davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-02

Representative Norris, of Nebraska,
known among his associates as Judge,
conss by his fighting qualities natural
~ and from long experience. The
Cannon followers realize that when Mr.
Norris starts on their trail he will stay
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-02
SIDEuGHTS Along b, ~::a''s'''

school during those sorrowful days"
Which statement recalls the fact that
although Mr.. Fitzgerald has been a
member of the house almost II years he
is one of the youngest members of that
body, and was still in college when
Grover Cleveland was president.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-02
With The EXCHANGES

Douglas
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-02

The Association Of American .
Advertisers has examined and certified to
the circulation Of his publication The detail
| report of such examination is On Gle a; the
! New York Office Of the Association. No
I other figures Of circulation guaranteed.
! n. 81 asNe4es2 $500
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-02

prairie
acceptable times.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-02
The Boss Of the Establishment
He Proves Tshtwnds
By Amere Mann.

eS ~ O-O-O-H-H. a-a-h-hr' yawn-
ed the BOss's Wife unroman-
tically.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-02


telephone
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
Political Pensions Graft in British Politics

| lar scale here. Because political sean
dals don't get exposed here as they
do in America. English papers don t
go IN. for that sort of thing And
there is n tacit understanding between
the Liberal and Conservative parties
that they are TO be "kept dark - Dirty
political linen must not be washed iii
public.
OF this a striking instance recently
occurred. George n. Barnes, the leader
of the Labor party in the house of
commons, was responsible for it, Barnes
was once railway engine driver. He
was raised in a rough school, where
a spade. And his weIl-bred colleagues
in the house have not yet succeeded
in convincing him that "keep it dark
Is the policy that should be applied
when anything suggestive of iobbery
is even limited at in parliament.
II was the high born and Right Hon.
Henry W. Chaplin who gave tho low
portunity. The Right Hon. has been
often cited as one of the finest surviv-
ing types of the English country gen
tlemen of the old school. He inherited
money enough to place him beyond the
necessity of ever having 10 work for
a living. He went in for horse breed
ing and racing and politics. In each
VI LHcSe hcIuS Dc JJcSu oltCSSSl W.
His activity on the turf won him the
friendship of the late king. He has
bred three Derby winners. For his de-
votion TO his political leaders he was
rewarded twenty-five years ago with |
a $4,000 n year sinecure as chancellor
of the Duchy Of Lancashire. After
wards he was promoted to cabinet rank
rs minister Of the board of agriculture
with the same pay, and was kept IN
office for five years more at the sa me
figure MS president Of the local gov
board. He was laid off in
1900 to make way for a younger man.
but was solaced with pension of $4,000
a year out of the public treasury.
Has to Hustle In America.
When n cabinet minister is dropped
in America he has To hustle for lv-
ing like anybody else unless he hap
pens to have made his pile before he
took office, But here, where it often
happens that men who could not earn
their own livelIhoods if they tried. are
made cabinet ministers, they are treated
with more consideration when they are
rcd. Six pensions are provided for
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

Which is something for which an ordi-
mary old age pensioner may be sent to
Jail.
Barnes Seeks Information.
Barnes, the ex-enginc driver, had the
audacity and the bad taste-according
to the parliamentary standard of eth
les that should obtain among gentle
men-to call the prime minister's at
tention to the right honorable's pen
sion. He wanted to know If the prime
minister did not think there was suf-
ficient justification for inquiring into
the matter and, if need be, stopping
the right honorable = pension. And,
Furthermore, he wanted to know if it
were not desirable in the public inter
est that an inquiry should be made
into the financial affairs Of the other
ex-ministers who were in receipt of
pensions Of from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year on the supposition that otherwise
they might be subjected to the humil-
lation Of having TO work for living,
OF course, the old parliamentary
hands knew that nothing would come
Of it, and that the "mum g the word''
policy would prevail. Premier Asouith
smilingly brushed Barnes's queries
aside He did not think that the cir.
cnmstances justified an investigation /;
he had no intention of instituting an
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

