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a angel for the Democrats to nomi-
against Judge Boyd. .
A cat ia the wages of men who earn
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a corresponding cut m ine prices oi
swat prodacts.
Every Yoter should think for him
self Tncrman who allows the politi-
to. think for him is deficient in
When you see a politician attempt
ing to array one class against another
class, beware of him. He has a selfish
mature in view.
The preliminary steps for farming
the fanner for the fall election have
already been taken by some of the
politic
The Republican party -was the first.
j party in -Nebraska to publish" a list of
I those who contributed money to defray
paign expenses. Later 'the Dem-
followed the example.
Congress has adjourned, and the
will soon be circulating
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their constituents repairing the
gaps in the fences that have been made
by other aspiring statesmen.
In order to refund existing indebt
edness and make improvements, the
Burlington road has borrowed $300,
000.000; giving as security a blanket
Mortgage on the entire system.
The session of congress that adjourn
ed last Saturday was a costly gather
ing for the amount oi work performed,
on account of the time killed by the
Democratic members in filibustering.
If Mr. Bryan has a choice for Gov
't the man he favors will receive
the nomination at the primaries, and
it is safe to predict that the man who
receives the nonunation will not be
Barge, Lobeck or Hale.
Senator LaFollette' now wears the
bine ribbon as the -champion talker of
i the country. He. used up nineteen
hours of valuable time discussing the
cwrency bill in the senate, beating
water Senator Allen's record four
I hours.
8ome queer people live in the east-
A few years ago a man
Bennett died and left his favor
ite statesman, W. J. .Bryan, several
thousand dollars. And now a Brook
lyn man, who recently passed away,
left $75,000 to his favorite bartender.
The Berge men accuse Flekes Hale
with being used as a cat's paw by
ShaUenbergera followers to cut into
the Populist vote and thus defeat
re at the primaries. Those ac-
ejwunted with Hale would never accuse
with possessing the necessary
fBJdiScatioas to fill the office of Gov-
of the State of Nebraska.
The Democrats in the House of
Bepiesentstivra demanded a currency
lill, and then voted against it; they
hot in the demand for the cam-
publicity measure, but when
I jjpven an opportunity to vote on the
lined np against the bill.
I The Democratic party "protests and
with alarm any measure
it forward by the opposition
.natty.
Four years ago Democrats assisted
I in lumtac Bert. The excuse was
at Barge was not a strong enough
to suit some of the old
who "never
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Shelkaherger for
that he was not
to champion every ism
by the Populists. This
e-pertamty presents
hath the Barge and the SheJ-
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No doubt a tree and accurate report
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of the sources from which money was
received by both the Democratic and
Republican campaign committees in
the campaigns of 1896 and 1900 would
surprise the people. The fact of the
matter is the campaign funds'of' both
parties are largely derived from the
same source. t Special interests have
paid -money to both -.political parties,
and Mr. Bryan has. been a beneicmry
as well as his Republican opponents.
It is a notorious fact that the silver
interests financiered the campaign of
Mr. Bryan in 1896, and that the Re
publicans received aid from spine of
the manufacturing establishments, and
other, interests contributed equally to
both parties. On the campaign pub
licity question Mr. Bryan has always
assumed a high moral tone, and under
takes to convey the impression that
the Republican party has been alone
guilty of purchasing votes, while the
Democratic party has been too poor to
raise the necessary funds for the pur
pose of corrupting the ballot box.
But recent developments in the re
count of the ballots cast in the contest
for mayor of New York two years ago,
between Hearst and McGlellan, clear
ly proves' that the Tammany Democ
racy, by the free use of money and
other corrupt methods, succeeded in
defeating Hearst and counting ia
McClellan. This act on the 'part of
his admirers and boosters, Mr. Bryan
has never publicly condemned, but has
sought to detract the attention of the
country by assailing the alleged meth
ods adopted by Republicans to. influ
ence voters. In all the outcry he has
made against Republican campaign
committees, not.a single sentence has
been registered against questionable
means employed by his own party for
the Very acts he condemns Republi
cans for.
Although the fact could not have
escaped his attention, yet Mr. Bryan
has never offered an explanation for
the effort his managers made, by the
free use of money, to defeat Johnson
at the primaries in Minnesota. Mr.
