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The dandelion U no quitter, despite
Its yellow.
Too bad tha base ball season opens
but once a year.
Unfortunately, the homo team can't
win all the time.
' It Is to be hoped Senor Madero Is
not trying to Aprlf fool anybody.
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"Slot machines are hard hit" In
California. Not too hard, however.
For a real swift goer Dollar Bill
ought to be a fin name for a race
horse.
The English Bible Is 300 years
young and growing popular faster
than any six best sellers.
Although Mr. Bryan has been away
from Washington for a week or mors
congress runs along just as smoothly.
I
correspondent writes to ask what
It ia the boy scouts do for the country.
Answer This Is not a puzzle depart
ment. f .i.
Eighty thousand of our fellow
countrymen want to withdraw 4he
troops. Might as well wait a little
while.
Prof. See says he has seen the
volution that leads to the develop
ment of a new science. But did he
see Is first?
The prospect of competition looms
up for any franchise privileges Omaha
may be disposed to hand out. Let
there be light.
Between scarlet fever, smallpox and
homicidal mauta Omaha seems to have
more than Its share of contagious dis
eases right now.
If the democrats were really In
earnest about that "free list" It either
would not be so long or Jt would
embrace the whole tariff.
And just to think, If Council Bluffs
should lose forty saloons, the owl car
might have to cross the Omaha bridge
In the opposite direction.
When the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution reached, an armistice
and adjourned those Mexicans could
not help hut do likewise.
If the coffee trust were only as
weak as bo rue of this boarding house
coffee It would make an easy prey for
tbe Department of Justice.
Still, at any rate, we hope Lincoln
wets and drys may go through their
city election without proving up any
colonization or repeating upon each
other.
And now the other insurgents in the
senate have discovered that on Cana
dian reciprocity Senator Norris Brown
is lnsurging against them. Senator
Brown evidently has the habit.
Bran has been elected to the senate, hut
has a Florida orange, not a Nebraska
lemon. Washington I'ost.
All right, you tart scribe, but take
note that the senate is taking the
lemon-aid.
The United States senate may be
the greatest 'deliberative body in the
world, but the United States Civil
Service commission does more or less
deliberating, too.
Senator Hitchcock has been pro
nounced by a medical doctor to be
physically sound. It would be harder
for him to procure a certificate from
"Old Doctor" Bryan attesting that he
Is politically sound.
It appears that Julius Caesar Bur
rows is not the only member of the
official Lorimer whitewash committee
who will have crossed the great divide
of politics before this issue is finally
disposed of. The rifts appear to ex
tend far iuto several states.
The Harmon Boom,
tiovernor Harmon Is the first of the
four already mentioned democratic
candidate for the presidency form
ally to orgao.it h!i campaign. This
may or may not have Its advantages
to him. Tbe old rule ef the early bird
and h wmb la not Infallible to poll
tics, and yet It might be applied with
good effect. It Is more than a year
before the national conventions will
nominate tbe candidates, so that there
Is time enough for other aspirants to
shy their cantors Into the ring. Gov
ernor Harmon evidently considered
that by beginning his boom In Wash
ington while congress was In session
he would be able to accomplish a quiet
mlsHionary work toward a strong
nucleus for his organization, and be
may have reckoned not In vain. He
is an old hand at politics and a very
resourceful one, Moreover, he has
associated with him men who are also
highly Instructed In the arts of the
game.
It may be supposed that the Harmon
forces chose this time of making their
announcement because of the recently
proclaimed alliance of Hearst and
Bryan as tbe original Champ Clark
boomers. Whether Mr. Bryan ulti
mately lines up for the speaker for his
successor as the party's standard
bearer or not, Governor Harmon will
remain the essential anti-Bryan man.
Should Clark prove unavailable it
might easily be convenient for Bryan
to adopt Or. Wilson, or la an emer
gency he might even persuade himself
to try it for just once more.
Surely It Is significant that tbe Har
mon crowd, while heeding the present
manifestation of tbe Clark aspirations,
are not Indifferent to the ever-present
possibility of Bryan as a presidential
candidate. "Don't overlook Bryan,"
says Congressman Cox, a Harmon
booster, at the very outset. And no
wise councilor of the Ohio governor
or be himself will. Mr. Bryan did not
serve notice on Governor Harmon to
"prepare to stand aside" just to be
taLklng. If he can beat him with an
other man doubtless he would prefer
to, but if he feels that to defeat bim
he must himself get into the race he
would undoubtedly do that.
Kansas City's Municipal Whanre.
