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cocoanuts in the Philippines.

The cocoanut trade of the Philip
pine islands has increased at a tre-
mendous rate since the United States
took over these possessions. The In
dustry has been encouraged and the
by-products form an important feature
of the business. American methods
and american enterprise have revolu-
tionized the cocoanut industry in the
islands until today it is of supreme
Importance.
The cocoanut palm rs yielding an
increasing number of products to sup
ply the demands of the worlds trade.
The list includes, besides the familiar
shredded %cocoanut, these articles:
Oil, wine, butter, hair tonic, toilet
soap, charcoal, mating, baskets and
brooms.
The year after the arrival of Ad-
miral Dewey in Manila bay the re-
turns from the %cocoanut industry in
the islands amounted to about $780,
600. Ten years later the trade had
increased to $7,OO0,OOO and last year
it reached SIS, 1000, 900, or ST. for every
~inhabitant of the archipelago, and for
the first time took rank ahead of
hemp, sugar and other staples of the
export trade.
Every part of the cocoanut palm
seems to be available for use in some
manner. Its leaves may be woven to-
gether in a mating which serves as
a shelter from rain and sun. The
stem of the leaf contains a fiber which
is excellent material for making bas-
kets, brooms and strong, flexible hats.
The flower of the tree yields a sap,
called tuba, which in the fermented
state is popular with the natives as a
beverage. The sap may be distilled
into a mild intoxicant called coco
wine.
Tuba is obtained by shipping the
points of the unexpanded blossoms,
from which the sap drips into BAN
boo receptacles. This operation de-
stroys the nut germ, but tuba is so
highly priced by the people in some
parts of the islands that entire groves
are devoted solely to its production.
The fiber of the husk is used for
manufacturing mating, brushes,
brooms, cordage, packing and for
c%aulking the seams of vessels. The
shell makes excellent fuel and may
be converted into a superior quality
of charcoal, although it's most general
use in the Philippines is for ladies
and bowls of various descriptions, in
dispensable utilities among the poorer
classes.
The meat, attached to the inner side
of the shell, furnishes either the des.
sicated cocoanut Of common table use,
food for the natives, or, lastly and
most important, becomes copra, from
which cocoanut oil is extracted.
The copra is made into oil by the
natives by primitive processes, the
methods varying in different localities.
One method is to grind the meat, boil
1t and then skim the oil from the
surface of the water. Various kinds
of crude presses are used to extract
the oil. The residue left after the oil
has been taken out is pressed into
cakes and used as stock food or fer
tilizer.
Cocoanut trees begin to yield nuts
when they r four years old, and
bear for an indefinite period. There
are records of trees 100 years ole
which are still producing. The nut.
are not harvested at regular inter
walls, but are gathered every two O
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sPokANE's MARKET REPORT

There is no question that a better
sentiment prevails throughout the
channels of commerce and industry.
There are indications, likewise, that
this confident attitude on the part of
the trade is we'll founded. Doubtless
the most conspicuous factor in i'm
parting to trade the feeling that there
will be a very satisfactory wind-up for
the calendar year is the enormous in
crease forecasted by the agricultural
department in the crop productions Of
the present year. With a winter
wheat harvest indicated on July / Of
927, 000,0 900 bushels, as against $50, 0O0,-
600 bushels for an average of the out
turn OF the five years; with a corn
crop of 2,920, 1000 bushels; against
an average of 2,70s, 100000 bushels; an
oat crop of 1900, 000, 900 bushels, COM
pared with 1881, 000, 900 bushels for
five years, and a barley crop of gill;
100000 bushels, compared with 49,
$4,000 bushels on the average, 1t is
quite evident that there will be a big
surplus Of cash to work it's way from
the sources of primary production
back through the various channels, to
the financial centers again, and that
there will be a substantial impetus i'm
parted to business and the various
branches Of industry, as a result.
In the leading lines Of trade there
are no marked changes locally, so far
as spot conditions are concerned.
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Would prevent BIG Railroad Strike.

Chicago.-Hearings by the federal
board of mediation to settle the diff
lerences between the SO western rail-
roads and their engine crew is on here
this week. William l.. Chambers,
chairman of the board; Federal Judge
Martin A. Knapp and G. w. Hanger,
assistant commissioner, will use their
good offices to obtain the consent of
the carriers and their employees to ar
bitration.
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GREAT TRIAL IN PARIS
NINE. cAILLAUx, MURDEREss, RE-
vEALs HER SECRET SHAME
IN CROWDED COURT.
HER RECITAL DRAMATIC ONE
Publication of Letters by Editor She
Shot Meant Disgrace-Did Not
Wish to Blush Before Daughter =
Would Cause a Scandal.

