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THURSDAY, DECEMBER I, 1904. Growth of sa Industry. Did you ever stop to think what s Inxuryar. orange was SO yean sgo. when you were a boy and lived in a small town? You got one for Christmas and none at all the rest of the year. A pineapple was something you knew little about, and a banana was a pulpy mystery. As for tangerines, grape fruit, imported melons, etc., they did not exist for you, says the Cincinnati Post Since then a great tropical Industry has grown up. It Is so great as to be almost beyond comprehension. It means prosperity (or a part of the world that has seen many years of poverty. It also means continued good times for those important additions to the United States, the Hawaiian Islands and Porto Rico, with the Philippines yet to hear from. The appetite of the people of the United ■Slates for tropical and subtropical products has reached such proportions that In the fiscal year 1904 the total amount paid for these products was 1430.556.775. Think of it! Nearly 12.000.000 per day for things that were luxuries a few years ago. Now tomatoes are cheap even in January. You can buy all the bantnas you can carry for a dime, and oranges will average cheaper than apples. The market Is full of pineapples and they are so low in price that the humble toller sticks a couple in his market basket and thinks nothing of the cost. In no country in the world does the food of the comparatively poor so nearly equal the quality and variety of the food of the rich as In America. The best is comparatively cheap, and even the millionaire can do no better than that. Your doctor will tell you that this consumption of fruit has a direct bearing on the good health of the nation. Let’s be glad that we were able to spend $430,000,000 for warm climate fruit products In a single year. Japanese Method of Physical Culture. japan is the only nation of the world in which the whole people have learned practical cleanliness of body, perfect ventilation and cleanliness of the house. Europe and America have not yet found out that the national wealth consists of health, and that national supremacy depends entirely upon medical and hygienic righteousness. We know but do not practice the evident truth that the tuberculosis problem entirely, and those of most other diseases partly, depend upon ventilation and household cleanliness. While we allow the antivaccination foolishness its criminal’ vogue In England. France and America. Japan has compulsory vaccination, and no smallpox. The world belongs to the physically strong, and the governments which spend their incomes on anything and everything except the one thing most necessary will sorely go down before the armies of those nations that are more careful of the law* of preventive medicine. ^

Influence of the

There are two facts about the home that distinguish It. educationally, from every other social institution; the amount of time during which It'exerti its educative Influence, and the necessarily unprofessional character of those who constitute, so to speak. Its educative corps, says Walter L. Harvey, in the Chautauqnan. In the first place, out of the first Ifi years of life, five are usually spent wholly at home, and out of the 8,760 hours which the children have to spend each year of the remainder, 7.71b are normally spent by them under the care and guidance' of home; fewer than 1,000 bourn being usually spent In school In the second place, parents, as parents, sre neither

generally speaking. If they i 1c imparting instruction, they are selftaught, or “natural-born" teachers. These facts help us to answer the question: What is the special responsibility or function of the'liome as an educational Institution? -From this acalvsis It follows that that type of

home will have the greatest educative efficiency which provides a home life which U rich, and moral, and real. To be rich, home life must be full of activities and Interest*; to be moral. It must-be organised; to be real, H must be vital, personal and sincere— It must be life, and not merely something wearing the look of life. ▲ View of College Athletics. Men trained through dll the years of school and college life in certain of the methods of college athletics may become future leaders, but they will be leaders in the art of evading taxes, manipulating courts and outwitting the law of the land,’ writes President W. H. P. Fauncc. in the World To-day. An athletic boy frequently writes to halt a doxen colleges and selects the highest, academic bidder. Every college president receives letters, staling what inducements have been offered elsewUere, and demanding In thinly veiled phraseology whether he is prepared to outbid his rivals. One of the professors In one of our leading universities has to^Iay In his possession a letter from a protestor in another Institution oSerlng to a promising athlete a guaranty of all expenses throughout his college course.

“A Terrible Mistake.”

It is not surprising that the dazed mind of the Russian ambassador conld find no phrase to describe the slaughter of Innocent fishermen In the North sea by the Russian fleet except “terrible mistake.” It is that beyond all reasonable doubt It Is inconceivable that the Russian commander had the slightest Intention of committing an unspeakable outrage upon a nation with which Russia is at peace, ana with which It needs so to keep at pease as is the case with Great Britain, says the New York Time*. But what is to be thought of a commander capa ble of such a mistake, or of the discipline and training of a navy In which

it could occur?

The most noteworthy thing a visitor from abroad found in a Journey across a prairie region of e northwestern state was ’> gr«*t bri ck MB* 1 ‘ cho ° 1 building that looked as if it could seat half the people in the county.”' The farmhouses were frail and far apart; great numbers of the taxpayers could hardly speak English; but the Scandinavian Immigrant had been as prompt to set up a school as were the earlier Pilgrim fathers who landed at Plymouth, says Youth’s Companion. "When you fear the Immigrant, look at the school.” D the wise and hopeful word

the traveler leaves with us.