parts Of the east, as largely as il does
in any part of the west, Until recent,
~, tho alfalfas cultivated in the
United States were suitable only to
The region west of the Missouri river.
1t was | myself who discovered, only
Il few years ago, the hardy variety
known as the Grimm which has since
spread over all the northern country
east of the Missouri.
This variety gets its name from
= farmer named Grimm. who came from
bohn, In Germany, sixty years ago, and
settled near Lake Minnitonka. He
brought the seeds of the alfalfa with
him; but its value was not discovered
until half u century later. 1t is great
yIelder of hay, producing three crops
year This discovery has led to
the importation of other hardy alfalfas,
and to the creation Of still others. bv
breeding. which are adapted to various
sections.
Planted Apple Seed.
Within ten miles of Grimm s farm.
sixty years ago, was the humble home
of another sottler, Peter Gideon. Peter
lived with his family in "A log cabin.
and WAS so poor that he cut cordwood
TO exchange for groceries. Having had
some experience with apple growing
III Maine (whepCe he camel. he de-
cidcd To obtain from that source half
Il bushel of apple seed and borrowed
the money for the purpose, His wife
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

Investigation; but If an ex-minister ap.
piled for pension while he (Mr. As
quith) was running things, he would
see to it that be did not get a pen
sion unless he was really hard up-or
words to that effect.
And so the matter dropped. and there
was nothing done, and no dirty linen
washed In public and no opportunity
afforded for foreign critics to pick holes
in the garments of self-righteo teousness in
which British politicians array, them
selves,
Very different would have been the
results if anything similar had trans
would have investigated. And the
whole business would have been shown
up next morning-or the day follow"
ing that. But that would be accounted
"yellow journalism here, and yellow
.iournalism, III the estimation of the
typical British editor, stands for every
thing that is atTocious. And so the
of ignorance which passes muster as
bliss.
More or Less Scandal.
There is more or less of scandal
behind each of these pensions that have
been bestowed on ex-ministers. Lord
George Hamilton and Lord Cross are
the two lucky ones who get the $10,.
600 year pensions. They would find
it quite as difficult as would the Right
Hon. Henry Chaplin to Justify their
claims to them on the grounds of com
parative poverty, So would Lord Bal
four Of Burleigh. who probably thinks
himself Ill used because he draws only
$4,000 year out of the public funds.
In fact. these pensions have been di.
verted from the purpose for which they
were devised and used simply to dis
charge political debts and obligations
contracted by party leaders.
The biggest scandal in the whole
bunch undoubtedly is linked with the
pension drawn by Gerald Balfour. Ger
aid is the brother of Arthur Balfour,
the Conservative leader. Arthur owes
his prc-cminence in politics TO his
brains and his ability. Gerald owes
all that he has gained in that field
to the fact that he has the good luck
to be Arthur's brother. 1t was Arthur
who made him president of the board
of trade. though of everything con-
cerned with trade he was absolutely
ignorant. And his failure in that billet
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

ex-ministers, two of $4,000 a year and
four of $4,000 a year. To qualify for
one of these pensions, an ex-minister
has to make a declaration that his to-
tai income is inadequate to maintain
his position in life''-and before
granting it, the first lord of the treas
ury is supposed to satisfy himself that
the ex minister is really a bit hard up.
The Right Hon. Henry w. Chaplin,
who has been pockcting a pension Of
$3.50 week for ten years, was one
of the most strenuous opponents of
the old age pension bill, which bestows
81 25 a week-note the difference made
by tho decimal point--on ou1worn toll
ers over 20 years Of age. He said it
would demoralize the poor and discour.
age thrift, and that a government which
discouraged thrift was guilty Of Il
crime
At the last election he was again re-
turned TO parliament as the Conscrva-
tive member for Wimbledon. In the
course of his campaign he boosted that
his horse breeding business had brought
him in profit of something like $780,
600 year for the last twenty five
years. Which shows that far from be-
ing hard up when he applied for a
pension he was really very we'll off. |
On his own confession he had been |
guilty of obtaining money from the
public treasury on false representations.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

