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THK HKK: OMAHA, MONDAY, FKBRUAKY 6, 1911. 'hn. cimaiia Daily "Ree POINDED BT EDWARD ROSKWATER, VICTOR ROSK WATER. EDITOR. Fntered st Omaha pestofflrs at econd clasa matter. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION: Sunday Bee. one year I'l s Saturday Bee. on year I' Dally Bee (without Sunday), ona year. WTO Dally He and Sunday, ona year i0 DEUVERKD BT CARRIER. Kvenlng Beo (without Sunday). pr week e KvcnJng B (with Sunday), per woek...inc I'allv Bee, (including; Sunday), pw weeh..l& Jall Bee (without Sundavi, per week. ..loo Address all complaint of Irregulerltlee In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. rmaha--Tbe Itee Building South Omiht-M K. Twenty-fourth 8t. t ouncll Hiiirix is pcott ftreet. I,lnrrln 2 Ltt'le Building. Chicago-1M. Marquette Building. Kinrtt Citv-Pellanr. Building. New Ynrk-24 Went Thirty-third Street. Washington 734 Fourteenth Htreet. N. V7. CORRBfcPONDKNCtt. i"ornmunicatlona relating to new a and editorial matter should ba addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Kemlt bv draft, egpres or postal order, psyabl to The Hew Publishing Company, only a-cent atajnna received In payment of mall accounta. Personal check a eacept on Omaha and eastern eschange not accepted. JANCART CIRCULATION. 45,826 Stale of Nebraska. County of Douglaa, aa Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The He Publishing company, Mine ouiy nrn uvi that the iviriin daily cir culation, lea (Dolled, unuaed and returned copies, for the month of January. I'll, w i.S.. UWlUlir WlLJjlAJHB, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma thla 1st day or reoruary, uii. (Seal.) ' HUBERT HUNTER, Notary Public Sabecrlbors leavlagT ae city teat porarllr sboold kaTO The Boo mailed to tbaaa. Address will ba At last! won. J. Ham Lew It It for Har- Even the suffragette party has Ints Insurgents. Those trouser skirts probably will look all right on some. Joe Bailey Is what might be called an obviously Incorruptible man. The Hope diamond ought by now to draw fairly well at the box office. It's up to Mr. Groundhog to prove himself again a true weather prophet. "Steel earnings shrink to $23,0,- uoo." Headline. Think of It, men! A good many people kick about up per berths who never ride In a lower. Louis Brandeis now saves the rail roads a million a day by force of habit. It Is hard for Ne,w Orleans to see the hand of the Lord In that exposi tion deal. The antk-Lorlmer forces In the sen ate have at least escaped the handl rap of Jeff Davis' support. We move to refer the hatpin bill to a special committee on equal civil and political rights for women. It is poor consolation to tell a man In King Manuel's fix that the con stitution follows, the flag. That New England girl who makes $100 a month growing pop corn would be a good one to pop the question to. It is to be hoped . all our spring poets observed that the sun reflected the groundhog's shadow on the 2d Inst. i It does seem a little far-fetched for Montana to chide Massachusetts, or any other state, about corruption In politics. Judge Alton B. Parker says there are too many leaders in the country. Yes, at ieftet one too many, Just as there was In 1904. What's this? A popular movement for a more liberal municipal govern ment for Lincoln? Surely there must be some mistake somewhere. Does Senator Lorlmer also believe that the "tremendous power" of a newspaper should not be combined with the power of the prosecutor? It wosla ba a. boon to the public If the tkhenka would settle their trouble out of ourt.-Pittsburg Fot. Yes, f-b'ut 'tha poor lawyer has to live. r. William. Tra vers Jerome's attitude toward alienists, as the attorney for a bank defaulter, Is radlclally different from that of the prosecutor of Hsrry Tha. r - ;; " If W. A, Clark, erstwhile of Mon tana, were still in the senate Joe Bailey wduld have another ardent sup porter of his plea to paas up all Investi gations. : A Chicago girl pines for her Indian suitor, delrng she cannot lore a shite man. Well, there ought to be a lot of good Indians around Chicago, open to love. Now it ought to be safe for our amiable democratic contemporary to be for or against parcels post without letting anyone know how Its owner senator U going to vote oa it. The Chicago News suggests as a motto for the Illinois legislature, "Do it now."' '-Several eminent members who were In -the 1J0 session might retort, "We already done it.' : At any rate, several 'members of the Nebraska legislature representing rural constituencies will have learned a lot more about elections snd election utethods In a great metropolitan city. SUTing Off the Inevitable. Sentiment for the popular election of senators Is fsst rrystslising snd that small group of senators In the present congress attempting to block the progress of the movement cannot really hope to do more than stave off the Inevitable. Among this group are men who cannot ever be expected to favor the direct election plan, bnt, then. It will not make a great deal of difference one way of the other, for most