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IN THE LIMELIGHT - — I | HOUSE INSURGENT LEADER ~| I Congressman Victor Murdock, the red head ed Kansan who led the insurgent forces in the war against Cannonism in the organization of the present house, is a Wichita newspaper man and in all respects one of the livest wires in con gress. He lavs his first election to bis blazing locks, which he says drew him the support of every red-haired man in the Seventh district re gardless of party or previous condition of servi tude. Besides being the most unwTelcome thorn in the side of Speaker Cannon, Murdock has djne a good many things that earned him unpopu larity with the influences at Washington. He put up a war on the mail-carrying plunderbind among the railroads, which finally resulted iu lessening the expense to Uncle Sam of transport in" ;ni maw.. Ho has warred relentlessly on other old usages ana precedents i ol the capitol. Murdock is sure of being an insurgent so long as life endures. Kansas loves an insurgent, and Victor Murdock is one of the most popular men in Kansas. It is -aid he can be governor or senator at almost any time. He is in Kansas wlrat they call a boss buster, and a boss buster finally becomes the biggest kind of a boss. At least this has been so in Kansas. Then new boss blisters come up to bust the old boss busters. 1: was M -dock who first made ihe late Congressman Jerry Simpson world famous as "the sockless Socrates" by a newspaper yarn about ihat lead er’s antipathy to hosiery . It is reported tfiai on one occasion, when a guest :• a r •option given by President Diaz in Mexico, Murdock did not notice until the evening was half over that he had neglected to put cm a collar. Me:dock is ::T years old. His father was Marsh Murdock, an old Kansas r.eer tor. who died a few years ago. Marsh Murdock was a hard hitter. 1 lilted the Republican party and never received the rewards which were ■ y his due Some of the rewards have come to the son. Victor. Victor ! i i Ms the old Long district. Long was elected to the senate . . 1 Victor to«.k ; is idace in the house. Long settled down in Washington to j b a jteac*a: I tpiiei citizen, working with the majprity of his party, and ] Ka as would i ' - raid for that. Kansas never wants a man to settle down, j I.< ng .paid the pe nalty with his political life. NEW SOLICITOR GENERAL I Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, general counsel for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad at Chicago, has been appointed to the post of solicitor gen eral of the department of justice April 1. He will work immediately under the direction o:: At torney General Wickersham. Mr* Bowers has been general counsel of the Chicago £- Northwestern railroad for 10 years, having succeeded W. D. Gondy in 1SS:;. He is a graduate of Yale. '79. and although not a class mate of President Taft, they have been close personal friends for many years. He was born at Springfield. Mass., in 1S*9, and after leaving Yale he studied at the Columbia Law school of New Y'ork. taking his LL. B. degree in 18S2. He practiced law about two years in New York city and then moved to Winona, Minn., where he engaged in the general practice of law. He remained there until called to rhioogo in 1893 to become general counsel of the Northwestern road. like President Taft Mr. Bowers is an expert golfer and is a member of two Chicago clubs—Onwentsia and Skokie. It is not at all improbable that wiie* President Taft forms his golf cabinet, to succeed the Rooseveltian tenste cabinet, Mr. Bowers will be one of the star members. Mr. Bowers also is a member of the University club and of the Chicago Athletic association. Previous to the appointment, of Mr. Bowers the post of solicitor general was held for several years by Henry M. Hoyt, a Pennsylvanian and a class mate of President Taft. During his term and while he was an assistant at torney general Mr. Hoyt played an important part in many cases which de v rrniiKd the legal construction of important legislative points. As solicitor general he was the legal leader for the United States govern rct-ii) in the Philippine tariff and various other cases affecting the question of government in our insular possessions, and for the oleomargarine, the coai ami law, and the commodity clause cases. As an assistant attorney genera!. Mr. Hoyt had to do with the prize cases r* - siting from the Spanish-American war, customs and immigration cases. JOHN ARMSTRONG CHALONER John Armstrong Chaloner, or Chanler, as he