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CROPS OF UNITED STATES FOR THREE YEARS.

the famous Dr"adnOught, Of the Brit
ish navy. and % per cent more effec-
tiv" in gun-fre than the latter. The
North Dakota will be $40 feet long.
1t is already figured out that the
launching will take place next October,
or in ten months from the time of the
laying of the keel. Although the keel
was laid only recently the North Da-
kota is regarded as nearly s per cent
finished. Long before the keel blocks
were placed in position the ship was
completely laid down in the mold-loft
and over so per cent of all the plans in
the construction Of the ship were de-
velOped and approved.
The North Dakota is a sister ship of
the Delaware, how being built at New
port News.
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Money is suffering from bad circulation.

Money is suffering from bad circulation.
Pennsylvania miser who spent only 3
cents last year is dead. He just couldn't
bear the increase in living expenses.
An Aurora (Ill.) physician has discov-
cred that peanuts are beauty diet. This
ought to be circus for some people.
An Eastern banker says, I'VE want
more common sense. We want also more
dollars, which are not so common now.
If prices of bread and meat keep on
coming down, pretty soon the average
man can afford to eat three meals day.
Chief Sprybuck, the Indian who drank
a quart Of blue paint, is carrying the
decorative interior" fad to an extreme.
With 100000 divorce suits in ten
years, the United States is plainly in need
IT national Stay Married Association"
Secretary Cortelyou is trying to inn
pl ess as with the fact that stockings were
made to be worn and not to hoard money
in.
James ]. Hill says the railroads need
billions of dollars. From present pros
poets, it will be some time before they
gel en-.
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Expert Declares the Boasted Fight.
ing Ships Are Merely Death
Traps.
ARM0R BELT IS TOO Low.
Defects in Construction Pointed
Out and Promotion System
Is Scored.

Henry Reuterdahl, associate of the
United States Naval Institute and
American editor of Fighting Ships"
is the author Of a startling article on
The Needs of Our Navy in the Jan
nary McClure's. Mr.. Reuterdahl's ex-
pertness ON naval matters is not dis
puted and neither is his patriotism.
He agrees with President Roosevelt
that navy must be built land all its
training given in time of peace" and
with this in view he exposes defects
In our first-class battle ships and ar
them useless as a efficient units in a
fleet on heavy sea and in real action.
Mr.. Reuterdahl's criticisms appear
to be the more amazing on account of
the contention that most, if not all of
the weak points he emphasizes, will be
acknowledged by sea-going officers, "or,
IL the reader is sufficiently interested,
by the testimony of his own eyes"
His principal points are the follow
ing:
That the shell-proof armor of the
American battle ships is virtually be-
low the water line where it will do no
good. leaving the broad side of the YES
sci exposed to the shells Of the enemy
That this defect has been pointed
out time and again; that other nations
years ago recognized it as fatal and
now have armor wrapped around the
sides of their war vessels from five to
seven feet above the water line.
That, despite repeated accidents on
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-02
AHOOZS
9LLEaEs

Replying to this declaration, Mrs. John
S. Crosby, president of the Womens DEM
ocratic Club of New York, points out that
there is little in the training OF children
that the man, as well as the woman, ought
not to learn, and that il womankind were
restricted to the rearing and teaching of
children she would be deprived of many of
the best opportunities for learning how to
do that very work.
President Wilson of Princeton, in a
bold address before the convention of the
Association of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools at New York, got after the pre-
yailing school and college methods with
sharp stick. lie declared that educators
had missed the true inner meaning OF ed.
ucation, that we have forgotten to assem-
bic its elements, and that we have forgot
ten to simplify our methods" Education,
as distinguished from technical training,
should be based on three principles: En-
lightenment, orientation and discipline"
by orientation he meant the power to or
ganize oLe's knowledge and see things
with perspective. What our age needed
most was the dreamers and creators. Mere
information did not educate, and it might
impede the mind.
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eridge reduced the time limit of sena-
torial apprenticeship by speaking after
three months occupation Of Senate
seat. Davis purpose to establish a
new record had been widely advertised
and there was large crowd to hear
him.
In 1893 Davis was Attorney General
of Arkansas and, while in this position,
secured the Democratic nomination for
Governor. Although bitterly opposed
by practically every newspaper in the
State he was elected by one Of the
largest majorities ever given in Ar
kansas. Three times he was elected
Governor. He is of n restless, nervous
temperament, devoted to his family, an
enthusiastic lover of books and keen
student of men. He is of fine appear
ance, being over six feet tall. His
daughter is his constant companion and
stenOgrapher. Senator Davis is a
nephew of the illustriOus SOutherner
whose name he bears.
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FARMING IN A DESERT.
There Are Colonizing Possibilities
Even in Death Valley.

