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full and complete coplea of The Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
durtn the month of January, 10, wu aa
follow a.
1 38, BOO IT ss,ioo
2 8888 II M9JU0
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4.. I8.1M 10 8S.OM
t 88,010 21... 88,180
.. 37,060 22 38,030
1. . 38,400 2t 38,880
8 38,330 24 37300
38,400 26 38,010
10 38,800 26 39,030
11 38,310 27 38,340
12 38,370 21 8,
12 38,80 2 88,080
14 8T0 18 38,800
16 38.8S0 31 37,700
10 88,830
Total 1,18.180
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WHEN OUT OF TOWN,
ahscrlbwrs leaving the city teas
po madly ahoald have The Be
nailed to them. Addreae will be
changed a oftea aa requested.
. Et. tu, "Colonel" Fanning;!
Are you one of the Commercial
club'8 1,000? If tot. war OotT
It is not too early to do your val
entine shopping early.' ,
Mayor Jim knew that Senator How
ell waa no gentleman all too time.
The Standard Oil has promised to
be good in Missouri. Why not else
where? It seems that Omaha's democratic
councllmen have burnt their Bridges
behind them.
It is much easier to elect a coun-cilman-at-large
than It Is to elect a
'large councilman.
Those wrestling matches may not be
particularly elevating, but they raise
the coin for the box office.
This Is about the time of the year
for the authors of New Year resolu
tions to revise their proofs.
v A Chicago man who wandered away
.with 1 10,000 has been fonnd ia New
York.' Yes, be was penniless.
. Congressman Hobson must feel that
he made a mistake by selecting Ala
bama Instead of Nevada as his borne.
Measured by the space accorded by
the local democratic organ, the Dahl
man Democracy Is worth mentioning.
Judge Albert may be cited for un
professional conduct in cutting prices
for cutting out a deposit guaranty law.
' The - Rough Rider are quarreling
about where they shall hold their re
union this year. Why not compromise
on Africa?
Politics makes strange bedfellows
and strane bed clothes, too. Judging
from the bills being passed In some
of the state legislatures.
' After careful nursing by a lobby of
trained nurses at liaooln the nursing
bill bss been gotten In a fair way to
aurvlvf the legislative croup.
'' A consular report deals at length
with new methods of preserving eggs.
The only flaw In the plan Is that It
does not tell how to get the eggs.
Congress has passed a law prohibit
ing the. importation of opium., Con
gress apparently feela fully competent
to supply its own brand of dope.
"War is knocking at our Moors,"
says Congressman Hobson. Let it
knock, as the butler has Instructions
to announce that we are not at home
to war; ;
A bill has been Introduced in con
gress for a bureau of criminal re-
searc,lLt,Waehington. Thought that
worlt was In charge of the secert eery
ice bureau.
Robbers made a rich haul by enter
ing a gambling house at Goldfleld and
taking everything In sight. They
adopted the only sure plan of beating
the faro bank.
' ' The wicked republican minority In
the legislature Is now being accused of
riling the water to prevent the demo
cratic majority from making a record
for economical appropriations. Who's
running this Nebraska legislature,
anhowl
A VlClORY FOB MR. TAFT.
The agreement of the ways and
means committee to include a clause
In the tariff bill to be submitted at
the coming special session, for free ad
mission of 300,000 tons annually of
sugar from the Philippine islands must
be accepted ee a victory for Mr. Taft
and an acknowledgment of his In
fluence with the congress. Mr. Taft
has been working for years for some
concession of this kind, in keeping with
the assurance he held oH to the Fili
pinos when he was their governor, and
his efforts now promise to bear fruit.
The concession will amount to prac
tical reciprocity with the Philippines
so far as sugar Is concerned, for it
will be many years before the imports
of sugar from the islands will reach
the limit prescribed by the bill. The
Importations from the Philippines In
1907 amounted to only 10,700 tons and
Mr. Taft predicts that the 300,000-ton
limit will not be reached in a genera
tion, even with the most rapid develop
ment of the Industry In the Philip
pines. The protest of the domestic
producers of sugar against this con
cession in favor of the Philippines
appears almost ludicrous in the light
of statistics, showing that this nation
in 1907 consumed 3,993,979 tons of
sugar, of which only 656,627 tons were
of domestic production; The Ameri
can market is large enough to absorb
all the Philippine surplus without dis
turbing domestic producers In the
least.
TESTIMONY BY TELEPHONE.
