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DREADNOUGHT BUILDING.
The battleship Florida, is today the
most prominent member of a family
whose numbers are quite out of pro
portionate to its age. The nnmber of
dreadnoughts either completed or un
der construction in the United States,
Great Britain, Germany, Japan and
France is placed by Commander H.
F. Bryan, in the New International
Year Book, at forty-nine. Of these
the United States has eight in the
Michigan, South Carolina, Deleware
and North Dakota completed, the
Florida and Utah about half complet
ed, and the Wyoming and Arkansas
recently begun. The displacement of
the last two, 26,000 tons, is exceeded
in the entire dreadnought class by the
two new English battleship cruisers
Liou and Thunderer, or 26,350 tons
and 700 foot length, of which the first
was laid down last November. Great
Britain's dreadnoughts number eigh
teen, without taking account of four
ships ordered or just begun. Ger
many has thirteen completed or build
ing; Japan has four, two completed
and two building. France has no
dreadnoughts in commission, but is
building a fleet of six of 19,.18 tons to
be completed in 1911. Fastest among
battleships are our own North Dakota,
with 22.25 knobs, and the British Van
guard, with 22.4 knots; but both are
behind the six British dreadnought
cruisers, with a speed ranging between
27 and 28 knots. The Florida will
cost 310,000,000 before she is done.
The total amount spent by the five
leading nations on dreadnought build
ing in the past six years must be about
a billion dollars. And the ultimate
consumer has been footing the bills.
New York Evening Post.
FRANKING AND PUBLIC PRINT
ING. Greatasisthe abuse of the frank
ing privilege, it is as nothing com
pared with the printing abuse that is
back of it. Before documents can be
franked through the mails, they must
be prepared.
An instance of this double abuse is
found in an alleged document issued
under the frank of Senator Gallinger
of New Hampshire. It is a book of
475 pages, entitled "The Story of the
Tariff." Its subtitle is "Parts of the
Congressional Record." The body of
the book is made up of speeches, many
of which were never delivered in con
gress at all, but were sent to the gov
ernment printing office under leave-to-print
orders.
The falsity of the leave-to-print
business is revealed in the fact that
frequently congressmen are found to
have included in this class of remarks
arguments which they could not have
delivered on the floor in days of debate,
great clabs of statistics which were
procured from departments, or worse
still, from private and prejudiced
source. These are dumped upon the
government printing office, which
obediently sets them up and binds
them at public expense.
The members- of congress gather
them up and mail them to their con
stituents free of charge. There is not
even the excuse for them that they
give information, for usually they are
so bulky as to defeat whatever motive
there was for sending them out.
But bad as is the printing of speech
es that were never delivered by con
gressmen, it is not so cheekey as the
inclusion of speeches, by persons not
members of congress. The president's
speeches, for example, appear in this
story of the tariff. There is also un
der print by the government a speech
delivered by Senator Depew in Brook
lyn on the occasion of his seventieth
birthday anniversary. How it got a
standing as a "part of the congression
al record" only those acquainted with
the mysteries of the senate can tell.
That the abolition of the franking
privilege is not claimed, but that it
would have a marvelous effect upon
the printing of useless and cumber
some documents, there is no doubt
If congressmen could not send such
stuff to their constituents free of charge
they would lose a great deal of the
ambition to have it printed. Minnea
polis Journal.
BRIAN MAKES STATEMENT.
A. W. Ladd, Albion, Nebr. My
Dear Ladd: In my conversation with
you while in Albion some time ago, I
promised that when I filed declaring
my candidacy for congress from the
Third congressional district, I would
make a statement relative to my posi
tion. As I told you then, I am perfectly
willing to answer any questions which
you desire to ask, but in the absence
of such knowledge, I will make a state
ment to you that should I succeed in
receiving the nomination and election
for congress, it will be my intention to
support President Taft in his effort to
fulfill the pledges as promised by the
last republican national platform, and
in questions other than platform pled
ges, I will be governed by the presi
dent's wishes in securing other national
laws, providing they do not conflict
with the best interests of the Third
congressional district. In the absence
of either the platform or the presi
dent's known wish, I shall use my
judgment as a citizen of the Third
district to vote upon all measures
which I believe will be beneficial to
their interests.
Should the tariff question be pre
sented to congress during my incum
bency, I will be for a revision down
ward on all things that are to the
interests of the greatest number of
people whom I represent; that I will
be for progressive legislation at all
times that will be consistent with the
interests of the people of my district.
