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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1910.
Tim omaiia Daily 'Her
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VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OP KfltCL'LATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as:
Oeorge U, 'lin hutk, treasurer of The Bea
Publishing Company, being duly sworn.
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Daily. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of July, W10, was as follows:
1 44.970
I..... 49.4M
t 4L3M
4 58,00
I ..49,T80
41,860
T 41,830
8. ........ .41,640
t... 41J40
I It 40,400
i 11 41,880
, II .41,610
! II 41,630
14 41,740
II 41,620
It 40,860
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JA HA
II
II
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...40,670
ia.ua
41,800
43,180
11
21
. .43,870
. .43,040
11
II 40,809
JJ 43,810
tli 42,360
IT 48,300
Jt 48,410
2 43,330
g 48,460
II 40,300
Total
ftetnrned aoplea
....1,383.310
, 13,867
Set total 1,310,043
Dally average 4269
OEORGE a TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
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before ma this 1st day f August, 1910.
U R. WALKER,
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aaalled to them. Address will he
rhaaa-ed as oftea as reaaested.
Likewise la primary elections,
there's many a slip 'twlxt cup and Hp.
That weather man will be given his
rating a little later.
The life of a poor . working girl
should be Just as valuable to the com
munlty as that of a rich brewer.
We (ye for Dan 1 man. World-Herald.
What If It yet turns out that Gov
ernor Shallenberger is renominated?
Has anyone heard a good word for
the open primary which the late dem
ocratic legislature Tput' over on -us?
We pause for reply;
The auto speeder is no respecter of
persons in his victims, '- and the law
should be no respecter of persons In
holding culpable auto drivers respon
slble. - 1
The rate of increase in St. Louis'
population for the census decade is
19.4 per cent. If Omaha's rate is 23
per cent, we will still be doing toler
ably well.
' When he bitched up for nil thcs
Chautauqua lectures and old setttlers'
picnics Governor Shallenberger evl.
dently overlooked a few things that
have since transpired.
Out In Colorado fourteen democrats
are lined up against the Initiative and
referendum on its passage through the
senate and threaten its defeat. Send
for old "Doctor" Bryan.
Anyway, Omaha Is universally
known, and will continue to he known,
as a live, bustling, busy,, growing,
prosperous western eity, no matter
what the census may hand out to us.
The National Negro Business league
has held out to Colonel Roosevelt
assurance' of enthusiastic support
should he at any time again run for
office. How soon is Brownsville for
got .
If the vote for Associate Editor Met
calfe represents Editor Bryan's per
sonal Influence with Nebraska demo
crats, a Wool soap picture showing
how it has shrunk would illustrate It
mcst graphically.
If upward of 10,000 republicans
crossed over to the democratlo column
In the late primary, It is hardly safe
to predicate on the returns any Judg
ment as to the strength of Insurgency
within, the rank and file of Nebraska
republicans.
The defense of the Illinois Central
officials charged with looting the road
Is that the money was, in fact, used for
legislative' bribery and Jury-flxlng and
only charged to repairs for a blind
If the lid la to come off, let It come off
all the way.
Kansas City is trying hard to sell
$400,000 of 4H per cent city bonds.
If this Is what Kansas City Is up
against, how fast will that 16.600.000
of 4 per cent water works bonds go If
Omaha tries to float them on the pres
ent market?
The crocodile tears shed by demo
cratlo sympathisers over the plight of
Collector Loeb, forced to choose be
tween his former chief, Colonel Roose
velt, and his (resent boss, President
Taft, may as well be saved. VMri. Loeb
will doubtless lo able to keep on fol
lowing wj 7
Missouri Republican.
Missouri has given Us electoral vote
to the republican presidential ticket
twice in succession, and two years ago
elected a republican governor for the
first time In forty years. The election
that swung Missouri into the repub
lican column for Roosevelt in 1904
gave Missouri a republican United
States senator, whose term Is about to
expire, and the chief issue In Missouri
this year, there being no state ticket
to elect, la whether Senator Warner
shall be succeeded by a republican or
by a democrat.
Since the election that lost them
the place held by Senator Warner the
democratlo law-makers In Missouri
have been busy and have concocted a
scheme for controlling the election of
United States senator that puts the
Oregon plan completely lu the shade.
