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A lawsuit had been tried on the
veranda of the crossroads store, 'and
when it had been settled Limuel Juck
lin, who had watched the proceedings,
took the home-made chair, vacated by
the justice, leaned back against the
wall and rermkaed: "Rather bad, this
thing or goin' to law; And ain't it a
peculiar state of society that educates
men to stimulate. quarrels? We may
say that tbey-ain't trained for that
purpose, but unless there are misun
derstand in's the lawyer's work is cut
off, and he's 'got a little too much of
Old Adam in him not to look out for
his own interest."
"You take a wrong view of the mat
ter," replied a young lawyer.
"That is just about what I expected
you to say. But grantin' to the lawyer
all he can claim for himself, it must
after all be allowed that the bickerin's
and shortsightedness of the human
family give him the most of his excuse
for livin'. A perfect state of civiliza
tion would argue perfect honesty, and
if such were the case the lawyers
would be powerful scarce. " There is
no denyin' of the fact that some of the
greatest men have been lawyers and
that the most of our presidents have
practiced law. And so have some of
the immortal geniuses been soldiers,
but if man bad been just and peace
able there never would have been
any need for the soldier."
"According to your view, then," said
the lawyer, "there Is no real need for
anybody that "
"That doesn't build up." Limuel
broke in, winking at his former
friends. "Every man ought to produce
somethin'. If he don't he's livin' on
somebody that does. The only real
occupation Is the one that makes the
world better. Understand, now, I
have nothin' against anybody's callin.
I'm just expressin' my opinion and it
must be taken for what it is worth.
But the lawyer shows us one thing if
nothin' more how keen a man's mind
may be whetted. I recollect once that
a fellow sued me. We had swapped
horses "
"And you had got the better of him,
eh?" said the lawyer.
"Well, that's the way it looked to
him. The horse I let him have died
that night He asked me if the horse
was sound and I said I never had
heard any complaint, and I hadn't He
had -never been under the care of a
doctor so far as I knew. His appetite
was good and he'd bat his eye when
you motioned at him. I might have
seen him fail down have seen men
fall, but I didn't think that they were
goin' to die. I told him a child could
drive him. A child did drive him out
of the garden that day.- Well, we
swapped, and. as I say, his horse was
taken sick in the night and died be
fore day. He came back to me and
swore that I had swopped him a horse
that I know'd was goin' to die. I told
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ONCE knew a
millionaire who
always carried his
money around
with him in bills.
There were some
one dollar bills,
more ten-dollar
bills, and many
hundred and thou
sand dollar bills.
He always car
ried them in a
suit case with an
ordinary lock and
key, and he told
me that he was
happy just be
cause he had the
actual money.
His brother
hardly ever
at all. He was a
handled money
millionaire, too.
but he did all his
business with checks, and seldom had
more than $20 on his person, and he
was miserable and dyspeptic.
I understood the feeling of the
moneyed millionaire better than that
of the checked one. The first man
was not a miser; he was simply a
grown-up child, with a child's delight
in actually seeing the -money that he
:bad earned 'by the sweat of his brow,
most of it at a dollar a day. Don't
stop to, figure out how many 'days he
.had worked, or I won't wart.
Now, of course, there are persons
of imagination who go through life
using checks and feeling rich, but it
takes a good deal of imagination to do
so,' and for me the pretty green ten
dollar bill means ten, times as much
.as the check for ten dollars.
Of course, checks have their uses,
and I use them myself. When a
bill for some prosaic thing, like, re
pairs to the coal -chute, comes in, I
send out a check In payment, but if
I am buying a book that I have long
coveted, you may be sure that I hand
out real money for it The book rep
resents something tangible, and I
will not insult the book dealer by send
ing him a cold, unfeeling check.
If I wanted to bring happiness to a
widow, whose husband had died leav
ing her destitute, do you think that I
would send her a check for a thou
sand dollars? If you do, you don't
know me.
