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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDKU RV EDWARD RQ8BWATBK VICTOR ROSBWATICR. BDlTOIt BEK I1UIL.DINQ, PARNAM AND 1TTH. Kniered at Omaha. postoHlce as second cliu matter. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION; Sunday Bee, one year. Saturday Uee, one year J-w Dally Bee, without Sunday, one year, J.w Ttll a, A Utinriatf. An A Veaf.... t.W - mi'n nr Pft nnlV!n. Evening and Sunday, per month... Evening, wllhoet Sunday, per month.w Dlly Bee, Including Sunday, per rno.cc Dally Bee. without Sunday, per mo fao Address all complaints ot IrreralarllUa la delivery to City Circulation Dept. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or posUl order, payable to The Bee rub Ishlng company. Only 2-cent stamps received In Pf-V1"1 o( small accounts. Personal checks, ex. cept on Omaha and eastern exchange, no accepted. OFFICES: Omaha The Bee building. South Omaha-UlS N BtwV Council Bluffs-11 North Main Street. Uncoln-26 Utile building. Chicago SOI Hearst building. New York-Room 1106, 234 Fifth Ave. St louls 5W Nw Bank ot Commerce. Washlngu,-72S FourtwnthHUw. Communications relating to nows and editorial matter should be addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial department. JUNE CIRCULATION. 50,401 State of Nebraska, County of . DoufrtaMS Dwlght Williams, circulation manager ot The B Publishing company, being SW sworn, says that the average dally circulation for tho month ot June, law, was W.Yoi? DW1QUT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed lnumy presence and sworn to before mo thlj M day ot Ju.im. (Sal.) Notary Public. Subscribers leavlnst the city temporarily ahonld have The Dee mailed tu them. Address will bo changed often na reanested. To the thanks. weather man: Many If worso comes to worst, Socretary Bryan might find a tenant for Fair view. It must afford Turkoy some con solation to know that Bulgaria camo to Its trot. Three things come natural to a normal American boy eating, sleep ing and playing baso ball. What will happon -when, In tho course ot human events, ono of thoso womon poltco encounter a taouso? Mr. Bryan might further supple ment his Incomo by selling his auto graphed photographs aftor each lec ture. Obf yos, a four-year term for the council 1b altogether too long, but a six-year term for tho Water board Is Just right The referendum autograph collec tors need not doapalr. Initiative potltlons may bo signed up tor a year yet. President Mellen's resignation as head of tho Now Haven railroads seems to be tho biggest popular hit ho over made. Wcathor men ignore tho dogrees of comparison when, with the thor mo meter ranging around 100, they predict "cooler" weather. A member ot the Omaha ball toam Is named Fox, and he seomB to be good at stealing bases, which is ex actly what ono would expect of a "Fox. A woman wearing a silt skirt is fined $25 in Richmond, Va and f 5 in Nownrk, N. J. They would doubt less tako up a collection for her in Chicago. London courts uiuy do tunny things without seeing the Joke, One rules that women may not practice law In England. How about law lessnesB? Ppcaking of public office and small salaries, Associate Justice Har lan died practically pennlloss after jnore than a third ot a century on the supremo bench. It's a cinch "tho new Job Is no sinecure : and we don't see our democratic senator from Nebraska holding out hay to the donkey or helping to push the cart, either. How would you like to carry $88,' uoo.uoo around wjtn you in your vest pocket, as did tho treasurer ot tho Union Pacific? Would It not be calculated to mako you feel "cocky1 for a tew minutes? When Ambassador Wilson reports at the cabinet meeting, with Presl jdent Wilson at the head of the table and Secretary Wilson at the foot. there will be only one prominent Wilson absent that's all. Senator Lewis, In Tardy Splendor. Dim WiUon's Sartorial Laurels-IJeadllns In Washington Post. Wowl ' But whatever possessed the president to think of matching wits with this famous facetious dresser? A professional ball player has stated' In a Chicago' court that bait players are slaves. It might be ex , plained that he has Just been rej leased and finds himself out ot de sirable employment. One of the suggestions embodied )n the banker's criticism of the cur jencyblll Is tor a smaller number ot federal reserve associations. The bill as drawn provides for not less than twelve such districts. This