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THE HKK: OMAHA. SATURDAY, APRIL 15. 1011. 11 Till: OMAHA DAILY BKH t lVLNUtU BV K.DWAIUJ HOKEWATKR. VICTUl! RuPKW 'AT Kit. EUlTOll. f.nterrd at Omaha postofflr as ccond iJ matter. tkrmh of fu i.ecrumoN: funday Bee. one year Halurday Bee. one ear I'ally Be (without Sunday . one year Lally Bee and Hunday, on year .- W . 1 M . 4 J DKLIVKRKD BV CAKItlKR. Knlng Bee (without Hunda) . per mo. Sic l.venlng Be (with Kundayi. per month. .4fic lially liee (Including Sunday per mo..jc lal!v Bee (without flundevi, per month. 4.V Aldroxa ail complaints of irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. Oh KICKS. Omaha The Bee Building. outh Omih-Jt8 N. Twenty-fourth St. Council Bluffs h R.ntt R. Lincoln: l,lttle Building Chicago 1M Marquette Building. Kansas Cltv Kellane Building. New York M West Thirty-third Bt. Washington 725 Kourteenth Bt., N. W. CORRESPONUKNCK. Communication relating to tii and ed itorial matter should he addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal ordtr, payable to Tha Itee Publishing Company. nlv ;-cent stamps received In payment of mail account. K'ersonal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. M ARCH CIRCT LATION 48,017 Stat of Nebraska, County of Douglas, an: Ualght Williams, clrcuiallon manager of The He Publishing Company, being duly eworn. rays that tha average dally ctrcu latlon. leas Spoiled, unusued and returned oplea, for the month of March, 1811, waa 41.017. UWKHIT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager, tubacrlhed In my prei-ence and sworn to before me this 31st day of March 1911. tSeal.) ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public. ubacrlbrra l-avlu the city ten porarlly ahoald have) Tha Bee Mailed e them. Address will be Tbe flowers that bloom In the apring, tra la, seem to be overdue this year. Tha railroads cannot accuse Judge Sanborn of being against them, any way. Senator Bourne Insists tbat the country Is-sick. It doubtless Is of some things. What has become of all our lame ducks who failed to land appointive federal joba? One city councilman announces that ha la not a candidate for president of the city council. Next! "I am not disturbed over anything that Is being said," observes Senator Lorimer. Nothing but action for him. Could one Imagine a queerer com bination than Bryan, Hearst and John R. McLean all supporting Champ ClarkT U must make Tom Taggart smile to read of his friend. Kern, being put to the front as one of the progressive leaders. if it were not for the way the solid soulh votes Mr. Bryan mlgbt be tempted to accept that Memphis in vitation. No denial, however, has come from tbe White House that the troop were aent to the border with a well-defined purpose. Some one haa compared the Mexican fighters with tha Boers. It Is a alam on tha sturdy Transvaalere, who were real ones. If Champ Clark's "inaugural" ad dreia could only be set to music It would make a good old-time camp meeting song. Still, Colorado may break its sena torial deadlock if it continuea to bal lot long enough. Look at Montana, New York and Iowa. Tbat photographed treaty which Mexico and Japan decided not to ratify has not promoted universal disarma ment very considerably. With all due respect to the past glories of Diaz as a warrior, none of bis present soldiers seem to have In herited the master's art. Chicago la all torn up over a fight for the two-shift system for Ua fire department. Come to Omaha If you want to know how it worka. That doctor's certificate that the present prison fare served at the city Jail la wholesome and healthful la re assuring. Come early and avoid the rush. The- appointment of. a postmaster for Kanaas City haa Just been sent in to tbe senate by the president. An other rase where Kansaa .City beate Omaha out. Tbe Water board may be expected soon la due course to tell ua how much tbey want voted in water bonda this time. At laBt accounta the figure was 98,250,000, but that, of course, is sub ject to revision upward. The woman who was counted out for mayor of Hunnewell. Kan., hsa been appointed chief of police by her male contestant. Hatpins instead of clubs should be the srepter of. au thority. If the man who has boasted of hav ing "put Lorimer over" with the aid of $100,000 should be ' put over" blroe'lf It would be no more than al lowed by tbe "statutes made and pro vided in aurh casea." "So far aa Senator OGorman'a fu ture la concerned it Ilea before him aa an open door." observea the Syracuse Herald. It ought to be an open door after all the trouble In withdrawing tbe bolt In the deadlock ConicrYation Muit Be Broad-Oanjed. The ftovernor of Colorado la to call a conservation convention to tie held In lenvr next August "to promote a national policy which will insure to the atates the control of their natural rpamirrpa " The nlan is to restrict the i.at.. from we.tern !' states in which there Is still much un disposed public land Objection has been raised to the proposal of Inviting