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The Bull Moose Party

81 have read various suggestions for the
name of Colonel Roosevelts new party,
progressive republican and national pro-
gressive' being among the terms often
mentioned" said an old voter
IF 1 expected to join the third party,
as 1t is sometimes called, l would prefer
the term national progressive but no
matter what name may be selected Roose-
velt's party will always be known as the
bull moose That term Is thoroughly
Rooseveltian, suggesting as it does siren
uosity.
colonel Roosevelt Is always a live
WIRE as we say in slang, and he will
get large vote In some states. / I'M
aglne that his most ardent followers will
hardly expect him to be elected. but, he
will do the next best thing for their point
of view--cause Tafts defeat"
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Day Dreams in the Newspapers

The Philadelphia Public Ledger is
early in the field armed with electoral
figures. 1t gives to Wilson and Mar
shall 139 votes in "the solid south, "
including Kentucky and Tennessee.
Maryland and Missouri, which practi-
cally belong to the solid south, would
bring the Wilson total up to 165.
Then, the Ledger adds Arizona, Ne
yada, Oklahoma and Colorado, and the
total now stands at 1874, This leaves
so votes to be secured in New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and indiana,
These states have 81 votes and the
lacking single vote may be secured,
says the Public Ledger, in South Da-
kota, where no Taft electors have been
put before the people. South Dakota
has four electoral votes.
All this is rainbow chasing, for as
things now stand Taft cannot see his
way clear to a plurality in a Single
state, not even in Vermont, Pennsyl-
vania or Iowa.
1t is safer and saner to wait until
August 5 before making forecast of
the November election.
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Concerning Mems Clothes

'I was in a merchant tailor's place OF
business recently and saw suit OF CLONES
made In London for well known BIZ
mingham capitalist" said Travelled man.
THE quality of the goods-a tweed-was
all right, but the tailoring, including the
cut, was very poor. and the Birmingham
tailor was making the suit over again so
that 1t would have some style.
1.-The well bred Englishman seems to
prefer i'll fitting clothes for every day
wear. In his dress frock and in his even
ing dress suit the Londoner looks very
stylish, but London business suits DO not
look as well as the ordinary grade OF
ready made clothes In this country
From my observation | would say that
the Germans ere the best dressers IN
Europe. | found that the men in Berlin
Dresden, Cologne and other German cities
were well groomed on all occasions. a
regularity of German tailoring is the fact
thatsthe military idea Is decidedly In evil
dence in the patterns.
I'm Paris about 30 per cent or the
men seemed plainly attired, while the Few
who made any pretension to style were
overdressed and loud
America naturally has the best clothlers
and merchant tailors in the world, for
they have the advantage of all the for
eign styles and make a good blend OF
them. The American tailor is fine me-
chanic and puts much honest finish on his
work"
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From Harper's Weekly.
The sacred Goldfish carved In wood ds
to be seen on the walls Of the hall of rep
resentatves In the statehouse at Boston.
1t occupies place of honor between two
classic pillars Immediately opposite the
desk of the speaker.
Bostonians aver that this is the orig
inal sacred Goldfish of the old colony and
that 1t has had a place in the halls of
the lawmakers of Massachusetts for over
$50 years 1t is a relic of the assembly
hall that gave way to the present state
house, The following is the origin gem
orally assigned to 1t:
One Capt. John WEIGH - Boston was
the creator and carver of the famous fish.
In his time he was held to be carver
OF no mean ability. He established him
self in Dock square in 1747. A member
of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
company, Welch rose in time to its cap
taincy. He was called on to contribute
80 the decoration of the Colonial Assem-
bly, hall, and as at that period Goldfish
was the colonys main article of export,
WEIGH conceived the notion of immortaliz-
ing it,
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slave, have set my life up cast
And 1 will stand the hnznrd of the de-
king Richard ILL.,.
Nationwide Harmony Movement

