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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-29

! Bird. Two hundred euilders. Bueno.
hand it over Come on. Stop your
staring. l know what I'm about. Moth
ing to lose. Give it here"
What for?" we asked him. Buying
dog carts or going to Tosari for your
health?"
No" he says. For the general
good"
What was this loco act of yours at
daylight" says Bassett. We might
"a been arrested over that, or asked to
pay our bill-same thing"
ooh. that" drawls Sam. That was
advertising Wasn't sure what other
time l might find him in, he's so busy"
Look here at me-" says Bassett.
Fright in the eye. No. he looks ra-
tional What thing are you doing? Ad-
vertising what?"
Look out foreside," says Bird.
We looked. A little group of Siamese
in silk knickerbockers- this time
were standing round the car, talking,
and scoOching down to look under
meath. | began to see light.
Let him have the two hundred gull
ders, DAN" 1 says to Towers. He was
treasurer.
We hadn't finished counting them
over to him before a soft satiny Siam
ese chap came up and allowed politely
that Phya SOmebOdy-which means
lord-would like to speak with Mr..
Bird for a moment. Sam made a
smooth reply and walked off with him
in a easy, usual sort o way.
HIM" says Bassett. Il wonder now
that young CRATER
1t seemed a long time before he came
back. alone. He sat down and finishe
his coffee and toast, looking mournful
and sheepish.
''WeIl, boys" he said at last, ito be
honest with you. I'm disappointed 1t
hasn't turned out as / wanted. | had
an idea o selling this old thing to the
king as a modern improvement Well,
gone futt. Silly idea, / s'pose. I'm sor-
~. boys"
Bassett and Dan Towers went right
up in the air at that. The things those
two said. won't defile my speech with.
DO you mean to tell u.s." said Bas-
sett, very pale, that we're stuck with
that Old Curiosity? Have you bought
it,"
Not yet" said Sam, with mis-
chievous kind O. look.
Not yet" yelled Dan and Bassett,
and both went up in the air again. I
had to separate all three of 'em. and
lock up Bassett in his room cause he
insisted on locking Sam Bird up
Nov to business" says Sam to me-
Come along. Oh. and bring those
snakeskins."
/ hoped up beside him on the seat,
and we churned out into the road. leav-
ing Bassett trying to break out the
shutters, and Dan trying TO say what
he'd do If we came back without those
funds.
For the first time then / found how
that poor old chariot really suffered
She groaned and pulled and shook and
cried like baby. and even then could
hardly move out of her own odor Sam
was shouting. but | only got snatches
o what he said AT it for a week
taxidermatists condemned her
junk heap their back
compound never before u
learned it two days." Like that.
All the rest was drowned. except when
he bumped his nose against my ear and
roared: We'll come out top-side I'D
all right.' And another time-"she'll
hold together a full week, sure" All
this time we were blowing a furrow O.
natives and kosong ponies right and
left through Noordwijk.
Two blocks this side he slowed down.
and made very heavy weather of it up
to the taxidermatists door, The two
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-29

Frenchmen came out o. their shop
civilized-looking fellers they were
and Sam and they all began to talk
Malay at once They laid 1t out how
chupput she could lari a kilometre, and
Sam didn't know how long a kilometre
was. and when they tried TO explain IL
in Malay ii was worse than before.
And Sam had to coin terms like mon
key-wrench- pooniah" to express his
feelings toward the health O. her in
terror. BY IL O'Clock they came down
to fifteen hundred guilders.
Bird stood firm and stern for twelve
hundred.
Easy, SAM" ! says. II followed you
blind so far. but l don't like this
Where's the one thousand?'
shut up" he says; then translates
to the Frenchman. MY friend is right
He is wise in these things, and says
she won't last three days, and we'd
have to send to Europe for the parts.
They weakened a little, Struggling
their shoulders just to show they didn't
care. when they did.
Twelve hundred" repeats Sam,
and the snakeskins."
Those reptiles may have turned the
balance, for they really we're all right
and we all knew it: only certain thing
with one tremendous shrug. il closed at
Sans price. He paid down the skins
and the 200 guilders, promised the rest
that afternoon, and we started back in
our car. She broke down twice. Sam
really looked worried then. but after
lot o. prying and crawling and ham,
mering, off she limped again
Those Frenchmen threw her on the
scrapheap six months ago" he said.
Lying in an open-face go-down didn't
do her a bit o good. | studied her,
though. and the situation" Close
mouthed chap, Sam was.
Next morning he had a young Siam
csc courtier out with him, and that
afternoon was teaching him to steer,
while Dan Towers and Bassett sat bit
terly computing how much this spec
tacle cost us per day. l didn't tell 'em
she belonged to us; il saved trouble.
Next day the same lessons went on,
and the orang-utan took to the ban
yam, mastheaded till after dark. The
third day Sam didn't climb in at all,
but the young Siamese did, and an old
er man in pale pink and green silks
and London helmet, and servant up
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-06-25
National Democratic Combustion

