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Sabacrlbers leaving; the etty tem
porarily sheald have The Bee
lulled to them. Addreaa will be
ikss(ia as oftea aa rjt4.
Champ Clark is right In saying that
sonvoters are a menace.
The "strong arm" gams Is seldom
worked by the muscular son of tell.
Smelling a rat when you kUs your
wife on tha forehead is no cause for
alarm.
A diplomat is careful not to lose
friends when he cannot thereby gain
points.
If he keeps on Congressman Henry
of Texas may become the Senator Jeff
Davis of the bonse.
The Los Angeles Times wants the
rod restored to the publie schools.
Colonel Otis Is a sturdy warrior.
Two or three more such excoria
tions and the lawyers will know what
Dr. Woodrow Wilson thinks of them.
The only thing the Irish could see
In Dublin's lord mayor trailing the
king through the streets was a huge
Joke.
"Our American forts are invinci
ble," says General Wood. Then we
may as well cheer up and smile in
ease.
Lewis of St Louis wants his trial
held in October, so 25,000 women
may attend it. Talk about your pub
licity schemes.
And now the best that former Hus
band Ooodwln can draw from Edna
is a sardonic, smile and a "poor old
Nat." Alack! Alas!
In New York the district attorney
has started an investigation of tbs so
called Ice trust. We have a prose
cuting attorney here, too.
The total assessed value of Douglas
county taxable property aggregates
1201,163,815. If we had the money
we would like to buy it for that.
At the finish of the Kansas City
balloon race the St. Louis "Million
Population" balloon was "still In the
air," according to reports. Quite
significant.
"The World-Herald, as it has said
before, holds no brief for Governor
Harmon," and then proceeds to hold
a brief for him to the extent of nearly
two columns.
Speaker Champ Clark Is booked to
perform at the Nebraska Epworth
assembly on August 7. That may
help to explain why speedy adjourn'
ment of congress Is In order.
What if after Investigation it is
found that our John Hays Hammond,
Esq., really did nudge the king? Will
that become a casus belli between
England and the United States?
Colonel WUlla Moore of Washing
ton, generalissimo of the weather
forces, is striving to get back In the
good graces of the people by predict
ing a week and a half of cool weather,
Here's success. k
When the Ice barons arbitrarily
raise the price 15 per cent It la little
wonder that the man on the wagon
sometimes . gets arrogant and treats
customers as if he were doing them a
favor to let them have what they pay
for. '
The commission plan of government
at Wichita ' has reached the stage
where recall petitions on the mayor
are being circulated. Omaha will
have the commission plan within a
year, and then our city officials will
likewise have to be good or stand the
consequences.
Omaha and South Omaha are listed
among the reserve cities still without
clearing house examiners. One corps
of examiners would certainly be
enough for both. The solution Is con
solidation with all the national banks
here under one reserve designation,
, and ta on clearing house
Who it Behind the Wiley Charge I
The people at large will scarcely
concur In an premature verdict of
guilty against Dr. H. W. Wiley, the
government pure food expert, by a
bouse committee until the accused has
bad the benefit of a fair bearing. The
committee recommends bis summary
dismissal from the government serv
ice, bat President Taft evidently re
gards that as a little precipitate and,
Instead of calling for the doctor's res
ignatlon has transmitted to him all
the papers In the case and suggested
an Investigation, which the house has
now ordered.
The charges sgalnst Dr. Wiley in
volve the diversion of money for un
authorized pay to subordinates. The
offense would not be heinous if proved
and before passing Judgment the peo-
pie will want to know who has started
the movement that led a democratic
house committee to this secret inves
tigation of Wiley's work, which, It Is
given out, has been in progress since
March.
Dr. Wiley has been a very active of
ficial. He has done a great deal in
the way of obtaining and enforcing
pure food legislation. Some of his
activity has offended large special In
terests. It has long been a matter ot
common report that these Interests
bad determined to "get" Wiley. Could
they have anything to do with this
present move against him? That Is
one of the questions the president, the
house and the people will insist on
having answered before Dr. Wiley Is
dismissed from the service.
