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Well, boys' the teacher "came back,"
didn't she?
Name the two leading Americans.
Easy. Frank Gotch and Ty Cobb.
The razor must have slipped when
that Sunday-closing barber ordinance
was carved out.
. Mr. Bryan's obituary on Bailey's
political career should be interesting
and sympathetic.
Evidently there has been a little
reciprocity in the matter of the antl
reclproclty slush funds.
From our own experience up here,
it must have been a delightful sum
mer down on the Panama.
Texas is booming its land as suit
able for citrus fruit. Lemons, especi
ally. Get Bailey interested.
The Chicago Record-Herald asks:
"What shall be done with a lady's
hand?" Cards or matrimony?
Statesmen Wanted. Headline.
Bailey Will Not Run Again. Headline.
Who will be the next to heed the
call?
Had be only waited a little longer,
Togo might have been Interested to
see the way Americans twist the Rus
sian lion's tall.
Doubtless the esteemed Russian
Lion has heard of those words in the
poem Lincoln loved, "Oh, why should
the spirit of mortal be proud?"
. It appears that Aviator Andrew
Drew drew one of his companions out
of the Jaws of death down at St. Louis.
Must have been In Kerry Patch.
Where Omaha's commission plan of
government threatens to break down
Is that it falls to provide for seventy
fat oommlsslonershlps Instead of only
ven.
The wife of an old-time heavy
weight prizefighter has espoused the
cause of woman suffrage. She ought
to understand the best ways of knock
ing out the enemy.
The Lincoln Star reads Its city
fathers a terrible lecture under the
caption "Plffllsh Officialdom." Presnm
ably they will feel very badly when
they find out what that means.
. Just as Uncle Sam was about to pass
the pen of peace over to the kaiser and
the French president, those two es
teemed neighbors reached for their
Shooting irons and upset the inkstand
Chauncey Depew cannot speak as a
member of the senate any more, but
that does not take away from him the
right to print and circulate his
peeohes In a beautiful little hand
painted brochure.
An eminent Irish prelate has written
a strong book on the theme, "Life After
Death." The recent passing of the
Standard Oil might suggest the topic
to one of our American writers, say
Ida Tarbell, for Instance.
The campaign publicity statements
given out by two candidates for United
States senator In Virginia show that
each of them put up $3,000 as an as
sessment to help defray expenses of
the election. Just let that percolate a
little. We have had United States
senators In Nebraska balking and k ek
ing on putting up a campaign assess
ment of 500.
- The San Francisco editor who did
so much to land Abe Reuf In the peni
tentiary, now wants him pardoned be
causa he has convinced himself that
punishing Reuf will not make bad men
good. Neither will burlesquing the
law do it. But why stop at Reuf;
why pot open the prison doors and
turn them all looser Why go to the
trouble and expense of arresting and
convicting and imprisoning men at all
who break the law?
Senator Cummins' Indictment.
The Indictment drawn by Senator
Cummins of Iowa against President
Taft to Justify, or rather excuse, the ef
forts of Insurgent republicans to pre
vent the president's renomlnation
sums up In this one sentence that the
president does not take the "progres
sive view" of things. In support of
the charge he enumerates various
measures of legislation on important
subjects embraced within the presi
dential program put through rather by
the votes of the regulars than by the
votes of the insurgents. Reading on
through the bill of particulars, how
ever, Senator Cummins' complaint
seems to be that the president has not
turned insurgent, but has preferred to
lay out a progressive program, and se-l
cure Its enactment by enlisting what
ever help he could get 1
Senator Cummins declares, for ex
ample, that In the making of the
Payne-Aldrlch tariff law the chief
agencies in congress were Mr. Aldrlch
and his followers In the senate, and
Mr. Cannon and his followers in the
house, but he very unfairly suppresses
the well established fact that these
leaders were not permitted to have
their own way, and that all the ma
terial concessions in the direction of
downward revision were procured or
saved in the conference committee by
the personal interference and Influence
of the president.
Senator Cummins finds fault with
the president's position on the bill in
creasing the powers of the Interstate
Commerce commission. But here
again he omits to say, what everyone
knows Is true, that were it not for Mr.
