Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1909, Page 6

I'HE B ~ — FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. vichOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR Fntered at Omaha postofffice as second- Aase matter TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION Bee {without Sunday), one year..$4 00 Bee and Sunday one year 800 DEIAVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee (Ineluding Sunday), per week Ja'ly Bee .-’S-.;« Sunday), per week Evening Bee (witheut Sunday).per week Svening Bee (with Sunday), per week Dally Daily 15 10 i § 1 Zunday Bee, one year $2.60 Saturday Bee, one year 160 Address all complaints of |rtegularities in elivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha-—The Bee Bullding 3 South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N Councll Bluffs—16 Beott Bireet Lincoln—518 Little Building Chicago—-1648 Marquette Bullding New York—Rooms 11011102 No. Thirty-third Btreet o o Washington—72% Hourteenth Street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi- orfal_matter shoujd be addressed: Omaha jee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. mit by, draft, express or postal ordér, sayable (o The Dee Publishing Company. iy 2-cent stamps recelved in payment of nail accounis. Personal checks, except on )maha or eastern exchanges, not accepted M West STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebruska, Douglas County, ss: George B ‘Tzschuck, treasurer of The Bce Publishing company, belng duly fworn. says that the actuai number of ‘ull and complete coples of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed furing the month of April, 1909, was ollow 1 .. 29,260 41,030 39,060 . 89,480 37,500 41,800 40, Ql.m 41,480 . 41,080 41,400 37,300 41,300 41,4490 40,88¢C 40,600 40,550 coples. ... ve 11, 18. 19 20 n 2 23 2. Tap 26, 21 28 29 30 .. 43,450 . 45,8080 45,520 45,850 . 45,360 1,236,410 11,803 1,228,207 .. 40,840 /SCHUCK Treasu ‘er Subseribed in my presence and sworn to efore me this st day of May, 1909 M. P. WALKER Notary Public, teturned Net aily total average........ GEORGE B. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. vorarily fled to them. Add changed as oftén ns requested. It To the automobile seorchers: Slow down without waiting for the accident. Broker Patten is out of touch with he world on an Arizona ranch, but he touched everybody for the limit before 1e left At the present time none of those Turkish politicians could be classed a8 prefersed risks by life insurance DAy Bu-:r | . 45,350 | hausted to listen to one another Presi- dent Taft is expected to offer his good services in bringing about a peace pro tocol which will rival in fame the one signed also at Portsmouth that ended the bloody Russo-Jap war. | The Commodity Cl - 1| The decision of the | supreme court, construing the com- modity clause of the rate bill, may be favorable to the rallroads in thetr im- mediate contentions, but in the long run it ought to make more certain the achlevement of the object f which | the law was enacted | | In & nutshell, the purposc the commodity clause Is to prohibit rail- | roads from having such an interest in | the goods which they transport as to influence them into discriminations eithér in rates, clasgification or facili- | i; the Spokane case has les for carrylng any particular kind | many changes imperative, and while commodities. Manifestly, if the rail- | they are readjusting these rates it is roads go into collateral branches of in- | the announced intention to make such dustry on a commercial basis, the ten- | 4 general revision as will stop the nu- dency would be to favor their owh |merous suits and complaints made to enterprises at the expense of competi- ‘ the commission tors without rallroad connections. The | Omaha and Nebraska are vitally court upholds the power and duty of | concerned in the question of railroad congress in principle and in 1aw o0 |,ates to and from the west and north- make an effective regulation of this | wegt, and it is a matter of first impor- sort of raflroad activity, with a view | tance that when this revision is under- to preventing possible abuses taken that our iInterests be looked Already it is hinted that the rail- after by those competent to safeguard roads may be able to evade the com- | them. Other eities are already mov- modity clausp'by organizing subsidiary | ing in the matter and there is | organizations, or making perfunctory | qoubt great pressure will be brought sales of the output of their mines, to bear upon the trafic men, each com- etc., to middlemen before shipment to | mynity seeking to secure an advan- market. 