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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04
SIXTH ROUND WORLD TRIP.
James Ricaiton Tells OF sons Deati,
i'm NiId> of Africa.

James It!catton Of Maplewood. Y J..
returned yesterday on the HAMBURG
American liner Naterlani from
three-years trip around the world.
taking pictures and hunting big game
He brought six cases Of rurlos from
China. Japan. Siam. India, Afshanis-
tan. Arabia. Egypt. and Central Al
RIGA. II mixed bundle OF buck horns A
sharks jaw, a skeleton OF a rhincce-
ross head. spears. blow pipes, and
weapons used by the avages
Mr.. Ricaiton said that when ne
reached Nairobi. Central Africa. Ia
and his SON. Lonond. had travelled
$4,000 miles.
My boy died in the hospital there
Of typhoid on May 18th. So I came
home instead of completing nay journ-
ey and going through Abyssinia." ne
said. My son and ! were hunting
100 miles from Nairobi when he was
taken with what he thought was ma
larial fever. After a few days rest
my son grew worse. and was So weak
that the porters carried him thirty
six miles to the nearest station. whore
| could send for an automobile
Il shall never forget the walk
through the African forest with the
boys ahead carrying torches 10 scare
off the animals and four II them
blowing reed pipes to keep the snakes
away.
AT the end of the thirty-six miles
an automobile took ia to Nairobl.
where the boy died two weeks later IN
the hospital"
This was Ricalton's sixth voyage
around the world.-New York Times.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04
SUPPLY OF CRUDE RUBBER
NO LONGER FROM JUNGLE
Of 1t Carefully and
Prepared on Plantations

mo longer does the majority Of the
worlds supply Of crude rubber coma
from Brazilian and other tropical
jungles," said a rubber man talking
TO a representative Of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger. "AH Of it still comes
from the tropics. Of course. but most
crude rubber now is tame rubber.
carefully gathered and prepared On
plantations instead or gathered from
wild trees in deep jungles. a. form
erly.
"P~lantation rubber is rapidly sup
planting wild rubber And the plan
tation product as it comes to market
is cleaner and better prepared than
the wild. A few years < Brazil had
aim ost a monopoly of the worlds fine
rubber supply. and as a result Brazil
controlled prices. American manu-
facturers a few years ago paid a. high
as 50 a pound for their raw material
There was danger with the RAPID
growth Of rubber anufacfurlng that
there would be a rubber famine. 20
trees were planted in plantations For
a few years the predictions Of II
plantation men Were auShed at
Brazil continued to depend on her
wild supply. But now the whole con-
plexion of rubber production has
changed. Plantations are producing
more than the wild supply and the
proportions for each are continuing -
grow.
"A large part of the worlds rubber
comes TO manufacturers via london.
say from Sumatra. Ceyton. etc \
leading London rubber man estimated
that for 1914 the worlds rubber pro-
duction would be: Plantation. $1,000
tons: Brazil wild. 30. 900. other Wild.
10. 900 tons. Within a few years plan
tation rubber will almost wholly 81
perSede the wild supply. The Wild
rubber has certain qualities that .ilt
always make the use of quantities Of
1T necessary"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04
SfvEN SENTENCES SERMONS.

Health i the vital pr,ac,rle II
hliss-Thomson
Our business in life is no, - get
ahead of other people bat to get
ahead OF ourselves
Ana all the bars at which we fret.
Ihat seem IL prison and control.
Are but the doors of daring. Il
Agar before the soul.
Henry van Dyke
We judge ourselves BY wha, We
feel capable If doing white others
judge us by what we have already
done--Longfeilnw.
But ii thine enemy hunger. feed
him. II he thirst. give him 10 drink
for in 81 doing thou shalt heap coais
of fire upon his head.
left still
Good undone for the living 10 do
Still some aim for the heart and III.
will
And the soul 81 a man 10 pursue
Owen Meredith.
III there be anything in my sty,e or
thoughts to be- commended. the credit
Is due to my kind parents ia Inst,l-
ing into my mind an early love for
the Scriptures.
Daniel Webster.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

The service of CnriSs - perfect
freedom" Therein the highest fscul-
ties of the human spirit find their
fullest and most unhamp~r~d express
SION. Tn. liberty tina - life ~ found
N obedience IN the law of Him 1h,
has mad. us free
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

