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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16

give him half chance. He knows the name OF
the breed of chickens he means to raise and
ne knows the kind of incubator he will buy and
ne knows about chicken houses and chicken
reed and no end of detail about scientific chick
en- business. The chicken dream. the chicken
lure has something to answer for. something
which never gets into the newspapers. The real
chicken dreamer knows just how much money
ne Is going to invest In chicken colony and
then he intends to lie back and let the chickens
support him. II is to laugh!
Don't let me prick the chicken bubble" said
the city man who has just sold his chicken farm
and come back to town. II don't mind giving up
the facts In the case. for with the chicken
fever would believe me. Every has to try
II for himself. And It's all right; let him. had
fun with chickens for three years and I've no
wish to be kill-joy. Hardly ever a case OF
chicken fever lasts city man more than three
years.
The secretary Of agriculture and certain stu
dents OF sociology recommend city people to
move to the country and find there the solution
OF all their problems and the city sentimentalists
with shattered nerve systems eagerly grasp the
idea. Now. farming Is a business the same as
any of the other pursuits In life by which men
make q living and a certain temperament Ii re-
quired TO be successful In II. well as . great
deal Of patience. Do city people have much pa
tence. leave It to you.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16
Only Nina Left.

Lee wyman is an earnest advocate
of some plan under which the say
ings Of children shall be preserved
for future generations to read.
"The other day, for instance" says
Wyman, my little boy was called he
fore the tribunal over which his fond
mother presides.
you've broken one Of the precious
ten commandments she said.
Ibid IT asked our boy carelessly
like.
"'Yes. my boy. I've said to you
over and over the ten command.
ments.' said Mrs. Wyman. and now
you've broken one OF them
Dear. dear. my boy said. there's
only nine left now
"And Mrs. Wyman let It 60 q
that"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16

q tumor caused by rupture. wrote
to you for advice and you told me not
to get discouraged but to take Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
/ did take 1t and soon the lump in my
side broke and passed away" Mrs.
r. r. HUEY. 7i3 Mineral Ave., Galena.
Kans.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms Of
female ills, including displacements,
Inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu-
larities, periodic pains, backache, bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
tion, and nervous prostration. 1t costs
but q trifo to try 1t. and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women.
fyOu want special advice write
f0rit to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Masos
II is free and always helpful.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16

Mrs Cleveland has her summer home quaint
farmhouse in New Hampshire. not so many miles
distant from the county seat Of Mrs. John Hay.
widow OF the late secretary of state
Mrs Taft wife Of the president who
taken by Ill health, few months after her hus-
band assumed ofice was so benefited at Beverly.
Mass, last summer by the air and the oppOr
tunties for complete rest that It Is probable that
the picturesque north shore OF Massachusetts will
be the summer retreat of the Tafts for some
years to come. Here Miss Helen Taft the only
daughter Of the family. finds the best of oppor
tunties for her pet diversions. tennis 'and motor
ing in an electric runabout which she drives her.
self.
Mrs Sherman. wife OF the vice-president. spends
her summers in the big comfortable stone man
sion at Utica, N. Y, which has been home to
the Shermans for so many years, and In the rear
of which the spacious flower gardens which
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16
Gentlemen Two.

Two street cleaning department
men were having an alteration ~
they were driving their carts side By
side along upper Broadway the other
afternoon. One was red-faced and
bulbous-nosed. the typical "rummy."
The other was an adder-headed negro.
Both looked utterly disreputable.
Get out O. my way!" yelled the red
faced man. Don't cher know enough
to get outer der way when you see
gentlemanw
I'm more OF a gem'men than you.
you big rum" retorted the negro.
"Youall drives a garbage cart. an
only picks up ashes."-New York
Press.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16
Are Making study Of Flood.

Engineers and scientists are ma.
king exhaustive studies OF the recent
floods in Paris. to devise a system
which will prevent repetition OF the
disaster. 1t is planned to keep the
Seine within it's channel either by
constructing higher entertainments or
by carrying the surplus waters around
the city In bypass channel.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16
Her Way.

III you would wear button Shoes
suggested her father. they would
not come united"
II know It," replied she, land II they
did not come united could not ask
person whom l have In mind to tie
them"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16
A witty Bishop.