Roosevelt, Plnchot and Garfield, on the ground that they are not western men and could not, If they would, ex press the sentiment of western slates, although It Is explained that no slight to any Of these men la Intended. At the very outset tbose who are getting up this convention should be Impressed with the necessity of broad gauged policy. They should remember the burlesque conservation congress held at St. Paul last year, which waa nothing more nor lesa than a partisan political convention and did really little good, but 8slbly harm, to tfce cause of conservation. Roosevelt, Plnchot and Garfield are not residents of western states, but they have had a good deal to do with the conserva tion of resources lu western states and could undoubtedly be of help to the movement, though If the Interests of conservation can be better aub served without their presence It would seem folly to Invite them. It may as well be assumed that any policy seeking to control natural re sources which draws the line too sharply between state and federal authority la going to cause trouble. It Is to be hoped no such Issue will come from this Denver convention. It la well enough to say that this is to be a western congress for western statea and that the east Is not con cerned, but that will not quite do so long as tbese resources, so many of them, are part of the public domain, and the east Insists on having a voice In the disposition of the property and affairs of the natlqn. It would seem easy enough to avoid neutralizing the great good tbat such a convention might accomplish by simply taking the St. Paul political camp meeting aa an example to be shunned. Growing Prevalence of Perjury. A Judge upon the bench recently re marked upon the astonishing amount of perjury committed by witnesses, and even litigants, in court, and yet despairingly observed that it was diffi cult, if not impossible, to prevent or punish it. It Is, Indeed, deplorable that perjury of this sort should make the oath a farce and many court pro ceedings a travesty. In making per jury a felony the law shows how seri ous a crime society regards it, and yet aoclety sits by while it Is committed with perfect Impunity. It is demoralizing, this systematic lying under oath. If a man will He after he haa sworn specifically to tell the truth he will He under any cir cumstances. He will soon lose all moral scruplea and bold the truth in contempt. But It la not alone In the court room where the sin of perjury la committed. It la committed in false' swearing to business transac tions, at porta of customs, to the tax collector, and people think nothing of It. There' are certalu religious sects that do Dot believe In subscribing to an oath of any kind. Sometimes it seems that they have sound reason on their aide. At least one might be Justi fied In assuming tbat we do too much oath-taking. Of course it is wrong to give false witness," whether one has sworn to tell the truth or not, but doing it upon an oath is doubly bad. That makes the He perjury, punishable aa crime. ' If there Is any way to check this tendency toward contempt for the truth It ought to be found out and ap plied without delay. Destroy the high' est regard for truth and you have d stroyed much of the vitality of a peo ple. Cultivate respect for the truth and you have given virility to the na tlonal life. It takea courage often to stick to the truth. It sometimes means sacrifice. But truth la an impregnable fortresa against loose morals. The moral agencies of society need to im press tbat fact. It is a precept handed down from Sinai. Women and Good Roads. Down In Missouri women have taken an active hand In promoting good roads legislation and appealing to the governor for his aanctlon of measurea of this character. They have deluged the governor, it is said, with letters on tbe subject, showing not alone zeal for improved thorough fares, but keen insight Into the needs and possibilities of them. Here Is a 8Uggestlon to tbe women of other states In need of Improved roada and as well equipped naturally to have them. No legislature and no governor can withstand the sys tematlc appeal of the women for bet ter roads. In time, however im pregnable these officials may at first seem to be, tbey will have to aurren der to such an Influence. Why, then should not tbe women take up tbe fight for good roads? Here Is some thing tangible for the Woman's club and other feminine organizations to esaay. Nor can anyone aay that women have no direct concern in the good roads movement. In thia day of in creasing highway travel for pleasure, are not the women lntereated In th maintenance of smooth, durable roads? Aa a matter of fact, thia good roada movement la one which th women could direct as well aa the men. Women, to be aure, general! have plenty to do, but tbose enlisted In the raoTement would not he wast ing time devoted to It Here la a case. It seems, where Mis souri womerf have "shown" the way for othera to follow. But It would be a gross error to view the