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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1912)
Odd Callings Are Found NAM kiiilmlSi i poitn'r HAVI TO IVtoMHY ABOUT BUACUftJ WAoHINU I wurniinies m man doesn't d as wtl at til own qo rupatlun as ha ought to think be has mxlit mleflt and believes he ran better himself, litre are a few sua liftlii for anycuie thua dlaaatlafled rrura t tin thirteenth Uulted State ceo iu: .. thorn U a snake merchant who hna ranch out In Texas and ha for our tlian seven years mado a bud nrai of hnnillliiK snakes. In one year h sold over IfiO.OUU rattler and blarkanakt-s, netting from a quarter to two dollar each. formerly all the part of a shoe were inane oy a eiiotMimaer; louay thli Induatry employs Judaea, faklra, plowera. limK"r. butera-out. cripple rtiaar and pancake-makers all en raged one way or another In the making of lio- or parte of them. Tests Confirm Danger SlK(.l:i. joiim r. anntnaun and l'at Aaalatant Burgeon Wad H. Troat of the United Htate publlo brail h service have completed eiper Imenta ahleh confirm the contention of Ir. Milton J. Iloeeneau of the Har vard MeHcal school, that Inrantll paralysis 1 communicated by the atabl fly. At tht International Congrea of Hygiene and Demography here re cently Pr. Hoeenau deacrthed hi ex periments Me Infected leveral moo kera with Infantile parayala, and ai poaed them dally from the time of In oculation till death to the bite of v ral hundred atable (Ilea. Twelve other monkey were then eipoaed to the bite of they (Ilea. At the time that lr. Itoaeuau made hi announcement alt of the twelve had developed symptoms characteristic of Infant!! paralyat. Of the alx. two died, three were paralyied and on recovered. In the cord of one of the monkey were found the cbaracterla tlo lealon of Infantile paralyal. The cord of the other dead monkey allowed changea teaa chara terlatlo of the dis ease. At the time of the announce ment a aumvient Interval had not elapsed to determine the result of the attempt to transmit the Infection of other monkey by Inoculation with Fair Sex Drinks More WOMKN. especially young girl, are rapidly becoming more and more addicted to Intoxicating liquor In the national capital, while the men are rapidly growing more abstemious, ao cordlng to Albert K. Shoemaker, at torney for the Antl Saloon league of the IHxtrlct of Columbia. HI accuaav satlon has aroused women generally here, and It la a subject of agitated discussion. .Mr Shoemaker made hi charge be fore the Women' Christian Temper sme union, attributing the Increasing thirst among women to the heavy com petition among proprietors of hand somely furnished cafes and tbolr will ingness to "take a chance" In per milting women aud young girl to drink. He also declared that under the ex m rBrJOTr. in TMNttt 1 Capital Society Girls Abandon Sports for Art Atiltori' of Washington society girls have forsaken outdoor sports lor the fine arte In previous years most of the members of the smart set cni i bn found altnoat any morning taUng a "beauty ride" In the parks jT on the, speedway. Three morning - each week th dnngtiter of cabinet ministers, sol diers and diplomat may be found leimlng over easels, with brushes, (tudyltig oil painting under the tuteliign of K. C. Mosser, head of the art school of the Corcoran art gal lerv Tho embryo artists do not seem to Ret any spoclnl attention from their professor Just because they happen to tin daughter of notable. W hen I'rofessor Messnr wa asked whnt progrcs the member of his class were mnklng he replied thnt Ihcy were all showing some talent, "lihoiiKh ho did not seem to realize hat there wa anything untisunl In Hi" lute n (lil I Hons to his class role. "MUs Nngel, tho daughter of a cnbln.'t officer?" ho naked. "Why, it never occurred to me to ask who her father Is. (ilrl are Just girls when Unfortunate Claim, Jim Unit t.kn riiunnprlvnltf AITAft tefl and twelve year, were told to go out nn cut and pllo wood. Hoth played ""til dusk, and after supper their mother Inquired; "Well, my hoy, how much hava you done today?" "Very meekly came Jon'a answer: "I linv I - iivrnrj lltll l 1 1 R. To Jim, entering Just too Into to I'nr Mn brother's remark, wa put . i. second question: "And whnt hnvo you born doing?" Quick na a flnsfi thu nntVirtunato foung (ll.hber nnawored: UK. I ve been, piling It op." in Uncle Sam's Census Another man seems to be In a cla by himself. In Kansas City h bot tie the amoke of hickory log , ays that when It I lot loose In an air-tight compartment where meat ha been hung n will produce the am results aa thouxh the meat had been cured In an old fashioned amoke houie. There a n,Bn out Seattle way whoen bualmaa It I