Show ( boll weevil business which we was destroying the cotton 'crop found a terrible state of affairs Tbe south was then a country and If anything happened to that one The MEMBERS crop they were out of business PROGRESSIVE WHAT negro labor was packing up and movOF THE NEXT CONGRESS was scared to ing away Everybody ARE TO DO death Well we did some good work down there to get rid of the boll weevil but more Important than that one thing was what It led to TO HOLD THEIR OWN CAUCUS Taught South How to Farm “We began the business of teaching They Will Introduce Bills Based on the southern farmer how to make the of his farm We found a man Platform Eepeclally for Ameliora- most In each county best fitted to direct tion of Laborer's Condition and for He knew where the need this work Abolition of Child Labor was greatest and could drive about from place to place showing his neighBy GEORGE CLINTON bors what ought to be done The Washington— If the members of south Isn’t a country any congress gauge things right there Is more a good deal of interest throughout the “Then we saw that there had to be country among people Irrespective of some animals on that land that we their political affiliation in the legisshould have to look to the south lative plans of the Progressive party’s pretty soon for beef The homestead' representation in the two bouses of era were taking up the land of the the next congress People apparently great western cattle ranches and the want to know what the Progressives ranchmen were beginning to give up Intend to do through their representatSo we tackled the pasture question ives in the house and senate when and helped the southern farmer about t Wilson callB congress his bogs and cattle It Is postogether 'in extra session Secretary Wilson also talked upon ausible today to give on sufficient what has been done and what he thority some of the legislative plans hopes may be done further In ths of the Progressive party's leaders and way of putting demonstrators on the to congress t farms In all the states of the Union In the house of ‘‘There are no Instirepresentatives in the congress there will be tutions to supplement the agricultural nineteen members to hold Progressive colleges’’ said he "We have to train credentials without any hyphen before our own men in many branches Conor after the name In the senate gress has not permitted us to pay there will be two Progressives but the salaries that would keep them before they can so be written down with us in all cases and these trainthere will be a necessity of removing ed men have sometimes been taken an at present existing hyphen which us we But from away keep on trainhelps to designate them as It is the same ing ’em Just tbe same about road building the technical Institutions turn out civil engineers but They Won’t "Go Over In the next house it is the intention they do not teach them practically of the nineteen We are training Progressives — it is how to build roads We should like to possible there may be one or two road experts more than this number — to hold a cau- train a superintendents for cus of their own and to demand New York state ’’Another thing I like to talk about It proper committee representation Is tbs expressed determination of the Is what we did to redeem the dry leaders of the Progressive party now belt west of the 100th meridian The here to refuse to listen to any over soli Is good but there Is little raintures from to fall There were great tracts of alovsr to them on any line of most useless land given over to halfThe endeavor Progressive wild animals We visited the deserts leaders say that the new party memof the old countries in search of the bers will be perfectly willing to act plants and grain that could be grown on In soil like that and learned the ways with the Do you know but that ths of cultivating them many lines of legislation s We are growmust come about Durum wheat? over because Progressives are deter ing 76000000 bushels of It a year kilned net to take the Initiative and now and last year we exported to "go over" Then we had to have legumes It la the intention of the Progres- for that land— the plants that take sives in house and senate when the nitrogen from the air and put It In new congress meets to introduce bills the soil We sent four times to Asia which if they should become laws will and Africa In this search We brought effect the planks of the Progressive over the alfalfa The Progressives and installed it where it would do party’s platform Intend If they can to beat the the most good” ' In the race to Pensions for ExPrealdontif the '"bill basket” ' at the opening of When Andrew Carnegie proposed Men- of all the session parties In his plan to pension Washington recognize that there Is of the United States at the rate precious little difference of legislative a year In order that of $25000 intention between the take life easier and lend might they but tbe and Progressives their counsel as private citizens to the the latter want to get first credit if lawmakers of the Union It was strongthey can for the Introduction of ly suspected that measures looking to