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THE BKK: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. JULY 7, 1900. t r I I iS U f il h i ) i f .1 The Omaha" Daily Bee FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER. VtCTOR ROfEWATER, EDITOR. F.ntered at Oiiwlii poatofflce as second class matter. terms of ernpcniPTioN. Tiaitv T4a iithAni rtnnriavi nne vear..Wln liallv llu anil Kutidtiv nnn vear 6.00 DEIjIVEHED bt carrier. raily Hoe flncludlna; Bunday), per week.lse Dally Up (without Bunday), per wees. 10c Kvenlns; nH (without Sunday), per week 6e Kiftnlnc Uaa aillh HnnilivV Tier Week . Vc R'inrliv Bee. one year... 12. M Saturday Be, on year 1 Adrian all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE". Omaha Tha R Rutldlnr. Routli Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. rounr-n niuffa 15 Scott Street I.lnrriln-5I I.lltle Rnlldln. rhlcsKo lf,4 Marquette RulMlng". New York-Rocini 1101-1102 No. M Went Thirty-third Strt Washington 725 Fourteenth Rtreet. N. W. CORRESrONPENTB. Communications relating to new and edi torial mttr should on addressed: Omaha Bee. Editorlfil Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express or postal order, psyab'e to The Bee Publishing Company. Onlv 2-cent smrm received In payment of mall arcounta. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County. sa: (Jeorge H. Trschuck. treaaurer of The Bee publishing Company, being duly worn, sava that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morn ing, Evening and Sunday Bee printed dur Ing the month of June, 1809, waa as fol- 1..." '. . 41.370 X7 41,960 ,., 41,330 18 41.650 1 41,880 10 41,690 41,860 90 40,000 6 41,690 31 41,780 39,800 89 41,670 T ... 41,480 83 41,860 41,640 B4 41,730 6 41,830 35 44,640 10 41,660 88 41,890 11 41,830 BT 40,030 II 43,040 98 41,790 13 40,300 89 41,790 14 43,870 30 41,670 18 41,940 18 41,840 Total. .1,347,300 Returned Copies 9,830 Net Total.. 1,988,080 Dally Average 41,989 O EX) ROB B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thla 1st day of July, 1909. (Seal) M. P. WALKER. i Notary Public Sabacrlbara leaTtagr tha eltr tem porarily shoal have Tha Baa mailed them. Aaaresa will ha chana-eel mm oftea a reqaeated. Omaha 1b ready for aquatics or aero nautics. The weather man refuses to observe the 8 o'clock closing law. It goes without saying that books on dry farming are not just now among the six best sellers. The Dahlmanlte8 had to postpone their picnic after all. Better let Gov ernor Johnson fix the date. The news reports do not Indicate the Fourth of July celebrations have en tirely recovered their sanity. If the good roads enthusiasts would get busy on the North Pole route how much easier it would be for the ex plorers. It Is real mean In Jerry Howard to set off a bunch of emerald green fire works on the front stoop of the execu tive mansion. The people who have been busy de vising a safe and sane Fourth may now turn their attention to devising a safe and sane swimming hole. The Texas Star says "To the devil with the Ice trust." If the scheme could be worked stock In sight could soon be sold at fancy prices. The Denver News Is clamoring for the creation of a new party. What is the matter? Is ex-Senator Patterson looking for some new experience. We object to paying the senators double price for worikng on a holiday, double price for working on a holiday, it might have beew completed before this. And now they tell us that Alaska hag on of the largest and most val uable coal deposits in the world. Guess Uncle Sain drove a good bargain vlth Russia. Misfortunes never come singly. To suffer abolition of the free lunch coun ter and to incur the 8 o'clock closing at one and the same time is piling it on pretty thick. A man named Dollar was granted a divorce in five minutes in a San Fran cisco court. Many a man and woman has been divorced from a dollar in leas time than that. As an epitaph writer our old friend, Edgar Howard, is a word artist, his only trouble being that, Macbeth-like, be imagines he sees apparitions when there are none there. An eastern paper devotes a column and a half to telling why the income tax is bound to come in the end. The most convincing reason is because Un cle Sam needs the money. Senator Stone objects to republicans enacting planks out of the democratic platform Into law. The senator should remember that is the only chance tbey have to get on the statute books. The Agricultural department says the peanut crop is not Urge enough to supply the demand, but have you heard of anyone who really needed a sack of peanuts who could not get them? A French scientist has It figured out that tha world can produce enough food to supply Ita needs for at least ten eenturles. At that rate there will not be many of us left to witness the final scramble. The Amending Clause. The proposal to submit an amend ment to the federal constitution , em powering congress to levy an Income tax without apportionment among the states according to population, aa re quired for other direct taxes, Is again raising