was until he took legal steps to change his name a year ago, maintains his occupation for striking, and sensational originality. His very latest ad vent into the limelight was by way of the fatal shooting of a brutal husband who had beaten his wife and was trying to kill her in the parlor of Chaloner’s Virginia home. The coroner's jury promptly exonerated Chaloner, who will not be prosecuted. It is not generally known—or it has been generally forgotten—that Chaloner was the hero of the erotic and quite remarkable novel which made his former wife, the strikingly beautiful and brilliant Anielie Rives, now the Princess Pierre Troubetskov. famous in a month. "The Quick or the Dead" suddenly transformed Miss ! lii-.cs from a modest Virginia girl, daughter of a prominent oid family into ri< must talked of, criticised and praised writer In America. Chaloner is a cousin of John Jacob Astor end a brother of Lewis Stuy Chan! - . k'Je lie utenant governor and nominee for governor of Xew Vo; a A millionaire and society man in Gotham, Chaloner suddenly took up !:» occult a.- a fad and became a mystic of the most pronounced type. His ange fan.aes led It: relatives to have him declared insane and sent to an .•.yiuns il ■ sen;•• <1 from the institution, reached Virginia and has been de • area san by »!.•• fed« ral court of that commonwealth. In Xew York, how < \or. he still legally insane, and would be returned promptly to the asylum were he to return lo the metropolis. The greater part of his estate is still in the hands of an administrator in Xew York, and his suit to recover its con tml ts still pending in :he courts. Out of hatred for the relatives who caused . is detention, he has legally transformed his name to tfie ancient form of Cfcaioner. AWARDED LAETARE MEDAL 1 Mrs. Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan. who has been aw arded the Laelare medal by the Uni versity of Notre Dame, is lamous in literature and has written mam successful novels under the pen name ot ‘ Christian Reid." She was born in 1846 a! Salisbury. N. C., which is still her home, and she is a daughter of Col. Charles Frederic Fisher, who was killed in the battle of Bull Run. In 1SS7 she was married to James Marquis Tiernan of Maryland, and in 18DS she was widowed. Mrs. Tiernan's first novel, ‘ Valerie Aylmer," was published in 1871. and since that time about forty books hafve issued from her pen. The Laelare modal takes its name from the fourth Sunday of Lent, on which it is always awarded. The custom of giving it is modeled on the ancient observance followed by the pope ot sending a golden rose as a mark of especial honor to sovereigns and other notable persons. The gift of the medal is confined to members of the Catholic church in the United Slates. It is a large1 disk of pure gold, beautifully en ameled and chased, and bears some appropriate de sign, which changes from year to year, and which is suited to the profession or line of work for which the recipient is distinguished. Surrounding the design appears in Latin the motto, ‘‘Truth is mighty and shall prevail." The address of award which ac companies the modal is a beautiful piece of art work, done in water colors on tilk. This is the first time in its history that the medal will go to the south. Sunday Work in the Steel Mills. Another tendency in all of the Pitts burg steel mills in the last 15 years is the extension of Sunday work. Blast furnaces, with a few minor exceptions, have always been operated seven days in the week in this country, but be lore the elimination of unionism the roiling mills used to be ilde from Sat urday evening until Monday morning of each week. The union stoutly op )>oseii all Sunday work and succeeded m reducing it to a minimum in all plants where it had influence. With the decline in union strength Sunday work began to increase. Like the ex tension of hours, it did not come ail at once, but here and there in diilerent mills, the hour for beginning opera tions was pushed backward. A tew years ago one of the last mills to adopt Sunday night work in duced the men to come out on account or being behind in their orders. Once established in this way the custom has continued and in this plant men are discharged if they refuse to work on Sunday evenings. Beginning as a fa vor. it is now a fixed policy, and competitive conditions tend to hold it as such.