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10 THE BEK: OMAHA. THURSDAY, MAY 4. 1011. SB The Omaha daily Bee rUl'MiKD HY KlVVARD IMBKWATKR. VICTOR R'lHKWATEB, EDITOR. I'rleifd at Omaha pnetoffics as seeund Class n.Mier. TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Sunday Hee, on year Haturday Be, one year,..., I'Hlly H ( without Sunday), on year.. Daily Be. and Hunday, on year DKUVEHKI) BY f'AHHIKH. Kvening Hee ( without Sunday), per mo. Kvemna Mrs (with Sunday i, ier month i ally He (Including Monday), per mo. .12 yi . 1 nO . 4 . ot) . .2Ta . .4:ic Daily lira (without Sunday), per mo Adriresa all' complaints of Irregularities Inithn nreslrtpnt of tha senate 1 iienvt-ry in .ny ircuiaiion ie.i imeni. OFFICES. naha-Th Be rtuilriln. Hnuth omaha M N. Twenty-fourth St. Council Bluffs 16 Krntt Kt. 1-incoln-eii Uttl. Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. Ktntu 'ttv Hellanre Building. New York M Writ Thirty-third St. Washington 72 Fourteenth HI., N. W. 'OH HKflPON DKNCK. 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Address will h How could such Lincoln? a thing happen in The closed season on oysters Bug getts clans.1, U Juneau were In Mexico Instead of Alaska they would call it You-no. At any rate, the backward spring is retarding the advent of the house fly. From the reforms it is effecting, that Audoboa society is certainly a bird. In that Lincola mayoralty race Arm strong proved to be strong in the legs as well. "We must all walk in the light," exclaims Mr. Rockefeller. Fill up the lamp. The St. Louis Times saya "Whoa" hus been the slogan of St. Louis toe long. Qlddap, Senator La Follette believes in re ciprocity, en general principles. But bow about specifics cases? 1 Still, as able men aa Judge Wakeley have been kaewn to possess whiskers and a bald head at one and the same time. ?; Ab additional guard te watch the rock pile gang Is called for. A goed, strong barbed wire fence would be cheaper. Congressman Victor Berger seems to be a cenerete answer to the ques tion, "Why Aa not the peeple prefer uoclalisBS?" The contest for popularity between Mayor Gaynor and Governor Dii is proving almost as exciting as a slew mule raee, Prof, flee, the man who saw those sixty new worlds, being from Missouri, looked ever a field f 160,000 planets before deciding. I Unless we are misinformed, those centers who are meeting in our midst will be compelled to pronounce Omaha painfully healthy. Senator Frye of Maine is now called the "father of the senate." He is going to find some mighty mischievous little boys to handle, too. ; And now "Cock Robin" is accused of being a nature fakir. "The spar row with bis little arrow" may be ex pected to be exploded next. Now that Mayor "Jim" and Gov ernor Aldrtch have handed one an other verbal bouquets, we may con sider the political armistice in force. Sixty million dollars is spent by tourists Id Ixmdon every summer, so statisticians say. No wonder the British sneer at our "American dol lars." it is to bo hoped the acme of art at tained by Kentucky which recently hanged a negro on a theater stage will not excite the Jealous rivalries of other southern states. New York's Indicted city chamber lain, although asserting he is the vic tim of a great conspiracy, will, never theless, resign. No resignation yet in the Omaha post office. When former Senator Carter in the dald-head-agalnst-beard debate said the chin-bewhlskered fellows were al ways the peacemakers he must have forgotten the period of Jerry Simpson, Senator Peffer and other patriarchs of those hirsute days. , Congressman Lobeck has scored is first signal victory "down east." He spoke in Baltimore a few days before the city election there urging votes for a democrat for mayor as an induce ment to "we democrats to hold our national convention here." And the democrat was elected. The Gubernatorial Succession. The vacancy in the office of lieuten ant governor to be filled for a period of one year and eight months by the prenldf-nt of the senate presents a sit uation entirely novel in the history of Nebraska. Never before in this state has a vacancy been created by death In the office of lieutenant governor, and but once before has the president of the senate been brought within one remove of the chief executive's posi tion. In this case there Is a further j exceptional condition in the fact that a dem ocrat, while the governor Is a repub lican, so that a transfer of political power from one party to another would occur should the office pass even temporsrlly along the line of suc cession. Under the present constitution of Nebraska the gubernatorial succession In Nebraska passes to the lieutenant governor, to the president of the sen ate and to the speaker of the house In the order named. In territorial days, and until the new state constitution was adopted and became effective in 1877, the