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plete Indifference Of Grover Cleveland to
what he may wear. During one of the
Yale-Princeton games played at Nassau, q
reporter from prominent New York paper
was told to get an interview with the for
mer President. Arrived at the grand stand,
he had pointed out to him stout gentle
man, clad in an old homespun suit that
didn't look as if 1t had cost SO when new.
The whole outfit was crowned by a battered
slouch hat. Unable to believe that this was
Mr.. Cleveland, the reporter imagining him
self the victim of joke, went away with
out getting his interview.
But the shabby figure was the Sage of
Princeton, the only democrat in fifty years
who has gone to the White House. He
was merely INDUCING in that eccentricity
of attire which is one of the perogatives of
fame.
Seen on the streets Joaquin Miller, the
poet of the Sierras," and one might be
tempted to extend him charity. He does
not know the feel of boiled shirt, col
lar or necktie. His hair is long and un-
kempt, and the battered sombrero he wears
must have seen generation of active
service. Yet the genius Of this old man
has been acknowledged by the world; and
Presidents have felt themselves honored to
have his acquaintance. None dare mock
the indifference Of Miller to dress. The
output Of his brain has equipped him with
the right to appear in public in whatever
attire suits his within.
Way back in the days when Fielding H.
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Prodigies in Fasting.
Ie Westminster Gazette.

From the Westminster Gazette.
French girl. one Christina Mchelot,
when recovering from severe attack of
fever, is said to have lived from Novem-
Der. 1851. to July. 1855. on water, without
any solid food of any description
Twenty years later Monica Mutcheteria,
a woman of Suabia, while suffering from a
complication Of nervous disorders, sub
sisted for two years on dietary of curds
and whey and water. and, to add to her dis
comfort. she was unable to sleep during
the whole of this period: while in 1862 we
learn land we are simply quoting records
of cases which appear to have been well at
tested. Ann Walsh, a twelve-year-old girl
of Harrowgate. survived for eighteen
months on a daily allowance of third of
pint of wine and water.
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only a great player, but he became a ia.
nous coach 80

