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The studied effort on the part of the World-Herald and other democratic newspapers to push Bryan into the background is attracting attention out side of Nebraska. Here is what the Sioux City Tribune rises to remark about it: "What sort of mischievous purpose is it and where does it come from, this, denying of Mr. Bryan by the Nebraska democrats? They are playing for a fall, these democratic newspapers and politicians, who are trying to build up the Nebraska demo cracy around organized opposition to Mr. Bryan. It won't work. It is not a question of Bryan's presidential as pirations, if he has any. It's a ques tion of the integrity of the democratic party at this time. Is the party hon est? Is it intending to follow the pro gressive trend that Mr. Bryan's leader ship gave to it, or is this anti-Bryau move engineered by the corporation influence that want to be in with de mocracy in 11)12?" Lincoln Newe. With the sufferings of our federal circuit judges on their miserable pit tance of $7,000 a year we can all sympathize. Most of us know what it is to be poor. We were poor ourselves once, and know just how hard it is to maintain a $10,000 family and a $6,000 automobile on wages of $583.33 a month. Nevertheless, the refusal of the house of representatives to increase this stipend to $10,000 a year is likely to meet the approval of all of us. Unfortunately there are not wages enough in existence to give each of us all he would like to have. Where there is money to spend in wage increases, therefore, we are compelled to consider supply and demand. When a circuit court vacancy was in this vicinity a few days ago it did not go begging, not by a big margin. Many applied, and Walter I. Smith was accounted a lucky man when he got it. Meanwhile some thousands of jobs at Chicago sewing machines go beg ging because girls have refused to sew at $7 a week. We need clothes almost as badly as we need justice. Men were snapping at the poorly paid judgeship. Why should we not take the extra wages, then, to lure the girls back to the deserted sewing machines? This is what we do when we refuse to raise the judge's salary, for all these government expenses the "ultimate consumer" pays. Lincoln Journal. SIMPLIFYING COURT METHODS. Senator Klihu Root, in the capacity of president of the New York State liar association, has called the atten tion of that body- to the time wasted in the restating by judges of established legal opinions in new forms. He con demns this practice and asserts that the briefest possible opinion from the bench usually serves the purpose quite as well as an opinion of interminable length. He also favors a statutory rule which would preclude reversal of a judgment upon the error of ruling relative to the admission or rejection of evidence in a trial unless it appears that a different ruling would have led to a different 'judgment He declares that such a rule would put an end to the countless objections and exceptions which now disfigure legal procedure. No doubt these two changes in me thods would help considerably. The average layman, however, does no) care how the legal fraternity reforms itself provided it does so at the earliest opportunity. He wants removed the snares and pitfalls which tangle his feet when he goes to law and which make legal redress appear outrageous ly difficult of attainment. He would like to see abolished the garrulity of the law which seems to create an im penetrable fog for all save the lawyers themselves and frequently for them, if indications count for anything. la short, the average layman and all the rest of the public will welcome anything and everything which tends to simplify and make more plain the processes of the law, so that exact and evea justice may be dealt out more certainly and more speedily. Chicago News. tan orauBMURxo: jaaraar,kfaMU,peetBse aceaalA tLM r-irMMaifea.. - A GREAT INVENTION. A London periodical pbblifthed am account of a newly invented machine which measures the character of an individual with perfect accuracy. It tells whether his thought processes are clear or his morals muddy. Of course there is always to be borne in mind the first paragraph in the rabbit pie recipe, which relates to the imperative importance of catching your rabbit. Many persons conscious of a decidedly bad character and under no obligation to be examined, might shy at investiga tion. But the machine should prove of great value in both politics and business. It is possible to arrive at conclusions as to whether the subject under investigation is a person who has fixed ideas founded on sentiment rather than reason, as, for illustration, a vegetarian or an anti-vaccinator. The difference between an unconfined lunatic and a sane man can be at once discovered. There appears to be no difficulty in distinguishing between a pillar of a church and a looter of trust estates even when, as it often happens, the two are