the question as to how this amendment should be ratified. All the fifteen amendments so far adopted have been secured In the same man ner, namely, by proposal by congress and ratification by states through tholr legislatures. The amending clause of the constitution provides four ways for changing that Instru ment. It reads as follows: The conaress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem It necessary, shall propone amendments to thla constitution, or on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amend ments, which In either case shall be valid to all Intents and purposes a a part of this constitution, when ratified by the legis latures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the con gress. This plainly gives two methods of Initiating amendments and two meth ods of ratifying them, although it leaves it to congress to determine which mode of ratification shall be followed. Amendments may be pro posed by congress of its own volition by two-thirds vote of each house, or they may be proposed by a constitu tional convention called by congress on demand of the legislatures of two thirds of the states. The ratification may be brought about by indorse ments either by the legislature of three-fourths of the states or by con ventions especially chosen for that purpose in three-fourths of the states. The four methods are, therefore: L Initiation by congress and ratification by legislatures. I. Initiation by congress and ratification by conventions. 8. Initiation by convention and ratifica tion by legislatures. 4. Initiation by convention and ratifica tion by conventions. No matter which method is chosen, action by congress is prerequisite, be cause congress must either propose the amendment itself, or it must de termine when the necessary number of legislatures have acted and pass the necessary enabling acts to bring the convention into existence. Congress must also determine by which method the amendments shall be ratified, and if they are to be ratified by conven tions, the legislatures of the several states must provide the machinery for summoning the conventions. The con vention plan of ratification has the advantage of focusing public opinion on the subject of the proposed amend ment, but suffers the disadvantage of being slower, more cumbersome and more expensive. One Check to Speculation. The Canadian banks are seriously discussing the refusal to accept, as collateral stocks of non-dividend cor porations which have only a manipu lative value. There are millions of dollars' worth, in face value, of such stocks which pay no dividends and with little or no hope of every pay ing. They possess a price because manipulation causes them to fluctuate, but Buch trading Is simply speculating in air. If all banks refused to accept them as collateral they would soon seek their proper level at zero or the manipulators who fatten off their fluctuations would devise some way to squeeze out the water and make the corporations pay dividends. There are railroad and Industrial corporations by the score whose capi tal stock represents simply notes for control. If the loanable value were taken from such stocks, promoters would not find it unprofitable to deal In them. The Canadian plan aims a blow at wildcat financiering and in the end will benefit honest enterprises. Few bankers would knowingly make a loan on a gold brick because the borrower insisted that he could work it off on someone for real money, but millions of dollars are loaned every ye" on stock merely because it is quoted on the stock market. More Practical Education. The keynote of addresses at the council of education at Denver la more practical education in the public schools and is a direct response to public demands and criticisms of pres ent methods by business men. Among other things, Superintendent Cooley, long head of the Chicago schools, took a rap at the time-honored cus tom of holding up to the youth the possibility of attaining the presidency. Teaching high ideals to pupils to in duce thorn to make the best of their opportunities and talents Is proper, but encouraging ambitions for which there is so remote a possibility of real ization has been the unmaking of many a boy who lacks the courage to strive on after his idol la shattered. Incidentally, if teachers are really In earnest In a desire to make educa tion more practical the remedy is in their own hands. Educators like Super intendent Cooley have shaped present day school instruction and tbey can reform It if they really want to, and the patrons and supporters of the pub lic BchooU will be only too glad to help. All education does not aim at financial returns. Something is neces sary to poltBh and round out charac ter, but the great complaint Is that public schools require so many things that absorb the pupil's time yet are not and cannot be pursued far enough to be of any value. This wasted time la at the expense of essentials in which the business man complains the stu dents are deficient when tbey take up life work. The public school