The supreme court of New York
state has Just rendered a decision
that may constitute a far-reaching
precedent in all states where proof
of ft telephone conversation Is offered
in the trial of a cause. In the New York
case, a wife, acting for her husband,
gave certain orders to his brokers.
The defendants Bought to offer the
testimony of a witness who had lis
tened to the telephone conversation
over an extension wire. This evi
dence was excluded in the lower court
as was all proof tending to corroborate
the conversation because the witness
bad heard the conversation on an
other Instrument and in another room
than that occupied by the representa
tives of the brokers. The supreme
court has overruled the decision of the
lower court and decided that a con
versation overheard between two par
ties whose voices are recognizable may
be established as evidence in an action
and that the recognition of voices over
a telephone is Just as good as conver
sation between parties who. are face
to face, bo long aa the hearer recog
nizes the voices and can make oath to
the fact. .
If the higher courts sustain this de
cision, there is aparently no limit to
the use of the telephone in litigation.
The Judge rendering' the decision
stated that the defendants could have
proved, had 'their testimony been ad
mitted, that the proposed witness had
been so placed as to be able to hear
everything that passed over the tele
phone wire; and, If so, his testimony
should have been admitted as com
petent and relevant to the issue. The
general acceptance by the courts of
this rule may make the telephone a
valuable factor In assailing or defend
ing the rights of future litigants. Par
ticularly cautious persons will be dis
posed to add to the old "don't write"
admonition the further warning, "or
telephone."
CAPTAIN QVALTROVUJra JAQ.
The landlubber's sympathy, solicited
or volunteered, will rest with Captain
Edward F. Qualtrough of the battle
ship Georgia, just found guilty by
court-martial of being intoxicated
While on duty and suspended for six
months with a loss pf ten numbers in
rank. Cable tolls come high and the
details of Captain QuaKrough's ac
quisition of a package are lacking, but
the meager information at band indi
cates that in the course of the fes
tivities at Gibraltar he looked too fre
quently on the cup that cheers and
must accordingly pay the penalty.
A more calm and sober estimate of
Captain Qualtrough's offense might be
formed If all the details were known.
It may be admitted the dignity of the
American navy must be" maintained,
particularly while the fleet ia in for
eign parts, and It the doughty captain
got one of those fighting jags aboard
and boasted his ability to whip his
weight In wildcats, his punishment
may not be too severe. . If, .on the
other hand, he had only a pilld "hands-across-the-sea"
load, which made him
want to embrace all men as brothers,
mitigating circumstances should weigh
in his behalf. It should be remem
bered that be has been away from
home for a year and a half, that he
has scouted the rim of the South Amer
ican continent, exchanged greetings
with the Latin-American moguls and
mogulettes, kotowed to Patagonlan es
quires and dames, flirted with the
senoritas of Mexico, traded jokes and
news with the Australasians, rolled
cigarettes with the Filipinos, drank tea
and sahke with the mikado's subjects
In Toklo, been viewed and reviewed
by the tunny sunny folks of the Medit
erranean, pulled starving refugees
from the ruins at Messina and finally
landed at Gibraltar, where be again
heard the English language that made
him think -of home, family, friends,
house rent and the monthly visit from
the Installment store collectors. Then
came the let-down and the fill-up. If
a Jag were ever excusable, that must
have been the time for the captain to
get one and find joy ki It.
Then again the records fail to show
any precedent tor the finding against
Captain Qualtrough. No Iron-clad rule
has been fixed tor thirst-quenching in
the navy department. The records,
running back for 300 years, show that
an army officer Is not expected to be
sober after 3 o'clock In the afternoon
and that courts-martial are always ad
journed at 3 p. m. on that account.
If there is no time limit on jags la
the navy there should be, or the ad
ministration is open to the charge of
favoritism between branches of the
service. Even It the navy has a time
limit on the pickling process. Captain
Qualtrough may show that after a tour
of the globe, he thought he was get
ting lit up on Wednesday afternoon
when it was really Friday morning.
Everything considered. It may be as
well to suspend harsh judgment until
the full returns are In and the attor
neys for the defense have had time
to ask for a retrial on the score of
newly discovered evidence.
