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10 I Tllft BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, JULY 24. 1000. Hip. 'v !aha Daily Ufa ror.Ni)Ki itr i:nwARn roskwater. VICTOR IKISKWATKR, EIHTuR. Knterid at Omiln postofflce as second class matter. TISJtMS OF SUHSCRlITIuN. I ia II V Jn-e (vUth.uit Siimlai-I on mr. UM Isily Uee and Sunday, on year -0j 'fKMVKKKU Ht CARHIEK. I 'ally bee (Including Sunday), p r week. .lie l'aliy nee mlihuiil Sui. day). p week..ltt.; Kvenlng pee (without Sunday), per wifk c Kvenlng llee (with Hnmlavi. oer week. 10c Ntindav Hen on, irir 12-59 haturdav live, one rear I so Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation I" parlineni. OFFICES. Omaha The Pee Hultdlng. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council muffs 15 Sett Street. Lincoln fl Little Hutldlng. Chicago IT. IN Marquette Imlldlng. New York-Knoms 1101-1102 No. 84 Went Thirty-third Street. Washlngton-725 Fourteenth Street, N. W. COKltESPON OKNCE. Communications relstlnp to news and edi torial matter ahnuld be sddressed: Omaha Pee, Kdltorlal I "epartment. REMITTANCES. Remit bv draft. express or postal ordr, payable to The Bee Publishing Compsny Only J-cent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal rhecka. escept on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCT'LATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, js. : George n. Tischiick. treasurer of The It'-e Publishing Company, being duly sworn, mvi that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Pally. Morning. Kvenlna- and Sunday Bee printed during the month of June. r. was as follows: 1 41.370 17 9 41,380 18. 3 41,980 19 41.960 41 850 41 850 40,000 41,780 4 41. ISO 5 41.890 39,800 7 41.400 4-1 640 ao. l 93 .B70 83 41,880 34 41,780 98 44,840 90 41,630 87 40,030 SO 41790 8? 41.790 30 41,670 9. ., 10... 11. . . ia. . . 41.630 41,660 41,630 48,040 13 40,300 14 43.970 15 41.940 16 41,60 Total. .1,347,300 Returned Cop lea 9,330 Net Total 1,338,080 Dally Average 4169 OBORQE B. tZSCHl'CK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me thla lat day of July, 1909. (Heal) M. P. WALKER, Notary Publlo. obsrrlbere leaving; tka eltr " pornrlly ahoald have The Bee mailed to then. Addreaa will be changed as eften aa re.eat4. Senator Aldrlch might try his hand on the Washington Ball club's percent age column. A prominent patent medicine man has been sued for divorce, which would seem to indicate that his remedy is a failure for domestic Ills. Times must be getting better In New York when Cornelius Vanderbllt pre fers to pay a$10 fine for auto scorch ing rather than spend two days in Jail. The whisky men will have to wait awhile, for President Taft Is too busy deciding "what is a tariff bill?" to set tle tho dispute over "What Is whisky?" The divorce colony at Reno has proved sufficient to put on a benefit theatrical with an all-star cast. Some advantage, evidently, in living in Reno, after all. A man of an inquiring turn of mind asks what becomes of all the corn. It is all right to ask out here, but the question might cause trouble In a moonshine district. Peru and Bolivia are actually trying to settle their differences without war. If it should be accomplished it will certainly set a new mark In South American relations. A lawyer tells the Iowa state sher iffs' convention that the statute books of the state are burdened with silly laws. Iowa is not the only state bur dened by silly and freak legislation. Not a word yet in our amiable dem ocratic contemporary about the star chamber sessions of the Water board. If a secret meeting behind closed doors Is bad for one public body, why not for mother? Before launching Into International benevolences It strikes us that there are plenty of worthy institutions here pt home to absorb all the contributions or our people blessed with benevolent f'HpoMMons. If Omaha's franchlsed corporations ore compelled to pay a 3 per cent oc tupation tax they are, at least, enti tled, along with other taxpayers, to have some relief from the city's gen eral tax rate. Senator Brown says the statement attributed to Mr. Justice Brewer with reference to the Income tax is "utterly ridiculous, absurd and senile." No ((Mibt sir. Justice Brewer feels suffi ciently squelched. J. Pierpont Morgan has returned from Europe and the news reports say that when first sighted he was smok ing a cigar. It Is comforting to know that he got back with enough money left to Indulge his fancy. Chicago announces that it has raised all the money needed to handle the grain crop. That is very kind of Chi cago, but there are numerous other cities, Omaha among them, who will take care of a portion of It. For proof that the democratic candi dates for supreme Judge are strictly nonpartisan just recall the efforts of the democratic governor last winter to force them on to the supreme bench by