The craze of demonstrating which is
seems to have reached its limit in the
choice of Death Valley as colonizinG
possibility. With the idea of trans
forming the most arid and most desc
late portion OF the great American des-
ert into farm land, number of tracts
have been homestaked, irrigation sys-
TENS have been planned and other
preparations are now in progress for
beginning the reclamation of Death
Valley. A railraad is already built
from Greenwater, ut the southern end
OF the valley, to the borax works owned
by the celebrated "Borax" Smith of 20
mule team fame, and there is ~ auto
mobile stage line through the valley
Even enthusiasts DO not claim that
piping water from Telescope Peak
across the Funeral range into the val
ley Is also uadcr consideration
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NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.

The President sent to the Senate the
nomination of Frederick III. Magdeburg
to be pension agent at Milwaukee.
Representative Ansberry of Ohio intro
duced bill providing for the survey OF a
ship canal to connect Toledo and Chicago.
A bill making it felony for a national
bsnk or any of its officers to speculate
with the funds of the bank was intro
duced by Representative De Almond Of
Missouri.
The commissioner of Indian affairs, in
his annual report, urged that laws be
PASSED giving the more progressive In
dians greater freedom in the management
Of their affairs.
Secretary Metcalf sent q letter of re-
proof to Justice Delacy of the Juvenile
Court, who recently discharged q boy ac-
cnsed of theft on condition that he en-
list In the navy.
The Ohlson- Mahoney Lumber Company
of San Francisco was the lowest bidder
On 100000 feet of lumber for the 18th.
n.ian canal commission, Offering to deliver
ii for S124,3T2.
O1 new 1DrK
rtintroduced his inheritance tax bill so
amended that one-half of the tax collect.
ed should go to the State and the other
to the government.
Word was received from Pensacola,
Fla, that Senator Mallory, who is seri-
eusly Ill there, would not be candidate
for reelection, and planned to retire from
public life on account of his health.
Robert L. Owen and Thomas p. Gore,
the two new Senators from Oklahoma,
were sworn in the other day. Senator
Owen, by lot, secured the six-year term,
and Senator Gore the two-year term
Oct. II will be a national holiday,
known as Discovery day." in honor of
the discovery Of America Oct. IL. 1892, IL
Q bill introduced in the House Of Repre-
ssatative Goulden Of New York becomes
Q law.
Representative Burgess Of Texas intro
dacod a resolution calling for the appoint
nAnt by the President Of banking and
carrsncy commission to hold public hear
tAgs in New York, Chicago and other
large cities.
Representative Mckinley Of Illinois In.
troduced bill appropriating $4,000 a
year for each of the land grant colleges
maintaining schools of engineering, in nd
di,ion to the $4,000 annually now given
to the agricultural experiment stations.
A resolution charging the Secretary Of
Agriculture with inaccuracy in estima ting
this years cotton crop, and calling on bim
to furnish TO Congress ''the figures and
the information upon which he based his
estimate" was introduced in the House.
4 bill creating in the Department Of
Commerce and Labor bureau of trans
portation to take off the shoulders of the
Interstate commerce commission all save
the larger matters requiring the exercise
Of the judicial function was introduced By
representative Stevens OF Minnesota.
Representative John Sharp Williams Of
Mississippi introduced the old Blaine bill
to admit into all ports of the United
States free of duty all products of the
American hemisphere upon which no ex-
port duties arc imposed, whenever such
nation shall admit to Its ports free GER
tain United States products.
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JEFF DAVIS DEBUT.
Arkansas Senator Delivers Maiden
Speech

