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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
MEETS AT CHICAGO
Details of Proceedings Of the National
Gathering in the Coliseum.
SENATOR BURROWS SOUNDS KEYNOTE

the chairman, Secretary Malloy adj
vanced to the front and read the call
for the convention. At the conclri=
sion of the reading Of the cali there
was some applause. Chairman New
announced that the National Commit
tee had recommended Senator J.. @,
Burrows, OF Michigan. for temporary
chairman. A cheer came from the
Michigan delegation, in the midst of
which Chairman New recognized Rep
resentative M. E. Olmsted, of PENN
sylvania, who moved that the rec
ommendation Of the committee be
adopted. John w. Blodgett, chair
man OF the Michigan delegation, sec
onded the motion, and it was unani-
mously adopted.
Senator Burrows was warmly re-
ceived as he stepped to the front of
the platform extension arranged for
the speakers. He bowed his acknowl-
edgments and began his keynote adj
dress at just 1924 p. m.
When Chairman Burrows spoke of
Theodore Roosevelt the convention
broke into a demonstration. Several
of the delegates jumped upon chairs
and waved their hats, calling upon
OC1SIo " W lSG. NOFCQ caro-
lima, Texas, West Virginia and Ala
bama led the cheering, while the ap-
plause was general on floor and in
balcony.
At Fairbanks name there was a
round of applause.
The mention of Elihu Root as "that
matehless Secretary of State" brought
the New Workers to their feet with
cheers and waving flags and handker-
chiefs.
Senator Burrows comment on
craftsmanship of navy brought out
the first shrill cheering.
In discussing the work of the De-
partment of Justice, Chairman Bur-
rows interpolated in his speech a
ringing declaration to the effect that
the Republican party was not in SYM
pathy with that spirit which would
divest the courts of their constitu-
tional powers, or impeach their
judges.
This evoked the loudest cheering
of the day.
After giving a rapid summary of
Il foreign relations of recent years
and of the achievements of the State
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four sides of the building, and it is
here that the bulk of the spectators
sit.
The speakers platform has been
built out into the auditorium almost
a third of the way from the east end.
When the orators of the occasion
make their remarks they stand al
most a third of the way down the
hall. A little stairway runs straight
up from the floor of the Coliseum to
the speakers platform
One fact which most of the old
timers remarked with interest was
that not a picture of any one was on
exhibition in the decorations.
The seats of the delegates from the
different States were indicated by
white placards stuck aloft on iron
rods. Ohio, the home, of Taft, and
Indiana, the home of Fairbanks, had
the posts directly before the stand.
A band, skied near the ceiling on
the wall facing the speakers stand.
began playing early and about 11.3O
aroused the first enthusiasm of the
occasion with some patriotic airs that
brought all to their feet amid cheers.
Both Dixie" and Three Cheers For
the Red, White and Blue" got a rous-
ing reception.
By IL O'Clock the galleries were
filled and the floor was rapidly be-
coming populated. A buzz of onver-
sation came from the vast crowd that
had gathered, and cheers broke out
on any excuse. Something Of the
thrill that always gets into the ma
tional political convention, however
cut and dried, took possession of the
crowd.
The Ohio delegates, the last to en-
ter, filed to their seats at 1915 D. M.
led by Ex-Governor Herrick, Charles
P. Taft and Arthur L. Vorys. They
bore a large blue satin Taft banner
and excited great cheering. 1t took
two minutes to secure quiet.
There was little delay and con-
fusion in seating the delegates and
spectators, and a. 1918, the time
that National Chairman New raped
for order, almost every one of the
1880 seats of the hall was occupied
Chairman New made his opening
speech very brief. His mention of the
name of President Roosevelt was
greeted with an outburst of cheers
which, however, continued but for a
few seconds. The chairman then in
troduced Bishop Muldoon, of Chicago,
who recited the Lords prayer.
Following an announcement from
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General Demand

