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'Sell.) RORFKT HUNTER.
I ulieerlbers lenvlng the city teeu
perarlly should have TUu lie
untied to them. Address will he
tksugril as often as requested.
Hope on; ratu may yet reach Omaha.
N'ow, a recall on the weather inan
would be all right.
Mr. HobBon has at least been politely
silent during Togo's visit.
Admiral Toro, they say, Is no talker.
Neither was General Grant.
Talking about machines, ask Doc
Tanner what happened to him.
The plan la to adjourn congress on
Sunday. Well, better the day. better
the deed.
Lincoln has proved Itself to be a
hot old town after all, the mercury
going: to 103.
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Togo fell asleep on the deck of the
Mayflower. But Russia knows that is
not his habit.
The late water coloring of Kentucky
beats anything in art since Joe Bailey
waa done in oil.
The race between Kansas City and
Reno for divorce honors grows more
exciting eaoh day.
In time of peace prepare for war,
also, take no chances on overeating
during hot weather.
Still, Omaha's ball team did not
hope to get the record by losing only
six games in a row.
The country knows by now that
when Contractor J. P. Morgan builds
a trust the Job Is well done.
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Summer resorts are good things, but
a man need not overdo himself at his
work in order to go to one.
'
Since visiting Sagamore Hill, Togo
invariably expresses his gratification
with the virile word, "dee-lighted."
Aviation la like all other things in
life. It is safe enough as long as Its
devotees do not try to do foolish stunts,
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The government has attached the
letter "h" to Pittsburg. Many people
have felt like starting it off with "h."
The Congressional Record should
give extra copies of Jeff Davis'
speeches as premiums for subscrip
tions. . .
At any rate, Delegate Wickersham's
temperature probably will fall when he
gets hack to that dear, cool, old
Alaska.
The emergency hospital has long
been needed, and now that It is at
hand it should have proper support
from the city.
There are 5,000.000,000 germs in a
spoonful of Ice cream, according to Doc
Wiley. Possibly that is why a dishful
tastes like more.
Since sailing down Broadway at
noon In an automobile. Admiral Togo
must feel that there is no soldier like
Gotham's policeman.
President Taft knows tho sort of
welcome he will get In Omaha, and it
may be taken ns settled that he will
come here if possible.
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While we are not committed to the
recall. It does seem that It would be a
good thing for a state like Mississippi,
with, a Vardaman for senator,
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At Columbus, O., where Governor
Harmon sits and rules the state, cheer
of "Bryan again for president" greeted
the distinguished Nebraskan. Now, will
you stand aside, Uncle Jud?
It is not Impossible that Edgar
Howard's apprehension as to Judge
Albert's chances may jet prove well
founded. The democrats do not appear
to have taken kindly to his candidacy.
With tho bond issue for completing
the building authorised, the last ex
fuse for delay on the court house has
passed, and it should now be pushed
along, because the people are getting
anxious to tee what they have been
l-ay!ug for.
Fare the Pure Food and Drop Laws.
However the present controverts be
tween persons charged, directly and in
directly, with the administration of the
pure drug and food laws, may termi
nate, It would be most lamentable to
countenance any Intervention of those I
laws or the general movement whose
purpose la to protect public health
against the dangers of adulterations.
The issue Involved is bigger and
broader than any individual or per
sonal Interests. The country looks,
therefore, beyond the personnel of this
unpleasant mtxup to the larger objec
tive. The people would, we Imagine,
sternly rebuke anything that savored
of a move to restrict or restrain the
good work which has been begun under
the auspices of the Department of Ag
riculture, pursuant to legislative en
actment. Pure food and drug laws
were placed on the statute books be
cause of a very live and Insistent need
and demand for them. They could be
neither effaced nor nullified with im
punity, it would be extremely unfor
tunate even to have the reform briefly
retarded by a personal controversy.
