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Saharrlhera leaving the city tem
porarily shoaM have The Dee
malle them. Afldresa will bo
Mr. Groundhog's all weeks' notice
has not yet expired. . . v
Give New Orleans credit, anyway,
for being a good loser.
One of the difficult things to decide
Is whether to take next summer's vaca
tion trip this winter.
The "city beautiful" and hideous
billboards disfiguring the principal
streets ao not go together.'
The University of Nebraska will Im
port Its foot ball coach from Yale. No
patronize home industry rule governs
on the foot ball field.
From the way quick action was had
on the reciprocity bill tha new rules
of the house seem to be just aa expedi
tious as the old rulea.
Champ Clark ought to explain, every
time he begins to make a speech,
whether he wants what he says to be
taken seriously or not.
Conceding that the tireless cooker
may be all right, still the tireless
furnace Is an exasperating annoyance
at this season of the year.
If she does , not show up soon
Dorothy Arnold will be in the Willie
Whltla class by being discovered In
every city on the continent.
The Mexican revolution may be
written down a failure ao far because
It has not given ua a single war corre
spondent of the ft rat magnitude.
It la to be hoped George- Gould's
retirement from the Missouri Pacific
presidency will not affect the Inter
national matrimonial market Injuri
ously. Our old friend "Jim" Hill la out
publicly for Canadian reciprocity. The
agreement ought to be ratified If only
to make Mr. Hill take a more roseate
view of the future.
The National Piano Manufacturers'
Association of America Is In session In
Chicago with more than 1,000 mem
bers and camp followers In attendance.
Harmony or discord?
King George might help pay ex
penses tor bis coming coronation from
a new and untouched source of revenue
by aubletting aviation privileges over
the route of the royal procession.
With so many statesmen eager to
throw the constitution Into the discard
It ta not strange that a play for notor
iety should be made by calling the
Declaration of Independence "historic
garbage."
preparations for the banquet to cele
brate Mr. Bryan's birthday are going
forward. We would wager that we
could name at least ten distinguished
democrats of national reputation who
will not be Invited.
That Danville grand jury seams to
be able to get along just as well with
out the aid of a prosecutor. Which
goes to show that under certain condi
tions the helpful prosecutor 1a a hin
drance to the finding Of true bills.
Omaha has furnlahed presidents for
a number of big railroads, and all of
them have made good. A requisition
on Omaha from the Missouri Pacinc
for a suitable successor to Prealdent
George Gould could be easily honored.
The railway mll service unrest baa
been allayed by adjustment of the
complaints of the men by the postal
authorities. This will be sad news to
political agitators' trying to keep the
controversy stirred up to make polit
ical capital out of it.
The rtal puxsle ta to devise an In
itiative and referendum scheme that
will enable the people to get good
laws lu defiance of the "special Inter
ests'' without enabling the "special
Interests," to obstruct or defeat laws
objectionable to them.
Reciprocity in the Senate.
The fate of the agreement for reci
procity with Canada now turn upon
the action of the senate on the blli,
' which has passed tho house by such h
decisive nia'orlty. The overwhelming.
i preponderance In favor of the measure
! recorded In the house cannot fail to
.exercise a powerful Influence upon the
! senate, and yet It la well known that
i
!the reposition to reciprocity is much
more strongly entrenched In the upper
j branch of congress, and, furthermore.
, enjoys there parliamentary advantages
jfor obstructive tactics which do not
prevail In the low er house. It is
known, too, that while the democrats
In the house were unanimous in carry
ing out their caucus decree for reci
procity no such unanimity or party
discipline, exists among democratic
members of the senate, and the demo
cratic side on the final vote may be
expected to be as badly divided as the
republican aide.
In one respect, at all event, the
prealdent has made a tactical stroke
In so arranging' the reciprocity agree
ment that It may be put Into effect
; by the enactment of legislation rather
than making It in the form of a treaty
which would have to be ratified by
the senate. Treaty ratification requires
a two-thlrda majority of the senate,
while an ordinary leglalatlve majority
j In each house may enact the measure
to put the agreement into effort. If a
two-thlrda vote of the eenate were
needed in thta case it would be an al
most hopeless task to secure It, but
It may be possible. If a vote on the
proposition can be forced, to prevail
on a majority of the senators, quite
irrespective of party , line, to record
themselves in its favor. Until the time
for a vote Is agreed on the danger will
remain of postponement and filibuster
ing over the 4th of March, when con
gress expires by limitation. Fortu
nately, the friends of reciprocity in the
senate Include as good tacticians and
as experienced parliamentarians as are
to be found among Its opponents, and
they should be able to force a show
down which alone will gauge the
strength of the reciprocity proposal.
