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SWORN ENEMY OF OIL TRUST I Thomas W. Phillips, the millionaire oil oper ator. whose home is in Newcastle, Pa., is the one independent producer who never bowed to the will of the Standard Oil oetupus. His name is synonymous with the oil industry of the United States, and always he has been the implacable foe of this gigantic trust, fighting it in the open, and always in a quiet, unostentatious and telling man ner. Obtaining wealth through the flow of golden oil from the depths of mother earth, he became widely and popularly known over a vast area of territory and was forced into politics to the bene fit of the whole country. After his election to congress his greatest achievement was aiding in the passing of the law creating an industrial commission to which was due the establishment or rno department or laoor ana commerce, auu the granting of so drastic powers to the bureau of corporations that it was enabled to cxjxtse the iniquitous system of rebates which are now being jirosecuted in the courts. Phillips chadded later when .Judge Landis took advantage of the rebate law and soaked the ?-9.000.t)0© fine on the giant octupus. He knew the Stands d wa r> ivitsg its solar plexus blow, for on this pet scheme it relied principal!' in forcing the independents to the wall. Phillips knew no fear; neither did he know defeat. He followed the Standard Oil to various parts of the country, bought leases and producing territory before lire trust representatives were fairly on the gound. He educated the tarn .s. especially in certain parts of Pennsylvania, to the Standard’s methods of doing business, making it a hardship for the trust to get a foothold in some of the best producing pools in the state. He built pipe lines of his own. permitting others to use them, much to the chagrin of the trust. When oil was discovered he and his three brothers gave up farming and went to drilling wells. Twice they were ruined by the trust, but they won in the end and became wealthy. LONG CHAMPION OF BRYAN | George Fred Williams of Dedham, Mass., is one of the most persistent Bryan workers in the whole country. He was with Bryan in 1S96 and led the forlorn hope in Massachusetts, a state that is naturally hostile to free silver. That he would fail was what might have been exported, but Mr. Williams did not take his defeat very much to heart. As a matter of fact, he knows defeat and fears it not. and he can take it as philosophically as the peerless one himself. Three times he ran for governor of Massachusetts, and three times he was defeated, but he is still un daunted. Undeterred by his former defeats, Mr. Wil liams has been trying to g -t the Democratic state committee to indorse Bryan this year, and he uvtrll su'-v:*riiru »•» icii as i that .T *ef presented." It was vo <♦! down by a majority of 24 to 4. The commitiee objected to what it termed Mr. Williams' die alien, and intimated that it ihe resolutions were to be presented later by someone who could not be regarded as a mere delegate of Mr. Williams it might have some chance of being adopted. Mr Williams' win ! life has not been a failure, even from a political point of view, for he was in public life from JSS5* to one term in tip state legislature and one in congiess. lie was spoken of as the Hryanite candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination four years ago. hut the movement neve; amounted to anything. Mr. Williams is a lawyer, a scholar and a gentleman. After his gradua tion from Dartmouth he went to Germany and studied at the universities o! Heidelberg and Hi-: lin. and on his return was admitted to tin liar. He lias won an enviabb place in his profession and has edited several law works. He is now ,'>ri years of age. COTTON SPECULATOR QUITS Theodore H. Price, the veteran speculator in cotton, may be influenced only by a desire for the welfare of his child when he resolved to give up the market for uncouple of years at least, and it. may he merely a coincidence that his cotton commitments, amounting to thousands of bales of the May cotton, will net him a considerable loss and that he would he glad to liquidate them in any case. It is commented upon as significant in the street that Mr. Price is selling his horses and carriages, an i is disposing of his country home a* Tuxedo, surrounded by li’.Ou > acres of land. Then would be no necessity for disposing ot these at a sacrifice, the gossips say. if he was merely going to pass two years on the coast of Maine. It' Mr. Price has deserted the market on ae count of It is he:<vj lo -s. it will bo the first time he has shown himself so devoid of nerve. When, as head of the firm of Price. McCormick & Co., he was carrying on a heavy cotton corner he discovered that lie was being betrayed by his partners who had lost courage and had quietly stepped from under, leaving him in the lurch. The firm failed for $1:1,000.000 Price, in stead of creeping into a corner and blowing his brains out, shook off his partners, returned to the market and within a year had paid off all the debts of the liou.se and ilia !