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THE CELINA DEMOCHAT, CEUNA, OIIIO
UNWELCOME PLANT
ARRIVALS BARRED
Uncle Sam Spends Thousands of
Dollars to Keep Out One
Little Moth Egg.
ARCTIC CIRCLE
GIRL A DREAM
"Unspoiled Child of Alaska" Came
Fresh From a Chicago
Beanery. '
AMERICAN AMBULANCE FOR RUSSIA
SORCERERS TAKE TOLL
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Collect $750,000 a Year From
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Koreans for Services.
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Interesting Report Mads to Unci
Sam's Museum Regarding People's
Warfare Against Evil Demons.
White House Is a Most Desirable Residence
WASHINGTON. Tho White House In fur and away the most desirable
residence In the national ctilttil. (This In spit of the nobility of rice
presidents, which, of course, obliges them to tho generous tradition of Fill
more, who said, when he whs called
to tho executive mansion, "This In my
llrst misfortune.") It la the most per- pflf
fonal, most picturesque of the govern- emii
ment's possessions. Its history Is tho Wy
uisiory ui muiiy 01 our American thkm
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ideals, says Hurrlson Rhodes In liar- Myj
per's Magazine.
The While House, as Is natural,
1s the constant theater of the conflict
to be observed everywhere, lu Ameri
can life between our wish to have an
aristocracy and our wish not to. Hut,
on tho whole, the disinterested observer must adjudge victory to our deep-
xeated democracy which makes It really unsuitable that the White House
should ever be exactly fashionable.
We never forget not only that the presidential residence la our home, but
that the president In It Is our num. The almost Utopian democracy of public
receptions tit tho White House Is both engaging and picturesque. In the
early days congressmen used to come to them with bowle knives lu their high
cowhide boots, and In Jackson's time, guards with stout sticks bent buck the
fruests while the food was being fetched from the kitchens. Then an eve
ning party had nil the charm of a riot. A diplomat complained not no long
ago that even at the exclusive receptions for the corps, the American young
ladies surreptitiously cut nil the buttons off his clothes for souvenirs.
Another diplomat, new to these democratic shores, arriving late for a
New Year's reception, was astonished to tind that the negro liaclJnun who
had driven him to the White House had flipped In aheud of him and was the
first to grasp the presidential hand !
Funny Letters Received by Members of Congress
MEMBERS of congress continue to receive letters In which the writers dis
play unconscious humor. Here is one that reached Representative Rolney
of Illinois: "All the old winmiln' I know are getting a pension, but I don't
get none. I have ruised five Idiot
children, and think I oughtter have a
pension. 1 'tense send one at once."
And here Is another, which Rep
resentative Jacoway ' of Arkansas
found In his mall:
"Iiez send me a pensun by return
mall.' I wuzent in the army, but my
father wuz. And I could prove It,
but the captain lost the mustard role."
This is an extract from an affi
davit submitted to a Missouri con
gressman by a country doctor, who
examined a third pension applicant: "The soldier, as a result of his active
(service in the Civil war, has contracted valvular heart disease, anj there is
a very bad regurgitation of the mitral valve, giving n loud murmur on oscu
lation." v
A West Virginia congressman has a constituent of venerable age who
Is not in sympathy with modern progress. Recently the congressman received
n letter from the old man and dictated a courteous reply to his stenographer.
The lawmaker's surprise may be imagined when he got this answer:
"You don't Deed to print your letters to me; I can reud writing."
KEY YORK HAILED QUEEN
Beautiful Elghteen-YearOld Maiden's
Triumph Harks Back to Kansas
City, Mo. Laborer Claims Her
aa His Daughter.
New York. Tho swift trail over
which Miss Louise Snellen hud been
"mushing" after her arrival In New
York some time ago announcing she
was from the wilds of Alaska, seeking
tho delights of civilization, slowed up
materially a week later when "Nick"
8nchen, laborer of Kansas City, Mo.,
claimed her as his daughter.
