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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07

cat is spesal omen of bad luck if it crosses th' road in frunt of you, according to this persun; dis astur will hit you in full, fell swoop If you sec a black cat and 1t the road in frunt of you You should. therefore do your best to avoid such catastofree Then if you air going ennywheere and have to turn back aftur sumthing you have forgotun that is verry bad luck-oh that's awful bad luck and heere is but way to keep it off, and that i. to make mark in the road and spit in it. Tha; puts charm your return trip that nocks the verastng stuffin out of old bad luck Of corse that is all bunk, pure and simple; meerly the results oi tails told to nnosent children, did beleevt in signs tokens symbus." I certainly not r the leest superstisous peepul who have such week ought not to be allowed to vote. It is crim incl Of corse don't beleeve that persun ought ts be foolish enuff to eat at the tabul with Ii peepul sleep in room at hotel that is number 13 Evveryboddy knows that 13 is unlucky. Neethur il it wise to start ennywheere Friday, when you car just well put it off till the next day But this not superstision, it is meer1y precawsion Supersti sous peepul air dangurus and parents ought to devvor to train theere children they will not grow up with such idears I am glad that I entirel free rum it. Yours trooly
 BILL VINES
 Washington, D. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07

is gathered. The greatest care is taken in selecting the seen, and of recent years the government has been cross breeding the various varieties just as we cross-breed our corn and our cot ton to get better plants
 Now we have reached a part of the plantation where they are picking the coffee. The trees are bushy. The branches begin at the ground and the trees reach twice as high as our heads. The branches are covered with green leaves and they have ripe. red coffee berries close at the base of the leaves. The berries look like red cherries, and they are almost as soft. We get off of the train and walk about with the pickers. We taste the berries. They have the flavor of coffee. We bite off the pulp, and find that each large cherry has two coffee beans or seeds inside it. These are oval in shape and flat on one side. The flat sides touch each other, forming a little ball of seed inside the cherry. There are branches. Some of these have only one round seed inside them Those seeds form the Mocha coffee of com merce.
 The trees begin to blossom in Sep tember and little later on the ber- ries appear. They are green at first, later they turn yellow and then cherry red. The ripe fruits are called cher ries. When the cherries are dried they are called cocoanuts
 The most of the coffee is picked in April and May. The pickers have great baskets strapped to their shoulders and they pick the berries into baskets Men, women and children engage in the picking, and they are paid at so much per basket. Tn one day a man should gather enough coffee berries to make 50 pounds of dried coffee. The baskets hold about three- fourths of a bushel, and the price paid ranges from 12 cents to IS cents per basket, accord ing to the season. The pickers earn from $1.25 to $2.50 per day.
 After the picking, the berries are carried on the strain to the drying floors and to the factories. The coffee as it comes from the tree is still inside the cherries. The beans or seeds constitute the coffee for commerce, and their treatment has scarcely begun. They have to go through vast deal of ma chinery to prepare them for use. They have to be taken out of the pulp. They have to be dried. skinned and polished and then. run through machines which will grade them for the market. They
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07

