The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-05-14
Paragraphs Worth Reading.
Women are urging the creation Of
farm women's bureau in the de-
partment of agriculture.

farm women's bureau in the de-
partment of agriculture.
The selling not long ago of several
hundred copies of the Bible trans
lated into japanese to the students
Of one of the leading universities at
Toxic is in line with the report of
Scottish Bible society which distrib-
uted during the last year in China
1,675,0OO Chinese Bibles, issued from
the society's printing press in Han
kow, as well as placing amongst the
people of Japan during the last year
79,467 copies OF the Scriptures.
OF approximately s7,000,000 emer-
gency currency outstanding, 80 per
cent is in Texas, s per cent each in
California and Alabama, about Z per
cent in North Carolina, 6 per cent
each in South Carolina, Louisiana
and Iowa, about 5 per cent in Penn
sylvania, about 4 per cent in Flori-
da. about per cent each in Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma about
2 per cent in Oregon and about "
per cent each i'm Virginia and Con-
necticut. Remainder is scattered
throughout the country.
More than a score of American
firms are establishing new color
works or charging the output of ex-
listing plants to meet the demands of
the textile industries and other allied
branches of manufacture for dye
stuffs, the supply of which formerly
came almost exclusively from Germa-
and which has been cut off since
Great Britain's embargo against Ger
man commerce. The department of
commerce today announced il was de-
voting much attention to the progress
in American dyestuff manufactures,
and had found a noteworthy advance
and had found noteworthy adj
vance.
a civilization greater than that
now in the temperate zone Will lie
built in the tropics as the result o.
conquering disease, according to
Surgeon General Gorgas of the Unit
ed States army. This prediction was
made by him in an address before
the Alabama Medical association re-
Gently. 1.-The valleys Of South Amer
ica are greater in fertility than any
other in the world" DR.. Gorgas said.
81 believe in time to come we will
see a more intense civilization in
these great tropical countries than
we now find in the temperate zone.
This movement is commencing now
and will affect the Southern States
first. The Gulf of Mexico and Car
ibbean sea will prove to the South
what the Mediterranean is to Eu-
rope
Canadian wealth has been devoted
literally to the cause of education,
but il has not been often that the
benefactor has been a woman. Can
adam women owe much to Mrs. Lii
liam Massie Treble, who has spent
great part of the wealth left by her
father in building and endowing
college of household economy in con-
nection with the University of Tor
onto. Mrs. Treble was one of the
first to believe that the highest edu-
cation for which women had fought
for half a century or more was not
preparation for the careers which
most of them must lead. She had a
fortune, and she lived within the
shadow of great university. She
determined to do for women what
the school of applied knowledge was
doing for men. In small way the
experiment was begun Is years ago
in basement in a mission in King
street, Toronto. Gradually the work
developed, and now there is a facul-
ty of household economy in Toronto
University. The building is in keep
ing with the splendid group to
which it belongs. 1t has a full staff
of professors, all of whom are wo-
men.
Owing to the falling of the Nile,
Egypt will have to import nearly all
her rice this year. The Nile has not
been so low for nearly 100 years,
and the facilities for water storage |
have been insufficient to relieve the
distress.
Asbestos does not burn because il
has been burned already, like stone
or sand, and can be burned no more.