of them are approaching the end of their official terms and the others are liable to come to thelr's sooner than they might otherwise. The direct election of senators is not a reform that can by any construc tion be credited up to what Is called Insurgency or to any other recent propagranda, but rather It Is due to a conviction born In the breasts of men long before the days of this recent movement In the republican party. These latter men certainly have pro moted Its progress but men before their political heyaay conceived the wisdom and desirability of such a system and urged It In spite of tre-' mendous adverse sentiment. It has taken years of patient pleading and teaching to bring the majority of peo ple to a friendly view of the question and we believe the majority have now arrived at such a view. It has been a work of education. What Is done has not been accomplished la a day, by any means. Of course the victory Is not yet In hand. All that Is tangible Is vant age ground from which the advocates of the system believe they can see its perfection within the course of a very short time. Bnt the view is all too distinct and promising to warrant the opponents In believing that their pres ent antagonism Is of any account. Men who are not afraid to submit their election to the people are now In the majority. Personal Part in Politics. Samuel R. Van Sant, twice governor of Minnesota, when asked if he were out of politics replied with charac teristic vigor, "No. not out of politics; Just out of office," . The former gov ernor explained that he was not seek ing any further political preferment, that be was not a candidate, active or receptive, for any office, but he was still In politics because he felt that was the place for any virile American cltisen with the proper conception of his duty to his country and he de clared that he proposed to stay in politics as long as he lived. Captain Van Sant, now commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was governor of Minnesota when the Northern Securities case was Instituted, and. Indeed, had an active part in the institution and prosecu tion of the suit which resulted suc cessfully In the . divorcement of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads which Mr. Hill had con ducted ss joint companies.,' Ho , has always been a militant figure in what ever he was engaged. He is committed to the kind of politics that led to the disruption of this combine. In the last election he wss quite active in the campaign for other men, of course. It Is a good rule Governor Van Sant lays down. It should be the rule of every man In this country to tske an active, personal part in politics and thereby make himself really count as an Integral factor in the life of hi? nation. In no other way can a man perform his full duty or avail himself fully of the opportunities his citizen ship accords him. It Is the man who does not take an active part in politics, who Is not "in politics," that we have chiefly to reckon with. He ofte.i deJ feats more good government by his inactivity, his stay-at-home policy, than the fellow who casts his influence on the wrong side In politics. It is this silent negative element with which political parties have their chief difficulty. Oovernor Van Sant's rule would be a good one for young men just coming into their majority to take up. Let every one make, the most of his electoral franchise and soon we shsll not have to complain vainly about so much evil In our public life. When every man gets to doing his own thinking and acting and keeping at It we are likely to experience many material improvements In conditions. Boxing Matches at Weddings. Society and pugilism have some thing In common to look forward to In the marriage of Mies Vivien Gould to Lord Decles of London. It is nothing more than a boxing match between two skillful boxers, the result of a chal lenge and acceptance. It Is to form one of the distinguishing features of the attending ceremonies. It Is unique enough to catch on, so to speak, with society and may possibly become the mcsns of resurrecting pugilism from the low estate into which the frown of twentieth century ethics and law have dropped it. Who knows? True, the gentlemen who are to spar are not professional prize fighters, but one of them Is the champion amateur boxer of England and the other an all-round athlete. Fads and fashions have born sus pended from much more slender threads of excuse or apology. Pugilism Is grasping at every straw today in Its desperate effort to save itself from total extinction under the law in this land and its votaries are entirely too shrewd not to appreciate the splendid advertising qualities of such an event as this will be. They may be relied on to make the moat of it. And as for society. It la always ready to try out something new that offers the least promise of reward in the way of fas cinating or entertaining. . What could be more dear or cute than a boxing match or tu a gentlemanly yrize fight as the central attraction at a so ciety wedding. Why, the thought is Just too smart for