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TOE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, mi. n m. 1 1 ., rgg The ee' rrijp Ia?az,ire if Bleat of the Innocent Bystander Tho BEES Juwor Bipihday Bookr " TP u j.ievle rounding up all the strsy cats i- New York. 1 notice.' said th Troubled T-mrlst. hut thy are also rounding up fcll the shooting Irons. How are gentlemanly v.sltors from the west going to assist tn th mterminstton of the cat tribe unles they are permitted to tote their usual wapons around with them? I ee lhy iminded up W4 rata in- one night recently, but whether It waa done by quick gun play ir not I haven't been able to find out. I Know I v nn temptaed to draw a gun on a tomcat that roosted on the fence In the courtyard below m v window the other night and used cat language that i. something scandalous, but I remembered your foolish !r about not wearing firearma at regular Jewelry and more, and I kept my trusty forty-four In its sheath. "I thought somebody might poaalbly hear It and make embarrassing inquiries. "I never was able to pick a eat eft a back fence at right, any way, without dis turblng the neighbors, not even with a engle barrel shotgun Borne people arc Just natural hoin exterminators. Ilk the Connecticut farmer who killed IX) feft of anakea In seven minutes the other day. -aisled only by his woodchuck dog. Spo He waa qultt about it and very few of the n-lghbors heard anything of Its till he toK them. ' Of couiff . it I'd ha a woodchuck dos with menu I might have been able to get this Thomas tat -luinet and nice and mayhe bag enough oih m to beat the VA record They dldn t have any woodchuck d.igi around the hotel that night, however, and while the cat swore on I looked around for something neat but not gaudy In the way of I THREW AN ORANGE AT If." "I threw an orange at It the cat, I mean. "It was a nice aoft orange, but I never heard a piece of fruit make so much solse. It might an well have been a brick. "I missed the cat but I scored a per fectly good bull's eye on a night watch man In the next yard It really woke him up, and if there were any folks in the block who didn't rush to hie rescue it was because they were stone deaf, for he yelled that burglars had Just handed him a com pound, comminuted fracture of the skull. a- chaser. I nesitsten between a shoe ami ( Everybody In the hotel went out to see a bed Slat, but I needed both and con- ; about It but me. I went back to bej. eluded they were too noisy. Then I glanced at a paper bag on the table and had an inspiration. . That cat had gone away from there, so what was the use?" (Copyright. 1911. by the N . T. Herald Co.) r Musk Oxen First-Class Strategists Dr. Hornaday. director of the Bronx soo, thinks the visiting public scarcely appre ciates the musk ox. The zoo has a herd of them which Pail Rainey brought to it alive and well frcm ore of Ms hunting trips in the north. The musk ox seems to excite neither ro mance, curlousity. nor idea of adventure, beeaute he's a itol.d creaure and unre sponsible.. Yet, en any charge against his character and Intelligence, the musk ox can prove an alibi. In all the animal kingdom Dr. Horna day doea not tln.l greater wisdom among any species that the musk ox displays In his defensive battles. "I don't know how long soldiers have been fighting in hollow squares," said Dr. Hornaday, to must rate tho sens of the musk ox. ' but I understand they were not always acquainted with' such, tactics, and that at times they are the only tactics that can be employed to save' the annihilation of troops, but" I do know that musk oxen, living 'In the fee fields far ' back from the haunts of man, fight always in Hollow snuarts when they, mest their, natural enemies. ... 'These tactics ate probably what have J saved the musk oxen in goodly numbers from extinction. They have no chance tgainst wolves whsn they scatter, but the successfully defend themselves by fighting in a compact body. "A wolf depends on his trick of ham stringing to overcome the running musk ox, which Is to snap at its legs, cutting the tendons and leaving the musk ox to b devoured at leisure. But, In the presence of a pack of wolves scattered musk oxen run tq common center and huddle fast Into line for their hollow square, every one facing out. "No strength of assault nor repetition of assaults will serve to break their forma tion. They way die there, one by one in their places, but they won't break before wolf or dog. because, somehow they have learned that to stand and fight together is their only chance. "Hunters have remarked, the peculiar fact that If they pursue the musk oxen with out dogs the oxen will run from them, scat ter and seek shelter. They do not form to" resist