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. uoseritxre leaving the rlty tem
porarily, should have 1st
walled ta thesa. Adireu will ba
rhanned an eftea as reqaaeted.
, When anger blazes up, the light of
reason.. grows dim.
If he 1. not careful "Bill" Dech may
beeofhe a political issue.
Ndw, Mr. Metcalfe, take "that, and
trf to be good next time.
I. Bailey playing with his resigna
tions a comedy or a tragedy?
Togo will tour this country,
No
Jap Invasion In hi. visit, either.
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"Every.-ilog ha. hi. day." But not
every dog.Jiai hi. day at a dog .how.
A clean-up day for Omaha 1 sched
uled. iet out your rake and brooms.
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U ,1s, Alraoat rude to think of the
advantages of a harem skirt In a rain
.ter'tri. Kven Frank James has left Okla
homa and' moved back to old Mlz
rourah. It la usually the shallow mind that
wlfihas to- he considered a . deop
thinker. .
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Jupiter Pluvlus could not find a
better place to drop, that rain than
right here.
A Chicago firm ha just shipped
10.000 alarm clocks to China. Shows
they are waking up.
Congress may get back at the
president" by forcing htm to spend hi.
summer lu Washington.
Thoso military men down on the
border better make the most of their
chance.. .Congress convene, in two
weeks.
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, Jf; ihev war. new. from Texas doe.
not suit you, turn over to the .port
page and get the other kind from the
same place.
?Tfi colonel may think this l. hl.
farewell tour, but the people have yet
to express themselves, and they are
apt to encore. ... ,
In Minnesota every member of the
legislature is furnished with two cus
pidors. , They must chew the regular
old homespun. '
The Boston woman who brags
about not spending more than $10 a
year on her clothes still has nothing
on Mother Eve.
How .fortunate that the Texas
strawberry should come Just In time
to relieve the monotony of the sol
diers' life on the border.
AH quiet In the Omaha postofnee,
butj something is likely to break loose
sodn'after those civil service Investi
gators jnnake their report.
"Another one .of Mr. Bryan's Ideas
is that newspapers should not print
accounts of crime. Criminals would
be much safer if they did not.
Kvery war cloud must havo allver lin
ing. Waanlngloa Pout.
That one fringed with Mr. Car
Regie's 9 1 0. 000,000 surely has.
Champ Clark Is sending grsss seed
to the widows of his district. It would
be more pointed If he sent a few
packages to) the grass widows st Keno.
Wonder' Jf The associate editor of
the Commoner ever writes anything
just because he is a "hired employe"
on. a Ir belonging to someone else.
Oinahi'ls going' to maintain a mu
nicipal sutriuoblle. repair shop for
owned machines. It has maintained
a luublripjal rplr shop for damaged
political machines for soma time. '
The rsJ "ueatlon, however, Is still
iuaniri. ' Vi& Mr. Bryan blue-i-encll
as 4 O. K. la advance the birih
li y baa j u at : a of his associate
editor, "Darling dauncialioa and
pitheta at a lergs piajority of Ne
krmaah ieiarru?
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The Land Show Idea.
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ll ia gramying iu iicmc tnw bimcau
of interest in the land show Idea and
to find that New York is to have one j
of these expositions at Madison Square
garden next November. It will ap
parently be conducted along much the
same linen as the shows In Omaha,
Chicago and Pittsburg that have made
such distinctive successes. The same
general purpose that actuates tile
Omaha Land show underlies the en
ternrlae tn lie held in New York not
to stimulate land speculation, but tol0"" u"on J, Industries for Its re-
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attract people to the land. The slo-
gan of the eastern show will be "Back ! "u" 11 " "' 11 u"'uu""""
to the Soil- It ha. for Its sponsors' igntic 'd"trlal development and
such men as J a me. J. Hill. Lew W. !"rP"d' accomplished big things. It
Hill. Horace Havemever. Gustav ! ' ,hpr ,n th fle,d ot ndntry and
Pabst and other railroad and Indus-
trial men, and It I. interesting to note
.,. .nrn t ,. nhtnr.nh. hntn,.
used In the publicity of this .how
were taken in Omaha during the corn
show, given here, In which the Hills
manifested such active Interest.
