At .... . .- . .''.'1' . ....
4- 4
WEATHER FORECAST.
Sept. .
ilant:i. Tlear
Asieville. Foggy
leston. Clear
01
Cliai !;?. Clear...
(iiicajio Clear . . . .
(li.ivt'ston. Clear . .
j.uUsonville, Clear
N- w Orleans, Clear
Nvw York Clear . .
Pittsburgh Clear . .
Hiilfisli raining
nt. i.ouis Clear. . . .
.0
66
q
'.0
o 17
Washington cloudy
Wilmington rain.j
SUNRISE and SUNSET.
Thursday.
Sunrise.
Sunsets.
.5:50
.6:30r
S:.i.t of water in Cape Fear river at
.-aveiteville, N. C. at 8 a. m. yes-
. i
,,,ni;iy ieei.
jAP. GOLD TO BUY
BRITISH BONDS.
Tukio. Sept.
6. -The Japanese gov-
,... 1 li'iw nffifinllv nnnnnnnoH that
" " '""' "
TBmofimtiiTA .
r i - i '
-5- 41 Iff it
&
.1 88 I 69 I .f
. . S OU .0
I 84 . 72 I
84 64
! 86 I 68 !
88 80 j .0
86 72 .08
I 90 78 .50
84 f 64 .0
. . 7S fix ns
94 70 I
90 - 68
77 69
wi, its gold specie-reserve on de-; Elephant Butte dam and who partici-!
in American banks it will pur-jpate in the deliberations of the Inter-!
, j,:,:e British exchequer bonds to the. national Irrigation nnera nn thj
.,r,i,vnnt of 100.000,000 yen or about j
;:,u iiimi.iiiki. The term is one year and
tj,, n.tf of interest six per cent.
h is understood here that the Brit-i-
h trnvernment Will use the srold in
juvnieni for munitions of war pur:iwin be a triD into romantic and vays
. n i e.i in the United States. . terious Mexico, at least as far as the
I, understood that the Japanese street cars will take one into Juarez.
will be transferred to the Brit- j 1 Paso's sister city on the south bank
isii government by degrees as neees-' ' tne .Grande
sity arises. The advantages of this
investment are said to be manifold. In
the lirst place, by converting govern- j
menr .specie which " cannot derive
.u 1 1 o .
neater profit than 1 1-2 per cent in-;
1
t t . 1 01 - : . 11 I
,,res! ... u.t t.iuieu aies. ..no me,
t: per rent. British exchequer notes
J-pan will be able to realize a net
friiii uf 1-2 p?r cent Interest per an-
n, mi secondly, in case the Jananese
uovei'iumnt is confronted with need
uf specie in America the British
L'oveniment will-purchase the exche
quei notes from the Japanese and furn- in so sho.t a time from the civiliza
isii Hi. required amount. Thirdly, tion of the 20th century as expressed
the .Japanese government will lose by the modern American city of El
m.tliing from the disparity of the
jniit innate rate between the British
currency (pounds) and the American
cnivncy (dollars) in paying the price
of the Rritish exchequer notes in
American specie, which difference is
10 be borne by the British government
iiceonling to the agreement.
EAREFOOT LEAGUE
NEEDS MORE MEMBERS
Four California-Mer. Form it, Harging
Back to the Days Before Footwear.
Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 6 Harken
ing bacp to the days when man roam
carelessly across green pastures,
unshackled by costly footwear, when
fool, solid comfort met the nakedi
foot at every step, and when corns
inn! bunions were unheard of, four
prominent what Sacramentans have
formed what is to be-known as the
Sacramento Barefoot League.
There are four charter members of
the league, all residents of Yardley
Avenue, and they are Df. . Robert E.
Smith. James McCollough, L. O. Lum
ry anil Steve Downey.
The league was organized in quite
an unintentional way. Which of the
four was the originator is not known
fur it is intimated that Dr. Smith,
for several years advocate of the Coat
ls Summer League for men, had
wniething to do with it.
' any rate, the league has had
'"veral meetings. The requiments of
league are these: No member
miiM tie too modest to display his bare
tf(-t Fie must be without pedal cov
f nri? in attending meetings. He must
Uo billing to, and enjoy, walking on
l.nvn before the assembled multi
'H'le. including his wife, unshod.