In Missouri, Instead of naming .candi
dates for United States senator in pri
mary or convention the same as candi
dates for other offices, a preferential
vote Is taken at the election without
pretense of binding force except to
make the candidate running the
strongest In each party to all Intents
and purposes the caucus nominee of
the members of the legislature of
these -parties respectively.
To vote for United States senator in
Missouri, and to make the vote count,
the ballot must be marked for the
candidate of the party for whose leg
islative candidates it is also recorded,
so that democrats may vote for dem
ocratic senatorial aspirants only by
voting for democratic candidates for
the legislature and vice versa. This
double-shuffle scheme might perhaps
not be so bad were It not for the
further fact that Missouri legislative
districts have been so gerrymandered
by democratic law-makers that in the
election this year the democrats start
out with at least twelve members of
the legislature to the good befova .ny
voting takes place. This description
of the political machinery which is to
govern the election of United States
senator in Missouri may serve to clar
ify the situation that exists there.
Senator Warner is expected to stand
for renominatlon, although If he has
no opposition, while the democrats
have a spirited contest, the prospect
of drawing out the full republican
vote will not he promising. State
Chairman Dickey, who was expected
to get into the running, has decided
definitely not to be a candidate, and
the only other republican seriously
mentioned in that connection la Gov
ernor Hadley, who up to the present
has given no indication of willingness
to stand. Should the governor enter
the field It goes without saying that
he would make things lively in the
impending campaign, for everyone
recognises that he is a coming man
But should he decline to do so under
existing conditions no one will have a
right to find fault Should .we ever
reach the point of electing United
States senators by direct vote of the
people and thus strike off the shackles
of gerrymandered legislatures, Mis
souri could be counted on to choose
republicans to represent It In the
senate.
The Center of Population.
Although comparatively unlmpor
tant for practical uses, one of the by
products of the federal census Is the
determination of the center of popu
lation. The point cannot be located
until all the people have been counted
and allotted to their respective geo
graphical subdivisions, because the
center of population Is taken to be the
point of Intersection of two lines, one
running east and west and the other
north and south, each having one-half
of the people of the country on olther
side of It.
When the center of population was
located for the first time after the cen
sus of 1790 had been compiled It was
found to be on the eastern shore of
Maryland and, like the star of empire.
It has each succeeding census taken
a western course. In 1800 the center
of population was eighteen miles west
of Baltimore. The acquisition of
Louisiana territory gave a southern
twist o Its Itinerary between 1800 and
18S0, after which It continued to cadre
nearly due- west, with stopping points
from forty to eighty miles apart By
1860 the center of population was
about twenty miles south of Chill
cothe, O., whence It traveled on Into
Indiana, sojourning last time near Co
lumbus, In that state, seventy miles
distant from the east line of Illinois.
The present census will probably die
close some geographical rearrange
ment of the population center, but
hardly enough at most to take it out
of Indiana.
Whether the center of population
will ever reach the geographical center
of continental United States, which
would take It west of the Missouri
river, is open to serious question, be
cause It would require a density of
habitation In the western half of the
country equal to that in the eastern
half. This is a contingency so remote
that It belongs to the realm of specu
lation. Among other interesting Informa
tion dug up In connection with the
Oklahoma Indian land fraud charges
Is the payment of an attorney's fee of
1721,666 out of money belonging to
the Cherokee nation, of which United
States Senator James K. Jones, cam
paign manager for Mr. Bryan in his
first two defeats, got 14 8,170. An
other Influential democrat, Senator
Matthew C Butler of South Carolina,
got 171,898, and still another demo
cratlo United States senator, Robert L.
Owen, colleague of Senator Gore of
Oklahoma, got 1 2 08.788. This looks
like pretty big money, and the high
position of the beneficiaries In demo
cratic party circles would Indicate that
political pull may have entered Into
their philanthropic, but well paid,
services to the Indian.
The State Tickets.
The Bee has refrained up to this
time from commenting on the make-up
of the state tickets put in nomination
at the recent primary for the very
good reason that It has not beeri cer
tain, and Is not yet certain, who will
be tbo opposing candidates.
On the republican side It is fully
demonstrated that the ticket will be
headed by Chester H. Aldrlch, nomi
nated for governor by a plurality of
approximately 3,500 out of a total
vote greatly decreased by the defec
tion of the liberal republicans who
went ovtr into the democratic primary
to vote for Dahlman.
