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Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cant stamps received In payment of mail accounts. 1'ersonal checka except on .Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. 6TATEMENT OK CIRCCIATION. fctate of Nebraska. IougIaa ;ounty. aa. George U. Txachuck, treasurer of The Bae Publishing company, being duly worn, says that tha actual number of full and complete copiea of The laily, Morn ing, Kvjnlng and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of October, lalO, waa aa follows: 1 43.3bt 1 44,700 t.... 43,880 4.... 43.280 - 43,440 43,040 t 43,700 43.O30 43,700 II t..ia.S50 11 . .430 1 ...43J00 II 43,340 14 43,670 II 43.360 IT 43,370 1 43,300 It 43.330 21 43,310 11 43.430 II 43,170 II 43.4S0 24 .....44,000 IS 43,380 31 43,370 17 43,890 tt -..,43,400 21) 43,050 10 43,800 1 49,080 II 44.030 Total 1.300,740 Returned Coplaa 11,343 Net Total 1.338.3S8 Dally Average 43,174 GEO. B. TZSCHUCU. v Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this Slst day of October, 110. M. 1. WALKER. (Beat.) Notary Public. Snbeerlbera leaving the city tens poraurtlr should have Tha Bra mallea to them. Addrrii will b ehanged aa nftem aa riiete. Georgia ia happy once more, had a good 'poBsum rain It has Those English suffragettes have made even rioting an effeminate pus- time. Whenever we can count the days to Christmas it is time to begin our early holiday shopping. Thug again do we see the old adage verified in Mr. Battling Nelson's fail ure to come back. Dr. Wiley says an egg will give the strength of a pound of meat. Tea, gome eggs are even stronger than that The Ohio river is a contrary stream. Her it begins to riB Just as the gen eral tendency of thlngn is downward. Presumably were it not for the be lated batting averages folks would not know that we had a base ball season last year. "Uncle Joe" has Just one chance left to make a hit with the people let him shave off those funny whiskers. You need not break your neck get ting out of the way of those falling prices. A falling aeroplane is more dangerous. Lincoln is the only city on record where a furnace wag ever stolen out of ' a man's basement. Lincoln, Just think of it! If that anti-buckwheat war in Mary land had been precipitated a little earlier nothing could have prevented it from becoming an issue in tbo cam paign. "No Tammany senator is fit to rep resent New York at Washington," gays the) Now York World. Come to think of it, Just what Is a Tammany senator fit for. ' Interviewed In Paris the other day, Ge&eral Reyes denied that he was at that time ia Mexico, despite rumors of liis return. Why not take the general et hla word? It la rumored that "Oas" Addlcks threatene to "come back" In Delaware, If It is for office he will not have a great ways to come, according to past achievements. Laura Jean Libbey says it la all right for girls to marry men with one leg. It Is nice to have Laura's ap proval, but in the ages that have fled a number of girls have failed to wait for it. Mayor "Jim ia for a charter amendment that will give bigger money for the street fund. He evl dently hesitates to place reliacce on the efficacy of Street Commissioner J'lynn'a prayers. A Kansas City man writes to a pa per there that pinning tags on home folks is all right, but "visitors" to the rlty should be omitted. The most ob rlous Inquiry arising is, How can i Ugger tell a "visitor" from a native California's delegation going to Washington to convince congress that San Francisco ought to have the Pan ama exposition is taking along severs cast's of very persuasive "argument which might even mollify some of thoie New Orleans fellows Have They Seen a Light! Why hav the democrats changed their dearrlptlon of that national gathering to be held in Baltimore, flrat announced as. a conference of the conservatives to lay plana for reorga nizing the party and adopting new policies. Have they Been a light that points to danger in thus excluding the IJryan faction this parly In the proceed- Ings. They now declare that It is not to be a conference at all, that It Is not ( even to be political in character, but simply a Jubilee meeting for celebrat ing the recent victories the party acnievea ana mat n is 10 lnciuoe every section and faction of the party; Just i an old-fashioned love-feast, in fact. Why this change? Have the eastern democrats waked to the fact that they were taking the first step toward mak ing a, very tactless blunder in gratui tously defying Mr. Bryan and his radi cal friends, or have they gone on with their original program and decided to make It merely a change in name? Nearly every comment on the recent democratic victories has conceded their significance In relation to the 1912 election with the one proviso, that the party did not