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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

Do not make the earth in the boxes
and flower pots too rich. All plants
protected during the winter, by setting
them on stand in warm room, such
as geraniums, should not make heavy
growth, but be kept in good condition
for slipping, as the spring and summer
are the proper seasons for having them
to perfection. The mealy bug must
be guarded against when the plants
are kept in a warm atmosphere.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18
PreseryinR Mannre.

Experiments recently made in Eu-
rope with n view to ascertaining the
best method of preserving manure
show that manure allowed to accumu.i
late under cattle three months or
more, in specially constructed, deep.
stall, was found in every case, as COM
pared with that Of ordinary manure
heaps, In a more workable condition,
the ammonia salts were better pro.
served and the useful ingredients
We're present in greater proportions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18
The Landlord Misculoulated.

Departing Guest-Do you permit
your servants to accept llttle-er-
presents?
Summer Landlord-Great Scott! You
haven't any money left, have you?-
Cleveland Leader.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

The making of butter on farms leads
to great variation in the quality, ow-
ing to the difference In methods used
on the farms. While choice article
of dairy manufacture will bring high
er price than creamery butter, yet the
creamery butter is more uniform, as
the milk from large number of farms
is handled at the same factory. There
are a few dairies which sell butter
at two or three times the regular price,
but they are exceptions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

teral lies useless in her paunch. Her
failure to chew the cud is due to Ill
health. just as lack Of any desire for
food characterizes sick man. A COW
that fails to chew the cud is a sick
cow, and as soon as she RECEIVERS from
that sickness she will recover her de-
sire and ability to chew the cud.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

1t is reported that discovery has
recently been made whereby vegetn-
bles may be preserved indefinitely by
sterilizing them with hot air. Corn,
peas, string beams. Lima beans, etc.,
thus treated take on withered form
much like cured hay, but when put
In cold water will resume their shape
and regain their former brittleness
and garden flavor.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

When the walters and attendants
around restaurant work fast, the
customers eat in hurry.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

1t is claimed that for the perfect
maturing of corn in this latitude the
growing season must have an average
mean temperature of 70 degrees for
30 days, or there must be an excess
Of IS degrees multiplied by 90, equal
ing $3.50 degrees of accumulated heat.
Should the heat be lower the crop may
be longer in maturing.a rc5t'
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

Ever think of the work one hen
will do? A hen will raise at least
one lot of chickens every year, but
suppose she raises ten. If half of
these ten are pullets they will repro
duce at least one lot of chicken the
next year. In addition, the young
ROSTERS may be sold.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

The surest way to make profit is
to keep down the cost. There should
be no hesitation in procuring that
which Is needed, but waste should not
be allowed. The cost may be lessen
ed by doing all the work at the prop.
err time and by the use of the best
implements
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

1t is claimed that if grain is ground
there is saving of one-third, and that
10 pounds of hay, when cut up fine,
Will be more serviceable than %
pounds uncut. Cutting the hay per-
mits of mixing with it not only ground
grain, but also linseed or cotton-seed
meals, or other concentrated foods.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

With the majority of fruits the aim
should be for a few fine, large, smooth
and plump specimens rather than for
many small ones.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

One advantage in feeding wheat
middlings made into slop with skim
milk to hogs is that 1t will give bet
ter proportion of lean meat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-18

Keep winter beets growing rapidly,
as they must come out of the ground
before being touched by the frost. II
the roots are not large enough,
growth may be prolonged by protec-
ton with newspapers on cold nights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
The Theatrical Season.

sarhe winter theatrical season of 1905-06 is close at hand for Birmingham lovers of amusement" said a press agent last night "The season has already opened in New York and numbers of plays are being tried out In the provinces before being taken to Broadway.
 1.-The season will open in Birmingham August 29, when the Jefferson theatre will formally throw open its doors, all though a negro minstrel show will be given at that theatre tomorrow night. 1t is anticipated that the Bijou will open September f. although this date Is not fixed. Of course the Casino will then be closed until next summer.
 Tt has been suggested that the yellow fever scare in New Orleans may result in some decided changes in the Jefferson bookings inasmuch as all the high-class attractions which visit Birmingham are en route to New Orleans for an engage ment that usually lasts a week. How ever, the best shows will come along later in the season and they may go to New Orleans in spite of the fever By that time frost will have fallen. so that the danger will be practically removed.
 From the present outlook. Birmingham will have season of varied and, as whole, meritorious attractions. Nearly all the leading stars will appear in new plays, including Nat Goodwin, Richard Mansfield, John Drew. Louis James, Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Viola Allen, Otis Skinner and Tim Murphy. It is also stated that Sir Charles Wyndham, the noted English actor, will make southern tour.
 The Bijou season also promises to be very successful. As a starter 1t is an- nounced that there will be twenty-nine weeks of musical comedy at popular prices."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
Pave Second Avenue.