usurping the appointing power. SaasaVBaHBisa9BaasMBMBBBBaaBisss Two democratic newspapers testify to the high qualifications of Frank L. Haller for university regent In spit of the effort to arouse the suspicion that he was petuaded by the editor of The Bee to file for tha republican nomlna iou Thanks, awfully. A Joint Debate. In last week's issue of The Com moner Mr. Bryan combats the sugges tion, which he says comes to him occa sionally, for the formation of a new political party to accomplish reforms which th old parties do not seem will ing to take up. Tho substance of his argument Is embodied In tho following extracts: Tha Commoner stands for reform a reforms definite, specific and Important, and It believes that these reforms can be better accomplished through the demo cratic party than through any new party that could be organised under present con ditions. The reform element in the demo cratic party Is large enough to control the party, and If the reform element were not large enough to control the party It would not be large enough to contribute materially to the formation of a hew party, for many nore democrats will enlist under tha ban ner of reform within the party than would leave the party and Join a new one. The advocatea of a new party suggest that the reform element of the democratic party and the reform element of the re publican party "join together" In tha for mation of a new party. That la not prac ticable at the present time. The reformer. If he la a real reformer, wanta to see Ms reforms carried out he la ao much Inter ested In seeing them carried out that he will work In the party where he thinks he can work to the best advantage. There are a great many republican reformers, and it will be easier to get republican reformers to act with democratic reformers in the democratic party than It would to get re publican reformers to join with democratic reformers In organizing a new party. At present the only hope of reform seems to be through one of the old parties, and the Commoner believes that the democratic party baa tha largest hope and best pros pects and, therefore, It urges activity among the democrats who desire to make the party a positive force for the remedy ing of existing abuses. As against Mr. Bryan's position let us quote from another eminent Ne braska reformer who, although a blindly ardent Bryan follower, Is on record on this question at complete variance with Mr. Bryan: The question la, how to bring about these desired reforms, and how best to unite (he people who are In favor of them. My own judgment Is that we can make the greatest progress through a new' political party. We need no party that Is founded on mere wall of calamity, but the nation does .iced a party which stands for Industrial progress without poverty. The present system leads to progress and poverty; it furnishes the multimillionaire and the pauper. The aim of the new movement should be to furnish all an equal opportunity and make this a country where we have neither the pluto crat nor the pauper. In a new political party men who have been populists, dem ocrats or republicans could all unite on cotnmon ground. They could bury all past differences and Join together in favor of those reforms on which they all Agree. They would have no past political hatreds or bitterness In their way. They would not only be on an equal footing, but, what is Just as Important, they would all feel that they were on an equal footing. To those who are ambitious and desire to serve the publlo In office there Is nothing deterrent In a new party. In a new party all would .enter with an equal chance for political preferment. The new party would be un der no obligations to any man for past political services; there would be no party debts to pay; there would be no factions aa the result of past party differences. Without this new party movement we will not get the full benefit df the support of those who believe alike In reforms. Why any democrat should object to hue forming a new party I cannot understand. The democrats are practically without any national organisation or standing. They retain control of a few southern states where the negro question Is the controlling one In politics. But In the territory north of the Mason and Dixon line, which com prises the great bulk of Industrial America, there Is practically no democratic organiza tion. True, there are many democratic voters, but they are a disorganised body. Here are the conflicting opinions of two eminent reformers. Which will convert the other? N. B. The second argument Is from the pen of M. F. Harrington, likewise of Nebraska. Brewer on the Income Tax. Justice David J. Brewer of the United States supreme court, in an ad dress at Milwaukee discussing the In come tax, said: But now. after the hue and cry of the day, we must have the privilege of in come taxes by