Indianapolis and Omaha.
Here Is an item from the Indianapo
lis News which throws an Interesting
light on the ice situation there:
Of course, there Is no lea trust. There
Is not even a "reasonable" one or a com
bination of any sort, or tha intangible thing
known a a "gentlemen's agreement." But,
all tha same, yesterday a dosen or mora
of the larger Indianapolis ice companies
denied a report that tha price of lea had
been or was to ba again advanced from
36 to 40 cents a hundred pounds, and today
these same oompanieg have all advanced
the price to 40 cants. It la expecting a good
deal of the public's Imagination to believe
that without any agreement of any sort
all the lea companies decide, between two
days, to advance the price to tha same
figure in all cases. The mere statement
of the facts may not be sufficient evidence
for a grand jury, but to the ordinary hu
man being it is conclusive enough.
Wonder what folks would do in In
dianapolis if the Ice companies should
simultaneously screw the price for de
livery to households up to 60 cents a
hundred pounds as they have in
Omaha.
Probing a Gentlemen's Agreement.
Those steel masters from nine dif
ferent countries went about their
Brussels conference with a good deal
of gusto. Judge Gary announced the
plans of the meeting with something
more than common animation. Com
ing so abruptly on the heels of our
government's action with reference to
the Steel corporation, It sounded
something like a challenge of this
government's power. Under that im
pression authorities at Washington
have decided to see what can be done
toward checking this apparent effort
toward a world-wide working agree
ment in the steel Industry.
It Is a settled conviction that this
Brussels conference, which goes by the
sweet name of a "Gentlemen's Agree
ment," foreshadows nothing more
nor less than a universal trust, since
the national combine in this country
Is threatened. If that is the case, it
Is up to the United States to meet the
Issue. It is gratifying, therefore, to
know that the president has directed
the Department ot Justice to proceed
along this line.
How far out into the sea the Sher
man law will reach has never been
definitely determined. In the case of
the steamship monopoly, however, it
was shown to possess some extensive
powers. So it may apply to a trust In
the basic commodity of steel if It con
templates a monopoly of trade Inter
course with American interests, which,
Indeed, are to be the governing Inter
ests. The administration deserves a
good deal of credit for Its prompt
alertness In undertaking so formidable
a task.
"Ware of Crime."
It there la such a thing as a wave
ot crime, Atlanta must be riding upon
Its crest, to judge from the revelations
of Its newspapers. Here is a rather
grapmc Beading that surmounts a
thrilling news story In a recent Issue
of the Atlantic Constitution:
"Reign of Crime Grips Atlanta; Po
lice Defied Homes are Robbed,
Negro Women Slain and No Arrests
Made Eighth Victim Taken by Jack
the Ripper."
Atlanta is a little larger than
Omaha. It would seem that in a city
of that else such diabolical deeds
could be traced to their source. It Is
also unthinkable to Imagine that any
police force could wink at crime so
violent. New York and Chicago have
this year had their experiences with
this so-called wave of crime, and so
have other cities, and each has
thought that its problem was the
worst. A few months sgo, when
deeds of violence were perpetrated in
Omaha, the old cry of the "worst city
In the country" was raise J as usual
It Is to be deplored that in each city
these demons of death cannot be run
down and brought to a Just penalty,
but why should failure to accomplish
this invite the milder offense of de
faming one's city? It is not the city,
not the majority of cltlsens, but
mere handful, or perhaps one or two
outlaws, who ar to blame, and the
only outcry should be a united effort
to solve the problem sanely, and It
does not matter whether the wave of
crime be regarded as local or general;
the solution is local, in that it rests
with each community for Itself, but
what baffles the police in all cities Is
no stigma on only one.
Washington in Westminster.
