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with plentyBof both kinds with him, }
An idea Of the discomfort Of the chi
1iese monetary system may. be gut hered
from the fact that change for. All Aneri-!
can dollar In Chinese cash weighs over
B15 pounds. M " ~ M
4a I t is II curious INSTANCE OF the cons
servatlsm Of the Chinese that they have
never reformed their currency. Not only
do the great mass OF the people waste
much vsa1iablo ii time II 4 I'M haggling with
zone another s y to Il tho value OF every:
cash that passes between them; but the
country as d whole has suffer terribly
from adhering to the silver standard. y NJ
An Perhaps the best instance + Is that Of
the payment sthe various indemnitles
which China has had to pay from time
ITO time \ to various powers by wa OF
compensation for outrages Of ono kind
or nnother5uponSth the persons or prop ertY5
OF foreigners. These inlemninitos have
always been fixed In terms Of gold, so,
that each fall ln tile value Of 8 i yer has
made 1t Unnecessary to get more and more
$taels out Of the Chinese poop ~ US 81
II. It Is said TINT III regard to the air-S
Identities which were exacted after the!
Boxer outrages. q In which a. great deal
of damage wa done to foreign property
China has had to raise more tina n Co.,
&OOO,0 &taels I'M excess OF Wha III she mad
expected. because I he Ynltlo OF the taels
( has fallen 50 much during the past three
years. 5 gS FF5 &
China 3 G atism Blocks Re-
form. Sis3ss5
!555t5S At /; first sight 81 t Nigh appear that
Bitwotlld not be a. cry fiicut thing 70
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FIVE DOLLAR HONG KONG N OTE.

X lIfs I
China N erclant. has to pay q smaller
a Target number OF tacls for tile articles,
he ordered In New " rls . g,3 ~ II
js5 This fluctuatlon IN HE value 4 OF the
local Il dollars Is brought home to the
traveller when&he carries out to the far
far eastern banks. When he = reaches
Hong kong and present his draft llo may,
receive 81 900 more than he expected u
silver has fallen, or s., 900 less, IL silver
7 has risen. Y We M vi
$5 Although there has been q constant
5fluctuatlon$int the gold value OF the local
I'd IIaste rn dollars during the past few
years, the general y tendency has been
downward. The effect which this fall
4 In the value OF silver has had upon far
eastern trade Is very interesting. s5sI8 e
d Take i the great port Of Singapore nsi
ar, example. bout half the imports into
Singapore come from gold standard
countries. and in paying for these i'm
ports the merchants Of Singapore must
pay more and more dollars as the value
of the d ollar falls, for the price OF their
goods is fixed In Europe and America
on "a gold basis. IA s I;
q On the other hand e the exports from
Singapore 90 chiefly y to gold standard
countries, so tina t when 4 the exporter is Z
paid by his Amerc lean or 10uro pean Gus
toner In gold, and lie conyerts the gold
into siver3in In Singap pore, he gets more and I
more silver dollars for his gold in just
tho sa me proportion as the value OF Sill
yer. gets less and less. 4 & IN
1t Is seen, therefore,. that the oSducerB
and tho consumerA q pproach the quest ton
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place the currency Of Chine upon 81 gold
lbasls. 1t might DO thought chat the AZ
obvious advantages OF u fixed d currency
would outweigh tho loss which would K
ibo Inflicted by the change upon q. fevvi
special interests such for iflstance. 81 a q
those OF the; cash shops II which thrive 4
upon the present chaotic state of q he !
