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or these are large with many laterals.
The river narrows and widens in it's
course. 1t is lined with willows. but it is
not an attractive looking stream. al
though its sands are golden for the peo-
pie Of Mendoza. The water fertilizes ev-
erything 1t touches. regenerating this val
ley year after year as the Nile does
Egypt, and causing 1t to produce enor-
n.ous crops without nitrates or phos-
pilates.
The soil thus made has been found to
be especially fitted for grapes and today
the whole valley has been turned into
vineyards. Farther back in the country
are hundreds of thousands of acres de-
voted to grazing; but here every square
yard is in vineyards and they are now
pI oducing something like SOc,O0OOO0 quarts
o. 100000 gallons OF wine every year.
The vines grow SO well that vineyards
In bearing are worth three thousand gold
dollars and upwards per acre, and bare
land with the water rights will bring 81
00c and more.
l know of one little vineyard of 20 acres
that nets $4,000 year and / am told that
the average vineyard will pay all it's ex-
penses and give 10 per cent of clear profit
year in and year out. When the season
Is good and grapes are high 1t will yield
more, but when the bad sea sons come
1t yields less, although the average is as
high as Is per cent. This season the vine
yards are loaded. but the grapes will not
net more than cent per pound on the
vines, the purchaser doing the picking
and carrying them to market. One reason
fTt Ne 10 Ii
the fact that the wine market is glutted
owing to the great supply held over from
last year caused. by the hard times OF
the Argentine. Still another cause is the
hard times brought about by the war.
AS it is now more than 1000, 900 pounds
of grapes are being shipped to Buenos
Aires every day in a special fruit train
This train has 40 cars, loaded with
grapes fresh from the vines. 1t is rushed
right through to the market. This ship
ment, however, is nything in comparison
with the vast quantities that are being
turned into wine. The Argentinians are
a wne-drinking nation. The natives are
of Spanish descent and are accustomed to
have wines with their meals The i'm
migrants who have come in by the mil
lions and who form perhaps one-half of
the population. are mostly Italians and
Spaniards. all of whom drink wine every
day. All of the small Italian farmers have
their own wine supply, and every one
who can afford it lays in a number of
casks for his own use every season.
The most of these farmers buy upon
credit, as Is the custom in many parts
of our southern states. They pay their
bills when the crops are sold and if there
is a good yield In prospect they have but
little difficulty in getting all they may
want. That is so for food seeds and
farm implements. There is one thing,
however, that the merchants will not
give credit for That is wine. The wine
is bought and sold for cash; and the
retailing is done on a ash basis. There
fore If it is seen that the crops are like
ly to be short that money cannot
easily be gotten, the wine sales are cut
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Africa, 1t will probably be more
affected by him than by any
other man."
Ten years ago these words were written
by one of South Africa's leading publicists
concerning Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS.
the lron-willed minister of finance and de-
Tense In the Union government, and every
Jay That passes makes it more evident
that their writer was endowed with con-
slueraDly more than the prescience of the
ordinary political seer For daily it be-
comes more apparent that while Botha,
as President, is nominally the head of the
government. and SHUTS his chief hench-
man. the latter and not the former is the
real strong man of the subcontinent. In
deed, II is an open secret that the gov
eminent policy, never more clear-headed
than during the last year of the crisis, is
the policy OF the brilliant farmers son and
Cambridge graduate whom, at only %,
astute old Paul Kruger made his attorney
general-a policy, however that is tenn
pered by the more conciliatory Botha
than whom none appreciates more highly
this exceptional gifts of his legislatiye
right hand and close personal friend
Hardly less than a month ago the whole
world rank with the phrases Of the sting
ing letter In which SHUTS, who fought
brilliantly against the British in the Boer
war, at once was supposed to represent
tho irreconcilable Dutch element, heaped
obloquy on the head of the traitor Beyers
who, COMMUNICATIVE chief of the Union de-
