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will they get and how long viii they last
Cleopatra's press agent has even fooleC
the night desk In the encyclopedia shops
and his little story lived for 2.ooo, years.
| But We must remember that that stor,
lived and gained strength by being deniet
and denounced. The vine agent WASH
allowed aft on Cleopatra's yacht, and OF
top Of that the press agent wouldn't "a.
| what brand Of wine the pearls were pu
in. 30 the wine man got sore and said tina
the pearls were paste.
The story finally died from overwork
| and then even dramatic editor OF Manistet
refused to believe 1t about Michigan
.Now word an to the topio-Is truth eve,
| essential don't think. gentlemen. that any
OF us Is qualified to answer that question
offhsnd. but viii tel just two short stories
one good. the other true which may throw
some light on the question.
-Once when ] was with Robson In De
troit the Mayor was out Of town. and with
the help OF dinner to the Aldermen i got
them TO pass a resolution to put Welcome
to Stuart Robson In four-foot electric light
letters on the front of the City Hall. That
Mayor came home and tore it down. Now
that was a true story, but II wasn't strong
enough to get beyond Detroit.
LAST fall Weldon Groesmith was here
and was looking out for him. We took
walk through Madison Square Park. where
.Grossmith thought Il was dangerous and
that suggested something. sent out a
story that a fireball from Roman candle
had hit the actor on the back OF the head
and rolled down hisback, aearing.his spine.
THAT story made a great hit. II was
printed all over this country and England,
and improved as 1t went along, The Lon
don papers had II as an attempt to assassi-
nate Grossmith by the paid agent Of some
jealous American actor. and he got letters
q sympathy from Henry od Iryins an: sc t s
ANYTHING better than that.
Just a word more about the origin and
history OF our noble calling. There Ii no
specific mention OF the press aren't In the
Bible but you will ind indisct reference ,S
Tody Hamilton, who told the. truth about
a little show in December. 1888. was the next
speaker:
own experience to verify II. That trained
oyster Of mine which had In the old aquar-
i,im AT Broadway and Thirty-hfth street
was a lineal descendant Of the oyster which
produced that rope OF pearls ,s.x .,,,u ~.
trained oyster that would open i,s shell
whenever I approached the tank? And
wbensi whistIed q simple tune the oyster
would beat time by making Its top shell
3. wen W M Ts no NEW Yonx Sun gave me a
column on that story and II went all over
I he world. Natural hist DRY mueeuns or
eanised scient ific expeditions and sent
them 70 New York 10 study my trained
lust about Ire time they arrived Some
Thing happened TO the water and every nah
In he aquarium died.
There was my chance. reported TO the
De, ective Bureau that some crank had
4. L. md
an ne 6sh. Then I rot a docso or, who was
on nv IAN and would stand for anything.
TO anaiyze q sample Of the water.
sSome how or other tia papers got hold
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o. the story and printed yards about 4,
Ihey had reporters sitting on that doctor,
steps for four nights waiting for the resul,
.. ms ana ysis. no before the story died GU,
we mao the aquarium restocked, and /,
| wouidn't hold the sympathetic crowds
for the next two months.
| That doctor has always been a great
he'p to me Years ago a friend Of mine
Hsrm asyns Inc 20 WIZ Up good story about
thing IN the Sunday papers and to spread
over the country 20 as TO help out on the
following week In the next town. '1
You know the trick of catching bullet
IN me teethI Well ] used that az a basis
audience lose his temper and Dull bis
own gun to shoot the Wizard. Hermann
lie was barely saved by my friend the doc
sor who happened to be sitting next to the
Le1an and who knocked up his arm lust
scenery instead OF through Hermann.
The papers sent out to investigate, and
the doctor verified he story. The story
reeched San Francisco that very same
night-300 words.
THE circus "a a great field for the prrss
agent. II any hing, II is too full Of material.
A mans imagination Is apt to gel dull from
lnck OF exercise. for ] essure you, Rentle-
men. that we have 30 many stories that
are are true that we frequently have to use
the revolt Of the freaks.
-Wssnt that great? The first revolt
was three years ago In England. Lord,
how the London ps pers fell TO thst-columns
lot Of scientific specialisis pokins around ou
the freak show. sent specially by the pepers
to write learned psychological articles
about the Anal awakening OF personal
pride in abnormal specimens Of the human
dreamed that ] was ashamed Of mys If.
