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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1908)
BRIEF OTY NEWS Boo. Trimt la, DUaumda, Bdkolm, Jawalsr. T W. Bluttan, Lawyer. Kadolpa. F. IwoMt, FnUi AocooaWnfc Boarmaa, ur n. II, DouflM ho. tl.LO Fa Knrti for Quality cigars. Ill 8. loth. Blasaart, photographer, llth Farnanv t. J. J. rovtar, dentist. Continental Bik. tnJtabl Uf- policies, sight draft at maturity. H. D. Naely, manager, Omaha. mctrual Wlrlaf ui Bspwlia Burgos. Citsnderi company, 1611 Howard atrct. Tot fun ec hot watar connection heating sea Omaha Stov Repair work, 120 Dougla. Bell Tel. Doug. HiO, Ind. a-i:i. A. Booker, th old-ttm piano man, tiaa accepted a poiltlon at city salesman with th Bennett company' piano department, wher na will ba pleased to meet hla friends. Zvary worn ahould bare a saf place to keep money and valuables. A box In the American Sara Deposit vault In The Bee building coata only i a year or 1 for three month. Ajrrrt4 foe Shop Urtlng For stealing a bundle of silk from liayden Bros.' ator Saturday evening, John Cunningham, who gave hi address aa Sioux City, waa ar reated by Sergeant Demptty. The allk waa found on hla peraon. rnaaral of Kra. McQulr The funeral of Mrs. Mary Ann Mcdulre, who wandered away from her daughter's home at 2130 Blondo street mora than a week ago and was found dead In a clump of high weeds near Lane, Neb., Friday, was held from the Heafey at Heafey undertaking pal lors Saturday afternoon at 2:10 o'clock. The. body was burled In St Mary' ceme tery In South Omaha. Collar Boa Brokaa y FallIn alight ing from an automobile In front of Bea ton drug store at Fifteenth and Kamain atreta about 11 o'clock Saturday morn ing, Mlas Alice McMahon fell and Buf fered a broken collar bone. After rmt Inf a few minuua In the drug store she wa taken to her home at Thirtieth and Farnam atretts In the machine, the broken bone being her only serious In jury. Bat Baal Xnda la Jail At the close of the straw hat sea.ton James Madison and ' John Curtis of ISIS Leavenworth atreet apparently decided that the beat way to obtain new headgear waa to pay a visit to some hat emporium and "remove" a couple of Stetsons. However, they weru stopped In the act of walking away with out leaving the required monetary con sideration, and on the Instigation of Clerk Kaaa of Brlggs' hat store they were arrested by Patrolman Walker and lucked up at the city jail on the charge of petit larceny. A hat which It was al leged they were trying to steal waa taken from them at the police station. lured Hoy Favor aad Oammrr Cold. A. J, Njsbaum, Batesvli:, Ind., writes; "Last year 1 suffered for three months witlt a summer void so distressing; that It In terfered with my business. 1 had many of the symptoms uf hay fever and a doctor's prescrlplino did not reach my case, and I took several medicine which seemed to only aggravate my case, a-ortunately 1 In sisted upon having Foley's Honey and Tar In th yello-v package and It quickly cured me. My wife has sine used Foley's Honey and Tar with th same success." All drug gists. METEOR ILLUMINES THE SKY One Man Says It la a Blgr as a Barrel and Leaves Lonar IHamlnated Trr.ll. The staid West Farnam and Hanscom park distrkjta were aroused Saturday night at 8 o'clock by th appearance of a large, meteor, described by a doxen who saw It as "big aa a barrel, with a tall 1,000 feet long." Citizens of good repute are respon sible for the statement that a ball of tiro was seen moving slowly from the south east to the northwest at Just S o'clock, hav ing a stream of fire in Us wake. M. J. Qreevy, 2914 Hickory street, was one who stood In awe and watched the fiery monster us It slowly tolled through the heavens. Mr. Oreevy said-. "I was standing In front of my house with a neighbor when wa noticed a ball of fire approach. It was as big as a bur re 1 end seemed to have a tall of fire 1,000 feet long. Th ball moved over Hanacom park, where we lost sight of It. A lnrge number of men and boya ran to the park to search for the meteor, but did not find It." Moving unusually slow across the sky In a westerly direction, the pucullar sight waa noticed by many people residing on the hills and bluffs In the outskirts of th city. When last seen by Omaha cttlxen the meteor wa disappearing over the hills west of the Missouri Pacific belt Una. 