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favored Hungarians. Franz Ferdinand ended by declaring that the Germanostria Idea had no chance ''as long as the pres ent Emperor or any visible successor rules Austria" and that the plan had no supporters among leading Austrians#
 This 1udgment is out of date. Not only Austrias Premier, Count Sturgkh, but his Hungarian colleague Court Stephan Tisza, the Magyar Cromwell,r are both supposed to favor the plan. Tisza favors 1t in a mild form. He would go no further at present than the Bismarckan plan of inserting clauses in the constitution pro- claiming the alliance to be part of the 'Staatsrecht" of the three countries Sturgkhs old idea, matured 20 years ago when he was an official in the education ministry, Is more on the lines of Arch duke Friedrichs Sturgkh held that the new dual states should be called die Verenigtn Reicht"-"the United Elm pires." That would avoid hurting feelings by putting one empire first in the title. This idea is acceptable to German advo- cates of the, plan.
 German newspapers and publicists have taken up the matter anew since Franz Ferdinands death. This is an outcome of the panic as to Austria's future caused by the recent assassinations. As in other German political movements the profes- sors here lead. The chief leader is Dr. Hermann Oncken, professor of modern history at Heidelberg university After the assassinations Oncken published a manifesto in the Vienna Neue Freie Presse in which he pointed out the ad- vantages of a fusion. "A world-political running.agreement of Germany and Aus trial would yield enormous political and economical profits. Particularly great would be thee gains from the standpoint of international finance.
 In agreement with Oncken is Dr. Karl Mehrmann, a prominent member of the Par-Gerrlan league. Mehrmann sees po- litioal profits both in the domestic and international domains. A German-Aus- trian fusion would he holds. put an end 10 the successes of the Austrian Slavs over the Austrian Germans. It would save the Germanic cause in Europe. Ger manys press agrees here, and adds that II tne fusion was made. Austria could af- .oru 10 grant complete home rule to all ner races, without taking any risks of sccessions. The international profit, ac- cofoins 10 Mehrmann is not only that tne Austro-Gelnan alliance would be consoluated beyond risk of breach but tnat tne whole triple alliance would De strengthened. Italy, now doubtful part ner. would be securely tied up by the Arstro-German deal. Austro-Gerflan constitutional fusion would also present acvantages as against England At pres ent Germany faces the risk of ali her northern waters being closed up bv {, superior British fleet. Under union with Austria she would be absolutely as- sured of the Adriatic outlet. Also Ger manostria" would keep Russia in order: hold the Dardanelles closed, and scare the Cars warshtps away from the Medittez-
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The Pan-German league boasts that
 the constitutional union of Germany ana Hungary would mean the satisfactory winding up of the otherwise insoluble Balkan problem. In this do- main no power could resist the meas ures dictated by the allies" This boast is justified. "Germaaostria'' would be by far the most powerful of the world S states She would have a population of l2c,Oeo,ooO, of whom, counting 4000, ,Oo0 Hungarian Germans, S0,o0O00 would be of pure German blood. This would give a larger racially homogeneous population than is possessed by any white country except the United States. She would nave an army with a peace strength of l,loOo0 men and a war strength Count Ing he1d army and Landwehr but not the last lines of defense) of over 3,00Q,0o0 Sue would have a ready fleet Of G5 battle- slips and arfnored cruisers. She would have Q joint imperial and state revenue of $2,0OO,ooo0O0 and larger national wealth than France and Russia put together She would Lave economic advantages winch neither empire has alone--Germany would Rave access to Austrias oil fields and rodium deposits, and Austria would have access to Gernany's tremendously valu- able potash fields. Strategically, Ger manostria' would cut Europe in twain. She would be strong on Europc's two greatest seas, ule North sea and the Mediteiranean- Compared with this ag- generation Of wealth and power" says the Pan-Gernian writer Jahnns, France with only third of the population and Russia with her political and economic packWardness, would be second rate states The world state England wo,,ld De the only European rival
 German public opinion is rapidlv rjnen Ing Tor the Germauostrian solution With Austria the problem is more con,n,e-: lne three great race groups, Germans. ritngarlahs and Slavs, all have different s.ahopolnts. The Germans in -ustria Lave now nothinS to lose. They have been hopelessly beaten by the Slavs in Moravia; and they are threatened by Czech fecundity and Czech national ob- stinacy in Vienra itself Once reunited to the 66-QOO00e Germans of the empire, Atstrla's s Germans would feel safe. The attitude of Hungary. though not so ob- Sious, IS almost as promising. Hunga- ran notions Of foreign policy are guided py the two national passion: Love of in dependence and hatred of Russia. Here the two go together.
 Hungary realizes that she cannot stand alone; and that once isolated by the dis- ruption of Austria she will be eaten up by her own Slav majority, backed by the Russian foe who helped to suppress ner in 1918. At present Hungary has no de- sire for change; but once she IS con vinced that the monarchy cannot stand in it's present constitution. she twill prob- ably prefer the -Germanostria" solution to any other. The late Count Julius An drassy practically predicted that before his death when he said that Bismarck s plan for embodying the alliance in the constitutions of the three states might become '' the gnrest guarantee of Hum ssrian indepeedenee."
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Copyrighted, 1919, by Curtis Brown
 F9IENNA, August 15.-(Special.)
 N \ "Germanostria," the double em- k--s-- pire of Germany and Austria IkbSsAas Hungary, may be the first fruit of Arcnduke Franz Ferdinands olsap- nearance. This is the "Germany-Aus- tria " inc constitutiona1ly joined German and Austrian empires dreamed of by Bis uarck. by Count Julius Andrassy, ana bv other statesmen who made nineteenth century history.
 This buried question returned to life on the day it's advocate, Archduke frieo- rich was appointed to succeed Frahz Ferdinand as inspector general Of Aus tria's forces on land and sea; and, by a strange coincidence became colleague of A Prime Minister Count Karl SturSkh, who in the past was a sturdy friend of the "Germanostria' solution. All those who see that Austria Hungary cannot stand alone and who at the same tlme oppose her partition or wholesale annex alton by a neighbor, are now talking of constitutional union with Germany, and at the same time of giving the empire an enduring guarantee against Slav ag- gression from without or within.
 "Germanostria," in the opinion of the men who founded the triple alliance, is the natural outcome of that alliance, or rather Ol lle AuSlTO-CreTlldI dillilCc Oi 1S79 from which the triple alliance grew. Bismarclt's ultimate aim was that the Ausrro- German alliance, instead of being terninahle and renewable as it now is, should be crystallized into perpetuity and be made irrevocable. Bismarck was frank about his reason. He doubted whether Austrian. statemen would remain steadfast to the alliance. He even feared that Count Beusts plan of a revenge for the defeat of Konigsratz would be taken up by later Austrian statemen. This fear had grown so strong by 1887 that Bismarck 'hedged" by concluding behind Austria, his ally's back, the neutrality treaty. with Russia, which Wilhelm Il refused to renew when he came to the throne. Bismarck's motive was that if Austria broke away from the alliance he would stil have a good friend in Rus sia.
 The constitutional union of Germany and Austria appealed to Bismarck as a remedy for this ambiguous condition. The Austro-German alliance of 1879 he desired should remain as it was and retain as partner Itslly which had adhered in 1883 But it should be made permanent by in- corporation as clause in the constitu- tfons of Germany, Austria and Hungary This would make all three states fndis- soluble whole for the purposes of diplo- macy and defense. Bismarcks plan stopped at this; but other advocates de- manded a common state organ or coun- cil for the three countries which would establish a general control over foreign policy. The plan fell through, owing to Austrian unwilingness. Austrian states men approved of the proposed fusion, but they strongly objected to handing over foreign policy to the Vienna Reich uat and the Hungarian Diet; and this could not have bean avoided as new
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By BERNARD ASTON