Many persons have been drowned by falling out of dories into the ocean, but the woman who recently barely escaped drowning by falling out of her own yard into a dory that was there for the children seems almost to have established a record.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Those scientists who scandalised “Old Sol” some weeks ago by declaring that he was losing his power of warming things np must be ashamed to glance at his smiling face these days. He has saved the corn crop, and, not yet satisfied. is now saving coal at a rate that makes everyone smile with him. How that American dentists are co prosperous abroad,- pulling the teeth of the monagehs of Europe, it may be remembered that George Washington, whose own old age was toothless, performed the most extraordinary feat of pnlling the fangs of the British lion. Cuban pride will with difficulty be brought to tolerate any revenue regulation which will lessen the mark of distinction between Havana cigars and the plebeian domestic product

According to all accounts the new Connecticut is a fine warship. Uncle Sam has not forgotten how to build one. If he does occasionally “let out the Job.** It Is srld the Port Arthur garrison has eaten $00 hones. Lucky for the men they were not dependent upon auto-

mobiles.

It does no harm to hold a pqace conference now and then merely aa a public assurance that despite appearances to the contrary, peace to considered desirable by European governments. The Carnegie Steel compsny has established dead lines of fit and 40 yean for applicants for work- Lucky that Andrew Carnegie has given up his Job

It to now gnvely denied that at the <eaent moment there to a single member of the reigning house of Russia at (he front We thought there must have

Although the southern mill owners have agreed to raise the price of yarns, gossip will be as plentiful as ever during ihe winter.

Edward Dresaler, a Juror In the Nan Patterson caae. luia been atrk-ken with paralyala, and Judge Daria haa discharged the Jury. The Citizen*’ National bank of Oberlln. O, ha* been closed. The action was takaa .• a result of a meeting of the board of directors. , Sheriff Stelu o' Benton. III., telegraphed, "More •hooting at Zeigler laat night, and I cannot protect life and property unles* troop* are aeuL”. A Carhondale Infantry company haa been sent Two military prisoner* on Governor* Island at New York wecnrcd a boat. In which they attempted to row across the Buttermilk channel to Brooklyn. The rowboat capsized in the channel, and the two men. who were hanging on to It, were picked up by the ferryboat West Brooklyn. They were recaptur-

ed.

MoaSar, *«*v. SM. Calvin Farmer of Kac City. la., seventeen year* old. to dead u* the result of lujurie* received In u football game with the team from Lake City on Thanksgiving day. r The American Federation of Labor at its *emiou lu Kun Francisco com* plied with the request of former Secretary of 8tate'To*ter and went on record as being in favor of luteruatloual arbitration. W’hile^m their way to Sunday ncbool Harold C. Parks, aged twelve; hto brother, Howard irTarkm. aged eight and George Halverson, ten year* old. were drowned in Walnut HIII reservoir at New Britain, Conn.' It 1* reported that William A- Richards, commissioner of the general land office and ex-governor of Wyoming, to slated to succeed Secretary Hitchcock of the Interior deportment if the latter leaves President Roosevelt's cabinet next March. Reports received at the foreign office at Par : i show that sixteen treaties of arbitration have thus far been signed between the various powers of Europe and by America. The texts of all the treaties are practically identical with that of the French treaty with Great Brlta'u. William C. Morris of Canaan, N. Y, was caught while attempting to enter the summer home of Ambassador Joseph H. Choate In Stockbridge. Maas. Morris and another man. who escaped, were forcing the window of the laundry when the superintendent of the estate appeared. A trolley car running between Dunelien and Newark, N. J.. Jumped the tracks at a sharp curve at First avenue and a private right of way leading to Second avenue In Roselle and then was turned over on its affie In a ditch by the roadway. Charles T>ttam of Jersey City to dead, and twenty were injured. Mrs. Caroline Jeannette, proprietor of the Stratford House, New York, has reported to the police that diamonds valued at $20,000 have disappeared from her hotel. She said they were the property of a guest Mrs. F. H. Benedict a daughter of the late Frederick R. Coudert and widow of a son of E. C. Benedict, a close friend of ex-Presi-doit Cleveland. SatarOar. Haw. XO. Joseph Well, suspected by the Chicago police of being Mr. Dove, the alleged murderer of Chauffeur William Bate, baa cleared himself. " It took a coroner's Jury In Long Island City, X. Y n Just forty minutes to decide that Mrs. Josephine Leighton Noble shot her husband. Pa ton Noble, accidentally. Secretary liny at Washington haa received from the German government a cordial note accepting in principle President Roosevelt’s suggestion for another conference at The Hague. News of the drafting of her four brothers into the Russian army caused Sophy Wlydtch, a young girl, to attempt suicide at the home of David M. Finn In Now York, where she was

Nan Patterson, the “Fiorsdors” girl who to on trial for the murder of Bookmaker Caesar Young at New York, according to her father's account, receives an average of two offers of mar-

riage a day.

