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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-26
FOOD PROBLEM
WORSETHAN TARIFF
j. j. HILL TELLS WHY COST OF
LIVING is HIGH - CROPS Do
NOT KEEP PACE WITH DE-
MAND.
(By Associated Press.


New York, Feb. 26.-"They talk
about revising the tariff" said James
j. Hill to a reporter today. "Why,
at our present rate of expenditures
the tariff is now scarcely on a rev.
enue basis. How, then, is it to be
scaled unless we shave down the cost
Of government?
Il am not free trader" he went
on, "but I see the evils in present
tariff schedules, although I do not
know how they are to be remedied
unless we shall call a halt upon the
cost of government or shift the tax
thus placed upon the people to do
nestle products. AS to trusts, I
guess Mr.. Havemeyer was about right
when he testified before a committee
at Washington that the tariff was
the mother of trusts.
But these questions or problems
will be solved. They are much more
soluble than the one of supreme i'm
portance, which is how to extract
from the soil the maximum of pro-
duction at the minimum of cost. The
trust will break down of it's own
weight long before we solve this
greater problem. Upon it's solution
depends wholly the answer to your
question, What is the cause, and
what is the remedy for the present
high cost of living?'
New England's Two Crops.
New England" he said, looking
up with smile from pages of sta
tistics, illustrates the condition we
shall be in as a nation before the
generation of young men just now
taking hold of affairs turn the reins
over to the next generation, unless
we bring about radical changes in
our farming methods. When 1 asked
an intelligent New Highlander recent
ly what New England now produced,
and edged TOOLS
'But do you object to the college
diplomat" he was asked.
Not at ALL he replied, unless
it takes from the blacksmith shop
or the pillow good blacksmiths and
good plowmen. 1t ought to fit each
class better for the work to be done,
but fear it is not doing that. New
Englanj's soil is worn out, and it's
civilization is showing the effect of
this, in spite of the vast educational
resources of that section.
did you know" Mr.. Hill asked,
"that the value of the agricultural
products of this country last year
was 100000? That is greater
than the foreign trade of all Europe,
about which we hear so much from
persons who do not seem to know
what is ailing US. Do you know, fur
thermore, that 70 per cent of our
exports are products of the farm, and
that, proportionately the volume of
these exports is decreasing, instead
of increasing? These facts are of
tremendous importance
Farming Falls Behind.
Primarily they show that our
greatest industry still is agriculture
and that production per acre is not
keeping pace with home consump-
ton. So there you have the situa-
ton in a nutshell
TWENTY-FIVE years or less ago the
same amount of capital produced, let
us say. twice as much as 1t produces
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-26
Five Acres for $4,000,

A. Irby today purchased a five
acre tract from the sWenatchee Real
ty company, located just west of the
Lanham place. 1t is set to young
trees and the price was $4,000.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-26

Why not use Chamberlain Lini-
ment when you have rheumatism?
We feel sure that the result will be
prompt and satisfactory. It has
cured others, why not you? Try it..
1t costs but trifle. Price, Is cents;
large size. so cents. For sale by all
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-26
Bridge Lots.

The B. H. Shanck agency reports
sale Of two lots in Columbia Bridge |
addition for Noah F. Lutz yesterday, |
one to Miss Helen Thompson, the
other to Mr.. Boland; consideration
$3.50 each.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-26

On the railroad question, Mr.. Hill,
strangely enough, seemed to feel
comparatively little interest. "The
cost of transportation is going up.
he said, land will continue to do so
until a general change of industrial
conditions is brought about"
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-26

The Toggery's $4,000 special sale
will close Saturday night. Special
prices on everything in the store.
Buy your suits now if you desire to
take advantage of these low prices
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-26
Blue Lodge Meets Tonight.

