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BATTLE IS NOW Oi Political Control of Next f- flress the Issue. Con How tha Congressional Committees Work and the Men Who Direct Them Tons of Literature Sent Out. ' .' Washington. The two powerfully organized political bodies, the con gressional campaign committees of the Republican and Democratic parties, have opened their quarters for the fall campaign and from now on the fight for the control of the next congress will be in full swing. The Republicans will wage their battle from headquar ters both in New York and Chicago and the main office of the Democrats will also be in the Illinois metropolis. Jn a broad sense, the fight for the control of congress is going on all the time, with Washington for Its head quarters. The Washington offices aro the great supply depots, and from them literature is being constantly William B. McKlnley. sent out to districts from Maine to California. But with the opening of western and eastern headquarters by the congressional committees, the struggle takes on an intensified form and in every district from coast to ooast there Is a stand up fight, which continues until the polls are closed in November. The congressional committee is without doubt one of the most power ful organizations in the American po litical system. It Is distinctly the cre- 1 atlon of congress Itself. Tho members from each state seloct one of their number as a member of the commit tee, and the committee in turn selects Its officers and an executive commit- , tea. The campaign is run by the offi cers of the committee, and it becomes campaign along the lines detilred by the party as it is represented in congress. To that extent the commit mittee is almost a close corporation for the perpetuation of the existing organisation of congress. It Is true that it cannot always dic tate the local Issues in various dis tricts, and that it often falls to "bring a candidate through" because of the peculiarities of his home fight. It is nevertheless behind every one of the 890 or more congressional fights throughout the United States; and its counsel, the plans it has formed, and the active support it gives the candi date and the newspapers of its party wield a tremendous influence in the congressional results everywhere. ,,. The candidate may kiss the babies, pass tho time of day with the feminine members of the family, and argue po litical tenets with the voter himself: but It is the congressional committee that lays down the general scheme of una, and following that is the Lin coln day , speech of President Taft More than 2,000,000 post cards, con taining "speeches boiled down," are being sent out. Democratic resources ' embrace dozen important speeches made : in both houses of congress, bearing upon the tariff and other live political is sues. To send out this enormous amount of literature from the two headquar ters would require much more money than the congressional committees can put their hands on, were It not for the beneficent provisions of the govern ment franking laws. The reason why most of the campaign "thunder" is made in congress will be better un derstood when it is known that such thunder goes postage free to any part or the nation. , . The . speeches and extracts of speeches now bolng sent from both the Democratic and Republican offices are mailed under the franks of mem bers of congress, and within the full authority of the law. Tlie " magic womb: "Part of Congressional Record Free," will carry words of political wisdom into the hands of almost every voter in the country before the cam paign is ended.1' The men who'are openly at the head of the two big committees are not of more Importance in the scheme of the congressional campaign than are the political sages in the background. In the Republican headquarters the work will be conducted from New York by congressman Henry C. Loudenslasrer. or New Jersey, secretary of the com mittee through many campaigns. From Chicago, Congressman William B. Mc Klnley from Illinois will run western affairs and direct the operation of the speakers' bureau. The latter will be run entirely from the Chicago offices, while the literary bureau will operate rrom New York and Washington. in me oacKground is the staff of consulting experts," consisting of such men as Cannon, Tawney, Fassett ana others long identified with na tional campaigns. The situation is much the same on the Democratic Bide. Congressman James T. Lloyd of Missouri, chairman of the committee, will have charge of the Chicago quarters throughout the campaign. In the background, how ever, Is the complete congressional or ganization of former years, and the counsel of Congressman Champ Clark, Ollle James, Swager Sherley, Oscar W. Underwood, Gilbert M. Hitchcock and other successful party leaders. James T. Lloyd. tba year's campaign, decides what form political discussion shall take, and prepares the literature upon which American voters are to be edu cated for many months previous to the polling days of November. This work has been going on in Washington since early in the year. It was in full swing before the last ses sion of congress was half over. Lead ers of both parties in congress poured forth speeches upon the issues of the forthcoming campaign with the Idea that those speeches should become the