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REV. FATHER NUGENT INVOKINO
ONPART1BAN notification mt-
I lloni In a tte hou Itwn, but
I they have even more depress
ing effect on nthuelasm. Con
vinctn proof of tbU ww luf
mined mi Lincoln on WedneUiy, AUfcuai
U, when loma half-doien member! of a
committee of fifty. appolnUd for that pur- .
poae by the Denver convention, met to In
form Mr. William Jennlng-t Dryan that ha
had been entered for the third tlma In tha
pr'.atdentlal weepUke, In aplte of hi
poor abowlnf In the book of paat per
formance!. The good people of Lincoln had built
high hopea around tha program for tha day.
It waa the I Irat tlma that any city west of
tha Mliilkiippl had ever had the demo
tion of entertaining tha repreeentatlvea of
a great national political party, charged
with the duty of Informing a, ajtleen of It
that he had been made tna receplent of tha
greateat honor In tha gift kf a political
party. In tha aplrlt of nelghborlineas and
civic prlda tha Llncolnltea antered Into tha
work of making tha oceaston a memorable
one for their city. Partlaanahlp waa laid
atlda with the work-a-day clothea and
man and women of all parties and all
walk of Ufa joined In making notification,
day a gala day. Out of renpect for tha
Nvlahea of tha partlaana directly In charge
of tha affair that tha notification ahould
bo marked by simplicity, the Lincoln folks
restrained their enthusiasm in tha matter
of decorations and gaudy display. Jeffer
aonlan simplicity does not harmonise very
wall with banners of rustling silk and
bunting of sheeny satin, so tha decorations
ware confined very largely to plain cotton
of patriotic' colors and crayon portraits
of the kind that used to be in vogua whan
tha philanthropte artist enlarged one for
you free If you would only buy a $12 frama
for Itand some unnumbered thousand pic
tures 'of tha peerless leader dona in tha
best style of the job printer's art. In tha
matter of decorations tha simplicity ob
served by the LlnoolDltes waa very much
in evidence.
" In the preparation of the program, tha
committee In charge evidently overlooked
an essential feature. No provision waa
made for tha enthusiasm, the citlsena of
tha city evidently expecting tha visitors
to bring that with them, while the result
showod that most of tha folks who at
tended the ceremonies were traveling with
out any baggage. Mr. Bryan's fellow
townsmen, most of whom ara loyal re
publicans exoapt on notification days, could
not have reasonably been expected to fur
nish tha cheering for tha man they intend
to vote against in November, and somehow
the rest of tha visitors appeared to have
a desire to respect tha faollngs of tha re
publicans who bad been drafted for tha
day's duties. Be that as it may, the un
disputed fact remains that there waa leas
cheering and ether evidences of enthuat
aam that would be found at an ordinary
political rally In tha closing days of tha
campajgn.
Practically the only real excitement of tha
day's doings waa occasioned by tha arrival
In Lincoln and tthe march through tha
streets of tha Dahlman Democracy, soma
From the Story Teller's Pack
Vi for All.
FTCK a certain jury had been
A I out an inordinately long tlma
I on a very aimple case, they
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tha foreman told the Judge tbey
were unable to agree upon a
verdict. The latter rebuked them, aaylng
the case waa a very clear one, and re
manded them back to the jury room for a
second attempt, adding, "If you are there
too long. I will have to aend you In twelve
suppers."
The foreman, in a rather Irritated tone,
spoke up snd said: "May It please your
honor, you might aend in eleven suppers
snd one bundle of bay." Everybody's
Msgailne.
Car for a (.hares. Cong.
The brilliant and learned Henry Vai
Dyka of Princeton was discussing the
church cough.
"In my boyhood there came to Oerman.
town." he aald, "a gentle minister who,
stopped effectually hla coughing congre
gation. "It was a congregation, too, singularly
addicted to coughing. Rattling volleye ef
coughs ran over It every few minutes.
The minister. Indeed, that first Sunday,
couid hardly make himself beard. Ha had
rather a weak voice.
"Well, aftea hla sermon had proceeded
for tea or twelve minutes, now audible
enough, now drowned under great waves
of coughs, bs took a resolution, and when
the next outbreak waa at ita height he
ceassd preaching.
"At once the coughing ceased. There
was a profound silence, Tha minister
amlled.
" My friends." said be. It seems that
when I stop you stop'
Trom that day in that church they
soughed no more-Boston Herald.
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Tanpinca Baea Ball.
Hal Chase, the famous first baseman.
