Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 14, 1910, Page 4

THE BEE: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE MUNDEh BY EDWARD ROBFWATPI( VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Dflllqfllce as second class matter. —— & TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. {ly Bee (Including Sunday), per week lic Dally Bee (without Sunday), np:r week 10¢ Dally Bee (without Sunday), one ks no Dalily Bee and Sundag one year. 6 SLIVERED BY CARRIE! gvumn Bee (without Sunday), per w”k 4 vening Bee (with Sunday), per we ek J0c Bunday Bee, one year.. $2.50 Saturday Bee, ong year all complainte gularities In aelivery to City" Cifewlation Department OFFICES. Qmaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Counetl Biutts-15 Seolt Sireet Lincoln—618 Little Bullding. Chicago—ise Marquette Building New York—Rooms 1101-112 No. 3 Wes: Thirty-third Street. Washington—72% Fourtesnth Street. (‘oRRP‘sn)\nF\ Communications relating to news and ed- ftorial matier shouid be addressed: Omana Editorfal Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order ayabls to The fies ishing Company nly 2-cent stamps received in payment of counts. Personal checks, except on or eastern 'lchnn:en not Hr‘x ml)\!-d N W E. ul STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. e of Nobrasks, Douglas County, George B. Taschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Compgny, being _duly BWorn, says that the actdal number of fuil d comple! es of The Daily, Morn- ing, Evening and Sunday Bee printed dur- ing' the month of December, 1909, was as follows: [ 1 . 43,530 42,930 41,630 42,770 | 43,480 Returned coples. Net Total. Dally Averay “eeis GL‘UX e B, TZBCHUCK, bod fn my preveice and sworn to M(on mc tnl- 818t day of Deceraber, 190y, W. P. WALKER Notary Fubiie. R Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily should have The Bee miled to them, Address will be changed often requested. The suffragette appears to have an | insinuating way with the Illinois legis- lature. Cheer up, the snow will soon shrink below the knotholes in the base ball fences, Halley's cum’elrlrsr ufi;TI;I;l‘ man may tip a glass to 8 o'clock, Charity's mantle may hide many faults, but the military cloak covers a multitude of slims, As was to be expected of such a mul» tiplicity ‘ot wehther,” the gorge of the rivers ‘ridés agdingt it. — That story about trying the quiet of New York as an insomnia cure is the most unkindest cut of all, —— Remembering the days of his college | sports, Mr. Storrow decides to be a 8o0od loser and not to go behind the re- turns. There's one comfort about Pedes- trian Weston's cross-country walks, we do not have to send his proofs to Co- penhagen The official roster of the Burlington may change from time to time, “Jim” Hill remains the power behind the throne. e The threatened lnc:ueTn the price of shoes is surely not.to be laid up to the action of congress putting hides on the free list The men who played seesaw with the New York Stock exchange appear to have:been jolted oft the board for a few minutes. Amongithe wmumt roses of yester- year lies the plew for a return to the Americans simply must simple life. be up and doing. While lh, golt nnk‘ are in cold stor- age it will ‘be noticed that the Wash- ington champion is keeping in fettle with indoor practice Prospect ;Jf more expensive footwear may tempt the consumer to believe there is something 'in that, after all, the Duncan's scandal theory. —_— It won't be long before we will need a municipal auto repair shop and keep it busy with machines belonging to the various q-blrnnenu of the city, - sdiohininaoelh e A (ormer chiet of police in Chicago has resigped from the force to con- duct ah @agency for the protection of Protection from what? cherus girls. T uwl of_\lo armed powers may not like to swallow the Knox peace court | roposal, but they are to be credited at least with looking pleasant about it. pi MJim" promises to campaign an automoblle. We sug- gest that he defer starting until the snow ‘melts and ‘the spring rains are over. “tashioliéd winter came too nt extingtion of the old- The auto has the snow late fashioned cutter. run of amything on drifts or no drifts. runners, Conf the pisc “to, the bellet t to be. that in Nebraska after but ted with a bill for cigars for rial commission, Wisconsin's state tregsurer wants to know If they c#p the fished, Most smokers some Administration of Accomplishment, Even those newspapers most strongly opposed to the adminietration of President Taft are free to admit his unqualified patriotism, the latest pression of which is in his avowed de- termination to make his an adminis- tration of accomplishment. To this eénd he is entitled to the fullest sup- port of every loyal republican member | of congress, for the legislative program | he has outlined is built upon the plat- form pledges of the campaign which ex 15| also carried the representatives to the |campaign, involving unhappy