live up to Gen eral Grant's prediction, that "it can always be depended on to do the wrong thing at the wrong time." Evidently with a little retrospect, the democrats who arranged this confer ence have seen it in that light. It is a little early to challenge the Bryan wing of the party to a finish fight? to do its worst. : True, the Nebraskan and his side Beem to be down and out, ut nevertheless they will have a few votes' to cast hereafter and each vtrte will count for one. Evidently the old guard has let its better counsel prevail. Rubbing it into Mr. Bryan would be nice pastime, but, everything con sidered, it 1b one part of the program of rehabilitation that can easily be de ferred. Call it a love feast, then. It will have a much more soothing effect, and go ahead with your reorganizing, just as if it went by some more sig nificant name. Alaska Coal. Governor Clark of Alaska ia doubt less correct when he says that the problem of territorial progress de pends largely for its solution n the opening of the vast Alaskan coal mines, and right again In urging upon congress the necessity of enacting laws that will make this possible. It is not necessary for the government to re linquish its possession of this valua ble property, nor to give unlimited rights of exploitation to outside cap ital, but it is important to offer some inducements for capital to go in there and help open up this great industry. Between the extremes of our conserva tion policies there is a medium some where through which this could be done. According to geological surveys we have 1,200 .square miles of coal in Alaska. Scientists say the supply will equal the demand for 5,000 or 6,000 years at the present rate of consump tion. If this be true, or anywhere near the truth, it is far-fetched for us to talk of conserving these resources for f uture generations when the need of more and cheaper fuel is so urgent, not alone in Alaska, but in the states as well. Governor Clark declares that the lack of cheap fuel is the strongest adverse factor in the problem of the territory's advancement. From a political, economical and in dustrial standpoint a do-nothing policy is Ineffective. In the last year Alaska Imported 500,000 tons of coal, part from the United States and part from other countries, in spite of its own limitless natural resources. No pri vate enterprise would countenance such methods of doing business, or, if it did, it would soon have to go into bankruptcy. There is no danger, of course, of this government going into bankruptcy, but there is a very live danger of its neglecting Alaska's de velopment too long. President Taft, awake to the Alas kan situation, Insists that steps must be taken toward forming a govern ment for the territory at the coming session of congress, and this, of course, contemplates its industrial develop ment. It was for this specific reason that the president sent two of his cab inet officers to Alaska during the sum mer to study the territory and its re sources. It is to be hoped that he will have the necessary co-operation in his attempt to work out this prob lem in the interest of national good. Whiiky and Tobacco. Paradoxical as It may seem in view of the apparent progress of restrictive legislation, the government statistics disclose a steady Increase in the manu facture and consumption of intoxicat ing liquors in this country. The na tlon consumed last year that is the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910 163,000,000 gallons of distilled liquor, an increase of 30,000,000 gallons over the precoding year, and 69,4 85,111 barrels of fermented liquor, a gain of 3,000,000 barrels. Even more dls couraging 10 me success oi tne re strictive measures is the revenue de partment's statement that illicit dis tilling and manufacture of other moonshine goods is on the increase, "especially where there are statewide prohibition lawg." The greatest in creases of this kind have been made in North and South Carolina. Alabama and Georgia. y It ia not gratifying to any law auiumg citizen to aiscover mat any statute la being violated, for that tends to bring all law into a certain disre pute and contempt. But the fact re mains, as ebtabllshed by official test of an Impartial government, that pro hibition Is not succeeding In keeping down the aggregate amount of beer and whiHky consumed either In states that have enacted prohibitory laws or those that have not. The internal revenue officers during the year con fiscated 1,911 illicit plants. 