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Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24

fad for aviation among American wom-
en-. Ever since Clifford B. Harmon took
up in his Farman biplane Mrs. Har-
mon, Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt and
other women have declared their de-
sire for aeroplan!ng.
It Is announced that three pretty
French women aviators are to follow
to this country shortly after the ar
rival of these small airships. They
will be costumed as the women avia-
tor should be and will be prepared to
demonstrate and instruct American
women in the art of flying.
Yves De Villers, the representative
for the Vendome aeroplane. was at
Mineola, L. l., the other day. and said
that the little monoplanes are being
brought to this country as quickly
as possible. At least one of the three
machines will be shipped to the avia-
ton grounds in Mineola, where 1t will
make daily flights. 1t Ii the smallest
one.person fly-about in the world,
and weighs 60 pounds less than
the famous Santos -Dumont Demoi-
selle.
The vendome monoplane is the
work Of Raoul Vendome, a French
builder of aeroplanes. tbs equipped
with 12-horsepower Anzani motor,
and complete. ready for flying, weighs
$50 pounds.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24

nately increased. There would be little
chronic malaria If acute cases were
cured, but there /are today probably
two or three million persons in the
United States who are harboring mala-
rial parasites.
"All authorities agree that quinins
is almost a specific when treatment is
begun early and continued long enough
to eradicate the parasite from the sys-
tenn, The microscope is not always
criterion as to chronic malaria; un-
doubtedly the disease exists without
the presence Of the parasites in the
peripheral circulation.
A campaign should be instituted at
once against malaria. Being infectious
and contagious, this disease should be
classed among the reportable diseases
and state and county boards of health
should lead in the fight. Money spent.
in eradicating malaria would yield
greater retruns than that expended in
any other form Of philanthropy"
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
English Firm Shows Many Kinds Of
vegetabIes-smali Proportion Of
Commercial Value.

London.-The average man, who en-
joys dish of green peas and knows
the delicacy merely as peas" will be
astonished to hear that at the Royal
Horticultural society's show at Holland
park one well known firm alone
showed 60 varieties of the vegetable.
Though the ordinary consumer does
not know it, each variety possesses a
different quality and taste. which the
expert can detect.
A representative of one of the big
gest firms of seed merchants in Lon.
don said that the different varieties of
peas were grown almost exclusively
for show purposes.
For commercial purposes" he said,
only the dwarf varieties are grown.
The expense of sticking the taller
peas would run away with the grow
er's profit.
"The finer varieties Of peas are
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
ARGUMENT ON RACE SUICIDE
Doctor Declares Statistics Prove First.
Born Children, Not Equals Of
Latef ones.

London.-one Of the new features at
the seventy-eighth annual meeting Of
the British Medical association, held at
London, is section on medical sociol-
ogy. dealing particularly with the So
cial aspects of the failing |birth-rate.
That the elder-born children Of a
family are more liable to suffer from
disease than the younger ones is point
DR.. ]. w. Hunter has placed before the
section. OF children of the working
classes Doctor Hunter has found this
holds good up to and including the
seventh born child. With the eighth
born, however, sharp increase in the
liability to physical defects has been
noted, which steadily increases with
still later members of the family. AS
a result of his studies Doctor Runte,
believes that the limitation Of the fam.
lily to two or three children means the
annihilation of the race.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
TRAP 200 CATS IN A MARKET
Vicious Animals Fight captors, But
Are Put Into Baskets for An.
nihllatIon.

New York. Yowling. splitting,
scratching and hitting, 200 cats were
cofnered. one by one. the other night
in the old Washington market and
dumped into baskets, to be disposed
Of by the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.
Agents of the society. policemen.
watchmen. butchers, fishmongers.
green grocers and all the little world
Of the market Joined in midnight
hunt that, for activity and noise. out.
did anything ever chronicled from
Africa.
For years the cats, at first encour.
aged to keep down the rats, had run
wild and increased in garrets and sub.
cellars until they became an intolera.
BILE .pest. The market is now in proc.
ess Of renovation.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
AIdrlch,s vlndIcation.