—Charities and the Commons. ! fioo YARDS EOR EXPERIMENTAL WORK. me suppression oi the disease, hog cholera, a problem which is recognized as one of great importance to the ag ricultural interests of ihe United States, has received considerable at tention during the last 20 years. At the present time few problems are as intimately associated with the agri cultural economy as that which is re lated to the practical eradication of this animal disease. In 1885 Dr. Theobald Smith and Dr. D. E. Salmon isolated Bacillus cholera suis and described that organism as ih< specific cause of hog cholera. Since that time a continuous line of investi gation has been conducted by the bu reau of animal industry. United States department of agriculture, for the pur !>ose of discovering some protective in oculation or treatment against the disease. During the past few years sev eral investigators, both in Europe and I---7? Ulcers in Caecum of Hog. Amenca. have been actively engaged in this study. In 1903 the bureau of animal industry published a prelim inary report in which it was stated ;hat it was possible to transmit hog cholera to healthy swine by Injecting the filtered serum of hogs suffering irom cholera. Bacteriological exam ination proved the absence in this fil tered material of B. cholera suis or other bacteria capable of growing on ordinary culture media. Since the ap pearance of the above report the inves tigations of the bureau of animal in dustry, as well as the results of ex tensive work in other iabora ories, have confirmed the belief that Bacillus iholera suis is not the specific cause of hog cholera, or. more cautiously stated. that Bacillus cholera suis is not the etiological factor in all forms of bog cholera. From the results which have thus far been obtained in the present work of r— Ulcers in Caecum cf Another Diseased Hog. divestisaticn and from those of other investigators the following conclusions •com warranted: Bacillus cholera suis is not the etio 'ogical factor in all forms of liog cholera. Bacillus cholera suis is possibly a variety of the common intestinal para sitic organism. Bacillus coli com munis. The specific cause of the "filterable virus form" of hog cholera appears to be some living organism, possibly ul tra-microscopic. possibly capable of passing through a fine porcelain filter in some disintegrated state. • The filterable virus of hog cholera cannot be artificially cultivated in nor mal hog-serum broth in the abdominal cavity of the rabbit in the collodium tac, according to the method used by Nocard and Roux in artificially culti vating the organism which they asso ciate with contagious pleuropneumonia ir cattle. The simultaneous method of vaccina tion is efficient but is not practical be cause of its expense and the possible danger attending us use. The ordinary laboratory and domes ticated animals are not susceptible to the filterable virus of hog cholera. Virulent hog cholera serum exerts a toxic influence upon a healthy horse when injected intravenously. Norman hog cholera serum or viru lent hog cholera serum does not ap pear to produce an anaphylactic reac tion when injected intravenously inta the horse. The two-hour horse serum (drawn from the horse, two hours after the animal has received, intravenously, ap proximately 150 cc. of hog cholera virus) when injected subcutaneously into the healthy hog in small quanti ties, produces an acute form of the disease. The four-hour horse serum (blood serum from a horse drawn four hours after the animal has received intra venously approximately 150 cc. of vir i ulent hog cholera serum' when inject ed into healthy hogs intravenously produces acute hog cholera. The four-hour horse serum, under certain conditions at least, when in jected subcutaneously in small dose.5 into healthy swine does not produce infection. The five-to-seven-hour horse serum when injected subcutaneously into the healthy hog does not produce the dis ease. The 24-hour horse serum (drawn 24 hours after the animal has received in travenously approximately 150 cc. of hog cholera serum), in comparison with four-hour horse serum, shows attenuated properties. The 24-hour horse serum vaccine in 1 jected subcutaneously and intravenous ly, and four-hour horse serum vaccine when injected in small quantities sub cutaneously, act as preventives against hog cholera. The 24-hour horse serum, however, is not constant in respect to I its protective properties. Acquired immunity against hog cholera extends oy?r a period of from three to eight months. A rough estimate shows that horse serum vaccine can be prepared at a relatively low cost. Virulent hog cholera serum in the j liquid form becomes attenuated after a period of nine months when kept at a i temperature of approximately ten de grees C. to 15 degrees C. Virulent hog-cholera serum dried un der aseptic conditions at a tempera ture of 37 degrees C. becomes atten uated after a period of eight months. Horse serum vaccine retains its pro tective properties for at least a pe i riod of six weeks when kept at an ap proximate temperature of ten degrees C. to 15 degrees C. Painting the Trunks of Trees.