The Associated Press informs the
readers of The Age-Herald that a
petition addressed to Mr.. Taft will be
signed by trembling officials from
members of Congress down to county
officers, asking him to get out Of the
presidential race. A similar movement
in which Senator Dixon's machine will
cooperate will be addressed to the
head of the Bull Moose party. These
petitions are both based ON the COM
/ mon ground that the candidacy of
either is impracticable, really OBJ
structive of and destructive to success
in November.
But where is a compromise candi-
date to be found under present cir
cumstances? Elihu Root will not do,
for, to use the colonel's phrase, he is
a silent member "of the party Of
Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim & Co.,
who have stolen the door plate with
the name, but have no moral right
to the name or anything else" There
is no available nominee in Ohio, and
less than none in Pennsylvania. Lori
mer is at present under a cloud, and
the far west is too weak to back up a
candidate. Smoot lives in a state that
casts but four electoral votes, and
Aldrich is too old and too mulberry.
The logical candidate of the new eff
fort is none other than Serene Payne,
author of the present tariff At pres
ent he is overfed and beefy, but he
can train down. Let us by all means
have a distinct battle between tariff
for revenue only and tariff so highly
protective as to include manufacturers
profits. In the name of fair play The
Age-Herald demands a campaign that
will decide between the two systems.
Give us Serene Payne, long. may he
wave. He is the logical candidate of
the party of protection and the safety
of trusts. Roosevelt is as shaky and
uncertain over the tariff as the spine-
less Taft himself, and neither ever
prevented a trust from restricting
trade, destroying competition and put
ting domestic prices up to the limit
of their greed.
The Age-Herald is for Serene Payne
because it wants straightout contest
between protection and revenue
tariff-between Serene Payne and
Woodrow Wilson, and the man who
first cries Hold, enough" should be
considered as one who had been
knocked through the ropes.
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THEATRE AUTOcRAT

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
Times star
You can't appreciate this story unless
you know something of the atmosphere
of reverence which spreads over the
metropolitan Opera house like plaster
Every one connected with the Metro
poltan worship some one else. NJ.
Cattle asazza and NJ. Andreas Dip
pei, the directors, are the twin deities
all kow-tow to. Gatti gets little the
best of 1t, because he is permanently
located in the heaven of New York,
while DIPPED does hfs deityizing in Chi
oago's limbo. Below them are ranged
almost as many gods as in the Hindoo
mythology for the singers, and must
clans to tell a bead to. Chief among
them are Secretary Brown of the Met
ropolitan Opera House company and
"Bill' Guard, the press agent The les
ser singers can't mention Browns name
without lifting their hats or crooking
their knees, according to sex. His Is
the radiance reflected from Gattis great
white throne But James Murray ALI
son, once of Cincinnati Isn't lesser
singer. Mr.. Allison was stage manag-
ing a benefit performance, held on the
Metropolitans stage recently He was
In the thick of rehearsal when a wor-
ried gentleman teetered out from the
wings and addressed him. This" said
the worried gentleman. must be
changed
Who" said Mr. Allison. 'in the pink
glow of the hereafter, are your"
Mr. Brown said the worried gentle
man.
law" said Mr.. Allison, with cutting
sarcasm. Mr.. Brown. hey? One of the
well known Spectrum Sisters, suppose.
And what are you doing on MY stage.
Mr.. Brown? And how long do you think
it will take you to get OFF,
Mr. Brown stared in petrifed horror
at the sight of Mr.. Allisons back, just
then bending and weighing in an effort
to get pony team to get some little
pepper in their parts. Mr.. Allison paid
no further attention to him for a mo-
ment. when he glanced back and found
Mr. Brown still posing as the statue
of Old Mr. Stupefaction. in despair. Mr..
Allison turned a baleful eye on him
BLOW, Brown" said he. "bxit hurried
ly. as though in sorrow"
Mr. Brown took one long stepsto the
wings minute later he curtain
came murmuring down The lights were
turned off, except one over the stage
exit Mr. Allison and his authority
and his ponies were left in darkness
thick as the inside of trunk. That
rehearsal was interrupted for two hours.
while people burned candles and genu-
flected before Mr.. Brown. ATlast Mr..
Allison was led to that partially ap-
peased cooling to make his apology.
Gee" said Mr.. Allison, II was sore at
you BroWn!"
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MIR. UNDERWOOD

