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wpsp VOL. XXXV. First National Phone 107 "The Old Reliable" Its many safe-guards for the peoples' money: Its large capital and surplus: Its alert Board of Directors Its conservative policy arc for YOUR PROTECTION. YOU WILL MISS IT If you do not li/jure with the Manchester, Jiumber company on the West side. ,r» WHY because we are the leaders in priceB, quality considered. Boards $16.00 and up. The fly will soon bo here. Now is the time to purchase screen doors and windows. A full stock on hand. Cement at Your Own Price. Drain tile, 6CTvjr pipe, "wire fence and all kinds of building material, lime and plaster. MANCHESTER LUMBER COMPANY. ard Phone 156. J. W. Rabenau, Mgr. City Office Phone 455. TOWSLEE'S ESTKllKll AT I'OS* Manohksteu. Iowa, as Si IT PAYS •Vs£/^v TRIED-.-SURE--VALUABLE ,.'-7 A reliable application for Cuts, Sores, and Bruises. Made and sold only by R. A. DENTON. Barter's Ideal Heaters They are Simply E E We Sell Them. ^-a' H'% 3 T,JH If&k- ?t\# 1 IP -&£r jfrfi-*!? OINTMENt 1 BARLER'S IDEAL 1 Hit Oil Heaters Are Undoubtedly The Best. No Dust K§f%c tyr No Soot 1, No Smell fs Carhart & Nye, .,4. '. v. 111N. Franklin Street. -p|| Time Now to Plant Those Sweet Peas. Our own raixtbro contains the new and fine named varieties Admiration America J. di" f'- Apple Blossom Sponcer Black Knight Coquette -v —"4 Countess Cadogan Countess Spencer Catherine Tracy *C -1 Miss Wilmott White Wonder Gladys Unwin Shazada These varieties make a woll balanced mixture and will be a joy to be hold. You know we have nevor disappointed you in our mixture of sweet W- l&W,. A. E. PETERSON. isg&"a«tfcv. EXTRACTS FROM THE AUTOBI OGRAPHY OF BLACK HAWK. 51 "'ie change of many summers have lit old ago upon me and I oan ,'xpect .to survlvo many moons. 'Rotoro I set out on my journey to the land of mi .fathers I have de termined to give my motives and rea ons for my former hostilities to the whites, and to vindicate my charactei from misrepresentation. I am now an obscure member of a nation that formerly honored and re spected my opinions. The pathway 'to glory Is rough, and many gloomy hours may obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humil ity that the power of the American government has reduced mc to, Js the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself. On my next and last .visit to our Spanish father (at St. Louis) I dis covered on landing that all was not right. Every countenance seemed sad and gloomy. I inquired the cause and was Informed that the Americans were coining to take possession of their town and country, and that we were to lose our Spanish father. This news mado me and my band exceed ingly sad, because we had always heard bad accounts of the Americans from the Indians, who had lived near them. We were very sorry to losa our Spanish father, who had always a toil us with great friendship 'is I hail not yet discovered one good trait tn the character of he Amcrl ans who had come to the country. They.m-ade fair promises, but never fulfilled them, while the British made but few, and we could always rely mplieitly on their word, I can. not describe their meeting and parting so as to be understood by the whites, as it appears that their feelings are acted upon by cer tain rules laid down by their preach ers, while ours are governed by the monitor within us. 0 Why did the Great Spirit ever send the whites to Rock Island to drive us from our home and introduce among poisonous liquors, disease and death? They should have remained in the land the Great Spirit alloted them PP The Americans fought well and drove us jiack with considerable loss, was greatly surprised at this, as had been told that the Americans would not fight. The British had taken many pris oners i|S(^t_h^,lpdtans-were killing them. I Immediately put a stop to as I never thought It brave but base and cowardly to kill an unarmed and helpless foe. 1 11 ir I explained to my people the man ner In which the British and Ameri cans fought, instead of stealing up on each other and taking every ad-" antage to kill the enemy and save their own people as we do, which, with 11s Is considered good policy in a war chief, thoy march out in open daylight and fight regardless of the number of warriors they may lose. After the battle Is over they retire to (east and drink wine as if nothing ha'd happened. After which they maki a statement In writing of what they have done, each party claiming the victory, and neither giving an ac count of half the- number that have been killed on their side. They all fought like braves, but would not do to lead a, party with us. Our maxim 'Kill the enemy and save our own men." Those chiefs will do to paddle a canoe but not to steer it. The Americans can shoot better than the British, but their soldiers were not "so well clothed, nor