AHO AO05S &'AOOeS IOHISIo'
Riverside lodge No. 112, F. & A.
M, confers the Third degree on can
didates tonight. Lodge meets at the
usual hour. The craft are cordially
invited to be present.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-26

SO cents will get you a good Tur-
key dinner at the Olympia Cafe Sum
day.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-11

in the steaming fields during May
and early June, waiding in water and
heavy mud up to their knees and
fighting leeches constantly.
When the stalks of grain and rice
are above ground and furnishing
comes the farmers dread, the torren-
tial rains Of the naiubal Theoretically
transcribed), or summer wet season.
In an hour the work of months may
be flattened to the ground dy-
kes washed out and the rivers roar
ing over the fields that had en-
croached on their dry channels. Moth
ing but a total loss of crops can
result from this onslaught of the rain.
Even with all conditions favoring,
the Japanese farmer has to work
like serf to gather his harvest The
rows of grain are cut with a sickle
for no field is large enough to ac-
commodate a cutting and threshing
machine, even if SO expensive an
adjunct to farming on a large scale
could be afforded.
When the grain is brought out of
the field it is laid by handfuls on the
ground in front of the farmers.
house, and there the heads are pull
ed off and the kernels, still bearded,
are caught on a piece of mating by
the laborious process of pulling each
handful of grain through the loose
set teeth on an iron blade.
Old women and children do this
work, and it is usually the old women
who have to place the kernels in
a wooden motar and pound them with
heavy mallet until the chaff is
loosened. Then the handful of mix
ed kernels and grain are tossed IN
the air over a piece of mating con-
tinuously until the wind has carried
away the chaff.
Each seed that the farmer gains
after his long year of untiring eff
fort seems to present an individual
plea for increase made to the par
ent seed that was planted, for on no
other land under heaven is the para
BILE of the seed that is sown so faith
fully exemplified, and perhaps no
where else does the planter of the
seed pray SO ardently against the
memorable proportion of disappoint-
ment.-New York Sun.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-11
ILLITERACY.

According to the Federal census OF
1900 there were 142 white illiterates
to the thousand in Tennessee; 14S
in Alabama; 1875 in North Carolina
116 in Arkansas; 119 in Georgia; 128
in Kentucky and 80 in Mississippi.
The Indictment against; Tennessee
is severe. Our school system has i'm
proved since 1900 During Gov Pat
terson's first administration more
was spent for public education
than ever before in the state. But
there is much yet to be done, and
the effort for better educational op-
portunities must not be abandoned
because the states revenue has been
reduced.
Mississippi outstrips her sister
states in public education, and all
honor to her for this.-Commercial
Appeal.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-11
JAPAN'S ToILSOME FARMERS.
And the Tiny Plots of Land From
Which They Draw Substance.

The brave show that the Japanese
people made in welcoming the Ameri-
can fleet at Yokohama must have con
tanned some elements of the pathetic
to close observers among the foreign
residents in Japan who know the true
condition of the country's poverty
Perhaps they knew that the money
spent in the decoration Of Tokyo's
streets, the casting of gold and silver
memorial medals for the officers of
the fleet, and the lavish entertain
ments in score Of towns came ulti-
mately from the meager increase of
fields nc larger in many instances
than the court of an apartment
house airshaft.
In old Japan, where hundreds of
land that the mountains grudgingly
leave tillable, every artifice of taxed
ingenuity has been employed to
draw crops commensurate with the
heavily increasing population. Hills
have been leveled, mountains terrace
into parallel alleyways only wide
enough to hold a double row of plant
and rivers so carefully banked up
and tenderly petted into docility that
they are made to share their teds
with the rice planter. So precious
is the arabic land that recently when
the Government built new railroad
across the main island of Hondo hun
dreds of claims hal to be settled for
the dots of ground pre-empted for
the erection of telegraph poles.
One of the fertile valleys near the
base of Mount Fuji,when viewed from
an elevation, resembles nothing so
much as a piece of cloth figured with
rectangular blocks of gold and green.
The rice fields are squared about by
mud dykes, each in perfect order;
next to them, on slightly higher
ground, are the patches of barley,
peas and millet, all arranged with a
precision almost mathematical While
one fields lies fallow for brief six
months, another next to it is tended
with an individual care almost beyord
belief
Each rice plant that is sunk in the
mud of the flooded field receives al
most as much attention as the care
fully-numbered fowls that roost each
night on the thatch of the farmers
hut. Seed is not scattered broadcast
it is too precious for that Instead
it is pushed into the loan of fore
ing bed by the finger of the farmer
or his wife.
When the rice plants are three or
four inches high they are transplant
ed to the paddy, groups of three or
four plants in hill. This is grill
ing work. 1t means that the farmer,
his wife and his daughter, naked all
of them save for vloth about The
waist, must bend their backs all day
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-11

head to foot with the dust. | men
ton this knowing that this mans his
tory is at variance with the theory
that some dust causes stonecutters
consumption, but in the former case
the dust is in fine powder, in the lat
ter occasional particles of stone"
This case has been diagnosed as
tuberculosis, the physician explains,
and he adds that the mans condition
is improved
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-11
A VERY USEFUL RHYME.