1t may be put down that any | tage systematic attempt to evade the law The problem s a complex one whose in such a way as to revive the evils | oqujtable solution is going to tax the of discriminating rages and services | anjlity of all concerned, the railroads, will stand for no length of time be- | o¢ course, looking to the maximum of cause the arm of the government 18| ravenue apd distributing centers seek- quite long enough to reach these of |ine to preserve natural advantages fenders and will be strengthened, if |gver competitors. Never in its his- | necessary, by further legislation [ tory has Omaha been in so good a posi- If the rallroads, on the other hand, | tjon to command fair treatment, but in exert themselves to reasonable compli- | 4 ganeral shakeup of rates eternal vig- ance with the law, as interpreted by | jjance is the price of equity. the supreme court, they will in all | mpo ereat northwest fs fust now probability find that the rate law, even | rqpiqly developing and expanding, and [In the commodity clause will Wwork | with fajr rates Omaha as the natural out to the advantage of all concerned | gateway should cothmand its full share and help them raise railroading to a | Ad advantage lost or {of the trade. legitimate ‘basis in all of its VATIOUS | gained in such A readjustment as is phases. contemplated would be both far- reaching and lasting in its effect. Chi- Turkish Finances. 'ago, the Twin Cities and the cities of One- feature of the Turkish situa- | the intermountain country are all ac- tion, which has in large measure cs-|tive in asserting™ their clatms, and | caped public notice, is the financial a Omaha's interests should also be fully pect of the upheaval, yet its influence | pressed is more likely to be felt in the United | States than the purely political side. For years the Turkish government | has been a large borrower in all the | great money. centers of Burope, its | publ debt being $458,608,218 1t has been the fear of depteciating the | value of these securities which has in a large measure stayed the hands of other countries in putting an end to the misrule which has characterized the sultan’s government. The Turkish people have been taxed to the limit to | pay government expenses and the in- United Btutes Bail Rates to the Northwest. Traffic managers of the Harriman and Hill lines fare scheduled for a meeting in Chicago next month to dis- cuss an overhauling of the rates to the | west and northwest. The decision of the interstate Commerce commission A Peaceful May Day. May day the world over used to bes looked forward to with apprehension in labor circles and element. At that time differences be- tween workers and their employers were likely to culminate in open rup- tures of relations, and by common consent May 1 has been fixed as set- tlement day. The fact that May day has this year passed with so little disturbance in | the relations between employe and em- no | by the business | | ticket cratic to being counted out by demo- election officers. One thing that must strike average person as strange is the con | trast between the two bond | tions, which have been submitted to the voters of Omaha. The water bond | proposition provides that the bonds | shall not be sold for less than par and shall bear 4 per cent semi-annual in- | terest, while the fire engine house | bonds are to be issued at not less than par and bear not more than 5 per cent semi-annual interest If Omaha's credit entitles it to 4 per cent money, why should per cent bonds be au thorized, and if anyone with money to loan can get a 6 per by the city of Omaha, why should he take a 4 per cent bond with no greater security? The fact is that for the | past three years the city of Omaha has not been able to sell any of nicipal securities for less than 4% per cent, but, of course, the money In the market may go down again to the 4 per cent basis under favorable con- ditions. rendered | board show such intense personal in- terest to have the water bonds carried? They are, of course, privileged to favor or oppose any proposition sub- mitted to the vaters, but suppose-the city councilmen had run earound town | soliciting as personal favors votes for | the Independent telephone franchise, for example, would not people have inferred that their concern was prompted by than the publie welfare? more ——— The Wright brothers have been dec- orated again for their achievements in aerial navigation. Whether cash re- turns are large or not the Americans have certainly accumulated plenty of medals and glory out of their inven- tions. —— Oklahoma has* fallen in line as a booster