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)t CDemocrat. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. C. BRONSON. M. OAR*. BRONSON & CARR. Editors'and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Yearly, in advance 60 If not paid lu advance 9 oo NOTICE.—On tho slip of paper upon wbloh •he name is printed, appears the date to wbloh the paper la paid for, and a renewal Is always reapootfully soliolted. lie writer's name roust aocompany any artl le for publication, as an evtdenoe of rood faltb tbe editor* o. w. DUNHAM. E. B. STILES DENTISTS. O. A. DUNHAM, D. D. S. r\ENTIST&- Office over Carhart & Adamu' AS hardware store, Franklin St. Iowa. DENTIST.Globe IFARCNXSTKK. a. NORKIB. DUNHAM. NORRIS STILES. ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND NOTARIES ci- Public. Speoial attention given to Collec tions Insuranoe, Real Estate and Loan Agts. Dflloe In City Hall Block, Manchester, la. C. YORAZV. H. F. ABHOU). U.J, YORAN. YORAN. ARNOLD YORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW, and Real Estate rv- Agents. Office over Delaware County State Bank, Manchester, Iowa. C. E. BRONSON. IC. M. CARH. BRONSON CARR, Manchester,: FRED 8. BLAIR. TTORNEY AT LAW. Office in the City Hall Block. Manchester, Iowa. PHYSIOIANS. A. J. WARD, "PHYSICIAN and Surgeon, will attend to calls promptly atttll hours of tho day or*nlght, ^amont, Iowa. H. H. LAWRENCE. SICIAN AND SURGEON. Special at- ,, Intention given diseases of children. Havo aiso made a spoclal study of Gyneooology. Obstetrics,-and Rectal Diseases. All chronic diseases successfully treated with the aid of various Thermal ana Massage treatment. All ohronlos solicited. Consultation free. Office over Work's market. All oalls promptly at tended. Resldenoe on Main street, tho old Dr. Kelsey property. Manchester, C. W. DORMAN, Office on Franklin Street, north of the Hotel, Manchester, Iowa. Dental Surgery In all its branches, Makes ?nquent visits to neighboring towns. Always at office on Saturdays. C. LEIGH. D. D.S. Dentist. Office over Ander & Fhlllpp's Drug Store Corner Main and franklin stroets, Manchester Iowa. Telephone 18B. I7tf E. E. NEWCOMB. T\ENTIST. Office over Clark & Lawrence's JJ store on Franklin street Crown bridge work a specialty. Will meet patients at Farley Wednesday of each week. 82tf VETERINARIAN. DR. J. W. SCOTT, YRTJSRINARY Surgeon, and Dentist. Offioe in H. O. Smith's Drug Store, Main St. At night can be found at rooms over Ralph Con ger's Store. MANUPAOTURINQ. MANCHESTER MARBLE WORKS prepared to furnish Granite and Marble Monuments and Head Stones of various de signs. Have the oounty right for Slpe's Pat ent Grave Cover also dealer In Iron Fences. Will meet all competition. 9tf M. WM. MoINTOSH. THOMAS GIVEN, /"lontraotoy. and builder. Jobs taken In town or coun'ry. Estimates furnished. First olass work guaranteed. Prices reasonable. Shop on Howard street near Pranklln, Man chester, Iowa. 95tf W. N. BOTNTON, J. F. MCEWBN. BOYNTON ft MoEWEN, 7 ATOHMAKERS, Jewelers and Engravers dealers in Watches, Clooks, Silver and Plated Ware, Fine Jewelry, Speotaoles,Outlery, Musioal Instruments, eto., Main street. WJ A. D. BROWN. ealer in furniture etc., and undertaker, Main Street. P. W&RKMEISTER, /GENERAL DEALER IN FURNITURE, VJ Coffins. Ploture FrameB, Eto. A oomplet? stoolc of Furniture and Upholster Always on band, at prices that defy oompetluon. A good Hearse kept for attendance at funerals. Earl vllle, Iowa. J. H.ALLEN. CLOTHING and Gents furnishing goods. Cor nerHulnand Franklin streets. L. R. STOUT. CLOTHING and Gents furnishing goods, city Hall Block, Franklin Street. KIDDELL & CO., T~lRY GOODS, Carpets, Mllltnery, Hats and i-r Caps, Boots and Shoes, eto.t Main St., UanoheBter, Iowa. A. THORPE. tor. Iowa GRASSFIBLD BROS.. (Successors to Seth, Brown.) J. J. HAWLEY. TVEALEK IN HARDWARE, Stoves, Tin XJ warfl, etc ., Manohesterlowa* INSURE YOUR PROPERTY against cyclones and tornadoes In the old reliable Phoenix Insurance Co., BRONSON ft CARR, Agents. A 8 EVERTSQN. HE ARTI8T1U TAILOR. Shop sonic blook, Manchester Iowa. HOL,LISTER LUMBER CO. UMBER and all kinds of building materials, AJ Posts and Goal. Corner of Delaware and Madison streets MANCHESTER LUMBER CO. IOWA, uualB of Iowa :4-- HIGH GRADE BLACK and TAN $3.00 SHOES for Men go at sflSBIil MEN'S COLT SKIN SHOES, SOFT and TOUGH Leather, at only $1 6MSSFIELD Hanches ter,*Iowa WE FIT THE FEET Our Business Directory. '.