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Come, all you'' Jame ducks, limp
along home. V . - -
And Mr. Lorlmer stood pat through
out the Bailey fiasco.
Never mind, Ibe legislature will
stay with u a little Jonger.
Cartel1 : Harrison . ia ; the latest e
champion to try to "come back."
Extra Sessions of congress are get
ting to be regalar; things With" Presi
dent Tafw ; K,
Somebody always appears In , the
alck of iime with oil to smooth Joe
Bailey's, troubled waters.'.
Champ CJarg. will have time in this
month, before congres reconvenes, to
allck those muJea up'a bit.
"Why do girls go to college?" is
the uppermost question In the east.
Our guess: "To get an education."
If the next democratic national con
vention is held in "Baltimore mint
probably will be 4 be favorite flower. -,
It ia a month before congress gets
back in action; which ought to give
those Mexican warriors a good chance.
Easter Lata! Heavens, yea. In our
rhapsody over the. beautiful weather
we had all but forgotten the inevit
able. "Why Hogs Are. Thinner" is the
subject of much market, page discus
sion. -Probably worrying over their
'price.
Postmaster Thomas has "come
across' pretty thin ice, but he seems
now to be sh'attng On the thinnest
ever. i v ;
In other words, Nevada dois not
propose to give up its divorce, mills
until some other home industry has
been developed.
It might be noted that the candi
date for mayor in Chicago, who prom
ised as a campaign slogan, "I'll rob
no one," lost out.
That special bond election In Dun
dee brought out about 300 votes. It
Is pretty bard to interest all the peo
ple In a special election.
In spite of their "Jim Crow" fluke,
ttre democrata vlll ha . around again
before loi)g telling the negro voter
tow much' they love him.
"I'll take my doll rags and go home
If you don't let me play boss," says
. Joe Bailey. It must have been a ter
rible shock for the moment to the
"Interests."
Having failed in Wyoming, the
prlte fight promoters are trylug to
slip a bill through the Missouri legis
lature. There Is where they will have
to show them.
Governor Dlx finally conies out with
an appeal to Sheehan to withdraw
from the New York senatorial r.-ne.
Better address your remark to
Charles V, Murphy, care of Tammany
Hall.
"Not next month, tir next year, but
NOW," haa been the rallying cry of
the Water board for eight years, and
we are still In the midst of "immedi
ate" purchase, aud paying the same
rates for water as before.
The Chicago Dally Socialist Is now
being sold on the streets of Omaha
with some of the Identical contents
put out locally by our Junior Yellow.
These socialists should not compete
with one another in such a way.
If Senator Brown has deluded him -
.. . .
elf with the Idea that the appointment
of Cadet Taylor to a fat federal Job
carrying $20,000 in salary during the
four-year term will be popular with
the poor people whose money all dis
appeared in Taylor bank, he has an
other guess coming.
Reciprocity and Extra Session.
Reciprocity, which failed In the
Sixty-first roueress and for which the
president has called the extra sestioi (the names of democratic undesirables,
or the Sixty-second, should, on the I and that the name of Governor Mar
face of returns, be approved by thojnion of Ohio heads the list. If there
Incoming senate. Fourteen of the new are any Harmon democrats In Nf-
senators are for this ranadlan reci
procity plan, according to a poll mt.de
by the New York Herald. That, it Is
figured, will in the senate give .i two-
thirds majority for the proposition
anil (h. hina. nmh.M tf mill vnti r v U ' Tl
and the house prob.ibly will vot? nga'.n
for it. Had there been a single ardent
friend of the measure capable and de
sirous of leadership in the last senate,
It might have been put through that
body, for on preference reclproclt Is
supposed to have had a majority
of at least twenty-two senators. But
many of these did not care enough
about it to get behind the plan the
president waa so anxious to push
through.
Of the most ardent opponent of
reciprocity. Senator Hale will be suc
ceeded by Johnson, who favors it, and
according to this poll makea a net
gain of two votes. Hitchcock of Ne
braska voted for it In the house and
will displace Burkett, marked on the
poll as opposed; another net gain of
two. Townsend takes the place of
Burrows from Michigan, adding two
more. Atlee Tomerene displaces Dick
of Ohio, two more. John D. Works
comes from California to succeed
Flint, opposed; two more. The same
gain is made In Polndexter'B succes
sion of Piles from Washington. Of the
eight other new senators, each suc
ceeds a man who waa hi favor of reci
procity. Montana's new senator,
Meyers, has not made ' hla attitude
known as yet. New York, Iowa and
Colorado are to elect senators. But
reciprocity is figured to have enough
now to win.
