BTorr to ICei > "Wuter Cold.
"Having tried it , I recommend th <
following mode of keeping ice water for
a long time : i common pitcher , " says
va writer in Woman's Home Companion.
" * TIace bftween two sheets of thick
brown paper a layer of cotton batting
about hall aj inch in thickness ; fasten
the ends of the paper and hatting to
gether , forming a circle , then sew or' '
) aste a crown over one end , making a
iox the shape of a stovepipe hat minus
the rim. Phicc Ihis over an ordinary
pitcher filled with ice water , making It
deep enough to rest on the table so as
to exclude the air , and you will be as-
tontehfd to s , > e tiu length of time that
the Ic" \\il ! Kteprul the water remain
cold afi < r all the , e has melted. "
Poultry by Machinery.
Feeding and fattening poultry by
machinery ! Well , what next ? Re
sponsible for this latest usurpation of
pature's functions are the French ,
those people who are past masters in
-every thing having to do with the
preparation and serving of food and
the enjoyment of it , too.
Although ihe idea of feeding poultry
Joy machinery hasn't been long on these
shores , several hundred persons are
engaged in the business , and nearly a
milling dollars is invested. Machino-
faliened poultry is to be found in ev
ery important market of the land.
Whl ! " t'ie idea , as stated before , came
from France. Americans , with their
u&ti. ; ! ie\erness in adopting the prod-
ncts of other brains , have improved
upon the mehanical agencies.
A Fheet r etal tank or bucket , hold
ing : * ' "tit four gallons of food and
ptanulng upon three legs , forms the
jpper part of the American machine.
\ ru1er ' tube about a foot long runs
TTrom ihe receptacle ; it is about the
sr/.r ii one's thumb when it is attach
ed to the machine and tapers to the
p = ! 7.e nf a Jltle finger at the other end.
Opi'j.vc'd by the foot , a treadle is con-
: > < - ( ted with a little sliding door in the
ftottom of t ! c bucket. When this door
! ' . ojii no , ! l y a moven nt of the treadle
n quantity of food is forced through
the tube and down the fowl's throat.
When one wishes to feed a fowl he
seize ? it by the legs , opens it bill and
pushes the rubber tube down its throat
antil the no/zlc nearly reaches the crop.
Then he works the treadle , forcing
oed down the fowl's throat until the
crop is filled. Some operators are so
esrert that they can feed -100 chick
ens an hour with the machine.
Ct is claimed on behalf of the machine -
* chine that poultry will fatten in half
; the time if fed this way , and that the
will have a better flavor. The
kept sfuffed all the time , regard
less of its natural appetite , is bound
Jto get fat.
Most of the fatteners feed a mixture
< of corn meal , oat meal and milk. It
must be soft enough to pass readily
through the rubber tube of the feeder ,
jit is asserted that feeding by machin
ery is not cruel and that a chicken
seen learns to open its bill voluntarily
for the nozzle.
ALMOST A SHADOW.
"GainedO ll > t. cm Grape-Nuts.
There's u wonderful difference be-
vtj a food which merely tastes good
; "ie which builds up strength and
go"l healthy flesh.
it makes no difference how much we
cat unless * we can digest it It is not
really food to the system uutil it is
. . .allr ! ed. A Yorkstate woman says :
" 1 had been a sufferer for ten years
with stomach and liver trouble , and
finl got so bad that the least bit of
food such as I then knew , would give
me untold misery for hours after eat
ing. '
* 'J lost flesh until I was almost a
shadow of my original self and my
i'rlends were quite alarmed about me.
"First I dropped coffee and used
TPostum , then began to use Grape-Nuts ,
-although I had little faith it would dome
-me any good.
"But I continued to use the food
and have gained twenty pounds in
weight and I feel like another person
in every way. I feel as If life had
truly begun anew for me.
"I can eat anything I like now in
moderation , suffer no ill effects , be on
ray feet from morning until night.
Whereas a year ago they had to send
me away from home for rest while oth
ers cleaned house for me , this spring
I have been able to do it myself all
alone.
