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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

Prof. GeOrgeSon, who has been rep
resenting the Department of Agricul-
ture in Alaska, has prepared pleas
ant surprise for the American people.
1t appears that the current notion of
Alaska as bleak and somewhat ter
rifying wilderness, abounding chiefly
in gold deposits and rigorous winters,
is not altogether accurate. Alaska can
be made the home of the farmer as
well as that of the miner. There are
at least four strips of territory, says
Prof. GeOrgeson, where for about 400
miles the harder grains can be cul-
tivated with success. 1t is true these
strips are not so spacious as the Mis-
sissippi Valley, being only thirty or
forty miles wide at most. But, small
as they are. they are fertile, and on
their 100000 acres it is thought
that n population of 100000 people
might find comfortable subsistence
Besides the cereals. vegetables are
found to thrive in the Alaskan eli
mate. and during the past year the
town of Dawson was fully supplied
with green vegetables grown at home.
1t was also proved that grazing is Il
prospective Alaskan industry. Horses,
sheep and cattle can find excellent pas
ture and can get through the winter
even when turned out to find their own
food. What with cereals. therefore.
and vegetables and stock. the farmer
of the Yukon valley will be able to set
tie down in that part of the world as
n permanent resident 1t is to he under
stood, of course, that the hardships of
Alaskan life are undeniable. While the
country Is by no means the gigantic
iceberg which some people suppose il
to he. yet the climate is Il little bit more
than bracing, and the farms. though
good. can never he of the kind called
bonanza. Alaskan agriculture, as Prof.
Georgeson remarks. Is for the small
farmer, who shall own his own land
and who shall support himself largely
by what he himself produces. To such
n man, intelligent and industrious.
Alaska offers great opportunities, for.
like the Great American desert" and
much of the Canadian Northwest Terri.
tory, 1t has outlived its reputation for
sterility and hopelessness, and is now
ready to be exploited.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

From the settlers cabin may come
Clay. From the towpath of the ca
nal may come II Garfield. From the
woods may emerge IA Lincoln. From
the corniieds may rise Il poet and a
scholar But who looks to the tene-
ments of New York and Boston and
Philadelphia for our future presidents
and our future masters of literature
and art and finance? Who looks to
the slums of the great cities and to
their fetid sweatshops for the worlds
leaders and torchbearers? Yet the
drift of this country is steadily toward
the tenement, and the drift from the
tenement Is toward the slum.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

The successful utilization of waste
solution of the problem of production
worked out by this generation. The
meat-packing industry is notable IL
lustraton. Should the packers only
make expenses from the packing bust
ness the waste product would afford
ample profit. However, the utiliza-
ton of waste, the turning of refuse
into profit is only in its infancy. 1t is
no fancy, that story of the chemist
who turned pair of boots into Il fine
quality of jelly. In the Middle Ages
such Il man would have been II magician.
He would have examined the entrails,
watched the flight of birds or noticed
which way the smoke blew ere he an.
nounced such mctamorphoSis. To-
day the magician converts old skirts
into glucose, makes ink from an old
copper coffee pot and writing paper
from old collars. The possibilities of the
future transcend present belief. A New
York physician says that good milk can
be made from the sewage of the city.
He could furnish as much from the
present sewage volume as can be pro-
duced from hundred thousand cows.
1t Is simply Il question of producing
the milk more cheaply than from cows,
when Il Is remembered that the smoke
from smeltcrs is carefully converted
into white lead and the waste soap.
suds from large WOODEN factories is
now converted into pressed brick, some
conception Is afforded of the apparent
ly fantastic, but really useful adapta-
tions, of modern chemistry.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