But if the democrata play politics
with the reciprocity agreement, the
extra session may continue far into the
summer and undoubtedly a reopen
ing of several schedules of the tariff
will ensue. Should reciprocity be thus
held back, such a thing ia possible as
a deadlock on party lines, with reci
procity and tariff revision confused
and used to block one another. rNor
may we suppose that congress will be
content to rest with only tariff mat
ters; it la likely to Include in its ope
ratlona a large variety of measures.
For the first time since the Cleveland
regime, the country will have a senate
republican by a alight majority and a
house democratic by a big margin.
Results under such conditions must be
problematical at every turn.
Croker Discredits Murphy.
Richard Croker, whose claim to
fame depend upon hla years of serv
ice as boss of Tammany ball and New
York democracy, Is out fUU a direct
criticism of hla successor, Boea Mur
phy. Croker thlnka Murphy has made
a grave mistake in persisting with his
determination to elect Sheehan sena
tor from New York, when It haa been
made plain to everybody else that he
could not succeed. Croker thinks a
wise boss would have stepped aside
when Shepard retired from the race
and allowed the legislature to elect
the Benator.
Croker's publicly expressed opinion
Is not likely to have any weight with
Murphy, but if resulta may be taken
as a criterion, we may conclude that
Croker made a much more effective
dictator than his present successor
Murphy's reign is really not prolific
of big results. When the smoke of
this senatorial battle clears away and
If Tammany falls to land Its man,
things-are likely to look serious for
Murphy. Even Tammany has no use
for a boss who does not boss, or can
not win a fight.
Murphy still has the chance left of
withdrawing Sheehan and aiding in
the election of some other less objec
tlonable democrat. By that course he
might do much to redeem himself.
But he probably will not do that. He
will probably fight blindly on to the
end. He really is another of the
relics that will be swept away with
the rising tide of new methods in
politics very soon. He and his ring
at Albany have done much this winter
to advance the cause of the popular
election of senators. This negative
service is perhaps the only real serv
ice he has ever rendered the people.
Mr. Bryan's Blacklist.
If anvone has entertained doubts
that Mr. Brvan expects to be a factor
in the next democratic national con
ventlon he should be convinced by the
declaration of Intentiou In the curren
Issue of the Commoner. In this he de
clares that newspapers friendly to dif
ferent candidates seem disposed to
misconstrue his comments upon the
different democrats whose names have
been suggested for the nomination
and continues:
Knme weeks ao four names were men
tinne.1 and auaarlona which have been
asked concerning them have been ni-serd.
Some of the eastern papers at once re
ported that Mr. Brvan had declared th
fmip a-entlemen named to be avallabl'
candidates. Mure recently the O.tnmom-
has referred to .'Ifferent public men In con
neetlmi wtfi their official work. Tt mlch
be as well understood row as later thirt
commendailon of particular acts does not
nereas.ir'lv nienn that t'ie parties pre nvall
aM- a rr "it'sl candldMei" or that the.
nomination would be desirable. Mr. Brya
Is not prepared to enres an opinion vet
as to which one of th many gn!lrmen
named would b I' e n-osi nailaMe but
that the Commoner may be free to coin-
! """a ,utn cr '"""V '
' iiii-(i t uti v lift i imii ."' ! -e
, datlon Matei tmw flir u.e , nnt of
the radrs that the Commoner does not
consider Governor Harmon v an ;i.;itlable
man for the d. m.icrai nomination for
rcaon that w ill b alv, n wh n the .liscus
tion of the subject seems proper.
From this pronouncemeut it must
be clear that whether or not Mr. Bryau
picks a favorite for the democratic i the habit of legislating a democrat out
nomination In 1912, he has h blacklist of office, although they have occasion
already prepared on whiJti are ritenally thrown a scare for reasons best
brnska who want to ira;ani'.e to give
the Ohio man the vote of the Nebraska
delegation In the next democratic na
tional convention, here Is a chance for
them to get busy and navy a real Issue
to fight over. v
Cannon and Bailey.
Two figures loom large In the shad
wg of the Sity-first congress those
f Joseph W. Bailey, senator from
Texas, and Joseph O. Cannon, repre
sentative from Illinois and speaker of
the house. In their farewell moods
they represent opposing types of man
hood and - statesmanship. Bailey,
peeved and angered at bis party's re-
udiation of his attempted leadership,
resigns, playing the quitter, represent-
ng weakness. Cannon in his farewell
speech, as he retires from the speaker-
hip, playa the game to the end, with
power In every utterance, with malice
toward none of those who in the last
congress so bitterly assailed and all
but unseated him.
