) THE CITIZI3N, WEDNESDAY, DUO. 14, 1010. RS PRQSPi A'0ala Season. Willie South of the equator Christ inas comes right In the summer time. Johnny Right close to de Court o' Inly. Gee, wot n snapl Fielding at Lisbon. Lisbon contains the grave of Henry Fielding. It was on Oct. 4, 1754, that Fielding died In the Portuguese cap ital, and It was In 1830 that his tomb wns erected In tho English cemetery. And Fielding didn't like Lisbon. "As the bonnes, convents, churches, etc., nre Inrge," be wrote, "and nil built with white stone, they look beautiful at n distance, but ns you approach nearer nnd find them to want every kind of ornament all Idea of beauty vanishes nt once." At that time a voyage to Lisbon was nn undertaking not lightly to be contemplated. It took Fielding exnetly fifty days of foul weather. St. Jnmea' Gazette. Norwegian Wives Half Fnre. Under n now Norwegian rail ay rr -illation, when husband and ar traveling together the wife nt 1 only pay half prlco. Tho Idea u . sluiMy be to encourage fatn.ly i , on tho theory that a Norwegian t normally loaves his wife at L' ! wl I bs tempted take her along a du.-d r..te3. It will, of course 1 n n- -ssary when taking a hur.lK ! an -wlfo ticket to display one's rinse certificate and make an a 1 davlt that tho lady Is one's v; ft n orddr to prevent collusion at i banking ofllco between perfect u i ere. Kansas City Journal P. T. POWERS. SECRETARY WILSON. His Agricultural Report Shows Great Prosperity For Farmers. Head of Eastern League Is to Resign on Monday. Agriculture Report Shows Great Gain In Crops. PRICES ARE NOT TOO HIGH. A Christmas Query. "Vi'liy docs Bantn. reindeer use?" Asked eager little Knte. "This time of year I think snowdeer .Va'h more appropriate." Maternal Pride, Mr. "Newlywcd This paper says there nre 50,000,000 babies born every yenr. Mrs. Newlywcd Oh. darling, doesn't that make you proud? Mr. N Why should It? Mrs. N.-Why, just to think that our bnby Is the smartest nnd prettiest of 50,000,000. Cleveland Leader. Considering Investment, Labor and Risk, Secretary Wilson Says, Prod ucts Do Not Cost Any More Than They Should. I I Xew Y. vk, ncc. 8. Edward Harrow of Tormno will lie the next president of (ho Eastern League of Professional Baseball clubs. The club owners will meet here Monday to elect a new president. P. T. Powers will notify them that he has no further time to devote to liaseball. It is said that Barrow has obtained pledges from the Baltimore, Newark, Buffalo, Montreal, Toronto and Provi dence clubs on condition that Powers withdraws. The Rochester and Jer sey City clubs are still loyal to Pow ers, as they have received no direct word from him as to his contemplated retirement. Barrow handled the Detroit Ameri cans one year nnd since has managed Montreal. STEUBEN STATUE UNVEILED. Miss Taft Pulls Strings and the Presi dent and Other Notables Speak. Washington, Dec. 8. Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, un veiled the heroic stntuc erected by this government in honor of Baron Frederick William Augustus von Steu ben, one of the foreign noblemen who helped to wlu the revolutionary war. President Taft, Count von Bernstorff. the German ambassador; Representa tive Kiehard Bartholdt of Missouri and Dr. Charles J. Hexamer, president of the National German-American alli ance, made addresses, extolling the foreigner who came across the seas to help light America's battles nnd who became a major general In the Ameri ca n army. When Miss Taft tightened the strings that pulled the flags from the statue a battery of artillery fired a major general's salute of thirteen puns. Following the dedication there was a parade of more than 10,000 men through the streets through slush and Know which covered the streets of Washington by half a foot. INSURGENTS RETREATING, Falling Back Into Mountains, Where It Is Safer to Attack Troops. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 8. News from the insurrection infected region of Chi huahua, Mexico, is that the lusurgents are falling back Into the mountains as the troops advance, In the hope of drawing the troops Into the rough country before fighting. Machine guns have been sent from the City ol Mex ico to Chihuahua for the regular army, and these are to be sent out against the rebels, who have only rifles and in some instances are short on ammuni tion. Americans from that region gener ally agree that the Insurgents aro strong and that there must of neces sity be some bard fighting in a few days, as the troops are invading the hotbed of the rebels. JOBS FOR "LAME DUCKS." Cannon Puts Them on Committees and Helps Clark Next Session. Washington. Dee. 8. Speaker Can non has announced appointments to fill several committee vacancies. The most important place, that