GRAIN CROPS SHORT,
BUT WORTH FAR MORE
UNCLE SAM A CAPITALIST.
RECALLED JAPANESE ENVOY.
As a Shipbuilder Outranks All
Others in the United States.
The United States goveruuient main
tains nine nary yurds, representing a
capitalization of more thau fUu,UU0,U0U
lovernment Final Estimate Shows and employing nearly 15,000 men, In
cluding officers. The total wages paid
Great Decline in Cereal
In the navy yards of the govermneut la
Production.
approximately $10,000,000 annually,
the cost of materials used oeing about
$7,000,000 annually and the value of
products, depending upon the num
PRICES MAKE FARMERS HAPPY. the
ber of vessels built, runs well up luto
Association reported, two years ago, that a woman prin
LOSSES ON THE CATTLE RANGES.
the millions every year. In 1906 the
In a certain city received only $240 a year, and
output of the government yards was
SPECIAL commissioner of the American cipal
that
a
man
teacher
In
another
part
of
the
country
was
Humane Association has just made a re paid only $250. These are extreme cases, but there are They Will Get H alf a Billion of over $17,000,000.
port of his Investigations, extending over many others almost as bad. In cities where living ex
As a shipbuilder the government out
Dollars Mors This Year
ranks all other ship owners In tha
a year, Into the condition of live stock on penses are high, the salary of $500 or $tS00 paid to the
than Last.
United States. In 1904 the government
the ranges In the West. Ills report has lower-grade teachers Is sometimes surpassed by the
been prepared for the pur|>ose of "arousing wages of street-sweepers or of city ball scrubwomen.
launched 170,000 tons of battle ships
the American people to the necessity for The |>eople of the cities are awake to the need of treat
of more than 1,000 tons burden each.
action to stop this wanton slaughter of thousands of do ing the teachers better, for efforts are making In some
While only 3.7 per cent of all vessel!
The government report shows a launched
mestic animals each year." Government reports are of them to find money to Increase their pay.
that year were tha property
shortage of 785,987,000 bushels In total of the nation,
cited to show that for the year ending March 31, 1005,
these vessels constituted
the question of qualifications. It Is surprising crops as compared with the crops of 27.7 per cent of
there was a loss of 2,087,027 cattle on the Western that As so to many
total tonnags
trained men and women are 190(1, which were the largest ever raised launched that year. the These
ranges, due largely to starvation and exposure. The willing to work thoroughly
same ve*
the pay offered; but If It should ap In this country, and a shortage of 377,-
commissioner asserts that the losses each year are at pear that In any for
represented also more than half
city appointment was denied to experi 287,000 bushels as compared with the sets
(east 2,500,000 animals, representing an estimated value enced teachers from
value of all vessels over five tons
other places, because of Inability to yields of 1905, which were also very the
of $24,000,000. The burden of the commissioner's con pass technical examinations
launched, the contract value of tha
In
subjects
of
which
they
large.
clusions Is that cattle ranging is cruel and inhuman need only a general knowledge, then the examination
ships being $30,513,000
The chief shortage Is In the corn government
business and should be suppressed by law.
Despite Its own facilities for building
system
ought
to
be
revised.—Youth's
Companion.
crop,
with
335,000,000
bushels,
oats
and repairing warships, only one gov
Without quarreling with the figures quoted, although
with 211,000,000 bushels and wheut ernment
yard has been used In recent
most reports of stock losses on the ranges are greatly
WAR
ON
RATS
INTERNATIONAL.
with 101,000,000 bushels.
years
for
out a modern up-to-
exaggerated, the Humane Association is apparently
There Is something of an offset to the date battle turning
HETHEU snakes or rats are the more de-
ship.
working on a false premise and starting a crusade
tested by human kind Is Immaterial. Huts big losses In the feeding grains in the All told, the government owns fif
against an evil that Is rapidly curing Itself. The crusade
are just now a special object of attack. As Increase of 0,431,000 tons of hay as teen dry docks where vessels of tha
urged against stockmen is apparently based on the the
carriers of disease a heavy Indlcfhient Is compared to that of 1906, and of navy undergo most of their repairs
ory that there is malice and design back of his treat
brought agalust them. The bubonic plague 3,045,388 tons ns compared to the crop All but two of these are located on tha
ment of the stock on the ranges. The fact is that stock-
was probably Imported to California and of 1906.
men, while counting annually upon losses of cattle from
Atlantic coast. Another dock Is beluj
other States of the coast by Oriental rats
Prominent features of the final revis completed on Puget sound, giving threa
various causes, do everything in their power to lessen
coming
across
the
Pacific
Ocean
on
ships.
