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showed him how the celluloid things could
be swabbed clean and shiny by. the simple
process OF being held under the pump. and
then I started to fasten ono Of the collars
around his heck to show him how swell II
would look on him and what . hit 10 would
make with it.
Il had some trouble In getting ono Of the
collar g buttonholes over the front button.
l tugged and tugged at It, and finally, In
order to get a closer view, ! leaned right
near to him with my cigar In my mouth
o,s .ph snd ! t %ns 3 spa eh ae~ c. Il 1oHps collar tS Sa
! was trying to drape around tho turkey neck
Of the Commissioners of the Bureau OF Health
Of La Libertad. There was q se-ss-spt and
a smell Of inoineratod whiskers and the
Commissioner made = noise Hike q cat flung
'": .W he 0i 1 saw the flame curling around
his outstanding ears and heard the thud
OF the bare feet Of his dog robbers In tho
patio, / decided that tho time had arrived
Tor mi to make the getaway record Of the
neral march Of a marionette. The bowling
Commissioners minions took after me
with their side arms clinkfng like Q xylo-
phone solo at a Mexican variety theatre,
but l was weary Of La Libertad and they had
as much chance to COP me as I'd have Of get
ting g snowbird by putting ohutney on
Fl was two blocks Of 'dobes In front and
going easy when / reached the waterfront,
and the 200 yards that I had to swim to
reach an American coffee schooner lying
out in the roads wasn't moro than enough
exercise to keep me warm, although the
sight Of the dorsal fins Of shout q dozen big
sharks swimming around the schooner
didn't make it look like any conservative
gamble that I'd 'evor get q clutch on the
rope that ! saw one Of the hands tossing
out for me. Imade the rope, however, and
was yanked over the side, and three weeks
later / wns in San Francisco.
"A little while after thatI got q ~reprovins
letter from out State Department. Tho
letter chided me for roaming around Cen-
trail and South America contracting debts
that I couldn't mako good and thus dam
aging the credit Of honest Americans
doing business IN those countries
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ments Of the whole of La Libertad for
nothing, when that free month expired
they didn't send me much more than enough
OF the stun to be cleansed for pay than
would wad one OF their plaza saluting guns
Then came those 5000 soldiers shirts.
Il was pleased to see that much work
in sight, anyhow, and I sent word to the
General-in Chief that I'd be delighted to set
the low figure Of four cents q shirt. he
sent an aide with q ripping verbal message
to the effect that he, the GeneraI
shirt, and that he'd expect to see the shirts
back, done up, in four days, or l could
appear at his headquarters with an ex-
PLANTATION. =.
DC you know what I am going to do?
Yes said I, I think l do. You are
going away from here ,
That's a damned swell guess OF yours.
replied my foreman, and he blew rignt
then and there, for he had been in Central
America before and he could read Q oarome-
ter without even seeing 1t.
sThat night I went out and found q
Greaser who offered me $500 gold for my
laundry as IL stood. / took the oher. The
Salvadorean took hold the next day. Inc
La Libertad folks that had been only string
ing me sent him their duds to be done up.
II was the old story of the freezeout Of a
Gringo by general understanding and then
showing a Greaser along when he got the
Gringors plant for little or nothing;
"A couple Of days after sold out an
American storekeeper In La Libertad died
from the coast fever and his stock fell TO me
for two-thirds of my $500. 1nthis stock was
q big consignment Of celluloid collars and
cuffs.
sThe poor devil had ordered this oonsign-
ment a good many years before with the
idea that he'd be able to introduce celluloid
collars and cuffs among the Salvadoreans,
but be wasn't much Of an introducer and the
stuff had fallen back dead on his hands. l
for the purpose OF showing the La Libertad
people that, after all, laundries were super
fiuous and unnecessary institutions as far
as collars and cuffs went. anyway.
The Commissioner OF the Bureau OF
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jobs. I passed the word around La Liber-
tad that for the first month we'd do all of
their laundry work for nothing, in order to
give the new laundry crew practical in
~struction.
two hours after that word was passed
my plant, for a hundred yards all around
1t looked like q rummage sale on a big
open air scale. Everybody In La Libertad
collected washing for me and brought 1t
along. Included in the mess were the
cotton shirts Of 5000 Salvador troops
which were hiked along from the barracks
Of La Libertad and from all the other posts
for miles around.
