\ The Breakfast j Food Man. < > By FRANK H. WILLIAMS. / Copyrighted. 1909. by Associated ( i.iterary Press. Hugh Sommers, tearing down the snowy roud in Ills huge red automo bile, splod the girl a little distance ahead of him. He pulled the cur to a standstill beside her and smiled appre ciatively at her rosy cheeks and her becoming turn o' shanter and sweater jacket. "Hello, neighbor," he cried. "Hello, Mr. Breakfast I od Man," the girl replied rather grudgingly and somewhat sarcastically. The man grinned, though rather un comfortably. "I suppose." he said, "that you think \ it's something awful for me t-> be making my money in such a prosai way as feeding the public at the l.nvk fast table. Would you think any tV ; better of me if my money was tied up ! in railroad and government bonds, as 1 suppose your father's estate is?" The girl surveyed the man critical:; from heel to head while lie reddened under her glance. "It's hard to tell," she replied can lldly at last "When I think of that awful wheatfluka thut you manufac ture It seems to obscure whatever I good qualities you may have. I see you through falling flakes of that un speakable stuff." "Wheatflaka is every bit as good us and better than wlieato!" he flared. "And that's the only other brnnuon the market that has sales anywhere nearly as big as ours!" At this the girl simply raised her i eyebrows. Then on second thought she said: "Naturally that's your opinion. But /e eat wheato at our breakfast ta-1 le." ?he turned defiantly and started I down the road. "Wait!" cried Hugh, jumping from i Is machine. 'D like thlsM v " .3> ' "H .VI lor C4J.MI: TO MIKH7 MB. M FOOD?" SUE ASKKD OAVLT. You probably think of me as utter:, impossible, but I'm hauged if I'm p ing to let a breakfast fond come b tween us. "I could explain to you how whoa flak a is made and show JMU how pi fectly pure and wholesome it is. you wouldn't understand it.' I mi .it ] tell you that we are soon going to be I gin an advertising campaign that will j wipe wheato off the market, but you don't understand business." "Indeed!" ejaculated the girl. "But you can understand this." Hugh rushed on. "You can under stand rue when I say I love you. I've loved you fi. •■ 11 the moment I saw you, and. no matter how you think of me now. jii> matter what you say. I'm go ing to make you love me and marry me! Just as I'm going to be success ful in this fight against wheato, I'm I going to win you!" A deep, indignant flush suffused the > girl's face. Then she laughed mock - i ingly. "Ileally, Sir. Breakfast l'ood Man," she crlwd, "you can't make a girl mar-i ry you by the same tactics you woule i employ In i business campaign. If your entleii-<-is with win atf!'ka are t. more successful than your en leavi i will be to i in me. It will tertainly .:<>! hard with you." Haughty «.nd stern, she s;ood with averted face until Hugh, somewhat abashed, i limbed into his tr. i -hino aia' whirled down the read But Hugh's buoyant nature so n re asset"ed itself. lie had never yet failed in anything that ! e had u: <ler taken. Why, then. >h ud h fal! win it came to winning a wlfeV Coiiildent that when the time re ill came the girl would capitulate, lie pigeonholed his courtship for future attention and gave all his energic. into the prosecution of his campaign j against wheato. For a week or more the campaign progressed in a most satisfactory man ner. ( onsu ners and jobbers through out the country responded In a won derfully gratifying manner to Hugh's aggressive dvertising. He felt that his efforts were already crowned with success. Ills salesmen everywhere re ported that the sales of wheato ha 1 greatly decreased. Then suddenly out of a clear skv • came a storm cloud. The wheato j company in page advertisements In many leading newspapers published a j complete report of the method by ; which wheatflaka was manufactured. ' In this report it was shown that three | times during the process the food was j touched by human hands. The wheato company pointed out to the public the danger of contamination \ and C tot ion of the food through this : u £c jftnd further declared that wh was manufactured by the most cleauly process which could possibly be used. Tho effect of this advertising was to ] cut the sales of wheatflaka in half at I once. Hugh immediately ordered the entire process of manufacture changed, but he realized thai it would be some time before the food recovered from its slump. For the time his campaign ngainst wheato was abandoned. He was too busy endeavoring to hold his own bus! ness together to bother much about the enemy. It was a rather discouraged Ilugl who came upon the girl for the second time as he plowed through the d -ej ! snow in his big car. Arrayed as before, she was standing ! Just Inside tit" gate leading to he j home. The house where she and he: j widowed mother lived was a big affair, a half mile or so down the road from , Hugh's home. The girl actually smiled as she saw | Hugh's disconsolate ami ha rgard face. | "Why, It's the breakfast food man," , she laughed. "Have you come to mar ry me, .Mr. Food?" she asked gayly. "Not yet," replied the mail doggedly j "Hut I'm going to some day. Heavens how I love you!" he cried as he gazec i hungrily at her flushed face. "I neve j knew what it was before to love. Now. j w!: a I can't have you ri_hf when ! v.: you my whole being cries alout! ; for yi T) her face all aflame, laughed agal i' : ; time rather constrainedly. "Ileal:, yt u are a very <-rig;-.:ii It \er. i Mr. Food," she said. "Noue of the oth- 1 I er men has ever said such things t me so unconcernedly." "Who are tho other men?" dcniandcc Hugh fiercely. Then he laughed at himself. "I'm hardly in a position now to ask,"he went on. "But I'm going b win out. I'm going to win at that fae- 1 tor.v, and then I'll come and win you!' lie jerked the lever forward, and the , I great car shot away. However, despite Hugh's confident , j prediction, he found it exceedingly dif ' flcult to win out in his i'_h: again.- j wheato. lu fact, the campaign wem ' | so severely against him that In a short | time he found himself facing failure, j It was then that the girl rose upper- I most In his thought to the exc uslon | even of his business worries. Finally i | doggedly lie went to see the girl her I self. j She entered the room In her home. I where he awaited her, with a smile on her lips. She became serious Instantly , though, when she saw his haggard face and the new lines lately et lied in it. "I.»ear," said Hugh abruptly, "I've come to you now in a different riood > For the first time in my life I face de- j feat in my business, ami 1 know now I realize that I cannot win you "It Is to tell you that 1 still love you and that some time, when 1 have be gun life anew, I'm going to return and try, as best I can, to win you. I vmt j to apologize for the manner in whi h ! have courted you heretofore." For a moment the girl looked at him; then, averting her eyes, she spoke < quickly: ■ i know exactly how you stand in | your business," she said. "I am the ; j cause of it. Don't Interrupt me. Just j | before my father died he purchased n i I controlling interest in the w heato com- j fl»y r oml Virh vowt against you was at my instigation. I —1 thought 1 hated you." ntigh rose abruptly, but the girl hu. I I rieil on. "YOU I ee l lose but little, after all," ] •said the idi! "The r. t:i . ~! t r wheato has increased, so that additional fac tories are imperative. V»'e will ta!; • over your factories for a price tlia will let them out, or we will consols ■ date with you." "Bother the business!" cried Hugh . jumping to his feet. "You you don't hate me?" "No," murmured the girl. "Then is it —can you possibly"— j The girl looked upward at him slyly What Hugh saw there gave him cout age. "We'll consolidate!" he cried, grea joy In his voice, and he ratified the consolidation with a k'.ss. Inventor of Roller Skate. It will surprise many old and youiijj American boys and girls to learn that the inventor of the roller skate was a j Dutchman named Merlin, who visited England in 17t'«0. Eight years later le- j exhibited a "pair of skates contrived 1 to run on wheels" at a museum 1: London and also gave public exhibi tion of his prowess in skating over a smooth floor, playing a violin th while. It appears, however, that hi demonstrations were on occa-ious riili er more exciting than successful, for i is recorded that he used to full about and smash Into ialrror> and picture;! which covered the walls of then» a Needn't Hurry. An old Kansas citizen v, h > had I .- ienpecked till his life was about t > iP Ills wife felt It her duty t'> "IT r him "uch consolation as she might and said, "John, you are about togo, b-:r ! will follow you." "I suppose so, .V da," said the old man weakly, "I far a I am concerned yen don't i to be in any blamed hurry nbout It"-- Argonaut. Nest Egg 3. Tal.<- a ■ fresh egg at-. ! separate the whi c a:> the yolk so that the yolk will not b.