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# EPIDEMIC GF GRIP IS SWEEP.NG COUNTRY Tens of Thousands of Cases of This Pestiferous Disease A re Being Reported. W in te r !U K WHAT AILS THE ARMY? 8 was to have been expected. Adjutant Gen- eral Ainsworth’s suggestion that we must cut down the size o f the army, raise sol diers’ pay or else resort to conscription, has raised a storm o f newspaper protest throughout the country. Perhaps General Ainsworth did not intend his mention o f conscription to he taken seriously, but at any rate it has served his purpose by directing general attention to the serious state in which the army tinds itself. The army is 20,000 men short o f its schedule, and o f ficers are so few that this year’s class at West Point is to be graduated six months before its time in order that some of the vacant commissions may be tilled. What the reason is for this condition has been often pointed out. The rate o f pay for enlisted men has not been Increased for over fifty years, and that for officers for thirty-seven ; yet in that time not only has the cost o f living increased greatly, hilt pay in all other occu pations has risen. It must not be forgotten that the army o f the United States is on a different basis from the armies o f Euro pean continental nations. There m ilitary service is a part o f the citizen's duty. lie is expected to devote two or three years to the army, and ail citizens are alike In this respect. In the United States, however, the army Is a body o f men hired to do m ilitary service, just as cities hire street cleaners or policemen. It Is in compe tition with every other form o f employment, and in time o f peuce no patriotic feeling enters into the service. This nation must pay enough to attract men to the army. I f pay is inadequate, volunteers cannot be had. The remedy is obvious. I.et Congress appropriate enough money out of the nation’s enormous surplus to Increase the pay o f officers and enlisted men to the point o f attractiveness. I f this be done, recruiting stations will be overcrowded with applicants.— Chicago Journal. A LOWER CALIFORNIA WOULD BE USEFUL TO US. EKE tlie United Slates ready to buy new territory, probably lr could at this time make no more valuable acquisition than the peninsula of Lower California. Aside from the value o f the land itself. Its pos session would undoubtedly add mueh strength to any position which we might be forced to assume in relation to international politics on the Pacific, and would do mueh to augment our na tional muscles, which, as the President has frequently pointed out so clearly, must be ready for the regulation and defense of the Panama canal. A well-protected coal ing station somewhere within striking distance o f the Pacific mouth o f the canal Is a necessity which is rec ognized. Moreover, for strategic puri>oses in case o f w a r that Issued from Asiatic waters, the G ulf o f Cali fornia, narrow, 700 miles long, and partly fortified by batteries at Cape San Lucas, and at advantageous points on the eastern side o f the peninsula, would be. In its function as a harbor and as a base for supply and coal W The girl with the blue-bead necklace nodded her head and then, taking the hairpins from her mouth and trans ferring them to her hair, said. “ My, y e s ! W e had a perfectly elegant time.” “ Was Maud up there?" asked the girl with the art nouveau waist buckle “ I should say n ot!” replied the girl with the blue beads. "W h at do you think! She went to him an’ ast him to take her— ns good as ast him. She says. ‘ You’ re a goln’ to take me. ain’t you?’ Sorter JoNldn’ him, o’ course. She wouldn't have gone If he’d said ‘ Yes.’ Oh. no! She’d have slap- jhm ! ids wrist f«>r dnrin* to take her se rious. Now. what do you think o’ that? Ain’t she the nerviest thing? W hat <!o you think he says to her? ‘ You've get another guess cornin',’ he says. ‘ I ’ m goln* to take Babe.’ I think It was good enough for her. That’s the way she is, though—always try In’ to butt In an’ make trouble if she can. The nerve o f her, astln’ him If he wasn’ t goln’ to take h er! An’ I told her myself the same mornln' that I was n-goin’ to go with him. No, she v.isn't there.” “ I think he done Just right,” said the girl wdth the art nouveau waist buckle, approvingly. “ Say, Babe, I think lie's Just grand.” "S u re; I think so, too," said the girl with the blue-bead necklace. “ Ain’ t he tile elegant dresser?” " I s lid say.” said the girl with the art nouveau waist buckle, heartily. “ I f 1 had a feller like him— ” The girl with tlie blue-bead necklace tltfen*d. "H e ain’ t my feller.” she mid. "Just l»ec*ause be takes me out to n few pi sees ain't no sign he’s my fel ler. I don’ t know whether I ’d have hi til for a steady comp’uy or not. But 1 do think he’s grand. Ain’ t lie got nice hands? Did you ever notice his hands?” “ Sure.” sahl the other girl. "F ath er don’ t like me goln’ with him.” confided the girl with the blue- head necklace. “ lie don’ t like him be- enuse he wears good clothes and he thinks tiecaiiMe Ills bunds ain’ t all dirt that lie don't work, an* he thinks that lie don’ t get enough wages. Father make* me tired. W alter’ d look well handlin' rildmns with hands like Jim S h in ’s. I guess. An’ as far as wages **•*. W alter’s makln* good, an’ he’ll ger « raise Christ mss, maybe. Look st ing dejKits, Invaluable to our forces on the Pacific. Puget sound or. the north is at present the most avail able refuge for a hard-pressed squadron, and Is so far away from the canal as to render dubious the possi bility of assistance coming from Atlantic waters. The suggestion o f purchase Is not n ew ; many jours ago it was discussed In Washington, but the rise o f Asiatic ¡»owers and the canal project have more than doubled the desirability o f the possession. T h e purposes o f Mr. Root's visit to Mexico are not very well defined. That his excursion was prompted In part by the administra tion’s Interest in Ix>wer California is not beyoud rea sonable belief.— Collier’s Weekly. RUSSIA’S REVENGE ON JAPAN. A P A N w ill do well to observe with keenly analytical eye the formation o f the Russo- Japanese Commercial Company. This con cern appears to be a R ssiau organization, and from what we gather o f the meager details sent out, it i-s about to inaugurate a movement o f infinitely more concern to the Land o f the Plum Blossom than war. It api>ears. among other things, that Siberian butter has long been shipped to Hamburg, repacked and re shipped to Japan as a German production; so also with Russian sugar disguised as Austrian; likewise Russian liquors in a German wrapper. These near-food prod ucts. so it seems, find a ready market in the Mikado’9 kingdom— their relative cheapness appealing, especially, to the lower clnss<*s. Having failed to best Japan in war, Russia perhaps thinks tills is a much more subtle scheme; and so it is. Unless his majesty o f Japan gets extremely busy and has his parliament enact some sort o f a pure-food law with teeth in it, his people will find themselves face to face with a monster beside which Mars seems a pygmy. Strawberry Jam manufactured o f hayseed, pumpkin and aniline dyes is only a question o f tim e; while formalde hyde and salicylic a d d are both sure to play a pro found part In the future progress o f his empire.— Wash ington (D . C .) Herald. TO SAVE THE BIRDS. HE statisticians who foot up the loss to the country resulting from the killing o f insect- destroying birds, and from our further neg lect to intelligently protect and foster these wir.ged scavengers o f the air, put tire gross sum at $800,000,000 per year. We do not know upon what facts or what basis o f computation this enormous total Is reached; but if It Is one-tenth part true it is a startling showing. The prop osition o f the federal government to set aside bird reser vations and breeding grounds where our feathered friends might be protected in life, liberty and the pursuit o f hap piness seems to rest upon sound economical grounds. It is a measure o f safety for ourselves as well as for the birds.— Philadelphia Record. T Mr. Ferguson. He started In at seven per. iegs'n six years ago. Anyw ay, I ’d rather have a feller that had some style about him. even if he was draw- in’ out less money. Me an’ him was out las’ night, an’ I tell you he’s no cheap skate even if he ain’ t mnkin’ more’n $10. I wag a-goln’ to tell you about HUthin’, but I guess I won’ t.” "G o o n !” pleaded the girl with the art nouveau w a ls f buckle. “ T ell me. I won’ t tell nobody.” “ Ob, it ain’ t nothin’ ," said the girl with the hlue-liead nockla<*e. "only if Mias Maud thinks that slip can string W alter I can tell her wliat he told her. She’s got another think cornin’. Her name won’ t be Maud, it’ll be Mud. I guess 1*11 spring that on her. I ’ll say: ‘Hello. Mml.