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6Ut of Nebraska, Douglas County,
George B, Tsschuck. treasurer of The
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fworn, says that the actual number nf
full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed
during th month of March, 1908, was aa
follows:
1 33.BB0 17 B7.B80
t 34,040 1 88,630
t 16,360 19 36.800
4 34,430 10 38,680
6 36,870 21 36.880
C 38,680 23 38,400
7 36,190 23 36,900
80,600 24 36,730
86,480 26 36,680
10 38,300 2 86340
1? 36,670 27 86,700
12 36,800 21 36,870
It 38,130 29 38,380
;4 38,970 10 36,660
16 36,380 tl 36,930
It 36,680
Totals 1,138,350
Less unsold and returned copies. . 9,169
Net total r... 1,183,098
Daily average 38,aa8
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Dyed the Easter egga yet?
The attendance at the ball games
la a pretty husky sign of returning
confidence.
It Is barely possible that the Denver
convention may not be a one-man
show after all.
"These Taft announcements are be
coming monotonous," says the Balti
more American. To whom?
A man named Meal Is a candidate
for office In Pennsylvania and his op
ponents are preparing to eat him up.
. Speaker Cannon Is Bald to be fond
of the drama. He Is certainly well
qualified to present "His House In
Order."
"Hobson Is nervous," says the Lou
isville Courier-Journal, apparently
failing to distinguish between nervous
and nervy.
"Bryan Week in the East" 13 the
headline in the local democratic organ.
"Bryan Weak in the East" might bet
ter describe It.
Lincoln Steffens announces that he
' will "devote some years to study."
What has he been doing to bring on
tuch a change?
A Baltimore man prophesies that
the mlllenlum will come in 1914.
There's uo presidential election sched
uled for that year.
Alfred Austin, the English poet
laureate, has written a poem on "Mo
tart's Grave." Mozart la in no position
to defend himself.
.Edgar Howard should relieve the
pnse of the public by uncovering
lentlty of that "magnificent"
tr In Fremont.
. V. ........ V.a1Il,ac. In 4lA lrtn1
feharltv that begin at home and
J. declined outside assistance for the
;helsea Ore Bunerers.
Henry James three-act comedy will
be put on the stage as soon as actors
can be secured who can speak the
Henry James language.
The Atlanta Constitution Insists that
"Taft needs Foraker." He may have
needed him earlier In the fight just
to demonstrate the difference. t
The prominent New York woman
who hae voluntarily surrendered her
husband to hia newly found affinity
is doubtless a gainer by the transac
tion.
According to all accounts of the last
election of officers of the Omaha
Woman's club, most of the club women
are 1 now accomplished adepts In the
political game.
Mayor McClellan of New York saya
he la too busy to attend the Denver
convention. A man named Hearst is
showing a determination to break into
the mayor's office with a Jimmy.
A man arrested for stealing a lamp
from a California postofflce haa been
sent to prison for five years, although
his offense would indicate that he was
looking for a light sentence.
Yale's most famous foot ball player,
Walter W. Hefflefinger, is one of Min
nesota's delegates-at-large to the Chi
cago convention. He will know how
to help puh the ball over the line for
Ir. Taft
rn iMFZubiya catastrophe
While Mr. Bryaa'a name was not
mentioned at the Jefferson day banquet
of the New York democrats, the speak
ers on that occasion were not without
a favorite topic. When two or three
democrata are gathered together, In
more or less doubt as to how they may
differ on democratic questions, their
safe course Is to abuse President
Roosevelt.
