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The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24

the old fashioned nondescript turkeys which were once so common. They are small no more prolific than pure breeds and one could feel no pride in them. Pure-bred stock of any kind pays from many standpoints. No man can do the justice to an animal which does no credit to his care that he does to one bred along strict lines which assure beauty and utility, be- cause their ancestors on both sides were bred and reared for these same results
 Turkey eggs usually hatch well. A turkey hen is tractable enough during the nesting season if you know how to coax her, but when the baby birds senses. She should be caught care fully while on the nest and the poults secured. They will attempt to hide, and it is often difficult to find them. No hard-and-fast rules for feeding young turkeys can be depended upon, but don't feed too much
 The turkey crop is very valuable, as so much IS clear proflt. The young CT hen turkeys with less than month of heavy feed are fat and toothsome at Thanksgiving, while the toms may be disposed of at Christmas to good advantage, having required more time and food to round out their larger frames. After the first six weeks the fiocks will care for themselves, though it is wi1e to see them every day to coax them home to roost and to keep them tame and accustomed to their caretaker's voice. A light feed of soaked bread or sour milk curd every day accomplishes these results easily. If clear call, never used except for the turks, is used as a signal to them. it is not often hard to find them.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24

INSTITUTION of criminal prosecu- ! tions against perpetrators of sleep CT trunk" customs frauds with ramifi- cations in all parts of the country; the pressing of existing indictments to avoid lapses under the statute of limitations and the customs investiga- tion generally were discussed at con- ference at tie treasury department re- gently Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh, Attorney General Wicker sham, Collector Loeb of the port of New York, and United States District Attorney Henry A. Wise of the south ern district of New York, participated.
 The sleeper trunk" frauds. where by goods are brought into this country in trunks with false bottoms to de- ceive the inspectors, stretch to many parts of the United States, though passing only through the port of New York in the cases about to be prose- cuted.
 Beyond the generalization of mil. lioIls of dollars nobody officially can estimate the amount of taxes thus evaded. Most of the violators of law in this respect are dressmakers. The government has good deal of evi- dence along this line, and the prose- cutions for this form of wholesale dis
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
How the Government Loses Millions

honesty promises to be of a sensation. al character
 Collector Loeb expressed the opin. ion that the sleeper trunk" frauds could no longer be carried on sue. cessfully under the rules he has adopted. These provide for new stamp arrangement for trunks and a limitation of the hours a trunk may remain on the docks, instead of being permitted to stay there long enough to be whisked away after nightfall. In. stead the government will stow away the trunks in place safe from possi. bility of smuggling off the docks in the darkness. An honest standard for al steamship employees will be but. tressed by the collectors efforts. This VII be effected through the companies by dismissal of men guilty of abetting frauds. Some cases already have de- veloped in which the collector com. plained, and the companies acted promptly. District Attorney Wise es- pecially discussed the sleeper ques. ton at the conference.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
! Gossip of Washington
 x What Is Going On at the National Capital.
He Calls Mrs. Snowball Model Hen

, and clucks to find herself famous This hen has appeared in Wilmington and is the property of a 14-year-old boy. Lilbourne Martin. But she is not native of Delaawre. No, she thanks her feathers she was born at Bynum, Md, and thus good old Hartford coun- ty adds another gem to the diadem of the state that made good eating fa- nous. Though black as colored poli- tician, she rejoices in the name of Snowfall, and as such will go down in history.
 For generations Maryland has been famous for her chickens, and whether they were fried a la Maryland or were laid to rest in the old-fashioned pie, they have served their country well and have left pleasant memories be- hind them. It is all the more gratify- ing to record that out of the heart of the fried-chicken belt has come this phenomenal hen.
 According to the records, she not only lays two eggs a day, but some times varies it by contributing three. All are perfectly fresh and suitable for family use. If she can keep up her record for year this will mean 730 eggs, with few extra for Christ mas and the Fourth of July, If all the eggs grow up into chickens Mrs. Snowfall would soon have enough de- scendants to cluck around the world. She deserves medal from Secretary Wilson and a cablegram from Col. Roosevelt for her efforts to prevent race suicide.
 Mrs. Snowball is a model hen. She never worries about the fashions in feathers; she is not forever running off to some barnyard by the sea or chicken house in the mountains; she does not try to shine at bridge or out scratch her neighbors. She stays at home, looks after MT. Snowfall and the children and attends strictly to business. Wherefore will she be re- membered wherever the egg is held in honor and the chicken in esteem.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24

