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As we have several time remarked,
the way to clean up is to clean up.
An egg-laying contest Js . being
planned in Missouri, ' Here's hoping
that It la an endurani. run.
A German polar party has been or
ganaed . to find tha South Pole. No
gum drops on this -expedition.
It Is more proper to judge an offi
cial's salary by the clothes his wife
wears, than by tho.Be.jse. wears,
It Bad to come. ' Borne enterprising
reporter has dubbed him Theodorus
Roosevelt Afrlgander Hunterus.
Having decided thU a bn Is a. bird,
the goverflmeitl Ugoin&t to-.. decide
what icefream ls. r Now Is the time.
It may all be that;olonet Roosevelt
bearded the Hons In their dens so often
that he carried the beard away with
him. f f v. ij f j v ..
Wonder If there is now enough har
mony In. the democratic party to last
clear through a Jeffersonlan harmony
banquet.
Mr. Fairbanks has not killed a thing
since he went abroad, but still he has
succeeded In fjg4irng.ln the dispatches
a few times. ..."
The prieV ofnllvc hogs is . almost
back at he top. notch reached during
the civil war. Those good old times
ire evidently returning!
Now that the' meat eating habit costs
bo much that the average man cannot
afford it, it is up to-some enterprising
gent to start a meat-eating cure.
Our amiable - democratic - contem
porary lamentalta Inability to guess
"what Mr. Roosevelt will do." , That's
what is making the democrats worry.
Thee March winds are also doing
their best to help .the cUy street clean
ing department-disperse" the dust and
Jlrt accumulated In the thorough
tares. . . ,
"The British treasury has a huge
deficit to face and the British ministry
Is living from hand to mouth." "But
there are still a number of American
heiresses left. "
Well, Edgar, who is the "prominent
democratic lawyer0 and who Is the
"well 'known republican officeholder"
hired by the corporations to do the
"fixing" for them 7
When they offered to give him the
freedojn rf.-tAe city, could those Lon
loners have been figuring on making
Mr. Roosevelt a gift which he could
not take home with him?.
After perusing the Congressional
Record for eaveral days, one sighs for.
Old Colonel Jim Gordon of Mississippi.
That speech of his renewed public
talthiu tha Unlte4 States senate.
.-President Madrls of Nicaragua says
rmy $ only ambition Is to serve my
'tountify," which leads' to the thought
hat he must ha.v8apeut some time to
this country during a political cam-
hu l.n
ye,"
v.-
It costs Uncle Sam less to feed the
lack tar la the. aary-'whaa" they are
tnchored off the- ceast ef China than
anywhere elaeon .the globe. It we
Bad tely known, that, before,' might
have, captured tie. Philippines oarller,
Just fto get an excuse to keep the
sadiron la that neighborhood.
Leit W Torf et.
It will bo remembered that Mr. ftryan
arncatly aupported Mr. Parker In 1!4, yH
waa unfortunately unable to win all "Bryan
demorrata" - to Vote for Parker. World
Herald. If the World-Herald wants to be
classed among "Bryan democrats" it
would be discreet to refrain from
referring to the glorious chapter which
oarrates bow earnestly Mr. Bryan sup
ported Judge Parker In 104. ' Fortu
nately, or unfortunately, we still have
access to the historic account of the
self-sacrificing efforts which Colonel
Bryan put forth to achieve democratic
victory In the only campaign In six
teen years that he was not its
stsndard bearer. Here are the salient
extracts which always make entertain
ing reading:
Mr. Bryan, all the winter, aprinar and
fummer, had been denouncing Jurie
Parker as a "dlebonent candidate,- running
on a dlehoneat plntform."
And then he had come home from Ft.
Loula, sat down at hla desk and tha firat
wordi that he wrote were: ' "I shall vote
for Parker and Davis."
When the conventlona were over and the
campaign committee!) appointed, the fu
alonlats found that it wan a difficult thing
to mako a campaign In Nebranka,
The chairman of the democratio atate
committee, a brother-in-law to Cryan, came
to Mr. Tlbblra. declaring that he repre
aen'ted Mr, Bryan, and was rpeaking In
Mr. Bryan's name, and made trie following
proposition:
If Mr. Tibbies would spend most of his
time out of the state during the campaign
and let- tha Independent (hla paper) sup
port the fusion ticket, Mr. Bryan on his
part would agree- to go to Arizona or
Colorado and get sick. He would continue
to keep alok until tha close of the cam
paign, so s)ck that he would not be able
to make any political speeches at ail. An
exocptlon was made In regard to Indiana.