What do the people of the United
States think of W. T. Stead's sugges
tion that a statue of George Washing
ton be placed in Westminster Abbey?
Perhaps Americans would not have
the final say as to such a plan. Mr.
Stead's Idea was expressed In his Lon
don speech and was based upon the
proposition that Washington, the
father of American independence, was
also the father of British freedom
that is, that the reaction of the Amer
ican revolution upon the British pub
lic life made England democratic
and that therefore It would be appro
priate for the two nations thus to
unite In pa'ylng homage to a common
benefactor. Moreover, In the mind of
Mr. Stead, it would be timely to do
this now, or next year, as a fitting
memorial to the 100 years Of un
broken peace between Great Britain
and the American republic.
' Granting, for the sake of argument,
that but for the genius of Washington
we might not have won our indepen
dence of England and that our suc
cessful revolution laid the foundation
for the liberal colonial policy that has
extended the British empire to the
ends ot the earth, we are not yet sure
that England views it in exactly that
light, or, if It does, that it would think
it necessary to celebrate its debt to
Washington in just that way. Eng
lishmen have been rather slow to for
get that through the military prowess
of General Washington they lost the
most valuable colony they ever pos
sessed. On our side, too, we have popula
tion elements who would resent the
acceptance of any such favor from
England as indicating acquiescence of
England's mistreatment of Ireland.
So while the Idea Is at first attractive,
it will be well to go slow about It. .
Note the Difference.
While a dozen candidates have tiled
on the republican ticket for the seven
Judgeships to be filled in this judicial
district, the democrats are beating the
bushes to scare up enough material to
make a full ticket without leaving va
cant places. It is not hard to dis
cover, however, that there Is a reason.
The last " legislature changed the
boundaries of the judicial district by
taking 'Sarpy county off, constituting
the district of Douglas, Washington
and Burt counties. Sarpy county has
usually given democratic majorities,
so that its subtraction leaves the judl
cial district more strongly republican
than before. Democrats of Judicial
qualifications willing to sacrifice them
selves to such a condition naturally
have to be persuaded.
The Lincoln Star wants to know
why the Christian Endeavorers go to
Atlantic City with their convention if
that place is as bad as described by
former Vice President Fairbanks In
his address to the convention. Proba
bly for the same reason that numer
ous organisations and societies pre
ferred .to hold their state metings In
Omaha while Lincoln was dry-! they
either knew that the dark pictures
were overdrawn or they wanted to see
for themselves.
.The attorney for the late Dr. Crip-
pen of London has been fined and de
barred from practice for a year be
cause he employed "dark" methods
In the conduct of Crlppen's defense
There are some things the British
courts will not stand for, even though
they go as a matter of course In
American courts.
It 1 getting tiresome to see rainstorms
passing within hailing distance of Lincoln,
each protruding a ragged edge of sapleas
clouds over us while pnsslng by on the
other side. How can w widen th Infor
mation that Lincoln has changed Its mind
on th moisture question? Lincoln Star.
Put a ipollceman In an aeroplane
and let him run them in for over-
speeding.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding,
William J. Bryan declares, and per
sists in declaring, that Governor Har
mon is not eligible for the 1(11 dem
ocratic nomination. And what Mr,
Bryan says in this respect is likely to
go with Nebraska democrats.
Th Voters' Degree.
' Washington Poet.
Th colleges havs favored all our denv
ocratlo presidential candidates with their
first honorary degrees, but th voters will
give 'em th third.
Whea lanoraac Wa Bliss.
. Brooklyn Ragle.
Befor thermometers were Invented men
suffered from the heat, but they didn't
think of It so much. Ignorance must have
had several degrees of btlaa about It In
the older days.
Shoatiasr la Wroaai Dlractloa.
