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-PRoaPER0rs

WARRINGTON. April 9.-Argentina and
Canada are rivals for second place among
the commercial nations Of the Western
Hemisphere. Both are as yet essentially
agricultural countries, and numerically
there 10 no wide difference in population.
Canada has much the larger territory and
by about 10 per cent. q greater population,
but Argentina is a little ahead in the matter
Of foreign commerce.
Although Argentina became a republic
in 1910 her life as a nation can hardly be
said to AVE begun until 1880, when a real
political unity was effected by President
Roca. He was succeeded IN 1889 by Preoi-
dent Celman. The next ten years were
o time Of disaster to Argentina, n it was
not until about 1895 that signe Of recovery
were clearly apparent. Her progress since
then has been remarkable, From 1893 to
1907 inclusive her foreign aver
aged about S2oO, 900 900 a year. Then an
upward movement set In, and last year she
passed the half billion dollar mark.
Her imports for 1908 are reported az $685.
lsA. 40, q gain Of SIT 81, A5l over the pre-
oeding year. Her exports were valued at
9S32, SAB ,s41, a gain OF $SS, csc $40 over 1904.
This makes a total foreign commerce Of
tS37, eos, 261. which is an excellent sho wing
for q country whose population only q
little exceeds 5000, 900.
Our share Of the import trade was, by
Argentina's figures, SIS $40 AS, or about
Is per cent OF the total. Germany's share
was very close to our own. while Great Brit
aims sales were a trife less han $40 900 900.
In comparison with the trade Of the pre-
ceding year American sales show q slightly
larger gain than do those OF any other
country. Our purchases are compare
lively small, being only about 5 per cent,
Of Argentina's total export. This is TO DO
accounted for by the fact that her products
are largely confined to foodstufs, Of which
we also produce a surplus for export. She
produces little that VI can use except hides
and WOOL.
Argentina has doubled her commerce
in seven years. May she double it again
in the next seveni
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ROAST DUCKS.
Historical sketch Of the Origin Of Pate
de F0ie GFas.

To THE EprroR OF THE SvS-Si-: We have read
with great Interest an article from the Kansas CITY
Journal recountinE how she torrid winds produced
By burning gas wells near there cooked Wild ducks
flying IN that vicinity, 80 that all the people had
10 do at meal times wGs to gather near the wells
and wait for the fall OF cooked ducks. thus saving
the cost and trouble OF cooking them IN the usual
WAY; and while there Is nothing especially new
about the manner OF cooking. the people eating
them must have had StomAchS Ike ostriches. II
being quite evident that the ducks had not bsen
drawn, which leads rs 20 say iGai IN ancient times.
as described by Piny and TEcltus wild geese In
nytnk around the top OF Mount veSuvius were often
baked brown. but not having been drawn were
never eaten By the peop.e. but always fed 70 swine.
oae OF these cooked geese Is now in the Naples
Museum which wAS taken from the plgSty OF Cor.
neiius Rufus. the redaAIred Cid p!uiocrat whose
house IN Pompei was destroyed In tee great erup.
ton OF vesuviuS, A. q. ~ During tae great
famine IN Rome and southern Italy n Sero's time,
when the county wAs allied vita te victorious
Roman legicns Neo had returned from foreign
osr-s, the people observed countless numbers OF
Wild geese Dying about a. very sisa elevations, bat
they could not be caught ua'u one OF tie Roman
Generals. suSpecung that she seese, IKE tie people.
must be hungry. experneniet by shooting ARROWS
ear,ed with worms Up among them. The geese
swallowed the BAR, Arrows and all, WITH great
avIdity, thus showing that they would swallow any
tainE: but bow 10 catch them Was the question. Until
one OF the wise men OF te Enp<ror'S household.
uneraeertnF tae stories told by Tacltus Of geese
being cooked BY heat from Mount NesGvtuS Goa.
suited Sero's head cook. the great chef claud,us
FlAytus. and he devised a practical means OF having
them drawn before cooking By scattering q hrre
quantity Of teAIes and chestnut ourrs on tie sides
Of VeSuvtrS- TIE geese N countless numbers
AZ once grlpSa these down, and n tie course OF
twenty four hours teeir whole internal economy.
including crop and GUARD, being absolutely clean.
be then lad an Immense quantity Of Roman caeSt-
nuS same As the Italian nuts Of the present tine
scattered arccnd the crater OF The volcano: and lbe
birds feeding on them and then flying about II tie
cot air were beautifully roasted Whine well stuffed
with the nnesi chestnut dressing, 50 that they could
be fed 70 the famine StTtckeE people. And what Is
stu rlore renArSSole, II Was found that the uve-s
Of the geese were encyS.ed Ia a sack OF tat. produc-
ing substantially ptI e 'Os sru. and when ,he
Gauls who captured Rome IN the sixth century
returned home they took some Of tais ,oothsous
food AlouS. and troa that day TIL this II has Seea
prepared IN StraSbary And vicinity II large araa.
titseS FrTgNtuE-
NV YORK. Apri >
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The Duma and the Jews.
From the London Jsrisk ChroRiel,

