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THE COMMONER, L'ncoln, Nob.
Hnrry Orchard seems to have been a reg
alar hotbed of crime.
We are now enjoying some very nice spring
weather this summer. f
Tiro weather bureau often, hits it. "Low,
mean temperature" seems about right.' il(
Mr. Knox's "favorite son" boom should not
be judged by the Pittsburg millionaire class.
Mr. Richard Crolcer seems a much easier
winner than the English sportsmen are losers.
The beef trust seems to be framing things
up to got another real hard slap on the wrist,.
The first thing we know Dr. Wiley will havo
us all eating alfalfa and drinking boiled lemon
1uico. '
By making defective rails that break easily
the steel trust has managed to keep from going
broke.
Pennsylvania also has some well known
sons who are not favorites, either at home or
elsewhere
Dr. Wiley has accomplished great things,
but now that he has declared against pie we can
see his finish.
The delogcabinization of the Fairbanks
boom has aroused considerable interest in po
litical circles.
The Knox boom in Pennsylvania will have
to go some if it keeps in sight of the state house
graft developments.
Henry James' latest novel is called "The
Prevaricators." Must be a story of railroad and
caual construction.
Things must be awfully bad in Korea if
the Koreans are forced tc flee to Russia to
Detter their condition.
Texas having fined the Standard Oil com
pany $1,600,000 the rest of the country will
now proceed to pay it.
Tho solar plexus blow administered to the
beef trust scorns to have meroly started its
norves to working overtime.
A lot of newspapers that thunder against
socialistic government seem well content with
government by commissions.
Henry Watterson says his candidate -wears
a mustache. Hist! Have you noticed Marso
Henry's facial adornment?
In attacking tho pie habit Dr. Wiley merely
makes exhibition of the fact that he 'judges
solely by tho hotel product.
Talk about saving the twine in the 'post
office department! Wo have too many strings
tied to tho department as it is.
The popiilaco would be delighted to have
President Roosevelt give sonfo official attention
to those Georgo F. Baer stories.
Tho English horsemen are throwing rocks
at Mr. Croker and his Derby winner. They are
not throwing shamrocks, either. ,
Honestly, now, you pert paragrapher's; "did
you over hoar a sweet young graduate discourse
on "Beyond tho Alps lies Italy?"
President Roosevelt says a soiled hand
looks as good to him as any other. How about
the soiled campaign contribution?
Noting that it cost more to live in 19 06
than in any year since x9a)0 the Buffalo Times
says: "How to keep wages up to the advanced
cost of livinc is. the vital question."' Strange
that the Times did notysuggestleaviiig such a
It seems that Mr. Harrjman was not so
awfully unwise in taking the witness stand.
He made it act as an immunity bath.
Typographically the Chicago Chronicle was
a beauty, editorially it was brilliant but per
verted, and financially it was a loser.
t I I n I !
The defective conscience seems to be re
sponsible for the many broken steel rails that
are responsible for so many railroad accidents.
It is reported that Mr. Addicks has gone'to
Russia to secure -a new fortune. Tho grand
dukes will have to hustle if they keep in the
game. . ,
The"1 railroads rotaliaie for the two-cent
fare by slowing up their trains. But most of
us would prefer getting there a. little later if
all at once.
The president has warned employes In the
classified service not to become too active in
politics. Tho cabinet officers are ,not in the
classified service.
The ladybug is a sure destroyer of the
greenbug, but we dare Secretary Wilson to
claim that the ladybug kills its prey by biting
behind the foreleg and lacerating the green
bug's heart. "
In three years' work on the Panama canal
one-twentieth of the dirt handling necessary has
been achieved by an expenditure of thirty per
cent of the total amount alloted for the entire
construction of the waterway. The money seems
tobe flying much more rapidly than the dirt.
HELEN M. GOUGAR
Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Lafayette, Ind.,
tho noted orator and lecturer, died suddenly at
her home a few days ago. As a platform speaker
Mrs. Gougar had few equals. For years her
services have been in demand during campaigns,
and between campaigns she has spoken at gath
erings where the rights of women were under
discussion. She was a democratin politics, and
Tho Commoner joins her multitude of friends
in sorrow at her death and sympathy to the hus
band who. survives her.
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the primaries of his party to be held between
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tho blank pledge, which is printed on page 12.
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Paragraphic Punches
Won't somebody take Baer to the Buffalo
Bill tent and turn him loose? Philadelphia
North American. -- -" .
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When the Now York Times gives advice to
the democratic party It is time for the horses
to laugh. Buffalo Times.
Golf would be more popular if a man cojild
break his leg or sustain a few internal injuries
while, playing it, Topeka Capital. -,
Dr. Long should have asked Judge Parker
whether he ever got a presidential apology be
fore asking for one himself. Atlanta Journal,
Now and then some man succeeds in be
coming famous without being made so' by the
president; but it is a slow process, Chicago.
Record-Herald.
Penrose is getting better as a ieader every,
year. Once his candidates couldn't be elected
Now they can not be nominated. Philadelphia
North American.
The only thing upon which the newspapers
appear able to agree concerning Marse Henry's
dark horse is that it isn't Booker Washington.
Washington Herald.
The apple that ruined Adam's family and
the apple of Sodom were respectable compared
with the product of the Tdaho Orchard. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Spelling reformers might make more head
way if they could penetrate the secret of why
the baseball language gets along faster than
Esperanto. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mergers are monsters of so frightful mien
that to be hated need -but to be seen; but when
they're seen, despairing of a cure, the public
has to whistle and endure. Boston Globe.
Nathan Straus, the milk philanthropist of
New York, says that raw milk is "only a diet
of germs." What successful germ-resisters the
calves of the country must be! Buffalo Courier.
The idea of sending a woman to Panama
to find out whether the canal employes are well
x housed, well fed and properly amused is good.
Housekeeping is naturally woman's business.
Boston Globe.
Possibly the president Insisted upon adding
another inch to the stature of West Point cadets
because he learned that a good many of our
army officers are chronically "short." New' Or
leans Timds-Democrat.
Washington, according to an authority, is
the greatest baseball town on earth. This should
settle all questions as to the right of that city
to remain perpetually the capital of the United
States. Louisville Courier-Journal.
As it would hardly do to relegate a rev
erned doctor to the Ananias club or the Unde
sirable Citizens' league it would seem that
President Roosevel will have to start another
organization. Sioux City Journal. t
The German workingman who has been sen
tenced to nine months' imprisonment for stick
ing out his tongue at the emperor has reason
to complain of so severe a sentence for a mere
lapsus linguae. New York Evening Pqgt
It is announced that the beef trust accuses
the pure food law of causing the higher prices
of meats. Does that mean that before the pas-
. sage and enforcement of the new law the .meats
.were bad and could be sold at a low price -and-a
high" profit? Cincinnati Enquirer. .
One difficulty is that if everybody who did
what Mr. Harriman did should be criminally,
prosecuted our railway industrial corporations,
would-be deprived of the services of most of
their .responsible- offlcers.-Sioux City Journal.
The New York supreme court has decided,
that husbands can live where they please, if
the wives don't like it, they can keep quiet or
tag along after the man. This, according, to
the court, is the law. But, alas-, most married
men realize that the question is-one .of fact, not
reviewable by the courts. Denver News.
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