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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
TELEGRAPH POLES.
Experiments Toscard Necessary
EconOmy IN Their Use.
from The Tribune Bureau

washington Feb. Is-With the life OF telegraph
and telephone poles at its present limit. the 10000
miles Of existing lines. requiring 100000 poles.
must be renewed approximately four times before
trees suitable take their place grow. A pole
lasts IN service about twelve years on the average
hut ts made from tree about sixty years old. In
other words. to maintain a continuous supply. five
times as many trees must be growing In the forest
as there are poles in The severity OF this
drain upon forest resources by the telephone and
telegraph companies is obvious enough Just IN
the case of railroad ties the question OF pole
MY has thrust itself into prominence. To lengthen
the life of poles. and in this way TO moderate de
mand and conserve future supplies. has become a
important matter. affecting the public we'll
private interests.
Since 1902 the forest service has been making a
thorough study OF the preventative treatment OF
poles and OF the value OF the seasoning in relation
10 treatment In this work its first object has
been. in its studies Of cross-ties and construc
ton timbers. TO make the timber last long
possible. as to check the annual demand for re-
newal. and thus lessen far as possible the drain
upon the forest. Cooperating with telephone and
telegraph companies. railroads. lumber companies
and individuals. II has urged forward a series OF
experiments covering all phases OF the problem.
from the question OF the best season for cutting.
through subsequent stages OF handling. TO the final
setting OF the pole. Some Of the most important
results obtained deal with the seasoning process.
Seasoning was studied In the first place to de-
termine the rate at which poles become air dry
that Is lose as much moisture they Will part
with through evaporation in the open air The time
OF cutting was also carefully considered Expert
ment proved that poles cut in winter dry more reg
ularly than those cut at other seasons, and also
show a greater loss in moisture at the end OF six
months seasoning. The advantages OF winter cut
ting are therefore even drying. with a minimum
liability to check and light weight-an obvious ad-
vantage for shipment by freight Spring or sum-
cutting secures a more rapid loss OF moisture
at first owing 10 the temperature. but only for
three four months AT the end OF from six TO
eight months spring and summer cut poles are
found 10 have dried only three-quarters as much
as winter cut poles Spring and summer cutting.
however would result in saving in freight and in
creased dura bility II poles are TO be shipped
ting.
The second point TO be determined was the de-
sonng. This was found be very slight. aver
aging but little over O5 per cent az the butt and
O6 per cent al the top. The rapid shrinkage OF
wood does not begin until the percentage OF moist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19

ura ia reduced lower than is possible IN the case
OF telephone and telegraph poles in out of door sea
soning =,
seasoning was the third Of the problems dealt with
The experiments substantiate the common opinion
that poles soaked from two TO four weeks subse-
ouentiv season at q materially increased rate
Finally IL was found that checking in the course
OF seasOnins is not serious when poles have been
carefully cut Rapid grown timber. however. when
SO careessiy cut leave Jagged ends. was found
10 split badly at the butt and at the top. This Is
doubtless merely the widening OF cracks started
when the stick partially broke on instead or being
cut clear through.
Just how much thorough seasoning will add TO
the life OF poles cannot be told until the actual
tests are made in service. The poles upon which
the tests are being made have been set in a line
where their behavior can be compared with that OF
llnseasoned poles and will be closely watched
Jrpon n large number of the seasoned poles a test
was also made TO show the value of various pre-
servative treatments. which Is expected 10 throw
additional light on the subject of durability.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
4 DYNASTY MENACED.
GRAVE FEAR At PEKING.
isafection in Army-Mass O
People Oppose Reforms.