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The gradual subircrgence of men as a teaching force In the public schools of the country occasionally brinks to their rescue Sums heroic soul with a life preserver. Only one make of life preserver la regarded with favor, and Is flung far out to sea with feeble hope that ir It doe not save ft life now and then It will delay th drowning. The athletic director of the Cleveland public chools, realizing the uii ccrtainitiea of the future. Is the latcat lo cast the life preserver to his imperiled associates. He says "the women cffemln tse the boys" Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of the city schools or New York City, does not go as far as the Cleveland athlete, but adjusts his spectacles to the necessities of his environment, where men teachers still hold, numerically, a dominant position In the schools. "Children, girls as well -i boys," he says, "should In their school woik come under the Influences of tnc mind of the man aa well aa of the mind jf tho woman." Men teachers are particularly ntN'dful in the metropolis, where the diveise elements of the population require master ful hands to direct and mold the mass. "With women only as teachers," saya the New York Times, "the boys would inevita bly get the notion that education waa It self effeminate not for men." Men educatora are not by any means a unit on the assertion that women "effem Inlze tho boys." The Boston Globe prints the answers of five educator to th ques tion, "Do women teacher make boy less manly?" Four of the number are men connected with state or city schools, and the fifth Is a retired woman teacher. Th remarkable feature of the syhposlum Is tho fact that the four men answer th question In the negative, while the woman affirms It In part. Her reasons are Illum inated by years of experience, and are wtll worth reading. She wrltea: If all women teachers were like one whom I had In my achool girl days In a country town years ego this symposium question would scarcely have been propounded. That teacher peace to her nshes was not an ainaxon. Bhe was not a ahn-w. She wa a gentle, kindly soul. But she was ener getic, and she wa a disciplinary artlat. We girls adored her. The boys, after on memorable event, respected her. There was a gang of young ruffians, from 14 to 17 year old, In our class, who took as many liberties with decorum as they dared take. They were not qulto certain noon the order of the choolroom win suddenly broken. Two of the larger boys sprang from their seats and began fighting In the aisle. All was confusion in an In slant. The two savages were pummellng each other viciously. Her fnoe as whit as chalk and her eyes biasing, the toacher came down the aisle from the blackboard, and before either pugilUt wa aware of her presence she struck the larger one, almost a man In sise, a stinging blow cn his check with her palm. The boy has doubtless heard the reverberation of that mack ever lnc. 'Are you not ashamed of your selves." eh said, "to b fighting In the presence of girls and your.sj ladlee?" That was all, but It was effective, and the boys slunk back to thelf seats. Nature ha not ondowed every woman teacher with the physical and moral cour age and with the tact which that teacher possessed. Most women teachers arc averse to th practice of "the manly art " They seek rather to govern by kindness and by developing th gentler instinct. They en deavor to repress the savage and to awaken the humane nature in their boy pupils. They are not only th Ideal Instructors, but they alone ar fitted for the task of teaching boys under 12 years of age. Until that period every boy needs the Influence of women of good and aenelble women In home and school. Consequently the ques tion will have to be answered In the nega tive, If It refers to boya under II. Boys In their teens present an entirely different problem. In the period of adol eecence, when all the powerful subterran ean forces In the youth' spiritual and physical nature begin: to awaken, he stands In Aire need of the right sort of masculine Influence In the schoolroom. Woman la too much unlike man fully to understand his Ideals. Borne feminine Influence Is doubtless necessary to soften and modify A ike young savage, but the controlling; forces around him should be masculine. I do not think there Is even a remote danger that the influence of women teachers will tend to make boy pupils In their teens less manly. The apparently rapid growth of hoodlumlsm among boys in recent years would seem to Indicate that they have not been made bffemlnate by the Influence of women In the school room. The alarming spirit of lawlessness that seems prevalent In so many places among boya la surely not traceable to the feminising Influence of women teachers. It Is due rather to lack of proper control cf boya by their fathera. And unless we are to relapse Into barbarism something must be done to check hoodlumlsm among the youth. KTAMMERIXQ TOXGVE CORRECTED I alqne Feature of Omaha's Hducat lonal Work. "A stammerer's Institute Is one of the interesting educational features that his an existence in Omaha and contilbutea it part to the benefit of humanity. Little I known with certainty of the uauaea of atamrru'rlng. Heredity does not play ao Im portant a part In the causation of stammer ing as is usually auppoaed. Many more boys than glrla stammer. The principal