general, and he must know human nature so
thoroughly that he can select his assistants
and his doorkeepers with unerring Judgment
Colonel Martin possesses all of the qualifca-
lions OF a successful sergeant-at-arms. Since
he was young man he has been commander
of men. He has been grand marshal Of many
of the most noted parades in America, and
perhaps no other man in the United Staes
has had such wide experience in that line.
He is a veteran in convention work. and in
the Denver meeting he will have not less than
600 men and boys under his control.
Allotment of Seats
The allotment of seats to the delegates will
not be made until the day before the con-
vention opens. The selections will be made
by lottery drawing. The names Of the
different states territories and possessions will
be placed in box, and as they are drawn
they will be numbered consecutvely The
committee named for this purpose consists
of Norman E. Mack, R. M. Johnston and James
c. Dahlman, and they will be assisted by the
sergeant alarms. When the drawing is COM
pleted the seats for the different delegations
will be sold off, beginning at the center aisle
Of the sections reserved for the delegates AS
the requisite number of seats for each dele
cation are set aside the standard will be put
in place.
By this method the delegates do not know
in advance where they will be seated and
no favoritism is shown. However, all seats
are choice in the Denver auditorium, thanks
to the splendid arrangements made
Altenates will not be allotted seats in any
designated part of their section. They will be
permitted to take seats at will. The section
for aternates will be placed Immediately be-
hind-the delegates.
Tickets for the general public are in the
hands Of the printer, but they will not be Civ
Ell out for distribution until few days before
the convention opens. This action is taken
to prevent counterfeiting Each ticket will
entitle the holder to seat in a certain Sec
ton and admission to the convention hall
through a designated entrance. This system
precludes a mad rush of spectators for choice
seats and enables the ushers to do their work
without confusion.
When the convention opens Colonel Martin
will have 100 assistant sergeant-at- arms, 100
special officers 100 doorkeepers, 100 ushers,
100 pages and 100 messengers. This will be
his working force.
Assistants to Woodson.
Secretary Woodson will have eight or ten
assistants, and there will be two reading clerks
and several assistants While the secretary
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-06-25
e Five Cents.

is overseeing the routine I e. f his office,
Colonel Martin will be han ing the vast
crowds. Confusion will be reduced to mini
mum. The assistant sergeants-a at arms will be
everywhere, each assigned to special section
Special officers will be stationed at points
where their services can be commanded at
moments notice; ushers will be at hand to
conduct spectators to their seats, and messen-
gers will be at the beck and call of the del
egates and officers Of the convention.
Just inside Of the section reserved for the
newspaper correspondents will be the desk of
Colonel Martin. From this point Of vantage
his eyes can sweep over the entire building.
Any congestion or confusion at "a certain point
will come under his observation Immediately,
and snap Of his finger will bring an assist
ant to his side in an instant to be dispatched
to the scene.
One may wonder how Colonel Martin is
able to control so many assistants whose posi-
tons are merely honorary. 1t is necessary
only to say that every person who accepts
position as assistant is given to understand
that he is there for work, and as Colonel Mar
tin is careful in his selections, he experiences
little trouble in implanting realization of
duty in the minds Of all Of the men under
him. If they do not attend to their duties
properly they are not retained.
While there is no official distinction among
the assistant sergeants-at alarms so far as title
is concerned, Colonel Martin always selects
ten men as heutenants. They are not known
by this title, because Colonel Martin does not
believe in unnecessary titles or distinctions in
a democratic convention. However, these ten
men are chosen because Of their cool heads.
Judgment and their experience in handling
crowds, and they are near him through the
entire convention, ready at all times to carry
his orders to other assistants and special off
GERS
Superintendent of Doors.
An important official connected with the
convention is the superintendent Of doors He
has charge of the doorkeepers, but he reports
to the sergeant-at-arms. A short time be-
fore the beginning of each session of the
convention the doorkeepers are formed into
line and marched to their stations The men
are previously drilled and each day they fall
into line in different positions. They never
are marched to their stations twice in the
same formation, therefore it is an accident it
they are stationed at the same door twice In
succession during the convention. This sys-
tenn reduces to a minimum the possibility of
CONTINUED on Page Thirteen.)
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-06-25

