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HEN FEVER.
My Henny's pot the chicken craze.
I'll lot you have the cue.
He's cackling 'bout the hen that lays
And crowing somewhat too.
He's going to buy a hatch machine
And send for high priced eggs.
He's building coops and brooder things
Most running off his legs.
But that's the way 'tis every year.
And when the season's done;
There'll be the same old chickens hen
As when the year begun.
If your old man gets chicken craze,
Just tell him he's a dear,
For when he's got the chicken craze
He's not out guzzling beer.
C. M. B.
THAT BRASS ROOSTER.
Not the one on the weather vane, but
the yellow quilled fellow that will soon
haven brazen hackle and saddle feath
ers, and you do wish him to kee[
white as snow.
Can't blaine you, for white birds arc
the fad—not simply because they 100 l
pretty on a green lawn, lay eggs am
taste for more, but our good cooks
don't like dressed chickens that look
like yellow cushions stuck full ol
mourning pius.
Yes, you are anxious to keep youi
Hocks. Dottes and Leghorns suowj
stay-white.
You don't want your chicken house
to look like a junk shop full of twe
legged brass kettles. Well, brasslnes:
Is simply a matter of too much fat
The large breeds especially will put
on fat if you feed them that way, am
that way is generally yellow corn, am
yellow corn is the main cause of brass!
ness.
A chicken owner growls out: "Tin
greedy things won't lay. I can't make
them lay, and they eat like hogs."
Yes, there's "hog corn" scattered ev
erywhere, and his White Itoeks are fal
as hogs and yellow as butter.
You'd think his hens would lay cori
mullins. The trouble with many peo
pie is they feed a fattening ration in
stead of one for eggs. They feed al
carbohydrates and no proteids. It's
corn, corn, corn—fat and brass. Tlicii
hens are great for the cook pot, but ni
for nest.
Are you the fellow that weighs his
chickens every week and shouts thi
extra ounce across to your next neigh
bor, who gathers lots of eggs? Well
the difference is just here—you raisi
hen fat at 12 cents a pound, and IK
produces egg 3 at 40 to CO cents a dozen
lie uses less feed, his hens are whitt
and healthy, and he has a good egj
profit.
Your corn bill makes you poor. Youi
chickens are laying on fat for apo
plexv, and your lazy hens and roosters
look like a patch of goldenrod.
Now, if you're not mad. listen longer
Don't feed more than 20 per cenl
corn—white corn for white birds, and
not too much of that.
If you have fed creaminess or brass
into the plumage, feed it out, using nc
corn for a month. >
Cook pot panacea cures confirmee!
brassiness.
If your hens are very fat. starve there
down and make them scratch for everj
grain in deep litter.
Feed little corn at the time when old
hens molt and blood is in the quills
of young chickens.
Too much heat may affect the healtli
of chicks so their feathers will noi
come perfect, but we do not believe
sunshine makes brassiness.
When we have to pass parasols rouu'J
to the Biddies and decorate our long
tailed roosters with sunbonnets to keep
off freckles we will adjourn sine die.
CHESTNUTS.
The complaints about fruit in poultry
yards may lead to something entirely
different. The fowls get most of the
fruit that falls, and what they miss is
fouled.
At Irish Valley, near Shamokin, Pa.,
Is an Italian chestnut grove of 000,00 C
trees that bear and a nursery of 130,-
000 young trees. The yield the past
year was 2,000 bushels, which were
sold at sl2 per bushel. These trees
are all grafted on our ordinary young
chestnut sprouts and grow on was
ground. They are extremely hardy,
not tall and require very little atten
tion. At the same time they pay big
profit.
Is not this a solution of the question,
"What fruit can we plant in our poul
try yards and on free range that will
not be spoiled by the poultry?"
DO NTS.
Don't use slugshot for vermin. It's
a sure chicken and louse killer.
Don't lose your temper at a contrary
cluck. Urge her not to do what you
want, and she will do it. Kemember
she is n female hen.
Don't envy the other fellow. When
you see the birds that he brags up you
~ay laugh yourself full and tip your
hat and apologize to your poorest cull.
All Is not gold that's told.
Don't rush the growler. If yon are
doing growliug stunts g!) out and growl
with the bulldog. He will teach yon
some new- doggerel duets and give yon
some choice lessons in backbiting.
QUACKERY.
Are you a chicken quack T Shake!
We are glad you aren't a hatchet fiend.
