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that i'll this case the term air snip was
not misapplied.
The tests We're amazingly successful.
The airsIlip after leaving Nuremberg was
turned toward Berlin. and after gong
a consida ia BILE part of the way was al
lowed to come down. and with some
slight adjustments was brought to the
Headquarters from which it started
During the entire journey the big snip
had been completely under control OF the
steering gear and had responded 1auil-
lessly.
An average speed of twenty-five miles
an hour was maintained. and the totai
distance of 500 miles in thirty-eight hours
really demonstrated the important fact
that the dirisible flying machine Is SO
near that il can really be said to have
arrived.
Reports of this wonderful feat were
consumed with delight in Germany. with
deepest concern in England ana WITH
some discontinue in France.
The latter nation would in case of war
fare with the fatherland be just as
much in danger as England COR IL would
he possible for the kaiser to send his
airships over either London or Paris
without needing 20 land or to take on
fuel.
I:nt France is further advanced in the
a,rsllip problem than England is. The
war department has for a long time been
eXperimentiRs and Ii is believed could
in a short time fit out air cruisers that
would be able to give battle to the flyers
of the German sovereign. Therefore the
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stipulated must be preserved with unbro-
ken seals until the officials enter upon the
work of making uD the general report.
On the appointed day of the month
when crop report is to be issued. the
crop reporting board is locked in a room
at the Department Of Agriculture. and
under continual and close surveillance
makes up the final totals and frames the
general forecast. The crop reporting
board is composed Of five high officials Of
the Department of Agriculture. and
whereas the statstician and the assistant
statfstician always members, there
are. frequent changes in the remainder OF
tn" personnel. and. indeed, no official can
predict In advance when he will or will
not serve on this board Locked up with
the board during its deliberations are
two young men, employees of the depart
ment. who operate the ingenious style
printing press or duplicating apparatus.
The type is set as the board announces
its findings. and when. promptly at noon
board room are unlocked printed sheets
giving in detail the conclusions of the crop
experts are distributed to all persons who
are i'll waiting. Telegraph operators close
al hand instantly fash the summaries TO
to the stock exchanges. Later. in the day
5000 or more copies of the report are
placed in envelopes. which, after being
sealed by ingenious electrical machine.
are mailed to people all over the land. in
Guiding, OF course. the cores pondents
who contributed the data for the report,
and who receiye their pay IL tie form or
free copies of this novel and valuab Die
monthly periodical
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and township correspondents. reached an
aggregate Of more than 10000 workers.
all reporting here eleven or twelve times
each year.
In addition there are almost innumer-
able volunteer Investigators who lend aid
Internationally For instance. during the
season the statistican Of
the Department Of Agriculture is in cor
respondence with more than 5000 pub
lie and private ginneries and upward OF
1000 bankers, merchants and others In
a position to form opinions on the cotton
yield. Similarly In keeping tab on cereals
there are drafted nearly .3.cD millers,
elevator men. etc.
y *
The great secrecy regarding the crop
forecasts which the government is at such
pains to preserve concerns not the first
hand Investigations IF the field workers
and correspondents, but the compilation
in Washington of the grand totals where
by the fragmentary Information from all
parts of the country is merged in a gen
eral forecast OF tremendous significance.
The reports as received from the CORE
spondents are uhe ma iority report by
mail though some at distant points teIe-
graoh in secret codel tabulated by diff
ferent groups of clerks. working in sepa
rate rooms and ignorant of each ether $
activities. These compilations. rapidly
as completed. are locked in Il huge ca hi
net in the office of the chief StatiSticidn.
Here likewise are stored the reports OF
the state statistical agents, which it Is
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ferent portions of the business, industfia'
and agricultural communities are sWaHeo
by this engrossing curiosity al different
periods. accordingly as the crops in which
they are vitally interested are under IN
spcction Thus the late autumn and early
winter sees the climax of feverish con-
Germ TO learn the outlook for the yield OF
cotton. whereas the early spring focuses
attention upon the representations re-
gardng cereals. After all, however. IL is
probable that II is in July. or more espe-
cially in August. when the crucial reports
OH wheat corn. etc, are impending, that
anxiety regarding Uncle Sans peeps into
the future reaches its highest tension.