It cannot help but be a matter of
satisfaction to the west to know that
It ba. sounded the keynote to this
great movement and ha. set an ex
ample which the great eastern cities
feel Impelled to follow. To be sure,
the Hills are interested In the devel
opment of . Canada a. .well as the
northwestern part of the United
State., but the Important fact is they
are Interested In development and i
are exerting their great power, toward !
that end. It matters not at all to the I
people of this country what sections
are specially aimed at In these move
ments, so long a. 'th one object of
emplre-bulldlngj is kept faithfully in
the front of every such enterprise.
We are Interested alike In the devel
opment of the whole country and land
shows In various sections will con
tribute to that end.
The pioneer. In these shows de
serve credit for awakening the big
railroad and Industrial Interests of the
country from Indifference to the lm-'
portance of aggressive development
work. Already we have seen that all
the people need Is to have their at
tention properly directed to the great
opportunities the west offers. There
need be no fear that those state, im
mediately touched by the Influences
of the Omaha Land show will not get
their share of the accretion, of popula
tion and new wealth. The various in
fluences reaching out from Chicago,
Omaha, St. Paul and New York can
not help but blend Into' one gigantic
power for the good of the whole west.
Special potency I. given to the enter
prise out here by the subsequent or
ganization of the Western Develop
ment association, which unites the
great sisterhood of western states In
the movement and equalise, the dis
tribution of advantages.
: . Inadequate Bank' Examinations,
The indictment of the head of the
Carnegie Trust company on the charge
of larceny in the sum of f 339, 000,
following the collapse of the Robin
chain of banks, suggests inherent
weakness in the system of bank ex
aminations In New York and should
serve to ' direct attention of other
states to their method Of bank in
spection. As the Wall Street journal
observes, even sending to 'prison men
guilty of reckless financiering seems
to have been no deterrent on theis
successors In some cases.
Surely, It roust be the system, as
well as the individual, with which the
state should concern Itself. No state
or. federal government has a right to
leave undone anything It can do to
ward protecting men under such cir
cumstances from themselves and from
every outside Influence that might be
exerted over them. As proving that
the system In vogue in New York is
probaly to blame, the Journal cites
the fact that if the Carnegie Trust
company falls to pay its depositors in
full from Its assets, "jt will be the
first case In the history of trust com
pany administration In New York."
In Chicago and some other places
in the west many banks are inspected
under the supervision of the clearing
house and the plan has proved a good
one. The wall Street Journal com
mends it to New York bankers, or
rather to the state for adoption. Here
Is another business situation where it
will not do to guard too closely the
secret of assets and the character of
transaction. Such Jealousy and tim
idity, as the Journal contends, must
give wsy to the demands of publio
safety and the banking reputation of
the city and state. ,
Japan' Financial Problem.
Those who love to cajole themselves
into believing in the Imminence of waf
between the United States and Japan
might find interest in studying the
present financial condition of the
Flowery Kingdom. If nothing else
will dissuade them from their conten
tions, perhaps that may.
According to best available statis
tics it cost Jspan $585,000,000 to
achieve what is railed its victory over
Russls. Its present national debt Is
$1,125,153,411, which Amounts to
$21.50 per capita. It is paying out
under the bead of "Interest and other
annual chargea" $76,283,636. as com
pared with $11,803,000. which the
Unit ad State 1 paying, and. the
United States' revenues are about
treble those of Jspsn. Tbe people W
Jspsn are said to be paying from 20
to 30 per cent of their Incomes for
taxes. The debt, according to some of
the Japanese newspapers, is mors than
the nation can endure. Surely it
would not occur to sober intelligence
to think that a nation so overwhelmed
financially would wantonly seek wsr
sgalnst any other power, especially
one like the United States.
Wsr is sot the wsy Jspan is looking
for the solution of Its financial prob
lem
Nor ran It expect to solve It by
agricultural expansion. ' It has not
!the territory. Its 51,500,000 people
are confined within an area of H7,65."
square miles, which Is just a trifle
larger than the state of Montana. But
-only about 12 per ce'nt of Its area Is
werl adapted to cultivation. What
valleys it has are rich and fertile, but
mojt of the country Is hills and moun
tains. It is evident, then, that Japan must
idempton and desttnv
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And that Is
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commerce, not war. where American I
"uu '"' "-"hy .. lu
it will be a friendly meeting
Japan would, under such a staggering
debt as it maintains, collapse or sur
render, but there I. no fear that Japan
will do either. It cannot, however,
for the present afford to turn Hi
thought, to war.
Judicial Eeform.