It was said that Mr. Bryan had promised
to make three speeches In Indiana In sup
port of his old personal friend who was
running for governor In that state, but
It was further stipulated that thse. three
speeches should not be political speeches,
but repetitions of Mr. Bryan's lecture on
"Ideals."
Mr. Bryan went to Arlsona and sent
home a letter saying that he was1 worse
and would not be able to deliver any
political speeches during the - campaign.
That letter was printed' In the Lincoln
dally papers and wan shown to Mr. .Tibbies
as -proof that Mr. Bryan was keeping his
oontract.
The chairman of the democratic state
committee went to New Topk, saw Parker,
Sheehan, Belmont. Tom TaKgart and the
reHt of the band of financial and political
pirates. He came home with money for
campaign expenses. Then Mr. Bryan hired
a special train and started out speech
making In Nebraska and other states. The
surprising rapidity with which his lung
healed has never been equaled In all the
history of medicine. But when the votes
were counted It was learned that wher
ever Mr. Bryan- spoke, a tidal wave of
republican votes followed him, although ha
pleaded with his bearers to be "regular."
Oh, yes, "Mr. Bryan earnestly sup
ported Judge Parker In 1904," and it
was simply bis misfortune that he was
unable to win all "Bryan democrats"
to vote for. Parker. ,
N. B. Quotation Is from Mr. Tib
bies' article contributed to Tom Wat
son's magaxlne shortly, after the event,
when ih? details were spU fresh in his
memory. ;
Aeronautics in Colleges.
With the .aeronautic convention in
Philadelphia during the first two days
of April, to -be attended by several
hundred students from the United
States and Canada, an additional im
petus will be given the matter of aerial
navigation. The purpose of this con
vention is to organize a University
Aeronautic club which shall affiliate
with the Aero Club of America. Dur
ing the sessions, lectures and addresses
will be delivered by the most re
nowned aviators In the world.
Although- it Is doubtful whether
aeroplane racing will take the place of
any of the existing college sports, It Is
evidently destined to be listed among
college athletics in the future. But
even greater than the popularity of the
sport itself will be the use it may be
put to for furnishing demonstrations
for practical study. If . the colleges
take up aeronautics we may look for
an increase In the knowledge of the
essentials of the machines and of their
management in the air, all of which
will be of great value In ascertaining
commercial possibilities. In the hands
of an ordinary college Doy, with the
proverbial recklessness of such indi
viduals, there are few feats known or
possible to aeronautics which will long
remain untried. That the colleges
may help develop the science of avia
tion and make it as practical as possi
ble Is the hope of those calling the
convention. The improvement of the
aeroplane for safety and practicability
Is, as everyone knows, the essential
prerequisite to Its serviceability.
Testing the Corporation Income Tax.
The cases brought to test the con
stitutionality of the corporation in
come tax feature of the new tariff law
promises to be stubbornly fought, and
the lawyers that are behind the contest
suits will leave no point neglected
which might be used to advantage In
their favor. There is no question but
that the corporation Income tax is the
real innovation which the new revenue
law undertakes to carry, and the argu
ments pro and con as an advisable rev
enue measure were thoroughly
threshed out while It was pending In
the senate. The objections most seri
ously urged against the corporation In
come tax were directed at Its imposi
tion of a burdeq on corporate business
not borne by competing firms or indi
viduals, and the publicity requirements
which would fully open up the trans
actions of corporations, but not of
their competitors doing similar busi
ness without incorporation. i
The cases In court, however, must
turn, not on the question of policy,
but on the question, of law. It will
devolve upon those who are asking to
have the law declared told to 'show
that the Imposition of the tax Invades
soma constitutional right entitled to
THE HEE:
protection of the courts. It goes with
out saying that even if the corporation
tax should be declared unconstitu
tional, the enactment of the pending
Income tax amendment would open the
way for Its revival, and, on the other
hand. If the corporation tax Is held to
be good It will Increase the Incentive
to adopt the income tax amendment In
order to make possible an equal tax on
returns of unincorporated business so
as to remove the Inequality. . The
cases brought In the supreme court,
therefore, are likely only to give tem
porary relief to those who are resisting
the corporation Income tax.
