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I We sometimes find that while we
have been standing up for our rights,
all the more desirable seats .have
I been occupied.—Puck.
Dying at the age of 03, James P.
Smith of Alameda, the oldest sur
viving member of the Society of
California Pioneers, said to his. doc
tor: "Don't let them say I died of
old age. Put it down to something
else. Old age has not conquered
mo." The death certificate said, it
was pneumonia.
Hiram Cronk, sole survivor of the
war of 1812, says in an interview
that he feels much obliged to the
New York aldermen who are ar
ranging to give him a fine funeral
and bury him in Cypress Hills
cemetery, Brooklyn. Mr. Cronk,
who is 104 years old, is feeling very
well indeed. He says he has no de
sire to sit behind .the "grim rider on
the palehorge" of which the alder
men spoke, and he begs leave to re
mind them that he fought in the in
fantry and never was a cavalryman.
Representative Needham of Cali
fornia was born in an immigrant
wagon in Carson City, Nov.,' while
his father and mother were on their
way across the plains to California.
When Needham first ran for con
gress in California ho was opposed
by the members of that strong Cali
fornia organization, the Native Sons
of the Golden West. It was stated
that Needham was not a native Cali
fornian and thus entitled to the
support of the Native Sons. "I admit
1 wasn't born in California," eaid
Needham, in making his reply to the
charge, "but it wasn't my fault. I
wanted to bo born in California and
would have been if one of mv father's
mules drawing his emigrant wagon
had not taken sick at Carson City
and held the family up there for a
week or two." .• «.
But Four Kinds of Boysr~s'ua®
President Roosevelt has taken
pains to install into the minds of
his boys an understanding that they
are no better than anybody else, and
that they" must learn their lesson:
and obey the teacher. "There are
only four kinds of boys," ho tells
them—"tall boys and short boys,
good boys and bad boys."
S How Niagara Helps Trade.
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gara (luring the winter months by
shrewd merchants. Shanties are
built 011 the ice about half way to
the shore, on the exact boundary
line between the United States and
Canada, and occupied by traders.
As they have neither rent, United
States duty nor Canadian license to
pay they are enabled to offer their
goods for sale at greatly reduced
prices. The officers of neither coun
try disturb them, because they
would first be compelled to prove
jurisdiction. This would, be im
possible, for by the time the, courts
got around to it it would be spring
and both the ice and the shanties
would be gone.
Two New States In Prospect.
Tho next important business on
the Senate calendar after the Philip
pine improvement measure was the
bill providing'for the admission of
two new States into the Union. Few
people, either in Congress or out
side of it, seem to understand how
much more impfrtant the admission
of a new State to the Union is than
almost any other possible business
that can come before Congress.
Tariffs can be made and unmade,
and most other matters of legisla
tion are subject to amendment or
repeal from time to time. But
hasty or ill-advised action in admit
ting a State to the Union is irrevoc
able. At tho very moment the
whole moral sense of the community
is aroused by questions arising out
of the mistake that was made in ad
mitting Utah at a time when it
would have been far better to keep
Utah in the territorial condition.
In the Presidential election, in
November, Nevada cast a total of
11,820 votes. The admission of
Nevada to the Union was a fearful
mistake, for which the Constitution
offers no remedy. The present bill
provides for the restoration of the
permanent lines of the Indian Ter
ritory that has been temporarily
bfblien up by the granting of a
territorial form of government to a
portion of the Territory under the
name of Oklahoma. To the area
thus restored the name of Oklahoma
is to be given. There are people
enough and other conditions justify
the admission of Oklahoma as ar
ranged for in the Senate bill, ivhicli
affords due protection to the rights
of the Indian tribes. The bill also
unites the Territories of Arizona
and New Mexico, and admits them
as one State under the name of Ari
zona. These Territories, it jb
true, are not ripe for admission to
the Union, whether separately or
jointly but there are some reasons
why the matter may as well be set
tied once for all. The chief ad
vantage in admitting Arizona and
New Mexico now as a single State
would be that this would end the
mischievous political agitation for
their separate admission,—a scheme
fostered chiefly by selfish private
interests. There is now good rea
son to believe that the Statehood
bill, as duly reported from the
Semite Committee on Territories,
will become a law during the present
session.—From "The Progress of
the World," in the American Month
ly Review of Reviews for January.
