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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Rave of Nebraska. Douglas County, as.:
Ueorge E. Tiscnuck, treasurer or Th e
Publishing company, being duly sworn, saya
that the actual number of full and com
plete copies of The Dally, Morning. Even
ing and Sunday Bee printed during tha
month ot December, 190S, waa aa followa:
1 S7,TSO 17 37,170
7310 11 3600
.1 37,370 II 30,70
4... ........37,00 80 S7.BSO
n .37,030 1' 1 30.MO
'I 7,3M 82 3710
37,340 II 37.000
37.040 24 87.000
3S.110 -2a 38,450
1) , 30,70 2 38,030
I 40,800 2 37,150
II 30,060 21 80,030
13 4. ..37,100 t 40,730
I 4.... 30,710 ' 80 48,000
li... ,.,....37,440 31 48,850
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Total 1,171,470
Lts unsold and returned copies.. 0J48
Net total...;. 1,188,885
Daily average ... 87,481
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, ' ROBERT HUNTER.
Notay Public.
HB3i OUT OS TOWS'.
afcuerlbera leaving; the city tem
sorgpfly ShaaU Bare Th Bee
aualUtf. tat them. Addreae will be
I'ksagtt as oftta si reqaealesl.
Naturally, nq congressman likes to
be overshadowed.: .-'
J. Worth. Kern might write a book
before trying again.
The 1869 styles in personal taxes in
New York have the old reliable per
jury trimmings.
At any rate, congress has not cen
sured the secret service men for loaf
ing on their jobs.
Senator Hopkins will learn today
whither the political guillotine is to
b Restored In' inidois.
Po6r "Billy" Thompson! On the
political boards be has become the
two orphans all in one.
John Worth Kern is getting a little
tired of fcaving Indiana hall him as a
favorite son 'and treat him as a step
son. A Pennsylvania butcher has made
a sausage sixty-seven feet long. Evi
dently built on the dachshund pat
tern. If Omaha and South Omaha are to
figure in the next census as the Greater
Omaha, Someone will have to get busy
pretty soon.
Whitelaw Reid says be will remain
as ambassador to England or retire
just as Mr. Taft wishes. That's real
diplomacy for you.
iApparsntry t&o'many senators and
oongrtasnaen hav' aocepted too liter
ally the sentiment of, "This is my
own, ray native land."
Chicago doubtless realizes by this
time that Jn the matter of the wool
market Omaha declines to have the
wool pulled over its eyes.
It any liquor dealer thinks our mu
nicipal year begins May 1 let him try
to do business on last year'a license
and lee. what happens to him.
A; Connecticut genius has bred a
duck without a breastbone. It may
now bo possible to have duck for din
Mr with the preacher as a guest.
If the "Jims" want an appointive
police board, the "Jacks" want an elec
tive polls board. Count on each for
wasting what the other does not.
Ad. Indianapolis paper says that
JOhn Worth Kern never eats fruit.
What, then, does he do with all those
lemons that . have teen handed to
him.
The Water board lawyers have only
milked the city treasury to the tune of
1(4,000. Any wonder they advise
starting bow law suits tvtry little
while
A prohibition law has been passed
in Tennessee. As a result the moun
taineers wllj havt to confine them
selves, to) tDOonsiiao Instead of "store
whisky." '
Colonel, Watterson has come cut
with otirriag defense of Senator
Tillman. It will be remembered, too,
that Colonel Bryan has thoroughly
vindicated Governor Haskell of Okla
homa. The Omaha Water board has spent
$100,000 of the taxpayers' money,
first, In trying to buy the water works,
and eecood. in trjlng to avoid buying
them. What sr o going to do
a'juu; it?
r4 rtisa v USTA MlSAXfHir.
Th so-called Judicial appointments
of Governor Shallrnbergpr In contrast
with those of Governor Sheldon
merely eniphaslze the political animus
back of the whole demo-pop attack on
the supreme court. Governor Shel
don, In all, named five Judges to the
enlarged supreme bench, while Gover
nor Shallenberger has named four
Judges. Three of Shallenberger's four
Judges are Included in Sheldon's five.