No greater mistake could be made than
10 suppose that il is only the farmers of
the country who are concerned regarding
these official prophecies. They are. TO be
sure. tremendously concerned by the
showing made by the crop reports. and 1t
was primarily for their benefit that the
United States Department of Agriculture
maintains the expensive and far-reach-
ing machinery and organization for crop
reporting, with headquarters in this city,
hut there are other great classes OF tit"
community which have their work ard
business life ordered very much in accord
with these governmental chronicles For
THAT matter every individual citizen-the
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ultimate consumer, regarding whom
We have heard so much of late-is potent
ly affected by the crop status of which
these reports give the first authentic in
formation.
BY studying the governmental crop re-
ports as they are issued monthly from
Washington any individual who can put
two and two together can gain inside in
formation as to the probable trend OF
prices on the principal necessities of life.
The wheat forecasts will tell him i'll sub
stance whether the price of flour and
bread and pies and cakes are likely to go
mp or down. The report on the condition
OF the cotton crop may forecast changes
in the price of wearing apparel. The
looks ahead regarding corn conditions in
directly foreteli secrets regarding the iu-
ture price of meat, and so the list might
be continued until it would be found that
almost every commodity of general con-
sumption is involved more or less.
There are numerous city dwellers in
America who pay scant attention to tine
crop reports because the conditions OF
which they bring the first tidinss will not
instantly affect the wage Garner and the
saaried man, but as has been explained
the farmer does not slight these forecasts
They give him his first dependable in
formation as to the prices he may eXpec,
to receive for his produce. Similarly the
rail and water transportation interests
scan them closely because they convey
hints as to the coming volume OF traffic
Naturally exporters and importers are
much interested and so likewise are the
elevator men and those engaged III noun
ard cereal milling. In all lines the cap
tains of industry regard the reports as
Important straws that indicate the treno
- the wind and finally we note that these
monthly bulletins sent out from Washing
ton are exerting tremendous influence
an the stock market and all forms Of
speculative trading The influence, more
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The Emperor Of the Germans believes
that his elderly subject has come the
nearest of all his rivals TO finding the way
10 navigate the air III a machine IN per
feet control.
If this were all. if ii were certainty
y IsO. .vra-to t. Neut6 never be pr L.
any but peaceful uses, England would
not care, but IL is the dread idea that
chimes will be load, ID with explosives and
sent over England dropping destroying
projectiies. that tias caused the name ~
the venerable inventor to conjure up the
most dread fears for the Britons.
The excitement caused by the Won Yep
pelin experiments merely reflects the en-
tire distraught attitude of the subjects of
King Edward al the present time.
Ever since Du Maurier, OF the
author of "Trilhy.' wrote his play. AN
Englishmau's Home" the nation has been
torn in a tempest Of military excitement.
Ii was in the honest belief that England
had not sufficiently assured its military
perfection that Du Maurtcr pcnned his
play. 1t is hardly credible that he analyzed
its possibilities Perhaps none could have
foreSeen what tremendous excitement
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Won Zeppelin Ash Inventor Has Become the Boge Man Of England

= N G. A N D, Once the
- Sanest of Nations, Is
Now Virtually on the Point
of Panic as the Result Of the
Success Which the Count Is
Having With His Airships-
Britain Firmly Believes Ships
Are Destined for Use in Mill
tary Service-In His Zeppe-
lin II the Inventor and Nine
Other Men Travelled goo
Miles in Thirty-eight Hours
Means That He Could Fly
Over London and Bombard
the Town, Then Get Back in
Safety Without Having to
Land or Take on Fuel-Eng-
land Has No Fleet of Air
ships to Give Battle, and the
Nation, Stirred by the Play
of Du Maurier's, Is Now
Demanding That Steps Be
Taken to Get a Modern
Equipment - Won Zeppelin,
Cause of This Hubbub, Has
Given His Life to the Study
of Aerial Navigation
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financed. His experiences were Ike taose
OF many other pioneers. He seemed al
ways on the verge OF success. and when
heavy drains We're made on his purse he
consoled himself with the thought tina
in only i short time he would be success
full and the sale OF his ship would more
than reimburse him.