anything. It has your gymkhana completely eclipsed. Of course there Is nothing In a box ing match that would add to the sol emnity of the marrUge vow, neces sarily, but then that Is probsbly not the motive behind this present In novation or that would actuate any other similar exhibition. Relief for Railway Hail Clerks. It transpires that the grievances of the railway mail clerks In this division which trouble-breeders and political medicine mixers were endeavoring to use to foment discontent and manu facture political capital are being ad Justed and redressed by the officials of the service so fsr as these com plaints were well founded and legiti mate. The vacancies have been filled and the promotions are being made, relieving the men who had been re quired temporarily to do full work with short crews. The readjustment of runs to take up the slack by equal izing the time of all the clerks oper ates, however, as all such reorganiza tion operates, to exact more work from those who had easy hours and loss from those who had long hours. To this no Just objection can be made, for, after all, the real purpose In view must be to secure the most efficient and economical administration of this brsnch of the postal service, whose Importance is by no means under estimated. There may be occasions when the pressure of aroused public sentiment becomes necessary to bring about a reform for the benefit of public serv ice employes who cannot help them selves, but In this case the uproar seems to have been too much In the nature of a tempest In a teapot at the very time the officials of the service were trying their best to devise and apply the remedy. An Appeal for Help. The Bee has received from the Seat tle Commercial club a telegraphic ap peal for help for the starving famine sufferers of China to which we cheer fully give space as follows: Account crop failure million people starv ing In China. Seattle merchants forward ing thousand barrels flour by first steamer and more later. Kach two dollar inscrip tion will save one life.. Ws earnestly appeSI to your reader for Immediate assistance. Steamship here co-operating. Expect army transport. Seattle shortest route. Send do nationa or checks to our order. BKATTI,E COMMERCIAL, CLUB. Those of our readers who are sym pathetic' and In position to respond to this appeal In the name of suffering humanity humanity which Is the same the world over no matter under what skin color are urged to com municate directly with the Seattle ! Commercial club. -Congratulations to Mr. Newbranch Oil his well-earned promotion to the . , . . . . ,.,.. , -,., high and honorable position of official goat tor aenaior-eipct, iiuiucocs,. Whenever the senatorial newspaper ! three Jungiea sway. And that was the be utterances fail to fit in with the rec-: ginning of the get-riih qui. k scheme, it a ...a f na wnr In tho .. ! my b older., but certainly It Isn't any ate we will know whom to blame it on. Whenever the owner and the editor of the paper are caught in op posite or Inconsistent attitudes we will know that it is tbe editor who is al ways wrong. i One Is Inclined to feel a little sorry for Istratlve power In headquarters offices In "Taft is responsible for the defeat tne v'-t'ms who fly In the face of human Chicago and New York. ... . . , . ,. .. ,u s, experience and copy book maxluiH about I "I think." says Mr. Acworth. "that In of the logical point, exclaims the New ..Kmal and stwJy gans . hin t ,m cmu , vrloun ,mpoI.,anl ,p,.,on of your coun Orleans Picayune, In reference to thet0 make a husky man feel all tuckered I try. the large railway ytem should have Panama exposition matter. Now, that lout to see how Joyously the moths seek j real executive officers with the largest settles if Taft will lose the vote Of Louisiana, if not several southern states In 1912. Of course, all those Greeks and Italians herded In Omaha pool halls j rerd of union rule" a" th "r round , . iW , . .t foulU not tar. i In a:,, hi-h iail. em and employment agencies for the last ,oyrneIlt the reuirni wnlch the Mulberry election were legally entitled to vote. IBellemes In pants and petticoat pronilae Some of them are doubtless voting In Greece and Italy right now. Mayor "Jim" wants It distinctly un derstood that he did not want and would not have a certificate of elec tion as governor procured by the help of a single Illegal vote. And be didn't get it. Mr. Bryan reinforces The Bee's sug- . . . f gestlon that mere is work ror a .a- tlonal Progressive Democratic league. It won't do for any one political party to establish sivencss. a monopoly on progrea- Whstever percentage is adopted by our legislature at Lincoln as necessary to invoke the initiative, it Is reasona ble to surmise that no fence will be too high for the capital removers to climb. The Texas senate has invited Brysn, Bailey, Haskell, Poindexter and Cone Johnson to address it. Kvidently pro pose to disprove Champ Clark's state ment that oratory Is dead In this coun try. A Possible I'rrll, Cleveland Leader, lioverncr Harmon should beware lest Governor Wilson incorporate this boom under the laws of New Jersey. I Ii'l r'ras Him. St. Paul Pioneer Pre. ' Senator Lorlmer mimt be particularly anxious to retain his seat If he I willing to sit and listen to all the speechea analn.