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Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Be Publishing Company. Only leant stamps received la payment of mall aucounta. Personal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. MARCH CIRCULATION 48,017 Stat of Nebraska, County of Douf las, ss: Dwlght William, circulation manager of Th Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that th average dally circu lation, leas spoiled, unused and returned copies, for the month of March, 1911, was iS.017. DW1QHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my present's and sworn to before m this Hat day of March, 1U. (Seal.) Robert huntkk, Notary Publlo. abserlbers leaving the city tem porarily shoald ksre The Be nailed to then. Address Trill b changed as often as rea.atd. Jack Johnson is In jail at San Fran cisco. Probably occuplea the dark cell. ( Wonder If Mr. Bryan will Join In the New York refrain, "Ta-ma-nee, Ta-ma-nee." It Is a 100 to 1 shot that Champ Clark will never be speaker as long as Uncle Joe was. But suppose peace la declared in Mexico, what will the professional ln urrecto do then?' Spokane college boys raid girls' rooms. A new form of hazing that really exceeds the limit. The kaiser prudently took a fresh grip on his throne when Mr. Morgan came to visit him, no doubt Only one woman In Omaha has ven tured, out with a harem skirt and she belonged to a variety theater troupe. Those young women of Washington society who want to become avlatora would .object,, probably, to being called high-flyers. If those New York democrats can break their deadlock our republican friends over In Iowa ought to be able to get together. China has three times acceded to Russia s demands and now what . puxzlea the czar la, what concessions has China made? Now lg the time to come in with that Information and carry off the re ward money offered for the conviction of the murderer. Uncle Joe may now begin life all over again. Just aa he lived It when he was nothing but an ordinary congress man down on the floor. Friends of Lorimer say it is perse cution to continue the Investigation. Persecution of the people to continue Lorimer, too,' perhaps. It will be necessary, however, for the Sons of Mexico to attach the col lege alumni figure, as for instance '11, to designate their year. It seems a great oversight oh some one's part that our old friend, Agul naldo, waa not given a place some where In this Mexican revolution. "Whom does Mr. Bryan, favor for the presidency?" lg asked. Mr. Bryan la far too cute a politician to disclose that secret this early In the game. For an object lesson of what the open primary can do when It goes the limit no one need seek further than the recent municipal primary In Lin coln. General John Barleycorn has achieved distinction as a soldier. Liquor provoked a riot in the lion- duran army and forty-five deaths en sued. Senator Kern of the Hoosler stat says thst Bryan is good enough fur him. Tom Taggart says Kern la good enough for him. Knoxvllle Journal and Tribune. Roger Sullivan says Tom Taggart suits him. It has just been discovered that our American women are away behind in their styles. The belles of Borneo, for Instance, have been wearing hobble skirts for ages. "Charles W. Morse la going insane in hla cell at the federal penitentiary at Atlanta." News Item. A terrible reminder to men that obedience of law Is the bt policy. - -I "T ( For the law putting a atop to double taxation of mortgaged real estate here In Nebraska special credit should be given State Senator Aubrey Smith, who sponsored the bill and steered It through the legislature, a reform which has beeu urged for years, but without suceeea until now. Lorimer Case Again? A senator who led In the flght to oust Lorimer Is quoted as saying that the cane of the Illinois man will be reopened soon after the Sixty-second congress convenes. In fact, according to this quotation, this senator, whose name Is withheld, will Introduce a resolution immediately after conven-! lng calling for the investigation over again. This is not at all surprising, In view of the developments In the Investiga tion conducted by the Illinois legisla ture since the adjournment of the congress that whitewashed Lorimer. Nor is it surprising to hear that new evidence will be submitted. The dis closures at Springfield, througn the testimony of H. II. Kohlssat and others, confirm the belief expressed before the Washington verdict was rendered, that not all tlio essential facts were brought out In the United States senate. Mr. Kohlsaat's state ment that he knew of $100,000 beint; raised for Lorlmer's election and bis refusal upon threat of imprisonment to divulge the name of his Informant. Indicates what was generally