Taft no legislation whatever would
have been had for further railroad
regulation.
Senator Qummins complains because
the president preferred the certainty
of the corporation tax to raise needed
revenue over the uncertainty of an In
come tax of doubtful constitutionality,
and to procure the Income tax through
the safe process of constitutional
amendment. Whether this was the
progressive view or not, It unquestion
ably was the sensible view, and the
only view sure to produce practical re
sults. Senator Cummins accuses the presi
dent of being out of harmony "with
those who were regarded before his
advent as the best exponents of the
conservation policy," but concedes that
his appointment of Secretary Fisher
commanded the approval of the pro
gressives throughout the country. The
only inference from this specification
is that nothing the president Could do
for conservation would fully satisfy
the insurgents.
Senator Cummins admits that there
is a wide difference of opinion as to
Canadian reciprocity. The public gen
erally, however, regard It as a pro
gressive move, and have been from the
first puzzled that the chief opposition
should come from the insurgents who
had been loudest In demanding tariff
reduction.
Senator Cummins cannot even sup
port the president's arbitration treat
ies, whose popularity we do not believe
he will question, but he has not the
hardihood to make out that their tend
ency is opposed to the progressive
view.
Senator Cummins' chief lamenta
tions rest on the president's vetoes of
the democratic tarlff-for-politlcs bills,
and Arizona-New Mexico statehood.
His fear Is that the democrats will not
give the president a chance to sign an
other tariff bill prepared in the light
of tariff board Investigations. But, if
so, the grievance of the insurgents will
be with their democratic allies rather
than the republican president.
Senator Cummins says that he per
sonally does not approve of the recall
of judges, but stands on "the one pro
gressive proposition" that congress has
no right to prescribe the constitution
for incoming states. If Senator. Cum
mins will read up on the history of
Nebraska he will find that right herq
in his neighboring state congress
Btruck the word "white" out of our
constitution when the state sought to
come in with negroes debarred from
participation in the suffrage.
The real truth is that all the pro
gresslve legislation we have had since
Mr. Taft entered the" White House
and It makes a notable list Is the re
suit of the president's activity, and If
in any of It he has had the support of
reactionaries, it is because he com
pelled them to move forward to keep
his pace. '
Prize Fighting in New York.
The state of New York has not only
legalized prize fighting again, but, In a
measure, has itself gone Into the busi
ness of prize fighting, for it gets 6 per
cent of the proceeds of each battle. Of
course U calls the thing "boxing," but
It makes no difference so long as it
invites two fighters to get into a ring
and beat each other as fiercely as they
can. This is one of the fruits of the
recent Tammany-democratic legislature
and the Dlx regime.
Two black-fist fighters have Just
pummeled each other to pieces In the
historic Madison Square Garden to the
delectation of as many people as could
get into the mammoth building, and a
few days ago two other bruisers held
the stage, while 30,000 devotees of the
"manly art" sat by. On that occasion,
the papers reported, crowds were so
dense and Insistent at the ticket win
dows that, Instead of charging the
regular rate for seats, the box office
men raised prices, In some cases 100
per cent, without lessening the demand
a particle. That made the sovereign
state's "rake-oft" that much more.
Three things are plain: First, that
prise fighting la "popular" In the Em
pire state and Gotham and probably
generally throughout the country; sec
ond, that the devotees of the game only
took the count to feign defeat and
throw the other fellows off their guard,
and, third, if prize fighting is knocked
out in New York or elsewhere it will
require more thsn spasmodic bursts of
virtuous indignation to do it.
It Is timely to recall that New York;
City was one of the places where they
stopped the exhibition of the Johnson
Jeffries moving pictures. Evidently
nothing but the real thing goes there.
Timely Advice from Wilson.
The venerable secretary of agricul
ture has lven the people of Nebraska
some advice In the matter of closer
touch between the state university and
state farm they will do well to
heed. In commenting on the Impor
tance of the university agricultural
school Mr. Wilson while at Lincoln
saiil :
This state's prosperity depends upon Its
farmers and the more trained farmers you
have the better are going to be the agri
cultural returns of the state each year.