-t him. I alqae stooster, Kansas City Times. Another earthquake In Manila shook the natives out of bed. The Philippine earth quake may et take rank aa a public utility. alar of Pablte 4ioo4 Will. Baltimore Americas. A sued railroad in New York boail that among nearly .VO.ouo 000 passenger car ried during the Near there were only fifty t i.o.i'leli.le II. e pieel.leiit fc.vlnc ai ; he iti un that the company treated the public iliceallj. Tilt good will of toe public is Hit nine! valuable asset to any corporation, although It wax not always the fashion to think po. Cheer In! Washington Herald. Politically speaking. Mr. Rr an may bs somewhat Intereeted to know that an Illinois man given up for dead came to life In a morgue the other day. Trlnmpha Han oa Trltlea. Faltlmore American. For wsnt of a horse a kingdom was lost and for want of a bit more oil Aviator McCurdy failed to make the record he pet out to make. Thus triumph hang on trifles. A Pair te Draw To. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Tart has no trouble In ehowlns that be atanda exactly where Mr. McKlnley did. and his party muet take It choice of following him or repudiating Mr. Mc Klnley. Medala A re In Order. Brooklyn Eagle. Light has been let Into the match trust by the friction of competition and It baa yielded Its claim to a patent for the gen ra; good. Art there no medals for tha . .u ..... i.eiomm thruet upon them? Coleael VkiDf'i Rallying Cry. Des Moines Capital. Why should tha atandpat forces waver? Tha Sinn of the times never save a clearer Indication than thla, that so far as tha republican party of Iowa la concerned The minority of today will ba tha major ity of tomorrow. The I,aet Straw. Kansas City Time. It Is feared Mr. Warren, the eoclallt editor of Olrsrd, Kan., will now dleapprove of tha sovernment more strongly than ever. Affairs have come to s pretty paa when a man can't so to Jail, even after the United States supreme court ha ordered him there! Lament of the "Ha Hern." New York World. Former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw regrets that the republican party "ha gone democratic" In the reciprocity matter. Mr. Shaw's lack of political per ception, it may bp added. Is the chief reason why hi political future I largely In the past. Straightforward Politics. rittsburg Dlnpatch. Those polltlolans who have been deplor ing the president's Inability to play poll tics ara beginning to doubt whether they slsed him tip correctly since that reci procity deal. But then straightforward politics Is the one sort that they never could understand. The Beat 1 rt. New Vork World. President Taft's speech before the Ohio society In behalf of reciprocity with Canada Is easily the most eloquent and forceful utterance he has et made. There is much in having a good snb.l-t arid a H'aml In spiration, such as McKlnley's last speech, to achieve success In era lory. HOW THE f ; A M R V A RTIOI). Progressive Strides of (he trt of Get Una Rich Qnlek. Washington Times. A primitive, m-(ift !n a primeval crH-oanut tree too laxv to work, and too n!ce to beg. circulated a rumor In simian ! ; circle Hist If hM Hie o. a-isoution , ch!m-1 ' panzeea. apes, baboons, etc.. In the neigh- j : bothood. would, deposit their cocoanuts with ! nlm or twelvemonths ha would glv them j a Jungle s piece by wsy of dividend at the ' of tlie ) t,r netor, wnk!h tlm ne . , would be pulling off th same stunt som younger. And, yet the little marmoset. In i the bodily shape of John Law or Five- I Hundred-and-Twenty-Per-Cent Miller or Catsie Chadwlck or the lady perfumer who more recently iwum outside our ken finds It as easy as ever to Induce confiding friends and si i angers to bring him cocoa-I mentions of American railway manage nuts. I ment lies In "the centralization qt admin- 'nle year aner year wun tne same old result. It would seem that anybody who had th saving grace and self-denial to accumulate as much as an entire S10i tat ona time would be wise enough to know I that even If he worked with reckless dls w'th such cheerful assurance, it oughtn't to take any great amount of what the highbrows call acumen to figure out that when one of these propositions Is presented It s pretty near time to hall the Ulacn Maria and stop payment on every check Istued for a week. The good old custom of getting money by working for It Isn't a mm h of a erase aa It might be. The low standard set by the Puritans when thev ' fell first i upon their knees and then upon the a bur- ! 