(BIBIAIBBBIETT'JH#1# MUHJJSGSJBBE ATTORNEYS. GEO. S LISTER, fIARDWARE, STOVES, TINWARE, ETC. Keeps a first-class tinner and does all kinds of repairing with neatness and dispatch. Store opposite First National Bank, Main St. T\RUGS, Wall paper, Stationery, Paints, Oils etc. City hall blook. ft |gg§i AB SKCOWD-CLAMS MATTER, ENTBUKD AT TI1B POSTOMCS AT I- tv R. 1 BROS. THO8. T. CARKEEKI JILDING SL Cor. 8th and Main St., RCHITECT AND BUILDING SUPERIN A E N E N S E Dubuque, Iowa WM DENNIS. faction guaranteed. Plans and estimates fur nished. Work taken In town or country. Shop aear the stand towor on West Side of river. E. S. COWLES. PjlTY DRAYMAN. Am prepared to do all *k in my lino. Moving household goods aud pianos a specialty. All work will reoolvo prompt attention. A share of your patronage is soliolted. Charges right. Give your dr&ying to a man who has come to stay. CLARK FT LAWRENCE nRY. GOODS, Notions. Carpets, Gents fur nlshlng goods, etc. Franklin street. QUAKER MILL CO. T^LOUR and Feed, Manufacturers of the ceio brated White Satin and White Pearl Flour. GREQG ft WARD. T\rupglsts and dealers In Paints, Oils, Wall If Paper, Stationery & c. Atwater's block. Franklin street. W. A. ABBOTT. ANDBRS. DealersPHIL1PP in Drugs, Wall Paper, Stationery, Paints, Oils, otc. Corner of Main and Franklin streets. PETER BOARDWAY* Ttoalerlu flour, feed, hay, straw, Maquoketa JJ lime, stucco and common and Atlas cement. Telephone lis. Lower Franklin Street. RACKET STORE. T\RY GOODS. Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots, -L/ Shoes, notions, cto. West side Franklin streot south of Main. NOBLE ARNOLD. /7J.ROOERIES, Provisions, Fruits, eto. First door north of Delaware County Bank. PETERSON BROS. Dealers in Groceries, Provisions, Crockery, Fruits, etc. Main Street. T. P. MOONEY. BLACKSM1THdone (Successor to Lee Bowman.) and Wagonmaker, Delhi, Iowa. Work promptly and In a work manlike manner. Charges reasonable. Your patronage solicited. iett C.E. PRATT.. pAINTING ANDJPAPER HANGING. prepared to do paper hanging and painting on snort notice, In town or country, will give estimates on all work In my Hue. Leave orders at H. C. Smith's drug store J. M. PEAR8E. JUSTICE OK THE PEACE AND COLLKCT- OK. All business entrusted to him given prompt attention, OAlce ID city Hall block, second floor. The Best Offer Of The Tear is that made by Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, justly termed "the monarch of the 10 cent magazines." For a limit ed period, this famous and popular magazine, now 81.00 a year, will send free with each yearly subscription, the beautiful "Little SweetheartB" Calen dar. This calendar is in six groups of water-color designs by Frances Jirund age, the famous painter of children, each group in twelve colors, size 10x12)4 inches, on fine Whatman paper, tied at top with a Bilk 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 tbe b?Bt literature and illustrations that money and energy can obtain, .from such authors and artiBtB as Budyard Kipling, William Dean Howells, A. Conan Doyle, Frank R. Stockton, Mary E. Wiikins, Stephen Crane, lluth Mc Enery Stuart, S. it. Crockett, F. Hop kinson Smith, Joel Chandler HarriB, Uret Harte, "Josiah Allen's Wife," Henry James, Will Carleton, Edgar Fawcett and llev. 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 1900 and a pretty folder in colors sent free for tbe asking. Specimen copy for three 2 cent stampB. Frank Leslie Publishing House. 141-143 Fifth Ave N. Y. 48tf on South Franklin Street, does HORSESHOING and GEN ERAL Repair Work, guar anteeing satisfaction. Experi enced workmen. HARRISON & SMITH Almost every aspiring politician has a remedy for trusts that generally in volves a long and coBtly course of legal proceedings. Patting trust articles on the free list Is short, sharp and de cislve. It doesn't fool away any time. It accords with the principles of some of the best men of the republican party, John Sherman said long ago that trusts should be deprived of every scrap of protection. Do that and we will be in a fair way of terminating the regime of the trusts and reforming tbe worst abuses of trust and monopoly pro tection.