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FKRUrARY 21, 1007
Spring edicine
! In thousands and thousands of
homes in cities, towns and villages
three doses a day of Hood's Sareapa
rilla are now being 'taken by every
member of the family.
Why such wide and general use?
Because Hood's Sarsaparilhi has proved
Iself the Best Spring Medicine, by its
wonderful effects in cleansing the sys
tem of all humors, overcoming that
tired feeling, creating appetite, clearing
the complexion,- giving strength and
animation. r , "
Orer forty thousand testimonials re
ceived in two years, by actual count.
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Insisted upon the literacy clause and
upon a Strengthened contract . labor
clause. Manufacturers, particularly of
the south, resisted all attempt to di
minish the opportunity to import labor,
pleading the lack of labor which has
for Some time kept many factories idle.
Southern politicians felt - the more
strongly on this point, since the south
has come to consider European immi
gration the most promising solution of
flwrsOUtlijern;;nice. problem. The -pro-jwsed-
addition- to the .cnntraet" labor
clause was feared by the southern sen
ators as a possible blow at the right of
southern states to engage in special ef
forts to induce immigration, efforts
which have lately been made with some
success in South Carolina. This doubt
explains the filibuster of the southern
senators tigainst the bill last week.
The exigencies of the Japanese situ
ation however put all parties into a
mood to make concessions. The senate
gave.' up, the literacy;. clause. The south
ern senators decided that they would"
not be 'injured by the contract labor
clause. The head tax was set at $4, a
compromise. The requirement of better
steamship accommodations for im
migrants was accepted and the
house gave in on the point Of
admitting the victims of per
secution. This does not make a radical
bill, but the bill provides, for a com
mission, of senators, " representatives,
and appointees of -the president to
make a further investigation and re
port on the immigration situation." Of
most vital ' Immediate interest, of
course, is the amendment to the bill
which really brought about its pas
sage, by which the president will be
empowered, at his discretion, which
means by agreement with Japan, to
forbid the immigration of Japanese
coolies.
EDISON RETIRES.
Announcement is made that Thomas
A. Edison, the wizard that. has ruled
the electric world and has done more
toward revolutionizing mam's affairs
than perhaps any other man living or
dead, having reached the sixtieth mile
post of his busy life, has declared that
he will celebrate this event by retiring.
He explains, however, that he does not
propose to give up his life work, but
dmply to retire to his laboratory and
take life easy in the pursuit of explor
ations in which no thought of gain will
enter.' ' '" r. ' , -.' - " -,-",.',. .
For forty-five years Edison 'has been
experimenting with electricity, having
all the tiiKie in view the practical uses
of the mysterious fluid and their im
mediate application to the necessities'
of mankind, lie feels that he hag done
enough in the way of service of that
port, that he has been amply rewarded
for his effort, and is happy in the re
flection that the good he has done In
that direction is of no mean volume
nor of the useless kind.
He accordingly celebrates his sixtieth
anniversary by retirement, not a-s some
men do, from their actual vocation
Irrevocably and completely, but by a
retirement into a semi-seclusion
wherein ideas now vague may be
drawn out and toyed with for result)
as yet perhaps undreamed of. It is
but a retirement into doner com
munion with the mysterious force that
has made the name of Edison world
famous. Edison's tireless spirit h uue over
which idb-iies can never prevail, and
ns the tlild In which he proponed to
retire Is bHiialles In its possibilities
the world may Mill hope to hear, of
dlcvri more wonderful than any
ef the counties ones whnh now l'ar
the name of Kdl?i and the marks
cf hi ntarvelknif genlu.
Kleetrhily, in spile of the Important
part it bear today in the world's
reonomi . still In lt Infancy ns an
ifenomle force. No one h& ever yet
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really discovered certainly just what
it is. There is a , vague impression,
amounting to little more than suspi
cion that yet awaits proof or disproof.
Perhaps in his hours of play for his
second childhood Thomas A. Edison
may outstrip the tasks he imposed up
on himself as work in the days when
he bent his energies to his studies as
a means of keeping the wolf from the
door. Once he can turn his attention
from the practical uses of" electricity,
he may be able to penetrate to the
secret of its identity and constituency
and tell the world just what is the
mysterious force that is accomplishing
so much for the comfort and conven
ience of-mankind.