on the umlttee on appropriations, goes to Representative Dawson of lown, who Is a "lame duck." Most of the appointments wero made with the idea that the appointees, bo inf; either short tenners or "lame flucks," would not embarrass Champ Clark by their presence on committees next year when he comes to make up the schedule If that power Is left to him by the house. Thieves Slay Fourteen Indians. Carson, Nev Dec. 8. Fourteen Sho shone Indians are supposed to have been killed and their bodies, with those of their horses, burled in two trenches in Elk county, Nov., nccord Ing to a communication sent to the de partment of Justice by T, Barley Iee, prosecuting attornoy for Cassia coun ty, Ida., who seeks to havo tliu de partment aid In bringing tho murder ers, who are snld to be White Horse thieves, to Justice. Washington, Dec. 8. The sccretnry of agriculture, J nines Wilson, has Is sued his nnnual report. Ho reviews conditions throughout the country In n comprehensive manner. He says In part: "Nothing short of omniscience can grasp the vnlue of the farm products of this year. At no time In the world's history has a country produced farm products within one year with a value j reaching $S,!)-'0,000,000, which is the value of the agricultural products of this country for 1910. The value of farm products from 1899 to the pres ent year has been progressive without interruption. If the value of the prod ucts of ISO!) is placed at 100 the value for this year is ISO. or almost double the vnlue for the census year eleven years ngo. During this period of un exampled ngrlculturnl production, n period of twelve years, during which the farmers of this country have stead ily advanced in prosperity and wealth and in economic independence, in in telligence nnd a knowledge of agricul ture, tle total value of farm products Is ?79.O0O.000.000. "The corn crop of 3,121,381,000 bush els exceeds that of the record yptr 190G nnd is greater thnn the average crop of the preceding five years by 1 1 per cent. While the vnlue of this corn crop is below that of 1009 nnd also of 1008, its amount belongs to stories of magic. It can hardly be reckoned ns less than $1,500,000,000, a sum suffi cient to cancel the interest bearing debt of the United States, buy all of tho gold and silver mined in all of the countries of the earth in 1909 and still leave to the farmers a little pocket money. "The growing Importance of the south in corn production Is becoming conspicuous. In 1889 it produced hardly more thnn one-fifth of the na tlonnl crop; now It produces onc-thlrd. The cotton crop of this year may be worth In lint nnd seed nround $900. 000,000 at the farm, or more than the corn crop was worth In any year prior to 1901. This value Is 13 per cent above the five year nvernge. The value of the hay crop Is nbout $720, 000.000, an amount which has been ex ceeded but once, and that In 1907. It Is 13 per cent above the nvernge of the preceding five years. Fortunately the wheat crop is divided into two sowings, autumn nnd spring, so that the two crops nre subject to different climatic accidents, us wns the ense this year. The production of spring and winter wheat is 091,707,000 bush els, or substantially the average of the preceding five years, whereas the value Is nbout $025,000,000, or 7.0 per cent above tho five yenr avernge. "Production per acre Is beginning to overtake Increase of people. The evi dence is very plain that the yields per aero of our crops nre now Increasing, and If the facts were nssembled In de tnil for the stntes It would be found that the percentage of Increase in yield of many of them Is greater than the percentage of normal Increase of pop ulationthat Is, the Increase of births over deaths In the old native element." After presenting many details with regard to the Increase of prices on farm products between farmer nnd consumer, the secretary of ngrlculture declares that "the conclusion Is Inevitable that the consumer has no well grounded complaint against the farmer for the prices that ho pays. The farmer supplies the cnpltal for production and tnkes the risk of his losses; his crops nre nt the mercy of drought nnd flood nnd heat and frost, to say nothing of noxious Insects and blighting diseases. He supplies bard, exacting, unremitting labor." The report nlso says: "Twenty-eight new associations for j the co-operntivo testing of cows be longing to members wero formed dur ing the year; flfty-flvo are now in operation. Such tests, which ennble the owners to disenrd unprofitable cows, raised the nvernge annunl profit per cow in one association from $21.43 to 42.82 In four years." ENJOINS AN AERO CLUB. Wright Company Complains of Small Pay For Flying at Belmont Park. New York, Dec. 8. The Wright com