Tense force. resigned his command rather
~-.n. take the offensive against the Ger
f;asts in Southwest Africa, and later aided
and abetted De Wet in fomenting rebel
lion against the government to whom both
had sworn allegiance, and who has Just
paid the penalty of his treachery with his
life. Months before the war began, how
ever. General SHUTS had proved his quail
ity-not only by his strong treatment
OK the question OF Asiatic immigration, but
by his short way with revolutionists, /"
'-aeh resulted in the quelling Of the syndi-
ealist riots and the deportation of the
famous nine" labor agitators. Indeed.
ne had shown his mettle previously, both
before and during the Boer war, which.
py the way, would almost certainly have
Deen avoided altogether il Kruger had
listened to the oft-repeated advice of the
brilliant young advocate whose genius
he'd attracted first Of all the attention of
that keen judge of men, the late Cecil
Rhodes. S
Facetiously one might declare that
10 have overcome the handicap OF !,
name like SHUTS is itself achievement
enough Tor any one man. As matter
OF fact. however. its bearers whole
romantic lie has been one of achiey.
ing. first one triumph and then an
other. and through 1t all he has shown
himself man of singleness of pur-
pose and one to be relied on, once his
word u given, as German diplomacy
has discovered to its cost. and an a
Statesman OF lofty conceptions whose.
utmost endeavor is to prevent Trans
yaai politics from developing on racial
Hnes Today he holds an office that
with the exception Of the premiership.
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kloof, Irene, near Pretoria, where. being
an enthusiastic motorist, he has several
fine cars. Dogs are another hobby of his
though he declares that he cannot A.
ford many masterpieces" His speeches
invariably sound the patriotic note, and
he frequently has described national
questions as too big to be party ones
Probably he has never appeared to bet
ter advantage than in. his handling OF the
syndicalist trouble in the early part Of
this year when, on at least one occasion,
he was in imminent peril of his life. Dur
ing the desperate strike rioting in Jo-
hannesburg on July both he and Botha
We're covered by the revolvers of two
members of the labor party and II the
soldiers in the street had ventured to fire
on the crowd both he and the premier
inevitably would have been shot.
Later, in defending the deportation
OF the famous nine agitators and his
policy in general throughout the period
of turmoil, SHUTS ma lie the most vehe-
ment and impassioned, yet coldly logical
speech OF his whole career, a speech
that lasted over three hours and half
and left both the speaker and his hear
ers on the point of exhaustion. To such
an extent, in fact, that the sitting was
promptly adjourned. The syndicalists
had denounced him as representing the
Iron Heel" bent upon stamping out
trade unionism in South Africa and ac-
cused SHUTS, too. of having provoked
the strike, arrested its leaders, and had
the defense force ready in the hope tina :
the irritated strikers would resort to
violence.
In his memorable reply, however, the
minister for defense described in the
Int In y. .
rorism which had been imposed on the
country by the methods Of the labor
leaders, and the threat OF that dia-
bolical weapon the general strike.
while he quoted at length from their
speeches to show the real character of
their intentions
To no one. perhaps, has the capture
of De Wet, the fight of Maritz and the
humiliation Of Beyers, particularly the
last event; given keener satisfaction
than to the ex-Boer commander who,
unlike these rebels, means an oath OF
allegiance when he takes it. The let
ter of Beyers In which he resigned his
post OF commander-in chief of the de-
fence force was specious. but its au-
thor experienced the fate Of a gnat
under Nasmyth hammer when SHUTS
issued his famous reply, in the course
OF which he told Beyers fatty that for
his letter he would. without doubt, be
liable in the German empire to the
extreme penalty"
That SHUTS will succeed Botha as
prime minister is as certain as anything
IN this mutable existence can be. In
every direction he has Increased his
reputation. and today he stands as thu
connecting link between the Beers and
those striving for the democracy of tho
Rand and as the common champion OF
those who put the welfare Of the 3Sono-
vaal before the interests Of cosmopoli-
tan finance.
Copyrighted, 1915. by Curtis BFown.>
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by REV. LAWSON CARTER RICH

