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THE LA>D OF FLOWERS.
The productiveness of the most southerly
of our Southern States is a surprise
to even the jtc.ost sartiguine of enthusiasts
of a lvvt years ago. A oorrespondcnt
of T/eslies tells us that
though not a' corn-producing state, in
several counties in 'Florida from sixty
to seventy bushels of corn per acre
have been raised. A bale of cotton to
the acre Is often raised. Florida raises
fully one-third of all the sea-island cotton
produced in the United States.
Florida peavipe and beggar-weed 'hoy?
two or threo tons per acre?is now re
gardcd as good hay as can be produced
anywhere In the world. Our people
largely specialize. (In one county fully
five thousand acres are planted In paper-shell
pecans. In . other sections
strawberries are Taised almost exclusively,
from olght hundred to one thousand
quarts per acre. In one community
Irish potatoes are raised; in others
train-loads of celery; in others tomatoes,
egg plant, beans and other vegetables.
In more southern portions of the
state, tropical and semi-tropical fruits
are grown extensively. LaBt year, over
one of the several trunk lines of railroads
in Florida, 28,000 car-loade of
fruits, vegetables and melons were
shipped. They grow cane from which
trom five hundred to one thousand gallons
of syrup are produced to the acre.
THE LUSCIOUS BIVALVE.
The contribution of sea food to
American wealth and comfort is one
of the surprises of annual official statistics.
. The estimates run into many
millions of wealth and hundred of
thousands of employes. The industries
in this department of production promise
to increase rather than diminish as
indicated this information taken from
Leslies': An oyster is wonderfully prolific,
.producing thirty million young in
one year. If they and their offspring all
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multiply so greatly as to fill up our
great bays and sounds, like Long Island
Sound, Peconic, Gardlners, Narragansctt,
Great South and Chesapeake
bays, so that navigation would be prevented.
In recent years a vast industry
has. been established for the artificial
propagation and cultivation of oysters,
and now hundreds of thousands of
acres are employed in oyster fanning
for this purpose in the great bays and
sounds mentioned above and other similar
places. This oyster farming under
from thirty to sixty feet of -water is
conducted upon an enormous scale,
with great expense and labor. While
the natural oysters formerfly grew in
creeks and estuaries, where they were
(ioiwwubi in <1 anger rrom cue water oeing
impure, the present oyster production
extends m?ny mriles from land in
these great bodies of salt water, where
there is no chance of contamination,
and the product is always pure and
wholesome. Many of our leading
health authorities pronounce them one
of the most wholesome and desirable
foods.
80JTE SUFFRAGE FIGURES.
Kind things are being said by tho
press of results so far of the "Votes for
Women" experiment. "The Christian
Herald" supplies the following record
nci a no rt /vf if* a^hlAVomhnt1 In W-trr*m_
Iwg.' Colorado, Utah, and Idaho?wife's
earnings and personal property not received
from the husband, but In her
sole control. Spouses' Interest equal
In each other's real estate. Equality In
Inlherltance for iboth sexes. No children
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THE PRESBYTERIi
>/ Curren
under fourteen to -work In mines. Free
kindergartens. American flag oa school
houses. Alcoholic drinks forbidden to
minors. Gambling and prostitution forbidden.
Age of consent eighteen to
twenty-one years. Father and mother
share in guardianship of children. Survivor
the sole guardian. Women physicians
or matrons in institutions having
women or children in custody, Wyoming
and Colorado; customary in Utah
and Idaho. Lewd persons forbidden to
register and vote, Idaho. No Tactory
work tor children unde? fourteen, Colorado
and Idaho; practically none la
Utah and Wyoming. Fight hour maximum
labor for women, Colorado and
Idaho. No wrnien to woTk in mines,
Wyoming, Colorado and Utah; not cus
lomary in Idaho. Tobacco forbidden to
children under eighteen. Wyoming ar?l
Utah; Idaho, 21; Colorado, 16. Compulsory
education for children under
t/lxtecn, -with Instruction In physiology
und hygiene, Wyoming *nd Utah: Colorado
and Idaho, under 14. Equal pay
for equal work, regardless of sex,
Wyoming and Utah, by custom in Colorado
and Idalho. Juvenile courts and
probation officers for delinquent children.