That seems so trite a truth as not to
need reiterating, yet our people are not
heeding It as they should. Wo arc
preaching much about Intensive farm
ing and we cannot preach too much
about it, but we are not practicing the
precepts and taking advantage of the
ways to improve It as wo should. We
are devoting more time to other mat
ters that should be given to the scien
tific development of our chief Industry
and resource. .
Secretary Wilson added:
You have a law school up here and It's
grinding out lawyers to thrust upon the
people of .the state, when the demand Is
400 to 1 for farmers instead of attorneys.
Get your students (of the Btate university)
closer to the Poll and watch the state go
upward by leaps and bounds. It cannot
holp doing so.
Irrefutable, isn't It? Pretty good tip
there to our state boosters and adver
tising agencies. What Secretary Wil
son says cannot be denied, either as to
the plentiful supply of lawyers or the
surplus demand for farmers. Nebraska
is essentially an agricultural state and
probably will always be, yet altogether
too few of Its young men, either from
the farm or town, In fltttlng themselves
for life, are choosing agriculture as a
pursuit. The back-to-the-farm move
ment will never succeed as It should
until the people In the distinctive farm
ing states take the lead In promoting
it. Nothing would so attract outsiders
to Nebraska like her own sons turning
to the soil for their vocation, and the
benefits would be felt In all lines of
activity.
The wonder Is that so many young
men continue to throw themselves Into
already over-crowded professions, par
ticularly since at best they offer none
too immediate success. Returns on the
farm would be much quicker and surer,
to say nothing of the upbuilding effect
upon the life of the state and everyone
In it.
The Passing of Bailey.
Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas
announces that he will not be a candi
date for re-election next year, "and this
decision Is Irrevocable." Of course,
that might and might not mean that
under no circumstances would he go
back to the senate. He does not say
what he would do If elected over his
own protest or persuaded again to
change his mind.
It is probable, though, that If Bailey
Insists on retiring from the senate
Texas will let him. It cannot be denied
that, while he still has some strong
adherents in his home state, Bailey's
following has materially dwindled until
It Is a serious question whether he
could go back to the eenate, no matter
how much he desired to. His popular
lty struck Its zenith and began to wane
at the time of the Waters-Pierce affair
and has gone down steadily since. It
was evident enough last winter on the
occasion of his flare-up In the senate
over the Lorlmer situation that he was
not the .idol of as many Texans as he
had been.
It Is a good time for Bailey to retire,
since his day and kind are passing. Ills
continuance in the senate to be at all
compensatory to his state would re
quire a change of base on his part, and
that seems to be out of the question.
He Is only one of many able men in
public life who have been swept aside
through lack of high political stand
ards.
Many of the new leaders may not
outrank Bailey In intellectual power,
yet be far more serviceable to the peo
ple because more respectful of popular
rights In relation to those of special
Interests. He may follow others of his
school out of public office Into the pri
vate employ of those Interests.
The attorneys for several big rail
roads put In their time the other day
trying to convince the state railway
commissioners that the engineers who
have been making the physical valua
tion under their direction have under
estimated the . reproduction value of
the railroad property. This Is rather a
new role for railroad attorneys, who
have been In the habit of appearing
before assessment boards to complain
of overvaluation.
Ex-Governor Shallenberger wants to
vindicate his record In the executive
chair by seeking promotion to a Beat
in the United States senate. Mr. Shal
lenberger got one vindication when his
own party refused to give him a re
nomination something unprecedented
tn the political history of Nebraska. It
will be up to him to show why the
verdict should be reversed.
The attendance figures on the Ne
braska, state fair show up much larger
by comparison than last year. That Is
no assurance, however, that the bal
ance to the profit account will show a
proportionate Increase.
oklncf Backward
IlihDay inOinalia
COMPILED FHOM DE.K FILf S
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SEPT. 7. I-f
Thirty Years Ago
The county commissioners at a special
meeting decided that Dellone 6 Mullany
are the lowest bidders for building the
court house and should be given the con
tract, conditioned on furnishing bonds for
430,000.