"I believe that while Birmingham Is paving it's streets, Second avenue from Nineteenth street to Twenty-second street should not be forgotten" said mer- chant whose place of business is on that portion of Second avenue.
 This Belgium block is pretty good but then it is not noiseless, and 1t creates more dust and dirt than other pavings. There is a constant rump1ing all day as the heavy drays and wagons pass over the Belgium blocks, and 1t is annoying.
 Tt might not be a bad idea to repave the avenue as far west as Eighteenth street, for the vitrified brick paving from Eighteenth to Nineteenth street Is not in the best of condition, owing to the fact that the street is dug up every few weeks to lay gas pipe. a water pipe or a steam heating pipe.
 q believe that Second avenue, of all of the city streets. should be well paved, as probably more people are on that ave- nue daily than any other.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
IN SLEEPY HOLLOW.

From the Four Track News. Feet on the hills and heads in the sky. Bathing our brows in the breath of May Buoyant and youthful and clear of eye, Gayly we follow the northward way; Meadows are greening their winter tan, Orchards are heavy with scented snow. On, through the Vale of the Nepperhan Over the Heights of Pocantico. Dogwood and laurel and trailing pine Mantle the furrowed and craggy scars, Creamy dicentra and columbine
 Nod o'er the ashes of buried wars: Rehel and tory have made their bed Harmless, their sabers d truce have
 found
 Under the verdue that lifts eu- tread. Deep in the heart of the Neutral Ground. Here is the church on the haunted ridge, Idchens of centures feck the sides: Snrouded and headless. OCT wonder bridge Nightly the galloping horseman rides. What though burden of moldered stones Covers their forms from the eyes of
 nlen
 Baltus van Tassel and Big Brom Bones Rise through the magic of Irvings pen. Hudson in majesty meets the sea-
 Monarch of mountain and goblin glades; Laughing, the ripple of Tappan Zee
 Moeks at the frown of the Ualisades. Slumbers the land In golden spell Huch,-the Enchanter hath laid him
 down Close by the river he loved so well.
 Here in the hollow of Tarrytown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
Idea of Time.

Tt Is a singular fact" said a prominent lawyer yesterday, that so few people have an accurate conception of brief in- tervals of time.
 This fact has been demonstrated In the court room time and time again. when witnesses have attempted to show the court the duration of an interval men, tioned in the testimony. Not only Is this true of witnesses on the stand, but people in general have no accurate idea of the length of brief periods.
 Tn a trial here recently a witness was asked to tell how long it was between the shots alleged to have been fired by the defendant. The witness replied that 1t was about three minutes. He was then asked to clap his hands at the beginning and close of similar interval. By actual time an interval of ten seconds elapsed. In famous murder trial in the east re- gently witness allowed ten seconds for period of five minutes. If one stops and waits Tor minute to elapse that period seems several times as long as if he was engaged in something else. If man Is asked to signify what he believes to be the beginning and end of a minute he will usually wait several minutes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
CENSUS IMPROVEMENT
 THAT IS BADLY NEEDED

be we'll in the present census to comple-
 ment the figures for cities and towns with
 a new class of community units designed
 to express the character of the various
 population centers.
 Now that we have permanent national
 census bureau 1t would be well to begin at once to make preparation for including
 in the census of 1910 an exhibit of the rank of the various urban communities
 as population centers. This step would be generally popular Boston is by no means
 the only city that suffers in this re- speot Many other cities fail to get the credit for their true poulation. For in
 stance, Minneapolis and St. Paul belong together as a population center; Kansas City in Missouri gets no credit for the CO., terminus population of Kansas City in Kansas. and Pittsburg has the same
 claim upon Allegheny City that Boston does upon Cambridge. Even Philadelphia, by natural right, should include a popu- ,, lation like Camden in New Jersey, while Greater New York makes no showing for its overflow of several hundred thous- ands on the New Jersey side of the Hud- son river. In the south many of the
 growing cities suffer in this way. Bir-
 mingham in Alabama, for instance, has a census population of only 3S.4l5. but 1t is surrounded by important manufactur- ing suburbs that carry the population to more than 100000 Throughout the south are various important centers that
 until lately had no suburbs and their corporate limits are drawn so as to in- elude only the original compact popula-
 tions With the growth of the manufact- uring, large populations have grown up outside these limits. Greensboro in North Carolina, for instance, gets census credit for only 10,035 inhabitants where
 as the rightful figures make about three times that amount.
 Very erroneous and often highly inju- rious, conclusions are often drawn from the census figures. As that eminent stat istcian, the late Gen. Francis A. Walker,
 used to say. the given population of a community supplies it's commercial rating
 similar to that of an individual. For in- stance, party proposing to enter into business relations with city naturally turns to the census figures to see how much of a place it is. Such party looking up Boston would naturally be led to quite different conclusions if he ap- preciated that he had to with popula- tion of 100000 as possible customers in- stead of one of only half that figure. In one case favorable conclusion might be formed; In the other. the cinclusion might , be adverse It is therefore important that
 measures in behalf of statistical accuracy should be taken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
In tha Next Census Year.

