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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-07-03
coLANrHA Tvs JOHANNA.

oeO < mounds. The feed ration during
the week OF maximum production OF
butter fat consisted of about thlr'!
mounds of corn silage. thirty-nve
mounds of sugar beets, ten pounds OF
clover hay, three pounds or oiimeni
and twenty-one pounds OF grain NIX
ture. consisting Of equal parts by
weight of bran, wheat, ground oats
and gluten feed.
Why Butter Doesn't Come.
great many letters have been con-
ing from different sections or the state
telling Of difficulties experienced In the
churning of cream. Only recently u
letter has come to hand saying that II
requires from two to three ana a nan
hours to bring butter. Now. this Is
entirely too long. and in good man!
cases could be remedied.
The principal causes for long churn
ing are here given, and possibly thos'
interested may find out what Is wroni
nv comparison with these dineren
causes. The following are the chie
causes for slow churning:
First-Cream may be too cola.
second-Cream may be from strip
pers."
Tbird-Cream may be too thin.
rourth-Cream may he too thick an
thus whip up into lather when IN
churning commences. and by stickin
on the side of the churn, Is not reali
churning, even If the churn Is revoi'
ing.
Fifth-Churn may be too fun.
Sixth-You may be churning too RAJ
and thus carrying the cream rigi
around with the churn.
OF course. there are bacterial infe
tons that will cause slow churnin
but I would hardly suppose that ye
. would be bothered to that exter
: Probably In looking over your wor
some of these causes may give you
clew.-Professor W. ]. Elliott, Montai
\ Experiment Station.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-07-03

To get the best 25c meal call at the
Fern Hotel. +. Gray, Prop. l46Stl5
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-07-03

A specific for pain-Dr. Thomas &C.
lectric Oil. strongest. cheapest IMMINENT
ever devised. A household remedy in
vmerica for 25 years.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-07-03
CHICKS ON GRASS.
Convenient Breeding Coop For the Hen
and Her Flock.

An arrangement in use on Iarse
poultry farm is here sketched. When
the chicks are Matched they are convey
ed with the mother hen, TO coop sci
on the grass. The hen is first placed IN
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-07-03

Money to loan en- real estate. Cress'
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03

and downs, because it bespeaks cour-
age, industry and uprightness at every
turn. Mr.. Cornwalls mind was ever
open for what was new and true. This
latter attribute brought him foremost
in the application OF some of the i'm
portant scientific discoveries, a; con-
spicuous instance of which was the in
stallation in this city of the first CEN
trail station electric lighting plant in
the world OF this important and in
teresting record. Bruce Cornwall says:
In 1857 the experiments of leading
electricians eliminated in the produc-
tion Of the dynamo, but not until 1873
did the successful manufacture of eff
ficient and practical machinery for cleo
trio lighting become possible through
the researches of Charles F. Brush of
Cleveland. Ohio, and the solution by
him in that year of the problem of run
ming a number Of arc lamps from one
dynamo
while capitalists all over the world
were watching and waiting for the re-
suits of Edison's experiments, Mr..
Cornwall, as president of the California
Electric Light Company, had enough
confidence to undertake in San Fran
cisco the construction of a central sta
tion electric light plant using the Brush
machines for the purpose of manu-
featuring and selling electric light and
power to the Inhabitants of the city.
This plant on the southwest side OF
Jessie street, between Third and
Fourth, was the first central station
electric lighting plant in the world 1t
was manufacturing and selling illu-
mination equal to 1000 candles from one
horsepower, when Edison had been able
to obtain only four sixteen -c&ndle
lights from the same power"
Mr. Cornwall was a considerable fac
tor in the development OF the coal in
dustry of the Pacific Coast and in the
encoura cement of settlements in tho
coal regions In the eighty-thres years
he, rounded out In 1904 there were no
idle days. A multiplicity of business
cares never crowded out other duties
Mr.. Cornwall was prominent In the
Republican party: he served as school
director; he was prominent in the First
Unitarian Church, beginning his affllia-
tion with it at the time OF Thomas Starr
King. He never forgot the social
amenities; In fact, his life might we'll
be a pattern for any American boy to
emulate.
The book is made of further interest
by a series of photographs which tell
the story of intelligence, determination
and kindliness-
Pierre Barlow Cornwalrs lifework
was we'll worth recording, and Bruce
Cornwall has proved himself nttin Z
and sympathetic chronicfer'
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03

