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Douglas Island news., 1915-01-13

As an argument for the defense, the Fairbanks Times says: "Iu causing the 'bottling up of our resources, Clifford Pinchot forever insured our freedom from coal monopolyin the North. He perceived tbe danger which threatened the territory, and acted in time to save the coal for the future benefit Of Alas kaus and Western people generally"
 Tho Alaska coal leasing bill was passed by both Houses and signed by the president early in the fall It has since been gravely announced that the Matauuska coal is of excellent quality, but Co date no record is available of any parties hastening to lease same, although it is imperative that this action should be taken during the winter if any preliminary work is to be accomplished during the coming sun mer The coalIeasing bill is all right, except in the provisions which make it impossible for any users of coal to lease, mine, or obtain the product in any way. Biquettes and coal are still being sent north for Alaska consump. tion and unless some one gets a lease started through the bureau channels early this month. it is not likely that any coal will be mined in Alaska for some time to come.-Railway aud Marine News.
 The Dupont Powder Works, which has long maintained an agency in Seat ue. has bought waterfront dock site below Juneau and is erecting a large wharf and warehouse. A modern mag aziue for explosives will also be con structed nearby and this plant, which has been named Dupont, will be a reg ular port of call for freight boats car rying powder and explosives on the Alaska run. The location is on the east side of Gastineau channel, about 20 minutes run by launch from Thaue, that being the name of the great con centratiug plant soon to be opened for operations by the Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. It will be the ceutral dis tribuung plant for all Dupont eXplo- sives in Southeastern Alaska and being entirely isolated some six miles below Juneau, is an ideal location for such a magazine. The Standard Oil was the first 10 build an Alaska plant-Rail- way and Marine News.
 "Hunting from an automobile is the latest Alaskan sport, said Roy Ruther- ford, Fairbanks lumberman, at Seattle recently. "Tbere is nothing quite so novel and interesting as shooting grouse and rabbits from the car, with out being forced to rambe about for hours in the underbrush That is where Alaskan hunters have the edge on those outside. Here hunters must walk through the brush for a day and get only average bags, while there we can go out with an automobile from Fairbanks and come back in few few hours time with limit bag. Just as aoon as hunting season opens, we take the cars out over the Valdez trail about ten or twelve miles. We try to start before daylight and usually be- fore we get out more than five or six miles great coveys of grouse are scur rying up. They seldom fly beyond range, SO we eau shoot them without getting out of the car. All we have to do is To pick up the birds and put them in ihe t0upcau"
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Boxing With the Feet.

rT7 HE, form of boxing known as La
savate,'' in which the feet are used
as well as the fists. and kicks are
legitimate as blows. has for long
time been popular exercise in French
gymnasia and schools of arms. In this
country it is pra actically unknown, al
though attempt has been mdae at va
rious times II introduce il here.
The first principle is that the whole
weight Of the body shall be placed on
one leg, and that the farthest from the
adversary. The disengaged leg is used
as an adjunct to the fists, and flies
out with astonishing swiftness and ac-
curacy OF aim.
The coup de savate" proper is the
..chasse'' off the right foot. or shin
hit" a dangerous blow, but one that
is easily avoided by raising the left
knee to the level of the waist, Forn,-
dabIe as this method of assault and
others. such as the coup d'arret, or
straight stop hit, and the coup lie fig
ure," or swinging face kick. may be,
and undoubtedly are with an expert.
the parties and guards arc simple ana
sure if properly used.
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scales that weigh three tons at a time.
There is one elevator that has a ca
pacity of 10000 tons. 1t can load as
much as 100000 sacks of wheat in a
day. The wheat is taken into steel
hoppers Of forty tons each, and flows
out into great, round brick silos. each
Of which has a capacity Of about e.
100000 tons. There are eight silos,
about fifty feet in height and thirty
feet in diameter.
Bahia Blanca is one of the rapidly
growing towns of Argentina. Its
-four and wheat are the basis of it's
prosperity. and it promises to be 4
great city. 1t has already about l00,
900 inhabitants. and it will have three
times that within ten years from now.
The real estate transactions of sin
gle year have amounted to s20,000.000,
and the exports are steadily growing.
The flour made in Bahia Blanca is ex-
cellent. and it will compare favorably
with that of the United States or Eu-
rope.
