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WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving; tha city tem
porarily afcoald nave Tha Bea
aoalled ( these. Address will be
ensnare aa often as reaeated.
Even if bleached flour must so, the
bleached blonde remains.
Congress see ma determined to com
pel a lot of army officers to join the
army.
Cheer up. The grocer is now quot
ing the price by the dozen instead of
pet egg.' "
"What Is the first step toward get
ting a divorce?" asks a correspondent
Marriage. v
A Chicago man killed himself be
cause he had gray hair and no gray
mirttfr vstfr:K.
Mr. Groundhog Is again to be con
gratulated on knowing enough to keep
in out of the cold. .
- The base- bail reporter is Having a
hard time crowding the weather man
out of the limelight.
Mr. Gorapera declares that he will
not stop talking. He acquired the
habit in Washington.
' The senate has set February 18 as
the date for getting that dark Browns
ville taste out of its mouth.
The German emperor has abolished
his court paper. Madame Rumor will,
however, remain on the job.
"Democratic prospects for victory.
In 1912 are brighter than ever," says
Mr. Bryan., Far-off cattle have tall
horns,
Castro is to be impeached in Vene
zuela, but his enemies did not get
busy soon enough to attach his bank
account.
A French count has been seriously
wounded in a duel. Accidents will
happen even in the best regulated
French duel.'
In the quarrel with the president
over his veto of the census spoils bill
congress is, as usual, on tne wrong
sldo of the issue.
The Washington correspondent who
announces that "Taft will lean on
Kuox" evidently forgets the compara
tive size of the men.
The man who spells the best he
knows how la an improvement over
the simplified spellers who spell the
worst they know how.
The Washington base ball team
w ants to change Us name. Changing
Ha name Is easier than changing ' its
position in the percentage column.
Dr. Parkhurst says President Roose
velt hat too much ego in his cosmos.
This la , significant only as showing
' how: modest Dr. Parkhurst still is.
.. The brother of the earl of 8uffolk
has lost tour toea in New York. Lota
. of men In those southern prohibition
states have beeu losing three fingers
lately. , ... ,
Pr. Wiley, head of the bureau of
chemistry of the Department of Agrl-
culture, is to become an editor. We
have beta confident all along that the
'fight against him would lead to his
promotion.
Edgar Howard must hare gotten his
Idea of a pilgrimage of real democrats
to storm the citadel of the corporation
senator who have crawled under the
democratic tent at Lincoln from some
of those famous petitions ia boots.
ristsmyo the Jvm.
The counting of the electoral vote
In the Joint 9slon of congress today
and the announcement, of the result
puts the finishing touch upon the late
presidential election. With the an
nouncement of the vote Mr. Taft will
become In the full srnse a president
elect, a title that has been popularly.
If erroneously, betttowed upon him
since the returns were received on the
night of election day.
The announcement of the electoral
college votes gives Mr. Taft 321 and
Mr. Bryan 162. Democrats who have
professed to find party encourage
ment In the fact that Bryan's electoral
vote Is larger than Parker's In 1904
will discover by an analysis of there-
turns that they have llttle consolation.
Four years ago Roosevelt received 336
electoral votes and Parker 140. Since
then Oklahoma has been admitted to
the electoral college with 7 votes,
hlcta went to Bryah, as they would
have probably gone to Parker, in
creasing his total to 14 1. Bryan
lost one vote in Maryland from Park
er's record and Taft gained one over
Roosevelt's score. Bryan's gain over
Parker, therefore, is 3 votes in
Nevada, 5 in Colorado and 8 In Ne
braska, a total of 16. Deducting the
one lost In Maryland, gives a net total
of IB more electoral votes for Bryan
than for Parker.
Mr. Bryan'a defeat In the last cam
paign was the moat overwhelming in
the history of American politics since
the civil war with three exceptions.
