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The Commoner VOLUME 8, NUMBER 5 12 l! u. ft. it io r I -tepr J''1 tho llOUHC Of An AhuouIhIpcI Pi-ohh dispatch from -iu..uttinif(Mti TmIWiwh: "A bitter iit- iianiMiih"'" " i,.r m iiw rulcH .'uid now or ot Hiirmltpr worn miulo In tin N'prcMUMiliilivPH today by Mr. Ni-Ihoii, of WIhoomhIii, republican, who siilcl tlio power of tho house was niPi'Kocl n Uiu Hpwikcr. Mlo la tho house,' ho exclaimed amid democratic, ap plutinn. lie charged thai tho hual iiohk of I ho country was not dis patched speedily, economically or conslcleniioly. Ilo did not beliovo, lie said, In partisanship. 'I am speak ing,' ho said, 'of principles and not of men.' It was intended, ho said, that the speaker should only bo a mere moderator in according the representatives of tho peoplo their just rights and in securing a square deal. Hut now, he said, tho speaker overrules ruthlessly the rights of his opponents and his own associates as well. The minority, he declared, were not only speechless, but abso lutely helpless and as for the major ity mombers, they have to obey tho will of tho speaker. At times, ho added, they would break away, but not for long because thoy wero brought back under tho powor of tho speaker's spoil. lie said that many of tho president's policies wore im portant, but thoy wero no moro im portant than parliamentary reforms In tho hour ." stations as in president may tho judgment of scorn necessary." the A dispatch from Helena, Mont., says: "Governor Joseph K. Toole re signed today, the resignation to take effect April 1. His term does not oxpiro until March 4, 1909. Joseph K. Toole was elected governor of Montana in 189G and was ro-elected in 1900 and 1904. He is a democrat, lie will bo succeeded by Edwin Nor ris, of Dillon. Poor health is gen erally accepted as tho reason for the resignation." Georgo D. Wiso, who served two terms in congress, died at his home in Richmond, Va., aged sevonty-two years. A Now York dispatch to tho Chi cago Record-Herald says: "Charles W. Morse, organizer of tho ico com bino and of tho Consolidated Steam ship company, and a few months ago rogarded as ono of tho greatest financiers In America, has disap peared. His creditors today attached all his proporty in this city, including his rosldoneo at 28 Fifth avenue, In a Bult for $243,321 begun by Charles A. Ilanna, national bank examiner, as receiver of tho National Bank of North America, which Morse con trolled. In tho papers on which tho attachment was granted it was stat ed that Morso had left for Europe within the last Tow niont by default for other suit also was him today. Morso was later by cable and immediately Mr. Bryan spoke at Jersey City, N. J., and referring to his meeting an Associated ress dispatch says: "An enthusiastic reception was accorded William J. Bryan at tho Majestic theatre this afternoon. He was in troduced as 'the next president of the United States' which evoked applause from tho largo audience." A Fremont, Neb., dispatch to the Omaha World-Herald follows: "Fre mont democrats met tonight and or ganized tho Bryan Volunteers. The mooting was largely attended and was marked by enthusiasm and con fidence. Theso ofllccrs of the club wore chosen: President, James Mlli ken; secretary, John II. Buer; treas urer, James A. Donahue. Dan V. Stephens made an appeal to the club to get down to business and show what tho democrats of Fremont could do. He passed around pledge cards and the members subscribed for tho expense fund liberally. Edi tor Richmond of the Fremont Her ald, and Prof. N. W. Preston made ringing addresses, which evoked great enthusiasm." OUKIOUS CONDENSATIONS Professor McMillan Brown, ethnol ogist, holds that the future Austra lian peoplo will, in all probability, be black Ants are really very long lived, considering their minuteness. A nat uralist had two queens under obser vation for ten years and one of Sir John Lubbock's ant pets lived into her fifteenth year. Ivy growing over the walls of a houso renders the structure cool in summer and warm in winter. It also keeps the walls dry. It is, however, very destructive to woodwork, forc ing the joints apart. Most of the stone marbles used by boys are made in Germany. The refuse only of the marble and agate quarries is employed, and this is treated in such a way that there is practically no waste. The old headgear which Geronimo, the Indian chief, wore in his last battle with General Miles has been bought by Robert W. Wells of Washington, and will be given to the Smithsonian Institution. Mercury has a year of eighty eight of our days; Venus one of 229.7 days; Mars' year is 687 days, while that of Neptune is 60,127.7 days. No earth man could hope to reach the age of a year if he lived in Neptune. The amount of water daily lifted from the waters of the world hy evaporation is about 510 cubic miles, and the average amount of rain which falls on the surface of the globe during a year is sixty inches. M. Antoine Charette, a clever young chemist of Paris, has informed the Academy of Science in that city that he has succeeded in producing oy artmcial means crystals of large size having all the characteristics of diamonds. Emperor William has conferred on Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, the German Ambassador at Constanti nople, who was head of the delega tion of German Order of the Black Eagle, the highest Prussian decora tion in recognition of his services at The Hague. Pittsburg Dispatch. days. A judg $155,753 in an entorod against located started back homo. Ho says he merely for Europo for a short rest. loft President Roosevelt has suspended Public Printor Charles A. Sailings, owing to the charges as to the in creased cost of oporating tho arnmont printing office. gov- Sonator Stone of Missouri has In troduced this resolution: "Tho pres ident Is requested on the 10th day f December, 1913 that is to say fifteen years after the date of the treaty of Paris to deliver the con trol and possession of tho Philippine Islands .to tho authorities represent ing the peoplo thereof, including also al government proporty therein per suing to the administration of such sovernmont and withdraw therefrom immediately thereafter the armv and Jiavy or the United States. Provide however, that tho United States shall retain such suitable coaling and naval THE FIRST IN KANSAS The Topeka Capitol prints under date of Marion, Kansas, February 1, tho following: "The first county convention in Kansas to elect delegates and alter nates to the Hutchinson state con vention assembled in tho court house at Marion this afternoon. Every sec tion of tho county was represented. "Tho following resolution of in structions was unanimously adopted: " 'Resolved, That the delegates and alternates by this cnnventfnn eiecteci to represent the democrats of Marion county at the state conven tion to be hold at Hutchinson, Kan., February 21, 1908, are hereby in structed to vote for delegates and alternates to the national convention to bo held at Denver, Colo., July 7, 190S, who are favorable to, and in structed to vote for the nomination of William J. Bryan, as tho demo cratic candidate for president, and are further instructed to vote for J. G. Johnson of this county as the Kansas member of the democratic national committee.' " 'TWAS COMMERCIAL LOVE The manager of the big department store stood stockstill outside the tel ephone booth. 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