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Zoe 10 Zoo the Fowls.

Professor Meyer Jaffa of Berkeley
LAUGHED a conspiracy against the
peace and comfort of the barnyard
fowl during the session of the farmers
institute yesterday. Professor Jaffa
told the farmers of a successful exper-
iment that was designed to solve the
problem of fattening poultry for the
market. The experiment. as he pic
tured it, had been tried with remark
able results at Petaluma.
All that you require, explained the
professor, lis an electric light in your
hen house. Three hours after the
fowls have been well fed and have gone
to roOst for the night, you turn on the
electric light. The unreasoning birds
jump to the conclusion that the sun
has arisen and they fly down from their
perches with intense -appetites and eat
hearty meal of corn
'"Then you turn out the light. Three
hours later you turn on the light again
and once more they cram their crops
with food. In this manner chickens
can be fattened for the market on short
notice and at comparatively small ex-
pense''
Now all the farmers who are attend
ing the farmers institute are planning
to have their chicken houses equipped
with electric lights to deceive the sim
pie mind of the eccentric hen.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
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was I'm Paris. many year ago,
that I fell by chance into this
habit of early rising. Ny night,
by reasons that need not enter
into, had been a troubled one.
Tired of the hot bed that
gave no sleep, ] rose and dressed
experiencing the sensations of burglar
great door of the hotel. and passed out
q mysterious soft light Since then,
mas never ceased to call to me. T. may
sells, Berlin. Vienna. that I have gone to
sleep, but IF perchance I wake before
the returning tide Of human life has
dtmmed it's glories with the mists and
Vapors of the noisy day I Know hat
as i saw il first so many years ago.
row, through which creeps no evil
ing into hope; this city of far OFT
voices. whispering peace; this city OF
the dawn that still is young.-inVltes
waking hours drive it before them,
and with q sigh it passes WHITTIER 1t
came Tt is the great city's one hour
OF purity of dignity The very rag
picker cropping with her filthy hand, in
stead Of an object of contempt, moves
from door to door an accusing figure,
her thin sOiled garments, her bent
body, her SCARED face, hideous with
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the wounds of poverty. an eloquent in
dictment of SNUG injustice, sleeping
behind its deaf shutters. Yet even into
her dim brain has sunk the peace that
fills for this brief hour the city. This,
too, shall have its end, my sister! Men
and women were not born to live on
the husks that fill the pals outside the
rich mans door. Courage a little while
longer, you and yours. Your Theumy
eyes were once bright, your thin locks
once soft and wavy, your poor bent
back once straight Maybe as they
tell you in their gilded churches, this
bullying sack shall be lifted from your
weary shoulders. your misshapen
limbs be straight again. Be sure, at
all events you pass not unheeded
through these empty streets. Not all
the eyes of the universe are sleeping
The little seamstresss hurrying to her
early work, a little later she VIII be
one Of foolish crowd, lItllfsin the
FOOLISH lapghtefs In the coarse 5ests o.
the work room but as yet the hot day
has not claimed her. The W0rkroOm
is far beyond the. home Of mean cares
and sOrdtd struggles far behind. To
her also in this moment are the sweet
thoughts of wonanhoOd. She puts
down her bag rests herself upon a
seat. If all the day were dawn. this
city of the morning always with us
neighboring clock Chimes forth the
hour. She starts up from her. dream
and hurrfes on to the noisy WeTlsrOOm
with its coarse jests, its vile gossip. A
pair Of lovers cross the park, holding
each others hands They will return
this same way later in the day, but
there viii be another expression in
their eyes another meaning in the
pressure of their hands. Now the
purity of the morning is with them.
Some fat middle-aged clerk comes puff
f1ng into view; his ridiculous little fig
IRE very pOdgy. He stops to take off
his hat and mop his bald head with
his handkerchief; even to him the
morning lends romance. His fieshy
face changes almost as one looks ut
him. One sees again the lad with his
vague hopes, his absurd ambitions
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Mr.. DEVER =:
Takes Up the Question Of Germs, and Relates
Mixes Experience In VISITING His Son
Danny With the DID,
wright 1906 by -entra
copyright. 1906. BY Central News & Pres Hxchane

