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F040404IM0404040M4HM940404040M404040M4H04H040* NBW YORK A N N E O O S A E N O E A A S E W A & A W E N E $rp Pi?'#? 4 We are A X*% {K ft *.S» 0 St .S Open And doing business in the old stand, in the Russell building, formerly occupied by Scharles the Tailor, and are showing all the latest weaves and fabrics for spring, and while the weather is rather cool yet, the early buyer gets the first pick. Cleaning and Repairing Carefully Done. Do You Drink Pure Sweet Apple Cider? "By Jove, Just Like Father Used to Make.", That is what all say that have used it. Bring your jug and try a gallon of Red Jacket, the best Cider made. A. E. PETERSON. (Bity and Wicinity —Cap Wellman of Masonville spent a day the first of last week with relatives in this city. —Lmnont Leader: Miss Emily Otis was ahsent'from school a fmv days last week and her place was supplied by Miss Altha lirown. —R.-li. Robinson is hauling bun her to his farm southeast of Mason ville where he intends erecting new house and barn this spring. —The First National Bank hav modern burglar and fire proof safe ty deposit boxes and the rent is very reasonable. Put your valuables where they are insured against de struction. —A new Oliver typewriter has been installed at the Postal Tele graph ollice and Manager Mothering ton is now writing letters we pre sume at tlio rale of 100 words a a minute. —At the Brown furniture store for the next two weeks you can buy handsome iron beds from $2..'i() to §5.10. Bargains in other lines are also being offered and prices are listed in a quarter pago 011 the first page of this issue. —An exchange gives the follow ing cure for broken dishes. It will not cost much to try it and if it works good it is valuable A lady has found a sure cure for broken dishes. If the dish to ho mended can be tied to gether with a stout string, then placed in boiling.milk and left for one hour, you can never tell the dish has been broken and it can after wards bo put in boiling water with out the pieces coming apart. This experiment has been tried and prov en, and many are the broken dishes which were thought to be useless ami are now as good as ever. —The Palmer-Hubbard Co., who lately began a branch office at Ryan are up-to-date dealers as is evid enced by the following, copied by us from the IndependenceBulletin-Jour nal: Five of the ten refrigerator cars ordered by the Palmer-Hubbard company have been built and reach ed Independence last week. They are a fine advertisement for the com pany and for Independence. Each car bears the lettering, "Palmer IIubbard Company, Wholesale But ter and Eggs Independence, Wat erloo and Ft. Dodge." In one corner is the inscription, ''Return to Indep endence, Iowa." The Palmer-llub baril company is, we are informed, the only Iowa Company that ships its product in its own refrigerator cars. —Dyersville Commercial: Geo. Lattner of Worthington depart ed for Wisconsin from this station last Sunday evening. Henry Wernko had business at Manchester last Tuesday. Mr. Henry A. Deut meyer of South fork was here on business Saturday. His brother Frank went homo with him to visit for a few days. a Mr. and Mrs. John Nurro of near Petersburg were here on business last Tuesday. Joseph KirchholT left for Butte Montana last Monday night, where he will remain for some time. Jos many friends wish him success. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harden and son Frank were at Manchester several days last week visiting friends Mr. Harden and family will soon depart for Breckenridge, whore they will re side in the future. If we are correctly informed more than a year has passed since this county has been scourged by traveling fakirs. The last gang was the fruit tree orchard planting crowd that gathered in many sheckels of their too confiding vict ims They were preceeded, by about a twelvo months, by the cloth catalogue gang that did a rushing and paying business. It has been several years since the festive traveling lightning rod man has been here and liis com ing may be looked for any day. A safe way is to let traveling men with whom you are not acquainted, who wish to get your signature to a paper, severely alone. Deal only with those you know to be honest and reliable. This advice is gra tiously offered by the Democrat as it has been many times before. If it is accepted and acted upon, there are many who will profit thereby. Last Friday marked the passage of Deacon Merrill's ninety first mile stone and a number of his friends called during the afternoon to tend er him happiest felicitations of tlio occasion and to wish for him that the passing of this ninety first mile stone in health and pleasantness might bo only the presagement of many other birth days to come. Among theso callers were Judge A. S. Blair and the Messers J.D. Annis, C. B. and 11. O. Harris, Joseph Hutchinson, William Long, William