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Survey of the World’s News
WHEN the new parcels post
system becomes ot>craUve on
Jan. 1 twelve new stamps
will l>e placed on sale In
post offices for affixing to packages.
These stamps will he larger than the
ordinary postage stamps and so dis
tinctive as to prevent possible confu
sion with other stamps.
The twelve stamps will l>e Issued In
three series of designs. In the first
series modern methods of trnns(»ort1ag
mail will be Illustrated. The mall car
of n railway train will be shown on
one stamp, an ocean steamer on an
other: the third will have a motor
wagon of the type used In the postal
service, and the fourth will show a
mall carrying aeroplane. Postal em
ployees will he shown at work in the
second series. The figures will be
those of railway mail clerks, postofflee
clerks, city letter carriers and rural
free delivery carriers. The third se
ries will represent four Industrial
zones, showing the principal sources
of products that will be transported
most extensively by parcels post
By Dec. 1 the stamps will probably
be ready for dlstrlbnlton to the 60.000 !
post offices In the country.
Special maps with zone circles mark- '<
•d off In red. for use of postmasters *
la determining rates on parcels post '
packages, are based on a ao called
"flawless” map of the United States
coast and geodetic survey. The ne
cessity of obtaining a perfect map Is
to prevent error In computing postage
as such would make a considerable
difference In the rate from any given
point The aim Is to get maps In the
hands of the postmasters as mneb In
advance of Jan. I next when the law
becomes effective, as possible, to give
thorn time for study.
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ARGENTINA’S BIO PROJECT
At an estimated cost of 150.000.000 a
now railway la to be built In Argen
tina, It will follow almost a straight
line from Rosario to Mendosa.
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ILLINOIS WOMAN JUSTICE
Judge Mary Bartelme. the first wo
man ever honored with a call to the
bench In Illinois, who sits as associate
- Justice with Judge Plckney, asserts
her belief In the Immediate necessity
for reform in trials by Jury by amend
ment of, the statute to permit service
of women equally with men.
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TO ENCOURAGE ORATORY
William B. Austin, president of the
Hamilton clnb of Chicago, has an
nounced the organization of an inter
■•ollegiate oratorical contest open to
representatives from the universities
of Minnesota. Michigan. Iowa. Illinois,
Wisconsin and Chicago and Nerth
wedern and Indiana universities. The
i oiliest will he lie.’d In Chicago under
li e auspices of tlie club on Feb. 10.
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THE HOR3E SHOW
The National Horse Show Is with ns
i in. Opening Katnrday. Nov. Ifi, it
. out Imres till Nov. Madison Square
Carden will dally lie the scene of
fashion’s lest creations. The boxes
V. :!I lie tilled with people fnmous In
the society world of the country.
The itoard of directors of the Na
tional Horse Show Is practically the
■unic ns last year. It Includes most
Alfred Gwynni Vanderbilt, Head of
National Horae Show.
of the country’s best exhibitors of prize
winning horses. The list follows: M.
L. Akers. Adam Beck, Raymond Bel
mont. Frederic Bull, Colin Campbell.
J. H. Childs. Frederick M. Davies. Rob
ert A. Falrbairn. Henry Fairfax. Jo
seph W. Harriman. Arthur G. I-eon
ard. William H. Moore, J. A. Spoor.
Malcolm Stephenson. E. T. Stotesbury.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. Reginald C. Van
derbilt. G. Mifflin Wharton and for
mer Lieutenant Governor Horace
White. The lutter succeeded Roy Gas
ser. who resigned.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt is the president;
E. T. Stotesbury. vice president: Fred
erick M. Davies, treasurer, and James
T. Hyde, secretary.
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NEW QUEST OF SCIENCE
When the Vale Peruvian expedition
returns uext Christmas its members are
expected to bring hitherto undiscover
ed secrets about the remains of men
found In Peru supposed to be between
22.000 and 50.000 years old. Hiram
Ringbatn Is head of the expedition. '
whose mission Is to ascertain whether
Pern really was the cradle of the hu
man race, as has been asserted. The
expedition was organized under the j
auspices of Yale university and the Na- j
tional Geographic society, and will
make efforts to continue and extend the
work accomplished by the Yale Peruvi-,
an expedition of last year, utilizing the
discoveries then made and continuing
further along the same lines. Twenty
thousand dollars was raised for the
present work. Yafe contributing $10,000
and the National Geographic society
an equal amount.
