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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-02
au Gambling Forbidden Tn Montana.

HELENA. Mont. April o.-The Grif- fin gambling law. which prohibits all games of chance. went into effect. and tor the first time since ls3 faro. rou. Iette. poker. dice. card games of all kinds and even slot machines were for hidden fin Montana.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-02

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 NEW RUGS.
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 WINDOW SHADES.
 In the ready-made goods we have all the best materials and and the newst tints.
 IN THE MADE-TO-ORDER.
 We'll quote you prices that will give us the work and we'll guar antee that it will be satisfactory work too.
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-02
woman's Hero.

There is always something O. the primitive brute in the prominent manly man" who Is woElaa's he.o.- Lady's Pictorial
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-02
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-02
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-02
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-02

ives will oon be deep in the tolls of the spring lere will b many little hooks and places that ID with so me new bit of drapery or new floor
 you're go ing to get them at the place that sentiments and whose prices are the most bene- -book-We could tell you that our upholstery de ACE, but we would rather have you come
 point for yourself Give us the opportunity or ant and " ell be satisfied with your decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

the linen, though white and rough.
Friday and meat was withheld. soup of white
beans with the freshest of butter, followed by
dish of the beans perfectly cooked. Then
fine in taste and flavor, says the captive, that it
would have 1attered the palate of the greediest
Gascon. The wine not of the best, but it
and only fault.
But no the repast finished than again
the bolts drawn, and the two jailers came
the sight of the fine porcelain the delicate linen the
silver knives and forks, Marmontel recognized his
mistake. He had eaten his lackey's dinner: and
take his revenge upon what had been prepared for
his master. This time there was thought
of Friday. An excellent soup. succulent slice of
and spinach, fine pear, fresh grapes, bottle Of
old Burgundy and the finest Mocha And to cap all,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
HUI ORS OF THE A TILE

the genial Governor called within hour to inquire
whether the prisoner had dined well, and to assure
him that every dish served from his own table.
The severest wit of his time, Votare,
than once imprisoned in the Bastille for having
directed his satire against the Powers that were.
His first incarceration for such offense was in
1717, when he leveled biting set of verses, and
later satrical composition in Latin, against the
regent, the Duke of Orleans. The incensed regent
ordered Vo1are the Bastlle but forgetting about
him, left the writer in prison for eleven months.
When at last the poet was remembered and re-
leased, the regent, man of some generosity I'm
mindful of anything save the tedious imprisonment
his lapooner had suffered sent for him and granted
him pension of two thousand francs year to
soothe his wounded feelings.
1t is related that Voltaire accepted the gift with
as much witty grace as gratitude. "Monseigneur,"
said he, Il most humbly thank Your Royal Highness
for continuing to charge yourself with the expense
of my board; but beg you never again to trouble
yourself about my lodging"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

HISTORY records the fact that life in the
Bastille not without it's humors. Aside
from the fact that residence in that strong
hold was of course, enforced one, it is mistake
to associate with it the dark dungeon, the clankng
chains, and the bread and water diet of fiction.
Prisoners treated with the consideration due
their rank and the enormity of their offense; and
it must not be forgotten that both had to reach d
quired height in order to command lodging in the
great Paris prison. for there ordinary
criminals there.
Men of wealth and learning were permitted to
line the walls of their cells with books from their
private libraries, and to hang them with family por
traits ancestral tapestries; and the kitchen of the
Bastille was presided over by gastronomic genius
Soon after Marmontel, the eminent French
writer, who had been commanded to try the
air of the Bastie, arrived in the dungeon &C
companied by his servants he disturbed by
the drawing of bolts and the turning of keys. Two
Jallers silent and discreet, entered to serve the
dinner. The plates were of common crockery, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

rifle which went off with sharp report. Chauncey
grooming on his side Abraham the guide came
running up exctedly Che always in the way).
He done tainted, boss!" he explained. "Chauncey
pulse and found it quite still. In vain summoned
physician and implored him to restore my game
to me. Poor Chauncey, who had never known a
Sternly mastering my grief and quieting Abra-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

