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Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-30
IAGGART QUEST GOES OYER
Inquiry Into Western Newspaper
Union to Be Delayed.
JUMPED WITH OTHER PROBES
Congressman Kinkaid Secures Aid
for Water Users of Mitchell aSi
MorriIl-Ffxht over Home
stead Bill.
(From a Staff Correspondent

1 ~~--~~F~'fN~Aa~F
WASHINGTON ID. c. March ~
especial Teiegram0-No further action Is
hkey 10 be taken by the house on the
resolution OF Congressman Tassart Of
Kansas to investigate the business OF the
western Newspaper Union OF Omaha to
determine "hether IL IL unaerseling It's
SERVICES 10 aesuoy inc business OF us
eofnpeu.ors' inc fuohshers newspaper
ohon u Nahsas Sity' ior tue reason, US
STATED py Mr.. laggart today that ne has
peen ADVISED that blanket resolution
Is !" oe paSseo author'h'hs inc INTERSTATE
commerce committee 10 investigate all
cases tnat may De VIOLATION OF the anti
trust law
NJ Tasgart tried yesterday to have his
resolution acted on by unanimous consent
petore the rules committee 10 wnich II
was referred mad reported II, but MS mo-
tion was declared out OF ORDER He has
secured the consent OF me chairman OF
the rules committee. Mr.. Henry. to
hearing on the OILY. Tne date has not yet
been set. only Mr.. Iaggart wiz appear
before the committee at TINS time.
settlers Unable TO Fay
Congressman hinkaid learned TINS
morning that number OF settlers on the
North Platte project In the vicinity OF
Mitchell and morrill, had been unable 10
meet their payment OF u per acre que
March 10. The Information came partly
through q letter from James l. Whit-
head or Mitchell. president OF the Water
Users association. and parity from IN
nulr1eS made DIV MT. klnkal0 at the de-
partment
The congressman went to the depart
ment this afternoon and had confer
ence with Mr.. Newell the director OF the
reclamation service ana the secretary
OF the interior, placing the matter be-
fore them and urging that rehet De given
10 those VINO through no iauit OF tner
own were haoie 10 lose theiE puiiuinss
tnrousn hoh-payheh.'
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e s " eiiaOie az " nieee INC pAyinsn's'
loNio lawns 49, mae - soHe " 1i."
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go .rd t,,,,,
Thropgb tbs effort. made nv Mr. Kin.
ks,d /, W.. ,,n.I,v .grsea tha, h.,or.
anv ADVERSE action a taken m. aenar,-
ment will choose a committee N prohabIv
,brs. exnar,ancad man from trr,ga,,o,
states who will Wish, the deltnouept in
d,v,dualIv and nak. a renor, 10 The a.
-.-.-.o... 7, a. .,,A.-,.ooa a.. .ht. =.
mIttss Is IA he seIected IN the near future
This concession from the department
comes as the result of the efforts OF
Congressman Kinkaid. who has worked
indefatigably all winter to secure favor
able action on all matters affecting the
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-30
XIII the Umpire.

1t Is hoped no umpIres will be killed
this year. but dealers in rubber boots
and shoes. who do not have stock on.hand
may be In danger. The Interstate Rub
Der company has large stock and can
ship boots and sandals the day the orders
the received.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-30
Serious decorations

and wounds are healed, without danger
Of blood poisoning, by Bucklen's Arnica
SalEe. the healing wonder. Only Csc.
For sale by Beaton Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCTIIsoN GLOBE.

A bigamist has too much ambition IN
his chosen line.
Most of the secrets wouldn't interest,"
you if you heard them.
There is plenty of treble one can Dor
row, but the interest is too high.
While fly may pollute the cream. tie
cream is somewhat damaging to the fly
During the heated term, it is well to re-
call that a blizzard is not an UNQUALIFIED
joy.
Sometimes denial doesn't accomplish
much beyond renewing attention to the
original story.
After dinner cigars are made large and
long to console those who must listen to
that kind of speeches.
One of the real treats in Atchison is to
see Jude Johnson look wise and say:
Much might be said on both Sides
Sometimes we are inclined to suspect
that some of the agents are working the
public instead of their way through COL
lege.
Every now and then some person, given
little to reading, finds something beauti-
full and interesting in books. So many of
us are ignorant because we do not try to
know.
When a fond mother is also foolish she
can do more damage than a wicked
world, so far as the object of her affac-
lions is concerned. If the world lures to
folly, 1t also Furnishes II,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
''wHAT IS A REACTToNARY?n

