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12 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT JANUARY 31, 1907 More or Less Personal J jTJ T WILL not escape attention at HI the state house and elsewhere that the railroad men who talk as if the pass were already abolished are either showing ignorance or bad faith. Passes are still used. This statement is made on the testimony of men who nave Keen them flashed recently in rai'irriaA trnlna r.n1 dlRnln vcd fithf.rwl.se. - "' - - They are not so numerous as they were once, but they still exist. The Journal office has been running for more than a year without theater, circus and general amusement, passes; six month.') or more without street car exchange tickets; and now for four weeks without advertising transporta tion on the railroads. People often ask how it works. . The answer is that it is the only way to conduct the news paper business. The spirit of independ ence it cultivates is worth more to a newspaper and the men who work on it than all the passes that were erer written. There have been legislatures, perhaps even in Nebraska, which would have considered such a distribution as fell flat last week, of orders on a local saloon for samples of a distillery prod uct, a pleasant act of courtesy which a gentleman could do no less than accept. That theory faded, however, many years before men ceased to claim that a similar distribution of railroad passes was a beneficent sacrifice on the part of the railroads. No doubt somebody will promise to start a. brewery in Lincoln, and per haps in other cities also before the county option bill makes any further progress. Ho far as Lincoln is con cerned, there has never been much sentiment here in favor of getting a hop tea manufactory. A brewery cul tivate a growth In the number of saloons and gets into politics to make it easier. Uncoln is against an ex tension of the saloon business, and a brewery proposition would get cold comfort on that account. Omaha U welcome to the breweries and the so cial conditions that go with 'em. A former state senator says that there is only one way to administer satisfactorily the law which provides that the printer of the bills may be soaked $25 every time ho fails to get a bill printed in three days from the receipt of the copy. Early in the ses sion is can't be done because forty bills will drop down on the printer from the senate and as many more from the house. No plant in Nebraska can turn all of them out according to the contract and the statute. If the state collects the damages nobody can bid on the contract, and there you arc. In the past the matter has usually Can't Miss It So many ailments are purely nervous affections, that you can hardly miss it if you try Dr. Miles' Nervine. It restores nerv ous energy--and through its invigorating influence upon the nervous system, the organs are strengthen ed. The heart action is better; digestion improv ed, the sluggish condition overcome, and healthy ac tivitv re-established. Dr. Miles Nervlna 1 worth Its weight In sold to mw. I did not know wl;at ailed in. I had a good phytilcuin but got no relief. 1 could not eat, leep, work, tt or Und. 1 was neurly crazy. Una day I picked up a paper and th first thins that met my rye was n advertisement of Dr. Mile" Nerv Ine. I concluded to try It and let th doctor ro. and I did ao. After taking two bottles I could drena rov-lf, Then I hfgnn taktnf lr. Mllea' Heart Cura and new I can work and go out. and raw told many th banertl I have re clred from tht rtwedle and mv erl of them bar been currJ by It alnv. I m nftr-nin year old and pretty ANNA It. PALM Hit, Lewlatcwn. V. Dr. Mil Neevln I void by your druQoltt. who will guarantta that th f r,t bottl will fctntnt. If It falli, h wlil refund yur mtnty, Wiles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind been adjusted by finding out what bill: are wanted by the important commit tees for immediate consideration. These bills are printed first on the order of some responsible official. When the committees get to grinding on big bills, the delay in other measures is not no ticed and the printer is given a chance to catch up. This year the whole batch wa.) ordered printed in numerical order, legislation was delayed and the honor able senators showed signs of irritation. Unless the next legislature tells the printer in advance what bills it wants first this unhapplness will be repeated. It would take about all the printers and printing presses in Nebraska to print within three days all the bills that are introduced in the first twenty days of the session. Senator C. L. Saunders of Douglas, son of ex-Governor and Former United States Senator S unders, has some ideas of his own about legislation. Ho has been a member of the stat senate two terms and his experience gives his ideas weight. Senator Saunders was honored with the office of president pro tern of the state senate in the recent organization. While he Is a business man ne is greatly interested in horti culture and as a member of the state horticultural society, has won manv prizes for the excellence of his fruit. lie is the owner or a small farm near Omaha and on this farm he has an orchard of twentv-five acres which ha superintends himself. He early found tnat the greatest pleasure and profit was in caring for the trees personally. He found that he could not trust this work to a farmer who might be busy with other croDs in the crrowlnc (ma son, so he took charge of it and de rived much pleasure from the expe rience. He does not claim to own a "commercial" orchard, but h does he. lieve that he has raised some fruit thnt ought to make any man glad, and he believes he knows how It was done. "As to legislation." salrl Sr.rmfnr Saunders. "I have come to the that we have enoueh laws. nnrl rarh standing committee might with pro priety at first glance decide that