THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1000.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, .:
George B. Tfeauhurk, treaaurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, aay that th actual number of
full and complete copies of1 The Dally.
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during th month Of August. 1Q, wa
a foUownij .
1,... '.SS.SOO 17 4.1,780
t 1,00 IS 43,630
t 41,470 1 4190
4. ...... ...41,830 20 41,010
$.... .....41,770 . II. t 41,630
.k, 41,840 .22 40jD00
".W.... .41,700 v 21 40,850
1.4......... "3,000 .24 ...41.T70
I. .........4i,e3o ' 25.... 4a,eao
10 '.'.4l,tM ' ' 21... 41.700
11 41,040 17 41,730
12. ...... ...41,870 21 43,170
II. .(...... 40.030 1 , 21 ,....40,000
14. ...... ...41,430 20....' 41,010
15. ...... ...40,000 II 42.190
1. ...-.,.,.41.680
Total '..fcv 1,28,410
Returned cople. 10,301
Net total l,B79,OTt
Dally average 41.8SS
GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer.
Subscrlbod In my preeance and sworn
to before to this 1st day of September,
10. M. P. WALKER.
Notary Public.
Sabacrlbrra leavlasr tk eltv tem
porarily aatoald kava Tk Be
nailed the. Address will be)
ekaagei a oftea aa reqaested.
Tenderloin steaks are going up, but
Irish stews stand hitched.
Have you registered T If not, your
next chance to register will be Tues
day, October 6. Mark it down.
The public schools close down and
start up without making much fuss or
noise about it. The output, however,
speaks for itself.
Reduce the steaming time a few
more days and New York will realize
its ambition to do a day's shopping in
Paris over night.
McKees Rocks and its strike hare
been rubbed off the slate.'.. Gradually
the late nienjjil strain of. the public Is
being loosened. ' ,. .
We suggest a debate between Mayor
Dahlman aad Governor Shallenberger
on the subjoot. "Is a platform promise
of home rale binding.'
It's nothing but respectable acute
Indigestion but it does not take a
groat doctor tq tell Mr. Harrtman that
an attack often kills people.
A moving picture trust has no
trouble in hiring a competent moral
censor, while public opinion cannot
choke down objectionable books.
The city council keeps planning new
street lamps spring, summer, fall and
winter. Money in the lighting fund
makes the street lamp crop grow.
. Travel to the pole may be slow, but
we confidently assert that to the ex
plorers it is nothing compared with
the slowness Of travel getting home.
International medical delegates at
Budapest report that appendicitis is
net spreading.- It was thought that
people would get tired of it before this.
Our city health commissioner wants
to deliver a lecture on milk to milk
men. That's; taking a mean, advan
tage of. peopl who idont dare stay
away.
The World-Herald is evidently egg
ing Mr. Whedon on to talk tariff to
get him away from that unanswerable
speech of his exposing the mistakes of
Bryan.
l
"Don't vote for the democratic su
preme Judge nominees because they
are democrats," admonishes the dem
ocratic state platform. What's the
answer!
i Calculations prove that the western
baa ball tonms are better than, the
eastern. The eastern shackles slip in
the basq ball business or the umpires
are subsidised.
The country must be. safe or the
bankers would not feel so free to leave
home In such numbers long enough to
attend their state convention In ses
sion In Omaha.
Idaho's Irrigated apple orchards are
In the front row of fame, bat Nova
Scotia and Oregon are still competing
in New York ' and Boston markets,
where apples are apples.' .
Ownership of tjha North pole is of
fered at a low price. It is an f maglnary
point. The land all around It belongs
to Canada and Russia. Oar govern
ment does not see the up-keep.
Tom Johnson has another mayoralty
campaign. If the republican poli
ticians in Cleveland cannot get to
gether, they will deserve to struggle
on the ouUide for another term.
Where Nebraska Republicans Stand.
