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Glimpses of the Life and Character Of Vice President James S. Sherman ' !, A t v ' y V . i & , ; ! L ' ! , qC t L $fc , ' i I' , , ' ' -At -iViw. 'At , JA N - ' z5 'A if rl i - -- is -i 1 J vaAm5 Lt$pi' r! - J - H - . I r tit V 7 , : x7 Photos by American Vrcsa Association 1, the "Sunny Jim" smile; 2, on the street; 3, his home in Utica, N. speaking pose ; 6, Taft and Sherman at a ball game. IT In but rppi'nting the universal Washington verdict to describe Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman ns one of the most pop ular men persoimlly who ever wielded the travel in the United States Hctuite. The sobriquet of "Sunny Jim" wu given him an an atTectloiinte recog nition of Ills gcui:i!lty and democratic manners. "Eloquent on the platform, forcible and resourceful In debate, a master f parliamentary tactics, able and ag gressive aR a campaign manager, a successful lawyer and business man and possessed of winning peronal qual ities." is the way one ef Ids friends described hiui vl"n he was lirst nom inated for th vice presidency In ISK)S. The son of General I'. U. Sherman of Utica, who was a prominent democrat ffter the civil war a'ld held important fate offices. .Mr. Sherman was born In Utica. N V.. Oct. J . lie re ceived an academic and cnllc-.-iate ed ticatton. graduating r'.m Hamilton college In the class of 1STS He was admitted to the liar at Utim in ISSu tho same year ttint young Will Taft wns admitted to the Hamilton county bur at Cincinnati Young Sherman liegan his career in politics with Ll( election as the Re publican mayor of the Democratic city of Utica In 1SM He was delegate to the Republican national convention of 1802. by which jcar he had become a familiar figure In national politics. Mr. Sherman served as a member of congress from the Twenty third New York district from W! to 1S:1. from the .Twenty-fifth New York district from 1S!)3 to V.m and from the Twenty-seventh district from l'.ta't up to 1900. In 1S09. on the retirement of Speak er Reed. Mr. Sherman was prominent I 1 1l s. wrn tk-? KS ' " ly mentioned for the speakership of the house, and was said to have been Reed's choice. For ten years Mr. Sherman wan one of the active Republican floor man agers In the house. Enrly he showed his genius In committee work In his lalxrs ns chairman of the house com mittee on Indian affairs, the head of which he was for more than ten years. He wns also an active member of the committee on rules and that on interstate and foreign commerce. Three times lie was called to preside over Ropubllciin state conventions in New York state. In 1000 he was elect ed chairman of the Republican con grosional campaign committee, and It was as manager of the Republican con gressional campaign In that year that he earned the title of "Dollar Jim." A lot had been said about big campaign contributions by coronations, and Mr. Sherman set out to raise a fund for the campaign by Individual subscriptions of $1 each. So they called him "Dollar .Ilm." The plan was successful, never theless, and n handsome sum was real ized. In l!MiS Mr. Sherman resigned the chairmanship of the congressional committee to accept tho nomination of his party for the second office in the land. It Is on record that when Taft and Sherman met In Cincinnati a day or so after their nomination the party of the first part said to the party of the second part of the ticket: "Hello, Jim. old boy! Rully for you!" Kings do not greet each other thus at any rate not In public. It Is a tine thing for republican Institutions when the highest ollieera In the government are human enough to talk like ordinary men. Many stories are told to illustrato Mr. Sherman's human qualities. On one occasion n friend approached him, re 1 IP - . i f ' Y.; 4, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman; 5, his , calling the tragic death of Vice Presi dent Hobart from too many rich din ners, and dropped a hint that unless Mr. Sherman reformed on the dining out habit he might also fall a victim to the hospitality of Ids admirers. "Ah." exclaimed the genial vice president, wagging his finger with a knowing look. "I don't expect to follow In the footsteps of poor Hobart I have acquired the art of dining out and re taining my health. You might almost say that I dine without eating. My dinner consists of three things. I al ways skip the cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and other preliminaries. I take a little soup. Then I skip the fish and the en tree and take a little of the game course. 