On the democratic side Mayor Dahl
man has a small lead over Governor
'Shallenberger. His margin is so nar
row that a recount or contest may yet
change the result
If Mr. Aldrlch Is to be pitted against
Mayor Dahlman the Issue will be
sharply defined between wet and dry
and will have to be fought out on
those lines. If Mn Aldrlch has Gov
ernor Shallenberger as his opponent.
both of them committed to sign a
county option bill if passed by the leg
islature, that Issue will be relegated
more to the respective senatorial and
legislative districts, and the fight for
the gubernatorial office will be waged
around other Issues as well.
In either event victory or defeat
for Mr. Aldrlch as head of the ticket
must turn on the measure of success
his campaign scores in winning back
the support of the liberal republicans
and in appealing to the democratic
and Independent voters dissatisfied
with the personality or record of the
democratic candidate.
Growth of the New Weit
The next ten years will certainly
show, enormous growth in population
and development In natural and arti
ficial resources of the new west, but
at the same time It will entail keener
competition, than In the decade Just
closed. This will come to pass by
reason of the quickened industry down
south and in Canada. The south, with
the application of northern enterprise,
has been fully awakened from its long
sleep and at last has come to realize
its own powers and possibilities. With
this awakening and realisation has
come a determination to do things, so
that today a movement is onin the
south which promises big things in the
way of settling up the country, both
rural and urban.
But in these facts or conditions the
west need find no reason for discour
agement. Keener competition never
warrants a depreciation of hope or
opportunity, but- rather an -enlargement
of both. . With the new condi
tions In Dixie more people -vill get in
the notion of looking about for new
homes and then there is Canrda and
Its wonderful colonisation movement
to offer additional incentive. Alto
gether these things are likely to create
the greatest land-seeking campaign we
have had In many years and the new
west, with all its magnificent resources
and advantages, some of which can
not possibly be matched either by
Canada or the south, will go into the
contest as a formidable competitor.
The new census does not show con
clusively the population of the far
western cities, but -anybody who has
kept up with the growth of them
knows they have all made large ad
vances. Even Ban Francisco, in Rplte
of Its appalling disaster of 1908, la a
larger and better city today than be
fore the earthquake. 'The friendly
rivalry between Los Angeles and San
Francisco and between Portland and
Seattle has had a healthful Influence
and while Los Angeles is nowhere near
as large as-San Francisco, nor Port
land up to Seattle, the claims and am
bltlons of the smaller cities help them
as well as the larger ones.
And this spirit of rivalry is rampant
all over the new west, east of the coast
through Idaho, Utah, eastern Wash
ington and Montana and Oregon, and
In all of these states good smaller
cities are being built up and built on
solid foundations, on the foundation
of eastern skill and experience, which
makes for substantial progress.
Automobile Regulation.
Another serious, if not fatal, auto
mobile accident in Omaha Is a re
minder that nothing whatever has
been done by our local authorities to
put a check on reckless auto driving.
It is only fair, howev-, to the city
council that it be known that Its power
to apply a remedy that would be effec
tive has been cuestloned, and that it
is doubtful whether any ordinance es
tablishing a general license system,
with forfeiture for violation of the
conditions of license issue, would hold
water.
Tho trouble ia that our late demo
cratlo legislature last year enacted
state law for the registration of motor
vehicles of state-wide scope, contain
ing the following provision:
Cities and towns shall have no power
to pass, enforce or maintain any ordi
nance, rule or regulation requiring of any
owner or operator of a motor vehicle any
license or permit to uae the publlo high
way. or exclude or prohibit any motor
vehlola whose owner has compiled with
this law from the free uae of auoh high
ways, and all such ordinances, rulas and
regulations now In force are hereby de
clared to be of no validity or effeot; pro
vided that nothing In this act shall be
construed aa limiting the power of local
authorities to make, enforce and main
lain aa ordinance, rules or regulations,
in addition to tho provisions of this act,
affecting motor vehicles which are
offered for the publlo for hire.
The city council has the right to
pass an ordinance governing public
automobiles offered for hire, and it Is
Just possible it might make regula
tions governing professional chauf
feurs regularly or temporarily em
ployed, but It evidently has no power
o limit the use of automobiles by
their owners or by those to whom
they are entrusted by their ownere.
Irrespective of age or competency.
The only opportunity, therefore, to
enforce a remedy lies In arrest of
drivers exceeding the speed limit and
the Imposition of severer penalties
than has been accustomed.
