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jllL! imii '-fc'-ff jgLs'-fe 4 it 1 THE IMES-DEMOCRAT. APRIL 11, 1908 WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. cue of the leading newspapers of Omaha and received the practical training that has enabled him to make a success during the past few years of bis own weekly paper, the Commoner. Brvan will go down in history as "stand well" at home. Gradually, however, a transformation has been wrought.

Perhaps Bryan may not carry bis own ward or city or county if he is a canlidate this year, but at least he the respect and. admiration of the community in which he dwells. Even his neighbors who differ from him politically are mighty proud of hiiu ar. a citizen, and, in them ever since. Incidentally it may be noted that one of the most interesting sidelights on Bryan's career is afforded by the change that lias gradually taken in the attitude of tne people of Lincoln.

Bryan has always been popular among those of his townsmen who knew him personally. Indeed, I would challenge any person, no matter how deep his prejudice against Bryan's political beliefs, to remain uninfluenced bv Bryan's many likable qualities if he came to know the Commoner man to man. But at the outset of his career as a national leader Bryan was known intimately by only a small proportion of the 50,000 people of his home community. LESS LARD Lincoln was a republican city, a good many of the voters regarded Bryan's radical ideas r.s rank polit ical neresv. in tnuri, me iuu liitotv rAfnsp.i in enthuse over its i most conspicuous citizen, and denied that it was Bryan that had "put the) place on the map'' for the newspaper-j readme public.

It was under those i conditions that Bryan failed to carry his own ward in the election, ami enabled his political opponents to make capital out of that most deadly of political the inability to 4. The superlatively satisfactory Southern standard cooking-fat that has made the South famous. Pure cotton oil, super-refined bv our exclusive process. The acme of purity, whole-someness, and economy. THE SOUTHERN AewOrkavs-Chicago) I' ji 5 .8 i i i 41 Si i '1? I 1 I I 11 'Int short, Bryan chief Lincoln is now willing to give universal recognition as its for public at ten- tion.

Many persons who have followed Bryan's later career pretty closely are wont to think of his public career as haviucr been inaugurated by that sensational speech at the democratic national convention lfcy3. which won him his first nomination for president. As a matter of fact, however, Bryan did not have any such "sky rocket use in pontics, lie was a member of Qongress from 1891 to i.vkTi and accomplished much more than the average new member of the national legislature can encompass. Then he received the democratic nomination for United States senator, but was defeated by John M. Thurston.

For two years prior to be -nnven- of he was the editor ot she is a type which attracts the opposite sex. Some man admires her because she is forceful, original, independent, and then after he marries her he wants her to settle down to washing dishes and making her own clothes and be "domestic," which is just the opposite of what he admired her for. Eat All Then take a dose of and you'll suffer no inconvenience, even thougrh you are. a confirmed dyspeptic. 35 Years' Ue Has Proven MISS GRACE BRYAN, Youngest Daughter of W.J.

Bryan. perity are the very men wiio twelve years ago sneered at Bryan because he was "a country lawyer with a 'practice of $1,800 a year, living in a house." The home life of tiio family is ideal. Mrs. Bryan has eVer been her husband's life partner in the best i and truest sense of the term. Class- mates in college, she and her bus- i band were married shortly after grad-j nation and she studied law and was admitted to the bar not with tlv: expectation of practicing, but mereiy that she might help her husband in his office work.

Later ch? studied shorthand, reading in activities. Mrs. Ruth typewriting and order to share her Wills' There are three children Bryan Leavitt, aged 22; William Jennings. age 19, and Grace, age 17. When prosperity came to the Bryans they left he cottage; in Lincoln and erected for themselves I three miles from town, a commodious wide-porched, white-turreted country house, that is appropriately named "Fairview." Bryan always refers to his homestead as the "farm," although he has little time for farm work, and he takes pride in the vegetables the place produces, notwithstanding the.

fact that he has little leisure in which to play farmer. WALDON FAWCETT. BEHtR THAN SPANK! HG Spankinf? iIops not cure children of bed-wetting'. There is a constitutional cause for this trouble. Sirs.

M. Box W. Notre Dame, le.l.. will send free to any mother her successful home treatment, with full instructions. Send no money, but write her today if your children trouble you in this way.

