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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
NapoIeon's Pen.Wiper.

According to the biographers OF
Napoleon, his breeches were always
of white cashmere. 1t often happened
that two hours after leaving his cham
Der the breaches were spotted with ink
by reason of the Corsican's habit OF
wiping his pen on them and of shak-
ing ink all around him. 1t was a favor
lite trick OF his to strike his pen
against the edge OF a table and, OF
course, the breeches suffered.
Furthermore, it appears that, how
ever the great man dressed in the
morning. that was his dress for the
whole day, since he would not change
his toilet until nightfall. The inside
Of his boots was lined with white fus.
tan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
5Wisdom From Thomas.

The thoughtful look on young Thorn
as face betrayed that he had a few
questions to ask. As soon as Mrs.
Boardman had gone, he asked them.
Mother" said he, do you like to
kiss Mrs. Boardman?" ,
mo, dear"
"Do you think Mrs. Boardman likes
to kiss you?"
II don't think she does"
"Then why do you and she always
kiss when you meet?".
II don't know, dear"
Don't. O think Mrs. Boardman
would rather you didn't kiss herr"
II have no doubt Of It."
wouldn't you rather Mrs. Board
man didn't kiss you?"
ooh, very much rather"
"Then," said young Thomas, con-
clusively, that must be why"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
OUR FOREIGN TRADE BOOMING.

The men who went about the coun-
try croaking about our foreign COM
merce under the new tariff will soon
have reason to go away back and
hide themselves. With the trade Of
Germany and Austria almost entirely
cut Off, American exports for the
last week in, October were the great
est since March. Compared with last
year, the total was up $4,000, 900.
Some startling items are shown in
a review of a longer period. Wheat
exports for three months ending Sep
TENDER 80 were the largest on record.
In September we sent $500, 900 bush
els to Canada; and the exports of
refined sugar were thirteen times as
great as last year, Of corn twice as
great, of oats thirty-four times, Of
rice seven times. Cotton exports
will soon be almost normal, going
even to Germany by way Of Italy.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
MANS TIME OF CIRCULATION
Writer Who Evidently Has Had Elk.
~perience Tells Of the Joys Of
Cleaning a Furnace.

A furnace is an ingenious and fiend-
ish device used for heating purposes.
1t is an asbestos.covered boiler en-
tirely surrounded by pipes, and stu
ated in the darkest corner Of the eel
lar. The idea of the man who puts 1t
in seems to be that a convenient light
in the vicinity of a furnace would be
Detroit Free Press. In that we be-
lieve he is right. Further a furnace Is
a device that has a hogs fondness for
dirt and a health crank's mania for
cleanliness. It won't heat II it is dirty,
and it won't help to keep itself clean.
Consequently the poor brute known as
husband Of the home must be attend.
ant, masseur and rubber to the fur.
mace as we'll. And these duties he
must perform regularly in the dark or
aided merely by the faint glow Of an
eight-candle power lamp that has only
one candle power left. To clean a fur.
mace a man must divest himself Of all
raiment that he eve expects to wear
above ground. Then with an iron
brush he must attack the innermost
yitals of the apparatus; cropping hither
and thither, now humping his head on
the steel upper jaw Of the open mouth,
now scraping his knuckles on the
lower jaw. Suddenly he is in the
dark! The light has gone out! No, It
is merely q cloud of dust that he failed
to inhale quick enough to prevent it's
o%bliterating the eight-candle power
lamp altogether. At last with the
dust in his lungs, hair, eyes, ears, nose
and vest pockets he staggers upstairs,
only to have the partner Of his joys
and sorrows exclaim: 1T seems to
me you could clean that furnace with
out scattering dirt all through the
house." ~ I
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Japan's Paper Undertaking.

The Japanese r now making I'M
derclothing Of finely crisped or grained
paper, the New York Weekly states.
After the paper has been cut to a
pattern, the different parts are sewn
together and hemmed, and the places
where the buttonholes r to be
formed are strengthened with calico
or linen. The paper is very strong
and at the same time very flexible.
After a garment has been worn a few
hours it will interfere with the per-
spiration of the body no more than do
garments made of cotton fabric.
The paper is not sized, nor Is 1t i'm
permeable. After becoming wet the
paper is difficult to tear. When an en-
deavor is made to tear it by hand 1t
presents almost as much resistance
as the thick skin used for making
gloves.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Audiences With Sovereigns.