200 more than the year before. We have not, apparently, solved this great problem yet. Many good people believe we will never solve It with prohibition, while, of course, many others contend we will. These perhaps have some ; way of accounting for this present sit-! uatlon which Is not plain to every body. The government's reports ought to have a very heavy bearing and a very careful hearing. Possibly this may lead to a better way yet of hand ling the liquor business. The same reports dl&close a con sumption In one year of 6,830,000,000 cigarettes, a gain over the previous year of 1,000,000,000. This is dis tressing, particularly since it involves so many-boys of immature age. Evi dently the antl-clgarette laws, In va rious states, are even more ineffectual than the anti-liquor laws. As a matter of fact they are. They are not en forced in Nebraska, and it is doubtful if in any other state where they exist. We are an indulgent people, for we smoke more cigars, cigarettes, chew more tobacco and drink more liquor than ever we did and are Increasing our indulgence enormously year by year, expending vast fortunes on each article. The House of Cudahy. Although the late Michael Cudahy never made his home here, his death removes a man who has done much for Omaha and to whom our people owe a debt of gratitude. The Cudahys as much, and more, than any others, helped to develop the meat packing Industry at South Omaha and make this one of the great live stock markets of the world. While be and his associates naturally profited through their enterprise, Omaha and the farmers and stock raisers using his market have also been beneficiar ies. The Cudahy interests will, of course, continue to be looked after by shrewd and able men, and we may hope that Omaha will continue to be the mainstay of these Cudahy enter prises. Still More High Finance. The mayor and city council has Just been served with a formal demand upon them to levy a special tax in an amount sufficient to pay some $225,- 000 of Judgments secured by the Omaha Water company against the city. If this special levy is made, as it doubtless will have to be, it will mean an extra tax burden of several mills on top of the city and school levies, which by themselves are as heavy as they should be. This, how ever, is merely another example of the game of high finance as played by our wonderful Water board. To embar rass the water company and bear the market for its securities the Water board refused payment on hydrant rental and failed to raise the money from year to year for the water fund to meet this outlay, with the conse quence that the bills have gone to Judgment with interest at 7 per cent. What is equally to the point is that while part of the $225,000 is for water supplied previous to the appraisers' award, from which the city's title Is to date in the purchase proceedings, an other part of it is for water supplied after that date, so that the cityvwil! be levying a special tax to provide earnings to offset against the Judg ment In the specific performance ease. Our Water board financiers could hardly have managed it to give the city and taxpayers the short end of it in a more artistic manner. Mr. Aryan's Commoner declares that "even those democrats, who, like Mr. Bryan, were unable to endorse bis (Mayor 'Jim's') position, regretted that they were compelled to withhold their support." In other words, we are to understand that had "Jim" ran simply on the democratic platform without going it one better with his promise to veto a county option bill Mr. Bryan would probably have lined up behind him notwithstanding his demonstrated unfitness for the ofijee to which he was aspiring. Chairman Mack of the democratic national committee has named a sub committee to attend the funeral of "Mose" Wetmore, "chairman of the democratic national finance commit tee, on which he has appointed both J. M. Guffy of Pennsylvania and P. L. Hall of Nebraska. It is to be hoped that the seriousness of the occasion will prevent any revival of that little democratic controversy between Penn sylvania and Nebraska. If any defeated candidate on the state ticket wanted to verify his vote in Douglas county he could easily have done so while the voting machines were' being inspected on demand of'the local candidates. If all whose names appeared on the ticket has the right one at a time to open up and go over the machines again the performance can be prolonged almost indefinitely and the work of the canvas4ng board made interminable. Our old friend, Edgar Howard, scenta danger lu the recent democratic victory from the millionaires and monopolists who have come to the top on the democratic tidal wave. Edgar is afraid that the enforced virtue of poverty may not hold out with the democratic party through an era of political prosperity. Without trying to be prejudiced, we venture the pin Ion that Edgar's fears are well grounded. Congressman Hitchcock's World Herald says It will be all right if the proposed democratic conference at Baltimore is called a Jackson day cele bration. What's in a name, anyway? It's