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them, exersse but in order to do this and to avoid all of them you must go through all the exersises and theere is a large book about the size of the Congressional Record of them l figure that If teller wanted to go through them all he start sunday at 7:30 a. m and by Saturday nite he mite have completed his corse-then he'd have to star rite ovver again To feler who wants to keep well 1t is verry discurraging for he will reealise that he leeves enny time for making livving that hs cant keep Up his exersises. On the uther hand he desides to just take two of the exersises and do little work on the side he mite select the rong ones
 what would 1t availeh pore feller to devote couple Of hours of exersise nte and morning in ar effort to creeate viggerus lvver. only 10 fall the victim Of lumbago simply becawse he had not ex ersed the lumbago mussels. Theere he d be with perfectly good liver which John D. Rockfelle, would pay millyun bones for while his lunhag oreetus was all shot to peeses, thus leedng him down to an early grave.
 When we contlmpate tile roads to perfect hoeltt it fills us with despair Ennyhow we don k hseeve the docturs air keeping up with the procession Mod dern invensions all tend to kl-nuthing much te keep alive Yours trooly
 BILL VINES. Washington. D c.
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Tor breeding purposes. as has long been done in Argentina. The people are now alive to the advantages of such breeding and in the future there will be steady improvement.
 l asked as to whether our farmers need be alarmed at the competition of Argentina and Uruguay in the meat mar ket MT Daly laughed, as he replied
 '1 think not We have been export ing beef to New York for more than q year, but the total of what we have sent IS hardly a mouthful for Uncle Sam's mighty stomach. The whole amount would not be enough to supply New York for a week."
 l asked as to the character of the beef. Mir. Daily said it would take an expert to detect the difference betwen our bee f and that of Uruguay if the two were sold side by side on the counter The meat here Is just as carefully handled as in the United States The government has rigid sanitary rules-fine stock k innoculated against certain diseases and care is taken that only good meat Is shipped
 In speaking of Uruguay as a cattle country MT. Daly compares 1t to Illinois or Iowa. There are many streams and plenty of water for the stock The grasses are rather thin and for this f'"S'i' 'iit makes the best cross for the native stock The Here lords are light on their feet and they can walk some distance in feeding. which Is not so of the Shorthorns. The average steer of Uruguay is not as fat as that of the states and for certain purposes lean animals are required rather than fat This is so for the 5erked beef business the lean meat only being used. great deal of the beeves are sold to the I.iebig factories for the making of an extract of beef The best cattle come from near the Uruguay river, where the meat facto- ries arc.
 The largest cattle estancia in Uru- Suay belongs to German. 1t contains tens of thousands of acres and 40,00O cattle and many sheep. This estancia IS devoted entirely to stock raising and its pastures are fenced
 The English have a great deal of fine cattle lands here and some of them have beautiful homes scattered through out the country They, like the rich Uruguayans. have their homes In the city and go to the country only for a part of the summer.
 The western part of the republic is
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horses. l have seen many polo matches but in none such riding as this. A steer may get out of a herd and go flying about through the hundred other herds on this two acres of hills. Two gauchos will follow him. They will ride on each side and drive him through drove after drove until he comes back to his place
 I stopped to take photographs of the gauehos. They do not know the camera and they asked to see the pictures at once They are picturesque Some of them have on long white ponchos that float in the breeze as they gallop this way and that through the stock The ponchos are of fine wool. The sad dles are without horns with sheepskin barkets on top. The sheepskins have the wool on them and the man sits on the wool as protection against slip ping. The ordinary gait is a cantor and the only gaits are the walk. the canter and gallop. The horses look like our western bronchos. The gauchos have no mercy upon them. They drive the sharp spurs into their sides and use their qurts without mercy.