We had another revolt Of the freaks
just the other day. ! and that q story az
good az that ought TO be revived once In
three or four years.
But do like a true story once In a while,
and it's surprising how well they pan out
Take my great wedding that I planted
In q church on Madison avenue.
IL had Count Magn marry Tom Thumbs
widow, $500 invitations and every one
carriages for blocks. The sexton Of the
church was q nephew Of p. T. Barnum,
and none Of the "details about the cere-
mony was suppressed
One Of the ablest liars on Broadway
Court Has Helped U.s. and explained the
mystery Of the great milk bath. He said
sEver since that fine old oath to tell the
truth: tie whole s truth and nd nothing but
has been trying to butt into court. He
did II three or four years ago.
ANNA Held was here and needed some
thing 10 help her along. The press agent
went over 70 Long Island and gave farmer
an order for nine gallons Of milk q day
to be delivered at Anna Held's apartments. |
The farmer was told that Il was for bathing
Now, the crude press agent would have
stopped there and trusted to luck. This
he refused TO pay the milk bill and begged |
the farmer 70 bring suit for Il In the Supreme |
Court.
sThe farmer didn't want to bother about |
Il, but the press agent finally agreed to |
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chants. lawyers and doctors: the girls have
married into every station, and all have
large families. Every profession and trade
Is represented by Mr.. Farr's descendants,
All OF these children have been edu-
Gated by Mr.. Farr and he has given them
q start In life. Had all Of them lived To
manhood and womanhood he feels that
there would have been none too many.
and he declares that he felt the loss OF
the few that died In childhood as keenlv
as would the father Of small family.
Mr.. Farr has two brothers, Enoch and
Allan. These two men. o. and 90 years
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PRESS AGENTS PONDER TRUTH
THEY DON'T REALLY NEED 1T IN
THEIR BUSINESS, THEY FIND.

Proof That the Other THING succeeds Bet.
ter Sometimes Given at Tedy Hamil-
tons Birthday Observation-Disclosures cal
stu,IIes OF stories About Actresses.
Tody Hamilton. dean Of the press agents,
was 81 the other day and some Of his accom-
pIices gave him little birthday dinner
Although entirely informal there was some
table talk on the general topic lis Truth
Ever Essential?-
The menu was printed on handsomely
decorated souvenir cards in the form OF
IN acrostic as follows: .'..
Amontiliado
Noodle Soup.
Anchovies.
Nevis. fricassee.
Ibex steak.
stork with fried hominy.
N>'''''u cax Cracker, Ices cbee.. oonee'
Pipes Pipes Pines
The guests sat at an L-shaped table
and the room was fixed up with borrowed
scehery from the theat res, the dark back
ground Of which was relieved with streaks
o. papier mache property lightning point
hg nj the heads Of the diners
A. the pipes were lighted. Tody arose and
proposed a silent toast TO their patron
sart. whose rame was on the menu.
The Stone Age Of the Press Agent was
The toast TO which Bill Sill responded. He
said, IN part:
AlJhough recent excavations along the
flalio section OF Broadway have thrown
no night on the existence OF the preas agent
and ms stories in prehist oric New York. we
nave from the old world reasonably authen-
NC records OF the beginning Of the stone
age or lost diamonds age. az II is some
umes called. Of the press agents story.
Ina, story dates from Al B. G. when
oeopa'ra was yachting on the Cyndus
sho invited Mark Antony 10 come aboard
and have lunch. As we all know. he went.
u was on a warm. muggy day in August
WIN what little breeze there was from the
eonthweSt and the probabilities were for
ran So Cleopatra was wearing a pair OF
nRh' sandals As there were no backs TO
men they wouldn't hold wine 40 Cleopatra
~uidht challenge Mark TO drink out OF
them
=, The omission of that little slipper per-
,,ooithahce which In Cleopatra's season was
~ years old. forced the press agent to
hnS OF something new. So NEXT day
~ allowed u to leak out In the barber shops
S.ous The Nile that Cleopatra, while match
lug lug hIuhs with Mark Antony in being lavish
aau ufow1 rope OF pearls into magnum
au zen waited for them TO dissolve be-
shhihg ~ the lost Jewelry story.
NJ, Aiu scon at as we may, u II must be
tNsh irst place on the honor roll Of ef-
iecuVc issues The value of our products
70 be Judged by three things only:
'" 'af "!u they carry, how much space
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7IAN wv IlIIIlll AIIl wv INIK

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 2S.-when
President Roosevelt comes to Salt Lake
nov, month he will meet an aged Mormon
vii, So family will knock to smithereens the
Chief Executives race suicide theory.
