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The Commoner.
JMJGUST 28, 1903.
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Gossiping With the Reporters
In traveling over the country, Mr.
Ervan falls in with many representa
tives of the press and they are, as a
rule, 'very fair, very intelligent and
very affable gentlemen. Sometimes
they write up the trip in a gossippy
sort of way, reporting the conversation
as it changes from subject to subject
as new persons join the company.
Mr. Louis Ludlow; of the Indianap
olis Sentinel, was with the party on
the suburban road from Indianapolis
to Action and thus writes up the trip:
William Jennings Bryan and the
Sentinel representative were sitting
together in an interurban car as it
buzzed through the cornfields en route
to Action when the Sentinel reporter
said:
"John Kern has got a new baby boy
at his house."
"Well, well," exclaimed the distin
guished champion of the free and un
limited coinage of silver.
"John's good nature always over
flows on such occasions," continued
the Sentinel man, "and one of his first
acts is to call up his newspaper
friends and break the news to them.
In announcing the arrival of the little
"one he said that it already was shout
ing for Bryan and the Kansas City
platform."
"Ha, ha," laughed Mr. Bryan, "you
tell John that thirty-five years from
now when young Cleveland and young
Kern are candidates for the demo
cratic nomination for president I shall
be for Kern. Tell him that I pledge
myself right now. Let me see I am
forty-three. Thirty-five added to
forty-three makes ssventy-eight. 1
shall be seventy-eight then. I think
St will be about my last active
campaign."
"It is currently reported, but not
authoritatively announced," said the
Sentinel representative, "that Mr.
Kern Intends to call the little fellow
William Jennings.'"
A smile lighted the benevolent coun
tenance of the orator of the Platte as
he said:
"That reminds me of a cartoon I
saw the other day. Grover Cleveland
was pictured with a frown on his face
in the act of administering a hpank
ing to his offspring. As he aid so he
exclaimed:
" 'Now you hush up and be good or
I'll name you Billy Bryan.'
"Maybe it is in this sense that John
is likely to name his boy for me."
Mr. Bryan was the soul of good
humor, but he exercised a great deal of
diplomacy in dodging questions. When
asked to express an opinion on the
president's letter to Governor Durbir.
he said:
"I am going to discuss that letter in
lhe Commoner."
When told that Durbin's vice presi
dential kite has been flying high since
the epistle came to hand he remarked:
"And I suppose that agitates Fair
banks and Beveridge not a little. Well,
I presume that each of your senators
would prefer Durbin to the other sen
ator." At the town of New Bethel a crowd
gathered to take a peep at the "peer
less leader." He smiled through the
iron wickerwork of the car and said
to the spectators:
"I am behind the bars."
"With the car bowling along toward
Acton James W. Brendel, treasurer of
Boone county, asked Mr. Bryan how
much he weighs.
"Two hundred and seventeen pounds
but"! am ashamed to admit it," he
replied.
"Why, I weigh 228 pounds," said
Mr. Brendel.
"Ah, I feel encouraged," remarked
thp Nebraska colonel.
Then Frank P. Baker of Indianap
olis told the pig story of John Owen
of Noblesville, published in these col
umns a few days. Owen said hp met
a well-knowp Hamilton county Irish
man.
"I heard you sold your pig," ho said.
"I did, bedad," he replied.
"How much did it weigh?"
"It didn't weigh as much as I
thought it would, begorry." Then, af
ter a moment's reflection:. "I thought
it wouldn't."
Mr. Bryan laughed until his sides
shook. "That calls to mind," said he,
"a pig story I heard in the campaign
of 1896. A Now Jersey farmer had a
sow and unto that sow was born a lit
ter of six pigs. The farmer was a
republican who had never voted any
thing except the straight republican
ticket He named one of the pigs
'McKinley.' Unfortunately that pig
and two others died. The farmer was
out in the barnyard one day when ho
made the startling discovery tfiat the
tail of one of the remaining pigs was
curled in the shape of a 'W,' the tail
oc another in the shape of a 'J' and the
tail of the third in the sha.3 of a
'B.' He at once accepted this as an
omen from on high that ho should
vote for me and I have never heard of
another conversion being made in
this particular way."
