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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-08
Compared With Henry Clay.

Mr.. 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 majority, 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 it again.
But Henry Clay spent nearly al! 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
ershiD to go to Client and help nego
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-08

oral honors. and has declared more
than once in the last four years that he
would like to take hold as a worker
and prove his sincerity in the cause
Governor Francis is a man of force,
indomitabie industry. wealth and asso-
citation with men of wealth who might
be useful in the financing of the cam
paign. Finally on the list is Tom L.
Johnson, the hard fighting mayor of
Cleveland, who needs no Introduction
to the American people. Out of this
list it should be easy to pick man
who would lead the Democratic CO.
horts to victory. While of course the
national committee formally selects
the chairman, 1t has been the practice
TO give the candidate practically a
deciding vote.
The Eciipoe of Hearst.
Democrats in the middle west, par
ticularly in Illinois and Indiana. are
inclined to chuckle over the complete
collapse of the Hearst mayoralty re-
count Here in Chicago Hearst has
been something of menace to the
Democratic party, especially while
that party has been In its present d.
yided condition. Former Mayor Dunno
one of the cleanest and most well
meaning executives Chicago ever had,
but probably the worst politician that
ever sat in the city hall, practically
turned his administration over to
Hearst without preliminary inquiry as
to whether the influence thus built up
| was to be exercised for the good of
the Democratic party or to advance
Hearst's own personally conducted In
dependence league. AS might have
been expected, it was used for the lat
ter purpose, and Dunno retired from
office, chagrined and broken in politi-
kcal strength, leaving a broken organ
izatfon behind him. Hearst agents
have been working persistently in Chi
cago, where he has two newspapers,
building up an organization. But the
collapse of his mayoralty pretensions
in New York has been a serious blow
to his pretensions here. The fatal
thing for an aspiring politician is to
put himself in position to be laughed
at. For nearly four years Hearst has
been crying from the mountain tops
that he was elected mayor Of New
York and that judicial recount of the
ballots would prove 1t. He has heaped
opprobrium upon his opponent. Mayor
Mcclellan, calling him "fraudmayor"
and declaring that his acts We're file
gal. Now comes the count completed,
and the Hearst gains are immaterial.
Apparently the chief political asset OF
the Hearst movement is this clamorous
cry charging corruption on the part OF
his adversaries and claiming complete
integrity for his own forces.
Say" said a local Democratic poll
tician In Chicago who has flirted some
what with the Hearst forces, 'if 1T
took Hearst $4,000 and four years to
prove that he wasn't elected mayor
after all, what would happen IL those
Independence guys nominated him for
president? Would we find out who
was elected any time this century r.
1t is the passing gibe of the man on
the street of this kind that is likely
to put the Hearst movement out of
business before it becomes a menace
nationally.
WILLIS j. ABBOT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-08
Bad Burn Quickly Healed.

Il am SO delighted with what Cham
berlain's Salye has done for me that
feel bound to write and tell you So"
says Mrs. Robert Mytton, 457 John
street, Hamilton. Ontario. my little
daughter had bad burn on her knee.
l applied Chamberlain's Salve and it
healed beautifully" This salve allays
the pain of a burn almost instantly.
1t is for sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-08

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 it with the emphasis of junction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-08
A Progressive Evangelist.

There we have it. Mr. Bryan is an
evangelist. He goes up and down the
country preaching what he believes. 1t
SO happens that his preaching is politi-
cal rather than evangelical, but it is
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 a 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 smithereens of dogmas that
have outlived their usefulness. The
citadel of modern science is built upon
junk heap of defunct 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 a leech. He might have
been elected president in 1900 but for
his refusal to run on the Kansas City
platform unless it contained reitera-
ton of the Chicago currency plank.
The party was determined to have him
for its candidate, so a reiteration was
made, together with an attempt to
| hide its light under the bushel OF I'M
Derialism as the paramount issue. Mr.
Bryan. Of course, does not advocate
now the free silver doctrine. The high
er criticism of Alaskan. Australian
African and Neyadan gold develop
ments has relegated that dogma to the
dark domains of desuetude where II
is altogether inuocuous. Never again
will Its ghost arise.
But there We're other planks in the
Chicago platform of 1896, ard on these
In the main Mr.. Bryan and the De
mocracy stand today. Mr.. Bryan be
lieves in an income tax. He does moi
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 part!
campaign leader to preach those doc
/ trines, and that fact accounts for very
much of his popularity and politica
force.
Mr.. Bryan believes also in a read
justment of the tariff. so that the bur
dens will not fall upon the pates o
the poor and the guerdons drop int,
the purses of the rich, Nearly all or
binary, everyday, average, disinterest
ed Americans of all parties beliey'
just that way too. So there is anothe
why and wherefore of the popularit.
of William j. Bryan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-08
BRYAN IS !, f fs,a t s''',s' nd =.
A Progressive Evangelist" Who Bristies
With Ageressiveness as a Porcuplne
With Quilts. ~ - ~ ~