' THEY WON'T TRUST ONE ANOTHER
The hiring of a special attorney to
be paid out of the state treasury to
draft the deposit guaranty bill which
the democratic legislature proposes to
put on the statute books of Nebraska
is more significant as a. confession of
incapacity on the part of ourdemo
cratic law-makers than as a raid on the
treasury. The stipulated fee to be
paid for legal services is too small to
consider in fact, hardly adequate to
command the services ot a lawyer ac
customed to getting big money and
the particular lawyer employed will,
doubtless, bring as good legal talent
to the task as could be gotten for the
price.
But why should the taxpayers ot the
state have to pay for a specially em
ployed lawyer to draft legislative
bills? The state has a salaried attor
ney general, with two competent as
sistants, whose time and legal learn
ing are constantly available for all
proper purposes.
Outside of this the democratic ma
jority ought to be able to enlist the
help of two distinguished democratic
jurists, who are supposed to be draw
ing pay as judges ot the supreme
court, under commissions given them
by Governor Shallenberger, but for the
time being have nothing to do in their
official capacities. Why should not
Judge Sullivan or Judge Oldham, or
both, have volunteered their services
to help the democratic law-makers out
of a hole?
But, ordinarily, every legislative
body counts among its own member
ship lawyers of sufficient ability to do
bill drafting work. It happens that
the bell-wether of the upper house of
the legislature is a lawyer whose serv
ices are constantly in large demand by
the great favor-seeking corporations,
who pay him well, but who would not
pay him at all if he were not a lawyer
ot more than average caliber. Why
do not the democrats in the legislature
commit the drafting of the deposit
guaranty bill to Frank Ransom?
8urely not because of lack of legal at
tainments. Can it be that they would
not trust him to draw a bill free from
carefully concealed blow-holes in the
armor?
If the democratic majority have
none among them at once fit and trust
worthy to draw the deposit guaranty
bill, what may be expected of the other
legislation which will be concocted at
Lincoln before adjournment?
LOST-A POLITICAL BAROMETER. ,
The committees of the Maine legis
lature have approved the recommen
dation of the governor that the Sep
tember election of state officers be
abolished and that the state and con
gressional elections be held in Novem
ber, on the same date as the national
elections. The bill pending to that
effect will probably become a law,
thus depriving political seers ot an
other straw for forecasting the na
tional verdict.
"As goes Maine so goes the nation"
has been a political prophecy for
many years and about the only re
sult of the saw has been to have both
of the great political parties become
particularly active in that state ia
the September elections. The Origi
nal purpose of the law was to keep
the state and national elections sepa
rate on tne theory that separate elec
tions would promote independence
among the voters. Results have not
vindicated this contention and the
Maine folks are about convinced that
a double election means only double
expense, as the voters of the state have
learned to discriminate in their se
lection of state officials without the
device of separate elections. Maine,
Vermont and Oregon are the only
states that have their state and con
gressional elections apart from the
presidential elections. Ohio and In
diana abandoned their October elec
tions years ago from motives of
economy and Maine is now about to
follow suit. This will leave Vermont
and Oregon as the off-month election
states, but as their politics are pretty
well fixed, their September elections
can hardly hold the old place of na
tional importance.
The legislature of Panama and
President Obaldia have joined in
denying the charges made against
them by Congressman Rainey In his
speech on Pauama canal affairs. Mr.
Rainey should either offer some proof
or admit that be did not know what
he was talking about.
Will more money in the street
cleaning fund give us cleaner streets
in Omaha, or simply give us more
foremen and inspectors to boss the
same number of decrepit broom
pushers?
Texas papers are calling for rain.
It was General Sheridan who said
that rain and good society were the
only things needed to make Texas
and hades pleasant places to live in.
Inventor Edison says he has per
fected a storage battery that will go
3,000 miles with only one charge. We
presume the charge is made by the
railroad company for transportation.
The committee of arrangements will
indicate the airs that the bands from
the dinerent states shall play while
they are passing the reviewing stand
at the Inauguration ceremonies March
4. Of course, the Georgia bands will
play "Carve Dat 'Possum."
German surgeons are said to be
highly gratified over the success of
their operation on Castro of Venezuela.
If the report Is true that they got
110,000 out of Castro, the operation
was a decided success.
The Anti-Saloon league wants an
elective police commission for Omaha,
and the liquor dealers also demand an
elective police commission. One or
both are bound to be fooled.
The salaries of Chicago aldermen
are to be raised from 31,600 to $3,000
per annum, but there is not much
prospect that Chicago voters will elect
anv of the $3,000 variety.
California refusea to comply with
the injunction, "Love thy neighbor
as thyself," particularly it the neigh
bor happens to be a Jap.
