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yesterday, devoted to selling the native


product.
The chief cotton market OF this re-
gion consists OF many little sheds COW
cred with mats facing dirt road. It
IL situated not far from the centre Of
the city OF Omdurman, and there are
several thousand acres OF mud huts
reaching out on all sides Of 1t. Both
the sheds and the streets are filled
with cotton. The cotton Is brought
as 1t Is when picked from the plants.
The samples are displayed in flat,
round baskets. each OF which holds
perhaps bushel. and when carried
away 1t is put up In bags, and not In
bales. A great part OF 1t goes to the
native weayers, who turn 1t into cloth,
using the smallest factories one can
imagine.
Not far from the street where the
which put the raw material through all
the processes and turned 1t into native
cloth. The establishment consisted OF
half dozen mud huts, shut off from
the street by a mud wall, which, with
the huts, formed court. In the court
a dozen black-skinned women were Sit
ting on mats on the ground, ginning
and spinning. while the weaving went
on in the huts at the back. The gin
was somewhat like clothes wringer,
save that the rolls were about as big
around as the ordinary candle, and that
the whole machine was SO small that II
could have fitted into peck measure.
One woman turned the machine, while
ar other put In the cotton and picked
out --the seeds as they failed to go
through. Near the gin sat two wo-
men who were swapping the lint witt
bowstrings to separate the 'fibres. and
further owe. there were a half dozen
others. sitting cross-legged. and spin
ming the lii into yarn by hand.
went to the mud huts at the back
and looked in at the weayers. They
were black boys and men. who sat be-
fore rude looms on the edge of holes
IN the ground. The looms were so made
| that they could be worked with the
feet, the shuttles being thrown back
and forth by hand. The latter moved
through the cloth with a whistlins
! noise. and this was about the only
sound to be heard. The cloth turned
out is very good. It Is we'll woven,
soft and brings good prices. It's wear
Ing qualities are better than those OF
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:. |. PROCTOR KNOTT ::

at all, they are intended for the protection
OF the minority. It is common saying.
that vox populi vox Del; nevertheless the
MOI only unwise. hut essentially despotic,
and of all the intolerable despotisms that
my Imagination can corrective. tho act OF
the State, reaching into the bosom OF the
family Of one of Its citizens taking his child
from It's natural asylum. placing itself In
loco PARENTS. Notwithstanding he may de-
sir: to educate 1t there. is the most atrocl'
Gus.
II were sent to find the truest dis
ciple of Jefferson among all living
Democrats. and should run across j.
Proctor Knott, would say. Thou art
ished.
Copyright 1o7 by E. w. Newman.)
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Knott voluntarily retired from Con-
governor Of Kentucky. "Quinine Jim"
Mckenzie was secretary Of state an and
tary. Alec Grant had q position Of
some sort, and Robert Burns Wilson.
the poet, was daily visitor; During
those four years the, executive once
pleasant place to visit in oil this
Union.
l think Knott expected to reach the
Senate by the governors route: The
thinker, statesman, sage, that he Is. II
one would know what a giant grip he
has on political history and on politi-
cal principle let him read Knots lie lee 6; !,
production. He was candidate to
succeed Beck In the Senate. and was
defeated by John G. Carlisle. II wish
had space to trS to draw parallel ~, be-
two men-one as severe as the Gothic
the other rs brilliant as the Renais-
sance. For some years Knott had the
chair Of civics at Center. College, but
and a there there lives il s with his Books and his
tor Knott relate 'Lige Plnkston'a
Judgement" of certain disreputable
steal piece OF humor from Pat Do
nan, or anybody else? It is the finest
anecdote for rollicking fun In the Ian
guage-as told by Proctor Knott when
In the vein. I do not believe that pa
thing from literature to which Proc
tor Knott was q stranger. What a
magnificent head4t Is! Big as bushel
basket. round as an apple, and longer
from the eyes up than from the eyes
down. Proctor Knott hadst thou not
been a poet, and hadst thou not been
cursed with the fatal faculty Of hu-
NOR, thou wOuldst have ranked among
| the greatest speculative statesmen OF
| the AnElo-SaXon face!