A fast Pennsylvania passenger train collided with a southbound electric car on the Northern Ohio Traction railway with terrific force near Bedford, O. The electric car waa cut In two. Several sasengers were seriously injured. Garbed In the uniform of a United States soldier, Stephen Putney, Jr„ son of a wealthy wholesale shoe dealer of Richmond, Va. was marched to tbe Hamilton hotel by an officer attached to the Jefferson barracks it St Louis. The lad had been missing for more than a week. He claims to have been giver knockout drape and robbed. The meeting of tbe semstvos’ “first

the inauguration of a new era tor Russia. Emperor Nicholas, the Initiate! of .the plan for universal dtsinnament, may turn bock upon the reactionaries and crown hto reign by granting to hto ibjecta tbe <-MMl1tut1on which hto had already

when b* toll by the baud of au assas-

sin.

Friaar, gov. an. Five Italian* perished in a fire that has destroyed the old Noble grain warehouse at North Bend. Pa. The University of, Pennsylvania football eleven closed one of the most successful seasons in the history of the Institution by defeating tbe Cornell alavan by s score of S4 to 0. A monument to the memory of the tote President William McKinley was unveiled at Ban Francisco at the main entrance of the Golden Gate park. It to a symbolical statue of the republic, modeled by Robert Aitkin and cast L« bronze. lord Carson ha* left London for India. loidy Curzon will remain at Hlgbcllffe castle, near Bournemouth. Hampshire, until she haa recovered from the effect* of her recent severe Illness. Prince Pnshlmr* apartments at tbe Buckingham club, Kt. Louis, were entered and gems valued at $5,000 intrinsically. bat priceless ss heirlooms, were stolen. The gems were mysteriously returned. Eva . Booth, the retiring field com-' mlssloner of the Ralvation Army in Canada, wIM leave Toronto on Tuesday for New York, which will be her headquarter* as commander of tbe forces in the United States. A torchlight procession will conduct her and her entourage to tbe train* TbarMlar. gev. *4. William Dean Ho* el Is, the American antbor, has arrived at Ran Remo, Italy, and will spend the winter there collecting material for a new book. General TntvaUsos, who was wounded during the revolt of the cadets of the Military school, is dead as the result of the amputation of a leg at Rio Janeiro. Coroner Moore has issued a warrant for the arrest of Frank Chanowski. a Pole, charging him with the murder of Michael Blanco, the miser Junkman of Boomrrtown. N. Y. The family of Bessie Henkle, the pretty stenographer who is supposed to have leaped overboard from tbe Old I >o min Ion line steamship Princess Anthe trip from Norfolk to New York, believe that tbe girl was Inssne. I>ee Furman of Trenton. N. J., and John O'Brien have been found guilty of murder in tbe first degree at Lancaster. Pa. Funnrn and O’Brien shot and killed Ramuel Ressler, an aged tollgate keeper on the Lancaster and WUllamstown turnpike. WvAuPMlar^gvv. as. J. Pierpont Morgan has won three bine ribbons with hto string of collies at tbe Philadelphia dog show. Tbe American-German arbitration treaty^us been signed at the state department by Secretary Hay and Baron Sternbnrg. tbe German ambassador. The home of -Elmer E. Thomas, a prominent lawyer of Omaha. Neb., and attorney for the Civic federation, waa wrecked by a bomb placed on the front porch. A New York ordlmnce prohibiting speed contests in which any one person shall compete for more than three hours in twenty-four has been passed by tbe board of aldermen. The charred body of Emil Larson, bow watchman on the Central Vermont freight steamer Mohawk, has been found under a, twisted girder In the hull of the craft at New London, onn. The Bourse Gazette of St Petersburg urges the negotiation of a commercial treaty with the United States on the ground that the completion of the Panama canal will greatly Increase trade between the United States and Russia. Six negroes who had been seen about the station at Greensburg, Pa- held up a Pennsylvania railroad through express train, carrying valuables for Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and New York. The negroes flagged the train, but failed in au attempt at rob-

Mlsvra Strike a Hard Vela. MAHAXOY CITY, Pa., Nov. 29.-

Twenty-flve miners hare struck at Tunnel Ridge coHtety until, as they say, the Philadelphia and Reading Goal and Iron company will guarantee them a fair day's earnings. Tbe men claim they hare been working an unusually hard vein, which, they say, yielded

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PARIS, Nov. 29.—Tbe Cuban legation here gave out a statement denying that yellow fever exists In CuM and saying tbe United States has not pro- * gainst the presence of the fever

While the world has suspected Russia of being at a standstill in her manufactures, facta and figures show that in the IS years recently ended her prod action of coni increased three-fold, that of pig

re than four-fold, that of man-

ganese ora M-fold, that, of salt twofold, and that at naphtha nearly four-

In other branches of Industry

Russian pragmas has been almost equally notable. R has been predicted that after the check brought by the war

to likely to enter upon a career

of Industrial progress compared with

that of Germany after Sedan.

