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The Prescott daily news., 1908-07-07

A marriage license was issuel today to Mir. J. T. Tarver and Miss May Woods of Sayre, Ouach- county.
 The rain today was quite wei come to the people of this com munity, who for several days h&- been hoping for a good season. able shower.
 The Cemetery Association will meet at the home of Mrs. w. T. Hart, on next Thursday after noon at 4 o'clock, and all mem bers are urged to be present. ICE! ICE! HowARD tdsD. TERRY. gas
 A couple of loud claps of thun- der in the vicinity of East Elm street this afternoon, made the bravest jump, and the more tim i'd to actually become frightened. No other damage was done.
 Some one this morning about 10 o'clock threw a bottle through the skylight of the post office building, breaking the glass, and narrowly missing Mir Grayson. Officers are busy working on the case but as yet have no clue as to who the guilty party is.
 The families of J. B. Jordan, Fl. A Sykes, Sam T. White and Dr. Guthrie left this morning for Lackland Springs, where they will spend awhile enjoying the pleasures of an outing at that place. They will be joined later by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Logan and MT. and Mrs. Dan Putnam and others who will follow later. ICEs ICE! HOWARD TERRY.
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The Prescott daily news., 1908-07-07
Denied by Commissioner.

Austin, July 7.-Commissioner of In- surance Love characterized as a canard dispatch from Houston to the effect that he was in line for the gov. ernorship two hears hence. MT. Love says the story is without foundation and his present aim Is to make sue cess of the position he now holds.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-07-07
Four Deaths. Thirteen Pro,trations.

New York. July 7-Shortly before noon Monday four deaths from heat and thirteen prostrations were report ed.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-07-07
Wilson In tha West.

Des Moines, Ia., July 7.-Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is at his home in this state.
Evening star., 1908-12-13

rear. Then in the House run
up against the wall that SUR
rounds Mr.. Speaker when l seek
his eye, and that constitutes
pressure in front, and between
them am growing thinner than
a Cancelled postage stamp.
Talk about waiting for your
bills turn on the House cal
endar! Calendar! That is
misnomer. .I ought to be called
a cemetery; for therein lie the
whitening bones of legislative
hopes. Under the present sys-
tenn of running the House, we
have no more need of = calendar
than a man with both arms cut
off above the elbows needs
pair of fur trimmed woolen
mitte1s.
4r. Chairman, there are
pee pie in Washington city to-
Evening star., 1908-12-13


What's the matter. sonny"
inquired the compulsory wit.
Some one gave me a quar-
ter and l put it in my mouth,
and when l went to laugh at
your speech it slipped down."
the youngster whimpered.
Well, I'm worse off yet,
boy" murmured the congress
;;onal hcmorist gloomily. "be-
cause the House gave me tip
to-day, and I've got to swallow
it. and it sticks and gives me a
pain in my patriot:sm!"
Since the purely humorous
speech became an acknowl-
edged feature in the serious
task of legislating at Washing
ton, many genuine statesmen
in-the-making have gone down
to comic supplement career
Evening star., 1908-12-13

because or raSh yielding to the call OF immediate
notoriety. The rise of the congressional funny
man. is eteorc but his name is not writ in
water, but in molasses, where it sticks.
J. Adam Bedes Joke
THERE are two chronic humorists in the House at
present,-Francis w. Cushman of Washington
and ] Adam Bede of Minnesota One suspects that
the former has distinct yearning nowadays to cut
away from vaudeville skits and tackle the 1egiti-
mate" on the congressional stage; yet he is de-
barred from this ambition because the House per-
sists in considering him never so funny as when he
tries to be serious
!. Adam Bede at five years of age is said to have
been an 1nveterate punSter and at fifty he is still
making jokes the floor of the national House Of
Representatives. And the we'll filed seats on the
floor and the packed benches in the galleries give
evidence of being amused to the point of hysteria
From the moment the Gentleman from Mime
sofa" is recognized, and ]. Adam Bede with long
arms and terminating fippers already gyrating in
anticipation of the windmill role they to play
in the hot air storm to follow, shouts, Mr. Speaker
sr!' the loud applause and much laughter" begin
He tells the story of the Southern girl who was
we'll grown before she knew that "d damn Yankee -
was two words; turns the sputtering sulphur
match light of his oratory the hoary pleasantly
of the futile discrimination of the political East
against the West on the principle of bronco states
man, when even Governor Bradford intimated
that the Pilgrim Fathers would not have landed
in New England if they had not been seasck-
and his audience is uproariously convulsed They
may throng through the corridors and lobby later
Evening star., 1908-12-13
An Up to Date Lincoln

