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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-05
SUGAR MAKING IN LUZON.

villages. At reaplng time you will see
the same gangs at work, and at the
close OF the day the roads are filled with
women and men, each carrying home
his share OF the harvest. The man US
ually has the larger load, and II he IL
thrifty he may have a half dozen
sheayes or bundles of unthreshed rice,
each about foot in diameter.
The harvest scenes are interesting.
The rice grows Just like wheat, but il
is not cut with a reaper and mower or
even with q cradle or sickle. IL is
clipped off stalk by stalk. with q little
knife which Is held In the palm OF the
hand The harvester takes stalk OF
rice between his fingers and presses 1t
against the knife, thus cutting II OF.
He then cuts another stalk the same
way, and mus goes on until his sheaf is
of the right size. The rice grows to
about the height Of our wheat, but Il Is
cut or half way up In order that the
sheaves may be shorter, and 80 that II
may be the more easily stored and
threshed.
The threshlng is done by pulling the
heads Of the rice through saw-toothed
knives and by treading II out with the
feet. saw some threshlng grounds
where men were jumping up and down
upon the straw to thresh out the grain
and others where they were driving
water buffaloes about over It. In Panay
there are threshing platforms high
above the ground, upon which the men
and women tread out the rice, and
where the strong winds enable them the
more easily TO get rid Of the chat
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-05
Terrible Tortures and Death
Result from Acute and
Chronic Rheumatism
When Neglected
in Spring,
Paine'S Celery
Compound
THE GREAT vANQUISHER OF ALL
FORMS OF RHEUMATISM.
The Marvellous Cure of Mrs. Cook. Of
Gardner. Kansas.

Rheumatism terrible In It's acute, and
long enduring in It's chronic form, Is
one of the most banaful diseases that
human being suffer from II is q dis
ease that win not bear neglect for lf
not treated promptly win remain tin
death TO harass, torture. and make life
miserable
Rheumatism is also "a constitutional
disorder and hereditary Because Of an
Inactive condition OF the kidneys and
bowels the blood IL not purified, and an
acrid poison Is formed and deposited In
the muscles and joints and this causes
The Inflammation and intense ag0ihes
mat thousands are obliged 90 endure.
Too often, the effects Of rheumatism are
iatal, especially when the dread disease
Affects the heart; then death is sudden.
Many other serious complications re-
suit from this terrible disease, such as
pneumonia, plurisy, meningitis, and dia-
phragmltis, and these often prove rap
Idly fatal.
Racked and tortured reader. what are
YOU doing 10 get rid Of your danger?
Physicians candidly admit their ina
bility to cure. The ordinary medicines
OF the day may give you relief for a
lew hours or days they cannot Danish
the disease from your blood, joints, and
muscles they cannot take the swellings
from your knees, elbows, or wrists. or
make supple the stiffened and twisted
limbs You cannot longer afford to ex.
periment death IL the sure result Of
experiment and neglect
Today, your only hope lies in the Inn
mediate use OF Dr.. Phelps wonderful
rheumatism banisher--Paine's Celery
Compound This tested and world
famed vanquisher OF rheumatism, neu-
ralgia, and other troubles that arise
from Impure and poisoned blood, Is now
fully recognized by the medical profess
sion as a positive and unfailing sure.
The following important letter sent by
Mrs. Cook, is but one OF the many thou
sands received from prominent and well
known people In every state Of the I'M
ion, who have been cured by PaInes
Celery Compound. Mrs cook says
Il was sorely afflicted with rheuma-
tlsm some time ago, 80 much so that /
was unable TO 90 about the house / had
TO be carried. | tried all kinds Of medi.
cines and llniments to no effect. For
months | was helpless, unable to turn
myself In bed, and suffering with pain
which was almost uncomfortable. Finally
by chance, | noticed an advertisement
or Palne's Celery Compound and con-
cluded TO try it. After using one bottle |
II seemed to be helping me, and / con- |
tlnued to use 1t until ] had no more |
rheumatic pains Since then ! have
been able TO do my Homework, and have |
been free from rheuma tism"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-05