From the London JsrisA Chronicle.
This Is @ fateful week in the history Of
Russia and the Russian Jews. for the pre-
liminary elections TO the Duma are taking
place. The voters are electing representa-
tives In the electoral college, which will in
turn choose the members Of the new assembly.
Those who prophesied that the Duma would
never be called together. and denounced the
project as q trick devised in order TO give
the sutocracy breathing time. are thus proved
TO have been in error. The Duma will really
meet. but in circumstances Of the most de-
pressing as well as dangerous description.
There has been NO preliminary electoral
struggle such as we sre used to in countries
where a true parliamentary regime prevails.
Meetings have been forbidden. newspapers
lar Candidates have been seized by the Gov
eminent and have disappeared with the
batdinR righteousness that has Character
lied the rule Of the autocracy these many
In short, the elections have been held amid
triumphant reaction. and have been carried
3 weird obllSsto Of rife shots. The result
has been a general contempt for The Duna
boycott Of the whole scheme, In the labor
e~iectors voted. At Kadnikovo only s.
Al TIA only 50 votes we're recorded ont
ele;tions are declared to have been practically
without result. as the workmen either did
not go 10 the poll or declared q boycott
against the Duma. u report speaks true,
the attitude OF aloofress has been shared by
nearly all classes OF the populs tion-by the
peasants. by the vorkmen and by the small
landed proprtetors-though, il Is significant
co note, not by the priests.
What has been the conduct OF the few Jews
who were granted the right TO vote we shall
not know for some days. Up till the eve OF
the elections the Jewish population wss
divided on the question Of the attitude TO be
taken up toward, the Duua,. The extreme
party-the Bund-prosecuted a vigorous
csmpsiSn In favor Of b~oycotting the assem-
bly,. On the other hand, the Zionist oraani-
cation in Odessa issued q strong appeal TO
the jews OF that city to take g united and
eDerEetc part in the elections. Again, the
Emancipation OF Russian Jews decided, by a
The difficulties they must have encountered
In following this line must have been graver
even than those OF their Christian fellow
subjects. for the Jews in the poErom ridden
towns have been in mortal terror lest Their
exercise OF the franchise should provoke
fresh outra Ees.
In Odessa they have actually been threat
ened with a new a~nti-tewish campaign IL
they should dare 10 vote for the candidates
of the Constitutional nemocTat-a psrty
which has been ioired by many Jews-whila
the dsnp-at.on which has inst waited UPON
Count Witte informed the Mnis-er-Presldanr
THAT Jews in many places had been warned
inst further uoSrou7S would break out unless
they returned certain selected persons 10 the
Duna.
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A Literary Suggestion.

To TEE EprroE OF THE SrS-S- Fr-7 81
statistics as one can gather. tsrs oEE.t % = :
good place for all literary persons. L q 7s'-1i
TO all that that soothing quiet. taA! Ghs---- .:
worry as 20 where the next meal IS Euks % 90
from. that certain regularity o;eAf.IE sas---E
arising and exercising vGi-h all writer fox -.
ulAnd. Is there In an uahieuisaed and IDEAL s'i's
Fer the poet who Is timing TO hammer o-is >rc.-.
In dActylc he1au1eter. what can Be- L-A<--!
as more helpful than TIE thud. V1ud. It'd c''-'
warder's footSiep on the cement walk o-.!-' =
door For the novelisI who wishes 20 he tre- r.
ell worldly distraction. what can be ~coz.-rs. >
any freer from Il than four hLsus Va.-s A. u
iron door Oscar Wilde wrote DE- pro.-c..s- !
Reading Gaol; John Bunysn Wrote tie Pig
Progress IN prison; Don ouiIo'e.- E0--s-1
CruSoe,- Leigh Hunt's -Rr!ai.- R1leizE's r.
ing II inaccurate History o, the Word, a 49,
composed or a. least euGsRdessd dEr-s : -
OF enforced confinement. There mus y s-a
thing IN tAis. 50 ulny examples saor.t 80 -
for nAaEh,. Man : supposed 20 learn IN -
history which is behind him.
Might one then venture tie opinion "a = sr-T
oae OF or present day authors E1o : 3 rn--E ~
hard TO establish q hank account art ! s'a-:i-
American literature could be put IA "a, 80 EST
would Re hlEaly beneficial, and IN ter years A-s--t
would be sstaettcAly improved a h.re-~: 2~f
cent ne plan Looks feasible. IS 4 b-s.----S Z
Il suggested ihA' We -sead up Cyr-s -cT-ss-:
Brady TIE pen, as Tom Hood would ga. . ~.
pace tor tue teyo;ees OF the pen. K. " -yrN-
NV NoRE. April
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The Grand Democratic Mission and
Missionary.

