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electors to be voted for at the general
election IN November, 1904
2. To nominate candidates OF said
party for the following state offices,
to-wit:
One candidate for governor.
One candidate for lieut.. governor
One candidate for secretary of state.
One candidate for auditor of public
accounts.
One candidate for state treasurer.
One candidate for attorney general
One candidate for commissioner OF
public lands and buildings.
One candidate for superintendent Of
public instruction.
3. To select state central commit
tee for said party. And
4. To transact such other business
as may properly come before said con-
vention.
The basis of representation shall be
five delegates at large from each
county and one additional delegate
for each 200 votes, or major fraction
thereof, cast at the election OF 1908
for Hon. VIM. A. Jones for regent of
the University of Nebraska, which
gives the following representation for
the several counties. tO-Wit:
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It Is recommended that county con-
ventions, for the purpose OF electing
delegates to this convention, be held
not later than Saturday, August 6,
1904; and that credentials of dele
gates show name, postoffice address
and voting precinct; and be mailed as
soon as possible to B. r. B. Weber,
chairman, Lincoln, Neb.
BY order Of the state committee.
B.. r. B. WEBER, +
c. @. DE FRANCE, Chairman.
Acting Secretary.
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Geo A Dixon.

UcO n DlAOu.
Belmont: A P Graham.
Clinton: B Moon.
Cuyahoga: Geo A Groot.
Darke: o A Latin
Fayette: John Parrett, ST.
Hancock: G w Phifer.
Lorain: A p Bailey.
Morgan: S Fl Phipps.
Paulding: l. H Walker.
Summit: John A Gaylord.
Wood: John Peterson.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Allegheny county: H w Noren.
Center: B F Greenman.
Forest: w C Hill.
Warren: Fl s Aver, Chas Walton, r
Brooks, S S Connolly, James Mar
tin, John McLane, VIM Yourvie, A
McCray, Fleet Thompson
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Douglas county: John Bean, NJ Co
fer, VIM Dean.
TENNESSEE.
Clay county: C Evens, T P Speak
man.
Upton. DR. J S Mcintosh, Jerry Tate.
TEXAS.
Callahan county: S Burnham Mil
ton Houston.
Comanche: ] H Hale.
Dimmit: J B Gibson, G M Mcdonald,
Chas Stewart, P r Tumlinson.
Eastland: G w Daniels.
Grayson: w K Henderson, jr.
Milan: ] Fl Lewis.
Rusk:. M burlington, VIM Watt.
Scurry: It H Crowder, A ] Grantham,
w l. Gross, w H Harvey, r J Mar
yey, J r Williamson, ] C Harris.
| Upshure: JIM Perdue
| WEST VIRGINIA.
Calhoun county: A H Altizer.
Harrison: H T Houston.
KanaWha: O ID Hill
Monroe: w Brayles, John A Hon
aker.
Wetzel: DR. Tom M Stone
Wood: w N Lucas.
| Recapitulation: States and terri
tories, this report, "a; counties. 112:
Old Guards and Vanguards, 339. New
counties 2S. Total card index to date:
States and territories, 46; counties
and parishes, 693; Old Guards and
Vanguards, 3,O46.
| by little effort this can be in
creased to 10000 in the next two or
three weeks ii every enrolled mem
per Will make 1t point to see a few
OF his neighbors, talk to them about
the ticket put up at Springfield and
the platform adopted, and urge the
deslrability of furnishing the national
committee with the name Of every
person who will support Watson and
Ilbbles. Talk to your neighbors
about it. If you can use copies of the
platform, ask for them. And don't
forget that little matter of hostage
The trusts are little slow about con-
trlbutlng to our campaign fund-and
our vice presidential candidate had no
speclal car to carry him home from
the convention Remember that.
CHAS. @. DE FRANCE.
Secretary National Committee.
Lincoln, Neb.
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Socialist Labor Party.