experi-| capitol, Honest men devoted to the |s:lme ideals may have honest differ- | ences of opinion about matters of de | tafl, and the executive has shown the| utmost disposition to withhold his hands from the digputes in the routine | workings of the legislative body. While it is true that he_has sought, as was his right, to effect a cohering of the forces which must be counted on to forward his policies, stitl he has made it clear that his single purpose| is the consummation of the reforms | which he has steadfastly advocated, un- affected by any personal or factional preferences. The aseribing of other motives to the president has been so promptly and emphatically disavowed that no| one will question the sincerity of his avowed aim, so far as influencing re publican® representatives is concerned, | to be to remind them of their duty to | sheir party promises. The personality lof the speaker, fo‘ example, has noth- ing to do with the question of admin- | istrative program. Speakers come and | g0, apd it 1s'not uncommon for the members to have differences with that guiding head of the house, as witness the stormy days éf ‘‘Czar’’ Reed, yet a congressman mgy have a well-meant quarrel with the rulership or the rules | and still be faithful to his party's poli- cles, From the opening day of congress President Taft has consistently pur- sued a course of non-interference to- ward the customary differences among party men except to insure party solidarity behind the measures to which the party stands committed. He has already presented several of the ex- pected administration policies in con- crete form, and is about to present lothe;u These, coming squarely before | congress, the people expect to see en- |acted by the republican membership chosen by the peaple for the very pur- pose of helping the president make his administration one of real accomplish- ment. —_— Why “Confidential?” The antis down at Lineoln, who are laying plans for an onslaught on the Taft administration in the guise of in- surgency, are asking republicans who sympathize with them to send in their names and add this postscript to the {nvitation, “If you desirg, this informa- tion will be treated as confidentfal.” Why ‘“confidential?” Every Ne- braska republican has a perfect right to line up on any side of the political | fence he chooses. He may be just a plain, unprefixed ‘‘republican’ stipport- |ing the republican policies and repub- | lican administration; he may be a “re- actionary” hitched up with the Cannon | bunch; he may be an “insurgent” try- !mg to npset things generally, or he Imny join the democrats and fight the republicans with whom he was formerly associated, But whichever course he may decide to pursue he should have such reasons as to justify himself in his own mind and no reason to hide under cover or mask behind gome name to conceal his identity. The democrats are always finding anonymous republicans purporting to turnish ammunition for use against re- publican battlements, but in nine cases out of ten these personages are simply figments of democratic imagination. Secret oath-bound political societies are un-American and have nevenghown any lasting qualities, 1f anti- Taft re- publicans want to put up a fight for party control in Nebraska they ought to fight in the open. Field for Young Men. The readiness with which the presi- dent finds & man competent to fill the exceptional post of national forester calls attention to the fact that enter- prising American youth have been quick to foresee the possibilities in this branch of service. Only of late years has the fleld of forestry been opened up to the vision of our boys, yet from | the schools cultivating this study, and ultimately to Burope, where the per- tection of forestry methods was flru‘ accomplished, in sufficient numbers to accomplished and, in many cases, pert intelligence. Forestry calls for robust bodies and alert, skilled minds, It #s an attractive and a gratifying fleld, remunerative not only in a pecuniary way, but also in health, spirits and the satisfying sense of permanent good accomplished for the human race. Under the gov- ernment's fostering care a well equipped force of youthful foresters has been developed, and it should be a | matter of national pride that we have | | already in so recent a field equipped | ourselves with abundant eaptains of conservation. The Shirtwaist Sisterhood. When metropolitan society women took up the suffragette cause, the putt iic smiled and styled it a transitory fad, but they can hardly be accused of following a Mmomentary craze in turning aside for. awhile: from thelr plea of “votes for women'' to support | saking | ployers hold out |a debt of gratitude for so successfully the west they have been flocking to| recrult the government service with| ex- | OMAHA FRIDAY, have given freely, those who Iacked immediate fynds @id not hesitate to mortgage their homes for the wage- earners’ cause, and, altogether, the so