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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-11

usual interest, in view of the exten
siye use of coffee in the United States
In the worlds production of coffee
| Brazil holds the pre- eminent place
In 1900 the exports from Brazil
amounted to 1920 pounds; they have
steadily increased until in 1909 they
| were more than IA billion pounds.
The Land in Brazil suitable for coffee
cultivation covers an area larger than
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri
Nebraska, Michigan, Wisconsin. Ok
sahoma, Texas and California; but
the area under cultivation is small
compared to that which could be cul-
tivated, but little more than two mil
lion acres being in coffee in 1905.
About three-fourths of the worlds out.
put is grown in Brazil.
The history of the valorization
scheme by Brazil is of great interest,
not only to those interested in cof
fee, but to students of economies in
general. The state of Sac Paulo bor-
rowed more than seventy millions Of
dollars in 1908 for the purpose of
maintaining prices on the various mar
kets, these having become very low,
due to over production. Since the
buying and storing of this coffee the
government through a committee has
sold between three and four million
pounds.
Venezuela and Columbia rank next
in amount produced, each growing in
the neighborhood of one hundred
million pounds annually. Mexico,
the Central American states, and the
Dutch East Indies, also produce large
quantities. The only coffee produced
in the United States is grown in
Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philip
pine Islands.
The United States received coffee
from As different countries in the
past five years, the great bulk COM
ing from South and Central America
and Mexico lesser amounts were i'm
ported from the Dutch East Indies and
British West Indies, and from one
and one-half to two and one half
million pounds from Arabia.
In the total amount of coffee con
sumed, the United States leads all
other countries by wide margin.
The imports amounted to over one
billion pounds, annually, in three OF
the last ten years. Netherlands.
Cuba, Sweden, Norway, Finland and
Belgium each have larger per cap
ita consumption than the United
States. The United States con5ump-
ton of coffee per capita is about IS
times that of the United Kingdom,
while the consumption of tea in the
United Kingdom is about six times
greater than in the United States.
The import and export duties levied
en- coffee in the principal countries
and their possessions show wide
range. The principal countries ad-
miting coffee free of duty arc The
United States, Netherlands, German
Southwest Africa and several Of the
British colonial possessions.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-11
COFFEE INDUSTRY;
WORLDS OUTPUT.
BRAZIL HOLDS PRE-EM!NENT
PLACE - BRAZll'S VALORlZA.
TiON SCHEME.
(By V. Merkle.)

Washington. Dec. 10.-The secretary
of agriculture will soon issue a bull
letin on the coffee industry. 1t con-
tains q record of the history, origin
and cultivation of the tree; world S
production, trade and consumption by
countries: substitutes and adulter
ants. The bulletin is of more than
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-11

We had Thanksgiving holidays dur
ing the month. the schools made a
splendid record, indeed. I am pleas
ed to report 10 You that the inter
est manifested by pupils is greater
at this lime than at any previous
tine IN my experience. The enthu-
siasm which they manifest in their
work ndcates that they are re-
ceiving that form of instruction hat
is practical and helpful and also
that 1t is being presented in an at
tractive manner.
During tn emonth classes in Do
mes;ic Science were organized and
the work started, The work is be-
ing given to all the young ladies of
the High School and to the girls Of
the Seventh and Eighth grades in
all the wards. Already Il great deal
Of interest is manifested il this
work and pupils enter very enthu-
siastical(y into this part of their
work. The Mothers Clubs in the
different wards have ordered dem
onstration desks for the separate
ward schools and have made ar
rangements for fitting up room so
that this work may be taught sue
cessfully to the grade pupils. 1t
gives me pleasure to report to you
that the expenses of this equipment
will be met entirely by the differ
ent clubs
During the month, We held our
term examinations on the work OF
the first three months. Through.
out the entire city there were only
four pupils absent from these eX-
aminatons and these were absent
on account of illness. The teachers
report that pupils have made the
best showing in this term eXami
nation that they have ever made
sCl' hN4N ailC iCNNl thoh
ever before. Pupils have manifested
a determination to do their work
well and successfully and it seems
that nearly all of them are succeed
ing. We regard this examination
as valuable for a number of reas-
ons: First, it enabdes the teacher
to learn early in the year the weak
pupils and the strong pupils. 1t
enables her to know in what sub
jects the child is weak and in what
particular classes he needs special
help and assistance. Teachers will
give pupils who need special work
in a subject extra time and by this
means nearly every pupil will be
able to pass. This exaination also
acts as a stimulus to pupils and
causes them to realize that if they
would pass they must apply them
selves diligently during the entire
year
During the month, we had an ex
hibit of the work in all the grades
in each of the buildings of the city.
1t was by far the best exhibit we
have had. was also much graft
fled that more parents and friends
of the school visited and examined
the work this year than at any for
mer time. Another valuable fea-
ture Of this exhibit was that all of
the teachers visited all Of the other
rooms and examined the exhibits of
the different teachers during the
holidays and teachers report that
this was one of the most helpful
things that they have had. We
are very much pleased. indeed, with
the enthusiasm and the interest and
the wor kthat is being done this
year and hope that the patrons and
friends of the school will continue
their splendid cooperation to the
end that we may render the great
est amount of service possible to
the children of this community.
Respectfully submitted,
c. w. RICHARDS,
Superintendent. |
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-11