of the Well-Informed of the World haA
always been for a simple, pleasant ane
efficient liquid laxative remedy Of known
value; a laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because it's com
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial IN effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with it's ex.
oellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir Of SIENNA, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits Of the laxative for it's remark.
able success.
That is n Of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is given
the preference by the Informed.
To get it's beneficial effects always buy
the genuine-manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co, only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
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Department, Senator Burrows said
the browning act in this drama was
that in which the President himself
took the initiative, halted the armies
OF Russia and Japan, bringing about
an honorable peace.
Senator Burrows "cut" his speech
toward the end, but it was amply
adequate to satisfy his hearers. They
gave him a ringing cheer as he con
cluded.
AS Senator Burrows delivered his
speech, in front of him was an instru-
ment which conveyed it's words and
tones to President Roosevelt in the
White House.
The remainder of the days bust
ness was completed without delay.
The call of the delegates for their
representatives on committees, in
Guiding credentials, resolutions, rules
and permanent organizations, led to
Senator Lodge moving that the call
be dispensed with.
Senator H. A. dI Pont, of Della
ware, had the honor of moving that
the convention adjourn for the day.
The motion was carried with en-
thusiasm, and the delegates began to
file out at exactly 2 p. m.
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1.-TWO
A Teachers Experience.

my friends call me The Postum
Preacher" writes a MINI. school
teacher, because I preach the gospel
OF Postum everywhere l go, and have
been the means of liberating many
'coffee-pot slaves
Il don't care what they call me SO
long as l can help others to see what
they lose by sticking to coffee, and
can show them the way to steady
nerves, clear brain and general good
health by using Postum.
While a school girl l drank coffee
and had fits of trembling and went
through a siege of nervous prostra-
ton, which took me three years to
rally from.
Mother coaxed me to use Postum,
but l thought coffee would give me
strength. So things went, and when
l married l found my husband and I
were both coffee topers and l can
s~ympathize with a drunkard who
tries to leave off his cups.
"At last In sheer desperation, |
bought a package of Postum, fol-
lowed directions about boiling it,
served it with good cream, and asked
my husband how he liked the coffee.
we each drank three cups apiece,
and what a satisfied feeling it left.
Our conversion has lasted several
years and will continue as long as
we live, for it has made us new
nerves are steady, appetites good.
sleep sound and refreshing"
There's a Reason" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read 1.-The Road to Wellyille." in
pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
u appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
Interest.
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Can Plants

Yes; respiration in plants is a sci
entifically established fact. All the
parts of the plant breathe, and chem.
ically this process differs in nothing
from animal respiration. Until recent
times it was supposed that the secre-
ton of oxygen in the assimilation of
carbonic acid was the only process of
this kind taking place in plants. To
day we know that plants, in the same
way as animal organisms, assimilate
oxygen and exhale a like volume OF
carbonic acid. By day, when assimi-
lation and respiration proceed stimuli
taneously, it is difficult to establish
the process. By night, however,
when assimilation is interrupted, the
exhalation of carbonic acid become
perceptible. An everyday proof of
this phenomenon is furnished by the
corruption of the air due to the pres
ence of plants in sleeping rooms. The
reason of this corruption of the air is
only and solely the fact that breath
ing plants, even like human beings,
exhale carbonic acid.-New York
Tribune.
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The Labor World.

Nurses at the Toronto (Canada)
General Hospital have asked for an
eight-hour day.
Oklahoma has passed a law
er1ng the State Labor Commission to
fix wages in all industries.
Massachusetts State Council of
wood, wire and metal lathers' unions
has been permanently formed.
Over eighty national and i~nterna-
tlonal unions of laborars and farmers
have decided on a plan of political
action to protect the interests of
w-age-earners.
There is a movement to organize
all the unskilled workingmen of Mon
treal, Can, into a big federation.
The Governor of Porto Rico has
recommended to the Legislature a.
law creating a labor bureau on the
island.
A girl of sixteen years appeared
before the Central Labor Union, in
New York City, and pleaded the cause
of a striking union in need of assist
ance.
Fifty years ago the wages of en-
gineers and artisans in England was
only twelve cents an hour; now cas-
ual laborers can demand and get four
teen cents an hour.
Steubenville (Ohio) Trades and
Labor Assembly is trying to get a
labor paper started in the interests
of the workers.
The New York Legislature of 1908
enacted ten of the bills proposed by
the Workingmen's Federation of the
State of New York.
Wages of iron and steel workmen
in the northern and northeast British
districts have been reduced two and
one-half to five per cent.
Boston walters and other unions
are making an effort to have the IL
cense commissioners make a rule that
women a not be employed to serve
liquor In any licensed place in the
n1TV
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rare occasions when he was tempted
into inter-clasS combat was upon a
day when the '78 men were in danger
of being beaten in a tug-of-war. Mr..
Taft stood it as long as he could.
Then throwing off his coat, he seized
the end of the rope, settled himself
firmly, and said: "Now let the whole
junior class get on the other end. "
rs won.
Mr.. Taft was graduated from Yale
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
He stood second in a class of 121, and
was the salutatorian and class orator.
When he was graduated from the
Cincinnati Law School in 1880 he di-
yided first prize. Judge Taft was not
a wealthy man, and William, his edu-
cation finished, became entirely the
architect of his own fortunes. He
was admitted to the bar in 1880.
Then he tried his hand at newspaper
work on the Cincinnati Times and the
Cincinnati Commercial. He was APP
pointed Assistant Prosecuting Attor-
ney in Cincinnati in 1881.
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A Missouri Delicacx.
"Craw-w-w Dads? Craw Dads?
"Am a red hoS. CraW Dads?"