St. Louis Republic
Instead of trying to prohibit amoklng In
certain publie plaoee, why doesn't Dr,
Wiley begin at th other end of th thing
and us th pur food laws to prevent th
sal of all sort of odorous vegetable mat
ter as tobacco T
Lobs naaat Forealsht.
Indianapolis News.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock's prepara
tion for th parcels post by raising th
salaries of rural carrier seems to show
rather long rang foresight. Perhaps
would have been more discreet to make
the establishment f th paresis post and
tha Increase of salaries concurrent
Th Foaaas? of Prosperity.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Th crop are booming. They are not
affected by graft nor disturbed by discus
slons. With about fis.sos.ooe.000 maoufao
tured out ot soil and air this fear w
shall be M to bump along until coagraas
finds a way of producing more wealth at
leas expect sy sseass uc Its legal i
chinerr.
Booking Backward
1 his Day inOmalm
COMPILED FROM OtC TlLtA
1
JULY 15.
Thirty Tears Ago-
Willie Edoln, proprietor t "Dreams" or
"Fun In a Photograph Gallery." accom
panied by his wife, Alice Atherton, one of
he most popular actresses In her line ot
business, arrived and registered at the
W lthnell. They stopped over on their way
from Bait Lake City so that one ot their
children, who was taken 111, might have
proper medical treatment.
Probably the hottest day experienced in
Omaha the present season. In soma por
tions of the city unexposed thermometer
Indicated In the neighborhood of W degrees.
Max Meyer's thermometer showed 'k
degrees at 1 o'clock. '
Colonel Btanton, paymaster United States
army, went west. ,
Rev. J. B. Maxfleld, pastor of tha First
Methodist church, was summoned home by
telegram announcing the death of his aged
mother in Ohio.
Mrs. Charles Balbach, residing at tha
corner of Sixteenth' and Harney (where the
City National bank now towers), wants a
girl for general housework if aha can give
good references.
Twenty Years A go
Arthur Johnson Bro. of Omaha were
awarded the contract for erecting the Port
land, Ore., Chamber of Commerce building
to cost 25,000. . fc
Twenty members of the Mother's Hem
association met at the Young Women's
Christian association to complete their
organisation. Among them were Meedames
b. H. Korty, A. 8. Hall, Carrie 8hlnn, R, L.
Wheeler (South Omaha), and Mias Cora
B. M. Oay, secretary, and other out-of-town
women.
The Real Kstate Owners' association
called a meeting to discuss ways and means
of urging congress to protect th river
from deposits of filth.
Omaha's Western league team goes to
pleoes and Joins th ranks of th contract
jumpers.
Judge Wakeley adjourned court after
clearing twenty-eight cases from his
docket.
Father James Hoeffer, late of fit, Louis,
was installed president of Creighton col
leg. Thes grain men were elected to full
membership In th new Board of Trad:
Alex O. Knapp, A. B. Jaqulth, Bernard
Fowler, Charles H. Fowler, E. P. Peck,
F. C. "warts, C. T. Brown, James Walsh,
Joseph A. Connor.
Raymond P. May and Miss Sadie' Bock
of Fairmont, were married at th horn of
th bride's mother, 2626 Parker street
Among those present were Dr. and Mrs.
Merrill, Dr. and Mrs. W. O. Henry, Miss
Jennie Berkley, Mlsa Grace Ervln, Miss
Alma Ringer. Miss Berkley was brides
maid and Mr. W. D. Claypool, best man.
Ten Years Ago
Omaha's long spell of heat was at last
broken by a heavy rain.
At the Den the Knights of Ak-8ar-Ben met
in aplte of the intense heat and took in a
nurnoer ot new victims, including j. ,
Sunderland, Frank Cameron and E. R
Latta of Tekamah.
John Miller,, a workman for the Nw
Omaha Thomson-Houston Electric Light
compjany, was killed by contact with a Mv
wire at Fourth and Jones streets.
Dr.- Oeorg L, Miller write to The' Bee
te claim th distinction of being th orig
inal gold bug ot th democrats.