They tell you "it seldom pays to doc
tor a sick chicken." Well, here are
10C big Hocks. They show signs of
roup. You may lose a half dozen In
treatment, but the hatchet remedy
cleans up the coop. Yes, that was
civil war surgery. "Saw off that leg,"
and off it came till legs and arms piled
even with the window sill. Oslerlze
your chickens? Well, we don't. The
investigation of disease lias led to a
system of symptoms, causes and cures
for poultry ailments that's a blessing
to poultryman and fowl alike.
DON'T 3.
I">on't quote Scripture to the man
who swindles you. It's casting pearls
before swine.
Ilon't feed your chickens rot and ex
pect them to be fit to eat and lay pure
eggs. It's rotten.
Don't carry chickens by the legs.
It's barbarous business. Ducks are
carried by the neck. Kubber!
Don't sell salt, lime, glass or storage
eggs for fresh stock. It's a mighty
sneaky fox that never gets caught.
Don't let your wife get the reputa
tion of having all the chicken knowl
edge on the place. It shows you're
lazy.
Don't pretend that you have good
stock to make a sale. Chickens of
that breed always come home to
scratch.
Don't get crazy if your neighbor's
hen flies over the fence, especially
when your "yaller" dog tracks all the
porches In town. Hiss!
Don't get chicken crazv and mort
gage your house to buy Incubators.
When the sheriff comes In at the door
chicken fever flies out at the window.
Don't get the chicken fever simply
because the other fellow won a sliver
cup. Not every honest fellow gets a
silver cup, and all is not silver that
shines.
Don't get the blues if eggs drop In
price. The farmer's pullets are mak
ing their de' ut. But, If a manager,
you are getti.ig more eggs now than
ever, and the quantity makes up for
I lower price.
THE BACK YARD FANCIER.
Is be a new bird? Xo; he is older
even than his oldest hen, and she is
related to the cock that crew thrice.
Is he restricted to any locality? No;
| be is everywhere. Ills rooster chal-
I lenge in Maine is answered by a
Shanghai in Porto Rico. Ills Plymouth
j Hock's clarion to the sun as It rises
from the Atlantic is shouted back by
i the cocks of Honolulu and Manila bay,
where they raise game chickens for re
| llglous purposes. You have the back
i yard fancier in your own town. He is
so near that when bis hen cackles over
a new laid egg it wakens the baby.
Ills roosters crow so loudly on n Sun-
I day morning that you are cheated out
I of a half day's sleep.
This gentleman of back lotters has
thus far succeeded in confining the
chicken fever to a small area. If it
i succeeds in reaching the solar plexus,
j he will soon have a bad case of poultry
farm. His stock is "fair to middlin'"
and generally provides eggs for the
family cakes and custards and an oc
casional roast for the preacher.
Does poultry pay him? It does. If
lie makes a little profit, his investment
| Is small, and he can rejoice. If he
Just makes the feed, ho can buy eggs
and roasts no cheaper, and his prlnci
i pal has waxed fat. If he falls a little
j back, ho must remember that eggs
; from his own hens and roasts from his
, own pens are more delicious and val
! uable than an unknown quantity.
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
i When you look round for eggs for
j hatching, don't get the cheap kind.
Too many Canadian chickens are ;
crossing the line to suit some northern 1
fanciers.
California business men are offering |
Inducements to poultryraen to settle in i
that state. A fine flock of White Log- |
horns would look mighty pretty in an j
orange grove.
If you have done your best to get a \
hatch from that old claptrap incubator
and only half succeeded, what's tho j
use to try, try again? Buy a depend- i
able machine and you'll quit swearing. 1
"I'm dirty, and John's dirty, too," re- J
plied a lady when asked the age of her- j
self and husband. In her case she j
was dirty and yet clean, but some j
poultrymen are never above being j
dirty and yot are overdirty.
Pennsylvania raised over 400,000\
green ducks in 1907. Old .TelT and the j
University of Pennsylvania turned out I
a drove of young green quacks, but !
they are now outdone. Cornell has cs- j
tablished a chair of poultry husbandry, j
W ill Old .Toff and the I'. of P. still keep
their slow waddle, or have they enough
quack specialists?