under stood at the time, that those in charge of the Lorimer case at Washington were handicapped in the Dreuentatlon of their evidence. It remains to be seen whether they will try to get "Jl of this inside Information neit time. If Lorimer is again placed on trial before the senate he la move likely to lone, because of the change In the per sonnel of the senate. . ( Bellwethen and Leaders. Discussion ia naturally rife on the eve of the convening of the new con gress aa to the new leaders. In the house the democrats, of course, have their floor leader selected before hand in the person of Congressman Underwood of Alabama, by virtue of bis position as chairman of the ways and meana committee, and In the sen ate it looks as if Senator Penrose, as chairman of the finance committee, would become at least the nominal republican leader, though under the new order of things he nor any other man can hope for such power of lead ership as has been held and exercised by predecessors. But who will be the republican leader In the house and the democratic leader in the senate these are the Interesting questions Just now. In the months and the year Just past there has been a great deal of talk about bellwethers, particularly In the senate. That invidious term was applied to Senator Aldrlch by Senator Lorimer and also to others. Webster defines a bellwether as a Sheep with a bell that the othera follow. There Is no denying the fact that there has been a good deal of this sort of thing in congress, perhaps in all congresses and particularly in the last, two, where the Aldrlch Influence became so dom lnant. But no bellwethers are needed now. The day for them, It is to be hoped, has gone by. For the expeditious and systematic transaction of business, to say nothing of party organization, honest, courageous leadership will al ways be necessary and both parties should keep this fact clearly In mind In naming the men who are to lead In the new congress. Issues have been fought of late, which tend to make a continuation of the old system highly Improbable, if not Impossible. Senator Bailey felt the force of that when he was spurned In his aspiration to become the demo cratic bellwether of the senate. It waa his partisans' repudiation, and nothing else, that moved him In a fit of anger, to offer his resignation. The democrats seem to be now pre paring to complete that repudiation by selecting Bailey's colleague, Sena tor Culberson of Texas, for the lead ership which the former so enviously covets. Culberson probably could unite the democrats In the senate as well aa any other man, much better than Penrose could ever hope to unite the republicans, because of his former sharp conflicts with the Insurgent members. Congressman Mann of Illi nois may become the minority floor leader In the house, though Mr. Can non Is bound to be a conspicuous fig ure, even though not to be considered for the formal leadership. ( Gambling with Bank Deposits. Nearly all, if not all, the great bank failures of late years have been caused by bankers gambling on the stock market with the depositors' money. The gigantic wreckage pre cipitated by Robin in New York is attributed directly to this criminal practice, as Is the failure of the Car negie Trust company. It la such ex periences as these that restrain some people from giving way to the emo tional attempts being made to secure the freedom of two former batik ers now serving sentences in federal pris ons. Both of them were guilty of this very thing. Both of them plunged recklessly into stock speculations on the money of their depositors. Both of them knew when they were doing it that it was wrong, measured either bythe demands of the law or of good banking. Neither of them had to do it to get enougn money to live on! or to become a rich man. They simply did It to satisfy an overween ing desire for more money and thus violated the confidence their depos itors had reposed In them aa well as the laws of their land. If the banking business Is to remain upon a aound baala, using deposits for stock gambling must stop. The peo ple must see to it that laws are made more atringent upon the subject. And the conservative bankers of the coun try should take the lead in every ef fort to punish those who squander their Investments. It seems passing strange that so many of them are now lending support and sympathy to the efforts exerted In behalf of de faulters in prison. Who Killed Cock Robin! The prospect that we might here in Omaha, under our proposed corn- InlMlon form of government, try an experiment In reform that would be absolutely unique seems to have gone a-gllmmerlng. In the bill as orig inally drawn and Introduced this novel provision was Incorporated : No offioer or employe of such