An attempt will be made to discover
and Identify the places mentioned in
the Spanish chronicles and In the early
accounts of Peru, particularly the
places connected with the thirty-five
years of Inca rule after the advent of
Plzarro.
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BAOEN-POWELL'S ROMANCE
After his engagement to Miss Olave
St. Clair Soames. an English girl, had
been announced Lieutenant General
Sir Robert Bnden-Powell, speaking of
the crowning of his romance at the age
of fifty six. said.
'The afTalr was not so new as per
sons imagined. As a matter of fact.
Miss Soames was traveling in the West
Photo by American Press Association.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Baden
Powell, the English War Hero.
Indies when I went there In January,
and we were In America on Washing
ton's birthday, Feb. 22, which, curious
ly enough, is the date of nay fiancee’s
birthday and of my own. I well re
member how we were both interested
in the Httle axes which they sell for
wear in the buttonhole in the United
States on that day."
Miss Soames is much younger than
the hero of Mafeking.
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SHE RULES JOHANNESBURG
Mrs. A. M. Ellis recently was elected
mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa.
' She is said to have an unusual record
as a successful business woman.
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INVENTOR OF SHORTHAND
The centenary of the birth of Sir
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of the ac
cepted system of shorthand now in use
throughout the English shaking world
will he commemorated Jan. 4 next.
In England the preparations for the
celebration of the anniversary are in
the hands of a distinguished commit
tee, with Sir Thomas Crosby, lord
mayor of London, at its head. A com
mittee has also been organized to fit
tingly observe the 'occasion in the
United States.
The projected program in this coun
try will include dinners in all of the
leading cities, at which speeches will
be made by eminent educators and
business men.
Among the list of distinguished pa
trons who have promised to lend their
financial supi>ort to a fitting celebra
tion of Sir Isaac Pitman’s birth ap
pears the name of Andrew Carnegie.
; The New York committee consists of
! Charles M. Miller, director of the
Mount Vernon Trust company nnd
president of the Commercial Schools’
association: David J. George, president
of the Shorthand Writers' Association
of America; H. W. Hammond, member
| of the faculty of St. John's col' *ge.
Brooklyn, nnd Robert A. Kells, associ
ate editor of Pitman's Journal.
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK
j Nov. 11.—Annual meeting of the
American Association of Farmers' In
; dustrlal Workers and annual uieetiug
! of the American Agricultural Colleges
and Experiment stations at Atlanta,
I Ga. Annual convention of the Amer
I lean Federation of Labor at Roches
I ter. X. Y.
Nov. 13.—United Daughters of the
' Confederacy at Washington.
Nor. 18.—American mining congress
convenes at Spokane. Wash.
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BRITISH LAUNCHINGS
The launching of the British super
Dreadnought Ironduke by the Duchess
of Wellington Nov. 12 will be followed
by a like ce. einony for the sujier
Dreadnougbt Marllsjrough. Nov. 2«.
the Duchess of Marlborough presiding.
ADVANTAGE OF PERSONAL
CONTACT WITH TRADESMEN.
Corresponding With Mail Order House*
Is Unsatisfactory Wsy of Pur
chasing Your Goods.
How good It Is to have friends: Do
you realise the local merchant Is your
friend? It is be who tries to make
your life easier by contracting for
goods which he takes a chance on your ;
buying from him. He invests bis com
paratively small capital in things that
you need, which you use. always with
an eye for filling your wants. If he j
bandies perishable goods It is his loss
If they become unsalable. He must
worry and take the responsibility for
the running of his business. And what
Is it all for: The local merchant, as
a rule. If he Is adjudged a succesa,
takes no more profit than the success
ful man working for a salary. Tet he
is forced to be always agreeable to his
customers whether he feels In the hu
mor or not and must shoulder the full
weight of the cares of bis business.
