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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23

development as MT. Mitchell reported, and it's possibilities and it's promise stirred them as nothing had in all the long fight.
 It was late that afternoon when MT. Morgan left his office, for he had to com muncate with various persons and give instructions He did not proceed to his club, as he usually did but went di- rect to his home, and when he reached there he gave orders to the butler as to various callers he expected to entertain that night.
 MT. Mitchell and the other representa- tives of the miners organization did their best to restrain their impatience early in the evening. They looked at their watches or at the clock more often than war ranted, and they did not eat so heartily as usual. They had other things to con- slider than their meal. When they left the dining room one strolled out and rode uptown and then got out of the car and seemed to be impatient to get down town Another started down town and then hurried back again. MT. Mitch ell who attempted to appear calm and preoccupied, went out of the side door of the hotel and then. taking round- about course, wasted half an hour before he pointed straight for his destina tion It was s o'clock precisely when he rang the bell of Mir Morgans house at Mad ison avenue and Thrty-sxth street The sometimes the miners yielded to the door opened immediatel and before the butler had put his hat on the rack MT Morgan came forward to greet the visit or There was no lack of warmth in the the next morning that the strike was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23

will go our lumber industry, which now brings in a billion dollars a year and paSs one hundred millions in wages. How to prevent the loss of this how to plant rev forests, and how to take care of those now standing, are among the spe- cia projects which the government is studying
 New Roads and How to Make Them
 Another big thing conierns the roads of the United States. The government is teaching the people how to improve their highwa.s This is interesting to the farmer, ro the automobiler, and to every man who goes over the road. Twenty - .-l----t lesson roads nave already been built and over TOO miles of new roadways are in course of construction. This also affects the rural mail carriers, who travel by carriage more than a million miles every day and serve more than twenty millions of people.
 Uncle Sam and His Flying Machines
 The government is interested in avia- ton, and is testing all sorts of balloons and flying machines for the army and navy Some secret experiments The drigible balloon" Will we ever carry mails through the air? Thesp are some of the subjects of study. /
 Connected with this subject are the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
Uncle Sam Is Reclaimng an

those lands are worth, and how you may get them.
 Another big scheme is draining the 3wanps. We have millions of acres of vet lands that can be turned into farms. They are scattered over the Union from California to Maine. They are as rich as Holland, and will feed tens of mil lions. It is estimated that it will cost $2 an acre to drain them and that the crops they will yield will bring in a bill lion dollars a year. Where these swamps are and how they are to be handled is another project of Uncle Sam, patriarch.
 Harnessing the Waters
 This Is another big scheme bills in the aid of which are now before Con- gress. The government scientists are testing the matter and they have col iected a, vast deal of new information. This project includes the water powers which the experts say are equal to 60,00o,000 horses, or twice enough to run every mill, drive every train and light every house in the country This power can be increased to 200, 1000, ,000. Much of it comes from waterfalls con- trolled by the government, the conces- sion of which the trusts are trying to set.
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on in every branch of industry and every condition of life, making loss so great that 1t cannot be counted.
 Uncle Sam, Patriarch
 That was the condition until decade oI SO ago, when rpcle Sam had an awak- ening. He then began to assume the posi- tion of a father to his American children, and ne ha.i now become great creative force working for the betterment and protection of all the people. He is real patriarch devotng himself to the per sonai welfare of each of his subjects and developing the family estate for all it Is worth.
 These new movements are along hun dred different lines. and they embrace every part of our country from ocean to ocean and from the great lakes to the gulf. They affect every branch of bus- ness, every grade cf society, and every man. woman and child. The schemes involve an expenditure of hundreds of. millions, and some will add billions to our national wealth, Let me mention c few of them.
 The Deserts and the Swamps
 Take for instance the great mango trick of making golden crops spring up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23