He had q host OF failures and no less
than a dozen remarkable escapes from
death.
Then the word went out that he was
ruined. /. His whole fortune had gone i'm
the hunt for his ideal.
The sympathy ~ the kaiser was aroused.
He sent for Won Zeppelin. He offered him
pension. But 10 his surprise he found
that the only grief the inventor had was
lack OF funds TO complete his invention.
which he explained was a: the verge Of
success.
William advanced the money. Won
Zeppelin has succeeded, and now is the
dread bugaboo OF the nation having the
worlds greatest navy. Success came late
to the venerable inventor. who Is now
past seventy but it has come in such
liberal measure as to atone for the wait.
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over. is not confined to the deals in flu
lures of grain and provisions. but has
it's bearing on the fluctuations OF railroad
and industrial stocks
In view OF the significance which the
government crop reports possess as a
guide to speculation in stock and grain
II is impera tive that each successive fore
cast shall be held III secrecy lnEiolate
until the appointed time for making the
results public, and that when 1t Is given
out it shall be disseminated quickly TO all
parts of the country, and, indeed. TO all
quarters of the globe. To this end the
bureau of statistics of the United States
Department of Agriculture has perfected
crop reporting system that is certainly
as nearly infallible as any human agency
can be. The Secretary of Agriculture de-
clares that so complete are the safeguards
which have been thrown around the pres
ent plan of crop reporting and 50 COM
pick is the system itself that no person,
not even the chief statistician of the de-
partment. could know prior to the fate
full morning when report is given out
what the magical figures will be.
The crop reports issued from Washing
ton twelve times year are simply fore
casts or very accurate predictions, based
upon secret, far-reachins information as
to the size and character Of maturing
crops. In it's activities the United States
crop reporting bureau might be compared
in some degree to the United States
weather bureau, another branch of the
Department OF Agriculture, with which 1T
was once proposed to combine it. Where
a the weather sharps, however, merely tell
the farmer and the mariner what they may
or may not safely do during the next few
days, the crop experts tell the planters,
the wheat growers and the manufacturers
something of what may be expected at
harvest time weeks or months hence and
thus enable them to act intelligently with
regard to contracts and prices. In other
words it places everybody on the same
footing by giving free to all the informa-
ton which would otherwise confer a ire
nleudous advantage on the wealthy firms
ard individuals that could spend the
money necessary to secure it privately
The United States bureau of the census,
which complies very complete statistics
on all agricultural subjects, in a sense
covers the same ground as the govern
ment crop reporting institution. However,
and census merely records crop history
and the man whose bread and butter is de-
pendent on the status of the crops is nat
urall~ very much more Interested in the
future than in the past. He is not con-
tent 10 wait for two, three or tour years
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NctorO]mst0d

crop-reporting army comprise thirty
eight state statistical agents, each re-
ceiving compensation at the rate of from
$500 10 $500 per year. Each of these
maintains a corps of assistants or cor
respondents, entirely independent of the
other correspondents in the state report
ing directly to Washington. There are.
all told, nearly 10000 of these aids to
strength in the different states ranges
than 800 in Michigan. The state agent
does not merely compile and condense the
figures received from his correspondents.
He analyzes the data that come to him
and i'm the light of his own knowledge of
conditions draws conclusions as to the
outlook in his territory.
there is dual organization of crop re-
porters covering the entire country who
report direct to Washington. First, there
is in every agricultural county CORE
spondent. who has from two TO four as
sistant correspondents. These county cor
respondents and subcCrres.,ondents num-
Der In the entire country nearly 11.GD
Then in addition, every township and
voting precinct in the United States in
which farming operations OF any kind
are carried on has ii correspondent, this
force numbering more than 10000. The
grand total of state statistical agents
ard their aids. together with the county
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London hundreds of thousands of arms ard
had men right in the heart of the city
VINO at a given signal would fire the city
and turn their arms on its people. This
canard was exposed and drowned. The
balloon fear. the Won Zeppelin danger
is not to be quoted.
