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Spec- ial attention given to collections, and promptly at­ tended to INSURANCE in" First Class Companies, at the Low­ est rates. Yours Respectfully PERRY & OWEN, Nolkry Public. Banker*. Tfce Hard Work of C iBgrrumea, Let those who am blissfully Ignorant laugh at congressmen for the easy time they have at Waslrinirton. Only those who have been through the mill know how hard a ci«jgressman must work if he Is to fulfill his public duties. A hardworking senator said to me, "I might have made $50,000 during my term in the senate if I had given as much attention to my private business as I nave given to the public business." The amount of work which is laid up­ on a member or senator is simply enor­ mous. What with the demand, for pen­ sions. postotiiee documents, applica­ tions for. promotion or discharge in the army and many other things, a mem­ ber's time may be taken up with the exactions of his daily mail. A good clerk may be cf immense help, but some senators employ two" or three and then find there is a great deal which they must answer or attend to in person. The daily sessions from 12 to about 5 take up half a day, and committee meetings often take up the other half for two or three days In the week. It Is hard to tell when the busiest mem­ bers, who are never absent from a ses­ sion or from a committee meeting, find time to prepare the elaborate speeches which they sometimes deliver. It is not strange, then, that so few members of either chamber are found ih the reading rooms devoted to them In the Congressional library. When they want books from that or any other deposi­ tor}', they have them sent to their homes.--Independent. Crane Carried Hla Satchel; • Arthur A. Leeds of Tioga met Ste­ phen Crane once under circumstances which showed how little the novelist traded upon the fame that came to him. Mr. Leeds got off a train at Del­ aware Water Gap. The only man on the platform was humped up against the side of the depot gazing into space. He looked like a farmer's boy. His trousers were baggy, his coat battered and his hat rowdy. "Say, carry this stuff to the hotel for me, will you?" asked Mr. Leeds. The man grasped the bags and started in the wake of Mr. Leeds toward the hotel. When the hotel was reached, Mr. Leeds lost sight of his porter for a few minutes while he greeted friends. Looking around for his baggage, he saw the man who had packed it to the hotel sitting on the piazza with his legs on the railing. He was reading a book. "Who's that man?" asked Mr. Leeds. "Oh, that's Stephen Crane," some one said. The next day Crane left the place before Mr. Leeds had an opportunity for explanations.--Philadelphia North American. Tbe Laat Chinese Actreaa. Many vistors to the Celestial king­ dom have noted the absence of women from the stage. All the roles in a Chi­ nese play are taken by.men. This sin­ gular custom is traced back to a wom­ an's whim. The Emperor Yung Tsching married an actress at the be­ ginning of the eighteenth century, when women were allowed on the stage. The emperor died and the em­ press dowager ruled the country for her son, the Prince Kim Sung. To satisfy her vanity this shrewd and most peculiar woman issued a decree in the year 1736 forbidding, un­ der penalty of instant deatb by the sword of the executioner, any member of her sex to appear on the Chinese stage. "After' me, no one," said the empress dowager, and since her day no woman within the reach of Chinese law has dared to test the strength of her decree. In Hongkong (a British colony) women have played in Chinese theaters, but never as yet, we believe. In San Francisco. Welghf of Women's Brafna. The woman's brain is always less than the man's. From Boyd's figures we can pick out 102 men and 113 wom­ en between 64 Inches and 66 inches high, averaging close on 65 inches, for each group. But the brains of the men average 46.9 ounces, while those of the women are only 41.9 ounces, which gives the men an advantage of 12 per cent. There are 21 bmall men whose height averages 62 inches, and there are 135 women of the same height. The brains of the men weigh 45.6 ounces, those of the women only 42.9 ounces.-- New York Herald. Stage Fright. When Bob Burdette started out to lecture, he struck the same town as Henry Ward Beecher, who sent for him. * "Well, young man, how do you like itr . , • "Mr. Beecher." he replied, "It is aw­ ful. I nearly die every night from nervousness." "Let me console you, then. The longer you lecture the more nervous you'll get." And Bob declared It to be true.---Saturday Evening Post. ANNUAL REPORT •Of the State Board of Live Stock CSom- • aiiiutioiierN. A Cloae Estimate. "I don't want to hear anybody say in that our boy .Tosiar doesn't earn his salt," said Farmer Corntossel. "You said It yourself once," said his wife. <i. "WeU, I take it back. I don't want to do the t)oy any injustice. I have been lookin over these market quotations, an I have concluded that Josiar does earn his salt, jest about. But if they'd a' said lie didn't earn his pepper I reckon I'd have to give in?'