succession passed from the governor to the secretary of state. The first territorial governor of Ne braska. Francis Burt, died two days after he entered upon his duties and the vacancy was filled by the secretary, Thomas B. Cuming, who succeeded to the governorship a second time three years later to All a vacancy created by the resignation of Governor Izard. An almost exact repetition of this oc curred In the case of J. Sterling Mor ton as secretary of tbe territory filling the vacancy created by the death of Governor Richardson In 1868, and again filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Governor Black in 1861. ' The first governor of Nebraska after statehood was impeached and removed from office, being succeeded by the secretary of state, W. II. James, but no further vacancies occurred in the office either of governor or of lieutenant governor until the election of Gov ernor Dietrich to be TJnlteT"Btates sen ator opened the way for Lieutenant Governor Savage to become governor. Yet the then president of the senate, the late C. F. Steele, was of tbe same political party aa the governor, so that the possibility of a transfer of polit ical control was, not involved. Fortunately, Governor Aldrlch seems to be enjoying robust good health, and the prospects of Lieuten ant Governor Morehead being moved up soon again appear to be remote. The potentiality of the gubernatorial succession, however, must be recog nized. American and British Courts. Americans have crltclsed their own courts and heard them criticised so much by Englishmen that they are generally prone to concede that Justice here is an uncertain quantity in alto gether too many Instances. It is sur prising to read, therefore, in a London paper the illuminating statement that even British courts are beset by sinis ter obstacles that often defeat justice and make a travesty of law. This journal tells us that the British courts are scandalized by alibi-makers and that the evil has become bo prevalent aa to menace the system of Jurispru dence. The paper hastens to explain, though, that this thing exists, not among real Englishmen, but among foreigners, who have organized for mutual protection. . Yet, if this is so, Britons cannot evade responsibility even by estab lishing the verity of this statement. The United States haa as intricate Ju dicial problems with which to deal as Britain can possibly lay claim to. Tbe fact seems to be that no system of Jurisprudence devised by man is error proof, though those of the high order which both these countries have come near meeting the ends of Justice. Per haps on comparison it might be found that with all our admitted frailties, American courts tally favorably, both in method and administration, with those of Britain. We have here often urged the distressing frequency of per jury among witnesses and litigants, closely related to the grievance of the Britons. Perhaps we and our British cousins might profit by one another's experience in efforts to root out these defects. Hyde and Gaynor, Surmounting in importance the question of Chamberlain Hyde's guilt or Innocence of the charges connecting him with misappropriation of stupen dous sums of money in Now York, the most conspicuous feature of the whole situation seems to bo the utter failure of Mayor Gaynor'a administration to accomplish the reforms and improve ments in city government which were set for it in rather flamboyant fashion. Hyde was the law partner of Gay nor, has been bis intimate friend and adviser for yeara and was appointed receiver of public money when Gaynor became mayor. His Indictment on grave charges can reflect no credit, upon ana contriout no strength to the Gaynor administration. Especially is this trui in view of the mayor's steadfast support of Hyde. Hyde may be proved innocent, in which event the mayor but commends himself for his adherence to a friend, but that is not so much the point just now, for Hyde's downfall cannot and will not be con sidered except In connection with and as a part or the administration of Mayor Gaynor, and if In the end he should be adjudged guilty It will be all the worse for Gaynor. But this is rather a climax than the beginning of trouble for Gaynor. From the first bis administration has been on the defensive. He has had so many things to explain that he has not been able to realize on the high hopes set ' for htm In that position. Hyde, like most men In similar posi tions, pleads that he Is the victim of a base conspiracy. In which it so hap pens every newspaper In the city prac tically is against him and in line with the testimony of Banker Robins. In the meshes of whose confession Hyde was tripped up. Judgment, of course, has not yet been pronounced, and will not be until Hyde's guilt or Innocence Is estab lished. It may be regarded as sig nificant that In pleading not guilty the former