Breaking all traditions and prece
dents, United States Senator Jefferson
Davis. Of Arkansas. addressed his col
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TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS.
Government New Building Largest
in the World.

Coincident with the departure Of the
Atlantic fleet for the Pacific, there was
laid down in the Fore River shipyard,
at Quincy, Mass, the keel plates Of the
battleship .Iorth Dakota, which Is ex-
pcctcd to be far more powerful than
the most effective ship now under the
command Of Rear Admiral Evans. The
biggest vessel in the Pacific bound feet
is OF 10000 tonnage, but the North Da-
k0ta will be Of 10000 tons displace-
ment; nearly 1000 tons heavier than
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-02
1900, 900 Christina. Trees Year.


In discussing the effect on the forests
of the country by the use of Christmas
trees, of which it is estimated that 4,000,-
600 are used each year, Clifford Pinchot,
United States forester, says that the eff
feet is ininitesimal compared with the de-
struction caused by forest fires and waste
full numbering If planted four feet apart
these trees would be grown on less than
1,4O0 acres. He says that trees suitable
for Christmas trees do not grow in the
old forests, where reproduction is most
important, but in the open, and there is
NJ more reason for an outcry against
using land to grow Christmas trees than
to grow flowers. According to Mr.. PIN
chot, the center of the Christmas tree in
dustry lies in the big cities of the East.
New York City and the New England
States consume 100000 trees, or nearly
one-half of all the output Maine, New
Hampshire, the Berkshire Hills, in Mas
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-02
Government Fi2aI Estimate Shows
Grcat Decline in Cereal
Production.
PRICES MAKE FARMERS HAPPY.
They Will Get Half a Billion of
Dollars More This Year
than Last.

The government report shows a
shortage of 7S5,9S7, 900 bushels in total
crops as compared with the crops Of
1906, which were the largest ever raised
In this country, and a shortage of ST.
2S7,OOO bushels as compared with the
yields of 1905, which were also very
large.
The chief shortage is in the corn
crop, with 335,O00,OOO bushels. oats
with 211,OCOOOO bushels and wheat
witt 101, 100000 bushels.
There is something of an offset to the
big losses in the feeding grains in the
increase of G,431.C tons of hay as
compared to that of 1906 and of
3,O4o,3SS tons as compared to the crop
of 1905.
Prominent features of the final reyis-
ion Of its crop estimates for the year
by the Department of Agriculture were
the increases made in the reports of
area seeded to spring wheat, corn and
oats. In each of these particulars rs
well as in the estimated weight of
spring wheat and oats the official re-
ports ran more or less counter to the
general impressions of SPECTATORS In
few instances, such as the weight of
oats, the figures given were at variance
with all the experiences Of the trade
Tor the year to date.
Figures of the Report.
The report gave final estimates of
acreage, production and value of farm
crops, showing winter wheat acreage
to be 2S,132, 600, production 400, ,442,00O
bushels and value per bushel 49, cents.
Spring wheat acreage was 17,O1900O,
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leagues on trust
control Of busi-
ness after nine
days service. Up
to a few years age
it was an unwrit-
ten law that no
Senator should adj
dress his fellows
in Il set speech un-
less he had served
at least one term.
Then Senator Rev.
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sachusetts, and the Adirondacks and Cats
kills, in New York, are the sources of
supply for New York, Boston and Phia-
delphia, and even Tor Baltimore and
Washington. The swamps of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota furnish the
markets of Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis and Detroit, while the local demand
throughout the central West is mainly
supplied by nursery-grown Norway
spruce.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-02