Piatt and Harrison.
The publication of a statement made
some years ago by the late Senator
Thomas C. Pllatt of New York, to be
released on his death, In which he
charges President Harrison with hav
ing gone back on a promise to appoint
him secretary of the treasury in con
sideration of the swlngiug of the New
York delegation in the nominating
convention of 1888 has lifted the lid
off a bit of president-making and
started counter-versions by surviving
participants.
. It Is too bad that Senator Piatt did
not see fit to unburden himself before
the Teath of General Harrison, so that
the former president might have had
an opportunity to tell his side of the
controversy. A detailed explanation
by Senator Elklns, through whom the
only communication between General
Harrison and Mr. Piatt was held, and
corroborated by Senator Depew and
Congressman J. Sloat Fassett, who
were also more or less concerned,
seems to make It clear that President
Harrison was never cognizant of any
agreement to make Mr. Piatt secretary
of the treasury, and that Mr. Piatt
had admitted that the assurance that
he would be recognized In the distribu
tion of patronage going to New York,
could not be fairly construed into a
promise of a cabinet appointment for
himself. Senator Elklns insists that
Secretary Wlndom had been selected
for the treasury by President Harrison
before Mr, Piatt's wishes were made
known and that the appointment of
General Tracy to be secretary of the
navy was made to suit Mr. Platt
through the recognition of one of his
closest friends, who had likewise been
helpful In the election of President
Harrison. More than that, however,
it. seems reasonably established that
General Harrison's nomination in 1888
was not brought about through the In
strumentality of Mr, Platt, no matter
how much assistance he may have af
forded by falling In at the crucial
time, but rather through a pre-ar-rangement
with Mr. Blaine by which
his strength and influence was to be
transferred to General Harrison as the
preferred of the candidates before the
convention. '
That president-making used to In
volve deals' of various' klndst to which
more than one president has owed his
nomination and election, Is of common
knowledge, although the day of such
deals has practically passed and they
were probably never personally en
gineered or directed by the candidate.
General Harrison was always regarded
by his friends as the soul of honor In
politics as well as out of politics, and
there Is nothing in the record he made
as chief executive to indicate any ques
tionable negotiations either with Mr.
Platt or any other political bargain
hunter.
The Lincoln Journal speaks of "non
citlzen voters," referring to such of
our foreign-born population as are per
mitted to vote in Nebraska after tak
ing out their first naturalization pa
pers. The Journal falls to recognize
the accepted . fact of citizenship of the
state as distinguished from citizenship
of the United States. To be a citizen
of the United States a foreign-born
person must complete the require
ments of naturalization, while to be a
citizen of Nebraska, with voting privil
eges, all that Is needed is to take out
the so-called "first papers." Under
the constitution of Nebraska everyone
entitled to vote has the same rights
and privileges of every other voter,
and "Equality Before the Law" is the
state's motto.
The legislative reference library,
which has heretofore been an offshoot
of the State Historical society, has
been cut loose bo await the tender mer
cies of the legislature, which will be
asked to make appropriations for it on
a separate footing. The legislative
reference library should be part of the
state library to avoid duplication and
to secure economic administration In
fact, a merger of the historical library,
the legislative reference library and
the state library would ba decidedly
for the benefit of the taxpayers.
The appropriation to provide em
bassy houses for American diplomatists
In foreign capitals has failed la the
house and will have to try again. It
is to be hoped that the amiable pro
moters who have helped work up pub
lic sentiment for this bill throughout
the country by inviting us and other
leading citizens to dine with them at
their expense will not be discouraged.
Is not the time to vote improvement
bonds in the fall rather than In the
spring? It takes at best several
months after bonds are voted to dis
pose of them end effect the prelimina
ries for the work, and work thus
started late In the season is too often
caught unfinished by the advent of
cold weather.
Congressman Macon of Arkansas
has -the most suspicious ' mind to be
found in the halls of congress. A lit
tle while ago ho Intimated that some
MARCH
of the money voted for expenses of
the tmmlgratio commission was con
sumed In exploring the catacombs, and
now he Intimates that Commander
Peary is not entitled to even thanks
for exploring the pole. Some bold ad
venturer should organise an expedition
to explore the wilds of Arkansas
which constitute Mr. Macon's district.