The Hon. JOSEPH WINGATE FOLK, the
itinerant Governor of Missouri. pre-
sented a free set Of his views to the
Democratic Club Of Des Moines, Ia,
Monday night. We name only to praise
the itinerancy of Mr.. FOLK, Many
Governors stay in their own States and
lie al ease, careless of the welfare Of the
rest of the country The ardent young
Mr.. FOLK travels east and west. He
ranges from the Atlantic TO where rolls
the Oregon. He scorns ease. He con-
sents TO sleeping cars. He must circulate
as freely and widely as possible in order
that his opinions, so original, clear and
b~ene6cent, may spread through the
United States and carry comfort and
healing TO the people.
The overlivered and licentious Repub-
lican press of Missouri accuses Mr.. FOLK
Of nursing and exhibiting a boom
The charge is as preposterous as Often
sive. He travels to scatter a glorious
message of truth and wisdom, to inform,
instruct, ~enhearten and save his
trvmen. This is the fruitful thought
seed which he dropped on no rocky soil
in Des Moines:
NO grander mission can be IN store for the
Democratic party than to continue the night for the
rule Of the people against crafl and special
prtyileSes. Clothed in the Amor Of Righteous,
cause. the attack OF Democracy upon the citadel OF
graz and monopoly. II aggressive enough. must
triumph In the end, for the principles ottrue denoe'
.-., -. ..,4,,Iny herauSe they are rust ard
iuvlncib,e because they are right
Thrilling and noble words. Demo-
Gratis never want special privileges
except for themselves. Graft is pecul-
iarly Republican. The citadel Of graft
and monopoly will be the successor,
presumably, OF that foul citadel Of pro-
lection and the money power which
the Democrats were walking around
and summoning to surrender when JOE
FOLK was o and q little tiny boy in
Tennessee.
II the attack is aggressive enough,
down will come citadel. robber and all.
Not Immediately, probably, but 'in the
end This caution must win the con-
s~ervatives. FOLK. young in years, but
in sage counsel old.
Then there are the principles Of the
true Democracy; no other, in short,
than the -immutable,' essential -un-
chanSeable,' enduring and -immor-
tai" principles, the good old Democratic
abraCadabra.
We should like 10 see EN- triumph in
the end just TO find out what they
are. No doubt they are just and right;
and Mr.. FOLK is just the right man TO
write the Democratic national platform
Of 1905, though Of course the Hon.
Moses C1NCINNArrs WETMoRE will COM
pose the resolutions about trusts and
m~onopoles.
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Not Bunoo.

One Of the seven Representatives who
voted against the Hepburn bill when it
paased the House fifty-five days ago
was the Hon. CHARLES z. LrrTLEF1ELD
Of Maine. We 20 back to Mr.. LrTTLE-
YIELDS speech because that gentleman
seems to have foreseen clearly and
formulated precisely that which has
now become the main question.
Mr.. LIrTLRFIELp opposed the Hep
burn bill on three grounds, the second
being that the measure failed to afford
what the Presidents recommendation,
twice repeated, had declared to be neces-
sary in order TO conserve wise legislation,
namely, a court of appeal. The Maine
Congressman's discussion OF this branch
Of the subject vas as interesting and as
lucid as anything that has been said in
tho Senate. He summed up the legal
proposition as follows:
This bill coniers no rights OF review Of any kind
upon the courts. So far as the railroads are oon-
ssxnsd. it stops short of nothing except their con.
sutu uonAl rights. which 1, has no power 10 invade"
Nearly two months later the amend
ment introduced by the Senator from
Kansas, styled both the Long amendment
and the Administration amendment, and
variously attributed TO Acknowledgement
MOODY, Judge CowEN of Texas, the late
MARTIN FARoUHAR UPPER and others,
pretends 10 meet this objection by
making the following provision:
Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the CIR.
cut Courts of the United states TO hear and deter
mine in any such suit whether the order complained
Of was beyond the authority OF ;he Commission IN
violation OF the rights OF the Constitution
That is TO say, the Long amendment
pretends TO supply the lacking feature
OF judicial review by comforting anew
that judicial authority-to prevent the
invasion of constitutional rights-whiCh,
as Mr.. LITTLEFIELD pointed out IN
February S, already existed under the
Constitution. and which Congress had no
power TO invade by any enactment.
Yesterday Senator Lone, father or
godfather Of the amendment, confessed
the vacuum when he declared that he
was willing TO place in the bill the kind
OF review that was now exercised by
the courts in the absence of a statutory
provision We quote from the press
summary of Senator LONGS remarks.
We do not call this bunco, We merely
describe it as a graceful and gracious
concession of words which contribute
nothing but their wi emptiness toward
the sufficient jurisdiction satisfactory
to Senator ALLISON.
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Canadian Dimes