—Pittsburg Post. lludiierelleld, a city of Yorkshire, England, is perhaps the best illustra tion of a city governed on munici pal ownership ideas to be found any where in the world, says an exchange. Every municipal monopoly is operated for the benefit of the citizens—gas, Btreetcars, waterworks, electric light ing, markets, abattoirs, sanitariums, lodging houses, and even the cemetery. In 1872 tbe gas works were taken over, the object being to reduce the price of gas and increase Its nse by the poorer classes. To this end the departmant in troduced p»nny-in-the-siot meters, which have been so well received that about one-fifth of the population is now supplied in this way, When the meter is used a Btove is supplied "fixed" free of charge. Not one penny need be invested, except for tbe thirty feet of gas sold for two cents. This is a great boon for th, poor, who find it very diffi cult to save enough to purchase fittings outright. Stoves alone may be returned at ten per cent, off cost price per year, and the department has its own stoves, containing styles to suit the poorest of the most fastidious. Tbe price of gaa has been steadily reduced, until now it is 2s ltd (Gftcents) for lighting, and 2B (48 cents) for heating and trade pur poses. Indeed, the city has been so considerate of public welfare in every way that practically the whole popula tion consume municipal gas. Electric ity is supplied in much the same way, and throughout tbe principle of monop olization IB carried into effect when ever practicable and possible. The Prosperity of Spoliation. There never was,and never can be,any valid objection to equal taxation the justice and absolute fairness of a sys tem that makes all property bear its proportionate share of the public bur dens is acknowledged all. And "yet we vainly boast of tbe equality of our government, in tbe face of the amaz ing inconsistency, that the property of the country la not taxed a single dollar, to help pay the enormous expenses of tho nation, which will probably be not less than 650 millions of dollars for the current year or an average of ten dol lars for each man, woman and child, white and black, in the country an average of fifty dollars for a family of five, which a wrongful and relentleBB tariff makes labor pay, by Increasing tbe price of the comforts and necessi ties of life. Nor Is this all. Labor is robbed of at least six times as much more to enrich the so-called, protected industries, prin cipally manufacturers, because they say, they cannot otherwise compete with foreign products. ThiB IB not so, and even If it were, they have no right to go into the pockets of other people to make good their losses, in defiance of the wholesome rule of political econ omy, which declares that any business undertaking, not self-sustaining, has no right to a moment's existence, except at the expense of its promoters and pro prietors. The vicious system of tariff spolia tion, legalized by the government, con centrates wealth in tbe hands of the few BO rapidly that one tenth of tbe people already own at leaBt nine tenths of the property of the country. It follows, then, on any principle of equality, that nine-tenths of the inhab itants instead of paying an average percapita tax of ten dollars, each, to support the government, and sixty dol lars ,each, to the protected industries, or three hundred and flftv dollars a year for each family of five, should pay an average pro rata tax of lesB than one dollar and twelve cents for each indi vidual, in support of the government, and nothing at all to protect and enrich privileged industries, making an aver age saving of sixty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents for each Individual, or $344.40 for a family of five in a single year. There are nineteen millions of labor ing men in this country who work for wages many of whom know they are being robbed by unjust taxation, for the benefit of the privileged class. They know, too, that men who belong to the business classes are organized and united,'under the direction and In the interest of moneyed men. Many farmers grumble at the small profits of their business, and some, per hapB, almost rejoice when other coun tries are stricken with the distress of famine, because of the prospect of higher prices