London, Feb. 19.-''The London Tribune's" Pc
king correspondent. in dispatch discussing the
growth OF the American boycott into anti
dynastic and anti-foreign agitation on the dis
covery that the boycott had united all parties
and all faiths into common purpose" says
AS time has advanced control has passed COM
pletely from the hands of honest merchants
TO the revolutionaries until now IT has become
q great weapon to overthrow the Manchu dy
nasty. Meanwhile the government, energized
by Japan's success, awoke TO China's low posi-
ton in the scale Of nations and instituted wide
reaching reforms. To-day the Empress Dow
ager is, under Yuan Shi Kais advice. the fore
most reforme- In the empire.
The mass OF the people believes China Is
capable Of assuming her place at the head of
nations and blames the government for being
pro-foreign and obstructive.
Yuan Shi KAT possesses equipped and dis
ciplined army. but he has been unable to con-
attempt to force a copper cent currency to re-
place the cash has proved q failure The
currency is at 90 per cent discount Hence there
IS discomfort in the army. and owing to the in
ability of the officials 10 preserve the rate of
pay which was guaranteed trouble recently
broke out at the Pao Ting-fu army headquar-
tiers between Chinese and Manchus. leading to
the murder of several Manchus.
The situation now is that II an uprising occurs
the court will take refuge in the foreign lega-
lions. Yuan Shi Kai is responsible for the
safety OF the imperial persons. and. dreading
disaffection among the troops and fearing the
proximity of the artillery, he has dispatched
force of disaffected Chinese with twenty-four
guns, out of a total OF six batteries, against the
bandits and guerillas service IN which Il will
be absolutely Ineffective.
The ice will break soon. and recent
experiences have demonstrated the impossi-
bity of transporting guns across the mud flats
after the thaw. the presumption Is that Yuan
Sh Kai has removed the danger where the
blowing up of a single bridge by the guns would
cut off Peking-
The crisis is anti-dynastic, and only incl
dentally anti-foreign. OF the eight hundred
Chinese students in Japan five hundred are
Manchus These all carry revolvers as protec-
ton against their Chinese compatriots.
Danger exists in Kwan-Tung. All the Chinese
in San Francisco are Cantonese
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
CAPTAINS STORY

Captain Abran Jones. of ia E. seth St. Los
Angeles Cal, tells an interesting coffee story.
Sho says he can be publicly quoted:
Il drank coffee all my life he SAYS land took
no HARM / thought. Till about 10 years ago.
when variety Of ailments attacked me one
First came disordered stomach, followed by
palpltauon or the heart, which very severe
some attacks lasting 4 or hours at a time
Then my bowels got out OF order and / suffered
from chronic constipation This ran on for some
years.
Finally I quit the drugs and struggled along
the best way could. taking the advice OF
friends, but never getting any better At last
was taken so seriously sick that had 20 go 10
bed and the doctor told my family could not
recover;
While 1 lay IN this condition a friend sug-
gested that quit drinking the old kind OF cof-
Zee and try Postum Food Coffee-to see what IL
would do for me. He said Postum had pulled
him through when he was similarly afflicted.
Il took his advice, quite coffee and drank
Postum. and in months time was in good
health. l was so elated at the result that / told
the doctor about II. He wasn't very we'll posted
facts at that time, and said that he did not
believe that leaving of coffee and using Postum
had anything 10 do with my improved health,
but that IL was due TO good medicine and good
advice from the family doctor. that my sick
ness had worked out Of my system the diseased
conditions that had been developing for several
years that 7 could now look forward to good
health for some time TO come. and that / had
better resume coffee drinking. in moderation.
and thus save my family the trouble Of prepar-
.ng an extra table beverage every day.
'I took the Doctors advice. stopped the
Postum and began drinking conee again. The
result was that all my old troubles came troop
ing back and was soon once more seriously Ill
Then I became alarmed. and swore or coffee
for good and ALL and resumed the use OF Postum.
and got Well again.
MY health IS now as good as IL ever was. Ny
dyspepsia is gone. ] never have heart palpita-
ton any more my bowels are IN good working
order. and all the little Ills that go with the big
ones have disappeared
1T is . years since I quit coffee and
began 10 use Postum. and in all that time have
not paid one cent for medicine"
Thers's q reason.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
SHOOTING ARRAY IN YONKERS.
Negro Letter Carrier Wounds Intruder Who
Would Enter His Home.

Fred Stevens. a negro letter carrier. OF Yonkers.
arrested in that city last night. charged with
shooting Charles Jackson. OF No. 2S6 West 62d-st.
New-York City Jackson may die. and Stevens
has been held 20 await the result OF his injuries
The shooting occurred Thursday morning. but
the police did not hear OF IL until Saturday
morning. They have been working quietly on the
case since. Stevens admits the shooting. and says
that Jackson tried 70 enter hts apartments. IN
WOOdwOrth-ave. He warned the intruder 10 go
away and when he did not do So shot him. Stevens
has been letter carrier for about two years. and
bears excellent reputatiOn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
CHINA PREFERS CASH DIRECT.
Mexico Fails in Attempt to Establish Postal
Money Order System.

