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mimm heads the mei Nominated by the Democratic State Convention and Accepted by the Populists LATTER HAVE EOUR PLACES CONCEDED TO THEN Mr. Berge Made a Good Run but fell Short on Votes —The Platform, Sketch of the Leading Candidate, and Other Matters of the Convention tins*: - THE TICKET. For United States Senator—W. H. Thompson of Grand Island (dem.). For Governor—A. C. Shallenberger of Alma (dem.). For Lieutenant Governor—William H. Green of Creighton (dem.). For Railroad Commissioners—A. P. Fitzsimmons of Tecumseh (dem.), George Horst of Polk (pop.), John Davis of Fillmore (pop.). For Secretary of State—Carl R. Gou cher of Wahoo (dem.). For Treasurer—F. C. Babcock of Hastings (dem.). For Auditor—J. S. Canaday of Min den (pop.). For Land Commissioner—J. V. Wolfe of Lincoln (pop.). For Attorney General—Lysle I. Ab bott of Omaha (dem.). For State Superintendent—R. H. Matson of Valentine (dem.). . The democratic state convention, assembled in Lincoln, placed in nom ination the foregoing ticket, those marked populist being nominated by the populist state convention and ac cepted by the democrats in the inter est of harmony. The convention was called to order at 2:40 s. m. The delegates were slow to gather. Chairman Allen rapped for several minutes to secure order. Secretary J. A. Maguire read the call. The first floor of the auditor ium was w<ell filled with delegates and three hundred or more were seated in the galleries. Chairman Allen said the state cen tral committee had selected for tem porary chairman C. W. Skiles of But ler county and E. R. Berryman of Douglas county for temporary secre tary. S. S.Sldner of Dodge was made as sistant secretary. R. D. Logan of Frontier county was also made assist ant secretary. There being no con tests, the list of delegates in the hands of the secretary were made members of the convention. The delegates pres ent were authorized to cast the full vote of each county and no proxies were permitted. The temporary or ganization was made permanent. The chair announced the following committee on resolutions: R. L. Metcalfe, H. H. Hanks, G. M. Hitchcock, W. S. Shoemaker, Edgar Howard, G. L. Loomis, H. W. Smith, George F. Corcoran, W. H. Thompson, A. C. Shallenberger, R. S. Oberfelder, W. F. Schwind. The motion to select officers of the central committee carried. T. S. Al len of Lancaster was named as a can didate for chairman. He was selected by acclamation. H. S. Daniels was likewise chosen for secretary. William Kennedy of Douglas was appointed sergeant-at-rams. A motion to proceed to the nomina tion of governor was superseded by a motion to take a recess for fifteen minutes. After a thirty miutes recess had been taken the convention was ayain called to order, and H. H. Hanks of Otoe announced that the committee on resolutions desired an adjournment un til 7 o'clock. So ordered. Previous to the motion being put a telegram was read from Richard P. Hobson, stating that he would arrive at 7 o’clock. On motion a committee T*as named to meet him at the train and escort him to the convention hall. Richard P. Hobbson addressed the convention for half an hour, after the evening recess. After the address by Richard P. Hobson, the resolutions committee re ported. The two-cent passenger fare plank, reference to railway assessment and welcome to Bryan brought out cheers. Mr. Metcalfe read the resolutions and moved their adoption. G. M. Hitchcock offered a substitute for the plank relating to the election of sen ator, and argued its adoption. His substitute proposed selection of a sen atorial candidate by direct vote of the people. A motion was made to adopt the platform, minus the senatorial ques tion, and deal with the question later. This was urged by I. J. Dunn and other Omaha delegates. Mr. Dunn said he opposed nominating a candi date. and an attempt to silence him called forth a vehement warning that democrats of Nebraska would need votes before they elect any United States senator. Others spoke for and against the proposition. Dunn's motion to adopt the platform without the senatorial plank was de clared carried viva voce by the chqdr. The roll call was demanded and re sulted ayes 393% to 383%. The chair declared Dunn's motion lost. Lancas ter county divided its vote, disregard ing the unit rule ordered by the coun ty convention. The Lancaster vote was twelve yeas and ten nays. Dr. P. L. Hall relieved Chairman Skiles. He ruled that the voting down of the Dunn resolution placed the Hitchcock resolution before the con vention. The resolution was declared lost. The plank declaring for a nomina tion by the convention was adopted. Edgar Howard offered the following minority report on resolutions: “While pledging the democracy of Nebraska to every intelligent effort in the direction of state and national control