Is 8. pretty big country. Home Rule. wnntovnr oiso homo rulo may mean, or may not mean, as applied to ohartor-maklng, It certainly moans rulo by the people of the city who aro to bo governed by the charter as distinguished from rule by tho peoplo of some othor city. Down at Lincoln, for cxamplo, a homo rule charter convention Is at work framing a chartor for that city, and suroly any attempt by Omaha to dlctato what should be put In, or bo kept out of, Lincoln's charter would, to say It mildly, bo characterized by an unpleasant namo. Omaha Is, and will always be, glad to have helpful suggestions and ad vice from any source for making ours a better city, or giving us moro effi cient government, but tho only reason for utilizing tho now homo rulo constitutional amendment Is to get a home-made charter, and to bo free lu the future from being gov erned from Lincoln In matters that affect us alone. The Ineffaceable Facts. After one year's actual possession and operation of tho water works, no amount of Juggling with figures, nor of whitewash applications, will cover up theso Ineffaccablo facts: Furchaso by tho city, stopping pay ment of tax eg on tho water works amounting to $100,000 a year, has transferred this burden to tho other property owners. Doubling the water rate to South Omaha packers and raising to a GO- cent minimum tho small consumers using less than 2,000 gallons monthly, has Increased the rovenues by moro than any reductions to other consumers. In a nutshell, the peoplo have been compelled to pay $100,000 more In taxes without any compensating off set In reduced rates for wator. Whethor this Is duo to mismanage ment, miscalculations or simply per verseness is not clear. The Silver Lining. In referenco to Mr. Bryan's strug gle to keep tho wolf from the door at 12,000 a year, an Inventory of his resources purports to show that whllo his Falrviow homo and acres aro listed at $60,000 for assessment pur poses, tho actual value Is noarer 100,000; that his 240-acro farm near Mission, Tex., Is qulto valuable; that his Florida winter homo also represents a considerable Investment; that tho Commoner has boen pro ducing a good not revenue; that he often receives $500 for a slnglo loc turo and makos Uttlo pickups on tho side, such as for writing a newspaper story or magazine article. But in sp'lto of his financial diffi culties, thero Is a good day coming for Mr. Byran. As tho old song used to havo It: "Oh, thero's a good day coming, It Is coming; it has been a long time on tho way, but it's com ing," That wll be tho day whon the democratic free trado tariff gets to cutting tho cost of living down to tho levol whoro a hard working man drawing a salary of only $12,000 will not havo to spend his summer vaca tion in a desperate offorJL to mako both ends meet around tho family table, Mr. Bryan should cheor up when ho reflects that overy cloud has Its silver lining and he should bo tho first to detect theso silvery fringes ot hope. Women as Police. The experiment of employing women in police capacities, now in vogue' In Chicago, Minneapolis, Den ver, Omaha, Los Angeles and other cities, Is meeting with fair success that promises general acceptance lu time. Of courso, the feminine police officer will always have her special work and beat, such as bathing re sorts, public ddnco- halls and places where the sexes tntormlnglo and where Juvenile oversight Is required. Woman's sense ot tho proprieties tends to give an advantage and then, too, her Intuition and powor to com mand respect Increases her offoctlvo- ncss for such work. But, ot course, the women for police service must he selected with utmost discrimination, for upon their demoanor and dis cretion, after all, rests their measure of success. Price Hot Weather Joke. LINCOLN. Neb., July 15,-Thls Is tho hottett place on the map. Tho official temperature today was IK, Dlapalcb. In ino xvew xoru journal, j It must have boen pretty warm in the Journal office, for the man at the copy desk, falling to recognlxo the slip of the typewriter, displayed the story under this slizllng head: LINCOLN WITH 1W DEGREES, 8ET8 RECOItD, Now, of course, Lincoln is a pretty warm town In more ways than one, but when It comes to charging up against It a thermometer temperature of 156, it is time to protest. Official ;weather reports place the .maximum heat that day In Lincoln at 105.6 and are not to blame for dropping out the "0" and decimal point. Good democratic public