body of Democrats whose demands
sway the party.
And yet he is plain private citizen.
Where will you find in our history a
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?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-08
Eloquent Orator.

For a dozen years he HAS Deeu tuS
mouthpiece of these doetrines-and
such mouthpiece! Henry Clay had
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 oratorical premier
ship in the estimation of the devout.
All mankind loves n 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
sneozers. Divine poetry delivered by
a droning or cackling voice fails fat
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
it 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
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17

pump on the air-pockets we dropped
the covers to get the tout ensemble.
lib snapped the barricades in place
in jiffy, and said stiftly: I never give
a performance unless l have all my
animals. These are but the advance
wagons and tent If the others do not
arrive cannot exhibit
"'But, senior, have tickets. l have
invited my friends AS alcalde l shall
command you to exhibit tomorrow to
prove you are not humbug,' cried the
intruder.
THAT comes of profanity, MUIR
ply groaned lib after the alcalde left
us. I brought these suits along as a
safeguard, so that if anyone should
get peep the fleeing glance would
not arouse suspicion. Now, hang it
all! we've got to give a performance to
placate the mayor. For if We don't we
can never leave town. So you've got
to learn your wildwood lessons, my
lads
Then the unthankful beasts began
to protest, and Murphy and Reynolds
wanted to be the tiger and Sleep but
Weisman swore he'd claw the lining
out of anyone that disturbed his feline
ease. Burke, the bear, didn't know
what kind Of a noise to make, and it
took lib ten minutes to teach him
to say wool in bruinesque manner.
Then we oekzeach one in turn and
gave the key, and made him practice
his call of the wild SO there would be
some individuality. Then we waited
for the mayor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17
BAD ITCHING HUMOR.
Limbs Below the Knees Were Raw.
Feet SwoIIen-SIeep Broken
Cured in 2 Days by Cuticura.

Some two months ago I had a hr
NOR break out on my limbs below my
knees. They came to look like raw
beefsteak, all red, and no one knows
how they itched and burned. They
were so swollen that l could not get
my shoes on for a week or more. I
used five or six different remedies and
got no help, only when applying them
the burning was worse and the itching
less. For two or three weeks the sui.
fering was intense and during that
time did not sleep an hour at time.
Then one morning I tried a bit of
Cuticura. From the moment it touched
me the itching was gone and l have
not telt bit Of it since The swelling
went Gown aud in two days hod my
shoes on and was about as usual.
George B. Farley, so South State St.,
Concord. N. H.. May II. 1907"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17
"MR. DOOLEY" ON FUNERALS.
Joyous Occasion in City Boys Life,
ACCORDING to HumOrist.


According to Humorist.
"Wh1n was little boy, I classed
fun'rals among tn greatest iv me ad-
ventures. They give me a ride in a
hack through parts Nv town that I'd
niver seen befure an out into tn
country where I niver wint except
l was invited to fun'ral, an l had
jovyal company an something to eat
different firm what l got at home.
Lookin' back on how felt whin l was
a kid, I can't remember that amy dis
tant relation made himsilf unpopular
with US by dyin'. Even If I wasn't let
60 to fun'ral there was something
exciting about 1t. 1t stirred up tn
neighborhood. There was something
to talk about. Ivrybody asked: Did
he leave annything?' as if tn poor
man was burglar or a fire. People
got out their good clothes an busted
of their high hats. On tn day iv tn
fun'ral all tn childher Nv tn neighbor-
hood gathered around tn house an
envied their little playmates that had
tn luck to lose a fond parent "-F. p.
Dunno, In American Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17
BY HUGH PENDEMTER

