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New Jersey, while his luxuri­ ously furnished town house at No. 12 West Twenty-third street he gave over to the decorators and upholster­ ers, to be made ready for the autumn. Once or twice a week it was the bank­ er's habit to visit his office to consult with his confidential clerk, and then, after a short trip home, to see how the workmen were progressing, to re­ turn to Morristown. On July 29, making one of these periodical trips to the city, he was de­ tained later than usual and planned to spend the night at his house in town. One of the motives that in­ spired this determination was his de­ sire to spend the following morning, which was the anniversary of his mother's death, in the synagogue to which he belonged. His visit proved a surprise to the housekeeper, a Mrs. Kelly, whose son, William Kelly, did occasional jobs about the place. But his sons, Frederick and Washington, the former of whom was his favorite, while the latter was somewhat wild, were in town and expecting him. Washington Nathan, unlike his bro­ ther, refused to settle down to steady work, and lived the life of a man about town. He had already severely tried his father's patience, but their rela­ tions were not yet at the breaking point. The heat of the past few days had given way to a cool wind, presaging a thunder storm. Mr. Nathan resolved to retire early, and directed Mrs. Kel­ ly to arrange a bed of mattresses upon the floor of the reception room, upon the second story, immediately adjoin­ ing which was a little hall room' in which he kept his private papers. It was the banker's Intention to spend part of the evening in looking over iiese and, incidentally, the housekeep­ ing bills. He passed several hours in the little office, arranging his affairs, while outside a violent thunderstorm broke over the city and peals of thun­ der deadened all other noises. & little safe stood in one corner of 4tf. Nathan's office. At length he rose, locked his papers away in this, placed the keys in his pocket and pre­ pared for rest. Soon after he had re­ tired bis son Frederick, who had been paying some calls that evening, re­ turned, paused at the door of the im- Mpmptu bedroom, and finding his lather not yet asleep, stopped to wish Wm goodnight. A little while after­ ward Washington Nathan entered the house, and as he afterward declared, looked Into the reception room, but finding his father asleep, passed up to his own room on an upper story 'with­ out awakening him. Patrolman John Mangam of the wenty-ninth precinct was that night n duty in the district in which the Kathan mansion was situated. It was one of the worst nights that he had known. The rain fell in sheets which flooded the roadway; the lightning flashed continuously and the thunder­ claps came almost unintermittently. For a moment, as Mangam afterward declared, he saw a light flash in the house of the banker, but it disap­ peared again and all was dark. At six o'clock Mangam passed along Twenty-third street toward Sixth ave­ nue, on his way to meet the relief. As lie turned upon the last round of his beat a voice from the Nathan mansion called to him in agonized tones: "Officer! Hurry, for God's sake!" Mangam spun round upon his heel. On the steps of the Nathan home he saw Frederick and Washington, in their night gear, gesticulating at him wildly and shouting. Mengam began to run, and dashed up the steps. "What's wrong?" he asked. "My father has been murdered!" ex- clr'med Frederick, while Washington, who appeared muc& less excited, chimed in: "Father is lying murdered upstairs." Mangam tossed down his waterproof overcoat, went to the street and began rapping vigorously upon the sidewalk for assistance. Then, without waiting for the arrival of a brother officer, he rushed upstairs, first inquiring of the sons whether there was anyone in the house whom they suspected. He was told where the murdered man was ly­ ing, and going into the reception room he saw the dead man upon the thresh old of the little hall bedroom, covered with blood. Mangam rushed to Na­ than's side and, placing his ht*nd to hie heart, exclaimed: "He's still living. There's life here yet. Send Tor a doctor." By this time Patrolman Theodore Rowland had arrived in response to the calls and he was immediately dis­ patched in search of medical assist­ ance. A doctor came from the Fifth Avenue hotel in a few moments, but found that the patrolman had made a mistake in the first excitement of his discovery. The banker had been dead for at least three hours; in fact his body was already quite cold. Mangam then told the Nathan boys that much as he regretted it, it was his duty to take complete charge of the household and permit nobody to leave. Captain Burden was summoned from the Twenty-ninth precinct and ar­ rived within half an hour. He at once placed his detectives on the case and notified Superintendent John Jourdan and Chief Detective Kelso. When the detectives arrived they declared that they had never wit­ nessed a bloodier murder or one In which the victim had evidently made so determined a straggle for life. On the dead man's body were the marks of numerous