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ted to the bar, and she is ill more senses than wives usually are helpmeet to her husband. They have a delightful little home and several bright children.
 MT. Bryan is smooth faced, clean cut, handsome man, fine speaker and a ready debater. He Is an ardent tariff reformer Since his retirement from congress he has been active upon occa- sions ill spreading the free silver propa- ganda all over the great west and down into New Mexico He never fails to se- cure converts. He began his congress sional career by carrying an overwhelm- ingly Republican district by 1000 ma iority. Although his views on finance are at variance with those. of some of the great Democratic statesmen, recent developments have shown that he is in advance rather than i'll the rear of Democratic progress. As long ago as May, 1895, in speech i'll Missouri, MT. Bryan said he believed the Democratic party would take it's position at the next national convention and declare in ats platform for the free coinage of sil- ver at Is to l.
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WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
Career of an Eloquent Champion of Free
 Silver.


 It has been said that William Jen- nings Bryan of Nebraska "won fame ill an hour'' by his address on the tariff in congress i'll March, 1899. but his race for fame began 3 years prior to that date for he was a student of political economy at a very early age and was on the stump before he was old enough to vote MT Bryan was born in Salem,
 Ills, March 19, 1860. His father was a prominent lawyer and circuit court judge. Young Bryan graduated at the Illinois college and at the Union Law college; then he married Miss Mary E.
 Baird and put out his shingle as an at
 torney His total income for the first six months was $68 after that he had a fine practice His wife has also been admit
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ADLAl [. STEVENSON.
The Record Of a Long and Aotire Public
 Career.

No nan in the Democratic party is more popular than IS Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson. Even his enemies admit that, however vigorous his an-
 tagonism, the manner of the man is charming. His geniality is his strongest personal characteristic, and it is need less to add that the possession of it has been of great social, political and pc cuniTy advantage to him. His life has been full and busy one--a life of af-
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joining the ranks of those who are att tempting to debase the currency. Any community that rushes frantically to the support of schemes for scaling down debt simply because they do scale down debts is bound to suffer for it. How much Virginia has suffered from the consequences of following Malone into the ditch of repudiation it is impossible to estimate y
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HORACE BOIES.
sr of Farmer, Lawyer and States
 

1ssr of a Farmer, a Lawyer and States man.
 aOrace Boies. who looms up among Democratic possibilities as Iowa's Eorite son. is stanch adherent of E silver and tariff reform. He was Fu Fuabout Cs years ago ill q little vii. fnear Buffalo. He was brought up za farm and at the age of 16 left sae to make fortune for himself in Hwide west. He landed ill Racine, q, with just 75 cents in his pocket.
 F Fworking for farmers for awhile he Alned to New York without for
 s, but with determination to get
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MATTHEWS.
s.rmer Governor of Indiana and His very Interesting Career.

s.rde Matthews, the farmer govern
 z Indiana, is one Of the striking
 .ss in western politics. He is no a .on day agriculturist, but an actual
 ,ar M and, like Cincinnatus, he vir- m Hnv left the blow to take a hand in G Goolitical affairs of the common E.lsb He is a strong, resolute man, 3 "a ss nrirne of life, and his personal 'rr;ty and statesmanlike capacity Y v made him the most popular as n as the most respected Democrat in
 uoosier State. This fact has been g,sneed by the wonderful manner in
 sh he has repeatedly reduced Re- sIican majorities.
 aovernor Matthews is Kentuckian ! . son of the soil of the "Dark and Ssdy Ground. Bethel, Bath county, ]. inc scene of his birth and Dec. 24, ss the date of the interesting event. attended Center college and at ths
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-10
FAME's PATHWAY.

