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Watson is Notified.

Atlanta, Ga-Thomas +. Watson
was formally notified of his nomina-
ton for president by the Populists Of
the United States at a mass meeting
Thursday night.
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Forest Fires in the Adlrondaeks.

Utica. n. Y. July 13.--Scrious forest
fires are reported In the Adirondacks
and along the Mohawk and Malon
railroad. and unless rain fans In the
next few hours the loss nill be
enormous.
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Died After Having IS Teeth Extracted

Williamspcrf. Pa. July 13.-Dr. w
w. Fletcher. leading physician OF
this city. died Sunday morning after
having 10 teeth drawn. The end Wal
primarily. the doctors say. due to the
Fact thai he had acute diabetes.
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aprxsv conventIon pa.e.

Columbus. O.--The national PrVhi-
bition part. Is to hold its national
convention In Columbus at the Memo
rial hall July Is and l6.
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'''' Berea College 1905
FOR THE ASPIRING YOUNG PEG
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Places the BEST EDUCATION in reach of all
Over go instructors, IT'S students from u
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Largest college library in Kentucky NO SALOONS.

special teacher for each grade and for each main subject
So classes that each student be placed with others Ike
himself, where he make rapid progress.
Which Department Will You Enter?
Evening star., 1908-06-13
&wH
Well Put.

ltTHE late Walter A Wyckon. the
tramp professor of Princeton"
said a magazine editor. had. in his
tramping days. many quaint experience.
He was talking TO me one night about
political economy. He wanted TO prove
that I was wrong ii my claim that labor
saving inventions robbed poor men of
work. He said. at the arguments end.
that he reminded OF conversation
he overheard in 1860 on a tramp in Penn
sylvania
They were digging. ne began. filter
beds on the outskirts of Philadelphia
with a steam shovel. The wonderful
shovel. whistlng and grunting. would
dart into the earth. jerk out again. and
swing up nlerrily toward the waiting car.
loaded with ton of dirt.
Two la5orers stood beside Wyckoff.
They watched the quick and tireless
shovel scooping up and dumping into the
car Il ton of earth at lick. Finally the
younger laborer said with an oath:
Amt il a shame. George, TO shovel
dirt that way?
How so? said George the older la
borer.
why. that there machine is takin'
the bread out of the mouths of 800 men
Evening star., 1908-06-13

They take endless lessons from the
pundits. who meet at their splendid din
ners rich folks who will order very high
priced portraits. politicians who will pro-
cur. them all sorts of useful favors.
So these ladies' "croutes' also, must
be admitted to the salon They harm
no good artist No one buys them
They are not for sale. even.
Who is hurt by their admission? Who
is even hurt by seventeen-inch waist rib
bon cases and their like? Evidently the
overplus-the paintings, .shaky as to merit.
that the jury let in nevertheless on first
voting. beyond the permitted LOO.
Americans Lucky Inspiration.
The whole art of getting into the Paris
salon resolves itself. therefore. into not
being of the overplus.
know an American who seemed to do
it on lucky inspiration. He arrived in
Paris just five days before the closing of
salon entries.
One day he spent dreaming. In the four
remaining he put the dream on his can
vas. (This Is quite importantly He push
ed it himself in cart to the Grand Pal
ais. 1t was hung on the line. received
second-class prize and was sold for $500
to French collector
But wait. At fourteen the boy had won
Chicago newspaper prize fer the best
amateur drawing of American country
Evening star., 1908-06-13

