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NO DOUBT Mr. Cortelyou for the
Republicans, and whoever may be
chosen executive chairman for the
Democrats, this year, will begin the ac
tive campaign with due respect for the
task which Is before them. No doubt,
too, each will acquire Increased respect
for his job in the months that will lnter
vene between now and election day.
There are many old and -wise politicians
who believe much less really depends
upon the work of the executive commit
tee and its chairman than is popularly
supposed; that the election Is really car
ried by a sort of psycho-political under
tow, so to speak, and that unless tho
voting public is very delicately balanced
at the beginning of the campaign, the
committee's efforts are really not of
much consequence.
But even these men admit that two or
three technical blunders, half a dozen
ill-advised speeches or even one, for that
matter are sufficient to turn an almost
certain victory into a disastrous defeat,
as Blaine was defeated In 1SS4 by Bur
chard's famous "three R" outbreak. Be
vond peradventure the executive chair
man whose campaign Is not crowned
with victors' this year, will find his sub
sequent political career a thorny one.
He will be almost as much of a perma
nent "has-been" as ex-Presidents are
popularly supposed to be. .
It does not follow, however, that the
winner will march on to great political
preferment. William F. Harrlty, of Penn
sylvania, was the last Democratic execu
tive chairman to win a campaign, by
electing Cleveland In 1S92, but he has
never cut so much of a figure in political
life since as he did that jear. Mr. Cleve
land rewarded him with nothing, the
overwhelming Republican sentiment of
Pennsylvania precluded his getting any
thing direct from the people, and the
world at large has heard little of him in
the last dozen years.
Thomas H. Carter, of Montana, his op
ponent, on the other hand, who was the
last executive chairman to lead the Re
publican forces to defeat, while never
holding a Cabinet place, or other position
of National Importance, has served his
state a good part of the time in the
Senate at Washington, and has stood
much higher in the councils of his party
than Mr. Harrlty has in the councils of
Vacations.
yTJ O one neecs & acation. Vacations
I s do more narfh than good," Rus
sell Sage said the other day, and since the
appearance of that astonishing statement
there has been a great deal of vacation
talk among city men.
"Permit me," said a city man, "to throw
the light -upon one side of the vacation
question. I am a bookkeeper, and my
salary is $28 a week. My hours are from
8 till 5, with an hour off at noon, and
for 50 weeks in the year I work at my
desk regularly.
"Then, in July or August, I take two
weeks of rest a vacation. I kept a diary
of my vacation last year, and from it I
have compiled a number of facts. These
facts I have arranged In tabular form,
and now I'll run them over to you."
He read from a small leather book:
"Weight at beginning of vacation, 1C5
pounds.
"Hour of retiring during vacation, S to
"Hour of rising during vacation, 8 to 9
A. M.
"Average amount of sleep, five hours.
"Number of cigars smoked daily, 13 to
17.
"Daily quantity of alcoholic stimulant, 5
to 8 glasses whisky, 7 to 15 glasses beer.
"Dally average of alcoholic stimulant,
one-half pint whisky, three quarts beer.
"Daily average of cigars, 15.
"Dally income, W 50.
"Dally expenditure, HO to $18.
"Daily saving, minus $8.
. "Dally amount of exercise, none.
"Weight at end of vacation, 15
pounds.
"Average dally loss of weight, one
pound
"Now," said the bookkeeper, "contrast,
with that table a table of my workaday
life."
He turned a leaf and read:
'Weight at beginning of year's work,
150 pounds.
''Hour of retiring. 10 P. M.
"Hour of rising, 7 A. M.
"Average amount of sleep 9 hours.
"Number of dally cigars, 2.
"Dally quaetity of alcohol, none.
"Daily income, S4 50. x
"Daily expenditure, $3.
"Daily saving, 5L50.
"Dally amount of exercise. 30 minutes.
"Weight at end of year, 163 pounds."
- He closed his leather book.
"During my 50 weeks of work," he said,
"my health is excellent. I sleep like a
top. I am temperate in everything. I
gain steadily in weight and steadily my
bank account Increases.