Thq government could more easily af
ford to sacrifice one or two worthy ser
vants than suffer an injury to the ser
vice. It is generally believed that cer
tain interests not financially bene
fited by a rigid enforcement of the
laws have wielded a sinister but potent
Influence against them. It Is too bad,
then, to have had the main issue be
fogged by the lesser consideration of
personalities. Recompense may come
in the end, however, if this tedious in
quiry serves to expose the sinister in
fluences and place the system on a bet
ter working basls
' Embarrassing Mr. Underwood. 1
In explanation of how the steel and
Iron schedules came to be attached to
tho cotton tariff bill, this excerpt out of
the press dispatches is significant:
Senators Simmons and Overman of North
Carolina, Foster and Thornton of Louisi
ana and Johnstone and Bankhead of Ala
bama made vigorous protest against action
on cotton during the present session. Sena
tor Williams of Mississippi took especial
exception to the proposition to attach the
steel schedule, emphasising the opinion
that to attempt to do so would be an
embarrassment to Chairman Underwood
of the house ways and means committee
In view of the criticisms of William J. ,
Bryan.
Mr. Underwood assured a committee of
senators that ha not only would not be
embarrassed by the senate's Incorporation
of steel In the cotton bill, but would be
delighted at such aotion. With the report
of this committee; before It, the caucus had
little difficulty In deciding to attach to
the bill the steel and iron schedules, ma
terially reducing the duties.
If there were any merit la the steel
and Iron schedules being brought up at
this sesson of congress, do the demo
crats mean to tell the country that it
should watt upon the pleasure or com
fort of Mr. Underwood, who happens to
be chairman of the ways and means
committee and as such, floor leader of
the democracy? What does the coun
try care about Mr. Underwood's con
troversy with Mr. Bryan? It is a
pretty come-off when petty personali
ties of this sort are to he crowded in
front of what are supposed to be Im
portant measures of national legisla
tion. Underwood was shrewd enough
to see that the democratic senators
were fixing to put him and themselves,
as well as their party, in a worse mess
than the one Mr. Bryan caught them in
and hastened to Bave their face.
Of course, since the whole thing
cotton, wool, steel, iron and all present
snap-shot tariff tinkering is nothing
but petty politics, it would have made
no real difference whether Mr. Under
wood was "embarrassed" or not. Mr.
Bryan, though, seems to bave put the
democratic leader In a position where,
it requires careful action to save him
from embarrassment.
Vote at the Primary.
One of the most encouraging fca
tures of the primary election in Doug
las county Is the Interest shown by the
voters in the selection of the candi
dates. It so fell out that the weather
conditions on Tuesday were of. the
most discouraging sort, and yet the
vote was sufficiently heavy to give a
conclusive notion as to the trend of
public opinion. Almost 18,000 votes
were cast, or nearly half as many as
were registered for governor last fall,
when one of the most exciting contests
In the history of the state was en
hanced by the presence of a popular
local candidate for the office. This
proves that the voters are interested
In the choice of the candidates. The
further fact that more than two-thirds
of the total vote waa cast for the re
publicans is another excellent augury.
It means that if the Interest is prop
erly maintained, the republican victory
In Douglas county this fall will be tri
umphant. The Cost of Living.
Experts at work under direction of
the Department of Agriculture have re
ported the increased cost in some
staples to be due, not to higher prices
being paid to the farmers, and on the
basis of this report, tho Department of
Commerce and Labor has set experts
to work to find out to what this In
crease Is due. So, In all the series of
Investigations, official and otherwise,
and all the speculation of economists,
we seem to be as far as ever from a
satisfactory explanation of the high
cost of living.
Surely by now the people have
learned enough about the problem of
the cost of living to know that It is a
very Intricate problem and not one
for partisan speculation. It certoJuly
is not one for careless handling by
politicians. It would bo Idle, for in
stance, to ascribe political causei for
the recent rise in the price of meat,
when the main reason Is obvious In tUe
I'oor condition of gracing land of the
v est. Or, similarly, as to the doubled
I'vir e of potatoes, which is duo directly
to a very xor crop.
Hlth and low prices, though, always
have been aud probably always will li,
a relative proposition. Then mai who
sails wants high prices, the man who
buys, low. They should not, there
fore, unqualifiedly, be held up as Indi
ct. Mous either of very prosperous tluira
or adversity. They bear a relation to
both, but are not conclusive of either.