times newcomers seem to overlook X.
The French pundits-even those OF the
new salon-have their ideas as to paint
Ing. The sure way TO gain their favor is
10 win their admiration.
Now and then IL can be done by show
ing them different way to paint. The
choice is noble. but extremely risky.
Certain Spaniaris. ike Sorolla and Zu-
leaga, have arrived at il. Certain Its lians.
now old-timers. La Gandara acd Boldini.
got there. And the great American
Whistler even carried many of them part
ways with him,
Nevertheless. they could but scratch the
surface of French painting. How should
IT be otherwise in France, BeTide them
hftN-nine 1talians-liviag at this moment
have shown in his one o.d salon paint
ing that the pundits could admire and
Understand imme diately. with the resul.
tina: these fifty-nine italians now ho,d
salor ne'a's. honorable mentions
So fer ffty-two Spaniards. $50 Amer
cans and great aggregates Of painters
from all countries, frcm Finland 10 AEs-
to Turkey. In ALL 900 foreign ia M RS
Eold such salon priz,s and honorabl,
mention. while Of the Americans forty
two are "holS coacours." like lam r.
Ninety-Four American Exhibitors.
This year, counting th-ougl the cata-
lcgue. ninety-foUr Americans. seventy
men and twenty-four women. have had
their paintings alone. not counting mar
bles, designs. cartoons. architecture. en-
craving and TYPOGRAPHY ard decorative
arts into the salon. the old. in direct SELL
ing competition with French medal seek
and prize winners.
What admission to the salon means qua
money is enormous Last week l saw an
example. A young member of the Ameri-
can Art Club painted nice landscape
He desired TO send il to the salon but,
hard up. agreed TO sell it for a wretchad
$50 to rich American society woman
snooping through the studios In search OF
bargains.
But the rich American lady was too
grasping.
Spreading so in gold before the poor
student she inSistea he throw in three,
small studies. ideas for the future, things
that cost him labor.
The poor student from America forgot
that he was poor. His gorge "ose. he
turned her down. sent the landscape to
tn. salon, and II was accepted.
asst week. while il stilI hu-c on the
salon wall, he sold il to Frenchman for
$500. STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1908-06-13

work is. They would be ashamed to
pass it.
Eefore other paintings not a single cane
Is lifted. Again. there is no doubt pos
si5le: Some paintings are too bad.
This is the first rough sorting.
The painting jury has the right to ad-
init each year. 1.1CO pictures by men
who are not "hors concours''-who have
not received a second-class medal or two
lesser ones considered an equivalent
Such get their works in by right
Voting Out the Overplus.
Suppose that the jury has raised canes
ana umbrellas for. say, 1910 paintings? d?
1t must go back and vote out the over
plus.
If there is possible injustice 1t must
be here.
Suppose that my friends rejected salon
painting had been first accepted in that
overplus? 1 refer to the man and wife
and travelling scholarship permitting hap
py residence in France and Italy.
Suppose that the seventeen-inch waist
ribbon had been let in this same year?
Then. If you suppose that the peachs
portrait was worse daub than my
friends. you have what looks at first
glance like injustice.
And there is more of the same kind .
Wives of financiers and statesmen paint
and sculp. They have splendid studios.
Evening star., 1908-06-13

mental for making people merry; there
fore it is both vocal and instrumental"
he said. eff all would whistle church
songs and hymns instead of the common
songs of the street, incalcula BILE good
would ensue. To bring about this good
the Whistling League has been formed.
"'The church is in need always Of prac-
tical means for bringing good to pass. 1t
needs whist,ing leagues. college Settle
ments. childrens country week associa-
tons
Here DR.. Boswell smiled.
THAT reminds me-" he said. II visit
ed one evening last summer farm where
a little slum child. country weeker was
enjoying his first glimpse of pastoral life
''The setting sun glded the grass and
flowers of tie old-fashioned garden and
on a little stool he sat. under a tree bent
with it's load of ripe peaches. beside the
cook. who was plucking a chicken.
He watched that plucking operation
gravely for some time. Then he said:
DO ye take off their Clothes every
night, loidy?'"
Evening star., 1908-06-13

on me are due to my exalted Office, not to
my humble self
Several young ladies cried excitedly:
NO. no."
But yes" said the ambassador, smiling.
IL IS my Office. il is not l, that gains and
merits your consideration. Yet this is d
morttfying truth of d kind that all of us
Ambassadors or no-are apt to forget.
May such a truth never be recalled to our
memory with the harsh shock that
But listen.
The other day a Rhode Island farmer
won blue ribbon at a Woonsocket stock
snow with a fat hog-a 1,2J0-pound hog.
Get my name right. he said excited
~ TO the reporters. with their pencils and
yellow paper. who crowded round him at
awarding time. Get my name right, boys
It's Hiram Y. Doolitte. Son of the late
Gen Augustus Anderson DOolittle Of St
Joseph. who settled in Rhode Island in
the year
Oh. never mind all that the oldest
reporter interrupted. Give us the pedi-
gree of the hog"
Evening star., 1908-06-13
His First Bath.

wv. c. PHILIPS of the Association for
w Improving the Condition of the Poor
said recently in New York that among
infants artificially fed fifteen times more
died than among those fed naturally.
I'VE will learn in the eEd to live cor
rectly." said Mr. Philips. LAS things
stand now We are not much wiser in oar
way of living than an immigrant of whom
/ heard the other day.
This immigrant. Magyar. vas ar
rested for stealing bottle of whisky.
At the station house the sergeant said to
him, pointing toward a tub:
"'Strip and take bath.
Evening star., 1908-06-13
foremost artists in whom they had con-
fidence.

