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Show THE PROVO POST :PAGE TWO Professor Wilson Has Hard Road To Travel to See Where He Can 48 votes in the electoral college Obtain the Necessary 266 this year, 38 are in states which Electoral Votes. in 1308. Taft ' It will not be easy for the Demothe Republican Four ears ago William .T, Bry- crats in Repiublicanstates, majoitiesi an received 162 electoral Motes. Woodrow Wilson, to be elected even with the Democratic Aid 'df which Roosevelt is the -president this year, must, obtain society, head. Illinois, for instance, gave 266 electoral votes. This is a Taft a majority of 179,000 in 1908 wide chasm to lieHbridged over. Woodrow Wilson has no easy task and in this and other states the Third Termers will have to make "to be elected. a lie can rely o,sitiely onl.V up-'- , much greater, showing than they on the 114 electoral infos of the1 have yet done before they can turn solid south. Tennessee, Kentucky the Republican majority into a awd Maryland are not included in minority. Even in states where the Third Term candidate carried thisjist, for eacht state is debat-abl- e the primaries lie polled, on the gcounA. J 'requires 26(1 25 less than cent of average, per votes for a majority of the electoral college and even if Wilson the Republican vote. If he should should carry Tennesse and Ken-- j hold his entire primary vote, with three candidates in the field, the tnchy, with their aggregate of 25 votes, he would still lack 127' Republican candidate would sfill votes of the required majority, j have a safe plurality'. There is no enthusiast in New' But no one familiar with the York for Professor Wilson, but, political situation will contend r. Rosevelt can hold the even if hF'should 'tarry NeWYork' Hud Indiana he would have only! vote received by him in the pri127.1 maries. Already it is being made 60 votes out of The Difficult necessary evident that the candidate of the expected that he"! Third Term would carry his own state of New partyjs fast losing rerun o n et h n g to' be a t 'is" g Jersey, but New Jersey is Jvepub-- f a nomination Republican seeking issues liean upon national and the Democratic candidate is opposed within the party and quite anin the state byli faction in his ther thing tq be a candidate leadown party, which still resents his ing a bolt. Every election since has been adverse treachery to the men who helped to Mr. Roosefclt. In" Maine a elecT Even him if to governor. Republican party overturnheshonld carry New Jerseyite, united a ed Democratic plurality of nearwould have only 213 votes out of of two 9,000 ly years ago. In 266. If Illinois should be carried Roosevelt Vermont, although is by-h- i altogether lit, which he would still need 22 made a personal appeal to the people, and was aided by all the votes. . In other words, if he '"carries orators of his cause, his ticket ran ThesolidSoUt lr. together With New York, New Jersey, Indiana, rive vote was a mere fraction. In a state in -- which Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee, Washingtonclaimed the Rposevelt delegation lie will still lack sufficient votes to elect him by a considerable jifthe national convention the jn .the recent.7 primargin, dt must not be forgotten Republicans, outnumbered both the mary his of. as "showing the difficulty Democrats and the Progressives situation, that of the increase of combined and the .Matter polled only five votes in every hundred. In Colorado the Republicans nominated their candidate for governYour Negligee or as against his Progressive opponent. These anrveryjdeeided Shirts . evidences of the decrease of Roosevelt support in all sections. Look Better On the other hand. President when they are laundered by ua tbaa Tafts strength is increasing Is possible when they are donejip al daily. There is every indication that the' douutry is beginning" to home, or by hand. realizethat is is not in the slight- We make your shirts cjean wlthout est danger from the possibility' of We atarcb fading them, if colored. Roosevelts election, while Repubthem to Just the proper stiffness ta licans are clearly seeing that a oaly the places where they &r deaiga vote for him aids llie election of ed to be stiff- .Wilson, with consequent free And we Iron them so they flt, teei trade, disruption of business and and appear neat, comfortable and new an end of the prosperity' which We make the bosoms lie-- straight the United States has enjoyed and fiat, with every plait In place; gad during the last sixteen years of we shape the cuffs to fit your wrist Republican administration. and give them a finish and stlffnesi . The task, therefore, of figuring the 162 electoral votes which Bryequal to that of your collar. 1 Send your negligee sbtrts with yout an received in'. 