I ! must be willing to step into his
ihlioi 's house in his bare feet and
v.. '1 Ik across his neighbor's hardwood
"""rs as nonchalantly as though he
ueif. Pithecanthropus in the jungles.
!'f-veral meetings of the league have t
" nepj at the homes of the various
fhuter members on Yardley Avenue.
'h'1 iiieetings are preceded by a cool
Hv upon the lawn of the host. As
Hif evening becomes cool the mem
' i retire to the host's drawing room
H'"i fire entertained with phonograph
-Hectiom;.
'"'Pite serious objection to the
,, :i ie on the part of the better halves j
1,1 :fn,e of the home, the organlza-1
'ion hus rrnwn ami ta now rarhlne
("' lor congenial spirits.
Keep cool and comfortable and
fl"e your corns" is the slogan of the
'at-i.e.
.
Wl.:.t became of the rock the boat
'""i I'l iend of yours' i
" s got a new trick now. He
i ni-.
tic.U
man a break tn the traffic h'
can dash through. Exchange.
I local'
Country ProduA.
':Bgg dozen A.
32
22
200
45
. W
30Q
uuuer, id '.3i .;, ".
Spring Chickens 'eaeV """"
26
.40
. &
Si
10
Hens, each X t- --
Puddle Ducks -4 -
Q.aine8 j
xjeei
Sweet potatoes, bttahel I
Irish Potatcrea; huahel . . .
N. c. Hants.:, ttr : ' 1-22-
7B 1.00
75431 l.fod
23 : ' ,
17 is
N. C. Shoulders & Ribs lb-
Field Peasy bushl ..,.; lM
uite r-ea.s, cuBUei , i.? 1.5Q
; Lorn, bushel.: U"V-.V .. 1.00
r eannts bushel r; 65 65
SpanishiPahuts, '.bushel .-' j r ;"80 35
VUegjaia Peanirts, bushel-. 65Q 70
qranges-vinrwa . . . . 4.00
Limes, per 100 '..'.. .. .. l stum
Bananas, iwroc-i".. l.ooa ira
jjuempng, Fanc3t 8.00
I ti? 3.00 3.50
Bell Peppers, bushel 75
unions, per sack ' 4.00
rip Trito IVlysfenous Mexico
Will be Feature of Irriga
tion Congress.
El Paso, Texas, Sept. 6. One of
the pleasant surprises in store for
thoae wh0 witness the dedication bv
i. .
President Wilson of the $10,000,000!
International
Farm congress - and!
, -
SoU Products exposition, all of which
will take place between Saturday,
Oct. 14 and Tuesday. Oct. 24; next
El Paso is the largest city in the
United States from which a trip may
be made into a foreign country where
language, manners, customs, mode of
dress and. styles In architecture are
t 1 1 Jt
ow ci usnj mi xzi v umci ftiii. iiuui litter niu
erican conception of those details of,
life, as they are in Mexico, and the
trip may be made at a cost of five!
cents in money and 15 minutes in time(
if the tripper has no more time to,
spare.
.131 Paso is probably the only point in
the world where a traveler may pass
K ei iip;p nr
iTuriaTiinrwi-imv
i nr in mm u ihi
I III. I U III U l.ll I Ull I
; r rrf-"S lii r til' 'I .
pro-iaso to the civilization or tne lotn
century as found in the city of Juarez,
the largest Mexican city, on the long
international line stretching from the-
mouth of the Rio Grande on the east?
tn Snn nipp-rt Pal on thp vvpet a
distance of 2,000 miles.
The traveler is not required to go
far into the interior of the country
which has been featured so liberally
as the hot bed of revolution, by the
newspapers of. the world during the
past the five or six years, to find men
and women living as they lived in
Christ s time. 1
1
The houses built of sun-dried 1
scribed in the old testament; the land
being cultivated hy means of plows
made of crooked sticks and harrowed
by means of bundles of brushes drawn
by oxen, the wooden wheeled carts, the
burden bearing burros, the reaping of
grain with sickles and the threshing
of it by running herds of ponies or
goats over it on earthen threshing!
floors, all will remind read ers of
the Bible and of the customs which
prsvailed in the time of Moses and
others who wrote the sacred books.