Puttin' Up Preserves,
Mother's in the kitchen now,
With her sleeves rolled up;
In her hands an iron spoon
And a broken cup.
Kettles boil upon the stove
We know she deserves
Our devotion for this work
Putting up preserves!
Odors heavenly ariso
From the kettles bright;
Cores and parings everywhere
Are a tempting sight;
Jars and glasses Mandy holds
Smilingly she serves
While we children watch them work
Putting up preserves.
When they're done, we'll all rush In
Clamoring for that spoon,
And the kettles to be "scraped"
(What a lovely tune!)
Eat until she says "Run out
You upset my nerves!"
But when winter comes, we'll help
Put DOWN those preserves!
Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
Radium as a' Remedy,
A cablegram to the New York Amer
ican under date of London, July 18,
cays:
The scientific sensation of the week
has been the announcement that a
tenth part of a grain of radium in a
glass tube the size of a toothpick,
when introduced into a cancer will
kill the cancer in four exposures of an
hour each. A similar infinite small
grain of radium will, it is declared, 11
lMminate a room for a century and an
ounce of radium would equal all the
horse power in the world. The hunt
for radium promises to be tho twen
tieth century equivalent for the search
of the philosopher's stone.
Dr. Mackenzie Davidson, the noted
surgeon of Charing Cross hospital, an
nounced that he had successfully cured
a case of superficial cancer Dy means
of radium. Dr. Davidson is treating
two other cases and promises success
in each one. Dr. Davidson said that
radium proved successful and effective
with superficial cancer, but cannot say
that it will cure internal cancers, as
ho has not experimented with them
jet and does n'ot want to raise false
hopes.
The case Dr. Davidson cured was
rodent cancer of the nose, after un
successful treatment by X-rays. The
cancer was exposed to radium, four
exposures of an hour each, given at
intervals of a few days. In three
weeks the diseased part was healing
satisfactorily and in six weeks. wi'Jt
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two more exposures, the cancerous
growth disappeared, not leaving a scar
to remember It by. Dr. Davidson said,
warnlngly: "We have only treated
nuperflclal cancer with the wonderful
radium. "What is will do with internal
cancer remains to be seen."
Wanted to see the Trains Stop.
An uncontrollable desire to stop ex
press trains was responsible last night
for the discharge of John Ott, a Bal
timore & Ohio telegraph operator,
possessed of peculiar ideas of railway
manipulation. Ott, who recently came
from California, was employed as
night operator at Felton Station, Del
aware county. The other night he
flagged several fast express trains
without orders from headquarters or
'any other excuse, but just to see the
big engines slow up in response to his
signals. At a result of his nonsense
the road schedule was deranged and a
wreck was narrowly averted by the
prompt arrival of a competent opera
tor sent from headquarters in this
city to relieve the curious Ott.
When officials sought an explanation
from Ott he answered: "Oh, nothing
it the matter. I simply wanted to
see who was on the trains." Philadel
phia Correspondence New York Tribune,
Mosquitoes stop a Survey,
Louisiana mosquitoes have forced a
government surveying party to aban
don their work and flee for their lives.
A short time ago Prof. J. B. Taylor,
of the United States coast and geodetic
survey, came to Louisiana to survey
the oyster reefs on the coast. The
state oyster committee turned over to
Prof. Baylor the committee's schoon
er, the Majestic. After spending sev
eral days on the coast Prof. Baylor
found it was impossible to continue
In the face of the mosquitoes. He an
ndunced that tho lives of the members
o his party were at stake and aban
doned the survey. The party will re
turn to Washington, where they will
remain until winter, when they vill
resume the survey. Chicago Record
Herald. Why Miles is Admired,
Miles was directing the fighting In
the Wilderness when Hoot was still a
hoy in college and Roosevelt was dig
ging his spurs into the wooden sides
of a nursery hobby horse. Little won
der is it then that this grizzled fighter
carries with him the respect of the na
tion, notwithstanding the snubs which
Roosevelt and Root heaped upon him
because of their over-weening jeal
ousy. Bellefonte (Pa.) Watchman.
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