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Show 1 Y0U ,,AVE 0NLY T0 ASK' m VtIIA Ullv-LI- sJtItI JivL3 ITT rl I and he sends you what . ... ----- BY RENE BACHE. -YOU WANT. . ''Il;5 is a milily pnloriml govern. ' J,'Cj,fltioro is no mistake about, it. uWcs :twiv no end of tilings to the iroplo without, chnrgiii: n penny for hem; ,L silnioast sec-ins :is if one tbulff ftol anything: ono wants simply W wrtine to Washington and asking tar it. yiost folks who have hit upon Jira jVonioiis jMc:i take pen in hand 'nil address the President at the White Rum; "1 ne uvcr secs the letters, 31 such toinnninications being handed far to the proper departmental ifircaus in ordinary loutinc. 'Xiasl veav ihe forest service gave SfaV j7o.000.000 board feet of hunb'or, Ht'in the National forest, reserves J-jiiKstJy lo settlors foi home-building I CUTTING- REDWOOD IN THE NATIONAL FOREST, CALIFORNIA, ist Year the Government Gave Away to Citizens 75,000,000 Board Feet of Lumber Frcm the National Forests. $purposes. It will distribute an equal IvKaantity this year, and so on right lmlong in the future. This is one pur-lifiosc pur-lifiosc for which the Kationaal forests :-arc set aside and niaintained. IB ut the cfSlervice does a great deal more than ,:?ah"nE for people. If you own a tract naked hillsides, or covered with 3Hlnnd dunes, it will help you to clothe rMHi with trees; or. if 3-011 possess timber lands, it will look them over and give glfbu detailed plans for their economical.' gSjuhnagcincnt. PHpJIt is much the same way if you hup-to hup-to have on your land a stream SiSf? 51 I)0,u'' 'J'10 Government will -LUjfcoek it for you without charging .you SJHi cent, forwarding the little fishes, Mfl00 or so in a batch, by rail, cxpres-ge cxpres-ge paid. Von are at liberty, to HSpioose the kind of fisli you want, so '(Qfl)ng as they are of a species appro- priato to the locality. T'nele Sam would not present you with a lot. oC shad for planting in a pond, nor with voting codfish for a fresh-water stream. It is through one's Congressman f.hat one should apply in case you want anything any-thing of th'i sort. Instructions for j planting and feeding the lishoo will accompany them. Microbe.-; arc Furnished. ' If you aro a farmer, and arc troubled with grasshoppers, the bureau of animal industry will furnish you with some vcr3' deadly microbes, put up in bottles, with instructions as to how to utilize them for tho purpose of introducing intro-ducing a destructive plague among the insects. Indeed, no matter what kind of bug is bothering you, tho Government Gov-ernment will at least suggest a remedy, and it may be able lo provide pro-vide you with somo of its insect enemies. Tt was in this way that the orange industry of California was saved a few years ago, by the help of a small beetle imported from Australia; and at the present time the bureau of entomology is hunting all over (he world for 'parasites of the gyp.vy moth, the San .7oae scale, and other pests, I with a view lo distributing them in infested in-fested localities. Again, if you grow peas and beans, or clover, for market, you can .greatly augment your stock by sowing the land with a special breed of microbes which form colonics on the roots of the plants, and enable the latter to absorb nitrogen ' from tho air. Tho plant bureau will send you a good-sized package of these "microbes, if 3011 choose to ask for t.heni. and will tell you how to breed them for yourself, so tliat from tho small quantity provided you can propagate them in any quantity desired. de-sired. Having done so, all 3'ou" have lo do is sprinkle tho water containing the germs over your fields, or else sonic in it the seed you are going to plant. Antitoxins Also Furnished.. J likewise, without charge, tho Department De-partment of Agriculture sends out. through the. mails, little bottles of ''antitoxins," with which to inoculate cattle and other domestic animajs for the prevention and cure of certain diseases. dis-eases. But the most remarkable of tho giving done by this branch of the Government has to do with the new varieties of fruits, grains, and vegetables, which, as fast as they are developed through scientific experimentation, experi-mentation, are, put, first in the hands of a lew selected farmers for practical prac-tical trial,' and finally placed at the disposal dis-posal of everybody. A singlo now va-rietv va-rietv of wheat, "exceptionally productive, produc-tive, has been made in this way to add millions of bushels to the output of that cereal in one State. Tho annual appropriation made by Congress for the purchase of useful seeds, to be distributed free among the people, has been steadily increased, until un-til at the present time it amounts to something like $1S5,000 a year. Phis amount of money buys enough seeds to fill 38.000.000 paper packets, in ' the putting it) of which machinery of the most ingenious kind is employed. The seeds, arriving in sacks at tho government govern-ment barn in Washington, arc dumped into huge hoppers, from which they pour down through chutes into queer-looking queer-looking mechanical contrivances. Each of these contrivances fills 3500 paper bags an hour, a tiny scoop dumping into each bag the exact, measure re-fquircd; re-fquircd; Then a metal hand, which acts ' with an intelligence