good roads movement merely from the standpoint Pleasure, for it Is a business raat- ter, too. Good roada bring markets nearer the farm, the consumer nearer the producer; they shorten distance and lessen transportation cost, en hance the value of land and crops and conduce to closer relations between city and rural life, all ends toward which many other agenclea are work ing with uncertain success. eaaaaahaBSMgaMMasMMeaaBMaMsaBBaa Moving Crime Pictures. Our Junior yellow flaunts a lurid tale of boy bandits led Into crime by the pernicious Influences of moving picture shows. Our Junior yellow Is Itself a dally moving picture show, of crime and criminals, and how many boya and girls have been lured Into evil ways by Its pernicious influence would be difficult to tell. The vicious scandalmonglng, crlme-deplctlng news paper can have Just aa bad an effect, and worse, than tha vicious moving picture show. The strange thing of all is that our Juvenile court, organ ized to prevent Juvenile crime and to reform Juvenile criminals, permits and sanctions the use of the machin ery of the court to disseminate among the boys who are most Impressionable this same newspaper moving picture show of crime and criminals. The authorities should by all means re press shows inciting boys and girls to robbery and waywardness, but they should not stop there. The Triumph of Sumter. The fiftieth anniversary of the firing upon Fort Sumter finds a re united people so busily engaged in the pursuit of peace that they have to ba reminded the second time of what oc curred on April 12, 1861, before they can be diverted from their dally tasks. If Mr. Lincoln could be alive today he would rejoice in the fulfillment of his Immortal Gettysburg appeal, "That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that gov ernment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." With all his Influence to avoid bloodshed, President Lincoln finally admitted tbat only through the cruci ble .of wit could the canker of dis union be destroyed; that -with all Its toll of human life and property tbe war was tbe only means of settling a ques tion that had to be settled, and all men now aee that he was right. Peo ple speak of the four long years of civil strife. But, after all, they are but a day as compared with tbe interminable turmoil that would have ensued had not the Issue come to arms nd men of one blood fought out on the field of battle what they could never have hoped to determine other wise. - The shot fired upon Sumter fifty yeara ago served the double purpose of bringing on the war of the rebel lion and paving the way to a condi tion where such a war in this coun try never could be fought again. Sworda long years ago became plow shares and apeara pruning hooks. The business of today Is peace. Holding in reverence what their sires did, the sons of the north and the south havto clasped hands in an Indissoluble union, "highly resolved," as Lincoln said, "that these dead shall not have died In vain." Ours Is a nation of no north and no south, and that la the glory of the triumph, the object first sought by those who fought to restore the union. Hard Up for a Goat.' It la already plain tbat Mayor 'Jim" and his democratic city ball as sociates are trying, through their pub licity agents, to lay the foundatlona to eacape responsibility for municipal mismanagement by blaming all abort- comings on Governor Aldrlch's veto of tbe charter amendments. Every com plaint against incompetence or extrav agance ia to be met with tha rejoinder that the charter bill failed to pass. This may be a good enough morgan for the hide-bound democrata who want to apologize for delinquent dem ocratic city officials, but It will not go with the general public tbat prefers an honest effort to dUhonest excuses Tbe only changes immediately opera tive under the vetoed charter bill were the salary Increases for democratic patriots, most of them getting more now than tbey are earning, while the money available for tbe various de partment funda would not have been Increased for another year. Governor Aldrlch did the taxpayers of Omaha a real aervlce with hia veto, and they must not let him suffer from misrep resentation. "Aldrich Democracy." Chronicling the selection of Mr Martin of Virginia to head tbe demo crats In the aenate, Mr. Bryan'a Com moner evinces its dissatisfaction by referring to the new leader aa "an Aldrlch democrat." It explains that Senator Martin voted eighteen times with Senator Aldrich when the tariff was up. and that he la to the demo cratic party what Aldrlch was to hla party. "The chief argument In hia favor," It continuea. "was seniority, but this should not have been given weight It did not have weight with most of his supporters. Most of those who voted for him voted for him be cause tbey are themselves reactionary, and are not in sympathy with the pro gressive legislation now demanded by democrats : and republicans." The Commonor consoles itself with the further remark that Mr. Martin stands