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KAISER'S CHIEF OF STAFF Lieut. Gen. Erich G. A. 8. tod Falkenhayn, recently made chief of staff of the German army to succeed Von Moltke, Is only sixty-three years old?rather young ad the age of com . iriandtng officers goes in modern armies. He is lire, energetio, a bun dle pf nerves, sometimes agreeable, sometimes irascible. Intuitional, aristo cratic and venturesome The only active service undertaken a by Falkenhayn previous to the present war was during tbe Boxer rebellion, when be Berved on tbe staff of Count Waldersee. After the Boxer war be waa retained by tbe Chinese govern ment to Instruct a number of young officers in the Chinese army. For a doxen years or more the kaiser has been particularly Interested in Falkenhayn. As a definite earnest of his trust and regard he placed un der Falkenhayn's charge and Intrusted to him tbe military education of the crown prince, erne reason xor rue earaaraderie which has developed between Falkenhayn and the crown prince tthough the new chief of stal Is considerably older than the heir apparent) Baa la the superior birth of the general. His noble blood dates back seven m eight centuries. His viewpoint on all matters Is purely tljat of the soldier. He has never bees a diplomat and never an agitator. His attitude on the dueling Question Is Illustrative of his type.. Early In the present war there occurred a duel In the German army in which Lieutenant liaage was killed. As this was contrary to army ifegula Itons. la violation of the edict of the kalapr, and against public opinion, the new minister of war was called upon to abjure the event and castigate the sarvivor. He did nothing of the sort He said frankly In a public statement that, al though dueling was against the laws of God and man, e7ery German offlcer must be ready to vindicate his manhood by personal combat If necessary. He added that he was doing everything In his power to diminish dueling In the army. . ... ... * - , - ? GABE E. PARKER Animated by a aense of obligation to hit own people, the Indian race, and especially to the Choctaw nation. wMcb contributed from tribal funds to pap for his education In the public In dian schools of Indian territory. Qabe K. Parker, appointed by the president commissioner of the Five Civilised Uibea. takes up thote duties with the anxiety and hope to advance the In terests and welfare of those Intrusted to his charge. Muskogee, Okla., Is his headquarters Mr. Parker is one-eighth Indian. His mother was oneqUarter Choctaw. Hts .lather, a Kentucklan. owned a ranch In Indian territory, near Fort Towsen new In southeast Oklahoma, iwhere Qabe E. Parker was born September t?. 1878. Ho has one brother and two siatera. The country schoolhouse, an Indian school for the children of the Choctaw . nation, provided him wltt) the rudl- I ?tufa of hlfl edupAtlnn Tenter ho wont to Spencer academy, also an Indian Institution of learning. He obtained hit degree aa a bachelor of science from Henry Kendall college. Two things stand out in bis memory of college days: Tbat be met hit wife, wbo was a fallow student; that be closed his course aa valedictorian of his class, graduat ing with the highest honors in 1899. The death of his mother diverted him from the study of law, and he re turned at an assistant teachter to Spencer academy after his graduation, and to three months was made principal teacher. After a year of teaching there. In 1900 he was transferred as principal to Armstrong academy, another In dian institution, and in 1904 was superintendent. _ He was occupying !tbls goat when -called to Washington to become register of the treasury. Hr. Parker is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. He owns a large ranch In Oklahoma. HEROINE OF PRETTY ROMANCE Elizabeth Reid Rogers, a pretty south ern girl who made her Washington debut two years ago. has come Into a romance that reads like a story book, Inasmuch as she Is credited with be ing engaged to the nephew of the kaiser?one Prince Christian of Ger many, a captain In the imperial nary, on duty at present, on a man-of-war In the Kiel canal The young folks met at Cairo, where Miss Rogers was stopping with her mother, who sets the pretty girl a diffi cult example to follow when It comes to looks. Mrs. Rogers was a Tennessee belle and beauty. Miss Eunice Tomlln of Jackson. She married a scion of the Blue Grass state, In young Reid Rog ers of Mt. Sterling, Ky., a protege of the multimillionaire, Theodore P. Shonts of New Tork and Panama, largely thitough whose Instrumentality