Fur from being a plucer miner In an
Ice-girded gulch, the man who says
he Is her father Is an honest day
worklngmnn In Kansas City, where
the only Ice attainable comes from tho
refrigerating plant, and where the
stockyards provide the chief touch of
real nature.
Ho said that his daughter. Louise,
had Indeed been in Alaska. She had
passed two years up there, he said,
working In a boarding house and get
ting her exercise on the runways be
tween kitchens and dining rooms and
not the dog trails over the hills. Of
"Jurk" Malouey, the somewhat aston
ished Mr. Sachen said he had heard
also. "Jack." according to this evi
dence. Is a salooukeeper In Fairbanks,
Alaska, who gave Miss Sachen the dla-
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France Is not the only gainer by American generosity, but Itussln ulso
comes in for her share. An American ambulance division has been sent to
KusnIs and has gained great praise for its valiant and ellUient service. The
photograph show one of the American ambulances that lias been chosen by
tho Grand Duchess Tatlana. daughter of tho czar, for her owu and Is here
seen In uctuul service In the Curputhluns.
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One-Legged Men to Convene in National Capital
FIFTY one-leeeed men will arrive In this city next June, will be welcomed
by a onelcgged hotel man, and will settle down to a three-day organization
convention of the most extraordinary character ever started in the Capital
;CIty. The one-legged men will be .....
.mostly salesmen for artificial limb
firms in the United States. They pro
pose to organize socially and to dis
cuss ways and means of increasing
their firms' business with European
countries.
Gustuv Gumpert will bid them
welcome. Gumpert is prominently
counted on to become president of
the One-Legged Men's Association of
America." He lost his limb ten years
ago in the service of his country,
when he was gunner's mate aboard one of Uncle Sam's battleships. A bland
smile curled the lips of Mr. Gumpert when he told of plans for this odd con
vention. "You bet we'll have a bully time, the bunch of us," he said. "Ever notice
that one-legged men are the best fellows In the world?
"We're going to organize an association that every mother's son of us
will be proud to be a member of. Aud you can see we're going to he 'some
exclusive.
"Anybody that's a good fellow can be a member, but they've got to
measure up to pretty rigid standards. No ordinary bipeds can belong to our
clan."
Valuable Government Maps Offered at Low Price
TTIE project of covering the 3.000,000 square miles of the United States
with accurate land surveys was niiopted by the government as fur back as
1882, but the work is even now less than half completed, according to experts
of the geological survey. It is said
that the standards of accuracy and
refinement in this work have been
constantly raised by the engineers
carrying it on, with the view of meet
ing adequately every use to which the
resulting maps can be put. The law
provides for the sale of these maps by
the survey at the cost of printing,
which is interesting when it is taken
into account that this cost Is only a
small percentage of the cost of sur
veying the area it represents. The
federal government itself is making a large and increasing use of these
topographic maps, but the' expenditure of public funds for these surveys is
otherwise fully warranted, the officials of the geological survey think, only
as the public uses the maps. To promote this use, the survey has recently
given more attention to the wider distribution of the maps.
According to those who have been at work on this plan and are most in
terested in its success the distribution of a government map is largely a
problem of publicity, though the necessity of adopting commercial business
methods In -handling orders for the maps when once a demand Is created is
not overlooked. In informing the public of the existence of authoritative
maps published by the government a special effort Is now made to- reach the
communities ia each area covered by the map, and to this end every map, as
Issued, is brought to the attention of the local and state press, as well as to
postmasters and schoolteachers.
Other methods of promoting wider distribution involve the co-operation
')f Roy Scout masters, schoolboys and hotel managers, as well as of a large
number of book stores as local agents.
POSTSCRIPTS
More than 5,000.000 bushels of flax
seed were grown last year in the Ar
gentine. A combined dishpc.n and draining
board for dishes is covered by a recent
patent.
In proportion to Its size a fly walks
13 times as fust as a man can run.
