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The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21
tice of the peace. Miller Roberts,

tice OF the peace. Miller Roberts,
constable.
Elgin: B. K. Wilson, justice OF
the peace. No election of constable
tie vote.
Old Glory: ]. B. McClenahan,
justice of the peace. Frank Ian
yon, constable.
Orc Blanco: G. 0. Foltz, justice
of the peace. 6. jenkins, con-
stable
Sopori: J. NJ. Orosco, justice of
the peace.
Salero: c. W. Harter, justice of
the peace. No election for con-
stable. Tie vote.
Mowry: Orion Phelps, justice
of the peace. Chas. Chapman, con-
stable.
Harshaw: Richard Farrell, JUS
tice of the peace. Nick Farrell,
constable.
The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-21

Last Sunday morning, Mr. Henry
Coidarrens of The OASIS, went to
Tucson on business, returning
Tuesday evening.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
A SERPENT STORY.
Terrifying Experience With Deadly
lancehead.

8e55k.eaHCCt1Sa0ss
The Paris Eclair tells blood cur
ding serpent story, the scene Of which
was the island of Martinique and the
dramatis personae Sergeant Legrand
and Private Durand and the snake a
deadly lancehead. .5.s ,.
The soldier had been punished with
a night in the cells for some trivial Of
Tense. but as the night was very hot
the sergeant had left the door open. In
the morning at 5 o'clock Legrand went
to wake his prisoner and. to his horror,
beheld a laneehead snake cofled up and
fast asleep on the mans breast.
The sergeant did not lose his presence
Of mind. He stole noiselessly away,
ran to the guard room and, followed by
all the men on duty, returned to the
cell with q bowlof milk and tin whis-
tie. Placing the bowl Of milk at the
entrance to the cell, the sergeant began
to play the Blue Danube" It is need
less to remark that the weakness Of
the lancehead is milk and music. The
serpent. which was a six foot speci-
men, awoke. glided from the soldiers
body toward the bowl, but 1t had no
sooner buried its head in its beloved
drink than ten cudgels descended on
it with terrific force, killing it outright.
The soldier Durand. who was In a
swoon, was taken to hospital. where
he lay for many days on the verge Of
madness. He finally recovered and re-
lated his horrible experimentation he
had awoke ia the middle Of the night
as the serpent was coiling itself on his
bare breast and how he had lain there
In an agony for hours. not daring to
move muscle.
Durand was sent back to France as
soon as he had sufficiently recovered.
The only trace Of his terrible expert
ence, adds the Eclair, Is that his hair
is now snow white. s5 s
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
BY koBERTUs LOVE.

A MER1CAN history presents no
IA parallel to the career of Will
" IA liam Jennings Bryan. The
same may be said as to his
personality. Both in career and char
acter he is, unique.
Holding no Office, never having held
any Office save that of a representative
In congress for two terms in his early
manhood, Mr.. Bryan for twelve years
has dominated one of the two great po-
litical parties of the nation. This po-
Htical organization Is OF hundred
years standing, the party Of Thomas
Jefferson, Of Andrew jackson, of Gro
yer Cleveland.
When first nominated for the presi-
dency in 1896 Mr.. Bryan had been a
private citizen for two years. He has
been a private citizen ever since. Yet
an personal popularity, In his political
hold on the party, he still is the focal
and foremost figure in the national De-
mocracy. This is indubitably true de,
spite the frantic efforts Of considera-
BILE section of Democratic adherents to
belittle his leadership. Facts are facts.
In 1900 Mr.. Bryan was renominated
Tor the presidency by reclamation. In
1904 he could have been renominated
for the third consecutive time had he
desired the honor. Now, in 1908, on
the eve Of the national convention at
Denver, he appears to have an easy
two-thirds majority for the nomination.
His two defeats for election to the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
He SOUGHT DEATH. .
The Unfortunate Napoleon I'LL. at ths
Battle of Sedan.