To THE EpTroR OF The SrN-Str, In yesterdays
srN Ma-relrS LcgAn ASKS about the Canadian
dine ms nuisance IS probably much worse here
IN Verr,o-, ikAn II - n ObSo. for here the Canadian
dine Is zcrepIed without question, rot ouly to
buy beer ard cigars but everywhere except at
tas post odices and banks And this applies,
moreover, 10 al Canadian money We are ottea
forced TO scce7; the biz, awkward penny. and there
Is even some Canadian paper money aosrng around
This s cu,le uavgrsl 50 near TIE border line OF the
two countries, but 10 IS rather remarkable ihat TIE
dimes should be found even in Ohio.
There are two thtnCs which. taken together,
would secopnt Cor cases IKE this. resemblance
and speed OF travelling Now. uickehs and pennies
pass as quickly from hand 10 hand as do dimes. but
the CANADIAN colns OF kese values are totally IN.
IKE the American. The quarters and dimes OF
both countries are much alike. but the former DO
rot travel quickly IN cor pAr!sou. Thus the dine
Is TIE Only piece having both these characteristics
Perhaps Ills would seco1ri for is presence IS "a,
south as Ohio.
DO DOT doubt that the rnited States Is now
contributing - much 20 tee Canadian currency
as Canada = 70 ours H. $. c.
NDDLESrEI, VT. March u.
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A Golf FooLle In the West.