Reelection to the senate by the
Rhode Island Legislature. Which 1t is
intimated Senator Aldrich may seek
in response to the Bristow charges.
will not be convincing vindication
before the nation. It has generally
been understood that the senator's
retirement was voluntary and that he
retained the privilege of naming his
successor. II he should now decide to
decree his own return. wherein would
be the vindication? The more simple
way, obyiating the necessity Of six
years more of labor in the senate, and
affording that period of retirement
which his active life has earned,
would be for the senator to prove that
the Bristow statements are "a pack Of
lies." Saying SO does not prove them
so, nor will reelection by a Rhode
Island legislature.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
The West and the Tartff.

The president aroused hostility not
because he was thought to be the
active agent of privilege. but because
he failed to understand the signifi-
cance of the issue that was Joined.
This was proved by his Winona
speech. He was too sensitive to
criticisms Of the tariff law, and was
at the same time insensible to the
deeper causes Of discomfort, which
were not to be explained as an unrea-
sonable insistence on perfection. If
he had said that he had done his best,
that there was hard fighting and that
the result was a working compromise
with some good and bad features, he
would have escaped censure. But he
was too militant in his praise of the
law and overlooked the sensitive ma
ture of the victories for privilege.
This it is that excited the indigna-
tion of the west. Back of the tariff
and back of the various schemes in
behalf of private interests are Can
nonism and Aldrichism. There will
be no rest until privilege now rem
resented by those terms is dethroned
and the people generally have q
chance at square deal.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
MAKES MORTALITY RATE HIGH
Ravages of Malaria Pointed Out by
Physician at Recent Con-
vention.

DR.. Searle of Mobile, Ala, said at a
recent medical convention that ma
laria, though decreasing in severity
and frequency. continued as one of
the most prevalent diseases in many
localities of the United States; in
some places its mortality amounted to
rs rer cent Of the total number of
deaths. In this country in 1900 the
number of deaths from malaria was
14,90s.
1t should be remembered that ma
laria, as complication of number
OF diseases, is responsible for many
deaths which were ascribed to other
diseases. 1t seems, therefore, that
these statistics did not overestimate
the number Of lives sacrificed to this
easily preyeLtable and curable dis
ease. 1t has been estimated that ma
laria cost the nation from SS0,000,000
to $100,000,000 annually.
y Malaria could be entirely eradi.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
IFIsHH0oKs BAD FOR FOWLS
Pennsylvania Chicken FancIer Be-
Ileves Old Saying Is In Need
Of Revision.

Lewiston. Pa.-John B. Clemmens, a
Pennsylvania railroad signalman at
Newton Hamilton, is of the opinion
that the old saying. Never count your
chickens until they are hatched." could
be well amended to read Never count
your chickens Clemmens is chick.
en- fancier and had a flock Of half
grown games Of which he was espe.
cially proud.
The other day his two sons returned
from a fishing trip and threw num-
ber of large eel hooks, baited with
pieces Of veal. on the bank at the boat
landing.
An hour later there was a great COM
motion among the flock of games and
an investigation showed that each had
swallowed chunk Of veal and an eel
hook with 1t. Clemmens killed six Of
the chickens in removing the hooks.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24