Not content to rest its river naviga
tion schemes with mere agitation,
Kansas City has already placed two
steamers in operation between that
city and New Orleans. This is a big
start toward a bigger end. Her clti
sens have contributed' more than
11,000,000 toward the ' navigation
proposition and propose , to carry it
through so that it will work out some
tangible and permanent Improvements
In the great problem of transporta
tion. But now still another advanced step
has been taken, by this', live, lot of
waterway boosters on the Kaw. The
city has secured a site for municipal
wharves and has set about to build
them. All this construction work has
been and Is being done by Kansas City
"without waiting for the aid, or con
sent" .of any other river town. Doubt
less the people down there came to
the conclusion that if they ever
got anywhere with their waterway
schemes they could not afford to wait
for action or co-operation from other
cities.
Some two and three years ago a big
hurrah was made up and down the
Missouri about restoring navigation.
Meetings were held, speeches were
made, experts were summoned, keen
witted space writers were sent up and
down the Great Muddy to pick out the
points of chief Interest bearing upon
the demands and opportunities for
navigation to compile them for ex
ploitation purposes, before congress
and abroad. Then delegations set out
for Washington to plead for appro
priations. Ksnsas City's delegation
outnumbered all the others put to
gether and Kansas City got the funds,
but It also put up its share of the cash
Itself. Now It is doing things and will
have navigation whether other towns
and cities do or not.
Two steamboats In action, muni
cipal wharves under construction, the
channel being dredged and deepened
this looks like business. The example
of the Missouri city may quicken in
terest elsewhere and lead to some
thing else besides just talk. Other
Missouri river points need Improved
transportation rates and facilities even
more than does Kansas City. Per
haps they could get them the same
way Kansas City has If they went at
tbem the same way.
Carrie Nation Redivivui.
Some of tbe big dally papers of
England have announced tbe death of
jMrs. Carrie Nation with appropriate
obituaries. Evidently for once tbe
faultlessly accurate Britons have gone
astray, for Mrs. Nation not only is not
a lifeless corpse, but Is reported to
be dally improving. We hoDe our
'British brethren did not make the
gross mistake of Imagining they could
I kill off a rroat liana that wn. rv..
jin their announcement la a subtle sense
of Irony that might suggest this. Mrs
Nation, it Is true, moderated some of
her methods for annihilating Demon
Rum before her late Illness, but up to
last accounts she bad not given up
the old ship. She will probably resume
business as soon as her physical condi
tion will permit. She may not go In
so strong for muscular teetotalism aa
before, and may discard her little
hatchet, except for publicity purposes,
but no one who knows Mrs. Nation
and the Sunflower state from which
she hails, would ever think of saying
that she had quit. Presumably our
friends over the sea will sack to throw
the blame of their Inaccuracy upon
some Irresponsible American news
gathering agency, but the interesting
answer to that Is that the item was
not unloaded on the American public
prints.
Elections Galore.
In the language of the street, the
good people of Omsha are In a fair
way this year to have elections to
burn. The possibilities already In
slgbt are quite sufficient to give us ad
election each month for six consecu
tive months, although, of course, they
may be bunched Instead of being
strung out at regular Intervals. Here
la the list:
First The Water board bas given
notice that it will ask the people to
vote authority to Issue $8,260,000 of
water bonds at a special election. The
date was originally fixed for May 10,
but It has been postponed, and pre
sumably will not come off before June
at the earliest.
Second The county commissioners
have been figuring on a special elec
tion to vote additional bonds for
equipment and furniture for the new
c6urt bouse. Neither date nor amount
has been fixed, although the pro
visional estimates indicate $250,000.
Third The electric lighting com
pany is about to present a new fran
chise for submission to the city coun
cil, which, if tbe council accedes, will
go to popular vote at a special and
separate election.
Fourth The commission form of
government law will become operative
in July, after which a 25 per cent peti
tion will fores its submission for pop
ular ratification within sixty days.
Fifth The regular primary elec
tion to nominate candidates for state,
county and school district offices la
scheduled for the third Tuesday in
August, which is a fixed and immova
ble date.
Sixth The general election to
choose between the candidates nomi
nated at the primary will take place
on tbe Tuesday after the first Monday
In November.
That Is all the elections for which
claims have already been filed, but
tbe entry list is not yet closed and
there, Is no time limit.
The Truth About Brownsville.
Every little while a new version of
the Brownsville affair comes out, and
the latest Is always vouched for as the
real truth. That this Texas border
town was shot up by persons who
have never been brought to account
for their wild exploit Is about all that
has been established and admitted be
yond question, although the facts have
been investigated officially five times,
and tha testimony taken would fill
marry volumes. And now the authentic
inside truth about Brownsville . is
again promulgated by William E.