blows, evidently inflicted with a heavy, blunt instrument. There were four wounds on the head, any one of which would have been suffi­ cient to cause immediate death. Sev­ eral of the fingers had been broken. A desperate struggle had evidently oc­ curred in the doorway between the two rooms, and upoi* the walls weie the imprints of two hands; one that of Nathan himself, as was evident from the shape of the fingers, the other that of a hand with long, taper­ ing, well-kept fingers. Had the system of finger records now so universally used been in use then, the murderer would undoubtedly have been discovered. For never have two finger-prints yet been found that are alike. But in those days this fact was wholly unknown outside of China, where the finger-print system of iden­ tification seems to have had its origin. That the motive of the crime was robbery could easily be determined. The murdered man's keys had been taken from his pocket, but whether before or after his death could not be determined. The safe In the private office had been unlocked, a circum­ stance somewhat peculiar, for it was so concealed that a burglar, coming into the house by chance, could not have discovered it. From within had been taken a wooden case containing a number of rare coins; the house­ keeping money, amounting to several hundred dollars, was also missing from a drawer, together with some family trinkets. From the murdered man's clothes the robber had removed a val­ uable watch and chain, valued at six hundred dollars, and three gold studs had been removed from the shirt front --after death, as the bloody finger prints upon the linen disclosed. Hav­ ing committed the deed, the murderer had coolly gone into the bathroom and washed his hands. These circumstances made it clear that it was an "inside" job--that is to say it had evidently been done by some one familiar with the interior of the house. While Patrolman Mangam was awaiting the arrival of Captain Bur­ den, Frederick Nathan, who was standing beside him at the street dor, suddenly exclaimed: "Here's something!" He stooped and picked up an iron bar, about twenty inches in length, smeared with blood and having a few gray hairs adhering. That this was the instrument with which the mur­ derer had accomplished his crime there could be no doubt. It was what is known among ship carpenters as a "dog," a bar of one-inch wrought iron with the ends turned up. The news of this tragedy shocked the entire city. The press denounced the police for their failure to appre­ hend the murderer immediately. The Hebrew community and the Stock Ex­ change offered rewards aggregating no less than $45,000 for Information lead­ ing to the discovery of the murderer. As is usual in such cases, the police were hampered by cranks who began writing them letters, offering clues, with the sole object of leading the de­ tectives astray. Superintendent Jour­ dan received at least five hundred of these missives from all parts of the country. Numerous criminals were ar­ rested upon suspicion, among them being George Ellis, a burglar who was brought down from Sing Sing on the supposition that he was In possession of valuable information in regard to the murderer, a man who had been named by :he police but had evaded their search. Ellis was kept under guard in New York for more than three months, a watcher being de­ tailed to guard him day and night. One of these watchers was Detective Patrick Dolan, and to him Ellis casu­ ally remarked one day: "Isn't it too bad? Superintendent Pat Jourdan's going to die, and I'll be sent back to state's prison again." that *> Yfrat lave Sal- plied ^ Lring kTe a tats, tha t GETTING RID OF THE WART Warranted Medical Action Seems Lit­ tle Different From Time-Honored Ways of Boyhood. As Hamlet, prince of Denmark, has so often and so impressively stated: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy." And this observa- tion may without impropriety apply (o warts, and. Indeed, a recent medl- >rices. thing seriously hampered the police, and that was the Interest manifested in the case by the deceased man's friends. It had been whispered, al­ most from the date of the tragedy, that Washington Nathan was the guilty person. There is little to sub­ stantiate this theory. Estranged though the father and son had been-- and this was shown by the terms of Nathan's will, which practically disin­ herited Washington--there is no rea­ son to believe that the latter was a parricide. The very violence of the blows delivered makes such a supposi­ tion Improbable, for the murder had evidently been accomplished by a res­ olute and determined man. But it is unfortunate in the interests of Wash­ ington that the crime was never cleared up. The friends of the mur dered man were anxious that no breath of suspicion should fall upon the son, and in placing obstacles in the way of a free investigation by the authorities they unintentianally pqr^ petuated the belief that Washington was the guilty party. The first care of the police was to inform themselves as to the move­ ments, habits and character of all the inmates of the Nathan mansion. When Patrolman Mangam first saw the two brothers upon the steps