to secure the inutache from walrun killed In lie ring Btrult. These tout bristles are piucaea from the noee of the walru hy Indian, tied Into small bundles and old by the Keattle citizen (who mad 11.000 by thla trallle In l'Jll) to agent on tho I'arlllc coast. The agent ahlp them to China, where they are In demand a toothpick. In an agd bull walru the brlstlee are about a foot long arid nearly a thick a a lead pencil. Thny are touKh. and when mnile Into pick can be puahi'd between the teeth without Injury to the enamel. Then there are alao the whltler and the pouncer In a hat factory; a dock walloper I a kind of longahore man; a vibrator work In a clock fac tory; a tonger work In connection with oyalers; a teaser work In a (la factory. of Common Stable Flies the cord of one of the two that had died. Ir. Anderson and Dr. Frost sought to repeat the conditions of Or. Hos nau's experiments. Their report made public the other day states that on October 3 monkey No. 242 was Inoculated with an emul sion of the cord of the monkey which die, I of Infantile paralysis. Until It death from the disease on October 8, the animal was exposed for two hour dally to the bltea of 300 stable (Ilea, collected In Washington. Another mon key similarly Inoculated on October 5 waa. beginning October 7. exposed dally to the bite of the same file. Ileglnnlug October 4 two other monkey were exposed dally for about two hours to the bites of these same file, and, beginning October 6, a third new monkey was similarly exposed. All three subsequently developed syr ptoms of Infantile paralysis. Than Men in the Capital isting laws It waa Impossible to secure the conviction of those who (old liquor to minors Insanity seizes upon the bachelor with greater ease than upon the bene dict, despite the worry the latter 1 iippoaed to undergo, according to tho reixirt of t he government hos pital for the Insane. Jnat submitted to Secretary of the Interior Fisher. An other fact brought out by tho report Is that out of nearly 3.000 patient In the Institution only three are being treated for Insanity brought on by the use of alcohol. Thla 1 contrary to the generally accepted theory, uhlch contribute to alcohollara a largo proportion of the unfortu nate. A significant feature of the report lies lu the statement thnt there are a far greater prnrtlon of foreign In sane patlmts than American, and thta of the foreigners the majority are Herman. That Insanity, In a large measure. I hereditary. 1 evidenced by the statement that tho asylum cl enttsts have discovered one family In West Virginia hose pedigree has been traced back through CT5 Individ uals, of whom 64 were mentally defec tive. then come to tho school. Hut he I doing fine work. Miss Meyer and Miss Townsend are doing well also. Miss Townsend already ha gona Into the 'llfo clns.' " MUs Townsend U tho daughter of a former minister to Portugal. As a child she played with the deposed King Manuel. Several years ago the former playmates met In London, and It was reported that tho king had asked her to marry him. Miss IliMognrdo Nngel Is tho eldest daughter of the secretary of com- .,.i inhnr end Miss Meyer I Illtll-! OIL the dntighter of the secretary of the navy. There nro about a dozen altc ..w In the class who were recruit ed from Wnshlnc'on' smart ant. Orders Founded by Women. Two of the most famous female re ligious orders of tho world, the Sacred Heart and Sisters of Charity, were founded by married women. Mme. Karat organized tho Sacred Heart pri marily to look after the relocation of the poverty stricken daughters of no bility and aristocracy of France, strip ped of their property by tho terrorist and Nnpol.-on. The Sinters of Char ity wero organlcl hy Mrs. Elliabeth floton a well to day Protetnnt con vert to Catholicism. t;''e. v.i tha daughter of a Now York merchant, and ho established tho order to toach and minister to the uiassoa ,HE RAN AFOUL OF THE LAW New Yorker Who Pursued a Burglar Had to Spend Night In Cell. This I fuDnr nUI, towB of 0jrl the Cincinnati Time Star New York oorreapondent wrltea. Thing happen here that couldn't possibly happen anywhere slse. The other night, for example, a man whose name may be set down a Jim Builth waa awakened by a tinkling noise In the front room. Mr. Hmlth roe, pulled on the conven tional pant, took hi all (hooter and went (talking a burglar. He found that Individual packing up tb allver. "Throw up your hand!" said Mr. Bmlth. A frightened gasp wa the reply. The burglar (hut off bla pocket elec trlc lamp and leaped on the fir es cape. Bo did Mr. Bmlth. The pair 1 . V. . ... . , "ling ins street sareiy and tore flown that thoroughfare. On the way jlh burglar presumably threw