Chosensto the Kentucky constitutions
aI convention Of lssos91 Knott qfferea
rights, and 1t ought to be printed In
every school text book In the Union:
That all mon are endowed by their
Creator with equal rights to life, liberty.
that in tho social compact they engage to
hold these rights subject to Just and Inn
partial laws, under which each shall be
entitled to equal protection and equal
the duties and responsibilities thereby I'M
posed. IT Ia, therefore, ordained that arbi-
trary power over none shall be exercised
In this Commonwealth that no privilege.
be granted to any man, or set OF men, tina.
all others. under like circumstances. may
no. fully exercise and enjoy, and that no
public emolument shall be allowed to any
wee. tho performance OF which shall BIO re,
That ought 80 so with Lineoln's
lGettysburg Grafton, one for the closet,
the other for the forum.
and referedum when this probe is put
| to 1T which Knott inserted into CONF
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Women and Theatres.

Women are the greatest patrons OF
the theatre. and where women go there
men felix will follow; hence 1t is OBJ
vious that IL dramatist wants a sue
cess he must please the women.-Wo-
man
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ayers, who accused Secretary OF War
Belknap at the bar Of the Senate. So
greatly did Knott. then twenty-seven
years old, distinguish himself in the
Missouri impeachment case he was ap-
pointed to supply the vacancy in the
Office OF encouragement OF Missouri,
a position to which he was chosen by
the people at the succeeding election.
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Whom ne'er a town surpasses
For honest men and bonny lasses.

For honest men and bonny lasses.
At Lebanon resides in serene retire.
ment, In the enjoyment OF all the fe-
licity that comes to the man of splen-
j. Proctor Knott, the scholar, the ora
tor. the poet, the jurlst. the statesman.
I am induced to write something Of this
man. because of some slovenly stuff u
Mr.. William f. Curtis has given the
cate writings. A Mr.. Dexter Marshall
also dropped into more or less fiction
On the same subject some weeks ago.
Knots humor. and declaring that the
Duluth speech finished Knott's hopes
as a lawyer. Here Is what Curtis
says:
bill granting tract Of land to the Bay
field and St. croix Railroad being under con-
sideration. Mr.. Knott, inspired by its OPP
ponents. made witty and satircai Speech
which Is unsurpassed in Congressional litera-
Representatives reputation for wit and satire
rests upon no other foundation. He never
made a funny speech before or SINCE al
though he was known for his good stories
and his ability as mimic. An eccentric
and brilliant Irish ndventurer named Pat
Dcnan. who was connected with newspapers
claimed to be the author of the speech, and
Mr.. Knott never took the trouble to make a
Formal denial. 1t is entirely probable, tina.
Donan, who was employed in washington 81,
that time in the interests OF o rival pro-
ject. gave Mr.. Knott the suggestion and the
z Information upon which his speech was
based. but DOMAIN claims that he wrote 1t
ana that Proctor Knott committed it to
memory from his manuscript.
However. that may be, the speech stands
as a model OF wit and satire. and what was
intended to be ridicule has since become
prophecy. Mr.. Knott christened Duluth as
1.-The Zenith City OF the Unsalted Seas" he
described its unlimited resources in ironical
terms, but. strange to say, the development
pt what was then imaginary wealth has be-
ccme an actual, tangible fact, Mr.. Knott'a
ppeech reads very strangely In the light Of
Tho present prosperity and commercial ac-
uvty of the city.
county, KY, In 1890. He is a 1self-edu-
Gated man, andt the scope Of his learning
embraces most Of the literature that
has value In the marts Of intellectual
exchanges. AT the age Of twenty he
became citizen of Missouri. and the
4 following year he was admitted to the
barof that State. In later years his pow
erfut arguments In Congress- against
The fourteenth amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution eXtorted from Jere-
miah S. Black the extravagant compli-
The American pollty OF government had
never been made in either branch or
Aae American Cangress.
AT the ago of twenty-seven Knott
Aas returned to tho House of Rapre-
Hntatiyes Of the Missouri I4egislature.
ied against an official Of the Stale gov
ernme.lt and Knott was appointed
leader Of the board Of managers, Sc
lected by the house to conduct /, the
trial, IN the Forty fourth Congress
i no was lead OF the board ct MAI
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Mr.. Justice John NJ. Harlan was the
Republican candidate for governor. It
was by the author Of the avenue
speech and the Duluth speech: Judge
and am sure he enjoyed the humor
of Knottlas well as any one else. Knott
lis not a wit after the order OF Tom
Reed. There is no sting to his humor.
lit is all genial and never malicious.