■■ three millions besides. He has since experienced several of these ups and downs and has always come up smiling. Mr Price was engaged to he married when the first financial disaster came upon him. His fiancee was Miss Harriet Dyer, sister of Mrs. James L. Taylor. It was currently reported that she had notified hint after the crash that the engagement was at an end, but no such intention had entered the young lady's head. She caused an emphatic denial to he issued and when that failed to stop the gossip she insisted on the marriage taking place at once. She carried her point and was of considerable assistance to her hus band when he was struggling to re-establish himself. It is little wonder then, that he is devoted io hia wife and child, so de voted that lie would give up the excitement of the market to spend two years on a God-forsaken roast. TAWNEY OMCE AN ACTOR Congressman .lames A. Tavvuey nf .Minnesota, chairman of the house committee on appropria tions, is sail] to have a sense or humor about the size of a box of safety matches. He was regret ting that he had not stuck to one of the two trades in which lie had been successful and made money—tdacksmithing un i the stage—instead of going into politics, when some of his colleagues asked him for a spiel. He said: “I was just trying to think which one of that fellow Sha—Slink—Shakespeare’s characters that said—let me see, what was it he said?" and Mr. Tawney wrinkled his brow fearfully. "Oh, yes," he resumed, "I remember; it was in MacLear and—” "in what?" yelled a listener. •No, no,” .saiil Mr. Tawnoy. entirely undis turbed, ”1 don't mean Mac Lear: I was thinking of King Hambetli.” There was a loud shrieking silence for a moment, and then a member lifted his countenance out of a leather-covered sofa cushion long enough to inquire: “Don’t you mean Hamlet, Jim?” “Certainly,” remarked Mr. Tawney, with considerable asperity, “that’s whai 1 meant. Anyhow, I remember that whenever 1 recited those famous ■lines from ’Hamlet' 1 fairly brought down the house. I remember them yet. They go: “ ‘Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone ’ and so forth. “I tell you," resumed Mr. Tawnev, “there's a whole lot of philosophy in that man Shak—” And then they fell on him. and up to date his knowledge Of Shakespeare has cost him five dinners. Happiness. Happiness is indeed a mental con dition.: but we are not to forget that mental slates are very strongly, very directly and very regularly affected and produced by outward causes. In the vast majority of men outward cir cumstances are the great causes of in ward feelings, and you can count al most as certainly upon making a man Jolly by placing him in happy dreum stances as upon making a man wet bj dipping him in water.—The Country 1 'arson. A Labor-Saving Scheme. “John,” said the newly married busi ness man. "Yessir.” responded the of fice boy. “Call up my wife every 15 min utes. and mumble lovey-dovev to tsev wootsey, about seven or eight time —Exchange. POOR MEM CAM MOT REPRESENT AMERICA ABROAD DAVID •* JAYJVg •) HILL' y BXdjjn Stbadsy xi is a lerriuie umig 10 ue a poor diploma.. Lavish use of American ilol lars must be made in order to pave a smooth and easy highway over j which a representative of the United States in a European capital may com | fortably and gracefully travel. The question has often been asked as to whether a poor man can repre sent the United States in a diplomatic | capacity in Europe, and as often it has been answered positively in the negative. The uninformed American may ask in wonder why this is so. The salary of an American ambassa dor, whether stationed in London or Tokyo, St. Petersburg or Rio de Ja neiro. is $17,500 per annum. In addi tion he is allowed something for rent of an office, for fuel and light, for fur niture, for postage, stationery, tele graph service, and for the great vari ety of small expenses which a large business creates. His total income from the government is not more than $20,000 even in the most favored capi tal. This is a large sum. It represents an income that any American except the very rich would be glad to enjoy. With $20,000 a man could have his house, his automobile, his amuse ments, indeed gratify almost every wish. But this is true of an individual. An ambassador of the United States, in order to maintain the