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etna inal PITCAIRN WOMEN SAID TO BE IN NEED OF CLOTHES Sea Captain Gives Interest'-7 Information About Little Dot in Pacific. SELDOM TOUCHED BY SHIPS An Abundance of Food I1 Raised on the Island, but Nothing From Which Clothes Can Be Made— People Speak English, Are Honest and Religious. New York.—Miss Florn McFlimsey of Madison square, who really and truly bad oothing to wear, was In- deed in sad plight, but her p'ight was not neurly so sad asis that of the} Pitcairn isinnd ladies, according to the report brought to this city bg the ship Port Hardy, which arrived ¢ta London ao few days ago. The Port Hardy plies between New York and Australia, returning by way of London, and is commanded by Captain Griffiths, He had visited Pitcairn island In 1891 and, having a desire to revisit it, touched there on his last voyage out, in June of this year, The island, a mere speck in the vasi exp e of the Pacific ocenn, les about half way between the west- ern extremity of the Panama and New Zealand, The isinnd is a rocky promontory rising from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the sea | 1. It Is about two and a canal hatf miles tong and one mile wide. Tt Is well wooded and covered with luxuriant tropical vegetation The} sides are sheer rock cliffs and there ts | no harbor or anchorage for ships, | though a bight In coast line Is known as Bounty bay. The Port Hardy, though nominally touching, did not anchor, but merely “lay to" off shore, That sufficient invita- tion to a number of the Islanders, men, women and children, to come aboard, The Inhabitants, 160 in round numbers, were amply supplied with food, but badly in need of clothing, especially the women, who have nothing with which to make dresses, Their sisters of Murray Hill will re mize that as a really trying situation. The fact is that an abundance of food is raised on the Island, but nothing from wh clothing may be made. As the Islan has no trade with anywhere and ships seldom touch there, the Pitcairn wom- en have been reduced to the pitiful necessity of fashioning their dresses from the cast-off garments of men. So they have sent a moving appeal by Captain Griffiths to their more fortu- nate sisters of New York for service- able dressmaking material. They also need thread, needles and some other articles such as writing paper, pencils, slates for school children, paraffin oll, soap and nails, all of which the captain has promised to take back to them if they are given to him. Speak Good English. Concerning the people of Pitcairn, Captain Griffiths said that the women were dusky-hued, like their Tahitian maternal ancestors, but the men more of the European coloring. speak oo other language than lish, and excellent English, too. were strictly honest and religious. In religion enth Day Adventists. Their religious ideas appear to huve ‘een derived from Alexandér Smith, one of the orig- inal settlers, who afterward changed his name to John Adams and endeay- ored to atone for his mutinous con- duct by educating and civilizing the rising generation. and one schoolhouse on the island and the children seem to be well instructed. So far as Captain Griffiths knows, the only animals on the tsland are goats, though pigs are mentioned by was a exceedingly they are Sev- earlier visitors, Fruits, especially oranges of large size and excellent quality, are abundant. Breadfruit, yams, potatoes and sugar cane are also grown. About the only industry besides agriculture is the manufacture of straw hats from native straw. The only, vessel regularly visiting the island Is a seaman’s missionary schooner from San Francisco, which touches there about once in six months. The islanders are now, how- ever, trying to build a schooner them- selves for trading purposes, and to that end were helped by Captain Grif- fiths with 200 pounds of natis and aj e bale of oakum, which he happened to . He says the tsland-/e be able to spare. ers have a great admiration for Amer-. Ica, The story of Pitcairn {sland Is one of the strangest in history. was discovered by Carteret in 1707 and named by him after one of his officers, but It was not again visited by Europeans until it was taken pos- session of by some of the Bounty mu- tineers. William Bligh, an English Bayonne, N. J.