OCTOBER , 1911
The Commoner.
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his republican opponent in tho No
vember elections. Both candidates
are from this city. Governor Foss
had scarcely no opposition except
from Thomas L. Hisgen, of Spring
field, the presidential candidate en
the independence league ticket three
years ago. Mr. Hisgen's vote wap
not heavy. Lieutenant - Governor
Frothingham was strongly opposed
in the campaign by Speaker Joseph
Walker and Representative Normal
H. White.
At Milwaukee, John J. McNamara
was re-elected secretary of the in
ternational association of structural
bridge and iron workers by acclamation.
Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo,
O., is seriously ill.
Dr. George H. Denny, president
of Washington and Lee university,
Lexington, Va., was elected preci
dont of the University of Alabama.
Senator Cummins and others are
in favor of a primary in Iowa to
settle Iowa's presidential preference.
James Loph was elected mayor of
San Francisco, defeating the present
mayor, P. H. McCarthy.
LOOKING BACKWARDS
In 1896 Mr. Bryan was accused of
being an anarchist and a dema
gogue, and his party followers a lot
of hoodlums because the democratic
national platform mildly criticised
our higher courts for taking unto
themselves powers not .granted them
by law. The governors meeting in
New Jersey recently took just tho
same brave position on this subject
that Mr. Bryan and tho democratic
national convention took sixteen
years ago. At that time Governor
Harmon of Ohio waB in President
Cleveland's cabinet and he bolted
Mr. Bryan and the national demo
cratic convention work for that par
ticular reason. Now Governor Har
man is chairman of a committee of
three to present these grievances to
the supreme court of the United
States to find if there is any redress.
What grievances? The same sort of
grievances that Mr. Bryan and the
democrats complained of in 1896
that have continued ever since
federal courts undoing acts of legis
latures and of congress. This agita
tion Is sure to bring about the re
call of judges and the election every
four or six years of every federal
judge high and low. Hastings
(Neb.) Democrat.
FOLK IN NEBRASKA
The movement in Nebraska to
"wards a presidential candidate be
gins to widen. Merrick county demo
crats have organized to support ex
Governor Folk of Missouri for presi
dent. Bo also has Nance county.
This means that the great Missouri
democrat is going to have a following
in Nebraska. Missouri is solid for
Folk, and this Includes Champ ClaTk
and the whole progressive demo
cratic organization in Missouri. Can
Nebraska do better than stand by
this progressive Missourian who has
made good and who has shown the
."World? Hastings (Neb.) Democrat.
INTERESTING
'A blackmailer wrote the following
to a wealthy business man: "Send
me $5,000 or I will abduct your
wife."
To which the business man re
plied: "Sorry I am short of funds,
but your proposition interests me."
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Happiness
Over the hills and far away
Some seek happiness day by day.
O'er the world and its distance
wide,
Forest and stream and moun
. tain chain;
O'er the sands at the ocean's side,
Swamp, morass and tho wind
swept plain.
Vainly they search as the days go by,
Failing to see she is standing nigh.
Happiness dwells whero a heart
beats truo
And a love-lit face smiles up at you.
Cabin or palace, 'tis all tho same,
All doclare she's a fickle dame.
But few there bo with the wit to
know
She lives only with warm heart
beats;
Dwelling content in love's warm
glow
Palace or cabin or far retreats.
Vainly they search in the old, blind
way
For what stands forth in the light
of day.
Happiness dwells where a heart
beats truo
And the lips o' love reach up to you.
Still unbought by tho sheen of gold;
Changeless still in the heat or cold,
If in the heart of tho seeker
dwells
Purpose strong and a faith
supreme;
If with a will the soul compels
Endless days for its youth's
day dream.
Happiness dwells in the lowly cot,
Scorns the palace where hearts are
bought.
Dwells content where the heart
beats true
And love" holds out a hand to you.
walking away with the first premium
for bread at the Minnesota state
fair, and now she is known as "tho
best breadmaker in tho bread and
butter state." That is a far greater
title than queen or princess because
it is earned, tho others are inherited.
Eight years in succession sho has
taken the blue ribbon with her light
and flaky loaves. Eight years
count 'em eight! If Mrs. O'Grady
were a year or two older, or the
Architect a year or two younger, ho
would make application to become
her grandson. Tho Architect never
had a grandmother, or a grand
father, either, for that matter. If
she has any grandchildren they aro a
lucky bunch of youngsters. It Is
mighty easy to bolieve that Mrs.
O'Grady would mako one of those
dear, delightful grandmothers the
(Architect has so ofton read about,
and which a few boys and girls have
been privileged to know and love
and "pester" to death for thick
slices of homemade bread generous
ly spread with butter and Jolly.
Here's a health to Mrs. Mary
O'Grady of St. Paul; and may sho
live an hundre'd years to take a
premium every year for bread that
is bread. And when at last sho
answers tho final summons, may a
generation with Improved digestions,
due to her culinary example, grate
fully rear a marble shaft to her
honored memory.
Speaking of Bread
Some recent comments on the, art
of bread making has brought to
this department numerous letters,
some of approval, and some request
ing more definite Information along
certain lines of the art. The Archi
tect of this department frankly con
fesses his ignorance of the art of
making bread, but when it comes to
being a judge of tho product, he
claims to be John-in-the-Immediate-Vicinity.
One far away friend asks for the
recipe for making "salt-risin' "
bread. I beg to turn tho request
over to the genius who presides over
a companion department of The
Commoner which is given precedence
over this one rightfully by the
nnwfirn that be. I iust know Mrs.
