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Hemit by dralt, express or postal order, payable to The Hea Publlahlng Company. Only I-cent atampa received In payment of mall accounts. Personal, checks except on Omaha and eaatern exchange not accepted. APKIL CIRCULATION. 48,106 Stat of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: Dwlght Williams, circulation manager o( The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aaya that tha average dally circula tion, lew spoiled, unused and returned r6plea, for tha month of April, 1U, was 4I.10. DWKJHT WILLIAMS.. Circulation Manager, ftubacrlbsd In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st day of May, 1U. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER. N alary Public zwrarllr sboala Smew The Be waUew taeaa. Aasree will CBAgBtfVv 419 O It sal aS aJSl "Awaiting answer from Diaz." Ah, pensive soul, Porflrlo. Mary had a little lamb, but some body else got the wool. . j "Alaska Mob Dumps Cargo of Can adian Coal into the ea." It left the mine, though. When anybody wants to get sarcas tic with "Uncle Joe," he calls him Jo seph Gurney Cannon. Mr. Mines, at least, seems to be a' less loquacious man than he was be fore he "put Billy over." It Is to be hoped the colonel did not borrow an idea from "Pigs la Pigs" wfien he named his article "Murder Is Murder." Jack Johnson promises to appear at the coronation in very modest attire. Has Jack been bluffed out by the anti hobble skirt ukase According to James J. Hill, this country needs a savior. He evidently thinks It was not originally Included In tbe scheme of salvation. If W. D. Haywood wtnli to be con sldered a good friend of labor, he will climb down off the stump and stop making foolish speeches. Boston babies appear on the streets labeled, "Please do not kiss me." The grown-ups in Boston have not found such measures necessary. The Christian Science Monitor dis cusses "Rhubarb as a Specialty." We would prefer It so, if we must have it at all. It would never do for a regu lar. If you could read tbe verse that fellow sent to Mrs. Belmont you would not wonder that she bad him arrested. It will be a warning to other spring poets. r Governor Woodrow Wilson declines to attend the democratic conference In St. Paul. Probably still has in mind the conservation congress there last year. The Inter-Ocean names the insur gent aenatora and says, "You will see them do some queer things if you watch them." Any queerer than Lor tmer haa done? Our winters, an English scientist tails us, will gradually become warmer within the next 400 years. By that '.Ime, then, anthracite coal may be ex pected to be cheap. , That climate Texas haa been adver tising drove 150 soldiers to desert the American army, taking tbe chance of court-martial and Imprisonment. It certainly must be a great climate. Our precloua ($8,250,000) Water board announces certain things it is going to do, "whether or not it gets tbe plant immediately." Sounds rather familiar. Tha second postal savings bank In Nebraska has been opened at Alliance under favorable auspices. It will not be so very Ions before every money order post office In Nebraska la a sav iagl bank depository. Applications are already coming in for atate aid for bridge building under tho terma of a newly enacted law wkereby the coat la to be divided In certain cases between the county and the. state. Watch for a boom in tbe bridge business so long aa the money last a Tbe local democratic organ la tryIlUv Influencea which are distinctively lag' hard to persuade Itself that tbe democrats will have a sure thing In the election of Judge that la to take Vlace next fall In thla district, from which Sarpy county, the only county that glvee a steadfast democratic ma jority, has beea cut off In the new Judicial apportionment. Guess again. Growth of the West. Th lark of prodigious growth in th group of western states during tu last dex-ade, as ibown by thtf rtnsut figures on manufactures, Is exciting comment and on exchange observes that white our progress In this Una has bflen great. It has not beea remark able. No, that Is true. Yet thirteen of these states, Nebraska, Kaunas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyom ing. Idaho, Missouri, Indiura, Iowa, Oklahoma. I'tsh, New Mexico and Arizona, produce one-tenth of the na tional output of manufactured articles. Nrt a bad showing, particularly when rj.isldered In connection with' the amazing development of thee name stales In agriculture and horticulture. Lven In manufacturing, tlio.