On the surface the only difference
comes down, then, to a disagreement
over one place and over the length of
term which one of the Sheldon ap
pointees should have. A little closer
inspection, however, shows that there
are two Judgeships involved because
one of the Sheldon appointee, re
named by Shallenberger, resigned
after one day's service and by failing
again to qualify would leave Shallen
berger free to put in still another dem
ocratic partisan.
So far as partisanship goes. Gov
ernor Shallenberger's action is more
strictly partisan than that of his
predecessor. The whole controversy
over the Judgeships from its very In
ception has been a political play Insti
tuted by disappointed offlceseekers and
promoted by small-bore democratic
politicians seeking to manufacture po
litical capital for the next campaign.
There Is no effort whatever to give the
people better judges, or nonpartisan
Judges. The demo-pops next fall will
nominate three straight-out demo
pops for supreme Judge and there will
be no nonpartlsanshlp in It.
LAW AXD TH K WATER H'AOOX.
The legislature of Oklahoma is In
session and its members are industri
ously engaged in the laudable effort of
providing regulation for everything
under the sun not regulated by pro
visions of the supposedly all-embracing
state constitution. It appears that
some things were omitted from 'hat
remarkable document, and the legis
lative repair gang Is now on the Job.
Two measures were forced to pas
sage In the house the other day that
must command more than local atten
tion. One member, with a keen sense
of the dignity of the law-making body
and the necessity of preserving it un
ruffled, offered a resolution authoriz
ing and empowering the speaker to
have any Intoxicated member or em
ploye removed from the floor. Before
this measure could be debated as Its
importance deserved, another member
offered a resolution declaring the
water wagon to be a common carrier
and amenable to the laws of the state
gpverulng common carriers, and sub
ject to the regulations and penalties in
such cases made and provided. Both
measures, according to report, went
through with a whoop, the members
considering them too important and
too necessary to the wellbelng of the
state to waste time, in unseemly de
bate over them.
This haste in legislation la certain
to produce complications that will
have to be passed upon by the courts.
If the water wagon is a common car
rier, then clearly the speaker of the
house is cloaked with extra-judicial
authority, forbidden by the constitu
tion, when he Is authorized to deter
mine when an honorable member
should be ordered off the floor. The
first resolution does not appear to hitch
properly to the water wagon legisla
tion. Then, again, if prohibition pre
vails in Oklahoma, why should the
state solons have anything to do with
a water wagon, within or without the
bar of the house?
coxseryixo water power.
President Roosevelt's veto of a bill
authorizing a power company to con
struct a dam across the James river in
Missouri for developing electric power
is in perfect keeping with public sen
timent in favor of preserving the
natural resources of the country for
the benefit of the whole people, in
stead of allowing them to be appro
priated by Individuals and corpora
tions. The president contends that the
water power of the country alone, if
fully developed and wisely used, Is
sufficient for our present transporta
tion, industrial, municipal and do
mestic needs, and that to give it away
would be an act ot folly.
In the Missouri case, the president
was well within his rights, as the
James river is scheduled on the maps
of the War department as a navigable
stream and subject to federal regula
tion and control. In the west, how
ever,' this rule does not generally ap
ply, and the precautions adopted by
the president can be taken only by the
state authorities. The need of state
conservation is quite as important as
national conservation, and indispen
sable to the perfection of the national
plan. Wisconsin, apparently, is alive
to this Important question, and the
present legislature has submitted an
amendment to the state constitution,
to be voted on next fall, authorizing
state bonds for public Improvements
wherever the purpose of the work is
to conserve energy, the ultimate ob
ject being to establish state control of
water power.