An Up to Date Lincoln
FRANCIS CUSHMAN is a humorist of a totally
different type. In appearance he is described as
The Abe Lincoln of the Northwest" and there is
linking of pathos with his humor, tendency to
the parablelike of homely, soil rooted anecdote
that does indeed suggest the Lincoln style of ex-
position But the applause of the House and its
refusal to let him drift, even occasionally, into the
channel of serious pthy logical expression has had
the effect of increasing the time between Cushman
speeches nowadays.
The Middle West and Southern manufacturers
have not forgotten their hearty laugh at the ex-
pense of the Massachusetts men who cllnglng to
protective theories, yet continually clamor for
cessation of tariff activity applied to their wares
On this occasion he illuminated them bucolcally
by the old Vermont farmer milking his pet bossy
while giving periodic kick to the poor fly tortured
creature until finally advised by neighbor passing
through the pasture that he had better let go
quit kicking the cow.
Nor have the Fasteners forgotten the ocular
thrill of beholding certain congressional Chester
fields of the West wther when Cushman delicateiy
decried the increase of Representative salary
by exclaiming:
Talk of the of campaign equipment! Why,
out beyond the Mississippi Congressman simply
puts clean pair of socks, puts 2 toothbrush in
his pocket, and starts out
The House that has felt itself stirred by such
fine subtle turn of wit is 1oath to let Mr. Cushman
take himself seriously: but there some who
foretell that the man from Washington is enduring
silence in the hope that when the glamour of
his fame humorist shall have become at least
Evening star., 1908-12-13

clerks and stood clearing his
throat for a preliminary burst
of pathos, this new member
was surprised to hear roar
of laughter sweep over the
chamber. .
"A few days ago 1 stood
by the side of a bier" he
began in sepulchral key and
Dead March tempo But
he was obliged to take his
hands off the oratorical stops
and give another laugh time
to pass. The new member
swallowed hard and looking
severely about exclaimed,
mo, Mr.. Chairman, it was
not the kind of beer that
these gentlemen have in mind.
l was about to"
The Congressional Rec
ord's" comment of renewed
laughter" but family echoes
the veritable howl that dis
jointed the would-be serious
discourse just here.
But the new member was
he grasped the situation.
self as a humorist at the outset
to make an effort to supply lau
or be laughed at anyway. He
concluded that it was less hur
than to amuse them much:
hement speech-which he h
ering so hot that it would h
on asbestos paper and each {
containing it tied to a hand
tribution-into a chain of i
slightly illustrative anecdotes
Once finished, however, he
to escape the repeated assura1
that he was the funniest thi
tered a chubby page sitting
bottom step of the Speakers
o1o,,1c ~,
Evening star., 1908-12-13

day who are going to a
theater and paying out
fifty cents each of lawful
money of the United States
of America of present
standard weight and fine
ness, in order to see what?
In order to see a perform
ance of Lilliputians! Great
God! What a sinful waste
of money, when they can
come up here and watch the
House perform six days in
the week for nothing!"
The House laughed and
applauded throughout.
Even the old solemn wal
ruses of hack legislation
Evening star., 1908-12-13

p ECENTLY a member elected to be decidedly
N witty in his maiden speech. He believed that
the rules of the House belittling individual
liberty; but he had decided to revolutonize this
deplorable state of things by the conquering force
of Dean Swift's weapons. He was witty, very
exclaimed
Dearly beloved, you want to know why l am
so thin? Well have behind honest but in
furiated constituency of million worthy patriot
people who demanding that l secure needed
legislation for them, and that is the pressure in the
Evening star., 1908-12-13