"The absolute freedom of my two
Tveeks vacation undoes me. I sit up all
night. I smoke and drink to excess. I
feel poorly all the time. On my return,
to work I am pale and weak and thin,
and my bank account is pale and weak
and thin.
"I don't know how many young men
ihere are w-hot like mo, injure instead
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his. Mr. Hanna's career after the execu
tive chairmanship of two successful cam
paigns was more satisfactory, perhaps,
than that of any man who has ever filled
the place. William P. St. John, who led
the Brvan campaign in 1896, died of grief
and disappointment, and John K. Jones,
of Arkansas, -who conducted the Bryan
campaign in 1900, has not had much pow
er in public affairs In the last four years.
There has been a good deal of change
in practical campaigning in Presidential
vears since 18S4. The executive commit
tee's work is more extensive than former
ly, its employes are more numerous, and
it has to spend several times as much
money as it used to. There Is a wide
spread notion that a large proportion of
the average campaign committee's expen
ditures are along lines that may not be
discussed in print, but this Is certain
the legitimate expenses of every execu
tive committee, nowadays, are quite large
enough to tax severely any fund the loyal
members of its party are likely to ad
vance. Mr. Hanna had a good deal to do with
the raising of the funds for- the two
campaigns which he conducted, but it is
probable that Mr. Cortelyou will confine
himself more strictly to the executive
side of the world. Cornelius N. Bliss, who
will be treasurer, as he has been for
three campaigns, will have direct charge
of the money getting, but Mr. Cortolyou
will have the absorbing task of deciding
how to spend It. This Ir bound to bo
puzzling as well as absorbing.
Will Establish Seven Bureaus.
As far back as 1S92 the committee funds
were so big in mere bulk that the putting
of them where they would do the most
good Involved business acumen of the
highest order, and the selection of a lot
of lieutenants, each of whom was an
expert in some practleal line. Ev er since
that year the evolution of the executive
committee's work has been advancing In
the same direction. Entirely aside from
the subtleties of political management,
Mr. Cortelyou and his Democratic oppo
nent will this ear have to organize and
conduct tho following departments:
Bureau of printing, for the production of
the millions of "pieces" of "documents"
with which they will have to flood the
country.
Bureau of distribution, for the circu
lation of these documents.
Bureau of translation, to put Into Pol-
Msh, Hungarian, Yiddish, Scandinavian,
ODDITIES
of improve themselves on their vacations.
But all such young men will, I'm sure,
admit that there Is some truth in Rus
sell Sage's claim that no one needs a va
cation; that vacations do more harm than
good."
Superstitions of Pennsylvania Dutch.
1 YOUNG woman in a Bucks County
tavern, cut off a lock of yellow hair
and threw it into the fire. ,
It burnt with a feeble and dull flame,
and soon went out.
"Oh, dear," she cried. "That is a sign
that I won't live long."
Then she explained gravely that and
other superstitions of the Pennsylvania
Dutch.
"If a lock of your hair burns bright
and long," she said, "you will have a
happy life of 70 years or more; but if it
burns weakly and soon goes out, your life
will be both sad and short.
"To test our sweetheart's humor, make
him stir the fire. If he stirs it to a
hearty blase, he is good-humored. If
he makes It smoke and fade, he Is hard
to live with.
"If you walk backwards, the errand
you are bound on at the tlmo will fall.
"To cure warts, rub a black snail over
them, but the snail must afterwards be
Impaled on a rose thorn.
"To prevent cramp, wear an eelskln
garter about the left leg below the knee.
"The first person to enter your house
on New Year's day will, if he be light
haired, bring bad luck to you; If dark
haired, good luck.
"If the fire goes out on New Year's
eve, trouble is foreboded."
Lack of Humor In Birds.
R. IRDS have no sense of humor,"
B
"This fact impressed Itself on mo last
month In Canada.
"I had taken, to facilitate my nature
studies, a cottage on the outskirts of a
Canadian village. My cottage fronted a
cemetery, and a day or two after my ar
rival a stonecarver erected over a new
grave a cross cut to look like wood.
