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King Edward as a Farmer.
rom the Westminster Gazette.


The rich crop OF prizes which the king
cattle and sheep have won at the Bling
ley Hall show. Birmingham, is the latest
demonstration of his majestys success as
farmer. of which he is SO deservedly
proud. When the king began breeding
nearly forty years ago the Scandinavian
farm lands were in an almost hopeless
condition, barren and barely capable of
cultivation. Today. according to Rider
Haggard. ut is a wonderful farm, tor
nowhere is so much high-bred stocks to
be seen on the same area But prob
ably nowhere will you find such an ar
ray of plates and cups won at shows as
that which Sandringham boasts. At a
single exhibition his majesty once won
no fewer than fourteen first prizes. In
1903 he captured five first prizes and
cups. in addition TO numerous seconds
and thirds: in 1904 his prizes numbered
twenty. in 1905 he won a champion plate,
a challenge cup and eighteen other prizes,
including four firsts. while last year he
took al the Smithfield show ten firsts
nine breed cups and plates. six other
prizes and several highly commendeds, .
and every prize winner he has bred him
self.
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average depth of the gulf of Suez is
greater than the height of a twenty-story
fiat, and two Washington Monuments, one
on top of the other, could be sunken into
plenty of water above for the deepest
ocean steamer to go over them.
Hot and Salty.
The Red sea is red hot l have steamed
many miles along the equator. but this
is much hotter. The water here is shut
in on both sides by deserts, which furnish
no streams to cool it, and the tropical
sun beats down from January to De-
cember. AS a result the surface of the
water is often 100 degrees above zero,
and 1t forms a great hot-water plant
steaming the air. The SUMS rays are
bottled up also by the deserts. which act
as second heat radiating plant. The
result is that the air is often Suffocating
and there seems to be only a waving
sheet of blue steel between us and the
lower regions. Indeed. were it not for the
electric fan in my cabin I should be I'M
able to write, and outside upon deck we
have double roofs of canvas to temper
the rays of the sun. Last night many
of the passengers slept outside their cab
ms on account of the heat. We eat our
meals famed by electricity. and yesterday
we had sandstone. which covered our
ship with red dust, and even entered the
portfolios and got into the beds That
storm came from Arabia, and it may have
swallowed up some of the pilgrims now
on their way to Mecca.
The air here is so salty that one can al
most eat eggs without seasoning. The
water contains so much salt that II 100
pounds of it are boiled down. four pounds
of salt will be found in the bottom of the
kettle. The evaporation is so great that
were it not for the inflow of the Indian
ocean. the sea would, within less than a
century, go into the air and leave in it's
place one immense block of salt. In
deed these waters are more salty than
those of the ocean, and they are saltier
than the Mediterranean and most other
salt seas.
Suez in 1907.
I had expected to find the Red sea
coasts more thickly populated. There are
no cities of any size and very few viii
lagos. Even Suez has only about eight
cen thousand people, and of them not
more than three thousand are Europeans
The town has large docks, but its trade is
small and it has had nothing like the
growth which men thought would follow
the completion of the canal. There Is di-
rect railroad connection with Cairo. and
passengers on their way home from India
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that port is hotel. There are no accom-
modations for travellers. and some of the
steamship companies will not sell tickets
to Khartum via the Red sea on this &C
count. -S@
1t takes twenty-sixA hours to- go by rail
from Port Sudan to- K hartunL Sleeping
cars will be put on the railroad this year
and there will probably be considerable
travel as soon as the proper hotel accom-
modations are furnished at the port.
Already many freight steamers are cali
ing at the port. and in short time the
bulk of the freight for central Africa and
the upper Nile will go that way.
italian Africa.
I have been making some inquiries
about the Italian possessions on the west
coast of the Red sea. They have colony
known as Eritrea, which begins about
$50 miles south of Suakim and runs down
almost to the Strait of Bab-el-mandeb. 1t
is not wide. and it terminates little back
of the coast where the Abyssian hills be-
gin. 1t is only few years since the 1tal-
ians tried to include in Eritrea large
part of Abyssinia and failed owing to the
bravery of King Menelik. The land they
have now is of small value. There are
only few tracts that can be irrigated,
and the exports are nothing. The strip
is inhabitated by nomads, who raise
camels, oxen, sheep and goats. The pas
turage is scanty. and the shepherds move
about from place to place with their
stock. Some of the tribes live in tents
made of mating. and their wants are
simple Ito an extreme.
Massawa.
The chief Italian port is Massawa. 1t is
little town situated on a coral island
and Joined to the mainland by a
causeway. 1t has two short railways
which connect it with the Abyssinian hills
and which comprise altogether about
forty-eight miles of track. The road is to
be continued to the town of Asmara, near
which some gold mines have been opened.
1 am told that the Italians have re-
Gently built a telegraph line from -tneir
port to the capital of Abyssinia and that
they are trying to increase their trade
with that country: They are shipping
considerable salt which strange to say, Is
so relished by the Abyssians that it
brings more than sugar and takes much
the same place among them as candy and
tobacco with us. The average Abyssinian
carries a stick of rock salt with him and
takes a suck of it between whites. If he
meets friend he asks him to take lick
of his salt stick and his friend brings out
his own individual stick and they take
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CHH.DREN'S TWELFTH NIGHT SUPPER
Cream OF clam soup In cups with bread arn
butter crlsps.
Creamed oysters In creustadcs or oyster pattics.
Cold sliced chicken.
Bread and butter sandwiches.
Olives and cream cheese salad in lettuce leaves
Animal crackers.
Ice cream in forms
Twelfth night cake. Tempcrance punch
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and none of the larger American cities
need be without its aquarium of rare
specimens
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04