- have about come up to par and In the other ! pursuits they have gone jo far ahead of par that it Is scarcely worth while e' terlng Into the details of the case. Tho vital point to be noilcml her is that most If not all of these states are pre-eminently farming state. It Is In this line that these statos must be judged If their real prepress and development is to be determined They sre going ahead so rapidly, especially tho"e west of tbe Missouri river, in the great work of empire building that If would tax the resources of the constis department to reflect one year any thing like an accurate Index of the next year's activities. It will be time enough to talk of j Industrial development after most of these states have attained something nenrcr normal growth In their natural lines, but he would be a shcrt-rauged 1'iophet who did not s?4 hi the near future the building up of gigantic In dustrial centers In all of theso states. Their natural resources when properly exploited will bring that about. Peace Out of a Bull. Fen. Most of these proceedings for peace in Mexico have been clothed in an air of paradoxical uncertainty. For In stance, the conference of the contend ing leaders was held, reports say, in an arena roped off 200 feet in cir cumference. The scene is off toward the hills, toward the wilds, inaccessible to newspaper correspondents. Why so? Why not pitch this tent of peace iHnnrn In tha vnll ., ,,,. rounded, not by the din and turbulence of war, but the orderly pursuits of Industry? An arena roped off 200 feet around is just about such a place as they ar range for holding bull fights. It is to be hoped there Is no sinister signifi cance back of this. But somehow there haa something to modify or neutralize every aspect of peace that has been reported to the outside world and even now, when Madero has ten dered hla resignation as provisional governor and laid everything of hope and aspiration on tbe single proposi tion that Dlai step down and out, this suspicious light gleams from yonder bull pen on the hillside toward the battle-field. To say the least peace evolved out of such surroundings would have the touch of drama to It, Somebody haa done some clever stag ing, evidently. It is little wonder that, as the re ports state Madero beglna to feel' the weight of responsibility for the revolu tion he created and which now com prises the entire republic. Yet he will hardly dare accept peace at less than the price demanded by hia followers, namely, the early exit of Diss, since they declare they will support no other terms of reconciliation. To the out side world it would seem that Diaz would have occupied a bigger place If he had subordinated his personal In terests sooner without waiting to be forced. ' - 1 Equality cf Teachers' Pay, More or less controversy has long ranged around the subject of equal pay to teachers, men and women, where equal work Is done, but if the question haa ever been, satisfactorily settled the fact has escaped attention. Men of distinction as educators admit their Inability to solve it and so long as they do, the layman, so to apeak, need not attempt It. Dr. Elmer B. Brown, United States commissioner of education and soon to become chan cellor of th New York university, re cently addressed a letter on this sub ject to the secretary of the commis sion on teachers' salaries, which Is of special Interest, not because it offers solution of the mooted question, but for the side-light it throws on It. In tbe letter the doctor says: There are two aepects of teaching which muit. In a meaaure, be considered sepa rately. Teaching la a means of bringing pupils to a maatery of certain definite forma of knoaledne and aklll; It la also a meana of Influencing their eentlmenta. per sonal habits and views of life. Bo far aa the first of these forma of teaching; la coaoerned, there la little need io int queetmn wneiner men or women ahould be employed In tho schools. Indeed, at euch a time aa thla, when op. port unit lee of profitable employment for men are unusually abundant. It will gen. erally be found that for given expendi ture a better grade of teaching on thla aide' can ba had by tha employment of women than by any general employment of men. It la on the other aide (hat it b comea neoeaaar? to consider the question which your eommlaa'on la considering. No one. I think, aerioualy questions that tho teaching of tile earlier grades may safely be left for women exclusively. Prom the fifth or alxth grade on tha problem la different. Tor both boya and girls, but especially for boya. there la need In theae grammar grades and In tha hlh school of positive Influence which are distinctively masculine In character, as well as of poa- feminine. TTiese two niodea of Influence muat. I think, be regarded aa Incommen surable. Their difference Is not quantltatlre but qualitative. Dr. Brown declines to say what bearing this consideration may have upon equality of pay for men and women teachers. From hla reason ing one might conclude that the pay should be filed without distinction or comparison as to men and women, since part of the work requires women and part men, and tber re not, after all. doing the same kind of work. New Star in the Firmament The slightest turn sometimes changes completely the aspect of the political kaleidoscope. This may be the result of tbe death, of the