Next, with fierce painting, four men
burst through the chaparral that came
up to the rear of our tent and plunged
inside the white walls. l had just
time to notice they were haggard and
unkempt and then in a second the
wooden covers were down to allow
them to enter the cages, and then
snapped back in place again.
I'm afraid, Billy declared lib,
calmly, as he began sorting out some
posters, that the rest of the show
won't arrive in time for Tomorrow
performance
Just as he said this bevy of vii
layers, headed by our trusty driver,
collins, burst through the canvas,
yelling and brandishing carbines and
other impedimenta.
-Four men escaped from the SOL
diers. Mr.. Smith, and l told the guards
l thought they came this way painted
Collins, with an expressive wink.
What" roared lib, in Spanish
Law breakers escaped! Free passes
to the brave men who capture 'em. |
believe they did pass this way behind
the tent in the brush. l heard a
crashing and thought it was mule
My lion growled tieccely. Hark! He
is growing now"
The gang paused in running away
to hear the growl and Tiberius, stand
ing near Murphy's cage, Kissed:
'Growl, you villain. growl!'
"And thereat most blood-chilling
roar came from Murphy's den, and the
others, to make sure, began to throw
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17
Triumph Of Mind.

Victim of Delusion-Doctor, TIA
awfully afraid I'm going to have brain
fever.
Doctor-Pooh, pooh, my dear friend!
That's all an illusion Of the senses.
There is no such thing as fever You
have no fever, you have no br-h'm-
no material substance upon which
such a wholly imaginary and suppo-
sitious thing as a fever could find
any base Of operation.
Victim-Oh. doctor. what load you
have taken from my-from MY
have a mind. haven't I. doctor?
Looking for a Similar One.
"Hezekiah," said the Kansas matron
as she adjusted her bonerimmed
glasses and opened the local paper,
1T says here that woman was car
ried two miles by cyclone an6 didn't
speak word for three weeks.
The sun-tanned farmer grabbed his
hat and spy-glass.
Where are you going now, He=e-
kiah?"
"Where am I going, Lucy? Why, I
am going out to see il can't sight one
Of them thar kind of cyclones"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17

important to Mothers,
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTOR1A safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that It
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17

in series of yells that would cause
Bowery gallery-god to go home and
through sheer envy take lessons The
crowd fell back in a wave; it simply
swept EN- off their feet, sir. To cap
the climax Collins cried: Don't let EN-
get excited, Mr.. Smith! Remember
the three men mauled to death in Ell
Paso!'
After they'd gone, lib turned to
me and grinned. I think we'll win the
trick. And isn't that Collins a
jewell
Nov each cage was divided by a
grating of bars, and in each COSY
nook was one of the comic opera suits
I'd brought from Ell Paso. In de-
signing these animal make-ups lib had
made use of air chambers, 80 that
when man got tucked into one and
the bicycle pump had been agitated
for padding you had real, life-like
beast, with muscles standing out like
barnacles on forgotten dredge. OF
course, at the best it was a fierce
counterfeit and when the quadruped
forgot and stood on his hind legs the
effect was simply stupendous. First
lib ordered Murphy to slip into the
lions pelt, and Murphy was mad. He
said he was Irish and would pose as
harp, but never as an emblem of
Merry England. lib talked to him
like hired man to a sick horse, and
at last the metamorphosis was ef-
fected. Then the others were speedily
transformed into black bear, a tiger
and hyena respectively.
after they had struggled into their
masQuerades and lib had used the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17

lib and I met at the pier the
= circus boss just returned
from England. and before
the cab had landed us at
tho prCo1u,ov oFoo x,,o Lcd
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17

81 can't see in the bloody thing,'
growled the lion as the party swept
inside
Fear them not, senors and senior
ltas. For though they rage and writhe
In anger, they know their masters
volce.-Look out, Burke, pull in your
left leg!"-the last in English. They
never dream of mourning my dis
pleasure. Nero, here, your excel
lency, ate three men and two women
before he was brought low in captiv-
lty, and has added choice collection
OF thumbs and fingers to the total
since then. The villagers near his
wild, free home called him "Ah-Ghee-
Dah,' which being interpreted means,
"He-Who-Eats Men Gladly" Grow],
Murph. All, not so loud. Even lion
has limitations And the sound of the
lrishman buying freedom with series
OF bull-like bellows swept by me and
caused the chocolate populace without
to shudder.
Now we come to the hyena, the
most treacherous of all beasts con-
tlnued lib, skillfully drawing the spec
tators away from Murphy's cage, as
that animal, I observed with horror,
tried to scratch his left shoulder.
blade with a most unlion-like contor-
ton. His record was kept for three
years by my head trainer, as to the
number OF digits he has chewed of.
then the task was given up because of
its monotony. So, not too near,
senors and senoritas-not too near.
See him show his teeth in vain-show
your teeth, Reynolds-repining for
his native lair. Note his antipathy to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17