Many useful puzzles over the Eng
lish grammar will find this rhyme of
great help:
Three little words you often see
Are articles, a, an and the.
A nouns a name of anything,
AS school, or garden, hoop, or swing.
Adjectives tell the kind of noun,
AS great, small, pretty, white, or
brown.
Instead of nouns the pronouns
stand
His head, her face, your arm, 'my
hand
Verbs tell something to be done,
To read, count. laugh, sing, jump or
run.
How things are done the adverbs
tell
AS slowly quickly, i'll or WE'LL
Conjunctions join the words together,
AS men and women, wind or weather.
The proposition stands before
The noun, as in or through the door.
The intersection shows surprise.
As, Oh. how pretty, ah, how wise.
The whole are called nine parts of
speech,
Which reading, writing. speaking
teach.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-11
DlCKSON-TAYLOR.

Married, at the residence OF Frank
Johnson, in Duttoville, a suburb OF
Jackson, on the End Of January, 1909,
L. J. Dickson and Miss Matte Taylor
formerly of Carrollton, but recently
residing in Jacksonville Rev. J. A.
Afford performing the ceremony. The
young couple have commenced house
keeping at the Miner Hobson farm,
South of Brandon, and their many
friends wish them happiness and sue
cess.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-11
SOME "RPETTY PICKLES."

"My enormity had led me into som
pretty pickles. pretty pickles. l can
tell you. l weigh thirty seven stones,
with chest six feet | inch, thigh 81
and IL inches, calf % IL inches,
paunch 6 feet IL inches, arm 20
inches and foot 9 IL inches long.
Once, when l was going to Coventry,
| found | couldn't get into the car
rage, and when l asked che guard
to put me in his van he blankly re-
fused.
$50 | had to travel as luggage in
the luggage van and when the por-
ire saw NE he said: Which side up?'
because I'm rather round than up
and down, and he wanted to make
me pay excess luggage on myself.
81 have broken the springs and bent
the steps of innumerable cabs and
carts, and nine times out of ten the
cabbies refuse to take me as fare.
The railway carriages have signs
that say. Seat five but when
get in they say seat three. l have
to wear specially made coats, trouser
and boots, and once an outfitter who
made me some dress shirts ex-
hibited one in the window and it took
up dhe whole space.
II eat anything want except po-
tatoes, and as for the anti-fat prepa-
rations, don't you believe in them
at ALL Exercise is the only thing for
fat folks and | recommend them to
try it. -
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-11
MUST TRAVEL IN BAGGAGE CAR.
So Bulky He Can't Get Through
Passenger Coach Door.

England's champion fat man, a
SIS FOUNDER, who is champion of the
leading sporting celebrities on the 9th
er side, is William Thomas Eccles-
tone, better known as Jolly Jumbo. :"
1t is his boast that he is the biggest
human being on the face Of the earth
says the Boston Herald
He has carriage chair and bed
specially built for him, and a heavy
dray horse Jugs him from place to
place. If he could have his weight
in gold he would be able to salt
away 100000 But with all his av-
oirdupois Jolly Jumbo" can move
around as lively on his feet as a
featherweight.
In telling how he. got his nickname
he says he once helped to put P. t.
Barnum's famous elephant, Jumbo,
abroad a ship at Liverpool, and that
he rendered SO much valuable assis-
lance that the bystanders dubbed him
Jumbo" without further ceremony.
His jovial disposition, he says, caus-
ed Jolly" to be tackled on later.
The big man soon went into the
hotel business and opened a sport
ing resort which has been made the
headquarters of many pugilists in
recent years. Jolly Jumbo" mean
while learned so much about boxing
that he became an expert trainer of
pugilists.
Zone of the most valuable qualities
a trainer can possess" he said re-
Gently, sis that of inspiring conf
dence in his man. Well, | have that,
and when l am at the ringside my
lad is sure to win.
Everybody knows that is so, and
one day up in Sheffield, a rival pa
iron who was backing a boxer played
joke on me that l shall never for
get. The old rascal arranged that
turnstiles should be placed at every
entrance to the hall, and, of course
when | came up I couldn't get
through, much less over, so my lad
was nefariously deprived of my
moral support. But The won, never
theless, SO that it ended happily af
ter all.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-05

Goods
FOR LADIES.

