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American statesman, and crdcar him TO all
those who believe in equal -hts 10 all aud
special priytl .cS To nour.
W" therefore declare that W. are uuanj-
monSy and UnQualHndly iu favor Of hat
Lr.1t 'oiauJutr, William Jennings Bryan,
Is the m II Democratic raud date for Pres e
dent Of the United states. and we her 10y
instruct Our delegates 10 IN Democratic
nat ona convention al y uvcr, to vote as
iHIt for William icnH.I-S lryaa ~ the
brmoclauC nominee lug pgvsidt ut, Er>t,
last and al the time
IL he platform was aGurud hy rising
vote.
At the opening session OF 'I' c0nyen-
ton at the Davidson thratvr thursday
afternoon, Temporary ChaIrm"I John
+. Dohcrty made Il tremendous hat with
his keynote speech. Joseph Davies of
Watertown then took the floor and ~
Il neat speech urged the delegates 20
contribute to the campaign fund. lie
aroused especial enthusiasm and laugh
ter when he referred To tooScvelt's dis
carding the slogan of full dinner pail and
proclaiming for IL full baby carriage, al
though working men cannot get work.
The sum of $4,000 was raised in ten min
utes by the state central committee, fol
lowing Mr.. Davies speech.
Joseph g. Donnclly, who sat in a box,
was called upon for Il speech and re-
sponded with one of his characteristic
addresses delivered in his happiest vein.
James l.. O'Conn0r and Congressman J.
W. Murphy also spoke.
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peatedly threatened. Revolution was
feared, but few anticipated the climax
which came with cowardly double as
sasslnation.
King Carlos was 40 years OF age He
was a son Of Lulz l. and Maria Pla,
daughter of Victor Emmanuel II. Of
Italy and sister of King Humbert On
the death of his father in 1889 he be
came King, at the age of 20.
In 1883 he married Marie Amelie.
daughter Of the dcthroned royal house
Of France, the Comte de Paris, and sis
ter of the present Duke Of Orleans.
She Is counted among the most beauti.
full royal women of Europe She was
recently In England to attend the wed
ding Of her sister.
Amelie Is much beloved by the Por-
tusuese people and was very much at
tached to her gool-natured spouse.
Carlos was almost a giant in weight.
over 300 pounds. He was hearty
eater, and many stories probably ex-
aggerated-are told of his appetite.
Despite his weight he was an athlete,
eXcelllng especially in swimming He
was also a ripe scholar, linguist and
an artist of no little merit.
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of Peter the Great. What more lovable
lady than Elizabeth of Austria! Hum
bert Of Italy. Giant heart in giant
frame; soldier and statesman. Again
the assassin
In our own favored America, Lincoln,
Garfield, Mckinley-martyrs to insane
malevolence, newspaper malignancy, de
FAINT anarchy, And now Carlos of
Portugal! A man fighting with might
and main against established abuses,
against fortified and brazen graft,
against the spoiation of the taxpayers
by intrenched ivilege-fghting, per-
haps, in wrong way, but fighting hon
estly. for the good Of the masses whom
he wished to serve, Fair mark for
assassination, he and his flrst-born.
No tyrants these but men who car
rled tremendous burdens Of responsi-
billy, either through Inheritance or
election, and gave the best that was
In them to the service Of the right as
they saw it only to die by dagger,
by bomb or by bullet.
No American city or commonwealth
was ever at its worst more helpleSslv
IN the grasp Of srafters than Portugal
has been for years. The oficcholding
as though the masses were created for
their financial benefit National debts
were piled on national debts and the
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QAPERS II !41ir PE&)E2I T.