for the Corn show. The inter- est thanifested all over the country demonstrates that the work done last year is bearing fruit and that its edu- cational value is being appreciated. m———— Few Americans tn Cuba. Chicago Record-Herald deal has been sald about American invasion of Cuba since rule was thrown, but the census fig ures show the presence of only 6.113 peo- ple who are natives of thix country { Americans campose only about 29 per cent \of - the forelgn population.s and they number about one in 30 of the entire population. — A Persunsive Peacemaker. Baltimore American The suggestion that Mr. Roosevelt be the peacemaker between Great Britain dnd Ger- many will not probably he repelled. A good the ove force of his own strenu- the | proposi- | cent bond secured its mu- Why should members of the Water | Spanish | Around New York Ripples on the Ourrent of Life as Seen in the Great Amerioan Metropolis from . Day to Day. A pure, wholesome, reliable Grape Cream of | A NRvRL digmuion Ui Tartar Baking Powder rected toward his method of their Mr. Maybray and separating ‘Mikes decidedly raw mooth work t | nunciat the fact that | “miking” & not sanctioned by law & | the taint of rawness to the scheme. Under guise of legal the game of col lusive robbery is no less rank, but it takes | a of cleverness In keeping with the forms of canning the spirit | of the law and gnaking off with the goods. But to the point: The Brooklyn Eagle relates that the Jenkins Trust company of that city, organized in 1905 with a capital | of 800,000 and a surplus of $1.00, went |inta the kanas of eiver in October 1907, with deposits pf $4.5 On the fol- lowing January reorganization was affected with the approval of the general wnd the state superintendent ¢ banks. In April, last the Lafayette Trust company reopened for business with capltal stock increased to $80,000. In seven months the concern was again in the hands )t receivers. But between April No- | vember favored depositors got in their | work, drawing per cent of the de | posits, leaving % er cent to hold the sack { That was the purpose of the reorganiza tion and the managers made good. Re- cently the recelvers filed an fnventory with the supreme court, in which it 1s shown that the nominal assets were $500,000 in ex- | cess of liabilities, but that of such assets | more than $700000 are doubtful or impos- | sible of collection. Tn the detail of this report It is forth that loans to the amount of $100.716 are of problematical value, and that there are other loans amounting to $477,618, which it 8 im- Possibla to realize anything at the pree- ent time. Another detall is that this total of bills purchased and past due amounts to $220528, of which only 10 of 15 per cent | | 1% collectible, Here there fs nearly $1,000,- 000 of assets, at least, pr doubt- ful by the receivers. his pals, from when with ars contrasted of experts sibly sanetic veneer in law while No A stite's attorney vear and on PERSONAL NOTES. Wright of In his charge to a grand ago he presumption papers tell the truth.” Alton B. Parker has been elected presi- | dent the New York County Lawyers' | assoclation, succeeding John Dillod. | The soclety has 3,8 memb A Virginia mob came very the umpire & few days ago for against the home team on a cld he great American game evident | under way at last The ounced Judge Moses Ga., said fow the Rome jury is that A days told of the late Kohert McTurk for many years was the leading citizen of Willlams Bridge, which was a New York suburb At the time of annexation Mr. MecTurk was treasurer of the town and ex-officio treasurer of the sewer fund. The comp- troller of Greater New York sent the| police to Willlams Bridge to get the funds, but Mr. McTurk was at Hot Springs, Ark, at the time, and there was no record of the $176.000 he held In his custody When he came back to the ety a few months later the comp- troller's office one handed to Comptroller Fitch $176.009. Comptrollet Fitch was greatly surprised because, he sald, he had found no record of s0 mueh money being in the Willilams ! Bridge treasury “l can take ‘the money sald he, cannot discharge your bondsmen.” Mr. McTurk replied that he had been required to give a bond “That's strange” replled the comp- | trollr. “They make me put up bonls aggregating nearly $1,000,000 here In the [8} ¢! news- | Thix story 1s who P s near lynching deciding point is well | Merchants! has association of New York City published a pamphlet in support of a movement the fly which 1 n « great dissemina tor of discase typhoid fever he went t day and draft for a to suppress house w considercd . particularly Saratoga Springs | of the public i8 to be made a part of New York state The dec the bookmaking industry and allied tobogganed the famous resort from affluence to poverty and makos | free water a gencrous concession to the | poor. H *but lines 1 never That superb $4,250,000 estate ‘*“"""“1 Lawn, at West knd J., upon which the | late John A. McCall, the insurance 8 | lavished money with reckless prodi- gality, has been bought by reenhut, | Well” replied oniy honest men the grocer, “we elect in Westchester | i | county. B - ice’s The cream of tartar used in Dr. Price’s Baking Powder is in the exaet form and composition in which it oceurs in the luscious, healthful grape. Improves the flavor and adds to the health- fulness of the food No_ lime Phosphate af it was over, “I'm not as hard a citizen Al that, as if | were a steel King Still, he could not help thinki an absurdity it would be for the to perpetuate him in bronze. Tribune HOW ABOUT FATHERS' DAY? T Mothie suy = on that ulpto Chicago The 9th of May Is ine idea,” peoplo White carnatior Coat lapels galor- adorn Loyal hearts therein unit To honor mother, This s right; All the land will tribute pay To mother dear on Mothers auy; morn day But are Al tl To one parent »oth in dark -obivien ' smoth would 1ot sce Juther slighted ot this grievous wrong be righted— hoose a Hower a day To him alay tribute pay we not tial to cxtend whilc the oth frienl. i 1 i 11, 4 sea—waat flower will do, dei*, to weor for you” Pansy il s 100 sentimenta: Poppy -s-8—but then some gentle Soul will think It s a pun; ‘Touch-me-not 2. not, not Would | dave suggest for d Sen'stive plant?—that's _just Let me Father y n A= as fun bad, v, vou' say e toall, 1 Arduous task But I've hit weot well, yes— guess— companies. ex-president, by Ao K8 A6 hot fron | the wealthy Sixth avenue merchant in New m ancing bet, terest on that debt, and to ralse this money methods have been resorted to The Pure Food commission i8 striv- which would not be tolerated under a ing“towetesmine when whisky is not ployer is a imost encouraging symp- tom. The only strike of serious pro- portions precipitated is that of the osity, must be dolrig something, and now that he has laid dowh the big stick nothing possibly would plda¥e him better than a correspondingly VIg6rous waving of the them.” require any security taln western governor wito came to York City. Governor Fort advocates the acquirement | by New Jersey of a tract of about 200,60 | whisky. “Aff§ old"toper in a prohibition state could @nswer that questiom. It going fishing with railroad attor- neys rendered federal judges impeach- less autocratic regime, & |lake seamen. The great iron and It is fnevitable that a shange in tax- | steel centers are free from conflicts ing methods must come, with a larger |and the coal miners, usually the storm weagure of personal liberty under the | center of labor disputes, have reached i agreement with their employers able there would be a lot of vacant places on the bench in this vicinity I8 a vote for Mayor Jim an endorse- ment of Governor Shallenberger or a rebuke to the governor? Democrats | will still have this puzzle to work out. ‘nr millions upon millions of Turkish | | securities A man of 63 and his son of 20 both | ipyestors, largely French courted the same Philadelphia girl | Any large depreciation of such a and the older man won. Dr. Osler's | ;ggs of securities cannot help but theory is getting its bumps with regu- pave a depressing effect upon the lage monetary affairs of the entire world, s0 intimately connected are world finances .under modern conditions. While few if any of the securities are held in the United States, the reflex influence of heavy losses by European investors would be great An analysis of conditions in Turkey gives hope that the new regime will be able to avert serious disturbance to its finances. The old system of tax- ation in Turkey has been productive of the maximum of burden and the The total vote polled in the 1906 city election in Omaha was a trifle less than 18,000, The total vote this year will by comparison show how we have grown The May term of our district court has started without a grand jury, and venders of ill-defined rumors may con- tinue business uninterrupted at the old stand. A veracious chronicler vouches for | A three months’ old Missouri girl baby commencing to talk. What will happen when that child reaches the maturity of its powers? Pl —— Although less than & week old the royal Holland baby has five names al- ready When the nomenclature gets #ts growth it is likely to lap over so small a country Turkish securities on foreign bourses indicates a belfef that the readjust- ment will be beneficial rather than hurtful. For a people so poor as the Turks to carry such a burden of debt {s, however, a most serlous problem which will tax the best statesmanship to solve successfull e— i Precedent Versus the Babies. | During the excitement to the revolution in Turkey a war right at our own doors has almost escaped notice. At this distance it appears funny but there is every reason for be- lieving that to the participants it is The new Tolstol play requires five | " Jf)lm A i o e aleita for s presentation. & man who | CUET, il e youth of the hour found himeelf mixed with up with that yard has warne o: "kl B .