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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-26

There are several United States
senators who call themselves demo-
Gratis who have no use for President
Wilson's reform measures, but they
win not vote against them. They
know what would certainly happen
to them il they did. They know that
the rank and file Of the democratic
party have no use for reactionaries in
the United States Senate.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-26
n the Weidert home at Dy

visitor in the Weidert home at Dy-
ersville. n, " 81 Yea. n I.
Il Mrs. J. w. Smith, who was 50 ser
down stairs the first Of last. week, is
getting along as we'll as can be ex-
pected, Her children have all ar
rived here to assist in caring for
their mother The many friends Of
Mrs. Smith hope for. speedy recov-
cry. AZ & g5 f5 4,
spent between trains at the parental
home in this city last Saturd lay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles 4 Blanchard
and daughter Dorothy went to 6 Hop.
kinton Saturday evening for d Wis
it at the home Of Mrs. Blanchard's
mother, Mrs. Brooks. and family.
d Charles Menge left last week for
Montana. where he intends to spend
the coming year. IL, u.
Miss Elsie Jones of Greeley was a
Saturday visitor at the home Of her
mother, Mrs. Bert Dodds, West of this
city s.5
Our Fayette students spent. their
Easter vacation in their parental
homes.
Mr.. and Mrs E. ]. Putt were over
Sunday visitors with the formers
grandfather, John Schacherer ST., in
Dyers Vile.
Mrs. Lester Schaffer of Chicago
arrived here Thursday for an extend
ed visit at the home of he: parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Boyer.
4 Lawrence Funk left for Estherville
Monday morning, where he has &C.
fcepted position for the summer.
Mesdames Regina Domayer of Dy-
ersville and E. J. Schacherer OF Man
) chester are visiting relatives at this
place.
Mrs. George Pilgrim was at Straw
berry Point Saturday to attend the
funeral OF relative.
n Mrs. viii Duncan transacted bust
ness at the Point Saturday.
During the hard storm on Sunday
night, lightning strucA a straw. pile
on the Francis Schultz farm. With
. the help Of their neighbors they were
Z able to save all buildings.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-26
\ MERIToRioUs REQUEST.

The following concurrent resolution
offered by Senator John r. Doran
ia, now being considered by the Iowa
legislature:
Whereas, for many years it has
been the custom Of the railroads
operating in and across the State OF
Iowa, in conjunction with railroads
east and west, to tender to the public
each year what are known as Home
5 seeker rates to influence travel from
Iowa and from points east Of Iowa
across this state to the west for the
purpose Of exploiting Canadian lands,
Mexican ranches, dry farming lands
in the semiarid and desert districts,
hgh-priced irrigation projects lands,
etc. and to induce persons from Iowa
an' the territory east of Iowa to pur-
chase these lands and become set
tiers, and
Whereas, the railroads have re-
fused to name Iowa points as destina-
lions tor these rates, or to apply them
70 Iowa points despite the fact that
there are hundreds Of opportunities
In every county in Iowa for home
seekers to establish themselves upon
lands that do not have to be irrigated
and where water tolls are not exacted
where it is not necessary to resort
to dry farming, where markets are
close at hand, where the school sys-
tenn and public conveniences are de-
veloped, and where the climate and
soil insure a crop every year, there
fore be 1t
Resolved by the Senate, the House
concurring, that the State of Iowa re-
CARDS, in view of the fact that home
seeker rates are made and thousands
of dollars expended for advertising
them to points north and south and
west Of Iowa, that these rates are
made to apply across. Iowa and from
Iowa points, but not to points within
the state, and that colonist rates are
made in the same way-regard these
rates as not only a discrimination
against the state and It's interest,
but as destructive to its best inter-
ests, and request and demand Of the
railroads operating in Iowa that in
he future they refuse all tenders of
homeseekers and colonist rates from
lines and decline to issue
ariffs giving these rates except that
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-26
4 MARK HANNA's Fl PLACE IN HIS
z5s gs TORY. Sz.$l55

