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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-27
ASKED TO INTERVENE.
Salvador appeals to Merico to Stop
HOstiLities.

Mexico City. March 26.-Mexico has been
asked 20 intervene In Central America by Saliva
dor. DR.. Baltazar Estupinian. the Minister TO
Mexico from that country. had long confer
ence with President Diaz this afternoon and at
SIS close sent dispatch TO Ambassador Creel
az Washington. The contents of the message
were not made public, but Il was thought that
ne Ambassador was instructed 10 say 10 the
United States that Mexico was ready to join
ne northern Republic in demanding that hos
t.ftleH cease
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-27
coNNEcTIcUT's OFFICERS ON TRIAL.

Fort Monroe Va. March 2s.-Captaln William
Swift. who commanded the new hattleship Con-
necticut when she struck rock or Culsbra Island
placed On trial to-day board the Conaecticue
IN Hampton Roads before a special COURT martial
Lieutenant T. Fl. Yarnell. who was officer Ot ire
deck a the time Of the accident. Will be tried By
the court on similar ehaFses Rear Admiral
Snow Is president Of the court
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-27

where the poison was kept and had seen the 10
ness use Il to poison a dog.
throughout the testimony the glrl sag suA.sn snd
mOFCSe II she had no apprehension OF hsv
danGer She took little interest IN the proceedings
The defence plans 60 90 90 the Jury with It's evt-
dence tomorrow mOrning. Dr. Granger an
alieuist retained by the defence. VIII testify that
the girl undoubtedly insane when shs
ALLEGED TO have Killed the child. but g to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-27
FUNERAL OF PoslEpoNosTsEFF.

St. Petersburg. March 2s.-The funeral Of n. Po-
bedonostsen, former ProouratOr General OF the
Holy Synod. who died March o. was held to-
day The body was buried Temporarily IN the crypt
Of the Church OF Our Lady OF Vladimir The SER
vices which were conducted by the metropOlitans
q St. Petersburg MOSCOW and KieR. were at
tended By the Grand Duke Michael. representing
Emperor Nicholas. and several Cabinet ministers.
Few Df the general public were present The Enl-
reTor. the Empress. the Empress Dowager, several
lneniha-s OF the imperial family and tho reac-
tic~z-v examinations sent Wreaths--
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-27
SURRENDER OF TEeucleALpA.

1Isnagua. March 26.-It is said on the highest
authority here that President Bonilla. after his
flight 20 Anapala, ordered the surrender of Te-
gucigalpa, capital OF Honduras, 20 the victorious
troops. The city Is now IN the possession OF
NE HOnduran- Eicaraguan government junta.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-27
plcruREs FoR CATHEDRAL TRUSTEES.

AT the monthly meeting OF the trustees Of the
Cathedral OF St. John the Divine. held yesterday
afternoon at Mendelssohn Hail. announcement was
made that the will Of the Rev. DR.. Robert J. Nevin
Tor wears rector OF the Episcopal Church IN Rome,
had beQueathed nine cases Of pictures OF cathedral
architecture to the trustees
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-27
GOVERNOR POST OF PORTO RICO HERE.

Governor Post Of Porto Rico arrived here yes
terday on the Caracas. He went 10 Washington
10 confer with President Roosevelt regarding the
affairs OF Porto Rico and the appointment OF
secretary Of the island government
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06

million bale surplus Of the 1904 crop
and yet it was selling at 10 cents.
We were told that it was the pros
pect of a short crop that caused the
price to go up. There were nearly
eleven million bales made that year
and the price was set at II cents and
We got it. So if we had surplus Of
three million bales in 1904 it certain
ly was left over and not used when
the price advanced from to 10 cents.
which would make the crop of 1905
thirteen millions bales and it sold for
II cents. The crop of 1906 was over
thirteen million bales and the middling
grade has been close around II cents
in spite of all the forces arrayed on the
bear side of the market. SO take
whichever end Of the proposition you
please, the organization by feeding the
market gradually kept the price of cot
ton from falling from five to ten dol
lars on the bale for the last three
seasons.
The ultimate object of the union is
to handle all cotton direct from the
farm to the factories. The manufact-
urers of Europe and America met our
representatives in Washington, D. c..
May 2, 1906, and much preliminary
work was done toward permanent ar
rangements whereby the producers
and manufacturers can agree upon
terms and the supply be furnished
direct from warehouses owned and op-
Grated by the farmers to the factories.
Farmers Advocate, Topeka, Kan.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06
BE CAUTIOUS IN BUSINESS.
(FarmerS' AdvOcate.)