THE department of agriculture has
 ! come along with some good news for those citizens in southern Indiana who when arrested last fall for conducting blind tigers set up as a defense that they had become intoxicated from eating watermelons. The department has not yet analysed the Indiana brand of melons, but it asserts that there is a jag" in the Georgia mel oas.
 Of course it is carefully concealed, and much care and labor is required to extract it, but it is there just the same. The department has proved this beyond doubt. Out of 100 pounds of watermelons experts in chemistry made one-tenth of gallon of alcohol. They also have convicted the humble sweet potato of possessing another spree. Secretary Wilson announced
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
Lincoln Wanted Cheering Up

Judge TrumbulI, tEey tell me that you know more good stories than any other man in your state, and from all I've heard about Connecticut reckon there are a good many good story tellers in the state Let's swap stories'
 Lincoln began with an anecdote of the prairies. When he had finished, Judge Trumbull came back with a down east yarn. And so they went on and on, matching stories. Time passed, midnight struck, and still they were at it.
 At last it occurred to me that MT. Lincoln ought to get some sleep, so said:
 Judge Trumbull, Mir Lincoln is to take the six o'clock train for Provi- dence, and he ought to have some sleep.
 Lincoln protested that he was get ting better rest than sleep would give him, the duel of story telling went on, and, as a result it was not until three o'clock that Judge Trumbull and the rest of us bade Lincoln good night, all except two or three of us never to see him again.
 Two years later, when the exciting events of the war had all but effaced the memory of the meeting of Lincoln and Trumbull from my mind, I was astonished to receive written word from MT Lincoln that he would be very glad if I could induce Judge Trumbull to come to Washington and spend the night with him.
 That was all. So, without know ing why the president wanted to see Judge Trumbull, I extended the inyi- tation to him, and he in turn. not. knowing what the president wanted of him, accepted and went on to Washington
 But no sooner had the judge land ed at the White House and been ushered into Lincoln's presence than he was informed by Lincoln that the latter only wanted him to come on and swap stories with him once more: :: things were not going exactly right with the war and he Gincoln) felt the need of a little story telling relax ation. So it came about that, telling stories to each other, these two men passed the greater part of the night. with no one else in all Washington knowing about it. And when it came time for the judge to bid the presi- dent good-by, the latter fervently de. clared to his guest that the night of swapping stories had acted as a tonic to his wearied soul" Copyright. 1909. by E. J. EdwardsA
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24

4 HEAVILY yelled woman, well 1A dressed and with an aristocratic bearing, rushed into Washington bank and up to the window of the re- ceiving teller. A number of people were standing in line waiting to de- posit money. The man nearest the window held in his hands a large roll of bills and before him on the marble counter lay leather bag in which he carried his gold coin to the bank.
 With swift glance at the teller and no word of explanation to the man waiting she made quick grab at the bag and turned hurriedly to leave the building. The man at the window cried, "Stop!" policeman came running to his assistance one hand clutched at his pistol pocket,
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
olitical Advancement of Thomas . Ns7mes Was Due Largely to His Very Genial Method of
 Shaking Hands.
By E. J. EDWkRD