away , his electric lamp and whatever other tools of his trade he noeaeaabd. When the running pair came In light of one of Mr. Waldo' policemen on peg post It was the burglar who clasped the astonlahtd officer about the knee. "Help!" iald the burglar. Im pressively, "g nutty guy' chaln' me." There wa no help for It. The of ficer took the burglar and Mr. Smith to the station house. There the burglar wa searched, but nothing In criminating wa found. Early the next morning a lawyer appeared for the burglar, and when he wa ar raigned In court he wa dlcharged because Smith' Identification waa necessarily Imperfect Smith wa ure of his man but the lawyer rather shook hi certainty. In the meantime no lawyer appeared for Bmlth. He spent the night In the cell. Oh, (ure, he wa placed under arrest for carrying a revolver with out a license. The magistrate bound blm over on f 1,000 to appear before the grand Jury. LAND OF OUR FOREFATHERS Edward Everett' Tribute to England ai th Cradl and Rsfug of Fre Principle. For myself I can truly say that after my native land I feel a tender ness and a reverence for that of my fathers. The pride I take In my own country makes me respect that from which we are sprung. The sound of my native language beyond the sea la a music to mr ears beyond the rich est strains of Tuscan softness or Cas tlllan majeity. I am not I need not say I am-not the panegyrist of England. I am not dazzled by her riches nor awed by her power. Th scepter, th miter and the coronet, stars, garters and rib bons soem to me poor thing for great men to contend for. Hut England 1 the cradle and the refuge of tree principle, though often persecuted; the school of religious liberty, the more precious for th itrugglee through which It ha passed; she holds the tombs of those who have reflected honor on all who speak the Engllah tongue; she I the birthplace of our fathers, the home of th Pil grims; It Is these which I love and venerate In England. I should fo l ashamed of an enthu siasm for Italy and Greece did I not also feel It for a land like thla. In an American It would seem to be de generate and ungrateful to hang with passion upon the trace of Homer and Virgil and follow without emotion th nearer and plainer footstep of Shakespeare and Milton. I should think him cold In love for his native land who felt no melting In hi heart for that other native country which holds the ashe of hi forefather. Edward Everett. Hsavy Coal Producers. The concentration of the anthracite Industry of Pennsylvania Into strong and relatively few unit 1 shown by the fact that In 1911 nearly 76 per cent of tho mine were producer of more than 100.000 ton each and that all but 3 per cent, or the total produc tion was from this gdoup of mines. According to the geological survey the anthracite mine exclusively In the first clas those producing over 200, 000 ton each yielded 87.2 per cent of the total output, and the 168 mine Included In this class had an average production of 444,(197 tons each. In 1910 there were 157 anthracite mine In the 200,000-ton class and their av erage production was 419,035 ton each; In 1909 170 mines had an aver age production of SM6.C88 ton each. "Devil of Diplomacy." French paper ay that the Italians, successors to Machlavelll, are "very devils of diplomacy," and In coming to an understanding with Turkey hava left no end of trouble tor that un happy country. These paper say that the Italian have not spared to sow th seeds of discord between the Arabs of Tripoli and the Turks, that the Arab have long been distrustful f th. Turkish troops and have threat ened to slaughter them to the last man If they attempt to leave the country to It enemlea, and that the government at Constatlnople will hardly know how to withdraw It lit tle army from Africa. Rebuking "Dlizy." Blr William Frazer records with pride his own readiness in quoting the saying of one of Disraeli's heroes to "Dizzy" himself, together with the pleasure "Dizzy" took In being so quoted to. "Sitting next to him at Lord Shrewsbury's, cigars were hand ed round after dinner. Ha shook his bead, anJ turning to me, said, 'The grave of love." I replied. '"Tobacco i. .v.