Now / am willing to maintain that
neither of these two results Is worthy
of the best that is in man. The spring
does not rise higher than the fountain.
and that deep spirit of unrest which
once swayed all my life, all my activities,
is parts of royal heritage that belongs
to me, a human being, the highest work
OF an almighty God. may be mistaken
as to the particular destiny for which
I was intended. but I cannot be mis-
taken in the fact that my gaze is meant
to be upward. and that longing for the
betterment of self is a real, true part
of my nature. Science and religion are
perfectly at one on this all important
point.
The student of the working of God 8
laws and the student who seeks to know
direct from God himself what man is
meant for agree that man is created to
struggle and by struggling to rise to
higher things
But you say. my tired brother, that
sounds very well and is pretty to listen
to, but the circumstances Of my life are
sordld and low and mean. The struggle
to keep from starvation is as much as I
can attend to, and the glamour of dis
tant hope Is but an ignis fatuus, which
has already well-nigh led me to despair.
All, but isn't the trouble. my brother,
uot With tue couultlOne OF your lie, but
with the use you makes of them? Take,
for example, the life OF some man whom
the world today esteems as great. At the
present moment our minds are directed
toward Lincoln. and surely il ever there
was a life that proved the power OF an
idea In animaling a man to overcome the
bard conditions which seem 10 unsur-
mountable, 1t is the character Of that
niartyred president whom we are growing
to love more and more as the days grow
into years and the years into centuries.
My work today Is not the whole of life.
hut 1t Is my opportunity of proving at
this moment my true worth. don't care
whether my duties are in little pent-up
kitchen, where my soul seems crushed
with the never ending round Of dull
monotony, where I long for Gods sun
shine and the inspiration OF Joy. and APP
probation of friends. and starve without
them; or whether the fierce struggle with
my competitors In the business world
seems to Danish every high ambition save
the pursuit of gold. I can make Of the
circumstances Of my duh existence day
by day an opportunity to prove that my
soul 10 truly great. and am willing to
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Did you ever feel
appointed? Discourag
of sorts with yours
roundings? Sure tina
for something better
condition, and yet q
press that fact upon
neighbors? Disheartei
deniable fact that tn
uplift in your environ
among us who has nj
periences like these?
of the very fibre of OF
makeup. 4
The great question:
these serious struggl
in us to have upoi1
upon our ultimate 81,
seems as II there wd,
call OF an unsatisfia i
very poor economy T.
by the cold dictumF
seek to forget it by
Of pleasures that Sd
from our disquietina
who are keenly alivf,
which / have allud'
In quite different wal
ually frets because d,
billions of his soul, d
disappointments Is ef I.
the blame on othersI
cuses for himself. I
Perhaps after a 81
heartened, makes u
was all a mistake-t
stirred his heart sol
years-and he settll
discomfort which hoi,
is seldom disappoint
1t expects, In the dr.
disappointed shrugged
The other. disappoi
to rise above the lev
himself, takes 1t out i
In ceaseless vitupej
cowed by his failures
to a fearful capacity
the successes of til
sidcrs his more favo
grows to hate mankiI
ing delights him sol
closure of some short
of those whom he
best of him In his
finds genial associated
himself, desire nofhi1
tear down what 9th
and thus reduce all
ow his own existcnc
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Shortly Gfteryard he went to Pretoria to
practice as a barrister where he soon
gathered practice andslis wv Zkas make
state attorney by President Kruger in
succession to the renowned DIR. Coster.
AT this time, it is said he did his best to
persuade Dom Paul to grant reforms and,
but for the methods of Chamberlain and
Miner probably would have avoided war.
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AMBITION VS.. Discomfort