The exports from Sac Paulo were to bt limited to something like 10 000,000 sack and the export tax was raised from q cents to s1. The size of the crop was re duced for time, but there is no douh but that any increase in the crop may again reach the famous one of 19O6 when Brazil produced more than 20,0oo,0O0 bags or more than 2,50o, ,000,00o pounds At that time Sac Paulo alone produced 15,OO00O bags. or 100000 more than the valorza, tion company decided sholud be annually exported.
 In the meantime the increase of ths coffee crop of Brazil has been steady In the year 1900 the exports amounted to less than 2oo0 pounds. In 1909 they were over 2,O0o,000O0O pounds, and al that time Sac Paulo bought and stored nearly 1000. 100000 pounds to keep up the prices.
 There is also to be considered the fact that other countries are raising more and more coffee. Last year we bought nearly 100,ooO,000 pounds from Colom- bia, 60,000.O0o pounds from Venezuela and 45,000,00o pounds from Central America. We got 44.oo0.o0o pounds from Mexico and 37,00.00o from other parts of the world. These imports, all told, formed about one-f fourth of the coffee we bought. the other three-foruths, amounting to 726,O00.O00 pounds com. ing from Brazil. We are raising more and more coffee in our own territories. We got from Porto Rico last year In the neighborhood of 5000, ,000 pounds. or al- most seven times as much as we i'm. ported from there before we took pos session of that island.
 We got three and one-half million pounds from Hawaii, whereas under the old regime we usually imported something like 100000 pounds. OuI Porto Rican and Hawaiina coffees arc steadily growing in favor, and they now bring a higher price than the coffees from other countries.
 As to the consumption of coffee, ws drink more than any other people. We are now taking more than 10 pounda per capita, and the amount we consume is steadily increasing. The next nation among the worlds coffee drinkers is the Germans, and after it come the Dutch, French, Belgian and the Ausro. Hungarian. The coffee production ot Ceylon and India is rapidly increasing the two now producing more than 29,' 900, 900 pounds. Tn India they are plant. ing coffee in the shade of the rubber trees. so that country is cutting into both rubber and coffee. the two chiei crops of Brazil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07
By FRANK G. CARPENTER

Copyright, 1915, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Sac Paulo. HE worlds largest coffee planta-
 tions are to be found here in Brazil. This country has the lSE3kSN richest coffee soil of the world
 It outranks all other lands in this crop, as the United States outranks all others in cotton. Its coffee areas are unlimited It has now less than 100000 acres under such cultivation, and this Is less than one four -hudredth of the tillable land in Brazil. Much of the remainder will not raise coffee. but it is safe to say that 10 acres more could be planted for every one that is now titled and that the coffee trees might be multiplied indefi- nitely. At present the trees in bearing number more than 1920 0OO, GOO, and they occupy space about one-fifth the size of Ohio. They cover, all told, less ground than Massachusetts. one gets some idea of the coffee areas and the possibilities
 The best coffee-bearing states are four. They are Sac Paulo, Minas Geraes, Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo. They have an area about 10 times the size of Ohio, and only one-fiftieth of their lands are in coffee. They lie in the center of
 
 lands. The best plantations lie at from 1500 to 3O0O feet aboro the sea.
 Of all the coffee states, Sac Paulo leads. It has more than half of the cof- fee trees of Brazil. occupying an area of more than 2,5OO,000 acres, and represent ing an invested capital amounting to more than $500.000, 900, Sac Paulo has more than 15,OOo coffee plantations, and upward of 1000 of these have each 100000 or more trees. The trees of some of the plantations run into the millions, and one which I have visited has more than 6,000,000 trees, with 100000 acres under cul- tivation. There is another plantation that contains 3O0,000 acres. and Monte Ale gre, one of the estates of Francisco Schmidt, has 75, ,000 acres. of which about 2lo00 are devoted to COCO coffee trees of the Bourbon variety. They produce something like 60O0,0O0 pounds of coffee every year. On that estate there are dry ing grounds covered with tiles which have an area of something like 50 acres, and the cleaning and grading machinery has been imported from England. The ani- mals on the plantation include 1000 horses and mules, and over 5000 cattle. The lab make community of almost 5000 end the tenant houses number 120O In addition to this estate, Francisco Schmidt has about 20 others scattered here and there throughout the coffee-raising area. He has altogether millions of trees and is the coffee king of the world. He IS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07

Mawruss' Ca continuation of the story of Potash and PerlmutterD, at the Lyric; The Eternal Magdalene" (with Forty-eighth street; Hip, Hip, Hooray" at the Hippodrome; "A World of Pleas ure.' at the Winter Garden, and Fair and Warmer" at the Eltinge. As stated before. there may be many others.
 Once thought knew what the words .Final,"! .complete,'' etc, meant Really didn't. know at all Since have been reading New York newspapers have al- most discovered. however They come out thus Last Edition, Final Edition. Complete, Final Complete and then Final Complete with five stars--that five-star edition is positively the last thing this side of big subway disaster, or the staying of monarch. Those other words mean something and sooner or later some one will disclose the secret of their meaning insspite of the evident confusion intended by Webster, Worcester and others in their definitions.
 It would seem good to get back into a town where there Is real football en- thusiasm and where every one attends the big game of the season and enjoys the bloody-that is( the affair-to the fnii- est extent. However. such may not be here. The big Army-Navy game would hardly make q noticeable change in the atmosphere 10 blocks away from the scene of carnage-that Is to say-action.
 Yet. stay-they do tell me it is goins to be q bit difficult to procure passes. However. Broadway does not care. I'm sure.
 The average human being is at disad. vantage in the swell restaurant here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07