- ,..nh nt love." said Egremont holding up a cigar." He looked vary much pleased, and said, 'I apologia; I thought the remark was original,' " Abalone Mat In Demand. Dried and smoked abalona meat, most of which 1 cured In southern California llxhlng ports. Is purchased by Oriental Importer at fancy prices. Occasionally It sells for $300 a ton. In some Instances divers nro employed to procure, tho molluskn, and It Is not uncommon for sn experienced man to bring to the surface two tons of meat and shells lu a day Now wfi o fnvAShed up my Hobby Wovc lrn Jove "Iheil I 3ij not svondev i lis DVnlf' ln"tA FEAST FOR JAPANESE DOLLS Curious Mannar In Which Children Observe Month of February An wars to St Vlntln's Day. In that land of feasta and festival Japan the most popular on with tb children Is the feast of doll. which take place In th month of February. It perhaps answers to our Bl Valentine festivities. The fun lasts for three days, and If little Miss Japan's father and mother and grandfather and grandmother nave laid up in store for this occa sion, dolls by the hundred ar brought forth to celebrate th feast and many of the doll ar years and years old hundreds of years, aven. for every doll that enters a Japanea home Is treasured and kept for this great day. The best room In the house Is chosen, here shelves covered with rich silken hangings, gay In color, ar arranged, perbapa fiv or six shelves, extending th length of on sld of th room. Tb principal doll are th emperor and empress of Japan, or two dolls dressed to represent these august per aonagea In their court attlr. Every thing center about them; doll to represent maid of honor, courtiers, and statesmen, each In appropriate dress, are ranged next In order. Everything which their Imperial majesties can possibly need In th way of household furniture is repre sented In miniature; silver cups, bowls, and rice buckets, on lacquered trays, ar placed before the emperor and empress, and each day the little child for whom this festival Is pre pared OH tb dlshe with th differ ent kind of food used in a Japanese household rice, fruits, nuts and cake, or sweet wine. At th end of the feast th dolls ar packed away for another year, except two or three, which ar left out for dally use. GOOD ELECTRIC SIGN PUZZLE Objeot I to See How Many Squares Can Be Found on th Big T," On at Each Corner. This alectrio sign Is studded with thlrty-thre bulbs. How many squares can you find on the big T, 9 o O 4 c c CO p o c c 0 o Electric Sign Puxzl. four bulbs, on at each corner, oon Utntlng a iquara? Th second diagram shows how Solution of Puzzl. flfty-on different squares can be found on th electric light sign. For Emergencies. In some of the college settlements there are penny savings banks for children. One Saturday a small boy arrived with an Important air and withdrew 2 cents from his account Monday morn ing he promptly returned the money. So vou didn t spend your 2 cents, observed the worker in charge. "Oh no. he replied, but a fellow Just likes to hare a little cash on hand over Sunday." Harper'a Magaxlne. How Many Words Do You Ur oii.k.,tuiani had a vorshiilart v nf l3 1 1 (l ' 1 " J about 15.000 word; Milton had one of about 8,000 words. The average learn ed man has a vocabulary considerably smaller than Milton'; th overage man who Is not learned can get along with 8,000 or 4.000, and the man who doesn't do much of any thinking can get along with about 1,000 word Talkative. Ten cniilrt tell h had a. lug on Py tno war his tongue Would wag on. MEXICO MUST MAINTAIN ORDER Emphatic Note Being Prepared for Dilatory Madero. Orig-andag-e and Lawlessness Rouse Ire of American Government, and Must Be Stopped. Washington, D. C. Henry Lane Wilson, United Statea ambassador to Mexico, who has been here in confer ence with the State department offi cials regarding- conditions in Mexico, has gone to New York, preparatory to sailing lor his post. He is without the expected note of representation this government is preparing to send to the Mexican government demanding protection for citizens and their prop erty. This action is taken as a further evidence of the intention of the ad ministration to deal circumspectly with this delicate situation. The com munication is being prepared with the greatest care in the State department, and will be transmitted to the United States ambassador early in January. The deliberation with which the officials are moving is expected to re sult in the production of a brief that is expected to be well-nigh unanswer able except by a promise of prompt and adequate action on the part of the Mexican government to meet fairly and fully the demands of the United States in the matter of the plain American interests in Mexico. Justification for this demand by the United States is declared to be found in the numerous reports from every quarter that conditions in Mexico have grown worse since the dispatch of Secretary Knox's note of protest last September, and that there has been a marked increase in brigandage and in the kidnaping of citizens of the Uni ted States for ransom and in the levy ing of forced war loans by rebels on American mines and plantations. TOBACCO COMPANY WINNER Verdict in Suit Brought