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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-06-04
MAsohviLLE.

s& tast week = LetterJ
MRS. G. Mosner returned nome iron iron
QuasQueton last week AFTER seVera
days visit at tnat pace.
MISS Agnes Duly was an over sun
ray guest IN the home OF his sister
mrs. - Helger residing near man
chester.
Miss Mayne Pendergast OF WALKER
spent q rev Gays iast week VIII VIII
trends IN town.
Clyde Mosher and wife Of Quas
queton spent the past week Win re-
latlves IN TINS vlclnlty.
Rev. Father Rooney OF Manchester
was VsltoF ~ Town SATURDAY %
tween Trans.
Mrs. 9. Giamo and BABY or Man:
chester weere week END visltors q
relatives ~ town.
Mr.. savage OF DUBUQUE attended the
oall here thursday evening.
Rev y: Lonergan Is spending rev
days with friends ~ Dorotny' IT,, ana
Mason Clty.
MISS Name Cooney was visiting AZ
the nome OF her grandfather MI.
Helten, at winthrop the first OF the te
week.
A. Il: Reidy and wife, FORM erly OF
CEDAR Rapids but now located In man
cRester, were vlsitors here recently. h.
r. =: Dggins was business visit
or at WintnIop MONDAY:
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-06-04
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I@SiIne mHJOflCy OF the UnlL6Q states
Supreme court in q decision handed
! down Monday by the full bench Of
nine justices, appears to have taken
steps toward the correction Of what
many have felt to be so extreme po-
lsition, taken by maj ority OF seven
justices year ago, az to warrant
somewhat drastic amendment Of the
existing patent laws, in order to pre-
vent patent monopolies from becom-
UNDESIRABLE. y .,5., 81 H, u 35.:.
Some manufacturers Of patented
devices have for some time sought to
enhance their profits by selling their
devices under contracts in which the
1 buyer IL required to agree that any
sale OF the device to another at a
lower price than that asked by the
| patent owner, or any use with the de-
vice OF materials not furnished by
the patent>pwner, should be regarded
as an infringement OF the. patent.
In what was known as the 'mim-
eograph case decided about year
ago by majority Of the seven JUS
tees then sitting, machine had been
sold with such a stipulation with re
spect to >the ink to be used with 1t.
The buyer of the machine found other
ink which did as we'll, and used at.
lWhereupon the owner Of the patent
and maker Of the machine brought
suit against the buyer and the maker
of the ink for infringement of his pat
ent.
It was contended that the plaintiff
had at most only an action in the
state courts for damages in the loss
OF profits on the ink which he would
have sold had the buyer procured
ink elsewhere. A majority Of the
court as then composed held, howev-
er, that patent rights had been In
fringed.
Chief Justice White pointed out
the absurdities to which the accep-
lance Of such a principle must lead.
It would authorize the patentee Of q
cooking utensil to refuse to sell 1t
unless all food to be cooked in it
were bought from him or the pat
entee of a sewing machine to prohib-
1t the sewing on it Of any fabric on
whose sale he did not make q profit
In the case just decided majority
Of the full court Of nine holds that
it is not an infringement Of the pat
ent laws tor the buyer Of a patented
8ftlCle 10 Se1 " ~ u 4oWeI& ~ Pk4Ce
than the patent owner thinks it
ought to bring. This decision puts
an end to the efforts Of manuiac.
turers and patentees to control under
the patent laws the selling price OIL
their devices, no matter by whom
sold or under what circumstances.
AS the real question, Of the extent
to which patent monopoly may be
pushed In controlling markets and
securing profits, Is the same in both
cases, it ia felt that the court has
practically reversed It's decision in
the mimeograph case. 80.
It Is well that it should be revers-
ed. AS Chief Justice White SO clear
ly pointed out the principle Of that
decision opened the door to intoler-
able abuses OF pateat monopolies. It
was moving congress to such drastic
change in the patent laws ~ might
have seriously impaired their en-
couragement to inventors.-Inter oc.
can.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-06-04
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n ENoX COLLEGE,

Miss Miller was q Sunday Wis.
itor In Monticello.
Jesse Greenup and Norman Land
ers IF. left Friday: evening for Per
ry, to join the musical force Of tn.
Jones Chautauqua Company.
DR.. Reed went to Monticello Friday
afternoon to deliver the Memoria
address. "a r
The commencement program Will be
gin on Friday evening, June 9Th and
will be carried out - 4 outlined in /
previous issue, t,3 b j!1S A
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-06-04
DUNDEE.

