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SIDE LIGHTS OF THE CONVENTION ?omt Interesting Qataila of tha Qaltl mora Gathering. During au outburat talk at thy convention hall, Repreaentatl ve Hen ry .Clayton of Alabama, oih? of the apeakeia who g ot all "hot up" over thing* In geueral, made the fatal ml a take of Htartlng three aentencea In aucceaalou With the word* "1 know." By the time tie got to hla fourth burn Ing thought 12,000 peraona started with him. It dUJn't bother him. and he kept right on "I knowing." "I know," roared the Alabama man "I>o you know that you've been talking fifteen minute*?" aaked a man In the gallery. "If you will b? patleirt, there are only half a dozen more ?peeebfes," pleaded Judge Parker at th? morning aeaalon, when the crowd waa break Ing the antl-nolae ordinance. ,JLet them all talk together, and then we can go home," waa a bit of advice from the floor which ralaed a tough, * ? ZlU- *?? The convention was watched by tifr1 "flrnt lady of the lady." Mre. Taft, WM. J. BRYAN JHN? ple? for ? progressive candi dat6 wai heeded by the Democratic convention. wife of the president, came over from Washington, and was an early arrival in the gallery near the spoaker'B plat form. She Baw an animated scene, for spurred by the promise of llVely ac tion, the early crowd took a good start, with the result that a lively, in terestlng throng was on lvand an hour sooner than Wednesday. For them the first center of attrac tlon was Mrs. Taft. She arrived with Mrs. Norman E. Mack three-quarters of an hour before the convention met. There was not a ripple of applause on the part of the incoming thousaivde as Mrs. Taft walked up the aisle and was ushered to a seat on the plat form. As the party went up the middle aisle to the stage Col. John I. Mar tin, sergeant-at-anus. hurriedly cross ed the platform. He was late, but made up for his tardiness by the cor diality of his welcome. Colonel Mar tin personally led the way to the ftrnt row of seats reserved for the Taft party. Her seat was in the front row of the guests' gallery to the left of tlve chairman's stand and immediately overlooking the west section of the press gallery. She had read every detail of the story of the Chicago con vention. where her husband was re nominated. and she was deeply inter ested in the work of the opposing con vention. " , It was the first time* in the history of the country, so far as the oldeBt convention fans could recall, that the wife of a president had attended a convention which was to nominate the man who would oppose her hue band for reelection. Unable to Handle Crowd. When Baltimore puts up five or six more hotels and can muster more than one ticket taker for each door way of Its armory it properly may aspire to the honor of having another national convention within the city wa'ls ? but not before. It 1h barely possible that the city could take care of the crowds if It knew how. but it Is a long call from the last big na tional gathering to the present one. and, while the last one was not any thing like ae big as this one, Balti more seems to have forgotten the les sons which other cities have learned. Marooned on Upper Floor*. The Illinois delegation had a big banner thrown out from one of the hotels announcing that its headquar ters were on the fifteenth door of one of the loading hotels. If the man who wanted to see Roger Sullivan, or It might have been Mayor Harri son, If valiantly he had gone to the room of the prairie delegation, he ' either had to walk up fourteen flights of stairs on feet already tired with tramping and standing, or else be had to wait for the hourly chance to board an elevator which carried Its heavy burden Jamming and perspiring aloft I <" : '? Two of the pourtieru negro d?)? Kate* who rtceut ly pl?yed a starring engagement iu Chicago had evidently got the convention spirit ruuuiug *o madly iii their blood that at their owu expense they decided tp go to iialtl- , iuoie to kw with th?-lr owu eye* what the Democrat* were going to do to one another They strolled into th? ha r at Ntx ou a about nine o'clock, when the rea tauraut was practically deserted. Tbay tailed for drinka and the bar keeper ueiv*d thenj Th?u one of thetn, emboldened by the ttrast dis play of courteay, which they bad ex? perienced in liaitimore, exclanued to bis running mate: "Buppotdng w y dine heab, Charles T What do you way? it's tob fur to ko all de way back to de Belvidere, and anyhow, after done splendid ruealii we had in the Pompeian room at the Congress in Chicago, the Helvlder* don't somehow seern to fit my fancy. Did you notice that coffee tbay had mimwinwit, Hut casually, quite by Why, it was muddy, yes it Wttl; poai tively muddy." By this time the bartender's mouth was hanging wide and loose from amazement, jBut casually, quite by accident as It were, one of bin eyes rolled in ^?e direction of the negro hea<T waiter of Jhp f^OlDK room, who was