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4 T11K J!i;i;: OMAHA. TUESDAY. M AKC1I 21. 1011. I TlIK OMAHA DAILY BlCK , .. 1 ... j f oi NLiKD By ldwahd norfKW ateiv I , VICTOR RoSK WATER. EDITOR. hntered t Omaha ro4tofrtc .econd- 8tan(,,i at(endlnf? tne rPturii of rl tlssa matter. I . . ... . nance Minister Llniantour. Whether TEFIM3 or SUBSCRIPTION: I he has obtained consent of Prewident 'yH,VnV"u 13 M any it (without Huniay). ont yw, r ana tnus paving tne way to renaniu ""y MMvVHCDriEii:' tatlon of peace and progress In the Dal Evening Be (without Sunday), per mo,.! Evening B twlth Sunday) per momn.io: Daily Be tlticludlng rmnday), per month. tec Dally Be (without Sunday), per month.. 45c Address all complaint of Irregularttl In delivery ta City circulation Department. OFFICES OmhaThs Bee Building. South Omaha 2S N. Twenty-fourth 8t Council Bluffs U Scott St. Lincoln 2 Little Building. Chicago Mk Marqued Building. Kansas City-Reliance Building. New York M West Thirty-third St. V ashlngton 72.i Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRKSPONDENCE. Communication relating to newa and ed itorial matter ahould be addressed Omaha bee, Editorial Department. tt OMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent atampa received In payment of mall account. Personal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION. 47,621 Fiat of Nebraska, County of Douglas, a: Dwlght Wllllaina. circulation manager of The iie Publishing company, being .duly worn, aays that the average dally cir culation, lea (polled, unuaued and returned copies, for the month of February, lull, wa ;.ti. DWKjirr Williams. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my preeuoce and awura to before Die this 1st day of March, 111. (Seal.) iiOSURT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscriber learta tmm elty tem porarily ehowld Bar 1st Be taallea to theas. Addreea will b rkssged often reejaeeted. One week babies. Tbe next week dogs, .Nothing like variety. Mr. Bryau evidently thinks there Is luck In the old dollar dinner. The weather man should be made to understand that he Is on his good behavior. Springfield, Mass., has proposed the Innovation of "common sense In city planning." Before wiping ou party lines, better put a few sleuths oa the trail to lo cate them. ' "Honduras to Bee Peace," says the headline. Yes, Moses saw the Prom ised land, too. '. No, of course, that big banquet at Lincoln was not to be In the interest of any man's candidacy. We did not read the name of Jud aea N. Harmon among the present list at the Bryan dollar dinner. The Nebraska initiative and refer endum may.h the best ever, and still be subject to improvement. The Missouri town where Champ Clark lives has lost 317 population In tan years. How fickle is fame. This Is the kind of weather that ought to mature the crop of laws quickly which is ripening down at Lincoln. They are said to be ousting the Car negie element from the Steel trust. It is to be hoped they are doing it peaceably. Now that the Vermillion county grand Jury has adjourned, there ought to be many old, familiar faces back home again. Japan and Russia love each other about aa much as the two boys who fought to a draw after an hour of fierce encounter. 8o long as our Water board is to continue paramount, even under the commission form of government, the country will be saved. General Wood is maneuvering around to arrange some maneuvers for Our soldier boys, anyway, even if the war should prove a fluke. Kansas City is beginning the huge task of widening its streets, or rather some of them. That was a matter Omaha looked out for at the proper time. Every automobile should be com pelled to carry a recording speedome ter. The driver then could not pre tend he did not know how fast he was going. The bill to merge the office of city comptroller with that of city clerk is so quiet that "Big Dan" may have to send out a searching expedition to find it The army ia playing war and Mr. Taft is playing golf. Washington Herald. And over in New York Boss Murphy is playing clocU. Senator Norris Brown is to make a speech in Omaha on "Reciprocity." He could make a bigger hit on the subject, "How Proud 1 Am of My Omaha Appointees." Soma Illinois legislators threaten to bring new evidence as a plea for an other Lortnier investigation at the ex tra aeeston. There they go, trying to force Joe Bailey to resign again. "My face ta turned to the future, my back to the past," said Abe Reuf as he entered the penitentiary, but he seems to be peeping back over his shoulder at the past long enough to resume his fight for liberation. Change Coming in Mexico. Invent are shaping themselves for ,.hBI1ce of political rendition in i Mexico. That seems certain from the j rumor arising from and the rircuni- ,he re-ported plan of retiring republic, remains to be aeon. It is a great