McClellan received but 22 votes in the
electoral college to 212 cast for Llo-
coln, the confederate states not vot
ing. Grant was elected in 1868 by
214 votes over Seymour, who received
80 votes. In 1872 Grant was re
elected with 286 electoral votes
against a combined total of 80 cast
for four other candidates. In 1876
Hayes was elected over Tilden by a
majority of one electoral vote. Gar
field was elected In 1880 by a major
ity of 69 electoral votes,-receiving 214
to 155 for Hancock. The first demo
cratic victory after the war came with
the election of Cleveland in 1884, he
receiving 219 electoral votes to 182
cast for Blaine. The tide was re
versed in 1888, when Harrison was
elected over Cleveland by 233 to 168
votes In the electoral college. In 1892
Cleveland was again successful, de
feating Harrison by an electoral vote
of 277 to 145, Weaver as the populUt
candidate receiving 22 electoral col
lege votes.
The daya of close margins in
the
Mr.
electoral college passed when
Bryan became the democratic candi
date for the presidency in 1896. In
that election McKlnley received 2 71
votes and Bryan 176, a republican ma
jority of 95. In 1900 McKinley's ma
jority over Bryan wag increased to
137, the vote being, McKlnley, 292;
Bryan, 165. In that election Bryan's
vote was but seven less' than it was In
1908, the vote of Oklahoma just mak
ing the difference.
Mr. Bryan has stated' quite recently
that the prospects for a democratic
victory In 1912 are brighter than ever
before. Clearly, he must be getting
his encouragement from some source
other than the election returns.
. THK CAUrOMtlA. AGITATORS.
California is still demonstrating"
that It needs education in some of the
primary duties of a state. The ap
parent determination of its legislature
to pass a law prohibiting Japanese
from attending the public schools,
coupled with an attempt to revive the
measure prohibiting alien ownership
of land In California, opens a disagree
able controversy, involving the old
question of states' rights as against
the power of the federal government
to enforce treaty obligations within
the states. President Roosevelt and
the secretary of state have patiently
pointed out that flaws, faults and fatal
defects in the proposed legislation, but
the result has apparently been only to
spur the California jingoes to renewed
activity in their lll-concelved scheme
to provoke international complica
tions, . without accomplishing the re
forms they think necessary at home.
The antl-Aslatln agitators on the
Pacific coast appear to have lost sight
of the torms of the treaty we negoti
ated with Japan in 1894, which grants
to the Japanese the privilege of trad
ing in any part of our territory and to
lease or hire and occupy land, houses,
manufactories, shops,, warehouses and
premises fdr residential and commer
cial purposes. They may not own or
hire agricultural lands, but are limited
to owning or hiring lands and struc
tures for commercial and manufactur
ing purposes. The only qualification
of the provision Is found In this clause
of the treaty:
In whatever relates to rights of residence
and travel; to the possession of goods and
effects of any kind; to the aucceeaion to
personal estate by will or otherwise, and,
the disposal of property of any aort and
In any manner whatsoever that they may
lawfully acquire, the rltlsens or subjects
of each contracting party shall enjoy In
the territory of the other the same privi
leges, liberties and rlghta. and ahull be
subject to m higher Imposts or charges
In these respects than native aubjecta or
cltlsrns or subjects of the most favored
nation.
This is practically the aame pro
vision embodied in treaties with other
countries and the supreme court of
the United States In four different de
cisions has held that foreigners may
own real estate in states of this union
Irrespective of state laws on the sub-
ject. The latest decision on this point,
In 1889. ruled in favor of French clt
liens holding real estate in Maryland
despite a . Maryland law prohibiting.
In that caso the court held that the
treaty power of the United States ex
tends to aU proper subjects of negotia
tion between our government and the
governments of other countries. Un
dhr that decision no enactment of the
California legislature would stand
against the 1894 treaty with Japan
quoted above.
President Roosevelt has pointed out
to the California lawmakers that the
proposed anti-Japanese school law
would. If passed, be void because In
conflict with our treaty obligations.
Its adoption could result only in caus
ing Irritation and embarrass efforts
for further treaty arrangements with
Japan on the subject of schools and
Immigration.
The encouraging feature Is that
Toklo refuses to get excited over the
eruptions In California and Nevada.
