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THE IJKK: OMAHA. TUKSPAV, .TANTAttY 31, 1011. The ctmaiia Daily to: SOUNDED MT EDWARD ROSEWATKM. VICTOR ROSKWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce aa second claes reader. TERM!) OF SUBSCRIPTION. Sur.da Urn. ona year ft V Saturday Bee, on year II. SO Doily Bee (without Sunday), one year. Dally bee and Hunlay. ona year . DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Pm (without Sunday). pr war so Event bra (with Sundavi, per wek...le Dally Re (Including iunnay), per week.. loo Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week. .loo Ad( rem all complaints of Irregularities IB di.lvi ry to City circulation Department, officks. Omaha-Tb ! Building. Sot th Omaha-? N. Twenty-fourth SL Connrli tiuf r la Scott Street. Llti.-oln Little Building. Chicago 1MB Marquette tlulldlr Kanana C1ty-ftlianr Rulldlng Naw York 24 Weat Thirty-third streo- Wsslilnglou 7U Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter ahould la addressed Omaha Be. K.iitorlal Department. REMITTANCES. Remit bv tlrmft. xpr or poMSt payable to Tha Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent stamp received in payment of mall accounts. Personal check except on Omaha and ratter n eachange not accepted. statfmkn'T or rnnnjt.ATiov. Plata of Nebraska. Douglas County, aa Dwlrht Wllllama circulation msriAger of Tha Bea Publishing Cemtanr' helnit duty worn, rata that ha actual mimher of full and romplet eople rf Tha Pall. Morning. Kvtnlnr ana Sunday Bees printed during tha month of December, 1910. waa aa fol io we: 1 -.. . . 43,E70 1 44.00S) I 4a, ... 4S.nO 43,n ,,, .CS ....... ..43.2. ... .49.00 1 ,4, II. ........ .44.S90 it...... ...a,seo II.........4JI.4O0 H ........ . J.30 ia..........4a,7a 1 . . I . . . , ,'48LM ' Total ............ Returned Copi ,,,-, ..41.819 . .44, WO ..la.saa . , 43.no ..43,4 ..44.300 44.330 44.00 44.950 14.. .. ft . 44,400 a "" ' tt 43.t 43,50 tl 43.S40 . Nat Total I,a4.3t7 tal7 Average . ': . DWWM WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In mv preaence and aworn to for m. thla tlat day of December. 1910. ROBERT HUNTER. Notary I'ubllo Subacrlbere learlaa (be cly tem porarily ahnald have. The Be mailed ta tarn, Addreaa will be anfteA.ua aftev aa refiairatad. Vermillion.' tfottnty; Illinois, red at aa a 4 rot-a boreal Is. is aa About time to start talking again about "the city beautiful.". Governor Woodrow Wilson also dis posed of ex-Senator Smith In a schol arly manner. ' , The . political . barrel has drowned out many a voice that attempted to talk against it. ' Texas has held an onion festival. Thav-'country seems to. breed queer tastes for nlcknaeks. .-.. it must have been' a, false alarm that led Mr,. AddVks take bis light out again froni -undor ttie bushel. la there anything else the paving contractor and lighting companies want (n the Omaha city charter? "The grefftest problem before the American city today Is to be free," da Clares Brand Whltlock of Toledo. For ward, march! Wonder If that Denver surgeon who was stricken with appendicitis while operating on a case believes In re tributive Justice. - If Prof. Hale really has discovered 00,000 new worlda. It ought to com-' fort James J. Hill tn his search for new markets for our commerce. Norman E. Mack says caucus rule ta majority rule. Was that a caucus "Boss" Murphy held when he decided to have Sheehan elected senator? It ia to be hoped that the people of Chicago will not be kept long in sus pense by Boss Sullivan, before know ing whom he will run for mayor. We may take It for granted that no more New York banka are going to fall aoon, for Mr. Morgan haa gone to Europe, expecting to remain for some two months. President Me41en of two New Eng land VMIroals saya the passenger5 busi ness Is conducted at a loss. Ortainly, that Is the reason railroads continue to conduct It.' It ia a way of tombstone inscrip tlonsalwaya to .let the reader under-" stand that the person burled haa at some time past died. It should be the same with political tombstones Mr. Bryan la to talk for the adop tlou 'of . te Arizona constitution. Hcr' that he does better than when he tried to talk the Grand Island con vention Into adopting his county op tion plank. Congressman Hltchcock'a World Herald Is for "let the people rule" on capital removal, but not for "let the people rule." on county option. Just another caae of "heada I win and tails you loae." It la easy enough to aee how the trouble would be multiplied to get aultable sieu to serve aa election on cers if the polls wore