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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-07
THE WEATHER.

rair Tonight aud Tomorrow WIN
Nortbwestsriy winas-
Washington. April 7.--Nsw England
Fair wenther tonight and Friday north
Westerly winds.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-07
Representatives Elected.

Barrington-William Il. Lewis Jr.
Bristol-Samuei Norris, Jr.
Bnrrillv1lle-John j. Lace.
Central FaiIs--Le Roy Fsles, Oscar A.
Newell ana EugsEe B. Pouton.
Chariestown-WilIiam ID. Cross.
Coventry *. Parker.
Cranston-W Walter II. Brayton and G.
Alvin Potter.
Cumberiand-Michnel Il. Burns and
Lucius +. Q. Garvin.
East eenwich--Nathaniel g. Carpen-
ter.
East Providence q. Dubois
and Stephen s. Rich.
Exetsr-George IL. Barber.
Foster-Curtis II. Foster.
Observation-Disclosures &. WalIiug.
Hopkinton-Elisba q. Stillman.
Jamestown-Thomas q. Carr.
.lohnstcn-aohn Il. Kenyon and Henry
T.. Luther.
Lincoln-Josep Lariviere and Arnold
A. Mann.
Little mpton--DanieI Wilbur.
MiduietowD-James X. Chase
Newport-John W. Rogers. John IL
Wethereli. John r. Sanborp, George +.
Vernon and William Shepley.
New Shofeham--Ray q. Lewis.
North kingstown-E Edward 5. Hall.
North Providence--Sanford Il. Kinne-
com.
North smith1.ld-AIsgad Lafayette.
Pawtuckei-Eaward Thayer, jams
Nisbet. Pbilo Il. Thayer. william w.
Blodeett, AdoIphus r. Davis and Ed
win A. Perrin.
Portsmouth-Elbridge i. Stoddard.
PTovidence-William Ames, John Il.
BlodRett, "A lbsrt kober;s, George Ia.
Piercs. Charles q. Gray, John l.. Rem
linPer, Henry X. Barker, Charles ID.
KimbaIl Royal r. Gladding, Chris
topher L.. Holden, James M. Scott and
Harry e. Curtis.
RioDmond--Caleb X. Nyo.
Scituate-william A. Randall.
Smitl field-Clarsnce H. Mathewson.
South Kinsstown--George Il. Briggs.
Tiverton-G scras X. Llwton.
WarreD---Samuel l.. Peck.
Warw wick--kenry ID. HeydoD, James B.
Hansford. Randall a. Harrington and
Charles Il. Chsgnon.
WGs,eriy--J. Irving Maxson and Joseph
e. Moore.
West Greenwioh--Elmer J. Rathbun.
lbert V. Hicks, Erwin
j. Franoe, Joseph Bouvier, Frank T..
Holden and Jean Z. lie Blanc.
Bonds For State House.
Much interest centred in the vots on
the question of whsther or rot $500 0OO
In bonds should DO issued for ths com ple-
tion of the nav state House. The prom
osition to issue tho bonds was approved
by majority Of 2Sl7. The vote was AS
follows:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-07
Party Strength.

Party Strength.
In the General Assembly elected yester-
dsy the Republicans will have In grand
committee ~ votes and the Democrats IL.
In the Senats the Republicans Will have
81 and tho Democrats four votes, while
An the House the Republicans Will have
"a votes anu tho Democrats eight. The
following table shows the relative
strength OF each party i'm the two
branches OF the General Assembly and In
grand committees:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-07

!. Cumberland-Peter j. Goskin.
kast Grsenwich-Heary II. EldredRs.
East Providence--Henryf 4. Anthony.
Exerer- George Il Money.
Foster-ThonAsR X. browns.
Glocester-Water s. Reynolds.
Neutrality-suspicious. b. j3abcock.
Jamestown--CnarIes n. Meeden.
Johnston George X. A. Beane.
IincoiD-Wiiiiam Duane Aldrich.
Little Compton--6eorge II, Leuunyon.
Middletown--A. Hsrt ert Ward.
Newport-Jeremiah w. Horton.
New Snoreham-C christopher II. Champ
lin
North Kingstown-william w. Cong
don.
North Providence Nicholas II. Reiner.
North Smithleld--George w. Ham,
mond.
Frederick w. Easton.
Iortsmouth-be Benjamin Iallmnn.
Prov!dence-J. Edward Studley. ~
Richmond--Uharles j. Green.
Scituate-- Byron .. Cowee.
Smitpfleld Andrew B. Whipple.
South kingstown-B Benjamin Il. Robin
son, Jr.
Tiverton--John II. Hicks
warren-Benjamin Drown.
WARWICK William q. Roslker.
Westerly-Walter Prize.
West -George X. Fiske.
Woonsocket-LercyL IL. Chilson.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-07