The members Of the Farmers Union
in the cotton section know how to pro-
tect their interests Stock companies
are organized for building warehouses
and transacting the business but none
but members Of the union are permit
ted to buy stock in the company This
keeps out the enemy of the farmer
where the membership has been we'll
guarded. In Kansas where co-opera-
tive companies have failed almost in
variably it has been caused by permit
ting the undesirable stockholder to get
in and help run things. It is so easy
to cause discord that the discreet
"scab," for such he is in the union
sense of the word, cunningly whispers
to some intimate friend that this
member Of the board or that one is
getting better terms than the rest of
the members. Just sly hint and the
work is done. The weakness of
human nature is so we'll known that
the tale is easily told When will farm
ers learn like shrewd business men
to run down all such insinuatiOns
and ascertain first if they are true
and then rid the institution Of the
evil instead of knocking on his own
institution and hurrying off to the enc
my with their support? When a
"knocker" appears down south he is
fired out of the union. So you see
the safeguard is to guard we'll your
portals that no enemy enters therein
and then let none but union men have
stock in your business enterprises. Ev-
en- with this precaution the stock
should be limited and not permitted
to be transferred except by consent of
the board of directors. There is moth
ing like being cautious. Transact your
business with as much care as the sue
cessful banker and you will succeed.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06

acreage will be 93.8 per cent of nor
NAL crop; the replanting is 80 per cent.
and the lateness of the crop is "a days.
The acreage in Texas, Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory is reported to be
very large, and this may bring the to-
tai acreage within fraction of that
of last year. July contracts in New
Orleans on Monday were quoted at
1925 cents, and the tendency is up
wards. High prices will operate in in
creased acreage, but the weather is
still unfavorable to replanting and ger
mination, while the grass grows in the
fields freely.
While the prices of cotton and wheat
go up, the prices of stocks go down,
and this perhaps will be the general
tendency until more is known relative
to the great crops of the country. At
present all is conjectural All is opin-
ion, much of it no doubt erroneous.
With settled weather will perhaps
come definite reports Of the crop short
ages, for it seems to be plain that
wheat corn and cotton will each and
all be reduced by late planting and
backward g0rminatiOn.-Age
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06
A MODEST PLoUGHMAN.

When crabgrass gifts half show,
Count er some rainy days, to grow
En- fuzzes green along de row,
II aint wuth while den to try to hoe
Dat whole plantation clean.
De bes' way is de way dat's cheap.
En- l kin take a two-inch sweep,
Runnin at pint two inches deep,
En- kill out Gineral Green.
Yes; gimme sich plow as dat
N I'll hOl my upright frame plum flat
En- whar dat grass wus sich a mat
You couldn't tell whar hne'1 been at,
I'll wrOp dat cotton round
AS neat and cool wild fresh black dirt
AS a mans body fits his shirt,
En- reg 'lar-nOt right here a squirt
En- hyander grassy grOun'.
Farmers is got heap to larn
'Fo' dey gifts wut s comm to deir barn
If, std er harm hoe-hans en- harm
Plough-han's wut amt worth a darn,
Dey'd all git men lax me,
Dis countyd brag de bigges' sales
Er cOttOnseed and cotton bales,
Spite er spring drouth en- 'noctial
gales,
On dis side er de sea.
En- dis amt whoopin up myself.
De crabgrass natchly hOl' its bref
When | comes long; case dat means
def;
1t knows der amt none gwine be lef,
When l hooks up my mule.
| says dis jis' beca'se it's so.
| kinder thought yo'd lax to know.
Don't think rs tryin' to brag en- blow;
| amt no sich a fool
John Charles Mcneil, in Charlotte
Observer.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06
COTTON ACREAGE AND coNDI-
TON.