The old missions of California have
long been fabled in : song and story,
yet there is. a mission in Juarez and
another at Ysleta, Texas, a suburb of
El Paso, which were nearly 203
years Id before the foundation of the.
first California mission was laid. It
is true the architecture of the mis
sions of this section of the United
States is not as ornate as is that of
he California, missions, so far as may
be judged from the ruins, but it
marks the difference in temperament
between the Franciscan fathers who
pa?sed this way In the train of thai
early Spanish, conquistadores and of
the Jesuit priests ;who traveled in the
wake of the later explorers who de
voted themselves to the discovery
4 nnVkinrvntlAi-i rf mYt A f I Q Yl ATI'
known as California. W agricultural states wl make ex-
The part played by the followers WWts and to those will be added the
and successors of Cortez,: the con- hibits of counties? countries 6f
queror-of the Montezumas, in the Texas. New Mexico, Colorado, Okla
settlement and development of what lma, Arizona and Southern. Cahfornt-
ir inrvm o Anth WOotorn - TTlif t -fl Qf Q t AQ 1 "
will, always have an interest fpr even
)the;;most casual reader of .' Atnerican
history and nowhere else can the
evidences of the endeavor of those
I A 1 JX t.
pioneers tne wesrern worm De(
Studied at first hand as they. can atr
El Paso and its immediate environs. J
;; these little journeys, whether into.
Mexico or up and down; the Rio
jGiande on the American side of the
river., ma v be taken in perfect safety.
While there are In the-neighborhood
J pf 4Q.U0.0 American troops stationed
in- El Faso and patrolling, the boun-
and . while the soldiers are
much to evidence on El PaS0-s
streets, the tide of; travel between El!
I STOCKS, - I
y- -sa ; -HI
""tBy ASoerd tis.r " r
ilieiy TorkWall street, SepU- 6.
Ntew high, records were registered oy
various market leaders at today's open
ing, which was ateh'ded:1ty "aontih
uance, of yesterday's' biiliesi" activity;
; : United States Steel : touched par; ex
dusire of ItA recent dltiden3 of 2 1-2
bfer cent, 'Mfcriris',1 tjdftittotf and pre
ferred, rose' to 49' i-t afi'd Hi', 'respect
ively. Inspiration advanced to 57 7-8
and Kelly Springfield tire to 83 5-8 f
There , were gains .of 1 to 3 points . in
Jðiehem Steel, Mexican ,Petroieuhi,.
merican; dmeitinjAxneHcan Can,
America.n .Icombtive, United Fruit,
and ; International V; Paper, -prefered .
Rails' advance . was relatively back
ward.,' . ' :L 1 , ,
Allis-Chalmers . .. ... .' . ... . 24 1-2
American Beet Sugar . . . . . . 89 i-3
American Can .... 63 1-4
Amer. Car and Foundry ...... 63 1-2
American Locomotive .... . . 7 i-4
American Cotton Oil .. 52 3-4
American Smelting , . ..... ; . 101 7-8
American Sugar . ... .. 109" 7-8
American Tel. & Tel 132 1-4'
American Tobacco .. .. ..220 .
Anaconda Copper . . .. ,. 87 3-8
Atchison...:....;., .i .. .. ..104
Atlantic Coast Line Ill 1-2
Baldwin Locomotive . . . . 82 1-4
Baltimore & Ohio . . . . 85 7-8
Bethlehem Steel 490
Canadian Pacific. 177 5-8
hGesapeake & Ohio 61
I
Chi., Mil. & St. Paul 93 1-2
Chi., R. I.. & Pac. Ry.
Cohsoldated Gas.
. .17 5-8
.136 1-2
. 82 1-4
. 36 34
.171
j ;. Crucible Steel . .
. "
Genral Electric V. '. '. ". "
Great Northern Pfd
Great Northern Ore Ctfs. ..
.117. l
. 39 1-2 j
. 100 3-4 I
.120 !