Mr.
Morley,
ion
of
Its
crop
estimates
for
the
year
the loss, Just as meu lu other business take every pos
the Pacific coast In addition tx
Secretary of State for India, In his recent address to by the Department of Agriculture were on
sible precaution against losses.
the naval dry docks there are thirty-
his
constituents
at
Arbroath,
referred
to
the
rats
of
Che Increases made In the reports of eight In the United States owned bj
The day of the ranger Is fast passing. The meat sup
ply of the future will be furnished by stock growers India as the great distributers and reminded hla hearers area aeedeil to spring wheat, corn and private corporations or Individuals. Is
that
the
difficulties
of
the
Indian
government
In
check
oats. In each of these particulars as time of war the navy should find na
who keep smaller herds, and, by making proper pro
vision for their care during the winter, reap larger re ing the ravages of the disease were enormously Increased well as In the estimated weight of trouble In taking care of its smallei
turns thun are possible under the range system.—Omaha by the -dlglous objections of the Hindus to destroying spring wheat and oats the official re- vessels, but the big battle ships would
animal life. Altogether the rat situation In India Is
Bee.
remarkable, and the British government's problem of
CROPS OF UNITED STATES FOR THREE YEARS.
rat extermination promises to be a long time In reach
1907, bu. 1900, bu. 1905, bu.
THE DEARTH OF TEACHERS.
ing a solution.
(Vinter w heat............................................. 400,442,000 492,888,004 428,462,8.5a
LEVEN HUNDRED vacancies existed In
Hitherto In the world’s history these animals have Spring
wheat .............................................. 224.(545,000 242,372,906 2U4,518,U5i
the teaching force In the schools of the been hunted and killed by man chiefly because of their
city of New York last month, but there depredations. Human beings also have an Instinctive
Total wheat............................................. 634,087,000 735,200.970 692,979,48«
were only nine hundred eligible candidates. aversion to them, and "ratting” In former times was a
Corn ..................................................
2.592,320,000 2,927,416,091 2,707,993,54<
It Is estimated that three thousand new sport In recognized standing. Nowadays we are more ^«ta
............................................................. 754,443,000 964,904,522 953,218.17'.
teachers are needed In the schools of the dignified and do not travel miles to see the rats killed Ry« ...............................................................
31,566,000 33,374,833 27,616,04{
city every year. The supply never equals when an old barn Is torn down. It Is, however, the
......................................................... 153,317,000 178,916,484 130,651,02t
the demand. A similar dearth of teachers Is noted in modern discovery that rats carry disease that will re Barley
14,290,000 14,641,937 14,535,(J«5
other cities, and even In the smaller towns. Boards of new the war with a thoroughness that never before was Buckwheat.................................
....................................................... 25,851,000 25,576,146 28,477,751
education and school superintendents are struggling observed. Even If they perform some good service as Flaxseed
Potatoes ....................................................... 297,942,000 308,038,382 260,741,218 Vircou-NTET? ‘ s B k . i v i r «
with the problem. It has been explained that the stand scavengers, which must be greatly minimized and even
o r vIAEAXErE AÍÍBJitAPOK.
ard of qualifications has been made such that It is not extinguished In communities and abodes where modern
Total ......................................................... 5,137,003,008 5,023,890,235 5,515,189,88«
easy for candidates to pass the necessary examinations, sanitary ideas are understood and practiced, the evil Hay, tons ............................................. ..