1 overlook tho punch, the salad and other fancy dishes and take a little Ice cream. That's the end f my din ner. I never touch the wines. I always avoid oysters and tervapln ond other rich dishes. "I5y eating sparingly I am able to enjoy both the dintn. Jul the company and uwake on the followln inoru'.ng with a clear head and vigorous body. I am standing the social campaign In first claw shape." Many Instances are recalled that prove Mm deserving the nickname "Sunny Jim." One morn'ng a u.an who remarked with feeling that he was an honored memlwr of the down and out club and that he had known Sherman In days gone by asked "Sun ny Jim to give him a Job. "There Is no Job I can give yon." said Sherman. "All the Jobs are tak en." He went Into Ills private otllce and reappeared, carrying a sealed en velops. "I'm sorry." he said, "that I can't help yui. but take this note home to your wife." When the wife opened the envelope twenty five-dollar notes dropped Into her lap 5 QUIET DAY FOR STATE HOUSE Officials to) ta Vole or to Hustle tor Votes. PHELPS TO ASK FOR ARSENAL Adjutant General Wan: Armory tor Storage of National Guard Supplies. Rock Island Must Repair Line- Fees Collected by Secretary Wait. I.ln.oln, Njv. 4. There was very little (l')liin u the state house today. Several of the slate officers have i;o!i .' heme to oU, many of them still hoiilinn their h -vil residence in the town it- whic'.: tin y res ided at tho time they wi'-e elected. Governor Aldrich u nt. to 1m id City,-Slate Ireasmcr CiC-orne to P.rokcn Row, Land Commis sioner Cowles to Falrbury and Attor ney (i neial Martin to Fremont. Most of (he deputies and u large perccnt-n-ie of the male members of the differ ent o'hoo forces also vote in their home towns, and In consequence the capitol building Is a very quiet place. All kinds of opinions exist as to the outcome of the election, most of them based upon the political leanings of the prosnosticator. Many of the state nouse employees am shivering In their r.hoes and will hardly draw a normal breath until the reports are In. In some of the offices, notably that of the auditor and land commissioner, new heads will be Recti, no matter what tho result and In these Instances there has been a congealed atmosphere abound ing for monthF. Bryan Winds Up at Lincoln, V. J. Iirynn will conclude the cam paign as far as the Democrats are con cerned with an address at the city auditorium tonight. Mr. Bryan has spoken In twenty-nine states, having b( en on the road continuously sinco Sept. 15. He has run up a record of as high as twenty speeches in a day and most of the time getting In no less than live. Many of th state candi dates will close tho campaign here with Mr. Bryan. ' May Ask for Arsenal. Adjutant General Phelps Is consid ering the matter of bringing before the next legislature a proposition for the building of an arsenal or armory for the storage of the national guard supplies. At the present time they are scattered over the basement of the state house and kept In eight dif ferent rooms, besides being piled up In the gangways. The ammunition Is entirely unprotected In case of fire. Should fire occur it Is easily to be peon that much damage might result (on account of this ammunition, besides the less of the explosives themselves and would cause n great expense to the state. Hock Island Must Repair Line. Tho state railway commission has notified the Rock Island Railroad company that It has accepted the re port of the examiners sent out to look over the road and will expect the com I r.ny to e.t once put to work two gangs of men on Its line from Jansen Ihroug'i Beatrice to the Kansas state line for the per,ose of resurfacing the roadbed and replacing the defective ties on that line. It Is said that 11,000 new ties will be needed. Fees Collected. Secretary of State Wait makes the following report of fees collected at his ofOc for the month of October Articles of Incorporation, $2,2 111. 45; corporation permits, $5.35; penalties. $310; notary commissions, $72; motor vehicle licenses, $51; brnnds, $73.50; certificates and transcriptions, $03.50; a total receipt of $3,381.15. MAN FOUND DYING RECOVERS Frank Murray, Who Broke His Back In Omaha, Is Almost Well. Omaha, Nov. 4 Frank" Murray ot rerry, la., who broke his back in Omaha three months ago, is recover ing and Is now able to walk around, almost us well as ever. Physicians say his entire recovery Is now a mat ter of a gain of strength only and that his hack Is as well as ever. After Murray's accident he was paralyzed from his hips down and wan unable to move a muscle below his alst. An examination showed that four vertebrae were crushed and brok en. Surgeons removed the broken bits of bone, cut a new groove for the spinal cord, which was uninjured, and In this manner removed all pressure from the spinal nerves. Casts were removed and Murray has recovered the full use of his leg and other mus cles. He Is able to walk and, but for weakness, Is entirely well. He will return to his home In Perry this week. Motor Service on Stapleton Line. Kearney, Neb., Nov. 4. Of special Importance to Kearney's business In terests and the convenience of the traveling men making tho territory along the Kearney and Rlack Hills branch between this city and Staple ton Is the announcement made by Gen eral Manager Ware of the Union Pa clfle thnt motor service would be rein stated soon. Omaha Ready for Convention. Omaha, Nov. 4. Arrangements for the reception of 5,000 Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota school teachers here Nov. 6. 