. It Is doubtless good democratic poli
tics for the democratic organs to do all
they can to stir up dissension among
republicans and to give aid and com
fort to any republicans who manifest
a disposition to help foment factional
discord. Why a republican should vol
unteer to play in with the democratic
game Is not wery clear, because the
democrats, while willing to use dis
affected republicans to procure demo
cratic ascendancy in Nebraska, are sure
to turn on their allies whenever there
Is a straight party lineup Just as Mr.
Bryan has already turned on the In
surgent senators and 'congressmen,
whom he coddled before adjournment
The position of Nebraska republic
ans is not to be distorted by democratic
cries of "Cannonlsm and Aldrichlsm."
Republicans of Nebraska as a 'body
stand with President Taft In the' mat
ter of tariff revision and regard the
tariff bill as finally passed as embody
ing most of the president's demands.
When the republican state platform
was promulgated less than two months
ago this is the message that was sent
to the president and to Nebraska's
representatives in. congress:
W approve, commend and unqualifiedly
endorse the stand taken by President Taft
In the matter of tariff revision. We are
counting otylitm to see to It that the party's
platform promise of revision Is redeemed
by the enactment of a tariff bill accept
able to the people, and w would approve
the exercise of his veto on any bill that
did not conform to hi construction of the
platform pledge which he has said mean
"revision downward within the limitations
of th protective prlnctpl." ' We look to
our senators and representatives in con
gress to sustain the president In this posi
tion, and we commend .them for their ef-
forts In support of the party's pledges and
the president's policies.
This declaration was presented as
the unanimous report of the resolu
tions committee a committee which,
by the, way, was appointed by the
chairman of the convention as his free
choice among the whole list of dele
gates. The resolutions, moreover,
were adopted by the convention with
out a dissenting vote, and there were
sitting in that convention representa
tive delegates from all parts of the
state and from all elements-" of the
pTrty. This platform declaration
doubtless had much to do with bring
ing Nebraska's republican representa
tives to support the bill after it had
been modified to the satisfaction of
the president. On this declaration
every one who wants to call himself a
republican ought to be able to stand.
Confused Democrats.
With all the advantage of location
the Washington Post should be a qual
ified judge and, when it says that if
the democratic party had 100 major
ity, as at present constituted and led,
no tariff bill could be enacted, there
will be few contemporaries to chal
lenge the statement.
If the democrats should by chance
carry to .congress after the vote Of
1910 the house majority they have
been talking- about, what use would
they make of it? Not only the tariff,
but the railroads, the army and navy,
the currency and. banking laws and the
anti-trust inhibitions have all been put
before the country for settlement with
the democratic party hopelessly divided
on all,
The Post exhibits its impartiality by
saying that the republicans could not
have made a tariff law in the extra
session if they had not at every critical
point had opportune assistance from
the democratic side. If no democratic
member of the senate had been in his
seat during the session either we
should- have htfd no law or a very
much better one, from the democratic
viewpoint, than we did get.
From this source the undeniably
fair mention of democratic weakness
points to, a serious public danger.
Nothing now pending menaces the na
tional safety, but the contempt of dem
ocrats ' for their own party does not
promise efficiency if an accident of pol
itics should change the party prepon
derance in a moment of danger. Prob
ably half, at least, of the democrats of
the country honestly believe that a
complete victory of their party would
be a calamity to the country. ' Such a
condition of feeling is not healthy.
The impotence of democrats Is a truth
as described in the Post, but it is not
a truth at which patriotic republicans
rejoice. The government should be in
safe hands whatever the turn of poli
tics. Congressional Apportionment.
Congressman Crumpacker, chairman
of the census committee, will have
much to do with the question of ap
portionment under the new census, a
Question which is now agitating all the
members. It Is premature to consider
the reduction of southern representa
tion on the ground that it is uncon
stitutional in limiting the suffrage,
though that serious question has not
by any means been laid aside, The
problems that must be faced as soon
as the count Is made begin with the
number of congressmen to be fixed
upon. The number In the last appor
tionment was 386, enlarged by five
after Oklahoma was admitted. The
ratio of population to each member is
194.182. The house space is crowded
now, but the plan to replace the desks
with benches may remove that trouble.
