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TIIE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1009.' Tim .iiV bXiLV Bee. FOUNDED Bf EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omtht poatofftc M seoond claaa matter. TERMS Or flUnflORIPTION. Dally Be (without Sunday), on yar..M Jelly Bn and Sunday on year w DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Be (Including BuiHlar). per wlt..lo I'allr Br (without Sunday). par w"-. Evntng Bf (without Funday). per wee ,5: Bventng tM (with Sunday), per week . . iw Hunday Be, on year J Saturday He, on year '. Address all omplalnt of Irregularltle in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha T il Bh Building. Sjuth Onaha Twenty-fourth and Council Bluff It Scott Street. Lincoln tin Little Building. Chicago IMS Uarquatt Building. New York-Rooms 1101-1101 No. t Wast Thirty-third treet. , Weahlngton-726 Fourteenth Btreet. N. w. . CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news end edi torial matter hould h addraaaedt Omaha Be. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. eipress or postal order, payabl to The Be Publishing Company. Only z-cent .tampa received In payment of mall acoounta. Personal checks. n Omaha or eastern enchant ea, not accepteo. STATEMENT OF MRCUX.ATION. tat of Nebre-ka. Douglas County, O.org B Tsachuek. treaaurw of Th Be 1'iibllshtng Compani. aelnf duly sworn. ys that th actual tumtr of run and romplet copie or in fmiir. I ng, Kvenlng and Sunday Be printed dur ng th month of May. I0, waa a tol- lOWBl I 44.7M 43,000 4 M0 4 ... 48,090 4S.BS0 40,380 1 1. 40,840 40,450 37.400 10......,.. 40,180 11 40,410 18 40.310 1 40,10 14........... 40,370 15 40.410 M 4O.1S0 It 40,130 SO, 40,140 81, 40,430 13..... 40.310 83 3,30O 84 40,130 .... 3.0 B 40,030 17 i M. 40,440 8t. 41,070 30 31.340 81 i 40,350 1 10, ......... 87.BOO 17 40,940 Returned opl t ' lot!.. 1989.BO0 9,983 Net total 1,249.919 Dally average 40-319 GEORGE a TZSCHUCK. Treaaurer. - Subscribed In my presence and uworn to bfor In this (1st day bf May, 10 M, P. WALKER, Notary Public. orlbcr leavtaa; tha alty tm porarllr ahold hav Tk Be ailed t tbcaa. Addraa will k ekaoated ava ( aa raatcd. Old Sol has himself been conferring a few degrees these June days. ' The weather man Is perfectly safe in predicting probable showers. The apple pie . invasion of central Africa will convert those people if any thing will. . The yacht Sylph' has been set aside for the use of President Taft. Not in tended to' appear suggestive. ' The house fly . has been tried, con victed and sentenced, but in some manner has escaped execution up to date " r II the king of Spain pardons a batch of criminals every time a baby is born in his family there may yet be pardons for all. No need of quarreling about who paid off Nebraska's state debt. The money all came out of the taxpayers' pockets.' ' Senator "Bob" Taylor's new lecture la entitled "Uappy Valley," but it has no reference to the United States senate. President Hadley'a creed of faith in his fellow man Is H right, but the limit should be drawn on the one with a gold brick. ' Another revolution has broken out in Morocco. Revolutionists in that country get. about as much rest as a stock company actor. . One thing is definitely established by this,, year's rainfall record. This section of Nebraska is not in the arid belt, nor even in the semi-arid belt. With a big building season ahead for Omaha, both employers and em ployes should realize that this is no time for strtkesjn the building trades President Taft is a member of the Cincinnati Turners, but unfortunately a previous engagement at Washington has prevented him from capturing the big prices, v Great Britain is to send three ships to the Ban JTant teco celebration, and this la taken to indicate that no war with Getmany is anticipated for a few days aUaast.':, ' . . . Former President Eliot of Harvard, in a recent address, advises all women to wed. ' ' This advice is likely to be re ceived with more or less dissent than his five feet of books. A Baptist ! preacher., says ministers are paid to be good, but the layman must be good for nothing. Possibly that Is true, but often people can save a whole lot by being good. The New York American refers to Mr. Bryan aa "The well known ex congressman from Nebraska." Is it poslbl'the American has lost track of Mr. Bryan since his exit from con gresa. Suppose someone should undertake to test the S o'clock closing law by or derly appeal to the courts, would that also be denounced by the World Herald as -"attacking the people's laws? Just' to show South Omaha what bom ruja really . la Ilk Governor ShallenWeer, sitting In his office at Lincoln, will soon commission another member .of the police board for the Magic CIi't'? r Regulating; Stock Trading. In discussing the recommendation