Curttn, the " well' known newspaper
correspondent, who baa been visiting
in the neighborhood, and who says:
It waa a night raid made by eleven en
listed men. of the Twenty fifth Infantry,
which waa the garrison at Fort Brown,
upon saloons in the neighborhood which
refused to sell drinks to colored soldiers.
It ia asserted here that the eleven men
who participated were positively Identified
and. warrants were Issued in their names.
If the commandant had permitted them to
be arrested and punished that would have
been the end of it, but the officers of the
regiment, who knew tha men that did tha
shooting just as well as the culprits them
selves, not only encouraged, but enjoined
them to hold their peace, and It soon be
came a question of honor for them to do
bo. No secret waa ever hotter kept, and
It Is a remarkable Illustration of tha
fidelity of tha colored race. There is no
doubt that tha whole affair waa due to
las discipline on tha part of tha officers,
who ahould have been punlahed Instead of
the men.
If this Is the truth about Browns
ville it lends a different shade of color
to It and lends support to tbe con
spiracy of silence theory, but puts tbe
blame for concealing the culprits on
the officers Instead of on tbe men. In
deed, this Is a very plausible explana
tion, yet It will not terminate the dis
pute nor clear tbe records of the
Innocents who suffered discharge on
that account.
Our amiable hyphenated contem
porary, declares that "the telephone
business may be, as claimed, a natural
monopoly," but Insists that competi
tive dual systems are needed to secure
good service. But suppose we bad a
municipal or state-owned telephone,
would we have to have two or three
competing private telephone systems
to insure good service? Everyone
agrees that two telephones are a
costly nuisance. Efficient and satis
factory service should be obtainable
in some other way.
Tbe distinguished citizen who re
ceives a threatening letter demanding
a few thousand dollars forthwith un
der penalty of some dire doings should
not feel too highly complimented. It
may be only a belated April fool joke.
A watchman to see that tbe city
rock pile does not run away Is now
urgently called for. Just divide the
rock-pounders into three eight-hour
shifts and the watchman will he elim
inated. Barely Tkla la tha l imit.
Sioux City Journal.
The Bathtub truat clalma It was oigau
Ixed to protect the public from the ra
pacity of the lumber. In the matter of
downright ingenuity this defense Is well up
to tha front.
A tosjrtrae Joll.
Wall Street Journal.
Twenty-five railroads have been granted
permission by the Interstate Commerce
communion to reduce their ex-laka grain
rates. Presidents of tha roada ahould now
take a day off to thank the commission in
paiaon.
Itolag tsalte Well, Tkssk lot,
Indianapolis News.
According- to the attorney w ho repre
sented tha Full man company befor the
tax board. the net earnings of the sleep
ing, dining and parlor car service during
the fiscal year wer $11,000,000 out of grose
earnings of tt.0fi0.oni. which might be re
garded as a fairly satisfactory profit even
In this day of large things.
Am -'.sample Worth Following.
Springfield (Mas.) Republican.
Tha atatlonmaater at Omaha. Neb., W.
YV. Keen, who haa been 44 years a rail
road man, has won the gold medal given
by the t'nlon Pacific railroad for tha best
kept of tha X4 atatlons on that line. Mr.
Keen says much credit for this honor be
longs to all tha railroad men who use the
Omaha atatlon, for all take great pride in
having It well kept. That spirit ought to
be catching, the country over.
A DangeroDS Precedent.
Boston Transcript.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa haa made up
his mind on the Lorlmer case. He holds
that "knowingly or not Lnrirrter" got his
seat through a general schema of fraud
and corruption, and should bo turned out
If this seems like a declaration of a Jury
man's opinion In advance of tha trial, It
should be borna In mind that the trial
Is now on at tha bar of public opinion.
The Iowa eenator-elect puta the danger
of tha Lorimer precedent fairly when b
says the beneficiary of fraud ahould go
even if not personally participating In tha
corruption.
LEGISLATIVE AFTERMATH.
Plattsmouth Journal: We do not think
there Is any more harm In playing base
ball on Sunday than there Is in running
an automobile on that day. Now, honestly,
do you?
Kearney Times: It Is to bo borne In
mind that the principal kick the Lincoln
papers have on the legislature Is because
It cut tha appropriation of money that Lin
coln wanted and expended some on things
of no Interest to Lincoln.
