filCH YEAB , ON FARMS
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SEC
RETARY OF AGRICULTURE.
Crop Yield of 11)0-1 A re tcs Nearly
$5tOOOOOOOQO-i : < iimla World'ts Out
put of Gold Since Columbus Diacov-
5 crcd America Corn and Cotton Lead.
The animal report of the Secretary
of Agriculture , James Wilson , for
1004 contains extremely interesting
reading and valuable information'
lating to the agricultural interests of
the country.
The following is quoted , in part :
As groat as the financial successes of
ngriculturu were in 1903 , liifhorto with
out equal , those of 1001 advanced some
what bejoud them. While some products
have fallen behind 5i value others have
more than filled the deficit , and the gen
eral'result ia that the farmers have pro
duced in value much more wealth than
they ever did bpforr > in one year.
AVcallli in Corn find Cotton.
Oi'f conspicuous Hem that has contrib
uted to tlii.s is the corn crop. With a
quantity closely approaching 2,500,000-
000 bushels , near the record crop of 1002 ,
the high price of this year gives this
crop a farm value much greater than it
ever had before , far exceeding $1,000-
000,000. With this crop the farmers
could pay the national debt and the in-
SnCI'.ETABY WILSOX.
torest thereon for one year , and still have
enough left to pay the expenses of the
national government for a large fraction
of a year.
The cotton crop , including seed , be
came the second one in value in 1903 ,
and remains so in 1904. It is now too
early to state even with approximate
accuracy what the farm value of this
crop is , but indications are that the farm
value of lint and seed must reach $000-
000,000.
It now seems probable that pohitoos
end barley reached their highest protluc-
/ JLion in 1004 ; that the oat crop was never
so large by 150.000,000 bushels except in
1902 , and that more rice was produced
than in any previous year by 1100,000-
000 pounds , so Hint the pivsc-nt crop of
rice has a preliminary estimate of 900-
000,000 pounds.
The principal crops that are valued
annually by the department or by com
mercial houses have an aggregate farm
value this year which at the date of this
writing apparently amounts to ? or So-
: )39.G09. The same crops in 1003 , as
finally estimated , had a farm value of
§ 3,1.10.099,392. and had a census value
for 1S99 of $2o2(3.34r,47S. ( In these
principal crops , therefore , the farmers
find an increase in value for 1904 of 14
per cent over 1903 , and of 42 per cent
over tl.-o cciii < ? year five years : igo.
Unthinkable AssrcKJitcs.
After a laborious and careful estimate
of | he value of the products of the farm
during 1904 , made within the census
scope , it is safe to place this amount at
34,900,000,000 , after excluding the value
of farm crops fed to livestock to avoid
duplication of values. A similar estimate
made for 1903 gives $4.480,000,000 , and
the census total for 1899 is $3.742,000-
CORN OUR GREATEST CROP.
Tcnr Its Direct Value Nearly
Totalled $1OOOOOO,000.
On corn the prosperity of the Unite-l
States depends in a larger mo.surc : than
it docs upon any other single article.
The State of Illinois the greatest corn-
producing Slate in the Union alone pro
duced during 1902 a great deal more than
half as much corn as the whole of Eu
rope namely , 2G4OS7,431 bushels ns
compared with 422,320,000 bushels. The
total production of South America , Af
rica and Australasia was not much more
than half of that of Illinois.
The value of the 1903 crop was esti
mated by the Department of Agriculture
at close on a billion dollars , but that was
only the direct value of the crop when
harvested and sold or awaiting sale in
the farmers' hands. It took no account
of the many oilier u es to which corn
Is put. For example , the live stock in
dustry of the United States , which , with
all its countless ramiCcntions. is by far
the greatest in.lnstry of its kind in the
world , is very largely dependent on the
corn crop. It has been estimated that
over 5,000.000 shopp and 12,000,000 beef
steers arc fattened in the great corn belt
which has Springfield , 111. , for its cen
ter. Aud then there arc chickens , hogs
and daisy cows innumerable.
Illinois' corn last year was worth more
than J > 93,000,000 about one-tenth the
value of the crop , and about $20 for
every man , woman and child in the State.
Iowa came next with a crop worth over
87,000.000. That is more than the na
tional revenue of either Austria , Hun
gary , China. Canada , Belgium , or the
whole British colonies , excluding Can
ada. India and Australia.