Count Komura, the Japanese minister
of foreign affairs, has asserted tn
terms of studied courtesy the deter
mination of his country to cultivate
friendly relations with all countries tu
general and with the United States In
particular. He declares that the Japa
nese authorities "would rely on the
smse of justice of the American peo
ple, together with the friendly disposi
tion of the federal government to dis
pose of the pending questions without
cac sing international complications."
The California agitators might well
take a lesson in tolerance from the
Japanese.
FAKC HOME RULE.
After all, the democratic protesta
tions for home rule for Omaha, partic
ularly In the management of its fire
and police departments and excise af
fairs, the charter bill sponsored by
the Douglas delegation at Lincoln
bears the stamp of insincerity on Its
face. The police commission section
of the bill provides for four elective
commissioners to be chosen at each
municipal election for the regular
term of three years. The milk of the
cocoanut is to be found in a half
hidden proviso by which the present
members of the board are ail legisla
ted out of office forthwith without
waiting for the people to choose their
successors. It reads as follows:
Provided, that the governor of the state
shall within ten daya after this act takes
effect appoint four citizens of the city, pos
sessing the qualifications for the office of
fire and police commissioner, prescribed In
this act, to serve until the first general
city election following and until their suc
cessors are elected and qualified.
Why should the present police
board be legislated out of existence so
summarily, and If their successors are
to be appointed In the name of home
rule, why should they be appointed by
the governor at Lincoln instead of by
the mayor and council at Omaha?
The present democratic governor has
already appointed two of the existing
board and will appoint a third in the
course of another six weeks. So that,
on the surface, the proviso alms at
only one member of the board, and a
democrat at that, whose term does not
expire for another year.
To be sure, the two police commis
sioners already appointed by the dem
ocratic governor have been appointed
as republicans and under the proviso
he would be able to appoint four new
commissioners all democrats. In
the name of home rule, then, the gov
ernor at Lincoln is to be accorded a
chance to drop his own republican ap
pointees and give us a new partisan
democratic board without the people
of Omaha having a word to say
about it.
Hurrah for home rule!
By modification of the order remov
ing beds from the fire engine houses,
which was put Into effect when the
double-shift law became operative,
members of the Omaha fire depart
ment will now be able to draw pay
while they sleep. Policemen, how
ever, will still be expected to ' stay
awake while on duty.
An eastern railroad man charges
that the Interstate Commerce commis
sion has 2,000 men at work on Amer
lean railroads in order to unearth vlo
latlons of the safety appliance act. The
charge is, of course, a gross exaggera
tion, but the relief from any espionage
of that kind lies in compliance with
the federal law.
After having heard them tell about
it so glibly on the stump,, people had
tne impression tnac it would be as
easy as falling off a log for our demo
cratic law-makers to frame and enact
a deposit guaranty bill without wait
ing for the aid or consent of any
specially hired $300 lawyer.
The city council has taken the first
step toward the erection of a new fire
engine house to supply the quarters
for which it is now paying rent on a
valuation of $40,000. The fire engine
house erected . last year, for which
there is no equipment nor fire com
pany, still remains empty.
The intimation cornea from Lincoln
that the railroads will attempt to get
the present democratic legislature to
repeal the terminal tax law enacted by
the last republican legislature. Ne
braska railroads should know when to
let well enough alone.
Cripple Creek has lodged a proteat
with the Interstate Commerce commis
sion because the rates on prunes to
mat mining camp are almost pro
hibitive. Some towns do not know
when they are favored.
Nebraska's new democratic gov
ernor will hereafter refuse to see the
common people who may have official
business with him except during the
afternoons. That's democratic for
you.
When it comes to harmonizing, the
big Job remains for the pacificator who
undertakes to persuade the three dem
ocratlc senatora from Douglas to alep
in the same bed with Mayor Jim.
The Texas legislature haa gone oa
record against a prohibition law,
J Texas may now prepare to receive
large influx of settlers from its neigh
boring states of the south.
If Congressman KInkaid keeps on
smending his KInkaid act the Kin
kalders of the next generation may
not know the paternity of their own
homesteads.