MANCHESTER, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1905.
Easy Enough.
'1
is easy enough fo be plna&ant 1/
When your days it. Joyutiuo
slip,
Hut the man who's worth wlilio
Is the man who can sinllo
When he has ji i»a«1 dosi« of the £rlp
.Tls easy enough to bo ploisant
When you're unilor your lucky s' ars,
But the JJian who's wort)) wliHe
Is thn man w» can dinil
Wblio smoking his Christmas cigars.
TJs oasy enough to bo jle »8:int
When the Jani or keeps np steam,
But tho mm who's worth while
Is thu man wl-.o can smile
Whtn he only gets wurm In a ilrennt.
Seed Corn Special Assured.
It is officially nnnmi need. tlmt ar
rangements have been completed for
corn special- to bo run over tho
the
Northwestern lines in Iowa sumo
time in March. The Northwestern
company will give this train stops
of thirty minutes each being made
at every station on the Iowa North
western lines. Prof. P. G. Holden,
Secretary Wells and others will
lecture to the farmers on the value
of good corn and good seed in gen
eral. Superintendent Whalen, local
newspaper men, representatives of
the Des Moines dailies, the editors
of the three agricultural papers in
Iowa and such business men as the
special can accommodate will accom
pany the train on its tour of this
state. The special will be made up of
three coaches and a business car and
the trip will require several days.
The farmers along the Northwest
ern lino will be notified of this train
and a schedule will bo published
broadcast so that all will have an
opportunity of listening and thereby
profiting by these lectures. A year
ago this was tried on one of the Iowa
railroads and was very successful
tho farmers showing their apprecia
tion by turning out in largo num
bers. Much good was the result.
Next spring if all the railroads fol
low the plan of tho Northwestern
practically every farmer in Iowa will
be given an opportunity of hearing
these lecturers and an untold amount
of good will be done.
Iceaoclasm on the Farm.
One by one the old farm ideals
are yielding before the march of
invention. Long ago it revolution
ized the wheat field, has rendered
impossible an idyllic glimpse of
Matid Muller at the haymow and
made prosaic the old associations of
the orchard and meadow. Machinery
has no sentiment. It is a» cold
blooded as a miser and as calculat-'
ing as a note-shaver. It reduces!
of arithmetic. Much is gained in
one way, but much also is lost in
another. Speed, economy, time
saving, are brought about at the
expense of tho leisure in which was
embodied much of tho romance of
the farm. Farm work formerly
embodied much of the social features.
Harvest in the olden times were
matters of many days, brought to
gether all the neighbors and were
enlivened by elaborate dinners, con
viviality in various forms and jovial
gatherings in "the evening for in
dulgence in song and dance. All
this has disappeared before the
click-a-ti-click of the noisy thresher
and tlw methodical moyements of
the stately stackers. Haying parties
log rollings, races behind the cradles
jolly gatherings of the boys and
girls to pare apples are all things
of the past.
The latest theater to be invaded
was the corn field. It was found
difficult to invent machines in this
department of agriculture and many
of the old features still linger in the
harvesting of the universal corn.
But at last it has been conquered
and scarcely anything remains to be
done by hand. The supremacy of
the "shucking-piu" has been over
thrown and the corn-knife will soon
take its place on the scrap pile.
Thq corn harvester that cuts and
binds the stalks and drops the
bundles in windrows made its ap
pearance some time ago. This was
followed by the shocker that cuts
and mechanically shocks and the
shredder to supplant other old line
methods. Now looms up on the hori
zon a great double-jginted combina
tion machine under the name of the
corn "picker." This monster is
drawn by two horses, goes down a
cornfield row and carefully picks off
tmd shucks the" ear's. In ten or
twelve hours a day it is said to be
good for from six to nine hundred
bushels. It delivers the .corn into
a farm wagon that keeps pace with
the machine and whose bed is al
ways under the elovator. The corn
stalks are left standing in the field
with few of the leaves stripped off
while the husks are automatically
dumped. All that is needed for the
operation are a team of horses and
driver with the necessory wagons to
keep up with the machine. Thus
corn, the greatest and most expen
sive of all crops to handle, though
yielding reluctantly has at last been
conquered by mechanical genius and
the iconoclastic revolution would
seem to be complete.