deal to expect of r man like Porflrlo Diaz, who for more than thirty years has reigned with almost j monarr.hial power In Mexico. The plan, contemplating I.Iman tour's succession to the presidency as a temporary expedient preceding a new election and general reorganiza tion of the government, however, does not seem Illogical. Whether the people are ready for complete self-govern ment or not, they think they are and they seem determined on a more or less radical readjustment. Opinion seems to be regarding Umantour as the man. If there Is such a one In Mexico, to take the reins and guide the atate to a peaceful harbor. He has long been known aa the "strong man of the Diaz" cabinet and by his for mer years of close friendship and business association with the Maderos. he has also the advantage of their confidence and that of their follow ers. The demonstration upon his re turn to Mexico Is a signal of his popu larly. He was In places acclaimed as the right man for the presidency. It will prove to be extremely fortunate If there Is a man on whom both sides can unite. Deposit Guaranty in Oklahoma. When national banks in Oklahoma were throwing away their charters and rushing to take advantage of the deposit guaranty law, advocates of this law cited that as an evidence of the wisdom and desirability of the system. Is It, then, on the other hand, an, evidence of the unwisdom and un deslrablllty of the law that fifty Okla homa banks in two weeks apply for national charters and thus soek to get from under the provisions of the state law. That Is what has happened In this new experimental state of. Oklahoma. The banks that cast away their na tional charters and became state banks, have paid dearly for their ex perience and are now submissively asking that they be allowed to become national banks again. Naturally, folks ask what Is the matter? Why has not the deposit guaranty worked out all the wonderful advantages its exponents claimed for it? The explanation offered is that a levy of 2 per cent of the gross de posits Is to be made to build up the guaranty fund. The 1 per cent levy has proved Inadequate, , Not svren the advertising the banks derived from the guaranty proposition seems to have compensated for the cost, so these fifty banks in two weeks, with others following, are now running for cover. One of these banks applying for the return of Its national charter has capi tal of $50,000, with deposits of $500.- 000. Two per cent of Its deposits, therefore, would be 20 per cent of its capital. No wonder It wants to escape. All we can say 'is that we hope Ne braska's attempt to follow In Okla homa's footsteps with deposit guar anty will not bring us to similar grief. Omaha Investments for Omaha Money. Omaha people have made mora money out of investments in Omaha enterprises than they have out of in vestments outside of Omaha. This is a broad statement, but, generally speaking, we believe it cannot be suc cessfully disputed. We do not refer to mere speculation, but to legitimate Industry. The opportunities offered by Omaha for profitable Investment in commercial and industrial ventures are equally, if not more promising, than those presented In any other city in the west. In a word, Omaha peo ple with money to put into real busi ness undertakings holding out every assurance of satisfactory terms do not have to go outside of Omaha. Omaha still needs foreign capital for its further development, and while asking strangers to come in and share our growth and prosperity, our own mon eyed men ought to prove their faith by their works. Anglo-American Arbitration. British sentiment seems to be unanimously In favor of the Taft pro posal for an Anglo-American treaty "to abide the adjudication of an in ternational arbitral court in every is sue that cannot be settled by arbitra tion." The church and the press are strongly supporting it and commend Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secre tary, for his espousal of the proposal. One paper goes so far as to declare that this would be the 'most Impor tant and beneficent achievement of the twentieth century, short of univer sal disarmament." Here, then. Is evidence that ought to be complete of England's readiness to work toward a great Anglo-American alliance. AH these manifesta tions are made in the face of the fact that Japan stoutly opposes the plan because It would terminate the alliance that country has with Brit ain. England's preference for such a compact with the United States can not now be doubted. This should af ford encouragement for the negotia tions preliminary to a consummation of the plan. Such sn achievement would be a distinct triumph In di plomacy. The treaty would. Indeed, exert a powerful influence for world peace. It Is not entirely new, to be sure, for the same principle seems to have teen embodied in the Olney-Paunce-fote