Bids tor 140,000 school bonds were opened
by th Board of Education.
After twenty-five years of service, W. H.
Roberson, manager of the local branch of
the R. G. Dunn company resigns.
Sam Bear and Dick Ferris caught the
Mexican fever at th South Omaha street
fair. (Mr. Ferris has recently had a hand
In Mexican affairs In southern California.)
Steel Plating; th Ooldea Rnle.
Philadelphia Record.
If the world-wide steel trust should be
come a fad, there win manifestly no
longer be th least need of maintaining
protective duties on any Imports under
tha iron and steel schedule. When It Is
all th sam whether th duties are re
pealed or not th hypocritical pretense of
protection should be abandoned for th
sake of public decency. Judge E. H. Gary,
with his well known love of th golden
rule, would hardly dissent from this prop
osition.
People Talked About
tXTBlOt
Jltu HOSfrvsm
He sails th deep, blue sea, and hi thron
Is th captain's bridge of th Kronprlns
eialn Celllle, modern greyhound ot th
Atlantic.
Chaneellor Day has not heaa crying out
in th wilderness In vain. A gift of 140,000
to th Syraous university has been made
by John D. Arehbold of tha Standard Oil
company.
John Sullivan, a 100 pound liveryman ot
Chicago, after being denied admission to
the probata court because he was In his
shirtsleeve, borrowed a coat from Assist
ant Judge Ralnejr, who weighs 104 pounds,
and won his case.
Oeorg Borup. th Tale graduate who ac
companied Peary on his trip to th pole.
nd wrote A Tenderfoot with Peary, has
been chosen by th American Museum of
Natural History to share with Donald Mac
MUHan the leadership of a long exploring
expedition to Crocker Land.
Clinton Scollard has accepted th profes'
sorshlp of English literature at Hamilton
college and will begin hi duties this fall
He was graduated at Hamilton in th class
of ltn. Afterward he studied at Harvard
and at Cambridge university. He was pro
feasor of English literature In Hamilton
college from vst to VM, resigning to devote
himself to study and to pastry.
Mrs. Charles CCcumU of Belfast, Ma.
who retired last week from tho management
of a restaurant mere, is thought to have
made as many If not more plea than any
woman la the country. Her average has
been about thirty pie a day for the last
eight years, a total of IT, 80. The places
aid by side would make a line mt pie aaoro
thaa eleven anile long and their crusts
would, cover two acre
r
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hit i jr
In Other Lands
id XUg at ea What la Trans
piring among th Wear and
Tar sTatlone f th Barth
Eighty years ago the British House of
Lords blocked the great reform bill passed
by th House of Common. The Issues
embodied In th proposed law were re
sisted and rejected by the tory peers even
after the electorate had endorsed them at
general election. Legislation was brought
to a standstill and government rendered
Impotent by selfish partisans. In this
dilemma. Earl Grey, the liberal prime min
ister, proposed to William IV that creation
of eighty new peers to carry the reform
bill through th upper house. The king
reluctantly consented and affixed th royal
autograph to eighty patents of nobility In
blank and gave them to Earl Grey. When
the news of what was about to happen
reaohed th tory camp, such unwavering
standpatters a the duke of Wellington
counseled hi associates who were
determined to die fighting in the last ditch
to hoist th whit flag and surrender. The
advice was heeded, the reform bill was
passed and the eighty patents of nobility
were consigned to the waste basket. Will
history repeat Itself? Th present House
of Lords Is like Its predecessor of eighty
years ago. It refused assent to the famous
Lloyd-George budget a year ago and forced
an appeal to the country. Th liberal party
and Its allies won. An opportunity to com
promise the difficulty between the two
houses was afforded by th conference of
last year, but the tories would not con
cede anything, and compelled another ap
peal to the country. Again the tories were
defeated. Now the upper house, facing the
final stag of action on the veto bill and led
by a titled Kerry Irishman, Lord Lans
downe, seeks to emasculate th measure
with unacceptable amendments, blindly
heedless of the handwriting on the wall.