Denver, Col, June 21.-(Special) when
the democratic national convention convenes
in Denver's auditorium at noon, July Z,
Colorado's capital city will have set stand
ard for national political conventions that will
not be easy for other cities in the United
States to reach in their efforts to handle i'm
portant gatherings Of this character. Further
more, the democratic national committee on ar
rangements and Sergeant at-Arms John l.
Martin have determined that a precedent shall
be established in handling the vast crowds that
daily will pour into the auditorium. In other
words, the Denver convention, in point Of de-
tails of arrangements, is intended to be a
model for subsequent democratic conventions.
Colonel Martin is delighted with the audito-
rum. He says it is the most complete con-
vention hall in the world. The seating ar
engagements for the delegates could not be i'm
proved, and every seat in the sections allotted
for delegates and alternates will be in plain
view of the platform and within plain hear
ing distance Of the chairman voice The
acoustic properties Of the big building will
be perfect, and spectators will be able to hear
all that is said at the sessions of the conven-
tion
sergeant ALARMS IN control.
The convention will be in complete control
OF the sergeant-at-arms, under the direction
Of the national committee on arrangements.
The details OF the arrangements for the con-
vention are in the hands of the national COM
mittee and a local committee of the Denver
convention league, known as the Denver COM
mittee democratic national convention.
The members Of thn national committee on
arrangements are Thomas Taggart, French
Lick, Indiana, chairman; Urey Woodson,
Owensboro KY secretary; Roger c. Sulli-
van, Chicago; James C. Dahlman, Omaha,
Neb.; Norman E. Mack, Buffalo, N. Y; R. NJ.
Johnston, Houston, Texas; John T. McGraw,
Grafton, W. Va; Clark Howell Atlanta, Ga;
John E. Osborne, Rawlins Wyoming.
The members Of the Denver committee are
Charles W. Franklin, chairman; w. f. r.
Mills, secretary; Mayor Robert w. Speer, c.
M. Day, Harry E. Insley Charles f. Wilson,
John F. Shafroth.
These committees are in the midst of their
hardest work, and no detail is being overlooked
to make the convention the most successful in
the history of the party.
The hardest work of the sergeant-at-arms is
to come. While he is a very busy man these
days. the work he is doing now is play COM
pared with the labors that will confront him
when the big meeting opens. A successful ser
geant-at-arms must possess the ability of
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-06-25
Assistants to Woodson.

Secretary Woodson will have eight or ten
assistants, and there will be two reading clerks
and several assistants. While the secretary
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03
Free for the Balance of 1908.

The Des Moines Daily Register and
Leader will be mailed to new subscri-
bers from now to Jan. 1, 1910 upon pay
ment of S400-thus allowing the bal
ance of 1908 free. Daily and Sunday to
Jan. 1, 1910, $500.
More money is expended by The Reg
lister and Leader for it's new service
than by any two other daily newspapers
in the state. Among it's great exclusive
features are: All Iowa News Service,
"Ding's" Cartoons, Complete Market
Page with special report of Chicago live
stock market, including representative
sales, and strong, fearless editorial
page.
Everywhere in Iowa and on almost all
rural mail routes The Register and
Leader is delivered on the same day
it is printed. Subscribe with the pub
Usher of this newspaper, any postmaster
or newsdealer or remit direct to.
THE REGISTER AND LEADER Co.,
Des Moines, Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03
TAFT AND TARIFF REVISION.

