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OKLAHOMA ROOMING.
This state Increased its manufactur
en i/i uuuvis iiuiii ^.tu,UUU,UUII lO *OU,UUU,000
in the last year, according to the
report of the state department of laborWhile
some counties report an Increase
that partakes of the phenomenal, it is
noticeable that every county in the
state has increased its manufacturing
output by a respectable margin, thus
showing that the impetus for development
Is wholesome and general, instead
of sporadic and local. Oklahoma
county reports the largest increase, the
figures in round numbers being $4,000,000,
or 13 per cent of the increase for
the entire state. Canadian, Washington,
Muskogee, Grady, Pottawatomie and
Creek counties all report gains of more
than $1,000,000 each. A most Interesting
feature of the report is from counties
which at the beg'nning of the year had a
very insignificant amount invested in
manufacturing enterprises: these come
forward with reports showing that the
year has brought forth a beginning of
such activity, and this means that development
wMl follow. Not only is the
progress a feature nf the entire state,
bat no particular line of industry has
been emphasized hevond its individual
importance and manufacturing products
to which this section Is adapted have
been hu'lt. The live stock, cotton and
wheat industries, have received most of
the new capital. The total number employed
in institutions of this kind reporting
last year is 21.147. This group
expends among the business houses of
the state an annual wage of . *0.200..
000. and the cost of the material and
supnl'es t^ev utilize In their yearlv
whrk is $02 008.072. nearly all of which
sum goes for products raised In the
state.
WHERE THE FI.FFCY STAPLE
GROWS.
Texas and the Gulf States are usually
regarded the center of the cotton
raising industry, but one of the remarkable
things about the huge crop
this year is the wonderful yield of the
States bordering on the Atlantic. Texas,
of course, holds first place in point
of production, raising anywhere from
20 per cent, to 31 per cent, of the entire
crop. Georgia ranks second with 12
per cent, to 18 per cent, of total production
to her credit. For third, fourth and
fifth places Alabama, Mississippi and
South Carolina have contended in years
past.
From present indications, however,
South Carolina will only be kept from
ranking third by Alabama. All over
the eastern part of the cotton belt the
yield this year has been phenomenal.
Increased acreage has also helped swell
the total. The most perplexing problem
has been to get sufficient labor to
do the picking.
WEST VIRGINIA APPLES.
mnnv thmmanrto nf rlnlllars nrp
day being poured into the pockets of
West Virginia apple growers that the |
state finds herself the center of all eyes,
and not only are native farmers going in
for the cultivation of this fruit, but outside
capital Is being attracted by the (
special advantages of soil and climateWithin
a decade 25 orchard companies
have been formed in Berkeley county
alone. Across this county lies the terri- t
tory known as "Apple Pie Ridge," a 1
sort of double-backed, parallel series of ,
hills extending through the county from ,
the Potomac river south to Frederick i
county, Virginia. A combination or i
limestone, soapstone and sandstone soil i
seems to be the favorite for raising ap- j
pies, although success is also reported i
in * red shale. In addition to Berkeley <
THE PRE8BYTERI
f Currer
county, other favored .apple-growing
sections are, Hancock, Brooke, Wood,
ucms, jeuerson, rreston, Mineral, Monongalia
and Pocahontas counties. Each
of these counties has Its peculiar advantages
and no one can said to excel.
Rerkeley county leads at present more
because of the long experience of Its
growers than because of any superiority
of soil or climate. There seems to be
no limit to the varieties of apples that
can be grown in the state. Some of the
favorites are the York Imperial. Ben
Davis. Stavman. Wlnesap. Grimes Golden.
Black Twig, Rome Beauty and
Jonathan. Going on down the list we
find Northwestern Greenings, Arkansas
Blacks. Baldwins, Paradise. Northern
Spv, Willow Twig. Twenty Ounce, Aiken
Red, Black Ben Davis and Wolfe River.
TTTF GEORGIA WAT.
It Is estimated that 10,000.000 post
cards, pamphlets, newspapers and other
kinds of literature advertising Geogia
were mailed to people in other states
and countries. Leading business men
of the state were pr'me movers in the
plan to make Thanksgiving day especially
notable to Georgia. "Everybody is
In on this," said the chairman of the
movement. "The school child can send
its card to its little friend in a distant
state: the great merchant, manufacturer.
banker, profpcs'onal man. farmer or
workman are all invited to join in the
effort to reach as many outside people
as possible and to make them think and
talk of Georgia."
DTSrOYFRlFS IN ALASKA.
Uncle Sam came into possession of
several hundred mMes of coast recently,
according to a letter received here from
Ernest De Koven Lefingwell, by his
father, C. W. Lefingwell, of Sa Rafael
Heights, from Flaxman Island, Alaska,
where the young explorer is now located,
on his third exploring expedition
In the North. Two large lakes and a
big mountain range have been placed
on the Alaskan map by Mr. Lefingwell.
In the letter home the explorer stated
that he is now mapping out the new
territory along the coast at the rate of
from thirty to fifty mMes per day. His
letter was from Point Barrow, the farthest
point north on the present Alaskan
map- Ilis discoveries lie somewhere
between Point Barrow, eastward.
luwaiu aiarun roini ann .uacKenzie
Ray. Several weeks ago while on an
expedition southeast from Point Barrow,
several hundred miles to the inland,
he d'srovered lakes that will make
a material change in the future maps
of Alaska. lie states that the lakes are
very large. On this same expedition he
explored a new range of mountains lying
between the Endicott Range and the
northern coast.