The Bee in another place on this
page prints the sections of the new
judiciary act passed by congress and
approved by President Taft Ju.t be
fore adjournment, relating to the ls-
sue of injunctions by the federal
courts. Although this act ha. so far
attracted little attention and elicited
no public discussion, it is by all means
the most Important and far-reaching
legislation put upon the statute books
at the short session of congress. By
this act a republican president and
congress have completely redeemed
the promise to do away with the
abuses of government by injunction so
widely complained of.
While the arbitrary use of the in
junction power had perhaps been the
exception rather than the rule, some
most flagrant instances had resulted
from the unrestricted authority of a
single federal judge to Issue such
writs in star chamber without a hear
ing of the parties affected. In this
way laws passed by the states in re
sponse to unquestioned popular de
mand had been nullified on the eve of
their going into effect by court orders
restraining state officials from execu
ting them. This was the procedure
here in Nebraska when the railroads,
through (he federal courts, enjoined
the maximum freight rate law and
later enjoined the collection of taxes
on their property, and again when the
banks held up the operation of the de
posit guaranty law.
The new judiciary act will make
such performances difficult, if not im
possible, in the future. First, writs
of injunction' or restraining orders
hereafter may be issued' only by the
district Judge of the district, and not
by an outsider called tn for the pur
pose. Second, no Injunction suspend
ing the enforcement of a state law is
to be issued except by three judges,
one of whom must be a justice of the
supreme court or of the circuit court,
and only after five days' notice to the
governor and attorney general of the
state affected, except when irreparable
loss Is threatened, when a hearing
must be had within five days.
The state platform adopted by Ne
braska republicans in 1907 contained
a plank favoring the enactment of a
law to forbid the federal courts from
Issuing writs of injunction, against
state officers charged by law to enforce
state statutes. This new judiciary
act, although it does not absolutely
forbid such injunctions, throws such
safeguards around them as to be a
substantial compliance with this de
mand. In announcing his candidacy for
senator from Arizona, Colonel Cody
omitted to state his party affiliation.
But that, of course, is merely a mat
ter of form. He was a democrat when
he ran for tbe legislature in Nebraska.
The last republican . legislature in
Nebraska got along without any sift
ing committee at all, and still did not
make so much noise about shearing
tbe speaker of autocratic power as the
present democratic legislature.
Our amiable democratic contem
porary suggests an antl-offlce-boldlng
party from which office-holders and
office-seekers are barred. That would
cut out everybody connected with our.
amiable contemporary.
Mr. Bryan declares that he does not
have to go as a delegate to tbe next
national democratic convention, and
for once there are a lot of big Ne
braska democrats who want to take
him at bis word.
It seems too bad that Hearst feels
bound to run down a man like Mer-
riam in order to promote his own can
didate, who is none other then Carter
Harrison.
Mr. Tawney left Washington warn
ing Uncle Sam against his extravs
not
sance. Seemed he just could
think of trusting the treasury to any
one else.
The city clerk reports the opening
of tbe dog-tag season with promise of
successful business. Tbst is where
the tag sellers get a stsrt on tbe dog
cstehers.
Ilanat for the Poor.
He Paul Dispatch.
While buaineaa mar h a Httla dull In
other lines, th railroad have a little fat
picking In moving tbe troops to the Mexi
can border. -
BlaT Btaaar la Pewsrr.
nan Franolaoo Chronicle.
There, must ba great profit In powder
making te meal th f request loaaca ocea-
The New Law
The Judiciary act, approved March 3.
1H11. by President Taft, as to Injunctions.
Is as follows:
Section Writs tt Injunction tnsy be
granted by any Justice of the supreme
court in case where they might be giaJit"'
by th supreme court; and by any Judg
of a district court In cases wbere the'
might be gt anted by such court. Hut nc
Justice of the supreme court shall hsi
or allow any application for an Injunction
or restraining order In any cause pending
In a circuit to which he is allotted, else
where than within such circuit, or at aueh
place outride of the rame as the parties
many stipulate In writing, except when it
cannot be heard by the district Judge of
the district. In case of tha absence from
the district of the district Judge, or of his
disability, any circuit Judge of the circuit
In which tha district Is altusted may grant
an injunction or restraining order In any
case pending in the district court, where
the same might be granted by the district
Judga.