Take the head of a large mall order
concern. He also Is filled with the
cares of business. But his mind works
along different channels from those of
the local merchant. Fine words and al
luring paragraphs sent to your home
In expensive circulars (for which you
par) are his specialty.
He may get np in tne morning wnu
a grouch and his ill temper stay with
him all day. He doesn't have to sup
presa his feelings before his custom
ers because bis customers never come
In contact with him. ne has hundreds
of clerks under him who are formed
tnto various departments, if yon have
received something from his concern
of which you have some complaint to
offer, you write to the office and a
subordinate replies, usually with a
stereotyped excuse signed by one of
the managers. If this answer Is un
satisfactory you write again and again,
perhaps, before yon get nny where near
a satisfactory rectification of yonr
complaint.
In Just this respect Is where the lo
cal merchant proves his value. If by
chance an occasion arises In which he
has not given you entire satisfaction
the local merchant is always there to
receive you and makes things right.
He has to And he does it at once.
You see the proprietor in this case,
and HK is responsible to you. not some
clerk a hundred or a thousand miles
away whom you never saw or con
versed with.
It is to yonr advantage, Mr. Cus
tomer. to trade at home. I.eave your
money with the man who is working
to please you and who has cast his
lot with your community. Don’t dis
courage an optimist All lo^al mer
chants are optimists when they start
In business, and It Is up to the pur
chasing public to help Increase that
optimism. Optimism cannot prevail
In nny town whose people send money
j to the grasping mall order houses
whi'e the local merchant right at one's
! very door, continually catering to the
i wants of his fellow townspeople by
, stocking his store with necessary sup
1 plies. Is left to fail for want of patron
age.
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Farm Ad'Vice and Suggestion
FALL SPRAYING ADVISED
TO KILL FRUIT TREE ILLS.
Only Way to Control Ban J***
and Othor Paata la Troatmoni
With Inooetieidoa.
Many men hare picked qualities of
good frolt from trees that a few years
before seemed hopelessly taken by
sc»'o and other pesta. Controlling Ban
Jose scale la a decidedly easy propo
aitlon when compared to some orchard
pesta. Accidentally, the lime sulphnr
aomtion waa found to be an effective
remedy. It is today the leading rem
edy for controlling the scale, says the
American Agrtculturist.
All spraying for the control of the
San Jose scale must be done while the
trees are dormant—that is. after the
leaves drop in the fall and before they
appear In the spring. As a rule, the
conditions for spraying in the fall are
more Ideal than in the early spring, as
there are more calm, warm days at
that time. Then. too. if one tails to
cover all the tree the first time he will
have opportunity to go over the tree
again In the spring, which could not
be done if the first spraying came In
the spring. In all cases where scale is
serions a thorough application should
be given in the fall. The results of
spraying depend upon the thorough
ness of the application. Kvery twig on
every tree must be coated with the
mixture if best results are to be had.
A single live scale left on a twig may
j infest the whole tree in one season.
hence the importance of thoroughness
; in the work.
r an spraying win ne very ocueociai
i to the orchard In other ways as well
I as by getting the scale under control.
; Nothing Is known that will be more
: effective In the way of cleaning up
1 trees than the application of these
' chemicals. They will cause the re
moval of the old dead bark and the
. Improvement of the general appear
nnre of the tree. It Is difficult for one
to helleve that by simply spraying cer
tain chemicals on a tree such changes
will result. The only way Is to try
them on your own trees. Then, too,
fall spraying Is a great help In clean
ing up fungous diseases. There are
large numbers of disease spores being
1 scattered about the orchard all through
' the fall and winter, and It Is Impossi
ble to determine how mnch benefit will
j result from fall spraying if these spores
! are destroyed.
Treatment For Scaly Lag.
