TlfK OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1905.
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Secretary,
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W 11 E.I Ot'T OP TOWS,
aksorlbers learlnar th city trm
porarlly shoald have The Bee
nailed to thera. It la better thaa
at dally letter from home. Ad
dress will be ehaaced as often as
reqoosted.
Speaker Cannon proves to be a real
"standpatter" when It comes to select-
ing committee chulrmen.
Hace prejudice seems to be the sheet
anchor of Emperor Francis Joseph in
i the stoma In Hungary. It has saved
many worse monarehs.
Nebraska's winter wheat shows bet-
ter than the average of the United
mates, secretary llson must put the
state in the wheat belt as well as in the
Krn bolt.
) i From the manner In which Sir Charles
DHKe was Ignored, t.y the new liberal
: premier It Vv'oMld seem, that divorce Is a
burning issue in England os well as in
this country. J
t With the appointment of the com
j ntlttces, members of the Fifty-ninth con
l Kress can begin to test the harness but
'. the real pull will not begin until after
; the new year.
: rolls!) aspirations do not extend to
, national freedom, says a distinguished
'native of.-that province; but Poland
, would take a bigger and deeper breath
; should it receive autonomy.
1 One would thluk that there were so
; few democrats in congress that they
J could at least preserve the peace" aniorg
j themselves: but Florida and Mississippi
never did fraternize too well.
i Count -Wtttn will make a mistake if
he tries to be a liberal bureaucrat. He
must get on one side of tho question
or the other, as there Is no time for
trlBiming? when, the fires begin to
burn: ''
. ivruni va w- i J ss TAirimrii
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to the ..Nebraska county commissioners
and'supervlsors, who are assembled In
Omaha to compare notes and discuss
defects In the laws relating to county
government.
Little sympathy need be wasted upon
those who lost uwuey through Invest-
ment In forged deeds to Oregon land, as
In most cases the agreement to sell the
land was made before patent passed
frsan the government. '
The milk-shake tempest raised by the
local yellows seems to have spent Its
force. There Is doubtless room for lm -
provement in the sanitary Inspection of
the milk supply, but sensational spdsms
seldom produce the results.
The Kiukaid act may be a breeder of
lsnd frauds, but so is every act of con -
Teas that has opened the public domain
for homestead settlers. It is the oppor- home rule question as absolutely the
tunity that makes the thief, but that nialn Issue now before th public. Re
should not militate against the opior- ferrlng to the declaration made recently
tunity.
Omaha Jobbers are reaping' a golden
harvest this year and the opening of
new trade territory affords assurances
of a much larger opportunity for trade I Ing advance which the home rule ques
expansion during the coming year, pro- tlon has had in a generation and makes
Tided the Jobbers get a square deal at
ths hapds of the transportation com- the people of the empire. It is pre
panles. I mimed thnt most If not all of the mem
The Gridiron club's wireless telegrams
frorj the defeated candidates of the re-
cent electlOU for some inexplicable
raon.if!l o throw any light on the
Rockefeller's run for a place on the
Board of University Regents lu Ne
braska. The Gridiron club's wireless
machine has sprung a leak before Its
work was finished, " "
THE HUUfE CvMMITTEKS-
Few Important changes have been
made by Speaker Cannon In the chair
msnshlps of tlio house committees.
Itcprosentiitive Payne of New York re-
mains cnuirmiin or tne committee on
WBy, ,! ,,, ,y virtue of that
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position the floor leader. The ways and
roiumittee have mue to do
In the present congress, or nt any rate
in ti. ,. mHH,n o that Mr I'avne
lne 111,1 session, ko iiiui .ur. iju"
will nave ample time for whatever
duties may fall to him as the floor man
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nesota heads the committee on apnro-
prlatlons and has the most important
and. dlfilcult tank of anjr halruian, aa
tue question oi keeping uowu niiiw-
prlatlons la the one of first concern. No
better selection for this position could
have been made and it can be confl
dently predicted that the appropriations
committee will take a determined stand
against whatever appears like extrava
gance In public expenditures. Kepre
sentatlve Burton of Ohio continues at
the head of the committee on rivers and
harbors, In which position ho has made
a most excellent record
All the men appointed to committee
airmanships are thoroughly familiar
Mrnanshlps thoroughly familiar
with the duties and have records for
Industry and fidelity. The house of rep
resentatlves can now proceed to active
.. nnrl a strictly business session Is
promised.
rniLiPPixt commerce.
