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He was wear ing neither tie nor collar, and a short, black pipe was between his fingers. We had evidently caught the house hold stripped of "lugs," and sunk in the down-to-the-heel slovenliness which is called "comfort" Joe was crimson with confusion, and was using his free hand to stroke, alter nately, his shiny bald head and his heavy brown mustache. He got him self together sufficiently, after a few seconds, to disappear into his den. When he came out again, pipe and ragged jacket were gone, and he rushed for us in a gorgeous velvet jacket with dark red facings, and a showy pair of slippers. "Glad to see you, Mr. Blacklock" in his own home he always addressed very man as Mister, just as "Mrs. B." always called him "Mister Ball." and he called her "Mrs. Ball" before "comnanv." "Come right into the front parlor. Billy, turn on the elec tric lights." Anita had been standing with her head down. She now looked round with shame and terror in those ex pressive blue-gray eyes of hers; her delicate nostrils were quivering. I hastened to introduce Ball to her. Her impulse to fly passed; her life long training in doing the conven tional thing asserted itself. She low ered her head again, murmured an in audible acknowledgment of Joe's greeting. "Your wife is at home?" said I. It one was at home in the evening, the other was also, and both were always there, unless they were at some the ater except on Sunday night, when they dined at Sherry's, because many fashionable people did it. They had ao friends and few acquaintances. In their humbler and happy days they had had many friends, but had lost them when they moved away from Brooklyn and went to live, like un easy, out-of-place visitors, in their ,grand house, pretending to be what they longed to be, longing to be what they pretended to be, and as discon tented as they deserved. "Oh. yes, Mrs. B.'s at home." Joe answered. "I guess she and Alva were about to go to bed." Alva was their one child. She had been chris tened Malvina. after Joe's mother; but when the Balls "blossomed out" they renamed her Alva, which they somehow had got the impression was "smarter." At Joe's blundering confession that the females of the family were in no condition to receive. Anita said to me in a low voice: "Let us go." I pretended not to hear. "Rout 'em out." said I to Joe. "Then, take my electric and brin? the nearest parson. There's going to be j. wedding right here." And I looked round the long salon, with everything draped for the summer departure. Joe whisked the cover off one chair, his man took off another. "I'll have the women-folk down in two minutes." he cried. Then to the man: "Get a move on you, Billjr. Stir 'em up in the ktchen. Do the best you can about supper and put a lot of champaigne on the ice. That's the main thing at a wedding." Anita had seated herself listlessly in one of the uncovered chairs. The wrap slipped back from her shoulders and how proud I was of her! Joe gazed, took advantage of her not look ing up to slap me on the back and to jerk his head In enthusiastic approval. Then he, too, disappeared. A few minutes of silence, and there was a rustling on the stairs. She started up, trembling, looked round, as if seeking some way to escape or some place to hide. Joe was in the doorway holding aside one of the cur tains. There entered in a beribboned and beflounced tea-gown, a pretty, if rather ordinary, woman of forty, with a petulant baby face. She was trying to look reserved and severe. She hardly glanced at me before fastening sharp, suspicious eyes on Anita. "Mrs. Ball," said I, "this is Miss Ellersly." "Miss Ellersly!" she exclaimed, her face changing. And she advanced and took both Anita's hands. "Mr. Ball is so stupid,", she went on, with that amusingly affected accent which is the "Sunday clothes" of speech. "I didn't catch the name, my dear," Joe stammered. "Be off." said I. aside, to him. "Get the nearest preacher and hustle him here with his tools." I had one eye on Anita all the time, and I saw her gaze follow Joe as he hurried out; and her expression made my heart ache. I heard him saying te th3 hall, "Go in, Allie. It's O. K.;" heard the door slam, knew we. should soon have some sort of minister wth us. "Allie" entered the drawing-room. 1 had not seen her in six years. I re membered her unpfsasantly as a great, bony, florid child, anable to stand still or to sit still, or to keep her tongue still, fall of aimless ques (turns and that she i seme yoi tions and giggles and silly remarks that she and her mother thought run ny. I saw her now, grown into a hand- yoang woman, with heaaty points for an honorable tioa, if not for a prise straight and strong and rounded, with a brow and a keen