From the New York Sun.
The Hon. Oscar w. Underwood is be-
ing spoken of as a good loser because
he pursues the even tenor of his way
and goes on with his responsible work
in the House of Representatives as If
the democratic national convention of
1912 had never been. By Is years ex-
perience as a national legislator and
his familiar knowledge of the country's
needs Mr.. Underwood was eminently
qualified for the nomination which Gov.
Woodrow Wilson received. II practice
in lawmaking, as distinguished from
the theory of it. counts for anything.
Mr.. Oscar w. Underwood had superior
claims upon the nomination.
In temperament poise. Judgment and
resolution, not to speak of personal In
teerity and ambition to serve the coun-
try, Mr.. Underwood was an admirable
candidate. In the despatch of business
he has no superior on the democratic
side of the House. He is as stable as
he is clear in conviction. Never was
man less Of an opportunist. He does
not run after false gods to win popu-
iarity. He has never neglected official
duty to promote his political. fortunes.
No, primary idol is Underwood. and
therefore, as these times go, he is an
politician. Such a man would
make a high minded. brave and dill
gent President, radical enough not to
be irrational, conservative enough to
be safe.
In the campaign that has just closed
Mr.. Underwood bore himself with dig
nifty and propriety. standing by his
convictions, yielding nothing to expedi-
ency. His record Is clear and bright.
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The Park Band Stand

"a good deal has been said about the
band stand In Capitol park Its made
quacy, etc." said a prominent citizen
who enjoys the open air music. III
seats about Is musicians. and as
band of 20 is employed to play every
night, and as the band Is sometimes
augmented to % to 20. the city COM
missioners have, 1 am told, agreed to
enlarge the stand or build a new one
Nothing has yet been done, however,
and the band must either play on the
ground or be uncomfortably squeezed
into the old band stand.
THE best temporary solution Is this'
A rough improvised platform -FOUR OF
five feet high. large enough to accom-
modate band of at least IS. Such
platform would cost not over $50 or 800
But whatever is done should be done
quickly for the summer is fast slipping
away"
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when Woodrow Wilson gets to the
White House 1t will be quite a coinci-
dence that the only two democrats occu-
pying the presidential office since the
war dropped their first Christian names,'
said an old citizen
when Mr. Cleveland was mayor of
Buffalo he was known as Stephen G..
Cleveland. | think he retained the name
Stephen after he was elected governor
of New York, but dropped it before he
became President. His intimates in Buff
faIo called him Steve, but after he dis
carded his first name everybody got used
to calling him Grover.
.Mr Wilson was ehristened Thomas
woodrow Wilson. His Georgia friends
knew him only as Tom, but ever since
he has been famous he has been known
only as Woodrow Wilson. -
.sU. s. Grant was christened Hiram U.
Grant, and that was his name when he
entered West Point. Through some slip
of the pen during his enrolment In the
military academy his name got changed
to u S. Grant. Grants mother was a
Miss simpson, and when the registrar at
the academy enrolled him as u. s., young
Grant made no protest. nut on the con-
trary and accommodating enough to take
the name Simpson so as to make the
middle letter stand for something
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HIGHLAND MARY

BY Robert Burns.
Ye banks and braes and streams around
The castle O. Montgomery,
Green be your woods, and fair your
flowers,
Your waters never drumlie,
There simmer first unfauld her robes.
And there the Largest tarry:
For there l took the last farewell
o my sweet Highland Mary
How sweetly bloom'd the gay green
birk,
How rich the hawthorn's blossom.
AS underneath their fragrant shade
/ clasp'd her to my bosom!
The golden hours on angel wings
: Flew DER me and my dearie;
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary.
WI monte vow and lock'd embrace
Our parting was fu' tender;
And, pledging aft to meet again.
We tore oursels asunder;
But oh, fell Deaths untimely frost
That nipt my flower sac early!
Now green's the sod and cauld's tho
clay,
That wraps my Highland Mary!
o pale, pale now. those rosy lips
I aft haze kissd sac fondly.
And closed for aye the sparkling glance
That dwelt on me sac kindly,
And Wondering now-4n silent dust
That heart that lo'ed me dearly!
But still within my bosom's core
Shall live my Highland Mary.
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English Man Of Letters

