Ihe Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH. Publisher
LOCIP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
NEWS BRlbiLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
6REATEB OR LESSER IMPORT
latludM What Is Going On at Wa»b
Ir.gton and in Cti-er Sections of
tne Country.
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The senate naval affairs committee
fepor-d ■-. •• nava. ,.;.pr >priatioa bill
jr- Mkv Bm !» i hwtskmhfps
Senator Kern in a spee h arraingea
Senator Lorimer. charging bis election
was doe to corrupt methods.
The t t relary of the navy asked for
fCS.tW* appropriation for expense of
the marine expedition to Cuba.
Tee House Judiciary committee In
executive (etfix decided to under
take * quiet investigation of the "beef
trust ~
Samuel Compers urged tbe bouse
Judin: -y committee to favorably re
port Brantley workmen's compensa
tion bill.
The senate territories committee
ordered favorable report on amended
bouse hill to create a legislative as
sembly in Alaska.
The senate Indian affairs commit
ire recommended the (lore bill to al
so* Apache prisoners of war at Fort
Eill to return to New Mexico.
The House Merchant Marine com
mittee agreed to report favorably to
tbe senate bill granting tbe thanks of
congress and medal to Captain Itos
Iron
The House Interstate Commerce
eommitskra favorably reported the
Martin bill providing for an eight
hour working day for railroad em
ploye*
Senator Loritser of Illinois plans
sot to speak in defense of h!s seat in
the senate until practically all other
speeches cm both side* have been pre
sented.
Senator William* introduced a con
current resolution to instruct the Mis
sissippi river commission to prepare a
utan to control floods in the Missis
sippi river.
The bouse adopted Representative
Berger's resolution directing the ju
diciary committee to investigate
charge* against Federal Judge Han
ford of Seattle.
The senate committee to investigate
DM gad 1*1* campaign contributions
sf national and congressional commit
tees derided to defer taking up inves
tigation until July 1.
T*.e house agriculture expenditure*
committee continued its investiga
lk»n into drainage division of the De
partment of Agriculture, with En
gineer J. O. Wright of Florida testi
fy -f
Tbe bouse ways and means com
mittee instructed Chairman Under
wood to introduce a cotton schedule
tariff revision bill, identical with that
submitted last year—comprising re
duevons of from 2 to 49 per cent.
Some of tbe democratic member* of
the bouse committee on appropria
tions are strenuously insisting upon
the elimination of the fla.OhO allow
ance for the president's traveling ex
penses from the sundry civil appro
priation bill.
QmmtiL
Col Rnoseve!t. according to returns,
will have a solid delegation from
Booth Dakota.
"PoUncai brigand*-" la Roosevelt's
comment on the outcome of the Ohio
republican state convention.
A vote on the ousting of Senator
lenmer is unlikely to take place un
til after the national conventions.
The hear.ng of the Archbald case
Before the house committee on judi
ciary was concluded
At Budapest two girls resolved to
fight a duel over a man whom both
loved, but settled the quarrel by
each marrying her second
A series of three-day recesses of
the senate during the two weeks to
Be covered by the republican and
democratic convections is probable.
The lower boose of the Micn'-sota
assembly adopted, by unanimous vote,
a resolution ratifying the amendment
to the federal constitution providing
for an income tax.
The house judiciary committee Tot
ed to report favorably the constitu
tional amendment proposed by Repre
sentative ciaytou of Alabama, extend
ing more than one term.
Senator Dixon, campaign manager
for Colonel Roosevelt probably will
take his demand for ISO spectators'
tickets to the national committee, as
Chairman New of the sub-committee
has refused to allot them.
By reason of the fact tlmt he has
leached the age limit for active serv
ice. Rear Admiral Sidney >. Staunton
was placed on the retired list of the
•nvy. For the part yea- Admiral
Staunton has served as a member of
the general board.
The senate passed the Borah bill
limn tug to eigbt hours per day the
employment of workmen by contract
ors on government work.
The south celebrated tie one hun
dred and fourth annivenary of the
Birth of Jefferson Davis, and paid
tribute to tbs memory of the only
president of the confederacy.
