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BROWN m SHELDON These Are Names That Were Uppermost in the State Republican Convention. FIRST FOR SENATOR AND LATTcR FOR GOVERNOR Edward Rosewater Fails^n Senatorial Endorsement by Four Votes—Ticket in Full as Nomin ated and the Platform Upon Which the Party Will Go Before the People of Nebraska. Senator ...NORRIS BROWN, Buffalo Governor . .GEORGE L. SHELDON, Cass Lieutenant Governor . .M. E. HOPEWWELL, Burt Secretary of State . .GEORGE C. JUNKIN, Gosper Auditor . E. M. SEARLE, Keith Treasurer .L. J. BRIAN, Boone Attorney General . .W. T. THOMPSON, Hall Railway Commissioners . .H. J. WNNETT, Lancaster .ROBERT COWELL, Douglas .J. A. WILLIAMS, Pierce Land Commissioner. .H. M. EATON, Dodge Superintendent of Instruction - .J. L. M’BRIEN. Fillmore Chairman Warner of the state cen tral committee called the Republican state convention to order at 2:10 p. m. He introduced Rev. J. H. Presson as the chaplain. Secretary A. B. Allen read the con vention call. Chairman Warner Introduced Tem porary Chairman Andrews, auditor of the treasury department and a resi dent of Hastings. Mr. Andrews deliv ered his address, asking leave to ab breviate and print what he omitted because of the temperature. The audi torium was packed with a sweltering i Nor^ Brown. mass of humanity, undaunted by the heat and eager to witness the pro ceedings. Bert Minor of Omaha, and George Tobey of Lincoln, were named assist ant secretaries. On motion of J. P. A. Black of Adams county the temi>orary organi zation was made permanent, after it was announced that there were no contested delegations and that the list of delegates announced would be recognized as the membership roll of the convention. On motion of JL H. Ealdrige of Omaha a rule was adopted making it the duty of the chairman, in the event of a nomination being made on any ballot, to call for the ayes and nays to make the nomination unanimous. In the event of no nomination he was to proceed with the roll call. On motion of E. H. Hinshaw of York the chairman was empowered to appoint a committee of seven mem bers, one at large and one from esch congressional district, on resolutions. The chair announced the following, stating that/some of the members of the provisional committee, who were delegates, had been named on the new committee. Charles B. Anderson of Saline, chairman; E. J. Cornish of Douglas, Allen W. Field of Lancaster, E. H. Hinshaw of Jefferson, D. E. Burnham of Madison, Dan Nettleton of Clay and Clark E. Perkins of Howard. The first roll call on Senator result ed; Rosewatar, 857; Brown, 272Vfe; Curtis, 401; Meikeljohn, 55; Evans, 21; Millard, 46%; Cronnse, 16. The second call disclosed no impor tant change, but Brown and Rosewat er both made gains. Before the vote was announced the delegates favor able to Brown and Rosewater Allied the aid with shouts for their favorites. The result of the second roll call was; Brown, 40fi; Rosewater, 288%; Millard, 40%; Melkeljohn, 33; Cur rie, 39; Crounse, 18; Evans, 18. Third ballot: Brown, 400; Rose water, 288%; Melkeljohn, 21; Millard, 53%; Crounse, 13; Evans, 23; Currie, 61. The third ballot revealed some changes, but there was no final result. In the fourth ballot there were numerous changes, but no choice was made. The fifth ballot resulted as follows: Curtis, 63; Brown, 407; Rosewater, 306 1-2; Melkeljohn, 21; Millard, 39 %; Evans, 10; Crounse, 15. Sixth ballot: Brown, 453; Rosewat er, 29%; Evans, 17; Curtis, 45; Melkeljohn, 18< Millard. 38%. After announcing 433 votes for Brown, Chairman Andrews asked if the nomination Bhould be made unan imous. H. H. Baldridge of Omaha moved to make it so, and the motion carried in the midst of great confu sion. The calls for Attorney Genera' Brown were renewed, and a moment later he appeared. Chairman Andrews presented to the convention its sen atorial candidate, who saidi "It took you men of this convention a good while to get unanimous. I want to say that I thank you for this honor. I appreciate the compliment. I feel deeply grateful to those men who made the fight for me and won and I feel no resehtment against those who made the fight against me and lost. But the fight that has just end ed was but a preliminary skirmish. I am ready to go out uow and make a real fight At the conclusion of Mr. Brown’s remarks, Mr. Rosewater was loudly leaded for and at length responded, be ing given an ovation as he appeared on the platform. He said in part: “I need hardly say to you that I appreciate the cordial greeting you have given me here at this parting, for it is a parting hour for me in this contest. I was desirous of the place in Washington, but now shall go back to