TELEwHAPHIC ERIE."*.
president Roo*ev»lt hi«H .1 cllnt-d jn
Invitation lo attend the annual n un
ion of civil war veterans lo held
at Baxter Spring*. Kansu*, aa It
would be itii|iuusililf for hlui to meet
uuch uu engagement.
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AllhoiiKh made a cripple for life by
a bullet fired b.v Frank Howland, at
South I lend Ind.. t’harles Ft rol re-
fuses to cl,    twlaod with >.t-
,.i*d murder, ut.d the police are
p4>wei less to act against him. The of-
ficers say thul Fart oil ruined How
lands honn and that Mrs. Howland
confessed to her part of the tragedy
Carroll, however, refuses to slain the
woman's reputation and udv.tnce# the
plea that Howland shot him by mis-
take, believing him lo be a burglar
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The fnlted St iles district attorney
Oscar Lawton, filed complaint n the
United Slates district court at ls»s
Angeles, fal . char, i:i-■ ' Atchison,
Topeka K Santa Fe and tlio Southern
I’arlfic railroad coin panics with nine
specific violations of thi federal
statutes prohibiting cruelty to ani-
mals. It Is charged that horses and
cattle were In transit on the com-
panies' lines for from thirty-nine to
forty-four hours without any atten-
tion or rest whatever. The penalty for
each violation Is »">0n The law pro-
vides live stock must be unloaded for
a rest of live hours at the end of each
twenty-eight hours.
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"The llerlinret Zeltung says that
when the emperor went to the Aim rl-
can embus.- y to dinner the other night
he look with him not only a hump ct
and two photographs of himself In
the costume of M e time of Frederick
the Great, for Mis. Tower, hut also
presents for the ambassador's ehlld
ren. As lie w.ts leaving, replying in
Kngllsh to a remark by one of tin
guests, he said: 'Oh yes I should like
very much to visit (he United Slat s,
hut not as emperor, hut as a private
gentleman And not for a fortnight
as is the fashion with globe trotters,
■hut for at least three montl’-;. But
who would represent me here mean-
while. and what would my colleague
President lions v It. think of me If I
were to give1 the lie to his theory of
haul woik and little play."'
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Count Lamsdorff. the ex-Russian
minister of foreign affairs, died at
midnight at San Homo. Me had been
connected the Inst forty years with
the Russian diplomatic circle. Ho was
born In 1M.r>, entered the ministry of
foreign affairs at the age of 21 and
resigned as minister of foreign af-
fairs In 1906. when he was succeeded
by Baron Iswolsky, the present In-
cumbent. In I'.mi Count Lnmsdorff
was made minister of foreign affairs.
In 1902 he visited Belgrade, Sofia and
Vienna and as a result of diplomatic
lo efforts at these capitals the under-
standing between Austria-Hungary and
Russiti. regarding the maintenance of
peace in the Balkans was arran red
He was present, too. at the Intern i
at Muorzsteg, Austria in 190,1 be-
tween the emperor of Russia and the
emperot of Austria, which brought
forth the famous Muerssteg pro-
gramme for the control of Southeast-
ern F.urope.
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Proposed Conference cf States.
In view of the purposed extension
of federal authority the regulation
of railroads, Govorin v Johnson of
Minnesota, has suggested that a na-
tional conference he called by the
Presidt u presumably at t’lih go. to
reach a common understanding a^ to
tli pow i to be exercised by the in-
dividual state-. Covernor Johnson
was a moving spirit in the national in
Burance conf« nee and wdnUi have
the t rat . rf Tt itlon confer.-nee along
similar lines with representatives of
the various states and of the inter-
state commerce commission In attend-
ance. He regards federal regulation
ns tin' ultimate ideal and believes that
a getting together at this time would
do much to arhioi e that r< suit har-
moniously. The governor experts t>
place his Idea In definite form and
unbuilt it to Prr/.id nt Roosevelt.
