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iASIIINUTON. Talking shop M
Eiiid to be one of tho unpar
donable elr.s. Possibly writ
ing Miop ui;iy be forgiven; but
whether or no the chance 1b to
bo taken. Headers of newspa
pers complain occasionally
nbi)ut the lndefinlteneas of the
sources of Washington corre
spondents' Information.
Headers of newspapers do
not know, possibly, that the
law of official Washington Is
n k a i n s t quotation mark
codpled with tho name of the
opo who talks, unless specific
permission (or name and quotations bo glren.
Ninety-nine limes out of 100 when a news
paper having a Washington corre
spondent publishes, under n capital
city rlato line, that on lilsh authority
In n certain department "It may be
said," ete., tho correspondent has
been talking with the chief of the de
partment or with ono so close to Lira
oliUially that the voice of tho one Is
the voiu' of the other.
The president of the United States
Is never to be quoted, but It is prob
nblo thai things the president has
said ditedly have pone to the public
poaio thousands of times through the
newspapers of tho country, although
it is extremely likely that many of
tho render, In view of the fact that
direct words to the effect that the
president has spoken and quotation
marks were absent, hesitated to be
lieve that what they read came warm
from the White House.
H has been 6nld that the president
of the United states la never to be
qtiot-jd. That la the rule. Once in a
great while presidents take the ban
off and Fay: "You may say that I
said so." Ordinarily when Mr. Taft
or any of his predecessor In office
have had occasion to put forth a pro
nouncement it nas been prepared
with forethought und has been given out In
printed form to be put upon the wires for
general consumption.
Tho president talks to the Washington cor
respondents perhaps more than sernl-occa-Hhmally
and unless Inhibited they may charge
their own words with the spirit of what he
has said and then give It to the readers of
what they write. The first lesson that a newly
appointed correspondent has to learn Is that
no mattrr how sharp ami direct a Btatement
Is given to him by any official It Is not to be
used with a name unless permission Is given.
Permission gercrally Is given, save In the
cases of the president and the cabinet offi
cers, and even In these eases there Is the gen
eral understanding that the statements may
he put before the public in such form that
it may be known definitely that either execu
tive or cabinet authority has spoken.
The White House is the source of the
greater part of the vitally interesting news
thai goes out of Washington and by the
While Ilouce one does not necessarily mean
the president. More legislative news Is to be
had in the outer offices of the executive man
sion than Is to be had In the capltol Itself.
Of (unite this- statement has no reference to
the actual p;usinK of legislation.
No bill of great importance having a Re
publican ciijia ever goes Into the hopper of
congress iinKss its merits or demerits have
been pretty veil dlscusr-ed in the office of tho
president. Th Republican member who has
a measure of national moment to Introduco
into congress naturally goes to the president
to get from hl;n his opinion.
Frequently, more than frequently, the sen
ator or representative who has conferred
with the president is willing to tell tho world
throrgu the news-pi'pers how the chief execu
tive looks upon the legislation which ho has
In hand. This holds of course only when the
measure lias been met with presidential favor
and not with presidential frowning.
Semtora r.nd members and callers from a
distance get access to the president's room
through mi outer office, where during the
morning hours newspaper correspondents
assemble. From this lit lie office there Is a
daily shadowing forth of future events.
It may not bo wide of tho mark to tell how
once on a time n Washington correspondent,
who, with 20 of hlj fellows, whs In the outer
White House office, secured what Is known to
the daily wrilin:; fraternity us a "scoop" and
secured It under the very noses of his fel
lows. This thing hardly cun happen more
than once In a newspaper man's lifetime un
dt r similar circumstances.
It was In tho early days of railroad rate
agitation. The whole country was anxlouB
to know what the president Intended to do,
what bill for rate regulation he Intended to
Indoise and what member of congress was to
be the lucky father of the measure which was
to hold tin: country's Interest certainly for an
entire session.
While the correspondents vere In the
White House ultlce a man came nut from the
president's room, passed unchallenged by the
newt-paper mcji, for. apparently none nf them
knew him, and walked rapidly nway from tho
entrance In the direction of Pennsylrr.ula avo
nue. Ono correspondent did know this Tutn
by biht, but he held Lis peace and his owu
counsel.