State Auditor Barton is trying to
find out why Nebraska fire Insurance
companies do not all charge the same
rate on the same risk. Most owners
of insurable property wonder why the
rates quoted by fire insurance com
panies should be exactly alike unless
there is a combine or a "gentleman's"
agreement.
The Anti-Saloon league Is very mod
est in its demands. It wants all the
party platforms promulgated In Ne
braska this year to declare for county
prohibition, and If the democrats and
republicans will only respond to this
request, the antl-saloonists will con
tinue to vote the prohibition ticket.
vMr. Hearst la callllng In capital let
ters for the construction of new battle
ships and the enactment of some kind
of a subsidy bill to revive our mer
chant marine. Mr. Hearst was once
vouched for by Mr. Bryan as a presi
dential candidate who would be satis
factory to him.
The total of deposits in Nebraska
state banks is larger than ever before.
The aggregate wealth of the people of
Nebraska was never so large as it is
today, and the bank deposits are only
one of the straws that testify to the
fact.
Who says modern education Is not
progressive and up-to-date? The
latest object lesson to teach our High
school pupils the value of punctuality
consists In making the teachers ring
up on a time clock.
Senator Burkett is sending out
copies of his speech on postal savings.
If he would send Senator Rayner's
answer along with it he would make
more certain of having them both
read.
I
"It a herring and a half cost a cent
and a half," sings the Washington
Post. What is our esteemed friend,
the Post, thinking about? "Cent and
a, half?" It must mean dollar and a
half.
Worth Reuemberlasr.
Chicago News.
While figuring how much higher hogs are
now than they Were during- the civil war
it Is worth remembering that then they
were quoted In paper money.
I
Raises .a 8asplolon.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Statistics showing that there la $34.87 of
money for each man, woman and child In
the country Improesea a portion of them,
particularly the -women and children, with
a suspicion tfcMHthe r has not bees a
square distribution, . . "
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Newj,yorli World.
The Boston bank cleric who, on a SIS sal
ary, gave champagne suppers, carried a
"roll" of $15,000 and displayed other symp
toms of budding financial genius, has had
his career blighted by the failure of the
bank to stand tha strain. Something has
been lost to society by the untimely extinc
tion of this promising youth.
Actloaa Belle Prof cm tons. '
Sioux City Journal. i
Tha democratic national platform de
clared for postal savings banks in the,
event of failure to adopt a national hank
deposit guaranty law. Only one democrat
voted for tha postal bank bill that passed
tha senate tha other day. And yet the
democrats will have a good deal to say
about republican disregard of party pledges.
Walt for tha 91 Show.
Philadelphia Record.
Ex-Vlea President Fairbanks Is an
aglng one way and another to make his
homeward tour through Europe a boister
ous buttermilk progress, mildly exolting in
spots. But wait. Tha real thing Is mov
ing northward along the smooth reaches
of the Upper Nile. The Bully Boy will
presently strike the. Mediterranean levels
and stalk across Europa Ilka a Saharan
tornado. Walt.
Alaa, Poor Jeff I
Springfield Republican.
After two years of blistering excoriation
of the Rockefellers and Morgana by the
senator from Arkansas,' It Is most distress
ing to find him writing In tha colls of an
unguarded admission that If a certain bill
can ba passed through congress concerning
some swamp lands In his state, "there Is a
"good fee In It" for tha honorable excorla
tor of tha people's oppressors. Senator Jeff
Davis himself ought to sea the drollery of
his situation, yet be only blusters the more
when compelled to explain. A "corpora
tion lawyer," is he, after all. Tha fee's
the thing. Alack! Poor Jeffl
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Sheer Misrepresentation,
Philadelphia Bulletin.
President Taft's explicit denial that he
ordered Wada H. Ellis to proceed to Ohio
and take the chairmanship of tha repub
lican executive committee, with his equally
emphatlo declaration that ha does not pro
pose and has not proposed to direct tha
republican campaign In tha state, should
put an end to tha sensational reports which
have been printed . on tha subject Mr.