for the kind of democracy that Is passing, but Mr. Bryan does not hide his disgust with a situation that recog nizes the supremacy of "Aldrlch dem ocrata" In the party cotinclla In the upper branch at Washington. While the Nebraska legislature was In ses sion with a democratic majority in each house, Mr. Bryan declared that he feared to ahow apeclal Interest in any messure lest It would cause Its defeat, and his lamentations about the democrats In the senate would Indi cate a counterpart condition there. The number of laws passed with emergency clauses to make them effec tive at once seems to be Increasing with every suceeding Nebraska legis lature. In a great majority of in stances the emergency declaration la purely fictitious, and no Vood reason exists for not letting the law take the usual course of waiting ninety days to become operative. The seriousness of the matter arises from the complete failure of the legislature to provide for publicity of emergency laws by which acts made criminal or penalized may be committed by persons who have no means whatever of knowing rn what respect the law has been changed. If people are to be pre sumed to know the law they should have some way of finding out what the law is. The local democratic organ is boost ing for Congressman Murdoch's "pure talk" bill to prevent misbranding of undelivered speeches printed In the Congressional Record. We suggest that the three democratic congress men from Nebraska, who would be the chief victims, get together and Join in a protest. City Engineer Craig, describing the future Omaha when it becomes "a city beautiful," says that, among other things, all wires will be underground and all disfiguring poles removed. Good. Then let us make a start right now by enlarging the area in which subway conduits are required. The shake-up in tbe city comptrol ler's office is another reminder that one of Omaha'a urgent needs is a mu nicipal civil service commission charged with passing on the fitness of subordinate city employes both before and after appointment What is wanted on tha bench la honest, capable men made Independent of the cor porations by the Intelligence and patriotism of the electorate. Stouz City Tribune. You bet, in Iowa aa well aa Ne braska, to which the Tribune alludes. A Philadelphia man says that "if Christiana would vote as they pray, building of ships would stop." That may be regarded aa tbe opening gun In the Carnegie presidential boom. Tbe fifteenth anniversary of Fort Sumter has brought out an astonish ingly lot of eye-witnesses and patri otic participanta who are still living to tell the story. And Still Another. , St. Paul Dispatch. Another day haa passed and Japan has neither begun fortifications on Magdalena bay nor opened fire on Melbourne or Syd ney. . Looking; Ahead. Houston Post. We suppose ten year hence we shall have to tell those who guy us that the Initiative, referendum and recall were abandoned on the quantitative theory of tommyrot and demagogy. Mlxlnar Metaphors. Philadelphia Bulletin. Now that Bryan has taken to quoting Roosevelt and Roosevelt to quoting Bryan, it will soon be difficult to quote from either with a certainty as to who was the original authority. Whose Move Is IhlsT Washington Post. Bryan having indorsed Wilson, and Wll on having Indorsed Bryan, it is evident that Mr. Bryan Is popular In the east. Has It come to that? Has Mr. Bryan done away with all the heresies that once were so objectionable to the east? Or has the east swallowed them? Either the mountain or Mahomet has moved, and from ell ap pearancea it is the mountain that hi humped Itself and gone to Mahomet. Political Drift Former Boss Ruef of San Francisco I conducting a Bible class In state prison. Speaker Clark's presidential boom doean know where It will land, but la on the way In the New Jeraey legislature a bill pro hlbitlng harem skirts was referred to the committee on revolutionary claims. Mayor-elect Harrison of Chicago would be pleased to meet a presidential boom by daylight or by the dark of the moon. ' Tbe millionaire residents of Lke Forest 111., beat the "plain peepul" in the elec tlon for mayor. The weather was fa and no mud to spot patent leathers. Down in Cuba the presidential election I two years away, but the candidates are already in the field. In a tropical climat spreading the perspiration over a long period promotes health. Tom Johnson's political motto la worth Imitating. "I play tha game with the card face up." he said. "The people are always to be trusted. Peal suuarely with them and they will trust you." The Rhode Island committee on special legislation has reported a constitutional amendment providing for biennial elec tions. The Connecticut legislature killed a propoaltton to return to the old system of annual seditions. By a referendum vote, the people of pet roll decided to stick to the standard In preference to solar time. As the former affords an extra half hour for the precious morning sausage, the natives stayed aanke long enough to alam the proposed Innovation. Tom Robertson. 