Consul A II. Ilyllngton reisirls that
thirteen lines of steamships now ply
between Naples ind New York. Na-
ples is building a niHgullleont |der.
which the port authorities expect to
have ready In March.
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ROOSEVELT FIRM.    4
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♦    Would Avoid Stock Panics    by    4
Placing Railroad Business on    4
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A Washington dispatch says: From
views he Is known lo have expressed,
the President is thought to be fully
convinced that un accurate valuation
of the railroads Is necessary to both
proper adjustment of rates and al-
so to the formation of so comprehen-
sive a scheme of legislation as will ef-
fect the results h<* believes necessary,
lie does not believe that the effect
would destroy confidence In railroads
and retard railroad and other devel-
opment.
But even if it should, the President
Is understood to be of the opinion that
sooner or later the railroads must he
brought to conduct their operations
upon honest business principles, and
If tills has the effect of reducing stock
values, the sacrifice will be well com-
I ten sated for by the promise of better
things in the immediate future.
Another plan the President has In
view Is to wo enlarge the scope of the
interstate commerce commission and
so Increase the commission’s powers
that It will lie one of the most im-
portant branches of the government.
I'nder the rate bill passed by the last
congress, the commission has the
right to prescribe a uniform system
of bookkeeping for all railroads. It
is also given authority to Inspect
railroad books and ascertain If Us or-
ders are bring observed.
Congress failed to provide suffic-
ient money to make these authorlza:
lions more than tentative Increases of
power, but the President intends to
demand that such appropriations he
made by the next congress as will en-
able the commission to exercise prac- \
tlcal supervision of nil the financial
transactions of the railroad corpora-
tions. This means the supervision of
a business amounting to 2.000 millions
of dollars a year. Tho treasury de-
partment the largest financial Insti-
tution In the world, at the present
time, superintends tho collection and
disbursement of only some 1,000 mil-
lions annually.
The comparison gives an Indication
of the magnitude of the work the
President would have the Interstate
commerce commission undertake. He
believes also that the powers of the
commission should ho increased in
other directions and is inclined to
view the rate bill as a mere begin-
ning in the advancement toward prop-
er government control of Interstate
commerce.
Iii connection with this portion of
his programme, the President is de-
sirous that 1 rlslaii n should remove
from tlii’ railroads some of the ro-
strlc ions under which they now la-
bor. With tho approval of the inter-1
state commerce commission, lie be-
lieves tin' railroads should he allowed
to i nter into pooling agreements when
these agreements will result in better
service to the public and in econo-
mies of transportation. He apprei iutts
the importance of the railroads to the
basic, s of the country and the great
put they must play tu future nation-
al d veiopment.
But while he would do everything
possible to encourage railroad devel-1
opm«nt, Mr. Roosevelt does not think
the railroads should he made the
stakes of a gambling game in Wall
street, or Hie means of fleecing the
public through dishonest stock and
bond Issues, or the bawls for the col-
li ctlon of exorbitant rates intended
to make possible the payment of div-
idends upon watered stock.
In the near future the President is
e\pe«-! d to make a general statement
along these lines, lie is quite con-
vinced that us he lies in view only
the betterment of the public service 1
and the safeguarding of the public In-'
t-T' -t. his programme will meet witli i
public approval As it Is apparently
inevitable that changes will result-
from M - enforcement of such a policy i
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4    MEDICINAL EGGS.    4
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4 Scientist Tram* Hi* Hen* to Lay 4
4 Eggs Worth Five Dollars 4
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Austin Goodyear Brown Is beconi
Ing to the poultry world as great an
innovator us I.uther Burbank is in tbo
vegetable kingdom. While Hurbank
has been developing new varieties of
potatoes, plums and other plantM,
Brown lias evolved an entirely new
kind of egg.
He is fe«-ding and training his hens
to lay sterile and medicinal eggs on
his poultry farm at Lakewood, N. J.
One coop of hens Is hard at work
turning out Iron tonic <*ggs. These are
for millionaires who need great nerve
force to put through gigantic deals.