One after another the great news
papers Of the country reverse their
We've and opinion respecting the 20;
5liticals achieveme nts OF the late Mark
Hanna. The New York World used
its great influence to help along the
pioneer 8stand-patter, solely because i
did not like Mr.. Bryan's financial
policies. But, like many others, i
now places Mark Hanna on the pill
Dry where he belongs and where his.
tory win place him. as the following
extracts from one OF its recent edt
torials conclusively show:
stand pattism IL dead, '' said Mr.
Bryan In his speech at Des Moines
In stating the lesser fact Mr.. Bryan
omits the greater fact. Not only Il
Istand-pattism dead, but Hannaism u
dead. III Is S:iS
As 4 result Of the 1896 campaign
Washington moved to Wall street
4 and Wall street became the capital Q
the United States. The Government
was frankly and cynically administer
ed for the profit Of Privilege. Plu
tocracy became. as arrogant and des
poic as slavery. Il Wall street want
ed legislation, the legislation was en-
acted. II Wall street wanted law
suspended. those laws were suspend
ed. II certain governmental policie
meant dividends for Big Business
those policies were adopted. II Wal
4 street wanted to exploit the resourc
h Cd Of the country those resource
were placed at it's disposal.
The very expression ''stand-pat'
was coined by Mark Hanna to en-
courage the republi lean machine to re
sist the public demand for homes
tariff revision, and it soon became {
4battle-cry against every assault upol
public abuses and public wrong. From
the Dingley act to Dollar Diplomacy
every evil that helped to bring about
the final wreck Of the Republican
party had Its origin in the unholy al
lance that Hanna established be
tween the Government and Wal
afy,oof 5}G3if ~
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-26
EDGEWoop.

If the weather on Easter Sunday is
to rule for the seven succeeding Sun
days, our vicinity will certainly be
visited with very gloomy weather. The
sun did not put in its appearance all
day long. Prior to this the roads
We're considered impossible, SO we
will not attempt to name them now.
30 j. Schacherer was called to Du-
buque Thursday by the illness of his
son Gregory. who is attending st.
Joseph's college at that place.
Mrs. Lee Duncan Of Strawberry
Point is visiting at the parental Nc
Monigal home southwest of this city,
Frank Wiley returned home from a
day. -. &. 3ts$5 II .j a &.
Mrs. B. III. Smith and baby OF Hop
k kin are visiting at the Will Smith
home in this city
+. F. Wiley. was an over Sunday
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-26

iowa destinations are iihiccluaed and
the same rates and the Same stop-oyer]
privileges given to Iowa territory as
are accorded to any other territory to
which the rates apply"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16

Others were allowed to go at large, but they
had no rights under the law. They were branded
on the forehead In order that every one might
know who they were. If one Of them importuned
a citizen for money or troubled him in any way
her offence was punishable with death.
The whole civilized world was ransacked to
find these women. They we're bought or stolen
from their distant homes. The choicest spect-
mems were placed in the Temple of Ishtar.
These facts make 1t certain that Babylon was
plunged in constituencies selfindulgence and
luxury to a degree unknown In the modern world.
The wine shops were usually kept by women in
Babylon and there are many provisions IN the
laws concerning them. The measure for drink
was to be the same as for corn. In case she
overcharged her customers they could throw her
into the water.
For surgery and the practice of medicine, there
was elaborate legislation. In order to dis
courage the surgeon from making rash expert
ments, severe penalties we're fixed in case Of I'M
successful operations. For an operation on the
upper class, the surgeon received ten shekels,
on the lower class five, and on the slave two. If
the patient died the surgeons hands were cut
of. In the case Of a slave he had to replace him
with one Of equal value. II the eye OF q slave
was lost the owner received half the price Of the
slave.
Similar legislation was enacted for builders. If
the house fell down and killed the owner as the
result of bad workmanship, the builder was sub
ject to the death penalty.
A man could give his wife, son or daughter to
work of a debt but in the fourth year he or she
could regain freedom.
The great early ruler Of Babylon was King
Khammurabi, whose famous code was the basis
OF all the laws that governed the empire.
Nebuchadnezzar was King when Babylon
reached the zenith Of its glory. The Bible tells
US how this mans mind was unbalanced by the
tremendous power he possessed. AS a conse-
quence he became insane for a time and rdid eat
grass as the oxen"
He built the two great walls Of the city.
He built immense quays on the banks Of the
Enphrates, besides developing otherwise the
facilities for handling commerce. He dug wide
moats about the walls so that 1t was as if the
sea surrounded the city.
He built the causeway by which the God Mar
duk was taken on New Years Day from Babylon
on a visit to his son, Nebo, the patron deity of
Borsippa- All these interesting things will be
laid bare by the excavators, so that the tourise
may look at them.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16
By DIR. CHALMERS WATSON.
Of the Edinburgh Royal University