of railroads and other public service corporations, we deem it ex pedient and right at this time to de clare in favor of government owner ship of railroads and telegraph lines at the earliest possible date, and for the immediate ownership and opera tion of sufficient trunk lines of rail road to control the rate situation.” This resolution was defeated In the resolutions committee by a vote of seven to five. The majority members asked Mr. Howard not to introduce this to the convention. Thompson, (Howard and Shallenbarger supported the plank. It was argued that this was not expedient at this time. They favored it, but they did not want to speak in advance for Mr. Bryan. It would be taken as an expression of Mr. Bryan's views. There are plenty ■■ . ..... , A. C. Shallenberger. of issues without forcing this resolu tion to the front. Mr. Metcalfe spoke against the res olution, saying that Mr. Bryan will soon be at home and then will voice his views. Mr. Howard insisted on his report and demanded a roll call. By voice the chair declared the mo tion lost. On the roll call it was de clared lost by a vote of 279 for and 529 against. The roll was called and the candi dates for governor were placed in nom ination. Butler spoke for Berge. Clay called out twelve votes for Shallen barger. Mayor Dahiman of Omaha placed In nomination W. H. Thompson of Grand Island. Mr. Thompson refused to be come a candidate. The nominations were closed and the roll was called. As first an nounced, Berge had 309 2-5 votes, but many changes were made when it was apparent that Shallenberger had been nominated. Some of these reduced the Berge total and others added to it. This was the roll call result: Shallen berger 455 2-3; Berge 331 2-5; Thomp son 31. The chair declared Shallen berger the nomjnee. The motion to make the nomination of Shallenberger unanimous was car ried by a rising vote, many delegates remaining seated. Shallenberger was called for and was introduced by Dr. Hall. He said the heat in the audi torium was nothing compared to the hot anti-railroad campaign to follow. He spoke of his work with the plat form committiee and urged the adop tion of the penalty clause to the anti pass plank. He favored a two-cent passenger fare act, lower freight rates and an elective railway commission. He desired to give the commission power to appraise the railway values of the state. He wanted to give the commission enough power to make it of value to the state. There were calls for Berge, but he did not appear. An effort was male to nominate W. H. Thompson for sen ator, under a suspension of the rules, but this failed at this time. William H. Green of Creighton was nominated for lieutenant governor by acclamation. The names of Carl R. Goucher of Wahoo and Phil S. Easterday of Falr bury were placed before the conven tion for secretary of state. Roll call of counties was taken and the first ballot gave Goucher 466 1-2 and Eas terday 2191-2. Mr. Goucher was de clared the unanimous choice of the convention. The names of Frank C. Babcock of Hastings and Thomas B. Garrison were proposed for the nomination for state treasurer. In presenting Mr. Babcock’s name H. P. Dungan of Hastings spoke briefly of his qualifi cations. Mr. Oldham of Kearney also spoke In naming Mr. Garrison. He thought that the Sixth district should have the nomination, especially since Mr. Babcock is in Mr. Shallenberger’s district. Mr. Babcock was nominated, receiving 4J4 votes to Garrison’s 351. The nomination was declared unani mous. The ticket as finally completed and accepted by the democrats contains the names of several populists nomi nated by the populist state conven tion, a number of democratic nominees having withdrawn in the interest of fusion and harmony. The Platform. The following is the report of the committee on resolutions as adopted by the convention: We rejoice in the rapid growth of democratic sentiment throughout the country and appreciate the compliment bestowed unon the party when its principles and doctrines are bodily ap propriated by the progressive leaders of the republican party. We watch with interest their efforts to force their party to accept democratic doc trine, and we deplore the hopelessness of their task. To their followers, how ever, we extend a hearty invitation to become democrats in fact, as they are in spirit, and to join the democratic ranks under the leadership of Ameri ca’s distinguished statesman. William J. Bryan.