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The Washington times., 1906-03-04
Kicson Likes Change.

Frank Kitson, the pitcher secured
from Detroit. Il am more than
pleased with the change To yours club,
and with anyt hing like an even break
which I never got in Detroit, 1 am
confident / can make good. Wishing
you success and that we can land in
the first division
Sudhon. the pitcher secured from St
Louis: 4 am perfectly satisfied with
the change and intend TO have a sue
CessfuI season.
Mccoy. one of the new pitchers: L
am pleased TO be drafted by club
which is noted for the broad-minded
principles along which it is run. / as
sure you I shall put forth the very best
efforts TO attain success and give gen
eraI satisfaction"
Hickman: 7 have been feeling fine
this winter and shall be able TO put up
a good game this year I think our team
VIII be much stronger this year as
Jake has made some good trades"
Stanley in Better Shape.
Stanley: 4 am in the very best of
shape and intend to give you the best
article of ball that is in me and expect
this 10 be my banner year. When
Joined your club last season, I was any
thing but a well man, as / had before
and after joining stomach trouble which
made me a fit subject for a sick bed
rather than a ball field Now that / am
in the best of health and having taken
on weight during the winter, / feel as
though 1 will play a game that viii
be entirely satisfactory to Stahl.
StarkeH, one of the pitchers drafted:
Il VIII do all in my power to help the
Nationals win the pennant Of 1905. ;"
Lave Cross Washington third base
man. who IS now at French Lick
Springs: We'll the old man is down
here and working hard. I am getting
in good shape, as ] want to show the
fans that he can play some baseball if
be is one hundred years Old
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Not High Finnnciers.

George AIDE was listening gravely to
a compliment. At the end, he said
THANK you. You remind me Of
something:
"A little while after the appearance
Of my first book l went to pass q week
in a summer resort outside Of Chicago.
1.-The landlord of the modest hotel
said to me:
"'Mr AIDE, you are literary man,
l believe?
81 blushed and smiled, and answered
that l had written a few trifes, moth
ing more"
81 have several literary men stop
ping here the landlord went on.
"'Well, I'm rather glad of that,
said [.
Yes said the landlord. I like lit.
erary men. They never object TO pay
ing in advance. They are used to it.
Kansas City Journal.
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Profit in Raising Sheep.