THE BLE8SINQ Or OOD
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strong, ytrom Omaha. These men wera
cheered liberally as they marched from tha
depot to the Lin dell hptel and received
something of an ovation at different points
along the route, but tha cheers were for
Dahlman and not for Mr. Bryan. Mayor
"Jim" waa alive to tha advantages offer
by the peculiar situation and he overlooked
no chance to make tha Dahlman guberna
torial boom the top-heavy feature of tha
notification ra41y.
Mr. Bryan made Ms first appearance at
tha Lincoln bote) about 1 o'clock, after he
had entertained tha notification commit
tee at Falrvlew and had welcomed various
groups of pilgrims who had journeyed out
to the leader's hnme. When Mr. Bryan waa
driven up in a carriage to tha Lincoln
hotel the several hundred persons who
were gathered in front of the place took
his coming as a matter of course. There
was no cheering, no spontaneous outburst
of enthusiasm and the crowds inside tha
hotel did not know of his arrival until
a man rushed in and announced that
"Bryan is here." As tha nominee entered
tha hotel, there waa a faint burst fcf ap
plause and ha waa surrounded by a press
lng throng of about twenty persons who
shook hands with him while ha waited for
the elevator to take him to tha rooms being
occupied by tha notification committee.
One minute later tha excitement in tha
lobby had subsided and no indication was
given of tha presence In the hotel of a
candidate for tha presidency.
The parade to tha state house grounds
waa slow In starting, but when the line of
march was finally taken up, about t
o'clock, tha people who thronged tha side-
wss advocating teetotaUsm among ball
players. He argued well, snd In ths midst
of his argument he told a story.
"Leroy Vigors, a friend of rnlna," he said,
"turned up to play in an amateur game
with a skate on.
"When Vigors stepped to ths bat ha
amlled a silly smile snd said to the um
pire: " 'I see three bats an' three balls here.
What am I to hlc do?"
" -Hit the middle ball.' aald the umpire.
"But Vigors struck out.
" 'Durn ye. Vigors,' said a eoaeh, why
didn't you bit tha middle ball. Ilka the um
pire to you?
" I did,' says Vigors, with an injured air.
only I hit It with the hie outside bat.'
Washington Star.
A riToDoncer.
Carol's grandfather had served in ths civil
war and Carol liked to hear of the many
battlea in which he had fought. One day.
after listening to the vivid recital of many
berolo deeds, Carol aaid:
"Grandfather, you went through all those
battlea?"
Yes."
"And ths shot and shell fell all around
you?"
"Yes."
"And soldiers were falling and dying
eerywhre?"
"Yea"
"Well, grandfather,' what a fine dodger
you must have been!" Tha Delineator.
Hemor K very vrhero.
"Oh, yea" Senator La Follette reluctantly
admitted of a corrupt politician. "I suppose
ths man haa aoms sense of honor. Where
won't you find some sense of honor, though?
You know tha story of Judaon of Madlaon.
"Judaon of Madison was showing hla
country cousin ths sights of tha city.
"But there ara erooka and blacklegs
nerv. Jos,' he said 'You mui; look out for
them.'
"And half by way of a joke, half by w.iy
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O. HUMPH RET O'BULLIVAN READINQ THE LETTER TO Ma BRYAN.
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GOVERNOR SHELDON ON THE
walks allowed the procession to pass by
without demonstration. At several points
along tha line some enthusiasts both in
and out of the procession made an effort
to start a demonstration, but It fell prac
tically flat. When- Mr. Bryan and tha
members of the notification committee
of Impressing the city's perils snd pitfalls
on Joe, Judson slyly nipped his cousin's
handkerchief from hla pocket
"A moment later a well dressed stranger
took him by the arm and led him aside.
" 'Excuse me, pard," the stranger whis
pered, 'I didn't know you was In the pro
fesh.'
"And he handed Judson back hla own
watch." Mlnneapolia Journal.
He Waa Not Surprised.
Associate Justice D. R. Brewer, the wit
and story teller of the United States su
preme court, la credited with the fallowing:
A millwright was converted to the way of
thinking of a sect which periodic ally was
Inspired with a foreknowledge of the Immi
nence of the day of doom and set the date,
preparing for Gabriel's greeting.
The dste was set snd the day csme. Ths
millwright donned his whits robe and went
out into the fields ta await tha coming
meeting wlfh the celestial throng. The day
passed until It waa late In tha afternoon,
and the millwright, having risen at the
stroke of midnight on the morn of the
eventf.il day, grew drowsy, and, throwing
himself down upon a pile of hay, fell aileep
at bis watch'.