Section 'itb. The writ of Injunction shall
not ba granted by any court of tha United
States to stay proceedlnga In any court
of a state, except In cases where such
Injunction may ba authorixed by any law
relating to proceedings In bankruptcy.
Section 26. No Interlocutory Injunction
suspending or restraining tha enforcement,
operation or execution of any statute of a
state by restraining the action of any offi
cer of such atate In the enforcement or
execution of such statute, shall be Issued
or granted by any Justice of the aupreme
court, or by any district court of the
United Htates or by any Judge thereof, or
by any circuit Judge acting as district
Judge, upon the ground of the unconstitu
tionality of such statute, unlesa the appli
cation for the same shall be presented to a
Justice of the supreme court of the I'nlteJ
sluiieU by explosions. That at Pleasant
Prairie the other day destroyed property
valued at 13.eOO.000 in less time than It takes
to mention tha fact.
,
TVoader How Manyf '
Denver Republican.
It la to ba wondered how many of those
Americana who will spend 5,OJ0.0(W to see
the king of England go to be crowned ever
thought It worth while to see a president
Inaugurated.
Bark to Klrat Prlnotplea.
at taiHi ninhM.Ilmnrrftt.
When Mexico become tranquil again it I
will take the view that two terma at moat
are enough for the ablest president. It Is
beat for republics to keep in touch with
the ballot.
Ttae Captala on the Brldsre.
Indianapolis News.
The country at large will feel a little
easier with th prealdent and the cabinet
back In Washington. With unknown possi
bilities on th Rio Grande and beyond It I
a good thing to have the captain on the
brldg prepared toct Instantly In a crisis.
Wa.rwb.oop of Native Windjammers.
Baltimore American.
Anent tha war acar It is to be hoped
Japan .wll .not send a moaqulto fleet to
ravage our defenseless coaat this summer.
The attacks' -of ,the native product are
aijout as bad as w can stand now without
a foreign Invasion. It would b worse even
than the, famous descent of the phantom
fleet durlnsMh Spanish war.
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f It la to Laugh!
Philadelphia Record.
If an army of 100.000 Invaders ahould
undertake to' land on ' these shores what
does Mr. Charles Bonaparte think the
U.OOO.OOO or 10,000,000 American cltlaens
capable of beating arma would be doing 7
Th great emperor whose name h bear
found out what It was to Invade Spain and
to be driven out by It peaa&nts with the
aid of a small army of British regulars
under Wellington. ,
UPHOLDING LAWMAKING POWER
Tendency Discerned la Repeat Df
claione of Supreme Cesrt.
Springfield (Maes.) Republican.
The unanimity of the supreme court In
sustaining the corporation tax law seems
to reflect an Increasing disposition not to
Interfere with the acta of th lawmaking
poer unlesa very strong reasons exist for
doing so. It may be said that this has al
ways been the attltMde oT the court, but
we need only point to th overthrow of
the lncom tax law of ISM and the prece
dents of 100 years to disprove th laying.
There ha been a good deal of court
nullification of atatutea In recent years,
particularly on th part of th lower fed
eral tribunals, and It was arousing a no
ticeably large body of resentful publio sen
timent. The disposition of tha reorganised
aupreme court to apply th brake to that
tendency among lower court Judge may
possibly be reflected In the recent unan
imous Judgment sustaining tha validity of
the bank deposit guaranty laws of certain
western atatea, which had been overthrown
by a lower federal court.
People Talked About
An enterprising "sooner" In Oklahoma
advertises his readiness to "baptize you,
TftaVry you, Jail you or bury you while you
wait."
Chicago Ignores the forecasts of weather
.h.ma miA fn4ata that anrlna la auralv
, ler, H jwl. for.inner of cr.
torlal seasons, ha appeared In a spring
ult. Tbe windy la correspondingly happy.
Admirers of President tas e Mexlo
might aa wall understand at the outaet that
the Job of popularizing him In this country
by printing bis picture, will not work. A
man decorated with more medals than any
staff of governors' colouels cannot hope to
J escape tbe barbs of envy
The biggest soldier in th United Statea,
Joseph D. lusahatna. an Inmate of th
Norton Soldiers' home, who weighed t&O
pounds, dleu. In South Norfolk. Conn., ot
heart disease. Up to the time of death
Dusahame was a lively aa many a lighter
and younger veteran. He waa 4 year of
' M D1 rved ,n Ul 'vtl wr tn Con"
necucut volunteer imanirr. ,
William T, Lewis has been a familiar
figure at tha White Houae for almost half
a century. They call bint Pop Lewis. He
ha known eleven presidents. Ha wa a
member of Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard.