This was the keynote of the New
York Jefferson banquet. Woodrow
Wilson, Senator Simmons of North
Carolina and Senator Owen of Okla
homa, as tha speakers, fairly fought
In their rivalry for the honor of paint
ing the most gloomy plcture'of the fu
ture of the republic. Senator Owen
wept copiously over the fate of "the
millions ot women and children who
are forced into slavery In this country
by corporate greed." Dr. Wilson Bhud
dered when he told how as a nation
we had turned from law to personal
power, and Senator Simmons capped
the climax with this picture of the
monster who Uvea )n the White House:
The humble abode which tha people pro
vided for Washington and Jefferson and
Lincoln and Grant has ceased to be the ex
ecutive mansion and become the "White
House" of the nation the master lives
there It Is the seat of power and domin
ion. Everything political begins there and
everything political enda there. The master
overshadows everybody and dominates
everything, and congress, forgetful of Its
proud traditions, forgetful of its duty to
the people, forgetful of its obligations to
the constitution and Itself, meekly sub
mits, or with feeble, If any, protest, reg
isters his will.
Just let this thing go on as It Is going
on; aa It has been going on with ever ac
celerating momentum during the last forty
years of republican government and some
fine morning we will wake up to find state
boundaries obliterated, to find state sover
eignty extinguished, to find congress and
the courts subjugated and Magna Charta,
the bill of rights and our boasted privileges
and immunities of American citizenship
gone, with the specter of old King George
stalking abroad in the land and his In
carnated spirit seated In tha White House.
The most lamentable feature of the
situation from the viewpoint of the
democrats is that the people do not
seem to realize their imminent danger.
If they are on the verge of having all
their liberties taken from them over
night they act as if they had no hint
of the Impending catastrophe, a ma
jority of them. In fact, rather showing
symptoms of liking the prospect. "We
have turned," Bald Woodrow Wilson,
"from legal regulation to executive
regulation; we have turned from law
to personal apwer." And the ignorant
people do not know enough to clamor
for a democratic eavlor.
The mistake of Dr, Wilson and Sen
ator Simmons lies In their failure to
appreciate the sentiment of the Amer
ican people as to law enforcement.
The American people have had a lib
eral education In the uselessness of un
enforced laws, and they have acquired
an abiding admiration for President
Roosevelt because he has used his
personal power to secure the enact
ment and enforcement ot laws for
rightful and righteous ends. They
have supported him in upholding the
law and in making new laws to curb
those who sought to override popular
rights. Democratic orators will not
get far by abusing the president for
exerting personal power for the relief
of the people.
PAVISO COVSTRT ROADS. .
The paving ot our country roads
has so far been largely in the nature
of experiment. Before going more
extensively into this work, as thla
county la now prepared to go, the
question ot the most serviceable ma
terial for such road building should be
most carefully considered. An inter
national congress to discuss good
roads is to be held at Paris next Octo
ber, for which the Public Roada bureau
of the Agricultural department haa re
cently been conducting a series of
tests to measure the injurious effects
of fast automobile traffic.
According to a bulletin just issued
by these authorities, the entrance of
the automobile upon macadam and
other rock-surfaced roada laid out for
an altogether different class of vehicles
works aa follows: v
The rubber tire, being oft, creates no
rock dust Itself as does the Iron tire of
wagon, and tho very life of these roada de
mands a constant supuly of that material.
It la th surface binder that keep the road
smooth, cracks filled In; that maintains the
evenness and binds the rubble stones Into
one Impervious mars. Every Iron-tired
wheel does its own small quota of good by
acting aa a rock dust maker and a minia
ture road roller. The auto whirring along
at dlxsy speed simply flattened Its tlrer
against the ground as It sped and the true
tlve fore so exerted hurled th precious
rock dust Into the air, from where It
was swept to the adjacent farms and lawnr
In blinding clouds. So pronounced waa the
mere dust nuisance created In many por
tions of th country that real estate de
creased In value to an appreciable extent.
and farmers complained that the ever
Increasing dust on their fields, vines and
trees mad It Impossible for them to sell
their harvests at aa good prices as formerly.
