The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1903, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1903. — g a satisfac- stry has just comcluded. lisappearance of spruce, the be 1 the north woods for the of pulp. has forced | puly use more and more balsam, and has brought that tree, once despised and neglected, into a very im- pla Four years ago prac- alsam was used by pulp ers, many of whom are now per cent of it. The alsam used depends entire- ruce supply near where the s are located. The smaller the amount of spruce available the greater is the amount of balsam used. Pulp manufacturers find balsam the best substitute for spruce which can be found in the morth woods. tre for paper pulp, but they are not native country where the mills are I Pulp mills are enormously and expensive, and the wood the e, in hs choice of a substitute his diminishing supply of spruce, i to the very few species that ssociation with spruce, and of - the ont method of making pulp ind it or treat it with spruce. The otory. Balsam » produces an inferior £ pulp. Mr. Zon suggests that it i be much better if balsam were i independently of spruce. The , fibers are not nearly so tough g as those of spruce, and the handle bal A str ssure « justed for spruce fibers, is too powerful for the fibers of balsam and they are torn and weakened. For the same rea- son the chemicals used in the treatment ¢ spruce fibers weaken and dissolve fibers of balsam when used in the the same strength. Examples of what can | ne with balsam in the manufac- of paper are found in France. where the tree is made to produce good book papers. There not only the main trunk but even the top of the tree is used. The silvicultural features of the bal- sam are related by Mr. Zon, who has studied the tree carefully throughout jts range, but particularly in Maine end the Adirondacks. Spruce has been cut for many years, while balsam has scarcely been cut at all; hence balsam has taken the place of and is crowding out the spruce. This change in species in the north woods is hastened by the great superiority of balsam as a seed tree, for balsam bears seeds every year, while the spruce seeds only once in seven years. These conditions make it apparent how very desirable it is| that pulp manufacturers should use balsam wherever possible, for in doing 0 they not only lessen the drain on the limited amount of spruce left, but they give the tree a chance to grow and re- produce itself. This point Mr. Zon brings out forcefully. The results of Mr. Zon's work will appear this winter in the form of a bulletin published by the Bureau of Forestry. The Territorial Government of the Hawailan Islands will appoint as su- perintendent of forestry this winter a man furnished it by the Bureau of For- estry, who will take charge of import- ant projects for the betterment of the islands’ forests. The man appointed will have the responsibilities of deter- mining the location and the boundaries of a system of forest reserves, and lat- er of superintending a great deal of forest planting, both on public and pri- vate lands. The forest conditions of the islands are unlike any that prevail in this country. Willlam L. Hall of the Bu- reau of Forestry, who has just returned from a two months’' examination of the islands, reports peculiar and inter- esting problems which forestry must solve there. The islands contain scarcely any forest capable of yielding timber of value for lumber. Nearly all the lumber used for building purposes comes grom the Pacific Coast. But there are several hundred thousand acres of forest land of the greatest wvalue for protective purposes. Indeed, so great is the importance of these for- ests that on their preservation depends the existence of the sugar industry and that is equivalent to saying the con- tinued prosperity of the islands. The sugar exports of the last fiscal year amounted to $25,000,000, and sugar is practically the only export. The rais- ing of sugar requires an enormous amount of water, nearly all of which must be supplied by irrigation, the wa- ter being carried in flumes and ditches from the wet, mountainous parts of the islands to the dry plains on which the sugar cane is grown. The rainfall of the islands is nearly all confined to the northeast and east mountain slopes, where it is tremendously heavy, some years more than 200 inches. On the other side of the divide, and in the plains beyond, where the sugar cane grows, there may be no more than fif- teen inches of rain a year. The forests are largely confined to the rainy side of the mountains and are necessary as a protective cover to keep the ground from washing from the siopes and the rain from rushing back . spruce for the of paper pulp led to a studv of the balsam fr, | ag! G. Zon of the Bu- Other | s there are which might serve well | brought to them—they cannot | ken to the wood. The pulp man, | f the grinders, which are ad- | . 