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REFORMER in politics is sometimes a dyspeptic, but not always. He is also —— sometimes actuated by motives r-entirely impersonal 9% and unselfish. But not ~always., And reform politics may be classed as.of two kinds the counterfeit variety_and the genuine. Indepenﬂ, or ;reform movements in political campaigns, are intended to be.the breaking away of members of the old parties and a consolidation of these “bolters” for the purpose of electing a ticket which is supposed to be better.than either of -the old-line party - tickets. Sometimes an independent movement means this. Sometimes it means that a Democrat or a Republican who has failed of the regular party nomination has been persuaded to make the race on . the ground that he has been deprived of the nomination by unfair means. But the basic element of independent movements is always a claim toward o bettering of conditions, and therefore arguing a reform, politically. Then there is usually the Prohibition movement to be reckoned with, and this is strictly founded on reform principles. Or there may be an educational feature in the -campaign which will' prove to carry the balance of power as to votes, and which may be adopted in the platform of either of the parties, with a view to secure votes for the whole ticket. Politics is largely -a game of expedients, and as the only things that count, in the Jast analysis, are the votes, it follows, therefore, as the night the day, that votes are the prime necessities, and any expedient to catch votes is considered justifiable. Other phases of reform politics may enter particularly into national campaigns, and may influence local conditions enough to swing victory to a side which may be weaker on paper than its antagonist.

In every large city and noticeably in my own city. I found two well defined types of the political reformers, with a smattering also of what were known as “cranks,” “dreamers” and

“visionaries.” One of the two types referred to was the hard-headed citizen who, regardiess of ridicule and discouragement, steadily set himself to work\to better the class of official selection. Without caring anything for party .affiliations, he associated with organiza%i‘(;ns which “went after” weak or uUmfit candidates, and supported and encouraged good candidates for all offices, whether state, county or municipal. o 1

This class of men accomplished, with the aid of decent politicians, .a great deal of good. In the beginning, like all men actuated by really high motives, they were derided and lampooned, and their lot, like the policeman’s, was not a happy one. But as time went on they became a force which had to be reckoned with, even by the most hardened of the “bosses,” excepting in what may be classed as strictly “saloon wards.” - In the saloon wards, where the aldermen for instance, were saloonkeepers, or where the saloon influence predominated overwhelmingly, the “bosses” did not mind reform politics any more than a rhinoceros would mind the bite of a mosquito. I never could understand, knowing the absolute hopelesgness of it, why the reformers would sometimes try to “break into” such a ward in an aldermanic campaign. I remember very well the occasion of a gentleman calling on me and endeavoring to enlist my services as a speaker in a campaign of this sort. “You know the disgraceful condi-

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tions obtaining in that ward?” he asked, inquiringly. - - ‘Oh. yes,” was my answer. “Well, we want to put up a candidate for alderman there and see if we can’'t arouse the better element there. We want to go in and fight the saloons to a finish,” was his next remark.

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“Whose finish?” said I. “Oh, we will probably be beaten,” he admitted, “but we want to give them a campaign of education and enlightenment. What that ward néeds, what every ward needs, is a chance to have its higher nature aroused. What they want, I'm convineced, is more opportunity to see the light.” “My friend,” was my reply, “I've traveled some in that ward. What they want there is not more light, but more beer.” ‘ )

Yet, despite sometimes misdirected energy, these men and their associations ‘did much in making political conditions better. For that they ‘deserve substantial credit. So long as they were absoiutely -on-partisan they wielded considerable influence, and properly, but on occasion they allowed prejudice to bias them and did injustice: to good men. The other type of well-known reformer was the .one who continually headed “reform” movements. He might be a’'candidlate for alderman, or the legislature, or congress. But wherever there was a “kick” coming, and a meeting advertised to protest, or organize, this class would be on hand early and .get the chairmanship of the meeting, usually coming out in a “ringing” speech of denunciation against the infamy which the citizens had met to combat. This put the reformer “next” if it was a proposition to nominate an opposition candidate, and he often goi away with the nomi-} nation. Or, if he was a professiona\’ ‘man, a lawyer, a doctor, or a real estate man, even, it was a pretty fair advertisement, wasn't it? Not so “poar” to have your picture in the paper next day, with a long account of you, sour business and your speech, etc. Something that would have cost you cBin to have in the papers, and you got it for nothing. And then the reporters out to interview you and quite a racket started about you.