so well pro vided for. It is not customary for us to say much about our women, as thoy gen erally perform their part cheerfully and never interfere with business be longing to the men, ysi only wife I ever had This is the or over will have. She is a good woman, and teaches my boyB to be trave. I distinctly, saw two little white boys concealing themselves in the underbrush, thought of my own children, and passed on without not icing them. ffivv* I next found a box full of small -bottles and packages, which appear ed to be bad medicine also, -such as the medicine men kill the white peo ple with when they are sick. This I threw Into the river. What do you know of the man ners, the laws, and tile customs of tho white people. ^They might buy our bodies' for dissection, and we would 'touch the goose quill to con firm it and not know what we were doing. This waB the case with me and my people in touching the goose quill the first time. Wo can only judge of what is proper and right by your standard of what is right and wrong, which differs widely from the whites, if I have been, correctly informed. The whites may do wrong all their lives, and if they are sorry fpr it when about to die, all is well, but with us it is different. If we -have corn and meat, and know of a' family that have none, we divide with i,hem. If we have more blankets .than we ab solutely need, and others have not enough, wo must give those who nre In want. awfi: Is#* THE DEADLY ICE-BOX. lr. Harvey W. Wiley says that the average household refrigerator is a charnel-house. Since careless housewives are akin To Borgia'3 sister dear. Who put her rough-on-rats within A foe's Italian beer, The modern husband says, "I ain't Ambitious to become a saint," And thereupon he makes the plaint That Is repeated here: Jjt-y: 'Nay, .Mabel, do not put^lie fish Adjacent to the steak They form a combination dish Of which I won't partake A ^MANCHESTER IOWA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1909. 1 I hear, in scientific terms, That If yon mix those deadly germs Some of the undertaking firms Will bless my stomach-ache." "Say, Gladys, if wo needs must keep An Ice-box In our house, :i Why mingle clams with, chops" of sheep Or partridge pie with scouse? Microbic colonies, my dear, 'May bring me to an early bier. Ah, you'll be sorry when, you hear The clergyman say, 'Raus,' Xf "That salad, Georgiana dear, Tastes Uke an oyster rare. Have they been married, lying near Upon your bill of fare? Nay, is It hygiene, my sweet, If yesterday's left over meat 4 Is thrust within the box to greet The aged Camembert?" Once my refrigerator seemed A place of dally glee I ate from' It by day and dreamed At night of joys to be. But now gives- me no delight. Because I do not think it right To let those bad bacilli fight Their battles out in me. John O'Keefe. JUST KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON. If the day looks kinder gloomy, An' your chances kinder slim, If the situation's puzzlin', An' the prospepts awful grim, An' perplexities keep pressin' Till all hope is nearly gone, Jus' bristle up an' grit your teeth, And keep on keeptn' on. if,// Fumin' never wins a fight, i'* An' frettin' Jiever pays There ain't no good of broodin* in These pessimistic ways— Smile just kinder cheerfuli When hope Is nearly gone. An' bristle up, an' grit your teeth. An' keep on keepln* on. /•Ov: There ain't no use In growling An' grumbldn' all the time When music's rlngln' everywhere An' everything's a rhyme— Jus' keep on smilin' cheerfully, If hope is pearly gone, An' bristle up an' grit your teeth, An' keep on keepin' on. —New Orleans Times-Democrat. With us it is the custom to visit the graves of our friends and keep them in repair for many years. The mother will go alone to weep over the grave of,.her child. The ^bra-ve, with pleasure," visits the grave of his father, after he has been successful in war, and repaints the post that marks- where he lies. There is no place like that where the bones of our forefathers lie to go to when in grief. Here prostrate by the tomb of our fathers will the Gi'eat Spirit take pity on us. ... ,, But how different1 is'our situation now from what it was in those hap py days. Then were we as happy as the buffalo on the plains, but now, we are as miserable as the hungry wolf on the prairie. But -I am di gressing from my story. Bitter re flections crowd upon my mind and must find utterance. During the first year the newly married ascertain whether they can agree with each other and be happy -if not, they separate, and each looks for another companion. If we were to live together and disagree, we would ibe as foolish as the whites No indiscretion can banish a woman from her parental lodge no differ ence how many children she may bring home, she is always' welcome the kettle is over the fire to feed them. s-, If the Sioux have killed the Sacs last, they expect to be retaliated up on and will fly before them, and so with us. Bach party knows that the other has a right to retaliate, which induces those who have killed first to give way before ttieir enemy, as neither wishes to strike, except to avenge the death of relatives. Some lodge in the village makes feast dally to the Great. Spirit. 