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teach the fly to do exactly the same tricks
that he has taught them. The formula
works out something like this: Find OFT
what the fly wants to do, and let him
do it.
Already doubling Thomases have made
their appearance, questioning whether
Smith has really achieved anything or
whether the so-called tricks We're just
faxed. These critics have suggested that
the attachment of the fly for the dumb
bell Is due to little paste added by the
instructor and that the unhappy insect
is. in reality. only attempting to get free
Of an unwelcome incumhrance. This.
however can hardly be true. as a little
exercise of common sense will soon prove
For the fly. as well as for the professional
juggler it is necessary. first of all, that
the objects manipulated should be per-
fectly clean.
In the case Of the insect the least i'm
purity will clog the pads of Its delicate
feet and it is not until they are clean
again that they can perform their in
tended function. A striking proof of this
is found in moving pictures which Smith
parently discovered some dust on the ball
with which he is performing. Several
times he stops and transfers the ball to
his hind legs until he has carefully
cleaned his front feet. Perhaps another
critic has shown more originality in sug-
costing that the fly has been fed on ZION
filings and the dumb-bell magnetized!
X y
If further proof were needed of the fact
that there is no physical compulsion to
account for the tricks it can be found
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tied away. For there are clerks or COM
mittecs. employees of the Senate and
House. who have vast stores of knowledge
regarding the proper course 10 be pur-
sued with the legislative problems that
present themselves to each Congress, and
Who are almost Indispensable to the ex-
rcditious transaction of the public hush
ness.
There are employees of this character at
the Capitol who have been in harness for
twenty. thirty and even forty years. They
have seen many members OF Congress
come and go; have seen youthful MEM
bers of the House become grave and rev.
erend senator's; have seen first one po-
litical party aad then the other get the
upper hand. Yet they have retained their
positions. They have become specialists
along their lines, and in quiet way have
probably Influenced a great part of The
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stay on all tours. In the case of the
fly it is different. . He will attempt to
escape. but. being more cautious in his
movements, will bump his head against
the side Of the bell gently.
+ Il
In order to remove this caution and to
hurry the period of training. Smith rugged
up a clever device whereby the fly was
imprisoned in dark box with a small
door constructed. In part. Of thin glass
and mounted upon an escapement some
what like that used in an ordinary pen
dulum clock. When the unfortunate fly,
in his buzzing. bumped against this door.
it Immediately recoiled and gave him
smart rap on the head. Even with this
mechanism. however, Smith found that
the fly was very obstinate little insect
and took quite a surprising number of
knocks before he was cured of his wish
to fly In no case was the cure entirely
complete.
Next" said Smith. in discussing his
methods, came the question of food 1
selected honey and my specially bred flies
took to 1t like the bad boy to the jam
pot. After the preliminary training they
would sit or stand the end of a pen
holder and eat contentedly of honey Of
fered to them on the point of pin. l
had to be very cautious, however. espe-
cially at the beginning, for no matter
how much the fly has been trained or
hand was pretty sure to brighten it. The
natura! enemies of flies, which they avoid
more or less by instinct, such as lizards.
spiders. birds and frogs, are generally
very rapid in their movements. / found
that by moving my hand steadily, but
with extreme slowness and caution. it is
possible to touch the head of an ordinary
fly which has alighted on table without
it's taking flight.
There is another reason continued
Smith, why the utmost care Is necessary
in teaching the fly to do its tricks. a fly
is easily injured and, no matter how
slight the damage, | found that 1t always
materially interfered with the result This
is not strange when one considers how
difficult 1t would be for a human juggler
to perform his feats with a sprained fin
ger or a broken arm
The first experiment tried by this
scientist was to test the strength Of the
blue bottle. 1t proved, however, a fail
ure. He constructed an extremely deli
cate balance. with dial and indicator and
to the lever a silk thread was attached.
To the other end of the thread a small
housefiy was fastened by one of it's hind
legs When it endeavored to escape, it
naturally registered its pulling powers
upon the dial. So far, SO ;,oOd. Next, a
gigantic, specially bred blue bottle was
attached. TO Mr.. Smiths surprise. after
a mighty tug, the balance separated from
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pie order Mr.. Bennett was a member Of
the House during the Fifth-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses, and was elected
secretary of the Senate in 1900. He has
been q lawyer and a banker as we'll as q
politician.