63 years old, who took a ow in IK that he would not permit a rasor to touch his face or shears to touch his hair until William J. Bryan was elected president, died In Macon, Mo., as the reault of a fall down a long flight of stairs. The length of his whiskers Is not givea. In Othor Lands lde tight on What is Trans piring Among the IT ear and rar sretieae at the Hart Easter season finds the old world more peacefully Inclined than the new. The in surrection in Mexico haa no counterpart In Europe. The disturbances In Canlllaa de Aceltune, Spain, and in the champagne dis trict of Trance are local outbursts of popu. lar wrath, the first against the oppressive tax gatherer and the latter against re strictive laws and favoritism. Neither one approaches the dignity of the Mexican war," which ia not saying much. The similarity rests entirely on the seal cf r newspapers in "playing up" the Incidents to break the rhonotony of a dull season. The British Parliament has taken the custom ary recess, leaving the lords' veto bills on the shelf for the moment. Something like .100 of the 1,100 amendments offered by the opposition have been turned down. A like fate awaits the remainder when the session resumes, and drastic cloture may be nec essary to shut off the deluge of talk with which the torles hope to Impress their sin cerity upon the country. The new republic of Portugal la believed to have scored heavily on the royalists In effecting what Is said to be a satisfactory settlement of the issues arising from the forcible separa tion of church and state. Hy granting life pensions to the clergy a deadlock with the Holy Bee has been averted and the road to victory at the approaching election con siderably Improved. Germany's warlike tone continues undiminished. Arbitration of international questions aa the forerunner of universal peace la officially stamped as a dream of Idle millionaires and mollycod dles. Human eruptions at tbe Camorlsts' trial are the only breaks In the peaceful colon of sunny Italy. These, however, are well caged and are aa harmless as the average radical vendor of hot air. The I'an-German league and the Asso ciation for tbe Preservation of German Nationality In Foreign countries Jointly father a measure of great Interest to sons of the Fatherland, which la to be presented to the German Reichstag for enactment. The instrument provides that loss of Ger man cltlezenship cannot take place without the knowledge or against the wish of the German subject In question. In particular, German citizenship will not be forfeited when a German subject becomea the sub ject of another country, although the Ger man cltlsenship will be suspended In re lation to that country of which the German ubject has become a citlxen. Tba moment he leaves foreign territory hla German citizenship will revive automatically. The hlldren of a German emigrant who has lost bis German citizenship will be entitled to become German subjects on making ap plication to the proper German authori ties. Woman of German birth who have ceased to be German subjects of other cc mtrles will on making application, it their marriage haa been terminated by the death of the husband or by divorce, again becomes German subjects. In this case, those of their children not yet of age like wise will become German citizens. To the native traveler In France state- operated railroads are most generous ana gracious In catering to creature comforts. On the Western railroad, for example, as the advertised tlu; of arrival of trains can never be depended upon, passengers who have to change cars mis very often tha connecting train, and If thia happens about lunch or -dinner time their meal la paid for by the railroad administration and they have only to go to the station buffet or tbe nearest hotel and send the bill to the chief officers of the line in Paris. This Is beginning to get known In the country districts, and the artful and thrifty Normandy peasant, when he is not over busy, buys a cheap third-class ticket for a short distance Involving a change of trains and so gets an excellent lunch at the expense of tha Ouest-T.at. If the delay at the Intermediate station Is too prolonged it is only necessary to make a little disturbance and the adminis tration will provide horses and carriages to take the place of the train. These little entertainments, it Is said, cost the Western line hundreds of dollars a week. Misfortune claimed for its own most members of the harem when Sultan Abdul Hamld was forcibly separated from the Turkish . throne. On of the victims is Mile. Kayser, who was cut Into for ob servation purposes and then cut out of her Job. She has brought suit for damages against the surgeons of the late sultan and tell a moving story of cruelty which would v-Ing a bundle of money from a Jury in th United States. Mile. Kayser says In her complaint that the ex-sultan's favorite daughter was suffering from ap pendicitis and the surgeon proposed to re move