TNVERY business day keen-eyed, hard-featured man enters an of A flee in Wall street at 9:SO o'clock. Regularly he leaves at 12 noon and returns at 1:45. He remains at his desk until o'clock, and then departs for the day. He receives little mail and has few callers. His office furniture is modest, for his needs are simple. On his desk there is telephone Along side the desk stands a ticker.
 You will search the teleph one direc- tory from cover to cover and not find his name, yet dozens of the big men in the street know his number and now and then they surreptitiously call him up. It does not sult MT. Aristides Kwegg to have people know much about him. He keeps hls name off the door of his office and there Is no mem ton of him in, the roster of tenants Of the building.
 Most of the bankers of Wall street know MT. Kwegg and are aware of the fact that he has quite bundle of money, but none of them will stop and chat with him as they do with other men of wealth, for in the financial dis trict he is a pariah, an Ishmaelite. There Is little that is reprehensible that Wall stree. does not charge MT. Kwegg with doing. To be a rogue or a pirate is not so bad in itself, but to prey on fellow rogues and fellow pirates is un forgivable.
 Mir. Kwegg hunts alone. He does not run with the pack. One who has studied him for years says he takes a sinister delight in stalking those who are among the proudest, the richest and most powerful He acts so stealthily and strikes so suddenly that rarely is there any knowledge of what he is about until it is too late to turn the attack. There is no artifice, no form of chicanery which those who nave suf- fered say he will not employ to serve his ends
 within it. some others who go beyond its letter or spirit in mergers, com hlnations, consultations or other deals are halted suddenly by MT. Kwegg. He has a most surprising instinct for discovering the plans and the weak nesses of those he would prey upon. Sometimes as an innocent shareholder he will check q deal in which scores of millions of dollars are involved. Crafty lawyers, working at his behest, would be able to make no end of trou- hle. The captains of industry swear. threaten and howl and then, with moans and tears of anguish, pay the rrice MT Kwegg demands as tribute before he will let them proceed. It is cheaper, much cheaper, to do this than have affairs tied up while the courts thresh the matter out. What does it matter if the rich victims call him a highwayman, a blackmaIler, a scoun- drel and any other unpleasant name their mind suggests? He smiles or
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Copyright, 1911, by Frank G. Carpenter
 Washington, D. c.
 HHIS is the first of a series of let
 ters which I shall write from Sun A day to Sunday upon Uncle Sam, patriarch. A dozen years ago our great national relative was merely the business manager for the American people, He was hard-fisted, non-thinking machine to collect taxes and keep order. He took in the revenues and paid the employees, giving no attention to the conservation or development of the country. He all lowed himself to be used by the interests and our public lands by the hundreds of millions of acres went to the railroads and individuals, and corporations got our forests and mines for a song. At the same time an incalculable waste went
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23

or American consuls. Our foreign com meroe now amount to about three billion dollars year, and our exports alone are over 16,000 millions. This business is just at it's beginning and neverthe- less it is the greatest commerce of any nation.
 Our Big Lumber Trade
 It is a live question as to what Uncle Sam will do with the forests of the union and whether they should not be given over to the people. He has still about five hundred billion board feet or standing timber anG in many of the na- tional forests he is cutting the trees and saving them into lumber The forestry gone within twenty years, and with 1t
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UNCLE SAM, PATRIARCH-By Frank c. Carpenter

and tells just how much alchohol there is in every bottle of wine and beer He is also testing foods and food values and lays down rules by which you may grow lean or fat. He has cooking schools which are studying how to prepare meats and vegetables, and tells you just what to eat to be- come the best man physical and men tally.
 Our National Assets
 The government is now figuring up how much we are worth For the past several years it has had an army of in- vestigators estimating our crops, animals and foods, and these figures are now about ready for use. They show that we have 3O0,0O0 factories with capital of 15 billion dollars. They give the wages of every state of the union as well as a full count of Uncle Sam's children. This has been done by the census, the work Of which includes new facts of great human | interest.
 Uncle Sam, Detective
 One of the interesting phases of Uncle
  his efforts to protect his children from frauds This has been inaugurated with iil the past few years, and it now forms a great network which gathers in the robbers, from the counterfeters to the trust nagnates There are hundreds Of these detectives and spies. There are tho ! corporation detectives who are looking n nn nle nf 10 10 l.pil H. roads. There are detectives who are ex- | amining false weights and measures; | custom house spies who are after the smusglers; internal revesue spies who are hunting the moonshiners and treasury detectives who are chasing the counter feiters. This sphere of crime is very extensive, and the officials are increasing their work of prevention. Some of the most interesting revelations of the pres through the mails and to the destruction of fake mining schemes, land schemes and plantation schemes of one kind or another.
 | Government Schemes for the Sailor ] The government is also doing a great deal for the sailors. It has life-saving service with 450 stations. It guards our coasts by 1200 lighthouses and it has | 4G lightships and 2c00 buoys. This serv- icc saved about 16 billion dollars worth of property last year. including vessels worth twelve millions II saved also Go0) lives. l l want to tell how the coasts and har- bors are being surveyed and desci .--~- enormous shipping interests, including D carrying trade amounting to two or three billion dollars per annunL,
 Uncle Sam, Expoter | What our patriarchial relative is doing 10 sell our crops and manufactures abroad IS worth noting. In the past two or three years he has organized new | system for the development of our for eign commerce and he now has his na- tiona trade drummers and govern- ment agents in almost every country. | He has inspectors who go from land to land studying the pushing of special crops and he is also working the army
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23