of the Hughes commission, the Wall Street Journal recognizes the need ot greater checks upon dealings on the took exchanges and inclines to the Idea that larger margins will solve the problem. It asserts that the great evil grows out of participation tn trading by people of Insufficient capi tal which It believes larger margins would eliminate. This might keep a few of the small fry out of the mar ket, but pools would likely be formed to make up a doal sufficiently large to be placed on the board. The Journal overlooks the real evil of stock exchange trading, which Is gambling as distinguished from genuine speculation and buying and selling. The evil of a poker game Is not lessened by Increasing the price of the chips. If gambling la le galized or permitted on a largo scale on the stock exchanges and the limit placed so high as to keep the small gambler out, ho will simply try some other game, but if the Inhibition is against gambling itself and enforced against big and little gamblers alike, there is hope for beneficial results. It is urged that it Is Impossible to separate gambling from speculative transactions and it is admUtedly dif ficult, but it Is incumbent upon the stock exchanges to try before enter ing a plea that it cannot be done. Tl Journal correctly eays It is folly for the inexperienced with a few hundred dollars' capital to match brains with some of the acuteat minds In the world trained li the game, but It 1b equally futile for the man of large means to put his fortune In the balance against the same odds. If the purchase and sale Is bona fide any man of sound business Judgment ran, by availing himself of Informa tion readily obtainable, profitably in vest his money. Manipulations may vary the selling price of what he buys, but the Inherent value will ulti mately assert Itself. Unless the rich man is a skilled manipulator, he Is Just as helpless as the- poorer man against the manipulation of i -ambling transaction. The 0. A. E. Monument. On July 3 there will be unveiled in Washington a monument to Dr. Ben jamin .Franklin Stephenson, the founder of the Grand Army of the Republic. Washington contains many statues of soldiers and sailors of the Civil war, but this one is unique in being the tribute of the veterans themselves to the founder of a society designed to perpetuate the patriotism of the union soldier. The organization founded by Ste phenson is rapidly dwindling and must soon disappear, but it will have taught a valuable lesson. As a sol dier Dr. Stephenson's record was not commanding enough to raise him above thousands of his fellows, but In organizing the Grand Army of the Republic he bullded better even than he knew. The society has helped keep alive a sentiment which has dot ted the entire land with monumental reminders of duty and held up higher Ideals of patriotic duty. These will remain when the last of the grand army shall have disappeared, silently pointing the way they led. Last of Fremont's Pathfinders. The last survivor of the Intrepid band which followed General Fremont across the continent In 1843 is living on a farm near Maryvllle, Mo., aged 8 J. There were originally thirty nine men in the party and all but one have answered the final summons to the land from whence no traveler ever returns. Sixty-six years ago the coun try from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast waa a wilderness, par tially known to a few hardy trappers, and practically all of it absolutely free from any permanent white settle ment except a fringe along the lower Missouri river. The - cross-continent trip was one of extreme hardships' to which a number of the party 'suc cumbed, but they biased a trail which later won that vast empire for the United States. ' ' , What a contrast U would be if the lone survivor could make the same trip now. -It required a year and a half for Fremont's men to reach Sut ter's mill in California, and the trip is now made in less than three days amidst practically all tli4 comfort a of home. The then unmapped wilder ness has become the home of several million people engaged in the peace ful pursuits of civilized life. It seems like an Arabian night's dream, this transformation since ' that hardy band made what waa called a fool hardy trip by the supposedly wise Senator Benton, who at the same time declared that God himself had set up a barrier to the advance bf the white man's civilization. Changes in Indian Service. In a Chicago Interview Secretary of the Interior Ballinger bluntly de clared that many changes are needed in Indian agencies and that be pro poses to make them. He distinctly disclaims belief la the existence of corruption in the service so much as Incompetence. Those familiar with the Indian agencies know, few posi tions requiring more sound business judgment, strength of character and