city chamberlain reserves the right to .change or withdraw his plea If developments suggest the advisa bility of such action. Lincoln Lifts the Lid. After several years of dense drouth Lincoln has voted by decisive majority to lift the ltd and license saloons to do business there again. That Lin coln should go wet would not ordi narily be of particular moment to out siders, for other cities and towns have alternated between the wet and dry policy, but Lincoln has made so much of its vaunted superiority over other cities by virtue of its dryness and its boasted goodness that its relapse is like a fall from a high pedestal. Writing for publication a few days ago, a well known citizen of Lincoln declared that, "next to Mr. Bryan," Lincoln's dry policy Is "our biggest advertisement," and that a majority for the wets would be most serious "from an advertising standpoint." If this was really the moving factor the majority of Llncolnltes have evidently concluded that the name Is not worth the game and that as long as they con tinue to have the other big advertising feature the fame of their city will be secure, even though It be wet In spots. An Ineffectual Armistice. No reason is apparent for doubting the reports that hostilities In Mexico did not cease with the signing of the armistice, pending peace negotiations. The armistice, therefore, seems to have ' proved ineffectual. Desultory warfare, reports say, has come to some very serious results In the northwest states and some American nonpar ticipants have lost their lives as a con sequence of the perfidy. Taking the proper view that the armistice was made in good faith and that both parties to the agreement de plore assaults upon Americans in Mex ico, we are still confronted by this fact: Chaotic conditions more formi dable than , orderly powers can easily handle exist in the southern country and threaten to annoy whatever reor ganisation force is evolved from the revolution. It will be a long time be fore bushwhacking and guerilla war fare, aa the ultimate fragments of the rebellion, are finally and completely wiped out. Here Is sure to be a task quite equal to the best efforts which the old or the new regime can bring to bear. Under such Irritating cir cumstances the United States, Indeed, does well to restrain its power and deal compassionately with its turbu lent neighbors. Immunity Baths Denied. -Prosecuting officials have been rather generous in this country with their immunity baths, but the limit seem to have been reached in Ohio, where fifty (about one-third the total number) members of the legislature are involved in a bribery scandal and propose to confess in exchange for immunity from prosecution. . The law officers certainly are not to be blamed for refusing to trade. They and the people would surely be on the short end of the deal. Better many times over take a chance on missing out entirely on convictions than to let loose the whole flock of culprits merely to have them confess. People may not admire the char acter of a briber or bribe-taker, but they will have to allow a little for the commendable audacity of these men, who, when about to be trapped in such a wholesale Job of dishonesty, blandly offer to swap confessions for immunity. Of course they probably think the law would be satisfied to get at the fellows who "corrupted" them, but such a view is not quite consistent wththe highest demands of Justice. But is it not about time anyway for Ohio to be good? Is it not time to purge itself of its moral obliquity without the aid of immunity processes and put on a complete new suit of civic virtue? Has the whole state been contaminated by Adams county? Or was Adams county only a sample of the stock in trade? Seriously, the sit uation Is deplorable. If the facts be anywhere near aa bad as represented, this will go on record, perhaps, as the most extensive system of bribery the country has known, at least that has been exposed, and everybody will hope there have been none worse unex posed. . . .. . J i d civn service investigation or the Omaha postofflce shake-down has been hanging Are now for two months. It did not take President Roosevelt that long on a certain occasion to decapi tate a United States marshal and a United States district attorney on much less serious charges. Tbe pool hall regulation ordinance nas gone naci to committee once more. But then, has not Omaha been engaged in the "Immediate and com pulsory" purchsse of the water works for over eight years? The campaign of misrepresentation Is on. A local organ of mendacity pretends that the so-called farmers' free list would rut off custom house revenues of only 11,600,000, when the official treasury figures place the loss at not less than 110,000.000 annually. A little discrepancy like thst, of course, cuts no figure. Why, of course, it Is usually better to settle out of