In his annuul report Secretary Taft
recommends that the present law apply-
Ing the coastwise trade laws of the
United States to the trade between the
Philippines and this country be sus
pended in its operation until 1SXW. This
Is deemed to be necessary in order to
prevent great damage being done to the
commerce of the Islands. The present
law provides for the application of the
coastwise laws to trade between the
Philippines and this country after July
1, 19(H). When this legislation was
adopted it was supposed that nt the
date lixed for it to go Into effect there
would be American shipping ready to
take up the trade. So far there are no
signs that this will be the case and it
Is an entirely safe prediction that if
the law to which Secretary Taft refers
goes into effect at the time designated
there will not be a sufficient number of
American vessels to carry on the trade
with the Islands, even if It should not
Increase any in the meantime. In that
event, there can be no doubt that the
trnde would seriously suffer.
It Is probable, however, that congress
will see the wisdom and expediency of
extending the law as suggested by the
gecretary of war, or nt any rate for a
couple 0f years. If this shall be done
nnd the proposition to reduce duties on
Philippine products, as urged by Fresl-
-in rtnouerelt nnrl Keeretnrv Taft nlinll
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Philippines will possibly warrant the
hiil1,llnr nf Amerlcnn vessels for the
,mmPrc between the Islnnds and the
Tjnlted States. There seems to be a
milte general disposition In con tress
favorable to action that will promote
the Industrial and commercial welfare
of the Philippines.
THE SEW BRITISH CABItiET
The cabinet formed by Sir Henry
Oampbell-Bannermari appears to have
the cordial approval of the newspaper
organs of the liberal party, while the
conservs.tive press concedes that the
new premier has constituted a stronger
ministry than had been deemed possible.
Unquestionably there are In the cabinet
men of a high order of ability, who have
a strong claim to public confidence. Such
men as Asqulth and Grey and Morley
and Bryce have a distinction that is
recognized beyond Great Britain and
nre representative of the most enllght-
ened and llberal Bailment of their
countrymen politically. The counsel of
"uch men m Mte countod uPn
t0 M ,n the mtcmt of peace, progress
anu ,ne extension or. iiDerai institutions.
The majority of the members of the
mtn.Btrr are little known outside of
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I f i V- Jl. I A. . M Li. Jl ll.
urtal "ruain, "n unaouoieuiy xuey are
weU Qua'lnw tot the positions to
which they nre assigned.
" 18 a comer, wnicn win give no en
I couragement to the advocates or fiscal
reform. The prime minister himself is
one of tne strongest supporters of the
existing system and the men he has
called ,ut0 thoinlnlstry are undoubtedly
,n hearty sympathy with him. Conse-
quntJy H the influence of the new
cabinet will be exerted against the pol
icy urged by Mr. Chamberlain and
which will be the paramount issue in
I the general election that must ; come,
1 Another question which Is raised Into a
I prominence that it has not had before
I tar some years Is that of home rule for
I Ireland. In the opinion of John E. Red
mond, leader of the IrUh nationalists,
I not since the time of Gladstone has Ire
1 land occupied a more powerful position
I than she does today. He regards the
I by .Campbell Bannerman. that the gov
ernment of Ireland must be placed in
the handsjf an assembly elected by the
Irish people, Mr. Redmond said this
marks the greatest and most enconrag-
it absolutely the main issue now before
bers of the new ministry are in accord
with the position of the prime minister
n regard to Ireland, but It remains to
I tie seen whether lie was alrnirether uln-
cere In what he recently said. While
It is tme that the best traditions of the
liberal party are inseparably associated
with the policy of giving Ireland home
rule, still there are prominent and Influ
ential meu lu thnt purty who do uot
favor It and It Is by no means certain
that with this question as an issue In a
general election the liberal partly would
win.
So far as British foreign affairs are
concerned there probably will be no im
portant change under the new ministry.
It may be expected to seek to strengthen
friendly relations with other govern
ments and to promote In whatever way
It can international pence. No one can
foresee how long It will remain In
power. That can only le determined
from the result of a general election,
which 'it Is expected will Ire held early
In the coming year.
WHAT OOVEHKOR MICKEY FORQKTS.
Governor Mickey has a'fter mature re
flection reached the conclusion that
there is no need of u special session of
the legislature. Governor Mickey's
reasons for declining to ca'l an extra
session for the purpose of submitting
constitutional amendments or for any
other purpose is tersely stated ns fol
lows: In view of the experience Nebraska has
had In voting on proposed amendments to
the constitution no one can reasonably
hope to see the amendments carry at the
next general election if submitted.