"As I sat on my piazza one morning, a
woodpecker flew to the stone cross and
pecked at it, mistaking it for oak or ma
ple. Finding he could make no dents in
it, he must have thought that there was
something wrong with his bill, for he
flew to a neighboring tree, and pecked at
the bark a moment.
"Plainly his bill was all right. He flew
back to the cross again. Peck, peck,
peck, he went. His bill must have hurt
horribly. But all bis pecking had. of
course, no effect upon the granite cross.y
"He flew away. In ten minutes he re
turned with a dozen other woodpeckers.
He led them straight to the cross, and
then he stood off a little, to watch. With
a microscope, perhaps, I would have seen
a twinkle In his eye.
"For it U clear .that thi& bird, ira a
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Finnish and a dozen, other of the "un- .
known tongues" the political gospel with j
which the foreign-speaking voters of the I
country should be made familiar.
Bureau of oratory, to train and "gen
eral" the army of "spellbinders" which
each committee will deem It necessary
to send out over the land.
Bureau of Information, to gather Inside
political news from the pivotal states.
Bureau of publicity, to furnish the news
papers with all the favorable news that
can be gathered, and to keep from the
public all the news of the other sort
that can possible be suppressed.
Bureau of general supplies Banners,
portraits, campaign songs, badges, torch
lights and all sorts of political glmcracks
to which executive committees, whether
wisely or otherwise, always give much
attention.
The proper way to do this work is, of
course, to place each bureau or enact
ment in the'Tiands of an expert,' and It
will be an early duty of each executive
chairman to find and fix upon the men
to act as such experts. This alone will
be a good deal of a task, since the ap
plications for places on the committee
staff are always much more numerous
than the places, and all the applicants
are pretty well backed by men who are
Influential In the party's councils. The
mere selection of committee employes Is
almost always made a matter of politics.
Sometimes this adds materially to tho
chairman's perplexities.
It Isn't likely, as a matter of fact, that
all departments mentioned will be for
mally organized in the manner indicated,
but all the sorts of work named a"nd many
more will have to be done, and the closer
the organization, the more definite the
dividing line between the departments.
AND eUTUOS'FKOM
humorist. He had brought his friends
to the cross to see them peck It till their
bills, like his, were sore. He was going
to play a practical Joke on them.
"His Joke succeeded perfectly. The birds
pecked at the cross, first gently, then
harder and harder, till, finally, they were
hitting It with all their strength. A
great chattering filled the air, a shrill
twitter of amazement, perplexity and
pain.
"Suddenly the twitter became angry,
and all the birds flew at the humorist,
who must have announced, just then, his
little Joke.
"And he, a terror-stricken fugitive,
darted off at top speed. But they soon
surrounded him. They filled the air with
their cries of rage.
"I looked up. The birds were directly
over my head. In the clear blue of the
sky I saw the poor little humorist In the
middle, and the others. In a circle around
him, darting In, one at a time, to punish
him .with bill and with claw.
"In a little while he fell. He fell be
side me. I could have caught him In my
hand. He was bleeding and torn. For a
moment his wings quivered. Then a
glase spread over his tiny eyes. His Joke
had not been appreciated, and the humor
ist was dead."
A Talking Book.
' H HIS is an interesting novelty.
said
a dealer In toys. He opened a
child's picture book to the picture of a
cow, and at the same time he pulled a
slender silk cord. The cow's mouth opened
and a sonorous "moo" was given forth.
A cock was on the next page, and when
his cord was pulled he flapped his wings
and cried "cock-a-doodle-do."
And thus the dealer, turning the pages,
showed lions that ruffled their manes and
roared, dogs that stood on their hind
legs and barked, cats that arched their
backs and meowed, snakes that wriggled
and hlsped, and children that turned their
heads from side to side and said "papa"
and "mamma."
The dealer said the book came from
Paris. There was a bellows inside each
picture, that, on being compressed by the
silk cord, caused the proper sound to Issue
forth.
"This is a fine book for a child to have,"
he said. "Unfortunately, though, it is too
expensive for any but rich children:"
Paper Fields.