"My breakfast Is simply Grape-Nut3
vrith cream and a cup of Postum , with
Foiuetimes an egg and a piece of toast ,
but generally only Grape-Nuts and
Postum. And I can work until noon
and not feel as tired as one hour's
work would have made me a year ago. "
"There's a Reason. "
Name given by Postum Co. , Battle
Creek. Mich Read , 'The Road to Well-
ville. " In pkgs.
Ever read the abovft letter ? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine , true , and full of
V&uman interest.
Jacksonville , III. , Remembers Ne =
braskan as One of Its Most II-
lustrious Former Citizens.
COUSIN TELLS 0 ? BOYHOOD.
Piesidential Candidate Met future
Wife While Student at College-
Stories of Youth Recalled.
e , HI. , con csijomlcnec :
The final me.isurc of a man's great
ness is that taken of him by his old
home town. The light that beats upon
the scats of the mighty may dazzlxe the
present associates of a leader of people
to such au extent that they are unfitted
to estimate the man's real historical
value. But his old home town , know
ing him with all the intimacy and none
of the leniency of his family circle ,
of his life. He went to Lincoln
his idens formulated and his ideals
formed. Jacksonville gave Bryau bin
dream and sent him to the West ,
equipped to buttle for its victory.
Bryan came lo Jacksonville from Sa
lem a gawky country boy. He was 15
years old then , with all the alertness
and eagerness of the usual boy for new
places and new scenes. That he had
possibilities of power uas recognized
then by many who knew him best. He
showed wonderful adaptability and an
astonishing capacity for development.
The beginning of his college life was
marked by no display of brilliancy.
Or.ilcr ii College.
There is only occasional mention of
him In the college paper until his
junior year. But in that year he way
delivering orations that were attract
ing the attention of older men , and he
was the vajeclietoruin of his class wher
he graduated in 1SS1. It wss while at
tending college lli.it Bryan met his fu
ture wife. MNs KIileth ) Baird. and
they were nurried at Perry. 111. , in
1SP-1.
Illinois CoIJecc naturally assumes a
pre-eminent part in the education of
Bryan. It undoubtedly had its influ
ence upon the boy who came lo the
campus every day lor six year. " . Whip-
pie Academy beinir part of the college.
But it was not the most potent influ
ence exerted upon Bryan in those days.
B&YAN'S BIRTHPLACE , HOME HE BUILT , AND INTEREST
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will judge him.
Jacksonville , 111. , is the old home
town of William J. Bryan. He came
here a schoolboy in 1875 , remaining six
years , two at Whipplc Academy and
four at Illinois College. After three
years' study of law in Chicago he came
back lo Jacksonville in 1884. Estab
lished in a law practice there , he mar
ried and built his home in Jacksonville.
In 1SS7 he went to Lincoln.
Now the prophet has come to honor
ha his own country. Jacksonville's ver-
flict of Bryan is luadatory. If Bryan
came to Jacksonville to-day he would
find none of that discourtesy that
wounded him so deeply at the end of
his 1S9G campaign. For the town has
had time to lose the bitterness of parti
sanship in recalling the man who used
to be one of its citizens' . Now. it is
more than admi ration that the town
gives Bryan. He is remembered in
Jacksonville with an ardor of personal
loyalty and affection such as few men
sver receive.
liryiiii Rouses Eiiihn.sla.sm.
When the men who were his friends
/ ears ago talk of him , they speak with
enthusiastic quickening of manner that
Is more significant than their words.
When the women who knew him then
recall him now they mention him with
that softening of voice that is the un
failing note of affection.
" 'To be loved is to be lovable , ' " said
one of them. 'That old Lincoln motto
seems to hove been made for such men
as Mr. Bryan. My impression of him
Is the one that I received when I first
met him here nearly twenty-five years
ago , the most kindly , the most whole
some , the most thoughtful , the most
magnetic man I ever knew.1
That is Jacksonville's tribute to Bry
an , the gift of admiring affection. Dur
ing the years that he spent in the town
he made hhnself one of the people even
more surely than if he had been a na
tive of the place. And in return for
the genial kindliness of personality that
I he brought lo the town the town gave
| hfni of its best. The most important
iafiuence in Bryan's life was that of
his Jacksonville days. Ho was 15 years
eld when he came there , 27 when he
left These were the formative years
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conservative. Had they l.een the dom
inating force in the mental develop
ment of the boy from Salem , he would
never have delivered that famous
speech of the convention of ' % that
brought him to the heights of radical
leadership of his party.