corporeally one. When the marvelous mechanical device is put upon the market we shall no longer have to listen to the stump speaker who challenges his basket cal umniator to show that he has ever committed an evil act or harbored the slightest affection for a career of tur pitude. We shall measure up all ap plicants for appointive office and as piration for elective office, and put the lid upon the ambitions of those who are proven to le fellows of the baser sort and fall into the class composed of horse thieves, burglars, short change men, footpads and other pariahs. This should greatly simplify our poli tical problems. Something of the kind has been long and urgently needed. We have had enough of political ma chines. Now for a machine to meas ure the politician aud brand him pat riot or pilferer as the case may be! It will also save no end of money for the trusting depositor to strap down the bank officers and turn the machine loose upon them, cranked up for an exhaustive and candid report The failure of the expert accountant to find the thief before his picture and the es timate of his peculations have appeared on the front pages of the newspapers is notorious. The tragical results of the inability of their tribe to find out anything till after the wreck of the bank have been felt in countless homes, and observed universally. The character-reading machine should tell at once whether the cashier is speculating in stock with the funds of the innocents or thinking of retiring from business informally with the major portion of the portable contents of the vault And consider the great benefit to municipal treasuries and city taxpay ers when the machine with the "X" ray powers of discernment can be turned upon the members of the mu nicipal legislative body to ascertain whether they are more interested in civic welfare or jackpots and whether they look upon their offices as public trusts or private snaps. The story of the invention sounds a good deal too good to be true, but truth is often stranger than fiction. Upon rare occasions it is even more pleas ing. Louisville Courier-Journal. HOW FARES ROOSEVELT? Roosevelt's candidate was beaten in New York, but the verdict is by no means the overwhelming and obliter ating one his enemies prayed for or the New York newspaper headlines and cartoons indicate. A defeat of 68,000 in New York state is not any where near the beating the popular David B. Hill received at the hands of the colorless, old Levi P. Morton in 1894, when post-tariff conditions were much the same as now and the drift was against the democrats as it is today against the republicans. .When one considers the enormous massing of money and newspapers against Stimson and Roosevelt it is to be wondered at that the Dix victory was not much larger, especially in the city. Coler there in 1902 got a plurality about ten thousand larger, although he had no such elements of support in his favor and it was a republican year. So far as "up state" is concerned the results show as our newspaper forecast pre dicted last year. There was no land slide, no overwhelming rebuke to Roosevelt, but a defeat which hurt him sore and shows that even he can not understand the force of a nation wide movement Wilson's 25,000 vic tory in New Jersey, Foes 32,000 plurality in Massachusetts, and the election of democratic congressmen in Chicago are much more emphatic con demnations of the republican leaders in that region than is the sixty-eight thousand Dix victory in New York. Nor is the republican loss in the states in which Roosevelt spoke any serious indication of a slap at him. We know he cost Draper votes in Massachusetts, but not to any considerable amount It may be remembered that after the campaign of 1890 Tom Reed figured that in every congressional district in ' wBich he spoken-aid he journeyed far into the west the republican candi date lost. Yet no one' said that Reed did it BooMVelt is certainly, not banished into a cave by the New York result Undoubtedly he has lost pres tige bj his intemperate utterances and needle attacks on the stump, which his warmest friends regret, but the re publican party has need of him and will have still more need of him in healing the wounds of today and pre paring for success in 1912. Boston Transcript A BAR TO UNITY. The agreement of the committees upon a plan for the unification of the Methodist church, the Methodist Church South and the Methodist Pro testant churches is expected to result eventually in the merging of these bodies, but it is a mistake to assume that the change can be brought about by a simple resolution when the gen eral committee meets in Chattanooga next May. There are practical as well as sentimental difficulties in the way. Perhaps all the committee can do is to sweep away the physical ob stacles and then allow the churches to grow together if they are so minded during the coming generation. A strong tendency exists at the pre sent time to bring back to