In most of the older states the most
valuable water rights have been given
away to chartered corporations and
the problem of securing new power
or of reclaiming abandoned powers is
a serious one on accouut of the con
flict of the claims of these chartered
corporations. The president intimates
that the west is faced with a similar
danger, and that an electric concern
haa already made alarming progress
In securing control of the most valu
able power sites in the Rocky moun
tains and in other sections of the west.
He- predicts that unless prompt action
is taken by the federal government
ant th stata the Tower trurt will
si. uh Pave practically entire control of
one of the most valuable resources of
the nation.
It is important that water powers,
great and small, should be surveyed,
that existing charter rights be defined
and that grants of additional charters
should be hedged with restrictions
that will prevent them from being
used for monopolistic purposes. The
flowing stream ia as valuable as a bed
of coal and the state's right In It
should be protected by Intelligent legislation.
ijIlElioy ASD ILLtXUlS.
Two states present senatorial situ
ations greatly resembling one another,
but yet receiving very different treat
ment In current discussion.
In Oregon, under the so-called "Ore
gon plan, Governor Chamberlain as
the democratic candidate, received the
popular endorsement for United States
senator, first, from his own party at
the primary, and, again, at the general
election, over his republican compet
itor. Although the Oregon legislature
Is overwhelmingly republican, the
pledges of the members to vote for the
candidate for United States senator re
ceiving the highest vote at the polls,
compel them to choose a democrat.
The intimation that the moral obliga
tion Imposed by the primary might be
repudiated has raised a storm qt pro
test all over the country and vigorous
insistent that the popular mandate be
executed, even though it result In
sending a democrat to the senate as
the accredited representative of a re
publican state.
In Illinois the primary vote and,
likewise, the, vote at the general elec
tion, resulted in favor of Senator A.
J. Hopkins, seeking re-election. Sen
ator Hopkins is, however, reputed to
be one of the old-style machine poli
ticians, and, if not. a reactionary, at
least with tendencies in that direction.
The moral obligation of the republican
members of the Illinois legislature to
vote for Hopkins for senator as the
registered popular choice would seem
to be just as binding as that resting on
the Oregon legislators, but the critics
who have been hammering on the Ore
gon incident have been either silent or
jubilant over the development In Illi
nois threatening rejection of Hopkins
by caucus insurgents.
The approach to popular election of
United States senators by direct pri
mary and expressions of preference is
calculated to work out a reform that
plainly cannot attain perfection all at
once. The retirement of Hopkins would
be no public calamity, but It can not
be accomplished except by a repudia
tion of the popular vote. If the popu
lar vote is to govern in Oregon, where
the reformers were victorious, can It
be escaped in Illinois, where the re
formers were beaten, without weak
ening the whole principle and ob
structing its acceptance by other
states?.
XEBRASKA AND THE CARXEOIE FCXD.
The Bee unqualifiedly favors the
University of Nebraska perfecting Its
right to share the benefits of the Car
negie foundation.
When this fund was originally es
tablished under conditions which ex
cluded state universities The Bee en
tered a vigorous protest agalnBt the
injustice and, we believe, this protest
had something to do with procuring
the additional endowment to take care
of instructors in state institutions.
The trustees, however, have laid
down certain rules requiring applica
tion from the governing board of each
university, endorsed by the legisla
tures of the various atates, respectively,
in order that they may not be put in
the light of giving help where no help
Is wanted and, therefore, If Nebraska
Is to be put on the accredited list it
must conform to this requirement.
The lawmakers and the people
should not be confused as to the Car
negie foundation. It is a pension
fund pure and simple for superan
uated university and college , profes
sors. It has absolutely nothing to do,
except indirectly, with the salaries of
faculty members engaged in active
work of instruction. It will devolve
upon us to provide the salaries for our
university professors whether Ne
braska qualifies for the Carnegie foun
dation or not. But if service In our
university is to disqualify a professor
from the benefits of the Carnegie
foundation we will naturally have to
put up with poorer quality or offer
higher inducements In the way of sal
aries or a state-provided penson fund.