The result of the inability to use
terms correctly, or the unwillingnes s
to do so, is shown today in the United
states when orators and writers talk
prDfusely of the people, of popular
control, of constitutional rights and q
hundred other necessary elements in
government, without any apparent
sense in themselves or their audience
Of the ignorance that they display,
writes John n. Sedgwick, in the Au-
gust number of the North American
Review. 1t is all meant for popular
consumption, and it is consumed with
what benefit to the cause of self-con-
troll and self-respect affairs in the
United States have yet to show. A
process of gradual distortion of con-
stitutional ideas such as follows from
loose thinking and speaking followed
by its f1attered encouragement, is not
one that in the end can prove trust
worthy or triumphant, but it may for
the time being cause such an obstruc-
ton in the normal development OF
mems knowledge and use of popular
constitutional government as they may
persuade themselves that they cannot
clear away save by the aid of the re-
dictionary Of the type that all lovers
of freedom abhor. 1t may be that by
this time the man on horseback is an
impossibility as an individual, and SO
may not be expected. But. save for
those with taste for arithmetic, there
is little difference in point of dynamic
pressure upon the welfare of the com
munity between the man on horseback
and the violent number that may call
themselves the majority, a majority
only made coherent by opposition to
the right of private judgment on the
part of those that disdain government
without justice. At the risk of repe-
tition let the proposition be put in an
other form, and say that conceding po-
litical reaction not to be always bad,
even SO the term cannot ever be used
with any accuracy until we have de-
termined the character of the agent
against which the reagent directs its
force. II this be done. thing that in
any physical or chemical question
would have to be done. it will be found
that this term. unless used with the
greatest moderation and accuracy. is
one that will not rebound always to
the glory of those that use it. We must
upset the dictionaries if we are to lay
down hard-and-fast rule that by call
ing man a reactionary we are there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
SAYS UNCLE CAV

Don't waste your time bowling about
handicaps. Rough road or smooth
heavy going or light, the winner is
the one who has the speed and the
endurance. That's the rule and there
seems TO b, no conceivable way &c
change it.
IF Won could make the world over
Doubtless you would make all paths
straight and eliminate the stones AND
briers. You'd make ever highway
boulevard, and when you had finished
doubtless you would expect to see the
various elements of society more or
less euuaized. But you would only
have made the standard pace little
faster; the race horse would still be
race horse and the plug a plug.
Rather than try to make the world
over. school yourself to take advan-
tage of conditions they are. It's
satisfactory. The alteration you real
" need is not in conditions, but in
yourself.
Your opponent may be cleaner of
limb and therefore faster. You can't
beat him there-look to your qualities
of endurance, cultivate your staying
powers He may be nervous on the
bit and inclined to shy. Discipline
yourself until you have no nerves.
Sooner or later his little distractions
and diversions will tell on his pace
and you'll pass him. Possibly he doesn't
know how to save his strength. Learn
to husband yours. Efficiency depends
upon no one quality alone-it is a COM
bination of qualities. A fairly good
head, a fairly good heart and fairly
good muscles make a combination far
better than one in which the head,
the heart or muscles excel and the
other two factors fail. No one is per-
feet. You've got several chances to be
better equipped in several different
ways than that spectacular performer
who has his weak spots. That's your
opportunity.
Sometimes the conditions of the game
become intolerable. Then is the psy-
Geological moment for you to rise in
revolt. More often they only seem in
tolerable-the fault is with you, rather
than with circumstances. Then it's up
to you to quit butting into the stone
wall of the Interchangeable and get to
work on the changeable-which is you.
Copyright, 1912, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03