—It is sometimes a practice to paint the trunks of frees to prevent injury by rabbits, mice, borers, etc. in older to determine whether this treatment has any injurious effect on the tree, sev eral young apple, pear and ]>each trees were painted in the fall of iy(>3 at the Delaware experiment station. The paint used was pure white lead, thinned with raw linseed oil. The soil was removed down to the roots and the paint applied on the trunk from the roots to 18 inches above the ground. Xu injury whatever followed the use of this paint. Needs Exercise and Feed.—Furnish the colt an abundance of rich feeds at all times, even though some of the feeds must be purchased away from the farm. Give it plenty of oats, wheat bran and clover hay, ail of which con tain protein and mineral matter for building muscle and bone. Allow It plenty of free exercise so it will di gest and assimilate these heavy nitro genous feeds. The Reason Why.—Why do the best dairymen keep tlieir cows in the barn during the winter months? Because if they are allowed to run out in the yard one day they will be discontent ed when not allowed out on a cold, stormy day. Fodders for Sheep.—The best fod ders for sheep in winter are the clovers, alfalfa and peas or vetches cut a little underripe and cured with out exjtosure to rain. These are all the more relished, of course, when of i flue growth. > An taster 0nug The golden sun climbs up the sky. The shadows flee away. Oh! weary heart, forget to sigh: God sends the Easter Day! Long was that night, chill was the air. And grief o'er brooded long. Yet is the new world white and fair. Uplift thine Easter song! The cross that bowed thee with its weight By strength of prayer is stirred. Till it shall bear thee soon or late. As wings upbear the bird. The life that thrills from star to star. And beats in leaf and stem. Is wider than the heavens are. And blesses thee from them. Wert thou cast down.wert thou dismayed. Dear Child of One above. Behold the earth in light arrayed; The light of deathless love. Oh! listen to the word that wakes In every budding flower. And take the bread the Master breaks. In His triumphant hour. For those who hear, and hearing yearn, , The King hath secrets sweet: Their hearts within them thrill and burn. They wait His coming feet. Then swift the sun climbs up the sky! The shadows flee away! Oh! weary heart, forget to sigh, God sends the Easter Day: ' COORDINC to an old tradition, when the Roman soldiers came to the Garden of Gethsemane Christ hid under the olive trees until the treacherous plover cried out 'Buvick!” ••Buvick!” "He is hiding!” But if a Judas among the birds be trayed the Master of i men in this hour of ■ need, other faithful feathered folk min- j istered to him at the darker moment of Calvary. Then it was that the voice of the pitying turtle dove grew so plaintive that never has it re gained its lost happy notes. Not only did the swallow perch on the cross and twitter tender words of consolation, j but also iu its small, sweet way al leviated the sufferer’s pain by pulling out a spine from the crown of thorns. : And the stork flying o'er the cross ] loitered on the wing to call down: ' “Stryk!” “Stryk!' — “Strengthen!” "Strengthen!” Wonderful Passion Flower. In the passion flower the reverent imagination has discovered not a cross alone, but also the pillar of scourging, the nails, th’ crown of thorns, and even spots to mark the five wounds of the crucified body. The Spaniard will tell you that the aspen trembles because that was the wood of the cross. However this may be, there is a delightful old legend concerning the tree out of which the cross was made. Aged Adam, weary of toil and sin and eager for death, sent to the angel guarding the Tree of Life to beg a boou. Tl/e messenger brought back the welcome promise that Adam should die in three days, and the added gift of three small seeds which were mys teriously to be placed under the dead man s tongue before burial. From these seeds, the quaint narra tive continues, sprang three saplings that inter united, three iu one, sym bol of the Trinity. With