3 too rapidiy into the sea.” The presence | of the forest cover, since it makes the | | stream flow regular, preventing both floods and periods of low stream flow, is indispensable to the success of irri- gating projects. The value of this for- | est, strangely enough, consists not so | much in the trees it contains—for they are frequently low, crooked and sparse- ly scattered—as in the impenetrable mass of undergrowth beneath them. | This undergrowth, composed of vines, ferns and mosses, is of 20 dense a char- acter that it shades the ground abso- lutely and holds water like a sponge. however, exceedingly delicate and easily destroyed. Let cattle into such a forest and they will speedily trampie” at down the undergrowth till the | ground is exposed. The soll then rapidly dries out and becomes hard and the trees soon die. Grasses, insects and wind usually hasten the destruction. Cattle and goats have ravaged the Ha- waiian forests without hindrance for | many years and have worked further | | each year into the heart of the dense tropical growth. { The Hawalian public lands consist of | 1,772,640 acres. All of these lands, which are in forest, and many forest areas privately owned which the Gov- ernment can gain possession of by ex- | change, will be put into forest reserves, ! cleared of cattle and goats, fenced and preserved. Some compensation must also be made for the great areas of for- est already destroyed. It will be part of | the work of the forester to plant to valuable trees large areas of this de- nuded land upon which forests are of | most vital importance to the agricul- tural interests. Mr. Hall, who carefully examined the climatic conditions, be- | lieves that species of the Pacific Coast, such as redwood and red fir, will do well in most places at the higher eleva- tions on the islands. An example of how a foreign species may succeed in Hawali is furnished by the mesquite of our own Southwest, which was intro- ; duced into the islands some fifty years ago and now covers about 100,000 acres, furnishing quantities of valuable fuel. |1t is not called mesquite in Hawalii, | | however, but goes by the name of al- | garoba. .o Owners of private estates in the Adi- | rondacks may profit by a report made recently by Raphael G. Zon, of the Bu- | reau of Forestry, concerning the man- agement fohegan Park, In township , Hamilton County, N. Y., owned by J. Pierpont Morgan. Mr. Zon re- | cently made an examinaton of the for- ests at Mohegan Park, in response to Mrs. Morgan's request to the bureau for advice, and has outlined a simple plan for their management which has been accepted and ordered put immediately into practice. Mr. Zon’s plan of man- agement so well fits the special desires of other private owners in the Adiron- | dacks that it is apt to have a far wider application than to Mohegan Park. Mohegan Park comprises 1550 acres, of which 1410% acres are in forest. The forest has never been lumbered, al- though it has furnished much wood for building and heating the camps. The trees are mainly hardwoods, most of | which are past maturity, and would, under a system of forestry for the high- | | est commercial returns, be removed | gradually or at once and replaced by a thriftier crop. The owner, however, desires that the beautful old trees be| allowed to stand, so the system of for-| estry practiced will consist mainly in the removal of dead, dying, unsound, crooked and other unsightly trees, to- gether with those trees which are im- peding the growth of others more val- | uable and beautiful than themselves. In other words, the kind of forestry prac- ticed in the park will be one shaped and | adapted to the peculiar desires of the | owner. It is a kind that appeals very | strongly to many owners of small pri- | | vate estates in the Adirondacks whose | interest in forestry lies not so much in the money returns to be obtained as in | the improvement in appearance of their | forests. The annual consumption of firewood at Mohegan Park from now on will amount to about 150 cords a year. Heretofore the forest has been cut clear to obtain firewood, so that the cutting | | has been a menace to the appearance of | the park. Mr. Zon will change all this| by using for fuel trees whose presence mars the beauty of the woods, thus making the cutting a benefit instead of a source of harm to the forest. Simple rules are given in the report for the selection of trees for removal, how to get the timber out, the area which must ' be cut over every year to obtain the re- quired amount of firewood, etc. The re- port concludes with a list of the trees and shrubs found in the park. Printing the “Record.” The composition upon the Congressional Record begins at 7 p. m. each day Con- gress is In session, and the proceedings of the day before are issued from the print- ing office in time for a 6 o'clock mall de- livery the following morning, The Record varies from an issue of four pages to per- haps 150 pages; but no matter what its size or character, it must be printed and ready for distribution within the hours named. The copy comes in a most irreg. ular way, and the Record is printed upon a special press built for that purpose. Thirty-two pages can be locked on the rotary frame of this press, which has a feeding capacity of 60,000 sheets an hour, and four hours after the first sheets come from the presses 15,000 coples of the Rec- ord will have been bound and made, this being the size of the regular edition. Every moment during the night the foreman of the composing-room must be prepared for any emergency which can possibly arise. If there happens to be a night session and about 10 o'clock a Con- gressman addresses the House and in the course of his speech introduces some Gov- ernment report