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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04

mors of the gum trust. The whole
town was fearful that the great Jones
factory might be sold to it and closed.
After am gone they will endeavor
to secure our factory and business"
Abner Jones went on. II shall never
let them have It., You must never let
them have It. OF your pride in the
Jones gum 5x
TITS surely been q handsome little
money maker" Broadway granted.
81 do not like your language" said
his uncle, "but the meaning OF your
words Is accurate enough. It has made
money. It still continues to make
money-as an independent gum. tt"
~ Broadway was getting ndgetty. The
spotswoods were waiting supper for
him. Mrs. spotswood was q plump
and cheerful housewife, who dotted on
the recipes he brought back from New
York upon the rare occasions when his
uncle let him go there. q
1T would make more, uncle, wouldn't
It, IL it lost its independence" he in.
quired.
"The plan OF the trust is to take it
from the market. They have not
thought Of continuing it as an indi-
tvidual product. They merely wish to
eliminate 1t utterly. This would free
their other products Of Its competi-
ton 5.55 ..1 si
! .Did some one Of them chew it,"
his nephew inquired earnestly.
Jackson, you should be ashamed!
They merely wish to take it from the
market 50 that it no longer will affect
their" Ss
Eyes, i've heard" He had-a thou
sand times. (.
THAT is the reason am anxious
that you. should begin to show some
vital interest in our splendid enter
prise. It must be protected at all haz-
ards. It should be the pride, as it has
been the fortune, Of the Jones family"
i Honest, uncle, I don't believe I
know enough to go into the business.
Aren't you afraid that 1t would spoil
the sale Of the gum If anybody should
find out helped to make It? That
worries me. The gum must be pro-
tected. II leave it toyou. uncle. II
jackson, you are frivolous, You
are tremendous disappointment to
me. You"
4 Il don't want to be disappointment.
but I'd almost rather be disappoint-
ment than gum.maker. I'd"
"Go!". said his uncle angrily. II
But jackson did not hear the re-
mainder of the sentence He had
needed its first word
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
HAD KEEN EYE FOR BUSINESS
Theatrical Manager Was Not Going to
Let Any Money Get Away
If From Him.

Soon after the theaters opened .
cowboy came up from the stock yards
and purchased q ticket for matinee
performance. The cowboy was coat
less and when he presented his ticket
at the main door the officer there told
him that it was against the rules to
allow coatless man to sit In the
parquet. He was referred to the box
Office. At the latter place he ex-
planned his predicament and said he
supposed he would have to cash his
ticket and 60 elsewhere. The mana.
ger overheard the conversation and
began an inquiry.
Where is your coat!" asked the
manager. l-.t ssaa rs y
Down to the stock yards" said
the cowboy. II
The manager tweedle-tummed for =
moment. The audience waS very
small and he hated to see any money
refunded.
"step into my once for = moment"
said the manager.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
.PLUTARCH ON THE SLIT SKIRT
Garment 10 Described AZ Being In
Vogue In Times Of Lyeursus i
a the Law Giver.

we must reread Plutarch. We must
reread some Of the other so-called
classics-and not for antiquity's sake.
either. Thomas Owen OF Topeka In
forms US that we are centuries out In
saving the slit skirt is only 1900 years
old. Speaking of Lycurgus the Law
siver and his times, Plutarch relates
ESQ writes MI. Owen:
sThe skirts Of the habit which tho
virgins wore were not sewed to the
bottom, but opened at the sides as they
walked, and discovered the thigh, a.
leophocles very plainly write:
i. SIN in the light dress struts Her
mione.
whose opening folds display the naked
thigh :.
I This passage Of Plutarch il well
worth looking up for more than details
,of costume 800 or 900 years before
the Christian era, says q writer in Col
ilier's Weekly. You may read there Of
the. complaint made that women in
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
Emigration From Scotland. :

Emigration From Scotland. ~
The tide of emigration continues un.
abated. Thousands every week con.
tinue to leave London. Liverpool and
Glasgow for Canada and Australia.
There IL every indication that the year
1913 will beat every record In the re-
cent history Of emigration, and that
before the end of the year 300.0O0 will
have left these shores. And what IL
even more ominous than the quantity
Of the emigration IL its quality. It In
the young men, the enterprising and
the energetic that are leaving. It In
the old men, the women and children
that are left behind. Some of the most
beautiful districts Of Scotland are be.
ing depleted. Whole cities. like the
old country town Of Jedburgh. are left
desolate, and houses are crumblins
even in the main strsets.-keudoa Nv
eryman. gfs I.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
Got Even with Deputy.

