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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

in all attitudes which are above 5000 feet. Sac Paulo is introducing Rambouil1ets. Southdowns and Hampshires at it's gov ernment farms, and many Southdowns are being bred in Rio Grande do Sul. The latter state has now something like 5000 900 sheep, and it is exporting wool. Many sheep stations have been established in the states of Parana. Santa Catherina and Piauhy. The last state is also celc- brated for its milch goats.
 The Brazilian agricultural department is working along the same lines as that of the United States. It has experimental farms in all parts of the republic, and it is breeding new plants and seeds. It Is crossing the various cotton plants, and the greatest care is now taken in tho se- whole of Brazil over 1.SOo.0oo.o0o coffee trees and the increase of one-half pound to the tree would make an increase of 65o,0O0,0o0 pounds in the annual coffee crop. The government has experiment stations for the development of a silk in- dustry, ard at some of these the culture of silk worms is being successfully car- ried on. Experiments in dry farming are also being made, and experts from the United States have been employed to carry on a series of experiments here. Among these experts is Dr. Vernon Cook, who has been working in Pernambuco, Parahyba, Rio Grande do Norte and Ceara He says the system of dry farm ing Is absolutely sure of success in the semi-arid regions of those states and it is on the basis of his report that the government expects to establish dry farming experiment station there.
 Brazil has set aside number of for est reserves. and she Is Investigating the possibility of her lumber industry. She is cultivating trees for the reforestation of certain districts, and will plant trees with the relation of the forest to the water supply. Some of the public gardens are already distributing such trees to the va rlous towns as shade trees. Several hun dred thousand year are being sent out.
 Among the most important crops that arc beng investigated and experimented with here is cotton. The government has imported cotton experts from our south ern states. It has sent them to investi- gate certain parts of its territories and they report that Brazil has millions of n.re ssuited to this plant. In order to stimulate the cultivation of cotton, the agricultural department is cooperating with the agricultural societies in a cam paign of instruction. They are showing the planters how to improve the staple and quality of the cotton. and they have demonstration farms where the most ad-
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Moreover, he did it for the fun of the thng--no charge whatevver his idear to convinse the most skeptcal that theere such thing spiritual ism No so with this forrain lady-she is following the bznness strictly demmycratic tariff basis for revvenew only.
 However she road to fall. am glad to recall it. Hur wunderful success had becum the subject of town gossip They waiting turns at hur door to be admitted by hur courtly and distnuished but Ter in ordur that they mite hand to hur all theere gilt edge securities and hard erned run tales of hur insite to ones past and future marvellus. One ganse in your pam by this wizzurd of compeet mystury and she could cum within three bucks of the size of your bank roll Her favvorite stunt to tell you that while you weer born of poor parents and in private fammery, nevertheless you weer in direct line with of the crowned heds of Urope Sum times large fortune awaited you ovver theere. It has been awaiting you for time and will probabuy continew rite along to do so. That is of the best things large fortune does is to await. Mine has been awaiting for good menny yeers and newer gets discouraged; it just keeps rite on in the awaiting bizness. Just before she tells you how to get sed fortune theere is spiritual inturferrense that preventsths interfer rense however is the only thing that stands between you and sed fortune-that and an unsympathetick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
Men Who Wear Feathers

From the Washington Star.
 Among the strange tribes of men about whom little is known are the Chamacocos of the region about the upper Paraguay river
 Although the Chamacocos wear but litt1o clothing, they excel in the art of making personal adornments from the feathers of birds Their country abounds with birds of the most beautiful plumage. including parrots, toucans and trogons, whose feathers are dazzling in color: rheas. with grap lumes; musk drcSs of a glossy black color. egrets with feathers of pure white, and spoon bills of u delicate pink hue
 All this wealth Of color and graceful plumage is combined by the Chamoccos in most artistic manner. Some of these savages walk their forest glades in coors more brilliant if less ample. than any woman's dressmaker could produce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05

being imported and instruction in dairy management is now given on some of the government experiment farms. The chief national breeding farm is that at Pinheiro, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. cattle, horses and hogs, and 1t is ship ping breeding animals to different sta tions throughout the country. There is another farm at Ribeirao Preto, in the state of Sac Paulo, and another at Larges, while one is to be established at Triangulo Mineiro, between Sac Paulo, Goyaz and Matto Crosse, in the very cen- ter of great undeveloped cattle region. The native stock is to be crossed by im- ing, and among those now being brought in are Durhams, Herefords and Holstens. and also Zebus or Indian cattle the sacred bulls of Hindoostan. The latter are especially desirable for the jerked- beef industry.