the place rn Omaha to labor with the pen which is sometimes mightier than the swortl. In the campaign that h? now closed, there have been no di.fTrenccs between Mr. Brown and my self which would call for a commit tee of conciliation. I have endeavored to treat hirn fairly and I think he has no cause for complaint, or will have in the coming campaign." It required but two ballots to nomi nate Sheldon for governor. The first ballot gave Sheldon 402 votes. The next ballot was a band wagon pro cession wdtk a rush to get in. The vote stood as follows: Wall, 29; Miles, 6C; Harsh, 9; Rouse, 33; Sheldon, 671, Steele, 11; Conarvay, 4; Westop, 37. Sheldon was called for and briefly addressed the convention. He spoke earnestly, solemnly, and with little show of exultation over the victory. A recess was taken until 8:30 to enable the resolutions committee to complete its work. L. E. Wettling acted as reading clerk The chair announced the roll call on the nomination for lieutenant governor. The vote resulted: Wil say, 187; Hopewell. 390; Ludden, 46; Cunningham, 26; Young 203. There was no nomination. In the ballot fol lowing much of Wilsey’s strength went to Hopewell. Ludden’s strength In the second bal lot consisted of two each from Ban ner, Blaine and Kearney, and one from Valley. Hopewell wa.s declared nominated. He was called for and he thahked the delegates and promised to perform the duties of the office to the best of his ability. Judge Frost moved that in voting for railway commissioners the three candidates receiving a majority be de clared the nominees. This carried. The vote announced showed the nomination of Dr. H. J. Winnett of Lincoln for railroad commissioner, he being the one successful candidate on the tirst ballot. The vote stood: Winnett, 534; Harmon, 272%; Co well, 253; Caldwell, 180%; Whitmore. 168%; Mort.ensen, 204; Sadilek, 354; Williams, 250%; Parker, 41; . Steele, 8; Andrews, 3; Cad, 4; Mathens, 17. Dr. Winnett was called and thanked the convention for what' it had done for Lancaster county. Other nominations for railroad com missioners followed as given in the ticket. While the vote on railroad commis sioner was teing tabulated Chairman Anderson of the resolutions commit tee was presented. He read the pro posed platform. Mr. Anderson moved the adoption of the resolutions. The platform as presented v.-as adopted. [It will be found printed elsewhere.l Secretary of State Galusha was de feated on the second ballot. The first ballot showed a pretty race between Galusha and Junkin, in which they tied with 409 votes each. Douglas voted 50 for Gajusha and 33 for Jnnkin on the first ballot. Lancaster voted 3 for Galusha. 20 for Junkin and 11 for Boslow. There was much changing about on this ballot from ballots cast on other candidates. On the second ballot Junkin was nominated, 473 votes to 377 for Galusha. The nomi nation was made unanimous. Mr. Jun kin appeared and thanked the conven tion. on the vote for auditor or Ed. G. Searle of Keith county moved to make It unanimous. This carried. Lawson J. Brian, of Boone county, had a good lead on the first ballot on treasurer, but not sufficient to puli him through. A perceptible gain was indicated early In the second ballot. The first ballot resulted as follows: Kyd, 170; Good, 201 1-2; Brian, 363 1-2; Both wen, 56; Steele, 68. On the second ballot Mr. Brian was nominated. Superintendent J. L. McBrien was renominated by acclamation. Mr. Me. Brlen thanked the convention, bidding the delegates "good morning." A delegate from Madison county moved a suspension of the rules and that the nomination of Deputy Attor ney General William T. Thompson of Merrick be made by acclamation. The motion was carried with enthusiasm. A similar motion was made on the commissioner of lands and buildings, but a roll can was demanded. Lind was sprung on the convention by Boyd county, and Judge Wilson of Sarpy by Cass county, but Eaton had a good i lead and was never in danger. The vote was Eston, 553 1-2, Lind, 154 1-2; Wilson. 