did not prevent Arthur from giving him
another trial as president of the local
government board.
Dickering Was Done.
When Balfour s government was
overwhelmingly defeated in the general
election Of 1906, Arthur felt that it
was up to him to do something that
would stay done for poor, Gerald, who
was among those elected to stay at
home. At that time all the political
pensions had been taken up. Obviously
II Gerald was 10 get one of them some
dickering had to be done The dicker-
ing was done. Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, an ex-chancellor of the exche-
quer. resigned his pension, and before
that fact had been made public and
other exministers who were on tho
lookout for easy money given chance
TO apply for 1T, Gerald got it. The be-
stownl of it on Gerald was Arthur Bal
four's last official act as prime minis
ter The sequel came 4 little later.
title Of Viscount st. Aldwyn. Nova
days when George Barnes and his
friends are growing inquisitive, there
are rumors that Gerald intends TO give
the pension mp, The 'tgood old days'>
are in danger of passing.
what had taken place on the face
Of 1t is very plain, Arthur Balfour
said to Sir Michael something like this:
' You are rich man and you don t
need your pension. If you give it up
quickly so that I can give it to Gerald
before any Of the other fellows have
a chance to go for it, l I'll put you in
the house of lords" And Sir Michael
agreed The fact that it put him in
the position of having claimed that his
private means were not adequate TO
maintain his position in life as an ex,
minister and amply adequate TO sup
port him as a peer did not bother him
Il Bit. He knew that he would never
be called on to make any awkward ex-
plantations. And SO did Arthur Bal
four
Now in America transaction of this
sort conld not have been kept dark. II
would have been exposed from top to
bottom. And very likely the incident
would have been used over here TO illus
trare the extent 10 which ncpotism and
Iobbery were carried in American poll
ties and TO Justify unctuous reioicings
that public life here was free from such
corrupting taInts.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
BY-
RENE BACHE

work is beginning to be conducted
along proper lines, and the scientists
nre trying not only to increase the mum
Der of eggs laid, and the weight of the
individual egg. bu1 also the weight of
the meat on the thighs and breast. The
pullet Of the future will be expected
drum ar " sticks T than her Predecessor % ESQ Ef Of to.
day
3'The Importance of this matter is
easily seen when it is considered that
the American hen annually produces
500 900, 900 worth of meat and eggs.
Her output is exceeded in value only
by the corn crop. But l think there
is no reason to doubt that within the
next half century the annual value of
our chickens and egg production will
reach Il billion and q half ~
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
How acre of land will be made to yield twice as
much corn OR wheat.-To double the cows yield of
. milk and butter.

petition of plant products, beef ami
mails in our own country have already
begun to decline in number This, OF
course, has directly to do with the rise
In the price Of beef. Sheep, too, have
been declining In numbers for a long
while past and hogs are showing tho
same tendency.
Need Better Cows.
'1n order to hold their place (the
matter being purely one Of economics) i,
against the competition Of plant prod
ucts, our live stock must be improved
Our cows must produce more milk,
cheese and butter from an acre of
grass and ton of meal. The Ameri-
can cow averages 125 pounds of butter
annually. She ought to produce $50,
or even 300 pounds. If she can do
as we'll as that, she will sustain the
competition longer, and may even com
pete with oleomargarlne, which has Sc.
rlously lnterfered with the increase in
the number of cows.
With this idea In view. the federal
and state governments have begun to
cooperate with groups of farmers in
an effort TO create new families of
high yield cows for breeding purposes.
Thus there is an excellent prospect that
within the next twenty years the out
put of milk and butter will be greatly
augmented, IN proportion TO the mum
ber of cows kept.
Serum for Hog Cholera
HIn the meantime, the department
of agriculture has discovered IL Serum
which renders hogs immune to the
dreaded hog cholera, This will doubt
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
Augment the Food OUTPUT

