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Norway is the most democratic state In
away with the principle OF highly paid
kingship. Even the French republic has
TO allow its president $4,000 a year. but
half OF this is for travelling expenses and
Tor entertainments. That the Norwegians
and French have a right to be thrifty Is
shown by the history of civil lists The
original meaning OF civil list was a bud
get out OF which the sovereign in addition
to supporting himself had 10 pay large
numbers OF civil officials When the num-
Der or ofnciais grew TOO great the kings
got rid OF the responsibility OF paying
them. but kept the money for themselves
Hence the present civil lists OF Europe
have no historical Justification and ur-
gently need drastic cutting down.
The cutting down Is difficult Every
state has its own way OF fixing the SOW
ereigns allowance. In Norway il must
be voted from year to year by parliamen,
In Austria IL is fixed for successive terms
of ten years. In Holland, SPAIN Saxony
and Wuerttemberg the soVereien's in
come Is fixed on his accession to the
throne and remains unatered until his
death. In Prussia il is determined by
special law, which remains in force for
an lnOehnite term. unless legislativelv
amended. OF all monarchs the car. who
has the largest civil list, has il best de-
tended against thrifty democrats When
he issued his constitution In the shane OF
fundamental laws he laid il down thar
the ouma could not question his $s11a-
'9I. and that any change in the amour,
could only be accomplished on his own
initiative.
Copyright in the United States and Groa, Rri,.,,
oy curtis Brown All rights strictly resersed.D
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belongs to our coarsest and shortest
fbers. They are especially good Tor
mixing with wool, and for that reason
they bring better prices than cotton of a
superior quality"
Our cotton industry received a great
impetus at the time of the civil war in
America. Your cotton was then shut out
of the market and the prices went sky
high. This turned the attention to In
dias possibilities and experiment farms
were established for improving the crop.
The men put in charge of them came
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"CAT'TLE ARE RAISED FOR WORK.

barnyard fertilizer. The droppings of
the cattle are used for fuel, and the av-
erage peasant gives almost nothing
back to the soil. The stations are dis
tributing leaflets describing improved
farming and giving suggestions. Yet it
is difficult to make the ryots. as our
farmers are called, undertake any new
methods or try new Seeds
What are you doing to improve your
stOck?" I asked.
I'VE have breeding establishments con-
nected with some of the agricultural sta
tons. and there is a breeding farm at
the Phipps Agricultural College, of which
l have spoken. Many of the provincial
governments hold agricultural shows.
where prizes are given for the best bred
animals, and of late dairy farms have
been started under government prov-
sions. The Bombay agricultural depart
ment established one some years ago.
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north shore of Massachusetts,; too rich
for my blood. Guess whats this ?
rates are quite within the reach of
those seeking the most moderate
prices?' Well. that sounds better. Might
find some kind of plant up there.
against the basaltic cliffs-that's what
1t says here-'basaltic cliffs I'll be
taking this booklet stuff myself pres
emily. oh, we'll 1 mustn't fail to re-
member this north shore Of Massachu-
sets thing. Isn't out of the question
that l might decide to go there.
q. Vince! This is dandy one, The
Maine woods" eh? Funny, but I've
always had a sort of sneaky hankering
to go to the Maine woods. Look at
this fellow padding his own canoe,
with the guide sitting in the back of
the bark skiff. Looks brown and fit to
fight for his life. that duck! Got guns
and fishing tackle. and everything else
in the canoe. That's the sort of thing
I'd sure like. If 1 could make it; that
outdoor business, sleeping under the
stars. and all that sort of glorif1ed
booklet stuff. Never tried sleeping un
beauties of that kind of thing
hurled at me all my life. and I would
like to have just one back at 1t.
Maine woOds-um. Takes quite bunch
shucks. it takes a little time to get to
any old place worth while. HowS this?
Accommodations in perfectly appointed
hotels surrounded by primeval forests,
from $14 week up? Huh! That sounds
something like what the doctor ordered
the price end of it. Girls up there in
the Maine woods, too. Look at these
pictures of the cute little things. wear
ing woodland leggins and divvle-may
care SLOUGH hats and all like that!
Well. I've got to keep the Maine woods
in mind, can see that.
