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miiiiiiiiiiiimniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiinrniininininiiin4imij VAGABONDS OF THE EARTH -BY- ARTHUR D. How DEN SMITH iinninninnnninmmuiininiinMimiiniinmminiiiiiimmmnnn (Copyright, by Rldfway Co.) HAVE often wished that I could bring those six men to­ gether, and yet, on the face of It, the wish is Impossible of fulfillment. They are scattered to the corners of the earth. Some I have heard from through round­ about channels, but most have passed be­ yond my ken. All but two were chance acquaintances, with whom I spent an hour or so. There was Helmslund for Instance. His line is birds--sea-birds, although, as far aB,«that goes, anything wild and unknown attracts Helmslund. I dare­ say you never heard of Helmslund. You would soon enough, though, if you undertook to collect rare birds as a hobby, Helmslund is indispensable to scores of collectors in this country and Europe. I met him one Sunday afternoon at the house of a friend who possesses a really remarkable collection of North American birds. "Odd sort of fellow--Helmslund," our host later remarked. "I've known him several years, now, and he's Just Setting to the point where he gives me a sketchy account of the main in­ cidents of Interest In his trips." "What trips?" I asked. "After birds," replied my host. •That's Helmslund's work. He gets birds, not for the feather people--he would regard that as sacrilege--but for collectors like myself. He goes everywhere to get them. I don't sup­ pose there's a country he hasn't been to in search of some particular spe­ cimen." And that was how I happened to hear the story of Helmslund's battle for life on the wrathy waters of Lake Kibushka, far up by the Arctic circle in the grim desolation of the Siberian steppes. It had happened the sum­ mer before, on a trip he had taken to secure some specimens of the rosy gull for a European collector. With a single companion and a cou­ ple of dog-teams, he was working around the country, paying especial at­ tention to the marshy tracts bordering several large lakes, which are the hab­ itat of various species of water fowl. There is probably no more desolate country in the world than this portion Of the steppes. Helmslund soon found that the rosy gulls had deserted the shores of Lake Kibushka, and he determined to cross the lake, which was about twenty miles wide, add try bis luck in the country beyond. Se he secured a craft which he called a dingey and which was large enough to hold his compan­ ion and three of the dogs, besides himself, and the party set out early In the morning. They propelled the craft by paddling, and It was slow work. At first, everything went well. Then a brisk breeze sprang up, agi­ tating the surface of the lake until the waves became as large as those of the open sea. To add to the confusion, the dogs became frightened and start­ ed to quarrel among themselves Before they realized the danger, the boat had capsized and the two men and three dogs were struggling in the water. Helmslund kept his wits about him and helped his companion to swim to the overturned dingey. The dogs had already clustered about it and were fighting desperately in the wa­ ter to climb on the bottom, but Helms­ lund pushed through them ruthlessly and helped the other man to get a seat, before he followed him. Luckily, he had retained possession of his pad­ dle and he used it to beat off the dogs, crazy with fear as they felt the stead­ ily Increasing weight of their heavy water-soaked fur. Snarling fiercely, the beasts attacked the boat again and again, snapping at the men's legs and leaping out of the water in wild attempts to seize their throats. Early In the afternon, Helmslund's companion fainted and dropped off. My friend said that the tears stood in the little man's eyes as he told of this occurrence. He told it quite 6lmply, as he told the whole story, Indeed-- without any straining for effect. It was only by direct questioning that my friend discovered that Helmslund had fallen off the boat himself in his efforts to save the other man, who Ahait runk like a stone. When Helms- f lun<i gained the boat a second time ' he was utterly exhausted and barely able to crawl on to its bottom. He had lost his paddle and had no means cf directing his progress or even of determining in which direction he was going. Fortunately for him, the wind was on shore, and late in the afternoon he drifted within sight of land. The "sight gave him renewed energy to strip off his shirt and use it to signal to a village of natives. Whenever I smell the sickly-sweet scent of South American orchids a vision rises before me of another one of the six--a fever-racked Apecter whom I met toiling down the gang­ plank of a fruit-steamer from La Guayra. His name was Grayson, and he belonged to that legion of reck­ less adventurers, the orchid hunters. Grayon had