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Show TO dend paying stock. For a clearer defl A. GRIFFIN- - REPLIES nltlon, the average earnings should be DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL ON based upon tbe entire stock, and not FREIGHT RATE ADVANCES upon the best paying portion of It, un less there, Is some reason why the $2,500,000,000 representing tbe 34 pot' (From Chicago Dally Newi.) cent should.not have received any divi Mr. Griffin Replies. I desire to call attention to an edito- dends at all. rial printed In The Dally News, May In the final paragraph of the II. beaded "Back Fire on the Shippers," It Is stated that I should not be In which you make the following state-ment- allowed to pose as a business man, ' First, that my representation "having no Interest In common with of the case la not candid; second, that tbe shippers." Inasmuch as my conwhat I did have to say was based upon cern shipped an average of 350,000 tons the action of the shippers' conference, of finished product during 1906 and and, third, that I bad no right to pose 1907, and we were obliged to receive as a business man having Interests In more than 350,000 tons of Iron to fur common with the shippers. ' nlsh this, plus enormous quantities of The circulation for signatures of a coke, coal and other supplies, I can statement relating to freight rates was, safely claim to have shaped In and as far as I was concerned, confined to out 750,100 tons a year, and as there fellow members of the Railway Busi- are no railroads who can afford to haul ness association, and no reference waa this material, or any part of It, without I having a revenue from It, an Increase made to the shippers' conference. personally attended this conference of 10 cents a ton on my hauling charge and have no criticism to make on any- would amount to $75,000 and, there thing that was done there and none fore, I have "business" Interests In com was made or Intended by me, but what mon with other shippers." The 350,000 I "deprecated" was contained In an ar- tons of finished product shipped repre ticle sent out by the Illinois Manufac- sented In the neighborhood of $10,000,- turers' Association, duted May 7, and, 000. This $10,000,000 represented mostas a member of that Association, I ly labor, with tbe exception of the personally wrote a letter to each of Its cost of the ore and coal In tbe mines. Individual members, dated May 17. In All tbe balance was made up of wages tbla I referred to the misleading and and profit on the different conditions unfair statements contained In the of the raw material until It was fin circular of May 7 mentioned above, and lshed product In doing ao I was "candid." I said .My Illinois plants produced 60 per that the statement "that railroads are cent of this amount, or $6,000,000 a rapidly Increasing their net earnings" year. For three years our Chicago was not true and as to the correctness plants have not run more than half of my statement I beg to refer to the capacity. Therefore, there was $3,000.000 a year less In distribution because following: comThe latest interstate-commercof a corresponding shrinkage In sales. mission reports show that during the As most of our Iron and coal comes month of March eleven systems, repre- from Illinois, this $3,000,000 a year was senting every railroad north and west not distributed In Chicago, as mould on a line drawn through Chicago and have been the case had we worked on 8t Louis, show an Increase In gross the same output that we did in 1906 earnings for the month of March, of and 1907. And a great deal of that nearly $7,000,000 compared with March, $3,000,000 which was not paid was 1909, while the net earnings for the taken out of the business firms situ same roads In the same period show ated In or near Chicago by tbe a decrease of $965,000; and the Interfrom their varied business state commerce commission figures for on the part of the community that the ten months, July to March 31, In would have received the $3,000,000 a 1910, as compared with 1909, show an year for three years. That Is the rea Increase In gross of over $50,000,000, son whjr I have a right, as a business while the net earnings of these same man, to deprecate any unfair or un obstacles that are placed in systems In the same period of compari- called-fo- r son, show a falling oft of over $3,500, the way of my business and the hun 000. And, as comparatively little of dred other varieties of business In this the increases in wages bad even gone country that are affected by the money Into effect during March, the railroads put Into circulation by the railroads, must provide some means to Increase When It Is further considered that my a revenue that Is already decreasing business constitutes but 10 per cent on an