The socialist labor party, which has
been in convention in New York city
for several days, nominated Charles
II. Corigan. a printer, OF Syracuse, N.
y, for president: VIM. M. Cox, coal
miner of Illinois, was named for vice
president.
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Young, L C Daley, w A Kirk, Jos
Thomas.
Jackson: B F Erwin, Geo G Hale,
A M Mann, c F Moulton, H w Pull
liam, Vincent Terry, A w Thomas,
Marvin Tyson.
Lafayette: Geo Wilson.
Livingston: Homer Akers.
Marion: w w Williams.
Nodaway: James Heron, A c Mo-
die
MONTANA.
Custer county: Nels Anderson Chris
Arnburg, John Bollin, r Deible,
Robert Johnson, C f Kline, G II
Lansing, A T Martin, Jacob B Miller,
Sam Stone, Vim Stone.
NEBRASKA.
Antelope county: b M Macanley.
Brown: John Ferneau, VIM Ferneau.
. Buffalo: Vim Jordan, A Reiter, p
F Fl Shars.
Burt: Andrew Christensen, O M
Henning, Frank Roth, p G Peterson.
Butler: Joseph Barsman, Louis
Straka, A M Walling, N Holderness,
FL LOOMS, A Myers, d l. Syl-
yester, d A Wynegar.
Cass: G w Shrader.
Cedar: e w Ferguson, jr.
Clay: b w Cambell, A p Randall.
Cunning: Il Gates, w s Fletcher, Chas
Graf, G w Harvey, Gus Heise, Her.
man Heise, Saul Kile, Andrew Sor-
enson, G c Teach.
Custer: w P Burdick, Fl Hoffman, c
H Morris
Dodge: MA Goodrich, Walter Reed.
Franklin: e d Jackson.
Frontier: l. Duckworth, John Greve,
James HAWTHORN. VIM HAWTHORN,
JOS Howe, Christian Jussel, Fred
Jussel, Geo Jussel, John circuit, VIM
circuit, N r Teel.
Furnas: Geo Bard, G H Dawson,
John Hamestrand, John Morse,
Jasper Ostom, Nate White.
Gage: w I Webster.
Gosper: OE Bozarth, C r Eager, Vim
Schiefelbien.
Hall: Jas Allen, Thco Buchert, Peter
Christian, A p Drake, Jesse Ed
redge, Michael Harmon. julius Krul
Geo Madison, Owen Mullen, Peter
Nelson.
Hitchcock: G w Benjamin, James N
Gawlding.
Howard. Chris Appel.
Johnson Pat Shaughnessy.
Lancaster: VIM Cornell, H C Stur-
devant.
Otoe: F p Baldwin, Robert Dunlap
Fl Hallowell, Hallowell, Hans
Johnson, Chas Coles, John Slemens
O Fl Thompson, S Landon, d W Liv.
ingston, John Whitman, VIM +
Wright.
Polk: VIM Ehlers.
Red Willow: Percy Catlett, Butler A
Jones.
Saline: Paul Bankson, w Byers
Geo Boales, j d Calkins, James
Gernum. Jas Smith, S H Wood,
Lautenslager, G e Lupher, ] {
Norton, Robert Muir, Geo Ross, A
III Storms.
Saunders: Henry Kiser, Henry Long
Ed Martin C o Meese, Peter Nagel
VIM Shifelbein.
Seward: DR. Herschel B Cummins.
Sheridan: H II Wasmund, ST.
Stanton: f S Corriet, Herman DraE
be, Albert Houff, Alfred Loomis
Alef Motheson, e Nicholas, Wn
Nicholas, Rob Parker, w II Wood
ruff, Chas Rogers.
Thayer: Geo Campbell. w Camp
bell, Frank Grssom, G Lamb.
Lugenbul, Allen Murray, S A Ternks
f. Warman, John Guthalls Lev
Lakey, e B Stauber. M
Valley: ] d Braden, Paul Dahl f
Easterbrook, w Dye. II A Goodrich
Webster: p Hale, f Houchin. Franz
Strobe. VIM Patterson, r B Tnomp
son. Chas Vaughan.