standing near by. "Ilufui," said the bar^der ''coiM ! hlthejv 1 ^TSTiTd IpkaTi* vTttT Thee. Head Waiter Hands Out Kibosh, Then in a iower tone he continued: "Don't bliss thin, ilufus. Theae two oolore<i gentjeqjen have Juat arrived from Chicago. They're talking a lot of rum stuff about the last days of Pompeii and i think ? I Hay, I think, Rufua, they arc contemplating dining here to see if our chef has got any thing on Chicago." lJy this time the two negro dele gates had sauntered into the almost empty dining-room. Hut in a moment Kufus was upon them. "Beg pardon, aire,'' -Imj aald, "waa either of you gentlemen inquiring for me?" -"We've JuhI dropped in for dinner. That's, of Course, if you have no ob jections." "Objections! My, no sab, we don't have no objections, only 1 regret to say we have not ?ot any empty tables." "What!" cried t tie other delegate, furiously. "What's the matter with this one My, there ain't scarcely a living soul in the room." "Hut dey is all engaged, sah; every one of 'em, The particular table you was going to sit at is reserved for Mr. Hryan ? William Jennings Hryan, sah. Though I take It you Is Rep^ 'llWn s, TotT~*rnay of heard of him. We're expecting him and his friend. Mr. Parker, to run in at any moment, so you see, gentlemen, how impos sible l*t ls.'^ ksjw - And without more words Itufus bowed the two delegates out of the door. * BrHsbane "Boost*" Cheer Leader. During a Woodrow Wilson demon stration In the oonvention hall during HE NOMINATED WILSON John W. We?tcott of w Jersey Who Nominated Wood row Wilson for the Presidency at the .Baltimore Con vention. the Tuesday night session the wild applause was suddenly doubled. A "whoop" arose that put to shame all the previous cheering,. The enthusi astic cheer leader was more surpris ed than any one else in the building. As he excitedly stepped from one writing bench to another in the press stand his progress wae checked. The Wilson lithograph he had been waving was dropped for a moment and then the cheer leader was catapulted through the air into the crowd below. When the police had taken the mat ter in hand, it was found that the sec ond actor in this successful effort of arousing the crowd was Arthur Bris bane, ohk'f editorial writer for Wli Ham" Itandolph Hearst. He objected seriously to having his "oopy" walked on and acted promptly. I^ater he said he merely "boosted" the offender out of the way. Nobody knew why the time at which the demonstration began was select ed by the Wilson foroee as tbe "psy chological moment," but the evi dences all pointed to a well lakl oot plan to storm the convention. It began when a New Jersey dele gate climbed Into the preee stand sur rounding the platform. He was clad In white flannels, and with arm* stretched to their fullest extent he held a Wilson lithograph. This he turned toward one side of the house and then the other. . i .<>;?> I IN A ( AVE. How KmhuoI rkiiitmt?, Auinlc"'* (irmtnt Humorlat, uutl HU I'dlit |/Wt Willi* K?|?i?H4tiK ? ^ When ou? think* of HannlbaJ, Mo. h?* in hid revert* unconsciously to Mttrk Twain. The two are tn*?par ahje; and. although it I* now an iinportant and progre**lve city, Hun nlhal * chief claim to fame will be Hit the borne of America's greatest buinori ut~ an the place where he "Pent bin boyhood and where lie Kut tiered the material* for the two ?ook* ho dear to the heart of ev ?5y A,ld Hannibal in proud of the distinction. The commercial <MUb in now making plan* for the dedicatory exercises when the home of the author will be presented to the city and pre*erved. Not Ion* ago It wa* *aid thai the home of Mark Twain wa* to be torn down 'to make room foor a modern apartment hou*e. Hannibal was in dignant. To prevent thi* desecra ' 1 on George A. Malum, a wealthy lawyer of Hannibal and a great ad mirer of Mark Twain, bought fill* houne and gave it to the city, When Mark Twain'* father mov ed to Haunlbal from Florida, Mo., in 18119, it wa* already a corporate community and had an annosphere of it* own. It wa* h town with a distinctly Southern flavor and H somnolent, (?iave holding cotaihuni ty, iranqilllly content. It had Ha own arlHtocracy and wa* proud of It. The chief characteri*tlc of the place wa* the natural beauty with which it wa* Hurrounded. There were glen* and cliff* and islands with cave* which would inupire the imagination of any boy of ah adven turous nature. And with the broad Mississippi in the foreground there wa* little to be desired in the way of Hetting. So it wa* into thi* community that Judge John Mar*hall Cle^nens moved IiIb family November 13,1839 He built a two-story house on Hill street, said to he the first of it* kind that the town could chrim. And It i* this same hoiiHe, still fairl well preserved, that will be offici ally presented to the city of Hanni bal with approplate exercise*. Young Clemen* and hi* "gang" ranged from Holliday'* Hill on the north to the now famous cave on the south, and