1 WP -mm mm* •SP*! afP% mmmmrn ws --s~- mourn* niinnwrn'iiW "V INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRE3S CONSERVATION Why Our Live^Are PROCLAMATION rouiiiw- Shorter 1 Governor Eberhart Issues Official Call for the First —^A^ State Congress to Promote Agricultural Improvement j%jp ^r/2M%r *J*jm$:M A- JUJP. J0/&f JH0EM4KER- and Conservation. j* in »«T, .. ...i .. -SUyA,.-...-i«m_ St. Paul, Jan. 19.—Governor A. O. suit in immense improvements in production. Eberhart today issued a proclamation calling the first annual Minnesota Knowledge of Live Stock Needed. Conservation Congress to meet in the To develop and extend the dairying municipal auditorium at St. Paul, industry necessitates more general March 16, 17, 18 and 19, 1910. The discussion and knowledge of breeding proclamation is as follows: live stock. Great progress has already That an era of new and complex been made in this state and if the development is opening in Minnesota work is encouraged and extended, there is no doubt. The soil and climate Minnesota will have in ten years a of the state are second to none. profitable market in other states and W&- There exists within the borders of abroad for high priced cattle which this state untold opportunities for the combine milk and beef. development of farms, mines, forests, Good roads must be built to enable water power, reclamation of swamp Minnesota producers to meet the competition lands and construction of roads as of other producers in states well as the necessity of more railroad having better transportation facilities, lines. nearer markets and improved country To determine by a congress of representative roads. The cost of hauling our products men, interested in all lines from the farm to the market is of business and social endeavor, what excessive in comparison with the railroad the resources of this state are and charge for hauling similar products cJcWftSsyrtc and will remain in excess of the cost in other states unless our roads fiece- eje or are improved. Practical, intelligent work on the highways of the state will reduce the cost from a half to two-thirds, broaden the scope of the farmer's market and add to the profits. Water Power Development. m&zmr The source of many rivers and with thousands of lakes scattered over its broad domain, Minnesota has unquestioned opportunities for the development of water power. Discussion grandfathers and of these unharnessed streams grandmothers did. and their possibilities by practical engineers More babies live to grow up nowadays is to be desired that the people a than formerly, but people may realize that it rests with in later life die faster than they them whether they shall have cheap used. Once arrived at adult age. power and at the same time conserve the average man or woman has the fuel resources of the state. fewer years of survival to expect, IF At once one of the healthiest regions since their physical vigor and vitality are less average prospective lifetime in the United States, the natural able to throw off disease than would have been of all is much advantage undoubtedly needs guarding the case half a century ago. greater than was the Gov. Adolph O. Eberhart. in the cities, in the homes and This seems, on the face of it, so surprising a case for those living 50 school houses. How best the public how the rapid and intelligent development statement that, in order to be accepted, it should years ago. health may be preserved and improved of Minnesota may best be assisted, be backed up by data authentic and Indisputable. Most of us do not realize, is a question for wide discussion will contribute greatly to the Such data are furnished by the figures of the insurance perhaps, how which will have for a result general advancement of this commonwealth companies (which all agree on the point), much more complicated education of the people to desire and to the front rank of the states. but it Is easier to refer to the government census life is than it used to secure the most healthful conditions The development of unused lands reports, which tell the tale in simple and be. The typical sucoessful everywhere. conservation of soil fertility of lands convincing fashion. Not only are people living business man of today a The impractical idea of taking now under cultivation increase of less long than they did half a "century ago, but crowds the work of boy from the farm to teach him farming production per acre on the farms the decrease in longevity is progressive. Even 20 hours into 10 hours is overcome by incorporating in careful handling of mineral resources during the last 15 years the death rate among all and only leaves his office the courses of the rural school, the to eliminate waste preservation and persons over 55 years of age, of both sexes, has to plunge into social elements of practical, scientific agriculture perpetuation of the forests scientific risen very considerably. dissipation of one and with the study goes