the government. Supposing that law passes, as I presume It will, and congress sees fit to levy Income taxes on all the Income received from substantial, direct personal property and real estate, what will the states do In case they need largo sums of money for their own reve nue? The power to tax, as John Mar shall said, la tha power to destroy. If once you give the power to the nation to tax all th Incomes you give them the power to tax the states, not out of their existence, but out of their vitality. Justice Brewer gave voice to the most logical objection to the Income tax that has been advanced. The con stitution classifies methods of taxation largely for the purpose of separating the sources of revenue as between the states and their subdivisions and the federal government with the Idea of giving each sufficient means of reve nue without one conflicting with the other. Mr. Brewer goes to the ex treme w hen he points out that through the income tax levy the general gov ernment might tax out the vitality of the states, but he illustrates the point to which Rouble taxation by Inde pendent taxing authorities might tend. It does not necessarily follow, how ever, that giving congress the power to levy an Income tax means that the federal government will exercise that right continuously or. If exercised, the tax will be excessive, but that the right to levy It may at some time be the saving of the nation. It Is hardly to be supposed that a congress made up in one branch of representatives of the state would ever tax them either out of existence or into a state of lm potency. The policy of the states and the general government having sep arate and distinct sources of income is undeniably sound in theory and ad visable In practice to secure the reve nue necessary for each and an equitable distribution of tax burdens. Investigation of the Adana massacre show that about 80,000 people are implicated and deserve punishment, and aa the job la too big the Turkish government Is Inclined to quit wltbyut trying. That Is a new kind of while wash proceeding, but It Is Just as effec tive as the old-time Turkish method of denying responsibility. Blessed Are the Peacemaker!. Mere men having wabbled In their efforts to preserve peace and amity between Great Britain and Germany, the women have decided to take a band. To be sure there Is no war, but there are signs In the interna tional sky that are not reassuring and the barometric pressure is low. The kaiser's corns and King Edward's rheumatism also warn them that the conditions are unsettled and that it Is not good policy to be caught out with out an umbrella. But fair woman's smiles may sooth the ruffled front of war and make the ambitious soldier as harmless as a cooing dove. The war proposition is a serious one for the European women. With American heiresses taking so many of the titled young men opportunities are few enough now, but with the flower of two countries killed off In war the chances of the debutante would be desperate indeed, besides the young officers would be seriously missed from the cotillion If they were called into active service. Women as pawns In the Interna tional game have not always been a success. Helen of Troy was a notable example, the first Napoleon's Austrian bride failed to bring him peace and the marriage of an English princess to Emperor William's father has not Increased the friendliness of those two nations, but possibly that Is because man Is perverse. At any rate, the men do not appear to be scoring much of a hit at bringing about good feeling be tween the nations and the women could do no worse, and if they can do better, or even help preserve the statu quo, they will be entitled to a share of the credit. The New Premier in France. The selection of M. Briand, a so cialist, as premier of France Is an en tirely new departure In government which will be watched with world wide interest. Personally M. Briand Is a man of high attainments as a scholar, a brilliant debater and of no little experience In government. It will be the first time in history, how ever, that a socialist has been the head of a great constitutional govern ment, though Its significance is less than it would be if the entire cabinet entertained his views. The new premier was called Into the Clemenceau cabinet as a representa tive of the socialist-republican group, whose support was necessary to sus tain the ministry, and particularly during the contest over church dises tablishment was the real leader of the cabinet In the Chamber. The an nouncement Is made that the new cab inet will follow out the program of Its predecessor and. In fact, most of Its members will be in the Briand cab inet If he succeeds In forming one. So far as the Internal affairs of France are concerned, therefore, little change need be expected. The greatest Interest attaches to the