He drawa pay aa a Washington pollcuman,
but hla real Job at present la tbe sorting
and distributing of th White House mail.
He's en years old now. snd he shuffles
about In hi shirtsleeve.
Whan John Frltaol returned to Topeka,
Kan., from an extenalv trip to Germany
be brought with blm a number of different
specie of German songbird, and ha ba
erected for them on the lawn of hie resi
dence what I probably the finest bird
houae In the state. A plot ef ground
twenty feet square has been wired off and
planted with ahruba. In the canter of th
plot Is a small weatherproof bird houae
which was buUt at coat ef lift .
on Injunction
Males or to a c rcii't or district Judge, stnl 1
shall be hrd and determined by three
iiirisea. of a horn at least one shall be a t
Justice of the supreme court, or a circuit
Judge, and the other two mav be either
circuit or district JuUaes. und unlesa a ma-
ority or sail three timgrs scan cnmui i
'ranting uch application. Whenever ucr
Application a aforesaid IS presented to a
Justice of the supreme court. ot w
Judget hs shall Immediately call to his
assistance to hear and determine the appli
cation two other Judges
rrovlded. however, that one of suoh thrre
Jurtgea shall be a Justice of the supreme
court, or a circuit ludge. paia apc-noamm
shall not be heard or determined before at
least five days' notice of the hearing has
been given to the governor and to the at
torney general of the atate, and to euch
other persons aa may be defendants In
the suit:
Provided, that if of opinion that Irrepar
able loss or damage would resi'lt to the
complainant unless a temporary retraining
order la granted, any Justice of the su
preme court, or any circuit or district
Judge, may grant such temporary reatrain.
Ing order at any time before such hearing
and determination of the application for sn
Interlocutory Injunction, but such tempor
ary restraining order shall remain In force
only until the hearing and determination
of the application for an Interlocutory In
junction upon notice as aforesa'd. Tha
hearing upon'such application for an Inter
locutory Injunction shall be ' given prece
dence and Shall be In every way expedited
and be assigned for a hearing at the ear
liest practicable day after the expiration
of the notice hereinbefore provided for.
An appeal may be taken direct to the su
preme court cf the Vniled Plate from th
order granting or denying, after notice and
hearing, an Interlocutory Injunction In such
rase.
HANDOUTS FOB OMAHA.
Crelshlon News: Omaha has a kennel
show this month. It Is going to th doga
sooner than we expected.
' Fremont Tribune: "Seeing Cmaha" ex
cursions have been Inaugurated In Omaha.
It la not stated, however, that South
Omaha la Included on the trip.
Auburn Granger: What Is liable to hap
pen to this state wlth all of the soldiers
gone from the military post about Omaha
and Frank Hansom still at large?
Western Laborer: The Omaha Water
hnnrA hu vlHntlv discovered that the Da-
tlence of th people Is about exhaus ted and
Is getting busy before they swat tham out
of office.
Grand Island Independent: It has been
hjnted that tha Star Vas at least on Lin
coln paper that we not as yet affected
by Omahaphotla. There I reason now,
however, to suspect grave symptoms. A
story to the affect thst there Is to be a
wolf drive" In th vicinity ot Florence
and on the outskirts ot the metropolis Is
given th position of top of center column,
first pe'ge. The prosecution begs lav to
announce that this I all th evidence that
is necessary and reats.
Chsppell Hegiater: Th publisher of th
Register reoelved ' few Oonp to th first
annual bench show of the omaha Kennel
olub which will b held at th Auditorium
In that city the laat few days of next
week. Chsppell has a few clSssy dogs and
it may be possible they will be taken there
and entered for premiums. It Is the object
of the Kennel Club, to start a movement
for better dogs In Nebraaka, aa thla state
Is reported to have s very poor grade. It
might prove satisfactory If a large num
ber of doga were taken from her and ac
cidentally left at th show.
Hastings Republican: The Omaha flee
land shoV as well aa other things have
been the, cause ot concentrating mure at
tention as to tha necessity of greater ef
foil on the part of real estate dealers, as
well as cltlaens, for a larger endeavor to
get more people to buy Nebraska land and
settle in the new, sparsely settled sections
of th state. Th Republican heartily ap
prove alL effort In this direction. There
are thousands of just as productive and
fertile acres In the western counties of
Nebraska as lies out of doors and these
portions of Nebraska offer exceedingly
profitable Inducement to hotneseekers and
speculator.
