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ASIIINGTON.Tho now "secret service" of the United States bureau of internal revenue has been in full operation for several months. Placed

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the government which might otherwise have gone undetected. The statement continued: "These officers will be the personal representatives of the commissioner and, in fact, will be his eyes and ears throughout the country. Violators of the law, or unfaithful employees of the government, If there be any, will not know when the eyes of the commissioner are upon them. "These agents will be sent into any part of the country where the commissioner has reason to believe that fraud is being committed which it is impossible for the regular revenue officers to uncover. Revenue officers are largely known in their districts, and a strange, unidentified person may be able to detect irregularities where regular officers may fail. "This action reduces to permanent form the temporary policy which has been followed and which has unearthed numerous frauds on the revenues. It was through the work of a number of similar agents temporarily appointed, that the vast oleomargarine frauds were brought to light. The organization of this force is no reflection on the regular internal revenue force, but is intended to promote the general welfare and efficiency of the service."

Introduction Broker Busy in National Capitol SENATORS and members of the house have been discussing with surprise, not to mention indignation, a report that an "introduction broker" has been doing a thriving business in the capitol since the beginning of the present session. As in cases of the

numerous petty grafters who infest the capitol, it has been found extremely diflicult to catch this man "with the goods." Quotations on introductions, according to the gossip, were $25 for a senator and $5 for a member of the house. The rates are varied in accordance with the influence of the senator or representative to whom the introduction was sought and the poignancy of the desire of the person seek

ing the introduction. It is understood that a cabinet officer may be met in this formal way for $100, although contracts of this character are taken, it is said, on a contingent fee of smaller proportions, because cabinet officers are not so available as members of congress. This operator was doing very well until he tried to "take in too much territory." He agreed to introduce a client to a certain public man. They reached the man and when the introduction was accomplished, the public man turned to the introducer and asked him his name and whom he represented. This made the client suspicious and he subsequently told all about the "broker." Washington has a number of characters of this type, some of whom work among the politicians and others among society folk. As in every other city where society plays a big part, there are innumerable society brokers in Washington. They work a bit more cleverly than the "introduction broker" of the capitol, but they work more slowly.

Id Glory Now Being "Made in America" of Cotton OLD GLORY, to which the patriotic American doffs his hat as typifying the spirit of America, is in about nine cases out of ten not a domestic article. For ever since Betsy Ross made her first American flag, the official emblem

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J Ifl tlv Ssi Planting of the fiber to the sewing of the last stitch in the completed L mmßm- jgS banner. This is assured by the action of the general, supply committee of the government in listing specifications for cotton flags side by side with those for woolen bunting which has lieretofore appeared alone; and by the announcement of the treasury department, one of the heaviest users of flags among Uncle Sam's family of departments, that it will in the future use cotton flags almost exclusively. The action of the supply committee is not one of patriotism alone. When the European war put a stop to the exportation of cotton and there was agitation for putting the South's staple crop to new uses at home the committee became interested in the possibilities of cotton flags, but determined on rigid tests before any action should be taken. Cotton flags were therefore made up and placed on several of the revenue cutters, and samples of cotton-flag goods were sent to the United States bureau of standards for tests. Both kinds of tests were highly favorable for cotton. The flags stood the strain of constant use in all kinds of weather as well f& Mgs of wool, the report from the revenue cutter service said.

White House Mannequins in the National Museum RECENTLY there has been placed on view in the National museum a series of lay figures representing the mistresses of the White House under successive administrations running back to Martha Washington, who appears in a gown she used to wear,

seated in one of her own chairs, by the side of a Mount Vernon table. For a modern contrast, Mrs. Grover Cleveland is attired in a wonderful frock of white silk sprinkled over with full-blown roses, the arm loops and uppor edge of the corsage decorated with big butterflies of gold and glittering sequins about a dozen of the gorgeous insects in all, one of them adorning the bosom. Recent visitors to the museum, as