Colorado, Utah and Idaho. Every
one of the four suffrage states has been
reducing its divorce rates, while in the
Vivited States in general it has been Increasing.
"Will it break up the hoime?
DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
The annual report or the secretary
of war, Henry L. Stirason, treats many
subjects of interest, such as the Philippine
question, the relations of the
national guard to the army, the improvement
in the army tactical methods.
the adequacy of the present reserve
law, the crying need of citizenship
for the Porto Ricans, the conservation
of the national water powers in
navigable streams and the advisability
of amending the Panama canal tolls
act so as to relmpose tolls on American
coastwise shipping leaving the water
way.
Dealing first with purely military
subjects, '".e secretary states the
strength of the regular army at the
beginning of the present fiscal year
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of 189 officers and 7,834 enlisted men.
Ho says the spirit of the personnel of
the army continues to Improve, attributable
not only to the work of the
service schools and the p.eneral staff,
hut to the practical oppoitunltles afforded
by the recent maneuvers and
chtangea In organization and methods.
Unfit officers are speedily discovered
under the searching tests of field conditions.
"One of the surest ways of
getting rid of the dead wood of our
army Is to work It as far as possible,
under the appllcatory methods of modern
methods of modern military training,"
the secretary declares.
PARCELS POST REGULATIONS.
The Postmaster General has announced
regulations for the new department
of postal service which goes
into operation January 1. The new
system will be effective throughout the
entire postal service at the same time,
and will affect every post-offlce, city
and rural, and railway mail transportation
route in the country. Every precaution
will be taken by the post-offices
to have the mail* moved with the usual
dispatch, and all postmasters, superintendents
and inspectors have been
directed thoroughly to familiarize themselves
and their subordinates with
every phase of the new system.
N OF THE SOUTH
it Events
The regulations provide that packages
of merchandise, Including farm
and factory products (but not books
and printed matter) of almoBt every
description up to eleven pounds in
wdlgbt and measuring as much
as six feet in length and girth combined,
except those calculated to do injury to
the mails in transit, may be mailed
at any post-office for delivery to any
address in the country. Delivery will
be made to the homes of people living
on rural and star routes as well, and
where there Is delivery by carriers.
Where there is at present no delivery
by carrier the parcels will go to the
post-offices as is the case with ordinary
mall. The postage rate for the
zone?that is, within distances not exIeedlng
fifty miles, will be five lents
for the first pound and 3 cents for each
additional pound. Rates increase for
each excessive one of the eight zones
into which the country is divided. The
maximum rate being 12 cents a pound,
which will carry a parcel across the
continent or even to Alaska and the
Philippines. For a fee of ten cents a
parcel may be insured, and if the parcel
is lost in the mails an indemnity
to the amount of its value, not to exceed
$50, will be paid to the sender.
The law provides for the use of distinctive
postage stamps, and there is
now being distributed to postmasters
for uBe in the parcel post system a set
of stamps of twelve denominations.
Parcel post maps, with accompanying
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their cost, 75 cents, through the chief
clerk of the Post Office Department.
AT THEIE MERCY.
A table showing the affiliations of
J. P. Morgan & Co. and an enormous
maze of interlocking dlrectorlates in Wall
Street was produced before the committee
at regular meeting. It was shown
that J. P. Morgan & Co., the First National
Bank, of New York; the National
City Bank, the Guaranty Trust Company
and the Bankers Trust Company
have US directors in thirty-four banks
and trust companies, having resources
of $2,679,000,000 and total deposits of
$1,893,000,000; that they have thirty
directors in ten insurance companies,
having total assets of $2,293,000,000;
105 directors in thirty-twto transportation
systems, having totafl capitalization
of $11,784,000,000 and a totaJ mileage
of 150,200 miles; sixty-three directors
in twenty-four trading corporations,
with a total capitalization of $3,339,000,000;
twenty-five directors in twelve
public utility corporations, with a total
capitalization of $2,150,000,000; in all
341 directors In 112 corporations, having
aggregate resources of $22,245,000,000.