I'm! Some class to the illustrations In
this one, too. What is it, anyhow? Oh,
yes. The Resorts of Long Island" Crack
bungalows, what! Look at the
folks sitting out on the front porches of
their bungalows, looking at the SUM-
dimpled waters, and the gardener-won-
der If they have to have gardener
moving the front grass with lawn
And there's one of the bunga-
lowites- coming through the front gate
with a string of fish that drags on the
ground! Wonder If he caught those him.
self? Reckon he must've. Probably used
shrimp bait up that way, or CLAIMS. Look
like weak-fish and porgies That's my
in boat and grabbing
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among the other classes II Is ioihe"ec"
By the professional men, clerks ahd
graduates of the government Schools
whose walking delegates are moving ABOUT
Among the agricultural masses and Stir
ring up trouble. One Of John Bulls big
rest problems is to keep the farmers at
tached to the government, and the British
officials are doing all they can to this
end
/ spent an hour the other day at the
agricultural department talking with its
secretary, Mr.. J. o. Miller. as to some
Of the movements. He tells me that the
government is awake TO the needs OF the
farmer and to what is being done for
them in other countries. He speaks
highly of our work along such lines. say
ing that the United States leads the ma
lions and that India is taking lessons
from US.
Mr.. Miller tells me that every province
of this country has now its agricultural
department and agricultural schools.
Each is making a study of It's own pc
culiar conditions and doing what IT can
60 improve them. Nealy all have expert
mental farms. and are distributing seeds.
Many are making studies of the insect
pests. and not a few are trying to breed
UP the stock of their respective territories.
AT the top OF the system is an inspector
general of agriculture. who acts as a
technical adviser to both imperial and
provincial governments. and the chief
agricultural experts OF the country have
been combined into a board of agri-
culture which meets at certain times to
discuss the farm ng situation and sub
NIT recommends tiCns as to its improve
ment- Agricultural colleges have recently
been established in Madras. Bombay and
the united and central provinces, and
there are farming branches In nearly. all
the industrial schooh
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Adlrondacks. Must keep Adironda cks in
mind Might do worse than go there.
X i
Oh. here's one about the White noun
tains. Girl standing on a cliff with field
glass at her eyes, gazing a thousand or
more miles away. Pretty girl, her skirts
btilowing In the mountain breeze. Often
heard about those same White mountains
Know some folks that went there last
year and they're talking about it yet. UNI.
Great eats up that way, too, I've heard.
New England cooking and all that.
Wonder how much it costs to
Here's one about the great lake resorts.
fine-looktng steamboat on the cover.
That steamboat looks as If it might be
about 1861 feet long. And these pictures
inside! Luffly Indian girls weaving bas-
kets. Look at that enerald-green water
I'd like to jump into it right here and
now! Look at the creamy wake of the
steamboat! And those woods coming right
down to the water-line! Looks as if the
steamboat is passing so close to the woods
as to get brushed by the branches. Great
lakes, eh? Funny l never happened to
make the great lakes. Might do worse
than go take a peek at 'em. I've been
fooling around the salt water during my
summer vacations heap. but never hap
pened to anchor in a fresh water place
anywhere near the great lakes. Guess I'll
make note of this great lake stuff.
Might decide to
What's this one? Oh. yes, Resorts in
the Alleghenies Of Pennsylvania. Mighty
fine-looking roads, those in these pictures,
tor mountain roads. Ought to be fine up
hfll.and-down-dale automobiling there
for fellows that've got automobiles. I'm
pretty nifty picture here of a passel of
girls in white dresses sitting under the
trees, picnicking at the base of q noun
tain. Let's see what It says. I'm. More'n
1000 feet above sea, air like wine, SUM-
shine all the time. storms of the lower
levels unknown. hotels and boarding
houses distinguished for their cookery.
favorite haunts of young folks, and
Here's another stack of pictures OF girls.
Girls must build their nests in those
Pennsylvania Alleghenies. Have to think
this thing over. Might decide to go to
one Of those Allegheny pIaces-never can
tell.
Let's see, what's this bowling beauty
of a booklet? Oh. yes; north shore of
Magnolia, Beverly-um.
Look at the palaces in these pictures!
Right down to the verge Of the sea,
these terraces Of the palaces! I'm
guess there's nothing for me at the
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Our modern agricultural movement"
said Mr.. Miller. was practically begun by
an American. AS far back as 1892 we have
mateers of agricultural chemistry, and we
had begun some work along other lines
when one Of your miilionaires, Mr..