1ln"'"" prevails ail too widely even unto I this day. But the little fortune raised c - ,.ordinK t0 tne ,,. ivll,em ,P(Uirr, eomo , excellent domestic habit and. can usually 'be found when wanted. Whriein It differs from the neat egg which Is put out hoard with lady financier and the like. People Talked About I The opera bag I am sending you for a For the first time two weeks a bunch i nlr,h)Jay present I marie myself I made of aunshlne broke through the rain clouds . u t .n00. -Ve devote an hour every day In rin Francisco Just ss the exposition (0 arllsti,. work of this kind. It Is ex vlctory In congress wss announced. I'ld j tr(.amy interesting. I hope you will find the town celebrate? All night and soine over. Modeata. Cel., ha written its name on th tklea by being tbe first city to estab lish a municipal aviation landing atage. or "air pier." Tha property man of a Chicago theater waa "held up" In the slock yard dlitrict th other night by two highwaymen who relieved him of tmooo. Fortunately It was stage money and the theater wa a mov ing plctur show. Alderman Tiowiin. In hi soeei h against the hatpin bill, affirmed that the whole police force and the National guard and all the battleahlpa of tha country could not enforr such an ordinance. An unclaimed island has been dlacovered In th Mississippi river. The island Is charted officially on the records of the government aurve) as Islsnd No. 13 and is located in Charlton county, Missouri. The Island wsa occupied In lvS by a man named i John Rudolpr, " but be abandoned it be cause the high water had Inundated his cornfields Fame hss d!scoered I.dssrd Ruizes Butier of liutler Bros, millionaire philan thropist and leading figure in many move, menu for Chi' ago a chic betierment. He and Kdwsrit Hurgess, the landiw apa painter, whose Identity has been shrouded in mystery since one of Ms pslntint; was hung In the art Institute a ear ago. sland revealed aa I lie same Individ ul Around Now York Blpplas tbe Onrreai of Xdfe aa Smi la tho Ort Aaaarteaa atstropoUe froaa Bar to Pay The man behind the gun d!played, In creased activity In New Tork last year. Out of 1S5 bomlcldea reported by tha cor oner. lflR were by shooting, an Increase of forty-alght over 19ns. Twenty-nine of tha shooters vanished beyund reach of tbe po lice; seventy-nine were arrested, of whom thirty-eight were American born, twenty-two- Italian and nlno Chinese. Tha total death record from all cauaea was i.0, snd of this number 1483 persons mat death 1(1 a violent manner. The coroner's casualty list. In which the deaths were originally charged to the acta of others, reaches a to tal of XI. thla being eighty-one more than In 1909. This list Is a partial vindication of tha automobile, which Is generally credited with being responsible for more than Its hars of deaths by accident. Tha figure show that sixty-two persons were killed by automobiles, ninety-three by horse-drawn vehicles, slaty-two by surface cars, forty nine by elevator accidents, twenty-four by subway trains, seventeen ey elevated rail road, fourteen by New Tork Central trains, even by firs spparstus, fourteen by explo sions, four by base ball, two by bicycles and one each by boat colllalon, automobile police patrol and motorcycle. As a retilt of falling rock, timber, ex cavations and accidental falls. 707 persons were killed, and 245 persons died as the re sult of accidental burn. 133 of whom wers children. Tha number of persons who committed suicide was 44. practically tha same as In 190!. The favorite methods sra shown by these figures: One hundred and forty-two persons chose gss. 1S3 sdopted shooting, fifty leaped from windows and roofs, thirty six hanged themselves, twenty-eight took poison, twenty-tour cut themselves to death, twenty-one swallowed csrbotlo acid, nine drowned themselves and five Jumped from moving train. Ths tolling of the Jos house bell In Mott street sounded with peculiar movirnfulnes In the ears of Chuck Connors one night lst week. He pulled hi flat-crowned derby fsr down over his rugged brow and said; "Wot Cell!" and agnln with Increasing pad res: "Aw wot fell!" A New York World reporter asked him of his woe. "I ain't fer lookln' yous ner no other geek In the eye never again." said Mr. Connor. "Uer dlegrac I fierce. I'm licked by a chink yep; I'm copped In der back of der conk and trown flat on me face In Mott stret and me right ear'a gone cauliflower It'll last me dat way to me grave." I.ung Ping, a youthful Chinese, la at en mity with the former mayor of Chinatown, owing. Lung Sing say, to the fact that whenever Chuck found sightseers patron izing Uung Sing's chop suey parlors he'd argue that if they ate there they'd be pois oned and thty'd better come away. And they would. "He bum Melllcan man; he try lick me first. I soak him!" the Chinaman said In the night court last night. "Ct'wen. Jbdge." said Connors. "He's a gun man; he packs a machine barker fer der Hip Sing Tong ." When they had been discharged with reprimand Chuck went slowly back to Chinatown, a sorry figure, hi shsbby clothe stripped of the hundreds of pearl buttons that formerly adorned them. "I used to be kink o' dls walk." he aald, with the throw of a thumb toward the Ch'.ne'e district, "and here I sm licked be a Chink. It's me fer Barney Flynn's sn' . mRh dlv( ,nlo fc hig ,cuttlt & .ud.. I hope I drown mrself Hoih criticism snd prslse of American railways are embodied In a statement made by W. M economist. Acworth. the English railway on the eve of his