THE strawberries seemed to spring
from a soil of paper. As far as
the eye could reach white paper spread,
and through holes cut in it the bright
green strawberry plants sprouts in
straight rows.
"This waterproof paper," said the farm
er, "is an Idea of my own. The paper is
spread over the whole field, and a hole ls
cut in it, just the right size, for each
plant.
"What Is the-advaatase? Well the ad-
OREGONIAfcV PORTLAND,
the more effectively will tho campaign
be run.
Besides, there will have to be an edl-
torlal council, or document committee, or
something of the sort, to decide upon and
put Into form the general facts which the
committee as a whole believe should be
fed out to the public, and the arguments
which should be used to drive them home.
This, of course, is one of the most Im
portant tasks before the executive com
mittee. Naturally, each committee has
its own way of going about it. In the
Bryan campaigns it is understood that the
candidate himself had the final word on
all the great documents; Mr. McKinley's
voice was certainly a potent factor in
deciding what should be put out in his
two campaigns, and there is at least a
possibility that Mr. Roosevelt will have
something to say about the Republican
documents this ear. But no matter who
else, has a -flihjer in the "document" tple.
the chairman must necessarily exercise
the gulldin band If he Is to be chairman
in fact as well as In name. Mr. Hanna
understood this very well and exercised
his prerogative accordingly.
' Campaign Text-Book.
The campaign text-book Is beyond all
others the most Important document of
the campaign, and Its preparation in
volves the most anxious care. It must
present practically all the strong points
of the party and the candidate. It must
be packed with facts and figures, and the
facts and figures must be so accurate and
so well arranged that the opposition can
not easily pull them apart or refute
them. The book must not only present
the strong points of its own party and
vantage Is that the soil under the paper,
getting neither sunlight nor moisture,
grows nothing, and thus there are no
weeds choking the vines, that must be
rooted -ouT time and again, with much
expense "and labor.
Annthr arivantneft Ls that the soil's
whole strength ls concentrated on the 1
strawberry. None of it is wasted on
grass or other useless growth of any kind.
With this scheme I count on a crop a
quarter larger, and on berries a quarter
bigger. I am a modern farmer, and be
sides my strawberries I raise seedless
apples and seedless watermelons on this
farm, while on my Florida plantation I
raise seedless oranges.
A Blood Test.
ti
0
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primitive," said a Coroner. "Sup
pose, for instance, that you lay In Jail
under an accusation of murder, and there
was a stain like blood on your sleeve.
Well, we'd have cut out. In the past, the
piece of cloth containing the stain; we'd
have laid it on a watch glass; we'd have
added a little water, and after an hour's
soaking we'd have added a little concen
trated sulphuric acid. Then an odor
would have arisen, and by that odor the
nature of the blood would have been de-
termlned.
"For instance, if it had been human
blood, an odor of humanity such an odor
as any huge crowd has would be given
off. If it had been shep's blood, the
sharp, sweet, oily smell of wool would
have arisen. A frog's blood would have
given off the smell of marshy reeds; a
fish's blood, a fishy smell; a pig's blood,
the 'acrid odor of -a piggery."
The Coroner smiled.
"At least," he said, "it was claimed
that these various bloods gave off these
distinctive smells. Whether they really
did or not ls more than I can say. I pro
pose to experiment some day and find out.
"Blood tests in the past, correct or in
correct, did no great harm. They were
not considered infallible. A man was
never hanged on the unsupported evi
dence of a blood test."
Barbers Have It Hard.
MANY barber, to escape wrinkles and
baldness, have their faces and scalps
massaged twp or three times a week. If a
barber is bald or wrinkled he cannot ob
tain work in a first-class shop nowadays;
for all the first-class shops have become
beauty parlors; in them as much time is
given over to massage and scalp treat
ment as to shaving and hair-cutting, and
the operators, therefore, must have un
llned faces and good hair, otherwise
they are living examples of the futility
of the expensive treatments that they
give.