court controversies such ss have arisen between the city and several franchise corporations, but If an adjustment were reached without litigation how would all these high-priced lawyers be able to take periodic trips to Europe? It wss a long time after the incident at Appomattox that fighting ceased in Texas, so we need not be surprised if the neighbors a little to the south of there fight on long after the Mexican war Is over. The New York Sun, responding to a challenge, has made Us annual pub lication of "Sassafras, Oh, Sassafras." Now, come on. Gentle Lady, with your blithe and happy spring. In a ( las by Himself. Washington Star. J. Q. Cannon remains one of th few prominent statesmen whose public utter ances and confidential conversation can al wnys be depended on to sound pretty much silk. The President On;h to Know. New York T. Ibun.. The president, denouncing aa "bosh" the talk about Canadian annexation, pointedly declares that the United States haa quite enough to do lit governing lta prevent pos sessions. And after his experience In the Philippines he knows. The Hooat After Death. Philadelphia Record. We are aJlright in this country In the matter of putting up big money for old books. We can do It, sure pop, and do It Impressively. But when it comes to buying new books the tendency seems to be to shy off. yWe don't play fair with the possible IrVlngs and Longfel lows of this generation, who in conse quence "die a-bornln'." Xot a Jingo Scream. Pittsburg Dispatch. Some people find It singular that the war alarm bureaus have not summoned the nation to arms because the Dutch have taken possession of a miscroscoplc island In the vicinity of the Philippines. But It Is entirely natural. The probable employers for our warmakers in print see nothing for themselves in a war between the United States and Holland. Dlarecardln'ar Pabllo Policy. New York Outlook. In the decision on the Workmen's Com pensatlon Act, In our opinion, the New York Court of Appeals has disregarded all considerations of social Justice against the conscience and judgment of the civil ised world, and In Its forced Interpreta Uon of the constitution haa disregarded alike the history of the constitution's ori gin and of its judicial Interpretation by th highest court in the land. Prompt Action on Reciprocity. Springfield Republican. The sjggle over reciprocity In Canada would speedily come to an end If the United States senate would get ready tor business and pass tha reciprocity bill with out much delay. Aa matters stand, th Canadian opposition la much heartened by hopes of obstruction to th measure In th upper branch of congress, while Premier Laurler naturally hesitates to push th business so long aa there Is a chance that reciprocity may fall on this side of th boundary. The protectionists in England, meanwhile, are doing their best to sus tain the opposition at Ottawa. The pro longation of th contest means that the premier will attend neither the Imperial conference next month In Ijondon nor the coronation In Jun. People Talked About ' .. . i Mr. Black was born In Canada, but Jumped ovr th lln as soon aa he ob served th good thing on this side. He la director of many railroads and banks and president of th United States Realty company of New York. Remember Chauneey M. Depew. United States senator that waaT Chauncey cele brated his T7tb birthday anniversary with 200 friends In Brooklyn last Saturday and Jollied th youngsters with reminiscences and Joemlllerisms. His Is the smile that won't com off. Mrs. Barnay and Miss Barney, mother and daughter, who secured first page publicity by exhibiting nude statuary In th lawn of their Waahlngton horn last summer, ar honeymooning In Paris. The mother I Mrs. Hemmlck and the daughter Is Mrs. Dreyfus, both husbands being hlghoockaloruma In the American Bahalst .society In the French capital. Th city council of Chicago fired a reso lution at th managers of the fund col lected for the benefit of the widow and orphans of firemen who lost their Uvea in the stock yards fire last December. The plan of th managers Is to keep tbe princi pal of the fund Intact and dt-vot th in oom to th support of th living victims, many of whom ar In sore distress. Ob jection Is made to the plan, and the out come Is likely to be a lawsuit that will eat a large slloe of the fund. Th hairy and hairless debate in Wash ington didn't prove a thing. Th whisk ered 'disputants ar married, so ar th bald heads. Each took a turn at teaching Sunday school and In other ways showed symptoms to the rostrum of the Young Men's Christian association and have of fered vocal banquets to members of the Young Women's Christian association and th Women's Christian Temperance union. For all that Senator Kerns and Uncle Joe Cannon poasea whiskers and hairy domes, while Nick Long worth and Ollla James haven's eoougb on top to afford a llf