Like th tory peer of King William's
time, th peer of today Insist on seeing
th package ot blank patents from King
Oeorg befor emulating Davy Crockett's
coon.
Forty-three French ministries have been
shaken down and out sine th republic
was established less than forty-one years
ago. Eight have been disposed of since
th twentieth century opened. The gov
ernment of Prime Minister Monis, thrown
out a few weeks ago, came Into power .in
March last, ousting the government of
Prima Minister Briand, which was in con
trol for eighteen months. Briand took the
plaoe of Clemenceau, whose ministry held
on for three years, a rare record a min
istries go in France. The count of minis
terial oustlngs does not Include six other
upsetting In which the cabinet was
changed but the prime minister held over.
These lightning changes tn the government
is naturally viewed with much alarm by
patriotlo republicans, whose views are
aired in a latter from the Paris corre
spondent of the New Tork Evening Post.
The reason tor th want ot continuity In
government Is the Irresponsibility of the
average French deputy. . He la a chronic
insurgent In his party, If he has a party,
and Is a feudal tyrant In his constituency.
Personal aggrandisement Is his ruling
spirit and national interests are made
subservient to that end. The mere refusal
of a favor by a minister, the Inability of
a minister to provide an office for a heeler,
makes the deputy an Insurgent, and he
seises the first . opportunity to oust the
ministry. So great is th greed for office
among th deputies that now one voter In
eleven holds some government Job. Among
those who put national above personal In
terests th remedy urged for the spoils
evil th election of deputies on a com
mon ticket at least for a whole department
This system, it is believed, would bring
about party responsibility and party gov
ernmant in th English and American
sense.
The spirit moving Germany In the Moroc
can and other international affairs Is ter
ritorial expansion-a determination to
reach beyond the boundaries of the empire
in Europe. Prof. Hans Delbruck, editor of
th Prussian Tear Book, voices the na
tional aspirations In thes words: "Enor
mous tracts of America, Africa and Asia
today speak English, Bpanlsh, French or
Russian, or are subject to those govtrn
ments; even small states, such as Holland
and Portugal, have considerable colonial
possesssion. The Germans have only been
able at the last minute to bring under
their scepter a few fragments of Insignifi
cant extent and limited value. But from
th first moment when we announced such
an endeavor, England, which already
unite under Its crown a full fourth of the
entire human race 400.000,000 souls has pur
sued our effort with an ardent Jealousy and
placed obatacle after obstaole in our way.
Even In Turkey, where th nature of the
case exoludes any German acquisition of
territory, and where we sought for noth
ing beyond commercial activity, with a
view to the uplifting of these anciently
civilised lands, England has raised so
many difficulties that we have been able
only slowly and step by step to advance
th great undertaking of th Bagdad rail
way. I th great German people to per
mit Itself to be permanently inclosed
within Its continental frontiers, and from
behind them to observe how England.
Franc, Russia, tha United States and
Japan divide the world among themselves?
The Fatherland must larger be, seems to
be the answer to this Inquiry. Southern
Morocco, with its Atlantic ports, its rich
hinterland, is worth a good deal. Some
day In Wllhelra-strasse th German states
men may decide that It I even worth an
BuropeaA war."
King George and Queen Mary are doing
their part to wipe out th old differences
and bitternesses between England and
Ireland on this their royal visit to Dublin.
They revised the tactless program made by
th English officers for their visit, which
eliminated visits to religious Institutions
that tha people of th Emerald Isle hold so
dear. They attended services at 81. Pat
rick's cathedral and visited Maynoolh ool
leg. This wilt go a long way toward soft
ening the Irish huart, for it was a broad
declaration that while they are Protestants,
thsy hav no bitterness against the Roman
Catholic faith of th great majority ot
the Irish people. John Redmond Insista that
Ireland doe not seek separation from the
crown; that It demands only full home rule
under th Hag.