treaty rejected by the senate in 1 S & 7, because. It Is said, the Irish Americans at that tlnii opposed It. It Is to be hoped that the theory of Irish-American endorsement now, on the grounds of that element's friend ship for the Asquith-Grey administra tion Is trustworthy. In that event, nothing so far as can now be deter mined, would prevent the completion of the treaty. Certainly there Is roora for f,oser co-operation between the great English speaking nations. Roosevelt's Pardonable Pride. Former President Roosevelt said In i his speech at the opening of the Roose velt dam in Arizona that the two ma-1 terlal achievements cqnnected with his administration of which he was most! proud were the reclamation work tn the west and the Panama canal. It) neither case, of course, did he origin ate, but brought to a successful Issue the varied schemes that had been pending for years and actually put the men to work digging the canal. Both these achievements are world wide in their influence, are of empire-building proportions. This dam. which gathers the water for irrigat ing hundreds of thousands of acres of rich soli, gigantic as It is. Is but a part of the great system of reclama tion and irrigation which President Roosevelt did so much to establish. That system Is opening up to settle ment millions bf acres of land to countless numbers of people", of this and other countries. It bears directly upon nearly every phase of American life, touching us at every economical angle. It is Impossible for any man to estimate the beneficent results flow ing from these works. Now, it is plain that President Roosevelt was right In standing' out against the partial development of such enterprises as Roosevelt dam by private capital. He persistently de clared that only Uncle Sam couid do the work and Uncle Sam has done It. Uncle Sam did that and other similar work and he will and must do more of it out here in the vast west for the Individual of small means firat and then the man of large means. That is what gives the Intrinsic value to tho enterprises.. They open up new opportunities to those to whom op portunities have been limited. And if this were the biggest ma terial achievement in the administra tion of Mr. Roosevelt, so it is likely to remain the biggest domestic prob lem for some years to come, one to which the magic of unselfish, unerring statesmanship must be applied. Prop erly to store and at the same time use our natural resources and they include water as well as land and timber this is the real conservation in which the American people are so deeply interested. Another Slow-Sown Warning. Omaha auto speeders, whose reck lessness seems to be again on the rise, are hereby given another slow-down warning. With many of them the mania to beat the speed limit seems to be Irrepressible, and the periodic interference of the police with a few arrests and fines, is again due. The automobiles whizzing up and down our busiest and most crowded thor oughfares ca-ry altogether too much danger to both occupants and pedes trians. We have one reckless driver right now with a penitentiary sen tence hanging over his head and two or three more docketed on charge bf manslaughter, but these object lessons of the past year do not seem to last long. It is time for the police to get busy and for auto drivers to slow down. Just a Salary Grab. A bill has been smuggled through the legislature and is now before the governor for his signature, raising the salary limits of the four deputy county attorneys in Douglas county from the present minimum of $1,200 and mat lmum of $1,500 to a minimum of $2,000 and maximum of $2,500. This is Just a salary grab that ought to have been nipped in the bud, and should be scotched now. It is possl ble that the chief deputy of the county attorney who now gets $1,500 and office, telephone and stenographer ac commodatlons In all equal to about $1,800 should have more money, but the other three deputy county attor neys are overpaid now for the work they do. As a matter of fact, the cost of this office should be reduced for the benefit of the taxpayers instead of en larged; it could be cut down by mak ing one of the deputies serve as city prosecutor instead of having a deputy county attorney and a city prosecutor both standing around the police court waiting for something to turn up. This bill was introduced and pushed through the legislature by a law part ner of one of the present deputies, which is sufficient explanation. If Governor A Id rich wants to do the tax payers of Douglas county a service he will veto the salary grab. Why, of course, Postmaster Thomas told the truth when he publicly de clared that he never, directly or lndl rectly, solicited or accepted any money from postoffice subordinates for polit ical purposes. And, if the postmaster told the truth, the men who paid the money