a Ii this business of germ huntin'
an ozone pushin' has me
guessin', said Mr.. Devery.
Once upon a time there wasn't
no germs. That is, nobody
knoo nolhin' about EN- Then
some guy butts in an reveals EN-,
naked an alone. to the world. Half
the people laughed, an half of 'em
wondered. Now it's got so that mf-
crobe huntin' has got down to be a
fad. There is more bugs than you
can figure up with an addin' machine,
an what you can't do with them add
in machines amt worth talkin' about.
Every now an then some guy dis
covers a noe specimen an everybody
sings Hail to the Chief. Then there's
a convention held, an a little graft is
raked in. Delegates has got to attend
the congress from all over the state,
or all over the world, accordin' to
the Importance of the microbe I tell
you, diseoverin' a Tnicrobe is a great
thing. Somebody's got to pay the
expenses, an the way people is trim
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This way" she says, an Mike an
me butts into a SORT OF a cell to wait
DEVELOPMENTS. IN about two minutes
another guy. sails in.
You want to see the boy Donovan
he says.
We mods our heads.
Very well. then" he says. take of
your coats an vests an leave 'em here =
Mike takes off his coat. thinkin' there
might be sorethin' dom. I figured the
guy out as bein a pretty wise boy
Take OFF your Watches, he says.
Mike didn't have none. What's. more,
I didn't see where it come in for me
to be played for a jay.
you amt got no fObos to deal with.
Just forget it. You're a pretty sick
duck, but I'VE been up again these
games before. Just push along the
passageway an let it go at that"
But there was ilothin' to it. If we
was to see Danny it had to be done.
ST I parts with my ticker, gfVin' the
guy doc warnin'.
Now he says, you take a bath"
Mike was CROWN FESTIVE.
I'VE. amt aoin, to no party, says
Mike. I've put up me thirty bucks
to see my boy Danny, an we can do
widout amy more of your horseplay.'
"Antiseptic,' says the doctor
"Anty nothin'." says Mike, hes me
SON an we don't want amy more
sl1yin' about it" After we'd washed
ourselves in carbOlic, they come at US
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med down for these germ conventions
IS a sin an a shame. What's more
there amt no way you can get on.
The boy with the lilocks that's been
worl1in' on the scheme for seventeen
years, finally blows out of his 1abora-
tory with a toob, holds it up to the
gapin' world. an shrielks out: 1--WE got
it," You may think he's connin' you
but he amt. You look at the toob,
an there amt nothin" in it,. That is,
while there's nothin's in it, there is.
There's a moo micTobe with a retirin'
nature. You can't spot him out with a
telescope. but he's tf7efel That is. the
guy says he s. there, an that's all there
is to it, When he looks on that .toob
he smiles like a mother lOokin' at her
fursti boy. You can laugh all you We
a mind to. He don't care. He's
worked hard He put in seventeen
years on his huntin' expedition, but
he got his reward at last. He's got
his bug. OF course there is lot of
people has bugs without all of this
labor, but you see they amt the right
kind. The people can get on to them
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m a minute. The true kind of bug is
the bug that nobody can see. If you
can see it there amt nothin' to it,
Ihatss why his Hooks smiles like a
toob.
Up to. a couple of weeks ago I
didn't know no more about this BUG.
game than anybody else. But I was
put wise Mike Donovan. a good
friend OF mine in the nineteenth as
sembly district, come to me an saws.
livery, they've took Danny away. .
w mere have they took him % I
The boord av hilth has nabbed
Dip 'is'S me
An you're a bit dippy yourself at
lhat says. when do they call for
-, Mike wasn't in no jokln' mood. He
was up against it. Danny at that mo-
Inent was havin' d free ride in an am
Duiahce- They're ridin' him down to
the recavin' hospital" says Mike. ian
made frind at coort. The ould
Woman'S near crazy. She'll bate the
hid off of me If I don't show up wild
Danny. An what I'm going to do
about it I don't know
l could see where Mike was about
half off his block. I throws a couple
OF ROCKERS into him an tells him to
quit his wailin' an get down to bust
ness. After he'd got the booze into
him, he starts in to speak his piece. I
tlpped MIN of to cut out the TRIM
MINIS, and he got down to cases.
You see,v he says, Danny was
failin' badly, an the ould woman sint
for a docthor. He shows up, runs q
spy glass down the boys throat an
says Dip The ould woman dips Av
coorse I didn't blame her so much,
but whin me boy starts in Iookin' at
me, made up me moind there'd be
somethin' doin'- It's dip he says
again, an with that I takes me bold
bucco into me confdince, kapin' me
timper but simply remarkin' Not a
chance I did all I could to kape the
/ peace. but Misther Docthor wouldn' t
have it that way. It's a case of dip.
he says again. Now let me till We
fsomethin', says I. There Is few peo-
pie dip to, an you amt one av thin,
SO you see it amt no case av dip this
time. If you're lookin' for trouble,
says I, maybe I can obligate you, an
If there's amy dippin' to be done
there's a large chance that you'll be the
boy to do it when we rach the river
front.
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Dawn O'Day in the Big Cities.
By JEROME K. JEROME

