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New-York tribune., 1910-01-02

Christmas week has again come and
gone without bringing 20 New York any
good or lasting bit Of drama for the child.
Il is remarkably different in other coun-
tries especially al this time OF year
In London. the aged city where people
sre accused Of taking their pleasures sadly.
n'ne OF the leading theatres have special
productions for children. and al five OF
thzse fSe plays are Of an artistic quality
taat nss aroused the admiring interest OF
literary and dramatic critics everywhere.
Peter Pan" has been running ever since
tire middle Of September ''Finkio and the
Fairies. long = favorite in London. and
IL which Ellen Terry used 10 take the
l.seing part has ceen artistically revived
Where Children Rule. q sort Of musical
comedy IN which clever children take the
rsrss has humor which Is making London
isugh. Aladdin. the great chldren's
pantoninle. draws large crowds divided be
tween youngsters and 'grown-ups, Hho
10 NOT even take child with them as an
excuse. But chief OF all for this year Is
Tire Blue Bird the latest dramatic work
Of the Belgian mystic. Maeterlinck.
Philosophy ia a fairy tale il has been
rallied. Yet. as Herbert Trench shows In
lis criticism of il. the fairy tale does not
SPOIL II for the big folks. nor does the
philosophy dim its meaning 70 the little
ci.es He saws: ''MseteriinclI shows how,
ore By one all the blind. ancient terrors
fall zvay. leaving man confronted with
fate which is ever clearer 70 his gaze
NaeterlInck has thus put a whole philoso-
ply into gay <airy tale that may be un-
dtrstocd and enacted and laughed over by
: child"
The theme Of Blue Bird is the search
.round the world Of two children. Tyltyl
md AfytyI. for the blue bird the emblem
ef happiness. They have been told by
fairy early on Christmas morning that
little nsighhor OF theirs has fallen i'll and
that the only thing they can 90 70 make
her happy is TO find her q blue bird. OF
course they start off al once on their
search The fairy gives the boy Tyltyl
little car with a diamond in it, and if he
sets II on hts head with the slittering
stone pressing against his forehead the
souls of all things can be seen.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
AT THE NEW THEATRE.

from the boy on the steps by stern yet
boy) to be born inso the world.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
RIDDLES OF THE ORIENT
Mysteries Of the West an Open
Book to the Wise Men of
the Far East.
TRANSMITS NEWS QUICKLY.
Secret Means Of Communication,
Mesmerism and Hypnotism
and the Eastern volapuk.

In India, central Asia, Arabia, as
we'll as in the northern and central
Africa, the natives have from time i'm
memorial possessed some mysterious
method of transmitting news. within
the space of an hour or two, over dis
tances of many thousands of miles.
Study OF the subject in the orient have
convinced investigators that the means
employed is not electricity, such as we
understand It, For telegraphy when
we first introduced it into the orient
was regarded by the latter as a wholly
lew and foreign contrivance. But that
some Of the people of Asia and of the
dark continent have mastered one of
Lord Salisbury's riddles of nature to
the extent of successfully applying
their discovery to the quick transmits
sion Of news is an established fact.
When Lord Mayor, the viceroy of In
lia, was murdered in the Andaman
islands, the news of his death, within
an hour after the preparation of the
deed, was communicated to one of the
principal English officials at Simla by
an old and trusted servant, who had
been long in his employ, although the
distance between the Andaman islands
and Simla is something over 1000
miles. The Geographic announcement
) Of the assassination of the governor
general did not reach the summer cap
ltal until more than twenty-four hours
afterward.
Mesmerism and hypnotism were
practiced for centuries in the orient
before they ever made their way to
Europe and America. and in many re-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
WITH THE sAoEs.

