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gatta season at Cowes, it meant one
more distinguished American woman
to be admitted to the Kings circle.
Mrs. Potter Palmer never does
things by halves. and this was never
more thoroughly demonstrated than
when she arranged the marriage be-
tween her niece. Miss Julia Dent
Grant, and the Russian Prince Can
tacuzene. 1t was one of the most brill
liant matrimonial achievements the
social world has ever known, and, un-
like SO many similar affairs, the union
has turned out to be supremely
happy one.
When Mrs. Potter Palmer deter
mined to join the social colony at
Cowes last year she leased the his
toric Egypt House in England's ia
nous beauty spot, the Isle of Wight
Everybody who is anybody in English
society goes down for the regatta sea
son, for the King is sure to be there,
and society flocks at the royal heels.
This recalls that the interior of
Egypt House is a splendid example of
the simple luxury which prevails in so
many old English houses. Several
years ago it was leased by Consuelo,
Dowager Duchess of Manchester. The
Duchess is one of the oldest friends of
King Edward, and during the season
that SHe was mistress Oh ESypC HOUSE
she was the Kings hostess on more
than one occasion.
The Duchess had the old place done
over in anticipation of the Kings COM
ing and all the floors were highly pol
ished and covered with expensive rugs.
His Majesty was escorting the Ouch
ess into dinner one evening when he
slipped on the polished floor and mar
rowly escaped getting bad fall. For
the instant the King was angry and
reminded the Duchess that he detested
/ polished floors and would never again
enter house where they prevailed.
Merchants of London received or
ders the following day to take meas
urements of all the floors in Egypt
House, and when the King again Wis.,
tied the Duchess there he found every
room and corridor carpeted in fine
Persian effects. The King laughed
and partly apologized for his bad tenn
per on the previous occasion by say
ing, You are very good, Duchess. You
see, l am not as young as l used to
be-" Since that time polished floors
have been tabooed by the English
smart set.
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Where Age BroughtWcaIth.

A proud father In western town,
who has a number of daughters of a
manageable age, in speaking of the
qualities of the girls. said to an ac-
quaintance that while he loved each
Of them very much, he would like to
see them comfortably married. II have
little money" he said. "and they
will not go pennilcss to their hus-
bands"
There is Mary, twenty-five years
old, shall give her 1000 when she
marries. Then comes Bet, she is more
than thirty-five, and she will get 50, 900
while the man who takes Eliza. who is
more than forty. will receive $4,000
with her."
The acquaintance after some few mo-
ments of serious thought, wanted to
know If he had any daughters fifty or
sixty years old.
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In Sunless DUNGEONS.

A victim of Russian severity who
was at one time immured in the grim
fortress of Peter and Paul, in st. Pc
tersburg, describes it as resembling a
house Of the dead.
Its dungeons, utterly sunless. are
abodes of gloom and silence. Not a
word is spoken among the hapless pris-
oners. intercourse being carried on
mainly by gestures. Prisoners COM
municate with each other by knocking
on the walls of their cells, SO many
times for each letter. But even this
is sternly repressed by the authorities,
and captives detected in the practice
are liable to severe punishment.
I'm short, the prison reproduces all
the horrors of the dungeons Of ro-
nance, with mildewed walls. cold ST.
lence and despair. The fortress. in
deed. is never spoken of in Russia
without a shudder, for Imprisonment
there is little better than being buried
alive"
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FITZHUGH LEES YIEWS.
Once Told General Howard Southern
Defeat Would Work for Good.