.
inter. Merc. Mar. mi. ctts
j Kansa5j City southern ,. ..
j Louisville & Nashville . .
!. Liggett & Myers (bid) ....
. . 265
..238
Loiillard Co. . . . . .. .. .
Maxwell Motors .. ..
Meklcan Petroleum . . .
Mis., Kan. & Texas Pfd.
Missouri Pacific . .
National Lead ,
New York Central , . .
N Y., N. II. Hartford
Norfolk & Western . .
.. 84 3-4
..111. 1-4
..
. 4
. 65
.104
. 58 3-4
. 127 3-4
Northern Pacific 109 7-8
Pennsylvania 55 3-4
Reading 105 3-4
Rep., Iron & Steel .. 55 7-8
Seaboard Air Line 15 1-4
Seaboard Air Line (bid) .... 37 1-2 j
Slcss, Shef. Steel & Iron 51 j
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Southern Railway Pfd
Studebaker Corporation . .
07 1.0 '
'
. 68
124 1
Tennessee "Copper 25 1-4
I'aso and Juarez is as high now as
it wa's in " the days of the profouud
peace which characterized the good
old days when Porfirio Diaz was at
the helm of the Mexican ship of State
',,CA,, J;'3 u"1' nuicutaus uiu.cu
uxt amiiy as uiuug.i ineir respucnye
governments were not at loggerheads.
During the time the irrigation and
farm congresses are being held there
will be a series of military maneuvers
at El Paso in which the largest num
ber of troops ever gotten, together in
the United States will participate.
-. ,
' r tr nAn ir i o xr r r r n c iann rna u;r
l"c .
which will . be played on so
grand a scale may be witnessed from
points of vantage which will accom
modate hundreds of thousands of
spectators, should it happen there
might be that many to occupy them.
While the irrigation congress, is in
session. in El Paso, following the ded
ication of the Elephant Efutte dam by
President Wilson,, the delegates to
the International Farm Congress
will be gathering to hold their an
nual convention as soon as the irriga
tionists have coDcluded their coun
cils. .
In the meantime the doors of the
International Soil Products Exposi
tion, the largest agricultural fair to
be held in the United States this
year, will be open, and i will afford
visitors, an excellent opportunity to
see what is being done in . the way of
development along all lines, of agri
cultural activity.
The .United States department of
agriculture haB agents already on the
ground preparing to install an exhibit
for whieh the national congress has
made an appropriation of $20,000. The,
Canadian government will also make
an exhibit ' which will rank as one of
the best exhibits ever made by the
Dominion. Besides, twenty states of
the American Union which are classed
The exhibits of diary and. beef cattle
and hogs will be particularly good as
Will be the exhibition of minerals froin
the mining districts of which El Paso
is-the center anl chief city,.
iWhile EL . Paso is- comparatively
close to the Tropic of Cancer it is no,t
hot. Its elevation of nearly 4,000 feet
above-the' sea, coupled with an extreme
dryness and rarity of air and a lack
of humidity gives it a peculiarly de
lightful climate at all seasons of the
year . This may be of Interest to many
who may have entertained a fear that
because of the city's proximity to the
"If cUmate might not he de
sirable.
-s
-fi
, (By AssocJated pVesfeV- " (
L New - York- Sept.. C.T-There -was a
further decline, in-the cotton matket
during today's . : early 'trkding. -The
opening was steady, at a. decline 6
to : 7 points, , and ?, prices sold . off after
call;, undeE, , liquidation and ..Southern
selling, October declined tq 15.60, De;
cemlber " to 15.57 and Jaiiuary to' l5.7?f
shortly.afterlcal 12 to 1
points "net lower . .' 1 '' ;!'
"Open.
-.15.65
:" 15.80
. 15.87
16.06
.i6.i8 '
Spot, 15.80.
Cfose,'
15.65
October -
December January -
March , -
May '
New ' York
15.72
.15.86
16.00
Wilmington cotton
Charleston cotton
Savannah cotton . .
..15 3-4
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
Open. Close.
Oct,-Nov.. .. .. .. 9.51 1-2 9.45 1-2
Jrfn.-Feb.. .... v. . . 9.46 1-2 ; 9.40 1-2
March-April.'. .'. , . 9.44 i-2 9.39
Open,, quiet; close, steady. Mid
dling; 9.63.