Mr. Rogers, whose mother and Mrs. Shonta were Intimate friends, became general counsel of the Panama canal. The Rogeraea are prominent In the atradlpiomatlc Bet in Washington, where they have been spending tjie last few winters Miss Rogers is all vivacity and temperament and charm. She shows her Rentucklness In ber devotion to horses. She and her father ride together frequently. Mrs. Rogers, end Miss Rogers are in Berlin. v\_ PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW GOVERNOR Martin, G Brumbaugh, the new gov ernor of Pennsylvania, la one of the best-known men of that state as an educator and friend of the schools. Bis achievements as a county super latendent. then as the organiser of the school* in Porto Rico, and in the last eight years as superintendent of schools In Philadelphia, won for him popularity and the greatest support a candidate for governor has received (a recent years in Pennsylvania. 4 Doctor Brumbaugh Is a rugged, healthy Ague of a man, a perfect product Of outdoor lire and truly rep resentative of his German stock. Ha la the picture of a powerful athlete, erect, and towering over six feet He la Im pressive of the physical giant, rather than the Intellectual. Nothing in his appearance betokens the linen of a student or reduce. Hit leonine head. 4eshle barreled square Jaws, and thick wA w?U-df?v*loDed bodr. recall to mind om of the characters In Wagner's ? Bperas. The most striking facial chsrmctarlstlc ot the nun Is his craggy hailing brows His keen, discerning, kindly glance tnrrsls beneath this abaadance ot hair orerhanglag bis steely eyes. Ii i DIVERSIFIED FARMING SAFEST PUN Faad Yard* Near 8hawnaa, Okla. (Br W. >1. KEL.I.Y.) In order to grow successful crops (or less cost then they will sell for in the market, we must feed them oat on the (arm, so that we shall realise more than the market price (or them, and thus make two proflts. Could we mar ket price (or (ceding crops, we should price w? would not need to raise so much to meat expenses. And it we could realise a profit shore the mar ket price our (ceding crops, we should In many Instances, double our Income, and without adding to the cost ot pro duction and so have less cause to com plain of low prices and overproduc tion. The, first step towards more profit able (eedlng Is Improved stock. There are very (ew (arms that are not sup porting animals at a loss, on account of their interior quality. We should keep not only more good stock, but we should keep those that are adapted to our needs. Diversified (arming Is the satest. Different soils require different crops; and upon all, (arm rotation Is essen tial to profitable production. But the (eedlng of live stock Is a separate and distinct branch of the business; and the narrower the limits to which we confine ourselves the better the re sults. Study the adaptation of yonr (arm; Its location to good markets, your own itollV?. ?.,J tkn. ike uioiiacs OIIU iucu ppoviaii^c U^JUU mc kind of stock husbandry that Judgment teaches Is best for your farm. The beef producer will not And It profitable to keep Jerseys, nor the dairyman Hereforda. It la feeding special-purpose animals that has enabled feeders to realize profits on the amount of feed that Is consumed and It is the feeding of dairy animals that has enabled dairy men to make their hugeness profitable. The better the animals the larger the profits, and the anlmala that are bred tor special purposes are more certain of giving good results. While it is my opinion that dairy /ktailng Is the most profitable man ner of realizing good profits on home grown feeds, yet it la opt of the ques tion for all of us to become dairy farmers. . Some will do better with sheep a I some with horses. It is At profitable for a man to handle animals that he does not like, and that he cannot take pride and interest In keeping in a good condition. The most Important requisite for feed ing any kind of stock, is pure water and plenty of it; other things may be neglected to a certain extent but the water is Indispensable. More than one-bait of the live weight of all our domestic animals is water, and water is the universal solvent, the medium by which all sub stances that nourish plant and animal life are made available. Another important factor Is good shelter, a protection from heat and cold. It requires food to maintain heat in the body, and the amount re quired for this is much greater, if the animals do not have protection from the cold. On some farms, the amount of feed required to keep up heat is more than the amount converted into growth and fat Many of