In an editorial of the News some
time ago, you stated that I would lie a
stand-patter or a reactionary. I hard
ly know how this term could be
applied to me as my record in county
and state offices has been admittedly
by you of a progressive nature nd
entirely satisfactory in every particu
lar, and as I have been a farmer all
my life, with the exception of four
years as county treasurer of Boone
coQuty and four years as state treas
urer, my interests are identical with
the agricultural interests upon which
the third congressional district of this
state depends for its prosperity in all
lines of business. I also believe that
my knowledge of the needs of the
farming element of this district will be
sufficient to represent the district to the
satisfaction of all the people who are
dependent upon the farmers' pros
perity. In conclusion I will add that your
support in my campaigu for congress
would be highly appreciated, and I
hope that you can consistently lend
your influence toward my success.
Yours very truly,
L. G. Brian.
BUSINESS-TRAINED GIRLS.
Girls who have been trained in bus
iness life are favored as possible wives
by bachelors in all parts of the United
States, according to the opinions that
have been expressed by 500 of them.
Some of the most striking things the
bachelors say are given in Good
Housekeeping Magazine.
A Massachusetts man says that "as
a rule the girls who are in business
know the value of money and expect
less than the daughters of the rich."
"The majority of the business girls I
know live at home and pay a very
small board bill, leaving a comfortable
balance for clothes and little luxuries
which would have to lie materially
reduced if they were to marry me," is
the frank declaration of a Springfield
(Mass.) man. "Every husband," says
a bachelor, "has a natural pride in
being able to provide better for his
wife than she could for herself. Any
other feeling on the part of the wife
lessens her respect." "I am positive
they are better companions for men
than girls who do not know the real
value of a dollar." So speaks a cham
pion of the busiues girl from Wash
ington, D. C
The 500 bachelors were asked to
express their minds in regard to the
right income to marry on. Their
ideas range from 3500 to $15,000 a
year. The average is 82,439.40. They
all agree that club life "isn't in it"
with having a home of one's own, and
they believe that the girls who waut
their husbands to provide the luxuries
of parental homes aren't worth mar
rying. "The young husband, unless he
starts with some parental cash stowed
away, cannot hope to furnish the lux
uries the girl has been accustomed to
for some time after his marriage," says
another Springfield (Mass.) man. "His
stinted resources must he taken as a
matter of course. The girl undoubt
edly has had the benefit of years of
industry on the part of her parents,
while her new-found better half is just
beginning to get some for himself and
others. Present salaries do not aver
age as well on the whole for the young
man as the income of the parents.
The uselessness of competition is
obvious."
"All depends upon the parties in
volved," is the sage pronouncement of
one respondent to the inquiry. "How
ever, I do think a good percentage of
the girls today expect all the comforts
and 99) per cent of the luxuries. The
whole tendency of the day seems for
the young men and women to begin
life where their parents leave off.
They want to set up housekeeping with
silver and solid mahogany, when, per
haps, the parents purchased theirs
only ten years back." The Union.
DEMAGOGISM.
Demagogism is always busy accord
ing to what it conceives to be the
humor of the people. Democratic
managers think, or pretend to think,
that a tidal wave is running their way.
They insist that the people are dis
gusted with the new tariff, and that
it is the cause of the high cost of liv
ing. As a matter of fact the new
tariff is working well. It has mate
rially increased the public revenue
and is rapidly wiping out the excess of
government expenditures over receipts.
Its alleged increase of the cost of liv
ing has not been proved in any par
ticular. Many theories are offered in
regard to the advance in the price of
food throughout the world. It is not
greater iu the United States than in
other countries, nor greater under the
policy of protection than that of free
trade. But demagogues have no use
for well digested facts. Any iorm of
dissimulation is more to them than the
truth, and they play upon prejudice,
hasty emotionalism and defective
information as their best plan of
action. The shifting phases of part
nership between the democratic minor
ity ami the insurgents in congress are
essentially insincere. Insurgents will
not say they are democrats, and demo
crats do not deny that their purpose in
voting with the insurgents is to injure
the republican party. The coalition
is a surprise to the people of the
United States who gave a large repub
lican majority at the last election.
They took it for granted that a repub
lican majority of forty-four in the
house, and of two thirds in tho senate,
would give the republicans control,
with au accompanying responsibility.
