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Who docs not enjoy the music of a
good male quartette? No other form of
concert and entertainment program is
more popular in this country, and the
Hawkeye Glee Club plays and sings to
please. The Chib has toured the South
and given emnent satisfaction where
BOOTH LOW KEY, HUMORIST
Booth Lowrey has one great fault—
the fault of always pleasing the peo
ple. The consequence is that he is al
ways busy. The demand for his time
is unlimited, the supply limited. He
is a Mississippian by birth and train
ing, and is spoken of as the “Blue
Mountain Philosopher,” Blue Moun
tain being his home town. He is a
humorist, a satirist of the highest
type. His philosophy is homely, yet
sparkling with wit, so that it becomes
the talk of the town. You will feel
good for weeks after hearing him. He
will be here during Chautauqua festi
val, and may be chosen as platform
manager.
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ever they entertained; consequently it
is no experiment but wth pride that
they are presented to Chautauqua pat
rosn. Their program includes both vo
cal and instrumental selections of mer
it and attractiveness, and there is no
kind of doubt but what they will be
considered one of the most popular
features of the festival.
Alkehest lyceum course. It is because
the Alkehest knows him favorably that
they are presenting him on the 1914
Chautauqua program.
Dr. Miles is an Englishman by birth
and came to the United States a penni
less lad —to make his fortune. And he
has made it, not in metal with the sil
very ring, but in the realm of litera
ture, as a reformer and a preacher,
and upon the lecture platform. He is
a student of men and of current events
and has a powerful grasp of present
day condtions. His lectures “Tallow
Dips” and “Sparks,” always arouse
much enthusiasm, because they are
unique, dramatic, original, intensely
interesting, and inspiring to every
body. People have traveled miles to
hear Miles. He will be in Douglas at
the Chautauqua on Monday, June 29.
SILOS IN THE SOUTH
MANY ADVANTAGES GIVEN TO
THE STOCK RAISER.
Used for Both Summer and Winter
Feeding—Means Afforded for Abun
dance of Succulent Feed for
Cattle at All Times.
(By A. U HAECKER )
The silo is coming into general use,
and everywhere we hear of its good
report. Texas is probably buying
more silos this year than any state
in the Union. The great cattle In
dustry of this state has tested out the
s*lo, and found it not only practical,
but giving advantages to the southern
stock raiser, which makes it a neces
sity. In the South, they use the silo
for both summer and winter feeding;
perhaps it is more valuable for sum
mer feeding than winter. The large
I variety of splendid forage crops, which
! can be grown in the southern states
gives the man with the silo an oppor
j tunity to produce not only the best,
j but also the cheapest stock food.
The secret of success in stock rais
| ing lies in the cost of the ration. The
great free ranges of the West proved
this in days gone by. For the future,
it will mean that the stock business
will best thrive where the ration can
be made the cheapest. The silo fur
nishes a means whereby forage can
be preserved, not only for one season
but for several years. It furnishes a
means of saving all of the nutriment
of the plant and turns it out in a suc
culent and nutritive form.
The two great food elements for
all animals are carbohydrates and
protein. The cheapest known form
of carbohydrates on the farm is si
lage made from corn, cane, or kafir.
Protein is found in the cheaper form
in the legumes, such as alfalfa, clover,
cowpeas, soy beans, and the vetches.
In concentrates, perhaps cottonseed
meal or hulls, especially for the south
ern farmer, will be the cheapest form
of protein. The combination of cot
tonseed meal and corn silage provides
a ration which cannot be excelled for
cheapness, and at the same time, it is
palatable ar.d nutritious. Thousands
i of tons of cottonseed meal annually
; are shipped to the northern states and
evtn jobbed out in small quantities to
feeders ar.d dairvmtn. Tire retail
price to a rnan in the North is nearly
doubl- what the souths rn farmers
would have to pay fir cottonseed
mini This should be sufi.chnt eu
ceu,. tmt.t for the souther;, stqdk
COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, CiEORCiIA
keeper to warrant his venture into the
stock business.
The long, dry summers in many of
the southern states burn up the pas
tures and cause a shortage of grazing
food, but with the silo, abundant and
succulent feed can be had at all times.
There is never a season, however dry,
but what abundant forage can be
grown to fill the silos. By using sum
mer and winter silos and balancing
this food with alfalfa, cowpeas, soy
beans, and cottonseed meal, the south
ern farmer is in a splendid position to
produce livestock and stock products
at the lowest possible cost.
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Poisonous Sorghums.
If pastured, sorghum plants that are
checked, stunted, or killed during
growth rnay be poisonous to livestock.
Heat, drought, or frost all seem to
produce a similar effect. The hay is
not known to be injurious; cutting
and curing seem to make the poison
harmless. It is not known whether
putting poisonous sorghums in the
silo will give a safe silage or not.