Sales, 8,000; receipts,
9,000.
Receipts.
Cotton
Spirits
Rosin .
Tar . .
Crude
8?
WILMINGTON
NAVAL STORES
, Spirits 42 1-2.
Rosin $5.50 and $5.35.
.. Tar $2.75 and 11 cents.
Crude $4.00, $4.00 and $3.00.
SAVANNAH NAVAL STORES.
Spirits 42 3-4. , ,
Rosin $5.75.
Chicago.
Pork
. .$27-00
. .$1.54
.. .76 1-8
Wheat
j Corn .
Oats .
. . 49 5-8
Ribs
Lard .
Teias Co 200 1 2
Union Pacific 138 3-8
United Fruit 167
United States Rubber .. .
IT. S. Smelting & Refining .
United States Steel
United States Steel Pfd. ..
Virginia-Caro. Chem... .. .
Va. Iron, (fcoal & Coke . .
58 1-4
73 3-8
100 1-8
1181-4
42
45
I Wabash Pfd. B . . . .
26 7-8 ;
western uiuu.i .. ..
Westinghouse Electric
95 1-4
61 3-8
51 1-2
Kennecott Copper
1
cbtrdN,;
. . " , . , , 1 .can be obtained from this wheat, in
The devotional exercises at the! n,. lo, r . if aa Q
Suffragists' convention at Atlantic City
this week are led exclusively by wo-
men, a fact which has given many of
tile clergy food for thought. What
effect Will the advance of woman's
suffrage have "upon the ministerial because its native honied Alaska, is
profession? Will it mean that women dry; in cold " countries',' possibly for
in larger numbers will apply for en-' the same reason; and in hot coun
trance into the ministry?. These and tries for some, reason' not stated.'
like questions are agitating clergy-1 . These pretensions have "been bol-
men of., various t denominations and
form the basis of. discussion at. sum -
mer colonies where the clergy and
! their families congregate. Marked
changes in the. churches in that re-
spect are expected by many of the'
clergy, within the next fifteen years,
at the end of which period, they be-
lieve. women seeking ordination will
haveMncreased four-fold. 'From Eng
land icomes the interesting, news of a
similar wind 'in the air. A; prominent
London clergyman,: Rev. iPercy Dear
mer, has joined - the -advocates of a
proposal that "women , shall be allow
ed to preach In the Anglican Church.
The proposal has already once been
voted down by a majority of bishops.
Many other denominations in Eng
land, however, already accept women
preachers,. arid the barrier set by the
more conservative Anglicans is ex
pected to crumble down in time also
before the onslaught" of modern tend
encies. N. A. SINCLAIR
, One ' of ; he; pemocratJc: : Electors-at-
.!fc?jfe;s$g-t
Large ;now. oiumping j nis uisirici
'wiCTi'rafflw
II 11 ," "I"
u -. j-t, . .-. r-i.: .m i- j
I . - "it-id tf'J:.. .
Lsw-,, rr r
ill!
(a. i r..
Washingtdn, D. C, Sept.6-Ttietuvt: fc'-25 'bTiVi. ;rAmflca
notion that there is a ' wonderful
Wheat which1 will make th fbrtund
n Awiifia aA flta.. h,;
of plants rtems:to
almost & aa Hit ftgrieulture itselfi?ln
thi&ynti at. 4??tfc
rusalem' wheat as 'early W-'lgW hil;::
triile f :-th fittaefot" Alaska' wheat, this
td'entia variety is.-stm being. pushed
upon the unwary at exorbitahtHpfices
tor M&-ffi&iMJ ell-exaggeTa.