In the interval those interested in
the safeguarding of the automobile
from the odium brought on It by defi
ant driving will do well to prepare and
present to the coming legislature an
amendment to the state law establish-
ng some reasonable qualifications as
prerequisite to the right to guide an
auto through our crowded city streets.
The attorney general of Kansas has
Just hsnded down an opinion to the
effect that the corrupt practices act
there requiring candidates and com
mittees to report campaign expenses
does not apply to candidates or com
mittees doing business in the primary
election. Our Nebraska corrupt prac
tices act has no such exception or
exemption. For a state so far ahead
of the reform procession, Kansas lags
a little every once in a while.
The Insurgent victory in California
proves to be the nomination of a candi
date for governor by a minority vote
because the majority divided between
three other candidates. What would
have happened if It were a straight-
out fight on that issue fs only a matter
of guess work. California, however,
will be listed in the Insurgent column,
and Its apparent insurgency will doubt
less exert an Influence In other states.
Booker T. Washington has gone to
Europe to study labor conditions there
as a basis of comparison with negro
labor conditions in this country. The
very suggestion that a negro should
undertake such a task would have
been regarded as preposterous up to
within a few. years ago, and the fact
that it is not so regarded now is the
best proof of the progress which the
negro is making.
Our taxpayers thought last year's
taxes, which were 25 per cent above
those of the year before, exceptional,
but it looks as if the current year's
tax burden will be Just as heavy. It
is always easy to boost the tax rate,
but mighty hard to pull It down again.
Plans for the new postoffice build
Ing to be erected at Washington have
Just been completed by a firm of Chi
cago architects. We thought the
supervising architect of the treasury
was drawing aafefy for making plans
for 411 "of the TJd buddings. V
Colonel Roosevelt' Omaha speech
will be on the Panama canal. It is
too much, however, to expect nlm to
tell us whether the exposition In cele
bratlon of the completion of the canal
should be located In New Orleans or
San Francisco.
It Is said Mayor Gaynor can have
the democratlo nomination for gov
ernor In New York this year if he
wants it. But It seems to be another
case of where most of his, friends hope
he will not want it.
Enlivening the Campaign.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Nebraska Is likely to have a populist
well as democratlo ticket for governor this
year, which is another specimen of demo
cratlo harmony. - '
Peerless in His Loneliness.
New York World.
As Mr. Bryan looks over the result of
the Nebraska primaries he will have no
occasion to feel lonely. Every Bryan can
didate was defeated. Not one escaped.
Emphasis In Pone Letters,
Indianapolis Journal,
Not wishing to contradlot anybody, Mr,
Cannon courteously begs to state that the
report that he will not be a candidate for
re-election aa speaker should be charac
terised by that short and ugly word.
Could Palermo Beat Itf
Chicago Poet
The chief of the Chickasaw Indians
'doesn't remember" how he happened to
add $75,000 to his bank account ona day
last year. And yet some people have said
that the red man never could become as
similated.
A Line Worlk Working,
Indianapolis News.
The Illinois Central ease suggests that
some of the other great railroads would
certainly win more popularity and prob
ably gain more money by making a care
ful Investigation of their accounts than
by trying to boost freight rates.
Our Birthday Book
Angus 88, 1610.
Commander Oliver Hazard Perry, who
fought the battle of Lake Erie In th war
of 1912, was bom August 23, 1783. His re
port to the president wass "We have met
the enemy and they are ours." He died on
his birthday anniversary on the Island of
Trinidad in 1819.
Ooldwin Bmlth, the noted Canadian his
torian and publicist who died a few months
ago, waa born August 23, 1S23, at Reading,
England. He made some valuable be
quests to Cornell unlversary where ha waa
long a faculty lecturer.
John R. Brotherton, attorney -at-law of
flclng in Th Bea building, Is (2 years old
today. He waa born at Waterford, Fa.,
and graduate! from Western Reserve col
lege In Ohio. He ' practiced law at Oga
ta 11 a, Neb., and Erie, Pa., and la now state
Sgent for the Michigan Mutual Life Insur
ance company.
Oeorge W. Allen, member of Omaha's
police department, la celebrating his
thirty-eighth birthday today. He waa
born In Iowa and appointed to the police
force In IMS.