look out of the eyes which it seemed a pity should be wasted on a woman. "From what Mr. Ball said." Mrs. Ball was gushing affectedly to "Anita "I got an idea that well, really, I didn't know what to think." Anita looked as if she were about to suffocate. Allie came to the rescue' "Not very complimentary to Mr. Blacklock, mother," said she good humoredly. Then to Anita, with a simple friendliness there was no re sisting: "Wouldn't you like to come up to my room for a few minutes?" "Oh, thank you!" responded Anita, after a quick, but thorough inspection of Alva's face, to make sure she was like her voice. I had not counted on this; I had been assuming that Anita would not be out of my sight until we were married. It was on the tip of my tongue. to interfere when she looked at me for permission to go! "Don't keep her too long," said I to Alva, and they were gone. "How far off is the nearest church?" I cut in. "Only two blocks that is. the Meth odist church." she replied. "But 1 know Mr. Ball will bring an Episco palian." "Why. I thought you were a de voted Presbyterian," said I. recalling THE how in their Brooklyn days she used to insist on Joe's going twice every Sunday to sleep through long ser mons. She looked uncomfortable. "I was reared Presbyterian," she explained confusedly "but you know how it is in New York. And when we came to live here, we got out of the habit of church-going. And all Alva's lit tle friends were Episcopalians. So I drifted toward that church. I find the service so satisfying so elegant. And one sees there the people one sees socially." "How is your culture class?" I in quired, deliberately malicious, in my impatience and nervousness." And do you still take conversation lessons?" She was furiously annoyed. "Oh, those old jokes of Joe's," she said, affecting disdainful amusement. In fact, they were anything but jokes. On Mondays and Thursdays she used to attend a class for women who, like herself, wished to be "up-to-date on culture and all that sort of thing." They hired a teacher to cram them with odds and ends about art and politics and the "latest lit erature, heavy and light" On Tues days ands Fridays she had an 'indi gent gentlewoman." whatever that may be, come to her to teach her how to converse and otherwise con duct herself according to the "stand ards of polite society." Joe used to give imitations of those conversa tion lessons that raised roars of laughter round the poker table, the louder because so many of the other men had wives with the same am bitions and the same methods of at tending them. Mrs. Ball came back to the sub ject of Anita. "I am glad you are going to settle with such a charming girl. She comes of such a charming family. I have never happened to meet any of them. We are in the West Side set. you know, while they move in the East Side set. and New York Is so large that one almost never meets any one oatslde one's own set." This smooth snobbishness, said in the af fected "society" tone, was as oat of place in her as rouge and hair-dye In a wholesome, honest old grand mother. I began 'to pace the fiooor. "Can he," I fretted aloud, "that Joe's J racing round looking for am Epis copalian preacher, when there was a Methodist at hand?" "I'm 'sure he wouldn't bring any thing but a Church of England priest," Mrs. Bail assured me loftily. "Why, Miss Ellersly wouldn't think she was married, if she hadn't a priest of her own church." My temper got the bit in its teeth. I stopped before her, and flxed her with an eye that must have had some fire in it: "I'm not marrying a fool. Mrs. Ball," said L "Ton mustn't judge her by -her ,faringlng up by her family. Children have a way of bringing themselves up, In spite of damn fool parents." She weakened so promptly that I was ashamed of myself. My only apology for getting out of patience with her is that I had seen her sel dom in the last few years, had for gotten how matter-of-surface her af fectation and snobbery were, and how little they interferred with her being a good mother and a good wife, up to the limits of her brain capacity. "I'm sure. Mr. Blacklock.'' she said plaintively, "I only wished to say what was pleasant and nice about your fiancee. I know she's a lovely girl. I've often admired her at the opera. She goes a great deal in Mrs. Langdon's box, and Mrs. Langdon and I are together on the board of man agers of the Magdalene Home, and also on the board of the Hospital for Unfortunate Gentlefolk." And so on, and on. I walked up and down among those wrapped-up, ghostly chairs and tables and cabinets and statues many times before Joe arrived with the minister and he was a Methodist, McCabe by name. Tou should' have seen Mrs. Ball's look as he advanced his portly form and round face with its shaven