THOSE FOHEST HKSKIIVES.
Senator Fulton of Oregon and some
other northwestern, senators and legis
lators are exceedingly perturbed that
large tracts of land in those regions
are being set aside by the government
for forest reserves. Governor Cham
berlain of Oregon objects that it will
close two-fifths of the area of Oregon
to settlement, development, and, taxa
tion for state and local purposes. This
argument has its merit to the Oregon
view, but the land is Uncle Sam's to
do with as he pleases.
Another Oregon view, reflected indi
rectly in the current prosecution of
ex-Congressman Binger Hermann for
his part in the land frauds, is that the
creation of these reserves locks up an
!uimeu5 melon which certain people
in that region have been, looking upon
with hungry and expectant eyes. The
government view, and the view of any
unselfish citizen with capacity to see
beyond his next meal, was expressed by
Forest Inspec tor Kellogg in his lectures
at the university the other day. He
pointed out the decline of the national
timber supply as proportioned to de
mawl and said: "We have GOO to 600
million acres of potentiul forest land in
the United States, mostly under pri
vate management, which is misman
agement or no management at alL-Tho
private owner, strips the timber from
the land without making any provision
for a future crop. We shall have to
correct this eiror by the creation and
maintenance of forest reserves: With
in a few years we shall have 150 to 200
million acres of potential forest land
in the United States, mostly under pri
pected that the private owners who
control the remainder can afford to go
into forestry, This is a long-time
proposition, it being estimated that
the average tree, cut for lumber , today
is between 150 and 200 years old. The
private owner cannot live long enough
to realize on such a proposition. .-"..'
CAX,ED BLESSlMiS.
The meeting in Buffalo la.st week of
an association of manufacturers of
canned goods numbering 1,000 dele
gates illustrates the tremendous growth
in this line of industry within the last
few. years. Canned goods are a modern
convenience. The growth of the can
ning industry has done wonders, eco
nomically, in saving surplus fruits and
vegetables that were going to waste
before this means of preserving them
over considerable periods of time came
into general use. The housewife is no
longer compelled to depend upon her
own preserving operations for the
chance to set a variety of food before
her family in the seasons when green
foods are notr to be had. Dried corn has
given place to the more tasty canned
corn which factories in Xebraska and
other states turn out by the carload.
But with all these advantages came
gra-ve dangers. Until the pure food law
went into effect six week? ago there
was no adequate protection for the
consumer against unwholesome or un
clean canned goods. To the canners'
credit it can be said that they inter
posed no serious obstacles to the pas
sage of a law to regulate the relation
of their labeis to the irrsldes of their
cans. It is to be hoped their national
association, powerful as it Is, will
throw no tone in the way of the
proper enforcement of the law.
THK H EEER i:IHM.
No doubt the reason why no move
has been made before in Lincoln to
take advantnge of the initiative and
referendum privilege granted by state
law ten years ago, lies in the fact
that under the direct primary there is
comparatively little need of direct leg
islation. The direct primary is the
referendum applied to nominations,
and couucilnien nominated by that
method are little likely to go counter
to the wlUe of their constituent in
making lawn. As a reserve tKwer for
use In pe wl rase either the refer
endum or the Initiative either may be
of pronounced value. At any rate
there Is n marked tendency throughout
the country to give the people of the
Mate and ritlen the right to veto lejr
Ixlutlon by the referendum, or la origi
nate It by Ihe initiative. No Ipsa than
five Male iniute advance In that di
rection Rt lant )ar' elections, Maswft
t hiitfcit. Maine, lluarj Montana
and OkUhouw directly r luuttevtly
declared in favor of some form cf di
rect legislation. Oregon Sou Vu Da
kota, Illinois, Ohio and Texas had de
clared for it previously. In none of
these states except Oregon has much
use been made of the right, but that
does not mean that it has been of no
value. It is possible that legislators
under the direct primary may 'insist
voluntarily -upon clothing the. people
of the. state with the referendum
power, as a means of escaping respon
sibility, in important -matters with re
gard to which public opinion is unex
pressed or in doubt.