A deputy Of the Italian parliament
recently lost his shirt in sleeping
compartment while on q railway jour
ney. He wrote an indignant letter to
the directors of the line, IN which
he said: 1T is shameful that the rail-
way servants, for whom SO much has
been done by members OF parliament,
should dare to appropriate the belong.
ings Of passengers" A few days after
this protest he received a letter signed
by zoo railway employees and enclos-'
ing q postal order for $1.50. which, the
letter said, was the result of small
collection, and which the railway men
hoped would enable him to buy an
other shirt. Es a'.}
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
Imagination.

An obsolete form of power. at one
time used in making countries, religion
and literature, but now superseded by
the higher psychology. In former
times imagination was employed by
children In playing games, and in the
making of mud pies out Of mud ana
real soldiers out Of wood. It Is the
father of many dead heroes, among
whom may be mentioned Theseus.
Jack the Giant Killer. King Arthur.
Caliban. Robinson Crusoe and Santa
Claus. It is still discovered in the
extremely young. At one time, when
man was crude. imagination was
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04

those times were too bold, too mascu-
line, to prone to make themselves mis-
tresses Of the houses they inhabited:
and even they wanted . share in the
affairs Of state" Aristophanes satir-
lied feminism in comedy that II
now % centuries old-and still acted!
If you have time to do only timely"
reading, you would better cut out the
periodicals and read the Greeks. To
them we owe (wrote Wilde) whatever
is modern in our life'-including the
slit skirt.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
IN OPEN PATHS OF LIFE
Woods Contain Many Homes 2of Much
Interest, Where Live the Little
q 80. 81 Wild Folk. - 81

Sometimes when the eternal strug.
gle between the two human impulses
to- go, to stay, leaves the former tri-
umphant, fling forth. impatient Of the
limitations of my own threshold, q
writer In Scribner's says. Though the
little white house with the dropping
roof looks the embodiment of home
and of sheltering peace, for the time
| will none of it, being breathless for
knowledge of how life has Jared with
others. ai .. .-, =, 's[55ga \ ~ ~
Lingering along the open road, I
read much Of the experience of my
neighbors, human and other. written
on their doorways. The bank swal-
lows with their fascinating thresholds
In the sand cliff near by; the orioles,
with their safe, high thresholds Of silk
en- thread; the squirrel whose doorway
Is a. hole in a decayed chestnut; the
woodchuck, into whose house almost
stepped, unlimited, are Of undying In
terest. E .-...H
I know an old frog who lives down
by a bend in the river, philosopher,
a friendly Diogenes, grooming and
booming from his damp and charming
residence, sheltered by reeds and lily
pads. His surprised and scolding pro-
test the other night when canoe, Gid
ing too near, violated the sanctity OF
his watery threshold, reused sympathy
of full understanding in me. We are
not SO far as we think from the stages
OF unobtrusive life that go on in mead
ow and wayside. The wood near W
is one great threshold of innumerable
homes and suggest hundred points
of contact with our own; through the
silepces bright, brave eyes watch the
intruder from beyond the guarded
doorways. I feel my pride In house
building put to shame by these little
houses, often stronghold and larder
in one, hidden with wise cunning and
showing tender and secret wisdom
shut from me-. sss {,as 80 a.r. ats
l like to watch people. too, at their
doorways; the white headed carpen-
ter, who sits on the front step OF his
little brown house by the aqueduct;
the bent old woman at the edge OF the
wood who banks her tiny habitation
with leaves when winter comes her
way; the "spinsters and the knitters
in the sum-" on their old-fashioned
porches in the old-fashioned villages
near by. From all the walks and ways
Of life what knowledge have these folk
brought home; word. or look, or ges-.
ture, may perhaps bring some frag-
ment of their hard won wisdom to ms
~ pass. ,. l, +
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
DR.. JACOB RIESSER