Don't blame the child, the chances are it can't help it. This treatment also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine difficulties by day or night. forces her back among the ranks of the "domestic" women, shrieking that it is the only place for her. And yet this kind of woman is becoming more common every day. She is a product of this century of energy, nerves and brains.

Why condemn her or force her because of stupid prejudice and custom "Dope" MOZLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR iBfcfififclk. lltl mil: To be the greatest remedy for Indigestion, and disorders of the Stomach, Liver and Bowels ever offered to the public. Try It One and You'll Never be Without It LATEST PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. 50c and 91.00 per Bottle AT ALL DRUG ST02ES "ONE DOSE CONVINCES" Copyright, Faucet Washington. he one of paigners his first traveled the most remarkable cam-the world has ever seen.

In presidential campaign Bryan more than 18,000 miles, as manv as a dozn times speakins and often getting no mora than three cr four hours sleep out of the 24. Since that time no man, not even his Secretary Taft, has traveled so widely or so continuously LOUIS J. ABBOTT, Bryan's Right-Hand Man. (Copyright, Faweett, Wash.) as Bryan. Especially notable in thisj sphere of activitives was his tourj around the world, and it was this: journey, by tne way, mat gave many Americans a new appreciation of Bryan, for he was feted and honored in every civilized country and everywhere did he create a favorable impression as a representative American citizen invariably saying the right thing at the right time in the right way.

Another circumstance which stamps Bryan's career as extraordinary is that he liar, for a protracted interval proven that for the accomplished orator's speech in literal truth, golden. Few of the nation's statesmen have made money as a result of the possession of this gift, but Bryan has done so in a most marked degree. He is the most-sought lecturer in the country and could have two or three engagements for every night in the year if he would accept them. His net receipts average $300 per lecture and his income from his lectures is probably not less $50,000 per year. Although Bryan's lectures are usually on nonpolitical subjects he has been criticised for lecturing for pay.

However, some of the critics who are now railing against his pros- If he wanted a domestic woman, why in the name of goodness didn't he marry that little mouse of a woman who never had anything startling or original to say and who consequently sat alone in a corner when the other woman was around? But, then, talk of feminine lack of logic, the masculine beats it all hollow, to my mind! So the woman tries to make her own clothes, and her back aches and her fingers refuse to do the work skillfully. You can't make dresses with your brains. You must Lave the fingers of the artisan, and they do not belong to this type. Household tasks are maddening to her. She can be generous, but not saving.

She can preside over a house with grace and dignity more than that, brilliancy but she can't cook or scrub her own floor. It she tries oh, so hard to perform these uncongenial tasks it eats the spirit right out of her- and her health as well. Her husband misses her vivacity and goes oh, irony to another woman, an unmarried, unburdened woman of her own type, to find it. Not Exactly to Blame. Can she help it because she is made this way? No, indeed, not any morel than a butterfly can modify its shim-' She can he charming.

mering wings. Blame rather the man who wants her to change her entire nature because he has placed a wedding ring on her finger. Blame the women who want her to be a baby worshiper when she simply endures an infant in the hope that it may soon grow up into something brilliant that will be worthy of her and that she can be proud of. Blame most of all the scheme of thi help a woman of thisype in any-way, but. rather, aided by aUot of old fogies, Sporting MRS.

RUTH BRYArJT LAVITT, Eldest Daughter of W. J. Bryan. Copyright, Faweett, Washington. William Jennings Bryan, probably the most conspicuous candidate for the democratic nomination tori president in litoS, has had a career thoroughlv unique in American politics.

No "other public man in the history of th" republic has. in the nf r.Ti'-rued defeats for the na tion's highest oflico. able to hold year afier year the admiration and enthusiastic allegiance of a large! proportion oi Hie public. The veryj fact that, though denied presi-l deney, Brvan has been able for more! than twelve years to retain a place among the idols of the proverbially tickle American people, is the best evidence of the power of his personality and his compelling magnetism. The Nebraskan.

whom his followers delight to designate as "The Peerless," enters the present strenuous period of his career in the very prime of life, he having only a few weeks aso celebrated the 84th anniversary of his birthday. It will thus be seen that he is younger by almost two years than President Roosevelt. Bryan is essentially a product of the Middle "West. He was born in the town of Salem, 111., received his early education in the nublic schools, then grpdunted from Illinois College, at Jacksonville, and finally attended the Union College of Law. at Chicago.