tact than that of Indian agent. It is also common knowledge that too of ten in the past men named for these positions bave been deficient in same or all of these qualifications. It is not sufficient that the agent himself should be honest to prevent scandal and Jobbery In dealings with the Indians, but he must have intelli gence and courage. Swlndlius the Indian has become a habit with many people surrounding the agencies and an incompetent or weak agent Is as bad as a corrupt one bo far as re sults are concerned. Mr. Ballinger Is a western man more or less familiar with existing conditions in the agencies, and his dfHflarations, therefore, are more likely to bear fruit than those of a man whose knowledge of the Indian and Indian affairs is theoretical only. He declares himself in sympathy with the policy of former Commis sioner Leupp and bis successor, Mr. Valentine, to educate the Indian to take care of his own property and do for himself as a citizen. To accom plish this will require exceptional ca pability in the agents, and few of them in the past have measured up to this standard. Pistol Toting; Again. Another way to put a damper on pistol toting is proposed by Congress man Slsson of Mississippi, who wants to tack on to the tariff bill an internal revenue tax of two dollars upon each deadly weapon manufactured and sold within the United States in addition to a 25 per cent ad valorem tax. He proposes also to put a tax ranging from one-tenth of 1 cent to one-fifth of 1 cent on every cartridge manufac tured and sold, in this country. The idea of making this a revenue-producing tax is disclaimed, the motive be hind it being to restrict the business of selling firearms by making the product 60 expensive as to reduce the demand. The idea is not a bad one and would, no doubt, accomplish some thing In the direction Intended, al though by no means stopping the pis tol toting habit. The bad man who wants to get a revolver for a wicked purpose will not cavil at two or three dollars additional coat for his shoot ing irons and cartridges, but making firearms expensive might save some of the innocent victims who use them as playthings. Congressman Slsson thinks he could save the government $10,000 per year out of the deadly weapon Industry, but if he could save a few lives we could readily forego the revenue. We suggest that he begin on certain fellow congressmen who have gotten into trouble in Washing ton by being too handy on the trigger. Getting Worse. The constitution of Nebraska pro vides that all the laws enacted by each succeeding legislature shall be printed In book form and made available for distribution within sixty days after adjournment, the laws to go into effect three calendar months after their pas sage. There would be no object in having the laws printed except to ena ble tho people affected thereby to as certain ' what changes the legislature had Incorporated into the statutes, and the value of this information depends largely on getting it in time. Delay in publication of the session laws has been cause for chronic com plaint in this state, but Instead of get ting better it seems to be getting worse. The big grist of bills put through by the legislature, which ad journed the first of April, are to be operative this week, and still there are no signs of the session laws In the places where they ought to be. This delay Is absolutely inexcusable and en tirely preventable. If the State Print ing board would put a time clause in its contracts and enforce the penalties it would soon stop this serloua evil. Some of our Lincoln friends seem to be distressed for fear the Corn show may enjoy exemption from the state Incorporation tax as an educational In stitution. They are perfectly willlnc however, to bave Omaha continue to help foot the bill for Lincoln's corn show, fat stock show and racing meet, that goes under the name of the State fair, and which, of course, is a purely educational enterprise. The amount Involved in the tax is almost too small to discuss, but It illustrates the amall ness of those who have raised the question. According to demo-pop organs, all laws passed by a democratic legisla ture are "the people's laws" and should be regarded as sacred and in violable, but the laws passed by a re publican legislature, of course, bave no standing in the court of public opinion. There are none so blind as those who wear party goggles. An itinerant soothsayer predicts a bloody murder in Omaha this week. That's a good guess. If nothing hap pens everybody will forget all about the prediction, while should It come true the soothsayer will be claiming powers of second sight. Ex-Senator Teller, in Introducing Bryan to a Denver audience, infor mally launched an Incipient fourth presidential boom for th Nebraskan. It Is to be noted that the explosion did