Copyright 1906 by al News and Press Ezehange3
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There is statue Of Aphrodtte in one
g the smaller Paris parks. Twice in
the same week without particularly
meaning it, found myself early in the
morning standing in front OF this stat
ute gl1lng llsIessly as one. does when
in 0EfBan1y mood; and on both o6ca-
sions. turning to go I encountered the
same man, also gazing at it with APP
parently Iistless eyes. He was an un-
interesting looking man-pOssibly ne
Thought the same Of me- From his
dress he might have been a well-to-do
tradesman, minor government off,
cial. doctor or lawyer. Quite ten years
later 4 paid my third visit to the same
statue at about the same hour. This
time he was there before me. I was
hiddens from him by some bushes. He
glanced round but did not see me: and
then ne did a curious thing. Placing
his hands on the top of the pedestal,
IN height, he drew himself up till his
lips were on a level and kissed very
gently. almost reverentially, the foot of
the statue, begrimed thought it was
with the city's dirt. Had he been some
long-haired student of the Latin Quar-
ter one would not have been so aston
ished But he was such a very com
man. afterwards he drew a pipe from
his pocket, carefully filled and lighted
it. took his umbrella, from the seat
where it had been lying and walked
away. Had it been their meeting place
long ago? Had he been wont to tell
her gazing at her with lovers eyes,
how Ike she was to the statue2 The
French sculptor has not TO consider
Mrs Grundy. Maybe the lady raising
her eyes had been confused, perhaps
for g. moment augry--some little milli-
mE ar govsrnesss ems gupposes. In
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that I don't see what that has 10 do wild

that I don't see what that has to do wild
the case
The doctor didn't take no notice Of
this. He just tips Mike off that he's
got to shoot the juice into him. What's
more, he does it. Mike yelled like a
horse, but. there was nothin' dom. They
had the grip on him.
You can see your boy now in three
minutes says the doctor. With that
we waited. An the doctor ducks. Mike
swears like q. trooper, but when he see
it was no use he KEEP quiet. Then the
nurse shows up.
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The boord av hilth has nabbed
MN; says Mike. Sure, he has the
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FACTS ABOUT PIANOS

There. are but few people In To-
peka who know they can have their
old pianos made over the same as new,
a little cost. "A. Castro. at 1928
Kansas avenue has had several years
experience making pianoes in the fac
tory. He can put new works IN your
piano or make the case over in lat
est style, refnish in any color. same
as new. Mr.. Castro will examine your
piano free Of charge and tell you what
it Will cost, also tuning and repairing.
First class work. best OF reference.
can Ind. phone 1924.
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PAY FOR THE NJ. P.

By the large majority of 2SS the
House of Commons adopted last night
la resolution that members Of Parlia-
ment should be paid salaries. The sum
of $1,000 yearly was specified as the
allowance members ought have tow
ards "defraying the heavy expenses in
separable. from their Office Similar
proposals have often been made in the
press and in Parliament, but no such
emphatic record of opinion has before
been made. 1t is one Of the results of
the great electrical upheave which dis
placed so many Tory gentlemen by la
Dor representatives. And though the
premier put his veto upon the project
for the present. 1t seems clear that the
movement will soon gather sufficient
force to compel the government to give
way. We may expect, therefore, in
time to see M,P.'s drawing their pay
like deputies and congressman.
Argue as one will that this is only
an inevitible development Of English
democracy, 1t comes as a sort of dis
agreeable surprise. In England, we
may be sure, 1t VIII be shock to many
Of the best people of the country. They
VIII see In 1t the glory Of parliament
departing. The venerable theory has
been that the Commons are simply the
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ADMIRAL TOGO's PLAIN COTTAGE
IN TOXIC