7 and 8 ar complete. Among other things the visitors will br- taken on thirteen separate excursions to places of Interest In this city and South Omaha. GAR SHORTAGE GROWS SERIOUS Railroads Warned That Situation Must Be Relieved Soon. , BIG INSTITUTIONS OUT OF FUEL Commerce Commission Intimates It Will Interfere If Necessary Higher Rate Urged for Use of Cars Between CarriersIncrease Speed of Trains. Washington, Nov. 4. Shortage of freigiit cars, the menace of a coal laiu iue and industrial paralysis in sonic parts of the country, has become so serious that the interstate commerce commission proposed, t shippers and railroads drastic reconiuii ndatiens for its relief, with a thinly veiled intinia-' tlon that should they fail to remedy Llie Fituation, the commission Itself would llnd a way to do so. "T110 condition Is acute," declared Commissioner Lane, who for several weeks has been conducting an Inquiry. "Great institutions of the country the University of Michigan nt Ann Ar bor for Instance are practically out of fuel and cannot get It lieeauso there are no cars for Its transportation. If an Immediato remedy is not found, pro pie in parts of this country will bo freezing to death becnuso of their In ability to get coal." The car shortage Is said to have been found to be duo in part to delay in unloading cars, tho slow movement of freight cars and failure of railroads to return cars to the lines owning them. In the latter caBe It Is said rail roads hold cars, paying a nominal charge for their use. This the com mission denounces as "nothing less than theft." The investigation of slow movement of freights developed that a freight car averaged about twenty miles a day and that while one was moving, thirteen were standing still. Suggestions for Relief, Tho commission nukes Beveral sug gestions for the improvement of tha etliclemy of freight equipment and tho relief of the car shortage: "That a higher per diem rate shull bo made to apply for tho use of cars as between the carriers. 'That an Inspection service he at 'ince instituted which shall report to the commission violations of tho rules existing which are Intended to Insure the return of equipment to the homo line. "Thnt operating officials he Instruct ed to make fuller use of locomotives and ca's by Increasing the speed of ii eight trains. An average movement of less thau twenty-flvo miles per car per day Is not adequate' to the need of times such as these. An increase of speed is tantamount to an increase in equipment." The commission's recommendations, sent broadcast us a circular to tho railroads and shippers of the United States, points out that the commerce and industries of the United States would suffer grent loss were a car shortage to continue. It points out that beside the suffering which would follow a coal famine from lack of cars, industries throughout the country would b stopped by lnck of raw ma terials and the people nt large w;uld suffer serious embarrassments. DIES OF BROKEN HEART Man Who Gave Up Wife to Let Her Marry Another Expires. Wichita, Kan., Nov. 4. Tho doctors said it was pernicious anaemia that caused the death of Albert W. Luce, fifty-five years old, but friends and nelghhorn, recalling that Luce had sac rificed his own happiness that his young wife might be nappler as thfl wife of another man, said he died of a broken heart. Living in the same house with- his former wlfo, now the wife of another man. Luce outwardly was resigned and apparently rejoiced that by giving her to another he had made tho su preme sacrifice of love to make her happy. But to his close friends Luce sometimes confided his secret sorrow. Gradually his health failed. His form er wife nursed Mm eently, but in vain. Jealous Boy Kills a Girl. New York. Nov. 4. Maddened by Jealousy and the taunts of his shop mates, Walter Wbarby, eighteen years old. shot and fatally wounded nine-tnon-yearold Virginia Stelner and then placed the muzzle of the revolver to his forehead and pulled the trigger. Tho bullet Inflicted only a flcRh wound. The girl died In the New York hos pital The boy and girl were employed in the spme factory. Strikebreakers Tell of Assaults. Indlanipoli:!, Nov. 4 At the "dyna mite conspiracy" trial James A. Wolf and Frank Dcnk of Cle veland testified that when they continued working after the Iron workers' union had called a strike they were assaulted by gangs of men. Denk snfd one of his assailants wns peter J. Smith, now a defendant charged with complicity In a dynamite conspiracy. Clgarets Lead to Suicide. Macon, On.. Nov. 