Uefore tho president's visitor bad vanished
frein stent, however, the. correspondent who
knew who he ni started after him and over
look, hiiu. The corre
spondent was taklDg the
one chance In 600 that he
could "land" a story. He
happened to know that
the president's visitor was
an absolutely new mem
ber of congress from
Michigan and a man who
had made a considerable
study In his home state
of railroad problems.
The one chance In 500
won wit. The visitor who
had been at the White
house was Representa
tive Charles E. Townsend
and he had with him on
that morning the assur
ance of Theodore Roose
velt that there was presi
dential approval of every
line of a railroad rate bill
which Mr. Townsend had
In his pocket and which
he was going to introduce
Into congress.
Mr. Townsend told the
correspondent all that he
asked about and further
more he volunteered tho
Information that the bill
which he had lu his
pocket would be the rail
road rate bill which would
pass the house of repre
sentatives at the session
which wae yet young. Mr.
Townsend never would
have made this statement
unless he had the firm
assurance of Mr. Rooso.
velt that the bill had his sanction and would
have back of It all the influence which the
white Houso properly could use.
The correspondent secured an exclusive
piece of news for his paper and felt Justified
apparently In saying that the Townsend
measure would be the railroad rate measure
which the house would do Its part In enacting
Into law. Subsequent events proved that when
the Michigan representative said that his bill
would be tho bill to be sanctioned by the
house of representatives he knew what he
was talking about. The bill did pass the
house and it failed to become a law only be
cause the senate wanted time to consider the
legislation.
When the summer comes and congress Is
not In session and the president Is on his trav
els or at his warm weather quarters at tho
seashore, the correspondents get many of
their writing texts from the departments.
Three years ago there was fear that con
gress might fail to pass the appropriation
necessary for continuing the usefulness of the
biological survey. The members of congress
were In dense Ignorance about the things that
the naturalists of the survey were doing for
the good of the country. These field workers
save the country millions of dollars aunually
and yet at times In the past they havo had
a hard time to get the paltry $52,000 appro
priation needed to keep the survey alive. This
year the scientists were given about $17,000
additional to carry on their work. The money
was secured arter Dr. Merrlam, the
chief, had made a strong appeal.
When It was feared that no appropriation
at all was to be made for the survey three
years ago by the members of the Fifty-ninth
congress, news of the fact that' the depart
ment might pass from Its sphere of usefulness
was sent through the country by the Wash
ington correspondent. The response was In
stant. The malls were loaded with letters of
protest from every state and territory. The
chief of the survey had letters of support and
the members of congress heard In protest
from hundreds of people who no one sup
posed from their vocations In life would take
any Interest In natural history research.
There wero Utters by tLe hundreds also
from the farmers and the tock raisers and
from the students of ornithology and mam
mslogy who had benefited by the painstaking
fork of the nsturallets who headquarter
v is WathlngtnH, hut whose homes, when It
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I A"V 'f fill ' Ave CTI I vi ey
of irrigation for help in checking
the damage done to dUches by bur
rowing animals. Ono gopher hole
in an embankment caused a loss of
?2,S0U and In many places Irriga
tion was almost Impossible because
of the uuderminlnr; work done by
small animals. Tho work of the
burrowers made way for the water
which by the erosion process did
the rest. The scientists of the bio
logical survey, after experimenting,
taught the men Interested In Irri
gation how to protect themselves
against the Inroads of the small
beasts "that work In darkness."
The scientists recently were en
gnged lu the work of checking the
degradations of the ground squir
rels of the far west and northwest.
The annual damage that these ani
mals Indicted on growing crops was
enormous. The biological survey
worked out a plan for the extermi
nation of the squirrels, a plan that
brought buccoss.
One nf tho labors of tho scientists
cf the survey has been to show the
different ststes how the full bone
tits of game protection may be ob
tained and how the game in each
rtate may be made to yield an im
portant annual revenue.. Illinois
alone, ns a direct result of informa
tion received from the biological
survey, has added to its Income an
nually f 12;..000. The state of Mis
souri lias benefited to the extent of
150,000 and more money will come
to It If It follows more closely the
directions which It can get gratis
from the government officials.
Not one-tenth part of the good
that the biological survey has done
und Is doing hai been Ket down
here. The survey needs more mon-
to carry on Its held worn, tv-
fry dollar spent means dollars re
turned to the people and yet it was
hard work to induce congress to
grant the additional sum of $17,000
which the scientists BBked that
they might enlarge the field of
their good work.
fields and the woods,
opinion was felt by
survey's
Is possible, are In the
The weight of public
congress and an interest was aroused among
members who barely knew that there was
such an Institution as the biological survey.