room, and can board, and then
We'll be together"
! The captain let them go. He had
to. He wanted to keep Sarah but
he couldn't throw Violet out on the
world like that.
He took care of Sarah's cat and
her flowers, and wrote to her about
them once a week. Violet usually
answered the letters. Sarah says
she's busy sightseeing" was the ex-
cuse she gave.
One morning there came letter
in Sarah's writing. I've got to tell
you something that I'm afraid won
please you," she said 1T turns out
that Violet's husband is alive. L
thought he was dead, but they were
separated, and their pride wouldn't
let them come together. But they
have made up and now she is the
happiest woman you ever saw. But
she ought to have told uS-it wasn't
fair to you not to-"
The captain puzzled over that SEN
tence. Then he took the next train
for the city.
What made you think I'd care so
much ?" he demanded.
Sarah blushed. Anybody could see
you were in love with her." she said,
the way you kept coming to see
her"
The captain groaned. TITS you I've
been in love with, ever since you took
Violet in, and made me feel what a
brute I was
But you never used to come"
Sarah faltered, land I think Violet
thought you cared for her-that's
why she begged me to come to the
city"
"Violet's a nice little woman" said
the captain, land I am sorry for her.
But you're my kind and she amt.
Now she couldn't stand up against my
temper for minute, Sarah. But
you wouldn't let any man boss you,
and that's the kind of a woman for
me. I've had my own way for so
many years, that I'd be a terror to a
meek woman"
Sarah smiled. You don't know
how meek I'd be if 1 was in love-"
she said.
Are you in lover" the captain
asked, anxiously. do you think you
could love me, Sarah?'
And Sarah, her good face all rosy
with bushes laughed a little and re-
piled, Has it taken you all these
years to find it out, captain %
copyrighted. 1912, by Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
FROM OTHER PENS

INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
A memorial entitled "a Glaring Err
TOR in Certain Senate Documents OPP
posing Popular Government has
been published as senate docu-
ment. 1t makes the complaint that
the initiative, the referendum, and the
recall are persistently represented by
their opponents as operating sudden
", without giving time for delibera-
ton. 1t quotes Senator Lodge, for ex-
ample. as describing the process as
an engine which starts at the touch
of an electric button which is as
quick in response as a hair-trigger
pistol and as rapid in operation as n
self-cocking revolver" Against such
a representation of the actual work
ing of these reforms. the memorial
makes vigorous protest. 1t points out
the tedious process of drafting the
measure to be voted on, obtaining the
signatures of eight per cent of the
voters of the state, and satisfying the
secretary of state of their validity
these things having to be completed
some time before the election This
argument does not dispose of the OBJ
lection that Senator Lodge voices
with picturesque exaggeration. All
that II demonstrates is that a group
OF persons will probably have to be
patient in getting their proposed law
before the people, and that the latter
Will nave a certain period in which TO
make up their minds about it, 1t
does not insure the slightest consider
alton of the actual measure In
fact, the publicity feature of the mi
tiative and referendum is admittedly
one of its greatest weaknesses Maine
merely distributes sample ballots con-
tanning the titles of the bills to be
voted on. Some other states use news
paper advertising. Oregon and her
lm1tators have a pamphlet system
Whlch ought to leave the voter with
out excuse, in so far as such a presen-
tation' can be adequate. But how
ever advisable and even necessary d.
rect legislation may be now and then
nothing has yet been found to take
the place of public oral debate. II
is in such Interchange of advocacy
and opposition that legislation is real
~ searched and tried out beforehand
Argument by pamphlet can be tusti-
fled only when such debate fails. To
discourage it is only to make It more
necessary. Unless we are careful. we
shall one day find ourselves appealing
to our discredited legislatures to save
us from ourselves.-New York Even
ing Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Ii YOU laugh too much the world VIII
laugh at you instead of with you
n
Neither does the theory work out IN
pra ctice that a woman's work IS never
done.
Smiles are no more expensive than
frowns but they're not in such general
use.
= \
Old Sport Wiseboy suggests that
chiggers were put on earth to make you
glad when the winter time comes.
+
TT is also a fact that if it were not for
the vegetable kingdom there wouldn't
be any animal kingdom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
HUNOR OF THE DRY

