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Named Tor Governor.

st, Joseph, Mo-. July Is. Hon. Cy-
rus f. Walbridge, Of st Louis was
nominated for governor Of Missouri
Wednesday night on the first Y ballot
taken By the state republican conven-
ton. He polled So votes out Of :
total of 765. ,..sf =. T.. - .sy s5l hi
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Auto Strikes Electric Car,

i Sidney, o., July 3o.-Arthur Mutt
and Amelia Davis were killed at SW1n-
ders, four miles north Of Sidney, bt,
their automobile being struck BY &
work CIR on the electric line. .c..s}
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wisconsin Bank Closed,

Mansion, Wis, July %. State Bank
Examiner NJ. G. Bergh Thursday took
I. charge Of the state bank here, and
closed its doors The liabilities Of the.
bank are stated to be 4137, 901, Of
which amount $79.7o4 IS due depos-l'
itors. $5 n 81 s9i h Y IN $s5 I'LL
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Nominated for CONGRESS-.

Ludington, Mich, July 2s. Geotx
Stanley. Of Cadillac, wis hominaS
for coHtresstnah :B5 9TH dk1aSggfs1t sss3aI
the NiAth dfstritt:., ;t5tsgs.' HxygS:s M
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n. sHAwLEr, Publisher.

The Prussian state railway system.
having 1.lo4j miles Of track. earned
ON. 100000 net last year. This 10
said to be 10 or IL per cent Of the in
svastment. IS r. II "a e
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petent In the republican party are am
bilious to holdEit, yet the republican
convention met at Chicago June last
and unanimously, with ., one accord,
nominated Mr.. Roosevelt as the candi-
date of the party for president. Mr..
Cannon asked the president to accept
the nomination, rendered to him.
At the close Of Mr.. .Cannon's ad-
dress, the president advanced to the
veranda railing, and. standing under
q great festoon Of American flags, de-
5livered his address In response to the
notification. AS he faced the assem-
blage he was warmly applauded.
~ Reply Of the President.
= In accepting the nomination the
president said that : he heartily APP
proved the declaration of principles
which the republican national conven-
ton had adopted. He declared that
from the time he had succeeded to the
presidency it has been his purpose to
carry out the principles and policies of
Mckinley for the honor and best in
terests of the country, and he would
continue to do so If reelected. He said
the record Of the party during the past
could be taken as an earnest of what
they would continue to do. He point
ed out that the laws for the regulation
Of trusts have been enforced and that
legislation has been enacted to in
crease the effectiveness OF their en-
forcement. He said the gold standard
had been settled in accordance with
what is regarded as the fundamental
principles of national morality and
wisdom. On the tariff question he said
It was true that a., readustment of
tariff schedules should be made when
ever the need arises, but such read
justment must retain and not destroy
the protective pfinciple. The construc-
tion Of the Panama canal he declared
to be an assured TACT, but it would -
unwise to lntrust the carrying out Of
SO momentous 8 policy to those who
have endeavored to defeat the whole
undertaking, sas .5t: :sls: III -. I
Il Stands on Past Record. :.
81 He declared the: nation's honor had
been upheld among foreign countries.
and in conclusion said: During the
seven years that have just passed
there is no duty, domestic or foreign,
which we have gshirkSd;; no necessary
risk which We have feared 70 UNDER
.take, or which We have not performed
with reasonable efficiency. S We have
never pleaded impotence. We have
never sought refuge Id criticisms and
complaint instead of action. We face
the future with our past and our pres
4ent as guarantors Of our promises;
and We are content TO stand or fAll by
the record which we have mads and
arc making. S.S 3 . s.sss4 III ss s.4$
AZ tbs conclusion Of the address,
President Roosevelt held Id infOrmal
receptiopsand recetyed the conefatula-
tons. Of the committeeman on his
spesh;s u as " ~
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MI ERA & ss'
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ACTS
J. N 81. PETERSDUR
THROWS BOMB AT CARRIAGE IN
~ WHICH N1NIsTEH OF IN
~, ........o TERROR RIDES,
n. Won Plehve Instantly Killed-Body
Badly NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Slain
and Many Persons Hurt-Assass1n
= Captured.