The same bulletin goes on to ex
plain what ia necessary to meet the
difficulties confronting the road'
makers:
In th struggle to overcome th conditions
created highway engineers must do on of
two things find a road surfacing material
which make no dust and needs no dust to
maintain Its integrity, or discover a method
of controlling the dust on the roads already
laid. To the time of present writing no
dust-proof road surface material cheap
enough for use In country districts has
been found and tha experiments now pro
ceeding are, therefore, aong the second
line, th controlling of th dust by various
methods ,of spraying and by the use ot
binder materials. In some sections, es
pecially through the great fruit belts of
California, splendid success In dust sup
pression haa been attained by spraying the
dirt roads with oils possessing asphaltlo
bases. In other portions of the couutry the
wis administering of coul tar preparations
has aided to a great extti.t, and drenching
with calcium chloride pus shown that th
dust can be kept at a minimum. Thou
methods, however, ar nut eerioct solutions
of the vast problem of road maintenance
and dust suppression. They are merely
palliatives, and while they are being advo
cated in such sections of the country as
will be Immediately benefited, the bltrer
problem of discovering an absolute antidote
for the action of the automobile Is occupy
ing the attention of scientists on both sides
of the Atlantic. The solution of that prob
lem may be given at the big congress at
Tarls In the fall, or It may t discovered
before; possibly on this side of the western
ocean; possibly In the lands where good
roads were known when America was In Its
swaddling clothes.
The building of moderately cheap
but permanently serviceable country
road a is one of the big problems we
have to grapple with. It Is a prob
lem, however, which haa a local appli
cation right here and now In Omaha
and Douglas county, and cautions us
to make haste slowly.
THE VOTE OF GEORGIA HEOROES.
Hon. Leonldaa Felix Livingston, for
twenty years a representative from the
Fifth Georgia district in congress, has
Injected a new and novel element Into
the campaign going on In Georgia look
ing to the disfranchisement of the
negro voters. The last Georgia legisla
ture submitted a constitutional amend
ment making It practically impossible
for a negro to have the ballot privilege
In the state. Mr. Livingston la opposed
to the amendment and, in a speech
In Campbell county the other day, gave
this reason for hia position:
I advise you all not to vote to disfranchise
the negroes, for we will need them In a
short time to defeat Tom Watson and his
crowd, which the negro calls "poor white
trash." With the negro disfranchised Wat
son would dominate the state.
The fact that Mr'. Livingston was
ence a populist leader and toolt an ac
tive part in framing the Ocala platform
has nothing to do with the case. The
interesting point raised by his speech
Is the admission it Implies that the
question of negro franchise in Georgia
Is not one of principle at all, but one
of practical politics. With democratic
supremacy unquestioned and unthreat-
ened democratic leaders In Georgia
profess terror at the prospect of
"negro domination" and lay plans to
disfranchise the colored vote by
"grandfather" clauses and other
flimsy enactments of a discriminating
character. With tho first hint of ef
fective opposition to democratic dom
ination, however, the leaders of the
Livingston type Buddenly conceive a
fondness for the .negro voter and a
desire to use him. While he la at it.
Congressman Livingston should go
further and have the proposed consti
tutional amendment revised so aa to
allow the negro to vote, provided he
votes the democratic ticket. Mr. Liv
ingston's speech serves to emphasize
the dishonesty of the attitude of the
southern democrats on the question of
negro suffrage..
FORAKER OK BROWNSVILLE.
With the conclusion of Senator For-
aker's carefully prepared speech in the
senate, the Brownsville affair ia aa
dark as ever. The Ohio senator made
a determined effort to review the case
from a lawyer's standpoint to show
that the evidence against the men is
of a flimsy character, not warranting
their Bummary discharge from the
army by the president. He urged the
senate to approve his bill to enable
members of the battalion to re-enllst
upon taking oath that they did not
take part in the shooting and knew
nothing about it The bill introduced
by Senator Warren provides that any
of the discharged men may re-enllst
if he can satisfy the president of his
Innocence.