upper lip into the drawing-room. She tried to be cordial, but she couldn't her mind was on Anita, and the horror that would fill her when she discovered that she was to be married by a preacher of a sect unknown to fashionable circles. WEDDING. "All I ask of you," said I to him, "is that you cut it as short as pos sible. Miss Ellersly is tired and nervous." This while we were shak ing hands after Joe's introduction. Alva and she were coming down the stairway. I was amazed at sight of her. Her evening dress had given place to a pretty blue street suit with a short skirt white showing at her wrists, at her neck and through slashings in the coat over her bosom: and on her head was a hat to match. I looked at her feet the slippers had been replaced by boots. "And they're just right for her," said Alva, who was following my glance, "though I'm not so tali as she." But what amazed me most, and de lighted me, was that she seemed te be almost in good spirits. It was evident she had; formed with Joe's daughter one of those sudden friend ships so great and so vivid that they it The Etiquette of Calls. A society for the suppression of the call ought to be forthwith estab lished. The call is co longer neces sary, and needs to be abolished. Under the present system one lady may know another lady intimately. She may go shopping with her daily. Ste may dice at the same restaurant and in the same houses. ,She, may play cards with her five nights a week. But If she does not return her formal call within a prescribed time, she is not to be recognised henceforth. The origiajof the formal call is lost in obscurity. Its lack of fitness or sense indicates that it may have arisen in the first lunatic asylum. When about to make a formal call, the average woman pats on the best he has and walks, rides or other wise propels herself to the home of the callee, purposely not acquainting her with her deadly design, la order to take her at as great disadvantage as possible. The callee keeps the call er waiting for tea of IS minutes until she has put her best clothes on, in wardly excortattagthe Fates because the .parlor isn't dusted, and descends upon her visitor with an angel amilo and a heart of wrath. ' rarely Bred long after the passing of j the heat of the emergency that bred. them. Mrs. Ball saw it also, and was straightway giddied Into' a sort of ecstasy. Ton can Imagine the vis ions it conjured. I've ao doabt she talked house on the east side of the park to Joe that very night, before she let him sleep. However, Anita's face was serious enough when we took our places before the minister, with his little, black-bound book open. And as lie read in a voice that was genuinely impressive those words that no voice could make unimpres sive, I saw her paleness blanch In to pallor, saw the dusk creep round her eyes until they were like stars waning somberly before the gray face of dawn. When they closed and her head began to sway, I steadied her with my arm. And so we stood, I with my arm round her, she leaning lightly against my shoulder. Her swers were- mere movements of the lips. At the end, when I kissed her cheek, she said: "Is it over?" "Yes," McCabe answered she was looking at him. "And I wish you' all happiness, Mrs. Blacklock." At that name, her new name, she stared at him with great wondering eyes; then her form relaxed. I car ried her to a chair. Joe came with a glass of champagne; she drank some of it, and It brought life back to her face, and -some color. With a naturalness that deceiveu even me for the moment, she smiled up at Joe as she handed him the glass. "Is it bad luck," she asked, Tor me to he the first to drink my own health? And she stood, looking tranquilly at every one except me. I took McCabe Into the hall and paid him off. When we came back, I said: "Now we must be going." "Oh. but surely you'll stay for sup per!" cried Joes wife. "No," replied I, in a tone that made it impossible to insist. "We appre ciate your kindness, but we've Im posed on it enough." And I shook? hands with her and with Allie and the minister, and, linking 'Joe's arm in mine, made for the door. I gave the necessary directions to my chauffem while we were waiting for Anita to come down the steps. Joe's daugh ter was close beside her, and they kissed each other good-by, Alva on the verge of tears, Anita not suggest ing any emotion of any sort. "To morrow sure," Anita said to her And she answered: "Yes, Indeed as soon as you telephone me." And so we were off a shower of rice rat tling on the roof of the brougham the slatternlyaoan-servant had thrown it front the midst of the group of servants. Neither of us spoke. I watched her face without seeming to do so, and by the light of occasional street lamps saw her studying me furtively. At