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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31

revealed lie mounts the platform tearyeyed and wipes
his eyes and cans his pride and says Dear friends at
last see the awful thing used to be- used to guzzle
uncejoes from dewy to hour to closet I'd drink one
then I'd call for two, and then I'd not what I'd dol
Last session got ninety three of those arrangements
into me! This is time for mirh and laugherthe cold
gray dawn of the morning after!
.1ou who have led sequestered lives and stad at home
with babes and wives, don't know the DEVILS wies and
but led to look Joe when he was red fell And
from that fatal date in voe committee and debate, wal
lowed in the CUTTERS the wreck you see from Cannon
booze!
But now, henceforth along with Taft Longworth, Nc
Knay and raft of other saved repentans turning from
sin like brands pucked from the burning, pledge the
word of exsot to taste not touch not handle not
will not vote for Uncle Joefor who hath sorrow, who
hath who hath the dread nsurgent ban on! The
who fingers long with Cannon!
Last session got ninety of those arrangements
into me-but- (cat calls and sneers)
This is no time for mrth and laughterthe cold, gray
dawn of the morning after''
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31
"SOME CRUST"

O o o ddpg ngjawdwa
d td o root g int utyr eisO times gone A few
u yet breathing Of @ en- @ times like ea live
a n Wis rst tr the pepledo
the g to he 10 are to
in
G. h party walls hnh eou into the
are adoenf in is stow
h
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31

STERNLY BANlSHED, CAME
INTO HER EYES.
Jim's eyes met hers squarely,
adoringly.
"Why-Oh, JIM" 1t was the
love and longing Of months that
echoed in those few words.
Then you do love me? Ye
gods! It's good to be alive. Get
into your coat, dearest. What with
tying knots and packing. we've a
busy day before us. No, there's no
one looking"
And the right side Of the tooth
some pastries, Alix Dare and one
James Preston entered into para
disc
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31
Getting Next to Nature

thorough test of electrical farming is being made on
Long Island The electric current is set to work to quicken
the actual growth of plants and vegetables It expected
that the rate of development will be greatly increased II
not doubled by this mysterious stmuant
Electrical farming has been carried with great sue
cess in Europe The results there to indicate
that increase of from SO to 70 per cent may be obtained
in the of ordinary farm crops and from so to GO
cent in seeds and fruit.
And the time between sowing and reaping in many
cases. notably potatoes, has been cut in two
It's exaggerang just the least bit to magn the house
wife Of the future planting her murphes" after break
fast and digging up potatoes for supper.
But it would be tough the farmer # he had to begin
harvesting the first before he got through planting
the last row.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31

Speaking of national drinks
(you were. were you notO<
England has her pink tea and
brown ale
France has her absinthe and
wines
Germany has her beer
And America her
What?
Soda!
Just the plain, cool, sparkling
prohibition soda that you buy for
nickel or a dime over the "bar"
at any drug store, bury your nose
in It's deliciously scintillating
depths, or imbibing it through
the succulent straw.
American nSume som e
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31

HICKORY GROVE WHISPERINGS
The M. E. church picnic held at
Back Creek was great success.
Mrs. Cyrus Conway was took sick
from eating too much fried chicken,
but is better today. Alsa Tod Jud-
sons ball team defeated the Mus
selshell Springs team by score Of
46 to 80.
Mr.. Bill Micklewitz, keeper of the
general store, entertained COmrade
Chas. Stuart of the Civ. war from
Wilbur's Corners.
There was murder out this way
Mon. News are scarce.-S. T.
A circus manager who takes his
horses abroad must pay $50 apiece
under tho tariff law to get them
back into this country again. "A
duty of rs per cent ad valorum 10
levied on valuable horses.
Most Anything: 1 would like to
have you start a campaign against
the unnecessary question. 1t seems
to me the Il. q. was given a big
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= zr.u..

boost by the introduction of the
telephone. For instance: Hello!
Is this Main 6587?" Eyes, who do
you want to see?" mo one, you
rummy. l want to talk to Bill
Smith," "Who shall l say wants to
see him?" Jaw, just tell him Char
ley Hunt wants to kiss him."-C. H.
A new battleship Is being built
for Brazil in England that is twice
as large az the original British
Dreadnaught.
1t was Jimmy's firts visit to the
zoo.
whats that there thing?" he
asked, pointing at one Of the cages.
"Oh, that's tapir," said Jimmy's
dad, reading the sign.
Jimmy was silent for a minute.
Then he said, (which end do they
light?"
A Judge at Norwalk, O., over a
long distance telephone, fined two
automobiIists for speeding.
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FIZZ! FIZZ! TEN MILLION COLD
FIXES In OUR NATIONAL DRINK

Annual Soda Fountain Bill Nearly the
Check md viii Soon It Out.
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TEN MINUTES I'm
LAND OF STORIES
HER eleventh HOUR.
BY r. s. Phillips.