63,577,000 57,145,959 60,531,611 CAMPING IN THE PYRENEES.
and that the pay offered Is so low thnt It does not at they do far outweighs It. Rats and house files should
be granted no quarter—such Is the decree of medical
tract capable men and women to the profession.
ports ran more or less counter to the have long distances to travel on elthei F r e n c g h r o m u e n n d H I a n v e t h F e o u M n d o u a n t N a e i n w s . P l a y »
The charge thnt teachers are underpaid Is unfortu science. And from that decree there Is evidently no general
Impression® of speculators. In coast. In event of Injury, before flndln| A party of ten young Frenchmen are
nately true. A committee of the National Educational appeal.—Springfield Republican.
a few Instances, such as the weight of adequate docking facilities.
preparing to spend next summer lo the
oats, the figures g^ven were at variance
Pyrenees, according to the Boston
RUIN FROM BANK FAILURE.
with all the experiences of the trade
HALF A MILLION A DAY.
Transcript. Some of them went
for the year to date.
the experience this year and
F lu r u r e a o f t h e R e p o r t .
That Is the Amount Which Chicago through
they
consider
themselves the discover
The report gave final estlm-ates of
Puts Into Stimulants.
of the Pyrenees as a playground.
acreage, production and value of farm Chicago's consumption of stimulants U ers
They go in with tents made of duck
crops, showing winter wheat acreage Ain-asing, according to correspondent over
light frames, which when set up
to be 28,132,000, production 400,442,000 The money spent in saloons alone totali are about
six feet six square and five
bushels and value per bushel 88.2 cents. up between $120,000,000 and $130,000, feet high, each
of which shelters four
Spring wheat acreage was 17,079,000, 000 annually. At least $10,000,000 mor« or five men at night.
also take a
production 224,645,000 bushels and val is spent for stimulating drugs in the 90C collapsible boat. When They
the railway is
drug stores in the city.
ue 86 cents.
can be classed as a stimn left the first stages of*the journey Into
Oom acreage was 99.931,000, produc lant. If it tobacco
may be said that there are betweer the mountains are made by picking up
tion 2,592,320,000 bushels and value 35,000
and 40,000 places in the citj some of the muleteers who cross the
51.7 cents.
where cigars and tobacco are sold. Proba mountains from Spain taking sweet
Oats acreage was 31,837,000, produc bly
$100,000 per day is not an exagger
to the French markets. These
tion 754,443,000 bushels and value 44.3 ated estimate for Chicago’s smoking bill grapes
good fellows on their way home are
At the lowest estimate, taking alcoholic only
cents.
to carry the camp equip
It was announced that the total val beverages, tobaccos, and all manner o1 age on too the glad
backs
of their burros In con
drugs
Into
account,
it
is
impossible
to
fig
ue of the farm crops for 1907 was $3,- ure that Chicago spends les9 than $500, sideration of a few
polite phrases and
464,000,000, an increase of $428,000,000 000 per day on stimulants of various a few francs.
tor 1906.
chances are the amount it At the close of a long day's tramp
The farm value on Dec. 1 of the four kinds, and the higher.
down the darkening side of the moun
crops already mentioned follows: Corn, considerably
Of this enormous sum, how much doe« tains the explorers will sometimes see
$1,340,446,000; winter wheat, $361,217,- the worker spend? Fully 75 per cent, il a flame suddenly shoot up ahead of
000 ; spring wheat, $193,220,000 ; oats, all business men, officers of corporations them. The guides and porters give an
and AH men who work with hand or brain exclamation of pleasure and hurry to
$334,568,000.
included. But for the worker, th« ward It. They find It has been kindled
The comparative prices for the grain are
themselves say, they would
crops for the past three years follow : saloonkeepers
have to close up shop in a few days. Th« to guide them by some herdsman,
■4 1907. 1900. 1905. 1904. remaining 25 per cent of the $500,00C whose ear, used to the silence of the
Wheat . ...81.7 66.7 74.8 92.4
be set aside between women wh« mountains, has caught the noise of
Corn .. .. .51.7 39.» 41.2 44.1 must
lead
domestic
lives and non-workers of *11 their footsteps In the distance. He had
29.1
31.3
Oats . .. .. .44.3 31.7
kinds.
Women
perhaps are the heaviest no Idea who they were. Most likely
60.7
68.8
58.9
..
.73.1
Rye ...
he thought they were smugglers ply
41.5 40.8 42.0 of all users of drugs.
Barley
.... 44.3
The illustration, by Max Cowper, pictures a scene In front of a suspended bank during the terror Buckwheat (»9.8 59.0 58.7 «2.2
ing between France and Spain.