he noticed that there was blood upon Frederick's socks and shirt front. This was easily explained, however, by Frederick's statement that when he saw his father dead, in an access of grief he had flung himself upon his body. Wash­ ington Nathan had exhibited no such emotion, however. His demeanor was not that of a dutiful son suddenly be­ reaved of a father. For a whole week after the murder he wore a handker­ chief so arranged as to conceal his throat. The stories concerning his life and associates that leaked out were such as to impel the authorities to place him under the surveillance of friends, who pledged themselves to produce him at a moment's notice. But the inquest held by Coroner Rollins released Washington, and for the time the suspicion that had been directed against him was removed. After the inquest the actions of the police ond their dilatory proceedings were strongly<commented upon in the press. They appear to have failed al­ together to light upon a single clue. That the murder was an "Inside Job" should have mads the detection of the criminal a practically easy one. When investigation failed the detectives fell back upon the theory that the murder had been committed by a novice in crime, for no professional burglar, they argued, would have brought such a tool as the "dog" Into the house. Be­ sides, such a tool would have been useless for breaking open the mahog­ any drawer which had been rifled. What is probably the true explana­ tion of this mysterious case? The man upon ^hom suspicion fell most justly appears to have been Wil­ liam Kelly, the 6on of Nathan's house­ keeper. The probabilities are that he admitted some confederates into the house with a view to robbing the safe, and that they succeeded in obtaining the key and In opening it, but in doing so aroused Mr. Nathan, who engaged in the struggle which brought about his death. He must have recognized young Kelly, and this circumstance made it essential in order to insure the safety of the party that the old banker's mouth should be closed for­ ever. This would explain the many unnecessary blows that were deliv­ ered and the ferocity of the attack, whidh did not cease until all life had been battered out of the body of the victim. It was afterward shown that Kelly had been the associate of thieves, and he was never able to ex­ plain in a satisfactory manner his whereabouts on that night. The suspicion attaching to Wash­ ington Nathan--in all probability un­ justly--may be explained by his vi­ cious life and character, and by the fact that he was estranged from his father and had been disinherited. Friends of the family, fearful of In­ creasing this feeling, acted unwisely in endeavoring to thwart the detec­ tives Instead of aiding them to clear the young man's character. One of the stories to'.l with a view of demonstrating Washington Nathan's complicity was to the effect that a mysterious bundle of bloody garments was smuggled out of the house upon the morning after the murder. Yet it is significant that, with more than $45,000 at their disposal to be paid for the detection of the murderer, the de­ tectives were unable to Inveigle the washerwoman who received the family laundry Into acknowledging this high­ ly significant fact. Little stress need, therefore, be placed upon It. But one unwise action which tended to confirm tjie suspicion of the people of New ork was the removal of the carpet i the reception room to a cleaner's Imost immediately after Benjamin athan's body had been laid out, so AUBH>UNC1&t every blood stain on it might be .STATE ^moved. At the same time the walls t^ouut/er® repapered. Off Why dld Superintendent Jourdan This ig2rmlt thcse occurrences? The entire the i>rinv0ry Nathan murder ;malns shrouded In mystery The respecti v.,plnene88 of the polIce the laxne88 paper of f those char^pd with fhrs lican, wlij. hibition, ' In witioctor Genewein, however, has failed give the full warty Inventory, so f % Dnlan der my A. D. 40-21 - -- fiUOiUlUK Ul '.Send jbra doctoT.' the house, the failure to present plaus­ ible evidence against anyone, all point to the fact that some secret influence was at work with the purpose of thwarting investigation. From the day after the Nathan murder Superintend­ ent Jourdan went Into a decline and never regained his former joviality of spirits. It was openly said that his death, soon afterward, was brought about by the burden of a dreadful se­ cret, which passed with him, and that all chance of discovering the murderer would have to be abandoned. Thus the Nathan murder remains at once one of the greatest And most In­ explicable mysteries of the last gen­ eration. For a long while afterward it was hinted that at some future date a clue would come to light, the secret would be unexpectedly disclosed from some unexpected quarter; and there are men living today who have not yet abandoned this expectation. More than once, it has been reported, the police were about to "revive" the mur­ der. But as the years roll on this be­ comes Increasingly improbable, and it may now be set down as one of those gruesome secrets that will never be re­ vealed. Washington Nathan wan not shocked into reformation