Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-06-19

Mdple-Sugar-maklng IS getting TO be
restricted industry, and may, indeed
become lost art. The Bureau Of For
estry. which has recently made a study
OF the business. has brought some inter-
esting facts to light. Since 1850 the
area Of maple-sugar ia rming has great
~ changed and shrunk. In early days
maple-sugar was made even in the
South. because cane-sugar was scarce
and expensive. In New England, New
York and few other States the in
dustry has held its own or been ex-
tended. The bureau finds that seven
eighths Of what is sold as maple sugar
or maplesyrup is spurious; but in most
cases the adulteration Is the work Of
middlemen. not Of the producers. The
! net income Of maple-sugar grove is
conservatively estimated at So an acre
and since the work can be done at n
time when there is little other farm
employment, and the grove will also
furnish the family frewood without
deteriorat ton, a sugar-orchard is a fair
ly profitable investment.
Greater secrecy than ever before will
be exercised this year concerning the
scores made at target practice by the
various vessels of the Atlantic fleet.
While some Of the details Of the re-
suits may be made public, it is not the
intention Of the Navy Department to
give out the scores. This government
has never been able to gather informa-
ton concerning the target practices of
other navies and there seems to be no
reason why the scores of our navy
should be made public. Great Britain
carefully guards all of the scores made
by her warships. Some years ago an
on1cer OF British vessel on the Asiatic
station told Of the results of the tar.
get practice then just finished. The
Information reached this country and
was published. A thorough investiga-
ton was made and the officer would
have been cOurt-martial If it had
been possible to produce positive proof
against him.
The expenditures of the government
exceeded It's current income by more
than 100000 in April, and the treas
ury deficit for the first ten months Of
| the fiscal year is upward Of $4,000
600. While the months Of May and
June nearly always show a balance on
the right side Of the governments ac-
| count books. many fear that the de-
ficit at the end Of the fiscal year, June
80, will reach $3O,OOO,OOO The problem
Of the deficit is serious one in the
opinion Of the treasury officials. The
cash balance in the treasury has de-
clined to $183, 181.777, including the
amounts held by the national bank de-
positories, and Secretary Shaw has
found 1t necessary to withdraw from
the banks $2O,OOO,OOO. The cash bal
ance actually on hand in the treasury
Is said by some to have fallen below
the point Of absolute safety.
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Beware Of the high rate Of inter-
est" is the lesson of most of the swim
dies against which the Post Office De-
partment has recently issued fraud Or
ders. An offer Of exceptionally large
returns for either labor or capital
should at once awaken suspicion. If
the enterprise is so promising, why
does not the person who controls it
keep 1t for himself? The fact that
there are few, a very few. cases
where large risks have been taken and
large profits have been realized is the
argument most used by those who
have patent rights, gold mines and 9TH
| er such properties to sell at thou
sand times their value. The person of
moderate means cannot afford to take
such risks.
In 1904 the number Of arrivals Mt
Ellis Island was 100000, the number
in the entire country being 100000. OF
these 263,51O settled down in New York
City. and the great majority of the re-
mainder went to other cities as labor
ers, etc, where they are not needed.
| 1t Is now estimated that one million
immigrants will come to this country
during the year 1905. The task Of alb
sorbing this great mass into the politi-
cal system IS one Of the penalties which
the United States pays for its unrival-
ed economic opportunities. its relief
from great standing armies, and its at
mosphere of freedom.
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| During the last year more than five
thousand rural mail routes have been
established, and during the coming
summer a thousand more will be OPEN
ed. Every route over which the car
rier takes his little packet is a thread
which binds this great, spreading coun-
try into more solid unity.
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| Expansion seems still to be the ma
tional watchwOrd. The general staff
of the army has decided to lengthen
the United States bayonet by four
inches. Still. it was dictum Of Oliver
Wendell Holmes that as nations
lengthen their weapons they narrow
their boundaries.
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