—“She kidnaped me” naval officer, who bad: made the ctr-| was the plea of Peter A. Walsk when Exmeral, his neighbor, who charged to Tahiti, in command of the ship| that Walsk had eloped with Mrs. Ex- cumbavigating voynge under Captain Cook, was sent out in December, 1787, ‘Bounty, to collect breadfruit trees for transplanting In the West Indies, The j ‘arrived at Tahiti tn October, There is one church | The island | tyrannical officer and the men under him had been captivated by the easy life in Tahitl On April 28 they mu- tinjed, cast Bligh and 18 other men adrift In the ship's launch and salled beck to Tahiti. Bligh and his com- panions reached the Ing 3,600 nautical miles in an open boat and suffering dreadful privations. Mutineers Made Merry. Meanwhile the mutineers made mer- ry for a while at Tahiti, but Fletcher Christian, their leader, fearing pursuit, decided to seek a more secure refuge. However, some of the mutineers re- fused to follow him, so Christian, with eight of his shipmates, six Tahitian men and 12 Tuhitian women, railed for Pitcairn | id, where they arrived and settled in 1700, after burning the Bounty. Christian was justified @ an- ticipating pursuit. In time Tahiti was visited by another British man-of-war under Captain Edwards in search of the mutineers. Fourteen of the six- teen who remained In Tahiti were cap- tured, und three of thetm were execut- ed in uber, 1792. Of Christian and bis company no trace wus discovered until 1808, when Captain Folger, an American skipper, j touched at Piteairn island and found | their survivors and descendants liv- ing there. | mutine: jof the Alexander Smith, all several of s except Tahitian men and lence, tain After being informed of Cap Folger's discovery, the British government took no steps in the mat- ter until 1814, when in September, H M. 8. Britain touched at the islag! and found old Smith, or Adams, still alive, commanding the respect and admira tion of the whole little colony by his exemplary conduct and fatherly care of ther The settlers there were visited again by British ships in 1825 and 1830, and the later visitors confirmed the testimony of the earlier as to their conduct. In 1831 they deemed their population—only 87 too great for the island, and at thelr | request many were transported by the British government to Tahiti, But, shocked by the morals of their Tabi lan relutives and friends, after a nine- months’ sojourn they returned to the In 1839 exemplary | island at their own expense. they besought Captain Elliott of H. M. S. Fly, who visited them, to be jtaken under the protection of the British government be from the lawless ¢ who occasivnally use of annoy- *ws of whal- visited them, Taken Over by British. | Captain Elliott accordingly took possession of the island in the name jof Queen Victoria, gave them a Union } Jack and recognized their self-elected tungistrate. They were frequently vis- ited by English ships until 1855, when, |again deeming their numbers too great |for the island, they petitioned the | British government to grant them the larger and more—productive Norfolk island, to which they were removed in 1856. In 1s two families, number- ing 17 persons, returned to Piteairn island, and the present inhabitants are descended from those. An officer of the British ship Opal, which visited the island in 1879, wrote as follows: “We just left a place of great interest, ramely Pitcairn island. After a S8O-days'’ pussage from San Francisco we sighted the Island at 8 }a. m, on the 2nd of July and at ten 2k anchored off Bounty bay—the time a man-of-war has anchored there for about twenty years, it being customary to steam off and on the is- land while communicating with it. sdiately on our arrival,” he e islanders Inunched a boat through the surf, and came off with a quantity of fruit for us. The chief magistrate, whose name is McCoy, came on board, as did also some of the Youngs and Christians. I say advis- edly some of them, for it Is very diffl- cult to find out who is who on the island, they all being Youngs, Chris- | tions, McCoys or Warrens, although a fashion is cofulng in vogue—owing to the confusion caused by there be- ing only about five names between 93 persons—of individuals assuming }names, Thus one of the Christians has taken the name of Downes, and is bringing up a family under that cognomen, while another bas assumed the name of Selwyn, If this continues Into a few generations it will be hard to trace their connection with the ortg- inal names of the Bounty.” 3 SHE SMOKES IN THE : STREET; PUT IN JAIL $s Philadetphia, Pa.—Mrs. Mar- e@ garet Wilda, thirty-eight years $ old, was arrested the other night when a policeman saw her smok: $ ing a cigarette on the street. The $ policeman told Mrs. Wilda her @ act was a breach of the peace. She rofused to put the cigarette e@ out and was held in jail over - night. She told Magistrate Tracey @ in the morning she had quarreled 3 with hes husband and smoked on e the street “for spite.” The magis- trate dlischarged her, Says Woman Kidnaped Him. arraigned on complaint meral. Has Mania for Kissing Men. island of Timor} ov the fourteenth of June, after safl-| In the meantime all of the | the women had died of disease or vio- | e ®@/so proud, are combinations made for Yonkers, N. Y.