Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1910, Page 6

TUESDAY, MAY 10, 191t {4 nameless wage worker earning $15 a day who Is starving to death because of republican misrule, and prescribes as the remedy to go back to enforced dleness and democratic soup houses.| It Better take something for it. A Democratic Emergency. BARBEROUS MUZZ The constitution of Nebraska em powers the governor to call the legis lature to convene in extra session ‘“‘on extraordinary ocoasions,” stating in the ‘proclamation” the purpose of the call, “and the legislature’ shall enter upon no business except that for which they were called together.”” In other | words, the extra session provided for| weather bureau at Washington by -the constitution-makers contem-| mych of the “igeomputable damage to fruit and vegetation in the south Bunday Bee, one year u‘: character that the legislation de-iand west caused by the cool waves S daress all | omplaints of irregularities in | manded cannot safely be deferred un-|might have been avoided had people | ti) the time for regular meeting | delivery to City Circulation Department. given proper heed to the timely warn- PRI I Loy = eI Mr. Bryan has suddenly discovered |ings and forecasts of the government South Omaha enty-fourth and N. that such an emergency demanding|weather department The weather Lo Lt Banaing the immediate convening of the Ne-|pureau operates under the Department “\;';'v;‘l\?;}‘“?“fi:";;;"fi}};‘m‘"f\!g_‘v braska legislature in extraordinary | of Agriculture; it was designed Thirty -thifd Street session confromts us. But even 8c | chiefly to benefit agriculture and horti bl titing) Bl o g Wl cording to his own statement the emer- | cyjture. It seems to be a sheer waste | Communi Temllng to news and|gency Is purely a democratic emer-|of energy and capital, therefore, for | REMITTANCES, mitted by the democratic legislature Tha jocularity Indulged the | Only 2-cent lmu';r:r‘r‘r:::v:sr(l.rl:.pi..lr:l:&l C‘:'S‘rer-rend m law. lje lr»ely“ dec.llr(-l'r'“er all, l,,“:p an evil effect, tending ox st ‘accepted. | D18 bellef'that this “‘mistake" is likely | 1o pelittle thie serious rmportance of | to prove fatal to democratic hopes in | hig work and its value to the entire| the next election, and at the same time | country, He, like other men, makes i6 calling on the republican members | migtakes and sometimes comes short of the legislature, under cover of the|,¢ 5 correct prediction, but in the so-called Direct Legislation league, t0| graat majority of cases the official | help the democrats out of the hole in | forecast fs reltable and it duly ob-| which they find themselves. served will save damage to vegetation. Initiative and referendum may be | If Prof, Edward B. Garriott, chief part of the democratic creed, but It|forecaster, s correct In his estimate has never found a place in any plat- ‘IME ©OMAHA DALY BEE ] ? ) B > 2 s o Shfe FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. Waterloo -.::':r‘::' Eln':::ll the Suf 3 \ New York Times. i% An open question whether barbers |as a class have been quite as_talka- tive as undying tradition has proclaimed Everybody, knows today the taciturn, mo | | Fose barber, who is generally expert with | The military authorities who have to do the shetrs and razor, and speake only When | wiih the purchase 6f animaly for the -arms spoken to; and not then if he can avold have observed with considerhble apprehen- | speech. We have no doubt he existed In | gion the steady increase in the price ancient Greece and Rome long before the of horses. ‘The contract awarder less Christian era, when the conversational facil- than & year Aago for horses was at ity of barbers was as favorite a subject of | an average figure of $171. Bids ob- the jester as it is now. horses mantain the price of $183; the price The barber shop, from the for 155 artiMlery_horses was $213, and that for has been a resort of gossips. Polities, the | 300 horses was from $183 to 1! A year ago arts, the gladiators, betting odds, and the | the average price was $14. The advance in current theatrieal attractions have always | cost (s rapidly reaching the prohibitive been volubly discussed in tonsorial estab- | figure, and the situation is gratifying to | lishments, What wonder if the barber him- | the quaNermaster general to the extent selt has learned much and been impelled | that it confirms his judgment in establish- to impart his share of