Five years ago Birmingham had, ac- cording to the United States census 33,415 inhabitants It now holds by actual enumeration 13,858 children be- tween the ages of T and 21. This means & total population of 55,432, as experience has shown that the chil- dren of school age are one to every four of population. The increase in five years has therefore been 17,017, or A per cent. A like percentage of tn- crease in the coming five years would add 24,390 persons to the city's total, carrying the aggregate in the next cen sus year to 79,S22. This is the city proper as it stands today, cabind, cribb'd, confined
 The population of the county five years ago was 140.420. It is not reas- enable to estimate it's population in 1910 at less than 250, ,0O0, or an increase of 7S per cent Assuming that the growth of the city will in the ten years be 41 ,307, the rest of the county would have to be increased but 68,173 in order to attain to the total named, and no one who knows the county doubts It's capacity to grow that much.
 Assuming then that mighty Jeffer- son will hold in 1910 a quarter of a million people, what part of them will 1.-Two in Greater or Trolley Bir- mingham? It will be difficult to place much more than fifty thousand of them in agricultural Jefferson, or in that part of the county beyond the reach of trolley liner. Put Greater Birming- ham then down as a well-knit commu- nity of 100000, all living in Jones Val ley.
 If Jefferson rolls up population in 1910 of quarter of million the chances are very good that MT. Un- derwood will have but one county in his district. The present ratio of pop ulation to a representative is 194,182, and 1t is improbable that 1t will rise to or even approach 250,0O0 in 1910. It is safe, therefore, to assume that lief ferson will have representative in the first Congress that sits under the thirteenth census.
 But will the legislature give a quar- ter of a million people in Jefferson in 1910 rights in both branches of the legislature equivalent to those of a like population in other sections of the state? If so, more than one senator will have to be apportioned to Jeffer- son. The population of Alabama in 1900 was 1,S2S,e97. It will go to about 22O0,0 900 in 1910. The ratio of sen atorial district will then be about 62.- 800, and Jefferson will be entitled to four senators out of thirty-five, and to out twelve members out of one hun dred and five.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
MIR. GATES ADDS NEW FRILLs.
Saratoga Correspondence New York World

Saratoga Correspondence New York
 World.
 Sunday always brings John W. Gates prominently into the "reminiscences of the week. There are dozen stories told of him during the preceding six days. Here are three short ones:
 A-Mr. Gates. sitting at the table in Canfleld's clubhouse friday night made fifteen bets on the faro game forty feet away and won eleven of them, making s26O0 by the transaction.
 B-Mr Gates sitting with a party and watching a lot of gentlemen jockeys" trying to win a race backward, made a wager of $100 at 2:43 in the afternoon that Union Pacific stock would gain three-eighths of a point between that time and the closing of the market. He won his bet.
 C-Mr Gates drove out to the lake Wednesday to see the sun set and dine As he was about to enter the resort from the east side his eye caught sight of a nickle-in-the-slot machine. Telling his party to go to the west ve- randa. where Q fine view of the great golden dying orb of day was to be ob- tained, MT. Gates dallied with the slot machine. rejecting all invitations to come to the west veranda and see "old Sol go to sleep" By the time he had grati- fled his fancy for speculation the sun had gone down, night was falling and he had won $415 He celebrated the event by giving a dinner that cost s65
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20

quailing before 1t, and the republican party is deeply and irrevocably com mitted to the maintenance and promo. ton of class rule, and that fact of itself calls for the maintenance of the democratic party-that party which springs from and represents the masses instead of the classes-and some day Privilege will meet It's Wa terloo, and democracy will regain con trol of the country. No, many times, no, democracy Is not dying out, and never will while the republic endures, simply because the masses need an exponent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
"ls Democracy Dvino ?"