140. Judge Reuse of Lincoln moved that the thanks of the convention be ac corded to the chairman. The motion carried by acclamation. The chairman called for the list of new members of the state central com mittee. A Douglas county delegate moved that the convention name the secretary of the committee, but Judge Frost of Lancaster, as a substitute, moved that the candidates selected by the convention name the officers of the state committee. The substitute carried easily. Judge J. H. Strode of Lancaster, moved that the candidates selected be empowered to fill the vacancies in the ticket which might occur. The mo tion carried. Nothing being left for the conven tion to do except submit the names of the new committeemen, adjourn ment was. taken while this was being done. The • convention adjourned al George L. Sheldon. most to the minute at 2 o’clock, just twelve hours after it had convened. THE PLATFORM. We, the republican delegates of Ne braska, in convention assembled, con gratulate the country upon the splen did achievements of our party during its fifty years of history’ under the leadership of our illustrious statesmen, from the immortal Lincoln to the in vincible Roosevelt. We declare anew our adherence to the principles enunci ated in the republican national plat form. We also reaffirm all the doc trines and declarations of our last state platform. Wo especially commend the Inspiring character and undaunted leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. It Is with ex ceeding pride that we contemplate the confidence reposed in him by the peo ple of our own country, and the admir ation he commands from the whole world. Nebraska rejoices in the fact that the president has received the united support of our entire delegation in both houses of congress for the many beneficial measures ho has rec ommended in direct line of interest and advantage to the people, which they have assisted in framing into whole some laws. Among the most note worlhy are: The railroad rate bill. The Panama canal bill. Th6 lock level canal system. The pure food bill. The irrigation bill. The emi>loyers’ liability bill. The meat inspection bill. The denaturiztd alcohol bill. The Oklahoma statehood bill. The naturalization bill. Our country is at peace v/lth all na tions of the earth and Is experiencing an unparalleled season or genuine pros perity. Never before in our history as a nation has our credit been better than it is teday. .Money is plentiful, the wage earners, the farmers and the business people are prosperous, owing to the wise, judicious and careful ad ministration of the laws enacted by the republican part" f-; ‘-ig its control of our national uiiairs. We declare our unalterable allegi ance to the principle of protection, un der the beneficent operation ol which our country has grown both rich and great. While yielding nothing from our adherence to this principle, we bje- , lieve that changes in schedules should follow changes in conditions. The his tory of the republican party demon strates that such revision can safely be trusted only to the party which hon estly believes In protection and ear nestly endeavors to justly apply the principles to conditions as they exist. We most heartily approve the action of our officers, botn of the nation and in the state, In their splendid efforts to Insure justice for the people against conspiring trusts and combinations and all forms of graft, that all may have a "square deal.” The glorious record of the past Is the party's best pledge for the future. We indorse and commend the econo mical and law-enforcing administra tion ol the affairs of the state under fJovernc John H. Mickey. D-'ing the last six years under the republican ad ministration the state of Nebraska has been well governed; all of Its state In stitutions have been ably and econo mically managed and are sustained at a rate per capita unusually low. We believe that the Union Pacific and Burlington railway companies should have accepted the valuation placed upon tlieir property by the state board of equalization and assessment, and paid their taxes, as all persons and other corporations have done. We ap prove the action of the legal depart ment of this state in Its efforts to en force the provisions of the revenue law and secure the payment of taxes and pledge our support in compelling the railroads to pay their just share of taxation at tlve same time and in the same maner as a private individual. We demand that the next legislature enact a direct primary law. presiding for the nomination of all state, county and district officers, including Congress men and United States senators, by di rect vote; and until such law Is enact ed, we favor the nomination of United States senators by state convention, and we pledge the republicans elected to the legislature to support for Un'ted States senator the republican candidate who » may be nominated for that office by this convention. Wre favor the amendment of the con stitution of the United States provid ing for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. We declare ourselves as unalterably opposed to the domination of corpora tions in public affairs, and urge the enactment by the next legislature of an anti-pass law that will prevent the Is suance of any free pass, free ticket, free transportation, or transportation known as newspaper or editorial