Win expressions OF having
gone in too heavy on the
sweet course and renarking,
How absurd he is!" or,
Bede's just smart enough to
know when to revive forgot
ten jokes!" But they present
themselves before the doors
are fairly opened, on the
slightest intimation that ].
Adam Bede is to make a
speech.
1t reminds one of the come
dian who, having exhausted
all the verses of his tcIical
song. gave a recitative of
Mary Had a Little Lamb"
which proved the hit of the
evening until the voice of
gallery god who had laughed
in spite of himself called out
disgustedly:
You fool" and in the
hushed silence that followed
the comedian leaned against
n ccanarv troa and Iro"1oI.
Evening star., 1908-12-13

accorded the witty new member unstnted chuckles.
Of course the rules of the House would Gibraltar
on but new congressional humorist had come
out of the West They hoped he would speak
again and often. 1t much less exacting of
effort to sit at one desk and gently rumnate over
a House restaurant toothpick while enjoying this
free distribution of humor than to buy the comic
weekles at newsstand and raise the gas bill read
ing them at home.
The witty new member should find the congress
siona1 version of the noted soliloquy read for him
To speak,
Aye. tits to joke, and then the laugh
Must follow: It's consummaton
Devoutly to be wished.
Evening star., 1908-12-13

shows that his Jokes have been blank cartridges
and the fruit cake committee places handed out
to him in The Congressional Record" during the
entire session less than hundred pigrammatic,
unbarbed slow plodding phrases
If Mark Twain sent to Congress, doubt
the supports under the gallery benches would have
to be strengthened, and there would be laugh
resurrection from many of the political tombstones
on the floor; but legislation would move on through
committee room channels, unSwerved by the swish
of pleasantres, be they fresh as wriggling string
of brook trout.
The humorist in the House of Representatives,
far from being regarded as statesman, is almost
inevitably put down misstatesman. For the
typical American joke is hyperbole, and the char,
acteristc method of prolonged humor in political
speech is to pile up broad exaggeratlon and gro
tesque distortion of the facts to be refuted, until
the hodgepodge superstructure makes the basic
facts look ridicuously inadequate to support any
thing except this Joke architecture of argument.
Yet even the members look up from wlpng
the tears of mirth from their eyes-for the House
abandons itself to the diversion of its funny man"
with the hystercal zest of the matinee girls good
cry'-the Speakers gavel thunders, and, lo the
superstructure of jokes passes up through the
tilators. Attention is called in few stereotyped
sentences to the fact that the original foundation
of resolution bill is still before the House, and
after the is taken the congressional humor1st
who has looked out upon of appreciatively
agitated wastcoats throughout the length of his
exceedingly witty discourse, finds that he has
merely elevated himself to that lofty and lonesome
pinnacle of 1.-The Funny Man of the House.
He can never come down to the heavy, common
place level of serious argument, because hence
FORTH if he should rise in his place and recite the
Decalogue his utteranCe would be punctuated
with hearty outlaws from all corners of the cham
ber and the printed record of his performance be-
strewn as matter of reflex action the part of
the journal clerk with such bracketed indications
of hilarity "(great laughter)" and 'renewed
laughter and applause).'
Evening star., 1908-12-13

scenery tree and draWled
" And you pay dollar and half"
Evening star., 1908-12-13
Wouldn't Take Him Seriously

A ND then when he rose to make touching plea
for bill to pension Osler-ousted Government
Evening star., 1908-12-13
By the Author of Letters from
a New Congressman's Wife"

because of rash yielding to the call of immediate
notoriety. The rise of the congressional funny
man" is meteoric but his is not writ in
water, but in molasses, where it sticks.
Evening star., 1908-12-13

THERE is a rather bit
ter tabloid of politi-
clans philosophy land
this is to cloth bound politi-
cal philosophy as digging
the Panama Canal is to a
treatise on the fourth di-
mension) which has in it the
compressed statement that
an orator is a man who gets
three cheers while the silent
boys are fastening up to
good salaries. And a still
higher exponent of unre-
Quilted vociferation is found,
it would seem, in the con-
gressional humorist.
The congressional humor-
ist gets the appreciative
filters and grins of the
galleries, the partizan ap-
plause of his side of the
House; but a vote generally
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
CL|NCHER FROM CLARK
Former Senator and Owner of Paper
EmphaticaIly Denies Reported
Sale OF Salt Lake Herald.