Expensive Vanity.
One of the most menacing faults of
the day is the tendency to live beyond
one's Income. It cuts a much larger
figure In the mooted matter of "cost
of living" than the average person
thinks. As a people we have got Into
the habit of living well, and that is
right, for our supremacy as a race re
quires that we live well. But there are
numerous vague and wholly fallacious
Ideas of what living well really means.
It ahould not moan living beyond one's
Income. When It does it means trouble
for the person who does It.
Young-people starting out in life
find the expense of maintaining a
household very heavy and sometimes
let. the. discouragement of it weigh
them down Into serious error. They
complain that their Income is not
large enough for their outlay and
doubtless they are right, but when
they cannot Increase the Income the
only thing to do Is to diminish the
outgo. Too often nabtta are Indulged
for which there la no legitimate ex
cuse. Expensive habits that are not
essential are the ones to cut off. By
applying the pruning knife intensively
and extensively most any couple, with
out regard to age, might effect a satis
factory equilibrium between revenue
and expenditure. And that la generally
the only way they can do It.
Nothing la more pitiable, not to say
ridiculous, than the spectacle of a
proud young pair striving against In
superable odds to keep up with associ
ates of unlimited means. Such mis
guided people have no right to com
plain of the times or the cost of living.
There never were times that would
enable an impecunious man to keep
up with the pace set by a man of un
limited means.
Problem of City Government.
With' all the proposed and accepted
reforma in atate and national govern
ment the one common demand of the
present la for a better system of muni
cipal control, a system more responsive
to the real needs of the community.
This la the meaning of the embrace
by ao many cities of the commission
form of government. This particular
form Is aa yet experimental and has aa
strong opponents as It has advocates.
The first city In the country to adopt
It has, after about fifteen years, re
jected It. But that may or may not
conatitute an argument against the
system. The central fact ia that other
cltlea are willing to take It up In the
hope, more than the asaurance, that
lt will offer the solution of the prob
lem. '
But in the meanwhile the demand
for larger local self-government goes
on and must go on until it has been
reaaonably supplied. In several statea
now legislatures are grappling with
thia matter. Legislaturea aeetn to have
a natural averaion to enlarging muni
cipal self-control, evidently in the fear
thatJt will detract from their authority
over the separate municipalities. The
problem is an old one in Nebrabka.
Omaha baa long aought relief from
leglalatlve charter tinkering and it
would undoubtedly be better off from
every standpoint if it could get the
relief. It la a peculiar fact that in
Wlscousln two bills for a broader
measure of home rule have recently
been defeated by the legislature. In
Connecticut a aimllar bill is pending.
While, of courae, it la desirable that
the atfte exercise a restraining in
fluence over the smaller units of popu
lation, it nevertheless true that
greater freedom of action by cities, la
necessary to insure their normal
growth and development. The city ia
in the end responaible for Ita progresa
and its Inhabitant understand their
needs better than outsiders possibly
can.
Boon for Winter Wheat.
One by one Ihe winter wheat atatea
seem to he winning out in their con-
i teat with the weather man. Oklahoma
j la the latest victor. Ita farmers, w ho
i had begun to lose hope entirely, are
now jubilant over the prospect of a
ennd crnn roi.ntlnir nn favnrahlfl
,. . .. , j
weather hereafter. The prolonged)
drouth, dating since last August, has
Just been broken by a heavy rain.
Teople have a rlgl)t to become dubious
under auch conditions aa prevailed in
that state Unfortunately, or fortu
nately, aa the case may be, Oklahoma
is not favored w-lth any great amount
of snow, so that It must depend on Ita
iralna entirely. It Is different with Ne
braska and other more northern statea
that product? a great deal of winter
wheat. Our farmers had begun to get
uneasy ten daya ago because their
ground was getting very dry aftd the
late snow and sleet came just In time
to do 'a vast amount of good. Then
nature became doubly bountiful and
added a good rain to the other ele
ments, giving us a precipitation that
will do much to counteract the effect
of the dry period. We may now look
forward with much more complacence
to the remainder of the winter and
spring. Oklahoma had very little time
of grace left, however, for a drouth
of six months' duration Is a very
serious thing and the farmer there has
a right to rejoice at Its termination.