pad causes. 1t is iamentable truth
The authors arraignment OF his CO.
workers is subtle and not without hu-
NOR. He says that "in proportion as
legal oratory has been curtailed what
are called legal briefs have expanded"
After a keen analysis of a variety
of existing conditions, Dos Passos says:
Il am endeavoring to show what a
lawyer is today. The difference be-
tween what be is and what he should
be is as wide as the ocean"
The author has timely and analytic
things to say OF the education OF
lawyer, of his vocation, OF his excur-
sions into the field of the Legislature,
of his obligations, his duties. The con-
cludfng chapter, Causes and Rene
dies is of exceptional interest Mr..
Dos Passos says it would be useless to
attempt ito reform the present genera
tion of lawyers as a whole, for they
are inextricably involved in the meshes
of codihcation and its evil results"
He Classics the existing conditions.
their causes and remedies under eleven
heads. the first of which condemns the
general deficiencies. imperfections and
looseness in the preliminary elementary
and legal education of the law students
He would have the legal apprenticeship
seven years. three of which should be
actually spent as a lawyers clerk He
would have Blackstone to his ultimate
word restored and case, law abolished
as a fundamental means of instruction.
Codification is scored without mercy
as being responsible for three of the
worst enemies of justice-deiays, cost
illness and uncertainty, ito say nothing
of its baleful influence on lawyers"
Under the Dos Passos remedies for
the bad conditions existing in the legal
profession. good proportion of the ap-
plicants for admission TO the bars Will
have to be turned away. He saws:
The excessive number OF lawyers ia
detrimental both to the community and
the morale of the profession"
The lack of manners and the almost
total loss OF esprit de corps among the
members of the bar are held up as con-
tributing to the general bad conditions.
There would be much more fining for
contempt Of court If Dos Passos reme-
dies prevailed. He would have radical
changes in the business side of the pro-
fession and he would limit the amount
of litigation He does not approve Of
contingent compensation and he would
increase the dignity of the profession
by having all lawyers wear a gown or
an appropriate badge in court"
In conclusion, the author says that
he would build up race Of pure law
yers, as far removed from commercial
ism as possible,
Dos Possos has hitched his wagon TO
a star, but at the same time his feet are
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03
American Lawyers as Seen by
One of Them

In these crowded, complex days. when
lawyers, like other folk, are busy with
the scramble for existence and the lay
men criticise and pay grudging fees,
it is interesting as we'll as instructive
to nave a worthy member Of the pro-
fession stop by the way to make and
record a practical as we'll as psyche
logical study of them as they are. as
they were and as they can be. Such
contribution. under the title of The
American lawyer" has just been writ
ten by John r. Dos Passos of the New
York bar. already known to the ltera
ture Of the Law through The Law of
Stock Brokers and Stock Exchange,
.rrhe Interstate Commerce Act" Com
mercial Trusts and The Anglo-Saxon
Century," The author engages atten-
ton at the very outset by outlining in
his Introduction the comprehensive
scope of his field of exploitation, an
nouncing that a consideration of the
influence of the bar cannot be made
without a recognition of concommitant
factors-the pulpit, the press and the
stage. an assurance of comfort to the
layman The development of the book
fulflls the promise. While this work is
adapted to the needs of the student,
in or out of college, and well calcu-
lated to interest and profit the prac-
titioner, it is written especially for the
layman. litigious or not, and should be
much appreciated. for in concise and
simple form they will acquire much
useful and interesting information
about the profession OF the lawyers.
as we'll as the bar itself.
BY way of review. in the first chap
ter, the "genealogy of the lawyer" Mr..
Dos Passos tells that the study of the
law began to be cultivated as sep
arate profession in the thirteenth CEN
tury, when the lawyers gradually sep
arated themselves from the ecclesias-
tical system, and an independent order
of their own was the consequence. .
and that he first appeared as "a friend
and adviser to the court" An inter-
esting picture is drawn of the lawyer
before the Civil War. when a mastery
of the elements of the law and the cul-
tivation of eloquence for pleading were
the essentials, in contrast to the law
yer of today, whose nose Is always
to be found in a digest the author
adding. after giving cases in illustra-
ton:
In point OF morals can discover
little or no difference between the past
and present lawyers. As a class, the
lawyers have always been ready to
avail themselves of all the weapons at
hand, TO assist their clients In good or
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03
The Story of a State Builder
Told by His Son