gone to Venezuela some months before, with a vague de­ termination to strike into the jungle country in the direction of the Guian- as. In a cafe in Caracas, however, he heard a tale which caused him to change all his plans. This tale, or, rather, legend, had filtered Into the city through the me­ dium of up-country planters, and had been imparted to them by tame In­ dians, who in turn, had heard it from their wild brethren of the jungle. It had to do with a mysterious place known as "El Lugar de los Flores Venenosos" (The Place of the Poison­ ous Flowers), a great clump of weirdly beautiful flowers, exhaling a deadly perfume, which was said to be located in the dense wilderness that lies about the headwaters of the Orinoco. This perfume was noticeable two days off; within a day's march It was sickening; and by the time a man was within sight of the flowers, ha was overcome by the intense smelL With the instinct of the orchid-hunt­ er, Grayson divined that the legend implied the presence of his quarry. He scouted the melodramatic features of the tale, setting them down to the imagination of the countless untutored individuals through whom it had passed, and without more ado he set to work organizing an expedition. Strange to say, he preferred to be the only white man, although he took with him an old half-breed who had been his companion on several other ex­ peditions, and a large train of Indian porters. One morning there was a percepti­ ble odor of flowers In the air; by noon it had increased considerably. When they camped that night, the jungle- smells had been entirely supplanted. Their nostrils were filled with the cloying scont. A number of the In­ dians refused to go any farther, but Grayson, the half-breed and a half dozen of the stanchest porters pushed on in the morning The perfume grew heavier and heavier as they advanced. Finally, one of the posters collapsed in his tracks. Another went down, and another. GrayBon could feel his senses leaving him. although he strug­ gled on. He said he had never smoked opium, but he imagined that his ten- Another one of the six was Car- riere. He was big and quiet, with a deceptive placidity--not at sill the sort of man you expected to meet if you had ever heard of him. Like many other adventurers. Car- riere-ran away at sea. Like all who have ever done so, he paid for his fun In sweat and *gony. He was a sailor before the mast for several years, on coasting vessels, tramp steamers, trading schooners In the Far East. He was in ttie Philippines when the war broke out, and he was captured by the Insurgents and held prise ner for several months. He was engaged In vague. Ill-formed revolu­ tionary plots; he joined secret soci­ eties that have for their aim the emancipation of British India: and he did many other things In many other places th*t took him down into the deeps of life. Finally, he drifted to the Balkans, about the time Macedonia was in the throes of the terrible revolt against Turkish rule. Carriere became in­ tensely interested In this blind strug­ gle of a Christian people for free­ dom, and he determined to let the world know some o* the inside details of prevailing conditions. He believed, too, that he could be of help to the revolutionary chiefs in perfecting their organization in the villages and towns 01 the five vilayets. In the course of nearly two years' work he had carried out his entire plan of orginlzation, except in Salon­ ika and some of the territory around that city. He left that to the last, be­ cause it was the most difficult task, and he thought that, with the pres­ tige of what he had accomplished, suc­ cess would be more easy. The chief of the local committee in Salonika had rather a sinister reputation. It had never been proved against him, but there were rumors of blackmail. For several weeks, Carriere lay In hiding in one of the suburbs of the city, receiving prominent members of the committee and talking over the new schemes he tdvocated. He had no suspicions at first, although he did not like the local voivode, and It came as a wholly unexpected shock when his secretary wad shot down on the streets at night, after he had ventured out for a brief walk. The local com­ mittee claimed that a Greek had done it, but Carriere was suspicious. Two nights passed, and then the old woman In whose house he was hid­ ing came to him with a scared look on her face. She had heard two men talking in her garden about askares and the approaches to the house. One of these men was the local voivode. A CTTJZIPPFP OFF JV/S <M/£>R*RTD d/CW/il 7V> A sations must have resembled those of an habitual user. He was sure that he could see the flowers, huge, colorous, many-hued clusters of them, the most magnificent collection of orchids in the world, gleaming entic­ ingly through the jungle trees; and then he, himself, collapsed. When he regained consciousness they were back at the camp where they had left the rest of the porters. Two of the men who had accompanied him were dead; another was mad. He and the rest, who had brought him off. were horribly sick. With the madness of despair, he begged his men to try again with hiw. Bu. they refused. The con­ tinued eflect of the scent was almost Intoxicating, so they turned back. Their way thither had been fraught with perils. It was a Sunday excur­ sion compared with the march home­ ward. The baleful Influence of the flowe.