The fear that the prospect of Car
negie pensions will Influence the Indi
viduality and freedom of teaching in
the state universties is a mere pre
tense. If we have that sort of cravens
in the Nebraska faculty the sooner we
get rid of them the better. There is
no more "danger" or , "degradation"
to the university in permitting its su
perannuated professors to enjoy Car
negie fund pensions than there is in
accepting the money which William J.
Bryan puts up annually for prize es
says on civil government.
In passing upon a case in which
the duty on Jewelry Is involved, the
United States circuit court of appeals
has decided that a necklace is not a
necklace unless it Is a necklace. Of
course the case will be appealed, as
no self-respecting lawyer would ever
agree to a decision like that.
Our charter tlnkerers, who are go
ing to make the city engineer and the
boiler inspector elective by all the peo
ple, are overlooking something. They
could advance equally good reasons
for making the superintendent of
schools elective.
A Philadelphia street ear company
has been. coinrelld to j sy a woman
11,419 damages for injuries sustained
!n an occiderl, the Uetluouy showing
that the Injured woman was a poetess,
but had not been able to writ any
since the accident. Street car com
panies may be compelled to charge
extra fares for carrying persons loaded
with the divine afflatus.
Answering the question about the
constitutionality of the income tax,
Mr. Bryan once made a hit by exclaim
ing, "How can we tell when one Judge
will change his mind?" Applicable to
Nebraska's newly appointed supreme
Judges.
Mr. Bryan says If the election were
to take place now his plurality over
Mr. Taft would be enormous. Ap
parently Mr. Bryan's only chance Is
to have the election held .In some
month other than November.
The federal court has decided that
an automobllo is not to be admitted
free of duty just because It is billed
as "household goods." The automo
bile can hardly be looked upon as a
parlor ornament.
Foraker and Tillman both assert
that the charges agalnBt them are due
to the malice of the president. The
fact remains that the charges msj
based on incriminating letters they
themselves wrote.
The attention of congress might be
directed to the clever story by Mr.
Aesop of how a Jackass tried to
achieve a refutation for bravery by
kicking a dying lion.
A man has been fined $1 and costs
for throwing an egg at United States
Senator "Jeff" Davis In Arkansas. The
court must have taken cognizance of
the cost of the egg.
Sonatbr Tillman has received a vote
of confidence from the South Carolina
legislature. All he needs now is a
vote of confidence from the Chautau
qua circuits.
Wouldn't Thla Jar Yon t
Philadelphia Inquirer.
A bill has lieen Introduced In the Ne
braska legislature to create a commission
to Inspect the beds and bedding of all the
hotels and boarding houses In the state.
Why should not the existing Commission
of Kntomology servo the purpose?
Jolting- the Landlords.
Boston Herald.
The Nebraska bill, which would require
the airing of the bedding In all hotels once
In every three months and the changing ot
the bed linen occasionally, doesn't look so
excessively exacting and unreasoning In
Its requirements aa some of the legislation
that has been proposed on this subject.
Let's hope the landlords can manage to
conform to the new dispensation without
serious misgivings as to Ita propriety.
Tertjr ln-ratltajde.
Indianapolis News.
Mr. Kern seems to get everything but the
reward. When his party has a forlorn
hope he la called on to lead It; between
timea he is asketf'ie lend a hand, while all
the time no one- 4 more popular. If what
Ig heard on all. Itmos has any basis. Al
most literally. rftone names him but to
praise." Yet when It comes to giving out
a real thing, something that lies honor and
power attached Instead of mere heart
breaking hard work, with a certainty of
defeat In advance, Mr. Kern Is passed by
on the other side, so to speak.
Ia 03 a Fair Dead l.lnef
New York Kvenlng Post.
But will a fixed are limit rid th irhnni.
of senility? Set sixty-five as the dead line.
ana the most obnoxious of all old professors
will continue to fill chairs; we mean the
kind that enters upon ita dotage at the
age of 60, the premature fossil whose Joy
of life is dead, whose sympathy for am
bition and ideals haa gone cold, or whose
mind sluggishly revolves, like an airless
satellite, around a single Idea. It the age
limit will not aurely work, an endurance
test might. Make every professor over 40
pass an examination In lecturing, and
"flunk" the man whose students fall asleep.