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SOT'Tll AMERICA.
Mr. John Barrett, who has had extensive
experience in the diplomatic
service in the South American Republics
and in the Orient, and is now directorgeneral
of the Pan-American Union, has
written at length in the Christian Science
Monitor on our present opportunity
in South America. He says there never
was a better time In the history of the
relations of the United States with its
Cvpntv aisfor rcnnbllcB r\t rhlo cntintrv
to study carefully the progress and possibilities
of tbe republics to the south
of us. The approaching completion of
the Panama canal makes It mandatory
that the government and people of the
Pnited States should prepare for that
?reat waterway- It la high time that
they should begin to get ready for It.
especially In the direction of studying
AN OF THE SOOTH
it Events
thoroughly the countries of the west
coast cf South and Central America. As
great as is the canal project, and as
much attention as we give to its mighty
constructive features, we still are far
beh'nd the majority of European countries.
and even Japan in the Orient, in
realizing the new conditions of commerce,
trade and influence which will
develop in a few years following the
completion of the canal. We have, in
other words, heen so proul of the vast
engineering achievement that we have
given little study to what shall be our
commercial and sbippine attainment
after it is done. AH of L.atln America,
from Mexico and Cuba south to Argentina
and fhila. constitutes a wonderland
of wealth and opportnn'ty. These
twentv countries, lusty, ambitious and
resourceful, many of them with a historical
record of which they may he
proud, and nearlv all of them entering
unon a new period of prosperltv. invite
not onlv our attention hut our int'mate
studv supplemented bv personal travel.
There is not one Latin American republic
from the Caribbean south to the
strait of MaeeHan t*at is not at the
present moment feeline the Imnulse of
a new life which means much for the
future of that section of the Western
Hemisphere.
AMERICAN LOANS IN ErROPE.
In regard to monetary conditions
throughout the country the National
City hank of Chicaco savs in its No
vember circular: "The really exarordlnary
development of the last month has
been the unprecedented loans made by
the banks of New York and other
American cities to institutions In Paris,
Berlin and Tendon. The heaviest advances
have been made to Berlin, where
borrowers have offered rates which
were sufficiently ahove the price bid for
similar accommodations at New York
to make 't worth while for New York
and even Chicap0 banks to make Buch
loans. The tension in the German market
has been partially relieved, and
there is not now as broad a demand for
monev there as there was five or six
weeks apo. But with the year-end settlement
only elpht weeks off and the
Po rlc morlrA* *
- ... .o .....inci oci iuiisi.v uppei ny tne
curious hoardine: mania that has sprung
up in connection with the war scare
over Morocco and Tripoli, the great
banks of Europe are still anxious to
secure money In the United States."
RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE.
In an address by the head of the
United States Commerce Court on railroad
control the speaker emphasized
the following points as the chief
features of his address: The person
who owns the highways owns both the
land and the people. Our whole national
future depends upon the solution
of these problems In interstate commerce.
The revenues (of railroads)
should be large enough to pay all employees
wages which will make national
prosperity. If the regulation which Is
now sought to be enforced shall be
found inadequate, government ownership
of the railroads is the only alterna
tive.
YOUNG GERMANY.
Under the presidency of Field-Marshal
von der Goltz, a new league has been
formed which is to be known as
"Young Germany-" This organization
_ ^ 7 aff?r I
r our v acancies tar\
Preoares for College and university. Ex-'
Mississippi will testify to the good work and f
address.
[December 6. 1911
which, It la a&1d, hat the support of the
German Emperor, is mainly a scheme
for the centralization of the existing
Jugendverelne of Germany. The new
organization will be formed for boys
ranging from 14 to 19, and the object
is to promote self-reliance and in'tatlve.
The Ideals to be set before the members
are the virtues of self-sacrifice, obedience,
courage, chivalry, gratitude, and
honesty. The hoys are also to be trained
in war exercises, and practised in the
pitching of tents and in obta'ning a
knowledge of the country. The new
league has been formed on the
English hoy scouts, and though the
training of character is the chief object
a very prominent feature of the organization
is to establish "a connection
between youth and army." Tne league
is said to have the support of the
ministry of war.
WATCH TRICES.
According to Harper's Weekly Swiss
manufacturers exported, in 1900. 6.800,.
000 watches, representing more than
$21,000,000 In American money, while in
1910 the exportation had increased to
n ah a oao *
ff.tm.uvu waicnP8. valued at nearly $25,000.000.
The sale of the cheapest grade
of watches has grown considerably. Tn
1885, 561.000 watches of base metals
were sold. 1.780.000 of silver, and 440,000
of go'd. as against 5.845.000 of base
metals, 2.682.000 of silver, and 943,000
of gold In 1910. For a long time the
chief buyers of Swiss watches have
been England and Germany. As the
sales have grown, the prices have gradually
been lowered. In 1885 the prices
ran from about $13 up for gold watches.
$5 for those of silver, and $2 to $3 for
watches of base metals, but the prices
have so fallen that a Swiss gold watch
may now be had for about $11. one of
silver for $2, and a good metal watch for
a little over a dollar.
Sunday School
Teachers ^ ^
and older pupils, will find great help for
lessons In 1?12 In
The Gospel of
Mark
by
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