* We extend to Mr. Bryan a hearty welcome home. We rejoice that he stands today as a conspicuous and cen tral figure In the great moral and po litical revolution which is now sweep ing over the country. While all the states rejoice that he has become the first citizen of the world, it reovtina only for our state to boast that we gave him political birth and started him upon the highway of fame and usefulness. We recognize that in the present campaign state issues are dominant, and to the people of Nebraska, regard less of party, we offer certain pledges and promise their prompt execution if Intrusted with the administration of the state government. We will pass a comprehensive direct primary law for the whole state under which party candidates for all offices shall be nominated by the direct vote of the people. We will enact a stringent anti-pass law to prohibit all persons except bona fide railway employes and stockmen in actual charge of the live* stock from accepting or riding upon railroad passes, and to prohibit railroads from issuing them, and to punish railroad officials for the violation, a misdemean er punishable by fine, forfeiture of of fice, in case of public officials and by fine in ail other cases. Until this is accomplished we will enforce the pres ent anti-pass law, heretofore neglected and obsolete upon the statute books of the state. We will pass a law providing for a maximum passenger fare within the state of Nebraska of 2 cents a mile, in cluding penalties for its violation. We will enforce through the state board of equalization the equal and just assessment of all property in the state, including railroad property, upon the basis of the actual value of the stock and bonds. We indorse the proposed amendment to the constitution providing for a railway commision as a step , in the right direction and pledge our candi dates if elected to give the commis sion the fullest support and broadest powers for bringing relief to the peo ple from the present unjust and exor bitant freight-rates and discrimina tions. We declare in favor of the plan of adopting the same railroad valuation for purposes of taxation that are adopted for the purpose of regulating railroad rates and railroad earnings, and we demand mat the legislature empower the elective railroad commis sion to appraise and determine the act ual valuation of railroad corporations and the common carriers of the state for these two purposes. We point to the scandalous record of the last legislature, which at the bid ding of its bosses defeated the anti pass bill, bills reducing freight rates, the direct primary bill, the bill to as sess railroad property on the value of its stock and bonds, and which in dulged in wild extravagance of ap propriations; and we promise, if in trusted with power by the people of Nebraska, such relief from tax bur dens as may be possible by the econ omy in state government and equaliza tion of assessments. We denounce the majority members of the present state board of equaliza tion as brazen railroad tools, and we are amazed at their efffrontery in seek ing renomination and election. We particularly condemn the present secretary of state, Galusha, for his out rageous delay in publishing the rail road commission amendment to the constitution, which delay can only be explained as due to the most disgrace ful incompetence or as part of a plot to invalidate the amendment. We are unalterably opposed to the professional lobbyist. Every person and every corporation has a right to be heard upon all matters affecting their interests, but outside of that the pro George W. Berge. Who was defeated for the nomination for Governor in the Democratic State Convention. fessional lobbyist has no more right to tamper with the legislature than a liti gant has to tamper with a jury that is considering his case. We therefore declare in favor of legislation elimin ating the professional lobbyist from our politics. We deplore the fact that the repub lican party of the First district has been willing to renominate by acclama tion as representative in congress from this state a man caught in the act of salary-grabbing at a time when the people are earnestly seeking to rid the country of grafting. We demand that the attorney gener al of Nebraska shall make an attempt to reinstate the maximum freight rate law temporarily suspended by the spe cial court of the United States during a period of railroad depression, but now subject to enforcement, and we de mand that the attorney general shall enforce the criminal law against the members of the grain and other trusts. Believeing that the vita] interest of the people of the state of Nebraska are at this time involved chiefly in the triumph of the reform movement to rid the state government of corporate control in its legislative and adminis trative branches, vre deplore the fact that in the preliminary republican campaign state interests have been largely lost sight of or skillfully smothered by the manipulations of senatorial aspirants and plotting rail roads who have subordinated the state issues and the state campaign to the personal contest of senatorial aspira tions. largely to secure the controlling voice in the nominations, thus holding for themselves