are liars and conspirators. Our old friend, Edgar Howard, again hoists the signal flag of distress for Mr. Bryan. "No use In disguising the situation." he declares. "Unless the old guard can be aroused, unless the real friends of Mr. Bryan and hi principles shall throw off the mask of Indifference, both the man and his principles will be utterly repudiated when It comes to electing delegates to the national convention." Oh, cheer up, Kdgar. We refuse to believe It Is quite as bad as that. With 8.000,000.000 acres and many times that many billions of tons of coal left, we can scarcely subscribe to Mr. Hill's declaration that Uncle Sam is rapidly exhausting' his supplies. "Jack Johnson Talks of Going Abroad, to Remain Some Years." Headline. "And we don't care if he never comes back.',' Voice from Ixs Angeles alfalfa farm. 1 Opportunity t ntmproved. Philadelphia Bulletin. It' time for some enterprising breakfast food press agent to claim credit for Dial good health. , Where the Rio Han Well. Houston Post. The "Rio Orande River" Is dry enough In Texas, but It Is running steadily through the column of the northern press. Nome Hope l.e-ft. Kansas City Times. The Uoulda have not j-nllrelyajost con trol of the Missouri Pacific, mthough there is still some hope that the property may pans Into the hunds of rallrouu men. lteona for Bnltlnsr In." Baltimore American. Colonel Roosevelt continue to speak with an authoritative Voice in Denaii oi tne United States. Even though the authority be questioned, the wisdom of his remarks cannot, when he says all we require of Mexico Is order, Justice and Independence. In fact, that state of mind on the part of this country has been suspected for some time. Iowa's Crowded Courts. Sioux City Tribune. Something like 00.000 printed abstracts and briefs were submitted to the Icwa supreme court during the last year to be read. The fact Is presented In evidence on the side of the proposed legislation to increase the membership of the court from six to nine. If soma way could be devised for decreasing the business sub- mtted to the court that plan of reform would be preferable. Greed Promote Politic Nnlaance. Brooklyn Kugle. There Is a natural disposition In this country not to Interfere In another man's business unless that business becomes an intolerable public nuisance That explain the toleration of the bill board advertis ing up to the point where the choicest scenery Is defaced and degraded and the eye of the traveler Is bombarded by a succession of advertising signs, which largely shut out Natural beauties and which irritate the seeker for such beauties to the point at which the Intermittent glimpses of mountain and river fall to soothe. Somebody makes money out of this barbaric yawp of signs, and the rooted objection to Interfering with another man's source of Income has permitted the orgy to go on, to the point of becoming national nuisance. , I PLIPT OP THH MILE. Growing; Appreciation of Power Pa tlenco mm Hr-tl Precision., '::' , Columbia) (. C.) State.. , The price of mules 1 higher than It baa ever been and, commenting on this per fectly right fact. The Omaha Bee casually observe that the popularity of tha auto mobile has not depressed th pncunlary estimation In which mule are hald. Our contemporary might have . gone further. The automobile ha enhanced the stand lng of the mule in the community and has contributed to its uplift. It has presented that peculiar background long needed by the mule to assure th recognition that he deserves. While It Is not intended here to say that the mule ha pushed aside th automobile In the affections of tha publlo or gained popularity at the automobiles' expense, It I certain that the lovers of mules, some time accustomed to take them for granted and look upon them Indifferently, have un dergone a change In their attitude by rea son of the automobile' entrance. A man who believe In a mule 1 likely to dis believe in an automobile and, seeing the weak points of the latter, the sharply con trasting; strong points In th mule suddenly and powerfully dawn upon him and over whelm him with a sentiment of remorse for having failed to appreciate him du)y in the past. Consequently he if ready to ex press his regard for a good mule tn terms of three times as much money as formerly. When be hear the owner of an automo bile say that It Is a "30-horsepower ma chine," he doe not dispute It, but he knows full well, though he keep It to him self, that a 30 mule power car has never yet been and never will be built. Fixed In this conviction,, he eagerly pay what ever price may be demanded for th kind of mul that he covet and remember that the mule may aom day be of service In an emergency, the neighbor owning an automobile. People Talked About The will of th lat Ralph Johnston, the aviator, who lost his life In a fan at Den ver, laM November, wa