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'6 THK HKK: OMAHA. FRIDAY. APML 8, 1910. The -Omaha Daily Dee -oi niji;d by euwabd robewater. V1CTOH IlOSEWATF.n. KP1TOR. Kntered it Omaha postoffica as second class matter. TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION. llly Ilea (Including Hunday), per week.lBo l'ally Bea (without Bundsyj. P" week . Km llly Hea (without Sunday), one year. . laily ttes and Sunday, ona year " DfcklVfiKED BI CAKK1KK. Kvenlng Bee (without Hunday). per week.Sc Kven.ng Hea (with Hunday), per week... lw hunday bee, una yar baliirriay Bra, one year Addreiis all complaints of Irregularities In deliver to city Circulation LupartmanL OKK1CES. Oinuha-The. Bee. Building. Houth Omaha Tw eni y-fourth and N. I ouncll Bluffs 15 tcott BtreeU Lincoln ulg 1-lttle Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building New fork Booms ltyl-UOi So. Zi Y em Thlrty-thUd direct. ,,. Washinglon-724 Fourteenth Street, N. C01lREHIt)NDKNCE. Communlc-atluni relating to news and editorial matter should ba addressed. Omaha Bee, Kdltortal Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal older pavshle. to The Bee Publishing Companj. only 2-cent stamps received In payment ol mall accounts. Personal checks, eicept on Omaha or eastern exchange, not acceptea. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Ctate of Nebraska, Douglas Countf, as.: Ueorge B. 'Ixchuck, treasurer ol 1" Be Publishing Company, being auiy sworn, says that the actual number ox full ..nd complete copies of The Oaliy. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee prlnteu during the mouth of Marcu. was as follows: . - 1 45,770 1 17 43,110 H 43,030 j j 43,090 X 43,810 48,760 43,630 43,S0 41,000 to 41,800 xl 43,140 H 43,830 23 a'490 24 43,600 25. " 43,680 2t 43,830 27 41.400 2$ 43,610 2 43,770 10 43,410 II,,.., 43,750 43,940 43,760 ( 43,710 10 43,160 11 43,810 12 43,980 13 41,700 14 43,130 ) 43,630 Total l-3aa4?S Returned coplea 10''?, V Net total 1.315,630 ttally average 43.441 GEO. B. TZSCHL'CK, Treasurer. ISubncrlbed la my presence and aworn to before me thl 81st day of March, 110. M. P. WALKtK. Notary Public. kwcrlkara lamvlaa tfc city teas porarily shoald hsis Tata Be saaUe thaaa. Address will cauaag,a4 as allaa reqaealsA. How big is Omaha? estimate. Send In your King Menelik. has been dead over a week this last time. Old Man Weston should quit It. lie Is encouraging the tramp habit. The receiver (or Omaha's Indepen dent telephone will now take down the receiver. The Western Union announces voluntary raise in wages. Raise in rates next? It Is reported that a Yale professor has already read, six inches of Dr. El liot's five feet of bookshelf. "Always a way out," Is the caption of an editorial In a Pittsburg paper. It refers to strikes, nof Jails. Mr. Carnegie has found $3,000,000 he did not know he had. That is what a man gets for having two pairs of trousers. .... Ben Tillman Is Just trying to play in with the press when he says that Mr. Roosevelt is a creature of the newspapers. This movement for a fogless London has no reference, to clearing the atmos phere for an '. approaching distin guished orator. Now comes some New Yorker trying to imitate Colonel Mabray and his gang of mlkers. The east is always trailing the west. Let us at least hope that Sir Alfred Austin does not try to do anything nice for Mr. Roosevelt whilst our Hon hunter is In London. No mourning bars In the World Herald around the dispatch from Porto ftlco quoting Mr. Bryan as saying he mill not run for senator. This talk of the speaker resembling Abe Lincoln looks like an attempt to arouse ill feelings between Uncle Joe and Uncle Shelby Cullom. Wonder If the prolonged drouth, which th weather man has been giv ing us, has not had something to do with the increase in the wet vote. Take note that our city bacteriolo gist reports to the Water board Just to show due respect to Its paramountcy over the other municipal authorities On the- unofficial returns one of the councilmanlc contests in South Omaha shows a difference between candidates of, two votes. That looks like a re count. Catholics In Rome seem to have left nothing undone to reassure Mr. Koose velt that they do not stand for either Merry Dei 'Val diplomacy or Spanish revenge. The jjastor of Mr. Rockefeller's New York church insists that the oil king shall not pear the whole cost of erect ng the new edifice. John D. beat him u that decision by a lap of six months. A document for public print begin nlng. "The undersigned democrats." jearB the signature of our old friend. Dr. E. Arthur Carr. Well, we