In the past if a Barber was good with
the razor and sclssorsj that was all 'that
was required, of 'him. But today, he must
TTTfrY 10r 1904.
candidate, but it must select the weak
est points of the opposing party. It must
be well Indexed, too, and it must cover
all loopholes, since it Is to be used as
a book of reference both by the speak
ers who go forth to convince the voters
and the editors of the party papers In all
parts of the Republic.
Generally the text-book is the product
of many trained minds. Senators and
Representatives, famous political leader
writers, financiers ..and tariff specialists
all take a hand, each furnishing some
thing for the chapters about the sub
ject on which he is best informed. There
was a text-book one year, however,
which waa produced almost without help
by a politico-Journalistic genius, who
shut himself utterly away from the world
lor the space of a fortnight while he
turned out the work.
No ore In authority except the chair
man meant to have the text-book got up
in that way, and there was much grum
bling about it while the book was being
put together. The grumbling became a
howl of dismay soon after the first copies
were received at headquarters, when it
was discovered that the genius had for
got all about the index. The howling
was redoubled when it was seen that ono
of the chapters took ground on a certain
Important question In diametrical oppo
sition to the published and known views
of the candidate on that subject. Natu
rally, there followed the most frantic ef
forts to prevent the opposition from get
ting hold of an early copy, an Index was
at once prepared, and the objectionable
chapter was changed radically.
The arrival of the first copies of the
text-book at executive headquarters is a
VARIOUS SOCTRCES
understand, In addition to shaving and
halr-cuttlng, facial massage, scalp mas
sage and the various operations conduct
ed with fire, with creams and with oils
that are supposed to make the hair grow,
and, furthermore, with his thick, bright
locks and his face as firm and unllned as
a child's, he must be a perfect proof that
his n.assages, slngelngs and creams are
good things that do actually ward off age.
Hence barbers, as a mere matter of live
lihood, give more care to the preservation
of their vouthful looks than actresses or
society women do.
Blind Boys' Football.
FOOTBALL and many other outdoor
games are played by the blind, certain
changes being made so that in each game
the sense of hearing takes tho place of
sight.
In football, for Instance, a tiny bell ls
fastened to the ball, and by the bell's
tinkle the ball's location Is determined.
The blind delight In races, of all sorts.
They do not run toward a tape, as tho
seeing do, but toward a bell that Jangles
briskly.
It is odd to see the blind at their games.
They play gravely and they maintain a
profound silence, for, If they made a
noise, the voices of their guiding bells
could not be heard.
Quakers' Attempt to Convert Pope.
7F PHILADELPHIA Friend has an
t odd little book that describes the
unsuccessful attempt of two Quakers,
In 1660, to convert the Pope. The names
of these zealots were John Perrot and
Charles Baylie. They were impris
oned in Rome for their pains, but in
their confinement they were kindly
treated, and as soon as they promised
to leave Rome they were released.
The Philadelphlan's little volume,
which was printed in 1661, only con
tains 16 pages. The first 10 pages are
by Perrot, and the final six are by Bay
He. The following paragraph (Bay
lie's) ls a sample of the style:
'From thence I was carried to the
Pazzarella, which was the Prison of
Mad Men; and the Lord said unto me.
Thou shalt speak to the Pope. ...
And by the way I met the Pope car
ried in great pomp; as it was the good
will of the Lord that I should speak
unto him, men could not prevent It, and
when he came nigh, the people being
on their knees each side of him. I cried
to him with a loud voice In the Italian
tongue, To do the thing that was Just,
and to release the Innocent, and whilst
I was speaking, the man which led me
had not power to take me away until
I had done."
The Pope was not affected by that
loud cry, and Charles Baylie was re
turned to prison, wrhere Perrot already
lay. Thelr reloaae waa thus described;
WHAT THE TWO BIG CAMPAIGN MANAGERS
WILL DO NEXT MONTH. '
red-letter day in every campaign. Until
then everybody in the bureau of pub
licity and the bureau of oratory Is work
ing somewhat in the dark, because the
keynote has not yet been struck. As soon
as the books come in there is a general
re-energlzlng of forces, so to speak. Cop
ies are hastily sent away to the Intending
speakers and to the newspapers, and
every one feels that the real work of the
campaign Is about to begin.