Increased amount of business, of the cost of a car and that there and there la no way for railroads to were nine other units similarly affect provide this except by Increasing their ed, most of which would have been rates, and surely there Is "reason for tributary to Chicago, anyone can see how Important It is to his Individual the need of It." In the third paragraph on the sec- Interests that the railroad companies ond page of this Illinois Manufac- should have ample funds to make these turers' Association circular of May 7 Improvements and purchases, and will It Is stated that 7.99 per cent was realize how comparatively easy It will earned on the dividend-payinstock, be to stand a reasonable advance on making no allowance for the 31 per the freight for any material he will cent, of stock on which no dividends need, if he is receiving increased ' were paid. I might, with equal propri- orders. ; A. T. GRIFFIN, Chicago. ety, make the statement that there i was no dividend paid on the (Advertisement.) T. s: - e g non-div- BOYS TAKE A BACK SEAT Spelling Contests Held In New Orleans Prove Girls Superior to Their h Brothers. The Outing Spirit If you want to have a good time on your outings you must make up your mind to help along by acquiring the outing spirit This means: Learn to put up with whatever turns up. Don't grumble, fidget or expect - The result of the spelling contests In tbe New Orleans public schools again demonstrates the superior proDon't pose. That Is, pretend you ficiency of the girls, practically all of like roughing It and outdoor life when of members the the victors being all you crave Is a crowded board walk gentler sex. Last year the same thing and the glitter of a summer hotel. was true and the matter was quite Don't attempt more than you have generally commented on In the press for. strength and at gatherings where educational Be a goo-- sport without being reck subjects were discussed. , less. So far as our information goes there Look after your health. Remem no contests to determine ber the worker's have been outing must have the pupils In other branches of study, rest and for tbe un building strength but It would be Interesting to know derlying motive. Therefore, don't If this feminine superiority is found overtlre yourself or trifle with bad wato exist In all studies, or If they are ter and messy foods. confined only to particular branches. Make your outing come well within Doubtless this result Is due In part to your means. It Is foolish to "blow the fact that the female mind ripens In" In two weeks the savings of at an earlier age than is the case with months. ' the masculine mind, although there Is Season all with a determination to little-douthat the feminine Intel- have a good time, keep happy and lect along certain lines la more acute never let your temper run away with than th masculine, which would seen, you. to justify the conclusion that certain branches of study are more readily Pocket Wireless. . mastered by girls and women. The Italian savant. Mgr. CerebotanL In view of the growing number of papal nuncio at Munich, Is the Inyoung women that are going Into po- ventor of an Instrument like a large sitions as stenographers, typewrltlsts watch, which enables a person to reand other positions requiring an ac- ceive messages transmitted from curate knowledge of spelling, this dem- "wireless" stations. Tbe apparatus is onstrated proficiency Is most gratify- merely a pocket receiver, and the only ing. The public school administra- accessories are a bobbin of wire and tion Is to be commended upon the ef- a metallic encased cane. A person forts It has made to Improve the thus equipped can at a given moment spelling of the public school puplU receive communications from a station and the triumphant girls to be con- within a radius of twenty to thirty gratulated upon their easy victory miles. over the boys. Midas. Midas had come to that point In his Long Wait. "Why don't you wait on a sport career where everything he touched like me?" demanded the patron who turned to gold. had made the tenth unsuccessful at"What shall you ever do with the tempt to give bis order for "ham stuff?" asked his entourage In visible and- -" alarm. Midas affected not to be uneasy. "Sport!" laughed the sarcastic waiter, "you look like a siort. Why. "Just wait till the boys begin to touch me!" quoth he, displaying an you need a shave!" "Well, that's your fault If I do. I acquaintance with economic tendencies far in advance of his age. Puck. didn't need It when I came in." ) 1 bt Invitation Accepted. It is told that a certain lady of a western Kansas town desired to show kindness to tbe eaptaln of the local state militia company and wrote the the following Invitation: "Mrs. 