which he requests shall be included in the Congressional.Record, this report is just as much part of the pro- | quieter times have come. ceed! as the speech itself, and it may run anywhere from 1000 to 50,000 or 60,000 words, Perhaps after this has all been put into type on a rush order the mem- ber of Congress may request that his re- marks be held for revision, or he may conclude to leave out part of the matter put in type. This is true not of one Con- gressman only in a day or night, but a dozen Congressmen might adopt the same course. ‘In the reports of the proceedings of the first eighteen each one fell within a limit of 2,000,000 words. The proceedings of the last Congress, which are comprised within the 17,000 pages of the Record printed during that perlod, make many volumes, and each volume contains as much or more than the record of an entire session of earlier days.—Re- view of Reviews. THE SAN FRANCISCO'CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . - . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Offi06. ...ccevrsasnsienssm sesssansnness @ itetessesuees onens Third and Morket Strests, 5. . = MONDAY 1903 TRADE QUIETUDE BECOMING GENERAL. ENERAL recession continues all along the commer- G cial line and includes merchandise, grains, industrial branches and the *stock market. Here and there some improvement and even expansion is noted, but as a rule trade is subsiding both in volume of transactions and in values. This is reflected by the country’s bank clearings, which showed a loss last week of 30.8 per cent from the cor- responding week in 1902, with most of the dozén great cities on the wrong side of the exhibit, New York lcading with a decrease of 28 per cent. But the volume of clearings is keep- ing up remarkably well, exceeding $2,000,000,000, over half of which is crédited to New York. Still the general aspect is one of apathy and unwillingness on the part of the controll- ing interests to sustain prices. Thus the great packing con- cerns of the West decline to support their provision mar- kets, or at best their support is languid; the powerful finan- cial interests of New York are contemplating the steady re- cession in stocks with comparative indifference, contenting ! themselves with reiterating that stocks are too low and that they can now be safely purchased for investment; the im- mense iron and steel mills, no longer overwhelmed with rush orders, calmly close down or greatly restrict their output, | while the speculating public cannot be induced to plunge either in railroad stocks in Wall street or in grain and pro- vision futures at Chicago. There is no apprehension any- where to amount to anything, nor any indication of a spasm; the feeling seems to be one of apathy, as if the whole mer- | cantile and financial country regarded the current lull as something long anticipated, ‘more or less discounted and quitg the proper thing under the circumstances, and it prob- ably is. The fact is we are now experiencing what everybody has been expecting for a year or two and it has been pretty well discounted. It does not come like a thunderbolt from the blue sky like the panic of 1893, and therefore exhibits no sin- ister features. We all knew that the boom could not last forever and that quieter times would surely ensue, and those Considering the staples individually we have a much slower iron and steel market, with diminished production | and consumption and lower quotations; a weak and irregu- lar provision market, with increasing supplies of hogs and declining prices; a wool situation characterized by heavy and accumulating stocks and easy quotations; a weak and slack hide and leather market, with plenty of supplies on hand; a nervous cotton market, which is fluctuating fever- .ishly according to the tenor of the crop reports, and sluggish grain markets, due largely to the fine crop prospects throughout the world and the statements from England and the continent that they can get along without calling on America for any very large quantity of wheat. This asser- tion is thus far affirmed by the fact that our exports for the crop year to date are about 40,000,000 bushels less than dur- ing the corresponding period in 1902. But while the wheat exports show this deficiency the general exports of the country are not making a bad exhibit | and have lately shown some expansion, the exports of the leading products aggregating the second largest total ever recorded in October. Still it must not be overlooked that stocks of almost all lines are increasing with such steadiness that cautious business men are looking forward to still lower prices in the future. Cotton, as mentioned a week ago, is an exception, as the South is marketing an enormous quantity and_at excellent prices. The situation in the Western coal fields is better than a week ago, though still disturbed and uncertain. Labor troubles are reported in different parts of the country and predictions that wages must conform to the lower conditions by declining in sympathy are being met by the labor leaders with the assertion that labor will not consent to any reduc- tion in wages. This attitude does not look very favorable for peaceful labor conditions in the near future, which of course is producing an unfavorable effect upon business, In considering the business situation as outlined