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Cl)e democrat
xJOLixSHED EVERY rfEDrtEGOAY.
^HONSON. P. M. CARR.
3RONSON & CARR.
Editors and Proprietors
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Yearly, lu advance
If not paid in advance
Tho wrltcr'8 name must accompany any artl
dc for publication, us un ovldenc of good faith
of the editor*.
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H. H. LAWRENCE.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGtiON. Special at
JT ttntlon given dliicasud of children. liavt*
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also made a special study of Gynaecology,
O^atetrica, and Uncial Diseases All chronic
I DUeases successfully treated with the aid of
I Various Thermal and Massage treatment. All
chronics solicited. Consultation free. Ofllcc
over Work's market. Ail calls promptly at
tended. Residence on Mnin street, the old Dr.
liolaey property.
ALEX. SEFSTROM.
GKNEUAL
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NOTICE.—On thoallp of paper upon whioh
•the name in printed,"appears tbo date to which
the paper is paid for, And a renewal (u always
respectfully solicited.
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|Sav
BLACKSMITH, liorseshoin« a
specialty. IntorXcrrtnK and corns euniu or
no pay. Frlcee icasouabie, and the b»?st of
wors guaranteed A shate of the public patron
ace Is solicited, Shop on Franklin stroot, near
the bridge.
DENTISTS.
O. A. DURHAM. C. L. LKIOII
DUNHAM & LEIGH.
kontists. Ofllco in the Adams bulliinj? on
D°
Franklin street. Tolojthoiie 21B.
C. W. DORMAN.
"HENTIST. Office on Frankllu Street, north
*J of the Globe Hotel, M&nohoster, Iowa.
Dental Surgery in all Its branohes. Makes
4?9quent visits to neighboring towns. Always
at office on Saturday*.
E. FC. NEWCOMB,
V^IST.
OlUce over Clark &
9»oro
'^hr!:
WATCHMAKERS,
I^awrenco's
v{. 'H.ts/
j- Vj#v* 2
&
Shoe Sale!
Our large stock must be reduced before the
SPRING GOODS arrive. See our shoes, get our
prices and be convinced that we can save you $8*
money.
mmm-
Look For Prices Later.
Grassfield Bros.
WE FIT THE FEET. MANCHESTER, IOWA.
Our Business Directory,
ATTORNEYS,
.W. DUNHAM. B. B. 8TILKS W. II. NOHRX8
DUNHAM. NORRtS A UTILES.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND NOTARIES
i- Public. Special attention given to Collec
S tlons Insurance. Real Estate and Loan Atrt.9.
Dftlue In City Hall Block, Manchester, la.
I 0, YonAN. H. F. ABHOLD. M.J. YOBAH
YORAN. ARNOLD YORAN
I A TTORNEYS AT LAW. and Real Estate
x*. Agents. Office over Delaware Couuty State
Bank, Manchester, Iowa.
C.JE.BaONSOK. li. M. Cahr.
BfiONSON A CARR.
I ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Special attention
Xf giv«n to collections. Office in Democrat
Building. Franklin Strcot. Manchester, Iowa.
..theS I LAIR.
Office In the
City Hull
Manchester, Iowa.
A TTORNKY AT LAW.
Block. Mai
PHYSICIANS.':
A. J. WARD,
PHYSICIANat
and Surgeon, will attend oallh
promptly all hour:* of th« »"t»y or
CAmont, Iowa..
Ofllce hours for eye casus am
...Jto »:0U
tin streets.
HOLL1STER LUMBER CO.
1Costs
UVHKR and all kinds of building materia!-,,
and Coal, Corner of Delaware ami
Madison streets.
THOS.T. CARKEEK.
ltCUITKCT AND HUtMUXU SUPKUIN
A TENDKNT,S. E. Coruor.Hthand .Ualu St.
Dubuiiuo. Iowa.
SCHARLSS. THE TAILOR.
Il.Otland
Manclieater, Iowa.
MKU'JilAXTTAII.Oltand
Goods,
PETER BOARDWAY.
DKALKU
Pat­
entees,
WW.
Have the county rlpht for Stpo'B Pat
BRt Grave Covert also dealer In Iron Fences,
Will moot all competition.
WM. MOINTOSH.
W. N. BOIXTON. J. F. MCEWTCN.
BOYNTON & MotJWEN.