The insurgents have undertaken to
reverse the popular verdict and put
the minority n top. No insurgent
when running for congress informed
the people that he would pursue this
singular course. The lack of suuare
dealing is evident. Insurgents assert
that they will not be classed as demo
cratic converts, yet they join in with
the minority ami prevent the organized,
legitimate actiou of the party to which
they owe their election. In this situa
tion good faith with the people is all
on the side of what are called regular
republicans, the kind that has been
governing the country, and doing it
well, for nearly fifty years. They can
take care of themselves in the pending
campaign." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
GRAFT IN EUROPE.
It seems that graft in high govern
ment circles is not by any means con
lined to the United States. We have
been disposed to think that America
was the home of the grafter but as a
matter of fact, some of the European
nations can give us instructions along
that line.
The news from St Petersburg of
the discovery of tremendous graft in
government circles is not a great sur
prise to those who remember the
charges of graft and rascality made
during the Russo-Japanese war. It
was kuown at that time that the auto
cratic system which obtains not only
iu the civil government but in the
army and navy aa well, was one that
fostered robbery of the Russian treas
ury. The payrolls were padded,
the supplies, it was asserted,
both of munitions of war and commis
sary, were low grade and high priced.
The officers both of the army and
navy held their positions not because
of ability but because of favoritism.
All this was so rotteu that it was com
monly believed to be the reason for
Russia's defeat. These statements,
made at that time, seem to be true.
The government investigation which
has been slow, is betraying according
to the latest telegraphic reports, that
all these statements were true, and
there is a great alarm among govern-
ment officers, many are fugitives and
others are facing prison. Millions of
dollars have been made out of the gov
ernment by the sale of rotten stores,
aud bribery seems to have been ram
pant among the officers. The whole
country is shaken up over the result of
these investigations and the end is not
yet.
Something of like conditions was
found to obtain iu Spain at the time of
the Spanish-American war. Officers
heltl their positions by favoritism or
pull, and tremendous fortunes were
made in contracts with the government
wherein the contractors supplied even
rotten gunpowder. It was asserted
that Cevera's fleet was a hollow sham
and fraud, the warships being hardly
seaworthy, and were but painted coffins
that the Yankee shots went through.
Lincoln Star.
ATCHISON GLOBE NOTES.
A Big Church Row.
England has a fine prospect of a big
church row. John Redmond, the
Irish Nationalist leader, already has
protested against the form of the oath
to be taken by the new king before par
liament. While the House of Han
over resigns in England Itecause it is
protestaut, the wording of the oath is
offensive toCathoIic Englishmen. The
king is made to disavow any belief in
trans-substantiation, and toaflitm that
"the invocation or adoration of the
Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and
the sacrifice of the mass, hs they are
now used in the Church of Koine, are
superstitious and idolatrous."
What Alaska Needs.
Governor Clark, of Alaska, is iu
Washington on a visit, and takes oc
casion) say that what Alaka needs
is prosperity; that its development is
greatly retarded by the work of dema
gogues who have taken advantage of
muck raking methods to make the peo
ple believe Alaska is already in the
grip of the corporations.
As one of the America people, you
may count yourself part owner of the
untold wealth of Alaska. But as a
practical proposition you aren't in a
position to get money ou it. The un
told wealth of Alaska will remain un
told, and unspent, unless it is develop
ed. The development of great mineral
resources has always been the work of
corporations. Unless the government
is to turn socialist, and develop them
itself, this work must remain with the
corporations. Probably it is the bet
ter way. But, which ever way is
right, it is work Alaska needs, and not
the tiresome quarreling'which is keep
ing it in the public eye.
The Husband Beater.
For the wife beater no good word
can be said, nor anything new in evil.
If the wife will tell, the courts will
gladly attend to him, and she doesn't
have to put up with him for the sake
of the children. And the wife beater
is so old fashioned that he has ceased
to attract much attention. A newer
menace to invade the realm of the
courts is the husband beater. A Con
necticut physician has attracted a lot
of attention because he has goue to
Reno, Nev., to secure a divorce from
his wife, because he made an athlete
of her and she now beats him around
a good deal. But, while the husband
beater may be new in the courts, she
isn't exactly a novelty. True, she
doesn't often use her fists, nor yet an
elm club, but the results are a good
deal the same. The man who puts up
with a nagging wife, or yields to her
every whim because of ready tears, or
the other weapons women know better
how to use than fists or clubs, is a
victim of the hu&baud beater, and too
proud, or too timid to acknowledge it.
