Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-03

thevc are among these Democrats. /
mean men big in body as well as In
brain. BOies OF Iowa weighs more than
two hundred. Carlisle must Touch the
Two hundred mark Bland Us short hut
heavy. General John NJ Palmer Is
six looier, and Adlai l. Stevenson. who
IS something Of candidate Tor ,he prcsi.
denCy, stands seyenty.iour inches tall
In his stockings and weighs two hun.
bred and nineteen and half pounds
Carlisle i, a biz brunette. Stevenson is
big blonde. You might almost call
him a strawberry blonde. for there is
reddish tinge to what Is left OF bis hair
and there is CLINT oi lold among the
silvesy threads oi his heavy mustlchc.
Stevenson, like Carlisle, was born 90
Kentucky, and, like Carlisle, lc was q
poor boy. Ills first reading Nls done
during the intervals OF work upon his
fathers farm. lie had to hgbt Tor his
time for reading, and | heard the other
day a story OF how he got in some OF II
unknown to his father IL was in corn
blowing time. aud the farmers ol Ken
lucky worked from daylight until dark.
Adlai Stevenson had got his iir,tt taste OF
Robinson Crusoc, and he carried the
book with HIM to the ields.g out with
his iathcr's one eyed mule ostcnsibly to
pillow corn. His father was no another
part Of the plantation, and during the
old mans absence Adlai rested aud
read, Adlai'a father, however, knew
something OF the boys tricks, aud in OF.
der 10 be sure that he was at work he
fastened a bell around the mules neck.
and told Adlai he should know that
when that bell stopped ringing he had
stopped work For some days, how.
ever, he noted that the bell rang con.
iinuuu5ly, but that there was little pillow.
ing done. lie could not understand it.
and lie slipped quietly around to the
corn field, the bell Keeping up is ring.
ing as he came. When he reached the
fence he looked Ia vain Tor Adai or the
mule. But the bell still rang, lie i1l.
lowed It's sound, and there iu the thicket
al the side OF tnu field sat the bare.
footed future vice president deep in the
mysteries oi Robinson Cfusoc, while his
loot moved regularly to aud ITO pulling
al a string, one end OF which was at
tached 10 his big toe and the other to
the bell, which he had hung up ON a
bush a lew yards away. lt is needless
TO say that Robinson CusUc aud his
man Friday were laid away lur that day
NJ least. Soon after this AdliB father
moved to Illinois, but the boy came
back to Centre College, Kentucky, to
get his education.
TIM Swan LIKE BLACEguRN.
1t was at Centre College that Toe
blackburn was educated, and Adlai and
he were there NJ the same time.
Senator Blackburn will cut big tic.
urc here at Chicago lie will probably
have complimentary vote rom X an.
lucky ior President, and he may make
one Of his great speeches in the con-
ycnlion. blackburn Is famous word
painter. His mouth can grind out elo-
qucnt expressions faster than i0fty.seyen
Erapnophones run by electricity, aud al
his home he is known as the silver
tonRued Blackburn. His speeches,
however, are more noted Tor their
beauty than Tor their depth of thought,
and this reminds me OF how blackburn
was once taken down In Kentucky.
Candidates for office In that state, YOU
know, debate with one another before
an audience OF both parties as to the
questions Of the day They go about
their districts to show Of their parts to
their constituents. one night Senator
blackburn made the FIRST speech. lie
had captured the audience, and as he
sat down his friends looked about In
triumph. His opponent then rose aud
turned the tide Of popularity with sin.