Christmas Magazines Tbe novel complete of IJppiaooU’i Mag seine U>r December l* timely sad taking It to by A idea March, so editor of the Philadelphia Prea*. and Is called "A Darting Traitor.” It pictures all the intrigue and human frailties of s great political campaign, sod, beside*. It tells a lo*r story moat fascinating and moat real. Tbe"i.arilng Traitor” i* a fresh youngster who knows tbe town as only such kid* can.and hi* dereliction wiu* a hu* and for one of the nicest girls in recent fiction. First-hand reporta on tbe condition* in the Philippine* are rare because so few observer* know bow to write vividly. In Lippiueott'* Magazine for December there is a significant and plclurcaqoe paper by a United RtaUaArmr lieutenant which teila In some powerful aeoteucca tbe whole -'ury of “The Regular and the Ravag*”—auR a remarkable story it to. General Charles King, formerly ’•Captain King,” and beloved by many iradrf*. baa broken hi* long silence and appear* In Uppiocott's Christmas number with a stirring Indian tale called "Tbe Boy 'I b it Couldn’t Stand Fire.” The Cosmopolitan comes to n* in a b-aa-tlfal and appropriate cover which L but the index of an especial y attractive content*. Besides five complete and one continued story, we turn to one 11 Inatrated article after another to note that each discusses a matter of real timely and vital importance to both the men and women of America. The content* include “The Present Upheaval in France,” by David Grab am Phillips: •‘The Passing of the Home in Great American Cities”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Chase of tbe Wild Red Deer on Exmoor Foreat,” by Clifford Cordiey: "The Passing of the Steam Age.” by Lewi* Nixon; “Some Churches and Their Problems,” by A Minister’s Wife; "The Theatrical Syndicate,” condemned and defended respectively by DavidBelaaoo and Marc Klaw; "Racial Type* of Beauty,” by Gertrude Lynch; "Canning and Preserving,” by Frederic Williams. Tbe fiction is contributed by Eliza.Calvert Halt, a. M. WUHamoon—coauthor of •'The Lightning Condoctor”— Herbert Sb I pmao, Homer Basaford,Jeanne Olive Loizeaux sad John Brisben Walker. James Whitcomb Riley haa a two page Cbriatmas poem. Tbe whole is superbly illustrated. One striking Vesture of the table of contents of the December Twentieth Century Home is tbe number of people of high authority in various spheres of work who write on their speeial subjects for the magazine. This month we note Havelock Ellis, "Spanish Dancing": Garrett P. Servtos, "The Fairyland of Science”: Harry Thurston Peck, “For the Woman Who Read*”; Dr. Watson I* Savage. “Home Exercise for Growing Children”; Dr. Jama* H. Canfield. Librarian of Columbia University, The World's Five Hundred Best Books”: Mrs. N. M. bister, "Studies in Hone Dressmaking”: Rafford Pyke, “Women as

The Review ot Review* I presents a series of ooOributed articles of unusual variety and interest. Mr. Walter Wellman writes uo "Tbe United States end tbe World's Peace Movement.” Mr. Wlntbrop L. Marvin describe* the work of the Merchant Marine Commission, appointed during tbe laat session of Cougrees to investigate American shipping conditions In our great porta. Tbe four “men of the mouth” chosen as tbe subjects for character sketches are Chief Engineer William Barclay Parsons, of the New York RapidTransit Commission; Preident David Rowland Frauds, of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Chairman George B. Gonelyou, of the Republican National Committee, and Governor-elect William L. Douglas, of Massachusetts. Mr. William C. Edgar gives an interesting account of tbe OJibway Indiana’ play of “Hiawatha.” ss presented at Desbarata, Ontario, on the shores of Georgian Bay; tbe article Is Olust rated from photographs of the Indian players in costume. Mr. Clarence H. Poe tells tbe story of the remarkable rejuvenation of rural North Carolina, illustrating bis article with pictures showing the great advance in the educational appliances provided by the State for both whites and blacks. “Tbe Hawaiian Sugar Product” to tbe title at s Valuable Illustrated article by Lewis R. Freeman.

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