Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1910, Page 14

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REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publiahing Company nly 2-cent stamps received in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on ha or eastern exchange, not accepted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. ss.: George B. Taschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company. being dul #worn, says that the actual number o ull and complete coples of The Dally, orning. Evening and & Hes printed @uring the month of February, 1910, was as follow: . 43,140 . 670 . #3,880 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer, Subscribed in mx smencc and sworn to before me this 28t IE of February, 1910, ROBERT HUNTBR, Notary Publlc. The Bee malled to them. Address will be changed as often ms requested. e ] Let us have the city beautiful by all means, but let us have the city clean first. —_— It is aleo high time to take tie mu- nicipal asphalt repair plant out of cold storage, ‘ —— The story of the. ‘‘mikes” seems to be a serlal, as well as & case of truth stranger than fiction. An egg-laying @m" is being planned in Missourl. Here's hoping that it is an endurance run. Of course, young Knox has only been bumped by ‘nw first of the knocks that matrimony is sure to bring. | It this price sky-rocketing keeps up the other farm animals will soon con- sider It a compliment to be called a hog. ! The reckless auto speeding through Omaha's thoroughfares forecasts the fast approach of a lot of serious acel- dents. The World-Herald seems greatly distressed over The growing advertising patronage. away more candy. to be Bee's Give It 1a time to slow up the autobmo- bile scorchers again. Tlrere should be some way of revoking the licenses of persistent offenders. ——— Minister Calhoun is really going to start for China. He should refuse to receive any telegrams addressed to him after he reaches San Francisco. Pedestrian Weston is going to cele- brate his seventy-third birthday anni- versary by walking eighty miles. Some people celebrate one way and some an- other. The run on the big savings bank in Cleveland Is another ocular argument for postal savings. There will be no run on Uncle Sam’s bank that he can- not head off. Mayor “Jim" says he wants to fight with those who complain about Omaha's dirty streets. The mayor would do better to fight with his itreet cleaning department | Indiana democrats are all split up over the question of declaring for county prohibition. 1Is it possible the democrats in Indiana have not yet heard of Mr. Bryan's pronouncement? The office of the secretary of state at Lincoln is busy. registering new au- tomoblles whose owners want permits to run in Nebraska. The farmers bave the money, so why not ride in au tomobiles? The World-Herald charges the man- agement of the anti-Saloon league with being in the hands of hide-bound re- publicans. What about Lysle Abbott? Is he only pretending to be a democrat 8 he did in 18967 —— The offer of a candid, to-work for oothing If elected and turh his pay over to the road district has been held to be the offer of a bribe équivalent to a purchase of votes. A citizen as pub- le-spirited as that has no business to run for office. ———— With the example before .them of how the king of Denmark was buncoed by Dr. Copk, it is perhaps not really surprising that some of our more cau- tlous congressmen - still want to go slow about recognizing the claims of Commander Peary. Opéning Up the Jack Pot. Irrespective of possible resuilts, the prosecution of the Fremch Lick gam | bling resorts, which has been in prog- | ress In Indiana, it seems to be leaving |two distinguished plilars of the democracy in a rather unenviable light. It may be sald for “Tom" Tag-| gart, who, chairman of the demo- cratic national committee had charge {of the 1904 campaign for Parker, that |he has never hid behind the bushes, |and everyone at all familiar with him has known what he Is, If not a pro- fessional gambler, at least a political gambler, making no pretense at high morals or reform affiliations. Taggart's personal lawyer, however, is the attorney for the defense in these | gambling cases, and none other than | the Hon, John W. Kern, who has gen- erally claimed to travel only in the |upper clouds. Kern was deemed wor- thy to be nominated for vice president on the same ticket with Willlam Jen- nings Bryan, and although it is notori- ous that the nomination of Kern was merely a peace-offering to Taggart and his crowd, yet Kern was supposed to be so difterent from Taggart as to ‘be above reproach or contamination by |reason of his association with the | French Lick boss gambler. Kern Joined with Bryan In the proclamation to purify politics by limiting the con- tributors to the jack pot to $10,000 aplece and insisting on publication be- fore election of the names of the play- ers who had drawn cards and the number of chips each had bought. After he was engulfed as Mr. Bryan's | running mate, Kern sought a consola- tion prize as candidate for the United | States senate, and