just two alternatives: Do he is expected to do or
refuse to do the thing and stand by the decision. In
either position the young mariculae in life must de
pend upon his judgment to right him in the end.
There is type Of man in the worlds work whose sole
claim to virtue Is the carrying out to the blind letter
the dictates Of his superiors This type Is emnenty
the product Of the doctrine Of conventional "Donts"
The vast majority Of these either weaklings or
sneaks, AS weaklngs they the Of least conse
quence to any work requiring initiative and accomplish
ment AS neaks they constant menace to whatever
institution their dsloyal service affects.
Unless you willing to become automaton menial
fix upon your purpose in life sound yourself and
capabilities, and base your chances for upon
these and your Judgment OF and things
grow wise to your environment
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merely t" the best reorganization OF so
clrty, but to all tn" welfare appointed
for humanity welfare that can come
about only through the personal efforts
ii individual men,
Yes. trust yourself when in your soul
i heard. not the wish t" excel others {"
Distinguish Yourself from others, To be-
more powerful more important or NOR"
iam'"7 or To D." -aNlur7 oil men, freeing
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public treasury was the private pocket
book Of constituencies schemers and
dishonest place owners. Public office
degenerated to genteel brigandage. The
civil service was hOneyCombed with sin
ecures, and the chief trade Of those
holding office was to create salaried po-
sitions devoid of work. There were
two great parties the Conservatives
and the Llberals-but one was as false
to honor and duty as the other, and
an arrangement existed whereby, no
matter which was in control, the sin
ecures remained I'm the hands of the
professional spoiisnen. If there was a
change, 1t was simply q transfer Of
CRAFTY yielding places and a swapping
OF sinecures. The people murmured. but
In their ignorance and poverty were
but the tools of salaried demagogues
and the victims of scheming politicians.
Carlos begged, implored, threatened,
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To Abolish Cape Hatteras.

new coastal canal Is to slice off a
strip of our Atlantic shore from Ches-
apeake Bay south to Beaufort Inlet,
writes c. II. Claudy in the Technical
World Magazine. Its course Is by way
of the natural waterways of Albemarle,
Pamlico, Croatan and, perhaps, Core
sounds, and such other natural rivers.
bays and inlets as may be available
And 1t Is to pinch out row Of the
most dangerous ea-miles known to
our coast trade.
The project as it now stands will
start from the head Of the southern
branch of Elizabeth River, at Norfolk,
Va, and will either 90 through the
route Of the present Albemarle and
Chesapeake Canal, or through a new
canal to be cut, known as the Cooper
creek route. The two routes are so
nearly alike In engineering features
that is. the good points of one are 80
nearly balanced by the bad points Of
the other, and vice versa, that the
board of engineers having the matter
IN charge, under Congress, have ad-
vised that cost Of construction be the
deciding factor, ana the Albemare and
Chesapeake canal route IS therefore
chosen. But the hitch comes In the
purchase of this canal. The owners
refuse to say what they will sell It
for. Naturally, they want the best
nnCcIh1a rripn Io
has determined its value not as a
property earning money, but by its
value to the project The final deci-
sion is that, II the canal can be pur-
chased for half million dollars. It's
use will be economical it cannot be
purchased for that amount, then the
Cooper creek canal should be dug.
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Medical Care of British Schools.

Consul Frank W. Mahin of Noting
ham states that to effectuate a recent
act of Parliament the British govern.
ment board Of education has issued di-
school children. This inspection is aimed
to prevent in future genera tons the
"physical uniitness'' which, according to
expert evidence, now exists in certain
classes Of the English people.
The duty Of inspection is laid upon To-
cal education authorities. All children in
elementary schools. whether known to be
ailing or not. must be inspected Three
inspections INST he made during the
chld's school lite the hfst when he en-.
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TOT MAKES LONG TRIP.
Little Fond du Lac Miss Travels with
Tags Pinned to Her Dress to
Direct Her Way

FOND DU LAC. Wis, Feb Ii
Especial. Little Lois Rose aged :
years, who came here alone from Guth-
RE, Ky. last summer, has taken another
long trip alone. This time She has gone
to Nashville. Tenn. Attached to the
little tots dress when she left here
were two tags, one giving the name of
her destination and the woman She was
going to visit and the other the address
Of Mrs. +. ID. Reader of this city, who
was to he notified in case Of an acct
dent. \ telegram has been received
here saying that the little girl has ar-
rived at the home of Mrs L. .. Rather
at Nashville.
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PORTUGAL'S DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
How n Kings Fight Against Graft
Led to Assassfnation.

