Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-06-21

How 90 you expect 10 put III youi
time, Mrs. So and So, while you are
attending the convention"
And the interviewed usually tries
to frame up some elaborate reply,
The question was duly put up to Mrs
William E. Borab, wife of the senator
from Idaho, on her arrival. and rlgh1
of the bat she said:
The first thing l mean to do Is to
straighten up this room. thougnt
I'd try to make it look as II a woman
ever saw it. You never saw such a
looking place as it was when got
in. Papers-papers everywhere; and
books! I'm always afraid to move
one far, for If l do Mr.. Borah can't
find It.
81 was In California and he tele-
graphed me to come to be with him.
Well, l haven't seen him but about
ten minutes. 1 think he forgot l was
here. He went down to the barber
shop this morning and I went down
to meet hin for breakfast. We came
together in Peacock alley, and l don't
think he recognized me. l stepped
I'D to him and he looked at me as
puch as to say, Where have I seen
her before?'"
Looking for Taft Money.
The corpulent man who looks like
| Taft, talks Roosevelt and exhibits
money in peck measure lots Is Major
Thomas Dunphy of Topeka. Kan.
He tool his stand in the middle OF
the Congress hotel lobby and began
| offering to wager money on Roose-
velt's chances of nomination. He
wanted to bet any figure, from 81 up
to $50, 900.
Major Dunphy isn't a delegate to
the convention. He simply Is a Roose-
welt advocate at large.
.Td like to bet this roll on Colonel
Roosevelt's chances Of being nomi-
mated and elected" said the major,
exhibiting the interior Of a pocket
that might have been a section OF a
subtreasury.
The interviewer suggested that he
night be prevailed upon to take a lit
tie If the bet was broken up into car
fare lots.
"Say, this is no Joking matter
| said the indignant Roosevelt man. Il
came all the way from Topeka to lay
a small wager on the colonel and l
am going to find some hacker of the
president with sand enough to take
It,"
So he stumped away In high dud-
geon.
No Photos for Niedringhaus.
Thomas X. Niedringhaus Of Mis-
souri, has a great antipathy for pho
tographers in general and newspaper
photographers in particular.
mo, sir, I will not stand for my
photograph" he said to a group OF
pleading photographers. "Photos are
worse than sketches and anybody
knows l don't want one Of them.
What's that? Been snapped while l
was talking to you? Say, let me out
of here. You're too many for ne"
Thayer's Mountain Lion.
A new one has been uncovered
about Colonel Edward Thayer Of In
dianapo1is, assistant sergeant-at-arms
at the Coliseum. The colonel had a
near adventure with a near mountain
lion, and, take it from him, 1t was a
thriller.
Colonel Ed" has a bungalow in Ari-
IONA. He started for the woodhouse
one evening to get a back log for his
fire. Here's the rest of the story as
| he tells It:
when I got to the shanty I started
to feel around for the lock on the
thing. I put my hand IN something
that was alive. Every hair on my
head stood straight up and l don't
know now why I didn't let loose a yell
that could be heard in Maine.
II thought of mountain lions first
then panthers, wildcats, wolves and,
in fact, everything in the wild west
chased itself through my mind.
Next morning I went out to see
what kind of tracks that monster had
left. The tracks were there. So was
tie burro that had crowded close to
the shed out of the rain"
Envies Chicago Policemen.
~ can't think Of anything hat I
would like to do more than to be a
policeman in Chicago" Mrs. Sarah
F. Bond Of Oklahoma City. where she
has bene police matron. patrolman and
deputy sheriff and had a uniform. too,
made this wish from a fund Of expert
ence She is here to attend the Re-
publican national convention, though
not a delegate. She fears that the pro-
posed suffrage plank will never be
nailed on he platform.
"We have Il get suffrage" she IN
sisted. Its the first wedge for re-
demption."
Mrs. Bond has been police matron
and deputy sheriff in Oklahoma City
three times. The first time was when
It was a fierce young town.
Then they had ninety-three saloons.
and killed their man daily" she said.
THE Republican party ought to
know" said Mrs. Bond. that the par
ty that gives women the votes is he
coming party"
Governor stubbs stumped.
Governor Stubs vas remarking on
the serious nature of h crime OF dele
gate stealing.
"why. don't you know that rs as
bad as stealing horses" said the gov
ernor.
"But don't you know that It was
Colonel Roosevelt who invented the
steamer roller" asked the mar ad-
dressed. Don't you know that he took
all the delegates In sight that way"
For a moment Governor Stubs