only a great player, but he became a IA
nous coach.
When he went to Stanford University.
California, to coach the eleven, he was
wearing that same SLOUGH hat He had it
on the first time he got on the train at
Ann Arbor to take charge of the team he
was to make famous all over the country
ana ne Is still wearing it. Not because
ne lacks the money to buy one more in
accord with fashion, but because time has
50 deply attached him to the old piece of
felt that new one would be uncomfort-
ABLE Michigan students regard the hat
as sort of plume of Navarro and always
rejoice when it comes on the field.
The Doherty brothers, Engfand's famous
tennis players, convuised Newport a few
years ago when they came on the courts
wrapped up In two immense linen coats
that looked like bath robes. The ordinary
American in the same kind of rig would
have been ridiculed from the field but as
the foremost living experts of the game
the Dohertys were received courteously,
David Warfeld, the actor, gets himself
up for his street promenades like the carl
catures of superannuated tragedians. His
hair Is long, his hat and coat are of the
pattern that cartoonists delight to use
In showing the antiquated apostle of Thes-
pts making his tours from city to city on
foot over the railroad tracks. Yet no one
thinks of getting funny with the principal
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has a penchant in the same direction,
though he never goes to the same extreme
as Belasco.
Samuel H. Pennypacker, who has just
yielded up the governorship Of Pennsylva-
MIA to Edwin H. Stuart is one of the few
top boots. and so proud has he become of
them that he always makes strong eff
fort to display them.
Senator Bailey is notably bizarre dresser,
He delights In summer time to sit in his
seat arrayed in white fannels. At one
President Mckinley because to do SO
would involve donning his first full dress
suit, but he has bravely recovered from
that absurdity, and now cuts quite figure
in Washington social events.
Representative ]. Warren Keifer of
picturesque figure in the House. He still
clngs to the old-time habit of continental
cut of coat and vest and always appears
in immaculate evening dress. His colleagues
in Congress have long since become used
to his attire, but he has more than once
Washington by appearing for breakfast
dressed as for an evening dance.
-
The loose, long necktie of Ebert Hub
bard, editor of the Philistine. is famous all
over the United States, so is his SOM
brero. Hubbard used to be alone in this
eccentric garb, but his fame has grown to
such dimensions, and he has so many fol-
lowers, that he is now actually making
his rig popular.
Not so many years ago Buffalo Bill was
perhaps the only prominent western man
who wore his hair long and chung to the
sombrero Of the plains, whether he was at
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tened the strong lines in his face. His full
head of hair. somewhat unkempt and rather
more of brown than gray in color, and fall
ing carelessly over his forehead, made the
general contour of his face more to the
liking of the artist than the face one sees
when Tillman is in the full lust of battle
in the Senate. But there was Tillman in
his home that night, the quietest of men.
Yet only few hours before there was Till
man the relentless assailer of Presidents
the man who cares for neither person nor
place. name or fame when his dogs of war
are once let loose.
there so quiet peaceful, that you use
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dulge in dress vagaries.
Mark Twain, the veteran humorist,
L has established this fact rather start
lingly. First, in the dead of winter,
with snow on the ground and men and
women muffied in heaviest furs. he startled
the Senate chamber by appearing in suit
of light summer flannels of purest white.
To those who questioned him he answered
that he had reached time of life when he
thought he had a right to dress as he
pleased. and as white caught his fancy he
would probably wear it to the exclusion Of
everything else till some new idea pleased
him.
Carrying this idea to it's logical conclu-
sion, he has just blossomed out in a still
more surprising rig. a snow-whte evening
suit Trousers, vest and coat are white,
and in place Of the conventional top coat
the humorist wears a white cloak similar
to those that are usually pictured on the
shoulders of Spanish dons of the seven
teenth century.
If any ordinary man took such sartorial
liberties, all kinds of disrespectful COM
ment would be made, but genius can safely
step where mediocrity fears to tread.
Thus the political fame of Timothy
Woodruff, former lieutenant governor of
view 10TH, was largely MADE by the lurld
waistcoats he wore when he went to the
Philadelphia republican national convention
OF 1900 as candidate for the vice presiden-
tial nomination.
This was In the days before the colored
vest had come to its present state of bril-
lance. but now John l.. Sullivan for
twelve years champion prize fighter of the
world, and to this day the most popular
boxer who ever pulled on a glove, wears a
vest that would shame the most gorgeous
one that Woodruff ever knew. 1t is a
bright green and white in bars. If any
other man than the former champion let
loose such a garment the police would take
action, but 1t is voted excellent taste on
the part of a celebrity like John L.
David Belasco, successful playwright has
for his fad to look like a minister. No
man Of the cloth ever donned a more per-
fectly clerical makeup. The collar, the
black coat and tie. the coat without q
seam, and the hat, all make him look like
some worthy Episcopalian dean or bishop.
John Mitchell, the noted labor leader,
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Tip to Prodigals.


IT takes notice." philosophically said old
Brother Dinger. who was a great hand to
cogitate, dat in desc days. whilst we are
dess as glad as We ever was when a sin
nah refawms, we don't make SO much fuss
about 1t as we-used to. We respects and
indawses his action as much as we ever
did, but we don't shout SO loud. Nowadays.
de wise prodigal brings along his own calf:
II he don't he's li'ble to butt up gin big
disappointment. Yves a heap mo- for solid
business desc times, and lots less for noise
dan we used to was. Vas sahi"
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BILLINGSGATE.
Markets the Natural Abode of Strong
Language Says This Writer.
From the London Globe.

fIUm TUE LOIuUH UIOUe
The unpublished phraseology, native though
not peculiar to this quarter of London has
given rise to the proverbial use of the name
bl.lingsgate. "One may teri this the Escu-
line Gate of London" says old Fuller.
Here one may hear hnguas jurgatrices."
The seventeenth century references to the
rhetoric" or obscene language Of the mar
ket are frequent. and hence foul language
itself is called "billingsgate." In Vanity
Fair" too, Thackeray tells us how Mr.. Os-
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A Pertinent Question.