- ' r ken. I'ut the white into a bowl, niiu a pinch of salt and beat it until it is very stiff. Have ready some little bowl that is piv;;> enough to put on the table, but t!i t will not ! break in the oven. Four Into this the still beaten white and make a little hole in the middle of it with a spoon, i In this little hollow place the yolk, stiii unbroken. Set the lish in a hot oven and cook for three or four min- 1 utes, or until the white has browned a little and the yolk is firm. There i must be a separate dish for each egg that you cook hi this way. Serve ! right away,---Delineator. The Secret. "I say." said Berkey to his wife yes terday at dinner, "you didn't say any thing to any one about what I was telling you the night before last, did you? That's a secret." "A secret! Why, I didn't know it 1 was a secret." she replied regretfully. "Well, did you tell It? I want to know." "Why. no: | never thought of It since. I didn't know it was a secret." H SPIRIT TELEGRAPH How W. T. Stead Expects to Send Messages to Other Worid. CHICAGO GHOST IN CHARGE. i Whole Soheme, According to London Editor, Is Idea of Mrs. Julia A. Ames, Once Editor of Union Signal, A. W. C. T. U. Organ—Consolation For Mourners and Joy to the Mourned William T. Stead, the noted English ■ editor, acting under the direction of | the spirit of a well known Chicago 1 woman who died seventeen years ago. I has established a spirit telegraph office | iu London where mortals can cominu -1 nlcate with the shades of departed i loved ones. Mr. Stead has relinquished all busi | ness affairs to give himself entirely to 1 the work. He declares that he Is ; merely the servant, acting under the ; complete direction of the Chicago wo j man's shade. The spirit is that of Miss Julia A. Ames, formerly editor of the Union signal, the official organ of the W. C. « T. I", in Chicago. According to Mr. 1 Stead's statement, he has been discuss ; lng means for the spirit telegraph bu- , rcau with her ghost for fourteen years. Mr. Stead in explaining the whole scheme declares that the bureau would be at the disposal of any one who wanted to talk with dead friends or relatives in the other world. "The world into which we pass at death is neither up nor down, as the 1 ancient theory had It," declares Mr. | Stead. "It Is very near to us. In fact. it Is right here. We have a veil over ' our eyes, so that we cannot see it now. At death that veil is lifted, and we | come into the other world as n blind man would come into the light were ; the shadow lifted from his eyes. "People who die goon living with I the same personality that they had In this world. We are merely unable to perceive them, though they move In our tnldd. The bureau will establish communication between the twoworlds. "I became well acquainted with Miss Ames souit time before her death. Like many another pious soul, she had made a pact with her dearest friend ' that she would. If possible, return from the other side and manifest her self. She did so. "Twice she came, and nt the second Instance 1 happened to be staying nt the castle w! ■ her apparition had been seen. As my hand was beginning j to write automatically then. I placed it at the disposal of Miss Ames, and she has used It as her own ever since." Mr. Stead quotes a "letter" from Miss Ames ill part as follows: I wanted to ask you If you eari help me at all tn a matter in which I am much tn | terested. I have long wanted to establish a place where those who have passed over could communicate with tin loved ons behind. At present the rid 1B full of spirits longing to speak to those from whom they have been parted. It is a I strange spectacle—on your side .souls full of anguish for bereavement, on this side souls full of K.ciriora tiecaus ■ they cannot communicate with those whom tiiey love I What can be done to bring these somber, sorrow in ien ; ouH together? What Is wanted is a bureau of commu nication between the two sides. Gould you not establish some such sort of office with one or more trustworthy mediums? If only It were to the sorru#'ng in earth to know, if only for once, that ih-'lr so catted dciel IP." nenn-r than ever t>e for . It would help to dry many a tear ami soothe many a sorrow. I think you couM count ui n the eager co-operation j of all on this side. "1 was too hamper -d by worldly af fairs to do anything fur a long time." says Mr Strati, "but now I have given myself to t!ie work Tho proposition of the bureau is a serious one. The proposal to construct a bridge across the abyss will stagger most people by ' its audacity. 1 think with patience it can la> done. "The spint of Julia lias undertaken 1 to direct c, orations. When ar.y one . who bus lost a beloved one desires to communicate with h!m or h.