Tho Unfortunate Napoleon iii. at ths
Battle Of Sedan.
IS Sarah Bernhardt mentions in her me-
moirs that Napoleon Ill. had two
horses shot under him ait Sedan. Some
having thrown doubt on her statement
and denied that the emperor was ever
In personal danger at the time, Baron
Verify, son OF the late colonel Of the
Cent Gardes, gives what he affirms to
be the authentic account Of the unhap-
py sovereign's persistent attempts to
court death when he saw that defeat
was unavoidable. On Sept. /, 1870,
at o'clock in the morning, Marshal
MacMahon. returning wounded to Sc
dan, met the emperor riding out to
Bazeilles. Napoleon III. realized that
the situation was desperate. He rode
slowly out, depressed and thoughtful,
under hail of shot. During an hour
he inspected the positions. Bullets
rained on his escort. Captain d'Hende-
court was killed few feet away from
the emperor. The latter, deliberately
seeking death, alighted, ordered his es-
cort to remain behind an embankment
and walked up to a cemetery on a
height. where he stayed for another
hour, exposed to fire. He mounted
again and rode to another part of the
field. General de Courson and Captain
de Trecesson were dangerously wound
ed by his side, but not bullet hit him.
The emperor at last seemed to despair
Of meeting his death as he sought 1t
and rode back to Sedan at noon. In
the town itself shells fell thick, and
while the emperor was riding with his
escort up the Grand Rue one burst
just in front of him, wounded one Of
the Cent Gardes and killed the horses
Of two aids-de-camp. Napoleon III.
looked on stolidly, understanding, per
haps, that it was not his fate to die in
action. The story that he had two
horses killed under him is, therefore,
not correct. But there is no doubt that
the unfortunate emperor, beaten and
Ill, a pathetic and tragic figure, did de-
liberately seek death on the field to
escape the disgrace Of Sedan which he
foresaw.-Paris Letter.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
.DDN AM AsPrivate Citizen and
LIN I mn AS Party Leader )
A Progressive Evangelist" Who Bristles
With Aggressiveness as a Porcupine
With Quilts. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

der discussion in the American con-
gress, and most of the other prominent
Democrats have had their opportunity
to loom large in those discussions.
There have been international issues
OF the most serious Importance to ad-
just, and they have been adjusted by
the other prominent men in both polit-
ical parties-the men in office. Through
all these vast events Mr.. Bryan has
been a private citizen In the vicinity of
Lincoln. Neb. No chance has Bryan
had to do anything officially In state
craft. while the whirligig Of time and
change has flashed magnificent oppor-
tunities full in the face of his friends
and his foes.
Yet Mr.. Bryan is the head and front,
the facade and parapet, the cornice,
dome and sptre of the Democratic par
ty, whether you love him or libel him
or let him alone.
Now, honest, isn't this remarkable
fact?
Wherefore, beloved, 1t behooves US
to analyze this mans character in the
effort to discover just why and how he
has kept his clinch hold upon the party
and the people.
In the first place, Mr.. Bryan is not
of retiring disposition. Perhaps that
is why he has not retired from poll
tics. He is an aggressive individual
He bristles with aggressiveness as a
porcupine with quilts, but he is not
fretful, like the porcupine. He is ready
always to puncture with one Of his
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
AZ 10 Quotations.

4 How many persons can unhesitating-
~ name the source Of the familiar
quotations? Many man goes through
life without reading single play Of
Shakespeare. but probably no English
speaking man goes through life with
out quoting him. II he sneers at IA
woman's reason" he quotes Shake
speare; IL he refers to "a trick worth
two Of that he quotes Shakespeare
again.
Goldsmith's aShe Stops to Conquer"
is not popular work, but one line Of
Ask me no questions, and / win
tell You no lies' lis known and used by
everybody.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10

Chicago platform o. 1 s.' 8. ard on these
in the main NJ. ls IT,: and the De-
mocracy stand today. Mr.. Bryan be-
lieves in an income tax. He does not
believe in government by injunction.
The almighty majority of Americans
believe as he does on these doctrines,
Republicans, Democrats, Populists, So
cialists and simple soreheads. Mr..
Bryan happened to be the first party
campaign leader to preach those doc
trines, and that fact accounts for very
much of his popularity and political
force. 85 3s
Mr.. Bryan believes also In read
justments of the tariff, SO that the bur-
dens will not, fall upon the pates of
the poor and the guerdons drop into
the purses Of the rich. Nearly all or
binary. everyday, average, disinterest-
ed Americans Of all parties believe
just that way too. So there is another
why and wherefore of the popularity
of William J. Bryan. ~
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
loves Young Dream.