Chinese monetary system. But the diff. 4,
sdutlcs In tic way OF fchanging the none
stary system u q country having ooss.s
100000 lnhab itants are either feyaii n
small. & h # Il M
1,he work would II have to ,be carried
out BY tile aid OF foreign exp rts.SsS nSd
5lt would be almost gitnp -
vince the Chinese government tha t the I
foreigner was not lii realty engage ii,S
the task OF working q greslt svYi ntlleS on \
the government. sSt si s n
with ills point settled, no sevsr, AT TIE 4
real difficulties would beg 4 hes$ loe tlff
of change is SO utterly abhorert TO the
Chinese mind that he regards u every iss
suggestion Of alteration wit n the deepesst a
suspicion; and when It came doWfl8 ii!o
Switl, which lie was fami lar and lsu! PA
2stitutlng Il currency entirely unfamiliar To-
hin It liz difficult to put q limit to the the.
trouble would en- sue. Il "a y, 4. ~
s{YetSit ~ only by creating an entlrely
new setSof coins, BY afIlxing to them AZ,
5permanent value, and by Inducing the
8people to accept them, that the monetary
The advantages to DO gained by China
from III reform II, her currency may spe (
Sclasscd under three heads: N
Ss THE rtlte of exchange betwee en- China Y
4 nd foreign countries would become Sfixe
5and the Internal n trade OF the country mt
would be greatly stimulated II from 81 tho !, {
fact thutt the value of coins In use wouid !
bio tho same all . over . the e. 4. empire 2,
Another efrect Of this fixed value Sof the
CURRENCY would 3lbe II to over the prices n
az imported goods for with the element
ar risk due to flictuatlon re owed rom
his a calculate Ions the merchant would ]
be content to accept a smaller aVeraee
profit6on his transact Ions. 3 q, .#
8s$ 81 t A would stmula to the Inv stmentg
OF foreign capital by placing the propaptss:
returns from mining a nd railroad snter.-ss
5prses on "a more secu re ia SIS. y.
Jss SIT would enhance the @ credit gs$s q \
China for on the one hand her rev ' enu e
would DO rnuch moro Ger tai II va lue,S
and 3S OH the other she wo I'D not be-
fthrea tened constantly with e flnanoiallS
crisis due to some sud den and unfores sen
fall inSthef price OF Is liver. I
,rhese two facts would probably enable
5China8t 3 borrow d money at Is much lower
rate &C. interest than she has d to- pay
at present. va
53iiE u pa ii has adopted the gold standard
with &the most satisfactory results and
HE is to She hoped that China Swill follow
suit and thus remove from far eastern
trade one OF q Its mos sSunsat iafa ctorys
feature Copyright 4 oo6. by The Boss
ton Herald COD @s8 II *
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THE 5TANGIlLO OR NEW KID GLOVE GRAPE FRUIT.

I-
Spartment here i have examined the CROSS
Ing Of the Texas blue grass with the
kentucky, blue grass whereby they hope
TO get n rich sod which will grow all
over the south. In the same houses they
arc breeding cl0Vers With alfalfas and
I also lcttuces and different varieties Of
flowers Which have n commercial va lue.
The Marriage Of the Lettuces.
@ One OF the strange things is the mar
jriage OF the lettuccs There are two cons
ono Of which Is sold cast! OF the Alle-
Jghencs and the other west, the latter
being raised chiefly about Grand Rapids.
5Ihe Grand Rapids lettuce Is "a loose let
ftuce with long loose leaves. ellcous to
&taste.Ss The eastern lettuce Is n head
lettuce and Is much better IN some res
spects for the table; Dir. b. II. galloway,
the chief OF the Bureau OF Plant Indus
try, first figured out In his mind what
thellthought would be an ideal lettuce for
tho market and he then told his expert,
mentors to &C, to work and see II they
could not produce that lettuce, by cross
Ing the different varieties. They have
married the eastern and western lattuces
and they think they are rapidly produce
ing their ideal. Indeed ! saw many heads
I OF lettuce to-day N the plant breeding
ihot-beds when seemed ttH!osl pstteu IVY.