this mirac ulous tree Moses and David each wrought many wonders. But King Solomon, his whole heart set upon the building of the temple, had the tree cut down, intending it for a magnifi cent beam. Striv as the workmen would, however, nowhere would the beam fit. and. cas- aside, it was later used as a bridge across a near-by stream. When the queen of Sheba made her notable visit she refused to tread upon this bridge; instead, she knelt and worshiped, and having con fided to Solomon a vision she had concerning it, the king at once or dered the ^aered wood incased in gold and silver, and reverently hung over the door of the temple. Subsequent ly. Abijah, son of Rehoboam, covet ing the precious se ting, had it taken down, and after appropriating the metal had the wood buried deep in the earth—so deep, in fact, that a well was dug over it, the famous Pool of Bethesda. the tree of mercy at the bottom giving healing qualities to the waters. Finally, as the time appoint ed approached, the tree rose and float ed on the surface, and the Jews took it and made it into the cross upon which the Christ was crucified. Wood of the Cross. As some claim the aspen was the wood of the cross, others select the weeping willow for the tree upon which Judas hanged himself. There is an old legend as sinister as the fatalistic Dedipus myth that claims that before the birth of Judas his mother dreamed that her child would murder his father and betray hisGod for money. To prevent this tragedy, the babe was put in a chest and cast upon the sea, but was rescued and adopted by a king. According to tradition, Pontius Pi late as well as Judas committed sui cide. for upon his return to Rome so indignant was the emperor over the governor's actions while in Jerusa lem that he cast him into prison, a humiliation too great for so weak a spirit to bear. Weird is the legend told concerning the restless, tormented ghost of him who could wash his hands but not his conscience of offense. The body of the suicide was first cast into the Tiber, but so turbulent were the storms that immediately fol lowed that it was taken out of ths river, carried to Gaul, aud thrown intc the Rhone. Tempests were the in stant result. Again the body was re moved. this time to Lake Geneva. The same disasters in its train. Once more an attempt was made to over come the evil. Surely, in a far-away mountain lake locked in tire center of the Aips even the spirit of a Pilate could do no harm. Vain hope. There arose storms of wind and raia so great in fury that flocks and herds were drowned, trees torn up by ihe roots, and happy-hearted homes washed away to death and destruction. Quieting Troubled Siplrit. Then at the call of the emergency carne the man of the hour to answer it. Alone he went to the lake, and with the sole weapons of a scholar’s knowledge and magic battled with the spirit until it signified an agreement to remain at peace if only it might have one day of freedom during the year. The storms ceased, but long after ward whoever went to Pilate’s lake on a Good Friday saw an awful specter clothed in a red toga upon a rock above the water, ’ the grim, ghostly figure of him who saw no ill yet permitted it.’’ — T- -T-.T- -r- . — . ~ w **>' V »-• RABBIT NOT EASTER SYP/30L. j By Right, the Hare Should Be Associ- ; ated with the season. The rabbit, which has long been as- 1 socialed with Easter festivities, is all a mistake, and the animal that api>ears in our Easter pictures and done in sugar in the windows of the confec tioners should really be a hare, in stead of a rabbit. The hare has from j time immemorial been the symbol of the moon, and. as the moon decides ■ the time of Easter, it is quite proper i and natural that the hare should be associated with this season. In Ger many the Easter hare is almost as im portant a personage as St. Nicholas, and its habits somewhat resemble ! those of that much beloved saint. On j the night before Easter a white hare ! enters the house of all children who I have been good and hides in ail sorts ! of out-of-the-way corners any number 1 of beautifully -colored eggs. Anyway, the children find the eggs when they hunt for them, and it would perhaps be presumption on the part of any one •0*0 *0 • 0*0* 0* 0*0* 0<?0*O'*0^0 who is not a German to express an opinion as to where they really come from. A rabbit is not a hare, although they are cousins. There is one market] difference between them. The baby rabbit, as all know who keep these lit tle animals as pets, comes into the world blind and