Vhllo I am In favor of amendments to
the constitution in
number of partlcu- ,
lars. I don t feel Justified In putting he
state to the expense of an extra "e8B "n J
amendments.
That method of relief Is an acknowl
edged failure In this state and I know
of no greater reason to hope 'for Its suc
cess next year than In previous years,
when constitutional amendments have
been defeated.
Governor Mickey evidently forgets
that the defeat of the twelve amend
ments to the constitution submitted In
181)0 was due chiefly, if not wholly, to
the fact thut Nebraska was the political
cyclone center of a national campaign,
wljen popular attcntlou was all focused
upon Bryan's paramount Issue. For all
that, several of the amendments then
submitted came within less than 3,000
votes of being adopted by a majority
of all the votes cast at the election, thus
affording conclusive proof that the peo
ple of Nebraska realized the imperative
need of the revision of our organic law,
particularly the enlargement of the su
preme court and safeguarding of the
state school trust funds.
Governor Mickey says he is In favor
of a revision of the constitution by con
vention, but he forgets that the proposi
tion to call a convention submitted last
year was defeated by the corporation
influence which dominated both the re
publican and democratic state conven
tions. Had either of these conventions
endorsed the proposition It would have
carried by a decisive majority. An
endorsement by the conventions would
have resulted lti the counting of each
vote given for the straight party ticket
for the convention, whereas failure to
do so required every ballot not marked
"yes" to be counted against the proposi
tion.
Governor Mickey may not remember
that the defeat of the proposition for a
constitutional convention was made
doubly sure by the corporations through
the former secretnry of state, who
placed the proposition at the tail end of
the ballot Instead of printing it at the
head. A great majority of the voters of
all parties who voted the straight ticket
labored under the impression that they
were voting for the amendment as well
as for the whole ticket, when, as a
matter of fact, their failure to mark a
cross opposite the proposition counted
as a rote against it. Even then the
constitutional convention would have
carried had It not been submitted In a
national campaign year, of which fact
Governor Mickey evidently was ob
livious. It is passing strange that Governor
Mickey did not arrive at his conclusion
not to call the legislature as early as
did the railroad managers, whose chief
lobbyist gave It out cold several days
before the governor's statement was
given to the press that no extra session
would be called by Governor Mickey.
Manifestly there are several things Gov
ernor Mickey forgets and does not want
to remember.
Down at Lincoln an arrest has been
made on the charge of attempted black
mail contained In a demand for $500 for
refraining from prosecuting a liquor
dealer for violating the United States ex
cise laws. The gsme of blackmail here
in Omaha, however, by which protests
lodged with the police commission by
the World-Herald against liquor dealers,
charging them with selling liquor on
Sunday, are withdrawn as soon as the
victim coughs up $10, goes on unmo
lested. Indian Commissioner I.eupp proposes
to Immortalize the poor Indian by huv
lng his songs set to music preserved In
the archives of the Indian bureau and
embossed for the phonograph. This is
highly commendable, even if It does not
contribute to the civilization of the red
man, but to preserve aboriginal kettle
drum music will not resurrect the good
Indians who have gone to the happy
hunting grounds as the victims of the
greed of reservation grafters.
There Is nothing very startling in the
announcement that the name of former
Senator John M. Tbnreton appears on
Terry Belmont's list of paid spell-binders.
John M. is not In the habit of ex
erting his luag power for bis health.
Politicians will not have to wonder
long as to who is aspiring for the va
cant United states luarsbalship for Ne
braska. . It will not take long for the
candidates to come out In the open and
there will le plenty of them.
The seed corn specials are azalu !e-
ginning to make their tours in the In
terest of educating the farmer up to In
creasing th maximum of his crops
This Indicates that the railroads regard
the propaganda as a good Investment
from, which they' feel sure of getting
their money back.
If Pat Crowe could only have his
case transferred to the federal court
and arrange In advance for a sentence
bnsed on lack of "moral turpitude" he
might be persuaded to enter a plea of
guilty to Hint kidnaping charge and
save the expense of a Jury Jrlal.
Andrew Carnegie and Immigration
Commissioner Sargent do not agree as to
the immigration problem In America, so
It remains to the immigrants to show
which is right, with the previous record
of Immigration strongly In fnvor of the
steelmaster.
Mat to This Scoffer.
Portland Oregonlan.
This Is the time of year when all the
great railroad systems abolish the pass
system. For a few days.
Deeds Follow Words.
St. Louis Qlobe-Democrst.