us fall to preserve our feed ing crops in a way to make them pal atable and digestible. It they are not palatable they will not be eaten, and If they are not digestible they will pro duce no good results. Too much of the food finds Its way into the manure, without being eaten on account of not being palatable, and much that is eaten, many times falls to nourish, on account of not being di gestible. Overripe hay that is damaged, over ripe straw, corn fodder and stalks that have become woody, contain but a small per cent of nutritive value which they would have possessed, had they been eut and cured at the proper time. The silo offers a way by which we1 can preserve our corn crop at a time when It Is of the greatest feeding value and keep it without waste and preserve It In the best and most palatable con dition, so that it will furnish the great est Dossible amount of nourishment. If you have no alto, the atalka may be Improved by cutting and fed to the atock after being aprinkled with water and a little mill feed. If preserved In good condition, the cattle will consume about all of the hay, straw and fodder with very lit tle waste, and so yield us all the prof it there Is In them. It teems the height of folly to grow good crops and feed them out under conditions that will not allow of proflts. No single crop will form a balanced Uniformity It Profitable. ? Uniformity In the dairy herd la prolHable because It has a tendency to Increase the Interest of the owner and the young men. and when you can stimulate an Interest among the children on the farm you are doing good work. j> . Koep One Horse Prepared. Keep at least one horse la the stable shod with never-tllp shoes; In this way ba prepared tor an emergency la cases of sickness or other needs ration for any animal, When fed alone. We need to make combining foods a study If we could feed them to the beet advantage. We must remember that we are keeping our farm stock under more artificial conditions every year, and If we conflge them to one kind of food, they cannot make the best gains and keep in a healthy condition. Un less they have the kind of food best suited to their needs their develop ment Is slow and uncertain. The soli stands ready to give large returns to Intelligent farmers. Every well-bred animal on the farm, by the very law of Its being, is ready and able to assist In giving additional value to all crops that are grown on the farm, If we only surround them with the right condi tions. Successful feeding depends en tlrely upon the man. ^STEADY INCOME FROM DAIRY AaTtiers Is Always flood Demand for Butter, Cream and Cheese Farm er Should Retain Best Cows. In these dsys, when the price of beef Is soaring so high the farmer will be tempted to, sell the mllcb cows and Invest in young cattle. He may forget the fact that, while meat la advancing rapidly In price, dairy products will do the same. There will be good prices for butter and cream and cheese, so he should hold to the good, faithful cows. The profits from milch cows will be dally and certain. A herd of good milch cows gives s weekly or monthly Income, while one must wait for steers to grow and fat ten for the market. Of coune, the cows that are un profitable should not be kept. The cow with a diseased udder, the cow of beef type, the cow that'la trouble some to milk, that has short teats or gives a stream of milk the size of a pin?such cows should be gotten rid of at the first opportunity. But the good dairy cow Is worth lots of We rhould Keep Good Stock and Hold on to Those Adapted to Our Needs. money. She will more than pay her way every day in the year. She may be getting a little old, but keep her, nevertheless. To exchange might make matters worse. The cow that has been tried and proved Is the one to keep. Olve her a little better care and she will hold her usual record. As winter comes on the dairy herd may slacken up a little in the quan tity of milk because of being put on dry feed, but the milk will be richer and the profit in cream will be about the same. There are many farmers whose support is In the dairy cows, and to change to beef animals just because beef has advanced might mean ruin. Burn weeds to destroy the seed pods. ? ? ? Clean up the garden. Burn all weeds, vines, etc. ? ... * * V The silo is a sign of contentment, and contentment is a sign of success. ? * ? Great producing ability comes from the modified form best suited to do the work. * * . * If you do not keep an eye on that seed corn it may mold. Let it have fresh air. ? ? ? The drainage deepens the feeding ground of the crop and Insures the farmer against both drought and flood ing. * ? ? Hay slings and a loader are among the tools that cut down the cost of hired help by making that help more efficient. ? ? ? Humus mellows the soil, regulates the temperature to a certain extent, and assists in the storing and holding of moisture. - ? ? ? Hare good gates and fences on the farm. How many farms are condemned at the gate.v Have them hang straight and open easily.