Drifting? a Conelnslan.
Philadelphia Record.
The upshot or the Brownsville matter Is
the apparent belief that the rifles went
off automatically, greatly surprising the
soldiers, all of whom were aaleep at tb
time.
Hot Alp Warriors.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
It waa Nevada that recently called on
the United States government to keep the
peace within Its limits. Perhaps its lack
of a aingle militia company la one reason
why Nevada wants to stir up war with
Japan.
Blar Money In the Baalaeas.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Standard Oil company's unwilling
ness to be barred from Missouri indicates
that there must be big profits in the oil
business down there, notwithstanding the
oft-repeated statement that the great trust
sells its products at very close, not to
say sn almost ruinous margin.
Pointed Hints from Home.
Buffalo Express.
The public did not approve of the war
of the house of representative on the
president. Moreover, the public wrote to
Its varied representatives and said so. It
said so plainly and emphatically. The
hmiae will. In consequence, retire more or
leas gracefully from the battlefield. This
Shows what might be done with direct
nominations of senators and the ensuing
direct Influence brought to bear upon
them.
Increasing; Activity Wheele.
Philadelphia Reoord.
In the laal two weeks reported on the
number of Mle cars In the country de
creased nearly 22,000, which gives evidence
of a substantial Improvement in the trans
portation business. Since the end of Octo
ber, when the greater part of the crop
moving was over, the number of Idle cars
had been Increasing until the fortnight
from January 4 to-m. The revival of bus
iness has been pretty tardy, but thia im
provement In the" car situation affords
encouragement, ic
Camblaea mt Ancient. Vintage-
St. Paul Dispatch.
It is an erroneous belief that laws to
prohibit combinations in restraint of trade
are of modern origin. It is a doctrine of
the common laws that such combinations
are illegal and void. In an early English
case, a dyer made an agreement to refrain
from the exercise of his trade for two
years. Justice Hall not only held the bond
void, as against the common law, but in
rendering Judgment added: "By God! It
the plaintiff were here he should go to
prison till he paid a fine to the king!"
HBADI8 OFF POSTAL BANKS.
Various Method a Kmnloyed to Pre
vent Passage ef Law.
Boaton Herald.
Unofficial announcement waa made three
months ago that the National Monetary
commission would present a plan for a
central bank of issue aa the remedy for
the defects In the banking and currency
system. Reannouncement ait this time is
for the purpose of heading oft the pos'al
savings bank bill which Senator Carter Is
pressing for consideration. Senator Carter
has behind him a strong popular sentiment
la the west corresponding to the sentiment
in favor of deposit guarantee legislation.
At the Chicago convention last year this
popular demand was met by the endorse
ment of the postal savings bank plan. This
endorsement ia now withdraws, and a cen
tral bank of lasue with numerous branches
is promised. Why?
Details of the plan to be presented by the
monetary commission have not been made
public Without such Information It is
Impossible to understand how a postal sav
ings bank system can be inconsistent with a
plan for a central bank of Issue, or how such
a centre! bank can be an acceptable sub
stitute for the poetal ssvlngs bank. The
functions of She two Institutions should be,
snd naturally are, entirely separate. The
purpose of the poetal savings bank is to
encourage thrift among the people by in
creasing the facilities for secure and profit
able aavings deposits. The postal bank
would be a part of the national banking
system only so far aa it served as an agency
for attracting and receiving deposits which
It would turn Into the active channels ot
commerce. It would not compete with na
tional banks and its competition with exist
ing savings banks would be minimised by
the limitation of the rats of Interest to be
paid on deposits.'
The demand for postal banks esists in
communities where no savings bank has
been established. In sections where the New
England savings bank Idea has not beon
developed, and among aliens who do not
understand the guarantees of security af
forded by the savings bank laws. If the
new plan of a central bank is to be a sub
stitute for the postal bank In meeting this
demand. Its system of branch banks must
be widespread and muat also come Into
direct competition with the eatatlng national
bank aystem. This was not contemplated
in any previous discussion ot the central
bank plan, and obviously It would invite
such opposition from national banking in
terests as to render its acceptance Impos
sible. The postal savings bank will perform a
service peculiarly its own. It has been en
dorsed by the republican national conven
tion as a "convenience for the people snd an
encouragement of thrift." The plan of the
snonetaxy commission Is blandly Indefinite.