In the Hog Lot,
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The pure bred hog will mature and
come into money more quickly than a
scrub, and bring more money for the
same weight, at that.
Don’t select a heavy, lazy sow for
a breeder. She should be mild in dis
position, but possessed of sufficient
energy to take exercise.
Weaning Pigs.
When pigs should be weaned should
be determined as much by how they
are eating and growing as upon their
age.
SET MODERN DINNER HOUR
To the Duke of Wellington Is Owed
the Fashionable Time for
Evening Meal.
The connection between the Penin
sular wars and having diqner at half
past seven may, at first, seem some
what puzzling. As a matter of fact,
however, we owe the habit of dining
at that hour to the Duke of Wellington.
It was the custom of the Iron Duke
when on his campaigns not to sit down
to table until the day's fighting was
over, whenever that might be, and
then he generally partook of a beef
steak pudding, which, he said, pos
sessed two virtues. It was an appe
tizing dish, and did not spoil by keep
ing.
On his return home he apparently
brought this custom with him, and his
officers brought the pudding to the
United States Service club, from
which it spread to other clubs. The
duke's chef was named Felix, and it
was he who hit upon the happy idea
of improving the flavor of his master’s
pudding by the addition of mushrooms
andoysters.
Many other interesting stories re
garding the favorite dishes of famous
men are told by Mr. T. H. S. Escott,
in “Club Makers and Club Members.”
We learn, for instance, that marrow
bones clothed in snow’y white napkins
were always ordered by Gibben when
he dined at Boodle's, and that Lord
Brougham once drank seven tumblers
of port wine during the course of a
debate. During another he had his
hat full of oranges beside him, sucking
them almost incessantly, "and in an
audible aside abused Bellamy as he
came across a bad one.’’
Bellamy was the maker of the pork
pies for which Pitt expressed a wish
with his dying breath when he ought
to have been saying “My country!
LJow r I love my country!’’
SPARROW PEST IN ENGLAND
In Many Country Places They Are
Caught in Nets and Used
for Food.
In certain country places, especially
near towns, a new' source of food is be
ing exploited, says the London Globe.
At one stockyard after another you
see village laborers stretching fold
nets for sparrow’s, and the birds are
being caught simply for food. They
keep down the butcher’s bill.
The number of sparrows is now im
mense, probably greater than it ever
has been. The regular winter popula
tion of one small stockyard near Lon
don is estimated by the farmer at
over 2,000. These 2,000 mouths he
fills largely with his grain. The spar
rows have completely driven away al
most all other varieties of birds ex
cept. a few finches.
The sparrow is said by the trapper
to make an excellent stew, or pie, or
soup. It is a clean feeder, subsisting
all the year, except for a month in
the spring, on grain, and it takes from
the farmer an enormous toll. Consid
ering the enormous population of spar
rows, it is not surprising that this
source of food is being tapped.
Rome’s Abundant Water Supply.
The fact is probably not generally
known that the citizens of Rome as
far back as 300 A. D. were favored
with a water supply amounting to 400
gallons or more per capita daily. The
Romans had a full appreciation of the
value of an abundant supply of pure
water as ministering to the health of
a city of 1.000,000 souls. The Romans
of imperial days had a passion for
cleanliness and the stupendous public
baths of Trajan, Diocletian and Con
stantine were capable of accommodat
ing at one time from 1,600 to 3.000
bathers. The water in Rome was the
property of the crown, and it was led
to the private houses by thousands of
pipes, which ran in every direction
and ur.di r every street and were
stamped w ith the name of the "conces
sion:-, ire” to whom it was brought from
the neartit crown reservoir.
NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY RUDE FINE
RECORD AS U. S. ENVOY 10 MEXICO
As Charge d'Affaires in Southern Republic He Has Been Steadily
Handling the Most Inflamed Spot in Our Foreign Relations,
and Doing So in a Manner That Was Amazingly
Clever in Many Ways.
By JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON.
Special Correspondent of the Chicago Trib
une at Vera Cruz.
Vera Cruz. —For the last ten months
Nelson O’Shaughnessy has held the
most important job in the diplomatic
service of the United States. He has
been charge d’affaires in Mexico,
whjch means he has been steadily fin
gering the most inflamed spot in o~ur
relations.
That he has showed well a truly
amazing combination of cunning, couj>
tesy and calm is evident not only from
the gratefjjl testimony of the Ameri
can "refugees now in Vera Cruz, but
also from his achievement in getting
on comfortably with three successive
Mexican governments, all bitterly an
tagonistic to each other, first with the
old regime of Porfirio Diaz, then with
; the Madero revolutionists, who tried
: him out, then with the Huertistas, who
| turned Madero in—to his grave.
