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WANTED?FA RME RS.
Six thousand tons of potatoes, the
largest shipment ever received in New
York, arrived from London on the
steamship Minnehaha. There are
enough of them to supply 24,000,000
niems ior an aauu. as potatoes were
quoted at $3.25 a bag of 168 pounds, the
shipment is valued at more than $230,000.
The government collected $50,000
in duties. Thirty-two hundred tons
of potatoes, in 43,500 bags, will arrive ?
Boston about April 10 in tbe steamship
Armenian, from Liverpool. The liner
also has 12,000 bags of onions. In the
first three months of this year the imports
of potatoes from Great Br'tain
have been 267,952 bags containing 736,718
bushels.
MISSOURI KNOWS HOW.
By a recent decision the anti-trust
laws of Missouri have been upheld by
me supreme court 01 tne united states,
the court approving the State's action in
ousting the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana and the Republic Oil Company
of New York, from the state and fining
each $50,000 under these laws. Proceedings
were begun in the state against
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
the Republic Oil Company, a New York
corporation, and the Waters-Pierce Oil
Company, a Missouri corporation, charging
them with having entered Into a
combination among themselves to control
the prices of oils. The supreme
court of Missouri found them guilty.
The Waters-Pierce Company was a Missouri
corporation, and the court set a
day when its charter would be forfeited
if the company did not pay a $50,000
fine. The fine was paid. Only the
Standard and the Republic, which were
ousted, appealed to the supreme court.
SOCIALISTS DEFEATED.
With a flood of non-part'san ballots,
Milwaukee voters have swept from office
the city's Socialist administration, lnstall'nsr
a non-partisian mayor, board
of aldermen and county board of super,
visors, and probably eliminated every
national political party from participation
in future municipal elections in the
State of Wlscons'n, because as a result
of the non-partisan victory In Milwaukee,
the State Legislature at a special
session soon to be convened is expected
to nass a dlstlnctlv non-partisan city
election statute. The Socialists defeated
such a measure at the last session of
the T^eeisiature, but the rout was
*aid nraeticaUv to hpve killed Socialist
jtreneth ?n the State General Assembly.
Vnarl ir ?- ^
.-cop ,T i umiiie'c minus iru'ii me isn
prpolncts In the c'ty show that Dr.
Oerharfl A. Bedlne. non-nartlsan candidate
for m?vor, defeated Mavor Emll
S?>1del, Porlallst Incumbent, bv a majority
of about 17.000. From the head of
the ticket down throueh the Common
Council and ronntv hoard of snnervlsors
the voters pl'ed up equally lpree totals
for cand'dates on the non-partisan ticket.
AHT PFSFrmTTD TIT WEAT/TIT.
At least $1,000,000 is said to have
been paid for the famous Velasquez
portraits of Klne PhUIn TV nf cinatn
and Ma minister, the Duke of Ollvnres,
recently brought over from the Villa,
hecmosa palace by Duveen brothers. Tt
la common rrport that Benlamln Altman
boueht the paintings for the Private
gallery In hla house at 626 Fifth
Avenne. If these pictures brought
$500,000 each It Is the highest price
ever paid for a Velasques, and equals
the highest price ever paid for any
painting. Otto H. Kahn paid $500,000
through Duveen brothers in 1910 for
Frans Hals' picture of himself and his
THE PRESBYTERIj
f Curren
family. J. P. Morgan, several years
ago, Is also said to have paid $500,000
for Raphael's painting, "Virgin and
Child Enthroned with Saints." The
best previous price believed to have
been paid for a Velasquez was for another
historical portrait, said to have
been purchased by Mrs. C. P. Huntington
for $400,000. Mr. Wldener's Velasquez.
"Spanish Statesman," Is reported
to have been purchased for $150,000.
TEXARKANA GROWS.