The State of Illinois gets far more
money for its corn crop than the com
bined revenue of all the La tinAmerican
governments except the four most impor
tant ones Mexico , Chili , Argentina and
Brazil. Take the sixteen sovereign re
publics of Hayti , Santo Domingo , Sal
vador , Costa Rica , Honduras , Guate
mala , Nicaragua. Colombia , Venezuela ,
Ecuador , Tern , Uruguay , Paraguay , Bo
livia , Cuba and Panama , and you will
find that their national revenues do not
exceed $70,000.000 annually. Illinois
more for her corn crop.
Old papers for sale at this offlc ,
000. Within the limits of asccrtainable
values the farms of 1904 produced an
aggregate wealth with a farm valuation
that was 9.05 per cent above the product
of 1903 , and 31.28 per cent above the fig-
ures for the census year 1899.
An occupation that has produced such
an unthinkable value as one aggregat
ing nearly $5,000,000,000 within a year
may be better measured by some com
parisons. All of the gold mines of the
entire world have not produced since Co
lumbus discovered America a greater
value of gold than , the farmers of this
country have produced in wealth in two
years ; this year's product is over six
times the amount of the capital stock of
all national banks ; it is twice the sum
of our exports and imports for a year ;
it is three times the gross earnings from
the operations of the railways ; it is four
times the value of all minerals produced
iu this country.
Animal Kxports Increase.
Our animal industry is shown only in
small part by the figures giving the ex
ports , yet these exports are o large as
to bo worthy of notice. The animals ex
ported in the fiscal year 1904 were val
ued at about $48,000,000 , which was an
increase over the previous year of $13-
000,000 ; the exports of meat and meat
products , including olco oil , olcomarga- j
rinc and lard compounds , amounted to J
more than $174,000,000 , a decrease of
$4,000,000 from the year before. We
also sent abroad nearly $0,000,000 worth
of dairy products , and of other products ,
such as hides aud skins , glue , grease and
grease scrap , over $5,000,000 worth. The
exact total of the above items of export ,
as given in preliminary returns , was
$223,023,000 , which was an increase over
the previous year of more than $12-
000,000.
The department is not an educational
institution in the sense of the word , but
it can do aud is doing much to bring
home to the people in all walks of life
the importance and value of the farm
aud its productions. The Bureau of (
Plant Industry is making a special effort '
to encourage the study of plants in the
public schools.
Unfortunately our system of elemen
tary education is such as to leave no im
pression on the child's mind of the im
portance , value and usefulness of farm
life. Very little effort has been made to j i
overcome the general belief that there is
always a great amount of drudgery con
nected with the farm , and that the op
portunities in this sort of occupation are
narrow and limited. When we see the
rapid advances that are being made in
agriculture along all Hues and note the
need for bright young men in this field ,
the opportunities offered by the cultiva
tion of the soil secins as great as in any
other field.
Growth of American Tea.
The department has continued its work
in the production of American tea. The
more advanced investigations have been
conducted , as heretofore , at Simimcrville ,
S. C. , in co-operation with Dr. Charles
U. Shepard. Dr. Shepard's tea gardens
arc now yielding from 8,000 to 10,000
pounds of tea annually. Owing to cli-
I'.iafic conditions the crop this year will
bo light. Dr. Shepard has been devoting
special attention to the improvement of
factory processes.
The work of establishing a plantation
in Texas has been continued. Tea bods
were started on two types of soil a
rich sandy loam and a black , waxy soil.
The plants on the black , waxy land have
failed utterly. There arc now on hand
at our Texas station , Trhicli is located at
Pierce , about 100,000 plants , which will
bo put into the field this winter , plant
ing about forty acres. Sufficient addi
tional seed will be put out to give an
other fifty acres nest year.
Advance in Forapre Crop Work.
Alfalfa has attracted more attention
on the part of farmers in the eastern half
of the United States during the past two
years than any other crop. The depart
ment has demonstrated that it can be
grown in almost every State in the
Union. Varieties have been found which
withstand the rigorous winters of the
Northwestern prairie Slates. Other va
rieties have been found which are im
mune to the alfalfa leaf rust. There
is still much to be learned concerning the
adaptability of alfalfa to various types
of soil iu the Eastern States and much
time is being devoted to the solution of
this problem.
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The French government will probably
rehabilitate Dreyfus.
The Bishop of Ascoli has asked the
Pope to 'help ' make J. I * . Morgan give up
the stolen cope.
San Domiryo will pay the $4.000,000
claims of the San Domingo Improve
ment Company.
The Chinese outbreak at Shantung in
volves about 10.000 Chinese , and mission
aries are fleeing.
