| Show j i q 1 l rt t M Ir fj r Ic j i f t tt t rl 1 j ls i t I Y t l rii a rr ji ds It rv b Y jf I 1 i fU 7 i t i Wi I ii 1 I L l t I 1 F I Ij It e f If r rr rd j r t r f 1 d H Hi I IT ITi i i i if 1 J m r 4 y t e r t tb tr b r 1 a 1 f r f I A R JR the tho National Con nl at Denver the tho numo namo ot of William Jennings Bryan Dryan will again go co before that thai body ns as I a Presidential t nominee Tha Commoner not onlY om cm ho will II bo be chosen to tob b hear nt il mho o standard or of Democracy aloft fit throughout the approaching campaign 1 b goes this on one b hy by rS declaring that with Roosevelt out outI I ot of the tho running lie ho will be elect elected d to toI I succeed the UIO only man ho In n r of at ballots Mr Bryan hM has ever been heen tin An t but at the tho Ire present nt writing his optimIsm surpasses all fa t lI 1 as a recent editorIal treating g t of oC the tho late Con amI entitled In I Full ull Retreat Hetre t amply attests This editorial appeared In II a recent of Mr Bryans news newspaper paper The Commoner but not wIsh wIshIng log Ing to keep nI the tho good thIngs to him himself self Mr Bryan Dran gave Out tine the text ot of his editorial in advance of Its In The Tho Commoner j and this was Os given widespread public Ity by the daily press of oft t politics syn It la Is not my purpose however to Vii treat of at William Jennings Bryan Pros Pres Aspirant but rather of oC Bryan sf thin tho husband the tho father Cather the farmer and all the tho most b beloved loved citizen of oC Nor Normal mat mal Neb Nob the colony that sur surI surrounds I rounds his beautiful estate Fairview ti Until n a very tell few Years ago ngo Nr and lk Bryan Dryan with their two tiO daughters fit l and ono one s son n occupied nn an extremely y modest little frame dwelling In nn an unpretentious un pretentious street In LIncoln It was Just such a a house ns as the average I attorney with n a largo tam fam fly Iv to rear and educate would s l p In n There WM was no attempt at display n ms ns the tho Drans Bryana apparently had no so 50 elal axes to grInd They were con content content tent to live their lives In their own way surrounded de by II a coterie of oC friends who ever glad to partake j Co P j of the proverbial crust that this most hospitable little family was wont to sharo th lr friends After Acter years of loll Mr Bryan has reached that point In lIfo where ho can rest Mil well knowIng that the tho future futuro of at dependent upon his endeavors has hns been provided for Dame Damo Fortune Fortuna has smiled her broadest upon Mr Dra Bryan l and today his fortune 15 vari variously variously estimated d at a figure anywhere from ono one to five hundred huntJr l thousand dol dollars lars On this sUbJect however Mr Ir Bryan Dran always It when low How dId I set get It 1 ha replied to a recent question Why by dint of oC hard nervo Is New how And those who Imo know hits him best declare that this Is true trul i Mr Bryans sudden n leap Into has not spoiled hint one one whit Ills His bitterest must must acknowledge edge this The most humble little farmer living JIving In the tho vicinity ot of limo tho Bryan Dryan homo home will tell you tl hor bor Bryan is 15 I a neighbor In every sense ot of the tho word that Mrs Irs Bryan Is idolized by every woman for miles around that the tho girls are splendid women educated to live lives of oC use USi tin f t Anil t Tinian Jennings Bryan Jr Is n a chip oCt tho old block dill and saying lot Ther can bt little or no question ns as to how Mr Bryan Dran acts his for fortune tune tulle 1110 various lecture tours while arduous ous I lid I the tho extreme have paId hlin handsomely for Cor hIs trouble HIS news newspaper paper The Commoner has turned out outto outto to lie bo n a veritable gold mine am and It nominated his income from roam this will quadrupled be for tor then ho expects to ho be able ablo to boast of at n a million dr clr I Mr Bryans foreign tour lour was an another other stepping stone stano to w wealth alth for tor en tour lour ho pUblished n a series ot of syndicated letters lotters that hla 1111 trip a most one Thus s It itcan cnn can be seen that whatever Mr Bryan Dran has accumulated d has been done since ho he reached middle age and alt all has been done do