If'ss Margaret Cravens of Madison,
lad, committed suicide in her apart
meat at IS. Rue Du Co.isee. Paris.
She shot herself through the heart
with a revolver, death being instan
taneous Miss Cravens left s letter
asking that hex body be cremated.
Supreme Court Justice Keogh filed
an order permitting the transfer o!
Harry K Thaw from the asylum at
fifntteawgn to White plains.
At Kuiston. Out, details were re
ceived of aa accident caused by the
premature explosion of powder in a
rocky cut of the Canadian Pacific rail
umd at 8* one s Comers.
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Senator Nixon died in Washington
on the 5th.
The Darrow defense has outlined
it* program in the Los Angeles trial.
Impeachment proceedings were in
augurated in the house against Fed
' eral Judge Hanford of Seattle.
Roosevelt's plurality in South Da
I kota may reach 15,000.
Congressman Hubbard of Iowa died
| suddenly in Sioux City.
The Cuban government is unable to
; control the situation, and American
marines have been landed.
Lafayette Young, the veteran Des
Moines editor, has abandoned stand
patisrn and joined the progressives.
Election riots in Belgium have tak
en on a revolutionary character.
George W. Clark was nominated for
governor by republicans of Iowa.
Several strikers and police officers
were injured in a riot at Middleton,
Conn.
House leaders declared that the
addition to the naval appropriation
hill by to throw that measure into a
long conference.
Ohio's fourth constitutional conven
tion completed its work and recessed
until August 6, the date set for sine
die adjournment.
Provision for President Taft's tar
iff board, which was eliminated in the
sundry civil appropriation bill, was
■ reported to the house.
Rowdy scenes marked the delivery
1 of Andrew Carnegie's rhetorical ad
■ dress as lord rector of the university
at Aberdeen, Scotland.
The senate committee on naval af
fairs restored to the naval appropria
tion bill provision for two battleships,
stricken out by the house.
Five men who control the New
York clearing house association con
stitute, according to Samuel Unter
raeyer. the nation’s money trust.
The house voted 72 to 47 not to in
i elude in the sundry civil appropria
i tion bill the money necessary to con
tinue President Taft's tariff board.
American marines took first place
in the :!00. 400 and 500-yard target
matches at the annual rifle contests
with the other legation guards at
Peking.
Representative Akin of New York
introduced a resolution asking that a
special committee investigate Chief
Willis L. Moore of the weather bu
reau.
Oscar Wenderoth of the firm cf
Carrere & Hastings of New York, was
selected hv Secretary MacVeagh as
supervising architect to the Treasury
department to succeed James Knox
Taylor, who resigned.
C. V. Stewart, chairman of the state
democratic committee of Montana, is
being boomed for the nomination for
governor to succeed Edwin L. Norris,
who has announced his intention to
retire at the end of his term.
Semi-official figures from Tuesday’s
primaries from thirty-six out of six
ty-one counties in South Dakota give
in round numbers the following re
sults: For Roosevelt, 25,000; for La
Follette, 15,000; for Taft, 7,000.
Senator Raynor, offering an amend
ment to the pension appropriation
bill, increasing the pension of the
wife of Admiral Schley, paid high
tribute to Schley and gave him cred
it for the victory at Santiago.
To prevent the production by mov
ing pictures of the Johnson-Flynn
prize fight July 4. the house commit- j
tee reported favorable the bill of Rep
resentative Rodenberry prohibiting
th» shipment of films between states.
Seventy-two widows, sixty-two of
whom lost their husbands in the Ti
tanic disaster, have t lready received i
or will receive nearly one-half of the j
$150,000 fund raised by the Red Cross i
emergency relief committee, accord
ing to the chairman's preliminary re
port.
The senate has passed the demo
cratic house metal tariff bill, after
adding amendments which repeal the
Canadian reciprocity act and place a
duty of $2 a ton on print paper. The
metal bill reduces the tariff on pig
iron. It now goes hack to the house
for concurrence.
