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Show 4 5 or tfie NEVS rtfon' Suppos YOUNG PEOPLE NEAT H0SE FOR SONG BIRDS Made of Thre Shallow Boxaa Sat Anglos Upon Each Sizo May Depend Upon Taste. at a neat and serviceable bird house. It is made of three shallow boxes set at angles JThe picture Illustrates Sa4 Jcn t ROOSFVFI T AND colcsel roosevelts JOHNSON CHOSEN CONFESSION f dorit fktfi se he'd oot - the st wage-worker- -- Oievoot rtfaxizp' zeoamZzr ft tf upon the platforsrws finally adopted. Colonel Roosevelt worked with tho in charge of the plat form until late Wednesday atternoon, going over their work of the two previous days and nights and vigorously helping to mould the draft which at last proved acceptable to him. The platform did not take up the negro question. all-fire- H. W. JOHNSON Mias Jane Adams of Hull house, Chicago, was among those wiho secShe was onded Colonel Roosevelt. greeted enthusiastically. The new party formally placed itself on record as favoring equal suffrage and further recognized the suffragette movement by providing for on the four women members-at-largnational committee. e - beef trust. Fighting in China. London. Severe fighting has broken out at Wu Chang, in the Chinese province of Hu-Peaccording to a news agency dispatch received here from Tien-TslThe trouble arose over the disbanding of some of the troops. n Linotype President Seeks Divorce. Reno, Nev. Philip T. Dodge, presi-dent of the Mergenthaler Linotype company of New York, has filed a suit for divorce from Margaret B. Dodge, who Is now in New York. The complaint charges desertion. . 1 Mirrors Installed on Streets of English Towns Havo Proved of Material . Benefit Chicago Theodore Roosevelt made his confession of faith on Tuesday to the National Progressive convention. The former president struck out boldly into new ground, advocating measures which he said frankly would be denounced either as Socialism or anarchy. The delegates listened to his speech with the understanding that they must either adopt a platform substantially in consonance with his views or look elsewhere for a nominee for the presidency. These are the conspicuous points in the Roosevelt program: Recall of judicial decisions. Colonel Roosevelt now advocates ita extension to apply to- federal as well ai Btate courts. He favors the establishment of machinery to make easier of amendment both the national and state constitutions. Use of the government to assist workmen to become part owners ol the business in which they are employed. Control of the trusts through relaw tention of the Sherman anti-truand the establishment of an interstate Industrial commission. Conditions determining . monopoly prices to be controlled where these concerns deal with the necessaries ol life. Adoption of a number of measures to secure social and Industrial just" s ice to the Legislation to increase popular control of all governmental agencies, including a national law for presidential primaries, election of United States senators by direct vote, the short ballot, corrupt practices acts aplylng to primaries as well as elections, qualified adoption of the initiative, referendum and recall. Woman suffrage. Strengthening of the pure food law. Establishment of a national health department. Creation of a permanent tariff commission. Measures to relieve the high cost of living. Development by the federal government of the Mississippi river as a deep waterway, by use of the plant employed on the Panama canal zone at completion of the canal. Fortification of the Panama canal. Navy to be built up steadily tin.. reduction of armaments is made possible by international agreement , beAt" tfyinftb OF FAITH Advocates .Measures Which He Bays Frankly May ba Denounced Either As Socialism or Anarchy. DELEGATES SING AS nominating them was due to the large HYMNS number of seconding speeches alAuc.Ka OF iflal wwwCv. lowed. THE NEW PARTY. Aa has always been the case in national political conventions, the bulk of the work of the Progressive gatherTwo Candidates Depart From Tradi- ing was carried on In the committion by Appearing Before Conventees. Only a semblance of a conflict tion to bo Notified and to Voice of opinion on the floor wax a brief debate Wednesday as to whether an Thoir Acceptance. ' hours recess should be taken. The point was Immaterial; hut aa one delegate expressed it, We Ju8t had to convenflrat The national Chicago. tion of the new Progressive party w&3 fight about something to make It a adjourned at 7:27 p. m. on Wednes- regular convention. There was sharp discussion, howday, after Colonel Theodore Roosevelt had been chosen as the party's ever, In several committee meetings candidate for president and Governor and no little difficulty in agreeing iVnnk- upon each other, says a writer in American Boy. The size of the boxes Know-tt- y depends upon your own taste. I think IS inches square and 6 inches deep is about right for each. In designing the house I Intended it as a refuge A Wild WeiT Show-Oecd- u for untamed birds and so made as many compartments as possible. Each He of tho shallow boxes is divided into four spaces, as shown in the illustration. The