The chief objection to the Foraker
proposition is that it fails to recognize
the fact that the president, by virtue
of his office, is the commander-in-chief
ot the army. If congress were to inter
fere in all such cases as that at
Brownsville we would aoon have an
army without discipline. The position
taken by the administration ia that
any soldier discharged on account of
the Brownsville shooting may be rein
stated by proving his iunoceuce. The
president believes some of the soldiers
Involved in the shooting, although
careful efforts have failed to identify
the guilty. The president realizes that
the discharge of the entire battalion
worked a hardship on the innocent
soldiers, and for thla reason has asked
congress to extend the time for the in
nocent men to prove their right of re
instatement. Nothing has been gained by the ex
tended debate and discussion of the
Brownsville affair. The facts, always
in dispute, have been clouded by the
efforts of perfervld orators to make po
litical capital out of the Incident. The
real facts have not been changed, how
ever, and the Foraker speech, closing
the case for the administration's op
ponents, may end the political discus
sion and open the way for the admin
istration to right any wrong done to
the Innocent soldiers.
No one should get stampeded over
that water works decision from any
fear that it la going to atop Omaha's
growth. In the first place, the Judg
ment haa not yet been entered up and.
In the second place, even if Omaha
were finally compelled to buy the prop
erty at the appraised price the worst
consequence would be to prevent any
reduction ot water rates for some
years to come. Omaha ia going right
ahead.
Our amiable contemporary, the
World-Herald, haa unwittingly made
a mistake In discussing the financing
of the proposed Loup river power ca
nal project. The promoters of this
scheme are trying to aell 6 per cent
bonds, not at 90, but at 80, and offer
ing to throw in stock of equal amount
to the face for nothing. In other
words, they propose la issue two dol
lars and a half of watered securities
for every one dollar of cash paid in.
Presumably It takea thla much water
to make a paying water power com
Please take note that the New York
democrata have Just re-elected
"Flngy" Connora to be state chairman
ard to have charge of the democratic
campaign in the empire state. "Flngy"
Connora ia one of the triumvirate to
whom the democratic World-Herald,
which essays to speak for Mr. Bryan,
recently referred as "having betrayed
the party four years ago." With the
Bryanltea denouncing him as a traitor,
of course, Chairman Connora will be
working as hard for Mr. Bryan thla
year aa Mr. Bryan worked for Judge
Parker four years ago.
The right of a candidate to get on
the official ballot by having his name
written in at the primaries without
filing according to law is to be tested
in court. We were under the Impres
sion that this question had already
been passed on by our courts and that
the decision upheld tho right of the
legislature to prescribe the manner of
getting on the official ballot. . If wrlt-ten-ln
names are to go, the whole ma
chinery for filing and publicity may aa
well be abolished.
The World-Herald announces that a
meeting Is about to be arranged be
tween "Flngy" Connors and Mr.
Bryan. To be complete, the meeting
should be attended by Parker, Sheehan,
Murphy, Guffey and the other mem
bers of "the old Parker gang that
helped betray the party four years
ago."
Perhaps the railroad which has
listed its physical property for assess
ment this year at three times what It
swore it waa worth last year is trying
only to transfer the bulk of the value
from the Intangible franchise to the
tangible right-of-way, stations and
equipment.
One of the lawyers representing the
city In the water works litigation ia
quoted as saying that he can keep the
consummation of the purchase up In
the air for at least five years longer.
How many more drafts do the lawyers
expect to make on the water fund?
The Washington Herald Is criticis
ing Mr. Taft for being away from
Washington bo much. Mr. Taft will
remedy that by taking a four years'
lease on a large, roomy, white house.
just south ot Lafayette square.
Although warmly endorsed bv the
Delaware democrats, Judge Gray de
clines to be a candidate for the nomi
nation at Denver. He might change
his mind if shown where he could eet
about 660 more votes.
Speaking about there belne any
thing in a name. Cold water. Mich..
haa gone wet. Champaign, 111., has
gone dry, and Boozy, W. Va., has de
clared for the closing of its four aa
loona. Hopeless Pessimism.
Washington Herald.
When the tariff Is revised by its friends.
tho Standard Oil will pay that $29,240,000
fine, and then but about that tlm Gabriel
will blow his trumpet. Bo what's the use?
Slams ot Itetarnlng Confidence,
New York Mall.
