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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1904)
EUTTONS MADE OF MILK. Fluid of Palm Fruit Becomes Hard With Age. •T»cwn in South America there ta a producing palm that has quits met arn. rpbosed the button business, and to .lied the nucleus tor one of tha most imp* :tant Industries In the United States,” said II. 1. Rawlins, a New York drummer at the Raleigh. "Tho seed of this fruit contains a milk th:. t la sweet to the taste and relished by the natives. The milk, when allowed to remain In the nut long enough, becomes ln.l :rated and turna Into a substance as brittle and hard as the Ivory plant. Most of the buttons now used In America, whether termed Ivory, pearl, rubber, horn or l one, come from this Ivory plant. Thus th* probabilities are that your buttons are made from a vegetable milk, and they grow on bushes. "The Ivory plant Is one of the marvels of :he ago, and Is rewarding Its growers with vast fortunes. The nuts are brought to the United States by shiploads, and are shipped across th# contlnont to the big button factories, from which they Issue forth in every conceivable design, color, grade and classification of button. "The Ivory plant has recently been dls cot cred In California, but tho nut It pro duces in Its wild state Is of Inferior qual ity and will not produce good buttons. It '» believed, though, with the proper cul tivation the fruit would be as valuable as th Central American. It so, the growing »f buttons In America would become an industry of importance second only to the growing of corn, wheat and cotton, for everybody wears buttons. "Tito best Ivory nut for commercial pur po- la found on the bank» of the river Magdalena, In the United States of Co Arabia, where by some it Is called the 1 uni palm. The fruit forms a globular . I about twice the size of a man’s head md weighs from 20 to 28 pounds. The nead Is u kind of cluster of bulbs, and In ill contains from 50.to 60 seeds. The seeds ire allowed to dry, and are harvested sev trjii times a year by the natives. "The Ivory nut Is used almost solely In 'lie manufacture of buttons, though some henries also make poker chips from hern. The nut, however, has superseded •to archalo mud, rubber and bone buttons m uigui formerly. It admits of wider '.ml more varied treatment for this pur pose than any other known substance and s easily worked. The United States con lumen more than one-half of the world’s product of Ivory nuts, and nine-tenths of, the vegetable Ivory Is manufactured Into SUtlOIJB. 1 "When the nut reaches the button fac tory It Is cut Into three slabs. In the pro •tss of cutting the button Is partially ■lisped Afterward tho thread holes are; I rilled and countersunk. The button Is! then sent to tho polisher, who uses the /havings and powder made In the drilling io polish them. Afterward they are sent io tha designer, who traces on tho buttons n indelible dye the designs needed. After receiving theso outlines, If tho buttons are to remain smooth and receive another soat, they are put Into the dye, then tliey| ire put Into a pressing machine fitted with lie* of the pattern deslTed.” The Preacher'* Evidence. Roland, 111., Juno 27.—Diabetes lm» to long been looked upon as an lncur ibl i form of Kidney Disease that a line cure for It must rank as one of the most valuable discoveries of tlie ige. And every day brings forth fresh tvldenc* that Dodd’s Kidney Pills will Hire Diabetes. Important evidence in ihelr favor Is given by Rev. Thos. B. Norman, the well-known Baptist min ister here. Mr. Norman says: ”1 had all the symptoms of n had tase of Diabetes and received so much bentflt from the use of Dodd’s Kidney Pills that I cheerfully recommend diem to anyone suffering from that tread disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure the worst form of Diabetes.” Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure Diabetes, one of the final stages of Kidney Disease. All the earlier stages from Backache to Rheumatism are nat lrally much more easily cured by tho tame Remedy Two Ports. New York Dally News: The soerv S'as Cork harbor, and the adventurous narlner In the tiny sailing boat had tad a perilously narrow escape of be ng run down by a big steamer. 'Til have the law on ye, ye bla jyardBl” he cried. "What's the name if that ship?” “White Rose," said the captain of the itearner; adding, "What ship Is that?” "This 4s the Mary Jane. Where are ;-ou bound?" "Rio de Janeiro. Where are you sound?" "Corko de Corkero, ye gibbering son >f a seahorse!” replied the Hibernian yachtsman. And then he put his tiller about, and felt he had given back sarcasm for sarcasm. Do Tour Feet Ache and Barn? 8bak» Into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, t powder for the feet. It makes tight or aew shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bun ions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At til Druggists and Shoe Stores, 2<!o. Sample lent Ki.EE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. T. Got What 8ho Requested. Mrs, Upptowne—The