 Now look at the cattle There are zoo or more being sold on the hills this morning. They are of all coors, red black, white and spotted. The most of them are long horned and rangey, much like those of Texas generation or so ago They will weigh from 1000 to 1900 pounds and their ages are from three to six years, They are in droves of 50 to 500 each drove coming from some big estate or estanca.
 l stopped now and then to watch the selling. The price this morning is 10 cents kilo of two and one-fifth pounds This is about $46O hundred live weight After buying, the animals are driven tn the scales and weighed. It is interest ing to watch the weighing The cattle go into corrals in one part of the field and as they do so they pass over great scales 70 feet long by 10 feet wide. From 90 to 100 cattle are weighed a. time and the scales are balanced to the weight of an ounce The capacity of the scale is i10.00e pounds and 100 cattle may be weighed at once. There are four of these scales so that the weighing Is rapidly done. Often 7,00o,00O pounds of beeves are weighed here in day. Turn that into steaks and you would have enough to give meal to every man. woman. and child in New York and Bos- ton. The registers of the scales are in. side galvanized iron sheds and officials appointed by the city do the weighing.
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 Rockefeller of China

from London Fit-Bits.
 one of the most interesting recent visitors to America was Chang Chenr Shun. known as the Rockefeller of China who beginning life as a poor boy, has now amassed. in his seventieth year, fortune of something like E12.- Goo, 0O0
 As clerk. he worked In small shop H. shanghai. and was paid f4 a month Nlth n bonus. After few years he was able to save f400. with which he started business for himself as a rice tea, and coffee merchant. For time ne only sold his goods locally. but after q few years developed his busi- ness to such an extent that he sold h England. Germany and the United >tates. and did business to the extent or l2.oco 900 n year. keen. far seeing business man, Chang Cheng Shun in- creased his activities and organized companies to develop waste lands for the cultivation of rice. tea. coffee. rub. bcr and cocoa.
 In Sumatra lie cultivated s5. .0On acres. in Batavia f4.000. In Penang 20.. poo acres. and SO on. Then he opened and managed tin. mines and became Interested In so many ventures that ha was ultimately employing 10000 per- sons all the year round. Hard work honesty square dealing and my abil- fty to gain the confidence of my peo- ole Is the secret of my success.n he. said recently and no man in the faR' east is more highly trusted and hone
 ,d than this Chinese clerk who CT
 boast of his milliona
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One graie trubble with the human rase is that all of us when have been sick conclude that when ennyboddy gets sick that they have the same trub- ble we had and therefore becum ammatoor doc turs on the spot and want to perscribe for them
 The Christen. Scyentists beleeve that 1t Is wurse than foolish to take meddisne. They confine them selves entirely to the immaginasion If an oughto- mobile along and eevates a private citizen three and half furlongs above a telegraf pole and drops him abruptly on an unyeeding and unsym- pathetck sement sidewalk, inflicting varius and sundry bruses and abrasions upon him. to say nuth- ing of braking leg and running a couple of ribs out through his cute little Norfolk, Va jacket why theere is reely nuthng the mattur with him. he just mmagines theere is All he has do is to get rite up and connew the persuit of his usuel occupasons So we see that theere air menny different opinions with refferense to fsscal trubbes Most of them air rong, but far be it rum to say which of them
 It is funny, though, how menny different remme- dies theere air strongly advocated by sertain nuts who have tried them Strange to say, according to each enthewesiast his remmedy will cure 90 per sent of all the maladies the human frame is air to-
 know of 769 different remmedies that will cure 90 per sent of the diseases of Ninety nine per sent of them air as useless box of matches in
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record of his hart beets with vicktroa and looking at sevven feet and half of his tunge which the pasient must thrust out into the District of Columbia or whatever township he resides in, for nspectsion and taking full history of his aunty-seedents and uther symptums; neerly enny of them, as l have sed can tell rite off the bat the difference between blllyus attack and a carbunkle provided neether of them is too complicated Of corse docturs make mlstakes they air aftur all only human like the of us, and we all make mist takes in our different lines of endevver. However, when doctur makes a mistake 1t freequintly happens that 1t turns out plum serus. Toombstones air holding just lots of mistakes of docturs, while in uther cases theere vic tins escaped before 1t was too late. I had frend onse who had blind saggers. and the doctur he went to see treeted him for sevverel munths for com plicated attack of weller janders. He tried anuther doctur, who told him he had fated dengenerasion of the hart and an absess about the size of hoss-ap pie on his livver the only thing that saved him was that he had an run constitusion and finnelly sum feller concluded he was suffering rum vertigo and
 reeted him for that and he is eating three squares day and is pointed to horribull ex- ampnl by the aunty-saloon leege. He seys he is vindicasion of moddern scyense he got we'll in spite of 1t.
