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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 19. 10O0. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT EDWAHD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROEEWATER. EDITOR. Kntered at Omaha postofflce second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Roe (without Sunday), one year. ..MOO Xally Bm and Sunday, one year 4-00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Daily Bee (Including Sunday), per week ISc Dally Hee (without Sunday, per week . Kic Xvenlng Ree (without Sunday), per week So Kvenlng Ree (with Sunday), per week.. le Sunday Ree. one year M Saturday He, one year I-60 Address all romplalnta of Irregfilsrltles tn delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs In Srott Street. Lincoln 51 Uttle Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York-Rooms 1101-1102 No. 84 West Thirty-third Street. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES Remit hv draft, express or postal order, payable to The Re Publishing Company. Only 1-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CTRCtTLATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss. : Oenrge R. Txechuck. treasurer of The Ree Fubllshlng company, being duly sworn, says thst the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dslly. Morning. Evening and flunday Bee printed during the) month of February, 1909. was as follows: 1.. W.tlO 9,170 39,000 ,060 M.MO 3.8BO S7.000 3,MO 30,880 38,890 SS.OSO 9S.S30 88,780 37,300 n,9B0 39.000 38,770 M.9S0 38,990 39,050 37,100 40.930 38,830 29,330 99,810 .8,300 34,030 37,180 SR.. Total Less unsold and returned copies, 1,067,090 9.9U8 Net Total 1,077,038 Dally average 38,468 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of March. 1901. M. P. WALKER. (Seal) Notary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Sabscribera leaTlagr the cltr tem porarily ahoald have The Sea tailed , to them. Address will be ckasftd aa oftea as requested. Anyway, the consumers will have to pay that (29,240,000 fine. not "Uncle Joe" Cannon saved bis hide before the others were placed on the free Hat. General Miles la about due to renew his old habit of railing occasionally at the White House. According to Judge Smith McPher on the Missouri freight and passenger rate law is "not worth 2 cents." Speaker Cannon is said to be In a forgiving mood. Let him prove it by subscribing for Collier's Weekly. Thdimorlsts are not all dead. An eastern manufacturer has placed a "Taft Panatella" cigar on the market. The World-Herald has found a joker in the Payne tariff bill. It is always safe to trust an adept for tasks of that kind. The record of building permits to date promise to make 1909 another topnotcher as a building season In Omaha. "Why Americans Love Lincoln" Is the title of a magazine article. The best reason Is that Lincoln loved Americana. Mr. Foraker did not say that he was out of politics. He declared that he would not enter politics again of his own accord. The Texas fruit crop has been de stroyed by frost. That's what Texas gets for Inducing Mr. Bryan to buy land for a fruit farm in that state. It seems that the frauiers of the tariff bill neglected to follow Judge McPherson's example In sending out advance copies of their decision. Pennsylvania's new senator, Mr. Oliver, was born in Ireland, but this advantage Is offset by the fact that he has lived for many years In Pittsburg. "Will Mr.' Roosevelt be missed?" asks the New York 8un. Hear the unanimous chorus of affirmative an swers by the cartoonists and the para graphers. The daughter of Oklahoma's gov ernor received sixty pairs of hosiery In a "shower." It Is not unnatural that so much hosiery should be displayed In a shower. "Stephenson gets the senutorship, what does Wisconsin get?" asks an eastern paper. Most reliuble evidence on the subject is that Wisconsin gets about $110,000. It Is not a high tribute to American Intelligence that a prise fighter can re fuse to engage In a fight because the $50,000 stake offered Is not large enough to tempt him. The Water board still delays forniu latlou of Its proposition to vote $$,500,000 in bonds to complete the purchase of the water works at the appraised value, formerly denounced at outrageously exorbitant. What are .hey waiting for? " One of the members of the Douglas delegation at Lincoln la wondering how he got back the money returned to hi m by pickpockets who had stolen it. Soma other people are wondering how a flve-doilar-a-day lawmaker got the moaejr that wa stolen. Condition! of the Treasury. It would appear that the opponents of tariff revision have been busy try ing to create the Imirerrion thrutiRh ont the country that the Treasury n partnient at Washington Is really in a bad way and on the verge of bank ruptcy, the purpose evidently being to prevent any radical reduction of ex isting tariff schedules for fear of the effect on the revenues of the govern ment. Many of the articles recently printed have directed attention to the disappearing surplus and have laid stress on the necessity of either