From Harper's Weekly.
A teacher in a Long Island City school
was giving her class a lesson in hygiene.
Never sleep on more than one pillow"
she said; lin fact, it's better to use no pill
low at all, because IL you do it's likely to
make you round-shouldered."
Little Rocco Pisciotta waved his arm
wildly.
"Well?'' said the teacher.
"S'posen you sleep on your stummick?'
piped Rocco.
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post, but II he quietly submitted to kiss the
same, and paid down sixpence they gave
him name, and chose some one Of the
gang for his. godfather. I believe this was
done in memory Of some old image that
formerly stood there, perhaps Of Belus, or
BeIin."
The original por'ters of Billingsgate be-
longed to one Of the Oldest labor guilds in
the country, the Fellowship OF Porters and
at one time tie carrying work both at Bill
ingsgate and from the wharves to the ware
houses of the city within certain radius
was entirely performed by them.
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a unique record. The Shaw Hotel is run
by Mrs Phoebe Shaw on strictly tenn
perance basis. The post office is in charge
of Miss Nellie Cleator. The church choir
Is composed of female voices led by Mrs
Eva Armstrong. The superintendent of the
Sunday school is Mrs. Nellie Hale. The
teaching force of the public school is COM
posed of women. The superintendent is
Mrsi Anne Mawson. There has not been a
male doctor in the town for several years
and nearly all the husbands in town wipe
the dishes.
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Yost, the famous Michigan foot l Ill coach,
was student at Lafayette he bought HIM
self a cheap SLOUGH hat. The coaches of
the eleven soon discovered that under that
hat was perhaps the best outfit of foot
ball brains in the college. Yost was not
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lsMYsA CONVENTIONAL STYLES IN ATTIRE
X19N DSREGARDED BY SOME NOTED MEN

Of 1.-THE Music Master" His achievements
have advanced him to a secure place where
he is safe from criticism.
William II. Bryan used to wear a SLOUGH
hat and a dinky little black batswng tie
but while in Europe he went to the limit
of silk hat, that he may be dismissed
from the list of those who like to defy
convention.
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Tillman's own situation came in the con-
diton of affairs in South Carolina. There
is a legend that about every thirty years
South Carolina goes crazy. In verifcation
of this it is said that it was notification
in 1892, secession in 1850 and TnlmanIsm
in 1890 Before the war South Carolina
was an oligarchy. Less than one-tenth
of the white people of the state owned
slaves, but the slave-holding class governed
absolutely both blacks and whites, and of
the two classes of serfdom the blacks had
considerably the better OF it. The recon-
structionist changed this for the poor black
man, hut he forgot to do anything for the
poor white man. But Tllman did not for
get 1t. In the meantime the black man
began to assert himself. and Tlllman urged
the white man to assert himself also. Till
man went out few miles from his home
and participated in the negro riots. He
took part in the ''red shirt campaign and
he distributed these bloody shirts to the
men who had been summoned to the court
mouse to stand trial for taking part in the
riots He raised at the top of a tall pole
transparency, with the figure of a negro's
head. and below the figure was the admoni-
ton: Awake, arise, or be forever TALENT"
From sthen on he began to have a polit-
fcal method. He got outside OF his own
county. He went into the other counties,
ana he spoke the same doctrine. He woke
up the poor whites. Everywhere he cried
four years the Tillmanites fought. and then
came success. and in 1890 Tillman was
elected governor of South Carolina, carried
into the state house wave of reform,
after campaign of bitterness and vituper-
alton such as the state had seldom witness
ed. Tillmans first term was not crowned
with glowing success. but he came before
the people again for reelection, saying
that the "driftwood' in the legislature
should be turned out, and he was again
placed in the gubernatorial chair. Better
men were put in office, a state primary
system was ordered. There method
in South Carolina politics. After that Till
man was sent to the Senate. Today the
state of South Carolina looks upon him with
different eyes than it did In those days
he was running for his first term for gov
ernor, when he sat in a farm wagon, the
wheels of which were decorated with
sheaves of grain and cotton stalks while
hundred yelling sons of the SOIL wearing
wool hats and "britches'' held up by
'gallus'' drew him triumphantly about the
counties in the improvised chariot. Today
there is little of the anti-Tilman feeling
in South Carolina AS he himself put It
that other night to me- "They seem to
want me in Washington, for they sent me
here"
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speech to emphasize the point you are seek