Another case of the bad boy rudely
interrupting loves young dream. "A
Malate girl and her Romeo sat In close
proximity on the couch In the draw
ing room lost to the world. They were
brought back from Eden by her little
brother, who. like many Of his kind,
makes it a practice to butt In at the
wrong time. He walked into the room,
planted himself In front Of the young
man and asked:
"Was you ever tied to a fish line?"
II certainly was not, !" was the reply.
en-, z responded the boy. II heard
pa tell ma last night that you'd make
a good sinker. Manila Gossip.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
Proposals for public Printing.

Sealed proposals for public print
ing, as specified in article Of the
political code Of the revised codes Of
1908. will be received until August
4th. 1908, at 2 o'clock p. M, at which
time all proposals received will be
opened by the printing commissions
ers. and action taken on same.
Address all proposals for public
printing to Alfred Blaisdell secretary
Of state, Bismarck, North Dakota.
Dated this I'd day OF July 1908.
ALFRED BLAIsDELL,
Secretary OF State.
ALBERT PETERSON,
State Treasurer.
H. Il HOLMES,
State Auditor.
Commissioners Of Public Printing
MARK all envelopes, Proposals for
Public Printing!
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
First Class Writer. ]

It is remembered that Mr.. Bryan
also is an excellent writer, what may
be called first class writer. But what
of that? The late Charles A. Dana Of
the New York Sun once was visited by
q friend who wanted Dana to find a
writing position for a young man fresh
from the country. .o
aHe is first class writer, Mr..
Dana" said the friend
Mr.. Dana picked up brickbat which
lay on his table as a paperweight.
Then he tured to the window. e.
Look down there on Park row. he
said II could shy this brickbat Down
there at any time Of the day or night
and hit on the head a first class writer
who Is starving to death"
No amount of literary work, however
brilliant, could have gained William ].
Bryan his premier place In the Democ-
racy. He might have written the ex-
act words that he speaks until he had
writer's paralysis clean up to his arm
pits and down his backbone without
being able to capture single dele
gates vote in a convention to nominate
q candidate for constable of Hooppole
township. His oratory has made him
Ibis oratory, backed, OF course, By his
force OF character, his transparent sin
certify, his courage OF conviction.
Right here we may point out another
item Of resemblance between Henry
Clay and the Nebraskan. Clay always
took a firm stand, right in front Of the
footlights, on any question which came
/ up for discussion during his afty years
Of public life. Bryan always does the
same. There are political cats all
1 which You are always looking with
something of anxious concern, not
4 knowing just which way they are 60.
4 Ing to Jump. Bryan usually gets to the
spot where he stands on public prob
lems before the crowd looks that way
4 and there he plants his feet with q re
sounding PUNK Even if the spot gets
out from under him, as In the instance
OF the government ownership OF rail
roads, You are always glad that he had
nerve enough TO state his Views. Ma
ture abhors vacuum and a vacfllatins
4 politician, q politician who never
stands for anything because there Is .
i vacuum about three feet long where
4 his backbone ought to be-
30, to sum up, we may say that Mr
Roosevelt, an emphatic man like MFR
4 Bryan and likewise an evangelist
/ though Of a different type, is popular
throughout the country because he ha,
had an opportunity to do things he be
4 lieves In, while Mr.. Bryan Is popular
throughout the country because he ha,
had an opportunity TO say things b.
4 believes.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
piaeouraninn.