McVey can give one tnat win almost
make itself into the most toothsome
of bread. Apart from its tasto and
its digestibility I know little about
"salt-risin' " bread, save that it has
an odor all its own in the process
of making, and that if tho wind
comes up while the sponge is "ris
in' " there is going to be a house
keeper scolding over a spoiled batch
of bread. Just why a high wind
interferes with the making of "salt
risin' " is a mystery to me, and al
ways was.
. But one of the most Interesting
communications anent thlB matter of
breadmaking comes from Paul Cole
of St. Paul, Minn., who encloses in
his letter a clipping concerning the
breadmaing skill of Mrs. Mary
O'Grady of that city. It seems that
Mrs. O'Grady, who is seventy years
of age, has contracted the habit of
The Day's News
One of tho most interesting inci
dents coming to tho notice of the
Bazoo for many days is tho caso of
John Jeemswax, one of our oldest
and most highly respected citizens.
For years Mr. Jeemswax has been
suffering from a misery in his side,
but ho now informs us that ho has
been entirely cured by three appli
cations of Dr. Dopem's Triple Ex
tract of Cockleburrs. For sale by
all druggists.
Miss Daisy Maymo Whackelby,
one of our city's handsomest young
society belles, met with a painful
accident last week. While practicing
upon the piano and endeavoring to
play loud enough to drown tho
rattling of the dishes her mother was
washing in the kitchen, she sprained
her left wrist. Tho injured member
was terribly swollen before Dr.
Ipecac Persquillum, a leading phy
sician of our community, who was
was called as quickly as possible,
could arrive. Under Dr. Persquil
lem's scientific treatment Miss
Whackelby is rapidly recovering.
The Doc's office hours aro from 10
a. m. to 12 m., and from 2:30 p. m.
to 4 p. m. Both" phones.
Mrs. Hy P. Condriack, formerly a
resident of this city and well known
in society circles, writes from her
home In Doodlovllle: "For the past
six months I havo suffered terribly
with headache, darting pains through
my chest and black spots floating be
fore my eyes. I take pleasure In
testifying that one week's treatment
at the hands of the Famous Luke
warm Springs Doc's completely cured
me, and I am now a new woman and
can read Ibsen and Browning by
using pine nez glasses." Tho Fa
mous Lukewarm Springs Docs will
be in our, city for a limited stay,
beginning Monday, October 2. Free
consultation.
If after falling from a street car
you feel darting pains in your side,
see stars with your eyes shut and
experience a ringing ,noise in the
ears, it is a sign that you need Dr.
Doom's Qulntosaonco of Cobble
stones, Gympnum Juice and Sulphur,
Twonty-flvo cents a bottlo, fifty-four
bottloB for throo dollars. For salo
by druggists who don't care what
thoy handle.
About throo months ago a young
lady of tliis city fastonod her back
bolt with a needle. Lato in tho ovon
ing sho discovered that tho noedlo
was gone. Day beforo yoatorday
Reginald Do Appleby submitted to n
minor operation at Dr. Cutomup's
abbaltor and tho pointed end of a
nccdlo cxtractod from tho tip of his
right forefinger. Ah, thoro, Regi
nald! A special dispatch to tho Bazoo
from New York gives tho dotails of
a romarkablo discovery. Mr. B.
Oozeflght, after enduring long yours
of slavery to tho drink habit, at last
discovered a sura euro, IIo wants
tho whole world to benefit by hln
wonderful discovery. Not for
worlds would he seek to profit thoro
from, but gladly gives it free to all
who ask for it. Direct all communi
cations to B. Oozeflght, Department
X, 23 Sucker street, Now York.
Misunderstood
"What on earth aro you standing
down thero by tho gate for, Mothor7"
queried Farmor Oatsbln.
"I'm just a lookln' and a won
derln' why our Johnnlo boy ain't
come yet."
"Why, John ain't comin' homo
yet, mother. IIo ain't moro'n got
settled down at th' university."
"Well, father, I just know he's
coming, an' I can't understand why
he ain't showin' up down th' lano
long aforo this."
"An what'n th' world makes you
think he's comin,' mother?"
"Didn't wo get a letter from him
day beforo yesterday? An' didn't
ho say ho was half-back? An' ain't
ho had. plenty o' time t' come th' rest
o' tli' way, father?"
After Gray a Long Wuyn
Tho autumn sun slants slowly to
tho south,
Tho chilling breeze brings sorrow
to tho soul;
A warning voice comes from tho fur
naco mouth:
"Get busy, Bill, and fill mo full
of coal."
Full many a plunk spont for dog
days delight
Haunt now my dreams as winter
draweth nigh;
Full many a ton of unbought an
thracite Cause me to draw tho loud, com
plaining sigh.
Tho Awakening
"Ah, but that voman was a per
fect dream!"
"So?"
"Yeo. But when I aBked her to
marry mo her answer woko me up."
"She must have given you a de
cided negative."
"Wrong; she gave me a posltivo
affirm ativo."
L' Envoi
O Sister of Snows, will you tell rao,
I pray,
Why do you thus add to my
troubles and cares?
'Twas all very well to dissemble your
love.
But why did you kick me down
stairs?
Tho Mean Tiling
Mrs. BInks "We had just tho
loveliest time at the sewing circle
today. We made a nice lot of cloth
ing for the poor heathen in foreign
lands "
Mr. Binks "And tore to rags a
lot of reputations right hero at
homo."
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