Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 162, 19 May 1914 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1914

GRAPEFRUIT OFFERS IIEVJVESTMEIIT Raising of Fruit New Venture For Americans Making Home in Porto Rico.

WASHINGTON, D. C, May 19. The coffee raised in our island poslessions. Porto Rico, is in great demand abroad and the foreign market places it at the top of the price list f coffees from all over the world, acrording to. experts at the II. S. Department of Agriculture's Porto Ri:an Experiment Station. However, the people of the United States have developed a taste for a different kind of coffee, and the performance of a great many people will have to be changed in order to obtain a larger market for Porto Rican coffee in this country. The cost of changing the acquired taste of the American seems too great to justify the attempt so long as such excellent prices are obtained elsewhere for the product. During the past year, says the newly issued annual report of the Department's station in Porto Rico, the value of the exports of coffee amounted to a great deal more than they ever have since the American occupation. Better cultivation and higher prices have enabled the coffee industry to

show great progress, and planters are now following better practices in the

selection of their seed for planting. The Department's station is introducing so-called "Java" and other coffees which are yielding better than native coffee and giving a higher percentage of large and uniform grains. The coffee is grown for distribution to planters on the island and has been resulting in greater yields as well as in better prices for the planters. Of the coffee exported during the pat year, $8,378,346 worth went to foreign countries, while only $132,970 worth went to the United States. Although today there exists a benelt of tariff, the coffee is still following the old lines of trade established by tariff laws during the Spanish regime. It is a marked indication of the truth that trade established upon preference of taste for a certain product is a most difficult one to change. However, associations and individuals are still striving to extend the market and to gain even a higher reputation

for the coffee of Porto Rico. The grapefruit industry which started from nothing ten years ago is now thriving in Porto Rico and promises good returns ot the man with perseverance, industry, and personal supervision. Porto Rico is safe from frosts that threaten the industry on the mainland and is at the open door of the best market in the world New York and the eastern seaboard. The grapefruit industry represents the highest type of intensive farming and is sure to increase to a much greater extent in Porto Rico as the trees which are already planted come into bearing. The value of the exports of grapefruit laEt year t$726,6S7) was exceeded by the exports of two other freshfruit industries which have been established for a much greater period

in the island. Oranges were exported to the value of $740,010, and pineapples to the value of $1,142,007. $151,81 worth of canned pineapples was also exported. The Hop Toad. Two puffy hop toads, hipty-hop, Got tn hoppinK so they co;;!d not stop Till thry found a pool and waded In Into the water up to their chin. The plare was so delightfully cool. This pleasant, limpid, sparkling pool. They winked and they blinked and sat them down In bathins suit tights of natty brown.

All World Watches Diplomatic Moves in A. B. C. Mediation Plan

'Twas their resort on a summer day, And they intended awhile to stay. When 'long came a g and drank it up All the water. "without bowl or cup. The hop toads were left quite high and dry And hopped awav with a little righ. But they found another, yes, indeed. That answered as well for every need. When pleasures are taken 'way from ua It's better to leave without a fuss And see if better we cannot do. What's right for toads la right for us too.

BY SIDNEY EPSEY. WASHINGTON, May 19. Since that little incident at Tampico when American honor and dignity were so seriously bedraggled by Mexicans that President Wilson demanded Gen. Huerta to salute the flag of the United States in apology, an international game of diplomacy haB been in progress in Washington with all the world

watching the play but uname 10 understand the signiicance of the moves on the chess board of the nations. So complicated has been the game, and so many Interests have entered it, that even those men who have been making the moves at times have declared that they did not understand and "did not know just where they stood." The statement has been made and not contradicted that Washington has never before been the scene of such a game of diplomacy and diplomats who have seen years of service assert they never watched a more baffling conflict. What Public Learned. All newspaper readers understand what has been done on the surface. President Wilson was at odds with Gen. Huerta and Gen. Huerta was at odds with Gen. Carranza. War seemed but a matter of hours. Argentine, Brazil and Chile, through their representatives in Washington then stepped in and endeavored to settle by media

tion all differences between tne united States, Federal Mexico and Constitutionalist Mexico. This far the public understood the came.

