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Show NEW ATTORNEY ASSISTANT GENERAL BATTLE OF BACTERIA KILLS BIG Gossip FARMER Distinguished Surgeon Claims the Human Span Might Be Extended with the Large Intestine Removed. Taft as Bachelor in the White House President Taft, "bachelor" of the White House, Is sharing the fate of many other government officials and Washington residents whose families have gone away to mountains or seashore. The president is taking the situation philosophically, doesn't seem to mind the hot weather and Is reading daily with great delight letters from Beverly which tell of the rapid improvement in Mrs. Taft's health. Living bachelor fashion at the White House Is not fraught with the same discomforts that beset the mere man who has his home "closed up on him," when his wife goes away and is compelled to see"k food and lodging as best he may. The president and Mrs. Taft divided the White House "help" "when the occupancy of the Beverly cottage was begun, so the president is well taken care of and domestic affairs at the White House run on much the same. The president, however, allowed Mrs. Taft to take the "first cook" to Beverly, while he is served by the "second cook," who is a legacy from She is the Roosevelt administration. a negro girl named" Mary, who hails from Old Virginia and whose sway over the White House kitchens now is complete. WASHINGTON. The president has happily solved the problem of disposing of the long evenings by taking long autmoblle rides about the city and suburbs. He usually starts out on these trips about 9:30 o'clock, returning to the White-Housat 11 or afterward. Capt. Archibald Butt, the president's aide. Is always his companion on these journeys and usually the president telephones an Invitation to some cabinet officer, senator or representative, and stops at the guest's house or club to pick him up. The evening rides often Rock extend out Into the beautiful Creek park, which stretches for miles along the little waterway whose name It bears. At other times Mr. Taft has his chauffeur drive about the city or on the Potomac park driveways, which skirt the river back of the White House and the monument grounds. Arising at about seven o'clock the president gives nearly an hour to dumb-bells- , pulley weights and other forms of exercise prescribed for him. and usually He breakfasts slowly alone. During his morning meal and for half an hour or so afterward, the president reads the newspapers. Between 9:30 and 10 he begins his busy day In the executive offices. At 1:30 comes luncheon at the White House always with some invited guest for company. The afternoon Is devoted to golf, for the president hopes to play every afternoon that he remains Dinner always finds in Washington. guests assembled and usually it is and delightful meal, an informal which begins a little after seven o'clock and sometimes continues for an hour and a half. Illinois Senator Is Railroad Magnate from many reports of new ventures on the part of the new junior senator from Illinois which are floating into Washington, as be is soon to be known InLorimer William" "'Wealthy stead of plain "Mister" and "Senator." Besides continuing at the head of a successful brick manufacturing company and one or two other concerns in Chicago, Mr. Lorimer soon Is to participate in a steamboat business on the Mississippi and to help operate a railroad In Colorado. His membership in a concern which Is to operate steamboats of light draft between St. Paul and St. Louis and furnish wheat cargoes to ships at New Orleans connecting with the leading rail line, was announced recently. News now has come from Colorado that the San Luis Valley & Southern Railway Company has been projected, with Senator Lorimer of Illinois and Congressman Weeks of Massachusetts prominent among Its incorporators. Connected with the project is a JUDGING scheme to exploit what is known as the Costilla land grant. The Costilla State Development Company, the Costilla Power Company, and the Costilla Irrigation Company all have been launched with the railroad, and Senator Lorimer and Congressman Weeks have shares In each. The president of the new railway company happens to be Franklin E. Brooks, who a few years ago ;.bly represented the state of Colorado at Washington as representative at large. Therein lies the story of how Messrs. Lorimer and Weeks were allowed to participate In the "good thing" out in Colorado. The most important house which Mr. Brooks committee served while" congress was the comMr. Lorimer mittee on agriculture. and Mr. Weeks were fellow members. They sat side by side in many Important meetings of the committee during the packing house inquiry and the discussion of the pure food bill. Naturally they all became fast friends, and accordingly when Mr. Brooks returned to private life and visited the east in search of capital for his new projects he sought them out and won their approval and financial support. Thus it was through his membership on the committee on arlculture that Mr. Lorimer has been afforded the opportunity of becoming a railway magnate. 