Paris.-Mme. Henriette Caillaux, the
wife of Joseph Caillaux, once premier
of France and former minister of fl
nance, occupied the prisoners enclos-
ure in the assize court at the palace
of justice Monday and recited, in a
dramatic manner, the circumstances
leading up to the shooting, March 16,
of CASTOR Calmette, editor of the FL
caro-, with whose murder she is ac-
cused.
Judge Louis Albanel acted as presi-
dent of the court.
Nine. Caillaux held the attention of
the crowded courtroom for three hours.
She described wildly the protracted
calumnies against herself and her hus-
band.
For three months ! mounted Cal
vary" she said. "Such / do not wish
to my worst enemy. No can imag-
inc what l went through. / feared for
myself, for my husband, for my child.
l feared for myself because if parts of
those letters were published my deep
est, innermost secret would be dis
played before the world, my woman's
honor stand stripped and naked.
81 had always been taught that a
woman's honor consisted in having
her life as open as possible. l was
reared by aged parents. My father
was the son of a rich bourgeois of the
period of 1880, devoted to the ideas of
that epoch. My poor father, who, last
year, told me that a wife who had q
lover was a woman without honor,
never would have set foot in my house
had he known of my liason with M.
Calmette.
OF the Bourgeois.
1--WE were ~reproached with being of
the bourgeois. 1t is true. | did not
blush for it. / am a bourgeois. When
the letters were purloined M. Caillaux
and myself felt alike; we preferred to
our great happiness rather
than see our inner life zlaZoned to the
world.
81 feared the publication of the let
tiers on account of the society we fire.
quented. We had many friends, es-
pecially among the embassies, and in
those circles people wisher to humili-
ate and cast ridicule upon my husband
by the publication of two letters ad-
dressed to two different women,
signed Thy joe" They wished to
Throw contomnt unon the head of a
minister of the republic, the chief of
the radical party, and strike through
him, the republic.
FINALLY, I did not wish to blush be-
fore my daughter; that is n thing
a woman must not be asked to do. ]
deeply regret the present misfortune
and / would have undergone anything
in the world rather than have been
the cause of it."
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Journalist and Author Dies.

New York.-Montgomery Schuyler,
journalist and author, and known for
his published studies in architecture.
is dead of pneumonia at his home in
New Rochelle, N. Y. He was in his
list year.
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I. MONTANA BRIEFS

MONTANA BRIEFS
Deer Lodge Elks will have a big
picnic next Sunday.
The Milwaukee has inaugurated a
daily train service to Grass Range
from Lewistown.
Mrs. Nellie O'Shaughnessy attempt
ed suicide recently at Livingston by
taking chloroform.
The 1914 convention of the Montana
State Press association is on at Lew
istown this week.
The annual reunion of the Montana
Society of Pioneers will occupy three
days at Bozeman Aug 5, 6 and T..
The first summer session ever held
at the college at Bozeman has closed
after a most successful six weeks of
work.
Gold and white are to be the colors
for the decorations at the Montana
gold and silver jubilee celebration at
Bozeman Aug. 5-8.
The state supreme court in a deci-
sion held that the initiative and refer
endum amendment to the constitution
is constitutional.
1t is reported that Barney Fitzpat-
rick, a member of Anaconda's police
force for Ia years, and for many years
chief of police, is dead in De Smet,
Idaho.
Without material changes, but with
numerous minor alterations, the con-
stitution a proposed by the executive
committee was adopted at a massmeet-
ing of the Butte Mine Workers union
held Sunday.
Martin Gleason, county assessor, has
finished the assessment of the prop
erty of Powell county for the current
year and it shows a total of $5,234,716,
an increase of $599,199 over the fig
ures of last year.
N. b. Keeney of lie Roy, N. Y,
of the leading seedsmen of the Uni
ted States in the wholesale market
and largely interested in the growing
of seed peas in the Gallatin valley,
says the conditions were never more
promising in Montana.
The conference committee of con.
gress on the sundry civil service bill
has agreed to fixing the salary of the
n1arIy 30 tho fo1nraI oOt1rt Of AAntnna
at $500, being a material reduction.
The amendment also abolishes the
double fee system in the federal court
in the Montana district and establishes
a single fee system.
That sheep will be run in the for
ests of Northern Montana in places
and in a manner SO as no to injure
the winter pasturage of the elk was
the result reached after a conference
between State Game Warden De Hart
and R. H. Rutledge, assistant district
forester, in charge of lands in district
No. 1 of the forest service.
Dates for county institutes of teach
ers and for summer schools have been
set for a majority of the counties of
the state. The summer schools will
begin next month, a number being
joint ones, to last from three to six
weeks. Several counties will hold
their institutes when the state teach
ers' association meets at Butte in No
-vember. Aug. 81 county Institutes will
be held by Musselshell, Fallon and Big
Horn counties; Sept. z, Rosebud and
Carbon will hold Institutes, and Sept.
% Lincoln and Sanders counties. Sum-
mel schools will be held at Lewis
town by Fergus and Meagher coun-
ties; at Great Falls by Cascade, Cho-
teau, Teton and Toole; at Rosebud
lake, Yellowstone and Saltwater; at
Glendive, Dawson and Richland; Flat
head at Kalispell and Gallatin at Boze-
man.
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Provisions.