America has produced not few great
men OF letters, but the Englishman who
writes and contributes to the reviews ac-
composites more In an ordinary lifetime
than his cousins on this side of the At
lartic." said professional man. LAS re-
sards quantity, the English writer is a
marvel.
ION a visit to England some years ago
1t was my pleasure to NEE, several dis
tinguished authors. The one 1 knew best
was August Henry Keane. fellow OF the
Royal Geographical society. whose guest
was, at his hospitable home at South
Hampstead London. He Is still living
at the age of 70. McAIiilan's Who's
Who 1sl2'-a year book of international
celebrities, describes Keane as a hard
orking literary man.. When last saw
him he was vice president of the An
tnropological institution OF Great Brittin.
and was really its head.
Among Keanes publications are:
'Ethnology. Man Past and Present. The
Gold Of ophir, The Boer States, The
World Peoples. and other anthropologi-
cal works. When l was with him he had
just completed the nine volume OF
all 'Encyclopedia OF Geography. published
BY the Cambridge press. lie was an I'm
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MILK GROWN IN YOUR YARD

From the Vegetarian.
Notwithstanding vegetarians are
being scoffed at and dubbed 'cranks,"
more and more are coming into the
field. and the cause Is advancing at a
rapid rate.
This is not so much due to the eff
fort of vegetarians as 1t is to the re-
suit Of sociological conditions.
The surface of the earth Is SO chang
ing, the population so increasing, that
the raising of cattle for culinary pur-
poses is each year becoming more or a
problem.
Each year science gives us some new
food element to replace the piece of
roast flesh.
The latest announcement reveals that
milk, butter and cheese can be made out
of beans.
This milk producing bean is a speeial
variety, however-the Sofa bean, a ma
tive Of China. Z
A Chinese chemist has a factory in
France working out problem of milk
from beans. He has succeeded in maxi
ing from this Sofa bean milk, a fine
quality of butter and highly delectable
cheese
The Chinese followed the arts, crafts
and sciences which other nations today
consider modern thousands of years be-
fore western civilization was dreamed
of.
This skilled Chinese chemist has
found out how the COW can convert the
-
this extraneous incumbrance. We may
have our milk, our butter and cheese
grown in our back garden without the
annoyance of conditions unpleasant to
the fastidious and refined.
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portant contributor TO the Encyclopedias
Britannica. and is now regular writer
for Academy, Nature, the Edinburgh
Review, the Anthrorological Journal. and
other well known periodicals. He edited
Valentines Comparative Phiiology' and
wrote an introduction to that standard
native of Richmond, Va, and was at
enc time professor of modern languages
in Randoiph-Macon college.
"Keane was born In Cork, and received
a part of his education in Dublin. but he
has lived a long time In England, and is
quite English In his manner"
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THE SOUND OF THE sun

From the New York World.
London--Great interest has been aroused
among scientific men by the exhibition at
the optical convention in South Kensing-
ton of the octophone, an instrument which
makes light audible, 1t is the invention of
Prof e, e. Fourier d'Albe. b. Sc, M. r..
l. A., lecturer on physics at the University
of Birmingham, formerly secretary of the
Dublin Society for Psychcal Research.
The octophone is a camera like box from
which come two wires with highly sensi-
tive receivers at the fld If you are
blindfolded and place the receivers to your
ears and piece of blotting paper is placed
between the box and an are lamp you hear
a ticking or grating sound-in fact. you
hear the shadow passing.
on a moonlight night you hear the moon,
while the summer sun makes a tremendous
noise like a cataract.
The octophone can locate the light OF
stars invisible through the telescope
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MELANCHOLY PARIS

From the London Saturday Review. !
Paris is to me one of the most mel
ancholy Of the worlds great cities.
Sterne himself told the, Count de B
that the French were too serious.
Whether this was Jest or earnest then.
IL Is certainly deadly earnest now.
Scratch the glittering surface of the
Rue de la Paix. of the Boulevards, of
the Avenue de rOpera, and you find the
sombre base Of Partisan melancholy.
To the visitor on a weeks or a fort
nights holiday Paris may seem very
carnival Of gayety, and most English
books upon it are, I fancy. no more
than holiday, fair weather perform
ances, or else the products of that arti-
ficial enthusiasm known to voluminous
writers of travel. For a few days, how
ever, have myself found Paris enjoy
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Congress and the Six Year Term