The Fort Wayne News tells a horrible
tale about a young lady who thoughtless-
" 5erked back her head so suddenIv 70
keep from being kissed that it broke her
neck This should be a warning to- girls
not to jerk back. In fact, it would be bet
ter to lean a little forward.-Laughter
Got Too Observation-Disclosures did
you dismiss Mr.. Goodhart? Blanch-Oh,
he got so he'd rather sit at home and hold
Foster, in New York Weekly
Have those Baltimore hotels put up
prices for the Democratic convention? %
Il don't find it so. L have engaged a bill
lard table to sleep on at 20 cents an hour.
Those are regular billiard rates.'-Wasn-
ington Herald.
In Germantown one evening as a family
sat grouped about the library table tire
little son looked up from his book and
asked: Papa, what is an egotist?'' An
egotist." the father answered. is a man
who thinks he IS cleverer than any one
else" But the mother, laughing coldiy.
appended: mo, my son, that is not quite
right. An egotist is a man who says he
is cleverer than any one discovery man
thinks he is."-Yonkers Statesman.
QuaIified.-"I am willing" said the can
didate, after he had hit the table a ter
rfble blow with his fist, Ito trust the peo-
pie" Gee" yelled a little man in the
audience, Il wish you'd open a Kallery."-
Chicago Record-HeraId
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
AYKAWKER JOTS

man may love the ground wo-
man walks on, says the WaterVllIe
telegraph, and still object to cutting
the grass on it.
Nature, says the Minneapolis Messen-
ger, looks after the man who lacks
words by giving him fists or legs-or by
hunting him a wife.
This little dry spell, remarks the
Blue Mound Sun, has saved great
deal of strain on the handle of the
lawn mower, anyway.
A woman. says Mrs. Austin Terrence
in the Lebo Star, ought at least to
have as much faith in her husband as
she has in her powder rag.
It's the opinion of the Wichita
girl to chew a wad of gum and look
intelligent at the same time"
Size doesn't always count, points out
Mack Gretchen of the Sedgwick
Paragraph. The chigger is small but
you can usually tell where he locates.
A politician has to work so hard to
get his job that it is no wonder he
takes it easy while in office, thinks the
Minneapolis Better Way. A fellow has
to have some rest.
Speaking of a boy who had suffered
severe attack as the result of i'm
prudence in his diet one little Burr
Oak girl, reports the Burr Oak Her
aid, informed another that he had the
"colored marbles"
An inquirer writes TO Kansas lily
asking how to rid rabbits of the
mango, notes the Ctmarron Jacksonfan.
and it adds: There would only be one
reply to this if the question were ask
ed in western Kansas. That would be:
xiii the rabbits and let the mango go
marching on
A Sunrise Ball seems to be one Of
the new social stunts in Kansas. Or
maybe it is an old one that has just
arrived here or been rejuvenated. At
any rate they pulled one off at Man
kato recently. Twenty couples there
arose at o'clock the other morning,
congregated at the hall and danced
until a. m. Breakfast, or whatever
it was, was served at a. m.
Editor Blackburn of the Anthony Re-
publican is a brave man, as the fol-
lowing frim his paper indicates: Some
lady friend, wise as to the EDITORS
greatest need, sent him ar ancient
Prayer on postal card with the adj
monition that If We copied it within nine
days and sent it to nine people we
should have some great joy; if not
some dire misfortune would befan. We
wouIL like that great Joy, while dire
misfortune is our steady diet. Ae we
dent believe in any harm coming from
walking under a ladder, meeting a
black cat, or raising an umbrella in a
house, we will wait for ten days and see
what happens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
THE CANDIDATE.

Ihere was man who scrimped and saves
And shaved from morn till night,
And put his money in a bank
He thought secure and tight
The institution closed it's doors
With shrewd financial craft;
he never got a dollar back
1t was not under Taft.
The farmer is no more compelled
To let his produce rot,
NO more the small investor finds
His dividends are not
And all who suffered from the grip
OF gilded greed and graft
Have proSpered in the four short years
OF honesty and Taft.
The man who's twice a candidate
Has surely proved it's worth
To keep intact the laws that guard
The country of his birth.
We never yet have had to take
The hfe-boat or the raft
Since he has steered the ship of State,
So let us vote for Taft.
-Minna Irving, in Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
rrrom the Philadelphia Record.l