There is fine undeveloped wheat
region south and west of Bahia Blanca
l have been down in Pata gonia and
visited the valleys of the Rivers Colo
RADIO and Negro. These are large
streams and their fall is such that they
can be damned and irrigation be made
possible for a wide distance along
them fro:l the Andes to the sea. The
soil is as rich as any part of Utah or
California.
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continent is on the edge of its begin
ming as the worlds biggest bread bas-
ket, and from now on il Will steadily
grow as the chief spoon feeder of Eu-
rope and, later on, of the United States
as we'll. The chief wheat supplies of
the world come from its alluvial plains
and great river valleys. That of the
United States. which was about SoO.-
600. 900 bushels last year. was mostly
from the basin of the Mississippi; that
of British India, which was about half
as much, came from the valleys of the
Ganges and the Indus; while that of
Russia, amounting to more than 500
Ooo, 900 bushels, was from the alluviai
plains built up by the Nolga. the Don
bread basket is the valley of the Dan
ube, and another North American one
is the Saskatchewan. which annually
turns out something like 20o,000,ooO
bushels of Canadian wheat
The most of the wheat of South
America is raised in the valley of the
Parana and the earth Washings of the
ANDES, which have built up the vast
plains of Argentina known as the
paulpas These plains cover hundreds
of millions of acres and they have pro-
d,1ced almost 200,00o,000 bushels of
wheat in one year.
And still il is safe to say that not
one-twentieth of the grain area has
been developed. ] entered Argentina
by the railway across the Andes. |
struck level country at Mendoza, and
from there Travelled to the Atlantic
ocean, a distance almost as great as
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Crossing into Uruguay you and there
another wheat country. and going on
into southern Brazil see lands. now
farmed by the Germans. which are
among the grain possibilities of the flu
ture. South America already produces
in the neighborhood of 10000. 900
bushels of wheat per annum: and it
may eventually yield more than ten
times as much, or an amount equal to
two-thirds Of the present wheat crop
of the world. OF this more than nine
tenths comes from Argentina, a coun-
try which already leads in its exports
of corn. and which has corn possibili-
ties equal to those of it's wheat
Argentina is already exporting -four
1t has now three or four hundred
-four mills with an output of about
$50, ,0O0. 600 per annum. There are sew
enty-f1ve mills in the province of
Buenos Aires; and altogether two or
three billion pounds of wheat are an
nually ground. One of the chief mill
ing centers is away down on the At
lantic ocean at Bahia Blanca. That
port promises to be the Minneapolis
Of Argentina. 1t is gridironed with
railroads that embrace a large grain
region. and from where wheat and
-four are exported direct to Europe.
The exports have doubled in value dur
ing the past four years, and are now
more than SI00.000.000 per annunl. The
CHIEF railroad companies have ele-
vators at Bahia Blanca, some of which
have a loading capacity Of eighty tons
per hour. The grain is carried from
the cars on conveyors to the steamers,
and the elevators have automatic
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per bushel. 1t costs or cents to
haul a bushel twenty miles, and in one
place, where the distance is thirty
three miles. the teamsters take two
days, camping out at night on the
teams of twenty-four or more bull
five or six tons, and the load is so
ON ladders.
Rosario is the Chicago of the Argen-
tine Republic 1t is the second largest
city of the country and one of the rich
est of all South America. 1t has more
than 900 people and is rapidly grow
ing. The town is right in the midst
of the wheat lands. 1t is in the heart
of the Parana basin and there are tens
country extending out on all sides. 1t
rama basin, and grain can be brought
here on the Parana and its tributaries
from an area covering many thousand
square miles. Rosario is 400 miles in
land from the ocean and steamers
drawing twenty-four feet sail right
to the docks. 1t is estimated that
about so per cent of the cereals of
Argentina are tributary to Rosario and
that they have value of something
like 600.0O0.000.
am amazed at the extent of the good
farming lands of South America This
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from New York to Chicago. The ground
is fiat all the way and much of the soil
is as rich as any of the Mississippi
valley
There are no stones, and the wild
lands are covered with grass. I rode
through vast estancias supporting tens
of thousan Of cattle and hundreds of
thousands of sheep, and / now know
that 1 could go in either direction.
north or south, for hundreds of miles
and find the same kind of country with
comparatively small tracts of culti-
waited lands.