la a foundation for life work and not for a college course which so few ever take. No thinking person believes the schools today should be like the schools of yesterday or a generation ago, for the world Is progressing, but the schools should advance along tha same lines and fit the pupils to meet tbelr futura problems. Preacher See a Light. Some time ago Rev. W. W. Carlton of Mason City, la., preached a series of sermons bitterly arraigning tha lo cal authorities- for permitting crime to go unchecked. Thla is not a new thing for preachers to do and he doubtless modeled hit discourse on those which many others have preached elsewhere. The mayor de nied that conditions were as repre sented and there is nothing new about such a denial, either. The novelty came when the mayor offered to appoint Rev. Mr. Carlton chief of police and give him authority to "elcan up the town" if he found it Deeded it. Mr. Carlton was also In earnest and sincere, for he undertook the job temporarily. He has now re signed, and not because be is one who puts his hand to the plow and then turns back, either, for he preached another sermon Sunday telling his congregation that conditions had been misrepresented to him and that Ma son City was not tha sink-hole of in iquity which he had painted it. He did not pretend to say there was no crime or vice, but that all tha law could do to prevent it was being done. Mason City is only one of many that have suffered from the black washing of scandal mongers and sen sation seekers whose ignorance or misrepresentation of facts is concealed by a loud noise, but, unfortunately, there are npt many like Rev. Mr. Carl ton who are willing to put their declarations to the test and still fewer who, when they find themselves wrong, would manfully admit it. It looks better before the public to offer the excuse of "lack of co-operation" by the regularly constituted authorities. No one pretends that conditions In American cities are ideal, but it is sel dom that they warrant the wholesale denunciation which breaks out when someone thinks he wants to attract attention to himself. Missouri Hirer Navigation. The convention which meets at Tankton this week for the purpose of debating further the desirability of re storing commerce on the Missouri river has before it one splendid opportunity. It can put the Missouri river project on a sound and stable basis if it is guided by common sense and not by visionary aspirations. Probably the greatest difficulty that has been encountered by inland navi gation plans during the last quarter of a century, or since the decadence of commerce on the great rivers of the United States began to attract atten tion, bas been the vague extravagance of its champions. Projects calling for the expenditure of millions of dollars, reckoned by some at from fifty to one hundred millions a year, and ranging up to the climactic proposition of a Spo kane enthusiast, who wants to set aside at once five thousand millions to create the needed flow of water, have given to a serious subject an aspect that has made it the subject of ridi cule. If the convention at Yankton will keep in mind the indubitable fact that the Missouri river is as susceptible of navigation today as it ever was and will be content with dealing with Its practical phases, avoiding entangle ments with the selfish aspirations of any community or Individual, it may accomplish something of good. To say that the success of steamboating on the Missouri depends on the estab lishment of a ten-toot channel, or any similar project, to demand continually that the general government pour un counted millions of money into the river for tha purpose of maintaining it at flood height, or to announce that one or another of the cities along its course is entitled to special considera tion over another, is to destroy the convention's work in advance. Conservative action, sanely ex pressed, will do more to engage tha confident attention of business men than all the years of "booming" that have marked the process so far. Tha Missouri can be navigated; the only question to be determined is. Do the business men want it? A new ruling of the secretary of tha Interior is likely to put an end to an other old-time feature of western life, the newspaper printed out on the prairie for land office notices only. A good many "prosperous western news paper men can data their rise from just such publications. The police relief fund is sure to get quite a windfall from the forfeited cash bonds, which from now on are to go Into that fund. What's tha matter with collecting on a few of tha other bonds given in police court cases, but which are never enforced when condi tions are violated? Governor Haskell asked and was granted sixty days more to prepare for his trial in the Oklahoma town lot fraud cases. The governor has no fear that the vindication for which he pretended to be in such a hurry will not keep over the warm weather. And to think that it Is just a year ago that they were giving an eminent Nebraskan a third nomination