Arizona republican., 1907-07-21

Mr Bonaparte and prosecute the pres idents campaign against the trusts. Meantime. MT smith is awaiting let ter of thanks from the more famous Theodore for exposing another side of the trust iniquities.
 While the bird that lays the golden eggs has never been discovered. some thing almost as valuable turned up this week at the Bronx Zoo, for one of the two Rheas. a bird closely resembling the ostrich, has just laid an egg which is valued at no less than $500, or s6OO0 a dozen. thus breaking all records for egg prices even when the strictly fresh product of the common hen in winter time is considered. While this egg, the first that has ever been laid by a Rhea While in captivity, would doubtless make a delectable omelette. it will not be sold to any millionaire for his table but matched in a special ly constructed incubator. In about six weeks it is hoped there will be a Rhea chick added to the curiosities at the park. where things are always pro- gressing. Indeed. not content with producing such a valuable egg, the Zoo statisticians have also been inveSti- gating alligator life with some surpHs- ing results. First and foremost, the theory that alligators require some thing like a hundred years to reach any considerable size has been eXplod- ed. Even in captivity alligators reach a length of twelve feet in fifteen years. Some unique and interesting figures on their growth have been compiled which show that an alliga- tor at the time of matching is eight inches long and at two years 26 inches from which time it grows about nine inches a year in length until it reaches maturity. Easing his opinion on these figures. MT. Ditmars, the curator of reptiles. believes that the raising of alligators for commercial purposes should prove attractive.
 Evea though they do get rid of more than $1.000,000 daily for drinks, and S2.000 900 for various recreations. New Workers are not only great spenders but, according to figures. great savers as we'll and that prosperity is not con fined to holders of large fortunes. The deposits for example. in the Bowery Savings Bank. the largest institution of its kind in the world. have just reached a total of S100. .000.0 900, an evi- dence of the fact that even in the metropolis with all its attractions per sons in humble circumstances are able to lay by bit of money as they go along. New York State now has near ly a billion and half in its savings ls.r, Joe fa. or two of the New England states in its accumulations per capita. There is every prospect, too. that the import ance' of the savings banks will be in- creased progressively in the next few years. Massachusetts has recently passed legislation permitting its sav- ings banks to establish departments of industrial life insurance. issuing pol icies of not more than $500 on the lives of its s~citiZens or annuities not exceed ing sl00. The progress of this Bay State plan. which will be put into Op- eration next November. will be watch ed with great iterest by savings bank officials in the metropolis. for if there is any new wrinkle which can make d busy and beneficient institution still buster and more beneficient. New Workers want to know about it. There are, of course, people who say that the workingman won't go to the bank to get his life insured. but that he al- ways must be leased into it by a per suasive life insurance agent. On the other hand, there are many who be- lieve that the over the counter" proposition will prove very attractive to the thriftier class who line up with their pass books after each pay day to leave percentage of their wages where they know it will be well han dled