If you learn to hunt the rabbit.
1t will soon become habit;
And the same of course, applies to grizzly bears
And such affairs.
To despatch lion mapping.
Or indulge in tiger scrappng
Is pretty way of tightening ones
Thus within my office musty
AS con my ledgers dusty
And the radiator Kisses boiling hot,
All! then l wot
How on Ceylon's balmy island
Or on midas pamy highland
There tigers simply yearning to be shot,
Oh, the free, the Free
The huntsman's life for me,
By canon and by jungle and by creek!
Do you think that prefer
Earning SIS per,
Boarding out at Mrs. Casey's by the weekf
In the Klondike bare and snowy
With my rifle and my bowie
Many months to fierce adventure I'd devote,
That l might quote.
How, in fond embraces snuggled,
With polar bear l struggled,
Till pinned him to glacier by the throat.
But in vain such speculation
On exciting recreation
When by bitter past experience know
(Alas! how slowD
That, however much you re willing,
There is nothing very thrilling
When YOU'RE keeping books for Moneygrub & Co.
Oh, the free, the free.
The sportsman's life for me
Amazing game of nature, so to speak!
But there's nothing picturesque
Adding figures at desk,
Boarding out at Mrs. Casey's by the week.
The independent., 1907-02-28
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT

tactics, reducing the sale by raising the
price. The suggestion of Bible famine
by artificial means raises immediate
resentment, but there is an argument
for the other side Perhaps it could be
proved that people would read the
good book more if it were harder to
pie value things by what they cost re-
gardless, to degree, of what they are
worth, That, at least, is the reason
given for the extraordinarily high price
of the special text book required to be
used by members of one prominent un-
orthodox religious society.
The independent., 1907-02-28

Every increase in the level of prices
in this country tends by that amount
in effect to lower the tariff, granting
that prices are not increasing COR
respondingly outside of the wall This
may in part explain the tremendous
increases of late in our imports. Yet
the exports very nearly keep pace
with the imports. In January mer-
chandise exports were greater than in
any preceding January, and greater
than in any preceding month except
last December. The January imports
increase in greater proportion. as these
figures for January imports and ex~
ports for the last eight years show:
The independent., 1907-02-28

Time which settles all things, passed
promptly from Smoot to San Domingo.
When the United States saved San
Domingo from anarchy and a threat
ened European invasion two years ago
by standing between her and her
creditors, the senate proposed never
to stand for it. 1t was a precedent
that would permit of endless med
ding with tropic American affairs. 1t
was the Monroe doctrine gone to the
head. The senate withheld its ap-
proval, but the receivership went on.
The claims of the creditors were
scaled down, large portion of the
customs receipts were set aside for
the benefit of the creditors, and the
two Or three score professional revo-
lutlonary generals in the island in
duced for the first time in their lives
to keep the peace and go to earning
living. After making changes and
attaching safeguards enough to insure
that this policy does not open a career
OF conquest the senate has now ap-
proved the arrangement This leaves
Uncle Sam in loco PARENTS of two
West Indian republics.
The independent., 1907-02-28

This paper cannot entirely agree with
its contributors who are criticising
members of the legislature for their
failure to pass the county option bill.
The duties of member are so COM
plicated and exacting, so many differ
ent and conflicting demands are made
upon his attention during the session.
that IL Is not fair to abuse him for
neglecting a few of the many oppor-
tunities he meets for voting for deserv-
ing measures IL the present legislat-
ure carries out In good faith the
pledges made before election. and In
addition acts with wisdom and conser-
vatism on such other legislation as
must of necessity be passed upon, the
record win be so much better than the
average that the state will have reason
to feel well satisfied. III members who
promise TO vote for county option vio-
late their pledges two years from
now. these harsh criticisms win be de-
served.
The independent., 1907-02-28

have represented a cost Of about $685.
OO0,O00. He and his associates immedi-
afely bonded aud stocked ii to capi-
talization of about 114,000 900. SuppUs-
ing rates to be adjusted with reference
to dividends, the difference between
what the public must pay this road if
rates are based on this arbitrary capi-
talization and what they must pay
with the property stripped of the r1oL-
opoly advantages bestowed upon it by
the public. woul1 ne in the ueighbor-
hood Of two and a hall million dollars
year. Two and half million dollars
year is sum worth fighting for
When a like sum is involved in the
case of score or more Of railroad in
terests the reason why tremendous
forces are exerted at Washington to
prevent the passage OF the bill to in
vetigate and establish the real value
OF the roads requires no explanation.
The independent., 1907-02-28