MARK .TWAIN, KKACTIOMSI
Mark. Twain, regretfully we have to
say it, shows evidence of being a badly
spoiled child. It is his fortune to- lap
over into a generation that has not
produced his equal in humorous au
thorship. He is lionized as If he were a
roc's egg or the last living buffalo.
Publishers tight for his manuscripts
whether good or bad, and people read
them whether bad or good, and they
are not always good. The arrival of his
three score and. ten is made a national
celebration and the homage has turned
his head. The shoemaker wtio had to be
told to stick to his last is rev'ved in
him. Forgetting that it is Mark Tw-ain,
humorist, that the people acclaim, Mr.
Clemens has shown a disposition to
branch out into general heroism. For
example, the other evening he ap
peared at a dinner . in a white, dress
suit. This was not an attempt to be
funny, but an effort to set a stvle, a
prerogative hitherto reserved for Brit
ish kings and French tailors. Anything
else might have been forgiverv but for
our erstwhile beloved humorist to use
his hold upon our affect ionas a lever
for overturning the single sane bit of
style in the civilized universe surpasses
the bounds of friendship. The dress
suit, our sole social anchor to democ
racy, the mark that puts rich butler
and guest together on their inherent
merits by making , them look exactly
alike;- the single external article of
dress that can be worn till it is worn
out. ns all articles of .dress should be;
for Mark Twain to try to do what the
tailors to their own profit would have
done long ago if they could is not only
egotistical but reactionary. The black
dress suit, which . today is and ten
years hence is yet, at. all hazards must
be preserved. - - .'
i:IFOIUI STATE LAWS,
One of the eminently logical out
comes' of the discussions of. states
rights arising from the railroad, pure
food, employers' .liability, child labor
and Japanese questions is a renewal
of the uniform legislation project. In
1889 New York led the way in a move
ment to hold interstate conferences on
the subjects of legislation needing uni
form action by the states. Altogether
thirty-one states fell in with the Idea,
and eight meetings were held, the last
being in 1W8.' Special committees were
appointed to deal with such subjects
as marriage and divorce, wills, com
mercial laws, hours of labor, presiden
tial electors, insurance laws, weights
and measures, and other less vital sub
jects. Nothing in particular came of
the movement, though good progress
was seemingly being made when the
efforts ceased. There are still organized
efforts at uniform legislation on
divorce and on life insurance, but
these are independent efforts. As
semblyman Merritt of the New York
legislature has lately introduced a bill
providing that the governor shall In
vite delegates to an interstate con
ference on uniform legislation, and ap
propriating $60,000 for a meeting at
Saratoga,
The states' rights advocates can show
their-good faith in no better way than
by backfiring against what they deem
the dangerous tendency of the times
toward allowing the national govern
ment to do everything under a strained
constitutional construction of an in
terstate commerce or some other
clause. If child labor can be restricted
properly by state legislation, there is
nobody to complain that it is done this
way instead of by national action. The
thing is to get it done, and the thing
for the states' rights people to do is to
demonstrate that thew things can be
done. At present the states show tt dis
position to regard their relationship to
the federal government somewhat as
did an Alabama nergo in his partner
ship with Mow Jenkins. On the door of
the blacksmith shop formerly operated
by himself and Mose was found the fol
lowing notice to persons having ac
counts with the firm: "All persons
owing the firm will settel with me, and
all persons that the firm owes will pet
lel with Mose."
CMMATR.
The Trxa legislature hat taken offl-
rUI coguiiatuv of the increase in the
rainfall at El Io,hu tmm an average of
12 9? Inches for fifty enr to a total of
!? Kit ! In IttOfi ThU In .....I. '
ture la attributed to th break In Ihe
Colorado river und the t rent ion of Sal
ton e In southern 'California. It Li
The Cause of indigestion
Traced to the Kerves
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Stomach trouble is not really a sickness, but
symptom. It 18 a symptom that, a certain set of
nerves is ailing:. Not the voluntary nerves that
enable you to walk and talk and act but the
automatic stomach KKKYES over which your
mind has no con troL , ... .