In the overthrow Of the conserva-
tive party in Germany at the last cleo
lions for the reichstag, two years ago.
some saw only socialist victory.
Others who had been studying polite
al and economic conditions in the en-
pire for the few years preceding
greeted the result rs an antiquarian
triumph.
In addition to the great number Of
seats won by the socialists. ffty-eisht
candidates who were avowedly or
known to be agrarians In their SYM
pathies were defeated. not because Of
the increased popularity OF socialist
doctrines. but by reason, Of the spread
of revolt against agrarian domination
of politics in the empire and the or.
ganixed campaign against the big
landowners and what they stood for.
waged for little more than two years
by the Hansa league.
The credit for the defeat of the
agrarians ID largely due to Prof. ia
cob Riesser, the well-known German
expert on banking and finance. DR..
league, the organization which was forl
Otherwise he is privy councillor of jus
sity Of Berlin, and the author of man!
merce. He has been practical bar
many commercial laws or the revisiont
legal and financial associations.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
CHAPTER I.

Back of the massed ed.brick and
clapboard buildings forming. In Jones'
vile, Conn, the extensive group de-
voted to the manufacture of Jones'
Pepsia Gum, was the abandoned power
house, wherein we're housed the water
wheels which once had furnished force
\ to drive the factory's machinery. The
streams diminishing flow. the in
creased needs of the business. and the
economy Of steam all had initiated to-
ward Industrial abandonment Of the
old building. $50
Small boys never fished there, for
the sluice-waters were too swift. loaf.
ers never idled there, for the watch
men OF the mills were too strict in
their guardianship; but lovers some
times wandered there, Of moonlight
nights; and in the afternoons, when
y the academy sessions had ended,
4. Broadway" really named Jackson
Jones, but nicknamed Broadway" be-
cause of his continual glorifcation OF
New York's great thoroughfare, which
he had seen upon occasion. sometimes
went there "to get away from Jones'
VILE" This afternoon he was to teach
two Jonesville girl friends new dance
steps which he had learned in New
York city. Later, dancing these with
him at the Odd Fellows ball. they
would confound all other girls in
FJonesville.
5Spotswood was the daughter OF the To-
cal Judge, Josie Richards the daughter
OF a recent manager of the gum fac
tory. Her father was now laid up with
rheumatism, and Josie was In training
for a tbookkeeper's post in the great
enterprise which swallowed most Of
Jonesville's youth Of either sex, as
soon as they left school:
i 1. Nov this step. girls" Broadway
said in preface, was invented on
Broadway for use upon Broadway by
Broadway people. Don't mistake It for
"a quiet nap. It's not a sleep-dance. It
was not dreamed out in Jonesville. :" ~
E""And was everybody dancing it?"
asked Josie. e tSa
;5 Every girl saw" he answered. He
had been telling of ball he, had at
tended in New York, but not quite all
he might have told about 1t. EVERY
one saw, but one."
And was she dancing old style 2"
NO; she was being carried to an
ambulance. She had just sprained an
ankle, f,
'Oh, jackson, you're too funny!"%;S
Thanks for those kind words" He
watched them whirl together for q
moment. No: not quite that way,
Clara, Don't give a Broadway step a
Jonesville twist; you want to give a
Jonesville step q Broadway polish. !"
Breathless they stopped their eff
forts. "Oh, you and your Broadway!
You're always talking about Broad
way! ...3, NJ. !, n I. < ..5@ 81
Clara said Jackson very seriously,
shave you ever seen Broadway? M
You know haven't"
e :.,15''.tWell, II you had, you'd never see
another. place you thought worth see
ing" s5S..
Oh, you and your Broadway" Josie
Richards was an extremely pretty girl.
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The manager and the cowboy were
gone for minute. Presently the cow
boy emerged from the private Office.
He wore neat black alpaca coat. He
presented his ticket at the door and
was promptly admitted.
The manager, who was quite warm.
anyway, had lent the cowboy his own
coat. and saved q dollar.-Kansas City
Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
ADMIRAL WATTS VIEW OF NAVY

