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THE GREATEST E V Ell.
Government reports on tne magnitude
of this year's crops have steadily risen
as the corn grew taner and tne hum of the
thresner was heard in the land. With a
com crop tnat is far in excess of all
previous records and a wneat yield that
aas never beiore been equalled in this
country, according to the government
statistics, tae farmers of tiie United
States are to-day enriched by the tidy
Bum of nearly $7,000,000,000, with which
to meet the hign cost of living during
tae coming year. One of the best things
about agricultural prosperity in this
oountry, iinancial writers say, is that it
has a way of coming when other agrarian
nations are in the grip of famine,
'iiie result is that the great crop in the
United States helps to feed the other
countries of the world, whose lields
have lain sodden at harvest or have
burned in unrelieved sunshine. This is
the way the bumper crops measure up:
Seven hundred and ten million bushels
wheat valued at $603,500,000. Three billion
bushels corn valued at $1,350,000,000.
One billion two hundred and ninety
million bushels oats valued at $387,000,000.
Barley, rice and other farm
products valued at $4,260,500,000. By
December 1st, tbe date from wbich tbe
government figures the farm value of
grain, tbe gross value of this year's crop
to the farmers will be many millions
more. Canadian farmers will also share
the prosperity of those in the United
States as the crops in the Northwest
are the biggest in history.
FILTHY NEW YOlth.
Ln New York City during a single
year the Society for the Suppression of
Vice seized 63,139 pounds of obscene
books, 836,096 obscene pictures, 1,577,441
circulars, songs, etc., and arrested
over 200 persons engaged therein. They
also seized the names and addresses
of ever a million persons to wnom presumably
this stuff was being mailed.
It might be worth while to learn now
and then what our boys and gins are
reading, especially when we have the
concrete proof that men are engaged in
the business of putting obscene and
vicious matter into their hands. The
great metropolis is not alone in this
hind of thing. Every awakening of its
police departments brings new disclosures
of fetid foulness and nauseous
fumes, but it may be that in many cities
there is no awakening of police and
there should be.
THE POKTAL CITY.
The phenomenal growth of Norfolk,
Va., in population and wealth, in recent
years, is one of the outstanding facts
of Southern development. Norfolk now
lias thirty milea of deep waterfront
available for shipping, municipal docks
and manufacturing. Along this great
waterfront are already located the ter
miitals of the eight trunk line railways,
Having their water basis at this
point, and there are many manufacturing
institutions and private docks; altogether
it is a scene of busy activity.
What Norfolk has accomplished is largely
if not almost altogether due to her
waterways and water courses. Her
water commerce in 1911 was 12,600,000
tons, the value of which was $790,000,000.'
She claims to be largest peanut
market in the world and the third largest
ooal shipping port, there having
been shipped from here last year nearly
10,000,000 tons of the latter. The anJOIN
THE
THE PRESB Y T E R I
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nual shipment of fish, oysters and crabs
in value was $2,800,000; that of green
stuffs $15,000,000; of lumber there was
handled some 700,000,000 feet. Then the
jobbing trade represented an annual
sale of $52,300,000. There are 35J)
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f.00 employees. There are six if or el go
lines of steamships and 2'i coastwise an<>
river lines operating to and from the
port; some of the river line steamers
are the finest in the world. The bank
clearings lor the same period were
$168,714,796, as compared with $70,000.000
in 1901.
CHINA'S OUTLOOK.
General Lan, former Governor-General
of .Manchuri and commander-inchief
of the revolutionary forces in the
recent revolution and an intimate friend
of the President of the Republic of
China, recently gave out a statement in
London in which he said with regard to
the loan recently secured from an Enclinh
flvndinflfp that hlna woo *r? *-?>/-?
urgent need of unoney beyond that required
for the dishandment of the revolutionary
army, lit was of great importance
that this army should be disbanded
and this work would take place
as rapdly as money was received. More
money would be required later for the
development and construction of railways.
This, however, was not urgent.
The vital necessity of the moment was
the question of disbandment. With respect
to Tibet he explained that like all
Chinese officials he was perfectly satisfled
that the United Kingdom had no
wish to interfere in China and there
could be no question that the two governments
understood each other thoroughly.
What he deprecated was the
imperious tone of the foreign office,
which in its determination to keep Russia
out, had given an impression which
might be adopted elsewhere, that it
claimed a right to dictate to China and
to interfere in its internal government.
As for .Mongolia, China was as interest
ea in Keeping nussia out tnere as tne
United Kingdom was in keeping her out
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of Tibet. Still the republic was by no
means anxious to fight Russia. The hold
of Japan in Manchuria was .mainly on
the railway system and it was to the
interest of China that this hold should
noi De extended. The republican government
only required time to assert Its
authority throughout the empire and to
make arrangements for raising money
in the way most in consonance with the
interests of the nation.
PRICES IK COLD STORAGE.
The New York food speculators, it is
alleged, have now in cold storage more
than $14,000,000 in dairy products alone,
which are to be peddled out to the public
before next spring at prices as high
as the market will stand. Although the
supplies of these dairy products, both
in and out of cold storage, are and have
been since last spring considerably
greater than a year ago, butter is selling
In New York city at a higher price,
both wholesale and retail, than it did
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at this time last fall. The beef trust
stores much of its dairy products in the
freezers at the stock yards in Chicago,
although It has other great accommodations
In cold storage at Kansas City and
Omaha, besides smaller amounts In
hundreds of other places throughout the
country. In addition dairy iproducts
have been accumulating in cold storage
all summer, it is said, at scores of large
private plants which do not make public
their holdings. These private plants are
located in every city of ooneequence in
the United States. Some of the food
speculators in New York City have
private coolers that hold as much as
17,000 tubs of butter. A large amount of
poultry is going into cold storage in
New York and Jersey City, but there are
no available figures as to the quantit)
.held.
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