Lead the faculty on a long Jaunt through
contemporary affairs and give a passing
mark only to those who are running strong
at the finish and have not stumbled at aome
"new thought" hurdle. So long as one haa
no prejudices against mere years this plan
might do admirably.
PER SOX A I. K OTKS.
John V. Gates has promised the town of
Port Arthur, Tex., a public hospital, the
building to cost $100,000. and a business col
lege with dormitories for the students.
President Hill of tha Great Northern has
accepted a state Job, which will cause him
to pay fare even over Ills own road. The
situation would not have presented any dif
ficulties In the old days of rebating.
Among the German crown prince's most
treasured possession Is a acrapbook con
taining over l.OOu pages of adverse tiews
paper criticism. The first 600 pages are
Inscribed with a gold-lettered heading, "I
hope I am not like this!"
Surviving Hartford members of the Wid
Awakes. who helped elect Abraham Lin
coln president forty-eight yeara ago, are to
be asked to attend the Lincoln memorial
meeting to be held on the 100th anniver
sary of the birth of the great president.
It Is interesting to the mothers of debut
antes to know that at the very expensive
reception given Miss Margery Gould by her
parenta she herself waa dressed with stud
led simplicity. There waa no ornament In
her gown, which waa "modified directolre"
or Greek style, and she wore not a single
Jewel.
Few outside those who have followed her
fortunes recognise In Mrs. Copley Thaw,
as she wishes to be known, the once light
hearted countess of Yarmouth. The young
woman, whose punishment for marrying a
title has been a severer one than that of
most heiresses, now is a permanent resi
dent of Paris, self-exiled from New York
and Ixmdon.
A Wisconsin statesman of the up-to-date
variety proposes to regulate a few things
that have eluded tha watchful guardlana of
other people's business He proposes to tax
bachelors who .neglect to hitch up before
they aia . A matrimonial bureau under
stata control is to facilitate the hitching
by finding wives for those too tired or
bashful to help themselves. The promoter
Is John T. Farrell, and he is not looking
for trouble.
Former I'nited States Senator John Con
neis, who repreented California during
President Lincoln's administration and was
one of .the official pallbearera at the fu
neral of the martyred president, died at
Jamaica Plains, Mass., last Monday. "Now
all of the pallbearera are dead." observes
the Hrookln Eagle. "We think also that
every member then of the I'nltel Rtatea
senate and oet-y i.temhrr of Ihm hou ot
, .cprc;ciiuuvtt of that lime are alu dead. "
ARMY fiOMIP IV WAHIr.TOV.
Current F.trnt Cleaned from tee
Army and ay IteglMer.
The War department will psy no atten
tion to petitions sent in by officers on the
subject of legislation, at least when such
petitions aim to modify or change In any
material degree the provisions of meas
ures submitted to and pending before con
gress when such legislation originates at
the War department. It Is considered by
the military authorities that petitions of
thla sort are unmllltary In diameter and
are suggestive of a lack of discipline, which
It Is desirable to discourage. Of course,
In those Instances where defects In pending
legislation are observable, hiformatlon to
that effect will be gratefully received and
promptly made the basis of official ac
tion; but, under such circumstances. It Is
stated, there will be no necessity for pe
titioning the War department. The dis
covery of errors or other forms of defects
In pending legislation may be communi
cated to the War department by an Individ
ual officer with the certainty that the cor
rection will be applied quite as readily ns
when the subject Is made the occasion of a
formidable and numerously signed petition.
