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IQtl)t (Democrat. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. 1. BR0N80N. •. M. OARR. BRONSON & CARR, $ Editor* and Proprietors SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Nearly, in advance 91 50 not paid in advance 9 00 NOTICE.—On the slip of paper upon whloh he name Is printed, appears the date to whloh ihe paper Is paid for, and a renewal Is always respeotfully solicited. The writer's same roust aooompany any artl* le for publication, as an evldenoe of good faith the editors and have prices. 3. E. We must reduce our large stock of Shoes, Boots, Rubbers CUT THE PRICE Manchester, Iowa WE FIT THE FEET Our Business Directory. ATTORNKY8. W. DUVHAM. B. B. 8XILM H. 50BRIB. DUNHAM, NORRIS STILB6. ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND NOTARIES Public. Speoial attention given to Colleo Ions Insuranoe, Real Estate and Loan Agta. Iffloe in Olty Hall Blook. Manchester, la. 0. YORAH. H. P. ARNOLD, M. J, YORAH- YORAN. ARNOLD *YORAN A TTORNEYS AT LAW, and Real Estate *V. Agents. Offloe over Delaware County State Bank, Manchester, Iowa. 0. BFTONBOK. JFI. M, CARR. BRONSON CARR. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Speoial attention given to collections. Oflfoe in Democrat building, Franklin Street, Manchester, Iowa. FRED B. BLAIR. TTORNEY AT LAW. Office In the Olty Hall Blook, Manchester, Iowa. PHY8IOIAN8. A. J. WARD. j, XiUVSlCIAN and SurgcQn, will iHenatffebUr J: promptly at all hours of the day or night, Critmont, Iowa. H. H» LAWRENCE. PHYSICIAN AlfD'SURQEON. Special at A tention glvendlseases of ohildren. Have also made a speoial study of Gyneooologr, Obstetrios, and Reotal Diseases. All ohronlo diseases suooessfully treated with the aid of various Thermal and Massage treatment. All ohronlos. adlloited. Consultation free, Offloe over Work's market. All calls promptly at tended. Resldenoe on Main street, the old Dr. Kelsey property. DENTISTS. O. A. DUNHAM, D. D. 3. rtENTISTS, Offloe over Carhart A Adams' hardware store, Franklin St. Manohester. Iowa. C. W. DORMAN. r\J&NTlST. Offloe on Franklin Street, north of lha Globe Hotel. Manohester, Iowa. Dental Surgery In all its branohes. Makes sequent visits to neighboring towns. Always \t offloe on Saturdays. C. LEIGH. D.D.S. Dentist. Office over Ander a FhUlpp'i Drug Store Corner Main and Franklin streets, ianohester IOWA. Telephone 186 l7tf B. B. NBWOOMB, DENTIST. Office over Clark & Lawrence's store on Franklin street. Grown •ridge work a specialty. Will meet patients at isaayofer-1*— 'arley Wednesday of each week. 82tf VBTBR1NARIAN. DR. J. W. SCOTT, VETERINARY Surgeon, and Dentist. Offloe in H. O. Smith's Drug Store, Main St. At night oan be found at rooms over Ralph Con ger's Store. MANUPAOTURINQ. MANCHESTER MARBLE WORKS 18 prepared to furnish Granite and Marble i. Monuments and Head Stones of various de signs. Have the oounty right for Slpe's Pat ent Grave Cover also dealer In Iron Fenoes. Will meet all oompetltlon. WM. MCINTOSH. THOMAS GIVBN, Oontraotor and builder. Jobs takenln' town oroountry. Estimates furnished. First olass work guaranteed. Prioes reasonable. Shop on Howard street near Franklin, Man ohester, Iowa. 96tf W. N. BOYNTOH. J. F. MCEWBFL. BOYNTON MoEWEN, WATCHMAKERS, D' Jewelers and Engravers dealers in Watohes, Clocks, silver and Plated Ware, Fine Jewelry, Speotaoles, Cutlery, Musloal Instruments, eto., Main street. A. D. BROWN. ealer in furniture etc., and undertaker, Main Street. P. WKRKMR1STER, riENERAL DEALER IN FURNITURE, Oofflns. Ploture Frames, Eto. A oomplete stook of Furniture and Upholstery always hand, at prices that defy competition. Age Hearae kept for attendance at funerals. HUe, Iowa. Manohester, Iowa. BRTSRBD AX THE POBTOFFIC* AT MAKOHBSTBR, IOWA, AS HREAT Clean Swe*v I Sale! SBCONI-CLABS HATTIR. awav below our former low $2.65 buys your choice of all our ladies' $3.00, $3.50 and $4 00 shoes. GRASS FIELD BROS. GEO. S LISTER. 