by his father's fate. His associations became worse instead of better; he associated with gam­ blers, and was on one occasion shot at in the Coleman house by a woman who had threatened bis life In a. fit of jealousy. In connection with this in­ cident a curious story may be told. Washington Nathan was struck by more than one pf the bullets, and his injuries were such that It was be­ lieved an operation would become im­ perative. Had this operation been per­ formed recourse would have been had to a well-known surgeon of New York city, who would, perforce, have been compelled to make use of an anaes­ thetic. The action of ether is known to be of an invariable nature. First it induces slfep; then a sort of inebri­ ety, in which the patient becomes rest­ less, throws his limbs about and talks incoherently; finally it induoes the coma In which all sensibility is blunt­ ed. It was the intention of this surgeon, at the suggestion of certain persons who were Interested In the case, to prolong the stage of Inebriety over a rather greater duration of time than is commonly permitted. It is well known that when In this condition a patient is incapable of retaining a se­ cret The physician who expected to be called in had determined either to clear the name of Washington Nathan from suspiclpn on account of his fam­ ily, for whom he had a great regard, or to satisfy himself as to his guilt by questioning him when he was in this mental condition. He framed a series of leading questions by means of which he would be able to ascertain beyond all doubt whether he had actu­ ally slain his father or was Innocent of the crime. "Unfortunately--or fortunately--the operation was never performed, and thus the physician had no opportunity of making the test that he so much desired. In Dry Places. "This Is hard luck." "What is?" "To nave nothing hut soft drinks." OASIS IN THE ADIR0NDACKS Youthful Railroad Agent Has Flowers •• His Only Friends, and They 8eem to Love Him. Travelers on the D. ft H., which Is single tracked through the Adiron- dacks to Montreal, yawn and stretch and sigh at the delay of stopping at flag stations, and Wad hams is the dreariest of all such stations where a lone passenger or a package can hold up a vestibuled train. Nothing there except the usual platform, and it is very short, for passengers are few. Then the station, with office and sit­ ting rooms, divided only by a parti­ tion, and the freight depot just next, and all under one roof. As the train comes to a halt a few look out of the parlor cars with unfixed gaze, then suddenly become Interested. The lone agent, a youth named Doty, has his telegraph instruments ranged on a desk beneath the usual bay window, so as to give a view of the track both ways. But at his elbow as he works, surrounding his head and easily to be seen from trains, is a profusion of the most beautiful and flourishing flowers ever raised by a professional horticulturist midst wintry scenes. The agent of Wadhams, who in his office embodies every position known in the Grand Central station, is only about twenty-three years old, and his life Is a lonely one. He knows the tame of only one or two of the many different plants thfet thrive at his slightest touch, and says they are pret­ ty, when they are lovely almost be­ yond compare. The sensitive pink geranium blossom that Is so hard to keep after early summer, and then only from a squat plant, is reaching out four or five feet high, with a bloom on every stem. No matter be it potted plant, a climber or crawler, every one grows luxuriously and blos­ soms in and out of season. A ther­ mometer in the office marking 72 de­ grees is one indicator of Doty's suc­ cess, but the greatest is his love for flowers. They are almost his only friends in that lone station, with only one house in sight In the miles of mountains. And the train passengers from the windows note the serious young agent and his work and smile at that beautiful bay window, and as the train pulls on they see colors on the barren mountains and in the cold and silent valleys they never dreamed were there before. What surprises many of the travel­ ers who have time to step off trains when thelr's waits for another at the siding is that not one of the luxuri­ ously flowering plants Is in the regula­ tion green painted or red pot One is a flat glass affair that might have been a fruit dish, another a squat butter crock, and so on. Any one who grows plants knows there must be a hole In the bottom of the pot or the water will sour and the plant die. So, having none of the regular receptacles at hand when he started his conserva­ tory, the horticulturist-agent borrowed for keeps all the glass and earthen­ ware utensils he could at the farm­ house where he boards. These he lugged to Wayoff station and painted a small bullseye in the bottom of each. Then he calmly shot out the bullseyes with his small game rifle, and there were the crockery and glass flower pots complete. In Defense of His King. Nothing I ever heard about the Jap­ anese Illustrates so well their patri­ otism as an experience my wife had with a Japanese cook," said a west side man. "Our cook was the essence of neatness. Very rarely was my wife allowed in the kitchen, and when she did effect an entrance to prepare some special dish whose mysteries were be­ yond him, he spread newspapers on the floor around the table and stove for her to stand on. Appreciating his spirit of cleanliness my wife one daf took her own newspaper into the kitchen and spread it before the table. The instant she stepped on it the cook let out a yell of dismay and be­ gan literally to tear the paper from beneath her feet. " 'My king,' he said. 