's requests the pleasure of Captain company at a reception on Frlduy evening." A prompt reply came: "With tho exception of three men who are sick s company with measles, Captain accepts your kind Invitation and will come with pleasure to your reception Friday evening." -- Truly Wonderful Climate. Hyperbole Gassaway went from here to a little town In southern California for his health. In two weeks be wrote home that he felt ten years younger. Some days luter he wrote again that he felt 20 years younger. Then his family heard no more from him. They telegraphed the mayor of the California town for information about their Hyperbole Gnssaway and got this answer: "I regret to inform you that your beloved husband and father, after a month's residence here, died from cholera infantum," DRY FARMING CROPS BENEFITS Com snd Wht Follow Than From Result. Batter Kind. Any One By Most Popular for Forage of Sor ghum Tribe Is Amber Cane. OF CROP ROTATION cor .on a no w , the all farmer, change very field on some of their few use a comparatively but system based on tbe latest knowledge . stock ot be handling of soils, crops It Inwcla. and and plant diseases made I. knowle ge only when tbl, of a cropping u,e of in the planning After the corn Is all planted, there net return Is still plenty of time to start crops of system that the greatest be expected. cane, mllo maize, kaflr corn or millet per acre may rrange-m,- t When there Is a regular Tbe most popular of tbe sorghum in mcd farm a on of crop, J tribe Is amber cane, or plain cane, as the .oil fertility they call It on tbe plains. and there 1. a large It is the safest drought resisting for a long series o crop we have; some of my friends who have the drying out habit tell me it Is the last thing to Are In a dry sea son, writes E. R. Parsons, in Ranch and Range. It does well on sod, It well worked up, will grow on weak, sandy land where nothing else will, and provides a heavy yield of good fodder for dairy stock. It can be sown broadcast and cut like hay, making fine calf feed, but tbe most satisfactory way Is to drill it In rows about three feet apart, planting from ten to twenty pounds to the acre according to whether you wish the stalks thick or fine. It is relished better by stock when the. stalks are One, but some farmers prefer a heavy grain tassel which necessitates thinner planting and a larger stalk. The grain is mostly starch, not any different In composition from corn, and Is supposed to increase the yield When of cream more than milk. planted thickly and cut young, stock will consume stalk and all. Cultivation Is a valuable aid to the making of a good crop, It will stand hard land and poorly plowed land much better than corn. It can be harrowed when small and planted any time before July, but we rather favor about the 20th of June. For a grain crop there Is nothing like mllo maize In this line; It can be raised tbe same way as cane; It makes fine fodder with more grain Professor Cottrel than the former. calls our attention to the fact that this grain Is JuBt as good If not better than corn for chickens and hogs, also for stock feeding. The professor knows, for all these feed values are accurately tested and determined In tbe college laboratories. He recommends it unreservedly for the plains region. I have tested It on my ranch at 6,000 feet, but It does not grow as tall or make as much grain as It does In the plains east of Denver. Kaflr corn U also a good forage plant, and can be raised on the plains by the same methods as cane, but tbe foothills are not hot enough to promote a heavy yield. There are several varieties of millet but the old German millet still seems the most popular. It can be planted even In the foothills country as late as the Fourth of July. We look on millet however, more as a catch crop than anything else; If the rains come right It makes a good crop, otherwise not It Is easily damaged by hall. It makes a very rich forage for cows and must be fed sparingly and In conjunction with some other It should not be bay or fodder. planted too thickly, 25 pounds to the acre is about right on the dry farm. It can be harrowed when about two Inches high. The right time to cut these crops Is a matter of much dispute among farmers and a table of feed value by an agricultural chemist showing the advantages of early or late harvesting is not always of much value to the farm er, for the reason that It usually leaves out the most Important factor of all, that of digestibility. It matters little whether In ripening our crops develop, for Instance, more sugar and less starch, for they are both the same thing foods, but It mat ters a great deal as the plants go on ripening when a portion of the starch becomes converted into cellulose or plant-fiber- , for although cellulose Is iso meric with starch and may appear in a table of food