1XARDWARB, STOVES, TINWARE, ETC. M.X. Keeps a first-class tinner and does all kinds of repairing with neatness and dispatch. Store opposite First National Bank, St. THOS. T. CARKEBK. A ROHITEOT AND BUILDING SUPKRIN TENDENT, S. E. Oor. 8th and Main St.. Dubuque, Iowa WM. DENNIS. faction guaranteed. Plans and estimates fur nished. Work taken in town or country. Shop oear the stand tower on West Side of river. E. S. COWLBS. piTY DRAYMAN. Am prepared to do all v. rk In my line. Moving household goods and pianos a specialty. All work will reeelve prompt attention. A share of your patronage Is sollolted. Charges right. Give your draying to a man who has come to stay. CLARK & LAWRENCE. rtRY GOOD8, Notions. Carpets, Gents fur LJ tdebtag goixb1,. etc. Franrjtn street. QUAKER MILL CO. TTTiOUR and Feed, Manufacturers of the oeie •C bra ted White Satin and White Pearl Flour. GRBCtQ WARD. Tkrugglsta and dealers in Paints, Oils, Wall JJ Paper, Stationery A o. Atwater's blook, Franklin street. W. A.ABBOTT. TfcRUGS, Wall paper, Stationery, Paints, Oils -L' etc. City hall blook. PHILIPP FT AN DIRS. Dealers In Drag,, Wall paper. Stationery. Paints, Oils, etc. Corner of Main and Franklin streets. PETER BOARDWAY. Dealer In flour, feed, hay, straw, Maquoketa lime, itucoo and oommon and Atlas cement. Telephone lis. Lower Franklin Street. RACKET STORE. T"\RY GOODS. Clothing, Hats, Caps. Boots, AS Shoes, notions, etc. West side Franklin Streei south of Main. NOBLE ARNOLD. /GROCERIES, Provisions, Fruits, eto. First VJ door north of Delaware County Bank. PETERSON BROS. Dealers in Groceries, Provisions, Crockery, Fruits, etc. Main Street. T. P. MQONBY. (Successor to Lee Bowman.) BLACKSMITHdone good Earl- J.H.ALLEN. /CLOTHING and Gents furnishing goods. Oor ner Main and Franklin streets. L. R. STOUT. /CLOTHING and Gents furnishing goods, city Hall Blook, Franklin Street. KIDDELL A CO., T\RY GOODS. Carpets, Millinery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, eto., Main St., A. THORPE. PROPRIETOR OFJ'KALAMITY'S" PLUN dor Store and Shoes, Notions, eto. ter, IOWA der Store and Dealer In Clothing, Boots* Masonlo Blook, Manohee- GRASSPIELD BROS.. (Successors to Beth, Brown.) "DOOTS AND SHOES of all grades and prioes. custom Work and Repairing given special attention. Store in City Hall Blook. J. J. HAWLBY. InSALER IN HARDWARE, Stoves, Tin H-J ware, eto Manehesterlowv rNSDRE YOUR A and tornadoes jjfosuranoe Co., BRONSON ft CARR, Agents. St cyclones and tornadoes in the old reliable Phoenix A L. 8 BVBRT8QN. IHE ARTI8T1U TAILOR. 8hop in I sonic blook, Manohester Iowa. HOLLISTER LUMBER CO. UMBBR and aU kinds of building materials, Posts and Coal. Corner of Delaware and dleon' streets MANCHESTER LUMBRR CO. and Wasonmaker, Delhi, Iowa. Work promptly and In a work manlike manner. Charges reasonable. Your patronage solicited. istf C. E. PRATT.. PAINTINGto AND PAPER HANGING. I prepared do paper hanging andpalnti on snort notice, In town or country, will gl estimates on all work In my line. Leave ora at H. C. Smith's drug store U. M. PBARSE. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND COLLBCT tf OR. All business entrusted to him given prompt attention. Office In City Hall mock, second floor. The Be9t Offer Of The YeAr is that made by Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, juBtly termed "the monarch of the 10 cent magazines." For a limit ed period, this famous and popular magazine, now $1.00 a year, will send free with each yearly subscription, the beautiful "Little Sweethearts" Calen dar. This calendar is in six groups of water-color designs by Frances Brund age, the famous painter of children, eaob group in twelve colors, size 10x12)4 Inches, on fine Whatman paper, tied at top with a silk ribbon each sheet con tains two months' dates—thus being a complete calendar for 1900. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, edited by Mrs. Frank Leslie, now publishes the best literature and illustrations that money and energy can obtain, from such authors and artists as Rudyard Kipling, William Dean Howells, A. Conan Doyle, Frank H. Stockton, Mary E. Wilkins, Stephen Crane Kuth Mc Enery Stuart, S. it. Crockett, F. Hop kinson Smith, Joel Chandler Harris Bret Harte, "Joeiah Allen's Wife,1 Henry James, Will Carleton, Edgar Fawcett and Bey. Henry van Dyke, A. B. Wenzell, H. Chandler Christy, F. Luis Mora, W. Granville Smith, Clif ford Carleton, F. W. Bead, Ch. Grun wald and others. Prospectus for 190Q and a pretty folder in colors sent free for the asking. Specimen copy for three 2 cent stamps. Frank Leslie Publishing House, 141-143 Fifth Ave, N. Y. 48tf The New Blacksmith on South Franklin Street, does HORSESHOING and GEN ERAL Repair Woik, guar anteeing satisfaction. Experi enced workmen. HARRISON SMITH Don Cameron, once such a command ing figure in'Pennsylvania politics, is now, he says, "out of public life and accordingly enjoying myself." 