clety suffragettes have manifested in their shirtwaist crusade as fine an ex ample of unselfish devotion as this| country has ever witnessed, whatever we may think of the merits of the dis- | pute. We behold women of refinement for luxury to accompany the | strikers through the hostilities of the | |ences with the police on the street and unsavory associations in court and cell. Instead of faltering, their loy- alty has grown more intense, and they | are now planning to establish manu- factories of their own in case the em. | much longer. To| those who have been prome to discuss differences In class, the ease is con siderable of an object lesson, and if the women win this fight it may be taken to indlicate their ability to pro-| mote such a movement toward success whenever they have a good cause. | | | Conquest of the Air. Customary though it is for ready American jest to be turned| against the self-exploitation involved in such an enterprise as the uvlnnou‘ meet at Los Angeles, the public| spirited will be ready to acknowledge that national progress owes that city the conducting an event which cannot but arouse general enthusiasm for the new- est wonder of man's genius, flight| througly the air. Accomplishments of | the Wrights and others have hitherto | been so distinctively local or | merged with other features of celebra- | 80 | | tions that our attitude toward aviation | has been' somewhat distant, but non] that world's records are being shat- tered over American soil in an interna- tional contest thui we know the eyes. of other nations are eagerly scanning, we realize with more fervor the mar- velous progress of man's conquest of the air. The achievements at Los Angeles have been nothing short of astonish- ing. In spite of legal technicalities that rival aviators sought to interpose, machines heavier than air have been | guided with perfect mastery through all sorts of evolutions, and at stupend: ous heights. In airship marvels one| may no longer tell what a day may | bring forth, and the meet on the coast | has given an impetus to aviation in this country that should inspire Amer- icans to excel the world in adapting this sublime sport to practical pur- poses and everyday efficiency. Another Billboard Program. Restriction and repression of the billboard nuisance is a live topic in nearly every American city. The quest of effective means of abatement makes interesting to all what is being done in any city which takes advance ground. Describing the efforts of Cincinnati, a writer, in ''The American City’’ outlines thig bhlboard program: 1. We limit billboards to noncombustible material within fire limits, that is to say, to metal. 2. We restrict their helght to twelve feet. 3. We require twenty-four inches open space at the bottom, two feet between aud- jacent billboards and six feet between the ! biliboard and adjacent structure or lot line. 4. We require that no matter may be de- pleted which is licentious or obscene, or depleting the commission of any orime, and that all matter must be Inspected by the superintendent of police, and that no billposter shall post matter without per- mission of the owner of the board. 5. We require that no such sign or bill- board shall be erected on or facing any public park, square, municipal, county or federal building. 6. We make each separate regulation a separate ordinance, each independent of the other, and should any one be found to be invalid the others will not thereby be Jeopardized. This program seems to be well di- tion imposed in Chicago, already re- ferred to by The Bee, by which written consent of the majority of the property owners in the same block is prerequis- ite to the erection of the billboard where it is objectionable to the neigh- bors. It seems to us that Omaha is still very backward in the methods re- sorted to against the billboard nuisance, In that classic institution designed to settle all the vexed questions of this and other ages, the University of Ohi- | cago, the latest dictum is that women do not dress to please their husbands, but to excel other men's wives. Waell, wouldn’t that please any husband? What the U. of C. professor knows is ‘um)nreully only what every woman knows, Treasurer Furay {8 making a good showing by investing surplus public funds in county and city warrants drawing 7 per cent interest. But why, people will be inclined to ask, should | the eity and county have to pay 7 per cent interest even on its floating debt? Here is where the law should be changed in the next legislature. During his forthcoming visit to | Washington Governor Shallenberger is to have a taste of high life at the na- | tional capital which was beyond his social depth when he was an ordinary member of congress. If anything is calculated to convert him into a candi- date for United States senator this is likely to do it. The amazing progress of transatlan- tic transportation is shown by one of the big liners “limping into port” with crippled