And in every large city I sugwmose there are only a few bright promsters like that standing around waitiag to sell a gold brick or two. Some of these “reformers’ were pretty fierce when they happened to land in an office. A few of them were swept into the city council astride the top of a wave of “popular indignation” and they were the hungry boys, some of them. They were simply on the qui vive to be “approached.” And when they were tempted they fell swiftly and without a'sound. Their motto was that of the Hon. Webster Flanagan, with a different interpreta-

and beautiful girl, Charlotte Hillman, famed locally for her girlisn charms. Even the war-hardened Sheridan seems not to have been proof against the persuasion of a pair of black eyes and a pretty face, and when toll was demanded, straightway produced the tithe, setting an example that was followed by his staff. - “But,” said Sheridan, as he passed through the gate, “I cannot vouch for my army.” :

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tion. “What are we here for?”’ was their slogan, and they went after franchise “divvies” or any other “divvies” like a terrier after a rat. : Real reforms were not so elaborate1y advertised as the sham ones; the louder the “holler” about the reform, the less genuine reform was in sight: And then there were the “fad” reformers, going about seeking what they might devour in the shape of having unmuzzled dogs caught with a soft curtain rope instead of a wire noose, cab-horses provided with seats while waiting for a fare, the distribution of copies of Browning’s poems to crossing policemen, or some such similar projects. ; A .

There are sometimes uneasy people in every community who want to run the rest of their neighbors; the bigger the community the greater they are liable to be in number. And in a city of two millions of inhabitants they are sure to be found. They haunt the gallery in the council . chamber of the city, they infest the mayor’s office, they surge in with the crowds having hearings in the public offices in the city halls, and whenever they have no connection whatever. 3 : Substantial reforms are of slow growth. It took over 20 years’ steady work to drive the infamous justice of the peace system out of Cook county. Some notable reformers went along very well for a time until they got so prominent that they were offered a high-salaried political position. And then they dropped practicélly from sight as reformers and reappeared as pay roll artists. This caused at times a revulsion of feeling among the reformers at heart but they did not let a little thing like that entirely discourage them. ;

I got soithat I could usually “spot” a reformer as far as I could see him. The majority of reformers are very busy walkers and talkers. They are not confined to one nationality, although I should judge that the bulk of them are Americans. They all have “missions.” If you agree with them, and do everything they ask, you are “a patriot.” If you disagree with some of them in any way, shape or manner, you are either a scoundrel or without mental balance. But to be “a.patriot” in the eyes of those who were fanatical you must accede to their demands. “Patriots,” said Sir Robert Peel, “they spring up like mushrooms in the night; I can make 50 patriots in a single hour; I have only to refuse some unreasonable or absurd request, when up starts a patriot.”

_When the common soldiery came the girl again lowered the toll-bar and demanded toll. This was met by Jjeers from the soldiers, whereupon she wisely raised the guard. All day the dusty troopers passed through and all day Charlotte Hillman stood at her post. For every ten soldiers who passed the gate she cut a notch in the toll-pole. Early fled beyond the Blue Ridge with the remnants of his disorganized army; in the Valley gt Virginia, Lee, beaten back by Grant’s overwhelming numbers; gave up the