5 The supreme court of Illinois holds that the sale of patent medicines in any store not conducted by a registered pharmacist is a violation of the state pharmacy act. We atcept without hesitation the statement of the war department that "the death of general Lawton will not interfere with Otis' plans." Nothing save a famine in typewriter ribbons would cause any confusion in the grand strategy which Otis continues to develop with the calmness and delibera tion of a warrior, who Is fifty miles from the firing line.—ChicagoChronicie. British BelfialineM Punished. [Springfield Mass. Republican) It is now apparent that Great Britain would be better off in this war if she had allowed the Boers years ago to ac quire Delagoa bay. If Lourenzo Mar quez were a Boer port the British could blockade it and prevent absolutely com merce of any sort from passing through It. But being a Portuguese Port no blackade Is possible, and commerce can continue through it, much to the ad vantage of the Boers. Besides, were it a Boer port the British could capture it aud make It the base of an invasion of the Transvaal by the shortest possible route. A recent l'arls dispatch says that, while it is anticipated the French government will be strong enough to carry the approval of the Franco American treaty through the house and the senate, it is evident that violent op position to the treaty will be met in the agricultural and industrial parties. The alarm over American commercial ex pansion felt in France has been con verted into a panic by Georges Wen lersse's remarkable article entitled "The Conquest of the World by the United States," which the papers are still discussing. The Petit Bteu de voted a column on its first page to an article warning the government that French industry is on the road to ruin, owing to American competition. On top of this came the announcement from inside circles that the delay in completing the exposition might com pel the government to ask American industry to finish-the work, and the probability of American companies getting the large contracts for the con. struction of the Indo-Obina railway. Complaints- come from Indo-Chfj* that San Francisco exporters are mono polizing the trade of: that colony, de spite the French protective duty. American butter,' preserves, flour, corn meal and machines aro superseding French exportation, and that these facts have produced a genuine scare in commercial circles. The evangelist Moody had probably Bpoken to more .people in public than any other American. For along period of years he addresoed vast audiences in this country and in England, and his discourses produced a very marked, and in thousands of case, a lasting impres sion upon the hearts and lives of those who heard him What was the secret of his power? He spoke the same message that multi tudes of clergymen delivered. He had neither great learning nor the oratory of the schools, lie was not highly gifted with that indefinite quality call ed "magnetism." He was simply a plain, "everyday" man of the people, with a genius for common sense, a great love of his fellow-men, and one whose sympathy and sincerity were BO evident that they carried conviction to his bearers. He not only believed his religion but he practiced it. Furthermore, he believed in publicity and waB not afraid of being called sensational. His revivals were organ ized and conducted with great execu tive ability. He believed in big audi ences—not in preaching to a select few. He despised Pharisaism and broke through the trammels of convention ality. The secret of his power and his success was the old and open secret of character and labor—of brain well used, belief honestly held and earnestly pro claimed, and an enormous capacity for hard work. .N. Y. World. The People Mot Tet Won Over. Cincinnati Enquirer. It may be necessary for Joseph Chamberlain to make another speech assuring the world that there is a sub stantial alliance]of Great Britain and^the United States. He has President tfcKin ley, Senator Hannaand Joe