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The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
JINGLE sAMs GREATEST SECRET.
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The Paper on Which Our M Oney Notes Are
Printed Guarded From Pulp TO Press.

The Paper ON which Our M Oney Notes Are
Printed Guarded From Pulp TO Press.
If there is any secret which Uncle
Sam jealousy guards it is the process
of manufacturing the fibre paper upon
which his money notes are printed.
He pays a Massachusetts, firm forty
three cents pound for it, and this firm
does it's work under the surveillance
Of Government agent. The paper is
manufactured of the finest rags,
cleaned, boiled and mashed into pulp.
AS it is rolled into thin sheets silk
threads are introduced into it by a
secret process. These are tie distin-
gushing marks making imitation Of
the paper well-nigh impossible. The
sheets Of paper, already counted twice,
ano placed in uniform packages at the
paper mill, are stored in Treasury
vault and issued to the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving as wanted.
Before leaving the Treasury they are
counted three times more, and the re-
ceiving official at the bureau must re-
ceipt for them. Then the bundles are
unwrapped and the sheets are counted
twenty eight times by corps of wom-
en-. This is to insure that each printer
gets the recorded number-no more,
no less. If one sheet of this precious
paper be lost the entire force of men
and women having access to the room
where the displacement has occurred
are kept in like so many school chill
dren, to find it, Each sheet is issued
from the vault for the printing of a
definite amount of money upon 1t.
If the lost sheet were intended to ul-
timately represent $4,000 worth of
notes, the group of employees to whom
the responsibility of its displacement
has been traced must make good that
amount if they cannot locate it within
a reasonable time. The most expen-
sive loss which has thus occurred was
of a blank sheet issued for the printing
of $50 upon its face.--John Elfreth
Watkins, Jr., in the Ladies' Home
Journal.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
Eantarn rarm Nands.

In the eastern states prices OF agri.
cultural land have generally fallen in
recent years, in some cases about 80
per cent of the figures asked during
the time OF high prices. One of the
chief causes for the decline In the
value of land in the east appears to
be loss of fertility In the land itself,
due, perhaps. to careless farming. In
the central and western states there
appears to be no such marked decline
in farm values as in the east. In the
northwest land seems to have been in
creasing in value, and in some locali-
ties to a very marked degree. Farm
laborers seem to have profited more In
the past few years than their en-
ployers, or, since the fall in the prices
of farm products, even better of than
some of the farmers who employ them.
1t is also said that there is a greater
opportunity for laborers to rise TO in
dependent positions in agriculture
than ever before.-Detroit Free Press.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
CALIFORNIA FRUITS.
An Industry That Has Been Growing To
Many Years.


perhaps more fruit is imported from
the State of California to the National
Capital and other Eastern cities each
year than from all other States in the
Union combined" said w. w. Lough-
rey, prominent California fruit grow
er, to a Washington Star reporter. Il
have noticed this fact particularly dur
ing the Christmas holidays. Nearly
all of the finest fruits displayed by
your dealers were the products Of my
State. The exact state of the fruit
culture in California is best told in
the report of a Government field agent
Of the Division Of Statistics who re-
Gently visited the State and says:
Flew people know that the fruit in
1ustry of California was practically
begun during the establishment Of
missions by the Franciscan monks. AS
early as 1892 there were about 5000
trees growing on the different missions.
Apples, pears, oranges, lines, lemons,
and olives constituted the greater pro-
portion of these trees. and as they
nearly all did well they proved the
possibility of fruit culture in Cali
fornia.
lin 1880 some attention was given
to the cultivation of fruit In Sonoma
County, and several small orchards
were planted. Several years later the
planting of fruit trees began in Los
Angeles and Yolo Counties, but only
in a small way. 1t was at the time
of the great gold excitement, however,
in 1S40, that the industry really re-
ceived its first impetus. While the
majority of the immigrantsto the State
thought of nothing but gold, few Of
the more conservative obtained posses.
sion of some of these old orchards and
found a handsome profit in selling their
fruit at eXorbitant prices.
"'Since that time the demand for
fruit from our State has steadily in
creased. The climate Of the State is
particularly favorable to the industry,
and as a result there are many kinds
Of fruit produced successfully in Cal
ifornia which cannot be raised in most
Eastern States This is particularly
true of the citrus and subtropical fruits
which grow in great profusion with
us and pay handsomely. Even the
high mountain valleys are adapted in
both climate and soil to the raising of
hardy Northern varieties, and between
these and the low valleys of the south
may be found conditions of climate
admirably suited to the production of
nearly all kinds Of fruit known to do
mestic commerce."
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
A survival in The Coronation Service.