There were a number of women reformers, too, during my political years, and they ‘were invariably enlisted on some moral question, as they looked at it, tobacco, whisky, child labor, the bettering of conditions for women, the saving of girls, etc. They were very much in earnest, faithful and enthusiastic to their ideals. Occasionally they succeeded, -and. at least, they never seemed disceuraged. It is to the credit of politicians in general, that they were listened to with perfect respect, even when it was apparent that conditions made it an absolute waste of time to discuss the questions. Sometimes an ordinance barred their way; at other times a state law, or possibly the constitution of the United States itself was a.stumbling-block, but they were heard with patience. Reform politics during my day concerned itself most particularly in re habilitating the personnel of the city council. In this it met with substanial success, and it was the one excep

tion to perennial reform which was genuine. - Not that the reformers- did not occasionally have “an ax to grind,” but that, in the main, they aided the best candidates. But at times they saddled themselves with some bogus reformer and jammed him . through at the polls, felicitating themselves that they had “put another over .the political plate” when they had in reality only added a “‘cheap grafter” to the city’s pay roll. 3 - When this happened it made the regulation, gilt-edged grafters in the council indignant. Not that the ‘“reformer” should turn out to be “looking for something,” but that he so often took anything he could get. This made trade bad, for it scaled prices and such a reeruit to the ranks of corruption = causeu a “bear” market in votes. :

A cheap scoundrel earned just as much contempt in the council as an overcoat thief earns from a railroad manipulator of stocks. I recollect the arraignment that one of the “regulars” gave one of these 6 easily purchased “reformers.” i .

Said the ‘“regular,” puffing slowly at a big black cigar, the little finger of his left hand adorned with a four hundred dollar “shiner,” and his shirtfront sporting its mate, presented by his admiring “constits:” “I reckon I size that guy up right, at the start. I tell ’em I seen what kind of a lobster he s, the first flop of the box. I tell ’em, you watch him; he’s no reformer, and he’s no thoroughbred. He blows up in the stretch the first time they’re off at the gut. An’, say! Did he? Well, he's elected all right, and he goes over an’ hooks up with the geezeer in the next ward that went in the same time he goes in. Them two frames up and goes out for the stuff. Do they get it? Yes, they get it, and how much? Say, on the level now, on the square, they split three hundred between ’em for a little thing they pull off. A hundred and fifty apiece, see?” He paused and took a fresh puff at his cigar, and resumed: “Why, if any cheap stiff 'd come to me and try to insult me with less than ssooT’d throw the skate out of my office.”” And the end of his cigar glowed with righteous indignation. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Not Altogether Painless. Patience—ls that dentist’s methods painless? Patrice—Not all of them. He has a phonograph in his office!—Yonkers Statesman.

fight; in the southeast Joe Jobaston fired the last burlesque shots ,and peace came again over the north and south. Then, when relations with Washington had been re-established and the administration’s policy was one of magnanimity, Charlotte Hillman counted the notches in the tollpole and sent her bill to Washington. And the bill was paid.—Metropolitan Magazine.

Dangerous to Author, Perfidy oftem recoils upon its author.—La Fontaine.

MA'NSTAY OF DETROIT INFIELD

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MANY STARS PICKED UP - BY AMERICAN LEAGUE Several Players Taken from Minors Who Have Won Places of Veterans in Major Organizations. Minor league players are developed slowly for the major organizations, yet the American league has been very fortunate during the season in picking up star—players in the minors.

The Ohio and Pennsylvania league has- given two unusually promising youngsters to Ban B.'s organization. The players in question are Schweitzer of the Browns and Goode of the Naps. The former is a fixture on the St. Louis team. The man with the cheese name has beaten out such veterans as Charley Jones and Danny Hoffman by his all around work. He has played in only about one-third of the games this year, due to a bad leg. It’s a pretty good bet that had he been in the game regularly St. Louis would now have several games in the won column that are on the wrong side. - Goode has not shown his real speed, but his batting and running stamp him as a most likely looking youngster. o , In Steele and Arrelares it seems Boston has two young twirlers who are destined to be stars. Steele was secured from the New England league, while Arrelanes was picked up in the Outlaw league of California. While Steel has lost quite a few games, practically all of them have been by one run, due to weak hitting on the part of his teammates. Arrelanes’ best feat of the season was performed in a recent game with Philadelphia, when he let down the Athletics with only one bingle, a home run by Nicholas in.the ninﬁh. In Purtell, Chicago has picked up a wonderful fielding third baseman, but a weak hitter. McAleer ‘has developed Bailey and Graham into effective southpaws. ; In Milan, Cantillon has one of the greatest outfielders in the business. As a catcher Street has won a place as the Senators’ leading backstop, although this is his first year. Pitcher Summers, a product of this season, has been of great aid to Jennings. _ These are a few of the promising 'youngsters picked up by the American league during the last year, and all of them bid fair to press the veteran stars for their high position in the world of baseball.