over the field* and thru all the wood* about. They na vigated the river from Turtle is land to Glasscock's Island ? now Peat I, or Tom Sawyer's island, and far below; they penetrated the wll denies* of the Illinois shore. It is no wonder that among these sur rounding* the you-th formed u rost les*. roving spirit, and that many of hi* stories were merely of his ex periences, assisted by the unlimit ed fund of humor and fertility of Imagination that have made the, name of Mark Twain famous. The thrilling experience of Tom I Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Injun Joe in the cave is founded on fact, and tlie old cave is now the chief point of interest in" Hannibal. Tour ists often go out to wander over the great cavern so graphically de picted in "Tom Sawyer/' and some enterprising easterner has Installed electric lights in it. At the time the incident' de*cribed in Tom Saw >er took place the cave had been open to visitors only a few weeks, it having been closed by its owner, an eccentric physician of St. Louis, once connected with the earliest medical college established in that city. j For some unexplained reason he had the entrance to the cave clos ed. This proceeding naturally ex cited the curiosity of the whole community. All desired to know what mystery was concealed in these underground chambers. They would go out and gaze at the door In perplexity. One day a few more bold than the rest tore down .the massive door which blocked the en trance and explored the winding galleries. They were rewarded .be yond their anticipation. A strange and uncanny object was found in the "coffin - shaped chamber," and many were the stories told the boys of a corpse with long, black hair, which swung from chains in a met al coffin ? the cavern's silent ./and I only inhabitant. /' These alluring stories were too much for the adventurous youngs ters in the town, so one day Sam Clemens gathered them together and proposed that they explore the won derful cave. All the members of the band agreed to the proposition and preparations were made for the journey* the next morning. The band met at the foot of Lovers' Leap. The party was composed of Samuel Clemens, John Briggs, Bar ney Farthing, John Meredith, (lulll ver Brady, Frank and Tom Pitts and Kobert Bodlne. On their way to the cave the boys met Tom Blan kenshlp, the original Huckelberry Finn, who was fishing from the hurricane deck of a steamboat, attd he was quickly induced to Join the party. When the boys gazed into the mouth - of the darx cavern A\auy would have turned back had not, pride and fear of taunts from Clem ens and John Briggs prevented. So, with these two leading, the band entered the cave. For a short distance the descent was made thruf a steep, high arched way, then a slighf^ descending passage, which they traversed for what seemed a good many miles. By the dim light of their tallow candles they finally reached the "petrific spring," where ?the young adventurers satisfied thelty thirst and bathed their heated faces J a quaking, exhausted group. Aifter resting a few moments they satrted down the long passage in spite of the entreatties of some to turn back. The passnge grew nar rower until progress was difficult. Then Clements, who was in the lead, stopped abruptly. The band gathered around him, looking ovef; hig shoulder In fear to see thi weird mysteries of which they htfd heard so much. One hurried glaiteft wag enough. As the candles ca?t a flickering light into the gloom of the vaultlike chamber they saw a coffin swaying to and fro, suspend * KoiiDioii JPU144HO. IWh Bulletin No, tjCXX of t'lciii tM>u < o J lege. The fodder pulling season of South Carolina lb n?ar at hand. Till* in a farm practice "which has been a costly one to the farmer* of thin Slate for uiany generations, but some of the more progressive Indi vidual* of our varloua communitiew are beginning to appreciate the drawbacks of this expensive opera tion, and ure using better roughage in its stead. The chief urgument made -by most farmer* for the continuance of this practice is that fodder comet) in at a time of t tie year when roughuge is *carce, that it is a feed which is ea*lly handled during the feeding period, and one which is relished by all horses and mules. Grant thbt the above reasons are good ones will they offset the following facts which have been carefully worked out at most of our Southern Kxpe rimeiu Station*. First of all, fodder pulling reduces the yield of shelled corn per acre. The Florida Kxpeori ment Station report* the smallest loss of any station, which was X.'J bushels per acre. The Ml*sl**ippi Station report* the greateut Iohh, which was 8 bushels ner acre The other station* reporting gave los*es ranging between the above weights the average being 0 buuhel* for all tjie Southern state* reporting. At the finnie. time the average yield of fodder per acre waa 4 40 pound*. With the average price* of corn