When strictly fresh eggs are taken j
to tho store tho grocer should allow an j
even trade at the retail price. If the I
pcaltryman drops below the retail egg I
price, then the grocer should lower the
price on goods exchanged. No fair
dealer will demand two profits. A dog j
in the manger is bad, a hog in the |
hen's nest is worse, but a cross of dog
and bog In a business deal is a blue I
ribbon hybrid.
j The prevalence of soft corn Is af
! fording a problem for farmer, miller,
stock raiser and poultryman to worry
i over. In some states half the corn Is
moldy. We have saved ours by run-
I ning it through tho power cutter and
feeding it cob and all. But where's
| the corn to come from next summer?
i Tho duck men will yell the loudest,
but these soft roaster fellows ought
; to leap for joy.
CJ
Kising In the World.
j The mountain village of Artigue, In
the I.uclior region, in France, is being
gradually raised in elevation. Forty
years ago the village was not visible
from Luchon. Now it can be clearly
seen and bills fair to become a strik
ing object to the entire plain of Lu
chon. It is believed that the moun
tain ledge on which it stands is slowly
undergoing a rotary movement.
Golfer —Dear, dear! There cannot be
worse players than myself!
Caddie—Weel, maybe they're worse
players, but they dinna play!
At tho Wind's Mercy.
"Scrogglns Is always boasting about
his new balloon."
"That's all it's good for."
"What's all It's good for?"
"To blow about."—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Use For Them All.
Tou have three pairs of glasses, pro
fessor."
"Yes; 1 use one to rend with, one to
see nt n distance and the third to find
the other two."
There is nothing worse for mortals
than n vagabond Ufo. —Hmner.
I CHECKING|
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CopvrtaM, 1908, bu E. C. Pareelb. <f>
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"Is it true that your father's bank
cannot stand the run?" asked Sydney-
Ware. Eunice Whitehead nodded.
"Dad says that he cannot meet the
run before the current funds will be
come exhausted," she said. "That
means that tho bank will have to be
closed down. He Is solvent, but ho
sent too much of the currency to town
to be put out at the high interest they
are paying now."
"The run is only on the savings de
partment," said Sydney. "That should
not bother him much."
"It will break his heart," she re
turned, "if the bank has to close down
even for a couple of days. Dr. Dunn
ham says that ho Is afraid It will give
father a shock which will leave its
permanent imprint on him."
"He can make his home with us If
the bank falls," said Ware. "It may
be for the best, so far as we are con
cerned."
"That's what I came to talk to you
about," said Eunice gravely. "If tho
bank fails, Syd, I shall have to give
you up, dear. Father would never con
sent to share a home with a Ware, and
I could not leave him."
"You were willing enough to leave
him last week," suggested Sydney.
"That was before the trouble came,"
she reminded. "Then ho had his bank
and his friends. If he loses ono, he
will probably lose most of the others,
and my place is with him."
Sydney nodded gloomily Thirty years
before Joshua Whitehead and Cyrus
Ware had been rival suitors for the
hand of pretty Nellie Morton. White
head had won, and Ware had never
forgiven him his victory. Whitehead
had then just founded tho First Na
tional bank of Carrsville, and Ware
had drawn his funds from the bank
and hail vowed that he would never
patronize the Institution. Such bank
ing as he had done was transacted
through an institution In the next
town, but Ware had conceived a dis
trust for all banks, and most of the
largo fortune which he had accumu
lated was stored In gold and bills and
bonds in the huge vault In the knit
ting mills, a vault as largo and as safe
as that in the bank.
But In the second generation the
feud was not carried on. Eunice White
head and Sydney Ware had fallen in
love with each other and, realizing the
uselessness of asking parental sane
tion, haa agreed io eiope wu
giveness afterward.
To Eunice it seemed almost a pun
ishment for her contemplated sin that
the run on the bank should have com
menced the very day they had set for
their marriage. Instead of meeting
Sydney with her suit case In hand she
had come to tell him that her plate 1
was by her father In his hour of trou
ble.
| Mrs. Whitehead had died shortly aft
er her little daughter was born, and
Eunice had bravely striven to take the
place of her gentle mother in her fa
ther's house. She could not leave him
In his extremity even for the man she
I loved.
For awhile they sat on the fallen
trunk which formed the seat In their
rustic parlor. Yalnly Sydney sought
to urge the girl to his views, but he
could not shake her resolution, and
' Eunice had just risen togo when there
came the sound of some one crashing
through the underbrush, and Cyrus
Ware came into view.
Ills eyes flashed as he caught sight
of the suit case that Sydney had
brought with him, and he turned to
his son.