might be expected, find this exhibit remarkably interesting. But sometimes they are critical of the likenesses of the White House ladies. While admitting that many of them are good, they think that others are not first rate. Back of all this there is a real joke, for, be it understood, the faces of the White House mistresses are not meant to be likenesses at all. In fact, their faces are all the same face, the original of which is the face of a classical statue. Go far as the features are concerned, Martha Washington, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Taft and all the rest are one woman. The important difference is in the arrangement of the hair. The idea of the exhibit is not to offer a series of portraits of the women concerned, but to show the costumes they wore these, as a collection, affording a most useful study of phases of fashion in feminine attire as they have succeeded one another since the days of the revolution. All of the gowns that adorn the lay figures were actually worn by the White House mistresses represented; and even the minor accessories, such as fans, handkerchiefs, tables and chinaware, were personal belongings of the ladies themselves.

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Sprvina Ic Hninn WoH w w I I lu v ig 1 V 1 1 1 M llVfi agents is becoming one of the most picturesque of the many government organizations charged with secret duties. The official statement announcing the permanent organization of this body stated that the success of a temporary body of secret service agents had demonstrated the value of such a force. Through the activities of the organization the bureau has unearthed many frauds against of the country and all its auxiliary banners that fly from thousands of public buildings, army posts and ships masts have been made of woolminting practically all of it imported. In tlie future. however, a large proportion of the government's flags wil1 ke "made in America," from the DRESS WORH BY WIFS Of PRESIDENT f... .u-k.

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SHOT MEANT LIFE OR DEATH

Salvation of Arctic Exploring Party Depended on Accurate Aim of One Man. After they had existed on the barren ice-bound Wrangel island for six months, the dozen survivors of the illfated Karluk of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's arctic expedition, were rescued. A small amount of seal oil and a few fox carcasses were all that remained of their food supply, writes Mr. Burt M. McConnell in Harper's Magazine. Munro had only twelve cartridges left with which to sustain himself and his companions. "On one occasion," said Munro, "after our food supply had become exhausted and we were wondering where the next meal was coming from, I saw a seal out on the ice. I crept to within a hundred yards of him before I had to stop to steady my nerves. My heart beat so loudly that I thought the seal must surely hear it. "While I was resting the thought came to me, 'If you miss him, you will starve' for seals were very scarce, and we had seen no other game in seven days. "1 crept to an advantageous position, set the hair trigger of my rifle, and took deliberate aim. I think I held the gun sights on the head of that seal for at least two minutes, but my hand was loo unsteady to make my aim certain. I lay down on the ice to regain my composure, but the thought that if I waited too long the seal might disappear would not allow me to rest. "I aimed again, but my nervousness again frustrated my aim. I kept saying to myself through clenched teeth, Til get you!' and calling the seal all sorts of names. I was a cave man for a few moments. When I had become calmer, I fired. The seal gave one shudder and lay still. "I saw and killed only just one seal after that; so the rescue party came in the nick of time." ROPED HIMSELF TO BRIDGE And Then the Youngster Let the Tide Come In in True Melodrama Style. The colossal lie told by seventeen-year-old John Streeper proved a little too much for him, and he was confined to his bed with a doctor trying to give him something for his nerves. The police said it was not his nerves that needed treatment at all ; what he needed most was a remedy for an overgrown imagination. The boy had the police and detective forces of the city in a fine frenzy for hours with his yarn about being tied by four negroes to a log under a bridge for the tide to overwhelm as it rose inch by inch. It was a thriller for sure, and Streeper was tied to the log, but he had tied himself. Color of truth was given the boy's colossal yarn by the fact that negroes caught in robbery by his father had threatened vengeance upon him, but that incident merely formed the foundation for the fabrication. The lad had remained out later than the domestic law allowed, and it was necessary for him to frame an excuse that would go well with dad. The chief incident of a "movie" show he had witnessed recently gave him all the cue he required. He provided the scenario. Atlantic City Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. China's Cheap Mobility. After the re-establishment of the monarchy, Chinese emperors will receive $12,000 gold, as an annual allowance granted because of their rank. This decision has just been reached by the government, and a mandate setting it forth is to be issued in a few days. Princes will each receive $S,000 gold, annually. The allowance for a duke will be S4,S00. Marquises of the first, second and third classes will receive $4,000, $3,200, $2,400, respectively. The allowance to a first-class earl will be $2,400. An earl of the second class will receive $1,500 and one of the third will be paid only $1,200 and so on through the lower ranks. Yuan Shi-kai has issued a mandate addressing the son of the murdered Admiral Tseng Ju-cheng as marquis, and has ordered the young man to report to Peking for service on the bodyguard. "Girls" at Age of Thirty-Five. Cheer up, spinsters. You are still young even if you're thirty-five and melancholy. Shake the latter feeling and laugh youthfully, for the members of the Brick Presbyterian church have solved the age problem for "girls." Yes, it's true, 'says a New York correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. You are still a girl at thirty-five. This is the age limit they set for admission of boarders to the new William A. Barbour Memorial dormitory for selfsupporting young (notice the "young") women. The age limit to the membership is one of the new laws laid down for the management of the new heme. The building will be seven stories high and will accommodate 120 younn women as regular boarders. Socks Went Astray. "A young woman in Vancouver put a note in a pair of socks she had knit asking the soldier who got them to write her. Sho received a letter from a man in a northern logging camp stating that he had bought the socks for 65 cents," says the Rocanville (Sask.) Record. How Sympathies Are Divided. There are now in the Vnited States 4,063,02S persons native to Germany, Austria and Turkey, and 6.SS5.724 native to the nations fighting in the opposing alliance.

