FOUR
j The Weekly News
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912.
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TO ADVANCE DAIRYING
The value of the butter and cheese
which the South buys from other parts
of the country is very large, running
into the millions of dollars; yet there
appears to be no good and sufficient
reason why the South should send
away from home for either butter or
cheese, in view of the excellent graz
ing and feeding facilities that we have
at our doors. Maybe we of the South
have not paid more attention to the
production of butter and cheese be
cause other things have been thought
more profitable. The time has come,
however, when dairying in the South
Is becoming an important industry.
We have had milk all along, of course,
but there are other profitable products
from the dairy besides fresh milk.
In following its policy of educating
the people along Its lines to make their
lands more profitable, the Southern
Railway is this season operating a
“dairy instruction car," equipped with
all the modern apparatus for making
the most of milk and what may be de
rived from it. The car has commenc
ed a tour of all of the Southern's ter
ritory. It will spend two weeks at
least in North Carolina, as much time
in South Carolina, probably three
Jfl»rey l weeks in Georgia, and then pass
| ‘lnto other states that offer pos-
I COr ltles of dairy development. The
E cc f.nal Department of Agriculture and
fate departments are co-operat-
H the railway company, so that
v4 ry sure the dairy school will be
an 0 .
in this section relatively
Ohutter for the market and no
We have not paid a great
~W Wii attention to butter, and we
Krot'itlMW h'6«r to make cheese. We
HuJ&fcft those things to Illinois. New
■Hrindiana and other Western and
NBHhern states, which are actually less
situated than we are for
B production of these articles. They
Eve had the enterprise, which we
bg.ve lacked apparently, to take up
Hh business and make money from it.
Bid we have contributed in no small
®ay to their wealth. Now, the idea
and purpose is to Interest our home
people in dairy and creamery products
and to show them the processes by
which those products may be turned
out most economically. The “dairy
car” is equipped with all modern ap
pliances and the lecturers accompany
ing it are experts. The tour of the
car ought to be followed by results
that will mean increased business for
the railroad company and increased
bank acounts for the farmers who at
tend the "school” and profit by its in
formation.
ANCIENT OR MODERN?
The superintendent of the normal
school at San Francico has sent out a
pamphlet to the high school teachers
of the state in which he pungent) y
asks: “Are we living A. D.. or B. C.?”
Hereafter, he wishes it to be under
stood. his institution will examine on
questions that "are now in the melting
pot of public discussion” rather than
on ancient or medieval history It
has given him no little concern, he
says, to find that while high school
graduates coming up to him for ex
amination have been able to give a
fair account of the activities of Cas
sius and Brutus and some of the oth
er insurgents who lived before the
time of trousers, they didn’t know
anything about La Follette, and Diaz
end the men who are making history.
They could tell of the siege of Troy,
but they were deficient when asked
what important legislation had been
enacted during the administration of
Cleveland, Harrison and Roosevelt,
and they didn't know the first living
thing about the tariff question. It t 3
the suggestion of the superintendent
that the high schools devote some
time to the study of the daily news
papers and the magazines, paying
especial attention to articles dealing
with current topics and men of the
day.
If the California high schools are
In a position to switch from and to
such studies as they please, they must
be operated under a very liberal law,
and one which would seem to promise
a change of studies with each change
of administration of the schools. As
a rule, public schools are told what
they must teach; their work is cut out
for them, and they are not permitted
to go beyond the line of demarkation.
It may be, and doubtless is, true that
there is a good deal of useless stuff
in the curriculums; but if the schools
give the pupils a good grip on the his
tory of Greece and Rome and medie
val Europe, they build for a better un
derstanding of modem politics. It is
an excellent idea to have the news
papers read in the schools, but whether
they are or not it to pretty certain that
the young people cf the schools are
going to do a good deal of reading on
their own hook. They want to, know
•bout the people at their own times
and they know pretty well where to
get the information.
It seems, though, that there might
be a modification of the matter, by
means of which the pupils would get
a little less of the old-time insurgents
who went bare-legged and stabbed in
the back with daggers, and more
about the modern, trousered Insurgents
who wield spears thut know no broth
er or strike only with daggers of
speech.
THE UNITED CONFEDERATE
VETERANS.
The sympathetic heart of Dixie will
turn to-day to Macon, where the great
reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans will be convened. It is be
lieved that the gathering will be one
of the most notable ever held under
the auspices of the organization. The
attendance upon it will be drawn from
all parts of the South, and literally
tens of thousands of veterans and their
descendants and friends will be pres
ent. It has been predicted, indeed,
that the population of the city will be
considerably more than double during
the reunion.