not make a noise loud enough to be beard very far. Automobile manufacturers are said to be planning to build 100,000 cars for next year'e trade. This Is only one illustration bow much Americans spend for pleasure, which never ceases to be a source of wonderment to out side observers. The Seattle exposition will have to do something to attract mora attention than It has bad during the first month. We would suggest that It send out an Alaskan expedition to lasso an Iceberg and tow it Into harbor. The Irrigation congress is to ask the government to issue 15.000,000, 000 in bonds. The west Is hopeful of governmental aid for irrigation, but the man must be visionary who Imag ines that any such sum can be pro cured. If Governor Sheldon's recommenda tion for a physical examination for candidates for matrimony had been made Into law our marriage license clerks might have lost a lot of this June business to Gretna Greens in neighboring states. Among the other advantages of Texas the Houston Post says the birds are so happy there that they sing all day and all night. Respectfully sub mitted to the man who has had his morning nap disturbed by his wife's canary. A number of rich New Yorkers have about completed a new theater which Is to be dedicated to the uplift of the drama. We thought the drama tn New York had about reached the bottom and could not drop any lower. The widow of the Inventor of the percussion cap is still living In Italy. Since that invention firearms have de veloped more than In all the centuries since the invention of gunpowder. Having ended the deadlock in the city hall, Mayor Jlra will feel safe in keeping his Fourth of July engage ment at Crawford without hurrying himself unduly to get back home. Strange bow all the nonpartisan candidates for supreme Jud;e sug gested by demo-pop newspapers just happened to be dyed-in-the-wool par tisan democrats or populists. New Democratic Doaologjr. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Tha frequency with which tlie senior Virginia senator dares to attack the Peer less Leader of the Pulsing Plains may soon lead to a singing: of "Dare to Be a Daniel" as tha democratic doxology. Threatened Jail Eipaniloa, Kansas City Times. A corporation lawyer was found guilty In the United States circuit court In New York of "Impeding Justice." If this of fense is to be made punishable the Julia will not be large enough to hold the emi nent counsel for the defente. Oil In a; I n Old Throne. Boston Herald. The Rockefeller tentacle seems to have gripped Austria. Advices by mall speak of everything running smoothly, with the Imperial palace and the Schonbiun hot houses using petroleum. Large plans are also under way for oil fuel on the rail roads. How to Catrh the Crowd. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Th Union Pacific, in the effort to cap ture its share of: th Seattle exposition traffic, has purchased phonograihs and will give its passengers grand opera. Music Is all right enough, but what would really make a hit with the public and get th business would b a train without ticket takers. Proteetloa foe Sninmer Ranker. Boston Transcript. The Departmentoot Agriculture among Its multitudinous etuillea has ever had an Investigator find eut what was the best preparation for driving mosqultoei away from camps and other places where screen ing Is Impossible. The comfort of ie man as well as the dlsoomfort of the mosquito has been taken Into account In thil recipe, which la not particularly objectionable to the human olfactories: One ounce of oil of cedar, two ounces of oil of rltronella and two ounces of spirits of cair.phor. A few drops of this mixture on a towel thrown over the head of a bunk will hav a wholesome deterrent effect for a night upon the pest. THE RAILROAD UPLIFT, Mr. Harrlman Scheme for Two Thonaand Mllea of Parkway. New York World. No one ever has accused Mr. Harrlman of "th pertpaUtlc of long-haired aes thetics." Ills plana for the conversion of the Union Pacific right-of-way Into a parkway 2,000 miles long are those of an Intensely practical man. Alfalfa In long green stretches, dotted by pin trees and elms, will present to transcontinental travelers a sight for tired eyes. But tha alfalfa and tha trees tn combination will furnish also a barrier against ordinary waahouts and snow drifts. la the east the process of riving aes thetic relief to th dusty monotony of Journeys by rail has been long under way. It 'Is much simpler than In the west. Graded grounds and a flower-bed or two, perhaps a fountain, and a station tn gray ston or brown, designed by a real archi tect thes are the chief items In the rail way uplift this Bide of the Mississippi. Mr. Harrlman can go further. He had the ad vantage of a right-of-way with so much prairie and desert room that It can gen erally avoid tha backyard