NEW JERSEY.
Essex county: Alfred Cumberbeach
II w Loomis. Geo Medium, v
Tavah, Henry Wood
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Rockingham county: Samuel Black
stone.
NEW YORK
Kings county: Vim Cnmberbeach.
OHIO
Ashtabula county: Vim II Boyntor
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rHICAGO, ILL.,, 427 Monroe Street.
~ GAS far as have observed, Peruna
is the finest tonic any man or woman
can use who is weak froLh the after
effects of any serious illness.
"Peruna seems to restore vitality,
Increase bodily vigOr and renew health
and strength In q wonderfully short
time. "---MRS. KATE TAYLOR.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co.,
Columbus, Ohio, if you desire free litera-
ture on catarrh.
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MRS. KATE TAYLOR.

Mrs. Kate Taylor, graduated
nurse of prominence, gives her ex-
perience with Peruna In an open
letter. Her position In society and
professional standing combine to
give special prominence to her
ufferanCeS.
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LIFE OF THE DIPLOMATS:
WHERE 1T WILL BE SPENT THIS YEAR

Island resorts among all ht -olomats:
but this Is not the case T. --- 7ltanation,
it may be pointed out thai ~ : 4pl0mats
seldom transact business ' - TIE FreSl-
dent direct but instead ( I'll VIZ the
State Department. and, this being 50,
the New England resorts are pre1era Ole.
since the summer home or secretary
Hay is on Lake Sunapee, N H
The advantages TO the diplomats OF be-
ing able 10 conduct most OF their Dusi-
ness during the summer months by cor
respondence are by no means few IL
gives them plenty of time for ire OUT
door sport. of which they are 50 1onc.
since large portion of their Official dut-
les may quite as readily be discharged
after SHUTDOWN An indication o. how
thoroughly these foreigners erJoi out
door life may be found in the e9r-itlons
prevailing at Manchester-by-ts le-Sea-
The diplomats who simmer at this &c
sort are all members OF the Essex
County Club. and those who are fond OF
golf take advantage OF the club Ia
nous links, which are said 70 be the mn
est in New England. Tennis is close
rival OF the Scotch game IN popularity.
for nearly all of the young men and
women of the Diplomatic Corps are ex-
cellCnt tennis players. However. bathing
is pre-eminently the popular diversion
at Manchester. Every pleasant morning
finds fun representation OF diplomats
on the beautiful MasconOmC Beach with
its famous singing sands The beach .
the regular meeting place and here u
Is that tn ere is exchanged the news ana
gossip OF the day. French bctrg the Ian
gusg GO heard on all sides.
Social attentions are always Showered
upon the diplomats in summer. and this
will be especially true this year owing
10 the exceptionally large NUMBER or
prominent diplomats who viii spend the
entire summer in America ordinarily
NJ least three or fc-T of the seven am
bassadors return 70 their native lands
for almost the entire summer season,
but this year. according TO present plans.
-. Tfrn1n = nf a
highest rank will continue on duty here.
The fact that the ENJOYS themselves
will remain will give an opportunity for
the departure Of some of the secretaries
and lesser lights who are usually COM
PEELED TO remain In order 20 look after
things in the absence OF the envoy put
even this migra ton viii be limited, most
OF the ambassadors and nearly al OF the
ministers having with them their run
staff
Just here il may be explained that the
presence OF the ENJOYS Will also tend
to play havoc with the plans or many
social leaders IN summer resorts not
favored with any summer embassy OF
legation. In former years In the case
of Il summer diplomatic eSte blisAment IN
charge of secretary II hak been posi-
Bile for ambitious hOstesseS 70 temper
arily lure the lesser diplomats with the
prospect Of good dinners and plenty OF
them. bat with the ambassador himself
and not the mere secretary iE charge g
a summer Diplomatic esta blishnent. the
minor nernb ers OF the star VIII feel
less inclined 10 absent themselves from
HEADQUARTERS. WALDON FAWCETI.