city who. by solicitation or otherwise, shall exert his Influence directly or Indirectly to Influence any other officers or smployes of such city to adopt his political views, or to favor sny particular person or candidate for office, or who shall In any manner contribute money, labor or other valuable thing to any person or to any party for election purposes, or to aid In th election of any person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 1100 or be Imprisoned In the county jail not exceeding thirty days. The adoption of a charter contain ing this prohibition would clearly have been the most advanced step yet recorded In the direction of divorcing the city government from partisan politics. If no city officer or employe could contribute money, labor or In fluence for or against any political party or candidate except under pen alty of fine or imprisonment there certainly would be no politics in the city hall. We confess that we would have been interested to see how such a scheme would work out. But evidently our own reformers have repented, or been overpowered, for they have consented to the emas culation of this provision by striking out the most vital part so that In the bill as passed by the senate It reads tamely as follows: Any officer or employ of such city who, by solicitation or otherwise, shall exert his Influence directly or Indirectly to Influence any other offlcera or employes of such olty to adopt his political views shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be puniahed by a fine not exceeding $100 or be Imprisoned In th county Jail not seeding thirty daya. No one needs to read this twice to see that it Is a horse of an entirely different color. To vary the metaphor. It suggests the question, Who killed Cock Robin? If the commission form of government meant taking city af fairs out of politics, as Its champions Claimed It would, it would appeal to many who otherwise would not care much whether the city hall machine were dominated by commissioners or councilman. 8ome folks would like to know whether this section was Jokered by the reformers or by the politicians. The Indians' False Friends. . The executive committee of the In dian Rights' association In Its twenty eighth annual report, says: Th present is a moat critical period In the Indian'e progress and calls for the best effort his friends can put forth." Aa a matter of fact, th Indian nvr needed help and guidance more than he does now. Th sea of civilisation is completely sur rounding him, and the time is not far dis tant when ha must alnk or swim. It must not be overlooked, that we ax seeking to bring him to a plane. In a generation or two, that required centuries for the Angln Saxon to reach. It la significant to observe that of all the dangers besetting the Indian, the most momentous comes, according to the association, from the very source from which he should be ex pected to derive his chief support and help. The association flatly declares that "not the least of these dangers Is from congress." That is putting it rather strongly, but when the report goes Into detail on the Crow situation In particular and shows, not how con gress Imposed upon the Indians, but how unscrupulous men appointed to positions of supervision on reserva- tlons mercilessly swindled them and the government, it strikes true to the facts. The government at Washington has undoubtedly sought to help the Indian, but It has been so handicapped by rascals In or out of Its employ closer to the Indians than the capitol that much of what It has undertaken to do has been thwarted. The Bee for years exerted Its Influence to break up gangs of these crooks on nearby Indian reservations and not without effective results, so that our readers are prepared to appreciate some of the disclosures made in this report. The Crow case and those of the Choc- taws and Cblcaaaws, which came up from Oklahoma only laBt year, are enough of themselves to prove how outrageously white men have robbed the government and plundered the Indian. It Is this sort of thing, more than the Indian's trdy assimilation of the white man s education and re ligion that is hindering those who are trying to help Poor Lo. The association pays deserved trib ute in its report to the work of Com mUsioner Valentine, In promoting the welfare of the redman, but it divulges some facts and flgurea to show that only in recent years have the Indiana been the victims of the worst sort of fraud, and the government, too, aa In the case of one lease made on the recommendation of a reservation su perintendent at 7,000, which is now bringing $30,000 a year. Both Uncle I oaui auu u im ueiug lueaieu to the enrichment of somebody sup posed to guard the interests of both. We protest