There will be 204 contests for the
republican national committee to de
cide in Chicago. There were 219 in
1908 and the number was expected to
be larger this year. One hundred and
seventy-seven of the contests were
filed by supporters of Colonel Roose
velt, while twenty-seven were for
Taft.
President Taft granted an uncondi
tional pardon to Willard N. Jones of
Portland. Ore., convicted of land
frauds-in the famous cases in which
the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon i
and Binger Hermann, former commis
sioner of the general land office, were
alleged to have been implicated.
Personal.
Alabama and Arkansas were put ir
the Taft column.
Congress expressed grief over the
death of Wilbur Wright.
President Taft declared for public
ity in hearing contest cases.
Colonel Roosevelt says all he wants
i of the republican national committee
is justice.
James J. Hill resigned as chair
! man of the board of directors of the
Great Northern.
Senator Fall has been re-elected
senator from New Mexico.
Rhode Island gave Clark, for presi
dent. 5.172, and Wilson 1,530.
Senator Kern said there was a mass
of money passed around at the time
of Lorimer's election.
United States Senator Kenyon won
over Lafayette Young in the Iowa pri
mary.
Senator Root says he will serve as
temporary chairman for the republi
can national convention.
Champ Clark received the unquali
fied endorsement of the West Vir
ginia democracy.
William Flinn was ordered by
Roosevelt to hurry away to Chicago
to act as Dixon's assistant.
The senate voted to allow the wid
ow of Admiral Schley a pension al
lowance of $150 a month.
It is unlikely the name of Taft will
be first presented at the republican
national convention.
An unsuccessful attempt waB made
to stampede the Minnesota demo
cratic convention to Bryan.
The Taft forces expended a total of
$66,473 In the campaign to elect the
national delegates and alternates from
Ohio.
PECULIAR ACCIDENT
BEATRICE RAISES OVER $10,000
FOR IMPROVING CITY.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and There
That is or Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Auburn.—An aeident of a very un
usual nature and one that resulted
seriously occurred at the home of
Dick Morton, Jr., near here, Sunday
night. As the res'uit of the accident
two horses were killed by falling into
an old well and the occupants of the
buggy to which they were hitched had
a narrow’ escape.
New Library Building at Ainsworth.
Ainsworth—Work on the new Alder
library building is being pushed rap
idly. This building is the gift to the
city by L. K. Alder and wife and is to
be the home of the city library, found
ed by the Woman's club of this city
last October, and which now contains
about 1,200 volumes.
For Promoting Interests of Beatrice.
Beatrice—I'nder the auspices of the
commercial club the business men of
Beatrice have subscribed to the
budget fund of over $10,000, the
amount to be placed at the disposal
of the commercial club for expendi
ture as they see fit in promoting the
interests of Beatrice.
Kearney Graduates Large Class.
Kearney—The largest class that
ever graduated from the Kearney high
school listened to the class sermon
Sunday evening by the Rt. Rev.
George A. Beecher. The large opera
house of Kearney was filled, many be
ing turned away on account of lack of
seats.
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Commercial Club Banquet.
Hartington—The Hartington Com
mercial club gave its first annual ban
quet here Thursday evening, 265 per
sons being present, making it the
largest attended function of its kind
in the northeastern part of Nebraska.
Drowned While Bathing.
Curtis.—Frank Hagans, a boy of
eight years, was drowned in Curtis
lake while playing on a little raft the
boys had made to use while in bath
ing.
New School for Osceola.
Osceola—The laying of the corner
stone for the new $40,000 high school
building will take place on Wednes
day. June 12, according to present
plans.
t wESTEST™!
+ BALL NEWS j
4.4.4.4.J.
No game was played Sunday in the
Mink league.
Several releases are being made at
Grand Island.
Hastings lost 2 to 0 in Saturday’s
game at York.
The games at Hastings are to be
called Kt 4 o'clock hereafter.
High winds were responsible for big
scores vo many of last weeks’ games.
Wisser's "Whizzers” shut out the
Hiawatha Indians Tuesday afternoon
by the score of 7 to 0.