Taft shows clearly that tha assertions pic
turing him as a meddlesome party dictator
In tha Buckeye commonwealth are sheer
misrepresentations to use the politest term
that can be applied to -them.
1
Our Birthday Book
March 11. 1810.
William L. Yetter, president of the Tetter-Davidson
Wail Paper company, was
born March 11, 1WT7, at St. Joseph, Mo. He
had a retail wall paper and paint business
In Hastings up to 1909, when he removed to
Omaha and has since branched out to
Kansas City and Denver aa well, Mr.
Yetter Is one of the governors of Ak-Sar-Ben.
John Steel, until very reoently general
agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance company, from which he has Just
retired, was born in Sweden, March 11,
IMi. Ha has been In the life Insurance
business since 1IWS. Mr. Steel was a mem
ber of the city council for one term In lt2
and 1894
OMAHA, FRIDAY,
11, 1910.
Pasiing of a Boss
XMverse Befleetlona ea the Po
litical Career and Characteris
tic of rormer Sfenatot Platt.
A Vaalahlna- Type.
Washington Herald.
Tha rise and fall of Platt illustrates
strikingly tha wholesome change In po
litical conditions In this country. The last
great figure of his type, bosslsm, as ha
exercised It, la of the past It had Its day,
and an evil day It was. May Its like
never come agalnl
Little to Stir Pride.
Philadelphia Ledger.
There Is really little In his career that
even his own state need reoall with any
particular gratitude. That he has been
succeeded In the senate by Ellhu Root Is
the most striking illustration we need ask
of the wide advance In all our political
conditions since Platt came Into public
life half a century ago.
Present Day Leadership.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There has been a revolution In public sen
timent upon political matters since the
day when Mr. Platt could dictate legisla
tion and candidates to the assembly of his
state, could make and unmake governors
and change political history by the Inflec
tion of a tone. Now we look to a new type
of leader, who wins by methods less crude.
who compels results by means lees sugges
tive of slave driving.
Pabllo Too Tolerant.
New York World.
WHhout severity toward the dead and
with regard chiefly for public men who are
to come, It must be remarked that bosses
In any stage of their careers are not to be
envied. They would not be bosses at all If
Americans were not for a season too toler
ant of their pretensions. They could not
last an hour If legislators and executives
and people were not indulgent. They are
encouraged to their own destruction. When
their inevitable fall takes place there Is
none so poor as to do them reverence.
Hlarber Standards Demanded.
Washington Times,
Senator Platt was a machine politician
of the old order. He was a graduate of
the Thurlow Weed school of politics. He
was a boss, not a statesman. He did noth
ing to elevate politics, save as he perceived
that It was necessary to get votes and
retain power. Fortunately, the publio to
day Is demanding higher standards of Its
party leaders, and the party boss Is grow
ing lees and less in evidence as a higher in
telllgence spreads among the voters. But
for all this there was much to admire in
the atrong will, the Incisive mind, the cool
nerve, and the capacity for mastery of men
which belonged to Thomas Collier Platt.
Coning of Better Methods.
Baltimore American.
Political leaders like Platt are one after
another passing away, and are not likely
to have Immediate successors. The voters
no longer stand ready to do the bidding of
such leaders, loyal though they may be to
their party. This is an era when the peo
ple ' demand to know the why and the
wherefore, and though the success and the
sturdy republicanism of such men as Platt
cannot be - galnsayed, yet their methods
were sometimes open to question, and with
the coming of better methods will come
party leaders who will win and hold the
confidence of the people in a better way.
Redaclna; Evils of QoosUm,
' .Brooklyn Eagle, :.
Politics, the most interesting of sciences ;
parties, the most Interesting of forces', gov
ernment, the most Important of duties, af
fected by a relation to human beings, can
not be said to have been better, because
Platt lived. To a degree they were worse
because he lived and he was worse because
they were bad. All of them are improving.
The race of Americans are learning the Im
port of bosaium and the art of reducing Its
evils. They are learning how to make con
ventions representative, how to make bal
lots less in sheer bulk, how to base appoint
ments on trained fitness and how to make
them a reasonable assurance of character
and competency. The bosses are going. The
good time is coming. The better time Is
nearlng. Duty aa well as opportunity is
at the door.
A MEMORY OF INGERSOLL.
Transition from the Spectacular to
the Practical Lawyer.
Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
Interesting from various angles is a de
cision rendered by Judge Hammond of the
Massachusetts supreme court, awarding
(170,000 to Mrs, Robert O. Ingersoll for legal
services rendered by her husband to An
drew J, Davis, a Montana copper magnate,
also deceased. Ingersoll died eleven years
ago, therefore the case affords a striking
example of the law's delay. As It will be
appeal to the United States supreme
court the delay Is by no means terminated.
Along with this aspect of the case there
Is also an illuminative glimpse of the fat
ness of legal fees, when stellar talent Is
desired, for Ingersoll was one of the most
perKuaslva and most expensive lawyers of
his day.
The chief Interest of the case, however,
lies in the memories It evokes and the
mutations of time which It emphasises
There have been few more ptcturesquo
figures in American law practice than
Robert G. Ingersoll, who dabbled In the
ology aa a aide Una, defied Shakespeare
and Beethoven, denounced the mistakes
of Moses, and constituted himself a vol
unteer fire company to extinguish the
flames of sheol. Militant agnostic that hs
was, vindictively bitter In his denunciations
of what most men hold sacred, Ingersull
was in his family life as gentle as a child
and among his friends a very prince In
generous Impulses. But his predominant
trait was his power of painting landscapes
a 1th mere words. Whoever has heard the
peroration of one of Ingersoll's lectures can
never forget how ho wove sunset glow enj
gleams of dawn, the silver sheen of stars
and the rainbow's Jeweled scarf, Into the
flamboyant tapestry of his magic eloquence.
Poems, symphonies, plcluros were fused In
his sonorous periods few orators have ever
wielded such a sensuous spell.
Judge Hammor.d's decision also will bring
home to many who reirimbtr Ingersoll's
burning oratory the fact that this type of
lawyer Is fast pasting away. The man
who can move a Jury to tears by his pica
Is no longer as highly valued as the one
who knows the pigeon-holes of the law and
cm draw up an air-tight document We
have turnod from the spectacular to the
practical, frqm pyrotechnics to. business,
and the transition has been accomplished
almost entirely during these eleven years
sinoa Ingersoll passed away.
It la, Indeed, rare that any Judicial de
cision is' handed down which. In Itself of
but narrow scope, starts so many trains
of thought and memory as this one In the
Ingersoll-Davls case.
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Baltimore American.
A western crank threatens to blow con
gress up unless the high cost of living Is
brought down. This is oertalnly the most
diastio way yet of voicing the explosive
wrath of tha country,
PEKSONAX NOTES.
Mr. Rockefeller's last benefaction lenrm
lo have stunned the critics of taint id
money.
Mr. Woltrnst the pugilist. Is to get what
he says Is "a prinoely sum" for appearing
In vaudeville. In his case It soems to ray
to knock.
The fact that an Indian chief, visiting
Washington, blew out the gas, does not
comport with the theories concerning the
red man's Intellectual uplift.
An attempt to have women In a Brook
lyn church remove their hats failed when
tho authorities realised that enforcement
would Involve the removal of the women
also.
"The forbidden fruit Of the Garden of
Eden was the banana, and not tho apple,
o an investigator concludes. This may
account In a measure for Adam and Eve's
i ri fortunate sllp-up.
,ihe fact that a hatpin penetrated the
ear of a Chicago alderman is the argument
offered for the passage of an ordinance
banishing the deadly weapon. Aldermen
who persist In breaking Into good millinery
company should carefully fold, the lobes
over their domes.
The united German slngtnir societies sans-
uoa eave Ireland" at the Emmet celebra
tion in Carnegie hall, New York. This
fine product comes from the American
treatment of German Invasion. A German
wife gives a New York Irishman plenty of
noma rule and good music
Judge Alton B. Parker has sailed for
Hamburg by the Hamburg-American liner
Kalserln Auguste Victoria for a vacation
of two months. He will go to Berlin from
Hamburg and will travel thenoe through
Russia, Turkey and Italy. He Is accom
panied by his wife, his grandson and Mis.
Danlol Manning.