Henry Phipps of Ptttsburg, came out to
India. He was friend OF Lord Curzon.
and such he spent some tn here at
Calcutta.
During his visit he becam terested
in the condition Of the farn and in
the terrible famines which nt d then
overrun parts of this count. he be-
Ncved such things could be la avoid
ed by the Improvement of OF. farming
methods. and he gave donation of $780,
600 to start agricultural school and
farm here in Bengal These were arranged
for by a council of state, consisting of
Lord Curzon. Gen. Lord Kitchener and
other men Of experience. Some of the
ablest experts were hired and an up-to-
date agricultural college established. The
fund originally given by Mr.. Phipps has
beer added TO. until we have now ex-
pended something like S60o.OO0 in build
ing up the institution. There is ex
detrimental seed Improvement station con-
nected with 1t. and also cattle breeding
farm. There are laboratories of various
kinds. and in them many chemists. bac-
terioloyists. entomologists. horticulturists
and botanists. We have department
there for veterinary surgeons. The
school Is teaching the natives almost
everything along the lines of advanced
agriculture as adapted to our special
needs. 1t Is at the top OF such institu-
students are graduates OF the provincial
agricultural colleges"
These agricultural schools are making
valuable discoveries. continued Mr..
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WHAT Europe Has to
w Pay for Kings Aside
From the Private Royal
Properties and Sources of
Income - Nicholas II Gets
the Most and Does the Least
for It-He Is Economizing
Rigidly, and No One Knows
What He Does With His
Vast Savings-Most of the
Other Monarchs Are Really
Hard-Up Chiefly Because of
the Relatives They Have to
Support and the Useless Pal
aces They Have to Main
tain.
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tionaI liberal and radical parties OF the
Prussian parliament and bill will be
introduced by the government soon.
lingering this pretty sum. Wilhelm IL
must feel like Warren Hastings when he
was asked to help himself to the treas
ures of Inuia. He must be surprised at
his own moderation for his ancestors
required twice as much. Friedrich Will
helm III of Prussia would not spend
penny of his own fortune. but in fifteen
years took Si4C.OOo.Oo0 from the public
for his court. Friedrich Wilhelm w was
at the same game when his antics were
checked by the 1SiS revolution The
petty German monarchs of the past We're
even greedier and did rot shrink at mir
ing their soldiers to foreign rulers and
pocketing the proceeds. In comparison
with these Wilhelm III MY feel vir-
tuous. moderate man. and can honestly
complain that he is underpaid.
Even today the other German SOW
ereigns get much larger salaries in pro-
portion to the population which pays
them. The mad King of Bavaria draws
81 1850. go The King of Saxony. who late
ly boasted. II am a soldier and eat black
bread and onions gets $4,000: the
and has separate subsidies for his poor
relations. There are twenty-five other
sovereign states in the German empire
and the rulers of all. except three free
cities. have palaces. poor relations, over
masters-of-ceremony, bodyguards, court
painters and poets and French cooks
And their subjects must pay. The Prince
of Reuss has no civil list. Another dis
tinguished exception is Prince Adoiph OF
Schaumburg-Lippe, who reigns over a
state about the size of Greater New
York. In theory he is the kaiser's equal
and ally. Prince Adolph not only has no
civil list. but pays $4,000 year out of
his private pocket to help the state
finances.
Although Germanys sovereigns draw
So,20O.O0O a year in salaries. the big
states pay relatively least. Prussia paws
its king only p cents a head. whereas
SchwarzbourgSond pays its
prince s1.15 a head.
T.
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CALCUTTA. 1910.
HE farmer Is the
big man of the
United States. He
Is a bigger man in
India. There are
900. 900, 600 of him.
and he forms the
backbone Of the
country. Today he
Is comparatively
quiet. The great
unrest which is go
ing on is mostly
=
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wheat goes to Karachi for shipment to
Europe. 1t is taken from the farms to
the cars and shipped, without storage In
elevators. Indeed. 1t is a question as to
whether the elevator system is not what
we need. That is a live question in In
dia"
How much does your wheat yield
per acre."