1 cannot explain this so that the white people will understand me, as we have no regular standard among us, For my -part, I am of the opinion that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong and we should always pursue that path which believe to be right. If the Great and Good Spirit wish ed us to believe and do as the whites he could easily change our opinions so that wo could see, and think, and act as they do. We are nothing com pared to His power, and we feel and know it. We -have men among us, like the whites, who pretend to know the right pnth, but will not consent to show it without pay. I have faith in .their paths, but believe that every man must make his own path We thank the Great Spirit for all the good He has conferred upon For myself, I never take a drink of water from a spring without being ,My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence, and so long they occupy and cultivate it they have the right to tho .poll,, _but, if 1 they voluntarily leave it then other people have a right to settle 011 it. Nothing can. be sold but such thing's can -be carried away. The white people have brought whis key to our village, made our people drunk, cheated them out of their horses, guns and traps. This fraud ulent system was carried to such- an extent that I apprehended serious difficulties might occur unless a stop as put to it. Consequently I visit ed all the whites and begged them not to sell my people whiskey. One them continued the practice open- I took a party of my young men, went to his house, took out his bar rel, broke in the head and poured out the whisky. I did this for fear some of the whites might get killed by my people when they were drunk. How smooth must the language of the whites, when they can. make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. But the white people appear to never be satisfied. When they get good father, they hold councils at tho suggestion of some bad, ambit ious man, who wants th^ place him self, arid conclude among themselves that this man, or some other equally ambitious, would make a better fath than they have, and nine times out of tan they don't get as good one again. 0 J'' 4 think with them, that where-ev the Groat Spirit places his people they ought to be satisfied to remain, and be thankful for what He has given them, and not drive others from the country he has given them because it happens to be better than theirs. This is contrary to our way of thinking, and from my inter course with the whites I have learn ed that one great principle of their religion Is "to do unto others as you- wish them to do unto you." Before I take leave leave of the public I must contradict the story some of the village criers, I have been told, accuse me of having mur dered women and children among the hltes. This assertion Is false. 1 never did, nor have I any knowledge that any of my nation ever killed white woman or child. I make this statement of truth to satis the white people among whom. I have been traveling, and by whom I have been treated with great kindness, that when they shook me -by the hand so cordially they did not shake the hand that had ever been raised against any but warriors. FRIENDSHIP. "TlieJfe: is ho folly-- equal to throwing away friendship in wonld where friendship is so rare. Edward Bnlwer. A friend is a rare book of which but one copy is made. We read a page of it every day until some oman snatches it from our hands, who sometimes peruses" it, but more frequently tears it. I wonder if there is anything in this world as beautiful as good strong friendship -between two men. They do not kiss each other every time they meet, in fact they never do kiss each other, unless one is ly ing cold In death. They may never have made any profession of love or friendship for the other, -but each one knows that the other is always go to stand by him and they feel that no matter what happens, each can rely on the other. People who have warm friends, are healthier and happier than those who have none. A single real friend a treasure worth more than gold precious stones. Money can buy many things, good and evil, but all the wealth of the world could not buy you a friend or pay you for the loss of one. The best definition of a friend that know Is the following The first erson who comes In when the whole world has gone out. A bank of cred it on which we can draw supplies of confidence, counsel, sympathy, health and love. One who combines