Constantinople at least Is not overbuilt
so reports the American consul general
there. On cause of tha congestion, which
Is starting a building boom and hurrying
th construction of electric railways to
enable the people In the over-populated dis
tricts of Gaiata and Pera to get away
from exorbitant sous rents into th coun
try, Is given as th abandonment of the
old eastern custom of permitting several
generation of a family to live la the earn
house. When th young men marry now
they prefer a house of their own.
Agadlr, which no on could hav
placed on th map until Germany aent a
war veasel there, Is a little Moorish town
south of th Atlas mountains, with a fin
harbor. It has no trad to apeak of, but
it has big possibilities. It I th open door
to th Sus valley, which is not only fertile,
but has untold mineral wealth In Its moun.
tains. It recognise no allegiance to
Uorooco, for It Is Inhabited by Independent
Barbara,
THAT "DICK TO DICK" LETTER.
Brooklyn Eagle. There Is no "Dick to
Dick" letter. It cannot be found In the
files. Bt have the waste backets been ex
amined by an export Investigator ot the
muckraking squad?
Boston Transcript: That young hand
some Radcltffe graduate who found a let
ter from "Dick to Dick," which has stirred
up various file in Washington and Cin
cinnati, seems to be a modern murkraker
of the first order. Do they teach such
horrid thing on Garden street?
Philadelphia Ledger: It appears from th
testimony that Miss Abbott, who is re
sponsible for the faked "Dick to Dick"
postscript In th Controller Bay story, ped
dled her scandal about among all the antl
Taft muckrakers. and after repeated re
fusals from Collier's Weekly and other sen
sational defamers ot th administration
found the Fhlladt-lphla North American the
only one sufficiently gullible or reckless to
take the bait. This extraordinary publica
tion took it and swallowed It hook, line
and linker. Th whole story Is a palpable
fraud and could not hav been credited
by even an antl-Taft conaplrator not ob
sessed to th point ot Insanity.
Indianapolis News: All that need b said
about the opening up of lands about Con
troller bay, in Alaska, and th mysterious
letter In connection therewith, Is that
President Taft Is determined to do every
thing In his power to clear th situation
He has announced that nothing will b
held back from th committee inveatlgafln,.
the matter, but that on th contrary, all
help possible will be afforded. Th im
portant feature, ot course, Is the letter
supposed to hav bean written by Ryan,
th man who took up some of th land
opened to entry, to Mr. Ballinger, former
secretary of the Interior, In which it was
said that Charles P. Taft, brother of the
president had used, or would use his in
fluence to secure the desired action. There
need be no fear that the facts will not be
brought out. Till they ax brought out It
will be well tor th people to withhold
their judgment.
Throbs of the Jlage.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Fear has been aroused In Washington
becaus th plac at whloh Germany has
shown a disposition to establish a naval
bane in Morocco Is only 1,500 miles from
the coast of Brasll. This, certain Ameri
cans believe, may make a German naval
station in Morocco a menace to th
Panama canal. Everybody seems to be
afraid ot Germany nowadays, a fact
which I not likely to lessen Germany's
ideas of her Importance or cause her to
diminish her demands.
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Te' are all agreed on that." ld on. of
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Wheretipon. they waisrti --'. Arm
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She-And you sr a strict vegetarian?
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Oh.Vve been runnln, a country new..
paper for taeniy-i y
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"Yes. he's my favorite dramatic author."
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They say you r-an't keep a good man
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reckon It's so: nut you i-u
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"I tell vou." said Farmer Corntf"!.
beln' a sheriff around here Is a mights
hard Job."
"You never arrest anybody.
"No. But there s an awful lot o ram
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Wareham Long-That'a right, maam
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From his shoetops there are rising cunning
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On hla visage white streaks mingle with
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