/
In March, 1896. l had the pleasure
recently remarked an official of the In
dian Department, of travelling in com
pany with the Indian party" from
Washington City on its way to Car
Isle, Pa, to attend the annual com
mencement exercises of the Indian
school there.
With the party, which included
some members of both houses of Con
gress and a few officials of the Indian
service. were the fearless, forcible
Fitzhugh Lee, and that knightly
Christian soldier. Major-General o. O.
Howard.
Naturally the two old veterans
serving on opposite sides of our coun
try's most desperate war. found much
and were together during the entire
trip.
had the good luck TO be included
in their conversation from time to
time, and heard much that was in
structive and entertaining.
From present events their conversa-
tion drifted back to the heroic days of
the civil war, and they fought over
again many of its battles. Then they
recalled old days at West Point, when
Howard was an instructor and had
fltz as MS pupll.
do you remember" said General
Howard, the time at the Point that
induced you to attend chapel serv-
ices?"
Yes" answered General Lee, but
didn't go for the services, went for
YOU"
Again their conversation was about
the war, and its decisive battles, and
to the wonderful changes since those
tragic days of '61-5.
They had discussed the industrial
conditions Of the country, and General
Lee seemed unusually well informed
as to the needs and opportunities Of
the South.
do you know" he said, the next
decade will witness an industrial re-
naissance for us. We are just begin
ming to get an influx of Northern capi-
tai and push; and we are learning that
we can get along without the niggers."
Yes" assented Howard, whose
thoughts seemed still to cling round
past events. its all the result of that
fight at Gettysburg"
Il don't know as to that" responded
General Lee, but l wish you would
tell me how 'you'ens' came to win that
battle"
Well" said the gentle Howard, II
didn't win it, F'itz, God did"
"Yes, General" Lee answered. 81
know you went up into the steeple of
that old church at Gettysburg for some
purpose. but l didn't know it was for
that"
Lee gazed for some time out of the
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SENATOR ELMER J. BURKETT,
of Nebraskn

tor Dietrich, and, of course, Republi-
can nominees for the legislature were
pledged to carry out the action of the
state convention.
Hot Contest With Bryan.
William Jennings Bryan was the uni
versally accepted candidate against
Burkett, supported by the Democrats.
Populists and Free-Silver Republicans.
The fight was thus narrowed down to
one between Mr.. Burkett and Mr..
Bryan for control of the legislature.
Which one would be senator was de-
pendent upon the political complexion
of that body. The campaign, extend
ing over n period of about five months,
was exceedingly virile, and there was
plenty of uncertainty to make it inter
esting, and at times almost bitter.
Mr.. Burkett, like his distinguished
opponent, Is of even temperament,
slow to anger and plenteous in that
brand of good nature that never wears
off; and so whatever may have dis
turbed others, it can be said that moth
ing harsh or bitter ever passed be-
tween them personally.
Roosevelt's great popularity made
the state surely Republican, so far as
the electoral ticket was concerned, but
Mr.. Bryan's popularity and his force
as campaigner made the outcome as
to the complexion of the legislature
one of doubt and uncertainty. Then,
too, there were local conditions that
were not advantageous to the Republi-
cans.
These were the conditions confront
ing Mr.. Burkett when the campaign
of 1904 opened. Mr. Bryan. brilliant,
shrewd and resourceful as he Is. took
advantage of every mistake of the Re-
publicans, and he went into the cam
paign determined to elect n Demo
cratic legislature. He stroye nightly;
he held meetings in almost every dis
trict: he completely covered the state
with special train, and made from
five to eight rear-platform speeches a
day, arousing as he always does, great
enthusiasm. But Mr.. Burkett was also
over the state. He made as many
speeches as did his opponent and he Is
convincer, and he visited every por-
ton of the Commonwealth.
Genius for Organization.
Probably one of Burkett's chief at
tributes in his genius for organization.
AS a result of the marshaling of his
forces, legislature was elected with
every one of the thirty-three members
in the Senate Republican and only
nine Fusionists out of one hundred
members of the House. The legis-
lature met and in just six minutes
elected Mr.. Burkett a Senator.
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IN TROPICAL ARIZONA.
DESERT SANDS BEING TRANS
FORMED INTO YERD4NT
FIELDS AND ORCHARDS.