departure today for Kngland. Mr. Acworth has been making a study of American railroads dur ing t lie) last two months. The principal defect that Mr. Acworth possible a.screuon to aeoi wun nur tloni on the spot." I "To most people my business would ecem ! to be devoid of chances," aald a dealer In fine woods, quoted by tile Sun, "yet a a matter of fact I know of nothing that la more of a gamble. On every log of wood we buy we take a chance that tha Inside of it la as good aa the outside. At a re cent auction of tha woods In london my partner and I paid !,oV for a mahogany log that looked all right ao far as ws could tell. If tha inside was sound we stood to make a good profit; but worm holes or rotten pots at the core would nit an a heavy loss. Not until we got tha log to thla country and got It opened up i could we be certain. Aa a matter of fact i this particular log was perfect and ws 1 leaned ud la.OOO on the deal. Hut It was gambling, pure and simple.'1 ! : An old-fashioned woman who sometimes complains of fads in the public school ha an opera beg and a letter marked "Ex- i hiliils 1 and I." whl. h she shows without lo comment to defender of the system. The I .m a im m a A a ,.f titft hnrAMt leather elahnratelv monoaratnmed and befringed. j The letter reads: "liear Aunt 1 had expected to get up to aee you during the holldaya but waa dla sapolnted. This Is my secon year In High School and am literal)- rushed to death. Uhe hB( llMfll we) ornlmental." "( me hour a day," sighed the old-faah-ioned person, 'to make opera bag and similar handicraft, and then s second-year high school pupil produced an Ill-spelled letter like that." High wind were responsible for two drath in New Tork Isst Tuesday night. An Italian laborer was blown from a nar row elJewalk acrofs a park gully In the fiionx and landed nineteen feet below on a pile of in. I;a. He as killed Instantly. An hour latei a young man. unidentified. while standing on the deck of a municipal J ferryh, B8 ,-aught by a ple e of eanvas blown acroNS the deck hv the wind. The fl,rr, ))f ..nlsa KSjctit. toppled him oer the rail and he tumbled Into the river. The body wa not recovered. tavlcr Worth lleedlog. Boston Transcript, lixiell'-nt advice, that given to the rail roads by W. !. MrAdoo of New Vork In his si'i ei h at the Chamber of Commerce dinner. "Take the public Into jour confi dence." aays he to the roads) "If a train is dcla.ved. why not promptly give the pas-t-rngera Information; till them how long they will have to wait, if there has been an a cioent. promptly give th newspapers ihe facts If lb road is Mocked, prjmptl) infoiiii the public. The public Is anton iil:ngly amenable to detent UestmenL" Tho Beo's Letter Box OoatotVatUas Ttaaaly touts Vet BaoMdlaf Twe Xowaroa Went Are tanrtftoa froaa Owe Baaaee. Caao of Vletor pVaaaldt. OMAHA. Feb. 4-Te the Editor of Tbs Bes: Tour editorial comment might lead many to believe that Victor Schmidt wss housed at the county koepltal (county poor farm) without paying for his keeping, but such Is not the case. Arrangements were msde with ths county commissioners to pay therefor, and Immediately after his death I notified tbe superintendent to make out the bill and W would be paid. There sra other people there, paying for being taken care ef. for laek of any other place where an old man la bis declining years may retire to. We boast ef our civilisation. Omaha has many churches. Young Men s Christian association. Salvation Army. Old Peoples' Horns. Visiting Nurses' association and Antl-Pwloon league. We spend 9MO.0P0 a year to educate the youth, but there Is ne place In Omaha where an eld man afflicted with senile-dementia (childishness) ran go. If he Is without a home or loved ones his habitation Is either with tneetacs In the lunatic asylum at Lincoln or the alms hdtios of his county, where one may pay for the keeping. We have aa Old Peoples' Horns In Omaha, but one afflicted In old as with senility or partial dementia finds no horns there. Our boasted civilisation snsdo it necessary to remove Vlotor Schmidt to the county hospltsl and pay for his keeping or send him to a mad house st Lincoln with a lot of lunatics and Insane people. Tet his mental condition was not auch as to war rant confinement In such a place. In the county hospital Victor Schmidt was ell taken care of by tbe doctors and nurses and attendants. It wss the beat ws could do for him. I know you did not Intend to do say Injury to Ms memory, but our un licensed beggars havs not yet established a home for old men, notwithstanding one Is willing to pay therefor. WILLIAM F. WAPPICM. Guardian. Isaiah aad tho Hobble. COUNCIL BLUFFS. IS... Feb. 4.-To th Editor of Tha Bee: I wonder If th Prophst Isaiah had tha hobble skirt and tha ex treme nsrrow skirts in mind when he uttered those words. "Moreover the IX)rd aith, Because the daughter of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched lot-th necks Snd wsnton eyes, walking and minc ing as they go snd making a tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of ths daughters of Zlon." Isaiah 111:16-17. Any one wearing the extreme narrow skirts cer tainly cannot avoid ths mincing step, and so I am wondering If she doesn't corns under this version of the Scripture. A WOMAN. Ambassador la "Merry Widow,' SOCTH OMAHA, Feb. 4.