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Iidb como Into direct lino with
ono of tho Roosevelt policies, find
ho will follow It In tho ftittiro ns
he has huon following It forborne
weokH. It will ho tho rulo nt tho
summer cnpltal nt'llcvorly, Mush.,
n It Ih todny tno fixed ruio 01
procedure In tho While House.
The Ftoosevolt policy which
President Tuft finally hits adopt
od an IiIh own Is tho method of
receiving visitors which was In
force during tho colonel's tenure
of office. It Ih posBlhlo thnt Pres
ident Taft novor will ho nolo to
ndopt tho Roosevelt policy of getting rid of his
visitors, because tho two men uro constitutionally
different In at least ono respect It must be said,
howovcr, that tho Iloosovolt plan of receiving
guests nan done a good deal to savo the tempers
of White House victors and tho time of Mr.
Taft.
As everybody knows, an addition was made
to tho White House offices somo tliiio ago. In
tho Roosevelt days callers went Into the cabinet
room and from there either wero UBherod Into
tho adjoining room, where tho president Bat,
or waited while Mr. Roosevelt camo out and
made a circuit of the cabinet room, speaking to
ono caller after another and getting through with
tils work quickly and yot without giving offense.
( Now President Taft has a circular room all
to himself, and while tho visitors aro allowed the
two Mr rooms outside, It is from thoso rooms
they find thcro way to tho president's presence,
botng let In eight or ten nt a time, and not ono
nt a tlmo, as was the caso when Mr. Taft first
took office.
Tho president has adopted tho Roosovelt
inothod of passing from visitor to visitor learn
ing tho wantB of each and trying ns best ho can
to suit each caller and to got rid of him as quick-,
ly aa courtesy will permit. Prosldont Taft, how
over, Is so good nnttired and Is po humanly Intor-
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cstod In mnttoru not connected with politics or
legislation thnt of his own volition no lingers
long frequently with Individual vlBltors, and bo
whllo tho method of reception hastens things in
u moaauro It cannot offset tho delay that comes
from tho proHldont'H apparent doalro to have
every guest put Into good humor and to leave
him "with n sinila In IiIb henrt."
At the outset of the Taft administration vis
itors saw him ono nt a tlmo nnd tho ono who
was talking to him did not feol tho spur of haste
which Is now felt by tho presonco In tho room
of half a dozen or a dozen other visitors, nil
eagerly wjiltlnjj their turn and occasionally Bblft
JllB urVbaBlly hT'lhelr senta because" of tho tlmo
that tho ono who 1ms tho president's ear Ih ta
king up.
president Roosevelt, JiiBt ns President Taft,
-wai numanly JnteroBtcd In a great many things
-which dtd not affect public mattor. For instance,
If a woll-known Bportsman called Mr. Roosevelt
-would perhaps tnlk to him for half nnhour about
big game shooting or tho best way to reach tho
haunts of some wild creature which tho colonel
never had had the plnasuro of mooting nt tho
nd of the gun. One of President Tuft's hobbies
Is baseball, and cvory league toam that visits
Washington calls nt tho Whlfo Houbo, whero its
luembora talk of curves, lnshootH, drop balls and
tho best way to plnce hits, to the man who, weary
of railroad legislation nnd tnrtff talk, Is willing
In spirit to get on tho diamond for a few mlnutos.
President Tnft's good naturo Is proverbial.
During tho Into spring nnd oarly summer In
Washington school children lltornlly by tho thoi
5tfiiburc,tl?tat' It-iiecttis 'that In
some cities the children of tho high schools give
entertainments during tho wlntor and ohargo
admission thereto. The money that is thus ob
tained Ib used to pay tho oxpoiibob of tho pupils
to Washington. In enses where tho children's
parents aro able to benr the expenses of tho trip
tho money ht uoed to pay tho expenses of boys
and girls who otherwise could not undertake tho
Journoy.
One day at the White House there appeared a
, delegation of 400 .school children. Tho president
had a number of appointments with senators and
representatives and with prominent men from a
distance. Notwithstanding this ho told his secre
tary that the door should bo thrown opon and
that the school children should, be admitted. Ho
not only made them a speech, but he shook hands
with each one and hud a word boyond tho por
functory "Glad to aeo you," to say to each pupil
rs lio or sho went by.