to open at o'clock In the morning instead c at 8 o'clock, as at present. Now that King Manuel has been al lowed a pension of 13.300 a month, we may proceed with unvexed mind, but before getting down to business again, would 'It be too much t ak what the king waa pensioned for? Condition of Busineii. Already the blue prophet la making hit piedlctions of a short winter wheat crop aa a consequence of the continued lark of moisture In this section of the country. There I a det Islve shortage In the mow crop thus far, that Is true, and winter wheat require a good deal of snow, but It la too early even yet to pass final Judgment. The weather ruan promises a considerable precipita tion for the winter wheat belt now, and that may serve to brighten some of the dark views. Despite this deficiency and what ever relation It may bear to wheat, business continues fairly good for this season of the year In most places. From the Pacific to the Atlantic come reports of Improved trade and Indus try, with assurance of a safe money market from the centers of finance. Dun's Review says: "There has been a distinct Improvement In the two di rections In w hich the progress of bus iness contraction has been most pro nounced. This has contributed nota bly to the growth of confidence with out which active enterprise Is Impos sible." Many elements have contributed to the stability of commerce and Indus try, making a natural condition on which to base the hope for a year of continued prosperity. While in this particular section winter wheat has suffered, Dun'a makes the statement that winter wheat prospects on the whole show "betterment." It is grati fying to note, too. that rallrbad earn ings, of whose unsatisfactory status we have heard so much from railroad """(quarters, made a gain during January - . . .UI.U 1.II. . OI per rem, wincii, wimc uui girai, Is encouraging. Aa to money, the banks are said to have ample supplies for all legitimate business purposes and the discount rate is lower than It has been. Cutting Sown Fancy Salaries. Although William K. Corey as pres ident of the Steel corporation la cred-i itcd with having drawn an annual sal lary of $100,O0 J, his successor 'is to receive just half that amount. Charles M. tichwab was said to have been paid 1150,000 a year. Steadily the scale of fancy "wages" has gone down ward. The president of the Equitable before the late Paul Mdrton, got $100, 000 a year and Mr. Morton, who never had had any experience in life Insur ance, was paid 180.000 a year. Now it is said his successor will ' receive only $50,000. Evidently the big corporations have come to the conclusion that they have been paying more than waa necessary to their executive officers. That prob ably will have to remain a matter of judgment, for it la difficult to deter mine how much money the directing head of an institution earning mil lions really ia worth.; Jt.mustiidepend on how much his direction aud' influ ence count in the net earnings. Butj it seems that 150,000 la to be fixed, whether by specific or tacit agree- ment, aa the maximum of aalarlea in the east, with a tendency downward for large positions in the west. It Is not as much as some railroads have paid their prealdenta and no more than aome have paid to officials not so high up the ladder. It Is quite likely that the action of the Steel corporation in halving Its president's salary will have a vital In fluence on aalariea for similar posi tions. If It can get along with a $00, 000 president, the others are likely to think they can and at least will be dis posed to make the effort. It la not at all probable that In the midst of gen eral prosperity we are to witness sweeping reductions In these pay checks, ao that it is scarcely worth while to Inquire where the differences are to go. for an item of $50,000 to the Steel corporation, or even $30,000 to the Equitable Life la not vital In sice. Tenneiiee in 1912. Tennessee has elected a young re publican for governor and a young democrat for United States senator. Both are reputed to be able, clean and aggressive men. They come into of fice on the wave of that upheaval of Indignation that awept Governor Pat terson and his democratic machine out of office and. for the time at least, haa revolutionised political condi tions in Tennessee. Their ascendancy Is the culmination of the popular movement that aet In when Patterson, as governor, deliberately pardoned the assassin of former Senator Carmack, thua capping the climax of one of the worst political crimes ever committed. The storm of protest that