are (lad to , know it. The last time this luphonic signature was circulated by the democrats the eminent doctor was masquerading In republican garments. Selecting the Supreme Judge. President Taft is proceeding cau tiously with the naming of a successor to the late Justice Brewer. His own Ju dicial experience, high conception of the iharacter of the office, th im portant questions pending before the court and the large list of names sub mitted for the place naturally impel deliberation. The president doubtless realizes also that he may have to make other appointments to the same tribunal. Justice Moody is Incapaci tated by ill health and Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Harlan, each 77 years old, may not continue their service very long. The present membership of the court is an evidence that its members have not in recent years been ap pointed on the basis of representation by circuits, nor is It likely that the president wll! make this control in the present case, although geography must have some weight. With Jus tice Brewer's death four of the nine circuits are left without representa tion on the supreme bench, while one has three members and another two. Justice Brewer was from the Eighth district and this district has several aspirants for his seat. The Second district, comprising New York, Ver mont and Connecticut, is also without a member and also striving for the place. Names from other sections and circuits are also proposed and the president Is, of course, free to choose from any part of the country. The present composition of the su preme court by states and circuits is: Chief Justice FulliT if Illinois, Seventh circuit. Justices Moody and Holmes of Massa chusetts, First circuit. Harlan of Kentucky, I.urton of Tennes see and Day of Ohio, Sixth circuit. White of Louisiana, Fifth circuit. MrKemia of California, Ninth circuit. The fact that one state has two members and one circuit three offers little encouragement for urging an ap pointment purely on the basis of geo graphical representation. Neverthe less, it would not do to ignore this consideration altogether in the recast ing of the court. It would seem desir able to let this great territory between the Mississippi river and the Rockies furnish to the bench a member Inti mately acquainted with Its people and rapidly developing resources. If the existing vacancy is not filled by a west ern man, the west will have double claim on the next vacancy. Indiana Republicans. Indiana republicans probably have made the best of an awkward situa tion a dilemma in which the repub licans of several other states will like wise find themselves. It was fore ordained that Indiana would present Senator Beverldge for re-election on his brilliant record In national affairs, and yet to endorse his course without qualification must be endorsement of his vote against the tariff bill on its final passage and detract from the commendation of President Taft and his administration. The demand for a tariff commission and for further tariff changes, as the findings of such a com mission may warrant, wnlch Is In har mony with the president's oft-expressed Ideas, offers some common ground, but It does not alter the fact that the ex isting tariff was enacted as a repub lican measure and Is generally con ceded, even by those who are dissatis fied with It, to be a decided Improve ment on what preceded. Unless the campaign In Indiana Is to be a purely personal campaign, the bond of union for consolidating the re publican forces against the democrats must be the devotion of the rank and file to republican principles, and the support of a republican president In his efforts to carry out the pledges of the platform on which he was elected. If we are to have republican success In the next election there must be a sink ing of factional differences and a real effort to get all elements of the party together to advance republican poli cies. The only hope of democrats In Indiana, as well as in other states, ltes In splitting the republicans apart and keeping them at war with one another. It would be foolish for republicans, in surgents or regulars, to help the demo crats achieve this object. A Wisconsin Decision. The supreme court of Wisconsin has Just handed down a decision on the law providing for a direct primary ex pression of choice for United States senator which is of interest in itself, and of additional Interest as having a possible bearing on the so-called Ore gon plan of choosing United States senators. The Wisconsin primary law In this respect is substantially the same as was