values as a carbo hydrate, yet being utterly Indigestible it has no food value whatever. Sawdust, which might be termed dry cellulose, Is of almost the same chemical composition as corn chop, the carbon is all there If we could only extract It In a di gestible form. Tbe difference Is not In composition, but simply In tbe transition of the atoms or ions in the molecule. Farmers differ very much In their opinions as to when a crop of anything should be cut for feed. A man may wait a week or so to obtain a little more protein In his alfalfa, a storm may come end ruin the whole crop, so that, after all, the weather Is the principal thing to consider; but with late crops the weather makes less difference. Rye for hay Is usually cut too late. If we try to get hay and grain from the same crop we get neither; the same may be said of corn plant either for corn, one In a hill, or for fodder, as many as you like, but don't expect to raise both In one crop. carbo-hydrate- s g Good Breeding Qualities. In breeding fowls for market, Individuals should be chosen which have small bones and plumpness as a first Shortness of leg and consideration. neck are necessary, but these points usually belong to the plump bird. There Is more from breeding fron good Individuals than there is In any one particular breed. We must have a good breed, of course, but Its Improvement depends on the selection of the right individuals for the breeding Pn. AWAY i Sled net return aver-Jg- e Is spoken of years, tbe arrangement rotation. as a crop eame No two crops have Just tbe develop. same tbe soil, on tbe effect vatem. nor take tne ,.r mnt food elements from of amount same the soli. Several ciasstncauuu field crops based on the effect characters of the plants, their raison the .oil and the method of acis classification One ing them. aysroot the cording to the length of mo nf tem. Airifft clover and some or me root crop, and native prairie grasse. root have long, enable them to get food and moisture from the subsoil much hlow tbe reach of ordinary rooi become systems. When such plants established they are able as a rule more considerably withstand to drought than the shallower rooted plants. Crops like barley, muo, lurnips and many of the cultivated grasses are shallow rooted. On this account ana they often decrease the fertility soil surface of the content moisture much faster than the deeper rooted crops. In spite of Its shallow root vstem. mllo Is able to withstand se This Is due. largely vere drought to its great ability to make use or what water there is in the soil and it will reduce the water content lower than will other field crops. It Is also able to remain dormant for long periods of time, and will start in and grow as soon as it gets moisture. Among the moderately deep rooted plants are oats, corn, wheat and some of the cultivated grasses. By alternating these three classes of crons on the land much better re sults will follow than by raising one kind continuously, since tbe combined root systems of the three will penetrate a larger area of the soil which results In a more economical utilization of plant food and soli moisture. The soli will be left in better physical and chemical condition and the crop yields be larger. sys-whic- h POULTRY NOTES. Tbe breed you like best. Is the best breed for you to keep. Tbe Incubator experience of others may not fit your machine. A small flock seems to lay the most eggs. We can guess why. More danger In letting the incubator get too hot than too cold. Begin to light the lice with the be ginning of warm weather. Pure water Is one of tbe most Im portant aids to thrift and health. Old hens make the best mothers, but pullets are usually the best layers. Shells and gravel as well as char coal, should always be accessible to the fowls. Feed at regular times and then the fowls will be ready and waiting for their meal. If you pack dressed fowls while still warm, the skin will often become bad ly discolored. Don't tolerate a loafing hen. Those that won't scratch and work for a living are better off In the stew pot. Scraps from the table make excel lent poultry feed, affording a change of variety and the cost Is reduced to the ttr st T Safest Drought Resisting Plant and Doss Well on 8od and Provides , Hsavy Yield of Good Fodder . ' for Dslry Stock. GOING Alt.rn.tlng Oats, Anni-Almo- ... minimum. Early hatched pullets that have received careful housing and feeding for bone and muscle, will make your best layers next winter. Besides comfortable quarters, the chick, to thrive, must have exercise, water, grit, a variety of grain food, green or succulent food, and casein or meat foods. Pure breeds not only look better, but also give more eggs and betler meat than fowls of all kinds and colors. They eat no more and the profits are