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Show 5. Jim Keene i rlM KEENE, when a boy, drove a milk wagon I up in Yreka, Siskiyou county, California, j Other men drove bakery wagons and all their I signs on the wagons wero "Yreka Bakery," be- I cause no matter which way the name was spelled, i it was the same thing. If a man was a trifle 1 "how-cqme-you-so," and read it, the wrong way, it was just the same. It is the only title which I a man can read either way and make no mis take. Well, while Keene was driving that wagon he noticed that the substance of the whole business was in the cream, that the cream came from the milk and that if it was Jersey cream, to procure , it the real substance of the milk was exhausted. j From his youth he was a philsopher and as he. ' grew in Btature and experience he said to him self: "Most men are but milk, the substance of i the milk is cream. I propose to see to it that 1 the men around me are so set that the cream in 1 them will come to the surface, and I will be there to skim the cream." He has clung to his resolution with a profit. In his day he has for his own churnjskimmed much cream. While doing it he has exhausted many fields. He is perhaps one of the best judges of horses and what they can do, in the world, and has won more than his share of races. And, by the way, the man who can pick out the winner in advance, in an honest race, would, were he a soldier, be a sure-enough great commander. com-mander. He was at the Carlton when it took lire the other day and watched the London fire brigade's bri-gade's performance. He declared that their performance per-formance compared to the New York department methods is 'like a funeral compared with a four-mile four-mile race for blood between thoroughbreds. But he says the material of the London brigade is splendid. His thought is that the brigade has no competent general, and the chances are 100 to 1 that he is right. |