for the presidency at Denver, and he was as suring all who listened to him that prospects for democratic success were never brighter. Our democratic friends seem to be striving desperately to work up some kind of a factional fight In the repub lican ranks over the senatorial succes sion, which does not come up until next year. They need not worry themselves so early, as In due time Ne braska republicans will settle on one candidate. When the totals are footed and the percentages are computed the chances are that the Increase In railroad as sessments will be found to be smaller than the corresponding Increase of as sessments on other taxable property in Nebraska. If anyone imagines that the house Is not doing anything while the senate Is talking tariff he should look at the Congressional Record. There is the largest acreage of new bills being planted that has ever been put in by the house. Dlaconraartaa; Industry. Philadelphia Record. In spite of the fact that there are so many men In this country who ought to be hanged, the senate has doubled the hemp rate. Aa Important tine. Brooklyn Eagle. By studying the principle of the hell copter, a flying machine with horizontal propellers, we learn why men with wheels in their heads are so flighty. Cause and Effect. fit. Paul Dispatch. Senators at Washington are said to be removing their collars on account of the heat They will get home to find most of the consumers are also hot under the collar. I p In the Air. Boston Transcript. The science of aviation Is taking us so far Into new terminologies that even the dictionaries will not help. The helicopter is the latest "heavler-than-alr" flying ma chine to attract public attention. An Example of Devotion. Boston Herald. More marvellous than some of the tariff expedients brought forward la the physical and mental endurance of Senator Aldrlch, who at the age of nearly 70, Is carrying the burden of responsibility and yet Is not worn out, but "only tired." Hot Words on the Wire. St. Louis Republic. The Iowa decision that It Is not unlawful to swear Into a telephone receiver may be based In part upon a previous decision that "damn" Is not a cuss word. On the other hand, the Iowa justices may aimply have taken judicial notice of the weakness of masculine nature and of the provocation that comes when "central" connects with the wrong number, and when the wire brings back only a buzzing noise In reply to articulate speech. Technicalities and Crime. Springfield Republican. The state of Tennessee will gasp from dismay on acount of the annulment by the state supreme court of the sentences of the Reelfooi lake night riders and murderers, and the ordering of a new trial. No one can now be confident that the trial court will not be reversed In the cases of Senator Carmack's slayers. The extreme difficulty in securing Juries for second trials In such cases often makes a reversal by the higher court equivalent to the release of the ac cused. No changes i are more needed In American criminal 4w-than such as will etop reversals of verfllcts on merely tech nical grounds. BRYAN ON THE WATER WAOOTT. Trying Out New Vehicle for a White Hoase Hon. Leslie's , Weekly. Bryan now announces his Intention to make war on the liquor Interests In order to keep the democratic party from being controlled by them. This sudden dianfre of attitude, novel for a northern demo crat, has not greatly surprised the Ameri can people. Reading the signs of the times, Mr. Bryan recognize the fact that the great leaders of his party, who have followed him thrice to defeat, are not eager to place their standard in his hand again. Mr. Bryan being nothing if not resourceful, his stand for virtual prohibi tion can have but one meaning. He real izes the absurdity of announcing that he will take a nomination from the demo crats party for the fourth time and lead It once more to disaster. But as he feels that he must have another try for the presidency, he Is casting about to get the nomination from the rapidly growing prohibition party. Those who may doubt that Mr. Bryan Is willing to tie up with the prohibitionists should remember that It Is not hope of. the presidency that at tracts him and keeps him active in politi cal affairs so much as the profitable pub licity which he would enjoy from posing as a candidate. It was his remarkable gift for gaining publicity which lifted Mr. Bryan from poverty and obscurity into national prominence and made him one of the wealthiest men in his state. His ca pacity for securing free advertising drives the ablest press agent to despair. By means of It, Mr. Bryan Is enabled to de rive from his speeches, his lectures, and his contributions to the press an Income of about 1100.000 per year much more than the salary of the president of the United States. PERSONAL NOTES. Senator Elklns of West Virginia boasts that he can read Greek and Latin In the original. Hamlin Oarland is at his summer home. Mepleshade, In West Salem, Wis., where, despite his announced resolution not to write any more novels only plays