—Diss Mary Kirschon, | $50.90 proved the undoing of Victor a nurse, who has a mania for kissing | Wilbur, age eleven, who lives next has been committed to the state | door, The Ind of the sweet tooth ha¢ THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE 87 YEARS IN ONE FAMILY | One of the life stories of faithful servants unearthed by a prize-winning contest In Washington ts that of Tere sa Harper, who was born a slave near Waldorf, Charles county, Md., and who jis known to have performed service |for the Boarman family for 87 years She is probably ten years older than | that. orge Clifford Boarman, sixty one years old, her present “muaste | She threatens with a spanking in c jhe ventures on a wet street without jhis rubbers. ‘Teresa has done very | little work for the household for sey- years, but is supported by the | family in every comfort. |PERFECTS A NEW STABILIZER Orville Wright Bapectats Make Flying Safe as Automobiling Through Novel Principle. Dayton, O.—The airplane made as safe os the automobile—that is the dream of Orville Wright, who, with his | brother Wilbur, now dead, gave man | dominion over the alr a deeade and a | half ago, That dream is sald to have become a reality with his new sta- biljzer, for which patents are to be applied for within a few weeks. Never prone to talk much, Orville Wright is even more reticent than | usual on the topic of his latest Inven tions, With patents not obtained, nat- urally he will not divulge secrets until it is assured that he will reap the re- wards of the service. On the ques- tlon of what it will do, however, he ts not so secretive. He believes aircraft will be as safely and easily piloted as the most humble “flivver.” His new stabilizer substantially re- jJects the gyroscope heretofore always deemed necessary as a fundamental. Instead It enters the domain of elec- tricity. By a unique arrangement of batteries, augmented by a pendulum swinging In a Liquid bath and a minor propeller placed almost directly over the pilot’s head, absolute, unswerving, automatic stability is said to be main- tained. Following a series of experimental flights Mr. Wright said: “Lam more than satisfied with tts work now. All I had to do was to steer the machine. The stabilizer gave me a perfect balance during the entire flight. It did all the ‘banking’ on the turns and righted the machine on every dip.” When asked if the new was In any way similar to the one patented some time ago, he replied that the first device was not to be com- pared to the new one. | oo 3 ee stabilizer New York Professor Announces Re. search Shows the “Term Is Mas- culine Only.” New York.—Charles Gray Shaw. professor of philosophy at New York university, has devoted considerable time and effort In research work on thé problem of “Can a woman be a friend, and, if not, why not?" Today he made public the results of his study. “She cannot be a friend,” Profes- sor Shaw announces, “for, although the word is given in both genders, the fact alone Is masculine. The rea- son for this state of unfriendliness In woman Is that to be a friend a clear- cut personality and a disinterested outlook on life are required. Woman lacks both of these. Woman Is never a friend because she is never an in- dividual, and to be an individual one must stand alone. Woman Is a planet —a satellixe--well adapted to revoly- ing around some center, but not or- ganized so as to siand alone. “Men's clubs, of which they are killing time and fostering laziness. On the other hand, the woman's club Is an attempt to generate feminine friend- ship. It is a hothouse for tender plants.” Sweet Tooth His Undoing. Belleville, Tll.—A stick of candy dropped in front of a safe in Myers’ grocery after it had been relieved of hidden the loot in bis father’s barn, United States Now Is Selling More and Buying Less Man- | ufactured Products. ‘DR. PRATT SEES GREAT GAIN Head of Uncle Sam’s Bureau of Com- merce Declares Significance of Changes Is Not Always Appreciated. Tt Is pot so much the quantity of the exports of the United States during the past year as it is their character that is of chief value to the country declares Dr. Edward Pratt Ewing, chief of the bureau of foreign and do- mestie commerce, in his annual re- por Doctor Pratt calls special at- tention to the changes in the character of the foreign trade of the country. “Contrary to the general impres- sion,” says Doctor Pratt, “the United States played a