Boys discovered him snd. with ths natural
mischlevousness of boys, they set flrv to
the hay. The smoks and the heat soon
woke the slumbering millwright, and, sit
ting up with a start, he cried with the an
guish of the lost:
"Just aa I expected! In hell, after all!"
Milwaukee Sentinel.
GoalaVe Black System Story.
Oris ef Georgs J. Gould's stories is sbout
western man traveling on a branch rail
road in the north. After a series of sudden
bumps and unexpected atopa ha became
uneasy.
"Look hora." ha aald to the porter, "U
this train safe?"
"It sura sin." said ths porter.
"Well, have they a Nock system on this
rwdr
Block lyittm, sab? Ws hab da greatest
block system in da world. Ten miles back
ws wars blocked by a load of hay, six miles
sack ws were blocked by a mule, just now
ws were blocked by a cow, snd I reeokn
when we get further souf we'll be blocked
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CHAIRMAN
END - X - MAYOR DUNNE OF CHICAGO
reached the platform in front of the state
house there was a little burst of welcom
ing chiers. Perhaps ltOOO to 15,000 persons
were massed In front of the speaker's plat
form, but they failed to evince any special
delight at the appearance of the candidate.
The lack of enthusiasm was so plainly fell
by an alligator. BlJck system, boss? Well,
I should smile." Rochesier Hersld.
It Wasn't rire Xor Water.
A. M. Downus, late secretary of New
York's fire department, related at a din
tier a fire story. "At tha end of'the rirst
act of a drams," he bald, "a man leaped
hurriedly to his feet. '1 heard an alarm
of fire,' lie said. '1 must go and see where
It is.' Ilia wife, whose hearing was levs
scute, marie way for him in silence, anj
he disappeared. 'It wasn't fire,' he pa d,
on his return. 'Nur water, either, said
his wife, coldly." Everybody's Magazine.
Took All His Attention.
"I mat Alfred Vanderbllt," said a tourist
at a Plaza luncheon, "at the Lonl'n horse
show. He talked about the riding.
"Mr. Vandcrbtlt praised the riding, es
pecially the riding of the Italians, with
their close knee grip. He ridiculed the
German.
"He said the German reminded him of
an old general who used to rld he had
been an Infantryman In Central park in
hla old age.
"A friend, spying the general on hl
horse one morning, trotted up to discuss
some mooted change In the peni-lon law.
" "General ." he began, but gjt no
answer.
" 'General .'
"Still no answer.
" 'General. General, I say.' he shouted.
"The old general, bouncing fc'gh In the
sir, turned a purple and frowning foe
on his Interrogator.
" 'Great heavens, man.' he cried 'can't
you see I'm riding?' "New York Times.
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Woman's Wit I acertaia.
"Don't always rely upon the reedy wit
of s woman," said the man who is some
times pleased to consider himself an oracle.
"That ready wit h isiness is sometimes
prons to get 'way off.
""For example, my wife and children had
been staying in tha country for several
weeks and I was regular with my letters,
as every loving husband should be. Finally
en tha day before my wife wss to start
for home 1 concluded my letter to her with
these words:
" 'This will bn the last letter I wlU write
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CLAYTON DELIVERING HIS ADDRES
NEARER VIEW OF THE CROWD ON
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IN CENTER WITH HAT IN HAND.
by the democrats directly In charge of the
meeting that, when Mr. Bryan arose to
respond to the speech of notification by
Congressman Clayton, the leaders In the
platform resorted to convention tactics to
work up the enthusiasm of the crowd.
Candidate Kern, Mr. Clayton, Mr. O'Sul-
to you for a long time, long time.'
"When I got down to my office the next
morning I found a telegram from my wife
waiting for me. 'What on earth do you
mean?' read the dispatch.
"Later a registered letter came from her.
She had blotted almost every line with
tears. What It waa all about I could not
Imagine.
"Then my telnprne bell rang, and when
I answered I heard my wife's voice speak
ing over the long-distance 'phone.
" 'O, John," said she. 'Is that really you?
I thought you had committed suicide!" "
New York Bun.
Burdens Borne by Turks
(Cont'nued from Fa$re One.)
fore he would proceed and refused to have
It again overhead. I believe that ti e tele
graph man bnught up eime official and
hsd It buried at the crossing.
"Another grievtnee that appealed espe
cially to the fd'jcated Turk was the grant
ing by the palace clique of cun.-etslons to
foreigners. Owing to the corrupt way In
which the concessions for railroads were
granted the cost has been out of all pro
portion to the usefulness of the lines. The
prices was usually In the shape of a guar
antee by the terms of which the less work
thbt a railway did the greater were its
profits.