A rough estimate of the power that
can be developed from the rivers of
Alabama places the total at 1,378,000
horse power.
Glass is now made so as to be prac
tically unbreakable.
More than 30,000 government civil
employees are puid less than $820 a
year each.
l'enslon funds for municipal em
ployees have been established In 159
cities in this country.
A Hungarian inventor has succeed';
ed in perfecting a wooden-soled shoe
that is flexible.
Before the wnr Germany's annual
production of matches was valued at
S.'12.000,000.
Mi S.tchn In Bear Skin Clothes.
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monds she exhibits in New York, and
whom, Mr. Sachen said earnestly, he
advised her to marry "while the going
was good."
Instead of matrimony, Miss Sachen
chose to go to New York "to see the
high buildings and big places," and
she went, he snys, us she can go
any place "If she can raise the dough
to bum nrotind on,"
Tips Herself to Paper,
When she blew into New York, Miss
(Snellen took a suite in the furthest
north of one of the leading hotels. Not
many hours later a voice culled up the
city editor of one of the newspapers,
and said:
"Registered nt the hotel is a very
pretty girl, daughter of a wealthy
miner of Alaska, who has come out of
the wilds for the first time since she
was an infant. Her name is Miss
Louise Sachen. Her views on the wom
en of New York, the trolley cars which
she Is seeing for the first time, etc.,
should be Interesting. She has bear
skin clothes In her trunk, gold nug
gets In her handbag, and everything.
Hurry, hurry, hurry !"
Whltefaced, the star sob reporter
slid down a brass pole and with one
jump he was inside the hotel. Sure
enough, there wns Miss Sachen, a de
mure, pretty girl with soft brown
eyes. And she had the bear-skin
clothes and nuggets and everything.
The newspaper columns were
opened to her not only the next morn
ing, but every morning since.
A day hadn't passed until morning
mail of the unspoiled child of the
frozen north had begun to mount high
er than any stack of wheats a hard
working girl in a beanery ever saw.
There were letters from kindly men
and women all over the city telling her
that they had read of her and had seen
her pictures in the newspapers and
advising her "not to let the great
dreadful city spoil her beautifully
fresh views."
Her Dreams Shattered.
Her dreams of being a "lady among
swell people" shattered, Miss Louise
Sachen, who captivated New York by
posing as "the queen of Alaska," ad
mitted here that she could not "put it
across" in Ciiicago, where she got her
inspiration.
When she went to Chlcngo from
Kansas City, Miss Sachen said, she just
"played the piano" and "ran downtown
for the lady I was with, who was run
ning a beauty parlor."
On her way down State street, said
Miss Sachen. she envied the dazzling
ladles of 'society who passed her in
.he!r limousines. She wunted furs
PRISON IS "HOME" TO HIM
After Serving 27 Years In the Peni
tentiary Indiana Man Wants
to Go Back.
Alamosa, Colo. There is no place
like home, even if It is only the peni
tentiary. "I want to get back home again as
soon as I cnn,"jjald Juan Medina, a
half-breed Pueblo Indian, when baled
Into a justice court here pn a charge
of burglary.
like theirs and diamonds like they
wore. So she took her savings, $2,000,
and left for New York, where her
dreams were realized, until Nick Sa
chen, her father, of Kansas City, broke
them up.
Miss Sachen was the 1017 sensation
In New York. She "put it across," as
she phrased it, on newspapers, society,
and the Jaded Jongleurs of the cab
urets who welcomed her novelty and
innocence ns they would a fresh sum
mer breeze.
They had laughed Joyously when
Miss Sachen, "the girl who grew up
with sledge dogs and could mush the
trull like an Eskimo," told them:
"Town Stacks Up Pretty Well."
"Daddy promised me I should see
the States when I grew up. This
town stacks up pretty well beside
Kuyukuk."
"Queen of the snows," the writers
dubbed the wondering young girl as
they opened her eyes to the marvels
of New Y'ork.