1t is so long since we elected OuI
nominal rulers that many Of us forget
that a King was ever on the footing
of O. Roman Consul or an American
President. Yet a survival of that prac
tice is still to be heard in the corona
ton service. "Sirs," said the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, after Queen Vic
toria had entered the abbey and shown
herself in the prescribed ritual to her
people on all sides, II here present to
you Queen Victoria, the undoubted
Queen Of this realm. Wherefore all
you who come this day to do your
homage, are you willing to do the
same?" In this rite, now purely for
NAL, we see the remaining shadow
of the old Teutonlc custom of choosing
the most capable or popular man in the
nation to be its ruler.-London Specta'
fnr
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
InstruotIonst a. Subscribers.

PosrAsE-The postage TO all parts OF the
Wnited statee and Canada Ia paid by the
publishers.
kFMIrrANors OF small sums may be made
nth comparative safety In ordinary letters
buma OF one dollar or more must Ire cent by
registered letter or post-offlce money order
Btherwise, we cannot be responsible for same
OKAE0E on ADDRESs--Subscriber wishing
lhstr address changed must invariably give
lheir former as well as new address.
MIs-INa NuMBERs-It occasionally happens
that numbers Of our paper sent to subscribers
are lost or stolen In the mails. In case you
AZ not receive any number when due, write
dc postal card, and we will cheerfully fur
A!sE a duplicate Of the missing number.
MUeT IMPORTANT OF ALL--In every letter
that yo& write us, never fail to give your full
address plainly written, name, post-ofdoe,
county anl State
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
GIANT SNOW MUSHROOMS.

Vaughan Cornish, F. r. G. s.. who
has recently made journey across
Canada and British Columbia to study
there the surface forms Of snow. de-
scribes in Pearson's Magazine the
great snow mushrooms that he dis
covered in the upper valleys Of the
Selkirk mountains. Mushrooms OF
great variety In shape and size, he
says, are produced by the large flakes
of sticky snow falling on the fiat tops
of tree stumps. Some of the mush-
rooms have long stems-I noticed one
on tree trunk 25 feet in height-oth-
ers are little more than bosses show
ing above the snow on the ground,
Mushrooms on short stalks always
have hollows beneath them-into
which one may easily fall--for their
caps shelter the ground beneath from
It's proper share of snow. The mush-
room that formed on the 25-foot trunk
measured ~ feet inches in diameter.
The diameter OF the tree itself at the
top was but four feet, so that the snow
projected beyond the trunk for four
feet three inches. Its depth was about
The same as the depth Of snow on the
ground-some five feet. On a short
tree trunk, having a diameter Of two
feet, the snow cap measured nine feet
across and four feet In thickness. In
years of exceptionally heavy snowfall.
such as that of 1889, mushroom caps
Weighing as much as two tons would
be found upon the largest stumps.--
Detroit Free Press.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
Valuable Pebblea.

Between the northern point Of Long
Island and Watch Hill lies a row of
little islands, two of which-Plum Isl.
and and Goose Island---possess peculiar
form Of mineral wealth. 1t consists
In heaps Of richly colored quartz peb.
bles,, showing red, yellow, purple and
other hues, which are locally called
aga~es. They are used in making
stained glass windows, and there is
sufficient demand for them in New
York to keep the owners of one or two
sloops employed in gathering them
from the beaches, where the waves
continually roll and polish them, bring.
ing out the beauty of their colors.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
Greyhound the Fastest FOur-Footer.