II is on record that the Chief Executive
of the nation took particular pains to show
Ms esteem for an Iowa man who was the
father of eighteen children. The man
from Iowa is plainly outclassed my many OF
the Utah pioneers, a very few of whom
would populate a whole county In four
generations
But there lives in Ogden to-day a man,
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TO settle his lawyers bill. 30 the suit was
| Drought and we got the milk bath story
n3ated and it's still running in Utah and
We'll. that story wasn't altogether orig
lnal, said another press agent. pat
Sheedy really invented that.
| -. he tried to run a wheel of fortune on
| the Charter Oak racetrack at Hartford,
put a Connecticut politician had him ruled
| on. Two years later that politician was
running for Governor, and Pat saw his
chance.
@Sheedy bought little newspaper in
Hartford and used II all through the cam
paign to hammer the candidate His best
story was that two years before at n Ma
tional Convention in Chicago the candidate
had champagne baths every morning in
a certain house.
There was a wealth OF detail. The can
didate had three cases Of extra dry poured
INTO MS tub every day; Pat Thought that
in Connecticut. but IL didn't. That's the
real origin OF freak bath yarns
Some good stories fail through mis-
management. said TodS Hamilton. who
was on his feet the first time sNow, last
week Broadway press agent came to me
and asked me to help him out. He wanted
to start story about an actress and was all
at sea.
elephant. although he didn't know what
he'd do with IL. told him that couldn't
spare an elephant. but agreed to send a
1--we monkey to the actress as a present from
an unknown admirer suspected OF being a
weil-known broker and clubman For
New York consumption always try to put
the weli-known broker and clubman into
story.
We'll. the monkey was sent over--this is
true story so far as 1t goes--in a basket
Just before the evening performance. II
was to be delivered TO the actress in the
wings and she was to accidentally LET II
escape and have II run out into the audience.
just ina glne what n good yarn that would
have been: but II failed.
THE attendant ct the stare door hadn't
been tipped Oh, no he wouldn't let the mes
senger boy deliver the monkey. ! never
saw anybody 80 cut up about q thing as
that press agent WAS. He came around
actress come over. to the circus and have
$50 hat.
Il finally conferred him and convinced
him him ~ that the gifshe story antedsted the
ark when one OF the two sample giraffes
nibbled the artificial flowers on. Shem,s
wife's bonnet
There was mol more speaking hut the
secretary read the statistics Of the year.
Shle riding in the birdie path; Central
Reissues Of ehiidien' from drowning BY &C
ts.s,s.e: sass s sSi eyrisn neslsn,q us
Pressn ce OF mind stories. actresses who have n
Chorus kris Who pH nave sued hosiery wore
ptoprietors for displaying exact models In
Actresses who have made s,.tooieco In wan
Street 10. !,..:,-!.. 3is
leading and most cultured society OF Wash.
inr,Sn, Baltimore or sandusky before going i
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old. respectively. have between them
hfty-one children and 500 descendants
all living. This makes the total number
OF descendants Of these three brothers
7io souls. and 1t il the intention Of the Far
brothers TO meet the President here and
introduce him to these 40 descendants
a. an argument that the human race Is
reproducing itself. These families are
the largest in the world
Although Mr.. FAIR is now 81 years old.
he moves, looks. acts and talks like q man
twenty years younger. While his hair
and beard are white with the SHOWS Of
time, he attends to his varied business
interests. takes long journeys, walks four
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LUNCHE0NS EATEN AT EASE.
DON'T-NURRY CLUES GROWING
AMONG BUSINESS MEN.
The Quick.Iunch Habit Passing Among
Those Who Can Drop It-Frne Luncheon
Clubs and Fine Restaurants-Table
Clubs. TOo-lelsureIy Noon Meals

| The Quick.Ianc Habit Passing Amops
Those Who Can Drop It-Ftne Luncheon
Clubs and Fine Restaurants-Tabls
Clubs. TOo-Leisurely Noon Meals
The American quick lunch, that worn
subject OF British jest. seems TO be paf sing
no far as The habits OF the business man go
though ii must always remain for he clerk
s,enographer or other employee whose
noon meal must be ca en- In hurry.
The comple ion of the new Stock Ex-
change building calls attention TO the
growing number Of lunching clubs. The
rest aurant on the top floor Of the new build
ing is TO be the finest as well as the most
exclusive and expensive of the many hand
some down, own clubs.