Alix looked longingly at the
toothsome pastries in the window
Often had she breakfasted and
dined happily in the fragrant table
strewn space beyond the pastries
Then-she had a good position
and Jim Preston's love, unspoken
only because she held it in check.
Now-her purse contained
cents. she had nothing to do, and
stood like a hungry Peri, barricad-
ed out of the Paradise in which she
had dined often with Jim-Jim,
whom she loved so utterly but had
left no word for when change of
fortune necessitated cheaper quar-
ters.
"Alix!"
She turned slowly and looked in
to Jim's eyes, questioning, re.
proachful. trimming, as of old, with
his unspoken love.
why, Jim Preston."
The words came CALAMITY to her
lips, and she put out her hand
bravely. A drowning man clutch
ing at a straw could not have
seized the pretty fingers more
eagerly.
"Come in and have breakfast
with me. Oh! you've got to an
swer no end of questions. I've
nearly disrupted Manhattan to find
you"
In another moment she was seat
ed at the familiar table.
"Why did you run away?"
Alix's eyes filled slowly beneath
long, downcast lashes. THE firm
went to the wall, and would
have written you as soon as-it
was all right again." she finished,
lamely.
"And you thought THAT would
make any difference?"-with re-
proachful tenderness. But now
! want to tell you my good news.
I've got the contract to build that
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. leave for
Mexico at 7 tonight"
The table and dishes whirled I'M
steadily, but the girls voice came
to her, controlled, enthusiastic.
"Jim. I'm glad! Isn't that dan
dy!"
Il thought you'd be pleased. And
since this is my last day in New
York. I'm glad we're to spend 1t
together"
His last day! How final it
sounded
AK lifted her coffee cup gaily.
ITO your triumphal celebration!
she said forcing laughter into her
eyes.
"And yours" added Jim. raising
his cup.
by the way. there's a phone
here-and It's me to phone. Elk
cuse me one minute"
Dreamily she watched him. bit
terly realizing that heart hunger
could effectually still the other
kind. Dear. dear Jim! How sweet
Il was 10 hear his voice again-if
only for this last day" The
binding tears, SO sternly banished
came To her eyes.
well, it's all right" Jim'i
voice, very near, brought her bach
brisiiy TO the land of reality. AND
now with . swift glance about the
almost deserted room. I'm going
to toll you now. Alix--I love you
Tell me You care. Alix. I've fool
lshir hoped you did"
WIZ. Jim! You can't
sIook q me, dear. An! you Dc
oaro. rye cot the other ticket
Dld you think I'd 90 to Mexicd
eIone after ! found you. Alixr
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Swllled them down
and called for more;
but now, each saved,
reformed NJ. G. knows
just how vile he used
to be when there
upon our capitol hill,
soused with the Can
non cocktail swill, jig,
highland fling or rig
adoon, he danced un-
to the speakers tune!
But now his eyes
are quite unsealed;
his sottishness is all
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wHAcK AND SHOOT WITH SAME WEAPON

hammerless sort with the end OF
the barrel sawed off. The soldier
whxcks once with the saber. and
while he is raising 1t up to get q
start on another whack he pulls
the trigger and plunks the enemy
another without changing his grip
on the handle. Beautiful instru-
ment of deathl
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Here's a peculiar looking weapon
OF American invention that may
play a part In the next war. 1t 10
adapted especially to cavalry use,
but could be used by foot soldiers
In close quarters.
1t Is merely q combination Of two
weapons-the saber and the re-
yolver-but the revolver Is OF the
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MOST Anything


"When ! hear of a prize fight in
which tn contestants fought like
demons but afterwards Showed no
marks Of punishment | kind O.
think to myself that's about what
happens when two bulIfrogs fight"
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Swearing off on Uncljoes