* I *' S e e Rats Will leave a place where plan ter of paria is mixed with bran or flour or anything they will eat It inter teres with their dlgea' Ion. SOME KITCHEN KINKS AETHOD8 THAT MAY IE NEW TO MANY HOUSEWIVES. Tiles Always Saat Whan Ona Can . Afford Them?Keeping the Dish cloth Freeh?Linoleum for the Floor Covering. Tiles are so clean and nice tf one la i able to afford them The young wife who baa them. will never regret tbo outlay, although they are rather ex pensive at the start. Hound the kitch en walls they are splendid and most hygienic In every way. Ths hack of tha sink is bound to get splashed with ths washing up after each meal. Therefore hers it is es sential to have either tiles or sine or something of the kind through which the water eannot penetrate Zinc an swers the purpose quite well if secure- I ly nailed flat against the wall. This la easily cleaned dally with a little dry brickduat The tiles, of course, are ideal, as all they ifeed Is a washdown with warm water Jally. A little enamel basket Is so useful In the sink for tea leaves and auch things which are more than likely to go down the sink and eventually stop It up. ft la shaped so that It fits Into the corner of the sink, perforated with holes, so that all liquid passes away, leaving the solid bodies In the basket. Nothing Is more unpleasant than a greasy dishcloth. To keep this Im portant article fresh and sweet. It should be scalded each time after use, or also washed out thoroughly in hot water and rinsed well in several wa ters. a piate rack nxed above tbe alnk Is a great saving of labor. Plates put In the rack must be rinsed In cold water after being washed in hot, If you do not want them to be amudgy. When roasting meat, nse a double meat, tin. Put oold water in the under one. This prevents tbe dripping burn ing and also keeps it from boiling away. Plenty of hot water is essential (or dish washing. Collect all.the silver. Place the knives blade downward In a fug of hot water. Pile up the plates neatly. A little arrangement saves the muddle one so often sees In con nection with washing up. Wash all the cleanest things first to save the water. Rinse glass In cold water after washing In hot and polish well with a dry, clean Cloth. Tbe most useful and healthy floor covering for the kitchen Is linoleum. Inlaid linoleum is tbe best to pur chase. Here the pattern goes right through and therefore will be perfect to the last Clean your windows , when the sun Is not shining, for If the sun shines on a wet window no amount of rub bing will prevent it from being streaky when dry. . Avoid a frosty day. too. as the glass is apt to break easily then. Dust the windows thoroughly. Wash the glass with a sponge wrung out In tepid water with a few drops of ammonia in It. Dry with. a clean _ cloth (with no fluff on It). Polish' with pads of newspaper. The Cook Says. If your market basket or clothes basket of willow shows a -few loose ends,, put It to soak for twenty min utes or half an hour lmlukewarm wa ter. U A good way to dr>Sh to put the basket Into the 'bathtub, resting It on the part that Is to be repaired, then turn In enough water to soak this part. The important thing Is to get the willow ends soft and pliable When this Is accomplished the strips can be readily bent back Into place, and If you push them In firmly, they will stay In place when dry. Nev er try to bend the wUlow strips while they are dry, as they will be sure to snap off. A putty knife, with Its. short handle and broad blade, Is an Indispensable tool In the kitchen. It can be used for turning hash, fritters .and fish. Its broad end Is also most useful In scrap lng pots and pans. Halibut With Tomato**. Take the required amount of hali but ateak and put Into a buttered pan. Arrange slices of tomato to corer It and put on top of the tomatoes plenty of green peppers sliced rather thin. Season with salt and pepper and pour oyer all one-fourth cupful of melted butter. Bake In hot oVen 30 minutes, basting frequently. A "garnish of sliced hard boiled eggs may be added. Codfish Wiggl*. Pick up .. cupful of codfish, place In saucepan with enough cold water