when he fell down here, too, he emptied his vials of wrath on the odious brewers and liquor dealers whom he accused of | throwing him over. Poor Taggart and Kern! They are entitled to sympathy and indulgences, even though they now appear in thelr true colors. They cannot be expected to travel always on the new plane to which they were lifted by Mr. Bryan to unaccustomed height The Acquittal of Tschaikovsky. The acquittal of Nicholas Tschaikov- sky, accused by the Russian govern- ment of eriminal complicity in the rev- olutionary movement, will be recelved with much satisfaction in this country, where Tschaikovsky has visited- and lectured in the cause of Russian free- dom. In this land of liberty we cannot understand Russlan court methods We cannot understand how a political offense can be made the occasion of a criminal prosecution. We cannot un- derstand how a court can be conducted in secret with all the friends of the accused excluded from the court room. We cannot understand a judiclal sys- tem that practically denies the accused his right of self-defense and makes the question of his guilt or innocence rest entirely with the conscientious- ness of the accusers. And yet, without seeing any justice in Russian judicial machinery and court methods, our recollection of Tschaikoveky, of his earnest appeals in behalf of his oppressed compatriots and of his pathetic story of his own sufterings and self-sacrifice in the ef- fort to throw off this oppression, makes welcome the news of the libera- tlon of this fearless old man, who in his youth inhaled the free air of our country so deeply that on his return to his native soil he could not breathe the stified atmosphere of Russian au- tocracy without a protest. Is This More Forgery? A few days ago our Gomocratic con- temporary, the World-Herald, was ex- posed perpetrating a forgery on Hon. L. D. Richards of Fremont by printing a fake letter over his signature de- signed to put him in a false light. The Lincoln Star prints the ecorrespondence in the Crabtree matter saild to have passed between Secretary Ludden of ths N« imal School board and Earl M. Cline, president of the Peru Alumni assoclation, the last epistle in this serles penned by Mr. Cline concluding as follows: It T might be so bold as to venture a suggestion, T would suggest that the Board of Education revoke the diplomas of the State Journal, Lincoln Dally Star and Omaha World-Herald for ‘“catspaw” edi- torials. T submit that 1 am doing nothing, have done nothing and will do nothing to injure the school other than to disagree { with your royal highnesses and to petition "for a redress of grievance | ‘The World-Herald purports to print |the same letter, but in the World- | Herald this part reads as follows: | If 1 may be so bold as to venture & sug- | gestion, I would suggest that the Board | of Education revoke the diplomas of the | State Journal, Lincoln Dally Star and | Omaha World-Herald for “catspaw" edi- | torials and conter the degree of Bachelor of Education upon The Omaha Bee. I submit, ete. | Is this another case of forgery? Has the Lincoin Dally Star been expur- | gating this correspondence? Or is the | World-Herald editor inserting addi- | tions to make it read as he would have | written {t? Or did Mr. Cline send let- ters of Gifferent reading to different papers? Peace Movement Among Colleges. That international peace is simply a matter, of getting together has been eftectvely llustrated by recent activity among college students in America, Because of the advantages offered In our schools of higher education, all of the struggling nations of the world have sent a few of their chosen sons THE BEE: OMAHA, moton of nternational earth.” Modern education is of value for more reasons than simply mental acuteness and theoretical training. One of the main things is the spiritual development of the young man, inei- dent to meeting and understanding other youg men. This is greatly em- pheelzed in our modern university life because of the meeting on common ground of representatives from widely separted communities . No better place could be found for the cultiva- tion of the doctrine of fnternational peqge than on the university campuses The of America. The fact that foreign students are largely young men of in- fluential families, destined for places of leadership at home, makes these “Peace on triendly aesoclations of immense im-, port. It will take yea to bring about the international peace that is sought for, but some progress is surely being made when the young nobles and leaders of all nations meet and assoclate themselves together for a common goal under a common tute- lage. ] Postal Savings Pioneers. The Chicago Record-Herald says that when the senate passed the postal savings bank bill the hardest part of the fight for it was over because the members of the lower house, with the fall election approaching, will never defeat it, since the voters in by far the majority of the congressional districts are eager for its passage. The Record- Herald selzes the occasion to pay epecial tribute for the progress accom- plished to Victor F. Lawson, owner