going very lightly with the pruning of the tariff schedules or else providing new sources of revenue. The effect of this campaign of pub licity has been greatly relieved by the statement Just Issued by Louis A. Coolldge, assistant secretary of the treasury, showing the exact condition of the treasury balances and placing an Intelligent estimate on the pros pects of early recovery by the resump tion of normal conditions in the indus tries with the resultant increase in foreign trade. Mr. Coolldge shows that tbe available cash balance in the treasury on March 15, 1909, was $185,087,899, compared with $141, 498,436 on March 15, 1905, the be ginning of Mr. Roosevelt's last term. The present cash balance is $60,000, 000, compared with only $37,000,000 on March 15, 1905. The free gold in the treasury fund on March 15, 1909, was $87,631,825, compared with $57, 588.250 on March 15, 1905. The amount of actual cash in the treasury, satisfying as It may be, is less significant than the figures show ing the changes lu receipts and dis bursements of the department. The revenues for the first fifteen days of March were $6,000,000 larger than for the same period of last year, an in crease of 27 per cent, while the excess of expenditures over receipts were $4,000,000 less, a gain of 65 per cent. The revenues for the first fifteen days of March were larger than for any cor responding period In the last five years, and It is confidently predicted by treas ury experts that the government's rev enues for the present calendar year, In spite of the dull trade In the first two months, will be equal to those of any year In the nation's history. The treasury receipts from imports an; showing substantial gain. The treas ury Is meeting all obligations promptly and will continue to meet them with out resort to bond issues or the emis sion of certificates of indebtedness, such as have been authorized by con gress. It Is natural to expect that there will be a lull in import business pending adjustment of the tariff schedules, but importers are already enabled to base their estimates and plate their business in lines not af fected by the pending tariff bill so that the effect on customs receipts may not be material. Mr. Bryan's Rejoicings. The esteemed Commoner, Mr. Bryan's personally conducted organ, breaks almost Into yellow journalism In the selection of black headlines for the purpose of displaying news which has evidently pleased Mr. Bryan very much. "Prosperity Items" is the title used by Mr. Bryan to announce the fact that the Lackawanna Steel com pany has reduced wapes in its Buffalo plant, that the Deering nl company of Delaware has gone Into the hands of a receiver, that wages are to be re duced In a New Haven steel company and that the unemployed In New York have been planning a public demon stration. This is simply additional proof that the people of the country do not un derstand Mr. Bryan nor his mental method of finding real joy and satis faction in things that would depress the average man. He can not, of course, become highly enthusiastic! over such evidences of depression in wage-earning and industrial circles so long as they are isolated and while the general trend is toward betterment In conditions. Nothing short of a cotn- plote industrial panic would make him feel that his predictions had been fully vindicated and the indications are that he will not be wholly happy for a long time to come. Mr. Bryan should not be discour aged. The season Is In its Infancy yet and there is no telling what his old friends, the boll weevil, the chinch bug, rust, hog cholera, sheep scab and pip In the poultry yard, may do toward creating misery, woe, poverty and po litical discontent among the prosper ous and happy American fanners. Most of us would look upon a crop failure as a calamity, but it would ap parently cause Mr. Bryan, the advance agent of adversity, to chuckle and spread the glad tidings In big type. The Assassination of Fetrosini. The murder at Palermo, Italy, of an Italian member of the New York de tective force will probably have the effect of arousing both the slate and federal governments to more strenu ous and intelligent effort to suppress the "Black Hand" societies in this country and prevent further admission of lmmijrant members of such mur derous organizations. Petroslni was a lieutenant of de tectives and had done splendid work in repressing the Siciliatf societies in New York. He had been sent quietly to Italy, on a secret mission, to con duct an Investigation regarding Italian criminals supposed to be the leaders of murderous organizations in this country. He was assassinated in a rail way station and his murderers escaped detection. He was a high and gallant type of the Italian race and accord ingly hated by the criminals whose schemes of murder he was constantly blocking. The police officials of New York are rouaht up to a high pitch over I'ltioslnl's death and are demanding liiat they be given free rein In deal ing with the "Black Hand" and simi lar sorietlts that have uvea flourishing in that city for Borne jears. This re quest should b" grar.tfd and the fed tral government should co-operate for more effectively shutting out criminals who In their own country have been accustomed to take the law into their own hands. In spite of the opposi tion to the secret service shown in the laFt congress It would be a fjoxi In vertment for this government o es tablish bureaus In foreign countries to keep our American authorities ln-f.