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N persuading tlio
Democrats to
meet at Denver
for their national
convention the rep
resentatives of that
city advanced some
remarkable a r g 11
ments in its behalf
in the first place
it is a mile high
which assures the
conduct of the pro
ceedings upon a
Sifty plane in a physical sense at any
aito In case any delegates are not
satisfied with attaining a level of DJSO
ffcvt above the sea they can reach an al
idade of over two miles by climbing
stsoa of the nearby mountains Anoth
er strong argument was the fact that
Colorado has a minister the Uev Dr
Henry A Buchtel chancellor of the
University of Denver for a governor
vsleh is a further guarantee to the
legates that they will breathe only a
2sgh moral atmosphere Then there
-seas the argument that they could meet
ia the biggest auditorium in the Unit
ad States seating about 35000 persons
ami provided with great fans to cool
e- fevered and perspiring brows of
auditors during the delivery of fiery
speeches Last but not least was tho
iaet that the convention would be held
fD a city and a state where the ladies
rote
When a parly convention is about to
start proceedings for the nomination
c a national ticket it is the national
committee which opens up the game
Democratic national committee
2as for chairman Thomas Taggart of
Indiana and for secretary Urey Wood
sec of Kentucky Both are well known
xo the Democrats of the nation through
jfaeir having held these position in tho
campaign of 1001 Mr Woodson who
77f2i be forty nine in August is a
of Madisonville Ky and is prin
taipal owner of the Owensboro Messen
fsrand Paducah News Democrat Do
educated at the Evansville Ind
Zdgh school married Miss Elizabeth
jFvrru in 1SS3 and was railroad com
missioner of Kentucky from 1S91 to
3SG He has been a member of the
Ztemocratic national committee since
3S0G and his acquaintance among the
members of the party is very exten
sive
diairman Taggart is perhaps best
lanown for his smile it is a smile
2at has made many Democratic votes
32 helped to advance its owner from
as- position of a
dispenser of pies
ind coffee at a rail
suad lunch counter
Iso that of proprie
t of a restaurant
idd later of a ho
L and it helped
rfect him auditor
4 Marion county
led and so affect
ad the voters of In
dianapolis that
They chose him
three times to the
mayoralty of their
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eity It was no omas taggakt
doubt an important factor in his choice
ftiur years ago as head of the national
committee of his party At fifty one
tliere are few wrinkles in his brow and
life smile is as sunny and persuasive as
ever
Anice little mayors association could
bo formed by Chairman Taggart among
as- own committeemen He himself
is a- former executive of Indianapolis
3aines C Dahlman representing Ne
braska occupies Omahas chief chair
and Tom L Johnson representing Ohio
dees the same thing for Cleveland H
S Cummings of Connecticut besides
marrying the daughter of a former
mayor was mayor of Stamford for
several terms One of the numerous
Daiees of Osborne of Wyoming has
Ijeeii that of mayor of Rawlins while
George W Greene of Rhode Island is
s former executive of Woonsocket
31c Taggart attended the Republican
convention at Chicago to get pointers
lai the affair at Denver With him
were Norman E Mack editor of the
Soffalo Times and New York state
member of the national committee
sad other party leaders As these emi
nent Democrats entered the Coliseum
the chanced to encounter Frank II
Hitcilcock
Cme in to surrender to Taft que
ried Mr Hitchcock
Nope returned Mr Taggart we
simply wanted to look over that steam
rctlerr which has been operated so suc
cessfully in these parts
It is conceded by all whatever their
prsonal views on questions that divide
tparties that there is something re
markable about the way in which Wil
Sanrt Jennings Bryan has kept before
ine -public although a private citizen
the twelve years that have
ejpsetl since his first nomination for
iwesident Generally when a man Is
nominated for a high office and is de
feated he retires to private life and
comparative obscurity Not so Mr
3ryan Year in and year out what
ever the exigencies of politics he has
ifepfc in the forefront of the controver
sies ever public policy and has been
oKeT to as champion of the ideas
yftiis which his name is associated and
2jpan able thinker on public questions