cook you sent ne only stayed a day! Agent—Yes, madam, you said you wanted a cook In a hurry! Mrs. Winslow's ooontmo Btsur tor Children •ethmsi soften* the gums, reduoe* inflammation, el ora pain, enras wind oolie. % cant- n bottle The Tar and Feather Habit. Brooklyn Eagle: We have looked through the constitution and by-laws of this country without discovering any au thority for the tarring and feathering of ts citizens. Possibly there Is no such luthorlty. Yet we cannot repress a pang >f sympathy for the people of a village In this state, who, In Ignorance of legal procedure, fell back upon devlsements of their own, and regretfully but firmly palmed with tar. and then sprinkled with feathers, the body of a certain man, and gave him an hour to betake himself to lorne other town. For It appears that the person was fashioned In the likeness of certain degenerate youth of Brooklyn, ami that he felt called upon to address ones-orted women In terms the reverse of compliment. The women tired of this and told the men folks, and the men folks snaked the offender Into publicity with a laaao. bound him to a tree, coated him with tar an l feathers and warned him to away quick. He ^ot away. There is hardly a doubt that the person's reforma tion will be more complete than If he had been sent to Jab to Idle for a week oi two. secure from the observation and re proach -o£ his neighbors. There Is hardly a doubt that we have In all our cities candidates for a similar distinction, whe would amend their conduct forthwith 11 » their enthusiastic fellow citizens woulc only take them to a public square, clolht them as Jhis person wus clothed, and adt to this service a ride on a rail to the out skirts of the town. There may be noth big in the constitution to Justify It, bu neither does the constitution approve dis reaped to American women FLYING REPTILES OF OLD. Of Great Size, They Were Once More Common Than Bird*. From St. Nicholas: We are apt .o think of reptiles ag creeping and crawl ing things, forgetting that there was a time when flying reptiles were more common than birds. These reptiles, the pterodactyls, or flying dragons, not only flew, but some of them reached a size much greater than that of any bird, for the largest birds do not fly. The South American condor sometimes measures as much as ten and one-haif feet from tip t» tip of outstretched wings, and It is quite possible that the finest examples of the albatross may measure a little more. But the great pterodactyls which flew about the sea that In the days of old reached from tiie Gulf of Mexico to the Kocky moun tains, measured as much as twenty feet, the width of an average city lot, across their wings. Most of us have seen an eagle flying, and we can appreciate the size of this ancient dragon by remembering that it was nearly three times the size of an eagle. It was not, however, three times as heavy, for the body of this strange reptile was so small and its skeleton so wonderfully light that the entire ani mal Is thought to have weighed not more than twenty-five pounds, or only about ns much as a large condor. One of the largest bones of the wing, two feet long and two inches through, was, as Professor Wiiliston tells us, no thicker than u sheet of blotting paper, the great head, with a beak over j three feet long, was equally light. This j great toothless beak is believed to have been used for snapping up fishes; and wo can Imagine this huge creature sail ing swiftly over the sea, now and then swooping down to pick up a fish as deftly, for all its size, as a real swal low. But what did Ornlthostoma—this is the animal’s name—do with his wings and beak when he made an occasional visit to the land? One would think they must have been very much in his way, and that the animal was as awkward on he shore as lie was graceful in the air. And how did he start to fly? With such enormous wings, we think Orni thostoma must have dwelt on Clift’s about the sea and launched off them as the gannets do from Bird Rock. This great flying reptile lived some six mil lion years ago; the sea over which it flew long ago disappeared, and the mud into which its bones sank -be came chalk, and from the formation of these great chalk beds the time at which Ornlthostoma existed is called the Cretaeious period. INDIAN AGAINST INDIAN. Terrible Battle in Which a Band of Sioux Were Wiped Out. Milwaukee Wisconsin: One of the last survivors of the enemies of the Sioux is Ye-On-Ueslc, now passing his hundredth birthday. Highly live years ago the Sioux tribe, which Invaded the west and entered ihe plains of Iowa and Dakota, sought to dislodge the Chlppewas from the timbered country in Minnesota and Wisconsin. They nearly accomplished this undertaking, ow ing to overwhelming numbers. They made f refluent incursions into the Chippewa country and many sanguinary battles were fought, culminating in the massacre by the Sioux of settlers In southern Min nesota In 1S62. Sixty years ago Ye-On-Geslc was a fa mous chief and warrior of the Chippewa tribe, and lie tells the writer of