Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-11-08

tel tnelr troubles TO the Hague court.
This is another triumph for peace and
common sense
Publicist holds that the human race
is enfeebled by success. That's bad.
Personally, though, we are robust en-
ough to take chance on little sue
cess.
BY 1920, and even before, the pres
ent rate of growth continuing both
in New York and in the London area,
the population of the New York met
ropolitan area will be more than that
of London at the same time.
The grewsome murder on an Eng
lish railway suggests that there are
possibilities of things even worse
than the always promiscuous and of
ten indecently crowded conditions OF
American travel.
These new twenty-dollar gold certifi-
Gates may not be artistic in the true
esthetic degree, but most people will
not be prevented by the delicacy OF
their susceptibility from acquiring as
many. specimens as they can legih-
sly.
at is" says the Florence (Ga.)
Times. much more comfortable, both
to yourself ard the rest OF the world
to be a pleasant ass than an unpleas-
ant bear" But why be either an ass
or a bear?
School gardens in the cities are one
of the minor compensations TO the
tenement for the deprivation of coun-
try air and vegetation, and the abb
sence of any other playground than
the street They are a recent insti-
tuition in America, although Europe
has known them for a long time.
The kite, according TO ornitho.osi-
cal authorities, is declared to be ex'
tinct, and it is practically so. But
vigilance committee has nevertheless
been formed in Wales for the protec'
ton of the bird. A photographer re-
Gently traced one of the only pair
of kites known to exist in South
Wales to cave in the mountains and
with lucky snapshot secured pho
tograph. The home of the pair is be-
ing kept secret.
The returns of its five-year census
make it evident that when the next
federal census is taken New Jersey
will advance several ranks among the
States, certainly passing North Caro-
lima and Tennessee in population and
treading on the heels of Kentucky. 1t
will move up from sixteenth to four
teenth place.
The greatest aggregation of popu-
lation in the history of the world will
soon be gathered about the waters OF
New York Bay and in the country d.
rectly tributary. Already it is popu-
lation more varied in its race ele-
ments than any ever brought togeth-
er in history.
The announcement is made that the
inventor of the "pigs in clover" puz.
z.e has just died, and that he died
poor. Coupling this with Mark
Twain's assertion in "The American
Claimant" that it was Mulberry Sell
ers who invented the puzzle. the pow.
erty is explained. But Mulberry Sell
ers is immortal.
Josh Billings Sust have foreseen
the noble roster of subscribers In
"Fads and Fancies' when he wrote:
IAN American aristokrat IL the most
ridiki'us thing in the market. They
are generally ashamed of THAR anses-
stors, and If they hav emmy and live
long enuff they generally hav citizens
tew be ashamed ov THAR posterity."
The daughter of Pittsburg mil
lionaire has just been married to an
Englishman whose title at present is
merely that of captain. But he is the
son of a lord who in the natural
course of events, and provided he Is
decent about it, will die.
Says the Cleveland Leader: There
ought to be no firing upon fishing
tugs trespassing in Canadian waters:
there should be no tugs in forbidden
parts of the lake. The entire lake,
and all the other lakes on the bound
airy, should be covered, as to fishing,
by carefully drawn and vigorously
executed international agreement for
the proper protection of the fisheries.
In some States specific forms OF un.
fitness for matrimony have already
been made the subject of statutory
prohibition, notably in Connecticut
and Minnesota, which forbid the mar.
riage of the epileptic, the feeble-mind-
ed and the imbecile, and in Michi.
gan. The marriage of lunatics is void
in Maine, Massachusetts, Kentucky,
Nebraska, and the District of Colum.
bia.
Observes the San Francisco Call:
Popular interest has recently been
aroused in the subject of life insur-
ance by reports of extravaganza and
misconduct in the management of
some of the largest companies, and
it is to be hoped the interest will not
exhaust itself on superficial phases Of
the insurance question. but will get
at the core of the matter, which is an
intelligent estimate of the cost"
"The commercial prize of the ORR
ent has commanded the attention OF
the Occident for more than 1000
years." says Hon. o. P. Austin, Chief
of the Bureau of Statistics. From
the earliest dawn of history down
to the present hour the ever-expand-
ing West has struggled for the con
troll If the commerce of the East