10 my house? No, no; one really must
draw the line somewhere, is 1t not
so?"
It was cruel blow to- Anna, sur
prise to the Americans lin the know"
That dollars can buy their way into
any society In this country was one
of the Gould maxims; and that title,
no matter how much disgraced, no
matter in what bad odor, would secure
entree to the homes Of continental
aristocracy was another accepted
opinion, especially when the titles
were backed by fortune such as be-
longed to Anna Gould. The Countess
de Castellane came to Paris with Boni
at her side, her fathers millions be-
hind her, and-so she thought-the
conquest of the French capital at her
feet. 1t was second Invasion, but
1t did not meet with the success that
attended that Of the Germans in II.
The rue aristocracy, proud and haugh.
ty with the hauteur that comes from
centuries of the best blood of France,
took one look at Anna through Its
lorgnettes. and said:
How truly unfortunate that she
should have married that odious and
utterly discredited Boni. With a
proper husband she would be emil
nently acceptable, and-who knows?
might in time become craze"
Count at Least Scores Success.
The count, being long accustomed
to being snubbed by the society lead
ers of his country, and having recog-
nized and accepted the position on the
fringe Of the half world that society
had allotted to him, accepted this
treatment as matter of course, used
the Gould millions to rehabilitate the
Castellane castles and villas, paid
some of his most pressing creditors,
and started In to enjoy that part of
Partisan life which was open to him
and where he knew that he belonged.
With his credit reestablished, his
standing with restaurateurs, wine
agents, jewelers., and other tradesmen
once more assured, he began to cut
dash in the society to which he was
accustomed. The women of the thea
ter welcomed him with open arms.
He was brilliant success. He had
reconquered his part of Paris.
But his part was not the part that
his countess desired to enter. While
Boni was finging her money away in
riotous entertainments for his latest
favorites the countess remained at
home. angry because the highest 80
ciety had not stretched forth the hand
Of welcome. Boni, as happy as only a
Partisan can be with the money suf1-
cient to make him popular In the cap
ital, could not understand. Thus came
the first parting Of the ways. Anna
grew wroth. She intimated to Boni
that 1t was high time he began to use
his influence to secure for them a
fixed position in high society. 1t Is
rumored that she even intimated that
it might be hard for him to continue
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
New Form Of Bacillus Particularly Ae-
tive In Hot Weather Found in
Kansas City.

Kansas City. Mo.-A new germ. as
yet unnamed. has Just been discovered
In Kansas City. It is a hot weather
bacillus and affects young and old
alike, being particularly noxious in
adults, 1t is said, and producing q
chronic case of what ordinarily Is
called the Crouch"
7 The discoverers of this germ are
DR.. E. l.. Mathis. chief probation Off
Ger, and his, assistants, who constant
ly are making study of human ma
ture and, by the way. this particular
bug is one which attacks human ma
ture only.
ut is hot weather bug" said Doc
tor Matthias, "and can produce the
worst case of crouch in a short time
that you ever saw.
Gust now we juvenile officers have
little to do SO far as the juvenile
court is concerned, but we are kept
busy as bees looking after. what we
call hot weather business.
Somehow or other. this hot wealth
er seems to 'peeve' everybody. 1t
takes the form of crouch in adults and
the form of what the grown-upsi are
pleased to call 'devilment' in children.
"A man lies down to take nap of
hot afternoon. He is just tuckered
out by the heat. he says. and nap
will straighten him out. Just as he
gets comfortably settled. boys or girls
in the neighborhood begin to romp.
and. of course. they call back and
forth. and the would-be napper is an.
noyed.
'Then the irate adult goes outdoors.
He is hard hit by the weather bug.
He loses his temper and gives the
children calling down. The bug, in
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
MANY VARIETIES OF PEAS.

grown for culinary purposes only by
expert gardeners in private gardens.
They are much finer in taste than the
ordinary pea, but they have no COM
mercial value, because the average pur-
chaser will neither pay extra. nor. in
deed, ask for particular kind.
"At the moment, as horticulturist.
/ should recommend the Battleship
pea as the best. but the grower for the
market is producing quite a different
variety. He is growing dwarf pea
of 2 feet inches or feet at the most
in height"
The manager of a popular restaur-
ant, who was also consulted on the
subject, said that the best quality of
peas could be supplied to the average
diner "if he would order or demand
them. The ordinary diner out" he
said, docs not realize that vegetables,
like wines or cigars. vary in quality.
He orders peas without any specifica-
tton."
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
GROWING TOO SOON
FRIENDS Of PAYNE TARIFF LAW
ovER-JURILANT.
Measure Really Has Not Had Any Def
Inlte Test That Might Determine
Its value-WIse Course to sus.
pend Judgment.