The New York World puts the ques- ton at the head of this article in these words, as follows:
 Speaker Nixon has been renominated for his sixteenth successive term as mem- Der of the assembly. : The nominating speech was made by his democratic opponent in 1898, who is now a republican, The seconding speech was made by his democratic opponent in 1900, who is now republican.
 In other rural counties there are more and more former democrats who are now republicans.
 Except in the cities is the democratic party in the state of New York dying out?
 The democratic party is not dying out in the south, whatever 1t may be doing in the north. It Is not dying out in the cities afflicted. as Philadelphia long has been, with republicanism and corruption, twin evils that seem to go together
 The truth is, the democracy is dying out only where it is but sort of bogus republicanism-whe it plays into the hands of imperialism and Dingleyism The people will yet awake to the dan gers of both and then the old historic party will become itself again.
 President Roosevelt was inclined to fight q battle with Privilege. but he is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
That Bforze Tablet,

Mayor George B. Ward has scored again. This time it was but a tablet, but he stood for the people, ana he won an interesting, although not mo mentous, victory.
 Inscriptions rarely tell the whole truth. As a rule there is graft in them, or rather private axe-grinding. In the tablet on the new High school build ing there will be none, for it will read: Erected by the People of Birming- ham for the Education of It's Youth" The use of capitals in this excellent inscription Is noticeable. The word People is spelled with a big P, and therein lies the essence of Mayor Wards latest victory.
 The words on tablet may not cut very deep, yet it is far better to put before the eyes of the boys and girls of this town the whole truth, thus ban ishing at one stroke rusticity and ridi- cule The people have come into their own by the tablet route. and 1t Is safe to say that no more tablets in this town will be covered with the names of officials who soon run their brief course and disappear The people are here to stay, and when they pay for a thing they do not desire misleading tag to go with 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
Crisis of the Conference.

The peace conference has adjourned until Tuesday next, leaving four de- mands of the Japanese unsettled, namely, the interned ships, the re- strietion of Russia's naval power in the Far East, Sakhalin, and an in demnity. The two first could be read fly settled; the two last are the crux of the problem, and the outcome is ex- ceedingly doubtful
 It Is not probable that the cold and barren island of Sakhalin would pre- vent peace. It has strategic value, but Russia yields her ambition for con quest and a warm water outlet in the Far East, and she can therefore afford to give up Sakhalin.
 The real trouble arises over the payment of an indemnity. Russia's public debt stands today at $4,370 ,000,- 900, none of which is held at home. The country is huge one, but it is undeveloped, and taxation is even now heavy and burdensome. If to great existing debt is to be added sum covering Japan's expenses in the war Russia will be seriously crippled for long time in the future. She could in that case no longer afford to be az gressive, and capitalists would be shy when new loans were proposed. The development of Russia calls for large loans. Tn short, Russia can ill-afford to pay an indemnity. Her pride does not so much stand in the way as does her existing debt, and 1t will be found on Tuesday that the demand for an indemnity Is the crucial, or perhaps breaking point
 And yet Japan richly deserves an indemnity. The war was forced upon her by Russian insolence, duplicity and intrigue. She can safely go forward in the prosecution of the war. Her national existence is already secure. When she holds Harbin all Eastern Siberia must be evacuated by the Rus sians, and Oyama is equal to the task of seizing Harbin.
 But let us not despair of peace. Rus sia knows she can not whip Oyama, and the cost of another year of un- successful war would be greater than the indemnity that Japan demands. Common sense, if,N not common hu- manity, may therefore yet dictate treaty of peace, and President Roose- yelt is now aiding the peace move ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
Northern Opinion.

q believe that 90 per cent of the people of the north will censure Booker T. Washington and John Wanamaker for that dinner party" said M M. Richey, as- sistant general superintendent of the Southern railway, yesterday.
 washington has given the negro race a setback that 1t will not recover from for the next twenty years to come and this one act of his has done the race in- calculable harm.
 q believe that the majority of the northern people look on the matter as a reflection on their women, and do not blame the south for rising up in arms against such affairs. I am northern man, but I feel as the southern people feel in this matter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
IN HOTEL LoBBlES
Faithful Even Unto Death"


 Judge Hayes of Jasper. the la'hef oi Dr. Oscar Hayes. the city physician oi Birmingham, told this dog story last night at the St. Nicholas;
 I've got good gun and good lot of game on my place, and dld nave good pointer dog until we went on our last hunt together
 He was the best pointer dog that ever scented a covey of partridges.
 "One day we were hunting near the railway track in Walker county. The dog stopped abruptly on the track. Hah his body was across the near rail of the track He stood there transhxed-hls neck extended, his eyes blazing, his ears close to his head and one of his fore paws raised in the air.
 As L drew near to flush the covey, noticed the ffty-mile limited express rounding the curve a hundred yards away. At sight of the dog on the track the engineer blew the whistle long and loud. rang the bell and did everything in his power to make the dog get off the track. But that good dog of mine stood there immovable, pointing straight at the covey he had flushed.
 With a rush and roar the train came on When it had passed. the head, front legs and shoulders of that dog of mine lay crushed and mangled on the track, but propped up on his legs the rear portion of the dogs body stood there still pointing at those cartridges.
 T picked up the remnants of the body carried them home and buried them near the garden wall. Over the grave I erected a crude tombstone. and engraved thereon these words:
 Faithful even unto death.'"