to corer, let come to boiling point; drain off as before; thicken a pint of milk as for cream toast, seasoning well with pepper, salt and bntter; low add the fish and half a can of peas and let all boll up. Hare ready some nicely browned french-frled potatoes and turn the cream, fish, etc., orer them. Red Pepper Salad. Mix half can of pimentos or sweet peppers with one cream cheese. Beat Into the mixture sufficient mayonnaise to soften It slightly and add a few drops of onion lulce, more If a decided onion flavor Is liked. Pack In a mold,, chill on Ice and when ready to serre cut In slices and place on crisp lettuce leaves. This makes a good luncheon salad. D*vll*d Ham Rolls. ,. Make light, rather rlcb pastry, roll thin and cut Into squares of about four Inches. Spread upon each square a small quantity of deviled ham, leav ing about half Inch"around the edge uncovered. Moisten the edge*' with cold water and roll each sheet of ham and pastry compactly, pressing tbe ends together, and baka Qreas* Spots on Woolen Clothing. For removing greasy spots on black woolen clothing the following' Is ex cellent; Make a solution of borax and warm water and wash the soiled arti cle la It, then rinse In clear water and dry la the sun. This la a good way to clean men's coat collars. Uncle Sam Now Is Publisher of Daily Newspaper WASHINGTON.?To promote the foreign commerce of the United States, the government has gone Into the newspaper business, and the Daily ! Commercial Report Is now being Issued regularly by the department of com /C3. ?AH.v 1 alfwff/rl'l Lih t?H3 merce. In It are carried all important commercial cablegrams received from the attaches at the various embas sies abroad and from conauls through out the world. It also contains brief abstracts of the findings of investiga tors of the department in many lines of American enterprise, and presents to the business world each day the gist of the business of the department for the preceding day. The plan for a live, up-to-the-bour wiuiuvrciBi uauj was wuravu oui vy Dr. E. E. Pratt, chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The flew publication takes the place of the dally consular report which has been Issued for some time, and hereafter the long mall reports from American consuls reviewing business conditions and opportunities In their respective sections will be published as supplements to the Dally Commercial Report Wonderful Collections of the Dead Letter Mail WONDERFUL beyond belief I* the collection of article* which the poet office can make within a year from the mall that can't be delivered pe cause of bad addresses Through the benevolent agency of the parcels poet iuu ueyatiuiwi IBBI fear exceeuea ?u records, and upon the shelves of the historic desd letter office ere packages containing everything from Bibles to basspohs. AU of these articles were sent to the wrong address. Thetr original pack ages were stamped and res tamped until the paper was worn out. For the sake of convenience, the officials of the dead letter offiee have lumped car tain articles together In large pack ages. Thus one passes a package of handkerchiefs and runt Into a bright young assortment of braaa caatlnga. Or. turning from a particularly melancholy collection of booka, be runa smack into a collection of toya that might hare come right out of the bag of Santa Claua. There la a single package that contains 241 women's aprons, with 51 assorted garments which the gay young Happen of these parlous times ? consider obsolete. Then there arc 176 pairs of hose bundled together. Even the most pessimistic sufferer from hay fever cheen up when he goes by the handkerchief department of the dead letter office. There Is a single bundle of 1,14* Initialed and uninitiated handkerchiefs reposing near him, which 1* about the number that a hay fever patient uses during a 24 hour day. SIxty-sU aviators in the United States are wondering where those avia tion caps are that tbey were told about In a letter, but whloh they never re ceived. The caps are in the dead letter office with some automobile hoods. And the dead letter office must ring at night with the disappointed cries of many fishermen It haa received 1,642 fishhooks and 506 pieces of fishing tackier The only thing the deed letter office hasn't got la the fisherman's alibi. A few other little sidelines in the dead letter office are awls, bicycle tires, shotguns, horse blankets and picture postal cards to the number of about 70,000. < . Old Washington Cafe Landmark Forced to Move SHOO MAKER'S has moved. "Thr^uSThTold restaurant landmark, which has stood In Newspaper Row since Washington was a village and Pennsylvania avenue was a continuous mudbole, has been _ snowed under by the march of ?'