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THE LAKE SHOES NEWS. THURSDAY. DECEHBEE **. 1M4. Interesting Fads Concerning the WorUTs Grain Production Statistic* Sham Thai the Nations of the Triple Entente Have Excess Production Over Germany* Austria and Turkey. odijviw arte fewer alt the Urn* atta- che ■tie. HeiiMfti that the en,, alter the aret two •/weeke value of "The fatal standard grain ciopa of theworld wblcb. la the order of their vo!use are oats, wheat, corn, rye and barier. reached a grand total prodac- of sixteen biUlon bushels in 1913. fa enough to nil a bin a thou- sand feet alga, a thousand feet wide and nearly four miles long, or prac- tically enough to nil six ditches like If by the Americans at Pan- United States....... Germany and Austria- 41.000,000 Hungary Group. A4A AMI IMA .1,078,000,000 of the totalis, following the eplr.t of' tao rules rather than the letter, this % toward fairness toward op- A* |MtU n mmAaw Wltaal. the Oaotral Aveaae eatoadlag from tao oasaM »P?Hcatkav ZJr3^L, ^Toofata toVmoral treat Mao of Wlhaotto Avoaao-0» tho atrtag amy iPonafaottoae fa m ^^fS^^^EZSL^at carbtag. parlag with brick and other, aaarlag and mate taetr moral fa not hang like a ilgi jljf.jhat -way wfae tho in 1860 Has Ben an In valid Ever Since that Time Tao World ... United States "Of tab total yield, tao nations at war, exclusive of their colonial poe- atoafoaa. produced approximately one half, or 7^40^00,000 bushels: and the Itatto produced 4,540.000.000 In other word*, considerably than three-fourths of the world*a production of these crops grow within the countries immediate ly at war and in tho United States." f Salient Features of the Supply. Thus begins a sUtement prepared today by tao National Geographic go- detjr, glvtag too salient features of the world's food and stock produc- tion, and the part played by nations at;war therein, tao statement then continues ? "fa tao production of these cropt. tho triple entente group of countries hare a large excess over Germsny, Austria and Turkey. The former group produced r.,173,000,000 bushels In 1913, while the latter produced 2,069.000.000 bushels--nearly two bushels for one. Considered in relation to the number of toooths to be fed, however, the re- sult "fa somewhat lees disproportion- ate, for, omitting Japan, which figures of these crops. It is found r par capita skid In Germany. Austria-Hungary and Turkey Is 20.2 bushels per capita, as compared with 20.1 bushels In the Anglo-Russo- French group. • '^"■"\'s'-'^ • ■"Potatoes form another important 'total yield in 1912 having been 4 i food--^98,000.- i nations now at War their colonial pps- mm Austria- Hungary .............. Tao Entente Group. . 178,000.000 787.000,000 The World .......... Baited Statee ....... Germany and Austria The Entente Group... '. ■". " cattle. Tao World .........r. United 8tatea .,»,.?• Germany, aatlfhvltiingair 2.627,000.000 2,298,000,000 SAVED GLENCOE MEN ATTEND GOOD ROADS CONGRESS OFLITE8 Village Officials Attend Most of Sessions in Inter- •;.'■ est of Good Roads. fa a clean play and a one. The clergy has not to endorse it. ft is a drama fan of what la termed heart interest. Ira atory of wrong to a young and and the retribution tho sua who betray* fear by fafae marriage fa one to atlr the blood and thrill through tho being. "War Dftwa Baar will be tho attrac at Victoria, week ST. 104 of tfea County Court of Cook Coan- Ollnols. SPECIAL AS8CMMINT NOTICE. Wlliiialta ateMtsi AaaAaaaiaad No. 103. ww •iiiioaav upaviaj* a"waaa»apasawe»w*siw eww*» yp*1 Deed Given Recognition by / the Government After Many Years. .;A:;%, Tao Group. The World United Germany. Austria-Hungary '•aWvtVUll 83.000.000 156.000X100 Tad Entente Group... as.ooo.ovO 28,000,000 The World................631.000,000 United States ............. 60,000.000 Germany. Aoatria-Hungary t■'. I *'r and Turkey..............85.000.000 The Entente Group.:...... 129,000.000 Tfea Would-.J.V-,**:^".';... ..104,000.000 United States .......%..... 24.000,000 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Tarkoy...:...v.. .;. io.ooo.ooo The Entente Group.\.: .. 