see, northern Georgia and West Vir-
ginia are untouched by the swift move
ment of modern thought Peculiarities,
customs and modes of thought bind
communities of this sort into narrow
ness and isolation. Even our language
is distorted into dialects, so that as in
scriptural times, mans speech betray-
eth him. You can tell the down East
Yankee by his omission of the a." the
Southerner by his concessions to ne
gro dialect, and the rounder of the
city by his patOis. Communities are
provincial in many things. Who
would look for an unbiased opinion of
the Chinese coolie on the Pacific coast ?
And yet what people more than the
Californians admit the Chinese to their
households? How many planters in
the cotton states believe the negro has
soul? Note how aristocratic dwell
ers in Athens" religiously stand by
BostOnese as good Englist Can any
good come out of Chicago" asks the
New York City provincial. The Mis-
sourian has to be shown" when Iowa
is concerned. We are coming to be
broad nation in many particulars, but
we remain very narrow in spots.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

The Judge who sustained ruling Of
the Treasury Department that immi-
grants afflicted with tuberculosis had
no right to enter the country did not
go into the merits of the case. He sim
ply held that the matter was one for
the Treasury officials to decide. But
it is clear that the Treasury decided
wisely, that it is doing no more than it
should to protect the health of the
country. tuberculosis is the most de-
structve disease known. In Europe, as
well as in the United States, it is the
cause of more deaths than any other.
Epidemics of plague and fever are re-
sponsible for more scares and sensa-
tions, and occasionally produce high
death rate and a large mortality list,
but tuberculosis works steadily year in
and year out with the persistence of
fate. 1t cannot be cured like the epi-
denies, and though new and prOmis-
ing remedies are announced every little
while the one thing of remedial nature
upon which the best medical minds
agree and insist is that the greatest
care should be taken to prevent it's in
ception and spread. There is no doubt
that it is communicable; that the agent
for its dissemination is the sputum of
patients: that without strict regula-
tions this agent is apt to be found ev-
erywhere. The seed of the disease is in
the street of every town and city, in
the workshop and on the farm. Hence
the recommendations for the segrega-
ton of conSumptives and the erection
of public hospitals for their special
care. When the dread of the disease Is
so great and such extraordinary pre-
cautions are urged against it within
the country it is certainly reasonable
that official precautions should be
taken to prevent its importation They
are fully as justitiable as the measures
which are taken to keep the sufferers
from contagious diseases in quaran-
tine
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

A peculiar phenomena Is observable
In the fact that while the nation.
through the policy of expansion. is
growing more cosmopolitan, In spots II
is growing more provincial. 1t is true
that certain districts in the United
States are becoming more and more
isolated because of certain conditions.
Evidences may he discovered In the
mountain districts OF Kentucky where
the feud of the middle ages is as strong
as II was years ago. Regions in Tennes-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

An editor whose types converted
spider web social into spindle leg
social has taken to the hills, a wan
derer upon the face of the earth, not
through fear of the ladies who attend
ed the party, but because his amazon.
ian wife Is so unreasonable as to insist
upon being shown how he secured the
information
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

German doctors may get excited be-
cause of the enormous increase of
quacks, but they do not seem to rise
to the profuudity of truth that adver-
tising pays. According to the regular
school "quack" is "A doctor who is
short on professional ethics and long
ON practice
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07
Define 1.

Little Elmer (who has an inauirng
mind)-Papa, what is conscience?
Professor Observation-Disclosures. my
son, is the name usually given to the
fear we feel that other people will find
us out.-Harpers Bazaar.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

The injunction is handy thing to
have about the house. 1t has been in
voked by New Jersey girl to restrain
younX man whom she says promised
to marry her from marrying another
girl
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

Another war has broken out in South
America, probably to prevent an in
terruption of the sequence.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

The daughters of cabinet officers
when their approaching marriages are
announced get rather more prominence
before the public than do their dis
tinguished papas.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

If King Edwards coronation is any
thlng like its prospectus it will at
least add to the gayety of nations.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07
To Select Ero,,

She-The angels sent me ma two twin
babies last night.
He-Has she picked out the one she
wants yet?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07
False Pretense.

We're all often forced to rob Peter
In order to settle with Paul.
But some of us merely rob Peter
And Paul never sees us at all.
Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07
All Surprised.