DAIRY HERD IN WINTER

First Essentia! Is that Cows Be Kept Comfortable. Right Kind of Feed Goes Long Way Toward Bringing About Contented State of Mind Several Important Factors. (By W. M. KELLY.) Good stable management is an important factor in determining the profits from the dairy herd during the winter. The first essential is that the cows be comfortable, because a cow kept otherwise can never do her best. She must have a comfortable place to lie down, stand up, move and stretch her limbs and lick herself all over the body. She must have sunshine and plenty of light. She must have pure air to breathe, and this means that the stable must be provided with some system of ventilation to give a frequent change of air. This need not be expensive, only a little forethought and a few dollars' "worth of material and labor. She must have good pure water at least twice a day, or better still, have an automatic water basin at her side. The stable should be cleaned daily, and be thoroughly disinfected. The ceiling, floor and sides should be all smooth and of concrete construction, and the fixtures largely iron. It is not expensive, and they are sanitary and permanent. Large, smooth concrete mangers for feeding are about the best we know of today, Judgment and common sense must be exercised in the methods of feeding and handling the cows. Fixed rules in feeding are not practical. Overfeeding is wasteful; underfeeding is unprofitable. The cows must be well nourished at all times, but if given more than they need for maintenance and production, they waste it as a rule. Never stir up dust or foul odors at milking time. If you do a lot of it is sure to get into the milk. Whether to feed the cows just be fore milking is a much debated question. It is not at all dangerous to feed them a little grain, provided you stir up no dust or disagreeable odors. As a rule, the cows will give down their milk more freely when they have Profitable Dairy Type. . contented minds, and a little of the right kind of feed goes a long way toward bringing about this contented state of mind. Never clean the stables just before milking, for it will stir up a tenfold worse odor than any feed the cows will eat. Surrounding conditions have much to do with the milk-producing value of any ration. Dairy cows cannot make 'as good use of whole grain as they can of grain that has been ground. In the generality of cases, beifers with their first calf do not show as high a test of butterfat as they do at a more mature age. A period of rest before freshening will usually produce a larger flow of milk than where the animal is milked close up to calving. A man can better afford to sell butter at the cost of production than to sell grain, that is, when the selling price of the butter includes the feeds and labor at their market value. HOW TO GROW BLACKBERRIES Fruit Will Not Thrive in Dry Places, Plenty of Moisture Is Needed Cultivate Constantly. Blackberries need plenty of moisture and it will not pay to plant them on the top of some dry knoll; for the fruit will not grow to perfection in such dry places, and it will be hard and sour. Choose a place where the ground is of good quality, and where there is plenty of moisture. Prepare the ground thoroughly by plowing and harrowing before planting, and make the ground mellow down quite deep where you set the plants. You cannot be too particular in this respect remember you are setting them out for profit and not simply to see whether they will grow or not. They should be set about four feet apart one way, and eight feet the other way. Keep the ground loose by constant cultivation, and the sooner you can get a good large bush, the sooner you vill get fruit, and keeping the ground loose will help to keep it moist. Hurt Milk Business. Before anyone condemns the dairy business, he should make an effort to ke.p real cows and feed and care 'for them so they will make a profit. A few of the "weak sisters" meandering arcund in cows' hides are what put the- kibosh on the dairy business. The Dry Cow. Some cows should go dry longer than others, but every cow will need a season of rest of at least a month or rix weeks. It will be Detter for her and her unborn calf.