Naturally, each executive committee is
almost as anxious to get hold of the op
position text-book as it 13 of Its own,
and it has happened that advance cop
ies have found tholr way into the enemy's
camp through the liberally tipped hands
of employes In the printing offices where
the books were turned out.
Must Be Adjustable.
Unlike most of the documents, the text
book la not always circulated generally
among the voters. Thus a party may
have a definite financial policy which It
Is desirable to give chief prominence In
one state and a definite tariff policy
which should be made the all-important
feature of the campaign in another. The
text-book will emphasize both of these
policies alike, but it would be folly to
force finance upon the "voters In a state
which cared only for the tariff, or to
crowd the tariff down the throats of
voters In a state where money was- the
chief issue.
The wise executive chairman, then, may
need to see that the text-book, emphasiz
ing all the party's policies, goes only to
the party leaders who are well rooted
and grounded if tlie true political faith,
reserving for the general run of voters
In each state those documents that en
force the doctrines with which they are
moat In sjmpathy. It is a political tra
dition that an Important state was all
but lost to one of the big parties In one
of the most recent Important elections
because "money documents" were" sent
to a state which was hungering for
strong tariff meat, while two or three
originally doubtful states were carried
overwhelmingly by the same party be
cause the right sort of "literature" was
sent to them.
It Is In matters of this sort that Mr.
Cortelvou and his Democratic opponent
J will be able to show the possession of
political genius or the reverse, and it
may be that the battle will be lost and
won this year along just such lines. The
"Soon after, the Lord, by an out
stretched arm, wrought our deliver
ance, being condemned to perpetual
galley-slavery, if ever we returned
again unto Rome."
John Perrot, the Philadelphia Friend
says, thought It his mission to convert
not only the Pope, but the whole world,
tq the Quaker faith. He wrote "epis
tles" to the Turks, the Greeks, the
French and the Spanish. He Journeyed
to Turkey and Greece, and In each of
these countries he was imprisoned. He
was a headstrong, rash man. That is
why, no doubt, his missionary work
was unsuccessful.
Horseflesh and Beef.
AMERICAN meat inspectors, when
it Is their ambition to know their
business thoroughly, often take a
course In Pals.
"In Paris," said a meat inspector,
"you can learn all about horse flesh.
That is an important matter, for horse
flesh, you know, is now used to some
extent in America.
"Here are some means of distinguish
ing between horse flesh and beef:
"Raw horse flesh is a brownish red in
color, whereas in raw beef there is no
brown. Raw horse flesh is soft and
tenacious; touch it, and the finger
sinks in, while, as you withdraw the
flnger, the tissues rise with it and cling
to It, as though Intermixed with glue.
But raw beef is not soft nor tenacious
in this way. Raw horse flesh, further
more, has an odd, metallic smell.
"Cooked horse flesh is denser than
beef. It is as dense as a lump of
cheese. In taste it is sweet a sweet
ness sickening to my mind.
"The best test for horse flesh ls to
take a piece of the fat and melt it.
Horse fat will melt to a clear oil at so
low a temperature as 70 degrees Fah
renheit, but beef fat won't melt to a
clear oil under a temperature of 112
degrees."
GaskHl's Compendium.
THE bank clerk, a man of 50, took
up a fine pen and wrote bis name
with innumerable shadings, flourishes
and hairlines.
Regarding- the signature, which
like some sort of decoration, he sighed.
"I got my picture In a magazine for
writing like that 20 years ago," he said.
"Now, if I wrote like that, I'd lose my
position.
"A business hand, in my youth, was
composed of flourishes. Everybody
wrote after the manner of Gaskill's
Compendium. Gaskill, a millionaire,
taught penmanship by a kind of cor
respondence system. He advertised
more liberally than any one of his time.
All the magazines each month had 'be
fore and after specimen of the writ
las of. his students, together, with
S3
Coach me .