Il visited the headquarters Of the Gen.
eral-in-C Chief to make q buck about this,
and be threatened to put me In a. dungeon
for attempting to weloh. He said that my
offer to do free laundry work for a month
for everybody included soldiers as well AZ
civilians. and that 1t would be the real
brainy thing for me to accept the situation
as It stood and not to get balky over doing
up the soldiers cotton slips II I didn't feel
like getting tucked away in some damp
nlaoe where the sun wouldn't bother me
and where I could siesta all day on a regi-
men OF unstuffed tamales and tepid creek
water.
Il agreed with the General-in-C Chief Sof
Salvador when he put 1t in that way ahd
bowed myself out with the statement that
the soldiers shirts would be done up all
fight and done right. i had a near thing Of
VI from going to the wall that first month,
though.
my crew Of fourteen were a real tired
lot. They'd start to work under the direc-
ton OF the foreman at 8 O'Clock in the morn
ing. At half past q they'd all let the outfit
stand as It stood, and they'd march out to
the shade Of the back yard, where they'd
squat and roll q few cigarettes each and
smoke EN-.
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perpetual emblem. There is a cup to be
won outright each year for each member
Of the winning team, the gifts Of the Polo
Association.
The Junior championship dates only to
1900. The cup is the gift Of Samuel ID.
Warren Of Boston. The intention was to
frame up a contest to try out the second
teams and the winner had the right OF
post entry for the senior championship.
The latter clause has been abolished since
1904, and as. the two events to an extent
now divide interest it is probable that they
will be played at different tournaments
after this season. Adouble barrelled cham
pionship has not worked as intended by
the donor Of the trophy.
The Country Club Of Philadelphia team
Won the junior I'm 1900, Rockaway in 1901
and 1902, Lakewood in 1908, playing George
J.. Gould, Jay and Kingdom Gould and
Benjamin Nicoll, Rookaway again in 1904
and Bryn Mawr second last year..
Polo at Newport is conducted by the
westchester Polo Club. This is the pioneer
or ganization in the game in this country.
In 1870 the little band Of New Workers to
start polo sent West for two carloads Of
ponies and divided them by lot at $40 q
pony. Ihey nad practlce games AT tne oiu
Dickel Riding Academy. later playing near
Jerome Park and finally settling on the
we'll appointed Polo Grounds at Fifth ave-
nue. and 10th street.
About 1883 the club removed TO Newport
, and a baseball team leased its New York
grounds. The title has chung to the baseball
fields in New York and other cities ever
since.
The first great polo match at Newport
was when the birmingham team captained
by John Watson came here in 1880. The
! other members Of the team were Capt.
Thomas Hone, the Hon. r. T. Lawley and
Capt. Malcolm Little. The American play
ers were Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., w. X.
Thorn, A. Belmont and Foxhall Keeno.
The Englishmen won in two games. the
first match being under. American rules.
The cup, the gift Of the Westchester Polo
Club, has since been held at birmingham
as an international challenge trophy.
Americans have made two efforts to re-
gain it. and should the negotiations Of
H. L. Herbert, chairman Of the Polo Asso-
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polo, the first by e. Victor Loew, and the
latter by L.. E. Stoddart, before their speed
had developed. Hardness, rather than sus-
tanned speed, and tho inclination for the
game are the attributes most to be sought
in a polo pony.
The ponies u8ed for cutting put cattle;
the COW ponies, are too valuable to be used
in polo, or, at least. the cattiemen have
too great need for such ponies to let them
come east.
A pony that has been playoi for several
seasons Is at his best: they improve with.
time. Some OF tho ponies to be used In
the championship we're at birmingham In
1902.
Play will begin for the junior champion
ship on Wednesday afternoon, August %, the
opening match to be between Philip Boyer,
Alfred Borden, j. H. Hunt and r. G. Law
renee, representing Squadron A. and Rock
away, made up Of W. 4. Hazard, Reno La
Montague, Jr.. and the Colliers, father and
son, r. F. and r. j. But for his accident,
Daniel Chaunoey, Jr.. would have played
on this team. The crack Phaladelphia four.
C. Randolph Snowden, Victor Mather, w.
H. T. HUM and NJ. g. Roeengarten, Jr.;
playing as the Bryn Mawy ~Freebooters, Will
meet the winners Of the opening match on
Saturday, August rs.