Three, and perhaps four, vacancies In the
commission will occur oa March 4. The
establishment f she poetal savings bank
Is a present duty of congress. Such action
will not conflict with the present banking
system, or with any plan for a central bank
of Issue that may be recommended. Is the
I new scheme a political trkkT
ROlNlf ABOt'T SEW YORK.
Ripples n the (nrrent nf Life in the
Metropolis.
In refusing a rehearing in the New Tork
Gas trust case the federal supreme court
Jarred loose the last grip the combine had
on a Julry pot of $12,000,000, representing
ths difference between SO-cent and It-rate
paid by consumers since the case reached
the courts. Some time this week, the local
federal court, which controls the pot, will
begin refunding the money to holders of
gas receipts, through the various offices
of the gas company. In the vault of the
court commissioners are Jo.SOO.uoo duplicate
gas receipts, and In another vault are
books containing records of the receipts.
Should a consumer feel that he Is being
underpaid by the company Commissioner
Shields will compare the amount he got
with the record of the receipts and the
duplicate receipts and so settle the matter.
The somrany s autitors w 11 report nightly
to the commissioner, and when the pay
ments aie all made the commissioner will
give the company a check for the amount
disbursed.
Nobody, not even the commissioner or the
lawyers, has been able to arrive at any
estimate whatsoever of the time this thing
is going to take. There are 800,00 persons
with legal claims to a share ot the money.
Some have kert their receipts snd some
haven't. Many thousands have been using
slot machines, and they represent the shift
ing crowd of gas users, whose cases will
be the most troublesome of all.
The cost of making the distribution will
fall on the consumer, the circuit court hav
ing ruled that the Interest drawn by the
fund shall be employed to pay tha costs.
This Interest so taken from ths consumers
amounts to about $600,000.
The cashier In the men's cafe of the Hotel
Plasa had a fuss lata one afternoon last
week with a man. who. In an effor to get
change for one of many $1,000 bills he car
ried around In his pockets, had Imbibed a
dosen or more highballs and was. In con
sequence, as the cashier expressed It, "some
peevish."
The visitor to the cafe was Edward P.
Clayton, who said he had come to New
Tork from Richmond, Vs., to attend the
dinner In memoiy of General Robert E.
Lea at the Waldorf-Astoria, and realising
that he would be in need of "ample funds"
while here, he had drawn a large sum
from his bank before leaving Richmond.
After seating himself at a tAhlii In th
cafe and ordering a hiithhaJI whinh t..
drank, he tendered the bill to the waiter.
ine waiter took the money to the-cashier,
but was told to ask the guest If he had no
small bill. At this the visitor drew a roll
of bills from his pockets and said;
There is $30,000 In that roll inrl th.
smallest bill In It is the one I gave you and
i want it changed. I have been to a dosen
places In the neighborhood, ordered hlfrh.
ball at each one, but none of the bartend
ers could change this bill. They all told me
I could step around tomorrow and nav th
check. I suppose the' only way I can get It
changed Is to sit around here and drink
$1,000 worth of highballs."
With this, the cashier said. Mr. f-lavtnn
took the bill from the waiter and started
to leave the cafe. The cashier hailed him,
however, sent the bill to tha nffir.
gave Mr. Clayton his change, $999.75 In notes
of a very small denomination.
I would have chanced that hill if r k.i
had to go to' tha subtmaur-r " m h.
cashier.
In the midst of the "naaainnat .
and stress" of his rendition of one of
Beethoven's sonatas Tuesday afternoon at
Carnogla hall Ignacs PsJerewskt suffered
a curious accident, woieh. it developed
later, was to rob Philadelphia folks of their
.eagerly anticipated opportunity to see and
hear ths great Polish pianist
lo an ordinary man tha sjvJ.1j
wgs nothing mora or less than ths split
ting, to a slight extent, of ths nail on ths
first finger of the right hand-would have
meant scarcely a passing thought. But to
Paderewakl, every movement nt
Angers Is safeguarded by accident insur
ance policies aasrea-atlnv I,,..
the mishap had a serious financial aspect!
c.rciy waa the concert over when
Paderewaki's agents were telegraphing to
Philadelphia cancelling the recital there,
and a skilled surgeon was hurrying In an
auto with all possible dlanstnti t ...i.t
and rub and patch and pare and bandage
that precious forefinger.
In 1905 Paderewakl collected t7 in.,
anoa for a Jolt he had aFOtt&fl it SI TM I1tVai4
accident near Syracuse, N. T. He carries
an accident policy of $5,000 on each of his
fingers nd thumbs..