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Next to Lenox. Bar Harbor is likely
to take rank as a center of diplomatic
interests. Count Cassini. the Russian
ambassador, and his socially active
daughter have selected this resort since
the war prevents them spending the
warm months at their apartment in
Paris, and Baron Hengelmuller. the
Austrian ambassador, aud ether diplo-
mats have long shown a preference for
the fashionable Maine resort. The an
nual visit OF the British squadron and
the possibility that Lady Curzon, vice
refine Of India. will also spend some
time at Bar HarbOr. lends additional
interest to the season at this resort
Manchester by the-Sea. the Massachu-
sets resort which for several seasons
past has had so large a colony OF diplo-
mats as TO merit designation as the
summer, capital. will have its share Of
the foreigners this year, but will not
in all probability. entertain so many as
In former seasons. Last year the
French and Italian embassies and the
Turkish legation wera established at
Manchester and many of the same dip
lomats expect to return this year The
Belgian minister will establish a sum
mer legation at some point in Maryland
or Virginia. not far from Washington,
and the Japanese minister expects to
content himself with brief vacations at
Atlantic Coast resorts not far from the
seat of government.
OF late years the Central and South
American diplomats have 1ocked by
themselves. instead OF joining their con
freres at the New England resorts. and
this year the same policy is 10 be fol-
lowed in the main Several OF the rep
resenta lives of Pan-American nations
will. with their families. spend the sum.
mer at various resorts on Long Island
and others will have quarters at the
more popular watering places along the
Jersey coast. As has been noted above
no foreign nation has provided its Amer
lean representative with a summer
home, and consequently the diplomats
are ever subject &c the varying fortunes
Of rented houses. but usually they have
been able TO settle themselves very com
fortably for the torrid term
The summer life OF the diplomats is
from the standpoint of the enjoyment
derived. well-nigh ideal Nor do they
cease all work, by any means. A more
or less voluminous correspondence must
be carried on with the home govern
occasions. such. for instance. as duriu.,
the Boxer revolt in China-a case which
may have its counterpart this summer
when the volume of business transacted
by the diplomats in summer has far eN-
ceeded that OF the winter season.
1t might appear at first thought as
though the fact OF President Roosevelt
having his summer home on Long Isl
and would greatly popularize the LonG
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young Green made UP trains and car
ried old-fashioned humping passenger
cars up and down the State, a fire was
smolderins at its edge which was soon
TO set the whole nation ablaze. Few Of
the train crew carried by Green's en-
CINE knew anything of that. They
knew only of a curved and webbing
track, winding from all the seductions
OK the State capital TO an ambitious
but desolate town In the hills, $50 miles
away TO the north And while they
dozed and dreampt and waited. their
Engineer was preparing to transport the
troops of his State TO meet the enemies
OF his State
1t is not unlikely that Green's fore
sight prevented his further rise during
the period OF the Confederacy. Men
who could run trains through to the
end of their road without delay for
any cause were roo valuable to be lost
by promotion Green soon earned that
reputation. Day after day he drew a
train OF freight cars out of Columbia
laden with living cargoes clad in gray
and bright glistening musketry.
For a year or two those were merry
trips. But along about 1863 they be-
came almost unutterably sad. BY that
had all entered the service and the
new recruits were either cid men or
young boys The spirit of the South had
changed also. The soldiers had set OF
to a brief and decisive campaign at
first; now they were riding 70 long
and costly and. some already saw, a
hopeless struggle. But the Columbia
and Green took no reckoning of that
IT,
the State Of South Carolina. and Engi-
neer Green was exactly the man for
that work.