-s followed close at their heels. It was always with them, like a human vengeance. They were persecuted by fever; jaguars and serpents took their toil; the blow-guns of the Indians, the stunted people of the woods, slew with poisoned arrows. In the end, a handful staggered out on the banks of the Orinoco and sought their way to­ ward the frontier of civilization Gray­ son was sick for months after he reached Caracas. He was still sick when he reached New York. That was enough for Carriere. He left the house in broad daylight, trusting entirely to luck; and on his way out of the city he met a de­ tachment of troops marching to sur­ round his hiding place. They halted him, but a Bulgarian girl, a friend of his future wife, who was standing near by, claimed him as her brother, and he was allowed to go on. In Bulgaria he married the Russian girl who had been his principal help­ er and incentive, and cast about for some new task. Young Ford was as different from Carriere or the others as a man well could be. I have known Ford for some years, and I think be Is, without ex­ ception. the cheekiest man I have ever encountered For one thing, he is a newspaper man--when he Is anything, that is Ford never works unless he has to. and he always makes sure that any position he accepts does not en­ tail undue effort, mental or physical. It was several years ago that Ford came to me and said he was going to South America. By means unknown he had got together about $2,000, and he fancied that 1 e could make at least as much as he spent by doing special descriptive articles of his travels. His one mistake was In electing to go by way of Europe, more especially, by way of Paris I knew the hold Paris had on Ford, so I was not sur­ prised at the outcome--although I did not hear the full stccy of his wande*- i ingB for many mouths. We knew ha : had sailed from England for Rio la tcm cabin de luxe of an English pack- erhoat. From weak to week, for pos- slbly two months, we received letters from him. Then came the silence. The silence continued for six months, until one morning I received a note written on Americaa Line pa­ per and postmarked Southampton. It waB signed by Ford. "Shall arrive on Philadelphia with­ in 48 hours after you receive this, short of cash. Do you remember that ten dollars you owe tie?" That was lmpudenee for yon! I should have knowi who wrote that note, without a signature. However, I clapped a ten-dollar bill In an envel* ope and mailed It promptly. A week later Ford dropped in to see me. "Much obliged for the cash, old man," he said. "It came in handy. You see, they trimmed me beautiful­ ly in Paris, and I started out for Rio with my Bteamship ticket and barely enough coin to last me three weeks. In fact, when I got to the Chilean frontier town across the Andes, I was strapped. That made me sick of the whole Job. and I decided it was time to head for home. There was a prince of a British consul there, who loaned me a ten-spot and got me s pass for donkey transportation across the mountains to the Argex* tine railroad. "Just by blind luek, I'd chipped a qualntance with the chief engineer of the construction gang on the Argen­ tine side, and so when I hit him for a pass to Buenoa Ay res. he ponied up like a good one. "I was feeling pretty disconsolate and I went Into a cafe near the wa­ ter front to forget myself for an hour or two. That was the time when Bra­ zil and the Argentine were seeing which could build warships the quick­ est, you know, and there was a big Braziliano sitting in the place, with his feet up, passing remarks to the occupants In general. As soon as he saw me, he concentrated his attention, apparently on the supposition that be­ cause 1 was small I must be easy. I stood about two sentences and then 1 went for him. We were rolling pro­ miscuously around the restaurant, and I was getting a bit the worst of it, when a little man with an arm like a steam-flail came through the uoor Aft- er he got through with my Brazilian friend there were no scraps to be picked up. "Well, we shook hands and told each other we'd always been longing to meet, and afterwards we had a drink. The little man was a British­ er, captain of a tramp steamer due to sail the next afternoon, and when I told him of my troubles he clapped me on the back and offered me free passage to Rotterdam. Til have to put you down on the books as cabin boy or steward,' he said. 