pany was coinplalnniit hi un Injunc tion grunted by Justice Seabury of tho supreme court to restrain the Aero corporation, limited, from paying out or dlstr' )Utlng or disbursing1 any fur ther sums of tho proceeds of the avia tion meet held nt Belmont park under the defendant's management In Octo Ver. In tho charges the Wright compauy nsserts that the Aero corporation has fulled to keep Its agreement nnd that the company has not been paid the per cent that wns to havo been al lowed above a certain sum, and $16, 000 Is nsked. Allan A. Ryan, general manager of the tournnmuiit, snld that the Aero corporation has lived up to Its agree ment and that the suit Is not only un warranted, but uusnortHmanllko. RACING EVIDENCE LOST. Cashier Can't Find Ledger Showing Bookmakers' Account. New York. Dec. 8. August Belmont reappeared In the witness chair of the legislative Investigation, t and Judge Bruce re-examined htm concerning ex penditures by the Westchester Racing .association, which operates Belmont park. Before this examination was completed Mr. Belmont had testily ac cused Justice Bruce of asking mis leading questions and trying to con fuse the witness. Q. Klrkland, cashier of the Mutual bank, was directed to produce the bank's ledger showing the account of I ho Metropolitan Turf association (the bookmakers' club) with the Mutual bank. The witness said that the ledg er showing that account from Jan. 1. 1008, until June 11, 1908, the latter being the date of the passage of the anti-race track gambling bills, could not be found. He was directed to pro duce the Metropolitan Turf associa tion's deposit slips. SETS NEW AVIATION RECORD. Barrier Flies Sixteen Miles in Less Than Eleven Minutes. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 8. Rene Bar rier flew sixteen miles in 10 minutes 55 1-5 seconds, establishing n new world's record for the distnnce. Bnr rier's average height was 4,000 feet, and his speed was at the rate of 87 93-100 miles an hour. He won the Commercial-Appeal's $5,000 prize for a triangular flight from the Trlstnte Fnir grounds over this city to President's Island nnd return. He defeated John B. Moisant, who flew tho sixteen miles in his tnono plune, passing over tho city nt a height of 0,500 feet. Shot by Supposed Madman. New York, Dec. 8. Albert Balk, a ivatchm.in on the Second Avenue "L," wns shot and seriously wounded ns he was passing through one of the empty cars stored on the middle track at Ninety-eighth street. His assallnnt, who is thought to nave been demented, iscnped, but left nn overcont and n hat behind. In a pocket In tho overcoat tin police found n notebook In wulch wns written: "My name Is Simon Bry nut. I live nt 31C2 West Colfax ave nue, Denver, Colo. 1 am a musician." Warning the Colonel. A raw recruit from a remote corner of tho Green Isle wns engaged for the first time In a Held maneuver in Eng land on outpost duty. The sergeant in structed him to look out carefully for the colonel coming to Inspect the post. After an hour he returned and asked tho soldier, "Has the colonel been here?" Receiving an answer In the negative, he went away, returning Inter on with the same inquiry. Awhile later the colonel appeared. The recruit did not salute properly, which incensed the colonel, who as a hint asked him: "Do you know who I am!" "Faith nnd I do not," answered the recrulL "I am the colonel." "Begorra, you will catch It then." said the soldier. "The scrgennt has been nsklng twice for yez already!" Mayonnaise. Ctrdlnnl Richelieu is credited with lmviug Invented mayonnaise. The Bedroom Lamp. When using n kerosene lamp In a bedroom place it in front of the mir ror, but not near enough for It to heat the glass. There will bo about twice as much light, the mirror acting like n reflector. Changing Sides. When summer heat can't bo delict) And Fcorclilnsr zephyrs raid, The man who loves Hfu's sunny side Will now prefer tho shade. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Punishment to Fit Crime. "What do you think ought to be done with persons who give short weights la trade?" "I think they ought to bo given long jmilts In jail." Baltimore American. Shot at Shakespeare. "Shakespeare was a smart man," eald SI Slmlln. "but there was times when he didn't hit It right." "For instance?" "That remark about 'rather bear tbo Ills we havo than fly to others that we know not of,' If that wa3 the case thero wouldn't bo no boss trades." Washington Star, An Amendment. A health, hint says, "Do not bok your food." And u comedlnn comes back with tb.6 observation, "It Is much better to use a padlock." Exchange. Are You One of the Always Tired Kind ; Why are you more tired in the nu.rr.in than when you retired? 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