But the question has been asked "Why should Argentine, Brazil and Chile take it upon themselves to settle the Mexican trouble?" The first answer was that the A. B. C. nations were glad to get an opportunity to ally themselves in a Latin American triumvirate against the United States. Another answer was that the A. B. C. nations, with the United States and Mexico wanted to show Europe that the theory of the Monroe Doctrine still is true and that all squabbles in North or South America can be settled by the nations of North and South America without European interference. To Strengthen Alliance. A third answer made was that the A. B. C. nations wanted" to show that international quarrels in America

could be settled without the aid of the United States and-that the A. B. C. nations wanted to strengthen the ties between all Latin-American nations with the ultimate design of forming an international alliance against the United States. It was pointed out that such an alliance of all Latin American nations was the only means of pre

venting the United States from eventually acquiring all the lands to the south. Some diplomats declared that all these answers missed the bull's eye and claimed that the A. B. C. nations

had an entirely different motive. It was argued that conditions in Argentina, Brazil and Chile are not all ideal and that each of the nations fears a

reactionary movement. It was pointed out that the friendship of the United

States for Carranza and the antago

nism of President Wilson for Huerta

coupled with Villa's military successes augured well for the success of the reactionary movement in Mexico. "Therefore," said the diplomats, "It can easily be seen that A. B. C. jumped at the chance to settle the difference between President Wilson an dHuerta and thus injures the reactionary cause, fearing that the success of the cause would have influence on reaction arises in Argentina, Brazil and Chile and inspire them to deeds which they would not essay if Carranza and Villa topple to failure." Another Angle. It was pointed out as significant that Brazil had agreed to act for the United States in Mexico City and the statement was made that Brazil with

Argentine and Chile has.eutirely selfish motives for desiring to cement friendship between the United States and the Federal government of Mexico. Spain is asserted to be in league with the A. B. C. and many reasons therefore have been given. It is well known that the Spanish Embassy in

Washington has been acting for Huerta just as Brazil has been acting for the United States in Mexico since

Charge O'Shaughnessy and Charge

Algars were handed their passports.

While acting here for Huerta the Spanish Embassy has had ample op

portunity to advance Huerta's cause

in the eyes of the United States and

particularly in the favor of President Wilson it is declared, and Spain Is said to be desirous of aiding Huerta because Carranza and the party that he heads are antagonistic to Spaniards who form part of the rich class in

Mexico. Villa's expulsion of Spaniards and confiscation of their property is cited as indicative of the attitude of the Constitutionalists toward Spanlards in Mexico.

MARINE BRANCH OLD IN NAVY SERVICE Members Fighting Men Aboard Take Place of Cutlass Crew of Old Frigates.

EDMONTON LEADS IN CIVIC REFORM

BY A VETERAN. It was the campaign of the Allies against the Boxers in 1900. They had captured Tientsin by a hard three day battle. A conference had been called of all the commanders to discuss the question of advancing or waiting for reinforcements. General Robert Meade, In command of the United States marines, was ill and Colonel Littleton T. Waller, then a major, was the junior officer of the representatives of many nations in the conference.

One by one the elder men gave

their opinions that

close quarters the marines were the "cutlass crews.'" The fighting of naval battles at a range of live to ten miles has destroyed the usefulness of the slashing boarder, but there, is. plenty of work left for the soldier of sea and land. As Josephus Daniels, Secretary

of the Navy, said recently: ' "The marines and bluejackets have rendered valiant service at Vera Cruz. The marines as well as the bluejackets have proved their calibre, .always understood by our own people as well as those of other nations. It is the marine who is always called upon to form the entering wedge,, to blaze the trail In landing on foreign Bhores."

FRANCHISE LEAGUE.