Choate won over to the idea, but the masses of the people are likely to rebel against the arrangement. Quiet Town, Quiet Convention' Spokane S pokesumn-Revtew. There is a fitness in the selection of Philadelphia for the republican gather ing in 1900. A quiet old town for E quiet old convention. While it was about the work of choosing the place and date, the national committee might as well have named the candidate. The whole thing is settled anyway. |gp Briti.li Empire Shaken Up, San Francisco Call. The subject peoples of the British empire feel a thrill which they mistake for a disease so long have their necks been calloused by the hard heel of the conqueror. But it is the rising health of manhood long suppressed. Around the wide frontiers of the empire rises the tide of competing ambitions, and If it break the dike and pour a roaring flood of the world's hatred which will leave no dry land on which the ark of empire may rest, England will get a lesson destructive to her and admoni totrjo imitate*.. "Top O' the SCorning." Thamandheu! But there It Is, Dawn—on the hlUs of Ireland. God's angels lifting the night's black veil from the fair Sweet face of my sire-land. Och, Ireland! and Isn't It good you look, Like a bird In a rich adorning, And with all the pent-up love of my heart I bid you the "Top the Morning." This one short hour pays lavishly back For many a year of mourning, I'd almost venture another flight, There's so muoh joy In returning: Watching out for this haliow'd shore, All other attractions scorning Oh, Ireland] don't you hear me shout-" I bid you the "Top o'the Morning." See there on Cleena's shelven strand The surges are gladly beating, And Kerry is pushing her head-land out To give us the friendly greeting. Into the shore the wild birds fly Od pinions that know no drooping, And out from the cliff on surges charge A million of waves come trooping. Oh Indly, generous land, So leal, so fair and loving, No wonder the wandering Celt should think, And dream of you In his soaring. 'ihe alien land may have gems and gold, No shadow may ever have gloomed It But the heart w)U sigh for the absent land, Where the love light first Illumed It And doesn't old Cove look charming there, Watching the wild wave's motion, Leaning her back against the hills And the tip of her toe In the ocean. It's a wonder I dent hear Shandon's bells Oh, may be their chlmings over, For its many a year since began The life of a western rover. For thirty summers, astbore machree, These scenes I npw tent my eyes on Ne'er met my vision, save when they rose In memories dtra horizon E'en then 'twas grand and fair to see As the landscape spread before me, But dreams are dreams, and my eyes would open To see Texas skies above me. And many a night on the Texas plain, When the day and the chase were over, My thoughts would fly o'er the weary wave And o'er this coast line hover And the prayer would rise that some future day, AU dangers and doubtings scorning, I'd live to win from my native land The light of young liberty's morning. Now, nearer and fairer, the coast line shows- Was ever a scene so splendid— I feel the breath of the Xunster breeze, Thank God, my exile's ended. Old scenes, old songs, old friends again, The vale and the cot I was born in. Oh, Ireland! from my heart of hearts, I bid you the "Top o' the Morning." Brown SwiH Origin and history.—Switzerland has been famous as a dairying country for some centuries. It is especially noted for cheese, and it is said that seventeen different, kinds are regularly exported to other countries. T,wo distinct races of-cattle contribute to these product^, and both are excellent dairy animate Inm&ny respects they, are- uppquattad by any of the other breeds of conti nental Europe. The Brown Swiss iB the breed better known In the United-States. It Is called also Brown Switzer, but more properly Brown Schwzer, from -the Canton Schwyz, where the breed orig inated or, at least, has been brad long est and is still found of truest type*.' It is now common to the other cantons Of eastern and central Switzerland,and has a fine reputation throughout Europe. These cattle have been*especiaily: sac cessful as prize winners at PariB, Ham burg, and other large exhibitions of live stock. The first pure-bred animals of this breed brought to the UnitedStatescom prised one bull and seven heifers, Imported from the Canton Schwyz to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1869. It was till 1881 or 1882 that other im portations were made, hut meanwhile this first little herd had been kept pure and had increased to nearly two hun dred in number. During the years 1882 and 1883 several importations were made and there have been a number since. Where they have become known these cattle have made a favorable im pression among dairymen, and herds of different sizes can now be found in states of all parts of the Union. Characteristics.