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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23
SartoriaI Outcry.

A change OF some sOrt In neither
garments would be welcomed by
many for since the introduction Of
the crease they have been stationary
from the standpoint Of style, and 1t
would be well II some flu,ing. plcat.
ing or strapping could be introduced
to rcvivify this garment. Tailor and
Cutter.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

70 improve the general health. take
Garfield Tea daily for u time; it puriiics
the blood, graduates rheumatism and
many chronic ailments, and keeps the
health good. Garfield Tea is made Of
herbs; II il guaranteed under the Pure
Food and Drugs Law. Garfield Tea Co.,
brooklyn, n. y.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23
A Compliment.

"Of course" said Miss Clumsay,
"Mr. Kidder's language Is not always
elegant. but he can be very compli.
mcntary In his rough way" "Ycs?"
asked Miss Wise. Yes. He says I'm
q bird" Huh! So IL. an ostrich"
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23
ODE yina His Command.

Benham-Did you have any com
pany while ! was away?
Mrs. Benham-Nobody to speak or.
Benham-Wasn't your mother here?
Mrs. Benham-Yc3, but you won't
let me speak to her.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

Dad inquired Freddy, what Is a
figure of spccch?'" where's your mo
thcr?" asked Dad cautiously. she's
downstairs" answered the boy. We'll,
them" began Dad" "a figure OF
speech, my son. is a woman."-Har'
pcr's Weekly.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

To bc on good terms with human nature,
Be Well! Garfield Tea puriiics the blood,
eradicates disease, regulates the digestive
organs and brings Good Health. Manu-.
featured by Garfield Tea 90, Brooklyn,
n. Y. Sold by d%rnggists.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

[S@BEEY
~ SS@p
A SIMPLE WAX PRESS.
Where There 10 Not Much Wax to
Press II Is All Right.

There is a little kink I parctice in
rendering old and black combs. !
used the Swiss extractor; and after
all the wax had run out possible from
the extractor the refuse was dumped,
steaming hot. into a burlap sack. the
sack being tied up close to the Stun.
gum. The bag was then held by one
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

Working For Christian Endeavor.
DR.. Francis f.. Clark. OF the Chris
tian Endeavor society, Is visiting the
West Indies. Panama and South
American republics In the interest Of
that organization.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

Lewis Single Binder straight Sc. You
pay l0c for cigars not 30 good. Your dealer
or Lewis Factory, Peoria, III.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

The people OF Colorado are 80 con.
Hdent that publicity pays large divi.
dends that they are going to spend
a fund in advertising the states re.
sources.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

When a girl invites a young man to
her home for dinner. and he Is told
that she did the cooking. It's time for
him 10 sit UP and take notice.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

No, Cordelia, a man doesn't neces'
sarily have paint in his eyes when he
IL color blind.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

Dycing is ns easy as washing when
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are used.
Ask your druggist.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23
IHIstorv viii Be Costly,

So far the British Official history
Of the Boer war has cost $l25. 900. and
only one volume has appeared.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

Some people, after expressing the
wish to do unto others as they would
have others do unto them, let 1t 80 at
that
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

i,s tough even on the six.rooter
when he has one foot In the grave.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

Lewis Single Binder. costs more thar
other SC cigars. Smokers know why
Your dealer or Lewis Factory. Peoria, Ill
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

What reason could not avoid has
often been cured by delay.-Seneca.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-23

Most people seem to enjoy coming
out Of a church more than they do 80.
Ing IN.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
Personal NOTES.


Alabama pronouncesvprize euchre crime.
but the woman who didn't get the prize
already felt this way about 1t.
Sir Alfred Jones proclaims that swetten-
ham was the right man In the right place.
This completes the evidence of the people
against Jones.
A 'isitor at the home of Joaquin Miller
expressed surprise at the absence of a
library. "Booksl'' exclaimed the poet. al
do not read books: write them"
A man who has known e II. Hartman
for more than twenty years said a few
days ago: "The one quality that Hartman
possesses which more than all others lie a
constant source Of wonder to me is his un-
RENTING and, l may say, his furious
energy"
Thomas. Murray, well known Chicago
merchant declares the Osler theory err
roneous in his Autobiography of Bust
ness Man" He says, My experience has
been that men OF mature years are more
attentive to their duties and ADLER than
younger men, and 1 would rather hire a
man past IS who has had experience than
hire young man who does not appreciate
his position"
To prevent the log cabin in which General
U. s. Grant and his family lived in st.
Louis county from being taken to the
jamestown exposition, Judge Leo Rassleur
has started a movement to purchase the
historical structure by a popular subscrip-
ton and to permanently locate 1t in Forest
park, St. Louis. Judge Rassieur believes
that IL the cabin leaves st. Louis It will
never return.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
CENTER THE FIRE.