Taking the flags of twenty-five leading
national powers, red is found in nineteen
of them.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-02-06
MORE DISPENSARY SCANDAL
South Cardinals State Gin Mill Svs-
tenn Again in Deep Disgrace

ATLANTA, January 2o-(A press dis
patch) Tn the fourteen years of the
South Carolina liquor dispensary law
the amount stolen and grated aggre-
gates between $4,ooo,oOo and $4,000, 900,
conservatively estimated" said T. B.
Fielder, of Atlanta, who has been as
sisting the encouragement of South
Carolina in prosecuting cases against al
legged bribetakers and bribegivers.
Warrants have been issued against
forty or fifty men all over the United
States, says Mr. Fielder, charging them
with conspiracy, defrauding the state
of South Carolina, with perjury and
with accepting brides.
1t is stated that among those who
will be indicted by the grand jury in
Columbia next February will be whole
sale whisky dealers of Atlanta, Macon,
Augusta and Savannah
One of the worst cases appears to be
that of a Cincinnati firm, which claimed
that the state owes it $35,OOO The COM
mission declares that the firm owes the
state $4,000 overcharges and fraudulent
charges.
Attorney Fielder says that some of the
most prominent politicians in South
Carolina are involved in the scandal
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-02-06
RULES OF THE RANGE
A State Chairman Protests Against a
System of "Rustling" in
Party Work

Editor of THE NATIONAL PRoH1B1-
ZIONIST: Out west, where they raise
horses, it is rule that all unbranded
yearlings that any breeder may find on
the range after a given date he may
brand and they become his property.
But to appropriate branded or saddle
marked horses is "rustling," and the
penalty is death.
81 see noise" like a great campaign
in the land. And I see vast waste of
effort and loss of results through the
free and unrestrained practise of rus
thing" on the part of Prohibition cam
paign managers, which practise brings
penalty upon the honest raiser, instead
of the "rustler"
An illustration: The head of a COM
mittee found bright young lawyer, just
out of school, and Republican. He
had stuff in him and was worth having
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The NATIONAL -PRO1fBf L 10NfS

lie went alter him, and saw him sound
ly converted to the Prohibition party.
Then he was put at work for the COM
mittee and developed into an exception
al man and was advanced to more and
more responsible and important posi-
tons, as he increased his knowledge of
the geography of the state and plans
and methods of Prohibition campaigns.
The head of an outside committee was
sent to help the young lawyer hold some
conventions, and, quoth outside man
ager, Here is a fine colt, and we'll
broke; and so he "rustled."
Again, a committee picked up an UNI
dergraduate. He was a troublesome fell
low IN many ways, and records show
that he was a doubtful experiment for
the first two summers. But he devel-
oped to fit a peculiar kind of work An
outside manager heard of the results
he was getting, and the peculiar line of
work he was adapted to. So he rus
tied"
And these examples might be multi
Piled and not go outside the experiences
of single committee
The allurements of travel diversified
experience or higher salary or position
induce men, trained by the committee
that has put them at work, to leave the
work for which they are trained, with
their technical knowledge of the geog-
raphy, strength, nationality and senti-
ment OF the territory, and familiar
lty with the election laws, and leaves the
industrious and enterprising committee
that has developed and trained the man
to begin at the bottom with a new one
and develop him from the mediocre to
the exceptional. The loss in efforts and
results must be great. OF course, the
injured committee may, in turn, "rus-
tie but the difficulties are two-fold-
the man rustled would be unacquainted
with the local knowledge that the lost
man possessed; but far worse the COM
mlttees that are doing the most "rus-
ting are doing the least developing,
and reprisals are impossible because the
offender has nothing worth stealing.
1t seems that it would be a fair rule
that no campaign manager chairman,
secretary, or other executive oficers)
should offer employment to the regular
employee OF any other committee or
manager. Should conditions arise that
would lead him to wish to employ the
employee of any other committee he
then ought first to secure the release of
the employee from the employer. I'm
employed men IN any states would be
open to propositions from any source. I
believe If all interested would observe
regulations of this kind we would con-
serve vast amount of energy, and in
the end on the whole reap far greater
results
A CHAIRMAN.
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PROHIBITION STOPPED SHORT
'Professor Hopkins Tells of a Great
Meeting in New York That Could
Hear Part of the Truth

