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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Stat of Nebraska, Doug'as County, ss.
I'wtght Williams, circulation manager of
The be Publishing Company, being duly
swoin, says that 'he actual number of full
and complete copies ef The Dallv. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bees printed during
th month of December, 1910. waa as fol
io': I... 43.670 IT 43,610
1 44,000 If 44.830
I 43, -W0 1 v. 43,630
4 45.KO iO 43,030
43,670 SI 43,040
( 43 43' 21 44,800
' 4,2o0 II 44,830
I 43,33c 24 44,630
1 43.660 It 44,350
10 43,400 it 44,400
11 44,380 2T 44,360
1 43,681 21 46,850
II 43,400 21 43,990
14 .,830 10 43,880
II 43,970 tl 43,640
14 4360
Total 1,368,760
Returned Cople 11,483
Net Total W44J87
Daily Average 43,384
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Circulation Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 31st day of December, 118.
KOBiiKT HUNTER.
Notary Public
ttahsFrlbers learlaar the city tem
porarily ahnald bare The He
mailed them. Address will be
haaged as ofteai aa reaaeaied.
We are ready to quit while. If you
are, Mr. Weatherman.
See here, is Nat Goodwin paying
alimony to all these divorced wtvesT
"Customs Frauds In San Francisco."
All aboard for California, Mr. Loeb.
Nearly half of January gone. Are
you taking advantage, of those clear
ance gale! :
, - r'rofeBedonalv knockera:-' Ty. t'obh,
Un U agnei Napoleoo Lajole and
Jack Johnson. ' .
Another reason .for boosting the
tariff commission bill Is that Senator
Bailey la against" It.
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Terrapin han been selected aa the
main dlah at the Baltimore demo
cratic love feast. No lobsters, then?
Just Imagine' to yourself what
might happen If Adams county, Ohio,
ever went Into the census-padding
business.
b'quilibratorg may be fatal to shaky
airships, but not to shaky banks, as
Mr. Morgan has aptly and deftly
shown us.
A Kansas City evaugelist has un
dertaken to arouse San Francisco by
a three months' revival. Here's hop
ing, brother.
At any rate, occupants of the city
hall ought not to suffer from the cold
no long aa City Clerk Butler is over
heated under the collar.
Tina rather la bad on microbes and
coal piles. St. 1 A) ills Republic.
Yea, but you cannot get all the
K(od things with one stroke.
Just to keep in practice. San Fran
cisco and New Orleans will run a trial
heat in their race for the Panama
Canal exposition before the Nebraska
legislature:
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For a keen sense of the rterual fit
ness, of thin?, commend us to the
.-'nuth Dakota legislature, which has
referred the ant,i-hat piu bill to the
omniittee on military affairs.
One of the papers that howled the
loudest for Hallinger's investigation
now declares "It cost 114,000 and
we could have got along without It."
Consistency, thou are a Oh, what's
the use?
Mr. Edison evidently thinks he has
conquered the electrical world and
should now seek new kingdoms for
tonquest. but his start aa a pbophec
ia not as brilliant as his record In
at hieveiuent.
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Senator LaKoUctle II. Inks thai Wall
meet Im already selected the presidential
landidatea for Mi. Chicago Newe.
Since Wall street selections have
had" so little suecets of late years it
would seem to matter Utile what It
has done.
Nebraska's two senators hsve with
drawn a recommendation for postmas
ter because the candidate recom
mended turns out to be under Indict
ment for Indian land frauds. That Is
the. right thing to do. Hut still it
would he much better not to reeoiu
ii, end any crooks for appointment te
ufflie it the first place.
Oregon. Plan Obligations.
The question to what extent the
so-called Oregon plan of electing
Fnited States senators Imposes an ob
ligation on members of the legisla
ture to cast their ballots for the can
didate for senator who received the
highest popular vote in the election
is now up st Lincoln. The so-called
Oregon plan was tried first in Ore
gon, so this question Is not presented
ss sn entirely new one, and the fart
that The Bee has not favored that
device will perhaps lend force to the
views here expressed.
In politics, ss in business, there is
only one safe rule to follow and that
Is to keep faith In all agreements en
tered into without force or fraud.
Every member of the legislature who
subscribed to "Statement No. 1,"
pledging himself lo vote for the can
didate for senator receiving the high
est popular vote, irrespective of party
affiliations, is in honor bound to carry
out that pledge. Violation of that
agreement with the voters, unless the
agreement were vitiated by fraud,
would be no different In principle
from the repudiation of a note or re
fusal to execute a trust.