Happiness is work. -Sir Luke White.
Life is as mirror that reflects our
actions and characterised.
1t is the lifted face that feels the
shining of the sun.-Browning
We are our best when we try to be
it not for ourselves alone, but for our
brethren.-Phillips Brooks.
The grandeur of life may come
through its combats, but Its sweetness
comes through the cherry portal of
content. Robert Collyer
All seems beautiful to me. can
ever repeat to men and women: you
have done such good work to me.
i would do the same to you."-Walt.
Whitman.
He who, in poverty. or sickness, or
solitude, can preserve merry hearth
and cheerful countenance is benefac-
tor to society, and the best of all pos
sible friends to himself. Thorold.
Let US continue, in spite Of all to
act, to love, and to hope. as though
we had to do with an ideal humanity.
This ideal is only vaster reality than
that which we behold. Maeterlinck.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
most extreme portions of the Asiatic
continent squatting grayely face to
face with their hands on one another,s

most extreme portions of the Asiatic
continent squatting gravely face to
face with their hands on one another's
arms. rs e,
Not word is exchanged, but con-
cealed under those long sleeves the
negotiations are in progress, the hand
of one moving up and down the arm
of the other, each motion and each
pressure conveying some meaning. The
method has, moreover, this advantage,
that owing to the negotiations being
thus carried on their nature remains
hidden from the prying curiosity Of
the loungers standing around.
Other means of oriental commrmica.
tion, equally puzzling to the white
man, no matter how long he has re.
sided in the East, are, for instance,
the marks on trees. Some twenty
years ago the British authorities in In.
dia were much wrought up over the
daubing of mango trees throughout
the length and breadth of Hindustan.
with patches of clay mingled with cew
or buffalo hair-cattle being sacred in
the eyes of the Hindus. Notwithstand.
ing all the efforts of the English, II
was found impossible to discove, the
perpetrators of this species of plas.
tering, which was effected with the
most astounding secrecy and rapidity.
mango trees extending over an area
OF hundreds of square miles having
been thus marked during the course Of
a single night.
That 1t constituted some secret sig
nal or conveyed some hidden message
the most erudite English students Of
Indian lore and history were con.
WINGED, and the veterans of the Anglo.
Indian service recalled, not without
concern, that the terrible native revolt
of 1857, which literally deluged the
Deccan with a sea of blood, was imme.
,diately preceded by the equally mys.
terious distribution of little unleay.
ened cakes chupatthies, they were
called-among the people Of India.
They We're passed around by unknown
hands, and to this day the British gov.
eminent has been unable to obtain any
clew as to who baked and who dis.
seminated them. Equally at sea are
the authorities as to the, precise mes.
sage which they were intended to con.
vey, although the simultaneous out.
break of the insurrection Immediately
afterward in various parts of India far
distant from one another has naturally
led to the belief that they constituted
some kind Of prearranged signal for
the great rising.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
Alfalfa ,1enl for Cow.

Alfalfa meal as a feeding stuff is
having the consideration of The expert
ment stations. 1t is only within the
past few years that alfalfa hay, to any
extent, has been ground into meal, as
a partial substitute for grain for
horses, cattle. sheep, hogs and poul-
try. Poultrymen, however. say that
fowls do not take to alfalfa hay or
meal as readily as they do to clover,
and many, especially the large con-
Germs. have cut alfalfa and gone back
to clover.
Alfalfa can be purchased on the mar
ket just as it is ground into a meal,
but more often 1t is mixed with mo-
lasses, corn chop. wheat screenings,
chat. weed seeds or other waste
products.
1t is claimed for alfalfa meal that
1t is fed with less waste than hay, and
possesses higher percentage Of
protein than ordinary hay-about Is
per cent, as compared with about 6
per cent in timothy hay. But pound
of alfalfa hay does not contain any
more nutriment when ground into
meal than it did before, and for home
consumption it is doubtful if the ad-
vantages are enough to pay for the
grinding.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
The Mule. Enr

Evolutionists explain satisfactorily
that the reason that the dogs ears lop
is because for centuries the animal
has been domesticated by man and
has lain within the protecting infiu-
ence of his hut and fire. The dogs
ears are said to have originally stood
upright, as do the VOLTS to-day, but
gradually as the necessity for keen
hearing became less imperative the
dogs ears began to lop.
But how about the mulec 1t is the
duty of somebody to explain why the
mules ears have no. Topped down.
there is no need for him to have stiff
ears. The donkey, the horse and their
progeny the mule, have been under
mans protecting influence for centu-
ries and ages. The ass is the beast
of burden in the Bible. His ears were
stiff then, and they are stiff now. 1t
would seem it was about time for them
to begin to lop little.-Indiana
Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
lTEGRlIY Or AUSTRIAN
FrPIRE MAY HINGE On
CAu1S OF Mon HNATE
WEE Or HElR APPARENT

