Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-11-22

Wilkesbarre, Pa, boasts a happy
couple who have now been married
sixty-six years, says the Boston Trans
cript. But, of course. this will seem
only a negative kind of record to per
sons who have been married, divorc
ed, and cheerfully married again to
new partners several times, over in
half that period.
Don't make home irksome, admon'
ishes Woman's Life. If you would not
have your children lost to you in at
ter life make home happy to them
when they are young. Don't force the
children to look elsewhere than at
home for pleasure.
Life must be hard in Germany II a
willingness, and even an eagerness,
to seek relief from It by self-slaughter
can be accepted as criterion, re-
marks Harper's Weekly. No fewer
than 1000 inhabitants of the German
empire committed suicide in 1908, and
the number is increasing.
The burglars arrested in New York
claim to have robbed 400 homes in
two years. That's nothing, comments
the Washington Post. Three life in
surance companies in New York con-
fess to having mulcted 100000 pol.
icy holders every year for the last
two decades.
"Gfve woman nothing to do and
all the money she can spend and she
will go to the bad as fast as she cam
says Prof. Ambruster. of st. Louis.
In other words, she would act just
like a man under similar oircum-
stances.
New York has discovered school
Of Juvenile crime actually conducted
at night in the portals of public
school building, states the Boston
Transcript. Here children have been
for some time past regularly trained
by their elders in the twin arts of
picking pockets and opening hand
bags without disturbing the owners
Less than a hundred years ago such
schools of crime were so many and
fourishing that the number Of child
criminals in London alone counted up
to at least six thousand.
A writer signing himself "Teddy,"
writes to the editor OF the New York
Herald: "a new high life and aristo-
cratic club is soon coming to the
front, and it's name will be The Steal
ers,' and it will have for members
only politicians, public officials and
financiers. To become a member a
politician or public official will have
to prove his graft to be at least $780,
600. For ordinary financiers stealings
to the amount of 100000 will be
enough. but presidents of large cor
poratlons must prove stealings of at
least 100000 and from that up. in
proportion to their Offices. To be
elected president of the club one
must be or have been a president OF
a corporation or United States Sem
ator. All this is, Of course, conf1den-
tial" -n"
Football is hard and dangerous
game at best. Even when played fair
ly and honorably the strain on the
p'ayers lis great. and the chance OF
injury considerable. But when tricky
and dishonorable tactics are employ
ed, when men are coached to put for
midable rivals out of the game by de-
liberately injuring taem-as is some
times the case-and when roughness
Is cultivated as being in itself de-
sirable quality, it is time that some
efforts were made to reform the game
or perhaps better, to reform the men
who play it. thinks the Indianapolis
News. Doubtless something can be
accomplished by amending the rules.
But the great thing is to cultivate in
the men themselves better spirit.
1t is satisfactory to note that folly
is by no mears confined to the gent
Ter sex, and that lordly man can be
as foolish" about dog as any abb
surd woman, for here is New Haven,
Conn, citizen buying brass bed
stead and mattress for his Gordon
setter. 1t is noble bed from all
accounts, continues the New York
Herald, and the dog is entirely worthy
of such a resting place. but one hopes
hereafter less contumely will be heap
ed on tender-hearted danes VINO
pamper their toy CANNES and treat
them, as they deserve. to the best
there is in the land.
statutes" says President Nicholas
Murray Butler, of Columbia College,
will not put moral principles where
they do not exist" This may be so,
comments the New York Sun, but we
know of one thing that statutes would
do IL properly applied; They would
nut some Of our leading life-insurance
men in Jail. The consignment OF
these persons and their outside Eel
low-conspiratiors to Government in
stitution where plain living and hard
thinking prevail would have power
full tendency to put moral principles
into portions of the business COM
munity where such principles certain,
IL, do mt now exist II would be far
more effective as moral agency In
the community than any lesson ever
taught by the ACCOMPLISHED President
of Columbia University or with In the