for you- alike, the pleasures and ben efits of society and solitude. A Jewel whose lustre the strong acids of pov erty and misfortune cannot dim. One who multiplies joys, divides griefs and whose honesty is inviolable. The link in life's chain that bears the greatest strain.. The harbor of refuge from the waves of adversity. WILLING TO END THE COMPANY. A Chicago man who once 'permitted himself to bo persuaded to back a theatrical company was seated in his office one day when he received a telegram from the manager of the show. The troupe was somewhere in Missouri and the telegram read thus: "Train wrecked this morning and all scenery and baggage destroyed No member of company injured.Wliat shall 1 do?" The answer sent back by the Chi cago man was as follows: "Try another wreck' and have the company ride in the baggage car.' Chicago Record-Herald. 'v GENTLY BROKEN. "You were a long time in the far corner of the conservatory last even ing," suggested the mother. "What was going on?" "Do you remember tho occasion on which you became -engaged to papa," Inquired the daughter by way of re ply. ,, "Of course I do." J. PIERPONT MORGAN JR. J. Perpont "Morgan Jr. has taken over a great share of the financial responsibilities his father has piled up, and the time cannot be far dis tant when he will be the' head of the house of Morgan & Co. The younger Morgan Is 41 years old and, like John D. Rockefeller Jr. is a shining example to those rioli men's* sons who are active chiefly, In. dissi pating the wealth they did -not -PTirn. The younger Morgan began ss clerk in his father's office immediate ly after bis graduation from college. He obeyed the same rulbs as -the •fthers and displayed a great capac ity for hard work and an intuitive grasp of the complexities-of higher finance. He was shifted from one department to another- as soon, 'as he had mastered its details, and. upon the death of Walter Burn -,-, who had long been the head of the- Lon don house of J. P. Morgan & Co., was transferred there. He has since ad vanced steadily and surely in the fi nancial world. He has directed some of the 'biggest financial deals in re cent years and has won the respect of the greatest financiers in both Europe and America. -. i\* "And a Little child shall lead them" was demonstrated recently at Pittsburgh. Pa. The story is told by the Associated Press in this way: "Although it sprang at tile-child just as it did when it killed three men and one woman, 'Conja,' the most dangerous and savage lion in captiv ity, only playfully and effectionatel-y licked and pawed the hand of three year-old Lena Meek, wheit she placed her arm within the beast's cage in the Hlghlan Park zoo. While the mother and nearly all others watch ing the lions'had turned thier at tention to 'Hans Wagner,' who was roaring, little Lena crawled under the .bars and in an instant had her little white arm in the cage, waving her hand in welcome to thq big lion. 'Conja,' his eyes still fiery with an ger and jaws wide open, sprang at the child, striking against, the big bars with great force. '.My child,' cried Mrs. Meek. This was followed 'by a series of frantic screams from others—and even men turned their backs, expecting that the big beast would tear off the child's arm. For at least five seconds the lion licked the child's hand playfully, while she stood there motionless and smiling. The big lion seemed to have forgot ten the quarrel with- his next door enemy and to be consoled with the knowledge that he had found a friend in the fearless little girl Guard O'Neil was at the hyena ^cage. He -heard Mrs. Meck's cries, ran to the cage and grabbed the child, lift ing her over the bars. Little Lena manifested much surprise that- the people abou* her should be so fright ened and wondered why." that PLA8TICITY OF CLAYS. An explanation of what appears'to be a satisfactory method by which workers in clay can accurately ascer tain. the plasticity of any given clay has just been published by -the Geo logical Survey in a bulletin (No. 3'88) -prepared by H. E. Ashley. Heretofore an accurate judgment as to the qualities of a particular clay could -be formed only after long and costly experiments. Clays, ap parently similar in nearly all re $spects- were found in actual manu facturing to give results- very differ ent from those expected: and of late years it has become increasingly im portant to devis(j some test by which their qualities could be quickly and easily determined in advance of ex pensive installations. Mr. Ashley, acting for the Geolog ical Survey, under an appropriation Congress for the investigation of'the structural materials of the United States, has discovered that the de gree to which certain dyes, of which malachite green seems to -be the most satisfactory, are absorbed by given clay furnishes a 'very satisfac tory index of its -plasticity, which, of course, is the most important of all its qualities. Adsorption is the property^ ,7 by which dyes' and other substances arc extracted from solution and incorpor ated into the thing dyed. It differs from absorption, which Is incorpora tion of a liquid as it stands, irre spective of what it holds in solution. Adsorption Is especially characteris tic of the 'peculiar substances known as colloids, which form, the bulk of clays, and on which -their plasticity Is believed to depend. The amount of dye, therefore, which a given amount of clay will adsorb from standard dye solution indicates pret ty accurately the proportion of col loids that the clay contains. 