the substance of the po litical power in Nebraska, while the at tention of republican leaders and vot ers is fixed upon the glittering sena torial prize. We favor the abolition of the com mon law fellow servant rule as applied to the operation of railroads in our state. We believe, if any employe of a railroad is injured or killed in line of duty through the negligence of a car employe without contributory negli gence on his part, that damages should be awarded to the person injured or to the next of kin of the person killed, as now provided by law in other cases. We favor the enactment of a law whereby persons and companies desir ing to do a shipping business in lumber, live stock, fuel and grain, and who shall give bonds to erect a public ele vator of not less than $2,000 value may apply to any railroad company for a site on its right-of-way for elevator, and in case of refusal shall have the same right to have condemned a site for such elevator on the right-of-way of such railroad company as railroad companies have under existing laws to condemn real estate for right-of-way purposes. We demand self-government for the cities of this state in all public regu lations for the government of the same. We believe the voters of the city are best qualified to determine their ad ministrative policies in such matters. We therefore demand that Omaha and South Omaha have the right to gov ern themselves like other cities and towns of the state without the inter position of a board of fire and police commissioners appointed by the gover nor. They should be elected by the i people. We arraign the republican adminis tration in Nebraska for the cruelties inflicted by its official representatives upon the Inmates of the Norfolk asylum for the insane and for the failure of those in authority to take prompt and effective measures for the removal of these helpless wards of the State from the custody of brutal keepers and at tendants. We invite attention to the rumors concerning instances of alleged brutality and neglect at other asylums and we submit to the people of Ne braska that a change in state admin istration is essential to thorough in vestigation of the charges made against aSylum managers and the adoption of practical measures for per manent reform. To this end limited tenure of office for.superinteadents and employes is important, native kindness being of more conequence than long experience on the part of those en trusted with the care of the insane. We therefore pledge domocratlc offi cials having to deal with asylum man agement to suoh change in the per sonnel of the asylums' staff as will in sure for the helpless inmates that kind consideration and care which may rea sonably be expected from men whoso sympathies have not become calloused by remaining long in contact with the conditions peculiar to asylum for the insane. We invite the co-operation of all per sons who approve the declaration of principle to unite with us in support of the ticket nominated by this conven tion. The following is the plank on which the convention deferred action: We favor the election of senators by direct vote of the people as soon as the constitutional amendment for that purpose can be secured, and in the present campaign we pledge the demo crats elected to the legislature to sup port for United States senator a demo cratic candidate who may be nominated for that office by this convention. Mr. Berge Makes Appeal. After defeat for the nomination for governor in the democratic state con vention, Mr. Berge appeared in the populist convention and advised sup port of the democratic candidates. He was asked to give his consent to per mit his name to appear at the head of the populist ticket. Mr. Berge re viewed the work of the democratic convention. “When I think of you populists waiting here all this time for the news of my nomination by the democrats,” he said, “I cannot but feel the deepest gratitude to you for the way you have stood by me in this fight. Nobody knows the sacrifices I have made in this fight. Wrhen I was nominated two years ago I was not a candidate. I wanted the nomination this year, that I might take up the battle where I left off. Never have we been in the predicament which faces us now. For years the populists and the democrats have been fighting to gether. The populists elected Bryan to congress. The populist party gave the inspiration for the cause of Bryan in 1896. The populists have faith in Bryan today. uui *vc ale up agcuusi a prupusi tion. We must remember that had I been nominated by the democratic convention this year, we should have expected the democrats to support me loyally throughout the campaign. They have not nominated me. Mr. Shallenberger supported me two years ago. We must not act hastily now. We must act reasonably and right. We must do with-Shallenberger as we would have