"So It appears that you are going
away," said Cyrus. "I suppose that
this young woman is to be your com
panion in your travels. She will need
some one to support her now that her
father has wrecked his bank."
"Ho has not wrecked his bank, and
I am not going away with Sydney,"
cried Eunice, with spirit. "i)ad is
afrnid that he cannot meet this run
and will have to shut tho doors, but
he did uot —reck the bank. lie will
be able to pay dollar for dollar. I was
pohig to elope with Sydney, but now
tny* place is by my father's side, and I
came to tell Syd that I could not go."
"But you were willing to sneak away
like a couple of thieves and be mar
ried secretly," taunted Cyrus. "I sup
pose that the plan was yours and you
entangled this boy."
"That Is not so," said Sydney hotly.
i"lt has taken me a year and more to
persuade Eunice to elope. We knew
j that there was no use asking either her
| father or mine, and we did not see
j why your absurd stubbornness should
| spoil our happiness."
| Cyrus stared at his son. Like most
! men of dominant personality, he secret,
ly admired spirit In others. It was the
j llrst time that Sydney had ever taken
so bold a stand against a parental edict;
and he felt a thrill of satisfaction even
while he spoke.
"I guess you'll find happiness without
having togo to Josh Whitehead's
daughter for it,"he said harshly. "I
want a girl I can recognize as my
daughter, not the child of a bank
wrecker."
Eunice sprang forward at the taunt.
"You are a nasty, wicked old man."'
she cried. "You know that you ar#
saying what Is not true. 1 believe thtl
you started this run because you knew
that most of the country banks had
sent their surplus to the city to take
advantage of the money market. It is
you who are a bank wrecker. I hate
you!"
She stamped her foot to emphasize
her words, and something in the ges
ture brought back to Cyrus' memory n
far earlier day when these same words
were spoken. He and Josh and Nellie
had been out nutting—three children
with no thought of marriage.
lie had killed a bird with a stono
and had brought It to Nellie, proud of
his prowess. Instead of the praise ho
had expected, she turned on him and
scolded l)im for his wanton act.
Eunice in her auger was very like her
mother, and the whole scene came back ;
v him as vividly as thoush it had been
jr c» "wry any nwa
of a remlnlscenw of forty years and'
more.
He looked into the eyes that were BO
like those he had loved In the long ago
and partly turned away. For the first
time he realized why Whitehead had
won. Nellie had admired his gentle
ness even while she feared Cyrus'
roughness. Perhaps, after nil, he, Cyrus,
had been more to blame for his loss
than had his old playfellow.
"You two goon with your spooning,"
he said gruffly, anil they could not see
that tho shrewd gray eyes were filled
with tears.
Cyrus stumbled blindly along tho
half defined path that led to the road.
He was living over again his boyhood
days, and he found therein much to re
gret.
There was a howling mob about the
bank. Tho employees of half a dozen
big mills had token the day off to res
cue their money from the fancied dan
ger, and they clamored about the doors.
As fast as those in the bank obtained
their money they were let out and
others were admitted. The tellers were
paying out as slowlyas possible in the
hope of being able to tide over the day.
On tho morrow they might expect help
from the city.
Cyrus Ware stamped his way up the
steps, tho crowd giving way before
him. The watchman at tho door let
him lu at once, and, without explana- j
tlon, Ware pushed his way Into the
president's office, where Whitehead i
puzzled over long columns of figures, j
lie did not hear Ware's entrance, and \
not until Cyrus' hand fell upon his !
shoulder did he look up.
"Josh," he said thickly, "I've been a
blamed fool for more years than I care j
to remember, but that's no sign I've j
got to keep onto the end of my days. ;
I've got about $109,000 out there In my I
wagon. I want to open an account." !
For a moment Whitehead glanced :
into the other man's face and saw in
nis eyes the inute appeal tor reconcili
ation which Cyrus could not frame in
words. Their hands met in a clasp ,
that wiped nway the memory of bitter
years, and together they went out of j
the office to where a guard of men
stood over the boxes. Already the j
news that Cyrus Ware was going to
deposit had broken the rush, and the
crowd had materially lessened.
The two men stood on the step su- {
periutendlng the removal of the cur
reney. Cyrus passed Whitehead a ci-;
gar. "I'm glad I've squared up old
accounts in opening a new one," he
said, with a ponderous effort nt care
lessness. "You see, our young people
are planning to get married."
CHARMS FOR LUCK.
Th* Sort of Superstitions Some Wall
Street Men Harbor.