4. Physicians de clare that the Incessant smoking of clgarets was responsible for the sul cidw of jtm Fielder. depnrtnxTtt man ager In Macon for the proctor-Gamble company. Fielder shot himself. For weeks Fielder's nerves had been shot tered. DATES FOR SHo,T COURSES Thirty-nlr.e Members of State College Faculty Will Take Part. Ames, la.. Nov. 4. Dates for short coursed in Iowa thij winter are an nounced by Professor W. J. Kennedy, head of the agricultural extension de partment, of the state college here. Thirty-nine Members of the college faculty will he engaged In the short course work. They will work In two groups. They will include four spe c'alists on farm crops and soils, three animal husbandry instructors, two teachers of home economics, an ad vance man and a man to superintend ia.l exhibits. Short courses one week In extent will ho held at Cambridge, Marengo, Onawa. Corning, Rem brandt, Nashua, Malvern, Jolley and Greenfield. IVites for these will be fixed later, 'n addition there will be thirty-five courses of from two to thr-s days in iength Practically 'every county in the state will be reached. Dates for the regular length courses of from two to three days are as follows- p'.'c. 1 to 7, Eddyville pud De corah; Dec. f) to 14. Oakville and Cres co; Dee. If! to 21, Washington and Tama: Jan. (1 to 11, Dcnlson and Ia no'rr Jan. 13 to 1S, Losran and Perry; Jan. 20 to 25. Council Bluffs and Glid den; Jan. to Feb. 1, Shenandoah and Webster City; Feb. 3 to 8, La porte Citv and Humboldt; Feb. 10 to 15, Stangnst?'." and Pocahontas; Feb. 17 to 2?, Forest City and LoMars; Feb. 24 to March 1, New Hampton ond Emmeishurg; March 3 to 8, Waukon and Germanla. HAPPIEST IN YEARS AFTERCONFESSIOM Mrs, Lesii Told Los Angeles Po lice Had Murdered Two Women. Los Angeles, Nov. 4. Declaring that she is happier than she has been in years because of her confession ta having killed two women In Missouri, Mrs. Pansy Hastings Liesh Is In tha city Jail here awaiting the arrival ol Sheriff Henderson of IVttus county. Missouri. Sheriff Henderson tele graphed Chief Sebastian to hold tha woman until his arrival from Sedalla. The caso is one of the strangest In tho history of local police annals. Tha police do net doubt the young woman's sanity, although her husband, who called at the jail, declared there was nothing to her story and that she was tcmpoiarlly Insane. "He knows I'm not Insnne," said Mrs. Lesh, after her husband's visit, "because I told Mm nil about It before I married him, five years ago.1 Ho and Father Brooks, to whom I confessed In St. Louis long ago, when I became a Catholic, were the only ones who evet knew." PRESENTS AMERICAN FLAG 1 Banner Given Countess Okuma by Women's Federation of America. Tokyo, Nov. 4. An American flag was presented by Mrs. Illattner on be half of the Women's Federation ol America to Countess Okuma. On ac count of mourning for the late emper or, there was 110 public ceremony In connection with the event. , Mrs. Blnttner delivered a speech, In which she described in an Interesting way the presentation of the Japanese flag given by Countess Okuma at th San Francisco woman's convention. Both Count and Countess Okumr spoke 1u response, feelingly express ing the hope that the two flags would always be Intertwined and that wom an's Influence In both the United States and Japan would continue a controllng factor. SLAIN BY HIGHWAYMAN Bible Teacher Killed at Kansas City In View of Bystanders. Kansas City, Nov. 4. Miss 1311s Perrlne, a toicher In a bible training school acre, was shot to death by s highwayman, who failed In an attempt to rob her, Immediately after she had alighted from a street car. Persons attracted uy Miss Perrlne' screams raw her struggling with hoi assailant and snw him draw a pistol and shoot her. The man escaped. Miss Perrlne was killed within a fevi blocks of the business center of the city. Two weeks ago Al Hatch, a wealthy saloon man, was shot and fa tally wounded by four youthful hold tips. Fresh Blood Saves Woman. Mount Klsco, N. Y., Nov. 4. An op eration for the trunsfuslon of blood wos performed upon Mrs. Charles Pin kerton, daughter of tho late President Chester A. Arthur, at her home here. The operation lasted more than two hours Two men, whose identity was not disclosed, supplied the blood. XIrs. PInkertcn had been suffering from anemia. She Is said to have Improved steadily since tho operation. Standard Sells Waters-Pierce Holdings New Y'ork, Nov. 4. Announcement was made that the Standard Oil inter ests had sold to Henry Clay Pierce all their holdings in the Waters-Pierce Oil company, thus ending tho litigation that hns been In the courts for some time. Quart of Whisky Fatal. New York, Nov. 4. In whining a bet thnt he could drink a quart of whisky ot one pull Edward Kane lost his life. He died at his hitue, to which he had staggered from an enst side saloon after downing the whisky.