effect M. Brland's ascendancy may have on the foreign affairs of France. Relations between France and Ger many are always strained and the well known hostility of Emperor William to socialists and socialism will not tend to Improve conditions so long as Briand Is premier. The czar of Russia, the ally of France, Is no less bitterly opposed to socialism and Great Britain, with which France now has an understand ing,, is not specially friendly to M. Brland's Ideas. Much will depend upon the foreign minister In the new cabinet. The present foreign minis ter, who is not a socialist. Is expected to retain his portfolio, In wtolch event the effect of M. Brland's elevation will be minimized. The electric lighting company Is go ing to appeal from the decision of find ing against its claim to be possessed of a power franchise as Incident to its lighting franchise. With so much at stake In this suit the city's law officers should be careful not to allow them selves to be caught napping at any turn of the road. Two Judgments aggregating more than $230,000 have been entered up against the city for delinquent hydrant rentals, and that much more is already due. These are the bills which the Water board and Us high-priced law yers assured us we would never have to pay. Broker Patten Is said to have un loaded his grain and made enough profit to take another vacation. The grain-carrying business Is profitable, all right, If you only know when to let go. The trouble is most of the people don't know when to quit. Anna Howard Shaw; the suffragette leader, thinks every city should have at least 100 women police and that they would have a wholesome effect in restraining crime. That number of additional police In most any city would help, even if they should be mere men. Two Kentucky prisoners sentenced for life for murder have been given an added ten years for contempt of court. It seems there is no limit to the juris diction which courts assume these days. Mr. Bryan is against forming a new political party. He la also against dropping any of the obsolete organiza tions through which the democrats are enabled to masquerade as populists. EaM In bb4Ib Trouble. St. Louis Tlmea. It may tx that tha president h his troubles, but no canvaa back duck ever shed water more gracefully than does he annoyance. Provocation for n W hoop. Minneapolis Journal. Mr. Bryan still Insists that the democ racy la still a growing party. Mr. Bryan haa one of these Insplrationa every time the Commoner takes on a new prepaid agbscriber. Mocking llnmnn Skill. St. Louis Republic. We have learned how to telegraph with out wires and fly without gas bags, but the antidote for a common, ordinary cold still mocks the foiled searchlnga of the human race. Expert on Water Cores. rittsburg Plspatch. Let us earnestly hope that Mr. Ilarrl rnan's enthusiastic endorsement of the water cure for human Ills, at Bad Gasteln, will not extend to an enlargement of his application of that treatment to railroads that fall Into his hands. Painting the lily is generally regarded as an uncalled-for redundancy. Marked Chance of Tone. Springfield Republican. "We believe In 'the public be pleased' Policy as opposed to the 'public be damned' policy." said William O. McAdoo at New York, at the opening of the new tunnels to Jersey City. Some change of this character has certainly taken place In the attitude of public service corporations since a time not remote. Praant rolltfca. San Francisco Chronicle. The democratic uriv hn fallen to a low estate Indeed when Its representatives In congress can do no better than make an Issue of the proposed appropriation for the rirewlden'.'s traveling expenses. ReDre- Sentative Ralnev'a' assertion that the nresl- dent wishes to travel In order to "boost the Leawue of Republican clubs throughout the country" Is a fair nample of the utter ances of democratic "statesmen" these days. Mistakes of the Teople, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mr. Bryan's tlmelv tilea for the nnnular election of senators might be more timely If the Public COllM fnro-pt thai Wnnltlna the defeated, was the popular choice In Illinois, and Stephenson, the spender, was the popular choice In Wisconsin. The peo ple are Just as likely to be chumns as the legislators. Just look at Stephenson, snugly ensconced In the senate exerting ntmseir sufficiently to vote on roll calls whenever Aldrlch pulls the string; and then remember that Stephenson was the popular choice of the great state of Wis consin. Mil. HILL'S .(I.SKSE, Railroad Magnate Talks Wlthoat 3- rloos Thinking. New York World. Til tell you what would have an Im portant bearing on the prosperity of Ihe country," says James J. Hill "if all tha members of congress went home right now and stayed home for three years." Were congress to take Mr. Hill's advice the constitution would be suspended and there would be no government of the United States from July t 1910. to July . 