"What impresses you most In New
York-?" a reporter had asked her.
"The women, of course," she had
replied. "The vast number of pretty
women who look like fairy pictures.
But I am astonished at the way .they
rouge?"
"Do they not rouge in Alaska?" she
wus asked.
Why paint roses in your cheeks
when you can put them there by bet
ter means," the little "beauty of the 1
frozen uorth" replied. "Out with us,
now, when a woman wnnts a touch of
red In her cheeks she goes out be
hind the dog sledge and takes a mush
down the trail."
Pioneers In Alaska, she told the city
nnbobs who clustered about her and
Invited her to their homes, had given
her the name of "Queen" when she
wns born.
Her name began to travel, and finally
one day an immigrant Austrian jani
tor In Kansas City saw her picture in
the paper.
"Why, shucks," he said. "That ain't
no Alaska inn. That's uiy daugh
ter." "Sure, She's My Daughter."
When "Nick" Sachen was asked
nbout Miss Sachen he said: "Louise?
Sure, she's my daughter. She came
home from Alaska last June. Ueen up
there over two years workln' in
PIGG SAYS HE CAN'T
STAND NAME LONGER
Portland, Ore. James Avernl
Iigg of this city, Is so sure that
bis name Is a haudlcap to his
life that ho has asked the coun
ty court to changu It. Mr. I'lgg
says in his petition that his
name Is a constant source of
annoyance and humiliation both
to him and his wife. He de
clares friends and others com
menting ob his cognomen have
cnused a nervous strain which
be is unable to bear.
"A LITTLE CHILD
SHALL LEAD THEM"
Mrs. Diamond Brown became recon
ciled to her wealthy husband in a New
York court through the efforts of their
little curly-huired six-year-old daugh
ter, Dudley. f '
Mrs. Brown, who is a native of
Louisville, Ky., had been suing her
husband for a separation, and for the
custody of their little daughter.
While awaiting the hearing before
Judge Cohalan, little Dudley maneu
vered the hands of her papa and mam
ma together and pulled them side by
side until they were smiling into each
other's faces. Smiles led to speech
over the little girl's curly hair.
Let's talk it over," said Mr. Brown,
and Mrs. Brown consented.
And the little girlie sobbed, "I want
to be with both of you."
"I have served 27 years in $ix terms
within the penitentiary," said he in
good English. "They always treat me
well there and I want to get buck."
Medina, fifty-six years old, has face
furrowetl and shriveled with time, with
straight black hair and every appear
ance of a criminal indifferent to his
fate, was bound over to the March
term of the district court.
Be Fearless.
Fearless minds cJlaib soonest Into
crowns. Shakespeare.
boardin' houses, I believe. No, I don't
know nothln' about Kuyukuk. She
played the big towns for the best Jobs,
I guess."
"Diamond?" added the parent claim
ant, and there was a note of pride In
his voice. "Yes, she sure has 'em.
Got 'em savin' her wages, she said.
"Jack? Y'es, I heard o' him, too.
Jack's her feller up there. He runs
a saloon up In Alaska. I .wanted her
to marry him while the goln' was gowd,
but she wouldn't promise to."
Last June, so Sachen says, his daugh
ter wearied of Kansas City and
yearned for wider fields.
"So," he added, "she bent It to Chl
cngo, because she could get $8 a week
there. Now I seen nil those pieces in
the New York papers, but someone has
got things twisted."
It was recounted to him that Louise
spoke lovingly of her "dogs." who
whirled her through the vastness of
nortlK-rn Alaska on her sled.
Knew Dogs All Right.
"She went as a witness In a dog
case to court last summer," said the
alleged parent.
Here a young man, who was listen
ing impatiently to Snchen, Indignantly
announced that Miss Snellen's old
friends didn't want to be called
"sledge dogs," and added scornfully
that when she went to court to testify
in favor of a dog accused of biting a
person, she' "was nil dolled up." She
wore, among other things, some silk
stockings, a bird of paradise feather
and a white dress "which was some
short," ended the chronicler.