the Nebraska law prior to the adaptation of the so-called Oregon plan by our late democratic legisla ture. It provides for the filing of names and nomination of candidates for United States senator by the re spective parties the same as for can didates for state offices, the presump tion being that the members of the legislature will recognize the party edict thus registered so that the popu lar choice may be ratified by the ma jority party. The Wisconsin court has now up held that the law with the declaration that this means of ascertaining the de sires of the members of the respective political parties is not objectionable, but that It baa Its limitations and can bring about nothing more than an ad visory expression of preference. The primary election, so far as it relates to United States senators, It insists, Is not mandatory, and for that reason does not contravene the provisions of the federal or state constitution. If this is so, of course the obligation rest ing on the members of the legislature la only moral and enforcible la the court of public opinion, but not In a court of law. If the rule as laid down In the Wisconsin court holds no matter what mechanism may be employed to bring about a ballot-box Instruction on t'nlted States senator, the pledge ex acted by the Oregon plan at best can carry only a moral and not a legal ob ligation. There are some other points of com plication in the socalled Oregon scheme which have led competent law yers to question its constitutionality, and these will doubtless be ultimately threshed out In the courts either be fore or after practical experiment. Uncle Sam' Pension Roll. Discussion of the Kelfer pension bill now before congress has brought out some interesting disclosures as to the amount of money Uncle Sam annually pays out to the nation's defenders and their dependents. In 1909 the total amount was $161,973,703. The total number of pensioners was 946,194. Nebraska had 15,578 pensioners and they drew a total in pensions of $2,650,461; Iowa had 33,558 persons pensioned, drawing in the aggregate $5,753,679, while Kansas had 37.3S7, who drew $6,923,773, and South Da kota 5,333, whose pension amounted to $946,188. The average monthly pension in all these states, except Kan sas, was about $14; In Kansas it was a little more than $15. This uniform ity in individual stipend is one of the evidences of the wonderful system to which the government, after these years, has reduced its pensioning busi ness. The pending bill for the pension roll for 1911 carries an appropriation of $155,000,000. This would be about $6,000,000 less than the aggregate for 1909 and about $5,000,000 less than 1910. But It Is not possible to effect any great retrenchment In the Item of pensions; they must be met and will be met as they arise, for there never has been any disposition on the part of this government to evade its full obligation to its soldiers and those de pendent upon them. So that the Ohio representative has not sought to cut that appropriation except In the natu ral estimate of the number of pension ers. He has lopped off $179,500 from the estimated cost of paying these pen sions. The principal saving comes in his provision for one central pension agency, instead of eighteen, as at present. While this is a radical Inno vation, Mr. Kelfer insists that it is practicable, that all the pensions can be paid from one agency with satis factory results. Another proposed change Is to au thorize rural mall carriers to admin ister oaths to pensioners. This pro vision is designed to relieve the" vet eran living in the suburbs or on the farm from the necessity of making a trip to town for the simple matter of subscribing to his pension papers each quarter. While this seems to be a trifling matter, it will not be a trifling favor to each old soldier who may be permitted to enjoy Its benefits. This proposal does not affect the oath-administering power of those who now have it. Since the foundation of this republic the United States has paid in pensions for all Its wars $3,913,082,513. The number of pensioners in the last decade has changed from year to year very little. In 1900 it was 993,529 and in 1909 it was 946,194, which is the smallest for any of these ten years. Those persons who take the view that pensions is a burden upon a nation should be ardent advocates of arbitra tion as a means of settling wars. Other Christian nations, aside from the United States, have paid the same fabulous tribute as a consequence of war. No Ship Subsidy Now. It may be definitely stated that no ship subsidy bill will be passed