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'- VOLUME 4, NUMBER a.
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Bryan's Last Stand,
Williams Jennings Bryan came from
tho St. Louts convention bereft of the
crown of leadership won at Chicago in
f'9G,. and defended for eight years, Ho
left in the gloom of deFcat thrust-outside
tho inner councils of democracy
by tho machinations'.of Dave Hill and
s the -machine. Still Bryan. in dofeat
was greater than Hill ever wad or can
bo In victory. A peanut sholl may
stop a dynamo.
Now that tho tumult Is still and tho
cigar smoke has drifted aw,ay the one
ilguro that stands tan and clean cot
above others in the democratic con
vention is that of W. J. Bryan. Head
ed by the pack ho turned at bay like a
lordly stag, and whonover, no turned
tho circle of assailants widened. When
,ho spoke tho clamor ceaspd. At the
head of a forlorn hope he chocked the
march of an army wun banners and
forced terms not of capitulation but of
armistice. His rout was accomplished
not in open war, but by strategy that
'.many Will call treachery. Bryan's
- Bihcdrlty, intellectual capacity and.
marvelous magnetism never shone '
more clearly than when ho turned to'
'dhfin the last ditch at St. Louis. Like
.Ouster at the Big Horn, or tho Greeks
int Thermopylae, he faced the ringed
forces of his foes without a thought of
surrender, and mado tho. bitter magnificence-
of his downfall overshadow
Its pathos.
Bryan was tho great man of tho. con
vention. ' Parkor was tho foreordained
nominee and the gold standard the
foreordored policy. The delegates
dominated by the pledges made by
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An Unofficial Hero
Corliss, Wis., Aug. 6. James Jen
sen, a farmer boy aged 18 years, was
killed through his efforts to save a
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paur pas
senger train from destruction near
here last night. He stood on the
track waving his straw hat in the glare
of the headlight until he was borne
down by the locomotive and crushed
to death. The engineer saw him la
time to slacken speed and, though the
locomotive crashed into a thrasher, the
train escaped a wreck. .
their bosses voted. for Parker, but they
Hsr.fmp.rl wlinn Ttrvftii nnnlro . nnd
5 ;J cheered him till, the raners rang. . He4
i.oo uuuiu not aiop roreciosure oi tne
chattel mortgage, given by. the state"
bosses rtb Dave Hill, Tutho won Wo(
separate.ictories on $rlff by his elo-,
quence ,and personality and forced a'
compromise on currency against over-'
whelming odds . .
Bryan, had the, best of it. He lost
nothing but leadership, at" St. Louis.'
He came away' a greater man than he'
went. Wli,en he rendered back his
trust to his party he. defied his enemies
to show unfaith or dereliction in his
record, and none questioned his sin
cerity. or. consistent faithfulness to tho
written platforms of democracy. Like
a political King Arthur he cast an
untainted, .excallbur back Into the
arena of changing democratic national
policies -and made ready to depart for
his Nebraska Avilon.-Marshalltown,
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1 What Is Electricity?
FIrst we must ask what is positive
electricity? ' and' the answer is slill
we "do hot know. For myself I do
riot even guess beyond supposing it
to be a mode of manifestation, or a
differential portion, of the continuous
and all-pervading ether. It seems to
exist in lumps- the size -of the atoms
of matter; and no portion of it less in
bulk than an atom has eveh been iso
lated, nor appears likely to bo iso
lated. But although it may have bulk,
it appears asif it had no appreciable
mass: the raa.s.ivMtnatii . 'nati
the atom is piobably due to some
thing else, in fact to the possession of.
negative charges in equal amount."
This part of the doctrine is not yet:
"certain Moire' investigation Is ur-;
'gently 'needed" into the meaning and
"jircJperties'bf positive electricity. Mean-t
"while vir'shall only be following the
lead of"ProfvJ. J. Thomson if we as
sume that a' unit 'of positive electricity,
'has a, masslveness (or what is often
inaccurately canea "weight") either
zero' or v6ry small, most probably very
small; perhaps about 1 per cent of
the mass of some atoms of matter
may be. due to the positive electricity
which they contain.
But concerning negative electricity
we know a great deal more. This
exists in excessively minute particles,
Sometimes called electrons and some
times called corpuscles; these are
thrown off the negatively charged ter
minal in a vacuum tube, and they
fly with tremendous speed till they
strike something. When they strike
they can propel as well as heat the
.target, and they can likewise make 'it
em,I Phosphorescent glow; espe-
cany if it be made of glass or tire
clous stones. If the target is 'a very
massive metal like platinum, tho sud-
wi!L Ppa?(of the flyiuS electrons
which encounter it causes the produc
tion of the. ethereal pulses known as
A-rays. Electrons are not very easy
to stop, however; and a fair proportion
or them can penetrate not only wood
and paper, but sheets of such metals
as aluminum, and , other moderately
thin obstacles. That is because they
?hLtremely sma11' i& sUer
than tho atoms of matterSir Oliver
Lodge, in August Harper'a.
, . An Opan Cruande
x Accompanied by eight armed mem
bers of his church the Rev. Herman G.
Uorter, pastor of the Methodist church
at Yorktown, Delaware county, has
been preaching at night in tho slrets
against the violations 'of the law on
the- part of saloonkeepers.
He declared it)hat he would prosecute
every 'saloonkeeper who 1 his placo
open on Sunday or after 11 o'clock
on week -day nights, and would pro
ceed' against the officers of. the law for
failure-to do tli'eir duty. Last Sunday
the minister pr.eaOlfed In 'the' streets
and not a saloon was' open. Crowds
gathered, around him, and among
them were, many who had been fre
quenters of th'e. saloons. N. Y. Herald.
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