space p" is where the post hAir'--s comes up through the center. The cut out with are perches and openings a small circle saw. The roof is of tin or galvanized Iron. It is made of Dolls And Ge four triangles lapped over each other and riveted. Two coats of steel gray paint on the outside will add to the BOYS ON A STOCK EXCHANGE appearance of the house and make it weather resisting. Amsterdam Youths' Privilege for Dte It should be set upon a high post covery of Gunpowder Plot Enas as and made inviting possible for joyed Nearly 300 Years. the feathered visitors. Remember that Of the many quaint and curious customs, traditions and privileges pre vailing In Holland none Is more extraordinary than & certain privilege that has been enjoyed by the boys oi Amsterdam for nearly 300 years, the Boston Evening Transcript remarks.1 At a fixed time each summer these boys gather by the hundreds In the great square called the Dam, situated in the center of the city. Each boy has a drum slung over his shoulder. Facing this square Is the stock exchange, and On the occasion in question just as soon as the days businesi is over as many of the boys as possible crowd into the building. They proceed to the floor of the exchange, A Bird House. where, pursuant to this old custom, are permitted to march about, as man has encroached upon the do- they singing and beating tbeir drums. main of the wild creatures only three The origin of this custom, it Is said, courses were open to them; either to Is as follows: move to remoter regions, to adapt One afternoon of the year 1622 a themselves to modern conditions or to crowd of playing in the Dam lost die out altogether. The robin is one a ball in boys the canal that in those days of the species that has made the best skirted one side of the square. One of things and tried to stay with us. of the while climbing in among It is interesting to study its habits and the pileslads, on which the building stood, his shelter will aid you in doing so. found Instead of bis ball a boat moor Here are some things to discover for ed In a dark corner and loaded witb yourself. Bo the robins arrive from boxes of gunpowder. This showed the south singly or in flocks? Do the clearly, enough what was afterward sexes migrate together? How long ascertained certainty, the intenafter the arrival does nest building tion of the ,with. Spanish conspirators to begin? What is their food. Is it the blow up the stock exchange wbll It same in various months? All these was crowded.1 as it was every day, and v dozen more lines of Inquiry with the citizens of the city. leading will mahe the shelter interesting. The boy who stumbled upon tbs gunpowder at once hurried to the AID AFFORDED TO SWIMMER town authorities with his news. The boatload of explosives was quietly Mitt Slipped Closely Over Fingers sunk in the canal and the Spanish Prevents Flow of Water and plot thus frustrated. .When the burgesses aked the boy Facilitates Stroke. what reward he desired for the servA swimming mitt, having a body of ice he had rendered the town he rea length and width to slip fairly plied that so long aa there was s D.S closely over the four lingers of the stock exchange In Amsterdam the boys town of to in the like would be permitthe illustration. hand, is shown A ostH&vooa y. ted to make the floor of the exchange their playground during a certain part of the year. The request wai Hiram W. Johor, m of California had granted; and bo the custom survives. been selected as his running mate. Singing Onward Christian Soldier the RepubPROMPTER IS ALWAYS HANDY and the Battle Hymn lic, the delegatee pledged their fealty Little Device Held in Hand Enables to their party leaders. Marking a new departure In the proOne to Deliver Long Speech of national conventions, the ceedings Without Trouble. two candidates Immediately were noDo you want to make a speech and tified of their nomination and in the Swimming Mitt. have your audience think that youre midst of deafening cheers they apd smart that you can quote peased before the delegates to voice The purpore of the mitt is to make so and facts without looking at their acceptance and to pledge their possible a more effective stroke, in figures swimming by preventing any flow of any notes? Theres more ways than bet, efforts to the coming oampalgn. For several hours during the afterone. Outside of learning your speech water between the fingers. the best device la the noon and early evening the throng in by heart, invention of a man In Australia. It the Coliseum had listened to a flow of Beaver! Work, The beavers not only cut down trees consists simply of a small metal case, oratory in nominating and seconding for the purpose of making dams, but no larger than the metal matchbox speeches, in which the dominant note also use the smaller branches as a used. expressed was the belief that victory A roller Is at either end of the case would come to the new party In Nostorage supply of food for winter use, says a writer In. Our Dumb Animals. and one of the rollers is folding with vember. These branches, from two to four Raymond Robbins of Illinois pledged inches in diameter, are cut into, a 