—The Brown Swiss may be placed in the second class as to size among the distinctly dairv breeds. They are substantial, fleshy, and well proportioned, with very straight, broad back, heavy legs and neck, giving general appearance of coarseness. But when examined they are found to be small-boned for their size and to possess a fine, silky coat, and rich, elastic skin, with other attractive dairy points. A1 though generally described as being brown in color, the brown runs through various shades and often Into a mouse color and sometimes a brownish dun, especially for the saddle or body. Head, neck, legs, and quarters are usually darkest in color, often almost blaok, The nose, tongue, hoofs, and switch are quite black. Characteristic markings of the breed Include a mealy band around the muzzle, with a light stripe across the lips and up the sides of the nostrils, a light-colored tuft of hair be tween the horns, and a light-colored stripe extending all the way along the back of the tail. The eyes are full and mild, but bright, usually black. The horns rather small, white, waxy, curv ing forward and inward, with black tips. The ears are large, round, and lined with long silky hair, light in color. The barrel of the body is large and well rounded. The udder and teats are large, well formed and white, with milk veins very prominent. The cows often carry remarkably well-shaped es cutcheons. The animalB of a herd are generally even In appearance, showing careful breeding extending through many generations. Bulls and COWB are alike docile and easily managed. The cows are so plump and compact as to appear smaller than thev really are. Mature animals weigh from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds, and often more bulls run up to 1,800 pounds and over, yet are not BO much heavier than the females aB-.ln most breeds. These cattle are extremely hardy and very active for their size, being necessarily good nnmnMItt vUmtNir- in tfctir nativ* The description given indicates that these cattle an good for beef as well as for dairy. They are almost always fitU flMhed, easily kept ao, and readily fattened when not in milk. The flesh iissaidto be fine-grained, tender, and sweet. A barren heifer in Minnesota weighed 1,680 pounds a mature cow in jNew York, fattened for butcher, {weighed 1,925 pounds, and made 1,515 pounds of beef. A pair of Swiss steers at 13 months old weighed 2,200 pounds. The calves are large, often 100 poundB at birth, and'make a vigorous growth. Altogether, the Brown Swiss is able to present about as strong a claim as any breed to being a profitable "general purpow cow." In their native country these cattle are ordinarily fed nothing but hay, grass, or other green forage, through out the year, but they respond prompt ly to more various and generous feed ing.—Farmer's Tribune. »K. TatMaing Beef Oattle. The Toronto Mail tells what is to be come of nearly two billion bushels of corn grown in the United States as fol lows: "So important haa the ^business of fattening cattle become In the corn states that the stock raisere actually buy poor grade cattle in the open stock yards market at Chicago, ship them out by rail, feed them well for three months and bring them qack at a considerable profit "Recently Chicago has been sending from 7,600 to 10,000 cattle a week in this way to the farms. Not only this, but IUttMli and Indian a stockmen have been actually shipping cattle to the weat from Virginia,—bringing the cattle to the food instead of sending the foodjtji the cattle. ThisiB a com parItaSfti«w dewtopment.at. the i« duqtry, and at the present high pries for beef it means immense profits to the actual producer. "It will be seen