Harry L. Swan, Correspondent for the
Associated Press at Omaha, was born Aug
ust 23. '1856, at' Llncklaen. N. T. He has
been In newspaper work since 1840, and In
bis present position In Omaha since tfOf,
Army Gossip
Matters of Interest On the Back
of the Firing Cine Qleaned from
the Army and navy Begister.
Efforts will be renewed at the next ses
sion of congress to obtain legislation In
creasing the commissioned personnel of the
signal corps of the army. The house mili
tary committee at the last session was on
the verge of favorably reporting the signal
corps bill, but that measurewas sidetracked
In favor of other proposed legislation which
the then chief of staff deemed more Impor
tant, and which, by the way, was not
passed by the house. Signal corps officers
are deeply Interested In the progress that Is
being made In aviation both at home and
abroad, but they are powerless to accom
plish anything of consequence In this field
owing to lack of money and men. Our
army Is at a standstill as far as aviation
la concerned, owing to failure of congress
to appropriate money for developments In
aeronautical work, and our signal corps of
ficers look on with Impatience at the ad
vancements that are being made by civili
ans at home and by civilians and Officers
of armies abroad both in aeroplanes and
dirigibles. They hope that the nest congreea
will be more liberal than the laat, and that
money will be provided for aviation and for
additional officers and men for work In this
field and In other matters coming under the
signal corps.
The army la trying out Its new emergency
ration and a quantity has been furnished
this summer to the troops at the summer
encampments for trial. The ration consists
of three cakes made of a material com
posed of milk, egg, chocolate and a little
sugar. It is palatable and nutritious; It
possesses the keeping qualities which add
to Its value In malntalng a reserve stock
of any dimensions. It Is of commercial
production and can be obtained In "large
quantities In time of trouble. It possesses
sufficient nutritive value to sustain the
soldier for twenty-four hours and may be
eaten dry or reduced to a sort of gruel or
thick soup or mixed with more water and
uesd as a beverage. It Is found palatable
when molstenedand mixed with hard bread.
The reports of the officers who have been
observing the effects of the emergency ration
are awaited with considerable Interest
Some officers believe there is no need of
such a ration and that there are other suf
ficient means of subsistence of the soldier
on the firing line when the garrison ration
cannot be delivered to him. Others take th
view that there will be -times when th
emergency ration satisfies a hunger which
would otherwise go without relief.
The War department has several vacan
cies at military colleges available for de
tail of suitably equipped, retired officer.
This detail carries with It active pay and al
lowance, but on account of preference for
reorultlng or militia duty, or the many op
portunities for remunerative employment
In business life, few retired officers who
are well suited for detail make formal
application. On the other hand, the War
department Is disposed to carefully scru
tinize - th physical, mental and moral
qualifications for college duty of retired
officers applying for such details, as most
educational Institutions now entrust the
naming of a competent retired officer to
the War debarment There la no duty
which, if th officer Is well equipped.
conscientious, and has th hearty support
of the college authorities, can be made
more valuable to the government On the
other hand, should the offloer be physically
disqualified, lazy, mentally Indolent, or
careless. In his personal conduct, no duty
works, more harm to the educational Irstl-
tuUon or to the army, producing In the
minds of th people of a locality a false
Idea of army standards, by which the en
tire personnel Is apt to be misjudged.
On of the important results of th
maneuver which are being held this sum
mer Is the teat of the new haversack ra
tion of the army. All the troops which hav
participated In the exercises hav been fur
nished with one day's ration, with In
structions to hav It tested under field
conditions. This has been possible dur
ing the program which requires that the
troops be separated from their camps for
a period that allows th ration to be prac
tically tried out. No official comment has
yet been made, but from the preliminary
remarks which hav come from th ob
servers, there Is an Indication of general
satisfaction with the ration. Of course, It
Is found that more or less unwillingness
prevails among the soldiers to subsist on
any ration, which Is less than th garri
son ration, and even when the objoot of
th diminished substitution Is for purposes
of demonstration. Some of them, perhaps,
think It Is a good deal like submitting to
a personal Injury to ascertain whether the
first-aid package would answer th de
mands mad upon it In real war. At th
am tlrrv th authorities feel that It Is
necessary to find out whether there are
real objections to th ration from any
point of view and to correct th defects,
if sny exist.
The court-martial trial of Colonel Q. F.