The Cannon cockta-deadly drinks mild and harm
!essI don't think! There time in DAYS of
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28

Returning from attendance on the
state executives conference at Wash.
ington, Governor Shallenberger refers
to the fact that the governors have de-
cided to meet next time at some place
other than the national capital, and
expresses an opinion that they might
come to Nebraska IL sufficiently urged,
We suggest that Governor Shallenber-
ger extend the invitation, with full as
uranc that the governors will be
properly taken care of when they ar
rive, IL they accept. The natural place
for such a meeting would, perhaps, be
at the capital of the state which is act
ing the host, but Nebraska has a
metropolis as we'll as a capital, and If
Lincoln is not ready to meet the de-
mands Omaha will cheerfully do so, and
Omaha has never fallen down in any
such undertaking. If Governor Shall
lenbeTger's influence with his fellow
governors is not by itself strong
enough to secure recognition Of Ne
braska's claims, The Bee hereby offers
to second the motion.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28
The Hog Crop.

No charge Of artificial manipulation
can answer the fact that the hog crop
of the country appears to be short.
From November 1, 1909, to January
"a, 1910, 100000 head of hogs had
been packed at the big meat packing
centers of the country, as against
$500, 900 head during the, correspond
ing period of the year before. A short
age of 100000 head of hogs in the
marketing Of three months is a genu-
inely serious phase of the food situa-
ton in the United States and accounts
in itself for the high prices charged for
pork products IN the market. Another
feature is that during this time the
price of live hogs has been ranging at
50 per hundredweight more than for
the year previous and 81 per hundred
weight more than during 1908. In
this fact is proof that the hogs are not
to be had. 1t is not likely that the
farmers would hold back on the mar
keting of the animals at a time when
the price at the STOCK yards is the
highest in history. ,
What is true Of hogs is In some
measure true Of cattle. The supply
has been short, and continues below
the demand. Secretary Wilson of the
Department of Agriculture has dinned
this into the ears of the American peo-
-ple for many months. Not posing as
a prophet Of evil, he has persistently
pointed out that the farmers are not
producing enough to supply the de-
mand; that the number of farm ami
mails was not increasing as rapidly as
! the needs of the world for meat, and
that the advancing prices was but the
result Of the growing shortage. He
has urged that more attention be paid
to farming; that the farmer be encour-
aged more 80 that the tide would be
turned from the city back TO the farm.
In all ways the government Of the
nation md Of the several states have
co-operated to protect the live stock in
dustry, especially as carried on by
farmers. Free treatment for diseased
animals, strict quarantine TO prevent
tho spread of disease and assistance in
all reasonable ways nave been given
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28
PERSONAL VOTES


John r. walsh Is IN the press cliprN Is
bureau OF the federal prison. He used to
clip coupons.
The leading lawyer OF Reno, New. Is
pointed to by local pride as "a man who
undoes things"
Prof. Watt OF Chicago finds that steam
heat is a prolific cause Of divorce. The
members Of the watt family can't get
away from the thought that steam ia a
great prime mover.
A bill has been introduced In congress
making the giving or reoeivipg OF q tip a
crime in the District OF Columbia. II may
amount to little as q piece OF legislation.
but considered as a mere expression OF
human sentiment, It's flaws are not oh
vious.
A Boston lady who found herself trying
10 eat stones when she thought she was
eating bread. and who incidentally broke
one good tooth and a set OF false ones, Is
suing the baker for damages. His defense
is contributory negligence because the
stone wac larger thar the size of a piece
Of bread which a lady should put in her
mouth.
The worlds champion heavyweight pugil-
list, a gentleman Of color by the name Of
Johnson, on last Sunday delivered a lee
ture before q Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION audience. IN New York City, on
the subject OF "Manliness." The lecturer
Is at present under indictment on q charge
OF assault, preferred by a feeble specimen
Of humanity, half his own size. whom ne
battered into insenslbility in a drinking re-
sort a few evenings ago for making dis
paraging remarks which were construed a.
rejecting upon the oolored pugilist's honor.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28
BOYCOTT ON MEAT.
BROOKLYN Eagle