tie sandy, but II was as black as your
boots and very rich The cane was cut
into pieces about six inches long and
laid In the burrows, so that II made
pipes or cane from one end OF the field
TO the other. The women are paid for
their work according TO the amount
they drop, the girls receiving about 10
cents a day.
There are many plantations In the
valley from Manila TO Dagupan. The
crop grows we'll In other parts Of Luzon
and In all the northern islands, and
there is no doubt but that plantations
would thrive in Mindanao and the Sulu
archipelago.
VALUABLE RICE LANDS.
Rice is the wheat OF the Philippines.
II is the food OF the people, and | saw
rice plantations everywhere. Neverthe-
less the islands are often short OF rice.
and import II to the amount OF hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
In Java the mountains are terraced
and rice grows far up their slopes, the
water being led from one field to an
other by irrigation works. In the Phil
ipplnes the most OF the rice lSnds are
In the valleys. and they are worked az
ter rude methods. The farming Is
largely done on the shares. and for
this reason you see hundreds in the
fields at planting time all working to-
gether. Men, women and children come
out from the villages to tend the little
rice fields they have engaged 10 work.
No one lives on his fields and the farm
ers, as a rule, have their homes In the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-05

THE SAN FRANCISCO MILLIoNAIREs WHO WILL
OPEN UP MINDANAo-THE TIMBER LANDS AND
HOW woRKED-GoLD COPPER AND lRoN-THE
SUGAR PLANTA TIoNs AND RICE LANDs-soME-
THING ABOUT cocoANUTs AND THE MONEY IN
CoPRA - MANILA HEMP-ELECrRICAL DEvEL-
oPMENTs AND LAND scHEMEs-LITTLE CHANCE
FOR POOR MEN,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-05

There are few grains which require 80
much labor Gag rice. Every stalk has to
be grown IN a seed bed and then set out
separately in the muddy fields. The
fields are flooded again and again, The
stalks are harvested as have described
and the rice threshed After this che
hulls have to be pounded from the
stalks In mortars, so that altogether
every grain costs much work,
In raising rice on the share the first
crop goes TO the tenant. In the second
the tenant gets half, and in the third
only one-fourth, The crop Is always di-
vided In the sheaf, the hulling aud
threshing being extra. The hulllng Is
done by women in mortars, and the
threshing is at home instead Of at the
mills. The poor often have 10 borrow
to put in their crops They pay an In
terest rate In kind Of as much as 100
per cent. A man viii loan his money on
consideration OF so many arobas OF rice
to be delivered at harvest time. He can
60 to the fields and get his interest,
this Is so much that II takes the profit,
and the rice usurers thus keep the
country Door.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-05

Gliamond Ilvoc color feathers and ribbons
N'u''0'u VyeoEssy Excellent Economical
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-05

done by hand The plant Is much like
the banana. and the hemp comes from
the fiber Of the leaves and stalks. II
Is dried on the ground and shipped in
bales to Manila. A good hemp crop is
just as salable as so much wheat or
rice. There is regular demand for II,
and II has its fixed prices I'm the mar
kets Of Europe and the United states.
Some of the estates are now paying IS
per cent.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-05
CoCoANUT PLANTATIONS,


CoCoANUT PLANTATIONS,
There is one investment in the Philip
pines that requires but little hard work.
This is raising cocoanuts The cocoa
palm grows ON all the Islands, but some
places better than others. On the ISL
and Of Jolo there are magnificent CO.
coanuts, and on Mindnao there are mil
lions OF fine trees. The trees are planted
In regular order, and after seven years
each yields about a score Of large nuts
every month. The nuts are allowed to
drop Of themselves They are then
picked up, husked and the meat taken
out and dried After drying the cocoa
nut meat ia known as copra, and IL
ready for shipment TO Europe or the
United States. About $4,000 tons OF this
stun were sent abroad in 1887, and the
probability Is that the shipments Will
shortly be many times this amount
The planters figure that every cocoanut
tree should yield a net profit OF 81 a
year, and as you can put large num-
Der OF trees on a small area good
cocoanut plantation means fortune. l
know of some men who have planta-
lions of 10000 trees or more, and who
are rich from oocoanuts.
THE GOLDEN ROPE.
have already spoken Of the money
In hemp. This is the most wonderful
crop of the Philippines, 1t brings 10
the islands about 900 every year,
and II forms the money crops of some
OF the largest of the Philippine states.
There il an enormous profit in the
business; but, nevertheless, there are
undeyeloped hemp lands, and crops
could easily be quadrupled. The lands
which are under cultivation sell FOR
high prices, but near them are other
lands which can be gotten for song,
which need only little work 20 make
available. This Is especially so OF
Mindanao.
believe that the methods of cultl-
walton and cleaning the hemp might be |
nSlch improved. At present a large |
proportion OF the crop goes TO waste,
everything connected with 1t being |
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01
MISS BISHOP IS HERE WILL ASSUME HER OFFICIAL
 DUTIES TODAY. Member of State Board of Examiners and is First Woman to Hold
 So Responsible
 Position.