(Last Weeks letter.
H. w. SEIZURE came Saturday after
noon to visit his parents Mr.. and Mrs
John SEIZURE.
& Frank lZemanek made a business
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-06-04
"WEDNESDAY, JUNE Z, 1918.
CATO SELLS GETS GOOD APP
,aPolNTMENT. ::s

Last Thursday President Wilson
nominated Cato Sells, OF Cleburne,
Texas, as Commissioner OF Indian At
fairs, an office said to be second on
" to a cabinet position. Mr.. Sells
sold-time Iowa friends are ejoicing
over his selection for such important
work, and the writer is enjoying
/ the good news as much as though he
had won . personal triumph.
This appointment Of the Presidents
levives : long train Of .recollec tions,,
dating back TO boyhood days when
MI. Sells home was in Laporte
City, Blackhawk county. Away back
81 those days Mr.. Sells was striving
Tor the adoption Of progressive poll
8cies, but the supreme test came in
1895. IN 1894 Mr.. Sells was ~,
pointed United States Attorney for
I the Northern District OF Iowa BY.
President Cleveland. and won distinc-
$tions extending. far beyond state lines
In the prosecution OF number Of
pension conspiracy cases. At that
time the democratic party was pass
4 ing through 4 condition similar il to
( that which is affecting and diyid-
Ing the republican party at the pres
3ent time. Presid dent Cleveland was
4 more ardent conservative in some
respects than President Taft, and
/ hia cabinet officers removed vs. their
subordinates who openly espoused
the policies Of the progressives. @
IT The Iowa democratic state conven-
\ ton met that year in Dubuque. and
the pre. convention struggle between
the conservatives and prpgressives
4 Kas unusually fierce for Hawkeye
democrats. The state 5 committee
and federal otficehold en lined up
"a ) rule behind the Presid ent, and
the progressiyes opposed the policies
jor the Presid lent. especially his finan-
cial policies. The conservatives cap.
sEtured the temporary organization.
and then came the tug Of war which
resulted IN ayictory for the pro
4 Ereasives. 5is.i ,5s
The writer was elected permanent
chairman Of that convention and win
4 never forget the important services
rendered ~ Cato Sells in preventing
the defeated faction from leaving
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-06-04
THORPE.

tLast-Weeks Letter.
The people Of this neighborhood are
already making plans to attend the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11
supore.sino Divorce News.

Des Moines Capital: A local judge
is quoted as favoring the bill intro
duced in the Iowa legislature prohibit
ing newspapers from printing charges
made in divorce petitions until ten
months have elapsed after the filing
of the same. The judge says that
many divorce cases are brought as
the result of hasty impulses. These
would be dismissed. he thinks if the
newspapers would keep quiet.
Possibly.
But why not prohibit attorneys from
filing divorce petitions until ten
months after the complaining party
first requests the aid OF a lawyer In
obtaining legal separation? is 1t not
true that many divorce seeker is
too hasty' in seeking an attorney
and that If the lawyer did not go
ahead and rush him or her into court,
the whole affair would be patched up
and everything forgiven?
One of the curses Of the present day
is the lawyer who makes specially
OF getting divorces quietly and sec
reilly" He is the fellow who VIII
profit If the bill calculated to suppress
divorce news in the papers, becomes
q law.
At the rate many divorces are grant
ed in Polk county, the parties are sep
arated and welded to others long be
fore the prescribed ten months has ex
PRED.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11
FIRST PUBLIC ROAD I'M IOWA,

The first road mentioned in con-
nection with the Iowa country was
provided for by An Act to locate and
establish a territorial road west OF
the Mississippi Enacted by the
council and house of representatives
of the territory of Wisconsin in 1896
this statute provided that Abel Gal.
land, Solomon Perkins, Benjamin
Clarke, Adam Sheriff.. William Jones
and Henry F. Lander should act as
commissioners to make and lay out q
territorial road west of the Mississip
pi, commencing at Pennington on the
Des Moines river. thence to Moffitt'!
mill. thence on the nearest and bes
route to burlington, in Des Nome.
county, thence to Wapello, thence b.
the nearest and best route to the fer
ry opposite Prairie du Chen. The
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11
keokuk, Iowa March II, 1918
a WIRELESS TELEGRAPH.