BROOKLYN Eagle.
are coming Uncle Saml, three hundred
thousand more,
From MissIssippi's winding stream and
from New England's shore;
We've sworn by all that's holy, as other
heroes do,
Wen chew no toothsome outlet, and chops
we will eschew:
We dare not look behind us, but steadily
before;
We are coming, Uncle Sam'l, three hundred
thousand more. re-
II you look across the rIltops that meet
the northern sky
see a COW a-grazing, and for us she
shall not die; ~
The cattle on a thousand fair plains of
Texas cheer @
The principles we're booming this peni-
The lambs Of oklahoma plsat fearless of
the mint, H. IL,
whne butchers most profaneIy say things
not fit to print. 1E
You nave called us, and we're coming, our
bugles gayly toot; =
We're Vegetarians moving, though our
doctrines taking root;
porterhouse we're Bcorning, the SIR
loin's vanished, too;
We're using olive oil to make a spectral
stew;
We've choked rebelliOus palates, as men
have done before;
We are coming. Unrle Sam'l, three hundred
thousand morel
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28
THE COWBOY OF ROMANCE.
An Eastern Product Never Seen in
$50 the West.
San Francisco Chronicle.

$50 the West.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The shooting of one lad by another in a
cowboy play" in New York calls ia
mind the curious fact that such plays are
almost, If not quite, unknown to the boys
Of the west. Here the cowboy has never
been the hero OF a romance any more than
the farm hand has been held up to the
public alteration of the effete east. Even
Bret Harte did not find him especially
picturesque. But by grace Of the dime
novel he has been transformed in the mind
of eastern juvenility into a being Of super
human courage and Craftsmanship whom II
is the noble and manly thing for boys to
emulate.
Out here the cowboy pursues his hum
drum duties without a fringe on his trou.
sers or pistols in his belt-providing he has
a belt; and his appearance on the stage
would put an audience, even Of Sunday
school boys, to sleep. The dime novel or Its
nickel substitute never had much vogue
here. Boys do not flock to the public library
looking for stories of western adventure
Plays in which indians ana cowboys figure
have never made anyone rich In these
parts; and the wild West shows, which
schools, are as rarely seen here as the
dialect is heard.
There is only one way to cure the cowboy
hallucination and that is to 20 west. line
only way to study and experiment with the
disease is to go east, where it's victims
are.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28

There is no dearth of suits instituted
to test the federal corporation tax law
by petitioners bearing all sorts of re-
lations to the corporation. One suit is
brought by the guardian Of a minor
child for whom stock is held in trust,
and another by a stakeholder of a life
insurance company on whose profits
the policy holders are supposed to have
a claim, to say nothing of other suits
with still different complications.
Whatever the final decision, the court
will not be of the multitude
nous qualifications which the corpora
ton tax involves.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28
A Cog Slipped Somewhere.

Our attention has been called to an
article in the Newman Grove Reporter,
whose editor has been one Of the ram
pant ants declaining against Loarly
anything and everything connected
with the Taft administration, in which
the unqualified statement is made on
the eve of its foregathering that the
recent meeting Of so-called insurgents
at Lincoln was Ito select the proper
man to represent the party in the
the Reporter becomes more explicit,
with this declaration:
Each day 1t grows clearer that there is
but one man that can wrest the nomination
from Senator Burkett, Congressman Norris.
He stands now head and shoulders above
any other progressive in the state. He has
no mistakes to explain away. If the meet
ing at Lincoln this evening will only con-
tent itself with putting Mr.. Norris at the
head Of the progressive republican party
in this state it will have lone It's manifest
duty.
If the Lincoln insurgents are bent
solely on defeating Senator Burkett
and there is but M man" that can
wrest the nomination from him, clearly
the recent meeting either slipped a
cog or failed-of it's manifest duty
for it is plain that the insurgent bunch
not only neglected to put Mr. Norris at
the head of their movement in this
state, but by acquiescence undertook to
clear the track for Mr.. Whedon and to
relegate Mr.. Norris to a race for re-
eleetioRas congressman from the Fifth
district AS the noise maker of the in
surrection the Lincoln Star has even
gone so far as to implore the democrats
to show their appreciation Of repub-
lican insurgency by making no nomi-
nation in the Fifth district and letting
Mr.. Norris hold his place for another
term by default. q
Some way to arbitrate between the
Lincoln enc of insurgency and the up
state members is apparently in order
if the Newman Grove Reporter prop
erly voices it's following, otherwise the
cogs of the insurgent machine are in
danger of revolving at cross purposes.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28

the farmers to enable them to increase
the number OF animals that the meat
supply might not run short That the
shortage shown by the actual figures
exists is not an encouraging return.
II It proves anything. it is that the
farmer has found something more at.
tractive to occupy his attention. Until
he can be induced to return to hog
breeding pork will be scarce and the
market high.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28
Our Birthday Book
90, 1910.