Secretary Hitchcock's voice la for war
on all kinds of Innd frauds, and he lias
made an unequaled record In fighting them
effectively.
The Limit of Autocracy
Minneanllla Journal.
WRreaw Zapadnjoios has suspended
bcaton. How are the people who have
depended on It so long going to get on with-
out their Zapadnyjoolos?
"The Empty Pork Bar'l."
New York Tribune.
Speaker Cannon has already Intimated
that for the present the country will have
to get along with the federal buildings
now In urc. The "pork barrel" will con
tain small consolation next year for new
representatives who are gallantly standing
"for the flag and an appropriation."
What Breams Arc Mode Of.
Cincinnati Inquirer.
Secretary Wilsons agricultural report
will make good reading for the farmer
these long winter evenings. He can go to
bed and dream that he Is rich and growing
richer, and that there Is nothing in the way
of making a plutocrat of him. He can wake
up in the morning and feed the stock and
rriih lirlnrQ till n lirht comes again. Then
he can read and dream some more
so on, "world without end."
And
Wnlk or Pot IP Money.
Springfield Republican.
The action of two such great properties
as the New York Central and Pennsylvania
railroads in abolishing free passes, cannot
but have a powerful influence in leading
other roads to adopt the same course. It
Is not surprising, therefore, to learn that
the Norfolk & Western, the Reading and
Central of New Jersey, and the Lacka
wanna roads have already decided to dis
continue passes after this year. To illus
trate the magnitude of the free pass abuse
a Pennsylvania official says that the aver
age number of persons daily using passes
on the lines of that company cast of Pitts
burg would fill a train of ten coaches.
ttlfcSTIOyS TO BK ASKED.
Proposed Qnls Concerning National
Bank Methods.
Wall Street Journal.
The senate has passed a resolution call
ing on the Treasury department for In
formation as toi whether the reports of ex
aminers, show tbat-- national banks made
contributions- U4he political committees,
the same as the; -insurance companies have
done.
Banks are aa necessary as the railroads
for the development of the country. Both
are engaged In the business of transporta
tion. That is to say. the business of both
is to facilitate the exchange of commodi
ties. In fact, banks existed before the
railroad and are even more Important as
an essential part of the economic system.
The national bank system In particular has
stood the test of a generation, and as a
system la not open to legitimate attack.
It la performing a splendid work.
Nevertheless, the senate might well ex
lend the Bcope of its Inquiry so as to as
certain other facts besides the specUl In
formation which It asks from the Treasury
Tt la all v.rv wall in ARrer -
tain whether national banks have made
political contributions. But why not ask
also to wnat extent national banks are
violating the national bank law; to what
extent the comptroller of the currency falls
to enforce the law; to what extent na
tional banks are able to obtain exclusive
Information of treasury policy, and to what
extent the national banks are using trust
companies the language the secretary of
the treasury Is now quoted "as a means
to encroach upon the reserve contemplated
by statute." The senate might also In
quire to what extent political and family
Influences are responsible for the appoint
ment of Incompetent bank examiners.
I'KKSOXAL NOTES.
Thomas Oarfield.' the only brother of tho
martyred president, lives on a little farm
about five mllea from Hudsonvllle, Mich.
He Is 83 years of age and a typical farmer.
Mrs. Togo is apparently one of those
wise women who have found a solution
of the servant girl question. Aa a Japa
nese observer puts it: "When the gen
eral Is In the house Mrs. Togo herself at
tends to cook and serves on the table."
Dr. Maurice F. Kgan, professor of Eng
lish language and literature at the Catho-
1 1 n T-nlirArtltf nf A,r,rlnn n'hn Ifi reirarrif-fl
as one of three repdresentatlves of the
truly best In American literature, thinks
American poetry lucking because not
American In spirit.
Congressman Miller of Kansas has Intro
duced a bill Increasing from 112 to $30 per
month the pension now being received by
Jesse McDowell, one of his constituents.
The veteran, now In his 102d year, fought
In the Seminole, Mexican and civil wars.
but Is still In fairly good health.
William Thompson, who died the other
day at Bheibyvlile, Ind., aged 77, was
known as "the man who sold his gold at
1175." During the civil war Thompson ac
cumulated S3. 1(0 In gold, which he carried
to Indianapolis and sold at a premium of
t'J.75. netting him 17,525. within 10 cents of
the highest price ever paid for gold.