; BASEBALL ITEMS Three hundred hitters are scarce, dut to the spit ball. Connie Mack intends to thoroughly try out all his youngsters this fall He desires to get a line on their ability for next spring. Cantillon has gotten rid of all his veterans except Tom Hughes, “Jack” Warner and Charley Smith. When it is considered that Pittsburg has been without a regular first baseman all year, the showing of the club has been remarkable. ‘Owner -Farrell of the New York team insists there is nothing to the reported deal of Chase for Donahue and Davis of the White Sox. Connie Mack’s new third-base recruit Manush is said to have a throwing arm that will make all the other guardians of that sack envious. Rube Vickers 'is one of the few pitchers who cannot give too much work.. Connie Mack hasn’'t allowed him to keep the bench very warm. Brownie Gessler, of the Red Sox, is one of the best football players that ever pranced on the gridiron. G Topsy Hartsel is one of the hardest men in the American league for twirlers to pitch to. He is short and crouches. His pass list is exténsive

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THINKS WALSH’S DAYS AS A PITCHER ARE NEAR END Eastern Baseball Critic Says Spit Ball Twirler of White Sox Staff Is e ' Being Overworked., - The Washington Star’s baseball critic thinks that Pitcher Ed Walsh’s days are numbered. “Love for the limelight and the applause of the fickle fan is liable to play a prominent part in cutting short t.he career of big Ed Walsh, the famous ‘spit’ ball artist of the Chicago White Sox,” declares the critic. - “Walsh has worked in more games this year--than any other twirler in Big Ban's circuit, and if Fielder Jones continues to use him with such frequency he will probably establish a new record for games pitched. “According to the players, Walsh never comes on the field in Chicago until a minute or so after the batteries have been announced. He waits until the baseball stage has been set, so to speak, and the other eight minor characters assume their position, then, hero-like, he majestically strides forth, much after the manner of the leading man in a ten-twenty-thirty production. Of course, the bleacherites howl and the grand stand applauds. “Walsh is a wonderful pitcher and his work alone is keeping the White Sox in the race. His pitching has been well-nigh faultless, but. his judgment appears to be bad. The strain to which he is putting his mighty right arm is sure to tell. Notoriety is cheap, but when he fails to deliver the goods it won’t take Comiskey long to tie the can on him. Recently Walsh worked in five out of seven games played in one week. “No man, no matter how strong, can stand so much work. Mr. Walsh better get wise or the fans will soon be saying: ‘There goes poor Walsh; he was once the greatest pitcher in the world.’ ” ;

IMPROVE THE COACHING Rules in Need of Thorough Overhauling, Says Writer. This is what a Detroit baseball writer has to say regarding coaching as conducted at present:The coéaching rules are in need of heroic overhauling. Clearly the coacher was never meant to be anything but a guide to the base runner. And if the plain intent of the rules were to be strictly observed, the men in: the 'coachers’ boxes would be instantly banished for any effort, real or implied, to disturb the composure of the pitcher, ‘or to give false direction to any fielder. Indeed, so honorable has the game become of late that the hour is at hand when there should be a heroic reformation in coaching. : It ought to be regarded as distinetly dishonorable nowadays to attempt to put the pitcher “in the air” by any remarks hurled across from one coacher's box to the other. It ought to be punishable with a penalty: that would be felt for the coachers of one team to shout false directions to a fielder who is making a hurried play. ' s The game has grown beyond the methods of the sand lots and the back alleys, and the ball players who do not realize this should be taught a lesson. To call a balk on the pitcher or to send a base runner back a base—much as a football team is penalized for side line coaching—would soon put a stop to a nuisance that has long been patiently endured. : Many people who might be taught to love the game and to become the most loyal of fans are kept away from the games by that old-style system of coaching that—instead of telling the base runner what to do—trails along on the Kerry-Patch system that seeks to rattle the opposition. :