each bill ouerht to be killed. With this a- sumption in mind every bill introduced ought to be killed on sight, unless tht introducer can snow that his bill has a right to live. This belief of mine has been caused by the numerous bill.? that nave heen introduced to subserve per sonal ends. Many bills merely create an office for the man behind it. Every attorney that has lost a case in any court rememDers me reason and he comes to the legislature with a bill to help him win the next case. Every interest, corporate or individual, has a grievance and a bill is introduced to cover It. We cannot help the attor neys win their cases and we cannot afford to stop to pass laws to aid some weak corporation to breast the alorm of competition and compel Its competi tors to keep their hands off its busi ness. We cannot afford to stop to pass laws to , aid some individual who be lieves his salary is too small. "I have noticed that after these cor porations become strong and powerful, they cease to ask the legislature to pass laws to protect them and to give them the best of their competitors. Then they ask for laws to errlnd dnwn competitors. After they accumulate property they cease to ask for laws to prevent corporations of their class from accumulating property. They are now able to stand on their own merits. The officers of cities and towns bother members of the legislature about an increase of salaries. If one set of offi cers Is thus favored, another set comes in and asks for similar recognition. An endless chain Is thus formed and the woes of the members of the legis lature are increased." The minority in tha house holds cau cuses regularly, evidently to shiver for fear the republicans may carry out the pledges of the platform. Representa tive Cone's promised resolution to call from the standing committees bills that bear on subjects which the joint com mittees aro at present considering, is aimed doubtless to tall forth a discus Hon ns to tho purposes and plans of the majority. The appointment of tho joint committees was brought about to savo needless tlmo in consideration of measure that would bo brought before the legislature in the form of carefully considered bills. Tho probable result of tho discussion will be tho refcrence of the bills from the standing commit tee to the Joint committee or grunt Ing iM'rinlsHion to the ytandhng commit tee j to hold the MIL- for a time until the Joint committee net. Mr. !Uiael Hugo ha u OMiuclen tloim dewlre to m.iko the best Miibte use uf mil the money her late lamented husband didn't take with Mm, but her determination not to betov any of It unworthily I a mighty handicap t her philanthropic tmpul-nn, When In doubt, wait. That li her motto, and abo l In doutt, Meantime the for tune ui'rntuuUti'M iind tho who nr ntlmi to take part In It dlrhui tnent n re- becoming dlcouneI and out of patt-nef. Oitlde of the dl covery of the? local meor that th Sag fortune. In considerably larger than th nnainl mumed by him v.n different occasions, and the action of the state In nailing: the - Inheritance tax. there Is little dcUg. Mrs. Sage goes out very little, receives her near and dear friends at their convenience, confers at regular intervals with her financial secretary, and puts in the balance of her time directing the jani tor in his daily task of cremating the letters received from importunate mendicants. It is all right to have plenty of money if you know what to do with it, but fabulous wealth is a worse nuisance than chronic liver complaint. Prof. 11. E. Hitchcock. nnA of the old time professors in the university of xNeDrasna, died on January 21 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Ben nett, at Ithaca. N. V. H was In his eighty-fifth year. Professor Hitchcock came to Nebraska from Knox college, in Illinois, in the early seventies. He was always considered the founder of the department of mathematics, hold ing the principal chair for a, period of twenty years. In 1893 he was made professor emeritus, on account of ad- vancing years, holding that place for about two years. He was succeeded as professor of mathematics by Professor Charles E. Little, who resigned imme diately to go to California, and was himself succeeded by Professor Ellery W. Davis. During the interregnum be tween the Fairfield nnH Mn.natt nrl- ministrations, for a couple of years auer lssz, professor Hitchcck served as acting chancellor. He was a man of much sweetness of character. He was a loyal member of the Preshvter- ian church, and was always active in a gentle and reasonable way in pro moting religious life among the stu dents. He was a believer in the old fashioned courses of study, with plenty of nard work, especially in mathemat ics. Manv Of the old time students re call with affection the professor and his home at Sixteenth and S streets, where they were welcome guests. COMMERCIAL Food free as air Is the sensational promise of recent dispatches telling that Sir William Crooke of London has discovered a method of extracting nitric acid from the atmosphere. The news and the discovery are not new. A year or more ago two Norwegian scientists succeeded by the use of a water power plant in producing nitrate fertilizers, extracting the nitrogen from the atmosphere. Their experiments showed that calcium nitrate, the essen tial fertilizer for wheat, could be pro duced by water power through arti ficial fixation of atmospheric nitrogen at a cost half as great as the present price of commercial fertilizers. Thus it Is made possible to do for the soli by artificial means what we do by the natural means of growing leguminous plants such as clover and alfalfa, whoso root growths have the function of converting . atmospheric nitrogen into soil nitrogen. The extreme im portance of the discovery Is illustrated by the fact that the natural deposits of saltpetre on which exhausted wheat lands