The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-28

President Taft's suggestion for an
international conference on the high
cost OF living has interested France
where, as in other countries, the i'm.
creased cost of commodities has de.
Heloped a serious problem. Captain
FRANK RI. Mason. the American Con-
s~ul-Ceneral at Paris, points out that
the high cost of the ordinary food.
stuhs in Paris and particularly
throughout northern France has be.
come a most absorbing topic of pub
nc interest. Partly by reason of the
long. not. dry summer. which affected
disastronsly grass. clover. potatoes
garden Observation-Disclosures
everything except grapes and hops
the prices of meats and produce Of AN
kinds advanced in figures unpreced-
cnted in the markets in Paris.
The situation with regard to milk
was especially serious, Captain Mason
saws. as it was based upon "A dimin-
ished supply. not only by reason of the
drought and temporary curtailment OF
pasture. but also because of a sradu-
ally lessening production Of milk in
inc departments adjacent to Paris.
n prevalence of a foot and mouth
disease in several districts of Nor
mandy and Brittany was another con-
trlbutinE cause to the scarcity of mill,
and butter.
Paris consumes daily about 1,16..-
3bS quarts of milk. but the supply foil
short over 211.O00 quarts daily. Deal
ers were forced to bring milk into
Paris from distances of 800 miles.
Naturally great distress was caused in
Paris. but the municipal authorities
have done all in their power to re-
1eNe 1t. An investigation has been
started to determine whether the pres
ent high price in this and other pro
| ducts arc fht. normal roc,,lt 80 .,-
conditions or have been undulv on.
hanced by dealers and middlemen. :
The death has occurred recently at
Berne of the last of the little band of
nurses II accompanied Florence
Nightingale to the Crinean wal in
1896. 1t was that of Mrs. Marie Rod
ney Morgan, who was a daughter of
Admiral Robert Winthrop Of the
British navy and the widow of Colon
81 Evan Morgan of the British ROYAL
Artillery, n member of an old Welsh
! family.
Mrs. Morgan was in her 94th YEAR.
she was stationed at the Scutario his
pital during the Crimean war and in
recognition of her splendid work there
was presented with a magnificent dia-
nlonG crescent brooch by the sultan
of Turkey. Having been born on Cc-
tober %. 1918, she had lived in the
relgns or SIX English soVerigns.
Psychic research societies appear
seriously Interested in a series of
phenomena. reported as having occur
red at the little town of Saint Michel
de-Maurienne. On December 1, so the
story goes. a dressmaker. Mile. Ger
main, on coming home from church,
found that her o. key. which she is
in the habit of putting under the door
mat. had disappeared from it's hiding
place. On that day and the succeed
ing ones pins and needles and othe.
miscellaneous objects vanished in the
most unaccountable fashion.
A member Of the research societS
visited the house and carried out a
number Of tests. While talking to the
dressmaker, he placed a large nail on
4. table; the nail vanished from UNI
der my eyes. without my perceivins
anything" he says in his report. Since
his visit the phenomena have increas-
ed. Larger and larger objects, the in
v~estigators insist, are spirited into
space, even things which it would
have been thought very difficult to rel
move. among them the needle of a
sewing machine. which cannot be taxi
en- off without the application of a
screw-driver.