170UR PRESIDENTS PEP POE OOTIIER) » By JAMES MORGAN WAITED HIS TURN WILLIAM McKINLEY 1843—January 29," Willlam Me- Kinley born at Niles, O. 1861.65—In the Civil war. 1867—Became a lawyer In Can- ton, O. 1869.71—Prosecuting attorney of his county. 1871-—Married Ida Saxton, 1877-91—Member of congress. 1892.96 Governor of Ohio. 1896—June, McKiniey nominat- ed for president by the Republican national con- ventiod at St. Louis. No- vember, elected. 1897-—March 4, William McKin. ley inaugurated 24th President, aged fifty-four. 1898-—Feb., 15, the battieship Maine blown up in Ha vana Harbor, April 21, War declared against Spain, July 7, Hawail annexed. Aug. 14, City of Manila captured. Dec. 10, treaty of peace signed in Paris. 1899-—Feb. 4, the Philippine War began, 1900—Aug. 15, the Allied Expe- dition to Pekin, 1901—8ept. 6, McKinley shot by Leon Czolgosz. Sept. 14, died, aged fifty. eight, + | ILLIAM McKINLEY challenged and disproved the old saying | tliat the presidency casts its shadow | on no man but once and that if the chance be missed then it will never come again. Twice the nomination seemed to be within Me-| Kinley's* reach—in the national con- ventions of 1888 and 1892. . Each time he put it away, to wait his | the proper turn, when he did not have to! shake the tree bring down the ripened fruit of patience. | VENTS make sport of the schemes of mice and men. » ter t conient tariff money issue issue, was elected on to his ership by Thomas B, Reed In 1880, and | he left Washington a defeated con- gressman only six years before he re-| turned as president-elect. Had he! ] : i 81 er x t been sr ~aker, und, instead of Reed, in- in subjection the revolting . a Cuba, and two happenings curred the title of “Czar,” or had he Pi IR not been turned out of congress . . .| the destiny of China! Spain had been engaged for island of himself. an | the president in plain j ticlan™~ as n American, and plainly “a peanut intimated poii- were giving hilo were only a that was Within a week of exposure, the battleship Maine { blown up in Havana harbor, with the | loss of 266 America lives, After withstanding for nearly: two months the. popular outcry of "Re | member the Maine,” the president yielded, and war was In ten days Dewey had smashed the | enemy squadron in Manila bay; weeks another squadron or captured off Santiago: months and a half poor threw up the sponge. It took twice as long to make as to make war, The Philippines caused all the trouble. As we had not captured the islands in the war, many that we should let them alone. Bat McKinley decided de mand fram Spain the surrender of | the Philippines, i iean people declared in ten was sunk in old Spain peace believed to William McKinley. had he won those well might never hs honor. A borne smaller honors he ve won the highest disappoinfinent manfully the popular sympathy. and the of the McKinley bill entered the for the presiden-| tinal nomination in 1806 as one who had suffered artyrdom in the of | the protective tariff After teaching McKinley was called in the Civil war, that hard university which graduated! the men who lead the nation | through Having goned into the private in the | regime: f another president-to-hee— Rutherford B. Hayes out at twenty-two a captain, brevet title of major lecoming a lawyer at Canton. O. | again he found himself in the midst of indastries in their struggling Infancy. And for 14 vears Lie was the spokes- man in of that industrial] district. The young major, when he came to Canton, clean-cut, up-standing figure, genial in his natare, but with a sober dignity. His readiness of speech, when on his feet, came frow his prac tice of the art in the debating societies of his school days. His habits also had been properly formed in his boy- hood when joined the Methodist | ehurch at ten and grew up a youth who was as careful to keep his tongue | as his collar clean. All doors in the little town natural | ly swung open with a welcome ta “such a nice young man,” and a ma- jor to boot. Although he was yet | poor, when Ida Saxton, the banker's | daughter, who had been to school In New York city and who had just come back from Europe, smiled yes to him, while they were “taking a buggy