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The sales here amount te something Take that herd of 300 cattle which Mir. Daily is buying They will sell for $50 a head and that single purchase will cost him $2500o. Many other herds will bring Si0O00 and upward. and we have here on the hoof this morning from a quarter to a half million dollars worth of live beef The best of the cattle will go to the frigerificos to be prepared for the markets of Europe The poorest will go to the soladeros to be made into jerked or dried beef that will he shipped to Brazil and the West Indies. Each herd ii driven by it's own men, who receive s9 per hundred for driving them SIX miles and delivering them to the buyers This money Is paid by the owners of the cat tie, who sell them subject to delivery
 Leaving Toblado we rode in our ma : chimes over the Cerro to the Frigerifico Montevideo, which belongs to Swift X Co. It Is situated on little peninsula running out into the wide and muddy Rio de la Plata. The build ing covers some acres It is A strlic- lure of concrete and galvanized iron and 1t has all the equipment in the way of modern machinery of our best American plants. It was begun about four years ago and year and half thereafter it was turning out beef and a half a minute for eight hours of the day. It's present output Is about 800 cattle and 1000 sheep daily The works employ about 1500 hands of whom 200 are women. The women come from the villages nearby. They are paid from so cents to S1 a day. There are about 40 Americans among the employees and there are also Germans and Scandinavians. The average Amer. ican hand does not stay long. In many cases he has come to South America to see the country and he works only until he can get enough money to move further on.
 l asked as to the price of labor. The common natives get about $1 a day although some of the skilled hands receive as much as s10 for eight hours work. The latter sum Is paid to the skilled butchers. The ordinary Uru- guayan does not like 10 work in the freezing rooms. He is satisfied with any other place provided 1t Is warm and wet. He can do anything on horse back. and will ride on the gallop 10 miles without an objection. If you will ask him to walk a mile he will think 1t hardship
 After going through the frigerifico I visited the cattle pens where they
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a hurry to assist in pulling out their sinking brothers and s.sters
 New York often scems to smile be- highly upon all within its confines and to say unto them, "God bless you but if you will listen closely you will detct the same tone of voice that Bryan used when he addressed those three words of love to certain man recently.
 New York women are complaining more and more about the boldness of men flirtatiously inclined and also about the increasing numbers of that character of male being. I guess it's pretty hard on the poor. defenseless women, however. I witnessed some thing of the sort the other night over on Riverside Drive. I'll tell you about 1t and you can judge for yourselves.
 The woman was seated near me on enc of the benches that line the walk sunset impressions and mosquito bites. The man came up alone and sat down beside her in about the only vacant scat left. She was dark and pretty, and not more than 22, and he was about 30 and looked like a regular fell low. There followed about five min utes of silence. Then:
 The Wornan--"I beg your pardon. I did not mean to knock your arm.'
 The Man-"Certainly.''
 Five minutes of silence.
 The Woman-"will you tell me the timer?
 The Man--"It is nearly : o'clock; just five minutes of it."
 The Woman-"T Thank you
 Three minutes of silence.
 The Woman-"Do you smoke?''
 The Man-"Yes."
 The Woman-"Would you mind smoking now the rnosouitoes are ter- rtble.,
 The Man-''xez have noticed them" NmokesN
 Tho woman 13Gbs-
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TOBLADO IN URUGUAY, GREAT CATTLE MARKET

capital and after American methods The managers are Americans trained in Chicago and other parts of the United States and the same is true of many of the foremen. The bulk of the other employees are natives.