It Is probably no exaggeration to
say that the medical profession, no
less than the public has a very
inadequate idea as to the extent Of
minor or major adultersfion Of
common ~foodstufs.
Bread is an important ~illustra-
ton. A large proportion OF bread
in daily use is now made from
flour which has been ~artihcially
bleached by the passage of nitrous
oxide fumes. These are produced
by an electrical discharge, the pro-
cess being described by the parties
interested as electrified air" and
in ignorance accepted by millers
and bakers as a process from Of
chemicals"
The researches Of Professor
Ladd, q. S. A, Professor Hallibur-
ton and the author, among others,
have shown that the digestibility
Of -four so treated is ~appreciably
reduced, and as there are, unques-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16

the cooking facilities-one small
open grate-are not we'll adapted
to providing a two-course meal if
such were otherwise available, and
in connection with the feeding Of
large numbers Of school children
there is certainly economy Of time
and labor, and possibly Of expense,
in a one-course as compared with
q two-course meal. Experience
has shown that a one-course meal
at low cost can be made as nour-
ishing and attractive to children as
a two-course meal at similar out
lay.
1t is of interest In this connec-
ton to refer to the ~nutritive value
and cost Of a series of five one
course dinners recently supplied,
on my recommendation, by the Ed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16

tionabIy, no compromising advanE
ages In the process from the ply
Biological and dietrio point of view,
it is advisable that all bread should
be made from the natural product
Of the wheat.
It is conceivable that a child
would thrive better on q diet con-
tanning a smaller amount Of food
in a pure form than on a diet which
is richer from the point Of view Of
chemical composition, but with its
nutritive value impaired by the ad-
ditiOn Of various preservatives.
A further point Of Importance is
the use Of hard food adapted for
promoting masticatiOn, giving meat
in a form which n-ecessitates
chewing, bread in baked form for
similar reasons, and at the same
time restricting indulgence in sugar
and sweets, which promote fer.
mentation IN relation to the teeth,
with resulting carries.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16

To uncover the ruins shown here has been
a tremendous task, for the Euphrates River had
buried them under an alluvial deposit over sixty
feet deep. The greater part Of the city still lies
under this deposit. Among the interesting ruins
still largely hidden is the Tower OF Babel, whose
construction and abandonment form one of the
most curious legends in the oldest part of the
Bible.
Many Of the objects found relate to commercial
dealings. Babylon was the greatest commercial
city of the ancient world prior to about 500 E. c.
It's wealth was naturally the greatest source Of
its power. It's merchants employed a perfect
system Of bookkeeping and Of making out com
mercial paper and other documents. The en-
tries were first made on soft clay and then
baked hard. They could never be altered, burned
or defaced. Even to destroy them with great
force was difficult. Those that are found to-
day are as legible as when they we're made.
Owing to their system Of bookkeeping and
giving indestTuctible receipts, the Babylonion
merchants enjoyed a great reputation for hon
esty. They were considered very superior In
that respect to their competitors in Egypt.
The excavators have found an enormous col
lection Of tablets inscribed with the laws. The
Babylonians enjoyed an elaborate system of law
as long as thirty-fve hundred years ago. It dealt
with the most complex and intimate relations Of
life, with relations and commercial
disputes. Although the legal code appears harsh
to US in many respects, it is in the main intel
ligent and Just, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that it was vigorously enforced.
The darkest side of Babylonian life IS seen
in the existence Of an enormous body of women
known as public vOtaries." It is said that there
were $4,000 of them in the city. Many of them
were kept in the temples of Ishtar and other
divinities. The money paid by the citizens visit
ing the "votaries" went to the prients of these
heather temples, and the "votaries" themselves
were slaves of the most wretched description.
It is the existence of this institution that has
caused Babylon to be condemned as the city Of
sin, the most shameful type of corruption among
the communities Of the ancient world. In nearly
every place where Babylon is mentioned in the
Bible it is accompanied by words Of severe repro
baton.
The excavators have found many inscriptions
relating to the female votaries of Babylon. Those
who were attached to certain temples were never
allowed to go away, and an attempt to escape, if
discovered, was invariably punished with death.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16
GooJ Tvvo No~4 O:--o.o g. Coboo1 NLJJ.on By Dr. CT
OOO WO-(OAG O4u14GA " NAO GuAASA CA- Oh the &c