to The Tribune.
/ SHINGTON, D. c., June A.
scientific breeding of plants is
.bd in the not distant future to
Hong way toward keeping down
prices in this country said Dir.
NJ Hays, assistant secretary Of
lture, Saturday. "Were it not
Wis prospect, we should, with an
k.ation of 200.000,000 population
years from now, have reason to
|t condition of affairs wherein
things to eat would be beyond
zach Of most folks.
ke the case OF corn. for exam
1T is our greatest ccreal-the
can grain crop par excellence. At
yesent time it yields little over
five bushels to the acre, With
Yed methods, we shall be able,
bnting better varieties, to make
ftput fifty bushels,
/fring the past decade the plant
rs have taken up the problem,
lready large areas are devoted
detrimental work in this line by
deral government, by the states
yen by many counties. One ag-
raj experiment station, in Hi
haB produced corn with nearly
4 the ordinary percentage of oil
protein the latter being the
*nce that goes to make muscle
Hood. Meanwhile the Minnesota
q has originated a variety known
Minnesota 13, which, being very
= is helping to push the corn belt
yard.
tain, consider the case of wheat.
utput of this grain, enormous
~ it is In the aggregate, aver
ess than fifteen bushels to the
VI In England it averages thirty
Is, and in other European coun-
I. ven higher Why should this be
dainly because our wheats were
ily bred for the moist and cool
of Europe, We are raising the
varieties in dry and warm eli
nat we are now starting in to
70 cross breed the best of these
and obtain a new set of varie.
pted to our climate and soil. BY
cans we shall increase the output
least twenty-five bushels an acre.
TO saw, we shall get an add
hve bushels by breeding, and
ner increase Of five bushels by
preparation of the soil-espo-
through rotation of crops, to get
vegetable matter into the soil,
IA more intelligent fertilizlng.
IN Wheat Breeding.
|fe hrst scientific experiments in
breeding. in Minnesota, resulted
production of new varieties
n augmented the yield By 20 per
. Already these improved yarie-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

Nj Cable 70 The Tribune.
!. .NDON, June As there no graft
|nglish politics7 Well, listen to
+ "details of one section of plnnder.
i and Judge of others from that.
he ontcry over Sir Robert Ander-
indiscreet rcminiscen as re-
official of the home office and
&olice Headquarters at Scotland
. has drawn attention again to the
|al of the British pension list. Not
anderson pension is a big one,
only $500 year. and though he
no means star type of official,
"a something for it. But there
her pensions on a far more ex-
Io scale that have no such .Iustifi"
|. So. while the Irish National
ave been criticising Anderson g
Ia, Labor men and Radicals have
|faking fresh stock of larger para
/ and when British attention is
|ngrossed with budgets and the
/ of lords, the world will hear
of it. But depend upon it, the
,ig official parties-Liberals and
rvatives-will try to hush it up
|hitewash the politicians who have
bands in the public treasury. I'm
|n the meantime, a general cleo
butts more democratic party in
Peep Behind the Mask.
,lishmen are often given to tell
.mericans. with an air Of reioic-
hat in the matter of political
BUSINESS they are superior to other
Especially American politi-
They quote scTecds Of "muck-
~ articles in American maga-
and point the accusing finger
entire American people. So it
-th while for Americans TO peep
j the mask of rectitudc worn in
al circles over here.
) undoubtedly true, and pity It's,
ne, that there is more corruption
,bbery in American politics than
|nglish politics. But there ism t
Ing like so much more of IL as
be inferred from the abundant
Zee published in America and the
ant lack of disclosures on a siml
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