he Is said to be busy with a work of fiction. General Otter, of the Canadian mllttla, looses the opinion that Canada could whip the United Statea. Possibly It could now. But suppose the General were to swell up and burst, what soit of show would Canada have In a scrap? John Sweeney, who ii. Poranton. Pa., thirty-four years ago and ' supposed to be dead, turned up last wi. Ho had anent most of hla life In the Chinese navy, he said, and holds a commission from the Chinese government. Sweeney was one of the petitioners for a city charter for Scran ton. A bronze memorial of General Francis Spinner, the old time treasurer of the United Statea, whose remarkable signature will be remembered by many, has been un veiled at Herkimer. N. V., his birthplace. The statue cost $26 000. and this sum was raised by a memorial association In Wash ington. Lieutenant Shackleton, the Englishman who has recently returned from hi trip "furthest south," has already begun to col lect his empty honors, with his king and country yet to be heard from. Among his new offices Is that of postmaster general of King Edward's Land, an honor bestowed on him by the New Zealand government. The duties should not prove heavy, as the icebergs do not have large naalls. Disappearing Clover Leaf Newspapers Mall Order Journal for July. In quirk succession newspapers belong- mad, almost as Mg claims aa were once Ing to the so-called Clover-Leaf combine made for the Kansas City New. The ex are disappearing. First came the collapse tensive patronage of the papers of the of the Kansas City News, for which the combine, which have passed away, was not Butler-Kellogg-Ashhnugh outfit once had deserved. The money spent by business claimed a circulation of n.000. and for men In those papers of mushroom growth which advertising was secured on the was simply thrown away. Is that spent basis of such o circulation, which the In the Clover-Ieaf papers that are still In paper never had. It Is doubtful whether it existence well spent? Are these circulation ever had a bona fide circulation of 30,000. what they are claimed to be, or of a kln1 Then came the disappearance of the St. secured by voting and guessing contests, Joseph Star and then that of the Du- such as "who Is the most popular police luth Star. If we remember well a few man" or "the most popular bootblack"' other papers of this syndicate started which contests necessitates the buying of to fill a never-felt want, for new pa- copies by the "voters," which copies, there pers In different cities have quickly gone fore, are of no earthly value to adver out of existence. tlsers? It may be time for advertisers to The experience which the advertising look a little more carefully Into the busl publlc has had with the Clover-Leaf pa- ness of newspapers of this kind, especially pers that have passed away ought to now. when business men In a number of teach them the lesson to keep their eyes cities have found out to their sorrow that on the Clover Leaflets that still exist and back of the big circulation claims and for all of which also quite enormous and other alleged virtues of the Clover Leaf almost Incredible circulation claims are lets was only hot air or humbug. literature: and joirxalism. Foundation of Style la Fall Knowl edge of Sabject. New York Independent. This was the subject on which Lord Morley was asked to address the great press conference In London the other day, and his address will be the occasion for many editorial utterances, to which num ber we may add one. There are all sorts of Journalists and all sorts of editorial writings, the most serious and Intelligent and the most Ignorant and vapid; but Lord Morley was right In con sidering only the former aa worth the dis cussing. He told a great truth when he said that "the foundation of style" for the Journalist especially "Is a full knowl edge of matter." This is a very simple statement and yet It Is almost paradoxi cal that the foundation of style Is not style at all, but the contents of the writ ing, the thought and substance of it. Con sisting solely of "full knowledge." In full knowledge there Is no beating about, no obscurity of thought because no uncer tainty of thought. "I believed; therefore have I spoken." Lord Morley's second rule for Journalists and other writers is equally commonplace and true, that "the simple, the direct, is what every one of us ought to aim at, and every one of us can, If we take proper trouble, attain to." To say what we have to say In the shortest, plainest, most coin pact way possible is the essence of ef fectiveness, and Journalism Is a fine school to learn this literature In. We do not mean that a writer may not at times make a gay play of his writing In a hol iday sort of wildwood glpsying, but the main business of literature, and partic ularly of journalism, Is to teach and Influ ence the reader. That Is what makes It worth while; Just as the congress which does things Is of more Importance than the playhouse. If we were to supplement or Interpret Lord Morley's teachings It would