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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-08-05
ALONG
LIES TRAIL
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men. Univer.ity of Illinois.

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&c. 1925 Western Newspaper Union.)
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ty-third, he was a conspicuous lieuten-
ant of Richard p. Bland-of "Bland
Dollar" fame-in his campaign for re-
monetizatiOn and free coinage Of sill
yer at the 16-to-1 ratio, distinguishing
himself with a three-hours' speech
against the repeal of the silver pur-
chase act. He was, of course, in
strong opposition to the monetary pol
icy of the Cleveland administration.
At the end Of that second term, in
1894, he declined denomination and in
the fall of that year became editor of
the World-Herald of Omaha, purpes-
ing to conduct a journalistic campaign
against the Cleveland administration
In favor of free coinage of silver and
in favor of his own election as United
States senator. But his plans went
soon a-glimmering. The Republican
state committee had some time before
secured by contract the use of two
columns of the editorial page of that
paper to fill with any matter they
pleased; and they filed it daily with
matter squarely and aggressively OPP
posed to Mr.. Bryan's policies. He re-
tired from the editorship in disgust.
Then John M. Thurston was elected
United States senator and Mr.. Bryan
was left in private life
He re-emergence came in 1896, when
he was sent as a delegate to the Demo
cratic national convention.
First Nominated for President.
David B. Hill, the veteran Demo
cratic leader and United States sena-
tor from New York advocated main
tenance of the existing gold standard.
Bryan replied to him in an impas-
stoned speech against the money
power" and in favor of free silver:
closing with the almost hysterical per-
grafton: "YcU shall not press down
upon the brow of labor this crown of
thorns; you shall not cruelty mankind
upon a cross Of gold"
That utterance stampeded the con-
vention. Mr.. Bryan was nominated for
the Presidency upon a platform de-
handing the immediate remonetiza-
ton of silver and its free coinage at
the ration of sixteen 10 one; and Ar
thur Sewall of Maine, believer in the
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APOPLEXY ENDS
CAREER OF VIM.
JENNINGS BRYAN
Leader Dies in Sleep
WAS APPARENTLY
IN GOOD HEALTH
Had Finished Preparations
for Religious National
Campaign-Country
in Mourning.
Leader Dies in Sleep

Dayton, Tenn.-William Jennings
Bryan died suddenly while he slept in
the afternoon at the residence of
Richard Rogers here. Apoplexy, prob.
ably aggravated by Indigestion, is said
to have been the cause of death.
Bryan was sixty-fve years of age.
Apparently in perfect health, full of
plans to make a nationwide fight for
laws protecting the Bible against the
teaching of evolution, Mr.. Bryan went
to his room for a nap after a hearty
meal.
Mrs. Bryan sent the family chauf-
feur, who also acted as companion to
Mr.. Bryan, to awaken him.
Found Dead in Bed.
The chauffeur found Mr. Bryan ly.
ing in an awkward position on the
bed, as if he had fallen while trying
to rise. There was no sign of heart
action.
Physicians were then summoned.
They found that Mr.. Bryan had been
dead for some minutes.
Mrs. Bryan was in a wheel chair on
the porch when she learned that her
husband was dead She was overcome
with grief. According to their init
mates, no more devoted couple ever
lived
Devoted Couple.
Up to the time of her illness Mrs.
Bryan had made her one object in life
the comfort and care Of her husband,
and since she has been an invalid Mr..
Bryan's tenderness toward her has
been most striking.
Her consolation in his sudden death
was that it took place at a time when
he was happiest.
II am glad that he died without
pain" she said.
Mr.. Bryan was to have left Dayton
shortly for Knoxville, where he was
to make two addresses on the Scopes
trial and to outline his idea OF a ma
tional campaign to arouse the people
to the danger in which he believed the
Christian religion stands today.
Last Triumpha Tour.
Less than twenty-four hours before
his death the Commoner spoke to
great crowd at Winchester, Tenn. He
was in fine form. He delivered a stir
ring speech and took delight in the
applause and In the evident affection
and admiration in which the crowd
held him.
Returning from Winchester, Mr..
Bryan's train was like his famous cleo
ton special of 1896. From the rear
platform he made speech after speech
at each stop, and the crowds cheered
him wildly and kept the train until It's
schedule was thoroughly disjointed.
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OPTIMISM