"Craw-w-w Dads? Craw Dads?
Am a red hot. Craw Dads?"
The colored man was selling them
as fast as he could hand them out,
because the lovers of crawfish were
hungry for them, as the six months
disappearance of them was certainly
a long time. The yell is very famil-
lar to the Kansas Cityan, but a
stranger from little cities would say:
What in the world is that crazy
man yelling about?" In fact, Kan
sas City is the only town in the cen
trail part of the United States that
has c%rawdads sold on the street. In
the seaboard cities crabs or Holsters
are sold in little stores, but they are
not sold on the streets ready for eat
ing. The fish is found in all small
streams of the Central States. There
are many colored families in Kansas
City that depend on the sales of craw-
dads in the summer for support
Kansas City Journal.
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Jim Mcclure has the Bostons hust

Jim Mcclure has the Bostons hust-
ling until the last man is out.
Commodore Morss' schooner yacht
Dervish won the race to Bermuda in
her class.
Manager Monte Cross, of Kansas
City, is trying hard to secure pitcher
Pruitt from Boston.
AT least four times this season the
New York Nationals, New York
Americans, Brooklyns, Newarks and
Jersey Citys have all been beaten on
on the same day.
Fred Clarke has been in the Ma
tional League for fifteen years and
has not lost a bit of his class.
The Chicago Cubs are considerably
crippled. Howard, Evers, Sheckard
and Zimmerman are on the hospital
list.
Outfielder Denny Sullivan, of Bos-
ton, is grace ~personified in the out
field. Most difficult catches are made
to look extremely easy by the fleet
Red Stocking.
1t is for keen regret that an
English lawn tennis team will not
come to this country to play off the
preliminary ties for the Davis Cup
competition in Australia.
The motor boat Irene III. reached
Bermuda about four hours too late
to win her race with the Ailsa Craig
on time allowance.
Rules formulated by the Automo-
bile Club of America for the new In
~ternational Grand Prize Race at Sa-
vannah on Thanksgiving Day, reflect
the clubs intention to reassume con-
troll of automobile racing.
Despite the genera. impression 20
the contrary, bicycle racing is by no
means a thing of the past. This wear
has witnessed a big revival in the
sport and track managers throughout
the country are looking forward to q
prosperous season.
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Convention Hall, Chicago.-The
fourteenth Republican National Con-
vention was called to order by Harry
S. New, chairman of the National
Committee, amid enthusiasm as great
as ever see in such a Republican
gathering.
When the delegates, alternates and
spectators arrived on the scene they
found the big bare interior of the
Coliseum festooned with flags and
bunting. Clumns of American flags
fitted forth from each curving beam
of the side wall and the lines of red,
white and blue were caught up by
festoons of bunting and borne clear
around the building. Gilt stars and
shields punctuated the bunting here
and there. A gallery runs around all
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assumed responsibilities far weightier
than any with whichnh he had before
COPIED. He won invariably, and tri-
umphed for the Ueited States in the
most important actions of the Harri-
son Administration, one of them be-
ing the sea fisheries case, precipitated
by the capture of a Canadian schooner
by an American revenue cutter.
When he vas thirty-five, Mr.. Taft,
whose absorbing ambition always has
been a seat on the Supreme Bench,
resigned to become United States Cir
cult Judge for the famous Sixth Ju-
dicial Circuit, including Michigan,
Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. For
eight years he was presiding Judge.
1t was to Judge Taft that President
Mckinley appealed when borne down
by the ~perplexities of the Philippine
problem. Judge Taft was reluctant
to quit the bench to head the Philip
pine Commission, but he consented.
No mar was ever beset by more
v%exatious, brain-wearing questions, or
a greater multiplicity of them in all
r~amifications of Investigation, than
was Mr.. Taft in the Philippines.
When the troublesome question Of the
disposal of the friars' land and other
matters of moment had been settled,
Mr.. Taft, so that he might still carry
on his work for the islands, accepted
the post of Secretary of War in
1903.
1t was Mr.. Taft whom the President
dispatched to the rescue of the Cuban
Republic in 1906 when the islands
political destinies were threatened
by a revolution. For a time he was
Provisional Governor. Responsibility
for the Panama Canal also has been
placed upon him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taft have three chill
dren, Robert Alphonso, born in 1889;
Helen Heron, born in 1891, and
Charles Phelps, born in 1897. Mr..
Taft is fond of out of door life, but
finds sparse opportunity to indulge
himself in that direction. He COLTS
enthusiastically when at his summer
home at Murray Bay, Canada. He
belongs to the American Bar Associa-
tion, the National Geographic Society,
the Red Cross Society, of which he is
president; the Metropolitan Club, the
Chevy Chase Club and the Cosmos
Club, and is president of the Uni
versity Club of Washington. He is
also a trustee of the $1,000 900 fund
~bequeather by Miss Jeanes, of Phila-
delphia, for the education of negroes
in the South.
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INvALID's SAD PLIGHT.
After Inflammatory Rheumatism,
Hair Came Out, Skin Peeled, and
Bed Sores Developed - Only
Cuticura Proved Successful.