industrial aoeeVTArc? drainage of swamp lands improvement In Part I of the third volume of the United kind or another, eating training for the boys and domestic ore? of public roads extension of industrial States census will be found a tabulated statement too much, drinking too science and art for the girls of and agricultural education which shows in a very striking way the much, amoki'ng too the farm. The extension of these study of the practicability of water rise in the death rate for all ages from 60 up. I much, going to bed too studies and how the system can be power and the continuance of the best have brought the figures up to date, with the help late, and keeping his best fostered by consolidation of these sanitary conditions to insure public of fresh information from Washington—a matter nervous system continually schools, is a subject worthy of the health, are all subjects which must be of no little importance, inasmuch as the increase on the rack until, all at once, It breaks a' simple life spent largely in the fields, with most earnest consideration. considered and agitated in order to has been marked. Thus corrected for accuracy, down. Incidentally, his digestion becomes, impaired, plain diet, consisting of a few vegetables and Value of Farmers' Institutes. give force to a state wide movement the reckoning shows that there has been this increase his vital organs suffer irritation, which is fruits, little meat, and native beer and wine for Experience has shown that farmers4 for the development of Minnesota. in the death rate for the entire United often the beginning of disease, and his circulation beverages. institutes, the so-called "short courses" States: is clogged, threatening apoplexy. No wonder, A New Era of Pioneering. Nothing can be more obvious than that the and similar meetings have had a wide For people of ages from 60 to 64, seven per then, that in many an instance he dies suddenly, very complexity of our modern civilization is The time is here for a new era of influence, adding not only millions to cent. while yet in the prime of life. shortening our lives. But of ay the evils that pioneering. Men and women are coming the value of production, but improving For people of ages from 65 to 69, 6% per Sudden deaths are much more common than afflict us the worst and most attractive are into the west and northwest as in the conditions of life. That the cent. they used to be. The high pressure of modern hurry and worry. Hurry drives the ^wdy machine the days of old, but they must come citizens of Minnesota should join in For people of ages from 70 to 74,16% percent. life, with its keen competition and intense beyond its capacity, while worry i-^cks it and expect to come without facing the such a movement for conservation and For people of ages from 75 to 79, seven per inwardly. Of the two worry is probably the strain, is the chief cause. The busy merchant hardships endured by the first pioneers. agricultural development seems fitting cent. worse. This might, indeed, be called the ago of drives his body machine beyond its capacity and They will open the virgin regions when the governments of earth have For people of ages from 80 to 84, 15 per cent. worry. Because of the intense nervous strain to suddenly it collapses. Heart disease or apoplexy of Minnesota, creating new come to deem expenditures of time For people of ages from 85 to 89, 12 per cent. the attack may be, according to the physician's which we are subjected we do vastly more wor wealth and at once contributing to and money for research, discussion For people of ages from 90 to 94, 30% per diagnosis, but it is really over-driving rying than did our forebears. The average man public maintenance. How to assist and agitation looking toward the creation cent. that is accountable for the mischief. The strenuous of to-day is continually surrounded and pursued these people to the advantages enjoyed of a strong public sentiment for For people of 95 and up, 20% per cent. life is all very well, but it is liable in these by phantom troubles, which, though few of them by the older and more highly better living, more important than any These figures tell the story more clearly than days to be carried, too far. I have known several ever materialize into realities, haunt him continually, developed regions, giving them good other line of work. the most eloquent discourse on the subject. They ruining his peace of mind and injuring tragic incidents of the kind within the last few roads, educational institutions, transportation Taking into account, therefore these show that, notwithstanding improved medical his health. years—one of them the case of a gentleman facilities, mail routes, healthful vital considerations for the welfare knowledge and the benefits of modern sanitation, Worry is not only distressing, but positively whom I had earnestly advised to lead a more surroundings, telephone lines and of the state, I hereby proclaim the we are dying