The three officers Of the House elected
by the members at the beginning of each
new Congress are the clerk of the House,
the sergeant-at-arms and the doorkeepcr
of the House. The present incumbent 8
have been in Office for years and are ex-
tremely likely to be reelected when the
SiXty-first Congress assemblies after March
4 in extra session. The offices of clerk OF
the House and sergeant-at-arms have al
most invariably been given to former
members of the House. The present clerk,
Alexander Mcdowell came to the Capitol
first as a representative from Pennsyl-
vania, being elected to the Fifty third
Congress on the republican ticket. He
was elected clerk of the House during the
Fifty-fOurth Congress. Mr.. Mcdowell is
the picture Of geniality and has a firm
hold upon the members of the House, with
whom he is very popular. Before he had
legislative aspirations he was d printer
and also banker.
The sergeant-at-ar arms. Henry A. Casson,
w
one time chief clerk of the Department of
Agriculture. This was in the day of
jeremiah Rusk. whose protege Casson
was. The position of sergeant alarms of
the House requires considerable tact, and
Mr.. Casson fills the bill to a tee. He has
been called upon when members so far
forgot themselves as to come to blows on
the floor of the House-which they some
times do In the House. Another job put
upon the Sergeant-at-a arms is to bring in
the members when there is a call of the
House to vote upon measure of impor-
tance. These are times when Mr.. Casson
is compelled to take members from enter
tainments, receptions and dinners. He
has cruelty yanked them out of their beds,
unless they were too i'll to come, in order
that a quorum of the House might be on
hand.
The doorkeeper of the House is Frank
B. Lyons. He came into his office about
the same time as Mcdowell and Casson.
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committee at the time of his death last
summer. The chairman of the commit
tee at the time Mr.. Cleaves was APP
pointed clerk was Senator Lot Nj. Nor
rill of Maine. CleaveS is a Maine man.
like a number of the other old and tried
committee clerks. due, perhaps. to the
fact that in past years Maine has al
ways had strong delegations in Congress.
Mr.. CleaveS has his counterpart in
James c. Courts. the clerk to the House
committee on appropriations. 1t is not
going too far to say that Mr.. Courts
has had more to do with the huge sums
any member of the House. He became
an employee of the House in 1876, and
clerk of the committee on appro-
priations two years later. In the thirty
one years which he has been clerk Of
the committee he has seen the annual
expenditures of the government grow
and pass the billion-dollar mark, yet
Mr.. Courts has an exact knowledge of
all the appropriations made by Congress
and has become invaluable to the COM
mittee.
Painstaking and always in good hu-
NOR, Mr. Courts has a host of friends
at the Capitol He has in quiet way
had much to do with the improvement
of the city Of Washington. recommend
ing sometimes 10 the members of the
committee the appropriation of funds
for identifying the capital. 1t Is said,
though not by Mr.. Courts, that he had
much to do with the construction of the
speedway and the system of parks along
the river front. But he Is quiet and I'M
assuming. and would deny utterly if you
asked him whether he influenced legis-
lation.
!:
Among the employees at the Capitol who
hail frcm Maine. are the Pulsfer brothers
Woodbury., clerk 10 the committee on
commerce and Pittman, clerk to the COM
mittee on naval affairs. Next to Mr.
Cleaves. Woodbury. Pulsifer is the oldest
clerk--in point of service-among the
Senate committees. He thoroughly enjoys
his work. The commerce committee is the
largest in the Senate, having seventeen
members. 1t deals with all matters re-
latng to maritime commerce, the light
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141 the common
blue-bottle variety
of fly is a frisky,
playful little in
sect capable Of
learning all man.
ner of gymnastic
and a cr o b a t i C
feats sounds al
most incredible =,
yet Frank p.
Smith, a London
scientist, has Just
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HE wheels Of ma
tiOnal legislation
would go sadly
awry IL Washing
ton aWoke some
fine morning to
find that the men
VINO have given
years of their lives
70 aid the senators
and representatives
in their duties Lad
been suddenly spir-
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'In order to juggle with these objec s,
a fly needs much more than mere physical
strength. Especially is this so in handling
smooth objects like a pearl shell. If We
examine the fiy's feet under a microscope
we shall discover the secret of its success.