Toni don't think I'll marry Miss
Golding after all.
Jack--But ] thought you were quite
fond OF her?
TornW Well, ! used TO be, but I'm get
ding Tired Of hearing her say 1'Non
svery time propose to Detroit
Tribune.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10

outsticking quilts any thing In opposi-
ton which he considers fallacious or
fatuous or fraudulent, but he never
gets corrugated with anger. he has no
cats paws of malice. Neither has he
the velvet touch of pussy In the cor
ner nor the truculent pur OF tabby at
the bowl of milk. He never flares up,
never gets excited save In the exhorta-
tive manner Of the evangelist who
breaches what he believes, and preach
es 1t with the emphasis Of junction..
A Progressive Evangelist.
There we have It Mr.. Bryan is an
evangelist He goes up and down tbs
country preaching what he believes. It
so happens that his preaching is politi-
cal rather than evangelical, but 1t is a
religion with Mr.. Bryan all the same.
He believes fervently what he preach
es. He may be mistaken today on one
point Of doctrine and may believe and
preach otherwise tomorrow, but what
ever he does believe or believes that
he believes he breaches with fervor
and spirit You might call him pro-
gressive evangelist. When the higher
criticism smites one Of his doctrines
he gets hold of another. That means
progress. Religion and politics have
progressed through the ages by the
shifting to snithereens OF dogmas that
have outlived their usefulness. The
citadel OF modern science Is built upon
q junk heap Of defuact theories. The
junk is useful for a foundation for
climbing purposes.
But we must not assume that Mr..
Bryan is turncoat In the main he
sticks to his original tenets with the
tenacity OF leeeh. He might have
been elected president in 1900 but for
his refusal to run on the Kansas City
platform unless 1t contained reitara-
ton Of the Chicago currency plank.
The party was determined to have him
tor Its candidate, so q rcfteration was
made, together with an attempt to
hide its light under the busheI OF Inn.
perialism as the paramount issue. MI.
! Bryan, OF course, does not adyocate
now the free silver doctrine. The high.
or criticism of Alaskan. Australian
African and Neyadan gold develop
ments has reIegated that dogma to the
dark domains Of a desuetude where Il
| is altogether innocuous. Never again
! will its ghost arise.
But there we're other plangs In the
! y
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
Naado FIN, 1 sonuster.

Mr.. stubb Tin astonishment) Ora
cious, Mariai That tramp has been
singing In the back yard for the last
hour. Mrs. Stub Yes. John, 1t Ia all
my fault. Mr.. stubb-Your faultf Mrs.
Stubb Indeed 1t Is. / thought / was
giving him dish Of boiled oatmeal,
and instead Of that boiled up tho
bird seed BY mistake. Chicago News.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10

presidency do not appear to have Inn
paired his availability for a third can
didacy in the estimation Of the great
body Of Democrats whose demands
sway the party. zs
And yet he is a plain private citizen.
Where win you find in our history
man without official power, without
political patronage, without the pres
tige Of electoral triumph, who has
been able to make his private resi-
dence the twelve year capital Of a
party organization which has elected
many presidents and through many
years In the past has controlled the
republic? 81
Compared With Henry Clay.
II MIR. Bryan has been likened to Henry
Clay, the great commoner" OF hun-
dred years ago and of sixty years ago.
The comparison holds together only In
spots. Clay in his time was the mouth
piece OF the maj ority, the common peo-
pie, and there the comparison holds.
Clay was a perpetual candidate" for
the presidency and never landed. Ger
tain organs of the opposition have con-
ferred that title upon Mr.. Bryan, who
as yet has failed to land. Clay was de-
feated three times for the presidency
Bryan has been defeated twice, and he
wants to try 1t again.
BIT Henry Clay spent nearly all his
manhood life In public Office OF high
station. He went from the Kentucky
state legislature TO the United States
senate before he was old enough under
the constitution to take his seat He
went from the senate to the house OF
representatives and Immediately was
elected speaker. He resigned the speak
ership to 60 to Client and help nego-
tiate treaty Of peace with England in
1914. He returned to the house and
again was chosen speaker. He was
John Quincy Adams secretary OF state.
He spent most Of his remaining years
In the United States senate, where be
was d power Of powers
To keep his hold upon the leadership
OF the Democracy Mr. Bryan has had
to rely wholly upon his own personal
Z dty, his own strength Of character, his
own capabl1ity for making himself a
& power in the party and with the people.
There have been wars. and opportunity
has come to the head OF the opposing
party to negotiate a brilliant peace.
There have been weighty problems nm
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10

Wisdom is knowledge, sound 5udg.
ment and good conduct running togeth-
er In harness and keeping step.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
Yellow Fever.