In the first week Of the fortnight tho
matches will be for the senior champion
ship and the Aston. Philadelphia has two
strings to its bow. and Boston and New
York have single entries. The luck OF tho
draw brought the Myopia first ard Meadow
Brook together for the first match to-day,
go that the Philadelphians are sure OF q
REPRESENTATION in the final.
Their opening match will be Tomorrow,
the contestants being Bryn Mawr first and
Bryn Mawr F~reebooters. The final will be
on Thursday.
All the players are veterans at the game.
Myopia first has Adelbert Ames, DR., AZ
No. 1, the position formerly played for tho
Bostonians by Maxwell Norman. Robert
G. Shaw I'd will be No. 2, r. l.. Asassis
No. 8, and Devereaux Milburn. formerly
Of Buffalo. the back.
To oppose them Meadowbrook has
Eugene 8. Reynal No. 1, ]. M. Water
bury, Jr., No. 2. Lawrence Waterbury
Nos, and r. r Beeckman back. Usually
L.. Waterbury Is back and 81. p. Whitney
No. 3, but the new alignment is q formidable
one. All four, by the way, earned their
spurs as poloists at the Country Club Of
W~estchester, and in his college days
Beeckman was a noted lawn tennis player.
The Bryn Mawr Freebooters will be az
named for the junior championship while
for Bryn Mswr first Alexander Brown.
who made a clean sweep In all the polo
pony classes at the New. York horse show
OF 1904, will be No. 1, H. w. Harrison will
be No. 2, r. e. strawbridge No. . and
Charles Wheeler back.
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SrRO NAN FOR CONGRESS.
NOVEL; CANVASS BIZ HENRY r.
CHCHEMS IN MILWAUKEE.

He dBets vetes by Athletic Feats. one
1trotheF BY Singing, Another Brother
Gy Grating He 10 Ia Foliette's Friend
hnd wants 20 Reform House Rules
MILWAUKEE, Aug. ls.-with the reputa-
tioh Of being the best all around athlete
and student that Wisconsin University
hos eyer produced, and with the distinction
OF being the aTst man who over completed
the three years law course at Harvard In
two years, Henry +. Cochems 10 now In
the racs for Congress In the Fifth district
Of Wisconsin. To get Into Congress he 10
using all the energy, push. brain n dash
that he formerly used when. a. halfback
on the Wisconsin football team, he was
known throughout the West as the Terrible
Cochems.',
though q good speaker Mr.. Cochems Ia
not banking upon himself alone to secure
The nomination. He has enlisted in his SER
Woo his two brothers, Kari Cochems, an
opera singer, and Ed Cochems, q lawyer
whose ability az q speaker 10 only exceeded
by his prowess on the gridiron % the
great running halfbaok OF Wisconsin.
The three brothers are now touring the
country districts OF Waukosha county
and the wards OF Milwaukee city, Henry
and Ed moving the voters by their logic
and Karl charming them by his music.
This 10 something unusual in Wisconsin
politics, and crowds have greeted the
Cochems brothers at every meeting.
Ten years Of activity in Wisconsin politics
has given Mr.. Cochems the reputation OF
being the best mixer in public life in this
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was an exciting moment in the first cham
pionship final, in 1895, when Foxhall p.
Keene Of the Rockaway team went down
in a scrimmage at the Myopia goal and
broke his coliarbone.
The Rockaway team had been leading,
but II had to finish with only three men,
and Myopia won out. The Rockaway
team won the next year and tho crowd
was 30 enthusiastic that Keene had to strug-
gle and III away to escape being carried
OF on the shoulders Of his admirers.
There has not been SO serious an accident
since in any of the championship matches,
and although Daniel Chauncey. Jr., lost
his place on the Rockaway team this year
through a scalp wound from a mallet in a
match at Great Neck, the game, despite its
dashing plays, is not to be classed as ultra
dangerous. The serious accidents occur
chiefly when inexperienced and too eager
beginners are in the saddle.
The casualty in the match between the
Yale and Princeton teams at Van Cort-
landt IN 1904, which caused the death of
Henry D. Babcock, Jr., Is laid to the rash
ness Of the players. It was an unfortunate
beginning for the game at the colleges and
the sport has not been revived since among
undergraduates.