the last great battle with the enemy west of the Mississippi river. He says: "It was when wo were encamped on the Yellow, Bone and Devil's lakes that quite a large party of Sioux wore reported com ing up the Yollow river from the St. Croix to battle with the Chlppewas. Our chiefs I believed they were only scouts sent tor ward to reconnolter. At that time I was an amateur warrior. When the enemy was reported within the country I waa given charge of a band of young men numbering forty-nine und directed to in- j ! tercept the scouts of the Sioux. For that occasion I was made a chief. It was the proudest moment of my life. “With the young Chlppewas under my command I started down the Yellow riv er. All iny men were anxious for ad venture. For two days we watched for the enemy, but saw no signs. On the morning of the third day my scouts re ported a largo war party of Sioux Just landed south of Yellow lake. Within an hour my men had been surrounded. . "Suddenly 1 gave tile Chippewa war cry, and tiie Guttle began. It was a terrible battle, lasting until the sun was high in the heavens and there was no more life in the woods. My party numbered less than twenty-eight when we were through. Today 1 am tiie sole survivor. There were no Sioux left. All were dead.” ' Pop Got Tired. Edith (aged 5, who hns been asking questions for an hour)—Papa, Uo w as the most patient man? Her Papa—Job used to be, but I’ve got him beat a block. "Say, mister, give me a nickel, nlease sir?'' ' I haven't got one.” "Gee: Dejr is scarce, ain't dey?" Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: We are here to Inaugurate a campaign which ceems already to be nearly closed. So wisely have the people sowed and watched and tended, there seems little now to do but to measure up the grain. They are ranging themselves not for battle but for harvest. In one column reaching from the Maine woods to the Puget Sound are those people and those states which have stood so long together, that when great emergencies arise the nation turns instinctively to them. In this column, vast and solid, is a majority so overwhelming that the scat tered squads in opposition can hardly raise another army. The enemy has neither guns nor ammunition, and if they had they would use them on each other. Destitute of the weapons of effective war fare. the only evidence of approaching battle is in the tone and number of their bulletins. There is discord among _ the generals; discord among the soldiers. Each would tight in his own way, but be fore assaulting his republican adversaries he would first destroy his own comrades In the adjoining tents. Each believes the weapons chosen by the other are not only wicked but fatal to the holder. That is true. This is the only war of modern times where the boomerang lias been sub stituted for the gun. Whatever fatalities may occur, however, .among the. discord ant hosts now moving on St. Louis, no harm will come this fall to the American people. There will he no opposition suftt cinet to raise a conflict. There will be hardly enough for competition. There are no democratic plans for the conduct of | the fall campaign. Their zeal is chiefly , central in discussion as to wlmt Thomas Jefferson would do if he were living. He J is not living, and hut few of his descend- , ants are among the democratic remnants of today. Whatever of patriotism or wis dom emanated from that distinguished man Is now represented In this conven tion. Democracy's Need of an Issue. Tt is a sad day for any party when Its only means of solving living issues is by guessing at the possible attitude of a statesman who is dead. This condition leaves that party always a beginner and makes every question new. The demo cratic party has seldom tried a problem on its own account, and when it has Its blunders have been its only monuments, its courage Is remembered only in regret, As long as these things are recalled that party may serve as ballast, but it will never steer the ship. When all the people have forgotten will dawn a golden era for this new democ racy. But the country is not ready yet to place a party In the lead whose most ex pensive motto is the cheerless word “for get.’’ That motto may express contrition, but It does not Inspire hope. Neither con fidence nor enthusiasm will over be aroused by any party which enters each campaign uttering the language of the mourner. There is one fundamental plank, how ever. on which the two great parties are in full agreement. Both believe in the equality of men. The difference is that the democratic party would make every man as low as the poorest, while the re publican party would make every man as nigh as the best. But the democratic course will provoke no outside interfer ence now, for the republican motto Is that of the great commander, “never in terrupt the enemy while he is making a mistake.” Argument by Contrast. In politics as in other fields, the most impressive arguments spring from con trast. Never has there been a more strik ing example of unity than Is now afford ed by this assemblage, you are gathered