Butter-There has been no change
in the butter situation for some time.
The market is quoting at 25@2Sc for
Washington creamery, and is rela-
lively firm, with steady demand.
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Repair Mexican Railroad.

Mexico City.-The gap In the rail-
way between Vera Cruz and Mexico
City has been closed, and direct com
munication will be r~eestablished be-
tween the two cities.
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Revive cook-Peary Contest.

Washington.-Secretary Daniels was
asked by a house naval subcommittee
to submit a statement on the question
of whether Rear Admiral Peary discov-
cred the north pole and discovered 1t
first,
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Panama Commissioners Ole.

Panama,CDavid Marks, American
member Of the Panama joint land com
mission, Is dead as q result OF cerebral
hemorrhage.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-18
George E. Stratton

George e. Stratton died Wednesday,
Nov. 10th, at his home in Burlington,
aged So years. Mr.. Stratton experienced
shock of paralysis on August gath,
which rendered him practically help
less for some weeks, though he gained
sufficiently to be wheeled out to his
meals. He grew rapidly worse last We'd
nesday night after supper and lapsed
into unconsciousness from which he did
not rally.
The funeral was held on Saturday,
from the home, with burial IN Lake
View cemetery.
Mr.. Stratton was born in Hyde Park,
October 10, 1859. He was graduated
from Johnson Normal School and from
Oswego School of Stenography and Type
writing, after which he entered the Of
fee of c. 5. Page as private secretary, res
naming for eight years. Mr.. Stratton
was executive clerk and private secretary
for Mr.. Page when the latter was Gov.
ernor of Vermont in 1890 and held the
same Office with Governor Grout in 1896.
Mr.. Stratton was also court stenogra-
pher for some years and reported meet
ings of various state organizations. OF
late years he conducted an insurance and
real estate business and was manager of
the Burlington Mirror and Plating Com
pany.
Mr.. Stratton leaves his wife, two sons,
Ralph of Clifton Springs, N. Y, and
Donald A., of this city and one daugter,
Gladys E. Stratton also of Burlington,
and by one sister, Mrs. l.. g. Terrill of
Jericho. Mr.. Stratton was man of
strength of character, affable and kind.
He will be missed by many, who offer
sympathy to the bereaved family.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-18
Pretty Home Wedding