So far as members of the legisla
ture are concerned who did not sign
"Statement No. 1." a very different
situation confronts them. The demo
crats who failed to assume this obli
gation are. It seems to us, in honor
bound to vote for the nominee of their
party, who happens in this case to be
the candidate who polled the highest
popular rote. The republicans, who
are free from "Statement No. 1," it
seems to us, are also in honor bound
to vote for the nominee of their party,
even though he did not receive the
highest popular vote. The only ex
ception would be In such cases where
successful republican Jegislatlve can
didates, without signing "Statement
No. 1," publicly and openly declared
before election their intention to act
upon the expression of popular pref
erence. There certainly is no good reason
why a republican member of the legis
lature elected by his constituents with
full knowledge that he was not to be
bound by the popular vote In the whole
state, and especially if it were not the
same as the popular vote In his dis
trict, should vote for a democrat for
United States senator. Had his con
stituents wanted that vote so cast they
would have elected a democrat to the
legislature instead of a republican.
Suppose the present condition ' re
versed, would any one expect a demo
crat In the legislature to volunteer
bis vote for senator to a republican?
This Is the view of these obliga
tions, which The Bee took four years
ago on the eve of the election which
resulted In making - Norris Brown
United States senator. At that time,
when strangely enough Congressman
Hitchcock's paper was adjuring re
publicans In the legislature to ignore
their party's nomination and the popu
lar vote as well, The Bee insisted that
to act In good faith all the republi
cans would have to record themselves
on the senatorial ballot for the repub
lican nominee and all the democrats
for the democratic nominee, notwith
standing the fact that the democratic
nominee had fallen way behind In the
expression of popular preference.
Some Needed Experiments.
On democratic member of the leg
islature, disgusted with the squabbling
over committee assignments, is pub
licly quoted as saying that while he
was In favor of the house naming its
own committees, ha would next time,
if there should be a next time, vote
for the speaker to appoint. Of course,
this Is political lese majeste and by no
means conclusive, but It points an op
portunity for the Nebraska legislature
now In session to make Itself the ex
periment station to try out the various
parliamentary reforms that are in the
air before they ar loosed on congress
by the democratic majority of the next
bouse. If shearing the speaker of his
power to appoint committees cannot
be made to work out successfully on a
small scale among such Intelligent
law-makers as constitute the member
ship of the Nebraska legislature, the
same difficulties may be encountered
when applied to the bigger field of the
national house of representatives
Rut the changed method of appoint
ing committees Is not the only plank
In the platform of proposed parlia
mentary reform. Another abuse
sought to be remedied Is the pigeon
holing of bills in committee. To stop
this It is proposed to mske always In
order a motion to discharge a com
mittee from further consideration of
any bill in its possession and have it
out then and there on the floor. If
this Is a good thing for congress it
ought also to be a good thing for the
legislature At any rate, no harm
would be done by trying it a little
while down at Lincoln.
Still another proposal advanced by
the insurgents at Washington contem
plates a public record of the proceed
ings of all committees. By this plan
every committee would have to record
every vote at every meeting and the
committee roll-call be kept open to
general inspection and reported to the
I house on demand. The purpose of
this rule is to enforce responsibility
snd prevent stealthy skullduggery by
cowardly members committing may
hem or murder on meritorious bills in
the dark recesses of the committee
room which they would not dare to do
in the light of day. A public record
of committee meetings and votes
would surely be a good experimental
innovation for our law-makers at
Lincoln.
Another popular principle that
THE BKE:
might have a try-out In the legislature
Is that of the recall. Why not give
every aggrieved member a right to
move at any time to rescind the elec
tion to the speakership and proceed to
choose another speaker, and likewise
as to committee chairmanships snd
assignments? Why should one man
want to monopolize the honor of being
speaker, anyway? Especially if the
office carries no privileges, power or
perquisites with it? There sre less
than sixty democratic members of the
bouse and there are just sixty pay
days of session. Why not arrange the
names alphabetically and rotate the
speakership from top to bottom day
by day and give every one an equal
chance? We should like to see this
reform of parliamentary procedure
tried at least once, and we know of
no better place to stage the play than
among our law-makers at Lincoln.
Let Nebraska lead the way and
share with Oregon its glory as the
breeding place for new reforms in gov
ernment. Using All the Resources.
One of the wlpest laws ever enacted
In the interest of the country's de
velopment was that act of congress
approved June 17, 1902, setting apart
as a fund for the reclamation of arid
land, money received from the sale of
public land in western states and terri
tories, except 5 per cent of the pro-
ceeds for educational and other speci
fied purposes. The reclamation fund
accumulated from this source up to
June 30, 1909, was $58,439,408 and to
June 80, 1910. $65,714,179, and since
that date enough more has been thus
added to bring the total up to about
$70,000,000. That act was preliminary
to the set of the last congress pro
viding for a loan of $20,000,000 to
complete unfinished reclamation pro
jects and therefore becomes historical
in this general movement of convert
ing the public domain Into a produc
tive area.