"ships we are going to build in the
future will have even deeper drafts
than thirty feet. and the depth OF
prominent harbors in the United
States should be- at least thirty.fve
feet" said Rear Admiral Watt. chief
Of the naval bureau of construction
and repair, In a statement to the
house naval affairs committee.
Admiral Watt was advocating ..
provision in the naval appropriation
bill, which the committee soon will
report to the house. to authorize .
contract for use by the navy Of private
dry docks 1T Hunters point. San Fran
cisco. ii
Admiral Watt urged that this action
was imperative. With the opening
OF the Panama canal" he explained.
1T is probable that our principal feet
will have periods of duty on the west
coast. .;S
This provision would permit tho
docking Of the largest ships at Hunt
ers point, instead Of sending them to
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
Dog Gets Leg ICY.

= Z Dr.. r..
Mike, pet dog formerly owned by
Mrs Madalen Hendrickson Of Creed
moor, N. T., has been left legacy
of 500 for his maintenance. and the
fund has been entrusted with
Mike, to Edward Martin of Flushing.
Philip Frank, deputy tax appraiser
for the borough of Queens, doesn't
know whether to levy an Inheritance
tax against Mike or against Mr.. Mar.
tin.
Mike is to have the benefit of the
500 fund during his lifetime, and
Frank doesn't think it quite right that
Mike should beat the tax. The en-.
tire estate IL valued at about $1,000.
Friends Of Mike say that as his be-
quest 10 less than $1,000 1t ought to
be exempted from taxation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04

thought to be serviceable. The notion,
however, along with mythology and
other follies, has long since been ex-
ploded, the greatest efficiency having
been demonstrated to lie along the
lines Of least resistance. which in
cludes among other things. playground
supervision, department store tactics.
child labor. white slavery and curren.
cy reform.-Life.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04

democracy
who
all will
hobby
After the bill supporting passed going to
this build
and that building that this organization that may
the
getting
Re s
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
Not 4 Death From Rabies.

I Not 4 Death From Rabies.
Director Viala Of the Pasteur Insti-
tute at Paris has just published his re-
port for 1912. There were 1876 per-
sons treated who had been bitten by
dogs suspected Of rabies. and there
were no deaths. OF that number
France, as was natural, furnished all
but eighteen. The little duchy Of
Luxembourg sent nine. Morocco three
and Roumania two; Spain, Sweden.
Dahomey and the United States each
sent one.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
Was "saby" No Longer.

Sir Thomas Lawrence was some
what dilatory in his work as portrait
painter. Lord Marlborough having
commissioned him to paint his wife
and little boy, the artist announced
after q couple of s;ttings that he could
finish the picture without troubling
them to come again. Years went on
and no portrait was delivered. Al
length Lord Marlborough called and in
sisted that Lawrence should let him
have It within q month. II admit I've
been : loux TINA" said Sir Thomas.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
On and On.

One Of those dramatic critics in Chi
oago has this to say concerning the
recent performance of q musical COM
edy: Sometimes the rush Of laughter
comes with a kind Of aviation which
teens with contagious strength and
youth, and all the time the delightful
entertaining goes on and on and on
with no cessation or lag" Eyes, and
how did they succeed in stopping it,"
Plain Dealer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04

The fact is 1 find that another sitting
is necessary. II Lady Marlborough
will kindly bring the baby along will
finish the portrait in q week." my,
wife will be happy to give you another
sitting," replied the earl. but the
baby is in the Guards"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
CHAPTER u.