>r t!ie 1 sanction of the spirit director must ; first be obtained. Then the applicant, after complying with regulations, will be turned over to expeilen- cd medi ums. who will transmit messages be tween the spirit and the mortal. If 10 per cent of the cases prove successful the bureau will be worth while." MUST ELOPE CLU3. Members Forcad to Run Away and Wed or Pay Heavy Fine. Kiope or remain forever single Tlmt Is one of Ihe rules In a club of ten young men of Jersey City. N. J. It Is called the ) ust Klope club, and during the five years of its existence five of its members have eloped. There Is a reason for this obedience to the ru!r. If a member should bo married In :ho ordinary way he would have to pay SSO into the club treas ury—that Is, he would have to do It or move out of Jersey City. Daby as Hand Baggage. A tiny lal-y slept peacefully in a smail "tele.'cope" ut the Union depot lu Kansas City the other afternoon. It was a now method of caring for n child on a Jong journey. The mother, Mrs. Martha Johnson of Kokomo, Ind., explained that she was going to Los Ange'os and foun I Ui!s method saved trouble in caring for the baby. "I have been around the depot eighteen years," ! George Hear.-, passenger director, said, "and I have seen tables carried nbout iu all sorts of conveyances, but this Is the B«it tlru? I ever saw a child 'toted' about in a suit case." P.adium tn Irish Waters IJecenc experiments .-.how thut tho sea water of fb» oust at Ireland .s ex teodlugly rich In rsdiuin. Observations on Baldheads. "If you care to observe the bald- ■ headed row," remarked the theater goer, "you will find that there Is grea' variety lu baldheads. There are elllp tlcal bald spots, <-ir ular bnld spots, elongated shaped bald spots, bahl spots that are almost sip ire and bald i spots whose shape can hardly be de scribed for the reason that they in clude the entire circumference of the head, with the exception perhaps of a slight, row of finishing fringe between the head and the neck. If It wasn't for the baldhrftds the theater would be a bore before the rising of tho curtain." —New York Press. BIG FUMING WAGER j Bet of SIO,OOO on International Grain Growing Contest. ' AMERICA VERSUS CANADA. Crops of Oats to Be Grown at Lara mie, Wyo., and at Lethbridge, In Western Canada, to Decide Relative Marits of Farming by Irrigation and Natural Rainfall. The relative merits of fanning by , Irrigation and l>y natural rainfall and whether or not the United States or western Canada can produce a larger crop of oats are to be decided for a bet uT SIO,OOO In cash, according to the j terms of a contest which was recently arranged between farmers of Laramie, Wyo., and Lethbridge, Alberta, says a : Cheyenne (Wyo.) dispatch. The $lO.- > 000 has been posted, and all tin- de tails of the contest have been arranged. ' Colonel E. J. Bell of Lam ml e, owner i of the largest farm In Wyoming, put up the SIO,OOO whloli says that lrrlga- j tion and the United States can do bet- j ter than Canada. A syndicate of farm- j ers around Lethbridge, Alberta, bead ed by Professor W. H. Fnlrchlld of j that city, !• is covered Colonel Hell's money and says that natural rainfall and Canadian soil can raise more oats | to the acre than < an Colonel Bell, Wy- • omlug and irrigation. On the Amerl an side the oats which will be entered in the contest will be i grown by Colonel Bell himself on his ! great Laramie plains farm. This f;irm is more than 7,000 feet above sea level. i on the western slope of the first range ( of the Rocky mountains, and depends entirely upon irrigation for Itsmolstnre during the summer. For years <"olo nel Bell liar paid partl<-ulnr attention to the raising of oats, and he holds a record of K!7 bushels to the acre. By carefully selecting the s<fd, specially preparing the soil and closely watch- j !ng his ditches to see that just the j necessary amount of water reaches his ! oats at the needful time Colonel Bell ' says he can considerably Increase the j I yield of his oat fields. In Canad:i the prize oats will be grown by farmers around lethbridge, 1 ! with Professor \V. 11. Falrchlld In j charge of the preparations and the j harvest. Professor Falrehild has for ' years studied the crops In southern i Alberta, and many of the great yields , of wheat and oats from Canadian fields ! are due to the adoption of his theories ! by the farmers of his section. There are only two rules to the con- : test. One of them is that the yield i from 100 acres in one body must 1"' j considered. The other rule is that the j oats entered must be "standard" grade l or better. Either contestant may pre- , pare the ground, sow his seed, cultl- . vate and harvest in any manner he chooses. N (thing but the result from 100 acres wi!l count in awarding the prize. The Alberta farmers them- I selves are something hi the way of oat raisers, and government reports from that province show that yields of 120 to 111", bushels per acre are <• n.nnot) Oat etrn'v live feet la lifigJbt is the ordi- ! nary, according to these reports. The contest is to be decided by the ' . fflclals of the National f'orn show. Harvest 1 i Wyoming occurs very late in Augus-t nr. 1 In Alberta In Se;>: -ai ber, s > that tc • winner wi'.l net be an nounced until i-r.'baMy the first we In O " >'>er. LONGEST BASEBALL GAME. Bioomingtor. and Decatur Teams Play ed Twenty-six Innings. Blooming'on and Decatur of the Three I league recently broke at . Bloomington. 