dinand, and so, in the end, ascend the
Austrian Throne. Sophie, innocently
enough, was the rock upon which these
ambitious dreams went to smash. So
the Archduchess jealousy and desire
for revenge are at the bottom of the
vendetta which now involves most Of
the women of the Austrian court.
The Archduchess Isabella had sew
eral daughters. When Archduke Fer
dinand began to call often at the an
cestral castle of his distant cousins,
Isabella believed, as did the entire
court circle, that he was enamored of
one of thehe royal young princesses.
Ferdinand, the polite, the courtly,
made much of his cousins, and his at
tentions set their hearts fluttering with
vague hopes of crown. The only
question with them and with their
mother was which one he would select
to share his brilliant future. So dip
lomatic was Ferdinand and 80 absorb
ed in their own ambitious dreams were
the Archduchess and her daughters
that they did not suspect the real mo-
tives that brought the Archduke so
often to the castle. The slim, shy,
modest young Countess Chotek did not,
for a moment, enter their calculations.
Then one day came disillusion like
bolt from the blue.S The Archduch-
ess Isabella, in her satins and furbe-
lows, was sweeping up the stairway
of the castle. A dimly glittering OBJ
ject at her feet caught her eye. She
picked it up. 1t was the brooch of
her lady-in-waiting. The Archduchess
would return it, But just then some
tnischievous imp must have whispered
into Isabella's ear. Idly curious, she
opened the locket. A portrait of a
handsome young man met her gaze.
All, ha! She had stumbled upon the
Countess Chotek's secret. So that SLY
mink of a lady-in-waiting was in love!
The picture was a miniature of the
Archduke Ferdinand.
Excitement and CONSERVATION akin
to panic seized the household. The
Archduchess hastily summoned her
daughters. They found her storming
up and down the floor in tears of rage.
She Numbered out the story that had
been revealed by the locket. Could 1t
be possible that the heir to the throne
of the empire would pass by the daugh-
tiers of this princely house and wed
woman of lowly origin? Countess So
phie was sent for. She came with
downcast eyes. "I want the truth"
shouted the Archduchess. And Sophie
told the story of her romance timidly.
It was true she loved Ferdinand and
Ferdinand loved her and had asked
her to be his wife. Her usefulness in
Isabella's menage ceased from that mo-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01

spects have been developed in India
to an extent that savors of the super
natural and which, nevertheless, is
wholly within the laws of nature.
1t is claimed by the natives of In
dia that some of their wise men have
mastered, If not the language Of ami
mails. at any rate that of birds. That
the feathered denizens of the air have
a language ineligible to each other
and capable of being mastered by man
kind was believed by the ancient
Greeks and Romans. older and in some
respects wiser than ourselves.
No white man has ever been permit
ted to acquire the species of sign Vola-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
The State of Iowa
Occurrences Of the Past Week
TREASURER DIES suDDENIY.
A. o. U. w. omcial Had Been NotI-
Ned of Lodges Suspension,

A. o. U. w. Omcial Had Been Notl-
Ned Of Lodges suspension.
Mystery and sensation involves the
sudden death of Col. j. c. Leasure, JUS
'tice Of the peace of Iowa City, who
was found dead in bed at his home
there. He was the financier and re-
corder of the A. o. U. w. and had re-
.ceived formal notice from the grand
lodge officers during the morning that
his lodge had been suspended from
membership pending the receipt of
dues and assessments unpaid and long
overdue in the headquarters at Des
Moines. All the local members, about
sixty-five in number, received the same
type of notice, and began search for
the officer, knowing in most cases they
had paid their dues. For several
hours relatives said he was in the
country. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon
he was found dead in bed. No sugges-
lions of violent death, and the coroner
said he died peacefully in his sleep. If
no funds are found his bond company
Will be called on to make 1t good.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01