ADMIRAL TOGO's PLAIN COTTAGE
IN TOXIC.
My friend took him into the house to
see the admirals lady, on his SUCCESS
ton of wishing to leave his card with
the family. Most politely they were
admitted. The young man who opened
the sliding door was the admiral's Sec
ond son, to their wonder, Mr.. Minorn
by name. CThe servant girl must have
been busy busting or sweeping some
where) This is truly red letter day
in my life the officer exclaimed. He
was surprised on seeing the extreme
simplicity OF the interior, There was
nothing to decorate the room to speak
of, except a few yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS on the inkanome. eve japanese
appreciate the simplicity and sublimity
of space, leaving nothing scattered
around whatever) The mat was
whiteness itself, Madame Togo must
have changed 1t to welcome the admit
rails triumphal return. Every bit of
the house was the symbol of simplicity
The pale, white simple atmosphere in
bllp llOARV wac llhG illeil Ill Zig k9lliAANp
Temple. Yes, the adn1iraps house Is
nothing but the sacred house where
Admiral Togo and his family burn in
cense to the one hundred and eight
gods of the empire. (''The rise or fall
of the empire depends upon the result
of this engagement; do your utmost, ev-
cry one of you1 ds Togo's famous sig
III, IL Fs,.n
falgar message.) And the British Of
ficer's surprise was still greater, my
friend told me, on seeing Madame Togo.
She was SO simple in heart and speech
Surely she is the admiral's better half ;"
and the reflection of her husband-the
greatest hero Of the wide world. In.
her courtesy and sweetness hide great
heart and strength
You would never take It for the resi-
dence Of any high standing parsonage
when you pass by. It is a plain cot
tage, such as you could surely hire for
twenty or thirty yen Can you believe
that the greatest hero in the worlds
history should live in @ house worth
ten or fifteen dollars a month? The
house (of seven or eight rooms) has
large garden attached, but this Is not
distinction, since every Japanese house
is adorned with some garden or yards,
where q cherry tree blooms and a
nightingale may call in the spring. But
here in his house he finds the sweetest
nest with his two sons, the elder one
called TakeshL twenty-one years old,
and with his little daughter of fifteen
summers Only In the home do his
content and joy spread their wings
fully, and his face-the brown face ter
ribly beaten by the sun and hurricane
is ever turning toward it.-Yone Nogu-
chi in the National Magazine.
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gentlemen of England, turning aside
for few months in the year from their
Ordinary pursuits and anlusements, to
transact the nations business. The
service lay in the fact that it has been
voluntary and unpaid. So sharp has
been the feeling of incompatibility be-
tween a place in the Commons and a
paid Office, that any member accept
ing an "office of profit" under the
Crown has Immediately to vacate his
seat. He must then submit himself
afresh to his constituents, who will say
whether they wish him to go back as
servant of the Crown.
Then there has been also the idea, adj
mlttediy more beautiful in conception
than in practice, that the House Of
Commons was the finest club in Eu-
rope. Englishmen have chung to this
even while it was plainly vanishing,
The IS Irish Nationalist long since
broke down the club convention. What
sort of club courtesy could stand the
strain of one-eighth of the membership
rising at every meeting to jeer at the
president and to denoune the board of
governors as incompetent and knavish?
1t Is the Irish, too, who have helped
to undermine the tradition that MEM
Der Of Parliament must be man of
independent means, who would scorn
the thought Of salary. Many Of the
Irish representatives are poor men, and
theor expenses have been paid-not, 1t
Is true, by the government, but by va
rious Home Rule organizations. By so
much, this has cut into the old conven-
ton. ndA some labor members, it is
understood, have also accepted contri-
buttons to their support while at West
minister. Sc that the change had al
ready begun. Fashion notes in the
English press have remarked that the
House of Commons is not nearly so
well dressed as it used to be. and To-
ries who assert that the present House
touches the low-water mark politically
point gloomily in confirmation of their
respondent view. to the unprecedented
array Of baggy trousers and shocking
neckties.
Clothes do not make the legislator
hut any indication, even an external
one, of a falling off in the quality of
representatives should arouse concern.
What Englishmen have long contend
ed is that the non-payment of men,
bers of the House kept out of it mere
windbags and agitators, and thereby
tended to make legislation more serious
and informed A salary, they will now
say, will open the doors to empty
orators and disturbers of the peace,
who will be able to wheedle consti-
tuencies into returning them. Doubt
less the labor members could make
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MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER SATURDAY MAY IL 1906