Things are seldom as bad as we
4 think they will be.
The crepehanger and the prophet of
evil almost always make things worse
than they are.
The case of a neighbor of mine when
] was boy in the country comes to my
mind as l write. He was constantly
obsessed with the thought of drought
and flood, of pestilence and famine, of
cyclones and devourlng insects. He in.
variably took the gloomy view. He
constantly courted disaster and pre-
dicted calamity. and he looked for
ward with melancholy resignation to
the time when he would be quartered
on the county, his home and his friends
gone. Yet he regularly prospered his
crops always matured. prices were
much higher than he had anticipated.
the yield of grain was satisfactory and
he got on we'll. He extended his pos.
sessions regularly, until he is now one
of the solid, substantial farmers in the
community in which he lives. But he
is not happy. Today he is looking for
which have made his life miserable
during his sixty years have never hap
pened
Yesterday morning | woke with the
thought that | had two extremely dis.
agreeable tasks to perform during the
day that involved the saying of things
that would not be pleasant to me nor
to the person who had to listen | felt
like running, l shrank back from the
disagreeable duty. | wished that
might shunt 1t upon some one else.
But found when faced it courageous
and kindly, that most of the disagree
able part disappeared l got through
rather easily.
And so | have found that most of the
Objectionable and disagreeable and
trying experiences of life are worse in
anticipation than in realization. The
trouble and privation and the sacri-
fees that we look forward to with
dread either never come to us or prove
far less trying than we anticipate
Even the dreaded specter of death,
have no doubt, when we come to meet
him face to face, will have lost his
terrors. Most people whom ] have seen
go have done so courageously, fear
lessly, painlessly and often without
regret. Who knows but that the here
after, which we sometimes shrink from,
may not hold for each of us more 10y
and greater opportunities than does
the present? 1t may not be so dull
and monotonous in heaven as we fear,
! even II we are given harp to strum.
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Three Times Nance
d for Presidency of
the United States

When he electrified the Democratic
national convention Of 1896 and won
lts nomination for the Presidency of
the United States with his crown of
thOrns" and "eross Of gold" speech
against the single standard Of none
tary value, William Jennings Bryan
was but little known to the bulk Of the
American nation. He was at that time
only thirty-six years old, the youngest
man ever nominated for the Presi-
dency. He was born at Salem, Marion
county, H., on March 10, 1860.
Young Bryan attended the local pub
Tic schools and at the age of fifteen
entered the Whipple academy at Jack
sonville, ILL.,, to prepare for college.
Two years later he entered the fresh
man class of Illinois college, a small
institution at Jacksonville.
Wins oratorlcaI Honors Early.
During his student life he was shy
and reserved, mingling little In the
sports and social diversions of his fell
lows. He was a fairly good student,
but not brilliant, save, perhaps, in
mathematics and oratory. Indeed, he
had won distinction as an orator long
before going to college.
Entered Politics Early.
In the political campaign Of 1872,
when he was only twelve years old,
his father put him forward to address
a Democratic convention, and although
he was greeted with derislve laughter,
he closed his speech amid hearty and
appreciative applause.
Upon leaving college he began the
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study Of law In the Onion law college
at Chicago and, at the same time, as
a student clerk in the Office Of the emil
nent jurist and statesman, Lyman
Trumbull, of whom Mr.. Bryan said in
later years: "Any distinction l have
gained 1 owe in great part to him."
Reflects TrumbuPs Influence.
Trumbull had been leading Demo
crat; then on the slavery issue he be-
came Republican and as such had a
distinguished career in the United
States senate but he refused to vote
for the Impeachment of Andrew Jack
son, and in consequence at the end of
his term retired to private life. There
after he inclined strongly toward radi-
calism in politics and especially urged
governmental restraint OF what he
conceived to be the too great power
Of concentrated wealth. Doubtless Mr..
Bryan received from him many of the
economic ideas which he afterward
advocated.
AS a lawyer Mr.. Bryan was not not
uDly successful. some OF MS aSSOcl-
ates said that he suffered from 1.-THE
fatal gift of language" He was more
given to talking than to studying; his
OratO:y was more eloquent than his
law was sound.
A year after his admission to the
bar he married Miss Mary Elizabeth
Baird, the only daughter of a pros
porous merchant of Perry, H., whom
he had known and courted in his col
lege days. Soon after their marriage
Mr.. Bryan went to the Union Law col
lege, pursued the full course, and then,
when they removed to Nebraska was
admitted to practice at the bar of that
state. The removal to Lincoln, Neb.,
was made in 1887, on the invitation of
Mr.. Bryans former chum at college,
Adolphus r. Talbot, with whom a law
partnership was formed under the
style of Talbot and Bryan
The next year, 1888, saw the young
mans entry into practical politics. He
was sent as a delegate to the Demo-
cratic state convention at Omaha.
In Congress in 1890.
Mr.. Bryan was first elected to con-
gress in 1890. In 1892 he was re-elect-
ed to congress by the narrow majority
of 14Q. During that congress. the Eff
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GROWTH OR DECAY

