0,000,000 in about eixteen years;
when Armour & Co., after paying big
dividends, can pile up surplus of
$73,000.000; when other companies in
the combine make almost as notable
showings. it is clear the profits are
enormous.
With such figures before them, how
can even the standpatters of congress
pretend that protection is needed for
the meat trust? The tariff confers
monopoly of the home market and the
monopoly is used to exact from the
people excessive prices for one of the
most important necessaries of life.
Those are the plain facts of the
matter. There is no need for an elab-
crate investigation by tariff commits
sion with year of delay. There is
time enough for this congress to re-
peal the tax on meat and give the peo-
pie immediate relief.-New York
World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01

sfdering him an eligible young bach
elor, fastened to invite him to their
homes, none of them conscious Of the
danger of letting the wolf slip into the
lambs fold.
What a strange power of fascina-
ton, unused Howard as the train
logged along, men of Underwood's
bold and reckless type WELD, espe.
cially over women. Their very daring
and unscrupulousness seems to render
them more attractive. He himself at
college had fallen entirely under the
mans spell. There was no doubt that
he was responsible for all his trou-
bles. Underwood possessed the un-
canny gift of being able to bend peo-
Pile to his will. What a fool he
had made of him at the university!
He had been his evil genius, there
was no question of that. But for
meeting Underwood he might have ap.
piled himself to serious study, left the
university with honors and be now a
respectable member of the community.
He remembered with smile that 1t
was through Underwood that he had
met his wife. Some of the fellows
limited that Underwood had known
her more intimately than he had pre-
tended and had only passed her on to
him because he was tired of her. He
had nailed that as lie. Annie, he
could swear, was as good a girl as
ever breathed.
He couldn't explain Underwood's
influence over him. He had done with
him what he chose. He wondered why
he had not tried to resist. The truth
was Underwood exercised a strange,
subtle power over him. He had the
power to make him do everything he
wanted him to do, no matter how fool
ish or unreasonable the request Every
one at college used to talk about it.
One night Underwood invited all his
classmates to his rooms and made him
cut UP all kinds of capers. He at first
refused, point blank-but Underwood
got up and, standing directly in front
Of him, gazed steadily into his eyes.
Again he commanded him to do these
AAu1SuAouS, uS6iouih6 eAiA6o. A1oWoA VI
felt himself weakening. He was sud-
denly seized with the feeling that he
must obey. Amid roars of laughter
he recited the entire alphabet stand
ing on one leg. he crowed like a
rooster. he hoped like toad. and
he crawled abjectly on his belly like
snake. One of the fellows told him
afterward that he had been hyp-
Noticed. He had laughed at 1t then
as good joke, but now he came to
think of it. perhaps it was true. Pos
sibly he was subject. Anyway he
was glad to be rid of Underwood and
his uncanny influence.
The train stopped with jerk at his
station and Howard rode down in the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
SHALL MEATS BE UNTAxED7
Dominant Party Has Il In lie Power 10
at Once Secure Relief From
Extortion.

II there had been ten lines in the
presidents message on the high cost
of living, with recommendation in
simple justice that meats be placed on
the free list, does anybody suppose
that the beef trust would have ad.
vanced prices? A cornered market re.
spends quickly to every impulse and
tendency. The protest at the polls in
November was understood. So also
was the silence at the White House in
December. Both found response in
the monopoly's price list.
A like degree of intelligence on the
part Of the peoples representatives at
Washington would develop policy as
to this particular trust which could be
carried out in 60 days.
Strangely enough in the legislative
department the Insurgent Republicans
appear to have agreed to attack only
the wool schedule of the tariff. OF
this Senator Aldrich said on May a.,
1909: ut is the very citadel of the pro-
tective system. To reduce that is to
destroy the whole system"
In a way every important tariff
schedule Is citadel of monopoly and
bargaining, but meats are as yet only
an outpost and those who would serve
the people in their need will not ex-
haust their energies upon strong
hold when the weaker defenses of an
iniquity quite as Objectionable invite
assault. The tariff citadel may be i'm
pregnable. The camp of the be-
leaguered meat trust should be rushed
in hurry.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
CHAPTER Ii.