It Is expected that the census will
show a very large relative Increase of
population In the west and a loss of
congressmen In the east. This possi
bility, which has always played a part
In apportionment, will this time lead
to close figuring and possibly some
acrimony.
It may be that the present leader
ship of the house will be disturbed if
the Increase In the west la aa large as
some estimates would make It. The
census may show an Increase so dis
tributed that the apportionment could
give New England a stationary repre
sentation and not Increase the western
strength so as to produce uneasiness.
In the Fifty-sixth congress the first ar
rangement was for 367 members of the
house, but that did not meet the
wishes, or needs, of a majority and
was changed to 386. The same thing
may happen again, so that It Is now
impossible to foretell the number in
any state. It Is generally the object
to let each state retain what It has.
But Maine, New Hampshire and Ver
mont each lost a member in the tenth
census. New England will almost cer
tainly lose again this tjme. It is con
sidered impossible to give the west the
increase belonging to it and preserve
the present status of New England.
Since the conservative strength Is moro
pronounced in the northeast and the
progressive forces preponderate in the
west, the control of the republican
party may be materially affected by
the apportionment made in the Sixty
second congress. Naturally every
well-informed estimate, of census sta
tistics la anxiously watched by mem
bers of congress and by all political
leaders. A great deal of hletory Is
concealed in the figures.
Saving Infant life.
Late as It is for preachments on the
summer care of babies, it Is never
wrong to call attention to the loss the
community and nation suffers In the
preventable death rate of Infants. The
superintendent of the United Charities
of Chicago has forcibly told of the loss.
If you wish to know whether your city
is right, he says, get your health com
missioner to put a dot on the map for
every child under 2 years who dies In
August. The babies got sick In May
or June, fretted, cried, wilted and died.
Other infants who did not die managed
to live with constitutions blasted.
Later they will be found among the
under-nourished and backward school
children and, finally, on the books of
charity organizations as dependents
supported by society. "You cannot
make an efficient citizen out of a
blighted baby."
Realizing the Imperfect character of
the efforts to care for children, the
United Charities organized a service
on a broader basis. The city was dis
tricted for the purpose of covering It
with a house-to-house visitation sys
tem. Settlements, hospitals, churches,
representatives of philanthropic agen
cies and individuals were Invited to
co-operate. The milk commission
supplied milk, pasteurized and modi
fied to suit the age and condition of
the child. The city appropriated $10,-
000.
The health department of . the city
reports that there were In the week
ending September 4 633 fewer deaths
of children under 1 year old than in
the same week last year. It Is not
stated that the improvement Is due to
the increased precautions, but that.
pending more exhaustive examination
of resultB, is evidently" the opinion of
the Board of Health and the charity
organization.
One of the most praiseworthy and
useful parts of the service is that of
the medical men who give their efforts
In a spirit of earnest co-operation, at
the same time taking great care not to
encroach on the legitimate field of the
private practitioner.
It is a valuable work, even consid
ered coldly as a conservation of the
community's potential energy. All the
year around the care of the babies
should be ' a primary consideration.
The hasty condemnation of Governor
Glenn seems undignified and Ignorant
compared with the civilized and gener
ous efforts of Chicago to repel the at
tacks of disease and death upon infant
life.
Coal robberies in Wyoming and
Alaska will be left to the man sitting
on the Hd. Mr. Taft Is away from
home and the rest of us are all "tore
up" - about the science of indigestion
at Arden and that of sextants In the
frozen north. Anyhow, coal in the
places mentioned is small In quantity
and Inferior in quality, J. J. Hill is
rushing up to Alberta for real coal. It
is well enough to wait.
Where does the east begin? There
Is a tendency to. agree that nothing
west of Chieago should be called east
and nothing east of Chicago called
west. The feeling locates the line.
The convenience to Chicago is that the
stock yards are west and the art gal
leries east, for purposes of social con
versation.