significant role in in- ternational trade previous to the war, but it should be observed that raw ma- terials, foodstuffs and unfinished prod- | ucts formed together by far the most important part of our exports, and that | manufactured goods formed a very considerable part of our imports. “The situation during the last fiscal year, however, has shown a genuinely striking change, Our foreign trade | (and especially our exports) has in- | creased at a’ tremendous rate. During the last fiscal year the United States has had a foreign trade greater than that of any other country during any year. Another notable fact is that here has been a marked shifting in |*he character of our foreign trade. | Dr. Edward Pratt Ewing. Most important of all, perhaps, is the great increase in our exportations of manufactured goods and the decrease n our imports of such goods. Significance Not Always Appreciated. “Large as have been the increases n our foreign t and particularly © our expor continues the report, “the significance of the increases is aot always appreciated by the gen- aral public. What an increased for- aign trade means to the manufacturer, to the farmer, to the railroad, to the merchant and to shipping is often un- jerestimated or entirely unappreci- ated.” “To the manufacturer, however,” says the report, “foreign trade means something more than an increased de mand for his products, There are ve few factories producing at anything like full capacity. The average fac- tory is probably producing at not more than 75 per cent capacity. If the manufacturer could find a steady and reliable outlet for this additional 25 per cent capacity, he would Be able not only to increase his profits greatly, but to reduce considerably his overhead. Affects Domestic Conditions. “Emphasis should also be laid on the fact that foreign trade considerably increases the general stability of busi- ness conditions in a country. A wide- ly distributed foreign trade means greater average stability. In most countries of the world prosperity or depression (in fact, business condi- tions in general) depend to a consid- State of the market for agricultural products. We.have recently observed how one part of the United States suf- fered a severe depression and another section enjoyed grent prosperity be- cause of changed market conditions. The same is true of practically every line of manufacturing. To take a sim- ple example: Suppose that a manufac- turer of agricultural machinery mar- keted his goods only in the UniteA States; if there were a single bad year, when crops were not good and market conditions were not favorable, he weuld probably find his outlet for agricultural machinery considerably curtailed. If, on the other hand, that ‘manufacturer sold his machinery only in the United States but in arable extent upon agriculture and the! NEW CHARACTEROF |MANY STUDY FARMING EXPORTS IS SHOWN More Than 90,000 Taking Course in Secondary Schools. Uncle Sam's State Relations Service Tells of Progress in Co-Operative Extension Work. An unprecedented increase In the | number of secondary schools giving ag- ricultural courses is noted by Uncle Sam as an indication of the progress that is being made in agricultural ed- ucation in the United States. The number of students enrolled in such courses now is estimated at more than 90,900. In connection with this work the use of land for instructional purposes has | greatly increased, and many of the | schools have introduced the home-pro}- ject method as a practical feature of | agricultural instruction. Many schools are also taking advantage of the boys’ and girls’ clubs as a feature of the co-operative agricultural extension work. These facts are brought out in the first annual report of the states rela- tions service of the United States de- partment of agriculture. This report also shows that the federal and state system of co-operative agricultural ex- tension work inaugurated by the Smith-Lever act is now operating in all the states, and the results of the activities are steadily increasing in value. Much progress has been made, the report states, in settling general | lines of work in the new field and in shaping the methods of co-operation. Headquarters and agents for carrying jon the extension activities have been located in more than 1,200 counties, and have received the co-operation not | only of the states but of the counties, | local organizations and individuals, In carrying on its work through farmers’ institutes and movable schools the service loaned nearly 24,- 000 lantern slides during the year. The applications for slides were more numerous than the service had facill- ties to grant. CAMELS