111., the world's profes sional re oni 112 r long baseball games, playing twenty-six innings Decatur won, i! to 1. The grounds were muddy and slip pcry. but the fielding on both sides was extraordinary, and the pitching of Burns and Clark was phenomenal. The game was called for fifteen min utes on account of the ruin In the fifth i' ning. The actual playing time was feur hours and twenty minutes Bloomlagton scored Its one run in the tirst Inning, while Decatur scored one in the third and one In the twenty sixth. Blooniington made thirteen i base hits ami committed one error, ! while Decatur hit eleven times with i.iooiniugiun r.fier the long grind pro- I Ltsfed ihe gatae on the allegation that I'lsher, who got to first on a dead ball and scored on a three buyger, > ut sec- Nevslty In Isl-nds. A greut Frci.ch gun company has j :i' ifueled an artificial island in the I ' uUerrantnn sea some distance out j "3 Toulon to be used as an experl- ! ratal stath a for torpedoes. It Is j ailed the "lie des Torpilles," which i means the Island of Torpedoes, and j Iha method of its construction is la- j genlous. When the idea tirst present- I cd 1' - elf to the company a small 1 land In a proper locality was searched fcr, but without success. Therefore the company decided to build n hollow concrete Island, float it to the position desired and sink It to the sea bottom. The hUjre structure, seventy-five feet long, fifty feet wide and about seven t ty feet in height, was constructed on the banks of the Seine, launched and towed to Its position in the Mediter ranean. Weather Chr.rts In Schools. Study of weather cbarta la row sen era! la the elementary school of Han over and Schleswlg-Holstein with the object of making their valus la agri culture better known. Interested. "Wot ye readln' about, Chltumy?" "About a guy named Hannibal. H« , wuz de greatest general of bis time. "Football or ring?"— Kansas City : Journal. Talent knows what to do; tact knows what not to do. A Test Question. Newcd—l tell you, old chap, I'm an other man since I was married. Sin gleton—So? Does your wife love you as much as the man she married?— Exchange. ALASKA FAIR EXHIBIT Miniature Model Farm Shown by University of California. ONE-FIFTIETH OF REAL SIZE. j Best Irrigation Methods Used In the United States Are Represented. j Half of the Area Is Planted With Small Sized Trees. ! Showing the latest and best methods j j of Irrigation worked out by the gov- | ernment experts for various soils and j for everything from an orange orchard j j to a field of beets or alfalfa, a model | farm has been constructed ten feet j ' square in the agricultural building at the University of California in Berke | ley, Cal. j The farm occupies a prominent place j at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition j ! at Seattle, Wash., and is one of the I j most unique and instructive exhibits. Built on a scale of one-fiftieth of the actual size, it represents n farm of | about six acres. Every approved irri ! gation method used in the United 1 States Is represented, and the ditches, j gates, dams, zigzag and straight basins j in orchard irrigation, tube furrows and other parts are constructed as in the ; : actual work down to the smallest de i tails. Half of the area is planted with ' miniature trees, and the whole shows at a glance the various improvements : and inventions in one of the most im portant branches of government ex : peri mentation. ! F. W. Boeding, recently appointed j head of the Berkeley station for irrl s gation investigation under the United j States department of agriculture as an : expert for the coast, planned the farm. ! The actual work of construction was j done under his direction by E. J. Iloff, : United States expert In the work of ; constructing irrigation machinery and ! devices. i Irrigation methods for different soils ! and land contours are indicated on the : model farm. One and one-half acres are I In orchard, represented by miniature I trees and showing zigzag and straight j basins as well as open cut and tube , ; furrow methods. Another section rep- ; ; resents alfalfa in rectangular, contour j i and border checks, while on the bal- ■ ance methods of irrigation for summer I j crops are shown. Ditches are laid out j ! to supply the various sections, and ; j twenty types of miniature ditch struc- . I tures made of brass can be seen. The ' latter include various measuring boxes ' to illustrate methods practiced in as- I certalning quantities of water deliver- I ' ed. All is constructed to scale and ! gives an exact representation of what ; the actual field would look like, i The exhibit also Includes ten mod- j ! els of homemade Implements (one-six- I I teenth natural size), which are used In j the various sections of the irrigated ; ! west to level and prepare the land to 1 1 receive water as well as instruments j I used by this branch of the government | I service In course of Its lnvestl- | j gations.