Chairman Clayton of the House
judiciary committee should press for
ward the resolution for an amendment
to the constitution limiting the Presi-
dent to single six-year term. I'VE
favor" says the Baltimore platform,
"a single presidential term and to that
end urge the adoption of an amend
ment to the constitution making the
president of the United States ineligi-
BILE for reelection, and we pledge the
candidate of this convention to this
principle"
Let Mr.. Clayton press on the reso-
luton he has reported in the demo-
cratic House. The Chicago platform
was silent on the subject, and a re-
publican Senate may kill the resolu-
ton. The Senate is, however, regard
ed as favorable to the proposition, and
it should be brought forward in both
houses and carried. to a two-thirds
vote in each. The country wants it,
and the dignity and self-respect of the
presidential office would be greatly
enhanced by it.
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SUBSTITUTE
Baltimore

Baltimore Letter In the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The oldest incident of the convention
occurred the night the Hotel Emerson
threw open its bar. In other and
milder days this bar is used as palm
room, where the ladies of Baltimore
may sit II they wish. and sustain their
souls with tea and gaze out of the
windows upon the passing throng. But
they had to make way for the male
visitors, and long temporary bar
was run across the width of this room.
Some one told the Wilson men that
Champ clark's supporters had planned
to offer free drinks therein, and they
protested violently to the proprietors.
Treasured on this point, they then
learned from a joker that while 1t
was true the hotel would direct the
bar, its opening was to be In the ma
ture of a sporting event. "A bottle
of wine will be given to the first man
to buy drink" was the word that
was sent out.
The Wilson men believed and passed
the word on. An hour before the bar
was opened the lobby was jammed with
mass of men as solid as granite.
Everyone had his nose pointed toward
the double doors, awaiting the signal
that the bottle of wine was waiting
on the back bar. By and by the doors
were pried apart little, and the smil-
ing face of a manager appeared at the
opening. Gentlemen" he said, this
bar is now
No one ever did find out what he
intended to say. The crowd surged to-
ward the doors. Those nearest made a
leap. Their toes slipped on the mar
bic floors. They caught the manager
around the neck and his toes slipped.
They fell In a pile and those behind
rushed the pile. and they slipped. Be
fore the enraged manager could dig
himself out from beneath the mess
of men some one had slipped through
the back way and bought the first
drink-and the bartender menaced him
with a bung starter when he insisted
on a cold bottle as his reward.
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Corn Club Work Fully Organized

The state agents of the corn clubs
recently met in Washington and made
plans for continuing the work. A ma
tional exposition school is to be or
ranized in Columbia, S. c., in Janu-
ary,> and two boys are to be sent to
the school from each county in the
south.
All prizes in the past are to be
duplicated, and the boys of the south
viii not lack special Nceptives in the
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MIsLED BY HIS TEETH.


Mrs. V. d. Brown spends part of every
evening story telling with her children.
They never tire of hearing her tell the
stories, and they know them pretty we'll
themselves. One night recently she
thought she would test their memory, so
she would start the story and then ask
one of them to finish it. They got through
with Jack and the Beanstalk and several
others all right, but when she asked Thel-
ma to finish the tale OF Little Red Rid
ing Hood, the child put new character
in the well known plot
"Of course, you all remember how little
Red Riding Hood started bright and early
enc morning to take a. basket of good
things to her sick grandmother. who
lived on the other side of the largo
woods" said Mrs. Brown. land how be-
fore she got out of the woods she met
somebody with large. shining white teeth.
Now Thelma, you tell US who little Red
Riding Hood met in the woods"
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From the LIST to the 10th of August,
Atlanta Is to have a Manufacturers ex-
position in its big Auditorium, which
accommodates 10000 people. The ex-
position should be well attended by the
business men of Birmingham. Atlanta
has SIS manufacturing plants and all of
them are busy. Nearly everything used
In Atlanta is manufactured there. The
exposition will have exhibits from many
southern cities, but it will emphasize
most of all the splendid results OBJ
tanned from the cooperative spirit of
Georgia's metropolis.