Totals .. $50 CLOS 40 looJ
Barker elected by lsls plurality.
Evening star., 1898-12-03

tine increases every year. For a long time
II was confined to the valleys of the Pa
rama and Uruguay rivers, and it was sup
posed that wheat could only be grown near
these rivers. Year by year, however, the
farms have been pushed further back, and
the wt-eat area at present is as large as
that of England and France. 1t Is said
that if all the lands which are known to
be wheat lands were used and these should
produce a crop of ten bushels per acre the
Argentine could now produce one-half the
wheat crop of the world.
\ new wheat region Is that of the south.
The Argentine from north TO south is long
er than the United States. During the past
few months i have been away down In Pata-
gonia. / have travelled thousands of miles
through ti'labie grounds which have never
been touched by the plow. Three hundred
miles south of Buenos Ayres there is a
thriving seaport called Bahia Blanca. There
are big wheat warehouses there, ard the
railroad men tell me that they have more
wheat than they can handle. This wheat
comes from the southern part of the prov
ince of Buenos Ayres, a province which Is
enormous in its extent and which is almost
altogether composed of good land. Just
south of this region there are vast pampas
having scanty pasturage and usually look
ed upon as deserts. Through these panpas
Evening star., 1898-12-03
TAKING WHEAT TO MARKET.

their jaws as they crunch the leaves
They will strip orchard in night. They
often eat the flesh from the fruit, leaving
the stones of the peaches hanging to the
bare branches. They are capricious in their
feeding and all choice trees those which
have been especially cultivated are sure
TO be eaten. They will clean the crops from
the fields, eating the grain down to the
ground. Sometimes they will take the green
wheat from one side of the road and pass
by that on the other, and they sometimes
fly on and on for days over rich fields to
feed on those beyond. The next swarm may
eat that which is left.
They Stop the Railroad Trains.
1t seems fLnny to think of these iocusts
stopping railroad trains, but ! have been
told again ana again that this is the case.
Tney come in such numbers that they cover
the tracks. The cars crush them The
rails become greasy, and the wheels spin
round without touching the rails ard with
out moving the cars onward. At such times
the rails nave to be sanded to get the cars
to run. In scme of the towns it Is said
that they even ate the paint off the houses.
The Baby LOcusts.
This pest OF the locust has been 50 great
that the Argentine government has been
spending large sums of money to get rid OF
them Among other things. they have sent
to the United States for PUFF. Lawrence
Bruner Of the University of Nebraska to
ccme here 10 investigate the subject and
Evening star., 1898-12-03

to give them advice. Mr.. Bruner is one of
the best authorities of the world on locusts
ard 1t Is from his report which has Just
been received that / get much of nv infor-
nation. The pictures | use are from him
Ihe Argentine locustS look very much like
grasshoppe:5. They are very prolific. and
the greatest damage Is caused not by those
Wflch come In swarms, but by the Young
locusts which follow. As the locusts move
over the country they lay their eggs in the
ground. Each female locust makes a hole
III the ground and lays about 100 eggs, and
q month or so later these turn into l0o
young locusts, who crawl out and begin
their march over the country Their
parents have pretty well cleaned I'D the
erop. Inc oabies start out to eat what has
grown up III the meanwhile. They cannot
.iy lar at first, and they crawl along eat
ing up everything as they go. They cover
me ground, crawl over the fences and
'Hrep Ne '1e country OF everything green.
tneh ny onward to other feeding grounds.
NO conception can be formed of the enor-
nous numbers of these locusts. In one
year sixteen tons OF eggs We're destroyed
In one place. Billions of eggs are now
peing dug out of tie ground and crushed
ana today the Argentine farmers are fight
ing for their lives with the locusts
How LOcusts Are Killed.
Ihe methods of exterminating them are
many and costly. Thousands of dollars
are spent every year to kill them. At the
time of an invasion all the farmers must
turn out and destroy them. They are
caught In traps Of corrugated iron. They
are scooped up with scrapers and killed
poisons are used and the grass plants and
weeds are sometimes sprnkled with arse
nlc, Kerosene and creCsote. They are
caught In bags. driven into bitches and
are killed IN all sorts # w"-s. y :
less, i'll 1896 1t is estimated that $50 900 OOO
"oFth OF wheat was thus destroyed In two
states OF the Argentine. This impoveris;-
ed the farmers of those states and the ma
hohai government spent $4,000 900 that
year in giving them seed wheat
AS TO what is to be the future no one can
tell. If 1t is true that the locusts are 10
come every year it will be a long time be-
fore the Argentine can have a serious per
manent effect upon the wheat market OF
the world. Still the invasions I'D to this
time have not extended very far south, and
1t may be that the new wheat regions viii
not be affected by them.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening star., 1898-12-03