All of this, of course, is contrary to
Miss Sachen. She said when she ar
rived here that she was a-child of na
ture who knew naught of civilization
save that garnered from fleeting trains
as she sped to New York, and during
a short pause in Kansas City, where
she stayed with a half sister. She
told of her log cabin, of the men-folks
laboring in their chill tenthouse, and
of "the spring clean-up" which gave
her gold in "her poke" to come to New
York.
Admits She Is Impostor.
With eyes reddened from weeping
Miss Sachen admitted in the hotel that
she was an Impostor.
"Chicago was too wise for me," she
wept, "but it was easy to 'put It across
here in New York. And I'd have kept
it up, too, if pa hadn't 'spilled the
beans' in Kansas City."
Miss Sachen snld she got tired of be
ing "just nobody" in Chlcngo. She had
visited Alnska once with her aunt, nnd
one day she mentioned Juneau and
Fairbanks to a friend. She noticed
It made a difference. Her other friends
soon began calling her "the girl from
Alaska."
Miss Sachen determined to be a real
sensation. She took all her savings
nnd "blew" into New York with a
rush, and registered from Kuyukuk,
Alaska.
Says She Is "Done" With Father.
When she was finally caught after
her discovery. Miss Sachen had this to
say of her futher, Nick :
"And here's me makin' him an
Alaska miner and stringin' gold nug
gets around his neck, when he's only
an owl watchman'out there, and he
throws me down. Well, I'm done with
hlra. I'm goin' to keep on being the
'Girl from Alaska,' I don't care what
happens.
"Just being Nick Snellen's daughter
never got me nothln', and when I come
here and said I was the daughter of
an Alaska miner alj the swell people
of New York I never Imagined would
speak to me took me up und I had a
chance to get some real money.
"Why, I was golnf: to bring him here
and make him my secretary. Now I
suppose I got to go back to puslilu'
plugs."
'Tushin' plugs," Miss Snchen ex
plained was the work of a telephone
operator.
A fascinating report has been made
to Uncle Sam's National Museum at
Washington by Dr. L M. Cusunowicx
on tho sorcery of Koreu. He describes
the superstitions of the people regard
lug evil demons, which they believe
constantly beset them. The Koreans
believe the air, their dwellings, tho
forests lu short, every thing aud
every place is the ubidlng place of
spirits. These spirits are all evil aud
have for their sole purpose the annoy
a nee of the people of tho earth. All
bad luck, all Illness, all privation and
hardship is due to the malevolence of
the demons.
They have two classes of persons to
exercise these spirits. One is com
posed of men called 1'onsus, the other
of women culled Mutangs.
The l'ansus are necessarily blind
men. The, Koreuns share with other
peoples the belief that persons de
prived of sight are given furalliar
spirits which enuble them to see with
un inward eye more than the normul
person enn envision. The Mutangs
are outcasts. These women belong to
the lowest stratum of Korean society,
and although despised socially to the
extent that they ire not even per
mitted to enter cities, they are feured
end respected because of their powers,
These women go Into their business
because thev declare ther feel a call
They usually pair with the I'ansu
men, 'sorcerers and sorceresses going
about together. Their chief business
consists In healing the sick. The re
port says thut the people of Korea
pay these exorcists annually approxi
mately $7"j0,000 for their services.
The blind l'ansus are believed to
have attained a mastery over the evil
spirits and therefore can control
them. The Mutangs have influence
with thera because they are reputed
to be on friendly terms with the spir
its and can cajole and wheedle them.
Between the l'ansus and the Mutangs
the people feel confident of salvation
from bodily evils.
The National Museum has come
Into possession, through the agency
of W. W. Itockhlll, formerly minister
to China, of some of the costumes nnd
paraphernalia worn by Mutangs at
their iucnntntlons. They nre extreme
ly rich. These women go to the houses
of sick persons and there 6ing and
dance for hours on end until the evil
spirits depart from the afflicted one.