1912. All the departments of government, including the postal service, would have to shut up; there would be no money to run them. The army and navy would have to go out of business. When one of Mr. Hill's astute lawyers went to a fod- eral court to apply for an Injunction to restrain the enforcement of a vicious plecj of state legislation, no order could be granted, because there would be no court The president could enforce no laws; the federal Judiciary could not dispense Jus tice; all government exceDt that which the states administer would be paralysed. Probably Mr. Hill did not mean what he said; but Isn't there enough foolishness talked about public affairs without his contributing to the sum total of national nonsense? WATTERSON IAN DOCTRINE. Preached It for Forty Years and Still Sticks to the Goapel. Louisville Courier-Journal. The editor of the Pnnrlpr-Tmirnftl itnw not epect to live to see any political or ganization honestly arrayed in favor of tariff for revenue only. He cannot hope to see the democratic party other than the monster without a head and the empty bottle with a label, which It now appears to be. But as certainly as slavery rent and broke up the democratic party will protectionism rend and break up the re publican party. As a patriot and a philosopher, he would prefer to see the two parties hold together, very much distrusting all processes of po litical dissolution and all so-called eras of good feeling. We live upon a sytem of intended party checks and balances: un der a government of public opinion based on party responsibility. The sturdy Amer icanism to which we still believe we are tending will Inculcate In every citlsen the principle that fidelity to party professions and obligations Is public duty; that party lines are not lines of battle, bnt simply opposite sides of the table in the council chamber of a board of directors, of which all are equal members, and that good men should not love one another leas because they differ In political opinions. During forty years the editor of the Courier-Journal has held to this doctrine, and proclaimed It, and he commends It to his countrymen whole-heartedly and with entire confldenoe. PERSONAL NOTES. Philadelphia has reformed In one respect so that It may no longer be referred to as a paradise of beggars. A New York woman caught the Louis XV heel of her slipper In a rug and fell out of a low window to the pavement, re ceiving serious Injuries' From the fact that for more than half of his transcontinental walk of nearly 4,000 miles Edward Payson Weston had to "pound the ties" because the roads were so bad It would seem that there Is lots of room for good roads movements. The company that proposes to lease Philadelphia a city waterworks Is reported to be cf ferine stock at the rate of 5 of stock for 1 In ca.sh. Evidently It desires to give a practical demonstration of its large capacity for furnishing water. The Pennsylvania capltol graft prosecu tiona are summarised aa follows: Dead, two contractors, a state treasurer and state auditor; sentenced to prison, the auditor-general and superintendent of pub lic buildings; still to be tried, two archi tects, another contractor and five members of the company that "did" the state on metal furniture. On Its seventy-si yi birthday, which oc cured recently, ex-Senator Tom Piatt re called the names of the fifty New Yoik.-ia who had fought for a third term for Central Grant with the "old guard" In the memorable Chicago convention of ISO and could find that only six are still living The ex-Senator still advises young men ij go Into politics as a career. He did not, however, put It aa ex-Preldent Roosevelt did. The latter, giving the same advice, added characteristically: "An skci esjivc fight for the right la the flnvst sport the i 'Aorld has ever known." In Other Lands Ids XUfMs oa "What is Trans, plriaf Among tha Sfear and rr Stations of the Carta. The revolt of the wealthy classes of Great Britain against the drastic taxlug clauses of the Lloyd George financial bud get, now under consideration in the House of Commons, seems likely to cause a dead lock when It readies the House of Lords. The rsdlcal nature of some of the provis ions have aroused the prlvlledged classes to an unusual degree of Indignation. This Is felt keenly in tha House of Lords, a body distinctively representative of wealth and privilege. Naturally -ie peers respond readily to the sentiment of their class and may be relied on to give It expression. Sig nificant of the feeling of the peers with respect to the budget Is tha recent Speech of Lord Landsdottne. He dealt chiefly with the prevalent belief that the House of Lords cannot alter a revenue measure. In his opinion the assumption was absurd. Aa a co-ordinate body, possessing equal powers with