habit With his longer swing he la more than an Imitator. Yet his Idea la but a part of the broad recognition of a traveler's rlsht to a little more than speed and rattle and plush trimmings for his fare. PARKING A R All. ROAD. Harrlmaa' Projected Vlate. of Emer ald, Steel and emlphorea. Pt. Louis Tlnv'S. Borne tlms this year, unless carefully con sidered plans of Edward M. Harrlman go awry, th Vnlon Pacific railroad will begin th gigantic task of park"1 whole sys tem from the Missouri river to th Pacific It Is proposed to make of this 1.000-mlle right-of-way an Immense ribbon of green, which shall convey to the passenger the Impression that ha travels over a never ending oasla. The plan contemplates planting the right-of-way with alfalfa, whlih becomes green early and remains so t ntll lata In the c-asrnv Tpm at the i.iitslde edges of th alfalfa double rows of trees, pines altr rating with elms, are to bo set out and cared for. Long ago, In the decoration and parking nt ii atarinn nlata. the Pennsylvania led tha way in a successful effort to prove that even a prosalo trav.llng public enjoy th adornment of utlllt with beauty. It paid well. Just as It pays to paint a house on wants to show to a prospective buyer. To carry out the Herrlman park plan will pay th Vnlon Pacific. Th grass will keep down th dust and prevent washouts, and th trees will form a protection against snowdrifts, which will In tlm be aWf-sus-talnlng and mora effectual than any raised by man. As for mer Invltlngnsa. who would not travel by "Th Enteral Route" when one It waa a tunnel of foliage and shad from th river to the Rockies? W ar not yt Informed, however, that Mr. Harrlman lateet Ma baa a copyright attached to It. Army Gossip Matters of Interest Oa aa Baek of th Tiring Xla OUaaad from tk Army aad Wavy Bflstr. The suraenn general of the army has recommended an Increase In the army ho pital corps of 500 men, which will make up the total enllstfd strength of that branch 4.000 It Is appreciated by the military au thorities that thla Increase In the corps la Justified bv the demands which are made upon It. especially by the recent Increases In the enlisted force of the army. It Is a question, however, whether it Is Judicious to authorise the Increase In view of th additional expense Involved as represented by the items of pay, subsistence, clothing, eta. More than 200 applications have been re ceived by the surgeon general of the army from medical college graduates who desire to take the examination, to be held on July 12. for admission to the army medical corps. This is the largest class which hns ever been examined and the results ar viewed with satisfaction by the army medl cnl authorities. The graduates of the army medical school this year were commis sioned as first lieutenants In the army medical corps on Wednesday of this week. Tills accession of commissioned officers by the corps reduces the number of vacancies In that branch to 77. which Is destined to ba increased to about 110 or 115 by casual ties occurring and by the authorized In crease of the corps in January next. The preparations for the national matches this year are on a larger scale than evc-r before. Approximately 100 regu lar army officers and 1.000 troops will be stationed at Camp Perry during the matches. Congress has appropriated $12,000 for the messing of the competitors during the national matches and the prise money will be largely Increased. From 1,000 to l.BflO competitors will participate in the na tional matches and those of the National Rifle association and many more In the Ohio National Ouard matches, and those of the Ohio State Rifle association and the Department of the Lakes Rifle association, which precede the national matches. Th contests begin August 9 and run to Sep tember S, when the Sea dirt tournament opens. Although officers of the signal corps, particularly those who served In Cuba dur ing the recent military occupation of the island, have recommended tha discontinu ance of th Myer code used In visual sig naling and the substitution of the Amer ican Morse code. It Is not likely that such a step will be taken, at least in the near future. Rome years ago, while General Greely was chief signal officer of the army, both tho army and navy changed to the Morse code for visual communication. Later the navy returned to the Myer code, It having been found better adapted for wig-wag signaling. On th eve of the Spanish war attention was called to the fact that the army and navy could not communicate with each other, having dif ferent codes of visual signaling; and, in view of this fact, the signal corps again adopted the Myer code. Both the army and navy now use the Morse 1 code In telegraphic communication, but the Myer code has beon found better for visual sig naling. , The army signal officers are