Their attendants beat constantly upon
drums shaped like hour glasses.
QUARANTINE IS lUHTJUKED
Bars Are Put Up Against Infested Cot
ton From Egypt, Diseased Pota
toes, Trees, Shrubs and
Other Plants. .
STOCK OF POTATOES SHORT
Lives With Brain Exposed.
McKlttrlck, Wis. Bernnrd Archer
of this city Is still living after part of
his skull was blown away by the disc-barge
of his shotgun. The move
ment of his brain can plulnly be seen.
Archer was returning from a clay bird
shooting event when . a rabbit ran
across the road in front of him. In
going through the brush his gun was
knocked from his hand and was dis
charged as it struck the ground. He
was still able to walk Into town after
the accident and has never been ur
conscious.
Uncle Sam Finds That Supply on Hand
for Market Is Far Below That
of Previous Years.
Supplies of potatoes on hnnd Janu
ary 1, 1917, for mnrket in 10 import
ant northern potato-growing states,
were estimated by Uncle Sam's bu
reau f crop estimates to be about 44
per cent smaller than a year ngo, C5
per cent smaller than two years ago,
and 54 per cent smaller than the aver
age holdings on January 1 of the pre
ceding five years.
If, for the purpose of comparison,
the estimates In percentages of mar
ketable stocks of potatoes on hnnd
January 1 be applied to the estimates
of total production, It shows, In the
ID states Included (which produced 61
per cent of the total 1916 crop, and CO
per cent of the 1915 crop), a total of
59,038,000 bushels on January 1, 1917,
compared with 100,225,000 a yenr ago,
100,554,000 two yenrs ago, nnd 120,
941,000 bushels the nvernge holdings
of the preceding five years on Janu
ary 1.
Awful Thought
Favorite foods that mother used to
make were the topic of conversation at
the boarding house tnble. After nu
merous Interchanges came a lull. Then
a callow youth whom bashfulness usu
ally kept silent broke It with this
bombshell :
"D-d-d-dld any of you ever eat sauer
kraut with whipped cream on it?"
Uncle Sam's Soldiers of
Sea Are Expert Riflemen
Declarations that since the
dys of frontier life have passed
Americans are no longer entitled
to their former fame us riflemen
are completely refuted by statis
tics, say officers of Uncle Sam's
marines. These olllcers recently 3
compiled duta showing that
P splendid shooting qualities are
G still characteristic of American
c troops.
f More than 73 per cent of the 6,-
U 141 members of the United
p States Marine corps who fired
U during 1916, on the '14 marine 3
TP corps rifle ranees, are qualified 3
a SKiuea rmcnien, uccoruing 10 me
table just compiled. Of these
a sea-soldlers, 021, or 15 per cent,
are expert riflemen; 1,044, or 17
o per cent, are sharpshooters, and ot
" 2,518, or 41 per cent, are niarks
' men.
3 It is doubtful If Leatherstock
0 lng himself could outshoot them,
o say the marines.
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Lines' of the New Hats.
Spring models in hats show radical
changes from those of the winter, such
as low, rolled brims; medium high,
soft, unllned crowns and a continuance
of the marked tendency to substitute
curves for angles.
Brims turned abruptly back from the
face are still featured by many of the
houses, but these, unlike the winter
models. In practically all cases show
un even bulge or curve from front to
back. Often the severity of the line
Although It may seem ridiculous to
spend thousands of dollars annually to
prevent one little moth egg that could
pass through tho eye of a cambric
needle from entering the country. Uncle
Sum is employing the machinery of
the department of agriculture, state,
treasury and post ofllce t'o keep out
thnt little pest, the pink cotton boll-
worm.
The same agencies are united to ex
clude by qunruntlne diseased potatoes,
trees, shrubs and plants, and in so do
ing are accomplishing far more than
one would think toward holding down
the cost of living.