What now is to become of the
husking bees that from time im
memorial have been ornamental
features of the harvest of new corn?
What of the man or boy with the
"shucking.pin" leisurely taking off
the husks in the field at so much per
day? What of the "cutting up corn"
with the old-fashioned corn-knife,
the shocking at equal distance and
the subsequent operations that fol
lowed as time allowed all during tho
late full and winter. In back dis
tricts, of course this will go on yet
for many years, but in the central
states, in tho great corn belt, in the
localities where scientific farming
prevails, we have seen the last of
everything poetical connected with
the gathering of corn. The whole
process now, from the dropping in
the spring to the garnering in the
crib, is purely a matter of mechanics
with its steel fingers and automatic
hands and thus the march of com
mercialism is felt as an agent of
destruction amid all the cherished
ideals of ancient agriculture.—The
American Farmer.
CHANGE THE MENU.
Uon't Ilnvo the Shmc Thins
:iml Over In the Same Way.
S many housekeepers make the mis
take
of
having regular schedules which
tkey follow for the week. Yet too much
i»ilorlnnce cuuuot be laid upon con
stant change.
Mutton Mondays,.beef Tuesdays, and
so 011, coming regularly, week after
week, certainly isn't conducive to ap
petite, especially if it's at all finicky.
It's bad enough for the house mother
to know every one of the "twenty-one
tneals a week" in advance, but unless
ic's absolutely necessary the same se
quences of meals should be avoided.
Bonrding houses nearly always have
regular meats regular nights—a mis
take that is got into by the effort for a
system. But system isn't In having the
.same things over and over again in the
name way. There's system in constant
/Change, especially in constant change
In menu.
Another jnlstake on the same lines
is made usually by the very young
housekeeper, and that is in dishing up
the "left overs" at the very next meal,
instead of giving the palate time to for
get.
Change, change, change. Doctors and
taste agree In preaching that, for
health and strength have their founda
tions in appetite, and appetite depends
largely upon change.
CARE OF THE NOSE.
rhls Feature Needa Special Attention
flnd Bally Treatment.
In massaging the face the nose needs
special attention. It must be kept free
from blackheads, and
the
nostrils must
not be allowed to become too wide.
Use the rotary massage movement
dally about the lower part of the nose
after first applying cold cream. This
will tend to reduce the thick cartilage.
Never use a downward movement in
massaging the nose. Always rub up.
To make a^ red nose white massage
vigorously along the leading nerve of
the nose at each side. Use the. tip of
the finger, start at the bottom and rub
np the nose on either side and then un
der the eyebrows. Following the nerve
in this way is sure to relieve congested
circulation, which js often the secret
of that unpleasant redness which comes
to the nose. If the nose is extremely
using
a brisk, vigorous movement This we
do in order to take the blood away
from the nose. In treating the nose be
carefnl never to touch it with water.
Instead bathe it night and morning
with cold creum.
THE CHILDREN.
Try reasoning with children instead
of scolding them.
A baby's weight at five months should
be double its weight at birth.
Tell your children white lies and they
will soon hand you back the other
color.
Baby's food should be always admin
istered at regular hours to avoid indi
gestion.
Spray tho children's throats occasion
ally with a very weak solution of car
bolic acid and water.
A little application of the old fash
ioned maxim about the wisdom of go
ing to bed early might do a good deal
to solve the problem of the city child's
nervousness.
When baby pulls at his ear or cries
sharply and presses his head against
his mother let her beware of earache,
a common but dangerous complaint in
very young children.
Making or Marrlnff a Room.