much grati fied with the results which have been re ported this week from representatives of that branch at Fort. Leavenworth, Kan., respecting the newly Improved type of army reel cart. Certain very minor mod ifications have been mad In some of the parts and the cart has now been adopted as a standard, A contract will be awarded by the chief signal officer of this army tor twelve mora of these vehicles for Issue to the service. The same course in the way of development of a signal corps ve hicle was followed In the caae of the lance trucks, which have been under experiment with the result of criticism which applied to their excess of weight. The original type of truck provided for carrying 600 lances and the vehicle required the use of six mules. Tha truck has now been modi fied ao as to have a capacity of but 300 lances which answers all the purposes of the service and the truck can now ba drawn y four mules. PERSONAL NOTES. Major F. B. Baden-Powell, an English authority on aeronautlca, anticipates that flying will be common In four years time. Sir Thomas Llpton has given th steel mast of Shamrock HI for a flagstaff to be located on the Long Island City plasa ot the Queensboro bridge. Of some service at last! Patten Is now credited with having cleaned up 1500.000 by a little transaction in cotton. Breadstuff have advanced so since his corner In wheat that he probably felt he needed the money to aupply the family with flour. George Clinton Payne, who la now mak ing his headquarters In Newark, N. J., claims to be the oldest book agent tn the world. As he is 98 years old and In active service, his claim to this distinction will probably not be disputed. A captain Just arrived from across the Atlantic reports having seen many ice bergs off tha coast. Nothing .but a high and courageous devotion to duty could have kept him from Jumping overboard and swimming to one of them. Park Commissioner Scanlan of St. Louis has ordered 450 additional park benchea for the exclusive use of spooning couples. "Let the spooners kiss their heads off," said Scanlan, who had been married Just a year. Down In Mexico, Chinamen are said to be preferred as husbands by a certain class of Mexican women. In that tropical country the color scheme of civilisation la not marred by tha appearance of a nut brown family with yellow trimmings. Therefore, that is a far better place for the Chines laundryman to wash th yellow stains out of hia rac. Aak tk onrta tn Advance. 8prlngflald Republican. Courts make a mockery of legislative ef fort when they proceed a ha th Illinois supreme court In relation to th primary lection enactments of that state. By sticking exactly to th practice of ruling only on the precise point raised in tha pending litigation it can keep a legislature legislating forever and vainly on so large a matter as a prtmary election law. After three time settlrg aside such a law on different grounds, the Illinois court now ventures outside the lrimedlat point at Issue and expresses an opinion that uo valid law of the kind can probably be enacted wtlhout an amendment to the state constitution. Why could it not hav aatd ss much In the first pla.ee and saved all this trouble? Since the courts hav become ao large a part of the legislative power ot th states and nation, they may well indulge mora freely in obiter dicta for th en lightenment of those who mak th laws lu th first Instance. A bank keeping on hand Cash and Reserve In excess of legal requirements; It Is then al ways Jii a position to meet emergency withdrawals. A uniformly large reserve adds to the strength of a bank and makes It a desirable place for YOUR account. First National Bank ot Omaha Invoat your vine In 3 Par Cant Cartlfloato of Dp0lt In sickness or in healta the best food is WHM Try it for breakfast with milk or cream easily lested strengthening and sat isfying. NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. Grand Island Independent: It Is regret- able that such incidents as the running out of town of ministers or any other free citizens from whose action there la recourse to the courts should happen in Nebraska However, a religious scrap is the scrap for your whiskers! Kearney Hub: Governor Bhallenberger Is unduly alarmed on the subject of "nullifica tion," and is quite wrong in presuming that it Is proposed to nullify his pet banking law. If it is unconstitutional or void for any reason It Is well to find It out before the law Is put into effect, and those emi nent lawyers, William V. Allen and John L. Webster, will be very likely to find It out Beatrice Express: At the Kearney meet ing Governor Ehallenberger pointed with pride to the work of the late legislature, re garding with particular satisfaction tho manner in which that august body fixed the nonpartisan scheme for the election of Judges. In a republican state, from a democratic standpoint, it was certainly a most thoughtful and sagacious stroke of statesmanship.