People never help a man blow hi,
horn because they like the music.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17

while the alcalde and other citizens
were having their siestas. And the
way Collins and a dozen poems emu
lated the Arab in striking that tent
was a caution. From the natives we
learned the guards had got no trace
Of the fugitives and that Chihuahua
was being searched by inches lib
and make for the Rio.
1--WE got away from Quelta all right,
and whenever NO met any &c tho homo
people we stopped and inquired for
the missing caravan, while the in
mates of the wagon let off few bowls
to heighten the effect. By night we
were abreast Of Chihuahua and drove
slowly north until morning, when we
got change of mules. Then we
crept nearer freedom, but never ap-
pearinS to hurry, and on the second
night out we allowed the four men to
ride on top Of their homes in their un.
derclothing. But with the sun they
again put on their trimmings and
hoped inside. By this time lib and
l were nearly dead for want of sleep;
for although we let Collins slumber
every little once in while, we dared
not quit our posts. At last we neared
the Rio, and the men wanted to take
off their suits and make one dash for
1t, but lib said nay. On inquiring
from a half-breed we at last learned
we had only few miles to make.
"'Now let's go through with rush.
| suggested YEARLY.
"'We'll have to- replied lib. I see
the glitter of their Shields
And looking back l made out q
party Of horsemen galloping a mile in
our rear, while the sunlight played
brightly on something they carried in
their hands.
with a yell to the mules we
bumped and tore along, the heavy
wagons swaying fearfully as we went
down decline. Nearer and nearer
crept the pursuers, their shouts now
reaching us, but before they could get
within shooting distance we caught
the glimmer of the Rio, where in the
dry season the stream is a mere
trickle. Smash went the head cart
against a boulder, and a wheel was
broken into toothpicks. Then in
second we were all out, making for
the rock-studded stream, while the
soldiers coming up dismounted and
began to take pot-shots at us.
They had got wind of our game
some way and did not seem to be
greatly surprised at behold1ng four
fierce denizens of the jungle scram.
bling, wading and swimming through
the stream, each armed with a rifle or
revolver.
Il reached home-base first, closely
followed by Collins. And, sir, I shall
never forget that spectacle. There
was the lion, unable to loosen his
head-piece, swearing profusely in rich
Celtic as he sent back shot for shot
There were the hyena and tiger, very
chummy, using revolvers. And in the
rear, in the midst Of the danger zone,
old Tiberius was running his show
clothes by supporting the bear by the
scruff of the neck. I howled to the
lion, and he fercely turned and went
back to assist my patron. Once they
got Burke ashore we found a neat
bullet hole through his neck. but no
arteries or large veins were cut. And
didn't feel bit bad when l saw that
two Of the enemy needed the kind
care of physician when they rode
away. But. incidentally. we lost one
of the best animal shows that was
ever foolish enough to leave the
States.
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Costly Dreduino of River.

The depth Of the St. Lawrence be-
tween Montreal and Quebec-original.
ly ten feet-has been increased by
dredging to 30 feet, at a cost Of &c.,
100000.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-17
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People never help a man blow hi,
horn because they like the music.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-28
OLD MILL SENDS OUT
SHIPMENT OF CONCENTRATES

The old mill at Newark, White Pine
county, which was erected in 1866, and
where a great deal of ore from Hamil-
ton was reduced in the early days of
that camp, is again being worked and
will be an important factor in summing
up the total mineral output of the
county for the present year. The
Eureka Sentinel of last week, says:
"The Newark Mill and Mining com
pany of Newark, Tuesday shipped 46
tons of concentrates to the American
Smelling and Refining company in
Utah, the value of which was not
learned. The values in these concen-
trates are silver, lead and copper. This
is the first shipment that the company
has made since the recent starting up
of the mill.
"Mr. Perry, superintendent and gen
eral manager of the company, says an
other shipment of so tons is now on the
dump ready to move to the smelters. He
also says everything at the mill and
mine is at present running smoothly"