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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05

The greatest i~sliticsl party esnSo.
cation - the United states since i'
war oriNel-ss Wa~ held "a Chiraso ~
jane 1859. where tn~ star ~ Jara :
Garfield assembled H. the Erhtt
and mat ~ tn, : Grant Hf
below fae hortE4n There wefs 1870
ty-slx b8ifnt~ ana WAl one ar the ti
was la pv1grs@ E0acoe cNWkAnK
cha. rrnan 81 the New Nerk drirEHt
tJon he<ltated long ~ ftfe hr rast th~
vot. - the Empire stat" <ew y" i
lor8l> senator ea~ mute rns cor
vsnflor MAS impatient and got go
b. ~ClatuorpuS Finally COnkllnE yoH-
Ge*cvua#1 Ia explain a* Follows ar
words OF like Imnprt u hal dt~csx
cred that Mr. JlrmY H~iden 81 -yr4.
cuse was mcaitatinr additional 81
son uRS ruerelt a0orituE h#m trg~
10 cousumwate !f
just now ia. Republican party ls
meditating y eumuiatiN. pern0y att
IL has the time. the XII "a The Naf-
ton TO accomplish IT. II ia q sham F.
fraud. i trick "A cheat. e humbu-
ana thtp call It the max mum Rad
the minimum Il is nothing ~ Na"
world bot i phase Or reciprocity nnt.
the a.. - y has about As much lnteh-
lion Ia give the C1untrN an adVant3E
sous maximum and minimum n NJ
torney General ~Bpuaparte has - 81
before the supreme court aud swear
out a Writ Of quo Warrant" again
the moon. ana tpuire that ~luFntu"fA
TO appear before the Supreme Ren p
ana show her authority Tor r~tNardtng
the gardner with a big crop IL 'tat"f
IS H. plants in the dark OF the moon.
allowing IA" gardner who piau#s
In the light OF the moon orlA a bt5
crop Of vines.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05

paddle upon which he puts the loayeS
of dough and places them upon the
oven floor. This is on about the level
of the floor of the ROOM, and the ba-
ker stands in a pit at the front of it.
ovens are long. They have a fire
of tWigs in one side of them, 50 ar
ranged that by means of draughts the
smoke is carried away. The lOaves
are usually of the size Of a tea plate
and about two inches thick. They
taste good. The baker sells the extra
loaves, which he takes in trade and
there are bread peddlerS in every mar
ket. They are usually women, shroud-
ed in white blankets, Who hid their
faces from the men as they sell, but
nevertheless keep a sharp watch with
one eye throu"h a hole in their head
for their CHANCE
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05

NobodF objects ~ The maximum aaH
minimum 10 If Is only mixed Wlfh
wisdom ana logic. ohm sherman.
held, after he ceased % be ii fYg.
trader and turued protcrtIeaisl after
n" had dubbed tn" protected manu-
features "rohber baronE"-Johu ghtra.
man aid the best tariff we ever had
was that of 1As3-the eommtHrIsu
tarif as u Is Known. Make that the
maximum. and then make the Robert
j. Walker tariff Of 1896 the minimum.
and before the century fuInlla it4 Ern
lusirum the American merchant w#.
Tlne #lll be- greater than England
ana Germany combined. rfuEtI.I Ha
repeal our medieval navigation laH
and allow Am"rlraHs ~ #Hi uaBar
70 flag the shlpr constructed af Bel
fast and ot the clyde bg that uui
Cramps viii make just aa good and
just aS clean 20 ship as can ho found Ira
the %9r!d.
Then our foreign commerce l..
values win exceed England aud Cor
many combined. but the Republic.
patty has about an much l~ntantl..
10 do that ak 1t has 10 repeal ia. -
- gFdNliaiion. Bot uuttt that IL. did.
EHgiaEd VIII BE- the great carr.
uatloH on IN" high seas n wjE .
lone some day, and the sooner ,.
better.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05


IN, 'M'".' t'i 'h|" ~a"#A'tt..
- -. many h". t"lt' '"+" " |
-, ","t'l h,' i'N -" H.s
~ . ,'"''2 gu h'I @H
est merchant vessels Wtf. f~4H.ff....
AZ belfast ireland Gt.r... $3.50
FRYE or Gaulag.r. Gras..uaf 49, b..
zriI. If vYlI want Ia s.a. rs, tet...
Germany r. making = pr,nI 4n5ur..
in Tho world .f commerce bnt
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05

II the Democracy had "a 1arH.- .H.
JACK ana Il sage lis. I.s... .
would be done Within "a dec.
gAEJE#ED
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05
Mint JulepS Made of Tea.