NIE HAD been talking about the
w Gibsons, Nancy and l. They had
been absent from meeting which they
were supposed to attend, and had re-
marked upon the fact-not that their
presence would have added to the in
terest or progress of the meeting, but
they simply hadn't been there.
They're at Miami. spending the
winter" Nancy explained. "but it
doesn't matter much where they are,
for they don't count wherever they are.
They haven't developed any in forty
years."
And yet when they were young peo-
pie the Gibsons had been very active
and very influential in the community
in which they lived. They both had a
fair education and normal brains.
They were church people and leaders
In the church which they attended.
Gibson was a good farmer when they
were married, and she a careful house
keeper, and when they moved into
town. he showed nlmsel1 a snrew0
business man. But that was good
many years ago.
They didn't read any; they never
changed their viewpoint on anything.
AS new social and economic conditions
developed the Gibsons did things in
the same old way. They did not grow,
and like all things living, when they
ceased to grow, decay set in.
Gibson Is still as rigid in his re-
ligious views as Is our famous Ne
braska Democrat. He has probably
never heard of the doctrine OF evOlu-
ton, and he still believes in all the
details relating to Jonah and the whale.
For him there has been no develop
ment in religious thought; he is still
way back where he was fifty years ago.
The Watsons see nothing to COM
mend in modern dress or the ways of
modern society. They are very old
fashioned, not that being old-fashioned
is to be condemned excepting as 1t
puts one out of touch and out of SYM
pathy with society.
Watson still keeps his old farm, and
he operates 1t exactly as he did when,
as young fellow, he first went onto
it. He has little faith in modern dis
coveries, in scientific processes, in any.
thing that is new in agriculture.
Watson politically is a stand-patter
He hasn't changed his political views
since just after the Civil war. He is
as deeply emersed in political dark
ness as those Democrats in the Ten
nessee mountains, who are said to be
still voting for Andrew Jackson.
There Is no standing still for any
thing living We grow or we decay;
we grow better or worse; we go for
ward or we step back 1t isn't enough
to have been once good or wise or use
full. We just keep on developing,
When we stop growing, death has
hpplln
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months ago. when Mr.. Bryan was pass
Ing through Washington, the President
hau him to lunch. Though different in
almost every conceivable respect. the
two men seemed to have what seemed
sometimes to observers to amount to
an attraction for each other.
Mr.. Coolidge could stand for the high
tariff or any other issue which Bryan
thought pernicious, without creating in
Bryan's mind any thought of criticism.
In the same way Mr.. Coolidge was al
ways very soft spoken when 1t came
to speaking of Bryan.
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Solution of Last Weeks Puzzle.
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President Shocked by
Death of Conimoner

Swampscott. President Coolidge
was profoundly shocked at the news
of the death OF William Jennings
Bryan. While carefully making no
comment on the legal controversy
which marked the last phase of the
picturesque and spectacular life Of the
Commoner, the President has been fol-
lowing II with profound interest.
Mr.. Coolidge has always been keenly
interested in Mr.. Bryan. Jwt two
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Mr.. BRYAN's CAREER

1SeO-BOrn at galem, I'LL. March
10.
1SS1-Was graduated from I'LL
nOfs college, Jacksonville, Ill.
1SS3-Was graduated from Union
College of Law, Chicago, and be-
gan practice In Jacksonville.
1SS4-Married Mary e. Bair at
Perry, Ill.
1SS7-MOved to Lincoln, Neb.
1S9O-EIected to congress.
1S92-Attracted attention by his
tariff speech.
1SO3-OppOsed the repeal of the
Sherman silver purchase act.
1S96-EditOr of the Omaha
WOrId-HeraId.
1S96-Nominated for President.
1S9S-COlOnel of Nebraska vol
Hnteers.
10OO-NOminated for President.
1SO5-08-Made tour of the world.
10OS-NOminated for President.
1013-Secretary of state for
President Wilson.
1915-Retired from Wilson cab
met.
IS25-Lender in prosecution In
scopes evolution case.
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Mar, of Integrity