it would be interesting to know
whether it will be the clique headed by
Cannon and differed by Payne, Aldrich,
Burrows, Mccall and Dalzell, or if it
will be William Howard Taft who will
carry into effect the solemn promise of
the republican party to revise the tariff.
From statements already made by Can
non and Payne, it is very plain that
their ideas of revision are not in accord
with the popular Interpretation of the
promises made by the party, both in its
platform and through it's candidate for
the presidency. It, must be understood
that the revision, adjustment, and cor
rection of the tariff schedules will take
account CT the unprotected condition OF
some of the few articles of domestic
production. but the demand, republican
as well as democratic, for revision, had
no foundation in such oversights if
there are any of them. From every
side has come the nonpartisan demand
for the repeal of the extravagant Ding
ley schedules, which may or may not
have fitted the condition that existed at
the time of the enactment of the law
Be that as it may, business conditions
of the country have changed, more since
1897 than in any century of the nations
existence, and Dingleyism was dead six
years ago.
The people will most likely look tc
Mr.. Taft for tariff revision, for it was
one of his most solemn promises and he
as the nominal head of the republican
party with decided majority in both
houses which should be subject to his
command, must be looked to to carry
out the promises made.
But then, this is all idle speculation
as there will be no tariff revision. 1t is
just as we'll for the people to make ur
their minds to this fact and drop the
matter as it stands. Joe Cannon will
never allow tariff revision downward
while he is speaker, and he is just the
same as filling that important position
now
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03
THE STATES MAGAZINE.
New Northwestern Literary Publ.
cation Issues in December.

The northwest is to have new maya
zine-one of general character-a liter
airy magazine-a magazine of life. Its
initial number will issue in December.
Announcement has just been made Of
the States Magazine, with it's home in
the Twin Cities, and principal Office of
business in New York Life building,
Minneapolis.
The Estates will be devoted to the
interest of the northwest. 1t will con-
tain strong public spirited articles,
editorials, interesting and wholesome
fiction and pertinent and timely depart
ments of fashions, the household, farm,
etc.
The contributors will be men and wo-
men whose ability is recognized in local
and national circles. The character of
the articles will be determined by the
vital interest they sustain to the peo-
pie of the northwest as whole.
The editorial section will be in the
hands of one of the most brilliant men
in the northwest-Professo Richard
Watson Cooper, of the department. of
English literature, Hardine University
"a man whose opinions will be instruc-
tive and far-reaching in their charac-
ter.
The publishers, in their announce
ment will say in part: "The States
Magazine, an American thing, will natu-
rally be an expression of American life
by American men and women, and
frankly aims to stimulate that life into
a more joyous, beautiful, saner, deeper
expression of itself. We need offer no
apologies for using local talent when
we find it beside us or speaking of local
matters when they have human inter.
est in them. We dare be local without
being provincial SO long as we sit upon
the earth with the universe about u.s.
Those who believe in the greatness Of
or are interested in the northwest
should not fail to secure a copy OF the
States for December and to follow il
thereafter from month to month. Sub
scription price will be $3.50 per year
single copy 15c.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03
FLOWERS FOR CONGRESSMAN
JAMESON.
Shenandoah Friends Present Him
With Beautiful Bouquet at Joint
Session of Legislature on
Tuesday Afternoon of
Last Week.

One of the very pleasing incidents in
connection with the special session of
the general assembly at Des Moines on
last Tuesday, was the presentation to
Senator Jameson by his Shenandoah
friends, of an immense bouquet of
beautiful red carnations. 1t was dur
ing the first joint session of the House
and it was just after Governor Cummins
had been elected United States senator.
The house chamber was crowded to it's
utmost capacity with several people.
The chairman had just appointed COM
mittee to go down to the governors
Office and notify him that he had been
elected senator, and the immense
throng of people were waiting for the
return of this committee when the Gus
todian of the capitol building, Mr.. Nc
Curdy, came edging his way through
the crowd at the door, and on down
through the house chamber, carrying
this immense bouquet. 1t attracted the
attention of every eye in the house
chamber and at first everybody won
dered who was to be the recipient,
but they quickly recognized the oc-
casion when they saw Mr.. McCurdy
going straight to Senator Jamieson's
desk and it was recognized that
these flowers were sent to him be-
cause of his remarkable victory in
being elected to congress in the eighth
district over Col. Hepburn. AS soon as
the flowers were placed on his desk,
everyone of that vast throng gave a
hearty and a very noisy round of APP
plause until the room rang with the
evidences of good spirit which every
one present felt. A number of Senator
Jamieson's Shenandoah friends were
present and in common with the other
friends who were there, they were high
ly gratifed that the people at that
memorable session of the Legislature
gave such a hearty recognition of Sena.
tor Jameson and the wonderful feat
that he accomplished.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03