ed ;iclaffifs ;mSd5 fdr thevStonet
variety, bait this particular wheat has
; not such, a long history. :
f '44Because of 1the'1many 'attempt Mt
have heerf martp hv nrnmntopu tn fniat
I - " t Y Jr --'Vwv S3 iviub
these wheats vmder. one name or an-
their valhe. ;. In Bulletin $57 oi the
departmehi the results of these tests
are said tt show1 'conciusively that
neither' of the ' wheats 'possesses any
peculiar qwality which justifies high
prices for" the seed. Manv varieties
j grown 'commercially throughout the
- - country have, in fact, proved to be
somewhat . superior to either the
Alaska or. the Stoner. : ' :
The history of Aiaska wheat goes
7 j back in this country to the beginning
r of the last century. In all probability
it was introduced before the Revolu-
1 tion. but the first definite mpntinn nf
'it is in a letter dated 1807, in .which
a certain ir. iieemie. speaxs of the
great productiveness of the Jerusa
lem wheat, a; small, quantity of which
he had brought over from Ireland.
Dr. Keemle's description of his wheat
Identifies it, in .the opinion of experts,
with the; Alaska Wheat of today. The
chief characteristic of this variety is
that, there are as many as seven or
eight branches on each head. This
provides the promoters with their
great argument the more branches,
they say, the bigger the yields, and
they have, found many people; who be
lieve them. As a matter of fact the
so-called Alaska wheat belongs to the
Poulard subspecies. Poulard wheats
, other, upon the farmers of the coun-
' ftfWeLI S'Delikrinjehtbf i5A!grii
.15 1-4 lture tiasmad' "Sarefur tests: (A
' ' 1 are grown to some extent ih the Med
4 Vr ' iterranean region of Europe, bul riot
not
to any commercial extent in this
country. The.' tests, of the wheat
made by the U. S. Department of 'Ag
riculture' in a nuniber , of ' places anil
under a number "of dilferent 'condi
tions have never resulted In .extraord
.inary yields' and; In many' instances,
not even fair yields' have : been ob
tained. "Mtllirig ' tests :iave shbwh
also that in this respect Alaska wheat
is not 'as good as many other widely
gi.own varieties. ' .' ' "
These facts, however, haVe not pre-
" vented
the promoters at various
. times from asserting' that yields of
( from lCa. ta -222 lr2. bushela. per, acre.
' valuable variety :for the ; worn-out
j farms; of. jthe East becftusewith isUch
yields farmers .can afford to use fer
tillzers.- According toy.one circular,
the wheat flourishes in dry countries
stered:ujp by fanciful explanations of
' its . origin. ''According" to''' one author-
ity the probabilities "are that 'the Je -
rusalem wheat, which Dr. Keeffile
had in 1807. originated Th Palestine, j state officials in Kansas in the fall
a traveler brought a small sheaf of j of" 1908 and thereafter appears to
it back with him to Ireland and hung, have dropped the project. That same
it as a sign above the alehouse whichyear, however, thewheat was widely
he kept in Dublin. A farmer chanced
to pick up some seeds "fromv the
sheaf, planted them, and some years
later sold the produce of several
acres at about $3.65 a pound.; Some
of this seed "was brought : over' to
America arid distributed artiOng the
! meinbers of the Philadelphia Society
for the Promotion of Agriculture. In
this Way it probably ' caine to the
knowledge "of Dr. Keemte. The mem-J
bers of the society, howe ver, do not
appear to have appreciated it, for it!
created no stir in this country. I
iiiis ii? me muoi aui.uw.uv -f'u
ation of its Introduction that we,
have. A favorite story with pro-j
rnOters is to the effect that when the
coffin of an Egyptian mummy 3,000 :
or 4,000 years old was' '6pen.ed some j
wucai ns '"uuu . xx
Planted, but only a single kernel
grew. This, howo'ver, ' wttS"a ..wonder -
f ul yielder and very different from
any other wheat known. This story
lis responsible for ' such names as
("Mummy," "Wheat 3,000 years old."
I ev"ll A" 7 "
"' " . " ' r " 7Xo : members of the various orders of sis-.
the most favorable conditions seeds t. . - . , . . , .
I ," ','. , , v,.- tnini ters of. the Roman Catholic Church
of Wheat do not ke their; vitality . wh their 8ervicea, Qn
:hrrtlffuJbattlefieMs;andJn;h during
' , ' In ZnZ Tli i Civil War! is' planned for Arlington
.forward again, this time not aa a: . ,
product of Egypt, but of Alaska. It . "
L .n T.Qll -ao.aiiary of the Ancient Order of Hlber-f
was asserted that an Idaho farmer; .., ' , . ... t
had found in a secluded-spot of the n,iar the largest .orgarzation tofCa;
ai..v. .nt o t-nlfint with
' branched; head. He had brought; back)
'one head, sowed its seed that fall (in"
. . ,. !