the parent churches the small bodies that have broken away over matters of minor be lief and practice. The Methodist Protestant church, which sprang from the original Methodist church in 1830 as a protest against the management of the church by the clergy, can return without loss of dignity, liecause the main (Mints asked for by the seceders were long ago granted. The Method ist Protestant wing is comparatively small and ought to reach unity with the old church without difficulty. The union of the Methodist Episco pal church ami the Methodist Episco pal church south is an entirely differ ent matter. The division took place in 1845. It was caused by slaver'. Since the war the two branches have still been far apart. They have ad opted a common hymnal and have shown a disposition to work in har mony when possible. Recently two churches belonging to the different wings at Chattanooga were uuited and have agreed to overlook the historic division. Along the border the ten dency is to amaglamate or at least to avoid maintaining different churches in single communities. All this, tak en in connection with the committee work just done at Cincinnati.is hopeful. But so long as the negro question remains unsettled there will be no un ion or the two chief branches of the Methodist Episcopal church. So long as public opinion in the church in the north considers the negro a man and so long as the prevailing sentiment in the church in the south is that he is an animal in the shape of a man, it will be better for the two bodies to live as neighbors and not as members of the same household. State Journal. WESTERN DEVELOPMENT. The future of the great west depends upon the settlement of its unoccupied areas with energetic and progressive people and the development of all its latest resources. Every state in this large region can easily support a im putation of many times the number now withiu its confines, and with the needed labor and capital would multi ply its productive output over and over. The problem of the great west is still to attract settlers and investors to make the most of nature's bounty. The organization of the Western De velopment association as au outgrowth of the Land show at Omaha is unques tionably a move in the right direction. Nearly every state between the Mis souri river and the coast is working along its own lines to attract immigra tion, and it goes without saying that by pulling together they can exert a great influence than by pulling separately. Moreover, they have much in common and little at variance in this matter, because the first task is to attract at tention toward the west as a whole, and if the tide of immigration and in vestment can be guided in this direc tion all will share in its benefits. The competition which these west ern states have to meet is not that of one another, but the movement to di vert immigration on the one side to the Canadian territory on the north and the other to the southern and southwestern states. Transportation and traffic movements, commercial and social intercourse, are, with us, al most entirely east and west, so.it is largely to our interest to help to peo ple and develop the country to the west in preference to other sections with which we cannot hoprto keep in close touch. Although all the western states have made a good showing in the recent census, strong and systema tic development work will enable them to make a still better showing in the next decade. Omaha Bee. MR. TAFT AS FINANCIER. President Taft has proved himself an exceptionally able finance minister. When he came to the national capital, Mr. Taft found an extraordinary state of confusion' and lack of co-ordination in the departments of government Many of the details of administration dated from the days of the fathers and the eighteenth century. It was like carrying transcontinental freight in wheelbarrows. Things had been heaped together, they could hardly be said to have grown. There was dupli cation, confusion, inefficiency, and complexity. Profiting, I think, by his practical experience as an administrator in the Philippines, where he had to do much creative work, Mr. Taft began to over haul, and to direct the overhauling of, the whole complicated and overgrown structure. He soon found that in every department the work could, by the application of modern administra tive methods, be much better done, at much less cost It was not at all a question of dis honesty or personal inefficiency. Pres ident Taft is very clear about this, and very highly commends the energy, honesty, and efficiency of the great body of public servants. Not the per sonnel, but the system, was at fault Rather, there was almost no system in the modern sense. As a single exam ple: at some of the minor ports it cost $300 to collect $1 of customs revenue. And this is symptomatic of the whole structure. Here, then, Mr. Taft is achieving, and has already achieved, the most noteworthy results; results directly beneficial to the nation as a whole; results briefly summed up in the words, "a fifty-two million dollar cut." Which is, of course, a million dollars a week saved to the American people. Charles Johnston in Harper's. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHPLACE. Perhaps every patriotic American, and almost every intelligent foreigner, who visits the national capital makes a reverential pilgrimage to Mount Vernon as a part of that visit. Yet few Americans know and still fewer have ever visited the birthplace of the Father of His Country. In this case the usual order has been inverted. It is generally the house in which a great man was born rather than the one in which tie lived or iu which he died that attracts the hero worshiper at the shrine of the great. In Lincoln's case his home in Springfield, III., attracts only a mild degree of interest; but so great was the interest in the spot where he was born in Kentucky that the original Ior cabin, or what is considered to be the one that formerly stood on the site, after having been sent about the coun try as a show attraction, has been re erected on the original location and the farm itself is now owned by the Lincoln Farm association. In Washington's case the house in which he was born was long ago per mitted to fall into decay, and not a timber or stone of it probably remain on the original site, which is at Wake field, Va., on Pope's Creek, near Colo nial Beach. The plans of it, however, have been preserved, and now the Washington board of trade is consid ering the possibility of a scheme to reproduce the house on the original site. The latter is now marked only by a shaft erected by the United States government. That the state of Vir ginia and the government of the United States have so long suffered the place where Washington was born and where he passed his earlier years to remain neglected is due only to an oversight and to the fttct that Mount Vernon, where he lived and where he lies buried, has become a national shrine. New York World. A PANACEA AT LAST. Of even more wonderful importance and effect thau at first reported is now understood to be the marvelous specific recently discovered by Dr. Ehrlich of Frankfort, Germany. When the announcement of Dr. Ehrlich's discovery was first made to the public, it was. his idea that the substance, which was designated "600," was a specific practically only in cases of loathsome blood poisoning, but a few days since it was proclaimed by Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, that purely by accident Dr. Etener had discovered new prop erties in "606" which proved its capacity to drive from the human body all the germs of all known diseases. It was in fusing the tips of tubes containing "606," to protect the re maining contents, that the discovery was made. It is stated that the heat applied for the fusing modified the drug within in some way to make it more toxic Experiments conducted upon ani mals after the substance was heated seems to confirm the theory of a toxic modification of the drug by the heat ut. jaBoen aeciarea wiw great enthusiasm that the discovery means ' so much in the medical world, so much for the emancipation of mankind from germ diseases, that he feared that a statement of it would sound like exag geration. He unhesitatingly declared it the greatest discovery ever made in medicine, overshadowing the discovery even of "606." If this startling professional an nouncement should prove true, it would seem as if the time is at hand when there need be no more sickness, for most of the illness to which flesh is heir seems to have its origin in germs. When the drug store offers us a medi cine which will eradicate the germs from the blood and still leave the fluid of life, the doctor will find it mighty hard sledding. Lincoln Star. TOLSTOY WANTED BLOOD. Hia Quarrel With Turgeneff and the Recenciliation That Followed. Raymond Recouly in the Paris Fi garo gives the following account of an early encounter between Tolstoy and Turgenfff, which shows the Rus sian sage in a different frame of mind from the one in which the world has since come to know him: It was on the estate of his friend, the poet Fet near Yasnaya. Tnrgenetf was among the Invited guests. The hostess inquired after his daughter, who was being reared in France. Turgeneff spoke highly of his Eng lish governess. "With a truly British exactitude," he said, "she requested me to fix the sum which my daughter might spend for charity. And now she teaches her pupil to mend the ragged clothes of the poor. "And you consider that a good thing?' asked Tolstoy. "Certainly," replied the other. "It brings the benefactor into direct con tact with the persons whom be is helping." "On my part, I think that a well dressed child who handles dirty and 111 smelling rags Is playing a hypo critical and theatrical farce." "I must ask you not to speak In this way." exclaimed Turgeneff. with menacing looks. "Why should I