If I were going to do the thing at all
I would go to her house with one
thousand crisp dollar bills, and I would
receive her thanks for each one. Bnt
it fs a queer thing about gratitude.
Her thanks for the first; bill would be
heartfelt, but 'by the time I had'reached
the first hundred she would have'
grown tired, of thanking me, and' I
verily believe that before I had hand-
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him that if he'd show me a horse that
wa'n't goin' to die I'd give him my
farm. I felt that he had the worst of
it and I would have evened it up the
best way I could, but before I got
through havin fun with him he got
mad and' went away and hired a law
yer to prove that I was a liar and al
together the worst man in the com
munity. "I never got such- a scorin' In my
life. I felt sorry for my wife and chil
dren. I didn't think that anybody
would ever speak to me again, and I
told the lawyer that I would make it a
personal matter between me and him.
I expected the justice to decide dead
against me, but he didn't He had
been a horse trader himself.
"Well, after the thing was over with
I took the horse I got from the feller
and went over to his house about ten
miles away and turned the nag lose
in his lot I did it not because I was
sorry for him. but because I was
afraid of myself afraid that I couldn't
sleep, and I was workin' hard and
needed rest Well, sir, that night
the nag that I'd turned into the lot
ups and dies, and the feller swore that
I had hauled him there aftervhe was
dead, and hanged if he didn't sue me
again. He got the same lawyer and
he made me out a worse manthan. I
was before. Made it appear that I had
poisoned the horse and dragged him
over there. Then I swore that the
whole county couldn't hold me back
from takin' it out of his hide.
"So the first chance I got I went to
town to see the. lawyer. I went over
to the courthouse and he was makin'
a speech, and I wish I may die dead if
the feller he was a skinnin' this time
wan't the very man that had sued me.
I never hearn anything like it. Tip
toed and called him all sorts of a
scoundrel; said that he had defrauded
me, as honest a man as lived in the
state. I couldn't stand that, I walked
on out and after a while he came
along and held out his hand and called
me 'Uncle Lira,' just as if I was his
mother's brother. Then he clapped
me on the shoulder and you could
have heard him laugh more than a
mile. He said he was a comin' out to
go a fishln' with me.
"Well, I let him off, and after we
had got to be right good friends, I
asked him how he happened to be en
gaged against my enemy, and this is
what he said: 'Oh, I wasn't Some
of the boys .told me you were comin'
into the house and I knew that you
were troublesome when you set your
head to It, so as court wasn't in ses
sion I started in to makin' a speech
against the' fellow "so you could hear
me,' and he ciapped me on the shoul
der and you could have hearn him
laugh more than two miles this time.
"Get a. lawyer with fun In him and
he's all fight. Once I had some busi
ness on hand the 'settlement of my
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ed in the last bill she would have
asked me if I couldn't be a little more
expedient Thus usage dulls the
senses.
On the other hand, do you suppose
that if I were sued for a thousand dol
lars I would pay the complainant in
good green money? No, a thousand
times, no. I would purposely buy the
smallest blank check that I could find,
and in my most minute chirography,
and with an autograph that was bare
ly good. I would sign it, and thus I
would feel that I was getting off
cheap.
In some things most of us are in
tensely mean, and among the expendi
tures that offend men's souls are those
paid into a railroad company's grasp
ing maw. I hold myself no better
than the rest and, if possible, I al
ways travel in company with another,
and before we start out I give him
money to cover the expenses, and he
buys the tickets and I feel that I have
not spent so much.
But In buying stationery, and books,
and pictures, I never think of intrust
ing the business to another. Let me
pick out my own paper, find my own,
book; be my own judge of the picture,
and, when they are ready to deliver,
let me pay the bill myself in coin of
the realm.
Your plumber should always re
ceive a check, but the man who en
tertains you should get good gold,
even if it is only 50 cents worth.