the Commons, It was un thinkable that lords would abdicate Its rights simply because It had seen fit on former occasions formally to approve revenue measures. Undoubtedly Lord Landsdown's public expression voices a sentiment sedulously urged upon the peers for months past and foreshadows tho ac tion of the upper house on the budget. The Commons has been Insistent, even as far back at 1CT1, for the principle of sole con trol of money bills. The lords have sub mitted to It without formally recognizing the claim. This fact was admitted by Glad stone in 1871. On the other hand, Lord Salisbury, in UM, upheld and defended the claim of the Commons. In the present case advocates of amendment by the lords contend that the ministry has tucked on to the budget legislation which the lords have rejected, such as landValuatlon and licens ing. These feature they Insist are not germane, and fully warranto amendment by the lords. Should the lords tuke the ac tion li.dl ated ly Lord L indtduw ne, a dead lock Is Inevitable, possibly preclpiUUlinr an appeal to the country. Although the Koran was drafted long before the era of rubber, sufficient resil iency has been found in the fundamental law of Islam to adjust It to the needs of modern emergencies. When Sultan Abdul Hamld was formally inducted into the Down-and-Out club, the interpreter of the Koran readily found a proviso whereby the sanctified apostle of Allah could lawfully be stripped of his halo and cast out. Abdul saw the point soon after and made room of his successor. About the same time a few thousand Christians were massacred at Adana, In accordance with tha Koran. And Allah was duly praised. The reformed Turkish government decided to Inquire into the slaughter, and a commission of Inquiry was appointed. The result of its labors constitute a unique indictment of a mur derous community and a recommendation for general amnesty. The commission found that 800 persons deserved halting as richly as the twelve already stretched, 15, 000 assistant assassins fairly earned life Imprisonment, and about 80,000 others were entitled to minor penalties. Adana Is credited with a population of 45,OuO, so the indictment swept over several Joining counties. Fir this emergency the Koran showed its elastic qualities to a nicety. Searched from cover to cover, no provision could be found authorizing wholesale pun ishment of the faithful, but the Shelkh-ul-Islam was Instructed to issue a manifesto demonstrating by the text of the Koran that It la the duty of all good Moslems to live In peace and harmony with Christians and treat thern as equals. The venerated old Sheikh is an artistic interpreter of Mos lem law, and It is confidently expected he will cheerfully exonerate the Christians who survived the fury of the Moslem mob. A writer In the Novae Vremva of St Petersburg draws attention to the develop ment or Japanese military power since the war In Manchuria. Japan was then able to place 1,000,000 men In the field. Now the empire could raise three times that num- Der. including the troons In Pn seven divisions have been added muUi,,,, total of twenty divisions. The infantry has I Deen rearmed with a rifle of great muzzle velocity, and each regiment has been pro vided with a battery of machine guns of Improved type. The field artillery has re ceived a superior class of quick-firing gun, fitted with steel shields, which was ma. in the Osaka arsenal on modified Krupp specmcauons. two brigades of heavy field artillery have been formed rrn.,A with 10.5 centimeter (4.13-Inch) guns, de signee; Dy ueneral Arlsaka from a model by Krupp. These have an effective range of nearly six miles. Just as British nerves are nniAtim, soothed by the appearance of the British fleet of 140 ships of war tn th Thm.. Arnold White contributes to the London wona a comparative studv of the nhv.i...i condition of the British and German people that Is likely to stir national wrath to Its depths, Mr. White says: "Ten million of our people Inhabit dwellings Inferior to the kennels provided for the hounds In a well-managed hunt. The results nt n..in. In dwellings unfit for human habitation ana me prevalence of a dietary scale from which English meat, .bread and miiv .... excluded are fatal to successful ri,.Di. with a virile and healthy race where agri culture Is fostered for atrntin r.. Having spent hours In watching the ar rival or tne early morning trains In Berlin and Hamburg, I am appalled with the contrast between the vigorous and well-set-up, broad-chested and h.nlihv innuin. clerks, laborers on the other side of the .vortn sea. and the chnmnirn..i,n,iM.j eow-backed. Pigeon-chested. 