and combined the eXcellencles or both
varieties. n, lls II \,
Il IN talking With Doctor Galloway tho
other day he told mo Of some Sex peri lllents
th9 had madelWltl. tyiolets, He we Y ted 70
show that money could rbe made loy, r,tts-
iiHg them IL they were properly handled
so II ei Established a. commercial 10 TIED
and set out five thousand planta., AS they
grew no found that some produced only
one blossom apiece and that hers had
9ashalf dozen or moro, tina some lowered
In tho month when they bro ught' tho Big
Igest prices aud others lust when there
was the least demand If II 10 mad u ~ care
ful selection Of seeds and aftelss1l Inc
produced yIolets which II oMered jus & g t
tile ights time, ana IN tho est llmbag
tper5 plant. resu s,ya sS The h0t stl
paid ii good a dellds u Me- had q hsll shown
tho SUCCESS rim apd sold
out, 1ats lala ttaat!qn l0
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ING SANS PLANT BjREA AND IT'S 0FFSPRIN

plant selection and in a short time he was
making no mo re out OF a he hot beds than
his neigh bors. }st n
The Romance Of the II otato
i Among tho m ost romantic stories Of
plant production is that Of he prosaic
potato. Potatoes are ordinarily! produced
by planting the potato or cuttings Of st..
"A potato plant, however. som lines pro-,
5luces d seed which may be- planted and
may posi- bly, yield q new variety. a bout
1850 a man&namedS Goodrlch8 experimental
with wild 3 Peruvian and Chile potato toes.
He grew seedlings from these plants for
a number of years and final y from them
produced two varieties which were fairly
ivalua ble.S one OF which was known as the
Garnet Cllll In 1860 Mr.. Albert Breese,
of Vermont. planted some seed OF, a Car
net Chill plant and one OF the results was
the EARLY Rose. When this potato was
put on the market t. brought fabulous
prices, and It is still one Of the most VAL
liable potatoes we have
I t was the Early Rose which was It he
mother OF the Burbank potato, whichSWas
named after Luther Burbank, who was
O school boy when he ~ discovered It.
Young Burbank had heard what Breese
had done in producing the Early Rose,
and he had become generally interested
plhIlAS
walking through n field Of EARLY Rose
pota toes he saw a seed pod on 8 one of
the plants. Hewatched It CAREFUL ~ thlnK-
ing he would save the seed and plant
them. The field was near where he went
to school, and he examined the pods from
day to day Until they should be ripe. lie
was especially anxious about hem, for
although such seeds arc often found on
other varieties Of potatoes, they seldom
goccur$on tho EARLY Rose. Ono morning
swhen&l,e looked for tho pod he found It
had disappeared. His heart fell " but he
got down on Ills knees and hunted the
field over, he cried over HIS loss AMI
went every day for q week to, tho field
looking for this seed pod. lIo finally found
1t about sixteen feet away hidden under
another vine, Tt had evidently been
knocked off by someone passing rapidly.
He kept the seed pod and tho next year
planted tho seed. From tho plants which
grew no secured the one which produced
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fruit. This orange-lemon Gamble grown
wherever tho Rusk orange can be grown
and 1t will give orange -lemonS orchards to
millions Of families throughout4thc South
where lemons cannot now be grown.
Another OF the va trees produced by
marrying. tho Trifoliate orange With the
FLORIDA orange has q fruit which might
he called the orange ponelo, or the
pomolo orange. This fruit9is about tho
size of a large orange. but It tastes 8sonle,;
what like a cross between the orange and
the ponlelo. It will grow in these same
localities and will make q fine breakfast
food, In short, from the union of these
i two varieties Of trees. one tile more
than a sc,."bby bush and the other q
fino orang u tree, have been produced
three good varieties Of trees which VIII
give the greater part Of tho South
oranges, pomelos and lemons.
The Tangelo.
81 Have you ~ ever seen q Tangerinee,
orange? It is a little ora nge with q loose
skin SO fastened to It that 1t lis some-
times called the kid glove orange. w The
skin can easily be taken off and tbs
sections Of the fruit pulled apart and
GA ten You know also the grape fruit
or Pomelo. which has q delicious acid
flesh but bitter, Notwithstanding SKIN.