Grand Island Independent: There Is
neither tha time, nor tha place, nor the
occasion for the democracy of the state to
make any great pretentions as to economy,
The legislature of 1H07 appropriated $a,$bH,
10; that of 1909 appropriated $.1,930,129, and
that of this year $4,790,196.
Fremont Tribune: A new law provides
that no one may hunt or fish anywhere
In the state, unless there Is a license held
by aofneone In the family. The law should
go a little further and provide that at least
two members of every family holding a
license shall ba willing to clean the fish
or game.
Stanton Register: Governor Aidrlch ve
toed the Sunday base ball bill because It
did not give the cities and county boards
the right to control the gam as the ma
jority of the people saw fit. We didn't
need any legislation along those lines. When
public sentiment in any town want Sunday
base ball there Is seldom anyone to make
objection.
Bloomington Advocate: Governor Aid
rich haa to his credit mora vetoes than
any other former governor for many year,
lit, had most excellent ground (or theaa
vetoes and Is now receiving the congratu
lations of many people for his good Judg
ment. Sonne of tha bills killed war po
litical measures and others were where
the corporations had succeeded in having
their bills passed.
Ord Quia: With prices going down on
acocunt of the recent successes of tha
democratic party, hare comes. our demo
cratic legislature with appropriations for
the blennlum amounting to nearly $1,000,000
more than that, of two years ago and the
greatest in the Jiiatory of tha state. What
do you think -ef it, .Mr. . TaxpayerT 4Dld
you get ypur money s worth" in the lot of
insignificant bills passed by this legiala
tureT , .. ' f,i
Blair Pilot: Th paaaaga ot a bill to
prohibit tha hauling of indifferent voters
to tha polls on electlen day ia another step
In tha right direction. It- was alwaya a
heavy expense to the party or he candi
dates and haa been- an indirect form of
bribe that should1 have been atopped long
ago. The end of tha "free paaa" to tha
polls gives no undue advantage to either
aide and measures and men must hereafter
atand more on their merits and leas on
getting out the largest per cent ot the In
different or unconvinced votera.
Teenmaeh Chieftain: Right you are,
brother, these "economical" democratic
legislatures come, high, but evidently tha
people have been feeling that they "must
have 'em." The .powwow Just cloaed at
Lincoln coat In approprlatlona a cool
$4,790,196, aa against $3,820,129 two years ago.
This makea republicans point with prida
to the model republican legislature of 1907,
which, in appropriations, coat tha state
$3,3,rOS. Mr. Taxpayer, after being In
flated with democratic campaign "econ
omy" rot, whatdo you think of these
figures? ,
People Talked About
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HCMRY CLAY
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A modern coke and coal baron la Henry
Clay Frlck of Pittsburg and New York.
He made his millions in and near the
Smoky City and is enjoying them in the
"nation's melting pot."
Mini Florence Taylor Ward of New
York, whose father was a pioneer diamond
miner In South Africa, ha had one ot the
family Jewels, a diamond weighing nearly
three-quarters of a carat, set In one of
her front treth.
The man who waa ordered to lower the
stars and stripea at the surrender of Fort
Sumter is living at Los Angeles Colonel
William H. Ilamnor. U. 8. A., retired. He
waa a quartermaster sergeant of the First
artillery in lsoi and acted by order of
Major Anderson.
James Eada Howe, a St. Loula million
aire and heir to the lato James B. F.ads.
who built the Kads Jetties at the Missis
sippi river's mouth and the Kads bridge
at 8t. Louis, will on May 1 begin the
publication of the, first regularly Issued
newspaprr for boboea in the world.
Fire Chief Croker of New York, who
retiree by resignation on May 1 on a pen
sion of $.000 a year, haa been in the
service thirty yeara. twelve of them at the
head of the department. No officer of the
city on retiring from service in many
yeara haa called forth such sincere ex
pressions of r-grrt as Croker. Ilia rec
ord puts him at the top of the liat of fire
generals In tlilx' country, overcoming tha
Laud Imp of but uncle, iUcUarJ Cruker.