expected him to do with us. I see no way out of it but to do what we would have expected the democrats to do had I been nomi nated.” Sketch of Mr. Shallenberger. Ashton C. Shallenberger was born in Toulon, Stark county, Illinois, in 1862. He received his education in the common schools of his town and at the university of Illinois. He moved to Nebraska in 1881, locating first in Polk county, removing in 1887 to Al ma in Harlan county. There he en gaged in banking and stock raising. In 1897 he was elected democratic member of the Nebraska bi-metallic league and was temporary chairman of the democratic state convention. He was elected to the Fifty-seventh congress, being the candidate of the entire fusion party in the Fifth dis trict, defeating W. S. Morlan by only 409 votes. He was defeated by G. W. Norris. Senatorial Nominee. William H. Thompson, the nominee of the democratic and populist parties for United States senator, has for many years been a recognized leader of the Nebraska democracy. He has been a close friend of Mr. Bryan since the beginning of the latter’s political career, and helped organize the move ment that placed the Bryan democrats in control of the state organization in 1894. Mr. Thompson has been his par ty's candidate for congressman in the Fifth district, for supreme judge, and, in 1902, for governor, when he ran thousands of votes ahead of his ticket. He was delegate-at-large to the na tional convention at St. Louis two years ago. Lieutenant Governor. W. H. Green, for lieutenant gov ernor, is editor of the Nebraska Lib eral at Creighton, president of the democratic state press association, and an unrelenting enemy of the har vester trust, which he has harrised for years, and against which he has re cently instituted important anti-trust proceedings under the state statute. State Central Committee. The following is the state central committee selected by senatorial di» tricts: T. S. Allen, Lincoln, chairman. Herbert S. Daniels, Omaha, secre tary. I— H. C. Davis. 3— C. N. Hubner, Nebraska City. 4— W. D. Wheeler, Plattsmouth. 5— Dan Begley, Paplllion. 6— R. H. Daniils, George Rogers, H. T. Flaherty, Omaha. 8—Thomas Sullivan, Jackson. 10—Dan V. Stephens, FremonL II— Douglas Cones, Pierce. 12— Patrick E. Mckillip, Humphrey. 13— Arthur F. Mullen, O’Neill. 14— J. D. Scott, Rushvllle. 15— Robert W. Fleming, Berwyn. 16— A. E. Waldron, Kearney. 17— F. Paseski, SL Paul. 18— J. W; Sparks, Central City. 19— George Dobson, Ulysses. 21—J. Buck, Crete. 26—O. L. Campbell, Upton. 28— Martin D. Harlan, Orleans. 29— Samuel Patterson, Arapahoe. Gauging the 8peed. When traveling on a railway you can tell how fast the train is going by the following method: The tele graph posts along a railway line are placed 30 to the mile. So if you mul tiply the number of posts passed in. a minute or two, the result gives you the number of miles per hour at which the train is going. Day Flies a Common Pest. It is a mistake to suppose that the so-called “Canada soldiers” which In vade lake cities at this season, every year, are peculiar to the great lakes. Such ephemera or day flies abound in many river valleys. They seem to be as numerous along the Danube, in cer tain parts of Hungary, as they are [ anywhere else in the world. I The Star Boarder’s Pills By P% A. BLYTH (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) "Why are we waiting?” She was a new-comer or she would have known that in this very genteel boarding house, select as were its boarders, the star boarder was an Eng lish baronet, and that it was a feature of honor accorded him that dinner was never fairly commenced before his ar rival at the table. The baronet, to do him justice, was extremely punctual where replenishing the inner man was concerned. But on this particular evening he was not in his accustomed place, and people shuf fled and toyed with rings, and tried to appear not to be waiting, till the new comer, a vivacious, fresh-tinted little lady, a little turned 40, inquired of her near neighbor the cause of uelay. But at that moment the baronet appeared, walking slowly, a heavy cloud on his brow. He took his seat by the side of Miss Brown, the lady of the establish ment, presiding at the head of the ta ble. He stooped and whispered to her in portentious tones. ‘‘Can eat no dinner!” she answered aloud in alarmed accents. “Nothing, nothing,” said the star boarder, “unless,” with a melancholy wave of his hand, “a spoonful, just a spoonful of the soup. No more, not a drop more,” as in obedience to his re quest the soup ladle descended to his plate. “I have not missed taking them for 15 years, and I dare not attempt anything like a full meal without their aid. Until the mail arrives to-morrow morning I am a starving man,” and mournfully he applied himself to the soup placed before him. That dis patched, he rose, and with