Initiative and Referendum.
It would be amusing, were it not so
pathetic, to see the patron saints of
the initiative and referendum, who
were so loudly"- proclaiming Its virtues
in the last Nebraska campaign, now
hedging and running to cover on the
plan which has been formulated In the
legislature for submission to the peo
ple. Two great democratic legal
luminaries, Attorney General For-a-Llttle-Whlle
Arthur F. Mullen and
Vice Chairman Chris Gruenther of the
democratic state committee, ably sup
ported by the local democratic organ,
are frantically endeavoring to con
vince, the law-makers that they are
over-stepping 'their pledge to let the
people rule. The real difficulty they
encounter is to square their present
protests against unconditional Initia
tive and referendum with their former
pen and word pictures of its beauties.
The particular points now made are,
first, that the initiative should not in
clude the right to Initiate constitu
tional amendments, and second, that
the referendum should not be availa
ble on a low percentage petition Invit
ing "special interests'-' to bold up leg
islation enacted lor the public good.
. But what is the initiative and refer
endum which the people of Nebraska
were promised in the late party plat
forms? Is it not the same plan by
which, we were told, Oregon had
achieved Ideal popular government?
The Oregon Initiative and referendum
ia thus described In the famous speech
of Senator Jonathan Bourne, jr.,
claiming for his state "the best system
of popular government in the world
today":
Oregon's Initiative and referendum
amendment provides that the people re
serve to themselves the power to propose,
laws and amendments to the constitution
and to enact or reject the same at the polls
independent of tha legislative assembly,
and also reserve power to approve or reject
at tha polls any act of tha legislature. An
initiative petition must be signed by I per
cent of the legal voters as shown by the
vote for supreme Judge at the last preeed
InK election, and filed with the secretary
of state not leas than four months before
the day of election. A referendum petition
need be signed by only t per cent of the
voters and filed with the secretary of state
within ninety days after final adjournment
of the legislature which passed1 the bill on
which referendum la demanded. The legis
lature may Itself refer to ths people any
act passed by It. The veto power of ths
governor does not extend to any measure
referred to tha people. '
If any advance has been made In
the perfection of the initiative and
referendum since Oregon's departure
It la probably to be found in the form
Incorporated Into the new constitution
of Arlxona, to advocate which William
J. Bryan traveled all that distance to
make speeches In its favor. The
Arizona initiative and referendum pro
vides that under the Initiative 10 per
cent of the qualified electora may pro
pose any legislative measure, and 16
per cent -may propose any constitu
tional amendment. Under the refer
endum either the legislature or 6 per
cent of the qualified electors "may
order the submission to the people at
the polls any measure, or item, or sec
tion, or part of any measure, enacted
by the legislature, except laws Imme
diately necesKary for the preaervation
of the public peace, health or safety,
or for the aupport and maintenance of
the departments of state government
and state Inatltutlous." If the Arlxona
constitution embodying the initiative
and referendum In thia form could
command the unqualified endorsement
of William J. Bryan, naturally the bill
put forward at Lincoln to redeem the
democratic platform pledge in Ne
braska should command the endorse
ment of ex-Attorney General Mullen,
Vice Chairman Gruenther and Senator-elect
Hitchcock's newspaper.
The democratic World-Herald and
the pauedo republican Lincoln Star
are pillorying Congressman Norria for
being the only member of the Ne
braska delegation in the house to
record himself against ' Canadian
reciprocity. We disagree with Con
gressman Norris on a great many sub
jects, Including his opposition to
reciprocity, but we admire a man who
shows the courage of his convictions
even though to do ao be has to vote
on the aame aide with "Joe" Cannon,
Daliell and other high tariff prleats.
Congressman Norria at least answers
to roil call without running away to
Europe and lets people know where
he is at.
Nobody would propose rrtaklnc up,
an election board by shaking namea !
out of a wheel for a rural voting dla-i
trict because tha main safeguard of
honest elections consists in personal
acquaintance of the election officers j
with the voter
" . . v.,.. t
holds ood In city elections where
eniiciB in tue f ifviiua uuuiu nuuiu
be even more exposed to being fooled
and Impoaed upon. The requirement
that every election officer must have
realded at leaat one year In the voting
district In which he aerves is a salu
tary one.