late Lieutenant Governor Hopewell, for the talk Is already started In behalf of Lieutenant Governor Morehead for first place on the democratic atate ticket next year. The fact that he will occupy the office next below that 'of governor for a year and eight months, and will probably be acting governor for some of that time, Is taken to point him out as the logical man for the democrats to take up. This Is certainly an Interesting con tribution to the early crop of poltlcal gossip, and democrats with guberna torial bees In their bonnets will do well to keep a weather eye on the new lieutenant governor. St. Louis and Kansas City. Kansas City, It appears, has become an involuntary monitor to its larger sister-city, St. Louis- St. Louis' news papers, voicing an evident feeling on the part of the city's business men, profess to believe tbe Missouri me tropolis needs a general quickening of the industrial pulse and they some of them are holding up the energy and enterprise of Kansas City as an object lesson of what may be accomplished by a steadfast pulllng-together of forces along progressive, lines. Of course no one in St. Louis Is will ing to admit that Kansas City is in St. Louis' -clans, nor is it, but when it comes to a spirit of indomitable ag gressiveness It probably is In a class of its own. And St. Louisiana cannot af ford to depreciate tbe Kansas City spirit, for if St. Louis is to continue tbe metropolis of Missouri It will have to breathe this very kind of spirit into Us own affairs. It cannot afford hot to make greater progress than it has made in the last decade, if it would always occupy its present position. It is a great city and there is much to be said for its sound, conservative business policies, but It will not do to over-emphasize the sentiment ex pressed in "Good old St. Louis." The Tlmea makes an Interesting observa tion of what it deems a serious draw back to St. Louis and that is in a small-bore attitude of city officials to ward large Industrial corporations seeking for greater outlet that would benefit the city. Doubtless the criti cism la true, for a similar one might apply to most American cities. When ever It becomes possible, If it ever does, to put men of caliber at the head of the big business, enterprises repre sented in city government there will be lest (round for complaint and fewer municipal scandals . and blun ders. Inexcusable Ignorance. Collier's Weekly, In lta current Is sue, prints an Item of editorial com ment on Nebraska progresslveness, and our democratic World-Herald re prints It, that exhibits an Ignorance which Is really Inexcusable. It starts out by referring to "Congressman Hitchcock's newspaper," uttterly ob livious and neglectful of the fact that It Is no longer "Congressman Hitch cock," but "Senator Hitchcock," and that he haa been in tbe aenate now for more than two months. How the transfer of Nebraska's brilliant states man from the house to tbe senate could have been overlooked by a paper like Collier's, which la ordinarily abreast of the times, If not ahead of them, Is inconceivable almost aa In conceivable aa the carelessness with which Senator Hitchcock's newspaper should reproduce the error without calling attention to 1 it and cor recting It. Eoosevelt'i labor Homily. Colonel , Roosevelt's labor homily. with Its special reference to tht Im pending trial of tbe men accused of the Loa Angeles dynamiting, will probably elicit violent and virulent discpsslon. Labor spokesmen will assume that it indicates hostility to organized labor, when, aa a matter of fact, careful reading justifies no such Inferences. Colonel Roosevelt Is only reiter ating what he haa aaid over and over again about the punlahment of evil doers, whether malefactors of great wealth or merely membera of a law less mob. He pleads, as he has al waya pleaded, that strict and absolute justice be meted out to the Individual regardless of creed, color, class or wealth. He says, what everyone be lieves, that no man should be pun ished for crime simply because he has been identified with organized labor, but neither ahould a man who has committed a dastardly deed be Ira mune from prosecution and punish ment because he is Identified with or ganixed labor. The corollary Is also equally true that organized labor ahould not sit idly by and let an Innocent man be railroaded to the penitentiary, or to tbe gallows, merely because convic tion would discredit tbe cause of or ganized labor. The men accused of the Los Angeles dynamiting, if they persist in asserting their Innocence are entitled to the benefit of a fair trial and to every defense skillful lawyers can set up for them, nd it is natural and proper that their friends among organized labor should provide this defense, because It is certain that their enemies among organized capital will not. - id nomeopatna in convention as sembled have registered an objection because tbe late legislature appropri ated money for