"The late Bishop Foss." said Phil
adelphia physician, "once visited mo
for some trihing ailment.
"'Do you. SIR said to him. in the
course of my examination, talk in
your sleep?
"'No. SIR he answered. I talk In
other peoples. Aren't you aware that
I am O divine?"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16
DOCTOR
ADVISED
OPERATION
CuredbyLydiaE. .Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Gslena, Kans. IA yeai ago laso
March I fell, and . few days after
there was soreness in my right side.
In . short time bunch Uame and II
bothered me 90 much ct night / could
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16
A DELICATE SITUATION.

Hiram-Dickson's gal has took to writin'
spring poetry
siram-waai. amt they havin nothin' done
for herr
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16

which embraces. among other things
that seclusion which makes 1t possible
for the vacationist to don garb that
is comfortable, without regard to the
dictates OF fashion.
Thus we find Mrs. John ID. Rookie
feller leading the quietest possible ex-
istence at Forest Hill, her husbands
extensive estate near Cleveland, and
Miss Anna Morgan. daughter of the
financier, isoiating herself at her IA
theirs log camp" in the depths of the
Adirondack forest. Our presidential
widows are likewise fond Of the sim
pie life In summer. Mrs. Garfield
spends the heated term at her farm at
Mentor, Ohio, near the shore of Lake
Erie; Mrs. Harrison and her daughter
take up their abode at forest lodge
on the shore OF one Of the lakes OF the
E,,ytou hot tv, tho north wnOds. and
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16

not sleep. 1t kept
growing larger and
by fall It was a.
large as q hens egg.
/ could not 60 to
bed without q hot
water bottle applied
to that side. / had
one of the best doc
tors in Kansas and
he told my husband
that / would have to
be operated on as 10
wac something like
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16

tently as the head OF the household
1t is notable that in the eyes of many
prominent women the ideal vacation
is one which enables real solitude and
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-06-16
A Sad Case.

A Sad Case.
do you prefer your eggs poached
or scrambled"
"I cant remember"
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in the Hughes household inherit their mothers
fondness for this fascinating form OF boating.
Other prominent who partial to the
life Of the mountain lakes include Mrs Timothy
Woodruff, wife of the New York politician. Mrs,
and Mrs Whitelaw Reid who is usually ready to
forsale of the most attractive country seats
England for intervals the pines at Camp Wild
Air
There are not few whose fondness for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17

except as they secretly spread the propa-
ganda of the motor boat.
That was ten years ago Today Wash
ington has-no, Washington boasts-more
than the hundred of the finest motor
boats in the country, including every
class and type from the long, low, lean,
rakish-looking'' racer to the family boat.
broad of beam and fitted with every
comfort and luxury. Every pleasant
reaches of the stream by Georgetown to
far below Mount Vernon is fairly alive
with these little water fairies, not doing
lacking and luffing and other uncouth
a sailboats business, but fitting to and
fro, sdJnming like joyous swallows upon
the water. nodding and bowling to one an
other as a wave losses them lightly here
and there, and seeming to be as instinct
with life and gladness as the happy own
ers at the wheels.
Even the owners of the many SailbOats
that dot Washington waters have learn
ed that a wet sheet and a flowing sea are
a mighty poor substitute for an ever
ready gasoline motor; more than Us per
cent of the pleasure salboats in Wash
ington have become converted to motor
boats by the installation of auxiliary
gasoline engines and propellers.
1t was in 1908 that the enthusiasm OF
Mr. Welcker and those he had inoculated
with the bug crystallized into the Corin-
THAN Yacht Club of Washington 1t was
a club of small beginnings, bvt the baby
throve apace, and today it has more than
one hundred and twenty-five members
with a handsome and luxuriously fur
nished clubhouse on Water street be-
tweeA and streets southwest Here
almost every evening after a run down
the river gather many of the motor boat
fraternity to discuss the merits of their
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Impressed Her.