 S<t or, should say, snuffed the
 suffragettes (and there is no disrespect intended, for they represent 8 candle that can easily be relighted, and one which. one day, believe, will shed its light upon this whole power ful countryl reactionaried on the re- juvenated constitution. elected few new assemblymen and others of those broad minded gentlemen who have "the good of the country" so painfully near their hearts, one wonders just what poor little old Broadway is going to do to entertain itself and it's people.
 When say "one" wonders. I mean some of you who are not here to see. As a matter of fact, anyone strolling along the worlds most brilliant (lights. lights only are referred to) thorough fare can easily behold that all Is un- changed in so far as outward appear ances go There may be a slight crack in the boards where the subway cov- erings still wear temporary appear ance, but we have long ago become saccustoned to those little things. Why throughout the whole campaign the. only noticeable change was ! street corner political speaker here and there, and his hearers seldom num- bered more than 30 to 50. nor were these always the same. You see. the sEroadway stroller hesitates long enough to discover what Is going on. then passes along to give someone else a chance to do likewise. No, 1t is not exactly considerateness Tn the ma .jority of instances-just lack Of real interest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07

German who started as a poor boy, and is now rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
 Another big plantation belongs to the Barao Geraldio de Renzede It is 40 miles long and 90 miles wide, and connected with the house is rose garden which is said to have 800 varieties The Fazenda Santa Thereza has more than 100000 cof- fee trees, and it's annual crop is about 100000 pounds. The Guatapara estate has almost 100000 trees. It is lighted by electricity, and the coffee berries are car ried to the drying grounds on canals and railroads
 Nearly all these large plantations are equipped with railroads and many have machinery driven by electricity. Some have model settlements for their em- ployes, including schools for the children and hospitals for the sick Many of the owners have stock farms connected with their coffee lands Some live in beautiful houses equipped with. all the luxuries and conveniences of modern city life.
 I wish could show you the Dumont coffee fazenda. This is one of the fn- est coffee estates of the world. It lies more than 300 miles inland from this town of Sac Paulo. It is about 12 miles from Ribeirao Preto and in the cen ter of one of the richest coffee grow ing regions of Brazil. The estate was originally founded by Dumont the father of Santos Dumont the famous aviator. It is now 8 British concern, operated with capital from England, and is profits in some years are as much as $600,000.
 In going to the Dumont fazenda I passed through hundreds of thousands Of acres devoted to coffee. I went by plantation after plantation where gangs of Italian men and women were at work picking the berries, and by vast cement floors upon which great carpets of coffee beans were spread out in the sun to dry.
 The lands through which passed are noted for their excellent soil. That used for growing the coffee is of a bright red color It looks, like brick dust, and in the dry, dusty weather it had covered everything with brick dust hue. The tropical sun had turned the earth to red powder and the air was filled with red clouds. The green of the trees was tinted with the dust and in places the freshly plowed plants shone red instead of green.
 The wind was blowing during my railroad ride through the plantations. It threw the dust into my face, and l had the complexion of an. Indian. My cuffs became a bright vermillion, and the only thing about me not seriously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

thugs thuggfng along right merrily and various other daily menaces to human lift that make it worth the living.
 But no matter; if you want to loo1 over old Broadway, just you come right along up and you'll find it wearing thl same old smiling welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07
THE OTHER FELLOWS SIDE.