A peculiar ease has come to the attention
of the War department In that of a recruit
provisionally accepted for enlistment who
accepted treatment at an army hospital
In the form of an operation which rendered
him eligible for enlistment. After receiv
ing thla treatment, which removed his dis
abilities, he refused to enlist. Of course,
no recruit Is bound tinder an enlistment
until the enlistment has been formally en
tered Into, but at tho same time It Is well
settled that If a candidate for enlistment
accepts supplies, etc., from the govern
ment with the Intent at the time he re
ceives them to ultimately fail to enter Into
the undertaking contemplated by mutual
understanding between himself and the re
cruiting officer, he Is. In tho light of re
cent decisions, liable to punishment in the
civil courts. Instructions have been given
for consultation with the representatives
of the Department of Justice to ascertain
what action may be taken in this case.
The commissary general of the army
Is inclined to restrict the eligible list of
those candidates who have qualified for
apiiolntment to the position of post com
missary sergeant to twenty-five In number,
which was originally Intended and an
nounced before the examinations took place
In this country and the Philippines. The
reports of the examining boards which met
at prtsts In the United States have been
received and show that twenty-seven candi
dates made an average of mora than 90
per cent. There remains to be received
the reports from tho boards which met In
the Philippines, with the prospect that some
of tlio twenty-five now on the list of quali
fied eliglbles will be displaced. General
Eharpe entertains the view that It Is wise
not to have too large a list from which
appointments may be made, and that with
twenty-five ellgibles awaiting appointment
it will take two years or more to exhaust
such a list.
The army officers cngage.d In purchasing
horses for the military service will open
bids In about a month from 300 cavalry
horses and 250 artillery horses. Captain
Klrby Walker, of the cavalry arm on duty
with the quartermaster's department, Is
now at Louisville, Ky.. and has been
ordered to come to Washington for confer
ence with the quartermaster general with
reference to tho purchase of horses, and
while here will look Into the possibilities of
the horse section In northern Virginia, after
which duty he will return to the middle
west and look, after the delivery of horses
for which contracts were recently awarded.
All of the 260 mules destined for the Phlllp
plnea have been delivered and It Is ex
pected that the 250 horses to be shipped
to the islands will be ready for Inspection
In the next week or two. with a view to
the shipment of the animals on the trans
port Dlx on the next trip. These pur
chases of horses will consume all the avail
able funds for army animals and stock up
the remount depot at Reno, from which
will be sent out to the cavalry troops the
horses which have been longest at that
place.
A retired enlisted man of the army has
applied for permission to Instruct the high
school boys of a Michigan tow n In military
exercises. It la considered by the War de
partment that there is nothing incompati
ble between the status of a retired enlisted
man and the holding of such a position.
There Is no statute of the United States
or regulation of the War department which
would Interfere with a retired enliated man
of the army from accepting an office for
employment either under the United States
or a state.
' An enllkted man of the Utah light
artillery which took a prominent part In
the Philippine Insurrection recently filed
a claim for pay. clothing, travel pay. and
extra pay for aervice outside the United
States. He claimed travel allowances from
Manila to San Francisco but on account of
the fact that the artillery company was
mustered out at the Presidio, of San
Francisco on August 1. 18S9, It Is held that
he was still In the service of the United
States when he arrived in this country
and. therefore, entitled to transportation to
his home. He received all pay and allow
ances due him and his claim Is, therefore,
rejected.
An Interesting case has recently arisen
concerning the right of an officer, required
to be mounted, to tiave hla horses stabled
at the expense of the government. Cap
tain Robert R. Raymond, corps of engi
neers, requested of the quartermaater at
Denver, Colo., room for stabling two
horses. The request wss refused on ac
count of the lack of aecommodatlona In the
quartermaster's stahlea rat that place. Cap
tain Raymond made application to the
proper authority to have stable room hired
and this was refused on the ground that
the transaction would not be authorized
b ythe quartermaster general's department
In Washington. Captain Raymond secured
quarters for hla horses and submitted a
bill for the cost thereof, and the assistant
comptroller of the treasury has decided
that it was no fault of the officer that
there waa no room In the quartermaster's
stables at Denver and that it was proper
to have hired such accommodations on the
outside. He holds that the officer should
not be made to suffer by the failure of the
authorities to do their duty in thin respect.