machinery and no rudder at a greater speed than used to be accom- the shirtwalst strikers, in view of the practical and whgle-hearted assistance they are giving these determined sis ters. Those who had ready money plished by the record-breakers in the days of the single-screw propellers, Nebraska's member of the repub- rected, but should include the restric-|, tee is Congressman Hinshaw Fourth district. If this committee is to assume responsibility for the cam- paign in Nebraska it is up to Mr. Hin- shaw to get busy. City Comptroller Lobeck says he got out of the road once to let Edgar How- ard be beaten as the demo-pop candi- date for congress in this district, and sets up a claim to preferment now to make good that sacrifice. Really, has not Judge Howard the claim for vol unteering to take the whipping? —ee Having inspected the monorail, Man. hattaners incline to the belief that the gyroscope will enable the befuddled tenderloiners to navigate the Great White Way provided the inventors suc- ceed in perfecting a hip-pocket edl- tion Domestic sclence educators are ad- vising girls to prepare to solve man’'s | problem of modern living by learning how to do all the household work with- out a servant. That's always the way, put everything up to mother. ‘ R ————— The decision of an Illinois judge to | sentence a murderer to life fmprison- ment because hanging was too good for him is apt to revive interest in the never-ending debate as to the effective- ness of capital punishment. — It retention in office indicates satis- faction with their work the directory of the Commercial club, whose mem- bers have been almost without excep tion re-elected, must feel compli- mented. Father Knkkerbockvr must gasp with smazement to see the new office- holders clean out the private stables and garages and other luxurious per- sonal attachments of their predeces- 80rS, \ — Divorved (‘lncagu soclety exponents who cannot legally remarry in the city by the lake are taking refuge in Flor- ida, which thereby resumes its sway as the land of orange blossoms. [ ——— The carpenter out of a job Who went around smashing windows had a pecu- liar idea of accomplishing revenge on society. Now if he had oeen a glazier! e Nothing in the census law would prevent the Real Estate exchange from enlisting its whole membership in the army of enumerators, Interesting the Crowd. Chicago News. Now that a conterfeit dollar bill s in circulation the counterfeiters are getting down to where the people take an Interest in their operations. 0ld Trick Out of Service. Chicago News. Sugar trust officlals are not allowed to testify and thus prepare themselves to use the immunity pida later. Still, that was a €00d trick IWhi@3t’ lasted. e Simple Enou, St/ Paul Dispatch. It is stated that Mr. Lovett, the new head of the Union Pacific, is a man whom “Mr. Harriman never tried to boss.”” Well, Mr. Lovett didn't own any rallroads when Mr. Harriman was alive. \ Some Remark Chicago Tribune. It seems to be expected that a certain dlstingulshéd fdunal naturalist now In Africa will be heard from presently in a gerles of short, emphatic sentences with- out any stipulated price per verbum. One L Boston Globe. Study of -modern forelgn languages is denounced by Prestdent Schurman of Cor- nell university as useless. It 18 undoubtedly rapidly becoming o to anybody but the philogist. Not one American In a million ever attalns such proficlency in a forelgn tongue that good translations in his own are not more intelligible to him than the originals; and the world's business is increasingly con- ducted in English, because it 18 a business language. GOOD RISKS AHEAD. 0la Year Dealt Kindly with T ance Interests. New York Spectator. Speaking in a general way, the vear 1909 dealt kindly with the insurance business in this country, and all branches report that the outcme wlill be satisfactory. The more important branches will show an Increase in the volume of business transacted, and moderate profits aceruing therefrom. The companies are now busy preparing thelr annual statements for the numerous state insurance departments, and when these are completed the full details of the business, as applied to companies individually and collectively, will be available. While fire insurance has experienced a lesser volume of losses than usual, it will take many years of prosperity to make up to them their terrible losses by the San Francisco conflagration of 1906, Continued prosperity for the entire country s confidently pre- dicted on all sides, and it I8 to be hoped that insurance interests will secure its fair stare of all the good things going. Our Birthday Book Jan 14, 1910, Coe I. Crawford, now United States sen- ator from South Dakota, and formerly gov- ernor of that state, was born January 14, 1858. He 1s an Iowan by nativity and a law- yer by profession. Richard F. Quteault, who draws Buster Brown pictures, 1s 47 years old. He comes from Lancaster, O., which is also the place where