The repulsive looking scaly legs In
chickens can be Improved In appear
ance a whole lot by rubbing them at
j Intervals of a few days with n salve
made of equal parta of lard, snlpbur
and kerosene.
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Fall Traa Planting.
If you Intend to plant a few choice
' trees next spring dig large holes for
them In fall, fill them with manure,
removing the next spring, and filling
It up to the desired depth of the tree.
The Sunday School Lesson
SENIOR BEREAN. INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
Golden Text—Thou art the Christ, the
Son of the living God.—Matt. xvi, 16.
Chapter vili, 27 30.—A great confes
J slon.
Jesus was now more than ever de
termined to meet the twelve by them
selves. So he kept away as much ns
possible from places in the north
i where he would probably be known
i and entered "the towns of Caesarea
; Philippi.” This city was about twen
\ ty-flve miles from the sea of Galilee.
I • • • “By the way.” Luke states that
JesuR approached this season of cat
echizing the disciples after a period of
\ prayer (chapter lx. 18). “Whom do
men say that I am?" Different lmpres
i slons hnd been made on the [>eople. but
In every case Jesus was regarded as a
severe and uncompromising teacher.
“John the Baptist” was the prophet of
unswerving loyalty to the law of right
eousness. “Ellas" was the fiery scourge
of Jehovah, heralding penalty to king
and people. “One of the prophets.”
Matthew adds the name of Jereminh,
who had predicted the exile. All these
| guesses concluded that Jesus was out
of the ordinary, but they were inade
' quate. “But whom say ye that 1 am?”
| Did the disciples share in these opin
ions? Here was the opportunity for
them to utter their mind, and Peter
seized It on behalf of the twelve. ‘Thou
art the Christ.” Matthew adds “the
Son of the living God.” and Luke re
ports the reply in the words “the
Christ of God.” The three accounts
agree In the essential truth that Jesus
is the Messiah. This confession was
acceptable, and Jesus shed on Peter a
holy benediction (Matt, xvi, 17-191.
! “Tell no man of bim." He strictly coru
' manded that they should not make
known this truth about his Messianic
I character to the i>cople. They were
not yet prepared for it. and miscon
ceptions would surely multiply.
Chapter till, 31 -33.—A bad mistake.
The important feature lu his Instruc
tion of the twelve is here explicitly
set forth. "Must Buffer many things.”
The thought of a suffering Messiah
was repulsive, although the prophets
i had emphasized it. 'The elders were
“the nonprofesslonal or lay element in
j the council" (swetei. “The chief
: priests ” These consisted of the high
priest the ex-high priests and the lead
ers of the priestly party who belonged
to the Sadducees. "The scribes” were
the teachers or doctors of the law
(Luke v, 17V "Rejected.” • • •
"killed.” • • • “rise again.” These
three events literally took plaee In Je- i
nisalem. and the instigators were
these members of the sanhedrin.
“Openly”—without reserve or modld- j
cation, so that the disciples could un- I
derstand bis meaning. “Peter took
him.” This was not an act of sheer
Impulse, hut was dorte after thought;
hence the force of the severe rebuke
of Jesns. “Get thee behind me. Satan.”
It was this same temptation of nn
easy way to success, at the cost of
character, that Jesus resisted once be
fore in the wilderness (Matt. lv. 10).
Peter was here Inspired by the evtl
one. who for the moment was using
him as his agent. “Savorest not,”
“mlndest not” (revision). The fact
that he resisted the purpose of Jesns
was proof that he was not In sympa
thy with the mind of God.
Chapter vlii. 34. to lx. 1.—A serious
program.
Some time was given to the people
In the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
Many were trying to enter the king
dom of Clod on ensv terms and with
out considering fully the conditions.