Country Was Once Inhabited by an
Ancient Pcople-Only Ruins Left to
Indicate a Teeming and Prosperous
Population.
Swinging gently in ones hammock
beneath wide spreading fig trees load
ed with luscious fruit, and breathing
into the nostrils the fragrance of a
field of Peruvian clover mingling with
the almost tropical bloom about me, it
is indeed hard TO believe that this very
spot, only a few years ago, boasted
naught save the horned toad, the
Gila monster and the rattlesnake. a
suspicion of n scent of desert sage
waited on summer mornings zephyr
awakes in one realization that. just
beyond this fair oasis, gaunt desola-
tion, weird and mysterious, stalks
wide under relentless skies of brass.
All these thoughts and others are
yours when you drop into Phoenix
or Mesa, or any of the little oases in
the Salt River Valley, after the long
hot ride across the burning sands
which intervene between it and Ell
Paso, Texas. You are glad to feast
your eyes on the green verdure which
seems to spring suddenly from out
the sere desert.
An Almost Tropical Climate.
Phoenix, beautiful in garb of
tropical luxuriance, with wide aven-
ues shaded by magnificent palms or
shapely umbrella trees, with pleasant
homes almost hidden by vines and
flowers, bids you welcome.
Many of her pioneers and her best
citizens came here to fight last bat
tie with that dreaded scourge, the
White Plague ue-tuberculosis- and the
welcome they received from the des-
ert brought the bloom of health to
their cheeks and new hope to their
hearts, and is reflected in the welcome
which greets the stranger at their
gates to-day
Ours is usually termed n new coun-
try. yet in Arizona one views the re-
mains of civilization that tiourished
as long ago as the eighth or ninth CEN
tury, and mayhaps as ancient as that
of the first. There is an irrigation ca
nal, deep and wide, cut from the solid
rock by race which lived in the
Salt River valley ere man had
learned the use of metals. On the
bank one finds broken stone axe,
mute evidence of the wonderful pa
tience of people of whom history
records nothing save this sign of skill
in engineering and irrigation. Van
ished are they into the misty
past SO long ago that the
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NEW SHERIDAN STATUE.
OHIO ERECTS MONUMENT AT a
COST OF TEN THOUSAND =.
DOLLARS
Striking Figure of the Cavalry Lead
er as He Appeared in the Later
Years of His Life, But Not as he
Looked During the War.

The dedication of statue of Gem
eral Phil Sheridan at Somerset, Ohio,
on Nov. End, revives interest in the
career of the great cavalry leader Of
the Union armies. The state of ONO
erected the statue, an equestrian one
and there his birth was recorded.
which will stand in the public square
of the quaint old village in which
Sheridan lived as a boy. 1t was al
ways believed prior to his death, that
Sheridan was born in the village. He
and his family allowed the impression
to remain as there was some hope
that he might be nominated for Presi-
dent. Sheridan himself was always
proud to call himself an Ohio man
When he died his relatives admitted
that he was not even born in this
country, but on ship when LIS par
ents were en- route from Ireland.
They settled first at Albany, N. y,
and there his birth was recorded
However it was in Somerset that he
grew up, quick alert little Irish lad
whose greatest delight in youth was
to await the coming of the stage that
he might ride the horses to water.
His old mother used to tell in her de-
clining years of Phillies great love for
horses and how hard his father used
to whip him for riding every horse ne
could find to mount.
Early Cavalry Training.
That early love of horses stood Phil
in good stead when he entered the
cavalry arm of the service and fitted
him for the famous "Sheridan's Ride"
to the battle of Winchester. Sheridan
began as clerk in the village store
and was sent to West Point by con-
gressman who hoped to catch the
Irish Catholic vote. Alas, the con-
gressman was beaten, but he gave the
nation a great soldier and in later
years when the man was in trouble,
Sheridan came to his relief in a CRATE
full manner. The mother of Sheridan
almost outlived him and died at the
age of 80 retaining her faculties to the
last. He visited her often and she
was never SO happy as when she told
all her neighbors "My Phillie is COM
ing" He gave her nice little home
on the edge of the village, and under
great tree that stands in the yard,
speeches have been made by the first
President Harrison, by Sherman,
Tom Corwin, Carried, Hayes and Nc
Kinley. The father of Sheridan lived
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SCENE IN PHOENIX. ARIZONA.


tens. The Roosevelt dam will double
the acreage. 1t will also furnish TO-
600 horse power, which can be used
for pumping water from underground
sources where the supply is known to
be large. Some of the power will be
conveyed electrically to the San Carlos
Indian Reservation, and water pump
ed from wells may restore to the Pima
and Papago Indians the lands which
are now worthless and change tribe
now almost wholly nomadic into their
former condition of prosperous agri-
culturists.
Thirty miles of wagon road up the
rugged Salt River canyon have been
completed, a cement mill at the dam
site is turning out hundreds of barrels
of fine cement daily, saw mills are
cutting big timbers, brick yards are in
full blast: thirty miles of power canal
now furnishes 1000 horse power for
all constructive purposes, telephone
lines, electric lights and water works
are completed, city of 1000
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oldest legends of the oldest Indian
tribes convey to us no word of an in
dustrious race of husbandmcn who
carried the waters of the Salt River
out upon the desert and made it to
blossom. What dreadful catastro-
phe overwhelmed them? What cruel
fate overlook them and swept them
from the face of the earth? Ask of
the desert, which quickly returned
to claim its own and obliterated under
its drifting sands the long lines of
canals and bitches and the wide
spaces of green. 1t answers not
Centuries passed, and then the Anglo
Saxon came to battle with the des-
ert. AS his great steam shovels swept
aside the sands, behold he found his
canal lines crossed and recrossed by
the ancient bitches or following them.
So great were the returns from ir-
rigation in the valley, it was but nat
ural that the old canals should be
widened and heightened and new
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THE YOUNGEST SENATOR.
burkett. of Nebraska, Who Defea ated
Mm. J. Bryan tor the Toga.