42.000,000 MARRIAGE REVEALS SEASIDE i group* case, of ib •■ ;«*W0";'hJ ot^fchk Kiii llttlo less than on numbers tb daolhaf JBpP the totter* Considered upon per capita baafe the balance Is in Ger man's favor, with 36 cattle per hut dtvd of population in the case of th latter, compared with 32 per hundrec in tuo case of too entente group. •Tho world's supply of bogs In 191 aggregated 156,000,000 bead, of whic' erg000,ooo bead wara to ho found 1. the oountrice now participating In th European war, or nearly two-flfthr Germany and her associates had on* fourth more in absolute numbers tha- their enemies, and nearly two and half times as many In proportion t population. tfeO entente group of nr (Ions has 11 Uogs lor each hundre people and the Teutonic group 27. ' "In tho case of sheep the numbe fbown by tha tabulations for 'th world in 1912 totaled 631,000,000. O these 215,000,000 were In the countrlr now at war, with i2S,eoo,ooo in th countries of the entento group, an 8D.000.000 oa tha Gorman side. Th entente group has 60 sheep for ever hundred of population and the Tot tonic group 60. "Tha world's total supply of horse la shown to bo 104,000,000. Of thee the entente group had last year 42 72i,coo, and tho Germanic group 10 790.000, or approximately only, on- fourth an nan/ as the entente grou» Tho latter group baa 16 horses p* hundred people, as compared with per hundred for the former. "The accompanying tables show «, a glance the relative standing of tb United States, the entento group c nations, and tho Teutonic forces 1 the production of foodstuffs and th ownership of horses: Oata. The World ... United States...... Germany and Aait/u. ~ Hungary .............. Tho Entente Group..... Wheat. The World .... TnitedStates . tjcnaaay and Hungary.....-• -- Tho Entente Group.. Corn. a World " • • • • • • •. . <J31.000.0t 1,121,000,00 . 9 II. 0OO.0O' 1.712.000.00* Bushels. 4.124.000.00C . 768.280.000 Love Affair Started on the Shores of Maine Results '• i'JC;w.': '-.'■'""■ r«""""*■'; -" "•" ;-V ^'.":/' The end of a,aeadie romance waa spert Monday afternoon. In the mar- riage of Miss Charlotte V. Pelrce and Ilsv. Edward Soynton cf Ann Ar- aov/«a?to6ii',|a .rat ooUego and In the sum > the Maine shore to spend his vaca- on with his father. Rev. ^ehemlah .ynton of Brooklyn. ; ', ; randmotber to the sea for the sum- ier, and a strong attachmeht sdoh j prong up between the young couple. » Vhlle tho eiders remained Indoors ; 3 avoid the chill of tho Maine ere- ( bigs. the. young couple walked alone , ver the rough and jagged shore. ,: hbir engagement was made public at I be end of tho aeason. | The young couple were married at he home of the bride at 1202. Hin- itan avenue, Evanston. The father •f the groom, assisted by Rev. i'harlea Craig Stewart, performed he ceremony. The bride waa ittended by her slater, Mise iouleo Pelrce. Little Betty Burnett f Winnetka acted aa flower girl. Tho ishers were Rev. Raaoel Boyntoa, a •rother of the groom, and Rev. | harles Emerson of Ann Arbor, Mich. | The couple left immediately after he ceremony for Ann Arbor, where lev. Boyhton will continue u> study I nd act in the capacity of student pan- jr to the college. I VIISS HELEN KELLER COMING TO EVANSTON Miss Helen Keller is to appear at he BVaaston Congregational church >n Wednesday evening Jan. 27, 1015. Although this to only Miss Keller's econd season aa a public platform peaker, ceaoeleaa practice has made ter arUculatton ao distinct that, at her ast lecture In Boston, she waa heard 1th perfect ease in every corner of be Tremdnt temple- one of the targ- et auditoriums la the country. Of- this Boston appearance tne apere had much to say: "She held great audience spellbound with ipoken words from lips that long were umb." said oo«. Another stated that A throng that taxed the capacity of fremont temple sat enthralled while fi8B Keller spoke with the voice ahe iab labored with ror twenty years to articulate her meaning." A third con- cluded with: "It was as if eome mys- tic oracle had spoken. One got a new feeling In regard to tho voice and the ■■, :'v--.'"r' ■ -■" ■■■■<>>j ■'-■■- *;^ Wff \4» Seymour Curray. Et