The men who eat lunch in places like the
Hardware. the Arkwright and the Wool
clubs can hardly lie pict ured AZ vic, inns Of
the American quick-lunch habit. Nor can
the men who lunch at the Fifth Avenue.
the Hoffman and the Holland be taken as
illu ira; ions Of that so-callci ife-s hort ening
folly Of American life Ye, the number of
men who eat leisurely and well at these
places up and down town grows every
week.
As this Is true of the downtown busines
life and Of the trade In the Twen' vi bird
street belt, so il is becoming the Gus, ON
In The Wholesale distric, which lies he, ween,
and recently one rest aurant owner has
opened three places in or near Broadway,
In the Wholesale territory. These are
counierparts of the downt own places OF
the order Of the Savarin and Delmonico's.
The u housands Of men whose MONDAY
patronage makes possible and profitable
these high-class- res, auranis cannot, be
quick-lunch vict inns. from The, very order of
things. Their meals are served with as
much style and formali,y as their dinners
would he In the night restaurants further
up the Broadway line.
There Is no hopping on a s; DOL, no bawlinp
to the waiter for piece Of pie and glass
Of milk. The lunch is approached leisurcly,
sometimes with the preamble OF a cocktail
and the later accompaniment Of a bottle
Of white wine. The time spent by the
man At his eating place will average an
hour or more. Generally he arTanges to
NEE; friends or businees associates there
regularly.
II Is not alone In the clubs that the club
element Is found. Men in the same pur-
at about the same hour get In the ha BIT Of
dropping into the same dafe every day. !
II they are not Of the same line Of trade
they may have common tastes and find
some dishes or some style Of cooking at
this particular place pleasing to them.
After a while, the waiterSif he finds their 4
society valuable, will get into the habit Of |
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A TRAVELLING ISLAND.
Engineers At Work TO Prevent Il Frem
HsrniIng the City OF Rosario.

| In his recent address before the American
Geographical Society Elmer l.. CortheIl
showed map of the large island just q
| little north Of the Argentine city OF Rosario
| In the Parana River. The island has fol
years been moving down the stream, mar.
| rowing the passage between 1t and the
| city
The fact that the island has moved from
its old position win not appear so strange
when the phenomenon In explained. Il
seems after all to be simple matter.
The vast volume Of water coming down
the Parana impinges upon the wide northern
front Of the island and tears away great
masses OF earth from the banks, carrying
the sand and other detritus away from the
northern shore. The island 80 obstruots
the current that an eddy is formed on The
south side of the land mass, and into this
eddy most Of the earth that Ia torn away
from the northern bank is carried and de-.
posted against the south shore In this
quiet part Of the waters; so that while ti,s
north side of the island il const antly wear.
ing away, the southern shore Ia being built
up and extended, and thus the island u
gradually travelling down the stream.
The ensineering problem does not ssem
TO he very difficult one. II In proposed to
protect the northern bank so that Il cannot
be further eroded by the current OF
course IL this hank is kept intact thers
Will he no earth TO carry around to tho
southern shore, and that part Of the island
Will remain In its present position.
MIR. Corthell told some very interesting
things about Rosario which is Lew ven
known as very important river seaport
OF Argentina, with ocean steamers from
Europe constantly discharging and taking
on freight at its docks. II has grown from
so 600 10 NJ 600 In Dopulation In the c<,,,r..
OF few years. Vessels drawing twenty
one feet can ascend to its docks, and II ID
expected to deepen the channel 20 that
larger steamships may make Rosario their
destination.
Rosario Is the largest exporter of the
millions Of bushels of wheat which ArEen-
tina now sends to Europe. Mr.. Corthell
showed an Interesting view Of small noun
tain OF sacks filed with wheat that had been
piled up for carriage TO Rosario. We send
bulk. But Argentina. Ike our Pacific
States. exports It's grain In sacks.
Another picture showed the process Of
loading these sacks on the steamers. The
"a cks are hauled up TO q considerable height
above the vessel, from which an inclined
plane extends to the deck Of the ship; down
this smooth plane the sacks aide into the
hold In which they are stored.