broke against Patteraon became so strong that he waa even forced to hand back to bla party the renomlnatlon It had given him. , The republican party in Tennessee cornea out of the fight distinctly trium phant. It baa a vital place In the new era and regime there. It ahould be able to gain a footing for Itself that will lead to other victories for the people and that will make It difficult for any aet of political brigands to lay violent hands on the atate. At a matter of fact, this outcome should pave the way to reaaonable republican gains ia 1912, and give the party a fair chance to swing the state into the republican col umn. Tennessee Is already good fight ing ground and by proper management ahould be held to the party which, In a crisis of corruption, rame to the front with a man who could be elected gov ernor over the coaoblned forces that had held away la the atate house un interruptedly since 1880. Conditions do uot Indicate that there ta sub stantial hope on the part of the demo crate for any realignment promising a coherent organization by the time the next national campaign opens. The breaches created by the recent upheaval are too wide and deep for that. Besides new Issued have arisen which complicate the situation. The new senator, Luke Lea. while a democrat, Is yet a member of the new party that elevated Hooper to the governorship. He Is Just 32 years of age and Is the youngest man ever elected to a full term in the United States senate and la a very ambitious man. He Is a lawyer by profession and a newspaper man by occupation, and has a strong following among the younger element of democrats and re publicans In bis state. Commission or Legislature? The usual number of bills are being Introduced In the legislature at Lin- Toln aiming to regulate In all sorts of minor matters the railroads, tele phone and telegraph companiea and other common carriers subject to the, Jurisdiction of the State Railway com mission. When the railway commis sion waa created It was supposed to be vested with plenary power to remedy the abuses which such legislation is designed to correct, and if It has not such power It should he given It. Since the railway commission haa been doing business it has responded to all demands to the best of its abil ity, and the great majority of com plaints that have been filed with it have been redressed without even a formal order by the commission. If the railway commission not only haa the power, but also manifests the dis position to see that all Just grievances are speedily remedied, there Is no good reason why the legislature should permit Itself to be bothered, and Its time uselessly consumed, with bills introduced in response to some complaint that ahould have been ad dressed to the railway commission, unless already presented to the com mission without satisfactory adjust ment. If the railway commission is equal to ita work the legislature can well devote Itself to the big and broad problems and let the commission de cide whether, a particular grade crossing should be subwayed or whether a particular town haa gotten big enough to demand a railway sta tion, with separate waiting rooms for men and women. Oh, What a Difference! The refrain of the once popular song, "Oh, What a Difference Just a Few Hours Make," is beautifully Illus trated by the course of our amiable democratic contemporary, the World Herald, with reference to the proposal for a state public utilities commission. This plan of dealing with public serv ice corporations Is presented this year in a bill fathered by Senator Albert of Platte, substantially the same aa the bill presented two yeara ago by Senator Donahoe 'of Ho-;. When the Donahoe bill was Up the "World-Herald went into spasms of Inky convulsions. It used bl,g,' black type day after day on Its front page to expose the diabol ical plot of the privileged corporations and' branded Senator Donahoe as a tool of designing lobbyists bent on throttling the will of the people. Whether this violent assault on a dem ocratic atate senator by a democratic party organ was what retired Senator Donahoe to private life, we cannot say for certain, but now when Senator Al bert, another democratic aenator, sponsors the same measure, the World-Herald tamely declarea: Wa have no aympathy with the Intimation that this bill is ona of several to ba put forth at tha Instance of the brewery and corporation combine, becausa wa know Judge Albert la not tha man to lend him aelf to any conspiracy or any combination of selfish Interests. Wa know, further, that public