IRON an analysis Of the meals
eaten by eight healthy chill
dren of the middle classes. It
is found that what children need is
food that contains seventy-two
grammes of protein and s~ixty-nine
grammes Of fat and for poor
children those proportions have to
be obtained at the lowest possible
cost.
For example, a bowl Of thick len
til soup containing H-pound Of
le ills, with a slice Of bread, cost
ing about ? cents, contains much
more nourishment than K-pound
Of meat and a slice Of bread cost
ing 10 cents.
The question of a good one
course. dinner is important. In
many Of the houses Of the poor
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16

No. 2 is Of considerably lower
nutritive value, and is out Of pro-
portion expensive.
No 3 is a rich highly nourtshing
meal and is proportionately dear;
it is only advisable IS an occa-
sionaI meal.
No. 4 is a good dinner obtained
at moderate cost.
No. 5 is also a good meal, a little
below the average in nutritive val
Ne; this can be rectifled by slightly
increasing the amount of milk.
The experience of the head mas
tiers in the different schools under
the Edinburgh School Board has
shown that meals planned on these
lines have been followed by salts
factory rate Of growth, increased
physical vigor and more efficient
education Of the children, these
being the criteria for judging the
correctness of any system OF feed
ing
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16
inburgh School Board to 1000 chill

A study Of the figures in the DIFF
ferent columns, he says, is very in
s%tructive. The average amount Of
protein 27.1 grammes, fat go
grammes, and carbohydrates 102
grammes, may be taken as a re-
liable standard for a highly nutri-
tious meal, erring, If anything, in
a deficiency in fat. If we compare
the individual menus we find that:
No. 1 is a very nourishing dinner
at small cost
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16

palace. twas here, perhaps, that Bel
shazzar saw the writing on the wall:
Thou art weighed in the balahces and
found wanting"
The mass Of ruins seen beyond the
column encircIes the site Of the throne
hall of ACKNOWLEDGMENT. In the back
ground may be seen what is known to
the explorers as the south mound. This
covers the site Of the commercial and
industrial city of Babylon and probably
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16

FIRST Photographs of the Most Mag
nificent City of the Past. Where
King Nebuchadnezzar Ate Grass
and Daniel Was Cast to Lions
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
THE VERMONT BANK TAN
DECISION.

The decision of the United States SUI
creme court that the state OF Vermont
has a right to tax savings deposits in
the national banks of the state will
make no direct change in banking condi-
tions or in the system of taxation OF
banks in Vermont, inasmuch as the state
has been taxing such savings deposits in
the federal chartered banks and has con-
tinued to do so in spite of the fact that
the Clement National Bank of Rutland
demurred to paying the tax, subsequent
~ to have the case 90 up to the highest
court in the country. Had the case been
decided otherwise by that tribunal it
would have meant great loss to the
state treasury and an increasing loss
every year as more national banks would
have inaugurated savings departments
and there would have been a greater
flow of money to those institutions, with
a CONSEQUENT decrease in revenue to the
state. But as it is, the policy of the
commonwealth will be retained and,
moreover, the state will have unques-
toned authority in maintaining that
policy; the decision merely clarifies a
situation which was somewhat unsettled
by the action of the Rutland bank.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
BLAMED COST OF LIVING.
John Courey of Burlington Said He Had
to Sell liquor.