Of all the Investigations being con
ducted by government agencies, this
one as to the cost of living, will, un
doubtedly, be watched by the pooyle
with most Interest.
Defining Contempt of Court.
A law more explicitly defining con
tempt of court would seem to be a
necessity In this country. Congress
may enact such a law out of the bill
introduced In the house by Chairman
Clayton of the Judiciary committee. It
is not surprising to know that the
tangle and confusion arising from the
case of the American Federation of
Labor officials and the Buck Store and
Range company Inspired this measure.
Now, the house has set a time next
winter for hearings on this bill, to
gether with an Inquiry into the con
tempts and penalties emphasized by the
court in this notable case.
Not only the labor leaders involved,
but thousands of other people, have
never believed that what Gompers.
Mitchell and Morrison did came rightly
within the definition of contempt of
court. The trouble is that in the ab
sence of more definite and specific
rules, judges are given great latitude
in arbitrarily determining what is. and
what Is not contempt of court and
what may strike one judge as such
might not so impress another. It would
seem to depend a good deal on the sen
sitiveness of the court. But not only
the litigant would be benefited by a
more explicit definition; the court and
the state would be even more bene
fited, and as for the respect for the
law and sanctity of the judiciary, they
would, under a fixed construction,
really come to mean something.
When a judge upon the bench can
say what a certain federal judge has
said, that the dictum of the court was
the law of the land and remained such
until altered by a higher tribunal, it is
time to think of such measures as the
one under discussion. And this judge
will not find many to dispute his claim.
Contempt of court should be neither
condoned nor tolerated, but it would
help matters generally to know pre
cisely what constitutes the offense.
One of Omaha's Needs.
That Omaha already has a great
many social advantages and con
veniences for its citizens is apparently
too well established to require argu
ment. Existence here is padded with
many little creature comforts that are
fully appreciated by the people, but all
has not yet been done. The attend
ance at a circus performance during
the week emphasizes one of the city's
greatest needs, that of popular amuse
ment during the hot months of the
year. We have base ball, but that Is
available only during the daylight
hours; we have public parks, but they,
too, are only of service during the day,
for when the evening comes the birds
and the squirrels go to bed, and cease
to be entertaining. We have some pri
vate adventures in the amusement line,
but nothing to meet the popular want.
The genius who will provide Omaha
with something rational and popular
In the way of amusement for the hot
summer nights will be a real bene
factor. The howl that is going up from the
democrats is a pretty good indication
that the republican ticket in Douglas
county is not what they wanted. Well,
it wasn't expected that they would be
satisfied with It, but It Is a ticket that
will draw a lot of democratic votes,
und maybe that is why the "Jim"
crowd is worrying over it.
It will be noted that the startling
stories of crime now being published
have nothing to do with Omaha. Thla
is interesting only as showing that
wickedness is not confined altogether
to this city, as some would have us
believe.
One of the eloquent tributes to the
value of newspaper advertising is the!
vote that is piling up for Judge Hamer.
He usod more newspaper apace than
any of the others, and he Is getting
more votes.
Henry Watterson probably realizes
by now that the democratic party is
not the same organization ho helped
bring Into prominence. Ho Is simply
the latest of its great leaders to be
sidetracked.
rtrdnclntt the Load.
Indianapolis News.
Cheer tip Beef prices are to be higher
and you may not have to carry so much
Idle money through the winter as you
feared.
A Move for lllsrh Favor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
OUle James had a real tiff with Mr.
Underwood on the floor of the house. Mr.
James' name will probably be found iu the
next edition or the W. J. B. eligible list.
Rlvnliuw Yaakee Thrift.
Baltimore American.
Tha House of Commons Is eminently a
business body. Aftvr taking the money
bills away from the control of the House
of Irda, membeis of the former body
voted to pay themselves salaries. Yankee
thrift could not have better seised an op
portunity. FatlU Hn for Mer.
Brooklyn Eagla.