A young woman who boarded a north
bound Broadway local at Ninety-sixth
street at 12:28 yesterday afternoon wore a
brown hat thirty-four Inches In diameter
and t.1418 that in circumference. It had
been paid for.
Premature Enthusiasm Chilled.
Washington Post.
The enthusiasm over the discovery that
two drinks of Denver whisky will ex
hilarate as much as nine drinks anywhere
else has been suddenly checked by the
rumor that Denver hotel keepers will
charge $14 a day, four In a room.
A Convenient (Scapegoat.
Washington Star.
William C. Whitney makes an excellent
scapegoat In that New York street railway
scandal. In the first place, his methods
were bold and loose. In politics, as In
other things, he mad money "talk." He
played both sides, although known as a
democrat. His sympathies both In 1896 and
1900 were with the republicans on the
financial issue, and although he may not
hav contributed a cent to the republican
campaign fund in either year, it does no
injustice to his memory to charge that he
put up handsomely. In the second place,
Mr. "Whitney Is dead.
REFORM BV HEGI LATIOV,
Laws Make for Honesty and Troth,
(nines Among; Railroad Officials.
St. Paul Ploi.eer Press.
The railway reforms which so many rail
way men opposed and professed to believe
were an infringement of their prerogatives
and would be disastrous to transportation
seem to have been a .blessing In disguise.
President Mather of the Rock Island In a
speech recently at Pittsburg said the aboli
tion of rebates and the restriction of passes
have relieved the companies of a great bur
den and Inaugurated an era of honesty In
transportation. He says tha railways
would not go back to the old conditions If
they could, and that th publics but dimly
realises the willingness of the companies
to accept and further the reforms in trans
portation that recent changes in our. laws
and In their administration have produced.
Most railway officials are not only willing
but anxious to co-operat In any policy of
reasonable regulation that will maintain
their business on the higher plane of mor
ality to which It has been lifted.
Mr. Mather said that the limitation of the
pass privilege has swollen the passenger
receipts. The cutting off ot rebates has
turned money Into the treasuries of the
railways and has freed them from subser
viency to the big shippers. It has aved
the trafflo men of the roads and of the
shipper from dally dishonesty. The reg
ulations that hav been imposed to data
have been largely beneficial, and he U
hopeful that the lawmakers will not overdo.
He maintains that rates are not too high;
that we pay less than In most countries
and not more than Is justified by our own
conditions. He is not one of those who
believe that wealth and securities are to
be wiped out and the country Is going to
the dogs because of the president's attitude
toward dishonest corDoraiiun..
. OTHEH LAXD THAV OCRS.
Overtopping old world events of th mo
ment In Its possibilities for mischief Is the
growing boycott of Japanese goods by the
merchants of southern China. The in
stigators of the trade revolt has their ac
tion on broad, patriotic grounds. They
hold that Japan's arrogance and greed
has become unbearable In Manchuria, a
province distinctly omitted from Japan's
sphere of Influence by th Portsmouth
treaty. Its sinister attempts to dominate
that province provoked the recent pro
tests of foreign consuls. Next to the Man
churlsn menace was the humiliating terms
Imposed by Japan on China for the selling
of the Tatsu Maru with a cargo of pro
hibited arms In Chinese waters. Unable
or unwilling to resist i the terms, which
Included Indemnity ami apology for an act
justified by Chinese laws, the government
submitted. Rut the merchants, amused by
Japan's unnelghborly conduct, determined
to vindicate national prldo with an ef.
fectlve boycott aa a weapon.. Tho. move.
ment so far has avoided entangling the
government. Carried on within lawful
bounds, the government cannot Interfere.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
reports that In Canton alone 157 merchants
have discontinued selling Japanese goods.
Japanese traders are not molested. They
are Informed with celestial politeness that
their goods are not wanted. Similar condi
tions prevail at Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Systematic means are employed In arous
ing national resentment In the Interior.