West Virginia stridently demands
that Captain Rumsey be substituted
for Robert Fulton In the steamboat
pioneer legend. Nobody ever supposed
that Fulton made, the first steamboat,
but, seeing that West Virginia never
had a great man, we are for Rumsey
just to give Elkinsvtlle a show.
Governor Brown of Georgia is win
ning fame In the south because he lets
embezxiers serve out sentences even If
their wives belong to good families.
"Little Joe" is a hero In the southland,
for'only the initiated know what It is
to debate with women of first families.
As the veteran party engineers
count up the census guesses, the
framework of the gerrymander looms
up among the shaky fences. The great
national art of crowding all the demo
crat! of a state on one strip of land is
occupying some attention.
Tammany is more nervous over the
municipal' election than usual and is
due for a beating. If Tammany were
not sure to swim out In four years we
would consent to call It a reform year.
'Senator Knute Nelson. In a white
heat of eloquence at the Minnesota
State fair, aald that the state was still
in Its infancy. So It Is, and when all
the lakes are filled up Minnesota will
be able to support a nifty little population.
The Bee suggests another joint de
bate on the subject, "Postal Savings
versus Deposit Guaranty," with Con
gressman G. M. Hitchcock advocating
postal savings banks and Editor O. M.
Hitchcock upholding deposit guaranty.
The Cincinnati Enquirer asks, as
one of the great International ques
tions, Why do mosquitoes bite when
they do not . need it and live longer
without it? Men had thought of It
before, but there is no answer.
Why should anyone, not a human
fiend, want to murder a harmless little
boy 11 years old, black or white? If
the perpetrator of our latest Juvenile
murder Is convicted he will be entitled
to the limit of the law. I
Assurances are given that the Chau
tauqua at 'Bellevue took In more
money this year than ever before. If
that is the case the Bellevue Chautau
qua may be put down as one of our
permanent fixtures.
Up-to-date adjusters do not see why
Cook, Peary and Shackleton cannot
form a combine and work the Arctic
and Antarctlo business under a pool
instead of cutting trade up to nothing.
Seeking? a Classification. ,
Washington Herald.
"J. J. Hill Is ,no chicken," says The
Omaha Bee. There are those In railroad
circle, however, who maintain he is a
"bird," all right i
Not Looking; That Way
8t Paul Pioneer Press.
Some of the elder statesmen are advo
cating the establishment of a central bank.
The postal savings bank would be a cen
tral bank, so far as millions of wage earn
ers are Concerned.
Rare Honor for Actor.
Boston' Herald.
Clyde Fitch was the first college-bred
American actor ' to receive a degree from
an American college, and it was staid old
Amherst, that has been more prolific In
clergymen and missionaries than In actors.
Wlvrleaa and Otherwise.
Springfield Republican.
The strongest defender of automobile
racing who has yet appeared In print Is a
man prominently related to the psychical
research movement, which, among other
things, seeks evidence of the existence and
communication with the departed. It Is
certainly to be said that these races are
Very, effective In broadening the field of
spiritualistic effort.
A Legislative Freak.
Charleston News and Courier.
" Some new freak has arisen in the Mis
sissippi legislature and suggested that ' a
law be passed forbidding negroes enter
ing any of the professions. White suprem
acy means the -superiority of the white
intellect, and that is not a subject for
legislative action.-,. Ifhegroe can pas the
state examinations they are entitled to
practice their profession. iAny legislation
to prevent their doing so Is as absurd aa it
la unconstitutional ! . .., .
THE UTt 1M. AMERICA.
Historic WeniZwirs Freshened by tha
- Hudson Celebratten.
Collier". Weekly.
The Hudson centennial will freshen our
memories of a race that has always re
mained sound that once ws great, Spain
and France lost'- world empire through
faults of theirs. Holland, like Portugal.
fell because It was too small. At Its height
It showed a talent for exploration and set
tlement matched but two or three times In
history. It taugh the world much of what
It knows about trade, banking, art, schol
arship, toleration and civil government. To
the United States It gave Its beet In many
lines. Nearly all of the military leaders
of the colonies were trained In Holland.