Japanese reporters followed Admiral Togo
from New York to Oyster Bay In taalcabs
at the expenat of 161 SO, and were not per
mitted to photograph their countrymen
when they got there. The man who looks
over the bills at tha home of floe will con
clude that ginrlks has coma high la the
mountains of Long Island.
ooklncfBackvvonl
I lib Day inOmalia
COMP1LX.D FROM Drf, FILfS
AtOl HT I.
lliiity Years Aji
At u special meeting of the city council
the Rlocumb ordinance failed to pus,.. The
Judiciary committee, conslvtlng of Messrs.
Etnll, Ho.-t.brger and Kau,ff munn, reported
the papers buck without recommendation,
the ordinance being a repetition of the es
tablished Bloc imb law. The question at
issue la the amount of the license fee. A
vote was taken on Inserting $100 Instead
of Jl.OX) for the license figure ami was lost.
Messrs. Raker, Corby, Dunhsin, Herman,
Rtull and President Dailv voted In the
negative, and Messrs. Oellone, Hornberger
and O'Keefe In the affirmative.
Prof. Drummond 'of Fremont and Prof.
Hallley of Crete are to assist Prof. Polnu
at the session of the teachers' Institute.
P. T. Fltirerald sprained his ankle very
badly this evening at the corner of Six
teenth and Izard streets. It was caused by
a bad sidewalk.
At a meeting of the Ladles' Land league,
Mrs. Ella Kennedy presiding. M wan de
cided to picnic in Oklahoma park on the
Hellevue road. Mr. Hnscall has donated
the park, likewise fitted up a platform for
dancing. Two conveyances will take the
women to the park who aie to watt at the
table.
Hon. John I Webnter left for a pleasure
trip to Fort Robinson and Fort Fetterman
and will be absent fbout three weeks.
A. J. Plmpson i-eturtied from Lake Chau
tauqua feeling much Improved in health.
Twenty Years Ag
Miss Carrie Stevens of Boston Is visiting
Mrs. .T. E. Preston. 403 South Twenty-fifth
avenue.
Congressman W. J. Bryan called on The
Bee. Mr. Bryan kindly consented some
days ago to interest himself In the efforts
of The Bee to help Mr. S. Oerber, the
Omaha man who went back to Russia and
was soon after exiled, to Siberia, Tho con
gressman referred the case to the secre
tary of state and has Just received a reply,
the effect of which was contained In the
letter transmitted through Assistant Seo
retnry Crounse and published In The Bee.
E. B. Branch returned from an extended
trip over the Klkhorn and reported busi
ness along1 that line a very good.
Miss Mary W. Niles, M. D., a missionary
at Canton, China, who had been visiting
her brother In Omaha, left for San Fran
cisco to board a steamer for the orient.
Mayor dishing reads the law to the city
council showing It cannot oust from office
Dr. Clark Gapen, city health commissioner.
Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Xaugle returned
from a long visit at Devil's Lnke. N. I.
They stopped In St. Paul and Minneapolis
for a few days. Mrs. Naugle was greatly
benefited In health.
Ten Vears Ag
Word waa received that Mists..jowiiiiini
Mitchell and Miss Delia Walsh, both of
Omaha, had taken the veil of Sisters of
Providence at the home of the order in
Richmond. Ind. The former was given the
name of Bister Mary Lerena and the lat
ter of Sister Mary Phllomens.
Earl Lewis of Burr Oak. la., complains
to the police that woman he Incidentally
met on the street got away with $25 of his
hard-earned cash.
J. O. Berkley of the Schuyler Sun. who
wu In Omaha, said very nearly half a
crop of late corn would be harvested in
Colfax county.
J. Hiram Stevens, president of the gen
i ,,nn of tha American Bar associa
tion, stopped In Omaha en route to the big
bar meeting at Denver. Acconu.au,...
him west In the evening were K. M. Bart
lett and daughter. Miss Henrietta.
H. W. Gannett was successfully oper
ated on for appendicitis.
Clarence English and Kid Jensen fought
to a finish In East Omaha, the finish find
ing Mr. Xelsen throwing up the sponge In
the eighth round.