With something of the rugged courage that has more than once cropped out in Im later career. Bryan was no sooner through his legal course than he manied an dset out to nractice law in the college town of Jacksonville, years, and durii 1883 to 1SS7 he He stuck it out four this interim from and his plucky help mate faced all the problems that usually fall to the lot of the young and unknown lawyer struggling for a foothold and the wife confronted with the necessity for riid economy in household expenditures. Late in the eight ies the Bryans removed to Lincoln, and this city has been home toj OU may say what you will, there is a new type of woman "gangin' aboot." I speak neither to blame her nor praise her, poor thing, but simply to recognize her presence. She is so much in evidence you can't very well ignore her anyway. I refer to the type of woman who always dies in the fifth act.

In France she belongs to the sort one doesn't call upon, or if you call upon her she is of the very haut monde, too high socially to be criticised like ordinary folk, and well, let the description go at that! But in America, that land of longer head lines than heart lines, the same woman lives and moves and has her being in eminently respectable society. She is outwardly the same as you and but when Bhe opens her mouth and lets out queer little "crinkly" sayings or when she half closes her eyes like a velvety pussy Her fingers refme to do cat yu notice the work a difference. It sort of reminds you of a volcano asleep, only you know, and every one else knows, a volcano never, sleeps. There is always a tiny rumble, a spit of hot ashes now and then, just to show you it isn't an ordinary pasture clad mountain. The one thing that will save both life and reason for a woman of this type is to find the profession for which she is suited and throw herself into it heart and soul.

She will be happy in its whirl and activity. It will keep her young and give her an outlet for her lier enthusiasms and her whims. It will give her money for her extravagances (a woman of this type always has extravagances) and a chance to mix in the great world. When death finally comes, she will be too busy to notice its advent. It will feyirn'Ml'miTlJ Woman if :1 lit i Who Dies In the Fifth Act and Kate Clyde Puts the Blame Where COTTON OIL CO You Want Mozlst's Lemon Elixir by no means extinct, although foreign travel has helped the feminine voices of this country a whole lot.

Indeed, how can one "screech" or ba shrill in London, where ven the poorer classes of women have such exquisitely modulated voices, or in Paris, where the speech itself is music? A harsh voice is easy enough to get rid of if one has the will and determination to do so. Nasal tones arise very often from a local impediment, which a specialist may remove. There is no excuse for any woman having a disagreeable voice. She may not be beautiful, but she can ba charming if she has that low, well modulated voice which is so soothing to the listener and which makes eve the commonest phrases sweet to the ear. I always feel so sorry for the worrying woman.

There are two kinds the one with the New England disposition and the one with the artistic temperament. The New England disposition is simply dreadful. It is a conscience torturer. It also makes household slaves Slakes household stare of its victhns. of ita victims, who go into fits if they see a speck of dust on the floor or a chair left out of position.

As for the artistic temperament, it is up in the air one day and down in the depths the next, with the most nerva racking consequences. Modern doctors are realizing mora and more that the causes of many diseases are mental. Medicines are all well enough, but if women cannot control their nerves, if they can't stop worrying, they need not expect good health no matter how much they are dosed. be simply a sudden transition to something else (let us hope not. sitting on the bank of a cloud playing the harp, for heaven itself under those conditions would not be able to hold her).

But here is where the tragedy comes in. The woman of this type usually marries. Indeed, she can't escape it, because to be a most miserable round peg in a square hole? That's what I want to know. A Crying Necessity. Voice culture is still a necessity among American women.

The nasal or "whiny" tones English people have criticised so severely are II St1 I 1 1 I. 3 1 Mi! .1 'Ml' ''it i 'I! si 3 .11 2 a i 1 iay I IK if fj A NEW FACE IN WASHINGTON snr.iFTY A SUCCESSFUL WRITER FOR THE YOUNG. Literature and philanthropy are the fads of Mrs. Isabel M. Johnston, who until recently formed one of the brilliant circles that have made Evanston, 111., famous as the "Concord of the West." She is the author of a successful children's book, "The Jeweled Toad," and now resides at her country home at Stony Brook.

N. Y. Pretty and clever is what Washington has to say of Mrs Timothv Ansberry, wife of the new representative from the Viftu 1J 11Fnoty of Ohio. She is a graduate of Weslen univerStv and onn0" of the most delightful hostesses in her home town Defiance 1 5 is-very popular in. society at the capital defiance.

O. Already she New York. if ft 1 f- tt.