Also It Instructed on Its own soil men who
have counted otherwise for much In our
history, as Sis Walter Raleigh, . Captain
John Smith, Miles Standlsh, Governor Dud
ley, and Innumerable others. William Penn
was In close touch with the native country
of his mother, who wa born In Rotter
dam, and he put-many Dutch idea Into
the constitution- of Pennsylvania. Our flag
took Its form and colors from the Dutah,
which Is no wonder, sine the best model
for our revolution was that other revolt
headed by the man who reminded Philip
of Spain what Demosthenes had said, ?th.
strongest bulwark of a free people Is dis
trust," a sentence which describes the very
heart of colonial "Ideas of government and
freedom. "The original of the two repub
lics," wrote John Adams, "are so much
alike that the history of the one seems but
a transcript of that of the other." Partfy
by treachery, Holland wa driven from
America, but Its history in relation to u
was glorious In Itself and strengthening
and enlightening to our character.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Walter Wellmaa may yet find himself
famous as th Arctic explorer who did not
discover the North pole.
Former Governor William S. Taylor, now
a resident of Indianapolis, who wa par
doned three months ago by Governor Will-
son of all charges against htm growing
out of the.Qoebel murder, has been visit
ing hi old horn in Kentucky.
After working for three year during
their spare moments, William Russell of
Altoona, Pa., a retired cabinet-maker, and
hi son, Bushman Russell, a musician and
dancing master, have finished a full
stringed, chromatic harp, of roagnifloent
ton.
William Walther. who recently7 died In
Mllwaake. at the age of 78. was born of
titled family to Hanover, Germany, and
when hi father wa compelled to flee the
country on account of political activities
the an took passage aa a seaman on a
merchant's, vessel bound for New Orleans,
where he taught school for a time. He be
came a typical American.
William Watson, as many think the
greatest English poet at the ag of 40 odd
years, has fallen In love with and married
pretty Irish maiden of lea than JO. Aa
liule of els verse up to date has been
romantic or of th conventional kvr
eravlng type, ' hi new experience, new
vista, new status, may not only mak him
happier, but literature richer.
Mlaa Stella Josephine Feller of Harris
county, Texas, ha recently received a
large fe for -th use of what 1 accepted
as a remarkable power by which she lo
cates oil and minerals. The 1150,000 was
paid by tea landowner upon whose prop
arty two productive well wr (truck after
Mlaa Feller had located oil not far from th
Hum We field. . Mia Felles, It 1 said, has
accumulated a fund of over fuOO.000 and la
greeting so orphan asylum. In Beaumont
with the money ah received from locating
oil aad sulphur lands.
Around New York
Klpple en th Current of Zdfe
a Been la th Oree Asaerteaa
Metro poll from Pay to Day.
Definite plana have been adopted for a
co-operative kitchen In a block of typical
New York Tats. The block houses ninety-
five families, averaging five persons each
or nearly 460 persons for whom food will
be provided. A strip i to be taken from
th yard of perhaps ten houses and there
on Is to be erected a three-story co-oper
ative building. This structure is to be three
stories high, with a laundry in the base
ment, store rooms and receiving court on
the first floor, and a kitchen on the sec
ond. Between this building and the con
tributory dwelling covered way extend.
o that the housewife ran communicate
with the kitchen or laundry with ease.
Here all the cooking and all the laundry
work of the block can be done.
The scheme enable each housekeeper to
determine precisely tb sort of dishes she
waqts. Those who prefer to do their own
shopping can have their provisions sent
home and delivered to the kitchen merely
to be cooked. In some cases the house
keepers of a block might agree oa a
series of meals on the table d'hote plan,
Anyhow, there can always b a series of
dishes or classes of meals from which
People In the block can order at pleasure.
It Is estimated from statistics as to the
actual cost of meals in New Tork hotels
that with the new scheme th cost to
oaoh Individual will be lea than a dollar
a day. Charle R. Lamp, a New Tork
artist t responsible for the Scheme. He
finds It an obvloua proposition that a cook,
occupied steadily for eight hours a day,
can do far more work than h doe In
a private family where there are other
duties.