Jewelers and Engravers
dealers lu Watches, Clocks, Silver and
UCMCNI TU V* VIW.OI MM... I.«» I. ., ,, I
•iated
A.D.BROWN,
j'.er in furniture etc., and
Main Street.
F. WtRKMEISTER,
NKRAL DEALER IN FURNITURE,
Cofttns. Picture Frames, Etc. A comploto
tof Furniture and Upholstery always ou
i, .at priccs that defy competition. A good
se kept for attendance at fnnorals. kxrl
lOwa.
ALLEN & STOREY.
)THING and Gents furnishing goods,
aer Main and Franklin streets.
L. R. STOUT,
THING and Gents furnishing goods.
Uty lio.ll Block, Franklin Street.
KIDDELL & CO.,
''GOODS, Carpote, Millinery, Hats and
Japs, Boots and Shoes, etc.. Main St.
heater, Iowa.
A.THORPE.
MU15TOR OF KALAMITY'S PLUN
iStore at 1 Dealer in Clothing. Boots.
rNotioDS, tc. Masonic Block Munches
ira.
GRASSFIELD BROS
(Succt snorts to Setli Brown.)
'g AND SllOKS of all grades and prlcos.
*om Work and Hemirlug given special
\, Stor* in City Hall Block.
S LISTER,
'TKS, TINWARE, ETC.
''uner and does all1
'!8H and dispatch,
"-nit, Main St.
.n.)
ukor, Dolhl,
ad In a work
able. Your
I6tf
alnst cyclonea
able Fbnenix
BB.Agenu.
IN tloui1, fi'ed, hay strsiw, Maquok'-
ts limo, stucco, ami common and Atlas ee
m«fnt. Ti'iepiione liy. Lower Franklin St.
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PETERSON BROS.
KADKRS IN (Jrocerios, Provisions, Crook
ery, Fruits, etc. Main Street.
J. M. PEARSE.
I USTICK OK TI1K 1'KACK AND COLLECT
rj OR. All business entrusted to 1dm given
prompt attention. ORiue hi city Hall block,
second door.
120 Acre Farm for Sale.
We aro agents fur the sale of
jJ/gL*A thu O. A Underwood Farm of
KlIinMaL r£i acr«.-x. situated about Tiniiex
WfSJwVWU- »orth east of Manchester.
mg&2£ssam&- There is a bargain for some
purchaser in tins property. BUONSON & CAKK
House For Bent.
A good house situated on Fratiklln stroot just
south of my resldenco, now occup by Burton
Clark. Jos. HUTCHINSON.
CYCLONKAND TORNADO
Insurance In first class companies written aud
policies issued by BUONSON 6 CAKK.
THE SUBE WAY TO CALIFORNIA,
You can go to California in a through
Tourist car, which leaves Cedar Rapids
every Tuesday at 8:40 p. m., via li., C.
li.&Is'.Rv. Our rates are as low as
via any other route and the service
Urst-ciasB in every respect.
a.Hf
^iri a spoclalty. Will meot patients jit
^'edncsaiiy of each woek.
VETERINARIAN.
DR. J. W. SCOTT,
.iNAKY Surcocm. and Dentist. 501
.1 Stroot. Tolephon 233.
^CHESTER MARBLE WORKS
propared to lurnidh Granite aud Morble
Monumouts and Head Stones of various do-
If you are thlukiug of making the
tiip, do nut fail to secure your berths
ahead through any agent ol' this com
pany.
-•"i -i.'-, u,i r, yij??wi!?wf!gfj|wwPi^P'fwsig?^^
ENTEUBD AT THE PORTOMCE AT
MANOTTKRTKH, IOWA, A* S*COHT-CLA8S MATTER.
oQP
Wenta L-'urnlshlnfr
WM. DENNIS.
/tAJU'KNTER, CONTRACTOR & HUILDKK.
*1 I am now prepared to do all work In my
Nltno
in a Rood and workmanlike maimer. Satis
faction K"uniutcid. Plans and efliinutes fur*
nisliPd. Work taken In town or country, Simp
near the btand tower on West Sldo of rivor.
C. E. CATES.
/"UTY DRAYMAN. Am prspared to do all
work In my lino, Moving household ROOIIS
and pianob a specialty. All work will recelvo
prompt attention. A share of your putronago
Is solicited. Charlies rl«ht. Give your drayhi«
to a man who has come to »tay.