harnessed up in double file in front of 1t.
AS the cart moves onward over the Tough
road the wheels give out such Il screechinS
that you think there must be a hog killing
going on near by. II you tell the farmer
that bit of grease on the axle would stop
the noise, he replies that this is necessary,
and that the bulocks will not move unless
they hear it. In some few of the large
farms modern machinery is used, and the
threshing is commonly done with European
or American threshers.
They Have Troubles of Their Own.
The Argentine is subject to drought
and the crop rises and falls according to
the weather. The worst thing, however,
that the farmers have to contend with is
the locusts. The pest that infcsts the Ar
gentine is fully as bad as the locust plague
with which the Lord afflicted Pharaoh. The
cnly difference was that Pharaoh had his
loccsts for a few days, but the Argentines
seems to be having theirs as regular thing.
The plague does not extend to the extreme
SOUTH but for the past seven years the
wheat farmers Of the Parana valley nave
been seriously hurt by it. There are a
lot of locusts this year. Many people
believe that the situation is such that
the number of locusts will increase from
year to year, and that the country can
never be free from them. They argue TINS
from the location of the Argentine. 1t Is,
you know situated in the temperate zone
with {. delightful climate and fairly good
soil. Just above it lies Brazil, which ls
covered with tropical vegetation and Vas'
areas of which will never be different from
what they are now. IE this country it IS
Claimed that the locusts have their breed
ing grounds. They are produced by the
millions there every year, and as a swarm
thinks nothing of flight of five hundred
miles. you see that an army starting
out from there is a dangerous enemy. They
say that the lOcusts breed in Brazil and an
nualy start out for the south. eating up
everything as they go. They argue that they
did not come in the remote past because
the Argentine was then covered with the
coarse grass of the pampas. This the To-
Gusts did not especially care for, but now.
since they have learned of the juicy, green
wheat they come every year.
1t is hard to realize what a terrible thing
such an invasion is. The locusts appear in
great swar1rls. which often darken the sun
il they fly between you and it. They light
en- everything green and begin eating. The
branches of the trees bend down with their
weight and you can hear the swapping of
Evening star., 1898-12-03
Credit-StOpping Notifications,
m the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

from the New Orleans Times Democrat
It's no uncommon thing said a New
Orleans business man, apropos of nothing in
particular, for retail merchants to receive
private instructions from the heads of fam
lilies not TO credit some female member of
the household and such cases are mighty
ticklish to handle. AS rule the lady in
point is good customer, and If We tell her.
no matter how automatically. of our orders,
We are almost certain to lose her future
trade. Chagrin, if nothing else, will keep
her out of the house, and she will go to
some store that was not the scene of so
mortifying an episode. If, on the other
hand, we say nothing, We run the risk of
losing the bill. That, however, is generally
the course l pursue. l trust to luck and to
her ability to wheedle the indignant gentle
man into footing the account. As a rule
he is simply exasperated over some extray-
agance of the hour, and when he coels off
there Is no further trouble. All the same.
! wish to heaven that men would run their
domestic affairs themselves without calling
on the merchants to give them assistance
l. never receive "a credit-stopping notifica-
ton but heave sigh and make a few re-
marks that wouldn't sound well at PRAYER
meeting"
Evening star., 1898-12-03