* an’ she’ll gay: 'M y name ain’t Mud, thank you,’ and I ’ll w iy : ‘Oh, ain’ t It? I thought It was. W hat’ ll you bet It ain’t?” " I dust yon to.” , giggled the girl with ttio art nouveau waist buckle. "B ut you tell me what you was a-goin* to tell me. Honest, I won’t never tell.” The girl with the blue-bead necklace shook her head until the hairpins tum bled out again. “ I'll pinch yon till you tell,” said her friend. The girl with the blue-bead necklace squealed. “ Quit now, you mean th in g!” she cried. “ Say. guess what me an’ W alter was a lookin' at In the shop windows when we was out las night. Cross your heart you won’t te lir The girl with the art nouveau waist buckle crossed her heart and the girl with the hiue-head necklace bent to her and whispered : "D l’mond rings.” — Chicago Dally News. (m a ilt»«« of A ll F la il. The. fish was no bigger than a silver dollar. It* color was bright gold, and it had a beautiful bushy golden tall. ‘T h a t,” said the pet stock dealer, “ Is the finest aquarium fish In the world, a Chinese brush-tailed goldfish. It Is handsome, henlthy and long lived. A go<xl brush tailed goldfish,” he conclud ed. "costs $250 or $300. and some fine specimens have sold for as much ns $700 apiece.” W hat hna become o f the old fashion ed man who said, when he wanted to abuse a tow n: " I t la the Jumping-off p la c a r V a lu e o f C o -O p e r ^ tlo n . Sir Horace Pluukett, member o f the British house o f parliament, who has been in this country recently, said in an address to agricultural students that there was “ not a single county, not a parish, in Ireland where the farmers are not completely revolution izing the entire busluess o f farm ing by Introducing co-operative methods.” And It might be added that there is scarce ly a farm ing district In the Uniteti States where more benefits canont be realized by a closer co-operation of- the farmers. The farm ers are understand ing each other better each year and are coming closer together in all mat ters which pertain to their mutual in terests, but there are still greater ¡»ossl- bllities ahead. Describing the 900 co operative organizations o f peasants In Ireland which he was Instrumental iu establishing for the purpose o f compe tition with commercial industries, forc ing out middlemen, compelling rail roads to provide better facilities, and dictating more favorable legislation to parliament, done: "T h e first thing was to introduce a system o f agricultural education which extended into every branch o f the Industry, teaching the farmer, for Instance, to purchase every thing he requires, Implements and ma chinery, o f the very best quality. They combined to consign in bulk and dis tribute their goods In the m arket They combined to raise working capital for their operations. They combined to awn breeding animals. They did Just what you are doing here, brought sci ence into farm ing by getting it into the schools. They had the same system of Instruction and experimentation sup plied by your govern m en t” New V a rie ty of Tobacco. A new variety o f tobacco, valuable for cigar wrapping, was first raised in Connecticut from seed brought from Florida and which o r i g i n a l l y came from Sumatra. A f ter very careful and satisfactory tests results have proved beyond a doubt the USES OF ADVERSITY. value o f this vari ety for growing M r . C h f e p » o r a e F i n d * M i t Ig rn tI u «■ C l r - commercially, to c iin t M t n n c « » « I n t h e M o n e y (fc n e n t lo n . gether with the fact “ You know,” «aid Mr. Cheersome to a that the seed comes N ew Y'ork Sun man, “ a financial strin true to type year TH E PLAJfT. gency or currency famine, or whatever you call It, is not wholly without Its after year when saved under bog. The advantages. Not wholly. This last name Uncle Sani Sumatra was given l to this variety. It Is a cigar wrapper affair has helped ns a heap. “ Now, there’s Mrs. Cheersome, she ' variety o f tobacco and adapted for I grow ing under shade in the cigar wrap says to me the other morning: per producing regions. The plants “ ’ Sereno, I'v e simply got to have some money. I'v e got to have a new reach an average height o f about eight feet at the time o f maturity, and they dress and a new hat— I can’t wear those things I've got another day ; and bear an average o f about twenty-six leaves before topping. The cured leaves I'v e got to have money fo r a lot o f will average about little things that I need right away.’ sixteen inches in “ And then I say to her: by twenty “ ‘ " 