Information, com- | Ing two army remount depots—one at Fort ment, and opinton. Horatius Flacéus and | Keough and the othet at Fort Reno—where Plutarch testify to the large Information | YOUNE horses are trained. The cost of these of barbers and their habit of imparting it young animals at present is $131 and the George Eliot in “Romola’ plctures a Flor- expense In developing them into horses entine barber shop as & depot of general | Suitable for military use does not equal information. But that is not,to say the the expense of the matured horse purchased | barbers have not been encoufaged to im. | under contract for the army. part the information thrust upon them. The man who_shaves your beard and cuts oy hair 1s generally talkative or not ace fin[ to your own mood. Keep silent and the barber will save his gift of words for “next.”” In the town of Waterloo, Neb, a new public ordinance, restricting thé conversa- tion_of barbers, has Aroused severe crit- icism. It provides that the local barbers must not “discuss the gossip of the town' between 7 and 9 p. m. The “gossip of the town” may hard to define. The dis- Army Gossip .l A The report made to the comptroller ander date of March 29, 1910, shows that this bank has Time Certificates of Deposit $2.034,278.61 3% % Interest pald on certificates running for twelve months. 3 VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Enteted at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter. Matters of Interest On the Back of the Firing Line Gleaned from and Mavy Register, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally Bee (including Sunday), per Woek.lj Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week..l0c Daily Bee (without Sunday), one year..H.0 Daily Bee and Sunday, one year 60 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Heed the Weather Forecasts. The official forecaster of says earliest era, U West o irst Nationa Bank of Omaha in at The army signal school at Fort Leaven- worth has been experimenting with a wire- less apparatus for use with the gavalry The apparatus is simple and compact, and excepting the mast, Is carried In four chests, two of which contaln the operat- ing apparatus and two the hand generator These chests welgh about seventy pounds each. The mast consists of six jor eight light tubular sections, each five feet six inches long. These, together with a leather bag containing the aerial wires and gear STATEMENT OF C1RCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dduglas County, §8.. George B. Tzschuck, ireasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, actual _number of full and of The Dally, Morning, vening and Sunday Bee prirfted during the month of April, 1910, was as follows: 42,730 16.. (43,200 (42,000 PERSONAL NOTES. Mrs. Peary is accompanying the comman- der on his tour in Europe and friends of the family say that she still combs his hair and ties his neckties for him New York state has lssued licenses for 100,00 automobiles. The output of the ma- “The dear old Songs they voning and & | began the sentimentalist [ “Yes." replied Mr. Lobrow: “L've {about them. My private ofinion I we appreciate them beeause people |insist_on singing them any more ington Star used to sing. hea tha be erald.” she said” facing him of the tremendous losses this year be- crimination 15.. Total Returned cople: Net total... Dally average. ... 43470 ’ GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed n my presénce and sworn to before me this 2d day of May, 191 form promulgated by Nebraska re- publican: and at worst the repub- llcans cannot be blamed for the “‘mis- takes' of Mr, Bryan's democratic leg- islature. Pleture the complacency of the democrats If the situation were re- versed and the republicans were ap- pealing to democratic law-makers to come to the rescue and help them patch up an indefensible legislative record. In this democratic emer- gency, which has put Mr. Bryan and the leaders of jils party-at sixes and sevens, we believe republicans, in and ing®largely due to ignorance of government weather predictions, the the should see to it that this fact is widely adverbised nd impressed on people's minds, for it may be turned to their profit in the end by bringing'them to heed these forecasts and be governed by them. Avaunt the Pink Tea. What has Teutonic guest? ome over the sturdy| Swede of Teuton ancestry and his| What is this -report that comes from Stockholm about