9 Uncle Sam Looks Up Turkish Cigarettes the benefit of people who have FOR a great fondness for the , Turkish and Egyptian the state department at has made an investigation of th' tobacco industries of the east. Practically all of the Turkish tobacco comes from Samsoun, in the district of TrebSond. Iarge quantities of the Trebizond tobacco are sold by the Turkish grow ers to Egypt, where it is used to brighten the tobacco obtained from other partR of Turkey. The Trebizond tobacco, according to the United States consular agents, is weak, has very little aroma and large, very light colored leaves which do not keep well. The Samsoun and Bafra tobaccos are stronger, have more aroma, do not ciga-rtttes- Wrash-ini"to- bite the tongue and have small dark leaves. The most aromatic sorts are what are called Marden and Dere. The country where the best Turkish tobacco is grown is a low mountainous region bordering the south shore of the Black sea. The tobacco is grown, like the grapes, on the slopes of the hills, and the climate is always humid. A clear sky and bright sun are extremely rare. The methods of tobacco culture are primitive, and much is left to chance and nature, no systematic rotation of crops is practiced, no scientific fertilizing and there is little cultivation. In Trebizond the average yield is about 800 pounds of tobacco per acre. The leaves are put on strings, each quality by itself, and hung on poles in the open air. Then, when dry, they are put into a sweathouse. A good deal of the Turkish tobacco is made up In Hungary for the American eigarotte trade. In one factory in Plune, Hungary, In the last year, 371,000,000 cig arettes were manufactured. Some of the tobacco came from Brazil, Java and Sumatra. Tawney Gets Taft to Stop at Winona President Roosevelt was to.irlr.g the west when he came to Minnesota In his itinerary, too, Winona was omitted. Mr. Tawney boarded the train up the line and asked for a quarter-hou- r stop and speech In his town. Secretary Loeb said It would bo Impossible, as they were going somewhere else and hnd to hurry or they would be late. Then Mr Tawney looked up the district passenger agent of the road, who was on tho train. For some reason, not yet entirely or plained, the engine got out of order when Winona was reached, and It took the engineer 20 minutes to find the fault and fix It. In the meantime Mr. Tawney had Introduced Mr. Roosevelt to a larg crowd of his admiring townsmen, and fbe president had made a speech. Mr. Taft said ho was convinced he would have to stop at Wlnonn anyhow, and he might as well promise to do no who house appropriations committee and lives In Winona, Minn., rsad In the morning papers the other day the Itinerary of Mr. Taft's western trip, and it did not mention Winona. Mr. Tawney is the man who engineered the $2o,000 ap proprlatlon for the president's traveling expenses, ami he called to find out about that Winona omission The on president agreed to put Winona exhis traveling map, not. as he plained, on account of the appropriation, but because ho remembered a now. tory President Roosevelt had told. REPRESENTATIVE TAWNEY, ' BE & aBBKaiaMM raWffiffiasl I SSB1 SbI K k "'''mlML SIS' ' BBpr :iBSHHBV sh Hi WM H smi Photograph copyright by Cltnodlost, WMhlngton, D. O. W. R. Harr, recently appointed an assistant attorney general in the department of justice by President Taft. He has handled many important cases for the government and has great ability as an international lawyer. this There are the Dresora, Effect of Chemicals on Vegetable or country. which after clutching any Sundews, Matter. Experiments of Philadelphia Society to Add Much to Our Expects of Relative Knowledge Strength of Stimulants. insects which land upon them, digest the animal matter, forming thereby a valuable drug. The Sarracenia, or pitcher plants, form a bottle shaped prison in which bugs may easily enter, never to be released. The Venus fly tray is also a meat eating form of plant life which can be seen in the bog. Philadelphia, Pa. By means of extensive experiments to test the relative strength of drugs on 2,000 varieties of germinating plants, and also a number of animals, in the botanical roof gardens of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Dr. Henry Kraemer, professor of botany and director of the microscopic and botanical laboratories, is