Now. the president having approved
the engineers' reports and recom
mendations for the distribution of this
$20,000,000, very wisely, we believe,
recommends to congress the enact
ment of a law "which will permit the
disposition of any surplus stored water
available from reclamation projects to
persons, associations or corporations
operating systems for the delivery of
water to individual water users for
the Irrigation of arid lands," and also
a law that will "give executive author
ity for the modification of conditions
of paying for water rights on certain of
the projects, where, by reason of local
conditions, the return of the cost of
the projects to the reclamation fund
will not be secured unless settlers are
permitted to make payments on terms
or conditions other than those speci
fied in the public notices heretofore
issued."
Thus the president proposed that
every available facility and resource
shall be used to further this general
reclamation plan and also that settlers
shall be given every opportunity and
assistance the government can prop
erly place within their reach to en
able them to make -good on their
undertaking. Just one question Is in
volved in this matter of reclamation
and that Is the question of furnishing
homes for worthy sttlers and develon
ing the great west. In this the gov
ernment's whole course has been of
the sure-footed sort. It has not taken
a step in the dark, but felt its way
carefully, and as a result, as far as
the enterprise has gone, it is eminently
successful and entirely to the credit
of the government.
Dissolving Trusts.
The public is disposed to become
impatient of. the delay In reaching
final results in such litigation as the
suit to dissolve the Standard Oil trust,
so-called. This suit was begun nearly
five years ago and the common belief
is that it has been unnecessarily pro
longed, with the end not yet in sight.
It may be noted, however, that the
government in its petition recites the
fact that this "conspiracy in restraint
of trade," which it seeks to undo and
punish, dates back to 187 0, being,
therefore, in process of formation and
development some forty years. When
we take this fact into consideration
I "we may be able to appreciate more
readily the stupendous task the gov
ernment assumes in this trust prose
cution. if the demand for the wholesale dis
solution of every alleged trust were
by some phenomenon complied with;
that Is, if the government were to se
cure results enabling It to order this
general dissolution, how would such
order be carried out? And if they
i ''ould be carried out, what effect
! would it have upon the country and
i upon general business conditions?
! With billions of dollars Invested In
thebe organizations their dissolution
i could not come about abruptly with
!out serious consequences to employes.
I
I
investors and consumers dissolution
must be gradual, with time for ade-
quale readjustment of bubinebs sys-
tents
This government, therefore, pro
ceeds upon sane lines of action in rieal
j ing with large aggregations of wealth
1 accused of being illegal trusts aud
I combines. And the government Is
I making commendable headway. It
' has achieved some tangible results
! aud is forging on to the accomplish
! meat of others. But the task is inon
i umental in its proportions and re-
quires time and patience. The gov
j eminent is fully matched In w it and
, strategy by the corporations, w ith lim
t itlesa resources at their command.
1 This, added to the strength of years
' of Itim-iic huient, sets up a very formi-
OMAHA, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1911.
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dable obstacle even for governmental
power.
Give it a Fair Trial.
The measure providing for a limited
parcels post on rural free delivery
mall routes has been favorably re
ported to the senate. With the power
of the administration back of it. It
will probably pass and become a law.
It contemplates an experiment for on
year. By that time It should be
proved wise or unwise for permanent
service. If it does not come up to ex
pectations, certainly the government
may be relied on to abolish It, and If
It does come up to the standard, to
make it general and periranerit in
time.
Under the circumstances it would
seem only reasonable for those inter
ests and Influences seeking to defeat
this legislation to rest their case In
the fate of a fair experiment. These
Interests have gone to vast pains and
expense to flood the country with lit
erature, denouncing the whole plan of
parcels post and seeking to organize
forces for its overthrow. Nor have
these Interests overlooked the expedi
ent of sending lobbies to Washington
to work on the lawmakers. But evi
dently to no avail.
Parcels post, we believe, Is coming
to stay, and it Is futile to try to stop
It. If It comes It will be In response
to a real demand. Possibly a few
business Interests might be adversely
affected by It, but the great majority
of people would, we feel sure, benefit
through the operation of such a meas
ure. Parcels post has been success
ful abroad and we have every facility
and means for making it work well
here.