Cook, United States army, retired, at
Seattle, has sufficiently progressed to ex
alte same curiosity, quite Independent of
any result In th way of th findings of
that Judicial body. It is of Interest to the
army to know whether th War depart
ment or the president possessed any knowl
edge, before that officer's retirement, of th
circumstances attending Colonel Cooke's
career in Alaska as lieutenant colonel of
th Twenty-second infantry. That subject
may well become the occasion of a con
gressional Investigation in the Interest of
good military administration which under
takes to do Justice to all officers without
prejudice and without favoritism. There
are not wanting Instances of anrny officers
of splendid service snd fin personal rec
ords who, when retired upon their own re
quest, have been afforded no opportunity
to hav that transfer from th active list
delayed that they might gain the advan
tage of promotion to the next higher grade.
It ha been stated, with considerable show
of virtu, that this was not possible In the
interest of discipline, and so on. In th
case of Colonel Cooke, he applied for re
tirement while a lieutenant colonel and
final action upon that application was de
ferred for several weeks to await a vacancy
In the grade of colonel of Infantry which
waa anticipated and which occurred In time
to promote Lieutenant Colonel Cook to a
colonelcy snd then transfer him to th re
tired list
Average Slse of Farms.
Philadelphia Record.
How big is a farm? The Agricultural de
partment's snswer to this conundrum Is at
hand, and it appears that the average Is a
little mors than 100 acres In the country aa
a whole. The smallest average acreage la
that of the cornfields of Vermont about
three acres. The largest average Is not to
be found, a might be supposed. In the
wheat field of Minnesota or Dakota nor In
the corn belt, but In California, where the
average farm runs up to 14 acre. The
valuation of crops varies more than the
slse of the fields, however. In Illinois the
average production of an acre of wheat la
IM and of oorn $1U0; In th south th aver
age for these two cereals la S33 and 127 per
acre respectively. Intensive farming yields
mure than extensive.
IF.riIOM9 l 1NJIRV CASES.
Courts tiradnally Modifying Fellow
Servant Halt.
Chicago News.
In the latest Issue of the bulletin of the
federal bureau of labor are reported a
number of court decisions relating to em
ployers' liability for Injuries to their work
men. It Is significant that the recent tend
ency of courts as well as of legislatures Is
In the direction of minimising the doctrines
of assumption of risk and contributory neg
ligence and also the fellow-servant rule.
These have operated for many years to de
prive worklngmen of th right to recover
damages for Injuries sustained while at
their tasks.
One case reported is that of Oeorge Val-
Jago against the Carnegie Bteel company.
Valjago's arm had been drawn Into a ret
of cog wheels which were uncovered, con
trary to th laws of Pennsylvania. The
company admitted Its failure to comply
with the statute, but offered the defense
of assumption of risk, Insisting that the
plaintiff had waived his right under the
statute and so could recover nothing. The
supreme court of Pennsylvania refused to
accept this defense as valid.
Another case reported Is that of John R.
Zeratsky, rear brakeman on a Chicago,
Milwaukee A St. Paul railroad freight
train In Wisconsin. Zeratsky was severely
Injured when a passenger engine ran Into
th caboose of his train. Th company
charged contributory negligence, which wss
established to a degree. Under former de
cisions of th supreme court of Wisconsin
contributory negligence of the plantlff.
however slight, preclude his recovering
damages, notwithstanding negligence of
the defendant, however great, contributed
thereto." But the legislature of that state
has declared by a law recently paused that
the Injured workman may recover, notwith
standing his own contributory negligence,
provided It Is shown that the negllgenc of
the employer is greater than that of th
workman, th question of comparative neg
ligence being left to the decision of th
Jury. In the face of this law the lower
court took the case of Zeratsky from th
Jury and ordered a verdict for the company.
The supreme court reversed this finding
and ordered a new trial, directing that th
facts be submitted to the Jury,
An Oklahoma decision which Is reported
gives effect to a constitutional provision of
that State abrogating the fellow-servant
doctrine in respect to certain specified oc
cupations. Though court decisions in litigation of
this sort are generally more favorable to
the plantiffs than they war In former
years, lawsuits remain an unsatisfactory
means of securing Justice to Injured work
men. It would be far better for all con
cerned If provision were made for compen
sating on a fah- and systematio basts work'
men of their dependent families for Injuries
received by th former as a result of their
employment.
PAYIJfO LOAD TIPPED OFF.