THE OTHER FELLOWS SIDE. When you're forming your opinions.
 Do it carefully-go slow Hasty judgments oft are followed
 By regretting-tha I know And in argument be careful
 Not too quickly to deride- Try to look upon the subject
 From the other fellows side. An. if we would use but caution,
 And little less of self. Think little more of kindness,
 And a little less of pelf; Try to help the other fellow,
 Not to hurt him-dont you sec How much fairer. brighter. better
 This old world of ours would be? Der and often I've discovered
 That the other fellow knew Lots of things about some subjects
 Which l didn't think were true And I'd still be groping valnly.
 In my flick ring light and dim, If hadn't hesitated
 While I hearkened unto him. Keep the path your mind would travel Broad and open all the way; Walk with Wfsdom's comrade-Caution- Heeding all he has to say; And no matter what arises,
 Ere against it you have cried, Try to look upon the subject
 From the other fellows side.
 And now, ere we come to another part irg-for a week only-let me add tha New York is looking forward to a winte of delightful cold. snow that will cos the city many thousands of dollars, lot of slush, many accidents that vii make fine reading, breezes of such criml and velocity that one dare not raise hi head in order to save his life. while cross inS the streets. thieves thick as ever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07


 theere is to boasted siyvilizason and nolledge The Uropeean war, with all it's attindent horrows, is enuff to shake the confidence of the average ind viduel in the sannity of the peepu of this day and time It is wunderful how menny censibull peepul in this country and all uthers for that mattur who air swayed and nfewensed in theere daily lives and oc cupasions by the most trivial insdents and things The parrnts of theese peepul air, of corse respon- sibull for that situasion Things lerned and i'm pressions maid in theere early yuth stay with them till they air laid tendery away by the undertaken This is why the temperense peepul fite strongly
 and ritey so-to prevent the Americon yuth rum forming drinking habbits while yung If boy ferns the use of strong drink while yet under 25 he is on a fair road to becum the prize drunkerd of the immunity; aftur he reeches that age, theere is yet time for him to do so if he will perseveer but usuely he meerly gets illuminated, like street peerade on occasions and does not make drinking his reguer cupasion. meerly mension this to show thax what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07

SPUR EDDFTUR: When one considurs the ordinery evvery day Rube of the twentieth sentury and the amazing amount of bone hededness still roaming at large in free
 rapuhIick ho u,updors .1,ouy r,,,cI raooJlitv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07

EW YORK, November 6.-(Spe-
 cial.)-Now that New York has stuffed the suffragettes,
 or, should say. snuffed the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07

The average human being is at disad- vantage in the swell restaurant here.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-05
BY CAROLINE coE

SFNENCGllNE WE
More than half the fun at picnic or
beach party is cooking the food.
A camp or beach fire is very little
trouble to make and many good
warm things to eat may be prepared.
The picnic basket must be packed
by one person; and this one must
know just what will be served and
what will be necessary to prepare it.
Most baskets are overloaded with IN
necessary things. Knives, forks and
spoons, paper plates and cups, nap
kns and lunch cloth must be put in,
and if cooking is to be done we must
also have a frying pan, long-han-
died fork, a spoon, a sharp knife, salt
and pepper. These, with few eggs,
a jar of butter, bacon or ham, sar-
dimes, a cup of jelly; bread or rolls,
cheese and marshmallows, with the
pot Of coffee viii make a wholesome
meal for any company.
Picnic Coffee.
The coffee should be mixed at
home, allowing six tabIespoonfuIs of
ground coffee for each seven CUPS
needed. Put the ground coffee in a |
bowl, add the white of one egg and |
one cup Of cold water, mix thorough
ly and turn into the pot; tie napkin
over top and nose" and pack pot in
the basket.
When ready to boil add the other
six cups Of cold water and set on hot
stone or CRATE over camp fire. Boil
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-05

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three minutes, set back on stone to
melt andNkeep hot.
Do not put the coffee over fire too
soon. The entire process should not
take over twenty minutes.
If canned cream is to be used, turn
the contents of can into a cup or dish
and whip it lively, turn into cups and
then pour the hot coffee over the
cream.
Sauted sardines.
Open can of sardines, pour the oil
into skillet, add the juice of half a
lemon. When oil and lemon juice get
hot lay the sardines in pan Cbe care
full not to break them) and brown on
each side.
Placed between bUttered rolls or
bread, a most appetizing sandwich is
the result.
Cheese Sandwiches
Butter slices of bread and spread
each with a thin layer of grated
cheese, put the slices together and
toast over hot Goals. Served with a
cup of coffee makes a full meal
Fried Egg Sandwich.
Heat skillet over fire, add table
spoonful of butter or bacon drippings.
Break egg into cup and turn into hot
fat; pull the skillet from hot fire and
allow the egg to cook slowly. Butter
two slices Of bread, place the fried
egg between; salt and pepper to suit
taste.
If a hot sandwich is desired, sauts
in pan in which the egg was fried.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-05