and editor of the Chicago Daily News, by saying that more than to any other |' man credit is due Mr. Lawson and his paper, who for twenty years or more have been persistently urging the es- tablishment of postal savings banks and laying the foundation for the sen- timent that has now crystallized in an effective demand. But while recognizing what Mr. Lawson has dome for postal savings, another pioneer in the should not be overlooked, although he has not been spared to witness the fruition of his labors. The real pio- neer for postal savings In this western country was Edward Rosewater, founder and for more than a third of a century editor of The Bee, who ad- vocated this measure in season and out in his paper and on the stump and made it a plank in his platform when- ever he went before the people. spread the postal savings bank idea so well in this vicinity that even his po- litical opponents adopted it and sought to ride into power on it. In his sphere Edward Rosewater did as much if not more than any other one man to lay the foundations upon which the com- ing postal savings bank is to be bulilt. Not long ago it was announced that Chairman Norman E. Mack of the dem- ocratic national committee had gone to Hot Springs, Ark., for his annual vaca- tion, and now the dispatches tell that Charles F. Murphy, boss of Tammany hall, has also gone to Hot Springs, where he will spend several weeks. It is a safe guess that there will be some democratic medicine mixing by these two distinguished political in- valids at that famous health resort. Iowa is thoroughly aroused to the necessity of Iimproving its country roads. What Iowa accomplishes in this direction should be a good object lesson for Nebraska as well, where conditions are very similar. The cost- liness of bad roads is a far greater burden on the farmer who has to haul | his products over them than om the man who is simply out riding pleasure and can choose his route. Declaring himself on county pro- hibjtion, Governor Shallenberger says he is a democrat and will go wherever his party puts him. The governor ran as a populist on a county prohibition plank last time and as a democrat on a home rule and personal liberty plat- form at the same time. The trouble with the governor is that he does not stay put. A letter written by former President Harrison, which 18 now made public, explains how he made himself unpopu- lar by refusing to promise any appoint- ment “for fear something would hap- pen before the nomination was sent in that would show that the appointment ought not to be made.” The wise man changes his mind when conditions change. The Lincoln Star suggests that the democrats show their sincere devotion | to the nonpartisanship notion in edu-| cation by running Mr. Crabtree, a re-| publican, as their candidate for state superintendent of education. A’ fine idea. But would Mr. Crabtree run against State Superintendent Bishop, who has been fighting his battles for bim. In view of what happened to the postal savings bank plank of the Den- ver plattorm, which seems to have re- celved even more scant consideration from the democrats in the senate than did the free lumber plank, Mr. Bryan would do better to direct his remarks about the binding qualities of plat- forms to his own democratic following. The Federation of :iebraska Retail- ers will hold its next annual meeting fn Omaha. The visitor who accepts here to be trained in advanced ideas of civilization. During the last seven years these foreign students, repreent- ing mearly thirty nationalitie, have organized Cosmopolitan clubs for the cultivation of friendship and the pro- an invitation to come again gives the best testimony of appreciation of hos- pitality already enjoyed. Our old friend, Pat Crowe, was ar- rested this week at Dixon, I1l, on a movement | He || for || SATURDAY, MARC( H 12, 1910. 4 shoe Shinfig PATIOY KN MR §28 and costs for using obscene language, the fine being pald for him by a farmer. Alas, how are the mighty fallen. Ex-8enator Thurston should be more considerate of his former joint-debate antagonist. It is not falr to remind Mr. Bryan now of the days when he was complaining that prices on every- thing were too low The Harvard professor who insists that he can breed human beings with any desired traits or characteristics by proceeding along scientific lines must be looking for a promotion to the Uni- versity of Chicago. Rivalry of Money Kings. Philadelphia Record. John D. Rockefeller apd Andrew Carne- gle appear to he vying with esch other as to which of the two shall give away the more money. Carnegle is still tritle artead by all accounts. A Seasonable Slam. Loulsville Courler-Journal. A dispatch from the Boston Herald says: Texans resent the presence of Lincoln's statue In the public schools. The pro- test must come from Texans who never | went to school and lack the educational equipment to read American history. Surely they are few and far beneath the contempt of the average Tex: Something Worth Doing. New York World. What a “foundation” may do for knowl- edge 1s shown in the statement that Presi- dent Jordan of Stanford