An official report Of the Department
of Commerce and Labor declares that
for years to come there will be more
money in sheep than in any other ag-
ricultural product, and that the Amer
lean farmer, above all others, is in q
position to profit by this condition.
The reason why sheep raising is to
be so profitable is to be found in the
fact that the fiocks Of the world are
declining at an alarming rate. In a
little more than thirty years, or since
1878, this decline shows a loss of no
fewer than 100000 head, an average
of more than 100000 year. At the
the bulk of the sheep trade with Great
Britain, but he is not a factor in the
mutton market, and last year he fur
nished only three-tenths Of / per cent
Of the wool imports Of Great Britain
The British trade in sheep imports
last year was 3S2,240, and of these
the United States supplied 294, So4. But
while the British imported 3,53O,659
hundredweights Of mutton in 1904, the
American farmer supplied only 1920
hundredweights Of this vast amount.
Great Britain imported 31446S, O16
pounds Of wool last year, but bought
only 1857 $50 pounds from the Ameri-
can farmer. 1t may thus be seen
what an immense field Of trade, even
with one nation alone, is open to Amer
sicn IN CT, or1o
product. Argentina, Australia and New
Zealand largely supplied the British
trade in mutton and wool last year.
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the strictly scientific methods that pre-
vail in her splendid dairy, which has
such an enviable reputation that milk
from it sells. readily for II cents a
quart. The farm is called Rokeby, and
II is the old Astor homestead. The pigs
are clear-skinned and dainty enough to
be decorated with pink ribbons. The
chickens are of the finest strain and
the cows are gentle-mannered and of
aristocratic lineage.
The farm is ideally located on the
east bank of the Hudson, with a re-
markably picturesque view of the river
and the Catskills. On the estate of 1870
acres are the stone and brick mansion,
the stable, with eight carriages, the
gardeners cottage, the cow barn, the
dairy cottage, the creamery and the
pig houses Besides there are tennis
courts, arbors, etc. The farm, outside
SITS dairy and piggery features, does not
differ from others, the pride Of the
estate are the thirty-two Guernsey and
Jersey cows and the fifteen white
Chester pigs. Seldom does one see
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time for filching money out OF loeu1
man. Nor will there be any cnanSI
In the mode of prison life from 'n'j
which obtained when she was thefe =
Nine. DeVere. It's the same old "Oi1
room and the same old WORK OF n"nl
ing underwear and shirts for the ma1
prisoners. Cassie will return u ny
needle which she piled when SIZE "'1
in as Lydia. ,,r
The female department of the pfSol
Is located at the southeast cofne, ~ :
the institution grounds, surroundeu "
q thirty-foot wall, and in tnls ""'
completely shut off from the maze pv ~,
ton of the building, which 1t SDu' ,
The life of Cassie will be d SUN ~.
story one at all times, eAceps ,,+h,,
breathing spells granted for ne"', a,s
sake, during which the women , tns
exercised in the open yard Wltnin s
inclosing wall. Cassie's cen - ID od
roomy than the rest and mas 'nN 4bot
vantage of an east Wlnuo" .nn
catches the cheering morning
This cell is No. 8.
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that Of others down about her ears
by her indecision. To-day girl is not
out of her teens before she Is called
upon to decide momentous questions.
Shall she go to college? Shall she be-
come wage Garner, or shall she con-
tent herself with the limitations Of
her home? Shall she marry? Shall
she give her deepest interest to club
or church or home? In short, the
whole duty of women resembles the
work of the Yankee farmer, who was
sorting his years crop Of potatoes
into three different piles-the best, the
fair, and the poor. A neighbor walk
ing by called out, Hard work, Mr..
Johnson?" mo" replied the old man,
hesitatingly, "'Tain't exactly hard
work, but it's an awful strain on the
jedgmentp' So with the demands
made to-day on a woman. Wherever
she turns she meets the necessity for
making up her mind-quickly, rightly,
effectively. Unhappy she who finds
herself upset by the task. For Robert
Browning seems to have read the lot
Of the modern woman even more
clearly than that Of the man, when he
wrote, "Life's business being just the
terrible choice"
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pEN PICTURE OF ROOT.
A Warrington Correspondent De-
scrihes Great Lawyer-Statesman.