that this Medical acbool fight is not being carried on la strict accord with the medical code of pro fessional ethics. It may be all right to throw disinfect anta, or even chloro form, at one another, but the knife and the scalpel should be barred. Mayor "Jim" la in receipt of an offer of a bloodhound as a gift free gratis for nothing. We presume that there is nothing In the constitution or the city charter to prevent accept-1 ance If the mayor has the price of a dog tag. Kind of a back-hand compliment that when the Washington Times Inti mates that Congressman Lobeck might be of service to the national capital as a member of the District commit tee, and won't he of any use to Omaha, anyway. The king of France marched up the hill and then marched down again. Did the New York anti-Tammany dem ocrats, also, in accepting one Tam many man for senator after resisting another one for two months? Light, scientists say, travela at the rate of 186.000 miles per Becond. Still It has not dawned on Boss Murphy that saddling another Tammany pawn on the state weakens the democratic party's chances of success. It Is said that H. H. Kohlsaat's declaration that he knew of $100,000 being spent to elect Lorimer will not be news to several of the senators who voted to retain Lorimer in his seat. That shake-up In the railway mail service would indicate that the Post- office department Is ready to Jar them loose for less cause than Postmaster Thomas has given. Working for Glory. Sioux City Journal. The Nebraska legislature la now working without pay. It Is confidently predicted the Nebraska legislature will soon adjourn. Every Hay May Be Sundae. Minneapolis Journal. Poda fountains are to be Introduced on Union Pacific trains this summer. It Is found that the Great American desert thirst can be more simply assuaged than it could In 1S7. Youthful Spirit of the West. Baltimore American. An Omaha bride was married In the presence of her three great-grandchildren. There Is nothing alow about the west, nor does It seem to Impair the youthful spirit to grow up with the country. Safety Before Beantr. Brooklyn - Eagle. Will the architect's who love beauty not concede a point In Its favor and tolerate the fire escape because of Its utility for time say, until the arrival of the sbeatos or some form of vitrified man? Charity for Klrkera. Western Laborer. A few men In the south part of town (and we are ashamed to aay some of them are working men) are objecting to Edward Rosewater'a memory being honored by hla name being placed on a school house. Well, Isn't that the limit? These men never knew Edward Rosewater. That is perhaps th moat charitable view to take of their actions. . -. ,, A Distinction Worth Noting;. New York Tribune. Th only thing that Is more fireproof than a first class fireproof building Is a furnace. Both -are constructed to with stand the consuming effects of a fire raging within thesn. If the public would only bear It In mind the false sdnae of security that -the Word "fireproof ' Imparts, without regard t the Inflammable nature of a bluldlng'a contents, would perhapa be destroyed and a gain would result In sensible regulations. Inspections and methods for preventing fires and for pr. tcctlng human beings from them. LESSONS IPT BANKING. Itraalts of the Oklahoma System of Deposit Guaranty. Philadelphia Bulletin. Sometimes experleno la the heat teacher as well as th most expenslv. When the guaranteed deposit scheme waa urged In Oklahoma, no amount of logical argument, even though based on admitted facts, served to check th "popularity" of thia cure-all for dishonest banking. The Idea spread into other states, and when th supreme court of th United States de elded that It waa powerless to Interfere with such state legislation ther were feara that th disintegration of th national banking system waa threatened, so many national banks surrendered their charters and reorganised under the stat law. Originally a 1 iper cent assessment was sufficient to maintain th guarantee fund. But a year's experience proved that this waa not sufficient to offset th encourage, ment given to reckless banking and th assessment was raised to S per cent. Now the stat banks are crowding In their ruah for national churtera. and th stat guar antee law seems destined to become a dead letter because there will not be left a sufficient number of substantial stat banks to maintain th fund. It la not unlikely that aome other mani festations of the prevalent hobby for stat Interference which even the enterprise, against which even the constitutional limitations do not prove a bar, may find their most effectual correction In a few years of actual experience. People Talked About Mrs. Sarah Jackson of Forty Fort, near Wllkeaharre, Pa., who