asked her to sew the latter into the
armholes Of the former. to make
coat. When she refused, he did the
job himself. Then he got the apple
seeds from Maine and planted them.
One Of the seeds produced a tree which
was probably the most valuable tree
ever grown in the world; for from it's
cuttings have been derived all the or.
chards of the famous wealthy ap.
Piles.
"What we want to do is 80 work
out the apple problem IN an equally
satisfactory way for all parts of the
United States. At the present time
our apple crop is very patchy- There
are only a few regions in which this
greatest of American fruits is success
fully produced-in New York, Oregon,
Washington, Michigan and Missouri
We have not adapted varieties TO To-
calities, and most of our growers are
not up to date in methods of culture
and insect control, Such matters have
been reduced to q scientific basis in
those dlstrlcts--as, for example, in Ore
gon, where the industry is pursued
on large scale by associations of pro.
ducers.
1--WE want n hardy apple for the
far north, We want another kind of
apple that Will stand the hot climate
of the south. We want apples that
try, so that each locality may have
cheap apples. The home orchard needs
encouragement. Plant breeders are
working on the problem, and important
results are already being obtained.
More Grains, Less Meat.
Undoubtedly, as our population in
creases, we shall eat more grains and
vegetables and less meat. Plant prod.
ucts. YOU must remember, are always
In competition with live stock. Primi-
tive peoples depend chiefly on the
flesh Of animals for food; but, when
a country becomes crowded. the ten.
dcncy is to eat what comes direct from
the soil. Thus in China, which is n
very crowded part Of the world, cattle
and sheep are not raised to any ex.
tont for slaughter. The inhabitants
cannot afford TO feed their plant prod
ucts TO animals. and then to eat the
latter-this being always q more ex-
pensive mode of deriving sustenance
from the soil.
" Relatively speaking therefore, we
shall IN the course of time become veg
ctarian in habit. Because Of the com
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

less result in the eradication Of. the
disease, which, inasmuch as it will save
The farmers s2O,0oO,000 per annum,
ought to make pork cheaper. The
American pig is really a very well bred
animal (not referring of course, to its
manners), especially in relation to re-
quirements for the great corn raising
states. What is most needed is a
breed of hogs suited to the new agri-
cultural conditions arising in the south,
where green crops and peanuts furnish
large part of the available food,
Better Chickens.
"The trouble with chicken breeding
is that efforts hitherto have been di-
rected mainly to fancy points, which
have no important relation to economic
production. Now. however, this sort of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

state should breed varieties adapted to
its own climate and soils. Many of
the states. indeed. are already working
on the problem
The plant breeders arc also working
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

ties are being grown over millions of
acres. Later efforts on the same line,
in Washington, have produced varie-
tics better than the ordinary bv 40 to
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

on alfalfa, which is the most valuable
of all forage crops, and the greatest
producer of money for the farmer.
They propose TO make it yield, in most
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

objected, urging him to use the e5 to
buy a much needed coat.
"Gideon showed her O waistcoast and
the legs Of @ pair of Trousers. and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-05-09

HELD At
CHURCH

Appropriate exercises in honor Of
Mothers day and out of respect and
honor of the late King Edward VII
were observed at the Presbyterian
church yesterday.
AT both morning and evening serv-
Ices the Presbyterian church was filled
to the doors and at the Sunday school
at noon. Mrs. F. f. Walton taught her
class of fifty boys in a tent adjoining
the church so crowded was the church.
At the morning services the pastor
Rev. Walton. had his text, His name
endureth forever" in which he paid
tribute to the memory of the dead
ruler There was special music at the
morning services, at which Miss Ham
mons and Prof. Snyder sang a duet.
The Crossing of the Bar
At the evening services white carna
tons were handed to those entering
the church in honor of Mothers day
Rev. Walton preached on the subject
of Following the Footsteps of Moth
ers. The choir composed of Mrs NJ
A. Caldwell. Miss Hamrqons, Mr. Price
and Prof. Snyder. sang Rock of Ages"
Miss Hammons and Prof. Snyder sang
a duet. Tell Mother I'll be There"
The service closed with the playing of
the funeral dirge by the organist.
Leonidas B. Boyd.