Bryan must have known that money
was being used in Minnesota in his
behalf, and that the funds used were
in direct violation of his professed
ideas on the subject, yet he put the
stamp of approval upon the methods
employed by remaining silent. Then,
in order to again call public attention
to his professed political morality, he
sent a telegram to Secretary Taft ask
ing him to join with him in making a
request to congress to pass the cam
paign publicity measure. It was av
grand stand play on the part of Mr.
Bryan a crude attempt to white-wash
himself and pose as a reformer after
he had become a beneficiary from a
system he claimed was only adopted
bv Republicans for the purpose of.
defeating Democrats. When Mr.
Bryan touched off his request to Sec
retary Taft he had no idea that the
gun was loaded, and the recoil
almost paralyzed the Nebraskan. It
appears that Secretary Taft, several
months ago, without any public dis
play of superior political morality, had
written to Senator Burrows, .chairman
of the Committee on. Privileges and
Elections, stating that "it would tend
to the absence of corruption in politics
if expenditures for nominations and
elections of all candidates, and all
contributions reserved and expendi
tures made by political, committees
could be made public, both in respect
to state and national politics." In
closing his letter to Senator Burrows,
Secretary Taft said: "I mark this
letter personal, because I am anxious
to avoid assuming attitude in a cam
paign which it is quite possible 1 shall
never have the right to assume, but so
far as my personal influence is con-,
cerned, I am anxious to give it for the
passage of the bill."
Mark the contrast between the two
men on this question. Secretary Taft
modestly conveys the thought that,
possibly he would not be the nominee
of his party for the Presidency, while
Mr. Bryan, with his usual arrogance,
assumes that there is no question as to
his nomination.
, Since Secretary Taft wrote his letter
to Senator Burrows, enough votes have
been pledged to insure his nomination
when, the national convention assem
bles. Oh the other hand, Mr. Bryan
has not yet secured the necessary
number of delegates to make his nom
ination sure. Behind Secretary Taft
stands a well organised party, united
in his support the moment the wires
click his nomination to the people of
the country. Mr. Bryan will go into
the Denver convention with his party
divided, and his nomination will not
unite the two factions. The Nebraska
man does not possess the confidence of
his own party, and all the grand stand
plays he can possibly make prior to or
after the convention will not strength-,
en him with the people or unite, hi his;
support the discordant
hag allegiance to the
Hiriag a hall for the purpose' of
abasing and idsrepreseating the off
icial acts of Governor Sheldon will not
strengthen the candidacy ef George
Wr Berge. Governor Sheldon has
given Nebraska a clean administration.
This iskadmitted by leading Demo
crats. Judge Howaid, editor of the
Columbus Telegram, who is regarded
as a good Democrat, said, in a recent
issue of his paper, that "no Nebraskan
need be ashamed of the Governor of
his own state when that official goes
visiting. We crossed the trail of Gov
ernor Sheldon and his Nebraska col
onels several times and alL along the
route western people who had met the
governor were saying good words for
him. I am not always in harmony
with the views of Governor Sheldon,
but I must admire him in his capacity
as a man and I must say that in his
capacity as Governor his walk has
been clean." The compliment paid
Governor Sheldon by the Telegram is
not in harmony with statements made
by Candidate Berge. The letter's
criticism of the Governor was made
from a selfish point of view, and emi
nated from a man who has an object
in view in attempting to bring the
Governor into public disfavor. ( The
more Berge talks the smaller he ap
pears to those not blinded by partisan
prejudice.
i
Geo. W. Berge continues to pose as
the only available timber the Demo
crats of Nebraska have on hand among
the job lot. ef candidates for governor.
Of course there are those who differ
with Mr. Berge and the attitude he
has taken and' the claim he makes.
There are Democrats very emphatic
in the assertion that Mr. Berge is not
even a Democrat; that he never voted
for a Democratic candidate for Presi
dent; that- he refused to follow Bryan
in .1904 and supported Parker and
Wall street; that Jie never claimed to
be a Democrat until he became inocu
lated with the itch to fill some elective
office, and that he voted against Shal
lenbarger and secretly knifed him two
years ago.