the medical depart ment of the Stste university, In which the students are taught by members of another medical school. If tbe leg islature had made it a school of homeopathy and shut out the allo paths there would bsve been no pro test from this source. It's hard for doctors to take their own medicine. Effective pool hall regulation Is all In the penalty clause. If violating tbe rules laid down means simply a small fine that can be evaded by ap peal and later nolled by complacent prosecuting officers, no marked Im provement may be expected: If har boring minors, keeping open after hours and permitting gambling games meana forfeiting a license and going out of business, the pool rooms will be run as they should be. It is interesting to note with what speedy promptness applicants for liquor licenses have come forward In Lincoln even before the official can vass of the vote decreeing that the town shall be wet during tbe ensuing year. This unseemly haste would In dicate an expectation that there will be a great rush to make up for lost time. Assurance Is given that the Initia tive and referendum in Nebraska will not ba a plaything. We hope not. But the same assursnre was given in Oregon, only to be belled by experi ence. Kffect of Kipnisrt, Washington Poat. Tha democratic woolen program to be shrinking. Upholding; Precedent. Philadelphia Record. The senate of the United States Is af fording In various ways exhibitions of "how not to do It." Seek In a; What Kveryhody Knowa. Kansas City Star. ) Congrees'f na' comm'tteea are to investi gate the Steel corporation and the woolen combine to see If they are trusts. If the committee pursue their investigations with diligence the." inlty reveal what all the world already knowa is true. rtlatorblngf Baslaess. New York Wor d. Business Interests have been complaining loudly of the etate legislatures and politic ians disturbing business. But at Columbus it In the Ohio Manufacturers' asportation that have be n disturbing tha business of the politicians and legislators by catching them practicing bribery. I tllltr of the Hero Fund. St. Louis Olobe-Pfmoc.rat. A very ordinary man can bome a hero In tha twinkling of an era when appealed to on the better side xt hia nature In sud den ways, which find him unprepared for resistance of old prejudices, and leave him no time to develop the hesitation of a doubt of lila comlntf th'-ough with a whole okln The Carnegie fund, in such dfstrl buttons, will work a continuing good by breaking down some old barriers of caste and show ing tbe common humanity of man and man's brotherhood under God's father hood. Safegraardlnar the Public Domain. Spring-field Republican. The western statea which contain large areas of publlo lands may not regard yes terday's df c a ons of tho United States su preme court aa conducive to their Inter ests, In view of tha court's unqualified re affirmation of tha doctrine that the public lands are the property of the United States government and that tti government may do as it pleases with Its own property, even to the extent of establishing large forest reserves. In tha long run, however, those same western states will profit from the court decision as much as other parts of the country yea. profit far more. People Talked About MAC KAY Here la a man whose lines stretch from pola to polt on land, carry messages under the sea and belt tha glob. Mr. Mackay Is president of the Postal Telegraph com pany. Agua Prlet means "black watar," tak ing tha nam from watar holes In tbe vicinity. Douglas, Art., Is named for Prof. Douglas, a New York mineralogist. Former United States Senator William B. Mason of Illinois baa unexpectedly blos somed out aa the author of a aucoeaaful re ligious book, entitled "John tha Unafraid," which waa anonymously publlahed a year ago. Mrs. A. A. Frost baa been raising sweet peaa for profit at Marblehead-by-the-Sea, Mass., for tha last eighteen years. She em ploys twelve girls to help her with her work and has established a number of new varieties. After anending alxteen days In a hospital In Say re. Pa., being operated on for appen dicitis, Mrs. Newton R. Parka of Wysox township met her husband coming Into the Institution with the same ailment as aha was leaving tha place by tha front door. Yankel Heller, now U years old, who was on of tho first men In New Tork City to buy caatoff clothing and baa accumulated $250,060 in thirty-five years, haa sailed for hla native town In Ruasla. which he left when he waa U years old. and will marry tha woman whom ba loved aa a girl. They have corresponded ever since Heller sailed for America to seek his fortune. Charlea H. Hyde, city chamberlain of New York City, who haa been Indicted for accepting a bribe, had the handling of city money to the amount of 1000,000.000 a year. HI method of farming the money among speculative banks rauaed hla downfall, air. Hyda came Into the limelight two years ago as manager of Mayor Uaynor'a cam