Perhaps 1t will be recalled that the
recent Ohio Republican convention de.
clared, in effect, that the Payne law
had justified the expectations of its
friends-which we have no doubt. is
true of Its real friends, such as the
cotton manufacturers-and had con.
verified national deficit into a surplus.
The convention was remarkable
body. but In few things more remark.
able than this. 1t was pointed out in
the News that but for the receipts
from the corporation law, which may
have to be returned to those from
whom they came. the treasury's work.
ing balance would today be less than
$4,500.000, the smallest in years. The
excess of expenditures over receipts
for July. the first month of the present
fiscal year, exclusive of the Panama
canal account, was more than Sill, ,000,.
900. as against $15,OOO,OOO for the
same month last year. Including the
Panama canal shortage. the unfavor.
able balance mounted to $1S,610,000.
1t is true that the fiscal year ending
with June showed surplus of ordi.
nary expeditures Of about $4,000, 900.
Counting in the Panama canal ex.
penditures. there was a deficit. But
there was an extraordinary increase
of revenue the last month Of the year
1t is only fair to add that July, which
shows a deficit, is always bad month,
the drain on the treasury in that
month being unusually heavy. But
still 1t appears that the surplus fol
the year was very small; that there
was deficit in the canal disburse.
ments be counted In; and that July
showed deficit. It seems fair to con.
clude that 1t is far too early to Judge
OF the merits of the Payne law as a
revenue producer. The Washington
officials evidently do not wholly share
the optimistic views of the cheerful
standpatters who engineered the Ohio
convention. On the contrary, the
treasury people are good deal wor.
ried over fiscal conditions, particularly
when they consider them from the DO.
litical point of view. 1t Is even said
that were 1t not for the money derived
from the tax on corporations the ad.
ministration would today be facing a
bond issue or resort to the issuing
of certificates of indebtedness. Yet
we were assured by Senator Aldrich
that no form of extraordinary taxation
such rs income and corporation taxes,
would be necessary to protect the
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24

The customs receipts Of s25.o51, ,511
mark falling of of virtually $3,6oo,-
900 from July Of last year. attributable
In part, at least, to the rush Of Inn
portations Just prior to the passage
of the tarin bill last summer.-Wash-
ington Dispatch.
They wanted to get their imports
in before the tariff was revised down
ward. you know.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
The Humorous Ralllnn.r

IThe president and l have done all
we could ITO make this administration
a success" remarks Secretary Bal.
linger.
AS a striking example of uncon-
scieus humor his words deserve a
shining place in the lexicon Of litera-
ture.
II Mr.. Ballinger can turn this sort
of phrase regularly he is wasting time
as mere departmental head at
Washington.
! The mantle of the inimitable Twain
awaits him.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
COSTOF MARRIAGES

ter will like to read all about 1t, as she
is thinking of being married there"
Thank you: I'll give 1t to her." said
the innocent man.
"That'll be Is cents" said his rev.
erence, and the unfortunate father
placed the money on the table and fed
for his life. Needless to say the mar
riage did not take place at his church.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
Girls Kiss Holds Liner.

New York.-Miss Agnes Quirk's de-
sire to kiss friend goodby "for luck"
forced Capt. War; of the liner Cam
pania to hold the ship at the dock
over scheduled sailing time. Miss
Quirk was one of five Brooklyn teach
ers who won trip abroad in popu.
larity contest. She forgot the final
kiss till the shore crew tried to hustle
her aboard. But their efforts were Of
no avail. Not until Miss Quirk had
implanted protracted. and resound-
ing smack on the cheek of a man
friend.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24

Prince de Sagan Is the hereditary
Duke OF Talleyrand. When his father
died recently De sagan became the
fifth duke of that name. AS the mere
Prince de Sagan he was looked upon
ah an outsider by the highest society
Of the French capital. But as the
Duke Of Talleyrand he occupies an
honored place second to none, and his
duchess. the former Anna Gould. tri-
umphantly enters into position
which for years her millions and eff
forts have failed to achieve.
The Gould millions wouldn't do It.
Count Boni de Castellane's titles
wouldn't do It. The royal title Of the
thoroughly discredited Prince de Sa-
gan wouldn't do it. But the old, aristo-
cratic name, Duchess of Talleyrand,
opened the door. The siege of Paris.
which Anna Gould started when she
married Boni. is success at last, and
the Gould millions finally have the
opportunity to fete the highest people
in France.
Social ostraclsm Apparent Fate.
1t has been long siege and a hard
one. Up to the present time it has
appeared that 1t was going to be a
losing one for Anna. Social ostracism
has stared her In the face and out of
countenance. Her original marriage,
with Count Boni, proved a disappoint-
ment. No royal doors swung open to
the Countess de Castellane, not even
when the name was backed with good
American dollars. The count had his
own circle, but, alas and alack! 1t
wasn't the circle that Anna Gould had
figured on entering when she became
his wife. The best society of France
did not receive her with acclaim, and
Anna was disappointed and hurt.
Perhaps 1t is not fair to say that
this, the failure of the counts titles
to win her the position in European
society that she coveted, was the
cause Of the rupture and final divorce
between her and Boni, but 1t is GER
tain that after the countess had dis
covered that so far as social standing
was concerned her position as Coun-
tess de Castellane was but little i'm
proved beyond that of mere Anna
Gould her respect for the dapper little
count and his family began to decline.
1t was shock.
Boni Popular In Some Quarters.
"Boni?" said a certain duchess Of
q noble French family. "His influence
among the ladies of the ballet is un.
questionable; he can 60 anywhere
there. Also he is extremely popular
among the jewelers. and other trades
men of the Rue de la Paix; he owes
them all money. But could he come
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
DAINTY LITTLE FLY-ABoUTs
Three Tiny Monoplanes Ordered for
Use Of New York Society Women
Weighs 1so Pounds.