Color makes or mars a
and
many inexpensive houses have been
made "successful" by tho intelligent
use of this powerful factor. Harmoni
ous coloring does not necessarily imply
a
room where everything matches. The
blue rooms of the eighties, where walls,
carpetB, curtains, lambrequins and up
holstery were all oue shade, exist to
day only in fiction. They were never
cheerful, imparting by some subtle
power their own indigo colorings to
the moods of the occupunts.
The blue room pure and simple is
not now in favor. But we are all fa
miliar with the very green room. Green
is nature's own color, and none other
is so restful, so desirable, but it can be
abused. Nature makes use of russets,
of yellow browns, of red browns, of
bronze shades, of grays, of soft pur
ples, of pomegranate tones. These may
be transferred to the walls of our
houses, and If rightly placed are very
effective.—-House Beautiful.
Jewel Don'ts.
Don't wear your rings all the time.
Leave them off while working, writing
or sleeping. If worn constantly they
deaden the expression of the hand.
The slightest pressure pushes back im
pulse. This is the chief evil of modern
dressing.
Don't, if your past has been densely
populated and your heart sentimental,
make an emotional junk shop of your
hand with unrelated souvenirs.
Don't wear all of your rings at the
same time. Save costly gems for spe
cial occasions.
Don't wear too many plain circles.
Complex and pointed effects running
up the' hand help expression, while
straight lines shorten the fingers.
Animals That Never pie.
At the" very bottom of the scale of
nature lies a vast class of organisms
so simple in form that naturalists hes
itate whether the vegetable or tho ani
mal kingdom has the more right to
number them among its subjects.
These animals may be said never to
die. Their constitution Is so simple
and so easily adaptable that they nev
er suffer from disease, and the laws of
their being forbid them to grow old.
Sexless, they propagate themselves by
fission, separating into two or more
segments, each of which Is perfectly
aUve and Independent.
WE HAVE
A very large stock of Felfs,
Overs, German Socks, Leg
gons and Overshoes bought
at the right price.
W E iiH AVE
Over
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Stout's Patent Snag Proof
Footwear.
H. L. Main,
Hopkinton, Iowa.
Buy your Lumber, Soft
Coal, Mill Feed, Etc.,
of
ADELBERT CLARK,
Dealer in General Merchandise,
Thorpe, Iowa.
F. E. RICHARDSON.
Real Estate, Loans and
Insurance.
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Manchester, Iowa.
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ABSTRACTS.
REAL ESTATE.
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We have complete copios of all records
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all sizes kinds and styles,
Ladles, Gents and Chlldrens Rings
from DIAMONDS, OPALS, KMBR
ALDS, PEARLS,ETC., down to
PLAIN GOLD BANDS.
WEDDING RINGS.
SOLID STERLING SILVER FORKS,
TABLE, DESERT and TEA SPOONS,
NAPKIN RINGS, ETC., ETC., ETC
Also large line of Best Brands of—
SILVER PLATED SPOONS, PORKS,
KNIVES, TEA SETS, WATER SETS
CAKE BASKETS, BUTTER DISHES,
ETC., ETC.
CARVING KNIVES
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and
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LAS, GOLD PENS
Come and see the many things we
have
not
Bpace
to list.
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All you have to do is
to put away a little of
what you, earn every
week or month.
Most of tho rich peo
ple in the country did
not strike oil gushers—
they accumulated their
wealth by systematic
saving.
Open an account with
the bank and enjoy the
opportunities it affords
for saving money.
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Commencing to-day, we*pla^all our mag
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These samples are all new and bright, the
edges bound, and they make the nicest kind of
a rug.
This is a rare opportuninty to buy a rug at
a very low price. Come quick, before the as
sortment is broken.^
The Furniture Man.
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As die Jiuman machine is stoked so,wi!l it go.
vV -BREAD MADE FKOM
White Pearl or White Satin
flours contain more nutriment than three times their weight
of "health foods" ancl are the best fuel for all mankind.
QUALITY OF FLOUR, THAT'S THE THING.
Our buckwheat flour is as good and pure as ever, and it makes
cakes that taste like buckwheat, too.
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