Miss J. Micholine Bishop of Livingston reached Montgomery yesterday and to- day she will assume her duties as a member of the State Board of Examiners to which place she was appointed by Su- perintendent Fl. c. Gunnels.
 Miss Bishop has for fifteen years been a member of the faculty of the Normal School at Livingston, over which Miss Julia Tutwiler presides. She holds a life certificate as teacher in the Alabama public schools and she has been for sev- eral years prominently identified with ed ucational work in West Alabama. Her appointment on the Board of Examiners was in recognition of the fact that 75 per cent of the teachers of Alabama are women.
 Her entire into the performance of the duties of a member of the State Board of Examiners marks really the beginning of an epoch in Alabama affairs. She is the first woman to hold such an import ant State office in Alabama, either cleo tive or appointive.
 Miss Bishops associates upon the Board are Prof. John l.. Dodson and State Su- perintendent H. C. Gunnels.
 Miss Bishop is staying with her kins- woman, Mrs. l.. G. Dawson .on South Lawrence Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01
EDUCATORS TO MEET
IMPORTANT GATHERING TO TAKE PLACE IN THIS CITY.
Southern Education Board May Have Meeting in November-Gover- nors of Virginia, North Caro-
 lima and Alabama to Attend

It is probable an educational meeting of far-reaching importance will be held in Montgomery early in November under the auspices of the Southern Education Board.
 No formal or authoritative statement as to the meeting has been made public but it will be- if held, a notable gather ing of educators and those interested in education in the South
 The Southern Education Board is an organization of wealthy New York phi lanthropists to further the cause of gen. eral education in the South. Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy is the Executive Sec retary of the Board and Hon. J. B. Gra- ham of Talladega Is the Field Agent for Alabama.
 An effort was made by The Advertiser to communicate with MT. Graham rela- tive to the probable educational meeting to be held in November, but MT. Graham was absent from his home in Talladega.
 The meeting as planned will bring a gathering of notable people of the South to Montgomery. It will be in session two days during which the educational prob lems of the South will be discussed. The tentative list of speakers embrace edu- cational leaders of national prominence and the Chief Executives of Southern States who have manifested an apprecia- SlOu or eQuCdJlOnal COnQlLlOnS III the South and who have joined hands in the work of improvement.
 It Is said that Governor A. J. Mon Hague of Virginia, Governor William D. Jslks of Alabama, and Governor Aycock of North Carolina, will be present and assist in the discussion. The educators who will take part are pr. Alderman, President of Tulane University; Dr. J. L. M. Curry. Trustee of the Peabody Fund ;Dr. Butterick and others of sim liar prominence.
 The attendance of several State Super lntendents of Education is expected and 1t is said that majority. if not all of the County Superintendents in Alabama will be present at the meeting.
 The gathering. 1t is said, will be in ses- sion in Montgomery November and 6. The definite purpose of the meeting and its scope have not been formally an- nounced The announcement will come from the officers of the Southern Educa- ton Board.
 Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy, Execu- tive Secretary of the Southern Educa- ton Board, is in Concord. Mass. He is expected in Montgomery next week.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01