General Pleasant Porter, chief of the
Creek itat'on. who Is at present In Wash
ington with four Indian companions, may
be the first rndlan seated lii the United
States senate, thut Is. If the political status
of the candidate and of the new state,
composed of Indian Territory and Okla
homa, Is considered. Porter Is 65 years old
and comes of a mixture of Pennsylvania
Yankee and Creek.
Congressman W. A. Smith of Michigan
for two days last week was the hero of
those who like to see an honest man once
In a while In public lire. He announced
with a smile of virtuous satisfaction that
he had decided that in order to be un
trammeled In the discussion of the rate
bill during the winter he would resign his
position as director In the Pere Marquette
road. The act was applauded on all aides.
When U was learned that the Pere Mar
quette was Involved with the Cincinnati.
Humllton tt Dayton and had gone Into
Uu.Wi u U William - smiled again.
ROIAD ABOIT XKW YORK.
Ripples on the Current of Life la the
Metropolis.
A New York correspondent who hns a
warm spot for Chauneey Icpew protests
against the forgetfulness and Ingratitude
of the public In condemning the senator
mercilessly for a later day business
blunder. "The public," says the corre
spondent, "that for a generation have
lauded Mr. Depew and listened to him
with mouths open with amused and inter
ested admiration what does It do the
moment that Mr. Depew's business mis
take has become the property of the)
world? It jumps on him with both feet
and refuses him the decent hearing that
his eminence and long life of pubtlo serv
ice deserve. It winks at Itself and sug
gests that much may be hidden that Is
even worse. It wonders why he was ever
elected Vnlted States Senator, and heated
men write to him at Washington asking
him to resign.
"It forgets what Mr. Depew has been
for the past twenty - five years. For
gets that he has been a great apostle of
public cheer, and has lived an encouraging
life of sunshine before the wqrld. That he
has day after day and night after night
given freely cf his best for the delight,
edification and instruction ot tenB of thou
sands. That ho has advocated the doc
trine of cheerfulness, and warmed many a
heart that would otherwise have been
cold. It forgets the years of Its adoration,
and remembers only that here is a man
who Is down, and that the only thing left
is to give him a kick.
"Chauneey M. Depew has done ten mil
lion times as much good In this world as
he has harm. Let us try to remember it."
All previous records In the New York
postofflce for the volume of eastward
transatlantic mails nt Chrlstmastlde were
broken when the White Star line steam
ship Cedrlc sailed last week, bearing 3,075
sacks of first-class mail and 51,230 pieces of
registered matter. The Cedric was one of
the first Christmas ships to get away and
Its departure marked the Inauguration of
the annual busy season In the New York
postoffice. From now until the sailing of
the liist Christmas packet the clerical force
In the general postofTice and its branches
throughout the city will be employed up
to midnight of each day, and on the day
preceding the last sailing the clerks will
work all night. The previous record for
the maximum of Christmas mall Was held
by the Etruriu, which sailed a few weeks
before Christmas some years ago with
41.1C2 registered packages. Last year the
Majestic took away at this season 2,679 bags
of foreign mall.
Half the population of New York is af
fected with a wheexe which the doctors
call the gTlp. The disease comes from the
west and from abroad and must therefore
be world-wide. According to London phy
sicians the grip there has brand new symp
toms for the winter season of lCHG-O.
Neuralgic headaches and facial pains are
now de rlgeur with the grip, they report,
to which the locnl health authorities say:
"Bosh. Grip has specific symptoms, only
one of which may be prevalent any year
or any week. There is no such thing as
styles In grip symptoms." Against this Is
the fact, that many New Yorkers are corn
plaining of neuralgic headaches and painful
faces this winter, all of which seenvi to
bear out the London doctors' assertion that
the symptoms described accompany this
season's Influenza. People who are rot In
the habit of doing exterior decorating to
the tow at night have been complaining
of "Oh, such a head!"
David Welch, a publisher of 78 Y. est One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, has an
office boy that Is in training to take Mark
Twain's place when the humorist, who was I
70 years old recently, decides to run for
president. The boy's name Is Bobby Brown,
His employer lost a typewriter early In the
week and sent Bobby out to advertise for a
new one. He left the phraseology to tho
boy's Indiscretion. This Is the result:
"Wanted Typewriter and stenographer,
must be extremely plain, no sweet 16 or
prize beauty, pretty girls barred, uglier
the better. 10 a. m. Fair Deal, 76 West
125th street."
It worked. More old women than a
Tammany captain sees In a memth have
made life serious for Mr. Welch. The
favorite remark Is, "Ain't I homely
enough?"