Tho story of tho welcome which tho 450 chil
dren had went abrond and for days tho presi
dent's mornings were busy with tho work of wel
coming tho pupils of schools from nil tho onBtern
Hlateo. Tho children always nro accompanied
by sovoral, tenchcrs, who chaperon them and
niako propnratlonB tor tliolr Blghtsoolug. As
Boon aB they reach Washington tho representa
tive In congress from the district or districts, In
wlitau the rchools aro Bltunted aro called upon,
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and tho congressmen In nenrly evory caso lead
tho way to tho prosenco of tho presldont.
Tho wondor Is if tho country known how much
hard work goos on In tho White House, not only
In tho president's ofllco, but In all tho adjoining
ofllccB. If anyono envies tho private socrotary
his position perhaps ho would throw envy to tho
winds after watching Charles Dyer Norton go
through ono dny's labor. Tho assistant socrotary
works just ns hard as does tho chief secretary
and In tho ofllco communicating with tho room of
thoso two hnrd-worklng men 1b n room filled with
stoimgrnphora and clerks hard nt work.
Thuro la ono Whlto Houso clerk who has a
most paiiiBtaklng job. Invitations to tho semi
public Whlto House receptions of course are on
grayod, .huaM)ie,.awoqt .ouqlueruon ,lnvJod
must appear on tho engraved ticket of admission
which accompnulos tho invitation, ono lino of
tho ticket must bo left blank becnuso tho engra
ving of 4,000 individual names, one to go on ench
card, would bo an endless task and a tremendous
expense. It Is tho duty of ono of tho clerks to
fill in the names and to do It so thnt tho writing
shall look as though It wero ongraved. This ho
does In a way that deceives tho ordinary oyo
elght. A card of admission to ono of tho White
Houbo reoopttona looks as It It wore nil tho work
of the erfgrnVeV, 86 flho Is tho h'ahdtcra'tt of tho
man who fills In tho vacant lino with tho tracing
of his ordinary pen.
About a year and a half ago tho clerk who dtd
this ongravlng died nnd It bocamo necessary to
find some ono to tako his place. It waa supposed
that this would bo a hopeloss task, or that at the
best tho sorvlcoa of a man must bo obtained who
after long practise might bo nblo to accomplish
what his predecessor so successfully had done.
To tho surprise of everybody tho first cards of
Invitation thnt went out wero Just as decoptlvo aa
far as engraving nnd handwriting wero concerned
as wero thoso that had gone from tho desk of tho
man who for years had labored At the task and
had nrrlvod nt n perfection which It was aupposod
no ono without months of practise could reach.
Ono of Presldont Tatt's dally tasks Is to sign
tho commissions of officers of tho nrmy and navy,
and of men appointed to various positions in civil
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES
Under Avorncjo Conditions Fair Estimate la About One-
Fourth of Total Fruit Is Saved
Somo Statistics.
The orchard owner Is chiefly Inter
ested In tho effect of Bprnylng on the
amount of picked fruit freo from
worms. In most cases the vnluo of
spraying was duo to reducing .the
nmount of wormy windfalls, or, In oth
er words, preventing worminess so
that tho fruit remained on tho tree.
On tho unsprayed trees an nverago of
2C per cent, of tho total fruit dropped
ns wormy, and 16.7 per cent was
wormy whon picked.
In tho four orchards In 1008, about
28 per cent, of tho total fruit was
wormy drops on tho unsprayed trees
nnd flvo per cent, on tho sprayed
treesi
An average of all the sprayed plots
shows that of tho total crop of fruit
on any tree, 4.7 per cent, drops as
wormy and 4.1 por cent, is wormy
plckod.