here not as factions torn by discordant views, but moved by one desire and in tent, you have come as the chosen repre sentatives of the most enlightened pafty in the world. You meet not as strangers, for no men are strangers who hold the sarfne beliefs and espouse the same cause. You may separate two bodies of water for a thousand years, but when once the barrier is removed they mingle instantly and are one. The same traditions inspire and the same purposes actuate us all. Never in our Uvea did these purposes stand with deeper root than now. At least j two generations have passed away since the origin of that great movement from which sprang the spirit which lias been the leaning Impulse in American politics for half a century. In that movement, which was both a creation and an ex ample, were those great characters which endowed the republican party at its birth with the attributes of justice, equality and progress, which have held it to this hour in line with the highest sentiments of mankind. From these men wo have in herited the desire, and to their memory we owo the resolution, that those groat schemes of government and humanity, in spired by their patriotism, and established by their blood, shall remain as the fixed and permanent emblem of their labors, and the abiding signal of the liberty and progress of the race. Republicanism’s Inspiration. There are many new names in these days, but the republican party needs nr new title. It stands now where it stood in the beginning. Memory alone is need ed to tell the source from which the in spirations of the country flow. A drowsy memory would be as guilty now as a sleeping watchman when the enemy Is astir. The name of the republican party stands over every door where a righteous cause was born. Its members have gath ered around every movement, no matter how weak, if Inspired by high resolve. Its flag for more than fifty years has been the sign of hope on every spot where lib erty was the word. That party needs no new name or platform to designate its purposes. It is now as it has been, equipped, militant and in motion. The problems of every age that age must solve. Great causes impose great de mands, but never in any enterprise have the American people failed, and never in any crisis has the republican party failed to express the conscience and intelligence of that'peoplc. The public mind is awake both to its opportunities and its dangers. Nowhere in the world, in any era, did citizenship mean more than it means today in Amer ica. Men of courage and sturdy character are ranging themselves together with a unanimity seldom seen. There is no ex cuse for groping in the dark, for the light is plain to him who will but raise his eyes. The American people believe in a man or party that has convictions and knows why. They believe that what ex perience has proved it is idle to resist, A wise man is any fool about to die. But there is a wisdom which with good for tune may guide the living and the strong. That wisdom springs from reason, obser vation and experience. Guided by these this thing is plain, and young men may rely upon it, that the history and purposes I have described, rising even to the es sence apd aspirations of patriotism, find their best concrete example in the career and doctrine of the republican party. The Standard Bearer. But not alone upon the principles of that party are its members in accord. With the same devotion which has marked their adherence to those principles, magnificent and enduring as they are, they have al ready singled out the man to biiar their standard and to lead the way. No high er badge was ever yet conferred. But great as the honor is. the circumstances which surround it make that honor even more profound. You have come from every state and territory in this vast domain. The country and the town have vied with each other in sending here their contribu tions to this splendid throng. Every high way in the land is leading here and crowded with the members of that great party which sees in this splendid city the symbol of its re-e and power. Within this unexampled multitude 1s every rank and condition of free men, every* creed and occupation. But today a common pur pose and desire have engaged us all, and from every neck and corner of the coun try ri ■ but a single chok e to till the most exalted office in the world. He is no stranger waiting in the shade to be called suddenly into pub ic light. The American people have seen him for many years and always where the tight wus thickest and the greatest need w. . te i lie has been alike conspicuous in e pursuits of peact and in the arduous sv > . •' u i No man now living will forg t the spring of '98, when the American mind was so inflamed and the American patriotism so aroused; when among al the eager citizens surging to the front as soldiers, the man whom this convention has already in its heart was among the first to hear the call and answer to nis name. Preferring peace but not afraid of war; faithful to every pri vate obligation yet first to volunteer at the sign of