Mr. Welch is too polite to tell the
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'"j, Thr"' ,rea"r beautiful creatures
with flaxen hair and stenographic note
books clutched In their long musiclaii
like fingers, have been seen to pass the
door and look timidly in. None dared to
enter.
Robert Leo Morrell, .chairman of the
Automobile association, started out for a
spin in his automobile the other day, and
everything worked finely until he reached
Broadway and Seventy-second street. Then
the machine balked, and no erf mis on his
part could induce It to go.
He worked away until he was rapidly
getting into a state that he felt could only
be relieved by strong language, but the
presence of a group of children made him
refrain from expressing himself. In the
group was a little girl with long golden
hair nnd deep blue eyes. She crowded close
to the automobile owner as he worked.
Finally he became so exasperated that it
seemed as if he really must say something,
and, turning to the little miss, he said:
"I w-lsh you would run away, little girl.
There's a few things I'd like to say."
"Go right ahead," said the child. "Don't
mind me. My papa has an auto too."
How a franchise grew in value from
15,000 to SU.fiOe.OOO is a question that Is be-
. in . Investigated by the New York city
authorities. The franchise in question is
the old burglar alarm grant of the Mer
cantile Electric company, now owned by
the United States Independent Telephone
company, which Is seeking to gain an
entrance to New York city. It was
granted to the Mercantile Electric company
by the old Board of Electric Control to
enable the Mercantile Safe Deposit com
pany to perfect a burglar alarm system.
Not long ago the city authorities were In
formed from supposedly authoritative
sources that tha Mercantile Trust com
pany had disposed of the Mercantile Elec
tric company for $5,000 to the New York
Independent Telephone company, which in
turn Is owned by the United States Inde
pendent company.
Then they received bankers' circulators
announcing that the United States com
pany was floating a $25,000,000 bond lssus,
largely on the strength of this franchise,
which the company valued at $12,500,000.
The right of a theater manager to re
fuse tickets sold by a sidewalk speculator
was upheld by the court of appeals. Ths
action was brought by William 11. Collis
ion, a ticket speculator, against Albert
Hay man tc Co., who conduct the 'Knicker
bocker theater In New York. The opinion
held that the proprietors of a theater have
a right to refuse tickets obtained through
a speculator la cases where they gave
such a warning as this company did
Every Day a Uumy On.
Indianapolis News.
Secretary Hitchcock doesn't attract tha
spot light very often, but every once In a
while something crops out which makes
It pretty certain that lie U getting a guod
drat of wood sawed.
WIIKX THK "BIO STICK" I, AM) I'D.
Fremont Herald: And now another pair
of republican officials has gone wrong in
Nebraska. There must bo something in
the climate which breeds crookedness in
the men whom President ltoosevelt has
honored In Nebraska.
Leigh World: J. C. Vettljohn, register
of the land office at Valentine, has been
discharged from, duty and the secretary
of the Interior has requested the resigna
tlon of Receiver A. L. Towle of the same
office. It seems that the rresent admin
istration will stand for no monkey business
and It Is right that they should not.
Beatrice Kxpress: The new appointment , ot,,rr dny wh Ulo avowe,, purpo8, p,
to the land office positions at Valentine havlmr a conference with Attorney C.en
lllustrates the danger of selecting the man , ri iirn.n ,, ,h ran,j ... ,.,.,
who gets In first or hardest with his en
dorsements. That Is, it will Illustrate it
pretty soon, for very few who know Orva
Uallogly will believe that he can stay In
an office like that very long without his
fingers getting very uneasy. He will want
to settle contests by throwing dice or play
ing sevenup with tho claimants. After
the Tucker experience the senators should
have hesitated about taking a man who
wears his hat on the side of his head. Just
becauso lie had been lively in gathering up
endorsements.
Grand Island Independent: Six hours of
Imprisonment for the violation of the laws
of the land Is In the first place farcical.
When, then, the officer whose duty It Is to
ece that the sentence of the court Is car
ried out, e.dds to the gaiety and the comedy
of the occasion by turning the convicted
violators, of the law over to their counsel
the procedure becomes still more ridiculous.
The Department of Justice st Washington,
however, has a somewhat greater respect
for the decrees of the federal courts and
when It learned, through press reports, that
two men convicted In the federal courts at
Omaha had been so "in custody." It recom
mended the application of the big r.tick and
L'nlted States Marshal Mathews" head came
off. Mr. Mathews has been somewhat nils
represented In the mutter, but admitted
that he hnd Immediately turned the prison
ers over to their attorney, the latter to keep
them In custody, and well, It was a ridic
ulous procedure. Mr. Mathews was re
moved Friday. It begins to look more
and more as If there were a spirit abroad
In Washington, If not In the land, that laws
and the decrees of courts must be respected
by tho offender of means no less than by
the offender In homhler walks, both of
whom, of course, should stand on an equal
basis before the law.