101.8 95.0 99.8
of financial panic which threatened New York. All ranks of society felt the imminence of the strin Flax ...
Close by his hut the camp is set up.
51.1 61.7 45.8
In
one great soup pot there Is an olla
gency, which meant ruin alike for the man of wealth and for those of humble means, who found them Potatoes ...61.7 $10.37
$8.52 $8.72
Hay ... .$11.68
podrida of meat and barley. From an
selves on the same dire level of poverty.
other comes the fragrance of tea. A
Aeroplane's Circular Flight.
skin of red wine Is broached and the
hunted
and
fished
so
long
and
told
MILLIONS OF SLATE PENCILS. when run through a machine, yields
Henry Farman haa continued his mar
Frenchmen produce such delicacies as
about
my
adventures
at
so
many
camp
velous
flights
at
Paris
with
nis
famous
six pencils of standard length—five and
smoked sausage and potted fowl or
U . r m a a r th e n r e a t e . t I 'r o d o w r an ®
aeroplane, built by the Voiain brothers on
fires
that
I
cannot
consistently
deny
a
half
Inches.
They
come
out
In
cylin
eveu pate de foie gras. The air and
A im .» .! H a p p lle . th e W o r ld .
general plan of the Chanute soarer.
shape and are pointed by boys on anything. Nevertheless, every nowand the
To supply the school children of this drical
Before a great and wildly enthusiastic The Universalist general convention at appetite horn of the days’ tramp make
then
a
hunter
runs
on
to
a
bear
and
emery
wheels.
Finally
they
are
packed
Country with slate pencils a great many In cases of 10,060, selling for $6.75, or kills it. Premeditated killing of bears throng of people he repeatedly maneu Philadelphia listened with approval ts everything taste its best.
his machine one kilometer in a com the plea for closer fellowship between In the morning the party splits up
millions of those little writing Instru about one-fifteenth of a cent each.
rarely known, ns this wisest of the vered
plete circle, returning to the point of de their
ments are made annually. In fact, In Most of the domestic slnte pencils Is forest
and the Unitarian for a day’s sport. The cook and his aid
animals
knows
well
how
to
parture. This was regarded as a demon made by denomination
addition to the domestic output, no come from a quarry In Pennsylvania. avoid men. A rabbit Is courageous stration
Rev. Lewis G. Wilson, secretary start for some farm or village to buy
of
practicaJ
aerial
flight
by
ma
fewer than 20,000,000 Imported ones are From the same deposits which yield compared to a black be$r. This show» chines heavier than air or without the of the American Unitarian Association. provender. If there Is water near the
used up In a twelve-mouths, nearly all pencils, are obtained slabs for slates the superior Intelligence of Bruin. ! aid of gas bags. The machine first rolled The Evangelical general conference, at fishermen get the boat Into commission.
vf them from Germany.
«scent session at Milwaukee, took • Small as it Is, it Is a stanch craft,
along the ground on its two pneu Its
school blackboards. Efforts have About twenty years ago an unarmed slowly
decisive
step toward the union of the with a belt of kapok or Javanese fiber
The slate used for pencils Is a kind and
matic
tired
wheels;
then,
as
the
speed
in
been made to find some composition fisherman killed a bear with a large creased from the action of the propellers, Evangelical
church and the United Evan about her which makes her practically
of schist, of so fine a grain thnt Its par- suitable
blackboards and school stone at the Ited Hole. He was resting the big winged thing snot off into the air gelical ehurch,
adopting the report of the
This Is essential, for the
tides are not visible to the naked eye. slates, but for nothing
equal to the nat at the top of a precipitous bank of at a gentle angle, all the time Mr. Far committee on revision, which recommend unslnkable.