ammunition of the respective parties In the fight, and the congressional committees have Increased the stock of that material many thousand fold. Tons of Literature. Tons of literature have been printed and sent out from Washington and tons more are to go. The Republicans are sending out the product of Chair man McKlnley himself, a tariff speech which be delivered in congress early in the session. Also Congressman Nicholas Longworth'a speech on the VALLEY FORGE 13 RESTORED. A few years ago Valley Forge was one of the most neglected of the na tion's historic places. Visitors saw Washington's headquarters and then wandered around aimlessly, regarding with disappointment the mhhUh. choked ditches that were pointed out the entrenchments dug by the patriots of "77. A few vagrant looking signboards informed the tourists that the almost obliterated lines were forts, constructed by Washington's soldiers; but the entire camp ground was rapid ly dissolving Itself into the scenery, and landmarks were becoming more and more difficult to find. All th'u has now been changed. The trenohes have been cleared of rubbish, the forts restored, monuments erected, markers placed to show where the men of the various states had their headquarters, and the entire camp fairly bristles with signposts to guide the patriotic visitor. Most notable of all is the Memorial chapel and Patriot's hall erected on the spot where Washington knelt to ask divine aid for his difficult and seemingly hopeless campaign. The story is told that, upon one oc casion, a farmer in the neighborhood of the desolate camp at Valley Forge, observed the commanding general dis mount from his horse and disappear within an adjacent grove. Drawing nearer, the awed farmer-patriot beheld Washington kneeling upon the frozen snow, his hat removed, and his face lifted In the reverent attitude of prayer. It is easy to trace the unfal tering patience and determination with which the great man upheld the shivering, starving soldiers who loved htm, to his own reliance upon the source of all strength and wisdom. STORING CELERY IN WINTER Excellent Method Recommended for Farmer and Small Grower Be ; cause of Its Simplicity. ; A great deal of celery Is now being grown on the farm, more than eves before, aa farmers find this crop not difficult and always salable. . Where but a small quantity Is to be stored for winter sale or use in the family it can be banked up with earth where the plants are grown. . The earth should be placed around the base of the plants to hold them In good form and where they can re main without f urtier : banking until tnere Is danger of a hard frost. Tbe earth should be turned up to the very top of the plants, almost cov ering them and then as the weather becomes colder the, ridge should be covered with coarse stable manure, straw or corn fodder held In place by means or boards fastened with sticks. A very good method for the farm Is to dig a pit, say M Inches dees, S feet wide and the necessary length. The soil in the bottom should be Loosened to form a bed In which the roots oi the celery may be set Pack this trench with fully grown plants, placing the roots close togeth er, with considerable boU adhering tc them. ' As the celery is placed to the trench It should be well watered and then allowed to remain open long enough for the tops to become dried off. unless the soil is very dry at the time of storing, or extended warm weather should follow, it will not be necessary to apply any more water. Place a 13-inch board on edge along one side of the trench and bank up the surplus earth on the outside; cov er the trench with a roof of boards, sash, straw on poles or corn stalks from which the tops have been re moved, placing the stalks across the pit with one end resting on the board and the other on the ground; spread over this a light covering of straw or other material which will pack close, and as the weather becomes colder Increase the covering to keep out the frost Celery stored la this manner, will keep until late in the winter, and while the method is too laborious for application on a large commercial scale, it is to be recommended for the use of the farmer and small grower be cause of its simplicity, , KEEPS COUNTRY ROADS GOOD HITCHCOCK EXPLAINS SAVING In a statement explaining how more than 111,000,000 were saved the posit office department during the last year, Postmaster General Hitchcock Bays $1,000,000 of this amount resulted from economical reforms In city de liveries. About $2,500,000 was saved through reforms in post office management More than $2,000,000 was saved by better handling of money-order and registry departments. In spite of the big docrease in the deficit, the num ber of employes was increased. Reorganisation in the rural delivery service was responsible for about $1,900,000 of the savings made in the deficit And this was accomplished without any curtailment of service, A reduction of $900,000 is credited to the star route service, including miscella neous transportation of mall other than on railways. The combined savings made In the cost of handling the mails In post of fices and In all branches of the serv ice other than railway transportation, including an Item of $450,000 for sup plies and miscellaneous expenses. made an aggregate reduction of $8,150,000. As for the cost