speech to emphasize the point you are seek
ing to make clear?"
He turned slightly in his easy chair and
drawled in that soft. sonorous. nerve-eas-
ing tone in which the melodious information
of the Afric and the southern are curiously
blended:
81 am temperamentally incapable Of ex-
pressing myself in a namby -pamby man.
ner."
Then as If he had not made himself clear,
he added:
milk. sir!''
For moment-but 1t was for moment
only-it seemed as If he were to be aroused
from the quiet of his home to the clash
of the arena.
But he sank down deep into the embrace
Of the great armchair. Again he enjoyed
the gentle surroundings of that home-the
only home that he knows in Washington
an apartment house He looked at the soft
rays Of the lamp diluted through the green
shade He looked at the books to his right.
He looked at the magazines and the papers
on the table. He looked at the little apart
ment-crowded. but homelke. The look of
contentment was In his face.
"a
There is something about Senator Till
man In his apartments in Washington
home for the evening; something about the
restful surroundings; something about the
thing about the information of his voice;
something in his whole demeanor; some
thing that brings you-not face to face with
Tillman of Washington but rather face to
face with Tillman of South Carolina. This
old lay Of the south:
If yo' should go in de summer time,
Cuddy- y-ingo-bim!
To South Car limos sultry cline,
Cuddy uddy- lingo bin!
Cuddy- uddy- lingo BIN!
o. pass pass. de , bottle tie when 91, he get dry,
So brush away de bluetail fly
Cuddy uddy-ingo- bin.
comes to your mind, and with it South
Carolina and the Tillman farm, with it's
stretch of seventeen hundred acres, and the
broad piazza of the house, with Tillman
there himself, lying upon the floor, ABSORB
ed In the reading of the French Revoiu-
ton and Paradise Lost" And to you
comes back Tillman's own words, which
earned for him that day in the Senate the
sobriquet, "Pftchfork Ben and you hear
him say in that inimitable drawl: Il am
a farmer pure and simple, with no col
lateral occupation.
We talked first of Brownsviile-that was
the madness in his method. Then of poll
tics. Perhaps that was the method in his
madness.
Roosevelt said he, sis emotional and
jerky. You never know just exactly where
to place him. But this whole Brownsville
affair is very popular in the south. 1t is
a play to the gallery, but it is play that
is bringing forth applause
and what does this applause mean
politics? 1 asked.
The host turned around slightly, bringing
the light more fully into his face, and
said slowly:
Yes, sir! it means politics.
Third term politics?''
There was another shift, more into the
shadow. Then came the answer:
II shouldn't be at all surprised"
But has he not placed such a hedge
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By Frederick Boyd Stevenson.
Copyright, 1907, by Frederick Boyd Stevenson.