B.CLARK.
HY (lOODS, Nation*, ('arpets, (Jcnts I?ur
ntshiii^ Roods, etc. Kr.inklin Street.
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QUAKER MILL CO.
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J. LINDSAY. M. D.F
•HYKICIAN. surgeon »«d Kje Spoclallsl.
fitting glasses
t:00 to b:00 p. m. Ofllco corner Malu and r«uik-
7U.OUII and Peed. Manufacturers of the eel
niutcd Whlto Satin at.d Wh'te 1'carl Flour.
LAWRENCE & GREMB.
7\UUGS, Wall 1'apor. Stationery, l'aint8,0:i«
.1? uto. City Hall block.
J.\(i. G. FAKMICK,
A. G. I". .V T. A.
li„ U. li. .V: Si. lly.
•i4w2H. Cedar ltapids, Iowa.
The large aud increasing circulation
of The Iowa Homestead iu this county
is a matter for congratulation to the
publishers and to good farming, for, of
Ware, Fine Jewelry, Speotaolcs, cut.ery, all tab pdpers ol Its class in tho coun
jfu&ioai instruments, etc., Main stroet. try, It is easily the best and most help
ful. Its Special Farmers' Institute
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editfouB, issued with the regular edition
undertaker, the first week in each month, have benu
for years the admiration of all practi
cal farmers, Written wholly by farm
ers, they aro full of actual experience,
and smell of the soil. We have been
fortunate encr sh this season to secure
terms for The Homestead and its Spec
ial Farmers' Institute Editions,together
with The Poultry Farmer ana The
Cor
Farmers' Mutual insurance Journal,
four of the most valuable farm publi
cations in the country, that enable us to
offer the four in connection with our
own paper for 81.10 for the entire live,
one year. This is emphatically a good
thing, and no farmer in ibis county
should fail to take advantage of this
offer, I?or a large line of thoroughly
practical farm reading nothing has
ever
been offered before that equals it. A
county paper, a farm paper, a poultry
paper, a farm insurance paper and the
Special Farmers' Isntitute, all for SI.DO
Come in and order them.
Insurance at Cost.
M, 15, ulalr. Secretary of the Delaware County
Farmer's Mutual iusuranco Co,, and County
agent for tho Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance
Co. will be at Fred Blulr's ofllcc In Manchester,
Saturday afternoon of each week. 24tf
F. E. RICHARDSON
Real Estate), Loans and
Insurance.
The Minneapolir. Timep, in an edi
torial on the appointment if Governor
Shaw, in which the paper commends
his littles?, hup this to Bay of Secretary
il^on: "Indeed -and with the high
est regard for Mr. Shaw we should pre
fer the retention of the aentleman
whose ability has been so fully proved
and the selection of secretary rf the
treasury from some other state, if the
onnntry must lose Mr. Wilson's services
as a result of Mr. Shaw's appointment.
Topographic Maps of the Middle West
ern Stafes.
Among the topographic maps which
the U. S. Geological Survey has re
cently IsBiied are several of the middle
western states. Some of them are re
prints of previous editions which have
been exhausted, and others are now
printed end issued for the first time.
There are three from Illinois: The
Joliet Sheet of the city of Joliet and
thBt part of Will County lying to the
north the Ottawa Sheet of the section
along the Illinois River in the vicinity
of Ottawa In Lsselle County. There are
two parts of Iowa: The Rock Island
Sheet or quadrangle Including the city
of Rock Island in Illinois anj Daven
port in Iowa and that part of Scott
County which includes the towns of
Durant, Whitehead, Delmar, and De
witt the Stanwood Quadrangle show
ing the country adjoining the Rock
Island Sheet on the west, like the lat
ter, the map shows all the towns and
villages, water courses, roads, and even
the locRtion of farm bouses in the out
lying districts the last named maps
are new.
In Wisconsin The Dells Quadrangle
is published for the first time. It
Bhows the narrow gorge of the Wiscon
sin river near Kibourn, known as The
Dells, and Blso the country to the west.
The St. Paul Sheet in Minnesota shows
the territory covered by the city of St.
I'au', and the country to the south.
The relief or Topographic features are
clearly indicated by contonrs most of
the maps are drawn on a scale of one
inch to the mile. They can be bad at
the regular rate. 5 cents each, on appli
cation to the director of the Geological
Survey.