It is certain that abundant arrange
ments have been made for taking care
of the visitors. One thousand govern
ment tents have been pitched for the
old soldiers on the encampment
grounds, where an efficient commis
sary department—free—has been set
up. In addition to that, private resi
dences in all parts of the city have
been thrown open to the heroes of the
sixties, so that they will not lack in
the least for all of the creature com
forts.
The high-water mark of Confederate
reunions has already been passed, for
the very conclusive reason that the
veterans are dropping out of the ranks
so rapidly by the natural process of
elimination. The war ended forty
seven years ago, wherefore one who
was only big enough to tote a musket
and many boys did—must be now a
man well past the meridian of life and
whose head is ripening for the reaper.
Each reunion witnesses the pathetic
sight of thinned ranks and a host of
heroes moving inevitably to that
bourne from which no traveler ever
returns. Since the last roll-eall there
are many absentees, and when it is
called again there will be no response
to many of the names that will be
marked “here" at Macon. The pathos
of it is pitiable, but the veterans face
the “last enemy” as they did the tang
ible enemy on the field, unafraid.
But their excellent organization will
preserve their history in Its truth and
accuracy, and the Sons and Daughters,
through their societies, will keep alive
the memories of the glorious days
when the Stars and Bars floated over
armies as brave and daring and true
as ever went forth to battle for prin
ciple.
LIFE SAVING SERVICE ON GOV
ERNMENT TRANSPORTS.
Congress is making a very searching
Investigation as to the cause of such
a large loss of life in the Titanic ilto
aster and whether that ship was prop
erly equipped with life-saving service.
The understanding Is that it will ap
hear that there were not enough life
boats and life rafts to accommodate
half of the passengers and crew. It
is expected that legislation will fol
low, making it imperative that steam
ship companies sailing to and from
American ports shall be fully equipped
with life-saving boats and rafts.
A question that presents itself is
this; Why is U that Congress hasn't
provided sufiicient life-saving boats
and rafts on Us own steamers running
between home ports and the Philip
pines? A cavalryman stationed at
Fort Oglethorpe, Dodge, Ga., writes to
the New York Sun a letter in which
<he hope Is expressed that while Con
gress is requiring better life-saving
equipment on steamers plying between
this country and Europe it will adopt
measures requiring better life-saving
service on government transports. A
part of the letter Is as follows:
The ships are old; were not new
when the Spanish war obliged the gov
ernment to purchase anything it could
get at the time. Not one-third of the
passengers and crew could be accom
modated In the number of boats car
ried, even If they are seaworthy, which
is a matter of grave doubt. In addi
tion the route of these vessels does
not correspond with that of the liners
and steamships crossing the Pacific;
and even If they are equipped with a
wireless a transport would burn or
sink long before any vessel copld come
to Us assistance. .
Periodically the question of changing
the cuvse of the transports comes up,
but nothing is ever done. And so for
the sake of saving a few tons of coal
this government goes on endangering
the lives of hundreds of troops, offi
cers of the army and their families.
It 1s only a question of time when the
country will be again horrified by an
other wholesale sacrifice of human life.
Why not act now Instead of after it
has happened?
It is evident from the foregoing that
our government has been even more
careless, in so far as providing against
loss of life at sea is concerned than thin
great steamship companies. Its trans
ports, carrying many passengers bessc.es
troops and their crews, are woefully
lacking in lifeboats and life rafta, and
have been taking a route in gr/ng to
and coming from the Philippines that
is particularly dangerous siaiply to
save a few tons of coal. If one- of these
transports should meet wiDi disaster
and there should be great loss of life
because of the lack of '/feboats and
rafts Congress would be :j#bout as much
to blame as the stear.fship company
to which the Titanic 'belonged is for
the lose of life in the/Titanic disaster.
This fact will proba/jly be brought to
the attention of th* ; public when the
new legislation tore the safeguarding
of life at sea comr s up In Congress for
consideration.
THINGS THAT: MR. BRYAN HEARS
If he is tqr be credited in matters
purely political, Mr. Bryan hears some
strange things these days. For In
stance, in /his speech at Chillicothe, 0.,
on Mondiiy he said, in the course of
a speeci?. he delivered there, that he
"heard/' that the Underwood delegates
chosev t n Georgia and Florida were in
reality Harmon men. Why does Ua
uerjrood run fur Harmon in about six
THE WEEKLY HEWS (TWO-TDCES-A WEEK) THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912,
states 'in the South and Harmon run
for Underwood in a few in the North?”
In Washington yesterday Mr. Under
wood denied that he was running for
Harmon. He stated that he was run
ning for himself and no one else.