chance while Franz Ferdinand lived. Franz Ferdinand aimed both at upholding the triple alliance and at maintaining and increasing Austrian independence. He pushed the independence idea so far when he came to the front in 1908 that Germany feared that he aspired to undo the settlement of 1866, and to restore Aus tria to the position she formely occupied as chief German power. The south Slav writer, Zbischy. records a conversation between his father and Franz Ferdinand in 1902 on the subject of German-Austria. That would be the end of Slav aspira- tions in Austria" said Zbischy pere 'The Germans would eat us up." ''No serious statesman ever had such an idea" said Franz Ferdinand. What" asked Zbis- chy, about Bismarck and Andrassy." T meant no serious Austrian statesmen" said Franz Ferdinand. "Andrassy was no Austrian" This was a gibe at the un-
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wax Samples of all these products will be sent to San Francisco.
 Among the exhibits from the same region are cacao and tobacco, and also Indian corn. Eastern Bolivia promises to be one of the great corn countries or the future Corn grows well not only in the low valleys, put everywhere throughout the plains l have described. The samples of corn to be sent to san Francisco comprise 20 different varf- cities, some grains being not bigger than popcorn. while others are as large as the largest thumb nail and quarter of an inch thick. This latter kind grows on the plateau. where the eleva- tion is not too great The color is snc- white and the corn is so soft that it appears to be made of flour pressed into shape. Another variety is jet black and others are red and pink II is possible that some of these could
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revolution would be crushed with German aid. The army administration and the foreign office would remain Independent. A constituent committee representing only the German Bundles rat and the Austrian and Hungarian cabinets would be convok ed in order to constitute a permanent council to di- rect all the common affairs of German ostria. The Reichstag and the Austrian Diet would have no say here, as the common interests" would all be mat ters of state sovereignty (army com mand and diplomacy in which the Ger man and Austrian legislatures at pres ent have no power.
 Against this a council representing the Reichstag and the Austrian and Hun garian Parliaments would be convoked to establish system of free trade within the new double empire.
 Archduke Freidrich's notion had no
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ments has been the hope that it migh take the. place of the coca shrub, whic IS now being grown at comparatively To, pro9ts, on account of the fall in tn prlce or cocaine. There are vast tract m Peru and Bolivia devoted to the grow lns or tnls plant, which in it's habits 1 not unlike tea. It thrives in the tenn perate regions of the western plateau. It Is set out in plantations, and the thir year after sprouting it is ready to croI The leaves are then stripped from tn shrub and dried flat. They are then pu up in bags, and brought to the citie where they are peddled out to the ma tives.
 All of the Indians clie'v coca leaves and the demand lor them is enormous Every farm hand has to nave them, ant an allowance of coca is a part of tn contract with all the miners The coci leaves are also shipped to Europe ans
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HurI Their Skirts at Men