The Commercial club and Real Es-
tate exchange and the various i'm
provement clubs of Omaha are taking
a hand in legislation more particu-
larly affecting their own varied inter-
ests. They are sending delegr IONS
to Lincoln to impress upon 4 y
makers their views of the douL 1t
fire department, the increase Oh city
fund limits and the Encouragement Of
charter Offices, all subjects on which
there is more or less disagreement.
On the one subject, however, In which
Omaha is most vitality interested and
on which every conceivable interest
that shares in the burden of municipal
government, is thoroughly at unison
namely, terminal taxation--no con-
certed action has yet been taken.
The people of Omaha should wake
up to the fact that while they are
more or less interested in various
measures before the legislature, ter
minal taxation overshadows them all
in real Importance. Omaha has been
handicapped and embarrassed for
years for the lack of municipal reve-
nues ample enough to maintain a city
government fully responding to its
capped in this way because a large
part of the property of the railroads,
property taxable here for city pur-
poses, has escaped municipal taxation
altogether and the taxes which the
railroads ought to pay have been un-
loaded upon the shoulders of other
property owners.
Terminal taxation on a basis of a
most conservative valuation would
bring the city of Omaha approximately
100000 a year and would provide
means to enlarge the fire department,
improve the police service, extend the
parks and boulevards. enlarge the area
of street lighting, give us better street
cleaning, keep our payements In good
repair and possibly reduce the out
standing debt, without increasing the
present tax rate. 1t would do all this
without taking away from any outside
county or school district cent of tax
now received from the railroads and
would be only imposing on the rail-
roads taxes which they ought to pay
and which they have long wrongfully
escaped.
The conditions were never more
promising for Omaha to secure redress
of this crying evil Of railroad tax
Sinking, from which It is suffering in
common with other cities in Nebraska.
What is needed, however, is for our
people to reinforce and back up our
representatives in the legislature and
to center the FIRE at the focal point.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
10 pRorEor M1NrRAL LANps.

President Roosevelt's strong effort to
secure legislation at this session for
the preservation Of the remaining
coal, petroleum and gas resources of
the public domain has instantly en-
countered opposition in both senate and
house. No secret is made that at a
protracted conference with the leading
members of the senate committee on
public lands the president was fiatly
informed that IL was hopeless to at
tempt to pass the LaFoll7tte or the
Nelson bill which provides for with
drawing from sale all public lands
containing those minerals and for de-
veloping them by system of leases
under stringent safeguards against
monopoly or other prejudice to public
interest. Nor is 1t improbable that
what the senators say is true, espe-
cially as some OF the members Of the
committee itself are understood to be
hostile to the administration on gen
eral principles and particularly to its
scrupulous care for the public lands.
Public sentiment nevertheless lie un-
Qualifiedly with the president in favor
of conserving the fuel stores still un-
der national title against spoliation
by corporation conspiracy. The reve-
lations the last year in the course of
criminal prosecutions and the more
recent Investigations by the Interstate
Commerce commission and the Depart
ment of Commerce have thrown into
bold relief the necessity for prompt
and throughgoing remedy. While the
title to some mineral land OF which
the government has been fraudulently
Invested may be recovered, the bulk
of 1t has gone beyond recall. and
millions Of acres are exposed in the
present loose state OF the land laws.
In any event the administration is
clear Of responsibility for continuance
of the situation IL congress refuses to
mend 1t, as 1t is practically sure now
to do. In the conference that has just
been held the president, according to
all accounts, explicitly disclaimed any
desire to interfere in the detailed pro-
visions of the measure II only It ac-
complished the paramount purpose,
namely, protection of the public in
terest and rights in the public fuel
possessions. No one has proposed any
other method for doing this except by
preserving the public title to these
lands which have been so rapidly and
grossly dissipated by frauds and
abuses under existing laws,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
CAUGHT IN 4 MoRAL KAvE.