Both fruits are sold in the markets, pr.
NVebber and his assistants have married
this little Tnngerine orange tree to the
Pomelo. and they hays produced q POM
gelo which. although not so largo as the
ordinary Pomelo, Is Of o good size, To-
has u loose skin SO chat you can tear;lt
off with your fingers as you can that OF
the Tangerine orange. The flesh Of thu
new Porelo Orange is more delicious
than that fof the Pomelo itself, y NisS
sweetep than the Pc lleloi and more SjuicJ z
and acid than Tho Z, ,angerine and a q COM
itains the bitter principle 81 the grape
fruit slightly red nced y nlgh q be calledl
% kid glove grape frlli Il a!t
Uncle SAINTS New Babies, NJ
( 1, These products q re among The aiost1
promising Of Uncle sam = new babies
.ipley are really tlleSI on put Of the "A
cultural Department X nfl any one gooNda
HEALTHY tnsall & Of h.s kl.ld tls nv yl
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/! of the fall In silver from quite opposite
;standpoints.IST The producer gains by the
fall, for he gets Id large number OF dol.
lars for his produce the lower silver goes.
ana lie does u not Il max III q corresponding
Increase liz the wages lie pays his la-3
sborerss is Tho consumer on the other.
hand n loses BY the fal1 I'll in silver. Els
wages arc paid I'M silver and do not
,incrcase because the value OF silver de-
8creases. So, IL he buys goods imported
from gold countries, b such as clothes
SHOES and canned goods, he must pay
10 larger number OF dollars for the same
8quantit St 81 VIZ g Gods 81 rs X tho purchasing
power o. his 81 yer ollars d eclines.
Evil Factors of a Changing Cur
585 2ss. rcncy.
But apart from the Inconvenience and
loss which the consumer from a falling
srate OF exchang e, the upward and down "
ward movement OF the value OF the dol Y
lar from \ day to day Introduces several
evil factors into the n far stern trade.
aj Owing "a to " the mere uncertainty otf
prices. 1t Is more difficult and moro ex-B
spenslve for Il merchants tto finance their
operations than IT, would J;be in q country
where u y dollar Is M always worth 100 i
cents, because OF the Increased risk !;
which tho ton Introduces. u
S| Again. al though the general movement:
Z Of the value Of t he local dollar is down
ward | T. sometime goes up. and many
people arc tempt 4 to- speculate Y up0n3
tho rise and fall OF n TIL dollar, which
introduces an und desirable element into
business ,transactio ns. :5 sss
& II these arc the tnconyeniences which
NJ lFf i
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States Is 2T.7S bushels Will e for the ~ eNv
England States 1T Is g38, 4s bus hels whc
1924 bushels more than lleas tnlye era So Nh
the United States for the Same ten y ears
while Id average farm price for the same
States IS full is cents: per lishel more
&lnsfavor of the New Eng land Eat ties 70
do they not ralse corn In the New l!ng ~
land States I? h Because It 4 pays be- ter
keep summer boarders and work In the II
factories fsi ts
We find that "a l,o Virginia farmer ca 4 \
put quite n good quail tyS@ Of s5ferttli zoraS
on his wheat land and f&he gets la ten
year average crol, he Will have much
for M acre as the South Dako ta@ farmer
EIIe can put s2.76 worth Of fert iliz err on
his corn land and If he gets a ten-yeaT,S5a
average crop be equal He ca q put IS. 18 I
worth on his hay crop and be equal He
$oanS put $3.50 worth on his potato crop
and get the same re turn i as& the South
Oak otnH farmer on land that y costa but '
Sc to S. per acre, and with help thAt
costs but so to 20 cent ne r day.
y .. 4 II. HARPsTER.