run the two great rivers. Colorado and
Negro. or, in other words, Red and Black
rivers. l Travelled for days along these
rivers in company with a party of railroad
surveyors. The rivers have quantity of wa
ter the year around. and their fall is such
TO make irrigation possible for wide dis
tance along them from the Andes 20 the
sea. In the future there will be irrigated
wheat farms throughout that region. The
land is rich as any part of Colorado or
Utah or California, and its settlement and
use Is only a question of time. Already
the Welsh, who have a colony much fur
ther south, are growing wheat by iTriga
uOn. They are now exporting about 5,0UJ
tons year, and this has all been grown
on what until now was the desert sands of
Patagonia. About Rosario and elsewhere
in this valley of the Parana the sDil is
rich. black loan from six inches TO three
feet deep lying On a bed of clay. All the
country for hundreds of miles above and
below Rosario and comprising large parts
OF the provinces of Buenos AyreS, Santa Fe
and Entire Rios. composed of this SOIL
which is very good for wheat
Don't Know How to Farm.
have never seen such poor farming any
where as is going on in the Argentine. our
own farmers are bad enough, but these
people are infinitely worse. In the United
states the average yield of wheat per acre,
taking the whole country is from twelve
to thirteen bushels. That of the Argentine
is not over ten. In England. where the
soil Is more carefully studied and cared
for, the average is twenty-ninc bushels per
acre, in Holland twenty-five bushels and
In France eighteen. The most of the wheat
Of this country is raised by Italian immi-
grants, many of whom farm the land on
the shares, They do their work in the
toughest and most sloVenly way. Much
OF the wheat is sOwed OIL the ground as
1t is first pIowed, the grain being dropped
among the clods. Other farmers drag brush
over the field and some of the better farm
eFs use the harrow. The blowing is done
with bullocks, who drag the plows through
the burrows by means of a yoke attached
to their horns. No fertilizer whatever is
used and the only idea of the man seems
10 be To get the wheat into the ground
and then sit down and wait for the crop.
Argentine Farm Life.
The life of the Argentine farmer would
er could not be happy here unless he
brought his friends and associates along
with him. / cannot describe the barren
ness and dreariness of the life. In most
of the wheat country there are no trees
The little hut of the farmers made of mud
stands out alone on the dreary Landscape
1t has not sign of comfort, and the farm
ers do not seem to care for anything but
ther wheat crop Most of them have no
gardens. They run their accounts at :he
nearest grocery and make annual settle
mentS when they sell their wheat. Most of
them drink to excess and few have any
thought beyond this one crop. All Lave
large families, and at the times of pR1f.nS
and harvesting nearly all work. $50 nag
Evening star., 1898-12-03

see boys of eight riding horses In the field
and girls of nine and ten are doing their
share of the harvest. The lack of elevat-
ors and other conditions demand that the
wheat should be harvested quickly. and
at this time you will not find a harder
working people in the world than these
Italian farmers of the Argentine Women
and girls, men and boys, labor with all
their strength from sunrise to sunset and
when II is moonlight you may see them out
under the stars binding and thrashing
wheat Ii is the same in planting time, but
between these seasons there is long va
cation. The result is that the failure of a
crop means partial starvation. There Is
no reason for this. The land is suscepti-
hle of growing a great variety of crops
and, rs blowing can be done here every
month Of the year, the Argentine farmer
could raise every thing he uses. As it is
It is said that he can now produce
wheat at a cost of from 20 to 80 cents a
bushel This may be so but, taking the
average Of good and bad crops, it is prob
able that wheat costs as much here as il
does In the United States
Farm Wagons of the Argentine.
1t is curious to see how the wheat IS car
ried TO the cars from such farms as are far
from the railroad. 1t is hauled In bullo, *
carts, the wheels of which are about eight
feet high. A load weighing several tons is
balanced between couple Of these wheels.
ard from dozen TO sixteen bullocks are
Evening star., 1898-12-03
An Ill Omen.
From Puck.

Walker Hamm-"Yes; play Dawson CITY
Dave the returned Klondike millionairep'
His New Laundress (alarmed)-"Dat set
ties it! OATS my hoodoo. De Count of
Monte Cristo owes me 81 cents, two Silver
Kings owes me a dollar-ten each, an De
Wizard OBJ Wall Street struck me fo' 90
cents cold Yo' got to pay me in advancev'
Evening star., 1898-12-03
SHE COULDN'T LOSE
And It Was ALI Because She Played
a Simple System.
CHORUS GIRLS LUCK 1T TIE RACES
Won a Small Fortune on a Very
Limited Capital.
NEVER MISSED. HER GUESS
NEVER MISSED HER GUESS
Written for The Evening Star.