All England read only few weeks ago
of the satisfactory trip that the German
made from his headquarters on Lake Con-
stance to Nuremberg.
The Zeppelin III. the name of his present
craft Is OF great dimensions. When Il
had its recent long trip ii carried altot-
cether ten men-the inventor, two enei-
neers and a crew of seyen-which shows
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Mloon~

for his agricultural statistics He pre-
ters the information that will anticipate
with accuracy and this he may now OBJ
tain gratis from Uncle Sans crop proph-
cts. AS an indication of how nearly in
fallible they are it may be cited that
recent comparison Of predictions in years
gone by with the subsequent census fig
ureS based on exact returns showed that
there has seldom, if ever. been differ
ence of more than / per cent and in one
case Of an annual crop the difference be-
tween the prophecy and the actual stats
Ties OF production gathered ten months
later was only two One-hundredths of 1
per cent
As crop reporter Uncle Sam has IN
great measure superseded the private crop
reporting organizations maintained by
large dealers in cereals or cotton and
prominent spectators. Some firms have
spent as high as 10000 in a single season
in gathering information, confidential in
character, for a private report upon some
crop, but the impossibility of competing
with the government statistics in accu-
racy and the danger that their reports
will suffer by comparison with the army
of figures sent out from Washington de-
ter many ,moneyed interests that would
other wise seek private crop reports. AS
it is, greater or less number of such
private estimates are printed every year
and, in addition, many interests affected
by the fluctuations of the cotton and
cereal markets secure from private
sources confidential advices relative to
the forthcoming crops for their own guild
ance in buying and selling for future de-
livery.
The United States government first
made provision for the collection of ag-
ricultural statistics upward Of two
thirds OF a century ago, or more than a
score Of years before the Department of
Agriculture was established. but the fun
damental principles OF the plan were
much the same then as now, elaboration
having taken place expansion and ini-
prOvement suggested. Probably the most
picturesque feature of the system of gov
ernmental crop reporting is found in the
cooperation Of an army of nearly 100000
ners, agents of transportation lines, mill
and elevator proprietors and other per
sons vino are in position to have inside
Information regarding the crops. All of
these men are glad to help the govern
Inent by contributing the data from their
respective localities for the reason that
each is DESTROYS OF knowing at the earliest
possible moment the extent lin the whole
country of the crop in which he is in
terested. Moreover, majority of these
growers and dealers have only Uncle Sam
to look to for such information. Some
of the wealthy operators are able TO pay
for the services of private statisticians
and crop reporters to furnish them adj
vance tips as to conditions bat for the
most part the producing interests are de-
pendent upon the government.
The field marshals Of the American
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A Financial Epigram.

GIL H. ROGERS" said a New York
IL broker. always advised young
men TO get hold of capital He used to
point out to them that without capital
a man could do nothing. He used to
pack this truth into a very neat epi-
gram
Fortune he used to say. can't knock
at the door of a man who has NO
house,"
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looking face of an elderly seitieihaii u
culture that has caused the pdiplta'ioh III
the heart of the British pubic, ana
merely 10 mention his name Is to bring
excited chorus from people that has
come To dread ii.
.sSon Zeppelin'' is the name. and its pos
saSsor is one of the foremost of living
students of the great problem of aerial
navigation BY means of diriSible flying
machines subject TO which all nations
of the world are now addressing 'ie'h-
selves.
Won Zeppelin is the pet Of the kaiser.
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would be invoked. Something almost me
panic seized on the solid Britons at ths
PRONUNCIATION of the idea that the NauHtso
security of the nation was all Hyth'
and that Germany could at any time take
possession of the country.