Each foot is provided with couple of
curved claws and two pads covered with
tiny hairs. Each Of these hairs emits a
sticky fluid. thus making possible to the
fly the manipulation of objects too smooth
for the claws to grip"
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legislation that has been given the coun-
try in the last quarter century.
They are a busy lot, these old employees
of the Capitol, during the sessions of
Congress- and for many of them the work
hardly halts during the summer and
Christmas recesses. And one of the
busiest of the lot If Elliott Woods, super
intcndent of the Capitol building and
grounds, and member of building commit
tees innumerable. Few men have so
much to do as Mr.. Woods in such a
short time as he has at his disposal, and
fewer ACCOMPLISH as much as he does.
His career might be termed a successful
romance, for it has the elements both of
romance and success.
= x
Twenty-odd years ago Mr.. Woods came
here from Indianapolis. His first job at
the Capitol was that of timekeeper in the
Office OF the architect of the Capitol, Mr..
Clark One OF his earliest recollectons
of government service was overseeing the
work of filling in the hole in the ground
where the laboratory of the supcrintend-
ent of the Capitol building and grounds
now stands, on Il street south of the Cap
itol. Mi. Woods made himself invaluable
in the architects office. He is by nature
student Of new things. Or things that
are new to him, and his studies have
ranged from music to X-rays and wireless
telegra ply. When Mr.. Clark died it was
proposed to appoint Mr.. Woods architect
of the Capitol. Architects opposed this
appointment on the ground that Mr..
Woods was not graduate in architecture.
So to get around this objection the name
of the Office was changed to superintend-
ent of the Capitol building and grounds.
Elliott Woods is still Il young man in
spite of his long service. He is a born
dilettante. dabbling in every subject that
interests him. finding time to pursue his
scientific studies in spite of the manifold
duties which his position as superintend-
ent of the Capitol entails. He is must
clan and has composed several creditabie
productions. Astronomy, N-rays, which
nearly caused him the loss of four fingers
of his right hand electricity in all it's
uses have claimed his attention. At pres
ent he is experimenting with wireless te-
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a M AZING Feats Per-
1 ) formed by Common
Flies, Trained by a London
Scientist - Excel the Far
famed Performing Flea in
Their Ability to Juggle Balls,
Wheels and Even Fellow
Flies-Dressed in a Cap and
Gown One Plays Nurse
Seated in Chair Another
Twirls a Miniature Dumb
bell.
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According to Mr.. Smith, the real prob
lem is not in making the blue bottle do
something it does not care to do. but in
allowing it to do something natural to
itself He claims that anybody with a lit
tie care, patience and intelligence can
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, December 81, 1908.
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Continued on Sixth Page.)
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For this purpose meat was placed upon
md several inches in depth in a box.
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If further proof were needed Of the fact
that there is no physical compulsion to
account for the tricks it can be found
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HAT the common
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-07
FORTUNE Is SURPRISE.
Old MeGresor Resident Was suppo
edIv DenAnden% m Ratat;v.e

Old MeGregor Resident Was Suppos.
eddy Dependent on Relatives.
West Union, May Mrs. Nellie
Dayton, an old resident of McGregor.
died here at the home of her brother.
1t was generally supposed that she was
dependent upon her brother and sister
for her support, but a few days before
her death she called a lawyer to draw
up her will and then 1T was made
known that she had certificates of de-
post in a McGregor bank in the
amount Of $4,000 and in West Union
bank for $1,000. The wife of her broth
err in whose home she died, was named
in the will as Administrative. She has
two sons living in the west.
In 1861 Miss Nellie Washburn was
considered one of the most handsome
and popular young ladies in Fayette
county, and on June % of that year
she was chosen to make the presenta-
ton of a flag to the first company that
left Fayette county, which afterwaru
became known as Company F. Third
regiment, Iowa volunteer infantry
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-07
COUNCIL BLUFFS JoBBER PRE-.
PAREs TO FIGHT ACTION
BROUGHT BY STATE.