 I went out to Toblado in company with MT. Leo L. Daily, who is at the head of the Uruguay branch of Swift & Co We started very early in the morning for the sales begin at a. m. and thousands of cattle are often sold within a few hours thereafter. The market is six miles from the city and rode out to it in automobiles Leav- ing the town we came right into the open country. There were no fences and we rode up hill and down, the machines fairly flying over the roads,
 Nearing Toblado we could hear the believing of the cattle and little later we were in the midst of great herds of steers and flocks of sheep. which cov- cred space of perhaps l6O acres being herded by gauchos. The animals are not kept in inclosures. There are no fences anywhere and the rolling country is cov- cred with cattle. Some are in droves of few hundred and some in droves of 1000 Each drove is herded by gauchos, dark faced men with ponchos. divided skirts and long riding boots. They wear soft hats and each had a pole a whip. At the end of the pole is a hook to drag the cattle this way and that. All the work is done upon horseback The men sit on great saddles with sheep skins thrown over them and with stir. rups as big around a two-quart tin bucket. The horses go like polo ponies wheeling and turning at touch of the knee
 The scenes are indescribable and vet they represent the only real cattle mar ket of Uruguay. Montevideo is the Chi cago of the republic and Toblado is the stock yards As I rode about on horse- back dictated some notes of the scenes to my stenographer. stopping now and then for the purpose The following is some of the copy.
 Stand with me on the hill and over look the great cattle market in the suburbs of Montevideo. A thousand steers are believing like the great bull of Bashan The gauchos are shouting. the cattle are running this way and that. with the men dashing among them and cutting the strangers out of the herds They ride like centaurs. waving their whips to frighten the cattle rather than to increase the speed of their
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 question back at him who asked it, but he ducked safely ia,o the first trench. and the shot sped hasmlessly above his head, unproduct.ve of results And I be- lieve tha-, millions who have lived here long would be equally at loss for an answer to that query.
 It is all impressive-as a whole and in its many parts-the Woolworth building is impressive. and so is Bethlehem Steel; Broadway is impressive and likewise the lower East Side. As for impressive oc- currences. any daily paper published in New York city contains enough of im- preasiveness to interest a farmer for a week, but New Yorker gets all he wants out of it while riding to his office in the subway train.
 Of course. we who live here still re- ceive impressions. but somehow. they don't seem to go as deep as once they did. Sometimes this seems resrettable, yet 1t could not be oti,.rwiee--we couldn t stand the strain. And so. l believe. the person who could bes- answer the ques- tion, What is the most impressive thing in New York?" would be the one who had but recently ar-ived, and had his first look around. And, at that, such . person would know very little about 1t--and therc you are.
 After one has served a term of resi- { snce here (perhaps I should say, after 1e has lived here while. but it all de- p ends upon how you feel about it) one s impressions get all .umbled up Some mes it takes an outsider to recall some f them to you clearly Not long ago
 friend from the south was with me lere. and we had made trip on the sub- say When we caught the train we had 70 sscend long figh- of stairs to reach t, yet when we reachad our uptown des- jnation we had to ascend another long ol8ht Of stairs and then ride up much
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UP AND DOWN BROADWAY By--Allen Griffin Johnson

farther on an elevato- before we reached the street level. When we were on the street he remarked about the wonderful tenn of operation.
 After thinking it over for a minute I agreed with him. but the ride we had just taken had not impressed me at all. thought only of tile stuffiness of the train and the length Of time required to make the trip. You sae. with familiarity comes something akin to contempt. or certainly a crust of indifference is formed through which impressions find it some what difficult to penetrate.
 But there is one thnE about New York city that strikes me as being remark able. and if strikes lot of other resi- dents as being the came thing, and in this 1t is different from other cities the longer you live here the larger New York seems to be. To be Is what I mean mot to grow-for this seeming increase in magnitude is out os all proportion tc its actual growth.