would seem appropriate for the people of the north shore to ' at this holiday season one of famous aeroes of the enny day. the man who rescued seventeen U^m at the wreck of the Lady Elgin ajtaajM^iaffc*^-- Mr. Edward W. Spencer is now an old man, living with his aged wife In narrow circumstances at Burbank. CaL, broken in health, whose cond,- Uon is owing to tao exposures he a# fered from on that day. A bronxe tablet on tha walls of tho reading room of the Lunt library commem- orates the deed. >;. His llaroia work. '. Spencer, then a young man and a student at tho Garrett Biblical Insti- tute, . hastened to tha scene of the wreck with others, and fetidly plunged Into the furious breakers, where the survivors were drowning by scores, and drew them out one by one. In the course of the day he had thus res- cued seventeen persons.. and though others were successful In similar resr cues, yet there waa no one who ap- Z preached his record on that ocoaalon. ^,: . ml - ;waaiMj jtty__roam It--nM tiMMm^VAn^lSf St forts continued for many hours, be- tween' moments of extreme exhaus- tion. Owing somewhat to his. skill as a awimmer (Uiough ho waaaelight- Iy-buiU man), and also to.a determine the lives, of many who would other- wise ha>-e drownod to tho boUto» .warea,-.,;i(ia mmm ptfa&imm t BUperbuman exertions by firgg edt a> tovAIId'extotohc^ alto „ day It must be remembered tha. . this occurred iohg before the life- vlng service waa lhstltn^'d- 7r'•'./.-: ear ago.a; number of IN THE MATTER OP THE SPE- CIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE VIL- LAOE OP WILMETTE for .the Im- of Fifteenth Street 1 tho sonth line of Opaocer Avenue to the noath line of Wllmette Avenue, and Sixteenth Street from tho north Tho vUlage of Glencoc waa Watt rep- Une of Wllmette Avenue to tha south lajhaaailiiat In tho Good Roada congreas, Une of Lake Avenue and Spencer Ave- whlcb waa held In Chicago recently, j "he from the west line of Fifteenth §g WU taorar. vlUage manager; Theo-! Slfaat to the east line of Seventeenth dore Hansen, village trustee and chair- 8treet produced north from Charles man of the etreeta and alleys commit- Street, by grading, tee, and Bruce McLeiab, rhalrairn of paring with brick and otherwise 1m the pnbHe utilities cemmlotlon, at- proving the same, tended most of the sessions In the In- tao County Court of terest of good roada in their own par- tlcular section of the north shore, No. DATED, on tha daf«S JOHN D. COUFFER, HERBERT C ARMS. OSCAR %V SCHMIDT. CHA8. C. 8CHULT2. Board of Local Improvements of tbt VlUage of WUmette. ' f - WILL UOVB TO FLORIDA Mr. John L. Day, for many . t resident off • Glencoe, la a short time for his rotation where he expects to radfe the future. The Glencoe Masonic "WAV DOWN .The natural deductions worked oat In "Way Down East," the famous pas- toral play William A. Brady 1s send- it re- excess reduction of that said been completed to conformity to the requlre- original ordinance there- aaa applied to said court to determine whether or not the facta stated in said certificate are true; and that aald court baa fixed Monday, tha 11th day of January, A D. 1915. at ten o'clock a. m. or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit, at tho room county court in the court ho City of Chicago, in said Cook f ounty as tao time and place for on said application. All peMnns de siring may file objections to aald court before said day and may appear on the' hearing and make their defense DATED. December 21at. 1914. ; ' 'A- JOHN D. COUFFER, Hint -, and haa applied to aald court club held a meeting December $m to consider and determine whether or i pay especial honor to Mr. Day. not tha facta atated to aald certificate j At the MMoafa inoatlng Mr. Day are true; and that said court has fixed gave a vary intereettag account of h|f Monday, tao 11th day of January. A. younger days, beginning with the Bow D. 1915. at Jam o'clock a. m., or as belle of Lea dee, within the sound of soon tbereajfer as the business of the which he waa born, court wi| Jermlt. at the room of aald He told of the early days in Olsn- county c|#t In the court house, in