Show The department of agriculture has issued a statement of the tho exports of farm products for half halfa a century past They averaged a year in the five year period from 55 1851 1851 while between 1901 1901 06 06 they had had increased to a year year an and in the next two years 1007 1907 08 08 the value of th these se exports ts exceeded Speaking o of ol this Bradstreets Bradstreet's says Not Nor only did such did such exports increase during the period covered covered cov coy ered but as as a matter of fact they increased much faster than the population In 55 1851 the average value per capita of the agricultural exports exports ex ex- ports of the country was but in 1901 Q the per capita value was 1088 and in 1905 1005 it reached even eyen a higher figure Fifty years ago cotton represented represented represented rep rep- resented nearly two-thirds two of the value of all aU agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural exports but in 1901 1901 05 03 it supplied from third one-third to one-half one only though the average quantity exported rose from pounds to o pounds and in 1907 1007 the highest year tear ear pounds were s sent nt away In 1907 1007 the value of cotton seed products that were sent away t v y amounted to The TIe Long Jong Branch Bianch Record says that the th ex cx pre press s companies carry the magazine for less than a cent a pound profit while the government gets gets a I cent cent cent-a a pound and pays over 9 cents for the same service The railroads not the magazines magazines' receive J the subsidy When the deficit in the mail service was discovered discovered ered and a great cry was raised that it was the magazines TIlE THE TELEGRAM ventured venture the assertion assertion asser asser- assertion tion that what was need needed d was a revision of the contracts with the railroads that they were charging ing vastly more than they would carr carry earr the most mOlit i precious freight for if sent by an individual It seems the Long Branch editor has discovered the same sam Ling and what is needed is not a revision revision sion ion of the laws governing the carrying of mails but bLIt some new contracts with the railroads They ought to have more for carrying the mails than for carr carrying ing bacon and beans but they ought not to have ten or fifteen prices for it that is they should have a fair remuneration but not a graft The fhe New York Herald has has' all over its editorial l page a call for Judge Gaynor to be the next Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- Democratic cratic candidate for president and stating that on the return of Colonel Roosevelt t the e chances are arc the Republican party will be smashed to smithereens and that the Democrats will have havo a good chance for a f victory in 1912 1912 1012 That is a good long way off as time goes that thatis is political time The chances are fair fail that when Colonel Roosevelt returns there will be an anold old time rush for for him him which it will take tako the time count country y a t year or two to outgrow but hut in a year or two or-two two what seem to be he schisms in the thc Republican lican party mayall may mayall mayall all be closed S S SAnd And AmI then Judge G Gaynor has j just taken his place places its s as mayor of New Y York rk at and amid d is using his reform broom broom with great energy But Bilt wit wait a a year yern or two f for r him him before giving all faith aith to him because if he keeps on that way way h h. h he is is- liable to lose his majority majority ma ma- even in New York City for that is a city that does docs not want to too ll much uch reform Better postpone postpone post post- pone ponc time the next presidential ca campaign for a year rear or two at least A dispatch ch calculated to irritate people in this' this region comes from from St. St St. Augustine Fla It says the time peach trees trets are in bloom there and the b birds arc ape returning front fron the south which are held as sure surp signs that the time winter has hns about exhausted t. t sted its vitality vi l I in iii that region Visitors are flocking on the I beaches beaches' to enjoy the balmy breeze That reads very vary very different from the dispatch from fi Nome which says they have h had weather up there 70 degree below zero that many lUany people have frozen to death and amI many others have lost I their limbs through the awful cold If the world is iH not out of joint this year rear car there is nothing in the sigu S' S |