Lin of Inquiry Into Hallrond Mcth
ods Worth Working.
Chicago Tribune,
There Is no question that th Interstate
Commerce commission Is desirous of deal
ing with the difficult and vital problem of
railroad freight rates thoroughly and con
clusively. To this end, therefor, th com
mission will welcom all th aid it is pos
sible to bring to bear, and to this And Th
Tribune begs leave to make the following
suggestions;
Let the commission subpoena bait a doaen,
or better stllll, a dosen prominent railroad
supply men and the purchasing agsnta of
the leading railroads. ,
And, having thus secured th presence
Snd attention of auoh supply men and pur
chasing agents, let th commission ask why
It Is possible and polltio or profitable to
sell supplies to one road or system of road
at a very different rat, lower or higher,
than to another road or system of roads.
If th commission pursues this line of
Inquiry acutely and thoroughly. The Tri
bune Is confident that discoveries will be
made not only legitimately Interesting to
th publlo but highly InatruoUv and help
ful to the commission. The Tribune be
lieves that these discoveries would b most
Illuminating as to th reason why during
the panlo and th none too prosperous per
iod following eertaln railroads hav been
able to make excellent showings, whll th
officers or representatives of other roads
or systems hav been standing on th high
plaoes prophesying dlsaater unless rat are
raised to offset Increased expenses.
Possibly th member of th commission
already hav thought Of this phase of the
situation. If they have we hope th
thought will not be sidetracked before the
Inquiry. If it is a new on w trust It will
be considered and acted upon, for th re
sult will repay.
Rl'LO AND ITS HIGHBROWS.
Seeks the fSed Tonch of Cnltnr
for Bowling Pleasnre.
Chicago Tribune.
In his hour of chagrin at the aot of the
Burlington officials In ousting his flv
foot shelf of blooks from their train
there Is a ray of cheer for Dr. Eliot In
th faot that among th town which
applied for a set of the rejected literature
Is Rulo, Neb., which desire to us th
Harvard classics as a library for th town
bowling alley.
After an is said and dona, ths west
Is the seotlon to which th literateur of
th east must look for support Although
It was a western road which rejected th
classic seleoted by Dr. Elliot, th faot Is
that the tired business men who rid on
Talks for people
Practically every copy of Tbo Bee
goes into the home where care is taken
as to the character of the paper, its
news and its advertisements.
The readers of The Bee are loyal to
the paper, they believe in it, believe it
prints reliable news, and read it from
the first to the last page.
A great many advertisers have
learned by experience that The Bee's
circulation is of the kind that brings
returns. They have learned it pays to
go Into the homes of Omaha through
the advertising columns of the paper
whose subscribers are its friends and
followers they have learned that The
COUTANT
Hm Movtd Thslr Coil Off lo to
210 South Seventeenth Street
Now It tho Tlmo To Buy Hird Coil
Frooh r1inod Hard Coal $10.50
Havens-White Coal Co
1618 Farnam St. Omaha, Nob.
Telephonee-Oesjglss 630, Ind. A-1281.
Its throush trains are mos'ly asleinr
ffolnf west to look after their mvestmcn a.
But when It comes to true lltrarr feeling
the west is never found wanting. That Is.
while Rulo, Nb, yenrns for Arlstotlo,
Eplctetus, Milton, and Karon. Where will
you find In the esst a bowling illey with a
high browed library
PERSONAL NOTES.
Lightning calculatora. crowded out of th
dime museums, can exercise their talent ta
ne museums, can exercise their talent to
a limit, keeping tab on new aviation ree
ds, so fast they follow. 1
Massachusetts town Is offering sy
ng feast of canned tongue for theIist
the
ords
A
dins- feast of canned tongue for theMUMi
couple of th borough that gels married.
Ellglbl maids threaten to tie a can on th
authors of th prise. Canned tongue Huhl
Crlestin Oauthler. who Is aald by the
Associated Frees to be th richest begsar
In this country, has had hi permit to
sell shoestrings revoked by Mayor Baehr
of Cleveland, O. In Detroit th police esti
mated that Oauthler has I17.OJ0.
A Minnesota banker who la serving a
prison sentence for reckles Joy riding
thinks It Is a terrible fate which has be- '
fallen him. However, he I suffering In a
good cause, since other Joy riders sorely
need a lesson they will remember.