‘(m.n;d, play and a cricket game at the same | !¢ §0 home and tuc e . But now a navy yard L& would seon be flyin around them al'::.l.w SNSEIENS ST 18 Aitinge baby has upset it all, custom and pre- cedent Admiral Taussig, in com- mand of yard, came to the conclusion that the Portsmouth youth could be guided by the town clock or a Water- bury wateh, for all he cared, because the bables of the navy yard homes, whose slumber hours started much earlier in the evening, might be dis- turbed by the traditional firing of a 9-o'clock cannon. $o the ancient cus- tom has been abolished, the babies sleep peacefully, but the Ports- mouth youth has no monitor to tell him when to go home Although the people of the city have 8o far gtormed the navy yard in vain 3 = The admiral stands pat. The admiral The congressmen who have re-|suggests that the city borrow a can- turned from the canal zone all agree |non and place it in the hedrt of its that work {8 progresaing rapidly and |residence district. Yet this does not that the Gatun dam is all right. Did | meet with approval and there appears ou ever notfce that all the bear stories | to be no other way than to fight it out about the big ditch originate with [along this line if it takes all summer those who failed to make good there |and part of the winter. When the com- when they had the chance patants have become sufficiently ex- ident A car load of live lobsters has been ROIEAN shipped to the Pacific coast. Almost every town in the country could spare a few {f those Pacific coa cities really need them. Bétwéen tNe Board of Trade aud dashing widows Chicage appears to be an excellent place for Nebraskans and others to part with their money. It is a pretty good idea to invest your money at home, 3 R —— Los Angeles reformers are asking the council to pass an ordinance pro- hibiting women from lifting their skirts when passing along or across the streets. No law is necessary to grant permission to offended bystand- ers to fix their gaze on the cornice of now in the hands of foreign | From time immemorial lhei navy | new order of things, and the burdens |an be shifted and equalized. Whether | which allays all fears in that direction. the change of rulers will produce the needed revenue more easily must re- main a matter of speculation until after they have been tried out. Upon success or faillure depends the value | In the building trades there are iso- lated cases of difference which have | tied up operations, but they are not | numerous pr of large dimensions. In | the textile and other great industries | the same conditions exist These facts should not be con- | strued to mean that either the work- | ers or their employers are entirely sat- | tsfied, but it does show that both have { taken the sensible view that just now, {when the industries of the country lare rapidly turning into the upsgrade | after the depression which started in 11907, is a poor time to engage in dis- | astrous contests. There are too many { men who want to work and too many industries endeavoring to get back on to the old basis. With this spirit of co-operation and mutual endeavor the | coming of each May day should wit- | ness a steady improvement in the ap- | | proach to more permanent industrial | peace. minimum of returns and the prices of | { Unprincipled. | The deliberate attempt of the loca | democratic organ to confuse the voters !and mislead the election officers as to | the method of marking and counting the ballot in our city election is a most | | unprineipled piece of work that calls | for severest condemnation | The law of the ballot is as plain as day that every straight party vote in- dicated by a cross in the circle at the top shall be counted for every candi- | date of that party on the ballot, and | yet the World-Herald brazenly pro- claims that the party ticket will not | include the candidates for city engi- neer and the Fire and Police board The World-Herald'’s statement is wil- | ful deception, calculated to deprive