The wireless telegraph called prayer
Needs neither ether, space, nor air,
Ger which to speed fears quivering
waves
From us who need, to Him who
saves;
Through yacuums of forgetfulness
Race forth the flashing messages:
No medium is too dense or hard;
Flesh, distance, time. in vain retard /;
Prayer needs two instruments alone
Gods heart, and tuned Herewith,
thine own:
These signal stations in accord,
Thou shalt hold converse with thy
Lord
Through hills. DER plains, beneath the
For loves the electricity.
Who loyeth, though the meanest clod,
Can telegraph each day to God
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11
Big business and Small Business

Theodore n. Vail, in the March At
lantic: There is not one act, good or
bad, wrong or right, that is charged
to big business, that did not originate
with, and does not still exist, in small
business; while big business has one
weakness inherent in its condition
whlch small business has not, and
ma. Is notoriety and publicity. Big
BUSINESS is in the glare of sunlight
WINE the smaller business is more OF
less IN the shade Big business is
more impersonal as to it's proprietor
snip OF 'ts ownership, or is centered
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

IN the package of unique pardons
issued by the late Governor Dix OF
New York was one to a crooked law
yer. 3. e. Valentine, convicted OF
swindling minor heirs. six years ago.
By various shady means execution OF
the sentence vas stayed. and the fell
low never reached the doors of the
penitentiary. although the governor
was hoodwinked into the belief that
he was in jail.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

about few of those prominently con.
rested with it; while Its widespread
body of small proprietors or partners
that Is, the shareholders have nc
association with 1t in the minds of the
public, and, as a rule. are Indifferent
to all that is going on SO long as diyi-
dends are maintained.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11
Democratic Economy.

New York World: With the biggest
pension bill on record, and the big.
gest naval appropriation bill on rec
ord. and public buildings and rivers
and harbors bills and other extras
the democratic house is giving a glor-
ious illustration OF what economy"
means.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

road thus surveyed and layed out was
to be marked by stakes in the prairie
at a reasonable distance apart, and by
blazing trees In the timber. From
Brfndley's History of Road Legisla-
ticn in Iowa. published by the State
Historical Society OF Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

The Duchess Of Marlborough open
ed Albion House near London last
week as home for working girls
and women. 1t will be run on tn.
same lines as the Rowton homes for
men. The women can pay so cents
rent weekly and can buy meal from
l-cent upwards. In all England there
are only three municipal lodging
houses for women.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

" A. Ziegler. who won the ham
mer throw in the Oxford games, is a
Rhodes scholar from Iowa, and H. r.
Stolz. who was first In the long jump
holds the same appointment from
Stanford university
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11
Real Dilemma Stated.

From the Louisville Courier-Jour.
nal: 1.-THE housewives of New York
should meet and know their butchers
If they would save money! says a
member of the Housewives League
Fine idea. but how can they? Now
adays those who do not own automo
biles can not hope to be really chum
my with those who do.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11
.off,ciaI information