South Carolina was an island of quiet
while the war ragged north. west, south,
and east. Stories Of fighting were
brought 10 its farmers first from the
coast, where Sumter was taken; then
from Virginia, where the North had
been irretrievably beaten; then from
the West. where a bulldog named
Grant was moving the flower OF the
South; and then from Richmond and
Atlanta, where the struggle came to its
unspeakable. inevitable end. But South
! Carolina did not escape One day. as
! Engineer Green brought his train down
from the foot hills he saw the unmis.
taxable sign of the enemy's presence
a steady pillar OF smoke. This time Il
rose above the pines where Columbia
stood and the engineers heart sank
When he turned the curve to enter the
/ city he saw at last his service in trans
/ porting troops had come 10 an end; FOR
the North had reached the very heart
/ OF the State and the whole city OF Co.
iumbia had been burned.
A Captain After the War.
The horizon widened for Green after
Nthat. He was made an engineer for tht
/ Wilmington and Weldon, and then FOL
/ the old North Carolina road. Many o.
/ the men he had carried toward the from
/ were now his passengers from country
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Beginning Work as a Water Boy at Fifty
Gents a Week Is No impeachment to
Progress in Railroad
Management.
How DANDY" Engineer Retained the
Trust of His Workmates and Earned
the Confidence of His Gen
eral Officers.

familiarity inverse to their numbers
HIS bearing was that Of a courtly. cuf-
tured man Of the South. His clothes
were those of a successful LAWYER or
banker. What would the capitaI have
thought in those days II II had known
that both bearing and clothes were ike
those which had marked the general
superintendent when an engineer Yet
IT was always true that enthusiastic as
he had been over his work. he never
ceased 70 enjoy good clothes, and when
OF duty as an engine driver he wore a
high hat and gloves with the familiar
ity OF the roads president
The new duties expanded TO include
those of the general manager after about
three years Then. IN 1894. came the re-
Organization of the road into a branch
OF the new Southern. and Captain
Green's appointment as general manager
OF It's Eastern system By this time his
executive ability had become as widely
known as his knowledge Of railroads.
His appointment as general manager OF
the Southern IN 1895 was regarded, there
fore, as altogether a IIrp tier Of course.
These were the GROWING years OF his
life. He was surrounded in the South
ern Offices by railroad men he had known
twenty or twenty-five years. They Joined
with him IN organizing a club. he had
a beautiful home in one Of the most
beautiful sections Of the Ma tons Capt.
tai City. he was 50 great aa authority
on the practical operation of railroads
that as large a system as the Pennsyi-
vania was willing to ask his advice and
act upon It. And no man with whom
he had ever worked had Questioned his
courage or his honesty
Good Work Well Done.
1t was too good to last. The end came
after three short years The body that
had served him sturdily for sixty years
began TO fail Like his wife and grown
son. he felt himself becoming an in
valid. All corporations are not soul
less, and this one proved its soul by
tightening the sick mans responsible
ties They were still further nghtened
two years after. Then. on Nay is. 1901
a month before his sixty-sixth birthday
his shoulders were relieved Of all their
Burdens and his long service among
n4en came TO a close.
a chorus Of praise sounded in all the
Newspapers OF the South as they re-
viewed MS life. II the -Cap'n" could
have known he would have been Won
de. fully happy. But his railroad friends
tnInk-and they knew NM through anu
through-that he would have reJOiced
more over a single incident which oc-
CURED soon after his death than over
all the eulogy the newspapers Of the
South could print The episode was
this. That when his aged. gentle mother
moved from her daughter home IN
Winston. N C. TO the home OF her son
in Goldsboro, the railroad to which her
/ b,5y William had given his BEST talents
transported her in the sl@cial car he
had used for so many Years. Presi-
dents have had longer trains; but none
were ever given more honor from a
! railroad
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A Famous Conspiracy.