-riiiid of the Immigration of foreign ci'ii.iittnls. Sidestepping. At the recent meeting of the police board Mayor Jim declined to vote upon a motion Involving the granting of a liquor license with the explanation that as ex-officlo chairman of the hoard he had no voice unless the vote were evenly divided. This would be a con venient way of sidestepping for the mayor if there were anything to sup port his position, the only strange part being that no other mayor had ever before discovered the anomaly. The truth is. however, that the mayor has no such excuse for evading his full share of responsibility for police board action. The law creating the police board reads: In each city of the metropolitan class there ahull be a board of fire and police commissioners, to consist of the mayor, who shall he ex-officlo chairman of the board, and four electors of the city. The mayor, plainly, is not an ex offlcio member of the board, but merely ex-officlo chairman of the board, his membership being as abso lute and unconditional as that of any other member of the board. In its jurisdiction over liquor license matters the police commissioners have a dual capacity as constituting the excise board, but the law defining the excise board is as broad as that just quoted. Its language is: In titles of the metropolitan class the power to license, etc., shall he vested ex clusively In the board of fire and police commissioners of such city, and as com pensation for such services they shall each receive the sum of $400 annually, payable out of the police fund of their respective cities. Mayor Jim has not hesitated to draw the $400 which he is entitled to draw as pay for serving as excise commis sioner, but which he would not be en titled to if he were simply a presiding arbitrator over the meetings. If Mayor Jim has been acting on legal advice it is bad advice, and if he has been Blmply sidestepping he will have to back up and start over. The amendment of the Boland bill to require popular approval of any proposition In settlement of the water works controversy, whether In the na ture of a bond Issue to complete the purchase, or a franchise extension on stipulated terms, is perfectly proper. The "immediate and compulsory" pur chase promoters have gotten the city into a bad mess, from which the city will have to extricate Itself the best it can, but no outcome can be final with out the expressed approval of the voters. j The United States circuit court of appeals in New York has decided that j a locomotive is entitled to protection from automobiles. The decision -makes it the duty of automobile driv ers to "stop, look and listen" before crossing a railroad track. It the chauffeur does not heed the warning it is inferred that the railroad com pany could collect damages In case of a collision. The owner of an automo bile has no friend except the repair man. With a million dollars to be paid out by Douglas county in the course of the next three years for court house construction, the audit of the bills by a county comptroller, Independent of the county board. Is demanded as a business proposition. The abolition of the county comptrollership for pur- j ,)0ses of political spite work would be needlessly exposing the treasury to all sorts of Jobbery and manipulation. Spokesmen for our Water board have to be agile and adept at turning corners. First the board says it wants no authority to settle pending litiga tion by compromise, next it says that it already has that authority, and finally it says It is willing to have such authority conferred on it, if made sub ject to approval by popular vote. Lincoln newspapers profess to be astonished that Senator Ransom should appear before a committee as attorney for the stock yards, while at the same time drawing pay as a mem ber of the lawmaking body. There Is no cause for surprise. Ransom knows who pay 8 hiiy his biggest retainer. Mr. Bryan expresses hope that he may never again find It necessary to run for office, but he will not run away from a Mill to run for United States senator next year in fact,- he might even be persuaded to meet it half way. Henry James' new play is to be pre sented as soon as the manager can find a star capable of speaking an 8.000 word sentence, with proper regard for commas, semi-colons, colons, asterisks and a rising Inflection all the way. If the legislature submits all the constitutional amendments thajl have been proposed, the transfer of the pub lication patronage to Governor Shallenberger will be amply vindicated In democratic eyes. Spring will arrive officially on March 21, Mr. Roosevelt will sail for Africa on March 23 and Chancellor Day may be