Let all the dear readers, feminine
fender, take cognizance of what fol
lows, for surely the fairer sex is, after
all, the stronger sex. Women know no
such abject obedience to superstitious
fears and signs as do the men. With
a view to eliciting something of inter- I
est, the writer had a chance to put a
certain question to a captain of indus
try. "Tut, tut," he replied suspicious
ly, "you'd be getting me into trouble,
would you?" With a promise that no
names would be mentioned, he finally
agreed to tell a thing or two.
The question was, "Aren't men in
Wall street carrying all sorts of queer
things to try to change their luck?"
In answer to this the writer heard
some curious stories. One man of
worldwide fame, for example, carries
a cane In the center of which there is
a slender steel rod. Circling the rod
there are rlugs made of leather and of
hard rubber, like the washers that
plumbers use. Each seventh ring is
made of leather from the soles of the
shoes worn by the billionaire during
what he considered his luckiest year.
Elephants and pigs as lucky charms
there are of course in plenty, but the ,
proper caper is to wear the animal :
pinned Inside on the watch fob pocket. >
Then there Is another great financier
who carries with him a gold Ink well
and would never sign a document with
fluid from another receptacle. Once i
upon a time, when he had, say, only a :
picayune million or two, he signed a
paper In a deal that doubled, then tre- j
bled, his wealth. The ink used that
day was emptied Into a long gold tube
or well that ho now carries. The Ink
was used tip, but to the well, so he
thinks, the good luck power has been
translated. Lucky coins pass from fa
ther to son In several of the multimil
Honalre families, and the man who in- |
herlts them would never lie without j
them. We have few secret drawers in
flesks or doors In houses, as they had
In olden times, but there are many se- |
cret pockets in the suits made by 1
smart tailors.—Brooklyn Life.
At One Fell awoop.
'Have you got any of those preparti
tions for removing superfluous hair?"
asks the man who enters the drug store
with a firm tread %nd a set counte
nance.
"Yes, sir," answers the druggist.
"Give me a pint. I want to use It on
my head."
"But, man, you haven't got any su
perfluous hair on your head. You're
nearly bald now."
"I know it. And I've got so aggra
vated and tired watchin»the confound
ed hair leaking off day by day that I
want to remove the rest of It at one
sweep and have the agony over."
Shakespeare Notwithstanding.
"Is there any tiling In a ma me?" In
quired tho man with mouse colored
whiskers. "You can bet there is.
Name a boy Stuyvesant or Van Rens
selaer or Gouverneur and he'll never
hold anything but a first class job.
Nobody will ever dare ask him to swab
windows or mop floors. And by the
time he's forty he'll be bend of a
trust company and director In twenty
seven prominent concerns. Oh, yes;
there's a heap In a name, lemme tell
you."—Washington Herald
The Infallible Man.
Tho most dull and wlshy washy man
tn all the world must be he who never
made a mistake. But he Is double
dyed when ho Trtll make no. mistake
himself and lose sleep over the mis
takes of his neighbor. Manchester
Union.
Men'i Waye.
TV> often hear women criticised for
their queer v.ays of dning things, but
we rlw to call attention to the queei
waya many good men have of not do I
tag thin S».—lla!lock Knterprls#
CAR) "OS THE S,"
Wisconsin Representative Tells
How Good Bills Are Killed.
EAGER TO AID CONSTITUENTS
Circular Letter Mailed to Them, Which
He Expect* to Do Some Good—Ac
companied by Double Allotment of
Beeds and Offer of Farm Bulletins.
William J. Cary, who represents one
of the Milwaukee districts In the house
of representatives. Is keeping his con
stituents thoroughly Informed about
affairs In Washington. Mr. Cary Is
serving his first term In congress. He
had some legislative experience before
coining to the capital, and accordingly
In his three months' life ns a maker of
the nation's laws ho has not been be
guiled by the leaders.
As a rule, the new congressman
changes his Impressions of Washington
when he has been' here a month or
two. Along this line a story is told of
a western representative who came to
Washington some years ago breathing
hostility to every kind of corporate
wealth, especially railroad corporations.
Six weeks later he was a changed man
and confided to one of his friends that
the railroads "are all right." lie con
fessed that observation and experience
had convinced him of the error of his
position in believing transportation
companies enemies of the public.