"On our irrigated lands we can raise
from twenty to thirty bushels. but the
crop must be carefully cultivated and
MANFRED, and it must be watered three
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or four times. We SOW in October and
harvest in March. In most localities it
Is reaped with sickles; it is thrashed
with bullocks and winnowed in the
wind. Much of the blowing is done
with wooden plows, and altogether the
cultivation is primitive.
Our agricultural stations are now
doing all they can to introduce modern
machinery. They advise the use OF
iron plows and of reapers and thrash
ers. They show the farmers how to
use such machines and encourage COM
petitive trials on the part of the deal
ers in the different makes.
I'VE are also testing as to artificial
manures. India produces but little
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A GREAT M OVEN n {
"a Started by an Ameri-
can Millionaire-The Phipps
School and the Government
Experiment Stations u Max
ing New Cottons - How
Wheat Is Raised by Irriga-
ton - Improving the Indigo
Crop-New Breeds of Cattle
and Horses - The Poppy
Fields and Chinese Opium
A Talk With the Secretary
of Agriculture.
Copyright. 1910 by Frank G. carpenter.)
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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OF long ago Will
helm II Of Ger
many objected to
I h e Anglicism
civil lis:" as de-
scriptive of his al
lOwance from the
nation. Sar,lonic
Germans Sneered.
'Zivilliste." they
said. taking the
German form. 1T
sounds too much
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ing he may be seen driving down the
RingstrasSe in a victoria. drawn by an
Indifferent horse. He lives thus because
he is tired and wise old man, thorough
~ sick OF the pomps and vanties Of eX-
isience.
Kaiser Wilhelm II is another hard-up
monarch. Like most of his ancestors
and nearly all the German princes in
history. he is a spendthrift. AS German
emperor he gets no salary; but he Is
allowed $4,000 year for representa-
ton AS King of Prussia, Wilhelm II
gets $685.. S24 year. OF this sum he
gets 81 S24 under the law of the 18th of
January, 1920. W hich gave his then pred
ecessor a civil list in exchange for large
estates which he handed over to the ma
ton. In 1850 the Prussian sovereign de-
manded and got a rise of $4,000 a year:
in 1868 he got a further rise of $7JO.O
a year, and finally. when the present
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Our converse ton here turned to the eff
forts of China to abolish the use of opium
and l asked Mr.. Miller whether this would
not seriously affect poppy farming In
India.
Most assuredly it WILL" was the re-
ply. If China stops using the drug the
greater part of our opium farms will be
wiped out and we shall lose a large reye-
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nue. We have agreed to cut down our
production and to restrict our irnports
tons to China If the Chinese government
can show that ii is really in earnest IN
abolishing the opium evil AS N is non
we are getting revenue of about twenty
TOUR million dollars per annum ont ~
opium. Inc less of that sum will mean
nnucn 10 the government. II will also
mean the cutting down of the government,
service as We have a number of emnloyes
VINO controi the crop and manufacture II
Tor shipment abroad
HOW is the opium handled,-
In British India IL is a royernn.,,
monopoly. and it is also raised in ths
hatife states. As to the product of tho
latter the government does NOT in,arfare
pue II allows no opium to come into or
out payment OF duty. ''
ne amount of land under such cp,t,
D lion Is comparatively small. In the
n ~ territories 1t is not more than
state of Rhode Island. Tho en,..rn W.
oecloes what fields may be planted a.
poPpies and restricts these to certain eco.
Tons OF Bengal and the United Provinces
tha, ettatNators receive advances to enable
them TO prepare the ground ana rafsa ,,,.
poppies but are bound TO sell their n,o,e
cIp 10 the official agents at the govern.
hents nr1ce. They send II To t6o O.
L.ts where II is prepared for the mar
kets. III Is there put IN in cbasts 80
shipped to Calcutta. where tbere a. go
tion sales monthly for export abroad
"h! does China. which raises ony,,,,
user. take Indian opium"
because our opium is the hest of III,
world We have one kind called Malu,a
winch brings in something like 81 coo or
year AS to the Chinese we have
agreed to stop sending them opium ~ th.y
VIII stop using the drug in the space q,
Ten years They must also stop rais;,s
opium We have begun TO carry ON, on,
part or the contract and are gradually
reduclng our manufacture and the areas
planted II the Chinese do not carry o,t
their part of the contract we shall CON
tlnue to export and produce"
Is much opium consumed in India p,
~ Is used in every province. although
not 10 the extent Of China. The consume.