larger. Fxerclse Is an essential as food, and lack of It Indicates wrong methods of rearing. The natural way for a chick to take its food Is to scratch for It, taking a little at a time. To Cure a Kicking Cow. When the cause of kicking can only be assigned to vice or an acquired bad habit, the following little arrangement will be found useful, and, at the same time, simple, harmless, effective. Inexpensive and easily applied a strap about one inch wide should te buckled around each bind leg a llt;le above the hock, sufficiently tight to compress the hamstring. The animal cannot kick, and If flies are troublesome and cause her to switch her tall the best plan Is to either strap It to her leg or secure It to one of the straps with a piece of cord. Use the straps every time the animal is milked, and after three weeks or so omit to ascertain whether a cure hast been effected or not. Raise Anything. The dry farmer can raise anything be wants to IX be does the work right ... " iTm who was rkSofou vounat ikn what beautiful when they silver ws display. 8ternfl pre.ent. may be had of ut fron, or three dollars up to th liver services costing hundnd. dollars. All solid big valui with unequalled guarantee. U ij J depart tbf.ummer. "Ye.. It to wish m. plant, BC . Plean at leB8t to " trip. If It toot sure. will be Interesting, I am forward "In fact, I am quite looking departure of my moment ,o he know I am so curious to Just You along. take 1 .hall what to start when I travel I always yearn In we i...i.in. iiirii the grins are In- railroad advertisements. They variably attired in me irouv one tten--. tailor. .ults.... Each "rrle. a Mgnuy nnd ...itoaatt uaieu, nnu pencU lead on built rolled umbrella a pieasaiu. and displays lines, . ,n Thuv all aDoear to nave snccessfully packed everything they own In trunks that nave gone uu It rests me to look at them. how "Somehow, though, no matter railof a hard I try to reach the Ideal In road Klrl In a picture, something variably Interferes. roe "One year somebody brougni ... nt ion st the last minute. a These I had to carry along with the umbrella. Then my cousin uuu the rubber paper package containing overshoes which she had worn away belast yesr by mistake and which She door. next longed to the cottager U said it would relieve her conscience I I did. So I would take them along. as soon Just overboard them dropped as I got on the boat however. Her conscience never knew the difference and it was lots nicer for me. "This year It is going to be even worse. It started with the bulldog. Dick Patterson owns the dog. He said some friends of his had It and also e had a little baby, and couldn't man-aghis take him both, so they let choice. He decided after some thought he'd take the bulldog, because he could keep it at the stable with his riding borse, and he couldn't dispose of a baby that way, although he really regretted the baby, because be said It was a very nice one. "The dog is a white, meek-eyecreature and so affectionate that he weeps if you raise an eyebrow at him. He looks as though butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, yet one day when I had him out he Jumped on an Innocent fox terrier that was attending strictly to Its own affairs and licked the daylights out of It In a disinterested sort of way. I quit hauling him around by his collar right then and there! "When In a Jesting moment I suggested that Dick board the dog this summer at my house he Jumped at the Idea because It seems he Is going away and there was nobody to leave the dog with. So I've got the bulldog to lead on a chain in one hand. No doubt I shall spend my summer alternating between the rural police court and tbe Jail, because the bulldog will chew up all the other resorters' offspring, cats and poodles. I asked Dick what on earth I'd do If there was an awful dog fight because of the bulldog. He replied that I must go Into the house and close the windows so that the noise would not disturb me and then let the best dog win. I am almost certain that I shall not have a dull summer. "Then just last eight John Gordon and I went out to one of the newly opened amusement parks and we came to a booth where people were chances on birds. buying ten-ceThere was everything from parrots down to darling little gray btrds with red throats. John bought a couple of chances. Just as I was explaining what kind of cage I should get to match the gray bird that I was going to win tbe man called out my number In sucb a loud voice that I was dismally positive 1 had drawn a parrot at least. What do you suppose I got? A globe with three gold fish in It. John got nothing. "I was o dazed that I let the man hand me the globe and then I walked away before I realized that I had accepted tbe responsibility for the welfare of three Innocent