university will| resign to conduct a historical inquiry into the influences of war upon human develop- ment. There is “no money In" a job like that, but it is worth doing. Dr. Jordan can do it well, and the Carnegie foundation will pay him a pension of $4,000 a year to live on. Peary’s Harrowing Cholce. Baltimore American. Mr. Peary does not want his proofs of his discovery of the North Pole published until they have commercial value In his book. Bo congress won't thank him, and he is reduced to the harrowing cholce between honor and cash. However, there 1s no es- peclal reason why congress should be grateful over the matter. Its members can- not point with pride to the fact that ice is going to be any cheaper. — Credit Mark for John D. ) Chicago Record-Herald, Let it be sald also that no part of the Rockefeller fortune has gone or will go to the purchase of dukes or counts in a bad matrimonial speculation. Mr. Rocke- feller’s three daughters are married to good Americans. They never entered the mar- ket for titles. For this reason they have escaped the fame that has come in liberal measure to some of their countrywomen, but they will not be the less esteemed on that account. —— | ve Stock Mystery. Philadeiphia Record. The live stock statistics of the Depart- ment of Agriculture cannot be accepted without reserve, because there have been impossible fluctuations in them: but the present price of hogs lends support of the official statement that the number of swine decreased more than 6,000,000 last year. Now will Secretary Wilson or any one else explain why the farmers have allowed thelr pigs to undergo race sulcide when the price of pork has been pretty stead- ily rising? In the face of a great demand, what Is the matter with the supply? i —— Price Advance World-Wide. Philadelphia Ledger. The statistics complled by the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor, which show the advance in the price of meat in all the exporting countries, ought to dissipate some of the foolish ideas many people have en- tertained about the criminal activities of the Beef Trust. In Argentina, in Australia and New Zealand, and even in Canada, the advance in prices has been at least as great a8 In this country, varying in different meats according to differences in the sup- ply. In these days of refrigeration, quick transportation and universal communica- tion, food prices are no longer controllable by local conditions or combinations,” but are controlled by conditions that are world- wide. ' A Our Birthday Beok March 12, 1910. Judge S. H. Sedgwick of the supreme court of Nebraska was born March 12, 1848, at Bloomingdale, Ill. Judge Sedgwick' home s in York, and has been aistrict Judge, sureme court commissioner and twice elected to the supreme bench. Stewart BEdward White, who writes for the magazines on outdoor subjects, was born March 12, 1873, at Grand Rapis, Mich, He has & long list of books on western s Jects charged up against him. Edwin G. Cooley, former superintendens of schools at Chicago, is 53. He held down the job uitll last year, when it got too strenuous for him and he made room for & woman successor. Mr. Cooley was born |at Strawberry Point, Ia. Hilary A. Herbert, who was secretary of the navy under President Cleveland, 1s 76. He was born in South Carolina, but figures as a representative of Alabama, Adolph 8. Ochs, editor and proprietor of the New York Times, was born March 12, 1858, at Cincinnati. He made his first suc- cess In newspaperdom at Chattanooga, and is doing even better in New York. Joseph R. Reed, former judge of the dis- trict court in Iowa and later chief justice of the United States court of private land claims, is 75 today. He was born in Ohio, served through the war, after which he settled at Council Bluffs, Charles E. Willamson, investment and | real estate broker, in the old United States | bank bullding, was born March 12, 1861, He | studied at Ohlo Wesleyan university and | was once reporter on Columbus and Cin- cinnati papers. He has the distinction of being a descendent of Hugh Willlamson, one of the signers of the constitution. W. T. Nelson, with law offices in the New York Life bullding, is 4. He was born In Kirkwood, Til., and graduated from | the Kansas State university law depart- ment. He has been practicing in Omaha since 1889, and was a member of the legis- lature in 1903 Frank Crawford, lawyer, is celebrating his fortieth birthday. He is a graduate of Yale university, of Michigan university, of the University of Nebraska and s right now studying at Oxford in England. When at coliege has was a famous athlete, par- ticularly on the base ball diamond. He has been associated with several law firms in Omaha, but has been practicing law on his own account the last two year Willlam 8. Dexter, now In raliroad work | at Portland, Ore., but formerly with the Rosenbaum Commission house here, wi born March 12, 18%0. He 1s with the Port- land-Lakeview Eastern Rallway company warrant sworn to by the proprietor of as its presidens '|ing Into the financial affairs of the late In Other Lands Bide Lights on What is Trave. piring Among