Emissaries are preaching tho boycott on
passenger boats and In cities on lines of
travel, backed by trade organizations In
the coast cities. Japan's bales to China
In 1906 amounted to $58,000,000, one-fourth
of the nation's exports. If this trade was
wholly cut out, which Is unlikely, the loss
would not seriously cripple Japan. The
chief .significance of the boycott lies In
the direction of aroused national sentiment
against coercion, a feeling which will
eventually develop a modern military es
tablishment. The reorganized ministry of Great Britain
provokes a variety of political speculation,
ltellef Is widely expressed that some of
the measures designed to give effect to
liberal party policies will be shelved as a
result of the ministerial changes. Among
the measure considered as good as shelved
are the old age pension bill, the education
bill and the license bill. The first named
Involves a large expenditure, and Its con
sideration depends on finding new mean
of Increasing the national revenue. The
education and license bills antagonize
large and forceful elements of the popula
tion, and In order to disarm these aggres
sive elements It Is considered good policy
to defer action to another time. With
home rule definitely laid away until the
next general election, and the three named
above laid aside, the liberal program Is
reduced to measures of limited Importance,
and which are not seriously antagonized.
Such a program Is not likely to arouse
party enthusiasm or promote harmonious
cohesion of party divisions. The four by
electlons to fill vacancies caused by min
isterial changes, scheduled for the coming
week, are likely to Indicate more accurately
the policies of the ministry. In only one
of the divisions Involved Is party success
in doubt. That Is the northern division of
Manchester, a pocket borough of Joseph
Chamberlain, captured by Winston
Churchill two years ago. The promotion
of Mr. Churchill necessitates his re-election
In that division, and he has entered
upon f.e campaign with the vigor and
audacity .which won hia former triumph
In a conservative stronghold.
By a majority of only twenty-six the
Reichstag adopted Prince Von Buelow's
measure regulating the rights of assembly
In Prussian Poland and forbidding the use
of any language but German. The effect
of the new measure will be to virtually
prohibit the use of Polish In publlo meet
ings save In the districts where the number
of Polish speaking resident exceed 60 per
cent of the population. In such districts
meetings may be' conducted In Polish, but
only during the next twenty years, on
condition that the police be notified three
days prior to any given meeting. Polish
leaders say that the law Is a most ob
noxious piece of legislation and that It Is
Intended to crush out the Polish sentiment
of nationalism not only In east Prussia,
but In the Industrial centers of western
Germany where many foreign worklngmen
are employed. They believe the law will
invite evasion and measures of reprisal.
A draftod the bill is applicable to the
French people of Lorraine and the Danes
of north Schleswlg, but the government
cynically declared In the Reichstag that it
did not Intend to apply the measure to
them. This marks the third stage In the
process of extermination of what Von
Buelow once termed the "Polish rabbits,"
the other two being the expropriation and
educational laws.
Famine conditions In India are acute,
and growing more so. The weekly distress
bulletins from tha viceroy to the secretary
of state for India, which are the standing
feature of every Indian harvest season,
now tell of a population of more than
150,000,000 which Is In receipt of state re
lief in the form of employment on govern
ment works or gratuitous aid. The dis
tress is centered In the United Provinces
of Agra and Oudh, In northern India,
where, at the end of March, the number of
men engaged on relief works was 957,000.
and of those In receipts of free aid J78.000.
The viceroy's telegrams observ with of
ficial self-restraint that "there are some
signs of deterioration In the general condi
tion of the people, and crime is Increasing."
Lond Mlnto estimates the value of lost
crops In the United Provinces alone at
175.000,000. The price of grain foods Is
abnormally high. It Is again the old story
of a swarming population clinging to the
very edge of subsistence when conditions
are most favorable, and reduced by th
slightest shortage of rain or a backward
season-to extreme distress. On an area of
107,000 square miles, 50,000.000 struggle for a
living. Th problem Is a tremendously dif
ficult one; yet public opinion, appalled by
th regular recurrence of India's famine, is
coming more and more to look to the suzer
ain power In India as charged with th
moral duty of supplying a solution.