ride” the banker smiled, too, and made them a wedding gift of one of the best houses in Canton. It was from the front porch of that honeymoon dwell ing that McKinley made his campaign | for the presidency in 1806, McKinley's is one of the best-—and | ene of the most pathetic—love stories in the domestic records of the presi-| dency. With the birth of her second | Boxer rebellion, 1aid 4 restraining hand child, the wife was left an Invalid. | upon the nations that were looting The death of both of her children with- | Chinese territory and had drawn from in five years of her wedding day utter- | them pledges to keep an “open door” ly overwhelmed her nervous organiza- | to trade in the ports they were selz- tion, and her shattered health remain | Ing at the point of the gun. The ed thenceforth the constant object of | “open door” has remained ever since her hushand’'s tender enre. the chart of our course in the East, Although be never could know from | If we will only continue to follow it minute to minute when she would | and should succeed In Inducing others pass into a swoon, he made her his | to follow it a while longer, until the companion on his travels. Once when | glant of the Orient awakens from his he hurrfed home from congress, and | long slumber and shakes off his for the physicians had given up hope of | eign despollers, an emancipated China saving her, his own ministrations and | will be the Impoeing monument of his prayers through a long night at| William MeKinley's presidency. her bedside recalled her to life. (Copyright, 108. by James Morgan) w Without walfing for ratifica president dispatehed a military dition: to take over the Philippines, proclaiming to the revolting Filipinos the policy of “benevolent assimila- tion.” The resulting war dragged its unpleasant length two fore the inhabitants unwillingly bowed to their new master It enlists author con fos for cause school a term or go, was the strange fortune heen given exclusively fo were (o ). four decades, army f iS a of Forbidden City In the march on Peking for the of the forgein legations from the siege of the Boxers, or Chinese revolutionists, the U pink walls of the China rescue § « he came with the other powers for the first time In a military expedition, Under the high statesmanship of John Hay. the secretary of state, the United States had already, before the CONEToss Was a he Mrs. William McKinley,’ ‘ —— a evils Ang ce ll pr on pa The Woods By DOUGLAS MALLOCH. ———— THE CALL OF THE WOODS, Talk of vour “call of the wild,” “Nature” an’ similar stuff! Talk of “the call Of the forest” an' ell Haven't 1 heard it enough? Why am 1 cranky an’ riled? What Is it ailin’ of me? What's my complaint? Jest “the woods!” If it ain't, What in the world kin it be? Out of the woods It breaks forth— Call of the wild in the alr. What do 1 hear With my listenin’ ear? Somethin’ t-coaxin’ me there, ; Wind has swung ‘round to the north, Sky has a promise of snow, Moon cn the hill It is silver an’ chill; An’ I am longin' to go— ireathin' the breath of the pine, Walkin® the hayroad again, Hearin' old tales An’ trampin’ oid trails, Bunkin' with men thet are men-— Fighters an’ workers an’ kings, Men who have stood By my side in the wood At the peginnin' of things. Woods? 1 have lived, man Up In the woods forty year, Driven their streams Where the quickwater glenms, an' boy, Drunk of their fun an' their woe, Sorrow an’ song, An' it’s there 1 belong Lord, but I'm erazy to go! (Copyright) aa al et i cl a el et ed et DREAM CITIES. sp though 1t may be changed by dream phantasiuagoria; familiar bulld- ings may inke on a strange aspect, or strunge ¢ity bulldings appear in un- expected places. Sometimes we rec it as a city we have always to see and never have and sometimes it appenrs to be of which we never have even Not infrequently a name for the place one in our dream—a we are sure is new to us. to travel and, not an had cities In It the cheap way “Oy, visit Aan the most the waking operation, while to is expensive dreams favorable omen 10 cities of means riches ahead Unless | dream-—consciousness for the strange city in which we may find ourselves, place called Fleisa and one further on pamed