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The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
How Former Senator Spooner Saved a
Wisconsin Farmer from Ger
tain Penury

I the hall and closed the door. He came
back early next morning. carrying a red
| handkerchief in his hand. In the hand
| kerchief was a small watch of chased
| gold.
My wife send it, he said. She got
it from her grandmother, to whom it
was given by her mother, and was bought
| in England. My wife won't like 1t if
bring the watch home
" My friend, l said, as soIemnly as 1
could, do you know that you are trying
TO bribe an officer of the court. You are
committing nisi prius right here in my
own office
That may be so,' he answered, but
J you are too honest a man to make
good lawyer, at least in these parts
Senator BrIstOw's Fight with Mob.
While Senator JoAepn Little Bristow,
of Kansas, was owner and editor of
the Salina Republican. he almost lost
his life In helping to rescue a man from
a band of lynchers.
The story has been inaccurately
printed" he said to me, but I have
not cared to give the facts, for fear
that might be accused of indulging in
heroics. The whole matter was the out
come of a mistake in identity, and 1
did no more than several other citizens
to prevent a brutal murder. negro
was arrested and recognized by the
woman in the case. He proved. how
ever, that he was eight miles away from
the place of the crime when 1t was COM
mitted. Still there was great excite
ment. When heard that a mob was
breaking down the door OF the jail, I
went to the courthouse and stood At
the edge of the crowd. I saw the negro
brought out and the rope tied around
his neck. ! shall never forget the ex-
preston that was on his face. He was
led to a wagon in front of the hotel
On being asked II he wanted to confess,
he said: I have been a bad boy, but
you are hanging me for a crime I never
committed
II was on the sidewalk with other
spectators of the horrible proceedings
Without a suggestion from any one, a
number OF US pushed into the street all
at once and got the negro of the wagon.
The rope had been thrown over the cross
piece of a telegraph pole. In the con-
fusion I cut the rope. Then we maneu-
vered the negro to the sidewalk and an
open stairway. He was taken up the
stairway and into. an alley beyond, and
that was the last the mob saw of him.
In the meantime, several OF us stood
at the bottom of the stairway and kept
the crowd back.
when the lynchers realized what was
being done. they attacked US savagely.
Some one struck me on the head with
the butt end Of q revolver. As sank
to the ground two men caught me by
the legs and two by the arms, tearing
my coat on and pulling all the buttons
from my vest. Half-naked and bleeding
got away and then defended myself
with the knife with which had cut
the rope. Well, the affair was soon over.
was washed and plastered up at drug
store, and a merchant brought me some
clothing. TIE negro was In safe place
and went home"
Memory, NEdward II. R. Green thinks.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
By JAMES b. MORROW.

Two months before John c. Spaoner
suddenly quit the Senate, where he had
served with great skill as a leader, de-
batter, and advocate for sixteen years,
he was offered case in law that would
have brought him fees amounting to
S3O. .OOO
But I cannot take it." he told me
at the time without neglecting my
duties as a public man"
Spooner had spent more than Sena-
tors salary while a practicing lawyer in
Wisconsin. Once in office, his clients
gradually disappeared. But expenses are
difficult problems and are hard to cut
down. In March, 1907 when he sent his
unexpected resignation to the governor
of his State, he was sixty-four years
old. His savings had almost vanished
and dependent old age was coming on.
Since then, as a lawyer in New York,
he has been rapidly recovering the money
he lost in politics. Furthermore, he has
been a happy man-happy because he is
busy and is making up for lost time
There are many SpOOner anecdotes, some
spurious and some genuine.
Up in the woods of Wisconsin" he
told me not long ago, "at the town OF
Hudson, where l began my practice. I
saw a pair Of sharp lawyers trying a
case against an old farmer and his wife
! was interested and sat down. The
old couple bore the physical signs of
hard toll out of doors, being bent in the
shoulders and gnarled at the joints.
learned that the lawyers were trying to
get their farm. The taxes hadn't been
pafd, and the land had been sold in con-
formity with the law, so the lawyers
claimed. 1t was none of my business,
but 1 watched the case for awhile. l
noticed the bound files of a country news
paper on the trial table, marked so as
10 show the advertisements Of tax de-
linquent sales. The law provided that
such advertisements should be printed
for six weeks at a time. I could find
but one advertisement of the old farm
er's land-land that he had cleared him
self, and which in bad seasons had bare
ly kept him alive.
Went Into the Case UNLIMITED.
so I got into the case, standing up
and addressing the court on the point 1
mad found. The lawyers replied that the
sale had been advertised the required
number OF weeks, but had been printed
on a detached supplement, which didn't
appear in the bound files. 1 held that
such advertising was illegal, in that the
supplements might be lost in the mails
The court took my view of the matter
and so held. I hadn't spoken to the
farmer, and at the conclusion OF the case
went about my own affairs. By and by,
the old man came to my office.
q How much do owe your" he asked.
I wanted to hire you in the first place.
he went on 10 say, but l am poor and
had to get a cheaper lawyer.
"'You don't owe me anything, I re-
piled. You didn't call me into the case,
and 1 have no right 10 charge you a cent. ;
"'But you saved our farm, and am will
ing 20 give you q mortgage until we can
get some eaoney.'
Then be cried, and pushed him Into
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17