Abroad l cannot fly,
But though my wing is closely bound.
Ny hearts at liberty.
Ny prison walls cannot control
The fight, the freedom of the soul.
Madame Guyon.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04
THE LIBERTY THAT Is LIFE
1crSe Comments OH the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
PepDltS' SOcietieS-ChriStian En-
deaYOr. etc.-EOr August y. who
is Free" John S:31-36.
Ry William T. Ellis

Nobody is ever r To DO as ne
oIeasas. We may as we'll accept the
ruth that personal liberty. to the
fullest degree may never be won in
this world. We live in a mesh OF
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

They atone are worthy sf free
dors blessings who are abb. to aght
for their maintenance.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

laws and conditions which hamper
Us ~ every turn. and were We -
nee ID an unInhabited island in the
south Sea ne still should not he
Tree The boy thinks that when he
a man he .lii ne free. the
man looks bach and signs for the
freedom Of the boy. The young man
longs for wealth and the liberty il
VIII bring. the man Of wealth. cum
bered by many cares. shut IN by gold
en- BARRIERS. Coyets the care-free days
or his early manhood. There Is no
condition in life wherein one may do
wholly as he desires, and mat Is
we'll. for we live in a world where
the welfare of all must he considered
above the convenience Of the indi-
vidual. The highest liberty We en-
joy is that OF serving our time with
out restraint.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

Chains always go with sin That
II why there is A profoundly philoso-
phicai reach to the New Testament
word. If the SOD shall make You
free, then shall you be free Indeed "
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

Only the pure or the p~ardoned are
free from slavery to sin.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

While we NAV not have liberty
from work, we may have what Is bet
ter. liberty in work.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
The Press Guarantees Circulation Greater
than the Combined Circulation of any
Other Three Imperial Valley Papers

sociated with selfshness in such
movements.
1t is also certain that the insist
ence of labor, in separating itself
from all other classes and enforcing
its demands by violent demonstrations
and interruption of the most neces-
sarv business of the country is de-
veloping a tendency to resist all de-
ronnds of labor, and most neonle "on-
slider Asiatic exclusion distinctively a
labor demand, which, of course, it is
not. But that there are some who ia
vor Asistic immigration for the very
purpose of increasing labor competi-
ton there is no doubt.
The acute trouble is that of the Hin
docs. So far as our laws are con-
cerned, they have the right to enter
in any number, and the British gov
srnment is powerless to restrain them.
Asiatics are effectually barred from
Australia. and no international ques-
ton is raised Why is it raised here?
Australia requires all immigrants to
be able to read in any language which
the immigration officials can suggest.
If any one not desired offers to en-
ter. the official asks him to read in
language which it is known he
cannot read, and that ends it. And
there is no international fuss.
But everybody knows that the law
was passed for the sole purpose Of
Asiatics.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
TREASURY OFFICIALS WARN
AGAINST BIG FINANCIAL HOAX
UNITED Press Day Service)

Omitted Press Day Service)
Washington, Feb. IA hoax that
deserves to rank with Barnum's Gear
diff giant" and DR.. Cooks mental dis
covery of the North Pole mas just
called forth warning from the treas
ury department to credulOus invest
ors generally. 1t concern a most al
Turing story of 64,644 900 in railroad
bonds, with accrued interest since 1864
supposed to be gathering dust in Un-
Gle Sans strong box and awaiting to
be distributed among the heirs of
Charles Durkee, one time senator from
Wisconsin, and territorial governor of
Utah, who died in 1870.
More than ten years after Durkee's
death, Leonard c. Blaisdell, his neph-
ew by marriage, conceived the idea
that the former senator had at one
time bought up an entire bond issue of
first mortgage bonds of the Pacific
to the United States to guarantee COM
pletion of transcontinental rail line.
Col. F. A. Reeve, acting solicitor for
the treasury department, believes that
Blaisdell was merely suffering some
sort of hallucination, but since that
time his story has been used to sell
"stock" in the visionary claim. Blas-
dell has not been heard of in Wash
ington for years and officials here be-
lieve he is dead
To oive color to their scheme the
promoters at one time brought suit
in the federal courts of Utah, but it
was thrown out of court and in sus-
tanning the lower tribunal on an ap-
peal Federal Judge Phillips said:
"a syndicate of promoters was
formed. Thev devised the scheme of
selling shares of stock in the chances
of success. 1t was represented that,
if the suit were won the result would
be over $2OO,OOO,0OO for division
the shareholders. These agents
accordingly disposed of some shares
at the proportion of so for 81 in
and when the bait stalled they
offered the still more allurinp temp
tation of 100 shares for 81 in money,
and the evidence shows that they sue
ceeded in drawing from their dupes
about $4,000"
For years after this there was moth
ing more heard of the claim, but lately
Colonel Reeve has learned that some
more so to l chances are being offered
and that one man recentlv parted with
$1,000 to the promoters.
Though the names of these promot-
ers are not made public it is said that
they represent they are working for
fee of so per cent of the
money recovered and need a few thou
sand dollars to carry on the case. They
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
URGES BADGES FOR
DIVORCED PERSONS
Omitted Press Day Service)