last she said: T wtoh to go to my uncle's now." "We are going home," said I. "But the house will be shut up, said she, "and. every one will be in bed. It's nearly midnight Besides, they might not" She came to a full stop. "'We are going home," I repeated. "To the Willoughby." She gave me a look that was meant to scorch and It did. But I showed at the surface-no sign of how I was wincing and shrinking. She drew farther into her corner, and out of its darkness came, in a low voice: "How 1 hate you!" like the whisper of a bullet I kept silent until I had control of myself. Then, as if talking of a mat ter that had been finally and amic ably settled, I began: "The apart ment isn't exactly ready for us, but Joe's just about now telephoning my man that we are coming, and tele phoning your people to send your maid down there." "I 'wish to go to my uncle's," she" repeated. "My wife, will go with me," said I quietly and gently. "I am considerate of her, not of her unwise impulses." A long pause, then from her, in icy calmness: "I am in your power just now. But I warn you that, it you do not take me to my uncle's you will wish you bad never seen me." "I've wished that many times al ready," said I sadly. "I've wished it from the bottom of my heart this whole evening, when step by step fate has been forcing me on to do things, that are even more hateful to me than to you. For they not only make me hate myself, but make you hate me, top." I laid my band on her arm and held it there, though she tried to draw away. "Anita," I said, "I would do anything for you live for you, die for you. But there's that something inside mi you've felt it; and when it says must,' I can't disobey you know I can't And, though you might break my heart, you could not break that will. It's as much my master as it is yours." "We shall see to-morrow,"' she said. (To be Continued.) 4 The visitor sits on the edge of a chair 15 minutes, admires the furni ture and the view from the window and departs with an outward, "So glad you were home," and an inward. "That's over." The callee is then It If she doesn't get back within a ce tain time her friends begin to greet her as if she had just stepped out of ;a refrigerator. Friendship among women has never been a staple article of commerce. Perhaps when It is the call will be a thing of the past We can only hope for the best Life. The New Wsre Worse. "Didn't you think BilUns told soma awful oId jokes last night?" "He certainly did. But it's setter to laugh twice at a good old joke than to strain your mouths trying te grin over a fresh one that isn't worth the effort" Detroit Free Press. "Those Nwritch people don't know how to treat inferiors." "WeU, you couldn't expect them to. You see, they haven't had any infer ors very long." Cleveland dreader. IN THE HOUSEHOLD HINTS ON MANY SUBJECTS INTEREST. OF Prunes "revise - Their Own tujestsmaa Effective Way e Hang Pictures Seen and Water Gaed fer'KKchen Fleer. Need Ne Sugar. How many house wives know that prunes require abso lutely no sweetening; that If they are cooked slowly for "hours and hours" there is sugar from them that nature provides as a sweetening. In other words "they sweeten themselves," and tt cooked long enough are, covered with a rich syrup, without, one grain of ssgar being added to them. The flavor is alsp.improved by this method of cooking them by the oftentimes despised prone sauce becomes an en joyable addition to the table. Picture Hangino. Too Utile atten tion is generally given to the hanging of pictures. .They should be hung as nearly vertical flat against the wall as possible, and not tipped forward at various angles with the wall. The best effect is given by using two hooks, so that two vertical lines of wire ap pear instead of the triangular piece resulting' when but one hook is used. The effect is more restful in a room wfcere the pictures are hung verti cally. Kitchen Fleer Cleaner. So many people find it hard to keep their kitchen floors In good condition that method may help them. Wash with soda and water. After sprinkling about a heaping teaspoonful of soda on any grease spots, pour boiling wa ter over it then take a mop and wipe ip the whole floor. This is far more satisfactory than scrubbing, for it will take out grease spots without the use of "elbow grease." This will also keep the floor snowy white as well as clean. - Don't Use Soap Never use soap when .cleaning oilcloth. It fades the colors, and the paint will soon wear aff. Ammonia should also be avoided, because it gives a duUh appearance. Take a clean flannel cwJth and apply warm water. The oilcloth should then be wiped off with a dry cloth. Skim milk is excellent to use, and will give the oilcloth a gloss.. If a brush is used it should be' a soft one, bnfit