New York.-Three Of the tiniest,
prettiest and speediest vendome mono
planes are now on the way across the
ocean and are expected shortly. These
dainty little air craft promise to be
Just the thing to satisfy the growing
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
Discrepancy Her.

"The greatest economist In the
country, SO far as tariff matters GO"
is what Speaker Cannon calls Serene
E. Payne. If that's true. why doesn't
Mr.. Cannon stand by the bill Mr..
Payne framed and not the very diff.
ferent bill Mr.. Aldrich passed?
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
CROUCH GERM IS DISCOVERED

turn, attacks the Juveniles, and they
answer back and make life miserable
for the complaining one.
about that time we get call con.
cerning a big disturbance. Some Of
the men go out. learn 1t is the same
old story. and 1t Is up to them to ex-
plain to the adult that children must
play and that they can't be expected
to conduct their game after the fash
ion of Friends meeting. They also
lecture the children and take steps to
restore the equilibrium of the neigh
borhood which is ravaged by the sum-
mer bug"
The juvenile officers have not gone
into the investigation of the bug in
scientific fashion, and as vet have
worked out no cure.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24

The presidents determination to
make his speeches few and far be-
tween is another evidence of the
force of the better-late-than never
proyerb.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
Mouse In Hat In church.

Mouso n HAT IN Church.
Berlin Commotion was caused In
a church at Dornbirn. Bavaria. by
lady who felt something moving in
her hat. and found mouse hidden be-
meath her artificial flowers
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24
Headed Her Off.

why is your wife angry at your"
81 pinned Don't Kiss button onto
her odle."-Houston Post.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24

Good thoughts and good deeds are
twin virtues.-Henry Lee.
Manchester Democrat., 1910-08-24

MIA GOULD. former Coun-
tess de Castellane, Princess
de Sagan, finally has achiev-
ed the aim of years Of So
cial battle. She is now the
Duchess Of Talleyrand. and
as such she at last becomes
one Of the foremost leaders
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-04-05
PROFESSOR MASSEY'S VIEWS.

the garden at work all the time.
Set good strong tomato plants III
rows three feet apart and two Ieet
in the row, and put a strong stake
to each plant and train it to a single
the show. You can get better crops
in tina way than by letting them tum-
BILE.
Sow late in the month seed Of to-
matoes in the open ground to take
the place of the early ones that may
become exhausted in midsummer.
Keep the onions sown early perfectly
clean and thinned to three inches.
Pull the earth from them as the bulbs
form, SO the bulb Will set on the
ground, and only the roots under.
and you will get far better crops.
Green onions tied in punches VII
sell Well almost anywhere in town,
and can be made very profitable. Work
the garden for all it is worth. and
n it heavily. and YOU will find
that it will be a profitable spot. and
what your family does not consume,
go, or to the factory village. In the
South there need not be a day in all
the year when the garden will not
give you something.
Celery seed should be sown the last
of the month. Sow in rows on the
surface and pat them down with back
of spade. Then lay a gunny sack
on the bed and water lightly. and the
sack will keep the surface moist till
the seed terminate.