iue coe, when there were leas than twenty City of dflcago. In said Cook County, famines living there, until the present aa the time and place for the hearing day. ";-f<f^. cert friends sought to procure a medal pm congress recognltlng hiJ servicos saving lives. Through the inOueitqe the tote David D. TbompBon. tor- i supported by President Rocse who With Secretory Cortelyou be- came deeply interested in the matter, a hilt was Introduced in congress for that purpose. This bill wa« not paesed, however, owing pr.acipally to the fact that It was feared a large r.umber of other cases would d amend similar attention; for although In later years medals are bestowed for such acta under the authority of the secre- tary of the treaanry, It was consid- ered that it would not be good policy to take up eases that had occurred to far In tho past. Thus 8pet«cer ha* bad to rely upon the recognition dua to him from the large number of those who have personal knowledge of the event. While his caao was pending in congress the Evanston Historical society sent a mags of data concern- ing the wrecK, with an accurate narra- tive of the disaster and Spencer's dla ttngulsbed services in saving lives. Contributions sent directly to Mr Spencer would be greatly appreciated, as the writer is reliably Informed from recent letters, and would relieve the necessities of a man who baa glorified the history of the north shore aa the records amply show. Ing to tail city, together with the hu man interest off the play, appeals to ill classes, high and low. young and Ik and country folk. It is old, city ffdre bru (Bed feet people set be- » city man Is Whenthostobe chased tho batter | provement of CIAL ASS JOSEPH HEINZEN. , - ■ OSCAR W. SCHMIDT. CHAS. C. SCHULTZ. Board of Local Improvements of the Village of Wllmette. SPECIAL ASSES8MCNT HCl -' : Am«»A*ma1»t^ M naoelimirK wW OF THE SPE 0iy»l7tL tor the ba- alley north of ' i i FOOTBALL SANE GAME; GOLF, SUGAR COATED received an early shipment of Ghallt till ii^tycar. They would make an excel. and floral patterns, in fine quality all-wool Austria* Tae Entente Group. *ye. The World tag Helen Keller. Mies Keller will apeak on "Happl- 403,000,000: nees." aad will be preceded by her Ufe- 1,392.000,000 j long friend and teacher, Mrs. John A j Mary, who will relate the atory of her pupil b iifo atfaggtea and successes. When It to remembered that it has taken MterKetter twenty years of con- stant effort to bo able to make herself easily beard aad understood by an ■ndfaaco, we can imagine her Joy at Bushels, being able finally to speak to hpr un- .\jmfimjm nnmhcr-Kl friends Bushels. .. .3,605,000.000 . ..3.000.000,000 ... 227,000,000 ... 91,000.000 for A little o\^aitoaitj caefcttro k-iay golt, but ror real safe uad sane enjoyment indulge In football. So thinks Coach Fred Murphy of the Northwestern university football team. He, gives his views on athletics In general and football In particular In a story publish*d yesterday under ibe caption, "Is Football Worth While?" In the Northwestern Maga- zine. "Too mac? taeu tfend their 200- pound ttons a«ay to school," writes Murphy, "with the parting admonition not to play football, not because they think that it will do them any barm but because they do not believe the game will do their sons any good, and power of the spoken word after hear* it might do them some barm. Foot- ball baa become more of an educator than a ■port, and the people now look upon education aa something more than the study of science and history. Football, according to Coach Mur- pny. is a "joyful hardship," while golf, fa a sugar-coated way of taking exer- etoe thai would not otherwise be taken. Tho writer to strongly la favor of football as aa Intercollegiate sport, aad he argues that, with the up-to- date methods of training, the chances Dresses thaf/were not promised ristmas gift. Stripes, figures made up in very pretty styles. Prices Are 1230,43.75, 15.00, G taw am merckaftdU$e Bonds Issued tor any amount--solve many a Christmas gift puzzle I. b*<Se^ laaft'* Ana such a wonderful lot there are__enough to sati ail the children on the north shore.