It pleases Mr. Bryan to throw dis
credit on Mr. Underwood's candidacy
whenever he can. The reason is evi
dent. Mr. Bryan, although not a can
didate in the primaries, is believed to
be trying to bring about a situation
in the Baltimore convention that will
enable him to get the nomination him
self. That is beginning to be the im
pression among Republican politicians
in Washington, and there are Demo
crats of prominence who have the
same impression. No delegates have
yet been named in Georgia. How then
could Mr. Bryan have heard they were
Harmon men.
Mr. Bryan is beginning to see that
there isn’t much if a chance for either
Mr. Clark or Gov. Wilson, and tHat
if he is to get the nomination he must
defeat Mr. Underwood and Gov. Har
mon. That is the meaning of his at
tack on those two candidates at Chilli
cothe. He is trying to turn away vot
ers in Ohio from Harmon, and in some
other states he will try to turn them
away from Mr. Underwood, as he did
in Florida.
It is true that Just now Gov. Har
mon doesn’t seem to have much pros
pect of getting the nomination, but
so shrewd and far-sighted a Democrat
as Gen. Roger Pryor of New York, In
an Interview in the American of that
city on Monday, said that he believed
that Gov. Harmon would get the nom
ination and that he would be elected.
There is a tremendously large element
in the Democratic party in the North
ern states that thinks that Mr. Under
wood will be the nominee. It is ap
parent therefore that Mr. Bryan has
very good grounds for endeavoring to
lessen the importance of the Under
wood and Harmon campaigns. I-le is
beginning to see that in order to get
the nomination himself he must de
feat Mr. Underwood and Gov. Harmon.
He is playing politics to the best of
his ability. If he is rightly understood
he believes that the Republicans will
nominate Col. Roosevelt and he has
faith in his ability to beat him, al
though he Is reported to have admitted
that he doubts if he could beat Mr.
Taft.
NO SECOND CHOICE INSTRUCT
IONS.
The Atlanta Journal puts forth the
claim that the Georgia delegation at
the Baltimore convention Is Instruct
ed to vote for Gov. Wilson as Its sec
ond choice, in the event it finds that
Mr. Underwood cannot get the nomi
nation. We do not recall that there
Is anything in the rules of the State
Democratic Committee under which the
primary was held that sustains this
claim. It seems to us that as good
Democrats desiring the success of the
party in the presidential campaign the
members of the Georgia delegation,
after fulfilling the obligation imposed
upon them by the primary will be
free to support the candidate that ap
pears to have the best chance of suc
cess. At the convention the situation
is likely to undergo rapid changes, and
the delegates will have an opportunity
to hear views of party leaders from
every part of the country expressed,
and hence will be in a position to .de
termine what is the wise thing for
the party to do.
Unless, therefore, the state conven
tion gives the delegation instructions
as to a second choice there will be
no obligation resting upon it to sup
port Gov, Wilson as its second choice.
The argument that because Gov.
Wilson ran second In the primary the
delegation must support him as Its
second choice Isn’t a sound one. It
Is fair to assume that Georgia voted
for Mr. Underwood because he stands
for certain policies, and not because
of a iiklng for him personally. If this
is the correct view why should Georgia
be compelled to support doctrines it
doesn't approve simply because its
choice of candidates failed to get the
support of a majority of the Baltimore
convention? I there should be other
candidates before the convention that
stund for the doctrines approved by
the majority of Georgia Democrats
why shouldn't the Georgia delegation
support one of them? In fact, if there
is a second preference obligation it is
to a candidate tint stands for the same
things as does the candidate for whom
the delegation As instructed.
The Georgia delegation to Baltimore
will take its instructions from the con
vention that names it and not from
the supporters of Gov. Wilson, though,
as far as we are able to see, there
is no good reason why the Wilson
supporters shouldn’t submit their ad
vice as freely as they want to. The
convention will no doubt receive It as
Information, particularly if it Is insist
ed, that the second preference shall be
Gf>v. Wilson. We don’t know what
oourse the state convention will pur
, sue, but the wise course would be to
let the delegates exercise their judg
ment after they have done all it is
possible for them to do to carry out
the will of the people of Georgia as
expressed in the primary. However,
we assume that the convention will
feel itself entirely, able to deal with
the situation.
CHANCE WROUGHT BY THE
WEEVIL.
According to Mr. H. M. Cottrell, ag
ricultural commissioner of the Rock
Island Railroad lines, the boll weevil
has largely changed Louisiana from a
cotton to a corn growing state. Now
the money crop there is corn. Before
the weevil made its appearance it was
cotton. And it has been found that
corn pays better than cotton did.