A Crael Tkratt.
Washington Post.
The president thinks the artiste cannot
keep a secret. ' Thst In a cruet thrust, in
View of the invlcillability of executive session.
Komewhat Reminiscent.
Boston Ilersld.
Somehow, the announcement from Okla
homa that Governor Haskell will not resign
sounds sort of reminiscent of his earlier
embarrassment when he was compelled
to change his mind snd get out.
Wasting; Tlaae on Klaarea.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Some Washngton statistician has discov
ered thst the wealth of the country. If
equally distributed, would give to each
of us $35. The chief Interest In such a
conclusion lies In the fact that it Is in
applicable. W'arnetl Seaae at Haraor.
Washington Post.
If it be true that Carrie Nation has been
retained by an English vaudeville ayndlcate
at a salary of $500 per week for twenty
weeka, we ran only conclude that the En
llsh sense of humor is quite as ssdly warped
as common report ssys.
Looks Very Cheap.
Baltimore American.
A bill has been Introduced In the Iowa
legislature to pay $1 for every baby born
In the state. There ought to be a proviso,
however, that the parents guarantee to
make the future cltixen worth that much
to the atate. There are only too many
babies who grow up. as far as the public
welfare Is concerned, not worth even 30
cents.
Reformation Br Law.
New Orleans Picayune.
This fever of determination to make
everybody good and virtuous by law has
already accomplished the imposition of nu
merous despotic statutes upon the people
of various states, and It proposes to rage
until It shall result in an epidemic of ex
treme damage to the material as well as
the moral condition of the people and
country.
Dlatlnetlon Wlthont Difference.
Boston Herald.
This latest decision of the New York
courts that an oral bet on a horse race
Is not betting within the meaning of the
prohibitory statute on the subject follows
several other decisions of a similar tenor,
all going to show that the law recoa-nlKea
airference between a wager made be
tween two persons of opposite opinions as
to the speed of an animal on the race track
nd a bet negotiated through the profes
sional bookmakers. The latter Is nrnfea.
ional gambling and the other is not.
An Impressive Contrast.
Indianapolis News.
Japan's foreign minister, Komura, stands
n
fine contrast to the "white men" of
California and Nevada, who are attempting
to persecute Japanese by legal enactment.
wnen he expresses confidence In the friend
ship of this country and relisnce on the
sense of Justice of -the American neonla.
Neither will prove to be a chimera. The
Pacific coast ebullition will In the end
accomplish' 'nothing, we feel sure. We
might. -meanwhile. In dealing with it, fiat
tern after Mr. Komura's serenity and hold
steadfastly i. to the line that will extinguish
this unjust outbreak In due time.
Vol ante of Trade -M early Normal.
Philadelphia Record.
ir ousiness isn t Dooming quite as was
hoped for, there is no question about the
radical improvement or things since a year
ago. One evidence of this cited by Dun's
Review is that the bsnk clearings In 110
cities wer $14, 10S.2S1.463 last month, against
$11,S36,S3.8C In January, 1908 an Increase
of more than 21 per cent. In many of the
cltiea the clearings were larger last month
than they were In January, 1907, when bus
Iness was at Ita height. But for the great
shrinkage in stock business in New York
the clearings of the country would have
run above those of two years ago. If
there is vtill some Idle machinery, the
volume of trade must be very nearly nor
mal.
HOW HAHRIMAN RULES.
Minority Holding; Traamated
In Ma
Jorlty Control.
New York Post, Feb. 6.
This week's election of E. H. Harriman
to the directorates of the Lake 8hore and
the Michigan Central was another illus
tration of the power that can sometimes be
acquired, often indirectly, by the purchase
of a comparatively amall block of stock
Harriman 'owns no Lake Shore or Mich
igan Central ahares. but In the summer of
19(4 the Union Pacific purchased $14,286,
70 New York Central. That was only 8Vi
per cent of the totsl outstanding stock of
the company, but It ia the largest single
holding, and the New York Central con
trols absolutely the Lake Shore and the
Michigan Central. Hence Harrlman'a elec
tion to those boards, after being admitted
to tb New York Central board last week.