lion is highest I'm Assam where :,
amounts to about seventeen pounds ner
thousand The united provinces use
something like five pounds per thousand
ana the people Of southern India less. The
drug is not smoked, but is usually taken
In pills and sometimes is drunk dissolved
In water. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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the hardest up of all monarchs. and tie
worst paid, considering his subjects
wealth. He got s2.350.o00 for himself
and s390.000 allowances for his relations
his civil list. like the kaiser's. represent
ed the value OF properties surrendered
to the state. King Georges civil list is
Yet to be fixed by parliament. but II
probably will be about the same as hi.
fathers. The King of Spain is still
worse of His income is 81 $4,000 The
rest Of Europes sovereisns fall into the
manner
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from England. and as rule they were
little better than gardeners. When the
war was over and you again monopolized
the market, these farms were taken over
by the government and made experiment
stations. Some Of them are in existence
today"
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The King Of Italy comes behind the
kaiser. His civil list is 100000 Next
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Copyright. 1910. by Frank G. carpenter.)
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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by the leaders of the conservative. ma i.
tional liberal and radical parties OF the
Prussian parliament. and bill will be
introduced by the government soon.
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He keeps no harem. He gives no enter
tainments. All his big palaces are closed.
The Winter Palace. at St. Petersburg:
the Great Alexander Palace, at Tsarskoe-
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BERLIN, June O., 1910.
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h H. the Summer Resort Book
The al.uring, the maddening,
the tittivating, the abbloviating,
the gly-illustrated-in-
/. get-our-goatful Summer Resort
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13

Another case was on my husbands
farm. A Woodworking man making
good crops every year only to sell
them and pay large bills to the
doctor because his children had
malaria and couldn't get clear of
it." Two years ago a son of four
teen years old died. A year ago it
looked like his daughter of eighteen
and a younger son would go the
same way. When | looked at them.
deadly pale, swollen abdomen, CLASSY
stare in the eyes, / thought I could
safely say it was hookworm disease.
| told the mother her children had
anemia and / would advise one
treatment by the county physician.
She replied: Il am so out of heart.
so discouraged, / am ready to do
anything. We have paid the doctor
5000. still owe him, and they don't get
WE'LL Being assured that the treat
ment should cost her nothing, she
agreed to have our county physician,
DR.. CHM, the following week. On
the day they took their first treat
ment young lady from town took
their pictures. After six weeks I
took their pictures to their mother,
for she alone could have recognized
them as being the same subjects, so
wonderful was their improvement.
Our Goldsboro woman's Club was
induced to take the matter up. A
committee was appointed, who in
vited DR.. Stiles to come to Goldsboro
and lecture in the opera house, to
which not only the physicians Of
the town, but every one in our coun-
ty were invited. To their credit,
most of them responded. Case after
case was examined by DR.. Stiles and
have since been successfully treated,
one of them boy whose father,
mother. and nine brothers and sis
ters lived on my husbands farm
when l came to Wayne County
twelve years ago. To-day this boy
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13
(13) $50

Okra, $12 per carrier. Peppers,75c-
0$1 per basket. Peas, S1.25@2
per basket. Spinach, $1.25 per bas-
ket. String beans, $1.25@1.5O per
basket. Squash, white, per bbl., Soc
@$1.25; yellow, $1@1.5O. Turnips,
per bbl., rutabagas, 75c. @$1. To-
matoes, soc @$1.50 per box, through
every fraction.
Apples, $1.50@3 per bbl.. latter
for red Astrachan. Pears, Clapps
Favorite, per bbl., 1904; others,
$1.75 OF. Peaches, N. c.. $3.50
1.50 per carrier. Plums, 50@75c
per carrier. Grapes, $3.50 per car
rier for N. G. Delawares. Currants,
11@13c per quart. Blackberries,
5@12c per quart. Huckleberries,
Sole per quart. Muskmelons, N.
c., per crate 36's, $1.25@1.75.
Butter, 2S2@29c for Creamery
specials. and 22a@23ac for factory.
Eggs, 22@23@24 for Western, az
to quality.
No. red winter wheat, $1.O6A;
No. Northern spring, $1.24a. Corn,
71ac. Oats. 46@48c for natural
white.