blesome skin disease may result of a
harsh soap is used or if soap is al
lowed to dry on the skin.
Use a soft wash cloth made from
a piece of old table linen, towel,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-05

knitted underwear, or any other soft
material, and have two pieces, one
for the face and head and one for the
body. The towel should be soft and
clean also.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-12-03
FAIRVIEW

Mr.. and Mrs. Mason enjoyed
Thanksgiving dinner with J. Benton
and family.
A very jolly crowd danced the
hours away Saturday evening at the
Neighborhood House. An oyster sup
per, with pie and coffee included, was
disposed of at midnight and everyone
spent very pleasant evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Brasch and family
and Mrs. Brasch's father spent
Thanksgiving with Mr.. and Mrs. Foy.
Howard Benton, Everett Bozarth
and Manley Bates attended the Tum-
water club dance Wednesday.
Miss Leona Shelley from Olympia
spent the weekend with Anna Sallee
and Lulu Benton and attended the
dance at the Neighborhood House.
Mr.. Art Briggs visited at the Ben
ton home Sunday.
Mr.. J. Benton and family visited
last Friday evening with Mr.. Palms
and family.
Miss Ramberg and Mrs. R. W.
Bates motored to Olympia last Mon
day on business.
| The original Thanksgiving program
and dedication exercises planned to
take place in the new schoolhouse
last Wednesday were prevented on
account of the inability of some of
the scholars to practice. However,
the children who were prepared spoke
their pieces and several extras were
given by the parents. A very appre-
ciative audience was presnt.
Miss Ramberg and scholars are plan
ming splendid entertainment for
Christmas. Mr.. Goss, county super
intendent, and Mrs. Hord, president
of the County Parent-Teachers' asso-
citation, and Miss Smith, city librarian,
will be present and will give inter-
esting talks.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Bates and sons,
ivy Nioi oAu NouACy ooICS uOCVACu
to Olympia Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Bates spent
Thanksgiving day in Oakville.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Bates and fam
lily enjoyed their Thanksgiving din
|ner with Mr.. B. Woodcock and fam
lily on the Eastside.
Mrs. o. G.. Bates has been detained
at Gate by the illness Of her sister,
Mrs. Taylor.
L. Fay motored to Olympia Mon
day.
J. Brasch is in Seattle on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Palms and son
and J. Benton and family visited
Monday evening with r. w. Bates and
family.
Mrs. J. Brasch's father from Taco
ma has been visiting her for a few
days.
Roy Clark and Anna Sallee visited
Miss Shelley in Olympia Thanksgiv-
ing day.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-12-03
BLACK RIVER VALLEY.

Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Paste OF
Centralia are the guests of their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Pitcher, at pres
emit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spinner entertained
in honor Of their daughter Lillian.
who ID attending high school in
Olympia, all the young people Of
Gate Saturday night. A. delicious
lunch was served and everyone went
home feeling that they had been roy
ally entertained. ~.
(. Mrs. Willett spent a few days I'M
Olympic this. week. While there she
was the guest of Mrs. James. Walker.
: !, Laurence Teasley of Olympia was
welcome guest at the home of his
aunt, Mrs. Alta Parish. last Sunday
night. am s =
Mrs. Christensen and Mrs. Ed
Cross were callers at the home of
Mrs. Pitcher Wednesday,.
Mrs. Eva Childers Of Lincoln
Creek visited her sister, Mrs. Ada
Hunter, last week.
Pearl Odell of Centralia was a
caller at the home Of Mrs. R. B. Par
ish last week.
Mrs. Watson gave Thanksgiving
dinner to a host of friends and rela-
tives last Thursday.