be to say that the aim and task of writing Journalistic literature is to present to vhe reader well digested views and opinions on as many current and important sub jects as possible, to support them with the best arguments possible, and to do It all in the sharpest, most incisive way possible. The writer's business Is to convince and Influence, and this doe not require rhetorical flowers, but logical force. It Is Important to be so confident of one's opinion, based en ethical or social reasons, that one can speak with the pos Itlveness and emphasis of conviction. In these days it Is the weight of the bolt that tells, not the sputtering of fireworks. Just as the old florid oratory has gone so the stately and stilted formalities of literature have given place to a sty.e which knows no furbelows and obeys the rules laid down by Lord Morley and so well practised by him. TAFT'S WARMING. President Teclnred to Be Shrewder Than Senate Leaders. New Tork Tribune. "President Taft' suggestion at the Tale alumni dinner that "If the repumican party does not live up to what tne peopie expect of It It may be relegated to ner majesty's opposition,' " ougnt to ennanien those republicans In Washington who have labored to obscure and nullify what the public understood to be tne party s p.eu. downward tarm revision. ..i... . ...inni view of Party onnimu. and ha no sympathy with the eophlstlcal argument advanced In the senate that the republican national platform of 1808, as In terpreted without challenge oi any aun. i in nrA.Muntlnj candidate, left me repuuii;aii the party's representatives In congress free to re-enact practically unchanged a law declared out of date because of the enor mous changes in commercial and Indus trial condlUons whlcn naa occun . ha statute book. There can be no doubt that the voters believed it to be the intention of the repuoncan pan, .t. revision of the IMng- lo mix ley rates, with material reduction In many u-.a rinod faith and sound party iio renulre the fulfillment now of un diluted preelection promises. The president is shrewder than the party leaders In the senate In foreseeing the po litical danger involved in aisappo.....a st ponular expectations, no pa"j- ... successfully live down a record of r"n pledges. A competent handling of the trlff question in mis cons. - for Instance, oi too P" gram of revision which the house of rep resentatives and tne pres.u..i ,ald make the republican pirn ... .,in removing the only Isaue on 1 , .. . v..n it baa been ucceas- fully attacked. The senate has done noth- r to secure such a nonon yar., tage. On the contrary, deal to show that on tne publican leadership In one branch of con gress is not alert and progressive. The Mlrtenfs remark at Mew n.v... u,iht of his personal and political authority will be used to repair r . . - rr-1- jartlltltW Will (he aenate Diunoer. . . - gladly infer that he will do nis force fair dealing with the public and a satisfactory fulfillment of party duty and party promises. SALT SULPHUR WATER also the "Crystal Lithium" water from Excelsior Springs, Mo., in 6-gallon sealed Jugs. 6-gallon Jug Crystal Llthla Water. .9a 6-gallon Jug Salt-Sulphur water $2.23 Buy at either store. We sell over 100 kinds mineral water. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. Sixteenth and Doaig Sts. Owl Drug Go. Sixteenth and Harney Stt FAKIRS UX MASKED. Nonpartisan Artful Dodging Revealed In the Natural t'olora. Fremont Tribune. The World-Herald Is very much cha grined, even angered, that some malevolent republican should dispute the constitution ality of the democratic "non-partisan" Judi ciary law. That paper also deeply and bitterly deplores that the bankers of the state should not also unanimously decline to contest the validity of the bank guaranty law. The World-Herald discusses the two questions together and lay the blame for both on the nefarious republicans. The opposition to the bank-guaranty law Is a business matter Involving bankers and thoe contesting it are democrats and republi cans. The opposition is nonpartisan. The responsibility for opposition to the so-called non-partisan Judiciary law is more properly located. It Is undeniably republi canJust as certainly as the "non-partisan'' Judiciary law Is Itself In the Interest of democracy. That republicans have a right to contest the law was established, we think, In a doctrine laid down by no less a distin guished democrat than W. J. Bryan. When Mr. Gompers and his associates were sen tenced for contempt of court, Mr. Bryan wired them his condolences and followed It with an argument that the proper way to contest an odious law was to violate It and take the consequences as administered by process of criminal or civil action. It is equally proper, legal and orderly for the republicans to enjoin the enforcement of a law as It was for the labor leaders to de liberately and intentionally violate a law. The World-Herald, we believe, stood with Mr. Bryan in his view, which was In con travention of its present position. It is difficult for the democrat