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HIS POLITICAL. LIFE.
Has Filled Many Positions of Trust
and Great Responsibility.

and Great Responsibility.
Mr.. Stevenson was nominated for
congress in 1874, and was elected from
district which had been considered
safely republican with a majority of
5000. Gen. McSulta was his oppo-
nent and the campaign was an excit--
ing one. This term brought Mr.. Ste
venson into congress during the ex-
citing times just before the Tilden-
Hayes contest of 1876 In a second
candidacy for congress he was defeat
ed. but third time he was success
ful and swelled the majority of his
first election. At the expiration of his
second congressional term he resumed
the practice of law IN Bloomington.
In 1884 Mr.. Stevenson was dele
gate to the democratic national con-
vention in Chicago, and after Presi-
dent CIeyeland's election was appoint
ed first assistant postmaster general.
He endeayored to put the civil serv-
ice law into effect, and ii was said
of him that he never discharged man
for political reasons. He retired from
this Office in March. 1880.
In the month previous he had been
nominated, without his consent, as
associate justice of the supreme court
Of the District OF Columbia. In the
meantime q republican president had
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-08-04
BRYAN AND STEVENSON.
The Personal Characteristics of the Democratic
THEIR HAPPY AND IDEAL FAMILY LIFE.

Vice President.
THE ancestry of William Jennings

TNHE ancestry of William Jennings
Bryan was democratic. His fa-
ther, Silas L. Bryan, was born in
Culpepper county, Va, at the base OF
the Blue Ridge mountains. He came to
Illinois when a youth of is, settling
finally at Salem, on the edge of Egypt.
Here he made permanent home, be-
came distinguished In public life. mar
ried and reared a family, of whom Viii
liam Jennings Bryan was the fourth
out of nine sons and daughters.
The self-made characteristics of the
elder Bryan have always been pride
to his distinguished son. Silas L. Bry-
an, like Lincoln, was railspltter and
midnight student of the law and of
political history. He preempted sec
tion of land near Salem and by his In
dividual labor transformed a wilder
ness into one of the finest country
places in the state. He read with avid
ity, took course of instruction and
graduated at McKendfee college in
1s49. He was then 81. During his col
lege course he did all kinds of work to
pay his expenses and tuition. He grad
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-08-04

well known not only as public man
but as citizen.
Mr.. Stevenson, although native OF
Kentucky, has spent most of his life
in Illinois.
Adlai E. Stevenson was born in
Christian county, KY, on October %,
1885. His ancestors had been tillers of
the soil for several generations and he
was brought up on farm, attending
an old log schoolhouse. In 1852 he
removed with his parents to Bloom
ington, I'll. Two or three years after
ward he returned TO Kentucky and
entered Center college at Danyille, a
Presbyterian institution and at the
time quite well known. He remained
in school about three years. but did
not graduate. Later he returned to
Kentucky second time to be mar
ried to Miss Green, daughter of the
president of this college.
Upon leaving college Mr.. Stevenson
entered the office of Robert E. VIII
liams, of Bloomington, as law stu
dent, and at the age of % was adj
mitted to the bar. He began practice
in Metamora. H., in 1859, and was
appointed master in chancery, which
position he filed for four years. In
1864 he. was elected district attorney.
a position which at that time had
to be filed by riding through several
counties on horseback or by stage.
Mr.. Stevenson remained in Metamora
ten years. He did great deal of
work IN helping to raise the troops
from his district during the civil war.
In 1869 he returned to Bloomington
and formed partnership with j. s.
Ewing, which existed for many years.
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uated with honors and thPee years
later was admitted to the bpr.
The elder Bryan was jhffersonian
democrat of the old school. He became
power in political debate and was
elected to the state senate in 1882, the
same year in which he was admitted to
the bar. He served two terms. declin-
ing second nomination. Later he was
elected judge of the Second judicial dis
trict of Illinois and served for IL years.
In 1882 +Silas Bryan married Mariah E.
Jennings, who was born in Marion
county, near Salem, in 1884. Judge
Bryan's young bride was from dis
tinguished family in Marion county.
The house where William Jennings
Bryan was born March 10, 1860, is on
Broadway, Salem. The house was orig
inally built of logs, hewn by the elder
Bryan's own hands. Weather boards
were added afterward and the build
ing now has modern appearance.
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college" at Salem, remained there a year
and afterward attended public school.
At the age of Is he had finished with
the Salem schools and went to jackson
vile, where he attended college for six
years.
AT this period of young Bryan's life
it is said, his first ambition was to be-
come Baptist preacher. He grew out
of that inclination and early decided
on the profession of law. He first en-
tered Whipple academy at Jacksonville
and at once took great interest in pub
lie speaking. His first year showed him
very low in declamatory contest; sec
ond year, third place; freshman in col
lege, second prize in declamatory con-
test; Junior year, first prize in oratory.
He also represented Illinois college at
Galesburg in the state contest of 1880,
taking second prize with an Grafton on
Justice" His chief sport when boy
was rabbit hunting and jumping. He
is said to be still fond of both. After
Ills graduation he won prize for a
standing jump, covering 10 feet A
inches.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-08-04