bullets. If the hunter's dogs are ahead and they attempt to-run the musk oxeo,, the oxen gather at once,- face the dogs, and will stand until the last one is shot down. New York Times, Copyright, 1911, by The New York Eveajng Telegram (New York Herald Co.) All Rights Reserved. By EARL HURD VuiW 'Sax iw:;is?i? AW KAlNTfrrt 00 T J SsTTA H"- T SO9G0T ' ' " SL'X I LIT 'EM ) V f ( 1 I la y - v WM X VOU 7EU (HOWLS' T-CrOOPNEJS1 s v "N I t i ' x I "i!M tomh ut I cle at. Eft it J fo ( III) I JOP? I'VE AeOOD HIM Bern' viX V. viEojipj) Loretta's Looking Glass-Held Up to the Wishing Woman Nubs of Knowledge j J tome' knowledge was possessed by the ancients 400 B. C. , of the effect of' Iron rods in averting lighting. Irrigation for agricultural purposes was extensively practiced In Egypt J.OiO yards prior to the advent of the Christian era. Democritus waa the first who taught, in 42S B. C , that the milky way consisted of a confused multitude of stars. y Pastel painting beueo In (G. Construction of the Paris boulevards com menced In l&M. Medical schools flourished at Bagdad and Salerno in TOO.. Musical notes were oringlnaUy printed from movable types in l&S. Jacob . Perkins of. Philadelphia Invented engraving on soft steel in lSlt Fohl. founder of the Chinese empire, taught the art of writing tn S3S0 B. C. f Great Women A kangaroo has been know seventy feet. to leap The waits was introduced Into England at Ainvarx s in im Stammering la absolutely unknown among uncivilised people. Thomas occurs, on the average, thirty nine times la every 1.000 names. ; Lancashire Is the most populous British county, Middlesex second. Yorkshire third. . r i . Spiders are met vvllh in the forest of Java whose wets sue so strong that It re quires a knife t cut through them. Seaweed da not obtain nourishment from the soil at the bottom of the sea. but from the matter contained in sea water. Wolves cause much damage tn Russia The yearly loss in domestic animals through their depredations la estimated at AICuO.OOO. Starch began to be used la England In Boxing machines weie Instituted la M B. C. Anna Amsia, duchess of 8 axe-Weimar, upon the deth of her husband. Duke Ernst, In 1758. took the reins of government and elided them so well thst the country re ceived no harm from the seven years' war nor the famine of 1773. Tor thirty years she lived In the society of Goethe, Schiller and other noted scholars. Joanna Balllle, Scottish dramatist,, pub lished her first volume of "Plays on 4 he Passions" in 179a. Sir Walter Bcott ac knowledged that her merit was so great as to prevent all attempts at competition on his part Mai. Adellaa Fattl-NlcoUrvl. celebrated prima donna, was bora la Spain tn 1M1 Her repertory Included 100 operas, and dur ing her professional career she never sang a false note.' She now lives at Cralg-y-Nos, In the Swansea valley of Wales. Mrs. Emma Wlliard, distinguished edu cator, was bora la 17S7 and died in 1ST0. She was founder of the Troy Female Semi nary. She wrote "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep." Elisabeth and Emily Blackwell. physi cians. They were known as the Doctors "Oh! I wieh I had a million. You only half mean it. Or you mean only half of it ! Even a fourth might satisfy 'you. But you wish It Just the asms the whole great amount. What you really want Is enough money to get away from the particular worry that sgltates you at the moment of utterance. And yoU make your husband mighty miserable. Lots of good husbands are changed into bad ones by this wishing habit. Oh! you may say you are only Jest ing! You may flip off the responsibility as you would a cinder from a dust-coat if it would flip. But cinders like these have the sticking habit. With all their hurting little points, they adhere In the mind of the husband. He does not actually think that you really desire so much, but he does regard the wish as a vocalization of your discontent with what he can give you. Women have a way of looking at what some other woman has, and wondering why the pretties are not for them, too. If Mrs. Blank has a sealskin and her husband is a lawyer, your argue that your husband ii Is a cross to you. Women who can live at fashionable family hotels are your envy. You throw up their luxury to the hus band, who is doing his best; and you give him the idea thst his stupidity and ln sblllty to corner the money market are keeping you from what you ought to have. Why ought you to have it? What have you done that makes you deserving? You are a troublesome, a wholesome distri buter of discontent, and a creator- of false ambitions. And you are as' unhappy as J the ones you make miserable. Why don't you look St the worthy wives, the busy women, who are uaing their brains