national peril; a leader in civil life and yet so quick to comprehend the arts of war that he grew almost in a day to meet the high exactions of com mand. The Test of Danger. There is nothing which so tests a man as great and unexpected danger. He may pass his life amid ordinary scenes and what he is or does hut few will ever know. But when the crash comes or the flames break out, a moment's time will single out : the hero In the crowd. A flash of light- j ning in the night will reveal what years | of daylight have not discovered to the eye. And so the flash of the Spanish war revealed that lofty courage and devotion which the American heart so loves and which you have met again to decorate and recognize. His qualities do not need to be retold, for no man in that exalted place since Lincoln has been better known in every household in the land. He is not conservative, if conservatism means wait ing till it is too late. He is not wise, if wisdom is to count a thing a hundred times when once will do. There is no re gret so keen, in man or country, as that which follows an opportunity unembraced. Fortune soars with high and rapid wing, and whoever brings it down must shoot with accuracy and speed. Only the man with steady eye and nerve and the cour age to puli the trigger brings the largest opportunities to the ground. He does not always listen while all the sages speak, but every day at nightfall beholds some record which if not complete has been at least pursued with conscience and in trepid resolution. He is no slender flower swaying in the wind, but that heroic fibre which is best nurtured by the mountains and the snow. A Statement of the Hour. He spends little time in review, for that he knows can be done by the schools. A statesman grappling with the living prob lems of the hour be gropes but little in the past. He believes in going ahead. He believes that in shaping the destinies of this great republic, hope is a higher im pulse than regret. He believes that prepa ration for future triumphs is a more im portant duty than an inventory of past mistakes. A profound student of history, he is today the greatest history maker in the world. With the instincts of the scholar, he is yet forced from the scholar’s pursuits by those superb qualities which fit him to the last degree for those great world currents now rushing past witli larger volume and more portentous as pect than for many years before. The fate of nations is still decided by their wars. I You may talk of orderly tribunals and ! learned referees; you may sing in your .schools the gentle praises of the quiet life; you may strike from your books the last note of every martial anthem, and yet out In the smoke and thunder will always be the tramp of horses and the silent, rigid, upturned face. Men may prophesy and women pray, but peace will come here to abide forever on this earth only when the dreams of childhood are the accepted charts to guide the destinies of men. Events are numberless and mighty, and no man can tell which wire runs around the world. The nation basking today in the quiet of contentment and repose may still be on the deadly circuit and tomor- ; row writhing in the tolls of war. Time for Great Figures. This is the time when great figures must be kept in front. If the pressure is great the material to resist it must be granite : and iron. Whether we wish it or not, America is abroad in this world. Her in terests are In every street, her name is In every tongue. Those interests so sacred and stupendous should be trusted only to the care of those whose power, skill and courage have been tested and approved. And in the man whom you will choose, the highest sense of every matlon in the world beholds a man who typifies as no other living American does, the spirit and the purposes of the twentieth ce itury. He 1 rloes not claim to be the Solomon of his time. There are many things he may not know, but this is sure, that above all things else he stands for progress, courage and fair play, which are the synonyms of the American name. There are times when great fitness is hardly less than destiny, when the ele ments so come together that they selct the agent they will use. Events sometimes select the strongest man. as lightning j goes down the highest rod. And so it is • with those events which for many months with unerring sight have led you to a | single name which I am chosen only to j pronounce: Gentlemen, I nominate for president of the United States the highest living type of the youth, the vigor and the promise of# a great country and a great age, Theodore Roosevelt of New j York. 3EVERIDGE SECONDS ROOSEVELT. Indiana’s Junior Senator Makes an Eloquent Address. Chairman Cannon Introduced Senator Beveridge of Indlna, who began his ad dress amid loud applause, set ending the nomination of Roosevelt. He said: One difference between the opposition and ourselves is tills: They select their candidate for the people, and the people select our candidate for us. This was true four years ago when we accepted the people's judgment and named