These words on dlacipleshlp are ad
dressed to "the people." • • • "with
his disciples." No one is rejected ex
cept those who deliberately reject the
conditions. "Whosoever will come
after me." This means any and all.
without respect of persons. "Iieny
'limself.” True self denial does not
consist in mutilation, bnt in consecra
tion of life to Jesus Christ.. "Take up
his cross." This is the symbol of sac
rifice. “Save his life." He who Is
moved by a spirit of self seeking may
obtain worldly success like rnanv In
Caesarea, but lie will lose the higher
life of the Spirit- "What shall it prof
it?" Not only is the exchange of
donbtful advantage: it is a positive
loss. "Ashamed of me and of my
words"—through a lack of moral
courage to stand for the truth as one
f*-es it "Adulterous and sinful.'' be
cause they had turned away from God.
••When lie corueth"—at the end of
the world., to wind up the affairs of
earth.' * * * U« AJ
Power Spray Outfit In Use
Photn*rsph by Missouri state fruit experiment station.
WE OUGHT TO DO AS WELL.
French farmers get 20.3 bush
els of wheat from the acre on
the average: our farmers get 11.7
bushels. Speaking at a confer
ence of bankers’ committees
from the various states held In
Minneapolis James J. Hill told
about farming In Denmark, the
model farm country of the
world. They raise thirty-eight
bushels of wheat to the acre.
Their land originally was very
poor. “By keeping dairy cattle."
said Mr. Hill, “they fertilized the
hind, and they have gone on un
til now they have exported to
Great, Britain $48,000,000 a year
of butter and $21,000,000 of bn
oon. They feed their own two
million six hundred odd thou
sand of people, and they export
annually $U an acre for every
acre of land In r*enmark. For a
period of ten years the gross re
ceipts from our farm* altogether
have not been $0 an acre."
Gat Out and Saa Things.
A farmer Is very apt to stay at home
too much to compete with other Indus
tries. We must e<> out and see what Is
! beln# done. Farmers must work alone
scientific lines, co-operate to make an
acre yield more and a cow produce
more and nse the most modem machin
ery "ke other Industries.-American
Cultivator.
A TWENTY-EIGHT BUSHEL TRIP
What Extra Yield of Wheat Meant te
an Oklahoma Family.
The Ilohlens live near Amorlta. Okla
The farm spreads over r little more
than l.tJOO acres, 800 of which Is la
wheat. This wheat harvested twenty
eight bushels to the acre this year tind
thereby hangs the story to explain s
sitecinl car attached to the Orient reg
ular passenger a short time ago when
It pulled into Wichita, linn.
"Hoys.'* said William Holden, the
father, "if she goes twenty bushels or
better 1 11 take you nil- the w hole kit
and boodle 0f vou—to California on a
sightseeing trip "
"She" went twenty-eight bushels, so
Mr Holden did bundle the "whole kit
and boodle" of them Into a special car
and went to t'nltforola. And the "whole
hit ant! boodle" meant forty five per
sons. There were Fa Holden, seven
boys and girls, the wives of a fe«
married sons, fourteen or fifteen grand
children. two ndphews. one or two
hired hamls and mother. The trip was
to last a mouth.
"The extra eight bushels an acre
said Mr. Holden, "will pay the bill
for the trip The 800 acres yielded
about 23.000 bushels, which sold for
$21,830. nearly *10.000 more than 1 ex
pected to get "—Country Gentleman
Old, but True.
Raise horses for big money, csttle
for sure money and hogs for qui'k
money. Is an old saying, and a good
one.
Tradition of the Arctic Night
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By SAMUEL E. OV ERTON
THAT there hare been great cli
matic changes In different
parts of the earth Is well
known. But. though geologists
can tefl us that they have occurred,
they do not tell us why. Some of
hem have possibly come to pnss since
.nan attained sufficient Intelligence to
hand down from generation to genera
tion traditions concerning their origin
These traditions, arising when the hu
man fancy was untrammeled by fact
and when rude people spoke by natural
symiiois, are often very poetic. Here
is one current among the Eskimo* of
Greenland accounting for n change
they believe long ago took place de
priving them of periietual sunshine and
substituting the dreary arctic night:
"Time was when the sun, which now
hides himself beyond the southern
ocean for many months In winter, dr
cled always above the northern hori
zon. Aa it Is now night for many
months. It was then always day. for
at midnight the sun still stood above
the horizon. Then our mantle, instead
of the white one It now Is. wns a |>er
[>etual green. Our [teople lived on
luscious fruits that grew without cul
ture and bathed In the tepid waves
that danced lightly on the strand. In
those days they knew only happiness.