The problem of providing proper
election machinery to facilitate voting
and prevent fraud In thickly popu
lated citloa Is not exclusive to Omaha,
but Is present in every large city. It
has been tackled, and In a large
measure solved, by legislatures of
other atates. The election lawa of
Illinois. Missouri and Minnesota will
doubtless furnish all the necessary
raw material to frame a satisfactory
law for Nebraska.
The Omaha Ad club thinks the com
mission form of government would be
a good ad for Omaha. So It would If
It gave ua men to manage our city gov
ernment of real business ability and
Integrity. It would be a bad ad if it
simply changed the official titles and
Increased the pay of Incompetents or
time-servers, who now hold down too
many aoft berths in the city hall.
President Taft has vetoed the resolu
tion to reinstate the West Point cadets
dismissed for hazing. The president's
service as secretary of war evidently
failed to predispose him toward clem
ency for such culprits. It Is a safe
guess, however, that the punishment
will be more far-reaching by reason of
the Inability of the expelled cadets to
crawl back under the tent.
According to Cardinal Gibbons,
"Wizard" Edison's mind la maimed.
He refers, of course, to Edison's mental
attitude toward religion, although a
few more "maimed" minds able to
apply science successfully to the prac
tical problems of life might be toler
ated. Candidates for the mayoralty nomi
nation In Chicago are using up columns
of space apiece to tell why they want
the Job. If they would only say they
need the money the other reasons
might be foregone.
That Iowa will try the Oregon plan
of electing United Statea senators next
time carries with It no guaranty of
Improved caliber of senators, but it' is
warranted not to produce deadlocks.
How the Game Works.
, New York Tribune.
And so the penetrative power of our ordi
nance Is greater than the defensive power
of our armor plate. This means simply
that the conditions will be reversed In a
little while, and so on. ad Infinitum.
Record Breaker In Proepect,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
What the governor of North Carolina aald
to the governor of South Carolina may not
be a circumstance to what the governor of
Ohio may one of these days feel like saying
to the governor of New Jersey.
A Model of Ita Class.
Kanaaa City Times.
In the interest of "economy" the legisla
ture thinks seriously of abollshtns ths
school of medicine at the University Of
Kansas. This Is the same legislature that
adopted a resolution urging congress to
pass the Bulloway bill, whloh will add o0,-
000,000 a year to the pension rolls.
Rock to Local Option.
Springfield Republican.
The return of the state of Alabama to
the local option aystem is the logical out
come of the failure of the antlsaloon forces
to carry a prohibition constitutional
amendment. It seems clesr that the antl
saloon movement In the south and west,
which waa so formidable a few years ago,
has passed through the period of Its great
est strength at least, for the present.
A Reflection on the Nation.
Philadelphia Record.
In an opinion of Judge Lacombe, of the
United Statea court In New Tork, on the
Immigration lawa. he said that it wss a
cause of regret that such Draconian pro
visions could be found In the code of a
Christian land. While the law la bad
enough. Its administration by the bureau
crat on Kllla Inland in arbitrarily separat
ing Immigrant families Is more barbarous.
Yet here are people who think a few more
turns should be given to the screw of the
Immigration lawa.
People Talked About
Directions that her body be cremated
and the ashes strewn over the grave of
her husband at Bergen. Norway, are con
tained In the will of lira. Sara C. Bull,
widow of Ole Bull, the violinist, which
has Just been filed for probate In Bldde-
ford, Me.
During the year 1D10 S. W. Hogan, a
farmer, living near Montlcello, la., shipped
221 carloads of hogs. In all there were
U.123 animals, for which he was paid $300.
$34.04. Thia does not Include two carloads
that were shtppod on the last day of De
cember, nor a great many hogs that were
supplied to the local butchers during the
year.