Some force more potent than they
must have been at work in those days
directing the boy's mind to those broad
er issues that the town and the college
did not entirely apprehend. There
was such an influence , very definite
and very intimate , exerting itself on
Bryan , and the story of Bryan's growth
under it is one of the most interesting
phases of his life.
The influence was Dr. Hiram K.
Jones , of Jacksonville. He was a
cousin of Bryan's father and had come
to Jacksonville fnm Culpopcr County.
Ya. . in the early ' 'JOs.
He had no children of his own , and
it was at his request that Bryan wns
sent lo Whipplr Academy nnd installed
as a member of his OKU fnmil.r. Bryan
lived for six years in Dr. Jones' house
on College nreniio.
Dr. Jones himsHf 5uprrrisrd tec
Iwy'n education rtnd taucht hi * * more
by the Socratie mrthod than he ever
learned from the beolre of the college.
Hirant K. Jones wns the otily West
ern mnn who was a member of the
Concord School. Ernrrson came to
Jacksonville to see him. It was Em
erson who salt ! of Dr. Jones when
whom he had met In the vrest ,
"I met a man.1
Dr. Jones was the greatest student of
Plato In the country. He was one of
the most profound philosophers of
America. His desire to attain absolute
perfection prevented the publication
of his lectures , treasures as they are
of the highest thought. Dr. Jones was
fifty years ahead of his generation ,
lie was a thinker who had no pa
tience with the superficial parrot style
of mental training that came beneath
his notice , and who insisted upon a
student's ability to reason out for him
self the problems of philosophy and of
life.
In Dr. Jones' library , with its quaint
mahogany furniture , its statuettes of
Plato , its pictures of the philosophers
and Us crowded shelves of profound
lilenvtvjre , Bryau used to study. Here
he lis'jened to the discourses of the
foreiyttsl , thinkers of the time. Here
he hoard Dr. Jones' reading of Carlyle ,
of Kant , of Homer , of Dante , of Soph
ocles. Here he himself read Rollins
and Tully and Draper and Burton and
St. Augustine and Plutarch and many
others of the world's greatest writers.
His years at the Jones home were
delightfully happy ones. In his gar
den in the long Hummer twilight , with
the fireflies gleaming among the trum
pet vanes and the tall phlox , a little
woman who had been one of the Jones
family when Bryan was one of them
told the story of those days.
Girl Coiiftiu Jlis Friciitl.
Miss Clara Calvert. one of the Yir-
tucky to visit Dr. Jones in 1878. She
was two yoar-5 younger than Bryan ,
whoso cousin she was. The boy and
girl became the best of friends , al
though their difference in political
opinion was a subject for constant clis
cussion.
Jacksonville says that Miss Calvert
is the only 0110 who ever ordered Bry
an around. Certain it is that she still
calls him to task for those political
sentiments which do not meet with
her approval , for she is the only un
reconstructed Republican of the family
Bui with all that , she is immenselj
I ivud of him. more of his person/il
quality of consideration of others than
of his natural prominence.
Miss Clara Calvert , one of the iYr-
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Mnia Calverts and Kentuckian by
birth , is one of the most charming and j
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interest ing women one may meet. Her
recollections of Bryan's life in the old
home she now holds , told with a keen
souse of humor and with affectionate
regard , show Bryan to have been a
wholesome , healthy , merry boy , who
could play as well as work , and who
\\as thoroushlv unspoiled by his tre
mendous belief iu his own power to be-
< ome a leader.
"Will ah\ays said that ho was going
to be President , ' ' said Miss Calvert.
"I used to ] Ver at him alwut it and
he would laugh at me and say : 'Never
mind , even if you are a Republican ,
I'll let you come to see me at the
U'hite ilouse. '
"You don't know \\hy you are a
Democrat , ' I would say to him , after
lie had been talking all the principles
of Democracy. 'I do , too , ' he'd say.