servants come high, but we must have them There Is .Walter H. Page, our ambas sador to the court ot St. James and a member of a big publishing house, who says he never could havo af forded to accept the post but for the tact that his firm voted him a leave of absence at full pay, $35,000 a year, which, in addition to his $17,- 000 as ambassador, makes him available to us and thus eavca the day, Looking BackvW This Day itt Omaha, COMPILED TROM DEE FILES aja S JULY 10. ooa llilrty Years Ago Telegraph operators In Omaha, as else where throughout the country, have gons on a strike The signal flashed across tho wires at midnight In the words, "General Grant dropped dead," and In Omaha thirty-five operators dropped their Instruments. As If adding Insult to Injury the Port Hurons finished their series with the Union Pacifies knockouts, tho last one by a score of 6 to 1. The two clubs will meet again next month In Chicago. Through O. W. Doane and E. W. Sim eral an their attorneys, protesting prop orty owners have gone Into court to stop the contractors from paving Eleventh and Twelfth streets with Colorado sand stone. Prof. A. Rauschenbush of the BaDtlst Theological seminary of Rochester, N. Y., Is visiting Rev. A. Genius of this city. Bcnafrer, Sexton and Wallace, the famous bllllardlsts, passed through tho city going to Denver to participate in the groat billiard tournment there. Charlie Elguttcr, son of our nonular and well-known merchant, M. Elguttcr, nas returned from the east, where h graduated from Phillips academy, and will enter the freshman class at Harvard next fall. Charllo was ono of the editors of the "Exonlon." the class paper, and the class historian says he Is an original port. Among the Improvements In procrets at tho Union Pacific depot Is the con structlon of an Iron spiked railing about tho platform occupied by hacks an! omnibuses. Mrs. Troxell, on Karnam street, second house west of Twenty-fourth, wants a girl for general housework. Twenty Years Ago General Passenger Agent John Francis went to Chicago to attend a meeting of tho Western Passenger association. W. R. Kelley of the Union Pacific law department was rusticating In tho Colo rado mountains. Mies Kate Fowler returned to Omaha after a visit with friends at Lcadvllle. Colo. Judge Neville, Mrs. Neville and their son loft for Chicago to remain until the closing of tho World's fair, which they wisnea to see thoroughly. Councllmen Jacobson. Steel and Wheeler of tho committee on public property and Duwmngs; Building Inspector Tilly, Con tractor Coots and Architect Belndorft made an Inspection of tho new city hall preparatory to Its final acceptance by the city council. John Stringer, a youth of twenty sum mers, made his maiden trip In. a balloon at Courtland Beach. Ho hod intended coming down In a parachute, but Instead came In tho lake. He had the good sense to doh a life preserver before soaring and that probably saved him from drowning. An Important visit to tho city by Eu- gone Debs, tho national labor leader, was noraided forth by some- of his brethren here. '"n Years Agi Several people applied at the city Jail to seo a couple ot magnetic healer fakers arrotaed and held there. Ono man had his llttlo girl with htm, saying ho had paid tho fakers $7 to treat her. and wanted to get tho worth' of hli'htorioV.- ' Pa Jtourke marched .a young man named Prcmmer In from tho tall, uncut brushes of Sioux Falls to play shortstop lor nis oaaement dwellers. Frank Genlns, who had been doing good work at short since tho desertion of Joe Dolan, was to be sent back to center, where he was much needed. "Less utility and more kindness In tho home," Ilev. J. W. Conley of the First Paptlst church, said, was one of tho needs of the day. ' Members of tho Douglas" County Fish and Game Protection they were receiving complaints of Illegal 1 fishing and seining at Cut-Off lakeland demanded a deputy game warden. ' Omaha and St. Joseph split a double- leader at Vinton stroet park. War San- dtrs held tho Josles to seven and Glade Omaha to five hita in the second game, won by the Itourkes. In the first game Milton for Omaha allowed Ht. Joseph twelve hits and the game. Whllo Falls for St Joseph fell on the home team so heavily as to hold them to three hits and as many runs. People Talked About Iteuben Winter, a man who was a .wit ness in court in Norristown. Pa., 63 years ago, came to collect his witness fee a few days ago. Sixteen normal school girls In CSeva