Nebraska City Tribune: Like lightning
from a clenr sky comes the removal from
office of United States Marshal Mathews
of Nebraska by order of the president.
While the streak of lightning is dazzling
to the eye for a moment the optic nerve
is quickly adjusted to the situation and
we are brought to realize that the Roose
velt "square deal" Is Just the same thing
In Nebraska as It Is In Washington, New
York, Indiana or anywhere else. That's
all there Is to It. Two offenders who had
defied the statutes of the l'nlted States
for years were finally rounded up after,
the expenditure of large amounts of time
p.nd money by the government. An ap
parently Inadequate penalty Imposed by the
trial court contained as a portion of the
punishment that the convicted men be
given Into the custody of United States
Marshal Mathews for six hours. There was
a good deal of 111 concealed disgust in ad
ministration circles at Washington when
the results of the cases and the sentence
of the court became known and when It
leaked out that even the "six hours In
custody of the marshal" had been to all
Intents nd purposes nullified by the fact
that the. marshal had turned the men over
to the "custody" of their own attorney,
there was something doing and the Roose
velt "square deal" axe hit Marshal
1 Mathews In the Jugular before he could bat
his eye. The Tribune still stands Ut
Roosevelt and the "square deal"- at home
as well as abroad In Nebraska as well
as In Indiana or Jersey,
Valentine Republican: Reports fronv
Washington involving the register and re
ceiver of the land office here reached this
community like a thunderbolt from a clear
sky. Both stand high here, have the
entire confidence of all, and having had
no official notice of charges being preferred
against them, people of this section, re
gardless of political affiliations, are up in
arms and highly indignant. Had the regis-
ter and reee-r muted, a petition would
have been circulated and signed by nine
tenths of the citizens In the district asking
.1.... ,U.. l. MlKB.n.A All . I A n A U.
.
,rny,s ,r..w..t...TU
circulated bv the enterprising and Indus
trious metropolitan rress. There Is no truth
. . , , .
In the statement that
mrno men liuva
been In collusion with those making fraud-
ulent entries and fencing of government
muu, Knu iii-iLuri nnc i:tjuiivu ui at
tempted to acquire title to a foot of gov
ernment land. So far as known the only
thing for which complaint could be made
was the withholding of two relinquishments
by Mr. Pettijotn fnom the records until
after the rush incident to filings under the
Kinkatd 640-acre homestead law, and he
halng at one time, in 1901, government
land under fence. From the relinquish
ments he did not profit one cent and the
tract fenced at that time had been passed
up as worthless by people filing in that
community, In Brown county, near Long
Pine. This action is undoubtedly due to
knockers who are liable to prosecution
I and hope to save their own necks by Impli
cating others. In this latter, however,
they are sadly mistaken, for the govern
ment Is hot on their trail and will prob
ably give them more Justice than they
have dealt misery to Register Fettijohn
and Receiver Towle.
My Hair is
Straggly
Do you like it? Then why
tented with it? Have to be?
Just put on Ayer's Hair Vigor and
have long, thick hair; soft, even hair;
beautiful hair, without a single gray
line in it. Have a little pride. Keep
young just as long as you can.
The best kind of a testimonial
"Sold for over sixty years,"
ICao by She . O. Ayev Ca.. Lewell, Ummm.
AIM tsuMtrr l
ATTICS SASSsPABMXA-For tb bloes. ITER'S FILts-Fsr oastlttttias.
ATXK'S CHtBKT KliCI0al-Fsr caf as.
H (11. ROADS AM) TAX SIIIRKItS.
j Wahoo Wasp: The t'nlon iiclflc and
Burlington rnllronds In refusing to pa'
llielr tuxes In the various counties In Ne
brnskit nre doing themselves and (ho peo
ple of the state an Injustice. The people
of Butler county In condemning those
j corporations for refusing to pay their
; taxes, the sane us others are doing, is
prPlld ovrr , ,.,. TIl. Korthwiern
has paid lis taxes In full, and thereby hs
shown that It Is disposed to do the right
thing.
Beatrice Hxpress: It is reported thnt
I Boll C'lnilPV m .1 . , u n a 1 In.wtlM ttl
Such a mission should have been useless.