above it will be seen that we are at last-appareitly on the ebb tide and drifting toward a lower plane of values all along the line. Profusion of money will give way to profusion of | supplies, shrinkage of profits and less demand for labor, and while there is nothing in the outlook to cause alarm there is sufficient to lead the careful to keep their financial fences in repair and conduct their business with discretion. In this connection it may not be amiss to note that the failures throughout the country last week, while not large or-espe- cially prominent, numbered 283, against 241 for the corre: sponding week in 1902. — A Denver minister, training his vocal artillery upon the politicians, has urged his congregation and all others who may be interested in good government to go to the polls next month armed with rifles and fortified with a determina- tion to purify the ballot with hot lead. As the election is for a new charter let the voters read and reflect, study the story of San Francisco and be content with the noise of battle in the minister's mouth. S large extent do the residents of many communities situated where the Sacramento River flows. The wate; is clearer than it was before the Caminetti law restricted mining by hydraulic process and lessened the flow of detritus into navigable streams in this State. Slickens could not, however, be arraigned for all the impurities to be found in the rivers. Other causes that interfere with river water as a beverage remain and in the nature of river environments will continue. The Sacramento Bee has undertaken to edu- cate its readers relative to possible remedial measures. Inci- dental to this it has made certain researches, and the state- ments made are of more than local interest. Secretary Foster of the State Board of Health is first quo- ted as saying that polluted water is responsible for nearly all cases of typhoid fever and also for many diseases. He urges the citizens of Sacramento to provide some }lan for the de- struction or disposal of sewage other than by turning it inta the river and also advocates measures to prevent the defile- ment of the river above Sacramento. Hg has served notice upon Sacramento that it must cease turning its unpurified sewage into the stream that flows through it. The Bee has called into council H. T. Cory, at one time dean of the College of Engineering of the University of Cin- cinnati. According to Mr. Cory’s view of the situation it will be impossible to make the waters of the Sacramento pure either below or above Sacramento and satisfactory for drinking purposes without artificial purification. If Sacra- mento and the sewered town above were compelled to put in sewage purification plants the water below the city would still remain unsatisfactory for human consumption and would still need purification for domestic purposes. Independent of sewage flowing in from above Sacramento there are still other sources of contamination. Organic matter from sew- PURIFYING THE SACRAMENTO. ACRAMENTO people drink river water. So to a the vast water shed of the Sacramento River could not be se- cured without great expense. To purify the sewage of the towns above Sacramento would cost, as estimated by Mr. Cory, $15,000 per annum. After considering all the facts that it has been able to gather the Bee concludes that Sacramento can never have wholly safe and satisfactory drinking water from the river without puri- fying it, even if all sewage could be kept out of the stream from above the city. It is equally clear, it says, that the small number of consumers of river water below Sacramento would likewise need to purify their water. To purify the sewage of Sacramento would be very expensive and would make necessary a double system of sewers, while “the re- sults to the people would be practically valueless.” The Bee thereupon urges the State Board of Health to rescind its order concerning the turning of unpurified sewage into the Sacramento River. A new Warden has been chosen for Folsom penitentiary. The ingoing official has one extremely significant advantage over most men who accept public office and ask popular consideration until their merit or defects be established. Whatever the administration of the newly appointed officer may be it cannot be worse than that now closing. T ——— TRADE IN CONGO. T estimating the capacity of a country for future devel- opment. He and his associates built railroads for developmental purposes, and haw the strength to retain con- trol of them and the patience to wait for the profit that was sure when people came to touch latent resources into life. He had a high idea of the future of the Congo Free State, HE late C. P. Huntington had a positive genius for in Africa, and showed his faith by investhment in a railroad | in that region. He believed that there the United States would find a field for commerce of such magnitude as to deserve our sympathy with the King of Belgium in his ef- fort to make commercial conquest of the country. The Congo Free State is in tropical Africa and its north- ern third is traversed by the equator. But, except the neck that follows the Congo River to the coast it is a high pla- teau, densely forested and with a climate less trying than other parts of equatorial Africa. Its area is 900,000 square miles and its population 14,000,000. The world owes its first knowledge of Congo to the explorer Stanley. In 1897, in an address to the Savage Club, at Durban, he indulged in this retrospection: “I have just comé back from Victoria, that wonderful country which ought to have been ours. But this was not our only mistake in Africa. When I came home from my exploration in Central Africa I was met at Marseilles by the representatives of King Leopold, that most perspicacious and well-informed monarch, with most brilliant and fair proposals, but T thought it my duty to go first to England and offer my countrymen that marvelous land I had trav- eled through. 