lln for a fly. L VL ftHAKRY Around New York Ripple on th Current of T.lf a Been la tb Great American Metropolis from Day to Day. Figures made public by the health de partment of the metropolis make clear whrt nationalities are increasing the race and the sections of the city most conspicu ous In the birth rate. In 'the Jewish dis tricts the birthrate Is the highest, averag ing K per l.ono of the population. in Optically Italian districts the birth rate Is 50.5; In the negro districts the average Is .M 6. But In the high class native American private residence districts the rate Is less than seven per 1.00. The children result ing from mixed marriages Indicate, too, it Is said by the health board experts, that the second generation of Immigrants In New York are not so prolific In off spring as are th first generation, the new settler. Of the 127.021 white children who were born In New York In 1310. 64.DS1 were boys and 62.040 girls. Of th colored children born, 1,031 were boys and 1.070 girls. There were born twelve Chinese boy and nine Chinese girls, mostly of mixed parentage. Michael Donnelly, of Albany, N. Y., who, In 18S, sued his brother-in-law, P. J. Mc Ardle. for a bill of sale Involving ll&0,000, which suit has been In the courts ever since, haa made public this table showing the cost and other features of It: Period of litigation (years) 22 Number of trials 1 Total number of trial dayS 87 Number of lawyers M Number of justice Numiwr ot witnesses Number of justice who hav died 1 Number of lawyers who have died ... 1.1 Number of witnesses who have died.. 42 Donnelly counsel fees lltW.fifO MeArdle's approximated expenses.. 2n0.W0 EBtrniated cost o county, salaries etc 20.000 Amount involved irR.0H) Cost and disbursements 20.UU0 Mr. Donnelly and his brother-in-law wer In the Iron business when they went to law. Six times Mr. Donnelly's complaint was dismissed, but each time the higher courts reversed the judgment. Mr. Don nelly was advised today that H. A. Glider sleeve, the referee, had reported that his share of what was left came to J41.00O, with 120.000 for counsel fees. Mr. Don nelly says he will not accept It One result of the recent fir In th Asch building in Washington place, In which 145 persons lust their lives, was th ordering of a fire drill for the 680 employes of the Appraisers' stores, 661 Washington street. Two of the men who took th teat a few days ago are now trying to discover who sprinkled about 15 cents' worth of mixed carpet tacks and screws along the hollow steel baa of the spiral fire escape on which the employe w expected to slide to safety from the upper floors in th event of fire. When the signal for th drill was given tho two most active clerks on the ninth floor rushed to th entrance to the spiral slide, and launched themselves on the downward Journey. More might perhaps have followed their lead had It not been for yells arising from the steel cylinder. Instead of descending the fire escape, other . employes ran down the stairs to the sidewalk, where they arrived in time to assist In picking some of th tacks from th anatomy of their conferee. An official investigation haa been commenced to discover the perpetrator of th Jok. There is an unofficial Investigation under way which promises even mor dir con sequences for the culprit. Tha extent to which Fifth avenue. Is gradually succumbing to business was shown when at lunch time a group ot twenty men more or less stood about th stoop of th Harry Payn Whitney house on the southwest corner of Fifth avenu and Fifty-seventh street. Four of th most striking houses in New York ar on this corner. Mrs. Vanderbllt, Mrs. Hunt ington and Mrs. Hermann Oelrlchs afe th occupants of three of these houses. The Whitney house Is now vacant and win not be sold for business during th lifetime of Mrs. Vanderbllt, who Is th mother-in-law of Mr. Whitney. But the slight, dark men with their cigarettes, their foreign mon grel tongue and their excited manners gather every day now to paas the luncheon hour on this comfortable comer. They come from a fashionable dressmaking es tablishment in the neighborhood. The blocks a few afreets south on Fifth avanu are already becoming so crowded at mid day that they differ littl In appearance from those below Twenty-third street. -yPlans have been filed by th Broadway Pork Place company for th construction at Broadway and Park Place of the high est building in the world. From the curb to the apex of the tower it will stand 750 feet There will be thirty stories in the main building and an additional twenty five In th tower, flfty-flv In all. Th highest building In the world now stand ing Is the Metropolitan tower, 700 feet I inches, and the second highest, th Singer tower, 612 feet. The Eiffel tower, a skele ton steel structure, la riot reckoned a building. It is 1,000 feet high. Sending little love messages