Most of the other Mohammedan
nations drink coffee. These people
drink tea, and are especially fond of
1t when Favored with mint. The way
to make il. l am told. is TO put a good
lot Of sugar into the teapot and a
spoonful or 50 of green tea, together
with some min leaves. Now pour on
boiling Watec and let the stuff steep. Ii
you make it right you Will have a drink
tor the gods, and at the same time free
from the intoxicating properties Of the
mint Julep Of the Kentucky colonel.
Such liquor is furnished in
at tea houses all over this
and the Moors drink it boiling hot
sitting cross-legged on the ground as
they do so. The most of the tea used
comes from England. London alone
sending as many as twenty thousand
chests in one year In 1904 Morocco
bought of England more than seven
thousand dollars worth of
tea. and its sugar purchases then
amounted to considerably over two
million dollars in value. These people
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05
LETTERS FROM ABROAD
- -s..ts by A. VI. STACK.
Copyright 1906 by II. J.. Reasley)
No. g..


" Onderful, Wonderful PariS-The
Beauty ana Dress of the Women
n the We'll GrOOmed Appearance
az the Men-Pieasurc the God and
Sensual Ideals Grip the Whole Pco-
ple-Drinkcrs Sit Before the Cafes
and Watch the ThrOngs and the
IHrOngS Watch the DrinkcrG-
Money Must Run Like Water.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05
Uncle Sam in Morocco.

CONTINUED from Page One.)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05
American Machinery.

Inc Morocco of today offers but few
opportunities for the sale of American
machinery. As to farm implements,
the people are too poor to buy any
thlng that costs much. The country
IS divided up into an infinite number
OF small holdings, and all outside the
o1lclaiS and chiefs n mechanics live
rom hand to mOuth The tax gath
erers also attempt to collect one-tenth
of all crops
Labor here is backward as in the
rocco logs are sawed into boards by
hand. and thrashing is done upon well
floors with fails or by tread
ing the grain out with horses, cattle
or mules. 1t would be impossible to
carry a thrashing machine through
the country for the lack of oad and
IN many localities it would be difficult
10 supply the fuel to run it.
Saddles and harness, such as we
nave, are in no demand, and the hard
ware used Is of the cheapest home
made variety. There are some sewing
machines in use, but the favorite ones
are those run by nand. There is some
sale for mirrors, darning needless and
sewing needles. These, as well as
nails and Wire, are now sent in by the
Germans. Much of the Moroccan
earthenware is home-made. Some
china is imported. and also many of
the drinking glasses in which tea is
served.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05

We have an enormous foreign trad
with Europe. but il y practically mad
W Of raH materials That we export
the chef item cotton in tho bale
Among the manufactured" products
that these ~jugglcrs OF trade statistics
MAKE up is pig copper and
it is a big item; but il
IL one OF the crimes ~ pro-
lection. To il.ustrate-it is universal
Is held by bucolic couomis that II
is bad husbandry on the part u tn"
farmer to sell corn a. corn. He sh'Eld
turn II into beef or pork ~hi"h af@
the finished products Of corn. Ana =
is JUST a. bad economy 10 send pig
OTper out Of the II sneuId
be fashioned into wire and ten nous
and other things that are made OF cop
PER before il leaves oar shores Ger
many takes enormous quantities OF OIr
pig copper. 50 does England. 1t is
raw material. and II i the worst sort
Of policy 10 export raw material. The
American people are the most cxtcu-
siva exYorters Of raw material in the
world. simply and only because a rob-
Der tariff makes the price Of manu-
featured articles IN America 70 nigh
that 4 free trade coun'ry k Eng
land is the worlds oTkshop. So far
as what VIC Know as foreign trade *
concerned.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05