About four years ago l had a very Sc
we're attack Of inflammatory rheumatism.
My skin peeled, and the high fever played
havoc with my hair, which came cut in
lunches. / also had three large bed sores
on my back. ] did not gain very rapidly,
and my appetite was very poor. I tried
many sure cures but they were of little
help, and until l tried Cuticura Resolvent
/ had had no real relief. Then my COM
plexion cleared and soon I felt better. The
bed sores went very soon after a few appli-
cations of Cuticura Ointment, and when ]
used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for my
hair, it began to regain its former glossy
appearance. Mrs. Lavina j. Henderson,
1873 Broad St., Stamford, Conn, March 8
and u, 1907"
Our leading physician recommends Cuti-
cura for eczema. Mrs. Algy Cockburn,
Shiloh, o., June IL, 1907"
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A Convention Discrepancy.

Chicago.-Some people have won
dered why it is that there are 1902
delegates for the Denver convention
and only 992 at the Chicago conven-
lion, since the representation in both
IS based upon the representation of
The various States in Congress. The
explanation is found in the fact that
the Democrats allowed six delegates
a to the District of Columbia, Ha-
a and Porto Rico, to which the
Republicans allowed only two dele
gates each, while the Republicans al
lowed two delegates to the Philip
pines, which will not be represented
at all in the Democratic Convention.
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Gleanings from the World of Sport.