Oeneral Alexsnder Stewart Webb, who
died In New York tha other day. Is the
last of the group of division commanders
of the civil war. Grandson of an officer
of the revolutionary war and a graduate
of Wast Point, his record as a soldier was
worthy of his forbears Hs participated
In the battles of Bull Run. Yorktown,
Seven Days, Mechanlcsvlile, Hanover, An
ttelam, Shepardatown, Snlckera'a Gap and
Chancellorsvllle and was awarded the
congress medal of honor for bravery In the
"Bloody Angle" at Gettysburg, when
Pickett's charge was checked and de
stroyed. After Gettysburg he fought In the
battles of Brlatow Station, Robinson's Tav
ern. Mine Run, Wilderness. Spottsy Ivsnla
and Petersburg, being brcvetted as major
general of the regulars after tha latter
action.
Around New York
lppla tka C Trent ef Ufa
M till In tfaa Uraat American
Mtlreoolla from Car to Bay.
Madtaon Cnuare Harden la again on the
bantam counter. It hs hern off and on
the market
for over twenty yeaia wlth-
mil tun...
When completed and open
In JKHS !h structure and
, ((,r hu,nMi
equipment hsd coat the ownera .000.
It ran be bought todsy for 13 ,60ft.(iM.
"Thus." aaya the New York Commercial,
"the phenomenal apectacle is presented of
a plot rontalntna thirty-two lots In the
very heart of New York City and cov
ered by an expenalve structure gaining
only $.'.00,000 or ! per cent In value In
twenty-two years. Had the plot never
been built iion at all, these thirty-two
i vacant city Iota would no doubt be worth
themaelves around tl.0n0.ono today. It la
the ateadlly losing venture through twenty-two
years and the fact that whoever
buys the property now must raie the
gsrden and erect something else In Its
place before the Investment can be made
to pay that operate to keep the valuation
down. In all probability Madison rVtuare
Harden la doomed It must "go." As It
stsnda, It la a monument to the public
spirit of a few patriotic cltlsena who have
been unwilling to aee New York City with
out a public hall adequate for holding the
largeat gathering of people and equipped
for holding the moat pretentious amuse
ment and social functions."
' "Whenever I get out of a train at the
(rand Central or the new Pennsylvania
atatlon I can't help miaalng the old loco
motive." said a traveler quoted by the
Sun. "Kver elnce I was a child one of
the pleasures of a railroad Journey was
to look over the locomotive which had
been pulling my train, but somehow t
don't get this pleasure out of the elec
tric motor.
"The trouble with the motor seems to be
that It's too businesslike. It Is plain and
prosaic beside the old locomotive. Why,
you can't even see the driving wheels, and
might as well be looking at a huge sosp
box for all the Interesting parts you can
see.
"From habit, I suppose, "4 always look
to see what's been pulling me when I
finish a railroad ride, but when I see one
of these motors at the Pennsylvania sta
tion I sigh for the old locomotive it has
displaced. The motor doesn't make a
sound after it gets In. Just as though It
had been no exertion at all to pulf you
under the river, but how different the
locomotive! You alwaya find It panting
away like some living being, getting Its
breath, as It were. Then there's the en
gineer leaning out of his cab window
watching the traveler leave his train, the
vltallzer of the whole thing. You don't
feel so drawn to the motorman somehow,
"Doubtless, the motor is the superior of
the locomotive In many ways, but It never
will be as interesting, and with Its Com
ing seems to have gone some . of the
romance of railroading for the traveler, a
romance which centered In the engine. I
guess there are others Just like myself
who miss this feature when they arrive
at New York."
lartmcnt house'tenants and telephone
users wilt be much Interested in the out-
vume -vi me case or a New York business i
man wno nas applied to a Justice of the
supreme court for an Injunction restrain
ing his landlord from Interfering with the
Installation of a private telephone In his
apartment There are two switchboard
In the house with an operator on duty day
and night, and the landlord first set up
the plea that the tenant e connection with
these waa quite sufficient In the way of
service and forbade him to put a private
telephone In his apartment; the tenant re
plied that he seriously objected to having
the awltchboard operator hear AH the de
tails of his business and domestic affairs,
and Insisted on the Installation nf an in.
dependent telephone In hla apartment; the I
.anaioro. ngurea It out that It costs on an
average to maintain the service $1.60 a
month for each tensnt. and so he charges
hla privacy aeeking tenant $18 a year for
the privilege of renting an Independent
Instrument in his own apartment; the
case hinges on the right of the landlord
to exact this charge.