1 gave ninety-nine lectures and presided at almost as many meetings, and when I saw how little they appreciated what I had done and how little they realized the enormous riches of the Congo, I felt disgusted with my own people, and, keeping my promise, I went to Brussels, where I met King Leopold. Every one sees to-day the marvels Leopold effected in that country, how well he was helped by hig subjects, and the world is amazed at what Belgium has done. There was our mistake, gentlemen. The Transvaal ought to have been ours, and you refused the wealth I brought you from the Congo River.” We quote this because we have been getting too much of what we think we know about the Belgian administration of the Congo from English sources, and it is apt to be tinged with disappointment that what is probably the rich- est part of Central Africa was permitted to slip through the fingers of Great Britain. Among the statements that have been current are many absurdities, and it is worth the while of the American press and public to seek the facts and to acquire a better knowledge of the vast commercial possibil- | ities of the Congo, which have for us a peculiar interest. The Congo natives were cannibals and had a lot of hideous customs, such as mutilation of the dead, a system of slavery and savage practices in war. While Belgium has had to use stern measures to eradicate these barbarisms, there is no evidence that the agents of King Leopold are using any means that are unnecessarily harsh to effect the civilization | of the millions and convert their fine qualities and cplendid | energies into activities useful to themselves and the world. It was the opinion of Mr. Huntington that they could be transformed into a nation whose trade the world would eagerly seek. Mr. Lerman, an Austrian and member of the International African Asociation, says: “The natives had long practiced mutilation of the dead. It had existed for centuries, and the state does its utmost to suppress it. But the state has existed only eleven years. How can it be ex- pected to obtain in that brief time a result similar to that obtained by Belgium herself after eighteen centuries in building up a state out of a region where Caesar found hu- man sacrifice practiced by the Druids and where torture prevailed in the middle ages? In my native country slavery was abolished as late as 1848, and did not cease in Russia until 1862.” Mr. Brown, a Protestant missionary, writing to the Lon- don Times, says: “Things have vastly improved in the Congo as far as the natives are concerned. During my nine years' work there I have seen vast improvement in the gov- ernment of the country.” Mr. Grey, the English engineer, says the slave trade has ceased, the traders being afraid to come near the Belgian posts. To such an extent have con- ditions changed with the advent of Belgian administration that many small chiefs are now recovering individuals raid- ed from their tribes by stronger neighbors, who had not been already sold when Belgian control reached the country. The late British Consul, Pickersgill, in his consular report, said that credit is due to Belgium for the decline of canni- balism, though complete purgation from that evil will re- quire a long time. §o it is evident that slavery, cannibalism and the practices of barbarism are being dealt with by ‘Bel- gium, and that kingdom should, especially in this country, get deserved credit for its work. The natural resources were evidently not over-estimated by Stanley. The country is rich in rubber, in the valuable hardwoods of commerce, in° minerals of all kinds, and the density of its native population shows it to be probably the hest of all the tropical countries on the planet. With Bel- gium friendly, as she is, to American enterprise, there is in the Congo a field for our surplus energy, and it is to be a field for a share of our surplus production, When our isthmian canal is finished this coast will be brought within easy reach of the mouth of the Congo. By dropping south | through only thirty degrees of latitude we will be on an almost direct line with the Congo River, which, no doubt drains the richest part of Africa, . e— of our local officials in refer- plans for a new city and county hospital ence to the site and age is no more objectionable, holds Mr. Cory, than that from | may invalidate the bond issue necessary to the erection of other sources. Only the pathogenic or disease producing | this vitally @erms in sewage are to be dreaded. Police supervision of | heavy price for the luxury of charter government. required building. San Francisco is paying a v Bell Condemned Him. “The death of Supreme Judge Temple of Santa Rosa a few months ago re- minded me of an