Sandy Griswold comes from. Dr. Robert M. O'Rellly, widely known as surgeon general of the United States army, made his advent in Philadelphla, January U, 1846, Benjamin B. Odell, jr., once governor of New York, and a right-hand man for Mr. Harriman, is 46, He was born in Newburg, N. Y. C. E. Fields, who is publishing the Pro- tector, and ran for justice of the peace onee or twice, was born January 14, 186, at Westfield, N. Y. He Is an active m | ber of the 0ad Fellows, Bagles and sever: other fraternal socleties. John M. Mactarl attorney at law, s 5 years old today « has been prac law since 1579, ten years at Columbus, and twenty years in Omaha, during which time he has figurd as attorney in many lican congressional campalgn commit- | notable eriming) cases, JANUARY 14 Washington Life and Conditions Observed &t the Wation's Oapitel. Hxcept on speclal occasions, the men and women who sit In the visitors' gallery In the house and senate are “standpatters” in their regularity. Casual visitors to Wash- ington do not stay long in the galleries, but the regulars are very patient. Thoy do not care whether the speakers are talking about appropriation or the dattos of the Philippines. No matter what Is going on the regulars stick to the job. “The cause of this unflagging interest,” explains the Washington Post, “is due to a varlant of the instinct that makes some young men and women long for a stage career. Just as these young people cluster about the stage door, so the regulars brood over con- gress. Just as the regulars who are in constant attendance at murder trial this is a well known specles—take sides wth either the prosecuting or defending at- | torney, #o the regulars at congress (ake sides with the statesmen who engage in de- bates, even though they may not know exactly what the debate fs about. Women as well as men are among the regulars at | congress. Many of the women formerly | worked in the departments and take a real interest in public affalrs. It might be' thought that they would grow tired of the monotony of dally attendance, but they seom, on the contrary, to relish the game | more ana more each A Sonator Elkins has enough of this |world's gdods to keep the wolf from the |door, but, withal, he tries to impress upon Steve, Jr., the dangers of extravagance. Some time ago a minister from this vicin- ity was called to Elkins, W. Va., to preach at the funeral of one of the citizens of| that town. When he applied at the sta- tion for Pullman accommodations, he learned ,to his sorrow, that there was noth- ing to be had but an upper berth The dominie didn't like the prospect of sleeping in an upper berth on a hot night, and wax trying to persuade the conductor to do better for him, While engaged In this task, @ smart young man stepped up and generously offered the minister the draw- ing room which he had secured for him- self. After saying many times, deprive you of such .comfor was accepted with profuse thanks. minister learned later that the obliging young man was no other than Steve El- kins, jr. After the funeral services were over at Elkins, the minister was entertained at dinner, and Senator Elkins wa# one of the diners. 1In the course of the conversation, the clergyman described his Pullman car experience, and congratulated the senator on having such a thoughtful and obliging son. The senator was undoubtedly pleased, but. after @& moment's reflection, said, bluntly: “I aldn't know Steve was 80 ex- travagant as to use drawing rooms on a Pullman, and 1 have warned him repeat- edly about such useless waste of money." Reed Smoot of Utah, the Mormon United States senator, is one of the quietest men in the senate. He commands respect from his colleagues and is popular with them. While not aggressive, he is a hard worker, and is well posted on all that is transpir- ing In the senate. On account of the at- tempt of the religlous associations and women's clubs to have him ousted from the senate he s one of the notables whom the women visitors desire to have pofnted out to them. When the senator finds that he is the center of attraction he becomes annoyed and rushes off to the cloak rooms to hide untll the curiosity seekers move on. Personally he Is very agreeable. So popular is he in Utah that he was unani- mously reelected to succeed himself last winter. He I8 tall and slim, gentlemagly in appearance and dresses carefully, gen- erally in dark clothes, with light walst- coats. “There is just as much need that woman should be taught how to cook and sew, make her own hats and darn| her husband's socks, it she has a husband, | or expects to get one, as there is to teach a man how to farm,” sald Senator Smoot recently. He announced that he would introduce a bill making appropriations of $10,00 each to agricultural colleges, to be used in the teaching of domestic sclence. Charles G. Bennett, secretary of the sen- ate, §s being flooded with letters these days from young men to fill the job of turning back