Burlington, Nov. 1.-THE high cost
of living was advanced by John Courey,
a good looking young syrian, who was
arraigned in city court yesterday on a
charge of selling liquor without author
ity to which he pleaded guilty.
Courey is only %, and his wife the
same age. Both we're in court yester-
day morning. The case was based ON a
seizure of liquor made Saturday night
by three police officers at the Courey
home, Is Battery street. The following
wet goods were found; full cases of
beer, bottles in another case; keg Of
ale; half pints of whiskey; quart of
sherry; | quart OF another kind of wine
not named; | bottle of rum.
Courey represented to the court that
he was working at railroad freight Of
fee here and receiving so per week which
was not enough income for his wants,
so he went TO selling liquor as side
issue. He had been engaged in the
liquor traffic for about six weeks. The
states attorney recommended that the
man pay the costs OF seizure and be
sentenced to the county Jail for six
months with the understanding that he
quit the liquor business. He and his
wife promised to do so. Meanwhile the
Young wife and baby will 90 to live with
Mrs. Courev's father
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

That an entire regiment OF state MI
Iitia was able to mobilize in three hours
and So minutes after the call had been
delivered in the several towns and cities
having companies in the regiment Is
proof that the citizen soldiery OF the
nation is fairly efficient. 1t was the "a
regiment of Massachusetts, which was
able to do this performance last Sunday
morning, a total of 81 per cent OF the
entire enrolment participating and mo-
bilizing at Springfield. The companies
came from a wide area and the men
were caught by the militia call" in va
rious predicaments which would be like
ly to hinder quick response to the call;
yet they assembled in their company
headquarters with marked CELEBRITY and
from there proceeded to the mobllizing
point in rapid manner. The result must
have been reassuring to the officers OF
the regiment who were anxious to know
what stage of discipline the companies
had attained. A four-hour limit-less
two minutes--was fast enough for all
practical purposes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
How Churches Can Unite.

"There are good reasons, humanity
speaking, why Christians should worship
in separate groups with different Gus
toms and different atmospheres.
"But there is no reason why Christians
should not work together in the commu-
nifty.
"This is the kind of church unity that
propose TO urge. Not the unity of
Christendom, not unity of creed, or unity
of worship, or unity of government; but
unity of work for the community in
your town. That kind of church unity
we can begin to have here and now.
"How often does it happen, when any
big problem of life is under considera-
ton, that il occurs to anyone to suggest
that the church will look after that,
or that the church's influence will be
exerted on the right side of that ques-
ton? The influence of the church, mind
YOU, not the influence of the churches.
Why? Why is not the church a great
united force that is felt on the right
side of every moral question that con-
fronts the community
"Why should not the churches get
together in work for the community, to
the end that the church may become
a power for good, united, active, and
militant, in the community i"-Harold j.
Rowland in Suburban Life-The Coun-
tryside Magazine for November.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
Pilgrims of Peace.

Both before and since the Pilgrim
Fathers there have been pilgrims of
many kinds, including those who called
themselves pilgrims OF religion, pill
grims of grace and pilgrims of love;
but it is no disparagement to say that
none OF them engaged in more benef-
cent work than that which now occu-
pies the attention of the Pilgrim So
cieties in the United States and the
United Kingdom. They are promoters
of peace and friendship between the two
great English speaking nations. 1t was
the Pilgrims of Great Britain, assembled
in London under the presidency of the
American ambassador to that country,
who gave the notable dinner last week
in honor of Mr. James Bryce, recently
the British ambassador to America. The
Pilgrims of America take their turn this
week. On Friday they will give ban
quet in New York to Sir Cecil Spring
Rice, the new British ambassador to this
country; and Mr., Joseph III. Choate will
most appropriately preside, not only as
being the president of the society, but
as having been our ambassador to
Britain
The very names Of the principals
show that these social courtesies are
well designed to bring together leaders
of thought who see in both countries the
things that make for peace, for unity
of ideal and purpose, and for loyal COM
radeship in the march of civilization. Mr..
Bryce alluded to the Importance of the
relations between the United States and
Canada, and very fittingly Canada is to
be represented at the New York gath
ering by Mr.. Borden, her prime minister.
The century of peace on the 5000 mile
line that invisibly divides the two coun-
tries is an object lesson for all the world,
and our present day pilgrims would ex-
tend it to a millennium. Our ambassa-
dor. DIR. Walter Hines Page, is ably pro
noting international friendship at all
the many assemblages where he is an
honored guest; and we may be sure
that Sir Cecil Spring Rice, with his
health now happily restored, will do no
less.-Boston Herald.