accident in his ca- reer,” said & well known jurist several days ago at lunch. “Some years ago he was called upon in his capacity as Judge to determine upon the sanity of a great big husky lumberman from the northern part of Sonoma County. The relatives of the man seemed very anxious to bave him committed, and their anxiety aroused the Judge's suspicions. He made up his mind, after learning the man had a little property, that they were try- ing to railroad him. This opinion was strengthened after he had conversed with the lumberman for about an hour. The fellow was well read, and talked fo rationally on a half dozen different subjects that Temple, when he left him, determined to take steps to punish the relatives. He even went so far as to tell them that he would take judicial notice of their conduct. They protested that the man was insane, but Temple would not listen to them. He waxed angry and threatened to arrest them then and there. Just as he told them so, a mes- sage came from the alleged insane one, requesting a short interview with the Judge. You may be sure the request was readily granted and in less than ten minutes the Judge was in the presence of the lumberman. “Well, my man,” said the “what can I do for you?” “Nothing much,” was the response, “only for God’'s sake take that bell off | | your neck ine next time you come here. It's been ringing in my ears ever since you left.” Judge, Charity. and Peace. There is a lively row on between two ladies of a certain church of Ala- meda. It commenced at the recent rummage sale held by the ladies of the church. Where it will end is hard to say, for, though the sale occurred sev- eral weeks ago, these two ladies, both | active workers in the church, still cast frosty glances at one another as they pass. For convenience sake, they shall be Mrs. Blank and Mrs. Smith. Befere | the sale Mrs. Blank was the owner of a | coat that, in the language of the female | | members of this particular church, {“was just too lovely for anything.” | Now a poor woman who washes for a | living is wearing the coat. She got it at the sale, and that is the reason why TALK OF THE TOWN L * - he would fracture the portion so fitted to his person. As a consequence he refused to rest unless it was by lying on his stomach. A very devout wo- man had conceived the idea that one of her feet had become apostate and joined a heretical sect. To punish this member she positively refused to wear either shoe or stocking as a covering, taking this method of punishing the rebellious member. “One very bright young fellow, a graduate of our university, had fig- ured out in his mind that when the North Pole would be discovered a tun- nel would be found leading into the earth’s center, where a huge dynamo would be located which produced the revolution of the earth. So well posted was he on figures that he could tell to a mile the distance from the top of the pole to the equator and also the ecir- cumference of the earth. “The most remarkable thing about all of these poor people was that on all other subjects they were apparently as sane as any of us sitting here, and if it had not been that they were a nui- sance to their neighbors by the annoy- ance caused by their walking about their quarters at all unreasonable hours of the night, they might be eonsidered harmless creatures, too innocent to be committed to the keeping of an asy- Tumy” Causes of Failure. Analyzing the causes of failure in the United States in 1902, American Indus- tries finds that out of 9971 fallures, 20 per-cent were due to incompetence, 30 per cent to lack of capital, 17 per cent to special circumstances beyond the business man’s control, 10 per cent to fraud and 7 per cent to inexperience. | Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Blank are at outs. | It appears that Mrs. Blank arrived | | somewhat late at the sale. Seeing the | | large crowd present, and feeling desir- | ous of making amends for her tardi- | | ness, she pulled off her elegant coat, | dropped it on the most convenient pile | ot ola clothes, and, taking a prospective | purchaser in tow, guided her about the ! hall in search of some article of wear- | ing apparel she needed. | Now, Mrs. Smith was doing the same thing with the poor washer-woman. | The latter wanted a coat and Mrs. | Smith was anxious to sell her one. In | the course of their perambulations they | came acrcss the pile on the top of | which lay Mrs. Blank's stylish gar- ! ment. | Of course, no price tag was found, but Mrs. Smith did find a tag on the floor bearing the figures $2. “It must have fallen off the coat,” said Mrs. Smith, ' and she let the poor woman have it at | that price. The First Rains. There is gladness in the canyon, there is music there to-day: A rippling and a prattling in the little, baby stream. The great, majestic mountains brood in cowls of somber gray; And the Great Mother moves in sleep with promise in her dream. Like little maidens dancing, Come the brown waters glancing Where the fitful shafts of sunlight thro’ the Spanish mosses gleam. | | There is music in the canyon. On the laurel's glossy leaves The rain comes pitter-patter with a gentle, lulling sound: ‘And old Nature's busy shuttle a varied i pattern weaves, Where tiny runlets wander o'er the thirsty, sun-baked ground. The wind comes softly over ‘With subtle breath