'My king.' "Thinking he had suddenly lost his wits, she retreated without further urging. " 'What in the world is the matter?* she asked. " 'My Icing,' he said again, and smoothed out the paper. Then my wife looked at the first page and saw that she had been standing on a pic­ ture of the mikado. The Jap's faith­ ful soul could not tolerate that." Sally From the Motorman. A Washington street car was get ting under way when two women, rushing from opposite sides of the cai to greet each other, met right in th« middle of the car track and in front of the car. There the two stopped and began to talk. The car stopped, too, but the women did not appear tc realize that it was there. Certain ol the passengers, whose heads wer< Immediately thrust put of the wlndowi to ascertain what the trouble was, be gan to make sarcastic remarks, bul the two women heeded them not Finally the motorman showed thai he had a saving sense of humor. Leaning over the dashboard he la quired, in the gentlest of tonea: "Pardon me, ladies, but shall I get you a couple of chairs?"--Lippincott'a New Musical Instrument. A new musical instrument ifl I* ported to have been devised by a Jap anese violin maker in the city of Na- goya. The invention is named the relkln, and seems likely to supersede the samlsen. It has the shape of a guitar, save in the neck, which is the only' part resembling a samlsen. There are four strings to it, and by manipulation of the keys the Instru­ ment can be made to do the work of several ^amlsen. The inventor has played his reikin in an orchestra of Japanese instruments, and showed that It Is a success In every way. He says that the idea came to him when he was touring through Europe last year. Highly Recommended. "Oh, I hear you are going to marry Mr. Dashaway?" "Yes; just as soon as I get my de­ cree." "I congratulate you, my dear. He's one of the nicest huBbanda I ever had."--Philadelphia Record. ail the time-honored charms, all the occult abracadabras that have been used for centuries by schoolboys to compel whatever warts they had on hand to trip and be gone. The New York Medical Record notes that Genewein first mentions a case In which the cutting off of a single wart on one hand was at once fol­ lowed by spontaneous disappearance of all the warts on the other - * lufvubvi/, eu ~"*iat the reader is left in the dark as to the amount of the ablation. He says that on a subsequent occasion removal by caustic of a solitary wart on the. back of the hand was prompt­ ly followed by disappearance of one on the bearded chin. He then deliber­ ately tested the matter with a third patient, who had numerous warts on both hands. When those on one hand were removed by thrice potent acetic acid, presto! the warts on the otter hand vanished. Another German au­ thority says he has verified the Gene­ wein cases by experiments of his own, from which it appears that when­ ever a wart on one hand was burned off, the Improvement very speedily followed in warts on the other hand. But, after all, is this any improve­ ment on any one of the several charms that schoolboys have employed for three hundred years or more? Is it any better than the wart dispeller that country lads are employing today, that of placing a pleoe of stolen baoon --stolen, mind yot$--bound on the wart, over which the magic formula Is then pronounced? Certainly not! Violin Worth a Fortune. Pro^biy most valuable violin in the world is possessed by Her* Fritz Kress ier, whose recent concert at the Queen's hall aroused so much Interest and enthusiasm. It belonged to Mr. George Hart, the well-known connoisseur, and Mr. Kressler paid £2,000 for it It is not only a genuine Ouarnarlua, bat la othar way* a i» markable instrument. On the tail-piece the maker's Initials and the date (1737) appear in diamonds, the pegs and but­ tons are set with diamonds and rubles, while the case alone is worth £200, being of solid silver overlaid with tortoise-shell and decorated with arsr besque and other ornamentations.