Omitted Press Day Service)
Denver, Feb. 12.-Divorced persons
ought to wear badge showing their
separation from the stare of matri-
mony. This ought to be displayed just
as crepe is displayed bv grief stricken
persons who have lost relative by
death.
Warwick NJ. Downing, attorney, is
opposed to suppressing divorce cases
and he made this suggestion today in
discussing the matter. Divorces not
only should not be suppressed, he
thinks, but they ought to be adver-
tised as widely as possible
"Of course" said he, 81 suppress di-
vorce cases when my clients ask me
to do so, but l am opposed to it.
When a couple is courting they are
not ashamed that anybody should
know it. They show it everywhere.
Then when they are { gagged the an
nouncement is made in just as big let
ters as the newspapers will permit.
When the marriage ceremony is per-
formed if they don't get their pictures
in the papers and the names of those
present, they are disappointed. Now,
isn't the divorce just as important?
Isn't it, as matter. of fact, more i'm
portant? If woman doen't care
enough about a man to live with him,
or vice versa. don't you think they
should be willing that the world
know it? They were tickled to death
to let the world know that they were
engaged and then married. Why not
tell the world about the divorce?
at strikes me that as soon as di-
vorce is started it would be the proper
thing to advertise it, if the newspapers
wouldn't voluntarily give it publicity.
And then, by all means, after divorce
is actually granted, get as much pub
licitv as possible. Think of the en-
it would save. Friends
wouldn't be maxine the mistake of re-
ferring to the deposed spouse with
compliments, thinking they were
pleasing the one addressed. They
would know the separation had taken
place and would take care not to re-
fer to it. In fact. it wouldn't be bad
idea to show additional evidence of di-
vorce. When dear ones die, we wear
crepe as an insignia of our grief. Why
not adopt a badge for divorced per-
sons. When women or men go home
from a divorce court, let them wear
badge that will indicate the recent di-
vorce. Then let it be announced in all
the papers and let the badge serve as
a protection against friends who have
not read the papers,"
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
Candidates.

By Walt Mason: The candidate;
are coming forth, fierce and noisy
crew, and east and west and south
and north they sound the loud ba-
zoo; they sound the loud bazoo, my
friends, the same familiar notes, and
ere the weary campaign ends they'll
have our divers goats. They re weep
ing for the men who slave, with sweat
upon their brows; the starry flag
again they wave, and VOW the same
old vows; tlAy vow the same old
VOWS, my boys, We heard in days Of
youth; they so beguile US with their
noise, we think they speak the truth.
And so We'll all neglect our work,
and waste the golden days, to hear
the 10-cent modern Burke gold-brlck
the easy jays; goldbrick the easy
!. vs.. NV lads, and fill US full OF
bunk, when we should work to earn
the scads, likewise the bone and
plunk. They'll teach US that our fate
depends on going to the polls, and
co..ng for our windy friends who
spring long rigmaroles; who spring
long rigmaroles, my dears, but never
plv the saw; who never WELD the
spade or shears-they only WELD the
jaw. They'll fool US with the same
old tricks, and lead US by the nose:
and we shall look to politics for cures
for all our woes; for cures for all our
woes, my chunns, which statesmanship
can't help; and when the day Of
working comes, just watch US whine
and yelp!
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
Weekly Report on
Work on Canal