Tlie zemstvos Ijlirougliout Russia are
acclaiming the program announced by
Minister Mirsky.
Rats give trouble in the London un
derground railway , by eating the rubber
insulation off the wires.
The government at Tangier has stop
ped shipments from port to port , and a
revolution is reported likely.
At least fifteen men were killed and
forty injured by the collapse of 'a new j
building at Santiago , Chili. i
Italian Catholics think that if the
Pope would permit them to vote , it would
help the cause of the Vatican.
It as denied that Emperor William is i
in bad licaltJi an < l that another operation |
will be performed on liis throat. I
England has come to see t'liat the talk ;
of danger of starvation among the indus
trial population has some foundation.
Republicans aud Socialists will run
separate tickets iu the Italian elections ,
thus helping the liberal and constitution
al elements. (
The Duchess of Manchester created a |
sensation in England by declining an in
vitation to hunt with the King and
Queen around Balmoral.
Incendiary pamphlets are being circu
lated in several Russian provinces by
Jewish bands , asserting that th only
remedy lies in a revolution.
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One Hundred Years Ago.
The great inundation of the river
Nile began by which 30uOO persons
perished.
j Turkey agreed to acknowledge Na
poleon as emperor , and "Padus
Chach , " a title which was customary
I for the Porte to bestow on the kings
of France.
,
The blacks of nayti were destroy
ing all forts on the sea coast and for
tifying the interior of the island , as
they expected any time to be attacked
by the French.
Seventy-five Years Ago.
Bushrod Washington , nephew of
General Washington , and a judge of
the Supreme Court , died at Philadel
phia.
The Georgia Legislature rejected the
proposition to have biennial instead of
annual sessions.
The government of Brazil derived
a large income from the importation
of slaves by imposing a specific duty
per head.
Fifty Years Ago.
A collision occurred between two
Atlantic liners in Boston harbor and
one of the vessels was destroyed by
fire.
Commander McClure arrived in
England , after accomplishing the
northwest passage , having entered the
polar seas in 1850 , and been impris
oned in the ice for three years.
The French and English consuls af
St. Domingo were interfering in an
unwarrantable manner with the lib
erty of the press and independent ac
tion of the government of Hayti.
Forty Years Ago.
A citizen's draft committee was or
ganized In Chicago for the purpose of
securing the enlistment of men for
army service.
Hood's Confederate army was de
feated at Franklin by the Union divi
sion under Schofield.
Court ordered the charges against a
Chicago man who had stolen a pig
changed from pettyto grand larceny ,
because under war time prices the ani
mal was valued at $40.
Five persons supposed to be connect
ed with a Confederate plot to burn the
city were under arrest iu New York.
Rewards aggregating $25,0 > JO were
offered by the City Council for convic
tion of the guilty.
New York capitalists proposed to
the Agricultural Department that if
properly encouraged they would pur
chase a tract of land in southern Illi
nois and produce sugar cheaply from
the sugar beet.
Thirty Years Ago.
The Molly Maguires , an outlaw
baud , were making Schuylkill County ,
Pa. , and vicinity the scene of nightly
arson and murder.
An exclusive mail train between
Chicago and New York , to make the
distance in twenty-four Hours , was
proposed as a great advance in the ser-
v ii by Superintendent G. S. Bangs 01
the railway mail.
Final arguments in the famous "safe
robbery" case were in progress in
Washington , D. C.
The Secretary of the Inferior in his
annual report recommended that the
homestead law be extended to the In
dians.
Representatives of the London
Chamber of Commerce submitted to
the foreign and colonial secretaries ob
jections to the proposed reciprocity
treaty between the United States and
Canada.
Twenty Years Ago.
Col. David L. Payne , the Oklahoma
boomer , died suddenly at Wellington.
Kan.
Kan.Mme.
Mme. Patti , in New York , celebrated
the silver jubilee of her appearance
there as a prima donna.
The Postmaster General reported
that under the 2-ceut postage law ,
which had been in effect a year , the
revenues of the department had de
creased 4.7 per cent
Reports emanating from the third
plenary council in Baltimore were that
Archibshop Gibbons would be made a
cardinal by the Pope.
Ten Years Ago.
The State Department received from
Minister Denby at Peking a message
that the legation was in danger aud
asking for protection.
Lady Henry Somerset in New York
announced plans of the W. G. T. U.
crusade on "living picture * ' shows.
China accepted the good offices of
the United States to arrange peace
with Japan , and preparations to under-
take negotiations were commenced.