Adelaide Trapp, an 18-year-old Brooklyn
school teacher accomplished the feat of
swimming through Hell Oat last Sat
urday. Many men have successfully ne
gotiated the dangerous eddies and troub
lous waters of this part of the East river,
but no woman has ever before suoceeded
In completing the task, although many
have made the attempt
' With a twenty-knot wind blowing and
th water unusually rough. Miss Trapp,
with Prlscllla Hlgglns, also of Brooklyn,
startedwith forty members of the United
States Life Saving corps from the corps
station, foot of Bast Klghty-nlnth street
through Hell Gate to Classon's Point a
distance of about eight miles. Mis Trapp
covered the dlstanoe in two hours-' and a
half, but Miss Hlgglns was seised with
cramp after swimming five and one-half
miles, and was compelled to withdraw
from the race.
At no time during the long swim did
Miss Trapp show signs of distress. She
breasted the currents and stuck gamely
to her self-imposed task, while one by
one the men were forced to give up the
effort. Fifteen of the original forty
starter were lifted out of th river,
worn put and exhausted, but this fact
did not cause Miss Trapp to weaken.
With a determination born of a firm re
solve to swim the entire distance, the
plucky Brooklyn school - teacher set at
defiance a hard squall which blew up
when 'the swimmers were off Rikers'
Island. She reached Classon's Point just
as the last man was drawn out 'Of the
Water. Mis Trapp underwent the or
deal In splendid style. She did not seem
even exhausted when the end of the
Journey was reached.
The test wa an unusually severe one
and several of the contestants were res
cued in a state of collapse. The swim
mers were each accompanied in -a boat
In ' which . there were two - attendant
ready for emergencies. . tl : ,, , ...
Evidence of the near approach of the
Hudson-Fulton celebration I given In the
beginning of work on the street decora
tion, among the most Imposing of which
will be thirty-six pillars In Fifth avenue,
between Fortieth and Forty-second streets,
the erection of which 1 now under way.
Of white stucco work, and surmounted
with Corinthian cap and huge gilded
balls, th pillars will tower fifty-five feet
above the sidewalk. There will be eight
een on eaoh side of the street and wires
will be strung between them, from which
many electric lights will be 'suspended.
The pillars will be thirty-two feet apart.
The pillars will be works of . beauty.
On pedestals seven feet square at the base,
and resting partly on the street and partly
on the sidewalk, will stand, cylindrical col
umns thirty-six feet high and five feet In
diameter. The pedestals - will be mdre
than eight feet high. At the top of the
columns will be cap In the Corinthian
style of architecture, richly ornamented
with foliage, and bearing on eaoh of the
four sides the letter "H. F." a foot high.
Surmounting the cap will be a gilded
ball, which, with it base, will add nearly
seven feet to th height of the pillars.
The National Association for the Preven
tion of Mendicancy and Charitable Impos
ture, just Incorporated by a number of
wealthy men, proposes to do away with
the professional tramp and beggar. James
Forbes, one of the organisers and who has
been prominent In charitable work, said:
"The purpose of the new association Is to
repress knavish Imposture and to aid and
strengthen the physically crippled and
physically sick who may be in a way to
become mendicants and impostors. 'We
purpose to work as a sort of socialised
police and hop to cover the entire coun
try." Impostors, Mr. Forbes explained,
will be singled out In a systematic way.
Photograph and record of them will be
made, so. that in time the association will
be able to unit with the police in Jailing
the fellow. 1
A physician, graduate of th Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, a man of pro
fessional reputation, recently went to New
Tork and obtained work as an electri
cian's assistant at tS a week. All day he
went about the streets with his pliers,
clad In overall and Jumpers, making re
pairs on electric light wires. On the
streets. In the cars, and while doing his
Work, he found that his overalls were the
"open sesame" to more of kindliness and
consideration than h had met In all th
year of his practice of a dignified and
learned profession. So much more enviable
did h find the attitude of the world a a
laborer that he declared himself tempted
to give up his profession and don the
overalls for all time.