compiling tables of values which, when completed, will probably work the greatest change in the nature and quality of drugs used as stimulants that has taken place since the days of Hahnemann. Since the establishment of a botanical roof garden two seasons ago by Dr. Kraemer, primarily for the purpose of supplying the college with authentic drug material of the rarer varieties, the garden has outgrown its original mission to some extent and has become an important arm of the research work of the college. "Bill Possum" is an important feature of the gardens. All unconscious that he is adding to the supply of useful knowledge as well as furnishing diversion to visitors, "Bill Possum," shielded from the rays of a summer sun by the foliage of plants almost priceless in their rarity, and basking In a breeze made cool by the waters of the "Jersey marsh," reigns supreme high above the buildings of the city. The gardens cover the roof of the college buildings. Guinea pigs, frogs and con chickens, though unconsciously tributing their share to the progress of science, are less important personages, by far, in this novel little world than "Hig Bill Possum." The vegetable life of the gardens is nourished chiefly in a well watered soil of sand. As little as possible of the usual soil elements is introduced, so that the plants may receive as far as possible without interference the effect of the chemicals fed them during the test The effect of the various chemicals on the plants Is thus In this garden clearly discernible. are growing different series of the same plant under influences of widely A series of like different chemicals. age will differ so markedly that some will be in magnificent bloom, while others in the adjoining garden will be yielding a profusion of beautiful leaves without a bud. And among those in bloom will be found some, under the Influence of a particular chemical, flowering in an abundance of healthy red, while others, fed from another chemical, will bear a blue or a white bloom. One of the most interesting of the collection of plants brought together by Dr. Kraemer is a specimen of the original licorice plant brought from Spain by the late Henry R. Ritten house of this city. At that time this variety was unknown in this country as a commercial product, and after in trodueing It as such Mr. Rittenhouse built up a fortune from Its sale. There is also a specimen of the famous poison hemlock of Soc rates, the same species from which was made the fatal potion. Among the trees of the garden Is a comphor tree raised from u cutting of one of a grove of camphor trees now Forty years growing wild In Florida. ago these trees were set out as an experiment by the department of ngri culture, nnd later their cultivation was given up as a failure. It is now thought that the camphor Industry will take the place of the culture of oranges In Florida. In the "Jersey bog" a huge garden of novel plants, receiving their nourish ment from water, air and animal mat ter, are varieties not often seen In roses, carnations, rare violets, swamp pinks, blue flags, and orchids can be seen in various states of cultivation and evolution, giving the place an element of great beauty. Digitalis, which, when compounded with strychnine and morphine, forms the basis of medicines used in the treatment of alcoholism, can be seen in all stages of cultivation, and the result of experiments with this plant has given sufficient data to warrant Dr. Kraemer making public the statement that strychnine produces the same effect as a stimulant as does alcohol. The results of the experiments conducted by Dr. Kraemer in the botanical laboratories and gardens of the college will be given to the public as each is completed. Many of them are hardly begun, and will take years for completion. Hydrangeas, varieties of Widows in Reunion. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Forty-siwomen, all widows, ranging from 23 to 77 years old, held their fifth annual reunion at Fairehild's park, the other day. Each year the widows assemble to enjoy a day in mutual sympathy. There was not a mi"1 in the park. Not because they would not have been allowed so much as because they did not come. The oldest member of the association, Mrs. Florence Harman, who is 83, was not able to be present. To Raze Noted Bridge. Washington. The old Anacostia bridge over which John Wilkes Booth sped his horse to escape from an infuriated city the night he shot Lincoln, is to be torn down soon. It Is over half a century old. The district commissioners will receive proposals on July 31 for the razing of the landmark, a new structure connecting Washington proper with the suburb of Anacostia having been completed. London. The theories