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pressing need of an advance and that 1

the troops must have several more days of recuperating. Finally, Major Waller's opinion was asked and he stood up and said: "Gentlemen. I don't know just what the rest of you mean to do, but the marines start for Pekin at 6 o'clock in the morning." Marines March Away. The marines did start at 6 o'clock-

in the morning, taking the allies along.

BARNEY OLDFIELD LOVES THE CHICKENS Did you ever run over a chicken on a country road with your automobile? If you did, you have more nerve than Barney Oldfleld, which is some nerve. The veteran of many a hard fought race victory positively refuses to kill

there was no I or maim the chicken which obstinate-

grown enormously. The percentage of marriages has grown also and this

would seem to nrovn that suffrage

; The reason the saloon keepers op-,doe8 not tend tQ cellbacy. Wyoming pose woman suffrage Is frankly stated j where women have had a rull ballot in their papers and circulars. They ! for 4- naJ Q BmalleBt propor. say. "The Illinois election is enough ... to convince anyone with sense that!on f unmarried women to its popuwoman suffrage and the saloon bust-1 latlon of any state In the union. neiiK cannot exist together long in any "Indiana women fpol the humiHa-

j state. It would be disastrous to the tion and shame of their polititcal ine-

When the mothers of the nation I suffrage." said Dr. Amelia Keller of

have a voice in the conduct or its ar-; Indiana polls.

fairs there win be more concern on

the part of the government for the welfare of the sons and daughters of those mothers. With "Woman Suffrage" as the subject for the college debate, not one of the students at the Natches Institute was willing to take the negative. Good for Mississippi. Woman Suffrage party of Rhode Is

land was not satisfied with having a ; demonstration on may 2, but planned;

an entire "votes for women week")

beginning April 26. In the past twenty years the number of suffrage states has grown from !

two to ten and the movement has

In the Fashion. Wife John. I haven't a fkirt fit t wear. Husband Well, that's the Myie. Isn't It? Exchange.

EDMONTON, Alta., May 19. Government by elective commission, including the initiative, the referendum and the recall, the preferential ballot, the adoption of adult suffrage and the

.. CoD n,ith aHamcfo othr.da is likely to get mixed up in the doings

of electing' commissioners and desig-! Mexico. Waller's reply was typical i

nated duties, are the outstanding fea- oi ie gauani mue corps wU.tu . ";

rnres of th new charter submitted w "" '""' AU

ly refuses to get out of his way or

"crosses the road" directly in front or the car he is driving. The man whose steady arm and cool nerve is expected to bring home the bacon with a Stutz racer in the coming 500-mile international sweepstakes, at Indianapolis, or at least

finish close up in front, hasn't the heart to kill a chicken. Oldfleld has been known to bring his car to a

standstill while some farm-yard pet

DR. A. O. MARTIN DENTIST Colonial Building Suite 212 213

This incident was recalled to mind I has meandered majestically to the

on seeing that Colonel Waller had ! side of the road.

been ordered east from the Coast and

today to the city council of Edmonton

by a special committee of that body.

The new charter, which is designed

to make Edmonton "the first city on the North American continent," will now be considered by a committee of

50 representative citizens, to be ap

pointed by Mayor McNamara, acting . " . .1 . - - '

in an aavisory capacity wuu me cuy council. When this body makes its report, the charter will be submitted to a popular vote, and if successful it will be presented to the provincial legislature for enactment at the fall session, making possible the election of a board of five commissioners early next December.

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the Continnental Congress in 1775, a

year before the Declaration of Independence, organized the corps along the lines of a similar British body. Just one hundred years before the

marines battered at; the gates of the ! Forbidden City they did a heroic feat , in Tripoli. In 1803 a detachment of ' these soldiers of the sea marched 660 miles across the African desert i to subjugate the insolent tyrants of the Mediterranean. They pulled down ', the malodorous flag of the Tripoli-; tans and hoisted the Star Spangled Banner over an ancient fortress before a horde which had in large number never seen it before. ; Old In Service. The marine as a fighting man aboard ship is said by one historian to date back to the Persian Empire? ; Marines are mentioned in connection !

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