paign. He la a Nova Scotlaa by birth, wears a cherubic countenance, a large front and a glad hand amlle. In Other Lands Ida tights on What la Iraae trlag Among the Hear an Cat station ef Bart Tainted and disputed elections In Great Britain go to the courta for settlement. Partisan Investigating committees are given no ehanc to develop skill In sup pressing essentials and emphasising non essentials, or to apply tha whitewash brush In artistic fashion. Outwardly, at least, the courts aeam free from partylsm and get to the truth and declare It. The un seating of the member of Parliament for th Kxeter division, on tha ground that hla majority of five votea were tainted because his agents spent money unlawfully la hiring messenger boys to do soma er rands, affords American critics a text for laborious edilotiala on the better order of things politically abroad. Compared with American Instancea the British system run away with the halo. But tha luster of th halo soon tarnishes on cloa Inspection. Th political system which appears clean at the baUot box la tainted In all other directions. A recent book on "The Party System," written by Hlllalr Relloe, until recently, a liberal member of Parliament, In collaboration with Cecil Chesterton, bluntly charges tha two British parties with trafficking In titlea and legislation In return for contributions to the party treasuries. According to the authors, on the drink problem the conservatives aup port th brewers and the liberal party sup ports th grocers and the mineral water manufacturers, and In each case an ample quid pro quo Is paid Into th party funds. Tha purchase of honors Is too notorious to be seriously disputed. Men are recom mended for knighthoods, for baroneteles and for peerages whotte only poelble claim to such honors muat have been large pay ments for party purposes. "Nobody pre tends that this scandal doea not exist." comment the Uberal Star of London. "No body denlaa that the party system Is based upon It. But th cancer will never be cut out because it suits all parties to con ceal It." A Ilk scandal drove Qrevy from power In France years ago, the party dif ference being that in Franca Individuals profited by the saJe of the Legion of Honor, while In Britain th party treaaury is th beneficiary. Four bad seaaona In aucceqslon, .he elutoh of th money lenders and th gauge of tha middlemen are the sources of dis content In th champagne district ot France. The gross profit upon champagne u hen the bottles are first filled averages 815 per cent for the producer. From this muat be deducted the coat of holding the win for th tour years required to mature. The win unlabeled yields a good profit at 119 a dozen bottles. Th label boosts th price to 115.50 a dozen. "The small proprietor," writes tha London Mall corre spondent, "wonders why the hotels and restaurants In every capital of Europe get a coupl of dollars for every franc he haa borrowed. Freight and duty do not explain th difference. He wants to know why his wine haa Increased Its value almoin ten fold sine he parted with It. The agitation la certain to extend, and already there are disquieting algna In th Olronde, the Doid ogn and th Lot-et-Oaronne districts. The four L&nffuedoe departments have not for gotten thetar treatment by M. Clemen ceau a few years ago and are only wait ing. for, the aignal. Meanwhile the French chamber Js In discord on the essential point and the prime minister haa no so lution to offer." Thirty odd years ago, when Parnell, Big gar and Healy had reduced parliamentary obstruction to a aclence and brought th House of Commons to a standstill on th Irish question, William E. Gladstone pro posed th system of closure which started th legislative wheels in moUon. Th ap plication of th muiile bi ought from th Irish division vehement protests against profaning "th sacred right to talk." All in vain. Th muxsl was Applied, and proved so good an expedient that th suc ceeding tory administration made It work overtime. In du time, however, tbe Irish members had thsir joyoua revenge. It cam with th bill limiting th power of th House of Lords. Th torlea did moat of th talking and undertook to make It a continuous performance. "Th sacred right to talk" became a bore to the Irish membera and they rallied with tbe major ity In putting the "kangaroo" muscle on th opposition, screaming with Joy as th atraps tightened. Th fun derived from th operation compensated for the knocks of former years. Th intensity of religious feeling In the Holy Land is manifested In riotous demon strations against the syndlcat of evcava tors operating in th vicinity of Jerusalem. Profaning th temple provokes among Mo hammedans a frensy ss Intense aa Peter th Hermit's story of th profanation of th sacred places in th Holy Land, starred In western Europe nine centuries sgo. The mosque of Omar, said to have been pro faned by the excavators, has been nick named "the Inviolate," because of th rev