to make a virtue of the "non-partisan" Judiciary law. It 1 palpable and plain to people of ordinary discernment that It W'as enacted only for democratic reasons. Had the demo crats been controlling the supreme bench and other public position in Nebraska, It would not have occurred to an accidental democratic legislature to enact a "non. partisan" Judiciary law. That legislature wished merely to demoralize republican or ganization as far as possible. We do not blame K for taking every partisan advan tage It could take. To the credit of Its shrewdness let it be said that it did It-! admirably and well except that It pos Schools Collofif OB A place where manly boy are de.nto.,mVr.,leB:es and I t ;of business life. TmJtSk .MtSrSS- awfully .uperv.sed. Writ for Illustrated oatalog-o. , HARRY N. RUSSELL, Head Master, ; : Kearney, Nebraska. lUentWorth Military Academy Oldest and Largest In Middle Wast. Government Supervision. Hlehest rating byWar Department. Infantry. Artillery anS Cavalry nrflls? Courses ot study prepare lor Universities. Government KmieV o??or B-slrasMLfte. Accredited hy North Central Association of Schools and Colleges. Manual Training. Separata Department for Small Boys. For catalogue, address The Secretary. Boat A. xtnffton Mo. Western Military KANSAS CITY VETERINARY COLLEGE T "i,,. eour.t. 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That question has already been decided adversely by a dlsrVlct court. The World Herald Is rretty good at so phlstry, but It will scarcely succeed In r,"J- fusing or blinding the public. The last lix- "af a Islature was so ranrorously partisan In very act that no virtue can be made n' It alleged fairness in providing fur n non-partisan Judiciary. As additional pnm; It may be cited that the democratic bosse are Just now adroitly maneuvering so thor may be but three democratic candidate on the nonpartisan ticket. As there ar--three Justice of the supreme court to b. eleoted this would permit of democratic votes being cast nrtJy for democrats and thus, perhaps. Insuring the election of thre democratic Justices, especially If republican should divide their strength amonn four or five candidates. This Is the palpahle pur pose of the "non-partisan" democratic law. POINTED PLEASANTRIES. "Have a cigar? Vouil find It's verj KNo, thanks; 1 am not addicted to tho vlcft ' li Isn't a vice, or probably you would be." Judge. "So old Skinner had an operation per formed. What did the doctors think the matter with him?" "A big swelling on the pocket nerve. "What did they do?" "Cut It out." Baltimore American. "A man's house should be his castle," IJ tk. natrlnt "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox, "that sounds well; but a lot of the castles 1 observed while traveling abroad were dis tinguished by the big mortgages they car ried." Washington Star. She Are you going abroad to complete your education? He-1 haven't decided yet. Which wou.d you advise me to do? Hie lltg pardon? He Would you advise me to complete It bv going abroad or by getting mariieJ? Clilcagu New. , "Why do so many theaters close in the summer time?" . , "Hecause," answered the burlesque man ager, people can i u nii l" much interest In comic opera costumes during the seaside bathing display. -Washington Star. "I see you've got an automobile," said Cltiman. "I thought you swore you'd never buy one." "Ves," 1 did say that once," replied Sub bubs, "but our new cook Insisted that we must get one because her church Is so far away from our house." Catholic Stan dard and Time. COMINQ HOME FROM COLLEGE. Joe Cone in Boston Herald. Our daughter's graduated. An' we re feelln' quite elated, For she's coinln' home frum college In a week or two, she writes; She hex studied all the lingoes Uv the KsklmoB an' Mlngoea, An' In 'ologles an' classics she la way up lu the heights. She hei tuuk a prize In spetlln'. An' In readln', so they're tellln ; She kin reason out an' argue like a states man on the stump; She kin dance an' play planner In a most artistic manner, She hez got the facta an' figger uv the ages in a lump. She kin pose, an' do Pelsarte, An' get up a meal a la carte. She can do the physic culture In a way to beat the band; She kin handle all the topic From Alaska to the tropics. She kin' bow an' "slam," her ma says, In a way that's truly grand. She's an actress an' a painter. An' In fact I guess there ain't er Blessed thing In art or science she don t know frum A to Z, An' I s'pose this raft uv knowledge Is a boon fur ev'ry college, But Jest how she'll use It farmln Is the thing tliftt's gettin' me. lVIill t a ry Academy ... trnma 1 1 fm nmril Tlfll Academy UpR"n2i"on 1868 ut 15th Btr., KaaM titj, Wo EVEEY parent has ideals in regard to the kind of training his boy should receive when he goes away to school. Racine College has a remark able record in the matter. Write for our little book "The right school for your boy." We send It and our catalogue free. Racine, College Racine. Wis. Summer camp affiliated. 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