Texarkana has constructive work of
a permanent nature under way at a cc"
of $575,000, in three different and distinct
undertakings. These Include the
buMdlng of the Ited river levee, at a cost
of $350,000, now under way; the construction
of the $150,000 steel viaduct
and the laying of wires of the telegraph
and telephone companies underground
at a cost of about $75,000. Other mat
ters taking definite form are a street
paving project. $100,000; Bowie county
levees, $75,000; grading and graveling
of Carmlctaael hill, $15,000; storage
plant by Armour & Co., $50,000; municipal
abbatolr, $25,000; street car extension
and grading, $10,000. Plans are
also well advanced for a new mode
hotel, with convention hall adjunct, and
a big charity hospital.
WATER THE TAXES.
A. L. Crocker, of Minneapolis, chairman
of the Minnesota waterwavs commission,
contends that by acquiring 1,500,000
acres of government land In
Minnesota now Idle and almost unsalable
because undralned. the state could
carry out a drainage and water system
that would pay all the cost of water
power construction and eventually net
the state $12,000,000 a year. The water
power p'ants should pey for the cost of
construction through the rent?l of the
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comnanles, and which after having heen
paid for, should he the pronerty of the
state, and thereafter annuallv vteld the
state f 12.000,000 net with which to reduce
the state taxation.
TO REBFTl.T) HANKOW.
A modern model cltv Is to rise on the
ashes of the burned city of Hankow,
the city which most of all suffered by
the civil war In China. Thlrtv-four
roeds will be la'd out. The landowners
will contribute 10 ner cent, of their
acreage for these hlehwavs and for sites
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iui f111 li iu mi11uinks ana parKH. i ne
landowners have been Instructed to
estahllsh their claims to their respective
hold'ngs in the burned area end new
title deeds will be Issued. The Commercial
Building Corporation will float
a loan of taels 15,000.000 guaranteed hv
the republican government. It Is said,
and this will provide for the erect'on of
30,000 houses. Prospective merchants
and landowners will be permitted to use
the funds realbed In this way for building
purposes pledging their land as
security for repayment within a prescribed
time.
GERMANY'S GREATEST NAYY.
The new naval program of Germany
Is arousing the utmost Interest In official
and legislative circles and general
anxiety is felt as to the source from
which the vast expenditures are to be
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ucineu. mo nauunai L.inerais btc
agreed that the only just source of
revenue to meet the addlt'onal expenses
is the Inheritance tax, so strenuously
opposed by the Conservatives, and It is
round this point that the contest will
begin. Altogether the demands of the
forthcoming bill are distributed over a
period of six years, during which time
the personnel of the navy will be an
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nually augmented by 2,500 officers and
men. A new third active squadron is to
be formed by the four warships at
present constituting the material reserve,
which is to be abandoned. The
uc?* oqutxurun win iunner ireceive tne
reserve fleet flagship, three entirely new
battleships, and two small cruisers.
When In 1920 all are ready for service
the German high sea fleet will consist
of one flagship, 24 battleships of
the active fleet, two squadrons, each of
eight reserve fleet warships, amounting
altogether to 41 battleships and 20
armored cruisers. The expenditure
commences, according to another au.
thorlty. with 15,000,000 marks. Increasing
in very few years to 43,000,000.
A RIFT I* THE CLOUDS.
One of the most Important international
announcements in the history of
Furopean foreign relations came from
First Txjrd of the Admirallty Winston
Churchill, In the House of Commons
when he told the members that Great
Britain and Germany have entered into
negotiations with a view to effecting a
naval program that would bring about
a curtailment of the battleship building
plans of the two nations. This was the
first intimation that the two powers have
met on common ground, for the purpose
of bringing to an end the race for
superior naval armaments, although an
Indication of thlB action was given In
Parliament a fortnight ago by First Lord
of the Admlrallty Church'll, during a
debate upon the naval estimates, when
he said that If Germany would consent
to a curtailment of battleship building
England would follow suit. The naval
minister's announcement caused a sensation,
as only those on the Inside of
government circles knew that England
had opened such negotiations with Germany.