The elder Bryan had not finished the
house when sent to the senate, but did
so on his return, A few years later he
began work on a substantial brick
farmhouse about mile east Of Salem.
This was the pride of Judge Bryan's
life. Surrounded by 600 acres of splen-
cid land, the brick mansion stands 500
feet back from the road and is ap-
preached by private driveway, lined
with six rows of naples. Judge Bry-
an set apart a space for deer park
and at the time Of his death had a fine
herd.
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been elected. and the senate hung up
the appointment so that the nomina-
ton was neither affirmed nor rejected.
In April, 1892. he was elected dell
egate at large to the democratic ma
tional convention at Chicago and be-
came chairman of his delegation. 1t
was. at this convention he received his
first nomination for the vice presi-
dency. which resulted in his election
II is an interesting coincidence that
the democratic ticket will be a Pres
byterian one. Mr.. Stevenson is q
member of the Second Presbyterian
church Of Bloomington, while Mr. Bry-
an is a member of the First church OF
Lincoln - -
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BRYAs,s RECREATION.

He Finds Lots of Amusement In TILL
ing HIS Little Farm.
"Aristocratic chickens" is one Of the
hobbies of the democratic candidate
for president, and surrounded by stri-
dent specimens of the lordly Shanghai,
Leghorn and numerous other lighter
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-08-04
WAS a BR1GHr YouNGsTER.
Rryan's Boyhood and Youth Showed
ExcenfionaI Promise.

LACVVNIUuHA Z FUHItIst,
It was on this farm that young
"Billy" Bryan spent the years of his
boyhood. He has little early recollec-
tion OF the house in which he was born,
having Left there when about five years
old and moved to the farm. AL Of the
Bryan children had the advantage of
liberal education. Up to the time he
was ten years old William studied at
home under the tuteiage of his father
and mother. He then entered the ''old
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-08-04
HIS POLITICAL CAREER.

How bryan Became n Leader and a
Man of Prominence.
From the outset of his Nebraska ca
reer Mr.. Bryan took part IN politics.
In 1920 he was elected. to congress
from the First Nebraska district over
IF. ]. Connell, of Omaha. Mr.. RrSan's
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-08-04
.AD|LAI {. STEVENSON.
Career of the Democratic Nominee
for Vice President.
IS KNOWN ALL OVER The COUNTRY.

Born In Kentucky, He Moved TO IIii-
nois with His Parents While quite
Young Man-Admiffed to the Bar
nj the Age of 23-Hns Been in Corr
gress, Assistant Postmaster Gem
eraI and Once Held the ofice He Is
Now Running For.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
FOUND GOOD ORDER s
Gov. Gen. Wood Says Conditions In
Cuba Are Encouraging-No
Politics for Cones.