for their products, and yet not a few of them are in favor of a tar iff that is robbing the consumers of this country, their own would-be cus tomers in order to give the protected industries, not less than 3897,450,000 a year, a sum greater than tbe value of all the farm products of 1889, in tte seventeen Atlantic Btates, with the District of Columbia and the state of Ohio added, in which territory is found nearly half tbe population of the United States. With such spoliation of the consumers of this country, what marvel that for the four leading crops of the United States' the farmers t, on an average, less than eight dollars per acre, (see report of secretary of agriculture) out of which to pay for the labor and all other costs of raising and handling? Thus, is the prosper ity of the turner Illustrated.—National Bqual VkmttonOiab. The Old Books. They are gray with the gray of ages, Borrowed, and begged, and sold, Tlmmd-markeil of saints and sages In the scholarly days of old. Hose leaves prest for a lover Rest In their pagos dim, Though silent centuries cover All that is left of lilm. And I foel. In the library's shadows, With this ghostly company, The breath of forgotten meadows And the centuries over me! And when twilight bells are calling— When the day with Its strifes Is o'er— There are ghostly footsteps falling Faint on the library floor. Singers, nnd saints, and sages— In tho fame of a name we trust. But time will cover our pages. As even our tombs, with dUBt. For.tiere In, the library's shadows, Whore the famed and tameless be, I roam In forgotten meadows, With tho centurlos over me! —Atlanta Constitution, Report of Spring Branch Creamery for Month of December. No. pounds of milk received- 188.092 No. pounds butter made. 8,917 Average price 11.20 Average test 4.3 Average yield 4.85 Will Have a Thr.e Day.a Fair. The Buchanan County Agricultural society has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, S. T. Spangler vice-preB. Irving Bain:-secretary, A. H. Farwell. treasurer, D. F. Bisbee Marshall, J. W. Farris superintendents of grounds, A. H. Farwell, J. W. Farris and N. 1{. Sargeant superintendent of floral hall, Mrs. N. B. Sargant assistant superin tendent of floral hall, Mrs. C. W. Stites. Superintendents of departments were elected as follows horses, Z. A. Com fort cattle, C. E Bovack hogs and sheep, W. G' Shilllnglaw: farm products B. L. Bouse: poultry, E. A. Chapman fruits, B. Dunlap machinery, S. Miller speed, A- H. Farwell. A committee composed of Messrs, Farwell, StiteB and Sargant were ap-' pointed to revise tbe premium list, with instructions to BO increase premiums on live stock as to double the total amount of premiums paid by the society. The secretary, A. II. Farwell, reports that tbe receipts last year,were ®2,275.84 and the expenditures 82,206.12, leaving a net balance in treasury of $69.73. One of the most important moves made by the society is the reduction of the num ber of dayB of the county fair from four to three, tbe belief being that expenses will be thereby reduced without cutting off receipts or lessening the interest in the meeting. The date of the fair Ibis year, is announced to probably be September 4, 5 and (. Test Milk From Silo-F.d Oows. The attaches of tbe State Agricul tural college at Champaign, 111., think they have settled the controversy, which sprung up between certain buyers of milk and the men who produced it, the former refusing to buy the milk of cows fed on silage. The college has just announced the result of a series of tests concerning this matter. Samples of the milk taken from the cows on the agricultural farm were Bent, first to a dozen different professors of the college, then to a number of students, and later on a number of women and finally to several milk expertB. In addition, the samples were sent to hotels In Chicago and Springfield. In each case both silage and nonsilage milk was sent, and in no case was the object of the undertaking disclosed. In each case a person was asked which sample was preferred and whether there was any objection to the milk of a certain designation. The result of this test, which cov ered several weeks, was that 118 tests favored tbe silage milk, 65 the nonsil age and 37 had no choice. To 360 sain pies of silage milk there were