Work is progressing on the new Scandi-
navian church in Kalispell, Mont.
The earl of Mansfield, who has just cele-
brated his Goth birthday, is picturesque
figure He wears the bottle green coat
and the high roll collar of the last gene
ration.
Professor Calvin Thomas, better known
as Tommy" to the students of the Uni
versity of Michigan, has succeeded H. H.
Boyesen as professor of the Germanic
language and literature at Columbia.
Mrs. James G. Blaine has practically de-
cided to remove the remains of her late
husband from Washington to Augusta,
where she is negotiating for a site for a
private cemetery on lofty hill over
looking the Kennebec river.
M. Louis Auguste Boileau, who has just
died at the age of "a, was the first archi-
tect in France to make systematic en-
ploy of iron construction. He published
some valuable studies on architectural
woodwork and construction generally.
Sir Donald Smith, who has been sent to
Manitoba by the Canadian government on
a mission of Cancellation regarding the
separate school dispute, is better known
as a leader of Canadian commerce than a
politician. He and Mr.. George Stephen,
now Lord Mount Stephen, were the chief
founders of the Canadian Pacific railway.
He is also president of the Bank of Mon
treal, but the romance of his commercial
career is suggested by the fact that he
is now governor of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, which, as young man, he repre-
scented in a humble capacity in the wilds
of Labrador
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-10
AMERICAN MACHINERY IN JAPAN
Engine ering Firms Are ON the Keen
Lookout for Trade.

The following interesting comments
per mines, Shimotsule, Japan, to the
British Trade Journal. '"The machine
building industry of Japan is as yet in
it's infancy; and although we construct
some machines, there are others which
we are obliged to import from foreign
countries. Perhaps mining machinery
is more largely made in Japan than any
other kind, excepting certain parts of
steel which can not be produced here;
but having discovered large deposits of
iron ore in many parts of Japan, / am
sure we shall have steel and iron found
ries in few years, and we shall then
be in a position to greatly develop our
engineering industries. Japan has been
a good customer of England for many
years. We have bought every kind of
apparatus from Great Britain, which
we have always regarded as the most
advanced engineering country in the
world, but recently American invention
has made great progress, especially in
connection with that for mining; and
comparing English and American ma
chimes of this class, we find that those
AIHtIlCd are uOl always
but rather often better than the English
apparatus, while the price, having in
view the improved character of the ma
chine, is comparatively low. In addi-
ton to this it must be remembered that
the distance between Japan and Ameri-
ca is much less than that between ia
pan and England. American engineer
ing firms are always looking for de-
ar.A
send us their catalogues, from which
we can select at our convenience. They
also send experts, who travel through
the country and consult our mining en-
gineers as to the machinery required.
On the other hand, English manufac-
turers and engineers have only few
agents throughout Japan, and these do
not generally push the sale of the ma
chinery In short British engineering
knowledge and the trade policy of Eng
land in the Orient does not tend to de-
velop, while the Americans are making
progress"
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BuiIding a Mountain.

The city of Leipsic Is situated in plain,
which is rather embarrassing on account
of its monotony. In order to bring change
into the landscape. the city council has,
for long time past, ordered the deposit of
ashes and refuse from the city at one GER
tain point. which, in the course of time,
has risen some 10 feet or more above the
surrounding country. This ash pile, which
in the mouth of the people has received
the euphonious names of lash mountain -
or after the name of the burgomaster
Monte Georgi," is situated outside the
city limits proper, in a suburb called TO
seuthal, or valley of Roses probably
because onions and other vegetables are
raised there in quantity by truck farmers
This ash hill will now be covered with
vegetation at the expense of Leipsic, the
city council having appropriated 1000
marks for that purpose. They are so proud
of the mountain which they have bull
with ashes and patience. that they will
erect on the top a tower. the view from
,, which is even now being spoken of a.
the great coming attraction of Leipsic.-
London Daily News.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-10
ATHLETIC WORK AMONG GREEK S
The Aim Was to Secure Grace as
Well as to Develop Strength.

Greek boys began to be trained in bod
lily exercises at a very early age-often
at 10 years, says a writer in st. Nicholas.
The problem was not merely to develop
strength and health, but to secure grace
and beauty, perfect beauty being
thought the outer expression of perfect
strength. 1t was this passion for the
beautiful in every phase of Greek life
which made its sculpture and architec-
ture the noblest the world has seen.
But the thought had stin deeper root.
The Greek assumed that it was only in
the perfect and symmetrical body that
the well balanced mind could dwell; so
physical culture held a foremost place
in his plan of education. and the daily
tolls of the palestra Cor wrestling field)
and the gymnasium were part of the
life of the growing lad, and a part not
TO be shirked. The part taken by boys
in the Olympic games shows how deeply
this festival had taken root in Greek
thought and life.
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LIGHTS AND sIDELIcHrs.