"The railroads were net built to tnaUe
the rat.t.r.t tj get his rrouuee to the mar
kets, and no Turkish subject Is al'owed to
travel about the country without special
permission of the authorities. Aa a result
the Armenians, who are the keenest traders
of the empire, snd the Turks can rarely
move about to look up business.
"The result Is, of course, partly to pre
vent trade of all kinds and to thrjw what
there is into the hands of foreigners. The
situation was thus expressed to me by one
of these foreign concession hunters: 'I
bribe the Turks to buy my warcs-snythlng
from thread to (team engines and ih-a
they bribe nit to put down in tha bill
which the Ottoman emiie pays a mu:h
larger turn than I have actually recrlved.'
"Who gets the benefit? The French,
Germans, English, Jews, Armenians, any
other persons ui fact than tha Moslem.
lta n.a Toiros Turk in Turkey for ths
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LATTER SrAK8.
THE LAWN.
llvan, Judge Dunne and other members of
the notification committee waived flage
and tried over and over again to start the
popular outburst, but It failed to start, and
Mr. Bryan was allowed to repond to the
notification without any Interruption from
his hearers. Before he had proceeded far
with his address, at least one-half of the
crowd, being unable to get close enough to
hear, had dispersed, and when Mr. Bryan
concluded his sudlence was only large
enough to comportably cover the stone
flsgment in front of the stats houss steps.
Only twice In the course of his address did
Mr. Bryan arouse any cheers or marked
applause, and that was when he declared
he would, If elected, call s special session
ef congress to pass a law calling for tha
election of United States senators by a
direct vote of the people, and again when
he oritlclsed the management of the house
by the existing system of rules a system,
by tho way, which was in force when Mr.
Bryan was In congress.
The habitat of a crowd can be very ac
curately determined by the manner of lis
dispersing. Had the 60.TO0 visitors so con
fidently expected by the Bryan enthusiasts
been in Lincoln the streets would have
been thronged for hours after the conclu
sion of the ceremonies et the state house.
As a matter of fact, within thirty min
utes after Mr. Bryan had concluded his
address the streets of Lincoln had assumed
their normal appesranc-e. The women,
who formed a very good proportion of the
crowd in front of the state house, had re
turned to their homes to prepare the din
ners snd the men had returned to their
business which had been temporarily laid
Turks, and no mors foreign concessions
corruptly bought and no more foreign
troops pjliclng Moslem soil.
"Perhaps this matter of bribes Is art
Orlontal question. It was not just ths
same as if an American should lake a
bribo. According to the Oriental Idea all
the parties to a transactions must make
aomethlng out of It. Otherwise how could
the official live? Not on a salary, for In
the first prace it was Inadequate and Ir.
the next place It was seldom paid.
"If you were to work for a Turk and tell
him you wanted your money every Satur
day night he would look upon you with sus
picion. He would kcr you. give you a
share of the profit when lie himself made
a stake and lot you have all the opportuni
ties possible for making money off petltior.
ers or shopkeepeis, but a fixed salary,
never.
"If a msr. in this country gets away with
a big steal he is pretty likely to make a
considerably display of It. Not In Constan
tinor.le. In the first p:ac if he should get
away with a JlOO.oco dear he would have to
distribute t.0to at least to keep other
peraons In good humor.. Ar-d If you did
keep the money you couldn't make any dis.
play with It in Constantinople. You can't
keep race horses or yschta or glvs balls.
Spies are always on your track.
"If the sultan had any desire to know
of the corruption throughout the empire he
could not find it out from the spies snd
sycophants with whom he hss surrounded
himself at the Ylldls Kiosk. Tha prlnolpls
of espionage that prevails in all depart
ments of the government Is of his own
making, and the erjtnuragement given to
Informers produced a clds of blackmailers
that threatened to make trouble at the
palace fir any one who refused to pay
them. Many young men found that ths
way to favor lay through such channels and
they succumbed to the temptation to bs 1 re
formers. "The evil reached such dimensions thst
the Turk ran the risk of exl'.s for any act
or word that irfht be twisted Into a sign
of disaffection. I remember an Instance
of a schoolboy friend of mine who gsvs a
light from bis cigarette to a servant of
tha heir of the throne, with whom It was
treason to have any Intercourse. Tba boy
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UMBRELLA OVER MR, BRTAN AS THS
aside to make a nonpartisan holiday. Tha
limited number of visitors from Omaha en
other towns and cJUee of tha stats bad no
difficulty in finding room in the hotel lob
biea, whara thsy talked atata politics and
personal affairs until time to catch their
trains from home. Tha attendance must
have been a dlstlnot disappointment not
only to tha democrats In charge of tha af
fair, but to tha citlsena of Lincoln who, re
gardless ef polities, had dons thslr best
to make tha svent a memorable one.