mile age, except to bona fide employes of a railroad company and to member's of their Immediate families and caretak ers of live stock. we are neartny in ravor or ana our party unreservedly pledges its Indorse ment of the proposed constitutional amendment providing for three railway commissioners to be elected by direct vote of the people, and demand that the next legislature shall confer upon such commission power to prohibit re bates. discriminations and special rates to corporations, persons or localities and to see to It that anv and all abuses are corrected, and equitable freight and passenger rates obtained for the people. AVe hereby direct the officers of this convention to certify this reso lution to the secretary of state as pro vided for in the law submitting the constitutional amendment relating to the railway commission. We confidently believe that the voters of this state will adopt the con stitutional amendment providing for a railway commission, but should they fail so to do, we demand that our next legislature shall frame such laws as will give to the people of this state the same advantages that congress has al ready given the nation under the “rail road rate bill" In matters of Interstate commerce. We also pledge the enactment by the next legislature of a law along the same lines as has been adopted by congress touching the liability tof em ployers to their employes, to the end that such employes may recover for any Injuries suffered, notwithstanding the negligence of a fellow servant Wo demand an Impartial enforcement of the revenue law by county and state officials to the end that all prop erty, both corporate and individual, shall be assessed at Its actual cash val ue, thereby assuring a fair and equal assessment and the raising only of •uch revenue as 1^ needed t» meet the current expenses of our stale govern ment under the most rigid economy. While we believe that the present .method of assessing railroad property in cities and villages and distributing taxes therefrom through the various counties la Just and fair in so far as it relates to county, state and school taxes, we demand that the revenue law be so amended that the railroad prop erty within cities and villages shall also be taxed the same as other prop erty for city and village purposes. We recommend that the legislature enact such measures as will insure in spection and uniform tests of dairy products, to the end that the growing dairy Interests of the state may the better be protected and encouraged. The republican party of Nebraska Is proud of its record and achievements and appeals with confidence to the peo ple of our great and growing common wealth for a continued approval of its policies, as bringing the gi-catest bene fits to the people of our state and union. - BIOGRAPHICAL. Norris Brown was born at Maquo keka, Jackson county, Iowa, May 2, 1863. When he was six years old his parents removed to Woodbury county, and took a homestead. The family re moved to a farm in Green county, Iowa, in 1876. Mr. Brown, then a youth, rode horseback eight miles each day to attend school at Jefferson academy to prepare for the university. He entered the state university at Iowa City in 1879, was graduated from the classical course in 18S3, receiving the B. A. degree, and two years later re ceived the M. A. degree. He read law and was admitted to the bar October 15, 1884. He opened a law office at Perry la., where he lived until 1888. In April. 1888, Mr. Brown and his brother, Frank, opened a law office in Kearney, Neb. Judge M. R. Hopewell, candidate for lieutenant governor, was born in Mon roe county, Indiana, sixty%ne years ago. He received his education there and graduated from Depew university with the class of 1869. The following year he came to Nebraska and settled in Burt county, where he has resided ever since. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1875. He was appointed judge of his district by Governor Thayer in 1887 and held the office until iS96. Since his retirement from the bench he hns been engaged in the practice of his profession in Tekamah, also engaging extensively in stock raising. Judge J. A. Williams, nominee for railroad commissioner, was born in 1860 in Galena, 111. He is a graduate of the university of Wisconsin, taking a degree in the classical course in 1885, and in the college of law in 188C. He was city superintendent of schools in Galena for several years. He came to Nebraska in 1893, residing for a time in Omaha and then in Pierce county, spending some time abroad in the meanwhile. He was county Judge of Pierce county for four years, and since retiring from that office has been practicing law. He is