And what is worth noting is that
other ctops than cotton have come
with corn. The farmers have sud
denly found out that there are crops
their rich lands will produce that are
much more profitable than cotton ever
was. It took them a good while to
find it out, but now that they have
made the discovery Louisiana is to
be, in fact is, a state in which di
versified farming flourishes.
In the days when cotton was about
the only .crop corn was planted to a
limited extent, but sa little attention
was given to its cultivation that the
yield was very small. Twenty bushels
to the acre was thought to be a good
crop. Now, with improved seed and
careful cultivation, fifty bushels are
considered an average yield. It Is a
common thing to see great fields of
hundreds of acres that yield as much
as sixty bushels to the acre. Yields of
seventy and seventy-five bushels are
common and last year thirty boys av
eraged 100 bushels to the acre and one
grew a little more than 158 bushels
on an acre.
And much attention is being given
to hay, and with hay stock of a fine
grade is making its appearance. It
seems therefore that the boll weevil
'was a sort of blessing in disguise.
While the farmers in this state are
moving in the direction of diversified
farming slowly they are making pro
gress. And they will be glad that they
have given it attention when the boll
weevil reaches the state. They won't
be panic stricken because they under
stand that if they cannot grow cotton
they can grow corn and hay and raise
stock. But because they are finding
out what they can do by diversified
farming they ought not to cease to
make prepaiations for the coming of
the weevil. It is pretty certain that we
shall never have slx-cent cotton again.
The Roosevelt. Republicans of Penn
sylvania in making their platform the
other day said that the guiding spirit
of the American people raised up Lin
coln to destroy special privilege in his
day and that the same power had rais
ed up Theodore Roosevelt to destroy
special privilege in our day. The
greatest special privilege in this day is
that enjoyed by the tariff barons. It
would be interesting to know what Col.
Roosevelt, during his seven years in
the White House, did to destroy this
special privilege. The Roosevelt Re
publicans of Pennsylvania must have
been dreaming when they wrote the
foregoing in their platform. They cer
tainly couldn’t have remembered that
Col. Roosevelt called off the prosecu
tion of the Harvester trust and that
he permitted the Steel trust to gobble
up its chief rival.
A cruiser built for the Chinese gov
ernment was launched at Camden, N.
J„ a few days ago. The craft is de
scribed as being "up to the minute" in
speed and equipment. The daughter
of the Chinese minister at Washington
was sponsor, and the ship was assert
ed by experts to be a fine specimen of
r.aval architecture. It was not by
chance or for sentimental reasons that
this vessel was constructed in the
United States. The builders entered
into competition and were able to
name figures more attractive than
those of foreign contractors. And yet
it is deemed necessary that our ship
builders shall have protection.
London is not pleased because Amer
ican visitors to that capital spend only
$7,500,000 a year, while they spend not
less than $15,000,000 in Paris. The
London Standard says the reason Is
that Parts eaters to Anufrlcan favor,
white London does not. "Yarik seeks
to please; London expects the visitor
to take things as they are found and
be thankful for the privilege. “Amer
icans are sensitive and like to be hos
pitably treated,” says the Standard;
“and if they can’t get what they want
in England they will go where they
car. get it.” In this very connection
it seems not inapropos to sound the
note, ‘See America first.’i
The versatility of "Tony” Drexel
Biddle of Philadelphia continues to as
tonish his friends. Not only has he
made himself an expert at golf and
polo and other athletic sports, includ
ing boxing, but Mr. Biddle is now a
Sunday-school teacher. He has stood
in the ring with such celebrities as
Fitzsimmons and O’Brien and given
a good account of himself. His ambi
tion now, it seems, is to be at the
head of a Bible class of 10,000 pupils.
He has already 3,400 on his rolls and
is sure that he can get the others
to make his desired quota. It is worth
speaking of when society men go in
for that sort of thing.
Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma have
outlawed the common drinking cup,
the common comb and brush and the
common towel in hotels. Under the
new laws there must be individual
service in each instance. A confer
ence of hotel men and representatives
of boards of health is to be held in
Kansas City on May 20 for the pur
pose of drafting a set of model regu
lations for hotels. The landlords de
clare that they are as much Interested
In the fight on germs as anybody else
and that they will do what they can to
aid it. This reform seems to be a
step in advance of the nine-foot sheet
law. >
After a search of five weeks In New
York, Elise Nicholas, a young cousin
of the late John W. Daniel of Virginia,
has been found by the police. The
young woman went from Virginia to
New York, to take up the study of
trained nursing. She found conditions
exceptionally hard —harder than she
could stand —so that she was found
in a faint in a hallway at an early
hour in the morning. Too often young
girls go to New York with the idea
that they will reach the fabled pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow, only
to meet with sorrow, disappointment
and not infrequently death.