DEMlR RE. " | ) L =
ful-eyed girl of the
chorus (third row,
next to r wings) of a
comic opera COM
pany that recently
visited Washington,
was an object of ado
ration on the part of
her feminine COM
pan;ons on the night
the company left the
capital: She received
an ovation behind
the ScanaS Che u-ac
Evening star., 1898-12-03
All I'm the Family.
Ernm Dnll

From Putk.
Kelly-"Have you left Mrs. Hashprune's s
boarding house?''
Dicks-"Yes"
Kelly-"What was the trouble?'
Dicks-''When l complained that the meat
was tough. she recommended nae to her
brother, who is a dentist
Evening star., 1898-12-03

~ ' A ~
tChiCago of South
America. II is the
chief wheat market
Of the Argentine Re
public. II ships thous-
snds of tons IF what.
corn and linS led
very week, and with
in a short time after
this letter Is publish
cd hundreds Of ocean
steamers Till b an
chorc1 ur1CT its
bluffs loading this
Evening star., 1898-12-03

PA, what is a lneal descendant"
"A lineal descendant is a person who has
10 fall back on some praiseworthy anccs-
tor for his own Importance Detroit Free
Press.
Evening star., 1898-12-03
How Grain is Raised on the South
American Pampas,
ARGENTINE NOW A GREAT PRODUCER
Swarms of Locusts That Do an
Immense Amount of Damage.
HANDLING THE HARVEST

copyrighted. 1895 by Frank e. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ROSARIO. October ~. 1Sas
Evening star., 1898-12-03

Thousands of situations have been OBJ
tained through the want columns OF The
Star
Evening star., 1898-12-03

There is an element of mystery about
Russia's recent course in China So far
as We know officially Russia has obtained
no cession of territory. Her officials have
denied the story of secret treaty. and
maintain that the only object of the Cas-
SIM convention was the grant of a railway
concession from certain point on the
Amoor through Manchurie to Vladiyostock
connecting with the Siberian line and short
ening 1t several hundred miles. This rail-
way was to be connected with another
through Manchuria to some seaboard point
pl esumably on the Gulf of Pechili This
latter line was to be under Joint Russian
and Chinese control Subsequently, appar-
emily as set-on to Germany's seizure of
kiao-Chow, Russia obtained control of ia
lien-Wan and Port Arthur Here a curious
question arises: Was Russia aware of Ger
manys Intention to seize Kiao-Chow before
it occurred? The general belief is that she
was, but, on the other hand, ii has been
stated on the highest authority that Ger
manys action was much of a surnrise
to Russia as 1T was to every one else. The
fact is important, If it is a fact because
1t marks very definite separation between
interests which the world hitherto sum
posed were, if not identical, at any rate
harmonious.
Another curious circumstance is the fol-
lowing. Only two years after Germany and
Russia, in company with France had
forced Japan to recede the Laao-Tuny
peninsula to China, on the ground that IL
was not right for a foreign power to oc-
cupy territory controlling the approaches
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-09-04
Hogan's AlIey.

Hogan's Alley held the boards at the
Auditorium last evening to small
but appreciative audience. 1t is a
farce comedy pure and simple, with
barely enough plot to carry it through
The world famed yellow Kid" was
immense. The entertainment as a
whole was very good and deserved a
much larger attendance. Manager
Selpel's next attraction will be John
w. Vogels Afro-American Extrava-
ganza Company Sept. 10, afternoon
and evening.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-09-04
A Pleasant Wedding.

Last Wednesday evening Mr..
Anon Thomas and Miss Bessie Davis,
both of Marietta, having obtained a
marriage license repaired to the resi-
dence of Rev. ]. M. Cochran, of Fair
view Heights, where they were soon
made one. After presenting the min
lister handsome fee, they returned to
Marietta to receive the best wishes of
their friends, who wish them much
success and happiness throug.. life.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-09-04
The Avalon's Trade,

The fine new steamer Avalon has
entered the Charleston, Parkersburg
Cramer, owner of the Avalon, will be
in command and Capt. Will D. Kim
BILE, chief clerk. Sammy Maddy will
act as second clerk and Capts. Will
liam Martin and Asa Booth pilots
The Avalon is one Of the finest boats
ever built for this trade and she will
no doubt make it warm for the other
boats in her trade.-Tribune Tele-
graph.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-09-04

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