not say what I am convinced is the truth?" remarked Tolstoy. "Ywi think, then, that I am educat ing my daughter badly." and, while Fet was interceding. "If you will talk In that way 1 shall box your ears." Then he left the room, begging bis hosts to pardon his abrupt departure. Tolstoy also went. At the neighbor ing station be wrote to Turgeneff de manding an apology. He ordered pis tols and tried to provoke his rival to a duel. Turgeneff' s answer, very digni fied, brought the apology demanded by Tolstoy. He closed by saying that he thought it best that two men with such opposite tempers should hence forth break off all relations. Tolstoy, carried away by his anger (It was Iu 1SC1), declined to be satisfied with such an answer. He felt that he had been gravely offended. He demanded reparation by arms. He therefore re peated his provocations. His friend Fet, who attempted to pacify him. succeeded only in drawing from him this vigorous reply: "I beg of you henceforth not to write to me any more. I shall return your letters un opened, the same as I do with Turge nefTs." After these occurrences Turge neff returned to France, where he passed the greater part of his time. Some months later, on reflection. Tol stoy regretted his violence. Seized with remorse, he sent Turgeneff a let ter asking his pardon. "I find it ex ceedingly painful," he wrote, "to think that I have made an enemy of you." Turgeneff forgave, as one may Im agine, but the complete and definitive reconciliation took place much later. OLD ENGLISH HOUSES. In the Oaya of Waeden Huts, Thatched Roofs and Clay Floors. The habitations of English common people for centuries consisted of a wooden hut of one room, with the fire built in the center. To this hut if a man increased in family and wealth, a lean-to was added and later another and another. Tho roofs were of thatch, the beds of loose straw or straw beds with bolsters of the same laid on the floor or perhaps eventually shut in by a shelf and ledge like the berths of a ship or by :i small closet The Saxon thane or knight built a more pretentious "hall." a large open room like the lioman atrium with a lofty roof thatched or covered with slates or wooden shingles. In the cen ter of the hard clay floor burned great fires of dry wood whose thin acrid smoke escaped from openings In the roof, above the hearth or by the doors. windows and openings under the eaves of the thatch. By day the "hearthsmen" and vis itors when not working or fighting sat on long benches on either side of the fire and. as John Hay puts it, "calmly drinked and Jawed" or, gathering at long boards placed on trestles, regal ed themselves on some sort of porridge with fish and milk or meat and ale. At night straw or rushes spread ou the floor formed beds for the entire company in the earlier and ruder days, when the "baser sort" were glad to share their straw with the cows. Charles Winslow Hall in National Magazine. Tha Cabal. The term "cabal" as applied to se cret factions of any kind bad its rise in England about 1607, being first ap plied to the cabinet of Charles II. and formed from the initials of the cabi net members' names Lord Clifford. Lord Ashley, the Duke of Bucking ham, Lord Arlington and the Duke of Lauderdale-C. A. B. A. L. Since that day it has been customary, in all English speaking lands at least, to ap ply the name to any secret conclave, especially in politics. Tha Way Sha Saw It "You must not mock people. Hazel. Once upon a time, the Bible says, a crowd of little children mocked a good man named Elisha. and two bears came out of the forest and killed forty-two of them." -wasnt that an awful thus tor their motharay-ewark Newa, laid Fan Development m Wyoming -r The Board of Army Engineers appointed to apportion the Reelaawtioa Fund to taavarioM projects, has set aside 2,000,000 from the special fund, aad 93.185,000 from the regular fuad for use in the North PlatU Valley projeet ia Wyoming aad Nebraska, aad $2,000,000 from the regular fuad to eosamlate the Shoshone project ia the Bis; Horn Basin, Wyosuag. making a total of store than 16,000,000 that will be spent by the GoverasMat upon these two projects, in making desirable homes in Wyoming for our citizeaa. CAREY ACT SEVMrlL MILLION DOLLARS will be spent ,by private companies in Wyoming, and many of these projects will be pashed rapidly to oosaplaiioa. Just thiBk what the expenditure or SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS for irrigation is goiag to mean .to the Suteof Wyoming It means work at good wages for many people, many new opportunities to get valuable' farm hosses. more new growing towna and new bnemees locations. YOU SHOULD KEEP POSTED ABOUT WYOMING! Send me your name and address for onr mailing list . 