For some reason or other nobody
seems to be paying much attention to
the nomination for the vice presidency,
and yet the office is a most important
and honorable one. It occurs some
times that men in second place are
suddenly called to take the first. The
American of New York thinks that
Senator O’Gorman of that state would
be a good running mate for Speaker
Clark.
Col. Roosevelt did lambaste the
political bosses In his Mary
land speeches. The speeches elic
ited little applause, but excited a good
deal of wonder, since his audiences re
called that when in power he was
about the biggest political boss the
country had ever known. It is im
possible for some people to see them
selves as others see them.
Milton Spinney is a mariner who
knows every tea on the map—wheth
er it is charted or uncharted. For
fifty years he had been a mariner, and
never once lost his way on the face
of the briny deep. But the other even
ing in Brooklyn Milton went ashore
without his chronometer and sextant,
and the indications are that he did
not patronize the hydrant exclusively.
At any rate, at about eight bells, in
the middle of the night, he was hope
lessly lost in the streets. Every tack
that he went upon seemed to be a
wrong one, so he hailed a pilot In
the police uniform and requested to be
taken into dock.
How will fish life at and near the
two ends of the Panama canal, and
in between, be affected by the open
ing of that great waterway? Gov
ernment experts are now making a
study of the matter. There are dif
ferences in the varieties of fish on the
Atlantic side and on the Pacific side,
and there are still other varieties in
the fresh waters of the higher reaches.
It is regarded as practically certain
that many fishes will go through,
from either side, and that there will
be a commingling, but the experts are
not yet in a position to say that there
will be any change of species.
Once on a time cotton bales proved
a good defense for New Orleans, when
“Old Hickory" got hi 3 men behind
them and fought Packenham to a
standstill. It may be that cotton bales
will again prove of a saving service
to the city. A dispatch says that cot
ton and hay, in bales, are being used
to reinforce the levees. Cotton would
seem to be a rather expensive sort of
levee material, but when the floods
are raging the people do not usually
stop to count the cost. It is a matter
of life and death and great property
destruction.
Maurice Maeterlinck is going in for
boxing. He has had a regulation ring
constructed in his home and is going
to have bouts with some of the clever
professional. Os course M. Maeter
linck will be expected to exemplify the
poetry of motion as he dances about
the ring and swings and jabs.
Bottled gas Is the invention of a
Pittsburg man. Happily, It Is not to
be used for campaign purposes, but
merely for lighting and heating. The
natural gas of the campaign orators
will continue to be without rival.
It is noted In the exchanges that
Des Moines, la., has the largest birth
rate in the country. Des Moines has
the commission form of government.
Is there campaign material In this for
the commission boomers?
PERSONAL
—Frederick Townsend Martin has
contracted to write a play which he
promises will be “unconventional and
shocking.” Society is to be the sub
ject and the victim of the shock.
—John Samuel, said to be the Inven
tor of the Mason jar, is dead in St.
Louis, Mo. He was 95 years old. Sam
uel was the founder jmd first presi
dent of the glassbltXers' union and
was borr\ in Swansea/tVales.
—Daniel Sell, who was probably the
smallest man in Pennsylvania, died In
Gettysburg, aged 69 years. He was at
one time a member of the Gettysburg
Fire Department. For yeurs he attend
ed the Firemen's State Convention,
and always captured the prize for be
ing the smallest man tn the parade.
He was 45 inches in hlght.
—Ellsworth, Kan., is thought to be
the only city In the country that does
not own its own sewer system. Ed
ward Wellington, a resident, built the
sewers and rents them to the city.
The sewer taxes in Ellsworth are said
to be lower than in any other city of
its size In the state, while the sys
tem is as good, if not better, than oth
ers.
—William C. Christine, a carrier on
one of the rural routes out of Wash
ington, N. J„ puts In his spare time
raising chickens, and he says he has
developed a hen that lays yolkless eggs.
Christine says this hen has laid half
a dozen eggs of that variety. It is
his ambition to supply yolkless eggs
to bakers and caterers for use In icing
takes.
BRIGHT BITS
—"How did he succeed so long in
fooling his creditors into believing that
he was wealthy?"
“He had every member of his family
operated on for appendicitis.”—Buffalo
Express.
—“The products of petroleum are
very numerous,” said the professor.
“Can you name one of the most im
portant?"
"Yes, sir,” replied the pupil,
“Money."—Washington Star.
