The Commoner
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 5
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An AhuouIhIpcI Pi-ohh dispatch from
-iu..uttinif(Mti TmIWiwh: "A bitter iit-
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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."
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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.
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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. Within the chamber
he could hear Miss Jones, the sten-
ograpner, speaking; and this
scrap of the conversation the
dalized man overheard:
"I love you, dear, and only
I'm weeping my heart away!
mj uaiuug, apouK to me
I love you, dear I love
ino young woman
is a
scan-
you!
Yes,
once more!
you so!"
rang off, and
stepped out of tho cabinet to confront
the angry manager.
"Miss Jones," he said, "that tele
phone has been fixed where it is for
the purpose of convenience in con
ducting business, and not for love
making in office hours. I am sur
prised at you. Don't let it occur
again!"
The young woman froze him with
a glance. "I was ordering some now
songs from the publishers for No 3
department," she explained icily.
Human Life.
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'Modern Mexico" the weekly edi
tion of tho Mexican Herald published
at tho City of Mexico, in an editorial
relating to Mexican finances says:
"The question arises then, seeing that
tho encouragement of habits of pop
ular thrift is a great desideratum,
whether the government might not,
under certain conditions and within
carefully defined limits, lend itself
to a scheme of public guaranty of
bank deposits, advocated, we beUavo.
In the United States by Mr. Bryan."
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