They are $a a dozen.
To another coop of pure white leg-
horn hens is assigned the task of pro
ducing highly phosphat e! eggs. They
are for society women who need some-
thing to repair the waste tissues of
the nervous system Impaired by tho
social whirl.
Still another house and yardful of
hi ns are devoted to laying arsenious
learu d was from bacteria, which pen
ertate through the shell and mem-
brane of the egg. This could be pre-
vent* d In most cases by keeping hen*
healthy— and wests clean.
Another possibility of infeo lctnhetn
Another possibility of Infection then
occurred to Mr. Blown—and that was
of germs of tuberculosis and diph-
th*iia and typhoid being introduced
ii lo the eggs while they were being
formed inside the hen.
1'oultry. he had observed, were lia-
ble to tuberculosis. Ever yvear he
Ikields com etaoinn etaoln— c a—a
killed some fowls that he suspected of
having this disease. To satisfy him-
self that this was the disease they
wa re suffering from he would some-
times dissect the fowl and examine its
lungs or lights. In tuberculosis these
organs were wasted or congested.
Mr. Brown then began to talk about
the danger of tuberculosis Ii few's.
This raised a storm or discussion-
Some said it was ridiculous, a cb ver
finely cut animal bones and fl*h
bones bones, a* everyone knows, are
made up mostly of lime and phosphor-
us. To this bone diet be added meat
scraps, ijnseed and tlaxse d are rich
In oils, so these seeds were fed liber-
ally to the hens.
Still another Idea occurred to Mr
Brown, which was the production of
arsenious eggs. Araenic is one of the
poisons used most universally in med-
ical compounds. Yet It is one of the
meat dangerous. It Is a cumulative
IHiison. At first, in mluute doses, it
arts as a tonic The person may get
habituated to It and take more and
more without seemingly harmful ef-
fects. All at ouce the poison may
turn on hin; like an udder and kill him
or hop* le- ,ly break down his health.
To feed lieus arsenic was a danger-
ous experiment, but Mr. Brown tried
it in ihis way: He put a small guan
tity of arsenic oxid Into their drink-
ing pan, increasing the quantity from
day to-day. For the first ten days the
advertising (bulge on Mr. Brown's ! hens thinxe wonderfully. They
were
hilght. active, had revenous appetites
Hiid laid more eggs than usual. All it
part to advertise his eggs and bens.
But sclentlfis investigators found
that tuberculosis among fowls does once they began to dir and In a week
were dead. The
had proven too
prevail to some extent. I)r. V. A. the whole twenty
Moore has had specimens of tulx-mi- cumulative poison
lnsls fowls in his laboratory at For- strong for them.
eggs that is, eggs Impregnated witl» j ne*ll university during the las* few' So Mr. Brown set aside another lot
arsenic. Those are for p*>ople recover-
ing from malaria w ho need a powerful
tonic, but whose systems are too sen-
sitive lo take the rank poison of pure
arsenic.
These are the most curious and ex-
pensive eggs in the world.
Another equally Interesting kind of
egg which Mr. Brown produces is the
sieiile egg. He claims that many of
the *ggs on the market are liable to
he infected with bacilli and gems of
tuberculosis, diphtheria and typhoid.
Unclean henneries, he thinks are apt
to cause bacteria In eggs, as it is
known that eggshells are porous and
microscopic germs can filter through
them.
To he told that e ggs are apt to con-
tain dangerous bacteria, even those of
tuberculosis, typhoid and diphtheria,
will come us a shock. Yet this is
days. Queerly enough, most of tin e
ciiine from the Pacific coast.
It is well known that tuberculosis
Is a common disease among canary
of twenty pullets and gave them
much smaller doses cr arsenic in wa-
ter- This time the experiment ap-
peared successful. After severs!
lilids and parrots. The fact tkat hens . mouths tho bens were in good eondi-
ave subject to it opened the serious tion and a chemical analysis showed
question as to whether they could that ti e arsenic was transmitted to
convey the disease through their eggs the eggs to a certain extent,
to human beimrs. Protestor Curtice
or Rhode Island thinks they can not.
