Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-22
Scraps and fatts.

island but 100 miles long and 81 miles
wide are 10000 district farms and one
fifth of the island is under cultivation.
The average size of a farm in Porto
Rico is IS acres, of which II are cultl-
waited. Seventy-one per cent. OF these
Porto Rican farms are owned py
whites.
Under the organization Of the plant
industry work Of the department or ag-
riculture in one bureau, under Dr. CAL
loway as director, says a washington
dispatch a more comprehensive plan
for the distribution of seeds and plants
is being arranged. especial attentlon
will be given comparatively few prom
Using interests until they are entirely
established. These include rice, wheat
suitable for making macaronl, the date
palm, cotton, tobacco, piStachlo nuts,
Dutch bulbs and forage plants. Forty
thousand pounds of selected cotton seed
will be distributed next year and a
quantity of these seed of especial va
riety will be imported from Egypt.
The Insurance Press has gotten out
an issue devoted to showing life insur-
ance payments in the various states.
Nearly 81 .O0O, 900 of insurance is distrib-
uted by the companies every business
day. In the New England states was
states, s46,000,000; in the middle states,
SIS, 100000; in the western states, $lo,-
40O. 600: in the Pacific states, $500 600;
and in the Southern states, $40, sos, 600.
The figures for South Carolina show
that S1,1134,543 was distributed. Fol-
lowing are some of the towns and cities
getting the largest amounts: Aiken, T.
ASS: Blacksburg, s22, $50; Camden, S15,-
600: Charleston. s274,7O1: Cheraw, $IS;-
$685. Chester $4,000; Columbia, s61, 1872;
Darlington, s36.61O; Edgefield. slS,S45;
Greenwood, 1000; Laurens, $4,000;
Manning, S25.O00; Marion, S2S, ,401; Or
angeburg, $4,000; Spart5nburg, $27, 900;
Summerville, $4,000; Sdmter, $4,000.
Says the New York Journal Of Com
merce: The most important bit of for
eign trade news that has been promul-
gated for some time is the evidence
presented by this paper on Saturday
that the prospects of trade with China
are rapidly improving. In fact, they
are improving so fast that merchants
who have just returned from China get
the news by telegraph on their arrlVal.
The cotton trade was pretty hard MT
last summer and fall by the troubles IN
China, which was not only absorbing
considerable part Of our surplus, but
was taking most Of the product of some
mills. Several mills in the South were
erected particularly to catch this trade,
while some of the largest mills up In
Maine had to shut down for half time
when the Chinese demand ceased. But
now, although the ENJOYS are still ne
gotiating and the foreign troops are
not yet out of the country, the trade
is rapidly resuming its normal proper
tions. 1t is also satisfactory to note
the improved conditions in the domes-
tic cotton goods market, of which the
large sales of print cloths at Fall River
are a testimonial.
A dispatch of June 1S from the
City of Mexico, says: A Mexican de-
tective has in brilliant manner secur-
ed the arrest of Jose Frias, one of the
gang who has been engaged in counter
feiting American dollars. The police
now know this business of counterfeit
ing American dollars has been very
extensive one. One of the members OF
the band has travelled in the interior
states, disguised as a tourist, business
man and frontier merchant. Speaking
Spanish with a marked English accent,
he made the acquaintance OF merchants
and bankers and offered them Amerl-
can silver dollars at premium Of 90
to 90 per cent, usually at figure be-
low that indicated by the current rate
of exchange. The dollars were we'll eX-
ecuted. the milling being good and the
lettering and the American eagle were
perfect All bear date of 1890 and all
have been treated to a chemical bath
which gives them the appearance OF
money long in circulation. Many brok-
ers, bankers and business men receiv-
ed the dollars in good faith. On ship
ping them to the United States. how
ever. they were advised that the dol
lars are counterfeit.
- One-half of the worlds production
of coffee berries is brought to the Uni
ted States. Americans are the greatest
coffee drinkers on the face of the globe
now, and every year the consumption
of coffee is increasing here. Last year
it was more than S00,000,000 pounds for
the whole country, or more than 1Oa
pounds a head of the population. Ger
many and France together only con-
sumed half as much coffee. Germany
less than 81 pounds head and France
only II pounds per capita. The United
Kingdom used little more than half a
pound of the berries per head of the
population. but over there they made
up for it by drinking more tea than
any other nation. More than a mil
lion dollars is sent out of the United
States every week in payment for cof-
fee. South and Central American
countries. which supply us with more
than QQ.000.000 pounds of coffee year,
get most of the money. Porto Rico,
Java and the Philippines get almost all
OF the rest. but little goes to Hawaii,
where they produce a very superior
brand Of the coffee berry. Last year
the total value of the coffee imported
into the United States was about $780,
1000. and that was less than for Seve-
raj years. because the import price of
coffee has fallen about half.
- During the past two years. in this
town Of 5000 inhabitants, over 80 per-
sons have committed suicide, says an
Emporia. Kas., dispatch. To check the
epidemic Mayor Morse has issued
second proclamation forbdding the To-
cal newspapers from publishing the de-
tails. Mayor Morse believes the sup
preston Of this class of news will check
the epidemic: He says: Il have con-
suited the board OF health, and if
the Emporia newspapers DO not
comply with my request l have a
right and will stop summarily the
publication OF these suicide details
under the law providing for the sup
preston of epidemics. There is clearly
an epidemic in town; it is mental, but
none the less deadly. It's contagion
may be clearly shown to come from the
suggestion. what is known in medicine
as the psychic suggestion, found in the
publication of the details of the sui
cideS. If the paper on which the local
papers are printed had been kept in a
place infected with smallpox l could