almost human, irises from beneath, grasps each envelope enve-lope bv the bottom, and passes it beneath be-neath a roller, sealing it with paste in- ! cidentallv, a-nd throwing it into a ibasket. "The packets, put up iu this I way arc made up into bundles of live, I the final touch being to put a label that I bears the Congressman's frank, lie furnishes the addresses, i J Artificial Limbs. I It you have lost an arm or :i leg in the service of the country, whether lighting for it or iu civil life, the government will make you a present of I an artificial substitute. Not only that. ! but it will give you a new one oven three vears. And, if you would rather have the 11101103, you aro at liberty to accept $75 in place of a leg. or $50 instead of an arm. A lost hand or foot, likewise, is worth $50 to you every three yours, if the injury was received while 'working for Uncle Sam. v Over o000 persons lacking a leg and 2S00 lacking an arm draw their limbs rcgu- larfv, or tho cash equivalent, from the War department. jMost of them prefer the, cash, especially where arms are concerned, because, though falso legs are quite serviceable, artificial arms are of small use except for ornament. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, it should be mentioned that, when a recipient of this kind of bounty wants to get 11 new arm or leg, ho can go to any city in the Union for it, the government paying his fare both ways, including passage on a Pullman. Provides Olotbes and Shelter. In case you arc making a voyage at sea, and your ship is wrecked, any vessel ves-sel of the United States nav that happens hap-pens to come along will provide you with a fresh outfit of clothing and ireo board and passage to tho nearest con venient seaport. Supposing that you happen lo be cast away anywhere on the shores of this country, you will be fed. taken caro of, and treated with medicines if 3011 need them, at the nearest life saving station, all without a penny of cost to j'oursclf. Tndced, the government frequently engages in chariinblo work on an enormous scale just as, for example, it gave a great sum of money, as well as other help, for the rescue of the sufferers by the earthquake at San Francisco. Congress is always generous on such occasions but in an emergency, if Congress is not in session, the President does not hesitate hesi-tate to sign an order on the treasmy on his own responsibility for auy amouut that may be required. In one such case $400,000 out of tho appropriation appropria-tion for rivers and harbors was expended ex-pended in succoring survivors of the great Mississippi overflow. Gives Away Predictions. The weather bureau.- iu addition to giving away $1,500,000 worth of weather weath-er predictions every year, which aro of ihe greatest practical use lo farmers, to mariners, to shippers of perishable products, and to over so many other people, tests without charge mariners- barometers for accuracy. Likewise tho "hydrqgrnphie ofiice of the navy makes gratuitous tests of compasses and chronometers chro-nometers for skippers; and the bureau of standards tests weights and measures of all kinds for manufacturing and other business men. The latter bureau, among other things tests the candle-power candle-power of incandescent lamps and determines de-termines the accuracy of the clinical thermometers which 'physicians use. Information of all kinds tho government govern-ment distributes gratis. The bureau of manufactures has commercial information, informa-tion, indexed on millions of alphabetically-arranged cards, telling what the people in every town in the world, big or small, want to buy. and how much they consume. Anybody, merchant or manufacturer, who wants to know about such matters has only to write to tho bureau, and he will get an answer by return mail. Tu the 'same way, the bureau is able to tell him about home Hatcliinrr Millions of Fishes at Fiftv Miles an Hour for Gratuitous Distribution trade opportunities what classes of buyers for different goods arc to be found in any town .or district in this country, what their wants aro, and in what shape the merchandise should be sent. Issues Daily Newspaper. The bureau of manufactures issues a daily newspaper devoted to the discussion discus-sion of trado opportunities at home and abroad, which is sent free to any business man who wants it. lts "work is supplemented by the foreign markets mar-kets bureau of tho 'Department of Agriculture, Agri-culture, which makes a special study of tho foreign demand for our farm products. prod-ucts. In fact, there is no end to the useful information one may get from the government free of charge. Tho Patent office will act as your patent altoniC3 if you write to it direct, sending send-ing an application with a rough sketch of 3"our invention. The bureau of Pom- nlmrv i-51l lrll vmi lirnv In ivek viMiv perishable fruits and vegetables; and the bureau of mines will give you hints as to where to look for precious, metals or other mineral resources, furnishing fur-nishing an estimate of tho value of your claim when you have located one. Thero is hardly a 113' sort of trouble you can get into which Uncle Sam will not try to help vou out of. Even the Indians of Alaska are not forgotten, and are being supplied with free reindeer to keep them from starving. , |