Barney" Oldheld, in Popular Mechanics.
1t was in Birmingham, Ala, George De
Witt, who. on the Florida beach. in the
flush of his first race after a record, had
, done 100 miles in ninety minutes, dropped
swiftly down past the grand stand into
| the short turn 1t had been a dry sum-
mer, and the dust of three parched
weeks drove itself across his vision. He
checked his throttle, put on his brakes,
and then, to the establishment of every
one. came to dead. stop. while the other
racers rushed past him.
Whats the NATTER" l asked, as he
withdrew from the track. Smash some
| thing
George lifted his goggles, blInked his
eyes. and gazed back into the seething
hurricane of dust and machines.
Not yet" he answered. with his eyes
still fixed on the track, but that dust
doesn't look good to me. There's death
in tracks like that, and, take my word.
I'd rather live to hear one man talk
about my eightieth birthday than to
have the whole world cheer me as a
dead hero"
/ knew he was right at the time, and
since then thousand developments In
the racing game have gone to prove him
right. The dirt track has been the death
not only of many brave men and good
drivers, but to n certain extent, of auto
mobile racing itself. There are still lu-
natics who will risk its dangers. but the
manufacturers themselves have become
weary OF its endless death roll. Good
drivers fight shy of 1t. The game is not
worth the candle.
Ten Years of Slaughter.
1t has taken ten years to prove this.
ten years OF driving death, of inccssant
slaughter. of many broken machines and
few broken records. 1T has been a dec
ade repIete with black headlines and
black mourning. Much money has been
made by promoters and the sport-gov-
erning associations; a little has. been
made by drivers.
1t has also been a source OF consider
able profit to hospitals. undertakers. and
cemetery societies 1t has had one ex-
cuse-the development of the motor car.
This. though, was nothing more than an
excuse-the real reason for its existence
was the blood hunger of the spectator.
Everybody knows this. manufacturer.
promoter. driver. mechanic. l was never
famous until l went through the fence
at St. Louis and killed two spectators.
Promoters fell over one another TO sign
me up.
Few OF your average automobile race
fans know or care anything about the
finer points OF the machines or the race.
They watch without interest or perception
the most skiIlful and delicate driving, but
let a tire burst. wheel skid, car
break for the fence, and they are out of
their seats in a flash. with the bloOd-cry
in their throats and the lust of death in
their eyes. 1t is the call of the Roman
arena, OF the Spanish bull ring. 1t is
no more a sport than a hanging is sport.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17