"Why," he continued, "I'm for the rail
roads, and, for all I care, they can
make a roundhouse out of statuary
| hall."
j Representative Cary is not this kind
I of a congressman. He is "on the job"
for the people and has informed the
folks back home that he has found a
deplorable condition of affairs In Wash
-1 ingtou, says a special correspondent of
1 the New York Post. He has discovered
also, he says, the way that good bills
1 are killed.
: In order that the voters of the Fourth
Wisconslu district may have an ac
curate account of his congressional
stewardship Mr. CY.ry lias prepared a
circular letter which he is sending out.
In the upper right band corner of the
letter Is a half tone likeness of the Mil
waukee representative and below it the
label of the typographical union. Mr. J
Cary was a telegraph operator before
ho entered public life and has Intro-1
duced several bills to regulate the af
fairs of the telegraph companies.
It appears from Sir. Cary's letter that
his committee work in Washington
takes so much of his time that he can
not go into details in explaining what j
he has found sinco he became a nation
al legislator. He is a member of two
commltlees, District of Columbia and
ventilation, and acoustics. The last
named meets on alternate leap years.
Every senator and representative
gets an annual allotment of 15,000
packages of garden seed and an equal
allotment of farmers' bulletins. It was
to accompany his seeds and bulletins
that Mr. Cary prepared his circular let
ter. Hear him:
"I am writing u hasty note to Inclose
with your seed and to explain that I
oould not get all the varieties you
wanted, as the government seed ware
house burned down and ruined all the
seed originally gathered. However, 1
Inclose a double allotment of every
kind of seed In the seed department
and hope you will find plenty to suit,
if you need more, just write me. I In
close a list of farm bulletins. If you
want any of these, Just mark the num
bers and send the list to me. You can
mark ns many as you wish.
"I find affairs in Washington just
about as described in the campaigns.
If some of the people knew what their
representatives do here they would lie
, astounded. It Is a terrible menace to
the welfare of our country to see men
here doing all they can to prevent bills
going through congress for the benefit
of the people, sneaking into corners to
whisper to corporation lawyers and at
tending dinners and receptions given
by men who have special bills to pass
Instead of attending their committee
meetings for the good of the people. I
have Introduced several gnod bills, one
of them the farmers' denatured alcohol
bill, which will enable the fanner to
make alcohol out of the waste material
on his farm and use it to light and heat
his house, pump his water and run his
farm machinery with the stuff he now
throws away. This is explained '• j
John Dickert's letter on the e-'Uorial
page of the Fi io Press of Fob. 17. I
will send you a copy of the bill and
say more about it later, as I am too
busy now with committee work to do
It A plan of killing a good bill Is to
call two or three committee meetings
at the same time so that a congress
man cannot get to them all, and they
kill his L»II1 In one committee while he
is attending the other. However. I j
learned a few things myself while I )
was alderman and sheriff, and these j
fellows have found out that they can
not put me up a tree.
"I Inclose newspaper whieli printed
an editorial about me here. If there is
anything I can get you here, just drop
me a line. Please write and let me
know If you get the seed."
It is Mr. Cary's idea that a letter like
this ought to help some.
Have You Got "Mollycocidleitis?"
"Mollycoddleltis" is the latest disease,
according to I>r. H. VV. Wiley, chlel
chemist of the department of agricul
ture. In a speech at the University
crab in Washington the other night he
said:
"The man who never has taken u
drink of alcoholic liquor or the mac
who says, with a supercilious air, 'I
do not drink,' Is afillctod with 'molly
coddlettis.'"
The disease Is quite rare.
A Cannon Anecdote.
Speaker Cannon one evening stood In
the reeelvlnK lino nt the Washington
residence of Vice President Fairbanks
passing kindly word and grip with
friends as tboy c; me along, says the
Chicago Post. At length his own daugh
ter approached, and, drawing up his
spare frame, he grasped her hand in
formal fashion and Inquired, with a
well assumed disinterestedness, "Your
name, please?" "Lydla Plnkham," re
plied Miss Cannon amiably. "Well,
Lydln, my dear, we are well met." tbr
ipeaker responded, "for 1 guess there'.
Just about as much good In your rep t
iles as there Is In m>- preeldi ntla.
boom."
ERRORS INJURS
Lord Welby Points Out Ameri
ca's and Suggests a Remedy.
EXPERT COMMISSION NEEDED
Let It Frame Laws to Improve Cur
rency, Advises Great British Finan
cier—Tells of the Danger In Having
Panic After Panic.