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Washington Life
oma late resting Vbaaee
aad Conditloas Observe
at the Kettoa's OasluL
Old Opportunity cuts soma marry capers
In Washington. To statesman retired by
ungrateful constituents ha shows how
their hooks may be clinched at tha public
crib without tha aid or consent of the
voters. As soon as tha hook Is securely
fastened the Jolly old sport knocks at the
door of the hammer artist and screams
an Invitation to work. Tba past master
of polltlco-auggestlon whispered temptingly
to tha "lama ducks" of congress how to
banish the pain of separation, and forth
with or later a number of commissions
were authorised, carrying tha regulation
congress salary and Incidentals, and such
members as were out at home but In the
deal, ware named for tha pleasant duties
of Investigators and Junketaars. Probably
halt a score ot thesa commissions are in
full blast at the cashier's wicket. .Gener
ally speaking, they are endowed with per
petual Ufa. If any member resigns, tha
fact escapes notice. Only a few days ago
a Washington paragraph mentioned the
completion ot an index to the old files ot
congress by former Senator Peffer of
Kansas, the ones famous populist, who
dropped out of sight years ago. How long
he has been on the Job only the cashier
knows and the chances are his grip Is
good for a lifetime.
The last flock of "lame ducks" provided
for In advance have scarcely become ac
quainted with their Jobs before they are
assailed as drone In the public hive, eat
lng up aa much honey as they can put
their paws on. Senator Cummins of Iowa
is trying his hammer on tha monetary com
mlsslon, in which a fine bunch of retired
senators and a few defeated representa
tives are sheltered from the wolf at $7,600
per. Tha Iowa aanalor unfeelingly Insists
on the commission finishing Its Job this
year, and then let the members go without
a rain check. A resolution to effect that
end has been Introduoed and the debate
on it will turn tha light on thla and many
like havens for the retired, and hungry
patriot In three years the monetary com
mission bas drawn over $1,000,000 from tb,e
publlo treasury. There la no restriction
on its treasury pull. The money comes
on th proper voucher. Originally com
posed of active membara of tha two houses,
serving on tha regular salary, twelve ot tha
eighteen are now ex-members, but the sal
ary goea on Juat the same. Not only ar
the members comfortably fixed financially,
but tha commission occupies the swallest
aulte of rooms In tha senate office building
and sooffs at tha suggestions of regulars
to pack up and move on to the back
benches.
Speaker Champ Clark intends to main
tain order In tha house of representatives.
Probahly twenty tlmeat a day ha brings
down his givel five or six times and de
claims: '
"Tha house will ba in order. Gentle
men In tha aisles will take their seats."
The words "house" and "order" ar aa
peclally emphasised. Such interruptions
will frequently occur In tha midst of a
speech, and always precede th reading of
a resolution or tha taking ot a vote.
To a person 1,000 miles from Washington
a reading of tha proceeding of th house
in th Congressional Record might well
convey th impression that th democratic
nous la a scene of confusion and chaos.
As a matter of tact Mr. Clark ia preserv
ing th most perfect order seen In the
house in many a day, and Is being obeyed
by tbe members with alacrity. He merely
gets wrought up on slighter provocation
than did Speaker Cannon.
The house employes two reading clerks
at $4,000 a year each. Seventeen democrats
have applied for th places, which require
unusual physical endowments and a knowl
edge of parliamentary custom. All of th
voices tested so far lack strength, carry
ing quality and clearness.
Five new men were tried out th other
day during the regular proceedings of th
house, but all failed to come up to th
standard of EX J. Lampson of Ohio and
Dennis E. Alward, republicans, who have
held the places more than fifteen years.
Minority Leader Mann, who occupies a
seat about the middle of th house, com
plained of not being able to hear what
one aspirant said, and so confused hlra
that he could not regain his composure or
voice and had to retire In disorder.
A thing that strikes a close observer of
Mr. Taft, relates Leslie's Weekly, Is the
attitude he takes in the matter of personal
deference to himself. When he was ap
proaching his train in the Grand Central
station on his way to be notified ot the
presidential nomination, Henry W. Taft,
with him, atopped ahort In the concourse
with,
"Well, I'll have to leave you here."
"Cannot you accompany me to the
train V Mr. Taft asked.
"No; I am afraid the station rules would
not permit of my going through th
gates."
Th presidential nominee stopped a min
ute and waa plainly disappointed.
"Henry, you coma along, anyway," was
his answer. "Maybe 1 can get you
through."
Needleaa to remark, he succeeded. So
great an ovation did the station official
and train crew give him that Mr. Tart
could have had tha locomotive for the ask
ing. Another incident ia reported between Mr.
Norton, then the president a secretary, and
Mr. Taft.
"Mr. Norton, have you heard from those
hotel foIHa In Augusta about our accom
modations?" Mr. Taft asked
"No," replied Secretary Norton.
"Well, do you suppose they'll have a
room for us?"
"Yes. Mr. President, I think your chances
are pretty good." Mr. Norton laughed and
so did everybody else.
Madera) 1 Marc-blag Ou
st. Iouis Uepubllc.