advertised for a husband and received proposals from 150 men, has decided to reject them all. A tablet haa Just been unveiled In Rich mond to Patrick Henry. Republics are not necessarily ungrateful merely because they take a little time to think things over. Prof. Henry Mitchell Whitney, on of four brother who had attained distinc tion aa scholar and educator, died sud- denly at New Haven, Conn. His brother were William Dwlght Whitney, th Yale Dhlloloalst: Joalah Dwlght Whitney, th Harvard geologist, and Jamea Lyman Whitney, librarian of the . Boaton public library from 1W9 to 18. Mme. Lawrence Fiedler haa been sent to the United States by the French govern ment to study th school system, the fight against tuberculosis, the relations of labor and capital, our Industrial training schools and the orgsnlsatlons of our army and navy. Mme. Fiedler things that she will require at least ten years to complete her task and Is sur she will not be homesick during that time. Th love letters of Dan B. Haydea of Chicago to Miss Mary Incrgan, also of Chicago, show him to be an exponent of absent treatment ss a solar for heart troubles. H sent her oodles of klases and honeyed words by mail. Keeping th con riding maid In a state of delicious ex pactanry. "P a nlc girl." he whisper! than fled to anothar bunch of sweetness and married her. lllaa Lonergan tbtnks ths documents are worth 110, as evidence of shameieas trifling, and aska that Mr. Haydon cam Into tourt and tak direct UlueiH fur tu nious. Washington Life Inni tatratlng Fhases aad Conditions Observed at th Nation's Capital. "Jeffersanlau simplicity" Is the first ar ticle of democratic faith, it Is mouth-filling and vibrant with thrills when turned loose on the hustings. Just What It means in practice Is a detail leaders haven't time to bother with. So long aa the sound warms h cocklea of bourbon hearts, definitions are a needless strain on vocal chords. For tunately the country Is about to have an exhibit In Washington of genuine Jeffer sonlan simplicity, all wool, homespun and carrying the label of purity. Ppeake r-to-Be Clark, the "gentleman from Pike" Is going to show th famished old guard how well th traditions of T. J. survive the bumps and bats of fleeting years. The Mlssourlan will "show 'em." He has ordered the fa mous thistle-marked Henderson china, rut glass, linen and silverware and solid ma hogany furniture resurrected from the capi tol storerooms and used to furnish a pri vate dlnlngroom In the house wing for his own use. "All of these dining room fixings were mad especially for th late David B. Henderson and paid for out of the house contingent fund," reports a correspondent of the New York Sun. "They have been In storage ever sine Henderson surrendered his speaker's gavel to Mr. Cannon, nearly nine years ago. Mr. Cannon never used them nor had he a private dining room. Ha took his luncheon of crackers and milk and mince pi or something of that sort In the main dining room of the house res taurant. "Perhaps Mr. Clark might have done the same had It not been for the thistle mono gram on the Henderson linen, china and silver. Mr. Henderson waa Scotch; ao la Mrs. Clark. When ahe heard of the thistle china, a aet of several hundred pieces, she suggested to Mr. Clark that he use It. He looked It over and found it good. "Mr. Clark's dally luncheon Is simple, although he probably will serve more sub stantial meals to his frtends. Appreciating that five-eighths of the human body Is water, Mr. Clark consistently orders each day for his luncheon a glass of water, a glass of milk, a cup of tea and a piece of pie. First he drinks the water, then the milk and then the tea. Sometimes after that he even eats the pie." Speaker Champ Clark' expects to walk to ths capitol every day when congress be gins work and. walk back again. Thus he will practice jeffersonian simplicity and get exercise at the same time. Mr. Clark haa the right, If he chooses, to ride around In a 16,000 automobile at the expense of tho government. But he haa announced that he Is going to walk. The automobile has been lying Idle in a garage ever since Uncle Joe Cannon ceased to preside over the house. It Is of the li mousine type and Is considered to be a beauty. At least. Uncle Joe never found any fault with It, and he used It a good deal. It was about two years ago that con gress decided that the speaker and the vice president ought to have automobiles. It appropriated the money and the cara were purchaaed. All thla waa done In spit of vigorous proteata on the part of th democrats, who thought It waa highly Im proper to provide free automobile service for the officials of a republic. Mr. Cannon's secretary, I Whit Busbey, while gathering up the effects of th for mer