It was shown In the table published In
these columns last week, that Harriman
Is now a power in nearly one-third of, the
total railway mileage of the country. In
none of the dosen companies included in
that list, however, does either Harriman
or the Union Pacific own 61 per cent of
the stock. For example, the Union Pa
cific owns less than t per cent of the cap
ital stock of St. Paul, but only this week
tha St. Paul abandonsdjts carefully worked
out-plans for establishing an express ser
vice of Its own, cancelled a lung estab
Itshed connection with the United States
express company, and agreed to turn
111
Of Ita express business over to the Wells
Fargo company. As chairman of that ex
press company's board of directors, Har
riman dictates tho policy.
Union Pacific owns $-19.C3,100 Illinois Cen
tral stock. That Is only 27 per cent of the
total stock outstanding. Nevertheless, the
Illinois Central ia planning to relieve Har
riman of his personal investment Jn
Georgia Central. Then, too, the Union Pa
cific acquired less than 61 per cent of the
atock of the new San Pedro, Los Angeles
and Salt Lake, the road recently built Into
the Southern Pacific territory. Before the
new road was completed the management
made a ninety-nine-year agieement with
Southern Pacific not to cut rates. The Union
Pacific owns only 4't per cent of Atchison
stock, but that amount was also sufficient
to Insure a trackage agreement between
the Atchison and the San Pedro, Los
Angeles A Salt Lake.
Thus Harriman a power in the railroad
world can be traced back to Union Pacific:
ownership of less than a majority of th
stocks of other companies. It was the
Union Pacific's ownership of "a workin
majority" of Southern Pacific that elected
President Harriman of the Union Pacific
to the presidency and chairmanship of th
board of directors of the Southern Pacific,
the Central Pacific, the Oregon Short Line
and the Oregon Navigation company. The
reat of Harriman's present Influence waa
the natural outgrowtb of tha power thus
gained. J
SOMB Or MStOL'S ENGLISH.
Klarra In Ike Analysis of n Kaalt
rindln t rltle.
Springfield (Mass.) Republicsn.
Montgomery Schuyler. In the course of
a brief critlcsl article In the February
Forum on Lincoln's English, finds few
"purple patches" In the writings and
speeches of Uncoln. and some flaws In
those fe . The Gettysburg speech Is ad
mittedly a masterpiece, one of the "great
little speeches" In the English or any
other language, whose Immortality Is as
sured; yet even there Mr. Brhuyler finds
In the first sentence, "our fathers brought
"forth," etc., an "unlucky ellp" "with
Ita necessary and Imiwsslble Implication
that the male la the parturient parent."
Thla seems to be rather far-retched. "To
bring 'forth'," even in Its specific sense
of producing, conveys no necessary impli
cation of the sort mentioned; while In its
derivative senses of "give rise to," or "be
the cause of" the phrase expresses the
meaning of tha speaker as accurately and
simply as could possibly be.
Another of the few great passages or
"purple patches" found In the Lincoln ad
dresses Is the peroration of the first In
augural address which la credited to Sew
ard instead of Lincoln. As It Is not gen
erally known that Seward had a hand In
moulding the form and thought of that ad
dress, the Seward draft of the passage In
question may be worth giving:
"I close. We are not, we must not be,
aliens or enemies, but fellow countrymen
and brethren. Although passion has strained
our bonds of affection too hardly, they
must not, I am sure they will not, be
broken. The mystlo chords which, proceed
ing from so many battlefields and so many
patriot graves, pass through all the hearts
and alt the heartha In this board continent
of ours will yet again harmonize in their
ancient music when breathed upon by the
guardian angel of the nation.'1
Mr. Schuyler makes Lincoln's secretary
of state "the foremost dialectician and even
more clearly the foremost rhetorician of
his party;" yet compare the above with
the passage as revised and adopted by
Lincoln:
"I am loth to close. We are not enemies,
but friends. Though passion may have
trained. It must not break our bonds of
ffectlon. The mystic chords of memory,
stretch Dt irjro, every battlefield aid patriot
grave to every living heart and hearth-
tone all over thla broad land, will yet
well the chorus of the union, when again
touched, as surely they will be, by the
better angels of our nature."