the amelioration philanthropist had no thought that of the laborer's condition generally the pension plan would be accepted and to the abolition of child labor In but that Its suggestion might stir contbe United States gress to take action looking to the Will Urge Child Labor Law and their famcare of There are of course other measures ilies to which the Progressives at once The argument In congress against will attach their evidences of loyalty is an old pensions for but their plan la first to advocate bills one and In many respects apparently as havwhich are known specifically a perfectly proper one that we should ing tbe sanction of the delegates to have no civil pension list It has been the party’s convention at Chicago held that this country once begins In congress Some of the Democrats to give pensions to men who have held are talking of the necessity of intro- civil Jobs under the government there duclng Progressive measures akin to will be no end to it and also that the those which the Progressives Intend pension giving might be much abused to Introduce ft le not likely that a It always has seemed to be the fear bill will be one of those of congressmen that some men with a having Democratic sanction because pull or personal popularity who have In the Democratic view a federal child held some kind of government Jobs for and it awhile might by their influence Induce labor bill is unconstitutional Is said that Woodrow Wilson believes congress to give them pensions There that all child labor legislation or cer- are some civil pensions granted by the tainly most of It should be a matter United states notably those given by for consideration and passage by the special acts of congress to tbe widows As a rule however Individual states of presidents have stopped at this It is known that every effort will civil pensions be made by the Progressives to se- point and while It seems probable now cure a foothold at least for child labor because of the agitation that some legislation along the lines of the Bevplan may be evolved to pension eridge measure of some years since probably a long time will a measure which failed of passage be- elapse before anything like a plan for cause of opposition on the unconstigeneral civil penslona will be sanctionof the United tutional grounds already noted The ed by tbe congress it is said feel that child States Progressives labor legislation has a peculiar huPlan Tariff Hearings manitarian appeal which will keep le The Democratic members of the as a live issue until some law against ways and means committee already it can be put on the statute books are mapping out a scheme for tariff Why Secretary Wilson Is Proud hearings in order that revision bills It perhaps goes without saying may be presented to the hous as soon that Secretary of Agriculture James aa tbe extra session which is to be callWilson of Iowa has absolutely no ed by President-elec- t Wilson opens It he la be to thought that reapcan be said on good authority that tbe pointed when bis presidential name- wool schedule will be given first atsake enters the White House tention at the hands of the commitWilson has served longer tee and probably will be the first of Secretary than any other cabinet officer In the the tariff bills to be passed by the He ex- house in next spring's extra session history of the government pects to return to his home In Trayer Congress has not been long in sesTama county Iowa early In March sion and yet already Speaker Champ when he will have served as secretary Clark has broken two gavels by vioof agriculture for sixteen years lent use In making attempts to bring There has It may be of Interest to hear what representatives to order Secretary Wilson had to say In an been no actual disorder in the bouse terview concerning the achievements but only an overplus of enthusiasm reof the agricultural department under when popular leaders and popula his administration This question elected members generally have' enwas asked the secretary by The speaker feels a cor- tered the chamber to boisterous check an bis respondent duty is seeking interview: that it "What will be those things upon enthusiasm and so it is that two gavwhich when you return home after els already have been broken March 4 you will look back with the Will Uurge Child Labor Law most pride?" baa a special plank let into It which “If you start me talking shop here receives tbe blows of tbe gavel This will never you get away’’ the secre- plank has to be replaced at tbe be"But there are some tary exclaimed of every session for it always ginning things of which I am more than found to be sprung and splintered It is hard to pick out the under the heavy blows which it has proud Well special things here’s one: endured during the season's SesWhen we went down south to see sion UP MADE about the y I en of ETIQUETTE THE OF JUNGLE A ing some firm has been takremarkable pictures at a In Abyssinia of animals which come there from miles to around quench their thirst It Is the etiquette of the Jungle for the elephant to drink first No matter how many animals all are around the waterhole they