railroads and other large concerns, work.
ing for fees in every instance, however,
and not on a salary. which is slavery.
Thus 1 came to know about the large
profits made by iron and steel manufac-
turers. I talked the matter over with
George Z. Roberts, Director of the Mint,
and still the owner of the Fort Dodge
Messenger. Mr.. Roberts, in 1901, pre-
pared a plank for our State platform
stating that protection ought not to be
so great as TO afford a shelter for trusts
and monOpolies. He took the plank to
Canton, where President Mckinley was
spending his summer vacation. It was
later adopted at the Iowa convention
without a note or a single vote Of 1p-
position. No discussion or protest fol-
lowed. The next year. however, when I
made speeches in Boston, Chicago, and
Minneapolis approving the plank, my
enemies at home again attempted to read
me out of the Republican party because
l was disloyal, they said, to Republican
principles. Then I began to fight IN
earnest. Let me add that I am rather
serene in mind and spirit as I reflect
upon present conditions.
Reed SmoOt rs a Business Man.
The Utah Senator and Mormon digni-
tary, Reed Smoot, is manufacturer OF
sugar and wooden goods, a merchant and
a stock raiser. During the old regime,
he was near to the throne, often speak
ing for AIdrich. and managing matters
on the floor of the Senate and IN COM
mittee rooms. asked him who ran
his business in Provo City and else
where when he is in Washington.
Men whom I have chosen and whom
1 trust" he answered. Years ago I
saw a little fellow going to the tele-
graph office each day. I had also noticed
him at school He was a serious and IN
dustrious youngster.
Alex said. how would y0u like
to be the manager OF my drug store?
"I don't know he gravely replied.
TN have to ask my father
Then I told him If he would come and
wash bottles and learn the business, I'd
make him manager, II he would do his
part and do it well. That afternoon he
brought his mother. Alex went to work
the next morning. He has managed my
drug store, and it is big establish
rnent, for a long time. I hire the best
men 1 can find, even as sheep herders,
paw them more than they can get else
where, and induce them to take a per-
sonaI interest In my business. A boy
whose mother was Insane, and in an
asylum, and whose father was an aged
man, was going about the streets in his
bare feet, clothed only in torn overalls
and a ragged shirt. I put him to work
and he became my best clerk. Now he
has a store Of his own.
"My ambition is to establish a man
ual training school at Salt Lake City,
as good as any In the United States.
where boys can be taught mechanical
trades, and kept out OF employment for
which they have no taste. The best
blacksmith in a community. or the best
carpenter. is a good enough distinction
for any man.
lcOpyright lslI b. James p. .MaTOHl
The Butler weekly times., 1911-10-19


"Baby Beef on High Priced Land.
tenn is evidently to push the animals
along as rapidly as possible and mar
ket them as baby beef" 1t is from
. the standpoint of this man, and not
from that of the feeder who buys his
animals ready for the feed yard, that
this matter will be considered. These
professional feeders need not care
what the animals cost the man who
raised them, so long as they may be
put into the feeding pen with sutfi-
cient margin to Offset the additional
cost of gains made in fitting them for
market.
The raiser of cattle must squarely
face the issue Of paying for every day
that the animal lives, whether it gain,
stand still, or lose in weight
Obviously the man who raises cat
tie on high priced land should feed
them out as baby beef, and would
have occasion to raise and feed in
the same connection large number
VI hO6o. hC Adl sc al ca vi lC6ui
would be specially adapted to grow
ing and finishing hogs with a mini
mum loss from disease, and a maxi
mum profit.
For a man so situated to try to
keep his steers over to be grazed the
second summer as yearlings, and es.
pecially to hold them through the Sec
ond winter merely for the opportunity
to full herd them on grass as Iwo-
year-olds, would be wasteful.
The animals should be on full feed
before the weaving process begins, 50
as to prevent the heavy shrinkage
that it usually entails. Following this
should come vaccination against
blackleg, and dehorning.
The full feeding should continue
until early the following June or July.
when, il the cattle are bred right,
they will be as fat as they can be
;profitably made under ordinary states
Of the market, and will weigh from
$50 to 1850 pounds, and will have
paid for their feed and raising and
left good profit.
Cattle of this weight, when Of good
quality and carrying a reasonable fin
ish, are never oversupplied on the
market, and bring, especially at that
time Of year, as good price as any
class Of cattle sold.
It goes without saying that steers
to be profitably handled in this way
must be well bred, uniform In type
and quality. and must be capable OF
making rapid gains. Of fattening early
and finishing up smoothly. -
The Butler weekly times., 1911-10-19
Adapt Feed to Tlpe of Cattle
Follow Natural Tendency of Calf
BY n. J. Waters. Formerly Professor,
College Of Agriculture, Uni
- vereity Of Missouri.