For nearly forty years Mr. Cannon
has been in the house and for eight
be has been speaker. Whatever his
critics may say of him, and The Bee
has been one of them, they have not
and can not charge him with being a
quitter. Always he could be found on
any issue and always he could define
and defend hla position, which not al
ways happened to be popular. But for
Bailey in hla latest role not much can
be said creditably. . Proud, vainglo
rious and sensitive, he sought to dic
tate his party's policy In the senate
and when he could not he hid behind
a subterfuge and tendered his resig
nation. The country could have suf
fered no 111 had it been accepted. Now
remains to be seen whether the
democrats In the next senate will sub
mit to the Texan's leadership, or call
his bluff. He is not the man to lead
any party In congress today. Hla day
Is in the past and we do not care to
turn backward now In order to follow
him.
Crop Prospects.
Agricultural and horticultural ex
perts say it la too early to turn In the
alarm about perished winter wheat or
premature buda; that the weather con
ditions will not warrant it as yet. The
ground went Into the fall very dry
and there haa been a deficiency of pre
cipitation during the winter, but the
last snow and rain Nebraska had
did immense good. After the mixed
snow and sleet disappeared a brief
period of warm weather followed and
then when the rain came It waa able
to sink deeper Into the soil owing to
the shallowness of the frost, thua ac
complishing great good. While In 'some
parts of the state there la still need
of more moisture and more could be
received with advantage in all parts.
the situation la not yet regarded as dis
tressing anywhere. Nor ia It time to get
uneasy about premature, bursting of
buda aa a result of the warmth. Though
the weather has been mild, It has had
enough of freezing In it to hold back
the buds. In fact, there la expert au
thority for the statement that with
normal conditions from now on, winter
wheat and fruit should come into the
spring season most promisingly. Cer
tainly the outlook ia much better than
it was a year ago thle time, when farm-
era were losing hope and arranging
thus early to plow up fleldB sown to
wheat, which later they , did, some of
them to their own regret and loss
Accepting this view aa correct, that
what moisture we have had thug far
leaves wheat in a safe condition, with
what we may fairly count on from
now, there is certainly no reason to
become discouraged, for our springs
generally bring ua all the rain we
need.
The Bee has always favored legtsla
tion designed to safeguard lnaurance
enterprises that take people's money
on agreement to pay it back to their
heirs or on other contingencies, but
we also believe that lnaurance regula
tions should have reasonable regard
to the established methods of doing
business without Imposing hardships
on Nebraska insurance companies that
will handicap them as against outside
companies doing business here. The
nome companies should not be
specially privileged, but neither should
they be discriminated against.
Opponents Of Canadlau reClpi'UL'ity
are bringing up the specter of other
nations demanding similar concessions
in case we go into this pact with the
Dominion. No other nation is In like
position to make such a demand, for
the reason that no other nation bears
the relation to the commercial, social
and industrial conditions of the United
States that Canada does.
John Temple Craves pronounced
Joseph W. Bailey "the greatest foren
sic orator congress has ever pro
duced," not excepting Clay, Calhoun
and Webster. Having beard all these
gentlemen, Mr. Graves, of course
able to form an expert opinion.
Is
If you had employed an agent to
buy some property for you on bis as
surance that he could get it for not
over $3,1)00.000, and when ybu came
to foot the bill you found that you
were In for $$,250,000, would you use
the recall on him?
City Comptroller Cosgrove need not
lose any sleep. No democratic legis
lature in Nebraska has ever acquired
known to themselves.
Kverv successive legislature is al-j
ways filled at about this stage of Its i
career with incipient governors, con
gressmen and supreme Judgea galore,
but the voice of the lobby is not al
ways the voice of the people.
The public is advised by the modistes
that either a very large or a very
mall hat will be the style this cpring
for women. Thanks. That la what
we wanted to know.
The Houston Poet recently stated
'Senator Bailey haa aaved the country
50,000,000." What he haa cost the
country is another thing.
In Ilia Proper Place.
Washington Herald.
President Taft has proved distinctly that
he Is not only progressive, but also that
ho means to be at the head of the pro
cession.
Foreign Trest la Dnd tdtng.
fprtngfleld Republican.
Australia has declared war against our
beef trust, and now Canada has started
out after our shoe machinery trust. Those
countries seem' to be fortunate In not hav-
ng trusts enough of their own to keep
them busy.
Platforms to ftet la On.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
With representatives of both the demo
cratic and republican parties voting
against popular election of senators, It
seems more than ever that political, like
railroad, platforms are to get In on not
to stand on.
No Trouble on the Score.
Pittsburg Mspatch.
Despite the alleged scarcity of that clans,
we venture to predict that the Missouri
Pacific railroad's advertisement for a $100,-
000 man for Its president will elicit a flood
of answers from a horde of men, all of
whom are confident that they can draw
the money.