of Prof. Metchaikoff of the Pasteur institute that man would live longer and be healthier without any large intestine are being put to proof in an interesting series of experiments now taking place at Guy's hospital. Dr. A. Distaso, Prof. Metchntkoffs assistant, who has been sent to Lon. don by the Pasteur institute to conduct the experiments, explained his progress. "When studying cholera a few years ago," the doctor said, "Prof. Metchnikoff discovered that the intestines of the ordinary healthy man always contained a great number of varieties of bacteria. Some of these were found to be dangerous, because they formed poisons which were harmful to the body when absorbed into the system, and others are beneficial because they hinder the development of the harmful germs. "In the lower large intestine it was found that the harmful germs greatly predominated. Prof. Metchnikoff therefore concluded that if a man's were removed he large intestine would suffer less from the Intestinal bacteria poisons which, according to Prof. Metchnlkoff's belief, cause the common diseases of degeneration of the internal organs of the body and generally bring on premature old age. The difficulty was to find patients without large intestines on whom to test these theories. "Dr. W. Arbuthnot Lane, the well known surgeon of Guy s hospital has solved our difficulties by placing at my disposal some 30 or 40 patients whose large intestines he had removed for the relief of chronic intestinal obstruction. These patients have been going about alive and well for periods varying from a few months to five years since their large Intestines were cut out. "In the short time I have been working I have proved beyond doubt that in Mr. Lane's patients many of the harmful varieties of bacteria are absent, while those still surviving are in much lesser proportion than in normal individuals. "All animals (including babies) when born have perfectly sterile digestive tracts that is, there are no germs growing in the intestines. Prof. Metchnikoff believes that if we could preserve this freedom from intestinal bacteria we could greatly prolong life, because the greatest cause of old age the absorption of bacterial poisons in the intestines would be nonexistent. "That It Is possible to exist without providing a culture bed within one's self for the development of these poi son producing germs has been proved, at any rate, on animals. "By feeding a pteropus, an Australian variety of bat, from birth on abfood I have kept solutely germ-freits intestines free from all bacteria for the four months of its existence. It is therefore absorbing none of the poisons which ordinarily are developed in the Intestines of these creatures, and I firmly believe that, bar accidents, it will live to a much greater age than its fellows." Dr. Distaso made the following list of harmful and helpful germs found In the ordinary person's intestines: Friendly Bacteria Bifldua, Lactis, Aerogens; all Lactis microbes. Harmful Bacteria Putrificus, Perfringens, e Coll. "It is Interesting to note," the doctor concluded, "that no bacteria of putrefaction (the variety which Prof. Metchnikoff considers most active in bringing on premature old age) have been discovered so far in any of Mr. Lane's patients whose large intestines have been removed." Milking to Music in Jersey Farmer Pinds Phonograph Starts the Lacteal Fluid Going Is the Hornpipe Best. Montclalr, N. J. There was a time when the fanners and dairymen in this section thought that grass, hay. long fodder, turnips and an occasional hot mash were proper and profitable food for milch cows, but they are to drop all that nnd feed their milk pro tlucers on music. Now, the pioneer in the movement is Steever Smith, a farmer near Great Notch. When he wants his cowb to give milk he places a phonograph out In the barnyard and starts the music going. From that time on It as much as he unci his men can do to set the buckets under the cows fast enough to catch the milk. Smith has discovered that the kind and quality of music also has an Im- ponant bearing on the milk supply. The first day he used the phonograph he placed "The Heart Bowed Down" in the machine. It saddened the cows, and they gave scarcely any milk. He then tried "I Stood On the f ridge at Midnight" on them. They walked over to the immediately rough and gazed pensively Into thel water. It was a pathetic sight. When the sweet strains of "The Nun's Prayer" broke the silence all the cows got down on their knees. It was not until the phonograph began to play "The Old Oaken Bucket" that the animals manifested much Interest. They looked at Smith so accusingly then that he took the record out of the machine and smashed It. "I guess they want