the M. P. WALKER, | Notary Publie. | =i — ————— ubseribers leaving the city tem- porarily should have The matled to them. Addrewses will be nged as often as requested. Now, next on the social list is the | June bride. | Up to date the colopel has not spoken of being tired, we believe, selves best out of the legislature, can enjoy them- by occupying cushioned seats on the grandstand. Liberals Must Go Slow. The liberal and reform forces of Great Britaln have a good victory_in sight and a good chncec? they are not extremely the wake of King Edward’s death pub lic sentiment and sympaThy are natu rally with the government, utious. lose it if but any ladies and gentlemen of the court en- tertaining Colonel Roosevelt for two hours at an afternoon tea and the royal physician forbidding his step- ping outside the palace for one whole day and his standing in the presence of 40,000 students singing “‘The Star Spangled Banner,” declining to make | a speech and merely bowing his way back from the throngs? The Ameri- ‘can people have a right to more ex- plicit information on the subject. In againet the barber is clearly illegal. If his customers assemble to/ dis- cuss the gossip of the town he cannot be deprived of the right to take part in the discussion. The barber will continue to talk in Waterloo, as well as elsewhere, as long as the man in the chair talks. pringfield (Mass.) Republican, ty years ago, when congress passed | the annual penston appropriation bill, some one was sure to say in one house or the other that the size of the appropriation must soon begin to decline on account of the Increasing mortality of the surviving suldiers of the tivil war. Senator Scott, in charge of the pension bill when the senate passed it on Tuesday, was moved by some mysterious influence to say ex- actly the same thing as an oxcuse for an appropriation of no less than $155,000,000 which Is very near high water mark. Kevp- ing the pension appropriation at the top noteh, or as near it as possible, has become an art. Kvery session witnesses the intro- duction of new measures carefully framed with the View 1o keep)the amount drawn from the treasury above $160,000,000; and | they are marvels of statecraft and bill- craft, y Rising Tide Omaha has been lucky so far in the way of automobile accidents—that's all. / The observance ‘ot Motners' day 18| a good thing—incidentally florists. for the Mr, Bryan s e will speak . for Mr.Keéfn M Indiana. Has he turned against him, too? That symmetr tery of the Maine,” may be spoiled lers in the British Parliament — | have deported themselves so well thus foal alliteration, “‘Mys- | mismove by the liberals at this time might turn the tide against them and destroy all the gains they had made. Now f{s the time, therefore, for the leaders of these varied elements to dis- Hluy their statesmanship. It seems entirely probable that if they can get through the present stress period with credit to themselves they will have confirmed their ascendancy. - One may: little doubt that the lead. who far in the evolutlon of national.poli- | ties will fail to observe this warning| It was enough, those stories that came of the little gondolas at Venice, but here is our own lion hunter, the man who h®8 banished “mollycoddles, coming down to two hours of tea sip- ping at a stretch. Sueh incongruity might be accounted for in some parts of Paris, or even Venice, but in Swe- den, never. vélt, strikes Sweden, like Mr. Roose- upon the imagination with forte ak something rigomous and rugged, like its climatic and ancestral attributes. From Upsala from Wodan to the palace to at Oscar, Stock- within a short time, dently recognizes. signal, which England as a whole evi- | The feeling is one holm, the rulers, tife temples and the courts have suggested strength, viril ity of character and never pink teas of Immigration, Philadelpbia Ledger. The slowly rising tide of immigration may sately be taken as & ®ign-of the per- manent esfablishment of normal industrial conditions in the United States. Foreign labor f: finding an opening agaiy, for the influx for the first quarter of the present year Is nearly equal to that in the cor- responding p-riod of 17, hefore the busi- ness depression Jigd taken place and be- fore it had checked the movement to our shores. The figures ‘for the first three months. of 1910, a4e 244,967, as against 224,060 in 1909, S218 In 3908 and 269,076 in 1907, While the statistics