A Warrington Correspondent De@
.crihes Great Lawyer-Statesman
A washington correspondent VINO
has studied Secretary Root impartial
Iy and thoroughly presents this pen
picture Of him:
Root Is not popular 1dol. ne
nrohahly never will be. He lacks hui
man magnetism. He Is cold, stern,
calculating. hard, astute, deliberate,
conservative. reticent. None OF these
adiectiyes are to be found In the de-
scription of a popular idol such as MT.
Roosevelt. What other men have done
in the possession Of other qualities MI.
Root will do by sheer force or intel
lect. concentration, devotion to pubic
duty and remarkable constructive and
executive ability. His will be a con-
,uast of brains and ability, If conquest
it proves to be.
Take a close view of him mere at
Washington and learn the method and
manner Of the man. You cannot study
him in the social atmosphere, In the
atmosphere Of club or popular resort.
You must have some business that
10 his business, business that will
bring you in contact with him IN MS
work. for he does nothing now but
work. This is literal. Ask the mes
sengers of the State Department, who
used to go home at O'Clock every
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$50 you refuse meY' signs the dis
consulate lover. '"Then listen. shall
go far, far away. Time and distance
shall swallow me up. 1 shall never
see your face again."
Before you go, Harold" whispered
the gyurl, there is one favor would
ask Of you"
"Yes?'
He turns with hope rekindled in his
heart
while you are going to the far
place you mention, would you mind
sending me picture post cards from
each stopping point? 1 am making a
post card album, and if you would"
But with hollow groan he has tied
from her side.-Judge.
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was the son of a country gentleman,
Of good education, a college graduate,
but without the means to send the
son to college. But the boy went TO
Dartmouth of his own accord and Dy
corresponding for newspapers, acting
as class monitor and milking cows for
farmers In the neighborhood he earned
the money to pay for his tuition. lie
was always busy and when he LETT
college he had some money In his
pocket. In 1885, with his diploma, he
went to California and taught in Oak
land Seminary, after which he went
to work as a newspaper writer. lie
met the people who came across the
Pacific from the Orient and he began
studying the possibilities Of trade for
our people with the eastern nations.
A syndicate sent him to the far east
to investigate and he wrote letters
which attracted wide attention. Re
turning, he was associated with yarl-
GUS newspapers and finally became
editor of the Portland (Ore.) Telegram,
in which he continued to carry on his
Oriental trade propaganda. the re
suit was that all the business men
Of the coast asked President Cleveland
to appoint him minister to Siam. The
President sent for Barrett and asked
him what he knew about Siam.
"Why, that's the country the fam
GUS twins came FROM" replied Barrett.
"Well, WELL" responded Mr.. CFeve-
land, "Fm glad to find someone who
knows something about the country
to which he is going as minister.
The appointment was made. Bar
ret was then but 27-the youngest
diplomat ever sent out by this gov
eminent Barrett Travelled through
Oriental countries, sending to the
State department such information as
it had never before received. He was
in the Philippines before and after
Dewey's victory. In 1899 he returned
to this country, and performed gov
eminent service Of various kinds. He
travelled $4,000 miles in eastern lands
in behalf Of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition and a few years ago was
made minister to Argentina.
A story which illustrates Barretts
versatility is told. He was campaign
ing in New England for President
Roosevelt, dressed in Prince Albert
coat, immaculate shirt front and gray
striped trousers, with a shining silk
Tn q fa
ers he said, Il know what it is to
work on farm myself"
A country youth called this bluff
and ventured to guess that the speaker
never MIXED a COW. Barrett replied
that he had not only MIXED COW,
but would bet 500, the money to go
to a local charity, that he could milk
faster than the youth. The wager
was accepted, a COW was brought out
on the platform and there the contest
took place. Barrett winning.
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afternoon and are now found at their
places at 7 o'clock in front Of the
closed doors of their chief. ASK his
secretary, who nightly carries big
leather portmanteau Of papers to his
hotel and who never leaves his room
until within an hour Of the change OF
days. Ask the night Waterman about
the State, War and Navy Building
when, in the 20 or more years of
their service, have they paced the
halls of the big granite structure to
meet face to face Secretary Of State
hurrying from his work to the even
ing meal.
To the State Department he has
brought all of the wonderful resources
of his. great mind. The State Depart
ment is his client, and as such has
taken the place Of the millionaire
clients he had in Gotham.
Step by step in days Of work from
8 o'clock each morning until o'clock
each evening, he is familiarizing him
self with the case Of the State Depart
ment. In time he will have mastered
1t to his satisfaction. Then he will go
before the committees Of the Congress
to plead it. Already some Of the
remedies he wants applied are known.
He will watch MS case with jealous
care and answer with unansWerable
arguments every urging against what
he wants. To this task he will bring
all of his wonderful natural ability,
all Of the training Of the foremost law
yer Of the country and perhaps of the
world, and all Of the training he has
had as a public man who deals with
men and affairs.
In New York City in the IA months
Root was out Of public life and in the
Interim between his occupancy Of the
place as War Minister and Foreign
Minister he built up a law practice
which was approaching the 100000
per annum mark-measured by the re-
turns received. This practice was Sec
ond, perhaps, in remunerative returns
to that Of no other man. William Mel
son Cromwell got the largest single
fee for any one case-the Panama
Canal Company Of France sale to the
United States, $4,0O0OOO-and it is
said that Mr.. Dill, who was the great
est organizer of trusts or legal adviser
G. the organizers OF trusts, made as
high as 100000 in a single year, but
it was boom" year for the combina-
ton of independent enterprises.
Mr.. Root gave up all the brilliant
prospects for financial advantage and
comes to Washington only reasonably
rich. He comes because of the OPP
portunity Of impressing his personality
on the history of the country to which
he gives of his talents. He comes back
because Of a patriotic duty and be-
lief that when called men Of his parts
should give the best they have to the
republic
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- oo++la The herd is valued al
e. 5oO and from it the dairymen ge'
2OG quarts of milk DAY. Avn
wear ago the sanitary dairylng was IL
troduced and the creamery was n.leo
with all the latest devices TOT reiiis
Grafton and sterilization. floors' "ai.A
and ceiling were built Of solid composf
+ion cement. and every bit OF appa-
rams and fixture in the place IS con
structed of galvanized zinc, neaylly
plated with aluminium. with the %"
barn and piggery it Is the same. ~
COW barn was built at great cost, aIlef
the most improved designs. IL IS nos
q large building-only one story nigh'
80 by 40 feet in dimension. Wallsr
ceiling and floors are of the same com
nosition cement as the creamery. Inc
stanchions are Of steel piping, Win
aluminium plate. Everything in the
barn is aluminium plated, even TO the
three-legged milking stools. Ihe cefl-
ing is dome. shaped, being twenty feet
from the floor to the top and eight
feet from the floor on the sides. Inc
walls are ten inches thick, with
four-inch space between outer and IN
ner wall, running entirely around the
building. Outlets and inlets for this
air space are provided by means OF
large opening in the center OF the
dome, and circular openings a foot
in diameter along the side walls fifteen
feet apart.
These openings are cut into both the
inside and outside walls, and open and
shut automatically. They can be reg
ulated so that all the outside openings
will be closed in severe weather, or al
ternated with those on the inside, open
and shut This ventilation system is
unique and effective.
The stable is drained by means Of
troughs in the cement floor behind
each stall. These are flushed three
times a day from taps in the walls.
The COWS are MIXED by Mr.. House
and his assistant twice a day-at 5:3O
in the morning and at 4:3O in the even
ing-the mixers wearing white coats,
trousers and gloves, which are laun-
dered and sterilized after each milking.
Milk is drawn into thoroughly steril-
lied, galvanized iron, aluminum- plated
pals, and carefully removed to the
creamery, where it is poured into ster-
ilized glass bottles, closed with caps
bearing the certiication Of the State
Milk Commission, and sealed with a
seal bearing the farm stamp. The bot
ties are then placed in galvanized
iron, plated cooler to await
shipment to New York City, where
| they are sold at II cents a quart.
The cows, too, are washed and
scrubbed every day as carefully las the
| fashionable babies who partake of
their milk, and are med with the same
regularity and care three times each
day. Directly after milking and at
noon they receive their eight quarts Of
gluten meak and wheat bran, which IL
selected and prepared with great care.
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The FIRE VAST,