The right Of subjects laboring under
a grievance to claim a personal audi
ence with their sovereign is fully rec
ognized in a far less democratic coun-
try than ours. Ever since his acces-
sion the Emperor Francis Joseph was
accustomed to set apart one day q
week on which he personally received
petitions. Although Ire was taken to
exclude those seeking to gain admis-
sion on purely frivolous p%retexts, there
was but little Formally on those days.
Persons of all classes-ranging from
a peasant wronged by his landlord to
a highly placed official who had been
unjustly passed over for promotion.
might be seen standing together in the
audience chamber, and to each and all
the emperor endeavored to do Justice.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
RooSEVELT'S NIGHTMARE.

Theodore Roosevelt has taken ex.
IRENE measures to restore himself
to first page, top of the column, read
ing matter, from which position he
had been rudely shaken by the hurry
burly of war news and Of election
forecasts Of which he is becoming
less a factor. - '..r ~,
Roosevelt told his audience at
Princeton that he had seen plans
that were made by two nations now
at war to seize New York City and
san Francisco and demand a huge
ransom from the United States.
It would be interesting to know
when, where and under what condi-
tions Roosevelt was allowed this
inspection. He proclaimed his belief
that such a thing could be done, as
serts that he saw the plans, knew
the hostile act was on foot against
the United States and failed to make
known then as he refuses to make
known now the countries guilty Of
the plot. + re- 49,
There are but four countries engag-
led in war that could, even if hostil-
Titles existed, have the most remote
hope Of carrying such a campaign
to a successful conclusion. They are
tGreat Britain, Germany, Japan and
France. Roosevelt has been guilty
Of the grave improperly Of accusing
some two of, these and has taken the
action apparently with the deliberate
Intention Of embarrassing President
| Wilson in his work for honest-mlnd-
ed. clean.handed neutrality. f.
Few people will believe that Roos-
e'vgelt ever saw such plans. If by
any chance they had been considered
no war office is SO loose in Its
methods as to allow the knowledge
to get beyond the responsible, heads.
AS a sheer invention, totally un-
worthy of an American who has been
highly honored by his fellow citizens,
the utterance stamps Roosevelt as
the most reckless and unreliable In
dividual prominently before. the pub
lie. Whatever his motive may have
been, except to achieve notoriety, 1t
would not be strange if the embas-
sizes Of the great powers at Wash
ington should issue individual and
collective denials and demand OF
Roosevelt that he make proper apol-
ogy or produce the proof Of his wild
" sensational assertion Cedar
Rapids Gazette. - a.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Evolution In Professions.

George II in 1745 spilled the beans
for the surgery-barbery corporation.
Several obnoxious individuals who
had been doing surgical operations in
competition with the BARRIERS did some
new stunts with the surgeons knife
and got Georges ear. They knocked
the BARRIERS work, said their opera
lions for the removal of corns were
crude stun, and that George ought to
get hep to himself and start a new
profession OF surgery in distinction to
barbery. George fell for 1t and dis
solved the combination. The surgeons
got 1t back on them for being SO
fresh not so many years afterward,
when. fellows calling themselves CHR
opodists sprang into existence and
declared that no man should have his
corns removed by anybody except e1-
perts at the business.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
ALL BELONG TO ARYAN RACE
Many Peoples Of tho Present Day
Trace Their Origin to That
Group Of Humanity.

All the people who speak English,
German, Russian, French, Spanish,
Italian. Welsh, Erse or Irish, Scotch
of Gaelic, and some OF the Asiatic Ian
guages, trace their origin back to the
old Aryan race, says an exchange. 1t
used to be thought that the Aryans
came from some point In Asia several
thousands Of years ago. But now GER
tain people claim that their home was
in the southern steppes Of Russia;
and that the Indian and Persian
branch went toward the east. the
Slavs and Teutons into the German
forests, and the Greeks toward
Greece; while the forefathers of the
Celts and Romans followed the Dam
ube river into Italy and Gaul. We
know that all these peoples are re-
lated from many words that have the
same root, We can tell by words
even now in use, when the peoples
dwelt together, when they separated,
one group from another, and some
thing about their daily habits and
lives. For instances, we know that
the Aryans travelled in carts drawn
by cattle, because u words wheel"
axle" yoke and wagon" all come
from Aryan root words. We know
that at n time they were pastoral
people. depending mainly on their
flocks and herds, because u words
"ewe," "wether." wool" cow" COX"
steer and herd" come from Aryan
words. Other words tell us that they
were . nomadic people, migrating &C
cording to the season to obtain pastur-
age. =
It is q curious thought, that seems
to have occurred to no one, that many
OF the Aryan peoples are coming to-
gether again in the United States, for
the first time since their separation
thousands of years back. 1t will take
centuries for their amalgamation in
what has been called the melting
pot;"" but doubtless the homologous
people thus descended will be the
greatest people in the world.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
EIater Fire.FIy,