Francis J. Ileney, the San Fran
cisco graft prosecutor, might never
have been heard of In that role there
but for one of San Francisco's news
papers that unearthed the seed of
of corruption, ably assisted by other
papers In its work of exposure. But
one or two papers did not fall in line
with Ileney and now. he is out with
the usual philippic, "the newspapers
nave come to such a pass, etc." Why
do men of his high caliber refuse to
discriminate between newspapers?
One displeases them, all get the
blame. For the purposes of denunci
ation they are the "press" or the
"newspapers." But without the news
paper support, where and what
would the Heneys be?
Mr. Bryan's Commoner enters upon
its eleventh year with an urgent ap
peal to the rank and file of democrats
for further co-operation to help It fill
its mission. "Now, more than at any
other time," It declares, "there is need
for earnest work In the advancement
of democratic principles and in pro
test against plutocratic policies." We
congratulate the .Commoner on its
birthday. But is It not a sad com
mentary for It to have to say that. In
spite of its ten years of strenuous en
deavor, there is need "now more than
at any other time" for rescue work
among the democrats?
That noble patriot, Chris Gruenther,
wants it distinctly understood that
when Congressman Hitchcock asked
what he could do for him In return
for his services in the senatorial cam
paign he replied that he did not want
any office. What office is it that Mr.
Hitchcock as senator will have to
confer?
A bill has appeared In Lincoln, fath
ered by a state senator from this city,
making it malfeasance for any mem
ber of the Park board to let the board
fail to spend at' least $3,000 each year
for music In the parks. This is mu
nicipal home rule with a vengeance.
And now Dundee, copying South.
Omaha, is talking about building a
water works plant of Its own separate
and distinct from the Omaha plant.
What is our Water board going to do
about it?
What's the matter with our Omaha
lawyers that a big railroad system
should have to send up to Blair for a
man to take second place In Its law
department? No reflection on Blair.
It is a reasonable presumption that
the pay-as-you-euter cars pay the
street railway company or they would
not be putting more of them on the
other lines.
tl Kiample Worth While.
New York Tlmea.
Governor Harmon on being Inaugurated
for the second time broke all precedents In
Ohio by making no Inaugural address. His
example of self-restraint Is one which
many other governors could follow with
out danger of arousing any great amount
of popular dissatisfaction and prutest.
Tr 4hr t ot Rate.
New York Tribune.
It Is not at all certain that patent medi
cine manufacturers are wise In aeeklng t"
prevent price cutting by retailers. There
are millions of people who would demur
at paying a round dollar for a bottle of
stuff which coat perhaps 11 eenis to pro
dine who would eagerly take it at a cut
rate of '19 cents.
I .m-.oUU- t..gre...-.
Boston Herald,
j The sine of Mr. Sulloway's pension bud
' get recalls the time when, freshly ap
' pointed to the committee on invalid prn
' sutnH, he asked at Its first meeting the
number of private pension hills awaiting
aitl.jn. On being informed that there were
about S TOO, he announi ed It It great soi
eii'Iiit: "And 1 am prepared no a to vote
I for eiery one of tlieni."
I
i II. .-v Killed li Itrlukliik. I.te.
SlDl'X FALLS. S. 1. Jrtn. K..-(!S.c al 1
The 2-year-old son of Mr ami Mrs
Auguu Ni-lvon. wi,.- it side on a farm In
Kuigsburv county, is deail ne the lesnlt
of swallowing a uunnlll. of li pild I; r Tlo
tliild in some was secured a can of ;le
li'iuld. and liefore hrmg dim-ot rrej ,'ia.l
nw allowed eoiue of tl.
Around New York
tipple on the Current ef life
aa Sees la the Great imirlMi
Metropolis from Day to Day.
Various explanations are given by New
Tork papers for the use of Andrew
Carnegie's name by the trust company,
whose embarrassment caused something of
flurry In financial circles. Mr. Carnegie
Is not a stockholder In the rompsny, and
has not been a factor In Its operations.
When the company was organised some
four yeara ago Mr. Carnegie was solicited
by several interested old-tltne associates
to allow the use of his name, and con
sented. Among these old-time friends
whose names appear as directors are
Charles Schwab, Mr. Carnegie's right hand
man In the steel world before the trust was
born. Another Is ravld It. Hates, and the
third Albert B. Chandler, members of the
telegraph corps of the union army In the
civil war. Carnegie, Bates and Chandler
are three of the "five immortals" so
called by historians of the war telegraph
service. On two former occasions Mr.