William McKinley, whose perfect mingling of mind and heart, of wisdom jinil of ten derness. won the trust and love of the na tion then and makes almost holy his mem ory now. His power was 111 the people’s favor, his shrine Is in the people's hearts. It is true today when we again nccept the people's judgment and name Theodore Roosevelt, whose sympathies are as wide as the republic, whose courage, honesty and vision met all emergencies, and the sum of whose qualities make him the type of twentieth century Americanism. And Hie twentieth century American is nothing more than the man of '76 facing a new day with the old faith. Roosevelt and McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt, like William Mc Kinley, is the nominee of the American fireside. So were Washington and Jeffer son In the early time; so was Andrew Jackson when lie said "The union: it must he preserved;" so was Abraham Lincoln when, the republic saved, lie hade us "bind up the nation’s wounds,” and Grant when, from victory's very summit ills lofty words, "let us have peace," voiced the spirit of the hour and the people's prayer. When nominated by parties, each of these great presidents was, at the pe riods named, already chosen by the pub lic Judgment. And so today, the repub lican party, whose strength Is in its obedience to the will of the American peo ple merely executes again the decree which comes to It from the American heme In naming Theodore Roosevelt as our candidate. The people's thought is his thought; American ideals. Iii3 Ideals. This is his only shait of statesmanship—and no oth , r i-i safe. For the truest guide an Amer ican president can have is the collective intelligence, and massed morality of the V me lie an people. And this ancient -u'.e Lr the fathers is the rule of our loaders : Theodore Roosevelt Is a leader who le-uW because ho carries out the settled purposes of the people. Our president's Plans when achieved, are always found to he merely the nation’s will accomplished And that is why the people will elect him. Why He Will Win. They will elect him because they know that If he is president we will get to work and keep at work on the canal. After a. cades of delay when the people want a ,hing done, they want it done. They know that while he is president the ling will "stay put," and no American ad vantage in the Pacific or tho world be u rendered. Americans never retreat. While he is president no wrong-doer *n the service of the government will go un it hipped of justice. Americans demand honesty and honor, vigilant and fearless. While he is president, readjustment of tariff schedules will be made only in har mony with the principle of protection. Americans have memories. While he Is president peace with every nation will be preserved at any cost, ex cepting only the sacrifice of American rights; and the vigor with which he main tains these will be itself a guarantee of peace. The American people will elect him be cause, in a word, they know that he does things the people want done; does things, not merely discusses them—does things only after discussing them—but does things, and does only those things the people would have him do. This is char acteristically American; for wherever he is. the American is he who achieves. Know Where He Stands. On every question all men know where he stands Americans, frank themselves, demand frankness in their servants. Un certainty is the death of business. The people can always get along if they know where they are and whither they are going. His past is his proof. Every great moas ure of his administration was so wise that, enthusiastically sustained by his own party, it won votes even from the oppo sition. 1 Do you name Cuban reciprocity? The opposition resisted and then opposition votes helped to ratify it. Do you name corporate legislation? The opositlon resisted and then opposition votes helped to enact it. Do you name the canal—that largest work of centuries, the eternal wedding of oceans, shrinking the circumference of the globe, making distant peoples neigh bors. advancing forever civilization all around the world? This historic under taking in the interest of all the race, planned by American statesmanship, to be wrought by American hands, to stand through the ages protected by the Amer ican fiag; this vast achievement Which will endure when our day shall have be come ancient, and which alone is enough to make the name of Theodore Roosevelt illustrious through all time—this fulfil ment of the republic’s dream accom plished by republican effort, finally re ceived votes even from an opposition that had tried to thrwart it. Of what measure of Theodore Roose velt’s administration does the opposition :lare ever to propose the repeal? And when has the record of any president won greater approval? Loved as a Man. And so the people trust him as a states man. Better than that, they love him as i man. He wins admiration in vain who wins not affection also. In the American home—that temple of happiness and vir tue where dwell the wives and mothers Df (he