With poignant emotion we not th faet
that Madero Francisco I. Madero t be
precise ia marching upon Juares with an
army, aa we write, and will doubtless
reach it in course of time. A mathema
tician might pause here with profit. How
far. in all. haa Madero marched? Since
November 27 we have had three days ot
that month, thirty-one eauh of December
and January, twenty-eight of February,
thirty-one of March, and twenty thus far
of April-144 daya In all. Allowing for
twenty Sundays and twelve other holidays,
when the inaurrectos may have played
mont and pelota. we have left 122 day.
Twenty mllea a day Is but moderate for
these seasoned troopa. Thla totals $.440
mllea already covered by Madero and his
gallant men In their sempiternal march
upon Juares. For the Ian few weeks they
l.ared for Its Kaemlea.
Philadelphia Record.
Congressman Berger. socialist, wants a
new constitution of the I'nlied States.
"Ther la no other example In history." n
aaya. "of a grown-up nation being com
pelled to wear the swaddlng clothes of
childhood " If the constitution lies be
tween us and eoeisllsm. It Is a pretty good
doenment and wil be preserved for some
Uiua.
The Bee's Letter Box
OoBtrlbntlane ea Timely .)
$ BseaasUag Two Kandxed Words
Ar (anted (rem Ou SVaaOar.
OMAHA. April ta.Te tha Editor of The
Bea: Our ancestors burned heretics, and
hanged Quakers, and "witchee," bal laving
it to b for th benefit of tha common
wealth. Just as acme would do today If
they had tha power, and with a little
sense and Judgment would thos who cling
to th superstitions ot tha paat. today In
this fre America, forcibly Inovulat the
bodies of healthy chUdren with th beastly
virus of disease, to Indue a pathological
condition of blood poisoning that neither
th tenets of modern science, nor th ex
periences In practical Ufa can Justify.
It does hot seem possible that people
or ordinary good sense, can for a moment
believe that a healthy child can be a
menace to tha public health. That medical
men of presumed intelligence. Integrity and
learning should asseverate, repeat and
reiterate an assertion so prepoxterous and
erroneous proves their ignorant- of the
very elements of the subjects whereon
they presume to dogmatise. It reminds
m of tha epitaph In a Spanluh church
yard which runs thus, "I waa well, would
ba better; took physic and died." If tha
vaccinated majority are really protected,
aa they loudly proclaim they are, how
can they be endangered, by th presence
of th unvacclnated minority, who are, as
we are told, the only people who ar sua.
ceptlble to smallpox Infection.
Smallpox Is a filth disease, and people
who have a pur blood stream, and cleanly
body within, aa well as without, with
healthful, sanitary surroundings have no
need to fear smallpox under modern, up
to date treatment, even If they have never
been vaccinated. Now since vaccination
neither protects you from taking smallpox,
nor mitigates It severity when you have
taken It, and correct living and sanitary
measures do, then vaccination ought not
to bo enforcd by law, but sanitary meas
ures should be. Neither the analyst, the
bacteriologist, the mlcroscoplat, nor the
pathologist, haa ever given us any definite
Information as to th specific; constitution
of th disease products erroneously styled
"pure calf-lymph."
Compulsory vaccination law, has no
analogy in th whole domain of legislative
enactment. It Is th only Instance In thla
country of the statutory enforcement of a
surgical operation. It Is the only Instance
on record In this nation of a quack
nostrum being forcibly foisted upon the
public by legislative enactment.
Compulsory vaccination Invades the
integrity of th healthy body. It attacks
th very citadel of life. It commands that
a wound, however slight, be Inflicted upon
vary pupil In our public schools, and that
these wounds be Infected with disease
matter, of undefined and unascertained
composition, and of admittedly unknown
nature and origin. Between compulsory
sanitation and compulsory vaccination
there Is a difference as antipodal as that
between health and disease.
Compulsory aanltatlon promote health,
whll compulsory vaccination directly
disseminata disease among th people.
All honest and well Informed people
agree that It la health, and not dlseaae,
that th stat should foster and promote.
Th policy of disseminating disease on
tha pretext of conserving health is
prapoataixtus, absurd and unjust, and would
not be tolerated by tha people If they
knew th facts, and tha truth about vac.
clnation. DR. L. A. MKRR1AM.
OMAHA, April 2&-To the Editor ot Tha
Bea: W enclose herewith some figure
as to area In squar miles of a number of
cities. Your readers may be interested In
th good showing made by Omaha.
GARVIN BUO.
Area. 1910.
6q. Miles. Population.