When the busy little bee isn't singing.
isn't singing,
Or a-sticlSing it's proboscis in the flow
er, in the flower,
In the bonnet of the statesman it's a.
singing, tbs a-singing,
And a-singing and a-singing, and "a
singing by the hour.
-
Some folks seems to imagine" said
Uncle Eben, dat economy consists in
goin' wifout de necessities 'er life SOS
ter hab money ter squander on de lux
uries. Washington Star.
s.s
than thought.
Hunker--Impossible
Spratts-Well, asked her If she had
read "Aesop's Fables" and she said
she read them when they first came out.
Home Journal.
Grocer-Didn't that lady ask for fresh
laid eggs?
Clerk-She did. sir.
Grocer-And you said we hadn't any?
Clerk di, sir.
Grocer-Didn't you see me lay those
eggs myself, right down there not 10
minutes ago, you mendacious Sound
rel? You are discharged, and see that
you don't refer to me for character.
either.-Judge.
A-Political economy is a ticklish
subject. A man has to be wide-awake
to understand all about it. For instance,
the very ideas of capital and labor
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-10

In view of the inroads made on the
price of horses in the United States
during the past year, it is of interest to
note that the horse meat market in
Germany is advancing, owing to the
exhaustion of the supply of cheap
horses, says Bradstreet's. Leaving
4 aside the question of the cause of the
reduction in the price in the United
States, which may have been Influenced
in part by the advent of trolley and ca
bile street cars and by the wider use of
the bicycle, the situation of the demand
for cheaper grades of horse flesh in Ger
many as contrasted with the compare
tive excess in supply thereof here is
significant, in view of the suggestion by
the Boston Transcript and other news
papers that horses may be raised here
for their flesh to satisfy the demand
abroad. Assertions have been made
that horses can be produced in the west
more cheaply than cattle, and it sug-
gests itself that If true the former may
be shipped across the sea alive; and it
goes without saying, as is the case with
the International cattle supply and de-
mand, those influences may be used
with relation to horses by slaughtering
tliS ldttCN iACIC W supply tAC OCI
and French markets, where seven cents
a pound is paid for this variety of food
Horse flesh in Germany is sold smoked,
and in America it would not be found
difficult to supply this variety, thus en-
abling American farmers who have fail
ed to find profit in horse rearing as
great as formerly to branch out once
more into this variety of industry. In
1888 there were in the United States s.
756000 horses. In 1890 there were 49,
$4,000 horses in this country, and their
&total value was 81 900, 900, 900. At present
&the number is about the same as in 1892
tbut the estimated value has gone down
TO $576, 730, 900. Beyond a doubt this val
&uation is much too high. They are ac-
&counted for only partly by great ever
production of horses during the last few
years. But another cause of the less
%ened demand has been the universal de-
#pression of business. Merchants who
used to employ eight or ten horses now
get along with three or four; persons
who formerly kept three or four horses
+ for private use have found that one or
Two will serve, and so it goes every
where, I'm this way tens of thousands
pf horses have been thrown on the mar
ket, shutting off the demand for other
horses fresh from the breeding farms.
The end is not yet, for within a few
Years car fares in most of the cities
will be reduced to three cents, further
Encouraging the use of those vehicles
Meanwhile the horseless carriage is
Iooming up as a common conveyance of
fhe near future" Sound and servicea-
Die animals, it is said, can be bought for
~ and 81. such beasts as would have
fetched 500 half a dozen years ago
Fhe team horse that was worth 5000
put about two years ago may now be
purchased for $40. First-rate carriage
borses and wagon horses cost just as
much as they ever did, because the sup
ply of them has at no time exceeded
he demand
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.Ionnhed.