What we need Is fewer conferences nnd
more convictions. Tho duty of Mr. Bn w
Is to go ahead and prosecute that suit,
and do It hard. The duty of Mr. Clancy
Is to pound some sense Into his employers
so that they will walk up and pay their
taxes. Give us fewer compromises and
defective papers, and more results.
Kearney Democrat: If Norrls Brown
will stop and read the motto Inscribed
upon the face of tho great seal of the
state cf Nebraska he will find these words
thereupon engraved: "Equality Before
the Law." Now, if Norrls will Investi
gate the coal rate schedules he will dis
cover the grossest inequality In spite of
the law, and thut Omaha continues to
have its coal hauled right through Kear
ney nt a rate of a dollar or two less a
ton than Kearney Is compelled to pay.
Is this the kind of equality meant by
the motto on the great seal? If It Is not,
why not give us the genuine brand T
Crawford Tribune: Considerable sur
prise has been created by the action of
two of the county officers tho county
treasurer and clerk in going to Omaha
to testify for the railroads In the tax
suit cases. The officials admit thut they
were not subpoenaed, but went on request
of the railroad managers. Their testi
mony was not damaging, as they told
of two or three farms that had been
undervalued, and admitted that they were
not posted about general conditions in the
county. While the action has dons no
harm It has aroused sentiment against
tho method, and is likely to lead to some
concerted movement by the people of
Gnge county.
Beatrice Kxpress: In the tax cuses now
being tried, wherein the railroads seek to
avoid a part of their taxes on the plea
that farms are not taxed high enough,
some curious questions arise. And In the
arguments made In court and out of court
by railroad agents there are some things
that will make the average farmer sit up
and listen. For lnstanco, the aigui. ent
that lunds are taxed too low Is based o
a few samples taken from each county,
where farms have changed hands at prices
greatly In excess of the taxable valua
tions. It is un argument that will work
both ways. Two years and three years
ago the stocks of the Union Pacific were
selling on the market as low as 78. This
week Dun's review quotes the same
stocks at 134 to 13. So they have almost
doubled. The men who own thorn are
that much richer than they were two
years ago. The stock represents the road.
When a railroad is bought or sold.lt is
the stock that sells. Therefore, If for
some reason some farms have Increased
in selling prices and should be taxed
more, some railroads have also increased
In selling price, and should be taxed more.
Is It logic or Is It not? The Burlington
stock mora than doubled In one day.
Should that be tho basis of the taxabl
value?
LA I'd HI NO MSES.
"I tell you what," sulci the man who was
fond of moralizing, "experience Is a great
school."
"yuile so," replied the wise one, "but
very few t-ver live to graduate from It."
Cleveland Leader.
"Aha!" exclaimed the villain on the stage,
"the plot thickens."
"Huh!" grunted the dlsKiisted Mrs. Rnrnh
Kostlc, In the audience, "I'll bet a cooklo
it won't Jell." Philadelphia Ledger.
Fortune Teller (examining her palm)
Beware of a strikingly handsome, tall,
dark-haired young man.
Fair Customer It's too late for that; I've
married him. Chicago Tribune.
Clerk Yes. madam, we have somethimr
' holtely new In toys. How old is the
boy?
Young Mother Eighteen
York Sun.
months New
I '"Mrs. Upstart Is Insufferably snobbish.
ano Bne usea to De so nice:
"Well, you see, she Jumped from poverty
?.'lr'"' a"'1 t sprained her mlnd."-Do
les ana it
ree Press.
iron
Police Justice Have you any means of
rojmVdVyou?th pii8"ner " th n,an
Mr. Tyte-Phlst Your honor, he hd 4!i
ot my means in his pocket when he was
arrested. Chicago Itecord-Heruld.
THE VN POPULAR. MAN'.
8. W. Gillllan in The Reader.
Give me for friend the man whose friends
are few;
Who, though his heart be clean and
stanch and good
Though every fiber of his soul be true
Is tactless, blunt, and seldom under
stood. In such a drift God oft conceals a lode
Whose richness makes ink'otida's wealth
seem naught:
On such an one He oftllmes has bestowed
Large worth so hid it must be shrewdly
sought.
So, while the rabble fawns on him whose
friends
Are h the sands that rim the ocean's
blue,
I choose tho best of all that heaven sends -Give
me for friend the man whose friends
are few.
be con
Oh, no!
Alftk'i A0U CV&MT aularU aa4aM,