8iscontented? Dis
'e1? Thoroughly out
sTf and your sur
you were meant
than your present
4uite unable to I'M
fyour unsympathetic
hed by the ever I'M
lere was little or no
Nment? Who Is there
lot suffered from ex-
1 1t seems to be part
iur mental and moral
is, what effect are
|,es that go on With
our daily life, and
uccess or failure? II
re ever within US the
q ambition, and 1t is
10 try to pass 1t over
of disapproval or to
the aid of the opiate
lem to lull us away
k thoughts. Persons
. to the emotions to
ed may be affected
Iys. The one contin-
+ the unsatished am
nd tired by repeated
yer seeking to throw
while he makes ex-
Jason he grows dis
ID his mind that 1t
hat ideal of his that
strongly in by-gone
les down to = dull
pes for nothing and
led In finding what
eary monotony Of q
for existence.
nted In his attempts
lei in which he finds
upon his neighbora
..ation. He 10 not
/. he has been stirred
| for hate. He hates
Lose whom he con-
|red companions. He
I'D a. q whole. Moth
much as the dis
looming in the lives
Feels have got the
life struggles. He
In those who, like
Jig SO much a. to
ers have built up
to tho dead level
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BY R. D. BELL

g~N 80
" ~Nieh enue.l the friendship between the
coios .sus and his young protege. SHUTS.
.lhrleed, became his benefactor's most de-
termined foe, and stumped the country
against him, then giving evidence for the
first time Of unusual power as an orator
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was and is still as brilliant a classical
scholar as her husband and is said to
be generally seen with a baby under one
arm and Greek dictionary under the
other" Meanwhile her husband pros
pered in the law and still enjoyed the
patronage of Cecil Rhodes, who inte-., Cd
him to contest the safe seat of H<i,obar-
ley. but then came the ;IIySS,eson roid
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~ dens of the United States 1t
is now experimenting in
sending carloads of fruit
from here to the Atlantic and thence
to New York. The fruit is sent in re-
frigerator cars and in refrigerator
steamers, and so far it has been landed
in perfect condition. Several carloads
of grapes were sent last year, and
they Melted the growers something like
25 cents a pound. Notwithstanding the
1act that you can now buy millions of
pounds here on the vines at less than
cents. These grapes We're equal to
the finest We imported from Spain o.
California, and they reached New ! ork
in the heart of winter
The seasons here are the direct op-
fosite OF ours. When we have SUM-
mer these eastern slopes of the Andes
are covered with snow. and when the
Billiards blow through New York the
vines and orchards of the province of
Mendoza are loaded with the most
luscious fruit
The fruit that went to New York
crossed the Argentine pampas a dis
tance of 654 miles to Buenos Aires. It
was there transferred from the cars to
the steamers, and 1t had a voyage on
The Atlantic ocean of 20 days before
1T entered the harbor of New York.
Now that the Panama canal is COM
pleted much of the shipping will be
via the Pacific. This town is only 250
miles by railroad from the port of
Valparaiso and from there fast fruit
steamers will be able to take their
cargoes to our ports in Is days. They
viii probably cut down the present
time of transit fully two weeks. and
The exporting viii be combined with
that of the Chilean fruit growers and
with the United Fruit and other COM
panies who are now investigating the
possibilities of flooding our cities with
South American fruits.
Mendoza is one of the fruit regic1 of
the world. 1t is a little garden of
Eden in the heart of a desert. It lies
at the foot of the high Andes noun
talns. on the railroad that crosses from
buenos Aires to the Pacific. It has
good railroad connections with the AL
iantic, and there are trains three
times week that go over the noun
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Strong Man. Of South Africa Next in Line for Premiership

APE TOWN, December 19.-(Spe-
cial Correspondence What
ever may be the future of South
Africa. it will probably be more
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copyrighted, 1914. by, Frank G. Car
Mendoza, Argent

Nv ffNV1s'Ni NJ , { fItIit<Is
promises to be one
of the chief winter fruit gar
dens of the United States. II
is now experimenting in
sending carloads of fruit
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18

rests? is question asked. Indeed she doss--but as few as possible, and those in Keeping with the spirit of the work. She does not try to do the traditional work of the policeman, on the srteet, but when a girl is to be brought in and held for any reason. it is right for the polieeWomans h. to go and ahring her in. If she has to summon to court the proprietor of a place of amusement, she does so. These constitute arrests, yet are no more spectacular or unwon1aniy than the work daily performed py other business and professional women
 Concluding with an advocacy of the extension of State Police Mrs Wells saw still further work for police women. She believed they would some day be mutually exchanged between the large cities of any one state, travelling from one to the other, in- cognito fashion, and be able to re- veal in the strange cities hitherto un- suspected conditions.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18
FRANKS PETITION.
To Be Heard May 31 by Georgia Prison Prison Commission.