The drst appearance Of yellow fever
ID said to have been among the SOL
diers of Columbus In 1895.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
Eloquent Orator.

For a dozen years he has been the
mouthpiece of these doctrines and
such mouthpiece! Henry Clay had a
wide and wonderful mouth and an
eloquent tongue. There again comes
in the parallel, for Mr.. Bryan has one
Of the biggest mouths and one Of the
most eloquent tongues on record.
There are those who believe devoutly
that he is the most eloquent living
orator, and If the monographs of the
ancients had preserved the eloquence
Of Cicero and Demosthenes no doubt;
the dead also would be eliminated
from the race for oratoricaI premier
ship in the estimation of the devout.
All mankind loves lover and an
orator Though we utter the language
Of angels, if we have not the eloquent
tongue we. are become as sounding
brass and our audience as snoring
snoozers. Divine poetry delivered by
a droning or cackling voice falls fiat
ter than a cornmeal pancake. Half
the SO called orators we have are but
near orators, lacking the silver
tongue. But Mr. Bryan very early.
found his silver tongue. He applied
1t first to free silver and later to things
nonmetallic, but still the clarion ring
is there. He is an orator, always has
been an orator, and that accounts for
an immensely big slice Of his popu-
larity and power.
Given, then, an eloquent tongue with
something to say and innumerable In
vitations to say it, and that something
which appeals to the mass Of the peo-
pie, which the mass of the people
themselves believe, and we have a
force Of Irresistible attraction, we
have the secret of nation wide pop
ularity. sfjs
Added to this, a man who believes
in himself as he believes in his beliefs,
who is firm in the conviction that
somehow he is sent as a Moses to
lead the people Of Israel out of the
wilderness into the promised land of
Canaan, and we have the secret Of the
political power that is represented in
William ]. Bryan. 2##
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-09
TURKISH TROOPS
INVADE PERSIA
Have Commenced Collecting
Revenue and Evidently In
tend to Remain.

St Petersburg, June Special dis
patches received here indicate seri-
Gus situation on the Turko- Persian
frontier. Turkish troops which have
hitherto been massed on the Russian
side in the vicinity of Erzerum Viliayet
are in a movement toward Persia. De-
tachments already have invaded Per-
sian territory.
The Turkish occupation of the dis
trict of AZerbijan, west of Urumiah
lake, has been carried out in a sys-
tematic manner and the method of ad-
ministratiOn of this territory is similar
TO the administration in regularly an
neXed territory, which would seem to
indicate that the Turks intend to re-
main permanently.
Bodies of Turkish regulars who have
followed in the wake of the Kurdish
tribesmen have commenced to collect
revenues. In spite of the pTOverbiaI
Turkish sloWness, a customs house has
been established at Kehlur. some miles
inland from Urumiah. The Turks have
seized the salt mines belonging to the
Persian crown and have expelled the
shah's officials.
There is every indication, say the
dispatches, that the Turks are taking
full advantage of the disturbed cOndi-
lions in Persia TO seize a valuable
strategical wedge of the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-09
OHIO PLATFORM THE THING
Chicago Convention Expected to
Adopt the Instrument Drawn
bv Wade Ellis.

Washington, June s.-Bringing with
him the completed draft of the plat
form which il is proposed TO present
TO the committee on resolutions of the
national Republican convention at Chi
cagO, Wade Ellis, attorney general OF
Ohio, returned here today from Vir-
GINA Beach and went direct 10 the war
department, where he was in confer
ence with Secretary Taft for some
time.
Both Secretary Taft and Mr.. Ellis
were averse to making any statement
regarding the platform, but neverthe
less il was definitely ascertained that,
aside from the enlargement of the tar
iff plank of the Ohio platform so as to
declare for the maximum and minimum
schedules and for a revision of the
tariff AT an extra session of congress
Immediately following the Inauguration.
the platform to be presented at Chi
cago win be substantially the same as
the Ohio document.
Having fulfilled his mission to Wash
ington, Mr.. Ellis left here today for
Chicago, where he at once will get in
20 touch with the Taft leaders.