STOOD AMEs COLLEGE TEST
BUT PURE FOOD MEN SAID NO
Seed Dealer Charged With Selling
Glover Seed Containing Canada
Thistle seed-Alleses That Ames
College Men Tested Same Seeds and
Found Them to Comply With Law.
ecial to Times-Renublican.

Special to Times Republican.
Council Bluffs. May "A highly in
teresting controversy, involving a
question of veracity between the state
food and dairy commissioner and the
authorities of Iowa State College at
Ames, has developed in Council Bluffs
thru the filing of an action by tho
county attorney against the Younker
Seed Company of this city. charging
the company with selling or having for
sale, alsike clover sede containing the
seed of Canada thistle. Alderman
Younkerman, head of the seed COM
pany. is going to fight the case.
The suit was instituted by the coun-
ty attorney on request of f. d. Van
de Bogert, agent of the state food
and dairy commissioner. Van de Bog
ert visited the Younkerman establish
ment March IL and took samples of
seed of various kinds. 1t is under
stood that the case is based upon these
samples 1t happens that Mr. Younk-
erman has a collection of seed SAM
pies which he procured from the I'm
tied States department of agriculture
thru the courtesy of Congressman
Smith. BY reference to this collec-
ton he finds that the seed of Canada
thistle Is about an eighth of an inch
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Northern Io1un Items

is vested with police authority over
them. This action of the board in en-
forcing this measure will tend toward
a quiet Sunday and will meet with the
approval of the major part of the citi-
zens who have often been disturbed by
the Sunday games at the fair grounds
Vinton.
Denny Williams, of Taylor town
ship, was kicked by horse which he
was leading Friday, and was badly
hurt. The horse struck him squarely
in the left ribs breaking one of them
and piercing the lung. He will be laid
up for some time. He was leading the
horse when some other horses came up
on the opposite side of the fence, caus-
ing the one he was leading to break
away from him and kick. He received
the full force of the blow.
Eagle Grove.
Rev. A. j. Lander, pastor Of the
Baptist church at Eagle Grove, has
been extended a unanimous call to be-
come pastor of the First Baptist
church in Clinton, to take the pulpit
recently vacated by Rev. William J
CStCOChy haO WSLI W GNOuIIl SdIIOll
Ill. It'is' Believed the Eagle Grove
clergyman will accept the call. He of.
ficiated in the Clinton church twice
during the past month and made 6
splendid impression on the congrega-
ton.
Garrison.
"A number Of the business men OF
Garrison and farmers near that towr
have formed banking corporation
and established bank named the
Peoples Savings Bank of Garrison
The articles OF Incorporation have beer
published. The capital stock is $15, 900
A board Of seven directors has beer
selected as follows: C. C. Cronks, A
H. Wilson, M. c. Henllle, Henry Kirch.
| ner, j. A. Grimm, Samuel Crossley ant
A. j. Donald. The following officer.
have been elected: President, IA II
Wilson; vice president, HEM. Kirch
, ner; cashier, A. j. Donald; assistan
cashier, John H. Wilson. The durato,
Of the corporation is for fifty years.
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pusUoUE MAKING PREPARA.
TIoNs TO ENTERTAIN STATE
ASSOCIATION.
THIRD ANNUAL GATHERING
ON JUNE is AND II
Local Lodge to Defray All Expenses Of
observation-disclosures 1000 and
5000 Delegates Expeeted-Railroads
Grant Reduced Rates-General News
Of tho State.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Dubuque, May If the plans Of the
committees in charge Of the third an
nual reunion of the Iowa state associa-
ton, B. P. o. E., to be held in Dubuque
June 16 and II, materialize, the event
will be the most extensive of the kind
ever held in Iowa.
The most important feature has been
arranged, that of securing concessions
from the railways in the matter of
rates. The committee on transportation
has secured from the Western Passen-
ger Association one and one-half fare
for the round trip from all points in
Iowa, and an effort Is being made to
have the same concession made from
points in Wisconsin and Illinois. 1t is
expected between 1000 and 5000 visit
ing Elks will be in the city on the
occasion of the two days session.
The local lodge has adopted the plan
of raising the money with which to de-
fray the expenses practically from
within the local order, and arrange
ments are going forward on large
scale.