RUIN IK THIS MOUTH
WOEFUL LACK OF RAIN IN MIS-
SISS1PPI VALLEY.
Approach of Cold Weather Without
Moisture Means VnalLoss Coal Mines
Are Crippled , Railroads Hampered ,
and CiticB in Dan jjer from Fire.
The closing down of coal mines , the
ruining of crops , the tying up of rail
roads and disastrous iires may follow
one of the worst drouths in the history
of the Mississippi Valley if cold weath
er sets in without a rain. Illinois , In
diana , Ohio , Kentucky. Wisconsin and
other States in the valley are now feel
ing the effects of the lack of water.
Already several disastrous prairie
fires have occurred , railroads and coal
mines are having hard work to get
water , stock raisers are complaining
and farmers are counting their losses
by the hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. In some of the cities in the Mis
sissippi Valley Slates the water sup
ply has been completely exhausted
and the first fire that occurs will sweep
unchecked through the towns. Farm
ers , railroad men , mine owners and
stock raiscix all predict serious conse
quences if the drouth continues. Noth
ing but a rain before the beginning of
real cold weather can save the valley
States , they say.
One of the most serious results of
the drouth i.s the inability of many
coal mines located in the Mississippi
Valley Slates to get water. The mines
need a large amount to run their en
gines with and liave been unable to
get it. The closing down of some of
the mines , among them those in the
district around Terre Haute , Ind. , and
Danville , 111. , will follow within a
few days if there is no rain or the
mine owners do not haul water to the
mines in oil tank cars.
The railroads also are suffering as
the result of the drouth. In Ohio it
has been found impossible to keep the
water tanks filled. All engineers have
received instructions to use water very
sparingly. At Bloomington , 111. , the
Chicago and Alton Railroad has been
forced to ask assistance from the city
officials and the city is furnishing the
railroad with 200,000 gallons of water
a day for its trains , as the Alton's res
ervoirs have run dry. The conditions
in Ohio and Illinois are the same as
those elsewhere.
The exhaustion of the water supply
in many of the cities in the valley has
already resulted in an agitation for
the establishment of waterworks in
many of them. Jacksonville. Bloom
ington , Danville and other cities have
joined in this agitation and the ques
tion of obtaining better protection
from fire has been taken up. Tills
question is being agitated as the re
sult of several of the cities finding
themselves without the means of stop
ping a fire as the result of the drouth.
In the country around Mount Ver-
non , 111. , sparks from passing engines
have set fire to grass and to the dry
corn which is standing in the fields be
cause it is too dry to be shocked. These
fires have done considerable damage
to the crops and at times have threat
ened to destroy farmhouses and to
sweep up to the boundaries of the cit
ies and villages :
All through Illinois and the other
Mississippi Valley States the greatest
difficulty has been experienced in find
ing water for cattle. Those sect ions
which are on rivers or lakes , of course ,
have no difficulty at the present time ,
although some of the streams have
run nearly dry , but the cattle raisers
who are dependent upon wells and
reservoirs for water are badly off.
In the Wabash % River Valley the
conditions are particularly bad. Wate
is being hauled for miles and the scar
city is so great that a Clarke County
farmer was able to sell the privilege
of allowing cattle to drink from a
pond upon his farm for $100. Dairy
products have been advanced in price
as the result of the drouth and in
Terre Haute the price of milk has gone
up 30 per cent.
Crops of fall wheat have been al
most entirely destroyed by the drouth.
The wheat that is still growing ia
making but little progress and small
hopes are entertained for the crop by
the farmer , Rye crops also have been
spoiled. The only benefit to the farm
ers from the drouth has been that it
has enabled them to tr her their corn
crop with little diliiculty and to get
into their barns corn which was laid
Hat by heavy storms early in Septem
ber. The roads , corcred with dust as
they are. have been sood.
The amount of rain which has fallen
in the Mississippi Valley differs some
what according to localities. It may
be said , however , that little or no rain
has fallen for seven weeks anywhere
in the valley. Columbus , Ohio , re
ports that there has not been a rain
storm in that vicinity for fifty-tliree
days. In Illinois a little more rain
has fallen than in Ohio. The rainfall
in Indiana also has been greater. Ken
tucky vies with Ohio as a dry State.
Wisconsin is in the same class as Ohio
and Kentucky , while Missouri is as
Avell off as Illinois. Kansas and Ne
braska.