is better not to use any. Care of Rubber Shoes. To make, rubber shoes wear longer, from the tops of old rubber shoes cut pieces the hape of a heel. Smear these pieces on the lining side with, thick mucilage, or any sticky substance and place in the heels of rubbers, pressing down Irmly. These protectors prevent the rubber from receiving the direct pres sure of the boot heels, and can be renewed when they show the least signs of wear. Cleaning Furniture. Furniture needs cleaning as much as other woodwork It may be washed wltfc warm soapsuds, quickly wiped dry and then rubbed with an oily cloth A good polish is made by mixing three parts of linseed oil and one part of spirits of turpentine. Apply with woolen cloth, and whenLdry rub well with a dry woolen cloth. This is especially good polish for scratched x marred furniture, and will restore the color and luster to varnish. WHEN YOU CLEAN THE STOVE. Some Simple Observances That Wilf Lighten Labor. The kitchen stove can be cleaned with newspapers; but when cleaning 2o it thoroughly. Many tops of stoves receive a daily polish and yet the side? are covered with dust and grease. Let the oven be thoroughly cleaned with a brush kept for that purpose, hen nicely, washed, and your bread and cake will have a purer flavor. " Never leave dust or grease remains it former bakings on your oven doors. newspaper will remove all of these; a wet cloth will complete the clean- VW. In cleanings the cook stove, do not target to keep the pipe clean within ind without an important point to dear In mind. Macaroon Custard. Have in readiness nine or ten maca roons that have been soaked in a quar jer cup of sherry. Add to the soaked nacaroons the yolks of two eggs beat in lightly, a cup and a half of milk, mo tablespoonfuls sugar and one abtespoonful each macaroon and tread crumbs. Butter the blazer slightly, turn in the custard, set over .he hot water pan, cover and cook rrom 20 to 30 minutes. When about J" done, whip the whites of the. two eggs stiff with two tablespoonfuls su mr and two teaspoonfuls lemon juice, ind pile lightly on top of custard. Re cover and finish the cooking. Custard Souffle. v Two tablespoons of butter, two of ".our, two of sugar, one cup of milk, 'our eggs. Lei the milk come to a boil, beat the flour and butter togeth nr, add to them, gradually, the boiling milk and cook eight minutes, stirring jften. Beat the sugar and the yolks f the eggs well together, add to the cooked mixture and set away to cool. When cool, beat the whites of the iggs to a stiff froth and add to the nixture. Bake in a buttered nappy !0 minutes in a moderate oven. Excellent Gravy For Beef. Put a tablesponful of parsley leaves in- a mortar and as many capers; pound them together, add three small spoonfuls of fresh mustard, and the yolks of three eggs, mix thoroughly. Wash bone and chop six anchovies and add a spoonful of white wine vine 'mr, two spoonfuls of salad oil and a finely chopped shalot; when all this has been properly mixed stir it in a luMdeht quantity of soup stock. .Meek Mince Piewith Apples. Try this recipe the next time yon make these pies: Eight crackers .-oiled fine, pare and core eight me dlunvsised apples, then chop theat Hae; add one-half cup melted .hatter one-half cup of molsssea, ground da samoa, cloves aad allspice, each a naspsoaful, a little salt, one-half cap vinegar, sugar to taste according to the tartaess of the apples. This tKywUl make two pies. ii OUR LINCOLN LETTER I r: : tat frta tie State Ctfitol, kgjtff?e ail NarwjM tllellllWeleeeaSaSllllWlllllll At the receat meeting of the joint railroad ooauaissioa, the bin giving authority to the state railway commis sion and denning the duties of the conuaissioa was completed aad will be reported to the Joint commit tee la a' day or two. The section yet to be drafted will provide that raO orad ageats must report to the com mission the contents of cars loaded, and the contents of cars coming. If to the" state must also be reported to the commission. This measure, which is considered the most Important of any .of the railroad measures, . was prepared by Seaator Epperson of Clay, Senator' Aldrich of Butler and Representatives Harrison of Otoe aad Walsh of Douglas. The bill to titled as follows: A bill for an act creating and defin ing the powers, duties and qualifica tions of the state railway commission aad the secretary thereof aad fixing their compensation; t defining railway companies and common carriers, reg ulating the same and providing the method of fixing, establishing aad publishing rates and charges for the transportation of freights aad cars, including joint through rates aid joint traflo arrangements, over and upon the various lines of said rail way companies and common carriers: the method