Eastern opinion of the wild and
woolly west must be revised. When
David Belasco or the Frohmans want
to inspect a gambling den at close
range to get local color for one of
the dramas depicting western life, it
will be necessary to hunt up one of
the New York joints some time when
the lid is not on tight. The roman
GERS who draw monthly checks from
magazines for depicting life on the
honors with the cowboy. will have to
consult the files or draw on their ina
ginations
Arizona, about the last of the west
ern states to take legal cognizance
of gambling as a profession, has
passed law providing that after
April /, 1907, the tiger shall go into
mourning and the roulette wheels and
faro layouts shall be decorated with
Grape. BY official decree, there will
be recognition of night in Tucson,
Tombstone and Phoenix as a time for
sleep and natural rest. The cowboy
and the prospector who have spent
months on the range or the mountains
will no longer be able to dissipate
their savings in one glad round of
dissipation In a battle with the god
dess of chance on the green table. All
that is past. Gambling is doomed. at
least 30 far as state recognition Of
the business as a subject for revenue
raising license is concerned.
The Arizona gambler has no more
standing now than a road agent. Moth
ing is left for him but to hike for
New York, where the game still flour
ishes, between elections. or swallow
his pride and turn his attention to
selling fake mining stock to wayfar-
ing tenderfeet.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07

almost as absurd. There are fifty rea-
sons for maintaining these fifty I'M
necessary customs ports and each rea-
son bears federal appointment for
some favored politician, but congress
shows symptoms of being in a mood
that will not respond to such reasons.
The amount OF money involved in
the maintenance of these useless ap-
pendages OF the customs service. like
the financial feature of the pension
agency waste, is not large. as govern
ment appropriations go, but It is a
cheering sign that congress is becom-
ing aroused to the existence Of waste
fulness in the government service and
is showing a disposition to put a stop
TO II.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
PLEASANTLY PUT.

"Old FNlIerplunks, who died a menth or
two ago, didn't leave you anything, hey2 l
thought he was a near relative OF you're"
NearG He IVES closer than the shrunken
jacket on a sixteen-inch gunl"-Chicsgo
Tribune. i
1T costs more to live than Il used to-"
remarked the economist. tN
Yes" answered the energetic man, but
transact in a given time and the CORE
spending results you can get out or life
Washington Star. H
''Mulrooney, wud yez like a little drink
Thanks. 1T Casey; wud."
Then the battle washington
Herald. -"setf ~
Maria, what's them oscuiatlon exercises
the health board says ain't sanitary
'Osculation, ma, Is what might be called
one of the pressing matters OF the times"
Baltimore Americana 81
There's too much deceitful talk in this
world" said Mrs. Kandor. II think IL one
should confine himself 10 the truth
But" said Mr.. Kandor, suppose there
are ladies present. "-Philadelphia Press.
IT am gratihed," remarked the attorney
for the state, ito, hnd one man willing TO
81 believe every citizen should do his
duty" said the talesman, modestly Be
sides, the defendant once poisoned my
|
I've just lost my job the fees will come
In handy. Washington Star.
Never mind" said the surgeon. you'll
come through this all right. Well have
you on your feet again inside OF six
months" s.tt
After which they proceeded to amputate
the sufferers leg.-Washington Star
Employer-Procrastina is the thief Of
CIerk-Yes, sir; that's why I always
watch the clock.-New. York Sun.
Dismal Old Lady-I don't suppose shall
| ever want another pair Mr.. Stibbins.
Oleaginous Elderly Shopman-I 'ope you'll
wear out a lot more shoe leather yet, mum.
Dismal Old Lady-Ah, but I've one foot
Oleaginous Elderly Shopman-Most 'appy
! to. sell you a single boot. mum.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer. +f
Attorney (for the defense)--Do you know
| anything about the merits OF this case?
Venireman-I should say not. 1t hasn't
any merits. -
Attorney-we'n take this man, your
honor.-Chicago Tribune.
Ascum--Did Shea actually ask old Rox-
| ley for his daughters hand2 - -
'Wise-Yes, and he claims he compelled
the old man to toe the mark. gse-
Ascum-You don't sayf
Wise-Yes but Shea was the mark
Catholic Standard and Times.
Little boy" said the good woman, do
YOU always tell the TRUTH"
Don't you know its very. very naughty
''Yes'm."
1T don't. Sometimes I'm too busy to
4 talk, "-Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
MEANING of A SMILE.