the Near and Far Nations of the Narth. Much of the zeal of French politiclans In pressing to a conclusion the separation of possibilities of loot In the confiscation of church property. The wildest dreams of avarice have been realized, apparently Church loot, originally estimated at $200,- 000,000, Awindled to one-tenth of that sum. The gross receipts thus far amount to only §19,00000, and two-thirds of the sum went to the liquidators, the lawyers, and a host of lesser hunters of loot. M. Dues, consplcuous as an advocate of “religious liberty” and liquidator, has a shortage only $19,000,000, and two-thirds of the sum officlals, high and low, are involved In the scandalous affalr, and Paris dispatches indicate that only the crust of the na- tlonal scandal has been touched. No other result could have been expected. The state set the pace for individual looters. e The Belgian Parltament is steadily prob- King Leopold. The deeper the probe goos the greater ls the nced of fumigation. It 1s charged that the king converted to his own use $6,00000 from the Congo funds, |and the charge is strengthened by the fur- ther statement that the king's estato amounts to $14,000,000 instead of $3,000,000 olaimed at ‘the time of his death. Two parllamentary leaders admit an apparent ¢iscrepancy In the Congo fund of about 6,000,000, which sum was abstracted, it is clalmed, with judiclal senction or conniv- ance. This s & polite way of relleving the present king of the odium of parental em- bezzlement. American defenders of Leo- pold are entitled to the floor. e An English paper gives an impressive {llustration of the manner in which the property qualification multiplies the votes of landlords owning property In different election dlstricts, Two brothers, J. W. and W. W. Walker, each owning property in twenty-five election districts, and entitied to that number of votes, managed to record thirteen and seventeen votes, respectively. To achleve the record for voting, W. W. Walker estimates he covered no less than 1,315 miles by train, traveled on sixty-five different trains and 110 miles by motor in twelve different cars, and it took sev days to do it. Had the election officers in other districts been posted on Mr. Walker's political proclivities, he might have voted his total of twenty-five. As it was, some offensive partisans by neglect- ing to put his name on the registry, robbed him of three more votes. e France is about to follow Prusela and Great Britain with old age pensions, fash- foned on the compulsory principal of the former country. A measure for that pur- pose s under consideration in the French senate and is likely to become a law in April. The scheme as it stands is con- tributory and compulsory, workmen and em- ployers contributing an equal amount an- nually. Men are to pay 3180, women $1.20 and persons under 18 90 cents yearly until thelr sixty-fifth year, when they will be- come entitled to a pension, which will be pald from the total contributions plus the employers’ quota and a sum of $12 a year pald by the state. The conditions for re- celving the full pemsion are that the worker shall have contributed to the fund for thirty years, Including in the case of men the two years of military service. Those who have contributed for more than ten years and less than thirty will be en- titled to a reduced pension. Forty years hence, when the scheme is in full opera- tion, the pensioners will have $83 a year. They will start the year after the bill is passed with $20.40 a year, the pension to rise gradually during the interval. o The political pendulum swings around in London with amazing swiftness. In the recent parlfamentary elections the tories scored heavily on the liberals. Last Sat- urday the situation was reversed, the lib- erals ‘'winning @ decided triumph in the county council election, gaining twenty-one seats, and with their laborite allles wrest- ing control from the tory element. The new council will contain fifty-elght torles, fifty-six liberals and three laborites. Three | years ago, after a strong campaign on the | soclalistic issue, the moderates captured | the county councll by a considerable ma- Jority, In spite of the fact that the radical forces of the kingdom had but a short time before swept the country in thé general parllamentary elections. o An American desiring to tour France with his family hired a motor car and a chauffeur for $0 a day from an automo- bile company in Paris. On the road to Blarritz the steering gear broke. One man had both legs broken. and the other tour- ists were all more or less injured. The Philadelphlan brought suit In the Paris courts for $%0,000 damages against the com- pany from which he hired the car. The court awarded $14,000 to the plaintiff for personal injuries and reasonable sums to the others that were hurt. For the court held that these indemnities were payable by the detendant company, and not by the makers of the car; and it was of the opin- ion that the accident was due to the care- lessness of the driver In not looking after the steering gear before starting. o Boutros Pasha Ghall, who was assassi- nated