dignity of the great republic he represents, is in quite a different situation. He must have not merely a house for his fam ily. but an establishment, for the re ception and entertainment of the offi cials and statesmen of the country to which he is accredited and of his am bassadorial colleagues. He must give entertainments and dinners comparing favorably with those offered bv the representatives of other governments. He cannot withhold these courtesies. They constitute his duty to the same, if not greater, extent than his trans action of the official business connect ed with his embassy. The former fa cilitates the latter, frequently makes it possible. Now consider the expense wh.ch this policy entails. In the first place, every ambassador must provide and furnish his own embassy. Unlike other great nations, the United States, save in Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, Con stantinople and Morocco, makes no ar rangements for the housing of its rep resentatives. Every agent, before or after his appointment, is compelled to ! proceed to his post, hunt up real es tate agents, examine houses which are ■ available, and finally select the most ■ imposing within his means. If he have millions at his disposal he may, as Ambassador Whitelat.- Reid has ; done, take a palace like Dorchester House, in London, paying therefor $40,000 annually, and a country place i costing $20,000 annually. In Paris his | embassy will cost anywhere from j $8,000 to $15,000. In Berlin Ambassa dor Charlemagne Tower gives $20,000 ! annually for the beautiful building he i occupies. In St. Petersburg he may have to pay $12,000. In Rome his rent i bill may mount as high as he pleases, j but it cannnot fall much below' $S,000. I The conditions in Vienna are similar to those in Rome. So before an ambassador can as sume his office he must obligate him self to pay a foreigner not less than half of and frequently more than his salary in order to be allowed to occu py a building for the use of the Ameri can people. Upon arrival officially at his post and after he has presented his credentials to the head of the gov ernment he must give a reception to the diplomatic corps. This is to ena | ble him officially to meet his col leagues, a very important ceremony, for frequently he is compelled to con duct negotiations with them, and they are always useful in supplying him with needed information. A conserva tive estimate of the cost of such a re ception in a place like London or Paris or Berlin is $2,500. Then it is his duty to give a dinner to each of his ambas sadorial colleagues. In some places he must so honor the ministers plenipo tentiary, who are one rare'. lover than the ambassadors, and who represent seconu-ciass powers, i ue guests upon | these occasions must be men and women of high social and official posi tion, who are accustomed to the choic est viands and wines and other costly luxuries. There are also his own living ex penses to be considered—the mainte nance of his household, the care of horses and carriages, etc., and in none of these can he display the quality of “nearness.” The baker, the tailor, and the candlstick maker all look upon a foreign diplomat, especially one rep resenting the colossally rich United States, as fair game, and they would not hesitate to spoil a grand state din ner should the ambassadorial family fail to live up properly to their posi tion. Finally, the ambassador has his office and his office expenses to meet. And so it is a terrible thing to be a poor diplomat. And it is especially awkward should one take the place of a man who has been lavish in expendi ture. When John Hay was ambassa dor to England. just before and during the war with Spain, he pent SSO.OOO annually in caring properly for the in terests of the United States. Joseph li. Choate, who succeeded Mr. Hay, is estimated to have disbursed fully as much as his predecessor. There is hardly a limit to Mr. Reid's expendi tures. The lowest estimate places the cost of his representation at SloO.OOO, the highest, probably nearly correct, at $100,000. \\ nar poor man. or even man of mod erate fortune, can follow Mr. Reid? In evitably there will be comparison be tween his mode of conducting the em bassy and that of his predecessor, and the comparison will he to his disad vantage. Mr. Tower has astonished | Berlin by the magnificence of his en ! rertainment. lb- has given grand balls i and dinners and has made for himself i as a result a unique place in the life of I the German empire. He is called there the '‘First Ambassador." The i inperor did him the honor, before the recent controversy as to the accepta bility of Dr. David Jayne Hill of New York, to single him out on various oc : casions