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The Commoner.
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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb..
It snowod in Now York on June 3. Chilly
days, tlieso, for Wall Street. .
If animals could write "man stories"
wouldn't there bo a lot of chortling in the
Jungles? - v , . . .
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"Texas should beware of spending that;$l,'
600,000 of Waters-Pierce Oil company money
before it gets it. :-,
The Commoner.
and spectacles, and tho newfc of Professor Hark-5
ness' death will recall the happy old school
days happy in rcstrospect if not in reality.
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The discrimination of managers, of public
places can not discredit tho real men who wear
the uniform of Uncle Sam. The uniform honors
tho man whovhonors tho uniform he wears.
Mr. .Walsh was a long time realizing that
a paper published by selfish interests to further
selfish interests could not influence public opin
ion in tho Interests of tho selfish interests.
The mayor of Philadelphia laid a corner
stone one day last week. As It was too heavy
to carry away tho citizens feel reasonably sure
that it will rest permanently where the mayor
laid it.
Rev. Mr. Long shohld study up tho contrib
utors to the last republican campaign fund. It
would convince him that tho president knows
a few things about bulls and bears, if not about
other animals.
"Animals can not laugh," asserts a scien
tist. Too bad, isn't It? If they could they
would bo cachinnating; at a great rate over the
controversy between the president and tho
"nature fakirs."
The president's Memorial day speech
"leaked" in advanco and Wall Street used it
to bull railroad stocks. This is enough to
make Mr. Harriman come forward with a de
mand for a vindication.
It is reported that three members of the.
Pennsylvania legislature have failed to appear
and draw their salary and mileage. Yet we fail
to rememb.er reading recently of the mysterious
disappearance of three men.
Mr, Fairbanks may now proceed to voice
his objection to the dologcabinization of his
presidential boomlet.
The fact that Senator Piatt will not tfy to
solve tho vice presidential puzzle next year
ought to simplify matters a little.
A thorough course in hydraulic engineering
now seems to be the first requisite for a suc
cessful career, as a railroad manager.
"If you would overcome worry, sing all the
tlme,"says Dr. Flint. That would add a lot of
tho worry of most people, dear doctor. l
Mail carriers should now prepare for an
order requiring them to curl their mustache
and- plaster down their hair with b'ar grease.
The commercial telegraphers have waited
so long for the promised wage increase that they
do not propose taking it on "tick" any longer..
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The only bad feature about the demise of
the Chicago,. Chronicle is that it temporarily
threw a lot of good newspaper men but of work.
"The JBrevaricators" is a new novel by
Henry James. If it deals ' with "the Ananias
clubs it will have to print an appendix every day
or two.
The fact that Emperor William sent to jail
for six months a man who "made a face" at
the royal personage is proof that William has
no time to fool with such things as "undesirable
citizens" and Ananias clubs. ' , - '
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.The, Nebraska man who stole a pair of
shoes and was sent to jail for ninety days did
.not speculate as successfully as the eastern gen-
tlqman who looted a bank for $100,000 and
received a sentence of six years.
After traveling across Uncle Sam's domain
perhaps General Kuroki will feel Impelled to
return home and point out to his soldiers what
a job it would be to land In San Francisco and
march across country to New York.
"Have you noticed how the word 'thousand'
is misspelled on .the new $1,000 certificate?"
asks the Minneapolis Journal. Yes, and every
time we handle one of the certificates we look
at that misspelled word and laugh almost fit to
kill.
The Democratic Vanguard is the name of
a new democratic weekly published at York,
Neb., by George Bemis; sr. The Vanguard is
a democratic democrat paper and promises to
develop into a strong force in the cause of reform.
Comptroller Ridgeley says the way to pre
vent panics Is for Uncle Sam to keep his money
in banks not in sub-treasuries. What's the
matter with reducing the tariff .taxes and allow
ing moro money to remain in the pockets of
the consumers?
Paragraphic Punches
Rockefeller never jokes";, except, when talk
ing business with an, assessor. -Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
In all probability there will be ho shortage
in the wheat orop except for trading purposes.
Philadelphia Press. . -
A Standard Oil man has been made a baron
in Portugal. In this country they- make them
selves barons-r-Buffalo Times.
Naturalist Long seems to-have given Hun
ter Roosevelt both barrels . of double B from
his trusty fountain pen.--Pittsburg Post.