erence in which it Is held. It was built in 838 A. D., by th Caliph Omar, second head of th Mohammedan church. Tbe mosque waa named for the caliph. The mosque Is octagonal In shape and Is built of colored marble and tiles. It contains the "sacred rock," which formerly waa believed by the Jaws to have been th place where Abra ham planned to sacrifice Iaaac. Th Mos lems say that the rock was th scene of th prophet Mohammed's ascension, and that he left the imprint ot his feet upon It. Th laboiite government of Australia has encountered a sharp check In its pro gram of so-called progresalve legislation. Two vital amendmenta to th oonatltutlon, detailed In thla column recently, were re jected at th poll. The purpose ef the amendment waa to wipe out th bounds of state power defined by tha high court de clsion of last year, and to lodge in parlia ment legislative power to nationalise all trad and Industry. Large majorities were reglatered agalnat both amendments. The outcome la a victory for conaervatlara and th judlolary and a rebuke to radicalism. King Alfonso'a hrallh. aa Indicated by th dispatches, seriously dlattirba th au thorlUes of Spain. The king haa long suf fered from what has been described as nasal trouble. Dr. Moore, a specialist of Bordeaux, has performed several minor operations en his majesty, on on occasion, In 1K0S, removing adenoids, according to currtnt report. Last month th king again visited Dr. Moor, and at that Urn, It waa understood, a polypus was cut out. There have been occasional rumors of more aerl oua allmaota. Including tuberculosis of the throat King Alfonso will be 26 years of age on th 17th of th present month. He has always been delicate. mm A dillger.t watch on the shores of the Gulf of Orman for th wretches supplying rebellious subjects with arms and ammuni tion revealed to Great Britain a shocking perveralcn ot British business. Th bulk of th arms cam from British factories. "We have been actually loading rifles on the Thames," says a London newspaper, "which were to be used ultimately to shoot down Bnth soldiers, and simultaneously Ahaolutoiy Puro The Only Raking Powder Made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar. tafeguafcts the food against Chemist tests have shown that a part t the alum from biscuit made with aa alam baking powder passes Into the stomach, and that digestion Is retarded thereby. Read tho labot and maka muro that your baking powdor Is not mado fnont atum spending large sums to prevent them from reaching the final destination." A grim revelation, truly, reporters plead lifnor- nce of the destination of the shoot ins Irons, it was not their duty to Inquire so lotia: ss they jot the r i ric . Bulne! la buMlneas. R18IES MA1VS ,0 KIIN MENT. Wasteful Kxpendtare Dae io the "Pork Barrel Disease." World Work. If a bilslnesn man were In chsrgp. of the administration of th national irovernmerit and were determined to conduct it with Die most economical efficiency, he would soon find that one fundamental change would have to be made; for. wherever he turned against wasteful expenditure, he would discover that, nine times out of ton. It had lta source In the "pork-barrel dis ease." It la a disease that overtakes prac tically every senator and representative after a little experience In Washington. If not during his election campaign. It Is the craving for aomethlng for their districts. Indulgence of thla craving Is pleasant and brings good results at home. In fact, the constituents demand thla kind of activity. Th disease la contagious, and every new congressman sees his more experienced colleagues busily at work for "pork." He, too. Is smitten, swaps favors for favors, and almost unconsciously joins the scram ble. One a victim of the "pork-barrel disease" always a victim. His constituents demand more and more. The victim owes favors to colleagues who have given favors to him. Everybody In congress Is swap ping something snd even the president of fers to swap the "pork" of patronage for votes for his favorite measures. It Is this all-pervading disease, a growth of more than a century (and not tho Iniquity of any one man or of any one congrese) which paralyzes cur government's activi ties and makes it th most wasteful gov--ernment in the world. This is th funda mental cause of our high cost Of governr ment. r BRYAN AtlVK FOR 1013. SI-bs of the Times Point to Asother Forlorn Hope. Boston Herald. ' Bryan rumblings are again heard over the distant horizon. Persons who con versed with him on his recent visit to the national capital report a feeling on his part that, 'having led several confessedly forlorn hopes of the democracy, he de serves the distinct opportunity which 1912 presents. These observers say that If he gets th slightest encouragement he will surely figure In next year's convention. Much may be said for his alleged posi tion. No democrat could have been elected In 18M. Th panto of 1S9 had produced a tremendous