—San Francisco Chronicle. i FRENCH AIRSHIP EXPRESS. Plan For Service of Dirigibles In Four Directions From Paris. In a few months, according to the ■ plans of the National Aerial league lu I Paris, an express service of dirigible I balloons will be inaugurated from | Paris in four directions. The league's ■ airships, if these plans are carried ! out, will be operated from the capital ■ to Fontainelileau. Orleans, Deativllle ' and Nancy. The enterprise is backed by Henry ; Deutsch de la Meurthe, the giver of j many prizes for aviation, including j that of $20,000 won by Santos-Dumont ; when he circumnavigated the Eiffel tower in 1000 and numerous aeroplane j prizes since. li v e dirigibles have been ordered of 1 varl >us dimensions and designed to ! carry eight to fifteen passengers at a ! speed of thirty miles r.n hour. The i machines will vary in length from 200 | j to nearly £7O feet and will have ca- ; i paclties varying from something under j j 5,000 to nearly 10,000 cubic yards The I ! plans call for two of the smaller and , two of the larger dimensions and one ! of a size in between. I The airship for the Nancy route has j | already been constructed. The pn>- | motors promise a daily service on this ! line when the weather is good, bogin | nitig iu September, stops to bo made at 1 Meanx and Hhelms. NOVEL GIFTS FOR A GRIDE. Guests Brought Useful Liquids In Bot tles Dressed as Dolls. ! The most novel shower for a bride elect was that given for Miss Ida Gor i don, who is to soon marry Fred Smith j of Springfield, 0., by Miss Elm ma Stam ! ford. She called it a bottle shower I Each guest was asked to bring a bot tle filled with something useful. The bottles were dressed as dolls, and nil effort was made to have lite . dresses appropriate to the contents of the bottles. One bottle filled with tur pentine wore the garb of a nun. One with skin food had on dainty clothes j nf -a baby. One labeled poison was dressed to represent death, with skull *nd crossbones. Only Fit Horses In Paris. Wornout and attenuated cab horses will soon bo an unknown quantity it: the streets of Paris. A society known ■. as the Assistance aux Animaux, work- j ing with t' e proprietors and drivers' j societies, s-eks to provide Paris with j cabs drawn only by horses in a perftx?l ; state of fitness. Tho Unfeeling World. "Did you ever feel that the world was against you?" "Sure. 1 felt it this morning when 1 > slipped on the sidewalk."—Pittsburg Observer. As we grow less young the aged grow less old.—Bacon. Her Chance. "Do you." said the notary, "swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and"— "Oh, how lovely!" the fair witness ; interrupted. "Shall 1 really be allowed to talk all afternoon If 1 want to?" VETERAN OF THE PEN | Colonel A. K. McClure, Who Was a Power In Politics. STRONG ALLY OF LINCOLN. ! Last Survivor of Circle of Martyred ■ President's Advisers—Raised Seven | teen Regiments For Union Army In i Civil Wai—Odd Campaign Experience. Colonel Alexander Kelly McClure, prothonotary of the supreme and su- i perior courts of Pennsylvania and fur ! many years a prominent figure lu pol- i fries and Journalism, who recently died , at his home in Waillugford, Pa., at the j age of eighty-one years, was the last j survivor of Abraham Lincoln's circle j of personal friends and intimate polit- I ical advisers. Lincoln once remarked ! of him. "Mr. McClure has more brains i than any man I know,"and it has lons I been conceded that excepting only Lin- | coin himself Colonel McClure was the j man most responsible for his election ! to the presidency in ISOO. He was ! chairman of the state committee of ! Pennsylvania at the time, and Pennsyl vania was the pivotal state. Colonel ! McClure's able management of the campaign swung it into line and thus ' assured the success of the ticket. Colonel McClure was born of Scotch | Irish stock. In Sherman's valley. Perry county, Pa., on Jan. 1), 182 S. Schooled j upon a farm, lie was taught to be self ■ reliant, and after obtaining a meager I book education he was apprenticed, at the age of fourteen years, to a tanner. During this apprenticeship, which last ed three years, lie made frequent visits to the office of Judge Baker, editor of the Perry Freeman, and upon his ad vice he studied politics and occasional ly wrote articles for publication. Through Judge Baker he eventually became editor of the Juniata Sentinel, I a new Whig