erty in This ca and
OF all the useless wa stan IT.
a people have INDUCED in II mat a
ed States and in Canada, t IN Dc
our annual bonfire, is tho ' n, q
IN fact criminal, for by It r'1 y
ty not only devastated but = J., n
by thousands yearly sacriaea5 are
Think of it, in 1904 1000 l aaa..
burned an average of n tu.pe
talities through fire everv Dl a
year, and record that nAs r%s
that of all the railroad s"si i5
the two countries, generally wy
the most fruitful source Nv t W
tai accidents! And the rocon ,sr
was not an extraordinary one III
crease in deaths by fire has h
my steaolly' Our present ratio i
nine lives lost by fire everv w.
every 100000 of population ' -
the ratio was eight, and in ~ ,a.|
was i've. Unless sometime a,s
done, what will be the ratio ~ a' ,sl
If the loss of life is appalh No.
loss of property is disgnstinn
hates to think that he is mart o. o.
Gel of such race of stnn;as ANY,
even China and Japan, with +b.,.
per and bamboo houses, submit tn
a tax as we do. Our fire lossa,
equal to a tax Of $25 per year no,
lily, and that tax shows hnt A.
OF property actually consumed
have burned up one Thousand mn,
of dollars worth in six Years
losses, so called, are really hpt
changes, one product turned into
other form, a loss pertains IA "
but a gain to some one. Not "a
fire. That loss is final, absolntp
the visual one is actual.
New York averages $500 frt
gear, Chicago 400. We hurn
three theaters, three public
twelve churches, ten schools, two
pitfalls, two asylums, two COLLEGE,
apartment houses, three depart
stores, two jails, twenty-six hotel
fiat houses and nearly 1900 h
every week of the year.
In all this broad land there or
5000 buildings that can be called
proof" and that very largely on
their structural parts-that is.
proof buildings like those in Bait
whose steel frames and terra
floors Withsto0d the attack whe
else about them, the stone, the m
the wood, went the way of all t
combustible or deStructible.
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Americas Largest Land owner.