The official summary of the tax commls
sloners ot Berlin for 108 has recently been
published, and one of the American con
suls in Germany sends on some Interesting
extracts relating to th Income tax. The
total population of the city Is given as
2,00,148, and fater deducting children under
It. the military and others exempt by law,
there Is left about 1.138.000 subject to as
sessment for Income tax. Nearly half of
this number, however, were found to hav
Incomes of lss than 2U per year and so
escaped the tax. Of the taxable remainder
the following classification Is made: ,
Persons with Incomes of $14 to t6... 845,610
Having Incomes from 1-6 to $714 2ai.X78
Incomes from $TH to i.lsl
Incomes from f'.VO to $11.900 lu.ww
Incomes from $11.!M to $'j3 ) 1.1'
Incomes from fcS.NM to Ills.OW 4,0
From $1 )!. to l-.noo iJ
From $-.wO to $47(i.f 4
From 8-i7rt.is to $714,WJO 2
Above $714,0U0
Total with taxable Incomes &M.XM
Thus 542.38 persons, or about per cent
of the whole number taxable for Income,
had Incomes of less than $714; while the
numlier of those having incomes tf $U9,Ou0
and over would not fill a small drswlng
room. An Income of $714.00 a ear, capital
ised at 4 per cent represents a forluu of
Makes the most nutri
tious food and tho most
dainty and delicious.
0.
The only Raking Powder made
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
No, fussing or fretting over
the biscuit making. Royal
is the aid to many a
cook's success.
NO ALUM-NO LIME PHOSPHATES.
less than $20,000,000, and apparently, there
fore,' only two such fortunes are discover
able In- the second ctty of continental
Europe. tj
POLITICAL, DRIFT.
Ohln has a surrtlua of nnarlv 17 000.000 In
the state treasury, but the legislature Is
in session.
"Whpn It rnmra tn thA hnnmipt mute"
remarks a Chicago policeman, "Bill Taft
has 'em all beaten. He's a winner.
. a 111 ttAmHh A (tnrr.nt. Clnnnvnl
Had ley of Missouri will retire from public
life at the close of his preent term of
office.
TTntv Tjiqllo M Rhnw nf Iowa has set
tled down In Philadelphia, where "the
tumult and the shouting" will not disturb
his dreams.
Although all able-bodied Georgians hailed
him as a deliverer a year ago, some heart
less natives are now handing lemons to
Hoke Smith.
The fact that Judge Alton B. Parker
goes as a delegate to the Denver conven
tion is sufficient to provoke an outburst
on the "we-vlew-with-alarm" brand.
By standing guard at both the front
door and the back door Governor Fort
seems to have compelled the New Jersey
leglalature to do a few of the things ho
wanted before It could escape.
The Cook county democrats continue to
Indorse Roger Sullivan every time they
Indorse Mr. Bryan, which Is where Roger's
revenge comes In. Ha is a gay buccaneer
of politics, but Mr. Bryan may have to
live with him.
A Delaware man will have to pay a
fine of $100 and spend three months In Jail
for selling his vote, although ho didn't get
the money after voting a directed. Busi
ness still seems to be In an unsettled con
dition In that state.
Former United States Senator Edward
Murphy, Jr., Of Troy, is at Hot Springs.
Va., and h tolls all the democrats who
gossip with him there that the only demo
crat In the country to nominate for presi
dent is David B. Hill. Mr. Murphy and
Mr. Hill were in the United States senate
together, and while they have differed
severely on many occasions Mr. Murphy
has never lost hia admiration for Mr.
Hill's political Intellectuals.
Supreme Court Jurisdiction.
New York Sun.
Since the acquisition of our Insular pos
sessions' and th temporary domination of
our government over Cuba, the geographi
cal Jurisdiction of the supreme court of the
United States has become more extensive
than that of any other tribunal except the
Judicial committee of the privy council In
England. Cases which have arisen In re
mote corners of the globe, now frequently
come to Washington for final determlna-tlon-as,
for example, from Hawaii, the
Philippine Islands, Cuba and Porto Rico.