iana are energetically competing for prises as fly swatters. Evidently thoro are riles on Cleveland. The will of Alfred Austin, the late poet laureate, was probated In London. The estate, which amounts to 110,(90, is all bequeathed to his widow. Miss Alice Grady, secretory to Louis D. Urondels and financial secretary of the Massachusetts Savings insurance League. Is said to be the highest salaried woman In Boston. The first cotton blossoms of the year were brought Into Dal ton. Oa.. July S, by John Cronlc, of the Dug Gap section. Thli Is unusually early for the blooms and Indicates the earliest cotton crop In years. Senator J. Ham Lewis of Illinois. In his summer duds Is an animated edition of Old Glory. ' He wears red whiskers. Mue sack coat and white duck trousers. These are flanked with docorattvo torches which must be seen to be ap preciated. Plnekney 8. Coon of Chicago, a veteran ot the civil war,, having fallen heir to a fortune of WI.OOO, saluted the tax re view board and asked to be au'essed on $30,000 worth of personal property. When the board recovered. Its collective breath, It granted the veteran's request. Samuel A Kean. a Chicago banker ot bygone days, is dead at his home in Evanston, aged 7ft. Mr. Kean made practice ot starting the day's business with prayer, followed by singing qt hymns, and remarks on the biblical les eon of .the day. , That was twenty years ago. when Chicago was handing out spiritual touches to the World's fair crovrds. Illinois' oldest triplets. Freeman and Hiram ilakestraw and their stster, Mrs. Harriet Ilocker, all of Taxewell county, celebrated their fifty-ninth birthday July 5. Tho mother of the IUkeatraw triplets gave birth to twins two years after th? triplets were born, and one of these twins became the father of fourteen chll drcn, two ot whom were twins. THE BKEjOMAIIA, KATtTJDAY, JULY In Other Lands Ilrltlsh Reform Triumph. Three of the great measures 'of reform formulated by the Aequlth ministry are well on their way to the statute books of Great Britain home rule, for Ireland, Welch church disestablishment and aboli tion of plural" voting. Home rule and the Welsh church measures are scheduled to become laws together next May, while the manhood suffrage bill may1 be delayed by opposition In the House of Lords. On the two former measures the ministerial strength and final vote stood well ovei 100 majority, a demonstration of paif J!- rBr""' ... nIM.rllw .ffn.JlBrf I 11.11. - iun ui mo uiiuiuun. i ne action or me House of Lords In declining "to proceed with tho consideration of the home rulo bill unUt It has been submitted to the Judgment of the country," will have no effect on the fate of the measure. The purpose of the Lansdowne motion Is to emphasize the unionist claim that homo rule for Ireland was never submitted separately to a vote of the country, not withstanding the fact that self-government for Ireland has been the dominant plank in the liberal party platform in the threo last general elections. It was the main Issue In the election which annulled the veto power of the peers. In that measure provision was made against such action as the lords have taken. "A bill," tho law declares, "shaft be deemed te jectcd by- tho-House of Lords If It Is not passed." Refusal to act Is equivalent to rejection. lrMnrinjr for Home Itnlr. All Ireland, except Ulster. Is "putting the house In order" for the reception Of home rule next year. No doubt Is enter tained of a successful Issue of a third of a century's ceaseless campaign for the right of self-government. Plans for In augurating tho machinery of governmental ..in uemg amcussea in tho press and con sidered by leaders. Dispatches from Lon don and Dublin agree that the king and queen will be asked to open the first Irish parliament Unanimity Is evident on the proposition that John ltedmonu, leader of the Irish nationalists, will be the first premier and John Dillon his chief associate. "On the final passage of home rue," says tho London News, "Irish privy councllorshlps are to be conferred on Messrs. Rodmond.nnd Dillon. In due course Mr. Redmond will retire from active leadership of the nationalists In the House of Commons and will doubt less be succeeded by T. P. O'Connor Already efforts aro being made with the Uank of Ireland wherebv th m nn.. ment house on College green, long occupied umm may D8 rMtore(j t0 ,t8 con(tI. luuuiitu luncuoni of nhirh it , tripped In 1S0L "It Is anlplnn the London News, "that the royal assent to the home rule bill will be signified about the month of June next year. The act comes Into operation 'on the first' Tuesday in the eighth month' after this month, which would be the first Tues day ln February. 