foremost artists in whom they had con-
fidence.
In the Seats of the Mighty.
These ninety constituted the first COM
rlittee of the Society of French Artists
to administer the salons. and their men,
bership is stated, expressly. not to be in
compatible with membership on juries
Every three years there are new cleo
tions of both committee and juries. and
French artists once admitted to the salon
may belong TO the society and vote on
paying $50 year; but. as the consti-
tuition also permits reelection of old
members. committee and juries go on,
like the brook, with just enough change
not to ke them stagnant.
Twenty members form the annual paint
ing jury-s!xty reelected in a batch each
three years-to say whether the artistic
work of Smith of Chicago. Checa of Ma
drid. Cederstrom of Stockholm or Chel-
monsky of Warsaw shall be let into the
salon-and get medals. once admitted.
II is the same for the French. These
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. award vast lot
of money prizes for the natives. travel
ing scholarships, ''encouragement' lump
sums. foundation bearing the names of
lot of donors who would otherwise be
unknown.
"A close corporation? Yes. in a way, by
prestige and influence. But those who
Evening star., 1908-06-13

suit looked promising for time. Then.
with a sorrowful visage, he ceased his
courtship.
Yet she seemed infatuated with you.
Jabez. said I. one day when he came 10
me for sympathy.
"'She were too JabeZ agreed.
"'Well, what could have been the trou-
ble?'.
Dunno said he. He filled his pipe.
Dunno; but when / perposed, she turned
me down cold
Perhaps your proposal wasn't ardent
enough?' I suggested.
".Oh. 1t was fiery said Jabez Hot as
pepper. l told her she was the only Wom-
an I'd ever loved, ever looked at, ever
thought of, Or
But said l. you forgot, then. you
were widower.'
".Jingo,' said Jabez, so l did. "
Evening star., 1908-06-13

went out years ago by Indignation now
form still tighter corporation-"The Ma
tional Society Of BeaUx-Arts." the new
salon.
Old Salon Most Popular.
So we stick to the "od salon." the
historic and official. with it's right to
give out medals to the painters of the
world anu quantities of cash to French
men.
The artistic works are there in the
Grand Palais.
Paintings lean against the walls. The
marbles are downstairs, in the vast court.
beneath a dome whose ironwork is as
great an engineering feat as the famed
Eiffel Tower
The twenty pundits stop before a can
vas. All glance at it the same moment.
This is how they can decide so quickly.
All have canes or umbrellas. This is
how they lose no time in signifying their
decision.
Three canes in the air? And one UNI
brella? Perhaps those four jurymen will
glance appeaiingly at others. Up go
two more canes. Three more umbrellas
the thing has been known to happen
until a majority Of all the twenty vote
to let the painting in.
Before other. canvasses-or sculptures
the canes and umbrellas go up instantly.
These masters know what very good
Evening star., 1908-06-13
A Good Dcd1e.

g ENATOR ELkiNS was cocgra:u,ated
- at dinner on his fine new yacht. tie
Marietta.
Frcra yachts to yachting clothes the
transition was easy, and Senator E,k.as
tod story.
An cid fellow" he said. sat in a sea-
side cafe. He had finished luccneon: he
was now drinking champagne
the sun shone on the white sand. tie
sea sparkled. and every lite while the
old fellow ordered ancth,r CT Id half
bottle.
with the third order he said un-
easily to the waiter:
Waiter. is my nose getting red?'
Yes, sir the waiter answered, il is,
sir I'm sorry 10 say. sir
That won't do said the old fellow.
That won't do at all. Waiter, send out
and get me a yachting cap"
Evening star., 1908-06-13