Remembering the admonition to
young people that they fail not to read
the lives OF saoeessful mes. there comes
a sense OF regret that the sketch of
the splendid work done by the last
Pierre Barlow Cornwall of San Fran
cisco. written by his son, Bruce Corn
wall. is destined for private .distribu-
tion only. 1t has just come from the
local Stanley Taylor press. and outside
OF the few copies that will find their
way to the libraries, the publication
will he the possession of the family
and the friends of this man who, dur
ing his fifty y-six years of residence in
California, helped to make its early
important history and was always con-
cerned with the movements that made
for commercial and political progress
1t does not often happen that a
father worthy of recorded appreciation
has a son capable of undertaking the
delicate task. but Bruce Cornwall has
proved himself one of the exceptions.
Modestly. truthfully, simply, he has
written this sketch, which is as inspr-
ing and interesting and helpful to the
present generation as it is appreciated
by the men OF or near the generations
I'm which Pierre Cornwall lived The
book is full of surprises, for while Mr..
Cornwall was always recognized as a
man of affairs, il was not generally
known to this generation how closely
he was concerned with much that was
vital in the history of this, his adopted
State.
Outside OF the personal interest one
may feel in this life sketch, it has
historical value. While State archives
give conclusions. the narrative of some
OF the momentous happenings as Pierre
Cornwall participated in them, shows
"how the wheels went around" Every
~. Ga.
tai went through several changes be-
fore it was permanently located in
Sacramento and that the people Of Be-
nicia still bemoan the fact that the
machinery of the State government was
taken from them, but no record tells
the story as intimately as the following
paragraphs:
Try as they might to bestow new
life upon their city, the Sacramentans
soon realized the enormousness of their
task. Every effort was made to rejuve-
nate business confidence and restore
property values, but to no purpose. The
ctate capital in 1854 was at Benicia. It
had been moved seven times from one
place TO another at cost to the peo-
pie OF the State OF almost 100000.
once located at Sacramento and then
removed to Vallejo, it seemed useless
to attempt to re-establish IT at Sac
ranento. Nevertheless, this appeared
10 be the greatest hope of the city. If
successful it would at least guarantee
life and some activity.
- mighty senatorial struggle was
Imminent, and. as 1t developed. took on
sectional lines. The Sacramentans thus
gained an ally, also foes; but they
were desperate and determined. The
accommodations at Benioia were far
from desirable members of the Legis-
iature could find no suitable or COM
Portable quarters, and the food was de-
testable. A bill was introduced for the
Immediate removal of the capital to
Sacramento which measure was Bit
terly opposed,
I'm the midst Of discussions and dis
seusions. Mr.. Cornwall and number of
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03