“Rube” Oldring Easily Discouraged. “If ‘Rube’ Oldring only thought that he was a great ball player he would be one of the best in the country.” That is Conny Mack’s opinion of the man who has been playing center field for the -Athletics off and on for the last couple of sedsons. Oldring is a hard-luck player in the spring. He lost a chance to break in at third base through being injured in an exhibition game one spring. This year, when he -was slated to hold down center field regularly Oldring was taken ill. At times Oldring gives flashes of wonderful ability in the field and at bat. He appears to be easily discouraged, and Manager Mack's opinion that he is too modest seems to fit the “Rube” and acts as a drawback to his natural ability. B

SOIL-WASHING RUINING -~ MANY SPLENDID FARMS

Methods by Which the Process Can Be Prevented—By J. G. Mosier, Assistant Chief of Soil Physics, : . lilinois University. -

Nothing will completely ruin land more quickly than washing, especially gullying. A single season or even a single rain, may produce gullies that cannot be crossed with ordinary farm implements. Unless these are promptly looked after, the land soon becomes practically worthless. i On uniform slopes, gullies may be started by very simple means such as tunnels of moles, wagon tracks and cow. or sheep paths, any one of which

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may be the very uéce_ssary small Qe-‘ ginning, and nature will do the rest. It would commonly 'be .taken f§r granted that the thing of first importance in this discussion is the matter; of preventing the formation of gullies in cultivated fields, but this is not the_ case. The beginning of the troubleis usually due to sheet washing and as a rule gullying oceurs in the ‘later stages of the general process of land. ruin. If we can prevent sheet washing we will lessen very largely, the possibilities of gullying in cultivated fields.: = 3

‘Four general methods are employed for the prevention of sheet washing: First,” the growing of cover crops {to decrease the movement of water and soil; second, increasing the organic matter content to bind the soil particles together; third, using methods of tillage to check the velocity of the run off and to cause greater absorption, and fourth, by terraces and hillside ditches, thus modifying the steepness of the slope, and conducting the surplus water off at such slope as will produce little or, no: washing. e No form Jf washing will utterly ruin land more.quiickly than gullying. The owner of very rolling or hilly land must be on the lookout constantly for incipient gullies and must use every means for preventing their enlargement. The fact that slopes are not uniform allows the water to accumulate in draws, thus increasing its volume and velocity and multiplying its washing power many times. Unless some means are taken to prevent it, the water soon grinds ouga formidable gully. ) :

It is a somewhat common practice to scatter straw in these draws in the fall or to build straw dams across them at frequént intervals. These serve to check the velocity of the water and catch the sediment, but frequently the run-off is so great that the straw is carried down the draw and lodges at the base. These dams are sometimes held in place by rows of driven stakes across the draw., In general, straw is too fine to be used alone very satisfactorily. The water .cannot get through it rapidly enough and so is very apt to wash the dams away or wash around the ends. A coarser material used with the straw gives better results. These means are not always satisfactory. : A better plan, used a great deal in some parts of the stdte, is to keep these draws in grass sod, at least until they are so well filled.that there is little danger. A sod of this kind binds the soil particles together while the top growth checks the velocity of the water, causing the sediment in suspension fo be deposited. In time the draw will be filled so that it may be cropped, but it should to seeded down again if there is danger of a gully forming. This method is . practiced very successfully, the grass being mowed for hay. Some farmers in renting their land have a clause in the contract forbidding the plowing up of the draws. Almost any grass that forms a tough sod will answer the purpo_se,' timothy and redtop 3 being quite satisfactory. i Dams of earth or stone are sometimes built across draws to catch the sediment and in many cases, depending upon conditions, this method may be very satisfactory. This plan will work better in rather broad, shallow draws possessing little fall. If it is desirable to break the field up soon and the gullies are not too deep, they may be filled with plow and scraper in a comparatively short timé and with little expense. If, however, there is no immediate need for these to be filled, a different plan ‘may be followed and “while nature made the gully she can also be induced to fill it with a little help from man. ‘ o e The gully produced by a waterfall is one of the hardest to fill since the fall of the. water gives it great pgwer, making it very difficult to stop it§B undermining action. As these generally occur where the field is in grass there is a comparatively small amount of sediment carried -and consequently the filling will go on. but slowly. Tlie recession of the fall must be stopped. Straw and brush should be used to fill fn under the fall weighting them down with stones or sod to prevent their being washed away. Dams of drush should be put in at intervals beJow the fall and even a solid dam at the edge of the field may be of much use in completely filling the gully.