-TO the Kditor of The Bee: To decide a wager will you kindly advise me the name of the man who took the part of ths "ambaeBAdor" In the Chicago production of "The Merry Widow," and, also, the name of th man who took the same part st each presenta tion of ths same opera In Omaha? lld Robert K. Graham ever appear ss the "ambassador" In any of th produc tions? If o. where? a. C. SHBPARD. Oscar Firman played tha part at both engagements In Omaha. Robert K. Ora hsm opened with "Th Merry Widow" In Chicago two years ago and played ths part on week, when Oscar Flgman took his plsce. finishing ths engagement of twenty-six week. Oscar Flgman played it th second year it waa sent out for twenty-ons weeks la Boston. He left tns Boston company to take th place of Charlie Pusey in what was called the "western" company. Mr. Flgman I the only man who ever played the part in Omahs, coming west with the company Just tpoken of to play the part. Robert Urahsm is playing th part with the com pany that opena at the Broadway theater In Denver on Monday. Robert Payton Carter once played ths part for two weeks In New York. Harry Burgess, a former understudy of Flgman, I also playing th part with another company. Aboat a Poesa. COl'NCIL BLUFFS, la.. Fb. 1-To the Kditor of The Bee: The poem tht ap peared in The Bee of February 3 and credited to Leslie Weekly of February I and giving Harrison Lee as it author, la not an original piece. As it appear In the Weekly. It bear tha air of original ity; yet It may b that this paper doea not' claim It to ba such. This llttl poem, now entitled "Pluck," appeared about ten years sgo. snd I wrote It down snd com mitted It to memory. I hav repeated It a few hundred times alnc. My opinion wa thst It wss composed by Beatrice St. George. I might be mistaken in regard to this. J. M. HOLADAY. Fall (Mr Factloa. FALIJ? C1TT. Neb.. Feb. 4-To ths Kditor of The Bee: In your Issue of Feb ruary 4 your staff correspondent speaks of two fsctions in Falls City. In this be Is In error, for there sre no two faction In the republican party s he chsrges. if Senator Hurkett never had Sny more trouble than h had over th appointment of Crook, h mutt certainly had but little since he ha been In congress. Crook may not bsve made as afflclent an officer as soma other would have made, but it would be a difficult matter st pres ent to make any of our cltisen believe for an inatant that thr i any shortage In hi account, unless, perhaps, an unin tentional error in calculation or footing. W. H. KEELING. Loral Ootloa la ladlaaa. Philadelphia Ledger. ! In Indiana at ths last election on iue. t lest, waa closely Joined. The repub urans siooo tor tne maintenance of the county option law; tha democrats de manded option by th smaller units of city and townahlp. Th democrats won a weeping victory, and en of the first of its fruits I ths passage of a city and township option measure hv th senate. Th house will concur and Governor Mar shall committed hlmlf to th proposition I on th stump. The matter Is not to the illking of the temperance people, but of the chanse It can be aald. at leaat. that It In conaonent with the voire of th peopl at . th poll. Where Do lasoraeata Stand f Springfield Republican. There ta comparatively little danger to th reciprocity agreement on the other aide of the boundary. The peril l at home Th almost hopeless provincialism of self ish Interest ia an obstacle difficult lo overcome F.vn our republican Insurgents of the middle west, wha have hH j furious for th last )ear and a half In I their appeals for a tariff reduction that ! would benefit the people, are cow said to I be In a cold sweat because the Canadian agreement affecta th farmer of their own states What tariff tefnrm in (heir esses really amounts to we shall soon kuosr. WESTERN BUSErtSS UPLIFT. Springfield Republican: It Is sn snnmi ment decidedly significant of Impro business sentiment which comes from I'nlon Paclflo railroad directors They t to spend $T.6r.ooe within five years in c.t pletlng the double-tracking of the tine fr ths Missouri river to tho Pacific ocean. New Tork Post: The state dlrec traversed by tha I'nlon Pacific's linos Portland and San Francisco now cont' two millions more of population than 1900; their product and industry hav rro even faster than their population, and movement of through ft eight and pans gera ha risen in almoat equal meisvure la thla remarkable industrial growth h brought such railway compsnlsa a Vnlon and Northern Pacific from their solvency of ISM te their exceptionally pr parous condition of today. Boston Transcript: When Mr. Harrim that wisard ef railroad development, pas away thsro was much speculation doubtless ne llttlo apprehension as to effect ef his death upon th Interests that vast and complicated system n he had built up and controlled. Rut i of the tosts of business genius I m perfect organisation