ne VVOHao OA SPOFCe
There is nothing the matter with
three-fingered Brown this season.
The Boston Club has loaned out
fielder Jimmy McHale to the Toronto
Club.
Pitcher Charles Smith, of Wash
ington, has been pitching right along
and pitching very well-with a
very lame arm.
Detroit is well equipped with out.
fielders. Few teams have a quartet
as formidable as Mcintyre, Crawford.
Cobb and Davy Jones.
tombstone, WEIGH, Fogarty, Nc
Aleer and Lange. Where are their
equals as outielders to be found now
adays?
Wilson, Of the Pittsburgs, has
something of a whip. He can fire the
ball from right over to third in fine
style.
Jimmy McAleer's inield is the
fastest he has had since he managed
the Browns. Ferris and Williams are
playing the best ball of their careers.
Dode Criss, of the St. Louis
Browns, is a reliable mar in pinches.
MOSI VI LIS HIS nave D0on made
when he was sent to the plate to club
for another.
In this country the men will not
play their amateur golf championship
until September at Garden City, MOI
the women until a month later at
Chevy Chase.
Unless the State Racing Commits
sion will withdraw the order com.
Polling the race tracks in Kentucky
to distribute $4,000 in purses La
tomas racing meeting will have to be
discontinued.
J.. Martin, of Brooklyn, is this
years winner of the New York City
Cup offered for the best amateurs
total average in the annual shoot OF
the New York State Sportsman's AS.
tsociation, at Elmira.
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At the solicitation of friends, and
to settle a factional fight, Mr.. Taft
accepted from President Arthur the
appointment of Internal Revenue Col
lector for the First District of Ohio.
The post was uncongenial, and he re-
signed after a few months to practice
law. He married, in 1885, Miss
Helen Heron, of Cincinnati, daughter
OF John w. Heron, former United
States District Attorney, and law
partner of President Rutherford B.
Hayes. He was assistant county So
iicitor for a time. Governor Foraker.
in 1887, placed him upon the bench
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Sketch of the Career of
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Measured by years William Howard
Tar is only fifty. Conservative1y es-
timated by the scale of accomplish
ment he is fully twice that age. Few
men of fifty, even in these days of
rapid development, when success
largely is gagged by the winning of
dollars, have to their credit the deeds
OF important achievement set down
to the score of the Secretary of War.
Mr.. Taft was t%wenty-four years old
when he entered the public service,
as assistant prosecuting attorney in
Cincinnati. He was on the bench of
the Superior Court at thirty, appoint
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RoosEvELT's BAN ON DOGS.
Orders Stray Ones MuzzIed For the
Next Sixty Days.

Washington, D. C. - President
Roosevelt directed the District Com
missioners to take steps to have all
stray dogs" in Washington muzzled
for the next sixty days.
This recommendation, which was
al once complied with, was made with
a view to checking the epidemic of
rabies now prevailing here, as indi-
Gated in a report from the Bureau of
Animal Industry, Department of Ag-
r~lcuiture, made public Monday.
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Twenty Dollars Per Acre Cash Rent.

Twenty Dollars Per Acre Cash Rent.
The Japanese in the beet fields of
Oregon seem to be making a consid-
cradle success in the culture there.
In the vicinity of Nampa, which lies
over the border in Idaho, some 1000
acres are in cultivation in beets, and
are estimated to yield twenty tons to
the acre. To cultivate these lands
the Japanese laborers are the main
dependence, although some Ameri-
cans and Hollanders are employed.
The work is generally done by con-
tract and the price paid for planting.
thinning, ~cultivating, topping and
loading the beets into wagons is put
at $40 per acre. Some of the Japan
csc prefer to rent the ground rather
than to even take these contracts, and
are paying $40 per acre cash rent
and paying the water tax in addition
to the rental. This looks like a very
high rental for lands, but we pre-
sumo that the shrewd Japanese know
what they are doing and think they
can make money out of it. If the
sugar planters of Louisiana could
get any such rents for their cane
lands, they would go out of the bust
ness and turn it all over to such rent
ers.-Louisiana Planter.
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lettings About Sports.

Pittsburg admirers have presented
hrst baseman Jimmy Kane with a
gold watch.
Manager McGraw, of the Giants, is
trying out Jack McKeon, a young
Brooklyn catcher.
That man Wilson, of the Pitts
ourgs, is one of the best throwing out
helders in the business.
Ty Cobb is playing, although badly
bruised and sore all over. He says
nothing but a broken leg can keep
him out of the game.
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Seventy Times Seven.

From a Paris paper we take tn.
following conversation in a police
court:
The President-'It appears from
your record that you have been thir-
ty-seven times previously convicted"
The Prisoner (sententiously)-
MAR is not perfect Home Herald,
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of the Superior Court, and in the fol-
lowing year he was elected for a full
five year term. President Harrison
offered him the post of Solicitor Gen.
eral of the United States in 1890, and
he accepted, although he had not been
an applicant. In this field Mr.. Taft
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Earthworms That Plant Forests.

That earthworms as we'll as squir-
rels may aid the forester is the novel
suggestion of an American naturalist.
Dry maple seeds are drawn into worm
burrows, where they sprout, and it is
believed that some Of them must sur
viye in favorably moist seasons.
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MY rest vas broken by a Troublesome
weakness and the seererions seemeu
to burn like acid. i was in an awiui
condition and doctors did MOI seem
to help. Doaffk Kidney Pills nene-
ited me from TIN first n soon mau
me a strong and healthy woman
For sale by all !ealers, ~ s y
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