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CHANGE IN ADDKK88 Whaa ocdarlac a ' aaace la the address, eabaeribara ahoald be aara 1 1 cite their old aa well aa their aaw addraae. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For U. S. Senator KLMF.lt J. BUKKETT For Congressman, Third DUtrict JOHN F. KOYD For Governor C. II. AI.DKICH For Lieatenant-Governor M. K. HOPEWELL For Secretary of State ADDISON WAIT For Auditor SILAS It. IIAKTOK For Attorney General GKANT G. MAltTIN For Land Commibsioner E. H. COWLES For Treasurer WALTEK A. GEOltGE For Superintendent Instruction J. W. CKABTREE For Railroad Commissioner HENHY T. CLAItKE. jb For State Senator EDWIN HOAItE For State Keiireentative FRANK SCHRAM For County Attorney C. N. McELFRKSII For Supervisor, District No. 1 C A. PETEItSON DISPROPORTIONATE LEGIS LATION. During the recent primary election campaign incidental reference was made to the disproportionate and un fair representation in the legislature which has prevailed in Nebraska for so many years. Former Supreme Court Reporter, Judge Wilbur F. Bryant, in a published letter stated the case in plain lauguage as follows: "In direct violation of the constitu tion the legislature for twenty-five years has refused to reapportion the representation in our legislature. Oue county below, south of the Platte river, which divides the state, has 20,000 inhabitants and three representatives; another has 11,000 inhabitants and one representative and a float. North of the Platte Thurston and Dakota coun ties are unrepresented in the legisla ture except by a float with Cuming county; and Cedar and Pierce, with 33,000 inhabitants, have only one representative. Douglas county ought to have thirteen members in the lower house and four senators. It has nine representatives and three senators. Do you pretend to say that a legisla ture like ours voices the people of the state?" The way this condition was brought about and the reason why it has not been remedied rest on the same foun dation. The last legislative redisrict ing iu Nebraska was made in 1887 on the basis of a state census that sub stantially confirmed the then existing apportionment. A new apportionment should have been had in 1891 upon the federal census of 1890, but the populist legislature refused to act because Omaha would have been the largest gainer. The mid-decade state census went by the board owing to the drouth and panic poverty which afflicted the slate in 1893 and 1894 and .the redistricting due after the 1900 census went by the board through the greedinessof overweighted districts declining to consent to reduced rep resentation. This explains how Nebraska comes to be suffering in 1910 the injustice of a legislative apportionment, made in 1887. In the intervening twenty three years the population of this state has been largely redistributed. Great areas that were then almost uninhab ited have become dotted with pros perous towns and villages and tracts supposed to have been wholly desert and barren have been made to yield prolific crops. Omaha, which in 1885 had 60,000 people, will have more than twice that number by this year's census. These later settled communi ties, however, have practically no voice in their law making corresponding to their numbers. The first thing needed to assure the rule of the people in Nebraska is a redistricting for legislative representa tion that will conform with the present day conditions and remove the shack les forged upon us a quarter of a cen tury ago. Omaha Bee. MASK OF COMEDY HIDES GRIEF. "Were sure of your success. Baby held thumbs Sat yoa until 11:15 o'clock, when she died." Thus began the telegram, which came to Trixie Friganza, who heads the cast in "The Sweetest Girl in Paris' Tuesday morning, and between the lines of the message is revealed one of those tragedies of stage life of which the public so seldom knows. "Baby," is Miss Friganza's adopted daughter, little Margaret Friganza whose coming into the world a few weeks ago cost the life of its girl mother, to whom Miss Friganza had been protector as well as older sister since the death of their parents. It was to make a home for this younger sister that Miss Friganza built her house at Bensonhurst by the Sea, a home which the young girl did not leave when she was married about a year ago. This summer the premature birth of the baby caused the death of the young mother, who had always been frail, and in her grief Miss Friganza had the child given to her legally, intending to lavish on it all the love and care with which she had surround ed its mother. Leaving the infant in the care of a trained nurse and another sister, she came west