This Is admittedly a vast improvement of
form In expressing the same Idea; and, as
Mr. Schuyler says, there Is a masterly
rhetorical touch In the change made in the
first sentence by which the speaker Is
made to appear as wishing to linger yet
awhile longer to plead the cause he has
at heart. Merely as a rhetorician, employ
ing art to conceal art If Lincoln ever did
such a thing with any consciousness the
revision of this Seward passage would
give him standing.
And the criticism passed upon the third
'purple patch" chosen only serves to raise
question whether Lincoln ever waa a
conscious literary artist. This well known
passage ia from the second Inaugural ad
dress. In part as follows:
VFondly do we hope fervently do we
pray that this mighty scourge of war
may speedily psss away. Yet, if God
wills that it continue until the wealth
piled by the bondman's 230 years of un
requited toil shall be sunk, and until
every drop of blood drawn with the lash
shall be paid with another drawn with tha
sword, as was said 1.000 years ago, so still
It must be said. 'The Judgments of the
Lord are true- and righteous altogether.' "
What a pity," ssys Mr. Schuyler, "about
that Jingling first sentence." .One cannot
help scanning It as meter,, he says, and
even throwing it Into metrical form, as
contemporaneous copperhead scoffers did.
It does what one unlucky slip can do to
discredit what follows."
It Is hard to perceive the justice of
these observations. To be sure. In a
studied oration atudled to the point of
st lit Iness the word "away" would be
dropped, and all criticism of this kind
would drop with It. But hardly anything
is more common In prose speech even in
more or less carefully worded as well as
Impromptu and impassioned speech than
occasional chance falling upon rhyming
words at metrical distances; and the con
summate artist, recognising this fact,
might in such a passage as the above have
purposely put In the word "away" to rob
his speech of any artificial appearance.
That Lincoln did any such thing Is harly
to be believed. But his simple, candid
nature may here have filled the place of
conscious art, as it did in so many other
ways with hint. This wss how his soul
was moved to speak, and he probably never
thought more about it. In that caso can
wa lightly say that the sentence la un
rhetorical? or can wo easily find any jingle
there beyond the empty words which can
never be read as such or thought of as such
without great effort?
r Ell SON A L. MOTK9.
No more violent language on the New
York Stock Exchange. When irritated
members will touch their hst brims and
say, "Pooh-pooh!"
A Chlcsgo burglar stole a supply of eggs
In preference to the family silver a few
nights ago. The Windy city burglar ap
pears to be ever up to the minute.
Louis N. Parker, the enterprising liter
ary American, who was placed in charge
of the recent lord mayor's show In London,
turned what had come to be regarded as
a sort or circus procession into an inter
esting pageant.
S. H. Hendrlx, a federal cavalry veteran
of the civil war, died at Wautauga, Tenn.,
at the age of 6$. Hendrlx was a friend of
President Andrew Jackson, who died In
the Hendrlx home, where he waa a guest,
when stricken fatally HI In 1876.
The Richmond Tlmea-Dlspatch ssys that
those who declare possum and tatera a
nauseous dish are commonly "despondent,
thin chested gentlemen who have to make
three tries with a running start before
they ran negotiate a aoft boiled egg."
Mrs. Cecilia Baldwin Parley, daughter of
Matthlaa W. Baldwin, founder of the lo
comotive works, died In Philadelphia re
cently at her home. She waa the last sur
viving member of the family, and was for
years prominent tn Philadelphia society.
For the first time In history the three
Scandinavian ministers to the United
States will dine together when tha Amer
ican Scandinavian society gives Its first
annual banquet in honor of the ministers
from Sweden, Norway and Denmark at
the Hotel Astor, New York, on the even
ing of February 16.
A Chicago school principal, husband and
father of a family, living on a farm some
distance from town, waa rudely shocked
when his application for divorce waa elid
ing quietly through court on finding his
deserted wife on the spot with a loud, rau
cous charge of soul-making on tha aly.