run tIie PhlladeIphia Record.
 Naco, Ariz,-Mexiean women took of their skirts and threw them at men vho resumed work yesterday at mines of hs cananea Consolidated Copper company. rather than become soldiers. The men hai been told by General Carranza that tbev must work or join the constitutionaIlat army.
 You can wear the skirts: we can ,cc,r after ourselves,r the women jeered.
 Forty of the women were arrested.
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Copyrighted, 1914, by Frank G. Carpenter.
 La Paz. EY=1 AM amazed at the discoveries I& now making in the baekwoods s-zsss of Bolivia. Lying in the mid tAssss middle of the South American continent, separated from the Pacific ocean by q trackless desert, which be- longs to Chile, with a great wall of mountains and plateaus running through it from north to south. Bolivia, until now, has been practically a hermit land. If has no seaport and until within the past generation it had no railway con nectons with the rest of the world. To- day the best part of it is unknown. I refer to that on the eastern slope of the Andes. The discoveries so far have been
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my complexion. This is knitted of alpaca wool. It covers the whole of my head, having only small holes for my eyes and mouth.
 Nevertheless, the plateau is one of the treasure vaults of the world, containing vast deposits of silver and gold, copper and tin. West of this plateau is the desert, descending into the borax lakes and nitrate fields of Chife and east of it is the main wall of the Andes, on the other side of which are vast plains that slope gently to the Amazon and Parana river systems.
 Bolivia is a wonderful country. It has all told an area of more than 100000 square miles. You could put New Eng land and all of the middle states and all
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the southern states except Texas inside
 it, and there would still be room to spare. Nevertheless, it has only about as many people as Chicago, and Its pure whites do not number more than the population of either Memphis, Tenn, or Birming- ham, Ala. The country has alto gether something like 100000 semi civilized Indians and some hundreds of thousands of Cholos or haif-breeds. These people all live on the high plateau of the Andes, a region that has all the cities
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oil would command ready market there for both fuel and lighting.
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The Backluoods Of BoHuia
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER

and towns. and that practically includes the whole of Bolivia as the world knows if today
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Another possibility of opening up east ern Bolivia lies in the railroads the Bra zilians are building into Matto Crosse. They have surveyed lines to connect the Atlantic seacoast at the Bay of Sac Fran
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One of the reasons for the tea experl
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Copyrighted, 1913, by Curtis Brown. - =.-1IENNA. August 15.-(Special)
 N "Gormanostria." the double em- -.--s,-s pire of Germany and Austria Hungary, may be the first fruit
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
Earth's Diameter.

What is the greatest diameter Of
the earth? AT the equator" is the
common answer; this is not strictly
true, for the actual diameter is modi-
fed by conditions on the surface. Ac-
cording to the eminent Professor Hen
key. the greatest diameter is that
taken from the summit of Mount Chin
borazo, In Ecuador, 20,136 feet above
sea level. The line drawn about the
earth from this point energies on the
opposite side on q high point on the
coast Of Sumstra, giving q diameter OF
1929 miles.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15

table is fresh beef and the average
edible portion Is given as having a
fuel value of 1895 calories per pound.
Being required to find the amount nee
essary for 100 calories, the problem
becomes: 1895 is to 1.495 as X Is to
100. or 1913 grams.
or course, there is some trouble
connected with this matter OF person
al care regarding ones diet. just as
some personal thought and trouble
were demanded OF our prehistoric an
cestors when they we're required to
climb a tree to avoid danger. But
this effort on their part enables US to
be here, and only like effort on our
part to meet the dangers OF this age
will permit US to be represented
among the living in the future.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
Monsters Of the Deep.

That there are terrible monsters in
the deep there can be no doubt. One
Of these is the whale. 1t was only in
1908 that a whale devastated tho fish
traps off Port Towsend, Wash. be-
cause the fishermen had captured one
of it's young. A whaler recently put
in port in Liverpool with the arm OF
an octopus 80 feet long. The arm had
been taken from the mouth OF a whale
he had killed and had stuck in the
huge animals throat The octopus is
doubtless q more fearful animal than
the sea serpent.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
Old People In Law Suit.

The entire provincial court of Sara
gossa. Spain, transferred itself for a
week to the village of Ateca to hear a
trivial case of fraud because of the re-
markable age Of the persons concerned
in It. All OF the IL defendants were
between eighty-flve and ninety-flve
years old, and IA of the 20 witnesses
were over ninety. One OF the wit
nesses was one hundred and one years
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15

Compared with the daily food intake
of many business men not doing phys
ical labor this would appear to be
starvation, but for those engaged in
sedentary occupations some agreeable
notifications of the above during hot
weather will certainly mean increased
comfort and improved general health.
When we invest our money in ami
mails we feed them on a balanced"
ration, and the young animals do not
die when their food is of the proper
kind. Common sense and caution are
required to produce stock that will
yield a profit. Surely we have reached
a plane OF development where we
should understand the necessity OF
using these same qualities in meeting
the food requirements OF the human
animal.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
A Ruth Saw IL.

OF course little Ruth should have
been able to answer more precisely
when the teacher asked her to de-
scribe a frog. But she gave a de-
scription that at least Is picturesque
when she replied: "A frog, teacher,
is a big green bug with warts all over
It. And 1t keeps It's mouth open oil
the time, and-and-and it's always
sitting down behind and-and stand
ing up In front"
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HOT WEATHER DIET.

