Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-14
WHERE TH,aos COME FROM.
Statistics That Have Stories and Pic.
lures Behind Them.

II you should happen to see a little
book that Uncle sam ha; Just published;
hardly would consider II 4 delightful
story book. II Is full Of tables OF long
figures in fine print ana most depress-
ing to the view. like a rainy Saturday.
Yet. that book really is az pleasing
as a game. You can do with u what
Robert Louis sfevenson's children did
when they gaxed out OF their windows
ined for fun that the land beyond W.
a far, strange country. and that the
familiar brook was mighty mountain
river. running through the heart Of Asia
and that the neighbors were men OF
Uncle Sans dry book OF figures Is
like a window that opens into the story
ali around, from the Pacific Islands to
London, and from the Azores to Aus
tralia. And some most common articles
| suddenly get new interest when we see
For instance, where do you suppose
comes from? 1t is sent from the island
i! neishbor in the vivid blue Caribbean
sea, Santo Domingo. furnishes the next
greatest quantity The black republic,
Haiti, which is on that same island, also
supplies a great deal. In Haiti and San
| to Domingo the beeswax Is brought to
the dingy little seaport places by ma
tives from the interior. Most of these
ports have certain days when everybody
| comes in to market.
| Then, one may see early In the morn
| ing, as soon as the wonderful sulphur
yellow dawn begins, long lines OF small
black donkeys winding down the mar
row paths of the beautiful mountains
that rise almost from the sea. Each
| donkey has two cunning baskets, one
side They are ar ., made of painted
they are stuffed full of all the strange
products of the land-great vans like
immense sweet potatoes; pine apples
cious doors; fat little red bananas.
great plantains like yellow bananas.
only much longer. and not nice to eat
raw; big piles OF oranges and grape
have been picked. and beeswax.
In looking again through this window
| of Uncle Sans, we see that most ia
miliar and commonplace thing the onion
ing from? From Egypt. the land OF
obelisks and pyramids and burned
Pharaohs.
we call on many other lands for onions,
too. England sends us the most. Then
comes beautiful bermuda. the land OF
lilies. Then come Spain. Cuba, the Brit
Canada. Mexico and France. A few years
ago we imported many thousands OF
bushels from Switzerland. Now and then
a few come from China.
| Uncle sam s CHllureH IediIy uo HeSu iots
of food. Such a thing as cheese. for in
Istance, comes to them from twenty-one
countries, and some of them are th'
very last ones that you would think OF
as shipping cheese to America. Who
would suppose that Uncle Sam gets some
of his cheese from Turkey? Almost tor
of 1t was sent to us from that country
last year. The year before we even got
some from Egypt.
Eggs make a curious story. too Inc
Chinese empire shipped more to us last
year than did any other foreign country
The Chinese hens had to lay fast to sup.
ply our demand. for eighty thousand
dozens were sent to Yankeeland. Hens
in Canada. Mexico. Japan. England and
France had to help.
The sheep herders of all the world had
to watch focks for us. Rough, lonei!
men in rude shanties i'm Australia and