One objection -I have to royalties is
that they always come in the form of
a check when they come at all. One
time, though, my publisher varied it;
Instead of sending a check he sent
a bill. You see, I had given at least
ten copies of the book at Christmas
time, and, of course, the balance was
in his favor. Do you know, 1 really
enjoyed the thing for a change.
By the way, that receiving of royal
ties, even if they are paid in check
form, is a good game. You sell your
stories for so much, and then, when
they are all printed, you are induced
to make a book of them. Well, you
have already been paid for them, so
that you stand to gain, whatever hap
pens. It may be only ten dollars
that will come to you, but it may be
$10,000. and the joy of looking
forward to royalty day is one
that cannot be expressed in words.
Yon do not hear much about the
sale of your book; yoar friends say
nothing about it but perhaps, they
are keeping-its nhenomenal success a
secret, from ycSYou live in the
country, and, you .never see the Book
man, so you do not know That the
six best sellers are, but you have
your suspicions. At last the fate
ful day arrives, the familiar envelope
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Lawyer
y upie
brother's estate and I went to old
Tom Cantwell and asked aim how
much he would charge me, and he al
mosttook my breath with the amount
he named. I knew he was a man of a
good deal of ability liked fun, and I
says to him. like this: Tell you what
arrangement to make, colonel. I've
got a mighty fine chicken out at my'
house and if you cam fetch out one to
whip him I'll engage you and pay your
price, but if my chicken whips yourn,
why yon do the work for nothin'.' He
was a man of ability and he agreed.
Ah, me, there ain't such lawyers about
here these days. I recollect' once
he"
"But did the fight come off?" some
one inquired.
"Oh, that fight? Tea. held tallow
candles for it one night, and you'd
have thought it was a snowln', the
air was so full of feathers. My wife
kept on a callin' out: 'Limuel, what
are you a doin' there in the smoke
house,' and I always answered: 'I'm
diggin' up a rat Go on to bed. I've
most got him now.'
"I don't know how long they 'fit
other roosters, were crowin' all around
the neighborhood when they got
h through. But my chicken crowed last.
and the colonel gave me his hand with
feathers a stickin' to it, and says, says
he: Lim, you've got me and I'll take
care of your business.
"Best settlement I ever made He
took care of the business right up, to
'the handle, and when he had got
through he lowed, he did, that he could
find a bird that could whip mine for
the estate said he'd put up his law
books and his house and lot against it,
but it looked too much like gamblin',
so I backed down. Oh, he would have
done it Ablest lawyer in the county.
It's a pity all lawsuits couldn't be set
tled somewhat in that way as fairly,
I mean.
"I was just a thinkin'," he added aft
er a few moments of silence, "how
much trouble the old world has been
put to tryin to govern man. Every
year or so the legislatures meet and
make laws and unmake them, always
experimentin' with man. The trouble
with him is he don't know what he
wants and don't know what to do with
it after he gets it And the lawyer is
the outgrowth of his restlessness and
his ignorance."
"Think there will ever come a time
waen there are no lawyers?" the young
advocate inquired, and the old man
scratched his head.
"Oh, yes, that time will come, but
it will be the time when there isn't
anything. Thelawyer has "come to stay
as long as the rest of us do. He's a
smart man and, a good feller for the
most part, and is nearly always willin
to forgive you when he has done you
a wrong, and I want to remark right
here that this argues the extremest of
liberality."
(Copyright, bv OpJe Read.)
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of your publisher comes to you by
mail, and as ycu open it a check, flut
ters out You remember the stories
of du Maurier and "Trilby," and how
his publishers sent him several thou
sands over and above the contract
agreement.
To be sure, it is only a check, and
not money, but, after all, any bank
will convert a check into money if
you are known, and your book has
doubtless made you known through
the wide world.
You pick up the check and close
your eyes until you are holding it
right In front of them. "The Second
National bank of New York. Pay to
the order of yourself $47.50. Harp,
Scrib. & Co."