utllitlea laws have been adopted as a progresaiva step In soma other states and ara now pending In several leglalaturea somewhat similar In tenor to that Judge Albert has Introduced, and they ara gener ally supported as offering an effective meana for the control of general public utilities corporationa. Oh, what a difference a few months make! The aame public utilities bill, which two years ago was a monster of Iniquity, Is now a progressive step! The senator who Introduced the bill Into the last legislature was a corpora tion tool, if not a corporation hireling, while the senator who introduces the aame bill Into thla legislature Is a noble patriot above suspicion! Of course, the fact that Senator Albert voted for the editor of the World Herald for United Statea aenator, while Senator Donahoe did not, has nothing to do with the caiie. Our amiable democratic contem porary Is trying desperately to make out that Omaha has been grossly In sulted by Governor Aldrich, although It parries his charge of election manip ulation by aaying that the number of Illegal votes cannot be anywhere near so many as he Intimates. People who have done nothing wrong are not easily Insulted, neither are cities or communttiea that have been traveling the straight path. It there have been election frauds in Omaha let us have them exposed and their repetition pre vented. Our perspicuous Water board baa for seven years been trying its level beat to cut the South Omaha stock yarda and packing houses off from the Omaha water works system, and now when these establishments are on the point of constructing a water supply of tbelr own the Water board haa sud denly discovered that it cannot afford to lose them as water consumers and patrons. A great body of shrewd bus iness men is that Water board of ours. Incidentally, it ahould be noted In passing that one E. E. E. Kidgeway, who atyles himself a voting machine expert and who was put on the county payroll aa a republican and then came to the rescue of the democrats when the uae of the voting machine wis ; saved to them by one of our district Judgea suddenly changing his mind. Is now on the state payroll as an employe of the democratic legislature at Lin coln. Our loval democratic bosses must be credited at least with taking good care of republican sell-outs who do them service. Luke Lea. the new senator from Tennessee, is only 32 years of age, and will be the youngest man In that body. He Is two years above the age limit fixed by the constitution, a limitation which waa broken when Henry Clay was elected to the senate at 29. The organic law was wise, most people agree. In not qualifying men to the senate under 30, and yet the only ex ception ever made to It did no vio lence, for few men have left as bril liant records as did Clay. The superintendent of the ortho pedic hospital has a complete defense In that the money he collected was for professional services rendered In his capacity as a private practitioner, and, besides that, it Is perfectly ethical be cause he Is not even charged with splitting the fee with any other doctor or surgeon. Those 1,000 anarchists In New York who paraded the streets to show their contempt for Japan's execution of twelve anarchists must have been a dangerous lot to be stopped by one policeman, whose presence frightened the flag-bearer Into breaking ranks and taking refuge in a hallway nearby. If the delegates to the 1912 national nominating conventions are chosen by direct vote In Nebraska we may have a test of Congressman-elect Lobeck'a public declaration that Mr. Bryan could not carry the state for anything at this time. It Is rather late In the day for Sena tor Depew to have himself taken seri ously In opposing the popular election of senators. Ilnntora of the Situation, t. I.outa Globe-Democrat. One of the humors of American politics In the existence of a class who want pro tection for their own products and free trade for everything else. So Krnnomr In Pork Harrel. New York World. 