The morning call., 1893-12-05

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much OF this would disappear il less free
matter was carried through the mails.
The carrying Of seed and grain from the
Agricultural Department is given AS an
Illustration. But it is surely much better
to let such commodities be carried free
thaD TO discourage their interchange oy
demanding payment. The Agricultural
department renders many services TO Iarn-
ers and to agriculture by its metnoos.
EVERY increase of postal facilities IS dis
tlnct gain TO a community and whatever
outlay Is necessary should not be grudged.
Inc Time should come when there VIII Dc
a Tree delivery of all mail matter through
out the United States. Considering tine
area which the P0stOfice serves. IL Is re-
marEable there should be no greater de-
hclency than the modest amount ciieo.
as AS RUE the public would prefer 10 see
the Postoffice extending its work than pom
dering curtailment of service.
The telegraphing of the Presidents mes
sage is great feat which few people take
into consideration as they skim the col
umns and note the points. Very lew peo-
pie conseientiously settle down to peruse
the message in full, but from this ordeal
there is no escape by the teleGraphist ano
telegraph editor. Many people are hale
and well who remember that all they reao
OF the message long ago came tedlously DY
post. and was condensed into very small
compass N the newspapers, which nae
space for little But to-day 1900 words,
equivalent to eleven or twelve ordinary
newspaper columns, come over the wires
from Washington with the rapidly OF
beams of light from an arc light radiatlng
In all directions. With the mechanical
transmtter now employed for duplicate
m a q ha fAtA n I'M cfrn m a n 10
come printing machines, whirrlng the
words along the wires at rate faster tnan
speech and automicalIy recording the
words at the receiving end. Hundreds OF
cities and towns simultaneously receive the
PRESIDENTS message. and 1t goes iorth
from the telegraph offices In type-wrltten
sheets to thousands of newspapers. More
than that. portions of the message are
telegraphed to Europe, India,, China, ia
pan. South Africa, Australia, South
America and the West Indies. AS II were
the message may be read at dawn, sunset,
noon and midnight simultaneously, Tor II
goes all over the globe. These are feats
little pondeTed, but hat won d the world
have said about them in 1880. when the
telegraph was toyp
The English crop of wheat this year
showed vast decline on former years.
In his experimental plats of land at Roth
amsted. where scientific cultivation has
been carried on for over fifty years. Sir
John Lawes only obtained 22h bushels OF
90 pounds average to the acre, against an
average of 29h bushels during the previ-
Gus ten years. But he does not take this
as the average for England even in this
bad year. 1t may be two or three bushels
more, which would bring the yield up to
10000, GOO bushels, "a against 44,000,O00
on the estimate of 22h bushels TO the acre.
The consumption of wheat is estimated at
29, 100000 quarters, or 232, 100000 bushels,
but allowing for stocks in hand, perhaps
16,000,0 600 bushels. it is estimal ed that the
United Kingdom may not require to i'm
port more than 176,000,00o bushels for the
sustenance of its population. The calcu-
lation is based on six bushels per head of
the population. Nature has been doingit its
best IL the English autumn to make
amends for the drought which ruined the
crops in summer. The weather is mild.
Pasture is abundant, root crops have
f1ourisbed, and even fruits have developed
amazingly altogether out of season. SO
the English farmer is picking up heart.
Terrible distress exists In the mining
region of Michigan. The mines are closed
from dullness of trade. although it seems
strange that in a region so favored both
iron and copper should not be in consider
able demand, and the workmen are liter
ally moneyless and starving. Bessemer
town is eaten out of provisions and aid of
every description, and thousands are de-
pendent upon charity. 1t will require
prompt organization to tide over the winter,
which is always frightfuly severe.
The anarchists are not credited with CON-
nonsense. and the lesson of their sup
hrs sha nj hs nf ha eli in I
don Is not convincing TO them save for the
moment. They were for a time allowed
all the privileges of freedom. Meetings
were permitted in Trafalgar square, which
is no more suitable for popular demo- stra-
tioDs than the corner of kearny and Mar
ket streets, and as long as they My ravsd
at the woes OF society in general they were
not molested, at least of late this was sup
posed to be a safety vent. But when the
reds took to demoniacal gloali e over the
bomb massacre at Barcelona. it was time
10 call a halt 10 wild inhuman talk. The
anarchists do not yet possess the earth,
but they shout enough to be heard all
over It,
A tack of fine weather has set in, and
the Olympia is being prepared fresh for
her official run. Just one bright day will
be sufficient; for ali requirements when she
arrives off the testing ground. 1t has
been suggested that. az steam was made in
excess in the boilers, more work could be
got out of the propelers by alterations of
pitch. The science of propellers has not
been reduced to absolute certainty, but as
the Olympia has done exceptionally we'll
thus far ii might be practical mistake to
improve her by theory.
The President, iD his message. alludes to
the relations between Liberia and France,
and states that the Government has ex-
pressed hope that there may be no i'm
pairment of territory without the uncon-
strained consent of the little republic. 1t
is to be hoped that France will give at
tention to this hint. She has more terri
tory in Africa than she knows how to
make use of, and this tiny independent
country, with the full title of Omitted
States of Liberia" should be encouraged
to persist. The to al area is 14.360 square
miles. and there are over million ipbab-
itants; but the resources could support
much larger population. 1t is estimated
that only $4,000 are Americo-Liberians,t the
remaining l,050.0O0 being aboricines. The
republic has a President. Senate and
House Of Represeni atives.