of th Omaha Stammerer's Institute, herself an e-rtammerer. la very enthusiastic regard ing her work, and the school which she conducts here is said to be one of the most successful schools of Its kind In the United States. "What ar th fundamental principles of the art of teaching stammerers to talk easily?" was asked. "Endeavoring to place misplaced voices, breathing exercises, vocal gymnastics. When deep respiration, which I nature' plan, ha been established, but little attention to the respiratory organ I necessary. True voice 1 necessary before correct speech can be attained. It would be Impossible, however, to give you her th first principle of th teaching of vocal music. Our work is don without drawl, or time beating and with no external aids. A stammerer's vocal organ are ex actly like any one's else, and the dsvelop ment should be mad with the understand ing that It la to supplement th efforts of th mind. Borne of my moat atlcfaotory pupils have been numbered among the most thoroughly discouraged rase, who, having attended other schools without benefit, left here thoroughly satisfied with the work." "What length of time la required to effect a correction of speech?" "So much depends upon the effort of the pupil. It t difficult J to say. If their endeavor is earnest their progress la rapid. In son Instance th conwtton 1 effected In a few week; trr It may take lenger." "Am Uj other (onus of spU liffi- TITE OMAITA PAII.Y BEE: MON'PAY. SF.rTF.MHER Ct. 150?. culiie with which you dal?" "Yes, my work cover all kinds of speech defects, 1 stuttering, stammering, lisping, baby talk ing, any form of Indistinct articulation." Misa Vaughan Is herself an Interesting little woman who takes great dHlght In her work and gladly explains her methods. The pupils are bright and thoroughly In earnest. particularly the older ones, who, at their mature year, fully appreciate the handicap of a stammerer, and all seem ingly anxious to tell what was being done for them. HIGH SCHOOL FRATEnITIB9. rrogreas of the War Aaalnat Them la Chicago and Elsewhere. Obedience to lawful authority and re spectful deportment re two qualities sadly wanting In the education of some student of both sexes In the higli schools of Chi cago. The rule of the Board of Education abolishing high school fraternities and re quiring students to sign pledges not to Join such societies, and to resign If already a member, went Into effect on the opening of the school year. A small number of the total high school enrollment, probably 2O0, Inaugurated a rebellion against the rule, hired a lawyer to take th case Into court, and Issued a serlea of "blistering resolu tions" against the "tyranny of the school board." Parent of the rebellions students are encouraging the disobedience and are upp1lng the sinews of war for a ttrug gl In the courts. Gently, but firmly, the school authorities Insist on obedience to the rule on penalty of exclusion. A committee of the rebellious students who were excluded for refusing to sign th pledges waited upon th president of the board, Otto C. Schneider, and Superintend ent Cooley last week and made a spectacle of themselves. As a result of the Inter view both officials are convinced that cor poral punishment, vigorously applied, would do more good In five minute than all the talk a battery of phonograph could real off in a week. "Since our conference with the boy and girls yesterday." the prealdent Is quoted as saying, "I have become pretty clear as to what they need, the boys, I mean. If thy could be taken out behind th school building and given a good old-fashioned spanking It would do more real good than all the rules the board can pass. "The conduct of the boys who attended that conference showed exactly why w are stamping out the fraternities. They were Impudent and 111 mannered. When we went Into the committee room it waa a general rush for seats and It waa almost Impossible for Superintendent Cooley and me to find chairs. When we gave them an opportunity to state their case they were Impudent and cockey. I never saw such an exhibition of demoralization In youngsters in my life." Superintendent Cooley did not advocate the corporal punishment remedy, but he was even more emphatlo than the presi dent In commenting o nthe boys' conduct. "There was enough evidence right on the floor of that committee room to convict every high achool fraternity in Chicago," he said. "They were not only Impudent they were Insolent." At the Hyde Park school the rleIsc of the recalcitrants were accepted, signed "under protest," and all returned to their classes during the week with the single ex ception of Edward McDonald, the Phi Sigma member, who was selected as pailn tlff In the test case In the Circuit court. As each pledge was presented, Principal Ijoomts told the signer that the promise would be Interpreted to mean, that all con