reaction against the party In power, as shown every time the people got at their ballot boxes, notably In the con gressional campaign in 18S4. Bryan, in 1898, Improved rather than otherwise the prospects of his party by affording a new issue. Although h was overwhelmingly defeated, he carried several western statea which bis party had lost in th preceding congressional battle. Th Spanish war would hav sufficed to give 1900 to the re-i publicans. Th battle of 1908 was another nearly impossible on for th democrats. Preceding elections had afforded a com plete Index to the publlo feeling. The re publicans had carried th country In the congreaslonai vote in 1906 and they hav never lost th presidency at th election following such an off-year victory since tha organisation of the party. If they should carry th presidency In 1813, after having lost th house to the democrats last November, they would b "doing something." Thess are circumstances In which Mr. Bryan may well ask th party, sine he has led Its forlorn hopes, ts give him a Makes Life's "r 1 1 rr ( VVOlrV. ILtlSV ajar EVERY step is acheless if the shoes you wear are Crossetts. This patent leather, four-button rood el is a beauty. High heel and narrow raised toe. The height of style. It's one of many new Cros sett models. $4 U t$ eTefywDer Lswi A. Craett, lax. Make 1 alum 10 real chance. Casually lewed. It would xeem essentially ridiculous to accord a fourth nomination to a man who had so little claim on the party of the Country, but his third nomination aH ridiculous, and so was his second Why may not the democrats take the view that they are now strong enough to carry Bryan, adjust ing their burden to their backs? However, they may feel about so heroic a task, they will get every encouragement from the re publicans, who ate not always without in fluence on the policies of the opposition. . The democratic convention next year will surely be Interesting. The republicans will go through the formality of nominat ing Taft, doulnleKH In the face of a great Insurgent demonstration. The democrats will have a real choice to make. The task will be Intensified by the realization that, as the cards now lie, their chance of win ning la very large. LINES TO A SMILE. "Tou say you enjoy gardening?" "Immensely.'' "1 never hear of your raising anything." ' So. 1 get all my fun ntH.iding around and telling my neighbors wnat io do. Houston 1'ost. "You appear to bo studying very hard, my boy," said the kind old mihii, "Yes, sir," said the child. "Is it a sprlliMK hook you have, my boy?" "No, sir; It's the base ball guide." Buf falo Express. "When that man was killed, did you break It gently to his widow?" "Indeed we did. We told her her husband was worth o,wu more than ho had been before on his Insurance policy." Baltimore American. "Think-of the betilKhted days when they had no teh-graph or telephone. "Ves." replied the travelliiK orator; "and yet It must have been u romiuil io make a speech In one town without fueling that you would have to stand for every word of it In tha next. "Washington Htar, 'Would you marry a lord if you knew he was taking you merdely for your father s money?" "Certainly not." "Then 1 suppose you have made up your mind to be the wife of some American. "' Judge. Tommy (looking at th gas meter)--"I'aw, how does this thing toll how much gas you have to pay for every month?" Mr. Tucker "Tommy, that Is a (treat, Inscrutable mystery. It is one of tha things we have to accept on faith." Chi cago Tribune. "How did the girls' sparring match turn out?" "It was very brief. SlHbel feinted and Gertrude fu-lnted." LoulHvllle Courier Journal. Tompkins Vcntley hus received $1.000.0"O for hla patent egg dating machine. You know it la absolutely lnterterence proof, and dates correctly and indelibly as th egg Is bins' laid. lewley la tb machine on the market yet ? Tompklna Oh, my, no! and It won't b on the market. The patent was bought by the Cold Storage truat. Llf. WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD. Those generals In M.-xIco Are fightin' fit to kill; The flea-bitten troops press onward ' Tro' fire snd blood, but still There's a greater battle hack at horns. Where the housewife with a will . Wages war on the first blue bottle fly That sppears on th window sill. Tha stalwart soldiers of Uncle Bam Would fain make ruthless raid Beyond the swell of the Kin U rands Where the Mexlcana ambuscade; But at home the reientles.i housewife leaves death in her path. Th slain Are advance guards of tha Fly Brigade That buzzed on the window pan. Those generals down In Mexico Will receive most worthy mention, And If one should step on a csctus plant. He may come In for a pension. Hut the greatent iseneral ot all, To whom no public caters. Is the vanquisher of tha blue bottle fly Khe Just keeps on peelln' ' later" Omaha. BAYOLL NB TRELE. r : it ( i it 7 b Vb? Yi Sole Omaha Agenta FOR Crossett Shoes -at I J Af4 I' BiiiaTSxl m 1 X i t f