Charles T. Hlnkle. a pious and versatile
burglar, who In the midst of a campaign
of thievery served as a vestryman In a
colored church, led a big "meetin' at
the city Jail, where he was then getting
his mall.
People Talked About
In one day last week Charles Gee of St.
Jobnsbury, Vt.i who Is 67 years old, mowed,
raked and cocked, all by hand, sixty-seven
cocks of heavy English hay.
Henry C. Frick Is returning from the in
dustrial firing line. He will erect a stately
mansion In New York. What Is there In
Pittsburg to hold a man with 1100,000,000?
Representative Henry H. Bingham, of
Pennsylvania. Is the oldest member of the
continuously for 17 terms. He lives
at Philadelphia, where he was born not
quite 70 years old.
The officials of the "bottled sunshine
trust'' of New York have been arrested.
It Is charged that the sunshine that glowed
In the bottles was supplied by aifelectrio
current. This concern had planned to turn
every cloudy day into one of clear skies
at the cost of a few bottles.
Charles R. Jones of Chicago, chairman
of the prohibition national committee, has
been making an extensive tour of the far
west, consulting with the leaders of the
party in regard to the advisability of hold
ing the next national convention of the
prohibition party in that-sectlon of the
country.
Thomas Shaw, a retired farmer of De
troit, Mich., with his brother. John Shaw,
librarian of tha War department at Wash
ington, arrived at the summer home of
Dr. Anna H. Shaw, president of the Wom
an's National Suffrage association In Moy
lan, Pa. They met for ths first time In
fifty-three years.
John Gardiner, president of the Norwalk
tO.) National bank. Is In his ninety-sixth
year, and has the reputation of being the
country's oldest banker. Recently he has
beon visiting his son, W. L. Gardiner, In
East Orange. N. J. Mr. Gardiner, the
elder, does not wear glasses; neither does
he smoke nor drink coffee.
Colonel Edward H. R. Green, president
of the Westminster company, with assets
of Jl-a.OOO.uuO, owner of the Texas Midland
railroad and son of Mrs. Hetty Green, Is
going to marry within a year. Who the
bride-to-be la he doesn't know, but he said
la all seriousness that his bachelorhood
will end before he la a year older.
For nearly forty years Gibson Ruland,
who died In Patchogue, L. I., lived next
dooy to his wife and never spoke to her.
He would meet her In the street dally and
pass aa though he did not see her. He
never forgave her for ths gossip which
greeted him on bis return from the civil
war. His Implacable conduct broke her
heart. She died some years ago.
News of tha death of Mrs. Elisabeth
A War a Allen, which occurred at her home
In Tuckahoa, N. Y.. recalls her poem.
"Rock Me to Sleep,, a poem which every
one In the English world has read. Elisa
beth Chase was born seventy-nine years
ago at Strong, Me. She wrote under the
nam of "Florence Percy," contributing to
the Atlantto and other magaslnea.
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'Islna St.. ut ilouMfR,
OMAIIA. Auk. K.-To the Editor of The j
Bee. I do not believe people who are ask
ing that school houses be open to public
meetings are carefully considering where
It will lead to and what serious conse
quences will rult If their petition Is
granted.
I think It one of the most serious mla-
; takes that our school board could make If
It should grant the request. The great
mass of people, I believe, are opposed to
It, and Just like many propositions of the
kind those who favor them make them
selves heard, while the great majority of J
people say nothing, believing that such aj
mistake will surely not occur, even without
their protest.
From the beginning of our government
until the present In cities and villages tt
has not been the school building which has
been used for discussion of publlo ques
tions, but 'the town hall, the city hall.
court house or other public plaees, or
places secured for such purposes. The
school building has been constructed, fitted.
equipped and seated for children and for
no other purpose, and has been set apart
for the use of our children, and It must
seem strange to those advocating the open
school house that If It Is proper and feas
ible, as they claim, that It has not been so
used In cities and villages In the past, and
that we In Omaha are ths first to discover
this new use.
Among the many serious objections (lo
using the school house in cities and vil
lages for publlo meetings are:
First It Is not seated for adults and
there are no rooms suitable for such meet
ings. I apeak of the grade schools or sub
urban schools, sb they are the ones that
would likely be used.