--'T14 Bits. Poker Chips Called Ro#l Money. The supreme court of West Vir­ ginia has decided thai poker chins are real money NEVIR AGAIN FOR THIS MAN Vmutt* -Meant Well, but Recoilsetfe» of Episode Is a Haunting • Memory. The newly established practice in the Equal Rights association of ap­ pointing attractive young women to dispose of suffrage literature, badges, sandwiches, etc., has been the cause of some amusing mistakes. One of these was wholly lacking in humor, from the point of view qf the unfortunate per­ son who Hyed through It It was this way: An amiable yorrng man, walking down Broadway one morning a short time ago! saw stand­ ing on the corner a beautiful young girl. She held in her hand a bunch of violets and camelias. At her feet lay a tray of these flowers, and she glanced sb^Iy and appealingly at the passers-by. The young man had started across the street when he saw her. He hesitated, turned, looked back at her uncertainly, and then squaring his shoulders, strode to her side. "May I be permitted to buy them ail and help the cause along?" he asked gallantly, standing before her, hat In hand, and smiling an irresistible smile. The girl turned, looked at him for an instant in blank amazement, and then flushed indignantly. The wretch­ ed youth suddenly saw a boy dart from a near-by store and rush up to the young iady with fi handful of change. She took the change, pinned on her flowers and with a withering glance at the would be supporter of the "cause," who remained rooted to the spot, marched away. When he was able, to speak dispas­ sionately of the incident, the youth de­ clared that to the best of his recollec­ tion the pavement opened and swal­ lowed him whole.--N^te York Dally MaiL Mathematics in Ancient Egypt. Among recent archaeological discov­ eries in Egypt is that of a roll of papyrus in an excellent state of pres­ ervation and dating from the year 1700 B. C. The roll has a long title, part of which reads, "Instructions to enable one to know the Dark Things," and the gist of It suggests that the Egyptians were good at mathematics. W'ithout doubt the Egyptians of that time possessed a knowledge of the elements of arithmetic. Numerous ex­ amples demonstrate that their prin­ cipal operations with Integrals and fractions were by means of addition and multiplication; but subtraction and division were not known in their present form. However, by a longer and more Involved process they ar­ rived at results pretty accurately, in the papyrus are found equations, for example: "Ten measures of barley are divided between ten persons In such a way that each succeeding person receives an eighth less than the per­ son immediately preceding him. What proportion does each one get?" An­ other problem is: "There are seven men, each one of which has seven cats; each cat has eaten seven rats; each rat has eaten seven grains of barley; each grain of barley must have produced seven measures of grain. How much grain has been lost?" The papyrus contains also the calculation as to the area of a circle, the quadrature of a circle, and the cubic measurement of the pyramids.-- Harper's Weekly. Peculiar Affliction. A case of "giants' disease," or acro- f tegaly, Is reported from Low Moor, radford, Yorkshire, England. The patient, Mr. Harry Faulkner, of More- ly-court, Low Moor, a man of thirty, states that he wa8 a normal boy up to the age of fourteen, when his toes and jaw began to grow very large. He continued his employment on the railway at Bradford, but at twenty- one had to cease work, as his frame had grown so much and he had be­ come weak. He was then seven feet tall and weighed over seventeen stone. The utmost caution had to be taken In walking, as his limbs came out of Joint easily. He Is still growing, and his left hip has become so large as to prevent him from standing upright He is able to sit up for only a few hours each day, and is provided with a special chair of large proportions. He says that he Is never free from pain, and has lost the sight of one eye. Mr. Faulkner's parents are both about medium height, as are his broth­ er and sister. Musical Walls. "Is is possible," said the renting agent, "that all my apartirtfents will have to undergo a musical test? It looks that way. Half a dosen prospec­ tive tenants have refused to rent until they have tested the acoustics of Jhe apartments. They were singers, pian­ ists, violinists and harpists, and they said that unless the walls were suffi­ ciently resonant they would be unable to tell whether they were producing satisfactory tones. "It appears that there is a great dif­ ference in the musical qualities of flats. Some are so constructed that they are very sensitive to music. They give the best results to students and professionals. When I divide my musical sheep from the goats I shall be able to rent to better satisfaction all around. Those who like music can take the musical apartments; those who don't like it tl^p non-mus- fcal. That will do away with a big lot of kicking." American Raisin Industry. \ The largest importation of raisins on record was that of 1884, when a total of 64,000,000 pounds entered the country, as against but 2,500,000 pounds In the fiscal year 1811. The marked falling off in Importations of raisins to the result of the rapid in­ crease in domestic production, which first attained commercial importance in the early seventies. The American raisin industry had its beginning in the great San Joaquin valley of Cali­ fornia, which is still the chief pro­ ducing area in the United States. In 1873 the California crop was but 120,- 000 pounds, while in 1910 it had grown to 112,000.000 pounds. While theso figures suggest a growing consump­ tion of raisins, the per capita con­ sumption of raisins In the United States in 1910 was but one and one- half pounds, compared with five pounds la the United Kingdom.