Just as easy to celebrate for "Saint Jackson" and confer on the side as it is to make the conference the main issue and celebrate for "Old Hickory" after closing hours. In his farewell message to the leg islature two years ago Governor Shel don struck several high spots with recommendations for scientific punish ment for criminals and civil service examinations for applicants for mar riage licenses. Governor Shallen berger will have to go some, and then bouio, if he hopes to 'make a new rec ord in this line. The school book men who were so mercilessly routed at the Nebraska Teachers' association are not saying a word. Evidently they confidently be lieve they can "come back." The hookworm is doomed now. The club women have declared war on it. They will show up Mr. Rockefeller's puny million. Hope Deterred. Chicago Tribune. If Mr. l)lai haa been waiting for an op portunity to demonstrate that he Is a great war president the Indications are abundant that ho will nut have to wait any longer. Mf" Mfin'a Impulse. Springfield Republican. Many a citizen friendly to the cause of eiual rights for women will grit his teeth over the ravage antics of the suffragettes In London and register a quiet vow "Never for me!" It ia at any rate a pitiable spec tacle. Another Herniation. Chicago Record-Herald. Postmaster General Hitchcock estimates that the people of this country have been swindled out of $100,000,000 in get-rtch-quiok ventures during the last five years. This may account in part for the high coat of living. . ltnom for Improvement. Pittsburg Dispatch. Nevertheless, the discipline of the Amer ican navy la not demonstrated in the most favorable light when sailors of the fleet Btone restaurants that have offended them and fight the police who attempt to pre serve order. It I vera aa Open Sewers. New York Tribune. The practice of transforming even big rivers into open sewers is doomed, and thoso cities will be wisest which most promptly and most readily seek to adapt themselves to the new conditions which economy, cleanliness and public health de mand. Problem for FIore Sharps. New York Tribune. Senator Aldrlch said that the United States government could save $300,000,000 a year by business methods. And now ex perts say that the railroads which use busi ness methods could save $300,030,000 by "scientific" management What could the government save by "scientific" manage ment? A "Holler" for Effect. Indianapolis Journal. While It may be true, as the Railway Business association says, that the big railroad supply industries will perish if an advance in freight rates ia not allowed. It must be remembered that this catastrophe would probably affect the railroad men who hold stock In auch organizations more than It would any one else. Aa long as there ia a demand for railway aupplles, railway supplies will be forthcoming, and perhaps, under a little different organiza tion than at present exists, they might be forthcoming at lower prices. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Al Re of Everett. Mass., claims to have the shortest name of any man in the coun try. Some ado la being made because $5 hills were taken from Oeorgla applea plucked In the vicinity of tha polls. Nevertheless, the statement that there la money in ap ples may be found in the prositectus of any fruit belt. Madame Judith Gautler, daughter of the novelist and poet, Theophlle Gautler, at one time wife of the late Catulle Mendes, haa been elected to the Goncourt Academy of. letters. She a the first woman to be thus honored. Otto A. Fenn of Damascus, Pa., em ployed In the engineers' department of the New York Hippodrome, has invented a new airship which he calls the "Bi-Step-Plane," and when he completes a twelve foot model, will fly from the roof of the Hippodrome building within the next month. He la bunding his airship himself In the basement of his home. The district court of appeals in Cali fornia haa confirmed the sentence of "Abe" Ruef to fourteen years' imprisonment. Kucf will be remembered aa the head of the grafting regime In San Francisco. The step may be cheering, but It leaves Ruef still far from the door of the penitentiary. An appeal to the state supreme court will follow, and then, if necessary, one to the federal supreme court. Meanwhile, the seasons will be passing. Our Birthday Book. November 99, 1910. Wendell Phillips, the noted ant!-s!avery orator and reformer, waa born November 30. 1811. He gave up the practice of law be cause unwilling to take oath under the constitution so long as it stood as a com pact between freedom and slavery. Lambert Tree, lawyer and diplomatist, waa born November 29. 