1 "Then It ought not to be neces sary for you to ask any Questions.' Thus gently the news was broken that they were tq jiave a son in law. Tests by Mr. Ashley of most of the well-known commercial clays with standard malachite green solution have shown that their absorption of the coloring of the dye. corresponds very closely Indeed with their actual known, -plasticities. As tests with malachite tsreen give expected suits whe|r the plasticity is -already known, it is inferred that they will prove equally accurate in deterinin ln'g tie 'plasticity where this has not yet been ascertained. Bulletin 388, which Is entitled "The colloid matter of clay and its meas urement," can be had free by apply ing to the Director of the United States Geological Survey at Wash lngton, D. C. Its naturals highly technical. Value of Olluft Oil. It has been said that olive oil gooa xor some people to take all the time and for all people to. take some ot the time. It is a sovereign remedy for stomach trouble. It Alls out the hollows and builds up the system and relieves aches and pains and the twinges of rheunuhUuB Meet :'AV 5 Competition THE STEALS & FOSTER Facts you should Know about- a ra&ttress before you buy one Mattresses hoi very much alike, but there is the creates? difference between them. The softness, elasticity and durability of cotton-felt mat.' tresses depend on the length and quality of the fibres of the cotton used and the ivay they arc laid. Many mattresses sold as the best cotton-felts, are made from short-tibre cotton that has no life at all. It is the quality of the cotton, the long, strone fibres and th* spec.al "web-process" of laying them, that give Stearns & Foster Mattresses their perfect comfort and wonderful life—the reason whv there are more sold than any other made. They never lump never need remaking. They are made in four grades—a mattress to suit every purse. Come in. Let us show them to you let us unlace this Open Closed aTom can SEE the inside H™'.1? at the end of the mattress,—show you exactly what is inside. We II be glad to do it, whether you are ready to buy or not* mattress is just another example of the excellenca*of our stock throughout. New goods are arriving daily. Hew Feed ESTABLISHED 1867 Commercial Depariment-:-Savings Department Progressives-Conservative ,We can accommodate you on accounts and loans. i/. i. We invite your business. SltiS&'Sr Wit. C. CAWI.EY, President. R. W. HT T11 CHAS. Tiititn.i., Vice-President, iv NO 38 Tiie Furniture Man and Goal Store. We have opened a Feed and Coal establishment in the Board way building 011 lower Franklin street We have purchased the coal business of C. H. Parker, and are prepared to supply your wants with all kinds of HARD AND SOFT COAL at lowest possible prices. We also carry a full lino of Mill Feed, Chicken Feed, Lime, Cement and Plaster, Try some of our "BEN HUR" FLOUR. Every sack guaranteed. Call and see us. We solicit a share of your patronage.'/ •GEO. E. PACKER TELEPHONE 171 J. SEEDS, JUST RECEIVED Afresh car of that famous flour "'THE SEAL MINNESOTA Every Sack is Guaranteed to give satisfaction or your money wil be refunded. I also have on hand a full line of flour mids, Corno hen feed, germ mids, mica grit, bran, oyster shells, rye mids, lit tlechick feed, low grade, lime, corn and oat chops, cement, rock sat, wood fibre plaster, barrel salt, cement plaster, lubricatingoils, rooling, rooiing paints, etc. "UNIVERSAL" THE STANDARD PORTLAND CEMENT at Ayholesale Price in CAR LOTS. C. H. PARKER. Phone 113 Corner west oi Court House Cashier. C. W. IVEAGY, KM«0«0MMKfO*O*MMMO»O*O*OM*OMMMM0MI4O*04 ROW IS THE TIME TO BUILD. White Lumber is Cheap. Sg|§ i!x'l and 2x6 S to 10 ft long at §1S.00 per thousand. Red Cedar Shingles 5 to 2 at 82.75 per thousand. V&l Lath §2.00 per thousand. I will build a good barn holding 100 head of cattle and 100 tons of ha}' for less than §1000.00. Come and seo us. I The Hockaday Lumber Company Asst. Cash'r. •feliiMlf!! Telephone 108. Manchester, Iowa MMM04O4IMO«040«/0M*0*O«040«O«O*0«(M0M404e«l Us at our office Let us call on you Our prices if you tcari We ask is a chance to meet Eclipse Lumber Co. Phone 117 l\k,' r* *,