Occasionally Impurities are accounta ural product. There Is are
water In the mountain lakes—bowls In
a
good
many
ed
the
appointment
of
a
commission
from
Manch
Chunk
ahale
when
a
bear,
man
steering
with
apparent
ease
and
con
ble for "scratchy" slate pencils, which. so-called slate pencils of soapstone, chased by dogs, came to the river and fidence and keeping an even keel and a aach church to arrange details of th« the hollows of the hills—Is so cold that
Instead of making a soft, dellble mark, which Is a kind of talc with a soapy passed at the foot of the bank. The steady course to the turning point and union. It was also decided to open ne even the best swimmer could keep
are liable to score the smooth surface “feel,”
with other Protestant churches, afloat unaided only a few minutes.
man cast a large stone down upon It back. The machine resembles a huge gotiations
to which they are applied. This kind ity. but they are Inferior In qual and
Including the Methodists, Presbyterian* The young Frenchmen say that they
dragon
fly,
with
upper
and
lower
sets
of
stunned
It
so
that
lie
was
able
to
and Congregations lists, with a want to make the most of their dis
of stone Is lsrgely silica nnd Its black
wings attached to a light frame carrying Baptists
kill It It was a two-year-old. The motor,
view to a federation on all lines of church covery before It gets noised abroad, be
»lor Is due to the carbon It contalnsL
machinery and operator.
BEAR
IN
THEIR
FARMS
occurrence
Is
well
authenticated.
work Into which denominational difftr cause when the Joys of roughing It In
Germany supplies all the world with
The sheepkillers are generally the
ences do not enter.
slate pencils, producing nearly 300.000,- R o w W I V i r g i n i a S t o r k R & l w r a biggest
the Pyrenees are once revealed the re-
INTERESTING
NEWS
ITEMS.
hears of them all. and are very President B. F. Winched of the Rock Under the direction of Rev. Hugh Birk- glon
000 annually. They are obtained from
will be overrun hy Englishmen
P ro te c t T h e ir S h eep .
( wise.
They
never
enter
a
field
without
heed
and
his
associates
of
St.
George'«
quarries In the neighborhood of Steln- In the Williams river country of first making a complete circuit to see Island at Guthrie, Okla., said his road Episcopal church, Ntw York, a club has and Americans until It becomes as eonv
ach. In Menlngen. Nearly all the work West Virginia the bears ars greatly on If a man has crossed the fence. If he would accept the 2-cent fare provision of been started on lines similar to that main monplace as the Alps.
Oklahoma constitution.
is .lone by hand, amt Is so poorly paid
by Emmanuel church, Boston, and
Increase, according to Recreation, has, they “withdraw.” One sheep the Gov.
R arna
R ev ised .
Varda man of Mississippi was pre tained
that 12 marks ($3.57) weekly Is consid the
Christ
Pre««byterian church of New York,
and
there
la
a
blue
grass
settlement
raiser
found
that
by
hanging
half
a
wad some power the giftie gle ns
ered fair wages for a man, who. In about the extreme head of the river dozen lighted lanterns about his farm vailed upon to take a ride in Baldwin's namely, its membership made up entirely '•Oh.
oursel'a as ithers see us P*
at Jackson. Miss. Ten teet above
order to earn this amount, must call called Beaver Dam. which has all but caused the beara to leave his flock se airship
having incipient tuberculosis To see
better still® make ither swells
the ground was the limit and the trip of Each persons
member promisee to care for his Oh,
upon bis wife and children to help been driven out of the sheep business verely alone.
To see ns as we see oursel's.
waa very short.
health, to give up all work, stqp worry -Phi
him.
Is del phis Piece.
by bears. This Is a hardship to small
William
E.
Shlebler,
the
telegraph
op
ing.
live
an
outdoor
life
and
obey
all
tbs
Though wages are so much higher In landowners whose* farms He at too What has become of the old-fashion erator who received the first message over rules of the club. All are supplied with A man may not see much economy
the United States, slate pencils are great an elevation to raise grain.
woman who used to say, “Well, 1/ the Atlantic cable eent to President Bu a tent attachment to be fastened to th« In bis home, but It la there all right;
manufactured here to compete with the On the Black Mountain run one man ed
by Queen Victoria died in Brook window sills so that they may sleep with
I*m
craay, I have lots of company p chanan
Imported article by the help of machin claimed to hare Identified the signs of
lyn, N. T. He also received the message their heads In the open air. Weekly at least, be Is always hearing about It.
ery. The rough stone Is sawn Into 117 bears In one day's hunt. That All people are not aa busy as tbej from the front announcing the fall of meetings are held, when ail tell of their Some men go about looking far
at the close of the Civil War.
pieces of s certain elan, each of which. seem® a good many beara, but I’ve Imagine they are.
temptation to yield to
A
W
E
a
m