a muttered ppology left the apartment for the drawing room. At his departure Miss Brown gave explanation. The star boarder could eat no dinner because his digestive pills—the last two he possessed till the morning mail brought a fresh supply— had disappeared from the box. The pill box was still standing on the mantel piece, but the pills, so the servant re ported who had been sent to fetch them, were gone. "Does he think the servant swal lowed them?” "I don’t know,” answered Miss Brown, absently, too anxious for the effect upon her permanent boarder to join in the general titter around the table; “but he says he shall dismiss him at once for his carelessness.” “What is the number of the baro net’s room?” The newcomer asked the question with sharp abruptness. "No. 15.” "Then it is next to mine.” The lady looked for a moment attentively at her plate, then, after the baronet’s exam ple, rising, with murmured apologies, quitted the table and the room. A minute later found her by the star boarder’s chair. "Are you quite sure? Perhaps there is some mistake. Your servant might have overlooked them. May he just give one more look?” Divided between surprise at her in terference and her pertinacity, the bar onet, turning, rang the bell near him and directed his servant to look once more. The man obeyed. He returned, per plexity on his face, with the pill box and two innocent-looking pills therein. “There, I told you so!” said the little lady, with a clap of her small white hands. The star boarder’s first sensation was joy. “Madam,” he said, with a studied bow, "you have the witchery of your sex.” But his brow clouded. Glancing towards his man-servant, "Your care lessness is unpardonable. I shall dis miss you from my service. You might have eost me the loss of—’’ He rose hastily and, courtesy reminding him, offered his arm to his benefactress. "The two returned to the dining room. "Forgive the noor man." said the lady as they went. “No, madam; such carelessness is too culpable.” “And you are feeling quite well this morning?” It was the morning after, and the lady whose witchery had se cured the baronet his dinner leaned over his chair. “Quite, madam,” he replied gallant ly, “owing to your cleverness. I have not had a dinner suit me so well or en joyed so perfect a night's rest for a long while.” “Then you will not be so stern to wards your man-servant?” Blit the star boarder shook his head. “Such culpable carelessness, madam.” The lady hesitated. “Could you keep a secret?” He bowed solemnly. “Then I will tell you something. My room joins yours; they are much alike. I, too, take pills before dinner, and I went by mistake into your room and took two pills. Afterwards I slipped up and placed two of mine in your box. I feared to tell you lest they should not suit you; but you see they have acted admirably. Pray, say you forgive me." The baronet’s politeness was taxed. “Maaam,” he said, “the effects have been too happy for resentment. Also it follows my servant is absolved from blame.' * There was a deeper tint in the lady's cheek, tut her eyes were laughing. “Could you keep another secret?” He laid his hand on his heart. “Faithfully.” “Then”—she rose as though prepared to make quick exit after speaking. “It 13 nothing so very serious; only the pills you took last night were rheuma tism pills; and I am so glad they suit ed you.” Managing a Boy. Husband (a literary maaj—I wish you would stop watching little Dick for awhile. Wife—But if I don’t watch him he’ll be in mischief. “Yes, that’s what I mean. When he’s in mischief he’s quiet, and I want to write.”—N. Y. Weekly. Smallest Vertebrates. The smallest thing with a backbone is the sinarapan, a little fish recent ly discovered by scientists in the Philippine Islands. It measures about half an inch in length. FAKING VS. GOOD GOODS] j i Young College Man Begins a Year's Postgraduate | Experience in the uUniversity of Hustle" by | Going to New York as a Helper to His Father's i ; i Dress Goods Salesman Watkins—Hears Group ? of Business Men **Talk Shop" in Hotel Astor | Roof Garden—Cloth Manufacturer Argues for l J i Shoddy Goods—Watkins Disagrees and Tells ? How "Ham Sandwich Joe" Became Rich by | Making Good Goods—People Want, Not Some- i ; > thing Cheap, But Something Good. By CHARLES IN. CREWDSON | i ^ (Author of “Talas of tha Road." Etc.) ^ | __ _____ (Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles) Joannis Carolianus (the college de gree version of John Charles) started in on his post graduate course by mak ing a trip down to New York with his father’s dressgocds salesman, Watkins. This salesman, at the request of the old man, was going to New York to offer suggestions to the buyer of his line. One evening Watkins, Joannis Caro 'ianus and the dry goods buyer sat .vlth a group of manufacturers and salesmen in the roof garden of the Hotel