thst It shsll not dependent upon a single personsllty. i apparently that was dona In this case 1 present management seems to ha none or th courage and confidence w were the upbuilding forces in th past Philadelphia Record: This confidence the ptibllo is not mlsplscsd. and It Is not n Ths Vnlon Pacific has for some tlrr i double-tracking fts line from Omaha ward, and what is now proposed is to r tlnue ths work of double-trscklng the , r blned lines lo the Paclflo coast. The I, sylvanla railroad has been spending m than fl0O.0OS.000 In getting Into Manhst Island and out on the other side, and Chicago. Milwaukee A fit. Taul has j completed the extension of Its line Pttget sound. Th coursgs with which i Harriman lines decide to provide fanlilt for doing the business thrust upon th Is not without precedent. New Tork Journal of Commeue ih roads, with their enormous cspitaliiau havs been paying expenses, meeting fit chsrges and keeping up dividends, and tt will probsbly be sbls to ralss th neec millions for Improvements which are si to add commensurately to their revenu But much depend upon the cours to pursued by railroad management In I future, how "th people srs going to tr railroad investments" in tha long run. depends upon how the rsilroads treat 1 people, who are not all Inveators In th securities, though liable to be taxed In duatriea and business by their charges s the character of their service. In ths lo run they will probably be treated ss it deserve. LAW MADE VIRTIR'S IIM Some ( Itlsras Fall to Rise Ideal of Lawmaker. Cleveland Loader. When tho Australian example waa f lowed In America, first by ens atate a then by another. In tha adoption of t aecret ballot, it was believed by reformc of sll claases thst housst election w- thenceforth assured. The country was c fldent that vote buying would cease. Tha arguments used to support this bel wers seemingly unanswerable. "Who psy for a vote," It was asked, "if he C4 not know whether It will ba delivered "Who will trust the word of a man bi enough to sell his highest right of cltltj hip? Will candidate for office or seek for political advantage traffic In th pro ' Ises of vote-ssllers?" Y Adam county,' Ohio, and Verml'- county. Illlnoli, are ths answer. Ohio tl 1 had tha Australian ballot for many e T So has Illinois. Both state have dons I that could be don to discourage and p vent tho buying and selling of vote. A both stand shamed before ths nation I causa of wholesale trafflo In the high rlrht an American cltisen can boast. This lamentable situation does not pic thst it Is futlls to pas lawa against ci rupt and criminal practices. It doe mean that effort te uplift and adv th country, and the world by legUlgtl are foollah. It I not evidence of the fi ur of reform by tha use of the power th tat. What It doea show la that la made virtue ha definite snd painfully ni row limits. i LAUoimra gas. .hM i!ni,!'7l Lor1 '. madaml Wluk th mlachlef l.ay In tile I'pper Oh. won't vou plea go omwhr els? Pv tried, and 1 almply can t Bleep while thai a man under th bed. -Puck. "Tht chap really has a lot of brains " .'L k."?W CT0",1 r'rm,r 'orntosscl "But tho troubl la that ha kep uaia' em to think up new ways to act looimn Washington Star. iwiisti. "Wa your brother hurt at pole vaulting Isst night?" "Ye, but he hopes to gt over It all right, "-New Vork Telegraph. First Phyalolan-Can you make anything out of the patient troubl? Second Ditto 1 think If we manage right w can make about five hundred (Piste out of It. Baltimore American. "Ye, young Cok handled the case ms, nlficently. He proved bevend th possibl Ity of a doubt that th accused man wast guilty." "But he wa guilty, of course." Clsv land Plain Dealer. Plaintiff (In law sulti Ho .vou think 1 w get th money, do you? Hi Counsel I think a a will sal l Puck. An enthuelastlc suburbanite waa ahowlt a guest about Bis domain, dilating oni jova and comforts aa they walked. XT guest ventured: "Ye, but i don't think there a mui money In It." "Great Suns, man! Mony in It? Kvs cent I've got and all I cn borrow la In It Upplncott s Magaclna. Young Mlsa Muriel waa regarding har r fls tlon In the mirror. "Geoffey," she ssld. "do you think a Iltl down on a girl s Hp dlafigurea her? "t'nless It's of her own raising, kid," a wered her bachelor brother, ' It's S go oesi out or place. ' You mean thlng!"-Chlcago Tilbuaa. WAITING. Galloping, galloping, Over the plain. Trailing IkM shadow behind. Like a gay rover Cometh my lover Swift aa tha wings of the wind. Down from th mountain aids Out In the west. Pioudly hi courier hath sped; Kyes brightly gleaming. Mane lightly streaming. Spuming th soil 'neath bla tread. Hope gaily whlspereth Tidings to one He comeih to woo thee today." O! to dlsoover Glimpse of my lover Blithe aa tbe sunshine of May! Sounds soft and rythmical Surely 1 hear Borne on the sweet summer air; Hert cease thy fearing. Swiftly he's nesting Coming his lovt to dcar. . Gentlv the hreeiea blow In from th west. Joy stir the pulses anew. Bright eves er helming: lova light Is streaming; Welcome! M lover so true I. Omaha FBI t c J WW WW w