Whan Domlnlco Enposlto wa questioned
In the United Statea district court to test
his qualifications for cltlsensblp he showed
a lack of careful coaching, relates the
New Tork Sun.
"What 1 .th .constitution of th United
States?" Esposlto was asked.
"The biggest ship," was the reply.
"What 1 th meaning of the Fourth of
JulyT"
"That 1 day East Itlv frose over."
"Who was George Washington T"
"Oeorge da Wash was big Tammany
man. Had much contract."
"la Governor Hughes a state or a na
tional officer?"
"Tea I dunno. Ife stop mucha horse
rac. I guesa h want Tedy' Job."
"Do you believe la anarchy?"
"I dunno. Ms from Sicily. Never beard
of him."
"Are you willing to take up arma at any
time to destroy the United Stutesr
"Any time what I can.'
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FAKE NONTAETBANSHIP.
Kearney Hub: According to the World -
Herald a Judge who decides a point in
favor of a democratla contention Is a non
partisan, and that a Judge who decides
adversely to democratlo political Interests
ar otherwise Just vice partisans, of
aourse. This Is where th "horse laugh"
comes In.
Trenton Repullcan-Leader: The principal
Issue of the campaign In Nebraska, ac
cording to the democratlo platform, Is the
nonpartisan law which was knocked out
by the courts. It always brings a smile
to hear a democrat talk of being non
partisan. Nearly every act of th last
legislature wa an effort to give a salary
to a democrat
Beatrice Express: Th World-Herald
thinks th way to defend th spirit of th
lata nonpartisan Judiciary law 1 to elect
the democratlo nominee for superme
Judge. Th presumption that It Is par
tisan to vot for a republican and non
partisan to vot for a democrat seem so
reasonable to the World-Herald that it ex
pects people to carry out the Idea with
enthusiasm.
Trite Vldatte-Herald: There was a vast
amount of freak legislation passed last
winter. Th moe unique thing done by
that Intensely partisan hand of misreDra.
sentatlves was to pass what they termed a
"nonpartisan" Judiciary bill. The people
can congratulate themselves that th su
preme court standing between them and
a blgtoed legislature, shields them from all
the baneful effects of unconstitutional
laws.
Rushvllle Recorder: It' enough to make
a cat laugh outright when it came to
study the nonparttsanshlp of the demo
crats. All the efforts of the democratlo
legislature were directed upon two points,
one giving th governor the appointive
power for everything under the sun, both
what was already on the statute books
and what the democrat have since added,
and If anything else pointed to the non
partisanship idea It wa beautifully Illus
trated by the high 'minded way they
strained every effort to give the demo
crat a salary over the will of the voters.
All this was don to the tune of "Let th
people rule," with democratic variations.
St Paul Republican: , It Is nothing. If
not Amusing, at th antios o the .democra
tic party of th state. In regard to their
appeal for . a nonpartisan supreme court
They claim In- their tat platform that
they are In favor of no partisan nomina
tions for Judge of th supreme court but
want the men selected on merl. But they
want th first qualification of merit to be
this, "He must be a democrat" Th
proof of this He In the fact that the
democrats are now befor th people of the
state with a full ticket of Judge of th
supreme court labeled democrats, and the
papers of the democratlo faith are plead
ing for vote for their nominee on th
theory Of non-partlsanshlp. They ac
knowledge that the republican ticket is
oomposed of clean and able men, but they
are not non-partisan, I. ., they ar not
democrats, and hence wholly unqualified
to be elected to a place on the supreme
bench. Such blooming tommy-rot Is fully
worthy of a lot of disciples of Bryan, and
shows the kind of political schooling he
would give in that celebrated school of
politics be would establish at the state
oapltol at th expens of th state. In an
other year's course they might even learn
to probate will and beg the widow's mite
to make a campaign.
. j Government Land Deal.