1b, .i,.i, trainsfuls of men of the same classes landed at Liverpool street, victoria .r. Charing Cross." The disorder among Spanish troops sum moned to Join the expedition to Morocco le due to the belief that private, not na tional interests, are Involved Scv.r.l causes unite In forcing the hand of Spain In the Moroccan rebellion. The Immedla'e occasion was the murder by tribesmen of four Spaniards who worked In a mine In the neighborhood of Melllla. A nunltlve expedition was sent out which attacked a large Rifflan force, killed flftv men and wounded about 150. This haa set the en tire country on fire. The tribesmen are gathering in thousands and the smnll Spanish forces are practically besieged In their works. Their danet, It Is reported by caMe. will be very groat unless rein forcements beach him. t Don Carlos Is dead; but Spain will not suffer from the lack of a pretender to it-, throne. Prince Jaime Is a heslthy younc- ""i "na as good looking ns his father was. The race of pretenders to crown-- ' which alt on other heads decllnea to be ' come extinct. The Irreconcilable Frenel i royallsta still regard the duke of O.-lcii" as their king, and there Is a matronly lad wife of a Bavarian prince, and a limn descendant of the elder branch of the Stuarts, who flgurea In the Legitimists' Almanach as the rightful queen of Ureal Britain and Ireland. Tine Place fop Savlncjs Is In a large, strong conservative bank When you have saved $10 take out a 37o Certifi cate of Deposit. Assets over $13,000,000.00. Hi First National Bank of Omaha United States Depository. 13th and Farnam St. Entrance to Safety Deposit Vaults Is on ISth Street NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. Hentrlce Fxpress: The enterprise of one state bank In western Nebraska In ad vertising for business on the ground that It Is fortified by the new guaranty law has aroused the state bank board to Issue notice that such a course Is premature, because the new plan has not gone Into effect. The board proposes that the law shall not be used to boost business while It is In the courts and before It has be come operative. Kloomfield Advocate: We are of the opinion that the whole primary law Is the blt'gest kind of a farce. It has now been working In tthls state two years or more and we do not know of a single 'improve ment it has made In politics. It was gotten up as a catch to secure votes and It has demoralized the organizations of the old parties without Improving the class of can didates that has beeen nominated. It ought to be repealed. Hastings Republican; Omnha has sent a large and representative delegation of busi ness men to the Missouri river navi gation congress at Yankton. The meeting is for the purpose of working up interest in establishing river traffic all the way from Yankton to Kansas City and St. Louis. If Omaha Is wise Its capitalists will get busy and establish a good boat line and make that city a great place for river traffic. It would be worth millions to the shipping and commercial Interests of Nebraska's greater metropolis. Grand Island Independent: The Colum bus Telegram, warrnest of the warm demo cratic papers of the state, published the obituary of Popular Government the other day. "Popular Government" lay stabbed to the heart in the Judicial cemetery of Lincoln as a result of the Injunction hold ing up the state guaranty law! And the next day the Columbus boys and their fathers had a very gay old time, shooting off firecrackers, and shouting out praises for freedom to beat the band. Or, per haps, the celebration at Columbus this year was a "wake" of the olden times? Seward Blade: Trenmore Cone, chief clerk of the house of representatives, must be making a good thing out of furnishing certified copies of the public record when ever anyone wants to know what the house did last whiter, for which he rakes in a good fee. He still holds the original copy of the house Jouranl instead of turning It over to the secretary of state, as Secretary Smith did with the original copy of the senate Journal. Trenmore occupies office rooms in the state capltol, where be car lies on his grafting business without pay ing rent. Why don't the board of public land and buildings make him pay his rent or oust him? Albion News: It Is legitimate and proper to discuss or even criticise our system of court procedure, but it Is simply an ex hibition of demagoglsm to lambast any man or party who applies to tha courts in manner provided by law for decisions relative to the constitutionality of any law. Whether federal courts should interfere with state laws Is a question by Itself, and no man or party is a proper subject of criticism who proceeds in accordance with established law, to secure rights or ad vantages vouchsafed htm by said law. To submit to the edicts of our established courts Is our only safeguard against an archy. This Is not saying many of the procedures of our courts do not need changing. Hit the right head when you start out cranium cracking. Grand Island Independent: The demo crats seem to be living In the hope that the republicans