It TVftS also tft/YW-n thnt rvrxrnn
& Co., the Guaranty Trust Company,
the Bankers' Trust Comipany and the
First National Bank, together, have
eighty-nine directors in banks antt trust
companies, twenty-one directors in insurance
companies, seventy-eight directors
in transportation systems,
forty-nine directors in producing ^and
trading corporations, sixteen) directors
In public utility corporations?in all.
261 directors. The financial affiliations
of the following eighteen institutions
were set forth in detail. J. P. Mlorgsn
ft Go.,. First National Bank, Guaranty
Trust Company, Bankers' Trust Com
pany, National City Bank, Knhn, Ix>eb
ft Co., National Bank of Commerce,
Hanover National Bank, Chase National
Bank, Astor Trust Company, Now York
Trust company," Blair ft Co., Speyer ft
Co., all of New York: Coptlnental and
Commercial National dpnk, First Na.
[ December 25, 1912
tlonal Bank and Illinois Trust and Savings
Bank, al/1 of Chicago; Kidder, Peabody
& Co., and Lee Hlgginaon & Co.,
of Boston and New York. The data
showed that J. P. Morgan & Co. had
twenty-three directors in thirteen
banks and trust ?omipanies, -with total
resources of $1,406,000,000 and to tail deposits
of $989,000,000; four directors in
four insurance companies with total assets
of $1,240,000,000; twenty directors
In twelve great railroad systems with
n capitalization of $4,379,000,000 an)d a
grose Income of $72,000,000 / twelve dl
rectors in seven producing corporations
with a total capitalization of $1,989,000,000,
four directors in three parb14c
utility corporations, with total
capitalization of $1,013,000,000 and total
gross annual earnings of $234,000,000.
In all Morgan & Oo. has sixtythree
directors in thirty-nine corporations,
having total resources of capitaflIzatlon
of $10,036,000,000. The flj-m
also has two of the three voting trustees
of the Guaranty Trust Company, of
New York, one of the three voting
trustees of the Bankers Trust Company
and a mimlber of voting trustees in other
corporations. The First National
Bank of New York, has thirty-three
directors In fourteen banks and trust
companies with total resources of $1,557,000,000
and total deposits of $1,181,000,000;
five directors in five insurance
oompanies; twenty-six directors in
twelve railroad systems, nineteen directors
in thirteen producing and trading
corporations, five directors in three
public utility corporations, making a
total of one hundred and three directors
in forty-nine corporations having
total assets of capitalization of $11,542,000.000.
VICTORIOUS GREEKS.
Of the tmanv Question* which a-Tino
out of the present situation in the near
east the exact position of Greece, not
only In her immediate relation to the
Balkan League, hut also in her relation
to the future near eastern settlement,
is one which presents many difficulties.
As far as the Balkan League Is concerned
Greece, no doulbt in point of
numbers and resources generally, ranked
third amongst the allies at the commencement
of the campaign some two
months ago, and whilst that is still her
position, yet It is not so to anything
me vats btuiie extent tnat it 'was men,
before Bulgaria bad almost spent herself
In that -wonderful advance oil the
Tchataldja lines and Servian troops
had baited to take breath In the streets
of Uakub and Monastlr. Greece has
been singularly fortunate. Her battles
have been for the most part artillery
duels, her great achievement, the capture
of Salonika, -was effected with little
loss of either men or treasure. So It
comes about that whilst Senria and Bulgaria
have worked through their resources
to a much greater extent than
Is generally sutpposed, Greece Is comparatively
fresh.
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