They were casting lots
For days they had drifted about on the
raft at the mercy of the waves. IT
seemed an age since the ship had sprung
leak and been abandoned The last
scrap of biscuit had been savagely de-
voured a week before and the few rernain-
ing in the barrel had become too bad for
even starving man to swallow.
One by one the few survivors had seen
their companions drop dead of privation
or go crazy and jump overheard. To re-
lieve their sufferings they had done every
thing that shipwrecked men ever do. As
well as a few of the things that writer's
of seastories say they do Then came the
last resort. After casting hungry eyes
upon each other for hours they decided to
draw lots to see which one was to die
that the others might live.
Silently the six white and one black
button were put into the hat and the
seven miserable wretches huddIed around
to gamble with death. At length each
clutched hand held one of the buttons.
and then one after another they were
opened in fear and trembling.
"Shiver my timbersp' exclaimed the
boatswain to the mate, ''but we're in
hard luck. The skinny man has drawn the
black button!''--New York World.
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Whe animals fate will be
De mined during the first six
I<hs of b existence; good calf feed
aye raf8 and valuable acquisition
my fam establishment.
S good III well fed and cared for
VIII returrN for your pains smiling
profits but Rnce stunt calf and its
usefulness issgone. More feed and at
tention will beSrequired in its care than
would feed two good calves into prime
condition
There is perhaps nothing more neces-
sary for the maintenance of health in
animals than common salt. In the
blood of all animals salt is found in
comparatively large quantities, and,
therefore, for the proper maintenance
of good health, 1t is necessary that a
certain amount of salt should be as
simulated in the daily food.
Among the many substances that are
best for inducing egg production may
be mentioned blood from slaughter
houses. In the winter season it can
be kept for some time and may be fed
by mixing 1t with equal parts of corn
meal and bran to a stiff mess. The
reports which have come from those
WIZ nave QoCo II al ldi6 Ciy III ttS
favor In the meantime a supply of
cut bone should not be overlooked, and
hens should have a ration of such at
least every other day. Green food
should not be omitted from the LIST
at any time. In winter finely chopped
hay, scalded; cooked turnips may be
given and are excellent for variety in
food for the poultry.
To those who have not tried the new
onion culture, the writer would recon-
mend them to try it; the operation is
somewhat as follows: The seed is sown
in hotbed now and toward the latter
end of April or beginning of May the
young onion plants, then about six
inches high, are planted out singly in
rows, the month or six weeks of a
start obtained in the hotbed enabling
the grower to produce very fine onions;
they require less cultivation and are
much easier to cultivate than when the
seed is sown in drills in the open
ground.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-04-10
A Mathemat,caI Niuhtm,rc

The professor of mathematics in one of
our large colleges, the father of bright
boy of 5 years, took a nap the other after
noon on the lounge in his study. The rest
was we'll earned, for the professor had
Just finished a three hours exercise in
Atelian Functions. He had not been
asleep long when his wife heard the most
heart-rending groans issuing from the
apartment Rushing to where her hus-
band was, she found him sitting upright
upon the lounge holding his face in his
hands.
What is the matter, dear?" asked Mrs
K.
1--WE had a most horrible dream" the
professor replied. II dreamed that our
Charlie was minus quantity under the
radical sign and l couldn't get him out
j. S. r. in Harper's Magazine
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> MAKE FARMING rRoFrrApLE
fhe Secret Is to AccOmm Odate Ones
Self to Circumsfancea