land, Mir. Porter finds that municipal trading Is rapidly increasing municipal inde debtedness there. Ths is justified on the ground that the investment Is pro- ductive. But Mir. Porter takes pains to show that profit is not the object. In fact. many contend that there should be no profit from such Investments They wish the pronts to go to reduce the charges for service and not to de- crease in taxation. MT. Porter consl1- CTS that end of this plan Is State so- cialism, and the object aimed at is free service.
 Mr. Porter reminded his hearers that in the twenty years from 1879 to 1898 local indebtedness in Great Britain increased from l60, ,O00, 900 pounds to 300, ,00O, ,0O0 pounds an increase equivalent to $75Q, GOO 900. Par liament Is asked to extend the time for payment by 1J0 years, which Is throwing the burden on pOster'ty with vengeance. Along with these municipal enterprises other means of expending money are sanctioned, including pensions for school teachers, policemen, tramway men and others. At the same time no provision is made for the capitalization to pay these accruing pensions. Attention Is called U the fact that while population in a quar- ter of acentury has increased 30 per cent. the local indebtedness has trebled The losses on the telegraph system since it has been managed by the British Gov ernment are also cited as a reason why Government should keep out of private business. From all the premises the in- ference is that the State is best governed which is governed least. and this conclu- sion is worthy of general acceptance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01
CARRIERS BEGIN TODAY
RURAL DELIVERY SERVICE IN
 MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Boxes Distributed and Everything IS in Readiness for Operation. Three White and One
 Negro Carrier.

Farmers of Montgomery County will greet Uncle Sans rural mail delivery car riers for the first time today,
 Four carriers will leave the Montgom- cry postofice this mornng at o'clock to go the rounds for the first time of their respective routes in the new rural free delivery service.
 The delivery boxes were distributed over the routes yesterday afternoon and Assistant Postmaster Henry Irwin an- nounees that everything is ready for a we'll regulated distribution and collection of mails in the rural districts of Montgom- cry.
 The carriers have supplied themselves with conveyancss, mail bags and the other necessaries of a postman. They Will start off fully equipped with everything.
 MT. Irwin says as yet no letters have reached the Montgomery postoffice that 20 to the rural delivery and he expects that it will be some days before any great amount of mail goes over the routes. The carriers are Frank Todd. Route No. 1. Robert Graham, Route No. 7; George Austin, Route No. and Richard Sistrunk, Route No. f. Frank Todd Is the only negro carrier.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01

SCHOOLS OPEN TODAY
EXPECTED THAT ATTENDANCE
 WILL BE VERY LARGE.
After Vacation Montgomery Boys and Girls Will Return to Books. Two New Courses and Sew
 eral New Teachers.

The public schools of Montgomery will open today. The long holiday is ended and the deserted school rooms today will again become centres of interest of the children of Montgomery.
 The Heron Street school will not be opened today with the other public schools. The building is not yet ready for the children and their teachers The contractors who rebuilt the school build ing after it's destruction by fire last win- ter. have until October 16 to complete the work. but it Is announced that the work will be completed the latter part of the week and the doors will be opened to pupils Monday.
 It is confidently expected that the at tendance this year will break all records. The indications are that the capacity of every school building in the city will be tested.
 The school buildings which were closed in the summer, have been fumigated and put in readiness for the pupils and teach CTS. Fumigation was ordered merely as a precautionary measure and not because the school buildings have at any time been infected.
 The thousands of Montgomery girls and boys will be greeted by several new teach CTS when they reach the school rooms at S:3O o'clock this morning. Among these are Prof J. w. King, assistant in the Boys High School. and Prof. Leon George, instructor in writing and man. ual training.
 Instruction in manual training and physical culture are new branches of the public school work. The physical cul- ture courses will be confined to the Girls High School and will be taught by Prof J. C. Weissner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01
Municipal Ownership.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The Courier-Journal has received a before the Rritish Association on the 18th inst. by MT. Robert r. Porter. The subject is Municipal Trading" but he takes occasion to say that in Great Britain this means the same as 'munici- pal ownership of public utilities in are engaged in the manufacture of gas, in a free trader. MT. Porter, after coming to America, became a vigorous advocat1 of protection. His position on municipaf ownership. therefore. cannot be due to any tenderness about the abstract justice of the interference of Government with private business.
 MT. Porter says the cities and towns of Great Britain have exhibited much greater activity in business ventures than cities in the United States. He attrib- utes this in part to the fundamental pref erence of the fathers of the republic for form of government which could in- terfere as little as possible with privats business enterprise. Hence the Federal Government left railroads and large city undertakings to private enterprise. The States, towns and counties, however, went into canal and railroad enterprises to such an extent. that in many cases bankrupt cy and ruin resulted. This taught the lesson that there is a limit to State and municipal credit. and led to the device known as the debt limit clause in State constitutions. Not many American cities are engaged in the manufacture of gas in supplying water or in the telephone bus mess. while none has established street railways. In spite of this the cities and towns of the United States are well sup piled with these public utilities, and MT. Porter says they bring as much revenue to the municipal treasury as the profits of the best-managed municipal enter prlses. The cases where American cities have tried to supply their own gas, says MT. Porter, have been melancholy fail ures. Smaller towns have tried electric lighting, but the cost has been relatively
 Turning from the United States to Eng
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01
TOOK GUNN's MONEY.
Claud Hurst Charged With Robbing
 Pensacola Negro.