byJobbers Is for Defendants. New York The American Tobacco company won a verdict by decision of Judge Mayer in the United States District court in the $300,000 damage suit brought by E. Locker & Company, Brooklyn tobacco jobbers. The Met ropolitan Tobacco company, co-defend ant, received a similar verdict The plaintiffs sought treble damages under the Sherman anti-trust law, al leging they incurred losses through violation of the law by the defendant companies. Judge Mayer told the jury that the questions involved were of law, not of fact, hence it was for the court to de cide the case. John E. Locker, of the plaintiff campany, said he would take the case to the Supreme court of the United States if necessary. DEFENDS ISSUING PARDONS Arkansas Governor Tells Why He Freed 316 State Convicts. Little Rock, Ark. Characterizing the Arkansas penitentiary under the lease system as a burning, seething hell, consuming human beings, who are being fed into it in a manner which results in nothing but making fortunes for contractors, Governor Donaghey, issued a statement in de fense of his action recently in issuing pardons to 316 state convicts. According to a newspaper compila tion, based on the state records, 43 of those pardoned by Governor Donaghey were convicted of murder or man slaughter, 111 of grand larceny, four assault, five robbery, 19 forgery, 32 burglary, 26 assault to kill and 76 of crimes ranging from hog stealing to bigamy. Barbers' Mortality High. Sacramento Fewer bankers and more barbers die of tuberculosis than any other workers classified by the state board of health, according to a report just made public. Bankers, brokers, business men and those in gen eral whose work is mental rather than physical and whose surroundings at work and at home are almost ideally sanitary, show the highest resistance. Barbers and hairdressers show the astonishing death rate from tuber culosis of a fraction more than one in every four. Taft Full Professor. New Haven, Conn. President Taft will make his permanent residence in this city when he takes up the duties of the Kent professorship at Yale Col lege next spring. He has requested a friend to find him a house. In con nection with the professorship it is understood that at the next meeting of the corporation the tender of it will be formally made and will be accepted by President Taft Besides filling the duties of Kent professorship, the pres ident will lecture on constitutional and international law in the law school. Wealthy Galicians Fleeing. Paris Austria-Hungary is spending $800,000 a day to defray the expendi tures of the mobilization of her army, according to an estimate made by a correspondent of the Temps, just re turned from Galicia, Austria. The whole of the commercial and indus trial life of the country has been dis organized, he adds. In Galicia neith er money nor food is to be had and the wealthier part of the population has fled from the country. Big Drydock Asked For. Washington, D. C. A $1,000,000 drydock in San Francisco bay will be asked of congress by Secretary of the Navy Meyer in a recommendation he will soon send to the house appropria tions committee. The secretary defi nitely' docided to ask congress for the $1,000,000 dock at this session. The appropriation will be included in the navnl appropriation bill. If the sum is grnnteil work on tho dock will be begun within the year. CASH CANNOT BE CORNERED J. P. Morgan Asserts Alleged Trust Is Impossibility. EPIUIIAMS or J. riEKPONT MORGAN. All the money in Christendom and all the banks in Christendom could not form a monopoly that would control money. What I call money is the basis of banking. If he had the credit and I had the money (referring to a hypothetical man in control of the credit of the country), his customer would be badly off. When a man has vast power and abuses it, he loses it and he never gets it back again, either. The question of control, in this country, at least, is personal ; that is, in money. I would rather have competition. You must remember that not all securities sold and issued are al ways good, and when there is a re sponsible fiscal agent, there is mor al strength behind them. American stockholders take little interest in the management of their corporations. That is why we or ganize a voting trust in order to protect the company. There is no place where mergers and consolidations have taken place to the extent they have in Great Britain. "You believe in buying op the competing line?" asked Mr. Unter myer. "Why, sure," said Mr. Morgan. My idea is that it (the stock of the Equitable company) should be turned over to the policy-holders. Washington, D. C. J. Pierpont Morgan told the money