The Senate was not in session Thurs
day. Prime interest in the session OF
the House centered in the announcement
by Speaker Cannon of the appointment
of the various committees. Many bulls
Of Importance were introduced. An un-
successful effort was made to block the
erection of the statue to Gen. Grant al
the expense of a number of historic trees
Adjournment was taken until Saturday,
The Senate, at the instance of Mr.. Tel
Ter passed bill Saturday. suspending fol
the year 1907 the requirement that $lOC
worth of labor shall be done on all min
ing claims in course Of perfection. Sena.
tor Cullom introduced joint resolution
providing that the presidential term shall
be six years, and that the President shall
be ineligible for reelection. 1t was lie.
ferred to the Committee on judiciary
Senator Scott introduced joint reso!u'
tion providing for a commission to inves
tiGate recent mine disasters. Senator
Warner introduced bill creating the
rank of vice admiral in the navy. Ad
tournament was taken to Jan. 6. The
House was in session but twenty minutes
most of the time being occupied by a pro
test of Representative Gaines against ad
journment over the holidays. Adjourn'
ment, however, was taken until Jan. g.
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production 224, ,G45 GOO bushels and val
ue SO cents.
Corn acreage was 99931 900, produc-
ton 1852 100000 bushels and value
61.7 cents.
Oats acreage was 81, 1897 900, produc-
ton 754,443, 600 bushels and value AIS
cents.
1t was announced that the total val
ue of the farm crops for 1907 was $3,-
4O4 100000, an increase of S42S,OOO,OOO
for 1906.
The farm value on Dec. I Of the four
crops already mentioned follows: Corn,
81 $40, 10000; winter wheat, 1861 ,2l7,-
600; spring wheat, $193, 10000 oats,
1884, ,56S, 900.
The comparative prices for the grain
crops for the past three years follow:
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WORK OF
CONGRESS

Resolutions were introduced in the
Senate Wednesday by Senator Tillman
asking the interstate commerce commits
sion to report whether any corporation
engaged in interstate commerce was the
owner of the stock of any other corpora
ton transporting passengers and freight
and calling upon the interstate commerce
commission to define the authority of the
federal government and of the States in
respect to the control of the liquor traffic
through the operation of the interstate
commerce law. Senator Culberson spoke
on his resolution calling on the commit
tee on finance to investigate and report
upon the cause of the present financial
stringency. The resolution was referred
to the committee on finance. The House
was not in session.
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DIED.