1915. but by an order In council the Imperial government can antedate the operation seven months or post-date It soven months." IVavnl Ittvnlrlr.. Ir, t nnd,Ita,r "PP" o bo engaged th. I ,.rlVa,ry ,0r naVftl uP"macy on the Mediterranean. Both have recently oimeres or Influence and icrruory in north Africa, and more war- snips "follow the flnr." Ai,.-io , i pc.cted to enter the race laf.r -mJi the present France and Italy .hold tho "Pot Ight In the navol'race. Km their ac tivities are chiefly Interesting for the r.nanjlo4 problems involved. h- already paid out tD0.000.Wfor Its excur- .un inio xripoii and Cyranalca. and ,r. Ptnses are growing as the itnii.n of Invasion proceeds with the chase of wumng Araoa. ln the Interior. New- sources of revenue at horn. abundant. Existing sources of taxation aro squeezed close to the limit Similar conditions obtain In France. This year's budget far exceeds available revenue. To meoi me aoricit a loan of 200,000,000 Is under consideration, and a sDeciai loan of $100,00.000 is deemed necessary to offset Germany's extraordinary1 war tax icvy ot S2w.wo.ooo. Doth loans will drlv. spikes in Franco's future budgets In the xorm or an annual Interest char r t.H.000,000. "National greatness" Is thus built up on a foundation of debt and moves forward to national poverty, If not uanaruicy. tlr.rmnn Illrtli Itnte Fnlllns;. tsiatements made ln the Ilelchstajr hv the German minister of war and .cor. roboratcd in part by the minister of the interior, show that. tho birth rate of the empire Is steadily declining. In 1S76 the birth" rate In Oermany was- 39H per J.COJ Inhabitants. In 1912 It had fallen to 29, a decreaso ln births amounting to 750,030 a year. The showing, alarming as It id. pt-ars. Is offset by an equally marked decreaso' In the death rate, and to this alono Is duo the fact that In the twelve years sjnee 1900 the population of the cmplro has increased by S,S0O,00O. The death rato ln 1874 was 2S per 1,000 Inhab itants. In 190) this was reduced to 20H, while last year the rate had fallen to 1J4. ir tne aeata rate had not fallen the min ister of the Interior estimates that there would be a reduction of the population today. Throughout tho period Indicated fiom 1900 to 1912-the marriage rate re mained about tho same about elsht oar i.ouo ot tne population so that as the minister of the Interior says, "the causo which might explain the surprising low ering of, the natality of Germany Is not to be sought ln that direction." Editorial Snapshots' 'Boston Transcript: , A Frenchman has Invented a machlnetwhlch. it Is claimed. will put the shorthand writers 'out ot business, but It it hasn't got. dimpled elbows and "blue eyes the stenographers needn't worry- Wall street Journal: Secretary of thj Navy Daniels says he intends to educate naval officers to be better fitted for civil life so they may resign even sooner after getting an education at the publlo ex pense. Baltimore American: The fool whs rocks the boat has not been In evidenco so far, but it Is expecting too much from fate to hope that the publlo has heard tho last ot him. Unless, Indeed, he has left boat-rocking for the more congenial and even more ' fatal 'sport of speeding motorcycles and automobiles. Springfield. (Mass.) ItepubUcan: The rumor that A movement has started ln congress to pension the surviving con federate veterans roust have been born at the Gettysburg celebration. It is not likely for the present to get any farther north than Lee's army did. The war 'j over, but the annual pension approprU tlon for old soldiers is bigger than ever before In American history. 