nection with secret organization had been abandoned except such connection a wa necessary for presecutlng thlr cases In the courts. No visible evidence of Identification with tho societies, such as the wearlngy of "frat" pins, will b tolerated. Commenting on the ruetlonlhe' Chicago News forcibly observes: Secret societies among growing boya and girls who need at all times the Intelligent guidance of parents and teachera are harm ful to their members and to the school which their member attend. This I the deliberate verdict of achool authorities in many cities. Parents who feel that they must keep themselves fully Informed In regard to the Influences surrounding their children can scarself fall to acquiesce in this verdict. "The fathers and mothers of Chicago are deeply Indebted to the board of education, the superintendent of schools and the prin cipals and teacher who have taken It upon themselves to eliminate the problem of secret societies from among the many problems which beset the school and the home. The Influence of the home will be stronger upon the child In consequence and the democracy of the public-school system will be something more than a name. "Bo far as the boy and girl are con cerned, they will have compensating ad vantages. Each, for example, will learn the wholesome truth that not artlflcal bar riers but personal worth and common In terest are the beat teat by which to choose friends and companions." The reopening of the schools In Topeka, the capital of Kansas, waa marked by th determination of the board of education of that city to do away with the high school fraternities. A pledg not to Join or main tain membership In these organizations Is as it Is In Chicago. This move is based on a law passed by the legislature giving the educational authorities power in th premises. There are also laws prohibit ing fraternttle or sororities In Illinois, In dlnana, Ohio and Washington. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. Important Phaae of the Problem Stated by a Labor Editor. Borne labor men have viewed with critical eyes the growth of Interest in Industrial education. The address of Luk Grant, labor editor of the Chicago Record-Herald, before the National Society for the Promo tion of Industrial Education, is therefore of Interest. Mr. Grant said In part: "Sus picion und distrust of th trade schools doe not repreaent th real attitude of the wage earner toward Industrial education, or even toward trade school. There are good and bad trad school, and I believe that the wag earner appreciate this as much as th employer. But there I an other phase of this question which con cerns the Intelligent wage earner even more than questions of productivity. He sees, I think, more clearly than th employer, the human aide of th problem. I believe this Is the most important phase of the prob lem and that th wage earner I Justified In placing It above every other considera tion. The production of men and women la more important than th production of manufactured material." At th same meeting Dr. Graham Taylor, director of the Chicago Institute of Social Science, referred to the fact tliat th social Interests of th family would be promoted by establishing Industrial schools and thus prolonging the school ag through the six teenth year. Continuing, h said: "The interests of th whole people, however, would have to be aafeguarded from the abuae of an unlimited apprenticeship by th monopoly of natural resources and by the limitation of th opportunities for kiled labor. It exploitation be barred by Just legal safeguards and by th organised self-protection of th group or class most In danger of being exploited, th wealth producing capacity of our whole people will undoubtedly be promoted by trad schools placed within reach of slL" Th next annual meeting of th National Society for th Protection of IniuytrUt Education will t held at Atlanta, Ua , No vember 1S, 3i ami i. Labor will be repre sented on the program- by Mr. John Mit chell, vice president of thr- American Federation of Labor. Otlier speakers will be Hon. Elmer F.liswrin Brown, United States commissioner of education; Hon. James Wilson, seiretnrv of the Department of Agriculture; Governor Hoke Sniliii of Georgia; Mrs. Frederick Nathan, vice presi dent of the Natlon.il Consumers' lsgue; Hon. G. Gtinby Jordan, president of the EagI and Phenlx mills. Columbia, Ua., and Robert C. OgJen, president of the Southern education board. )TIMATIO SCHOOL. Cklrnsto to Try a ev Idea In Ednrntlon. The first "continuation school" of Chi cago will be opened In the first week of October, according to plans being laid by Superintendent Cooley and President Schneider of the Hoard of Education. Tho building that will be used I the old Thomas Hoyne school. "This continuation school Is to be an experiment by Mr. Cooley, and will be kept open day and evening," said