and to dine with him at the I American embassy. The empress, too. paid like attention to Mrs. Tower. The four princes made it a point to ap proach the American ambassador and his wile and to exchange compliments with them. The members of the im i perial court circle fluttered about the flame the American dollars made. This menage is quite different from ; that which was maintained by Andrew I D. White, who occupied an apartment. Dr. Hill, also, according to report, in tends to take an apartment. It is true that Dr. Hill has a small fortune, but it is not nearly as large as that of the | Towers, and he cannot maintain an establishment upon the same scale as his predecessor. Twins Live Long Apart. After a 60-years' absence two old men of SO, and twin brothers at that —have not yet had a fraternal greet ing and more than 2,000 miles of the continent separates them. This unus ual occurrence in the record of human lives is that of Edwin Bennett of War ten, O., and Albert Bennett of Seat tle. Wash. The twins were born in Connecticut and came to Ohio in 1S11. The excitement of the California gold fields was then on and Albert went with the argonauts. Edwin stayed quietly in the Ohio town on his farm and Albert has never come back from over the divide. The two old men, ftom reports, are hale and hearty and on good terms despite the more than half a century that has rolled by while the twins have never looked upon each others' faces. Title of the Scriptures. The word "Bible" is from the Latin "Hiblia," which was treated as singu lar in number, though it represented the transcription of tiro Greek neuter plural “hiblia,” meaning "little books." The Greek word came from "byblus" or papyrus, the name of the famous material upon which hooks were then written. The title was first used for the Scriptures in the second turv. cen THE HUNTED HUNTER I SOME PRACTICAL RESULTS OF ORCHARD SPRAYING Experiments Which Prove the Value of the Treatment—By O. M. Morris, Horticulturist, and John F. Nicholson, Entomologist. An experiment in spraying was made on a largo scale at the Okla homa experiment station for the pur pose of determining the cost of spray ing, the benefits that may he derived from the work, and the practicability i of the work from a financial stand point. The orchards used in this work were divided into plats of sufficient size to give each plat a practical test. Check, or unsprayed trees were left in each plat. The orchards selected had never been sprayed and had received very poor care and cultivation hut were in planned. Rain fell on 12 days be tween May 19 and June 12. The land was too wet to work on, nearly all of this time. Good spraying was done. Plat 3 was sprayed the fourth time on July 23 and 24. And the fifth on August 8 and 9. The work was well done. Paris green and lead arsenate wern both used on each plat but no advan I tage was noted in favor of either mate rial except that the lead arsenate would remain suspended in solution for a longer period than would the TABLE SHOWING THE EFFECT OF SPRAYING IN THE DIFFERENT PLATS. I Plat number No. of times sprayed. Per i ent.of fruit Per rent. «»f fruit free from worms free from dismast* 1 cheek 2 check 3 3 check l Not sprayed 3 Not sprayed Not sprayed 71.6 60 7M 64 4 93 6*; 'M.: 60 no worse shape than the average farm orchard. The trees were very thick in the top and good spraying work could not be done with less than twice the effort necessary to bo expended upon trees of equal size but with pro]> erly formed tops. Fiat 1 was to be sprayed as soon as the blossoms fell from the trees. This plat was sprayed once only. Flat 2 was sprayed three times. The first spraying was to be done as soon as the blossoms fell front the trees. The Paris green. Paris green was used in the proportion of 1-3 pound to 50 gal lons of water and lead arsenate in the proportion of 2 to 6 pounds per 50 gallons, depending upon the per cent, of arsenic contained. This would be at the rate of about 1-3 pound arsenic to 50 gallons of water. Bordeaux mixture, made by using 3 pounds of copper sul fate and 4 pounds of lime to 50 gallons of water, was used in each spraying. The first two sprayings were done with a hand pump and a pressure be Calyx-Cavities Closing—Almost Too Late to Spray. &c-uui;u sj.u a\ mi; was uuue ; t* weeks after the first and the third two weeks after the second. Plat I! was to be sprayed six times. The first, second and third sprayings were to be done on the same dates as on plat 2. The fourth spraying was to be done four weeks after the third, the fifth two weeks after the fourth, and the sixth two weeks after the fifth. Plat 1 was sprayed April S to 11. Plats 2 and 3 were sprayed the first I i ween .to ana so pounas