Editor of THE NATIONAL PROHIBIT
IoNIsT:-On this Sunday afternoon, in
he great Majestic theater of this great
.:ity, | have attended about the most re-
markable Prohibition meeting covered
by my experience. | was not one of
those who addressed it, My kind of pol
itics, Prohibitionist though | am, would
not have permitted me the freedom of
its platform. Yet I insist that it was a
Prohibition meeting, though the morn
ing papers will not so report it. The
large audience was mainly men and
fine type of men; and they sang "Amer-
lea" at the close with the gusto of real
patriots
The chief speaker was Gov. Charles
E. Hughes, unless Rabbi Wise, who fol-
lowed him, may have been considered
his peer. Both men, and other men,
made Prohibition speeches-but they did
not know it. and the multitude, who
heard them, applauded Prohibition
speeches-but the multitude did not
know it. 1t would have been immensely
funny, to an old Prohibition speaker
like myself, if it had not been SO sug-
gestively serious. I am glad, however,
that the speeches were made, and that
| could hear them, and that so many
hundreds of men heard them who
needed their inspiration and their edu-
cation more than l.
The burden of all the utterance was
moral welfare; and one of the lesser
speakers represented the Merchants AS
ISOLATION, with over twelve hundred
members in this city, leading merchants
here, and over thirty thousand associ-
ate members outside, in the state; and
the motto of this Association, he said,
was ITO promote trade and the well
fare of the city" And all these, he
declared, were in favor of what this
<aeeting proposed, of what the governor
advocated, of what Rabbi Wise had
wisely and eloquently pleaded for
PROHIBITION-of race track GAM
bling
The meeting was held to sustain our
governor in his demand for the repeal
of our present law, which lega1izes
gambling on race tracks, in violation of
the state Constitution, no doubt, and for
the passage of new bill to prohibit
that evil; and the direct way in which
Governor Hughes asserted his views
Ono rhyme intended), ana stood for
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THE CORRESPONDENT

separation of the state from the gam
bling curse, and insisted that the state
should not share in gains gotten by those
who do not labor for them, and his de-
nunclation of the sure effects of our
states present alliance with race track
gamblers, for the money paid by them
to support Our so-called agricultural
fairs was refreshing. Refreshing also
were the cheers which greeted so many
OF his strongest utterances on this line
But Rabbi Wise was more eloquent
even than the governor, and his address,
if printed with the liquor traffic substi-
make as effective a Prohibition docu-
day. Every argument which he set
meeting was called to agitate and help
secure, made with still greater force for
the kind of Prohibition that Our cause
represents. The rabbi even declared that
a "blue" law, unenforced, is better than
bad law, no matter how we'll men en-
force it; and he urged, in magnificent
tones, that the Empire State should be
imperial over sin, and crime, and should
price they would pay Both the rabbi
and the governor said brave words for
Our youth, and for the homes of our
state, and for the honest labor which
means true prosperity; and both con-
demned the gambler for his blighting
influence on all these, and would have
him prohibited, inside the race track,
as the Constitution and laws prohibit
him outside the track. And the present
race track gambling law, under which
gamblers thrive, was admitted to be an
attempt at regulation which had proven
itself failure
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SA-
LOON, and its relation to our youth,
our homes, and labor? What about
the saloon as a hot-house for gamblers
If it be had for the state to share in the
ill-gotten gains of the gambler, what
about the states share in the gains of
the saloonkeeper? Tainted money"
said the rabbi, lis only tainted; it may
not be bad all through; but the
gamblers is Any more so than the
saloonkeeper's?
If only John B. Finch, or Samuel
Dickie, or Oliver w. Stewart, could
have taken that meeting this afternoon
when the eloquent rabbi sat down, and
followed up the rabbits own logic for
an hour, what a Prohibition meeting it
would really have been! Some day we
may have governor so brave and I'M
trammeled that he will be free and fear
less to cry out as loudly against the
saloon curse as against the curse of
gambling, and then such meeting as
today's will not stop short of a pur-
nose that every rabbi and preacher and
Prohibition, by law, of things which to
regular is impossible and to license is
a crime. A. A. HOPKINS.
New York, February ?.
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The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL
By HELEN ROWLAND.