Tha significance of tha slim attendanoa
and the lack of enthusiasm wore the sjo
Jects of much comment and speculation by
politicians In Lincoln. Demoorsts naturally
argue that there waa iio particular reason
for enthusiasm, as tha notification was a
purely formal affair and was not calcu
lated to arouse any hurrahs. They argued,
too. that tha nonpartisan character of tha
notification ceremonies naturally worked
to the suppression of partisan demonstra
tions, but they have little to offer in ex
planation of the promptness with which the
democratic masses acquiesced In tha polloy
of allenoe. Tha developments ef tha day
failed very signally to harmonise with the
reports that ara being persistently circu
lated that tha town of Lincoln and tha
ststs of Nebraska ara on fire with enthusi
asm for Bryan and that neighborly love
and ststs prldo are being relied upon ta
take Nebraska out of the republican col
umn this year. Tha ovations that were
started at different times during the day
for Governor Sheldon, and which' were sup
pressed largely through tha efforts of tha
governor himself and his republican friends,
were significant indications of the fallacy
of the claims of the Bryanltes.
Another explanation of the lack of at
tendance is that the farmers and business
men of the state have their hands full
right now. With the best crop prospects
tha state has hsd for yeara, tha farmers
are taking every precaution to cars for
their 95-cent wheat, their 7S-cant Born,
their SO-cent oats, their 7-cent cattle and
their H-oent hogs, and tha merchants are
engaged In getting new goods In stock to
provide for the record-bresklng trad that
must come between this and election dsy.
These folks are not deeply concerned about
Mr. Bryan and his policies. The reoord
shows that the farmer's Interest In Bryan
decreases ss ths price of farm products
advance.
The lack of attendance of enthuslastlo
democrats from other parts of tha oountry
must have been more disappointing to ths
Bryan managers than the failure of Na
braskans to be present at tha ceremonies.
Less than a score of members of the noti
fication committee were present and there
was absolutely no democrats of prominence
there from any part of tha country. Ths
visitors from Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Wy
oming, Colorado, Montana and Idaho, ths
atatea which the Bryanltes sra claiming,
could have all eoma In a special car, while
Norman E, Mack, tha chairman of tha
democralio national committee, and
Humphrey O'Sulllvan, secretary of the ns
tlficatlon committee, were ths only visitors
from ths east. No democrat who baa sven
stale prominence in New Tork or New
England came of his own acoount and ns
greeting came from ths absent leaders.
was sitting beside tbs man In a trarncaj
and didn't svsn know of his position.
"It would bs Imposstbls to estlrnata tha
number of men who have been exiled on
mere spies' tales. In some districts prao
tlcally ths whols of ths effendi, or official
and legal olsss, is composed of sxUes for
their opinions.
"It was from all these different classes
of ths Moslem population of European
Turkey that the Young Turk parly draw
recruits. It wss svery on with a griev.
ance, and Allah knows that svsry Tarklsh
subject has one, from ths humblest pusut
and most obscure soldier to ths wealthieet
merchant of Bescstln and ths most worthy
official. .
"Our cauas flourished without a recag
nlied leader, for under ths Turkish spy
system a leader would aeon have been put
out of tbe way. Ahmed Riaa, who U at
the head of the Young Turk party in Paris,
stands In a mora or less representative
capacity in Europe.
"Our field of activity has been th dig,
affected parts of Macedonia and Albania.
The whole of European Turkey is to b
fought for. those two provinces being
merely selected for the Initial struggle.
"Every Turk or Moslem is eligible fog
membership in ths organisation and ths
oath of fc-alty Is taken by placing tha head
upon the Koran, on which reet a revolver
and a knife. Every village haa a commit
tee with por to act. A tax is levied upon
members and penalties are Imposed for
desertions and failure to perform duties.
The families of those killed before or dur
ing tne revolution are to bo provided for
by the organisation.
"Everything at present In ths Una el
power is drifting Into ths hands of tha
young Turk. I have a letter from Ahmed
Riaa In which he says that although ths
eultan has given in our party alii pot dis
band. 'Ws ask,' hs says, nothing better than
to aes the sultsn hold to his premiss. As
long as he does so his throns and Ms per
son will be sacred in our syes, and If hs
Introduces truly liberal constitutional gov
eminent he will find no mors faithful sub
ject that tha young Turkish party. Oarry
tog out his promise) he will bring s new
era of pa ic and prtrl'j tg tV TsrlCsk
stnplra.' '
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