From the farm furrow to the Sen.
ate Is the somewhat remarkable
record of the youngest member of that
body, Elmer J Burkett, of Nebraska.
10 be elected Il Senator is considered
a distinction worthy the ambition of
any American youth; to be the baby"
member of the greatest of legislative
bodies is higher distinction, and es-
pecially as in the case of Mr. Burkett,
where the race was n hot one, and his
opponent an able and renowned an
tagonist, no other man than William
j. Bryan.
out in Nebraska, says Edgar G.
Snyder, of the Omaha Bee, who is fa-
miliar with state politics, there has
been in the past n number of long
drawn out senatorial deadlocks. The
people were not only dissatisfied with
conditions, but they were determined
to stop it They concluded to direct
the action of the legislature.
Nomination by the People.
The newspapers took up the matter
of popular nomination very ener-
geucally, and the plan was suggested
of having n state convention nomina te
n candidate for United States Senator,
and instruct their legislative nominees
to vote for him when the legislature
met. OF course, there was opposition
to the plan in certain quarters, for it
materially interfered with the desires
of the "bosses' who had controlled
Nebraska politics for many years, and
Burkett was not exactly to their liking.
The opposition, however, did not de-
velOp any great amount of strength
and Mr. Burkett was unanimously de-
clared the choice of the Republicans of
the state for Senator, to succeed Sena-
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GUEST OF KING EDWARD.
AIRS. POTTER PALMER, SOCIETY
LEADER, SPENDS SEASON
IN LONDON.

Leased Egypt House,, Isle of Wight
Polished Floors of Famous Man
sion Persian Carpeted to Please
Royal Mhim.
Mrs. Potter Palmer. social censor
for the great world of society in Chi.
cago, is numbered among the few
American women who have really and
truly penetrated to the inner circles of
exclusive society in England.
One hears every day of Mrs. This or
Mrs. That who has set the social world
of London agog. but few of this vast
number ever do more than receive an
invitation or two to affairs which are
by no means the entertainments of the
smart set.
Mrs. Potter Palmer. however, is a
woman whose social position is as.
sured and has been for number of
years. To know her is the open ses-
anne to the most exclusive houses in
America, and SO when she went
abroad last summer and announced
her intention of staying for the re-
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years. Thousands of acres of vines
and orchards perished miserably and
the desert once more began to en-
croach upon the cultivated fields.
With n courage born of experience
with arid conditions, a sublime faith
in their chosen field, the people brave
ly tried to meet misfortunes and to
overcome them. 1t was hopeless
struggle. Salvation, though near, was
just out of reach. The great floods
which came each year, sweeping away
bridges and tearing out canals and
bitches, could not be utilized because
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storage necessitated an expenditure
beyond the means of the people.
Once Lair of 6eronlmo's Apaches.
Far up in the San Francisco Noun
tains, once the rendezvous of the
Apache outlaw Geronimo, and his
band of murdcrers, Salt River and
Tonic Creek come together in Tonto
Basin and flow into a deep and mar
row canyon. Near the entrance to
this gorge the Engineers of the Re-
clamation Service are building the
Roosevelt dam, one of the highest
in the world. From bedrock to top
it will be 2T5 feet high, or about half
the height of Washington monument.
1t will be of rubble masonry. and in
its construction will require 10000
bbls. of cement. When completed 1t
will store 100000 acre feet of water,
or sufficient water to cover that many
acres one foot deep. Once full, 1t
will insure sufficient water to cover
100000 acres in the valley with five
feet of water. the amount needed to
produce full crop. The people are
pledged to pay $3,6OO,OO0 in ten years
for this work. To-day only 100000
acres are irrigated under present sys-
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Noah Iyas q ITise Ono.

day school teacher, who was the
wisest man" NOAH" she answered.
HE was the only one who knew
enough to go In out of the rain"
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-01-19
Took Care of Relatives.