Undoubtedly if O’Shaughnessy had
waited in Mexico City for the ultimate
arrival of General Villa he would have
been teaching that eminent generalis
simo the proper stance on the links
of the Mexico club within a month.
He is a pluperfect jollier, is Mr. Nel
| son o’Shaughnesßy, but his work is
| artistic. He sits and smiles and blushes
a trifle and shows white teeth like an
embarrassed youth conversing with a
debutante. He breeds confidence
easily. You tell him what you know
and then he tells you what you know,
and when you go you are impressed
with his exceptional penetration and
hope to meet him again and have an
other talk about Mexico. He doesn't
say anything in particular, but a whole
lot In general, and says It charmingly.
He makes the abstract sound like the
concrete In a remarkable way.
He was appointed first by Roosevelt
In 1904 as secretary to Copenhagen
at the age of twenty-seven. He was
one of those rich young fellows in New
York city who ran to clothes, tennis
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Nelson O’Shaughnessy.
and money. Some people call them
"clubmen,” though of course he would
sooner eat soup with his knife than
use such an expression. His family
wished him into the diplomatic service
because he did not care enough for
money to work for it.
The Republican senators of his state
held his appointment up, but Roose
velt had one of his obstinate fits and
finally shoved it through.
In 1905 he was transferred to Berlin
as third secretary and played tennis
with the crown prince. In 1907 he
w r ent to Vienna, where he stayed four
years.
He was distinguished in neither
place except as a jolly good fellow —
which nobody can deny—and a chap
whose taste in gentlemen's shirtings
suitings and sockiugs was infallibly
prophetic.
He was offered the appointment as
minister to Bucharest, but some of his
zealous friends had his appointment
held up in the senate, hoping to get
him a better one.
He knew nothing of this at the time,
but was blamed for it, and for discip
line he was given second secretaryship
<.& Mexico. This was in the days be
fore the excitement and diplomatically
a distinct step downward.
Doubtless he was expected to re
sign, but he didn’t, and his reward
followed quickly. A month after
O’Shaughnessy’s arrival in Mexico
City Diaz fled, and the Mexican post
became the most important in our
service. Then O’Shaughnessy forgot
! about shirtings and tieings. For a big
j show w as coming off and fc» wanted to
take part in it.
Francisco Madero entered Mexico
City as the leader of a social revolu
! lien. He stood for the redistribution
if property in land. He rode into
i power on the ptomises lie made the
peons that he would make them own
ers of the land they tilled. It was the
old forty acres and a mule idea that
seized the negroes after the Civil war.
Madero was a more drastic Lloyd-
George—in theory, but a far feebler
one in practise.
The country turned to Madero al
jnost unanimously. He needed to fight
So strongly were the people—
John Lind.
all the people except the landlords—
with him that Diaz, the old eagle of
Chapultepec who had ruled as a despot
for 30 years, fled almost without re
sistance.
But what his leaders promised he
could not perform. His friends who
came into power with him on the
strength of his assurances went back
on him. They told him his plans
were impossible, they insisted on de
lay.
And Madero, who could dream great
dreams, could not manage men and
make them execute them.
He fell and was murdered in a mili
tary revolution.
During his rule O’Shaughneesy had
become extremely friendly with him
and when his murderer, Huerta, suc
ceeded him, O’Shaughnessy quickly
cultivated a personal relationship with
him.
O’Shaughnessy’s views seemed to be
that while 30,000 or 40,000 Americans
lived in Mexico, most of them directly
or indirectly extending American trade
with this country, they should have in
him a friend at court. In other words,
he was forever trying to establish an
influence with the Mexican govern
ment whatever that was.
After the removal of Henry Lane
Wilson as ambassador last July, no
one was appointed to succeed him, and
O’Shaughnessy became charge d’af
faires.
It is believed he made no representa
tions as to the policy of recognizing
the Huerta government. Certainly if he
did they were never known outside the
state department and cabinet.
But all during this trying period his
personal relations with Huerta re
mained friendly, though of course po
litical relations frequently came near
the breaking point.
John Lind was sent to Mexico as the
president's personal representative,
but except for ten days in the capital
he remained here at Vera Cruz, 300
miles away, and negotiations with Hu
erta w - ere carried on directly through
O’Shaughnessy.
There were dozens of times w - hen an
open break meaning w - ar with the ex-
Henry Lane Wilson.
plosive alcoholic old Indian dictator
might have been precipitated, but
o’Shaughnes6y realized this was what
the home government did not then
want and staved it off.