- ' Grand Island Independent: There remain only four private banks In the state and these, with tha operation ef the guaranty deposit law, "must go out of business. At the "beginning of the year the number Ot private banks tn the state had been re duced from the high number of sixty-five eight years ago to only twelve, and the twelve have now been reduced to four. If ona of these . four refuses to go out of business as a private bank, a test of the guaranty law would naturally come about In that way. Beatrice Sun: Governor Shallenberger, In a speech at a democratic dollar dinner at Kearney, denouncing those who will try to repudiate and nullify the I o'clock closing law, said that "democracy and decency have Joined hands tn the state of Nebraska and all hell cannot put them asunder." The pungent rfrnc to the force of evil that the governor believes Is active In Ne braska politics may be Interpreted as a shot at Omaha and at the wild west genius who presides over the destinies of all Omaha and who would be Interested in the sundering business. Grand Island Independent: Even such an Irreconcilably democratic paper as the Omaha World-Herald take a poke at Gov ernor 8hallenberger's recent ukase that decency 'and democracy have Joined hands. Loyalty to party, however, stamps the "poke." The World-Herald advises the governor that he la away behind the times that decency and democracy have been business associates for lo these many years. The Omaha paper ought may It not be suggested to be more charitable! Govern ir Ehallenberger has not had the opportunity to observe the combination at aa close a range aa has been the good lortune of the World-Herald to observe it having never lived In the home city of the Jacks and tha Jim. Central City Nonpareil: Deputy Labor Commissioner Maupln Is developing a new Industry in conectlon with his office. He has organised a state federation of labor and had himself elected president of the same. He has seen to it also that the federation was So organized that It can get Into politics If It wants to and from the reports of the initial session it looks as If It will want to right - away. It may b alt right for a state officer to Indulge tn political side shows, but tha Nonpareil sus pects that tha people of the state would prefer to have Mr. Maupln attend to the duties for which he waa appointed, particu larly since h lament that he has ao much to do as labor commissioner that he needs extra office help. . Alt Who Would ErJoy food health, with lU blessings, must un derstand, quits dearly, that it involves the question of right living with all the term UnpUsM. With proper knowledi of what It beaa, each hour of recreation, of enjoy DMsit, of contemplation and of effort may b mavis to contribute to living aright. Then the use of medicine ma be dis pensed with to advantage, but under or dinary conditions in many Instance a simple, vholttsome remedy may be invalu able if Ukia at the proper time and the California Fig Syrup Co. holds that it is alike important to present the subject truthfully and to supply th on perfect laxative to those desiring it. Consequently, the Company's 8yrup of Figs and Elixir of fienna gives general satisfaction. To fH iU beneficial effects buy the genuine, maaufartured by tbe California Fig Syrup Co. aiy, nod fur sal kg all landing druggist. ' Jill If PiP LURES TO A SMILE. "Don't you want posterity to take In interest in your deeds?" "I don't care so much about my deeds," answered Senator Borghum, 'but I shouldn't want posterity rummaging about through soma of my old mortgages." Washington Star. Foreigner What was the total of life caused by your revolutionary war? Native American Nobody knows. We keep adding to It every Fourth of July. Chicago Tribune. 1 "I admit I have the fault you mention," said the conceited man, self-complacentlv, "but It' the only fault I have, and It's a small one." "Yes," replied Knox, "Just 1IK the small hole thst makes a plugged nickel no good." Philadelphia Catholic Standard. "Your son closed his college career In a blaze of glory." "I should say he did. The week before commencement day -he made a three-bam) hit with the bases fuil." Detroit Kree Press. Friend I understand, Mrs. Stem, that your daughter has married since we last met. Airs. Btern Yes, and been divorced. Friend Ah! And who Is the happy man? Boafun Transcript. v WflEBE IT, WASL, PQUE.. ., Woman'a Home Companion.' Joe Blng, he cut ten cord o' wood From rise to set o" sun; He cut It, an' he piled It, too. Yes, sir; that'a Wat ha done. To cut ten cord o' wood, vow. Is one tremendous chore Joe Blng cut his behind the stove In Luscomb's grocery store. 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