helpless, while the baity hare has its eyes open from the beginning, and is soon able to take care of itself. It has been believed that the hare never closes its eyes, and that is one reason why it is chosen as the symbol of the moon, which al ways has its eyes open and sees every thing that goes on at night. Easter Dawn. Awake. O earth! the roue of dawn Flames softly over Olivet. The night of pain and death has gone The air is full of fragrance drawn From blossoms of the thorn, dew-wet Awake, O earth! awake and greet The day and all it brings to thee_ Love’s crowning triumph, full, com plete ; Awake and sing with rapture sweet Thy song of Immortality! Awake. O earth! the rose of dawn Flames softly over Olivet. —Jean Blewelt, in Canadian Magazine May \>e pcnnaxvov^y overcome* by prcpetpersonaXe§or\su\^’^as sxstanceof XXv&oneAruXy WudvovaX laxaXvve tsmedy.Sytuy ojT^s&tVixxr of Siwia.nXucXt enaWs oftefcj*® re^i\ar V\j\\s Ao\\y sebva\ assistance \e natare may be ^roduaXXy dispensed WxtXi uXien no Vender needed.as \\ve bes* cf remedies Whovirupiired axe taassisl natare.andnU \e suppXanX ftve nataraX functions .wtaoXimosl depend nViv— maXdy upon proper ncnnsXwnerA., proper efforts, ai\d v\$ft\iv»£ ^caeraXXy. k petite b«ve\\ao\ srjjiJts.Qlw.-ays W ft* (auui% NflNura:*uBro BV -Y~C CALIFORNIA Fig Syrup Co. SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS ONE SIZE ONLY- REGLLBA PRICE 50= PER BOTTLE SNAP FOR JIMMIE. "Oh, Jimmie our pa's been appoint ed postmaster! ” "Good! Now I woni have ter put any stamps on de letters I sends youse!” Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, us they cannot reach Ur dis eased portion of the car. There is only one way to cure deafness, and tiaat is by constitutional remtxlAes. Deafness is eau^xi uy ar. inflamed condition ot ui miuous lining of the Eustachian Tube. W hen tiua tube is inllamed you have a rumbling sound or im perfect hearing, and when it fa* entirely closed. Deaf ness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and thb. tube restored to its normal condi tion. hearing win be d**siroyed forever: nme canes out of ten are cats.'] by Catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wo wU! give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused bj' catarrh) Tliar cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh ('ire. Send for circulars. In-e I*. J. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo. O. Sold bv Druggists. 75c. TaJie Hall's Family Pills for constipatiou. Polite Interruptions. "And it's awfully impolite to inter rupt. one who is talking, isn't it. mother ?" "Except when a woman is describ ing clothes, my dear, and then it is polite to constantly ejaculate ‘How lovely!’ or ‘How ridiculous!'' as the case may be."—Kansas City Times. No Wonder She’s Cross. The woman who has a thousand petty cares and annoyances while she suffers with headache or side ache must not be blamed if she_ cannot always lie angelical ly amiable. \\ hit she needs is thoughtful ness from her family and such a simple and natural remedy as Lane's Family Med inne. the herb tea that makes weak wom en strong and well. Sold bv druggists and dealers, 25c. Wasted Years. Nan—So. after six years' courtship all is off between Tim and Tiny. Fan—Yes; they loved not wisely but too platonically. Asthmatics, Read This. If you are afflicted with Asthma write me at once and learn of something for which you will lie grateful the rest of your life. J. G. McBride. Stella. Nebr. Women like to talk of the days they were single and had a good time. Western Canada the Pennant Winner “The Last Best West” The government of Canada now gives to every actual set tler lfciO acres of M heat- grow ing land free and an additional 160 ac^es at $3.00 an acre. The 300,000 contented American settlers making thrir homes in Western Canada is the best evidence of the superiority of that country. They are becoming rich, growing from 25 to 50 bushels wheat to the acre; 60 to 110 bush els oats and 45 to 60 bushels barley, be sides having splendid herds .if cattle raised S>n the prairie grass. Dairying is an im portant industry. The crop of 19C*1 still 1.ceps Western Canada in the lead. The world will soon look to it as its food-producer. ■ 'The thine which TO- ’• impressed ns to- the magnitude *.f the .mintry tin,; is available !..r agricultural purposes/'—-Yule mo i.iiituvwi C'orrrjptmdefcot, i.'sp. Low railway rates, good schools and churches, markets convenient, prices the highest, climate perfect. 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