The stores were closed and the en
tire town turned out to see the open
ing game at Columbus with Seward
Wednesday.
After Falls City had an apparently
safe lead at Beatrice Monday. Beatrice
tied the score in the eighth and the
game went fourteen innings^ Falls
City winning. 9 to 7.
In a pitchers’ battle Sunday. Ramey
had the better of Canine and F*remont
won by 7 to 0. Attendance, 1,000.
The Farmers State bank has just
opened for business at Benedict.
Humboldt crossed bats with Nebras
ka City for the first time this season
Monday and shut out the Foresters de
spite a high wind in as pretty a game
as could be looked at to the tune of
3 to 0.
In one of the fastest games ever
played in that section of the state.
Eagle defeated the Lincoln Leaders
Sunday afternoon by a score of 1 to 0.
The time of the game was one hour,
and each team secured only one hit.
Speer, who tried out with York, has
returned to Chicago.
Averages in the state league will
shift a great deal for the next twe
weeks. Every team in the league has
a good chance for the pennant as far
as averages go.
At Beatrice, in the eighth inning.
McDaniels of Hiawatha was at bat
and the umpire called a strike. Mc
Daniels used bad language and was
benched. Hiawatha refused to re
place him. and the game was for
feited to Beatrice, 9 to 0.
The pitchers in the State league are
getting theirs this year. On the other
hand, players are fattening their bat
ting averages each day.
In twenty innings Wednesday, the
Norfolk baseball team was scored
against for only one run. Norfolk
beat Laurel 6 to 0, and then beat Os
mond in an eleven inning game 2 to 1.
“Bob” Unglaub, one time a member
of the Washington American league
team and last year manager of the
Lincoln team of the Western league,
has been signed by the management
of the Minneapolis team of the Amer
ican association as utility infielder.
Large scores were made in most of
the State league games Wednesday.
The high -wind was responsible.
Clay Schoonover, left fielder for the
Omaha team last year and a substi
tute this season, has been sold to
Grand Island of the State league.
Averages are close in the State
league. The winning of a game or
two would send a team from second
last place to the second rung of the
ladder.
The Polk County Baseball league
has been organized and a series of
games are to be played in each of tue
county towns, commencing on June 4.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Axtell will soon have electric lights.
The sugar beet crop in the vicinity
of Grand Island is said to be above
the average.
A series of summer concerts has
been inaugurated at the city park by
Stdckfield's boys' band.
Everitt Huddleston, a 9-year-old Lin
coln boy. was bitten by a gray wolf
in Antelope park. Sunday.
Ralph Lyon of Lyons had his leg
broken when an auto turned over. He
was a passenger in the auto.
The bronze statue of Abraham Lin
coln to be erected on the state house
grounds has arrived in Lincoln.
C. A. Andersdh of Peru, Neb., has
been secured as principal of the Alli
ance high school for the coming year.
The cut worm is playing havoc with
the fields of corn in Cuming county.
Numerous fields are being replanted.
A young man and his sister have
started on a ''hike'' from Sutton, this
state, and expect to walk to San Fran
cisco.
Seniors of the North Bend high
school gave their annual play at the
theater there. They netted $123
above all expenses.
W. J. Bryan delivered an address on
“The Making of a Man," at the reg
ular chapel services held at the state
penitentiary. Sunday.
The Peru senior class play. “If I
Were King.'' was presented to an au
dience of 1.200 people, under the di
rection of Ruby Page Ferguson.
Eleven-year-old Ralph Kinsinger was
instantly killed by an electric shock
while playing in a neighbor's back
yard at Milford Saturday afternoon.
Teachers of the county will gather
at York Monday, June 10, for the
thirty-third annual institute. The in
stitute will continue for one week.
Preparations are being made by the
city of Minden to compel the Burling
ton to build a new depot at its north
tracks and also stop its through trains.
Miss Mary Bowlby, of Crete, a state
university graduate, and a popular
young lady of that place, was mar
ried in Seattle recently to Arthur J.
Ela.