It isn't quite what you thought it
would be. The book is not one of
the six yet Still, after the first dis
appointment is over, you reflect that
it is all clear gain, and you go to
the bank and have it converted Into
new dollar bills, and then you go down
town to the bookstore and you buy
thirty odd books that you have wanted
for years.
No, you don't You know very well
you don't, for the same mail that
brought the check brought its antith
esis in the form of a bill from the
gentleman who raised the price of
beef on you, and the other gentleman
who charged you eight dollars a ton
for coal, and like a good little man
you sit down and you write out two
checks which take up 42 of the dollars.
But take my advice and get the bet
ter of fortune by taking the five-fifty
that is left and your wife and going
into town for a small jamboree. Re
member that a jamboree, small though
It be, remains in the memory long
after the memory of a paid bill has
left you.
Pay the bills, but save enough out
of the cost of your clothes for a little
jamboree. Clothes warm the body,
but jamborees 'warm the cockles of
the heart, and a man who neglects the
cockles of the heart to put Jaeger
underwear on his lusty limbs has
failed in his duty toward himself
and his better half."
'(Copyright; by James Pott Co.)
Useful Life Neari'ng End.
China's govenment has granted two
years' leave of absence to Sir Robert
Hart, after repeated application for
permission to get "one more sight of
hone and friends before the final
adien must be said," as he wrote re
cently to a friend. Sir Robert Hart
is 73, and few men have received such
world-wide homage. He has been dec
orated by Belgium, Austria. Italy, Hol
land, Prussia, Portugal and England,
while China, of course, has loaded him
with her peculiar favors in the form
of buttons and feathers. Speaking
of his much-desired leave of absence.
Sir Robert Hart wrote: "The months
and years are slipping away and both
youth and middle age are things of
the past" ,
, "Dreadful," moaned the opera sing
er, who had been, robbed of $1,000,
"why it takes me nearly -ten minster
of hard work to earn that muck.
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JEHU AND,
ELISHA
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STORY BY THE "WCHWAY AND
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Scripture Authority 2 Kings, chap
ter 9.
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SERMONETTE.
Elisha, in the anointing of
Jehu, carried eut the commis
sion which had been given to
Elijah over 20 years before.
Thus are we reminded that
God's plans extend beyond the
life-span of any one "man, and
we also find illustration of the
words of Jesus: "I sent you to
reap that whereon ye bestowed
n labor; other men labored,
and ye are entered into
their labors. Paul was con
scious of how the Divine tran
scended the. human when he
wrote to the believers at Cor
inth: "I have planted, Apollos
watered; but God gave the in
crease. So then neither is he
that planteth any thing, neithsr
he that watereth; but God that
giveth.the increase."
God reveals his plans only-to
those of his servants who in
faith and patience can wait God's
time of fulfillment.
The wicked house of Ahab,
and that wickedest of wicked
women, Jezebel, the wife of
Ahab, must have been a griev
ous trial to the prophet Elisha.
It must have taken a vast
amount of the grace of God and
of faith to have waited through
those long years for the com
ing of the righteous judg
ment ef God upon such wicked
ness. How often perhaps dur
ing those years the impatient
impulse must have seized
Elisha to go to Jehu and tell
him of God's plan for him, so
that it wou)d hasten his efforts
to seize the kingdom. But as
often would come the con
sciousness that man must wait
the fullness of God's time, and
that to attempt to force the
hand of God, as one might say,
would be to invite not only fail
ure, but shame and dishonor.
No, the prophet must patiently
bide God's time. Hs must wait
through the years and slowly
but surely see the wickedness
of the house of Ahab come to
its full fruition. Persecution,
trial, famine and the pestilence
of war must be endured. With
the Psalmist, Elisha could say:
"I had fainted, unless I had be
lieved to see the goodness of
the Lord in the land of the liv
ing.' But at last there Is al
ways an at last with the Lord
the time comes when God
speaks and the prophet acts,
Then is that fulfilled concerning
which God had spoken so many,
many years before, and the war
rior Jehu who so unconsciously
had been growing and develop
ing through the years to fit into
God's plans, suddenly flashes
forth as the avenging hand of
God's judgment upon the
wicked.