Another remarkable insect found IN
Mexico is the Elater freely, which the
Indians 8 al miniature torches. The
men fasten them to their ankles in
going through the forest, and the wome
OF wear them In their hair under .
thin gauze veil. Tiny little cages are
constructed in which three Dr. four are
kept for lighting purposes. The in.
sects congregate by the thousands in
many forest trees and, as II by pre-.
concerted agreement. simultaneously
flash their lights, then .darken them
and fash them again.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Ireland's Stirring Song.

. The origin of the unofficial anthem
Of Ireland, est. Patrick's Day in the
Morning., is most obscure. The ar
Hest known copy appears in Ruther-
ford's Country Dances.r published in
1749, but it is said to have been played
by the Irish pipers at the battle OF
Fontenoy in 1745, and was probably
current for some time before this. The
tune is found attached to various roll
licking old English songs. The Cum
berland song Of faithless Barbery
Bell, whose lover vows to wear a red
coat for her sake, is sung to a version
of "St. Patrick's Day." the words Bar
barry Bells my darling" being substi-
tuted in the chorus for "Patrick's day
in the morning"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
E,owerlno Plant. Above .snow.LIne.

fioWeVIU0 F'A"tS ~oSSo o''SVe'"o'
Investigations by Herr o Klebels-
berg in the Tyrolese Alps have re-
vealed the existence in that region
of no less than Sc species Of flower
ing plants above the snow limit, and
of these Sc were found some three
hundred feet above the snow.line,
while six occurred over fifteen hun
bred feet above. The highest species
Of all, the glacial Ranunculus, was met
with at over twelve thousand feet
above the sea level on the Gross
glockner. In another part of the Alps,
VIZ, on the Fnsteraarhorn, Mt has
been found at nearly 1890 feet, the
greatest height attained by a -vascu-
lar plant in tho Alps.-scientihc
American.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Stage Money.

1t has been observed that stage
money must sometimes figure in the
salaries that stage performers receive.
In a breach of promise case, recently
tried 1T New York, it was shown that
an actress who was understood to be
receiving $1,000 a week, was actually
getting $500, out Of which $50 was de-
Quoted for booking and press agent
fees. Still, as the press agent was CIV
ing her a salary Of $1,000, she could
hardly have b%egrudged the money she
paid him.-Springf1eld Republican.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
They Were Connoisseurs.

Many years ago, on our return from
a wedding, we found the house rifled.
Mother had put out furs, her wedding
gown, and other things to air before
storing them. These were gone; the
solid silver also, and the plate broken.
The burglars had ransacked the ice
box and fixed themselves an elaborate
spread. Upon the table was an empt:!
cigar box, and in it on a strip Of pa
per was scrawled: THE grub WIS
fine, but, Fatty, your cigars are rot
ten. Do better next time"
/ AS my father was a corpulent man,
they evidently knew their unwilling
host.-Chicago Tribuue.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
The Wicked b

The wicked Bible" was the name
given to an edition Of the authorized
scriptures, printed in London in 1881,
by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas.
1t was 80 named from the fact that
the negative was left out of the Sew
enth Commandment, q piece OF care.
lessness for which the printer was
made to pay . nne Of 5000 pounds
sterling. 81
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Baccarat.

Baccarat, the little town in the de-
partment of Meurthe and ~arrondisse-
ment of Luneville, France, has appar-
emily no connection with "Baccarat,
Bad Luck and Bankruptcy" though it
is not clear how it acquired it's name.
The card game, it is said, was i'm
ported into France by the soldiers Of
Charles VIII from Italy, where it was
called Baccara. Ouida uses this spell.
ing in Wanda" when she says: "You
may not steal, you may beggar your
neighbor at Baccara."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04

tionality and the power Of discipline.
One thing is sure. No nation except
Servia risks in the war so much as
the Turk, and the Turk risks it with
out excuse. Whatever happens there
will still be a France, an England, a
Germany, a Russia. It is not certain
now that there will be a Turkey
New York World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Why She Stopped Talking.