the hands of the senate clock at the windup of each session. It is true that the man who does this has other duties, but it has become famous on the stage and in fiction by reason of the curious service which enables the semate to expire promptly &t noon at the end of each con- gress, Alonzo Stewart, who has regulated the senate clock for the last quarter of a cen- tury, 18 to retire. He is paid $2,600 & year, Some one started the story that Mr, Ben- nett was looking for a young man to fill the nice, easy job of dressing neatly and turning back the hands of the senate clock, and to receive pay for it at the rate of 32,600 a vear. Mr. Bennett has been “mased to learn how many nice young men are willing to assume this burden. Some of the létters are pathetic In the ignorance displayed by the writers of the ways of federal patronage. President Taft has broken his castiron rules about recelving senators and repre- sentatives, and to this extent has lessenod the criticism of himselt which was getting to be sharp. A few weeks ago, relates the Brooklyn Bagle correspondent, Secretary Carpenter announced that the president would see senators and representatives only by appointment. When senators rung up the White House to make an engagement to see the president they were told, in some cases, that they would have to walt ten days or two weeks. This didn't ap- peal to the autocratic lawmakers, who had been accustomed to walking directly Into the presence of the chief executive’ Loud and long were the kicks that went up from the steps of the White House as the solons took their departure after be- ing told to come around in a week or so, when they could get the president's ear, “I have been In congress for nearly twenty-five years,” sald one veteran, “and this is the first time I have ever been turned away from the White House. Sometimes I would have to walt, but there never was an occasion when I was told that T could not see the president short of & week, and I have dealt with democratic and republican presidents allke. This thing won't go." Talk of this sort has finally had its effect, and now the president had adopted the Roosevelt policy of gathering his callers into & room and then walking in upon them and dlsposing of them one at a time, and as rapldly as possible. The new plan works well. Callers are less Inclined to chatter about foreign topics and tell funny storles. Seven or eight listening statesmen have the effect of discouraging this pas- time. ppery not only in one opera but i strument, with the f this most beautiful piece ot Osk and Mahogany and Amberol Edls lho‘noflnph-A $12.50 to $200.00 Edison Grand Opera Records - National Phonograph Co’s today, as well as a stock of Nebraska Omaha., Neb. PEBSONAL XOTEB There are nearly fitty banks in the United States owned and controled by negroes, and the New York Age says that others are belng established at the rate of one a month. It s intimated from Washington, that Senator Root I8 to be the next American recipient of a Nobel prize, granted for the same reason as was the award to Mr. Roosevelt, on the ground of his service in the cause of international peace. Mrs, Kady C. Brownell is the only regu- larly enlisted woman in the United States. 8he jolned the Rifle Guards of Providence, R. I, by a special permit from Governor. Sprague, and, with her husband, went to the front in 1861. Both husband and wife were In the battle of Bull Run and Mrs. Brownell was wounded. Mr. James B. Reynolds has not been as prominent as an ‘“expert’ investigator under President Taft as he was under the Roosevelt administration; but he finally has returned to the pursuit of evil and, as Mr. Rockefeller, jr.'s, ald in exposing the White Slave traffic in New York, will once more have an opportunity to be the modern knight errant. Miss Theodora J. Franksen, of Chicago, totally blind since she was 8 years old, a student at the University of Chicago, was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa soclety, an honor conferred by the university for high scholarship. The announcement was made at the recent convocation, at the same time that the title of Associate in Literature was awarded to Miss Franksen. Newspaper advertising is depended upon by Edward Reilly, chief of police of Ell- wood City, Lawrence county, to keep young children off the streets because the coun- ofl refuses to pass a curfew law or Ordi- nance. Chief Rellly has instructed his police to take the names of all the out late at night. He will then these dally to shame parents into the children in the house at night. publish keeping WEAVER OF I0WA. Jdames B. as Healer."” Brooklyn Eagle. The news that General James B. Weaver of Towa, at the age of 72 has decided to give up politics and devote the remainder of his life to a crusade in behalf of divine healing, has & certain amount of Interest for students of American politics, as well as for students of psychology. James B. Weaver entered the union army almost