President Bchneldor, quoted by the Chicago Post. "Mr. Cooley and Mr. Cameron and I had a consultation, and It was decided to I go right ahead with the project and ak for the concurrence of the board. "These continuation schools, a number of which It Is plsnned to establish, will be for pupils who leave school at the age of about 14, and who are looking for an op portunity to continue their studies along mechanical lines. Wo will teach mechan ical drawing, penmanship, bookkeeping, stenography and all branches that will be of Use to young persons who will spend their lives In the trades. "The Hoyne building contain ten rooms, all of which doubtless will be opened. The dsy school will probably be mors of an experiment than the evening schools, as It Is more doubtful as to the number that will be able to attend In the daytime than in the evening. "Probably the school will be open only In the afternoon In the daytime. It will be under the direct supervision of the su perintendent, as It Is his experiment. It will be planned lanrely after similar schools In Germany. Austria, Switzerland and France, which Mr. Cooley has studied. "In th's Bchool we will train teachers for the new commercial high school, a build ing which we are planning to construct in 1910." HI RON COLLEOR OTEMSO. Inoaually Large Nnruber of New Students Enrolled. At no time In the history of Huron col lege, Huron, S. D., has that Institution entered upon a year with more greater promises than the present. At the opening session Wednesday last all the faculty were present and an unusually large num ber of new students. The enrollment bids fair to exceed that of former years, and special preparation has been made for the care of all. President French Is especially gratified with the outlook, as Is also every number of the faculty, which Is constituted as follows: Martin Remp, A. B., In charge of eco nomics and pedology; Rev. W. L. Notes teln, D. D., Greek and Apologetics; Eliza beth Reld, Ph. B., German and French; Kathryn A. Adams, A. B , English and dean of women; Charles W. Hochstetler, A. B.. history; Frank 11. Cowlcs, A. B., and Lizzie J. Robinson, A. B., both Latin: Lawrence J. Ulrlch, B. 8., natural science; Mary A. Tawney, A. mathematics; Franklin E. Chaffee, director business col lege; L. A. Warren, telegraphy; Helen W. Evans, shorthand and typewriting; J. W. Brown, director of musical department, piano .and violin; -Alfred iO. Smith, planu; Charlea L. Jones, A. B., jnat hematics and German; Thomas B. Houghton, librarian; J. Bstelle Mooney, voice and oratory; Charles L. Johns, of the'" North Western university, will be director of athletics and Instructor In mathematics and modern languages. A strong baseball team has been organised for the season, which In cludes nearly all those In the team of last season. OVERWORK I.V THE SCHOOLS. Medical Warsisg Aaalnst Excessive Stody. A writer In American Medicine, convinced that overwork In the schoolroom and ex cessive study at home the undermining the health of thousands of children, urges Its professional readers to call a halt. He be lieves that physicians should recognize this cause of Illness In children more frequently than they do now, and, with the assistance of parents, bring about a reform In the number of hours of school sessions and In the work at home required of the boys and glrla. It la undoubtedly true that In their eagerness to "make records'" school author ities are always In danger of overworking rather than underworking their pupils. There Is ever the temptation to permit the brightest scholars In a class to set the rate of progress for all and to spur the dullards to a speed which they cannot maintain by normal efforts. At the same time it Is difficult to accept the theory that American educational authorities are fol lowing the forcing methods prevalent In Germany, as has been asesrted, the system "which renders the poor little sufferers so neurastthenlc that It even leads to suicide.'' Edocatlonal olrs. New York has 64u,U0O pjbllc school pupils and 17,000 teachers. It's a mighty host. Announcement la made that Prof. George A. Coe will leave Northwestern univer sity, where he holds the chair of morul and Intellectual philosophy, and will aciep. a chair In Union Theological seminary. New York City. At St, I'hllariHlphla's oldest school teacher. Zephnnlah Hopper, Is still teach ing mathematics. He lias been at It for sixty-two years now. He liasn t mlnsd a day in twenty years. He tiBJiilly walks from his house to the high school and back again. Through the generosity of George W. Breckenrldge of San Antonio, eight scliolar slilps of tJoi a year are open ti women qualified to enter t lie medira' school of the University nf Texas. Mr. Breckenridge built University hall some ten years ago for the exclusive use nf the women of the medical achool. It Is de scribed as