--Washing­ ton Star. » The Snores ' „ A certain poet thus breaks forth: "Oh. the snore, the beautiful snore, fill­ ing the chamber from ceiling to floor; over the coverlet, under the sl&et. from her wee dimpled chin *to he? pretty feet; now rising,aloft£\Jike a bee in June, now sunk to die wail of a cpaffk- ed bassoon; now filutelike subsiding, then rising again. Is the beautiful snore •f Elisabeth Jane." ' # The Fourteenth Ana vial Report cf the State Board of Live Stock Com-, misaiouers, giving an official accouut of its acts for the year ending October 81, 1899. has just been issued by the printer, accompanied by a ten thousand edition of a Bulletin of 70 pages, beiug jthat portion of the Aunual Report devoted to the question of tuberculosis among dairy and breeding cattle and the tuberculine test. This Report is the largest official document ever issued by this Board, and contains a full state­ ment of every tuberculine test conduct­ ed by the Board during the year. The Report and the Bulletin also contains probably the largest collection of ex­ cerpts that has ever been published in one volume, from the writings and ofti cial reports of scientific investigators throughout the world, with reference to the nature of tuberculosis, its con­ tagion and methods of transmission. They also contain a detailed report of greatest importance, because of the posi­ tive results obtained, of an investiga­ tion conducted at the request of the Board, by the pathological and bacterio­ logical laboratories of the College phy­ sicians and surgeons of Chicago, of milks taken from 41 cows that had re­ acted to the tuberculine test, with the view of ascertaining what percentage of the milks under investigation con­ tained, or discolsed the presence therein, ot' tuberc le bacilli. This investigation was conducted under the immediate- supervision and direction of Adolph tiehrmann, Professor of Bacteriology. College of Physicians and Surgeons: Bacteriologist to Chicago Health De­ partment, and to the Columbus Medical Laboratory; and W. A. Evans, Professor of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons: Pathologist to Columbus Medical Laboratory; and consisted of a microscopical examination of the milk and cream, and inoculation experi­ ments with Guinea pigs. Every pre­ caution in the way of sterilizing the re­ ceptacles in which the milk was con­ tained, and in tho, taking of the milk from the cows, was observed, and very thorough search with the microscope was make of the milks and creanu under inspection. The report of the test, submitted t( the Board, shows that tubercle bacilli were found to exist, either by micro­ scopical examination, or by inoculation experiments, in the milks from 16 dif ferent animals of the 41 from whicl milk was taken, or 89.02 per cent. Ir. the milks from 15 of these cows, tin bacilli were discovered by the micro scope, so that the microscope disclosed tho presence of tubercle bacilli in 36. ( per ceut., while Guinea pigs were suc­ cessfully inoculated in 24.3 per cent. The report remarks that the inoculation experiments were not completely satis­ factory, owing to the fact that an insuf ficient number of Guinea pigs were used with the milk from a portion of the cows In the udders of none of the cows could manifestations of tubercu losis be discovered with the naked eye. The conclusions of the scientific in­ vestigators in charge of this experi­ ment, as to the facts disclosed, are suc­ cinctly stated as follows: . "First, prolonged searching of tin concentrated milk from cows showing tuberculosis, but with sound udders, will reveal bacilli in about 35 per cent of the cases. "Second, bacilli are found with about equal frequency in the sediment and in the cream. "Third, this milk when concentrated will produce tuberculosis in the Guinea pig in about 25 per cent, of the cases. "Fourth, not much dependence can be put on the physical appearance oi the milk in cases where the udder is not demonstrably involved. "Fifth, while the large number oi cases in which pus cells were found in the milk would indicate that there wat beginning involvement of the udder, there is no question but that the search for lessions in these udders was fai more careful than will ever be possible on the living cow, and therefore thf udder appearances cannot be accepted as a safe guide. "Sixth, the greater susceptibility ol the Guinea pig, the cocentration of the' milk and the method of administration demand that when we come to apply the results to the human subject allow­ ance must b« made for the different condition." The report shows that from May 17, 1899, to November 1, 1899, the Board tested with tuberculine 8,651 dairy and breeding animals of all ages, of which number 560, or 15.32 percent, were con­ demned as tubercular and destroyed, and 47 were isolated and held for retest. Of the number tested>K12 were owned by the various state institutions, and of these, 143, or 28*30 "per cent, were con­ demned and destroyed. In McHenry County 762 animals were tested, the largest number in any county? of the