Holmes county, o. i bS asss
II think you will agree with i mo that &
this article is certainly worthy Of re-
production. and should " be- read by the
young men, especially OF Virginia. There /
Is Ia sentiment III Virginia that the West
is a. wonderful count try, rich In agricul-$
stural products. and SURPRISING all otherS
countries In material progress. This 10 +
true to "a large extent, but the reason
Z to my mind, Is because the best talent.
the best energy, and the best applica-s
tlon2of almost the civilized globe hns cons
fcentrated In this great Western country
and especially has this been the case from \
Virginia. VI Z ~
8s i III oi,r young mon would study the 4
above article. and realize their own ms.
mediate surroundings. and apply the same
talent, energy and appl icatlon, at home.
our own State would surpa IS any Vest
ern Stat s in q very short sWhile "
III III NJ y o urss very tru y. rs! L f
N NJ I2TlNy WILLIAMS, 8
Pcarisburg, Pa. NJ
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TO the country than the cost ot that de-
{partment for a number OF years. & In the
marriage OF cottons. 81 DR. s1 YebbersS5 has
united tile long staple sea island q cotton
with the short staple upland cotton and %
has thereby produced a medium staple
cotton which will grow on the uplands.8i
Tho Egyptian cotton has also been cross
bred with Uncle SAINTS product and the
probability is that we Will 4 raise the
eleven million dollars worth Of Egyptian
cotton which we now import. upon our
own SOIL i hav o Wrl ten as to 4 The Won
ders which have been accomplished Z IN
tobacco breeding and something as to the
improvements being made in our corn
In the plant breeding houses Of the de-
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Tor an orange tree to yield fruit asst
does fore apple tree It has been several
years before the department could know
whether 1t N had Y any hing or not. The
first fruiting came this year One va
@rtety was the Rusk orange. named after
the late Secretary Rusk. Of which I; have
already written. N Another wa an
orange lemon Of just about the size of
the ERusk orange. This orange Is as sour
as a lemon and It tastes not sunllk one
having a delicious flavor slightly d iffersnt5
from the lemon. It has more juice than
n lemon of the same size, as can be seen
by photograph I give, OF several tubes
showing the amount Of Juice in each
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s1H1h Az nc far, eust you will reach
n IGl u III countrlos36 Ia 8B which almost
H Da1nScI anything Ii money III British
4 )4S4sG North 13prieo syoi, Y atl buy q
y 7--s1---- Bunch III bananas, u bng y Of
Hco and "a few pounds OF sgont flesi with a.
I. q yard or two Of red cotton CLOTH, or
4 q bottle of pickles Of g dollar watch va s;
In the small native state Of Brtiiiei In
4 Borneo tho principal 4 currency Is BRASS
II cnniloh.Ss and IN Korea you get cha ngeI
a for d 4 real dollar In the shape OF " bug
2 full aofs coin OF which sand afd lcnd ara
\ tho chief II gradients. IA s II
t But s3at present q an, concerned With Wy
at tho banks, a thirst sight this might
appear to be- subject of little interest.
as tho only pccularlty OF dollars and 4
cents ns we know them In this country
\ Is the ex tr,lordlnury dlmculty Of collect
\ lng specimens Of them ard the still
tgreater dinlculty Of Keeping them long
enough to know what hey look Elkc
# But tclirrency Is 'byB3f1o IN cans such n
enple inattol in tic far cast W. for IL
y cliunges 50 rapidly lii value from year
s. TO II year, rs one might almost say from
day to day. tint what comes To YOU
an a5real hundred-cc dollar on Mon
4 day Will only buy You 80 cents worth
OF bad cigars on Thursday afternoon /. ~
3 Tho basis o. far eastern currency may
wllcreas that coin was worth as much
as81O3 American cents In 1877. It was
81 worth as little as E45 cents In 1903. mia
89 Some|idca OF tho Inconvenience caused
q blythe fluctuntionfI In value OF the silver
4 currency Of the far cast may be gained I
!! by slipposing that In tho United states
X the standards of measurements changed
rs from day to day, In other word II that
II 4 yard OF cloth meant SO Inches mt ono
time md % inches at another, or that
"a dozen eggs comprised IL at the be-
ginning OF tho week and nine q the end
4 Of II, and that there was n d means OF
Il knowing until YOU started out In the
morning which Of these standards was \
.@in force III the torres. l,ji
Causes and Effects of Fluctua-5
4 tons.