Subtracting tho percentage which
drops plua tho percentago which is
wormy when plckod from 100, gives
tho percentage of tho total crop which
Is picked freo from worms, which Is
tho essential matter for tho fruit
grower, says a bulletin of tho Now
Hampshire experiment station. On
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of thnt shown nbove, but only by ta
king the dropped fruit Into nccount
enn a correct estimate of tho vnluo of
tho spraying bo mndo. When thcro la
an unusual nmount of worminess and
tho best spraying, tho benefit duo to
spraying will often nmount to half of
tho total fruit borno by tho treo, ns
was shown by somo of our plots,
which in tho caso of a treo with tho
samo amount of fruit ns cited nbovo,
would amount to two barrels instead
of one out of threo picked being saved
by spraying. Dut under averago con
dltlona, It seems a fair ostlmato that
about one-fourth of tho total fruit, or
one-third of tho fruit actually picked
la caved aB perfect fruit by spraying.
This is shown graphically in tho ac
companying illustration. Such a state
ment of tho benefit derived from
spraying Is not as striking aa to Bay
that but ono apple in ono hundred of
thoso picked ns wormy, but tho for
mer statement merely cloarly states
tho facts and only ono in a hundred
of tho plckod npplos may bo wormy,
and yot tho real benefit from spraying
may not bo as great aB on other trees,
whero a larger proportion of tho
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life or course commissions are for tho most part
ongraved, but there aro names and dates to bo
filled In nnd theso uro written deftly and then
tho pile of parchment la laid on tho desk before
tho presldont, who frequently In a seemingly au
tomatic way signs his nnmo to commission after
commission whllo carrying on with 8omo visitor
nt hla olbow a convocation relating porlmpa to
lntrlcnto matters of state.
Tho Whlto Houso officials, secretaries and
clerka havo to concern themsolves with all kinds
of matters. Socrotary Norton Is tho recipient
of letters from people nil over tho United States,
who wrlto to tho president upon tho most trivial
affairs.
Whon ono takes Into consideration tho fact
that hundreds of persona who hnve really legiti
mate business with tho Whlto House olther call
or wrlto every day, It can bo booh at onco that
tho secretary's hands, time and mind nro woll
filled. Thero nro certain orders of rank which
havo to bo rospectod, and In a domocracy It Is
pretty hard work to convince tho ordinary citi
zen thnt any man haa tho right of precedence.
Ab far aa precedent Is concerned tho president's
audlonces aro governed by the supposed Impor
tance of the visitor's official business. For In
Htnnco, If u sonntor Is waiting to see tho presi
dent nnd a cabinet officer happens to como In
tho mombor of tho president's official family al
ways will boo President Taft first unless ho says
specifically that his business la of llttlo I m pop
tanco and exproBBes a willingness that tho sen
ator Bhall get to tho president ahead 'of him.
A newspaper man with whom PreBldont Taft
has had frequently personal relations for somo
yenrs went to tho Whlto Houso ono morning and
told Mr. Taft that ho would llko to see him nlono
for a minute If ho could, and so tho president
took him Into a Bldo room and closed the door,
They staid together tnlklng for fifteen mlnutos
and thon tho newspaper man went out Into tho
president's main office, lenvlng tho president bo
hind him to wrlto a lottor In seclusion. On entorlng
tho president's ofllco tho caller mot n senator
who had been waiting for fifteen mlnutos. Tho
AnhiAi. J Ia.'iIhI aAtil nnA with tnnnlf anlamnttv
DCIIUUII IE) U JUllilM ouui .w...t...v
of spirit he bowed low to tho newspaper man
"Would you mind going back to nsk tho presl
dent," said tho senator, "If now that ho has com
pleted IiIh affairs of atato with a newspaper cor
respondent ho will consent to seo an humblo
senntor of tho United States?"
Tho ambassadors and ministers representing
foreign countrtos in Waahlngton aro great stick
lers for urocodence and every known means haa
to bo triken to prpvent giving them offense It
is almost lmposBlbio forany humnn being except
ono or two of he atato department officials, to
keop rigid track of tho rank of tho diplomats and
tho attachos at all tho foreign logatlona in wasn
Ington. So It occasionally happens that somo
second nBslstant secretary of tho logatlon of tho
king of tho cannibal inlands Is allowed to get into
n room nhoad of tho first asslsUnt secretary of
tho legation of tho king of ballyhoo, and then
there nro black looks which If they could bo put
Into words would bo tantamount to a declaration
of war against tho United Statos.