By E. J. EDWARDS.
 f> the second administration of !. Grant it was deemed expedient, Nusiness reasons, to name a new 'astsr for New York city. Presi- frSnt requested Senator Roscoe
 g to suggest somebody who
 lake just the kind of postmas-
 the metropolis needed. "Of said the president, The must Republican. but he must be a business man as we'll"
 .scaator Conkling journeyed to New c. .9Several times to talk with the eians about the postmastership. ie of them, however. was able to p him. He could find plenty of good publicans who would have been to take the office. but not of thefn had any business stand. On the other hand, there were
 c2bable business men whose were suggested, but not one of Nnew much about politics.
 the last of these trips Senator king lunched with Tom" Mur- then collector of the port of New
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
Enforce Lau ir1 Wilderness
man, executioner and coroner.

man, executioner and coroner.
 All this l swear without any men, tai evasion. equivocation or secret reservation. So help me God"-with these impressive words do raw re- cruits and grizzled soldiers enter the service of the mounted police and swear fidelity to his majesty Edward VII It is not prospective wealth that tempts a man to become an en- pire builder in this mounted force of Greater Canada, flor hard is her ser vice, poor her payment"
 |, The newly recruited constable gets 60 cents day. his term of engage ment is five years. and he may look forward to re-engagement on a sec ond term. with staff sergeant's pay of from $1 to $1.50 a day to work up to- Recruits must be between the ages of 22 and 40, active men of thor oughly sound constitution and DOS sessed of certificates of exemplary character. They I.lst be able to read and write in either English or French, understand horses. ride well,
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24

VWASHINGTON.-For 20 years James
 w Wilson, secretary of agriculture, has been sounding the praises of the American hen. He has shown by sta t1stlcs, pictures, reports, omelets, soft boiled eggs and spring chickens that the American hen beats the world. She is not the possessor of great per sonal beauty, she does not aspire to be butterfly of fashion, but is a very fine representative of the housewife type of chicken. If fine feathers made fine birds she would not be in it. For the peacock is dazzler and the roos- ter struts with an air that cannot be initiated by his more modest compan- ion who does the housework and scratches around for the children. But the hen, by keeping steadily at work and doing the best she can, has been enabled to enrich this country by more good dollars than all the silver mines or the west and all the gold of the klond1ke. Statistics show that in single generation the American hen lays eggs enough to make the .Atlan- tlc ocean one vast omelet and fill the Pacific with scrambled eggs. Placed on top of one another they would make stack 10000 times as tall as the Washington monument and almost as high as the price of beef.
 All this has been done by the one egg a day hen. But along with the airships and the 26,000-ton battleships, the two-egg hen has arrived. No, she was not produced by Luther Burbank by grating Leghorn chicken onto roe herring. She is just a plain, ordi- nary hen, who resolved to do her best,
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
Sent for Judge TrumbuIl to Spend Night Swapping Stories at Dark Period of the
 Civil War.
By E. j. EDWARDS.

What do you do when you want cheering up? How Lincoln, at the dark period of the civil war, sent to Connecticut for typical down East Yankee to cheer him up, was told to me few months before his death by Isaac H. Bromley. to whom Lin coin appealed in his extremity for help in getting the cheering up he so badly needed. All his life long MT. Bromley was newspaper man, but, when he told me the anecdote, he as- sured me that he believed it had never been printed, and until now have never told the story in print.
 Tn 1S60" said MT. Bromley to me, q was the proprietor of Republican newspaper at Norwich, Conn. I was one of the citizens of that town who invited MT Lincoln to visit Norwich on the eve of a state political cam paign, that visit to follow his now his toric appearance at Cooper Union in New York city As MT. Lincoln was on his way to Harvard to visit his son Robert. then student there, we thought that, without inconvenience to himself, he could make one or two political addresses in Connecticut
 Well, MT. Lincoln graciously ac- cepted our invitation, and in due time he delivered a speech that became traditional.
 Before MT. Lincoln reached Nor wich one who knew him slightly told several of us that the great Illinoisan dearly loved a good teller of tales, and was rejoiced to meet an original character who had fund of anec- dotes always on tap.
 Now. there lived in the neighbor- ing town of Stonington an able law yer, who was also distinguished as a brilliant story teller, Judge Trumbull, a descendant of that governor of Con- necticut who is known in history as Brother onathan This Judge Trum- bull was invited by us to meet MT. Lincoln at his hotel and a little after ten o'clock that historic night l es- corted MT. Lincoln to his room and there introduced him and Judge Trumbull.
 "The instant the two men met" MT. Bromley continued, leach recog- nized in the other congenial spirit, and with the formalities of the intro duction barely over, Lincoln said:
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
Importance of Small Fruits.