ime party candidates for these offices of votes to which they are legally and ‘JIISH,\ entitied and, further than that, | to lay the foundation for a contest and |a demand for a recount those | offices. | The court has decided that the | candidates nominated by the respec- | tive parties for city engineer and the fire and police board are as much the nominees of those parties as any other | candidates on the ticket, and each of | them is entitled to and will have every vote cast for a straight party ticket The only object which the World- Herald can have in so falsifying and misquoting the law must spring from | an idea that the straight party ballots will favor the republicans as against the democrats, and Inasmuch as all the election machinery is ‘ecompletely in the hands of the democrats, this can only be intended as advice to | judges of electlon to dlgregard plain mandate of the election law The Bee hereby gives notice there will be any candidate on the republican city on the that the | no tame submission by | olive branch. You Have n Guess Coming. Springfield Republican. Guessing on the population of the United States ealed by the coming enumeration has already begun. It was 75,994,676 for the continental United States, exclusive of Alaska, in 1900, and, in of the very heavy fmmgration during most of the decade, it would be surprising it & population of 9,000,000 were found in year. to be re view! not the same territory next Three Years More of Peace. Philadelphia Record is to be three years more of pe anthracite Industry. It is a good thing for the consumers, a good thing for the companies and it is as good for miners, as it Is for any others. By means of the strike and the arbitration commis- slon the miners made substantial gains #ix years ago, but that sort of thing can't be repeated every three years, and the miners are to be congratulated, as well as everybody else—especially In view of busi- onditlons for a year and a half past getting a renewal of the of There in the n is ness on 1 158, a terms OPPORTUNITY LOS Discarding an Party Principle, Wall Street Journal There was one principle which the demo cratie party enjoyed, whether Bryanite or was tariff for revenue only consistent argument embodying a of the strong Democrats Ancient not, and that This was a sound, | capable of strong support principle accepted by est economists and practiced by our great- est trade Right wrong, it was something worth® flghting for. It was the thread of conpistency that held the rogeneous party togther. It was a to make sacrifices for and, given »f dull with a high tariff, it something the presidential in the rival or hete: thing s times was to win spite of Bryan the most party for twelve atic vietory im- nsistent in in- the distrusts election William Mr asset with Jennings Bryan been of the He In order t that part dislikes the strongest has republican a demoe of and republican principle s made possible democratic him party a The to consistency party has present of democratle senators what the tariff law will | They must jump bill before demonstrated | many of their they openly tection, A tion | which i now made ! its | cannot yield even wait of e probable n the be way revenue n with an tax any necessity for it has In the fellows been ik ho of meantime in the lower gneede the principle legislator who de a single prafeiple of protection He cannot oblige facturer in his reciprocally obliging all the protec He 1t opponents It votes in that 102 out nands the industry protes all sected district thie tor industries manu without own ted districts. fonist it protectionist the prote manu He is most ex from e that protectionists shown facturers in therefore treme a in form s @ wher ica) principle alysis of the | resentatives | have voted to protect something | It is to be feared that this sordid sur Ir. nder of principl wmpaign contribu- 18 quite conceive are on been the house of 171 demgerats has an to tions has sounded the death-knell of the ratic party Is something ically consistent that party's Any exhibition of sincerity would have de vi the dem. histo | tatuit probably tory | That at next congressional heav like opport iy wport thrown away every other since | 186 1896 i the | three | valuable | elegtion. | acres In the northern part of the state for a state park. B H. Harriman, who owns la part of the tract, offered to give 2,000 ucres on condition that the state gets | possession of the rest of the property. | Mayor Arthur of McKeesport, Pa w York on the other day. finding some his hands, strolled aroun! to the club rooms of the college fraternity to which belonged, and, inteaduciag himseclf mer:ly s Blank of Zata chapler, cle of sat swapping storles nn\l‘ smoking an hour That even-!a police magistrate, has decided that men | | ing the youngsters was telling | convicted of intoxication must sign | an older member about it. “There was & { permitting their wives to draw vld fellow in here this afjernoon | gries for year: - In the of uns| #ald his name was Blank of Zefa c married men the next of kin will draw the | ter. He kept the hoys in a roar with h The alternative is. sf § stories here for an hour or so." “Blank S L ; 2L TP xclaimed the older brether b man, don’t any of you fellav e ehioret Bovernn POINTED PLEASANTRIES. 