filed for probate In Kansas City, 11 o. He left 1384 In cash and real estate valued at $1,500. Robeit W. Chanler, ex-herlf, husband of Lino Cavallerl and extraordinary artist, la studying angel fish tn Bermuda for purpose of art, according to A. U New man, purser of the Royal Mall steamship Trent, which arrived recently In New York. A resolution calling for the. appropriation of $5,000 tor the removal of the body of General Kearney from Trinity Churchyard In New York City, to the National ceme tery at Arlington, Vs., wa passed unan imously by the New Jersey stato senate. Uypsy Lee, the one-tlm famous fortune teller of the Levil'a Lyke, I dead. Mr. L, who wa t& year old, was a member of a Kentish Romany tribe, the could trace her descent In a direct Una for jO0 year. U pelts In England looked upon hsr a their Queen. A mourner gathered In th parlor for th funeral of Edwin N. Hubbard at Mld dletowa Conn., there wa a sudden burst of song from 100 birds. A soon a th minister arcs th bird stopped. It 1 said. Th chorus cam from an aviary filled by Mr. Hubbard, who wa a collector of birds of rar plumage and song. Bx-Benatnr Bevertdg will temporarily abandon taking part In the lively scrim maging of Indiana politics. H will alas forego resumption of hi law practice. It la stated that ha ha made a contract with a firm of publisher to writ a buck on Canada. With this end In view he soon will start on tour of th province, dur ing which h will study the civil Institu tion In th Dominion and then set himself to tli lack of discussing th future of Canada. I I. Army Gossip Matter of Interest on and Back of the Firing Xln Gleaned from the Army and navy Bfltr The president will find awaiting htm for executive action upon his return to Wash ington, the reports of proceedings in the courtsmartlai of three officers of the army, each of whom has been sentenced to dis missal. One la the case of First lieutenant l.eo D. Dannemlller, L'. 8. A., retired, who ha been on duty with the organised mili tia of West Virginia since !ay. 1910. Re port were made to the War department that that officer was Intoxicated while on duty. Another case I that First Lieutenant James L. Craig. Second Infantry, on duty at Port Asslnnlbolnu, Mont., who I also charged with drunkenness. The third case Is that of (Vptaln Boss Reese of the Philip pine scouts, against whom a variety of more or less sensational charges were filed at the headquarters of the Philippine di vision. Thcs allegation were vent to Washington and carefully considered, but most of them Were found to be supported only by testimony which could not be re garded as acceptable by a military court. In addition to this circumstance, It was found that much prejudice existed against the officer among those of his command on account of the alleged severity of his disciplinary measures. The trial was con ducted on the charge of drunkenness. The War department authorities have under consideration the project of reor ganizing the cavalry arm. The Initial step will be taken at onoe In an experimental way by forming two provisional regiments of the augmented strength of the Eleventh cavalry, now serving with the mllltla di vision in Texas. Each of these provisional regiments will be composed of six troops, which will make a regiment as large as that of any regimental cavalry command In any other army. The present cavalry organisation of twelve troops to a regi ment Is unwieldy, and the theory Is that there will b greater efficiency In a regi ment of six troop. Colonel James Parker, who In In command of the Eleventh cav alry, will probably command one of the provisional regiments, while some other cavalry officer, yet to be selected, will be In command of the other regiment. The work devolving on these regiments will be under the general stipervlslon of Colonel Parker, with General W. 8. Schuyler a brigade commander. Naturally, Major General W. It. Carter, who Is In command of the troop in Texas, takes a great In terest In the now organisation. The re sults will be awaited with considerable Interest, as they are bound to have a direct bearing upon cavalry reorganization. Those who have been serving In the army a dental surgeons will be subjected to a physical examination to determine their fitness to be commissioned under the terms of the army appropriation act of March S. When these dental surgeons were appointed the examination wn merely a professional one. It will only be necessary. In aeeordanoe with tho law, to have the physical examination, and upon the result of this, It la the Intention of tha surgeon general of the army, to ar range for the commissioning of the dental surgeons as first lieutenants In the newly created dental corps, which la to be a part of the army medical department. There are at present thirty-one of these dental surgeons. No more will be com missioned