Hfe Three years later he won an art insti-
suites important money prize for draw
ing He arrived in Paris, passed the
Beaux Arts examinations: got portrait
received in the salon, returned to Amer ca
as teacher in school CT fine arts wen
the Chandler 81 Coz scholarship, and 1t
was on these dollars he arrived again IN
Paris just five days before the closing of
the salCn entries.
1t would be easier to form a theory if
the cases were NOT SO dissim lar. This
,na7 went patiently through the Beaux
Art courses. Henry Tanner was fer yeas
student both of Benz lrl.n Constant and
j. P. Laurens. But l know CT an Ameri-
can who quit the Beaux Arts IN two
weeks.
The BeaCX Arts is too slow" he had
the nerve to imagine. So he hit the Ju-
liam Academy.
One Way of Getting In.
The boy worked one week in the julia n
Academy, won its monthly portrait medal
and Besnard came in by accident AID
liked 1t.
Besnard had a big job on hand 10 deco
rate church al Berck, compr sing forty
freScces.
Come down to Berck and help me-
said the vice president of the new alon
to the American te1derfcot: and all tha I
summer lie NCThtQ like a nurse dl the
first filing in of BesnardS outlines. while
of evenings he would walk the fields CT
sit at coffee and liquors with the master
there was one else fer Besnard TO
llobnob with.
Do you think that this hoy-who had
passed no time in the French schcCls and
mighty little in our own|ackei influ-
ence in the National Society of Beaux
Arts the next autumn? (New salon or old
salon. it is the same moral: these are
real cases. not made to order).
Now we have it. Every student in the
colony-except cranks eaten up by vanity
and geniuses both working in their cor
ner'-will tell you the salon secret is TO
gain the favor thus of some great Paris
master.
1t is the same even in Central Africa.
Recently a German and an English firm
sent clocks to sch in the dark continent
The English clocks were as good as the
German clocks. but they would not sell;
while the German clocks scld wonderfully.
r French Ideas of Painting.
Why was this injustice?
Your clocks don't make enough noise. y
the Africans explained. They had their
StaEdar-.
Now it is the French salon. though at
Evening star., 1908-06-13
No Loop'1oles There.

EUGENE WALTER. the ex;raordinari-
Il ly successful young playwright. said
at a recent dinner in his honor in New
York:
"The playwright. to succeed, must
make his point inevitably. Every point,
by fair means or foul. must be captured.
Not a loophole. for failure to creep in,
may be left"
Mr., Walter smiled.
Evening star., 1908-06-13
A Real Artist.

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN at a dinner
~ in New York. said that he imputed
his great success to the fact that in his
opera house he put art ahead of money
making.
Il like to think" said Mr.. Hammerstein,
that in some small degree I share the
artistic feeling of the great Handel.
Handel. when the curtain would rise
upon a nearly empty house, would say
soothiagly TO his associates:
'Ach. never mind; the music will soun1
all the better.
Evening star., 1908-06-13

In fact" said he. the playwr:gl 1t
must be as sure CT his point as was the
young lady who took advantage Of the
present leap year to propose.
She didn't give me chance. her
husband explained afterward to friend.
She said, will You marry me! Have
you any objection Thus. wnether l
said yes or no, she had me ccraered.'
well. you might have kept silent
said his friend.
That is what l did the other re-
piled. and she flung herself cn my
breast. murmuring that silence save con-
sent
Evening star., 1908-06-13

NJ made on June Is Tanner.
Nnf the Afro-American painter
Il Is rumored-is to lave
the medal of honor for his
"Wise and Foolish Virgins"
1t Is a mere rumor, but persistent The
extraordinary picture is hung in the hall
of honor on the lire. in the best light It
has vast attention from critics and public,
out of all proportion to that of the paint
ings around it. Some think ii one OF
these works that mark epochs. but the
medal of honor-never yet bestowed upon
d foreigner-is 10 reward lifetime, not
a siLS.e painting.
On the ether hand. this colored man
fro III tits. urS. Pa, must have the su-
per!ative mcuai or nothing, being .'hors
c-n.ou!s' by previous prize winnings. &c;
II CT no, gel II. therefore. here is d man
-h-.!d!carped by race-who comes un-
hnt'.n. vans prizes, fame and sells his
paii;iAss al high prices-in direct COM
pc it-oa with Frenchmen.
1et, beside him. know an American in
Paris new in absolute despair With his
wife he has lived two years in Italy and
France upon The travelling scholarship of
the Academy OF Fin. Arts of one of our
cities.
Now his salon picture is refused They
would not even hang it in a corner of
those vast halls. What shall this man
say 10 those who paid his way? How can
ne hope 10 have the scholarship renewed?
Has he failed TO pull wires?
Wires can be pulled Once l saw them
pulled by seventeen-inch wais. ribbon.
A handsome. husky young American-he
married later rich widow and retired
from work-was at the portrait of the
sweetest peach that ever came to Paris
from ST. Louis.
One smile from that superlative girl
they used to turn me dizZy-so bughoused
the famous master under whom the nin-
conpoop was studying that he swelled up,
took brush. mixed sky blue paint, and
himself painted in the ribbon girdle on the
portrait.
When see it, I'll remember" he
said simply
He was on the jury of admission.
Jury of admission
Without going back to Louis XIV. the
present republic finally decided to have
no more hand in the appointment of the
juries OF the salon.
On January %. 1881. therefore the mass
OF French artists already admitted to the
salon were permitted to elect ninety
members of a close corporation-ninety
Evening star., 1908-06-13

what would be required to do the same
work with hand shovels.'
George laughed.
Go on he said: you don't reason
right. Look-a-here. II this steam diggin'
would give work TO 800 men with shovels
why not get 5000 men with teaspoons for
the job?"
Evening star., 1908-06-13
Ha
7SMS