Censuring Our Heroes."
From the New York World.
Not since the fabled free mouse baited
the caged lion has there, been so extra
ordinary a spectacle as that presented in
the censuring of Admirals Dewey and
Schley and Gen. Miles by Elihu Itoot.
Mr. Root is a corporatlou and trust
lawyer, who was appointed to the bead
of the War Department solely for polit
ical reasons, lie is absolutely without
any military or naval training or experi
nee. He never "set. squadr.-.n in t!e
lield" nor saw one on the water. Yet
he has the colossal impudence to rej.
rimand Gen. Miles, the hero of a hut
dred battles, for expressing his willing
ness to accept the judgment of Admir.il
Dewey, the hero of Manila, that Amir
al Schley was in actual command at the
battle of Santiago and was the hero
that all'air.
Thus with one sweeping ceneure doeB
this knight of the quill condemn thrie
of the bravest, most experienced and
most successful lighters on land and sea
that this nation has ever produced.
That this reprimand was made "by
direction of the presideut," addB neither
to its propriety nor its justice. It simp
ly addj the opinion of an amateur in
war to the sophistications of a lawyer
in condeming the action and the judg
ment of three veteran commanders.
The hot-headedneBs of the rebuke is
Roosevelt's its impudence is plainly
Root's. History with impartial hand
will pass upon these two and their aid
ers aud abettors her abiding censure for
this insult to the three heroes whose
fame is beyond the reach of envy or de
traction.
Rural School Merger.
A form of merger likely to be popu
lar is that of rural schools. It bears
about the same relation to eUlck-ncy of
service that the rural mail delivery does
to the fourth-class poBt oilice. The
establishment of a delivery district Is
in effect the consolidation of a number
of small poBtotliceB, since the latter ara
discontinued and the mail brought to
the doors of the reBidentB. In the
consolidation of a number of rurt.l
schools better school buildings ami
a more ellicient teaching force is
made possible at no increase in cost,
and usually at a reduction iu Bggregatt
cost, and fuuds are available to provide
transportation at the expense of the
consolidated 'istrict for the children
residing at a distance from the school
house. The plan, as put in practice iu
some of the eastern states, is said to
have bad very beneficial results.
Mr. J. W. Uison, the Minnesota sup
erinteudeut of instruction, is very en
thusiastic in regard to the possibilities
uf rural school merger in this state,
i'laus are now maturing for the consoli
dation of the six school districts or a
township in Faribault county. Mr
Olsou says: "At present most rural
school dlstrlctB, to ue self-supporting,
are so large that some of the children
must walk from two to three miles.
The idea is to consolidate several of
such districts in such manner that no
pupil will be more than five miles tuvay,
and then give them a ride to thu central
school. To ride five mileB tak»s less
time and is less of a hardship than to
walk two."
It is estimated that in such consoli
dation about one-tbird of the present
teaching force can be dispensed with,
that the schools can be graded and the
work cfasBllied, resulting in greater ef
ficiency, and that there will be con
••"'"•aihuvitipc for
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OHice over the Racket btoi
Manchester. Iowa.
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The Days Are Getting Long,
tFrom Tlic Ilonseltolcll
Along Uie bright borozon-line.
Will soon rewound with chirping song
Throughout Its still and solemn deeps—
Tho day* aregrowlng long.
A week ago, the sunrise lil.izo
Left far to shadowy north yon splro
Tills Sunday morn, the flrst bright rays
Irs belfry lights with gleam of tire.
Tlmt Rhfhhig through its window, seems
An eyv prophotlc of tho throng
Of joys with which the vision teems
When days aregrowlngloug.
Must pn?s ero treading hoavenly ways,
our sun each day the zenith nears.
We sit in memory's realm of song.
Like diamonds soon will gleam earm toars
Life's day is growing long.
The writer is desperately afraid of
the roup. We do not believe there is
any cure for it, notwithstanding the
numerous advertised remedies to that
effect. We are positive that we have
been the loter by every attempt we have
made to cure a fowl suffering with that
disease in the fullest development. The
only safe course is in prevention, and
anything which tends in this direction
should not be neglected. A heavy coat
of whitewash, or the frequent scatter
ing of air slacked lime about the poul
try honse in winter reduces the chanceB
of an outbreak of the disease. We
know this to be a fact, and use the lime
from a sense of duty without trying to
solve the mistery of how it operates to
produce this effect.—Wallaces' Farmer.