Mcintosh, H. L. Rami, C. E. Sager, J. U. Schilling, M. F. LeRoy, \V. C. Caw ley, A. D. Brown, Soth Brown, and A. N. Smith. In behalf of this company, A. N.Smith and H. O. Harris presented Mr. Merrill with a handsome easy chair which was vory gracefully accepted by the host with an invitation to theso friends to call again in nine years, at which time ho promised them that they would find him comfortably enscons ed in and enjoying that easy chair. An invita'tion which his large circle of friends will remember and antici pate its acceptance with real pleas ure. The company spent the after noon telling tales of by gone days, the host, who came to Delaware county in 1855, entertaining them with many liappy reminiscences of pioneer life in this state. Mr. Mer rill conducted one of the first smithies in Delaware county and for [a number of years shod the pioneer's horse for eight cents a shoe, cash or ten cents a shoe on time. Nowadays our villiage black smiths charge forty cents a shoe for new shoes. We congratulate Mr. Merrill upon his arrival at so goodly an age and may the years of his life remain to him a gracious store filled with the best things of time. A Letter from Mrs. R. W. Tirrill. AT SEA 1200 MIF.KS FROM HONOLULU FKURUAIIY, 12th, 1904 DEAR FRIEND MRS. PRKISSNER: I commenced my letter here with nothing in sight but the dullest of Bkies and restless waters. The sea has been somewhat rough for three days, a good many of the passengers are ill, some keeping their beds two days. R. W. and myself escaped with only slight symptoms. This morning tlio sea is more calm but there aro breezes euougli all tlio time. As the days at sea are rather un eventful I will go back to San Francisco to February 2d when wo set Bail on the Klirca for Hong Kong via Honolulu. 'Tis quite an event when a great ship leaves for a foreign port and the interest was as intense on Pacific steamer as when one departs from Atlantic shores for there are always some doubts whether she will "weather all gales." At 12 o'clock we went on board, all was hustle, jostlo and excitement with the handling of freight and passengers and baggage arriving at tlio last moment but the whistle sounds, adieus aro said, and amid waving handkcrcliiofs the Korea backs from the harbor and the journey had begun. The dining hall was radiant with gay flowers, adding beauty to the tables with their snowy damask and glittering silver. Our cabin lias good ventilation and is fair size, llio social hall roomy and pleasant, writing room large and airy and all is "spick and span" clean, as the days have passed the untiring industry of the Chinese servants keep all part of the great ship in good order. The passengers seem to he a lino class of people, some young, but mostly middle aged and aro very much given to books, and what should we do if we had no reading matter? We could npt look at the waves all the time as they surge unceasingly. A short distance out we passed small island, that in the distance looked like a mere pile of rocks, yet fishermen and their families call the place their home, and a teacher is provided for their children. After this was passed no sail was seen and nothing special occurred. We ate, drank and in general were merry excepting those having slight attacks of sea sickness, and we soon became forgetful that any danger could lurk to mar our anticipations. True to hope and expectancy the early morning of February 8th, gave us sight of land. Wo were ncaring the island of Oalm whose capitol is Honolulu. Its harbor was before us and the city, half hidden by a fog, was almost within reach. At the foot of Diamond Head Promontory a light signaled to beware of shallow water. Our groat ship moves slow ly but surely onward, and at 9 o'clock touched land. A crowd awaited, and waving handkerchiefs, welcomed those particularly interest ed. All hastened to leave the ship. After tlio usual salutations when friend meets friend, a wreath of flowers, a veritable blossoming chain, was thrown about the neck of in coming guests, an expression of joy for safe arrival^ and future good wishes. The ceremony was new to us and it seemed pleasing and appro priate. Tlio night before the city had been visited by a heavy rain and "clouds yet hung dark," but a few hours ater bright sunshine and the blue skies were over all. This is much more of a metropolis than I expect ed, good business blocks and spa cious hotels are not lacking. A fine system of electric street railway of fers speedy communication from city to suburb, rendering sightsee ing far more enjoyable than carriage hire." Pacific Heights" is a moun tain suburb whose handsome houses attract the eye far out at sea. It lies between two valleys and over looks "Punch Bowl"" an extinct crater, whose top shows grass and foliage and cultivated spots. An electric railway connecting wi^ the city system winds up the Heights nearly a thousand feet. This ride was charming and tho views from