was main tained on the nozzles. The other spraying was done with a gasoline en ' sine power pump that maintained a pressure of 125 pounds on the nozzle. The above table is based on the | actual count of the fruit that matured on the tree and that was hand picked | in early fall. Over GO per cent, of the : fruit on the unsprayed trees was free from worms at the time of gathering but this does not show the proportion j The Above Cut Shows All the Fruit from a Sprayed Tree. The Apples in j the Small Pile Are Wormy and Those in Large Pile Free from Worms. time on May 15 This spraying was about two weeks late, owing to the fact that between April 15 anil May 11 it rained 11 days during which time 7.4 inches of water fell leaving the land so wet that the work could not be done. The first and second sprayings on all plats were very unsatisfactory ow ing to lack of power in the pumps. For this work a hand pump was used but sufficient pressure on the nozzles for good work could be maintained only with great labor. The wind blew very hard on the date of the second spraying and prevented satisfactory work being done Plats 2 and 3 were sprayed the third time on June 12 and 13. This was about two weeks later than it was of windfall from the sprayed and un sprayed trees. If we take the fruit set July 1 as a basis of the crop borne, the unsprayed trees lost on an aver age 60 per cent, of their crop between July 1 and September 15. The sprayed trees in plat 2 lost less than 15 per cent, and the sprayed trees in plat 2 lost less than 10 per cent. About 90 per cent, of the windfall fruit, in each of the three plats, was wormy. The train by spraying was not all in the per cent, of fruit free front worms and disease, but a large increase in the amount of fruit carried to maturity. Windfall fruit is not all due to insects and diseases. The character and amount of cultivation given the or chard has also a very important influ ence over the amount of windfalls. LAST CALL TO TEST SEED CORN By Prof. G. I. Christie, Purdue University. During the past two months raenv heis of the experiment station have made a study ot the seed corn of the state and find the vitality of much of it to be in a serious condition. The unusual cold, wet season of 1907 did not allow the corn to mature and dry out before the time of frosts, in the early part of October, much of the corn of the state was still in a very moist and immature condition, and the series of hard freezes which came at that time materially injured the vital ity. The result of these conditions is that those corn growers who depended on late selected seed are now finding upon close examination many ears ot questionable vitality. For these rea-_ sons all seed corn should he specially selected and thoroughly tested. A test of each individual ear should he made and all weak or dead ears should be discarded. This test can be made in several ways. The following is suggested as a reliable and satisfactory one: Take a box made of inch lumber and of any convenient size, say about two by three feet and three inches : deep. Through tne ei nhmit 214 inches from Through the ends and sides, >1a inches from the bottom, galvanized wire, which will divide the box into squares two inches to the side. Then fill the box with garden soil or sand and it is ready for use The ears should he laid on the floor or racks in a row so they can bo num bered. From ear No. 1 remove five kernels, each from a different part of the ear, and place these in square No. 1: remove live kernels from ear No. 2 and place in square No. 2. and so on until all the ears have been tested, i After placing the kernels, moisten the j material in the box thoroughly and I cover with a glass or a rug. to keep j the surface from drying. Place the | tester in a room of ordinary living : room temperature, or about TO de [ grees F Alter five days examine the j corn and any ears that fail to show i a strong germination of the kernels j should he removed and discarded. This m^hod of testing corn is sim ple, convenient and rapid, and means much in securing strong, germinable seed. Only 1-1 ears are required to [slant, an acre of ground. W itli an j average yield each ear means five j bushels in the fall. When a man can rest five to eight bushels in a day and locate definitely all weak or bad ears., ’an he afford to neglect this import ant step in the preparation of his seed ,ol.n? G. I. CHRISTIE. Purdue Experiment Station. Test Your Milk.—Are your cows eat ng their heads off? It does not take ong for some cows to do this. The , labcock test is the only accurate way i .r telling whether they are doing this ir not. j | THE GREAT MAN’S OCCUPA . 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