Where the Penalty le Si reded.
St. Paul Dispatch.
Congressman Hobson haa secured the
passage of a law by congress for the pun
ishment of Japanese and other spies.
There should also be a law providing for
the punishment of congressmen who insist
upon getting up war scares every few
days.
Key to Trne S access.
Henry L. Hlgglnson in the Atlantic.
The question of true success la of world
wide Interest, yet it remains unanswered.
Socialism can give no reply, because it
cripples and destroys Individual effort,
and Individuals make the world. Govern
ment can do little, for tt accomplishes far
leas than Individuals. Education, which
strengthens each unit and binds all to
gether, can alone bring us In sight of our
goal, and education may be Immeasurably
widened in extent and raised In value by
our able men. who, have won their spurs.
and who are ready now to work for the
common weal. Ia not this the key to true
success? ... ,,.
PLENTY OP'WOHK AHEAD.
TS
Incrraslag Popolatloa of the World
and the Food Saaply.
Wall 'Street Jourcal.
The following table roughly exhibits the
European population of the world in the
last-named year:
Europe, proper, nearly.., 476,009,000
North America
100,000,000
Mexico, Central America and the
West India islanoa ,
Sfi.OOO.OOO
4o.00O.0l HI
10.OUO.000
10,000,000
South America, about
Africa, about
Asia and Uceanlca, about ,
Grand total 686,000,000
Facta of this magnitude and character
admonish ua to recast our views concerning
the consumption and supplies of food, the
course of manufacture ana traae, tne
demands for railway and steamship trans
portation, the requirement for International
banking facilities, and many other matters
of the highest commercial Importance. The
pressure of population Is making America,
North and South, the granary of the world.
We shall have to double-track our rail
ways, organize an adequate ocean steam
marine, cultivate our foreign connections,
and provide an International basis of
banking and credit. There Is plenty of
work ahead for us, and It is time we laid
plans for doing It In a proper manner. The
old order of affairs la passing; the old
prejudice and parochial politics must be
cast aside, or we shall have to make room
for more progressive nations.
People Talked About
It appears to be settled that the retiring
secretary to President Taft. Charles D.
Nortlon, will take the position of vice pres
Ident of the First National bank of New
York, one uf the prize banking Jobs In the
metropolis.
Captain Hiram Smith of Brooklyn, who
ia 70 years old, bowled In a friendly match
recently what Is believed to be the second
highest single string and three-string total
at bottle pins ever rolled In that city. Ills
total for the three consecutive strings was
724, the single strings being 224, 211 and 289.
Bill Everly, postmaster at Island, Mo
Lean county, Kentucky, ia not only the
smallest pustmaater In the United States,
but he Is the smallest Master Mason, Odd
Fellow and Knight Templar In Kentucky,
It Is said. He Is four feet tall and weighs
less than 100 pounds. He Is 13 yesrs old
and hss held the position for a number of
years.
Miss Daisy Odin, who was recently ap
pointed trl-clty passenger agent at Daven
port, Ia., for the Chicago, Burlington &
Qulncy road, says that all that Is neces
sary to make a good railroad woman, as
well as a railroad man, la "close application
and determination to win." She began as
a telegraph operator and has won her way
up to her present position, being the only
woman In the 1'nlted States who holds
such a poHltlon.
After having squandered several fortunes
John Applegate, originator and builder of
what Ik now known aa Young's million
dollar pier, In Atlantic City, Is serving a
sentence for vagrancy In the Ios Angeles
county Jail. California. The old man la
now tt7 years old. and unless some of hlN
relatives or the friends he knew In his
palmy day roiue to his assistance be will
probably end a somewhat spectacular
career behind the prison bars.
Twenty-five thousand pemons, compris
ing i.OH) employes of the Anhruser-Buat-h
Brewing ansoclatlon and their families,
will take part In a monster celebration at
the ColUeum In St. I-oula Tuesday evening
In honor of the golden wedding of Mr. and
Mrs. Adolphua Husch. At the same time
the Busch family will be celebrating the
event at the multimillionaire brewer's
estate at Paadena. t'al The coat of the
Ht. Iuls end of the celebration will be
about r'.Ouu.
Washington Lifo
otn Interesting Phase
and Conditions Obeervea
t the station's Capital.
lJLrt October moral Washington professed
to be awfully shocked by the appearance
of a statue of an un.l raped woman In the
lawn of the residence of Mrs. Alice P. Bar
ney. Prudes screamed and sent a multi
tude of people to view the landscape deco
ration. The statue waa too large for the
doors or windows of the mansion and was
placed outside until a suitable opening
could be made. Meanwhile the figure waa
draped with emergency trouserettes and a
mantilla, and waa finally removed from the
rude gase of an Inarttstlo world. The Inci
dent occasioned unwelcome notoriety, spoil
ing the social activities planned by Mrs.