Carnegie came to the rescue of the trust
company, first with 11.000,000 and again
with $1,500,000, showing on both occasions
the same lavish generosity toward old
friends which prompted him to establish
a pension system for disabled survivors of
the civil war telegraph corps, of whom
about 160 receive monthly his personal
check for an amount equal to a soldier's
pension. Kindness to his old friends and
associates less fortunate than himself Is
characteristic of the man, and doubtless
explains why he assented to the use of
his name and propped a concern that
splashed the Carnegie escutcheon with
financial mire.
In the romance of "high finance" In this
country there are few csreers more Inter
esting than that of Joseph O. Robin, provi
dent of the collapsed trust company. The
family name is Roblnovitch, which Is still
borne by a sister of Joseph's, a regular
graduate doctor, who Is now out on bail
on the charge of perjury In denying that
her parents are In this country. Joseph
and his sister rame to this country about
twenty years ago. The medical training or
the latter readily commanded employment,
but the young man had no other equip
ment than knowledge of the Russian and
Oerman languages and a smattering of
Kngllsh. What he lacked In the "language
of the tribe" was overcome by quick per
ception, energy and nerve. His first en
terprise was a bootblack stand, from which
he engineered a neighborhood combine of
shiners and sold out at the top of the mar
ket. From this he drifted Into the New
York newspapers as a translator of for
eign languages, and in his off hours be
came a regular shadow of police reporters
of the east side, seeking opportunities to
sell news stories. About this time Robln
ovitch became Robinson. His sister, em
ployed in a city asylum, piped off a story
of abuses, which Robinson sold to a rival
paper for 1300, losing his job as a conse
quence. Discredited In the newspaper of
fices, Robinson wrestled with poverty for
some time and soon disappeared from his
haunts. The next heard of him was at
Niagara Falls as a full-fledged promoter
of water power electrical schemes, lie
had abbreviated his name to Robin and
was cheek-by-Jowi with the moneyed men
in search of franchises. He succeeded In
Interesting capital In the Niagara, Lock
port and Ontario Power company, and in
a few yeara cleaned up $1,000,000, with
which he returned to New York, plunged
Into high finance and w.ent broke.
Mrs. Coleman, who keeps the police of
the West Side busy arresting cruel drivers,
approached a policeman on Central Park
West In great Indignation the other day.
"I want you to arrest the driver of that
horse over there," she said, pointing to a
delivery wagon across the street. "The
poor creature Is foaming at the mouth.
It must be in frightful pain."
The policeman took" his station by the
wagon and arrested - the driver when he
came outof the house.
"How dare you drive a horse lu such
condition as that?" Mrs. Coleman said to
htm, pointing at the foam on the animal's
Jaws. i
"I know, mum." he said, apologetically.
I know I bught not to give her ao much
sugar to eat between meals, but I've been
doing It for ten years, and aha won't start
the wagon now until she gets one lump
at every stop."
Mrs. Coleman looked at the policeman.
The policeman looked at her. Then they
wheeled about and walked in different di
rections. "The chief In our office has his own
way of getting out of the office force the
very best that there Is In them," said a
broker's clerk, quoted by the Hun. "One
of the first things I was requested to do
after I got a Job there was to be photo
graphed with a seven by nine grin on my
face and put one of the pictures in a con
spicuous place on my desk. All the other
fellows had also been photographed wear
ing their broadest grin. The boss Insisted
on it. He maintains that every time a
man gets out of sorts and is likely to in
sult his best friend because of a general
mental and moral slump, one look at that
smiling phiz of his acta like a tonic. It
shows him what a first-rate fellow he can
be, anyhow, when the spirit possesses lilin
and he tries Ms level best to live up to his
picture."
George II. Quackenbns, a police sergeant
assigned to the bureau of information at
police headquarters. New York City, whose
criticism of Mine. Bernhardt' production
of "La Samailtaine" has attracted the at
tention of the dramatic critics at home and
at road, is known as the "department
linguist." He was once Prof. Quackcnbos,
land creditably filled the chair of rhetoric
jat Seton Hall, taught Iatln. Greek and
lUKi.er uiHinrniHuin at n .jtbijii coitt-Ke hiiu
was Instructor in the Romance languages
at other In.stU utl n
Postmaster .Moigan has dominion over
the money order business In Manhattan
and the Kionx. and bis report shows that
during l!lt there were In all n.tw.1 u;',l
transactions, repiesenting the nim of
f.'iTO.OMMHjS. which Is an increase oer U!t
of $l(H.t;.ll..'.iii. It is not eusy to grasp the
magnitude of tlieee figures, hut thev help
I to give Hie country some Idea of the Ing
! ness of New York iit. iili Brnoklv n left
I out.
j W hw Will full the 'laaf
I Philadelphia Uecord.