at $1 per bu*hel and fodder at $1.25 per hundred pound*, and as suming that the above weight* are representative of any given farm, the man who pull* fodder lo*e* fif ty crept* per acre in addition to the co*t and pleasure of pulling it. While corn fodder may be a pa-| iutable feed, it has a poor feed value, when compared with other form* of hay which can be easily grown in South Carolina, such a* cowpeus, oat, and vetch hay. These two crops can be grown and har vested for about $5.00 per acre each, and on average land each should give about one ton of good hay per acre, which is worth at least $2o per ton. Both of these crops have a high 'eeding value, so If those farmers vtio practice fod der pulling would discontinue it and plant oat*, 1 1-2 bushel* and vetch 1-4 bushel in the fall, har vesting it in May, followed by cow peas, they would make more rough feed per acre, which would have a higher feeding value than fodder, nnd would not decrease their corn yields from 3 to 8 bushels per acre, arid at the same time they would be growing two leguminous crops oil their land each year, thereby in creasing the fertility of their soil. <V Tf ys- -^-to Explaining a Resentment. ?** "I am an American citizen," said the man who got into trouble abroad. "Well," replied the Oriental official, "in that case you can consult some of your own statesmen and understand our resentment of pernicious activity In polVtlcs." ed by chains from the ceiling, or it may have been that the wavering light produced the illusion. One boy cried out suddenly and then the whole band retreated has tily. Stumbling over stones, fall ing- against the walls of the cave, they ran on and on until they came to a spot where the passage divid ed into two similar galleries. They were undecided as to which one to follow, but one was finally chosen and the band proceeded on its wea ry journey to find the "petrific spring." . But they wandered on and on without finding any trace of the spring. Finally Samuel Clemens stopped and told the rest of the band that they were lost. The more timid ones then set up a wail of despair, their fear being intensified by the weird shadows cast on the wall by their flickering and almost consumed candles. Their cries echoed down the cav ernous passage until they died away ill the 'distant gloom. They had heard their parents tell many times of the man who was lost in this ca vern, wiindering for days, until at last he died of starvation. They wandered aimlessly around until ex hausted, when the entire party fell asleep. Their candles all burned out while they slept, and when the first boy awoke, a cry of terror burst from his ' lips. The others immediately awoke, the echoing ca vern was filled with their cries. At last they heard the welcome sound of voices, and the Jight of a dozen torches appeared carried by a searching partfy. Weak from wan dering and lack of food, they were carried out, after having been lost In the cave 30 hours. The mystery of the grewsome fig ure In the cave was soon made known. The physician who owned the cave had obtained a body from the medical college with which he was connected, and had put it in the cavern to test the petrifactive qualities of the water, which had been claimed for it. For many years those who had visited the cave asserted that Mark Twain made a mistake when Tom [and ribcky were made to wander in an undiscovered portion of the cave where stalactites and stalagmites abounded, for, they asserted it was a geological impossibility for crys tals to form in that kind of stone. But the tneories of these scientists iwere disproved when another branch Of the cave was discovered in 1892, the walls of which sparkled witth crystals. The cave was an enduring and substantial Joy for all the boys - in the town. For young Clemens It >had a fascination that never faded. Other localities and diversions might pall, but any mention of the cave found him eager for the three-mile walk that brought them to its mys tic door. With its long and tortu ous passages. Its possibilities as the home of a gallant outlaw band, it contained everything that a roman tic boy oould desire. ? Kansas City Timet. One Very Important you should take account of in }'" '? - ' -a . . . ? buying clothes is the way you will look in them when you are away from home, as well as when you're here around town. Hart Schaffner & Marx styles are not local; they're international ; the best models * ?? ' of English tailors, are illustra ted in the designs of these ? makers ; and anywhere in the world you'll be well-dressed in these clothes. ? r;?4? Do you want to see some of ? : r'TlS our new late fashions ? In im* -.M ported and American weaves; ] grays, blues, tans, browns, cheviots; serges, homespuns, fine worsteds. .;:.w I ?n a ^?S J ._J^? There are no other clothes made so satisfactory as these of Hart Schaffner & Marx. We can fit you any day in a fine suit at $18, $20, $25, $30, $35.