th extinct organ. But Abdul Hamld had to have the thing demonstrated to him before he would let his child be eut Into. Mile. Kayser being handy, she waa seised, made the subject of a conclusive clinical demonstration and revived from th anesthetics minus a perfectly good vermiform appendix. Tills proved the case to the sultan, but that the operation was eminently successful In th case of the Turkish princess Is no solace to Mile. Kayser, who In view of th Impossibility of getting back her loet appendix wants damage for It abatractlon. American enterprise Is overcoming many obstacles In Kurope. Concession for tele phone line In Constantinople has been granted to American electricians. It pro vide for an exchange fitted for not less than 10.000 subscribers. The area to be served extends over 150 square miles on both banks of the Bosphorus a well as to resorts oo the sea of Mormora and as far as nan Mtepnano. rne enterprise means an outlay of 1.arO.00. American financier and American engineera control the con structs of five new railroads, totalling 100 mile, In Spain. On of the lines Will run from Bilbao, on the Bay of Biscay, to Madrid. A second one will run from Mad rid to Valencia, on the east coast. The two together will thus croea the entire peninsula. i ne three otner lines are shorter, supplementary ones In the north Provincial subsidies will be granted on he Madrid-Bilbao line. For the very Import ant Line from Madrid to Valencia the gov ernment itaelf will grant a subsidy equal to per cent of the cost, estimated at fuO.000,000. Dilemma for Reformer. Botton Transcript. Woudrow Wilson may have to travel deadhead on New Jersey railroads despite hla rejection of passes The law of th state requires sll railroads to transiort free of charge the governor and the Judge within Ha Jurisdiction. Her Is a dllemm tor a reform governor, for If he rejects free transportation ba cendemna the law corn mandlng It, and it Is his first duty to re spect the statute. He may even have to waik. Qualities that Sklae. boulsvlll Courier-Journal. Though hi banking and other interest made him well able to pay the price him self. Ixrlmr let the other people put up that fiott.000 "elunn fund." thereby proving himself a good busine man aa well aa astute psitlclan. Makes tho most nutri tious food and the most dainty and DACIDC3 Tha only Baking Powder made f rom Royal Grape Cream of Tartar ' No fussing or fretting over thcbiscuit-maldng. Royal is the aid to many a cook's success, Rsyal Ceoa eJt S09 Receipts Fret. Send Nam and Aiirtu. a OVAL aAKIeKl OWPf. CO., NSW YOeK. IOWA'S XUNI0E SENATOR. Kanssa City Times: Senator Dolltver'S death left a man-slsed vacancy In the United States senate, and Iowa Is to be congratulated on finding a man big enough to fill It. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The Iowa deadlock Is broken In a way which leaves "Lafe"' Young at Pes Moines all of the time and therefore gives Iowa the best of the bargain. Pes Moines Register and leader: By birth, by early education, by hard struggle, by constant association Judge Kenyon has coma to know the problem of the average man. Mis . ambitions have never led him away from the Ideals of his youth. His publlo and private career are a vindication of his early-formed purpose to be of some benefit to those who struggle end aspire. Sioux City Journal: The election of Judge Kenyon Is a republican victory, not a factional victory. It is In fact the most substantial score In the Interest of har mony registered since the party In Iowa has been rent by Internecine strife. If factional motive had been allowed to gov ern there could have been no election. If factional lines had been maintained aa they were presented In the early days of the balloting, the deadlock must have remained fast until adjournment. Until, the very last tbe extremist of bqth factions were found holding out against the only feasible solution. It Is pleasant to find that the moderates determined the Issue. The fart carries hope that tbe republican party In the state, and In the nation, may be able to do th compromising with Itself that must be dona if It Is to continue a practi cal political organisation. HOW ABOUT NEBKASKA f Question of Woain'i Work Hoar Be fore th Coeirt. Collier s Weekly. Fourteen civilised nation of Kurope bound themselves by treaty In 1908 to abol ish night work for women, and put the principle in practice on January 1 of the present year. Three of our states have reached a similar conclusion In line with modern judgment and modern conscience' Msssaohusetts. Indian and Nebraska. Tou cannot tell what the courts In this country will dry In New Tork, about three weeks ago. thr upset an employers' liability act. w.ilch they admitted was well drawn, a Ignoring what they were pleased . to call "due process of law," an arbitrary and unreal Interpretation of the Idea, such aa the New Tork court of appeal haa put forth before. In th bakeshop case and other cases. Ethical progress In Industry will not be stopped by Judicial folly. One way or another It will reach Its end. This Question of womau't work is to be faced by a Nebraska court this month. The legislature passed a law called for by the experience and Intelligence of mankind. Will th court find an asinine way of In terpreting some constitutional clause hav ing no possible bearing on the present Issue, or will It show that It realises that American legislature have the right to do what all the civilised nations of Europe have Just done? MIRTHFUL REMARKS. Pat What 11 ye do. Molk. now that th bos ha fired yef Mike Oo back to me former job. hat An' pbat was that? Mike Loo kin' for Work, begorra. Boeton Transcript. 