Il should enjoy the supper better"
Broadway said later at the Spotswood
family table. III everything chew,
after I've seen uncle, didn't make me
think Of gum. wish there was q way.
Of eating without chewing
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
TRYING to Explain.

why do so many young men leave
the farm"
WELL replied Farmer Corntossel.
"in most of the cases have observed
It was because they couldn't earn their
salt as farm hands an wasn't fixed to
pay board"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04


them
the
the Pacific will
though dredging being done with
lew o thirty feet" .g
for the Atlantic coast III
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04

will kindly look into my friend keys
inside breast pocket he will find them
there"
A gentleman obliged. and key. ex.
tremely dustered. produced the forks,
to the great delight of, the company.
and Noses.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
Neither Il Has.

DO you think the government has .
monopoly OF the air?" asked the loQua-
cious aeronaut
well, no." replied bis neighbor:
mot Of the hot air
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04

lieu of
among
architecture
citizens
vintage had the enect OF
emnity
American and native Philippine islands are getting
of the topper
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
GOVERNOR HARRISON'S SILK HAT

Former Representative Francis Bur
ton Harrison, the newly appointed.
governor general Of the Philippines, II
already known in that part OF the
world as the man with the hat" and
has been made the object Of q good
deal of fun. It seems that while on
his way to Join his post he gave all
sorts of elaborate directions, by means
of wireless, about his official recep-
ton on his arrival at Manila, and en-
phasized in several OF these communi-
cations that he would wear for the
occasion cutaway coat, and "a high
silk hat" thus indicating that he ex-
pected American and native civilian
dignitaries to be similarly CARRIED.
Now high silk hats are virtually IN:
known in the Philippines, being I'M
suited for the climate, the usual form
Of headgear being pith helmet, such
as is worn by white people IN the.
tropics. In fact, the only use made OF
high silk hats in the Philippines 10
~ rrosent them tn Detty sultanS ana
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
Interesting Fleas.

There are many hundreds of species
and varieties OF fleas, and the flea at.
fords more diverse material for the
collector than does any other living
creature.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-04
INTERESTED in SOCIAL CENTER WORK

Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter OF
the president, Is tremendously inter
ested In the social center movement.
She has joined the Monday Evening
club of this city and is taking an
active interest In the social settlement
work In which that club Is engaged.
Last Monday evening the club held
its meeting in the public library, and
Miss Wilson was In the audience, but
not upon the program They had UNI
der discussion the use of the public
school buildings of Washington as the
social centers, with United States SEN
ators and representatives and several
other public men on the regular pro-
gram. Miss Wilson was not included
among the regular speakers. but when
tho chairman announced that the
meeting was open to general discus
sion Miss Wilson, who was accompa-
MED to the meeting by Mrs. J. Borden
Hartman. frankly expressed her senti-
ments. She said: 4. II
The social center movement in
III hnal analysis is an expression Of
matter how cultured we are, we cannt
get to1ether and get them from each 1
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-06-01
Memorial Day.

Memorial Day was fttingly cele-
brated bv the members of the e.
A. R. and W. R. G. both in the
city and at Andersonville. A large
number of veterans and their
families went to Andersonville
Saturday morning and carried al
most baggage car of flowers to
place on the fifteen thousand
graves in the National cemetary.
Flowers and flags were placed
on the graves of the departed
veterans at the Evergreen cemetary
by committee of the e. A. r.
post and the members of the W.
r. G. of the City. The banks and
Post Office were closed in honor
of the day.
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Largest Class In History
OF Church Confirmed
Right Rev. Bishop F. F,
Reese Officiating.

St. Mathews Episcopal Church
was honored last Sunday by the
presence of Bishop F. F. Reese,
who personally examined the
largest class of communicates
prepared for the occasion by Rev.
Bleker, the resident pastor of the
church. The class consisted of
Mrs. Mertie E. Spiller, Dorothy
Cass, Marguerite E. Spiller, Geo.
T. Tonnet, Eula B. Dickerson,
Eugene C. Snyder, Mrs. Alice
L. Snyder, John Toomer Lyles,
Leila E. Hall and Chas. M. Moore.
A fine sermon by the Right Rev.
F. F. Reese was greatly enjoyed
by the largest attendance ever
present at the church in Fitzger-
aid.