The United States senate has just
issued a pamphlet which contains an
official attempt of the government to
enlighten Its citizens on the Fried
mann Treatment for Tuberculosis, a
document submitted by the secretary
of state to the president and transmit.
ted by the latter to the senate, by
which 1t was published as Senate
Document No. 101S. With the excep-
ton of less than two-page introduce
ton by the consul-general at Berlin,
this document consists entirely of q
translation of Dr. F'riedmann's Berlin
address and the discussions on 1t as
they appeared some time ago in the
Berliner klinische Wochenschrift. The
technical language of this translation
can be compared only to that some
times seen In the unedited letters of
"voodoo" and similar doctors
Why the government came TO pub.
lish such ridiculous document is an
interesting question. says The Journal
of the American Medical Association,
the answer to which may throw some
light on the manner in which the
United States endeavors to handle
medical problems AS appears from
the senate passed a resolution re
questing the president ito submit to
the senate the results of any investi-
cation OF the friedman cure made or
being made by the American consul
general in Germany The senate
probably made this request as the re-
suit of the sensational newspaper re-
ports. The president turned the re-
quest over to the secretary of state,
who has charge of our foreign affairs,
and he in turn submitted the report OF
the consuEgeneral at Berlin, who is
there to look after our business rela-
tons with Germany The consul-gen-
eral did all that could be expected OF
a layman; he obtained from DR.. Fried
mann the information that patients
desiring his treatment must spend
several weeks in Berlin twhere room
and board may be obtained at the
usual prices"); he obtained an opinion
on the new remedy from a local ply
sician," and sent copies of Fried
mann's address and the discussion on
it. The fact that patients must go to
Berlin for treatment was sufficiently
advertised in the daily press; the
German medical journals containing
Friedmann's address were received by
all the leading medical libraries of
the United States, and by many priv
ate subscribers, in November; side
lights on the subject were given by
the Berlin correspondents OF the
American medical journals. Would ii
not have been simpler for the senate
to appeal Through the president if
this formality were necessary to the
surgeon-general of the Public Health
Service, who was presumably in pos
session of all this information several
weeks ago? Were it deemed desirabl
to obtain further information on the
subject, could not the senate have au-
thorized the Public Health Service to
send to Berlin man who is convers-
ant with tuberculosis? This would
seem a more direct method than the
one pursued-but then the public
would have been deprived of the
pleasure of reading this humorous
document.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

The Reconsideration and the sulli-
van-Burke divisions of Chicago's i'm
perishable democracy managed to do
the Inauguration without decorating
the scenery with their respective
scalps.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

Thomas steele, formerly an attor.
ney at Columbus. o.. convicted OF
blackmaiI in 1902, came out of the
woods of Canada last we X and toog
his medicine In the federal court al
Cincinnati: Il have suffered more
punishment as a fugitive" he said
than II / had gone to prison and
served my sentence"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

Tommy Middleton of Philadelphia, a
giddy youngster of so years, pulled of
an elopement with his housekeeper a
few days ago. Tommy is wealthy and
needed housekeeper anchored to
the job.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

A school for telephone operators In
New York rejects applications for adj
mission to its course from more than
5000 girls annually. accepting only
about 1000. who fulfill its require
ments
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

DR.. Margit Balough. a Hungarian
woman, has been appointed by the
Hungarian minister of instruction to
engage IN geological research work in
connection with French expedition
to the Atlas mountains northwest
Africa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

Four divisions of the circuit cour,
of st. Louis on Monday divorced forty
one couples without shattering the
eight-hour law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

9II,JJU. o.
Total county fund warrants
drawn in 1912 .......... s9S112 ST
Total county fuLd warrants
drawn in 1911 80. $500. $685.. Is
Total county fund warrants
drawn in 1910 ......I.s.. s7s4s 50
Total county fund warrants
drawn in 1909 ........ s4os4 81
Total county fund warrants
drawn in 1908 .......... ss551 70
Court House fund.
Par. payment rebuilding
Fort Madison court house $ 1905 So
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11
s45se Ga
Feeble Minded.

Expense State Institute for
feeble minded ......s 427.I4
S 427 "a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-11

Total soldiers, relief fund
warrants drawn in 1911. $ 3,707. 20
Total soldiers relief fund
warrants drawn in $780,. s.45o 80
Total soldiers relief fund
warrants drawn in 1909 1882 SO
Total soldiers relief fund
warrants drawn in 1908 a,21s so
The Taney County republican., 1913-05-15
Forsyth Still Holds First Place Accredited Fishing

ranging usually from | 10 8 per cent
OF the domestic production. 1t is
probable that in the future much more
serious attention will be given to the
export trade, particularly by the eastern
mills, for its development seems to be
the simplest method Of disposing of
the surplus which now periodically
weighs on the eastern cement market.
OF course an export trade in a com
modify like relatively bulky
and low in value-does not promise
any large direct profit to the individual
producer, but indirectly the creation
and maintenance Of such a trade will
benefit the industry as a whole. 0w-
ing to the scarcity in most parts of
South and Central America and West
Indies Of the fuel supplies necessary
to the manufacture Of cement the de
velopment Of local cement industries
in those promising markets seems
The Taney County republican., 1913-05-15
Controlling the ChiRCh Bug.