Bessie-I was surprised when Mr..
Dashleigh asked me to marry him.
Tessie-Everybody else was!-Ohio
State Journal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07
bolic,

Symbolic.
The Cheerful Idiot notice our land.
lady is up on football.
The Gloomy Sage-How so?
The Cheerful ldiot-Why, she serves
her pie in hollow wedges. Brooklyn
Eagle
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

An old bachelor says there is moth
ing at all remarkable about the fact
that only the female mosquitoes annoy
us.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07
Indians in Alaska.

The native Indians Of Alaska mum.
ber 29,536, a gain Of Also in ten years.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

You just naturally hate to have some
people "sell' you.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1902-02-07

Some people always look disap.
pointed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, April 2S.-Speculative in
terests in stocks showed a considera =
BILE falling off to-day and the full days
transactions scarcely reached a mil
lion shares for the first time in two
weeks
The feverish activity which has
characterized the recent leadership of
the market was decidedly lacking. If
the rather large dealings in Reading
be excepted. The tone of the market
was hating and uncertain and the
movement of prices was not uniform.
The predominant movement, while it
failed to embrace the whole list itself
changed a number of tins during the
day The failure of the conference
committees of the anthracite miners
and opera tors to agree upon terms on
Saturday was a disappointment. and
the tone of the comment of the parties
to the conference created a disagree
able impression. The result was free
selling of Reading in the opening
dealings, which affected the whole
market. This weakness was overcome
by strong advances of the high priced
coalers.
The part played in the market by the
high priced stocks of which the float
ing supply is very small, was notable
and their wide movements resulted
from a light volume of transactions.
AS the upward flight of Delaware and
Hudson and of New Jersey Central
rallied the Readings. so did the squirt
in the Chicago and Northwestern
grangers and Pacifics.A st. Paul was
lifted points over last night and
there We're gains of to points among
the Southwesterns. The gains were not
we'll held, however, and there were
constant relapses when the market
was allowed to become. quiet. New
York, New Haven and Hartford was
another of the high grade stocks to
move, but it saved only point of its
point advance. Among the industrial
specialties, there were wide advances
in Pullman. International Power,
American Express, Pressed Steel Car
preferred and some others which are
even more seldom active. The Cotton
oil stocks. Virginia Carolina Chemical
and American Agricultural Chemical
were advanced on talk of Consolida-
ton. There were stocks of a num-
Der of small railroads which were
bought on reports of the large activity
of local traffic on the railroads, which
is calculated to benefit especially this
elias sof roads, and the demand re-
suited in wide advances in some of the
preferred and closely held common
stocks. Reports of railroads earn
ings received during the day were gem
orally favorable and included net earn
ings for March of a number of sys-
tens. Colorado Fuel and Tennessee
Coal were bid up late in the day as
the local fractions had been earlier,
but relapsed again without much eff
feet on the general market The vary
ing movement in the grain market was
reflected from time to time in the
stock market, but not in a decisive
way. The usually active industrials
were quite generally heavy. The re-
duction in the Calumet and Hecla div
,idend depressed Amalgamated Copper;
Sugar was affected by lower prices for
the refined; United States seemed to
rfiect disapproval of the bond issue
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29
10 ME NORTH AND NEST.