run the land in corn or small grains
too frequently. an despecially by be.
ing careful to feed all the corn and
forage on the farm, instead Of selling
part of 1t each year, and by careful
ly saving and applying with a manure
spreader all of the manure produced,
the productiveness of this type of land
may be. kept up without laying down
large areas to permanent pasture.
On lands not of the very strongest
type this system of farming may be
slightly modified, by giving especial
attention to the production of legume
hays and buying onto the farm a por
tion, at least, Of the corn to be fed
with these hays. On a still lighter
class of soils this latter plan might
be modified still further by purchas-
ing, as part of the grain, some rich
concentrate like cottonseed or linseed
meal
1t goes without saying chat crops
that exhaust the soil and possess at
the same time comparatively low
feeding value. like timothy, millet,
and sorghum, would have no place in
this system of farming or feeding
They deserve very small and unim.
portant place in any farm system for
Missouri.
The Butler weekly times., 1911-10-19

The calf is born with certain ten
dencies which can not, so far as we
know now, be materially changed, and
must be accepted for better or for
worse. These relate, among other
things. to the size the animal will at.
tain when fully mature, if nourished
In the ordinary manner; the length
OF time required for it to mature; the
form 1t will have when finished; the
predisposition to either grow rapidly
and not fatten until late. or to fatten
at almost any stage of its existence
that a sufficient amount of food is
given to supply the requirements OF
maintenance, growth and fat
These factors vitality affect the
whole financial outcome, and are, so
far as we now know, controlled by
the breeder rather than Influenced by
the feeder.
After the animal is born, therefore,
it is practically beyond control In
these respects. 1t is of the utmost
Importance that the feeder adapt his
methods of feeding and handling to
the peculiarities of form, tempera-
ment, early maturity, size, quality,
ETC., of the animals with which he
has to deal.
To take an animal for baby beef,
The Butler weekly times., 1911-10-19

for example, that has tendency to
be just as shortsighted as to keep
until it is three years old before be-
ing put into the feed lot, an animal
that has the tendency to early matur
ity strongly marked and which is re-
fined and not fitted to subsist on the
rough feed of stalk field and straw
stack. To take miscellaneous col
lection of steers representing all gra-
dations between these two extremes
and give them the same treatment,
and endeavor to finish them at the
same time and in the same manner
would be equally wasteful of feed and
labor To state the general PROPOSE
tion differently, to attempt to market
an animal at 900 pounds that was de-
signed by it's breeding to be finished
at 1900 pounds, or to attempt to make
a 1900 pound steer out of an animal
that reaches it's highest development
at 1000 pounds, is committing a de-
liberate blunder
In order to economize in labor, 1t
is necessary, of course, to handle all
the steers in given bunch essential
ly alike This means that a certain
amount of culling is required, in order
that all that are to be kept shall be-
long to the same class and respond
profitably to the same treatment.
Then it is only required that the
treatment given be that which is best
adapted to the type of animals in
volved.
To breed steers of uniform type
and tendencies SO that they will not
require heavy culling at weaving time
or the following spring, is one of the
most difficult undertakings of the cat
tie raiser The beginner should not,
however, be discouraged. Men have
succeeded to a marked degree in this
direction, but it has taken many years
of patient work and watching. and
liberal use Of good blood.
Raising Beef on High Priced Land.
One class of men who are raising
beef in Missouri is represented by the
man on productive and high priced
land, with only a limited area OF
rough, untillable land for pasture.
Whatever pasture he has, therefore.
is on the land we'll adapted to other
crops. This is the most important in
numbers and Investment in Missouri.
Such men, as a rule, have plenty OF
corn and winter forage and generally
limit their grazing area and facilities
for summering stocks to the needs Of
their breeding herds and work stock.
They must, therefore. depend on win.
ter feeding for their main profits.
They have more forage and grain
than would be required to merely car.
ry through the winter in stocker con-
dition the animals they can Craze
through the summer. 1t Is true. they
might increase their pasture area and
cut down correspondingly their corn
and forage crop areas, but. broadly
speaking, this sort of land is more
profitably grown in some hay or grain
crop than run to pasture. In other
words, pasture crops do not, as rule,
produce enough forage to pay rea.
sonable return on this sort Of land.
By pursuing . systematic crop ro
tation in which the hay crops are
wholly or almost exclusively legumes.
such % red clover. cowpeas and a.
falfa, and By being particular not tc
The Butler weekly times., 1911-10-19
SUCCESSFUL DAIRYMEN.