no objec tions. The tests were double in char acter, milk from cows being taken both before and after feeding the silage. Prof. W. J. Frazer, under whose di rection the testa were made, says that there can be no reasonable objection to silage as a feed if the feeding is proper ly done. This is considered a very im portant matter, aB a vast amount of money has, within the last few years, been spent by farmers in building silos. The condenser people claim that milk from cows fed on silage takes on an undesirable taste.. ThiB the professors claim comes from decayed Bilage. When the milk is exposed to its odor, and if care is taken not to permit any feed of the kind to reach the barn there will be no trouble. The Curillnitl aud tho Ucportcr. Mauy iustauees are related of Cardi nal Gibbons* broad n.hulirdiioss as well as his tact and diplomacy in avoiding religious discussions with persons whose views aro opposed to his own. Upon one occasion, so the story runs, in Baltimore a young Journalist was sent by his chief to Interview his emineuco upou a topic of local iuterest. When the interview was over, the cardinal and his caller had a friendly chat upon a variety of subjects, including tho church. Tho Journalist was a Protest ant, and in the argumont that followed be became excited and expressed him self freely from his point of view. Upon returning to his office ho reftoct »d upon the outcome of his visit and came to the conclusion that ho stood a fair chauce of being discharged should the cardinal repeat tho conversation to his editor. The next day bis eminence dropped Into the uewspaper office In question and asked to see the proprietor, who was his personal friend. The reporter was told of the call and quaked In his boots. The publisher and the cardinal discussed a mutter of mutual iuterest to them, and beforo leaving bis emi nence said: "By tho way, you sent a young man to see mo yestorday, and 1 was rather impressed with him. Ho appears to have tho courage of his convictions.' It would please me if you could do some thing better for him." Within a mouth tbe reporter who had anticipated dis missal received a gratifying promo tlon.—Raleigh Colston Smttb in New MANCHESTER, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 24. 1900. DIAMOND DOLLAR8 OF 1804. Only Ponr of the Original Coinage of 10,570 In iSxistenoe. "Kvory now and then one roads about tbe discovery of auother of tlio famous 'd'Ainond dollars' of 1804," said a gen tleman of this city who owns one of the finest private collections of coins and medals In the south. "The dollars of that date are popularly supposed to be worth from $1,500 to $2,000 apiece, and If a few originals could be pro dticod I dare say they would bring that figure easily enough. But It happens, unluckily, that there are only four on •arth, and they are locked up In the vaults of the treasury building at Washington and couldn't be bought at any price. They arc what are known as the 'test pieces,' which are always laid aside whenever a new coin Is struck, and the rest of the Issue Is at this moment quietly reposing under several miles of deep bine sea. The true story li rather interesting. In 1804 the mint at Philadelphia is known to have turned out 10,570 silver dollars. That was the entire issue, barring the test pieces I have just spoken of, and It was never put into circulation. The whole lot, Just as It came from the •tamping prtsoeo, was dumped Into an iron chest and put on board a mer chantman bound for CMna. It was directed to tbe captain of a United States frigate then In oriental waters, and was Intended to be used In paying certain expenses connected with the service. Tbe merchantman ran Into a Chinese typhoon and wont to the bot tom, where to the best ot my Informa tion she still remains, iren chest and all, and that Is tbe reason your Uncle Sam Is the only collector in the world who has a complete set of American dollars. Every other collection, includ ing my own. Is short ono Issue, and the gap will never be filled until the sea gives up Its own." "Do yon mean to tell us, then," sold a listener to the foregoing, "that all. the 'diamond dollars' now in private cabinets are counterfeits?" "By no means," replied the collector. "I own an 1S04 dollar myself, and there are at least three