It's rather sad to sec how easily gets that tired feeling after
wife sort OF loses her and admiration for after has
lather and HIS hair sticking n
II you want TO be really popular
old naughty
little like the fat
him
Brdeg-ooms
morally a LEI to the
guilty and defends
defending is written a
Odd how
bath dose Of bromo
feel so moral that he VIII begin
1t SO easy to please husbandf
All man asks for in the love-game is beginners
man marries girl for what she is then
something
When an ordinary does smoke
TO find out what worse folly is s 10
A gets his sentiment wit brand
she
first
a
There
It's harder
a
/ trying to fir with aWs-s
begins by telling what trying has
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
MY MOTHER.

I'm going back to chIhood. inst going il my mind
To visit the old homestead and see what l can ind :
The gate standing Open 70 path beneath the trees
Where stop and listen to the rstling Of the leaves.
Whose shadows grow deeper. soon tbs grren lawn 70
cover,
And everywhere l now see my dear. patient mother.
And while I'm back in childhood and childish stats
o. mind.
Let me so through the old house and see what
find:
The big front door is ajar and IN enter there
To see the dear old fireplace and coy rscing chair
wander through all the rooms. one aftr the other
And everywhere l now see my dear. TSsieEt Mother.
Still ciinring to ms ehildhod. and roaming in my
mind.
wander IN the garden to see what I can hnd
The vines and shrubs tangled ard sweet flowers
see
While apple and cherry trees shower petals on me.
The robins gire glad greetings and near their nest
hover
And everywhere nor see my dear. patient Mother.
Oh lei me stay in childhood and be happy IN mind
For here I'm with my Mother. and she IS always
kind:
We walk through the garden and 7 hold her dear
hand.
Then we ut in the twilight and talk Of that far land
Where she is now waiting with loved ones and ny
brother
To gsst ne as in childhood, my dear patient
Mother.
EETTIE c. JENNINGS.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-01
FROM WOMANS
POINT OF VIEW.

The wise woman is counteracting the
effects of heated houses and lack OF ex-
ercise duriBg the winter months by TAX
ing long walks in these beautiful days.
Walking is a fad bat so beneficial that
the owners Of horses and autos are ac-
cepting It. particularly when overbur-
dened with flesh.
do net believe that we appreciate
pair OF sturdy legs and active feet Ger
tainly we do not put them to the best use,
and assuredly we envy those who can
ride at pleasure. There are not many
philosophers like the man l heard confess
ing TO companion in a street car. an
open one. that he found that an ideal con-
veyance. since he did not have 70 carry
the responsibility and cost of running II.
took long look at the speaker and de-
ctded that he meant every word he said
He was stout and the picture Of content
ment.
Walking is JOY under proper conditions.
One must be dressed for II, in short skirt
and easy shoes. To attempt even a mod
crate distance with eramped aching feet
takes away all enthusiasm I am not
likely to forget party met IN the White
Mountain district last summer. a party OF
men, women, and children. who spent
each summer outdoors. They had a wagon
with strong horses for carrying the camp
ing outfit and the meager luggage OF the
party, and the men took turns AT driving.
All the others tramped. and the party
pitched camp wherever night overlook
them
These were people OF money and leisure,
but of simple tastes, at least in warm
weather They certainly got more out
OF life than the other members Of their
class. and was told by one OF the party.
that sickness wss unknown 70 the chill
dren, and forgotten dream TO the elders.
The stock OF health accumulated during
the summer lasted them until the next
trip. There have always been small par
ties OF men who regarded tramping as
an ideal vacation, but there are no new
members worth counting. The Appalach-
tan Mountain Club does a good bit OF
this sort of thing. but the everyday man
and woman wants 70 live on the car line
and avoid unnecessary steps
80 the average person is slave 10
medicine and those who prescribe IT, A
teacher Of vocal music who lives five
miles away from his studio, and who
walks that distance twice each day. re-
gardless Of weather. is openly dubbed a
crank, although he has not known an
hour Of sickness for twenty years He
told me that he bought a dog, in the be-
ginning, 10 keep him 10 his self imposed
task of walking. He tried II as a last
remedy for indigestion. and after he had
been cured, the habit was firmly fixed
and he had discovered a new JOY IN life
l assure you he is no crank. but only
a healthy, sweet-natured mortal. with a
capacity for hard work
BETTY BRADEEN.