-' Although long recognized as the leg
islative experimental station of the
world, New Zealand will have to take
second place hereafter to Oklahoma,
whose legislature is just completing
the work of rounding up in the form
of laws more radical ideas than were
ever dreamed of by New Zealand, Mars
or any other country. The law-mak-erstbf
"the' new state have enacted
measures to prevent any person from
owning more than 640 acres of land,
to make it impossible for cotton kings
and land kings and cattle kings to live
in the state, to inaugurate the initia
tive and referendum, the ninefbot bed
sheet, the guaranty of bank deposits
and to stop the use of cracked china
in hotels. To cap the climax a law
has been passed giving the state labor
commissioner arbitrary power to raise
or lower wages in all manufacturing,
industrial and railway enterprises as
he may think conditions warrant.
. .When passed by thev senate the
house balked because the farmers
feared that their interests might be
injariourly affected and the measure
was. held up for six weeks. In the
meantime a speech-making campaign
carried on hroughout the state brought
pressure to bear which forced the
house to yield and approval by the
governor is a matter of course. The
bill follows the lines of the usual labor
bureau laws in other states in the mat
tier of factory inspection and the arbi
tration of disputes. Breaking new
ground, it requires every owner, lessee
or operation of any "factory, foundry
or machine shop or other manufactur
ing establishment, railroad, street rail
way, commercial or industrial institu
tion or other mechanical or manufac
turing institution doing business in
the state," to report to the labor com
missioner on March 1 each year the
number and names of- members con
stituting the employing concern, the
capital invested in stock, grounds and
machinery, the class and value of
goods manufactured, the aggregate
value of material used, the amount
paid in wages, rent, taxes and insur
ance, and the number and classifica
tion of employes with the. average daily
wages paid to each. .With this data,
the labor commissioner is authorised
to order wages in any such concern
increased or decreased, as he may deem
advisable, to change the hours of em
ployment; in short, practically to as
sume management, and failure to com
ply with his orders invites severe pen
alties. Oklahoma is apparently determined
to teach the world bow bylaw to ban
ish all economic, evils and every new
invention to assure all the people a
condition of absolute social, moral and
faaachU equality will find Oklahoma
opra arms. Omaha Bee.
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birds and disturbs their
nsarn at or aear my aramisai. I will
aMtoittkatbaisavaiaawd to the fall
ef the law. No farora will W
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A BEQUEST OF OUR COMMON INHERITANCE.
How a Young Lawyer Distributed the Real
Goods of This World.
The' Journal reprints from Lippin
cott's magazine the strange will of a
young lawyer who died several years ago
in the ward for the insane in the poor
house of Cook county, Illinois. . The will
was found in his coat. On a resolution
of the Chicago Bar association, the doc
ument was sent to probate and so was
spread on the records of Cook county.
I, Charles Lounsberry, being' of
sound and disposing mind and mem
ory, do hereby make and publish this,
my last will and testament in order,
asjustly as may be, to distribute my
interest in the world among successful
men.
That part of my interests which is
known in law and recognized in the
sheepbound volumes as my property,
being inconsiderable and of none ac
count, I make no disposition of in this
my will. My right to live, being but
a life estate, is not at my disposal, but,
these things excepted all else in the
world I now proceed to devise and
bequeath.
Item: I give to good fathers and
mothers; in trust for their children, all
good little words of praise and en
couragement and all quaint pet names
and endearments, and I charge said
parents to use them justly, but gener
ously, as the. needs of their children
shall require. '
Item: I leave to children inclusive
ly, but only'for the term of their child
hood, all and every, the flowers of the
fields and the blossoms of the woods,
with the right to play among them
freelv according to the customs of
children, warning them at the same
time against thistles and thorns. And
1 devise to children the banks of the
brooks and the golden sands beneath
the waters thereof, and the odors of
the willows that dip therein, cand the
white clouds that float high over the
giant trees.
And I leave the children the long,
long days to be merry in, in a thou
sand ways, and the night and the
train of the milky way to wonder at,
but subject, nevertheless, to the rights
Analysis of the returns from the na
tional banks' of the country, under the
call of the comptroller of the 'currency
on May 14,- furnish evidence that the
last vestiges of the financial crisis of
1907 are 'disappearing. The banks
in every state in the union report record-breaking
figures in deposits re
serves and other items on the credit
side of the ledger. Idle capital has
been heaped up in the banks, awaiting
a revival of industrial and commercial
activity and the banks are amply able
to finance and assist legitimate indus
try in every line. The hoarded money
has been returned to the institutions
from which it was taken during the
scare ia the.latter part of last year
and awaits only the magic touch of
industry to make it a potent force and
factor in mercantile and .industrial
lines.