no b by his own When Bryans were residents of Lincoln and time tho future was less rose roso roseate ate ato than It Is today Mr an and Mrs Irs Bryan Dran often made mado excursions out Into the tho country These little excursions were inexpensive and then toe dreams of at tho future nil all entered about some little spot In the tho country whore n a homo home could be and Mr Bryan Dran could engage In the pursuit closest to his heart To o bo be n a successful farmer had ever been his ambition and unlike ono one other ambition has been realized Ono spot always app appealed aed strongly i ito to Mr and amI Irs Bryan and that was In the tho vicinity of oC Antelope Creek which skirted skirled I a lit little II 0 settlement known nn an Normal about tw twelve lve miles from Lincoln Ideres Heros where We Will our home bome mother mather when we the mone honey was t to o comment Mr Br Bryon n Invariably made mado after aCter ng pretty spot That was man tinny years years aio ago and upon each return to the tho modest little Ill Alamo 0 In the mho muddy little the e Bryan tam fanny II would gather about the open fireplace and there thero buil l their emit castle Ie That this castle was not founded oni on air time has proved for seven loven years ears ago aso Mr Bryan purchased five acres of oC laud land Creek and l In time tho cel centre treat of h C err eGr Y the first parcel was the tho alto selected for tur the tho new Bryan Bran home hom Shortly thereafter ten a additional acres were Purchased and la a little later fifteen acres neres added and so on bit b by bit until the tho present estate consists of WO 00 acres valued nt at from two hundred to three hundred and fifty dollars an acre nere Here William m Jennings Bryan Dran lives the life liCe or of a farmer would res resent nt It I to say that ho he lives the life lICo of oC ofa oCa a country gentleman lie Is idolized b by the tho hundred or more tillers of the tho soil who live lIvo about him and to thorn them he is 15 W J ThIs they dubbed him when h he first cam camo to olivo live among them and ho he will continue to bl be beto to them wh whether ther ho lives the life BCe of oC as nt Antelope Creel Creek farmer or becomes time UIO of at time the United States 1111 anti 1 women alike invariably address him as J and It Is extremely doubtful It ho he would curo c ro to bund be ad addressed dressed ballY by any other name Certainly not nat so long liS as he continues to make Normal his home hame The handsome house that adorns Fairview is 15 I a most pretentious From Fram an architectural view viewpoint viewpoint point It Is rather nondescript In style since It Is patt patterned rno after the tho I duos lost modern of at city residences as well ns as along the tho lines ot of a large roomy corn country home embodying time best features ot of each ellch of oC Normal will toli It Is the lineal house In e lily Illy to I a visitor r to those parts Is to accept their word for tur It ft and nut not attempt to ta argue the tho point PrIor to Mr Ir Bryans tour furnishings decora decorations Ions pictures and anil as well wall wallI as the books hint lined the tho B Tat shelves were In every sense ROnse All is 15 different no nasty and shows that both Mr and Mrs Brae Dryan have become wonderfully broadened as asIt asa It a result ot of their trip iI a statement so fOO oCt Often en heard within the mho past Yew few months Few I homes In the larger of at atthe the more effete East can boast of at so soman man many beautiful examples of art limns Gems tram from nil all over the world have theIr 1111 rvay to Fairview and man many ot of these presented to time tho Corn Cam moner b by his foreign admirers among whom lire are crowned heads beads potentates and men of affairs In all corners off at the tho globe Ills His brao Is price priceless less Ida his pictures are aro b by artists whose names adorn canvases In the mOt most exclusive galleries III ht the Old and t hd New Worlds while the tho books represent n a fortune In then themselves selves In consequence Fairview has been so pa completely trans trams torm formed d that It Is n a source of at never nover ceasing wonder to those living there thero thereabouts In tact fact the Bryan Dran manifest such a proprietary Interest and pride in