stand aside for the greatest beast of all Many of the animals come 40 to 50 miles for a drink and there is a truce between even the most deadly enemies coms After the elephant the rhinoceros Although most of the other animals observe tbe truce faithfully two rhinos will fight over their precedence The cinematograph operator obtained wonderful pictures of two of these huge animals going at it “hammer and tongs” The fight only ended by one of When the tbe animals being killed rhinoceros has finished the giraffes drink their fill followed by zebras in Zebras always travel herds and 40 to 50 will arrive at the sometimes to waterbole at a time According the etiquette of the Jungle however they only come in fourth for the drinkstakes animals four The first ing are fixed In order but tbe rest get a drink Just how and when they can WILD Emperor Wilhelm of Germany makes a trip each year to Norway and he now Intends to present to that country a unique memorial of hla twenty fifth Journey there Thle gift Is a gigantic statue of Frlthjof the Norwegian hero of a famous Icelandic saga which relates hla adventures and Is assigned The statue which Is the work of Max Unger le to the thirteenth century to be eet up next summer on a peninsula of the 8ogne Fjord and its nearest allies nearly every member of the cuttle fish group possesses an Ink sac The Ink sac con- tains the dark pigment secreted by a special gland When or discovered pursued by an enemy the sepia discharges some of its ink through a sort of funnel or tube the pigment mixes with water very quickly and forms a dark cloud of Inky water beyond which the sepia will dart Into safety Sepias are often caught in nets with fish Thd fishermen the despising cuttles throw them out upon the beach and then they may be seen lying in tiny pools of dense black liquid and continually oozing out more Ink in a vain attempt at concealments “DEAD DRUNK” DOGS RAID WATCH QUEER CREATURE OF THE SEA Bepla is sometimes loosely spokes of as "a sort of Indian ink” it Is from real very different something comIndian Ink which is a substance posed of purified soot gum camphor and musk Sepia Is a peculiar animal substance obtained from tbe Ink bags or ink sacs of cuttle fish The cuttle fish are a group of singular sea creatures allied to slugs snails oyafSrs and other "shell fish” The cuttle fish has a sort of shell beneath tbe skin (sold under tbe name of “cuttle bone”) a pair of large eyes and a horny beak Like all molluscs they have no real limbs at all but from around the head there spring eight or ten long tentacles each armed with numerous suck- ers By forcibly squirting out the sea water which it has taken in the sepia can shoot backward through the 'water with great speed The sepia la inter eating too as being able to change its color In a measure so as to harmonize with Its surroundings Just under the topmost layer of skin there are distributed all over the surface of the body a number of cells containing a dark pigment when these cells are expanded tbe surface of the body becomes darkly spotted but as they are contracted the creature looks paler Though best developed in tbe sepia CHARM FROM MOMENTS - want to tell you about the kitchcupboard we made at odd moments The back my husband's time matched The side boards seven feet in length pieces are made of fairly heavy lum— f ber planed and nailed together three the In the lower part and two running big whole length There are two shelves in the upper part and two in In the the lower with four drawers ' middle Thd doors can be made at any mill OurB were or can be made at home some on hand from another cupboard The entire length of the cupboard Is about five feet It Is about two feet deep in the lower part and one and a half In the upper part Brass pulls are put on the drawers and fancy pulls on the doors Fancy binges fasten the doors When it is painted and varnished it will be very pretty as well as the most useful article I have In the kitchen One cannot buy the cupboard ready made for less than $25 and it has cost but very little to make It when there was no other work on hand — Mrs John Upton pAu Around IM10USE When making pastry that Is to be A pack of 20j wild dogs led by a served cold milk should be used for huge collie Is with Increasing bold- mixing and the pastry will keep longness making dally raids on farms near er than if mixed with water Thermalito Cal The dogs bunt with When baking or scalloping potatoes great cunning and efforts to exter- chops can be baked in a pan In the minate them have resulted In the kill- oven steak broiled underneath or pudchickens rabbits Hogs ing of one ding or pie cooked at the same time and turkeys are their victims The It saves gas' floods of 1907 when the Feather river When tea is spilled on a tablecloth reached the highest stage ever record- cover the spot at once with common ed is responsible for the marauders salt and let stand for a little while whose forebears were a few tame dogs when the stains will disappear In the on an Island of which were marooned afterward washing When the water receded driftwood from turnTo prevent artichokes