Second To equip them for public meet
ings would Involve much needless expense
In furniture, light, heat and Janitor hire.
Third-lf the school house Is once open
for public meetings then no distinction can
or will be made as to the nature of the
gathering.
Fourth Interminable trouble will ensue
as to conflict of dates, favoritism In let
ting the house, objection's or preferences
to certain gatherings, and the like, and
having once opened the school house to the
public it Is too late to close It.
Fifth As no useless rooms are placed In
our whool houses, meetings musto be held
In class rooms, seated, equipped and beau
tified for the children, and It gives oppor
tunity for careless persons to deface or
mar the room or property or muke way
with the books or other property of the
schools.
Sixth You cannot regulate the use of a
school room if let open to any and all pub
He meetings so that the use will not be at
times of serious detriment to the building
or Its contents. Who will be present to
regulate It and to protect a marring of the
seats or the walls, or Injury to the books,
papers, pens and pencils and other prop
erty of the scholars? It Is Idle to talk of
regulation.
Seventh Those who have studied best re
sults In education find that along with good
teachers and good methods go beautiful
school rooms, neateand well kept desks and
furniture, books and other equipment, to
gether with orderly and systematic sur
roundings. I can well Imagine the looks of some of
our school rooms the morning after some
publlo meetings have been held, and the
Influence it would have on the boys and
girls of our city. The surroundings of the
scholars In the school room have much to
do with their future. It Is true that we
own the school houses, but Is It not a suf
ficient consideration for our ownership that
our children In the brief years of their
school days be given the very best oppor
tunitles possible?
I have known of instances where a school
room was used for public meetings and the
next morning the scholars and teachers
found the room In a deplorable condition
with their books scattered, some of them
gone, the books marked and defaced, the
writing paper and tablets to a great ex
tent used, and very few lead pencils left.
That may not occur In Omaha, but It may
occur, not at the hands of those who would
be members of organizations who would
meet in such rooms, but at the hands of
those who take advantage of such oppor
tunities to do wrong, and perhaps to steal.
CITIZEN.
Arboarast the Hero.
GRAND ISLAND, Aug. 16-To the Editor
of The Bee: In connection with a report
of the national convention of sheriffs at
Omaha, a week or more ago, there ap
peared the statement that Sheriff Duukel
was the man who, Blnglehauded and alone,
captured the Glltner bank robbers on an
Island of the Platte. The many friends of
Chief of Police Arbogast of this city ob
ject to this statement. It was hoped that
the publication of the story was through
some misunderstanding and that It would
be corrected ere this. But It has not been
and as one Interested In The Bee as well
as In getting the facts before the public, I
would like to call attention to the fact
that Mr. Arbogast It was who captured
the robbers. Mr. Arbogast had had some
experience In police work at North Platte,
but he had, at tha time of the robbery re
ferred to, been at the head of the Grand
Island police force only a few days. There
was no one near him when he suddenly
came upon the robbers and, armed with a
Winchester rifle, not only held the three
men, but had searched them before others
came to his aid. Sheriff Dunkel la said by
some others, who were participating In the
manhunt, to have been a mile away at the
time. If any credit belongs to any single
man In that hunting party of several score
of men. It belongs to Chief of Police Arbo
gast. ONE WHO KNOWS.
Hypocritical Reforms. v
Indianapolis News.
Ths hollowness of reform pretenses In
congress Is shown by the Impossibility of
getting the mileage graft cut out. Economy
is perennially demanded of every depart
ment of the government. Fiery Indigna
tion Is expressed by one set of reformers
after another over the wasteful expenditure
In this, that and the other direction, but
when it comes to the outrageous mileage
rate of 40 cents, Indignation fades and the
most vociferous reformer pockets tho
money. Just now the democratic brethren
are especially active In "probing" for
abuses and extravagance, but they are very
careful not to touch mileage. Reform senti
ment can best prove Itself by beginning at
home, and until It does so may be properly
labeled as sheer hypocrisy.