You may take a fast express train
a Buenos Aires and travel for twen-
ty-four hours to the northwest before
you reach Tucuman. You will see some
wheat fields and corn fields. but the most
of the land is given over to pasture.
Reaching Tucuman you are in coun
try like our southern states. From
there you can go further north for
hundreds of miles through fields Of
sugar cane, tobacco, cotton and corn.
You can start at Buenos Aires, and
go south. riding through pastures and
corn fields and wheat fields for whole
day, or you can go to the north, and,
crossing the Rio de la Plata, come
into the Argentine Mesopotamia, Entire
Rios that lies between the Uruguay
and Paraguay rivers. The whole coun-
try will produce wheat, and inten-
sive1y cultivated it could feed large
part of the globe.
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tates managed by the English and Ar
gentinos that wheat farming is scien-
tifically done. Most of the grain lands
are in the hands of Italians many of
whom farm the land on the shares,
doing their work in the most slovenly
way. great deal of the grain is sown
broadcast and that upon ground which
is only half plowed. the wheat being
dropped upon the clods. Some Of the
farmers drag bushes over the fields
and others use harrows. On the small
farms the plowing is done with bull
locks. which drag the plows through
the burrows by a yoke attached to the
horns. But few fertilizers are en-
ployed. and the only idea of the Italian
seems to be to get the wheat into the
ground. After that he sits down and
waits for the crop.
The weather is such that blowing
can be done here at any time Of the
year, and as a rule the land is first
broken in February, March or April. To
get the best results there should be a
second plowing, and this should be
deep, and the soil should be well har-
rowed before the wheat is sown.
The average seed sown is about a
bushel of grain to the acre. The seed
ing time begins about May 5 for the
central part of the country, and is later
and later as one goes south. In Pata-
gonia the seed is often put in during
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west and northwest, was Isolation,
stagnation, druggery. long hours" In
these days of local and long distance
telephones, rural free delivery, parcel
post. innumerable magazines and news
PAPERS women's clubs and all the con
comitants of present day civilization
and development, loneliness formed tn.
basis of most of the complaints--lone
illness accompanied by hard work.
small returns and the stagnation which
comes from poorly requited labor witt
few opportunities for diversion. for
recreation, for social intercourse-ln
word, for play.
One woman, from a Virginia farm.
wrote: "All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy. Sociability and neigh
borliness are much needed. Books and
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Selfish Men,.

ID REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN B. MAD
IN DEN, in an address in favor OF
woman suffrage, said:
''It seems to me that the men VINO
oppose the suffrage are selfish They
want to have the best Of everything WITH
out paying for it. They remind me OF
the clerk.
"A clerk and n lawyer were on the way
Gown town on the trolley the other morn
ing, when the lawyer looked up from ms
paper and said:
".,Iy, that's a pretty girl over there
in the corner
The clerk looked up from his paper
in his turn. Then he smiled.
..T know her, he said. L know her
WE'LL
Holy smoke. man. said the lawyer.
If you know her why don't YOU go over
and sit with her.
"I WILL the clerk answered, as soon
as she pays her fare
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gle individual. voicIne 1t lonely protest
against having TO pass endless miles
Of glaring appeals to wear "Binks
Bulldog Suspenders," to use "Stickem $
Steel Pens-Havent Scratched Yet.
or to take DIR. Doem's Pills" when
ever she went to town.
The Department of Agriculture is
trying to find a way to be of more
assistance to farm women. Ii Is try
ing to tighten the burden Of the farm
er's wife, just as it has eased th,
load borne by the farmer himself. just
how this is to be done is not exactly
clear as Yet, but that way Will ba
found is certain The department has
never yet undertaken 4 work an0
failed to accomplish what il set out
to do. Meanwhile. these letters from
farmers wives all over the country
have been made into little book.
Report No. lo3. from which the wives
of farmers may learn, hy reading,
what other farm women think of the
problems with whicn they are con-
frDnted.