New York l,76,O"0
Rochester, N, Y M.tS 2IH.0H0
New Orleans iwi. m OtK)
Chicago 1W.5 2.1ku.0i0
Philadelphia 12S.R l.oiM.WO
Oklahoma 110. 76 64, Am)
Los Angeles 101.26 819.010
Seattle gu.Ei 237.0U0
Topeka, Kan H i 4.1,000
San Diego 73. 3I.OO
Luluth (7.33 . 78,000
St. Loula 61.3.1 fi&7,0"0
Denver b. 213.OH0
K annas City 67.76 24.
Dea Moines 64. sH.OO
St. Paul 64. 214.000
Minneapolis 61 26 30l.0"0
Portland 61. 2U7.0UO
Reading, Pa 61. Uti.OUO
Cincinnati 60. M4.00
Birmingham 48 .1 1H2.0
Cleveland 46.9 etlu.OuO
Sioux City 44.75 47. On
Salt Lake 4.1. w.ouo
San Francisco 43. 41ti,0n0
Detroit 41 I 46.00
Plttfburg 41. 613.000
Buffalo 42. 4l.t
Spokane 40. m.fno
Tacoma 40. tCt.WW
Worcester, Mass .18.5 14F..000
Springfield 38.5 KU.0U0
San Antonio Xt. M.000
Manchester, N. H 33.7 "O.O"
Baltimore 31. .S 658,000
Huston 27.25 ;0.i00
Newark 23. 347.OU0
Milwaukee 22.75 373. On
OMAHA 24.5 124.M
Omaha
South Omaha
Dundee
Florence
Benson
24 SO
.ao
2.19
1 34
Totals $5.08
Council Bluffs M.2B
Greater Omaha 61.31
180.216
F VORMOt S FIR IS WASTE.
I.oaaea Paring- March Kxreed Million
Dollars a Iar.
w York Tribune.
The tire loss of the Cnlted States and
Canada for March last was. ni..y.Sj0, ac
cording to rettirna collected by the New
York Journal of Commerce and Commer
cial Bulletin. The total wna more than
double the March loss in 1'JOP, and about
$13,000,000 greater than the March lnsn In
1!10. The average monthly loss Is below
$20,000,000. and a large part of the ejcresi
for last month waa due to the burning if
the capltot at Albany, where the sacrifice
of property was estimated at $3.500 000. But
there were three other flrea in which
property worth over $l,n00.(0S went up In
amoke.
An absolute waste of $l.ono.ou0 a day last
month and of $W0,iifo to $700 000 a day In
average months la an appalling charge cn
American resources. It has been shown
that we burn up eight times a much
wealth as the averape F.tirnpran nation
does, and that self-imposed handicap Is
laid on the productive energy of the whole
people, fur every man. woman and child
must ultimately bear a share of the cost of
th natlon'a fire wastage. When shall we
begin to practice th fundamental econ
omy which avoids fooltsd risks and looks
to the prevention of flrea and fire loaa in
stead of merely Insuring against them?
It may require a little gieater Initial ex
penae to improve our building methods,
but the extra outlay will be compensated
for in lower insurance chart's and greatly
reduced fire bills. We are squandering
now annually In fires the Interest at 6 per
cent on a capital of between $I.W.W,0'1
and $3.0uO,ono,(mo.
A Dead Ulvt-.twsr,
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
line of the funniest things In modern
politics Is how the public pays $100,014 for
a senator, whom It offers for a nickel
U anyone foolish enough to bid.
t
Quaint Eastern Song
By Many Authors
. 1 1 -
(Vmposlte Itallad Kntitlrrl "I'll Chans; j
th Thorns to Rows," Now
In Yojruo. ' 1 '
There Is a Inv hailed now the sensa
tion throughout tha Kaet, called "I'll
Change the Thorns 10 Roses." It repre
sents tli combined efforts of msny writ
ers who sent In their manuscript tj Carl
Laemml. a wide-awake Yankee in Chi
cago, who offered a goodly sum for tha
best music to a aat of Words by Arthur
J. Lamb. Then Laemmle had various
musical Judgea mak a composite tune of
the manuscripts received. When those
had been grouped the following melody
of the chorus waa evolved.
CAUL lakmmlk
IT Chang's The Thorna To Reees.
I'll change tha thorai to mi as. Ill
a u. . ii. . j s.j
auk your HI a draua,.
thsa aa - til M s cle tt, Yor
Singers here, there and cveiy where be
gan to sing the Hurur the moment It ap
peared. In the West a finger. Thos. J.