A very talkattve little girl, who had
been chattering away like a maybe
all morning, suddenly became silent
when a lady, dressed in the extreme
of the fashion, called on her mother.
Wishing to be amiable, the visitor
said to the chatterbox: Have you
lost your tongue, my dear?" oh.
no, ma'am," was the reply; only my
breath"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
WEDNESDAY, NOV. A. 1914
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUFFERS
@ PROPHECY"

Doctor Butler is at the present
time president Of Columbia Univer-
sity, and he is giving u%tterance to
some remarkable interviews which
are in the nature Of prophesies as
to what will happen in Europe in
the naar future. d
The writer has personally, discussed
world wide conditions with this IL
lustrious scholar and diplomat, and
personally knows that he is an Ill
ira conservative. With all his
learning and experience he is, or
rather has been, continually looking
backward. Wilson and Bryan tried
without success to have him turn
around and face the future and use
his great abilities in helping to
solve its problems.
Probably no man in this country is
as closely in touch with the states
men and rulers Of Europe as DR.. But
Ter. In a recent newspaper inter-
view he said, that he had received
long letters from Lord Haldane,
Lord Morley, Lord Weardale, Lord
Bryce, Professor Schiemann of Der
lin, who is one Of the emperor's most
intimate advisors, Professor Lam
asch of Austria, who is a member Of
the Austrian house of peers, M. Ro-
bot, minister OF finance for France,
and M. d'Estournelles de Constant.
Here is one Of the Doctors strik-
ing statements:
The cataclysm is SO awful that it
is quite within the bounds of truth
to say that on July 81 the curtain
went down upon a world which new
er will be seen again."
But perhaps the most significant
--=-.|Es a#HErfF N..'f.-.- EsrrRsIH rtr| F't4
conclusion preached by this dis
tinguished Scholar, who is so close
to the confidential ministers Of
Europe, is this: N
If our fathers had attempted to
organize this country upon the basis
of a single, closely unified state it
would have gone to smash almost
at the outset, wrecked by clashing
economic and personal interests. In
deed, this nearly happened In the
civil war, which was more economic
than political in its origin.
"But, though we had our difficult
ties, we did find a way to make q
unified nation OF a hundred million
people and forty-eight common.
wealths, all bound together in unity
and loyalty to a common political
purpose.
.Just as certainly as we sit here
this must and will be the future Of
Europe. There will be a federation
into the United States of Europe"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
TURKEY AND THE WAR.

Turkey is the tenth nation in the
great WARMTH Portugal, the eleven
tn. Her act widens the vast field
OF desolation, and if Germany IS de
feated it will mean the last of the
Ottoman Empire in Europe, and per.
haps the, complete extinguishment Of
that empire.
In the order named, Greece, Rou-
mania, Italy and Bulgaria are invit-
ed to the fray by Turkey Greece
has a. cause of war in, Albania, in
the disputed Aegean Islands, in the
Asia Minor outrages upon Greeks.
Roumania, the richest and strongest
Balkan state, may at Russia's inv1-
tation invade Roumanian-speaking
Pennsylvania. Italy, which has held
some islands in pawn because Turk
ish officers aided the Tripoli tribe af-
ter peace was signed, cannot endure
a Turkish reoccupation of Egypt
part Of the bait held out to- Turkey
by Berlin. Turkeys action, therefore;
may strain to the breaking point the
neutral purpose of the Roman Cabi-
net. .l.t
Without a fleet that can come out
Of Dardanelles, Turkey cannot attack
Greece or Roumania except across
Burgaria. 1t is commonly thought
that Bulgaria must aid Turkey against
Servia ant Greece. But Balkan states
men are practical men; Bulgaria is
quite capable of postponing her re-
venge upon her neighbors if convinc-
ed that bigger scraps Of broken meat
will fall from the table of the al
lies. The Balkan alliance might be
reformed; the allies have left no ef-
fort in that direction untried. If Aus
tria-Hungary can be overrun, the
new readjustment that would be p4s-
sible might be enough to induce Ser
via and Roumania to give back the
territory they took from Bulgaria IN
the second Balkan a
Even If Bulgaria sides with Turk
ey, the land forces on the German
side would only cancel out against
Italy and Roumania. If Bulgaria goes
with the allies, the balance of added
strength will be heavily the other
way and may endanger the very ex-
istence Of Austria Hungary as a
great power. Why, then, has Germany
enticed her ally into the war!
No answer is possible except that
the plump and amiable Mohammed V.
is commander Of the Faithful. Hard
beset on both her frontiers, Ger
many in her desperation urges a
Moslem holy war in the East, and
especially in Egypt and India. She
may be disappointed. With Beers in
the British cause putting down
Boer rebellion; with Irish National
lists by thousands on the Belgian
side; with Catholics fighting Cath
olics, and Greek Churchmen fighting
Greek churchmen; with Slavs fighting
Slavs, and East Indians in France AID
ing the conquerors of India, whose
physical touch would profane their
very food, this war reveals race and
religion as slender reeds to lean up
on. compared with the habit ct ma
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Where ener Pipes Are Made.