Barney and she hurried off to Parts to es
cape the scoffers. Now the merry widow
hands Washington a supplementary shock,
announcing her engagement to Ronald
Herrlck, former consul at Geneva. Mr.
Herrlck Is 26, about thirty-five years
younger than hla bride-to-be.
Mrs. Barney, who waa Miss Alice Pike,
was born in Cincinnati. Her father was
the proprietor of Pike's theater there, and
a whiskey manufacturer. As a girl Miss
Pike wrote several plays for charity, and
then went abroad and studied art under
Whistler. When she returned to America
she married Alfred Clifford Barney, an
Ohio banker. When he died, about seven
years ago, It was said he had left 18,000.000
to his widow and $2,500,000 to each of his
daughters. Mrs. Barney has bad several
of her paintings hung In the Paris salon.
She built the Neighborhood Ho ise In
Washington. She designed the Studio
House," which she and her daughter 4 occu
py In Washington, making It comb.ne the
features of a home, a studio and a gar
age. Buffalo Bill will have two near-doubles
In the new Vnlted States senate. One la
Senator Brlggs of New Jersey and the
other Is Senator James E. Martins of New
Jersey. Brlggs and Martina both wear
goatees that are astonishingly alike and
also of the same pattern as Colonel Cody's.
Moreover, they wear their hair much after
the manner of the famous acout, dead shot.
and wild west hero.
When Mr. Martina appeared on tha aen-
ti floor the other day and sat down
alongside of Senator Brlggs, and their re
spective goatees waved and wagged in urn
son. It was cause for much comment. All
that waa lacking to complete the scene waa
the presence of Colonel Cody and of Asso
ciate Justice Hughes.
While congress was wrestling with the
hlirh cost of living, the United States gov
ernment advised people to eat cheese and
save some of the money that now goes Into
the Dockets of the beef trust. Eperts or
the Agricultural department have demon
strated that American, or Cheddar, cheese,
both in Its green and ripe state, Is highly
digestible and exceedingly nourishing.
Skimmed milk cheese Is given a gooa name
by the government experts and cottage
cheese gets a fine send-orr. DOtn as a
nourishing product and as a cheap one.
It la declared that fresh beef, weight for
weight, possesses little more than half the
food value. of an equal amount of cheese
and that the aame Is true of practically all
other fresh meats, with the exception of
bacon or fat pork. In other words a pound
of cheese Is as good as two pounds of fresh
meat. Is equal to a pound of ham and also
equal to two pounds of eggs or fhree
pounds of fish. So far as prices go, of
course, there is no comparison.
Inasmuch as Americans eat from 19 to
185 pounds of meat per capita each year,
not counting fish and poultry, it can be
seen what a lot of money they could
save If they would eat more cheese and
less of the products of the beef trust.
Chief Justice White, who Is one of the
most amiable men In the world off the
bench, says the Washington Times, la a
terror to the lawyers that appear before
the supreme court to argue cases. He can
argue a case himself In French, Bpanlsh or
English, and perhaps In some otner lan
rutM. He Is a student of philology and
when a lawyer Is threshing about as to the
meaning of some word the chief Justice is
apt to break out with something line xnis:
"Give the Greek derivative of It.
A common expression of the chief Jus
tice Is: "Illustrate It: Illustrate It.'
To have the chief Justice lean over the
bench and explode a question at a green
lawyer Is apt to make the latter loss his
feet completely. Some daya ago, when the
attorney general was arguing In the Stand
ard Oil case, the chief Justice snot out!
"Give an illustration of It."
But It didn't scare Lawyer Wlckersham
He haa been In court before and is hard
ened. He proceeded to Illustrate what he
was trying to tell and seemed to satiety
the court with It. .
RAtlrlno- Senator Depew enlivened his
swan song with this story.
"President Hayes once said to me:
" 'We have been fortunate In our presl
dents In their abilities, their characters
and their high appreciation and fulfillment
of the duties of the chief magistracy of
this country, but no American takes pride
In the conditions which most of them have
to meet after their retirement from ornce,
" 'There is no place In the United States
for an ex-presldent. if I could go Into
anv of the great business enterprises of
the country I would be hardly fit and the
country would not think It proper, so I
am devoting my life to delivering lectures
before schools, academies and colleges.