republic, cherishing the beautiful in life and guarding the morality of the nation—in the American home the name of Theordore Roosevelt Is not only honored nut beloved. And that is a greater tri umph than the victory of battlefields, rreater credit than successful statesman ship, greater honor than the presidency tself would be without it. Life holds no reward so noble as the confidence and ove of the American people. The American people! The mightiest oree for good the ages have evolved, rhey began as children of liberty. They relieved in God and His providence. They ook truth and justice and tolerance as heir eternal Ideals and marched fearless ly forward. Wildernesses stretched be ’ore them—they subdued them. Motin :ains rose— they crossed them. Deserts obstructed—they passed them. Their 'aith failed them not and a continent was heirs. From ocean to ocean cities rose, lelds blossomed, railroads ran; but every where church and school were permanent oroof that the principles of their origin were the life of their maturity. American Character. American methods changed, but Amerl 'an character remained the same. They outlived tloe stage coach, boot not the bible. rhey advanced, but forgot not their fa hers. They delved in earth, but remem oored the higher things. They made llghways of the oceans, but distance and •limate altered not their Americanism, rhey began as children of liberty, and •hildren of liberty they remain. They be ta n as servants of the Father of Lights, ind His servants they remain. And so nto their hands is daily given more of oower and opportunity that they may work even larger righteousness in the world and scatter over ever widening lelds the blessed seeds of human happi less. Wonderful beyond prophecy’s forecast heir progress; noble beyond the vision of lesire their future. In 1801 Jefferson said, ‘the United States (then) had room ‘nough for our descendants to the thou sandth and thousandth generation;” three generations behold the oceans our boun larios. Washington never dreamed of •ailways. Today electricity and steam nako Maine and California household loighbors. This advance, which no seer jould have foretold, wo made because we ire Americans—because a free people with infettered minds and unquestioning be ief joyfully faced the universe of human possibilities. These possibilities are not exhausted; we have hardly passed their poundaries. The American people are not ‘xhausted; we have only tested our ;trehgth. God’s work for us in the world s not finished; His future missions for he American people will be grander than my He has given us, nobler than we now comprehend. Tasks Will Be Performed. And these tasks as they come we will iccopt and accomplish as our fathers ac 'omplished theirs. And when our genera ion shall have passed and our children ;hall catch from our aging hands the standard we have borne, it will still be ;he old flag of York town and Appomattox ind Manila bay; the music to which they n their turn will then move onward will still be the strains that cheered the dying Warren on Hunker Hill and Inspired the •non who answered Lincoln’s call; and the deals that will be in them triumphant as they are in us, will still be the okl ideals hat have made the American people great ind honored among the nations of the ?arth. This is the republican idea of the Ameri can people; this the thought we have ivhen we nominate today our candidate for the nation’s chief; this the quality of Americanism a republican standard bear iv must have. And this is just the Ameri canism of Theodore Roosevelt. Full of the old time faith in the republic and its destiny; charged with the energy of the republic’s full manhood; cherishing the or dinances of the republic’s fathers and having in his heart the fear of God; in spired bv the sure knowledge that the re public’s splendid day is only In Its dawn, Theodore Roosevelt will lead the Ameri can people In paths of safety to still greater welfare for themselves, still broader betterment of the race and to the added honor of the American name. Therefore, Indiana seconds the nomina* tion of Theodore Roosevelt. ACCLIMATIZING PLANTS. A Woman’s Success With Hothouse Palms in an Ordinary Atmosphere. New York Sun: This woman tried to raise palms and other indoor plants In the usual way, only to see them live for a short while In her gas lit house and then pine away. She had no con servatory and no means of reproducing In her own house the atmosphere from which the dowers were taken. She be gan to wonder after a while if it would not be possible to take the plants at a very early age and acclimatize them to the air of an ordinary house and tnake It possible for them to llourish in that atmosphere. She resolved to make the experiment, believing that it was the sudden transfer from the hothouse to the drawing room that caused them to die. . She began with two or three \ery young palms bought from a nursery man. After the first few days in the house it looked as If they too would succumb, and it was more than a month before they showed signs of im proving. To