I'm a Democrat because my father is
a Democrat ! '
"Will would get into mischief just
like other bo\s , but he'd never break
his \\ord about anything. Will was al
ways thoughtful of other people. Noth
ing was too much trouble for him to
do for sc.me one he liked , and he liked
almost everyone. He never forgets any
one he has known. And he was always
like that.
"I hadn't seen him for fifteen years
when he came through Pewee valley ,
Kentucky , my home , in 1890. His train
v , as not to stop there , as he was to
speak in La Grange. I was down at
the station waiting for a train when
his train slowed and stopped. There
he was , on the platform , with a napKin -
Kin in his hand.
" 'Do s Miss Clara Calvert still live
here : ' he asked some one. Then ho
sa-.v me. 'Clara 1 * he shouted. 'Get
on I you must' ' And lie reached down ,
caught me up and kidnaped me for the
day.
day."And that excellent memory is one
of the finest things in Will. I know
he's a great talker , even if I am a Re
publican. I hope that if a Democrat
has to be elected , that Will is that
man.
"Dr. Jones voted for him. although
he wsts one of the original Republican
party .nnd hm' voted tlfat way from
18TG ) until IS'Mi But he said that Will
5ood for nil the best things of both
parties. "
England loses 60,000 persons every
year by emigration.
Napoleon of Air Loses Craft by
Fire and Explosion as He
Triumphs.
GALE CAUSES DESTRUCTION.
Alpine Storm Upsets SGnzine , Which
Ignites Gas Bag During
Hepair Work.
Overwhelmed with disaster in his
hour of triumph Count Zeppelin Wed
nesday saw the giant airship in which
he has wrested the supremacy of the
air from a score of competitors catch
lire , explode and drift away a muss of
wreckage on the Avings of a resistless
storm. Four men of the aeronaut's crew
weie badly burned , but Zeppelin him
self escaped injury. The end of Zeppe
lin's $125,000 machine the fourth he
has constructed came at the village of
G.OOO feet , made by the navigator as 8
final test of his ' -raft.
Having already lost all hope of mak
ing the twenty-four hour continuous
flight demanded by the German go verm
ment as a condition of the purchase of
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the airship. Count Zeppelin recognized
that time no longer counted and deter
mined to have thorough repairs exe
cuted before continuing the trip. Ho
therefore sent to Friedrichshafen for n
staff of. mechanics to place the balloon
in commission again.
Slorjii Oriys A Iraki ? .
At 'i o'clock .in the uf tcrnoon , while th <
repair work was still in progress , a
fierce thunderstorm swept down from
the Alps and seized the huge air flyer
in its grip. The wind upset a quantity
of beuzitie which lay around the. ma
chine. In a moment the fluid blazed
up , the flames reached the gas bag float
ing aloft , and there was a tremendous
explosion.
Simultaneously the hurricane tore the
balloon from its awhorage and hurled
it. a fiery mass , in a southeasterly direc
tion for titty yards. Then the rear end
of the great fabri" dropped , the motors
and frames attached to the under side
crashed to the earth , knocking down
several bystanders , and all that re
mained of the great airship floated
auay ou the gale , a mass of blazing
cordage and material.
The accident to the Zeppelin airship
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Kchte-rdingen. near Stuttgart , and only
05 miles from the finishing point of the
5122-mile aerial journey which the count
was aiming to complete , where tens of
thousands of persons were already gath
ered to greet him as conqueror of the
air.
Orders have already been given by
Count Zeppelin for the construction of
another airship. Subscription lists for
funds with which to provide the means
have been opened in Berlin , Bremen.
Stuttgart and other towns in Germany
and Switzerland.
c.s Cliec-U for $12 : > , OOO.
While the airship was being destroy
ed Privy Councilor Lewald was on his
way to present Count Zeppelin with a
check for $125,000 , the "budget estimate
for aeronautic cxpei imonts which it
had been decided to give to the navi
gator as a reward for his many . \ears
of sacrifice in the interest of the father
land.