fish, at that moment flopping about In the water and gazing at me trustfully. There was a wire on the globe so I could carry It, and John said of course I wouldn't think of leaving It behind. I've got to take It along or hurt hla feelings, and as ray other hand Is VtllUtf M'f.tt Attn ....It a icu i ue suitcase i shall have to nang tne gold fish globe about my neck I can fry the fish for break- fast after I Kot to Michigan "I nearly forgot to mention my tea tray. It Is one of those framed, trays and so big that it wouldn't go Into a trunk. It Is wrapped In burlap with one handle sticking out lor me to hang on to. because it would have been too much trouble to crate t. I think I shall carry that In my teeth. tAU UK. m cut uui t be-au- to tbe Sb. Today and con IS Every Day pea ;ba 'tbe HEWLETT'S Lunets Freih Routt Bleal Cut C(Tr baa a moot delicto! aroma and Uate. tunrta mm (torn a modem plant. All chad. (r poor beani removed. Koaated and blendfdby Volte eiurrta. Yuur tracer Mil. tali Doe coRee tor 30c i pouad Ask for it ! stan ::5. icrai i today "Jl SI ;ent rial ren tin glass-covere- d "Then there Is tbe little with all the solid teaspoons andsatchel other llv,r in It and there will be three or ,,aCkage" from ,he ww 111 have to take along. Mother t0 Bend ! red Tted wagon caretaker's child If it wouldn't trouble me too much to in elude It In my luggage. I may have some forgotten things, but those are ' "nft" have carry." "Goodness!" nM tt,. n. can't travel on individual, can you" Why" whole caravan!" tZ t .? y! the d 'heir utb Ii nu California lid CO e thl ard o Summer Excursi r Cul jit a rprlsl tely less Si on aal dally. Lo Anielea and return (dlre-- t) I4O.00 wlthillibtlj higher rate tor tlrketa returnlni tit 8an FranHaco or Portland. Snortttt and beat line to Ooldlleld and Two Daily Traina with Pullmu Standard and Touriat 8Iepra, Dl. Int Car, and f re Reclining Ohatr Car. For ticket, literature and k formation, rail at City Ticket Offlea, IN Halo Street, or addreaa J.H. A.O.P. A., Salt Lk City. Ticket Fa coi k edy i nered i Tooo-pa- 1 !ntmen )i my tell. si mon d sea-gree- n i pom BKAI.8.8TE.VCni A DOES. TIKI CHECKS, Eta. I and uppliei (a xt dller. 1 (?hls, 2 SUMPS RUBBER Rubber Typ Outfit Uall order receive prompt attenUo. ALT LAKE STAMP CO., SaltUkaCt Un ft raw crew at tl so h ri A High Honor. lord was a guest ii i certain borne, and his hosts wen in anxious to show the highest rajw to their distinguished visitor. The tw food in the market was served it tv meals, and the conversation wu pf (lfully Interspersed with "My Lorf this, and "My Lord" that, In obsefli pus tones. In tbe morning, the hostesi, tin ing to send some warm water to b tot, . lordship by her pilot An English :of no .'legorri ye n re iteer M per bow H idle He aunt, a ertayln heard I and si; t Into t structed him thus: 'h, aunt to the at knock "Now, Charles, of his room, and If he ask. "Who i K (hall there,' you must answer, It Ii tj little hi I boy, my lord.'" He Charles proceeded up stain w H why knocked at the guest room door, toent da the visitor asked from within, Is there?" Int Alfr But the child, overwhelmed bf to wrli ft responsibility of his errand, oosevelt confused and replied, "It I. the my boy!' P anlm i makes A Lucky Find. , Mrs. Jonpa fatornM "DeUt husband found a button in the to' veatorHav " The Cook "Faith, I'm mlgb.tr (K I iv that, ma'am." Mrs. Jones anrllvl "Glad? why, pray?" i ue ixjok ii wor on me WAlat an 1 bnnw VA hav a time tryln' to match It." i tUlTi'--t More Airy Persiflage. uian ju mn uiuvu " - j up at the cow who was maklnf ij wu jump record-breakin- famed tttla "Now, for goodness' tloned the cow, "don't emit kered wheeze about beef 1" H tni " be' "Don't ny off your orbit, Boj chuckled the moon man; I ly wondering if you're worth more tne wing than on the hoot. ' A filmnl . w....r. .. Matter. r, J - J Ik -lli i.n lio you suppose, asseu j gr in Washington, "It would; 11 sioie tor me to see tne pre---wnrld, , ,1.1 in .. i 'tErfUIIKBI. IU ,i.a III" J IIIIUBJ plied the man who nved there "1 . . anrl a over to tne union uepoi .Hl ' around a little while, ue bac 1 be starting away or getting omewnere. B i ydiaE leCom Ljdia E. did i P?of the I and if a. j A Comet's Dl.e.e curvature of the tail A after he prnnlHril one of ,D obscure and distressing dlM comets. New York Sun. Trial Before Purch.M. "I'd Ilka that aniicenan UP ...... .1.1-- 1. A mil 1ar(. eV i " iu mum t,ia to take a pig's head?" madatOi "rn it MV ,i.,ttn tat,, aan v t u r ' then you'll be able to ee elf." Pele Mele. for AL""(to landlady): "B"J tie girl Is reading your M'0" - No Cause Talk about heroes; a Virginia cler- - lers," Undlady "Oh, that's 1on't let her set any that y harin."-ro- le Mdo. H will fanrnsAi your i E4l "VM"i ia. XCBU .monts 'oldtur, la.hn.,1.. .5SP' |