1S32. In Washington and died during the current year. He was American minister to Belgium and later to Russia during President Cleve land'a administration. Cecil A. Lyon, member of the republican national committee for Texas, la 41 yeare old today. He was born in Boston, (ia., and la Interested In the Klrby Lumber company, which haa offices here in Omaha. In Texas he I known as the republican boss. S. X. U. North, former director of the census, waa born November 20, 1X4, at Clinton, N. Y. He is the author of a latge number of statistical works and Is an ex pert on wool manufacture. Charles C. Peering, manager for the .Omaha district of the New tate Telephone company, was born November 2S, 1X71, at Motngona, la. He was manager of the Mutual Telephone company of lea Moines before coming to Omaha. NEBRASKA FBESS COMMENT. Beatrice K.xpresa: One beautiful thought occurs t the common man when he thinks of the narrow margin between the parties In the Nebraska legislature this winter. There ran be no extreme partisan legis lation put through, and nn a result the i stute may benefit by the passage of laws enacted strictly for the good of the people. Kails City Journal: In Katifas the pro hibitionists oppose the referendum because It gives the resubmlsslonlsta a chance to worry the people by frequent votes on the liquor question. In Nebraska the liquor In terests oppose It for a like reason. The Initiative and referendum are flret-clnss miUanccs irrespective of whoee toes axe trampled thereby. Stanton News (dem.): The lesson of the 1910 election Is that the liquor corporations must keep out of Nebraska politics. A democratic year, when Shallenberger could have been elected by 30.000. the butting In of the booze element caused the democrats to lose the governor, but we'll profit by their work, for democracy will not fall Into such a trap again. The real patri ots of the last election were the democrats who refused to vote for Inhlman. Kearney Hul: William Colfa of Uassett, Neb., declares that "Nebraska needs set tlers more than It needs money," and the basis for his conclusion Is that he has more than 4,000 acres of hay land under his control that was not cut this year because he could not hire the labor to do it. Some body, somewhere, needed that hay, and Ne braska needed the return from the waste production. The case of Mr. Colfax Is one among many. He Is right In declaring that Nebraska needs settlers more than money, for of the latter there Is plenty to handle all the crops and promote ordinary de velopment. Shelton Clipper: One of the things that the coming Nebraska legislature might do with advantage fci the state Is to take the pardoning power out of the hands of the governor and vect It In a board of pardons consisting of several state officers. With the power to pardon criminals In the hands of one man It makes It more likely for a mistake to be made than though several men had the authority. It takes the united verdict of twelve men to send a man charged with a felony to the penitentiary and It ought to take more than-,one man to turn him loose on an already long suf fering public. Albion News: Oovernor-elect Aldrieh was to a great extent elected on a non-partisan basis. He had the opposition of a large element of his own party, and the sup port of a large number of democrats and populists. He will be Justified In Inaugu rating a non-partisan regime in his ap pointments. The management of the state's business, especially the great penal and philanthropic Institutions, should be con ducted with an eye solely to efficiency and economy, and not be made to serve as soft snaps for political beneficiaries. We believe Governor Aldrlch will serve his party best by serving the publio best. Wlsner Chronicle: That the present open primary law will be repealed by the next legislature seems to be conceded. It has few friends. Some favor a return to the closed primary as it was passed four years ago, others would condemn all primaries and revert to the old convention system. The Chronicle favors a closed primary for the nomination of county candidates, and delegates to state and congressional con ventions. Let the men who wish to be chosen as delegates to these conventions announce themjjelvea and file applications to be placed on the ballots, and the required number receiving the highest number of votes at the primary be declared delegates. These delegates will nominate a better class of men for state candidates than are selected by the present hodge-podge, state wide primary system. In which the voters are called upon to make their choice from an array of names as unfamiliar to them as the dynasties of Kgypt. Central City Nonpareil: The initiative and referendum should be restricted In ap plication only, to those important measures that are state-wide in their Influence and this can be accomplished by fixing the percentage of signers to the petitions at a point where it would be Impracticable to attempt invoking the plan for an unim portant bill. Frequent submissions of the same question should be prohibited, thus preventing constant turmoil and dissension. These two defects in the system are the principle points of criticism in the Oregon and South Dakota laws and Nebraska can profit by their experience. The Bee ad mits that the plan haa worked with suc cess in Switzerland, but claims that that is due to the amallness of the country, the operation of the system being but an exten sion of the town meeting. Aa Switzerland haa about three times the population of Nebraska we are wondering what would prevent an even greater success of the system here.