1 Denver and the Democrats
The National Assem
blage of a Great Party
In a City a Mile Hifih
Persoirages of Note
Officers and Speakers of
the Convention Mr
Bryan and His Boyhood
Homes John A Johnson
iih pmtun
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In general whether those pertaining to
party Issues or to sociology and morals
One secret of Mr Bryans staying pow
ers may be found In his physical en
ergy Possessed of a strong constitu
tion he constantly repairs the inroads
made upon his physique by the strain
of a life of study and public contro
versy through exercise and recreation
out of doors
Mr Bryan was born on a farm was
raised on a farm and is a farmer today
on quite a large scale Judge Silas L
Bryan Colonel Bryans father lived
on a farm near the edge of the town of
Salem III The boy grew up in the
open air and the memories which clus
ter about the unpretentious but re
spectable and attractive home in Salem
have much to do with those healthful
occupations and diversions common to
farm life everywhere When Mr Bry
an was a small boy his parents moved
into a larger and more imposing house
than that in which ho was born This
was about a mile west northwest of
the town of Salem and it too had
WILLIAM J BRVAN AND HIS BIRTHPLACE
farm surroundings xls a young law
yer in Lincoln Mr Bryan at first lived
in a modest cottage in the city itself
But as soon as he could afford to do so
he began buying farm land in the vi
cinity of Lincoln and adding a few
acres now and again as he had oppor
tunity In due time he had possession
of quite an extensive tract in the cen
ter of wnich he has buiit his present
tasteful and comfortable residence He
and Mrs Bryan named it Fairview
because of the pleasant scenery which
surrounds their home of today Mr
Bryan does not do all of the hoeing
and digging and pitching hay incident
to the work of his farm himself He
has a considerable force of hands
for proper cultivation of the soil he
can call his own But whenever he
feels the need of toning up his system
and stretching his muscles he can turn
in and be a man with the hoe or the
man with the pitchfork and can hold
his own with the next
When John A Johnson closed down
his desk as editor and proprietor of the
St Peter Herald to take up his resi
dence in Minnesotas capital and sit in
the gubernatorial chair he requested
the associate he left in charge to keep
the subscribers in line and the job
work going remarking that probably
he would be back in two years time
But the people of his state concluded
that the washerwomans son who at
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JOHN A JOHXSOX
twelve years old took the support of
his mother and brothers and sisters on
his young shoulders was the man to
keep in office another term Then he
began to be talked about as a man
who might be called to even higher
honors than those of governor of his
own great state He is often com
pared to Abraham Lincoln and the
struggle by which he rose from pover
ty and obscurity to eminence in the
affairs of his state and the nation re
calls many features of the career of
the immortal statesman who began
his study of his countrys institutions
by the flickering light of burning logs
in a Kentucky log cabin
Sambas 1 alking Man
Sh mens talkiug man or tolafali If
a character All the affairs of state
t the village in which he holds office
are carried upon his shoulders In or
dinary he is the chief adviser per
suader convincer and restralner of the
leading chiefs Having the gift of elo
quence he makes the most of it Ue
enjoys immunity from many things
He cannot be spoken of in ordinary
terms If It should be necessary to
speak of hLs eyes or his mouth or his
limbs special honorable words must
be used words which attach to him
alone and have never been applied to
the personal parts of ordinary men
As lie stands to deliver Ills soft per
suasive mellifluous oratory with staff
of office in his hand any one can see
that he is a man of great importance
or if this is not apparent from his at
titude it may be gathered from the at
tention paid to his utterances by gray
haired chiefs and by youth and maid
ens If the talking man is a clever
fellow and understands his business
he is the chief ruling power in his
tribe although the nominal headship
is always vested in a chief or patri
archal figurehead
How Wyckoff Was Revealed
The late Professor Walter A Wyck