William Cornell Green is known as
the largest landowner in America. :"
His holdings in Arizona and in the
State of Sonora, Mexico, amount to
about 100000 acres, including some
of the most valuable copper-producing
land on the continent 1t was while
raising cattle in Arizona that he be-
came interested in some mines which
Senator Clark, of Montana, and other
big copper men refused to purchase.
The properties turned out to be enor-
mously rich, and now Green is many
times millionaire
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Sure Cure for vanity.

did you see my picture in this
mornings paper?' asked the public
man.
No. said the wit, shrieking with
laughter. What were you cured of?
Ha, haI''
'.Of vanity. after / saw the picture, .
answered the other. sadly.-Cleveland
Leader.
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Some women, we are told, think
that we are now in a transition per-
iod with regard to women's names.
A generation from now, they say, q
large proportion Of married women
willretain their girlhood names through
life. They do not inform us, however,
whether the children Of such women
will take the maternal or paternar
name. But probably they do not think
it worth while to consider that point,
as they do not believe that this class
Of advanced women will bother them
selves with children
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-01-05

A Kansas postoff1ce has been abol-
ished because nobody who was will
ing to accept the postmastership
could be found. This bears out Sec
rotary Wilson's intimation that all the
farmers are millionaires. The popu-
lation of Kansas is made up of farm
ers, and who could expect any mill
ionaire farmer to fool with q one
horse postoffice for the profit there
was to be had from the sale Of
stamps?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-01-05

across the 18th
mus of Panama,
is John Barrett,
the United States
minister to Pan
anna. This is the
third time he has
served as a Uni
ted States minis
ter.
Born in Graf
ton, VT, Noyem-
nov 90 1890 he
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achieved what daring men Of almost
every civilized nation have been at
tempting for more than three CEN
turtles. Capt. Roand Amundsen has
completed the northwest passage
without change Of cars" or ships.
The fact Of the existence Of north
west passage was discovered long ago.
Earlier explorers succeeded in travers-
ing it. But to do this they had to
leave behind the vessels on which
they had entered the Arctic ocean,
walk some distance over the ice, and
get aboard vessels which had come
from the opposite direction. Capt.
Anundsen has won the distinction Of
being the first man in the history Of
the world to navigate the arctic re-
gion from Davis strait to Behring
strait In one and the same vessel.
He has realized the dream Of ages.
When Columbus sailed from Spain in
1902 it was with the aim Of finding
toward the west a shorter and safer
route to India than the one around
the Cape Of Good Hope. He thought
when he reached America that he had
accomplished his object. Years passed
before it became known that what he
had found was not q new route to the
east but a new world. Efforts then
began to find northeast and northwest
passages from Europe to Asia. Adolf
Erik Nordenskjold, a Russian, COM
pleted the northwest passage in 1879.
The first great advance in the eXplora-
ton Of the northwest passage was
made by John Davis, who discovered
the strait named after him in 1856.
and in 1915 Bafin reached latitude
II degrees 45 minutes, a record that
stood unequaled for 236 years. There
was a great revival Of arctic explora-
ton in the early part of the nine
teenth century. Sir John Franklin
with two ships and 129 men express
~ to make the Northwest passage.
Nothing was heard of the party from
1916 to 1864, when it was learned that
1t had persisted. Numerous exped1-
lions were sent out for it's relief,
among them that Of Robert Mcclure,
who passed through Bering strait in
1850 and went eastward as far as
Melville island. Here it was necessary
to abandon the ship. In the spring
of 1854 Mcclure and his crew were
met and rescued by McClintock's par
ty, which had come up from the east,
and taken back to England. Mcclure
was thus the first to make the North
west passage. For his achievement
he was knighted by the British govern
ment, promoted to a captaincy in the
navy, and highly honored by scien-
tific societies. The early arctic ex-
plorations were commercial in object
1t long since became certain that a
Northwest passage would be useless
for commercial purposes, because it
would be practically unnavigable. Elk
plorations were continued for reasons
Of sentiment and of science. Capt.
Amundsen's voyage Is of great inter
est from the sentimental and historical
standpoints. It's results may also have
scientific value. It is reported that
Amundsen has positively located the
magnetic pole on King Williams is
land and his observations may en-
able scientific men to clear up some
obscure electric and magnetic phenom-
ena which have long greatly puzzled
them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-01-05

The New York Life Insurance Com
pany risked it's money in a specula-
tion-and 'Nylic" got the profit. The
policyholders are more than ever puz-
zled to understand just what 'Nylic"
stands for