THE city was still hot at the end Of q
sHnscorched day, but at Great Falls
the air was filed with a freshness and
life that came as welcome change. Tho
roar of the falls could be heard afar and
as one approached nearer the awe which
always accompanies. the noise OF falling
water began to steal over the little hind
OF citytes seeking GOODNESS. They went
silently along the path and out onto the
rocks which overhang the largest OF the
falls. The climb vas hard one for q
summer evening, but the view amply re-
paid the expenditure OF energy.
TumbIing over the rocks. the water
came down in feathery sheet of foam,
and fine spray shot Up in the air for
several feet. 1t was twilight and the
gray of receding dag sof.ened and blend
ed with the surrounding country. 1t was
a masterpiece such no mere human
artist could paint.
Finally noise from the direction of the
platform built high above the falls at
tracted the attention OF the party Slow
ly they retraced their steps over tins. rocks
and coming back to the path, found their
way to this platform. man was tinker
ing with the huge searchlight that stood
in one corner. After a while he turned
on the current and giant ray OF light
flashed forth from the mouth Of the ma
chine.
tie FOCUSED IL nrst on one and then on
another of the falls Then he nut a red
screen before the light. The falls as
sumed the aspect of giant bodies pouring
forth their life's b,cod. Then he changed
the light to a pale blue. A stiffness fell
over the little crowd gathered there as
the majesty Of the scene became even
more impressive under this new light
All this while myriads Of little insects
had been gathering, attracted by the
brilliant light. First they seemed as
specks of molten silver, darling hither
and thither. making shafts of dazzling
lieht by their rapid motion. Then they
turned to drops of blood. leaving appar-
entity long stains as they flashed from
place to place. They changed again to
the blue of a clear Name. fiickering, dy-
ing out and then returning with a quick
flash. All down the ray of light this
play OF insects was taking place, while
directly in front of the glare they beat
their wings vainly against the glass and.
injured. fell on the railing beneath to die
No one had spoken. Human words
seemed to be SO inadequate The hush
which had fallen over the gathering was
one of reverence.
Then out Of the stiffness came a voice
the voice OF a woman-thin and rau-
cous. as she turned to her companion. q
stalwart giant:
Amt II sweet. baby?"
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day the river there swarms with hun.
dred or more lively "watermobles," rang
ing from the sixteen-foot runabout to the
seagoing vessel a hundred feet long.
Along here 1t is that impromptu races try
out the merits of the young aspirants to
honors that have just been launched In
the stream; for the water is smooth and
free from sudden fits of petulant rough
ness that vex the temper of the motor
Boat tyro.
The Potomac"' calculated a boat
fan as he Ieaped ashore to the CORN
thian Club wharf from his dainty vessel:
why, this side the delectable rivers of
Paradise there's no stream that affords
such pleasure to the sailor and sightseer
as the Potomac. Oh, yes. of course
you've got to see 1t from a motor boat;
that's the best way to see any river. I'm
not referring to the historic interest in
knows about Washington and Mount
Vernon and all that. But I'm talking
about the lovely hills that flank it. crown
ed with stately mansions and clothed with
robes of greenery that trail their bor-
ders in the stream. And then over the
long, glistenng reaches across the fats
when the tide Us in or swift run up the
blue inlets that here and there indent
far back into the inland. / tell you that
for an ideal afternoons outing there's
nothing that comes up to smooth.
easy
Yes but, interrupted the unlnlt1ated
skeptic, "how are you going to keep from
bumping into steamboats, and sailing YES
sells and sea serpents and other marine
horrors? How are you. going to keep
track of scenery and all that poetry bust
ness you've been talking about when
you've got to keep lodging big ugly boats
without the rudimepts of politeness?
You don't have to-" was the reply.
coupled with smile of pity at the skep-
tics ignorance. That's the browning
charm of the Potomac as, a place for
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the swift runa bouts of the river fitting
TO and fro like weavers' shuttles across