Il now becomes a matter ror scientific
rc ('arch to decide.
At first suggestion the Idea that
Athletic Powers of Carlisle Indians-
The primitive Indian was a born
athlete. He was active and strong
hens can be made to lay medicinal and his parental training was directed
eggs seems absurd. But Mr. Brown, ,0 ,hp development of tlmse qualitir*
who is working along tiles-.' lines. Is ’bat he might become a success* il
not an Idle exi>erimenter or dreamer. wnrrlor ns was the Spartan ol old.
He savs that the idea of raising me- T,’*‘ admonition of the Spartan mother
dicinal eggs occurred to him by hear- ,n ,,,e so" abo,,t to t0    a"1
ing a physician say that medicines
have a better effect on the human sys-
tem if taken in some natural organic
what Mr. Brown claims and, believing I compound, ns In food, than ir given in
it, he has striven lo produce an egg snot odse niniali Qa etaoinetaolnetao
that is free from all germ life and is | doses out of a botlle or in the form of
therefore sterile.
Having accomplished this, as he be-
lieves, he set about I lie more difficult
pills.
This is especially true of iron, which
is so important a constituent of the
task of producing eggs with medicinal body, entering into the formation of
qualities.
Many will be skeptical about
return with his shield or upon it. well
Illustrates Hi** pu noses of the training
of the early Indi n.
He knew nothing of systems of phy-
sical training, but he did know that
his success in the chase or In war—in
fact, his success in life—depended on a
good constitution and keen perception,
and properly trained faculties. His
mode of life as a hunter i*hd a warrior
developed all his natural resources and
made him the astute warrior and (he
born athlete our forefathers found
the red corpuscles of the blood. Poved
b j ty of the blood, anaemia, is lack of
ability of germs to get inside of eggs iron in the system. When medicinal him. The Indian youth did not differ
But Professor Cooper Curtice of the ■ Iron Is given in liquid doses it. is apt much from his white brother in his
Rhode Island Agricultural college at to aff(>ct the nerves, so as to drive a way of displaying his energy and his
Kingston expresses the opinion that sensitive person almost frantic. Even spirit. He took as much interest in
bacteria do penetrate into eggs.lie lie- then the digestive system fails to take his games and sports as did the white
lioves this is what causes eggs to up the iron in the Intestines and con-
"spoli." He also says that some eggs vert It into blood,
ate undoubtedly sterile. In no other i
boy in liis pastimes.
During our earlier and later Indian
wais Ihc endurance shown by (he In-
dian has been almost phenomenal. It*
if. on the other hand, a person eat
way can he account for eggs remain-1 cherries, currants nnd other fruits
ing comparatively fresh and eatable largely with iron the system readily was not at a'i uncommon ior army of-
aftpr having been set on by a heu for assimilates the Iron and turns it into fleers to use Indians on foot to carry-
good red blood.
Mr. Brown fell to wondering wheth-
<r It would not be possible to feed
iron to ids hens and let their powerful
three weeks.
Tills was one of the things that set
Mr. Brown to thinking. If eggs so pure
and free from decomposing material
could occasionally occur why not pro- digestive organs assimilate Ihe minor-
due** them systematically, regularly, J al and charge their eggs with it.
He decided to give some of his hens
a systematic iron diet. In tlmir drink-
ing water he put rusty iron. For f nl-
der ho gave them as much finely cut
i '
hs a hlgh-gr:'.dc commercial product?
Now, ordinarily such eggs as these
an' just what the farmer does not
want to produce, liis wife Is apt to
wish lo set a hen at almost any lime
;>ii(l slie wauls all the eggs to "hatch
out." She exp cts one or two to fall to
produce chickens, but she doesn't
want them all to lie fresh enough for j
att agricultural college professor to j
cat after the hen lias set on them !
three weeks.