At the present term of the supreme court
Judgments have been reviewed Involving
the hereditary rights of a titled Spanish
lady to carry on the slaughter of cattle in
the city of Havana In one case and In
another case the right of a Spanish lawyer
to practice his profession in the court of
the Philippine Islands.
frowning E&ing &Co
CLOTHINO, FURNISHINGS and HATS
ATURDAY
HE last chance to get your Easter toggery. May
be you need a new suit or top coat, or may be
just a hat or something in haberdashery. What
ever it may be, you will find it here, and right
up to the minute in style etc.
Our line of suits come in all the latest odd
shades of London smoke, stone and olive colors,
' also a beautiful line of browns and grays.
Our hat department can show you all tho latest blocks
in both soft and stiff shapes, and in all the season's newest
colors.
Our showing of Easter neckwear is large and complete.
Our boys' and children's department is ready( to dress
your boy bo he will be ready to properly greet Easter day.
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R. S. WILCOX, Mar.
LAUGHING GAS. ,
First Coed Ever notice how grav Prof.
McUoozl always Is?"
Second Cood Yes, but there' nothing
strange about that. Ho does all his think
ing In. the. dead languages. Chicago
Tribune.
"I supposo If the fathers of the nation
wera to decide like the mothers, to hold
a congress, It would be. something of a
musical event."
"Musical I How do you make that out?"
"They would probably agree on things,
and that would ni.ike It their meetings
pop' concerts; wouldn't it?" Baltimore
American.
"Remember," said the prudent man, "that
the words onco spnkun can never be re
called." "No," answered Boutnor Sorghum; "but
you can always mnk a fuss and say you,
were misquoted." Washington Star.
Mr. Subbs (after engaging cook) "There's
one other thing I suppose you should know.
Miss Flannngin my wife is a chronic In-,
valid, confined to her room." '
Miss Flannaglm "That's fine! I wor
nfpered she might be one of thlm chronic
kickers that ar-re confined f th' kitchen,
begobs." Puck.
Upgardson You smoke all th time, don't
Atom-No; half the time I don t smoke
at all. I seldom touch a .cigar between 8
p. m. ard 9 a. m. Chicago Tribune.
"If you's got a good appetite, strong arms
an' no rheumatiom," said Uncle Ehen,
"don't come aroun to me lookln' foh sym
pathy 'bout no hard times. Washington
star- ,
"This paper says that a woman should
select her clothing to match her hair.
"That will give Mrs. rastlelgh quite a,
variety. She has four shades of hair. b
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Dose IrlBh make me sick, alvays talk
ing about vat gread flghders day are, said
k Teutonic resident of Hobokon. with great
contempt. "Vliy, at Minna's veddlng dor
odder nlghd dot drunken Mike O'Hoollgan
butted In und me und meln bruder und
m"tn i cnuiln Fritz und meln frlnrt lunula
Hartmunn-vhy. ve pretty near k Icked him
ou.lt of der house '."-Everybody s Maga
zine. HlflTcJOOn OLD IIYMJTS.
F I Slunton In Atlanta Constitution. ,
There's lots of munlc In 'em, the hymns ot
An-'wh-nHome gray-lmlred brother sings
the ones I used 1" know
I sorter want lo take a hand-I think &
-On Train's &y bank. I stand and
caHt a wlHtful eye.
There's lots of music In 'em-those dear.
wurinOTiKht r.nd. f ,l8ht "nd
shining streets or "'u' . wher-'
And I hear 'em ringing-singing, wher.
"From Greenland's Icy mountains to In-
am s curat v. i
We hardly needed slngln' books In them
old days; we knew .
The wor.lH.'the tunes of every onfl the
dear old hymn book l''-ouh!
We had no blaring trumpets then, no or
pans built for show; from
We only sang to praise the Lord. rrom
whom all blessings flow.
An' so I love the dear old hymns, and ;
when my time shall come
Before thought has left n.e and my sing-
lng lips are dumb- with- i
If I can only hear em then I .1 pa. wlln
"To Canaan's fair and happy land, where
my possessions He."
JJS
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