Handbags, just in, from
.s1.0O to $3.50.
Fancy Silk Opera Bags,
|S1.00, $3.50, $500, $3.50,
$500.
NeckWear, all new styles.
Manicure Sets, $3.50,
$500, $500, $500, $500,
$3.50, $1,000 to $500.
Jewel Cases, 35c to
$3.50 each.
Work Boxes, SOC to $500
Toilet Sets, $3.50 to
$1,000.
Hatpins, 25c to $3.50
each.
New Belts, SOC to $500.
Silk Hosiery; all coIors;
.S1.75 to S2.25.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-05
imported Linens.
= O<NeIS

Pure Linen Huck and Damask
Plain and HemStitched Towels
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-05
For Gentlemen

Good quality Silk Umbrel-
las, gold mounted, in fancy
holly boxes, $3.50 to $500
Military Brushes, SIPS
to $500.
Toilet Sets, $500 to
$3.50.
Shaving Sets, $1.25 to
$500.
Smokers Sets, $1.OO to
$3.50.
And please don't forget
our GentIemen's Handker-
chiefs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-05
Ribbons Ribbons

Thousands of pieces of
Ribbons for this Holiday
Season; any width in fancy
or plain Ribbon; all prices
to $500 yard.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-05
Toys Toys
Toys

WE ARE SELLING LOTS
OF TOYS.
They are novel, and they
are reasonable in price.
Strong Wagons, SIPS to
$3.50.
Wheel BarroWs, S1.0O to
$500.
Irish Mails and Coasters,
$3.50 to $3.50.
Footballs, S1.OO to $500
Air Guns, all prices.
A grand line of Dolls SELL
ing very quickly, 1Oc, 25c,
SOC, S1.00 to $1,000.
Mechanical Toys, Picture
Books, Baby Toys; in fact,
any kind of Toy can be
found here.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-05
Gloves Gloves
Gloves

Almost any color or style
Of Glove, from 25c to $500
pair.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-05
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
OFFICIAL FoRECAST.

Tonight and Tuesday fair; colder;
brisk westerly to northerly winds.
meteorological Report.
The following observations were
taken at the South Texas Garden for
the "A nourts ending at eight o'clock
today:
Brownsville, Texas, March Z. 1909
Barometer 7 p. m. yesterday 29.77
Barometer at a. M today 1913
Temperature at a m. today 70.S
Maximum temp. yesterday. SS.5
Minimum temp this morning 70.S
Brownsville, Texas. March s, 1909
Barometer Z a. m yesterday 1850
Barometer at a. m. today 29.4S
Temperature at a. m. today 1901
Maximum temp. yesterday. $500
Minimum temp. this morning 1905
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
District Court Notes

The only business transacted in
the district court this morning was
that of swearing in the petit jurors
for this week, and the issuing of an
order to the sheriff by the court to
summon a special venire of ten men
to appear in the court room tomor-
row morning at nine o'clock.
The petit jury for this week is as
follows: Geo. Krausse, Jose G. An
orga. Geo. Stowe, Juan Harambeure,
F. Delgado, ]. P Mcdonald, J. P. vi
vier. Ed Walls, NJ Werbiski, Refugio
Cantu, Manuel Saldana, Jose Buitu-
reirafi H. Krausse. Jacob Brednel, J.
C. Musel Vesseron, Prudencio Rod
riguez, Louis Champion, O. c. Sau-
der, Eli Elstun. After being sworn
in the jury was dismissed until to-
morrow morning at nine o'clock.
In Saturdays issue of The Herald
an error was made in stating the date
set for the trial of Martinez, charged
with murder and Jesse S. Thornham,
with murder The date for
the first case is Monday, the 18th, in
stead of today, and of the second
Thursday the 18th.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08

FOR SALE-In barrels or car load
lots. fine native lime. Apply to John
Closner, chaplin, Texas. C2-5-tf
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
MANY QUEER AIDS TO MEMORY
Simple Devices Resorted to by People
Who Can't Remember.