The convention proper opens on
Wednesday, June 16, altho the influx
of visiting brothers and their ladies
will begin on Tuesday, and the festiv-
tiles really will open on that day. A
social session has been arranged for
the evening of Tuesday, and gener.I
good fellowship will hold the boards
thruout the daylight hours.
On Wednesday, the nominal opening
day, the morning will be devoted to
meeting the visitors at the trains with
bands, the registration of delegates
and the general arrangement Of pre-
liminaries. In the afternoon the Wis
itors will be treated to boat ride on
the Mississippi. In the evening open
house will be the order at Union Park,
one of Dubuque's show places, where
special program will be rendered at
the vaudeville house, the new audi
torium, seating 5000 people, having by
that time been completed.
On Thursday morning will occur the
big Elks' parade for which neither
| time nor money will have been spared
1t is the purpose of the committee to
make this pageant the most elaborate
ever witnessed in the state.
In the afternoon the business session
Of the event will be held, after which
there will be a reception rendered the
newly elected officers and distiu-
guished visitors, closing with a grand
farewell party at headquarters.
There are scores of minor features
yet to be worked up. Among them
there is likelihood of a number OF ball
games between teams from visiting
lodges. A hale dozen cities manifested
a desire to test the prowess Of their
respective teams on the diamond.
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in her home, tho many Of them were
frantic with fear and crazed with grief
over the loss of loved ones and the
burning Of homes. In some way food
was supplied and water brought to
supply their wants from nearby
stream during the siege.
After the Indian troubles had ended,
Mrs. Stott and her husband moved to
the little village Of Northwood, Iowa.
This was in 1862, and from that point
Rev. Mr. Stott continued his missions
airy work among the settlers until, re-
turning home from q lone trip in the
fall of 1877, cold and wet. he contracted
a cold from which he died. Mrs Stott
remained few years at Northwood,
then went to Albert Lea and then to
Spokane.
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in length and totally different from
alsike clover seed.
Secured tho Ames Test.

secured tOo AmeS oSt.
Mr.. Younkerman says that all the
alsike clover seed which he had for
sale at the time Van dc Bogert se-
cured the samples had been purchased
by him in two lots from responsible
dealers, but not wishing to waive any
precaution. he sent samples to the
agricultural college at Ames for test.
He has in his possession the report
of the sede experts at the college on
the samples submitted. According to
these reports one lot tested 96 per cent
pure and the other 80 per cent pure.
most of the small per cent of foreign
seed being red clover. Tho required
test in order that tho seed may be sold
without being specially tagged to show
the amount of impurities present ia
90 per cent pure. On the reports OF the
college authorities the following no.
tation was made: THE samples sub
mitted does not contain any OF the
forbidden Seeds
Will Fight tho Case.
I'VE Will fight this case to the linz
it. even IL we have to go to the SUI
preme court" said the attorney for
the seed company. Qua client GER
tainly used every precaution to deter
mine that the seed he was selling was
pure. and IL for no other reason than
to prevent the establishment of a
precedent for prosecution of seed
merchants in such cases where there
are practically no grounds for II. we
will see the case thru"
Mr.. Younkerman expects to secure
the aid of the State Seed Merchants
Association in the carrying on of the
case.
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MASSACRE HEROINE DEAD.
Mrs. Stott, Former Iowa Resident II
Pioneer Days, Expires,

Mrs. stott, Former Iowa Resident in
Pioneer Days, Expires.
Mason City, May Mrs. Margaret
Angeline Stott, for years resident Of
Albert Lea, but later of Spokane,
Wash, died the first of the week at
the age of IS years. Her husband was
the late Rev. Walter Stott, a pioneer
preacher of the fifties in southern Min
nesota and northern Iowa.
The family came west in 1856 and
settled near New Ulm. When the, pill
lage of the savages was at it's height,
Mrs Stott was the main hope of a
band of twenty women and children
who flocked to her home from sur.
rounding homesteads and where she
for three days kept a band Of Indians
at bay with quaker rifles" but which
had all the appearance Of the real
thing by the occasional discharge of
an old musket from loopholes. On the
approach Of soldiers the Indians re-
treated.
Mrs. stott was able to keep the
women and children together and safe