per cent or more OF the total vote cast
in the last preceding general election.
The prohibitionists and socialists ap-
pear to have cast less than 2 per cent of
the total vote cast in Iowa on Nov. 3.
The legislature in January canvasses
the vote for governor and lieutenant
governor, and the exact vote cast for
those officers by the two minor parties
is not known yet.
The total vote in Iowa for president
was 494,760.
The prohibitionists cast 1887 for
president, or So less than 2 per cent.
They cast 1854 for secretary Of state or
1,211 less than 2 per cent.
The socialists cast S,2S7 for president,
or So less than 2 per cent. They cast
1854 for secretary of state, or 1,211 less
than two per cent.
1t is supposed that neither party cast
for governor and that is the vote de-
scribed by the primary law-many more
votes than we're cast for the remainder
of the state ticket. The parties ran
along about the same on the state
tickets, the candidates for president of
each securing more votes than any
other candidate on the ticket.
If it turns out that the minor parties
are excluded from participation in the
primary of June, 1910, it will save con-
siderable expense. The addition of the
candidates of these two parties simply
doubled some of the bills.
| Some of the members of the minor
parties are inclined to believe that a
liberal construction of the law will per-
NIT the parties to go into the primary
The language of the law is: ''The title
political party, shall mean party
which, at the last preceding general
election, cast for the candidate for gov
ernor at least per centum of the total
vote cast at said election.
This, some say, means that the 2 pei
cent shall be computed on the total
vote for governor and not the total vote
for president.
If this contention were sustained, the
minor parties would get into the pri
mary, possibly, although this rule ap
piled to the Office of secretary Of state
would not do so. The prohibitionists
would fall 6O4 short and the socialists
1000.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03
Marked For Death.

''Three years ago was marked for
death. A graveyard cough was tearing
my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed to
help me, and hope had fled, my husband
got DR.. Kings New Discovery" says
Mrs. A. G. Williams, of BAG, Ky. "The
first dose helped me and improvement
kept on until had gained So pounds in
weight and my health was fully restor-
ed," This medicine holds the worlds
healing record for coughs and colds and
lung and throat diseases. 1t prevents
pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at L.
P. Van Werden's drug store. SOC and
$1.00. Trial bottle free.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03
ONLY TWO PARTIES AT NEXT
PRIMARY.

Only two parties, the republican and
the democratic, will participate in the
next primary election in Iowa, in June,
1910.
At least that is the Indication from
the votes cast at the general election
for president and the state officers.
Under the primary law political
party entitled to participate in the pri-
mary election of candidates for office is
defined to be an organization which
cast for it's candidate for governor 2
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03
Mrs. McRaney's Experience.

Mrs. Mckinney, Prentiss. Miss, writes:
81 was confined to my bed for three
months with kidney and bladder trouble
and was treated by two physicians but
failed to get relief. No human tongue
can tell how / suffered, and l had given
up hope of ever getting we'll until
began taking Foley's Kidney Remedy
After taking two BOTTLES ! felt like q
new person, and feel it my duty to tel
suffering women what Foley's Kidney
Remedy did for me-" Bell & Robinson
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03

Foley's Orino Laxative cures chronic
constipation and stimulates the liver.
Orino regulates the bowels SO they will
act naturally and you do not have to
take purgatives continuously. Bell &
Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03

When duty calls from ease it always
will be found easier to obey than to re-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03

Itch cured in 80 minutes by woolfords Sanitary
Lotion. Never fails. Sold by W. A. Alexander
Druggist. ;5
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-03

Truth rests on facts, but her face
reaches higher realms.