M0LAN-suddeul-. on Tuesday February II. lqB.
MICHAEL G.. NOLAN. u the Hft. eighth year
q his age.
Notice q funeral. winch viii take Place from his
late residence sig E~elfth street northwest, VIII
arpear IN evening raIFrs
MiLLS-suddeHly SUNDAY. February 2. Iqs. at
o. NJ. WILLIAM FILLMORE MILLS.
Funeral private
MILLEB-on SUNDAY. February 2 l5s ~ $40 a.
H.. al his residence. 30 Brrhtua0E avenue
after a lOn5 Illness. FERDINAND beloved hus-
hand Of ha=gaTctha Miller. and father uf Charles
Prank, William, aud Frances Miller. aged hst--
eight years.
Funeral services "Wednesday. February T. ar 9.l
a. m,, ~ the Chu1rB CT the ImmacilaIr C0HCeu-
ton. Eighth sud streets northwest. where
requiem high mass sin b. surg for the reross..s
bis soul. iutemeut in Mount Olvet gemeter-
Relatives and friends invited. baltimore and
Wheeling papers please cCry.I
QUANTEELi.-Ou Sunday February Q Iss az
Homeopathic Hospital MINNIE QUANTREII
Services al Nnsnts undertaking paIlCrs Weiue5-
DAY. February y. st u13 a. az. latermeut pli-
vare.
SAlERs-On Monday, February 10. 1908 at ST.
Paul. MINI. ROBEET MILES beloved husband
Of VI. Frances SAVERS mfC Harmon
Notice II funeral hereafter
WARRIOR SATURDAY February s. l4s a. Rome.
italy. LOUISE widow u Capt. g. s. Luttrel
Ward. L. 5 &.
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Louis Mo-. Harrington Beard. Minneapolis. MINI.
James S. Barcus. Georgetown, Tex: Elmer +.
Brown. Washington. ID. e.. Miss Florence NJ.
Brown. Washington. d. G.; Mrs. Henry J. Carr.
Scranton Pa; George A. Coe, Evanston. H. Rev.
William e.. Covert Chicago, III; Rev. Harrie Il.
Chambeflin, Morgautewu, W Va: Henry j. Cope,
Chicago. j. /. Cuniugglm, Nashville. Team: George
T. Dawson, Springfield. Mass l.. J. DOggett
/ Springfield. Mass, Lillian b. Dtming. Ntnsttd,
Conn., Albert +. Dunning, Boston, Mass. II. Il.
DlcSsrt. Harrisburg, Pa Rev Thomas ". Dicker,
Reading, Pa; Rev Franklin u. Elmer and wife,
Ninsted. Conn. ". H. T. Tamce Providence.
j. g. r. Douglas Fraser Toronto, Canada; Mrs
/. VI. Gates. scranton. Pa: Helen ID. Gates,
Scranton. Pa, William f. G0chring Pitisburg
Pa, Rev Walter L. Greene BrockHcld ~ J
Rev. William harris Guyer Alyertou, Pa; Fred
crick W Greene. Niddletog1. Conn. Amos II.
Hsiues. Huntingdon, Pa. Judson s. Han, Wash
pgtCn, ID. C.. T. p. Hgg0pple Huntingdon. Ia. .
Alice b. HamiiH. Fttsbug Pa. Edward W
Hearue, Washington. D. g.; Richard 81 Hodge,
A5w York. Mabel A. Hart, Nustvd Conn. Mrs
Laura s. HIughtm. New YORK Miss Louise 5
HoughToH. New York; Miss g. r. Jotnseu. Brook
Ism; Myrau j. jones. Washington; George w
Dulsau, Ninsted Conn. Mary l. Judd. South
Hadlcg, Mass. Edward G. kuukle. Scgtthle Pa. /.
DIT Henry 1aurrhiI King Oblriin. OHIO, Carl t.
Licaiuster New YORK. Dr. EyiEgtm u. Lord and
wife. Br0oshn. y. y. II. II. LCau. Providence
r. T. Gs,rgs A. Miller. Washington. u. e. l..
Nihur Messer Chicago IT,; II. W Miller, SCOTS
dale. Pa Levi Meredith Washington b. g., Rev
Lucy a. Milton UauiuG Mass. RrT. Frederick
II. Means. Wmchestrr. Mass: Rev Marion FbIer.
GueuTIlie n. g.; 1hss Cnuelia Il. Parker Free
hold. g. j., Lydia L. Parker Freehold. ~ J.;
lsmar J. PERTH. Syracuse. y y. Edgar VI. Robin
son. New Yors. 4. b. Storms. Ame-. Iowa, Franz
*. Sanders Jamaica Plain Mass. Mrs " A.
stephens. baltimore Nd; Edward i. ST. John
Hartford, Conn; Mrs. +. =. ST. joins, Anuyiill
Pa. Alrs- r. g. Strong Winstei. Conn. Ni-s Ellen
" stone. Chelsea, Mas. Martha TsTheu East
orange y. j. Rev Henry ". TruBey Otsrlm
ONO; Mrs. r. T.. Nail Philadelphia. Ia. Clyde
Weber FotaH. Chicago. Res. Samuel II. Woodrow
Washington, -. e.. Herbert We.,a. Delaware. Ghis.
Miss Elizabeth Wilson Washington. u g. Charles
W Williams, ObCrhu. Ohio. D.. ~ WoodaaId
Bristol, fem, Miss Bsnee ZeHung Aurora. ~ J.
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AIorsins CInh nnnon