For the third time Mrs. Atlanta
Cable of Plattsmouth has been ad
judged insane. Over thirty years ago
she was adjudged insane the first
time.
The Knights of Columbus have
planned to hold a reunion in Hastings
October 12, when a class of about
fifty candidates is expected to be
initiated.
A systematic warfare is to be
waged on the homeless dogs of Au
burn. The police will proceed to de
stroy such animals as do not carry a
license tag.
Mayor Leyda of Falls City has pre
sented his twin daughters. Misses
Camille and Lucille Leyda. with an
automobile, costing $2,500, as a com
mencement gift.
Word has reached Fairbury of the
death of Fred Myers, a former Jeffer
son county boy, who was killed last
week in southwestern Kansas by be
ing kicked by a horse.
A number of Fremont young men
were fleeced by a smooth stranger
who unloaded a lot of “2-fors" on
them at Havana prices, under the pre
tense that they were smuggled goods.
The first concert of the season was
given by the Fairbury hand Tuesday
evening from the new band wagon
which was purchased with proceeds
derived from a minstrel show in Feb
ruary.
The new city commissioners at Ne
braska City have begun a crusade
against the dogs. All unlicensed dogs
are to be killed and the licensed ones
will have to be kept on the premises
of the owners.
Vandals destroyed furniture and
ransacked the interior cf the Plain
view school house near Broken Bow
and the directors have offered a re
ward of $50 for the apprehension oi
the criminals.
Many farmers in the Hartington lo
cality took the advice of the seed
corn special that traveled the coun
try last spring and tested their corn
before planting. Most of these have
a good stand of corn. f
J. V. Stratley, a traveling salesman
of Greenwood. Neb., received serious
and perhaps fatal injuries Wednesday
morning when the automobile in
which he was riding turned a double
somersault near Raymond.
By vote of 6 to 2 the Hastings city
council has refused to advance to sec
ond reading the proposed franchise
for the Hastings Heat and Power
company, granting the company the
right to distribute steam heat and
electric energy for power purposes.
Dr. M. Gifford Welsh, assistant
physician at the penitentiary. Thurs
day evening severed his connection
with the institution and left for his
home at Haigler, where he will prac
tice medicine.
The annual convention of the Fifth
district Christian Endeavor union will
be held in Fairbury. June 7, 8 and 9.
Twenty-one societies are to be repre
sented in this convention and the
church of this denomination is mak
ing extensive preparations for the
event.
u vuiouui J5 10 uianiufn V. .muoi » V.
preparations to celebrate Midsummer
day in the regular Swedish style.
About $1,000 is being raised to be
used in securing the best Swedish
talent in the county to put on some
Swedish stunts in the way of amuse
ments.
Robert Lemmon of Bethany has
been elected general secretary of the
Y. M. C. A. of the Cotner university.
He will be the first general secretary
of that organization and will give half
of his tim^to the work and half to
teaching in the commercial college of
the university.
With the closing of the first section
of entries for the five days’ racing pro
gram which will feature the Nebraska
state fair to be held in Lincoln. Sep
tember 2 to 6. a list of nearly 200
horses has been completed. A long
string of “fast ones” is expected be
fore the late closing of entries, Au
gust 12.
When the 5-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Minton of Kearney was
playing with an air gun the clutch of
the breech caught his finger and badly
lacerated the member. The only rem
edy possible was to amputate the
finger.
INCIDENTS BEFORE THE BIG REPUBLICAN
CONTEST IN THE COLISEUM AT CHICAGO
Chicago, June 10.—The chief duty
of the Chicago hotel clerk just now is
to point out the political celebrities. It
has been necessary to describe big
men of the convention for persons
seeking them so many times that John
Burk, head clerk of the Annex, can
give finest identifying details of attire
and build of a statesman in a mo
ment.
A great part of the population of the
hotel consists of newspaper, magazine,
and free lance photographers. Twelve
snapshotters were in an arc about Sen
ator J. M. Dixon of Montana, Colonel
Roosevelt's manager, when he con
sented to be photographed on his ar
rival.