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Knott ever delivered was his speech on
the bill to restrict the removal Of
causes from State courts to Federal
courts. In the middle OF 1t he resorted
to humor, It was at tho period when
Bob lngersoll was delivering his lee,
ture on the mistakes OF Moses
Knott undertook to imagine what u
foreign corporation knew about those
but he never put the speech In the
Record, b
One Of the most side-splitting speech-
es he ever delivered was at "a Demo-
cratic barbecue at Pembroke. chr1s-
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Whether that fancy SURPRISES the in
dignant patholi Of the apostrophe to
Of opiaion alw AIN bat 81 asres
he! two impres Ions tina t. Tor 70 Is
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The war overturned the real State
government of Missouri, and Knott re-
turned to his old Kentucky home in
ahd l sW GGs at bae
congressmen in the month OF August
after the term began on the preceding
March Knot was elected member
OF the Fortieth Congress. All of the
and all but Matt Adams; who had been
major In the Union army, were de-
MED their seats. It was in times when
Thrift and loyalty We're twin-when
nally. IN sheer shame ali the si Kentucky
delegation. but John Young Brown,
We're seated. though they stole John d.
bpo s seat and gave II to Sam Mckee
aafn ny was not allowed to take the
against secession. Fact. Among the
Kentucky members were James B.
Beck, who subsequently became so dis
Hise. next to Humphrey Marshall the hi,
most powerful intellect the Mississippi
Valley ever produced. II may venture
dogmatism that IL fixed belief in
my mind.
tion for wit and satire rests on no
other foundation than the Duluth
speech. that "he never made funny
speech before or SINCE" Before the
made. the speech against the appro-
priation tor paving Pennsylvania nvL
nue. that surpasses in humor and fancy
the Duluth speech as far as the Du-
luth speech surpasses S. S. CoX's re-
ply to Gurley. Here are passages. AZ
ter citing what the government had
Knott continued:
II any gentleman entertans doubt on
this point let him walk through Lafayette
| Square,. Let him swing around the circle
south of the presidential palace, or stand on
tho splendid esplanade In front Of the Agrl-
| cultural Department Let him sniff the
dens Let him look at the broad promenades
paved with Immense flags of polished sand
stone; the Wide and commodlous drives
sweeping around up an easy ana graceful
radius with the true line OF beauty. Let
|thim tread the sinuous footpaths laid with an
elastic concrete of white sea sand bordered
with shubbery that would have lent new
| charms to calypsos favortte bower, winding
away in the Cretan labyrinth.
Let him do this, and he Will find that thq
| government has taken care so far as 1t Ia
concerned that no stain .hall pollute tho
satin slipper of the favored beauty as she
glldes along in sylph-lke loneliness !: that nc
speck of dust shall settle on the costly laces
ecstatic languor upon the downy cushions Of
hen splendid carriage; that oven the per-
fume ed zephyr, as he steals from beds OF rare
eHottcs, shall not kiss her velvet cheek too
rrdely. nor the dancing sunbeam taste this
delicious fragrance that exha!es from he,
honeyed lips while the toil-browned daugh,
liter of the honest, Woodworking, tax-payInr
farmer, or mechanic or Indiana or Kentucky
Hin her homespun gown, innocent OF crino,
/ line or train. must S5
"skelplt on through dub and mire,
Despislng wind and rain. ana hre.'.
Il e 500 -----
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TRAVELLING ny ELEPHANT.
The Uncom Portable Howtlah--Fortlins
W. Rivers mud Through Forests,

There We're two elephants at our
disposal, and myself and the interpre-
ter rode the first, each occupying half
or the howdah, The howdah has a
peculiar and Objectionable habit Of
nearly succeeding In cutting your legs
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had served CALAMITY in the Confeder-
ate army. After the war there was a
pH n'rendifa in New New, York called the
been beer suppressed any time between
1861 and 1865 for treason. Pat DOMAIN
was It's fayortte contributor over the
name "R. II. Bell"-for rebel-and he
one Of his writings in that publication
was OF the slightest akin to the Du-
luth speech and II Pat Donan wrote
the Duluth speech he also wrote the.
never made denial Of Domains claim
to the authorship OF the Duluth speech.