'But you'll do no work. Come as my guest; I'll be glad to have you.' He was a prince, that skipper. Fed ue at his own ta­ ble, gave me his own cigars and wine, and when we reached Rotterdam he staked me to Paris. "Aunt Jane was in Paris, fortunate­ ly for me. and I think she was so glad at the prospect of getting ms back to America that she dlvied up without any side remarks." I never really knew Chatton, the fifth of my vagabonds. I had been dining at a club In Picadllly with an engineering friend, and as we were passing out through the club parlors my friend drew me aside to make room for a big, broad shouldered man wearing blue spectacles. "That's Chatton,*' he whispered. "He was one of the principal assistants In the con­ struction of the new trans-Andean line.. He 'B always had bad eyes, and the doctor told me he ought not to work above the snow line, but that wouldn't do for Chatton. He wants to be where the fun Is. You see, en­ gineering as a science means little to him. It's the game he likes--the fight to overmaster some problem. Poor Chatton! Whenever there was a des­ perate job to be done, he was bound to be on it--and all for a beggarly six or seven pounds a week, I suppose." "Why do you say 'Poor Chatton T " 1 asked. "Because he'll never get over this latest eye trouble. He got It from the snow glare, just as the doctors said he would. "But what will the man do?" 1 ex­ claimed. "How Is he going to live?" "He'll live--survive, rather," rejoli* ed my friend, bitterly. "His people have money. But he'll never work again. Every one who knows him Is always cut up. And he feels It, too, although he 'B deuced plucky about It." If you have been In the habit of frequenting police courts or cheap lodging houses it la possible that you have met John Kelly. As near as I could make out from stray admissions Kelly made to me, he gave up a reputable position in life to undertake a study of the psy­ chology of tramps and thieves. He used to speak with genuine pride of his researches, and he was particular­ ly proud of what he termed "his life work"--the compilation of a diction­ ary of thieves' slang, together with a compendium of the rules of house­ breaking and safe-cracking. Nobody was ever permitted to get an extend­ ed view of this. For a dollar or two, now and then, when the man was hard up, he w< uld permit one to copy cut a few stray phrases; but he was very suspicious, as a rule, and believed that every one was in a conspiracy to tear the fruit of his years of labor away from him. What became of him I never heard. He drifted away, his manuscript with him, to the end steadily refusing the propositions that he regarded as lit- tie less than insulting. NFW FEATURES ILLINOIS EXPOSITION WILL BE HELD IN SPRINGFIELD OCTOBER 4-12. THURSDAY IS CHICAGO DAY Monoplanes Will Carry United States Mall From the Grounds Postal Station to Railroad Post Office. Springfield.--The Illinois state fair has become so great that It requires the genius of a circus poster writer to describe It. Each year Secretary J. K. Dlcklrson believes the culmina­ tion of the state fair's size, importance and educational advantage has been reached. But when the time rolls around for the next year it is discov­ ered that modern inventions furnish new thrillers. Por 1912--October 4-12--the Illinois 8tate Fair promises a fleet of air­ ships, and all are to be in the air at one time. The 160 acres embracing the fair grounds will be dotted with air birds and balloons. The monoplane has not yet been seen at the state fair, and there will be two of them this year--a French creation, manipulated by a Frenchman, LeTourneau, and an American product, the Johnson, of Terre Haute, Ind., driven by Louis J. Johnson, the patentee and Inventor. There will be frequent races between these machines, and Prof. Johnson ridicules the suggestion that any aero­ plane on earth can beat his Ameiican- built car. The monoplanes will carry U. S. mail from the fair grounds postal sta­ tion to some railroad postoffice near Springfield. The mall will be stamped "Aerial Mall, Illinois State Fair Sta­ tion." "We have had the Wright bl-planes for two years," said Secretary Dlcklr­ son, "and they gave splendid satisfac­ tion. This year, however, we will have a bi plane of the Curtlss type, and Paul Studenskey will handle it. He is said to be a devil-may-care fellow, who flirts with death every minute he is in the air. 1 don't know about that, but he is well recommended. Madame De Vonda will fly in a hot-air balloon --I believe she is to go up about half a mile and then come down in a para­ chute." Automobile day, Saturday, October 12, will form the usual grand climax to the state fair. It Is staged this year on more elaborate lines than ever at­ tempted on a circular rack. Hereto fore there has been only one star, but this year there will be several drivers of world-wid fame, headed by Louis Dlsbrow, the youngest and most suc­ cessful of this year's crop. Joe Nikrent, the young Callfornlan, with several world's records, and "Wild Bill" Endi- cott are certain to be among the en­ trants. These men have laughed at death so often that they have no fear. That Chicago Intends this year to observe its "Chicago Day" as usual is indicated from a letter which Secretary J. K. Dicklrson of the state board of agriculture has received fr6m H. F. Miller, business manager for the Chicago Association of Com­ merce. "At the meeting of the trade ex­ tension committee of this associa­ tion," Mr. Miller writes, "it was decid­ ed to request the state board of agriculture to designate Thursday, Ocober 10, 1912, as 'Chicago Day' at the Illinois 6tate fair, as the same day has been designated for the last two years, and we trust It will be satis­ factory, to you. "We expect to bring a large special train with 200 or more visitors from Chicago, and in addition to this num­ ber we will try to induce many others from Chicago to visit the fair." Mayor C. S. Edwards of Litchfield writes a brief note fixing upon Thurs­ day as Litchfield day. Taylorvllle has not yet replied, neither has Decatur. Would Amend School Laws. Edwin R. Wright, president of the dtate Federation of Labor, left for his home in Chicago1^" after having spent several days in Springfield gatl*- ering statistics from the state school authorities for use in assembling an argument for the amendment of the state school laws, which he will pre­ sent to the state convention of the Federation of Labor at the coming meeting at Danville. In the opinion of Mr. Wright tha laws of the state should be so amend­ ed as to provide for compulsory edu­ cation until the age of sixteen years Instead of fourteen, for the reason that at the age of fourteen the boy has not acquired a knowledge sufficient to en­ able him to decide for himself what trade or profession he wishes to fol­ low, and to acquire the fascination of the work that naturally draws the youth into a pursuit of that calling. In other words, Mr. Wright advocated keeping the boy in school until he be­ comes sufficiently engrossed in a par­ ticular line of work to Impel him to follow it. and not leave school and drift into the first thing that offers it­ self. Some interesting figures have been collected by Mr. Wright in connection with his compilation of these statis­ tics--figures which have awakened him to the necessity of keeping the boy in school 83 long as possible. He has found that oi) the average the lad who quits school at the age of four­ teen years earns at twenty-five J1J.75 the week; whereas, the boy who re­ mains in school until he finishes his high school course, earns at twenty- five $31 a week. According to these figures, it is worth the while of any father from a purely material stand­ point to allow his son $3,000 a year for the years he passes In high school. Mr. Wright recognizes further the necessity of merging the grade and high school courses so that the lad may study subjects that interest him and lead him to remain in school b^ fore he has lost Interest in studying. Little Spread of Dread Disease. No alarm is felt by. the state health department that the spread of infant tile paralysis will become so great in the state as to result in an epidemic. Dr. J. A. Egan, secretary of the state bohrd of health, Btated that there were very few cases in Chicago. In Springfield there are but five at pres­ ent, and there have been no deaths here for three weeks from the disease. Dr. Egan yesterday made the follow­ ing statement: 'While the alarm felt In Illinois over the existence of Infantile par­ alysis (acute poliomyelitis) is all out of proportion to the number of cases existing in the state, it Is more or less justifiable in view of the malig­ nancy of this mysterious malady, which, as has been aptly stated, leaves in its wake cripples who will remain objects of sympathy, often as objects of charity, to the next gen­ eration.' "Infantile paralysis kills from eight to fifteen per cent of those attacked, and of the number that ultimately survive, more than eighty per cent are permanently paralyzed. "But happily there is no undue prev­ alence of infantile paralysis in Illi­ nois. Indeed, the cases are compare atively few. Epidemics have been reported, but none exist. Wide­ spread alarm was caused recently by the announcement of five cases in Springfield, which was really one case to every 10,000 or 12,000 Inhab­ itants. This alarm was unfounded." "LET TO Illinois Wheat Crop 8mall. The wheat crop of Illinois this year is only one-third that of last year and is the smallest since 1860, according to figures of the state board of agri­ culture. The yield of both winter and spring wheat--no distinction is made in the reports made to the state boaru of agriculture by its correspondents, as winter and spring wheat is har­ vested at the same time--is 6,315,205 bushels, against 