It must have taken considerable
staving off. especially after President
Wilson's announced policy of "watch
ful Waiting” for Huerta’s fall, but
O'Shaugbnessy and a lot of other
O’Shaughnessys behind him in direct
line have kissed the blarney stone and
he managed it.
One of his chief difficuPies during
this period was getting Americans out
of jail. Huerta for the life of him
couldn’t see why they shouldn't stay
in jail for their offenses, real or other
wise, while President Wilson was
“watchfully waiting.”
One reason for O’Shaughnessy’s suc
cess in Mexico, as well as for his pop
ularity in Viennese society, is undoubt
edly because he is a Catholic.
The main reason, however, seems to
be his human understanding, his ex
traordinary ability for getting into the
other man’s skin and seeing things
from his standpoint, and in his lan
guage. He speaks French, Italian!
German and Spanish.
Talk to him for half an hour and
you feel like laying your problems be
fore him; for another half hour and he
is helping you solve them.
Ihe most conspicuous example of
his native diplomatic endowment may
be left to the end. He not only was
intimate personally with Diaz, Madero
and Huerta, one after the other, but
he kept his job successively under
Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
This young diplomat of thirty-seven
plays poker equally well with or with
out cards under the bland exterior of
a dandy. When the Irish take that line,
they’re hard to fool—and, when they
want to be, they’re great foolers.
ADD FIVE YEARS TO YOUR LIFE
New York Physician Would Make
Compulsory Health Tests Once
a Year at Least.
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New York. —From three to five years
is to be added to the life of every man,
woman and child in New- York if Dr. S.
S. Goldwater, commissioner of health,
succeeds in carrying out a scheme an
nounced whereby he intends to com
pel everybody to undergo a health test
at least once a year. Doctor Gold
water’s proposed system is at present
In operation in many of the big cor
porations in the city.
There is a bureau of child hygiene
in the department of health which was
first organized for the purpose of pre
vention of epidemics among children
In the public schools. The bureau has
since been enlarged to include the
prevention of physical defects from
advancing. Commissioner Goldwater
Is advocating the establishment of a
bureau of adult hygiene.
Although the idea is still in its in
fancy the commissioner has been giv
ing it a test by applying it to the 3,000
or more employes in his department.
He expects within a short time to ex
tend the examinations to all city em
ployes, and if they prove of value, to
every man, woman and child in the
city.
MORGAN TO MARRY IN A YEAR
Fiancee Is Miss Louise Converse, Back
Bay Beauty and Debutante
of Last December.
Boston. —Miss Louise Converse of
the Back bay, who is to marry Junius
Spencer Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan,
will remain single for a year at least,
according to her mother, Mrs. Fred
erick Shepherd Converse.
“They are in no hurry to be mar
ried,’’ declared Mrs. Converse. “The
ceremony will not be held for at least
a year.”
Mr. Morgan formally admitted the
truth of the rumor at a luncheon in
the Delphic club at Harvard univer
sity. He is the president of this club.
The romance of Miss Converse and
Mr. Morgan began In their mutual love
of music. The bride-to-be is eighteen
years old and was first introduced to
society last December.
TRY TO POISON NOVELIST
Candy and Edibles Containing Strych
nine Sent to Alice
McGowan.
San Francisco.—lt was learned that
an attempt was made to poison Alice
McGowan, the novelist, In her home
at Carmel by the Sea, California’s col
ony of writers and artists. Marsh
mallows, mayonnaise and chile con
carne containing large quantities of
strychnine were sent to the house of
Miss McGowan. Her Japanese serv
ant ate some of the marshmallows and
went into convulsions. His life was
saved by a narrow margin. Miss Mc-
Gowan is a sister of Mrs. Alice Mc-
Gowan Cook, a writer.
FORGOT HE WAS TO BE MAYOR
Warning to Take Oath at Once Re
minds Deadwood, (S. D.) Man
to “Get Busy.”
Hot Springs, Va.—“ Take the oath
quick before a notary public and re
turn first train or Deadwood has a
dead mayor.”
This message bought to a sudden
end the vacation visit here of J. H.
Maeon, newly elected mayor of Dead
wood, S. D. Mr. Mason, who had over
looked the date he was to become
mayor, hurriedly called in a notary,
took his oath of office and caught the
next train west.
An Empress’ Maid Is Dead.
Tampa, Fla. —Miss Philippine Pan
ger, eighty-nine years old, said to
have been Empress Eugenie’s maid
when Napoleon 111 ruled France, died
here. She had lived with the family
of Gustavus Ward for years and for
merly was Mr. Ward's mother’s maid.
Miss Panger came to the United
States after the overthrow of the
French empire.
Gets SIO,OOO in Tips.
St. Louis. —John M. Green, head
usher at the St. Louis Union station
resigned after having saved SIO,OOO
which he received La tips during the
past ten years.