Mexico City Feb. lS-The Mexican Postofics
Department has unsuccessfully endeavOred to per-
feet ARRANGEMENTS with the Chinese government
whereby a packet post and postal money order
business could be established between the two
countries especially in aid OF Chinese subjects here
who make frequent remittances TO China China
does not belong TO the Postal Union. and. 1t is In
timated. prefers direct shipments OF cash TO that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19

cison to who will follow him Senator Beverdgs
says that he expects the opposition TO choose a
Senator to reply to the Ohio Senator, but no one
on that side appears prepared TO proceed with a
set speech. and IL now appears probable that the
proposed amendments to the bill may be taken up
for consideration at earlier date than has hereto
fore been expected All interest centres In Sem
ator Forakers provision giving both Territories an
opportunity to vote separately the question or
joint Statehood for New Mexico and Arizona and
1t is not at all improbable that that point may be
reached quickly.
The conference report on the Urgent Deficiency
Appropriation bill will be made this week. but 1t
will probably cause little II any discussion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
DENIES VOTING FOR RIO JANEIRo.

Washington Feb Is.-Mr Velos Goiticoa, tho
Venezuelan charge d'affaires when asked tonight
Tor statement regarding a cable dispatch from
Caracas yesterday. saying that he had been super
seeded because be had voted have the next Pan
American Congress meet at Brazil, said:
Although IL is well known fact that took no
patt ~ the choice or designation OF Brazil as a
l!ace tor the next Pan-American conference in
subject. / emphatcalIy deny that I voted as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
A JAPANESE CREW RESCUED.
The Transport Buford Saves Thirty-seven
Men from Wrecked Barkentine

Honolulu. Feb. 1s-The United States trans
mort Buford arrived here last night from Manila
with thirty seven Japanese who were picked up
from the wreck OF the barkentine Tunamoto on
February 7 When the Buford met the Tuna
motto she was dsmasted and without provisions
The barkentine on the way from Toxic to
Marus Island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
ANrl.JEwlsH RIOT AT vIETKA.

Kiefr Feb l8-An anti-Jewish riot broke out
,odav AT Vietka q town of six thousand in
babitants near Gomel A large part OF the iowa
40 an flames and troops have been sent there
from GomeI 1t is not known whether there
,a,a anv fatalities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
GENERAL KUROPATKIN RECALLED.
Commanders of First and Third Manchurian
Armies Ordered Home.

st. Petersburg. Feb 1S.-General Kuropatkir
and General Batjanoff commanders respectively
OF the First and Third Manchurian armies. have
been recalled.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
SOCIALISTS BREAK UP MEETING.

warsaw. Feb. ls.-In pursuance of the cam
ra,on ot interference with the elections TO the
National Assembly. band of thirty social revo-
lutionists to-day invaded political meeting at
80 cir, Hall and broke II up by shouting. firing
1900 and smashing the furniture. The
thonsand electors present fed in panic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
THE SUMNER REACHES HAVANA.

Havana, Feb. lS-The United States transport
Sumner with the members of the Santiago Battle
neo Commission on board. arrived here at 4 O'Clock
THIS afternoon The members of the party are en-
5oying themselves in Havana tonight
Lieutenant General Chaffee will start for Mexico
tomorrow. Lieutenant General Young will remain
Tor some weeks in Havana. The Sumner will
leave here for NeW-YOrk next Tuesday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
BROOKLYN SUBWAY FLOODED.

A s-inch water main burst In the Brooklyn
tension of the subway. in the rear OF the Borough
Hall shortly after midnight last night and
o'clock the water was two feet deep and still
ming Tue Water Department had h.-n naiiaAi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
SHANGHAI ADvICEs REAssUR1NG.
No Marked Anti-Foreign Feeling Reported
in Northern China.