off of Princeton had a passion for
knowledge at first hand and will be
best remembered as the college pro
fessor who studied labor conditions y
becoming himself a laborer St m ng
in 1891 in Connecticut with no i ney
and with a suit of overalls lie - iked
his way through nearly every state in
the Union after the fashion of the
floating laborers of this country so
many of whom ultimately become
tramps Wherever there was a possi
bility of work he applied for it wheth
er it were digging ditches wrecking
houses or factory work For awhile
his incognito usually worked well but
as soon as his fellow laborers saw him
at table they at once began to suspect
him nis manner of eating his way
of holding knife and fork at once set
them speculating Once lie was seen
drinking tea at a fellow laborers
house in Chicago He lifted the saucer
from the table held It in his hand and
forgot himself so far as to drink with
out noise I knowed then his host
afterward said that he was a swell
masquerading Harpers Weekly
The Most Beautiful Flag
In a village school in the Acadian
region of Nova Scotia the young lady
teacher who was from a portion of
Canada more remote from the United
States than the section she was in
was on one occasion preparing for a
little celebration of empire day Call
ing one of the boys she gave him a
coin and said to him
Take this please and go out and
get ns the prettiest flag you can find
She had no idea of course of his
procuring anything else than a British
flag and her astonishment was great
therefore when the boy came back
with a small edition of the stars and
stripes
What have you there the teacher
asked sharply Did you suppose I
sent you for anything else than the
flag of your country
Why answered the boy you told
me to get the prettiest flag I could find
and there was nothing else so pretty as
this
The boys judgment was unpreju
diced at any rate for he was a Cana
dian
Oh Wait Till He Returns
Why my dear exclaimed the good
friend on finding Mrs Newed in floods
of tears what is the matter
The young wife wiped her eyes and
tried to compose herself and be in
humanly calm
Well she began with folded
hands you know John is away for a
week
Yes dear helped the lady friend
Well he writes to me regularly
and in his his last letter he tells mo
he gets my photo out and kisses it ev
ery day
But that is nothiiir for you to cry
about p jclaimcd the good friend
Yes it is cried Mr Newed
bursting into tear- afresh ln licauo
I took my picm e out of li ha bag lie
before he started ju jrr for a
and put one of in it1
place
Why They Dcnt Deccs t
Instance f oseriion Hon tin
army iu Mou o very rare and lot
the best ol siil Seiior lose
de Minaidez of Nuova Leon
The roasj lie- in the almost sine
capture of tin fugitive tho certain
ty that lie will get not one but nuiner
ous flogninns on hi bare hack These
lashings are done in the presence ol
the comrades of ilie deserter and when
the men see Imw rvu i tho sniiennu
of the inferable ieh Un tried in
vain to quit Us military obligations
they are fou od to om lnde that it i
better to stick to the arm than to tin
I ergo sii h a terriilo nrdea Haiti
more Auvriran
Audiences Have Changed
They dont writ- comic- operas litre
they used to said Mr Stonniugton
Barnes They used to have jokes
then that made people laugh
Yes answered the manager but
you must remember that in those days
they had audiences who could be made
to laugh Memphis Commercial Ap
peal
Not Deluded
Do you want employment
Lady answered Plodding Pete
you means well but you cant make
work sound jny more invitiu by usin
words of three syllables Washing
ton Star
Brave actions never want a trumpet
Italian Proverb
SCHNITZ UND KLASE
Treat the Gods Missed but Procurable
In tho Mohawk Valley
Something in the line of good things
to eat the gods never had consequently
the gods missed a great treat And
by the way friend have you ever
hooked up to a dish of schnitz und
klase
No Thought so Few have in these
times and those who have been so
fortunate have just cause to recall a
delicious morsel time can never erase
from the tablets of memory
You can order schnitz und klase until
you faint famished awaiting it You
will never get it in any public eating
place It Isnt on the bill of fare and
never will be
The up to date chef would give you
the laugh If you asked him to concoct
It for you Ten chances to one hed not
understand what schnitz und klase