Raise More Farm Horse
Tnere is too little horse power In
New England to properly till and cul
tivate the soil, says l'rof. Charles Wil
liam llurkitt in l!ulIetiaS2 of the New
Hampoh'.re oxperir-e sta»'w. There
are thousands of acr .j of tillable land
in tho east that have not felt the plow
for a long series of years, Eome for de
cades and some for a half century. Soil
will not remain productive if untilled.
We have not enough horses or working
units in the stBte to do the regular
farm work and to carry on tillage as it
should bS done. The ox, generally
speaking, has gone, while the number
of horses has not increased proportion
ately.
l'ractically the only supply of horseB
is from other states yot this Btate is
quite able to supply its full needs and
could have to spare for demands else
where. The work lies with the farmers
themselves, not only to increase the
number of working horses, b.ut to im
prove them and ma!:e them more ser
viceable.
By using the better grade of mares
for breeding purpose.) r.nd having the
service of some pure bred sire of some
draft or cosch breed of good type and
conformation, it would be but a short
time until the character of the whole
horse stock was changed into a better
and improved one. Gocd draft and
coach stallions can be secured foi about
soOO, Several farmers could pt- hase
a stallion of the type desir- i, and ere
cqjtld bo engaged several mares foi the
first season at a moderate charge for
service which wouid pay not only a high
r^te for money invested, but would go
a long ways for paying the full cost.—
Farm Notes.
Reckless Farmers.
Some farmers seem t- delight
reckless habits, luvitW disaster
through a Beetning imp' it trust ir
good luck alone saving them One
man will turn his stock into 1 corn
fields the very day he linishe:
sv.
MANOFIESTEK, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1902.
Dividing earth from Orlont sk
Wo look more northward for gn
Of light ouch morn as darknoss uie»
Yon wood, toward which the sun siow croop
1
little more. He will rarely own his
-s
Jvf
Life's day is growing long. Wo scan
With curious, hopeful, awe-struck gaze
Lift'e dim horizon-line, that man
—Karl Marbl
Use of Lime in Winter.
The liberal use of lime about the
poultry house in winter tendB to the
prevention of roup. We have never
heard anyone attempt a scientific ex
planation of it, but the fact is beyond
dispute. Compaiatively few people
realize the Importance of whitewash
lato in the fall. This is usually done in
the spring and summer as a disinfect
ant and a safeguard against hot weath
er diseases. Hut it is no less important
in the fall. lu fact, it would be better
to trust to other preventive measures in
the spring rather than omit the
thorough liming of the house on the
eve of winter.
A LIVING BAROMETER.
ri,r Crnl»liktk Spider Thnt Pirne* a.
VDritlntr, Wont Ho I- Sltnrp,
In Ytn-utau. :t land of many curiosi
ties. there Is a living barometer in the
form of a small spider, called "am" ou
account of the effect produced by Ita
poison. As far as Its own conduct goes,
the Insect is inoffensive and can be
handled with Impunity, but if anybody
has the mlsfortuue to get one mysteri
ously mixed with his food lie is eertaln
to die after a few hours aud meanwhile
for some unexplained reason will fre
quently ejaculate "Am, am, am!" hence
the name of the spider. Throughout
the peninsula this Is affirmed to be a
fact, and If an am falls Into fodder of
horses or mules the animal that swal
lows It surely dies.
This spider Is shaped like a crab,
minus the claws, aud Is of a bright yel
low color, with brown spots the big
gest could be accommodated upon a
silver dime. Its favorite abode is
among the leaves of the banana shrub,
commonly, but erroneously, called tree.
There It spins with extreme rapidity.
Its'*web, which is prodigiously large,
considering the size of Its architect,
and proceeds to devour the flies that
are unlucky enough to get entangled
In the meshes of this astonishing little
glutton, that Is not satisfied with less
than a dozen a day—that Is to say. It
consumes a good deal more than Its
owl. bulk. Its progeny Is numerous
and appears at first like more black
specks, smaller than the smallest pin's
bend.
