The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-06-02

Illus great weight lTOm mbuy VI W.
declares the New York Herald.
Friends OF the Simple Life will Re
glad to know that the $3.50. opera
glasses which a Fifth avenue woman
left IN a hanson cab have been re-
covered, opines the New York World.
In every great business the chief
trouble Is 10 find a powerful and p!on-
eeFing stan, observes the British
Weekly. II is frequently achieved in
these days, and especially in America,
by a series Of remorseless experiments.
One person after another gets his
chance, and nlne-tenths Of the number
are flung upon the street.
Rev. G. Sylvester Horne, talking Il
the merchants OF Cardiff, recently
quoted President Roosevelt's words,
Back Of the material and greater
than the material lie the moral and
the spiritual" and said: Now in the
dearth Of craftsmanship on this side
Of the Atlantic, let me recommend
thoge words 10 you. We used
10 have men In England who talked TO
us Ike that"
Canada is somewhat troubled over
the diminished American immigration
into the Canadian Northwest in 1904,
compared with that of the year imme-
diately preceding, states the New York
Tribune. In 190l|02 the number OF
Americans who sought homes In Can
ada was 10000; and in 19O2'03 the
number rose to $4,000, while in 10000
Il dropped TO 5000. w. J. White,
chief Canadian inspector OF immlgra-
tion agencies. has just returned to OF
tawA from an extended tour In the
United States and, a. q result Of his
observations, predicts that fully $4,000
Americans this year will cross over
the border and become settlers in
Canada.
The vital statistics Of England for
the past year have alarmed all those
who like to think that old customs and
old fashions are still with us. AYERS tho
ATgonaut While the reglstrar.general
has not fully given all the figures and
has only reached the year 1903 in his
percentages, II IL now a solemn fact
that marriage has been declining for
twenty years. until in 1903 the slump
was so marked that nothing like It
has been known since statistics wore
discovered. And with the decline of
marriage, remarriage has fallen. too.
In 1879, 9S out OF every 1000 widows
were induced TO wed again. In 1903.
only 65.s out OF every 1000 swore 70
love and obey a second or q third.
John Morley in The Nineteenth Cen
fury says: ~ democracy originally
British. the most astonishing and trl-
umphant achievement so far has been
the preserving absorption and incor-
poration across the Atlantic OF q cease.
less torrent OF Heterogeneous elements
from every point OF the compass into
one united. stable. industrious aud pa.
rifc state with 10000, 900 of population,
combining the centralized concert Of
Federal system with local independ-
once and uniting collective energy with
The encouragement OF individual free
dom. How does this stand in COM
Darison with the Roman empire or
Roman church OF the Byzantine en-
pire or Russia or Charles the Great or
Napoieonf"
Because 80 percent OF the peBons
who engage in business fail while only
5 percent succeed, Franklin MacVeRgh
Il willing TO feed the O6 percent OF In
competents TO DIR. osler In order to
ave the percent, who are lifted to
survive" But could the percent sur.
1--WE II It were not for the other 95