the procession. What pity that a
man like Bierce will leave so little
practically nothing-to literature. His
was a remarkable genius, shown an his
casual articles in newspapers and mag
azines. but it deserts him when he at
tempts stories-always short. He be-
lieves that the short story is the truest
art, but his are almost always disap-
pointing.
Frank Norris name always brings
with it the pity that his work is over.
Had he lived TO finish his wonderful
trilogy. THE Octopus-The Pit-and
The Wolf" California literature would
have been truly enriched. No young
writer here or elsewhere exhibited the
Imagination of Frank Norris. and liter
ature suffered great loss in his early
taking off.
Jack London is doing a large share
in keeping California before the public.
He is certainly one of the most virile
writers, albeit the cloud of plagiarism is
over him. When that wonderful story
Of his. The God of His Fathers. ap-
peared some years ago. 1t created a
world wide sensation. and at once he
became 2 figure in literature. Like
many another successful writer. he has
written some potboilers. but most OF
his stories. long and short, have been
fine and strong and vigorous and have
stood the test OF criticism everywhere.
How seldom a good story Of char
acter and emotion viii dramatize well
IS borne out by the effort to stage Lon.
don's "Scorn of Women" AS a short
story il is wonderful; as a play it is
disconnected. poor and unconvincing.
Wallace Irwin and VIII Irwin are
two of the interesting personalities in
California's review. Wallace is real
humorist in verse. almost without dis
pyte the best in America. VIII Irwin
has done some fine short stories and IL
he does not devote too many of his
best years to overseeing other mems
work more will be heard from him.
His The City That Was" is a pretty
tribute to San Francisco. Some ex-
cellent stories by Will Irwin were done
in collaboration with Gelett Burgess
and some with Charles X Field. Those
with Field have the distinct literary
flavor. Charles Field deserves men
tion in the list of poets, but he is so
modest about his work that one is
obliged TO hunt carefully through the
magazines to find it. Often his yerse-is
hidden under an inconspicuous nom de
plume.
What a pity that w c. Morrow does
not do more work. for his English is
pure and his stories real. A few years
ago, when. "A Man-His Mark came
out, it was conceded by all the critics
10 be an expert piece of work, and yet
contained the most human handling of
a delicate situation. He is said to be
alternating in Berkeley, working hard
on a new novel;
1t may be provincial to brag. but the
desire to say that California authors
have done things to attract attention
everywhere is Irresistible.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03

on the ground and 90 per cent OF what
he suggests could be realized without
making the world over
(Banks Law Publishing Company, New
York. Price $1.75.)
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03

Maxim Gorky's real name Is Pesch-
koff. A curious story is told of how
he dropped 1t. When he took his hrs
story to a newspaper editor and had IL
accepted on the spot his attention wa;.
called 10 the fact that ne had nor
signed It, In response to the editors
request for a name he replied, Sign
II .Gorky," which means bitter.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-05


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-07
Welcome to the Firemen.

Greetings to the f1remen who are gath
ering in Washington! The thirty-fourth
annual convention of the International
Association of Fire Engineers will con-
vene in this city tomorrow and continue
here until Friday. The Washington fire
department will give the men a special
welcome and the Washington populace
will give them a general welcome
These men follow a hazardous calling
They take their lives in their hands. or
intrust their lives into others hands.
every time the gong rings. They stand
ready night and day to fight for the lives
and property of their fellow-msn, and
they not only stand ready to fight
but they do fight. usually several times q
day. They stand between civilization and
its red foe-the twin peril of pestilence.
No estimate can be put on the wealth
which these men save to the world.
They are a brave and hardy class. The
percentage of weaklings and milksops in
this class Is so small that there is no per-
centage.
The interest and Importance of the fire.
mems convention may be gathered from
some of the subjects which will be dis
cussed. Among these are "Is Fire Pre-
vention OF More Importance Than Fire
Extinguishment?' and Electric Fires
Their Cause and Prevention"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-07

paign lasting four months in all the
states. In less than an hour he will be
able to audit the accounts of this New
York trip, and spot and cast out any
undesirable money that may have been
contributed But next year he will be
here today and there tomorrow; now in
the east and now in the west: on fast
flying railroad train nine-tenths of the
time; and forty-seven kinds of objection
able money might flow into his campaign
Golfers without his knowledge. The aver
age campaign manager has not Mr.. Bry-
ans notion If things, and when he needs
money needs it as a Texan needs his pis-
toll, and accepts it from any old source
Who knows but that Judge Parker in
1904 was harried all through his cam
paign by the fear that his managers
down in Greater New York were receiving
corporation money in aid of his cause
Some of them were millionaires and
others advisers of millionaires, and all
were operating within a stones throw OF
Wall street. What easier than for some
body, in an excess of ZEAL to forget all
about the campaign cry against trusts
and gather in a few shekels from the for
hidden sources? The candidate was busy
at Esopus 'jollying' visitors. and could
not keep track of campaign money. anx-
ious as he may have been about the con-
duct of things.
1t is a hard nut to crack. this keeping
campaign funds unspotted from the trusts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-07
Old Wives Best.