Before the senotor reached the hotel
on Wednesday two men had been led
out on Michigan avenue by the camera
squad in the belief that each of the
accommodating strangers w as the Mon
tanan. One photographer would be
"tipped off” that "the tall, white hair
ed man in the Panama is Senator Dix
on.”
The stranger at once would be invit
ed out in the street for different poses
in the sun. Of the two cases of mis
taken identity one was A. B. Butler
of Washington, a Taft camp aid. It is
said the other was a Boston linen
salesman. He did not deny he was
Senator Dixon, and posed graciously
with and without his hat and facing in
different advantageous angles.
A New One From Texas.
Col. Cecil Lyon of the Texas dele
gation, and an irrespressible supporter
of Roosevelt, had a new story to tell
to take the place of his old one about
the cataclysm In Yoakum county. Tex
as, where a Democratic county conven
tion instructed for Roosevelt, causing
: Wilson supporters to bolt.
“I was walking down the street with
Charles Hilles In Washington the
other day,” began Colonel Lyon, after
some one had said President Taft's
secretary had arrived at the Black
stone hotel.
“A small delivery wagon passed,”
the colonel continued. *'I looked up
and saw four large volumes stacked
on top with the titles facing us. Three
of the books were reports of the Re
publican conventions of 1900, 1904 and
190S. The fourth was ‘Problems of
the Day,' by William H. Taft. , I di
rected Mr. Hilles' attention to the load
of books. He seemed offended.”
Borah's Bushy Hair.
Senator Borah of Idaho is one of the
few big men of the convention who
cannot be called picturesque, unless
his bushy hair entitles him to that de
scription. It is said his only reason
for wearing so much hair is to con
ceal a bad scar on the hack of his
head received in an accident in his
youth.
Mr. Borah, like Jonah K. Kalania
naole. Hawaiian delegate, has a round,
chubby, Buster Brown type of physi
ognamy. His dignity, however, is
such that none would think of calling
him ‘‘Cupid”—and that is the brown |
skinned islander’s nickname in con- 1
gress.
Has His Name on $5 Bill.
A southern delegate was much ex
cited over the appearance of a tali
negro at the Coliseum annex who
figured in several conferences.
•’Have you a $5 bill?" asked a friend.
When the currency was produced
the friend called attention to the sig
nature of the registrar of the treasury,
Judson Lyon.
’’That same dark person over there
is Judson Lyon, delegate from Geor
gia,” was the explanation.
Urey Woodson's Story.
Urey Woodson, secretary of the
Democratic national committee, is tell
ing a story which has what he claims
is a moral.
“Yon Republicans.” says Mr. Wood- |
son. ’‘remind me of old Colonel Gun- i
fire, who, although a Democrat, lived j
In a stronghold of Republicanism. One I
winter he blew in and asked to be j
sworn in as a member of the Demo- j
cratic legislature. i
“Colonel, did you sure enough beat
a Republican?”
“Suh, I beat three of ’em at once.”
“Now that is what we are going to
do in less numbers. Get together and
scrap, but after it is over watch us ’
Democrats beat two of you, Taft and '
Teddy, all at once.”
Want Sherman Renominated. (
Former Governor Franklin Murphy
of New Jersey took his seat with the
national committee minus the vice
presidential boom which he had with
him four years ago. This year Mr.
Murphy is singing the praises of Vice
President Sherman for another term
"I know that custom is against re
nominating a vice-president,” he said,
’’but there is a strong current in favor
of renominating Vice-President Sher
man. It will probably be an eastern
man and all the gossip I have heard
has been for Sherman.”
Mr. Murphy added that the “vice
presidential bee” has ceased to buzz
in his direction.
A group of out-of-town newspaper
representatives were on the point of
making an enumeration in the vicin
ity of the Coliseum of emergency
cafes for reference in times of busy
sessions.
"Col. Cecil Lyon has Just put
through a motion making newspaper
men guests at a cafe service to be
installed in headquarters at once,”
said a committeeman who left the ses
sion before adjournment
Colonel Lyon was proposed for dark
horse candidate—immediately, and
unanimously.