'Hiram." said th politician's wife, "did you aay w must economise T ' Kinphatlcaily. ' 'Well, how would It do to move Into on of those district where vote cost only a dollar apiece? 'Washington Star. "Speech 1 silver," says the Boarding House Philosopher, "but silence, rightly used. Is what makes golden weddings pos sibles'Toledo Blade. "Blffers is the most selfish man I know." "Klffera! Hows that? "Why, i waited half an hour In the cold wind for him to come along and pick me up this morning, and Just, aa he came within hailing distance on of his tires went flat.' Cleveland Plain Dealer. Stranger But when you have your sys tern of subwavs constructed, and all your passenger traffic is carried on underground, how are you going to ventilate- thern? Resident Jh, the newapapara will attend to that. Chicago Tribune. The Tenant Look here, sir. It's only 20 above xero In this room. There's the ther mometer. Look for yourself. The Landlord That nut a fair text You've hung the thermometer on the radi ator. Toledo Blade. "What are ou doing with the crutch?' "Taking It home for my little boy." "What happened to hlni?" "Mlule he waa bringing home th mall a Kundu-j paper full on hi leg. " Voungs town Telegram. He If you women did get the right to vote you couldn t In the nature of thing keep It. Htie (Indignantly) Why not, sir? He Because It 1 a aerret ballot, you know. Baltimore American Casey-Did Maloney give y th black eye? Murphv No: only th blek. IM had th ey all th toime Judge. "lion I talk ne about what is in a name." "Whv not?" "1 employed, on the urgent request of an Interemed friend three brothers named Gunn. From one 1 could never get a re- deliciou 3. port, another waa promptly fired and the third kicked because I objected to his be ing loaded." Baltimore American. The Reporter And how would ou begin to clean up tbe city? The impossible Keformer By Hbollshlng the politicians Cleveland Plain Dealer. "How did the burglar escape'."' Inquired the detective. "Well." replied the guard with the dam aged eye, "he sort o nicknamed himself out." "What do you mean?" "Klrst he pried open the cell door with Jimmy, then he knocked me down with it billy, and then he sallied forth. 'Boston Tranecrlpt. THE EASTER HAT. E. W. Tiettel In Judge's IJhrsry. A wife there was. and she bought a hat (Kven as jour wlte and mlneli With wire works and a feather fm (We called It a turned up lainlnaj tRt. But the wife, she railed it her Kailer hat. (Evens your wife and mine!) It took and the maids It A wife there was and to church she went. (Even as your wile f.nd mlneli To worhlr7 Well, hardly! Hut with Intent (For a woman must follow her natural tentl To excite with her bonnet much lincontenl. (Even as your wife and mine!i Ah, the pain ah felt, as to pray Khe knelt And found the big coup she'd plnnn1 Forestalled with the mlll'ner with bonnet the rame (And she knew that she knew that It the same). Tet couldn't understand. Her face was stripped of Its conscious smile (Kven your wife and niln-ii Aa she saw her hat's sifter Just over the aisle (Perched on a coiffure of much mote etyle). And her pride had a fall, but her rae flared the while, (Even as your wife's or mine! While sue wasn't to blame that their church was the same. Though their stations were far apart. The milliner lost her best customer (Yet never knew what was the matter with her). But ths bonnet went back a In cart! Juggling John, who heads the bill A etar ol the circa troupe Declares his wondrous nerve and skill Are due to CmmjfUll't Soup. "Real home cooking". That is just what you think you arc getting the first time you cat WW'. n TOMATO Unless you actually know it comes from the store you wouldn't be lieve it. Even then you wonder if it can possibly be as good the next time. . But you find it is just as good and pure and perfect the next time and every time. That is, if you insist on Campbell's. That's the point. 21 kind 10c a can Just add hot water, bring to boil, and ttrvt. Jotsra Caarssu Coajraav Csmdea N J Look for tho red -arid-white label 4 "if 1 Wholesale & Retail havehs-yiute; coal CO. 1710 FARNAM ST. PW D4W U. A-lMl .iic ' I ni'i.i it luun auu inv iimiui II 1 took i f To fashion that work of art 1 And get it ell shipshape hy Haturriay nlcht I (For she must have it by Saturday nlKliti " And send it home a la cart! I COAL U 1 L 'CWihA.KI'8 J V