A 3 O'clock, Wednesday afternoon,
Nov. f. a very pretty wedding ceremony
was performed at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer Wetherell, in North
Cambridge, when J. Flint B trton ired
ia marriage their daughter, Gladys Mil
dred, to Ernest Tenney Hubbard. The
single ring service was used and the
father gave away the bride.
AS Miss Lola Davis, cousin of the
bride, was playing Lohengrins wedding
march, the wedding party en'ered the
drawing room. led by the groom's best
man, II, Montague, "a cousin of the bride
and groom, followed by the maid of hon
or, Miss Carrie Hubbard, sister of the
groom, and behind her came the bride,
leaning on her fathers arm.
The bride wore charming gown of
blue crepe de chene, trimmed with satin.
The bridal veil was draped with lilies of
The maid OF honor was gOwned in white,
net trimmed with pink, and carried pink
carnations.
The rooms were very prettily decorat-
ed with cedar, intertwined with strings OF
partridge berries. After the ceremony
refreshments of ice cream, cake, punch
and waters were serred. Mrs. Glenna
Brush, cousin of the bride, and Miss
Hubbard presided at the punch bowl,
assisted by young sister ana cousin of
the bride.
At 4:30 p. m. the happy couple left for
an auto trip and were accompanied as
far as Georgia by some of the guests,
who made things lively by announcing
TO people on the road, "This couple is
just married" Plenty of rice and old
shoes decorated the car before reaching
its destination. Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbard
are spending ther honeymoon in Ran
dolph, Craftsbury, Hardwick and other
places and will be at home at johnson
after Dec. 10.
The happy couple were the recipients !
of many useful and beautiful gifts of
linen. silver and money.
AIMING tnose from out OF town TO at
tend the wedding were Mr.. and Mrs. Ju-
liam Montague, Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Car
penter and Mrs. Fanny Reynolds of En0s-
burg, the Misses Davis of North Hyde |
Park, Gordon Wetherell and family of |
johnson, MIR. and Mrs. Lucius Noyes,
Mrs. Cyrus Perry and two daughter, Mrs. |
Rollo Hebb and Miss Perry of Eyde !
Park.
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Sunday Evening Services

Evening services at the Cong'l church
will be resumed for the winter, COM
mencing next Sunday evening at p. m.
with thanksgiving Praise Service"
led by a double quartette. 1t is planned
that these evening services will follow
along four lines: One meeting each
month will be musical; one will be talk
illustrated with stereopticon slides, show
ing wide range of views of scenery, life
and customs on four continents and the
islands of the sea; a third meeting each
month will be addressed by the pastor;
ard fourth by some other speaker. All
are cordially invited to come and enjoy
themselves and by their presence to make
them more ENJOYABLE for others.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-18
The FoOt-and-MOuth Disease

| Few farmers or stock-grower in this
country had any real knowledge of the
nature of the foot.and-mouth disease
when its existence at the Chicago Stock
Yards was first reported by agents of the
Federal Government. No trace of it APP
parently has been noted in the United
States since 1890, when it was intro
duced from Canada, where it had been
brought by cattle from England. Over
twenty years ago the farms of Germany
were swept by the plague and the losst S
were put at nearly $4O,OOO,OO0.
What makes the foot-and mouth dis
ease especially dangerous is the case with
which it is carried and the rapidity with
which it spreads. Once it gained start
in certain section, by the infection of
the pens of the stock.yards and of cattle
cars, it was bound to extend quickly in
many directions through the ordinary
channels of traffic. In establishing
strict quarantine in all localities where
discovered, the Government has taken
only the first step toward extinguishing
it. The isolation of all diseased animals
and the disinfection of all places and sub.
stances through which the infection may
be carried are necessarily local measures.
Beginning with a sudden fever, the
foot-and-mouth disease soon reveals it.
self through the formation of blisters on
the tongue and in the mouth and nostrils,
and on other parts of the body where
the skin is thin, especially on the tender
parts of the feet. The immediate effect
is that the animal has difficulty in feed
ng and develops lameness. The disease
can be transmitted to most domestic
ANIMALS, horses seeming to be the least
susceptible, while sheep, goats or swine
are its chief victims.
puzzling feature of this kind of cattle
plague is that, while in Europe it has
been traced back for over 1000 years,
periodicallyit breaks out with extraordi-
nary virulence and spreads like wild. fire.
That the disease was conveyed to the
United States this year from some part
OF Europe is the opinion of experts, but
no one is able to say how or when it ar
rived.-N. Y. World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-18
The Way to Educate

Senator Pages activity in the matter
of vocational training is being favorably
commented on in all parts of the state
and the recent exposition in Windsor
demonstrated its practicability. Public
edscation ought to be founded squarely
on modern industrial life. The schools
should not make an exception of certain
pupils on the theory that they will be
obliged to earn a living. They should
deal with every pupil on the theory that
he will be obliged to earn a living.
The education which, on the whole, is
most suitable and most valuable for
machinists, plumbers, farmers, statesmen,
printers, lawyers. doctors, etc, is the
only sort the public ought to furnish.
The Landmark.
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HIS DRAMATIC ALIBl.
It Cleared the Accused, but Furnished
an Odd Sequel.