or snatches of love songs by postcard to be translated by your sweetheart's phonograph Is the latest dsvelooment In th Picture postcard crate In New York. On th back of fTTtl postcard Is a small record resembling the regular disc record used on some ma chine. It la a vry thin film pasted on th card and containing som phrase of tender sentiment or a bit of som popular tnualo. Th card has a hoi In It so that it may b placed on th machine and when this Is don th nedl make th card talk and th on to whom It waa sent gets the message. The Idea was born In Ger many, but the foreign buyers ot the American stores this winter ar said to hav bought up about all th German makera could turn out. PEPPESY PARAGRAPHS. Minneapolis Journal: President Taft was dined on fogash by the Hungarians the other night. The Hungarians seem to live on fogash, goulash and rhapsodies. St. Paul Pioneer Press: There Is In creasing talk of Champ Clark as a pres idential candidate. Simply ahows that the peopl hav not lost their sense of humor. St. iouls Republic: That man Lorlmer has a great system. While writ of ha beas corpus wer blocking th Springfield end of th attack th senat elections committee was being stacked In his favor. Houston Post: The president at four dinners In one day In New York, but as they were .not anything Ilk those famous Nebraska dollar dinners, w suppose with a little pepsin or bicarbonat of soda h recovered all right- Brooklyn Eagle: Th Er.gllah coronation authorities ban the hobbl skirt. Ty traditional low courtesy, performed In such Tsklrt. would mean a bad tumbl for any woman not a professional contortionist. Prevention is better than cur, every time! Baltimore American: President Taft was refused to pardon tha wealthy cattlemen who wer convicted of grabbing gracing lands In th west. He deserves the thanks of the people for refusing to make his high offlc a refuge from punishment of th violators of th publlo Interests. NEBRASKA TRESS COMMENT. The Sidney Trlecraph: Willi Colonel her- reincr s ostrich farm to tie cManllplir! one .mile froi.i Sidney" and Colonel Lynch pro ' during a fnlr quality of itiiiim In Mrlilge- Iniirt. the banAna holt eiiia to hit niini. Into It own. Kearney Democrat: Colonel Bryan Is all right. He belleyes In Jiidlclou' advertising, even In his own pnper. The tifune of Mr Bran appeared 112 time, not rountlng t'ie heading of his psper. In the Con-mom r of last week. Auburn Republican: If Nemaha county fruit lands were located where the boomer could manipulate them, thev would be worth as much as the Hood river lands. It Is best, however, for the Nemahn county Isnds to create their own values on their own merits. Hastings Tribune: WllUnnt .1. Bilrn cer tainly throws the hook into Ponator Thomas 8. Martin of Virginia. vho was chosen democratic leader In spite of all that Bryan could do or say to prevent It. If Martin Is as bad as Bryan has painted him then It will not be long before there will he all kinds of dirty democratic nrn hung on the line. Chadron Journal: The Sunday base ball occupied considerable tlm In the last legis lature and the governor vetoed the bill which finally passed. Consequently the has ball situation Is, as It was, against the law. However, we believe Sunday base ball will continue In communities where the people do not object to It. Many tilings which are against the law are allowed because no body care to have the law enforced. Central City R,-publiraiv-Thore are lota of people w-ho don't agree with Governor Aldrtch. but everyone concedes that he is a real governor. If anyone has any strings on him they haven't been very suc cessful In pulling them. His Job Is not a bit too big for him, and already there is a growing sentiment over the state that he Is fitted for bigger things. H Is what a man does that counts, and Aldrlch's record rings true. Falls City Journal: Norrls Brown had to take what was left In the way of com mittee assignments as the regular republi cans said he was none of them and the progressives have never been able to place him in their lost of the slmon pure stock. This Is about where he belongs, both In point of ability and reliability In politics. At the next turn Nebraska will either send a democrat or a republican to the senate. It will not be a German carp of the Brown breed. Wayne Herald: Every person wishing to fish In Nebraska must pay a Herns of $1 per year, excepting women and boys under 18 years of age. Many boys under the age mentioned are experts at fishing, and therefore In that respect the luw ap pears weak as an attempt to protect fish. As to women, they are not apt to do any Injury to fish, though they may consider the liberty given them by the law an un favorable reflection on their ability to catch fish. Columbus Telegram: In all Nebraska there Is only one newspaper which Is In favor of Joe Bailey's preferred democratic