as first lieutenant until the ex piration of three years, during which pe rtod the original appointee to the dental corp must serve as acting dental' sur geon, with the same official status, pay- and allowances a . the contract den tal surgeons hitherto authorised by law This, provisional service of. three years Is necessary to establish eligibility to ap pointment as dental surgeons with the rank of first lieutenant The number of commissioned officer In th corps Is lim ited to sixty, and it is possible, under ex- lstlng law, to have some twenty-seven ad ditional acting dental surgeons. It was hoped at th end of three or four years to have somewhere near sixty commissioned dental surgeons. By the time the troops forming the "man euver division" ar ready to return from Texas and southern California th military authorities may have reached some Im portant conclusions la th matter of the stations of troop and the duration of duty at posts beyond continental limits. There I an Indication that the president will de clde that the tour of duty of troops In tha Philippine and in the Hawaiian Islands shall be for three, a"nd possibly four years, Instead of twe year, asNat present. . Mr. Taft has long entertained the view that the period of duty of troop In the Philippine should b extended, and h bases this on his own experiences In the Island. He recognises that, If the troops were kept abroad for three er four years, there would b a material reduction In the amount of travel now Involved in changing station ever two year. Whatever Is done In th way of re-establishing tha tour ef duty In th Philippines and In Hawaii will undoubtedly apply to the period spent by th troops which will form th defensive force along the Panama canal. There I also a suggestion that step b taken to establish a divisional camp, with the ultimata purpos of converting It Into a permanent divisional garrison. The ten dency of troop concentration I toward dl visional dimensions, a being mod econom leal of admiration and more efficient in a military way than the brigade pot. which has shown such an Improvement in tho characteristics over the regimental post. Of course, a permanent divisional post would require congressional action. aa a law, enacted In 1905, prohibit th es tablishment of any military post within the United State without express author ity of congress. The return, of the troop from Texas and Southern California will obviously afford an opportunity to make any changes In station which may be con sidered necessary. Th situation may also be regarded by th president aa creating th necessity for extending the tour of duty of troops In the Philippines, the re turning regiments from which this yjrar ar confronted with the prospect of having their order of transfer Indefinitely sus pended. EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. Boston Transcript: Bryan thinks that many newspaper have lost their Influence. This seem to hint at a definite test of th Commoner In 1BL2. Indlunapolla News: Rather foxy scheme, too, to blame the Japanese for all the Mexican trouble. Indeed, th Jap seem to have Leoom th International Loeb. Wall Street Journal: In future fiction the miser will not be mad to clutch nervously at his gold. Ilia attention will be concen trated oa hi tU per ounce platinum. Kansas City Star: "What we want." nay Uabrlel Madero. speaking for the In urrectonlat, "Is honest election." Appar ently th Mexican have become tired of being governed th way Pennsylvania la Cleveland leader: Illinois, In en bound, has leaped Into th forefront of political progress. It has Mtabllshed th offlc of offiolal sampler. Among the duties of tha Job ar testing all tha bser made In the slats and drawing a salary of Iu.idjO a year. s . m. Makes Home B airing Easy Royal Baking Powder helps llie housewife to produce at home, quickly and economically, fine and tasty cake, hot biscuit, puddings, the frosted layer cake, crisp cookies, crullers, crusts and muffins, fresh, clean, tasty and wholesome, with which the ready-made food found at the shop or grocery does not com pare. Royal is the greatest of bake-day helps. &OTAL COOK BOOK-800 RECEIPTS FELE ' " Send fiamg and Address. OWDII ylMsnjMs,liMi n.ia,iv. The Bee's Letter Box Contributions on Timely Subjaet Hot Bzc4Uff Two Hundrad Word Ar Invited from Our KsaUsr. Ad lob InanrKf l, OMAHA, March 20. To the Kdltor of The Bee: Attacks upon the Ad club and upon the writer have appeared In the Omaha paper during the last week In the form of anonymous letters. The Ad club needs to make no apology for Its action In preparing, and asking the legislature to pass Its "commission form" bill. The authorship of two of the shoot-'em-ln-the-back communications has, however, been almost positively Identified and, un less Information at hand is entirely wrong, one of them was written by a man no