I have not room here to explain how thes
tender, tiny nerves control and operate the stom
ach. How worry breaks them down and causes
Indigestion. How misuse wears them out and
causes dyspepsia. How n?glect may bring on
kidney, heart, and other troubles through sym
pathy. I have aot room to explain how these
nerves may be reached and strengthened and
vitalized and made stronger by a remedy I spent
years in perfecting now known by physicians
and Druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Restor
ative, (Tablets or Liquid.) I have not room to
explain how this remedy, by removing the cause,
usually puts a certain end to indigestion, belch
ing, heartburn, insomnia, nervousness, dyspepia.
All of these things are fully explained in the book
I will send you free when you write. Do not fail
to send for the book. It tells how the solar
plexus governs digestion and a hundred other
things every one ought to know for all of us. at
some time or other have indigestion. With the
book I will send free my "Health Token" aa
intended passport to good health.
For the free book
and the "Health
Token " you must ad
dress Dr. Shoop, Box
y-Wllacine.Wis. State
which book you want.
Book I on Dyspepsia.
Book 2 on the Heart.
Book Son theKidneya.
Book 4 for Women.,
Book 5 for Men.
Bookeonltheumatism
Dr. Shoop's Restorative Tablets give full
three weeks' treatment Each form liquid or
tnKlAtwhas Annul nrvowii- Twiffit t'sto anwatkaM
suggested that it would be a good idea
to stop the. attempt to mend the break
and allow the basin to remain filled as
the resulting rainfall would add "un
told millions'- to the value of the lands
in California, Arizona, New Mexico and
portions of Texas. Congress is there
Tore asked to pay for the private prop
erty engulfed and allow the sea to re
main in its place indefinitely. This, all
sounds plausible, but If the presence of
water brings rainfall and a lower tem
perature,, why is it that the Gulf of
California is surrounded by . some of
the hottest and driest land on the foot
stool? If ail that immense body "Of
water has no appreciable influence in
ameliorating harsh climatic conditions,
it is foolish to believe that a small ex
tension of the gulf northward would
work the miracle of changing the
southwestern desert into fruitful fields.
It really requires a look at the map to
expose the full brilliancy of this reso
lution. EI Paso has always been dry,
although only 475 miles away-from the
big. Gulf of California. Now a lake is
formed 100 .miles ., farther away, and
that comparatively little pond is.
charged with the accident of a wet sea
son in western . Texas. Everybody in
the western " half of America seems
ready to believe that "the climate is
changing," when as a matter of fact
the stars in their courses are only a
little more fixed than the average cli
mate of a given locality.
STIXGIXG THE! UNIVERSITY.
The Omaha Bee still persist:-: in as
sailing the state university. " In dis
cussing the question of open meetings
of the board of regents, It insinuates
that the present board is overriding
all precedents in holding closed ses
sions, it knows or ought to know that
the present board is following a cus
tom that has prevailed ever since the
university was organized. It knows or
ought to know that meetings of re
gents are not open In surrounding
states Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Min
nesota and Yfisconsin, and never have
been. It knows or ought to know that
the bill pending in the legislature ex
pressly authorizes executive sessions.
The' Bee-Insinuates that the' regents
cover up financial transactions and
that the public does not know where
the money goes. It knows or ought
to know that the salary of every em
ploye Is a matter of public record in
the auditor's office. It knows or ought
to know that all items of current ex
pense, fuel, repairs, etc., are a matter
of public record in the auditor's office.
The Bee knows or ought to know
that the pay roll of the university ii
low as compared with the pay roll of
other state universities with whom the
people expect the university of Ne
braska to take rank. It knows or
ought to know that maximum Individ
ual salaries are far below the ordinary
standards in state unlversitle; vt
standing. It knows or ought tc know
that Nebraska is far behind In build
ings and equipment. Yet it Insinuates
that there is extravagance In current
expenses and buildings.
If the Mee doe not believe that Ne
braska should keep apace wttn educa
tional progress in surrounding state.
It should frankly nay so. ThU would
be far more c refutable thnn attempt
ing to reach the same end by preju
dicing the publio against tho uiUver
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