Hubert Latham recently took up a mov
ing picture operator on a seven-minute trip
In his aeroplane to an elevation of eighty
feet from the ground. Th operator took
pictures with the lens pointing downward.
Th apparatus weighed 200 pounds and its
operator 196.
Isabella Lengel, daughter of a wealths
contractor of Pcianton, l'a., I only 17 years
old, but she can lift without harness flv
and even six times her weight. Ph tip
the scale at 117 pounds. Is slender and only
of medium height, but sh can lift 657
pounds with ease.
Mr. Carrie Vaughn Anderson ha been .
nominated by th republicans of Wright
county, la,, for th office of county recor
der. Mn. Anderson is making practically
a house to house ranvass of , the county, ,
driving from place to place to attend school
picnic, town meetings and social gather
ings.
Alfred Booth Sands Is a vertlbl Rip Van
Winkle exoept that he did not sleep. Olven
up for dead years and year ago, b has
returned, after an absence of flty-on year. ,
to th Hudson river villas of Milton,
wher he was born, to find that nearly all
of his relatives and friends. Including the
sweetheart of his young manhood, are dead.
Molssant, who, with his mechanician
weighing 122 pounds, made an aeroplane
flight near the English channel. Is a native
of Chicago, but he found that burg too slow
for him, took In a few Central American
revolutions and then beat the French at
their own game of sensational flying. He
has the real spirit of Ysnkee DtKxUay
Economy tat Little Thing. '
Boston Herald.
Don't count your money too often. It's a
wast of time and energy, besides having a
tendency to wear th money out Unol
8am has been counting his money twice,
and has decided to economise. H will
count It but once and save $30,000 a year by -so
doing.
BREEZY TBU1E3.
"The telephon girl on our line Is quite
a belie.'
"Perhaps that Is why sh Is always
ringing oft."-Bal timer Amertoan.
He Bo you wouldn't like to marry at
clergyman 7
aSha OOvlvl No. but VA Ilka tn hui n.
marry me. Boston Transcript.
"What makes you tell that book agent
to call again 7 Jou have no Idea, of buying
his book."
"No." answered Mrs.. Pervniwlsa., .."But ..
I can t afford- much amusement and I '
joy looking at th picture and hearing him
talk." Washington Star..
The lawyer charged with mulcting the
red man In th matter of fe waa giving
hi sld of it
"Th poet wrote. 'Lr, the for Indian,'
didn't he? A most beautiful eonoeptlon!'
I'm trying to make the Indian live up to
It' Philadelphia Ledger.
"Peopl have to b very explicit bow
adays In their statement.'1
"How do you mean 7"
"Here's young Joillby tells tn he hae
joined the uplift movement and I dons
know yet whether he meant he waa going .
to hav a new elevator Installed, buv an
airship or gets on the water wagon."-
Baltimore American, .
"They seem to be packed Ilk sardines Its
there," said th man who waa trying to
find standing room on th roar platform
of th street oar,
"Like sardine!" groaned a suffocating)
passenger on the Inside; "we're packed like
fig!" Chicago Tribune.
"I bear, Mrs. Parvenu, that your son '
la a great student, and pas moat of his
tlm over th midnight oil."
"There isn't a word of truth about that
oil, ma'am; w hav gas all over the
house, and Alfred has a whol chantloler
In hla room. Oil, Indeed!" And th
haughty dam tossed her head. . ,
WHY CAN'T YOU!
If I can see In the heart of a roe
The coral tip
Of Up on lips
That sweetens and lighten the wind that
blows.
Then why can't yout
If I can find In the violet white
The nid-nod grace
Of happy face
That softens and softens with mystlo light.
Then why can't yout (
If I ean feel In th quiet of eve
No vacant chair
But some on thr
That brightens and gladdens me to re
ceive. Then why can't you 7
-J. E. FRET.
who sell things
Bee readers respond most generously
to honest, straightforward advertising.
Mr. Advertiser, you who are not yet
In The Bee, does not The Bee's kind, of
circulation appeal to you? Are not the
home people of Omaha the people you
want to reach?
Tho advertising columns of The Bee
are open to you you can gain the
good will and custom of its readers it
you will take the trouble to tell them
your store news In their home paper.
Phone Tyler 1000 and we will send
a representative to you with a service
of advertising copy which will attract,
Interest, convince the readers of The
Bee.
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