Rumors Of reported changes In local
newspaper circles have been flying
thick and fast the last few days: 80
fast In fact that II has been almost Inn
possible to keep track of them.
one OF these rumors was TO the ef-
feet that the ownership OF the Salt
Lake Herald had changed hands, Sam
uel Newhouse OF Salt Lake City ac-
qulring the paper by purchase from
senator Clark. An effort to secure YER
ifloation or denial OF the story local
ly was without result and the -News"
took the trouble to wire Manager VIII
liam Igleheart OF the Herald, who Is
at present Ia Coronado Beach, Califor-
MIA. This morning the following terse
telegram was received from Mr.. Igle-
heart relative TO the reported sale
Nothing TO It."
telegram was also sent TO the
inatructlng him to ask Senator Clark
for confirmation or denial of the rumor
The following elncher came this morn
ing IN response 10 the wire;
New York, Jan. 5.r-Deseret News,
Salt Lake city, Uath.W When repre-
sentative OF the Deseret News asked
ex senator Clark at 40 Wall street as
10 the truth of the statement, that he
had sold the Salt Lake Herald 10 SAM
ue Newhouse, he said very emphatical-
by, That statement Is absolutely
false"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
PUBLIC TRADE SCHOOL
WILL ATTRACT CHILDREN

Chicago Jan. 25.--Reasoning that the
public trade school will attract and
hold the child, that it will keep him
from the successive stages of reluct-
ance, truancy and delinquency, and
that it's fnal product win be n work
Ing class, contented, self-eonfident. and
honestly ambitious, DR.. Emil G. Hirsch,
addressing the convention of the Ma
tional Society for the Promotion of
Industrial Education, predicted that the
installation Of such system nationally
Will mean the moral salvation of the
American people.
The speaker bewailed the fact that in
the present school system the idea of
imparting and acquiring information is
always in the foreground-thatt the APP
peal Is to the head, and only inciden-
tally 10 the heart.
Mrs. Anna Carlin Spencer of the New
York City Society for Ethical Culture
attacked what she called "fallacies"
relative to the Industrial education of
girls. She asserted that while the num-
Der of girls at any one time employed
in Industrial pursuits Is comparatively
small. the actual number entering such
occupation IN given number of years
is large, the apparent discrepancy ly-
ing in the fact that few continue In
their vocation more than four years.
The speaker argued that the fact that
their work merely is temporary was
the strongest reason for seeing that
they were placed in the best situations
possible for their development. She
inisted that the first aim of the trade
school should be the giving of cultural
education" with boys knowledge of
agriculture and of girls the knowledge
of house arts.
In speaking of "the Industrial school
as part of the public school SYSTEM"
nf m N.
lie school of trades of Milwaukee, sug-
gested that the use OF tobacco should
be forbidden absolutely to the students
of such an institution.
The general criticism OF trade schools
offered by Milton Higgins, president OF
the Norton companies, Worcester,
Mass was that they are Schools with
shop attachment when they should
be shops with school attachment"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
ATTACK ON AUT0CRATIC
POWER OF THE SPEAKER.

Washington, Jan, 24,-An attack on an.
power Of tho speaker was made IN the
house OF representatives. today by Mr.,
shackleford OF Missouri during tho conf
slderation % the urgent deficiency appfo-
priation bill lie said Speaker Cannon
wae the "abiest. bodest champion Of uu-
toracy this age has produced" and de-
clafed that the speaker exercised "a
greater despotsm than exists in any
monarchy IN Europe"
Speaker Canonn az this iunctuTe on
tered the chamber and amid applause
took seat IN front. Of Sir, schackleford,
who asserted that before amy bill could
pass "you mutt bend your noble bodies
forward In proper pose, fold your hands
and say, oh, Lord, lincle Joe, thy viii
be done and not mine. "
lie challenged speaker Cannon TO rise
~ his place, not as speaker but a mem
Der OF the lillnuis delegation aud toll US
how ana when ID was he shoudered tho
responsibility for the Legislation that Was
TO be here enacted by simply becoming
moderator ~ this dcliberntVe assembly
Speaker Cannon laughed.
Mr. Shackleford protested against tho
policy Of 'one man power aud m ylclaiion
of the law" and urged the members no
break down this AulurraDy ANA TIE rules
IN order that the peoples representatives
may do things they want done
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
NEW YORK'S SNOW STORM.
viii Cost Hundred and Fifty Thou
sand Dollars TO Clean Streets.