for April are not yet complete they. will show that the increase has Béen maintained, and that the totals will be as large as those for April, 17, A Fine Compliment. Jphn D. Rockefeller and Ida Tarbell both admit the world is getting better. Then why not bury the hatchet? Isn't it about time for some of our demoeratic friends hereabouts to resurrect their old Success league? It the New York Werld does not like the {dea of having so many An- anias clubs, .t might try to form a combine of them. N —_— The chief census statistician de. clares he does not éxpect to disclose any farm figures. until September. What will the harvest be? 4 will be the policy of King George with of suspense and apprehension. The people are waiting, and that, too, with considerable tenseness to see what | relation /to the embryonic reforms. The kingdom is anxious not only to avold a crisls, but to preserve what has been won under the inspiration of wise leadership, backed by the stable judgment and progressiveness of the| late monarch. In such a state of af- fairs precipitate action by the reform forces might be all but fatal. Already theré {s a general disposi- tion to give the new king ample time in which to familiarize himself with Truly. into a strange situation he had a littie throat this traveler has been led They tell us affection that prevented his speaking clearly, and it was ralning. Prudence is the answer. plety times, but even that will not supply | The Amertean people will | at expect a better explanation of him and from him!- The spirit of Missouri still lives. The fact is Colonel Watterson is be- ing terribly misquoted as to what he sald in that brilliant editorial on Roosevelt and “benevolent deSpotism.” When he first told the people they Philadelphia Ledger. The nomination of Governor Hughes for the supreme court was unanimously con- firmed by the senate Immediately upox the report of the judiciary committee. Such | prompt actfon, while customary in the | nomination of former members of the senate, is very unusual in any other case, and it indicates In a striking way the unl- veréal approval of tqe president's cholce for the tmportant judiclary vacancy. This is not merely a compliment to Governor Hughes nor a compliment to the president. | It 18 a gratifying slgn that even at a time of bitter and critical partisan controversy senators are all of one mind in upholding the high standard of the supreme court, No Ogeaston for Worey. Cleveland Leader (rep.). It does to, be and two small storage batteries, weigh about 130 pounds. The entire outfit is car- ried In a light instrument wagon that may follow the cavalry or remaln near it with its train, according to the milita situa- tion. So far as weight and bulk are con- cerned, the outfit might be carried on three pack animals, but there may be some ques- tion as to whether the apparatus would stand the wear and tear. The apparatus n be seét up anywhere in a foaw minutes, and has been set up undei favorable con- ditlons in sixty-elght seconds. A range of over thirty-one miles h: been attained. The secretary of war has, as vet, taken no actign In the matter of the auditor's dis- allowed payments of army officers who ex- ercised higher command. Cofgress is not | likely to relieve the situation, at least at this session, but the War department will Probably renew its efforts at the next ses- sion in the hope that those who have sto in the way of congressional action wiil tifén | be brought to a better understanding of the case. It appears that the War depart- ment is not inclined to comply with the re- quest of the auditor to withhold any of the pay of the officers who are on this list 1t looks as If the Treasury department-would be obliged to enter suit. The military au- thoritles are averse to suspending the pay in thesé cases where the payment Is held to have been entirely justified. At the same time, the officers against whose accounts the auditor has checked the accounts for increased pay while exercising higher com- mand, are prévented from fillng any claims or having their accounts reopened for any purpose, while this situation remains un- settled. Those who are most familiar with | the circumstances are positive that the de- cision of the court would be in favor of the army ofticers. The comptroller still has under considera- tlon the question of the pay of those army retired officers who were adVaWeed one grade on account of civil