1904), obtained 7 pounds to sow in
'.1905,- and by 1906 . had 1.545 pounds;
Ian increase of 220 fold. From this, it
iwas argued that one bushel of seed
per acre would produce 220 bushels;
A seed grain company had obtained i
the seed from the farmer arid would
dispense it at the, rate, , ol.$20 a
bushel. . . . ' ' '. : . . .-
UDon investigation the U. S De-
Partment of Agriculture
about 700 acres; of the
fouriii that
-
about 700 acres; of the wheat were J
being grown for;, the .. company , in
Idaho. The average yield per acre
was estimated, not ;at 220 bushels,
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fOndittqns well-kjriown heat -variei-j
t M.6 , P. -tho Pacific Northwest were
yielding fully, as much, or more arid
swefff-not erowiitfe th wmiitprfnl
. ' r
-t4?4TiWloftfe t$?
ollowed
bya.iwarping notice from the
ment and also by a fraud order from
the ' Pos toff ice Department against
the advertising material "circulated
by rthe c6mpaiiy. in spite Jot. j-this
fact, however; : another campaign .was
bgun in, 9P9nd(i.fl 1915 the whea
was actually placed on exhibition " at
the Panama Paiiific Expbsition: Last
year ATso the feame5 whieat was of
fered for eale at '$7 a busheV under
the name of Egyptian' seven-headed
wteat.u H At4 btriei' ",tiiites;w tnis?L wheat
has been sold m Eldorado. " Maiiy
headedt Many-spiked, Multiple-head;
ed, Reed Smyrna, Syrian and Wild
Goose. :li ' nt': ' " ':-T
"Stoner" or "Miracle' Wheat:
The claims made . by the promoters
of the "Stoner" or "Miracle" wheat
are fully as exaggerated, though less
romantic, than .hose of the Alaska
advocated. The Stoner: wheat , be
longs to the: soft-!red'uwinter wheats
commonly' growh in i the-.1 eastern
United States- from ; the Atlantic coast
to the Mississippi river.- ' According
to Jits-discoverer, in the spring of,19Q4
he noticed a large bunch of grass, in
his garden which, ; when headed
proved to be wheat. It had, 1.42 stems
or tillers and be became convinced
that its remarkable tillering capacity
would -make-' it 'a ver yl .wonderfu
wheat. - The three great advantages
which he asserted that this4 wheat
possessed were: '.(1) That it would
outyield any other variety anywhere;
(2) that it sent up more stems from
5 on sepd than unv nthr vdriot nt
wheat; and (3) that 20 pounds of
j seed ner acre produced the maximum
yields wjhile other varieties required
i20 pounds. ' , .. '-.
These assertions were investigated
by thV Department of Agriculture1 in
much more extensive experiments
thin it made with the Alaska wheat.
These tests show that the Stoner
whdat is not ti6 ijood as some of the
wheats now ( grown im the easterh
half of the United States, buts
somewhat better than others. On
the whole, it is of average " value. Ih
edihpaartlVe tests, ' hbweVer. It has
never outyieided all other varieties ,
arid many ' of' "these varieties have
surpassed it. Common' varieties have
exceeded It in the number of stalks
oik a plant.,' As . for,; the rate, of seed-
ing, the tests show that yields of this ,
variety are increased when sown at
rates of seeding higher than those
advocated by the pfdhiotefS. ' ; 1
i ne aiscoverer aesired to nave nis
wheat tried out on a larg scale fn
however," a Philadelphia promoters
took charge of the matter, but later
transferred his interest to a grain
company in Chicago. . Various plans
were proposed for growing the new
j wheat that do not appear - to have
been' Carried out; to any extent' at
i least. : The Chicago company be-
came involved in a controversy with
. advertised in Indiana under the name?