 The government is doing what it can to improve the horses of Brazil. The origi- nal stock of the country is Arabian, in- troduced by the Portuguese, but it has de- teriorated until the most of the animals now raised are little better than ponies. They are too small for the army and both the state and national governments are establishing model breeding farms with a view to the formation of types of national horses for the cavalry and better types for the farms They are importing Hack neys, Shires and Percherons. Government studs have been established in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where are also breeding farms for mules, to be used in transport. At present most of the pack mules come from Argentina, but the num- Der of native animals is increasing and 1t is estimated that there are now 600 000 and more than 1,5000OO horses in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The Larges stud is to be devoted to raising pack animals. That locality has already 10000 mules. At the same time private individuals are inn porting fine stock. Mr. Murdo Mackenzie, the American head of big ranching com pany. has brought in great many Here- lords and Shorthorns from the United States, and there are large number of importations. The number of blooded cat tie imported is now something like 75, COG yer pear.
 In this same connection has arisen a movement for the breeding of sheep. Fine stock is being brought in, and it is believed that wool industry can be es- tablished in many parts of the highlands Much of central Brazil has an altitude of three or four thousand feet. and the experiments show that sheep will thrive
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which sometimes sells for $50000,O00 and it has cotton fields that may in time con- pete with those of the United States As to its cattle ranges, they are potentially as great as those of Argentina, and the day will come when Brazilian meat will be eaten on our dinner tables, and when its chilled beef exports will amount to tens of millions of dollars per annum, As 1t is now there are something like 25.000,- 900 cattle ready for slaughter, and millions of acres of pasture lands are still unde- veloped and untouched. The Brazilians realize the possibilities of this industry. They see that the beef Argentina is sending to Europe and the United States promises to make that country rich, and the government intends to do all it can to develop the stock raising resources of the republic
 The government of Brazil is by no means a dead factor in the equation of modern industry. It encourages all sorts of industries, and nearly every one of it's departments has movements under way for the betterment of the country. Take this matter of stock rearing. The agri- cultural department has established a breeding farm near Rio do Janero, and 1t gives premiums on all importations of fine animals for breeding purposes. These premiums vary according to the kind of stock and the locality from which it comes For instance, pedgreed bull brought in from Europe yields the impor- ter bonus of $166, a prize stallion $200 and a jaclass $133. There are bonuses of $50 each for pedigreed hogs and 8 each for blooded roosters. Lower premiums are given for stock imported from the United States, and the premiums are graded also as to whether the animals are landed in the northern or southern states of Brazil The difference is on &C., count of the freight rates. Stock shipped from the United States to the south re- ceives about the same bonuses as from Europe. While that which goes to the north is paid less by one-third. To se- cure these premiums the applicants must give proof of registry and also the pedi- grees of the animals imported They have to send photographs, and, in case of bulls, certificates that they have been inocu- lated against tuberculosis. In 1909 live stock of a value of almost $2,000,000 was imported.
 Not only the national government. but many of the states have created model breeding farms, and concessions have been granted to certain breeding under takings. Among others the government intends to establish cattle runs in the Amazon valley and to inaugurate dairy and meat industries on different parts of the Brazilian highlands. Dairy stock is
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and in other places they give concessions for various kinds of manufacturers
 The manufacturers of cotton have been greatly favored in the way of tariff and also in freedom from duty on the impor- tation of certain kinds of machinery. As a result cotton milling is about the most important of the industries. There are large factories at Rio and others in Sac Paulo and in other states. There are something like 100000 spndles and s5,0oO looms in operation, and the annual prod uct amounts to 420,000 000 yards of cloth The capital invested is more than $GO0O0,- 900.