Claud Hurst, a negro, was arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff B. c. Young on a warrant sworn out before Justice R. H. Jones, charging Hurst with having forcibly taken SIPS from Will Gum, a Pensacola negro, on one of the recent ex- cursions from that city to Montgomery
 Gum was on his way back to Pensaco- la, when the alleged robbery occurred It is charged that in Montgomery he had met with Hurst and m unknown negro. They became so attached to Gum that they accompanied him to the depot and volunteered to accompany him as far as the railroad yards. He accepted their offer.
 When the train was within few min utss' run of the yards, Will Gum Is said to have been knocked on the head hy his solicitous companions and relieved of s725 They jumped off the train and were not heard of until yesterday when Deputy Young captured Hurst
 It is understood that the companion of Hurst is in Pensacola and Deputy Sher- if will leave to bring him back to Mont gomery as soon as requisition papers can be secured
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01
The Irish Nationalists are Now
 Threatening to Oppose It.

New York. Sept 3O.-The education bill re- mains source of political disturbance with a searching of hearts in every faction, cables the London correspondent of The Tribune. The non -conformists alone are thoroughly in earn est in opposing the measure, but they differ among themselves respecting the wisdom of their leaders in advocating a general refusal to pay rates if the Government persists in enacting 1t.
 The Irish Nationalists. who have been sup porting the bill, are now threatening to op- pose 1t because Sir windham is not consid- ering the coercion act dead letter. Astute politicians think more irritation will continue from the education scheme and the settlement of this most troublesome question is no nearer now than al the start.
 The Government supporters while seriously embarrassed by the agitation against the meas ure hoping that a compromise can be effected through the good offices of the op position leaders and the clergy of the English Church. Moderate church men are suggesting that the chief difficulty can he removed by rostricting religious instruction to the Bible, aul the authorized catechsm.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-01
MONEY TO MOVE CROPS.
Chicago Banks to Send Millions Int the Wheat, Corn and Cotton
 Sections

Chicago Special to The New York Times.
 Chicago banks are shipping from $l,oov,' GOO to $2,OO0.00O daily to the country banks of the North and Northwest and Soutn and Southwest sections of the country to meet the demands of the farmers Toy actual currency to pay the expenses oi harvesting and marketing the grain crop
 The movement of currency toward tht agricultural sections of the country is in excess of last years shipments, al- though the harvesting season is far frof1 being over. It is estimated that oxeA $S7, 900, 600 will have been supplied by Chi. cago banks, in bills of $5, SlO and Szt denominations. to the farmers Of the Ms, sssippi Valley before the crops are all put away for the season.
 This large amount of money Is not cons sidered an indication of abnormal Vcondis tions Local bankers stated today tnal for the first time In four or live years, tna baaks of this city were able to meet th4 demand for currency which is inevitaD's at this season. without experiencing any tro Ibe.
 Joseph T. Tabert. cashier of the .ConaF mercial National Bank. has made carf- full estimate of the total amount of cu:- rency which will bs taken out of the Chl. cago barks this. fall to meet the demands of yhe WI eat. corn and cotton producing sections He. believes the amount Ntlf reach SS7, ,000, GOO.