| Show JlItIMIJ mUT Several month ago Jlr teller predicted pre-dicted bread riots In Europe but at the time no one took much stock In the prognostication The Information h had has proved correct however and today tho world la I startled win the new from Italy anti Spain Where the people have risen In I rage against the authorities on account nt the scarcity of bread In one city In Italy Milan the seriousness of the situation can be understood from the fact that a street battle occurred In which 400 iwo pIe were killed and 1000 vvoundedvvhlcli man that the result was moro dlq estrous than the battle off Manila where the mot terrible modern engine of destruction mere employed and Yet Die Italian mob fought chiefly with cobblestones and tiles from the roofs of the houses and compelled the Boldfern to retreat repeatedly Italy and Spain are not the only countrl hero there Are Igoa at a scarcity of food In the German Itelehtag there was an agitation for the remain of the Import duty on cereals and IlUMla In I Kild 1 1 to contemplate contem-plate the prohibition of grain export The French Spanish and Italian KOV crnmnt have removed the Import duties a sure Indication that those countries are much In n1 or cheaper and more abundant hreeI It Ia I perfectly per-fectly clear that the lor Is not respell t Plble for the situation The fact IsIs I simply Is-Is that Europe at present Is I suffering from n shortage In the wheat supply and has to look to the United States for food ns the world Anciently went to Ltrypt whenever the crops prod a partial or total failure A special wheat Investigation Instituted Insti-tuted by the agricultural department at4he < close of 1897 discloses some Interesting In-teresting figures The total production of wheat for the > ear was C01I91CS bushels and the average price In nil the states for the year was 808 cents The area under wheat cultivation was n94C5CC8 acres the average vleld per acre being 127 bushels The value of the total wheat production Is I placed at JC1547111 Tho total production of corn woa 1 802 9CT9J3 bushels valued nt JG01 072 912 What an Imemnse granary this country 11 We believe tile tliouslllful students ot events cnn hardly roll to recognize that the signs of the times are ominous The vials of wrath are being puurvd out upon the Old World abundant In the midst of the whirl pleasures and gajetles and jrqud revelrlea and luxuries lux-uries the Invisible hand 11 I wilting aross the wall und who can Interprete the nery Inscription Wars bid fair to turn the sea as It work Into blood Hunger drives the masics to arts ot anarehy and before the murmurs ot the ptarvlng ragged nultltudts thrones tremble There la every sign of a new era dawning Undoubtedly a new chapter chap-ter nt man history la I about to be commenced com-menced for It Is I plain that the oM to I 11 passing Nay In order to give room for Ito othiric newn higher order of thlog pertaining to human affairs |