 The government of Brazil is doing n great deal along the lines of health and sanitation. When I was in Rio de Janero b years ago every foreigner was afraid of yellow fever and tho American resi- dents took castor oil for every headache for fear it might be the precursor of that dread disease. Today, Rio is one of the healthy cities of the world. It's death rate has fallen to 20 per 1000, and it has more old men than any other great city. In all France there are only 1S4 people WHO are moro than SU years old. Tho statistics show that this city has IFS in- habitants who have lived more than century. and that, notwithstanding it has only one thirty eighth the population of France.
 Rio de Janeiro Is now under the best of sanitary conditions. The streets arc almost painfully clean They arc swept every night and are sprinkled all day by sprinkling machines that are often run on the street car tracks. Tho war against disease began six or seven years ago. It was carried on by the government and was the outcome of our success at Panama. At that time all the houses were visited by medical inspectors under tho superintendence of 72 doctors and a host of medical students. Every building was thor ough1y disinfected and million a half tanks and reservoirs were cleaned. All of the streams in and about the city were dredged and every pool of stag nant water was coated with coal oil
 For several years the annual expen- ditures for sanitation was more than $S.000,000 In 1906 mosquito hotbeds to the number of 153,000 were de- stroyed, 60O.000 cisterns disnfected and 44,0p reservoirs coated with pe- troleum. Since then the health regula- tions have been strenuously enforced, and today every house in the capital is sanitary. The city has brigade of 150O mosquito killers. who visit the sewers and look out for stagnant wa ter They also disinfect the ships that come into the harbor. Every public school has now its colored pictures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
By FRANK G. CARPENTER Copyright, 1915, by Frank G. Carpen-
 ter)

NSCPSAlShtr I0io, py T IdIth SdIp6u-
 ter.)
 Rio De Janeiro. T~ HE end of the war in Europe
 will mark the beginning of |zFS5;S9 new era for Brazil. This VSGsSgD country has, in proportion to
 it's area, more good tillable land than any other on the globe. It contains almost half of the South American continent and has less waste territory than any other part of it. Moreover. much of it is fitted for white men, The most of south and central Brazil is high and healthy and the tropical regions are being so redeemed by the new methods of sanitation orig mated at Panama that they will in time support vast population. If Bra zil were settled like Belgium at the beginning of tfie war, its people would equal in number the whole human race and they would be better fed and bet ter housed than half of the human race is today. The greater part of the republic is undeveloped. It has all told only about 20,000,0o0 inhabitants and its people are expecting an enormous inmi grafton to follow the conclusion of peace. They are preparing for this inn migration, and both the government and the people are alive to its possi- bilities
 At the present writing Brazil is in the midst of hard times. A stringency ! has been created by the financial troubles of Europe. and the govern ment finds it hard to finance it's schemes and pay it seXpenses. 1t has borrowed large amounts from the busi- ness houses of the republic, and it's treasury notes for local supplies are bought and sold at about three-fourths of their face value. There is talk of creating national bank to issue enough paper money to supply the present deficit and to increase the \ bonded indebtedness to such an extent as will tide the country over until the war closes. The most of the national 1 debt is now owned in Europe, but all told 1t does not amount to more than a half billion dollars; and the aggre- gate debt of the country, federal, state and municipal, is only little more than fifteen hundred millions. This is noth- 1. ing in comparison with the other debts of the world. It is little for a country like this with it's enormous area of un- developed resources, and its possibili- . |. ties of clothing and feeding, and might almost say, of drinking the world.