trust investi gating committee of the house that "all the mon?y in Christendom and all banks in Christendom" could not form a monopoly that would control money. Mr. Morgan disclaimed any knowledge that he wielded a vast power in mod ern finance, and declared emphatically that he sought no such power. For nearly five hours the chief wit ness called by the committee in its investigation of the intricacies of modern finance stood a running fire of questions that covered every phase of financial operation. In some respects it was one of . the most remarkable hearings in the halls of congress in years, with Mr. Morgan as the em bodiment of financial operations on a colossal scale and the committee's counsel, Samuel Untermyer, the rep resentative of the element that seeks to probe the innermost recesses and conditions under which these vast finan cial operations are conducted. Mr. Morgan gave his views on com petition, combination, co-operation and control in industry and finance. particularly the latter. He declared he did not "mind competition," but that he preferred combination in his operations. He was emphatic in his declaration that "there is no way one man can get a monopoly of money. AVIATORS' BODIES PICKED UP One Corpse on Beach; Other Floats With Life Preserver. Los Angeles The bodies of Horace Kearney, aviator, and Chester Law rence, newspaperman, lie side by side in a little undertaking shop at Redon- do Beach, finally given up by the sea, which had combined with the more mysterious forces of the air to destroy them as they were seeking to write a new chapter in aviation by a daring over-ocean flight to San Francisco. Ten hours after the body of the young reporter, battered almost be yond recognition by waves and rocks, was 'found on the precipitous coast near Rocky Point, that of his aviator companion was picked up a mile away at sea by a searching party in charge of George B. Harrison, a skilled aero naut and close friend of the doomed men. Kearney's body was found entangled in kelp and partially attached to a life preserver, the white cloth of which. glistening in the sunlight, attracted the searchers to the spot Mercury Soars to 122 in Shade. Sydney, N. S. W. One hundred and twenty-two in the shade is the record made by the first heat wave exper ienced in Australia this summer. This was recorded at Eucla, the re peating station on the South Australian-West Australian border. At Homa, in Queensland, the mercury stood at 110, while Newcastle, the coal city of New South Wales, has had the hottest spell for 16 years, accompanied by dust and wind storms. Other parts of New South Wales were affected, but no deaths were reported. Van Schaick Pardoned. Washington, D. C. The president has granted a pardon to Captain Wil liam H. Van Schaick, who commanded the -steamboat General Slocum, which burned in 1094 in East River, off New York City, resulting in the loss of 1030 lives, mostly women and children. Captain Van Schaick has been out of prison on parole for some time. Cap tain Van Schiack in 1906 was convict ed and sentenced to 10 years' impris onment for criminal negligence in fail ure to have sufficient life-saving and fire equipment aboard his vessel. Bill Goes to Conference. Washington, D. C The "literacy test" immigration bill, which passed the house Friday and was brought back to the senate for its concurrence, was Bent to conference Saturday. Sen ator Lodge, of Massachusetts, moved that the senate disagree to the house amendments. A conference was asked for, and Senator Gallinger appointed Senators Dillingham, Lodge and Smith, of South Carolina, as conferees in the senate. HalibutBrings Big Price. Seattle, Wash. Fourteen thousand pounds of halibut sold for the record price of 10J cents a pound when the fishing steamer Molola arrived here from a 22-day cruise off Vancouver Island. The price of halibut has jumped rapidly since the fishermen's strike began two months aj;o and the few independent crews operating are reaping huge profits. COST OF LIVING UP TO FARMERS Government Expert Says All Depends on Size of Crops. Soil Must Be Made to Yield More Proportion of Farmers Growing Smaller. Washington, D. C. The lever that will break the backbone of high prices of foodstuffs is Jmore intensive farm ing, cultivation of unoccupied lands near the large cities' and more intelli gent methods of agriculture, in the opinion expressed by Professor Milton Whitney, chief of the bureau of soils. of the department of agriculture. Dr. Whitney is a leading authority on soils and their uses and his many publica tions on soils and their adaptation to crop production and their relation to food consumption have attracted, world-wide