The lease has no provision for or
against the Installation of private tele
phones, and In consequence the right of
the tenant to do It would seem to be per
fectly clear. It may be, however, that the
fact that the apartment waa already pro
vided with auch an Instrument will be a
factor In the ault, and then would arise
the question of a tenants right to prl-vacy-to
protection against the posslbfllty
of Injury from the wagging tonguee of
eavesdropping awltchboard operators. As
far as la known, this Is the first case of
the kind to get Into the courts, and a
most Important precedent may be estab
lished by the decision of It.
The little old blind man wa. .mi..
hla stool near Broadway and Forty-ninth
street, playing his wheesy accordion. A
newsboy came along.
"Got any pennies, mister? '"he asked
"look in the cup," replied the blind man
The boy did so. There he saw seven
pennies. "Kin I have change for a nickel"
he asked.
"Sure, take It," waa the blind man'a
Tha hnv A rrTt,A . L. - ... . . .
, ,,, ,laC, ,n. ,he cup
-... aunie pennies. He thanked the
man and moved away.
Aw, Jlmmle," said another newsy
only got four pennies."
you
"I know It."
"What did you gib him de penny fer'"
"Jlst done It fer luck." said Jlmmv
den, dat old man don't hardly git enough
l to eat. I seen where he lives, ylst'dsy De
I lan lord was after him fer de rent den."
j And Jimmy hurried away.
"My hat la off to the trsfflc squars men "
said a punctilious public official, who
rather dislikes policemen. ' Sir Walter and
his velvet cloak had nothing on the
mounted man at Fifth aveoue and Forty
second street. It waa the busiest hour on
the avenue and the motor vehiclea were
crowded behind him like logs In a river
Jam. but h held them up for a good two
minutes extra so that a rheumatic old fel
low could get across without hurrying. The
best Ihe old man could do was a tortoise
shuffle, and he was quaking and glancing
around In terror as he woiked across the
street. When ha got to the mounted po
liceman that Umb of tha law leaned over
and spoke to hlra quietly. -Take your time
air." he said. 'Taks It easy. No hurry The
old man was mlghtly grsteful, if the taxi
drivers did awear a ilttle."
The coroner's office In New York Is In
spiring a bill to be presented at Albany
regulating the aale of firearms. The rhoot
Ing of Msyor Usynor and David Graham
Phillips by men nientaUy deranged has
prompted tins proposition. Rigid accounta
bility. It la piopoaed. la to be exacted of
dealers in deadly weapons, the sale of
which to Irreaponalble persons Is to be pro
hibited. This may seem an iin,,r., .,
Idea, but the coroner a chief clerk points
out tnat since the paasage of a law safe
guarding the ssle of ra.rbollc acid, aulcide
by that medium has been very much reduced.
JABS OF THE PAItAGRAPHERS.
Boeton Transcript: "iKin't." aaya tha
colonel to yoimi! men. ' attempt to rearh a
biah station lv rllmblna up on other peo
ple." The baika of the pewe will do
f'hlcagn iin i rd-tlerald : MNs Margaret
I'amm. an American at I r 1 who created a
furore when ahe turn In Merlin, la cnnilna
borne Hr a supreme effort we are aWe
to refrain fiom msklng the obvious com
ment. Philadelphia. Bulletin: tr Kllot of liar
"til Is of the opinion that a normal faoillv
should ronsIM of right children, although
he ta ailent on the question of properly
rearing Ihe eicht with fo'.d and clothes at
top-mveh pi i,.Pr
Cleveland plain Dealer: An apparatua
for extermination Ihe housefly ha been
Invented hy a Massachusetts college pio
feasor. Hy snd by one microbe will kill
another until there's nothing Wt but pro
fersora. snl they'll be eisy to fix.
Bsltiniore American: Colonel Itonaevelt
has been advising young men not to climb
up on others to success. This advice might
be Interpreted in dirfertnt ways as to what
climbing tp on others mc.ma. but the col
onel lilmarlf Is a very striking Instance of
the survival of the fittest.
New York World: Governor Baldwin's
Idea nf a newspaper as "proof, one-quantor
of a column; probability, one column, possi
bly a little more; and Ilea, the rest of the
ahcet." ia ncarrtly eoHResilve of .Indicia.!
calm and falrneaa or the wisdom ordinarily
expected from the governor of a stnte.
MK. HHH r-.vr IKUt,
A Democratic i.n vt-u t Ion Wnntrf
Be CoiMilr l 'Mihnnt Him,
Washington Star.