On June the government will issue
a report upon the condition and acre
age up to May 25. This will be but
consolidated guesses made by the ag-
ricultural department and its CORES
pondents, but it will probably be made
without prejudice, and for that reason
it will have some weight.
The reports that come through un-
official hands put the acreage well up
to that of last year, but all agree that
the crop is fully twenty days late. A
Memphis report says the Alabama
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06
Charlotte Observer.)

We are sorry to see that the Broth
erhood of Trainmen, recently in ses-
sion at Atlanta, adopted resolutions of
condemnation of the governors of Col
orado and Idaho for their efforts to
bring to trial Haywood, Meyer and
Pettibone, for alleged completely in the
assassination Of Ex-Governor Steunen-
berg, and appropriated $500 to be used
in their defense. The trainmen can
not afford to mix up with that aggre-
cation,
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06

The home is indeed the hope of the
nation. Some day conditions will be
such that every one who desires may
own beautiful home. What a great
people we will then be!-The Cooper
ator.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06

The Farmers Union is a great edu-
cational organization, a school for the
education of farmers in the science of
marketing and distributing the wealth
they produc1.-The Co-Operator.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06


by those who hire on schedule time,
then why not the farmer do the same?
He will be merely taking his rightful
position in the empire of business. 1t
is up to the farmer to do as success
full men do-not allow their products
to go on the market for less than a
fixed minimum price classified on rela-
tive values.
Suppose merchants tried for one
year the plan that farmers have here
tofore followed: lay in years supply
and then auction everything off in two
months-what would happen? Would
not the mercantile world go bankrupt
the first year? That is the way the
farmer has been doing He raises a
years supply and dumps it off at auc-
tion in two months. The speculator is
not to blame for buying and regulat-
ing it to demand.
The demand for the products of the
farm is constant the year round and it
is a violation of every law of business
success and principle of economy to
rush these supplies on the market re-
gardless of the needs of the consum-
ers. There is a science of commerce
the same as of chemistry and it be-
hOOves the farmer, as the feeder of
the streams of commerce, to under
stand the part he plays in the econ
omy of business.
Trust magnates understand the sci
ence of commerce and apply their
knowledge. knowledge is power and
commercial knowledge applied by the
few and commercial stupidity among
the masses has dethroned justice,
Knocked equity and torn the Golden
Rule to shreds.
1t is all question of matching con-
ditions.
1t is impossible for farmers to reg
ulate values except by concert of ac-
tiOn-by cooperation. Cooperation
is secured by educating the people to
the necessity of a method of procedure
and the opportunity offered by condi-
tiOns.
Unorganized, the people are like a
machine taken to pieces and strewn on
the ground. But, organized, with a
plan, system and a purpose they are
as a machine capable of doing eff
cient work-capable of putting into
operation classified knowledge. It is
the object of the Farmers Educatio
and Cooperative Union of America to
teach the science of controlled market
ing to the farmer that he may match
conditions as they are. It's founders
had faith in the possibility of doing so
and the results so far indicate that
their faith was we'll founded.
There are twenty-six counties in the
states of Kentucky and Tennessee that
constitute the dark tobacco belt"
This district furnishes a grade not fur
nished elsewhere. The average annual
production is about S5,0OO,0OO pounds.
Seventy nations of the earth draw
upon this for supplies. 1t costs about
six cents pound to raise it.
There was tobacco trust in Europe
and one in America. They got in each
others way Thomas w. Ryan (of
Equitable Life Assurance note), repre-
senting the American trust, went to
England to make terms with Sir
Cho YInc Mills tho hno1 20 4I,o eorosr.,,
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-06