the surface of the stream.
And the fellow who gets bitten doesn't
get over it," he added. "Once a motor
boat man. always enc"
And the water veteran is about right
say all the rest of his kind Any mere
man who will take a spin in a motor boat
down the Potomac in one of the craft
that lie at anchor so invitingly along the
Washington front. especially in the vicin-
ity Of the boat clubhouses, will return
from that trip another being-one to
whom business has become but the baga-
tel'e Of life and motor boating the whole
sum of existence.
He will not deny his slavery to the de-
lights of this new method of motion he
gior!es in il and spends all his leisure in
converting his friends 10 his new creed
Needless TO say that. with a good mo-
tor boat as medium of conversion,
there are usually plenty of friends anx-
tous 10 test the virtues of the new cult in
Q trial trip Then 1t is over with the
friends. Having seen the light. they are
not happy until they are taking out be-
nghted candidates for conversion in their
own motor boats.
And so the motor boat move from "A
standing start OF nothing at all. has in
the last few years Grown like the green
bay tree and run rapidly along the
Washington shore from the Three Sis
tiers TO the War College, until there's
Lot a wharf water nook without its
quota of them. from the little water
buggy TO the stately houseboa, cruiser
A dozen years go the motor boat was
thing unknown. Sane folks on board
some sane sort of boat, like a sailing
yacht or steam launch, looked out oc-
casionally from their comfort a BILE craft
TO a wild. weird-looking water crea-
rure puffing and blowing through the
waves while within the bowels OF it a
crazy man tortured some Internal mech
anism into emitting horrid groans and
splutterings that agonized the ear and
more than horrid smells that recalled
birthstone. That was the sort OF thing
that was motor boat dozen years ago,
and that's what was thought OF the luna
tic who ran IL. But that was before the
day when John p. Welcker, inoculated
with the motor boat bug himself, started
in to spread II broadcast through the
capital. Ten years ago there were per
haps dozen hardy spirits in Washing
ION. headed by Mr.. Welcker, who dared
the cibes Of ignorant friends and indulg
ed in the primitive motor boating of that
day They were enthusiastic, but at first
like some prosecuted sect. met in secret
and kept their enthusiasm TO themselves,
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with pardonable pride; Tor the boat has
repeatedly shown it's heels to lie fastest
the river could boast in every form OF
vessel. Though not a boat builder by
profession, Battenfield is the designer and
constructor of this queen of the Wash
ington waters. He built it working at
odd times during the evenings In the
spring Of 1909, equipped 1t with second
hand engine. launched 1t in the raging
waters of Anacostia river-and calmly
proceeded to skim by everything on the
river but the swallows! 1t vas big
surprise to everybody; perhaps also to
Mr.. Battenf1eld himself, for even the most
confident cannot often enter field and at
first attempt Surpass the veterans there
in their skill. The lines of her hull are
perfect. There is not an ounce of super
f1uous flesh on her, to speak In race
horse terms. There's not a single thing
about her that is not necessary.
This was conclusion the skeptlc drew
because at first view he could see nothing
but the boat with a convex wooden deck
covering the forward end. Presumably
engines were hidden under that. In the
rear was a seat That is the inventory
the eye made, nothing more. But with
that slight equipment she was the prin-
cess Of racers. And herein lieth joke
on Mr. Battenfield. When he built the
craft he built it solely as convenient
runabout with no idea of speed. 1t
wasn't until one day when in moment
of Observation-Disclosures he opened his en-
CINE out that he found he had a racer
instead of a runabout. 1t reminds one OF
Mark Twain's rancher who dug for water
and struck a bonanza mine.
To sit In the stern of the Gray Bat and
fly along the waters surface at a speed
of more than twenty miles an hour comes
as near flying as any one not nan-bird
has attained. Boats swim dfzzily BY
the churning water rushes Keeling to the
rear with the speed of a millrace. The
trees on the shore spin past in solemn
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Shown Up.
IsHoP WILLIAM F. McpowE