—“Paid a thousand marks for the
dog. did you? It ought to be well
bred at that price.”
"I can tell you that I wish I had
a pedigree like hte, that's all."—Flie
gende Blaettcr.
CURRENT COMMENT
The Syracuse Post-Standard (Ind.)
says; “The presidential campaign runs
long enough without the preference
primary. It extends the period of dis
turbance and adds to the volume of
It. It adds to the bitterness of contests
within the party and there is no com
pensating gain. It is the foe to com
promise. We don't want the presi
dential preference primary in New
York."
The New York Times (Ind.) says:
“Canada’s rejection of reciprocity and
our rejection by the amendment of the
fisheries arrangement being counter
parts. The matters are not related,
but it might be a happy settlement
if bot! bargains should be ratified by
an exchange of courtesies in good faith
rather than by an exchange of such
back-handed compliments as are now
flashing over and under seas, to the
greater entertainment of the dear
friends of both nations than of them
selves.”
The New York World (Dem.) says:
“Mr. Taft was not the first to find Mr.
Roosevelt dangerous to the people in
his repudiation of his third-term
pledges. Mr. Roosevelt preceded him.
It was Mr. Roosevelt who emphasized
the 'wise custom' which limits the
President to two terms. It was he
who placed stress upon 'the substance
and not the form of this wise custom.
It was he who called for judgment as a
friend of republican Institutions in re
lation to this traditionary custom in
the republic. And in now finding him
dangerous to the people Mr. Taft mere
ly renders a Judgment which Mr.
Roosevelt himself Invited. He to con
demned as such out of his own
mouth.” s.
Greens
By Wait Mason.
The pampered gourmet wishes for
fancy kinds of dishes, kinds fit for
kings and queens; but to the humble
diner there's naught on earth that's
finer than good old-fashioned greens.
For months my soul was sighin’ for
spinach, dandelion and other whole
some yarbs; they are the sign and
token that winter's back is broken—
the harbinger that harbs. Oh, greens!
There's nothing beats ’em! The man
who daily eats ’em has better grub,
by jing, to still his stomach’s groanin'
than ever yet was known in the pal
ace of a king! Oh, greens! Our moth
ers stewed ’em, our fathers gladly
chewed ’em, and hence those rugged
sires who cleared the woods and prairie
and scrapped with wild beasts hairy
to guard their cottage fires. Note all
those famous creatures whose proud
and handsome features appear in mag
azines; if you but knew their story,
you’d find they rose to glory through
having eaten greens. All garden sass
is splendid, and never may be ended
the fame of peas and beans; maj
naught decrease the numbers ol
squashes and cowcumbers—but best of
all are greens!
Copyright, 1912, by George Matthew
Adams.
Swelling the Goat.
The boy was leading a goat down
the avenue In Washington, and there
were other boys following, as boys
usually do, says the National Maga
zine. Strolling along that way was a
congressman, who had in his pocket a
letter from home stating that his
“fences" were in good condition, and
that the boy scouts had received their
new uniforms and were for him.
As long as the other fellow had not
"got his goat,” the Joyous legislator
Intended to talk to these boys about
their goat.
“Well, my lads,” he said In the be
nign tones of a man who has things
coming his way, “what are you doing
with the goat?”
“Why, we are leading the goat. He
has Just ate up a crateful of sponges,”
"Sponges! Does he—er —have an ap
petite for sponges?”
“Dunno. But he just swallowed
’em.”
“And where are you going to take
him now?"
“We’re going to take him down to
the water trough and give him a
drink.”
“What do you think will happen?”
said the congressman, amused.
“He'll swell up into the size of an
Investigating committee record, sure.”
Not Hard for Polly.
The late Ned Harrlgan of Harrigan
and Hart fame, was a great story
teller, and liked nothing better than
to gather a congenial lot about him
In some rathskeller and entertain
them, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat. His parrot story Is one of the
best.
"An Irishman by the name of Burke
ran a bird and goldfish store In the
Bowery and was noted for his wit and
the funny things he taught his par
rots to say. One day a man came
in who stuttered very badly and says
to Burke:
“ ‘I w-w-want t-to-o b-buy a p-p-p
--ar-r-ot!' i
” 'All roight. sin,’ says Burke. FI hev
a,' folne bl-r-d here sos twinty J|»llar*.
“ ’C-a-an he t'-t-a-alk?’ asked the
man.
“ ’Well, be gorry,’ says Burke, ‘lf he
culdn’t talk better than ye can I’d cut
his d head off.’ ”
Big Bunch.