could possibly mean Few know but
those who do know it know it well
A good big ham bone is the central
portion light dumplings and dried ap
ples Anything else would spoil it
The ham bone gives the dish a
sinoky flavor the dumplings give it
body and the dried apples give it color
and tartness as well as sauce
Put the ham bone in cold water and
open the flues and let the pot boil
While the pot is getting into good and
read shape make your dumplings and
make them as light as possible
Put the dried apples iu a separate
dish and stew them down to a nicety
When the pot with the ham bone bub
bles and froths drop in the dumplings
one by one No you do not stir Ue
contents of the pot That would spoil
the consistency of the dumplings and
make i moss
Any one who has watched a pot boil
knows when dumplings are done to a
dot
Take a deep platter fish out the
dumplings carefully with a drain spoon
and place them about the ham bone in
the center of the platter Looks dry
but when you pour over all the dried
apples and their nice sauce wow
Thats schnitz und klase ns you may
have had it years ago when living
with a German family in the Mohawk
valley You can eat it until your eyes
start out and your waistband grips your
middle It will stay by you through a
hard days work and if there is any
left over you hit it again for supper
cold
Ever try it New York Sun
ONLY A GUESS
But It Made Good Advance Informa
tion For the Reporter
Neils Olsen who was for forty years
a trusted employee of the New York
Yacht club was always courteous to
newspaper men and glad to give them
such information as he could with
propriety make public He was sorely
beset b news gatherers while the Dun
raven trial was going on and often
said to the reporters with a smile that
he regretted his ignorance On the
evening of Feb 27 1S0G when the
members of the club met at the old
clubhouse in Madison avenue there
was much quiet excitement because it
was well known that the question of
Dunraveus expulsion would come up
An enterprising reporter stopped Olsen
as he came through the door and asked
Do you think theyll expel his lord
sliip
Olsen said How do I know and
then added Did you ever read this
and handed to the young man a clip
ping from the Tribune which read
or Dunraven never tumbling still Is
grumbling still is mumbling
In his lordly ancient castles over on the
distant shore
And his talks have all the seeming of a
daft and jealous seaman
And the X rays through him streaming
show hes unfair at the core
And because the Yacht club knows him
knows hes unfair at the core
He will race here nevermore
Half an hour later the meeting was
called to order and within twenty
minutes a resolution was adopted
stripping Dunraven of his honorary
membership privileges When the re
porter saw Olsen he said That was
good advance information to which
he replied I never give information
that was a guess New York Tribune
Only the Odd Ones
Very few of the American tourists
who come to England fail to visit
Westminster abbey The long history
of the venerable pile appeals strongly
to our visitors from the other side of
the Atlantic One lady student while
within the abbey looked about with
the particular object of inspecting the
tomb of King Edward II Failing to
discover it after patient search she at
last asked the verger to direct her to
it Im sorry madam replied the of
ficer with a tone of deep regret but
we avent Edward II here as we only
ave the odd numbers London Ex
press
Making a Show
A man has to draw it fine these
days
What do you mean
Staying ten minutes after office
horns each day will probably make a
good impression but staying fifteen is
liable to excite suspicion that you aie
monkeying witli your books Kan
sas City Journal
Cynical
The Maid Do you believe its un
lucky to get married on a Friday The
Abominable Bachelor Certainly Why
should Friday be an exception Black
and White
The Denial Habit
Do you take this woman to be your
lawful wedded wife
No sir theres no truth in the ru
morthat Is to say I do Pittsburg
Tost
Tho Rain Was Hot
Mrv Goitt had been waiting for a
week or more to give her rear porch a
good scrubbing but she was always
afraid of incurring the keen displeas
ure of the people In the flat below
who it seemed were never off their
porch and who would get all the drip
plugs of her scrubbing operation
When it rained though Mrs Goitt
saw what she thought was her oppor