THE SPELLaiMDERSl
instruction of the speakers for each part
of the country must be based on tho
same principles, of course; it would be
absurd to assail the voters through tho
eve with one line of talk, and through
the ear with another.
Hanna's Excellent Judgment.
It was In sending out the right matter
to the right places that Mr. Hanna
showed most excellent judgment, and he
had a rule which both executive chair
men may well paste in their hats and
consult often this ear. This rule was
to send nothing to any state that was
not approved thoroughly by the state
committee of that state.
Mr. Hanna got the experience which
prompted this course many years ago,
when he was beginning to muo note
worthy headway In business. He rarely
went counter to the judgment of his de
partment heads In the conduct of his
enterprises, because. a3 he said, they
were on the ground and knew more In a
minute about their departments than he
could learn In a year; and he never went
counter to the judgment of a state com
mittee chairman with reference to tho
political literature the state should have.
The work of the executive chairman
has been both complicated and simpli
fied within the past few years by certain
changes with regard to "headquarters."
In the old days the executive committee
of each party used to establish itself In
a private house on Fifth avenue in New
York. Mr. Hanna established one head
quarters for the East in a centrally lo
cated business skyscrapqr in New York.
For the West he established another
headquarters In a Chicago business build
ing. and throughout the campaign ha
divided his attention between the two.
This made it necessary for him to spend
much time on the railroad, and added
somewhat to his personat fatigue, but It
did away with the old jealousy between
the West and the East, and It kept the
campaign going all the time both East
and West. Both Bryan campaigns were
also run on the dual headquarters plan,
and it has probably come to stay In Pres
idential campaigns.
Washington has often been urged as a
good place for executive committee head
quarters, but has never been accepted by
either paity, though both of them choose
Washington invariably as headquarters
for the Congressional committee.
OSBORN SPENCER.
photographs of the students them
selves. And, in a word, this school of
penmanship, under the name of Gas
kill's Compendium, was as popular and
successful as Is the foremost of tho
breakfast foods today.
"What a change! All that ls gone.
"A modern business hand is plain,
like print. It is up and down, and thera
Ik not a flourish In it. Flourishes,
which were the very soul of Gaskill's
Compendium, It abjures.
"What I often ask myself Is, 'What
has become of Gaskill's Compendium?
Is it campaigning in some other quar
ter of the globe a quarter friendly to
its flourishes and shadings or is It
dead?' I suppose it ls dead, killed by
the plain hand that arose in protest
against its too ornamental manner."
Coffee a Disinfectant.
rv RINK plenty of -coffee If there 13
wJr sickness around you," said a
physician. "Coffee ls a good preventive
of typhoid fever and cholera.
"This haB been proven. Cholera
germs and typhoid germs have been
throwun Into coffee, and the aromatic
drink has not once failed to kill the
germs within an hour.
"Hence, amid contagious' couditions,
do not neglect, among your other pre
cautions, to drink three cups of strong
coffee at each meal."
Stitch Your Own Veils.
Every day sees something new in.
chiffon veils. The plain ones, shaded
from a pale cahmpagne color to a gold
en brown, or from the faintest pink to
the fashionable American Beauty rose
color are both pleasing to the eye and
becoming. These veils, to be really
up-to-date must not be plain-hemmed.
They must be hemstitched by hand.
The very wealthy pay from 512 to
$18 for a veil finished In this way, but
the woman who is clever with her
hands buys the veiling by the yard at
small cost and hemstitches it for her
self. The machine-hemmed veil 13 to
be avoided as one would the plague by
the personage who prides herself on.
her get-up.
A Sample of Mnemonics.
Washington Times.
The wife of a distinguished Congress
man Is enduring some good-natured chaff
over the recent failure of a theory which
she has held as to the uses of memory
systems. Not long ago at a large dinner
sne was telling of a remarkably gifted
man whom she had lately met, but whoso
name had escaped her.
"I am sure," she said, while the com
pany waited eagerly for the system to
work, "I am sure his name, began wita
B, and had three syllables" a long pauso.
"Oh, ye3, I remember," she announced
I Anally: "It was Moore."
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