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farmers wife in particular, on happiness
or it's reverse as regards the farmers
Wife? One might think they have to
Judge from the tone of letters from
farmers wives living in suffrage states
of the west. From North Dakota,
where women. though not wholly en-
franchlsed, possess degree of politi
cal equality very far beyond that
joyed by the women of Virginia, came
this:
In spite of our disadvantages, the
farm is the best place to live and to
raise family of healthy, happy boys
and girls
From Kansas. where equal suffrage
also is gaining ground and where
women are on an almost equal footing
with men politically, rancher's wife
wrote
Having received your communica-
tion in regard to what ! think about
agriculture. | think it is the grandest
rost indie pendent life one can live"
The wife Of a rancher in Wyoming,
where women 20 to the polls and vote
on exact equality with men, had this to
say:
I'm my eighteen Years of life in this
state ] never heard women complain
Of their condition. mean the ranch
women-nor do they consider them
selves neglected.
'"Teach us. or show us, how to play"
IS the unworded appeal in letters from
every section of the country. The need
of recreation and pleas for information,
advice or suggestion as to how it may
be found, these are the appeals that
form the touch of nature that makes
the whole world akin. A Connecticut
farm woman wrote:
Perhaps the one great thing the ma
jority lacks is :, chance to attend good
entertainments, such as concerts and
lectures Of various kinds.
new York farmers wife in her re-
ply said;
"A little more money to grease the
wheels of existence is what the av-
erage farm woman needs. The latest
lubricant in this household is talk
ing machine. 1t was with great glee
that l announced that the 50 cents
saved on ninety-eight pounds of flour
would almost buy new record"
From the wife OF a Michigan farmer
came this-and Michigan is looked on
by great many people in the big mid
lie west as vacation state. too:
II think the woman on the farm
should have a vacation. She needs II
as much as the office girl.
Tie wife of a Maryland farmer wrote:
II think it would be of value to have
helps on how to hold socials. enter
tainments, musicals. etc, In the coun-
try. The farmers wives ana cnlidren
need to know more about healthful rec
reations."
west Virginia farm woman thinks
the department may help the women on
the farms by issuing information rel
ative to vacation trips COLORADO
rancher's wife said: We want sugges-
tions Of high-grade amusements for
leisure hours.
Woman's work. which is never done,
is the text upon which was written let
tars that fill thirteen pages of the pub
lication in which the lives of farm
women are discussed. For example:
II am living in the most prosperous
OF said n he the rIClaSt-cOuntS
IN Virginia, in the beautiful Shenan-
doah valley. Most of the women live
the lives OF slaves-slaves to their
farms and their families. Help Is hard
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dearly love But it is uphill work, with
no pleasure outside of our family, and
no comfort"
On the other side of the shield there
are a few expressions; for instance. this
from a grandmother living on another
Virginia farm
About all / have to say is that I am
satisfied and content with my lot as
housewife. My husband has given me
all the help and conveniences that he is
able to do with his financial means. l
am siXty-scyen years old and have been
married fifty years, and do my own
housework with some aid from my hus-
band-children all married and to them
selves"
From farm in Nebraska. where dis
tances are long between homes and where
opportunities for social diversions are not
nearly so numerous as they are further
east, a rancher's wife wrote
Il really do not see what the govern
nlent could do to better my condition. The
government owes me protection of life
and property, but my happiness I must
work out for myself I.awmaking to af-
feet our home and family affairs is not
necessary: we make our own laws in
these matters. ] have a pleasant home in
which ] reign supreme
Have suffrage and "the broader out
look" anything to do with the mental
attitude Of women In general. and the
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into the camp of the poultrymen and
poultrywomen of the land:
More farm women have turned their
faces longingly toward town on ac-
count of the chickens than nearly any
other thing. She arraigns the great
American hen for pretty nearly all the
woes with which the farmers wife is
afflicted, and signs her letter. Yours
Tor reasonable hours-and no hens.
The crying need for help on the farm
for the old shioned ''hired girl,
who seemingly has Joined the dodo and
the great auk-and for more con-
veniences. more of the labor saving
devices such as the men have. is cited
as one of the greatest hardships of
modern farm life. The day has passed.
according to farm women who wrote
from every part of the United States.
when the daughter or the son OF
lily to help with the work. This kind
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hearty woman doesn't mind the work.
and there are many of this class. but
the delicate. broken-down and over
worked are filling the hospitals"
A man. writing from Kentucky, said:
The woman does 90 per cent of all
the work on the farm. except at the
plow, such as cleaning up the land,
hoeing the corn, potatoes. cabbages
and beans, etc. The woman does the
same as the man. in gathering the
corn, potatoes. etc. The woman does
the work at so cents a day. and will
ask for the work. while the man hands
can't be employed on the farm for less
than 81 day. ! employ women when
I can't get man hands, and at half
the price
This correspondent failed to state
whether he was a sure enough ken
lucky colonel but the world knows
kentucky's boast of the finest horses,
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stacked in bags at the stations. There
are no arrangements on the farms for
storing the wheat, and the most of
the grain is carted from the thresher
to the railroad in enormous carts.
which haul two or three tons at a load.