Starr, treasurer, and Henry Efforts as
sisant treasurer of the nation Most of
the Indians were in debt, and creditors
swarmed in towns where the payments
were made. T. A. Latta, who attend
ed these payments, in recalling in
cidents lately said.
Much has been told of the dis
honesty of the Indian, but in this pay
ment there were many examples of in
tegrity. At Tahequah an old fullblood
woman, perhaps 60 years old, a widow,
drew for eleven participants in the
fund. She had traded with many of
the merchants who sat at the tables be-
tween which she had passed. After the
money had been counted out to her
she swept the entire amount into her
apron and, holding a corner in each
hand, she passed from trader to trader.
pausing before each until each had
taken a sufficient amount to balance
her Indebtedness. Not once did she
count the change or investigate the ac-
count. She was honest, and conscious
of her own integrity did not question
the honesty of another. This was only
one case. There were scores like it,
and, though not pleasant to relate, the
confidence thus placed was sometimes
betrayed There are cases where the
greedy creditor took a handful and
gave back no change.
"A mixed blood of some astuteness
came to settle his account with a
trader. In looking over his account he
discovered a charge for a side saddle,
amounting to 49, He had not made
such purchase and had the bill re-
NEEDED without trouble, the willy old
trader merely telling his bookkeeper Ito
place the item to John Does account.
The bookkeeper himself is authority for
the statement that in this way that
selfsame saddle was collected for
eighteen times"
In Claremore bankers were in attend
ance from Coffeyville, seeking deposits
for their banks. Once store in the
town had a safe Of moderate dimen-
| sions and security, and this store was
headquarters for bankers and collectors
alike. The merchant had a mere baga-
telle of some $4,000 on the payment
After supper the counting room was
filled with collectors and bankers A
parlor table was called into use and
money as high as ones chin was
stacked on every inch.
1t was the minute for verifying the
memorandum of the day. On one
particular evening there was on this
table at one time close to half a million
dollars in crisp new treasury notes.
Lapsful of money? There were wagon
loads of it! 1t was no uncommon
thing to change a hundred dollar bill
for cent sale. And the scarcity of
change was responsible for the custom
Of charging rs cents for changing bill
of that denomination.
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shipping News.

Newport, R. L, May 1.-THE Nortf
German Lloyd steamer Rhein from
Bremen for New York passed light
vessel at $3.50 a. M
Sable Island N, S., May 11.-Steam-
er umbria, Liverpool and Queenstown
for New York in communication with
the Marconi station 65S miles east OF
Sandy Hook p M Will probably
dock s a. m. Sunday.
Genoa, May 1O.-Sailed Steamer
Citta di Torino, New York, (not New
Orleans) not previous.
Dover, May 11.-Sailed; Steamer
kaiserin Auguste Victoria, ffrom
Hamburg) New York via Cherbourg,
Steamer United States. New York via
Alexandra, May s.-Arrived; Steam.
er citta di Genoa, New York vie
Naples, May 11.-Arrived: steam
er REPUBLIC. Genoa for New York.
Havre, May 5.-sailed: Steamer La
Naples, May 7,--sailed: Steamers
Indiana, New York; 10th, Carpathia
(from New York;, Trieste and Fiume.
Genoa, May S.-sailed: Steamer ST.
ella, New Orleans.
Gibraltar, May 10.--Sailed Steamer
Pannonia (From Fiume, etc.), New
Liverpool, May 1o-sailed: Steamer
Armenian, New York.
Perugia (from Naples), New York.
Neville, May 11.-Sailed: Steamer
Victorian Qrom LiverpooD, Montreal.
Newport, r. l., May 11.-Steamer
Graf Waldersee, Hamburg, Dover and
Boulogne for New York. passed Nam
tucket lightship at p. m, and will
probably dock at II a. m. Saturday.
New York, May 11.-Arrived: Steam
or Rhine Bremen