908. into the. 266 which votes Professor Wilson r - must other work, to the have if he is to be elected, is so simple as our Democratic Provo Sfeani Laundry not friends would have us believe. 375 W. Center Both Phones For Commercial and Society ZSb US 3Z23 Job Printing try The Post. It might be i - tlurdfu-Miohigaii-fho.I'rog- i'ea. - - - . - an er BOISE, Ida., Oct; 23. Believed to be members of the Whitney band of outlaws and suspected of at least two killings, two "bad men were arrestedtodav by the sheriff of Elmore county near Bliss and taken to Mountain ' h' Home. to refused namThey give their es, or to reveal 4 AT A- - GREAT Order one put in your home or office and thereby' connect yourself with the world. Do- - it now! Who knows what hour of the day or piglit. a few moments use will be north a whole years ren- tal. Information regard- ing - rates 1. and son iee cheerfully furnished at our office.. r The Mountain States BARGAIN their identity; each was armed with a Winehest-er.rifland hidden in their clothes they had three revolvers apiece. The suspects were picked up op the charge of horse stealing in Elmore county. The authorities believe they shipped the stolen horses to Colorado and eastern Oregon pointsL.They.. flEEftlsQ. suspected of being implicated in the killing of an aged man in Montana and the shooting of ajutage driver, George Day, of Rocky Bar. e, Beginning at 8 a. m. Saturday,56 . hat. Just what you MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ELOPE AND WED; THEN MEET'ANDCONFESS WILMINGTON, Del. Oct." 23. The most singular double the kistoryot this Gretna Green occurred here this afterelop-ment- $2,50, $3.00 and $3.50 Hats ia "window; want, for a fraction of their actual worth. See them in the We will prove to you it pay to trade at Provo Real Bargain Store. Mercantile Company Wood-Clifto- n noon. Isaac Holt, age 36, J., a. railroad engineer, and Mrs. Minnie Crowther Scott, a L. A. CULBERTSON HOME AFTER TRIP, THROUGH , widow' of the same city, were marHIS HOME STATE ried first by .Rev. George L. Wolf. Soon afterward the couple met the womans daughter, Miss Eli- The People of Iowa Are Prosperzabeth Scott, "age 19, and llarry ous and Happy, and Lining Beatty, 23, of Trenton, on the Up For President Taft. streets The daughter gasped and asked her mother what she w'as L. A. Culbertson, one of, the hero doing d prominent merchants of Provo, ' an extended just been married by Rev. George has returned from his old home L. Wolf at the preachers home. trip through Iowa, The daughter then confessed she state, .and reported yesterday conditions are bet was a bride. The other couple morning-tha- t in ter now than they that state, ' ' kissed her and all was serene. have been In many ears. A great wave of prosperity- - is sweeping AN EGYPTIAN WEDDING. over all of Iowa and his home is town, Charlton, especially However modernized Cairo is blessed this year with splendid or will become, writes A. W. Cut- harvests. In reviewing the poll ler in the November Wide World tieal situation in Iowa, Mr. Cul-beMagazine, rural Egypt - remains son said that while conditions the same today as it has been for had Jieerj badly mixed, there has countless generations. ' vJne of been a' steady trend toward Presithe quaintest sights out" in the dent Taft for some time and he is country is a native wedding, gaining votes very rapidly was fortunate in seeing two of throughout that entire state. The them"6ne from a train ami the prosperity of the cduntry has had other while walking near its effect with the farmer and of Heliopolis, which is the sinece the campaign started, they Site of the ancient city of On, are drifting back to the old party. mentioned in the Bible. The bride and bridegroom were completely screened from the public gaze by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARES PLAYS WERE FIRST TO BE a canopied arrangement on" the WRITTEN IN SHORTHAND back of a canid. It looked like ah immense ottoman, adorned During the reign of'Queen Eliwith a cover illuminated by gor writes A. T. Dolling in the zabeth, geous patterns. The erratic and November Strand, there was a alarming way in which it" bobbed sudden of - interest in revival and this down, up way and that, in England. ,I)r. Timomust have 'greatly, enhanced the shorthand pleasure of the happy couple in- thy Bright published his system, side. This camel was followed by the first English oneiu 15887 and was followed in 1590 by Peter the bridal party all women seated on a long train of camels, Bales. In 1602 came John Willis, each ca mel supporting two wn-- who was the first to devise a men. The great, clumsy crea- method on alphabetical lines, a tures' (the camels, not the wo- method crude indeed when with modern standards, hut men!) were almost enveloped in immense