Trains arrive Savannah as follows:
No. 20, daily, from New York. Wash
ington, Richmond and Cincinnati, 1850
a. m.
No. SO. daily from New York and
Washington, S05 p. m.
All trains arrive and depart from
the Plant System station.
THROUGH CAR SERVICE, ETC.
Trains SO and 34 NEW YORK
AND FLORIDA EXPRESS. Vesti-
buled limited trains. with Pullman
Drawing-room Sleeping Cars between
Savannah and New York. Connect at
Washington with Colonial Express for
Boston. Pullman Sleeping Cars be-
tween Charlotte and Richmond and
serve all meals between Savannah
and New York
Trains 20 and 80. THE WASHING
TON, RICHMOND AND FLORIDA
LIMITED. Eestibuled limited trains,
carrying Pullman Drawing
Sleeping Cars between Savannah and
New York via Richmond. Dining Cars
serve all meals between Savannah and
Washington. Also Pullman Drawing
room Sleeping Cars between Savannah
and Cincinnati, trough Asheville and
The Land of the Sky"
For information as to rates, sched-
ules, etc, apply to
C. H. ACKERT, C. NJ.
s. H. HARDWICK, C. P. A. Wash
ington. D. {.
w H. TAYLoE. A. C. P. A, Allan
ia, Ga
r. C. BLATTNER, Depot Ticket
Agent, Plant System Station, Savan-
nah, Ga.
e. G. THOMSON. c. P. & T. A., sa-
vannah, Ga, 141 Bull street. Phones
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29

and United States Leather was affected
by realizing. The frmness of the for
eign exchange reawakened discussion
of probable gold exports. but the mon
ey market was unaffected. The market
closed dull.
The bond market was moderately ac-
tive and strong. Total sales par value,
$4.045, 900. United States bonds I'M
changed.
Total sales of stocks were 1.O21 500
shares, including Atchison, 1900; do
preferred, 5000; Canadian Pacific, L.
400; Chicago, Indianapolis and Louis
Vile, $500; Chicago and Northwestern,
1900; Colorado Southern, 6100 Della
ware and Hudson, 16, 300s Erie, 1900;
Hooking Valley, $500; Illinois Central
500: Louisville and Nashville, $500;
Manhattan $500; Missouri Pacific, o.
600; Missouri, Kansas and Texas, g.
ZOO do preferred. II, 100; New York
Central 40,700; Norfolk and Western,
$780, Ontario and Western, $500:
Pennsylvania, SO, 400; Reading, SO, 300;
do second preferred. 1900; st. Paul
"A 800: Southern Pacific, 1900; South
ern Railway. 1890; Texas and Pacific.
$780, Union Pacific. 26.500; Wabash
$780, do preferred $500; Brooklyn, 49,
100: Colorado Fuel and Iron 1920;
Consolidated Gas, 5000, International
Power, 5000; Pressed Steer Car, 1900;
Sugar 15,40O: Tennessee Coal, 1900,
United States Leather 29,600: do pre-
ferred $500: United States Steel, 23-
100 do preferred. 1900; American Lo-
comotive, 25,700; do preferred, 1900.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29
Murphy & Co.'s Cotton Letter.

New York, April 2S.-Cotton market
this morning witnessed a further rise
of to IA points with an active demand
which was soon satisfied. Cables were
up to an unexpected point and bears
were for the time being panic-stricken.
Bulls were as confident as ever of a
much higher market on the question of
supply and demand alone, while the
shorts are claimed to be so numerous
that it will be useless to attempt to
stem the upward tide at this time, al
though the advance has been in opin-
ion of many entirely too rapid. But
talk for the new crop being backward
is helping the market. Some months
showed 20 points advance during the
morning, and the whole list moved up
further on scarcity of sellers. Liver
pool bought here, cables were to 5
higher Receipts at ports 5000, against
%. OGO last year. In view of the strong
Liverpool situation at present it may
be we'll to call attention to the fact
that stocks there at present are 1885,
900. against $4,000 last year, and 647,-
600 the year before. while the afioat
stocks is 1000, against $4,000 last year,
and III 600 the year before. Middling
cotton on the spot is quoted to-day at
5 11-32d. against 4 21-32d last year.
Since the opening of the season exports
to Great Britain have reached 2,S52, 600,
against 100000 last year. There is
no little curiosity to know what amount
of fertilizer has been sold in the South
IN this season. North Carolina is UNI
derstood to be using less in explana-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29
NEW ORLEANS COTTON FUTURES.