'h y , Lucy, haven't yon heen read width ing the papers lately? Don't you know Inches In length, al how difficult it Is at the present mo though the size varies um>rding to field and ment to get cash money, while at the conditions. same time people don't like to take i cultural | T h e yield o f the crops checks? W e’ve got the money, Lucy, I o f tiiis variety is high, but we haven’t got it in such shape i being as much as that we ran use IL I snpimse I could 1 1,(100 pounds o f cured t h e ij c a f . get money at onr bank, but do you tobacco to the acre under favorable know I hate to ask them for It at Just conditions. The percentage o f the best this time, you know, when everybody grades <ff wrapper in these crops is ought to he considerate, or I hate to j correspondingly high.— Exchange. ask fo r more than we really need. “ 'And you wouldn’t want me in go V a l u e o f B e e t S n srn r P r o d n o t * . into the market and bid fo r currency, Some idea o f the magnitude o f the would yon? Pay .1 or 4 per cent for beet sugar Industry In the United cash to spend for luxuries that we States can be glv en ’ by estim ating the could edge along without for a little value o f the beets sold by the growers longer? to the factories and o f the refined “ W e can get together cash enough sugar placed on the market hy the fac fo r onr actual needs, hut don’t you sup tories last year. pose we can w ait a little for those oth I f we assume that the average price er tilings until things get back to no-, paid for beets I d 1906 was $5 per ton, mal? Which they are bound to do the total value o f the 4,216.112 tons of right soon.’ beets harvested Is $21,180,560. I f we “ And Mrs. Cheersome doesn’t fully estimate the value o f the sugar at 4Vi understand this money talk, but she cents per pound, the 967,224.000 pounds worth knows there's something In It, nnd for o f sugar manufactured w ere Probably the assumed the rest she trusts to me, and so we $4, 1 ,525,080. have heen enabled In these last few prices both fo r beets and fo r sugar mny weeks to avoid a number o f expendi be a trifle below those actually receiv tures that otherwise w e should have ed. but these figures are sufficiently been compelled to make. accurate to Indicate the magnitude of “ In fact, we have been through a the industry. period o f economy, one o f enforced R ip e n in g G re e n T o m a to »* . economy, I know, but a period o f econ O ften when frost comes there are omy nevertheless, in which we have many tomatoes on the vines that are saved money that we would have spent nearly fu ll grown, but that have not if w e had had It in hand, with the re yet ripened enough to send to market. sult that Instead o f being the p o o r « I have picked such tomatoes and put for the financial stringency and thé them In a cool, dark place to ripen currency famine and so on we are now slow ly and sent them to market when actually better off, and now, with con the supply had run low and prices run fidence restored and the whole situa high, says a w rite r in New England tion easier, when Mrs. Cheersome Homestead. But for home use a bet comes to me I sba'n't have to tell her ter w ay Is to pick the smaller ones how hard money Is to get and all that, from the vines and then hang up the but I shall say to her simply, and I branch In the cellar, darkening the shall say It eheersomely : windows and keeping the place cool. “ ‘ My dear, how m uch?'” They w ill ripen slowly, and one may When a man hears a rap on his hack door he Imagines all sorts o f things, and hopes It may be something Import ant. but his wife, more practical, saya: ‘‘Oh, It la only the boy with the m ilk." Indulge In ripe tomatoes In January, when those grown In a hothouse and not aa large or any better flavor are selling s t 23 cents t pound or mors. T r y 1C ( ’a b l i a i g e . One o f the simplest ways o f keeping cabbage is to store in an orchard or SUFFERERS IN MANY OTTER some sheltered place, often alongside a fence which has been made tight by | a liberal use o f straw. The cabbages are stored with their stems on and are Business in M an y P laces Is D I s o t » placed head down and as close together ga n lzed on Acoount P ro stra tio n s as iHissihle. T w o or three tiers are fro m T h is A ilm en t. often made, the heads o f the second tier being placed between stems o f the lower, aud so on, the plies being made o f any width and leugth desired. The An epidemic o f la grippe seems to