Howard C. Holllster, Just appointed fed
eral district Judge at Cincinnati, went to
school with him. went through the Cin
cinnati Law school with him. and took the
vr examination wun mm, A common
pleas Judge for some years past, he has
been an active and fearless republican
rebel against Cincinnati's Boss Cox.
beven members of the present United
States senate ware born outside the United
States. Lorlmer of Illinois, Wetmore of
Rhode Island and Sutherland of Utah were
born In England, Stephenson of Wisconsin
and Galllnger of New Hampshire are na
tives of Canada, Nelson of Minnesota Is a
native of Norway and Oliver of Pennsyl
vania was born In Ireland, while his par
ents were visiUng that country.
FREIGHT 11 ATM K JCTOHTIOX. '
Call for I'nlon of Mlaaoarl Hirer
States and Cities.
Bloux City Tribune.
The aggressive action of the Omaha Com
mercial club looking toward the prosecu
tion of the railroad officials as violators of
the Sherman anti-trust law In the raising
of the dressed meat rate suggests a new
and important phase to the railroad ques
tion. When powerful business organisations
Ilka thesa large commercial clubs enlist
their energies In the battle against railroad
rate extortion It means Greek meeting
Greek.
A commercial club Is, of oourse, a selfish
organisation. It wants advantages, or at
least equal privileges for Its own locality.
So long as each commercial club gets what
It wants In the way of rates for Its own
city It will leave the rest of the country to
struggle with the freight rate question as
best It can.
Up to this time the commercial clubs
have dove-tailed In with the railroad plans,
leaving the farmers and the small town
merchants without sympathy and without
practical assistance. But when great food
Shipplng centers like Omaha, Sioux City,
Bt. Joe and Kansas City are hard hit, as
they are In this advanced meat rate and
In the advanced grain rate, they can well
afford to oomblna for mutual defense.
If tha commercial clubs of these Mis
souri river cities will now invoke the power
of their several state governments, state
railroad commissions, and move for lower
state rates on live stock and grains, they
can make the transportation companies
feel the power. The governors of these
states could call the attention of their state
railroad commissions to the over-high
rates that live stock and grain must pay to
reach these markets. They could do this
In such a way as to arouse the sleepy com
missions Into action. By united action
they could wake up the Interstate Com
merce commission, that ought to Interfere
with and prevent the proposed advance In
the dressed meat rate.
There Is a great opening for the gov
ernors and state commissioners In Ne
braska, Kansas, Missouri and IoWa to
move, not only against the advanoe In In
terstate rates, but for a general lowering
of state rates that ought to have been low
ered years ago.
What are these state governments for if
Without
is but the light in the east that leads to mater
nity. Love of husband is he stepping-stone t
love of child. .
Tbere are thousands of women wbo live well
into middle-Ufa without knowing the bliss of
first-born's caress, but who are happy
mothers to-day and heap blessings on DrJ -Pierce's
Favorite Prescription.
Many thousands of women have testified to the merits of this
marvelous remedy. The "Favorite Prescription" quicken he
life-giving organism of women. It makes a woman strong -,id
healthy where she most needs vigor and vitality. It cures all
weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organs. It elimi
nates the discomforts on the way to maternity and makes baby'
coming easy and nearly painless. Found at all medicine stores.
It's an insult to your intelligence when a druggis; urges upon you
a SECRET nostrum as a substitute for this proven remedy OF known
COMPOSITION simply that he may make a little larger profit. Phy
sicians prescribe ' Favorite Prescription" because it' every ingredi
ent is printed upon its outside wrapper making It an ethical rem
edy for them to prescribe. There's no secrecy, no deceptionit's .
a good, honest, square-deal medicine, made of native medicinal
roots without alcohol or habit-forming drugs in its make up. Ask
Your Neighbors.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and strengthen Stomach,
Liver and Bowels. One to three tiny sugar-coated "Pellets' for
dose. Easy to take as candy.
World's Dispensary Medical Association, R. V. Pierce. M. D..
President, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Your early inspection is invited, as it will afford an opportunity
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317 South Fifteenth Street ESTABLISHED 1887,
not to take action In such Important mat
tets as this?
The state commissions sre doing prac j
tleally nothing toward the purpose foi
which they exist. They were crested as a
protection against rate extortion more than
for any other purpose. Hut the rate extor
tion goer on from year to year, while tlJf)'
commissions bury themselves with petty
matters of no general Importance to th
producing and business public. A little
station or sliletrnck Is put In here or there
A little redress to some individual shipper
who files his complaint on some small shlp
tortlon affecting the whole puntlo to the
amount of millions annually goes onx un
touched and unhindered by the state gov
ernments. Somebody could start a move now that
would arouse the whole Missouri valley
country If there was somebody with cour
age and force enough to do It.