Just what the difference is between
the practice Of successful dairymen
and those not making q profit, will
be shown graphically in the dairy ex.
hibit Of the University Of Missouri at
the state fair. Proper feeding, selec-
tion Of cows, elimination Of the star
boarders" and the keeping Of records
will make great difference in the
balance at the end Of the month. How
successful these practices have been
and how to carry them out win be
shown BY apparatus and ngures. A
number Of the famous cows of the
Univsrsity dairy herd viii also be on
exhibition.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-18
Nelson W. Aldrich.

The Senate Of the United States will
lose gigantic figure in the retirement Of
Nelson ". Aldrich
His health impaired. his career in pub
lie life is now closed-his leadership in
the great law-making body at an end
If he return TO his seat during the
closing days of the session, it will not be
i'll the old role. which has marked him as
one of the mighty men of the nation, but
as a negative, inactive participant in
affairs now passing into control of other
hands
That the Senate will ever again be led
and controlled as he led and controlled
it is quite improbable. Certainly there is
no leader in sight who possesses, even in
scant degree. the qualities that made
him truly great His untiring industry.
has studious habits. his masterful knowl-
edge of economic questions. his infinite
tact. his ready resourcefulness. and his
disposition to compromise to gain lesis-
lative ends-these are a few of the quail
success of his leadership. He commanded
the respect of his colleagues always:
their good will almost invariably went
with it He constantly challenged their
admiration as well. His was not a dom
ipeer;ng or tyrannical rule, but pacifi-
catory and conciliatory leadership. For
thirty years a Senator-a working Sena-
tor-his influence years ago became pow
erful For the last decade it has been
dominant.
His point of view was not always the
popular point of view, but, to his credit
be it said. such fact never swerved him
IN the slightest degree from his duty as
he saw it.
Senator Aldrichs five terms cover an
era of wonderful advancement and pros
perity. The policies which he stood for,
financial and economic, unQuestionably
have been material factors in that ad-
vancement and prosperity. And so. what
ever the individual view now as to these
policies, he must be given credit, and
large credit. for the service he has rem
dered his country.
Any fair appraisement of this hrainy,
resourceful Rhode Islander will forever
give him high rank as a constructive
lawmaker. and the United States Senate
is distinct loser in his retirement.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-18

entitled to only two personalities? 1t Is
a matter of common knowledge that
children inherit conflicting tendencies
from both Of their parents. AS one or
the other set of tendencies dominates the
life of the child, his nature becomes
different. and may be said. as to these
tendencies. to possess a dual personal
ity. But conflicting tendencies may. in
like manner, be inherited from grand
parents. Of whom each child has four:
and SO on backward indefinitely.
Some one with a taste for figures has
ascertained that. barring marriage with
relatives. each person, in the compar-
atively short period of twenty genera
ticns. can account for more than a mil
lion ancestors. Eack of that period. of
course, are untold millions more. AS
suming that every ancestor has trans
m!tted to the living person ever SO lit
tie of his own personality. it follows
that each individual is composite crea-
ture OF infinite conflicting impulses and
tendencies. each of which may in turn
become dominant. Thus he becomes a
multiplex personality of unlimited varia-
ton.
Whether all of these may be harmo-
nized by any system of phycho-analysis.
or neurotic therapeutics, We seriously
doubt In fact, We entertain an almost
nervous apprehension that they cannot.