I Out of Its ill-gotten gains hv hook and
i by crook the Sugar trust Is again roin
I pelled to deliver op several hundred thou
! rand dollars to nualc Its U' counts with
I the govei nmeiit. Next congress lll be
! apt to pull the claus ff the monopoly and
! put All end of the transactions.
I ll.ert). If oa Hate I lie Price.
, Louisville ( "'iuri r-Join oil
J Standard till clir'-tioi reenlly .alletl
'for Koroi- on a liner. taUiuu ttiih hlin
two !au.to pla'er 'o ti a I, Ills sons the
.!. of tl.u in.Mi uuiciit etiiout .-. Loons like
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NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.
O'Neill Frontier: Several Nebraska towns
that thought they were expanding to cltv
proportions are dissatisfied with the show
! Ing they make in the census returns and
I propose conducting a nose counting them
, stives. It Is natural for a town, like a
smart young man. to feel several sixes
larger than it really It.
Albion News: The Nebraska Telephone
company has purchased the Knllerton local
exchange. Nearly every week the ab
sorption of some local company hv this
big state concern Is announced. It Is not
unreasonable to predict that eventually
the telephone business of the whole stale
will be under one control. With proper
supervision on the part of the public this
would be a desirable condition of affairs.
Scott's Rluff Ftar: Opposition to a par
cels post law, which means a law per
mitting packages of merchandise to be sent
through the malls at a reasonable rate of
postage. Is a. hopeless opposition because
It Is a fight against progress. The other
clviliied nstlons of the. world have come
to it and this country will do likewise be
fore very long, because It is something that
benefits the whole people, while the op
position to It comes from special Inter
ests. Beatrioe Bun: Beatrice made a pretty fair
little gain of population In the last ten
years, though the gain Is not sufficient to
Justify our sitting down and letting the
other towns leave us In the race. Hastings
is close at our heels, and Grand Island Is
able to show figures which beat ours. Re
making the most of our advantages we
should be able to keep ahead of Hastings,
and to close some of the gap between
Beatrice and Grand Island. Industrially
Beatrice Is away ahead of these cities. We
have more factories and produce more
goods. We also have the means to develop
Industries. The Blue river Is capable of
producing cheap power for more factories,
and every encouragement should be given
for such enterprises to locate In this city.
We won't get ahead by falllns asleep.
Beatrice Express: A number of Beatrice
business men are trying to figure out the
value of a lawyer's time, but so far have
failed to arrive at any satisfactory solu
tion of the problem. Yesterday a case was
called In county court at which twenty
three witnesses-most of them business
men were summoned. The twenty-three
gathered at the court house at the time
set, and after waiting an hour were noti
fied that one of the attorneys In the case
could not be present and they might go to
their places of business and come later In
the day. There waa nothing else to do. so
the order waa obeyed, albeit with consider
able angry feelings toward the law which
has the power to keep twenty-three busy
men Idle for an hour while awaiting Its
convenience and to call them forth again
when the legal machinery is finally ready
to be set in motion.
4 IVISHIX4 A PRKJl DICK.
Baldheaded Hsabanda Vlaalrated by
the Daughter of Kll.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The aons of Eli are will known through
out the length and breadth of the land,
but the daughters of Ell have hitherto
held themselves modestly aloof. They are
the daughters of Kll, Neb., and they come
to the front In a decidedly novel way. It
appears that there are several women's
clubs In Ell. and that they occasionally af
filiate. At the most recent affiliation the
discussion turned to the subject of matri
mony, and one member-a bride of a few
weeks casually remarked that whatever
else she might do she certainly wouldn't
marry a bald-headed man.
It was an Indiscreet expression. Its ef
fects were less tragic than those which
ensued after the naughty boys yelled, "Go
up, baldhead." to the prophet, but they
were quite serious enough. For It almost
Immediately developed that the husband
of the president of the associated clubs Is
In the bald-head row, and that eighteen
other members have husbands whose scar
city of hair qualifies them for the same
location.
These were loyal wives, these daughters
of Ell, and It wasn't any time at all be
fore they had a resolution to offer to the
gathering a resolution which recited that
it was the general opinion of the associated
clubs that bald-headed men are thoughtful
and kind, trustworthy and confiding, free
from the follies and frivolities of youtn
and usually successful cltisens.
This resolution was adopted unanimously,
the young matron who aroused the pro
tent having resigned from the association
and gone home.
This Is not an Incident of any large Im
portance, but It shows lnat a stupid preju
dice will not be tolerated, and that what
might be looked upon as a mild misfor
tune cannot deprive the sufferers from a
full measure of praise from thoee who
know them best.