Victor Roaewater. republican national
committeeman from Nebraska, expresaes
the opinion thut Mr. Hryan will head the
i delegation from that atate In the next
( democratic national convention and prao-
iicaiiy upc. up me nciPKHtlon a course there
The peerleaa lender has not been ss much
Injured nt home by recent events as his
opponents at a distance have been led to
bellve. ill party friends are still proud
of him, and still disposed to follow him.
let us all hope that Mr. Rosewnter's
Judgment may prove correct. The next
democratic national convention would not
be complete wtthout Mr. Hryan. It Is go
ing to be an Interesting body, but his
presence will add to the Interest. What
he shall have to say both as to candidate
and platform should be worth the atten
tion of every delegate In the hall.
There are those who will believe that
Mr. Hryan will Journey thlthor with only
purposes of "scrapping;" that he will pre
sent himself as a trouble-maker, and that
tf turned down, either as to the nominee
or the platform, he will sulk or bolt.
Hut there Is nothing: to warrant this.
Mr. Hrysn was turned down at St. Ixuls
In 1904 on every proposition, and yet sup
ported the convention's action. He
stumped a wide section of the country for
Judge Parker, and said what he could for
a ticket and a deliverance of which he
did not approve. It is to be presumed that
he would be regular again under similar
circumstances. '
Mr. Bryan probably has some very pro
nounced views as to what his party should
do next year. De may be more anxious
than In the months preceding the St. Louis
meeting seven years ago. The situation
now Is more promising for the democracy
than then. And so he may be In even more
aggressive form next year than when op
posing the nomination of Judge Parker on
a platform which he knew Wall street was
dictating.
But. even so, Mr. Bryan should be at
next year's convention, and accorded a re
spectful hearing.' It Is not believed that
he desires the nomination for himself,
though should he take the stage at a
critical moment In a clash of aspirants
he might, as at Chicago In 189ft, create a
frenzy. He Is neither aa young nor as
handsome aa then, but he still knows the
art jtt playing upon an audience, and es
pecially one torn with differences, a little
weary from efforts to settle them, and
In such a state, somewhat at the mercy of
a atar performer.
Mlxap In Political Beds.
Philadelphia Record.
Strange things happen. The one democrat
In the ways and means committee who
voted against reciprocity represented a
Louisiana purchase constituency! And
Lorlmer falls back Into the arms of a
Texas senator as a forlorn hope! And
Johnny Daliell locks horns with Secretary
Knox!
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"Look. I'M I that a fite engine crossing
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"1'a Mv he probalVv s in' -d .! -, hin
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"Was it 1 ondr If he voo1d tec m
iiend that a nno who was falling don
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Two oysters were In iy Mil r"' f ''I ft
milk getting rendv for stev iiid e-na
oyster to the other:
"Where are we"
"At a church aonner." whs the reply.
Whevelipcn life ovater said:
"What on earth do thev v nnt of both,
of ns?" Milwaukee Tree Tress.
"Do you get out of life all that li In It"
"I fear not. I only belong to four hr dra
clubs. Two of my afternoons absolutely
go to waste emh week." Pittsburg Post.
The family man waa pasalng through
the market when a aign attracted his at
tention. It read: "Poultry Dressed In the
I test Style."
"What do you mean by poultry dressed
In the latest style?' he asked the mar
ket man.
"Why are you blind?" aald the dealer,
pointing to the plucked chlrkena with their
lega tied. "Don't yon see they are all
hobbled ?" Yonkera Ststesmsfl.
A S0NQ TOR S0L0NS.
Portland Oregonlan.
Ho, gallant solons, 'nrath the state house
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There are voices calling, calling, from the
ones back home.
And a thousand Institutions throughout
our mighty state
Are urging on a thousand claims, and none
of them ran wslt.
And a thousand things divert you from
other legislation.
Demanding several thousand each fhr their
spproprlstion;
Then for these impecunious Institutions.
small and big.
Dig deeply in vour coffera but remember.
as you dig:
CHORUS.
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Perhaps when I " (Jen's master mind the)
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And we sit Impaled In paradise upon tha
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But until thnt millennium, Oh, gallant
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What time you dig, responsive to out?
many-throated call:
CHORUS.
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lio slow, don't dig too fsr:
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Tf the ild Is left ajar.
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