There IS nothing clearer IN politics
than thai the tnrin as It now exists
is exactlY trimmed 10 the abstraction
Of the governing forces Of the ltcpub-
lean party. II IS n tariff for prot"e-
ton with incidental revenue. u
unconstitutional III that so per cent.
Of the duties laid" werr never in-
tended 10 be collected. II Is dishonest
in that il taxes the great mass t.
make erotesqucly bloated With wealth
the small class. Andrew Carnegie !
n child Of the tariff 81 is Hgrf"
Thaw. Not only Is the tarin disho1-
est. but it is sectional. Th" Western
farmers grain Is protected from cana
dian Whcatfii he votes the Republican
ticket. The southern planters cotton
is unprotected from the pahp"r cot
ton Of Egypt ana india hc votes tho
Democratic ticket. For the same raa-
son the wheat grove has free bind
ing Irvine for his crop, Whll" cotton
ties for baling are taxed. not 10 luIt
revenue into the United States Treas
ury. but TO put moncy in the steel
trusts Golfers. Twenty years ago In"
tim plate industry was not half 80
promising as the growing Of tea MA
South Carolina i today. They put al
enormous protection on the plate for
the advantage of the rich Common
wealth of Pennsylvania. but the q. ..
=. would sooner nut u tariff on sun
shine for the further enrichment Of
Jno. y. Rockefeller than to encourage
tn" tea planters Of south Carolina 10y
a duty on foreign tea.
This here maximum and minimum
they have dug up Will have Ia meet
the approval Of Joseph G.. cannon, q
Ways and Means committee of his 9"-
lection. and the majority sid Of a
stGndpat Congress. Then ii Viii have
to be trimmed 10 the notion Of Nj
son A. Aldrich. Eugene Hale. Joseph
b. Foraker. julius Caesar Burrows,
stephen h. Elkins. and the other
stand-patters in the Senate. Next II
viii be proposed 70 leave the making
of a platform for the Prohibition
party to Il committee Of saloon keen
ers. Reforming the tariff by its
friends" is precisely like going 30 the
p~enitentiary to select a jury Of en-
bezzlers to try a criminal guilty of
forge3y. No abuse was ever yet r.
formed by Its friends To borroN "a
striking figure from Parson Brown
the Republican party VIII reform
tariff when King edward VII
consents to be divorced from Queen
Alexandra BY decree or "A court OF
sessions in Souih Dakota.
Already Speaker cannon has said in
effect hat the present tariff shall be
he minimum, and ar. McCieary. the
Doldest and the sinCereSt stand-patttr
IF the entire layout. has a maximum
and a minimum bill k the DlnR-
.oy law the minimum. John Dalzell
sam Mccall are further apart, If
possible. on tariff revision than Ihco-
lore Roosevelt and Joseph Il. Foraker
are on the disturbance"-at Browns
Vile. Massachusetts wants free hides:
and the beef trust Will turn free
raiders il hides are made free. South
asks for free lumber, MichI-
yan( Wisconsin, oregon, and Washing
ON Will turn free traders If lumber
Evening star., 1907-08-03