of making. esUDlisaiag and enforcing the general orders of said commission; defining unjust dis criminations; to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acta ia conflict herewith, and to de clare that an emergency exists. The bill gives unusual powers to the commission to control railroads and provides for endless safeguards to keep the roads from defeating it Besides the usual features of such a bill, it will contain .the following dis tinctive provisions: The. commis sion must at once prepare a complete freight rate schedule for the entire state. Roads are to turn over all traf fics in operation on January 1 as a basis for the new rates by the com mission, which are to become effec tive wHhin thirty to sixty days. If a. road objects to the rate a hearing will be granted before the commission, froar which an appeal may be taken to the district court, but the new rate will be operative pending the appeal. To prevent the indiscriminate tying up of the commission by injunction, the roads are 'compelled to file with the district court a transcript of the hearing held before the commission, and the court must pass upon this transcription to see if the injunction should be issued. Every possible pro vision la made to keep all cases in the district instead of the federal courts. Senator King's decedent bill has been recommended for passage in the senate. Some changes were made, the principal one giving to the surviving husband or wife, where there are no childrea or grandchildren living, one half of the real estate Instead of two thirds, as provided for in the bill ori ginally drawn. The provision that pre-nuptial contracts must convey at least a freehold estate in the lands of the survivor was stricken out, leav ing no limitations on the terms of the contract The Northwestern railroad made its annual report to the state auditor, in compliance with the statute. The gross earnings of this road in Ne braslla during the last year was. $6,527,480.75, while its net earnings In the state amounted to $2,362,727.23. The passenger earnings in the state amounted to $1,286,301.63, the freight earnings $4,921,802.05 and from other sources the receipts were $319,377.07. The operating expenses and taxes in Nebraska amounted to $4,164,753.52. " The attempt to secure the passage of the hill to regulate the practice of Christian Science has been practi cally abandoned. There is a feeliag among members who are opposed to the bill because of the drastic man ner in which It deals with the Chris tian Science "belief that there should be some regulation which will control the spread of contagious diseases, but they hardly think it fair to go after It In the manner attempted in the Christian Science bill. Representative Lee's proposed amendment to the constitution In creasing pay of legislators to $10 a day brought out spirited discussion in the house. The majority of the com mittee reported the bill for the gen eral file, while the minority. Whitham, Line and Richardson, voted to have It indefinitely postponed. The ma jority report carried. There is doubt however, about the bill receiving final sanction. . Senator Randall of Madison is alter the four legged woif He voted in fa vor of retaining the present bounty, but later Introduced a bill to pay the bounty only in counties where the people vote to pay a county bounty. His bin also reduced the bounty for wolves of all kinds and on wild cats to $1.25 each. Senator Raadall has not matured-his plans and will ask that the bill introduced he withdrawn and another substituted la Its place. The substitute will coatsia many safe guards so that It will be diMcult to draw bouaties by fraudulent meaas. Senator Raadall of Madison county has pronounced views on the payment of bouaties for wolf or wild cat scatos, aad Thursday introduced a bill provid ing for the payment of a state bounty of L9S per head oa wolves, coyotes and mild cats ia counties wherela a county bounty also Is provided. The bill provides for the snbmlssion of the county bounty auestloa to a direct vote of the electors of each county. The bill, however, does not fully meet the desires of the seaator and another measure along the same line Is to he introduced. Aa estimate of the cost of current expenses of the various state InetJ taUoas has seen proposed hy the state auditor, the total amount asked being tl,00,000. The per capita east of the running expenses of each te- stitution for the heaaium is as fol lows: Soldiers Home at Mllferd $ 3M.54 Soldiers' Hone at Grand Island 32.22 Penitentiary . 