BREED FOR THE FARM FLOCK

Farmer Must Suit Himself and Market Conditions In Selecting Variety Discard the Scrub. As with most of our domestic animals, there is absolutely no best breed of hens; if there was there would soon bo only that one breed left, while now one hardly dares say how many good breeds there aro without first consulting the very latest issue of the Standard of Perfection. Then suit yourself and your market conditions in selecting your breed, but select some one breed and "stick to it" until you have the best flock of that breed in the county or state. The color of the shell of the egg has much to do with the market demand for it. San Francisco demands ill v. '"If IMAvi I. Fine Type for Farm. a clear white egg, while Boston wants a rich brown color; and the intermediate cities, all the way across, may, in a way, take almost any color; but most city retailers find it to their advantage to separate the colors to suit individual customers. But never, no never, fool away very much time with "scrub" or mongrel stock on the farm, and don't try to keep too many breeds or you may soon have a lot of mongrels yourself. Even on the regular poultry ranch where many breeds are kept, strange "mixeries" sometimes happen in some most unexplainable way. It is often claimed that mixed breeds or "scrubs" lay better than purebreds, but a careful investigation will generally prove that the feed, care, and perhaps the age of the birds, has more to do with the egg product than the simple fact that they are cross-bred. But while different markets demand different colored eggs there is no market on this continent, at least, that demands a dirty or stained egg, or an egg that has been under a broody hen for a night or two, or .one that has been out in the sun for several days. Gather daily at least and ship at least weekly. DAIRYMEN VERSUS THE DAIRY Man Is Chief Factor in Production of Clean Milk, According to Medical Experimenters. A number of American medical experts and experimenters in hygiene made a study to determine the most important factor in the production of clean milk the dairy or the dairyman and have come to the conclusion that the dairyman is the chief factor and the dairy of secondary importance. The clean dairyman may be transported from dairy to dairy and can make clean milk wherever he goes. It is said that if all the nonessentials or matters of secondary importance are eliminated, the factors which even alone are sufficient to produce under the conditions found in ordinary dairies a milk so clean that it ivill have with great regularity a bacterial count less than 10,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter are as follows: Milking with dry hands into covered milking pails, the proper washing and sterilization of milking pails and milk cans, cooling the milk by placing the cans in tanks of cold water or ice water, regular laboratory testing of the milk for bacteria, and payments based on the laboratory tests. ASHES GOOD AS FERTILIZER They Not Only Contain Potash and Phosphoric Acid, but Also Magnesia and Lime. The farmer who burns wood for heating and cooking should carefully store the ashes and not permit them to leach, as they have a peculiar fertilizing value. They not only contain potash and phosphoric acid in appreciable amounts, but also contain magnesia and lime, and when applied to the land they also act indirectly to increase the available nitrogen content of organic matter in the soil. Ordinary house ashes contain on the average about eight or nine per cent of potash and two per cent of phosphoric acid. Investigators have considered that there is enough potash and phosphoric acid in a Dushel of ashes to make it worth 20 or 25 cents. Besides that, some 10 or 15 cents additional might De allowed for the "alkali power" of the ashes. This power is that which enables ashes to rot weeds and to ferment peat. The potash content of ashes will be lost if they are permitted to leach, and care should be taken to store them in a dry place. Dormant Spraying. The "dormant spraying" which destroys the bark scale and the eggs of injurious insects, is the most important spraying of the year, in the judgment of some orchardists.

Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast a Splendid Habit Open sluices of the system each morning and wash away th poisonous, stagnant matter.

Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise; splitting headache, stuffy from a coldL foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, lame back, can, instead, both look and feel as fresh as a daisy always by washing the poisons and toxin from the body with phosphated hot water each morning. We should drink, before breAkfaai, a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate im it to flush from the stomach, lirer, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the previous day's indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of limestone phosphata and hot water on an empty stomacax is wonderfully invigorating. It clean out all the sour fermentations, gase, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast and It is said to be but a little while until the roses begin to appear in th cheeks. A quarter pound of limestone phosphate will cost very little at your druggist or from the store, but is sufficient to make anyone who is bothered with biliousness, constipa tion, stomach trouble or rheumatism a real enthusiast on the subject of internal sanitation. Try it and you ara assured that you will look better and feel better in every way shortly. Adv. Only a great man can successfully dodge undeserved praise. .Not Gray flairs bat Tired Ejm make us look older than we are. Keep your Eyes young and you will look young. After the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Don't tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Chicago, Sends Eye Book on request. His Natural Tendency. "Dobbins, the big promoter, is going to spend the summer vacation at Gibraltar." "I thought he couldn't be easy, evea in his rest, away from some big bluuV Of a Kind. "I wish Evelyn hadn't gone rowing with that young De Swiff. He is a fool in a boat." "Rock-the-boat idiot?" "No. Not that kind. He is on of the sort that proposes." "Play Ball, Never Mind the Shelii." The German artillery were doing their best to erase a small town from the map, says a war correspondent. Every fey minutes there would be a deafening crash and the remaina of a house would soar skyward! enveloped in a cloud of smoke. In a field in the outskirts of tha town some Canadian soldiers, relieved from the trenches for a few day, were indulging in their favorite gama of baseball. The pitcher had Juit pitched the ball and the batsman had hit an easy catch to one of th6 fielders when a huge shell landed in tha adjoining field. The fielder's attention was fixed on the shell, which burst with a deafening crash, and'he misoed the catch. "For the love of Mike," roared the pitcher, "if you are going to play baseball, play baseball, and quit watching the shells." PRESSED HARD Coffee's Weight on Old Aq.

When people realize the injurioat effects of coffee and the better he&ltk that a change to Postum can bring, they are usually glad to lend their testimony for the benefit of othert, "My mother, since her early childhood, was an inveterate coffee drinker, had been troubled with her heart for a number of years and complained of that 'weak-all-over' feeling and sick stomach. "Some time ago I was making a visit to a distant part of the country and took dinner with one of the merchants of the place. I noticed a somewhat unusual flavor of the 'coffee and asked him concerning it. He replied that it was Postum. "I was so pleased with it that I bought a package to carry home wit me, and had wife prepare some for the next meal. The whole family liked it so well that we discontinued coffee and used Postum entirely. "I had been very anxious concerning my mother's condition, but wa noticed that after using Postum for a short time she felt much better, had little trouble with her heart, and no sick stomach; that the headache were not so frequent, and her general condition much improved. This continued until she was well and hearty, "I know Postum has benefited myself and the other members of tha family, especially my mother, as sh was a victim of long standing." Nama given by Postum Co., Battle Creek; Mich. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal the original form must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum a soluble powder dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, mafcaa a delicious beverage instantly. 9t and 50c tins. Both kinds are equally delicto and cost about the same per cup. "There'a a Reason" for Postuna. sold by Grocer.