something quick and devilish," Smith said. He slipped "The Sailor's Hornpipe," "Rory O'Moore," "The Irish Washerwoman" and "The Arkansas Traveler" In the In succession. phonograph quick That morning the cows gave so much milk that two extra cars had to be put on the milk train to get It to market. At Snake's Mercy. Rehoboth, Del. From one danger Into another was Miss Lydia Smith's predicament when, in trying to escape a snake, she caught her hair in a wire fence and badly lacerated her scalp before she could be extricated. Miss Smith, who lives in Clayton, Del., Is summering here, and went to a small henhouse in the back yard to catch a chicken for dinner. As she entered the yard she found a large blacksnake lying at her feet. The frightened woman Jumped back, catching her hair In the wire netting overhead, while the frightened snake glided out the other way. Miss Smith's head was badly torn, some of the hair being pulled out by the roots. wire-Inclose- HARD FIGHT IN Germs Found Constantly at War in Man's Internal Organs. BEAR CAUGHT BY ANGRY mhth p r rAPQviur. net: run IN YOUNG HIS ONE POCKET. SAVES HIS LIFE Bruin Ceases Hugging When She Discovers She Is Hurting It, Allowing Hunter to Use Knife and J Save His Life. f Bangor. Me Maine's rocky she.jp pastures have been filled with great flocks of Southdowns and Shropshirea ever since the heavy tariff duties on wool and woolen goods. Incidentally the tariff has afforded great encouragement to several hundreds of lean and greedy bears. Last season the farmers of Clifton lost 30 about sheep, killed by bears, and charged up to dogs, because the state pays full value for sheep killed by dogs, while the havoc wrought by bears is a dead loss George Archer's wife recently went (o the barn to feed her hens and found a good-sizebear making a dinner off the carcass of a fat ewe he had just killed. Though Mrs. Archer is Boston bred and had never seen a wild animal bigger than a gray squirrel, shu looked at the twin lambs whose mother was rapidly disappearing down the bear's throat, and being an orphan herself, caught up the pitchfork and prodded the bear so vigorously that he made a hasty retreat, The next morning Sam Penny found a dead sheep in Ma yard and plenty of bear tracks Thomas llussey lost two sheep the same night, and Joseph Chick four pigs. The neighborhood was fighting mad. Rusty bear traps were filled and oiled, strychnine was bought and everybody loaded his gun. A hunt of two days ' Picked Up the Pitchfork and Prodded the Bear. and one night ended in disaster and disappointment. Fifty hunters surrounded Chick's Hill, where the bear was supposed to be In a cave, and began to smoke him out, The wind spread the flames until the whole hill was in a blaze. By the time the fire was put out they had forgotten about the bear and were glad to go home. Early the next morning, while the r hunters slept, a broke into the sheep pen of George Patten, killed a fat sheep and dragged it off to the A mile from Patten's place wooHs. nhe was joined by two cubs and the family sat down to breakfast. Believing the bear would come back to the repast the following night a party of six hunters concealed themselves and waited. About ten o'clock they heard her on the hillside above. Rhe would come down almost within gunshot, when her cubs would cry and she would hurry back. Jack Gilpatrlck made a wide detour nd came upon the cubs when their mother was away. Catching up one and putting It In the pocket of his liunting jacket, he started full speed ilown the hill away from the men on Suard, the cub squealing at full lung The mother with a plaintive power. cry started in pursuit. As he entered the open pasture land he turned about, rifle In hand, ready to shoot the old bear If Rhe came out. Something hit his arm, whirling his rifle a rod away, and he was gathered into the great hairy arms of mother bear. They fell, the bear on top, biting holes through Jack's cap and taking up a furrow of scalp with every nip. Jack freed his right arm and caught her by the throat. The cub. squeezed nearly to death by mother's hugs, was yelling lustily, which made his parent furious. She clawed a wide rent In Jack's canvas coat, digging deep Into the flesh of her offspring. Jack says he owes his life to this act of fury, for no sooner had she discovered she was hurting the cub than sho ceased hugging. Having both arms free Jack pulled his hunting knife and cut her throat. Jack placed tho badly squeezed cub under Its mother's nose. She gave a glad cry of recognition, and licked It fondly until she expired. With the wounded orphan In his arms Jack found the other cub, and, bleeding and sore from mRny flesh wcjunds, limped off to find his fellow buutera. she-bea- |