Ht- . SAA-A - 1gAS
Edward Rosewater, founder and for
thirty-five years editor of The Bee, was
born January 2S, 1S41, and would be 50
today II he were still alive. He was born
In Bukowan, enear Prague, in Bohemia, and
worked his way up from boyhOod, when he
was thrown on his owR resources. He
served az a military telegraph operator in
the union athaH and came to Omaha in 1863
to help work the Pacific telegraph, later
starting The Bee In 1871.
William Vincent Allen. who has the
record OF being the only United States
senator from Nebraska elected as a popu-
list, was born January rs, 1S47, with a
good foundation for public office, having
his birthplace in Ohio. Judge Allen is a
lawyer by profession and was elevated TO
the district bench before he went to the
senate. He is again practicing law at
Madison, Neb.. which has been his home
since re located in the state after the
war. In which he servsd honorably.
Harry Fischer, lawyer and organizer OF
the Retail Grocers' association, of which
he Is secretary, was born in Germany,
January 2S. 1863. He worked as a grocery
clerk while he studied law, which explains
his later intimate connection with the
grocers' organization,
George Alexander Rohrbough, one Of the
Rohrbough brothers, proprietors OF the
Omaha Commercial college, was born
January q. 1859. at Basco. Ill, He wal ed
uoated at Carthage college and Rochester
business university and has made a great
success as a business coilegs teacher.
John Sebastian, passenger traffic man
for the Rock Island. was born January Is,
ls4s. at Newport. KY. Mr.. Sebastian has
been one Of the old standbys in western
railroading and has been the guiding
spirit OF the publicity work. as well as
the passenger business OF the Rock Island
from time immemorial
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28
Land Grabs and Optimism.
Philadelphia Record.

1t Is easy to believe that in the last eight
years over $4,000 acres of public coal lands
have been obtained by fraud, and that this
single item of land plumber is worth &c.
OoO. 600. 1t is not so easy to believe the OPP
timlstic general land office when it says
that $1,000 acres. OF patented land will have
been recovered FOR the nation, and that
the cash collections will approximate or
exceed the million dollars appropriated for
the work" It IS seldom that any plumber
is ~recovered, 4, ,f,r-r - ns
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28

Senator John w, Daniel has been
reelected for a hfth term by the unan-
lmous vote Of the democrats in the vir-
ginia legislature, This is the same
Senator Daniel whom n William Jen-
nings Bryan undertook to put out OF
business about two years ago because
he had the hardihood to prefer an un-
defeated candidate for the democratic
presidential nomination
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28

out hot air. This is another csse where
without waiting for a retainer,
rush to the defense of the editor Of
our amiable democratic contemporary.
Hot air from Mr., Hitchcock, who is
proverbially known as an iceberg,
would be an anti-climax. II II were the
telling Of off-oolor stories in public he
would have to enter a plea OF confess
sion in avoidance. But hot air, never.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28

Missouri does not like the idea of
losing to Minnesota the president of
its university, which, it got from Ne
braska. Speaking Of President A.
Ross Hill, the Kansas City Star says
that because Minnesota is making a
special effort to get him is n of the
very reasons Missouri needs to keep
him. The last time Nebraska made a
change in the headship Of our State
university it was discovered that the
supply of talent for such a place is de-
cidedly short of the demand, and Ne
braska can readily appreciate the
reasons why Missouri does not want to
lose a university president who is CIV
ing satisfaction.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28

The income tax amendment to the
federal constitution has been ratified
by the lower house of the Kentucky
legislature, and the assurance is given
that the other branch will follow suit
promptly. Kentucky will therefore be
the second state to ratify, Alabama
being the first. Thus Nebraska is
showed further down the list, irrespec-
tive Of the fact that it is Mr.. Bryan's
home state.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-28

At last accounts some well-meaning
reformers were trying to saddle upon
Illinois a wide-open primary and a
blanket ballot such as hat with which
Nebraska was afflicted by the late dem
ocratic legislature. If the Illinois
primary lawmakers want a few peril
nent "don'ts" let them look into Ne
braskA's experience with this sort of a
primary.