Not a great While before he died Do
Of the authorship arose, and Knott de-
livered himself OF some Language for
publication that showed that he could
be as em I a;st as he ever was hume,
to put II any claim for Donan, SO far
and Mr.. w. =. Curtis dug 1t up.
one sPsesh Waf ehe w Gha
1871, Knott was sitting alone and not
very cheerful In a committee room ot
the House OF Representatives. He had
e esn aat tie befors beaau use
he had not mastered the. provident
and thrifty art Of ,handshaking 8. and be-
cause his successful competitor was as
tall as General Scott and had q voice
like Stenton--heaten by a diminutlve
fraction of n vote He was out of
Congress two terms-Forty second and
Forty-thlrd. Sitting in hts room chew
ed by Mulberry Sellers with a map
of the Bayfield, and ST. Croix Railroad.
The fellow opened ION Knott with an
1.-the future opulence Of Duluth that tile
Kent cktan soon Eot interested and
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ulSECldl SlKdlS6y I'LL ~ IAiS - ~.
meanor was provocative OF laughter.
No wonder5when the "hammer fell"
one enthusiastic member exclaimed:
"Oh, d-n it, stop the clock!'
I have always regarded the follow
ing as the finest thing in the Duluth
speech:
Sir, the great conflict now raging in the
Old World has presented a phenomenon IN
military science unprecedented in the annals
versed all the traditions of the past, as It
has disappointed all the expectations OF
the great and waFhe psope
have been swept away before the triumphant
advance OF an inferior foe like autumn
stubble before q hurricane Of fire.: Fer
fire that shimmers along the ocean cable
may tell uH that Paris. with every hber
qu!verlng with the agony OF impotent de;
OF her loathed Invader. Ere another moon
shall wax and wane the brightest star in
the galaxy Of nations may fall from the
Fro the modest vioets of early spring shall
ope their beauteous eyes, the genius OF
civilization may chant the wailing requiem
OF the proudest nationality the world has
ever seen, as she scatters her withered and
tear -moistened leaves Ger the bloody tomb
Of butchered France.
And to my mind, the most exquisite
humor OF the Duluth speech is the clos
ing paragraph. He had given some
reasons for voting against the bill and
then exclaimed:
ALL sir. you can have no conception OF
the polgnancy OF my anguish that am de-
pr!ved OF that privilege. There are two In
ins here. have no more interest in this
serarable obstacles In the way, In the first
place. my constituents for whom am act
road than they have in the great question
OF culinary taste now perhaps agitattng the
public mind OF Santo Domingo as to
whether tina illustrious commissioners who
recently left this Capital for that free and
enlightened republic would DO better fri
cossbled, boiled or roasted, and In the second
place, these lands, which am asked to
give away, alas. are not mine to bestow!
My relation to them Is simply that Of the
trustee OF an express trust. And shall
ever betray that trust? Never, sir. Rather
perish Duluth Perish the paragon OF cities!
Rather let the freezing cyclones of the
bleak Northwest bury it forever beneath
the eddying sands Of the raging st. Croixl
| The exquisite humOr of that passage
Is in the reference to our commits
sioners to Santo Domingo, sent by
President Grant to provide way for
anneXing that republic. The commits
sion consisted of old Ben Wade. Nor
rlson r. Waite, atterward chief JUS
The encourage embraced Fred Douglas
and Boss Shepherds brother Arthur
a convocation of cannihals would de-
bate long time as to the best stew
that could be made Of such layout
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What will become Of the Initiative
and referendum when this probe Is put
to 1t, which Knott inserted into conl-
ipulsOry education? an "
Z IL constitutions are intAaaad for anythin@
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humor, the following passage In the
Pennsylvania Avenue speech finds no
parallel in the Duluth speech:
But Mr.. Chairman, have heard one rea-
sor very frequently urged for the passage
of this bill, which candor compels me to
ADMIT, almost convinces me- that we ought
nos only to appropriate this sum OF $780,
necessary to repave Pennsylvania Avenue at
tbs very earliest possible period Of time,
and that Is that 1t is much used by the
hcrde OF otfice-holders that throng the
most equal to the hosts which were hurled
with Lucifer from the battlements OF
Heaven For sir. II there Is being on
venience entertain the proroundest soli-
citrde, II there is ono whose smallest want
stlrs my sympathetic soul to Its serenest
depths. It is your office-holder. your public
army OF martyrs bid adieu to home and all
the sweets of private life, for which he ia
&c eminently fitted by nature to i'm
mclate himself on the affairs OF his coun-
touching picture OF the last sad scene be-
tween the noble Hector and his weeping
family rises before my compassionate ina
gination. When 7 see him plunge recklessly
profoundly and dedantly ignorant am
reminded OF the selfsacrificing heroism OF
curtius, when he leapcd Into the yawnins
gulf that opened in the, Roman forum.