by the present congress. In fact, there Is a growing conviction in Washington that ship subsidy may be indefinitely postponed beyond the present admin istration, the assumption being based on the entrenched position Its enemies have secured and the probability of additional opposition In the member ship of the next house. In a very large degree the radical champions of ship subsidy have them selves to blame for their own back set. The thing that blocks their prog ress now is the congressional investi gation, for which a committee has been appointed and which could not possibly be completed In time to have the Humphrey bill considered further at this session. Nor is it certain that the investigation will be completed by the next session. As that will be the short end of congress, it is highly probable that only a futile attempt could toe made to force action then. Radical ship subsidy interests made the fatal error of overdoing their campaign. They instigated personal attacks on government officials whom they could not persuade and, sent out literature containing statements that could not help but arouse members of congress and tend to prejudice them against the very name ship subsidy. Conservative ship Interests did their best to counteract this folly, but failed. They urged the wisdom of resting their case on Its merits and seeking by respectful arguments to win congress over, but the damage to their cause was arready done. It la highly probable that with the weight of the administration's influ ence back of a moderate ship subsidy something might have been accom plished and the bill at least brought to a vote. But under the circum stances the maintenance In Washing ton of a beehive lobby and the dis semination of this lurid literature congress had no option except to pause and inquire into the charges and counter-charges before proceeding with the measure. For the merits of ship subsidy and for the time it has already consumed and will yet consume in congress, the present situation Is unfortunate. It would be profitable if the subject could be disposed of one way or the other after dragging through so many ses sions of congress already. The cause of reviving our merchant marine by some sort of subsidy has plainly gained no ground In spite of favoring conditions. Mr. Bryan's two most intimate po litical and personal friends, James C. Dahliuan and Charles A. Towne, are now at outs with him. In 1900 Towne put in the entire campaign stumping the west for Bryan. Now he comes Into Bryan's own home to peak against prohibition, which Mr. Bryan is advocating as the keystone of the democratic state platform. Omaha extends a welcome hand to General Fred W." Smith as the new commanding officer for the Depart ment of the Missouri, with headquar ters in this city. Omaha has had pleasant experience with previous de partment commanders and looks for ward to equally pleasant relations with General Smith. Former Running Mate Charley Towne has doubtless discovered by this time that it makes all the differ ence in the world whether he agrees or disagrees with Mr. Bryan. As a matter of fact, what business has he to disagree with Mr. Bryan on any thing, anyway? "The legislature of 1910 has made history," says the Baltimore Sun of the Maryland law-makers. It should have Bald, "repeated history." Its en actment of the law disfranchising negroes harks back to a worse age in a certain section. The Massachusetts supreme court has decided that underthe law "the taxicab is not a carriage. That sounds like an attempt to befriend the man whose wife accused him of being brought home in a carriage early in the morning. Lincoln refuses to take Mayor "Jim's" capital removal proposition seriously, but the enterprising cities in the central part of the state insist that it Is no Joke. We shall see what we shall see. Chloride of lime bleaching for water purification may be all right, but noth ing comes up to good old bleaching by sunlight that has .been doing business at the old stand these many thousands of years. 