Mot New Thunnkl,
St. Louis Republic.
The assertion in the report of the senate
committee on foreign relatione that Mr.
Taft's arbitration treaties are "breeders of
war and not of peace" la startling but not
new. It was Machia'elll who said: "Each
treaty plants the seeds of a new war."
Bare I'rosrru,
Cleveland Leader,
The uplift movement Is working. It has
been noticed that seven orators In congress
during the last few days had occasion to
refer to ths ocean and not one of them
called It the "briny deep."
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.
Cleveland louder: Deprived of the np
poi'tut It j- to rnssge In any of the other
summer sports, can you blame congrcss
irrn fur occaslonully taking n fall out i-f
Hrysn?
Pittsburg Dispatch: rVnator Cummins
fltiuns that the Rreut fight In the next
national convention will te over the plat
f.iim rather than the candidate. It Is not
Improbable, since there seems so far to be
little prospect of mveh of a fight oer the
candidate.
Minneapolis Journal: Mr. Bryan's position
Is that If a referendum shows that he was
wrong, he will apologise to Mr. I'nderwoiMl.
Mr. t'nderwood's Is that Mr. Bryan owes
It to himself to take the Initiative In the
recall of remarks for which he has no
sufficient foundation.
Philadelphia Press: Colonel Bran de
clares he ta not afraid of any effort to
read him out of the party. Probably he has
no reason to be afraid, but he Is generally
so busy reading others out of his party that
he may yet be able to look forward to
the time when he can enjoy exclusive mem
bership. Sioux City Journal: Over In Nebraska a
"reformer" has handed out a chunk of re
form in the concrete which may be men
tioned, though It Is not worth a slug head.
This particular reformer, though he has
been head of the state Industrial school
at Kearney coming in and put there as a
shining light of reform only a few months
Is able already to show a payroll Including
his wife aa matron, a daughter as stenog
rapher, another daughter as housekeeper
and a brother-in-law as school farmer
making altogether a family salary of 130.".
per month. This gentleman was lately
chairman of tho populist state central com
mittee. He could probably do more In that
line if given more time.
DRASTIC ACTION CALLED KOH.
Methods Km jlo cI to Nullify the
Pure Food Law.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The feeling of bewildered amusement
with which the publlo received the publica
tion In Washington a few weeks ago of a
formal opinion of the attorney general
recommending tha "condign punishment"
meaning the practical dismissal In dis
grace from the public service of Dr. Wiley,
chief of the bureau of chemistry ot the
Department of Agriculture, and the dis
ciplining of several of his associates in
the pure food crusade, has given place to
one of Indignant amaxement at the subse
quent revelations which have been made
before the house committee of Inquiry.
Such an exposure of bureaucratic usurpa
tion of power to thwart the purposes of
law, to browbeat and coerce servants of
the government and to bend the adminis
tration of the Agricultural department to
the service of private ends, has never been
made before in the history of the govern
ment. Enough has been elicited to warrant
drastic action by the president, and while
Mr. Taft's judicial temperament will guard
him against hasty action, the country will
look with confidence for such action by
him as shall end forever the McCahe cabal
and Its mischievous operations. The ex
posure has been so startling and complete,
based as It Is upon the admissions of the
chief actors themselves and upon the of
ficial records, that not much more In the
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Opening Chippewa Indian
Lands, Minnesota
9:00 A. H., August 22, 1911
d Uncle Sam will throw open to white settlement 82,220
acres of Chippewa Indian Lands in the Cass Lake Land
District and 8,884 acres in the Duluth Land District, Northern
Minnesota. Any American citizen who docs not own more
than 160 acres of land and has not already used his home
stead birthright, can get 160 acres of this Government land,
under the Homestead Laws, for only $1.25 an acre. This
$1.25 is paid in five annual installments. 25 cents is paid
on each acre at the end of the first, second, third, fourth and
fifth years. This land can be commuted.
File at Cass Lake and Duluth
AUGUST 22, 1911
CFile at Cass Lake, Minnesota, on August 22, 1911, for lands in the
Cass Lake Land District, or at Duluth for lands in the Duluth District.