on the soil of our waste lands. You have tread something of it in the opening
 of the Roosevelt dam. Uncle Sam has $50, 0O0 in hand to water the deserts, and his reclamation fund for our arid lands is fast approximating a hundred millions or more. He is tunneling the mountains, damming the streams and carrying the waters in fumes over the canyons. He has more than 1900 miles of canals already dug. The Roosevelt dam alone will redeem a quarter of million acres and there are thirty-four other projects, each of which will reclaim
 thousands. All that land is to be set aside for his American children, and any one who applies can have 40 acres of it for the asking. I shall tell you what
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A part of this same scheme is the development of our rivers. We have 295 of them in the United States, with navigable waters long enough to en- circle the globe. The great lakes are the busiest freight routes upon earth, and boats can go on the Mississippi for 20O0 miles, We have already built 4500 miles of canals, and we have schemes which propose the joining of the great lakes with the Mississippi, and also with the sea. One scheme is a canal from the great lakes to the gulf.
 Doubling Our Farms
 When our forefathers took possession of the United States almost the whole of the land belonged to the government. Year by year these public lands have been given away. More than fourteen hundred millions of acres have been sold or set aside as reservations, and there are comparatively few leIt Never theless, Uncle Sam Patriarch Is at work upon schemes which will practically double our farms He Is testing the soil and showing how by fertilizing and proper farming the crops can be in- creased two or more fold This is equal to putting another farm on top of every farm in the United States.
 Much of this work Is done by means of bacteria, so small that handful would number more than all the people in the world. Uncle Sam is setting those little devils to work and he shows you Just how and which ones to use. He is now analyzing the soils of the whole country and making a survey which will show just how to treat them. He is also testing new seeus and plants and his explorers are travelling over the world seeking new crops. We have already made millions by his introduce ion of rice and macaroni wheat, and are inaugurating tropical agriculture in the irrigated deserts of the west. These new crops are of many kinds. and suggestions may be given of things out of which any farmer can make money.
 Uncle Sam's Plans for the Miner Many of the latest schemes relate to the mines and the riner. Uncle Sam has plans for saving our minerals. We have the greatest coal lands upon earth, and there are billions of tons left upon gov ernment property. The amounts are so vast that they will bring in hundreds Of millions of dollars, and they are to be sold on estimates made as to the amounts they contain. The geological surveyors are now prospecting and sizing up these ccal lands, and the government is sell ing them in 4o-acre tracts at from s5C to s100 and upward per acre. In connec- tion with this there are about fifteen mil lion tons of available coal In Alaska, which will soon be thrown open to those who apply. Some of this coal is that which it is said the Guggenheims tried hard to grab.
 As to our other minerals they bring in many millions year. and Uncle Sam's records will show just what they are and where
 In this same connection are the new measures now being introduced for pro tcctng the miner. The government is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
Earning His Way

From the Chicago Rccord-Herald.
 How does it happen, Willie?' asked the boys teacheis ,'that you always have to much money?"
 q earn it.''
 You earn it? rIov?'
 By taking medicine. Pa paid me 50 cents for talsin' bottle of some kind of oi, with fishy taste, and ma gave ma quarter for takin bottle of something with iron in it. and I'm tryin to get granda to give me a dollar for talsin' 2 quinne pill every night fer month. If I cant get her to make a bargain, I'm going to let pa give mea dime a day for takin' malt or somethin'.'
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whole countrywide creation, in fact, of new United States. They mean moro money, more business and better condl- ticns for every one of Uncle Sams chill dren, and the knowledge of them will believe, make us all better patriots. The most important schemes will he taken up in their turn, and with pen and camera their live features described. The ma terias for the articles will be gotten from the fountain head at Washington and from various places over the coun- try where certain work is going on.
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new discoveries which have been made as to the upper air by means of box kites. This work is going on at Mount Weather in the Blue Ridge, where kites are flown daily and aerial flights of various kinds made. Uncle Som is now spending a mill lion and a half dollars per annum in forecasting the weather, and Dr. Willis Moore claims that he is saving the farmer, manufacturer and exporter $50,- 0o0,000 a year.
 The New United States
 But I might fill several columns with the mere mention of the great enterprises which our patriarchal uncle has under way or in contemplation. They mean the reorganization and development of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23