The sky may be blue and cloudless
when suddenly the am commences tak
ing In Its sails, or, rather, gathering In
Its net, with neatness and dispatch,
cramming the whole of the material
Into Its diminutive body entirely out of
slgljt. A few mluutcs completes the
job! aud the spider fakes up Its posi
tion on the under surface of one of the
grejit leaves to be lulled by the gentle
swaying and sheltered while the storm
rages. It is for this that the am has
prepared, and never is it mistaken.
When the web Is taken In, rain will
certainly fall within an hour.
The moment the am is touched It
feigns death and lets Itself drop, show
ing no sign of life until again placed
updh a leaf or ou the ground. Many a
one lins lain In the palm of the writer's
hand Inert, all its legs drawn close to
Its jbody, while it was examined at
leisure, even being picked up lu the
lingers without Its manifesting any
lite.
BEAUTY-SPOTS.
Try lemon juice for whitening the
neck. Apply It with linen cloib.
After the head has been shampooed,
whenever possible, give the head a sun
bath.
A writer states that oily hands may
be made comfortable and touchable by
wetting them once or twice a day while
clean with cologne, alcohol or toilet
vinegar.
A good circulation is essential to the
growth of the hair as well as to its col
or aud fineness. A frequent, vigorous
brushing with a stiff brush Is the best
method of obtaining this.
A writer upon the complexion says
the best way to treat freckles, a sure
cure in all hut very obstinate eases, in
to touch them night and morning -with
a camel's hair brush after dipping it In
lemon juice.
For a greasy skiu nothing is better
than thfc combination of an ounce of
dried rose leaves, half a pint of white
wine vinegar and half a pint of rose
water. Let the vinegar stjuid on the
rose leaves for a week, then add the
rosewater. Use a tablespoonful in
cup of distilled water.
A Geological Pullney.
Probably the most wild aud unjusti
fiable of all the crude beliefs respect
ing geological resources is that which
holds to the conviction that by going
deep enough the drill is sure to find
scmutliing of value, no matter at what
point the work of boring Is commenced.
There are numerous wise persons in
every community, estimable. Influen
tial and the highest degree public
spirited who are convinced that the
question, for example, of finding coal
in their special locality is simply a
letter of the depth to which the ex
plorations are carried. Hock oil and
natural gas are recognized as desirable
products Iu every progressive commu
nity, and every such community con
tains persons in other respects intelli
gent who are ready to stake their own
fortune and that pf their nearest
friends on the belief that oil aud gas
are everywhere underneath the surface
and tlmt their sources can be tapped
with the drill provided only there is
sufiicicnt capital to keep up the process
of drilling long enough.—M lues and
Minerals.
iking,
letting them have fret run ie lield
all day. If he loses no ttock he laughs
a a 1
does have fatalities among his catt'.e he
whines and growls at his
"beastly luck."
Another man loses young stock every
~?»r with blackleg, lie understands
tue nature of the disease and knows
that he should burn or deeply bury the
carcasses of the dead animals on the
spot where they died, but he don't do
it. lie
tBkeB
no precaution to prevent
the germ from living from year to
»ar in the soil that his stock constant
ly runs over. Tho same ujklesB policy
endangers the health of the swine.
\Y ith bis crops he is alway.i trusting to
luck and taking his chances. Such a
farmer is rarely a successful man. This
is one cause of so many poor renters.
There seems to be no lack of custo
mers for farms just now, especially in
Kansas. This property, however, is not
a drug on the'market. Farm land is
going up every day and town property
down. Who says the farms are being
deserted The burning question will
soon be, not how to keep boys for the
farm, but how to keep farms for the
boys. There are plenty of farmers and
would be more if there were farms.
But without the land there is nothing
NOOIR T»me
Professional Shoppera.
Professional shoppers are employed
by a certain large firm of Loudon
drapers to test the abilities of shop as
sistants. This firm owns over thirty
large shops and employs nearly 1,000
assistants. To find out whether every
customer is politely served a number
o-2 lady customers are employed to call
the various shops. They are told to
give as much trouble as possible and
sometimes to leave without making a
purchase after looking at nearly every
thing in the shop. Should the unfortu
nate assistant's temper not be equal
to the strain, or should a single word
be said that might offend, a report will
lufttlllbly reach headquarters and lead
to tho dismissal of the sorely tried
handler of silks aud ribbons.