. 8t Louis Republic
To th ordinary mind there is no more
reason why the government in these days
should value It real estate at one-fifth
of its worth and dispose of It by lottery
than It should follow the same course with
any other property it may own. And yet
the highest appraised value of the public
land to be disposed of In South Dakota
pext month Is H an acre, while similar
lands In th neighborhood are held In
private ownership at $26 and $30 an acre.
In nlna case out of ten the lottery gambler
1 the only beneficiary of th government'
prodigality.
A Final Clean-up of Shirts
Thursday morning at 8:$0 wc will start
our clean up sale of men's shirts to make
room for our new fall goods.
These shirts sold for $1.50, $2:00, $2.50,
$3.00 and $3.50 and arc the broken lines
from the season's best selling styles.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday you can
take your choice for -
95c
These shirts all bear the Browning, King
& Co. label a guarantee tbat they are
right.
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been particularly notice
LINES TO A LAUGH.
"It Is no longer eustomarv for a man to
kneel when proposing," said the entimcn
tal girl, regretfully.
"Quite true," answered Miss Cayenne.
"That Idea went out of fashion when men's
attire lengthened fr.om knickerbockers Into
a garment which required care to keep It
from bagging at th knees." Washington
Star. ; ,
"That's a well bred child."
"You bet she is. Never corrects her
parents publicly, no mattor what the exi
gencies of the case may be." Kansas City
Journal.
"That man seems to be making a great
deal of money."
"Yet In the nature of his business, he
Is always up against It."
"How Is that?"
"He Is a wall decorator." Baltimore
American.
"Do you think thaf Oreek has much
value In modern education?"
"Certainly," answered the young man
wtth a college hat: "the Greek alphabet
enables a man to know what frat he be
longs to." Washington Star.
The orchestra had sued the unsuccessful
owner of the show for unpaid salary, and
the owner had brought forward a number
of low-browed witnesses, whose testimony
did not agree, to prove that there was no
Indebtedness.
"It certainly looks," said the Justice, as
he gave Judgment for the plaintiff, "as if
somebody had been lying to beat the
band." Chicago Tribune.
Johnny Do you peek through the key
hole when your sister's got a beau?
Susie Nope, I can't.
Johnny Aw, why not?
' Susie Mamma's always In th way.
Cleveland Leader.
She offered an explanation of her tearful
mood.
"I've been to a wedding." she said. "I
always cry more at a weddlnp than I do
at a funeral. It's so much more uncer
tain." Boston Transcript
THE FARMER'S VIEWPOINT.
Detroit Free Press.
"Young man," said Silas unto me, "you
city writers Joke
A lot about us farmers, and a heap of fun
you poke
At th country cousins swarmln' into town
to see th' fair, :
A takin' up th' precious room, while dad
- sleeps In a chair;
Tou picture us a spohgln' at a Tive-a-day'
hotel.
"You city chap have pictured- us as
nuisances an' bores;
You've Joked about our manner an' the
way a farmer ;snores;
You've painted country cousins as a poor
and stingy crew.
Who think a five-cent sandwich ts enough
to buy for two.
Th' fact Ms, when I come to town on trips
to buy or sell,
I pay for what I et you bet an', sleep in
some hotel. , -
"Those city cousins do their best to get
me up to stay
With them, in spite of all the things you
funny fellows say;
I do the entertainln' an' wish you'd write
this down
The only time they see a show Is when I
come to town.
I always buy the tickets, and, I'd also like
to tell,
They always figure on a meal with me at
my hotel."
He started then to leave me, but I begged
of him to stay.
"I'm In a hurry iow," aaid he, "there's
nothing more to aay.
My wife Is entertaining all her city folks
tonight;
She's got the Turkish room for them, and
doing things up right.
It makes me sort o' weary, but don't tell
her that I said It.
I've got to put my dress suit on an' gosh!
how I do dread It!"
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If "you or come member of your family
were taken suddenly to-nignt wun diar
rhoea, Dysentry, Flux, Cholera Morbus,
or Cholera Infantum, would you be pre
pared to check it?
Every borne should have a supply of
WakeUeld's
Blackberry Balsam
Th most reliable remedy for all loose con
dition of th bowels. All drucglat sell it
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