A correspondent says that as the re-
suit Of experiments he has made under
careful timing he finds that the grey
hound is the fastest of all four.footed
animals. When going full gallop it
can cover twenty yards a second, or
about a mile in a minute and twenty
eight seconds--a speed that comes
pretty near that Of the carrier pigeon
There are few thoroughbred horses
that can exceed nineteen yards a sec
ond Greyhounds have been known to
better that by four yards. Foxbounds
have a record of four miles in six and
a half minutes, or nearly eighteen
yards a second. This speed is to some
extent an inherited gift, as wolves can
run at the rate of mile in three min
utes. Nansen says that Siberian dogs
can travel forty-five miles on ice in
FIVE hours.-St. James Gazette.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01

California is the home of the orange,
the olive and the fig.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
KENlLWORTH NEWS.

There will be an important meeting
of the Citizens Association next Tues,
day evening at the chapel, and all good
citizens should turn out. MIR. Louis L.
Shoemaker, president of the. Bright
wood Citizens Association, will be pres
ent and deliver an address.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-01
psasant women as poctOrs.

Among the peasants Of Turkey, al
most all the doctoring is still done by
women. In Constantinople there arc
laws against these healers, but they
flourish. neverthelesh
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
TILL ALL FALL
Canadian Rifles Distinguish
Themselves in a Fight
With Beers.

London, April 4-There was severe
hghting all day March 81 in the neighbor-
mood of Harts river, in the southwestern
extremity of the Transvaal between part
OF General Kitchener's force and the
forces of Generals Delarey and Kemp, re-
sultlng in the repulse. of the Beers after
heavy losses on both Sides Lord Kitch-
ener's official report, dated from Pretoria
yesterday evening, says:
General kitchener (Lord Kitchener's broth
err sent Colonies Keir and Coekson from
Vrleknil, Western Transvaal March 81. to
reconnolter towards Harris river They soon
struck the track of guns and carried on a
running fight for eight miles, following the
track through the bush. Emerging on a
plain, large Boer reinforcements advanced
against their TANKS, forcing the British troops
to take up a defensible position, which thew
hastily entrenched. Fighting ensued at close
quarters till the Beers were repulsed on all
sides.
/ Delarey, Kemp and other leaders yainly at
tempted to persuade their men to renew the
action. Fifteen hundred Beers participated in
the engagement, but they had suffered too
heavily, and cleared away to the northwest
and south. The British losses were also severe.
The Canadian Rifles especially distinguished
themselves, one party, commanded by Lieu
tenant Bruce Carruthers, holding it's post
till every man was killed or wounded. Others
OF the forces showed great steadness. allow
ing the Beers to advance within 200 wards of
them and repelling them with a steady rifle
fire. So
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
FRAUDS RENEWED
Civil Service Commission on
the Trail of an Alleged
SWindler.
xsw YORK. s.., spsoI.. ss-vxoe