The loss occasioned by the drouth
cannot well ! . > estimated until it is
known whether there will be a rain
fall before extreme cold weather sets
in. Already , however , losses amount
ing to millions of dollars have been
reported. The Ohio State Board of
Agriculture has attempted to keep
some estimate of the eff ts of the
drouth , but the figures are only ap
proximately correct. They show a loss
of over $300,000.
Old papers for sale at this office.
CLEVELAND'S WOMAN ENIGMA.
Myatery Over the Cliatlwick Case and
Alleged JiojcuH S-cciritieii.
The Sensational
revelations in the
career of Mrs. Cas-
sie L. Cliadwick ,
wife of a prominent
Cleveland physician ,
whose marvelous
success in borrow-
rowing large sums
$ of money from
k banks and financial
8 kings , have startlco
every business com
munity in the coun
try. A labyrinth of
mystery , suspicion
aiid charges entan
gles the leader ol
Cleveland society In
this crisis of her
eventful career , and
tli ere seems to bo
no end to the tangle
over the case and
the alleged bogus so ;
curities put up upon
which she borrowed
luiii'Iivds of thou
sands of dollars.
Stories about the
name of Andrew
Carnegia being used
as indorser of the
$500,000 note are re
iterated from many
" * * sources , although
MRS. CHADWICK. the rcport Mr.
Carnegie knew anything of the woman
was denied on behalf of the ironmaster.
It was said that this same $ . " 500,000 note ,
bearing the name of Mr. Carnegie , was
used in securing numerous other loans
from Ohio banks besides the Oberlin in
stitution and finally was the chief means
in obtaining the loan of $190,800 from
Mr. Newton of Brookline , Mass. , upon
which Mrs. Chadwick was sued.
From the various statements of the
persons who have loaned the woman such
immense sums of money came the assur
ance that they believe her to be possess
ed of several millions in securities , some
placing it as high as $5,000 000. All
agree , however , that such securities as
she has are tightly locked up in the
vaults of the Oberlin bank iu sealed
packages. The Citizens' National Bank
of Oberlin was closed and placed in the
hands of the national bank examiner for
examination and investigation.
A New York dispatch Thursday stated
that acceptance had been made of the
arrangement entered into between the at
torneys for Mrs. Chadwick and II. D.
Newton for the settlement of the suit
brought by Newton to recover money
leaned.
MANY SLAIN IN THE V/OODS.
Appalling List of Fatalities During
Deer Hunting : Season.
One hunter was killed or wounded for |
every sixty-five deer killed in the north
woods of Wisconsin and northern Michi
gan in the hunting season which has just
closed. Forty-two nimrods were either
slain outright or died from their woanOs.
many of them being shot down by over-
zealous hunters , who fired at anything
that moved the brush and undergrowth
ahead of them. Twenty others were
wounded , many of them seriously , and
the death total may be swelled by sev
eral additions iu the course of the next
fortnight.
With all this sacrifice of life the hunt
ing season was not successful from the
standpoint of game. It is estimated that
not more than 4,000 deer were killed in
the twenty open days. This is one-third
less than the total of a year ago. The
falling off is attributed to the lack of
snow in the woods , which made it impos
sible to track the deer , except with dogs ,
and this is forbidden by law.
Even this frightful list of hunting cas
ualties , due in almost every instance to
some one's carelessness , is exceeded by
the list of dead and wounded due to ac
cidents to hunters of ducks , partridges ,
zabbits , and other small game.
- There is again some talk of the enact
ment of a law in Wisconsin similar to
that of Michigan , which makes the kill
ing of a man by mistake for a deer
manslaughter , and punishable by a ten-
year term in prison.
Evidently the mouth of the ship sub-
sidist is beginning to water again.
In making up your schedule of winter
reading don't forget to leave a place for
the President's message.
The suit for $350,000 against Tom
Lawson may provide him with still an
other chapter on frenzied finance.
The United States lias granted 3,500
patents to women , but as yet there is no
device for keeping a hat on straight.
As to the opposition that will confront
the majority in the next Congress , it will
be a theory rather than a condition.
Gen. Stoessel and Baron Kodama hold
different opinions as to which of them
will spend the winter in Port Arthur.
Russian reactionaries have yet to learn
that those who stand in the way of the
car of progress are liable to get ran over.
The magnificence of Chicago's great
subway will lie chiefly in the magnificent
relief it will afford to pedestriaus on the
surface.
It staggers the country to hear the
Massachusetts Legislature likened to a
string of sausages. String beans would {
sound more convincing.