The quartermaster general of the army
having Informed the assistant comptroller
that such expense would approximate to
per month for each liorse, .the claim of
Captain Raymond for such an amount has
been allowed
A Taxatloa KarcV.
New York Kvenlng Post.
Four new names are added to the list of
thuae who pay taxes on tl.Ou0.0ofj or more
of personal property. This makes exactly
ten people in New York who have that
mount. Yet soma mtn are still demanding
evidence that lite ersonal-property tax
is not a farce.
Doa't Pat 'Eos oa a Slrlnaj.
r.oaton Transcript.
Importers of Jewelry will pleas- notioe
that it will cost them rnly 10 per cent dutv
if p-sil are In a box. but fut per cent If
on a string Treasure wit'i a utrlog to It
ia generally the must expensive
The Strength ot
Is Judged partly by the amount of money invested by Ita stork
holders In the form of Carltal, Surplus and Undivided TroflU.
These give security to the depositor because that money
stands between the depositor and any possible loss In the vslue
of the securities held by a bank.
The First National Hank of Omaha has frequently Increas
ed the amount of Its
Capital, Surplus and
accounts so that they ipight always maintain a proper relation
to the amount of deposits. ...
At present the amount of these accounts is over H.200
000.00. This certainly gives assurance of absolute security.
A 3 Certificate of Deposit Is one of tha best and safest forms
of investment for jour surplus funds.
Fife t National Bank of Omaha
Thirteenth and Famam Su.
B aVsty CXposi Taults
is on 13lh street.
ansa "ts
H V M K K A I , K X A M I X A T I O S .
Kearney Hub: Sheldon's marriage recom
mendation In hia closing message should be
referred to the Nebraska Btata Medical
association, with power to act. It is high
time that a medical certificate accompany
a license to marry.
David City Press: Nebraska's retiring
governor asks tho legislature to enact a
law requiring a physical examination of
applicants for matrimony. He also advo
cates a number of other things that are
rather unique, some that are commendable,
and some that are ill advised. On the whole
the final message of Governor Sheldon Is
an Interesting document and Is worthy of
the consideration of the legislature.
Beatrice Kxpress: The recommendation
In Governor Sheldon's message thai It be
made unlawful for a couple to marry with
out first securing a physician's -ert!flcate.
showing thejr good health, has been pro
posed and advocated in different statea for
several years. If the thorough application
of such a law were made possible, it would
work for better character and higher citi
zenship. The suggestion Is In line with
progress and a measure may sometime be
framed to carry It out successfully.
Norfolk News: While anmo people may
agree theoretically with ex-Governor Shel
don's proposition to prevent criminal con
victs from bringing other criminals into
the world, tho plan could not be brought
to a practical basis under present condi
tions. It Is well known, of course, that
criminals beget criminals and the marriage
of positive degenerates is crime against
society. A law preventing ex-convicts from
marrying might more easily be adopted than
the drastic action recommended by the
retiring governor. Rut in such a scheme
the fallibility of courts and Juries would
have to be taken into consideration. Under
such a plan the sentencing of a person to
prison would become a much more serious
thing than It ia today and that very point
would tend toward the acquittal of many
persons charged with crime who, under
present plans are Justly convicted. The
suggestion of such a plan enters into dis
pute .with the very name of the state prisons,
of course, since our present prison system
has the penitence and reformation of the
prisoner largely at heart. This suggestion
Is along the same advanced line aa that
which marked the plan of ex-Chancellor
Andrews of few years ago in his scheme to
use convicts for surgical experiments.
Sr lentlfically the governor's idea might be
worth while, but practically, under exist
ing economical conditions, it could not be
worked out.
tOI.D STORAUK STATKSM ANSIIIP
Importance of t'hanalnu; Date of
Meeting; of Nenr Congress.
New York Globe,
The representative In congress does not
become a legislator until a year and s
month after he has been choaen to office.