All Example,
"Aftor all, It Isn't the big troubles
that bothor a fellow so much it's the
Uttle tiilUKB that annoy us most"
"TbsMs right. Why, thoy say a hor
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net's
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1s only one-thirty-second of
Philadelphia Press.
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own home and when he does it will not
increase in value and wilt not bring in
proQt on the money invested in it. A
farm.in the hands of a good farmer is a
paying investment.—Farmers' Tribune.
The Commoner.
(Mr. Bryan's Paper.)
The Commoner has attained within
Rix months from date of the tirgt issue
a circulation of 100,000,a record proba
bly never equaled in the history of
American periodical literature. The
unparalleled growth of this paper dem
onstrates that there is room In the
newspaper field for a national paper
devoted to the discnfsiou of political,
economic, and social problems. To the
column* of the Commoner Mr. Kryan
conlrisuti'S h«s hest efforts Hnd his re
vifiv it political event* us they arise
from lime to time can not fail to inter
ut thube who study public qne&tions.
Th»» Commoner's regular subscription
pricp ij- Si.00 per year. We have ar
tangfrt with Mr. Bryan whereby we can
furnish his pt«per and the Democrat for
o.je yeur foi 62 20. Tho regular price
of the two papers when subscribed for
separately is S2.50. tf.
iCoal.
"With the advent of the
i-M. &
O. R. R. and the
conilpetion of our new
c:onl sheds on that line,
'Ave
shall be in position
to offer special induce-
ments to the users of
Indiana Block Coal.
Other grades of Soft
and "Hard coal delivered
promptly.
HOLLISTER
LUMBER
COMPANY.
For the
Harness,
Saddles,
5-A Blanks
VOL. XXVIII—NO. 1
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Robes,
Whips,
Prices Right.
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YOU CAN PUT
YOUR
In our rubber footwear,
this fall and winter at a
Lower Price
than we have been able to make
you for several years.
absolutely the best on the mar
ket, have the biggest percentage
of pure gum of any brand 111 tide.
Don't forget the kind, and where
to get them. ",
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Accounted For.
does that man Flta
•uey?
ianed him live i*
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RATES OF ADV.
SPACE. 1W 3w lie
One inoh $100 50 12 0(1 f4
Two tnohea.. 1 fifl mi 5 tf
Three Inches. 4 (Hi a oo 4 no 7
Fourlochea.. li so 8 75 7S in (Mi
Five Inches.. :i(xi 4 50 1 on 13 00
Column.... 4 Ml ti W) 8 00 is oo
Colnmn.... HI (HI 13 (XI ftOO
One Column.. 1UB0 18 OU 25 00 K) (IU
t^PAdvertlsemeuta ordered dlscoi
foro expiration of contract will be
cording to above scale.
Business cards, not exceeding six lb
per year.
liusiness locals, ten cents per line for
insertion, and flvo cents per line for eac
quent Insertion.
1 BROWN, The Furniture Man's
SPECIAL HOLIDAY FURNITURE SALE,
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S -er will appreciate. Special prices will
ments, tho week between Christmas and New Years
Anew lot of those
Genuine KARPEN
Guaranteed construc
tion Couches tire in
nnd they nre Beau
ties. Come in and in
spect our stock nnd
prices, and you will liny the goods,
Will continue for
several days yet, and
there are many Rare
and Exceptional Bar
gains in Furniture,
which tho close buy
prevail in all depnrt-
Yours for a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
And buy your Day Books, Ledgers and Journals of *J
Denton
I Ward.
if E
W have the BEST FLOUR on the market, and are well \jjf
pleased with our trade on same.
We are here to please the trade on all kinds of Groceries.
Our 90 cent Flour.
.Hummer
Come in and take a sack home with you and be convinced.
For Clothes that4
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BROWN, The Furniture Man. IJ
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Finch & Lillibridge,
Can show you something new at very mod
est prices this week. Art Squares, 7x9 to 9x12,
India Lace Curtains, ail different shadings $1.00,
to $1.50, per pair, Couch Spreds and upholster
ing patterns. Don't forget the fine selection of
Pictures, Frames, Moldings, and a store full of
sensible Christmas Presents.
Start the New
Year Right.
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A. B. WATERS, 3
SUCCESSOR TO NOBLE ARNOLD.
Call on
SCH ARLES,
The Tailor.
Wolff Bros. Old Stand,
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