his majestic features In one OF those gorge
GUS and costly mirrors. which are furnished
him at public expense. my heart goes out
To- him In sympathy. When see him seas.
sea turtle and champagne, my very bowels
ycarn for him. And when I see him per-
form, perhaps. the only duty for which he
!s fully tcompetent-signing the receipt for
his monthly pay am so overwhelmed
with pity for his miserable condition that
I wish were In his place.
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NY heart of Kentucky. Within
IN her borders the bear grass"
4 j begins. moving to the north
west, and the blue grass"
ends. coming from the north and east.
In Marion county. too. the "Pennyrile"
starts on Its journey to the south and
southwest, and only a step over the
Casey county line, to the southeast, the
mountains kiss the blue grass. In the
heart OF Marion county. situate on a
beautiful plateau, is Lebanon,
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saw the opportunity for an ocean Of
harmless satire. He kept the map. and
1t played big part in making the
speech a success. When Knott is most
humorous he is most solemn. and as he
held that map up and pointed out
places of industrial financial. and COM
mercial strategy on it. his very. de-
No wonderJswhen the "nammer fell"
one enthusiastic member exclaimed:
"Oh, d-n 1t, stop the clock!'
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"Skelplt on through dub and mre,
Despislng wind. and rain. and tire,"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-06-03
HASKELL ON caUCE
SPEECH AT OKLAHOMA CITY

Oklahoma City, June 3.-The Cruce
speech at this place lost the Ardmore
candidate votes instead of gaining
them for him. BY actual count there
were not over one hundred people at
the meeting and this in the face Of the
fact that free trains were ruh from
Ardmore, Eufaula and other Cruce
strongholds. There never was at any
time as much enthusiasm manifested
as there was at the Haskell meeting
several weeks ago
To his warmest supporters Mr..
Cruces speech was disappointment
They had an expected him to take a
stand on the issues of the day bu. he
was conspicuously silcat on all ques-
tlOns to which there are two sides.
He was loudly applauded when he
made some complimentary statement
about w. J. Bryan and also when
he reci'ed the fact that Thomas JET
ferson was great man. Il was the
truth of the statements that gained
the applause aad even before Mr.
Cruce ever came to oklahoma City
they were recognized facts.
1t was expected that the Ardmore
man would make a vigorous defence
OF the constitution Dut Such was no
the case. He stated that he had made
twice as many speeches in favor Of
the constitution as had his opponent
g. n. Haskell. The statement was
laughed a. as II is a well known fact
that Haskell has spoken on an aver
age OF twice a day since the convon-
tion adjourned ana every speech Is far
more devoted TO a defense and ex-
PLANTATION of the constitution than it
has been to the promotion of his own
candidacy
Ia the matter Of corporation sup
port Mr., Cruce was remarkably silent
He did not have single explanation
TO offer concerning the wholesale sup
port OF corporations that is focking
to his standard His principal theme
was clean campaign and on his
right was l.. r. Russell and on the lett
IL. Bill Cardwell.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-06-03
PHYSICIANS DISCUSS
THE WHITE PLAGUE
tBy Assoclated Pressl

Atlantic City, n. j. June 3--Seyer-
al thousand physicians and surgeons
from various quarters Of the United
States and several distinguished medi-
cal men from abroad were here today
10 attend the opening meetings OF the
iifty-eighth annual convention of the
American Medical association. as well
as the annual meetings OF other medi-
cal and surgical associations, which
will be held this week IN Allan ie
city.
The hrsi general meeting of the
medical association viii come To-
morrow bur the house of delegates,
the governing body of the ASSOCIATION,
assembled 20 transact rontine bust
ness and complete arrangements for
the convention. The meeting this year
promises to be at Interest TO the gen.
eral public as well as 90 the medical
profession Discussion OF the treat
ment and prevention of tuberculosis
has prominent place on the pro
erainme. The medical departments
ct the army aui navy Of tho United
States viii be OFFICIALLY represented at
the meetings