It might be asked what the biological sur
vey does to benefit the country. Instances of
its service are not difficult to find. The stock
raising interests of tho western states suffer
losses or rather have suffered until recently
to the amount of about $12,000,000 yearly
through the depredations of wild animals
wolves, coyotes and cougars.
Poison was the instrument employed to kill
the predatory animals. Strychnine was the
means of death and while it cost thousands
of dollars a year It was by no means effica
cious. The stockmen complained that tho
wolves bred In the forest reserves were In
a large measure responsible for tho incrcaso
In the numbers of the ravening packs.
This argument Is uped to combat the forest
reserve plan of the government. Vernon W.
Ilalley, of the biological survey, went west
and studied the wolf question. He found that
the wolves did not breed In the forest re--serves
In any numbers. He located their
breeding places nnd In Ms report told the
stockmen how to rid themselves of the pests
without the necessity of resorting to the
costly strychnine poisoning process. Tho re
ports show that tho wolf woik of the survey
already has saved the stockmen many times
the amount of money that the government sup
plies yearly for the support of the survey.
In the Humboldt valley of Nevada there was
a plague of field mice. An expert of the bio
logical survey was stmt to the scene of trouble.
He found that In some sections of the valley
tho mice averaged 8,000 to the ucre, a number
that seems almost Impossible, but the truth
of the report is verified.
The mice were destroying the alfalfa which
Is grown In the valley at n rate which mado
It certain Hint within a short time the Indus
try of alfalfa raising must disappear. Tho
crop of the year was cut short one-third by
the ravages of the tulce and a loss of $50,000
was entailed.
When absolute ruin of tho Industry was con
fronting tho alfalfa ranch owners the work of
the naturalists of the surey was begun and
It la now practically certain that the plague
of mice will dlsapraar aa did the plsgues of
Hgypt at the wot 4 Moms.
Tit snrvy was apicaled to by the bureau
youtig
The
Women Becoming Fiat-Footed
Are the women of the American
ration becoming "fiat-footed?''
This Is n question which hns
been propounded nnd which is an
swered by n man who has spent the
last 1") years In the study of the
subject and who unhesitatingly
claims such a fate Is awaiting many
women, who arc careless of their feet
tendency of women to high-heeled
shoes and pumps is working oisasier 10 men
feet and the ailments of the feet are In turn
working disaster to their nervous systems.
A shoe with tho original shape well pre
served Indicates the woman with nn even tem
perament, well-poised mind, careful In the de
tails of l-.cr exlbtence and lacking of a friv
olous nature.
A slice with the sole upturned In front and
the top wrinkled Indicates the woman who
walks much. Is cither a hard-working sales
girl or n belle In society. Bho Is of the happy-go-lucky
sort, in either case, and with proper
training may be brought to a reasonable ap
preciation of the stern realities of life. Not
that she Is frivolous, but she is Just a good
sort of n woman whom anyone can love.
A shoe with the top stretched, showing that
the foot within Is spreni out, Indicates the
student woman, tho kind who are society re
porters on newspapers or who write thrilling
love talea with a trend toward socialism.
A shoe with the sides of the sole turned up
Indicates the woman whose mind turns to
amusement and who Is frivolous to a degree
She is tho sort of a woman who loves flirta
tions nnd who Is fickle.
A i.hoc with the heel run down on either
sldo Is Indicative of a woman whom all should
look out for. She Is negligent In her habits
and inclined to slovenliness the kind who
will let the dinner dishes go unwashed until
morning if she chances to be your wife. He
ware of her, because she has an ungovern
able temper.
A shoo with tho heel shoved forward Indi
cates the woman of extreme nervous tempera
ment. If you have ever observed you have
found that In nine out of ten coses the hyster
ical woman, with nerves unstrung, wears out
her shoes in this fashion.
These are a few of tho most Important rules
in determining the character of women, but
the phase upon which the foot authority
places tl4 greatest omphasls Is the tendency
toward tlotfootedness. Nearly everyone U
troubled In this respect and the affliction does
not bespeak any special trait of character. But
the subjection of one's health and happiness
to the dictates of style la so common In Amer
ica that unless something la done to check it,
only a Nw year will elapse beforo women,
and men too. will be as fist-footed m the hion
grel natives of the African forests.