A number of youna- nennia Kvi,, i u.
upper north dlde of New Tork citv rMni
organised a social club. The first regular
meeting or mis is scheduled for the even
ing of February II. One of the young
women. Immediately after the committee's
Invitation was received, circulated a peti
tion among the charter members ssking
that the date of the Initial meeting be
changed, because thirteen was an unlucky
number. In reply the chairman wrote thmt
she would oppose any change, because
Americans should have no fmr r ih.
alleged unlucky number. Let mh,.r. in.
dulge in this antique superstition, while we
remember that there are thirteen stripes In
our nag, commemorative of the original
colonies, which could eaallr have ha
changed to twelve or fourteen If our fore-
tatners nad reared the hoodoo. There are
Innumerable reasons for dlsreaardlna- the
thirteen superstition, but for Americana tha
nag should be sufficient."
Blenched Floar Ontlnwed.
Boston Transcript.
The Secretary of Agriculture has con
demned bleached flour, and fallowing his
suggestion the millers' combination has
announced Its purpose of discontinuing the
further milling of this article. It would
doubtless be a good thing should the pub
lic consent to acquiesce in the yellow loaf
Instead of the white one. Possibly It may
require a new adjustment of appetite, but
the gains will more than compensate for
the sacrifices. In the old days when even
New Englanders raised their own wheat
there was one product of the grain called
canaille," which In spite of Its contemp
tuous title made the sweetest and moat nu
tritious bread that came upon the farmers'
table. If the millers csn again exalt this
humble staple, future generations of
heslthy Americans will rise up snd csll
them blessed.
VVea'l Take the Money.
Brooklyn Eagle.
President Roosevelt has Jeclined to ac
cept a bequest of $10,000, without esplaln
Ing why. His refusal, however, does not
lesva much to ths Imagination. As hs dd
nothing to earn ths money, he will not
take It. The legacy should have gone else
where to be sure of acceptance. It would
have had a cordial reception In Nebraska.
Bryan did nothing to earn tha $00,008 Phllo
8. Bennett wanted lilm to have, but he
fought for It In court, none the less.
Honk tarts and Pink Teas.
Baltimore American.
Ths secretary of war has declared that
army automobiles must bo more be used
for pink teaa. Why there should bo say
connection between the two may seem s
pussle to the reet of the country, but the
order makes It clear that ths answer has
been guessed ia Washington.
J. L. Brandeis & Sons
Bankers
DEPOSITS OVER
$1,000,000.00.
4 PER CENT INTEREST PAID
ON CERTIFICATES and SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
OMAHA 1ST THE EXCHANGES.
Ktromsburg News: Now that the su
preme court Judges are appointed to suit
everybody, we hops Senator Ransom, the
howling dorvish from Omaha, wilt find
something worthy to train his guns on
something of real benefit to the people of
the state.
Tork Times: Senstor Howell, of Omaha,
wants the legislature to authorise the sale
of beer In Krug park on Sundays and holi
days. If Krug park, why not all parks,
and If all parks why not sll saloons T Do
those who go to Krui park think they can
leave Bunday outside the gate?
Howells Journal (dem.): The respectable
element of the Omaha democracy have
grown tired of Mayor Jim and will try and
defeat him for renomlnatlon. Here's wish
ing them success. True reform will hsve
commenced In Omaha when Dahlman no
longer disgraces the mayor's office.
Bloomlngton Advocate: Senator Ran
som, ths corporation attorney from Omaha,
seems to be able to secure any kind of leg
islation he chooses in the senate. Hs has
Just succeeded in having the stock yards
company exempted from taxation, the aame
as the railroads are to be. The members
of the bouse ought to be able to get out
from under his control.
Columbus Tribune: The argument made
by the Omaha World-Herald In favor of
repealing the Nebraska Sunday law, which
tha democratic legislature la trying to ac
complish, Is about ss foolish as one could
make and could be expected only from a
paper which has no scruples ss to the pol
icy It pursues, so long as ths policy Is In
harmony with its political party.
Kearney Hub: The greatest need in the
way of state legislation Is a law making
It capital offense to steal anything from
a member of the legislature. The occasion
arises In ths theft of grips of members
from a hotel in Omaha, while there to In
spect a stats institution. Some of ths
members lost apparel of more or less value,
but the greatest loss appears to have
been In postage stamps which ths members
had drawn as perquisites from ths state.