'By way of aiding the administration In lta efforts toward retrenchment tha aenate adds only $o,UC0,MK to the appropriations In the river and harbor bill as passed by the house. Booata for Steel. Bprlngfield Republican. If all postal cars must be made of steel by July, 1916, not to mention other cars, and if the Panama canal must have Rreat fortifications to defend It, and tha fortifi cations must have a still greater navy to defend them, there would aaem to be no reason to despair of the future of the ateel Industry In ' this country or . tha future of the dividend '6n "Steel common." Too Mark) of Glve-Away. St. . Louis Republic The house af Washington deollned to re quire the uae of a special issue of stamps by those entitled to the franking privilege. Tha plan promised so much In the way of data on what the franking privileges coat the government, and at. the same time tended so directly to restrict abuses of the privilege, that . the refusal must be re gretted. The senate ought to find a way to Insert tha . amendment in the regular poatoffice measure. AQUATIC AVIATORS. New Development of the Art of Flying;. Pittsburg Dispatch. Ely's flights from shore to ship and from hip to shore, hailed as such an achieve ment, were made possible only by elabor ate preparations on tha crulaera. including the construction of an extended landing deck of large proportiona. This left In doubt whether in caae of emergency when such a landing atage might not be avail able the aviator might not have to turn around and sail right off again. The suc cess of the - experiments by Curtltsa on San Diego bay, however, reduce Ely's feats to the commonplace, since he has estab lished that he can both "land" on the water Itself and arise from It. In other worda, Instead -of having to make a spe cially constructed landing deck ha can drop alongside the ship and be lifted aboard or can be launched to the surface of the water and atari back to ah ore from there. Of courae, thla requires a glassy sea, but that shortcoming does not affect the use fulness of the demonstration, since tha air ship la yet a fair weather craft and a wind that would ao roughen the water as to prevent "landing" upon It would prob ably also prevent the aviator flying there at all. Meanwhile the latest achievement In the world of aviation transforms tha men birds into ducks. People Talked About The proposition before the Maine legis lature to establish a closed season on lob sters from June 1 to September L this be ing the time when tha "summer people" ara In the atate, looks like an ingenious at tempt to establish "winter prices" for all the year. The will of Mrs. Augusta Conried. widow of Helnrirh Conried, former director of the Metropolitan opera house, filed for probate In New York, leaves $3iO,OJ0 to her son Richard O. Conried. Ha la also to receive the residue of the estate after other be quests ara iaid. Two medical eoncerna tn Manhattan, re puted to take In &00.000 in caah and aa many human guile in a year, have been raided by the poatal authorities. All the literature of these concerns was printed In foreign languages or they would have been caught long ago. lr. Chariea Ell wood of the University of Missouri finds that primitive men were neither blondea nor brunettes, and that the blonde type of woman haa been evolved because men through all agea preferred light-haired and Mue-eyed wivea. Only the deacendanta of Ham para la ted In their ad miration of decided brunettes. Tha poatal authorities who are closing patent medicine conoerns may not know of a device for driving fifties, presumably any kind. Just Invented by C. K. Fteer of Sandusky, o. It is In the nature of a suba queous alarm, It frightens suckers and drives tbm along a predetermined path They will !. guud bait whn th belt rings Trade With Canada Preea Comment nm the lr pnard Treaty foe r'reer Trade nltk liar orthern elahhor. 4 Pnnalar rt. Brooklyn Kagle (Ind. dtm . A primitive marmoent In a primeval nifnt with Canada Prealdrnt Taft performs one of the moat popular acts of hi official 1 career. I.oalcal and trraratr. Washington Herald llnd . The argument which Mr. Taft presents In behalf of reciprocity Is so logical and accurate that his appeal for speedy legisla tion ought to be promptly heeded. Good Thing 411 Raaad. Springfield (Mass Republican (ind.t. Thla would mean much of advantage to New Knglanrt and much for the whole country. "The day of exclusion la past." Very well: let ne begin the opposite policy of broadening the avenues of trade with our northern neighbor. Prnmotlna Intereata of the Man). St. Paul Dispatch trap.). The tariff problem will never be settled until It la settled right and It can never be aettled right until the benefits of the few in this locality and the few In that locality are subordinated to the benefits of the many tn all localities. ' An l'.piM'hnl K.vrnt. Indianapolis News llnd. rep). It la really an epochal event. We are at last turning a sharp corner. If not facing about If congreaa haa come actually to consider the Interests of the toiling millions and not alone the Indlatrlea that have fat tened and