A Word of Hope for Despairing Ones.
Kidney trouble makes weak, weary,
worn women. Backache, hip pains,
dizziness, headaches, nervousness, lan
guor, urinary troubles make women
suffer untold misery. Ailing kidneys
are the cause. Cure
them. Mrs. S. D. El
lison, N. Broadway, La
mar, Mo., says: "Kid
ney trouble wore me
down till I had to take
to bed. I had terrible
pains In my body and
limbs and the urine was
annoying and full of sed
iment. I got worse- and
doctors failed to help. I was discour
aged. Doan's Kidney Pills brought
quick relief nnd a final cure and now I
nm In the best of health."
Remember the name Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Fos-ter-MllburiJ
Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
GOT HIM!
lift
Gertrudo Tho man I marry must
b a genius.
Bertie Thank heaven we have met!
A Realist.
"I am a great believer In realism,"
remarked tho poet.
"Yes?" we queried with a rising In
flection, thereby giving him the desired
opening.
"I sometimes carry my Ideas of
realism to a ridiculous extreme," con
tinued the poet
"Indeed!" we exclaimed Inanely,
somewhat Impatient to reach the point
of his witticism.
"Yes," continued the poet, "the other
day I wrote a sonnet to the ga: com
pany and purposely made the meter
defective."
At thl3 point wo fainted.
The Newer Way.
Many Ideas In regard to women
Imvo entirely chnnged, and among
the better and wiser changes Is that
old thought that tho women who
were given to good works must needs
be dowdy. It. is undeniable that
"good" women used to wear dowdl
ncss as a sort of hall mark of vir
tue. As a matter of fact, dowdlness
Is merely a mark of bad taste and a
sign of some lack In tho mind. Wom
en are no longer lncking in the wis
dom that chooses pretty rather than
ugly clothing, and those who do not
make the best of their appearance are
losing a golden opportunity of giving
pleasure.
Look at the Names.
In 4 A. D. Fearaldhach Fionfashtna
was an Irish king, a "most Just nnd
good prince," who was slain by bis
successor, Flachadh-Flon, who was
treated to a similar fate by Flnchadh
Flonohudh, "tho prince with tho whlto
cow3," who died at tho hands of "tho
Irish plebeians of Connaught." Eoch-alrh-Moldmeodhaln
was ono of the
half dozen who died of natural causes,
and FlalthheartagU was one of tho
two to resign the monarch's scepter
for the monk's cowl. New York
Press.
Could She?
"When women get to voting," said
the man, "they will have a great
many more calls than they now have
to put their hands In their pockets
and give money to further Important
causes."
Tho woman looked thoughtful.
"I'm always willing, or course," she
said, "to give money for a good cause,
but as for putting my hand In my
pocket"
BAD DREAMS
Caused by Coffee.
"I have been a coffee drinker, more
of less, ever since I can remember, un
til a few months ago I became inoro
nnd more nervous and Irritable, nnd
finally I could not sleep at night for
I was horribly disturbed by dreama
of nil sorts and a species of distress
ing nightmare.
"Finally, after hearing the experi
ence of numbers of friends who had
quit coffee nnd were driuklng Postum,
nd learning of tho great benefits they
had derived, I concluded coffee must
bo the cause of my trouble, so I got
some Postum nnd had it mado strictly
according to directions.
"I was astonished ut tho flavour and
taste. It entirely took tho place of cot
fee, and to my very great satisfaction.
I began to sleep peacefully and Bweet
ly. My nerves Improved, nnd I wish
I could wean every man, woman and
child from tho unwholesome drug or
dlnary coffee.
"People really do not appreciate or
realize what a powerful drug it Is nnd
what terrible effect It has on tho hu
man system. If they did, hardly a
pound of It would bo sold. I would
never think of going back to coffee
sgaln. I would almost as soon think
of putting my hand in a fire after I
had onco been, burned.
"A young lady friend of ours had
stomach trouble for a long time, nnd
rould not get well us long ua she lined
roffee. She finally quit coffee and be
gan the ue of Postum end la now per
fectly well. Yours for health."
Read "The Road to Wellvllle,
pkg. "There's a Reason."
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