The charge waa explicit In names, dates
and tha usual -etcetera. It took tha learned
profeaaor off his feet and made a change
of air and scenery necessary for bla health.
Woman's intuition Is a man-beater.
A pure, wholesome,
reliable Grape Cream of
Tartar Baking Powder
Tie cream ! tartar iscd la Dr. Wee's Ballfia
Nwier Is U Ibe exact form and wraposition la
wUch U wtcirs la the luscious, beaMfal grape.
Improves the flavor
and adds to the health
fulness of the food
Jfo Alum
Cream
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DIRECT PRIMARY XOM IN ATIONS.
Beaver City Times-Tribune: There is a
bill before the legislature to repeal tne
present primary law. While It will not be
passed. In all probability, yet we would like
to have) a good old county convention again
both republican and democratic.
Pawnee Republican: It Is hoped the leg
islature will not repeal the direct primary
law. The law was passed for the sole pur
pose of putting the government of affairs
out of the hands of politicians and ma
chines and giving the people a chance to
rule. The law may be Imperfect In some
respects, but it can be corrected by amend
ment. In no event should It be repealed.
Hastings Tribune: There Is neither sense
nor justice in the proposed amendments to
the primary law, which would permit the
members of the republican party an even
voice in naming the democratic candidates,
and vice versa, or give the independent
voter an opportunity to assist nominating
candidates in either party. No democrat
should have anything to say In the naming
of republican candidates, neither should
any republican have a voice in the select
ing of democratic candidates.
Burwell Tribune: We do rot think that
the state legislature could make's greater
hit with the smaller counties of Nebraska
than by the repeal of the direct primary
law, but in repealing this law they should
use rare and not give up one that will
work even a greater disadvantage than the
existing evil. The direct primary has been
given a fair trial In Nebraska, and it has
been demonstrated that at an expense of
about $3 per vote, nominees can be chosen
by the present primary law," ' Possibly " it
may not be just the thing to go back to
the old convention style of nominations, but
we believe it would be even better to do
that than to continue to saddle the ex
penses connected with the present primary
methods upon the public. The party in
power In the legislature have the oppor
tunity to make good with all of the smaller
counties of the state. If they will but enact
some legislation that will bring relief from
the expense attendant upon the present
primary system.
Scrlbner News: Among matters which
will occupy the attention of the preaent
legislature Is the primary law. Two years
ago, although the matter had been given
little attention during the campaign and
no urgent public demand for ita enactment
was apparent, the legislature passed the
primary law because it was classed ss
rerorm legislation. After a two years' trial
no particular enthusiasm for the law
has manifested itself, nor is there any
noticeable demand for its repeal. It Is pretty
generally admitted, however, that there
(a no evidence that the courae of either
political party has been altered as the
result of the enactment of the law. One
drawback Is that good men refrain from
becoming candidates because In many
Inatancea It is necessary to make
two campaigns. The News believes In the
rural sections of the state the sentiment
Is favorable to a return to the old system.
The only source of corruption from these
sections waa removed by the elimination
of the free 'pass. In the cities and larger
centers of the population corruption mani
fests Itself in ether forms, but a law re
quiring delegatea to conventions from towns
over a certain population to be chosen
through the primary system would give the
people abaolute control.
Henry Watterson Urlef.
Philadelphia Record.
Colonel Henry Watterson gave pathetlo
reason for declining to take part In a ban
quet to William Jennings Bryan at Tampa
on Friday. He wrote: "The death of a
dearly beloved daughter, followed by the
appaling tragedy which took from me a son
who waa the very apple ot my eye, leaves
me stranded and helpless and wholly un
equal to any kind of publicity. Before I
left home I cancelled all of my speaking
dstea and resolved never again to appear
before any audience."
"There cracked a noble heart," and
there la no part of the United States In
which Colonel Watterson has not friends
who will grieve with his grieving.
THIS IS
SUNKIST
ORANGE WEEK
Every dealer has a full supply at special
prices. SUNKIST ORANGES for HEALTH.
