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,
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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!
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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
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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,
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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 ~<A severe reprimand and »
warning not to Jet the misdemeanor
occur again bas just been adminis
tered to a visitor to Madrid, who
when he assisted his wife Into a ead
at the door of his hotel on the Puerta
del Bol, kissed her goodby, A po
Heeman led him off to face his cap
tain, who informed the offender ip
norance of the law was no excuse, hut
that he had violated a law of Madrid
which forbide a man to kiss any wom
an while In the streets of the city
WIth or withawt Ber const, ,
i