1 '"' . An eastern paper" says the report that they are making Biscuits out of alfalfa In Nebraska sounds like a comic opera. The biscuit tastes more like burlesque. Look What's Here. "I'. St. Paul Dispatch. The Kentucky state senate refuses to consider the Income tax amendment. The Kentucky senate is democratic and the in come tax is a democratic doctrine. What is a democrat? Plain Speaking". ' Philadelphia Bulletin. Mr. Taft's latest address before an audi ence of railroad men serves to confirm his reputation for plain speaking. It is doubtful if the country ever had a presi dent who showed more frankness in his public utterances, whether he had reason to believe that his views were acceptable to his hearers or not. 1 I i-reziare lor lie imH. Denver Republican. Democracy is getting all the satisfac tion it can out of the quarrel In the repub lican ranks, but It nevertheless can feet a chill coming on every time It recalls that the country lias yet nearly three years In which to discover the difference between free trade and a dispute over some of the figures in a protective tariff bill. t Rood Deeds Avoid the Glare. ' Brooklyn Eagle. The society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has cared for 700,000 children. Last year 60,000 cases were considered. The wickedness that was responsible for most of thee cases was well balanced by the kimlnexH of the society's sponsors. The high lights of New York shine from the hearts of Its people who love the unloved little ones. Tills light is no part of the glare of the Great White Vf&y which blinds the foreign book writers and domestic de tractors. lie Was with Grant. New York Tribune. George H. Williams, who died recently in Portland, Ore., was a conspicuous figure in I the politics of the second Grant administra tion. He had been I'nited States senator from Oregon from 1866 to 1871, and entered Grant's cabinet as attorney general in Marc h, 1873. In December of that year the president nominated him to be chief Justice of the supreme court, but the senate re fused to . confirm the nomination. His death after a long period of comparative obscurity dimly recalls an era at Washing ton now almost as far removed from ours In Its political Ideals, methods and sym pathies as the era of Jackson and Jeffer son. April 8, 1810. E. M. Bartlett, attorney-at-la w, off icing in the Board of Trade building, was born April 8, 1849, at Breckvllle, O. He served aa judge of the district court to fill a va cancy, and had previously been a member of the legislature and assistant United States attorney. Frank 11. Gaines, attomey-at-law, In the New York Life building, is 47 years old to day. He hi a graduate of Knox oollegw and practiced law In ' Iow a before coming to Omaha, where he baa been associated with several law firms, at present with McGII ton, Gatnea Smith. Charles H. Malllnson, the grocer, was born April 8. 1V7H. at I'tica, N. T. Ha has (men In buslnets at his present location since 11 I J Our Birthday Book Washington Life Soma Interesting Fhasss and Conditions Observed at tba nations Capital. The oratorical pre-eminence of Texas In congress Is a source of wonderment and envy to the reKl of the union. Rarely has the advantage of tenltoilnl area a an Incentive to Inns development been so strikingly demonstrated. Hut Tcxns Is not content with mere lung expansion. The lxne Star's ambition Is to decorate the output of hot-air with mi'lUfluous trimmings and fill the arching heavens with a cyclone of sweet snundM. A defense of the Texas style of rhetoric, such as the Houston I'ost offers. Is an unnecessary drain on editorial gray matteiv Texas rhetoric needs no defense. When It gushes forth all other geyseis are lured to sleep and silence. Listeners are enthralled and appropriation overleap treasury locks and holts. Such was the effect of the oratory of Congress man Morris ShMppard Ih behalf of the aged government cleik. Thote who would retire the elderly employe, oslerlsed or ossified by faithful service, Nheppsrd re buked by an eloguent line-up of bygone elders. "Titian, Master of Venetian painting." said the Texas warbler, "whose magic colors reflect the freshness and enthusiasm of a world saluting the return of art and learning, produced many of his most won derful canvasses after 90, painting his fam ous Battle of I.epanto, at the age of VS. Fontenelle, one of the most versatile of men; Cornaro, the great disciple of tem perance; Pope I.eo XIII, John Adams. Theophraslus, strode Into the nineties with Intellectual vigor unimpaired." Michael Angelo, at Ri. still held the sky a prisoner in his brush, having executed his Last Judgment, perhaps the most famous sin gle picture In the world, and his celebrated frescoes in the Slstlne Chapel between 60 and 70. See Von Moltlte in full uniform at 88, still the chief of staff of the Prussian Army; having cruRhed France at "i. Hear John Wesley preaching with undiminished eloquence and power almost every day at 88." "See Gulzot and Hobhes and l.atidor. with active pens at 87. See Talleyrand and Thomas Jefferson, Herbert Spencer, New ton and Voltaire, all fruitful In the 80s. See Bancroft, Buffon and Ranke writing deathless history after 80. See Palmerston, prime minister of England at 81, and John Quincy Adams, stricken In the fullness of his strength on the floor of congress at the same age. Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar," the tenderest death song In our language, was composed at 83. Goethe's "Faust" at 80. See Gladstone conducting one of the most exciting political campaigns at 80, taking control of a nation and becoming Its premier at 83. See Cato learning Greek; Plutarch Latin, and Socrates music, all at 80, and tell me no more that the old are no longer capable of high and useful achieve ment. "But let us proceed. Think of Joseph Jefferson portraying Rip Van Winkle with added effectiveness at 75, or the Irish actor, Macklin, actually taking part In a perform ance In England at 99. Think of Browning, brilliant and complex as ever at 77, or Whlttler and Bryant issuing new volumes at 79. Think of Grimm, Laplace, Lemarck, completing tremendous tasks in the neigh borhood of 80. Think of Peruglno, at 78. painting the walls of a vast cathedral, or Humboldt deliberately postponing until 7ri the best work of his life, his immortal Kornnoi, completing it at 90. Think of Galileo discovering the daily and monthly libratlons of the moon at 73. Think of Irving and Lamartine, Hugo and Holmes, Wordsworth and Longfellow, Hallam and Grote, George Buchanan and Samuel John son, Kant, Savlgny and Lit tie, all astound ing mankind with masterful productions be tween 70 and 80. Think of Henry Clay, Cal houn, Metternlch, Bismarck, Crlspl, Thiers, Franklin, Morgan, Reagan, Roberts, Alli son, Morrill, Cannon, all towering figures in politics after 70. Think of Commodore Vanderbllt increasing the mlleags of his railroads from 120 to 10.000, atlJ.'ng $100,000,000 to his fortune between 70 and 88." May 11 will be a great day in Washington for the Polish Americans as it will witness the unveiling of statuea of Kosciusko and Pulaski. The former will be on Lafayette square and the latter on Pennsylvania ave nue, near the National theater. Each of these Polish "heroes of two worlds" will then have more than one memorial In the United States. There Is a monument to Kosciusko at West Point whose original fortifications he traced out or Improved what time he was the most distinguished engineer in the service. The shaft has a peculiar interest in that it is the expression of the esteem In which Kosciusko was held by the cadets of eighty years ago, who raised the funds that paid for it. Kosci usko was a disinterested character. Ha did not come here as a highly salaried mili tary expert under contract, but as an ardent admirer of the American cause. Possibly Pulaski is a more popular char acter, his early and glorious death at Savannah having touched the sympathetic chord of historians. He, too, has his monu ment, erected by the citizens of Savannah, half a century ago. The national tribute will be the tardy fulfillment of a resolution passed by the continental congress U0 years ago. Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia, who is passing through a period of severe Ill ness, some time since told the story of why he regarded Grant as "a true and honorable soldier." It was bevause Grant once saved the life of a friend of Daniel's. This Is the way Senator Daniel told the story: t Along in January or February, 18i6, a young Virginia soldier, about 17 or 18 years of age (and I want you to understand that every boy In Virginia from 13 to 14 years of age and upward was carrying arms at that time) was Instructed by his com mander, who was Colonel John S. Mosby, to crosa the Potomac to a certain post ofrico In Maryland and bring to him the mall. He wanted It for the military in formation he could get out of it. "This young man was In his full con federate uniform, and with a comrade or two proceeded to execute the order. He arrived at the postofflce, and the Incon venient postmaster showed fight. He killed him. He got the mall and brought it and delivered It to his commander. A short time afterward he was captured. He was taken to the city of Washington. He was court-martialed and condemned to be shot for murder. "At that stage of the proceedings his faUier and mother, whom I knew well and there were no more respectable and reputable people In Virginia went to the city of Washington and laid the cane be. fore the president of the United States, Andrew Jackson. He referred them to General Grant. "General Grant sent for the papers end read them over and wrote upon the back of theni words to this effect: " 'This young