the other day, was the one natlve- born Egyptian who has been premier of Egypt, and—with two significant exceptions | —the only one who ever attained any posi- tion of importance in the government of his country. Boutros was an Egyptian copt, & descendant of those native Egyptians who | at the time of the Moslem invasion de- | clined to acknowledge the true prophet | and either from natlve obstinacy or con- viction, held fast to such Christian faith as was In them, and were, therefore, for| long regarded as ‘taboo,” and only ad- mitted to subordinate positions in public | offices. Gradually, however, thelr un-| doubted superiority to the ordinary fellah asserted itself. For many years they have been the mainstay not only of all govern- ment offices, but of any native commer- clal enterprise, but they had never pro- duced an Egyptian premier until now. vor Stirred perhaps by the partial success of the Persians and the complete success of the Turks in establishing a constitu- | tional form of government, the people of the smallest fndependent state in the world, Monaco, are now agitating for a constitu- | tion. Monaco, which has about 15,000 popu- lation and is supported by the gambling in- dustry at the two centers of Monaco and | Monto Carlo, is an absolute monarchy. | Theoretically, Prince Albert has the power | of lite and death over everybody. Prac- tically he s a pretty easy boss. Taxation 1s light. The £10,000 pald each year for the gambling concession makes burdens on the | people light. The judiciary consists of one justice of the peace and an appellate court made up by arrangement of Paris judges who agres to help out the prince. There Is a consultatative council which | has no real authority. | o church and state had its inspiration in the | | neverthele: We have equipped Meetings of Director A telephone call will reserve one for your use, Total Assets e ———— = pe—— Lawyers lead, landowners come next, then in order of mention, manufacturers, mem- bers of noble familles, military officers, Journalists, professors and teachers. Far- mers have the unlucky number of 18, and there is in the House membership one pllot, one drummer and one art dealer. The solitary traveling salesman tells the story as the solitary representative of the ordinary business classes. FOUR STATES HAVE RATIFIED, of Action on Income Tax Amendment. Boston Transcript. The lower house of the Illinols legisla- ture, following the recent action of the senate, gives assent to the income tax amendment to the federal constitution. No signature of the governor Is required, and #0 as woon as the mails can carry the official document to Washington, Illinois’ approval of this change in the organic law will go on the records. According to the precedents In the New Jersey and Ohio cases after the civil war, no subsequent Tilinols legislature can reverse that ac- tion. Oklahoma also joins the procession of ratifiers, making, with Bouth Carolina and Mississippi, four states towards the thirty-five that will be necassary. People In this part of *he country who have regarded such a change in the con- stitution as an empty threat, wholly un- likely to be reallzed—and :hat has been the prevailing eastern view—have shown very little perception of the forces at work in this country today. While the upper house in twelve states will suffice to hold the amendment off, considerable effort will be necessary to maintain so substantial a column, The most capitalistic paper In New York or Massachusetts should express approval to this change, further opposi- tion to it anywhere might about as well cease, sinco these are the states that will be most unfavorably affected by it, are confessedly among those least liable to glve assent. The southern states seem sure to favor the change, practically no dis- senters having appeared in the two In which action has been reached. West of the Mississippl sentiment appears nearly unanimous in its favor. The proportions of the vote In the various legislatures have been extremely signifi- cant. In the lower house of Illinols, for example, the second chamber to act, and so the one to decide the question, the roll call footed elghty to eight; the vote In the sen- ate had been unanimous. It is very hard to see how a cause which can summon but elght votes in the Illinols legislature can command a majority in any of the sur- rounding states of the Mississippl valley. What the east is going to do remains to be seen. Opponents of the change should lose no time In getting a campalgn of edu- catien under way. [ Progress — PUSHING BRYAN ASIDE. Democratic Leaders Put Falrview on & Sidetrack. Brooklyn Eagle (dem.). It would be iIncorrect, of course, to say that Norman E. Mack of Brie county con- trols the democratie organization of New York, but he represents it fairly well In his effort in the direction of preventing any further damaging of the party by the am- bitions of Mr. Bryan of Nebraska. It is probably true that Roger Sulllvan controls the organization in Ilinois; and it may be assumed that R. M. Johnston, national com- mitteeeman, and Chairman Storry of the state committee