 In a smaller city one is soon able mentally to picture the whole place, and diSO to sdii 1 ltii hnOWituSe Ol US every section Not so here. The more you learn about it the more there seems to be to learn about New sections and new features of old sec-iops disclose them selves and after visiting new parts there of. you may return to the old. or those with which you thoush Int yourself famil- jar. and learn much that you had some. how overlooked
 :, There are comparatively few people liv- ing in New York city today who could not find new sights end sounds within it's borders. And these things make it place of never-ending interest and fas- cination But be ye wise, and be ye wary likewise Touch it lightly, here and there, and pass slong. for it is full of metropolitan quiclSsands from which self-extrlcation is most difficult, and notice that others do not seem to bs iu
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were then bringing the animals I had seen brought in the morning. The pens are situated on hill about a quarter of mile from the factory They are out in the open and are continually swept by the breezes from the ocean and the Rio de la Plata. There were about 5000 animals in the pens at the time of my visit and I had a good chance to observe the character of the stock There were Durhams and Here lords, but most of them were native bred or cross between the native breeds and the imported stock. Some of the animals were fine, although on the average they did not compare in value or size with those l saw at Euenos Aires. There was one herd of a hundred Herefords which averaged l Judge. about 1900 pounds each. They had been dehorned They were latter than any grass-fed animals one sees in the United States.
 During my walk. through the factory I asked Mr. Daly as to the character of the Uruguayan beef He replied that that which is sent to the United States is equal to any of the grass-fed cattle of our country. although 1t is not as good as the beef we get from steers fattened on corn, nor is it as good as the alfalfa fed beef of Argentina. In speaking of alfalfa, MT. Daly tells me that this crop gives Argentina great advantage over the other countries about. It has millions of acres in alfalfa and there are millions more which can be planted. Cattle fattened on alfalfa have meat that compares well with our corn fed beef Much of the meat of Kansas and Nebraska Is raised on alfalfa, and this has done a great deal toward mak- ing those places great cattle states. In Iowa and Illinois. where clover is fed with the corn. it takes one-thrd more time to fatten steer than it does in Kansas "As to Uruguay" continued MT. Daly. Tit is not an alfalfa country The soil does not seem to be fitted for that crop. although the native grasses are excellent
 I asked MT. Daly as to how thlckly Uruguay was stocked and as to whether 1t could feed many more animals than it is now doing He replied that the number could be considerably increa sed and that the quality of the beef might be greatly improved by the importation of blooded stock from Europe and the United States. Until within five years but little attention has been paid to the buying of high priced bulls and cows
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The Man-1s my cigar objection abie?'
 The woman--"oh mo- indeed. like 1t. was just thinking. You see. I have been worried recently about my husband who has not been coming home nights. I don't know why should tell you. a stranger this but somehow you look as if you could understand. and l have been without anyone to talk to. l have just sat out here on the drive alone until late hours, night after night, until 1t has become almost unbearable.''
 The Man--"rhat is too bad
 The Woman-"Yes, but now that 1 have started 1 might as well tell you that (etc., etc0-not that l am jealous of him tetc., etc, (etc.. etc.)''
 Conversation becomes inaudibe for a while Later:
 The Man: Shall. walk home with ycu?'
 The Woman "Oh, I wouldn't dare; he is terribly jealous. but if you care I know a nice little restaurant not far from here where we can have quiet little dinner together, and -"
 You said it.
 They prepared to leave at this june ture. and as they started away l called the man and asked him for a match. The woman walked on step or two. As l lighted up from his match box, 1 mur- mured two words to htim-"gold digger!'
 I'm wise he answered, and they fad cd from my vision in the deepening darkness. like the last scene of n movie sob story.
 But you get the idea-how dangerous 1t is for the poor defenseless women with so many bold men running loose In this city. ff