Hearsing., Fleiss was the name of a friend. Hearsing wns put together from the nomes of places near Vienna which so often end say.” He had been slanderous Hashesald.” the final syllable of Flirsn obteined German V pronounced life F man name for the port of which his brother passed reading a poem dwarf nsined iy connecting Herrsing with Viissingen—the the Ger- Fiushing in “Saldhe wns that dreams is a strange are lost In it, your residence results It 1s generally agreed of one you, and you change favorable you rule, to do not with dream is the scientists ove ry All Freud that agree An analysis of our dream will generally strange name propounded by f . ind Here h Fan shade onthe § oer Sow peilit down and come right at of that room mow Peo Jou wend The san fo ruin the corpet? The ideal aki » 0 ¥ Aa NS THE ROMANCE OF WCRDS “Fox Trot” ARIOUS efforie have been made to trace for the popular dancestep to the nace trot horse, some investigators going so far as to a certain Mr. Fox who owned a horse which trotted in a peculiar fashion and, because of which, he referred to one of the newest of dances (at that time) “foxtrot.” But, while there was a man named Fox connected with the arigin of the term as common. ly uted thday, he was a vaude- ville dancer. not a horse fan- cler, When thix dancer desired to introduce a number of new steps into his vaudeville act, early In 1914, he took certain portions of the onestep and added to them a number of variations of his own, billing the entlre performance as “The Fox Trot, a new dance originat- ed solely by the performers themselves.” Soclety, eager to take up =zomething new in the line of dancing, studied the steps and it was not long be fore the entire country was fox. trotting to the syncopated melo. dies which precisely fitted this kind of amusement. The only reward that Fox received was that his name, without the eap- ital letter, was %pread broad enst over two continents. this name of a or incate as a (Copyright) cniscsicsdll Yossosmsisnte inconsiderate Birds, She was a trifle disappointed at find. ing the country so noisy, but for a long time, being a wellconducted little girl, she made no remark about it. But at Inst, at breakfast time, she plucked up courage to pass a remark upon the subject to tha farmer's wife. “It's very nice” she said, th t- fully, “for the birds to get up so early in the morning, but don't yon think they ought to be quieter hh 4% ig Wy Ll i rh) by. | WAKED 2 And: realized-be loved: me- for THE ‘LAYER CAKES 1 BAKED! AE Fitativah, wns Pram Prolific Egg Producer, An oyster produces 400,000 eggs an- nually, but of these only 400 or less MOTHER'S COOK BOOK BANA ABA bo ol Bome one has sald that “true hospitali- ty consists in having what you wers go- ing to have anyway, and not changing the cloth unless you were going to any: way.” Good Things for the Family. Koften one cake of compressed yeast water, add one cupful of sealded and cooled milk and one and one-half cup fuls of flour; beat until smooth, Cover and set out of draughts to become light. Add onefourth of a cupful two egg yolks beaten light, one tea- spoonful of salt, the grated rind of a femon and flour for a dough-—about three cupfuls, Knead until smooth and elastic. Cover and set aside to become double in bulk, Turn upside down on the molding board, roll into a rectangular sheet, brush with melted butter, dredge with sugar and cinna- mon mixed, sprinkle with half a cup. ful of currants, and roll as a jelly ye (Copyr ght.) Sn ah a ne a ae de oF By HOWARD L. RANN OTHELLO THELLO was a of brunette manhood written up by W. Shakespeare after he had departed this life, and it was Nobody wrote up Othel the flesh with wnd violent specimen who was safe to do so, he assniled sul “ lo while WaS in by being remorse Othello with =a which had He sent was a large man feet fitted out of stock. and once Was int in rot great Turkey every death varrior Was in a while to rate, Turkes ted by law-abiding crease the that humane at time was anima the = nd which civilized BIN instincts her to ar the those now endear It depopuls Othello world turn from a Turkey that ried her met at one af the if the wedd of 11 seUBON woul Tear LiTHe Sse? To Crump AT OUR WEDDING ~ NOT On Yous TinType. ! Aw, OT, Bf REATONARE Othello Objected in His Boorish Moor ish Manner. de with a sing “A entered, thick, wavy vi- Perfect Day but Moorish y to ae the couple Othello y 1 J¢ ected in his boorish man Mr. and Desdemona would have ripe old a age Ingo, who the Shakespesre states that Othello lived to a » if It had not been for one was a with rank of first Othello had a large, green bump of jealousy and lago pinyed upon the same Gntil light, In fact, perfect lady and her husband as clothes, but inno pocket! handkerchief strawberry Juice upon friend of family named Cassio, and in return for this generous act she was assassinated by Othello with that deadly weapon, the straw tick. When Othello discovered his mistake, he climbed onto high C and cried out revenge after which he fell his sword and expired with an annoyed CORT person son nt sergeant, it resembled an arc Desdemona thought as much she did of her gave a Was a of she cently with it to a the The life of Othello should warn wives not to provoke their hushands to jenlousy, especially in view of the iarge number of coy lurk on every corner, (Copyright) Awl Poth ab roll. Cream one-fourth of a cup of shorten ing. beat in one-fourth of a cup of brown sugar and spread mixture on the inside of a cast iron frying pau; lny in the buns and when doubled In bulk, bake one-half hour, The sugar and butter should glaze the bottom of the buns. Serve turned upside down, glazed side up. . . —- Hard Sauce, Beat one-third of a cup of softened light brown sugar gradually; wher well mixed add two tablespoonfuls of eream, drop by drop, and lastly one teaspoonful of vanilla and a few drops of lemon extract or & grating of lemor rind, Ginger and lemon rind may be used In place of the vanilla and a few tablespoonfuls of creamed dates added to give bulk, MB IREe Western Newsnaner Union) 92, FEARS PRISON Craves Freedom for the Few Days of Life Remain- ing to Him. Bzn Francisco, Cale"There isn'@ eny place left in the world for me. Even £1 did have a home It wouldn't be any use. I'm too near the end.” The white head of William Smith, the counter in bitter San Jose was sunk on charges, grief, He was ragged and dirty and old, His white hair hung in shaggy, tune kempt locks about his pitiful, fright. ened face, His paralyzed sro in ragged overcoat sleeve hung limp at his side -l the have worked for eighty yéars, and school and I had Wis Two, I had to £0 to work. I f lived for centuries PS | Ragged and Dirty and Old. for: ne were what n mother yt hie Nothi but lke. yl TE y California in worked on Rose’ of Jose, Most my life been spent about San Jose and the ba cities, “1 was not of any tomor- row that might I felt 1 had my two strong hands and could work, But and at last 1 found that world had little use for its old helpless men, 1 began to be afraid. “One afraid Come, thi Years went on the morning 1 lodging bh ~*~ left awoke in a cheap ouse In Ban Francisco. My arm paralyzed. I do not was know why it should have come upon me so, “Well, about, grinding that was the end. 1 tramped It was all It i= ali I can ever do. grisanrs I could do “1 was old end } There I conld n omeless and lonely. was little 1 wanted, yet it get even those few things The homes 1 tramped by turned thelr doors “(me « I raised a £1 bill to 810. was caught I had to serve Then 1 was n the world again. What for the people me from “When island, id man do? 1 str g time, then 1 raised more bills. Even there are nights in winter when 1 have to sleep out of doors in my rag gd blanket. “If they send me to fall I will die. I sm near my Maker, very near. 1 was treated better in jail than ever in all my hard life. But oh, want to go back into the reled I don’t The sad old mouth quivered and “1 want to be free,” he whispered, “Oh God, every one wants I don’t want to die—in Smith was asked If he wonid like to be sent to a home, or a charitable in- This seemed to terrify had done. “1 am afraid of those places™ he sald. “Tve heard stories that frighten me. 1 just want to be free. I'm too old for anything else” When arrested Smith had in his pos session $27, the result of much pains taking work on the part of his one hand. Jailed tor Kissing, Madrid ~