combined and hold the country fast In the clutch of monopoly. Mnfoally Beneficial. Baltimore Republican (rep.). The treaty would effect fhe common sense and mutually beneficial end of bring ing thla country and Canada Into the close relations which their Identical intereata and territorial proximity, as well aa general good feeling would auggeat. It la tha de mand, of the American people that tha treaty be effected and that the long talk of reciprocity be made operative. Solvea an Old Problem. Philadelphia Press (rep.). President Taffs reciprocity agreement with Canada solves the problem of sixty years. It accepts the principles laid down by Blaine when he demanded American reciprocity twenty-one years ago. It fol iowa the policy urged by President McKIn ley at Buffalo In his last speech before he waa shot. 4 Notable Victory. Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.). President Taft, ably seconded by Secre tary Knox, haa won a notable victory in securing this reciprocity bargain. Ilia de tractors freely said he could not do It. They have belittled the effort, but they cannot withhold congratulations now that tha preliminary victory has been won. A McKlnley Policy. New York Tribune (rep.). In framing the Canadian reciprocity agreement President Taft has undertaken to carry out one of the unaccomplished policies of the McKlnley administration. President McKinley's Buffalo speech now finds a popular response which it could not have got In 1901, when tha public waa not yet prepared to appreciate Its breadth and farsightedness. Permanent Benefits. Chicago Record-Herald (Ind.). The present treaty Is but a modest atep In the right direction. It will here and there Increase competition and reduce prices lo cally. It will not Injure materially or per manently any American industry. To ob ject to It Is to object not to unfair oom P?uuon, uui 10 any competition from a "forean" country, and protection was never advocated as an out-and-out-compe tition policy. The La rarer View. Chicago Tribune (rep.) It la not with an eya to Its Immediate benefits alone that this agreement should be considered. We have reached, as the president has the wisdom to see, a critical stage In our relations with the great and growing country to the north of ua. "Should w not now," saya he, "before their nollcv has become too crystallized and fixed for change, meet them tn a spirit of real con cession, facilitate commerce between the two countries, and thus greatly Increase the natural resources available to our people? There can ba but one answer to Iffit. Fair to All. Cleveland Leader (rep.). The agreement reached by tha executive departments of the two governments ap pears to ba very fair. It gives Canada the larger benefita in respect to articles placed on the free list, but this country would reap the greater proflta in reductions of duties which atop short of the entire bolltion of tariff taxes. In both countries tha changes proposed would affect chiefly products which are of the highest Import ance to the people as a whole, rather than to special Interests of any kind. JABS OF THE PAEAGRAPHEES. Chicago Record-Herald: Atlee Pomerene the new senator from Ohio, does not drink, smoke or awear. Before expressing approval of him, however, we should ilka to know whether tie picks his teeth at the table. Cleveland Leader: Now we know what has become of all thoae old-time wooden images that decorated cigar store fronts. Secretary Ballinger aays ha has diacov ered a trlba of Indiana that doean't like whiskey. Houston Post: Senator Jeff Davis of Ar kansas aaked the vice president the other day, "What la a Jackpot?" There la noth ing very ridiculous about the question. In Arkansas the favorite games are pitching quoits and aeven-up. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Another lone bandit has robbed another Pullman coach out west. Since the reducation In Pullman rates there seems to be an impression that somebody must take the place of tha Pull man corporation and tha porter. Cleveland Plain-Dealer: The funny news of the day la that rtory aixiut a Georgia negro who was put in jail for cutting a wart off the hind leg of a mule. That'a just like the south putting a man in Jail who should have a Carnegie medal. Baltimore American: Leaning li: a friendly fashion over their backdates. Uncle Sam and Our Lady of the fnowa may aoon proceed to thicken, eggs and cowa. to my nothing of a few other things, and may have a fins reciprocity pound party. St- Iouia Republic: Just as we had be come familiar with the exact shade of thought meant to be conveyed by "square deal" and "stand pat," a Texas congress man iu an unpleasant frame of mind makes a public reference to a "cold deck." Where do our public men get all tbelr strange figures of speech f The Bee's Letter Box Contribatione aa Timely Inbteota Met Xseeadtaa; Ttri Btnndred Words Are Invited from Ou aXeaaere. 