married and is the father of four children. Edward Rosewater. George C. Junkin, nominee for sec retary of state, was born In 1858 in Fairfield, la. His education was re ceived in the Red Oak. Ia., public schools. He came to Nebraska in 1886, and settled near Smithfield. Since that time he has lived on the same place he settled on engaging in farm ing and stockraising. He was a mem ber of the legislature for two terms, his work in that capacity being chief ly responsible for his candidacy for secretary of state. He was the author of the Junkin anti-trust law, and of the commodity rate law. WORDS FROM SHELDON. I Sheldon being called upon after his nomination for governor, spoke as fol lows: “Chairman Andrews, Gentlemen of this Convention, Republicans of the State of Nebraska, Ladies and Gen tlemen: I am not at this hour going to inflict upon you a speech. This magnificent ovation would have de prived me of making a speech if I should have preferred to at this time. I wish to say that I appreciate this great honor which I consider the high est honor that the republican party of Nebraska can confer upon any citizen. (Applause). For this great honor I thank you. I have endeavored in this campaign not to thrust a thorn into any man’s breast and I bear no malice toward any man who has opposed me in this fight here in Lincoln or any where throughout the state. I stand before you acknowledging this great honor. I wish to say simply that In this campaign I have also not pledged myself in any compromising manner whatever. (Voices “Good, good.” Ap pl&ustt) And I was determined that if I should be nominated, that it shrnrid be with no strings attached to it. U I am elected governor of Nebraska, and believe I will be (Voices ‘Of course you will be’). I will be th« governor for all of the people of Ne braska; you know that I will, and I want all of the people of Nebraska to know that I will carry out the square deal policy (Voices ‘Good, good.’ Applause) by the aid of the light of the Intelligence of the people of the great state and by the help of such wisdom as God will give me. (Applause.) Gentlemen of this con vention, again I thank you.” (Long continued applause.) 8ea' Water Drawn Into Clouds. The layer of the sea taken up in clouds each year is now estimated at 14 feet in thickness. Driver of the Coach By ALLEN C. REDWOOD (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) The stage coach was coining down a long, eteep siding, where the newly made road had been blasted out of a rocky cliff overhanging the Hell Gate river. The wheelers, holding back for all they were worth, were sliding on their hocks, their collars horizontal and the pole pointing skyward. At the bottom of the grade the road, turning sharply to the right, crossed the river on a wide pole bridge. There was not room enough for the team to swing ’round; the leaders kept straight on down into the bed of the stream until the pole lay across the road, then, as the wheel ers came ’round, the little mares in the lead scrambled like cats up the side of the bridge, and the team straightened out again. “Pretty bit of work, that,” I com mented. “Fair to middlin’, for a scrub team,” he admitted. “Smart little mare, that off leader,” I hazarded presently. “Oh! she’ll do fur this kind of a job.” He glanced my way, spat delib erately and added: “Most o’ you east ern folks don’t keer to notice a hos3 onless he’s been clipped and got his tail chopped off short—like them tally ho teams you was speakin’ ’bout, a time ago. I ’low some of ’em would ’a’ been bothered to make that ’ere turn though, don’t ye reekin?” I "reckoned,” and further dropped the hint that I was an old trooper, ani so looked beyond a clipped coat and a “banged tail” in estimating the points of a hcrse. The random shot scored a builseye, 1 had "got him where he lived.” He, too, had served in a Kan sas cavalry command, mostly on the frontier of Indian Territory. After the war lie had drifted west, following var ious callings. There was material for a book in his reminiscences, punctuat ed by an occasional digression which must have given the recording angel a steady job—ending always with a persuasive “Come up, Kitty,” to the little dun mare in the off. 1ye ve got to nave some, 'savey, and keep yer eye peeled all the time over most lines this side o’ the Rock ies," he "allowed.” We had just passed a place, going up the Bitter Root di vide, where the road wound around a knoll on the natural slope, and where the uphill wheels trod so lightly that in order to keep the coach on a keel, all available live ballast had had 1o “hike out to windward” wherever we could find footing. “But that ain’t a patchin' to some places