to begin reher sal in the Askin production and on last Thursday came the first intima tion of the child's danger. She plead ed to be allowed to go east for a few hours, but determined to sacrifice her personal feelings when it was pointed out to her that her absence on the final days of rehearsal would mean a postponement of the production, a costly proposition for both the man agement and company. Sunday night, after the last curtain had fallen on the successful premiere, the comedienne, who a moment before had been laughing and singing gayly on the stage, rushed to her dressing room with the tears streaming down her face. "My baby is dying, my baby is dy ing, and I can't be with her," she sob bed to a friend who had gone back of the stage to greet her. In the eastern home at that moment the spirit of the chjld, who Miss Fri ganza likes to think held on until after the successful first performance was over, had taken flight Members of the family thoughtfully delayed the sad news until Tuesday morning, the time set for the funeral. And Tuesday night Miss Friganza, appearing as a dashing widow, kept the audience at the Pabst in merry mood by her jest ing, her smile and her songs. For the mask of comedy often hides an aching heart. ROOSEVELT ENDORSES SENA TOR BURKETT. When Col. Roosevelt was in Omaha September 2nd, and made a speech at the Auditorium, he was introduced by Senator Burkett. In response to the senator's introductory address Colonel Roosevelt gave him a splendid en dorsement The former president's remarks were as follows: "I am particularly pleased to be introduced by Senator Burkett," said the Colonel, "because he was one of the men on whom I especially relied while I was president, both while he was in the house and in the senate. On one occasion he paid a tribute to me which may have been entirely unmerited, in which he described what the typical American public servant must be. He said: 'In the great struggle of life he (the good American) must be prepared to take the side of the man rather than of the dollar. Old time methods in politics, old time ideals of governmeu tal duty and prerogative are relegated to the junk shop of political antiquities. No man who is skeptical in his own mind of the righteousness of the ad vanced ground that the American people have taken socially or morally can have their confidence. No man who is fearful of popular rule, or is more afraid of the peoples oppression of predatory wealth with law than of the people without law is eligible to popular esteem.' "In my own case," Colonel Roose velt continued, "All I can say is that I have endeavored to live up to that description and that I was able to accomplish what I did accomplish in Washington only because of the way in which I was backed by men like Senator Burkett and as we have a guest from Iowa present, let me say, also, like Senator Dolliver." A South Arabian Foed Plant. Jowari, a tall, slender plant resem bling corn and headed with a grain something like millet. Is the Abdall's chief crop. He feeds the stalk to his camels and eats the grain himself. Three crops a year are produced. Jo wari requires little cultivation except weeding, which the Abdali does by hand, and when ripe be cuts it off close to the ground with his hunting knife. New shoots spring up from the roots to become the next crop. For a camel load of about 125 pounds he receives at Aden an average of two rupees, or $04.88. A fair yearly yield is twenty camel loads an acre. Consular and Trade Reports. THEODORE Senator E. J. Burkett in When I was in Montreal last sum mer I saw some young men with tri pod and transit and chain and note book performing the always strange bat familiar antics that go with sur veying. Inasmuch as the particalar place where they were seemed to me to have passed the frontier stage, my curiosity was aroused, and upon in quiry I learned that they were uni versity students surveying the cam pus as a practice "stunt" The old driver who was showing us about did not seem to understand it at all, and in a manner that almost savored of superstition, imparted to us the infor mation the men had been measuring and remeasuring the same hill for over twenty years, and that for some rea son or other they never seemed to be satisfied with the results. . . The people of the entire world are out now with their measuring appara tus trying to get the real size of The odore Roosevelt In fact, like the boys of Montreal university, they have been measuring him and remeasuring him for the last dozen or fifteen years and like those boys again nobody is just exactly satisfied with anybody else's measurements and not entirely certain of