others, to my knowledge, In the south. Thoy were issued by tho government and are perfectly good and legal coins, but they are not originals. They are what are known technically as 'restrlkes.' In tho early days, when the mints had a few coins left over from one year to another, they would change tbe date by striking them with a special die, an operation that can al ways bo detected by an expert. For some reason or other, nobody knows Just why, a few dollars of the 1800 Is* sue were restruck In 1804 and put lo circulation. It is probable that the total number was not over 40 or 50, and a good many have been lost Tbe ones In existence are worth $150 apiece, and you may reel assured that all the 'dia mond dollars' not mere imitations be long to thjj) little lot of restrlkes. "Of course, some of them have been sold to green collectors as originals, and 1 was myself the lunoceut cause of such a tr&nsactlou only a few years ago. A friend of mine, who lives iu an adjoining state, and who owns a great many rare and beautiful coins, tele graphed me one day asklug whether $500 was too much for a genuine 1804 dollar. 1 took It for granted that he knew the facts about the Issue, and after puzzling over the message for a considerable time concluded that it was an obscure Joke of some kind and that I was simply too stupid to see the point So 1 wired back advising him to buy a bushel at that figure, and he promptly closed the deal. It turned out afterward that tho coin was a restrlke, and my friend has never quite forgiven me. What deceived him was the fact that the piece was known positively to have been locked up in an old chest at Savannah since 1812. That did away with tho counterfeit theory, and the only thing he was doubtful about was the price."—New Orleans Times-Demo crat THE WINDOW IN THE TENT, Old Soldier's Way of Secnriaff Ventilation When In the Field. 'I never pull down the window at the top to let In a little fresh air when I go to bed," said the old soldier, "with out thinking of how we used to open tho wiudow in the tents in the army in wartimes. An A tent, seven feet square at the base and running up, wedge shaped, to a ridgepole seven feet above the ground, made comforta ble enough quarters for four men If you could leave tho tent open, which was equivalent to leaving off the front of the house, but if it were cold or rainy and the wind blew on the front of the tent so that you had to close it, why then you wauted ventilation some where, and you got it by making an opening In the back of the tent. "There was a seam, overlapped, run' nlng down the middle of the back of the tent from the ridge pole to the ground, and wo used to cut the stitches along that seam, up near the top of the tent, and spread tho sides apart by putting in a stick sis or eight inches long across the middle, making there a diamond shaped opening about a foot long, which served tho purpose ad mirably. **The man's guns stood at that end of the tent, butts restiug on a piece of cracker box, the barrels held In some sort of a holder socured to tho tent pole. If the wiud changed ou some rainy night and cume around to blow against the back of the tent, the rain would come in on tho guus and ou UB, and then somobody would get up and shut tho window—that Is, take the stick out and let the cauvas come to gether again thero and then open the tent a little at the other end, at the front. "This all used to seem kind o' strange, then somehow, though prac tically It was Just whi I would have done In the old house home and Just what I'd do here now."—Chicago Inter Ocean. TryQrain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your Grocer to day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of cotTee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN O has that rich Beal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. the price of cofCee. ISc. and S&cts. per package. Sold by all grooera. New Edition of Copp's Settlers Guide The twenty-first edition of COPP'S SETTMSK'S GUIDE, a popular exposition of our public land system, is before us. It is edited by IIENKY N. Corr, of Washington, 1). CM the well kuown land attorney. Its price is only 25 cents. Mr. Copp desires the addresses of all union soldiers who made homestead en tries before June 1874, of less than 