a handsome brick building with all modern Improvements. Rooms, includ ing light, heat and attendance, may he had In this building for $i a month. During the last year boarding on the co-operative plan was at the rate of $11 a month. Those low prices are said to he the result of the excellent management of Mrs Callie Chaw, the superintendent of University hall. The University of Texas Is co educational. Dr. Charlotte Schuefer. one of lta graduates In medicine, is professor of histology, biology and embryology. The first school for the Instruction of deaf mutes In the New York public school system was opened on September 14. The Institution, which comprises twentv-flve classes, is under the pi in-lpalshlp of Misi Margaret A. Heagan. She is assisted I y a corps of twenty-five teachers, all spe cialist In this branch of Instruction. It la proposed In the new School to teach the children of the fivo boroimhs In order to do tills the i.oard of Klucatlon will have to pay the carfare of the pupils and to provide them with luncheon in t lie middle of the lay. Accommodations aid lie provided for onlv ii children, altliouKn in the five boroughs it Is etiicaud Hint there are more than l.om mutes who r. In need of instruction. The obtect of the school Is to prepare children witlra iliree year course, so that at the end of that time they may be aide to enter the regu lar classes of the school slid In tpite of their physical handicap benefit by me general Inatruction. Of Interest in ninny. Foley's Kidney Cure will cure tny cas of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach o' medVne Nj tadic n vau dtf mjr. At all druggists'. Our Letter Box Contributions cn tlmery topics Invited. Write legibly on one side of the paper only, with name and sddres nppended. Unused contribution will not be re turned. I.tters exceeding JO words will be subject to being cut down at th discretion of the ed'tor. Publlestloti of views of correspondents does not 0 un mit The Hee to their endorsement. Democrat on Brynnlsm. VERONA. Neb.. Sept. 18.-T0 the Editor of The Bee: One of the strange spectacles that we wltmss In t!-.ls campaign Is people laying attention to Bryat.'s advice on financial legislation. Bryan's sreeche when he opposed the rfreal of the Slierm:tn silver purchasing act sixteen year ago whfn he approved Senator Allen' fourtecn hour speech BRnlnst the repeal, when he fought Giovtr Cleveland for maintaining the gold standard and the countrv'a credit all the world around ouslit tT be still frosh In the memory of th voter. If he had had his way there would have been a free allver plank In the democratic platform only four years ago. Everybody knows that the foundation of our last elcvin years of prosperity was Grover Cleveland's main tenance of the gold standard and thi country's credit, perpetuated by McKlnlcy and Roosevelt, and all their work In this fire was condemned by Bryan. But now he is wandering again end wants the gov ernment to guarantee bank deHslts. Everybody knows that Nebraska banker ry 4 per cent on deporlts. twice the amount the government pays on It securi ties. A 2 per cent bend sells above par. Not only do the banks pay twice as much Interest to both large and small depositors s the government pays for money, but tkey, under present laws, have to give the entire assets of the bank, both capital and surplus, and each stockholder Is liable for an assessment of Wo I'er cent additional as security for the depositors. Our banks have reached their present high plane of security In this and other states by the old rule of the survival of the fittest. Think of the untold millions that Mosher of tho late Capital National bank of IJn coln could have got from depositors If he could have said to them: "Every other bank In this state Is security for you here j with me." Depositors would have had no object In wlth 'r i wing their deposits. Reck less men are more liberal with depositors than conservative men. and alwavs will b , and under a government guarantee the tin- j told millions on deposit would flow from the conservative and well managed banks, where It is now. Into the hands of the reckless and liberal bankers. It Is not a question to leave well enough alone. It Is a question to leave the very best alone. Does any man suppose that the hist panic could have been so admirably handled If our banks had not been built up step by step on the old rule of the survival of the fittest? To say that there Is now proposed a law by a leader of one of the great parties that In effect means that any set of men, with only $25,000 capital, the amount It takes to start a national bank, and $10,000, the amount reuulred to start a state bank, could by recklessly giving more In terest and more liberal treatment to de positors than sound ard coneervatlve men would give, and drain our conservative banks with large capital and