It is bound to have a tremendous
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vwv!. uii uuiuMcau (juiiiujo 11 carried to
completion. For years the possibility of
war between Germany and England has
been a menace to both countries, and
has resulted in fierce rivalry in battleship
construction between the two governments.
AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES.
Great Britain la preparing to install
an automatic telephone system Instead
of one which is similar to systems now
in use in that and other countries.
Apparently there are a great many people
who look upon automatic telephoning
as a thing still in the experimental
Stage, but thl8 .8 far from holn?r rh? naaa
The system is used in Chicago and many
American towns. It is the only one
used in Munich, and is now being introduced
into Berlin and other great cities
on tha continent. By the automatic
system all operators are done away
with, the subscriber making his own
connection. It is therefore recommended
that wherever a new installation is
to be Introduced, preference should be
given to the automatic system, but if
the postofflce should object to scrapping
all its existing outfit, as is not unlikely,
it might be persuaded to adopt what is
known as the semi-automatic system.
Under this, when the subscriber makes
his automatic connection with the exchange.
an onerator mprplv r>nni-.?/??o th.
required number, without the need for
ringing up or saying anything.
. WIRELESS CHAIN FOR JOHN BULL.
The proposal made by Sir Joseph
Ward at the imperial conference last
year, that the empire should be linked
up by a chain of wireless telegraph
stations, and which was supported by
his majesty's government, is to be put
Into effect Immediately. The postmaster
general, Herbert Samuel, has announced
on behalf of the government
[ April 10, 1912
the acceptance of the terms proposed
by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company,
for the construction of six long
distance wireless stations in London,
Egypt, Aden, Bangalore (India), Pretoria
(South Africa), and Singapore.
This is but the beginning of a scheme
which, at its completion, will extend
throughout the empire.
EUROPE IS GETTING MODERN.
In a T^ondon address before the Association
of Chambers of Commerce the
postmaster-general stated that he was
anxious to place the telephone In England
at the disposal of the small user,
and he looked forward to the number of
telephones in England being increased
fourfold. He went on to state that very
shortly the telephone rates between
England and France would be reduced
by one-half. He hoped in due course to
establish telephone connect'on with Holland
and through Holland it should be
possible to be on speaking terms with
Germany. It is possible that the demand
of American tourists to talk to
meir reuow-iourists across the border
has stimulated thlB belated enterprise in
the "effete monarchies" of the old
world.
THE SCATTERED NATION.
In treating "The Orderly Jew," as Its
topic Leslie's Weekly siys: "In every
country of the worl 1 In which they
res'de, however, the Jews are among
the most orderly elements of the
populace. About 1,800,000 of the 11,000,000
Jews of the world reside In
the United States. In proportion to
numbers, they are one of the most valuable
components of our population.
Russia, with 6.000,000, and AustriaHungary,
with 2,000,000, are the only
countries that lead the United States In
the number, of their Jewish people.
More than half the entire number In
this country res'de In New York City.
'In this one municipality there are more
jews man are in any other four cities
In the world. ' Many time more Jews
are In New York then were In Jerusalem
when at Its most populous stage.
More are In New York than were ever
In the whole of Palestine. Every fifth
person met on the streets of New York
belongs to the Jewish race. Naturally
we Insist that they shall have the same
rights abroad that are accorded to all
oth'er classes of Americans."
A REFINED LADY wishes a position as
companion and caretaker for invalid,
or to asslBt in housekeeping. Address,
MRS. M. T. NESBET, Andersonvllle,
MRS. M. I. NISBET, Andersonvllle,
Va.
ABLE MINISTER (Southern), strong
reccommendatlons; pastor large church
in the North, wants to supply vacant
pulpit month of July. Address Minister.
care Presbyterian of the South,
Richmond. Va.
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