4 pprrplatlnn. OMAHA. Neb . Jan J) -To the Editor of I The Bee: As one railway mall clerk le'. me thank you for Interesting yourself In behalf of the service In a way likely to i bring about some good ' reaults. I am not 1 In aympathy with the pnrading of our troublea In public, aa I believe the depart ment wanta to treat tia rlsht, 'and that some other pretended friends are simply j playing politics. A unal some of the 1 loudest noljrmnkers arc the ones who have I been holding the soft berth. RAILWAY MA 11, Cl.KKK. ! Olinoslnna Pole Posters. OMAHA. Neb . Jan. W.-To the Editor of The Bee: It seems that Omaha Is not the j nly city which is disfigured by these ad- I Vertllntr t,nMtr An Irlnorftrth iml e anH ' fences, although perhaps exceptional In not doing anything to abate the nuisances. I read this Item In Sunday's Issue of the Chicago Reoord-llerald: An order will be Issued bv Chief of Po lice Steward tomorrow prohibiting the posting of campaign literature on trollev and electric light posts and the support of the elevated railroad lines, which prac tice in former years has had a tendency to 1 make parta of the downtown district un sightly. A notice will also be sent to all com manding officers to seo that the order l complied with and to arrest any persons found violating It. - Why can't the Omaha police do some thing to stop the same kind of offense against our city ordinances? C. K. JOHNSON. 4n Impracticable Scheme. OMAHA. Neb., Jan. SO.-To the Editor of The Bee: I auppose from the iway the legislature seems disposed to treat the governor's proposition of centering in the chief executive of the state the power of appointing the registration and election boards of Omaha it Is not worth whlla getting excited over the matter. I would Ilka simply to say one word about It. Mr. Aldrlch's theory Is that by giving this power to the governor it would put the "beat cltlsens" in charge of our election places. Instead of an Indiscriminate lot. Now. Mr. Aldrich finds fault with the Oahlman regime In Omaha. So do I. But Mayor Pahlman ran for governor. Buppose he had been elected, would Mr. Aldrich then have advocated thla theory? Would such power lodged In the governor then have given the city of Omaha the relief to which the governor points? Wrould he ex pect Dahlman, as governor, to do better than as mayor? I Imagine Governor Aid- rich himself for whom I voted has before this coma to realise the Impracticability of his schema. A. J. D. Convlet Labor. SEWARD, Neb.. Jan. SO.-To the Editor of The Bee: ' It seems to be a problem hard to solve how to employ convict labor and not Interfere with free labor, which must be avoided under all circumstances. Rather let the convict be Idle than have him Interfere with the employment of any free man who has hla family to support. Several states have established binder twine mills at the penitentiary, and at present we have a bill Introduced In the house of representatives to establish ona here In Nebraska. It Is pointed out that Nebraska haa no twins mills and therefore would not Interfere with free labor. It lso Is contended that It would furnish cheaper tw'ne to tha farmers. This all sounds very good, and at the first thought one would be Inclined to endorse tha same. But, fortunately, Nebraska can take ad vantage of other states who have tried the coatly experiment and from the universal failures which they have almost all made It would ba folly for our state to venture Into It. If the prison twine of Kansas Is such a snap to the Kansas farmer, then why did the warden have to solicit the Implement dealers of Nebraska for the last three years to help to dispose of hla twine. In the face of the fact that he has not one-fourth enough to supply the Kansas farmers? Why not uae our convicts for publlo Im provements, which will be a benefit to everyone living In the state? There Is, In the first place, our publlo highways. It has been practically demonstrated that convicts can be used to good advantage In building and Improving publlo highways. Furthermore, our atate has a large acre age of a so-called aandy region which In Its present condition is practically worth less. In fact, this sandy region In the northwest has a great deal to do with our dry spells during the hot summer months. If thla aandy region could be turned Into a pine forest, how different would tt be. It would not take a great appropriation to fit out a camp of about ten or twenty mule teams, a few plows and cultivators, and put out a good number of convicts to turn thousanda of acres of those sand hills Into a fine forest. Further, we have quite a lot of low land In tha state which needs draining. In Its present condition It Is worthless. The convicts could be used to drain this land and make valuable farms out or It. PAUL, HERPOLSHEIMER. Hassle, aa torn Cham plan. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Not aatisfied with wresting from the United Statea the proud title of "champion wheat growing country' of the world," Rus sia apparently seems determined also to depose us from first place in the produc tion of corn. No matter how much thla may arouse our Jealhusy to say nothing of our commercial selfishness we must admit that Russia mad the right start to carry out Ita great agricultural scheme. It began by hiring an American to teach Its people how to grow corn. TfiE OLDEST NATIONAL BANK IN NEBRASKA 54 years of continuous management; 54 years of steady growth in assets; 64 years of Increasing ability to properly safeguard the increasing funde of depositors; therefore a good place for YOUR account and especially your KAV1NCJS, 31 Interest on Time Deposits TWl Bankof HAS HQ SUBSTIWTE kmc JE)1C2 Absolutely Pure The only taking powslor matfo from Royal Crap a Cream of Tartar K3 ALUM.K3 LIME FK.SFiiATE - SMILING REMARKS. "You have made some fine speeches to your constituents." "Yes.'' aiiHttcird Senator Sorghum : "hut I am never aide to he sure whether my audience Is being Instructed and per suaded or merely entertained." Washing ton star. (tentleman Er where can I find the silk counter? Floorwalker Third battle to the right. Judge. "That new play they're making auch a fnas about In New York, they tell me. la all about a rooster." "I Buppoae that Is why they sra crow ing so over It." Baltimore American. "Belle haa been going in lately for arts and crafts." "What's her Idea?" "She declarea that It takes both art and craft nowadays to rapture a husband." Ronton Transcript. . Norah Oim sorry to say, sorr, that Miss Giddy Ian t In. Mr. Caller (facetiously)-Why are you sorry, Norah? Norah Because, sorr, It's the biggest sthory OI ever told. Chicago .Tribune. "O! George," sighed the lovesick maiden. "I'm sura I in not worthy to be your wife." "Well," replied George wearily, "I'm not worthy to be your hOMhand. we're lust about matched." Catholic Standard and Times. THE TRANSFORMATION OF PA. S. E. Klser In the Record-Herald. when nn came home the other niKnt ma had a paper thers That told about a husbandetto somebody had aomnwhere: Ma tried to not let on at first she'd read about the caae. Hut pa picked up tha sheet and saw where she had marked the place; She watched him while he read it through; before that I'd of bet Most anything 1 had that pa waa not a husbandette. Ha laid the paper down at last and glared at ma a while And lifted up hla eyebrow tn nrf naughty style. , "So that's the kind of stuff you read? ha said to ma, at last; "Tou'd better change your habit, and you'd better change it faatl At home's a decent woman's place Jast keep that In ywur-mlnd; These suffragettes arc apdlsgraea to gantlo womankind." At laat when ma could get a chanoa ah started In to speak; I couldn't tell you all she said If I would, take a week;. She told ua how pa had forgot to register last fall, And when ha tried to Interrupt aha wouldn't stop at all; She picked the paper up where pa had flung It on the floor, And read about men selling votes and then she talked soma mora. . . . . ... .. . J She asked pa- wnat ne a ever aono to show that he waa great. he waa out ao late; She told us ahe could tell some things pa didn't know she knew; He kind of shrunk down in his chair and seemed to tremble, too, -And when tha argument was dona pa's brow was kind of wet: Since then, somehow. It looks as though he was a husbandette. La irJSTANT RELIEF K'aw im the Hm. to t-mt At ...... lav one. Get rid of It today. Tomorrow It may be pneumonia. I regard a Cold aa the tnoat dangerous of all diseases. It la the father of grippe, pueumotils and con stipation. I conalder uiy Cold Cure better than a Life Insurance policy. A few doses of Muuyon's Cold Remedy will break up any cold in a few hours, and will prevent pneumonia. 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