Many and varied are the methods
to which busy men have recourse in
order to keep their memory peeled"
Very simple is the mnemonical sys-
tenn of a well-known journalist, who
merely ties a small piece of ribbon
round his walking stick. Many a
benedict has a penchant for tying his
handkerchief into a series Of knots to
remind him of the numerous little do
nestle duties he has faithfully prom
Used to perform during the day.
A very successful plan is that of a
shrewd business man, who has re-
course to the use of pepper or snuff
to jog his memory. A liberal dose
spread over his handkerchief greets
his olfactory nerves whenever he ex-
tracts it from his pocket, and, as he
himself says, that reminds me-"
Very effective is the method adopt
ed by some astute people who place
their finger rings on their keyring. By
this means they are not only remind
ed of something by the absence of
their rings from their hands but every
time they use their keys the fact is
forced upon their attention. There is
one old government clerk who is an
amusement to all, the juniors. When
he has any matter of urgent impor-
lance to attend to in the morning he
invariably ties two of his fingers To-
gether with small piece of red tape.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
Herald Want Ads.

FOR SALE-One 72x16 Button
Strap Erie boiler, with stack and
front complete, used about five
months. Hidalgo Irrigation CO., Nc
Allen, Texas. 3-2-tf
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08
LOCAL ITEMS

Arrangements are now being made
to secure the baseball team from
Corpus Christi or Kingsville to play
here next Sunday. The Brownsville
line up will be practically the same
as that of yesterday which means
that we will have the strongest anna
teur team in Texas.
Notice to Contractors.-Bids will
be received at the Office of Archer &
Archer, architects, Brownsville. Tex
as, up to II O'Clock noon Saturday
the 18th inst. for the erection of an
S-room brick-stucco residence to be
located about 81 miles west of
Brownsville, for Mr.. G. w. Smith
Plans ready and on file in Office of
architects. 3-S-tf
New Cottages. two lots at
the northeast corner of Jefferson and
Thirteenth streets are being cleared
and work will commence at once on
the erection of two cottages to cost
about $500 each The old build
ings have been torn down and moved
off the site and the otis leveled and
filled in to make neat and attractive
lawns The cottages vii be frame,
and viii be modern and convenient
They will De for rent and will make
desirable hons because of their cen
trail location, as well as on account
of their convenient arrangement and
W. Smith of San Antonio is the own
er of this property
New Apartment House.-Work
was begun this morning on the cree
ton of a three story apartment house
to cost between $4,000 and $4,000
on Washington street on the property
formerly owned by the Methodist
church. This house is being built by
Geo. w. Ford 1t will be modern in
every particular Each room will be
supplied with hot and cold water and
a stationary wash stand, with baths.
etc, on each floor The house will
contain forty rooms
business Move.-The King build
ing on the corner of Elizabeth and
Thirteenth Street now occupied by
Col. W. o. Coleman as a land Office
has been leased by Albert Mason.
of the Brownsville Sport
ing Good Company, who will move
his stock of goods into that part of
II now occupied by Col. W. o. Cole
man within the next few days. Col.
Coleman states that he expects to
retire from active business and de-
vote his attention to the cultivation
OF his farm and orange grove at San
Benito.
Lights Put Out by Kite-The city
was temporarily without lights last
night A small boys kite was the
cause, becoming entangled with the
wires and joining the primary secon.
dary wires, causing them to burn
OUT and thus throwing the entire city
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-03-08

in darkness until the damage could
be repaired. There is a city ordin-
anee which prohibits the flying of
kites in the streets and Mayor Combe
has given all city policemtn orders
to arrest any one who is found violat-
ing this ordinance. Parents should
see to it that their children are not
guilty of violating this ordinance,
as not only is it liable to cause them
to have to pay fine, but at any time
a REPETITION of the accident of last
night may happen not only incon-
venieneing the city, but also putting
it to great amount of trouble and
expense.