of railway mall transportation, the preliminary rec ords for the year Indicate a reduction of about $4,700,000 in the excess of ex tendlturea over receipts. One of Best Implements Devised for Repairing Highways Is the K tag 8pHt Drag. One of the best implements devised for repairing roads is the King split log drag or some modification of It which may be made either of wood or steel The roads should be dragged with this implement as soon after a rain as possible; when the drag squeezes the water out of the sol) leaving a smooth layer of puddled sot) on the road Burface which bakes hard when dry and "sheds water like a duck." The effect of the drag is ac cumulative in a way very much simi lar to the application of paint on a building for, the thinner the coats and the greater the number the more lasting Is the paint Every time the drag is used a new layer of puddled soil Is smeared on top of the previous one until, after several years of the accumulative effect of dragging, a road crust consisting of a large num ber of thin layers of puddled soil is formed that will support the heaviest traffic without breaking up. The drag not only keeps the road smooth and well crowned, but also keeps the ditches clean so that If outlets arc provided for them as there should be, water will run away from the road? and the grade thus remains firm. CLAIMS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOLD IN FILLING TEETH THE alchemists 1 were the fa thers of modern chemistry. Their efforts were large ly directed to ef forts to discover the elixir of life and the philoso pher's stone in the existence of both of which they steadfastly b e lieved. The for mer was a fluid of which a few dros FACTS ABOUT DUCK RAI8INQ. Never set duck eggs under a duck they are poor mothers. Put them un der a large hen. , The water troughs should be deep enough to allow the ducks to plunge their heads entirely beneath the sur face. Duck runs should be kept perfect ly clean. Provide plenty of shelter Cor the youngsters to which they can ran during sudden storms. Round up the1 young ducklings be fore the storms. Sometimes they will stt on the ground with their bills open wide, pointing upward during heavy storms. Mischief Wrought by Squirrels. In some portons of the west there are .a great many big, gray squirrels and these animals have become a great nuisance to the public and a serious loss to both the telephone and telegraph companies. . Many hundreds of wires are en closed In large leaden pipes and the squirrels have begun a general attack on these pipes gnawing myriads of both small and large holes into the wires. Just why the creatures should commit this serious damage is a gen eral puzzle. 8ncv and rein tall Into these botes gnawed by the squirrels, causing the wires to rust and likewise seriously Interrupting the general public serv ice. .The loss thus far caused baa been very heavy. Good Farming, Fewer acres better fertilised and cared for would result In larger profits en many farms. Poorly fed plants like poorly ' fed animals, are always leas, poor fca quality and unprofitable ',. would renew youth, enabling its pos sessor, no matter how old and wrin kled he might have grown by reason of years of labor, to become a Prince Charming, to realize the supposed fe licity of the Oriental salutation, and "live forever." Without the philoso pher's stone, there might come times when living would be a bore because of poverty; but with the philosopher's stone one could command Infinite riches, for the philosopher's stone was supposed to have the power of trans muting the base of metals to gold. Until recently modern science, while not denying indebtedness to the labors of the alchemists, has referred to their two chief quests with ridicule. A few years ago, however. Doctor Brown-So- quard, one of the most scientific physi cians of Paris, devoted himself to re searches for an elixir of life and found in a preparation of goats' lymph prop erties which encouraged him to believe that he was on the track of the elixir. He was an old man at the time, and died In 1894 at the advanced age of 86. However, the fact that a scientist of Brown-Sequard's repute would give himself seriously to this department of research had some influence in re lieving one activity of the old alchem ists from utter discredit Later, in Paris, also, came the wonderful dis coveries of the Curies regarding ra dium and helium giving rise to specu lations which In the minds of many shook the foundations of the long es tablished theory of irreducible chemi cal elements. If that theory is ground less If what the chemists for more than a century have believed to be fixed elements are not stable but may under certain conditions be converted into others all that is necessary is to ascertain and produce these condi tions and change copper into silver or Jead into gold at will Mme. Curie does not claim to have worked either of these wonders. Neith er does Dr. William T. Wyckoff. the Philadelphia dentist whose portrait appears herewith. But Dr. Wyckoff, is asserted, has devised a means by which he can make at a cost of 50 cents a pound an untarnishable metal that is as ductile as gold and that Is claimed to be as good as gold for filling teeth. services and for the board of her re tainers, who are several In number. Singularly enough, the