Tho American offlclnls In Washington life nro
not nbove bolng piqued If a junior gots In nhead
of u Benlor, though troubloa of this kind are con
fined oh far aa Amorlcana aro concerned almost
wholly to social offonBoa, for sonntora, roprosen
tatlvos, Bupremo court Judges and tho rest hnvo
finally mado up tholr minds that at tho White
Houso ouo must taVo his changes of precedetoo.
tho unsprayed plots tho picked fruit
free from worms is found to average
only 43 por cent, ot tho total crop,
whllo on all sprayed plots it avorages,
70 per cent., n difference of 27 por
cent, of tho total crop. Thus u gain
of about one-fourth of tho crop seems
to be a fair average of tho actual ben
efit to bo derived from spraying, if wo
onso our estimates upon tno totni irutt
borno by the treo. This would mean
that on a Bprnycd treo which picked
threo barrels of fruit, one barrels of
porfect fruit, worth $1 to $1.25 not,
had been gained by tho spraying.
If tho differenco in amount of per
fect picked fruit was based on tho
picked fruit only, leaving tho dropa
out of consideration, tho benefit would
nppear to bo only about three-fourths
picked fruit was wormy, but on which
the spraying hnd prevented a largo
drop and thus secured n much larger
crop to pick. Tho old Baying that
"noting will llo llko statistics," Is woll
exemplified In considering tho bene
fits of spraying aB often recorded nnd
compared.
Milk Needs Water.
Milk la moatly water all milk, not
juat tho kind the milkman leaves at
the door. Cows cannot mako milk
without plenty of water, and they Ilka
good water, too.
At tho old homo farm tho cows used
to wado right through tho creek to
como to tho woll to drink. Tho old
man educated thoso cows to an appre
ciation of a good drink.
FAULTS IN CHICKENS' COMBS
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In tho single-comb breeds, sldo
sprigs, ns, seen In Illustration No. 1,
nro oDjectionnDio; mo. z suowb a
comb too conrso to be typical; whilst
No. 3 possesses too many serrations;
No. 4 la a weak comb. Tho roso or
double comb, ns seen In a typical
fowl, auch ns tho Wyandotte, Is nn
object for ndmlrctlon, but It must bo
firmly sot on tho head, tho entire sur
faco being covered with small cor-
rugaMons. Illustration No. G shows i
big, conrso comb.
Dry Bran for Feed.
It Is a good plan to keop dry bran
before tho fowls nt all times. They
won't ent too much of it, and it is a
very good food and acts as a laxative.
After chicks are a month old bran can
bo placed before them to ent at their
pleasure.
WEEPING WILLOW'S
STRANGE STORY
Peculiar Drooping Tree Haa Inter
eatlntr History Rcarurdincr Its
Introduction Into Europe
and America.
This peculiar drooping treo has a
strangely Interesting history regarding
Its Introduction Into Europo and Amer
ica. This was after Alexander Pope
had bullded u homo on tho Thames
rlvor iu England. At that tlmo ho re
ceived from n friend in Smyrna a drum
ot figs, nnd with It thero happened to
be a small twig that greatly oxcltod
tho poofs curiosity so much bo that
ho stuck it into the ground by the
river's bank.
The little treo rooted nnd Boon grew,
to tho delight of Pope. t was the an
cestor of all those that havo since
lived both In Europe and America.
In 1776 a young British officer going
to Doston, Mass., took along with him,
very carefully wrapped In oil silk, a
twig from tho genuine "Pope willow"
nnd gave tho precious twig to Mr. Cur
Us, stepson of General Washington.
Mr. Curtis planted It near his homo In
Virginia. There the twig took kindly
to the soil, growing vigorously. It waa
a child of "Popo's willow," the first
ono to strike root in America. Lator,
In 1790, denernl Gates also put out a
twig on his fnrm on Mnnhnttnn Is
land, New York, which grew, and
was known as "Gate's weeping wil
low treo."
Horses very often lose tholr eye
sight through dust and hnyseed fall
Inc Into their eyes from tho loft nbovo.