Jucaro, Cuba, Sept. 1::-Gov. Gen.
Wood, after careful canvass of the
island, will return to Havana Sun
day evening. The effect of his tour
has been excellent. Wherever he has
been he has found good order prevail
ing and the jails for the greater part
empty. The reconstruction of the
country is slow, but much is being &C.
cemplished. Nowhere has he seen evil
dences of suffering from hunger. The
health of the United States troops at
all points is good. The political stu
alton still retards the Investment of
foreign capital, but the public school
system is steadily expanding, with the
probability that at an early date
places will be found for 100000 chill
dreu.
Havana, Sept. H. Gen. Maxine
Gomez has declined to accept the
nomination offered him by the ma
tional party to the constitutional con-
vention. He says he has always kept
out of politics and does not wish to
enter now.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
FAILURES ARE LESS.
Statement for August Ii the Best Made
This Year-Trade Revival
Seems Near at Hand.
New York, Sept. 1.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade says:

New York, Sept. 1.-R. G. Dun & Co..
weekly review of trade says:
Commercial failures during August were
Us in number, with liabilities of 81, 1923 903
Manufacturing were ia for s., 945, 607, trad
ing 5l9 for s., $50, 667. and other commercial
AZ for $792,629. There were only two banks,
with liabilities of $A6.000. This is the best
monthly statement for 1900 thus far, but
shows an increase over the corresponding
month in the two preceding years.
An important influence of the week has
been favorable weather for development
OF corn over the greater part of the surplus
corn states, though heavy rains in the
spring wheat region have retarded harvest
Ing The cotton movement is slow and late,
out weather conditions average better, ex-
cept In the Carolinas. Price changes are
F"steady Improvement ID / il 81 sekn in the iron
market. 1tEis not marked by large adj
vances, but wherever change occurs it Ia
In the right direction. 1t is claimed b. some
authorities that orders currently booked
aggregate more than present production
and shipments. Special concessions to Sc
cure prospective business are withdrawn,
and buyers seek contracts for prompt de-
livery.
"Western stove manufa cturers have been
buying freely, and more bridge builders
signed contracts for structural material.
Merchant steel advanced on increasing or
ders. while domestic purchases of cotton
ties were large, although rather late. Cop
per exports average 1000, 900 pounds per day,
and the market is in strong position.
FAILURES for the week were ITS in the
United States, against III last year, and Is
IN Canada, against Is last year" =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
MET WITH FAVOR.
Will Probably Settle, Trouble +"
Robbers Executed.

Shanghai, Sept. 1.-The Chinese au.
thorities have captured band oil
armed robbers IL miles from Shang-
hal. 1t has been determined to be.
head eight of these miscreants, and
one will be starved to death in cage,
according to the Chinese custom. The
trouble at Annoy is at an end. The
Japanese troops have left the city,
but strong detachments of Japanese
and British remain to guard the con-
sulates.
London, Sept. 1.-The press has
Official authority for announcing that
the American-Russian proposal in
favor of the withdrawal of the allied
forces from Picking, with the view of
facilitating negotiations for the con-
clusion of peace, has not only met
with considerable favor at European
chancellories, but is almost certain to
be adopted In the meanwhile, the
question of employing Ii Hung Chang
as an intermediary is meeting with
more and, more favor and, as the press
has intimated in recent dispatches,
will, in all probability, be settled
atfirmatively as soon as Ii Hung
Chang is able to obtain the necessary
authority.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
THE NAME or OLD GLORY.