The small fruits play very impor tant part in the economy of the house. hold, inasmuch as they come at time when there is scarcity of other fruits and oftentimes of vegetables as we'll So it is very important that every farmer, especially, should set apart a plot of ground sufficiently large to be capable of producing all the small fruits that the family can possibly consume during the year. The size of the plot will depend somewhat upon the size of the family.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
LARGE PROFIT IN TURKEYS
Crop Is Valuable Because There Is So Much That Is Clear Profit
 Care and Feed.

While it is not probable that any successful breeder is ever quite satis- fled with his stock, it is usually true that he regards his own breeds as the best. An experience of Il years in breeding has convinced me that Slate turkeys are the most interesting as well as well as the most profitable for me, writes a correspondent of the Ohio Farmer. The spring-hatched toms attain a weight of 22 to 25 pounds alive at Christmas time, and the dressed carcass, when fat and in good condition, is a goodly sight While they do not attain the weight common to Bronze turkeys they are large enough for most markets.
 There are comparatively few farm CTS nowadays who are satisfied with
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
IS statesman's Story Of How Adopted the Mask of Reserve When Secretary of the
 Treasury.
By E. j. EDWARDS.

confess sffat my first sight of Sec Ary Sherman. as he strode one day ? the office of the then fiscal agent the government, only served to ngthen in my mind the reports I f4eeiYed of his superlative brand
 siturnity. In all my life, I sSht, had never beheld another ,n SD Cold Therefore, one may i'm ne With what inward feelings I ched at the door of MT. Sherman's 'e Washington some years later,
 Just aaer he had given up the
 aY portfolio to return to the sen where he had first taken seat arly twenty years earlier.
 MT. Sherman received me in what peared to be his library It was hing; comfortable fire glowed in grate, books lay upon the table,
 of them were well thumbed.
 cered he put aside the evening he was reading, and l was ac-
 thrilled by the cordiality with
 8e received me. His handshake
 of friend, his smile was
 g.
 chatted about the matter
 called me to him, l found
 1ohdering how it was possi-
 this great statesman had gain
 sobriquet of Iceberg John :. t|sd come to be said of him that : rivalcd Gen. Grant as a man of Hence. Finally, the idea seeming to bsess me, as it were, ventured to ay to him:
 Senator Sherman, you do not ,sar to me like the man l saw three ears ago. Then you were distant, of rigid manner. and l believed that those who spoke of you as the icieSt man in public life were correct. Now l ind that they were wrong-that ! WIS wrong. I can't understand the ssifference.'
 sS, know they called me Iceberg -4n, &d ] spoke in whispers or not at all, and never said anything when I did speak Really, was very glad that that impression prevailed. But it was all put on It was mask, exact lY as GGD. dTGlt letCituA Hily, ,e was commanding the union armies, ,Sas a forced silence, for he was really a very loquacious man.
 You see. it happened this way: l had been appointed by President Hayes secretary of the treasury. Very important agitation had been in prog ress, affecting the relation of silver to sur money system. and, you remem- there was a powerful party organ with Peter Cooper at the head of to make the basis of our currency ystem irrede smable paper money Congress had Authorized the resump- ton of specie payments on the first of January. 1879 It was necessary for the secretary of the treasury to pre- pare for that important event.
 "Once at the head of the treasury department, l discovered that there
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
What an Officer of Canada's Mounted Police Stands For-salary Is
 Not Large.