organ, much against the wish of his father. With the aid only of an apprentice Mr. McClure, who was then but nineteen years old, got out the paper, and his caustic pen soon , won for him a name, making as it did I many friends and foes. During his early work upon the Juniata Sentinel ! he formed a warm friendship with An , drew (1. Curt In, afterward the war ' governor of Pennsylvania, and a dislike j for the political methods of Simon I Cameron. I Year by year he forged ahead in pol itics. becoming burgess of Mifflin and then deputy United States marshal. Then John M. Pomeroy purchased for him a half Interest In the Chambers- ! I.urg Repository. Mr. McClure became its editor and made it one of the bps. 1 known journals Hi the state. In 15."3 ihe was tlie Whig candidate for audit r I general, being the youngest man ever : nominated for a state office in Penti | sylvania, and two years later he was a member of the convention that met | at Pittsburg ntid organized the Ite • publican party. In the following year | lie was a delegate to the national con vention that nominated Fremont for the presidency. In 1853 Mr. McClure sold the Re ! pository and quitted journalism for a time. lie was soon afterward admit i ted to the bar. and the following year he was elected to the assembly and afterward to the senate, on the latter occasion succeeding a Democrat who had added 350 Democratic votes to the district by a new apportionment. In ISOO he was appointed chairman of the Republican state central com mittee. In that campaign he made for the lirst time in the state a thorough organization in every county, township and precinc t, and In the national con vention he carried the state for I.in ! coin by winning over the delegates who had been instructed for Simon Cameron. At the outbreak of the re bellion Mr. McClure was in the sen ! ate. and he was made chairman of the committee on military affairs. Two years later he was solicited by President Lincoln and Secretary Stan ton to make the draft in Pennsylvania, j and, with two clerks, he had the state I enrolled, credits adjusted, draft made I and seventeen regiments In the field In sixty days. To give to him the mi'i tary authority to make the draft he was commissioned assistant adjutant general of the United States, an office ! which he resigned as soon as the work j was finished. After the defeat of Ills party In 1 S'l," Colonel M 1 litre, at the special request of President Lincoln, went to Philadel phia to aid In or. vi-'ng and perfect ing the organization f.>r the presiden tial election in the following Novem ber The same 'ear Lee's amy. in lis Invasion of Pennsylvania. -ved all his prop rty, near Chamb •: burg, valued at £7."> < 00. To do this ii even went out of Its way, as If with intent to leave him homeless as a punishment for his ardent support of the Fnlon cause. He was a delegate to the convention which nominated General Grant In ISGS. and after that caalpalgn he set tled In Philadelphia for the practice of . law. In 1572, with his old frien 1, Mr. Curtin, he joined the Greeley move mont, and ever since then 1 ■ was more or less Independent In politics. He was re-elected t<> the senate, n"t.l in 1 ST.'l lie was nominated for mayor of Philadelphia against William S. St ok ley and made a vigorous campaign, bnt ! he was defeated in tills contest a:nl : never again appeared as a candidate for office. Colonel A K. McClure has sti d on j many platforms, has addressed nssenv j biles larg» and small, political, so lal | and religious. He was noted for li'.s self command under any cir.-cnv | stances, bul <>ti one occasion ha ~a* distinctly embarrassed and ill at «-<ise i On this occasion Colonel McClure was the chief speaker at a large as | sembly, the audience being made up j mainly of farmers or other persons | who had driven to the place of meet i lng. I\i the midst of an eloquent i speech it began to rain. One after an other of his hearers jumped up and hurried out until the speaker was left ! with an array of empty benches be | fore him. Colonel McClure's face flushed crlm • son. 110 bad said not a word that | could give offense, and be naturally j failed to understand the sudden leave ! taking, but his embarrassment was tjuickly changed ttf amusement when | Die chairman "arose and sawl: "It's all right, colonel; they're ouly | going out to look after the horses. ; They'll be back pretty soon." | The orator sat down until the farm j ers returned and then resumed his i speech. ! In 187(5 Colonel McClure, with Frank. ' McLaughlin, founded the Philadelphia i Times and remained its editor in chief i until l'joi. when he withdrew from I active Journalism and devoted himself Ito periodical literature. He was the j author of many books, perhaps the