of clover; And a hint of little secrets that were in its journey’ found. There is music in the wheatland where the autumn sjubble lies; And laughter where the little stream its greater kinsman joins; Such_joy and jubilation In the bo trom the skies, - That cools the breast of brown old earth, and laves her dusty groins— And she thrills with passion’s fire; And she throbs with great desire; To release the life renascent in the deep- ness of her loins. Ah! the music in the canyon finds in yearning hearts to-day An echo in the symphonies that deep and dormant lie: For the sky that seemeth grieving—the Lack of capital, it appears, is the most dangerous factor in the business life, | as it is the greatest obstacle to getting into business. Incompetence, together with inexperience, which amounts to incompetence, accounts for a very large percentage of failures. If to incompe- tence and inexperience we add “unwise credits,” we find that 30 per cent of failures are explained. It amounts to this, in brief, that nearly a third of those who fail in business are not well qualified for it; another third try to do too large a business, and the rest fail by reason of fraud, competition, ex- travagance, neglect, failures of others, speculation and causes beyond the wis- est man’s control.—Baltimore Sun. Belginm at the Fair. Work has begun on Belgium’s build- ing at the World's Fair. The pavilion when finished will be, architecturally, a handsome and highly decorated build- ing, a reproduction of the Antwerp Town Hall. The structure will be con- structed mostly of steel. Material for it is now on the way, having recently left Antwerp on a Red Star steamer. Belgium will make exhibits in many departments, including a contribution to the Model Street. In the Model Street exhibit will be artistic lamp posts and electric lamps, Dbeautiful wroughtiron sign boards, specimens of festive day street decoration, and pho- tographs of the finest fountains and parks in Belgium. The enormous new coal mines recent- ly discovered in Campine, the Belgium district contiguous to Holland, will be exploited at the fair to show what a reserve of wealth, long unsuspected and yet untouched, exists in this tiny kingdom. Scarcity of Maple Sugar. “The maple sugar crop, like every other crop, is much below the average this year,” said a wholesale dealer in Murray street the other day, says the New York Times. “The supply from Vermont, our main reliance for New York and the em- port market, is about 40 per cent below normal. In a good year we get 350,000 pounds of maple sugar from Vermont and about 200,000 gallons of syrup. The Ver- mont supply is considered the standard, both in quality and quantity, all over the United States. We shall be lucky this season if we get 200,000 pounds of sugar and 150,000 gallons of syrup from that State. “Ohio used to come next as a reliable source of staple supply. But shipments mountains mourning gray— Are segments of the promise of a har- vest by and by. Like the prisoned life in earth, Shall my soul renew fits birth— Rise to love and youth immortal tho' Death croons a lullaby! —G. N. LOWE. Freaks of the Insane. “It is beyond the comprehension of the human mind to arrive at the many from there to New York have been dwindling so fast for five years that they have virtually ceased. far as I can find out New York will not get ten pounds of sugar from Ohio this season. « “New York State comes third. The sugar we get from the Adirondack region is particularly good, but the quantity pro- duced this year is very much below the normal. Shipments from Pennsylvania are good this year. Since the State For- estry Commission put a stop to the whole- sale destruction of woodland, maples in the Keystone State have been yleiding idiosyncrasies of demented persons, as | syrup of fine quality and in fair quantity. I have found them during my time as an examiner of insane patents brought before the Commissioners of Lunacy in this city,” said Dr. McGettigan, as he stretched his limbs over a chair while waiting for a Superior Judge to sign “Naturally, scarcity increases the price. There is so little competition that com- ‘men have to give what the farm- ers ask. Five years ago we could buy all the maple sugar we wanted in New York at from 5 to 6 cents a pound by the carload and syrup at 55 cents a gallon. commitments for persons who had been | This year we have to pay from 10 to 12 declared insane n} the City Hall a few | cents a pound for sugar by the carload days ago. , “Out of the many, I recollect four pe- culiar cases which would be amusing ; sad to see how helpless an insane per- ‘were it not for the fact that it was | and from 75 cents to $1 a gallon for maple syrup. A cold and rainy summer is re- le for it “Adulteration? Of course there is, lots sugar sold in groceries and on candy son is v'hen reason becomes dethroned. | stands contains 20 per cent of maple. It One was a man who had been married umtmmytofl-nn-nmmph.n. over fifty years to his wife, when al] | 8reat deal of it is done.” of a sudden he became insanely jeal- ous of her, accusing of embracing had conceived a_that his ana- with a glass; he feared if he sat down Townsend's California glace fruits and. pound, in artis candies, Sic a tie fire- o M T, e Special information supplied daily to W“‘” the street. Telephone A 4 A " 4