expected to come out of the cyclone cellar almost any time after that. Reports from Madrid indicate that the king Is looking over the list of proper names In the back of the Span ish dictionary expecting to have use for some of them along In May. What has become of Joseph W. Bab cock of Wisconsin, who used to cele brate the opening of every session of congress by introducing a bill for the reduction of the duty on nails? J. Ogden Armour announces that beef will be cheaper next summer. Now let someone assure us that Ice will be cheaper next winter and then everybody will be happy. A girl's school In New York has been destroyed by fire caused by a cigarette in the dormitory. Girls should be given a course of Instruction In the use of ash trays. What Can the Matter He? Pittsburg Dispatch. Roosevelt out. the Standard Oil case ex punged from the record, and still stocks are dumvish. Is It possible that Well street did not know what was the matter with, It? Kingdom of the Horse. Buffalo Express. The Department of Agriculture estimates that there are over 20.000,000 horses In this country and that they ara worth nearly 12,000,000.000, which exceeds the figures of a year ago. Who said anything about the automobiles driving horses out of existence? S access In Perseverance. Chicago Record-Herald. Let the Insurgents at Washington re member that they will be Insurgents only as long aa they remain In the minority and that may not be so terribly long. Who would have predicted five years ago that twenty-eight republican representatives would ever have the courage to stand up and bodily vote In opposition to Cannon? Bis; Heads" Among; Diplomats. Washington Star. President Taft will confer a favor upon Americans abroad, and establish a whole some precedent. If he will make his diplo matic appointees understand that their of fices, like all others, are public; that ths American people, not favored Individuals, are the supporters of embassies and lega tions, and are entitled to considerate and Impartial treatment by the Incumbents of those offices. The diplomatic representa tive who uses his offlco for the aggran dizement of himself and his friends should be separated from It long enough to realize that the honor and prestige of It belongs to the United States, and not to himself. BHAYIXO ON MOl'NTAIN TOPS. Prise Mole Captared br Ksmeralda County, Nevada. Washington Post Esmeralda county, in the great common wealth of Nevada, la to be the future homo of Major Mlnnamascot, the democratic mule. This animal, the adviser and con solation of 1908, Is to go to Esmeralda county because that community showed the greatest democratic gains of any por tion of the earth's surface during the recent struggle., Happy mule and thrice happy Nevada! In that Impregnable) stfbnghold of democracy the four-legged symbol of hope can browse the sagebrush In sweet oblivion, waiting for the day when It shall raise Its resound ing bray as the trumpet of battle. Every cloud has a silver lining In Nevada and every sagebrush has sixteen branches. Sweeter than amaranth and moly, drowsier than the fat weed that rota on the Lethe wharf, la the mystic sixteen branched sagebrush. The dnadly locoweed. whloh works madness In the brain, of horse and mule, is far expelled from Esmeralda s confines. Cropping the food of dreams and rolling Its impassioned eye to the ebon clouds whose silver lining gleams athwart and bray and muse upon things to come. As the prophet fled to the desert and slept under a juniper, so the bugle-voiced prophet of democracy may rest a whtle In the sage brush of Esmeralda, waiting for the sound of Its master's voice. It Is a time of quiet now and rest. The enemy, flushed with victory, riots In Wash ington. In the confines of Esmeralda the clamor of the saturnalia sounds far away, like noises In a swound. This is not the time for Major Mlnnamascot to lift tho bray of taunt and defiance, nor to wave the ear and tall of onslaught. The prophet has turned from labor to refreshment, and will be called to labor again only by the voice of tho worshipful master. lt tho heathen rage! The call will come as surely aa 1912 follows lo. And when It comes when It comes, the outburst of joy from Esmeralda county will he like a chorus of volcanoes, with screeches of demons In the midst thereof! Then, aroused and militant, the pride of Katrvlew will rampage back from its exile, its ears and tall erect, Its eyes glowing, and its bray echoing through every canyon of the Rooky mountains. Happy Esmeralda, asylum of unconquer able hope! Happy Nevada, holding In Its burning lap both Esmeralda and the mule! The present Is a time of tiredness and thought; but there Is a hereafter! PERSONAL NOTES. I'ncle Joe's mallei continues In a striking attitude. The suddjack of Noiibaxar Is breaking into the dispatches main. The estate cf the late Rishop Henry C. Potter of New York fools up I3M.5;, ac cording to the schedule filed in the probate court. Sir Thomas Upton has taken to aero nautics. This seems quite an appropriate step, ss he has been so much In the air about yacht cup