ment. The lady-in-waiting was instant
ly dismissed. The Archduchess imme-
diately informed the Emperor, who
summoned his nephew for an explana-
ton. Franz Ferdinand declared he
was engaged to the Countess and
meant to marry her. The Emperor
tried in vain to dissuade him, but final
ly compromised on a years delay,
promising to give his consent then If
the Archduke remained of the same
mind.
Young Ferdinand and the Countess
Chotek were married at Reichstadt,
almost privately, with only three of
the Hapsburgs present. Even the
brothers of the Archduke, Carl and
Otto, did not appear at the wedding,
while the Emperor merely sent mes
sage of congratulation. The Archduch-
ess Maria Theresa, however, was pres
ent and proposed the nuptial toast.
For several years nothing disturbed
the Archduke's married life. The
Countess never appeared in public with
him, the carriage she used lacked the
golden spokes Of the wheels of impe-
rial equipages, and whenever the Arch
duke attended court festivities the wife
stayed at home.
The Belvedere palace, which for
more than century contained the i'm
perial picture gallery, was modernized
and fitted for princely residence, and
it was understood that the future EN-
peror's morganatic wife would con-
tinue to reside there, even after her
husband succeeded to the throne. The
Burg palace and Schoenbrunn were to
be reserved for receptions and festivi-
ties, and the Emperor would return to
the Belvedere every day, after having
attended to the business of the state
in his official rooms in the Burg.
The father of the Archduke Franz
Ferdinand was Karl Ludwig, younger
brother of the present Emperor, famed
for his gloomy disposition and clerical
views. Ferdinands mother died when
he was s and he was brought up by a
devoted steupmother whom his father
married when the Archduke was 9. He
was educated with view to his ulti-
mate entry into holy orders.
When he was Is his tutors realized
his unfitness for the life and he was
destined to be soldier. In the earlier
years Of his manhood the Archduke
was an almost chronic invalid. At one
time he was obliged to go to Egypt
for his health, and lived out on tho
desert for a year, fighting what his
physicians told him was tuberculosis.
But since his marriage he has been so
devoted cared for by the mother of
his children, with whom he spends all
his leisure time. In November. 1900,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01


Have goodwill to all that lives, let
ting unkindness die, and greed and
wrath; so that your lives be made like
soft airs passing by.-E. Arnold
The object of all recreation is to in
crease our capacity for work, keep the
blood pure, the brain bright, and the
temper kindly and sweet.-R. w. Dale.
A happy nature is sometimes a gift,
but 1t is also ia grace, and can, there
fore. be cultivated and acquired; and
1t should be definite aim with those
who are training child.-Lucy Souls
by.
Most of the cheats of existence are
strong. AS to their sweetness, moth
ing is so transitory; its date is a
moment; the sting remains for ever;
1t may perish with the dawn of eter-
nifty, but 1t fortunes through time to
Its deepest night-George Eliot.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01

after months debate, the Buda-Pesth
Parliament formally acknowledged
Frank Ferdinand as the heir apparent
to the crown of st. Stephen and recog-
nized the right of his wife to share
with him the Hungarian throne.
1t is only since the birth of her son,
Macmillan, that the Princess. has
come from the seclusion in which she
lived for few years after her mar
riage. Now she deems it necessary,
II she would win her point, to place
herself as prominently as good taste
will permit her before the public. She
Is not finding it necessary to concil-
late Hungary, as her position there is
unquestioned. the Hungarians having
declared that they ignore the meaning
of a morganatic wife. There the Kings
wife will be Queen. and. residing In
the castle Of Buda, she'will receive the
nobility with her husband.
The Princess, now past 40, is far
more beautiful woman than she was at
the time of her marriage, when she
held no claim to beauty. From thin,
pale girl she has blossomed out into a
well-rounded, attractive woman, who
will command her rightful share of at.
tention, and who seems in fair way
to get it. She is an ideal mother, and
spends a great deal of time and
thought on the upbringing of her chill
dren. Her little daughter, Sophie, is a
beauty, and the boys are veritable
Kings in embryo.
Certain 1t is that the old Emperor is
rapidly nearing the great goal. That
the Princess has hard fight ahead Of
her yet is also certain. But with the
future of the little Macmillan at
heart, with the sympathy Of the Hun
garians to serve as sort of anchor
to her hopes, and with an unlimited
amount of perseverance, Princess So.
phie Of Hohehberg stands a good
chance of winning her fight and achiev-
ing a throne for herself and her de.
Ascendants.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
WOMAN CONGRESSES PLOT.