POINTED PLEASANTRIES.
The English sparrow was building a nesi
at the top of a clock tower.
"This thing of working over time,"
chirped the abandoned bird, "is no fun, let
me tell you." Chicago Tribune.
"Does she seem to take kindly to society
ways now that her husband has made such
a pile?"
"Oh, yes, Indeed. She was the loudest
tfllker In the house at grand opera the
other night." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
'Automobiles have run Into' a threat
many people," said the cautious cltlreu.
'Yes." replied. Mr. i.nuctnne: --out it an
worka around. A lot of the money you
(nd for gasoline goes to found hospitals."
Washington Star.
Interviewer Well. Dfcmenee, have you
found an honest man In these times?
Diokeneo Sure I have.
interviewer (Incredulously) Where?
Diogenes In the poorhouss. Baltlmors
American.
"Johnny, do you know why I am going
to whip yout"
"Why?"
"Because you struck a boy smaller than
yoursel f."
"I thought maybe It was because I am
smaller than you are." Houston Post.
"I'll have to get another typewriter,",
said the bustling man. "This one Is cmi-A
Bluntly ntopiing my dictation to ask UowT
Borne word Is spelled."
"That's a great loss of time."
"I don't mind the time, but It inter
feres with discipline ' for me to have to
keep saying I don't know." Chicago Pott
"Why do you insist on having the bans
drum and oymbals away out in front of
the orohestra?"
"The arrangement Is an idea of my own,"
replied the opera manager. It helps to keep
the audience awake." Washington Star,
Brlggs I have Just purchased a Cham
bers' encyclopedia, a Century dictionary,
and a British museum catalogue.
Griggs Do you really need themf
Brlggs Not precisely: but I thought I
should like to check off my Information.
Llpplncott's Magazine.
"Bill, what share did you get of your
grandfather's estate?"
"I got what was left after every other
fellow had been provided for."
"Then you are tho residuary legatee."
"I ain't nothln' of the sort, blame ye!
I'm an honest, hard workln' coppersmith?"
Chicago Tribune,
"Surely," began the private secretary,
"it won't pay to give to both parties t '
"My dear fellow," refilled the astute
president, "you are forgetting that In a
year or two one of them will be offering
me a rebate not to support the other."
Puck.
THE SOUTH WIND.
W. D. NeSblt In Chloago Post.
De south wind come en wlilBper at il
roses on de way; t
It laugh about da bllssard dat 'us blowln'
yistudday.
It brings a tas'e o' springtime, en It tell us
not to fret,
De green grass fer de medder will be sho'ly
comln' yet.
It loaf beside de winder desa fer long
enouirh ter aav
De lilaos Is been oiidered cn de roses on da
-WV. -.
De south wind come a-laughln' lak dey
neveh been no snow,
En day de mawnln glory gwlne ter climb
up soon, fer sho':
It coax me tar de winder en, it tease ma
( wld puffume
Dat make me think de o'cha'd is already
white wld bloom:
It ax wah Is do vt'lets dat it fotch us way
las May,
En say dey's mo' a-comlp'j en de roses on
de way.
I blame ef It don't trasa twell I go en
take a look
To see how Is mah fishpolo en mah linen
line en hook:
It chuckle 'bout de rlveh, en mah fishln'
place, en all.
Twell I git down de bait box dat Z put
away las' fnlj.
En den It flick de bushes wld a touch dat's
moughty gay
En whisper dat de roses Is been Btuhted on
de way.
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Da south wind sho'ly soothln' when It Mows
It bes' move on,
En say dey mo' eprlngs oomln' dess de
same as dem dat's gone.
I stan' dun at de winder en It bresh me In
de face
En Mow dat or Man Winteh's at de finish
o' Ms race.
I ax do south wind please, ma'am, won't
yo' come right in en stay?
It lautfhs dat it mus' hustle all de roses
on de way.
Love is Life
love this world would be a good
place to emigrate from. Without it the hu
man race would die and be elad of it. Love
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