It isn't just as new us the courts and
the paragraphers infer, this game of
husband beating.
Only Half Civilized.
The men who make a big success in
life have as much to worry them as
the men who fail.
C. W. Post has done a great deal for
Battle Creek, Michigau, as he built
great factories there that employ hun
dreds of people.
Are the Battle Creek people grate
ful? If they are, they have a queer
way of showing it.
A paper is printed at Battle Creek
which abuses Post in almost every
issue. If Battle Creek ieople did not
like this abuse of Post, a Battle Creek
paper would not dare pursue such a
course.
At Dayton, Ohio, there lives a inau
who has made a great success iu man
ufacturing cash registers. He has a
model factory, and does much for
Dayton. He has been abused for
years by a Dayton paper, and in the
most untruthful and indecent manner.
The fact is the people like to see a
successful man abused. When you
see so much praise of Col. Roosevelt,
don't you think? "He is having entire
ly too much luck." And wouldn't you
enjoy a right good piece of bad luck
for Roosevelt?"
The people are not very fair: we are
not more than haIf civiil.
Another Deposed Ruler.
The good women of England are
shaking their bands in solemn appro
val and saying, "Hit serves 'er right,
the himpudent 'ussey," and they refer
to the third ruler who has joined the
Down and Out club: Mrs. George
Keppel. For the woman who last
week was the maker and unmaker of
social position iu England's most ex
clusive set, in fact the most powerful
woman in Englaud, has become a
nonenity.
The ex queen naturally had no use
for her. What woman does have
much for her husband's most intimate
lady friend; the new king has never
liked her, and the new queen hasn't
spoken to her in ten years. The blow
fell at a particularly unfortunate time
as Mrs. Keppel had arranged to soon
present her oldest daughter at court in
the new house the king had just given
her, and the kiug was to attend.
With a hostile king and queen on the
throne, Mrs. Keppel will not have as
much future influence in Eugland as
poor kin. She will not exist.
Mrs. Kippel had a long head on her
and prepared for the day when she
would be no longer consulted in mak
ing out invitation lists, by salting down
all the gifts her king lover gave her.
It is said of her that she has a fortune,
and her husband helped her accumul
ate it by Keeping still.
The Wasteful Churches.
It is no uncommon thiug for a min
ister to recommend economy, as one of
the homely virtues receiving loo little
atteution. Considering, the high cost
of living, the size of ministerial salar
ies, and the difficulty sometimes ex
perience! in collecting them, it may
be assumed that here is an instance
where the preachers practice what
they preach, at least so far as their in
dividual expenditures are concerned.
Considering the churches as institu
tions, however, their business methods
are so wasteful as those of the federal
government, which wastes, according
to one high in its councils, something
like :;00,000,000, a year. At the
meeting of the national missionary
congress, this waste was freely admit
ted by Bishop Anderson, the Episco
pal church. He pointed out that suffi
cient energy and money are wasted in
this country to preach the gospel all
over the world. He pointed out that
the divisions of the church are un
christian like and unstatesman like.
Certainly they are unbusiness like.
Pride, conceit, jealousy, prejudices,
and ignorance, he said, are the things
the churches must overcome, if they
are to get together and stop this
waste.
That is strong language to come
from a prominent churchman, and it
may do some good. It isn't new, to
be sure, but hammering on an old idea
occasionally accomplishes somethiug.
W. F. Porter has broken into politi
cal limelight aguiu, and it is evident,
even at this distance from the state
capital, that the worst form of office
seeking itch has the pocketer of the
"marks and brands" fees firmly iu its
grip. Porter wants the democratic
nomination for railroad commissioner.
We would suggest that common de
cency, if the chap has no resicct for
everyday honesty, would demand that
Porter turn into the State treasury the
money that our courts have held he
unlawfully retained when he retired
from office. Whatever he may do
relative to the return of what he took
from the pockets of the tax payers,
one thiug is certain Nebraska de
mocracy will not endorse his rascality
by giving him a place ujtou its ticket.
Ho wells Journal (dem.)
SMITH DAMRON. FOT-
TER CRAFT9MAN.
The Man Who Makes Vessels of Clay.