rating. "amuol J. Tlldtn's marsive and hand somely carved bedstead brought only $10.50 at a New York auction. How quickly the odors of political sfinctlty vanish. Chivalry Is not wholly extinct In the north. A Maine lawmaker proposes to im pose a tax of 110 on all bachelors "for the benefit of spinsters of 10 years and up ward who have never rec- lved an offer of marriage." Tho movement to recot. struct the Raines law of New Yotk ia likely to succeed. One thing that works for a change Is that the sandwlchca set up as an excuse for drink have loat thtlr shape by eight year' hard usage. All the attractions of the navy are not set out In the enlistment poster. One seanuui on the Kearsarge claims to havu won SS.00O shooting craps en the trip around the wcrld. His marksmanship Is not a part ot the ship's gunnery record. The "Man with the Gulden Noae," one of Kentucky's rrninent clt liens. Is dead. His ability to tell by the smell the make and vintage of Kentucky whirky put birr. In a class by himself. If he was content with the smell, he was a sure-enough wonatr. Washington Life Short BkeSehea of boldest and EplsoSaa tbat Mark the FrosTees of areata at the station's Capital. The Navy department has entered Into a contract for a wireless apparatus vastly more powerful than any now In operation, which. It Is expected, will enable the gov ernment to communicate with warships nt a distance of S.ono miles, or practically across the Atlantic. The system carries a code, the exclusive property of the govern ment, so that naval messages caught by other Instruments will be unintelligible. Should the apparstu In operation come up to the advance notices It will mark one of the greatest achievements in wireless telegraphy. Messages of a thousand miles or more sre now common In the Marconi lines. Only a few weeks ago the Blascon set station indirectly received word from the steamer Corona, which at that time was sailing peacefully In the Mediterran ean. Prom one steamer to another the message passed In Its journey across the ocean, eventually reaching Cape BnbK whence In an Instant It was flashed through the ether to Slasconset. SiO miles away a. total Journey of over 4.000 miles. And then that night In February, when the American fleet tried hours and hours to get Into communication with Fire Island, the messages sounded quite dis tinctly In the telephone receivers at fltss conset. Every word which the fleet sent i.000 miles was caught with as much ease as though the distance between 'Soonset and the battleships was no greater than the width of the road on the moors of Nantucket Inland. The cost of the White House. Including the salary of the president and the ex pense of clerical and other assistance, has been the subject of a gTeat deal of discus sion lately, usually on the assumption that there Is an extravagant expenditure In the upkeep of the executive establishment. The Washington Herald tabulates the appro priations Just made for the executive for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1910. as follows: President's salary t 75.000 oecreiary to the president, and forty one other employes Contingent expenses. Including sta tionery, telegrams. telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, horses, car riages, harness, automobiles. ex penses of stable. Including labor, and miscellaneous Items to he ex pended In discretion of president... lToliaokeArtor alvta.M . ......... 9,920 .000 ... , ,,,,,,,, i..:-n Automobiles UOCO ,.on a:.. i lumiKning or wnite House and for purchase, mainte nance and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes SKOcYi Fuel for greenhouses and stable tow , ""i inaunrnance ot greenhouse S.000 Printing ,w IJtrhtlng White House grounds and "' greenhouses "noin "i-ii,. nmi maintenance or grounds Etrairdlnary rei.slrs' ' ' 'in ' ' vvi'.i.- 4.000 House, painting, redecorating and repairs to furniture IXoro Repairs to greenhouses 'arum T"' Wn.3 Tn sddltlon to this sum congress has ap propriated $4c,0On for the extension of the present executive offices, makln the en tire appropriation for the executive estab lishment, Including- repairs, salaries, main tenance and Improvement and care of grounds. W17.2KX. Tt should be added that the Whit House Is policed by the rBtrlct of Columbia, so that no separate Item of appropriation for that purpose appears. The president is authorised also tn detail employe from any other department of the g-overnment to his own office "for such temporary assistance as may be necessary." One of the most extraordinary reports on a government Industry was that from the printing Investigation commission rela tive to government printing In Washing ton. The commission, which consisted of senators and representatives appointed at the close of business by congress four years ago, discloses a riot of waste and profli gacy In the public printing office and In the conduct of nearly all departments of the government which possessed the authority or the excuse tn have documents or books Issued at the public expense. Nearly every department was accustomed to order a