Indications are not lacking ofa
awre-rapid return to normal condi
tioas ia the business world than was
reasonably to have beea expected.
Bailroad men who were much pertur
bed over the depressed conditions a
few months ago are now s planning for
active . season. Maav
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If so, do you not think that the Interurban Rail
road, which is to be built from Omaha to Hastings, has
a good future and all possibilities in store for it?
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The West is as enterprising as the East, and has
the canital wherewith to build thfe road. It is the best
A. L. KOON,
hereinafter given to lovers.
Item: I devise to boys, jointly, all
the useful, idle fields and commons
where ball may be played, all pleasant
waters where oue may swim, all snow
clad hills where one may coast, and
all streams and ponds where one may
fish, or wheie, when grim winter comes,
one may skate, to hold the, same for
the period of their boyhood. And all
meadows, with the clover blossoms
and butterflies thereof; the woods with
their appurtenances; the squirrels and
the birds and echoes and strange noises,
apd all distant places which may be
visited, together with the adventures
there found. And I give to said boys
each his own place at the' fireside at
night, with all pictures that may be
seen in the burning wood, to enjoy
without let or hindrance and without
any incumbrance or care.
Item: To lovers I devise their im
aginary world, with whatever they
may need, as the stars of the sky, the
red roses by the wall, the bloom of the
hawthorn, the sweet strains of music,
and aught else they may desire to
figure to each other the lastingness and
beauty of their love.
Item: To young men jointly, I de
vise and bequeath all boisterous, in
spiring sports of rivalry, and I give to
them the disdain of weakness, and un
daunted confidence in their own
strength. Though they are rude, I
leave to them the power to make last
ing friendships and of possessing com
panions, and to them exclusively I
give all merry songs and grave chorus
es to sing with lusty voices.
Item: And to those who are no
longer children or youths or lovers, I
leave memory; and bequeath to them
the. volumes of the poems of Burns and
Shakespeare and of other poets, if there
be others, to the end that they may live
the old days over again, freely and
fully without tithe or diminution.
Item: To our loved ones with snowy
crowns, I bequeath the happiness of
old age, the love and gratitude of their
children until they fall asleep.
and all the industrial and commercial
bodies are preparing to redouble their
energies to recover lost advantages.
A promising emp outlook , and the
patent willingness of the people to do
their part as consumers toward re
storing normal business conditions are
all encouraging factors in the stimula
tion of productive activities 'in all
directions. Omaha Bee.
The lig Trees ef Califemia
Are the most gigantic and beautiful
trees iu the world, soaw having reached
ahitkhtof 335 feet with base circum
ference of 110 feet. The age of many
are estimated by scientists at eight
thousand years. The Matiposa Grove,
which can be visited while en route to
the Tosemite, contains some of the
largest. In the Calaveras Grove are
trees ninety to one hundred feet of huge
size. Near Santa Cruz is a beautiful
grove of redwood Big Trees which will
well eaayloya day's visit. There ia
nothfaur ia anv other part of the world
like tarn region, whwA is best reached
via the TJaion Pacific. For booklet,
inquire of B. L. Lomax, G. P. k TA.,
Omaha, Nebr.
Farm Far fale.
Tnrr esiate.ee 1-4 1-18-3 west, six
nuleeds north of .Monroe. Call on or
Have you ever stopped to consider that the Interurban
Railroad will be the coming road to carry freight and passen
gers in- 'be future? Have you ever read about the Iaterar-
ban Railroads running out of Indianapolis in fifteen or eight
directions and the money these roads aae making?
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PLEASANT CURE FOR INSOMNIA.
Mr. Phligminthrow Suggests One That
Might Do in Some Cases.
"In my own case," said Mr. Phlig
minthrow, "I find that Insomnia pro
ceeds largely from worry over money.
My nerves are all right and I have
a cast-iron stomach. I can eat any
thing and enjoy it, and as a general
proposition life looks pretty rosy to
me; but still I do occasionally have
nights when I can't sleep, when I lie
awake worrying over how I am going
to make both ends meet.