st. Petersburg, July 29.-M. Won
Plehve, minister of the interior, was as
'sassinated at $50 o'clock Thursday
morning by bomb thrown at his car
rage while he was driving to the Baltic
station to take train for the palace at
Peterhof, where he was to make his
weekly report to the emperor. The
coachman was killed and the wounded
and maddened horses dashed wildly
away with the front wheels OF the car
riage, the only portion of the vehicle
remaining in tact.
Immediately there ensued = scene OF
the widest confusion. Police and
eendarmes hurried up from every dtrec-
ton and vast crowds gathered about
the spot where the mangled body OF
the minister lay sweltering in his blood.
The roadway was, strewn for a hundred
yards with the wreckage of the carriage
and pieces of the red lining of the min
listers official overcoat. A few yards
from Won Plehve's body lay shapeless
heap of the coachman's remains.
Altogether IA outsiders. were injured
by the explosion. Capt. Tzventsky, OF
the guards, who was driving in a cab,
sustained fracture of the skull. 1t has
been trepanned, but the captain Is. not
expected to recover. The bomb was
filled with nails, not bullets as at first
believed.
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be simply rich; if ye're poor be simply
poor; If ye're nayether, be nayether.
but be simple about it, We don't have
TO be gin'rous to be simple. He makes
sthrong pint " that. REGARDS TO
Russell Sage.) 1t isn't nicissry to open
ye'er purse, says Chas II ye're a mi
ser, be simple miser. II amt issin-
tial to be poor to be simple. A poor
man walkin' tn sthTeets is far less
simple thin rich man lollin' back i'm
his carriage an figurin' out simple in
Unrest on his ouff. TIL poor man is en-
vious ~ tn rich man. but tn rich man
Is not envious iv tn poor man. II
ye er flower, says he. be a flower. if
we're a bur-rd be bur-rd, if a horse
horse. If mule mule. if a humin'
blurred a hummin' bur-rd, if a pole cat
a pole ,cat, If man a man. But al
ways be simple be it aver so complex
tn on'y thing Hogan an I cont
make firm tn book is what Is simplic-
ity | may be a simpIeton. Hinnissy.
but / don't know. Father Tom Burke
was forty years writin book on sim
plicity' an he niver got beyond tn first
smtince, which was: 1t is simply i'm
possible to define simplicity II amt
simple to be poor, 1t amt simple to be
without clothes. it amt simple to be
pious or sober Ye're pretty simple to
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1 do2 Throw away tn superflooties
says Hogan-ou " -chas, his book. But
what ar-re tn superfooties? IIl turin
out IN ilicthrie light. shut of tn fur
ace, an desthOy tn cash register be
which complex ruacheen / keep rnesilf
fr m Robin mesiif But am amy
more simple because I'm holdin' out on
mesiif With frozen fingers be a tallow
dip2 Was tn wurruId liver amy more
simple thin Il is todaye / doubt il. 1
bet We there was a good dale iv talk,
about Adam an Eve dhressing ostenta-
tlousiy an havin' tn King iv BeIjium's
aneesthor to supper with him. Hogan
was readin' me out IL a book tn other
day about tn simple fathers ~ tn
country 1t was a tur-rble shock 10
me- This fellow says that Robert Nor
ris, who is supposed sacrificed his for
tune FIR liberty. injooced tn govermint
To pay good money fr bad: Jawn
Adams wanted to make a kingdom iv
IN country; While as FIR George
Wash'nton, he acted like a eoal-oii
Jawnny whin he whit 10 tn White
House. an his wife put on insuff'rable
airs an had such bad table manners
that this here pathrite was compelled
10 leave tn room an run home TO put
II down in his diary.
An there ye ar-re. TIL more I
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hung" and dad pounded his cane ON
1.-The stone floor and looked savage.
{ The beef-eater get red in the face
and said: Begging your pardon, don't
you know, oct hi was not ere at the
time This istory was made six 'un-
bred years ago"
Dad begged the mans pardon and
told him he supposed the boys were
murdered year or two ago, and he
gave the beef-eater a dollar. and he
was so gratified / think he would have
had a murder committed for dad right
there and then if dad had insisted on
it.
You feel in going through the tower
IKE you was in an American slaughter
house, for IL was here that kings and
queens were beheaded by the dozen.
They showed us axes that were used
to behead people, and blocks that the
heads of the victims were laid on. and
the places where the he ads fell on thu,
hoor II seemed that in oiden times
When a king or a queen got too gay.
the anti-kings CT queens would go to
the palace and catch the king or queen
In the act, and take them by the neck
and hustle them TO the tower. and
when king or queen got in the tower
they went out on the instsIlrnent plan.
and after being thrown in the gutter
for the mob 70 recognize, and walk on
the bCdies. they would bring them
back 10 the tower. and seal them I'D in
a pigeon hole for future generations
10 cry over.
An my life have had in our house to
look at a picture OF beautiful Anne
Boleyn. and here 1 stood right where
her head was cut off. and 7 couun't
help thinking of how we in america got
our civilization from the descendants of
the English, people who cut her head
off
By ginger, old chum. it made me hot.
] didn't care TO look at the old armor,
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think tn less simple simplicity he
comes Says Wagner via Hogan a
laan shud be like a lamp, an tn more
night he sheds tn betther man he is.
That's tn throuble with ivvPybody that
tnries to advise me 10 be something I
amt. Whin I 'rpn him into corner
an say: Come on now an make good
Show me tn way he tells me TIM a
lamp, or three, or a Snowflake blown
be IN winds, or a bur-rd in a gilded
cage. or paint brush or a ship or
something else. But says 7: Tn none
~ these fine things. I'm a kind iy q
man an I'm not mintioned in tn bota-
ny or IN mail ordher list Tell me
what L must do. An he looks me in
IN eye an says he: be a man. An
there We ar-re. II a mans a Lamp. It's
because he smokes. don't show up well
In IN sunlight an will wan day be
blown out. There ar-re other simple
uses r'r lamps besides givin' light
which is wan Nv tn poorest things they
do nowadays. Rothschild thrades On
thin. tn Germon impror thinks they
ar-re on'y uesful to throw at his mi
mics an my business is TO hll thin
with kerosene.
No, sir, they amt amy simple life.
There's only life. It's kind iv an OBJ
staele race. Sinnin', repintin'. SHINING.
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believe all l tel We. but We may not be
as simple as 1 think an hope. A lie
may be as. simple as tn thruth. TIL,
fact w tn matther is that tn rale
thruth is niver simple. What we call
thruth an pass around firm hand TO
hand is on'y kind " currency that
we Use FIR convenience. There are a
good nanny counterfeiters an lot fv
tn counterfeiters mus be in circula-
ton 1 haven't amy question that /
take in many " thin over me intel
lechool bar ivry day an pass ont not
a few Some iv tn counterfeits has as
much precious metal in thin is tn
rale goods on'y they don't bear tn gov
ermint stamp,
What III, Givvle is simplicity amy
how? Simple is a foolish wurrud whin
We come TO think it over. Simple. SIM
pie, simple. It's kind iv mixture ~
silly an dimple. l don't know how to
90 about bein' simple III Lord didn't
make ne that way. / can imagine sim
plicity, but / can't just put me hand
on it. No more can Chas Wagner. Tell
me. Chas. how to lead tn simple life.
Tell me, Thaydore Rosenfelt, simple
soul. what l must do. Til go as far as
We like Hand ont tn rayceipt I'll
make mesif a simple man if / have to
bake in a slow oven TO do it. WhatH
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PECK'S BAD BOY ABROAD