No man stands higher In the world
of financial science than Lord Welby.
He was Gladstone's right bund adviser
In financial affairs. As a member of
the first London county council he es
tablished the existing system of financ
ing the metropolis. For a score of
years, as permanent undersecretary
of the treasury, he practically con
trolled England's financial affairs. Re
tired now, he watches the world with
the keen observance of intimate un
derstanding, particularly the United
States. To the New York World's spe
cial correspondent at London he re
cently said:
"I have read President Roosevelt's
recent message, and I think Europe
regards him as a man of great force
and ability and has confidence in his
absolute integrity. You have great
problems to solve and conditions to
remedy. We have an Interest in what
you do. Fifty years ago the financial
world was divided into separate money
centers. Slow means of communica
tion caused each capital to be depend
ent to a great extent upon its own re
sources.
"Now, however, the entire financial
world is combined. The old centers
are closely interwoven. What affects
one affects the other. Therefore your
financial panic and its causes are of
much interest to us in London. If our
financial structure had not been very
sound I hesitate to think what might
have happened to us at the time of
your October crash. As it was we pull
ed through practically without a fail
ure. I will not say wo did not feel its
effects.
"It strikes me that you have serious
need of remedying your conditions.
You cannot goon having panic after
panic every few years. It weakens
both your prestige and your structure.
America has wonderful natural re
sources and has made wonderful prog
ress. We divide that progress into two
classes—the legitimate and the Illegiti
mate. The legitimate you must care
fully foster. It is very easy to over
step the llue and cripple it. Ilasty, ill
advised legislation often proves worse
than no legislation at all. lam a firm
believer in liberalism, in freedom of '
action, of too few rather than too many \
hampering laws, and, having found.tbe j
best remedy, apply it.
"There seems to be general agree- j
ment that your currency system has !
proved inadequate, and various legis- !
iatlve measures are proposed to im-!
prove it If I may venture a sugges- j
tlon, I would say that beforo adopting |
hasty laws It might be well to get the j
advice of an expert commission on |
what ia best to l>e done. Choose a
body of men—distinguished men who
understand the subject thoroughly and, j
above all, men who have the confldcuce
of the public—and let them draft the
needed reforms. You have men who j
are above personal interest.
"To my mind, one of the greatest j
evils of any nation is the influence of i
pernicious lobbying in behalf of spe- j
rial Interests. Having obtained the rec- |
ommendations of your experts, enact j
legislation lu accordance. Then the
chances are that you will have fewer
mistakes to correct than might happen
after hasty action.
j "You will pardon my criticism that
one important thing you lack in the
j United States is concentrated, forceful
public opinion. lam speaking now In
reference to what I call your illegitl
! mate pi-ogress. Your people do not
seem to put into practical effect their
condemnations. They permit evils to
' continue and patronize them because of
the temporary profits they derive. They
; do not always withdraw their support
and frown down upon practices that
are wrong. You need that kind of pub
j lie opinion which will inflict Its punish
! ments upon wrongdoers. This force
need not always come from the general
public. It may lie confined to a small
circle.
j "There is no law in England to pre
vent a bank from devoting as much of
its funds as its directors please to sup
porting any stock speculation or enter
ing a r'jky undertaking. But such
things juickly become known to other
bankf.s, and the practice is chocked
by their disapproval.
"The position of your trust compa
nies, combining banking with trustee
ship, seems strange. You have plenty
of banks to afford ample banking fa
cilities without the trust companies',
which appear to enjoy rather wide lat
itude. This condition, 112 believe, needs
remedying.
"Although the people of the United
States aro exceptionally active and
progressive, yet they aje curiously con
servative in stamping out evil customs
that have gradually grown* up. They
hesitate to remedy and are slow to
punish."
Railroad Discrimination.
The Big Four railroad —Cleveland,
Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis
has its foot in it good and proper
at Tana, 111. The young ladies of the
town are beauless now just because
the Big Four time table has changed
and the Sunday night train fails to stop
at Shelbyvllle, 111. The rnilroad will
either lie compelled to change the or
der of Its trains or Shelbyvllle will
have a surplus of bachelors and Pana
will have an old maids' club In the near
future.
Took Kindly to tha Water.
They tell this story of the experience
of two Maine boys In trying to catch
a woodchuck:
They had tried quite a number of
times to capture the animal, but un
successfully. At last they decided to
drown him out; so, procuring four
pails, each took two, and they carried
water for two solid hours and poured
It into the hole in the ground In which
the said chuck had taken up his abode.