huge number of volumes or pamphlets In order to provide always a surplus over and above the estimated needs and demands of the country. The agri cultural year book, copies of the congres sional reonrd and the publications of the geological survey had been piling up for years. The officials In charge of the pub lications vainly offered them to the docu ment rooms of other departments and to more than 8,000 libraries In the United States, and the offers were refused. They could not give them away. Finally engi neers were employed to estimate the bulk and the weight of the millions of publica tions, and It appeared that the surplus or waste amounted to fl.sno tons, on which the government was forced to pay 113.500 a year In storage. The documents would have filled freight ears enough to make a tram tnree miles long. The printing bill had grown fmm tmn. 000 In 18. to I7.000.ono annually in 1905. and irom iw to 1900 the Increase had been at the date of 70 per cent each v.ar kv. 1S6 to 1& the annual bill had Increased by nearly I4.fl00.0u0, or by W2 per cent, and If the commission had not checked the waste, the bill for the current vear m,M have been nearly I9,500.nj". Multi-millionaires are flocking to Wash ington and putting up palaces by scores. Two diamond kings fttm South Africa, and an enormously wealthy gold miner from the same part of the world, have newly es tablished themselves here, and even the richest New Yorkers, such as the Vander bllts and Belmonts, are building or are about to build magnificent residences at the national capital. Hennen Jennings, whose house on Sheri dan circle Is but recently finished. Is a nephew of John Morris, the principal owner of the great Louisiana lottery. But he him self was a poor boy, and went from Ixuls iana to South Africa not very many years ago with scarce a dollar In his pocket. He he took a great fortune out of the diamond fields and has come back to his own coun try to enjoy It. His new palace Is of In diana limestone and light brick, In the French renaissance style, with terra cotta trimmings and a light green roof; and he has a daughter who Is the most beautiful girl In Washington. Gardiner V. Williams, the other prince of diamonds, was for many years chief engi neer of the Delieers Consolidated Mining company In South Africa, which controls the diamond market of the world. The multl-mlllionalre of gold ia John Hays Hammond, who, likewise as an engineer developed the wonderful auriferous reefs at the Ra id. He has lought a piece of land at the corner of Twtnty-fourth and 1 streets, on a rise of ground, and Is about to put up a bouse there that will cost 15.00u,ujO. VaiBkve Tact. Philadelphia Record. , I.Ike a Yankee, llarriman knows how to answer one question by asking another. To a query at El 1'aso at to whether times are likely to brighten, he said. "After a long dry spell here ia Texas don't you look for rain?" Know These yii Crackers Picture a bakery costing $1,000,000. Think of white tile ovens on the top floor flooded by sunshine. Then, the triple -sealed protection packages that's TakomaBiscuif These are the 20th Century Soda Crackers. You can always be sure they will be fresh and crisp flaky and whole Yet they cost no more than the old kind Takoma Biscuit are at your grocer's in 5c and 10c packages. Try them. LopSE'WlLES BISCUIT CO. V. 'i... ; 'A: i life vr : . '.-wE a-rz a., j if. .x. sBiK,ua loose-Wiles Biscuits and Crackers Comply With the krsbraska ran rood Law. NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. Kearney Huh: A number of democratic papers are beginning to "regret" that the democratic legislature Is doing this, or not doing that, or falling In some distinct par ticular to redeem the party's pledges In (he last campaign. It Is too bad. of course, but whst's the use of crying over spilled milk? O'Neill Frontier: The state legislature Is proving a travesty on the popular con ception of the term democratic. Instead of leaving the administration of the state gov ernment In the hands of the representatives of the people they are exerting every effort to centralize the power in the hands of one man. Butte Gazette: From all reports It seems that the bank guarantee bill as drafted by the Joint committee and Its $.100 attorney Is p. dismal failure, and will be so thoroughly torn to pieces and remodeled before it stands a ghost of a show of being paused that even Its father will not be able to recognize It. Bradshaw Republican: That denatured bank deposit guarantee bill 'Is not calculated to put the banks under any serious obliga tions, and the timid monled man may Just as well continue the "woolen sock" banking system. It will only be the courageous and brave who will ease their minds by deposit ing in the banks. Your risk Is your own, anyhow; now as before. Wakefield Republican: The Republican Is free to say tt does not like tho new pri mary law, or at least that part of It rela tive to making nominations wherein the party ballot Is done away with and all names are placed on one big blanket sheet. It Isn't a fair deal to either party because