Jehu showed a commendable
zeal in behalf of moral and re
ligious reform in Israel, but in
his personal life and conduct he
fell short of the measure of
God's desire for him, as does
many another modern day re
former. It is recorded of Jehu
that notwithstanding his cour
ageous and energetic crusade
against the great evils that were
cursing the land of Israel, he
"took no heed to walk in the
law of the Lord God of Israel,
with all his heart' It is a
great thing to be identified with
a great reform, but how sad at
the last to be shut out from
fellowship with the God whom
position and ability has en
abled one to serve.
THE STORY.
THE prophet Elisha returned from
Ramoth-Gilead disappointed and
perplexed. He had gone thither under
the confident expectation of anointing
Jehu king over Israel, but no word
had come from God directing such ac
tion. He had waited impatiently for
several days looking for Divine light
and leading, but no Divine message
came, and at last he had returned
home, as we have said, disappointed
and deeply perplexed.
Years before when Elijah was about
to be taken from him into heaven he
had laid the solemn charge upon him
to anoint Jehu king over Israel, telling
him how the Lord had spoken to him
in the mountain and had told him that
Jehu was to become king in the room
of Ahab.
At that time Jehu was a mere.yonth
promising, to be sure, but only be
ginning his career in the army and
Elijah had understood that the time
had not arrived to anoint Jehu. When
King Ahab had been killed In the
battle with the king or Syria, the
prophet Elijah had not been surprised
or disappointed when Ahab's son
Ahaziah had come to the throne, not
withstanding the fact that the young
warrior Jehu had returned from the
battle with a glorious record for valor,
and had proved himself a leader of
great ability. Elijah had felt that the
time "had not 'yet come when the word
of the Lord was to be fulfilled by the
anointing of Jehu.
But when the wicked, iniquitous
reign of two years had ended .in the
ignominious death of Ahaziah as the
result of his fall during a drunken rev
elry, and Joram, another son of Ahab,
had come to the 'throne without any
apparent opposition, Elijah had indeed
been disappointed.
It was then that he had spoken to
Elisha of the commission God kad
laid upon him to anoint Jehu king
over Israel, and only a few short
weeks after that he had been snatched
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fross earth to heaven. And ever since,
that .hoar Elisha had beef, watching
intently the coarse of events 1st Is
neicbascioua of tke soleras re
sponsibtllty which Elijah had placed
apo-unim of falilling the commission
Wariolnf Jehu Icing over Israel. Bnt
as he had .waited through the years
there had come bo word or sign from
God, and his spirit was sore vexed
by the delay. Then had come tke
war with .Syria; and the well-sigh mor
tal wounding of King Joram. Then
Elisha had said:
"Now is the time come when Jehu
shall be anointed king over Israel, and
the judgment of God will fall upon the
wicked house of Ahab."
' In obedience to this .conviction.
Elisha had hastened to Ramoth-Gilead
and was there when Jehu and the
other captains of Israel's army re
turned. Day after day he had wait
ed, momentarily expecting the death
of King Joram, and the arrival of the
auspicious moment- when God's word
would come to him to anoint Jehu.
-But Joram, to .the surprise of every
one, grew stronger and was finally
able to go to Jezreel to regain his
full health and 'vigor, and at last,
as we have said, Elisha had left Ramoth-Gilead
for home, disappointed
and perplexed.
Then what a struggle ensued in the
heart of the prophet. Impatience and
doubt strove for the mastery, and
feverishly the prophet watched events
at Jezreel and at Ramoth-Gilead. The'
reports from the former place were,
that Joram was fast recovering from
his wounds, and the fact that Ahaziah,
king of Judah, went down to Jezreel to
visit Joram indicated a continuation
.of the alliance between the two kings
which would strengthen the hand's of
both.