You can file any time after nine o'clock in the morning. First come, first
Berved! Make arrangements to start before August 22 and get to Casa
Lake or Duluth in plenty of time.
SGet a farm in this great coming dairy countrjr where there is plenty
water and timber. Good near-by markets and creameries; good
schools. Make money raising potatoes, clover and garden truck.
Make money from cows and chickens. There is a ready market for all
.the farm, can produce.
low round trip homeseeker's fares to Cass Lake from St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth, from points north and west of Ben
son, 8auk Center and Congo. One and a half fare for round
trip, minimum fare f 8, limited to 25 days. For further details
address
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way of investigation would srrni t.. .
required as gretind for summurx a.ii.vi
And the action ousht not to be .-tifi - , ,
to Inconspicuous subordinates, hut slio i i
be niH'le to apply to every official n
sinic mr imp present uistciaceiin C"mnti;a
of affairs.
SUNNY OEMS.
"Strance that a mere tmnsiisltfun
should make one garb stylish aim the nt.li
plrhln.ii."
Ilnw is that?"
"Just think for a minute of the .1 M icr,-.,, ,,
between overall trousers anil a4-uwi
waists. " Baltimore American.
Papa Indian -Mv dear. I know wlirre I
ran get a pfach of a war bonnet R.r al.,i ,t
two skins.
Mamma Indlan-The So. let y of Kma:-.. i
pated S.iuaws his decided aitnliist v. ar l
nets for tsmlly men. The featha-rs tt. hie
the papoose. St. Louis Times.
"Vou sav I had been drlnkinit?''
"Well, you were riding around in a hack
wit n a sailor.
' Hut had I been drinking""
"Well, you were ordering hlni to alef
and reef sail." Louisville cmirler-Jnurna.
"Old Tightwad had a quick Recovery nft.T
they got him to the sanitarium, didn't he
"Ves. the first week's bill showed him
what It was costing him to be sick. Hn
ton Post.
"What's this? lady at tlv seashore falls
through a crevice In the boej-d walk"''
"I knew the girls were carrying thi
hlpless erase too far." Washington star
"His father laid the foundation of a for
tune by burning midnight oil."
"Yes. and he Is wsstln: It by exploding
midnight gasoline." Washington Star
"How many men does he employ?"
"He Isn't an employer. He works on a
salary like the rest of us."
"That's queer. 1 thought he must be the
boss. I just heard him telling another rna'
that he hadn't taken a vacation In twelve
years." Detroit- Krc-e Pieas.
"Since he ran away with and man c .1
her he has had only two regrets."
"And what are they?"
"One Is that he ran away with her, an. I
the other Is that he did not run away fruit,
her." Houston Post.
Rankin What are you going to get tvl'h
that big boxful of cigar coupons you've
been collecting all this time?
Fyle-l'm hesitating between s 1911 niot..i
ryele and a 25-eent rasor will probabh
take the rasor. Chicago Tribune,
MERCERIZEjO.
Have you ever seen a gown.
Soft and fine and fllnily like
Pink or white, or blue or brown
That your senses seemed to strike
For Its luster and its style,
By Its owner duly prized?
Have you much admired then found
That 'twas only mercerised?
Have you heard some people talk
Proudly of their social doln's?
Heard them boast of their gifted friends.
or tneir prowess ana pursuits:
Have you thoufrht them real stuff.
stuff. -J
ed?
to find
Ana the menus they miioglsea?
In en nave waked some morn
That this goods wan mercerized?
Have you met what seemed a friend,
Who had sworn alletriancn true.
Who approved of all you said,
Who eeemed all wrapped up in you;
Have you then by dally wear
Most before you realized
Found them not the real Stuff,
Proved them only mercerized T
But In cloth or social status.
Also In the friends vou make.
Tho' you often meet the bogus.
Let not this your courage shake;
For behind the fake the real
Still exists and still Is prized.
Waiting for your better efforts
Hid behind the mercerized.
BAYULL Nffi TRELF.
US Crest Kertkarz Bli(.
ST. fADL, Km.
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