state, where the disease was disclosed in 188, or 24.67 per cent. Sangamon County follows, with 643 animals tested and 8.39 per cent, of disease; Peoria County next, with 285 tested and 2.4 per cent, of disease; LaSalle, with 272 tested and 21.32 per cent of disease, and Kane with 268 tested and 15.29 per cent of disease. There are a few other counties where a few animals wexe tested, with a per­ centage of disease riur^-^|^her but in these counties th-*^ done does not vvariant i '" * J }ie prevalence Of the d • :,s^^i>rdlit»oe with tbe percenta| „ 1 • Several cases cot ajr to the attention of the Board during the year are ciled, si lowing quite positive proof of the transmission bf the disease through milk to calves. The report states that at the Union Stock Yards. Chicago, during the year, there were inspected 9,453 cattle re­ ported to be afflicted with actinomy­ cosis. Of this number 2,831, upon first inspection, were held for slaughter and l>ost-morteui inspection, and upon post­ mortem, 512 were condemned as unfit for food. Under the system of inspec­ tion and returns in vogue at this market, the oxwners of the passed carcasses re- ceived $104,.r>12, and the owners of con­ demned carcasses received fc"j,070. Of the total number slaughtered under inspection, Iowa furnished 1,293; Illi­ nois comes second, with 745; Missouri, third; Montana, fourth; Wisconsin, fifth, and South Dakota, sixth. There were found during the year, upon first inspection, and destroyed, 59 cases of glanders among horses, mules and asses; and 222 exposed animals quarantined, 40 developed clinical symp­ toms of glanders while in quarantine, • r reacted sufficiently to the mallein test to indicate the undoubted presence of the disease, and wore destroyed. Roiiton'ii Baked Beans. New York is doing her utmost t< force her way into an intellectual con­ troversy now ranging in Boston over tht • question, Who invented baked beans V However, Boston frowns upon New York's impertinence, intimates that the discussion is one with which New York has no concern, and positively refuses to entertain any suggestions originat ing on Manhattan Island. It will not be difficult for Chicago to sympathize with Boston's attitude ir; this matter. New York should not in­ trude herself uninvited into a discussion which is of peculiar and almost private interest to Boston. It was by pursuing similar unworthy tactics that New York undermined Boston's literary standing. If recognized in the present controversy, New York doubtless would not rest until she had undermined Bos ton s prestige as a bean center. In any event, New York has little knowledge of the history of baked beans that is not already familiar to students of the subject in Boston. The suggestion that baked beans were in vented by a Manhattan Indian who was afterward expelled from the island for eating them, and forced to seek refuge with Massasoit, clearly indicates thai New York, if allowed her way, would deprive Boston of her greatest glory. A contributor to a Boston newspaper, while ignoring New York's pretensions, meets them in the following manner: It is certain that beans are a native ol this continent, though some inferior kinds were known to the old world. Our early settlers used fresh beans, and Sewall dined in the summer of 1702 on pork and beans, his next cource being roast chicken. That was in Andover, and hardly means baked beans, one thinks. In fact, baked beans seem un­ known till the present century, when they are mentioned in the Connecticut valley, a country famous for good beans, and very apt to evolve such a dish as our baked beans. Dictionaries, oi course, throw no light upon the sub­ ject, preferring to draw their material)- from poems and fiction. Baked beans are not poetry, and they are not fiction. Dictionaries do not condescend to sa> what a bean pot is, and jhey do not know that one man would not give "a iill of beans" for the best advertised dictionary. The good phase, "hill of beans," meaning worthless or of slight value, does not appear in the diction­ aries." Credit is given here to the Connecticut valley as the place where baked beans were probably first known, but others that they were known and popular in Boston long before the Connecticut val­ ley was settled. It is true as stated by the Boston writer, that baked beans are not poetry, but it is equally true that poets, in sing­ ing of them, have done much toward associating them forever with Boston. >ne of the most charming poets of the period has recently written, for example: She was bred in old Kentucky, She was cake in New Orleans, She was pretzels In Milwaukee, But in Boston i-h.s was beans. In fact, it is a parody on this beauti­ ful stanza, coming from a New York scoffer, which shows the length to which the people of Manhattan island are prepared to go in order to deprive Boston of the distinction to which she is justly entitled. Says the parody: she was bred in old Kentucky. She was sponge-cake in New York, She was ham and eggs in Hoston, In Chicago she was pork. 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