19, 191 Wees WW oxl Hock to the Krnr OMAHA. July ll To the Editor of The Bee: If I withdrew from the scene ot action after drawing Mr. Wooster's fire, It was only because certain others had attacked him, and as I believe In fair play, I had no deslro to join with three or four others to crush an honoroblo op ponent, nho Is fighting alone. However, If Mr. Wooster prefers ad dressing nil argument o me. I shall not only feel deeply touched by such an ex Mravagant Piece of flattery, but I will ,, , , --. . with all possible speed return to thb charge. Now, classification In science Is ot primary Importance, and so It Is In re ligion. In order, therefore, that each may know the other's creed, I ask Mr. Wooster to state whether he Is a deist an atheist or an agnostic; he must belong to one of these groups If he denies the divinity of Christ and the authenticity of the Bible. Does Mr. -Wooster adhere to the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, or Immanuel Kant, or the monlstla philos ophy of Prof. Hacckcl; docs he believe In worshiping humanity as Mr. Fredrick lfarrison does? Does be believe that the existence of God can be proven by ar guments drawn from nature, as Thomas Paine believed? But come to think of It, It will be unnecessary to answer all these questions provided he takes his stand either as a deist, an atheist or an ag nostic; we shall know by ono word what he believes or. refuses to believe. For my part, I believe In God, the Father, the total depravity df the race, the atone ment, the Immortality of tho soul and In future rewards and punishments. It Mr. Wooster wilt not believe a doctrine until It Is proven to be true by logical methods; then I say that he must refuse a belief ln the Deity; for that the uni verse was created by an external agency, can never be proyen by any system of logic whatever. In this world a man must act not by what he knows and can prove by "deduction, but by what he believes to be true; we live by faith, not by positive knowledge. I am 40 years of oge, , because my mother told me the date of my birth, and I have no other proof. Now if Mr. Wooster believes that thoso who defend the teachings of Christ are Ignorant, let him lay down his rea sons for believing that the universe was created by God (If he docs believe it); or let htm prove that tho universe is self-exlstant (If he belleva that); or let him show that the universe Is self treated (If he had rather believe that). Theso threo statements are the only one that can bo made concerning the origin ot the world, and Mr. Wooster may tako his cholce, and I defy him or anyone to prove any ono of the three, without hav ing recourse,to the doctrine and author ity of falth For my part I leave the bear" business and all other puzzles to be discussed after the heavier questions are settled; time and type wCU be saved by commencing at the beginning and above all by omitting ridicule, coarse Jokes and lawyers' quibbles. E. O. M. EttBenlcs. OMAHA, July 16.--To the Editor of The Bee: In Its field ot political activity the American Medical association has added another lever for the promotion of a medical hierarchy, in a proposed law for eugenic marriage. This law, promulgated under the guise of "protection" and "fu ture generation," Is a serious menace to the peace and prosperity of every citizen. Of such legislation Dr. Ralph Reed says, That such a procedure would go far to ward abolishing disease Is ' questionable. There Is no question, however, but that It would abolish marriage." We cannot Interfere with the Inalien able right ot natural selection and. mar riage resulting from mutual affection, without incurring the risk that with the marrlage license so difficult to obtain the bond of matrimony would be less re spected and Immorality take Its place, No law Is constitutional which would tend to make law-breakers of good lnten- ttoned citizens. Moreover, a thoroughly democratic law effects the greatest good to the greatest number, but eugenic legislation would affect least that larger class, of people where reform Is most needed. As far as practical, the state cares for its criminals. Insane and degenerates. To do more would be to encroach on Individual liberty. The law of heredity, like others man- made. Is fast losing prestige, even in the medical world. Victor Hugo recognized that mental and moral might do not spring from physical organism when he made the statement that msny of tne world's greatest men of genius have sprung from obscqre homes and paren tage which physicians would term. phy sically unfit, and vce versa. "It has been aptly said that Americans lock their criminals in prisons, while England sends theirs to Australia to become the fathers of prime ministers." It Is given to no human being to say what the offspring of two people will be. Reproduction de fies supposition and conjecture alike and recognizes no medical law. To eliminate the law of natural selection and base marriage on a purely physical basis. Is to place the home on a level with the brothel and cause generation to spring from the lowest rather than from the highest sentiments. The physical status of a ctvlUzed country depends on Us moral, social and economic conditions, and these are Its avenues of regeneration. Again. Dr. Cabot, world famed In dlag nosls, admits that at least halt ot his diagnoses have proved Incorrect In the face Of this, mo aiiop&imo mcuicai iru- fusion demands that we place our most sacred Institution on the admittedly un reliable and dangerous basis of medical diagnosis. PEARLK CHAMBERLIN. Who' Behind Itt LINCOLN. July 1S.