Getting tired, they sat down. After
about half an hour the woodchuck
cautiously left the hole and deliberate
ly walked down to the brook and took
a long drink of water and then scooted,
much to UMI dUumst of tha two ho«*
DIE INTERSTATE CLIIB
Organization Near Chattanooga
Is For Whole Nation.
BOTH FOR LIONS AND LAMBS
Prominent Men cf All Parties on Its
Roster—Splendid Property Will Cost
Millions and Be Miles In Extent.
Preserves For Game and Fisli.
»> amen s riage, near"Chafoinooga,
Tetin., will. If certain large plana now
afoot go through. become within a year
or two the home of the greatest coun
try club in America, If not in the world.
The organization, which will be
known as the Interstate club, has al
ready been formed and Is founded on
the Idea that there Is room In the
United States for a great nonpolitical,
nousectional association to which citi
zens, big and little, of every state in
the Union may repair for recreation
and friendly Intercourse.
The club will have a distinguished
membership. Senator J. C. S. Rlack
buni of Kentucky is president, and
President Roosevelt, Vice President
Fairbanks, former President Grover
Cleveland and William J. Bryan are
members. Some of the vice presidents
are Secretaries Hoot and Taft, Speaker
Cannon, Leslie M. Shaw, Truman 11.
Aldrich, Joseph Sibley, Nicholas Long
worth, Charles S. Towne, Robert J.
Lowe and Senator McLaurln.
The club is chartered under the laws
of Tennessee and has acquired large
tracts of land on Waiden's ridge, con
tiguous to the Tennessee river and in
the vicinity of famous Signal point.
The site for the clubhouse is on a
high plateau overlooking thirty miles
of beautiful country. The extensive
plans contemplate the erection of an
amphitheater and the maintenance of
fisheries, game preserves, golf links,
polo grounds nnd a trotting track and
the building of an electric railway from
the level of the Tennessee river to the
clubhouse doors.
Engineers are now at work layinjr
out within the club grounds an auto
mobile boulevard that will be thirty
two miles long and eighty feet r.\ :
By reason of the vast tract owned by
the club and the tableland formation
the curves of the boulevard will be so
few and so gradual as to bo hardly
curves at all.
Another plan Is to make the club
members profit by certain locks and
dams now being built across the Ten
nessee river. The clubhouse site has
been fixed at a point that will overlook
what will be a three mile lake when
the locks nnd dams are complete. By
means of the lake it will bo possible
for members togo from New York and
other places clear to the club float in
yachts.
The initial outlay for improvemento
will run into the millions. The club
house alone will cast $1,000,000 and the
automobile course $500,000.
The club will be Inaugurated on June
25 at a banquet on the club property.
Men of prominence will lie present.
There is to be nothing exclusive about
the Interstate club. Founded with the
Idea that it should be nonpartisan and
nonsectlonal, it will seel; to attract
men from the country over. The ex
penses of membership will be small,
SSO initiation fee and about the same
amount yearly dues.
With a membership of from 250,000
to 1,000,000 it Is expected the club will
have no difficulty In the way of financ
ing Itself. All money received as Initia
tion and dues will goto defray club
expenses and to the reduction of such
debt as th° ""•<*anization may assume
at Its bogii. g.
Although the club is nonpartisan and
nonpolitical, its projectors believe it
will wield a large influence in national
and industrial affairs through its op
portunities of informal discussion. Men
of prominence and influence can meet
there, talk there and obtain the opin-
ions of others there without fear of
committing themselves to anything and
without fear of what they may say
being considered official.
Work on the clubhouse will probably
be commenced next summer. When fin
ished, it will on account of its south
erly position be n convenient all year
round resort for Its members.
Man and His Sweet Tooth.
"If you want to have that tradltio:
upset about women only having a
sweet tooth," remarked the stenogra
pher who works downtown, "just gt
into a quick lunch room occasionallj
and watch the men who drink coffee
or chocolate with their midday meals
I give you my word I have seen not
one, but many men, put six lumps oi
sugar Into their one cup of coffee ot
chocolate and then eat apple pie that
is fairly covered with powdered sugar.'
Impatient Husband (tired of holding
his chin up)—lt's taking you an aw
fully long time to fix this necktie.
Laura. Patient Wife—You never used
to complain about the length of time
it took me to smooth out your necktie
before wo were married, George
Chicago Tribnne.
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