London Feb. 1S-A dispatch to Reuters Tel
egram Company from Shanghai says
Nothing is known here OF conditions requiring
the dispatch of United States troops TO China
There is marked anti-foreign feeling in
Northern Central China.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-19
MD pockeFeLLER NOT AT NAPLES.

Rome Feb ls-It has been ascertained that the
person who arrived at Naples on Thursday on
board the Deutschland and was reported oy ooi
,s,, ar Naplas to have been John D. Rookie
teller was not that man
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-07
Proportion Wheat 1904 by
osl q. e.rssy d s,ssisses o. s pse& u AfhesasfA

The acreage of Russia is ten times
as large. as that of Germany, it's i'm
mediate neighbor on the west, but the
production of wheat is only three and
one-half times as great. With a
yield equal to that of Germany, Eu-
ropean Russia would boast of pro-
duction of almost 1,300,000,000 bush
els.
And then, too, it must be remem-
bered that the black soil of the en-
tire wheat belt of Russia is excep-
tionally fertile, which makes the
small yield in proportion to the
acreage the more striking. In fact,
the Russian yield. Of wheat is found
to. be invariably smaller than in any
country with the possible exception
of Argentina, which suffers from it's
own peculiar difficulties.
It is evident, therefore, that any
predictions as to the future develop.
went of the wheat growing industry
in Russia must take into account
the general economic and social con-
ditions Of the country and Its people,
as the productiveness of the Russian
soil is most intimately connected with
the possible changes in the system OF
land ownership and the. general edu-
cational and economic progress of
the Russian people.
That the system Of land ownerships
in Russia. are: largely responsible for
the agricultural conditions is appar-
emit. During the past 40 years there
has been breaking. up Of the large
estates through purchase by the peas
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-07
AMERICAN NOT A REALlsT. I.
Rather an ldealist, !, According to
49,: e. Baron Non Sternburg:.$ II

b. t.has frequently struck me in listen
ing to impressions received in Amer.
lea BY. foreign travellers that the Amer.
lean in his deepest nature is realist
who strives for power and wealth and.
outer comfort i that the object Of his
life is to pile up the mighty dollar.
People who speak thus. seem to me
blind to everything which lies below
the Il surface. They seem to Il have:
studied the mills and actories# Of the
industrial { nters and to- have neg
!lected to reid /, or understand the
3characte ter Of the: America man or:
woman: . z= s :T45 II S=S:s n
i, Y Since my first arrival in America I
have held that the real spirits ideal;
5istic and that the average Individual
American IS cont olled by 4idealistic
impulses. Those no may contra dict
lis ne canno sonnd the depthsof
the phi alph Waldo Elmer
zsonfn stud the lie and read the
. .,pesehesz IS Abra ham. Line ln5andS con.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-07

according to the theory of the Ger
man surgeon. In the case of Lena
Wolff he believed the 'pancreas was
minus one very important digestive
essential, without which 1t could not
do it's work properly. That very i'm
portant essential had to be supplied
by grating a portion of a ductless
gland from another living person.
The child's mother readily offered
herself as sacrifice. She was per-
pectly willing to undergo the neces-
sarily painful and tedious operation Of
having part of her throat grated on
the body of her. little daughter if only
it would give Lena her reason.
The operation took place in one of
the large hospitals in Berlin, and by
the grating process one end of the
mothers thyroid gland was released
and stretched over to the exposed pan
crease of her idiot daughter.
For days neither motherr nor child
was permitted to move. To insure a
successful grating operation they
had been tightly bound together, the
child's body against her mothers neck,
and there they remained until the
severed end of the thyroid gland had
knit firmly to the pancreas, forming a
living, pulsating link between mother
and daughter. Then the link was cut,
leaving portion of the thyroid gland
grated successfully to the child's
pancreas. It is believed now that
both mother and child will recover.
The complete success of the opera
ton, cannot, however, be announced
yet, as too short a time has elapsed
since the operation was performed.
First Dawn of Reason.
But it is known that the dawn Of
reason came to little, Lena Wolf al.
most Immediately after the thyroid
gland began to knit. For the very
first time the idiotic stare gave place
to look of intelligence. She may
grow up to be a very bright young
woman.
Dr. Swale Vincent, professor of
physiology in the University of Mani
toba, at Winnipeg, Canada, has pre-
pared an extremely interesting article
on the duties of the thyroid gland, the
pancreas and other ductless glands,
which appeared in a recent issue of
the LONDON Lancet.
ut is believed" he says, that these
ductless glands manufacture and pour
or indirectly into the blood
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-07