A highly respectable gentleman
arrived at York one evening with
luggage and dined well, went to bed
early, rose in good time and had a
substantial breakfast. After this
meal he casually asked the landlord
if there was anything of special in
terest in York. "The assizes are on,
but | do not know if there is any
thing particularly interesting in the
list" was the response.
"Thanks," drawled the stranger.
'Tll look in if | happen to pass the
court and see.'
He did look in and heard a fol-
lower of Dick Turpin in the dock,
charged with highway robbery,
pleading. his innocence vehemently
to stolid judge and jury, who, with
firm faces, did not look as if they
placed much credence in the pris-
oner's profession of innocence. Sud
denly the prisoner caught sight of
the stranger, who had strolled in
from the hotel out of curiosity.
'Here, thank God, is some one
who can prove my innocence!" cried
the prisoner, pointing to the stran-
ger, who was aghast at becoming the
center of interest SO Unexpectedly.
He seemed ast6nished and shook
his head.
ooh, yes" cried the accused;
"just think. You were at Dover-a
long way from here. You came out
of the Ship hotel, and l took your
luggage in wheelbarrow to the
Calais packet at the pier. That was
the day am supposed to have COM
mitted the crime up here"
The stranger seemed bewildered.
The judge, struck with the tragic
earnestfess of the prisoner, ques-
toned the stranger, but the latter
could not assist him much.
''Have you any notebooks" asked
the JUDICIARY memorandum of
your movements on that day"
81 am a merchant" replied the
stranger, connected with an old es-
tablished firm of bankers in Lon
don. | travel lot and of course
enter everything in my books. Here
are my keys if the court cares to
send to my hotel and bring here the
books out of my case. | can easily
settle the point"
The books were fetched. They |
showed that the man had been in
Dover that day and had left by the
Calais packet. This was sufficient |
for the judge and jury. The prison.
er was acquitted.
Comic sequel: Both the "banker
from London" and the highwayman
we're placed in the same dock short
y afterward charged with daring
in the neighborhood.-
London Standard.
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HYDE PARK

Mrs. e. G. Page is spending few days
in Burlington.
Miss Maud Darrah spent Sunday at her
home in Waterville.
Harry Shattuck got good sized deer
in Eden last Saturday.
John Wilde and wife were visitors in
johnson last Monday.
Game Warden Stevens is on the trail of
several Illegal deer hunters.
A. B. Noyes of st. Johnsbury was a
visitor in town last Thursday.
Mrs. Jas. Eaton and Mrs. John Miner
spent Saturday last at Hardwick.
The Maoney auction last Thursday
was we'll attended and the stuff sold well.
The first number of the entertainment
course will be held this evening at the
opera house.
School was resumed in the village
primary department last Monday after
few days let-up on account of canker-
rash.
Jos. Young was home from his work
on Grand Isle over Sunday; came to see
his son Charles, who has been quite ill
with appendicitis.
County Clerk Waite is busy these days
in getting affairs ready for the December
term of County Court. Miss Wadron OF
Hardwick is assisting him.
Dan Smith has his skating rink all
ready for the freeze and just as soon as
winter sets in and the ice is in good con-
dtion it will be open for business. This
will be great place for winter sports, as
it is handy to the village, is of good size
and perfectly safe.
The "bean supper" by the Ladies' Aid,
last Friday evening had good attendance
at the Cong'l church. The feast was an
excellent one and the reputation of Hyde
Park ladies was finely sustained in that
direction. After supper there was an
entertainment of music, Rotations, etc.
"The cats'' were especially good.
Geo. Stratton, whose death is noted
elsewhere, resided here some twenty
years ago and was for time sup't of the
Cong'l Sunday school. 1t was during his
administration that the school raised the
money with which an organ was pur-
chased for the school. Sunday last
mention was made of his death and the
school voted that a letter of cond ence
be sent 10 his widow.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-11-18
Hyde Park Center
Deferred.

j. A. Spear has gone to Fairfield to
work.
Albert Draper is to move to Morrisville
with his daughter, Mrs. A. B. Small, for
the winter.
Albert Draper has sold his farm to Mr..
Gr'ggs of North Troy. Immediate pos
sessun given.
Frd D. Perry of Johnson has pur-
chased the farm of Mrs. d. NJ. Spear and
she has bought Mr.. Perry's farm. In
mediate possession given.
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Read the advertisements in this issue
for bargains in Fall aud Winter goods.