What it cost to run the city of Omaha
la shown by the compilation of the appro
priation ordinance for the month of Au
gust approved by Mayor Boyd. City offi
cials get S941.64, the city council tttO, the
police pay roll Is P74.25, the men paid In
the fire department get $10.50, miscellan
eous bills of the fire department during
the month are I2P8.88, for teams working
on streets ISJ3, for street laborers t4S.4t,
publlo library, Including salaries, $16.U;
miscellaneous bills, including board of pris
oners, 177.14. The coat of Han scorn park
for last month was MM. 10, and other mis
cellaneous bills during the month totaled
$2,923.80. The entire amount appropriated
by the ordlnancea aggregates $9,748.
Quite a distinguished party of New York
people arrived at the Union Paclflo depot
today from the north consisting of Beach
Cunard, one of the proprietors of the Una
of Cunard steamships; C. T. Franklin,
former general freight agent of the line.
The party have been hunting in Minnesota
and went on to the west.
At the regular meeting of the land league
at Clark'a hall greeting was authorised
sent to the general meeting soon to be held
In Dublin. "John Rush made a few remarks
about the late Tom Kennedy and a commit
tee consisting of Messrs. Ford, Rush and
Donovan was appointed to draft resolutions
embracing the sentiment of the league on
his loss.
The city police force may be doubled
during state fair week, In which case It
will consist of twenty-four regular men.
The price of admission which will pre
vail at Boyd's opera house will be $1 for
reserved seats on the first or parquet floor,
75 cents general admission on the same
floor, SO cents In the dress circle or aeoond
floor and 25 cents In the gallery.
Great excitement was occasioned today
by a young woman fainting at the corner
of Fifteenth and Farnam streets. She was
taken to Kuhn's drug store and revived
and thence to her home at Twenty-first
and Izard.
James Ware and Miss Mattie Ware, who
have been visiting the Pastons, left for
Montgomery City, Mo.
E. Rosewater left for Ltnooln to attend
the session of the Btate Farmers' alliance.
Charles T. Bunco has returned from a
flying trip to New York ' and la full of
Gotham sights.
John F. Coad, the stockman from Da
kota, is In the city and is staying at the
Withnell.
Twenty Years Arc
Mr. and Mrs. Kdward Porter Peck gavs
a progressive high five party in the even
ing at their home In honor of their guests,
Misses Wilson and Smith of Boston. There
were present Mn and Mrs. C. U Deuel,
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Funkhouser, Miss Wil
son, Miss Smith, Miss Bishop, Miss Bessie
Yates, Miss Duane, Miss Emily Wakeley,
Miss Hall, Mr. Hall, Mr. Ring wait, Mr.
Hamilton, Mr. Charles Howe, Mr. Offut,
Miss Reese, Miss Laura Hoagland and
Mr. Murray.
Mrs.' Edward Dickinson, wife of the as
sistant general manager of the Union Pa
cific, returned from Chicago.
J. Goodman of Juares, Mex., was visiting
the family of M. Weinberger, 2&S5 Capitol
avenue.
Mayor Cushlng returned from Wisconsin,
where he went to see his mother, who
was 111.
The Elks gave their second annual clam
bake at Pries lake. It was a huge success
and was In charge of George Cronk, Harry
fhilbln and F. P. Grldley.
The third annual celebration of Labor
day In Omaha was a grander success than
either of the- two preceding events. Henry
Easton was grand marshal of the day, a
big street parade was given and the ex
ercises followed at the fair grounds. Sen
ator and Mrs. Van Wyck, accompanied by
Edward Rosewater, reached the grounds
at 2 o'clock In a carriage and the senator,
the oratur of the day, was lntroduoed by
Mr. Easton. He made a fine oration and
was followed by Congressman McKelghao
of Red Cloud. Fireworks on the high
school grounds In the evening, witnessed
by 12,000 people, concluded the day's events.
Ten Years Ago
Abner McKinley, brother of the president,
and party passed through Omaha at 3 a. m.
In a special car, coming from Denver,
where they were when they heard the news
of the shooting, hastening to Buffalo to
the bedside of the chief executive. The
party was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Abner
McKinley and two daughters, Mr. Shell,
Mr. Meek of Denver and Dr. and Mrs.
Baer.