that the return of good times to the stockman means a much wider distribution of the fruits prosperity throughout the country— indeed, a much moret favorable condi tion all over the nation—than a Bingle ood wheat or corn or cotton, crop. And lot only is the cattleman himself profiting by the rise in prices, but the railroad man is doing more business, Tor after bringing the lean cattle to market he may freight them out to the farmer to be fattened, and then back again to the market, whereas in ordin ary times be might move them only once. AN ENGLISH "TREAT." Tfc. Between tke Mltak ud Amartfi.. Method.. I was conitantly struck, says Colonel T. W. Higglnson In Thb Atlantic, with the genuln. spirit of hospitality among Englishmen toward Americans,as such, even those with whoso pursuits they might have almost nothing In common, and for whom they had not the a light est reason to put themselves out. 1 liked this none tbe less (or Its having Its definite limitations as to pecuniary obligations, and the like. Including ev erything In the nature of "treating/' all this being In my opinion a weak point In our more gushing or more self conscious habit. I remember to have once been taken by a gentleman, on whom I had but the slightest claim, to the country house of another, on whom I had no claim whatever. The latter was not at all literary, and had not even the usual rague English Interest In American affairs. Tet be gave up his whole aft ernoon to drive me to Kenllworth, which he had seen a thousand times. But that for which 1 liked him best, and which afforded me a wholly new experience, was that as we entered the outer doorway, be, going first, looked back over his shoulder and said simply, "They make you pay threepence for ad mission here," and then added, speak ing to the attendant, "here Is my three pence," After ail the time and trouble be had given to hlB stranger guest he left him to pay his own threepence, a thing which most Americans would not have dreamed of doing. It would have been the American notion of good breeding to save a guest from expense, as It was the English Impulse to save him from the sens, of obligation. 1 confess that I prefer tb« latter method. Both Afflicted There came to a young doctor an un commonly unclean Infant, borne in the arms of a mother whose face showed the same abhorrence of soap. Looking down up.n the child for a moment, the doctor solemnly said: "It seems to be suffering from 'hydro pathic hydrophobia.'" "Oh, doctor, is It as bad as that?" cried the mother. "That's a big sick ness for snch a mite. Whatever shall I do for the child?' "Wash Its face, madam," replied tbe doctor. "The disease will go off with the dirt" "Wash its face—wash its face, In deed!" exclaimed the mother, losing her temper. "What next, I'd like to know!" "Wash your own, madam—wash your own." WM tk. wJoUdah—Bugalo Bn* A WVf MANCHESTER, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 3, 1900. VOL. XXVI-NO 1. '«V country. Qrain-O! Grain-O! Milk and bntter records.—Developed Remember that name when you want as a dairy breed primarily, Brown & delicious, appetizing, nourishing food Swiss cows yield a generous flow of milk and hold out well. Good speci mens may be expected to give an aver age of ten quarts for every day in the year. Six thousand pounds a year is an ordinary record, and single instances are known of 8,000 to 10,000 pounds. One Swiss cow owned in Massachusetts produced, by accurately recorded weights, 86,304 pounds of milk before twelve years old. The quality of milk is above the European average, 3% to 4 per cent of fat being usual. The cow mentioned above made a butter record ranging from 600 pounds to 610 pounds per year for four yeare, bnt this was ex ceptional. Ordinarily 22 pounds of the milk. of this breed will make one pound of butter, and sometimes it does better. Dii Cu^e?! by all grocers and liked by all who hsve used it. Grain-0 is made of pure pi rain, it aids digestion and strengthens be nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health builder and the children as well as the adults can drink it with great benefit. Costs about as much as coffee. 15c. and 25c. p«r package. Ask your grocer for Grain-o. The ever S3 Sip Quaker Mill Co. T--1:/!.• increasing demand forlfe!