I’ve saw in the Gunnison country. Ye’re all right, s’long’s ye know yer team and got day light. But you take it of a pitch-dark night, snow and sleet a-drivin’ in yer eyes, sos’t yer can’t tell where yer leaders is ’ceptin’ by the feel o’ yer reins, and yer hands that stiff ye can t even be sure o’ that, and like's not, a new team, ;ist off’n the range and net one of ’em ain’t never looked through a collar before! Then see ef ye can do the trick. Ther’ ain't no tally-ho fri is on that job—it takes drivin’, that does. I’m tellin’ ye straight.” “ ’Road agents,’ ye say? Oh, yes. I run inlo ’em a time or two; not on this route though—onct in Arizona and onct down Boise way. They didn’t make no trouble thought, neither time; jist took what they wanted and lit out peaceable-like—no shootin’ nor luss.” "There isn’t generally, it seems from all accounts.” ’’Not unless there’s some tenderfoot aboard ’at ain’t cut his eye-teeth, and gits laid out afore he gets the < bance ter. There's a good many east . folks has your idee. It remines n; »* the picturs you used to see on the cjoin ders o' the old pattern Colt "2’s—one feller standtn’ off a hull outfit o’ agents. But I’m tellin’ ye—them roos ters don’t take no chances, nor they don't aim to give ye no show for yer money. An’ ye don’t never know but what the feller ’Ringside o’ ye ain’t in cahoots with the gang—people travel in’ out here is mostly strangers to each other—and thet yer first move fur yer gun wont be yer last. Like's not they don't want nothin’, only the Wells Fargo freight; they’re out fur the stuff, every time, you bet! Now, s’pose the coach was to stand off a gang—she’s got to tome back that same way, and drivers ain’t paid fur gittin’ filled up with buckshot. Not much! No, sir! When you hear a fel ler sing out ‘Hands up!’ jist. ahead o' ye of a dark night, ye kin jist go yer pile he’s a-holdin’ high cards agin ye, and *.ney ain’t no sense in buckin’ the game then.” As we topped the divide, the wind earns- bleak off the summits of the Bit ter Root range, and the snow, which had been threatening all the afternoon, began to sift down, capering off in swirling drifts across the open bunch grass plateau. The road on the long down grade grew so slippery that the brake had lit tle power to check our descent, and we bowled down at a pace suggestive of disaster should anything give way. The visible world was all one color when the lights of Deer Lodge showed dimly through the murky twilight and our smoking team pulled up in front of the hotel. It had been chilly work for the last two hours, and we prompt ly lined up at the bar: "Five whiskies!” "Well, so long, gents,” said my fate companion, «s he set down its empty glass—"must go turn in my waybill. An’ say, pard—if ye meet up with any o’ them tally-ho ducks, back east, tell ’em I’m thinkin’ o’ cornin’ on ter jine the next parade, will ye?” The Rise of Canada. Canada is no longer a colony—tm» word is parochial, misleading, obso lete, and serves but to dull the imagi nation. Canada In the last two de cades has become a nation, and more than any ordinary conception of that name can signify.—Victoria (B. C.) Times. Produces Criminals. “The liquor traffic tends to produce criminality in the population at large and law-breaking among the saloon keepers themselves.—Theodore Roose velt. MAKING SOMETHING DIFFERENT Building Business by Making Something New and Original, Different from What the Other Fellow Makes—The Man Who Made Cider “Just Soft Enough to Keep the Constable Off and Just Hard Enough to Help Him Do a Land-Office Business**—Success of Preparation to Take the Kinks Oat of Negro*s Hair—How a Country Grocery Clerk Built Up a Great Business in Stereograph Pictures—Business Men Should Find Leisure Each Day for Self-Culture. By CHARLES IN. CREWDSON (Author of “Tales of the Road." Etc.) (Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles) “Now, another way that a man can build a business,” said a manufac turer of specialties, “is by making something different from what the other fellow makes—something unique and original. I remember when I was a boy away down in Kentucky that an old man named Gray used to bring ginger cake and cider and watermelons into town on election day and draw up his wagon on the shady side of the public square. There was a kind of a flavor to that ginger cake and a sort of sweet glaze made out of brown sugar over the top of it that nc other ginger cake had, and he always tapped a barrel of cider that would bubble on your tongue when you first tasted it. It was just naturally good, rich cider and made out of crab apples. Nobody else in the country had trees that bore such good fruit as old man Gray’s