The Aloysius Club was the host last
night at a complimentary dance. given
in honor of the lady friends Of the club.
Gonzaga Han was filed with a select
crowd of young people who enjoyed the
entertainment. r. Harry Maxwell chair
man, and the members of his committee,
We're congratulated for the arrangements
provided
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win Dredge Channels Here.

It has been stated that the Maryland
Dredging & Contracting Company. of
Baltimore. early IN the coming month
will start the work of the deepening Of
the channels I'm this vicinity under con-
tract with the United States army.
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Or. S. w stratton, director of the Blu
reau of Standards, viii address the As
ISOLATION Of American Government Ac-
eouutants on "The Purchase Of Denart-
ment Supplies" at the next meeting. to
be held tomorrow evening at O'Clock
at the Public Library The public is in
vited
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NOTES OF THE CONVENTION.


Much interest centers I'm the address TO
be made by Richard Morse Hodge, the
Sunday school extension lecturer OF
Union Seminary New York. Nj Hodge
has invented numerous ways TO teach the
Bible so young and old alike, and viii
explain maps be has lately completed,
Charles Foster Kent. of the Yale fac
ulty, and well known as an authority on
the Old Testament. is q delegate. and viii
speak on his studies in ancient Biblical
lore Prof Kent has studied his subject
for years and probably IS the best in
formed man I'm this country on this
theme
Among the delegates is Edward C.
Kunklc, Of Scottdale, Pa. pastor Of the
Scottdale Baptist Church. and well known
as a promoter - athletics among boys
Of his congregation. Dr. Eunkle believes
the way to improve a boys mind is to
give him plenty Of fresh air and healthy
exercise. IL the summer months ne takes
the boys of his congregation camping.
and advises and participates in their
sports.
a familiar figure in the han where the
Bible school exhibit is being held. is
Louise Seymour Houghton. author of a
number az religious works, and director
Of religious instruction at the Church
of the Ascension. New York CITY. She
takes great interest in the various meth
DDS OF teaching the Bible as exhibited,
and has spent the greater part of her
time since she has been here ia looking
over the exhibits
Rev DR. ", c. Billings pastor Of the
Second Baptist Church. Of ST. Louis. is
a delegate 20 the convention. DIT. Bit
tings Is well known IN Washington reIig-
ious circles. by reason Of his address at
Calvary Baptist Church, of this city. last
May II was largely owing to this adj
dress that the Idle i'm the fortunes of
the church were turned i'm favor Of the
Northern Baptist Convention.
Although not delegate to the conven-
ton. a person causing much comment is
Miss Helen Stow, ten years old. Miss
Stow IS the author Of a unique book en-
titled THE Modern Prodgal." The work
is in the form Of pamphlet, and is
illustrated with pictures cut from maya
zines. The short verses ACCOMMODATING
the pictures were improvised by the au-
thor, and tell Of the wanderings and re-
turn Of the modern prodigai
Judge Charles y. Barnes. Of Jackson
vile, H., supreme chancellor of the
Knights Of Pythias, who will deliver an
address this afternoon, is an ardent adj
vocate Of the extension Of fraternal edu-
cation. Because Of the great sway of
secret societies Judge Barnes believes
they can be made powerful factor in
spreading religious and ethical advance
ment His ideas have already been acted
upon In a number Of lodges. and fraternal
educational circles have been formed. So
hard has he and the others worked in this
direction that a year ago department Of
frsternal education was added 10 the
Z. Z. A.