L
A young woman hurried out Of one
of the apartments to greet Howard.
She was vivacious brunette of me-
dunn height, intelligent looking, with
good features and fine teeth. It was
not doll face, but the face of a
woman who had experienced early the
hard knocks of the world, yet in
whom adversely had not succeeded in
wholly subduing naturally buoyant,
amiable disposition. There was de.
termination in the lines above her
mouth. 1t was face full of character,
the face of woman who by sheer
dint of logged perseverance might &C.
complish any task she cared to set
herself. A smile of welcome CLEANED
in her eyes as she inquired eagerly:
well. dear, anything doing?"
Howard shook his head for all re.
Spouse and look of disappointment
crossed the young wife's face.
Say, that's tough, amt it?" she
exclaimed. "The janitor was here
again for the rent. He says they'll
serve us with a dispossess. 1 told him
to chase himself, was that mad"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
The Bath Trust indictments,

President Taft gives warning in his
message of vigorous enforcement of
the Sherman act against all dangerous
or harmful trusts. There is to be no
running amuck," of course, but the
question Of desirable notifications OF
the act ID not to be permitted to block
the prosecution of wilfuf builders Of
oppressive monopolies.
The Detroit indictments In the bath
tub and sink trust furnish an illustra-
ton of the meaning OF the trust para
graphs of the message. Assuming
that the department Of justice has the
facts straight" the defendants could
not In any event expect the smallest
benefit from amendments of the Sher-
man law. II they had no other pur.
pose than that of fleeing consumers,
destroying competition. debating to
jobbers. raising prices regardless of
any economic considerations; If there
was no thought of saving and improv-
ing and sharing gains of combination
with consumers, then the trust was of
the sort that should be dissolved in
the interest Of honest and legitimate
commerce. The criminal indictments
are of the sort that bring home the
truth that conscious violation of the
law means personal guilt Chicago
Record Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
WHERE GALLANTRY CEASES
One Thing That Woman Has No
Right to Expect From
dan,

II always believe" he gallantly
said, "in yielding to the ladies'"
II suppose you always give way to
your wife when you and she happen
to have an argument"
Invariably"
"And you never fail to relinquish
your seat in the car when 1t happens
that some woman would haze to stand
unless you did so?"
Certainly"
DO you take off your hat when you
get into an elevator where there are
ladies?"
Il never fail to do that"
"If you had secured the last lower
berth in sleeper would you give it
up to lady who would otherwise
have to occupy an upper?"
"Of course. have done It fire.
quently."
'In case you stood in line in front
of ticket window. would you be
willing to 60 away back to the end
so that some woman might have your
placer"
Say. what do you think ana
fool?"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
The Sin Of Lafe Young.

In vain does the Hon. Lafayette
Young of Iowa assume an air Of bon
homie and simplicity and refer to the
senators as boys" His speech be-
trayeth him:
II am not so much concerned about
inequalities as am concerned about
business"
Concerned about business; what I'M
seemly, what almost blasphemous Ian
guage for senator to hold! Is it not
the duty Of the congress to legislate,
and of every public man who knows
when he is we'll off to bloviate. against
business?
AS for the tariff, the Hon. LATE
Young dares to forget that Americas
sweetest eirenist. noblest practical
ethicist and rarest occasional thinker
has found the tariff "a moral issue"
and will stick to that moral issue like
a wart to a wart-hog. at least until
some more moral issue diverts his at
tention.
Business is immoral. If the Hon.
LATE Young has any friends they
should bring him up to date or send
him back to Des Moines.-New York
Sun.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01

Annie's vocabulary was emphatic,
rather than choice. Entirely without
education, she made no pretense at
being what she was not and therein
perhaps lay her chief charm. AS
Howard stopped to kiss her, she said
reproachfully:
You've been drinking again, How
ard. You promised me you wouldn't"
The young man made no reply.
With an impatient gesture he passed
on into the fiat and flung himself
down in chair in the dining room.
From the adjoining kitchen came a
welcome odor of cooking.
Dinner ready?" he demanded. I'm
deyilish hungry"
yes. dear. just minute" replied
his wife from the kitchen. There's
some nice Irish stew, just what you
like"
The box-like hole where Howard
sat awaiting his meal was the largest
room in fiat which boosted of five
and bath" There was bedroom of
equally diminutive proportions. and a
parlor with wall paper so loud that it
talked. There was scarcely enough
room to swing a cat around. The
thin walls were cracked, the rooms
We're carpetless. Yet 1t showed the
care of good housekeeper. Floors
and windows were clean. the cover on
the table spotless. The furnishings
We're as meager as they were ingen-
ious. With their slender purse they
had been able to purchase only the
bare necessities-a bed, a chair or
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
II is A MISTAKE