war service and who are on active duty. These officers in holding commissions as of the advanced grade may lose the increased pay have been receiving. The question, to| which reference has been made in these | columns, comes up on account of twenty-four officers whose advancement was recently accomplished and who had | not been advanced previously because of | the fact that they had once been promoted upon retirement. Consideralle Interest at- taches to thls_situation, inasmuch as it is & construction of law which the comptroller has before him and the result may affect the back pay of the officers most directly interestpd. If the comptroller's action Is an dverse one, the officers must find thelr elief in legislation, stéps toward which have been taken. Last week the house passed the bl authorizing the issue of commissfons to these officers and this will remove the difficuity. In the meantime | the anxiety of these officers appears to be fully justitied, they | the | It is too early to determine how many | & poet, chines {s increasing, and cach new “honk" seems to strike a demoniac note novel and | territying. Siatin Pasha, the Austrian Baron engaged in remaking the Sudan, is slight | In figure, with a youthful step, and is | the life and soul of Khartum's soclal life. | He is 52 years old | Mrs. Dora B. Mdntefiore, the English suffragist, who has arrived'in New York, say§ American women treat men with too | much subserviency. She wants to see ‘em respected, but not coddleqd. | Census returns from Florence, Cal., in lude pair of remarkable schedules in the case of Francisco Espor and his wife Rafael, who claim to be 110 and 107 years of age, respectively, and to have been mar ried % vears. Major Bob Yokum of Pierre, 8. D., is sald to own the only team of bison broken to harress. He bought the animals when they were 4 months old, and after months of patient effort succeeded in training them Buffalo are said to be the most obstinate of all wild animals The first paragraph_ Mark wrote when he \began_his editorial dutles with the Virgifia Cfty Enterprise was this: “A beautiful sunset made Beranger a mother's kiss made Benjamin West an artist, and fifteen dollars a week us a journalist.'’ Leslie M. haw and Richmond P. Hobson may spiel like hired hands till doomeday without convineing the help of a Chicago hotel that the Japs are not all right. Prince Iyesnto scattered tios of $10 and $20 gold prices among the bunch, and the money will talk back for awhile. The new saloon license law of Massa- chusetts, known as the “bar and bottle act,” provides for two forms of license —one where the booze is drank at the b another for the sale of bottled goods or “rushing the can' for Arinking elsewhere. Both licensés carinot be’ granted ahy one place. “When James B. Hammond of typewriter fame thought his end was near, (wo vears ago, he divided the Hammond company stook, valued at $1,000,000, among fekth- ful employes. With restored health the spell of gencrosity vanished, and he now seeks the aid of New York courts to recover the donated millfon. It is announced in the French press that | the historic house occupled by Napoleon on the Isle of Elba, known as the villa San Marting, is to be sold at auction. With the house are to go the furniture and other Souvenirs of the emperor. The newspap- ‘ers urge that the friends and admirers of Napoleon take stepy to prevent the disper- sal of the historic objects. who fs | a Twain makes | Re | oysters +him helghtened color and putting ner hands be hind her, “you will have to choose be tween me and your old pipe!” Not an_ instant did Gerald hesitate. “The old pipe goes, dear,” he said, throw ing it away I wae thinking of buying A new one, anyhow *hicago Tribune. “Will you put me off at the museum, conduetor? “Not {f you behave yourself, Syracuse Herld. ma‘am, ‘Well,' Unele Simon, I'm mighty sclad to =ee you. Just down from Skigginsville, What's doing up your way nothin' much, 'ceptin’ the saw- and old Jess ' Watkins."—Chicago d-Herald. mill ‘You're looking blue,”" remarked the, lob- ster. “What's the matter?’ I have just heard,” the oyster answered that there are such things as vegetable ‘Wh the difference?” rejol ’a othe here are human lobsters, too 1 don't let_that worry me a cent's worth ~Chicago Tribune. kol “Browning says love lies deeper than werds.” “Yes, It frequently lies away down whe the pocketbook ~ is carried.