8. f. Kiser in the Record-Herald.
We speak in many tongues. we men
Who do the work that men must Go
With sword and spade and pillow and pen
Ny language may be strange to you;
may not know when you complain,
Nor comprehend II you revilei
Your preaching may be all in vain,
But we are brothers when we smile.
The Malay may not understand 81
When explain to him my creed;
The Mongol, all unmoved and bland.
May think that I am mad indeed:
To them the words l use may be
A jargon fashioned TO heguile;
But they extend their hands to me
And know my meaning when l smile.
We speak in many tongues, we men
Who do the work that must be done,
And II, perchance, some morning when
The first beam slanted from the sun
A savage faced you where YOU woke
Upon the farthest South Sea isle.
He might not know what words you spoke,
But he would understand your smile.
The spoken word may not convey
The slightest meaning 10 our minds,
But from the coolest Iapland bay
To where MRgeilan's channel winds
From Ganges TO the Amazon,
From frozen Yukon TO the Nile,
And from La Plata TO the Don.
There is one meaning for smile.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
HEPBURN ON RIVER NAvIGATIoN
Turns n Spot Light ON the sinuositie.
of the Subject,


Pittsburg Dispatch.
The speech OF the Hon. "Pete" Hepburn
OF Iowa on the river and harbor appropria-
ton bill contains a brace OF propositions
that lead to an unavoidable conclusion.
The report OF that lawmakers remarks
which we fnd in a washington paper shows
that he states first concerning river In
provements: when you take out the sand
bars and the sinuosities from a river you
increase it's current enormously. making IL
practically impossible OF navigation" After
which in the next paragraph he is quoted
as saying ''of the Missouri river that the
sandbars and the bends in that stream had
made It absolutely impossible OF naviga-
ton"
The difference between practically int
possible" and absolutely impossible" is
not vital with regard TO navigation, since
either. II demonstrated. knocks out the
navigation. Mr.. Hepburn's logic, therefore,
sets forth somewhat dogmatically that tax
ing out the sandbars and bends makes navi-
cation impossible. and If they are left in
1t is impossible from the start. Wherefore
navigation is forced to take to the woods
or otherwise use the overland route.
This would be convincing IL there were
not ground for the suspicion that Mr. Hep
burn has adopted the lockwood style in his
logic. He condemns and executes naviga
ton to begin with. and then turns out his
evidence that navigation is necessarily. and
always impossible.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
R1NrrR sroRM LossEs.

Winter conditions In an extensive. re-
gion Of the northwest make severe live
stock losses inevitable. and q multi
tude of specific cases have already
been reported. Six weeks Of deep
snow and almost continuous extreme
low temperature from the Canadian
boundary down to about the line OF
the Missouri river has covered forage
on the Dakota and Montana ranges
to the great injury of cattle and sheep
The proportion of exposed live stock
is not so large as formerly, because OF
the breaking up of range into farms
and small ranches, but tens of thou
sands OF head are still at the mercy
Of billiards and deep-lying snow. On
the other hand, the heavy snow
blanket is regarded as favorable to
the winter wheat crop throughout the
same tract.
These extreme winter conditions
have not till lately seriously invaded
the range country of northern and
northwestern Nebraska. There is APP
prehension in the grain trade Of dam
age to winter wheat In the southwest
ern section, including the major part
of Nebraska, because the heavy freeS-
ing weather came on before the soil
had any snow covering. The extent
of such damage to sown grain is, of
course, not yet known. but fear ofdt
has been sufficient to prove already
a distinct factor in the grain markets.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
now LABOR SCARCITY ACTS.
Methods Employed 10 EquaIiEe De-
mand and supply.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.