rolling land is certainly not a hopeful one under the present most common systems of management, or more properly of mismanagement. - Increasing poverty will be the future of the owners of this land wunless a radical change in methods takes place. It is not an expensive process io protett and improve these soils, but it™ becomes relatively more expensive as time goes on, because the peopie will be less able to do it. Sad, indeed is

the prospect before the boys and girls of these lands when their only inheritance is a ruined hillside farm.

RECEIVING MILK AT By C. A. Larson, Jowa Agricult- : ural College. i To many dairymen the term receiw ing of milk is limited to simply pouring the milk out of the patrom’s cim into the wt-;ei'ghing tank, recording Ihe number: -of pounds of milk. and thed lifting the valve so that it can escape into the receiving vat. . Such s cdnception of receiving milk is easily sai~ isfied. Any boy or man without mature judgment or special txa’ning can do this. But when we give the term “receiving of milk” its broad and comprehensive interpretation we must include first the selection of milk. This can -be properly 'done oniy when a man’s senses of smell, taste and sizht ‘have been cultivated and are made use of, together with the power of cbser vation.: = | | L L How to select milk depends upon the acuteness of the senses, but how 0 dispose of these different gualities of milk in the most economical way depends upon the knowledge the receiver has of the effect of these different defects of milk upon the n\imate product, and also upon ' the amount of common sense and judgment he is able to[consult. Because a can full of milk is sour, if otherwise clean, does notl necessarily indicate that it is unfit for the production of a firstclass guality of butter; of course it should not be mixed with the sweet milk, as it might coagulate it all or clog up the separators, but if retainped until after the sweet milk has been skimmed it mizght be run through the separator successfolly. : ' "However, it is more safe 1o class it as defective milk and keep it together with the rest of the poor milk in a small vat by itself. Dirty, putfid and bitter milk is the kind of milk that is specially conducive to a poor gualits of butter. O:ﬁ:an full of such milk if mixed with the rest of the miik may lower the grade of all of the buiter made during that day one or even Iwo cents per pound. . . To keep this poor quality of milk b¥ itself in the receiving vat is of atmost importance, but it is equally imporiani to keep the weight of it by itself om the milk sheet. When a patron de livers a can of poor milk to the creainery he should not receive as much for it as does the man who delivers a firstclass quality of milk, for it is an established fact that as. good butter cannot be made from the poorer milk. , The quality of milk delivered can be designated on the milk sheet by marking the good milk “A” and the poor quality “B” milk. . Thus, at ihe end of the month each pairon can be paid according teo the quality of the milk he delivered without much trouble to the creamery operator and with justice to the patroms. This is one of the best means of bringing about a reform in the methods of caring for milk or ¢ream on the farm.

She Is a Wonder.—lt is - estimated [that a hen weighing six pounds. laying in the course of a year 100 eggs, produces 12 pounds of one of the most concentrated food eleraénts. " Wheat ' Bran.—One. hundred pounds of wheat bran contain 122 pounds of digestive protein, 39.2 pounds of di“gestiblé carbohydrates and 2.7 pounds either extract or fat. - ’ Avoid Exciting the Cow.—Excite‘ment destroys the ability of a cow to produce milk for the time being It should always be avoided with dairy cows. : Caring for Farm Tools.—After vom are through with a farm implemensg, .paint it before rust and rot spoil the steel and wood. i . ————————————— Supplement the Pasturage.—Whea the pastures begin to get short cut some of that fodder corn and give the cows. e e ‘Forced Pullets.—Forced pullets produce eggs of larger size than retarded ones: . : of the day’s work if possible, =