tx whole is covered with leaves, salt gra.»s ■weeping over the country, and tens oi hay or straw and a little soli, rails, thousands o f people are suffering from brush or Utter. Small unsalable heads the disease. Pittsburg reports the worsl when stored in this way in November . . . visitation In Its history. The busineet will continue to develop during winter o f tho clty dl8orgilnlls<H, on a (W lln , and frequently sell a» we 1 aa any n o f (hp , nmnber o f people who b ar. Kehruary. Small quantities may be ^ foroed to ab8Pnt stored by plowing out two or three fu r from their places o f employment rows ten or tw elve Indies deep on a Factories aud mills, offices and stores, well drained site and placing the heads are affected seriously. with their stems up as close together I There Is a notable uniform ity In thi as possible. Some prefer to Jay them symptoms o f the present epidemic, but one or two thick, while others will which appears to affect principally th# pile them up two to two and a half I bronchial passages. Bronchitis and ,, , ,, , ... . ! pneumonia are its most common accom- The pile Is then covered with straw, . . panlments, and It aggravates fu lly 5C salt grass hay or a thin layer o f straw # n rr.» per cent o f the tuberculosis cases. Thos# and then several Inches o f soil. They . . . . _ . . . . # . . , . . most Injuriously affected are person« are stored before freezing, and when , / J ' who before the attuck were badly ru i the soil covering them is frozen It may down iu their general health. In theti be covered with strawy manure or any cases pneumonia quickly develops, other litter to keep the soil frozen un while the h eart brain aud other or til the cabbages are needed for sale. gans become affected. In Philadelphia an epidemic o f grippe A n E le c tr ic In c u b a to r. is sweeping the city aud whole faml Electricity has been upplied to Incu lies are prostrated by It. Pneumonia In bation by Otto Schultz, an electrician many cases is followed close upon itr^ o f Strassburg, and is the result o f three heels, and last week many persons died years o f experimentation. The appara o f that disease. Doctors are scarcely tus Is made for 50, 100 or 200 eggs, and able to keep up with the demands made is designed to obviate the difficulties upon them. Baltimore, too, is experi connected with the ordinary form o f I encing an unusual amount o f sickness. incubator. The manipulation o f the ap- I Other cities where grippe has made paratus Is very simple, and Its malnte- ' Its appearance are Boston, Chicago, Cin nance depends only upon an uninter- i cinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee rupted supply o f electricity. and New York, and reports from these An automatic attachment keeps the I places indicate that the health authori temperature within one-tenth o f a do- 1 ties fear that the outbreak is only at gree o f the normal temperature o f in- j the beginning. Health Commissioner cubation. The degree o f saturation o f Evans, o f Chicago, has Issued a wam- the air is kept in the same manner. a Under ordinary conditions, ninety I ‘ l * to peop'e. urging them to get chickens can he counted on out o f 100 plenty o f f,vsh alr und to e « " ' l8e ln eggs Incubated. The quantity o f elec- | the nH ,nuoh us po8alble' «h loago tlclty required Is very small, for an In- ! ,he dan* er o f * r“ ,pe' for U haH cubator holding fifty eggs, ten to twen- ! be0'“ frequently visited hy the disease, ty watts being sufficient, depending 111 '^90 city lmd 100,000 grippe suf- ui>on the temperature o f the outer air. f ercrB an<* d e a d » directly reaulted. For raising the chickens after they ! ^n ^ over 300 persons died from the are hatched, an electric “ mother” has 1 disease, and since the first nppearanc© twen devised. T h e upper part is de 1 o f the malady the city has paid a voted to the freshly hatched chickens, tribute o f 2,208 lives. In New York, where the disease Is while the low er part la arranged so that the chicks can run around on the now gaining a strong foothold, sixty- ground and at the same time find beat eight deaths resulted last week and and protection when they desire. The there are many caseB scattered about electric Incubator has already proven the city. Boston Is the worst sufferer on the very successful. Atlan tic seaboard. There are nearly 100.000 cases there nnd sixty deaths Tent S eed* at H om e. The Department o f Agriculture in have resulted. Cincinnati