Copyright, 1907, by Frederick Boyd Stevenson)
~VO truly know the Tillman of re-
pose one must meet him in his
home. The other night he sat
there by his table, on which were
strewn the papers and the maya
zines of the day. On the shelf of the table
there were three or four books. To his right
hand, within easy reach, was bookcase,
well filed. AS he sat there in his easy
chair. quiet and at peace he seemed the
embodiment of gentleness. His evening
Iamp. with it's soothing green shade, sof-
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Old age pensions will no doubt do much
to ameliorate conditions, but no serious
thinker goes SO far as to imagine that
women will at once be invariably as old
as they are.-Puck.
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Washington, the court of st. James, the
Grand Opera, Paris, or on the plains of
his Nebraska home. His handsome face,
fine goatee and magnificent physique made
him most picturesque figure, and others
have followed in his train.
Visitors to Princeton have noted the COM
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Most of us have been prone to look upon
Tillman as a belligerent mana man who
is looking for trouble. Perhaps we would
be nearer to the mark if we said he is a
man who never tries to avoid trouble. Few
of us look upon him as a man of peace.
Yet if we take Senator Tillman's own word
for it he is true lover of peace. In his
eulogy not long ago on the death of Senator
German, he rendered a famous Latin max
i'm, which, done in English, means: Cen
tie in manners, resolute in deed" Was
there method or madness in that thought?
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down his ''cornfield law to the farmers or
Bennettsvlle he has been talking on the
general cussedness of the situation" and
IL hasn't made much difference to Tillman
what the particular situation happened
to be.
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From the Kansas City Journal.
The town Of East Clarion, Ohio, boasts
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Way back in the days when Fielding H. thinks
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Mr.. and Miss Tyler. who have been
visiting with their aunt and uncle. R.
j. Mofitt and family for several
weeks, departed for their home IN
illinois last Tuesday.
Jess Bennett; wife and children
came Saturday for a few days visit
with John Griffin and family. Mr..
Bennett has sold out his business at
Malette. S. D. and will locate at
Nicola. Strange how folks will come
back to old Iowa.
Mrs. Bennett, her sister Mobile
Griffin and Lucy Kane were Omaha
visitors last Wednesday. They were
the guests of Tom Griffin and family.
also enjoyed the sights OF the Akar-
ben.
Mrs. Willis Virgins of Cow City
came up Tuesday and visited with her
mother. Mrs. John Griffin. while the
young folks went to Omaha.
Russell Conrad visited with DR..
Bonney for a few hours Saturday.
News has reached here of the
death of Mrs. Mark Cavett. last week
at Charter Oak. She had been i'll all
summer with a complication of dis
eases. and was fifty years old. She
had nc children. but leaves a devoted
husband to mourn her loss. They
were residents of this vicinity for a
number of years. and are we'll known
here. Mr.. Cavett has the sympathy
of all in this time of sorrow.
Martin Nehls went to Charter Oak
last Wednesday to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Cavett.
Mrs. Alice McCord and daughter
Ethel of near Defiance. were Buck
Grove callers Wednesday.
Mrs. Fred Meyers and two children
from Chicago arrived Thursday for g
few weeks visit with her parents.
Christ Stahl and wife. Mrs. Meyers
is an old resident, and is warmly well
coined by a host of friends, who only
wish her visits could be more ire
quent.
Christ Gloe and wife were passen-
gers to Omaha Tuesday. They re-
NAMED until Wednesday enjoying the
sights of the Aksarben.
Daniel Hemphill and wife were
visitors at Charter Oak Thursday.
George Merdinger and wife were
guests at Manila over Sunday. They
were called there by the death o
their little nephew. Albert Meyers
They visited Charles Saltwell sr. anc
family before returning.
1t is rumored that we are to hav,
another blacksmith in town. 1t hard
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Department Editor.

ly looks as if there was room for two,
as the one we have is a very efficient
workman and says he never has any
more to do than he can attend to.
Mr.. Knott, wife and children of
Manila are visiting John Faulkner
and wife for a few days.
Grace Griffin came down from Ma
nilla Saturday for an over Sunday
visit at home. She y she enjoys
teaching very much.
Tom Kane has Joined the ranks and
now has a telephone established in
his house.
Mrs. DR.. Evans and her niece.
Fern Butler of Arion attended the
Sunday school convention here Sun
day.
Gertie Griffin of Dow City was an
over Sunday visitor at the John
Griffin home.
Miss Cunningham of Arion visited
the John Griffin home Sunday.
Clarence and John O'Meara of Dow
City spent Sunday with their brother
James and family.
Rev. Father Coffee visited with
John Griffin and family one day last
week.
Mr.. Pierce and wife drove over
from Denison Sunday to attend the
Sunday school convention.
Mr.. Walworth who has been spend
ing the summer with his daughter.
Mrs. Hagan went to Lincoln Monday
to spend a few months with another
daughter.
Bert Cruise of Platte. S. D.. is Wis
iting his sister. Mrs. John Green.
He thinks there is no place like Da-
kota.
Dwight Hutchinson drove over to
Manila to visit with his parents last
week.
Carl Iseminger returned from his
trip to North Dakota. and says he
likes the country very much. He has
rented a farm and will move there in
the spring.
A very pleasant party was given
at the home of George Bonesteel
Friday evening. Dainty refreshments
we're served and the young folks en-
joyed themselves until a late hour.
Bernard and Tommie Flnnigan went
to Omaha Saturday for d few days
visit with their sister. Nora. who is
going to school there.
James O,Meara. Patrick Clinton
and l.. E. Hagan We're among those
who took the train Monday for Da-
kota. They are going to try their
luck in the new homestead land about