his own. Mr. Roosevelt has defenders and detainers; those who swear by him and those who swear at him, but all agree that he is the most remarkable man in the world today. "The most sterling figure in the world since Napoleon Bonaparte," is the way one writer gives the result ol bis sur vey. Others have had to go back to Julius Caesar for a prototype. "More nearly like Jackson than any man in American history," is a very common way of expressing it, and, to say the least, a verv conservative measure of his greatness as the measuring b going on in these limes.. That Theodore Roosevelt is a most extraordinary man is conceded alike by friend and foe( but just how great as the world estimates greatnesB is, of course, not universally agreed upon. This is not surprising, because the measurement of meu intellectually and morally is not an exact science. Greatuess of character aud mental worth cannot be measured by metes and bounds, for it is an operation of judgment in which figures and inches and bushels arc not employed in the calculation; aud judgment, like dis cretion, varies with the one who is ex ercising it No two men by the sight alone will agree exactly on color or on the height of a balloon, or on the distance of a ship at sea. The judg ment of any single individual is affect ed by the relative position he occupies to the thing to be judged, the angle of his vision or his proximity. Men are generally underestimated at close range, and are perhaps likely to be overestimated at long range. The man who has felt the whack of the "big stick" will naturally view Roose velt at a different angle from one who nurses no such unpleasant recollec tion. Members of the Ananias club will have some difficulty in distin guishing heroism from "bluff." Nevertheless with all projier allow ance for personal pride and political pique, everybody must agree that Theodore Roosevelt is stronger in the minds and hearts of the people today than any living man, and, in fact stronger than he ever was before. Criticise his methods or his doctrines as they may, he has obtained results, and results are what count with the people. The people are seldom exact ing as to methods and not always as to motives, but they do like results. They may never have inquired intricately and specifically into the real offenses of the malefactors of great wealth, nor into the motives of those persons who would stay their filching hand, but it was enough for the people to know that the verdict was against those out laws to society, and that Theodore Roosevelt proposed to enforce the ver dict The people only knew that there had been high financing of the instrumentalities of their commerce at their expense; they knew that there had been rottenness in Wall street; that there had been violation of plight ed faith and juggling with the people's laws, and it was enough to know that Roosevelt was out with all his strength in the people's interest So, whether men like him or other wise, they must admit and do admit that he is a great man in the estima tion and affections of the people and that is the crucial test of a man. The whole world has got by its doubts up on that question, for, impossible as it may seem now, there was a time when there were doubts. The time was when the people themselves were quiring whether he was a great m- or a mere pretender, an opportunist or a propagandist The question is now settled beyond cavil at least that is he was an opportunist, he created his own opportunities and grasped ROOSEVELT New York Independent. them with all the zeal and success of one who had his principles thoroughly at heart and his plans well laid. The question now uppermost is what is the secret of his power and his in fluence among men? If he is a great mas, why is he gnat? What are his particular attributes? What is it that attracts to him the attention of the entire world? Why is he so extrava gantly glorified everywhere? Royalty and nobility do him honor, while the soft, sweet strainsof Europe's national airs and the wierd tomtoms of Africa sound the same genuiness of his popu lar welcome. Surely no other man has ever been so acclaimed in so many different tongues, under so many differ ent skies and in so many different ways. What is there in him that distinguish es him front all other men? These are the questions that all men are asking everywhere. Why is it that he can be lost to the public eye neither in political retirement nor in the no madic seculsion of an African wilder ness? Why is it that in spite of po litical mistakes for he has made them and notwithstanding diplomatic tan gles, he is still the lion of the hour to all nations and to all