makes supper. with a GROWER of beer.
Say, the chunk of meat with a bone
that an American butcher would throw
az dog that he had never been intro
duced 10 would be q banquet for a
large family over here.
l have been down into the White
Chapel district. which is the Five
Points of London, and of the thou
sands of tough people l saw there was
not n man but looked as though he
would cut your liver out for shilling.
and every woman was drunk on gin
What there is about gin that makes il
the national beverage for bad people
beats me, for it LOOKS like water
tastes like medicine and smells like
cold storage eggs. AT home when a
person takes a drink Of beer or whisky
he at least looks happy for minute
and maybe he laughs, buC here nobody
laughs unless somebody gets hurt. and
that seems to tickle everybod in the
White Chapel district
The people look mad and savage
when they are not dTinking as though
they were only looking for an oppor-
tunity TO commit murder and then
when they take drink Of gin. instead
OF smiling and smacking their lips as
though II was good and braced them
up, they look as though they had been
stabbed with a dirk and they put on a
look of revenge, as though they would
like to wiring child's neck or cut holes
in the people they meet.
Two drinks of gin makes a man or
woman look as though they, had swal-
lowed a buzz saw. l always thought
drinking liquor made people think
they were enjoying themselves, or that
they took il 70 drive away care and
make them forget their sorrows. but
when these people drink gin they seem
to do it the way an American drinks
carholic acid, TO end the whole bust
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oNDoN. England.-My Dear chum:

ONDON. England.-My Dear Chum:
/ received your letter yesterday.
and it made me homesick. Gee.
but If / could be home there with you
and go down to the swimming hole and
get in all over. and play tag i'm the
sand. and tie some boys pants and
shirt in knots, and yell that the police
are coming. and all grab our clothes
under our arms and run across lots
with no clothes on. and get in a barn
and put on our clothes, and dry our
hair by pounding it with a stick. so we
would not get licked when we got
home, life would be worth living. but
here all i do is to dodge people on the
streets and see them look cross when
they step on me.
Say, boy. YOU viii never know your
luck IN being a citizen of good old
America. instead of "A subject of Great
Britain, because you have got to be
rich or be hungry here. and il you are
too rich you have got no appetite
You have heard OF the roast beef Of
old England, but nobody eats it but
the dukes and bankers. The working
men never even saw n picture OF
roast beef. and yet we look uDon all
Englishmen as beef-eateTs. but three
fcurths of the people in this town look
hungry and discouraged, and they
never seem TO know whether they are
going to have any supper.
] went down TO a market this morn
ing where the middle class and the
very poor people buy their supplies,
and ii would make you sick TO see
them. They buy small loaves Of bread
and a pennys worth Of tea, and that is
breakfast. and if a man is working he
takes some OF the bread 10 work for
lunch. and the wife or mother buys a
carrot or a quarter OF a cabbage, and
maybe d bone with a piece of meat
about as big as fish bait, and that
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ever afterwards, but your slum muir
derer in London just kills because his
stomach Graves a drink, and when he
gets it he is tame. like a tiger that
has eaten a native Of India
You may think this letter is a solemn
occasion because tell you about
things that are not funny, but if you
ever Travelled abroad you viii find that
there is no fun anywhere except in
America unless you make il or buy it.
We are taking in the solemn things
lrSt i'm order to get dads mind in a
condition so he can be cured of things
he thinks all him. / took dad 20 the
Tower Of London, and when we got
out Of it he wanted to have America
interfere and have the confounded
place burned down and grass sowu on
the site and q park made of Il.
The tower covers thirteen acres of
ground, and there are more things
brought to a visitors attention that
ought 10 be forgotten than you ever
thought about.
I remember. attending the theatre a
home and seeing Richard the Third
played, and remember how my sym
pathies were aroused For the two littl.
boy princes that were murdered by
Richard the Third, but ! thought IL
was a fake play land that there was
nothing true about il, out. by gosh, il
was right here in the Tower of Lon
don that the cid hump backed cUss
murdered these little princes, and dad
and / stood right on the spot. and the
beef-eateF who showed us around told
Us all the partfeulars. Dad was IN
Gignant, and said 10 The besf-eater:
DO YOU mean 10 tell me you stood
around and let Richard kill those
princes without uttering a protest or
protecting them or ringing for tbe~po-
lice? BY the great hornspQon, you
must have been accessory TO the fact.
and you ought 70 be arrested and
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tn diplomatic core, which IS all that is
left iv diplomacy nowadays. poked III
wife " congressman with a lorgnette
fr goin' into supper ahead Nv her. La
ter he was rayceived be III simple pris-
ident, who said to him: 'Chas.' he SAYS.
i We been preachin' .ye'er book TO me
counthrymen,' he says. simplicity an
sthrong navy is tn watchword iv this
administration he says
Since thin Chas has been whoopin'
~ III simple life. They've showed him
ivrything simple We have. sRe's seen
tn subway tn drainage canal. tn,
stock exchange. Tom Lawson. Jawn d.
Roekefellar an Mrs. Chadwick. Hes
looped tn loops. shot tn shoots had a
ride in pathrol wagon, played tn
races an met Dave Hill. TIL las seen
~ him he was climb.n into a private
car in a fur-liped coat an a plug hat.
Win he goes home 10 his simple life
in Paris he's goin' 10 have a ticker put
In his study. He is undheTehtud to ia
vor sellin' copper on bulges.
Il haven't read his book, but Hogan
says it's good wan an I'm goin' to
read II afther I've read tn Bible an
Emerson, whish Mike Ahearn ricom-
mended to me tn year iv tn big fire.
IN idee is that no matther what We
ar-re, ye must be simple. If ye're rich,
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BY George W. Peck.