160 acres, lie has a matter of interest for their consideration. Mill Co. The ever increasing demand for QUAKER MILL FLOUR is sufficient evidence that it is the 'j FAVORITE FLOUR of the household. Try it and you'll not deny it. A QUAKER ON EVERY SAfe Mill Co. J. W MILES. Prest. M. F. LaROY, Cashier b\ As.st Cashier. R?.13. KMILES, OUINSON 2d V. President, It. C. AEBBHLK.lBt V. President. irsl National BANK, MANCHESTER. IOWA. CAPTAL. Intersst Paid on Time Deposits. SAFhTYlEPOSlf BOXES FOK KENT. SIS^CTCZSS. H. Koi.ii.suij. i\ L.uRuy, W. Milen, w. H. Norrls, E. M. Carr, M. HeeUler, H. A. Granger A. U. Blake, IJ. P. MMes, tiaeberle, K. Anvater. First Nittionui Bank, Dubuque, Iowa. Ceutrnl National Bunk New York City. Commercial National Hank. Chicago, ills. VOL. XX VI--NO 4. 18 ®5C, GO O General Banking Business Transacted. 1 WM. C. CAWLEY, CHAS. J. SKEDS, President. Cashier. R. W. T1RKILL. C. W. KEAQY, Vloe President. Asst. Cashier. DELAWARE COUNTY State Bank CAPTAL ©60,000 —DIRECTORS— Wtn.O. Cawley. H. F. Arnold. W. G. Kenyon. R. W. TirriU. Edward P. Seeds. G. W. Dunham, Chas. J. Seeds. M. H. WilUstoii C. W. Keagy. INTEREST PAID on Time DeposlU. Prompt attention given to all business. Pas senger tlckcts from and to all parts of Europe direct to Manchester, for sale. I .ONO Time ]VfORTGAQE TiO A N S Made, Bought and Sold, SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES For tho storage of vuluablo papers, etc. for rout. Banking House Henrv Hutchinson Hutchinson's Building, Manchester, Iowa. CAPITAL, $70,000 JOSEPH HUTCHINSON, Cashier. COLLECTIONS DEPOSITS on Time, Interest Al lowed and other deposits received. DRAFTS sold on New York, Chicago and Dubuque also on Great Britain unci Ire land and European Cities. TICKETS sold to aud from all European ports via Cunard or Allen or White Mar Steamship Lines. GOTSWOLDS, Flock heaced by IMPORT ED RAJIS. A nice lot of breeding ewes and a dozen ram lambs FOR SALE. Eight hundred head to se lect from. W. J. STRAIN & SONS Masonvilie, la. Another Carload and Wheat Screenings. MY FARM, of 240 ing elsewhere. Reproduction cf the $5.98 SUIT Other Styles are Here Up to $0.00. ®!)t {Democrat. RATES OF ADVERTISING. SPACE. Oneijfcch TwoivicheH.. Three'inches. Pour Inches.. Five Inches.. ?4 Column.... WO ARE still offering goods at the old prices, and will continue to do so as long as our present stock lasts but owing to the sharp advance on furniture the first of the year we will be unable to offer such pri. ?s alter we have disposed of the stock we now have on hand. In fact, we were particularly FORTUNATE in placing our last orders before the January rise and intend giving our customers the benefit. 'si 34 pairs Ladies' Kid Foxed, Flanwel-lined coin toe, lace I or button, $2.00 and $2 1W 9w 1M 3«f 6M IT »l 00 11 no 99 no 84 50 $«50 tio 00 1 no a 2R 60 5 75 Willi 15 00 9 00 4 AO 7 (X) vi on SO 00 a mi 8 75 75 10 on 141 'Ml 95 00 a (Mi 4 Ml 7 (Ml iaoo 20 (X) 30 00 4 AO ft AO 8 00 15 00 'Ml 40 00 6 fiU tHX) 18 00 at on 40 00 65 00 ia 00 18 00 85 00 50 00 80 00 185 00 Column.... Ono Column., I®'"Advertisements ordered dlsoonllnued bo fore expiration ofoontr&ct will be charged ao oordlng to above scale. Business cards, not exceeding six lines, 86.0 per year. Business locals, ten oents per Une for the first Insertion, and Ave cents per line for eaofc snbse quest insertion. A Special Drive in Couches! We are selling LOTS of them. When you see our selection and the prices you'll no wonder WHY? AUSTIN D. BROWN SPECIAL CUT PRICE SALEpM WOMEN'S® SHOES 25 grade, to close, at $1.49. 21 pair Ladies', same as above but not so fine, and $1.90 grade, to close at $I.2Q. pair like the above in a regular $1.75 grade to close at $1.19. These are great values which we wish to close out and make room for spring stock. .... $2.00 THE SHOE nEN LANDCEMENT a Also Louisville Cement kept on hand. Maquoketa Lime, Stucco and Callolite Plaster, Plaster Hair. -iu. a Flour and all kinds of Feed, Hay and Straw, Wheat 1 acre*, in Fralrl* Township (or sale. before buy- Boardway. it To Dress Well Visit tbe Clothing House of J. H.Allen. All the latest and fineat Novelties in 1 Men, Boys' and Children's Clothing: Shirts In all new designs, and Neckwear of every description. We Will Satisfy Any taste in our large selection J. H. Alien