349.W5 Asyram ai uncom sst.i Asylum at Norfolk C27.3S Asylum at Hastlass 42S.16 Feeble Minded Institute 282.SS Girls Industrial School 571.53 Boys' Industrial School. S3S.31 Heme for the FrlendlCM C4&.1S Deaf and Dumb taatltnte 437.S4 Institute for theBUad l.SM.S Industrial Home at My ford . . v 7Z8.eS S. F. No. 34. by King 'of Folk; to prevent unfair dlscrimiaatioa by com mercial organization or individuals, was recommended for third reading aad passage, without discussion. The bill Is somewhat similar to the pro visions of the Junkin anti-trust law. It provides that: "Aay person, firm, company, association or corporation, foreign or domestic, doing business In the state of Nebraska and en gaged ia .the fSfoductioa, manufac ture or distribution of any commodity in general use, that shall intention ally, for the purpose of destroying the business of a competitor la any lo cality, discriminate between different sections, communities or cities of this state, by selling such commodity at a lower rate In one section, com munity or city than is charged for said commodity hy said party ia an other section, community or city, after making due allowance for the difference, if any, in the grade or quality and in the actual cost of transportation from the point of pro duction, if a raw product, or from the point of manufacture, if a manufac tured product, shall be deemed guilty of unfair discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared unlaw ful." The railroads have come forward with request that they he allowed to ake a showing before the legisla ture on the numerous measures now pending against them. Following a request by the Union Pacific and the Northwestern, the joint railroad com mittee of the house and senate has arranged' for a public hearing for the railroads and their attorneys. They will present their side of the case on reciprocal demurrage, on which a big senger fare bill, oa the railway com- 3enger fare bill, oa the railwoy com mission bill, on the enforcement of a maximum freight rate law and on every measure of the kiad now pend ing. As a result railroad legislation is practically at a standstill until' after the hearing, although the committees are still at work perfectiag the bills. Senator Aldrich of Butler has not glvea up his fight for constitutional amendments because his bill provid ing for a commission to recommend amendments was killed In the senate. He has announced the committee on constitutional amendments will take up the matter of needed amendments- within a few days and will make rec ommendations in the form of joint resolutions for the submission of pro posed changes to a vote at the next' election. One of the first things to be taken up will be the proposed in crease In the number of judges of the supreme court to five ia the piacs of the preseat commission. Several other needed changes will also he dis cussed. In the 'hearing of the county option bill before the judiciary committee of the house. Chancellor Andrews of the state university urged that such a law had operated with the greatest success tn the south. He said that it was only fair to the agricultural sections that those people be given a voice Ia saying whether they wanted saloons anywhere in the county. He told about how posses were formed la the south to go after breakers of the law, how at first visit the saloonkeeper got a notice, at the second tar and feathers aad at the third huag. He hoped that such "a rough measure" wouldn't be necessary la Nebraska. M. J. Johnson of Anselmo, general chairman of the Operators' assoda tioa of the Burlington system, con taining 2.000 in number. Is at the1 capital. He Is leoklag after the oper ators' interest ia a bill which will re quire all operators receiving or send ing train orders to he It years of age. Mr. Johnson has been at Jeffer son City, Ma, and Topeka. Kas. where' similar bills were introduced and a like bill will go before the leg islature at Bes Moines, Ol, aad Springfield. III. This biU Is In the interest of safety aad drawa by men who have the actual handling of the train business. If a bill, now under consideration, is found constitutional, the right of franchise will become an expensive one in Nebraska to the person whe does not exercise it The bill pro vides that every voter shall he as sessed $3 each year, but that a re ceipt shall be issued him for the amount in the event that he votes,, and if he does not the amount win be collectable. The committee la the house, which had the bill under eon slderaUon. has recommended its pas sage, provided it is found constitu tional. The Christian Scientists practically out ta their fight for existence ia Nebraska, when the senate committee recommended the bill of the state board of health, against them, for in definite postponement This means that evea If a similar lull now la the heuse should pass that body, it wouhi he killed when It reaches the senate. 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