The brier-pipe industry Of France IL,
for all practical purposes, centered In
the little town of st. Claude, in the
department Of Jura, where not only
pipes, but cigarette and cigar holders
and other kindred necessities Of the
smoking world are manufactured.
The sources Of supply from which the
brier roots are obtainable are, in order
of Importance, Sicily, Calabria, Cor
sica and Algeria.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
Relic of Lincoln.

The chain used by Abraham Lncoll
to survey the boundary line Of Ar
kansas was exhibited In the window
Of q hardware store in HouIton, Ne.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

In the District Court of Iowa in and
for Delaware County, December
Term, 1914. ,
Frank w. Schemmel, Plaintiff,
W.
The Unknown Claimants of that
tract Of real estate described as
the Northeast quarter OF the north
west quarter OF Section twenty
six (26), Township eighty nine 1897
north, Range three 90 West of
the Fifth Principal Meridian; Julia
A. Hyler. Katherine Kropfel,
George Krapfl, Michael steckhern,
Michael Steckel, Paulus Steger,
Mathew Steger, Margaret Steger,
Henrick Neggeleng, Johnnes Night
man. Frank Nachtmann; The I'M
known heirs at law, personal rep
r~esentatives. surviving spouses,
judgment creditors, devisees, gran;
tees, successors in interest, and
claimants against the estates Of
each and every n OF the per
sons in this caption and title nam
ed or referred to, Defendants.
To each and every one of the
foregoing Defendants: You and
each of you are hereby notified that
there is now on file in the office Of
the Clerk OF the District Court Of
Iowa, the petition OF Frank w.
Schemmel alleging hat he is the alb
solute and unqualified owner in fee
simple o. that real estate described
as the northeast quarter of the
northwest quarter of Section twenty
six (26), township eighty nine (S9)
north, Range three 80 West Of the
Fifth Principal Meridian, lying in
Delaware County, Iowa. That said
plaintiff and his grantors have been
in the adverse possession Of the real
estate above described for more than
ten years last past. That said pos
session has been actual, open, motor
ious, continuous, exclusive, under
color of title and claim of right and
hostile to the defendants and to each
of them and all the world. Plaintiff
his said petition asks judgment
and decree Of Court finding that
plaintiff is the absolute owner in
fee simple of al Of said real estate
hereinbefore described and that
plaintiffs title thereto be quoted
and established in him, and that the
defendants and each and every one
of them and all persons claiming by,
through or under them, Or any OF
them, be barred and forever estop-
ped from having or claiming any
right, title or ainterest of any kind
whatsoever In or to said real estate,
any part thereof, adverse to plain
tiff, and for such further relief as
the Court may deem equitable In the
premises.
You are further notified that I'M
less you appear thereto and defend
on or before noon of the second day
Of the December A. D. 1914 term OF
said Court, which will commence ana
be held at Manchester, Delaware
County, Iowa, on Monday, the TIN
day of December, 1914, default will
be entered against you and judgment
and decree rendered as prayed.
Dated this 3rd day Of November
1914.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE

PRESIDENT ~
4 have but nj message to con-
vey to New York. It is this: An
American citizen should never vote
as a s%ectarian, but always as an
American citizen. Say this for me- .
WOODROW WILSON.