These carts have wheels eight feet in
diameter and tires four inches wide.
and it requires sixteen horses. or bull
locks. to haul one of them. The chief
marketing season is from January to
May, when the roads are often rivers
of mud. Some of the wheat is hauled
as far as sixty miles to the railway
and the freight rate is about 10 cents
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Make-Up.

mR. CHARLES Fl. PARKHURSr, at a
W luncheon in Brooklyn, launched out
in one of his witty diatribes against cos
metics
why" said DIR. Parkhurst. 1T is re-
ported that a Brooklyn man was plead
ing with his wife the other day to spend
more evenings at home, and he said TO
her:
DO make up your mind to stay in "
NO, she answered, 7 shall make up
my face TO so out"
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lands in the pampas. and leading au-
thority estimates that the republic has
about eighty million acres that can be
devoted to this crop. TIE present crop
can be doubled by intensive cultiva-
tion, and the Department of Asricul-
ture is encouraging this through its
experimental farms. The average
wheat yield is now o. ly a little more
than eleven bushels per acre, and this
in contrast with our seventeen bushels
per acre and the thirty bushels per acre
which is the average yield OF England
and Germany.
1t is only on certain Of the lange es-
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THE SAME ROAD AFTER IMPROVEMENTS.
This sort of rond makes winter travel easier

give US better roads. And this plea
is echoed in letters from nearly every
state in the Union.
Rural free delivery, better rural tel
ephone service. more adequate pro-
vision for schools and churches in rural
communities. are given as other cor
respondents sine qua non for happy
life for the farmers wife. One cor
respondent, living in New Jersey,
thought it would help lot. to make
Mrs. Farmer happy and contented If
billboards were banished from the pub
lie highways. but she WAS just sin
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the best whisky. the most chivalrous
men and the most beautiful women in
the world"
And another man. with a heart lot
bigger than his stomach. actually had
the courage to write this from Ne
braska. where folks naturally expect
to have all the good things of life
that are going around:
IT believe in less big dinners on Sun
days Why make a slave of a woman
on Sunday"
Another iconoclast. this one from
Kansas, and woman. hurls this bomb
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tho head wished 70 render directly TO
tl. women of the United States the
I4 I aid and service which their inn
portant place in agricultural produc-
f.pn warrants
Because we lslIeye that these women
,l4sinselves are besr fitted 10 tell the
d< pa rtIueuJ how il can improve its serE-
= fyr therl,' tie Secretary wrote. II
.spectfully request that YOU give care
"a thought N this matter Then please
.uuimunlcst u your ideas to me
secretary Houston . skeG that TIE wnn-
>, tell him frankly Just what they
thought OF farm life-that is. life on the
average American farm for women. and
10 make such suggestions as occurred 70
;heln whereby those conditions that make
me farmers wife and daughter litte
Inore tran farm drudges might be rene
aisd.
'rhe letters were mailed October each
en- eiope containing an addressed
Ranked envelope for reply. BY the sec
,ecu received, and in all q total of 2,24l
answers came 10 the Secretary Of Agri-
sglture from the farm women Of the
nation.
The keynote Of these letters, whether
tH~y were written by women living in
The thicklv populated agricultural
reSious Of the east or middle west. or
those less densely settled areas of the
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of help isn't to be had today. the writ
ers say: the boys have gone to town
to be motormen on the street cars and
the girls are learning stenography or
clerking in the stores, and both are
seeing life. Only immigrants are to be
had nowadays. and these too often are
of such class to make it impossible
to take them into the house and do
for them as farm women used to do for
girls and boys of their own class. So
the women do without help, working
from 5 o'clock In the morning until
O'clock at night. to avoid tho necessity
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How the Immense Wheat Fields the American Pmpas
Supply the