Vincent Astor, at a luncheon in New
York, says the Tribune, praised the
neatness of the American man’s dress.
"In the past,, I have been told,” he
said, “the American was careless—a
little careless as to shaving, polishing
his boots and brushing his clothes.
But he is now as neat as his English
brother, who Is acknowledged to be
the neatest man on earth.
“Apropos of the unbrushed clothes of
the past, there was an actor of the
old school type who appeared one
morning on the Rialto with a red rose
in his dingy coat.
“ ’Where do you suppose I got this?’
he asked another actor, lifting the la
pel proudly.
“ ‘Oh, dear knows!’ the other an
swered, determined to escape a mash
tale. ‘Dear knows—unless it grew
there.’ ”
Somewhat Sutpieiout.
Condemning the extortion practiced
by a certain class of lawyers. Fran
cis L. Leland, the banker who has
given $1,000,000 to the Metropolitan
Museum, said at a dinner in New York,
according to the Philadelphia Ledger."
“I heard the other day of an old man
who broke his arm, by falling down
an open manhole. A ’shark’ lawyer
sued for him, and a verdict was re
turned for SSOO in his favor. But of
this sum all that the shark gave the
old man was a miserable $lO bill.
“ ’But—but where’s the rest?’ the old
fellow asked.
“ ‘The rest,” the lawyer, blandly an
swered. ‘has gone in costs.’
“The old man studied the $lO bill.
He turned it over and over. Then
he looked up and muttered:
“ ‘Say mister, what’s the matter with
this? Ain’t it good?’ ”
Using the Right Word.
The question of using just the right
word in a pending bill came up In one
of the Senate committees. Senator
Page insisted that one cannot be too
careful about using precisely the word
that applies, says the New York Sun.
“You may have heard.” he said,
“about the lawyer up In Vermont who
died. The editor of the local paper
wrote in his obituary that he had
‘amassed a large fortune from his le
gal practice.’ But the typesetter added
an ‘s’ to the word ’practice’ and then
the obituary wag vastly more accur
ate than the editor had intended it to
be.’’
He Made a Note of It.
The American host had given a re
ception for the distinguished foreigner,
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Suddenly the advancing line broke
and in a moment the room was emp
ty.
"Wh-what is wrong?” stammered the
guest.
“Why, nothing.” replied the host.
“Then why do they all run out?"
“The refreshment room doors have
Just been opened,” replied the host.
Whereupon the amazed foreigner
made a note of It.
A Little Brain of Ite Own.
An inexperienced colored girl had
just been installed as housemaid, says
the Ladles' Home Journal. Having
eyed a patent bottle with much curi
osity for some time she asked her
mistress: “And what sort o* thing Is
dat, ma'am?”
"That.” replied madam, “is a bottle
that will keep things either hot or
cold.”
“Land sakes, honey!” exclaimed tha
astonished darky, "how is it gwlne to
know whether you want it to keep
thine* hot or cold?”
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULES
Ships sail on Central Tima, one horn
slower than city time.
For New York.
• Steamships City of Memphis. Chat,
tahoochee. City of Macon and Talla
hassee carry only first eabitf passen
gers. . „
City of St. Louis, May 14 ‘” 23 -
City of Montgomery, May ; 9, is, 28.
City of Savannah, May 11) 21, 30,
City of Atlanta, May 7, 16, 25.
Steamers to Jacksonville Wj'-l sail ai
6 p. m., Central Time. The Wlltlniore
and Philadelphia steamers will fall ai
sp. m.. Central Time. Subject to
change without notice. £.' '
For Baitimora. -V
Merrimack, Thursday, Bay 9.
Suwannee, Saturday, May 11.
Cretan, Tuesday, May 14.
For Philadelphia.
Quantico, Friday, May 10. i*
Froderick, Sunday, May 12. f »
Berkshire, Tuesday, May 14|
For Jacksonville.
Steamers daily, except Wednesday
and Sunday, 6 p. m„ Central Time.
The Invisible Detective.
From the May Technical World.
Two litalians were recently arrest
ed in Pennsylvania for the murder of
a paymaster. Although morally cer
tain that they had the right n»ert the
detectives lacked the necessary legal
evidence to secure a conviction. A
hurry call for a dictagraph was turned
in, then the two suspects were placed
together in a cell in which the instru
ment was concealed. Their lawyer,
suspecting the very trap that was laid,
warned his clients against it. To be
on the safe side he told them not to
speak at all. For nine days and nights
the jailers listened, but not one word
did the prisoners utter. Their silence
becoming intolerable at last, they be
gan discussing their crime on the tenth
night In tones meant to be too low
to reach the ear of the mysterious
eavesdropper. They did not stop un
til they had sealed their own death
warrants.