the summit magnificent, and all other "show places", grow pale in comparison. Before you the Pacific reaching far and wide. At your right, mountains of different bights overlapping one another with sides one mass of shaded foliage where gloom and grauduro and silence reign. Jungles of wild growth ap pear in the distanco and pasture ands slope to the base of the moun tains. Dwellings of farmers and dairymon add variety to the scene, while below on the slopo and valley are vegetable gardens from our point of view tlioy seem like tho smallest patches and so divided and sub-divided are they that they seem like "green crazy quilts". Waikiki Beach at the foot of tho Diamond Head is a noted resort. Hotels with ample rooms are not wanting. We pass tho former residence of Queen "Lil". Scjiools and colleges are noticeablo and a museum is ono of the attractions parks are frequent and we pass the government nursery, also banana orchards, rice fields, fields of sugar cane, beautiful homes half hidden by tropiial foliage, while hedges of hibiscus line the way. Wo had planned to stop at this island a weok or more, but by so doing should miss passage on this fine ship, cqnsoquontly decided to see what we could soo in one day, nnd deferred our visit. Thero was much of worth to notice on the street. The "Mother Hubbard" dress seems adnpted to them and they wear it with a truly native grace. The high class natives lack neither style or color, most were dressed in white and many were fine looking, and there are the Chinese and Japs and the mixed population which ever way you looked and taking all into consider ation it appears to me to be a very peculiar corner of theso United States of America. But then the sight seer, with greedy eyes, becomes weary before the spirit calls a halt, thus with us before the BUII was lost back of the everlasting hills, we slowly took our way to the ship, our home for the present. Oh how I like the sea with its blue black foam tipped waves, how beautiful when at rest, how grand when storms disturb and mountains high they dash one another, lashing tho ship that falls in their way. February iltli. Wo were on dock for a last view of this island city While waiting to heaV the signal for starting we could but notice tho dark cloud that overhung the city like a black wall before us, was it ominous? Suddenly a rift in the blackness, and tho orb that centuries ago answered, "Let there bo light," appeared in all its brilliancy, dis persing clouds and forebodings to me it was a good omen suggesting that in due season we should an chor in safe waters. Tlio usual commotion of again "setting sail" was enacted, crowds waving hand kerchiefs, swinging of hats, smiles, team, flowers, adieus, and wo were lookers on. Again the last whistle the ship moves—we are at sea. Sometime in tho forenoon we pass the island of Kanai it appeared very fertile, chief industry the cultivation of sugar cane, sugar mills are in sight and little villages, houses all of one pattern, homes of the work men. Nice homes appear amid trees and foliage. One thing strikes me as singular and unnecessary, so many people keep their rooms so late in the morning, must have their coffee be fore leaving their beds or can think of dressing. As for us, wo are up and out on deck one and one-half hours before breakfast, which is served at 8:30. Thus you see old habits cling to us no matter what the environments may be. Coffee and toast are served at a. m. or before, and really 1 meals are served daily, of course the mid time course is light as well as the 9 o'clock p. m. lunc. A great vari ety of food is served at tho three regular meals and many of the dish es relish very well. There iB quite a library and it is well patronized. A voyage without a mascot would not be considered, but we are doub ly in li ck with ours, two little war riors, one is two months old going to the Philippines, the other is four months old and is on the way to Pekin. Wednesday tho 10th. Sea rough more or less all day and many are sick enough to keep their beds, and others aro truly ill We had only slight symptoms, how glad we are to escape, I can scarcely under stand it. At night the sea was not calm, but we slept well for all tho sea rolls, and the vessel creaks, faith in the ship and Captain and trust in the Most High that stilled the tempest centuries ago. The rough weather continued two days and nights but nothing to what we saw in the Atlantic. We are feeling well, and although the voyage continues six days, beforo touching at Yokohoma (where this well bo mailed) we are not tiled of it. Tho 13th of tho month by my Almanac was dropped, lost as we approached the 180th meridian, and in place of Saturday, Sunday was observed. Services were held in Social Hall. The 15th day brought good weather and a tournament, sort of a climax to the deck games very inter esting to those caring for sucli sports. One feature was, "The tug of