Your COW and horse need millrun
bran. alfalfa hay and medicated salt
brick in the trough. You will find
them at Campbell & Campbell's.
24tf
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-06

are shacks everywhere made up of pieces of
galvanized iron roofing, boards from dry
goods boxes and the scraps Of old lumber
which fell with the quake The town now
reminds one of Nairobi in Africa, which J.,
contemptuously called the tin town. The
houses are made up Of all sorts Of make
shifts. The roofs and walls are of galvan-
lied iron or half iron and half tile. In the
several houses saw the sheets of iron laid
on the walls with the tiles around the edges
OF the sheets to keep the rain from running
through the cracks.
The market now consists of large num-
Der of sheds made of debris and rooted with
iron and tin. Today is Sunday and the peo-
pie from all parts of the country about have
come into the market. There were thous-
and or more there when visited it a few
hours ago. Many of the market women sat
on the ground with oranges, bananas. pota-
toes and onions piled about them. The
butchers stood inside their tin shacks and
used sheets OF galvanized iron as counters,
upon which they cut up the meat for the Gus
toners. There were tailor shops and shoe
shops in store-box like sheds, and saw wo-
men sewing at machines out in the sun. In
many cases the merchants sold their goods
out in the open, sitting on the ground as
they did so. At the present time, about two
blocks away, new market is building. This
is building of steel with galvanized iron
roof. 1t must cover several acres, and it is
rapidly approaching completion.
A Look at Carnegies Peace Palace.
1 walked down the street following
stream of mountain water which flowed
through the gutter to the site of Carneeie's
great building which was to teach peace to
these Central American republics. The
scenes about it are now peaceful enough,
but they are the peace Of desolation. will
not say of despair, for understand that Mr.
Carnegie has offered to give an extra hun
dred thousand dollars to erect new build
ing, and that this will shortly be put up 1t
the capital, San Jose, which is about five
hours walk away.
AS to the first structure, it lies where it
was stricken down by the stony hand of oil
Mother Earth The walls and the roof
have been reduced to pile of stones and the
foundations only remain to show the beauti-
full structure that the palace must have been
These foundations are intact for, perhaps,
eight or ten feet above the ground. Every.
thing else has fallen as far as the floor of the
great central court. climbed up the steps
and walked over the patio. This is intact,
but weeds and grass are growing in the cor
ners where the fountains were to have been
located, and there is wide hedge of weeds
running around it, covering the hall which
separates the patio from the ruins of the
rooms which faced upon it.
In the Cemetery.
next visited the cemetery, which is sit
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The city was prosperous. 1t had about Is
900 people and it was full Of tourists and
pleasure lovers, as was Pompeii at its fall.
Among the visitors were several hundred
Americans who had come here from Pan
of April, 1910.
In Earthquake Land.
Several months before that time, how
ever, the volcanoes about had been having
eruptions. Old Poas, mighty mountain at
the west, had thrown up geyser of steam
to height of more than two and half
miles, and this had spread out in a n,ush-
room of light gray which had covered the
valley Of San Jose. At the same time rain
of ashes fell upon that city which lies about
IS miles west of here and the trees and
shrubs for miles around were covered with
volcanic ash, making them look as though
covered with snow. The ashes even went as
far as Punta Arenas, on the Pacific, and near
the volcano stones which were more than
foot in diameter fell from the skies.
Along about April Is there was an earth
quake which was felt throughout this whole
central plateau All the church bells at Car
tago began to ring violently and the ground
rose and fell. This was about midnight.
The people ran into the streets and the most
OF them got down on their knees and prayed
to the saints. The tremblings of the earth
continued until morning There were more
than score of shocks before o'clock, but
they grew less and less and all thought the
trouble was over There was another strong
shock shortly after midday and on the fol-
lowing day dozen or more shocks were re-
corded, but nothing very alarming. Then
the earth became quiet and for almost three
weeks there was peace. The people thought
the trouble was over, and the tourists spoke
of the earthquakes as delightful experience
and planned the big stories they would tell
when they got back to Panama.
The Great Shock Which Destroyed Cartago.
This was the situation May fourth, when
the great earthquake occurred. There had
been slight tremor about noon of that day,
but it was not until the darkness was falling
that the earth gave its great heave. 1t was,
in fact, just about 10 minutes to 7 p. m
when most of the people were in their
homes, either eating their dinner or sitting
and chatting, that mighty shock came
which. converted the surface of this city into
waving sea, and which within few sec
onds reduced the whole town to rubbish.
Nearly every house was thrown to the
ground. The churches were ruined, and the
tower of Ell Carmen was hurled many rods
and dropped right across the railroad tracks.
Ninety-six squares of buildings were re-
duced to debris. The market was laid low
and great female seminary became dust
and stone The American hotel, which then
had over 200 guests, was destroyed. The
Church of Los Angeles, about the richest in
Central America, had its towers cracked and
its walls fell in. The Carnegie building
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-06