There should be inspiration for a
dime novel or for several pages of
Sunday yellow In the sub treasury
robbery at Chicago, granted the deed
Is not reduced from the sublime to the
ridiculous by an early discovery Of the
thief and recovery of the money. A
moral can be pinned to the story to
serve as ticket of admission to well
regulated families. The thief with his
$4,000 in ten thousand dollar bills
in his pocket might be made to starve
in the streets of New York for lack Of
money. The numbers of his notes are
known at every bank, and the person
who presents them for payment will
be in Immediate trouble Nobody would
cash ten thousand dollar bill for a
stranger Our thief may thus walk
up to his neck in water and never have
a drink; freeze and starve with a for
tune in his pocket. Most likely the
men who stole the money expected to
be caught, knowing that they would
hardly suffer more than ten years In
prison, penalty which they are will
ing to incur at deferred income of
$4,000 a year.
The independent., 1907-02-28

The managers Of the Honduras Ma
tional Lottery company are having a
hard time keeping the United States
branch of their business in operation.
A lot of men in Mobile and New Or
leans have been arrested on the charge
of conspiracy in distributing lottery
material ~through the United States.
United States is stopped it is sup
posed that the concern will go out of
business, for it chose Honduras merely
as base for operating in this coun-
try
The independent., 1907-02-28

A railroad commission bill is among
the prominent measures under dis
cussion in the New Jersey legislature.
Five commissioners are provided for
to receive salaries of $4,000 each and
travelling expenses. A lawyer for the
special use of the board is to receive
$4,000, a secretary $4,000, and civil
engineer $4,000 Since it is expected
the commission will be named as other
public officials are in general chosen
in New Jersey, by the public service
corporations, the latter take little risk,
while providing eight men at good
salaries TO form squadron of regu-
lars for the support of the political
militia that controls New Jersey poll
tics.
The independent., 1907-02-28

A reception was given to ex-AmL as
sador George Won Il. Meyer last week
in Boston, at which there were 1868
guests. These, the report says, consti-
tute the complete list of the elect, and
none else can claim to be of Boston
society In order that there may be
no mistake the list is printed in full
Details are wanting as to the qualifi-
cations for membership in this close
corporation. Whether admission is
hereditary, or whether it is possible for
persons to rise from the dust to this
pitch Of sublmity is not stated. But
it is clear that the door of Hope to
the average Bostonian is grimly shut
There are some 100000 people in Bos-
ton. OF these 599,637 are and must al
ways be outlanders, barbarians, hoi
polloi. They have nothing left to hope
for but heaven.
The independent., 1907-02-28

In 1900 there We're 327 900 men and
boys in the state of Nebraska engaged
in gainfui occupations. or these 1872
600, trile less than three ffths,
worked on the farms of the state.
Assuming that the same proportion
holds as 10 men over 81. nearly two
thirds OF the voters OF Nebraska have
no voice in the disposition of the
liquor business. except through the
legislature. As correspondent points
out legislators are likely TO find II a
hard matter 10 convince this large ma
jority OF voting citizens that they are
not TO be trusted with the ballot on
n question that concerns them ull so
deeply as this.
The independent., 1907-02-28

The senate has taken action look
ing toward checking the zeal of the
president creating forest reserves. In
case this bill passes, it will be neces-
sary to put an act through congress
whenever 1t is desired to create or
enlarge a forest reserve in the states
Of Oregon,< Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana Colorado and Wyoming. That
probably means that few more re-
serves will be created in those states,
as the local sentiment against them
is often strong enough to prevent
their creation in this manner. Peo-
pie who wish to develop the business
interests of region are not neces-
sarily opposed to the creation Of re-
serves, but they want them located
in some other state. AS for future
timber supplies. the future can take
care of itself.
The independent., 1907-02-28

Senator Elkins tries to prove the
generosity Of the railroads by show
ing that the country would have paid
two billion dollars more than it did
in freight charges last year had the
rates of 1870 been in effect. This is
far from true, Of course, for the sim
pie reason that given the freight rates
Of 1870 the railroads would last year
have had only fraction of the freight
to carry that they actually did have.
The independent., 1907-02-28

Henry Clay Pierce made an affidavit
in 1900, as a preliminary to getting the
Waters-Pierce Oil company into Texas,
that he was not connected with any
other oil company with a view to con-
trolling prices. At Attorney General
Hadleys hearing in ST. Louis last
year he admitted that his company was
deeoy of the Standard. Now Texas
grand jury has indicted him for per-
jury. If it turns out not to have been
perjury in Texas explanations will be
needed of his st. Louis testimony. Mr.
Pierce is in an embarrassing position
The independent., 1907-02-28
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The independent., 1907-02-28