this day these original palms are In her possession, although she has grown and sold many others since to her friends eager to get hold of plants which grew so well in the ordi nary house atmosphere. The plants were not suddenly brought from the hothouse to the house, but were trained 10 the house atmosphere or succumbed in the effort. Few of them ever did succumb, however, and there Is a de mand always for as many of these sturdy plants as their successful grower Is able to raise. Our Birthday, Bang! Boom! 3et out of the way And Rive us room! Watch us spread; Watch the Red, White and Blue rise Till the staff that bears It Touches the skies, And its folds, unfurled, Sweep round and hug the world To its swelling bosom. And what a l>osom that is! , Broad as the land and seaa ar«t We are It. We are the greatest family Old Ma’m Earth Ever gave birth To. Think of it, please. These j Are they ** Who celebrate this day; Uncle Sam, the strong man whs Swings in his hand Over this land And beyond it, over two seas. The Red, White and Blue Banner of Liberty, Beacon of light, To unnumbered millions Yet in their night. The American Eagle, Glorious bird, Whose scream of Freedom j Is everywhere heard. I The Yankee Nation, The Doodledoos | Whose soldier boys ; And sailor crews • Are setting the pegs of valor high J i Over against a smiling sky r For the new come millions To pattern by; These are they Who celebrate this day. The Glorious Fourth, The day when we Whoop it up For the Land of the Free With pandemonium's artillery. Let ’em bang j And boom; Let the flowers of fireworks bloom: Let ’em fizz, i And whiz, And sizz; ' Let ’em smack And whack. And crack; Let ’em rip. And snort, And tear; Let ’em loose everywhere. Shoot the guns And ring the bells: Every one its story tells; And the story Is the glory Of a nation with a hand Full of blessings, Which expand As the glorious nation does. That’s why The Fourth of July Is— THE FOURTH OF JULY! Oh, my! —W. J. Lampton, in New York Sun. BRAVERY ON THE BATTLEFIELD. Creelman Writes of Idolatry of the Present Day Soldiers. James Creelman in Pilgrim: Who ! can explain this unconquerable attrac i lion of the garb of slaughter for the ! feminine mind and temperament? Is | it the suggestion of romantic and chiv I alrous deed? Is it pride in the physlc I al strength of the nations? Is it the | symbolism of sacrifice—the individual standing for society? Is it attraction by repulsion—the soft and mericful, drawn toward the hard and pitiless-* the positive blending upon the nega tive? Or is it a blending of all these? The simple truth is that the mili tary coat no longer stands for what it did in the days of close range and hand-to-hand fighting. The policeman who arrests a burglar In the night, the fireman who serves In a plague district—each Is a more heroio figure than the modern soldier or sailor, who fights almost out of sight of the enemy and Is seldom called to do battle with an Individual foe. Yet the policeman, the fireman, and the physlcan are held In slight esteem as heroes and the sight of them rarely excites the roman tic Imagination of women. I can say truthfully that I have never seen a coward on the battlefield. I have seen men unnerved by the sounding of bursting shells, but that was always a mere physical weakness; I never saw one who showed the slightest disposition to run away. On the contrary, the trouble most com manders have is in Keeping their men from exposing themselves unnecessar ily. But the bravest man I ever saw was a civilian without a uniform—the barefooted Japanese coolie who at tended me during the first part of the battle of Port Arthur. He was with out a weapon of any sort, but when the Japanese advanced to storm a Chin, ese triple fort, the little brown fellow stooped and picked up a stone. When I asked him what he intended to dc with It, he said that he would kill a Chinaman when we got close, enough. There was a hero of the antique mold That man stood for elements that lent a romantic glory to the warriors ol j other times—the strong aim, thi steady heart, the clear eye, the prid« of Individual prowess. HE WANTED THEM CHARGED. Willie—Mamma says to let me hm a bunch of firecrackers. Storekeeper—Yes. my little ml Does she want them charged? Willie—Well, If they ain’t you’ll heaj from me. How the Little Dog Went. Philadelphia Record: “Did my little dog go by hero?’' asked a bareheaded young woman, who had run up in excite ment to a small boy playing on the cor ner. : “Yes’m, he did," said the small boy. ‘ “Which way did he go? Tell me, quick!** said the young woman. But the small boy hesitated and looked shy. “Come, now," Eald the young woman, eoaxlngly, “do tell me. See. liere Is a penny,” and she fished out a coin from somewhere in her clothing. "Now tejHS me which way he went." “He went this way," said the smaj^B boy, taking the penny and, getting dowi&'/v on his hands and knees, he trotted off^ crying, "Bow-wow', bow-wow." The prosperity of the plpemaklnjj Industry In Birmingham, Eng., Is be» 1 trig threatened by a famine In amber. ^ I i