Band of Men anil Women Crlminals
Works Out of ST. Louis.
A stylishly dressed woman who gave
her name as Mrs. Anna Kelley was
arrested on charge of securing goods
under false pretenses. Upon being
placed in Jail, she confessed that she
was member of band of criminals
who worked out of st. Louis. Mrs.
Kelley, under the pretense that she was
dressmaker of Mrs. D. R. Patterson,
entered store and, it is alleged, pur-
chased goods, charging them to her
alleged employer. A moment later
Mrs. Patterson entered the store and
the fraud was discovered. The wom-
an says the, band is composed of twen-
ty-five men and fourteen women and
that they owned and operated a large
store in st. Louis. The women, she
said, worked the country as shoplitt-
ers. while the men were yeggmen and
burglars.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
mEcHAN1csv11IE HAS BAD FIRE
Restaurant, Two Barber shops, sIu-
sic Store and Depot DESTROYED,

Restaurant, Two Barber Shops, Mu-
sic Store and Depot Destroyed.
Fire starting in John w. Onstott's
restaurant at Mechanicsville destroy
ed the building and two barber shops
and a music store. The fire started
from an unknown cause and quickly
spread. The brick buildings occupied
by the State bank, on the one side,-
and Helmer and Houses implement
store on the other prevented further
spread of the flames. The four frame
buildings burned were occupied as fol-
lows: G. l.. Hines, barber shop; ].
D. Baum, barber shop; John w. On
stott, restaurant and Ray Bagley, mu-
sic store. From the last named build
Ing the goods were mostly removed.
The loss is about $4,000, partially COW
cred by insurance. A few hours pre-
viously the C. & N. W., depot caught
fire from sparks from a passing en-
CINE. The building and contents were
quickly destroyed. The loss is in the
neighborhood of $4,000
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
Tile ..r. Joint. and Elbows.

You may easily join concrete tile to
make perfect joints in the following
manner: Take the tile that is to join
the main drain and with a cold chisel
cut the end SO that it will fit over the
side of the drain tile.
This is easily done by lightly cut
ting some with chisel; now place
this onto the main tile at the point
1T is to be placed, and with pencil
mark around the outside of the same.
Then with a chisel, says Farm World,
lightly cut into the main tile along
this mark about half way.
When cut entirely through in four
or five places on this mark and lightly
tapped with hammer on the inside
of the main tile, the piece thus cut
Will break out of the main evenly; the
edges may be smoothed and the tile
inserted in the same, previously GRAFT
ing the edges with cement mortar, and
then by wiping the joint with cement
mortar outside same, you can make
the joint perfectly tight.
Elbow joints are made in the same
manner except that ends OF three tiles
are cut and Joined together to make
segment of the circle. and with the
joints sealed with cement mortar a
perfect joint may be used.
The tile should be made and allSned
to harden for at least thirty to sixty
days before placing it in the ground.
At period Of two days they may be
exposed to the weather without injury,
and when thirty days old may be
taken to the point where they are to
be laid, and no amount of freezing
will injure them in the least, which
cannot be said of the ordinary clay
file
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-01
$500 PER ACRE FOR LAND.

Geo. E. Roberts Says Cost of Living
Will Not he Lower.
There will be no decrease in the
cost of living said George E. Roberts,
president of the Commercial National
Bank of Chicago, while in Iowa City.
I'VE have been living up to the pres
ent time off the natural resources of
the country, but those times are past.
In fifty years from now, the United
States will have population of 2O0,-
100000, and Iowa farm lands will be
worth $500 per acre. The country will
be titled like the gardens of France.
We have come to the beginning of in
tensiye farming. and with its approach
low prices must disappear. In former
days. when land was worth almost
nothing. a. farmer could scarce make a
lays wages from the sale of his prod
ucts, but now a change is coming. Fu-
ture tendencies in prices will not be
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