"As he passed me one day In New York,
carrying bis own grip, I called the atten
tlon of a street vender of fruits to the
fact that he was Rutherford B. Hayes, ex
president of the United States and tha
opportunity was rare to see a man who
h.i (wruDled such a high place.
" 'Oh.' he answered. I don't care to el
him. He is down and out and of no ae
count.' "
Joy la Divorce foloay.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The divorce colony at Reno Is wearing
a Joyous air this week because the Nevada
senate Indefinitely postponed the divorce
bill extending the required residence In
the state to one year where the applicant
alleges that the cause of action occurred
outside the state. Under the rules the bill
Is killed for the present session. Publlo
opinion was ranged on the side of the pro-
Mjsed measure, aa the scandal of easy an
nulment of the marriage tie had become
glaring, but the hotel and associated in
terests proved more powerful, it is an
other Instance of commercialism defeating
sentiment.
Have M r Too Many Doctors f
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The fact that there are more doctors
proportionately In this country than In Eng
land or France Is not remarkable. The
territory Is larger, while Americans, being
more prosperous, are more ready to sum
nion the physician. Also being, as a na
tlon. better Informed upon the necessity
for the prevention of disease and of prompt
precautionary treatment they require
larger prortlon of doctors than the peo
ple of Europe, many of whom call upon
tihvsli Ian only In the most urgeut ex
trtinlty.
The Bee's Letter Box
Contributions on Timely objects
Vot Xaeeedlag Two Xangreel Worts
Are Invited from One kteaders.
Which t oastltateary T
WYMORE, Neh., March 4-To the Editor
of The Bee: I see that our Senator Teter
Janeen la the one to Introduce and advocate
the resolution In the legislature for Cana
dian reciprocity. Peter Jansen is only nomi
nally senator from Gage county. He Is
really senator from Manitoba and Saskat
chewan, where ha Invested In Canadian
lands by the tens of thousands of acres
and got rich from them. Aa senator from
Manitoba Peter Jansen should' be for
reciprocity, but aa senator from Gage
county In Nebraska he should be against
It as his farmer constituents are. J. W. 8.
Method of Deaf lostltatloa.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 28,-To the Editor
of The Bee: A bill Is before the legisla
ture of Nebraska to change the method
of Instructing the deaf at tha state school
in Omaha to the oral method and abolish
the sign language an manual spelling.
This bill would do far more barm than
good to the deaf of Nebraska.
The method now used at the Omaha
school la the combined system. Under this
method all who can learn It are taught
to speak. They alto have the privilege of
learning the sign language. This la as It
should be. The deaf need both. The
combined system Is used In the Instruction
of 80 per cent of the deaf In this country.
It Is approved by 96 per cent of the deaf
themselves and by a very large majority
of the teachers engaged In Instructing
them.
Many deaf who have been instructed by
the oral method severely condemn those
who would exclude the sign language. We
do not object to oral instruction. It Is all
right with those who can profit by It. But
we object to the exclusion of the sign
anguage. We want both speech and slams.
That Is what the combined system gives
ua and therefore we favor the combined
system.
Without the sign language a deaf person
can never understand a sermon; can never
enjoy a lecture; can never take part In a
debate. With the sign language we can
enjoy and profit by such things as well
as our hearing friends. Abolish the sign
language: .Never!
The question of methods should be left
to experts. Nebraska haa good ones at
the school In Omaha. Leave It to them.
It would be Just aa sensible for tha
egtslature to enact that all alck Deraona
must have osteopathic treatment and no
other. OLOli KiNaou
President National Association of the Deaf.
Ballghteasaeat.
MOOSOMIN, Province of Lusk. F.h
17.-To the Editor of The Bee: Under
separate cover I send you copy of the Free
ress xor your enlightenment on thin.
Canadian. You give us the greatest
rubbish on Canadian Independence I ever
aaw In print. Why. my dear sir, It Is only
In the "fertile brain" of The Bee wherein
such a question haa taken root. But the
wlah la- father to the thought, and you
never once ahow the advantages arising
ii um separation irom the mother country.
. you wisn to write on something
Canadian, and which would be of Interest
and profit to us and our nelahbora month
of the forty-ninth parallel, give ua an
article on closer trade relations, and not
be knifing everything Canadian and British
which is only "baby talk." and iaii-tu,ii
being a thing of the past BRITISHER.
HANDOUTS FOE OMAHA.
Grand Island Free Press: A Grand
Island hide company advertises In an
Omaha paper for 1,000,000 skunks.' Good
piace to locate them. '
Plattsmouth Journal (dem.): To treat
John O. Yeiser right the
should refuse to pay him a cent for the
trouble he has put Omaha to, and If he
Is worth bothering with City Clerk Butler
should bring ault against him for damages.