Grand Island Free Press. Th Lincoln
Journal, which was so oooksure that th
teachers ot Nebraska would vote for Lin
coln for their next meeting place Instead
of omaha, now remarks that th meeting
ought to .be passed around. The expression
of the teacher Is Just another instance of
how the people feel toward the "holy city."
Grand Island Independent: An Omaha
school teacher has an eye to Improvement.
The school faces a clay bank. Th clay
bank doesn't look pretty and the teacher,
therefore, has organised a morning glory
cruaada and will try to cover th bank
with verdure and flower. Just Imagine
what 1,000 such schools could do I
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EDITORIAL 8NAP8H0TS.
Indianapolis News: On the other hand,
there are many people who, no), having s
cent Invaated In Mexico, cart even less
than that what happen down there. .
Pittsburg Dispatch: A New York judge
advtaed litigants over a property to effect
a settlement before the coats and tha law
yer got tbe property. Is this profeaalonal
courtesy T
New York World: Mr. Bryan says he la
"a Mason, an Elk, an Eagle, a Woodman,
a Highlander and many other," th lat
est being a Knight of Pythias. About th
only society he has not yet bean able to
Join la that of the ex-preeldntt.
I Minneapolis Journal: Senator Buffalo
' U1 could do a great brother act with the
Senator from Wisconsin, deftly shooting
th glass balls as Bob throw them In the
air. It might amuse the senate much more
than a six-hour speech.
Houston Post: No man ahould ever
strangle a generous Impulse, yet at the
same time It Is not good Judgment to per
mit his generosity to take the form of
donating hla wlfe'a clothes to th poor
while she la out of town. x
Louisville Courier-Journal: With Maine
dealers raising the wholesale prlca of lob
sters to it cents a pound danlsens of the
"Great White Way" of New York are apt
to aneer at tha claim that a democratic
administration does anything to reduce
the coat of living.
Uoston Herald: Ir. Mary Walker Indoraea
tbe harem skirt aa essentially the same cos
tume aha wore thirty yeara age. but thoae
who remember Dr. Mary's appearance upon
tbe public streets la thoae day suspect
that few women will consent to Imitate
her style ef dress.
Patrlattaaa trnellr Balked.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Those who think that woman should not
vote bacauaa aha cannot fight are requested
to take notice that Miss Holen Akera pre
sented herself In man's clothing at the
Omaha recruiting office of th navy, ready
and anxious to enlist and ensaSe In bloody
war. The only trouble waa that recruiu
are required to atrip for physical examine
Hon and naturally the lady very properly
declined to d Is rob.
The Bee's Letter Box
Oeatrlsatlona ea Timely . bjaota
Wot SaeeeaMK Two Hundred Wards
Are Iavttaa fioaa Oar Heaters.
The Kit tltih In Politics.
OMAHA, Alerch JZ.-To the r.tlltor r The
Mee: Relph K. Sunderland Is mnd that's
very evident. He thinks he has fixed the
Identity cf a brace of enemlee and de
tractors. He may be right and he may lie
wrong. 1 car not whether he should
come to determine correotly my Identity br
not. My latter to vou of the l'th wa ab
solutely free from personnltiies; more than
that, It was free from criticism of the Ad
club bill. It in merely exirele of the
sentiment of scores of club members that
the Ad club had made a mistake In lJttin
Into politic. Mr. Sunderland's name va
neither mentioned nor hinted at and his
letter Is therefore entirely unworthy of
hltn.
I declare without fear of Mr. Sunder
land contradicting the statement that
th majority ot the old guard, the men w ho
brought the club Into existence and guided
It toward public recognition, who supported
Mr. Sunderland In his two excellent ad
ministrations st president, regret this set
ting adrift from th original purpose
ot the club tke purifying ot adver
tising, etc. Nearly all the old officers
snd s majority of the present deplore the
departure snd aver thst It Is entirely Sund
erland's doings.