The following new poem by James
Whitcomb Riley was read by the au-s
thorsat the Iron Brigade banquet Of
the g. "A. r. encampment in Chicago:
Old Glory! say who.
BY the ships and the crew
And the long. blended ranks of the gray and
Who gave you. Old Glory. the name that
youS bear
With such pride everywhere
As you cast yourself free through the rap
And leap out fun length. as we're wanting
t you to? S. s5sss al
Who gave you that name, with the ring
Of the same
And the honor and fame 80 becoming to
your @ $ ssS Il, I*.. -
Your stripe. .troked in ripple. of white and
of red, ! r.
With your stars at their glittering best
BY day or by night '>%1s% 4
Their delightfulest light
Laughing down from their little square
heaven of blue;
Who gave you the name of Old Glory ?--say
l. who $50. 4=& ,&54as -
Who gave You the name Of Old Glory
The old banner tied and faltering then .
In vague lisps and whispers fell silent
again. ,#5 - IS +. II .-:+sfS:
Old Glory, speak out. We are asking about
How y YOU happened to favor name anne 50
That sounds SO familiar and careless and
gay ~ -*@ +"
AS we cheer it and shout in our wild. breezy
way
We, the crowd. every man of U.S. calling
w. Tom. Dick and Harry. each one swing
ing his hat
And hurrahing "Old Glory" like you were
Our kin,
When, Lord! we all know we're as common
as SIM
And watt Us your thanks as we hail you and
fall
Into line with you over US, waving US on
Where our g4oriticd, sancli1ied betters have
gone.
And this is the reason we're wanting to
Il know II
(And we're wanting it so-where our own
fathers went we are willing to go),
Who gave you the name of Olo Glory-oh.
ho!-
Who gave you the name Of Old Glory?
The old flag unfurled with billowy thrill
FOR an instant, then %istluily sighed and
was still.
Old Glory. the story we're wanting to hear
Is what the plain facts Of Your christening
WcIe-
For your name, just to hearit,
Repeat it and cheer it, 8 a TAM to the spirit
AS salt as tear ~~.r >
And seeing you fly. and the boys march
ing by,
There's shout in the throat and blur in
the eye
And an aching to live for you always. or
die, 49, - t. 90
| If, dying, we still keep you waving on high.
And so. by our love
For you, floating above,
| And the stars Of all wars and the sorrows
thereof.
Who gave you the name Of Old Glory. and
why
! Are we thrilled at the name of Old Glory?
Then the old banner leaped, like sail In
the blast,
And fluttered an audible answer at last.
And it spake. with a shake of the voice. and
it said:
by the driven-snow white and the living
blood red
OF my bars and their heaven of stars over
head
By the symbol conjoined of them all. sky
ward cast,
AS float from the steeple or dap at the
mast
Or droop DER the sod where the long
grasses nod,
| My name is as old as the glory Of God.
So came by the name Of Old Glory"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
SHOWS BIG GROWTH.


Detroit, Mich, Aug. 50. The Knights
Of Pythias Of the world have come to
Detroit this week to hail the most
prosperous year in the history Of the
order. At the meeting Of the supreme
lodge Tuesday, R. L. G. Virgin, Of At
lanta, Ga, supreme keeper of records
and seals, reported g follows: II 4. a.
|. Total number Of subordinate lodges De.
cember q. 1850. 6.7lo. Total membership,
4s2.soe; net gain during 1888 ana 1899. IS
lodges and 1,1N members. Practically so
per cent: OF the gain was in 1892 Illinois
close seconds. Louisiana suffered q net
loss Of IA The appropriations at tho In.
dianapolis biennial In 1858 were $s3,660, OF
which $8S.SS2 had been expended at the close
OF the fiscal year. Subordinate lodges had
been organised in Hawaii. Alaska, Cuba
ana Quebec; Aprt! i 1884, there was =
balance on hand Of 1862. and there has
since been received from sale Of supplies,
$6.S!t; from grand lodge, per capita tax,
$S1,1O6; from subordinate lodge, per capita
tax, $50: q total Of SCI. 403 Receipts Of
grand lodges were 500, $50 and, with balance
on hand. the credits were $50. 40 Dis
bursements were Sa73.6s9. There has been
expended, for relief, N,sa5,sl5.69, and Grand
domains had on hand December l. 1855 81
$50. Isl. The total assets of the grand do
mains are $s.24e.1s Lodges outside Of
grand domains have expended for relief,
$2e.62l
The report Of the supreme master of the
excnequer shows a total Of $s1.S72 on hand
June 80 1900.
The military division of the order Of
the Knights of Pythias did itself
proud in is biennial parade, and the
vast crowds who witnessed the in
spring pageant gave enthusiastic ap-
proval all along the line of march. T.
Detroit, Mich,, Aug. 31.-Supreme
Vice Chancellor Ogden H. Fethers, of
GAINESVILLE, Wis, has been elected SUI
preme chancellor of the knights of
Pythias. His vote was SO, to 50 for
Supreme Chancellor Sample. This
continues the Pythian custom of ro-
tation in Office. which has been the
most discussed subject of the biennial
gathering. The officers elected are as
follows: =.
Supreme chancellor, Ogden H. Fethers.
Of GAINESVILLE, Wis; supreme vice chancel-
lor, Tracy r. Bangs. of Grand Forks, N. D. !:
supreme keeper, r. L. c. White, of Nash
Vile, Tenn; supreme prelate, G. F. Easley.
of Santa Fe. N. M; supreme master ex-
chequer, Thomas D. Mears, of Wilmington.
N. c.: supreme master at arms, w. Sim
mons. Of Wilmington. DEL: inner guard,
J. F. Bean. of Portland, Me-; outer guard,
John Thompson. Of Washington. D. c.
San Francisco was chosen as the
next place Of meeting.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
OLD SOLDIERS WELCOMED.
second Day Of q. a. 3. Encamrmen,
1t Chicago-New Comnan- .
. der Elected.