0 groat . dsng b “Can't tell yet Wait "till be turn That was Say, you fellows are slow.” round from that lookin' glass wheie admirin’ himself."—Atlanta | s who 1x for of or so om papers their sal lively cuses 1" | galaries | the Hanging on the wall in the office of a president of a New York downtown bank engrossed Chinese document, | showing great age, but still in an excel- [ lent state of preservation. Under it a translation in English, setting forth | that the paper is a certificate issued by | the board of finance of one King Wu in | 1367, and represented at that ime a value of 250 taels “redeemable in silver The paper was taken, according statement, from | Constitution. | is an “Did rapid on the “Not thing land the lawyer fire of annoy vou with his| uestions ‘when you were witness stand? | at all. I'm usxed to that sort of | I have a car-old son. —<Cleyes | Plain Dealer 5 — | Actor My aui r new part is on i t deul of thought Cru 3 1d—VYe 1 -heard you had | to the explanatory | an thinking part timore Amcr- | icar “insides” of a bronze Buddha, selzed by | | ‘ Itallan troops as loot, in the course Hf the punitive expedition of the allied pow- | ers ir 1901 NEBRASKA Ord Quiz: The main purpose of the late { democratic legislature was to fix places for democrats and spend an enormous amoint of money. ey did the latter thing s and shali how far eded In the former purpose which re- 1 | | | | “That joker you were trying to get the bill Gidn't work,' “No," answered the & practical joker."—8t into legislator, | “It wasn't | Times, said other Louis PRESS COMMENT. “People praise my tist, boastingly And they laugh at sad-feced party. “hut ‘What 18 your lne? professi o - work,” sald the ar- mine.” rejoined T don't mind querled the humorist ews, e artist repliod Th re enough we they have su 498 “You say “Dat's what Pete “Why dldn't you do something to your folks comfortable and happy “Tdid. 1 left."—Washington Star you onc 1 had” Plodding hon a Grand Island Independent: When the un- fortunate democratic party gets one chance ever ten years in this state to so something and then either passes an unconstitutional maximum freight ra things be, In ke Tudge Taw sey- | wish | intc Up again, Cascy e law or mu mist takes courage AR with the bad the up generally who it will an oy Don't rub | Ol had evaded it ) WO COps on the cc in. jedge. O1 only | siead of runain’ | ner uck ! that hope' not be quite so next handicap of : i | time. sort of a carpet beater s bald-headed and rather 1 wouldn't go so_far as to say « best.”—Houston Post best stont he is | ora . lature which anyone of that it * Even | because he is @ better {ana thereby Quiz: Are proud of adjourned? 1f you vou the legis- voted for you not ashamed voted for Bryan han his party | helped wwell the power of democracy in the state, which resulted in the awful work of the late lamentable legislature, what do you think of yourself They had iron duke. “Well of it now you begun to cxll Wellington e man he said. after the first shock ~ SALT SULPHUR WATER | }also the “Crystal Lithium" Excelsior Springs, Mo., | sealed jugs. 5-gallon jug Crystal Lithia Water 5-gallon jug Salt-Sulphur water $: Buy at either store. kinds miner: now? X Reglste Stanton will " pri- po. they water from tendency in 5 llon the timber mary the Al brigg The that to put leaders unless ut the independent it poor for voters are best the %0 numer up, they flity 1o file good officials us material is put will known will get We sell gver 1 water Sherman & McConnell Drug Co, Sixteenth and Dodge St Owl Drug Co, Sixteenth and Harney Sis 100 induce of that the men public no contests on tx will pick t! one so that the good men the wide Dpen primary t clan 1s_out b Aurora Republican der any 50 It party, the men in the win. With nachine politi there are n one best will independe Nebraska a judiclary or a man will never law of t schools non-partisan than at mpossible to s agement state oughly time. 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