Progress of work in Mexico to Feb
ruary Z, 1914. c. N. Perry, agent.
Agents order No. 1, raising banks
of Alamo river-Good progress has
been made this week on the bank work.
Rv present indications the upper five
miles. measured from the Cudahy
pump this way, and which includes
probably the worst and weakest part
of the levee, will be completed the
first week in March. An additional
force of 60 head of stock will be swung
in this week to work this side OF the
two upper camps, and these camps
will probably, within 40 days, have
finished all team work which is urg--
emf We have. this week, obtained
from CITY of Mexico, an answer to
our telegram. Permission was granted
to pass scraperS, plowS, harness ana
wagons. but no camp equlpmeniT;,
Mules are free in any event. we VIII
keep this permit in reserve and shouio
occasion arise, can get quick acCion.
Agents order No. 2, cleaning OF eaS1
side main canal with Stockton dredge
Still pending. a.,
Agents order No. 3, cleaning Ala
mitos canal from headgate to lnterna-
tional line-About 60 per cent OF the
dredger work is completed. Gang pre-
pairing road for dredge. finished TO-DAY
and has been discharged.
Agents order No. 4, bank WORK on
Encina canal above flume-All mana
labor completed. Nothing yet done IN
the way of team work.
Agents order No. 5, bypass in bank
of west side main near heading OF
Westeria-Still pending.
Agents order No. 8. dredging west
side main canal with Stockton dredg-
dredger No. ! is work
ing west from Wisteria heading and 1t
has made 1345 feet this week on an
average cross section of IA by feet.
Stockton No. is working east from
ibis same point and has done 1!93 feet
on an average cross section OF 20 Dy
219 feet.
Team work and brush clearing pro-
,eeding ahead of each of these dredg-
arS.
Agents order No. T. structures at
east line of Packard tract-Lumber IS
On the ground for all structures. Car
,enters will be able to begin work
about the 18th and will probably have
all structures completed by the MD
lie of March.
Agents order No s, construction OF
side ditch from east line of Packard
.ract-Sixty-two per cent of this work
1as been completed. From now on, ow-
ng to the fact that we are transfer
ing some of the teams to order NO.
[, this work will go ahead more slow
v. but the earthwork will be COM
1leted before we can get the structures
finished, there will, therefore be no
lelav caused.
Agents order No. 8, Repairs to
lume-Nothing done as yet.
Agents order No. 10, 134 wasteWay
and bridge-Complete except bridge,
which will be finished probably Friday
next.
Agents order No. II. cleaning
Woodbine canal-Completed.
Agents order No. Is, cleaning Ala
no with dredger delta The delta
lredger has been put in order and by
Monday will be ready to begin actual
ligging.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12

also tell that Secretary McVeagh ad.
mitted the claim and was ready to sign
"the papers," but that his term ex-
pired while he was looking for his pen.
AS matter of truth no such bonds
were ever in the treasury. Further
more Durkee was far from wealthy
and nowhere in his will or other pa
pers did he make mention of any
swollen fortune he had placed in the
hands of the government.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
Works on Progressive Party.

u. s. Senator Works has written
to Editor H. P. Rising of the Escon-
dido Advance letter giving his opln-
ions on the Progressive party. 1t says
in part: of tho
Progressive party as compared VIII
the Republican party, and which VIII
survive; and also whether | think 1t
to be possible to clean up the latter
nartv and have the Progressive ele-
ment obtain control.
This is pretty nearly equal to ask
ing one to prophesy of the future.
The future of both of the parties you
mention. as well as the Democratic
party. depends so much upon what
may happen affecting the prosperity
of the country in the next few months
that it is very difficult to prognosti-
cate. AS a national party the Pro-
gressive party has lost strength very
rapidly since the last election. 1t
may be, however, that it has not lost
manv of the real progressives who
voted the ticket at that election. Prob
ABLY more than one-half of those who
voted the Progressive ticket at the
last presidential election were not
Progressives at. all, but believed IN
Colonel Roosevelt and voted for him:
This has been strongly demonstrated
by subsequent events, but there are
MANY sincere and earnest Progress
sives who believed that the best thing
for the country was to organize a
new party and as matter OF prln-
ciple are still standing bv that party.
In most of the states they are rev
in number, but none the less earnest
and sincere. Such men have my en-
tire sympathy. There is good reason
to suppose that better conditions can
be brought about politically by a new
party
81 think that the Progressive party
was started at an extremely unfortu-
nate time and under most unfortu-
nate conditions, and that it was found.
ed not upon principle by most OF
the men who were engaged IN the
movement. but as a result of spite
malice and disappointed ambition. But
for this movement resulting in a new
party the Progressives of the country
would have had complete control OF
the Republican party by the next
presidential election, with all its ma
chinery, and the party so conducted
would have been successful, in my
Judgment, at the coming election. This
happy condition of things that was
being rapidly worked out. and had
already been accomplished in Califor-
MIA, was defeated by the third party
movement.
"The Progressive party is stronger
] think. in California. than in any
other state in the Union. 1t is bet
ter organized and under better con.
troll. It may be successful in the com.
ing election in our state. but it viii
he state party practically eliminated
from any successful national organl
zation, in my judgment"
D,,4,.at4e IJ;n,ye ond pictura Fra m.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
ASiatic Exclusion.