Ksw York Sum 9pscIal 6srvioa
Washington, April 4.-The civil service
commission to-day received letter from
the United States district attorney at
Cleveland, Ohio, enclosing a certificate
forwarded to him by James R. Garfield,
recently appointed to succeed Civil
Service Commissioner Rodenburg, which
shows that the extensive frauds recently
operated in New York under the name Of
the "board of civil service commissioners
New York branch have been renewed
and are now being operated from western
points.
When the first investigation was made
it was found that the fraudulent concern
was using a letterhead purporting to be
that Of the civil service commission, which
bore facsimile of the official seal of the
United States government. Inspectors
found that daily receipts of the concern
averaged $4,000 and a trap was set for the
promoter, E. o. Steffens, which was pre-
maturely sprung by the action of a new
and Jealous Wardman in arresting the
messenger boy who called for Steffens'
mail instead Of shadowing him to the
headquarters of the swindlers.
In view of the magnitude of the scheme
as denoted by the daily receipts the civil
service commission has secured the
services of Inspector Jacobs, who is said
to be one of the best criminal detectives
in the United States, and will endeavor to
find Steffens, who fed when the messen-
ger was arrested
One of the certificates sent out by the
agency called for applicants for positions
in Texas, Arizona and California and an
other for positions in the Philippines and
Porto Rico Steffens, it is thought, is
now operating in the middle west, the
certificate sent to the commission by Mr..
Garfield having been mailed in Chicago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
DANGER FOR
BEEF TRUST
Crusade Started Against It
That May End in It's
Collapse.
Damaging Evidence Supplied.
to the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Chicago, April War against the beef
trust that promises to smash the collu-
sion between the great packing firms in
the manipulation of prices and supply has
been precipitated by the discovery Of
documentary evidence that exposes the
secret operations Of the combine
Fragments Of letters addressed to the
Cudahy packing company by its repre-
sentatives which are now in the posses
sion Of the interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington indicate the existence
OF a combination OF eastern agents that
has for Its purpose the arbitrary raising
of prices. the reduction of shipments in
order to put the market on paying basis
and the blacklisting of retailers who re-
fuse to patronize the members of the
trust.
Although the trust managers deny that
there is combination among the large
firms and maintain that the price of meat
is regulated by the price of livestock, the
Cndahy correspondence is supposed to be
ammunition enough to start fight
against the combine that will begin in
the east and will extend to the main
houses as fast as evidence is gained that
there is complete cooperation in the
west.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
LIKE CAESAR
Hanna to Be Coy and Roose-
welt CheCkmates Him
Among Workingnen.
From, The Journal .Burea., Room 40, Pos
BMiIaiHg, Woshtng ton.

From. The Journal bureau, Room 40, Pom
building, Warrington.
Washington, April Washington poll
ticians are laughing quietly over the news
from Cleveland that the republican friends
of Senator Hanna in Ohio are beginning
to take his presidential boom seriously
and to plan to put it under way in that
state. Hanna says he is not a candi-
date" say these Ohio friends 'but
events are making him candidate, and in
spite of himself he will be compelled to
enter the race" and they are governing
themselves accordingly.
There is ground for believing that it is
a part of the program of the strong
financial and industrial forces which are
backing Hanna to have his candidacy for
the presidency appear to be thrust upon
him. Twice or thrice If need be, like
Caesar, he will put the crown aside, but
in the end it is figured that a moment
will come when it will be highly proper
for him to accept 1t.
AS an open and avowed candidate, Han
Ia would not be worthy of consideration.
Such a policy would destroy his chances
utterly. But as an unwilling, resisting
candidate, to whom the great honor comes
unsought and undesired, as reward for
labor we'll done, his friends figure that he
would sweep the states.
1t is we'll to remember, again. in this
connection, that the strong argument
which will be put forward in Hanna's be-
half Is his attitude towards labor. This
is the disguise in which the financial in
terests Of the country, which oppose IT.
rigation, tariff revision, attacks on the
trusts and on the railways, will seek to
undo the sitting president. Roosevelt is
not safe man" in the financial and
trust meaning OF that term. He stands
too close to the great masses of the
people. He will not succeed himself if
Wall street can help 1t. And what an
opportunity the street has in the per-
sonality of such man as Hanna, with a
labor record as long as the moral law.
On the surface, there has been no break
between Hanna and Roosevelt, and there
probably will be none. But each is
watching the other, and it is said that
the president is perfecting plans to offset
the Hanna boom in the ranks of organ
lied labor. The presidents strongest ap-
peal to labor will lie in continuation OF
his present effective policy against the
railways and the trusts.
w. w. Jermane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
THOSE EXECUTIONS
Ofhcial Version of Murderous Aus
traIians' Fate.