Dut died from the KICK or VICIOUS
horse.
Took Care of Relatives.
The General did much for all his
relatives and his memory is blessed
in the old town Of his boyhood. His
younger brother mike" is retired
army officer. Another brother, John,
died some Years ago and his daughter
Ellen is now postmistress of the vii
lage. Mrs. Sheridan, the widow, was
present at the unyeiling with her
children, one of them being an officer
in the army. The sculptor, Carl
Heber, endeavored to represent Sheri-
dan as he may have appeared when
making his famous ride, except that
he has pictured Sheridan as he looked
in the later years of his life. The
Sheridan of the battle of Winchester
wore full beard as pictures taken
then give proof. The Statue cost ten
thousand dollars and the dedication
was attended by Corporal Tanner.
commander of the G. A. R., who made
speech. Adjutant Tweedale re-
cited "Sheridan's Ride"
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bitches constructed. With the op-
timism which has ever characterized
the desert pioneer, great works were
undertaken
There came a day when the sup
ply ceased to suffice. Periods of
unusual and protracted drought fol-
lowed each other for number of
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THE SHERIDAN STATUE.

car window at the flying trees and
wheeling landscape. His thoughts
seemed far away. Then. without look.
ing at Howard. he said, well, I'm
d-n glad. General, that you licked
US. It was the best thing that could
have happened for the South"
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inha abitants rests in the reservoir
where 10 feet of water will cover 1t,
Geronimo's Apaches working every
day on roads or timbering-all these
signs of activity breathe unmistakable
promise of speedy prosperity for the
sunny valley sixty-two miles below.
Phoenix redivivus.
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Country Was Once Inhabited by an
Ancient Pcople-Only Ruins Left to
Indicate a Teeming and Prosperous
Population.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-01-19

tor Dietrich, and, of course, Republi-
can nominees for the legislature We're
pledged to carry out the action of the
state convention.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-08-16

REPUBLICAN
. CONVENTION
OF the Eighteenth Illinois Con.
gressional District Today--Is
Coming 10 the Front as a
Presidential Possibility

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen o
the Convention: i thank you TO
this expression OF confidence, and
congratulate on the prosperous cond
tion OF the country under Republican
administration. The Republican
party has followed the teachings In
the parable of the wise servant who
returned TO his master the talent
entrusted TO his case multiplied ten
fold. Clothed with responsibility
for the administration OF the gov
ernment of sO,OOO,OOO people, we
have sought TO make n return that
will benefit those who entrusted the
talent 10 our case. We have sue
ceeded In making two blades of
grass grow luxurlantly under Repub-
lican administration where one grew
feebly before under Democratic ad-
ministratlon.
Since the election OF William Nc
Kinley as president the business OF
the country has doubled and the
material interests OF the people have
become better than ever before In
our history; aye, better than the
condition OF any people on earth In
any time since history began. This
II under the policies OF the Repub-
lican party as enacted into law by
congress and executed by the presi-
dent. Attribute this condition 10
what cause you may. speculate about
IL as you will. call II confidence in
men or measures. the fact remains
that IL exists. and that there never
has been recorded anywhere such In.
dustrial development and such n
wave OF prosperity as has swept over
the United States In the last decade. !
Under the administration OF the
pingley tariff law there has been a
greater development IN all forms OF
Industry than has ever been reached
under any other revenue law since
the government was organized. The
schedules OF that law are not secret.
nut the principle there embodied IL
fundamental Since the enactment
OF the nrst revenue law under Wash.
ington down TO the present time
me periods OF prosperity have been
under protection. and the periods OF
adversity have been under the policy
of free trade or tarln for revenue
only.
Prosperity hor All.
This remarkable prosperity under
ne Dingiey law has not been for one ,
'lass' but for all the people. IL has
onched the artisan. the farmer. the
aud the common Ia.
'orer OF the country All have felt ,
t. eenencent Influence. aud | meas.
ire my words when / say that the ,
PRODUCTION from all kinds of busI.