did. Nobody else had such good cider. When you drank the other fellow’s cider the roof of your mouth reminded you of a cankered brass kettle. It was a prohibition town and, save when the moonshine man would come along boot-legging out his 40 rod, tjje boys who were inclined never got anything to drink that would make them want to vote for Andy Jackson. “I’ll tell you, these people who are making things nowadays must always keep grubbing up sassafras sprouts, ind if a man can, let him try to make something for the market that the other fellow can’t produce.” Ideas the Things That Count. “Yes, you’re right about that,” chimed in a hatter. “In my line of business there are scores and scores of people making hats. Of course there are a few,” and here the master hat maker let a gleam slide over his face— "who make stuff in my line better than others do, but still, no one of them has any very great advantage over the other. But in some lines it’s different. Just look at these Incandescent electric light globes, for instance. The com pany that makes these has a cinch. Edison had an idea. He worked out this idea and put it into practice.” “Yes, and I’ll tell you another thing,” spoke up the shoe merchant,— “he hit onto a thing that fits into the needs of lots of people. If a man has a corner on canary bird food he can’t do as much business as if he were to have a grip on all the wheat that grows. Everybody eats bread, but only a few women buy bird seed.” “But,” began the silk buyer, “when ever there’s anything like making bread where it’s very plain to any mind that there will be a demand for it, you will always find a lot of people going into that business. It is a great deal better to start up something on your own hook that nobody else has, ihaa it is to start in on something that everybody is using and go into compe tition with others. Why, there’s a firm out in Chicago that’s doing a business of nearly half a million dollars a year ; —and what do you suppose that busi ness is? They are making a prepara tion which is said to take the kinks out of negroes’ hair. Who would think that a business like that would amount to anything? Still, that firm’s cleaning up bushels of money every year. Of course, there’s an element of flimilam in the business. The stuff will straight en out the kinks all right—but after a week or two they will come back again.” Continuous Demand. '‘That is a good thing for any busi- I ness,” exclaimed the hat manufacturer. “It makes a continuous demand.” "Yes, you’re right about that,” con tinued the silk buyer, "but it would be better still to make something that will last and give permanent satisfac tion and meets a genuine demand on the part of the general public.” “Now, I know of a man who used to be a clerk in a grocery store in Kan sas. He had saved up about a hun dred dollars when a stranded hook igent struck his town and unloaded on bim a hundred dollars worth of cook books. The agent pictured in glowing terms the amount of money this gro cery clerk could make out of the hook business, at which the smooth and wily agent himself had made a fluke. "The sucker bit. He went down in Arkansas and cleaned out that bunch cf books inside of a week. He made more money than he had made :in a whole month at shooing flies off from molasses barrels. He bought another bunch of books and sold them out and still another. “The next summer, he struck a fel low that was selling these here parlor picture things—what do you call ’em? You put a sort of a do-funny up to your face and look through two glass eyes that make the picture look life size and have depth to It—Just like the thing itself.” "You mean the stereograph,” volun teered Joannis Carolianus. “Thank you, John” answered his father’s silk buyer “Yes, sir; this fel low who had been a rube grocery clerk rnd had been done by a snagged book igent, let himself get it in the neck igain, as one of these stereo-s—what’s lie name, John?” "Stereographs,” supplied Joannis Carolianus. Nursed Business to Success. “Yes, as one of these stereograph I igents handed him a bunch of those i hlngs. But the rube went down into 1 Arkansas again and had the greatest : success selling the pictures. The busi- i ’.ess at that time was on the bottle, but i Jj&t very fellow nursed this business < carefully and to-day is making, in con nection with his partners, a hundred thousand a year. He travels in for eign lands, and his wife takes along a nurse for the youngsters. ‘‘I’ve often laughed when he told me how and why he started in. ‘I kEew,’ said he to me, ‘that I was as green as a cymling, but when that smooth ag^nr showed me those things, he fangec me in the roof of the mouth and I