the people there of? Or, to be more colloquial, why can he wear a silk hat and be "our Teddy," and in spite of an aristocratic birth and aristocratic environments remain the idol of the common people? We saw him nominated for vice- president as the political expedient of a corrupt machine for the idealistic purpose of practical elimination, and then we saw him, an exile, break the machine, destroy the manipulators and replace them with men and methods of his own creation. We saw him come to the white house under very trying circumstances and handicapped by an unfortunate popular opinion of him, charitably expressed perhaps in the words of Lowell in his fable for critics. "Three-fifths genius and two fifths sheer fudge." Nevertheless, we saw him retire from that exalted posi tion at the end of seven years rehabil itated in the judgment of men and so enshrined in the hearts and confidence of the people that he could dictate his own successor. We saw him enter a self-imposed banishment to the most inaccessible and impenetrable spot on the globe, only to return tocivilzation with greater applause than ever before. He left with the American people as escort, and returns with the whole world at his chariot wheels. What is it all about, the people arc asking? What qualities does he pos sess that others do not have? What are the magic words that open all hearts to him, and what the magic spell that draws all men unto him? It is a psychological question with which psychologists are helpless, and a polit ical attribute by which the most astute politician is amazed. It is more than a fleeting fancy of the hour, for it has sustained him in the confidence and esteem of the people in official position and out of it It does not answer the question to call it a mere appeal to the prejudice and the passions of men, for others have tried that without success. Nor will it answer to say that he is radical and that radicalism appeals to the American people, for there have been others more radical than he. It is not sufficient to say that he has been honest and able, for there have been other honest and able men during his public career. It takes more than an honest and able man to win public confidence as he has done it These qualities are necessary, hut he who would win it must also be energetic and courageous, fearless, and deter mined, and above all in complete sym pathy with human rights aud human welfare, and alive to present day con ditions. In the great struggle of life, he must be prepared to take the side of the man rather than of the dollar. Old time methods in politics, old time ideals of governmental duty and pre rogative are relegated to the junkshops of political antiquities, and the man who has become irrevocably imbued with them is eliminated as a possible competitor for popular esteem. No man who apologizes in his soul for the economic and industrial legislation of the last decade in this country is acceptable to the American people as a political leader. No man who is skeptical in his own mind of the right eousness of the advanced ground that the American people have taken socially and morally can hold their confidence. No man who is fearful of popular rule or h more afraid of the people's oppression of predatory wealth with law than of its oppression of the people without law. is eligible to pop ular esteem. Roosevelt has been measured by every one of these tests; he has fought the battle of the people against the combined hosts of greed and avarice. He has done it fearlessly and courage ously and by it has endeared himself to all mankind. This is why he is popular in the minds of the people. It counts for naught that he has made mistakes, for they are of the judgment while his motives are of the heart Critics will look in vain for any un usual ability or faculty that he pos sesses beyond the one faculty of serving the people and making them to understand and believe that he is serving them. There is no alchemy for winning and holding men unto him of which he alone holds the secret. It is old as the world itself, a soul fired with human sympathy, a heart that beats in unison with the people in their trials and struggles, and a courage that goes to their relief. It is not a pandering to the passions and preju dices of the extremist, for the people have not wanted for their idol an ex tremist who jumps without looking and denounces without investigation, and condemns without rhyme of rea son. Mr. Roosevelt's success has perhaps been very largely due to his conservatism in handling questions that make most men radicals or per haps better in dealing with questions and to an extent that only radicals