100,000 majority for the national lengths of two or three feet and then ticket in Illinois, and Gifford Plnchot by wonderful engineering ability are predicted a 300,000 majority for Colcarried beneath the water and into onel Rocwevelt and Governor Johnson the beavers' houses, or the burrows in his home state of Pennsylvania. with which the bank of every beavThese statements were cheered to the er's dam is honeycombed. Here they eoho. are carefully stored. The green bark . The party formally christened Itself is the staple article of food throughout the Progressive party, leaving out the winter. the prefix national by which It has The dams are of varying height and heretofore been known, but provision length, according to the particular lo- paper on which appear the notes of was made for the recognition of real cation. I found a dam in Mesa coun- speech. The box Is held in the palm progressives in any of the states by ty, Colorado, which was just six feet of the hand and people standing right name they should be lofcally from bottom to top and impounded a beside the orator would never sus- whatever because of state laws. designated unThe six of water Its feet or more is in paper body presence. depth pect three days it was m sesthe During of an area of several acred. rolled either by pressure and covering the thumb was not a roll call nor a This dan was perfect In construction. or by the manipulation of a milled sion, there The ballot. delegates asked no such It was composed entirely of willow screw on one of the rollers. in placing their either formalities, as no large timber grew in the bushes, In nomination or In voting candidates Her Flowers Melted. vicinity. was not a voice of Little Minnie, who had been spend- for them. There Colonel Roosevelt to either opposition, a Could Spare One. ing the afternoon at neighbors, was The delay In One day Charlie, aged four, and his presented with a bouquet of beautiful or Governor Johnson. her arrival were sisterat flowers. home Upon playing with some baby Aged Veteran Dies. small marbles when one of them dis- her mother told her to put them In a with water and filled could and vase not be would they found. appeared Elizabeth, N. J. Colonel George H. Their mother assisted in the search keep fresh for several days. A few Sweet, a veteran of the Mexican and and was very much alarmed, fearing days later Minnie appeared with the civil wars, is dead at his home, The wilted flowers in her hand and said: Maples, at the age of 81. He served the baby had swallowed it. 1 dess Ill frow 'em away now, mamIt Oh, well, dont worry about under General Scott in the Mexican Weve got ma, cause they is all melted. mamma, said Charlie. war. enough marbles without it.". Low Down Dog. After the Beef Trust. Small Edna was out walking with Play and Display. Washington. Soaring prices of beef Teacher What is the difference be- her mother when a dog with untkually and other meats have attracted the short legs passed them. Mkmir.a," attention of the federal government, tween play" and display? Bright Boy Boys love to play and said Edna, did you ever see yuch a and may have the effect of hurrying low down dog as that? on the investigation of the girls love to display. FOR' SAFETY TO THE DRIVER Mirrors at street corners to provldo for the drivers of vehicles a view ot the cross streets have been installed In at least two towns In England. In Folkestone there is an acute anglo street crossing where one corner Is built up close to the curb. On this corner is placed a 24x24 inch mirror supported on gas pipe standards an angle that drivers ot vehicles corner coming toward the built-ufrom either ot the two opposite streets can see up the itreete at right ant gles to their path. The engineer in dkarge states that owing to the ImpovaibUiSv of motortraffic sevists seeing any eral accidents and narrow escapes havo occurred at that point Since the mirror has beta fixed ho has not heard of anything approaching an accident The damp, mist, rain or frost have no 111 effect pa the mirror, aeaned by a which is occasional! passing lamplighter when cleaning hla . lamps. At Malmesburg, In WUtahls a mirror five by eight feet in slxe, supported on standards so that Its top Is 15 feet above the street, occupies an angular position t the apex of a closed right-angl- e curve. The engineer In "The mirror requires charge says: scarcely any cleaning; only a wipe over once in about three months.