1 testing all sorts of explosives, and doing all it can to save life in the mines. Ex- periments are going on in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, and also in the gold and silver mines of the west
 Uncle Sam's plans for Corn and Cotton
 Some of the biggest schemes of the government relate to the cotton belt and cornfields. The government is teach ing corn breeding and corn seeding. Our corn brought in last year over s1,500, CO., GOO, and the cotton brought in about 800 or 300 millions. The corn crop can be doubled and the cotton materially in creased. We are improving both crops, and Uncle Sam has cotton -breading plan- tations where he is crossing the cottons to make staple which will be longer and bring more money. He is doing the same with other crops, including our fruits | This material will include stories of apple lands worth a thousand dollars an acre, of orange groves improved by the gov ernment, which are equally valuable, and of how dates, oranges and figs are being grown on the new irrigated grounds of the southwest. On some of the Arizona farms they raise five crops of cabbages 9 year.
 More Money From Live Stock But few people know that the gov ernment has gone into the stock rais- | ing business. Uncle Sam has recently established breeding farms in different parts of the union. He is raising Nor l gan horses and fine cattle, including Jerseys, Shorthorns and others. Our | farm animals are now bringing us in about $2,000.000, 900 a year, and the gov ernment believes that this amount by careful breeding can be increased s5o,- 000,000 or more. This should bring down the price of meats, and 1t is in- teresting to every householder.
 1 In the same connection is the breed | ing of game. The government is intro- ducing cartridges and pheasants. It proposes to open a buffalo farm, and it has herds of raindeer in Alaska. A curious feature is the probable intro duction of the hippopotamuses for the swamps of the south. I am told also that one man has made q fortune in skunks which he rears for their skins.
 We have thousands of men and wo- men nursing chickens. Uncle Sam has new methods of fowl raising, and quite a number of people are making a liv ing by breeding guineas for game. Our | poultry crop is worth as much as the cotton crop. the hay crop or the wheat crop.
 Uncle Sam, Doctor
 | Another interesting work of Uncle | Sam Is the care he Is now exercising over the health of his children The government has scores of scientists in- vestigating diseases of animals and men We are wiping out the mosqui- toes and slaughtering the flies that bring typhoid fever. We take the tenn peratures of the cows to learn whether
 they have consumption, and we tell just how their milk should be treated. Un- cle Sam is also inspecting the drugs and
 meats. He protects you from bad liquor
Arizona republican., 1911-11-19
SOMEWHAT OF A PUZZLE.

The words Dei Gratia, the Grace of God. have disappeared from the 1911 is sue of Canadian coins, and just why this is so seems to be a matter of much mystery. As far as can be as certained the royal mint in London is responsible for the change.
 Although the Dei Gratia seems to have disappeared from the Canadian coinage. the new King George coins in Great Britain retain it. The King Ed wardus VIII Dei Gratia Rex Imperator. The 1911 Canadian coins are stamped Georgius V Rex ct Ind. Imp. There is no sign of the Dei Gratia.
 We get new dies for all our coins every year, and the ones We received this year were lacking the Dei Gratia. said Doctor Bonar, deputy master of the Canadian mint We get our dies from the other side, so that the mint itself is not responsible for the change. the Ottawa Citizen.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-19
"MooNSHINiNG" IN ENGLAND?

Jerdon Vosburgh of Great Barring ton, who has a farm over on tine West Sheffield road. while standing in one nf his fields felt a sudden sqneez- irC sensation in one of his less. I.ooiEg down he saw a large black snake wound around that leg and get ting il a half relson that was be- coming painful With the other leg Hceburgh succee s3 in break 1r tht s,.alie'5 hold an1 t hurriedly Gisap- peared in the fled.
 Edward ManoGue. anOthe- Great Harrington resident. was ous near Last Rock Sundav and he cdi:ir upon rattiesnake. Tho reptile :av coiled in his path and was killed ny Nan CSue. IL had eleven rattles.
 aGc Whitbeck and Frank Johnson kintd thirty-seven rattle.sIakes last S,ncay at rattle l;:;e den' on Alan da. mountain. One of the reptiles was over four feat Ions and had eleven rattles.-BerKshire Courier.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-19
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tion more together and thus obtain better results"
 Special delegations in chartered cars will attend from several other states. Large and enthusiastic delegations are expected from Arizona, the home of B. A. Fowler president of the con gress; Washington, the residence of k. Insinger. chairman of the board of governors; Missouri, where Fred w Fleming. first vice president resides: Montana, the home of L. Newman, second vice president; Colorado, where the third vice president. A C. Watson. lives; California. the home of the fourth vice president. John Fairweather; Wyoming, the residence of the fifth vice president B C. Buff fun. as well as Idaho. Kansas. Ne vada, North DallOts, South Dakota, Oklahoma, oregon. Texas and Utah.
 The attention being paid this year tO drainage has interested the south ern and eastern states. and large dele gations are expected to represent them.