This IL, of course, a very slow and incon.
venient method Of handling the grain In
comparison with our elevator system. which
does the work much more cheaply and ex.
peditiousy. Mr.. Corthell says that efforts
are being made to interest capitalists en-
ragged 10 the elevator business In this ooun-
ny in the Introduction Of this labor-ssvfnS
invention into Argentina. II u very likely
Dr. two will rise on the banks Of the Pnrsna
II ROSARIO and supplant the pressot oAnnU
'''''a Of ''''Ns export '''' ~
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Loriu FAR BY name. who hes strong optn-
ions upon the question OF . citizens duty
TO his country by rearing and educating
a large family and has not hesitated
to put his cherished ideas into practice.
Lorin Farr Is the father OF 20 sons
and 10 daughters. He has 200 grand
children and 90 great grandchildren His
living descendants to-day number. ap-
proSirustely. 400 souls.
Or his thirty-nine children, thirty are
living eighteen sons and twelve dsughters.
All are strong. healthy and vigorous,
none has been an invalid. not one has
made failure in his or her line OF BUSH
hess. They are prosperous farmers. mer-
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LEoSARD. born March %. 1907.
HIRAM. born Feb. is. 1870.
Olive A. Jor es Farr bore him:

LAEhTUs. horn June 70 1853.
% NELAsco. born Aug. 20. Is55.
OLIVE. born Aug. s. 1851
ELLEN, born Oct rs 1859.
MERLIN, born Feb. 4, 1862.
DAVID, born ApriI g. 1854.
AsAEI., born Oct. ~. lses.
Mary B, lIeeman faTr was a widow will
three small children. LlJah. Mary and Ain. a
az the time OF her marriage to MIR. faTr. she
bore him: -
WILLARD, born July s. 1859.
ERksrrs. born March ~, 1859.
ISAAC. born May Is. 1870.
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The secretary further reported that the
season had not produced anything which
could be proved TO be new. A.
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.Nickoiine Erickson Farr bore him:
LoHEsZo. born Oct. IS. 1858.
LAURA, born April 10. 1891.
JOHN. born Jan 4. 1888.
ELANoRA. born April ?. s65.

MARY. born March 22 1870
=. Clura Jane Be- ties Farr, whom he married at
the age OF 81, died June is, 1902 without issue
These are the children whose names
MIR. Farr can recall His family record
was destroyed several years ago and he
cannot remember the names Of the en-
tire list. Mr.. Farr. however, declares
that. he knows every one of his grand
children personally and can call them by
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New York Commercial.

New YORK commercial.
1t is true, as the New York Sun declares,
that 1.-The practical usefulness" of President
Parry's heavy indictment of organized la
Dor, and of the platform adopted by the
Manufacturers Association, will depend
upon the number and the kind of people
that heed"
1t is hardly to be expected that the labor
leaders and their unions will heed this
warning at all. They have probably trav-
eled too long and too far on an opposite
course ever to face squarely about and to
work for undoing the wrongs that they
have perpetrated. Possibly this new move
ment among employers may operate to
curb somewhat the aggressiveness of or
ganized labor; but the same old spirit, the
same old purposes, are likely to remain for
a long time to come.
AS for the great public. which Is in the
main only spectator of our great indus
trial contests, it ought to promptly align
itself with the employers 1T is" says the
Sun. 'in this outside sympathy tsuch as was
manifest during the coal strikel that the
spirit Of outrage finds the chief source of
courage for showing itself, and it is from
that quarter that Mr.. Parry and his asso-
ciates must first have relief"
The associations standing committee on
the organization of employers has vast
amount of work before it outside Of its
specific duties. 1t must educate the great
body of the American people up to a clear
unimpassioned understanding of where its
interests lie. The publics mind, the pub
lies sympathies. must be bleached of their
yellOWiSm.
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WILL THE SOUTH STAND BY
TUSkEGEEs

Up to the present time the Southern peo-
pie have generally approved of the work
being done by Booker Il. Washington at
Tuskegee Institute. 1t has been generally
conceded that his plan of giving negroes
practical industrial education and equip
ping them for usefulness and success in
life offered the best solution of the negro
question. The Booker Washington plan as
sumes that the difficulties of the negro
problem grow less and less by all the corn
the negro produces. by all the wagons he
makes. by all the mechanical work he
does, by all the schools he teaches, and by
every forward step he takes in becoming
an Industrious, productive and useful work.
er in the community. Many OF the best
white men In the South have indorsed
Booker washington's IDEAS and some have
contributed to the support of his school.
There is reason to believe that the better
class of whites In the South sympathize
with his efforts on the ground that he Is