But if "Nature Writer" Long doesn't like
what the president says of him let him quit
libeling the bobcats. Milwaukee Sentinel.
The -announcement that John ,D. Rockefel
ler's barber is worth $100,000 shows that tho
old man's face ig good for a" good deal. Houston
Post.
Isn't the constitution having trouble ,enough
in this critical period without having "to be de
fended by Joseph Benson Foraker? New York
World.
Dr. Long has evidently had a long, course
in wild animal training when he ventures to
curb the president and make nim.back up.
Detroit News.
When delivering a speech lately Mr. Fair
banks is reported to have' kept bJs eyes on his
feet. It's a wonder he didn't get dizzy. Los
Angeles Times.
The president is hands off in Oklahoma,
according to a Guthrie dispatch. What more is
needed to make .Oklahoma famous? Louisville
Courier-Journal,. ,
And now the government threatens a war
on the rat as the worst pest "-civilized man has
to deal with. It- used to, jbe th.e mosquito.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Teddy Bear seems to be quite as much
the vogue this year as last, but the Georgy Baer
is bidding for a new record of unpopularity.-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Grover Cleveland does well to. tremble in
hisvhome in Princeton, for fish -stories are to bo
.dissected in the White House laboratory next.
New York Commercial.
The "national weather bureau talks about
the low "mean" .temperature Qf the last, two
months. For once the weather bureau, has hit it.
Omaha World-Herald. X
"I believe that party service, should be re
warded," says .Secretary Cortelyou. Sojme of it
should beanyway with terms in" the peniten
tiary. Kansas City Journal.
The republican state committee in Kansas
has declared for Taft. The Kansas .republican
always climbs into the first bandwagon that
.comes in sight. Omaha Bee.
Scratch an opponent of immediate statehood
for Oklahoma and you find either a politician
enjoying a territorial plum or a politician look
ing for a partisan advantage.
In a terse and pithy two-column paragraph
long columns Mr. Watterson refuses to bring
.his dark norse to light.- Perhaps he is v afraid
that the color is not yet well set.
After traveling 3,000 miles across the big
estjmd best country on earth Goneral Kuroki
is qui.to sure that there will be no armed strife
between the United States and Japan.
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Dr. Albert Harkness is dead, The mention
of his name will call 'up fond memories, in the
minds of the passing g neration.- Harkness1
T?tin Grammar" was studied by thousands . of
on and boys who aro now -wearing "gray hairs
The automobile in which Abe Hummel went
to prison made a great record. It took him so
far in half an hour that it will take him a
year to get back. Washington Post.,
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The Washington Herald enumerates a. few ' ." " Nevertheless, it is the simple,. truth that
things which, in its opinion, entitles it topat- - baseball in Washington is no better under tho
ronage. ,Among them is the fact that it hTOoF-iWelt administration than under its lrede
"comic supplement." As soon as this becomeaC &vsor8, Charleston Jews and Courier.
widely known the Herald will need to engage t"V'-
larger quarters for its mailing force. . "(fThe- Ohio hqmeopathists have decided to
"'" oppose Foraker. 'A man who hands out such
C. Hart Merriman, chief of the bureau of ' iaN9Pathte -tirades as Foraker does could- hardly
biologicarsurvey, is out with an-official bulletin ' exifect tatiything else. Fort Worth Record.
wherein it is stated that the ROTmnnTi hww,
rat has been known to kill an elephant. 'Wo
can see Dr. Long moving up a peg to make room
for a newer -member of the Ananias club.
The thread trust has advanced the price one
' Robert Pigg, of Topeka, Kan af.ter beinfe
acquitted sixteen times, was finally convicted of
.larceny. Sixteen to one is forever-bobbing' up in
,wme form in Kansas. Washington Herald.
cent per spool- This unseemly action is likely er The Standard Oil company recently pleaded
to still further bias the public mindagainst.rVtatute of limitations in the federal court at
the trusts -and make the people thirst m6re than s SfciBaul when-charged -with illegal 'acts There
-over for trust gore. But it will do the con arVplenty 6 1 other sins, ho.wever, tforhe-StandV
sumors of thread no good to flounce around ard . to - answer foV against -which the" statute
about it, - x i hasn't run. Denver News; " -"."".-
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