No lime
w -ina. m a
ME TO A LAUGH.
Why don't you marry the girl, ami be
done with It?" . . ;
H done with it?. Oof! Tnat'd only ho
the beginning of It:" Cleveland Leader.
"Old man Grumpy has very forbidding
manners.
'So I discovered wnen l ankod mm ir I
could marry. t tils daughter." Baltimore
American.
Mother Tommy, are you teaching the
parrot to awear? . . , -.
Tommy jso, moiner; 1 m juhi leuina n
what it mustn't say. Harper's weekly.
"How's collections at your church Blun
der 8hlnn?".
"Well, we ain't nebber had to stop In c
middle ob a collection to go an' empty lie
box." Kansas City Journal.
"What we want most here." ssid the po
litical reformer. "! so, honest count."
"They ain't no seen thing," replied Nu
rltch, 'cause' my daughter married one '
them. They're no good." Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
Belle But you refused him so often
whst wss the plea-with which lie finally
convinced you that yott loved him?
Nelle The size ot the solitaire. Cleve
land Leader. . . .
"Do you believe In the story of mime
people's having supernatural powers?"
"I didn't till I met a dentist who oper
ated on young Brassy and performed a
miraculous feat.
"What waa It ?" .
"He killed Brassy's nerve." Baltimore.
American.
SBsaMnfammasaTattaBS. aW
V
&i n
"She says you are a fool."
"All right." . 4
"Are you not going to take her to task t )
for making such an assertion?" '
'"Nopet ; has-evidence i in her posses
sion by which, she can prove her state
ment." "She has?"
"Yes. I proposed to her once." Houston
Po"1'
"Pardon me for intruding upon you. sir .
said the caller; "but I want to know If
you cn tell me of anything that will drive
away an Incipient boll?"
"Sir," responded the "answers 1o que
ries" man. with a frown, "this is not a
bureau of Inflammation!" Chicago Tri
bune.
Medical Student What did you operate oin
that man for?
Eminent Surgeon Two hundred dollars
Medical Student I mean what did lie
have?
Eminent Surgeon Two hundred dollars.
Christian Register.
"So yon think my speech Is likely to lm
appreciated by my colleagues?" said the
statesman with a manuscript.
"Yes." answered Senator Sorghum; "on (
the old theory that a little nonsense nowi
and then is relished by the best of men.
Washington Star.
The prisoner wss downcast!
"Cheer up." said his lawyer. "I've got a
jury of twelve men too stupid to find out
that you're guilty."
Naturally the client took a more hopeful
view Philadelphia Ledger,
i .
"Come right" on In. Sambo." the farmer
called out. "He won't hurt you. You know
a barking dog never bites."
"Sure, boss. Ah knows dat," replied the
cautious colored man, "but Ah don't know
how soon he's goln' to stop barkin'." Sue
cess Magazine.
FEBRUARY'S TRIPLE CROW'.
Washington,' ' Lincoln, ' Longfellow, these.
three, , . ,
SlilnliiaT like stars. slioye- the whid tos't sea.
Of this, our nation s life; whictv thank wo
most
That we are 'true ' Americans? Tha cost
Ajnericans? Tha cost
lorn. Brave and fn- M V.
of war, the first two
Of desr bought freedom.
tie to,
with all the stress of
knew.
The third came, with that meditative sniiln,
Thresding our country's Idyls, all the while.
Binding ua closer to our father s kin,
The nations of the world! it wss for him
To show us In a ssd, sweet, tnystie lay
The passing story of the Indian's day;
Brought back the old Ideals, half forgot,
In clearest crystals of a poet's thought.
Ah, February! Cold the winds may run.
O'er the proud ststes that claims each for
her son.
But ever firm adversity may spring
The strong, pure hearts wa gladly own as
king.
So back to thee, chill nurse our heart
still go.
To greet these three, that nature tem
pered so.
Warm as thy hearth-fires, pur as winter's
snow.
ELLA TRUE CONNER.
Falrbury Neb. '
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