? "B1 ??? ?U?IC BiaiCBUICU, diplomats. journalists and financiers hare lipped their jnlepa among the cobweba has gone to a new location. Sboomaker's waa a "gentleman's bar." It you were not a gentleman 700 were not supposed to frequent Sboomaker'a The bartenders nerer wore aprons; they were simply busi ness mdn, clad in conventional sack suits, without even the cuffs of the coats turned hack. The cashier's desk. wun 11* antiquated wooden casn drawer, clipped and scarred with the ring of quarters and half-dollars, stood midway between the bar and the front door. The bartender never used a cash register; he wonld have nsed loud tones sooner. When the libation was re ceived he pushed across a check with It If you were honest you paid the check as you went out the door. It you were not honest you went out without paying?but only once. ?r. ?, ?7 The wall behind the bar was a museum. It was hung and clustered and overlaid with mementos of a Washington long past There is told the story of a newspaper correspondent In the old days who Inclined mightily toward Shoomaker's. He had planned to write a story about some art work that had been done at the capltol, but be got his dates (or his drinks) mixed and filed a 2,000-word story on the decorations behind Shoomaker's bar. Tradition says that national history has been made In the back room of Shoomaker's. The stockroom crowded .in close against the bar. In the middle of the bar stockroom was an old-fashioned coal stove with the saw dust box beneath it. In the cold winter days the old stove would blush around Its base, and over in the corners, behind the tiers of wine cases, members of congress would gather over their Tom-and-Jerries and their egg nogs, to discuss the state of the nation or tell yarns. Black Box That Ticks Stirs President's Guard FIVE minutea of feterlah anxiety ended In a laugh at the White Houie and the joke seemed to be on "Jimmy" Murphy, head of the White House secret Berries. Someone telephoned to the "care of the winds," by which the news paper room at toe w nue nouse is known, that a man was on his way to tha executive offices bearing a "black box that ticked." The news was In stantly communicated to "Jimmy" Murphy, who stationed three ot his bast men at Intervals In the executive offices with orders to Intercept the "ticking box." Visions of Infernal ma chines and bombs with clock attach ments arose in the minds of the presi dent's protectors. finally, tne mysterious man ap peared with the "black box" and, aure enough, It "ticked." He waa nailed Im mediately by Mr. Murphy personally. It took but a minute, howerer, to ex plain that the box contained an alarm clock which Lee 0. Duncan of La Salle, i 111., brought to the president to assist him in opening the San Diego exposi tion to start which the president had agreed to press the button at three o'clock New Year morning?midnight San Diego time. A big smile went all around the executive offices when the truth was dis covered, and no one. smiled more broadly than the president himself, who seemed to think he had a good Joke on the men who guard him so xealously. When It waa jgH| over, Mr. Mnrphy wiped large beads of sweat from his brow and acknowledged that he had had a bad Ave minutes. lodln in the Tissues. I i lodln la present In appreciable quantities In certain tissues of all ma rine species. As we get higher In the scale thore is more differentiation and probably less total lodln In the whole organism, until In vertebrates, and particularly In mammals, thyroid tis sue alone Is of consequence In eon nrctlon with the storage of tbe ele ment. Where there la a circulation of lodln hi the organism other tissues will also contain minute amounts; but the trace of lodln found tn tissues other than the thyroid Is In probabil ity without significance. Unci* Sam'* Farm. According to Secretary Houston, the mines of the principal farm crops of our country last year are a* follows: Corn, $1,702,599,000-, wheat, $878,680, 000; hay, $77$,068.000; cotton, $519. 016,000; oats. $499,431,000; potatoes, $198,009,000; barley. $105,903,000; to bacco, $101,411,000; sweet potatoes, $41,394,000: rye. $37,018,000; sugar ~ beets, $37,960,000; rice, $31,849,000; flaxseed, $19,540,000, and buckwheat. $13,B83.000. The total crop value. In cluding animals sold and animal prod ucts. $9,873,933,000?$33,000,000 ahead of 1918.
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