Mr. Sunderland Is endeavoring to place
the Identity of the two writer, myself
snd snother, as easy of discernment as
falling off a log, would make out that one
is no longer enrolled ss s member of the
Ad club. How then, does It come that
both names are on the roster mailed by
the secretary Friday last. The writer ha
not yet heard from the recorder. (See
article J, section 1, constitution.) He speaks
of the duty of a minority yielding to the
decision of th majority and states that
"more than JuO members voted torTl" the
commission proposition. Out of a total
membership of m It doesn't appear that
any Such majority supported hi pet
scheme. It looks Ilk s very miserable re
turn on a momentous question. Probably
the other Insurgent wis thoroughly correct
In speaking of the session aa being a "star
chamber one," but of such deponent know
eth not.
Mr. Sunderland complain bitterly of the
nonymlty of his assailants. I do not take
any guilt to myself on this ecor seeing
that 1 did nut indulge In any personalities
and I desire to go oh record her and now
that I have the profoundest respect for
Ralph E. Sunderland. HI big fault lies
In hi being altogether too touchy. lie
cannot stand criticism, friendly or other
wis and for that reason I greatly fear the
future of th Omaha Ad olub. seeing he
appear bent on th club (ticking to politics.
The Idea of uch an organisation advo
cating th commission form of government,
which may or may not be a panacea for
civic Ills, Is ridiculous.
Let the Ad club get bsck to Its original
purposes. COMMON" SENSE.
Salaries at Peaalr Ceeaty Attar-era
" OMAHA. March fl.-To the Editor ef The
uee: I noticed your editorial with refer-
enc to a Is awaiting the signature of
the governor. Increasing th salaries of
deputy county attorneys In this county to
a minimum limit of 2,000.
Under the law of this state, the governor,
state auditor and treasurer receive only
12.800 a year; the secretary of atata Snd at
tomey general only 12,000 a year, and the
deputy attorney general, .1.800 g year. For
some reason unexplained, th salary of the
county attorney of this county has been
increased from $1,500 a year to 14,000 a
year.
The Judges of the district court, whose
responsibilities are far greater, snd who,
by virtus or their office, csnnot do any
thing outside of their duties, receive nnlv
$1,000. When they leave the bench tliev
must stsrt practice anew. The attornnv
general when he leaves his office, because
or the fact that his duties keep him busilv
engaged, and as a rule take him sway
from his home place, must start practice
anew. Th deputy county attorney and
the county attorneys live In their honv
Place, and to a great extent carry on tlmlr
private practice, and at th end of their
term pick It up and go ahead with It.
I am Informed that a very small part of
the time of the deputy county attorneys of
DOuglaa oounty Is occupied In performing
office duties. All but one of them hsve
their private offle and continue their pri
vate practice I am also Informed that if
the county attorney and his deputies were
to strictly attend to the buelnrsi of the
oounty and their duties, two deputl-at
most thre4n addition to the oounty at
torney, could do the work.
Th tact is In this county the district
Judges should have $4,000 a year, the county
attorney, $1,W0 a year, and each of the
deputies $100 a month. The nature of the
work la such that plenty of good material
can always b found at those salaries to
perform the work and do It well.
TAXPAYER.
What Searchers Have to Fear.
OMAHA. March H.-To the Editor of The
Bee: Good for you for warning the auto
speeders again. Keep It up until tha po
lice put a stop to scorching or on fine
day we will have our fair city disgraced
by a lynching because of the murder of
some Innocent child or helpless cripple.
J. N. W.
Walts at th Faatefflce,
OMAHA, March fl.-Tb th Editor of The
Bee: I see that Postmaster Thomas says
that there Is now no delay in handling the
malls.
Now Saturday night there was only one
clerk to care for the general delivery win
dow snd st I o'clock ther War twenty
eight people In lln. In tha past there has
always been mor thsn one clerk st the
four windows.
I would like to ssk Mr. Thomas It this
shortage Is not due to taking clerks out
of the office and turning them over to th
street car company to do work that Mr.
Gordon hired his own men for when he
had the contract and used wagona.
JOHN H. 6CHLUKTER.
t7 South Twenty-Eighth Street.
tmm tKwm off Tmm
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tie msmsi
cTsIrZ6iirmrj)(uler
fMes lien 3 C:k!ng Essy
Absolutory uro
The only bk-? pawtfar
mstda from f yif
Groam o tutrix t
1:3 allf:w:3 li.ve Fi::s? hate
MRIUO'I ARMY.
Harh Work la Prospect for a Weals
lastltatloa.
Indianapolis New.
In Mexico th regular army Is about $T.