New York, Jan. 25.-That It win cost
$4,000 to clean tho streets OF New
York OF the snow which fell in tho
storm OF Thursday night and yesterday,
is the estimate OF the snow removal
bureau. IN addition to this direct OUT
lay by the municipality, it is figured
that in injuries to honses and vehicles,
delays IN transportation OF goods and
the increased cost OF coal which
jumped 80 cents a ton yesterday on
account OF the Increased cost OF hand
ling, the loss 10 citizens through tho
storm win be at least as much more.
Throughout yesterday 500 teams and
$500 men We're kept busy cleaning the
streets OF snow, while all night In the
lower part OF the city LOO men and
1850 teams were occupied with the work
Today the snow removal bureau hopos
TO have at least 5000 shoyclers and
drivers employed With all this force
however Snow Inspector Worth OK
presses himself AS fearful that. barring
the speedy advent of thaw, or a warm
rain New Workers VIII have TO en-
counter considerable amounts OF snow
on city streets for Ave or six days to
come.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

to the chairman of the agricultural
committees of the senate and house
of representatives, and to the chiefs OF
the bureau OF plant industry, the bu-
reau of animal industry and forest
service.
Whereas. Tho successful develop
ment OF farming without irrigation de-
ponds primarily upon the establishment
OF scientific principles on which the
farmer may rest his practise, and
Whereas, Such scientific investiga-
lions cannot be carried on properly by
private enterprise. and
Whereas, The different localities in
the Transmissour states differ in their
climatic and soil conditions, and there
fore require that special attention be
given to the conditions In each To-
cality, therefore, be IL
Resolved, That the Transrnissourl
Dry Farming congress favor the es-
tablishment of state legislative action
Of experimental farms for the scien-
titic study of farming without irriga-
tion, such stations TO be under the di-
rection OF the respective state expert
mont stations, and wherever practic-
able TO be in cooperation with the
United States department OF agricui-
ture.
Resolved. That the executive COM
mittee Of the Transmissouri Dry Farm
ing congress be requested to give care
full consideration to the question OF
enlargement of homestead ara. and
also to the question OF some practicable
plans looking towards the final dis
position Of the purely grazing public
lands and report the result OF their
deliberations to the next meeting OF
this congress.
Resolved, That we urge the United
states Congress to pass legislation pro-
Nidlng for 800 acre homesteads. az pro-
vided for by Senator Shoots bill In
the house, or other legislation. which
Will bring our public lands into prl-
waite ownership in manner which will
Increase our number of homes and area
of cultivated farms.
Resolved That whereas. in certain
localities In the western states there
yet remains unsurveyed large areas of
lands which are arid and semi-arid,
which are desirable for homestead
purposes. we therefore recommend
that such lands be promptly surveyed
in order that settlement may be eff
fected thereon, and uncertainty of
title be thus removed from the minds
of those desiring occupancy of said
land.
Such is the Importance of home
building upon the arid farms TO more
fully insure the permanency and
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
Claimants Solicitor Asks Public
Prosecutor for Aid in Secur-
ing Patterson Letters.
MARY ROBINSON is INVOLVED
Very Necessary for Her Defense, She
Being Charged With the
Crime of Perjury.

London, Jan. 25.-The bruce case,
which has been so prolific of sensations
today offered still another.
The solicitor for George Hollamby
bruce, who claimed to be the son Of
the Duke of Portland in the latter's
dual personality of Thomas Charles
bruce and as such to be heir to the
title and estate today made public the
correspondence he has had with the
public prosecutor in which he asks that
official to assist him in locating letters
offered him by Miss Mary Patterson,
OF New York, but which have fallen in
to the hands of man purporting to
be his representative. In letter TO
George Hollamby bruce, Miss Patter-
son said she had several letters written
by 4. G. bruce TO her mother, in which
Druce referred to himself as the Duke
of Portland. George Hollamby bruce
sent Miss Patterson money to come TO
England, but, according to her later
letters, a man representing himself as
an agent of George Hollainby Druce's
solicitor called on her and got the let
tors. The solicitor Is anxious now to
ind the letters as he says they are
necessary In the defense of Miss Ro-
binson.
Miss Mary Robinson, said to be an
American, the daughter of IL southern
planter. testified during the progress
OF the bruce case, that she knew bruce
as the Duke of Portland, that Charles
Dickens told her that bruce was the
Duke Of Portland, and that bruce, him
self afterward confirmed the state
ment. Miss Robinson was arrested
Jan. II, on warrant charging her
with PERJURY, and she came up for trial
today. Her attorney declared that he
had been unable to get any coherent
story, that he believed her TO be of
unsound mind and that the case was
one for medical experts. The Judge,
however, decided there was no evidence
to bear out this contention, and he or
dcred the trial to proceed