usually approach, and all the while maintaining an attitude of fairness and honesty and conservatism. He never advocated a law that would do any more injury to legitimate business than the law against bank robbery would interfere with legitimate bank ing. That is why he has the confi dence and esteem of the strong minded and successful but honest business men of the country. The people have asked only for a man wise enough to know, courageous enough to do, and practical enough to accomplish. Roose velt measured up to this test. Like Lincoln, he was denounced by some because he went too far, and criticised by others because he did not go far enough, but between these two ex tremes, between the rotten manipulator who wants no regulation and the fanat ical agitator who would stop every thing. Theodore Roosevel t has steered a middle course, and the great mass of the people have followed him in the past and are following him still. INNS OF CHINA. A Kneek That Wracked a Dear ami Raised a Rumpus. Some or the Inns of modern China are badly built The correspondent of the London Times in traveling across the country recently had this experi ence: "At only one village bad 1 any difficulty. We were marching late in the dark, and I had sent my groom on ahead to find me an Inn. as he had often done before, lie entered the village, and, finding the large inn door closed, be called out to the people to open It But bis Peking speech la not easily understood In Kansu, and no one answered him. Then be knocked, and to bis dismay the crazy door fell down. Immediately there was a row. The Innkeeper and bis vociferous spouse shouted out their wrongs. "Every one came Into the street to hear; the whole village was roused. When I arrived It seemed like a dem onstration in my honor. As in the custom, a dozen people together told me what bad happened. I soon satis fled every one by first examining the damage and then paying compensa tion In full. 1 paid 100 cash (rather more than twopence), and my gener osity was approved. "The structure thus damaged re minded one of the jerry built bouses familiar to students In Edinburgh, where It Is on record that a lodger once complained to bis landlord that the celling in bis room bad fallen down. 'But bow do you account for that? asked the landlord. Somebody In the next flat sneezed. replied the lodger." A REC0RDJNHITTING. Delehanty's Four Homers and a Sing la In Five Times at Bat The baseball expert Hugh S. Fuller ton, In an article on "Batting" In the American Magazine, describes as fol lows the greatest hitting feat recorded, executed by Ed Delebanty. and which It was bis goodifortune to witness: "Adonis Terry was pitching a great pitcher with a wonderfully fast curve ball and tbreetof the home runs were made off the curve. The first time at bat Delebanty hit the ball high over the right field fence, perhaps seventy feet from the'foul line, which would be 245 feet from the plate; and the fence was thirty-five feet high. The second time behit over the same fence, but farther i arard center field. The third time beldrore a single over short atop, a line nit and perhaps the hard est hit of alL Dahlen. leaping, touched the ball wltbiboth bands. They were torn apart, and the ball caromed al most to tbefteft fielders before it struck the ground. The next borne run was straight to the center field between the clnbhoaaes, nearly 400 feet away. The last time be came to the bat the crowd was cheering him on. Lange retired between thetclubbouses, which were set at angles. Delebanty hit a curve ban. It alighted on the roof of one clubhouse, bounded to the roof of the other and roUed f halfway back to the second baseman i And yet Chicago won the game 8 to 6. The Prize; Holder. "I understand youihare a fine track team here," said thevIsitor to the man who was showing Urn over the college campus. What (Individual holds most of the medals?" "The town pawnbroker," answered his guide after due deliberation. New York Journal. Misdeals. Sillicus Love is a game In which Cupid deals the cards. Cynlcus Then why does he so often deal from the bottom of the deck? Philatlelpala Record. FURNITURE We carry the late styles and up-to-date designs in Furniture. If you are going to fur nish a home, or just add a piece to what you already have, look over our com plete line. Need a Kitchen Cabinet? See the "Springfield.' HENRY GASS 21-21-23 West 11th St Doubling Her Capacity. "I want a nurse girl who Is capable of taking care of twins," said a woman to the manager of an employment agency. A dozen maids ranged against the wall were questioned as to their fa miliarity with twins. Finally one girl produced documentary