ferent rooms. Two OF my little ones were
in the hands OF the nurse taking bath, and
a third was in bed with fever. We car
ried them out into the streets and finally
made our way out of the ruins.
Sounded Like Battle.
4 cannot describe the scenes at that
time" continued DR.. Prize. "The walls were
everywhere falling, and the noise was like
the cannonading of battle. The people
seemed to be crazy. They were shrieking
and crying, and many were on their knees
praying. The air was choking with ashes.
The merchants and clerks had all run out of
the stores, and no one paid any attention to
saving his goods At the same time it was
dark When the earth rose it threw off the
switch at the electric light plants, and this
saved many lives. Had it not done so the
and many would have been killed by them.
An electric wire caught me in the neck just
as ran out of the door, and had the current
been on should have persisted. As it was,
tried to get some coal oil, and went to
store and asked for it, The merchant was
out in the street. He told me that there was
five-gallon can in the rear of the store and
that could have it for nothing if I would
bring it out but, as for him, he would not
venture l went in and got the can, but it
held only quart"
"And what did the people do for quarters
that night?"
''We did our best to get out of the city,
and later on we had tents which we lived in
until we could find where we were. Many
of the residents have coffee plantations and
country estates and some went to them. A
relief train and physicians came in from San
Jose the next day, and the dead were grad
ually taken out. A few of the buildings
have since been repaired. The town has
now perhaps one-sixth the population it had
two years ago"
How the City Looks Today.
And now let me tell you something OF the
Cartago of today. have spent hours wan
dering through its almost deserted streets
and tramping over the ruins of the homes
of the past Everywhere one goes he sees
the foundations of buildings with pile of
debris inside of them. The Church Of San
Nicolas, not far from the station, is being
repaired, but the tower is down and the walls
are cracked and broken. The bells have
been put up on poles at shed at the side
and are now rung by hand. The great
cathedral opposite the public park and the
market, which was built at cost, l venture,
of half million or so, has been cracked and
destroyed beyond hope Of repair. 1t is
stone structure covering almost an acre,
with walls 10 feet in thickness. Others OF
the churches have entirely disappeared.
A Town of Tin and Scraps.
Walking through the streets one sees the
despair of the inhabitants in the buildings
which have been erected to take the places
of the substantial houses OF the past. There
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-06
copyright, 1912, by Frank G. Carpenter
CARTAGO, Costa RIGA

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GS@@RO AM in the Pompeii of Cen
$d(s-'>k trail America. Here on the
M r IN highlands of the Andes,
Wa i IN about half way between the
MH az Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
8&SRI&3 ard almost mile above the
sea, is situated little city
which from time immemorial has been
rocked by the shocks of earthquakes. Like
the Pon1peii at the foot of Vesuvius, 1t has
been partially destroyed several times, and,
like it, it has finally met with a CONFUSION OF
old Mother Earth which has reduced it to
ruins.
Cartago, the Beautiful.
Three years ago there was no prettler
little city in Latin America than this town
of Carriage. Lying as it does in nest in the
volcanic mountains, amid high peaks COW
cred with green and crowned with tleecy
white clouds and with the parent streams OF
s11ountain water flowing through its con-
crete cutters, it was considered the most
healthy resort north of our canal zone. The
town was noted for its delightful climate
and as the vacation place for employees on
the canal They came here by the hundreds,
and there was large hotel run by an Amer
lean named Weldon, as well as numerous
boarding houses which supplied them with
quarters
The place was especially attractive be-
cause of its quaintness. 1t is one OF the old
cities of Central America and had been built
in Central American style. Its houses
which were several thousand in number ran
along well made streets with narrow side
walks of flagstone. The houses were of
one story made OF stone and mud with walls
several feet thick The buildings also were
OF one story facing the streets with the
rooms running around patios in which were
. orange trees, lemon trees and many tropical
flowers The doors and windows were large
and the breezes from the mountains blew
through from all sides The roofs were of
red tiles, and were laid on thick rafters Al
together the town seemed substantially built
and no one would have supposed that
single great shock could have reduced it to
ruins, as its low houses were considered
earthquake proof.
In addition to its residences Cartago had
some fine business buildings. There were
many stores scattered here and there and
also great market, winch was nled WITH
stalls and crowded on each market day by
khe thousands who came in from the sur
rounding country to buy and sell. There
were Is Catholic churches and great ca
khedral was building Some of the churches
were of large SIZE There were schools for
boys and schools for girls, and last, just then
approaching completion and ready to be
dedicated, was peace palace built by An
drew Carnegie to be the home of Central
american court which would arbitrate the
differences between the several republics.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-06