It Is to overcome this situation that Repre
sentative Prince of Illinois has Introduced
a bill providing that the session of a
new congress shall begin on March 4 in
stead of on the first Monday In December.
Ilia purpose Is, of course, obvious. It Is
to enable members of congress to net
promptly, and, If possible, crystalllZA Into
law the pledges under which they are
chosen to office.
' Thirteen months is a long lime In politics,
and from the standpoint of teal represen
tation of the people It Is doubtless true
that many a congressman takes on the
flavor of a canned or cold storage dales
man before he is legally in a position to ap
ply the mandate under which he has been
elected. The representative la the special
custodian of popular initiative In legisla
tion, but the time before he can take this
Initiative Is always ao far ahead that its
force may become seriously impaired, If
not indeed completely neutralized.
ALL IN ONE BOAT
We have brought together some odds and ends of
Boys' Suits.
There are 7." sizes 8 to 1G mostly large size9.
They sold formerly from $5.00 to $10.00. Take your
choice now at
S3.75
Plain douhle breasted two-piece straight pant suits
Cut in Half
We have 50 boys' overcoats, sizes 10 to 14, which we
will nell at one-half their former price. They sold from
$10.00 to $12.50 now $5.00 and $0,125. One fur lined over
coat, size 10, $25.00 was $50.00.
The? go on sale Tuesday morning. See windows.' "
'Browning.King
& Company
R. S. WILCOX, Manager
a Bank
Proiits
M!!.l.NO I.fXE.
Hav nor What have yon done with all
your t'hiistmas presents?
Phytic-Made a large, cold bowl of lem
otmdc. Chicago Tribune.
"He considers his debut on -the. stage a
very flattering success."
"Why, ho was greeted with a shower of
cpgs!"
"I know It, hut look at the price Of eggi
these days. "-Houston Poet.
"I see where the aeronauts srs to meet
to make rules for ihe air." ;
"Oh, the theatrical managers have al
ready done that."
"What do you mean?"
"Isn't It an old custom with them to lay
out star routes? " Baltimore American.
"I'm surprised to hear that that fellow
bs gone broke. Thought he had one of
those swollen fortunes.". . .
"That waa Just the trouble. The swelling
was due to hot air." Philadelphia Ledger.
"Here's a woman doctor who says that
nobody with brains will kiss In the days to
come."
"Gee. I wonder what's goujg to happen to
the women'. "-Cleveland Plain, Dealer.
"You say ho always wJns at poker?"
"Always."
"Have you ever played 'with him?"
"No. 1 don't, play poker." -"Then
how dr you know?"
"He la always trying to get up a game."
Houston Post. .
THK MKAM HK OF TOIL.
J. W. Foley 1n Philadelphia ledger.
It waa only a step on a summer day
To the creek and the rock whore th '
spring board lay;
It was over the meadowu and through
the fence.
And half a mile through the woods so
dense. ?
It wu only a step on a winter night
On a winding path pasl the ruined mill.
And you might think it a weary wav
Hut 'iwns only a step en a summer da.
But. oh, It was far down the short corn
row.
Where the weeaa grew thick with i
heavy hoe!
It was onl ya slep on a winter night
To the skating pond where the snow lay
white;
It was past the Common and through tha
wood
. And over the hill Wrier the schoolhouse
stood.
It was down the turnpike and through the
Bnow
That lay In drifts In the vslleys low.
But the stars shone out and the moon
was bright
It was only a step on a winter night.
But. Oh. It was far through the bitter
known
To the old barn door we were sent tu
close!
'Twas light aa a feather, the sack we bete
Of shellbark nuts, thai could hold no
morj.
And each of ua staggered beneath Its
load.
While often It lay In the dusty road.
Till we got our breath and we made a vow
To carry it as far aa the dead tree new.
And never waa burden ao gladly borne.
Nor ever were bearers so little worn.
But. Oh, they were hiavy too far to
tell.
The pells we bore from the nearby well!
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