III all that concerns W J Jand Jand and that tho they leave no for doubt dou l to In the minds of those who time tho Commoner with thorn them that peerless pe leader Is a his by rIght alone Hero worship ono one would be prone pralle to call this adulation think that Is so sa lavishly on the tho Bryans by bythe bythe the simple folk living about thom them Maybe I it Is hut but Ii a wc k or a month and you will hear bear so many I little incidents In which the tho Bryans have figured that you will como come to ta I know the tho orator In a I now light tad 1 l then you o will wonder wh he should bo be willing to burd burden n himself with of state when ho he I 1 I 9 1 n t r J nICE le ICE r YA V YS l op tt dt t Extreme Le t O t t l lY r pt r b Y t ilk ill 1 I 1 i 41 t I 1 f fp ff N It t LP n f L r 1 l n p rr r f e t 1 x II It Isi Is t i 1 l t y IA WI t l M a s 1 l d ri ii Hi yi r Ip M e rc r r er h t irh w J JA dir dirr w A Ul r lt t I Iii ii R YA NS N 8 BRY j JENNINGS l it X t INI jA tl i t 1 j h can call round out his life lite In ease case and comfort In this most modern Arcadia The Tho Bryans worship to In tho little Methodist I thud 1st on the tho edge elle ot of ono oM ot of l There Mr Bryan frequently addresses the con rr and amid lu this hits church Mrs Mr Bryan her daughters Mrs Leavitt and Miss Bryan take tala part In iii those organizations made up of at women When the sowing sewing circle meets Mrs Bryan is always In attendance an nod 1 whether It its s a pair of Mr Bryans stockings or one of oC over she sho Is repairing nil all Normal manifests the tho most intense Interest adding what hat we most admire In Mrs Irs Bryan Bran is that she Is ono one or of us usand usand and gives h herself airs even though V J Is malting making money haul haulover over OYer list ns Mrs Bryan Hran h has educated her daugh daughters era to lives of at usefulness and lack tins has put Into practise that which their mother has taught them Young Bryan Dran DranIs Is I a splendid manly follow fellow who Is Isone isone one of at the tho most popular men at the University of at N Nebraska bra lm lIe Ile and hIs father Cather are chose chums although Will quite understand wh ss by his father seeks to reside In the While house when ho has hils suck a all as Fairview To VIII Is Paradise and while lie that lint ida hi rather father is 15 a horn born farmer armer l lie o Is looking forward to the da day when the tho rehma of aC sov govern n at shall be Je turned over oer overto to hIm that hein Ile inay i put into time tho many theories on farming ho he lias hils so sa assiduously studied sh white at college Poverty or rather r want Is an nl al almost most unknown mound around Nor NIr Normal mal mai but nevertheless ilia many II homes hames ther have havo been materially BRYAN l on Innumerable hy by tho he Jaunty bounty ruin Seem S ra time tho chief In III possessing with tho Drans Bryans conies COllies from their lIy Ity to ta share sharo with theIr neighbors ever ver n a latchstrIng hangs on the It Is limit lit at Fairview for or here fie t e neighbors como camo and gO ut at will Fair views JIg big to these folks I far moro more attractive any drawing rOOm far tor her hots they lovo to congregate amid aud such subjects as the dairy or w J rather enjoys these too tua and while tho Women folk oll In the lilt chen he al the tho men off oct to the tho biG b barn rn where they talk lalk over croPS to belt s hearts Mr Ir ii to his hs wife lle u iJ pro proverbial and justly so 80 too loo Cor or sM she t thas thas has ever been who has made smooth for or the tho struggling young lawyer Ih many stormy storm mid and rough places In hi hN road to success ss That hll t Is wh why Bri Ir Bryan l law Many knotty legal problems have then solved by these twp two In days when briefs were ten fen and far between and as 1 a result vi th M Maid aid thus received those briefs pre f m by Mr Ir Bryan Dran In him the early days uti struggled never tailed ailed to call fort some word ord ot of praise tram from the June g SIde by sl side lc the they have struGgled tar r many years and ami were you to ask Bryan today to what ho he most lutes utes his success ho he will reply To 10 the wi wise so counsel and tender love ot of mho best human God Goll ever ner everI I I i |