soldier. In full uniform, obeyed the orders of his commander; if he had not done so he ought to bsve boeu shut. As ha did so. It would be murder to shoot him. He should be Instantly dis charged.' "And that la one reason why I am glad to pay the reapect of a aoldW to the brave, true and honorable American sol dier, Ulysses S. Grant" CS I.OSR THR KWVKRt Ina Personal Iwjary l uari. Philadelphia Press. President Taft Is keetny const loos of some of the defects In the profession of which he Is a most distinguished memlier. The law's delay lias been frequently his text and In his admirable speech to the railway men In Worcester, Mass., last Hat tilday, he opined up a new reform which II will conecd" Is desirable and which the president believes apparently Is practicable. The verdicts of Juries In awarding dam ages for Injuries are measured hy their estimate of what Is due the man for his loss and suffering. This Is ni near right as It Is posslh.e to get. and If the man de- son ea the award given him by the Jury he ought to g.-t It, hut he Joes not. His lawyer lias to he paid, and more or less expresses defrayed and It Is a Common scandal that a big amount that ought to bring a largo nrVasure of consolation to the successful claimant only reaches him In the form of a very inconsiderable and tnenger ren.ram. President Tuft recognises this Is a great evil and he makes a proposition which few lawyers would he willing to suggest, that there should be a uniform ity, so that "the jaw vera may be .elimi nated," The law Is a noble profession, but many an estate and aluable property has been Impoverished by a contention that necessitates the payment of heavy lawyers' fees. When the same source of expense Is extended to the workman seeking claim for wages and damages for per sonal injuries, it becomes oppressive and unfair. President Taft would abolish It by the creation of a system of arbitration by which claims by workman shall be settled promptly, and he paid directly to the one for whose benefit the award Is made. Thero Is humanity and Justice in this proposition. The machinery of the law Is too cumbrous and deliberate for small claims, and too costly generally for poor men to invoke with security. None know this so well aa lawyers themselves. Presi dent Taft's recommendation to eliminate the lawyer in claims for damages may be somewhat prejudicial to Ills professional brethern, but It is clearly In the interest and for the benefit of the poor man and the workingman who should be able to get Jus tice and secure what is properly due them without going to the disproportionate ex pense of employing a lawyer. SMITH OK lOl.MIL BI.IFFJI. Cltr Chlded for Sllarhtins; a Favor ite Son. Des Moines Capital. We regret to observe that the Council Bluffs Nonpareil is untrue at the present time to the interests of Council Bluffs. Council Bluffs has an opportunity to he put on the map, something that ought to bo gratifying to that enterprising city. Council Bluffs now has a chance to secure the speakership ot the next national houso of representative, provided the republi cans have a majority In the house. Prac tically every republican In Washington concedes that If Walter I. Smith is re eUcted to congress that he will be speaker of the house, if the republcans win. In view of these facts, It Is amazing that any voter living In Council Bluffs should raise his voice against Walter I. Smith. Smith has not secured his standing by trickery or by oratory. He has secured it by mani festing intelligence and capability in com mittee work. Nothing has ever been placed in Smith's hands to he Investigated that he did not go at It with the deter mination to find out all about it. By such work, he Won the confidence of congress. If Walter I. Smith Is not an honest man, there are none In congress. This is the voice of the house, as expressed indi vidually to visitors. Members of the house cannot Imagine how anyone living In the Ninth district can cast disrespect upon Smith or question his character or Integ rity. Walter I. Smith was born in Council Bluffs. The people have known him from childhood. He was a Judge a long time. It was his career as a Judge which made him a congressman. No selfish Interest; no narrow factionalism, should prevent the state of Iowa from securing the speaker ship of the house. This opportunity may not come again for a generation. It cannot come again for many years surely. We are surprised that the business men of Council Bluffs have not awakened to the opportunity which Is now laid before them In Smith's reflection. We are more than surplaed that