Without protein or albumen life can
not continue. II can be got Nom nu-
merous sources more or less easily
and in combinations of various de-
grees OF digestibility, but II Is we'll to
hold firmly in mind the fundamental
fact that every spark of the energy
that wrinkles In our eyes, that moves
our muscles and quickens our imagi-
nation is sunlight first condensed and
woven into the vegetable cell. And
the closer we keep to the origin OF
our life the less trouble are we likely
TO experience.
For various reasons and as a result
OF the highly artificial conditions I'M
der which the human animal Is living
we have been forced from the source
OF our natural food supply, but never
with advantage, because the proteins
condensed in meat are mixed with the
poisonous waste products from the It's
sues of other animals.
If II we're question OF feeding
horses, cows or pigs all the necessary
information could be found in innu-
merable popular treatises, government
bulletins. magazines and agricultural
papers. Any one can learn in a day
horse, or how much and what to feed
a working horse, and there Is no dis
pute on the general proposition that
IL the rations are reversed inevitable
disaster will result to both. But at
tempt to select the right ingredients
and proportions OF food for the nutri-
ton Of men and women and you are
confronted with a mass of contradic-
lions, fads and fancies. the only es-
cape from which is to wade through
abstruse and scientific treatises.
In warm weather II should be our
aim to diminish unnecessary heat pro-
duction as much as possible, at the
same time taking sufficient food TO
maintain the body in at least approx
mate equilibrium. A brief study Of
the tables given in bulletin No. 2S,
United States department of agricul-
ture, THE Chemical Composition OF
American Food Materials" will show
that this may be advantageously
achieved by the use of fruits, vege-
tables, fish, cereals, etc. Fats and fat
meats are especially to be avoided in
hot weather because not only is there
no specific need for them, but also be-
cause, on account of the greater sensi-
tivenees Of the gastro-intestinal tract
during hot seasons, there is greater
liability OF disturbance from eating
undue quantities of rich heterogeneous
foods.
We have noted that the average
man Of $50 pounds weight requires
about $500 calories to live with COM
fort and without loss Referring to
our tables, we find the following fair
average diet for day, and this may
very easily be varied to meet indi-
vidual requirements:
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WHY currant. Are Good for u..

Currants, in spite OF their rather In
significant place on our bills OF fare.
are decidedly beneficial to humanity
For their chief constituents. potash.
tartaric acid-which gives them their
sharpness-and grape sugar, oil cas-
lily digested substances, all have value.
English dietists, especially. harp on
the health-preserving qualities OF this
small fruit
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
Artistic.

"There!" said Mr.. Nagg, after a la
bored explanation OF why he had
stayed out so late; Il hope this is sat
isfactory." 1T Is more than satisfac-
tory" Mrs. Nagg told him. lit IL SIM
ply beautiful"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
Alcohol From Sap Of Nlpa Palm.

The Philippine islands produce APP
proximately 100000 gallons Of alco-
hol yearly. Almost all OF this is made
from the sap OF the nipa palm that
grows in great abundance in various
swamps OF the country.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
Natural Result.

He was always too proud" He has
swallowed his pride" What has hap
pened to him." He's busted" He
might have known II he ever swal-
lowed his pride It would bust him"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
American EIaheA

The fishes OF America north Of the
Isthmus OF Panama embrace three
classes, 80 orders, 223 families, lib
genera, 335 sub-genera, 3,263 species
and 1873 sub-species.
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When Worda Burn paen.

II Is with words as with sunbeams-
the more they are condensed. the
deeper they burn.-Robert Southey.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-10-15
DINNER.

Cream soup, ounces, about. .......... u
One roll, 1.25 ounces, about. ............ 10
One inch cube butter, Go ounce. about 142
One lamb chop, broiled, ounce. about 80
One teacup mashed potato, ounces.
about Observation-Disclosures. 175
Apple, celery, lettuce salad, with
mayonnaise dressing, ounces. about rs
Split Boston cracker, 100 grains. about AZ
One-half inch cube cheese. 100 grains,
about .....,',...,.............. %
One-half teacup bread pudding. 3
ounces, about ................."........ 150
Gomez ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
one lump sugar. $50 grains, about. 80
-
Total .......................... S51
Total calories .........................2,7 2S