described to us. and / thought it was
tlhe 10 wake him up. IN going through
the room where the old armor was dis
played the beef-eater told Us who yo,s
the different pieces of arfnOr. and he
said at times the spirit OF the dead came
back TO the tower and occupied the az
NOR. and | noticed that dad SHE'D st
some OF the pieces Of arulOr, so when
we ST right into the midst of II and
there was armor on every side. and dad
and the beef-eateF were ahead OF rae
and dad was walking fast IN order 10
SET out quick ] pushed ever one OF the
pieces, and IL went crashing 10 the floor
and the noise was like a boiler factory
exploding. and the dust of centuries
rose uD, and the noise echoed down
the halls
Well. YOU'D died 10 see dad and the
beef-eater. Dad turned pale and got
down or his knees. and 7 think he De
gan TO pray. if ne knows how. and h.
tremoled like leaf, and The heef-e5tc.
got behind a set of armor that Crom-
well or some old duck used lo wear. a.d
SAID. "Wot IN the bloody Ell - ,ha
matter with the h'armor%' and then n
lot Ct other Deef-eaters came. sad sHcv
thought dad was the spirit # E:r.-
John, and they stampeded. and finally
/ got dad 10 stop praying. OF WhaIev,r
IL was mat ne was doing. and / lei
him out, ana when he got into the Open
air he recovered and said: ."Eanat.
hi ave got 10 get out OF Lunnon, doa't
you know. because me cart y palpi-
Eating, and We went back 10 the 'st.l.
10 see IL our invitation 10 VisIc kilg
Edward had arrived.
Say, We are getting Sc we laIk Just
like English coachmen. and you won't
understand us when we GO 'aGte.
Yours with a haccent. EN- NERY
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/ or the crown jewels, which make YOU
think of cut glass factory, but | rev
eied IN the scenes of the beheading. l
never was stuck much on kings and
queens, but II seems to me if they had
e murder them they ought to have
given 'em a show. and let them hsht
for their lives, instead Of getting into
trap, like you would entice a rat
with, cheese. and then cut their heads
Off.
/ suppose it is right here that we in
herited the desire TO lynch and burn
at the stake the negroes that commit
crime and won't confess at home When
anything is born in the blood you can't
get rid Of il without taking a dose Of
patriotism and purifying the blood. and
advise you never 20 visit the Tower Of
London. unless you want 10 feel like
going ont and killing some one that Is
tied up with rope.
Gee. but another day in this tower.
and [ would want 10 go home and muir
der ma, or the neishbers.
The only thing We have got in Amer
lea that compares with the Tower OF
London and its associates is the Lieut.
CERT sausage factory in Chicago. where
Leutgert got his wife into the factory.
murdered her, and is alleged 10 have
cut her up in pieces and made sausage
OF the meat, giving the pieces with girls
tie i'm 10 the dogs. boiled the bone until
they would run into the sewer. dissolved
the remnants in concentrated I've and
sold theSausage TO the lumber Jacks in
the pins woods.
! expect Chicago viii buy that sau-
sage factory and make a show of il. as
London does the tower. and you can 20
and see ii, and feel that you are as
fun Of modern history as ] am Of an
Gent history, here in London.
/ could see that dad was getting ner-
vous every time a new beheading was
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ness quick
At home the drinl1er drinks to make
him feel he was at a picnic. Here
every drinker acts like a suicide. who
only hopes that he may commit a muir
der before the gin ends his career.
And there are hundreds of thousands
of people in this town who have no
ambition except to get a bit of bread
u sustain them till they can get
drink of gin, and gradually they let up
on bread entirely and feed on gin, and
look like mad dogs and snarl at every
body they see as much as to say:
What are you going to do about it ?"
A good square American meal would
give them q fit, and they would go 10
a hospital and die if the meal could
not be got out OF them.
Gosh but / was glad to get out Of
the White Chapel district, and l kept
looking back for fear one of the men
or women would slit me up the back
with a butcher knife and laugh like
an insane asylum inmate.
Do you know, those people who
drink gin and go hungry are different
from our American murderers. Our
murderers viii assault you with
smile, rob you with joke on their
tongues end. and give you back car
fare when they hold you up, and If
they murder you they viii do il easy
and lay you out with your hands
across on your breast and notify the
coroner, but Your White Chapel muir
derer wants to disembowel you and
cut you up into chunks, and throw
your remains head first into something
nasty and if you have money enough
on Your person to buy bottle of gin.
20
though he got roll. Some men in our
country commit murder in order to
get money to lay away so they can live
nice, respectable life and be good