King Joram at Jezreel also received
reports from Ramoth-Gilead which
were favorable; his captains to all out
ward appearances remaining loyal to
him. In fact they had sent repeated
messages to the king wishing him a
full recovery and a speedy return to
Ramoth-Gilead. True, there was smol
dering in the breast of each captain
of the king's hosts the fires of dis
loyalty, but each was fearful to show
his hand and be the first to take the
step of revolt. And while each
professed loyalty to the king and sent
messages to the king at Jezreel, each
was watching for the opportunity
which would give him the balance of
power.
Thus matters stood when Elisha had
visited Ramoth-Gilead with the bur
den of desire to fulfill his commission,
but as he had waited there had come
no word from God and at last he had
departed from Ramoth-Gilead.
And what of Jehu during these days?
While no hint had ever come to him
of the Divine word which had been
spoken concerning him there had
grown up within him an irresistible
ambition to rule over the nation.
"But," said he to himself, for he
dared not trust his confidences to any
man, "if this thing is to be it must
be because God Is in it, and I must
wait for him to open up the way. I
know the wickedness of the house of
Ahab and I know the judgments which
God has spoken against them by the
mouth of his prophet"
The presence of the prophet in Ramoth-Gilead
had filled him full of ex
pectancy, but when news was brought
him that Elisha had finally left and
gone to his own city his hopes were
dashed to the ground, and he sum
moned the other captains that they
might plan for the return of the king,
"for," said he, "the king is making
good recovery and Ahaziah, king of
Judah, hath gone to visit him at Jez
reel." "We are with thee in this thing,"
they all exclaimed with one accord,
when they had come together. But
scarce had they begun their meeting
when there burst abruptly into their
midst a young man of most unusual
appearance, his manner and dress be
tokening that he belonged to the sons
of the prophets. Every eye was fixed
upon him, as he exclaimed:
"I have an errand to thee, O cap-'
tain." ' I
Jehu felt the hot blood rush to his'
head as he suddenly realized that his
call had come, but he managed to blurt
out:
"Unto which of us all, seeing we be-
all captains of the king's hosts."
"To thee, O captain."
And he went with him, and when he
returned the consciousness that the
anointing oil from God was upon him
made him bold to execute all that it
was God's purpos'e should be brought
to pass.
Saloon Town Reformed.
"We've got a town on our road the
boys call 'Hell.' If you want a real
hard thing to try out the Y. M. C. A.
on. put it there." This was the remark
made ten years ago by a railroad pres
ident to an international Y. M. C. A.
secretary, who had urged that this
organization could better the condi
tions of living and the service on the
road. "That suits us," said the sec
retary. The company put up $4,500
for an equipment, and .the citizens
$2,500. At the end of a month saloon
men protested that the new organiza
tion was ruining their business. One
of them, who had the biggest paying
corner saloon in town, said his month
ly receipts had fallen off from over
$3,000 to $700, and he or the associa
tion had to quit Now a handsome
Episcopal church occupies his corner.
A brakeman who came back to the
town after an absence of two years,
hunted for his former , associates in
their accustomed seats in the saloon
and found them In (he Y. M. C. A.
building.
Anniversary of Porcelain.
4 lie iu uuuuicuui anniversary oi
the discovery of the secret for making
hard or kaolinic porcelain the "Dres
den" and "Meissen" all the world
admire; will be celebrated in Dres
den in January next by a grand exhi
bition showing the historic' develop
ment of porcelain making in Saxony,
as well as France, England, Prussia
and Denmark.
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Bible Money Terms.
The money mentioned in the Bible
would possess the following equiva
lents to-day: A shekel of silver, 32
cents; a shekel of gold, $10; a talent
of silver, $2,000; a talent of gold, $30,c
000; a piece of silver or penny, 17
cents; a gerah, 3 cents; "a farthing, 1
cent; a mite, less than a- farthing.