Now is the time TO save the. wheat
from the chinch bug. Last summer
when the bugs moved from the ripe
wheat to the corn was the time for
the first stroke, and if that had been
followed by burning in the winter when
the bugs were collected in their winter
quarters, the wheat and corn crops
would be safe from chinch bug damage
this year. Wheat fields badly infested
at this time will produce but little if
any wheat and in many cases stock
might as well be turned in and make
use Of it for gasture.
There is a parasitic plant which al
tacks and destroys the bug. This is
what produces the well known "chinch
bug disease" and when weather and
moisture conditions are just right it
works like a charm but seldom in time
TO save the wheat. The spores Of this
disease are always present in every
soil. AS soon as weather conditions
become just right the disease will
start up and make short work Of the
chinch bugs, With the first change
in the weather, however, the disease
will die out as suddenly as it started
and the chinch bug is safe. There is
absolutely no use Of distributing dis
eased bugs, because as soon as they
are turned cut in the open the disease
disappears, except under the proper
weather conditions and if the weather
conditions are right for the disease,
there is DO need Of distributing it fol
The Taney County republican., 1913-05-15

it is already present. For this reason
the state and government workers no
longer send ont diseased bugs, having
found out that it is simply a waste Of
energy.
At this late date the best we can do
is to prepare TO save the crops next
year, Clip out the following cautions
and paste Caution No. /" in
your calender at the end Of the month
OF June or the first of July and eau
tiop No. 2" on the November or De-
cember page.
Caution No, /. The bugs will
crawl from the wheat fields into corn
about the first of July. Be prepared
to use a dust strip, or ditch and log,
as a barrier, and in case Of rain run a
line Of tar orroad oil in front Of them as
barrier. Find out at once where and
how long it will take to get the tar or
oil. This will save the corn and help
much 10 save next years crops,
Caution No. 3. Next winter after
the first heavy freezes the bugs will be
found collected in woods. fence rows,
scattered straw, and more especially
in pastures and waste lands overgrown
with heavy grasses and weeds, Select
a warm, dry day when the wind is low
and burn over such places. Join with
your neighbors; it is too big a job for
one man TO attempt. The Missouri
College Of Agriculture, Columbia, Mo,
will be glad to supply information as
to the methods employed during the
summer and fall in fighting the chinch
bug. L. Haseman.
The Taney County republican., 1913-05-15
New Head for 7. &P.

Mr.. E. F. Kearney, who has just
been elected First Vice-President ol
the Texas & Pacific Railroad, with
headquarters at New Orleans, La, and
Dallas, Texas, has been General Super
intendent Of Transportation Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Iron Mountain System.
He will have entire charge Of mainten-
ance, operation and traffic for the Texas
& Pacific, as the President, Mr.. George
J. Gould, has headquarters in New York
Judge Thomas J. Freeman, who has
been First Vice President and General
Counsel, will remain in the capacity Of
General Counsel,
The new active head Of the Texas &
Pacific is one Of the most capable rail
road men in the country and one Of
the most popular. Born in LcganSport,
Ind. March 81, 1865, Mr.. Kearney be-
gan his rarlroad career with the Penn
sylyania in 1882 as Telegraph operator
Later he was made chief train dispatcher
and then trainmaster. He came to St.
Louis as superintendent Of the Temi-
nal Railroad Association and served sue
cessivly as General Superintendent Of
Transportation Of the Frisco, Superin-
tendent Of Terminals for the Missouri
Pacific at St. Louis, Superintendent OF
Transportation for that company, and
finally General Superintendent of Tran
sportation ioE the System.