Hicer of the mounted police is
 exponent of the law; he is the
 f When he rides his cayuse
 Ill camp or threads on snow
 ne worn north trails of the
 he goes clad with the author
 the courts. He preserves or but he also makes arrests; he tr;es Sffenders in his own courts and then esSprts the man upon whom sen tence has fallen to a prison of his own makinS, where the lawbreaker nav he incarcerated for 10 days or 90 years. yea Back of that slight. silent, steel-nerved rider is the strong arm If England and the whole of Cana Sian jurisprudence, and when he sneaks it is as one with authority, eays writer in the Century In ex- treme cases. when the death penalty has to be enforced, one mounted po- liceman may have to act IS clergy
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
Immense Films Centuries Old.

Recently the largest tree in Wins low township, Jefferson county. was cut. It was located in the Paradise settlement. When lying down 1t was found that it's height when standing had been 40 feet; spread of limbs, I2 rect; distance to the first limb, 36 rect. It was five feet through, seven feet above the ground. The tree was an elm By the annual rings it was between 320 and 325 years old.-Phil. adelphia Record.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24

that handshake of his, and he's one of the best deputies the custom house ever had"
 Three days later MT. James was walking up Broadway with a friend. The time was about five of the after noon. Passing newspaper office, the friend glanced casually at it's bulletin board Then he caught his compan- ion by the arm.
 Hello, do you see that, Tom James," he cried. Look at that an- nouncement."
 MT. James looked and read: "Presi. dent sent to the senate this afternoon the name of Deputy Collector Thomas l.. James as postmaster of New York" York"
 Well, that's news to me-" gasped MT. James. And it was. Neither the president, Senator Conkling nor Col lector Murphy had even so much as hinted to MT. James that he was be- ing considered for the postmastership.
 Nor did he learn until after he had become postmaster how his handshake had gained him political prominence. Yet when his business administration of the New York postoffice led to his selection as postmaster general by President Arthur, perhaps Gen. James allowed himself few minutes leisure in which to marvel at the way in which his handshalking method of making friends had ultimately made of him a national government figure
 lCopYright. 1909. by D. J. Edwards.)
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
1hy S}1ern7an Was ar Lceberg

were hundreds of men hanging upon
 ny very words, watching my looks, prepared to interpret in one way or another anything that I said or ap- peared to think. Irealized that my only protection against spectators and others who were trying to take per sonal advantage in advance of treas ury department operations, was in put ting on mask. Therefore, I trained
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
SUCCESSFUL IN HOG RAISING
Animals Require Warm, Dry and Light Shelter, Free from Drauehts,
 but Well Ventilated.

Hogs require dry, warm shelter. free from drafts every night, both summer and winter. The beginner in hog raising should start with cheap shelter, and not put up any large buildings until he can do so from the profits of his hogs. Usually, after he
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24

myself to make my face expression. less.
 After we redeemed specie pay ments there came the question of re- funding one portion of the public debt, and I found it necessary to maintain this mask during all that agitation. also. So the idea that I was an ice berg took even deeper hold on the popular imagination. But the moment I entered the senate chamber, on the day of the inauguration of President Garfield, was myself again. I felt like a boy just out of school"
 Copyright, 1909. by E. J. Edwards.)
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24

measure up to the minimum height of five feet eight inches, have chest measurement of 35 inches, weigh not over 115 pounds and be unencum- bered with a wife.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-02
Black Canyon Of the cunnison. /

Black Canyon OF the Gunnison.
The Lord. He smote race course
here, two hundred sathoms deep,
All lined with frowning crags OF black,
piled granite heap on heap,
And then He loosed the waterway,
and babe His horses leap.
And SO they rush with snow white
names where suns rays
seldom glance;
All, how their foam-flecked heads are
tossed and how those white
names dance
And he who seeks to ride those steeds
has not feather Chance.
The ages come, the ages go. and cities
dot the plain,
And then the cities vanish, as the dust
yields to the rain,
But still the Lords white horses race
between those black walls twain.
Arthur Chapman