Tho causes as we'll as tho effects Of
tile fluctuations In the value OF tho Va n
rIous coins IN the far east which do duty
FOR dollars arc most int ercStlng ana not
.. little complicated. n Isl 81
n Broad "a speaking !, the value q cbins
ana bank notes used Throughout the
3 world az tho medium OF trade exchange
rests either upon the commercial value
Of gold orr on the commercial value Of
silver; and countries hlchH m casures
theIr#vnlues In terms q ( gold are called I
gold standard II countries: those " lch 1
measure their values Of silver q re cal ed 4
silver standard countries. IN Il
ss8lS The value OF "a gold Nj Is H compar lively
n constant; II the value OF n 81 lversfi Is COM
para lively inconstant or nuctuatInE. and
Ntbis Is due to the fact that gold. as
compared with silver, Is q rare metal
4 OF which the supply ocs not vary greatly
from year to year. .s3 .sBis
II IS clear, therefore that oil values
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the burbank potato. which tlss now known
Throughout the World. a ], Z. II,
.Burbanks Wonderful Discoveries
AS he grew older Burbank became still
more Interested An plant production. IL
Worked for d time Ia .tlle shops toG the
Ames PloW Company a N Asassadhusetts,l
and there Sinyell ted Sin,pro enlents IN WOOD.
working machinery Which We're so jyalu
able tia Y his employers offered tollnultiT3
ply his wages itWent 70 ines ~ he
would stay Nil thclnsfl He decid ed, oJySs
eyer thai ile ca red t1lore for plall Breed
Ing Than hop N or y, and tlnAll went
Asss Bhs tagEss ~ Rlant 81.
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VIRGINIA AND THE WEST,
y Comparison That Is to the AZ.
vantage OF Old Dominion,

I9dltop of Tile Times D ispa tGh Il;
4 s,lr, 1Dclosed Sou will find Iayclipping
from the Breeders, Gazette, an gasrlcul
,tyral and I've stock paper, published az
Chicago, which iss as follows: B9 y 81 n
FARM PRO nly cIl y Pr lcI ;S N y " n
;eg liINl IA. 3. Y " a H 4 y 7. q
40 the acct te, IN l,lys care w Iernsed
'Jossph 10, y Wins sI lei Ger, IN Old Nir-s
GIN, After n Wing tlres NJ within
Sbpptf Y Ia Y ~ toy aad IA
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-27
Death of John Corporon.

John Corporon, father Of Mrs. ]. M.
Swaggart, died yesterday morning in
Weston aged 70 years one mouth and
three days. The funeral took place
yesterday afternoon in this city serv-
ices being conducted in the Methodist
church. Mr.. Corporon was in poor
health for some months. A portion
of the time he made his. home with
Mrs. Swaggart and with relatives in
Weston.
(Mr. John Riley Corporou was born
Sept. 20, 1888. He was united in mar
riage to Miss Arantha A. Mcclure Oct.
"a, 1851. She departed from this life
October 8, 1898. To them were born
seven children, five of whom are left
mourn the loss of a kind and efection
ate father They are, Mrs. Martha
Alice Banks, of Malheur, Ore. VIM.
Dennis Corporon, of Pendleton; Mrs:
Amy A. Van Skiver, of Weston; Mrs.
Sarah E. Swaggart of Athena and Mrs.
Eunice X. Smith, of Madras, sOre He
also leaves one sister and three BROTH
ers in the east. Mr.. Corporon united
with the Methodist church at Athena
about the year 1888, and had been an
earnest, active member of that church
up to the time of his death).