Passing over Stuttgart at G : , ° > 0 in tlu
morning on the last stage of its voyage ,
and steering straight for Friedrichsha
fen , the Zeppelin airship moved along
with the greatest ease. Five miles far
ther on , however , one of the motor- ,
suddenly developed defects and the bal
loon was brought to earth on a plateau
near Echterdingen.
It was discovered that the cause of
the breakdown was the overheating of
the piston of the motor and the reduc
tion of the gas in the balloon as the re
sult of an ascension to an altitude of
A Cniiipnsitu Airship.
M. Malcot , .1 French aeronaut , lias
velopcd a nc\v kind of air crp.ft. which
combines the principles of the balloon and
the acioplanc. The directing part is the
aeroplane of triangular shape. It is ( j-
feet Ion ? , with a surface of 420 ' quart1
feet and made of bamboo and aluminum.
In its center nre the car and the appan-
tus for propelling and steering the Avhol" .
A twenty-eight her < e-po\ver motor drives
a screw fnn of walnut wood ten foot long
and giving 1.200 revolutions a minute.
The while eiirht of aeroplane and ma
chinery is attached to a cigar-shaped bal
loon 100 feet long and 2S fo ° t wide , which
is designed to rriv additional safety and
buoyancy to the whole.
The first formal appeal of the Demo
cratic candidates for contributions to
their campaign fund has boon madf to
the farmers of thf hind. It begins with
the statement that the first contribution
this year came from an Iowa farmer , a
naturalized SvoflfBryan's paper , the
Commoner , is a ked to call for and re
ceive the offering of the farmer * , to be
turned over to the national committee
later. Bryan has been very busy receiv
ing delegations at his Lincoln home and
conferring with leaders. He made sev
eral speeches into a phonograph machine
recalls the end of th" French military
airship Patrie in December , 1007 , which
was then con.sMored the finest dirigible
balloon in existence. A sudden gust of
wind strtulc the airship and the 200
men who were holding the guide ropes
were dragged for several hundred
yards. The balloon shot up to a great
height and disappeared. Five- days later
the Patrie came down in Ireland.
Count Zeppelin's record-breaking voy
age with his great airship surprises no
one familiar with the present state oC
the art of aerial navigation. That a
modern motor balloon can be depended
upon to make voyages of from one to
two thousand miles , under fairly favor
able conditions , has long been known to
men who are familiar with aeronautics.
Count Zeppelin's success is epoch-mak
ing in that it convinces a skeptical
world of the practicability of airships
aiid of their utility as engines of war
and as instruments of exploration of
the upper air. as well as of parts of
the earth otherwise inaccessible , like
the great unknown area surrounding
the north pole. The recent demonstra
tion , although it ended disastrously ,
without doubt will assure the rapid
bui'ding of aerial navies by the chief
military powers. In fact. Germany ,
France , Great Britain and the United
States are already moving in that di
rection. France has the Lebaudy and
La Kepublique already in commission ,
and Zeppelin's ship , it is understood ,
is to be taken over for the German
army.
NEWS OF MINOR NOTE.
To prevent his marriage to a 13-yeax >
old girl William Williams. ( M years old ,
was murdorofl and his body hanged to a
tree near Marydel. Maryland.
S. T. Crum. a Seattle business man ,
accidentally shot and instantly killed Al
bert Moody , a close personal friend. re
siding at Virginia City , Mont. , ivitlj
whom he was hunting ground squirrels
near that place.
Henry Joneon of the pioneers ol
Minnesota , v-ho built the first cabin on
the Mte whore the village of St. Petei
now stands , died recently at hLs home in
Fniuklin Ilpsghts. Minneapolis , at the aga
of 7. ) ycirs.
Recently a little frame building oa
Third street , near .Market , in St. Paul ,
burned. It was the building in which , in
September. 1SU1. Charles Eichler , the
fir.st volunteer Tnics soldier of the Civil
War. wa - nu : < ; terf > d in. -fc
A national refernduin iu Switzerland
on the question of prohibiting- manu *
facture and sale of absinthe resulted in a v
majority of .8 < " ) ,000 iu favor of the pro- '
hibition. This wig mean a loss to tha
government revenues , as the most famooa
brands of absinthe are made' ha Switzer *
land.