 | Brazil has one crop, coffee, that often Y furnishes an annual export amounting to @20O, ,00O0 600. It has another crop, rubber,
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E 11ISTUR EDDITUR: It sertainly is funny that WI theere is such decided tendensy in this FS32yS country to patronnize forrain industry in ,e~ prefferense to the homemaid brand. Enny
 thing with farrain tag it seems to be preurred by the ordnerry citizen to the article maid in the U. s. A. The average feemail will throw series of fits imported gown rum Paris regardless of the way it looks. An imported English woolen ovvercoat warrents its ownur to walk down Main street all swelled up like a membur of the Legislature So it goes with evvery uther old thing
 Theere is forrain lady in this town who has suc- ceeded in sturring quite good deel of exsitemnt way and anuther amung Washingtun sosiety folks The forrain lady aforementioned is not only forrain in mannurs and looks but she has forrain name as hard to pronounse Rushian fortress she is also about acsessibu She landed heer last spring entirely ignerrent of custums and stles
 but with intense yeerning to acquire large sup ply of our brand of currensy and uter luxuries She was willing to Tern ways, long as we would pay her for doing She hungry for infer maston as the average hired gurl is for beau on the pol1se forse. She wanted to win the affectson of most evvery boddy at so much per- What she needed was sympathy and the mummy. So she annonnsed herself in the papers regular honest to goodness clarryvoyant, spirrituast pammist and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
Bx BYRON LoMAx

1TROGRAD, November 2S.-(Spe- i cial Correspondence.)-War Is
 spelling antiquity. Caught be-
 tween the guns of the opposing
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IF end of the war in Europe
 will mark the beginning of
 a new era for Brazil. This country has, in proportion to its area. mora good ti11ah1a
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-09-09
HOLD MEETING IN COLUMBIA
Third Triennial Convention of Pei.
lagra Experts In October Will At.
tarct Distinguished Visitors.

| Columbia.-It has been definitely
decided by the several committees
that the third triennial meeting of the
National Association for the study of
Pellagra will be held in Columbia
October FL and 20 next.
Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the
United States public health service
mas assigned Drs. Lavinder, COLDER
ger and Voegtln to represent the, SER
vice at the meeting Drs. Siler, Gar
rlson and MacNeal of the Thompson
McFadden pellagra commission will
attend.
The headquarters Of the association
VIII be at the Jefferson hotel, but the
scientific meetings will be he'd in the
amusement hall Of !he state hcapital
Tor the insane, through the courtesy
OF the regents and G. f. Williams, NJ.
d., the superintendent and mempar3
of the hospital staff will contribute
papers but their subjects have not
yet been announced
From foreign countries papers have
already been promised. Among these
are:
"Vitamines and Pellagra," by DR..
Gugenio Bravetta Of the Provincial
asylum at Mombello, near Milan, Italy.
DR.. Bravetta is now surgeon in the
war zone of northern Italy.
Authorization by Corn Products in
Healthy Individuals and in Pella-
grins" by Prof. P. Albertoni and DR.
P. Tullio Of the University Of b.
logne, Italy.
Drs. Sandwith and Sambon OF Ion
don have been contributors to tne
previous conferences and will TO
doubt send articles for this meeting.
1t is essentially desired by the com
mittee to have a paper on "The His
tory of Pellagra in Great Britain" for
this conference. An article On the
historical side of pellagra in Egypt,
Canada and other countries is also
expected.
These papers have already been
promised from this country:
"rhe Etiology of Pellagra" by Tr,
George G. Mizell, Atlanta.
Papers are promised by DR.. Roy
Blosser and DR.. r. II. Dorsey, Atlanta,
but the titles are not given
DR.. j. LaBruce Ward Of Columbia
will read paper on "Pellagra and
Pneumonia in Child of Three
Years"
Other papers promised are:
DR.. H. w. Rice Of Columbi. on "The
Cause Of Pellegra in Connection With
200 Children"
DR.. e. B. Saunders Of Columbia ol
Central Neutritis in Pellagra," an,
DR.. j. w. Babcock on Further Stud
les Of the MedicoLegal Relations o
! Pellagra."
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-09-09
MARKET REPORT.