st. Louis Globe Democrat
The labor shortage is causing trouble in
unexpected ways. II is compelling some
of the railroads to raise their limit Of age
tolerance among employees. The Pennsyl-
vania road, which shut out everybody over
IS years Of age from the rank and file Of
its workers, has had to raise the dead line
to 10 years. The Baltimore and Ohio and
several other roads have had to make a
similar move. They could not get enough
workers under thirty-fve-year restriction.
In the present Astounding prosperity the old.
the middle-aged and the young are alike
employed. And the prosperity is on the up
grade rather than stationary or going
downward.
Another way In which the prosperity is
manifesting itself is in compelling state
boards to go to Europe and get immigrants
and promise them employment when they
get here. South Carolina Invented this
plan. and other states are adopting e.
Alabama, Virginia. Georgia, Mississippi and
Louisiana are moving in that direction now
and there is a proposition that Missouri
take a similar step Neither the west nor
the south is getting enough immigrants to
meet the demand here for workers on the
farms and In the factories. Most Of the
present immigrants stay in the states east
OF Ine AlleBnbnl6S anu VI tut EOIO-
mac. The rest OF the country needs more
workers. and the South Carolina plan Of
going abroad to get them has attractions.
A better distribution among the imni-
grants would be desirable. The local boards
in the south and west which are ostensibly
engaged in enticing settlers TO their home
states are evidently not busy at the big i'm
migration ports. II they had agents at
New York who knew their business they
would probably be able to get larger
supply of workers for their communities
than are coming in under the present con-
ditione The other plan-that of going to
Europe for them-is still open. and II is
likely to be utilized in large degree in
1907 While republican prosperity holds out
there will be no excuse for ANYBODY In the
United states to be idle who is physically
or mentally able to work. and while re-
publican sway continues there is an ex-
cellent chance that the good times VIII
stay with U.S. in some degree at least.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
Production of Rect Sugar.

The production Of beet sugar in the
United States is increasing slowly but
surely. Last year the output was 345,O0O
tons Of 2,24O pounds each, an increase of
q per cent over that OF the campaign of
1sO5-oS. At present we are importing seven
times as much sugar as the domestic pro-
duction. but there is reasonable certainty
that in the not very remote future the
home demand will be wholly supplied by
the domestic producer. That has been the
history Of every efrort made by the United
States to meet the domestic requirements
for articles which the country is capable
of producing.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07

The Treasury departments report
shows also that there are thirty-hve
other ports at which the receipts ex-
coed 800 per annum. but are still
much less than the expenses. For
all these places. the revenues for the
last year aggregated s4s.347 and the
expenses S144.131. Congressman who
have had their friends. named as col
leetors at these points are finding 1t ex-
ceedingly difaeult to offer any argu-
ment for continuing these expense
producing oficials in once. The con-
tention that the customs house is a
warning to smuggiers will have little
weight when made 10 continue the
port at Little Egg Harbor, N. j.. for
Instance. where the receipts last year
were 40 cents, collected at an expense
OF tt0S Other iases lp the list are
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07
wAsrE IN rHE CUSTOMS sEaYlcE.


In spirit of retaliation. some of
the members of congress in whose dis
tricts were located pension agencies
recently ordered abolished by an act
of congress, are now making war on
what they term the extravaganza of
the government in maintaining GUS
toms houses at different places in the
country where the expenses exceed the
receipts. AS result of this demand.
an investigation has been made and
data furnished by the Treasury de-
partment showing that there are fifty
of these ports of entry in the country
that are not self-sustaining. The
data shows that at each of the follow
ing ports, the receipts for the last
fiscal year were less than 500:
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07

If all the towns along the itinerary
do as well as Spokane promises the
prospective tunket of the Omaha Com
mercisl club boosters will offer about
the finest program of entertainment
that has yet been held forth as an in
ducement TO the local jobbers to leave
their happy homes for the purpose of
conquering additional territory. Spo-
kane has a few boosters who know
how TO do things.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07

Uncle Pete" Hepburn declares that
for many years no steamboat has
passed up and down the Missouri
north OF Kansas City. II Uncle Pete
would spend one of his summer vaca-
lions in his district he might ooca-
sionally hear the low, sweet loot Of
the steamboat whistle as it breasts the
turgid water OF the troublesome Miz-