tunity The people down below surely
would not be out on the porch during
dripped down would be attributed to
the rain She filled a bucket with boil
ing hot water threw in a sallow cake
of soap and got busy
But she had reckoned wrong for the
people down below were on their porch
enjoying the shower In a minute Mrs
Goitt heard a womans voice below
saying Why Martha the rains com
ing through from the porch above The
roof must leak
And then Martha observed with a
gasp Yes And oh heavens had yon
noticed that the rain is hot Did you
ever hear of such a thing Arent ter
rible thing5 happening All these aw
ful murders and now hot rain But its
the Lords doings and we must sub
mit Cleveland Plain Dealer
Early Lamps and Wicks
It would be hazardous to conjecture
what the first wick consisted of but
when we come to consider the iron
lamp or crusie we know that the
wick commonly used was the pith of
the rush which was gathered and
partially stripped of its outer green
covering cut into proper lengths dried
and tied up into bundles ready for use
The iron lamp was hammered out of
one piece of iron in a stone moid This
was usually done by the blacksmith
and the molds are still to be seen in
museums iu the hands of private col
lectors and no doubt at some of the
country blacksmiths shops They are
of one uniform shape with some slight
varieties The lamp consists of two
cups one suspended above and inside
the other The suspender is so fixed
and notched as to enable the upper
cup which holds the oil and wick to
be shifted to keep the oil constantly in
contact with the wick The lower cup
catches the drip of the oil which can
be easily replaced in the upper cup by
lifting it off until the oil is poured into
it The upper cup has sometimes a
movable lid Chambers Journal
Carnegies First Investment
It was due to Thomas A Scott that
Andrew Carnegie made his first invest
ment ten shares of stock in the Adams
Express company valued at o00 This
he did with considerable trepidation
no had labored hard for the money he
had saved up while he had worked a3
a telegrapher It is part of railroad
history how he later fell in with the
inventor of the sleeping car saw the
enormous advantages which that man
ner of travel held out to passengers
and promoters and how he interested
others in the Invention of Mr Wood
ruff This occurred shortly after his
return from Washington when the
problems of transportation were still
uppermost in his mind He was now
on the road to success and wealth as
he then pictured earthly possessions
The Pennsylvania oil fields yielded
large returns when Carnegie and oth
ers turned their energies in the direc
tion of the newly discovered territory
In one year land purchased for 10000
increased in value so that it paid a div
idend of 1000000 Exchange
Reading a Horses Face
Every horse carries an index to his
temper and intelligence in his face
The teachable tractable animal is
broad and flat between the eyes the
bony ridge of his face dishes slightly
from the point where the face narrows
toward the nostrils His ears are well
set sensitive and far apart with a
well defined ridge of bone extending
across the top of the head between
them Always feel for this ridge in
judging a horse The eye should be
large clear and bright with a prom
inent ridge of bone along the inner and
upper edge of the socket London An
swers
Where Swallows Go
The swallows all spend the winter in
Central America and the south part of
Mexico They appear in the southern
states as early as the middle of Feb
ruary but seldom get as far north as
New England until the month of May
The robi wiitor in the southern
states and in northern Mexico Thev
are to ho seen oi flock- the winter
throimh in the guf states Exchange
Ftauc be
The trouble iili tins tojth
the douti t prtiH it wth
slender iisrrui nt tht ti
said
loni
nerve
is dying
it i t r srnnwetl t
victim vu u o h treat tin dg
with a little mre ivspert
Urthcppy Answer
The Lurati - i es
Whatever makes urn U mu h i s
old cat a j thi Wi M ir
you see its like tu Iv felt a tii
lonely since iy ul l v man o
don Opinion
At tho End cf the Voyage
Jonah disembarked
The only trip 1 dont have to tip the
steward he exclaimed
Therewith he regarded the whaie
half approvingly New York Sun
Different Points of View
Its hard to be poor sighed the
seedy pessimist
Thats queer replied the ragged
optimist I always found It easy
enough