Vat? Go in de water? shriek.d the
Magyar.
Yes said the sergeant take A bath
You need ii. How long is il since you
have had a bath?
The Magyar lifted up his hands and
rolled his yes
- Oh. he said. 1 never vas arrested
before ="
Evening star., 1908-06-13
He FORGOT.

Q ENATOR BEVERIDGF: described, at
- dinner. an absent minded farmer.
1.-The man was SO absent-minded. he
said. that he couldn't open his mouth
without making arrant ass Of himself.
'Once he courted young woman. His
Evening star., 1908-06-13
The Little Country Weeker.

DR. CHARLES M. BOSWELL. one OF
Il the most eloquent Of the younger
leaders Of Methodism in Philadelphia. was
discussing the Whistling League that he
has just formed.
''Whistling is vocal with life and instru-
Evening star., 1908-06-13
The Fat Hoo.

vvyU TING-FANG. the Chinese ambas ssa-
w dor. said modestly at dinner in
Newport:
II am aware that the honors heapsd up
Evening star., 1908-06-13
TE oURY NO7ZVG TO
ADMIT A PICTURE

METHODS by Which the
Paris Salon Awards Its
Prizes-The Worlds Lucky
Spot for Painters and Sculp-
tors-Seventeen Inches of
Waist Ribbon and a Pretty
Face Help Along the Arts
tic Ambitions of a Husky
Young American - Wire
pulling in the Salon-The
Mighty Ninety and Some of
Their Individual Weaknesses
Way That One Hard
Worker Helped Out a Mem
Der of the Jury, Who After
ward Proved a Friend at
Court - Ninety-four Ameri-
cans Exhibiting This Year.
Evening star., 1908-06-13
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

special Correspondence Of The Star
PARIS, June J. 1908.
z" 7HEN the salon awards are
made on June Is Tanner,
NM the Afro-American painter
Il is rumored-is to AVE
the medal of honor for his
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-10-22
THE ANSWERS
The Answer in 1908.

The answer is found in the prevail
ing good prices for grain, corn, hogs,
cattle, hay and all the products
of the farm, together with the
fact that since the date Of Cam
didate Bryan's crushing" speech,
Western farm lands have doubled In
value, and thousands Of tenant" farm
ers of that date have become prosper
u home-owners, tilling their own land
in peace, happiness and plenty. Under
the National Irrigation Act, and the
Republican conservation movement, the
West is soon to be the intense agricul-
tural and horticultural producing areG
of the United States.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-10-22
The Answer in 1908.

The broad meaning Of Candidate
Bryan's remarks on this subject IL
that railway regulation by statute
law is impossible, and that aeov.
eminent ownership" is the only
remedy for transportation abuses
The enactment Of the Federal Rate Law
has totally disproved the claims Of
Candidate Bryan and wildly displayed
his unsound reasoning on great public
questions.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-10-22
The Answer in 0 O

The Answer in 1905.
President Roosevelt, instead Of rep
%resenting the spirit Of war; stands
before the world the greatest ex-
emplar of international peace in his
generation. History will in full
season award him the titles he
has justly won, and the greatest Of
these will be "The Peacemaker," in
spite of Candidate Bryan's assault upon
him in 1904. Under President Roosa-
velt's policies the United States has
taken it's place in the front rank Of
world powers. Taft is committed to
continuing these policies.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-10-22
"TAR1FF WILL CRUSH THE FARMER"
1892, Free Trade.

d. 1892, Free Trade.
Thus In every State, so far as these
statistics have been collected, the pro-
portion Of homecoming farmers is de-
ersasing and that Of tenant farmers in
ersasinE. This means but one thing it
means q land Of landlords and tenants,
and, backed BY the history Of every
nation that has gone down, I say to
you that no people can continue a free
people under a free government when
the great majority Of it's citizens are
tenants Of a small minority."-William
]. Bryan; speech on the protective tar
III in the National House of Represen-
tatives, March IL, 1892.