of Texas can hold their state. Therefore, in the anti-Bryan confer- ence of next Saturday and Sunday In San Antonlo the democracy of three states, New York, Illinols and Texas, will par- ticipiate. Mack has been, in the past, a Bryan man; Sulllvan, in epite of more than one snub administered to him by the Ne- braskan, has not been an enemy of Bryan. The Texans have been loyal to the Ne- braskan in all past campaigns In seeking to drop the curtain on many-scene act that has tired us all, they appear as friends of the star, and of his managers. There must be an end to everything, and they think Bryan' presidential aspirations have had all the Indulgence they deserved. Democrats who have been saner than any of these conferees in the past may acknowledge that Mack and Sullivan and Johnston are sane enough now. They may even concede that the movement to retire Bryan is stronger for the protagonism of men who have heen with Bryan in his former struggles. The census taken of the British Muulel of Commons is Intercsting as showing how | far it s of a representative character. ! Gapital irst National Bank of Omaha $50000000 Surplus & Profits 700,000,00 TWO NEW ROOMS adjoining the SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS, with every convenience for the holding of Committees, Corporations PERSONAL NOTES. What do the Monte Carlo subjects want of a constitution? Don't they get a square deal, now? Hugh J. Reynolds of New Haven, Conn., 1s & candidate for congress and his platform | demands that only whiskey 10 years old or more shall be offered for sale. Mrs. Frederick W. Packard, one of the leaders in the Chicago Anti-Cruelty soclety, has declared her intention of tagging every abused horse In the business part of the elty. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock announces that the rumor that enough money had been collected to carry out the plans of the Washington Memorial assoclation s & mis- take, According to Mrs. Dimock, at least $2,600,000 more will be needed to complete the work contemplated. Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, who, in a report on medical schools of the United States, presented to the council on medical educa- tion of the American Medical assoctation, declared that only sixty-eight out of 12§ such schools were of acceptable standard, is a prominent Chicago surgeon. Former Senator Gordon of Mississippi, having made the hit of his life by his six weeks In the United States senate, dis- poses of Senator Jeff Davis, who comes trom just across the big river, by saying: I can’t help it because the low-down people of Arkansas sent a man like that to the senate.” MIRTHFUL REMARKS, ““That fellow played a mean trick on me.’ As to how?" “Came to me ostensibly for advice and wound up by striking me for §2.—Washing- ton Herald. Vbianen She—Did your brother graduate with a high uyerage? e—Yes. His average was about $5,000 per year.—8t. Louls Times. Pt "Your sister seems very self-rellant.” “Mabel! I should say! Why, a couple of buglars broke Into our house the other night and Mabel went down stairs and knocked thelr heads together and made them both sign a surfrage petition.’’— Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Lawyer—So there was such bad feel between the factions that the prisoner never spoke to his victim when they passed by. gld oihe former cut the latter with ascer- ty Truthful Witness—No, —Baltimore American. sir. With a knife. “I can his veins." “Sure he has. Didn't he have scarlet fever?’—Baltimore Amesican, Youthful Student—Pa, Methuselah was the gldest man, wasn't he? Father—Yes, my son. Youthful Student—Then who was the old- est woman? Father—My down, that tell that man has red blood in son, don't ask. From Eve as been a profound mystery to .| the sons of Adam.—Baltimore American SAME OLD GAME. New York Sun. jThe turf is growing greener and the sun is getting high, The wintry blasts will soon be blown away. The dlamond has now the call; the open- ing day draws nigh, And the base ball fans are longing for the day. Ana 1ts “Strike! Strike Onel” and oul pitcher is a daisy, And it's “Btrike! Strike Two!" and we all begin to sing. And it's “Strike! Btrike Three!" and the ‘bleacherites go crazy And the pitcher is a hero and we laud him as a king. The teams are now in training and it's Joyful news we hear, The stands will not be empty very long, The days are getting warmer and the opening ‘“day draws near, And the happy fans are breaking into song. And it's “Bal! Ball our pitcher is a dumm: Ana it's Balll Ball gates of hope ar And iU's “Balll Bail piteher Is a rummy, the fans, In tone sarcastic-like, proclaim him as a mut Two!” and and the and our And | The same old game: the winner is ap- ‘rlauded to the sky An the loscr hasn't claims, The same old_fascination ing day draws nigh When the peevish fans will call the um- pire names. any sort of and the open- And it's s “'Out and the bleachers rock with And 1t's ““Out on Third!" 18 a grafter. the umpire is a grief, and the umpire And 11111 2 reegg XXXX----!!l——and a thief. | A. HOSPE CO. 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