deposits and force the large and conservative banks to Withdraw credit from our' business enter prises and manufacturers Is simply appall ing. Mr. Bryan Is our greatest orator. He ha the grentest voice of any man that speaks the English lar.uaKe. It us give him credit for what he Is. Let us overwhelm ingly condemn him for his vagaries, hi poor Judgment that caused him to advocate free, silver, government ownership of rail roads, and. last but not least, government guarantee of bank deposits. All wrong and show up his weak judgment. Does any sane Roosevelt republican ir nr,y sane old line democrat want to elrct a man presi dent that has made more mistakes than any living democrat? Nebraska democrats, like Hitchcock ajid Shallenberger, must ad vocate his vagaries or be driven out of the party by him. There Is no half way point. Never In the history of the democratic party was such a spectacle presented. When our party made the mistake In lsTi and nominated Greelv democrats staid away from the polls and four years later got together and elected Tilden, a sound money, all around practical man. As demo crats we should stay by our state and county tlcketa and keep up our organiza tion, and leave the presidential electors blank, and show to the world that as demo crats we will not elect an unround man president. JOHN MURTEY. Teat of the Vote, OMAHA. Sept. 19.-T0 the Editor of Th Bee: I observe that some of out political statisticians and pn,gnot.tk atora on the "off side" of the political situation, In their computation, have evidently overlooked the results of the recent primaries In the btate of Nebraska and for the Information of the goner&l public and in order that the actual facts may be presented I desire to make a little computation of my own for the edification of the misguided adherents of Mr. Bryan, and I also submit these figures, which are to my mind conclusive. I cannot figure out In any way lw Mr. Bryan ran come within 10,000 votea of car rying this state. The total vote for governor was 60,2Si There was no contest on Governor Sheldon and he had no opposition, otherwise the le publicaii vote would probably have been very much In excejs of these figures. On the otlier hand, with a very bitter, vindic tive canvass on the part of three demo cratic candidates for the nomination for governor and whose friends did everything In their powr to gt out the largest possi ble democratic vote, lludr combined efforts. Including the p.-p vote, which amounted tc only 3,871, waft IVi.L'Is. The net result shows a republican majorl'y of H.ORt out of a total vote of W.oJO. With a full vote- at the Novenih-r election naturally tho republican vote will be In creased proportionally and the majority for Taft In this state should, according to the above fiirnres. be somewhere In the neighborhood of IR.f, and I would not be much surprised to se it go even higher than tlds. Very respectfully, W. B. TAYIJR. MORE M0T0RCARS FOR U. P. Extra Service Over l.nne tot-On" livtween Oiuahn and Kremout. The I'nlon Pacific lias decided to double Its motor car t-erv lee between Omaha snj Fremont, beginning Monday. The service us now arranged It for the running of a motor train from Valley to Omaha In thu morning and return that evening. Th nev schedule plana for an Intermediate trip over the I.ane etit-off. the train leav ing Omaha at 10 a. m., aniving at Fre mont about noon and returning to leuve Fremont .'t I or 1 SO and arrive at Omaha at 3 or 3::in. 'I lie exact evhudula villi be winounced later. FiriLAY "SS Teaches all branches engineering; stu dents enroll any time; machinery in operation; day and night sections; no vacation. Flnlay bid., loth and In- i dlaca Ave., Kansas City, Mlsauuii. Schools an a Colic C3 i TUE NEBRASKA MILITARY ACADEMY I Lincoln, Nebraska An educational home for boys where mini! aiul body are equally developed. Ideal location just outside tho city; large, well-equipped buildings; forty acres of campus, drill and athletic grounds. Strong faculty headed by Colonel Georgp H. Burnett, retired U. S. Army officer, late supc-rintemlpnt of Blee's Military Academy and one of the best-known military school educators in the country. Junior department for boys under twelve. Special attention given to each pupil: his personality is studied, his class assignment is adapted to his special netls and changed as often as his attainments demand. Through the military training he loai lis obedience ne.itneaa. nuntuiillt v. rocrular hnblta. and re n spect for authority and law. The object of the school is to develop ' the good in boys and to resrain the evil; to equip them physically, morally and educationally for the best citizenship. jj tor information aaurct-a x 2 11. l. HAYWAllli, Superintendent, llox 153, IJncoln, Neb. V City U&ice SJ?-M SetHi-ity Mutwtl form rlf Hir?) 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