There is nothing so delightful as
the hearing or the speaking of truth,
says Plato. For this reason there, is
no conversation so agreeable as that
of the man Of integrity who hears
without any intention to betray and
speaks without any intention to de-
ceive.
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Bryan's death. It is believed here,
will have profound effect on the
course of American politics in the
next few years.
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modated at hotel in Marblehead.
Major James Coupal, of Boston, the
military physician, will be at a
Swampscott hotel.
Office Suite
"For the conduct of official White
House business, a suite of six offices
in the Security Trust Company
building at Lynn, three miles from
White Court, has been obtained
through an offer of the Lynn Cham
Der of Commerce"
Daily schedule at white Court"
is not expected to involve more than
a minimum of entertainment. Plans
have been made to afford the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge every oppor-
funity to rest. 1t is probable they
will take several more or less ex-
tended trips on the 'Mayfiower" and
daily automobile rides along the
North Shore roads, when weather
permits.
Just how long the President will
remain here is not known. In all
probability he will spend some time
at the home of his father in
Plymouth, VT, before his vacation
ends
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SUMMER WHITE
HOUSE LOCATED
In View OF SEA
Swampscott Home Charm
ing Mansion for Vaca-
ton of CooIidges.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, May a.
white Court" leased as a Summer
White House" for President and
Mrs. Coolidge, is a spacious null
tigabled mansion situated on the
shore of the Atlantic ocean here,
sixteen miles from Boston, overlook
ing massachusetts Bay.
A more ideal spot for the Presi-
dents days off" probably could not
have been found. Adjoining the six
and one half acre estate Is the sum-
mer home of Frank w. Stearns,
close friend and advisor Of the
President. Three miles up the Bay
Is aff excellent anchorage for the
"Mayflower," at Marblehead. With
in easy motoring distance is the
Tedesco Golf Club, and at the foot
Of a gently sloping, ample lawn is
an artificial swimming pool, an en-
closed arm of the sea. On the beach
is a private driveway for horseback
riding.
Broad Verandas
Broad verandas, which surround
white Court" on three sides, a..
ford a commanding view across the
lawns to the ocean. A beautiful
formal garden spreads out from the
rear of the house, and a group OF
stately elms shadows the approach
from the road.
The Summer White House" is
about a mile from the central part
Of the town, shielded off from traffic
on a quiet point on the coast. 1t
is two and one-half stories high, con.
tains twenty-six rooms and recently
has been renovated in preparation
for the Presidents occupancy.
The immediate members of the
presidential party will stay at
white Court" while officers Of the
Mayflower, and Lieut.. Commander
Joel Boone, the Presidents naval
physician, will probably be accom-
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need LARGER
DlRIGIBLES TO
REACH ARCTIC
German Explorer Shows
Necessity for Special
Equipment.
BIZ Times SpeciaI

BIZ Times Special
BERLIN, May 22.-"None Of the
existing dirigibles is fit for polar
trip--it needs a giant airship to as
sure success" declared Captain
Walter Bruins, former Zeppelin COM
mander, who is preparing for an ex-
petition to the UNEMPLOYED vastnesses
of the North Pole by airsbip.
According to Captain Bruins view
to reach the pole an airship must
have a capacity Of at least 100000
cubic meters. Four powerful motors
are needed to drive it at rate Of at
least 100 kilometers per hour, while
at least enough fuel for a hundred
hours is required for the trip.
Need Fifty Men
In order to make the trip Of any
scientific value, the airship must be
manned by a crew of fifty men, in
cludiyg scientists and a number of
wireless operators who are needed
to establish continuously the bear
ings o. the ship. 1t is impossible to
take the bearings with the ordinary
apparatusses. The magnetic COM
pass ceases to be reliable the nearer
the ship gets to the pole, and the
modern rotating compass, which is a
great value in navigation otherwise,
fails completely in the artics.
Even the wireless would fail to
establish the ships bearings, unless
the wireless stations whose radius
Of action covers the polar area are
enlarged and increased in number.
Wireless Enlarged
Captain Bruins suggests that the
wireless stations Of Dickson Har-
bour, Siberia, and Spitzbergan be
enlarged, while new stations should
be erected at Nome or Mackenzie in
Alaska, and at Anadyr or the mouth
OF the River Lena in Siberia.
Bruins claims the airship industry
is able to construct dirigible that
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Probably one of the most
well-known policemen in the
colored districts is Sergt. Wal
ter Barmfuhrer. He was as
signed to that territory all dur
ing the administration of the
late Sam Perrott as chief of
police.
Recently the present admin
istration saw fit to promote
"Bunfrey," as he is called, and
he was made a sergeant. He
again covers the northwest di-
vision, which takes in the col.
ored section.
He works from II p. nj. untol
z a.. m, and when not on duty
can be found about his home,
1924 Orange st. He was ap-
pointed Sept. IL, 1912.
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speed, efficiency, and safety,
although the cost would be high.
Even with such a giant, explor-
ing Of the unknown Artic remains
difficult" he said. at Is by no
means as easy task 81 laymen are
wont to believe after the achieve
ments of the ZR Los Angles), in
her trans-oceanic flight"
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