Governor Savage sends a statement to
The Bee declaring: "Anarchy Is treason.,
Anarchists should be treated as traitors to
our country and anarchistic ulteranoes, in
publlo or private, should constitute
treason."
James K. Williams, arrested while at
tempting to pass a worthless check on the
Omaha Stamp and Coin oompany, was held
as a "very much wanted man."
Sol Fox. clerk In the store of Sol Brodkey,
Thirteenth and Douglas streets, acci
dentally shot himself while examining a
revolver.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Norrls and family re
turned from Virginia. They had alao
visited the Buffalo exposition.
President Horace Q. Burt returned from
New York, where he held an extended con
ference with E. 11. Harrlman. Mr. Burt
declined to give out any of the matters he
and Mr. Haxrlman discussed.
People Talked About
The National Retail Monument Dealers'
association, In convention assembled,
solemnly agreed to boost the price of grave
stones. On the dead, this is the limit.
With the coming of James Eada How's
Justly celebrated hobos' convention to
Washington, a marked boom in holdups
has been placed on the score board of the
national capital.
A party by the name of Cook, who was
somewhat consptcloua In the publlo prints
two years ago, confeeses that bis former
confession Is a secondary hoax. Any one
curious enough to view the hoax at short
range can do so by buying the hoaxer's
book.
The liveliest oldest Inhabitant of the mid
dle west Is AJvln Austin of Chicago, who
at the age of M has regiaterad at Mlnot,
S. It., tor a home in the Berthold Indian
reaarration. This enterprising cltlaea u
born at Starling-. Conn., la U17, la as spry
as a man of forty years younger. Hs can
remember when the Brat railway train
was run tn the United States, as wen as
the opeolnar of the Erie canal In IKS, and
the taring of thai cornerstone of the Hunker
Hill monument la the same year.
Qjo
Around New York
Blpples oa the Crarroat of Xlfe
as Sees la the Oreat American
Metropolis from Day to Day,
nooks for Sallormem.
One of the many good works carried on In
New Tork consists In providing loan li
braries for vessels leaving the port. The
work la one of several activities of the
American Seamen's Friend society. It
Wall street. It was organised eighty-three
years axo, and has diligently pursued Its
purpose of assisting seamen to the limit of
Its funds, contributed by generous people.
The society's loan libraries consists of
about forty volumea, selected with great
care, consisting chiefly of educational
helps, standard books of travel, novels that
point a moral, an atlas, dictionary and
books of a religious nature. Most of the
works are In English, with a sprinkling of
German, Norwegian and Swedish books.
The libraries are In oases and placed In
charge of captains and mates, who dis
tribute the books to the crews. The libra
ries sre changed at Intervals and placed on
all classes of sailing craft. As many of
these vessels do not touch port for weeks,
and even months at a time. It can readily
be seen what a far-reaching effect these
books are likely to have on the lives of
sallormen. During the fiscal year ending
last March the society placed 223 libraries
on board vessels In New Tork harbor,
reaching 1,350 men.
Economic Waste.
High cost of necessaries In ths cities and
low price of produce on the farms appar
ently go together. Patrick Egan, who
acted as spokesman for a delegation repre
senting 62,500 Pennsylvania farmers on
their visit to Mayor Gaynor at New York
a few days ago, produced some startling
figures showing to what extent both the
producer and consumer are mulcted. "Po
tatoes, for which the consumer paid $"'),
000,000 last year," he said, "netted our
farmers less than tS. 600,000. Cabbages,
which sold In this city for $9,125,000, brought
the- farmers $1,800,000, and milk, which sold
In the city for $4S,0O0,O00, brought the farm
ers less than $23,000,000." The difference,
of course, represents the cost of transpor
tation and distribution and the middlemen's
profit. The economic waste connected with
the present system of marketing farm
products is colossal, and the problem
of bringing the producer In more direct re
lations with the consumer Is one that de
mands an early solution.
Dream Saves Her Father.
It It had not been for the vivid dream
of Miss Lena Schwarts, her aged father,
Samuel Schwarts, a retired business man,
would not be alive today.