speaker preparatory to moving to more humble quarters In the capitol, found a box of cigars that waa presented to th speaker years ago by a manufacturer In Georgia. They are probably th only cigars never used by Mr. Cannon, mainly for the reason that they were not mad to smoke, but to chaw, the giver evidently not knowing that Mr. Cannon, while chaw ing on one end of a cigar, smokes from th other. They were - rolled aa solidly aa a curl of "chewing twist," and after th four years In which they wer drying out In an unused drawer they had become about as poroua'as steel bolt. Tr.ey were to b consigned to th wast basket when Mr. Cannon Intervened. "Tak 'em down to Champ," he said. "I don't know about these democratic offloescekers, but If they ar no worse than th repub lican kind these ought to finish them." In a short Urn the cigars came back with a message. "Dear Unci Joe," it aaid, "I wouldn't glv thee to my worst enemy not even a republican." Samuel W. Stratton may become aa muoh of a household nam aa Harvey W. Wiley. Vp. Stratton Is director of th United States bureau of standards, and la about to apend lai.OOO Investigating short weights and measures used In connection with arti cles which enter Into interstate commerce. According to Investigations made by th bureau, from 25 to 75 per cent of th scales used by retailers and wholesalers in vari ous states are incorrect. Soma 85 per cent of th defective scales discriminate against th consumer, while only IS per cent favor him. Th discrimination In favor of th consumer Is alight, or leaa than an ounce, and the dealer la found, aa a rule, to take to himself more than an ounce. Print butter la said by the bureau to be almost commonly short In weight In fact, bouts A. Fletcher, chief of the weights and .... - . . . measures division or in oureau, state that th bureau never has obtained a sam ple of print butter which showed a full sixteen ounce to th pound. The berry basket la said by bureau offi cials to be on of the most consistent of fenders against th lawa of square deal ing. Rarely Is a "quart" found to be a full quart, and often a berry measure, which la Innocent In on stat is a criminal In another. Tricks of various kinds ar continually practiced on th purchasing public. A recent Investigation by th bu reau of standards disclosed that a spool of thread supposed to contain 700 yards waa 26 Pr cant abort. Shoe laces sold as twenty-six tnchea long measured only twenty-four Inches. In a recent cas which came to the no tice of th bureau of standards a woman bought a five-pound can of lard and, after ah had used th contents, had the can re filled from bulk lard at a cost of less than one-half that of the original can. Th bureau of standards Is doing Its work quietly and Is accomplishing a great deal without stirring up trade animosity that might seriously embarrass It If It ahould enter on a loudly advertiked cru sade. I alierenlBS C elebration Mqnrlched. Philadelphia Record. Governor Foss of Massachusetts has don a Judicious thing In vetoing a bill to appro priate I-.6O0 for a celebration of the at tack on Fort Sumter. He says that If any anniversary connected with th civil war la to be celebrated at the expense of the state. It should be the end of It, rather than the beginning; peace rather than war should be celebrated. Th attack on Fort Sumter la to be deplored and a celebration of a calamity would be In the worst pos sible taste. Aatonlahlnar Bravery. Cleveland Leader. Admiral Togo la again about to demon strata his utter fearlessness. He Is coming to America on a visit, with Captain llobson still at large. THH TWKI.FTII UTtTK. Irnnhl Pa 1 1 are of the Ineni Tax niemlnient. New York Tribune. Maine Is the twelfth state to withhold approval rf the Income tax amendment to the federal constitution. The lower branch of the legislature defeated a ratifi cation resolution on Tuesday by n vote of KJ to H That decisive action classifies Maine with the states whose legislatures have either rejected the amendment out right or have become deadlocked over It. one house favoring and the other opposing It. There are now twelve of these enough to Insure the failure of the amendment unless all the other states ratify and both New Mexico and Arlxona, when they have been admitted to the union, ratify also. In that case thirteen negative votes would be needed to prevent ratification. Of course, the states which have ex hibited an unwillingness to accept the amendment must persevere In that atti tude In order to bring about Its defeat. Obviously legislatures which have been unable to agree are entitled to take th question up again at a future session. In that claaa ar the legislatures of New Hampshire, New Tork, Virginia. West Vir ginia, Louisiana, Arkansas