It gives an opportunity for either side to help nominate some one of the opposite faith who Is not wanted by that parly. The old way Ib much better. Primrose Record: The predicament of the majority In the legislature is one that calls for sympathy. A bunch of Incompetents, tied down by campaign promises to cor porations and moulded to the every wish of -a few bosses like Ransom of Douglas, meet daily at the capltol for the sole pur pose of learning what Is expected of them. The few Ineffectual struggles of the demo cratic majority to get from under the lash and represent Its constituency Is pitiful. Aurora Republican: There la perhaps no other subject In Nebraska deserving of more careful consideration at the hands of legislators than that of Insurance. I'ncle Dan Nettlcton's Mil for non-negolable notes In payment of premiums Is In the right di rection. The strength of the Insurance lobby In fighting this measure as well as other good insurance bills Is In Itself suf ficient argument that our Insurance laws are not all that they should be. Uihbies are never maintained by corporations with out good cause. Culbertson Banner: Last fall every candi date for the legislature on the democratic ticket knew just wnat Kind or a bank guarantee law was needed by Nebraska a:id there wasn't one of them but what would have the people believe that he knew Just how It should be drawn up. But when they got down to Lincoln and tackled the Job they found It a bigger task than they were equal to, and after much deliberation they decided to hire an attorney to draw the bill for them. Think of It. In the whole body of "law-makers" there was not one who was com-wtent to draft a bill that they all knew all about when the campaign was on. A Beautiful Showing of Extremely New Tiings in greys, blue stripes and greens Suits to order $25 to $40 We btiild clothes to please the most Jastidiotis The London Tailors 207 So. '4 LAUGHING GAS. "If those two men come together lie it will h. muuUIc. The big one Ih a six footer." "Yes, hut the little one has a six shooter. "Baltimore Aruerli nn. "The shoemaker must be a man particu larly suited for an affinity.'' "Why the shoemaker?" "Hecause he nsttirally gravitides to wards sole mates." Chicago Tribune. "Why does a woman always want an other woman lo go shopping with her?" "She gels the other woman to make the selections and then takes something else." Louisville Courier-Journal. The Tdy Why Is the average man such a fool? The Gent I haven't an idea. The Irftdy And the average, man hisn't either 1 guess that's the answer. Cleve land leader. "I expect my husband will want to go fishing any day, now." "Why?" "I've Just sold all bis old clothes to a peddler." Detroit Free Press. "So you favor tariff revision?" "I do," answered the sardonic Statesman. "But you do not hope lo devise a system that wlil please everybody?" "No. But It may bring In a new set of complaints from the same old people or the same old complaints from a new set of peo ple. In either case the monotony will be relieved." Washington Star. "Do you attach nr.y Importance tn these stories thev are circulating about you?" "Yes," answered Sentitor Sorghum; "I intend to be s literary person myself, and 1 object to furnishing material for articles I don't get paid for." Washington Star. "1 strolled Into the Globe last night and heard Maxll, and I want to say right here that I think him the greatest mono logi.il In tho world." "You do, eh'.' You never heard my wife." Boston Courier. "Physical culture, father, Is perfectly lovely!" exclaimed an enthusiastic young miss Just home from college. "Iok! To develop the arms 1 grssp this rod by one end and move It slowly from right to left!" "Well, well!" exclaimed the farmer; "what won't science discover. If that rod had straw at the other end you'd be sweeping." Success. ADVICE TO A PRESIDENT. Puck. Be gentle with the senators and soft SS chocolate creams. Be gentle as s female Infant child; Avoid all Interference witli their little pri vate schemes. For Tactless Opposition drives them wild. Iii case the hand of Justice In a padeil velvet glove. Address the High and Mighty In dulcet tones of love. And coo to malefactors like a blue-eyed turtle dove. Be gentle, oh, be gentle, oh, be mild.. Be gentle with the congressmen and do not muss their fur: To criticise is wholly unrefined. Remarks on deals and Jobbery are sure to rause a stir, With consequent dlstressfulness of mind. Four hundred gallant gentlemen, all while as driven snow. The welfare of their country is the onlv thing they know Or If It ciiances otherwise one must not tell them so. Be gentle, oh, be gentle, oh, he kind! Be thankful to the plunderers for all that they have left. Be gracious to the plrntis of the s treat. . Forbear to mention "knavery" and never speak of "theft" Kxnlicitness Is always Indiscreet, limplny a batkless watchdog who has lost his final tooth; Conciliate the erring ones with tenderness and ruth, And never hurt their feelings with the hard unvarnialied truth. Be gentle, oh, be gentle, oh, be sweet! 14th St. V A'' V