9 AFTER THE TEMPEST. Tha Ganial Calm That Settlad Ovar tha Prstty Schealma'am. A pretty schoolma'am once taught school in a Long Island village. All the young fellows for miles around were mad about her. bnt the school ma'am was proud, and none of the boys seemed to stand the ghost of a chance. ' Young Jim Brown, the judge's son. was the best looking chap In the town, and Jim probably loved the schoolma'am more than any of her other swains, but he never bad the plnck to declare himself. He felt too small and mean before the beauty and learning of the schoolma'am. But one day, the schoolma'am being away on a visit in New York state. Jim asked advice of the editor. The editor said: "Take the bull by the horns and In sert an announcement of your forth coming marriage in my society col umn. It will cost yon only GO cents." So Jim inserted an announcement to the effect that the schoolma'am and be would be married the next month and would spend their honeymoon at Atlantic City. Well, a short time after this an nouncement appeared the schoolma'am came back home. Jim heard on all sides bow furious she was. For sev eral days he kept away from her Then one afternoon as she was com ing home from school be ran plump Into her in the lane. She let him know at once what she thought of him and bis outrageous conduct. She stormed and raved, and her pretty eyes flashed fire. Jim stood first on one foot and then on the oth er, and finally he blurted out: "Well. If you don't like it I can bave the announcement contradicted." "Oh. bother Itr said the school ma'am. "It's too late now." Wash ington Star. THEY LIKE PRISON LIFE A Class of Psrsens In Japan Who Try to Break Into Jail. In Japan there are people who make sham confessions in order to obtain a period of the comparative warmth and comfort of a Japanese prison. The Japan Mail says: "The police slang of the capital has words to describe and distinguish these persons. Meshl kui. or the rice criminal, will steal some small article from a shop front in such u way as to be seen doing IL He then makes a bolt of It. pursued by the master of the shop, or some faith ful kozo. but presently allows biuiseir to be caught and banded to the po lice. He has to 'do time' for bis pre tended theft but his rice Is secured for a period, and when that period has elapsed be will allow himself to .be caught again. "The 'unandon,' or eel bowl' criminal. is wilier than the one just mentioned. lS;iiSfCtSifAtTJ fWaBBBBBBBBBBafea't5'- fitT "-! aPBBBBBBBBBBHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBLS PbbLLLHb&LLLLLLB B&VSBBBBBBBBBBBBVBafBBBHBBBBBB j ggB8BB3aWILaWBay!laBB I If TV J I I MgdMG DlUlilUg I I Old Books I I Rebound I I In fact, for anything in the book I I binding line bring your work to I I Z5e I I Journal Office I I Phone 184 1 I sal bbI PROJECTS D. CLEM DEAVER. GtHtral ftM Land Seekers hrfernmiew Mwnum 1004 Farnam StrMt. Onaha. NOr. He does not actually commit n crime, such as will pur him Into the convict side of the prison; bnt allows himself to l fouud looking In suspicious places, underneath the broad veranda of a temple, or in the garden of a pri vate house. He get Into prison all right, but he secures the more generou treatment of the bouse of detention, which is to tin fare of the convict Jali what a dih or pels Is to a bowl of plain rice "The fcnruma Li a criminal who makes a shani confession in order to sneak a free railway ride. The Asasi tells of n case connected with a mur der, known as the 'decapitated corpse case. which took place last year. A man gave himself up to the police In Sendai as tin- perpetrator of the crime He was brought to Tokyo and bis story investigated It was found to be u pure fabrication." A Strauss Story. A French contemporary tells a piquant story or the composer of "Sa lome." He was dining one night with a party or musical friends when the conversation turned on the composi tions of the kaiser. Some or the guests had expressed their opinions pretty freely when Herr Strauss put his finger to his lips and said: "Sh-sir. You should never run down the com positions it crowned beads In com pany There is no telling who wrote them." Soma Letters. An ingenious person has discovered that the three most forcible letters In our alphabet are N R G (energy), thai the two which contain nothing are M T (empty), that four express great cor pulence. O B C T (obesity); that two are in a decline. D K (decay): that four Indicate exalted station. X L N C (excellency), and three excite our tears, yet when pronounced together are necessary to a good understanding L E G (elegy and leg). Willing to Cemaromlee. "Dldn't you promise never to do that again?" "Yes. father." "And didn't I promise to whale yon good if you didn't?" "Yes, but I broke me promise and won't bold you to yours." Toledo Blade. To the Point. At a teachers conference oue of the school prim-lpals rose to proiMtse the toast. "Ijid-: live the teachers. And a meager, pallid assistant lis structor in a hollow voice akid. "n what?" Ladies ilnme Journal Ita Resemblance "Did the man whose auto was in oi llslon last nlghi give it n enrri e animation?" "It sounded that way. sir "-Bait! more American. Vi .-. .