San Francisco Chronicle: When the
Chinese exclusion act was passed, IL
the sos of the last century, the SEN
timent of the country was almost
luminous in favor of retaining the
soil of this country for the occupation
of the white race. 1t was then only
a question of Chinese. There was no
thought in those days Of the japanese
invasion or the Hindoo invasion.
Today the dangers of the Aslatlc IN
vasion are tenfold what they were
when the Chinese exclusion act was
passed, and yet the Rouse of Rep
resentatives, by an overwhelming
vote, has rejected an amendment to
the immigration bill which would
have protected US from any further
intrusion.
If there is such a change of SEN
timent, as the vote of the House I'M
plies, there is some cause for it
probably more than one cause-and
IT is worth while to inquire into them.
There has always been certain
amount of mawkish sentimentallty
about the brotherhood of man"
which would disregard all racial bar
riers, but which is felt mostly by
those who think they are in no dan
ger of being driven out of their
homes, as many families have been
driven out in this state by an Asiatic
invasion of the neighborhood.
There is also the selfshness Of
trade sentiment, which opposes any
action calculated to diminish sales of
our goods in Oriental markets, re-
~ardless of what happens at home.
Humanitarian is almost invariably as
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
kentucky "Pistol Tot lng

Courier-Journal: No da, lacks its
examples of the evil conse Iuences of
pistol toting" in Kentucky In Louis
vile Saturday night two mel engaged
in a trivial quarrel over the price of
a bucket of lard This was small basis
for a resort to firearms. One of the
men had revolver in his pocket and
the dispute only ended when he had
fired bullet into the other.
Because of the common practice of
carving pistols many insignificant
quarrels develop into homicides. Bar
ring the presence of the pistol in the
hip pocket such arguments" probably
would result in nothing more serious
than bloody nose or black eye. The
incident would close with sharp slap
or swift punch, and the participants
would be willing, next day, to forget
it. With one or both the disputants
carrying pistols the results are most
likely to be disastrous and deplorable.
The concealed deadly weapon is
continuous menace to human life. 1t
causes murder, manslaughter, suicide
and malicious and accidental shootings.
In the transaction of the ordinary af
fairs of life no man needs a pistol.
Int thousands OF men feel that it is
the proper thing habitually to "tote a
gun," oblivious to the fact that it is
a constant source of danger to them
selves and others and prolific cause of
trouble at all times and seasons. The
practice should be frowned upon, sup
pressed and, if possible, eliminated
from the scheme of human conduct
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
Roads Want to Raise Rates

IUnlteu PresS Day SerVICeJ
Washington, Feb. 12.-The inter
state commerce commission today
opened a three day hearing which will
covN the subject of lake-and-rail
ratea in connection with the general
a five per cent increase in freight
charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12

The finest diamond in the valley
at $375. Diamond rings $12.50 up.
Elgin and Waltham watches-lowest
price in the valley. Expert watchmak-
ing. J. F. Lukens, 522 Main St.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12

The folks at Pass Christian have
been supplying the President with
fresh eggs gratis. Now's the time
for somebody to say something re-
Sarding the Democratic doctrine of
"spee al privileges to none"- "-Milwau-
kee Journal.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12

The London Times prints an article
on eggs on its sporting page. Per-
haps because one takes such sport
ing chance in buying them.-New
York Times.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
Ripe to Subdivide.

80 acres, alfalfa and barley, soft
soil, close in, $225 per acre. Will be
worth $500 per acre in two years.
Gage & Wachtel, 514 Main street.
Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12

Time exposure seems to have been
success with the kodak trust.-Wall
Street Journal.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-12
Forbids Divorced
To Marry Again

An amendment to the federal con-
stitution proposed by Senator Joseph
Eugene Ransdall of Louisiana would
prohibit forever in the United States