||§fl QUAKER MILL FLOUR is sufficient evidence ." that it is the r'-•** AV0RITE FLOUR of the household. 11 J0"' Try it and you'll not deny ir. A QUAKER ON EVERY SACK. 5 f* Mill Co, W MILES. Presu F. LBROY, Cashier li. P. MILES, Asst. Cashier. K.<p></p>First ROBINSON 2d V.<p></p>National 1 President, H. C. HABBBRLBjst V. President. BANK. MANCHESTER. IOWA. OAPTAL. $50.000 General Banking' SAFETYTEPWBOXESTransacted.Deposits.Tim#onPaid,Business Interftit FOR RENT. DIRPICTCRS. B. R. Robinson, M. F. LeRoy, W. Miles, W. H.Norris, E. M. Carr, K. Beehler, H. A. Granger# A. H. Blake, B. F. Miles, H. C. Haeberle, F. J. Atwater. First National Bank. Dubuque, Iowa. Central National Bank New York City. Commercial National Bank. Cbloago, ula. WM. C. CAWLE\, President. W. TIRRILL, CHAS. J. SREDS, Cashier. C. W. KEAGY. Vloe President. Asst. Casnier. DELAWARE OOUNTYI State Bank CAPTAL $60,000 -DIRBOTOR8- Wm. C. Cawley. W. G. Kenyon. Edward P. seeds. Chas. J. Seeds. kt, E. F. Arnold. R. W. Tirrill. G. W. Dunham, M. H. WiUiston C. W. Keagy. INTERE8T PAID on Tim. D.p.ilt. Prompt attention given to all business. Pas senger tickets from and to all parts of Europe direct to Manchester. lor sale. Banking House If so, this will interest you. Maybe it will anyway. It sure- WILL if you area lover of nice furni ture. Come and look at our' line of bedroom stts anyway. We have a large line in the lat est woods, styles and finish. They are simply exquisite. The prices are too small to mention, they will not flatten the thinnest purse. ML T.QNG TIME MORTGAGE T.OANS Made, Bought and Sold. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES For the storage of valuable papers, etc. for rent. Henrv Hutchinson HulchliMM'. Building. Manchut.r, Ism. CAPITAL. $70.000 JOSEPH HUTCHINSON, Cashier. COLLECTIONS Fgoanaptly DEPOSITS on Time, Interest Al lowed and other deposits received. DRAFTS sold on New York, Chicago and CtabUQue also on Great Britain and Ire land and European Cities. TICKETS sold to and from all European ports via Cunard or Allen nr White Star Steamship Lines. C0TSW0LDS Flock heatied by IMPORT ED BAMS. A nice lot of breeding ewes and a dozen ram lambs FOB SALE. Eight hundred bead to se lect from. W. J. STRAIN & SONS, Masonville, la. Another Carload Also Louisville Cement kept -on hand. Stucco and Callolite Plaster, Plaster Hair. tip SVemoctaf. I KATES OF Apymiitntai SPACE. 1W *W 1M I SM «M IT One lnoh Two lnohes.. Three lnohes. Pour lnohes.. Five Inches.. 14 Column..., tt Column.... Cme Column., 1100 1 KO t:: 91 B0 9» 8 00 YOU'RE NOT SO WARM this kind of weather, are you? Why not purchase jrour heating stove now? People have been buying coal) We are carrying a large line of heaters this year and hare one that will COME IN and look over our line of stoves. A COMPLETE LINE OP HARDWARE. "J. J. HAWLEY. We cat ry a full and complete line of blank books—big books and little books, in fact, anything TV Oooks If you want 'em, we've got 'em. They are neat and up-to-date and we like to show them. Come In! GREGG & WARD Flour and all kinds of Feed, Hay and Straw, Wheat and Wheat Screenings. MY FARM, of 240 acres, in Prairie Township for sale. Call and see me before buy ing elsewhere. kpi' Reproduction' of Trj: $5.98 SUIT Other Styles are Here Up to $0.00. •y & I •I BO ft 60 ft V8 4 B0| TOO 6 TO 19 7 00 IS __ 8 00 1600 18 09» 00 28 00)60 00 SJ* OUR MOTTO: A small price and a large value. Thanking our patrons of 1899 for favors received and trust ing that we merit «i continu ance during the year 190O, we wish you a most happy and prosperous New Year. «jr AUSTIN D. MOWN 900 •B 00 16 00 8 60 800 ST* 4 60 900 18 00 ®2 It 90 »00 19 09 90 00 09 40 00 180-09 8000090 4.ISO 80 00 40.00 96 00 18U Advertisements ordwed Jawitfwm be oreexplratlon of ooatraot will be «ktif9d ao oordlic aboTeeeale. Buaiieas earda, sot exeeedlac six UMB» 9BU) per yekr. Bnirtjaws locals, tenoenta per lias Mr tt9 tm lBsertfoB, and flT9 oeata perllne for eaafctubee (neat insertion. suit YOU. NORTH END DRUGGISTS LANDCEMEOT few days. in a Maquoketa Lime, Peter Boardway. To Dress Well 4 Visit the Clothing Houseof J. H.AHen All the latest and finest •Novelties in y*s Men, Boys' and Children's ky-fr fi'f* Clothing. Shirts Hi 4"^ In all new designs, and Neckwear of every description. We Will Satisfy Any taste in our large selection J. Allen §1