1t seems an irony of fate that the
band Of the assassin should more often
be raised against the beneticent ruler
whose heart is burdened with the sor-
rows Of his people and whose efforts
are directed toward an amelioration of
their woes than against the tyrant who
rules with rod of iron and Is prompt
ed merely by the love of selfish power
One has only to give history cursory
glance to demonstrate this
No Sultan ever came to the throne
Of Turkey with a warmer love for his
subjects or a greater desire for their
prosperity and happiness than were
possessed by Abdul AziZ, Alexander H.
Of Russia The most benign, the most
iovable Car who ever sat on the throne
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Strengthen the Medical Corps,

Ii has long been a saying with regard
to the mortality IN wars that Disease
kills moro than the bullet" Dr. Louis
l.. Seaman, who served as a surgeon of
volunteers in the war with SPAIN and
who was at the front i'm the Boxer r..
belliun i'm China aud i'm the war between
Russia and Japan, iuCturcd before the
New York Academy OF Medicine. "a few
evenings ago, ON 'Ihr IrlumphS Of
Scientific Medicine I'm Peace and War;
aud accorded lUurcls 10 Japan which
he withheld from the United States He
asserted that the American soldiers who
died Of disease ina the war with Spain
outnumhcrrd those who died 10y the hull
let in tho proportion of 1t to |. Ha
pIso asserted that Japan in her war with
Russia demonstrated that most of tho
diseases Of war are preYeuuble, as in
that campaign only one japanese died
from disease for three who gave up tho
ghost as the result of casualties in bat
tie.
In Or. Seamau's opinion the orgauiza-
ton Of the Japanese medical corps is 4
thing for study aud imitation. The
American idea Of RELOCATING the physician
to the hospital. as if there was nothing
to do hut cure the sick and wounded,
ignoring the fact thuI Il great object of
mudrru medicine is the prevention of
diseaEe. deserves the satire which was
expended upon il in DR.. SCamuu'S lee
turr The sanitary department of the
modern army Is of high Importance, and
thi, must he recognized by America rs
ii has been recognized hy Japan. Medi-
cal officers must have advisory authority
over the vommiSsary, and must be con-
suited in the selection Of sites for camps.
Il does not follow. as Or. Seaman
thinks Il does that because medical
science IS important in ar and peace,
there should be a medical department.
vi the government. with secretary of
mcdiciue az its head That IS Il con-
summation whose ultimate effect might
be tp retard rather than 10 advance sci
enee \ state school of medicine might
bc as little beneficial as 4 state church,
Eur il is beyond question that the
United States should enlarge the powers
aud improve the efficiency Of the medi-
cul corps Of the army.
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SUPERIOR HAPPY OVER BRIDGE.
Commercial Club and Council Wire
Thanks to La Toilette

SUPERIOR, Wis. Feb. ii Spe-
it became known that the United States
Senate had passed the steel trust bill
for n bridge across the st. Louis river
and that instead of merely taking verbal
assurance for it, this city is guaranteed
the bridge will be free to foot passeu-
gers and vehicles in perpctuity.
Senator La Toilette succeeded in get
ting the steel people to agree to write
this in the bill. 1t is believed of more
importanceto Superior than Duluth be-
cause, with the bridge open to such
traffic the center of this city will be
much more easily reached from the new
steel plant than will Duluth. The Com
mercial club and council have wired
La Toilette their thanks.
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QUOTATION SUITS END,
Chicago & Minneapolis Board of Trade
Cases Against Superior Organi-
cation Are Settled

SUPERIOR, Wis, Feb. II. - Spc-
cial. - Negotiations are completed for
dismissal of the suits against the Su-
perior board of trade. No details are
given out but it is stated they are very
satisfactory to the directors of the board
The cases are in federal court aud the
suits are actions brought by the Chicago
board of trade and the Minneapolis
chamber of commerce charging that the
Superior board was using the quotations
of the two boards.
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WANT LOWER WATER RATES.

SHEBOYGAN, wis, Feb. IL spe-
cial. \ petition for a reduction in wa
ter rates by the City Water company has
been forwarded TO the state railroad com
mission nj Madison \ second petition
containing about 800 names will be sont
to Madison IN the course of week 1t
Is proposed to secure as early action us
possible on the matter.
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SLAM THE LID ON WASHBURN.
Good Templars and Lutherans Expect to
Meet Success.