The condition of hysteria was heiSh'eh-
ed by the discovery of irregularities In the
naval department. These, however nave
been redressed. and improvements have
also been made in the army. The coliec-
ton of money has resulted III largely
increased enlistment. lone guards nave
been organized and even women nave
helped in the effort to rouse the fight
ing blood of the nation to the need for
more protection.
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HERE is almost no
season of the year
when there are not
thousands upon
thousands of eager
seekers for news
waiting anxiously
for the monthly
forecasts of the
United States gov
ernment crop re-
porting bureau at
Washington. Dir
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HOUS AN DIS Await
! Monthly Crop Forecast
Issued by GOVERNMENTAL
Kinds of Business Men In
terested, While Reports Are
Great Aid to the Farmers
Throughout the Country
Forecasts Are Very Accurate
Predictions on Size and Char
acter of Crops - Ways in
Which Reports Are Obtained
Information Is Free to All,
to the Rich and Poor Alike.
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In the midst OF it all the fear of Won
Zeppelin has refused to be allayed. What
avail would either army or navy be 10
tight against an enemy in the air. that
safe from attack could pour death into
one town after the other. OF the whole
realm.
Since the excitement began there has
neen :; host Of canards. One wild story
vas started that Germany had stored IN
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has j bo-
gle man.
1t does not take
the traditional form
OF an ogre. this APP
partition that has
stolen away the
senses OF the nation
that under normal
conditions Is per
haps the best bal
anced in the world.
Ii is the kindly
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land of Jean Crapaud has been more
philosophical than England since the
demonstration Of German progress.
But England is entirely unprepared
with any equipment of this kind. and
manic has seized the nation on the sub
ject of airships. The use of Won Yep
pein's name proved a good enough mag
net TO draw some thrty-five thousand
dollars to encourage the development OF
airships for military purposes.
Newspapers are pouring broadsides into
the government and demanding that
Britain get actively to work in bringing
its equipment up TO date and adding TO
it everything that Is modern IN the science
Of warfare.
The music halls are joining with vigor
in the uproar. and the surest way to make
q hit on the boards over there is to have
an act which appeals to patriotism and
calls upon the men and women Of the
many. which London now believes must
come in the course OF time.
1t is somewhat curious that Won Yep
pelin should have been the man TO give
England this severe fright. 1t is not
SO long ago that he was an object of
sympathy all over Germany. for he stood
III the position of ruined man.
But lie became interested in the science
OF aerial navigation. and from that time
on he centered his whole life OF the pro-
duction OF a machine that could fly, and
be at all times under complete control.
All these earlier experiments he himseif
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-08-26
THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS.
Unselfishness In Life 10 the One Thing
That viii Transform All
Things to Gold.

The moment we set about the task
Of making every human being we
come in contact with better for know.
ing us-more cheerful. more coura-
geous and with greater faith in the
kindness Of God and man-that mo-
ment we begin to attain the third pur-
pose of life-personal happiness.
Would you possess the magic secret
of the alchemist which transforms all
things to goldf
1t is unselfishness-or. to use a bet
ter word. selflessness.
He who goes forth bent upon being
always kind. always helpful. in the Mt
tie daily events OF life. will find all
skies tinted with gold. all his nights
set with stars and unexpected flowers
of pleasure springing up in his path
way.
And all his tears shall turn into
smiles.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-08-26
The Artleaa Boy.

The boy bowed politely to the gro
Ger.
II understand" he said. that you
want a boy, sir. VIII you kindly look
me over"
'I only, pay 49," said the grocer. alb
ruptly.
'I understood" said the boy. that
you paid four"
The grocer nodded.
81 did pay four" he said. until l
saw in the paper the other day that
Millionaire Rogers began his business
career on 50 a week"
The boy smiled.
But don't expect to be a million
aire." he said. 81 don't care to be
rich-rd much rather be good"
The grocer was SO much pleased
with this artless reply that he com
promised with the boy for three and
a half.