Miss Schwarts awoke this morning with
her mind full of a dream In which her
father had met with a serious accident of
some kind. She was so Impressed with the
dream that she hurried to her father's
room. His bed was unoccupied and she
hastened through the apartment without
finding any trace of him.
Then she went to the outer hall and
found the aged man seated on the floor
with a tuba attached to the gas Jet In his
mouth. He was unconscious, but she tore
the tube from his mouth snd summoned
a physician, who revived the man. He had
been 111 for some time and despondent.
Too Mich for the Roy.
A New Tork merchant who recently re
turned from an extended trip to Europe
left his son, a bright boy of 14, behind
with a tutor, so that he might Improve
his French and German In the vacation
season. In his last letter from Vienna
the boy writes: "I am finding German
here which lays over any ws ever had at
school, and I'd have to stay years to get
It Into my head. For practice ws have to
read and translate newspaper articles.
Yesterday one of them about Argentine
beef said that by resolution of the Appro
vislonierungsausschssea something or other
had been done. Think of wrestling with
such words and getting a fall out of them."
Arbnekle Chuckles.
Millionaire John Arbuckle is enjoying a
fine little chuckle. The more he thinks of
it the longer he chuckles. Some three years
ago John bought the schooner. Jacob A.
Stamler and fitted it out as a floating
hotel for working men and women, arrang
ing to provide board, lodging, laundry and
other things to worthy young people for
12. SO a week. To begin with, he had come
to the conclusion that the failure of many
similar charitable enterprises could be
traced to the separation of the sexes. A
simple way to overcome this, he figured,
would be to provide aocommodatlons for
both men and women on the Stamler.
Meantime Arbuckla's friends Insisted ths
project would be a rank failure, but John
Just sat tight and sawed wood. The result
was the old windjammer was not In com
mission a day before young Dan Cupid took
passage and scores of romances have
blossomed aboard the old boat. Now appli
cations for accommodations far exceed the
number that can be granted.
riowtnsr Up Playgrounds.
The extent to which publlo facilities for
sports are provided in New York Is sug
gested by the fact that during the past
week seventy-five tennis courts were with
drawn from use In Central park In order
that the ground, which had been caked
hard as brick by constant use for years
back, might be plowed over and reBeeded.
TRAGEDY OF A "DABE."
Washington Herald: Ths courage which
lndueed him to show the excited mob that
hs was not a coward Is not to be criticised,
now that he haa paid the final penalty. It
was not recklessness or foolhardinevs
which sent him Into the air. It was the
feeling which every right-minded man ex
periences when ha Is the subject of mis
representation and false charge, and espe
cially when his honor Is attacked.
New York Tribune: Tne victim in this
case realized that his machine was not fit
to use and that bs could not make an
ascent without grave peril. But the de
mands of the crowd, mingled with Jeers,
taunts and curses, stung him Into risking
and losing his life. The feelings of those
who thus drove him to his death, or of
such of them as have any feelings, are not
to be coveted.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The aviator who
took to the air in a crippled machine be
cause a Kansas fair crowd Jeered at his
hesitation, and then fell to his death was
not a hero - but a coward. A man who
would risk his own life and threaten his
wife with widowhood rather than face the
criticism of unthinking people lacks moral
stamina. It Is much like committing sui
cide on a dare.
Philadelphia Record: An aviator out in
Kansas was driven to fly by the Jeers of
the crowd, when bis aeroplane had been
damaged by a collision and it was practic
ally certain that a flight with a machine
tn this condition would result la bis death
as :t did The man who will not "take
a dare 'is not animated by the highest
type of heroism, to be sura; but the spirit
Which impels a holiday crowd to cry oi
as a fakir a man who hesitates riskmi
his Beck far Its ceie)Cta.tioa Is no leas bar
harvos than that which ha pelled the
Raman mob te turn thumbs down on a
Ufeated gladiator.
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.
Fremont Tribune: Nebraska bakers are
going to meet In Fremont In October. Their
Judgment Is better than their pies.
Beatrice Sun: Grand Island got some
free advertising by a scare about the local
officers trailing a man suspected to be
tlesse, the Tecumseh murderer. Why
don't the Beatrice offioors ti busy and
furnish some thrills. It len t necessary to
catch anybody.