Representative Harrison's bill to re-
duce sleeping car fares gives Nebraska
an opportunity to shake it's fist at the
Pullman company. Since most of the
sleeping car patronage in Nebraska is
interstate business an intra-state re-
duction of charges would not make a
great difference either TO Nebraska or
to the Pullman monopoly; but it
would be some satisfaction to go
through the motions nevertheless. In
the last eight years this public SER
vice corporation has made in dividends
and unearned increase in the value
of its stocks an average of 81 per cent
per annum. In 1898 the company was
capitalized at s36.O00,0o0 At that time
the stock was watered by $1S,O00,0O0
moro. This first paper is now quoted
at two and half times par value. and
has paid Ga per cent dividends in eight
years. Last year s26,000,00O more
water was poured in, and at once rose
above par. In addition the concern
had accumulated a surplus of $26, 6,000.-
600 which 1t did not know what to do
with, so 1t paid 1t over to the stock
holders in lump Meanwhile the
company Is unable TO pay it's porters
living wages, and the public Is held
up for tips In addition to regular
charges. Resentment at such pros
perity may be mere enviousncss. as
some of our college presidents inti-
mate. Whatever the motive. to permit
this concern longer to levy so heavily
upon our prosperity In unjustifable
bcnevolenee and wanton waste.
The independent., 1907-02-28

For the three months ending Septem-
ber 80 last year there were 1850 cas-
ualties to passengers and employees Of
railroads in the United States. This
does not include accidents at grade
crossings, or to 'hoboes," but only to
employees and patrons. This was an
increase of 10 per cent over the same
period of the year before. Two trains
collided on the average every hour and
nine minutes, and derailments were
almost as frequent during this three
months. Apparently the first quarter
of 1907 is to make worse showing.
1t is to be considered whether wrecks
are not becoming so much a matter of
course that we tend not to notice or
resent them, as people living next door
to boiler factory are said finally tc
lose all consciousness of the din in
their neighborhood. But for the fact
that the postmaster and prospective
mayoralty candidate of Chicago was
on the train and was seriously injured
would we have thought anything about
the wreck at Johnstown the other day?
The independent., 1907-02-28

The side light thrown upon the stage
Dv the IhaW case tends to justify the
position taken by a number of relig-
lous sects against the theater. 1t con-
firms the impression that the chorus
OF the modern comic opera or extrav-
aganza is a stimulus to vice. 1t goes
far to convince thoughtful people that
they cannot afford to sanction and
sustain this sort of institution with
their patronage, much less permit
their sons and daughters to attend
performances where the chief note is
the display of physical charms This
remarkable trial shows that nearly
all of the people connected with the
incident were leading irregular lives.
The women involved would have been
known out and out as disreputables
If it had not been for the glamor
thrown over them by the footlights.
AS a result OF these shocking expos
ures that glamor will be largely lost,
and their appearance on the stage
wilt become known for the brutal and
mercenary thing that it really is. The
trial gives the moral sensibilties of
the nation shock like a cold douche.
The first and most immediate result
is likely to- be a general recognition
of the real character of the most pop
ular of all Of the theatrical repre-
sentations Of the present day Whether
that awakening will result in making
these performances less profitable
financially time alone can demonstrate.
The independent., 1907-02-28

After a careful investigation of the
latest wreck on its lines the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company magnamin-
iously decides that 1t is in nowise to
blame for the accident. Presumably
that settles it, in Pennsylvania.
The independent., 1907-02-28

Without waiting for report from
the Investigating committee the Texas
Bailey. 1t is to be hoped Mr.. Bailey
is not in such close quarters as to be
willing to accept this kind of ac-
quittal.
The independent., 1907-02-28

Heavy Imports Ike heavy city real
estate imitation are among the observed
characteristics OF the period prior to
panics II not danger signals. these
figurcs may at least be taken wisely
as precautionary signs.
The independent., 1907-02-28
rmn SIMPLE LEE.

The price thermometers furnished by
the commercial agencies indicate that
the cost uf living has patiently plodded
The independent., 1907-02-28

Complaint is made that the concern
which publishes most Of the Rlbles
used In this country has adopted trust
The independent., 1907-02-28

Mr. Harriman's Chicago a Alton rail-
road appears from his testimony before
the interstate commerce commission 10
The independent., 1907-02-28

Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as second-class mail matter
under the act of congress of March 8, 1879