rFrou the Philadelphia Record
The man who has no enemies is six feet
under ground.
Bonds sometimes fluctuate in value.
even the holy bonds of matrimony.
Virtue hasn't a great deal of value I'M
less it has been put to the test
Some people would have to wear smoked
glasses to look on the bright side Of life.
An unmarried woman is not necessarily
one who has been married and divorced
MANY a fellow who prides himself upon
being a prominent man is too prominent
for his own good
No. Maude dear; we have never heard
that the favorite game of the ships car
penter was see-saw.
1t doesn't pay to sit down and wait for
something to turn up unless you ave
armed with a meal ticket.
Blobbs-'T don't trust that fellow
B1ones." Slobbs-''Why. he's as honest as
the day is long" Blobbs-''So is burg
lar. who only works at night"
Maud's Mamma-"Aren't you ashamed
of YOURSELF! Why. did you let that young
man kiss you?" Maud-'I was just going
to tell him he couldn't when he did"
Wigwag-"How do you like my friend
the hotel manager" Harduppe-"Oh,
can't put up with him." Wigwag-"Yes,
he is apt to demand pay in advance some
times,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03

The newspaper photographer does
his duty as he sees it. THAT'S why the
Becker, the New York killing suspect,
are retouched to look like an escaped
third-termer.
The Stubbs-Roosevelt gang is not
only without precedent for their &C
lions, but even the wop who claims
that anything can be proven or Just1-
fed by the Bible is up against 1T mere.
A careful search of the WORD 1ails
to show even a suspicion that the
bull moose got into the ark on the
elephants ticket.
Maybe, of course, he hid in the ele-
plants trunk and let the worthy
pachyde ERIN pay excess baggage, but
that guess, also, stands unproVen ana
on it's own merits.
If the Japs want to pull off some
thing to prove to the new sovereign
that they are for him, they could 90
no better than to chip in and raise
the price of a shave, the fund TO be
presented with diagrams ana appro-
pirate ceremonies.
State sportsmen are wondering
what became of the largest OF those
rs, 600 fish. Foolish question. IL IS
fish always got away.
Add fish: Splitting on a deceased
crawdad may improve it as cat Ilsn
bait, but to catch suckers the pest
stunt is to put a skirt on the balt
When a 16-year-o1d girl doesn't
want to go to a picnic, it is time 10
rush out in the street and flag the
first passing physician.
Some people never try to earn a
feed until hunger drives them to It
and then they are too weak from
hunger to work.
Under the rules of the game, news
paper men are given two weeks OF
vacation during each year. 1t has
been our custom, for number OF
years, to put at least one of these
weeks on ice. The several weeks VIII
be spoiled, no doubt, when we get
time to take them out of the refrig-
erator.
There are plenty of pictures of
Jawn D. Rockefeller but so far as we
know, only one of Mrs. Jawn d. has
ever been seen in the public print.
The answer is easy. The money is
not in Mrs. Jawn DIS name
st observe" says Hondo Murphy,
that Stubbs uses the pee-puP seven
times in three paragraphs
That's nuthin',' retorts Deacon
Squash, 'he has been a-usin' OF EN-
ali thuh time fer several years
A Chattanooga preacher has
brought suit for injunction to stop
one of the persistent singers in his
flock Householders who have per-
sistent singers in their block will
watch the case with interest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03

Men were offering $50, $50 and in
some instances 800 in Chicago a few
weeks ago for an admission ticket to
the Republican national convention.
And some men are now kicking be-
cause they will have to pay as much
as So for an admission ticket to the
Bull Moose convention. But then it
is too much to expect that a political
affair of the cut-and-dried variety
should be attractive to people who are
fond of political excitement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
Chapel of the Colliery.

In the Mynydd Newydd colliery, at
Swansea, South Wales, at depth of
$50 feet below the surface. is a nota-
BILE chapel. It is said to be the only
such chapel especially prepared and
consecrated for worship. 1t is a long
low room, fitted with rough wooden
benches, capable of accommodating
between $50 and 200 men. Services
are held before work every Monday
morning in the Mynydd Newydd col
Iiery, and have been held regularly
since 1S67.-The Argonaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03

So many and so earnest are the ap-
peals being sent out by Bull Moose
White to voters of Kansas asking
them to contribute to the fund that
will be necessary to press vigorously
the Roosevelt cause in this state, that
IL is evident that the CoIoneTs dough-
bag is not of such extensive proper
tions as it was when he was cam
paigning for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination which he didn't
get
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03

Let the people rule" is one of The
favorite slogans of the Bull Moosers.
And in what single particular have
the people been permitted to rule IN
the selection of delegates who will
make up the roll of the first national
convention of the new party project
ed by Colonel Roosevelt?