Qulgley, hnd Illustrated pictures mad
of 1he song and sent them to "I'd" Doerf,
another singer In New York. Then both
tnusht the song to others.
The composition . quickly became In
vogue In moving plctpio shows and at
various places of amtmenient.
This Summer every damsel In Onlaha
will be having a seance rvilh the tune on
the piano, while th various orchestra
In town will be playln? the song aa a
waltz.
' EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.
Chicago News: Representative O'Neill,
who Indulged In a fight In the Minnesota
legislature, may be planning to hecome the
white man's hope, but tho legislative cham
ber is a poor place In Which to train
Chicago Post: Lee O Noll Browne's libel
bill has been killed by the Illinois house of
representatives. Mr. Browns will have to
b good In order to keep the Papers from
printing disagreeable things about him.
Houston Post: Champ Clark his ordered
that the prayers of the chaplain be printed
In the Congressional . Record. It will do
no harm, but we doubt If that publication
has an extensive circulation ia Heaven.
Philadelphia Record.: With 700 cases on
th calendar of the supreme court ot tho
United States, a good many ot them will be
apt to ripen well before tho day of JuUg-
Chicago Record-Herald: Pugllstlc Champ
ion Johnson la planning to become an a.iu
tor as soon as he gets out ot Jail In Sun
Francisco. Nobody srrests aviators even
when they exceed the speed limits coming
down.
Indianapolis News: It Is rather disap
pointing to learn that the Pullman ooinpiiuy
doesn't pay anybody $7,u00 a jcar for nam
ing Its cars. There was more or lens satis
faction In feeling that In this one respect,
anyhow, tho company was being bunkoed.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Ju tho Na
tional Review of London Maurice Low as
sures the world that Japan could nut swim
the Pacific and luud with enuugh wind left
to lick the Pacific coast and climb tha
great divide. But th world never thought
so. Only a few followers of tho trades of
war and agitation.
POINTED PLEASANTRIES.
"What wo want," said the agitator, "is
to get away frum the tyiunny oi money.'
"t hat light. ' leplied the bull player.
"And It ought to start wlin a rule aaint
tinea by the umpire." Chic ago Post. ,
"Haa that new play of yours a huppy
ending?"
"How can I tell," replied the manager,
"until 1 balance up my hooks at tha cm
n f h M u tutn V uuliiri u I in hit u
"Did you succeed In getting that manager
to engage you''' ,.
"Yea. He Is going to let me. pluy tlm I
part of a walking gentleman."
1 VA . 1 1 IT m , u n null, .11 ,.,., u 1 1
merely have to learn the oilier part.'
Judge.
"Our neighbor's wife always keeps a
box of tine ligara and invariably silpH one
In her husbands pocket when she kUc
him good-by In the morning. '
"What a loving little wife she must bo!"
"Humph: Loving nothing: She (Iocs it
ho he won't forget to mail her letters '--Baltimore
American.
We have been told that a Chicago meat
packer mourns because his sun must in
herit wealth.
That a too bad, but we honestly believe
we could nania a choice selection ..f un
selfish tit liens who could be Indeed to do
their best to remove the curse from the
boys. t-leveland hiatn Dealer.
"My dear, when your huxliand comes
home when you have nothing In tho house
for dessert but peach, tarlis, and lie de
mands apple pie, what do you do.'"
"1 make a tart answer." Buffalo Lx
preas. MOTHER.
Alice I. Woud In liamptou's Macazln.
As we grow older and at last ar left
Without the love that teemed much a
part
Of each day's life that never had w
thought ,
Of it aa love, but aliup'y life ltejf.
What ii It that conifs buck of ner e mist
With tears more bitter because shed so
late?
Is it the loving counsela that thruim hack.
The wisdom doubly prised as dully proven f
I It her beauty and her gtacoumies
That haunts me while 1 wake, and cuiiihs
in dreams?
No. no. All day and many nluhts and days
My mind la filled with myriad little things:
The wav she klxaed me when she tied my
hood
And sent me off to school, a I ttW giii:
The Infinite . pains she took to dress in v
dolls
And make me "parties" with "real thinm
to rat;"
And how she'd come a d-jz -n limes at nirtt
To bring a dilnk. or comfort me. afraid
My grown-up yeara seem sudden bkutsd
out
And all the day and In my dreams at niitlit
I see her doing all the little thiiias
That she. wnen we were children, used
to do.
I bear the little words site used to rv
When I had hurt myself, i r some one inad'i
me cry.
Rill now I weep, she cannot comfort ni
And b tterest are my tears that It's loo lata
To " "I do know now, huw weaiiful
ou wer!''
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