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Lawson—What sort of a man is Bjen- kyna! anyway? Dawson—Well, his wife always goes with when he buys a sut of clothes.— Somerville Journal “Pather, what do you wish me to be when I grow up?” v “The same as T am, my son—a lawyer. “Then, instead of wasting any more time on arithmetic, geography, and such truck: I'd better be gettilg at’ the hypothetical question, hadn't 1% “THE NEWSPAPER GUY.” W. M. Bolger in Judges I see a man pushing his way through the lines, Where the work of the terrible fire fiend shines *“The chief plies, “Why, no guys.” 1 inquire; and a policeman re- he's one of those newspaper I see a man walk through he door of a show, Whera great throngs are sign, “S. R. 0." “1s this man a star buys? “Star not pape blocked by the that no ticket he ng! He's one of those news guys!” the trail of a crook, police and brings him I see a man start o While he scorns the to bo “Sherlock Holmes?" one replies, 'Sherlock Holmes? newspaper guys!" I exclaim; and some- That's one of thost And some day I'll pass by the of gold And sce i man pass through, unquestioned nd bold. “A salnt?’ and‘St. Peter will surely reply, “He carrles- a pass; that's a newspapel henl great gates Think what it means to you and your e the political situation before proceed- not appear necessary to | vacaficies there will be in the grade of My to havc n -your homc With Roosevelt and Hughes at Cam- bridge for commencement week, Harvard will be what an ambitious reporter once tried-to describe as “‘the connolsseur of all éyes."'—Boston Herald. ing with the parliamentary program. This is an encouraging sign for the welfare of the country, to say nothing of the fate of the liberal leadership. must regard Roosevelt in a W light, as the most startling figure that has loomed on history’s horizon since Na. poleon, he did not, as many are quot- ing -him, advocate Roosevelt's eleva. worry over the harm which might betall the country if congress and the president were to race recklessly over new and un- tried roads, to destinations at once uncer- and menacing. It requires a vivid and far-ranging to second lieutenant In the cayairy, field artillery and infantry arms. There are in- | digations of sufficlent places to accommo- date the elghty graduates of the military academy—taking Into consideration thos o imagination foresee any Did the man on the desk eatch it? ) | 5 BN e Edisi e Ldison who will be assigned to the coast artillery . ~ corps—and for all the enlisted men of the \ ! army who are found qualified for appoint- ment. It is.expectéd there will be very few, If any, vacancles remaining for civil- ian candidates, At the same time arrange- ments have been made for the examination of candidates from civil life for the mobile army at Fort Ledvenworth, Kan. begin- ning August 1 tion to life tenure office any more than he did in the latter editorial, warning the people against the third-term nightmare. Colonel Watterson is emi nently practical, whatever else may be said about him. The bond proposition submitted last year by the Water board authorizes the issue of $6,500,000 in bonds to ac- quire the water works. The appraise- ment calls for $6,263,295.49, whieh would leave over for improvements less than $240,000, while the cost of the duplicate main to Florence is fig | ured at upwards of $350,000. We can seée the water company spending $350, 000 without any assurance or prospect such perils. To Revive Orient Trade. Congressman Kahn of California proposes an amendment to the rail- road bill which brings'before congress an important element in the system of rate.regulation, since it involves trade | between the United Btates and the orient and is designed to enable the | American mamufacturer to send hls goods abroad in competition with the wares of the manufacturers of other counitries. His proposition gimply al- lows the publication of a through rate between an American point of ship- ment and a foreign port without pub lishing separately the rallroad’s share | of the rate. Up to a few years ago American News ‘that $150,000,000 railroad ki bonds will be placed In Burope ex- plains fully Mr. Morgan's mission in that country and r»}le\'u publie anx- fety as to his state of health. 