earlier than our grandparents did. dangerous. It is the fruitful cause of many simple life. "Nature," I said to him, "did not markets in which to buy and sell, is holding of the Minnesota Conservation The reason why offers a topic for considerable provide you with a machine capable of enduring brain diseases and is often the beginning of disorders one of the problems which citizens of and Agricultural Development Congress, discussion and is not to be summed up in a word, of the nervous system. Men worry about such use. You- have so many hours for sleep, Minnesota may well consider in a in the municipal auditorium, in but one may discover it without much difficulty money matters, about business and about family so many for worft and so many for recreation meeting of representative men and the city of St. Paul) on March 16, 17, in the more complex and luxurious life that we affairs. It becomes a habit, growing by what it you must arrange them accordingly." But he women. 18 and 19, 1910, and earnestly invite lead. The lives of our forebears were comparatively kept on at the same gait, and, not long ago, feeds on, so that the victim, with nothing on For many years parts of this state the entire citizenship of the state to simple and their constitutions, unweakened while speaking at a dinner on board a steamship earth to bother him perhaps, looks around to discover have been severely subjected to single participate and co-operate in carrying by the luxury and intense nervous strain that was entering the harbor of New York, something to worry about. If there is cropping. Thousands of farms out the plans for this gathering that of an existence like that of to-day, were stronger he dropped dead. A blood-vessel had given nothing else to be found, he will worry about his have been compelled to yield year after its purposes may be fully realized. than ours and better able to withstand the approaches own health, or about his salvation in the next way. year the same crops until the soil ADOLPH O. EBERHART, world. Worry is one of the most important factors of disease. When the body-machine is weakened by overIt is wearing out and profits have undoubtedly Governor. Plenty of proof of this fact may be found In in the development of kidney troubles. cannot withstand the hostile germ life which been reduced. These soils Attest: the vital statistics of our population, especially It cannot withsttand the hostile germ life which It may be said in conclusion that the fact, must be given back the elements of JULIUS A. SCHMAHL, in the cities, the figures showing that, while the it is obliged to encounter. In other words, its shown by the census figures of 1900, that people plant life or they will cease to pay Secretary of State. death rate from diseases common to children has power of resistance Is diminished,. And when in rural districts live longer than residents of dividends on the increasing valuation. St. Paul, Minn., January 17, 1910. a the hours that should be devoted to healthful the cities affords rather striking illustration of enormously diminished, within the last few years, Vast Timber Resources. the mortality from maladies more properly belonging recreation are given up to the enervating dissipations the influence of the complex existence upon longevity. While the state of Minnesota has LAKE BEING ROBBED OF FISH. to later life, such as heart disease, apoplexy, of club and social life there is a double If we are "dying at the top," as seems vast timber and boundless mineral resources, drain uptrn the vitality. Many business men to be the case, the misfortune Is unquestionably cancer and ailments of the liver and kidneys, agriculture is a condition to Hundreds of Barrels Are Taken From nowadays are kept under such continual nervous attributable to inherent defects in the civilization has risen to an alarming extent. Nay, control, to a large measure, the industrial Water Near Sauk Center. strain that they resort to stimulants in of which we are so proud. We have more more, it is still going up and seems likely to continue Sauk Center.—Sauk lake is being activity of the people in towns working hours and it is this sort of abuse, combined amusements, travel faster, are more daintily to Increase. robbed of all its fish and will soon and cities. Only a little more than it with constant and racking excitement, fed, wear fiaer clothes and are surrounded by The average baby born to-day has a chance one-third of the land in the state be without any, if action is not taken a that has earned for paresis recognition as more comfort and luxury than any generation of reaching five years of age better by 50 per suitable for agricultural purposes is immediately. The lake presents brain disease to which stock brokers are peculiarly that has preceded us but we pay for all these cent, than would have been the case half a century now under cultivation. These lands the appearance of a little settlement things literally with our