Myopia, after the initial victory, did not
again capture the championship until at
Narragansett Pier two years ago. Rock
away's one success was that OF 1895.
| Meadow Brook won in 1897 and 1898, the
| Newport team in 1899, Dedham in 1900,
Lakewood in 1901 and 1902, but the last
win was cancelled on the ground that
Lawrence Waterbury had not played in
three matches with the team before the
event.
The Country Club Of Westohester won in
1908, which completes the roster. The
gold cup to represent the championship
is the only souvenir in sport to recall the
residence in this country Of William Wal
dorf Aston. He presented it to the Tuxedo
Club in 1891 for an annual championship
to be played on the club grounds.
The plot selected for the game, after an
expenditure Of $50 900 or $40 900. was given
up and the game lapsed at Tuxedo. At
the start Of the Polo Association series in
1906 the trophy passed by the courtesy Of
the Tuxedo Club to its committee as the
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eat 0 they'd street in and do a little more
work, and at half-past 0 they'd all chip
in pieces OF copper change and one Of
back a couple Of quart skins Of mescal.
They'd repeat the cigarette and mesoal
thing three or four times during the fore
noon, and generally by noon they were
all 30 Lit up that they had to lie down
in the back yard to rest. They wouldn't
come to till about s in the afternoon. when
they'd put in another hours work. after
which they'd all go home, moaning over the
way they were being driven.
They ruined a lot Of lingerie belonging
to persons Of the higher circles Of La Liber-
tad while they were four flushing around
at learning the laundry business during
that first month, and I had to make good
for the destroyed stuff. It was the surest
enough case Of a heap going out and nothing
coming in that I'd ever stacked up against,
but / bad to grit my teeth and stand for it,
I'd be able to get something back.
THE General-in-Chief Of the troops got
sore, too, because those 5000 shirts of his
soldiers, weren't returned more promptly
to the barracks. When they were finally
shipped to the barracks. done up, Ireceived
1fIlIIlculdVo WOIu Iidb q VI ~ buut W0t0
missing, and the General-in-Chie told
me that I'd have to make good for those
127 missing ones at the rate Of 81, gold,
apiece, the shirts being purchased on con-
tract for the Salvador Government at the
rate of 0 cents each.
when I turned my pockets inside out
to show him that I wasn't there with the
price of a ~tortilla, much less si27 to make
good for 127 nine cent soldiers shirts that
hadn't been lost at all, the General-in-Ch Chief
very generously accepted my note ct ninety
days Tor the si27, informing me that he'd
regard the matter as an obligation due him
personally and consequently mighty subject
10 prompt collection at the end Of the ninety
days IL I didn't want to do q long guard
house trick.
Then, after swabbing up all Of the gar
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or there is evidence that a duty I. or.

ever there Is evidence that a duty Is Or.
ceasive.
Another feature Of Mr.. Cochems's cam,
paign which Ia. attracting interest Is hs
arraignment Of tho rules which govern tina
lower house Of Congress. Mr.. Cochem,
says:
at n apparent to one familiar with tbs
rules governing tho conduct OF business in
the House Of Representatives that there Is
much truth in Senator La Follette's state.
ment that that body Is no longer represent.
alive Of tho American people. Under tho
rules governing the House OF Representa-.
lives the Speaker OF the House appoints a
Rules Committee. consisting OF three Repub-
licans and two Democrats, himself being
ex oflcio q member Of the committee. Tia
power OF the Rules Committee In the con.
Quoting OF business Is practically absolute.
sThe Committee on Rules Is a steering
committee for all legislation which may 10
offered. It dominates every other COMMITTEES
In Congress. It has power to suspend Or
amend any established rule Of GtPsres' at
its pleasure. ,t
when legislation Ia brought from COM
mittee to the floor Of Congress it has the
power TO indicate whether or no there shall
be debate; IL there is debate, how much time
shall be given to IL.
1T can forbid the Offering Of amendments
on the floor and compel the vote upon the
measure as offered by any committee.
The only way in which business can receive
consideration, \exoept as indicated above;
is as follows:
-First-On two days of the month a mem.
Der may move a suspension Of the rules
and receive consideration for a measure.
"Second-He may ask to have a measure
taken up by unanimous consent. How.
ever, he cannot even ask to have his
measure taken up by unanimous consent
unless he first asks the permission of the
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Speaker Of the House OF Representatives
in his private chambers.