Many have the idea that anything
will sell if advertised strong enough.
This is great mistake. True, q
few sales might be made by advertis-
ing an absolutely worthless article
but 1t is only the article that is
bought again and again that pays.
An example Of the big success of q
worthy article is the enormous sale
that has grown up for Cascarets
Candy Cathartic. This wonderful rec
ord is the result of great merit sue
cessfully made known through per-
sistent advertising and the mouth-to-
mouth recommendation given Cas-
carets by its friends and users.
Like all great successes, trade pr
rates prey on the unsuspecting pub
lie, by marketing fake tablets similar
in appearance to Cascarets. Care
should always be exercised In pur-
chasing well advertised goods, espe-
cially an article that has national
sale like Cascarets. Do not allow Q
substitute to be palmed of on you.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
EnalneerIna il HospItaIs.

Practically all the important in.
firmaries and hospitals in England
have their own electric generating
stations. and the size of the installa.
tions would surprise the majority of
engineers. The equipment has to be
designed with unusual care. owing to
the special conditions which prevail
in hospital work. Even where a pub
lie supply is available. the use of an
independent system Is justified on ac-
count of the security which it gives
against failure of current at critical
moment. The installations are used
for lighting. heating. ventilating. tele.
phoning and other purposes. and
many hospitals have laundries op-
Grated electrically. One county asylum
has its own private electric railway
for conveying supplies from the near.
est railway station.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01

elevator to the street. Crossing Eighth
avenue. he was going straight home
when suddenly he halted. The glitter
and tempting array Of bottles in a
corner saloon window tempted him.
He suddenly felt that II there was one
thing he needed in the world above
all others 1t was another drink. True.
he had had more than enough already.
But that was Coxe's fault. He had
invited him and made him drink.
There couldn't be any harm in taking
another. He might as well be hanged
for sheep as lamb. By the time
he emerged from the saloon his
speech was thick and his step uncer-
tain. A few minutes later he was
painfully climbing up the rickety stairs
of cheap-looking fiat house. AS he
reached the top floor a cheerful voice
called out:
rs that you, Howard. dear?"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
The Duration Of prean,s.

Something regarding the duration
Of dreams can be gathered from this
experience Of man who. on sitting
down for dental operation. took gas
and dreamed. He saw himself finish
his work. go to the club, leave for
the station, run for the train and miss
1t. He returned to his club and re.
clined on settee in the library. There
he passed miserable. restless night.
getting gradually colder and colder as
the fire died down, and with pain
gradually growing about his head and
face from the hardness of his couch.
Five o'clock in the morning came, and
the steward reused him to say that
the club must now be closed. The
sleeper got UP feeling very stitf-to
find that the steward was his dentist,
and that the nights adventures had
lasted exactly AZ seconds.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
CAN DO NO REAL GOOD
IDEA OF TARIFF COMMISSION A
MERE susTERFueE.
Well Described by the Now York
Journal Of Commerce az "De-
fusion and snare"-sub-
ject Too Partisan.

The New York Journal Of Com
merce, which has always doubted the
value of the tariff commissions worth,
thinks that it is better to keep the
present tariff board than to adopt any
OF the changes which have been pro-
posed in congress. OF the Longworth
bill for bipartisan commission of five
members. not more than three of
whom shall be of the same party. it
says:
That kind of device is delusion
and snare, and unless we can have
tariff commission made up Of eco
nomic experts and free from partisan
bias. we may as well leave the matter
to the regular committees of congress.
1t Will come to the same thing in the
end. The majority of the committee
will control the investigations and the
recommendations, and the minority
Will be impotent."
Concerning the suggestion that the
work be turned over to tariff bu-
reau with single head in one of the
administrative departments, prefera-
bly, the treasury, the Journal says:
That would be no less one-sided.
So long as the administration is de-
voted to certain tariff policy its bu-
reaus would work for the support and
not for the reform of that policy.
There would be no independence In its
Inquiries and no value in its recon.
mendations. The bureaus of the vari-
GUS departments have all along been
working In behalf Of the established
tariff. The consular service of the
state department, the bureau of manu-
features and the bureau of statistics
In the department of commerce and
labor are continually furnishing ma
terial to support the policy of the ad-
ministration, which has heretofore
been the policy of congress in the
matter of tariff. as of everything else.
Independent investigation and compe-
tent criticism are not to me expected
Of an official bureau"
In other words, In the official bu-
reaus, as in congress, party policy is
regarded as Of a good deal more impor-
lance than public policy. Like mas
ter, like man, and the important thing
In the eyes of bureau or other politi-
cal employees is. first, to hold their
Jobs, and, second. in order to hold
their Jobs, to keep the party in its job.
To attain this end it must be made to
appear that whatever the party does
Is right. Thus it can hardly be ex-
pected that bipartisan commission,
which can be controlled by majority
Of partisans. or a partisan bureau.
would be of much service In the In
vestigation Of a subject SO intensely
partisan as the tariff.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
A COMMITTEES Of LAWYERS.