Astor. They looked down Broad way at the glittering lights which shone between the great sky-scraping monuments of commerce. The scent of the geraniums that fringed the r->oi garden, the green climbing vines and the cake-walk played by the red-coated Hungarian band kept the little party of business men quiet for a while; but. after a bit they forgot the glittering lights, the music and the flowers, and began to talk of business. Although he did not know it, this was the first lecture in a new course for Joannis Carolianus. "This is a great age of faking,” said a cloth manufacturer. “People some how want to be humbugged. Quality doesn’t cut much ice any more. The whole thing is appearance, not what anything really is. In my business I find that the whole thing is going to cotton backs instead of all-wools. What does a man who wears a suit of clothes know about cloth anyway? You can just as well gouge him as not and make more profit while you have the chance. Why, it’s getting so that the cloth manufacturers who buy from me are handling more and more of this class ol stuff and less and less of sub stantial, well made goods.” The man who spoke was one of those manufac turers who had Inherited a reputable business from his father and one who had made no progress. Faking Never Pays. "No, I don’t agree with you for a minute,” broke out Watkins. He was a man who had bucked up against the retail merchants who see all kinds of goods go onto the backs of their cus tomers and who are the first ones to hear of kicks when the stuff they sill is poor. “No, sir; I can’t stand for that for a second. While there is a great deal of faking done nowadays, I don’t be lieve in it. The man who makes good stuff is the man who will make more stuff. He is the man who will build a business that will expand right along. “You saw, I am sure, the big res taurant out near the world’s fair ground in Saint Louis—the restaurant owned by a darkey? Well, sir; I used to know that fellow years ago in Te rumseh, Nebraska. Out there we used to call him ‘Ham Sandwich Joe.’ Heavens! what a good fried ham sand wich Black Joe could make! I usel to gee into Tecumseh on the midnight Cannon Ball. I rememopr, one morn ing. when the Cannon Ball was late; it was about half past three in the moru 4r.g when the coach stopped at the de pot. Cold? Whew! I never struck a place where it gets as cold as it doe3 in Nebraska. The snow flakes, it seems to me. start at the Canadian border and go on a bee line for Pensacola, Florida. They are all about head high and flying fast when they sweep south ward across Nebraska. There wasn’t any ’bus at the depot on this blizzardy morning that I am telling you about and I had to lug my two heavy grips about four blocks, up to the hotel. I’d gone but a very short distance when I caught a whiff of fried ham. Hungry? Did you ever smell fried ham when you were right good and empty? When I smelt that meat a-frying my appetite fell against a razor strop and it was sharp enough to split a strand of a spider’s web by the time I reach ed Black Joe’s shanty. "I had never been in his place be fore. It was about a block from the hotel. As I climbed up on the stool, Joe said, “Mawnin' Cun’l, what can I do foh you, suh?” A brakeman who sat near remarked: “If you want something really good you just get Joe to make you one of his fried ham sand wiches—with a bun.” "All right. I’ll take your tip, old man,” said I and asked Joe to make me cne. My mouth watered like a sugar-maple in sap season while the Lam was in the skillet. Joe sliced a bun in two and warmed it up a llr.tie as the ham sputtered. Talk about something good! I’ve never had any thing in my life as good as that ham sandwich. That was 17 years ago, but whenever I think about it, to this day, I can taste it again. Recipe for Success. “After I’d eaten three sandwiches, a whole apple pie—and Joe could ma.ke an apple pie with nutmeg in It just as good as he could sandwiches—and drunk a pitcher of sweet milk, I asked Joe how it was that he made the sand wich so good. “ ‘Well, Cun’l, I’ll tell you, suh. The fust thing dat am nec’sary to de ma.k in’ of a sandwich am to have good ham. Now, dis y’ere ham I has ‘spec’ly cured foh me, down in ole Kentucky, by my ole mammy. It hangs in de smoke house many am many a night, and she burns sassafras bushes under it Dat’s one of de things what makes de flavor. Yes, suh, the fust thing I have am good ham—a:ud then this y’ere bread—dat I makes mv se’f. You see, I jes takes a little piece ob de dough from one mixin’ and holds hit over till the next time. That makes the buns rise good and gives ’em dat flavor. You can’t make noth •cf w ^ ——nr i ing good, Cun’l, unless you make it outen good stuff.’ ‘‘Now, sir, do you know,” said Wat kins, turning to the cloth maker, "this Black Joe I’m telling you about told me how he started in that little town and afterwards went to Lincoln. Ne braska, and then to Kansas City, and then to Saint Louis, and how he, a ne gro, who couldn’t read or write, had made a snug little fortune. He built up his business by making good stuff.” “Well, that may be all right,” per sisted the cloth manufacturer, “for ham sandwiches, but it won’t do in business.” Must Keep Up Grade. ‘‘There I don’t agree with you,” said a retail shoe merchant. “You know my business is one in which you can tell quicker than in most any other, whether or not the material Is good. A shoe must stand hard wear. Now, I’ve been buying shoes for 25 years and I’ve finally got all my business placed with just a few houses. I’ve cut out a good many of them because I’ve found out by experience that a great many of them did not hold up their stuff. I’ve had lots of manufac turers in my day use good stuff when I first began to deal with them and make lasts that were good-lookers. They would keep up the appearance of the shoes they made but, little by lit tle, cut the quality of the stock so much that finally I have had to drop them out. “Now, you see, there are a whole lot of people in business who think they are doing well if they can hold the same volume of business from year to year. Now. I contend that a man Is not making a success in his business unless he is making his business grow. The factory that makes the principal line I carry was almost, nothing when I began to do business with it. The head of the establishment used to be a mere cobbler out in Colorado. The old man, when I meet him now, enjoys telling a good story on himself. His firm, which is now stocked foi two millions, has big retail stores ail over the United States. One of them is lo cated in Denver. “ ‘One day,’ said the old gentleman, when I saw him last. ‘I met an old miner in my Denver store. He came up and shook hands with me and ask ed me if I knew him. I said that his face looked familiar but that I couldn't quite place him. ‘Don’t you remember that pair of boots you made for me up there in Golden?” he asked. “You i charged me $16 for them but they were bully good boots. I kicked on the price when I got them but I never had a kick coming on the boots.’ Cheap Goods Not Wanted. “Well, sir, that man saved a few hundred dollars in that little town and went down to Boston to make shoes. When I was talking to him the other day he said, ‘I know what a good piece of leather is. I learned that at the bench and I’ve always made it a rule above all things else, to put good leather into my shoes and, to be sure. I’ve always had them made by the very best workmen I could get.' "Now that, gentlemen, is why this man has built up a shoe business of over six million a year.” “Yes, that may be all right,” argued the cloth manufacturer, “but wha: are we going to do for all of these people who don’t have much money and who must have something cheap?” “Well, there’s a great big mistake there,” continued the shoe man. “Re tail merchants and clerks think that people want something cheap. They don’t. They want something good. They buy stuff that is cheap only be cause they think they haven't enough money to buy something good. Now, I want to ask you, is it not better for a man to have one pair of shoes made out of a piece of leather that will give him a year’s service than to have two pairs of shoes made out of that same piece of leather split in two, as they do it nowadays, which will not last him more than six weeks a pair? This is the kind of manufacturing that ia done a great deal to-day. Too many are striving to make something cheap in stead of making something good. You can look at all of the very large con cerns In this country and you will find them to be reputable concerns that are manufacturing good goods.” Great Men of Small Soul. “Women, like children, are impotent and weak of soul,” says Terence. “The man who wants to be fully employed should procure a woman and a ship.” says Plantus. “These two can never be rigged enough. Even in the palmy days of the Hotel Rambouillet, Mo liere held up to jeers and ridicule those cultured ladies who were giving to French society a taste for high and noble things. The sayings of the great English satirists on this subject are familiar to all, but it was left to Dean Swift, Alexander Pope and Lawrence Sterne to speak of woman with a meanness and scurrility unfit for quo tation. % -(3 Judge Benson’s Career. Judge A. W. Benson, of Ottawa, K$n., appointed United States senator to fill the unexpired term caused by Burton’s resignation, was a member of the state senate 25 years ago and developed into a leader while there, but refused to serve again in that capacity. Later he was elected to the district bench, where he remained for 12 years, retiring to practice law. He has been a leading citizen of Ot« tawa for 36 years