No effort should be spared to apprehend
the criminals and when run to earth they
should be severely dealt with.
Central City Republican: How papers
like tha Omaha World-Herald can pretend
to be honestly for reform and good gov.
ernment and still throw all their strength
toward assisting ths corporations and
grafters over the country In tbslr attempt
to discredit and misrepresent ths presi
dent is hard to reconcile. It seems that
democratic papers are unwilling that any
good at all be accomplished If It is to be
scoomplished by republicans, which hi cer
tainly a most deplorable state. It Is to be
hoped that republican papers are not
possessed of the same spirit. The demo
crats sre now in undisputed control In
Nebraska, snd if, contrary to present Indi
cations, they are guilty of any good meas
ures. It Is to be hoped that republican
papers will give them full credit snd re-
oice In whst they have done for the com
monwealth.
DISABILITY OF A TRUST.
Slightly Dlsrignred, hat Still a
Mighty Strong Ring.
New York Tribune.
"Sinners stand in slippery places," snd
so do ths "trusta." At least, mat is tne
oonculsion from tha decision of the United
States supreme court In the Continental
Wall Paper company case, handed down.
The wall paper company sued to collect a
bill of $67,000 from one of Its customers.
The delinquent customer replied thst the
company could not collect the money be
cause It was a monopoly, and therefore
lllegul. 'The wall paper company ad
mitted that It was a monopoly, controlling
si per cent of the domeitla output of wall
paper, but it wanted Its money just ths
same. And the court held, five to four,
that, being an illegal combination. It could
cot uae ths courla to collect Ita debts. Tlis
court, "in sccordance with a rule long
established In Jurisprudence," would not
"lend Its sld in any way to enforce or to
realise the fruits of an agreement which
appears to b tainted with Illegality," thus
seeming to put debts due a "trust" Into
the same class with gambling debts, which
cannot be collected in a suit at l;w.
And this collocation suggests the reflec
tion thst the fsct that a bet Is not collect
ible by a legal action has never Interfered
seriously with betting or with the collect
lng of bets. It Is a matter of "honor" to
pay a bet. So the new decision may not
seriously Interfors with "trusts" and com
binations in the collection of their debts.
It may never' become a matter of honor to
pay such a debt, but If ths combination to
which the debt Is owed hes a practical
monopoly of the source of supply of s
given article Its reUll customer will prob
ably not avail themselves of this k-gnl way
of escaping its clama, for that reason if
for no other. Ths decision adds fresh evi
dence of the precarious position in law of a
combination In restrsint of trade, but it Is
prematura to conclude that 't will flay
havoc among ths "trusts."
Tha Haatacnaaiaa; Sleet.
Boaton Globe.
Figuring that I he cruise of the battleship
fleet, when it la finished at Hampton roads
oa Washington's birthday will have coat
tba American people $10.806,000 including
$,eOO,uW for the maintenance of M.0U0 men
and $.0w).u00 tor repairs is hardly fair.
Hosr much would It have cost to maintain
the fleet if the ships had stayed at home?
Danrlna; to Hnra Masle.
Baltimore American.
The United Steles supreme court has de
cided that New York shall have cheap gas,
and that a trust organised contrary to the
anti-trust law cannot legally collect debts.
At last is coming ths poor, dear public's
chance to danca while the unreeling cor
porations have to pay ths piper.
PKRSO.'MAL MOTES.
Spokane, Wash., has thirty millionaires
honest enough to tell the assessor at It,
thus beating New York by about twenty
two. Daniel F. Bradley, $4 years old, ths Other
day left Charles Street jail . In Boston,
where he had served as keeper and per
formed other duties for mors than half a
century. For twenty-five years hs was
deputy sheriff, and for fifty-four ysara hs
had charge of prisoners at ths Jail.
Captain William C. Geoghean ot ths
steamer Anne Arundel has Just bean pre
sentcd with a medal of honor awarded him
by tba Treasury department. It Is In reong,
nltion of his hrrolo rescue of Midshipman
Smith and sixteen men of tha flagship
Hartford, in Hampton Roads, December 10,
1878.