lives, which, as if by the ago. Its prospect of escaping the diseases liable—so much so, indeed, that it might should be opened and handled to insure of huts, from which barrels of fish be called broker's insanity. working out of some inexorable law of compensation, of childhood and growing up is vastly improved, the best returns to the tiller of are being taken every day. Local The conditions of luxury under which most have been considerably shortened already as compared with earlier days. merchants are being supplied and the soil. a of us live—for these are days when even the and seemingly show tendency to become pro­ Now, it is very desirable to save the babies Another demand has followed this. shipments are being made to the poor man enjoys comforts such as were unobtainable gressively shorter and shorter still. and one of the greatest triumphs of our newer The farmers should be given every cities. Most of this fishing is illegal, I by the rich half a century ago—have a .civilization Is the successful rearing of three human possible opportunity to secure the as many of the men are fishing without a tendency to weaken our constitutions and impair infants for every two that survived half A Noble Woman. licenses. knowledge of practical, scientific agriculture, 1 our vitality. Our houses are overheated and century ago. But it is undeniable that the race Guardian—You say you are going to marry This lake seven miles long and the profits to be gained by is even the vehicles in which we ride are often as a whole suffers by the change, inasmuch as a man in order to reform him. That is very noble formerly abounded with game fish. It crop rotation the increase possible warmed almost to suffocation. Thus we have of you. May I ask who it is? the weaklings, instead of being weeded out, are by creative and selective breeding of h&s a magnificent shore line and is i? become like hothouse plants and, if by chance Ward—It's Mr. Oofbyrd. thus enabled to grow up. These weaklings not very picturesque, both in winter and plants and animals. These things exposed to a current of cool air, we catch cold, Guardian—Indeed? I wasn't aware that he only propagate other weaklings, but. by reason summer. generally known and applied will re- or perhaps contract bronchitis or pneumonia, a had any bad habits. of their inferior vigor of constitution, commonly trifling change of temperature cutting our lives Ward—Yes. His friends say that he is becom fail to reach old age. In this fact, doubtless, Is short in a twinkling. Or, again, it may be that ing quite miserly.—Sketch. found one cause of the rise in the death rate in MIKADO HONORS A CHRISTIAN. JAPAN AND RUSSIA AGREE! a like cause will bring congestion of the kidneys, later life. leading to disease of those organs proving eventually Rev. Francis E. Clark of Boston All Kinds. Get Together on Suggestion of the Has Nothing surely could well be more strange fatal. the "It takes all kinds of people to mase a world," Distinction. United States. than the spectacle presented to our view of a said the ready-made philosopher. Tokio, Japan. The emperor gave Not long ago, while traveling, I chanced to Tokio, Japan. Japan and Russia great and increasing acceleration of the sweep at "Certainly," answered the plain person, "look an imperial audience to Rev. Francis stop a village on the river Rhine, where I have reached a complete agreemnt on of the dread scythe among people beyond middle E. Clark of Boston, founder of the at explorers. Some of them excel with mathematical found an astonishing number of old people. the subject of the neutralization of age, while multitudes of children are constantly United Society of Christian Endeavor, instruments and some with typewriter? There were a dosen over 100 years of age and the Manchurian railways proposed by escaping who must formerly have succumbed. In and picture machines."—Washington Star. who was presented by Ambassador many frcm 80 years old up to the century mark the United States. The newspapers both cases, too, it is our advanced and perfected a O'Brien. yet straight and vigorous. One woman nearly here generally admit the benevolent civilization that furnishes the cause, rescuing the by Dr. Clark has the distinction of being hundred years old was earning her living "That seems to be a curious name you have intentions of Secretary Knox, but young but mowing down the old. So far, indeed, the first person to be received picking hops her grandchildren were middleaged. for your mule?" there is no evidence of a lessening does the harm neutralize the good that, notwithstanding him de mi by the emperor because of his promi« It was quite wonderful. But there was "Yes, suh. I calls Climate, 'cause of the opposition to his plan on the of all the achievements modern hygiene aence in no mystery about it it was merely the effect of you abuses him de "mo' disagreeable he Christian work. gr«uad of impracticability. aad medical discovery, it i» doubtXu! whether the