After King Louis XVI had been gull
lotined at the time Of the French revo-
luton a bold plot was formed by a few
royalists TO nberate Queen Marie An
toinette, her two young children, and
Nine. Elizabeth. the Kings sister. These
conspirators in chief were a curiously
assorted trio. First in rank comes the
Chevalier de Jarjayes. who had mar
ried one of Marie Aptoinette's ladies in
waiting, shrewd and experienced sol
der. The second and third of the chief
partners in the scheme were 1ailers Of
the Queen. TOulan and Lepltre. Toulau
once a book and music seller in Paris,
was now a member of the commune, an
indefatigable, gay, resourceful Gascon.
honestly republican by conviction, but
with redhot Gascon heart for a wom-
an in danger and distress. Lepistre was
schoolmaster and rhetOritician. He
had seat on the provisional committee.
and, more important by far 10 the inter
ests OF the conspiracy, he was president
OF the passports committee and could
furnish the necessary passes.
a very likely plan had been elaborated
On dark night of winter. Toulan and
Lepitre being in charge Of the prison.
the Queen and Nine Elizabeth disguised
as municipal officials. were simply to
walk out Of the gate. as Louis Napo-
icon, in his carpenters clothes, walked
out OF the chateau of Ham. The little
Mime. Royale was TO be dressed like the
child OF the prison lamplighter. and a
loyal kitchen boy was TO carry I'm a has-
ket the small Louis XVII. Jarjayes
would have three cabs in readiness, and
the fugitives were TO make for the coast
of Normandy, where an English beat
would stay for them. The scheme Of
fered very considerable difficulties but
they were not insurmountable.
But the poor Queens luck was cold.
Lepitre. romantic coward. failed her
when the time came to furnish pass
ports. One other chance was left De
JarJayes and Toulan, doubly strong I'm
their devotion after the detection of Lee
pitre, planned an escape for Marie An
toinette alone, but she would not leave
her children. 1T has been a beautiful
dream" she wrote TO Jarjayes 1t was
the last dream of liberty that she had.
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WESTERN F4lMOP IN THE OLDENDA
AND MANNERS OF ITS EXPRESSION

But Pete was not buried. He was I'M
bound ut the grave, ostensibly because
the cellar door would not go into the
hole. but really to give him a chance to
run. He went of across the prairie like
a jacArabbit chased by hound. and in
another town he shortly became a real
corpse at the hands OF a perfect gem
tleman who was possessed of a faro
bank and a short temper
How Buffalo Joe" Died.
The manner in which Joe North. bet
ter known as Buffalo Joe came to his
death at Wallace in 1875 was regarded
as a great joke Some months pre-
viously Joe had been sent out of town
and warned to keep away because of
certain shady practices with his faro
box He had remained away during the
summer and fall. but he was drawn back
by the bewltchery of a certain scarlet
woman OF Babylon. with whom he had
consorted. When it became known that
he was IN town a meeting was held
at the Exchange parlors. and il was de-
tormined to hang him. There were
worse men in the crowd than Joe had
ever been. but that cut no figure with
authority had been tFihed with
The crowd proceeded to the home OF
the courtesan and tore Joe from the
arms of his love He was taken to a
telegraph pole on the railroad right-of-
way and strung up. II was a bitter cold
night. the thermometer ranging far be-
lew zero. In the darkness Joe managed
- get the rope under one OF his arms.
and when he was hoisted twenty feet
into tho air he was in no danger of
strapgling. But he froze 10 death. Fer
hours his voice could be heard calling,
calling, but growing weaker and weaker
as the chill crept TO his heart. The next
morning the passengers on the east
bound train were greeted with the sight
OF n stiff almost naked, form swaying
In the north wind. That afternoon d
cOroner's inquest was he'd. II was con-
sidered a great joke that in trying to
hang a man the boys had frozen him
10 death. The humor OF the situation
was infectious enough 10 make the jury
return the verdict that Joseph North.
there lying dead. came 10 his death from
exposure while insufncietnly clad"
And that night Kitty-Kitty was the
name OF the girl--foIIowed the body OF
her lover 10 the graveyard wept some
tears as the cold clods fell on his coffin.
then--wcnt down 10 the ExehaESe par
Iors and got gloriously drum