WASHBURN, Wis, Feb. IA Spe-
cial Another attempt Is to be made
Sunday to put on the lid and from all
appearances it will 90 on hard. Chief Of
Police Wescott has notified every bust
ness man in town that lie must close or
suffer the consequences.
Some timo ago the Civic league made
an attempt to clamp the lid, but met
with such objections it abandoned the
idea Now the Scandinavian Good
Templar lodge and the Luthcraus lave
taken the matter in hand.
Ashland and Bayfield, have the Sunday
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CANNOT ORDER THE TELEGRAPH.
Railroad Commission Decides 1t Is With
out Jurisdiction.

MADISON, Wis, Feb. 14.-Bccausc
the telegraph companies and not the rail.
road companies are responsible for in
adequate telegraph service in the state.
and because the coustitutionalty of the
eight-hour telegraphers service law Is
being tested, the state railroad commits
sion announces it cannot issue general
order aifording relief from the incon.
yenience and annoyance resulting from
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RABBI JACOBS AMONG SPEAKERS.
Will Address the Consumers League at
Annual Meeting.

OSHKOSH, Wis, Feb, !4.-[Spe-
cial. The programme for the annual
league, to be held in Madison, February
20, is out. The meeting will be opened
with an address, "A Word Of Wei
come" by Miss Caroline Hunt of Madi-
son. and following will be: An address
by the president, Mrs. b. &. Gudden
Oshkosh The Fcdcration's Interest IN
the Consumers League" Mrs. Charles
f. Ruel, GAINESVILLE, Public Co-opera-
tion," j. ID. Beck. commissioner OF la
Dor, The Awakening Of the Public
Conscience" Rev j. j. Jacobs, warden
of the university settlement at Milwau-
kee
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changed The ideas popular also dan
serous The ca1nor Is for limitation Of fortunes for
getting that that also the limitation Of industry
for the curtament OF the Of the courts forgetting
that that death to the freedom Of the individual
for the equality of men by arbitrary rule forgetting that
this to clog the industrious and help the lazy
The spirit abroad IL given rein would make the in
competent equal by law to the skilled the dssoute equal
to the sober the cheat and the shirk equal to the hon
est
The people when they try, everything to the
ground. They unmake remake their constitution
They may, If they like, abolish their courts and legs
aures and take the relns of directly In their
hands. This means revolution but there
precedents for revolution?
Is there any prophet abroad in these days who can
say how far the people would so in their present tenn
per? Would the majority vote to limit private fortunes
Would they vote to redlsribute private which
large enough to tempt their cupdity? they
curtai the power of the courts?
You answer these questions well any body of
men living, and you also answer whether
suggested changes would be wise.
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SUPERIOR IS A HEALTHY CITY.
Authorities Report Low Death Rate from
Contagious Diseases.
CTpERIDR Wis Fol

SUPERIOR, Wis, Feb. 14-[Spe-
cial 1.-THE death rate per 1000 in Su-
pcrior during 1907 was Hos. This and
other facts Of interest are shown In the
annual report Of the board Of health.
The board claims there have been fewer
deaths from contagious diseases and
that as whole Superior Is healthier
than any other city in the northwest.
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rickety wooden fence surrounding Mrs.
Filigan's pigsty, COW bee-a.utiful is
luv. Jes' think ov it, Betsy. Wen we are
married Wen have a pig all of our own,
all to ourselves
"Willyum," she whispered, resentfuly,
why should we want ter buy pig?
shan't want ter buy a pig when I've got
yewr'
Then all was silent once more. EXCEPT
that the gentle zephyrs still played amid
the fronds Of the cabbage bushes and
the silver rhroated frog still sang from
the roof-Reynolds' Newspaper.
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HATPIN FOR DYNAMITE.
Woman Picks at Cap, Explosion Tears
Off Four Fingers and Injuries
Her Sister.

RICE LAKE, Wis, Feb. Ill Spe-
cial Mrs. Joe Gehhart of Radisson
tried to pick a dynamite cap with a
hat pin An explosion tore of four Of
her fingers, and burned her face.
\ piece of cap struck her sister, Mrs.
Joe Cardinal, standing near, In the eye
nearly destroying the sight.
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TRUST YOURSELF.