best known of whi !i are "Lincoln and i Men of War Times." "Our Presidents and How We Make Them" and "Rec i ollections of Half a Century." For years he was t!i" president of the fan us Clover clu'i in Philadel- I pbia, and when he retired from jour nalism the eiub save him a great ban j qtiet. Covers were laid for more than j 300, and the company Included some | of the foremost men of every profes sion In the country. Another great ; banquet was given to Colonel McClure \ on his eightieth birthday, between 4<n) 1 and 000 of his friends attending it. j Two years ago Colonel McClure said I at a dinner of the Clover ciuli: j "Old ngo has nothing lu it to fear, j When death < alls to me 1 shall not bo I afraid After dining with Mr. Car | nogie cine Mr. Carnegie said to mc I that he woval give s-'' \< ito have I a lease on life. Two hundred millions, I Alec,' he - 'id t.. i 'that's what I'd ' give for n I. aeon this life. I'm not S hoggish, el'her. I'd vie., it for ten I years > :il;. ' I don't think Carm-de Is afraid of d' lth, but lie cliti.:- t > life. ! There is a difference. I 'aid, 'Andy, ! you would be bunl- i-ed at t! ar pi i e.'" I In I'.NH Colonel McClnre was again I induced to take ofiico and wa> i. anted prothonotary • 112 the supreme and su perior courts "t .P«nT?~y|vanl:i. Free Advice. The telephone i:i the office of a prom inent New York lawyer rang, and when a clerk answeri Jit. the lady on the other end refused to give her name, saying she wanted to seo the lawyer himself on private business. As soou I as the lawyer himself picked up the receiver, before he could make auy inquiries, she began, "Oh, please tell me, must there not be two copies of a lease?" I "Why," he answered, "it is usual to | give one to the landlord's agent and one to the lessee. Rut who are"— "Yet the fact that the wife of tho lessee had never seen a copy of the lease wouldn't keep it from being le gally binding?" "No," slipped from the lawyer, who quickly added. "But beforfe I discuss tho matter further may I ask to whom"— There was a pretty little laugh. He admits it was pretty even now. "Oh, I'm Mrs. Brown, and I live on Broad- I way. You don't know me"—it was ob- I vious likewise that he wouldn't—"but 1 I've always heard your advice was so i very valuable, and I wanted a lawyer, | and so I just called you up. Goodby." And when he asked for the number central gave h'm the Grand Central station!— New York Times. Tho Canary's Toilet. Just watch your canary after he has had Ills daily bath. See how each sep arate feather is cleaned, pulled and looked over and how all the loose onus are taken out and dropped. All this is done by the bill, for a bird's neck is so flexible that it can be turned in all di rections. but the bill cannot reach the head, and so Mr. Canary uses his foot. With it he cortlis Ills hair first on one • | side, then on the other, scratching very ! fast, as if to get all the tangles out. J Then he uses his hair oil, for, although j complexion powders are not known in | the bird world, hair oil certainly Is. Ijidles and gentlemen alike carry it about with them. They have a little pouch or sack on the back near the tail for the purpose. When Mine. Bird ■ wishes to use it she squeezes It out with her beak, just as you would press ! a rubber bulb. Then she lays the oil on her back just above her wings and rubs her head against it, turning her neck in all directions until every feath er in her head is straight and shining. —Exchange. . R;d Cheeks In Addison's Cay. It seems that the "beauty doctor" la by no means a modern invention. The Atlantic cites an amusing advertis®- | ment to this effect printed in Addison's ] Spectator: The famous Bavarian Red liquor: Which gives such a delightful, blush ing Colour to the Cheeks "112 those, that are White or Pale, that it is not to Ik distinguished from a natural line Com plexion, nor perceived to be artificial by the nearest Friend. Is nothing of Paint, or in the least hurtful, but good in many Cases to be taken Inwardly. It renders the Face delightfully hand some and beautiful: Is not subject to be rub'o'd < It like Paint, therefore can not be discovered y the nearest Friend, it is certainly the best Ileau tifler in the World. I* sold only at Mr. Payn's Toyshop at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, near Cheapslde, at 3s. 6d. a Bottle, with Directions. A handsome woman pleases the eye, but a good woman the heart.—Dutch Proverb. - •> 17- fZ- I annul mi J\. nelia ibl© TIN SHOP . ! For all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne nnd Csneral r Job Work. Stoves, Heaters. Ranee** Furnaces, eto. PRICES TUG LOWEST! I dlllLlTf TBI; BEST,' JOHN HIXSOiV NO. lie b. FKONT *r.
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