which its architect declared was earthquake
proof was leveled to the ground and the
catacombs Of the cemetery were torn opc1,
and thousands of breaking collins, out Of
which spilled bones and dead bodies, were
thrown to the ground, while in other parts
of the cemetery family vaults filled with
dead crumbed to the earth.
One Thousand Lives Lost.
The loss of life was terrible Almost one
tenth of the city persisted in the ruins. In
Guiding the neighboring town of Paraiso
the dead were fully 100, and in addition to
this many were wounded The people rushed
from the buildings at the first great tremor
of the EARTH but the shock came so quickly
that many were crushed before they could
get out. One of the citizens tells me OF how
he and his family crawled under heavy
wood table and thus escaped destruction.
The streets rose and fell so that people run
ming along them were sometimes thrown
against the buildings while falling and thus
crushed.
DR.. Alfred Prie, rich Canadian coffee
and banana planter, who lost something like
100000 in the earthquake, told me today of
some curious instances which reminds one
of Pompeii. When the ruins were excavated
many people were found just as they ap-
peared in the acts of their ordinary work
when killed by this mighty catastrophe.
"In one house." said he. "a shoemaker sat
amid the ruins with shoe on his knee and
his hammer raised in the act of striking the
sole. We found women sitting at their sew
ing machines their hands still holding the
cloth and their heads bowed over their
work. In one case the wife of Central
American diplomat was giving her baby
bath when the house fell and crushed both
her and the child"
Some Strange Features of the Earthquake.
"Tell me your own experience, Mr.. Pirie,"
said l.
myself and my family were uninjured,"
was the reply. "but nevertheless the shock
was a. terrible one and we had narrow
escape My house has walls over three feet
in thickness and it was so built that only the
interior OF it was destroyed. l had several
Canadian girls visiting me at the time the
earthquake occurred. We had just sat down
to dinner 1t was already dark and the cleo
trio lights were turned on. We had been
talking about earthquakes. and one Of the
girls had said she had felt slight tremor
that afternoon. We had warned her that
there was little danger but just at that mo-
ment the floors rose and the inside walls be-
gan to fall in. We were all thrown from our
chairs to the floor. The table was over
turned At the same time the light went
out. The screen was thrown against the
door, shutting it tight, and we had great
scramble trying to get out. We would rise,
and be again thrown to our knees. AS soon
as we could gain our feet we rushed through
the house for the children who were in diff
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-06

AM in the Pompeii of Cen
trail America. Here on the
highlands of the Andes,
about half way between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
ard almost mile above the
:A.oAoI . 1s<<1n >st1y
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-06

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-09-15
FARMER KILLED
BY LIGHTNING
GEORGE SMITH MET INSTANT
DEATH ON FARM NEAR PkULS
VALLEY FRIDAY.

l'auls Valley, Okla, Sep.. 1i.-Geo.
Smith, farm hand employed on the
Ras stephens farm two miles from
PAuls Valley was instantly killed Fri
day afternoon about 2:@0, being struck
by lightning.
Seeing "A rain coming up, Smith
hitched team Of mules to a load OF
seed cotton IN the field. He had just
climbed upon the wagon, when the
lightning struck him, killing mm in
stantly, as well as the team of mules
hitched to the wagon a little girl
seated upon the wagon was uniniured.
The cotton in the wagon was set on
fire but quickly eNtinguished.
Smith was a single man, coming
here from Arkansas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-09-15

X. w. Randol will leave here Mon
dav morning for Chicago. He will
be accompanied by his daughter
Miss Ruth and Miss Annie Thomi-
son. These young ladies were un-
der the president of the conservatory
who has been at Sherman ana they
follow himto Chicago to continue
under his tutorship. Mr.. Randcl
said after his daughter finishes there
he will send her abroad to Further
prosecute her work. Luther Randol
will accompany the party to Chicago
and from there he will go to Yale
where he will enter that lnstltu-
tion of learning.