Kearney Hub: The Grand Island Indepen
dent characterises political advertising in
newspapers as the "open door policy,"
which Is a very good definition. And Why
Is it not more desirable and legitimate
than the old time method of putting up
nominations behind closed doors?
Lexington Pioneer: Dealers who sell
cigarettes or any kind of tobacco to boys
under 18 years are violating a state law.
State Superintendent Crahlree has taken
ths matter up and haa urged all school
authorities in the state to see that the
law is , enforced in their several districts
and will render assistance If necessary in
prosecution of dealers who violate ths
statute.
Geneva Signal: Towns of tan have too
many churches, too many delivery wagons,
too many newspapers, too muny loafers
and too many dogs. Geneva merchants
are going to try to cut down the delivery
wagon waste. In towns llko Hastings snd
Beatrice one delivery firm does the deliv
ering for all of the retail stores. Business
profits are small the. days and all waste
must be stopped or the service to the
publlo cannot be rendered as cheaply and
efficiently as It ought to be.
Alma Record: Lincoln la getting tn bad
with the people out over the state on ac
count of the city's constant efforts to hog
everything In sight In the way of state
appropriations. The last legislature made
an appropriation for the erection of a
building for the medical department of
the state university and Just because the
building provided for Is to be located out
side of Lincoln a suit has been filed to '
contest the appropriation. Has anyone
ever heard of suits being started to prevent
the Lincoln politicians and leeches from
getting their usual big hand-outs from the
state funds?
Mexicans Playing- the Game.
Kansas City Times.
Mexican politics evidently Is becoming
quite enlightened. In the convention which
nominated Jose Pino Suares for vice presi
dent on the Madero ticket the delegates of
the Gomes faction bolted, "declaring that
Suares had resorted to bribery."
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"My llKhtnlns rod certainly works wen. -
"Ye, and because of the same reasyr
that you can get any good service."
Whats ttit7"
"It was well tipped first." Baltimore
American,
The Hiformer-Ah, friend, what we are
striving fur In fewer overcrowded slums,
Intgtr vlllacrs. more pleasure for tbe
poople and rrm drink.
The t'nconvertrd one But ow are we
going ter ave mure pleasure If we 'as
less beer? Everybody's Magaslne.
"I started to tell my wife about a woman
who made her own summer gowns. ' - v
"She capped by storv with one about a
man who made H.mio.oun and bought his
wife $11,000 worth of gowns. ' N ashlngton
Herald.
' Do you hope some dny to own a heavenly
mansion, Mr. Hcrubbs?"
Yes. I don't believe 1 will live long
enough to finish the payments on' my
earthly bungalow." Birmingham Age.
"Had they any evidence as to ths man's
Insanity?' . .
"No, except that when he went on a fish
ing pi'irty he always told when they came
home that he made the poorest and small
est catch of the lot." Boston Transcript.
"The lady who did the shooting is an
actress, of course?"
"No."
"Authoress, then?"
"No; Just an ordinary Individual."
"Hum,'' said the city editor, "this Is a
WgRer sensation than I thought." Louis
ville. Courier-journal.
This Is the question that came to the ln-
iormmion euimr:
"lo you believe anybody ever turns In
his ursve?"
This Is the answer he wrote:
"Certainly: once every twenty-four hours
around the earth's axis." Chicago Tribune.
"If you don't go away," said the severe
Woman. "I'll call my husband."
"I arty." replied Meandering Mike, "don't
bother. I Jes' met Im up de road an' he
told me hatd-luck stories about his home
till I couldn't listen another minute. "
Washington Star.
IN MEM0RIAM APPENDICS.
Boston Transcript.
From day to day 1 prostrate lay and tossed
In fear and pain,
The doctor came and dosed me well and
then he came nealn,
And dosed some more and pinched and
punched and rendered his decision.
He said It was the only wsy snd made a
neat Incision.
Though costing dear I let It go because
lnflammutlon.
He keeits It still In alcohol for publlo In
formation, And 1 on laeh memorial day march alowly
to his sanctum.
There shed a tear and place a wreath In
memory of my dear one.
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