the only dally paper n Coun Keep Your Bath Room Spotlessly Clean with Gold Dust Soap will not do the work properly because soap only cleans the surface it does not digdeep after germs and hidden impurities like GOLD DUST the greatest of all sanitary cleansers. To keep bath tub and lavatory shiny-white and inviting To keep metal pioes,, fixtures and taps brightly burnished To purify closet bowl To keep tiling and woodwork spotless and beautiful ,'. f-ATn Simolv add a heaping teaspoonful of LrUlfU DUST to a pail ot water. You will be surprised at the ease with which it does the work. GOLD DUST sterilizes as well as cleans and saves you one -half the labor. M&do by THE N. K. Makers of FAIRY $500 PIANO PLAYER, $375 On 02 Woolily Payments A. IlOSpe CO., 1513 Douglas Street cil Bluffs should be usirg Ua Infliiem attains! Smith. Verily, politics is a great gun j PERSONAL NOTES. Kim ther em oui genient has l"c:i s . the chicken business. M. Ilostand h al nvidv cleared $;C.II0 out of the "Chan lerlcr." Thu California Stale Hoard of Health hn. otdered that the minus of a',1 hot Is urn restaurant within Its Jurlsdict Ion shal clt. nly state the age of the eggs tin, ei e. Tbe report (hat Andy Carnegie faiuto whin he was appraised of the extent a Pittsburg grafting has been promptly do tiled. It was an Incredible story. Amite knows his Pittsburg. A ChicaKo niHii has been fined (- am costs because he sat for eleven hours ui the f : out steps of the house lt which In adored one resided utul would hot sta; away when her mother drue htm off wm a broom. King Menelck will die some day and til event will be ignored as another if thus exaggerations from Abyssinia. In no Ku ropean capital Is the recent report of In passing away now credited. The old geu tii man Is having a high old time with th obituary column. Any American girl who wants to be Hi Fair Maid of Perth (Scotland) can arrivi by having her papa buy the Casim u Sttathaliau and Tulll bardlne, which w il he. sold at auction on April 2ti. The till sound for 600 years, and the family por traits are to be thrown in. SUNNY GEMS. Damocles was intently watching tin sword suspended over hi head by a suig i hair. "t)h, well." he chuckled, "It might 1 worse. Just suppose my wife had foum that long goalen hair on my topa." Whereupon he ate his meal with grca composure and hilarity.-Judge. "I remember your fao very well," hi said, "but, really, I hae forgotten you, name." "It doesn't matter." she. replied; "l'' had two different names since we met anyhow.'' Chicago Record-Hera Id. "Did the repairer cause you any emhar rassment by bis charge?" "No. He kindly consented to take tin car In part payment." Cleveland Leader. "My good woman, does the system o. visualisation seem to lake with you: children at school?" "Not all of 'em, mum. The doctor sal with Mamie and Tommy It has took flna but Billy's ain't took a bit."--Baltlmori American. Salesman Shirt, sir. VU) you havn I negligee or a stiff bosom? Customer Negligee. I guess. The doetnt said I must avoid starchy things. Huatot Transcript. Mr. llenpeek Were going to remove t the seashore, doctor. inn-tor Hut the climate may dlsagrei with your wife, Mr. llenpeek. Mr. llenpeek It wouldn't dare! Philadel phia inquirer . ... THE PAPER PATTERN. Woman's Home Companion. O daughter, lay your pattern down and pit it straight and strong, And humbly strive to cut it right an never cut it w rong. You will find the undertaking is no tnerrj idle Jest, But you'll finish It by Doomsday If you di your level bent And follow- all directions and lay, as yoi are told, The double perforations on a lengthwls' fold. You've taken "Art" at college, so them tissue shapes grotesque Will probably suggest to you a mot!; Romanesque; tm 'jr.: M ! A mingling ot geometry and lumpy lar nouveau, Chaotic paralli logranis that Euclid didn'1 know. No matter If you turn to art or mathenia. ties cold. Lay double prorations on a leng'thwlsi fold. You've crossed the steppes of Tartary anc tiffined with the shah. You've never lost your bearing from thl pole to Panama! Your smattering of Sanscrit, too, will hel you to translate The mystic Jingling Jargon that descrlbei the fashion-plate. And when your task Is finished, if by chance you should succeed, You will feel you've earned your laurell for a very glorious deed! The baton of a marechal, the halo of t saint. The. brightest golden aureole that artist hand can paint. Will seem to you inadequate, because youl name's enrolled In douhle perforations on a lengthwls fold! Slallw'3isi LH Uu uOLO DUST ttnt dm Kw Mark" FAIRBANK COMPANY SOAP, the oval cake.