Beatrice Sun: A woman wearing the
new trouser skirt was mobbed on the
streets of Paris. But the trouser skirt
goes In Omaha. This should suggest to
the governor another opportunity to ap
point a commission to regulate the metrop
olis of Nebraska.
Kearney Hub: An Omaha syndicate has
started a Louisiana boom and will in-
peal to the gentlemen with "easy money"
with a special car, luxurious accommoda
tions en route, and a glittering prospectus
of the advantages of Investment In that
locality. Of course Nebraska money Is
needed for these Investments and It Is
safe to say that moat of It will stay where
it ia "put," whether It be in rice swamp
or cotton plateau.
Kearney Hub: The investigation of the
alleged Omaha registration and election
frauds did not sustain the governors' al
legation as a whole, but sufficient wss
shown to warrant the holding of the In
vestigation. " Procuring proof, or rather
sworn evidence, was of course difficult, so
It waa found that the governor had In
part been "misinformed," and the In
tegrity of the city clerk waa also vouched
for. Well, that Is all right, but the peo
ple of the state are hoping that It will
not happen again.
"JACKPOT REFLECTIONS.
New York World: Direct election of sen
ators by the people has Its foes. Nat
urally. Would the people of Illinois have
elected LorlmorT
Kansas City Times: Of the twenty-four
republicans who feared th rule of the
people, twenty-one appropriately aided
with Lorlmer. There Is a tie that binds.
New York Tribune: The publlo will never
hav much faith In th value of titles pro
cured under circumstances as suspicious
as those which attended the choice of Mr.
I xi rimer. It would have a far greater re
spect for him If lie should now resign and
ask Illinois to re-elect him.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Of course,
nearly all th senators who voted against
senatorial elections by th people voted
agalngt the vacation of Loiimer's sat.
What are the people among the Loiimers,
who know the advantages of leglHlatures
over th mob In the senatorial buslnesa?
Boston Transcript: The best thing for
Senator Lorlmer to do, now that he has
beeu confirmed in his seat by a narrow
majority, is to resign that seat and appear
before the -legislature which I now In ses
sion In Illinois and ak for a re-election.
It would be still better for him if some
way could be devised by which the matter
might be fought out In a popular primary.
Wtraiis to the Ueef Traat.
Indianapolis News.
Profiting, no doubt, by the horrible ex
ample w have aet, Australia clearly
hopes to prevent Itself from being af
flicted by similar conditions. It 1 no small
task It haa sot for Itself, for It Is exceed
ingly difficult to keep th trusts out of a
rich field; but as Australia Is young, con
fident and strong It should at least make
a good Industrial fight for th maintenance
of freedom. This country will watch th
fight with great Interest.
PNOIIIIIMl THK lOFFKK THlT.
ongrraamaa orris on the Trail of
Octopna.
Philadelphia Ro-ord.
'onKrcssmsn Norrls Is on the warpsth
after a combine that la big enough to
be really worth the efforts of a Nebraska
reformer. What are such puny combina
tions as the Standard Oil. the tobacco trust
and the Steel corporatalon compared with
a conspiracy of Brazil, the Rothschild
banking houses and the coffee Importers
of the world to enhance the cost of the
cup of coffee with which Mr. Norrls washes
down his breakfast roll?
Some of Mr. Norrls' figure look as
though be were barking tip the wrong
tree. What haa particularly excited him
Is that a certain grade of coffee, at the
beginning of Its present rorket-like move
ment, "sold at T rents; that grade baa
gone up as high aa It cents. Prices at re
tall have advanced 40 to so per rent In a
few months." We find that the regular
grade of coffee la selling on the New Tork
exchange at between 10 and ll rents. If
retail prices of J0 to JO cents have been
advanced from 40 to do per cent, or from
I to IS rents, th nefarloua conspiracy of
the Republic of Brssll, th greatest bank
ers in in won a ana in impuniii aoep noij
go very far toward explaining It, Aa V
matter of fact, Mr. Norrls" statement of;
the advance of retail prices Is a great
exaggeration.
Why the retail grocer should sell sugar
at cost and coffee at a cent per cent profit
we do not understand. Probably no one
outside of the grocery trade doe under
stand It. But, as Mr. Norrls points out,
th difference between th wholesale price
of th common grade of Braslt coffe and
th retail price of coffee which Is strongly
suspected of being an Immigrant from Bra
slt, but purport to com from Java, Mocha,
Venezuela, Porto Rico and Mexico, Is wide
nough to attract attention and arouse
curiosity. It Is so wide a to Indicate very
little relation between the wholesale and
retail prices, and therefor th pric Mr.