ONCE RAN WILD IN SOUTH, ASSERT GEOLOGISTS Fossils Found in Mississippi Show | That at One Time Climate in That Region Was Tropical. Camels once ran wild in Mississippi, |according to experts of Uncle Sam's | geological survey. A peculiar sand- stone, which geologists have called the catahoula, has recently been studied by members of the survey, who have been |able to identify and follow the sand- stone by means of the remains of | plants. Among the plants were fouad pines, ferns, leaves of date palms, tropical inyrtles, figs, and a tree closely resem- bling the present-day Mexican and Central American sapota, from which most of the material for chewing gum is obtained. These fossil plants show, say ex- perts of the survey, that at the time the sandstone was formed, perhaps five million years ago, the climate of this region was tropical, and bones of | camels found by other geologists and the similarity of the sand composing the sandstone to certain tropical desert sands have a similar implication. It is said that the geology of moun- tain regions is generally more difficult to master than that of plaing, because the rocks have been more broken and ————$<$<$<$<$——=$— We WINTER CARE OF EWE FLOCK Of Great Importance in Insuring Lamb Crop in Spring—Feed Clover or Alfalfa Hay. The winter care of the flock is im- portant to insure a lamb crop to be harvested in the spring. Ewes in good condition need not be fed grain until about a month before lambing, when they should gradually be accustomed to it. Ewes in thin or poor condition should receive from one-fourth to one- half pound of grain daily. Corn alone is not the best grain ration. A ra- tion of six parts corn, three part@ wheat bran, and one part linseed @il cake, by weight, has proved very sat/is- factory. A ration of corn, oats, find bran, equal parts by weight, can#also be zecommended. The sheep should receive as ’much clover or alfalfa hay as they willl eat. Sheep in Winter Quarters, The amount of hay eaten can be cut down by the use of corn silage or corn stover. Two pounds of clean, sweet corn silage can be used to replace about one pound of hay. Well cured corn stover is also relished by the ewes. Ordinarily, there is little dan- ger of the sheep eating too much of it, if the hay is fed once a day. The greatest danger of corn stover comes from making it the exclusive feed. Clean salt and water should be kept before the flock. Sheep should always have a dry, well bedded floor to lie on. —Ohio State Bulletin. FEEDING SWINE OR VERMIN? Coal-Tar Solution as Dip or Spray is Recommended for Treatment— Some Other Remedies. It has been estimated that a 150- pound hog has 92,000 drops of blood. tilted about, but the geology of cer- tain parts of Mississippi is almost as difficult as that of a mountainous re- | gion, because certain widely distributed formations bear few definite identifi- | cation marks, particularly remains and | impressions of plants and animals that | lived at the time the deposits were | formed. BUYING BUTTONS FROM JAPAN Sales by Far Eastern Empire to United States More Than Doubled During Past Year. Japanese buttons are finding an ex- tensive use in the United States. Ir fact imports of buttons from the land , of the mikado more than doubled dur- | ing the last fiscal year, according to Uncle Sam's figures. A statement Issued by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the department of commerce places the value of Japanese buttons sold in this country in 1915 at $473,310. In 1915 |the imports were valued at $196,484 and in 1914, a normal year, at only | $127,966. | Previous to the war button imports | of the United States originated chiefly in Germany and Austria, $812,424 com- ing from the former country in 1914 and $744,422 from the latter, These supplies have been practically cut off 8 a2 2g mE If the hog is supporting 1,000 lice and each louse takes one drop of blood per day, what per cent of the hog’s blood will be lost daily, and who will pay the bill? Using a coal-tar solution (1 per cent) as a dip or a spray, is recom- mended for treatment, but there are other mixtures equally effective. These are: 1, equal parts kerosene and machine oll mixed together and ap- plied with an oil can, brush or swab; 2, crude oil (thinned with kerosene if too thick) applied with a brush or as a spray. Crude oll applied to the backs of the hogs slowly works over the greater part of the hog’s body, but should be applied to the ears and both flanks, CORN AND LIVE STOCK FARM Former Produces More Feed Per Acre Than Any Other Crop for Cattle Except Alfalfa. Corn and live stock farming go hand ed

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