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Rapid Strides of Capital in Population
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WASHINGTON. The census, taken
recently by the police force of
the District of Columbia indicates
that the national capital Is growing
in population at an exceptional rate.
The increase in inhabitants for the
last year is reported as 9,812. which
would mean a growth, if steadily main
tained, of almost 100,000 for the cur
rent decade.
Of course such a rate of growth has
not been maintained since 1900. Ac
cording to the federal census of that
year, Washington's population was
278,718. The population reported by
the police in 1908 is 339,403. so that
the increase in eight years has been
60,685. By 1910 Washington may be
expected to gain at least 15,000 more
inhabitants and its population to rise
to about 355,000.
Compared with its nearest rival
Baltimore Washington is making
rapid strides forward. Baltimore
percentage of growth between 1890
and 1900 was 17.1. while Washington's
was 20.9. The disparity In expansion
Former Blacksmith
BEFORE Jim Tawney got into poli
tics up in Minnesota he was a
blacksmith. He was so rough that
they had to throw him down to put
him into a boiled shirt, some of his
warmest admirers say.
That blacksmith training proved
mighty good experience for him, and,
applying blacksmith methods to his
congressional career, he has forged
to the front so rapidly that they do
say down here in Washington that
if Speaker Cannon doesn't look out
some day he will get run over, be
cause Jim Tawney is coming with
wonderful strides. t
Tawney is the man who would be
picked outsat a glance as the real
ward politician of the house. He is
just the kind of a man the voter al
ways finds ready to tell him how to
vote at the primary; the type of man
who always leads the revolt in a cut-
War Department Seeking a Legal Drink
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THE war department is looking for a
beverage to take the place of
beer and whisky at army posts. The
beverage must not be of the class of
drinks prohibited by the anticanteen
law.
The federal courts have never
passed upon the question of the per
centage of alcohol which will render
a beverage an intoxicant The state
courts also have been chary of decid
ing the question. In certain cases the
authorities have spoken, however.
Thus, in Rhode Island, it has been
held that where beer contained 2.S9
per cent, of alcohol no evidence was
necessary to show it was intoxicating.
In Texas, a tonic containing from 3
to 4 per cent, of alcohol has been
held to be intoxicating liquor. By
Senators Knox and
UNITED States senators often be
come good friends, but somehow
they are not prone to becom
ing real chummy with one another.
Exceptions occur from time to time
to prove the rule. One of these excep
tions applies to Senator Philander C.
Knox of Pennsylvania and Senator W.
Murray Crane of Massachusetts. If
the afternoon wanes without their
meeting, one is likely to start out to
see where the other is and to learn
what has happened.
Often the Knox automobile and the
Crane automobile exchange honks in
the morning. Not infrequently the
senators ride to the capitol in the
same car. When the luncheon hour
comes. Senator Crane may descend to
the committee on rules, perhaps herald
his advent by turning out the lights
in the vestibule, and then lead his
crony off to the senate restaurant
The fondness that Senators Crane
and Knox evince for eating together
Is reminiscent of the fondness that
former Senator Edmunds of Vermont
and the late Senator Allen G. Thur
man of Ohio used to have for drinking
together. That was in the earlier
days, when drinking at the capitol was
not frowned upon.
All the oldsters in political Wash
ington are fond of recalling that story,
how the two senators kept a black bot
tle in the room of the committee on
judiciary. They were certain to ad
journ there twice or thrice every after
noon that the senate held a long ses
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will undottbtedly be greater la tlMK
decade from 1900 to 191t. for Balti
more's growth was checked for a year
or more by the losses of the great VI
fire of 1904, while Washington's
growth has been stimulated by- enor
mous building operations saost of
them conducted under the auspices of
the national government
The check to business resalting
from last fall's panic will also be felt
less in Washington than ia perhaps
any other American city. The na
tional capital does not depend for a
livelihood on manufacturers or cosa
merce, and its workers have steady
employment assured them because- tke
government's activities are being coa
tlnually extended. '
In its physical aspect Washington
has gained enormously ia attractive
ness in the last eight or tea years. It
Is an ideal residence city, aad its
charms appeal most potently to Amer
icans with leisure enough to enjoy
them. It has become the winter home A
of families of wealth and refinement
from all parts of the union, aad its
quiet, order and beauty make living
within its borders constant satisfac-1
tion. It still has great potentialities
in the way of architectural develop
ment, and Its material prosperity Is se
cured by ever-broadening activities of
the great governmental machine.