of "Marvelous" and under this name
extravagant claims are still being
made for it. In 1911 advertisements
in Brooklyn announced that "Mira
cle" wheat, as it Was then called,
was the fulfiilment ' of a biblical
prophecy and, that with the aid of
irrigation ' financed by Wall street
mHliohaires ,the arid West Was to be
made to produce large crops of it and
spineless cactus.
publishing these facts in its new ,
bulletin, the Department of Agricul
ture wisues iO; point out 10 larmers
that the government investigators f
have never been ' able to find: the
slightest re"ason ' for2 ' supposing "that
either1 of these wheats is in any 'way
superior - to' . the 'commercial varieties
fommomy grown. iae oniy expiau- l
ati0n' of their promoters' extravagant
pretensions is the v necessity, .for' firid-
rl
ing some excuse for charging exorbi
tant prices for seed,
A monument to the memory of the;
women , pi , irsn aescem m 1 1 r
:and , whose membeW
W,; -,Aireauy . -ni,;, vuw
mica nn fnr tha o-rpptinn fltin C n a Tn-
mission, for the erection;' and cham
pioned by Senator firoussard, of Louis
iana, has passed the Senate, and a sirii-
"r .piece of legislation, promoted by
.P"1;.."-"-
island, jsbemg pusna in ine lower
house. The nuns of six, religious or-
ders served as army nurses" during the'
ipiyii War. . ; The'cost pf this memorial .
to the "Nun "ql the Ba'ttlefleid'' will be
'$50,000, to 'which expense fte' govern
ment will have" no share whatever, the
fund being raised by a small per capita f
tax on the large membership of the
organization.
one 6t tftoie ffVat 4t9-fOircl;'Mlli
consisting, of agreat; .Paramount . fea i ;
ture'on the samebilt With thB current
chapter of thatT great-serial ''Gloria's
Romance." iThus patrons, tomorrow
get a combination of the highest Class
attd costliest feature on the market' to-,
dky with the costliest rserial that has
ever been produced a bill that cost
the taaftagemeritu almost t three times
thesuai daily rental paid on a feature
program, and they get It all for the '
minimum admission price :bften and
ifive cents. ;..'-' - -''; ' 'v; ,
' Tohiorro w the Royal present s that '-'
eirtbhantlng screen ' personality: 'Marie '
Drb??whose 'delightful personality. has
endeared1; her to millions of screen
patrons, in the role of a young girl of
the slums in ' "Common Ground" ' by :
Marion Fairfax r;, How through the ji
kihd 'interests of ' a young judge she !
is' brought into a better environmeht
and hoW'she! saves him froW ruin by '
political cohpifators Is told graphical- '
ly ih this great Paramount photoplay;
the 'thrilling 'story of a young girl's re-
generation. ' "'..;
The curreTtit chapter of "Gloria's Ro- ;
rharice" is absolutely two reels of the
greatest, most thrilling and most ar-'
tistic photoplay ever filmed, and should '
insure large crowds tomorrow, . ; '" .'"
"A Woman's Way."
"A Woman's Way,"' from the story
by Thompson Buchanan, which formed
one of Grace George's most famous
Broadway successes, will be the attract
tion at the Grand -theatre on -tomorrow
when Ethel Clayton and Carlyle
BlackWell will be seen in r this ' great
World Filih social drama of BUper-'
dramatic propensities. It tells ih &
vivid manner the manner adopted by
the woman to win back her husband's
affections, and her method is well
worth trylng by any woman who feels
that some other woman is trying ,to
corner her husband's love and ' af
fection. Women1 in that state of life
should not fall to see this-play. It
will do them good.
FUNERAL OF MRS. BIGGS.
Services Held At Residence Inter
ment In Bellevue Cemetery.
The funeral services of Mrs. Zilphia
Biggs, who died Monday night were
conducted-from-her late residence, No.
115. Marsteller street, Tuesday after
noon at" 4 o'clock by Rev.' Mr. Cald
well pastor of Immanuel Presbyterian
church. Interment was made in
Bellevue cemetery.
The pall paarers were Messrs. W.
J. Mintz, H. M. Wolfe, T. B. Skipper,
and R. J. Sykes.
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