James M. Atlas, proprietor of ths Hotel
Atlas of Bridgeport, Conn., has made Mr,
Roosevelt a very tempting offer of an en
gagement with the Wild West show for a
period of thirty weeks at a salary of $10,000
a week, commencing the first day of May
nest. The show would be called "Ths Theo
dore Roosevelt Congresa of Rough Riders,"
Samuel Bailee, a Bell township farmer,
Kansas, who died last weak, was tha father
of six living children and 10$ living grand
children. In all he was ths father af ten
children, four of them now being dead. Of
the grandchildren, forty-five ara Of the
third generation, sixty-one are great-grand,
children and three are great-great-gTand.
children.
Captain Pettis, who achieved fame with
Kit Carson and served in the Apache and
White River wars with ths Indiana, died
recently in Providence, R. L He was brev
eted captain of United States volunteers
four days before he was $0 ysara old. Ms
was in the engagement at tha Adoba Walls,
Tex., with the Comanche and Kiowa In
dians, November IS, ISM, and commanded
a battery of mountain howitsers. Ha was
five years and four months In continuous
servioa during the period of his Ufa "at
Play." ... .
BRIGHT AND BHEEIT,
All Jokeamiths are true A -merry -cans,
Charleaton Naws and Courier.
"You hire a man to watch your prom
Ises for a dollar a night do youT"
"Yess, and he's a pretty good dollar
watch, too. if anybody should ask you,"
Chicago Tribune.
Casey Sure, Flannlgan, did ye sea Where
tha felly In the leglslatur out In San
Francisco said hs wouldn't have ths Japs,
but the Itisl waa all right T
Flannlgan Did he say that Casey T
Casey Sure, and he said, "we'll stand
Pat. "Baltimore American.
"Jinx Wife. T llriHrat nnff tiaa kM...k(
suit fqr divorce, and he , waa looking
mighty glum this morning when I met
uini.
"V,r llm has lflulr,wi h ,
Houston Post.
"What's become of your doer? I haven't
seen him for a long time."
rou notice what a cold I've got." X
"Yes. but what's that "
"Well, a lot of neonls told m thin.
to do for my cold, and I was wise enough
to try 'em on him tlrst."-Clevoland
i.sucr,
Upwardson-How did Smlley's brsach-of-promise
suit against that rich widow ooms
out?
Atom-They laughed him out of court.
Chicago Tribune,
"There is comparatively little real whla-
key," aaid tha food expert.
"Yes." answered Colonel Ktillwell, "When
I lived in a prohlbtlon community, years
ago, 1 was astonished to find how many
things that tasted like whiskey were sold
aa something elss." Washington Star.
"I asked for fried eggs and you have
brought them scrambled," ' said the diner.
"Yes. sir!" replied tha embarrassed
waiter; "I got the fried egga, all right,
air, but 1 had some difficulty with an
other waiter en my way, ia. alr!"Yon
kers Statesman. , , f t
The chief of police frowned darkly.
Have you done everything a real sleuth
would have done Jn this ease?" hs asked.
. Sure, replied his . saaislants, "we've
given the man the third degree so that ths
doctor had to be, called.
"That sounds something like," remarked
tne chler, appeased. "Now, 1 guess they'll
quit Joshing us." Philadelphia Ldger.
SERVED HIM RIGHT.
3. M. I-ewls In Houston Post.
Once on a time there was a man
AVho never had been small.
He never'd been a little boy '
Or a little girl at all. -Ha
never'd waded in a brook
Nor- put on skates and slid,
His boys sometimes did those things, but
He wnlpped them when bey did.
He looked aevere, and straight and tail.
And never, never played ,
At pillow fights, and all his little
Boys were quite afraid
To make the leastst bit of noise ,
When he'd hung up his hat;
And when they asked lilm anything ;
He whipped them hard for thai..
They dared not go to learn to swim.
They dared not climb a. true,
They dared not ever go le fish.
And were scared as could be .
And cried whene'er their pan.ts wers tore.
And they were at a loss
As to what they could do to please
Their dad, he was so cross. .
He must hsve been born growed up,
I know he must have been;
Because when the school plcnlo was '
He kept his children In;
They never had a spinning top,
They never had a toy.
Oh. 1 am very certain sure
He never was a boy.
One time ha had to go aeross
The oiean deep and wide.
And took his family along ' , '
Off to the other side
For fear if h. did not they would
Indulge in .childish joys.
And suddenly remember thry
Were little glila and boys.
And he fell right plum "off the' Ship
Into the ocean deep,
Ani though his boys all aaw him fall
And wixhed an awful heap
To help their dad. he sunk and drowned.
That was the end of him!
They could not save him, hs had never
Lwt them learn to swlai,