rectsd this home before her husband en-
tered the cabinet and her experience with
immigrant girls has enabled her to give him
advice concerning the many excellent re-
forms which he has already made in the I'M
migrant service. The institution Is known
as the Clara de Hirsch Home for Working
Girls and 1t was placed under Mrs. Straus'
direction by her friend the late Baroness de
Hirsch, who endowed 1t. Its purpose Is not
only to care for and protect immigrant girls
after they leave Ellis Island. but to serve
as trade school for poor young girls over
fourteen and also as a comfortable home for
self-supporting girls between fourteen and
twenty-one
Open Separate Home.
It's work with immigrant girls became SO
extensive that year or two ago a sepa-
rate building the Home for Immigrant Girls
had to be opened. Here are taken girls who
have no relatives and who would most likely
be deported by the Ellis Island authorities
unless assured such protection. The new
comers are here comfortably housed until
their relative in this country are found or
until employment is secured for them. No
girl after entering can visit even a relative
until thorough investigation Of the rela-
tionship has been made. During the first
year after leaving the home each girl Is
visited by young woman engaged for that
purpose and report Is made Of the con-
ditions under which she is living. Mrs
Stratus is thus kept in touch with each girl
who is sent to her from Ellis Island. Twen-
ty-two settlement clubs organized in the
neig'hborhood Of the home meet in tho
building A penny provident fund has been
established and the privileges Of an outdoor
gymnasium secured. Summer outings are
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been its president since 1890 Like Jacob
Riis, his friend. he came to New York a
penniless, German lad when seventeen
| years old. At first he had to live on 81
| per week. and during this tme he tells
| me, he came to know the sufferings and
wrongs the poor have to bear through
Today as member Of prosperous Wall
street firm he Is realizing the dreams OF
/ his youth in serving the unfortunate not
| only without reward, but at great personal
| expense Of time and money. When Theo-
, dore Roosevelt was police commissioner Of
New York he came into intimate touch
with Mr. Won Briesen and their work to-
| gether among the poor was the beginning
Of close friendship. Mr.. Roosevelt Ia
still a vice president Of the society. as
are Joseph Choate. Andrew Carnegie and
ganization of this enterprise in New York
similar legal aid societies have grown up
in Boston. Chicago. Philadelphia, Newark
and-quite recently-in Washington.
Starting Immigrant Girls Right
To start the immigrant girl properly in
the new world is a task much more DELI
cate than that which Is met where men or
adults are to be dealt with Each ship
load of immigrants arriving at our large
ports OF entry appears to be met by
class OF criminals whose chosen business
Is. through false promises of honest en-
pioyment, to lead unsuspecting peasant
54iio iloH lOTelSH CHIMES into DrOthefS,
where they are ruined and degraded To
protect such innocents from these white
slavers" there are now about fifty mis-
sionaries in constant attendance at the
Ellis Island immigrant station. They rep
resent as many societies and sects now
maintaining temporary homes for immt
grant girls. One Of the oldest of these is
the Immigrant Girls Home maintained
by the Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Miss Matthews, the missionary for this
particular institution, has continued in this
work for more than twenty years and is
an expert In seeking out friendess girls
and caring for them until their future has
been settled. About hundred girls arrive
each month at this home which faces
battery Park. For communication with
the new arrivals who cannot speak Eng
ilsh an ingenious sign language evolved
by long practice. Is used at this refuge.
But knowledge of English and of some
galnful occupation Is a prerequisite to the
success OF the newly arrived Immigrant
girl; and there are several Industrial homes
for this purpose One Of the most success
full OF these Is that presided over by Mrs
oscar Straus. wife of the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor. the member Of the
PRESIDENTS cabinet who has charge of the
entire immigration service. Mrs. Straus d.
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also given and a model employment agency

maintained.
Immigrant girls who are orphans or whose
parents are unable to support them are re-
ceived in the trade training department OF
the main home as resident pupils. Here
they receive, gratis. board. lodging and tuI-
ton in hand sewing, sewing machine oper-
ating. dressmaking, millinery, domestic
science, reading. composition. spelling
grammar. geography. history and arithme-
tic. Self-supporting girls between fourteen
year are boarded and taught at this home
upon payment of So per week and day put
pills are taught for 81. The institution Is a
Jewish non-sectarian home. Girls of all
denominations are received, but all food Is
prepared according to the tenets of he Jew
ish faith.
The Jews are doing better work in start
Ing their immigrants Alright than any other
class represented in America. In Philadel-
phia they have organized a school whose
special purpose Is to educate their imm.
grant kinsmen in the language and Con-
students to be seen here on any day range
from children to gray-bearded men, who
come from the sweat shops. the factories
or squalid homes in the sums. The read
ing ands writing Of the words of our
language are taught by aid of blackboard
exercises and text books. After having re-
ceived this elementary training they are
required to study the Constitution a para
graph at a time, reading it from black
board and learning the meaning and pro-
nunciation Of each word Gray-haired men
and women are seen In this school seated
alongside youngsters young enough to be
their grandchildren, and all appear to have
an Unsuitable appetite for knowledge Two
years ago former Assistant immigration
Commissioner McSWeeney in an address
before the National Geographic Society
paid this tribute to the Jews: During the
Evening star., 1907-08-03