war" by ladies, an illustration of an-out-of-place-game, for several are half sick by reason of it. February 16th. Early on deck, and the first sound that greeted us was what appeared to be the firing of 100 guns at sunrise, but no, nothing as American as that, it proved to be the Chinese New Years morning and the joy of the Celestials were made known through the medium of noise from many fire crackers, and why should they not celebrate one of their national events though far from home, that they love so well. Leav ing that, we witnessed the grandest sight since sailing. A morning rainbow, one that could not be sur passed on land or sea, such vivid coloring over the dark waters with the gentlest showers about, us, and this leads me to say, just now it seems as though the ship was the center of creation, around which all things must revolve. As the morning wore away tho halls seemed thick with mysteries, an air of obscurity was taking root was it the mutterings of war, did it precede mutiny? Noon time passed and lo! a small car load of white goods found their way in the midst of an amazed people. Then from all quarters came matron and maid en and busy fingers plied scores of needles-, and the forms those goods assumed were to be later develop ments. After sunset, nnd when bright the lamps shone from pro menade to hurricane deck, white robed figures flitted quietly from room and passage way to upper heights and there were also glimps es of scarlet, and flowers and gay sashes: Soon music arose and the audience gathered and spell bound, listened and watched for now the secret was out, we looked upon a masked ball. How any such en tertainment could flouridi indepen dent of tho outside world passeth understanding. Never before in history, ancient or modern, was sheet or pillow case called to deck the form with such effect. Oh could I name the visions that floated before us in the mazy dance. Moth er Hubbard gown, and father Hubbard as well, sleeping beauties awoke, white terrors and terrors in white, the three graces double mask ed, pretty and the reverse, nymphs, fairies, ballet dancers and dancers independent. Huhi dancers from Samoa, upper part of dress pink panjama, skirt of wild grass, head and waist decked with the gayest of flowers, a unique figure, six feet tall aud well proportioned, manners in harmony with assumed character. surmounted by scarlet jacket The troubadour in his own peculiar style, Chinamen in their well beloved suits of blue and graceful braids, although rather hemp colored, and all merry as a marriage bell. At a lato hour masks were removed and not until then did wc realize who was who. Tho ollicers encourage entertain ments to nmuso, the guests, and tho second oflicer is supposed to bo the manager of such spoilt. Tlu-y aro very gracious and no one has cause for complaint either of ollicers or servants. Tho sea air is doing wonders for us as well as for others, and we are feeling well. The day is beautiful, so warm and comfortable. It is now 1 :.'!0 o'clock p. in., lunch over, the Dr., who is librarian, lias given out tho books, some aro road ing, others are at cards and one poor mortal is trying lo finish a letter ideas seem scarce, the quietness of tho day is not indueivc to literary brilliancy, and is just. the time tu el.'iso. Sincerely yours, ELIZA J. \V. Tiiiiiiu.. HOMKSEICKKliS EXCJUltIONS. One fare plus S2.00 round trip rau via C. G. W. lty„ to points in the follow ing states: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Assinl boia and Saskatchewan, Tickets on sale April 5th and ltlth. For fur her Information apply to any Ureat West er Agent, or J. I5. Elmer, li. I'. A., Chi cago. liwu. FEMALE WEAKNESS 6421-2 Congre89 St. POSTLAND, MAINS, Oct. 17,1902. I consider Win© of Cardui superior doctor's raedicino I over used Mdlhww whereof I speak. I nuf« feredfor niao months with suppressed menstruation which completely pros trated me. 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Tlio Regular and Reliable Chi cago Specialist, who has visited Manchester, every mouth since 1901, will be at the Clarence House, •Monday, April 19, (one day only) and return once every 28 days. Office hours 8 n. m, to 5:30 p. m. Indei April isndence, tiedney Uotel, Tuesday, lit. OtnH.M'N Of the F. *4*4***4 ft •jiMsm iwi luun^nny me cr*sc9 no unaertanc: una sends to Incimihlo r.nmo without trfkluK:: ffo from them. Tills i* why Im continues his visits your after, r, while other doctors lmve undo a fow visits nnd stopped. l)r. SlKUlonbiT 3r Is an otnineutly suci-u.ssful specialist In ni jhronlo diseases, proven ly ti many euros etree'etf in chronic eases which vo battled the .skUl of all other physicians. Jiis hospital v\* peileucoand exteoslvo pr 'ice havo maUo him so prolleieut that he can name and locati a dis ease lu a fev minutes. Treats all -able rros of Catarrh, Noso, Throat and ureases. 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