"But one day when some were mak
ing merry under the green trees and
others were sorting in the waves a
canoe white as the snow amid whim
we now live was discovered far out at
sea. now gently raised on the crest of
a billow, now sinking out of sight, but
slowly drifting toward the land.
•awesiru'-it, me people waited on
the verge till the white canoe reached
the sands, and there within It. Infold
ed In a robe of ermine, lay a maiden
whose skin wits fair and whose hair
fell over her shoulders like rivulets of
sunshine. The chief stood where the
canoe touched the beach and. stooping,
took the maiden in his arm*, carried
her up to n grassy slope and asked:
“ What art thou, and whence cometh
thou
" T am lte.fa, the daughter of the
Spirit of the \\ Inds, and I come from
his Ice castle in the far north.'
'• ‘And will you stay with us.' asked
the chief, 'or will you. having gladden
ed our hearts by your coming, leave us
to remember you Us |u a dream?'
"I will not 'save you. My borne
shall be with yon forever.'
Then was bean] a far distant
moaning in the north, rising ns it ap
proached till Ithecame nn awful roar
If was the voire of the Spirit of the
AMnds. and It commanded our people
to return at once Ids daughter to her
white home i„ the north Terror
stricken, the people flocked to their
chief and brought him to give the
malilen to tier father. But the chief
stood mute, pointing to hi* house,
which was now ruin. Entering there,
they saw on a touch the maiden, her
hand*, white n* marble. folded over
her breast.
"Then an awe greater tlinu th»t
which had fallen on the people when
the maiden first touched their land
came to them, for they knew a grent
calamity was about tovlslt them. The
King of the Winds looked down on the
form of Ids daughter, now cold In death,
and great was hi* wrath. The multi
tude knelt before him. supplicating
him to apare them. But he heeded not
their prayers. At his command hi*
servant, the darkness, came and threw
a black mantle over the land.
"And so. bereft of the light and
warmth of the sun. the verdure whiten
ed and died The north wind blew
snow from the clouds and the cold
congealed the waters. The sun. who**
track had been a golden circle In th*
north, went to the south and hid be
hind the ocean for many months. Then
our ancestor*, who had lived under the
trees, fearing no frost, were obliged to
build huts to protect them from th#
cold. The warm waves in which they
had bathed became Icy cold, then hard
ened. The people. I<ereft of the fruit*
of the earth exposed to the cold, died
In s*ent numbers. It was many months
before the snow king relented suffi
ciently to t*ermlt the sun to show hi*
face agnlri and his warm breath to re
vive the frozen land even for a brief
season.
‘•Since that period, etery winter, tne
sun goes south and leaves us In dark
ness. The fruits which grew so pi*11
tifully for us hare never flourished
again. But the spirit that deprived u*
of them sent the white bear and the
walrus, and we are obliged to h'-nt
them In order to sustain ourselves with
their meat nnd warm our bodies by
burning their oil. The sun continues
every winter to hide his face beneath
the ocean nnd when ho comes back u>
summer shines for so short a period
that there Is no time for the fruits of
the earth to ripen.”
Is this tradition, based on «"Bi«
change in the plane In which the earth
revolves, a new direction In the cur
rent of that mighty river we call the
gulf stream, a shrinkage In the terres
trial crust, or is It an ebullition of that
poetic constitution common among men
when they first enter npon a clvilt*»
condition? Whether It Is to 1*
plained by the first or the second b.t
pothesls. it Is certainly a very lieaut
fu! conception. And it is to these *00
ceptions of primitive people, groping “
the unexplained universe, grasping o
the truth, that the poet who Interpret
the world of romauce Is indebted.