longer enrolled a a member of tho Ad club, having been omitted for reasons not at all creditable to himself, and there fore, he has no right to speak as a mem ber of tho club. The other letter Is ac credited to a splendid young man who is one of the most highly respected members of the club and whose opinion was heard at the proper time In opposition to the action of the club in the matter of pre paring a "commission form" bill; for wa he not one of two or three who were against the proposition, whereas more than 100 member voted for It. Both letters, however, deserve to be ig nored because the' authors did not have the courage to, sign their names. ' The undersigned 1 personally accused of foisting upon the Ad club this com mission form Idea. I ask the club to give me no such credit. Let me say further that the man mis takes the make-up, th manhood, the cali ber of the Ad club who thinks that anyone can force down Its throat anything its members do not want to swallow. The bill may pas or It may be defeated, but the Ad club will continue to be respected and supported by the people of Omaha. If it passes, the club will have performed the greatest public service ever under taken by any organization in the state; If it Is defeated, th club will be given credit for having made the attempt to perform such service and It defeat will not be due to any shirking on the part of those to whom this work has been assigned. Out of a membership of ISO I do not be lieve our anonymous assailants can name i per cent who are not heartily In accord with what the club Is doing In respect to this matter. It should be the part cf every loyal mem ber of an organisation to yield to the de cision of the majority, and I think it is en tirely unworthy of the latter objector, who is a splendd fellow, to try to embarrass either th club or th writer especially by such deplorable means as, an unsigned published letter. Why not come out Into the open and let 0 is a HMmE! Kb liilwliiiili THIS BANK, I In Its During all this time It has commanded the confi dence of the people. This coufidence la still evidenced by the daily opening of new account and the constantly increasing volume of business. Your account Is Invited. CO.. NtW the public and the Ail club inaiutiei know your name and business; then -alone can your opinion have weight and be iupe teil. One of the unnamed willrrs Kloomlly foi hodes thu "wrui king of the i lul" as a result of this undertaking, The only evi dence I have seen of anv attempt to ac complish such an end has beun contained In the unsigned letters heielu referred to. UALPH H. 8l'Nll!;iU.ANlJ. v MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "How about this Harden Illumination by Chinese lanterns.''' i . :- "It Is In an entirely sulltible predica ment." "How is that'."' ' "H Is a liangln fiiv."-1ialtlnlore Ameri can. "Weren't von indignant when people you didn't know nilleil you by your first name?" "No.'' replied Senator Sorghum; "but I've worried a great deal since they've shown a disposition to stop It. " Washing ton Star. "What a traveler the yuung wife. of old Moneybags has developed Into! She Is al ways crosalng or recrossing the ocean. She certainly keeps the transatlantic line busy." "She's used to keeping llie Hue busy., You know she was formerly a telephone girl." Baltimore American. ' "Hut piamma thinks I am too young to marry." , "Why should she think that? ' You're much older than she was when she got" married, aren't you''' "Yes, but father was di'ang a much larger salary at the time than you're get ting." Chicago Uncord-Herald. THE TEST. I i.1 o ' W. D. Neeblt In I'll lea so -He has proposed -and Q. Hi Juy That fills her hrart today! A gladness nothing can destmx- ' Abides wlih her, to stay. So marvel deep her tapiure is No words may tell it all. She knows her heart to that of his Forevermore shall call. ". ' .; 'Tis not that he proposed A h, no A dozen men have sighed And spoken things designed lo'shoW Their longlm to he tied. And each, rejected, then and there His sorrow has displayed:-' And very soon his love would swear To quite another maid. She knows that men are fickle things, Whose so Inconstant heurts Keep Cupid rushing both his wings To be there with Ms darts. But an exception she has found. A man whoso love is true, . As surely as the world Is round Or as the sky Is blue. When he proposed she wore a hat , That hid her nose and chin, A dress that made her like a slat - A shapeless thing and thin. But in his most enamored tune , Me told her life was worth The living for Just her alone-- The fairest thing on earth! And so she knows that line Is blind. But times she has a fright Por fear some day a fate unkind May give him back his slghl. But still she says that If he vows She's fair In such a garb, Then must his heart forever house ' Dan Cupid s biggest barb V - Year