Chicago, Aug. q. The second day
Of tne Grand Army Of 1the Republic
encampment opened Tuesday morn
ing with the formation of what is
probably the largest parade Of civil
war veterans witnessed in three dec
AIDES, Soldiers representing As states
and territories marched through the
streets. About 10000 veterans were
in line and the parade took nearly
five hours IN passing the reviewing
stand. . s.
Reunions Of the veterans by states
were held in the evening. AS &c states
furnished volunteers from 1861 to 1865,
80 there were as many reunions. By
these state assemblies men who have
not met for years were given an op-
portunity to shake hands again with
chums Of army days. .+ ss5%=5 r.
Chicago Aug. 80 The Grand Army
of the Republic began tie transaction
Of its official business Wednesday,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
FOUND FLOATING.
Lake Erie Gives Up the Body of One
OF the Victims OF the Yacht ~
Idler Disaster.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 30.-The body of
Ida Corrigan, Is years old, was found
floating in the lake near where she was
drowned. On July the schooner
yacht Idler, capsized of the port of
Cleveland during heavy squall and
five women and girls and one baby of
the families of John and James Cor.
rigan, the wealthy vessel owners, were
drowned, though all the members of
the crew saved themselves. Capt.
James Corrigan has spent thousands
of dollars in trying to recover the
bodies of his two daughters, Ida, Is
years old, and Jane, 20 years old, which
did not come to the surface. The body
of Jane is still on the bottom of the
lake, probably pinned down by wreck.
age. The captain of the Idler is under
Indictment for manslaughter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07

I, Des Moines, L., Aug. 2e.-The mid
dle-of-the road populists held state
convention here and decided to re-
main in the middle Of the road. No
state ticket was named the mat
ter being left with the state central
committee, who will make up ticket
and have it placed on the official bal
lot by petition, not enough votes be-
ing cast last year to permit the names
going on the ticket otherwise. Reso-
lutions were adopted indorsing the ma
tional platforms adopted at Omaha,
St. Louis and Cincinnati, and pledg-:
ing support to Wharton Barker and
1gnatius Donnelly for president and
vice president. g.. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07
Conditions in Samoa.

Washington, Sept. 1.-The navy de-
partment has received a letter from
B. F. Tilley, commanding the United
States naval station at Tutuil~,. de-
scribing the promising conditions in
the American section of the Samoan
islands and recounting the impressive
ceremonies attending the unwilling of
q monument to the American and
English dead who fell in the short en-
gagement there in April, 1899.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07

The government is to bring back
something like 5000 unfortunate Cape
Nome goldseekers, and they will come
back absolutely penniless. ITO him
that hath shall be given and from him
that hath not shall be taken away
even that little which he hath" is prob
ably better exemplified in the gold re-
gions of Alaska than anywhere else on
earth. With few exceptions the men
with ample resources are the ones who
have been successful, but, so long as
human nature remains the same, few
men will profit by the lesson thus con-
veVed.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07

A civil engineer who is in Alaska has
written home to Chicago that the rails
on the Chilkoot Pass railway expand
with the cold instead of contracting, as
they would be supposed to do. A tenn
perature ranging from ~ to 40 degrees
below zero, Fahrenheit, would not ap-
preciably affect the length of rails, but
severer cold than that would be at
tended with expansion. This is certain
~ an exception to law of nature, al
though water shrinks as it cools until
80 degrees Fahrenheit is reached, when
it begins to expand.