-TO the Editor of The Bte: There Is no need for anybody to be mystified or mistaken over the source ot the movement to invoke the referendum on the last legislature's armory appropriation. This referendum has been promoted by the Nebraska Voters' Legislative league, of which I am the acting executive secre tary. The league Is a state-wide organ ization, whose purpose is to promtte progressive legislation in Nebraska and to block the contrary kind. An idea of Its character and scope is conveyed by the personnel of Its executive council, which Is as follows: Representative F. L-. Boll en of Knox county, chairman; Horace M. Davis. Ord, secretary; Senator J. A. OUls of Valley county, Senator N. P. Dodge of Douglas. Representative H. E. Palmer of Clay, A. L. Weathcrly of Lincoln, Senator J. II. Kemp of Nance, R. U. Hqwell of Omaha. George W. Potts or Pawnee. J. N. Norton of Polk. W. L. Locke of Lin coin. John 11 tasty of Jerferson. L E. Aylsworth ot Lincoln, A. W. Richardson, trrsiurer. Lancaster; J. F. Conical, Red Willow and W. M. Stebblns, Dawson. All but one member of this council was present it I understand rightly, when it was decided unanimously that the people of this state ought to have a chance to vote on this appropriation. The council realized, lis Colonel Fetter man Has since confirmed, that this first armory Is but the entering wedge to many more. We have on file as volun teer workers a list ot 110 bankers. As representing the taxpayers they are In terested In putting a moral check on the entire system .of log-rolling appropria tions. Lancaster county has merely taken care of Intself ln this matter, as has Douglas and every other county where the league has an active membership. The total expense for the league 'for paid circulators will be about 200. Its funds have come from voluntary con tributors throughout the state: men In terested, but too busy to do personal work. C. A. SORENSEN. GRINS AHD GROANS. "Tea," said Senator Graphtor, with a i! 3v&lg!rTn deeply toT h8 'e"; 0r. senator." said one or his fellow townsmen, enthusiastically. nobody deserves to be returned to them more than you do." Harper's Weekly. Missionary to cannibal) What makes your chief so talkative today 7 Cannibal Oh, he ate a couple of bar bers this morning. Minnesota Mlnne-Ha-lis. Miss Summerboarder-Have you noticed what delightful air this Is? "WOiy, it ab- puiuioif intoxicates ono. Cleverton-H'm! It ought to. chargo champagne prices. Puck. They "You seem to be perplexed." "I am. I inherited S2.E00 the other day, and I don't know whether (o buy an auto mobile or do a little business on the Board of Trade." "Oh, go to the board and get It all off your mind at once." Chicago Record Herald. "I hear Jones' fatal attack was a terri Excursion Fares East ATTRACTIVE CIRCUIT IMS From Omaha Return Limit 60 Days ' Hound Trip, ONE-WAY via Chicago; Niagara Falls, Hudson River to New York; OTHER.. "WAY coast steamer to Norfolk, thence home Tin Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago or St Louis 850.00 ONE-WAY via Chicago, Buffalo to Montreal, Lake Chatnplaln Country, Albany, to Jloston; OTHER WAY sound team era to New York and rail homeward G0.05 ONE-WAY as abovc4 OTHER WAY via New York, coast steamer to Norfolk, steamer through Chcaaneakd Bay or rail to Washington, home through the or St, Louis ONE-WAY via Chicago, through Canada, Montreal, White Moun. tains to Boston; OTHER WAY rail or sound sieamer to New York, rail to Washington and homeward '. . . . 52.35 ONE-WAY as abovo to Boston, OTHER WAY via rall-or, sound steamer to New York, steamer to Old Point Comfort and WashlngtoB, thence direct lines homeward 56.45 St Lawrence River $4.50 Higher. DIRECT New York City, standard' routes Now York . City, other desirable routes Atlantic City, N. J., standard routes Atlantic City N. J., other desirable Boston, Mass (via Montreal) Boston, Mass direct Quebec, P. 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