and Utah. One house In each of these stntes favored ratifi cation and the other opposed It. Massnchu aetts, Rhode Island and Vermont rejected the amendment by the concurrent action of the two houses. In Maine and New Jersey only one branch haa so far voted. In nine of the twelve dissenting states, therefore, the way remains open to further consideration and possible approval. The Massachusetts legislature will probably take another vote thla year In spite of last year's complete and positive disapproval. Vermont and Rhode Island, however, are likely to regard their action as final. The Associated Tress Is authority for the statement that Wisconsin has ratified 'the amendment. If that be th case the vote now atands twenty-seven states for to twelve against. The consent of eight more states Is necessary to make the amend ment a part of the constitution. The aeven states which have taken no action of any sort are Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsyl vania, Florida, Tennessee, Minnesota and Wyoming. The Minnesota house of repre sentatives passed a ratification resolution on Tuesday by a vote of 96 to 0. Th sen ate will probably concur. Florida, Tennes see and Wyoming may be counted aa more likely to ratify than to reject (though Wyoming cannot vote until 1918)). while Pennsylvania, Delaware and Connecticut are likely to disapprove or take no action. With Minnesota, Tennessee, Florida and Wyoming the total for ratification would be thirty-one four short of a three-fourths majority. Four of the deadlocked states would then have to be won over. Every thing now points to a protracted struggle; for, besides Wyoming, Maine, New Hamp shire, West Virginia and Arkansas will have no chance to vote again until 1913. The fate of the amendment may, not. In fact, be decided before 1914. NEW YOBK'S CAPITOL. Cincinnati Enquirer: The destruction and damaging of the magnificent state capitol that stood on one of the hills of Albany disclosed the fact, according to press dis patches, that much of the supposed splen did hardwood ornamentation of that mag nificent structure waa nothing more or less than highly Inflammable papier mache. New' York Tribune: Th crowning glory of Albany's hilltop Is battered, but still In exlstenc. .Let us. cherish It In its monu mental character as a unique cash Invest ment and cheerfully put out any money necessary to restor It to Its normal es tate. But let It be stipulated that a few thousand dollars of the 16,000,000 repair fund - go Into water buckets and hand grenades. St Louis Republic: So long aa It stood It would have been a monument to public plunder, treachery to sacred trusts, unbe lievable perversion of all the functions for which governments are Instituted. Graft has no closer synonym than the name of this publlo edlfloe. Whenever It was spoken of the first thought was not of Its domes and Imposing facade and carved red stone staircase, hut of a shameless period of which even reminders were painful. New York Sun: There must come to every citizen of New York who has reached middle life a panorama, a sort of moving picture of the generation and mora of state hlatory whloh has left Ita most accurate and Ita most depressing evidence In that hug and hideous building on the Albany hilt, every stone, every chamber, every hall of which has an Intlmat association with Bom scandal that once shook the state. The mer catalogue of th rooms reached by the fir In Ita march must awaken the recollection of some half-forgotten disgrace. New York World: A pall of water might have put out th fire In the Albany capitol when It was discovered. There was no water. Hand grenades or a small extin guisher would have checked it. Ther was none near. With a hos it could have been drenched. There waa none. A prompt alarm would have enabled the firemen sooner to control th flames. There waa no alarm box. A complaint has been filed that an electric switch waa out of order; prompt attention might have prevented the fire altogether. It was not attended to. A loss past th power of computation to measure Is the result. Jingoes Silence. Pittsburg Dispatch. Soma people evidently think that when President Taft and the mikado aay there Is no danger of war between their two countries thy ought to know what they are talking about. Rut the Inventora of war newa, after a period of dlacreet alienee, will undertake to prove that th heads of th two nationa are Ignorant and mis Informed persons. Advertising Agency SoliciaOjJJanted We have an opening for a high class Solicitor. Must be a level-headed man of tact, force and character, 25 to 40, with a sure grip on what constitutes Good Advertising, and a clear, practical understanding of Modern Agency Methods. Aa an evidence of past success, should be able to control soma business. 