evidence that for the last five years most of her waking moments had been spent in the company of twins. She got the Job. When she reported for work in the afternoon she was Introduced to but one infant "Where is the other one?" she asked. "Ob. there are no twins about this bouse," said her mistress. "I just said twins so I would be sure to get a competent uurse. Any girl who is capable of handling two children can give extra good care to one. That is a little ruse I always employ when I hire a nurse." New York Times. Insect Sits en IU Eggs. Family matters in the case of insects usually meau only the depositing or eggs In suitable situations for the in dependent development of the off spring, the parent insects often dying before the young appear. The earwig, however, provides a remarkable excep tion to the general rule, for it sits upon its fifty or more eggs until they are hatched. Just as a bird would do. and. moreover. If the eggs get scattered it carefully collects them together again. In the early months of the year, when digging the soil, female earwigs may frequently be found together with their batch of eggs. At the slightest sign of danger the young ones huddle close to their mother, biding beneath her body so far as It will cover so large n family. Strand Magazine. THE GOVERNMENT IRRIGAT&D HOMESTER!) of the Big Horn Basin and Yellowstone Valley are today the garden spots of the country. Several farms are now ready to homestead, and the Government Surveyors are laying out more new farms for new settlers who are lucky enough to get on the ground in time to get the choice of these new locations. Our new literature just from the press tells how you can homestead these lands and repay the Government the actual cost of the water right in ten yearly payments without interest. CAREY ACT LANDS:-Several thousand acres of Carey Act Lands just opened to entry only thirty days residence required. The settler buys these lands from the State and the perpetual water right from the irrigation company. Long time given to settlers to pay for these lands and water rights. Join our personally conducted excursions the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Specially pre pared Wyoming literature just off the press. Write today. D. fiLFM wmsmmmrm illulUEUIIIfl La"d Scaknrs MannatlM Bureau B -H004 Farnam StrMt. Omaha. Ntbr. I Magazine Binding I Old Books I I Rebound I I In fact, for anything in the book I binding line bring your work to I I 6? I I Journal Office I I Phone 184 I n Columbus, Neb. I The Wolvas and tne Meat. l IkhI thought that It was peculiar to human nature to regard that which one lias as of less vulue thau that which one has nut. but 1 had reason to change my opinion the other day." said a visitor to the zoo. "A keeper tossed four pieces of meat into the ltii of two gray wolves. One piece landed on the roof of the shelter bouse, and a wolf with a lame fore leg passed over the pieces on the ground, and. standing on bis bind legs, tried and tried to get that on the roof, which was Just out of reach. The other hun gry wolf gave his attention to the nieces on the ground and disposed of all three. Uuiug over to the bouse, be sniffed for a moment and then sprang upon the roof, ate the fourth piece and stretched out for repose." New York Sun. IX TIIK DISTRICT I OPUT OF I'LATIK COUNTY. NKRKASKA. In thft inattt-r i.f llift (trial of Freeman M. Cuok- I idkIimii. deceased Onlrr to nhuw cnu.-e. To all iron interested iu I ho rotate of . Freeman M. 4'ookinKliaiu. di traced. IIiih cnue cum tm lor tiearintc upon (lie tui tion of F.iiRenia 1. 1'ookiBKhaiu, adinwintratrix of th -tatM of Freeman M. f 'ookinirliaiii. le eeawd, prajtinK fur license ton-1 1 thetiurth Imlf of Into hve (5) anil six (J in Mock eighteen (If) of Lorklier'a second addition to the ill:iKet Humphrey, NYbranka, for the payment of lebl allowed atminot aaid etato ami costs of ailmiui t ration anil it uuixvirinir to the court, that the itTMnal proiierty of Haiti estate in intintB'cie.nt to iy unlit ilettla anil expend-?. 11 in llierelore unluinl that all inton interested in aaid estate apenr before me at I life, urt hoaitoin (Viliiiu !hh. Nebraska, on th ml ilay of October. I!MI. at the hour of ten o'clock zi. in., there to lnu cun.ie, if any ther be, whj a I ice one should not Im granted to wtiil (u-uiiuistratrix to tell ho much of mid real estate aa may be neceeaary to ioy Kiid debt and fiiUN'it. and that thin ordt-r I be published four uccetivn weeka in the L'o- iumiKiH journal. Dated thin 3rd day of Sieuiber. 1910. Ueo. 11. Thomas. Judi! of the district couit of Platte county. Nebraska. M TL u DFAVFR. fiAMMl Aasmt, .-- MJfMS A iA