a Power in Congress
and-drled convention In short, tke
practical politician who gets out the
vote.
Tawney. when he came to congress,
wasn't welcomed within the big tent
He had to wait around on the outside.
Then the blacksmith got busy. He
just walked off the reservation, taking,
enough insurgent Republicans with
him to spill the beans for the bis
five. And so it came to pass that
the big fellows reckoned with Taw
ney. and now he is chairman of tke
most important committee in the
house appropriations. Hon. Jim is a
fighter from Plghtersville. But he is
that kind of a fighter who knows when
to fight and when to let the other fel
low do the fighting.
Only once has Tawney been
whipped. That once came from Con
gressman Goebel of Cincinnati, whea
he got the mail carriers pay Increased,
in spite of Tawney and Chairman
Overstreet. The whipping didn't
tickle Tawney. So, when the fight
to hold down the appropriation on the
agricultural bill came up Tawney
quit guarding the treasury and let
Scott of Kansas tackle the job. Taw
ney went to his committee room. The
farmers wiped up the floor with Scott
the laws of Massachusetts it is held
that a beverage containing more than
one per cent, of alcohol at 60 Fahren
heit is intoxicating.
The law in regard to the nonsale of
intoxicants in post exchanges, must, ot
course, be followed' In good faith by
the army. In the absence of any fed
eral decision as to the question at Is
sue, the authorities must fall back on
the decision of the state courts. These
vary materially, and, therefore, the
department may seek the solution in
a practical way by ascertaining the
view taken in prohibition states as to
the sale of any given drink.
Where post exchanges are situated
in a prohibition state it is considered
entirely safe to prohibit the sale in
such exchanges of preparations not al
lowed to be sold under the prohibition'
laws of the state. Where such ex
changes are situated in nonprohibl
tion states it would be safe to ascer
tain whether any specific drink is al
lowed sold in any prohibition state
and let the exchange be guided accord
ingly. Crane Real Chummy
sion. It was at first a marvel why the
two men seemed to have the same
thought at the same moment, and be
gan to make tracks simultaneously
from different parts of the senate
chamber one being a Democrat and
the other a Republican toward that
committee room.
It turned out that they had prear
ranged signals. The "Old Roman's"
signal was to pull out that famous red
bandanna handkerchief and to blow
his nose with clarion loudness.
Cruade Against the Fly.
As the national crusade against the
house fly is now in progress, supplant
ing temporarily the international Issue
against mosquitoes and rats. Prof.
Underwood of Massachusetts declares
that one fly killed this month may pre
vent the existence of 32,000,000 by
midsummer. Such is the prolific na
ture of the common fly. Such, too.
is the ignorance of the past that when
a Roman emperor was found killing
flies as a habit he was not hailed as
a benefactor, but was finally dethroned
as too trivial to be tolerable as a
Roman despot Still it appears in the
light of history as a whole that this
is a good time to invest as much as
ten cents in a first installment of fly
paper.
Letter Long Afloat
A correspondent writes: While sail
ing off Felixstowe on August bank
holiday last year I addressed a post
card to myself, stamped it and placed
it in a bottle which I threw; in the
sea. I had quite forgotten about it
but the other morning I received the
card through the post, bearing the
Tromsoe (Norway) postmark and the
sender's name and address. The bot
tle had been floating about nearly
eight months. London Chronicle.
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