Three Russian torpedo-boat destroyers
that ventured out of Port Arthur were
sunk by the Japanese. This news is cal
culated to cheer the Baltic fleet on its
\t ay.
ay.Unless
Unless Gen. Stoessel soon surrenders
life in and about Port Arthur will be
come almost as deadly as American rail
way travel.
If St. Louis does not appreciate how
great the world's fair has been it will
do so later when the excitement is over
and it settles down to the sober duty of
paying the bills.
By the terms of her uncle's will an In-1
diana girl is to receive $13,000 if she
marries and not a cent if she remains
single. There arc plenty of heroes who
will be willing to help the poor girl get
her money.
. .A > > -5rfi ( B-'i , AIMS
Tang Shao Ki , wli has recently
been authorized by an imperial decree
from Peking to proceed to Tibet and
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TANG SHAO Ki. try. lie is not a
zealot and is suf
ficiently conservative to lack with fa
vor on reform movements. His Amer
ican experience and education will be
of infinite service to him in the refor
mation which he is expected to bring
about in the mysterieus country to
which he has been sent. Tang Shao
Ki will begin his administration by let
ting the light into the dark and for
bidden places of Tibet.
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Dr. Samuel Phillips Vcrner , presi
dent of the Stillmau institute of Tus-
caloosa. Ala. , has a Lc a series ot
valuable contribu-
t i o n s to the
world's present
knowledge con-
corning those
mysterious re
gions first exploit
ed by the intrepid
Stanley. His most
recent achieve
ment in this direc
tion was the
t r a n splantation
from the great uuDR. . a. P. VIUNKK.
explored heart of thu dark continent
to the St. Louis expositfim a tribe of
pygmies whose very existence had been
questioned. Although I'aui du Cliaillu
described these lilliputian dwellers of !
the African interior , his account was
not taken seriously by smentists , and
Stanley's assertion that they really ex
isted was received ia p&Iito silence. Dr.
Yerner , ho'wever , has put an end to all
future skepticism by affording an ocu
lar demonstration of tfoe pygmies' re
ality.
Whitelaw Reid is t sruccced Joseph
H. Choate as ambassador to Great
Britain. In his elevation to this par
ticular post m the
diplomatic service
Mr. Reid is to at
tain kis cherished
aspirations of ten
years or move. He
was ambassador. *
tdio French repub
lic during Harri
son's administra
tion , and in 1892
= was Meuiiijitcd for
WHITELAW P.EID.
the ticket headed by General Harrison.
Mr. Reid was a candidate for the am
bassadorship to Great Britain during
the first McKinley administration , but
Mr. McKinley eventually after one or
tvro shifts appointed Mr. ( Wioate.
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Francis Ellington Leawpp , who has
been appointed Indian Commissioner.
is a well known newspaper man. and
held the same posi
tion under the
Cleveland adminis
tration , but resign
ed in 1S97. He was
born in New York
in 1849 and was
graduated fro in
Williams College iu
1870 and from the
Columbia Law
School two years
later. For a time
he was editor and
part owner of the Syracuse Herald ,
and since 1889 has boon ia charge of
the Washington bureau f the New
York Evening Post. Mr. Leupp is a
member of the Sons of the American
Revolution.
* *
Sir Edward George Clarke , who chal
lenges Uncle Sc 5's rigbt to appropriate
the title "American" and asserts that ,
a&S
r &rtft
8r : * *
assume the manff
agcmcnt of affairs
iu that sonicv/hat
perturbed prov
ince , is a graduate
of Yale Univers
ity and Is reputed
to be one of the
most progressive
men in the Celes
tial Empire. Al
though he is de
voted to the inter-
territorially , Great
Britain is a larger
p < fwer n the Amer
ican continent than
the United States ,
is an eminent Eng
lish lawyer aiid
statesman. He was
olicitor general
from 18SG to 1S02 ,
ind has figured in
the trials of cele-
sn : K. c. OLAKK. b rated fuses. Born
in 1841 , he was educated in London
colleges , and in iSiri was admitted to
the bar. Knighthood was aonferred
on him in 1880. Sir Edward is set
down as a man who "does not trim his
sails to catch the popular wind. "
Col. John S. Mosby's bat , taken from
him at the time he was won-n'te'I , in
1SG4 , for nearly forty years in pos wslon
of a woman at Orange , * > . J. , has be" : i
restored to its intrepid owner.
E. J. Vawter of California 'has the
most extensive gardec for raising carna
tions of any man in the United States.
" " *
Col. James B. Quinn. TJ. S. A. , divis
ion chief engineers , will install electri
cal apparatus of a range fading system
at Fort. Screren , Ga.