now largely rely for their fer tility are considered in danger of ex haustion within fifty years. By means of the new discovery it seems we are almost literally to live on air. Governor Folk is authority for the prophecy that the Missouri legislature will within a month pass a two-cent fare bill which he will sign. This will be an experiment of values to Nebraska in case no such law is en acted here. The only states now on a two-cent basis are thickly populated states of the east. Missouri neigh bors Nebraska, her population is not materially more dense, while the cost of railroad building and operation there is heavier than here. If a two cent fare can be made to stick in Missouri nothing could prevent its coming into effect vary soon in Ne braska. Whether such a law holds good in that state is likely to depend altogether on the question of whether It get a fair trial. If the railroads are allowed to establish their point on the basis of the volume of travel at the three-cent rato they may win. If the matter hinges upon the In creased traffic due to the lower rate the state may be victorious. Itefort the Amalgamated Copper company absorbed the Helnte Inter ests a year ago, this month. It was nupposed to control Uty er cent of the copper output of th country. How large a peretntage it control now in only be guew !, but the pre ailing guess I that It control the price ab solutely, directly or Indirectly. ThN theory i sustained by tho allegation which the northeastern metal uotU tlon ha offered Attorney tleiuval llonaparto to proe. The ftxoctatlm aert that the combination ha hid den away Irnmeiw tpianUWe of ro fined copper In various pi iec for the purple if creating an artificial fthortaite Hiid u pretence far the r? maikahly high price now prevailing. t''ii,iarath ly few people buy tapper. A Notre Dame Lady I will send free with full Instructions, soma of this simple preparation for the cure of Leu corrhoea, Ulceration, Displacements. Fallirg of the Womb, Scanty or Painful Periods, Tun ors or Growths, Hot Flashes, Desire to Cry, Creeping feeling up the Spine. Pain in the Back, and all Female Troubles, to all sending address. To mothers of suflerinir daughters I will explain a Successf u 1 Home Treatment. If you decide to continue it will only cost about It cents a week to guarantee a cure. Tell other sufferers of it, that is all I ask. If you are in terested write now and tell your suffering friends of it. Address Mrs. M. Summers, Box 169. Notre Dame. Ind. but they buy clothing. Andrew John son once vetoed a tariff on copper be cause it entered into the manufacture of cloth and to raise the price of cop per would be to raise the price of clothing. Nearly everybody uses tele phones, and while the big company, according ' to the charges laid before the attorney general, is keeping tons of copper floating back and forth across the ocean as ship ballast to keep it out of the market, copper wire cannot be had fast enough to supply at any price the demands for new telephone lines. This is a case where, as in the case of the coal monopoly, it is not alto gether too late to lock the barn before all the hourses are gone. The efforts of such men as Senator LaFollette and President Roosevelt have availed to snatch, temporarily at least, a frag ment of the nation's wealth of coal deposits from the fingres of the mon- , opolists. The iron deposits have seem ingly all been lost, but not so the cop per. The1 known mines of the states of course are in private hands, but it is suggested that there are enormously rich deposits in Alaska which quick work might save. Appeals have al ready come from Alaska to be saved from the grasp of the Guggenheims and their Wall street allies who are already moving on the rich copper valley and the Chitina copper belt, as well as upon the oil and coal re sources of the territory. Nobody is found in the senate opposing openly the restriction of child labor contemplated in Senator Bev eridge's bill. But on the same day Senator Spooner and Senator Tillman are seen lining up together against the bill, on the ground that it is an invasion of state's rights. Senators Spooner and Tillman standing for the same policy make an amazing sight Tillman who, with all his faults, stands as often as any other senator against the invasion of public rights by special interests; Spooner, regarded as a chief spokesman for tuOoe inter ests. An issue that weld? such diverse elements must have inherent merits in the view of those in position to profit by It In fact these merits are obvious. Senator Tillman desires the safety of the children above the profits of the manufacturers. But he is forced to favor achieving these ends by state legislation, a practical Impossibility, out of fear that the increase of na tional authority involved in dealing with the matter nationally might open the way for national Interference with the "peculiar institution" of the south, negro subjection. Here we have the solid south, then, forced to fight the battle of the child despoilers to save its negro policy. In the north public sentiment is practically unanimous on the child labor question, and the in terests opposed are hardly of them selves strong enough to make head way against that sentiment But tho centralizing tendency of the govern ment involved in national child labor legislation threatens erreat cent commercial movements which now win as the exploiters of child labor win, by playing the states against each other. These interests serve their financial purposes by crying state's rights as the south serves its social purposes by crying state's rights. Ap parently the skirmish line flying the flag of state's rights will have to be driven back beforo the real struggle to harness our commercial mammoths can begin. Local option has various meanings this winter. 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