the dogs burrowed Into tbe debris and ing dark when they are cooked a(ld a refused to return to domesticity little vinegar to the water in which they are boiled A teaspoonful will TO - WHIP GAMBLERS WOMEN be enough for a small quantity of the Horse whips and clubs are the weapons the Women's memof Lamed Kan association bers of which threatened to use them if they do upon the city’s gamblers husbands not leave the of the town alone Following futfie efforts by the police to rid the town tbe women met and of tbe gamesters lstued an ultimatum that they intend ed to take the law into their own r hands' RESIGNATION OF AN EMPEROR AT AGE OF SIX vegetable It is said that a tea made from Ivy leaves steeped in boiling water and allowed to cool will make a splendid cleaner for black cloth or serge It sLould be done with a sponge and greatly revives as well as cleans Wooly Comforts Eiderdown bed boots are smart for night use and they and appropriate gifts for fiends invalids and old persons The boots or socks ars cut very large of course but pretty much after of a baby's worsted bootees There are only two pieces and thereone straight fore only two seams down tbe front of the sock one at the back tbe halves are cut exactly allke but tbe sewing up of the front seam ends a little above tbe line of a shoe vamp- so that the sock may be The top and side drawn on easily fronts are bound with a matching satin ribbon and two sets of tbe strings are put on for fastening comforts 8now Cakes take four eggs onetblrd pound butter teaof a nutmeg spoon each of mace and cinnamon one pound of raisins one pound of currants pound of citron pound of nuts one- - sixth pint of brandy and a large plncb of soda In a Put third of small cup of vinegar Bake three hours Cover this In last with white Icing and when set decorate top with the greeting “Merry Christmas” squeezed on through a forcing bag and outline the edge with a fancy border— Harper’s Bazar For pound SKULL Charles K Hamilton the aviator is wearing a bone watch charm made from his own skull Dangling from watch fob the ornathe blrdman’s ment the Elks’ closely resembles The token which Is similarly worn bit of bone was taken from the head as he aviator unconscious of the lay on the operating table when two surgeons trepanned bis skull ODD FARMS After his mother had given him a few drops of whisky sweetened with to relieve a cold sugar Charles Vanderbilt of Williamsburg N Y acquired the whisky habit and as a result was removed to the In a critical condition advised the mother to Neighbors give her boy frequent doses of whisky and sugar after he bad contracted a While the child was cold a week ago he found the left alone temporarily bottle and swallowed about five tabl£ When his spoonfuls of tbe liquor mother returned she found him In an alcoholic coma and called an ambulance This statue of Thales representing which Is one of electricity weigh about 25 tons each and which are the largest that have ever been cut from single blockB of stone They were designed by Saint Gaudens and will be placed over the entrance to the Union station In Washington making facade magnificent symbolistic IN Cupboard a (ire at ConventNot and Its Cost Practically " Worth Noting Kitchen once This curious photograph shows the original edict issued in February 1912 by the emperor of China in which be abdicated Snd placed the sovereignty in the hands of the nation It was written on yellow paper placed In a sedan chair made of yellow silk and exposed In front of the palace For Royal Christmas Feast this flour Dish or Pan Gravv Pan gravy or dish gravy is the roast beef as In the pan when cooking Brown gravy is the liquid of other meats thickened such as pork lamb also beef Cream veal and gravy Is that of chicken and fish To my knowledge pan gravy Is never served with other meats than beef but of Tbe makcourse that Is as one likes ing of gravies or sauces Is art than that of cooking the meat Each kind of meat and fish or game has an appropriate gravy and should be served with It Nut Breid Four cups flour six teaspoons baksalt one ing powder one teaspoon cup English walnut meats broken la one cup sweet milk two quarters eggs one cup sugar Mix dry Ingredients and nuts Add the milk ar(’ eggs beaten together Put In two buttered bread pans and Bake In a mod- let stand 20 minutes erate oven Tbls recipe fills one bread pan and nine email gem tins If desired “ Grape Juice Punch Four cupfuls of grape Juice four cupfuls of sugar twelve cupfuls of water six lemons six oranges and two cupfuls of tea Boil the sugar and water five minutes add the tea Juice lemons and oranges sliced and a large piece of ice Many of the swane on tha Thames are the property of the crown and Each year aa Christmas approaches a number of there are ao branded to be fatten “king's cygnets” are caught and taken to pena at Kingston dinner Those that hla majesty cannot use are prefor the royal Christmas sented to some of his personal friends Salad Dressing One teaspoonful of paprika one cupful white wine vinegar four cupful salad oil one tablespoonfui salt on salt spoonful mustard Shake welL Kwp cooL |