"I never deliberately consider finan
cial questions at night, but I do find
that sometimes and this may be after
a most completely comfortable even
ing financial questions obtrude them
selves upon me after I have gone to
bed.
"To stave off these unpleasant ques
tions and enable myself to forget them
so that I could go to sleep I have tried
various familiar methods; I have got
out of bed and stood up to make my
self tired; I have recalled and dwelt
on pleasant journeys; I have counted
from one up to a million, more or less;
1 have said Ihe alphabet backward
over 'and over again; I have tried
many things; but do you know what
in my case I find most efficacious? It
is a story that I tell to myself about
how I am going to become comfortably
rich and .thus free from all financial
troubles.
"It took me a considerable time to
build up this story In such shape that
it just suited me; so that it seemed
natural, like something that might
have happened, you 'understand, and
then I filled in the amount that was
coming to me, making that enough so
that the income from it would be suf
ficient to provide for all ordinary
wants and as well for a few modest
luxuries, including a little travel a
pleasant nrospect to dwell upon, And
by the time I had this story complete
ly built up it took me some time to
tell it to myself, with that snug little
fortune that was to save me from all
.financial worry coming in at the end.
"And then when those money ques
tions used to pounce on me after I'd
gone to bed and threaten to keep me
awake I'd start oft and tell myself
that story, as in truth I have done
many times. And sometimes I'd have
to tell it to myself two or three times"
over in succession to drive away the
specter and then again once would
do, that money coming In at the end
of It soothing me to sleep, and then
I have sometimes not even been com
pelled to tell It all through once; I
have fallen asleep before I had fin
ished it, before I got the money, so
sure was I that it was coming to me."
Tennysen'a Terror.
There are many stories of Tennyson
In the duke of Argyll's recent book,
"Passages from the Past,' and one of
the most characteristic relates to the
time when the marriage of his grace
then the marquis of Lome and Prin
cess Louise was in the air.
One day Tennyson had a number of
guests at Juncheon, among who was
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the marquis or torne. in tat? hu
of talk, the marquis told Teaaysoa,
then poet laureate, that the ueen
liked his new volume.
"I am glad to hear It," Teaaysea
said, in his sonorous, slow, musical
bass voice. "I have given a good ac
count of her In that volume, but the
newspapers don't like my rhymes say
they are bad.
- "I live In terror.' he coatlaaed, "of
any or the queea'a family marrylag.
and of hearing from her that ah
hopes I will write somethlag. I have
no news of that kind yet. but I live la
terror of It."
This with a solemnly sly wish.
Youth's Companion.
A Pect'a Favorite Flewar.
A welcome harbinger m of spring
whose burnished gold stars now gleam
on sunny roadside banks around Lon
don is the lesser celandine, the
"humble" little flower that Words
worth loved and which is carved upon
his tomb. It has no real connection,
either by kindred or similarity, with
the celandine, and the misleading
name comes from a catalogue which
old John Gerarle; the herbalist, pub
lished four centuries ago of the plants
that grew in his garden on Holbora
hill. Like all really good things, the
lesser celandine combines beauty with
utility. Although the plant belongs to
a poisonous group, the leaves are
eaten In Sweden. Nicholas Culpeper.
"the radical physician." with the root
of this flower cured his daughter of
the king's evil ia one week, "without
leaving a scar." Westminster Ga
zette. The Higher Criticism.
Critic Now that your play la to he
actually produced, you can surely give
me some idea as to tha plot aa4 gen
eral action.
Playwright It's still too Indefinite.
Tou see, the call boy and the man at
the stage door haven't told me yet
what they want done to It! Modern
Society.
Still Another Excuse.
"Are you willing to chop some wood
for your dinner?"
"Lady," answered Plodding Pete.
"I'm Interested In de preservation of
the forests, an It would be asIn me
principles to put an ax Into one of do
forest, even though he lay prostrate at
me feet."
Her Chance te Come.
Mrs. Newllwed I baked this cake
this morning. Mrs. Naybor gave me
the recipe for It
Mr. Newllwed Never mind, dear;
just bide your time aad some day
you'll have revenge on her. Philadel
phia Press.
A Paraeexical Way.
"Isn't it queer that baronets la Eng
land are commonly called by their
front names?"
"Why so?"
"Because, considering their titles,
one would suppose them rather called
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