Mr. Brown long ago adopted the
plan of having only virgin pullets lay
ea rs for market. Their eggs are froei
from the life germ. Such eggs lie
found would keep for long periods of
messages lone distances in preference
to ttie regular mounted courier, lf-
cause of the superior endurance and
speed of the former.
For several generations the Indian
has seemed to be losing his vigorous
manhood and has appeared to show
but little of his former physical en-
ergy. Why is this? One of the prime
( i.uscs have been, no doubt, tlie so-
called "reservation system"—a system
clover as they would eat, a. tom plant    , nlj;,llt s::y in p^ng, Ur fast
: becoming a thing of the past.—VV. t».
Thompson in Recreation.
contains a considerable amount of
iron.
Instead of common gravel to pick
up for their gizzards Mr. Brown gave
his hens mica grit. This is New Hamp-
shire granite ground up fine. It is rich
in magnesium inn. in potassium and
lithium. In addition the hens got
some hard, mixed grain.
On this diet Mr. Brown thought he
could observe the yep s of the hens’
■ ‘ggs growing redder a, * a chemical
a
time without spoiling. On the other I analysis showed a larger percentn ie
hand take an ordinary farm egg in the of Iron. Fo the "iron tonic egg found
s immer time. Let a period! of two or its way on the market in limited quan-
as he ii. in r.ir.tl, it Is the business
of the railroads and those who buy |
.iiul sell stocks to meet the new con-
ditions as they anse.
Mr. Roosevelt believes the true |
course for tho nation to pursuo is to
place its great railroad business upon |
so substantial a foundation that
stock panics will lie impossible, be-
cause every share of stock will have |
a Known value to the investor and
will he beyond the reach of the Jug-
glers who now depress or Inflate Its
market prices-
three wqrra days prevail, when the
thermometer is continually above SO
degrees. The chances are that some
cgss only n week old will be found
to have spoiled.
Th0 explanation of tills: When the
thermometer rose, ihe fertilized egg
lilies.
His researches In chemistry had
taught him that one of liie chief ele-
ments In the normal nealthy hen's
egg Is lecithin. Tills Is a colorless,
viscous, phosphorizod fat. It is a tis-
sue builder, the stuff that makes cliil-
n to hatch, and when the weath trjdren grow and Is why fresh egg; are
i hiled off the embryo chicken died in- • such a good diet for young people and
side the eggshell and began to decay, j Invalids.
This is what convinced Mr. Brown Mr Brown found, however, that
thathtelnyeok pproer eta eahe' agn(et ! some eggs are deficient in lecithin,
that the only proper egg to send to j particularly eggs laid by poorly fed
market was a st rile egg—one that liens or fowls not in robust health.
1 had not been fertilized.
Hut this was only the first link In
He set to work to produce an egg
rich in phosphorus. Hens he regards
his reasoning II chad kept abreast of ^ merely as chemical machines which
modern soli ntifle research. Another turn food Into egg substance. So lie
cause of decomposition In eggs he had fed oue ynrdful of heus largely on
Gov. Folk lias called the Missouri
legislature to meet in special session
April 9th, for Hu* following purposes.
Fir.-u To enact such legislation as
may be necessary lo provide for tho
regulation of the rates of public util-
ity corporations. Second—To enact
legislation regulating and controlling
dramshops. Third- -To provide legis-
lative enactments for the enforce-
ment of the dramshop laws through-
out the slate. Fourth—To provide, for
tlie removal or recall of derelict offic-
ials. Fifth—To enact laws relating >o
the police systems of cities of this
rtato of 100,000 inhabitants or over.
Sixth—xo provide an enactment, with
emergency clause, for the suppression
of racetrack gambling. Seventh—To
consider any other subject that may
be submitted by special message dar-
ing such session. Eipht'a—To make an
appropriation for Hie expenses of
this extra session "f the general as-
s'* nibly.
The authorities at the New Mexico
college of agriculture think that the
manufacture of industrial alcohol from
cactus can reasonably be onsidered
within the range of possibilities