Hon the I nexpeeted llappeaed,
Kansas City Times.
Although the mutineers In the Brazilian
navy were granted amnesty by the gov
ernment, the leader of the mutiny and
forty-four of his associates have met "un
expected" deaths from "sunstroke," ac
cording to the droll censor. It was sus
pected, at the time, that the government
would make It pretty hot for 'em.
People Talked About
Mary Coonle, the richest woman north of
the Arctic: circle. Is a full-blooded Ksklmo.
She can neither read nor write, but em
ploys an Kngllshman who was graduated
from Oxford as her secretary. Miss
Connie' a wealth comes from mining lands.
She lias the biggest herd of reindeer In the
world, 2.J0 bearing her brand. She has
little opportunity for upending her money,
and her vnv extravagance is dress.
The engineer of a train in Massachusetts
drove his crowded passenger cars safely
Into the station while the cab about him
was on fire. He was badly burned, but
stood the fire to save Hie lives In his care.
Charles K. Johnson, lawyer and student,
set upolousiy conscientious in professional
piaciice. genial and full of anecdote in
companionship, and who loves a food
horse, will be the junior senator from
Maine after March 4.
Some of the achievements of science wliow
us what an cnortHotis benefit it Is to the
world. A Harvard scientist has succeeded
in growing four toes on the hind foot of
a guinea pig. where only three ouaht to be.
According lo a decision rendered by
Recorder I'arroll in a case Just tried at
Paterson, N. J . It Is no crime to steal ait
umbrella on a ralnv day. Kohert Mi
Caii fi of Philadelphia a tried for tak
ing an umbrella from a hotel during a
recent rainstorm and was discharged
A. it. Spaldln : of California, the old lime
base hall man. has been left on the bases'
in hut setialoital contest. Mr. Spaldlna and
Judge Works were the leadint; andldates
ai the senatoiial primaries. Mr. Spalding
can led a plurality of flip districts in the
state, ard contended atroiiglv that If he
were not chosen bv the legislature the
people's will would be disregard- d When
the votes were counted it waa found how
ever, that JudKe W'orKs had rerch ci a
plurality of the votes, and the leg e tore
accepts the plurality as I he voice of the
people.
MORE MILLIONS FOR PENSIONS.
New York Tribune: The passage by the
house of representative of the "ullowsr
pension hill Is to be leretted as a Sur
tender on the part of that, Ixvtj to ImptUM
and the pressure of specious but Insound
arguments.
New York Journal of Coitimef.e: This
till is the climax ef nandal In ientcn
legislation, and It is to be Imped thHt thete
will be Sobriety and sense of prudence and
public economy enough left In the aenate,
even of an outgoing congress, to put a
stop to It.
St. la)tiii tllobe-Hcmoi i st ; t'f the more
than t.lXv.OdO volunteers who fought In de
fense of the union four fifths have passed
away. The survlvots av trace over Til
ears of age. and the moitaiity among
them is repotted tj be W a day. It is
tune to give them fell IIioiikIiI unless
eulogy when taps are sounded Is to be con
sidered sulfli lent appreciation.
Philadelphia ledger: 1 he premlent in
his annual message congt atulated emigre
and himself upon such economies ss wouiu
bring the expenditures of the government
within the revenues, ant would probably
leave a stiiphis. In the coming year, ot
some $ ."o.ioo.eO". The house of reprcsenta
Uves has pi weeded Imtnidlately, ami with
great, enthusiasm, to add at least Jt..,
ii.h to the annual payments for pen
sions. Hpilngfie'id Kepubliian : The publication
of the pension loll tons' he Insisted upon.
II the Sulloway 1,111, should be enacted Intu
law. Provident Tai dotitless can be de
pended upon for a veto In any event luu.
In case JI5,ouu,o00 a year should be added
to the biggest pension appropi iatlun the
world ever saw, the time wculd be at hand
for an irtislstlble movement to have the
pension sv.ttem placed under the glaie
ef a pitiless publkitj.
Indianapolis News: Itcpi escniative luig
worlh of Ohio is to be cimmended for Ins
vole and speech against it. He pointed out
tno largo increase in pension appropi ta
tions which the Mil would make necessary,
Htid inaisted tiim. In view of the present
high cost of livinjj, 'the people should not
be burdened vv itn the inn eased expense,
it Is most refreshing to know that thet
Is one congressman who Is able to dis
cuss such a mi asure on the basis, of sound
leason.