The report comes that Ferdinand Pin
ney Earle has sought rest for his frazzled
nerves in a sanitarium, that when he re-
covers he viii. go to Europe. and while
there will seek to see his child A recon-
Citation of the whole family is suggested
The report lacks confirmation. but does
not lack plausfbility. A reunion would
be an old, old story 1t Is not easy for q
parent. either with or without human ma
ture in him, to put away his child. And
when 1t is done. the act of putting away
is not apt to stay put. Filial love is
very much deeper than the fool notions
which some long-haired and long-eared
persons with high brows and low thoughts
call philosophy. Many of these so-called
PHILOSOPHERS are not love of wisdom but
love of self. Very many persons with
low-grade minds and a plentiful lack of
culture are masquerading as ''intellectu-
ais by chattering hifalutin gibberish
about advanced theories. and new-fan-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-07
The Cauehraka.

Beware of tales from the canebrake.
The subject is tempting. and magma
lions in this country are lively. Never
were takers buster or better remunerated
than in this year OF grace. The Presi-
dent may or may not perform wonders
with his gun. He may or may not load
himself down with bar. II the tales are
big the pelts must support them. The
pelts should be produced But in the
very nature of things full details of this
hunt can never be known. Just as that
tennis game between the President and
the Bishop of London remains something
of mystery, SO with this trial of the
Presidents skill with his rife. 1t is
enough to know that he is good shot
and that his hosts are bent on giving
him the time of his life. Maybe he will
have IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-07
w ater.

Water is enjoying a boom. The Presi-
dent is agitating Gas ever for more water
from the lakes to the gulf Irrigation
congresses and irrigation projects are
calling for more water. Georgia makes a
demand for water by prohibiting the sale
Of its usual substitutes. Kentucky, which
few seasons ago would not use water
even as a chaser, asks for nothing but
water in a hundred counties. 1t Is re-
ported that Henry Watterson has signed
the pledge and that the mint beds are
growing up in weeds Michigan wants to
write into her constitution a preference
for water. Many cities are planning to
increase their supply of water. There is
also talk of draining the everglades and
Wall street, but that Is another story.
At any rate, there will have to be a few
floods to quench the rising thirst for
water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-07
The President and the Chipmunk.

Zounds and odds bodkins. but this Is
shock! How can ones faith IN omnis-
cience and all that bear up under such
a strain! First, the President is knocked
out at tennis by a mere ciergymat-a
mollycodde sort of creature, VINO never
damned a weakling. caught a wolf with
his bare hands or shot the nine lives out
of bobcat
And on top of this humiliating van
ouishment comes the charge that the
President is nature faker! And the hor-
rife effrontery of 1t is that the sacri-
legious scoundrel who makes the charge
wants to prove that he is right! just
read this, which was clipped from the
New York Times:
do Chipmunks Hibernate?
To the Editor of the New York Times:
In an October number Of Scrlbner
Magazine is an article on Small Coun-
try Neighbors' by President Theodore
Roosevelt.
In 1t he asserts that the chipmunk
(tamais striatus) 'hibernates.' Neither
President Roosevelt nor any one else ever
found a chipmunk alternating ! shame
me of the part l played in proving that
the chipmunk does not hibernate, for as
boy l routed many a one out of its nest
to secure the store of nuts, especially
beechnuts, he had laid up for his win
ter's food. No alternating animal lays
up a store of food. The alternating ami
NAL becomes dormant and does not need
food. In its torpid state 1t does not eat.
AS winter comes on they sink into a
deep sleep in which nourishment Is I'M
necessary"
Hornaday. who has forgotten more
about the animals of North America than
all the nature takers put together ever
knew, says of the chipmunk: 1T does
not become dormant. 1t comes out in
winter and enjoys the light and warmth
have seen this to be true more than a
hundred times, and the fact Is well known
to all observing boys and men who live
where the chipmunk is common.
JOHN RANDOLPH"
But it matters little whe Their the chip
munk does or does not hibernate. The
President has classed It as a alternating
animal. The question Is closed.