- Legislatures are supposed to be elected for the purpose 0f giving the people the kind of laws they want. Too often, however, they have used their power to prevent the people from getting what they want. In the Initiative and referen dum the people will have an instrument by which they can express their Ideas and an authority to make them effective. Columbus Telegram (dem.): Out of the abundance of the cursing requiems which were aung against the open primary law during the late state campaign. It ia fair to gather the belief that the law will be taken off the books by the present legis lature. Such being the case, what shall be substituted for the present cursed thing? fehali we go back to the old convention system? Shall we utterly forsake the prin ciple of the primary? If The Telegram should be asked to suggest a substitute for the present primary law we would run quickly back to the convention system, as far as the making of state and congress ional nominations la concerned, but woiiid provide that the principle of primary be retained In choosing county candidates. In stead of the present open primary, closed so tight that a republican could not brealc Into the democratic side of It with a- crow bar, nor a democrat Into the republic in side. In choosing party delegates to rep resent a county in a state convention we would have the delegates selected by the primary system, cutting the number of del egates from each county down to a small figure, and then have the county or state pay the expenses of such delegatea. We would have this rule apply also to con gressional delegates. This would go far to avoid the old practice of the railroad poli ticians in herding delegates and paying their railroad fare and expenses. We do not like the .present primary law for an Instant, but we do desire that the principle of the primary plan be retained in some manner In Nebraska. We consider the present open primary law aa good as dead and buried, and shall hope the legislature may substitute for the present monstrosity something along the lines we have sug gested. Better Not Forer the Proof. I'hlladelphla Record. Hallnad presidents and directors who are railing at Attorney Brandeis because of his Insistence upon rational methods of management should have a care. They may challenge him to the proof that by In grained favorUism and other abuses some of them are wasting fur more money than Is required by the advance In wages which they allege aa the ground of Increases In freight ratrs. By abolishing the Inside ex press company rings. In which some rail road presidents and dlrectora hold gilt- edged khares, vast amounts would be sawed I by railroad companlee and their atockhold eia, aa well aa by ahippera and the public. Secondary Boycotts Legal and Moral IVatnre of aa Aet XMitermlned by the Mo tive Which Inspired It. The Outlook, New York. A correspondent calls our attntion to t position taken in the brief of the counsel of the American Anti-Boycott association filed in the t'nlted States supreme court in the Bucks stove case: "The sole argument for the right to boy rott rests upon the proposition," says the brief, "adopteS as true in the opinion rf Chief Justice Shepard. that what one man may lawfully do any number of men may lawfully agree or combine to do. But the right of an Individual to withhold his cus tom from persons who deal with 'A' Is as unquestionable as his right to withhold his custom from 'A' himself. Within reason able limits, any person may express disap probation of an actor In a theater, but a combination of persons to hiss h!m and to lave others do so would bo unlawful." Our correspondent adds: "I have never been able to find any satisfactory answer to Mr. Oompers' contention that if they have a right, as is conceded by the c ourts generally, to refuse to purchase goods In dividually or collectively from 'A.' for any reason or for no reason, then they cer tainly have a right to refuse to purchase from a th rd patty because he deals with 'A,' or because he dines wtlh him. or bo cause he does anything else with him.' Certainly those Instances come under the head of