AUGUST J, 1S07
The Commoner.
15
"White Silence, as Jack Frost is called
in the northland, envelopes the Arc
tic, the railroad tics are a trail to the
musher. To miss footing, however,
is often to sink, hip deep in the
tundra.
The fare to Anvil in those days
was $1 one way, while freight was
at the rate of four andsone-half cents
a pound. The cost six years ago for
a horse team to Anvil creek, four and
a half miles, was $G0. The Nome
Arctic railroad in consequence
cleared in the first season of less than
three working months $60,000.
The road had been extended to
Station Ex, 12 miles from Nome,
when the Wild Goose company sold
it in the summer of 1906 to the
Northwestern Development company.
With change of ownership came
change of name, and to the newcom
er the Nome-Arctic is now the Se
ward Peninsula railroad.
These facts a statistical Sourdough
imparts as the train wabbles into
the first station, Brownsville. Scat
tered everywhere back of the road
house are canvas or tar paper shades,
derricks, huge dumps the winter's
diggings waiting for water to clean
up a network of sluice boxes and
miles of canvas pipesfts iling like
huge reptile through the tundra.
Seattle Correspondence New York
Herald.
IN VIRGINIA
The roses nowhere bloom so white
As in Virginia,
The sunshine nowhere shines so
bright
As in Virginia.
The birds sing nowhere quite so
sweet,
And nowhere hearts so lightly beat,
For heaven and earth both seem to
meet
Down in Virginia.
The, days-are never quite so long
"As in Virginia,"
Nor quite so filled with happy song
As In Virginia.
And when my time has come to die
Just take me back and let me He
Close where the James goes rolling
by, '
Down in Virginia.
There nowhere is a land so fair
As in Virginia,
So full of song, so free of care,
As in Virginia.
And I believe that Happy Land
The Lord prepared for mortal man
Is built exactly on the plan
Of old Virginia.
Exchange.
MISSOURI POULTRY
Poultrymen's figures' show that
during the L.st year the hens of
Missouri have laid, in round num
bers, 150,000,000 dozen of eggs.
Now get out your pencil and keep
tab.
These aren't baker's dozens, but
just the common dozens twelve.
These 150,000,000 dozen, then, give
us 1,800,000,000 separate and dis
tinct eggs average eggs, not count
ing the dwarfs or the giants.
JVell, any self-respecting, average
egg weighs two ounces. That means
eight to the pound, doesn't it? And
that means that the whole crop will
weigh in at 225,000,000 pounds, or
112,600 tons.
Oh, don't begin to exclaim just
yet. That's only the beginning.
Allowing five eggs to the foot,
when they are set end to end, these
1,800,000,000 'would form a string
300,000,000 feet long, or 68,132
miles long enough to stretch across
the continent twenty times, from Bal
timore to San Francisco; or long
enough to reach more than 3 times
around the world. That's an easy
one.
Now, then: Suppose that this
mass were just one egg, weighing
112,500 tons how big an egg. would
it be?' Why, it would have a meas
urement of 2,700,000,000 cubic inch
es, or 1,562,600 cubic feet
Put this into one oggshell and the
shell would measure 200 feet in
length by 125 through the small way.
Sot It on end alongside almost any
one of the St. Louis skyscrapers, and
it wouldn't appear to bo out of Its
class.
Now, suppose that we've found a
way to "set" this monster egg. And
suppose that it hatches, and that the
chick lives and thrives- and grows to
maturity. If its weight were in pro
portion to the weight of the average
bird hatched from an overyday egg,
it would weigh 14,400,000,000
pounds, or 7,200,000 tons.
' Now, what if this bird should turn
out to be a rooster of Shanghai ten
dencies, growing to legs instead of
putting on flesh. Then, full grown,
he would stand 1,800,000,000 feet,
or 340,000 miles high. Standing on
the solid earth, his head would over
top the moon by just an even 100,000
miles. How far could you hear him
crow?
Or let's suppose it to have turned
out a hen, and that the hen behaves
as a good Biddy ought, and "lays
eggs for gentlemen." If her eggs
bore the usual proportion to her own
weight, they would tip the scales at
225,000,000 pounds each. And if she
were an industrious hen, laying the
poultryman's standard of 200 eggs
a year, then the year's crop from this
one bird would weigh 45,000,000,000
pounds, or 22,500,000 tons.
And then if each of these eggs
were to be hatched as a thrifty chick,
and each chick should take after its
mamma in point of growth, then at
the year's end we'd have 1,440,000,
000 tons of poultry 17 tons for
every man, woman and child in the
whole country. At ten cents a pound
this stock would be worth $228,000,
000,000 of any man's money.
Let's go into the poultry business.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
WOMANLY LOGIC
"Never," groaned a Euclid avenue
picture dealer the other day, "never
try to argue a woman into believing
that she ought to pay a bill when she
thinks otherwise. I tried it this
morning presented a bill for some
stuff ordered two months ago. Here
was h ' irrefutable logic:
" 'I never ordered any pictures.
" 'If I did you never delivered
them.
" 'If you did I never got them,
" 'If I did, I paid for them.
" 'If I didn't I must have had some
good reason for It.
" 'And, if I had, of course, I won't
pay.'
"What d'you think of that?"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
TEDDY BEARS A MENACE
The "Teddy Bear" fad was se
verely scored by Rev. Richard G, Es
per from the pulpit in St. Joseph's
Catholic church today. The priest
held that the toy beasts in the hands
of little girls were destroying all in
stincts of motherhood and in the fu
ture would be realized a powerful
factor in race suicide.
Father Esper spoke earnestly to
his congregation for fifteen minutes
on the subject, exhorting all parents
to replace the doll in the affections
of children. "There is something
natural," he said, "in the care of a
doll by a little child. It is the first
manifestation of the feeling of 'moth
erhood. In the development of these
motherly instincts lies the hope of all
nations. It is a monstrous crime to
do anything that will tend to destroy
these instincts. That is what the
Teddy Bear is doing, and that Js why
it is going to be a factor in the race
suicide problem if it is not sup
pressed. It Is terrible -enough that
the present generation ofparents In
this country are leading us into grave
danger. If wo can not awakon them,
lot us at least save tho futuro gener
ations." St. Joseph (Mo.) dispatch
to tho New York American.
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