attention. Dr. Whitney is preparing a bulletin on soils of the country and their rela tion to the 'nation's future food sup ply. He draws specil attention to the vast amount of uncultivated areas of land, the decline in the cultivated areas compared with the rapid in crease of the country's population. "The country is advancing in every line," said Dr. Whitney. "People are living better than ever before. As a result we areatronger physically and mentally. We are consuming more foodstuffs per capita than the popula tion of the European countries and I would not for a moment attempt to discourage less food consumption. It is plain that until we get a larger sup ply of foodstuffs, and if the period of high salaries continues, we can expect the present high cost of living to con tinue. "So let us touch the producing side of the question. For instance, the states north of the Potomac and east of the Ohio river have a total area of 12,322,880 acres. The area under cul tivation in this territory is estimated at a little over 40,000.000 acres. Add ed to this is 27,000,000 acres used for forestry. So we have over 42,000,000 acres of idle land in the territory lying in the states. "During the past 30 years the amount of land in use has steadily de creased until it is now about 20 per cent less than in 1880, while the coun try as a whole has been growing at a phenomenal rate. ;'The number of persons engaged in agricultural pursuits in the states above mentioned has also decreased during the past 30 years, while the total population has largely increased. "There are at present, mark you, about 1,300,000 persons engaged in agriculture in the area under consider ation with a population of over 30, 000,000 non-agricultural producers to be fed. "The bureau of soils estimates that the land under cultivation in the area can be made to yield at least four times as much as at present by more intelligent and intensive methods of farming. Moreover, the same up-to-date methods used on the idle lands will have a yielding capacity of over eight times as much as at present. "Careful investigations conducted by the bureau prove that these lands are well adapted to all classes of crops, from the early fruit, truck and vege tables to the latest storage fruits and vegetables for winter use, and to the most intensive kind of dairy farming. "The conditions in the eastern sec tion of the country are similar to those existing in other sections. So whether the cost of living is to be reduced or not, it is perfectly plain to even the layman mind that to feed the present and constantly-growing population of the country a greater production of foodstuffs must be raised. "To do this more people have got to return to the farms; it is necessary to put more land under cultivation ; more improved methods of agriculture, and more intensified farming must be fol lowed." Opium Evil Persistent. Pekin In view of the unsatisfac tory position of the opium question the Chinese government has issued a man ifesto reiterating its desire to suppress the evil and save the people from at life of degradation. The manifest expresses the fear 'that although the government is in earnest, the people are evasive. Referring to the agree ment with Great Britain, it points out that the cessation of the importation of Indian opium depends on the entire prohibition of the cultivation of the native article. World's Crops Reported1. Washington, D. C. The Interna tional Institute of Agriculture at Rome has reported to the department of ag riculture on the year's crop figures. According to the institute, the produc tion in Germany was : Wheat, 160, 227,000; rye, 456,608,000; oats, 965, 999,000; barley, 159,927,000 bushels. Austria produced in wheat 69,640,000; rye, 117,114,000; oats, 167,423,000; barley, 78,384,000 bushels. In Iff European countries and Canada the production of sugar beets was 136 per sent of last year's production. Taking of Town Confirmed1. El Paso, Tex. Despite the denial of Minister Hernandez, the taking of Ascencion by the rebels is confirmed officially at Juarez and reported by nu merous refugees coming from the town. The taking of Casas Grandes as reported by rebels, remains uncon firmed. Railway reports say nothing of the Casas Grandes attack. The Seventh Federal cavalry is proceeding slowly behind railroad work trains toward Ascencion. Flying Santa Sheds Furs. San Francisco Santa Claus In an aeroplane flew over the heads of thousands of persons gathered here Christmas at the third international aviation meet of the Pacific Cost, and dropped bag of candy and nuU into the crowd. Thewaini weather, how ever, made it uncomfortable for Santa and he soon alighted, to shed his furs.