1 the Yolonels Ho 1t Philadelphia Bulletin, It 1 announced that efforts will be made to induce both Roosevelt and Bryan to {stump Indlana this year. 1f the two | colonels’ could only be persuaded to engage in a joint debate, the Hoosler state would Jump into the limelight with a vengeance. ing Back on Jersey. CONTROL OF POWER SITES. Pittshurg Dispatch, T 5 | If congress continues in its suspic Proposed Transter from Federal to mood concerning the-fiational incorporation State’ Gevernments. of Mr. Rockefeller's-foundation the latter | n, . , Chicaso RecordHerad =~ | gentieman can console himself with the re- | o " * " RN LS, JRmis. ot fiection that he has always found the Jer- R ERIED LD RADRFREN LR gounity as a whole. X ) 18 sey charters available in hig business podic-Wn Ifhman::rz::“!m.:.r.\.m"::' A i ’ ¢ the federal government of the control of water power sites o the several states. Among these Ifone Introduced by Senator Smoot. This bill if passed | would, deprive £ \IA ® Compare the external beauty of the Amberola with that of the highest grade piano, and you will find it even more charmingly designed and just as beautifully finished. Consider the lifetime of study required to become @ proficient piano player. You need no musical training whatever to enjoy the Amberola. Now compare the Amberola with a player-piano. Anyone can operate a player-piano, but when all is said and doneyit gives you nothing but piano music. The Amberola gives you all the best music of all kinds—Grand Opera, Orchestra, Band, Sacred Music, Songs and B{llld-l, Rag Time and Dances. It i§ the limitless entertainer The Amberols, $200 Compare the Amberola with any other sound- reproducing instrument of the cabinet type. Consider the sapphire reproducing point that \does not scratch or wear out the records, and Direct legislation means the end of leg- islative corruption.—World-Heraid. What rot! The onlx. way to end legislative corruption is to send hon- est men to the legislature who will re- fuse to be corrupted. — The sieva-bottom dirt wagon is still doing bueineéss in Omaha, spread- ing Its contents over our street pave- ments. This nuisance can be stopped if the authorities charged/with keep- ing the streets clean will only under- take the job in earnest. It has remained for an Ilowa preacher to discover—what sclentists falled to find out—that Halley's comet is the star of Bethlehem. He comes to this deduction from the-fact that the comet, like the star, appeared in manufacturers were conducting a large trade with the orient from Pacific coast ports built up by the benefit of |such rate regulations as Mr. Kahn's amendment contemplates, but the In- terstate Commerce commission ruled that the rallroad rate had to be taken out of the joint rail and ocean rate and published separately and as a re | of getting its money back. | | It is common in this country to speak derisively of the policeman’s | courage, either jocularly on seriously, but it is not always a fair criticism, probably no fdirer than the samz crit- felsm would be of other men. The | incident of the Philadelphia policeman Our Birthday Book May 10, 1810, James Bryce, historian, diplomatist, was born May fast. Mr. Bryce bassador at Parllament statesman and 10, 1825, In el i now~the British am- | Washington, having served in and held a cabinet ition before given this mission. He as the foremost British' scholar in rical and political science. o ran hisi the United States of the control of all water power sites on the public domain, and would delegate to the states all author- ity to regulate thelr use, The framers of these bills maintain that as the water of navigable streams belongs o th€ state the state should control it, But it Is also_true that the land bordering | on such stre In the public domain be- | longs to the United States. It is claimed | lasts forever, ~ Other types of Edison Phonographs. Edison Grand Opera Records Edison Standard Records Edison Amberol Records}(play twice as long) 50 to $125 75e. to $2.00 e, 0. Does your Phonograph play Amberol Records? 