BISHOP WILLIAM F. MCDOWELL, in
- an address to Chicago Methodists.
said of country vacations:
S'Country vacations. among the other
good things they do. show. IL we be igno-
rant. our ignorance.
"A Msthodist bishop on a country va
cation last year talked fuentiy TO farr,-
er about the science of agriculture The
bishop, made. however, without being
aware ~ 1t, a Slight slip-up which prov
ed that he had an altogether erroneous
idea as to how turpips are sowr. At the
end of hts observations he walked back
to the farmhouse with compiacent air.
but the farmer said to his hired man. dis
gustedly:
:. Him a bishop! Why. he amt ft TO
hold plow.'"
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Up to the advent of the Gray Bat.
the Kindo. owned by Mr.. Moore of Alex
andria, was the swiftest boat on the
river. Rumor has it now that Mr.. En-
erson of the same town will enter a
dark horse in the next motor boat pace.
and is confident of showing the Gray Bat
clean pair of heels with his new and
nameless vessel. 1t is thirty feet long
and is claimed by it's owner to make
formidable number of miles per hour
under its ffty-horsepower engine.
While swift as swallows, the motor
boats of Washington have other good
points than speed. They are built. for
the most part, as purely pleasure boats
and the luxury of many of them will
rival that of the millionaire's home. Mr.
Welckers house motor boat. the Fiji, is
an example of what thoroughly dyed
in-the-wool motor boat fiend demands
when he goes out a-pleasuring on the
river. and if you think you are going
to cit on>a hard board In an Anticipated
launch and get doused with every wave,
you are going to experience a most de-
lightful surprise. For the Fiji Is thirty
three feet long land nearly nine feet
wide, with cabins In which are found all
the comforts of homie. There are four
coy berths and a sitting room. all hand
somely finished in cherryNwood. If you
want to read, there are electric lights:
il you want to battle. there Is plenty Of
hot and cold water at the spigots1 if you
are hungry there is hot stove at your
hand. and in the pantry-well. Mr..
Welcker does not like . to boast; Seated
Welcker. with friends or family. takes
his comfort at the rate OF twelve miles
the wide waters of Chesapeake bay.
The Dakota. owned by Ralph Gait.
commodore of the Capital Yacht Club. is
generally considered the finest motor boat
on the Potomac. It is ninety feet long
and furnished as handsomely as the big
steam yachts that anchor off Newport.
This Is the fifth or sixth thar Mr.. Gait
has owned-a common symptom of bad
case of the motor boat bug. Dean
Weicker explained 1t thus:
"I'Il tell you how we came to have SO
many luxurious boats in Washington.
You see, the motor boat disease takes one
in progressive attacks The man who is
once infected-and that means any man
who lakes trip down the stream-may
continue to have the disease worse some
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in love with 1t. of course-until he finds
some other fellows boat going by him
Then he grows unhappy and loses affec'
ton for his little love just as a young
man grows tired of his early sweetheart
and wants another one. I've had four
myself mean motor boats, of course. :
Another one of the luxurious boats is
that of Larz Anderson. the Roxane.
This boat cruises not only about the wa
ters of the river and the bay, but goes
far south as Key West in winter. Mr..
Anderson isn't dependent upon hotels
for comforts. The Roxane is equipped
with better than anything he can buy in
Bar Harbor or Jacksonville. The boat
Is about 100 feet long, and can comfort
ably accommodate twenty guests, in adj
dition to a considerable crew.
When you go down the river and see
swarm of boats flashing back and forth
as they play hide and seek with one
another up and down the stream, there
are two that will catch your eye, not
only because they are handsome vessels.
but because from their stern flies flag
That always arrests attention 1T Is a
yellow harp on a field of green-the flag
of old Erin. These are the boats of Mr..
Duffy and Mr.. Robey. and they are in
every race on the river.
Yet it's not all cakes and ale with the
motor boat said an old-timer who had
served his apprenticeship in the days
when the gasoline engine had as many
fidgets as a nervous man. and still has,
according to him, If one doesn't know
how to handle it, You've got to watch
Der and coax her and nurse her and
hu4Qor her until she gets to like you.
And It you offend her maybe she'll lie
down with you right in the middle OF the
river. / Remember l was laid up nine
times by little f1irt of an engine right
off opposite the War College; laid up
right there in the path of anything that
wanted to run over me. And just as
had about given up in despair and sig
nailed a passing motor boat for assist
ance, that coquettish craft picked herself
up and went off home as obediently as an
old Dobbin of a horse. Theresa new
recruit in the Corinthian Club who says
he doesn't miss his wife at all now when
she goes off to visit. He just spends his
time with his motor boat: says it's a good
substitute for wife, and when the en-