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If you faal that you maneur up to th rwjuUcmanu. writ us baiay atating In confldxnc your qualification for the puartlon. Should you prove to b tha right man, w may oiler you th mania-" "v of a branch Otnee w wul uua opaa. H. 7. KAST0I. & SOUS ADVERTISIHQ COMPANY Kuruat City St. Louis Chicago San Franc tc MOHK HHVAN AIIV1CK. oan-l from Salt reek Nrhrsaks Sneered Af. Brooklyn Facie trtiMtl. . There are members of the United State senate who are old-fashioned enough te b Meve that this legislative body would havt been entirely capable of organlilng Itaell without counsel or Instruction from th Suit creek section .of Nebraska. Such members would not have asked for sue counsel or Instruction. There la no evi dence that any member did aak tor sues advice. It Is given without urging, freely and generously. Mr. Bryan notes fhat th best committee assignments ar now en joyed by "stand pat democrats and etantJ pat republicans." Ha doea not wish K have this advsntaae retained by the con , servatlve element. He also not, with hii element of enthusiasm, that ther art) not so many stand pat demoerata in th senate, since March 4. He wanta to havt the democrat as a body co-operate with the progressive republicans to reorganise the senate. In a nutshell, "committees should be made up, not merely t pay personal compliments, but to carry out th people's will." Unhappily, there la no reason to doubt that Mr. Bryan haa aom Influence with democratic senators; and It la not Unlikely that his general policy will !-eoelv friendly consideration. The party advantage. In our Judgment, does not demand such ac tion. Clearly, the progressive republicans, with their Initiative, referendum and recall Ideals, ar going far beyond any stand th democracy la able dr willing to tak I the matter of radicalism. On th other hand, the republican stand patters hold a position so conservative that It Is bound to be opposed by all democrats. To Iden tify the democracy In the public mind with the "recall" republicans whose views they do not hold would he an Irjury not to be counterbalanced by any . crum of patronage that might be securcl in the reorganisation of the senate, it vvjuWl be far wiser to reject any patronage alliance with either wing of the republicans and let division do Its deadly . work In th enemy's camp. ,,, Developments yet tb come will determine the course of all factions . In the senate. Speculation as to organization Is prema ture. Mr. Bryan's part In Such speculation Is premature. But prematurity is one of the moat striking feature of Ills states manship. CHEERY CHAFF. Customer Is electricity really the Lest iiKntiiiK mecuumr Truthful Agent Well, madam, that Is th current belief. Washington Star. Meekton Before I was marrlod I said I would never go shopping wl.h a Woman. Mudge You changed vour mind, eh! Mekton Not at all; my wlfa did It. Boston Transcript. "What's the matter with your wife? 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Each witness for our client gives a different ac count of the accident. His Partner Put tbem all ca the atand; the Jury may think he met with three or four accidents and find accordingly To ledo Blade. "Lobelia," demanded Mr. McjSwat. "where la my pipe?" ; "It was Bailing out through the kitchen window the last tlm 1 saw it," anawered hla wife. ... "It was, hey? You promised me whin I got those tickets to the opera you never would touch my pl again I Have you for gotten that?" "I dldn t touch It, Blinder; I took the tongs to It." Chicago Tribune. IRISH NAMES IN MEXICO. Kansas City Star. . Said Patrolman O'Shay at the Station one day: "I've been readln" a lot on thla Mexican muaa; ' And I'm greatly Impreaaed, I am bound to confess. By the nam cat of the men that are mixed in the tugs. "Just a look In will show all the names' end In O; Francisco Madero, now Just look at that, And UeneraJ Blanco, who's going to spank o The mighty porflro; O, what a spat! "A big Mexlcano la Prlaclllano, A rebel sub-leader that carrlea the U; Rlcardo, Oablno, Novarro, Jacino, Julnlto, Orosco and that's how tbey go. "For, In Mexico, O seems th signal to ahow There a grudg they all owe and th dlvll to pay." And thy laughed Ilk tarnation, th men, In th station, , They laughed at th Joke of Patrolman O'tthay. "Thos fallows down there, they ar Irlh, I swear. But the o In their names has got staunched to th rear; Could they switch It around to th front, I'll b bound. They could lick any army on earth, nevor fear. i "The O In a nam shouldn't feel any sham To atand up big as life In th front with out fear; That's th good Irish plan, and I can't understand Why th Mexican Os want to snra!: to th rear."