What seems much like a foozle has been
made bv the Western Golf Association
in its opening drive Of the seasons COM
petitive play, the announcement Of
championship dates. The Western anna
teur championship, previously an
nounced 10 be PLAYED at the Glen Echo
Country Club, ST. Louis, June 1928,
has been changed TO July 81, which
would seem 70 be in too close juxta-
position TO the amateur championship
of the United States Golf Association.
announced in January for the course Of
the Englewood Golf Club. July lola.
That the best Western players regard the
national as the blue ribbon golf fixture
Of he year has been well established,
but the arrangement Of dates will COM
pel them 10 play only at St. Louis or else
70 come East under the handicap Of an
insufficient preparation, for practically
hey would step from the train to the
first tee TO start at Englewood. II for
no other reason. pride in the remarkable
circumstance that H. CHANDLER EGAN
has for two wears won both the Western
and the national amateur championship
might we'll have influenced the Western
Golf Association in placing its tourna-
ment on an earlier or q later date.
In the East, q suit the sentiment Of
the PLAYERS, il is the custom Of the State
and similar leagues that rank in local
powers with the Western GN ASsocia-
tion. although the latter claims jurs-
diction V e all clubs located in Buffalo.
y. Y, o Pttsburg, Pa, and also all
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MONTHLY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I. Define longitude, departure, celestial meridian,
upper branch o fuerdian. lower transit hour circle,
yerral equinox. :. Denne the following and state
how each Is measured or eckoned-Alutude an
nuth. night ascension. deelinsaon. hour anglo
celestial longitude, celestial latitude. 3. Give three
definitions Of sidereal time. What two angles does
latitude eQusi' Give proof.
1. Wha, is the greatest and least meridian altitude
OF the suns centre at Annapolis. In lat. s. &C. y.
/. Name and explain three different years referred
TO In astronomy. 5, State KepPlersiAws with New.
tons nodiheAtlonS-
1. Define procession and state briefly certain re-
quits due TO It. ,. Denne uotation and state briefly
It's effects. 5. What Is the form Of the moons
orbit It's period OF revolution Period OF rotA-
tom what Is the moons primary, Its distance
taeretrom and what IS moons diameter I. EI-
plain the lunar cycle and It's relation 70 Easter.
How should the earth appear to an observer 4
anywhere on the moon
/. Explain the augmentation Of the moons S. o,
Explain BREEZY the moons phases, defining terms
Used. ., on 8 certain day In May. about = 4. NJ.
toe moons hour angie IS ! hours east of the nerid.
ian. State the phase and quarter. 4. Explain the
reIsrdA,ion OF tie moon.
1. Deane eclipse. occgiiAton. lunar eclipse, solar
eclipse. Explain briefly. with diagram. the occur.
rence O. A lunar eclipse and the different kinds Of
q IIlAF ttApsE. - y A22' NV ohN ~ SNONA " Z
size. beginning with largest, Name them in order
o. distance nom sun, stating which are inferior or
superior planets ard giving number o. satellites
each may have.
VI
1. Dehue terms: dood tide. eoo tide. high water,
low water. Explain briefly causes Of tides and Of
tae daily Inequality OF tides :. Give the general
laws OF tides. ) Given the moons declinAtion on
February $. 1905, as y. ls' 50. ind the tine OF the
two Il. VS. a. Melbourne IN lat 81 S0 S., COMMON
establishment hours 10 minutes. which would ba
the higher OF the two udes' Noon srsnsits iI:S0
P. u.
1. Explain subject OF evening and morning stars.
Can Venus ever be seen a. midnight IN the latitude
o. Aunapons' Explain answer. ,. on q certain
day "a Nay. 1900. evening twilight. two very brilliant
heavenly bodies Will be visible, west OF the meridian
at Annapolis and close together; how may they be
known 3 When observed about the same tine
II early June there viii be seen az angular sepAra.
ton OF about - which has altered It's position
most. and which Is nearer the meridian, the sppAr.
enl F. \. OF both having Increased.
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Progress OF the Russian Elections.

The outcome Of the primary election
held in ST. Petersburg on April > cor
rohorates the deduction drawn from
previous contests at the ballot box, that
the Constitutional Democrats will have
a majority in the State Duma, or popular
branch ofthe Russian Parliament. which
is to meet early in May. The choice Of
delegates 10 the provincial conventions
must be completed by April Is, for
April ~ is the date on which the final
selection by those bodies Of the actual
members Of the assembly will begin.
Up TO March 81 the approximate re-
suit Of the primary elections in the
seven provinces wherein the first stage
Of the electoral process had been trav-
ersed was that A per e Of the dele
gates chosen were members Of what is
expected 10 be the party of the Left,
composed of Constitutional Democrats,
Social Democrats and other Progress
eives; 80 per cent. were members OF the
party of the Centre, consisting Of a
trade and industry association and OF
Octoberists, so called because they do
not desire any extension of the reforms
outlined in the ukase Of October 80, 1915.
OF the remaining p per cent. Of the
delegates 70 the provincial conventions
about half belong 10 the law and order
party and the upholders of the autoc-
rscy, and the remaining half are un-
classified. Ii was in the hope of avert
ing a further triumph on the part OF the
Constitutional Democrats that a COM
bination. or block of all their oppo-
nents was formed with reference 10 the
st. Petersburg primary election. the
Progressive Economists and October
lists combining with the law and order
and trade and industry parties 20 put a
mixed ticket in the field. 1t appears.
however. that at the ballot box many
of the Octoberists, who were the strongest
faction in the block bolted the mixed
ticket and voted for Constitutional
Democrats out Of distrust of their con-
sentative and reactionary allies. There
seems 10 be- no doubt that, thus aidsi,
the Constitutional Democrats carried at
least eleven. if not all twelve, Of the
electoral districts into which 81. Peters
burg is divided.
The ReactioniStS seem likely to be
worsted even in what they have looked
upon as their stronghold, the provincial
conventions in agricultural regions.
where they counted upon securing the
peasant vote. In the secondary assem-
hlies, however. where the peasants had
a large majority over all other classes,
they seem TO have chosen relatively few
members Of their own order as delegates
TO the provincial conventions, Thus, in
one province entitled to ~ delegates in
its provincial convention 81 are peasants,
10 landowners, II merchants, IL menu
bers Of liberal professions, IL employees,
6 priests, 3 workmen. l burgher and
) unclaSsifcd, As some of the peasants
and n or more landowners are likely