of the state will endorse the disfranchising principle of county op tion. One hears little of the alert demo crats proposing such endorsement. The reason is plain. A mere standing on the record of having passed the 8 o'clock law permits the party to take no very definite position on the liquor question, while the republicans will have alienated every lib eral vote and will not have gained a sin gle radical prohibitionist. And there ars evidences that many of the republicans are anxious to fall into the scheme instead Our Mid-Summer Sale 20 discount on all men's, boys' and children's light weight clothing means a real saving for"you of from $3.00 to $8.00 on the suit you buy now. Buy today, you will need an extra suit later. Specials in our Coys' Department Boys' soft collar blouse waists, short and long sleeves, $1.00 value, now G5c. Boys' Star and K. & E. Blouses, in plain white and colored, some pleated effects, $1.00 value, now Too. If you need wa-sh suits for that boy of yours buy now 257c discount means a big saving to you. Think of buying good reliable wash suits every one guaranteed to wash at wholesale prices. 'Browning.'King 6 Cq CLOTHINQ, rir i bKn i n W V K. S. WILCOjL, Man&ge The Bank with a special depart meut for tho ex clusive use of w o in e u depositors. of giving the people of tthe state a square deal on the question and letting them rule for themselves by submitting a constitu tional amendment either at a regular or at a special election, If the latter Is legal. Such a proposition should at all events not endorse the principle of enfranchising one particular coterie of people and disfran chising those of an opposite view. LAUGHING GAS. Red nave you ever timed your automo bile? Greene Oh. yes. It stood perfectly still for forty-eight minutes on the road today. --Yonkers Statesman. Mlrandv So Josh Banks was. around today lookin' for a Job? Hiram Yes. but I wouldn't take him on. He's such a derned freckle-minded ciss no one kin depend on him. Chicago News. "Some o' d men dat I hears Indignatln' bout Wall street." said Uncle Kbrn. "has had personal experiences dat Intltles dent to speak wlf feelln'. Day 'minds me of de boy dat went after honey In a hornet's nest an' got stung." Washington Star. She Mv dear, don't you want me to fix your desk and light your lamp so you can work on your essay about the entire feasi bility of tho extermination of the domestio Insect posts? He I would do It If there was only some way of getting rid of those pesky mosquitoes. Ealtlmoie American. "How'd. you like to be a senator?" In quired the first wanderer. "I'd like it ftrst-rKte." responded the second wayfarer. "Still, a hobo's life has its pood points. He ain't got no con stituents to kick about his Inactivity." Washington Herald. "So you enjoyed the circus?" "Yes." answered Mr. Cross'.ots, "I was particularly Interested In the Juugler. I'd bet that man could get any number of bun dles from a street car to the train without dropping one of them." Washington Star. Mr. Stoplate had showed Miss Terslep all his Imitations of famous actors, and she had made a bluff at applauding. Then he asked, "Do you think I ought to go on the stage?" "Oh, you don't have to go on a stage. If you're thinking of going," she answered. "We are Inside the city limits, and an owl car goes every half hour." Shortly after that, he went. Cleveland Leader. "Pa!" "Johnny, leave me alone and don't ask me another question!" "Aw, Just one more an' then I'll keep still." "Well, what It Is?" "What relation is a cousin prman to a Dutch uncle?" Cleveland Leader. MAN IN THE SHACK. W. D. Nesblt In Chicago Tost. He Is swarthy and brown from the glow of the sun And the- world does not dream of the work he has done. For the world haa Its heroes of pomp and parade Who are honored beca-ise of the waste they have made, But this man drives the desert and wilder ness back By his brain and his brawn, does the man in the shack. Where the prairie stretched bare in the summer's hot glow. Or was weary and dread in the shroud of the snow, He has bullded his shack; he has pitted his toll 'Gainst the silence and space that would make him their spoil, And our civilisation Is wearing a track To the line that la set by the man in the shack. He is rough, he Is crude but the world where he lives Is but rough and but crude in the life that It gives. With the wind sweeping down with a fury that Jars , . And the night with Its lonely array of the stars Yet he dos not make moan over what he may lack, ' But looks out on his conquest the man In the shack. Aye, the builder, tha doer, the winner of He is shaping a realm with the toll of his And no'hero of old had a sturdier heart Or more nobly performed what he saw as his parti And the future he bears on his sinewy Here'a iail and a health to the dm U the shackl FURNISHINGS AND HATS, and uuuulao a i nit i ay OMAHA.