Atlanta. Ga. May 1s,-The Georgia prison commission yesterday set Mon- day. May 31, as the date for begln- ming hearing on Leo M. Franks petition asking that his death sentence for the murder of Mary Phegan be ooinff1utAd to life Imprisonment,
 Three thousand letters, many from public officials, asking that the s1sl- tenes of death imposed upen Frank be commuted to life Imprisonment, were received today by Governor sia. ton. The total number of simiiar nu- peals now in the hands of the gov ernor is estimated at 75,006,
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18
PAY FORTY PER CENT. OF TAXES
Railroads, Banks and Insurance Conn.,
 panies of Southern States.


 panies of Southern States. l Washington May 1S.--Of $300,000,- 900 collected annually for purely state 1 purposes in the southern and south western states, railroad, banking and 1 insurance companies, especially. pay 1 forty per cent. about s120,000,000 and. of that sum, railroads pay al- most half. Those and other exten- sive statistical details of taxation in the section named were disclosed to- day in the final portion of a report by the old bureau of corporations sub- nnitted to President Wilson. Other portions on taxation In other sections of the country have been published previously. Tnday's report covers Virginia, West Virginia North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ken lucky, Tennessee, Alabama. Missis- sippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
 All the reports have emphasized the lack of uniformity In taxing corpor- ations in various states and between classes of corporations in the same state.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18
ALLIES FIVE MILES UP. CALLp0LI PENINSULA Now Befsre AtchI Bsbs, First Of
 Commanding Positions.

London, May IS, 2:12 a. m.-The British press representative in the Dardanelles, telegraphing under date of May 10 sends a description of the first stage of the operations of the allied troops against the Turks, which he says has now ended. He testifies to the splendid work already achieved by the allies in successfully landing and establishing themselves in the face of tremendous opposition. They are now before Atchi Baba. about five miles up the Gallipoli pen insula. .." 2 This is the first of the command ing positions on which the Turko- Ger man force can take stand before we are able to move up to the Gal
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18

ipoI peninsula and command the northern shore of the Narrows," says the dispatch.
 Other Forpidable Positions.
 Behind this lie other equally for Inidable positions which must be taken hill by hill and trench by trench be- fore the army can open the gate for the fleet and enable it to pass through to Constantinople.
 ,, There must be no false illusion as to the big task before the allies. we are fighting brave and tenacious enemy, who is most skilfully led, and the war. as in France, is a question of how many men you can afford to lose to capture each trench and each kilometer of soil Victory is only to be gained by more men and contin- uous supply of ammunition.
 Positions Seemed Impregnable.
 The positions already won prove that the Turk was justified in believ- ing his positions were impregnable.
 "The navy has achieved an equally fine organization for the landing, of continuous supply of men and mu- nitions. Piers have been built out into deep water so that the largest lighters can come alongside. Roads have been cut along the cliffs to in crease the area of disembarkation, and hundred devices have been uti- lighting arrangements to permit land ing in the night as we'll as in the day"
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18

A Meeting of te> New Britain Motor Cycle club will be held tonight at F. c. Monier & Bros. store to decide on the next run. It is expected the run will be made next Sunday.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18

FIRE LOSSES s28,1s7,27O.
 Boston, May 17.-Losses by fire in during the year 1914
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18

were the heaviest in the history oi
 the state, reaching a total of s26.- 197.2Io. According to statistics made
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18

] lblic by the state police today than half Of the total was due Iconfiagration in Salem on Juno
New Britain herald., 1915-05-18

ipoli peninsula and command the northern shore of the Narrows," says the dispatch
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1915-04-16
Marcus Musical. Comedy.

Putnam has not forgotten the de.
lightful week of entertainment provi
ded recently by the Honeymoon girls.
The public liked it, so Manager Gold
man has booked another Marcus
Musical Company which will open
for weeks ran next week, with
shows afternoon and evening. The
Marcus attractions are admittedly the
best offerings for the price on the
road. The productions are original,
full Of life and wholesome comedy,
everything apt to give ofiense being
strictly tabooed, and the cast carefully
selected. The costumfng and staging
is given especial attention giving a
finished product that is for purpose,
that is, to give theatregoeTs light,
wholesome, entertaining fun with
good music at popular prices.