The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-11-22

MUCH HOFe Lhhu mail JnAl VI NVo'S
London.
Experiments 10 dry farming, ACCORD
Ing to the American method, are bein
made IN Brazil
Throughout the world there are owe
1900 900 members Of trade unions !
various nations.
Home economics Is 10 be made CON
puIsOry In the primary schools of SAKE
Weimar, Germany,
Cyprus, under a convention Of 1871
pays an annual tribute OF f92,SOO /
the sultan Of Turkey,
Chicago is to have an institute o
OSteopathy. to be named after Audrey
Still, founder OF the science, and t.
cost Sl.OO0,0O0
The practically barren Hawaiian Is
land OF Lanai will be reclaimed by
water conservation scheme and dev0t
cd TO sugar beet culture.
The Germans are doing a great rOat
building work 10 Africa. and at no dis
tRnt date the possessions of that cOun
Try In the dark continent will be II
touch with each other by motor routes
That all officers OF the navy need no
be graduates Of Annapolis has agalI
been demonstrated In the promotion
Of T. R Ford. chief machinlst Of the
Baltimore, and L, N. Elinsley, machiD
Int Of the Iowa, TO the rank OF ensign
Edward jerks. an eminent London
barrister and legal writer. has per
formed the ditIlcnlt task Of compress
Ing within the limits Of a moderate
volume the entire history Of English
law from the earliest times to the end
Of the year 1911.
The American Medical association Ia
to make 4 study OF methods Of resus
citation from electric shocks Many
emllent physicians and electrical en-
SineeFs are to cooperate In the inves
hgatlOn, which 1t 10 hoped will have
important practical results.
There are over a thousand factories
ia the city OF Barcelona aud the sur
rounding towns Electric power Is be
tag brought from az far A. the Pyre-
nees. aud company with $25,O00.000
capital-mOsfly foreign has been form
cd to exploit the abundant water power
10 Catalonia
Russia 10 to have 4 north pole eX
petition Of Its own, under the com.
msnd Of Captain SeedOw. who pur
pOseS proceeding in ship to Franz
Josef Land and to 90 thence by Sledge
over the ice to Greenland by way OF
the pole. Any solid ground he may
And near the pole he will name Mich
0las II Land
Lieutenant General SIR Robert Ba.
dsn.POwell. who has returned to Lon.
don after a journey around the world
10 the interests Of the boy scout move
msnt, says the authorities In Japan
are making a close study Of the move
ment with 4 view to lts adoption for
aducat IOual purposes
In additional the old foes OF the
grapevine. a new one appeared In
France durlnS tue wet weather Of the
past summer 1t became known as the
quick rot. A Yiue attacked soon had
ito branches die, lts shoots shrlvel and
iM clusters dry up The disease spread
With terrible rapidity.
Complaints are heard on all sides in
the French capital that tomatoes, mel
OnG, cucumbers, squash0s-practically
everything except potAtOes-haye in
Paris become luKuries still beyond the
reach OF the vast multitude Of work
Ing people whose daily earnings do not
exceed 70 cents to ST.
The system Of payment by checks Is
gaining ground In Servia, but until
now there have been no legal prOvi-
giOnE governing such payments. The
Belgrade chamber OF commerce has
undertaken to draw up an outline bill
for the government Ia order to secure
Isyal regulation Of the check system
Floating baths near great cities are
aOw condemned by sanitary authorl.
lies. The vast quantities Of sewage
that are discharged into the waters
that usually border such cities are
thought to he productive Of disease to
FATHERS aud certainly render their alb
utiOns Of doubtful value as a cleansing
agency
Owing to the fact that NO coal is
mined In Switzerland aud that the
government has control Of the abun.
liant water power, It is likely that the
OF the country will be cleo
ritied A beginning is to be made in
he st. GOthard route It Is estimated
hat the coat OF the conversion Of the
'ntlre government system would be
Ibout $l4.OOO.OO0
GeOrgia's most famous orchard. the
srgeNt of Iis kind in the world. con.
aiming 226.O00 bearing peach trees.
laS just been cut down and burned
. make room for q cotton plantation.
which the owners OF the property be-
Ieve they eau operate at greater profit.
The grove WAS located at Americas.
fty miles from Macon, Il was knows
9 the HaSlsy orchard. -. -