Successful guilt is the bane of so
ciety Syrus
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Conducted by the McCook W C T U
v
Mrs Howe Smith will be the next
hostess at tho usual monthly tea next
Friday afternoon All members and
their friends plan to be present
Tho usual business meeting was held
last Friday at Miss Hippies in West
the rainstorm and all the water that I McCook Mrs Stevens was leader
Dont forgot tho X Lis every
Tuesday afternoon at three oclock in
the basement of the M E church Mrs
Beardsley and Mrs Gary who are in
chargo feel encouraged over the first
months worlc They plan to have a
social once n month and the first ono
will occur next Tuesday after the hour
of business Send all of the children
from ono to sixteen years old Wouldnt
it be n good idea for all members and
friends of tho W C T TJ who are in
terested in this good causo of temper
ance and we all should work more than
wo do along this line plan to entertain
at a tea or have ono of tho meetings nt
your home Call up tho president and
tell her you want tho next tea or meet
ing at your house Lots all help keep
up the interest
CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Christian Bible school at 10 a m
Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m C E
at 7 p m All are welcome
R M Ainsworth Pastor
Episcopal Preaching services at St
Albans church at 11 a m and 730 p
m Sunday school at 10 a m AT
are wolcome to these services
E R Earle Rector
Catholic Order of services Mass
8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 p m Every Sunday
Wm J Kirwin O M I
Baptist Sunday school at 10 a m
Preaching service at 1100 a m Even
ing service at 800 B Y P U at 7 p m
A most cordial invitation is extended to
all to worship with us
E Burton Pa3tor
Christian Science Services Sun
day at 11 a m and Wednesday at 8 p
m Meetings held in the Morris block
Room open all the time Science litera
ture on sale Subject for next Sunday
Life
Congregational Sunday school at
10 a m Preaching at 11 a m Union
temperance meeting in the city park at
S p m C E at 7 p m Prayer meet
ing every Wednesday at 8 p m The
public is cordially invited to these serv
ices
G B Hawkes Pastor
Methodist Sunday school at 10 a m
Preaching by the pastor at 11 subject
The Dignity of Labor Epworth
League at 7 led by Judge J C Moore
Union temperance meeting in the city
park at 8 Prayer meeting Wednesday
night at S A cordial welcome to all
M B Carman Pastor
NORMAL NOTES
Monday morning chapel exercises were
enlivened by a talk along practical lines
by Mr Davis
The Chicago Glee club Monday eve
ning gave a superb concert All the num
bers were first class and the obliging
company responded qraciously to tne
constant encores of the delighted aud
ience
Thursday and Friday were given to
examinations All tho students were
busy part or all the time these two days
in completing the work of the summer
Miss Storers readings Wednesday
morning were a surprise to the majority
of the students who did not know that
she has such keen perception and power
of insight into the soul of the writers of
some of our most beautiful poetry
Her skill and naturalness of rendition
carried her audience with her at every
point
Wednesday morning an unusual treat
was enjoyed by tho normalites Mr
George Heckman gave several violin
selections that were highly appreciated
by all His is
playing superb and ac
companied by his sister as pianist the
two gave evidence of such skill musical
taste and culture as is seldom found in
the wost
Supt Thomas returned Tuesday eve
ning to see that everything is properly
completed atid the records sent in to
the state department at Lincoln
The weather has been more than
usually moderate auring the session of
the normal this year but Thursday there
was enough heat to spoil the record
Rev Ainsworth was an acceptable
speaker Tuesday morning giving much
sound advise from his years of exper
ience Our teachers are much indebted
to the four ministers who have lectured
during our chapel hour
Farmers Attention
1 am receiving cream for the Fair
mont Creamery Co of Crete Neb
Bring your cream to me and I will guar
antee good results You get your
checks every shipment To those part
ies that are delivering cream to other
creameries if you will divide give one
half to me I think after a few ship
ments you will bring it all to me
M Walsh
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