It is observed that every Demo-
cratic member suggested for the next
ways and means committee of the
house. except one, is lawyer. The
exception is NJ. R. Denver Of Ohio. who
is classed as a farmer banker" That
there should be men of affairs on such
a committee as well as lawyers would
naturally be supposed.
The makeup of this committee, how
ever. is typical of that Of congress.
Few occupations save that of the legal
profession are represented in the
house. This lopsidedness ofrepresenta-
ton is unfortunate. But until more
business men are willing to take part
in public life, it seems inevitable.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01

TWO, uinlnS room table, rev kltcn.
en- utensils. When they wanted to sit
IN the parlor they had to carry a
chair from the dining room; when
meal times came the chairs had to
travel back again. A soap box turned
upside down and neatly covered with
chintz did duty as a dresser in the
bedroom, and with few photographs
and tacks they had managed to i'm.
part an aesthetic appearance to the
parlor. This place cost the huge sum
OF $25 month. It might Just as well
have cost 800 for all Towards ability
to pay 1t. The past months rent was
long overdue and the janitor looked
more insolent every day. But they
did not care. They were young and
lie was still before them.
Presently Annie came in carrying
steaming dish of stew, which she
laid on the table. AS she helped How
ard to a plate full she said: 80 you
had no luck again this morning?"
Howard was too busy eating to an
swer. AS he gulped down huge piece
of bread. he growled:
Nothing, as usual-same old story,
nothing doing"
Annie sighed. She had been given
this answer SO often that it would
have surprised her to hear anything
else. 1t meant that their hard hand
to-mouth struggle must go on. She
said nothing. What was the use? It
would never do to discourage How
ard. She tried to make light of it.
"Of course 1t isn't easy, quite
understand that. Never mind, dear.
Something will turn up soon. Where
did you go? Whom did you see? Why
didn't you let drink alone when you
promised me you would?"
THAT was Coxe's fault" blurted
out Howard, always ready to blame
others for his own shortcomings
You remember Coke! He was at
Yale when I was. A big, fair fellow
with blue eyes. He pulled stroke Id
the varsity boat race. you remem.
ber2"
Il think I do" replied his wife, in
differently, as she helped him to more
stew. What did he want? What's
he doing in New York;"
Hes got fine place in a brokers'
Office in Wall street. felt ashamed
to let him see me low down like this.
He said that could make a good deal
of money If only had little capital.
He knows everything going on in
Wall street. If went in with him I'd
be on Easy street"
How much would 1t require?"
1.-TWO thousand dollars"
The young wife gave a sigh as she
answered:
I'm afraid that's day dream. Only
your father could give you such an
amount and you wouldn't go to him,
would you?"
mot If we hadn't another crust in
the house." snapped Howard savage.
ly. You don't want me to, do your"
he asked looking up at her quickly.
mo. dear" she answered calmly.
II have certainly no wish that you
should humble yourself At the same
time l am not selfish enough to want
to stand in the way of your future.
Your father and stepmother hate me.
I know that. am the cause Of your
separation from your folks. No doubt
your father would be very willing to
help you If you would consent to
leave me-"
Howard laughed as he replied:
well, If that's the price for the
$4,000 guess I'll go without 1t.
wouldn't give you up for a million
times s2,00O!"
Annie stretched her hand across
the table.
"Really?" she said.
tTo BE cONTfNUED)
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-02-01
There Was a Reason.

When negro was arrested the
other day for wandering around the
streets, he wore one of those invinci-
BILE smiles. When he was taken be.
fore Magistrate Briggs he was still
smiling.
Whats your name?" asked the
magistrate.
"Ah don't know. sah." smiled the
negro.
Where do you live?"
"Ah don't know, sah."
Where do you work?"
AT the Tenn hotel, sah.'
The magistrate thought that per-
haps there was some truth in the ne.
gro's place of employment, SO he
thought he would see If the negro