"In addition to this the Speaker Of the
Youse Of Representatives appoints all Of
the committees of Congress. To violate
any Of the strict rules mentioned here
might be, il the Speaker were dictatoriali
the end Of a members usefulness in Co..
gress, because the Speaker can relegate BIB
to useless and lead committees, and can
refuse, at his within or caprice, to recognize
any member who rises for recognition.
the result Of these various rules is that
the individual member Of Congress is unable
to act with freedom and to impress himself
or his views upon the lower nous OF Cons
gress, save under such STRUCTURES as jeop'
ardize his career. For years he..stronger,
more courageous and Independent members
Of Congress have chafed under these arbi'
trary restrictions. This condition OF things,
however, has led to the trite remark and
universal impression that the Speaker oil
the House OF Representatives is more pow
erful in shaping national legislation than
the President himself, unless the Presi'
dent be Of the most foroeful personality
and popularity.
'Thts condition Of things led Congress-
man Charles Towne to remark that a Con-
gresham who now enters the lower house
Of Congress might as well hand his power
Of attorney TO the Speaker Of the House and
return home. You ask me what remedy
there Is for this situation. The only REM
ody is to establish in the lower house the
sensible rule which prevails in other par
liamentary bodies, that the House OF Rep
resentatives shall elect its own Rules Com'
mittee and 40 save to itself the govern
men OF its own business.
The difficulty in procuring this Is the
timidity and fear Of many members OF te
lower hou se that in taking action or az
OF the so-called House leaders
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State. In the present canvass, this quality
has been Of great Z ervice TO him.
He has made O special point OF attending
all the pionics given in his district. At
the We lsh picnic at Waukesha Beach, early
in July, the master OF ceremonies suggested
q race between Cochems and the opposing
candidate, William H. Stafford, the present
Congressman. MIR. Cochems made 100
yards in 10 rs seconds, beating out the
Congressman by twenty yards. As a result,
he has the united Welsh vote in Waukesha
pledged to support him.
On August 4, while at the Scotch picnic,
some Of Mr.. Coohems's friends prevailed
upon him TO enter the sixteen pound shot
putting contest against some Of the best
mon in the State. Mr.. Cochems stripped
OF his coat, made one throw OF As feet Q
inches, and won the rel Then he o
tho applause Of thousands Of spectators by
distributing the eight dollar prize among
four Scotch lassies who were dancing the
Highland fling.
While at the Harvard law school. Cochems,
according to the strength test, was the
strongest man in the world. His test ran
up to 17os points.
Since his college days he has been closely
identified In political life with the Junior
senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La
Toilette. In 1898, at the age Of %, he nomin-
ated Mr.. LaFollette for Governor at the
Republican State convention. In 1900, he
again. was q delegate to the convention
which. frst nominated La Toilette for Gov
N
In 1904, at the suggestion Of Gov. La Fol-
a. ,~al~ ~nrvatorv ~ tha poo-h
llcan State central committee. In the
preeent. canvass b 10 receiving the active
support Of the junior Senator.
Mr.. Cochems has never been a La Toilette
man merely through motives Of policy.
Had Senator La Toilette never been born,
Mr.. Coohems would probably have believed
Just the same on rate regulation, just taxa
ton Of railroad property and equality Of
all citizens before the law.
He ome naturally by his habit Of
thoughts on political questions. Born Of
sound German stock, his ancestors cam to
this country sixty years ago because they
would not knuckle under TO a petty nobility
In Germany, the Cocherases had been q
family Of wealthy farmers, but they sur
rendered everything to emigrate to a land
whore they could be free men.
There were eight boys in all, none OF them
knowing @ word Of English, who. in the late
forties, made their way in the woods OF
northern Wisconsin, at a time when that
country was the abode Of the Chippewas
In 1881 these eight German lads shouldered
their muskets and marched to the front.
Two were killed q. Fredericksburg; two
were wounded at Charlottesville.
q. Mr.. Oochems has gone before the people
Of his district upon q platform which declares
for tariff revision. To ascertain the true
duty to be imposed upon imported articles
no favors q permanent commission under the
Department Of Commerce which should
make an Investigation and turn ip frequen,
reports TO Congress. Suoh reports by the
commission should mset with prompt re-
adiuetment Of che teyid BY Congress- when
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