couldn’t get off of the hook, either; but I argued that most of the people in the world were just as green as I was. "After I'd been buying those things from a concern for a while, I concluded that I would get cameras of my own and begin to make them myself. I really felt that there was merit in those pictures. I, myself, had always wanted^to travel and when I looked a those stereograph pictures I felt that I was right on the spot. When I went out canvassing I saw that they pleased people, and I felt that what pleased t people could be sold to them. In a lit tle while I took my brother in with me and left my father to fill the or ders that were sent in. Just we three worked this business then. And do you know, gentlemen,” continued the silk buyer, "that this ver/ yokel of a Kansas grocery clerk to-day employs from three to five thousand agents. Hundreds of young men in this coun try to-day are making their way through nine months of schooling by spending three months of their time during the summer in selling these stereographs? They give satisfaction and they last for a long time, but the factory is continually making new sub jects, just, as the publishing house is always making new books. He has branch houses all over the world. Yes, sir; the thing in manufacturing, is to make something that gives satisfaction and on which you can repeat." “Well, that fellow stuck to his busi ness,” remarked the specialty manufac turer. “Yes, and sticking to It is one of the things that will help to win,” replied the shoe merchant. Some Leisure a Requisite. “Yes, sure,” spoke up Watkins, look ing straight at Joannis Carolianus— and perhaps obeying a request of the college boy’s father—“attending to business will help to build a business; but at the same time there’s no u.?e in a man eternally drudging. The busi ness man is the man of all men who should have some leisure time each day that he may devote to self-cul ture; and the professional men who are so set up about their accomplish ments don’t really know just how cul tured many business men are—men at whom they turn up their noses. First, a man should attend to his business, to make a success of it. He need not, of course, be quite so ignorant of other affairs as one of my actor friends once was. I am sure you’ve all seen Eddie Foy. Eddie, you know, i3 wise in the ways of the world, but he was about the most verdant Shamrock that I ever knew when he first went on the stage. He came right out of the Kerry Patch of Chicago and made a hit on the first ball pitched. He was under the man agement of Henderson. After Eddie had caught on good and hard in a couple of plays, Henderson sent him over to Paris to select costumes fur a new extravaganza. Just before he left I met him on the street and he said to me: “ 'George, come on and go over to Paris with me.’ “ Td like to go the best in the world Ed, but I’m afraid I can’t.’ “ ’Oh, come off! And come on, any way; I’ll give you the time of’ y,, jr life. See here, I’ve just received a let ter from Miranda (Miranda was the Premiere Danseuse of the company wim Foy) and she is at her old h >me in Rome and she wants me—see, i ere’s the letter—to come down to It’ly.’ Then, in an undertone, he asked, ’And say, Gjorge, on th' level, where is It’ly, anyway?’” As the business men talked, Joanois Carolianus, as it had been his cust un at Harvard, made a few notes. These read: ‘‘To build a manufacturing basi- '4 ness faking won’t work; use good ma terial; make good stuff; create s nie ihing new, which people like, which will be used widely; stick to business.” Senator Was in K'o Hurry. Senator Pettus, the ancient Alabama statesman, makes it his businesi to learn something now every day if pos iible, though sometimes he refus e to avail himself of the knowledge thus obtained. The other day he and a much younger colleague w.re waiting for an elevator whktj was rathei Uow in making its appearance. "You mow," said the impatient young man, ‘you ought to ring three times. That is our signal, on hearing which the 'levator man comes at once.” “Oh, ihat’s a senator’s ring, is it?” ; J I Sir Pettus. ‘‘Looks to me like a waste of mergy when one ring will bring the nan without much of a wait Besides. I’m never impatient.” First “Popular Vote” Senator, Oregon's new senator. Jonathan 3ourne, of Portland, represents a new >rder of things both in bi3 state and n the nation. He is the first sen itor ever elected by a popular vote. Senator Bourne will be a business lenatwr. He is a millionaire. He will >e one more Harvard senator and one nore bay stater, for he was born n Boston a little more than 50 years igo. Thirty years ago he went to )regon and has lived there ever since