Good Nature the Rule.
Good nature is the rule among all of
the national committeemen and dele
gates. None is too harassed by puz
zling political entanglements to deny
any one a smile and handshake.
“An old crab has lots of luck in
this game—I don’t think!” laughed
Senator Dixon, Roosevelt’s manager,
after he had passed out a dozen pulsat
ing hand grasps. Then he walked
over to former Senator Dick—Taft
contest director—in the lobby of na
tional committee headquarters at the
Coliseum annex and slapped him on
the back.
“ ’Lo,” said Mr. Dixon.
“Right back at you, senator," smiled
Mr. Dick.
Those who were near the two chiefs
of the hostile camps could hear a boy
ish “Joe" and "Charley” being ex
changed at times. They were like old
col’-ge chums. Friendly eye twinkling
scenes between chiefs and lieutenants
and subalterns of the opposing forces
were common.
One noteworthy meeting that start
ed amicably and ended in a torrid ar
gument was between Joseph Healing
of Indiana and Congressman Lucius
C. Littauer of New York.
Importance of the Bell Boys.
The bell boys of the big hotels have
been pressed into service for all sorts
of duties. They not only carry ice
water and life preservers to the vari
ous headquarters and rooms of dele
gates, but also serve iD the capacity
of page, “state house messenger,”
marshal of delegations, office hoy, in
troducer, and general headquarters at
tache.
There are hundreds of different doc
uments to be exchanged between head
quarters, with verbal explanations to
go to the men in charge.
“Here's the list of delegates from
Alabama with the Twenty-third dis
trict left out,” a delegation chief ex
plains to the boy in buttons. “Take
it up to Senator Blank with my com
pliments. and inform him I will send
the rest to him in half an hour.”
When a hop was dispatched with a
copy of the recommendations of the
rules committee, to be submitted to
the national committee, a senator re
marked:
“That young man has a mission of
more widespread influence than that
of any other boy in America.”
“Whoo-ee,” sighed a bell boy. He
was counting change. “Nine hours on
the hop and only $1.60 in tips. I am
going to vote the Democratic ticket
straight.”
Teddy's Bulldog.
When the Roosevelt press bureau
arrived from Washington they brought
with tbem a new campaign song, which
is causing a smile even among the
Taft delegations. It is to the tune of
"Casey Jones.”
Teddy's gotta dawg, but he aint no
hound.
He’s a square jawed bull, and his face
is round.
His legs is short, and he’s close to the
ground,
And you bet they ain’t kickin’ Teddy’s
dawg around.
CHORUS.
Square jawed bull, and his face is
round.
Squared jawed bull, and his face is
hound.
Short legged bull, close to the ground.
And you bet they ain’t kickin' Teddy’s
bull around.
The Democratic dawg, the unlucky
hound
That the boys have all been kickin'
around
Is the same old dawg that's been stick
in' roun’
Since old Abe Lincoln came to Wash
ington town.
And now he comes back, the measley
hound.
With his face and his tail still bangin'
down.
The hungry, sly old lop eared hound,!
No wonder the boys have been kickin';
round.
All Taft Types.
It has been noticed that a great j
part of the delegates that have arrived ;
are robust men. "All Taft types,” com-!
mented an admirer of the president.
Chief among the heavyweights Is A.
M. Stevenson. Colorado national com
mitteeman. who halls from Denver.
Mr. Stevenson weighs more than 300
pounds.
Delegation From Hawaii.
Seated in a comer of the Pompeiian
room at the Congress hotel was a lit
tie party composed of the Hawaiian
delegation. Prince Kalanionaolc, gen
erally called "Prince Cupid,” and C
A. Rice, delegates from the island; H. j
L. Holstein, national committeeman; j
A. Homer. 'Secretary to the delegation,
and Colonel S. Parker, the "Mark Han- j
na of Hawaii.” made up the party.
“It can't be all work and no play,"
said the prince.
