THK HKK: OMAHA, MONDAY, FKBRUAKY 6, 1911.
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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.
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