Official Version of Murderous AUS
tralians' Fate.
London, April 4.-The war office this
afternoon issued this statement of the
facts In regard to the Australians sent
enced for numbering Boer prisoners:
The Bushveldt Carbineers, who were re-
cruited in South Africa but included other
coionials, were employed in July and August
in the widest part of the TransVaal, eighty
miles northeast OF Petersburg, and took a
certain NUMBER OF prisoners. Grave Irregular
tiles on the part of certain officers of the
corps came to the knowledge of the military
| authorities in October, and an exhaustive in
vestlgation was ordered by Lord Kitchener.
AS result, five officers were tried by court
martial at Petersburg in January 1902, and
were found guilty, as principals or accesso-
rles, of twelve murders. Lieutenants Han
cock and Morant were sentenced to death.
which was carried out. Three officers were
| also charged with the murder of the Rev. c.
Hesse Although there was strong suspicion
that they committed the murder the evidence
was not considered sufficient to justify their
con yiction.
Lieutenant Wilson was found guilty Of mur-
der and was sentenced to death. but there
We're mitigating circumstances and the SEN
tence was committed to life Imprisonment at
penal servltude. Lieutenant Picton was found
guilty of manslaughter and was cashiered.
Major Lenahan, commanding the carbineers,
who became aware of the crimes subsequent
to their ccmmittal. was convicted of culpablv
negiecting to report them, and was ordered
home to Australia, his dismissal being unnec-
essary, owing to the disbandment of the corps,
No doubt exists to the guilt of the ac-
cused, whose plea in extenuation that a
| number of their corps were i'll treated by the
Beers was not sustained by the evidence The
sentences were such as would have been in
| hicted on any officers similarly guilty
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04

WITH CANAL
Senate May Adopt Spooner
Amendment Favoring
Panama Route.
Philippine Government Meas
ure Will Probably Be Dis
posed Of First.

From The Journal Bureaa., Room ~. Post
Butlding, Wnshington.
Washington, April 4-There will be a
meeting of the senate steering committee
in a few days when an effort will be made
to agree upon a program of legislation for
the remainder of the session. Three or
four important measures are slated for
passage. but the order in which they
should be CONSIDERED has not been decided
upon.
One OF these is the Nicaragua canal bill,
which the republican leaders of the SEN
ate are determined to have action upon,
Notwithstanding reports to the contrary.
1t has been the understanding for some
time that the canal bill should be taken up
in advance of the Philippines civil govern
ment bill. There are, however, reasons
why this latter measure should be passed
at once and an amicable arrangement may
be made to place it ahead of the canal bill
1t is possible that the outcome in the
senate will be the adoption of the Spoon
er amendment to the Hepburn bill pro-
yiding for the selection of the Panama
route II clear tile can be obtained, and
II not the adoption of the Nicaragua route,
the president to be the one to decide
Senator Allison, chairman Of the republic
can steering committee, is very sure the
canal bill will be provided for satisfac-
tOrily at this session.
w. w Tarmana
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
LESS FLOUR
Serious Falling Off Is Re
ported in the Oriental
Trade.

Portland Oregon, April 4.-The oriental
Hour business has fallen away to very
small proportions and the steamship lines
operating between this coast and Hong
kong and way ports are sufferers in con-
sequence. If it continues some of the
vessels win be compelled to retire from
the field. Mail advices from Hongkong
under date of March II report stocks ag-
gregating 100000 quarters sacks, Of
which 100000 were Oregon and Washing
ton, and the remainder. California brands,
With this enormous stock hanging over
the market, prices were rapidly drifting
from bad to worse, and it was practically
impossible to work any new business.
Many of the -four merchants were selling
below cost in order to unload before the
wet season began yeand spoiled their
stocks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
HALE LIKE TlMOLEON
President Roosevelt Pays Tribute to
the Boston Author,

Boston, April An letter sent to
Senator George F. Hoar expressing regret
that he could not be present at the public
celebration of the S0th birthday of the
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale in this city
last evening, President Roosevelt said:
| suppose all of US who have read the SIM
pier classical books think of Timoleon in his
last days at Syracuse, loved and honored in
his old age by his fellow citizens In whose
service he had spent the strength of his best
years as one of the noblest and most attrac-
tive figures in all history. DR.. Hale is just
such figure now. We love him and we
revere him We are prouder of our citizen
ship because he is our fellow citizen and we
feel that his life and his writings both alike
spur us steadily to fresh effort toward high
thinking and right living. To have written
THE Man Without Country by itself
would be quite enough to make all the ma
ton its debtor. I belong In the innumerable
army of those who owe him much, and
through you l wish him God speed now.