princess makes no effort to cut a wide swath in society. She - lives unostentatious ly, entertains regularly, but exclusive ly, and cuts no figure In the newspa pers except on the occasion of her ar rivals and departures, when she al ways willingly submits to an inter view. iL vf J SHE PAYS $25,000 YEARLY FOR HER HOTEL SUITE IN THE case of ordinary m o r tals, 'especially In the larger commu nities, the matter of rent is some thing to be seri ously, considered and the providing of shelter makes almost If not quite as great inroads upon income as does the nrovidlnsr oi lood. In medium-sized cities it has become almost a rule for the head of a family to consider that one-fourth of his income must go for rent un less he is one of the comparatively limited number owning their own homes. Thus the mechanic who earns $14 to $20 a week figures on pac ing about that amount per month for his fiat The man whose pay envel ope contains $25 to $35 weekly will pay at least the smaller of these sums every month" in rent and the $5,000 a year man will put up some where In the neighborhood of $1,000 In payment for his apartments. But when we come to consider the case of a woman who pays $25,000 a year for her hotel rooms alone, even when she la not using them for months at a time, we reach a financial stratum where money Is no object and where the Income is so large as to leave the possessor free from all bonds of econ omy. This Is the case of the Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, a Hungarian, who prefers New York aa a residence. She came to America some time ago for the purpose of painting the portraits of a few of our leading men not for remuneration, but that she might add them to her private collection and she has become so in love with the Ameri can metropolis that she proposes to make It her real home. She has apart ments In one of the leading hotels and before sailing for Europe the other day. signed a lease for three years at the rate of $25,000 a year. The suite for which the princess pays this fortune yearly In rent consists of 17 rooms on the third floor and Include a pri vate conservatory. For the annual $25,000 she receives nothing but the use of the rooms, paying extra for CONGRESSMAN WHO WAS ' ONCE A LUMBERJACK PROM lumber 1 jack to con greesman is the record of Hon. Jo seph W. Fordney of Saginaw, con gressman from the Eighth dis t r I c t of Michi gan. Congressman Fordney, Who is serving his sixth term, was born on a farm near Hart ford, Ind., 56 years ago, and quit school at 15. In '69 the family moved to Saginaw, and young Joseph began his business career as grocer's dellv ery boy. . ; The winter he was 18 he went to one of the northern Michigan lum ber camps as chore boy. For nine winters he followed" the woods handling the peavey and swinging the ax on the giant pines. loung Joseph was ambitious. In stead of spending his earnings In month's riotous living when the drive was over, he saved his hard won dol lars and stayed in the woods during the summer, helping tlmbermen In their plans for the next winter's cut ting. In the picturesque vernacular of the camps, he became a "timber cruiser" or "land looker." He was a good story teller and a mixer. He had the robust temper of his grand father Fordney, a hot-headed German who left his beloved Rhine to fight for the cause of American freedom in the American revolution; but he kept it under control. ihe hard-headed old chaps who were pttlng money into Michigan pine were attracted by Fordney. They learn ed to appreciate not only his rollick ing stories and merry laugh, but his skill and sound Judgment as well They took him up the rest was easy. in a few years he was a millionaire and In congress. "Sugar Beet Joe" is his nickname In the halls of legislation. This is because of his devotion to that saccha rine root which Is the fetich of the Michigan farmer. '..Jim. BRITAIN'S NEW SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS ?IR Arthur Nio ' olson, who has been appointed to succeed Sir Chas, Hardlnge as per manent under sec retary at the British foreign of fice on the ap pointment of the latter to be vice- r o y of India, comes to that post as did Sir Charles Hardlnge from the embassy at St. Petersburg. une post oi permanent under sec retary at : the foreign office is the most important in British diplomacy, for this official has the virtual direc tion of all the ambassadors and min isters abroad. Oi Course the secre tary of state for foreign affairs at present. Sir Edward Grey is his nominal chief, but the permanent of ficial is the man who really does the work. He it is who is responsible for maintaining the continuity of British foreign policy in spite of the changes of party fortunes which displace his temporary chiefs and while a new for eign secretary is learning his busi ness the permanent under-secretary's power, is practically unlimited. Sir Arthur Nlcolson has had a dis tinguished career as- a diplomat He entered the foreign office in 1870 and remained there in various minor ca pacities ror iour years. He was as sistant private secretary to Earl Gran ville, when that nobleman was foreign minister from 1872 to 1874, and in the latter year he entered the diplomatic service as third secretary to the em bassy at Berlin. 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