000 strong on a peac footing. In addition
ar the "rurales," or mounted police. Pos
sibly the army has been increaaed alnce
the revolution, but this Is not publicly
known. Th "Insurrectoa" claim to hav
from 8.000 to 10.000 in th field. Their war
fare Is of the guerrilla sort and not easy
to end. They avoid facing the government
troops In the open when possible; when thl
Is Impossible the government has always
been victorious. But after an experience
of this kind the rebels simply fall back
farther Into tha mountains and sway from
the railroads, cutting off small detach
ments, burning bridges, raiding stor depots
Snd th like. It la a kind of hostilities
hard to cope with. It wastes troops, keeps
the government uneasy, stirs up trouble
In the disturbed sections snd leaves whole
section In apprehension. Also, of course,
it makes outside Investors uneasy, snd so
Increases pressure on th Mexican govern
ment. Thw region of th outbreaks Is
favorable to such methods of warfare. The
provinces of Chihuahua and Sonora hav
a large area, a sparse population, a desert
or mountainous country rugged and arid,
difficult for pursuit of military operations.
It Is much such a problem as we had In
the Indian campaigns In Arlxona. Tha
difference Is that the area la larger and
'that the rebels have the sympathy of a
laraa nart of the resident Population.
Under such conditions It Is easy to under
stand why the present state of affaire has
continued so long and how difficult It will
be to remedy. One has nn)y to recur to
the many historic eampalgne of Invasion
In Spain and to the time tha English had
In flnnlly breaking the power of the Boera
In South Africa to feel that the situation
may be serious enouph and that If we have
to deal with It. it will be no holiday Jaunt
that too, with summer coming on. It is
an entirely different thing from Invadlnif
a fountrv where the government and the
people, as a whole, are Involved and con
stltiitf the enemy.
MEB.RY JINGLES. -
SOLA'KD.
The girl prmwwud--.
...."I he newest tad:
The chap referred hrr
To his dad.
nnatun AU ertlsrr.
JUST ON R.
wlxli you'd klusine. deut." e!d h
No. I won't sir.'' xnMwrrrd e'ic
" 'I won't' Is rude." said (his oimg wlRln
" I'd is'lier not' Ib nunc olii
' ' Yes. more polite, air, it nvRlU IV:
But would you have me llj?" md ."he.
"!on Transcript
' CllM K. MAID!
Come into the KUidrn,1 Mauri'
'I lie wiedH are cilli'T Ih.d;'
I 'nine out ami Iiiih the lUtei vines.
Fur. gea! th y're looking sick!
Oh, come Into the Burden, Maud.
Iicm't scrtatri or wilrilc biiiI,iii
If you should put your hand upon
A fat tomato wcrni'
s Buffalo Kxpress
MKRUKKS.
A business life had betn hla school
In business term hi- dinar to urge her.
"Let us" sad he, "our isau poul
Join with mr, danr, to form a merger."
"I must " said she, "beg tlnin to find
If you are rated good or had, eweet.
In deals like this, though lovo be blind.
Ko much depends on Uun and Hradatreal.
Chicago Tribune.
OONTO' UK.
He's dreaming bout a fish ng hole
Where rustic willows b'-nd
And bird songs from the woodland wide
With vernal breeaes blend,
He hears the ripples murmuring,
The edU a whirl and sweep.
And sees Ih" sunbeam gild the wave
Where finny beauties sleep
He's dreaming 'bout a fishing h'de-
Kie long will wnd hla way
Down forest alslee ot Icary gloom
To have a holiday.
And tli-eo utensils of the sport
His every cere will task
On fishing rod, one can of bait.
One pipe, on pocket flask.
" K -Birmingham Age-Heraid.
"HE SAID IU PART."
Puck.
Of all the many woea that mart.
And rack and break a speaker a hesi l
The worst Is this, "He aaJd tn part,
He said, In part" and then a bit
Of commonplace no force no wit.
No logic in th whole of HI
Ha said. In part '-tha anecdote.
The finely thrilling llnea you quote.
The eloquence wherein you gloat
All all are gone; Snd there remain
Home doddering remarka Inane.
The very refuse of the brain!
Hereafter In the time of rue,
When those are atewed tHat ought to li
That editor will get hi du. ,
The fiends will give him for his dress
Just half a coat no more, no lee
And pant that but on leg poasess.
And he must on hi Journey start
Wearing on his remorseful heart.
Th legend grim, "He wear In part.
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