has 2,000 order to aid farmers to determine for caO‘s and the disease seems to be epi themselves without much trouble the demlc’ in form. germination value o f seeds has Issued j The open winter Is held responsible a short bulletin on the subject. A very fo r the spread o f the disease. W here it simple apparatus fo r sprouting seeds originated no one seems to know. It is described. It consists o f a shallow travels with wonderful rapidity. In basis In which is placed a small flat o f 1889, when the grippe appeared ln vlru- porons clay. T h e seeds, a fte r having lent form ail over the country. It was been soaked, are laid between two tracked back to Europe and thence to sheets o f moist blotting paper or flan- Hong Kong In China. The germs o f nel. A pane o f glass covers the dish, the present epidemic may have come which should !>e kept in a temperature from the same source, o f about 70 degrees. Atmosphere o f an ordinary livin g room Is suitable if the apparatus Is le ft near a stove at night. Several kinds o f seeds may be tested at once at a trifling cost. The bulletin cautions tlie farm er against extremes o f heat or moisture. F »r ttli»r T e n ««« w ith C orn . F e rtilizer tests with corn in Virginia show clearly that plowing under green leguminous crops is a highly beneficial practice and that where this is fol- lowed only moderate amounts o f fertii- ity w ill be necessary to give Increased yields. When vegetable matter is lack- ing, however, heavy applications o f fe r tilizer seem advisable.— Andrew M. Sonle. The Washington State football eleven defeated that of St. Louis university by the score of It to 0, at Spokane, Wash, | The Coney Island Jockey Club an- nounced that improvements in its plant now under way will cost at least $100,000. There will be half a dozen Smiths in the major leagues next season, the Amer icans having four players of this name and the Nationals two. F o rm G le a n ln s i. Cincinnati has asked for waivers oi. There is no standard for Judging th*> seventeen men. Provided all these play- gulnen fow l. They should, however, be ers are turned hack to the minors, the o f uniform shape, great activity and next manager of the Reds srill will have reasonably good producers o f eggs, twenty-two athletes to aid him in eaptur- T h eir entire egg crop is produced in . *nP a BP<'onfl division berth. The baseball critics seem inclined to summer. the belief that the Bostons got ail the Bitter cream conies from keeping best of the big deal with New York. The cream too long from cows that have Bean Eaters, it would seem, should occu l>een milked since early last spring. It py a higher place in the race than they is t>est to churn every few days, even have held for the past few years. thotihg there Is only a small churning Tommy Ryan believes that the best on hand. fighters of to-day are to be found in the In setting oat the new fru it trees he middleweight ranks. He has a poor opin sure and leave plenty o f space between ion o f $he “ heavies.” they falling far be them. You must make allowance for low the standard of scrappers like Jef fries. Sharkev. Corbett. McCoy and Fitz the growth o f the years. Crowded trees simmons in their active ring days. interfere with one another and have Haskins, the intercollegiate champion, their fru it bearing possibilities checked. may be barred from representing the The i>otato storeroom must be dark, American team at the Olympic games. cool, well ventilated and dry. There Haskins is not an American citizen. He should iu* a double floor beneath where was born in Australia and comes under large quantities are piled together, the same ruling as that which affects Con There should also be opportunities for Deahy and I>ennis Murray, the two Irish ventlatlon at the walls, and at Inter- lth,ete* * ho to represent Aroer- vals through the pile. j ,cm- A good condition powder, to be fed in * In or<1*r that may ** ,n limited quantities to tbe brood sow I. ' ra,n," g for ,he ° lyn,pic * • " * !' ln con>|>nsed of a teaspoonfnl each of eop- foot that h„ for it„ objw.t a Tiait o( th„ peras. snlphnr and a half cnpfnl of oil ^ o( th, r anadian sthletes to New meal. Give once each day for each sow y ork and Boston, where indoor meets weighing 250 pounds. It Is needless to would be held. If the scheme pans ont, say that all tonics should be given only Tom Flanagan. John Flanagan’s brother« when the animal Is out of condition. 1 will have char»« of the parts-