Use OF the fuel in submarine boats or
other hazardous places and the superior
safety Of alcohol must lead to its ultima te
adoption. If a can of gasoline be left open
near flame, it Is likely to explode by the
ignition Of its vapor. This could never oc-
cur with alcohol. Then, again. water is
useless to quench burning gasoline, serv-
ing only to spread the fire by floating the
burning liquid Alcohol can never present
this danger. for 1t mixes with water in all
proportions, and in SO doing becomes nom
inhammable
During the past year 1463 vessels Of
5l0.s65 gross tons were built in the United
States and officially numbered by the bu-
reau of navigation. Ship construction in
1883 aggregated $50, $50 tons and in 1854 it
was only 53S.046 tons In those years the
tonnage built in the United States greatly
exceeded that of Great Britain. In the past
fiscal year steel steam vessels built In the
United States numbered 122 of $50 665 tons,
by far the greatest tonnage of this descrip-
ton in the history of the country and about
one-ffth OF the tonnage built in the united
kingdom. OF these steel steamers Al Of
Fifteen new lake steamers are each over
z 900 tons. In 1903 the largest vessel built
on the lakes was 5000 tons.
Last year the British post office telegraph
was operated at loss of over Ell 600 600
although the receipts for the year were the
largest ever known. reaching a total of
S20.57S.SS0. A review covering thirty-seven
years is included In the return and shows
that the total loss on the service during
that period has amounted to $7l359. 135.
In the process of making gas pipes out of
paper Manila paper cut in strips as wide
as the length of the pipe to be made Is put
into a receiver filled with fused asphalt
ana rolled soiidly and uniformly around Q
Evening star., 1907-08-03

Copyright. 1907. by John Elfreth watkins)
Special Correspondence of The Star.
NEW YORK. August 1, 1907.
UST for starting our immigrants Alright
hundreds of thousands OF dollars are
now being spent in this country. No
better missionary work IL being any
where engineered by American
brains, and when I say American brains
should add that the most active work along
these lines seems to be fathered by natural
ized citizens-Yankees by adoption, who
have themselves run the gantlet which
every alien must run after landing in the
land OF the free
The wise saw which sayeth. "as the twis
Is bent, so will the tree Incline" applies as
we'll to the newly-landed adult immigrant
as to the child. The new world is a new
life and the aliens first Impressions here
shape his future character. Moreover,
transplanted organisms are more suscep-
tible than the native. The newcomer
whose first initiation into the new world is
a cruel fleeing becomes excellent seed for
future anarchist crops.
Free Legal Aid.
The alien who finds himself feeced in
New York soon finds his way to one of the
Offices of the Legal Aid Society. There are
five OF these free law offices distributed
about the metropolis, that known as the
East Side branch having the largest I'M
migrant practice. Besides the attorney
general who oversees the legal work of the
entire society. there Is an attorney In
charge Of each office. and under him one
or two assistants. All Of these salaried
lawyers are under agreement not to do any
outside legal business while in the employ
of the society. Every client lodging a COM
plant with the society IS supposed, if able
to deposit a retaining fee of 10 cents but
more than q third because of extreme pow
erty are not required to give even this pit
tance. Sums under IS collected free,
but 10 per cent of amounts above that sum
goes into the treasury of the society and
helps to support the work. This revenue
amounts to less than 5000 a year, although
more than 2DOo0 cases are being prose-
cuted annually The main support Of the
enterprise is the fees Of patrons. members
and associates who pay 800. S20 and $40
per year. In the thirty years of It's exist
ence the society has prosecuted more than
quarter million of cases and has recov-
cred for its poor clients more than a mil
lion and quarter of dollars
The success of this enterprise has been
due to Mr.. Arthur Won Briesen, who has
Evening star., 1907-08-03
How Our Jews Are Distributed.

How Our Jews Are Distributed.
The American Jews have worked out a
perfect system for the distribution of inn
migrants of their race among the parts OF
the country where they are most needed.
Every day. except Saturday and Sunday,
numbers of them are sent from the New
York ghetto to various states by the Jew
ish Removal Society, which Is under the
charge of that great fraternal order known
as the B,nai Birth. which has lodges In all
Of our cities and important towns. Through
these loiges the needs and opportunities
of different localities, the trades in which
there is a demand for workers and the
number of persons who might hope for
employment there are reported to the Of
basis of these reports that men and women
ere sent out to supply the demand There
is not state or territory to which Jewish
workers have not thus been sent, and these
have been distributed in more than 500
towns and cities, although the work has
been going on for only six years. Where
fathers are sent out in advance reunion
with their wives and children Is generally
arranged for at the new home within
four weeks time. AS soon one family
is established 1t sets to work to OBTAIN
promise Of employment for friends left
waiting in the ghetto of New York. Were
terprising there would be no need for Mr..
Terrence Powderly's office Of information,
newly organized at the Immigration
bureau, Washington. for the better dis
tribution Of immigrants throughout the
country and for the draining of New
Works. stagnant catch-basins Of idle i'm
migrants. JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.