ton in 1904 was rs per cent of Wits
ter wheat and Is per cent. of spring
wheat. Moreover, the preponderance
of spring wheat is increasing be-
cause of the extension of wheat cul.
ture into districts which do not adj
nit of winter crops. In 1894 spring
wheat constituted only 50 per cent
In the United States the line OF di.
vision between winter and spring
wheat areas run almost directly east
and west, and the winters Of soma
northern states being too severe to
permit of growing winter wheat. In
Russia the dividing line runs rather
north and south, which agrees with
the peculiar course of the Russian
isothermal lines. Thus in Poland over
80 per cent. of the wheat acreage is
under winter wheat; in ,Caucasia 70
per cent. is under winter wheat and
30 per cent. under spring wheat; in
European Russia (1904) Is per cent
is under winter and 80 per cent. I'M
and Middle Asia less than one-half OF
one per cent. is under the winter crop.
Except in European Russia these pro-
portions are fairly permanent, but in
European Russia decided tendency
in favor of spring wheat has been no.
ticed, as in 1881 the share of winter
wheat amounted to "a per cent; or,
to use a different comparison, while
the total wheat has increased 56 per
cent, the winter wheat increased.
only ~ per cent. and spring wheat So
per cent:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-07

Il 4 = l.
look OF superior mentality. n In real
life she may look like othing In par,
ticular, but judged by her picture one
might think her capable: OF writing a.
dictionary, with a feWqn oVelss and love
poems on the side. +, 3 "a: s = f. ss=
Ell: This is a clever trick of the modern
photographer. And it is not confined
to his depletion. OF the human counte-..
nance he #can do. much along the
same line. with the beasts 81 the field.
IN g recent issue Of ii farming maya:
zine there were the: portraits tof sew:
Seral cows Now, a COW liz: not an ami.
NAL sof spartic larly int lligent appear.
<ance despite the mel How, goo.goo 5ex;
preston in the eyes: 81 the average;
COW But ID hese portrait the pho:
=tographer had managed somehow til
secure a simula on of intelllg enee III
the bovine & oant enance that was truly.
sremarkabl So: Espe ally an the case So1ff
one 45 beneYo lent king, whit e-faced:
creature with injgro 3 Was|
there = happy arestl he firm upper,
lip. the strong, imlpe ous nose and thu
intel ectuali .of the IN reflective.
eye combined to5aS rive this animal The:
look COW ike
sttlll i, &
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-07

The vast wheat belt of Russia has
given rise to startling speculation as
to the possibilities of the country pro-
ducins the worlds supply of wheat
and, putting the American farmer
practically out of the business of
growing that cereal, and it is easy to
figure out that with her 49,07O,O0O
acres of wheat land, exclusive of
vast acreage in Asiatic Russia, she
could and should produce nearly a
billion and a half bushels of wheat
each year. And then let the indus
trlous statistician figure out that with
the present rate Of increase of the
wheat acreage it will not be many
years before she will have doubled
the acreage devoted to this crop, and
Russia as competitor in the wheat
market Of the world looms up ire
sistable
Russia is increasing each year her
wheat area at the expense of the
rye. In the ten years from 1894 to
1904 it was increased 1927 per cent,
to only 5.83 per cent. for rye. This
remarkable growth of the wheat area
is partly explained by the growth of
the new Asiatic wheat region. Yet
even in European Russia the same
process of gradual encroachment of
wheat upon the rye area is noticed.
But Notwithstanding her immense
wheat acreage, which is nearly one.
half of the total for all Europe, Rus.
STA produces only 1873 per cent. of
the total production of Europe. That
is of the average production for the
years 1S99-1903 of 100000 900 bush.
els, Russia could claim only 100000.
600 bushels. But we're the prod uctiv.
ity of the wheat fields of Russia as
great as that of the rest of Europe,
on the average the total production OF
wheat in European Russia would
have been about S50,0O0,O00 bushels