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Show SIDELIGHTS ON THE CONVENTION By International News Service. CHICAGO. June 1.1. The Taft and Roosevelt forces are willing to take their chance with any dark horse candidate thus far mentioned, hut they object to the tactics of Senator Cummins In enlisting en-listing foreign nations In his retinue A telegTam from Saskatchewan today announced that 100 ranchers from that province were on hoard a special train en route to Chicago to storm the convention con-vention In Cummlns's behalf The fact that most of them formerly lived in Iowa does not mitigate Cummlns's breach of the etiquette of warfare, according to his opponents. Look Like Twins. By" International News Service. CHICAGO, June 1 1. Kx -Govei nor H C. Warmoth of Louisiana looks so much like Secretary Nagel and dresses so much like him that one of them at least, loses his sense of identity when the two are talking talk-ing "Nagel looks so much like I think I look that I think T am Napej when we Bit around tog-ether,"' said Mr. Warmoth. "The only way I can tell who I am Is to feel my mustache. I . know that mlno droopr. a little more on the ends th.in does Nagel'S. But Imagine nr. embarrassment em-barrassment when I occasionally forget which one of us wears the longer mustache." mus-tache." Emblem for Taft. By International News Service CHICAGO, Tune 1?, A big purple handkerchief hand-kerchief with large white broken rings has made Its appearance Rt the Congress hotel nd In the first Insignia of anv kind exhibited by the Taft followers. When Joseph Halley. an alternate from Alabama, passed through the lobby he attracted considerable attention by Waving Wav-ing the handkerchief over his head, crying cry-ing "Here she be bo..s. here she he1 " When questioned regarding the broken rings. Hallev laughed and explained that that was where "Teddy's" hat had been kkked through the ring bv Mr Taft's big foot Linguist From Honolulu, By International Nows Service. CHICAGO, June IS.Colonel Sam Parker Par-ker of Honolulu Is some linguist. He admits ad-mits It himself and proof is unnecessary unneces-sary He is willing to engage In earnest argument with any one who so desires. In whatever language the other fellow may choose They all sound alike to Colonel Sam. The colonel also talks rap-Idly rap-Idly to himself on occasion and no one as yet has discovered Just what language If Is he employs In his musings. "If you are from Honolulu you must speak Hawaiian," some one remarked casually the other dec-' ' Sure. I can talk It like a native," said Colonel Sam, who happens to he half Hawaiian. "I can talk Kanaka to the Kanakas as If I were a Kanaka. I can swear in fourteen languages and dialects and can whistle a word or two of aeveral other tongues. Including Eeperanto. "I reaJly speak onlv three languages, i however, with any actual degree of flnency." he confided. "I reaJly am powerful pow-erful good at English. TTnlted States and profane " No More Teddy Bears. By International News Service CHICAGO, June 13. -"Where am the Teddy bears'" This question has been asked bv scores of the hanjrer on at the national convention con-vention activities. Where four vears ago there were Teddy bears galore, today to-day there are none. Four years' ago men wore them for Stickpins, women and girls carried them like dolls, and every child had one or more In the nursery. The. first of this species of nature fake has yet to make Its appearand on Michigan Mich-igan boulevard. |