w
On the Oath of September, 1904, the
growers met in. delegate convention
and agreed on terms and a way of
marketing. In six months the agents
of the trusts were paying nearly double
the prices they had been paying while
running the "over production" racket
as an excuse for low prices. The
raisers of this product are teaching
a lesson in the work of farmers organ
izations and exemplifying the sound
ness OF the doctrine that farmers can
control prices and take the business
Of furnishing farm products to consum-
ers out OF the hands of speculatOrs
What is one Of the greatest food
products of the world. But no one
country can claim monopoly on rails
Wheat is one Of the geratest food
ing it. 1t can be raised in most agri-
cultural countries. There is not a
month in the year that wheat is not
harvested somewhere in the world. But
We have certain sections that are pc
culiarly adapted to this cereal. The
wheat raisers used to sell their wheat
at the threSher at nominal prices to
wheat dealers, who placed it in eleva-
tors and furnished it to domestic and
foreign markets at whatever specula-
tive prices they could squeeze out of
the consumers
They were not to blame for dealing
in wheat and taking chances on it.
They were only showing the farmer
how he ought to handle his wheat
from the farm to the consumer. with
the difference that the farmer should
have scheduled price instead of al
lowing it to be game of chance and
the price the foot ball Of spectators
Millions have been won and lost in
futures" on wheat and the game will
continue till the farmers take hold of
it in a businesslike and systematic
way. Speculation adds nothing to the
supply of that which feeds and clothes
the race 1t means waste of time,
energy and substance.
The wheat raisers were vaguely con-
sciOus Of all this. But it takes concert
of action of so many people, con-
cerned only in their own little domes-
tic affairs, that it seemed a herculean
task to bring about revolution of
methods. After hard campaign of
agitation and education waged by zeal
Gus prophets of a new era the wheat
raisers began to build their own eleva-
tors and place their own men on the
boards of trade and stopped selling
to spectators at the thresher for thir-
ty-five cents a bushel.
The organization of the wheat grow
ers is only partial, and their system
but partially perfected but they have
saved the market time and again since
the initiatory efforts in this direction
from dropping to the old points where
they used to sell it. There is less un-
certainty in the wheat market than
there used to be before any attempts
were made to regulate supply and
demand at equitable prices agreed on
by the producers.
Mortgages have been paid off and
prosperity came to the north and west
with fair prices for farm products.
Other agencies than organization have
operated to bring about flush times
but an understanding Of the science
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
THE LESSON OF IT.

One might at first sight jump to the
conclusion that the peculiar accident
that befell a Philadelphia trolley motor
mar the other day, when a flash from
the controller box set fire to his collar
and seriously burned him, chiefly
teaches us the danger of wearing cellu-
loid collars. Perhaps that is one valu-
able lesson to be learned, but there is
another and more important one. The
accident produced a panic on the car.
Men and women rushed for the doors
and jumped off, and several persons
were more or less severely hurt. The
blowing out of a fuse or the flash of
fire from the controller box, as a rule,
means no danger to amount to any
thing-if you don't veal celluloid-and
if trolley passengers can be made to
realize this there will be fewer panics
when these trivial. though somewhat
startling, accidents occur. And with
out panic there will rarely be any hurt.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
DARING SEAL POACHERS
IN BATTLE WITH GUARDS