Since a Roosevelt delegation came
into the Congress singing a parody on
the ''Houn' Dog.” Taft supporters have
begun to put themselves in practice
for the campaign veils.
Short, long, loud and sharp, they
come in all varieties. Some are for
use before and some after the nomi
nation. A mourning song is being
written, bemoaning the fate of “Ted
dy,'' and several in jubilation, in an
ticipation of the success of Taft. A
farewell yell will be put in use later.
The last line tells the whole story.
“We're going home, we’re broke.”
Colonel Lyon’s Bride.
Colonel Lyon of Texas asked Mrs.
Lyon to pose for newspaper photog
raphers. She did it with reluctance,
and after It was all over the colonel
said softly, with a wink at the report
ers: “Dear, don’t let those fellows
know you are a bride.”
The colonel and Mrs. Lyon have
been married several years and have
one presidential possibility.
“I like to kid her, you see,” ex
plained the colonel, *%ut she knows
a Joke when she sees 1L By the way.
that girl can mix the best mint julep
in the world, but wouldn’t drink one.
Along the same policy she says she
will move out of any state that ever
goes prohibition. One day while she
was visiting in Colorado she read in
the paper that I was going to change
my politics. She immediately wrote
me that if I did that it was up to me,
but that she and the maid and the
cook and the men on the ranch would
all be ‘agin’ me, and quietly hinted
that the best thing I could do was to
vote for Teddy as long as I live.”
HOW GIRLS
MAT AVOID .
PERIODIC PAINS
The Experience of Two Girls
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Reading maketh a full man. So does
the wine when it's red.
For years Garfield Tea has been on the mar
ket. This most mean a remedy worth while.
Perhaps Lot's wife was turned to
salt because she was too peppery.
It Does.
“Do you find this presidential pref
erential primary puzzling?”
“Well, it makes you mind your p’s.”
The Worst of It.^
“Do you keep a cook, Mrs. Subub ”
"Madam, I not only keep the cook,
but also her entire family.”
Only Thinking.
“Where are you thinking of going
this summer?”
“I’m thinking of England, Norway,
and Scotland, but I’ll probably go to
Punk Beach.”
How He Got Them.
"Dat feller ’Rastus Skinah done
bln talkin' a powahful lot ’bout how
he’s a-raisin’ chickens.”
“Sho! He doan' mean ’raisin’,’ he
means ‘liftin’.”—Catholic Standard
and Times.
Vogue in Outer Garments.
According to the Dry Goods Econo
mist, at the present time retailers are
featuring wraps of charmruse and
satin. The best sellers are the me
dium-priced numbers retailing from $10
to $30. These are usually attractively
lined in some bright color, giving a
pleasing contrast. Lace collars and
cults are often used as a finishing
touch and are very effective, while
white lace is used largely for this pur
pose. Some garments are shown trim
med with black lace, which Is cut
away to show the lining underneath.
Tne Worm’s Way.
"The Hon. Stephen Coleridge, the
English anti-vivisectionist,” said an
anti-vivisectionist of Philadelphia, ”is
delighted with the recent English vivi
section report, which promises to
abolish even the use of the live bait in
fishing.
"Mr. Coleridge once argued here in
Philadelphia about the cruelty of fish
ing with worma
“ ‘Oh,’ his opponent said, ’the mere
fact that a worm writhes and wriggles
when impaled on a hook is no proof
that it is actually suffering pain.’
“’No, oh, no!’ said Mr. Coleridge,
sarcastically. "Beyoud doubt that Is
just the worm's way of laughing at
being tickled.’ ’’
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In the Growth
of Corn
there’s a period when the
kernels are plumped out with
a vegetable milk, most nutri
tious.
As the corn ripens the
“milk” hardens, and finally
becomes almost flinty.
Post
Toasties
Are made from this hard part
of choice selected com.
It is carefully cooked; treat
ed with sugar and salt; rolled
into thin bits; then toasted to
an appetizing brown—with
out a hand touching the food.
It has been said that Post
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liciously flavoured particles of
cereal food yet produced.
One can render an opinion
upon trial.
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