The Secret Is to Accommodate Ones
Self to circumstance.
we hear almost every one complain
ing about hard times, says a writer in
ne Province. Prices of farm products
IRE low as rule. Our opinion is that
IrfceS Will, nay, are now improving
We need expect no boom, we are better
III without such unnatural mutations
vs. are caused by bocms.
What then can we as farmers do
When hard times come upon us in order
"a improve our business and make 1t
= measurably profitable one to follow?
3his can be done by accommodating
ourselves to circumstances. This we
now is thing that most of us very
much dislike submitting to. 1t must,
However, be done and the sooner it is
1one the better.
In this matter we can accommodate
ourselves to circumstances in many
nays, no one way being applicable. to
III. We should carefully figure up what
Tops or branch of the farm business
MS been profitable or otherwise, what
rfoduct has been in the greatest de-
Hand and that has paid the largest
loft. Then we would have an intelli-
xent idea of what particular branch of
an work to devote our energies to and
mat to, avoid. But of all those who
IRE engaged in farming for a living
oone will feel the pressure of hard
mes worse than those who go about
<1eir business without thought or cal
c1lation growing such crops and in the
9ame manner as their fathers grew
lem.
These men are blind to the great
Manages and Improvements in the meth
IDS OF modern farming to suit the
lines.
These men refuse to accommodate
themselves to changing circumstances,
ne result being that when times are
IRrd and prices low they are the ones
20 go under and to experience all the
6ifficulties we have considered we must
eadeavor in whatever we raise to only
Have the best that will alSays sell. If
LIE demands of the market are catered
to and first class articles produced, it
I'll matter but little how hard the
tImes are; the farmer who is shrewd
Hnough to cultivate that market will
ave no reason to complain that he
IN not make a living at farming.
One was very much struck in read
I4g few days ago of the results of an
Experiment in fatten:ng hogs with po-
[atoes fed with pea meal and shorts.
Three and a half pounds of meal or
fhorts were fed with ten pounds of po-
"a toes per day for A days to two pigs,
ach weighing 40 pounds. The gain
Xas SO pounds, or one and a quarter
Ieunds per day.
= A simple and effective remedy for the
[Eequently troublesome complaint of
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odd Rnilrond Accident,

A Santa Fe train in Arizona was stalled
for five hours by an odd accident a few
days ago. The engine ran over a cow,
and the cows foot became firmly wedged
In the blow-off cock used to empty the
boiler, with the result that all the steam
and water went out and the engine was
killed. A brakeman had to walk i've miles
to the nearest telegraph station to tele-
graph for another engine. 1t was five
hours before another engine reached the
stalled train, and the passengers played
games among the sandhills and sage
brush during the wait
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How Hard We Nv
The men and@ NV
tie of life in thu, w
can show greats Nv
the survivors Of blob - 80.
says the New York RI -.
Shoemalers and tailU3 49,.
the body as well as on th@z. Il M
The former sits upon * 81.
work and acquires a nai
stopped carriage at an early(
hands show the marks OF ham
awl ana, In addition, the index
red and furrowed from the fricft( III
the waxed thread, and the under ex{lGI75-
tiles Of the index finger are worn and
rough from the nails which these fingers
put In place and press down firmly before
giving the blow with the hammer. On
the body, at the lower part of the breast
bone, is a deep, round, hollow place
caused by the constant pressure Of the
last, and on the thigh where the strap
presses is a deep and permanent ridge
The tailor works under similar disad-
vantages, but sits on his table with legs
crossed and body bent forward On the
outside ankle bone there is always soft.
red lump like a tumor. whose size depends
upon the working age Of the man. On the
little toe of each foot there Is also hard,
calloused lump.
dies many watches is known by the
thumb nail on his right hand. which be-
comes thick and scaly from constantly
opening cases. The nails Of the thumb
and forefinger of the left hand, which are
used to hold the wheels. pinions and other
small parts of the dissected timepiece.
are much injured and in many cases al
most destroyed by the constant friction OF
the file.
The professional laundress is known at
once by her hands. They acquire pecul-
lar limpness, which causes them to remain
almost constantly in half-closed posi-
ton The skin is visibly thickened and
ance, and the palms of the hands are cal
loused from the use of the iron.
Sometimes we see one whose dress be-
| speaks her to be a working woman. and
| yet her hands are white and neat. But q
closer observation will show peculiar
| formation of the thumb and index fingers
Their ends are fiattened ard enlarged.
! This tells the woman's trade to be that
| of an artificial flower maker, In which she
rolls the material between the ieformed
fingers.
All mechanics who use the hammer
and the majority do-acquire a large,
| round, callous spot on the palm of the
hand at the base Of the fingers and be-
| tween the thumb and forefingers: but
| each trade possesses special tools. and
the marks from these afford an easy
method of classification
StOnecutters, who usually hold their
| chisels in the left hand, show calloused
| spots and often blood blisters on these
fingers. Coopers, who use an adz, scar
both hands alike, as though they had been
using two hammers, and from pressing
their thumbs upon the edges of the casks
acquire long, calloused spot extending
the whole length Of the fingers on the
outside of the hand.