for any reason or for no reason." The error of our correspondent and of the counsel whom he quotes appears to us to be that both regard tho external deed as an act. but In the sight l oth of the law and good morals the nature of the act Is determined not by the external deed merely or mnlnly, but by the motive which Inspires it. If a burglar enters a house, and the householder and the burglar shoot at eactt- other, the external deed In tho same; but if the burglar kills tho house holder. It Is murder. If the householder kills the burglar, It Is not murder. The moral quality determines the nature of the act. If one man stands on the sidewalk, his act Is legal; if a thousand men gather on the same sidewalk, the r act ia llleeal because the act la not the same. The one man does not block the way, the thousand men do block the way. and are presumed to intend to do ao. If a thousand men leave their employment In order to obtain higher wages, their act is not illegal. It Incidentally may injure the employer, but the object is not to Injure tho employer but to benefit the strikers. If they fur ther agree not to purchase goods of the employer until he taltea them back into his employment, this act Is also probably not illegal, though we believe that the de cisions on this question are not absolutely uniform. It Is not i'legal because It is re garded as a legitimate act in collective bargaining. It is aa legitimate as it would be for an Individual to say to his grocer, If you are going to charge me so much for eggs, I will not in the future deal with you; I will go somewhere else. This Is a legitimate argument In conducting a bar gain. But it is not legitimate to say to him. If you charge me so mucn ior eggs I will go to all my neighbors and persuade them not to deal with you, by threatening to withdraw my custom from them it they give their custom to you. Such an act would be Immoral, if It would not be illegal, and a combination of men to perform such an act la both im moral and illegal, because It is clear that the object of this so-called secondary boy cott la purely and simply to produce an In Jury to the former employer, and further more to produce an Injury to others with whom the combining workmen have no quarrel and against whom they have no cause of complaint. The act In the case of the secondary boycott ia not the same aa the act In the case of the primary boy cott, becauBe the object or motive Is primarily to injure in the one case, and only incidentally and secondarily to Injure in the other case. We believe this to be the ground on which the courts have gen erally drawn the distinction between a primary and a secondary boycott, and it appears to us that this Is a rational ground on which to base such a distinction. fan the Bakery, Plrnae. Houston Post. 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He'd been aeroplan lng for several weks lielore the accident occurred." Detroit Free Press. "Some orators," said Senator Sorghum, reflectively, "make mo think of our par- ' The one whose head you chopped off?" "Yes. Ho had to take all the blame for what somebody else .nslsted on hla Bay ing." Washington Star. "Hello, old chap," greeted the crowd at the club. "Back from your hunting trip? Bag anything?" "No." responded Chappie Eaasnot. wearily. "Well, no wonder. Tou're a back num ber. The Idea of going hunting with a tailless pointer." "Oh, don't blame poor Beppo! He had a tall when we started." Chicago Newa. "Lobelia," said I'ncle Giles, "you maka use of that big dictionary with the wlr stand that I gave you last Christmas, don't you?" "oh, yes, uncle." answered Mrs. McSwat, "and the children enloy It ever ao much, They're never so happy as when they can manane to upset It on the baby." Chicago Tribune. WHAT HAPPINESS DOES. Baltimore Sun. This . is what happiness does it takes A face where the wrinkles are and makes A velvety roseleaf out of the cheek That had grown ao pale and ao aad and meek; And Into the eyes where the crow's-feet meet An Inlaid smile, with a sunbeam sweet. This is what happiness does, it brings To an outward heart the Imperial wlnga Of hope and beauty, till o'er its head Those wings to the blue, sweet sky are spread, And the soul so gloomy and dark with care Is a songbird skimming the golden air. That is what happiness does one hour In a woman's heart will create a flower Of love so tender and sweet and true It would seem like a whole world flooding you With light and laughter and joy reborn Like an April flower In a fairy morn. This Is what happiness does It shows A tollworn hand that there lives a rose Somewhere for It In tho life bereft, That hope with Its holy cheer Is left And dark though the way may often seem It Is not dark, but a golden gleam. 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