rugs, on the top of which nevertheless the forerunner of all hail modern systems. apparently, a- feather-beScholars are in doubt whether beti deposited, and on this the ladies squatted, giving vent every it was the system of Bright - or Willis was used for taking few moments to a prolonged-shril- l down Shakespeares plays. For. trill, which I gathered was inas little we pause to reflect upon tended for a festive song. it, Shakespeares plays were taTimflTowiTTn short-- , spectacle was exceedingly- - comiis from the reporters and it cal. From the November Wide hand, the plays were, that World Magazine. transcripts for the most'paTt, printed in the poet s lifetime. "It .'is'" this""' fact WANTED Clean cotton rags at that. accounts for the odd variants this officer' in the text. As all the world knows, the DAINTIES Samuel Pepys wrote' his FOR BABY THE diary in shorthand, and by the N. ? -- xiiolndttier-lidiriitfednorTia- . rt , the-vil-lag- e FIRST DEER SHOT UTAH ALFALFA NO BY MONTE YOUNG LONGER UNDER BAN NEAR SOLDIER SUMMIT , The embargo against Utah alMonte Young returned last falfa, based on the alleged presTuesday night from Soldier Sum- ence of the obnoxious weevil, remit and brought with him a deer cently declared byMhe state of Washington, has been dissolved weighing 185 pounds dressed. fdr lack of jurisdiction on the This is the first deer to. he- shot by of the part Provo- - hunters ' this- season and whoMiisfitafecTthequarahtine. In very few have been reported in a letter 'to J. Edward Taylor, the eountyT .Young" states that state horticulturist for . Utah, the deer are not very plentiful this Washington official writes that the attorney general of his state season, has declared his ruling unfounded in law. CAPITOL BIDS TO BE ADVERTISED FOR SOON REBUILT 30 BRIDGES ; V. WEDDING ON TIME The state eapitol commission announced at a meeting Tuesday SANTA FE, N. M., Oct. 22 afternoon that it would he preimprovised bridges- - along pared to advertise for bids on the Thirty the Mexican line of the Sonora eapitol. the. last - of this week-othe first of next week. The speci- railway company were hurriedly fications will be air ninged so that erected that a special train might bidders may"figure on the entire carry II. J. Temple of Empalma, structure orjany part of thwork. Mexico, general superintendent of to Santa Fe, N. M., wherp awaited .hirnJMiss- - Clemen-- , -Evenln Aviation, Do you believe this aviator tine Kneling of Chicago, his fianwilt come back to t,he starting point?" cee. They were married in Santa "He wont dare do otherwire. Hla Fe Roon after he arrived. ire la waiting tor him there." File The birdges had been torn down gende Rlaetter along the line bv the rebels; - state-horticulturi- st, r the-compa- ny, t d near-rrairfir- U- . Two "Bad Men Arrested in .Idaho Thought to be Notorious . Desperodoes. - One Bell Telephone Does-it-A- SUSPECTS MAY BE WIIITNEY OUTLAWS I st Edis0I1' ',Al0Ile New Vork," feeing' the secold p?6 of What Happened to Mary, shown at the Ellen rridiy.Saturdav. ; j Number of Safe Foods to Serve the same means took down, in '1680, SickLlttle OneJVhlle . Sometimes Traveling. in traveling, or when Wring In hotels for any .length of Ume, U Is Well to know of a few Charles .ILsowmaccount-oLthe-battl- e of Worcester. Prciouto this the debates in(the House of Commons at the time of the irrcst of the five members by Charles J. said to . have been taken down verbatim by one John Rushworth. dainties .which one can make oneself and give to an ill child, or to a baby whose 8tumachls a trifle upset. . For Instance, albumin water Is often ordered for infants with acute stomach trouble. A mother can give it with WELDING STOCK The finest tr perfect safety to nourish an ill baby be had anywhere at very , reasonabP until the doctor is reached. - Albumin latcil .water la nothing more than the white prices. Call and see only .the . of an egg dissolved In a pint of cold styles In wedding cahlnets. water, that had been previously boiled. Sometimes a baby wm kecr nothing ! else on his stomach for days bur this MRS. ELSIE E. BARRETT light yet apparently sustaining drink. 378 N. Third East Earley Jelly is also'excellent To a will give Painting- lessons. tshlespoonful of barley flour, which has been dissolved In ctold water, add Children may take lessons .a pint of boiling-wate- r with DijiHhls Saturday forenoon or after-"- ! pinch of salt for 20 minutes In a noon. 'v double bollr; strain, flavor and serve Prices Reasonable. very cold. Oh! You Skating Rink I FOR FUN! ELDRED WILL OPEN THE DOORS Next Saturday Afternoon At j the f same old stand on academy AVENUE Afternoons 15 cts. Evenings, 25 cts. - Telephone and Telegraph Co. -- REMEMBER ing. .It a big time every afternoon and Bring the girls and join inthe fun. even' - ' |