candidate for president. This particular paper Is published in Omaha, but it will not be fair to blame Omaha for the fact. But who I Jo Bailey's favorite candi date? Harmon of Ohio, 1 his name, and Jo Bailey 1 his prophet, and Standard Oil I sponsor for Jo Bailey. It speaks for th Integrity of th Nebraska news paper fraternity to observe that In all the state ther Is but one publication boosting th Joe Bailey and Standard Oil candidate. HITCHCOCK'S GREAT SHOWING. Notable Achl-TmatNf tb PostmaJl ter General. Buffalo News. Postmaster General Hitchcock 1 abl to show that his department Is self-supporting. The latest returns show that In come practically balances outgo and Is still gaining, so that the difference of a few dollars shown in the last monthly statement will be wiped out within, a few days, and the next statement will un doubtedly show a small credit balance to the department. . The way In which General Hitchcock has worked out this success redounds Im mensely to his credit, for during the year In which he has changed a deficit of 117,000,000, the highest ever known In the department, to a credit, he has added aomethlng Ilk 12,000 offices, opened up many thousands of miles of rural delivery routes. Increased th force proportionately to match th growing business and Is still, by efficiency In handling, by practical methods, without discharging men, without crippling the service, without regard to tho service Itself, he haa accomplished these things. In a word. General Hitchcock has greatly Increased the efficiency of the department In many directions, and at the same time retained the fore undiminished, and ac complished taies things without change In the rates of postage. He reported last De THIS PIANO Dies at (it APOLLO Concert VVs (sell A. HOSPE CO. 1313-15 Douglas St. tMes Hcmo CsUng Efisj 1 r f 1 V, Absolutely Puro Tho only baking powtfer maaa from Royal Gropa vroam of Tartar cember that It seemed necessary to make a change In the rates on second clasa mat ter, and a great controversy arose over that subject. But without giving up his Idea he has gone on working out improve ments, including the postal sayings bank, and pushing forward toward parcels post and showing the people In most convincing way that the Postofflce department can be made a great de:ii more useful to them, than It used to be, and still pay Its own. way. " Vhateversmay be said of the ways and methods of the head of tho Postofflce department, It Is certain that no one has accomplished so much in two years of an administration within the memory of living men as General Hitchcock has in improv ing the postal service. LAUGHING GAS. Doctor You are considerably under weight, sir. What have you been doing? Patient Nothing. Kut I'm a retired grocer, doc Puck. "Don't you think that new congressman will be a popular Idol 7 " "I dunno about Ma beln' popular." re plied Farmer Corntoesel; "but he's Idle all right." Washington tu.r. "Have any luck on your fishing trip?" "Yes. Counting those that got away and those we threw back we almost got seven.'' Detroit Free Press. The proud heiress, no longer In the bloom of youth, stood before the mirror. She noted tbe streaks of gray In her once raven locks. "I'll do It!" she exclaimed, with firmly compressed lips. "You eun't make me be lieve it s a disgrace to dye rich!" Chicago Tribune. BrigRs-Here's a queer Item. "Six men could be parked between the jaws of the prehistoric shark." Wigas The Jaws of tha prehistoric shark must have been built along the lines of the modern street car. Clevelund Plain Dealer. Her What, going already? I don't sup pose it would be any use to ask you to stay a little longer? Him Not In that tort of vole. Milwau kee News. Bailey Think your wife will learn to run this automobile? Dady Certainly! Didn't she learn to run a coffee percolator? Chicago News. Landlord (smilingly) Ar you awar that ou slept In a real mahogany bed last night Mr. HowellsT -Howella (meanly) Was that what it was? It fslt Ilk lignum vltael Puck. , spirit op spring. Baltlmor Sun. No earth-born Joy lathla. No thing of clod, But from a cup of bliss W drink of God. No clay around this thing. No dust of toll; Bhod like an anl, Spring Doth kiss th soil; And wher hr feet do pass In steps of glsaxn They on the mrald grass Leav prints of dream. Not Joy alon In life. But, bush and tree, Shak with th silken atrif Of testacy. Is It a world ? who cares 1 A dream? who knows! Only whera'er It fares On feet of rose. Soon Ilk a myetto thine, None may defn Flashea a rainbow wing And blooms a vln. Thus might a child b born. And w might say, How ilk a golden morn. A branch of May I Yet. it 4a not of birth Bo much as spall. Of something upon th earth Intangible. Something that softly strays Into our hearts till w Turn like a child that plays And ar aa free. IS THE jF J Ttiei i 1 a"Fr - j. r-TPspMsssjsw Evening i i