All over the country ladies' clubs
and other organizations have mani
fested a revival of interest in the cer
amic arts. To satisfy the demand for
a practical demonstration of this sub
ject the Western Keel path Chautauqua
management has secured probably the
only man in the country who is able
to carry this highly instructive and en
tertaining subject to the assembly plat
form. Smith Damron was for several years
an actual potter, working at his trade
six days in the week at Macomb, Ill
inois, which is tho recognized head
quarters for clay pottery in the United
States. While serving as general sec
retary of the Y. M. C. A., in which po
sition he remained for fourten consec
utive years, Mr. Damron yielded to
the request of a pastor to give a dem
onstration of his art to a large audi
ence. The lecture was well received
and requests came from other pulpits.
"The Potter" carries with him an old
fashioned "kick wheel' and upon it he
demonstrates before the eyes of his
audience the evolution of a handful
of moist clay Into a finished jug or
vase.
His lecture "The Potter and the
Clay" is deeply interesting and carries
with it a healthful moral lesson.
An Autobiography.
Mrs. CliUKwatiT Josiab. what is an
autobiography; Mr. Chug water It's
the story of a mail's life written as be
thinks it ought to be. Couldn't you
tell that from the word itselfV-Cblea-go
Tribune.
A Success.
Byker I attended a successful
sleight of band "terforuiance last night.
Pyker-IJeally: Byker-Yes, I lent a
conjurer a counterfeit half dollar, and
be gave me back a good one.
One Better.
First Child We've got a new baby
at our house. Second Child (contemp
tuously) We've got a new pa at ours.
Presbyterian Standard.
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and the part which governs. Marcus
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Our Few Real Needs.
As civilization and culture make peo
ple more prosperous and more comfort
able they are prone to forget how few
and simple their real ueeds are. Wh
need sleep, but not much of It, and
most of is are nsleep exactly when
we ou"ht most of ull to be awake. We
need food, but It is not necessary that
food should be cunningly disguised
with a thousand devices to tickle the
jaded and surfeited palate, for tho
main trouble is that we eat too much
and not too little. We need clothes to
wear, but the one suit of fur that lasts
certain animals all their lives Is so
beautiful that some men spend their
whole time in search of It. We need
heaven aud the sense of a higher pow
er directing our lives and our desti
nies, but we seud most of our time
refuting aud denying the possibility of
anything bigger or better than we are.
We need the love of friends, and
therefore It Is the more strange that
we should spend our time not In Im
proving ourselves, but In decorating
our bodies, rilllug them with food and
hustling them about' over the earth In
search of ever freshing sensations.
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Burlington's New Main Line
Through Central Wyoming
the richest undeveloped country in the west. Farmers
here have no fear of drouth, wind storms or hail storms.
THE BIG HORN BASIN
is now so well started on its great wealth producing era
that it not only appeals to farmers looking for new lands
upon which to establish new homes under most favorable
conditions, but appeals as well to the investor, who wants
to turn his money quickly, and to the
Business Man, Professional Man
Mine Operator and Manufacturer
in new towns that are springing up like magic and where
raw material in plenty can be handled at a profit.
The new lint will reach Thcrmepeli aheut July
1st, connecting the eutslde werld with ene of the
greatest health resorts In America.
GlMap Excursion Tickets first and third Tuesdays. Urnul right
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Genesis of the Horseshoe.
It is known that the hoofs of horses
were protected ly boots of leather at a
very early period iu the world's his
tory at a time which at least ante
dates Pliny and Aristotle, both of
whom make mention of the fact.
These leather hoots were sometimes
studded with metal nails, but more
usually worn without extra trimming,
the cheapness of that commodity mak
ing It possible for the owner of the
steed to reboot" Ulm at any time.
A Useful Femur.
Excited Nat urn 1 1st Are you aware,
my dear sir. that this gatepost of
yours U the femur of an oraitbosceli
da?"
Farmer lapologetlcallyi 1 always
thought it was somelbiu odd like, it
dou't match the other post uohow.
Loudon I'mirli.
A Strong Cup.
Guest i: cheap restaurant! Look
here, waiter. 1 thought 1 told you to
bring me u strong cup of coffee?
Waiter- Well, what's the matter
with that cup? You couldu't break it
with an ax.
D. CLEM DEflVER. General Agent
Land Soakers lnfrmtlfi Bureau
1004 Farnam Street. Omaha. Nebr.
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