at the beginning of the civil war. Without any Influence, as & brave and efficlent soldler, he rose from the General a “Divine When the greenback or “rag baby” was t its helght he was the greenback party's candidate for president of the United States against Garfield and Han- cock. Ha polled 308,678 vot afterward, in 1802, he was the candidate of the people’s party, and his vote was 1,- 01,021, He carried four states—Kansas, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada—and got one electoral vote each from North Dakota and Oregon. His whole eléctoral vote was 2. The existence of so large a radical thinking section of the national electorate was & vast surprise to the politicians. That it had & tremendous influence in producing the Bryan seisure of the democratic party 156th and Harney Sts., Geo. E. Mickel, Manager. children | rank of private to that of brigadier general, He was elected to various local offices in | Tows. 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Olm' NI Nehraskn (‘y(‘]e Co. represents the National Phono- graph Co. in Nebraska, and carries huge stocks of Kdison Phonographs, including the models mentioned in the announcement on this page over 100,000 records. Cycle Co. 334 Broadway, Council Bluffs, Ia. and the Bryan appeal to that radical-think- ing section of the electorate may hardly be doubt Now we are told General Weaver Is a divine healer. A more logical psychological development it would be difficult to im- agine. Now it Weaver's sucoessor, Brygn of Nebraska, following the same logical law of brain involution, will give up pol- itics and devote himself to the ocult of spiritualism, a long nightmare will have been happily ended—a nightmare from tha restlessness of which neither of our great parties and few of their statesmen have been altogether exempt. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. “Did you see where a German scientist sare, that hens think like humans? Why not? Don't humans cackle like hanl" —Baltimore Ameerican. Irate Customer—See here! That student Jamp you sold me & week Ago 18 no good. It wor't work. Dealer—Beg pardon, sir. I ought to have told you it was a college student lamp,— Puck. “Do you think hypnotism has any real value in the practice of medicine?” asked the student. “It,might have,” answered the professor, “if iis use could be ethically recognized. The only way to get some people to pay their bills would be to mesmerize them.'— Washington Star. “I'l} give you a position as clerk to start with," said the merchant, “and pay ¥ what you are worth. Is that satisfactory “Oh, perfectly,” replied the college grady ate; “bu do you think the firm can afford it?"—Cathoilc Standard | *“Some of our prominent m " suggested | the photographer, “like to have thelr photos | taken in a characteristic attitude.’ uits me,” responded the | “Photograph me with my nos grindstone. Got one handy?' Courler-Journal. subject. gainst a Loulsville “Why do you suppose they have declded to employ women In the coming ceneia?” “Because, « stupld, women are natural born questioners.”—Baltimore American. John Hancock, first signer of the declara- ton of independence, was about to affix his autograph to that immortal document. “Of course” he said, ‘in regular and proper alphabetical order my name ought not to come first, but his majesty, King George, probably will pronounce it ‘John “Ancock,” anyhow, and the effect will be the same." Thereupon he (appended his signature, and anybody who doubts the lteral truth of this story Is referred to the declaration itself.—Chicago Tribune. b | THE OLD-FASHIONED SLEIGH. Detroit Free Press. It's ho for the cutter, and jingle bells, too, 1t's ho for the joys that we long ago knew, The buffalo robes an' the blankets, and * straw, A night that is clear and a wind biting TAW, A soft yellow moon shedding light on the scene! Who'd envy the man in his big Limousine? An_ old-fashloned winter, a roedway of Wwhite, And gay slelgh bells—jingling their song of delight; The stars blinking at us, a malden in No musio 80 sweet a8 that laughter of n Away for a slelgh ride, real pleasures these are, And we envy no man in his blg touring ear, winters return is ‘When old-fashioned then We twn again; Ve get out the to our old-fashfoned pleasures cutter and hitech up the e are the people entitled to brag we are the people to laugh and be Yes, what s an auto compared to a slefgh? KRANICH & BACH, HALLET-DAVIS BUSH & LAN Boston Transcript. It Is perhaps proper to record as an ovi- | dence of wagglsh depravity of inanumaie | things that Senator Perkins of California, | whe slipped on an loy sidewalk in Wagh- ington this morning, has always been known in the politics of his <ta‘e as “Sip pery George.” ORAMER, All acknowledged KRAKAUKE ¥, BURTON, PIANO MEN SAY ~—that the— HOSPE CO. carries the greatest line of PIANOS in the market. Magson S Hamlin KIMBALL, VICTOR, (¥ A‘;Il IMPERIAL, and tried planos, A. HOSPE CO. 15181515 Doug! s Street, Omaha.