Norrls has to pay for hla domestic supply p
can b charged only In a ubordlnate de- jN
gree to the reprehensible conduct of Brasll i
and th Rothschilds. j f
I
ALMOST A Si H W WORLD, f
Pass in a: of Mn and Uveal la a daart
ter of a Ceatary.
Th Forum Magaxlne.
In ISM Orover Cleveland was president
of the United States; Queen Victoria hat
not yet seen the pageant of her first
JJubtlee; William I was German emperor,
Franoola Paul Jules Orevy the head of t) 4
French republic, Humbert I king of Itah .
They have gone. Four other preslder;i
have entered the White House, two klr a
have sat on Queen Victoria' throne, two
kaiser have held the scepter of the first
war lord. And of all the myraida of human
beings who were then living, men. women
and children, more than two-thirds have
passed away. In lfflt there were 54.000.900
of people In the United States: 31,000.000 of
them are left, In th lt.0O0.00A of th present
population, 21.000,000 have died the ban est
of a quarter of a century. i
The Boer war has been fought and our
war with Spain and In the Philippines.
Tha air has been conquered. The Panama)
canal has been brought into being. The
genius of Edison and the great Inventors
haa made the miraculous commonplace;.
motor oars, th phonograph, wireless tele
graphy, aeroplanes, are among the pro-1
ducts of these twenty-five years. Science!
haa moved forward magnlflolently ; thel
arts have followed perhaps a little less
conspicuously. New York haa more than
doubled Ita population; San ?ri ttwe -has
risen from ruins. There are sight more
states In th union, SS.0Oc.uc, mora people,
tM.000,000.000 more wealth Th time
change indeed, and the clnldrm of time
and circumstance change with them. 1'er
hapa It were unkind U. a. ingest that while
our Imports and exports have doubled, and
our population will norn have the same
numerical distinction, the cost of living
has Increased In a corresponding ratio.
PASSING PLSASANTBIES.
"That man Is a tna;lc."
"I don't aee how you ran say that of him.
He Is always discarding some old belief
and taking up a ne-v one."
"Yes, but he never takes up any of the
beliefs that I hold." Chicago Record
Herald. The bad man leveled a big revolver
through the window of the country post
office. "This Is a maaaslne gun." he hoarsely
said. "It means sixteen dead men at every
loading."
The spectacled clerk looked at the weapon
doubtfully.
"A magailne gun?" he repeated. "Well.
If It contains any advertising It comes
under the 4-cents a-pound rate." Cleveland
Plain-Dealer.
"Bad luck Is sometimes good luck."
"Ridiculous.''
"Not at all. Did you ever get a club to
fill a heart flush and afterward discover
soma on else had a full house 7" Detroit
Fie Press.
"What do you think of the idea of an
extra session of congress?"
"Well." replied Farmer Corntossel, ' some
extra sessions Is Ilk some extra news
papers. They ain't enough In 'em to Justify
the hollertn'." Washington Star.
"Can vou give my constituent here a
Job on your railroad?'' asked Ihe state sen
ator. "Hut he can't talk English.
"Well give him a Job calling trains."
Washington Herald.
Doctor You must put a porous plaster
on the small of your back.
Lady That'a Impossible, doctor. I'm
going to the opera tonight; how would I
1nl..lA 1.1..!.
"No. deary." he said, "I don't mlcs the
delayed spring. How can I when I hav
my little robin, my little peach blossom
here with me all the time?"
"That's quite enough of that, George,"
said the peach blossom. "Why don't you
speak up like a man and say you want to
stay out all night ?" Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Now this car," said tha agent, calling
Blllups' attention to a handsome limousine
In the corner, "Is a dandy. It runs so
smoothly you wouldn't know you were In
it. hides Just like u roi kln-iiiii ."
"What do you think 1 am, an escaped
Inmate of an old lady's home?" demanded
Htllups. "I want a car that I'll know 1 in
in when I'm In It, and when I go out look
ing tor a rocking chair I'll go to a fur
niture store and not to a garage." Harper
Weekly. .
KEEPING LENT.
Robert Herrlck lf,lj.
Is this a fast to keepe
The larder leans
And cleane
From tat of veales and sheapf
la It to quit Ihe dish
Of fleshe, yet still
To fill
The platter high with fish?
Is It to fast an houre,
Or ragged goe,
Or show
A downcast look and
Sow re?
No' 'tis a fast to dole
Thy aheafe of wheat.
And meats,
I nto the hungry sowle'
It Is fast from strife.
From old debate
And hate.
To circumcise "thy
Life "
To show a heart grief-rent.
To etarv thy in,
Not bin.
And that to keep thy
1-ent!