22,722,316 bushels for 1911. Acreage of winter and spring wheat this year was 1,296,057, of which only 58,158 was in spring wheat. The acreage last year was 1,405,372, of which 68,105 was In spring wheat. Tlie acreage harvested this year was only 598,125 of both win­ ter and spring wheat, the remainder being winter killed, while the acreage harvested last year was 1,336,267, or nearly the entire acreage sown. HAT IN REAL COLD STORAGE Clever Advertising Scheme That Had the Newsboys Wondering How It Happened. On a hot day last week a crowd gathered around a cake of ice that was left standing on the curb outside of a hat store on Nassau street. The crowd was augmented every minute witt new arrivals anxious to see for themselves what was attracting atten tion. The curious ones who succeeded in elbowing and forcing their way through the crowd to the front rank were surprised to see that placed in the very center of the cake of ice was a new straw hat of the latest mode). It was a very clever advertis­ ing scheme on the part of the owner o" the hat store outside of which the cake of ice was placed. "1 wonder If the hat grew there?" asked a little newsboy who had been gazing at the hat In the Ice for five minutes "N'avvreplied another newsle, "I tell yer how it got in there. Last summer when some feller was going up the Hudson his bat blew off and floated around. When the winter came and the river froze the hat froze In the ice. "One of the ice cutters up there who saws the lse up for the Ice houses discovered the hat frozen In, so he cut the cake of Ice up without letting the hat get out Then the feller who owns this store bought the cake of lee with the hat in it and put It outside the store here." "I'll tell you one thing," said the first newsie, "only I have to hustle around and 9ell my papers, I'd wait here until the Ice melted and 4.hen I'd make sure that the hat Inside was the real thing."--New Yo'k Times. New Illinois Corporations. Secretary of State Doyle Issued cer­ tificates of incorporation to the follow­ ing: National Institute of Education, Chi­ cago. Incorporators--O. A. Tofteen, O. L. Hoi berg and M. Russell. Boceisls Leather and Embossing company Chicago; capital, $10,000. In­ corporators--Hyman Myer, Harry J. Kune, C. V. "Donovan. Cook County Paper Stock compaqfy. Chicago; capital, $2,500. Incorporators --N. A. Stern, Maurice Alschuler, C. C. Broslus. Kottusch Patent Pulley company. Chicago; capital, $75,000. Incorpora­ tors-- Emll W. Kottusch. Gerhard C. Kliewer, Earle F. Core. lion Utilities company, Chicago; capital, $2,500; merchandise. Incor­ porators--E. J. Hendry, F. M. Wil­ liams. L. W. Milchester. Marshfleld Amusement company, Chicago; capital, $5,000. Incorpora­ tors--Louis L. Marks, Julius Goodman, Meyer S. Marks. Vandalia Dairy company, Vandalla; capital, $5,000. Incorporators--J. D. Mitchell, J. H. Boye Jr, John U. Metx- MR, Named for State Positions. Candidates who passed state civil service examinations May 17 for fac­ tory inspectors in three classes, and July 20 for janitors, were announced. The list follows: Metal polishing and grinding--Will­ iam W. Brltton, Luke D. McCoy and Louis O. Yohnke, all of Chicago. Electrical factory Inspection--Frank W. Derby, John E. Kelly and William R. Price, all of Chicago. General factory inspection--Lulu M. Holley, Ethel E. Hanks, Richard W. Carroll. William Yerkes, Homer Mar­ tin, Otto Wander, Mrs. Edith W. Payne, Stanley M. Bennett, George W. Garside, Henry A. Flshter, Otto F. Murray, Abraham W. Nlckleson, Maude L. Heaford, Frank Melbourne, Frank O. Reckendorf, Oscar Carolson, all of Chicago, and George W. Rhea of Jacksonville Janitors--Andrew J. Gordon, George G. Bates, Sr., James Hagan, Ernest J. Rlchter, Jacob Kubler of this city; Harry M. Mahorney, J. A. J. Klein, Horace B. Conkwrlght, Urbana; Charles T. Butler, Paris; John C. Sav­ age, Arthur W. Stewart, Frank Steg- man. Chicago; Lew W. Hamilton, Ludlow; William M. Willis, Ivesdale; Erie A. Brlstow, Metropolis. Officers Are Elected. The sixty-second annual convention of the Illinois Christian Missionary so­ ciety at Centralia selected Jackson­ ville as the next meeting place. W. W. Weedon of Mount Carmel was elected president. Other officers are Edgar D. Jones, Bloomington, vice president, and Leroy Huff, Cen tralia. and E M Smith, Decatur, sec­ retaries. U8 HAVE A HEART HEART TALK." fie you producer, consumer, dairy. man, farmer or manufacturer; are you giving thought to economic conditions as they are today in America? If so, what are your views on the needs of Importing $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 worth of dairy products the last fiscal year, and what do you think about our having to import $4,000,000 worth of meat animals during the same peri­ od? What got ua into such a shape? Let us talk it over. Was It cheap produc­ tion on the low-priced lands of tha west, or were we scared by th con­ stant hammering that the politicians gave our industry, and which the city press has only too thoughtlessly been willing to publish as news, to the ef­ fect that we were being robbed by the trusts? Or was it mere indifference to Bome kind of live stock production on the farm because we were breeding scrub stock and It did not pay? No matter what it was that has put us where we are, we are losing ground. Profit, labor and all the bugaboos that enter Into the subject have been cussed and discussed, but the serious problem is before us of overcoming the need of sending $125,000,000 to $150,000,000 of our good American-gold to foreigners for our food supply. We are as Intelligent as any nation on earth and as Capable as the people of any country to solve the problem of economic production. It is one that must be seriously considered by all the people and each and every ona must give of his talents and meana to solve it The price of land in the middle west has been enhanced very considerably in the past ten years, and our stata agricultural colleges have done splen- did work in showing us what can ba produced profitably on these high- valued lands, and dairy farming seems to be the answer, but this must be en* gaged in intelligently. You must first have profitable cows on your farma, then intelligent farming, so as to se­ cure maximum of production at mini­ mum of cost. As the merchant, manu­ facturer and railroad president must seek new and modern methods to at­ tain the best results In his business, and is constantly expending large sums to equip himself for present day competition, why should not the far­ mer and dairyman seek the best ob­ tainable information on subjects of interest to him? Each year at Chicago, we have the National Dairy Show, which gives actual demonstrations in problems of breeding and feeding for greatest profit in all of the dairy breeds. These shows give you a practical demonstra­ tion in all that is modern in machin­ ery, both for the dairy and for .the farm. Experts who have solved the marketing of and caring for the dairy products for beat results, here give you their findings. Why not take ad- vantage of it? Do not get it into your head that you are too small in the business to get vslue out of this show; the small men and the beginners real­ ly are the chaps the show Is for. The creamery man, the milk dealer, the butter maker, the ice cream man, all receive their benefit at this great show that is founded for no other pur­ pose than to advance the interest of the dairy cow. Think this over and come and sea us October 24 to November 2 at the International amphitheater, Chicago, the only building, except state fair buildings, where the immensity of your industry can be fully displayed. Will you do your part to advance the cause? The problem is before the country, "Which shall it be. Beef or Dairy?" Collective Housekeeping. An English paper tells of an expari> ment in collective housekeeping in what is known as Brent Garden vil­ lage. The dwelling houses contain all improvements except a kitchen. Meals for everybody are cooked at a cen­ tral hall, and may either be eaten there or sent home. A four-course din­ ner costs only 1 shilling and 6 pence. Servants are supplied, when needed, fro:ti the central hall at a cost of about ten cents an hour. Subtle Admonition. "Why do you always ask that regu­ lar customer if the razor hurts him?" asked one barber. "Just as a gentle reminder," replied the other, "that if he forgot the tip it'* liable to hurt him next time." Triumph of Machine Bailding. English engineers have succeeded in building a paper making machine that will turn out 650 feet of newspa­ per, 175 Inches wide, a minute. Coal Bid Forgotten. When members of the state com mission of contracts opened bids for state supplies, it was found that no one had submitted a bid for coal. The absence of coal bidders was unex plained, although it is believed a gen eral shortage of cars had something to do with it. The bids which were submitted cov­ ered all classes of state printing and binding. Work was begun by the of flee force under Secretary of Stat« Doyle, chairman of the commission, ir tabulating the bids. To Discuss Public Welfare. Matters of public welfare will mak« up the entire program of addresses al the annual convention of the Illlnoli State Bankers' association, to be hell in Peoria. September 25 and 26. Th« topics and speakers Include: "Education and National Efficiency," George K. Vincent, president of th« University of Minnesota. "Agriculture and the Problems oi Rural Life," William O. Thompson president of the organization of al the agricultural colleges of the Un.' ted Statea." In Gotham. "I know a policeman who always puts by something every week of what he earns." No Kick Coming. "But the portrait doesn't resemble me!" "Then what are you kicking about?" 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