1f not, ask your dealer about our money-saving combination offer on Amberol Records and the attachment to play them. Get complete cata- furthermore, that the state should not be | [ ICEE € Widiace Fhooowssphe from eet deivig deprived of the right to regulate power | ssdvem ve. companies within their bounds. But they NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY have that right already. What Is Involved | 78 Lakeside Avenus, Orangy, N, J» is not a question of Yoverelgnty, but of | ownership. The settlemént of the question along broad, nationally unified lines is the great essentlal The country as a whole can better carry out a mprehensive water power policy than any state Speclal interests would of course: find it more to thelr advantage to deal with the separate states than with the fed 1 gov- ernment. They could more eastly. control state legislation than congressional legis lation But it is essential to the success of a broad, continugus policy, one affect- ing the future ay well as the present, that the water rights in the public domain, no less than the land Itself, should remain giving his own life to save three little children is only one of many object, lessons that policemen generally do not allow danger_ to stand between them and their duty. /James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, is 69. Mr. Bennett's father, of the same name, established the paper and made it the wonderful success which his son has maintained. Charles E. Ady, representing tlonal Life Insurance company eral agent for Nebraska, was born May 10, 1 at MeConnellsvilte, O. 4 He has bnnfi the insurance business in Omaha since’ 1883, first as special agent of the Northwestern Mutual ‘Life, taking his present position with the National Life in 1898, Richard @ Jordan, superintendent of the | United States Indlan warehouse In Omaha, 1s B2 He was born in Ashland, Mass., and educated In the Milwaukee public sdehools, ¥olng into the grocery busin which brought him to Omaha In 1392 as assistant manuger for Porter Bros. company. He| the east and takes a southerly course. Conclusive, indeed! sult rallroads cancelled these rates and the trade fell off. It is aeserted that the through rate was not then and is not now made to affect or apply to import traffic, but to export exclu- sively. Its restoration would, the American jobber and manufacturer contend, revive the trade with the orient, and it must, according to their argument, be conceded” before that trade s revived. Provision of this sort is made in other ecountri Germany, which owns its own. rallroads, even encour- ages foreign trade by making a spe clal sate for goods shipped abroad and Germany is making inroads on the m e Now we know what to do with that common and familiar complaint, em- bonpoint-——just. stop eating for forty- nine days. Strangest thing in the world people did not think of that be- fore. Here is & Chicago man who welghed 296, and after starving for that length of time. he only pulled down to-200,~ \ . — the Na- as Its gen- We do not know whether any “‘jack- 1HE EDISON pot” wi distributed at the close of the session of the late Nebraska dem ocratic legislature as there was in 11l | nois, but we do know that the folks who would have put ap money to kill undesirable legislation got pratically all they wanted at the hands of the/ democratic bunch. —_— County Assessor Shriver warns the taxpayers that the reversion to elec- ebraska Cycle (‘n.-rc‘f‘)rn- National Phonograph (‘0. in Nebraska and carries huge stocks of Edison Phono graphs, including the modéls mentioned in the National Phonograph C(o’s an- nouncement on this page today, as wel, us a stock of over 100,000 records. 1f the initiative and referendum is the only saving clause for the state, why dot alsd for the ination? Why dld not Mr. Bryan put an injtiative and [ G referendiia clause into his Denver platform? Why doeés he not eall upon the Gemocrats in congress to propose trade with the orlent which we ought to be able to offset. . tive deputy asscasors is going to prove costly by a shrinkage in the assessment roll, relatively, iIf not absolutely. That has held his present place since 191 Mr. Jordan has also served on the Omaha school board. Willlam E a Qfiln upon an initiative and refer. duin’ amendment to the federal consti- swstant TRE S8y Our ' amiable democraiic contem- electing deputy assessors, and thus porary Is' getting into the calamity | dividing the responsibility, would be howling class again. It has discovered |a step backward was foreordained. Reed, South Omahs manager under federal control In = Nutshell, Cleveland Leader or Clay, Robinson & Co. live stock com- ., was born May 10, 1572, at Fulton 1. He has been with Clay, Robinson & G0 since s 7 By paying $100,000,000 more iu wages and | salaries In the nexi yeag the ralironds may feel justified in charging $200,000000 more | for trelght and fares. v l Ne 1fth and Harney 8ts., Geo. Omaha, Neb Manager, E. Mickel, 334 Brway, Council Bluffs, Ia. braska Cycle Co., . .