New Orleans, April 2S.-The spot
cotton market is very firm and the
sales made were at full board prices.
Quotations advanced nc on all grades.
Futures to-day made another jump
at the opening of the market in line
with the strenuous advances of last
week. No sooner had the gong sound
ed for the first call than pandemonium
broke loose at the pit, shorts showing
themselves to be more than anxious to
cover even if they did have to pay
fancy prices. The opening showed
gains of 8 to Is points on thre summer
months.
Belief in a short crop and the bureau
estimate has been shaken many times
during the season, but those who hold
cotton now have the whip hand over
the shorts. In spite of fairly heavy
realizing the market continued to i'm
prove and at the close the board show
ed net gains on the day of Is points,
9.7Sc for April. May gained II points,
June and July each 16, August II,
September Is and the other positions
Z to points over Saturdays closing.
New Orleans, April 2S.-Cotton flu
lures firm: April, 9.7S@9 soc; May,
9.79@9 soc; June, 9S3@9,S4c July,
8. 1893 Sec; August. 94S@9. ACC; Sep
tember. 8 .GS@S SOC; October, S.21@S .22c;
November, S.O9@S .1Oc; December, 5000
6 10c
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29
COTTON FUTURES.

New York, April 2S.-The cotton mar
ket opened steady with present crop
months. IL to IA points higher, and new
crop months to 10 points higher, in
response to strong Liverpool cables
and very bullish information from do
nestle cotton centers. Shorts and
commission houses were large buyers
at the higher prices, while Europe, the
South and the West bid eagerly for
liberal blocks of July and August cot
ton. The English market was due to
come about l point higher to be in
keeping with Saturdays final develop
ments here. but at the time of the
opening in New York was net 4 to AZ
higher. Spot cotton was up another
1-32d to s 11-32d for American mid
ding. Port receipts were very light
compared with those of year ago,
Southern spot markets were described
as strong and 1-16c to Nc higher on
active demand from exporters as well
as from domestic sDinners. Crop re-
ports reflected a general decrease in
acreage, a smaller use of fertilizers
this year than last. and a DELAY of
about two weeks in the season. Ru-
mors that cotton goods prices were
higher, and that dry goods markets
here and abroad were firm, and helped
TO strengthen bull confidence early in
the day. Though profit-taking around
$500 for July for a time held the mar
ket in check, the whole list stiffened up
in the late session to the basis of 9.64c
for July, and to 9.40c for August on
a fresh scare of shorts and brisk new
buying. Trading was active all day
With the close very steady at net adj
vance of II to 20 points
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29

New York, April 2S.-Liverpool is
again the strong sister giving the
American markets a great surprise
this morning by advancing five to six
POINTS. This brought buying orders
from continental sources which carried
this market some twenty points above
Saturdays close. A reaction followed
on the larger receipts at Houston and
New Orleans, but the market took the
large realizing sales with remarkable
steadiness. Receipts are certainly
larger than expected. but the insight
movement this week will show a share
decrease.
New crop positions are freely offered
though the weather in the Southwest
is dry and rain will soon be required.
Sc far the demand abroad supports the
market, not local specula ton.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-29
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

Liverpool, April 2S-Cotton: Spot fair
demand, 1-S2d higher; American mid
ding fair E34 good middling 15-32d;
middling H-32d; low middling SID;
good ordinary sgd; ordinary 4Bd.
The sales of the day were $1,000, of
which 1900 were for speculation and
export and included 10,10O American.
Receipts 1000 bales, including 1890
American.
Futures opened steady and closed
steady. American middling, l. m. c.:
April, 5.1405.15d buyers: April-May
513@5.1 lad, buyers; May-June, 5.13d
value; June-July, 512Q5.1Sd sellers;
July-August, 5.10d buyers; August
September 506@507d buyers; Septem-
ber-October, 4.50d buyers; October
November, 439@4.4Od sellers; Novem-
ber-December. 4.36d buyers; December
January, 4.35d buyers; January Feb
ruary, 4.34d buyers.