VICTORIA, B. c., Nov. 23.-Armed
raids on the seal rookeries of. the Cop
per Islands were continued this season
by Japanese seal poachers, according
to advices received by The III. NJ. S.
Empress OF India. The commander of
the Russian patrol cruiser Mandjur On
returning to Vladivostok roadstead
from a patrol cruise about the seal
Islands, which lie off the Kamchatkan
Peninsula, and the Kamchatkan coast
fisheries, reported that three Japanese
sealing schooners had raided the Cop
per Island rookeries after driving away
the guard with field guns.
A number of the Japanese sealers are
equipped with field ms and small ma
chine guns, sealers who have returned
to Victoria having seen these guns on
some of the vessels which hunted in
Boring Sea this season. 1t was also re-
ported to Warrington that an armed
raid similar to that which occurred on
Copper Island was planned to take
place at the Sepandi Fookery on st. Paul
Island in Boring Sea. with the result
that on August Is the United States
jill odilclAOp NAO
which returned to Esquimault from
that trip a few days ago, was hurriedly
dispatched north to assist the revenue
cutters engaged in the Boring Sea pa
trol.
The commander of the Russian
cruiser Mandjur reported that both
fishing and sealing vessels from Japan
had ravaged rookeries and fishing sta
tions during the season, engaging prac-
tically as pirates. The three schooners
which went to raid Copper Islands lay
to off the depot, where the Russian
rookery guard was quartered and
opened fire from three-inch guns as far
as the Russians could judge by the
fragments of the shells picked up after
the bombardment. The bornbardment
drove away the guard, and the poach-
ing fieet lowered sealing boats and
landed raiding parties, who dubbed
and killed among the seal herds for
o whole week without Interruption.
One of the officials In charge of the
guard left the rookery with q steam
and hurried at considerable risk
to Preobraheny Bay, on the Kamchat-
kan coast, where he reported the raid
ing of the seal islands by the Japanese
to the local administration. The
German steamer Dorwaerts, a. steam
freighter, under charter to the Okot-
cko-Kamchatka Trading Company,
was lying at anchor at Preobrazheny
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
KEEp THE DIARIES CLEAN.

No article of daily consumption is so
liable to carry disease to the family
as milk, if it be not produced by
healthy cows In sanitary surroundings
and purveyed in properly clean vessels.
Nothing needs more careful attention
from the health authorities than the
mich herd and the dairy. Milk pro-
duced by thoroughly healthy cows that
are kept in filthy stables. or are MIXED
by attendants with dirty hands into
vessels that have not been thoroughly
secured, is sure to be tainted, and al
most certain to convey disease germs
to the Irvington's sanitary
inspector is, therefore, to be commend
ed for his vigilance and zeal in detect
Ing and bringing to book a half
dozen dairymen whose premises were
In an ~unsanitary condition. An unclean
dairy cannot supply clean milk, and
milk that is dirty is not safe for any
use. May Irvington's inspector clean
every dairy in the town and see that
it is kept clean. The health and the
lives of all those who use the milk are
at stake.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
POLICE AND THE ORDINANCES.

Surprise was expressed by Commits
Board on Thursday that the Police De-
partment is not acquainted with the
city ordinances. In the opinion of the
commissioner there was something lax
in the department when an officer
didn't know what laws there were to
be enforced. In his opinion patrolmen
ought to be examined in the ordinances.
THE STAR has suggested a school of
ordinances for members of the Police
Department. Green men are appointed
TO the force and placed on duty without
the slightest knowledge of the ordi-
lance they are expected to enforce.
What better can be expected therefore
than that there should be a general
violation of ordinances of all kinds
within the observation of police officers.
The theory that mere investiture with
police authority confers knowledge of
the law has been held too long. 1t is
time 1t was abandoned. Policemen are
now paid good salaries and if they be-
themselves they are sure of per-
manent jobs. Every member of the
department should therefore be
to familiarize himself with the
ordinances of the city and the Police
should provide the means.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
PROPOSED POSTAL coNvENIENcEs.

Postmaster General Meyer has some
practical recommendations to make in
his forthcoming report. He will recon-
mend the establishment of a postal
savings system, a parcels post, the
restoration of the postal note for the
transmission by mail of sums less than
Sc and the simplifcation of the money
order system and the introduction and
installation of stamp-vending ma
chimes, as a convenience for the public.
A parcels post, so long demanded,
has been held up by the express COM
panies, and they viii be on hand in
the lobby at Washington next winter.
A postal savings system is practicable
only if the government can pay as
good a rate of interest as do the pri-
vate banks. The use of stamp-vending
machines would be a popular con-
v~enience. The government should place
one beside every letter-box. If the
p~ostofice business was conducted by a
private corporation such conveniences
would be furnished.