The "general staff" which conducts
the defense against plant disease Is
known as the federal horticultural
bonrd and is composed of five high offi
cials of appropriate bureaus of the de
partment of agriculture.
All along the fertile valley of the
Nile, where the luxuriant Egyptian cot
ton grows, planters are more worried
over the ruinous work of the pink boll
worm in their cotton fields than they
are over the greuter devastation of the
European war.
The pink boll-worm was taken to
Egypt from India, where its wretched
family billions are still leaving their
baleful impress.
While the annual yield of American
Sea Island cotton, the best in the world.
Is by no means enough to make all the
spool cotton, automobile tires and other
textiles requiring a grade better than
that of ordinary upland cotton, It Is-
somewhat surprising to learn that 300,
000 bales of Egyptian cotton contwn
Innted by the pink boll-worm are Im
ported with impunity to the United
States.
Every Bale Disinfected.
This was made possible by a sys
tem of fumigation originated by the
board and worked out on a commercial
scale by its experts, by which every
bale is disinfected before distribution.
The cotton a couple -of hundred
bales at a time Is placed in a great
horizontal cylinder of heavy structural
steel, hermetically sealed and then the
ulr is pumped out until there is almost
a vacuum within. Hydrocyanic acid
gas Is then admitted, and although the
bales are compressed before shipment
until they are almost as hard as blocks
of wood, it penetrates the cotton so
that all animal life, including boll
worms in every stage, becomes extinct
In less than an hour and the cotton can
be sent without possibility of spreading:
infection to any mill for manufacture.
There nre only four of these fumi
gating tanks in the country, one at
each of the four ports of entry for cot
tonNew Y'ork, Newark, N. J. ; Boston,
and San Francisco.
Although privately operated, these
tanks are under the closest of gov
ernment inspection. The bales must
be left in the receiving chambers a
certain time; the poisonous gas must
be of a positive strength; the appli
ances and chemicals tested and every
precaution must be taken to evacuate
the gas without risk of life to the men
operating the plant
One shipment of the Infested cotton
seed and It Is believed to be the only
one Is known to have entered this
country, and that was before the quar
antine was established. This lot was
taken to Arizona, where a state quar
antine was in force; the infestation
was detected nnd the whole lot burned.
It Is believed that the pink pest has
not succeeded in running the blockade.
Guard Potato Crop.
One of the most pressing matter
now under the board's attention is the
oversight of potatoes coming into tho
country to make up the 60,000,000-
bushel shortage In the American crop.
Naturally, our Canadian neighbor
wishes to share in the high prices, and
ids crop is wanted here ; but the board
says : "No diseased stock may be
entered."
Accordingly, this working plan has
been agreed upon between the two
countries; Canada may send potatoes
free from injurious disease and insect
pests to ports of entfy designated by
this country. On arrival the tubers
ore examined by federal inspectors, nnd
If found to be infected are returned to
the consignors at their expense. Po
tatoes are coming into the country in
such quantities that although In the
main they are all right, carloads are
sen)t bnck almost every day.
Another thing which the board Is
fighting is the Importation of any
nursery stock which carries the white ,
pine blister rust a tree disease de
structive of both ornamental and for
est pines. i
Cotton seed, except from somo part
of Mexico ; the seed of alligator pear
from Mexico and Central America, liv
ing canes of sugar, oil citrus nursery
stock, all Indian corn or maize from
oriental countries and some less Im
portant plant products may not bo Im-
ported at all, because each Is likely to
carry some disease which thus far has
not broken out la our native plants.
lng Or fringe of ostrich feather or by
burnt coque fushloned Into bands lint-1
tuting fur.
Forerunners of styles that nre to
come In the spring show that clothes
are to be cut on decidedly youthful
lines. Colors are to be cheerful oi
even gay, and everything is to hnve
an appeurnnce of trlgness Bn(j mmn.
ness. At least this is what the for.
runners indicate, but sometimes these
indications do not verk out
of brim at top Is softened by an edg- j pect them. .