Some time ago the Illinois Centra!
Rr.ilroad management became convinc
ed that it was the victim of an ex
tensive , swindle in the matter of car
repairs. The road’s own secret serv
ice operators were ordered to investi
gate, but they could Jlnd out noth
ing. Then an outside detective agency
was called in which proved to be
equally helpless. When the ease was
referred to a second outside agency its
operative concealed a dictagraph iti his
room at a hotel with the receiver in
an adjoining room. Summoning two of
the suspected men to his room he said
Just enough to create the impression
that he could tell a great deal afcout
car repair graft If he wanted to, then
excused himself and went out. He
hurried into the next room where he
picked up the receiver of the dicta
graph and listened.
“What do you think he knows?” ask
ed one of his callers.
"Oh. he doesn't know anything.”
"He is on to something, all right.”
“Don't you believe It. Let me talk
to him and I’ll fix things up.”
Thereupon ensued a discussion of the
story to be told. In ten minutes the
dictagraph had accomplished some
thing that had baffled the shrewdest
detectives in the country for ten
months; for when the amiable host re
turned he knew enough about the af
fair to warrant the arrest of a num
ber of people. At the preliminary hear
ing a conspiracy was uncovered which
Involved a number of railroad em
ployes ranging all the Way from yard
men trt a vice presiflflfit. The
had plundered the company of atWM
a mlllidn and a half of doMfitta erf
It not been for the dictagraph the gang
might still be operating.
Utilizing Surplus Potatoes.
From the Scientific American.
An overproduction of potatoes in
Germany in recent years has led tha
industrial community of that country
to make great efforts to devise means
of utilizing the surplus of the erbp.
This problem is being solved success
fully in two ways; first by stimulat
ing the use of potato spirits as a fuel
and illuminant, and second by a groat
extension of the various processes of
drying potatoes, for use both as a food
and in the arts. According to a re
cent consular report there are now
436 plants established in Germany for
drying potatoes, with an estimated an
nual production of 110,230 to 165.345
short tons, or 3,647,000 to 5.511,500
bushels. Os these plants 550 Are for
the production of potato flakes, while
tn 86 the potatoes are dried by the hot
air process. Potato flakes can be used
for feeding stock, for distilling alcohol,
for making starch and for other pur
poses for which natural potatoes are
used; or they can be ground and bolt
ed to make potato flour. This “our
is a yellowish white product, rich in
carbohydrates, and is used principally
by bakers for adding to rye and wheat
breed. It Is claimed that the addition
of potato flour gives the bread a good
flavor, makes it more digestible and
keeps it fresh for a comparatively'long
time. It is also used to some extent
In thickening soups and sauces. The
potato flour Industry has also assumed
large proportions latterly in the Neth
erlands, most of the factories being in
the province of Groningen. The same
country disposes of its surplus pota
toes to a large extent in the manufac
ture of dextrine.
Which Is the Weaker Sex?
From the Washington Herald.
From the earliest recorded time wom
en have been spoken of as the weaker
sex, as frail, delicate creatures. Emi
nent writers have asserted that aside
from their natural constltutionc|l frail
ty women were Invalids oi
the time. Yet the dawn of the Twen
tieth Century finds us with abundant
proof of woman's physical saperiority
over man when tested by lefcgth of
years, the power to endure suffering
and resist disease.
In 1890 the United States census
showed that there were at that time
3.981 centenarians in the country, of
whom 2.583 were women and 1.398 were
men. Out of elghty-nlne centenarians
who died in England during She year
1833. seventy-nine were woman and ten
were men, while out of twenty-one cen
tenarians who died In Scotland In 1893
sixteen were women and five were men.
The mystery of this tenacity of life
in woman still remains a secret.
At birth boys are slightly larger,
both In hight and weight! and con
tinue in the lead until 12* then the
girls pass them, both in hight and
weight for about two years, when the
boys again take the lead and complete
their growth at about 23 or 24. while
girls complete their growth at 19 or 20.
w ith this brief exception .males excel
In hight and weight throughout life.
Reveals Sex by Fainting.
From the Washington Herald.
Erie. Pa., May 2 —After masquerad
ing as a man for two years, and per
forming arduous tasks In coal mines,
machine and boiler shops and paper
mills, Alexandra Kozlcwska. who for
,! j e . past rtx months has been employ
‘ in three Erie manufacturing con
rev ealed her sex while at her
hoarding house by the simple process
of fainting. She now savs she's going
I°. “y, a real maidenly maid and has
abandoned masculine work.