Prices paid for cotton. cotton seed,
corn. wheat, oats, peas, ETC., on the
different markets in South Carolina
during the past week:
whent Mort scott0n' b. .osfs &C: &C.; Corn s1o by
bu; butter zoe ID; eggs. zoe doz.
Camden-Butter, 35c lb; eggs, zoe doz.
Cheraw-Cotton. SIC; corn. $l.lO bu;
wheat, $1.l0 bu; oats. soc bu; butter, 25c
lb; eggs. sc doz.
Conway Butter 35c lb; eggs, 15c doz.
Jonesyille-Cotton, size; butter, zoe lb;
sl.25 ba; oats. Csc bu; rye, i25 iq; bu; ~but' but
RidselapiG SC; ~' corn, s1.1o bu;
oats 81 bu; peas, $l75 bu; butter, 25c
lb: eggs, 1ic doz.
part.nburg- &C; corn. 81 bu,
wheat, SIPS b9: oats. Csc bu; butter. 25c
waiicrboro- Cotton, SIC; butter, 25>
St George-Butter, 35c lb; eggs, &c
I1dgehelddanCor s11o bu; wheat $1.5o
bu; oats GOc bu; rye, $50 bu; butter, 25c
iahcaster~c Corn. s1.1o bu; wheat. s1.4o
bu;; butter, cn Csc 81 @ esss; S. izIee, ao7:
oats Soc bu buter e b eees sS5 dnl
Clnton-Corn. $i.15 bu: Wheat, si.2G
bu; oats, 65c bu; rye, $1.1O bu; peas, 81
bu: butter 25c l:b eggs Csc doz.
Chesterfield--Corn, 81 bu: wheat s1.35
bu; oats, Csc bu; butter ,25c lb; eggs, 15c
dog.
Charleston-Corn. $lO5 bu; oats SOC
bu: rye. sl.25 bu; butter, zoe lb; eggs, 1$c
dOz.
St Matthews-Co S5c bu; wheat, 81
bu; oats. soc bu; rye. $l.50 bu.
Orangcburg-- Corn, 81 bu; wheat 81 20
hu; oats, 60c bu; rye, $1.25 bu; peas, $i65
bu.
I.aurcns-Corn, $1.10 bu; wheat, SIPS
Bamberg Corn; 81 bu; wheat, s125 bu;
oats. Csc bu.
Darlington-Butter 4Oc lb; oggs, 3Oc
doZ.
Observation-Disclosures, 30c ID; eggs. zoe doz
&XXX now isthe tim 70 rail- goodn,
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-09-09
Smeared and Disarranged.

at Distance and sneak into an Alley,
because he didn't wish to get Blood all
over his Clean Waist.
Whenever Edgar was forced into a
Battle and came homo smeared and
disarranged, his Mother would go to
her Room and Cry softly and Father
would Paint vivid Word-Picture Of
a Wretch standing on the Gallows
with a Black Cap over his Head.
Then Edgar would crawl to the Hay
Now and brood over his Moral In
firmities and try in cropping way to
figure out his Relation to Things in
General.
But, when Rufus appeared all drip.
ping with Gore, his Seconds would cool
him out and rub him with Witch
Hazel and pin Medals on him and in
aicate to him on a Chart the exact
latitude and longitude OF the Solar
Plexus.
His Parents made the Grave Mis-
take of backing him to the Limit.
They pumped him full of Courage
every Morning and set him out to Lick
all Corners.
No wonder he became as pugnacious
as u. S. Grant, as conceited as q Sue
cessul Business Man and as self-as.
sured as Chautauqua Lecturer.
Everyone disliked him intensely but
just the same they stepped off into the
Mud and gave him the entire double
width OF Cement Sidewalk.
Edgar, on the other hand, was one O.
the most popular Door-Mats that evol
had welcome" marked up and dowl
his Spinal Column.
All those who scratched Matches OF
him and used him as Combinatio,
Hall-Tree and Hitching Post used t
remark that he didn't have an Enem!
Ia tho World.