I'm Appeal to Young People by Leo Toll
stoi Translated by AyImrr Naudc
and Reprinted from the London Chron
! irc
Trust yourselves, youths and maldruo
who are emerging from childhood, when
first the questions arise in Your soul:
What am l. Why do exist! Why do
all who surround me exist? And chiefly
most agitatmg of question, Am and
are all around me living as we should do?
Trust yourself, then, also, when the re-
plies to these questions which suggest
themselves to YOU do not agree with
1 these impressed on YOU in childhood, and
DO not agree with the life that You and
the people around YOU are living. Do
not tear this disagreement, but, on the
contrary, Ice assured that in this dis
agreement between You and all that sur
rounds you is expressed the very best
that is in you that divine principle
whose manifestation in life constitutes
! not uuly the Chief. bat the sole, meaning
of ON existence. Trust, then, not your
~rli; the individual BlIl, Jack, Annie, or
NiIly, son or daughter of King, minister
on workman, merchant or Iahorcr, but
trust that self the eternal, reasonable,
the holy source which lives in each of
us. and which for the iIst time has
awakened within YOU. presenting these
most important OF all questions, and
seeking and demanding their solution.
I)o not. then, trust those who with It
coudc-ccudiug smile tell You that they,
. too once sought replies to these que,
li,ua p,tl ,ltI r,t Hnl ihnnl fpi, u1u,. rau
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A Pastoral.

It was beautiful night The gentle
zephyrs Of the evening played unsteady
amid the silky leaves of the tnrnip trees
and the onion bushes and waited from
across the distant fields the delicate fra
GRANGE of the growing cabbages and the
f9r-efF odor Of The hoan trees.
"Rntsv." 10 cooed, as they sat on the
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the reduction or abolition of telegraph
service at many villages and cities Tho
commission finds the safety of tho opcr-
alton of trains has not been affected 10y
the changes in the tcl"grophic situation
since the eight-hour law went into effect.
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ters school, the second three years and
the third six years later. The inspec-
tions are to be made on the school premi-
ses during school hours During 1903
children leaving school will also be in
spected.-Daily Consular Reports.
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UNLIMITED POWER OF THE PEOPLE
By Ex-Gov Black of New York

1t must be remembered that the people are
all-powerful. They can do whatever they de-
eide to do. They are now. checked by their
constitution, but they made even the constitu-
ton, and they can unmake 1t. There are at
least two methods. of doing this one by
amendment and the other by revolution. But
the prayer Of every patriot in the land will
be that the constitution shall not now be
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every Of these duties is supposed to rest
Yet, we have made tariffs heretofore, commit
tees Of Congress- working a part Of the time for a
few months, not only have to find out these facts.
but also to fit duties to these facts, study how
those duties Will work with foreign tariffs, how
will thereby be helped hurt and all other things
that must be thought Of in making tariff Yet it Is
plain that 1t would be hard for experts to learn
all the facts in short time to say nothing OF the
other congressional committees forced
to do in making tariff law.
1t Is not fair to these committees to make them do
such work In brief period. Other nations have seen
this plain truth and therefore made the commonsenSe
plan Of finding the facts upon which their legislatures
act with knowledge ard wisdom. SO Germany and
Japan whose tariffs the most careful of all tariffs
had body of tariff experts find out the facts and then
made their tariffs fit those facts.
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4 mans efforts are like woman's
babies You can please him by admir-
ing them.
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PEDAGOGIC ADVICE OF LITTLE VALUE.
InLx. A

One Of the least tolerable Of all advisers of
the young man is he who frames his long,
canting lists of "Don'ts." These inhibltons
on the face of them are as the law of the
Modes and Perslans Presumably they are to
fit every man in every position in every emer-
gency in the calendar Most Of them are
framed with reference to proptiating the en-
ployer, regardless Of the personalities Of EN-.
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poyer and cnploye regardless of the merits dement's
situation, and therefore utterly ignorant Of whether
or radical violation of his particular Don't
might be the turning point itself in the life Of that par
ticular young
Ordinarily, In the of the young starting
in the world employee IN business himself with
the object pleasing constituency. he has choice
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The kcd Halligan-N Young Edenburs
boxing contest az the star tomorrow
night is expected Go be warm one
The boys met two weeks ago and Ref
erse HuuehUu called il draw. There
was much dissatisfaction over the de-
eisioa and another match WAS arranged.
Harry Stout will referee tho battle to-
morrow night.