- Engineering News. at-uc- h p That One Thing Lacking. Lady Augusta Gregory, the able and ardent apostle of the modern Irish movement, is fond of telling the following real Irish story: It was the wedding day of Pat and Bridget, and they were having a church wedding. It was a grand affair. Pat was dressed with patent leather shoes, white vest and flaming tie. Bridget shone attractively in many colors. The ceremony was over, and the happy pair walked down tha aisle, out into the street, where a great crowd greeted them with delight. Once seated within the cab, Bridget leaned over to Pat and said, in a loud whisper, Och, Pat. If we could only have stood on the sidewalk and watched ourselves pass, wouldn't It havo been hlvlln" New Idea for Dressmakers. A New York woman has inaugurat- a new departure. She sent word to a number of dressmakers that she had so many dresses to make, of such and such materials, and so many oth-- 1 ers to be altered, and named the alterations to be made and aBked tor bids She will probably accept the lowest bid, and this seems to open np a new field In dressmaking. It will also develop a new variety of shrewd- -' Baseball Players Union Formed. ness on the part of successful dressNew York. Professional baseball makers the ability to figure on bids. playerg of the major leagues have op 8uro of Himself, ganlzed a mutual protective associaArent you afraid you may become tion, with Dave Fultz, former star outfielder of the New York American a slave to the smoking habit? No. I can quit whenever I want League club, and now a New York lawyer, as president. It is the first to." How do you know that? Have you time since the brotherhood days that , the playing fraternity has been united, ever tried it No; but Ive cured myself of the and while as yet membership is confined to players of the National and habit of voting for every candidate American leagues, it is intended ulti- who is nominated by the political, to which I belong, and a man mately to take into the fold every ac- party have a strong will to do thaL" must tive member of the minor leagues working under the present system of Pas Rather Indefinite. organized baseball. Pa, what Is an anachronism? Oh, thats something or other smart Prisoners Break Jail. are always finding In ShakeEvanston, Wyo. After binding people works. Now, run along and Jailer Joseph Fife hand and foot and speares play. wrapping him In some blankets, Joe Turner, serving time for forgery, openOut of Reach. ed the cells and liberated all of the Hows the new cook getTownley prisoners in the county jail in this on? ting on Wednesday. Seven men were city Subbubs I dont know. She didnt in the jail and all but one took advan- leave her address. Boston Transcript tage of the jailbreak. Turner jumped on the jailer and overpowered him, HOW MANY OF US just as Fife and a trusty were enter- Fail to Select . Food Nature Demands ing to feed the prisoners. Bert Dalto Ward Off Ailmsntsf ton, partner of the Whitney brothers, escaped with the others A Ky. lady, speaking about food, I was accustomed to eating says: Lumber Men Indicted. all kinds of ordinary food until, for Spokane, Wash. A. L. Porter of some reason, Indigestion and nervous Spokane, secretary of the Western Re- prostration set in. tail Lumbermens association, who After I had run down seriously with thirteen other secretaries of re- my attention was called to the necestail lumber dealers associations, was sity of some change In my diet, and Indicted in June,, 1911, on a criminal I discontinued my ordinary breakfast with a charge of violating the Sherman law, and began using Grape-Nut- s has been released on his cash bond good quantity of rich cream. Mounof $2,500 by Judge Kennesaw "In a few days my condition tain Landis of the northern district changed in a remarkable way, and I of Illinois, and his bond accepted. began to have a strength that I had never been possessed of before, a Permit Agricultural Entry. vigor of body and a poise of mind that The house public amazed me. It was entirely new in Washington. lands committee has reported favor- my experience. My former attacks of indigestion ably the Smoot bill, which has passed the senate, permitting agricultural had been accompanied by heat flashes, entry on coal and gas lands, these pro- and maqy times my condition wag disducts being reserved to the govern- tressing with blind spells of dizziness, rush of blood to the head and neuralment. gic pains in the cheat alone for Since using Grape-Nut- s Betting on the Election. New York. Betting in Wall street breakfast I have been free from these on the presidential race was brisk on troubles, except at times when I have Tuesday with Wilson a 2 to 1 favor- Indulged In rich, greasy foods in quanite. Odds of 5 to 4 and 10 to 7 were tity, then I would be warned by a pain unfer the left shoulder blade, and given that Roosevelt will beatTaft. unless I heeded the warning the old trouble would come back, but when I Stop Smuggling by Tax. San Francisco. It opium were finally got to know where these troutaxed $5 a pound, smuggling would bles originated I returned to my Grape-Nut- s and cream and the pain and discease and the government would obturbance left very quickly. a tain said United large revenue, I am now in prime health as a States Customs Surveyor Duncan E. Name result of my use of Grape-NutMcKinley in discussing the subject. given by Pestum Co., Battle Creek, One Commissioner for Canal, Mich. "Theres a reason, and it is exWashington. Discussion of the Panama canal bill occupied the senate plained in the little book, The Road to Wellville, In pkg. Tuesday and the principal action by read the above letter? A acre that body was the substitution of a aaaEver from tlaae to tine. They appear, form of govw ore genuine, true, aad tall at ktaas provision for a Interest. ernment In the canal zone. one-ma- n ed |