Hostile Criticism Turned Aside hy
Cnnairnctlve U ork,
Harper's Weekly
it Is not surprising that the first declara
tion for Taft in 1912 should come from a
southern state, or that It should be Joined
with praise of him as "a national and not
a sectional president." He has amply
earned thai particular commendation. The
North Carolina state committee' which thus
started the movement for his renomlna
tlon claims to speak for nine-tenths of the
republicans of the state. Congressman
Dalzell announce that Pennsylvania will
also be for Taft when the time comes, snd
while it Is doubtful if so large a proportion
of Pennsylvania republicans would accept
Dalzell as their spokesman, It is quite prob
able that his prediction will tome true,
liood observers declare that the president
Is gaining rather than losing strength it
the west also, particularly In comparison
with his predecessor. The great mistakes
of hla administration came early! and he
has already had time to make the begin
ning of a recovery. He lias had time to
accomplish some really constructive work,
and the general Integrity of his motives
Is daily becoming plainer even to those
who have criticised him luont ' severely.
More than two years or his term hre Blill
left to him. W shall be- greatly surprised
If, before they have passed, his party does
not come to th conclusion that to throw
him over would be a blunder of the f It st
magnitude.
MIRIHI'UL REiHrVRKS.
"lJO anv ueroulHltes inmn in vour null
at the on Ice. '
"JSut much they don t. We have a
husky Janitor who throws them kind ot
toika out. ' Dalumoia American.
John Morgan, the confederate general,
wa.-t rampaging through southern Ohio.
"Those. Adams county rascaia. bo said,
"a in t getting halt w hat's coming to 'em:
i nobody eise will punish their political
corruption good and proper, begad, 1 win: '
Anu he uid succetiu in giving them ail
awful scare before She prison guards got
the come-alungs on him. Chicago Tribune.
"Thompson Whiff, the dramatist, sir, la
at the door with a new play."
"All right. Light the lumlgating candle
and tell nun lo coina in. Cleveland piam
Urllir. "Would you marry an aviator?"
"Certainly. It ia better to be married
for only a little while than never to b
uiarnea at ail ' Cliicaao uvord-Hraid.
"I'll never many unlbas 1
marry
clever woman.
"Then you won't," replied his friend
Houston Post. .
"Dot tor. I've tried everything and 1
i an I get to aleep," coirpiained the vol's
at the other end of the telephone, "t an i
ou uo something for me.'
"Yes." aald the. dot tui . kindl.v . ' Just
bold the wire and i ll ring you a lulia
by. huccess Magaxtne.
"I am aorry Mrs. .vtalisffy, to hear of
the loss of your husband "
"Don t , e be aorry lor me, ma am. Sute,
It's no loss to get a thousand dollars in
stil ante tor a i nlrtj -rent husband. Ual
tlmote American.
"1 believe firmly there is a lime for all
limits.
"Yes, I've noticed that juu have vigor
ously opposed the treating habit when It
tonus jour turn lo treat. t nicago Post.
"11111 h'M un uu fill flull, "
"I suppose he told you you w ere pi ell) .''
"No, he said you were New ork rfi.n.
CACILS CENTER'S JINGO.
i'enver Itepubltrsn.
A fe'ler blowed among us from across the
Texas way.
He clnioieil tn be a ru Imj , but war tail
was his lay,
lied harp upon I be chances of a hit; war
w ith Japan
'Till be ban u.- planning battles and tu
bal In' to a man.
He sure was most convincin' when upon
Ids special line;
lie bad lie strtntjtli of navies and me
flKhtln' units fine:
We. clean foiaot our puker. and the ruu of
drinks was light.
When we sat aicund and listened lo this
Jingo talkln' fight.
Hut the stranger got tu fusi-in wnli old
Chinee Jim one day:
And the oriental slapped Hi in. and jest
look hla aun away.
Whereupon Hear Hawkins murmurs. "P.ovs,
I sure am plum surprised
That this Imitation Hobson ever got us
hypnotized.
So we oi'Kanlzed a Peace Club, snd we all
sworn to lb pa t,
And lu shoot the luiao s boot beds was our
first of f icla I ai I :
And he faded o er the cactus in the. falliu'
shades of night.
And we know the Jov uf 1 1 in' now that n
one s talkln' f i as lit
Notice to Corporations.
publish vour until'" of Indebtedness
In The t'.eiison Times, a lessl iiie1tlliii
a '
t
wbb-ii au-wett legal purposes wltlio
undue piihlliitv. I'osl only $i. Stock
Holders Kor vour own protection Insts.
llist these iio'.bes be published uoull
l-'ir fuiilur pa i i iciilai , blsril.s. etc.. tele
phone Douglas 'Ittii, or esli at the Omalit
i. rtu oi iiis Hnun Tunes, tit fcteutii
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