and talents to supply the doner deficit? They recognize a limit to their husbands' earn ing capacity, and try to make the best of It. They are not goading men to mis appropriation and misery. Their children are well dressed. Their houses are well kept. They do not sit around wishing; they are busy working. You ouKht to take pat tern from them! w ...V. - - .Mx. I CONPTANCr: end CARL LINPHERO. Wt Hickory Street. Minnesota to Stop Short-Weighting j Minnesota is this week sending out field men who will work under the provisions of a new weights and measures law. The inspectors were selected by competitive examination. John C. Connors, one of the Even If the indicator was at zero when the weighing was begun, the rebalancing would short-weight the customer a couple of ounces. These screws were placed where it waa Impossible In many cases for the is a lawyer, your argue that your n us nana i 1 " " ofa similar bureau In New cu,tomer t0 'e what tne clerk w dCriS is a lawyer, and you ought to have a seal- 1 ! """"T , of rU .? V Prohibited the use of screws that .v,i -c.,, . j .,,, York, who helped in the organization of, , . . . . ' ' lnl skin, also. You wish for it. And you ex- it could be turned by hand Thev now must .,, .,,,... w t,ii, ... the Minnesota department Is quoted in the . . . , ney now must press your surprise that Mr. Blank can .vil.. be operated on y by a special instrument manage to have such decorations for his wife, while your lawyer must needs scrape pretty bard to get you a ready-made coat suit. Maybe Mrs. Blanks lawyer is a better one. He can earn more money. "No. in deed!" yeu cry. You will not acknowledge that! Your wifely loyalty Jumps up In toy arms, and you brandish your tin sword with great show. You certainly will not concede to Mrs. Blank the acumen of hav ing choosen a smarter man than you did. - You call that display of toy weapons an evidence of your devotion to your lawyer husband. It is not! It is a great, big, spectacular display of your own conceit! Yeu win not acknowledge that your hus band It Jess brilliant than some other s Blfcckwell and founded the Women's hos- I hviond-Just because he Is yours pttal and college of New York City. Sarah . Biddons, English actress, waa born In 1754 and died tn UH. She waa esteemed for her surpassing genius and exemplary conduct In all the relations of Ufa. Sappho, celebrated Greek paet, waa ijorn in 6)0 8. C. and died tn (70 B. C. She in vented the mater that bears her came. Tl lih The earliest known cook hook was pub lished at Venice In 147. htathing of copper was first applied to Brltlth ship Alarm 1a ITta. Americas first ton-e waa the Bay Psalm book. It was printed at Cambridge. Mass., la 160. Bartholomew Columbus, brether of the raaowned discoverer. Introduced maps Into England la 14. livening schools fo Instructing boya and fc .U who cd to work all day originated in 'im at Bristol. England. Every German regiment has a chiropodist la ita ranks. Miss Graceanna Lewis, naturalist, was born In U21 ' She was author of many works la the field Of natural history. The first school exclusively for adults was established la ttale. Merionethshire, Wales. In 1811. How dare you say that! Why! I should are anything that a woman's rage ever has or could invent and some of them have achieved sinister distinction as the lnventresses of varied tortures: if I could, la the pain of the experience, find a way to wake you up to the harm you do with your absorbed and unrest-breeding wish habit. Why. women like, you drive men to acquire more than they can earn. You raise sons who are money maniacs before they are out of high school. Your daughters are mercensry creatures, look ing forward toward marriage with million slrts. You are the chief priestess at the altar of mammon. I have watched you wishing women. You are generally non-producers. Housekeeping St. Paul Dispatch as saying: "Thousands of dollars will be saved an nually to the people of Minnesota by the new department if conditions are anything like those in New York state, where a sin llar department was Installed. ( "The Minnesota department has the finest equipment of any weights and measures bureau in the country, and profiting by the mistakes made by earlier established bureaus, Minnesota should have and will have the greatest of them all. "It is astonishing the amount of fraud snd graft we discovered when the New Yoik bureau went Into operation. And the methods used were countless, but all of such a simple nature you felt like kicking yourself, when you made the discovery, to think you didn't see through it before. "We 'found thousands of illegal measures and dumped load after load into the harbor Not all were used Intentionally, but many were. It waa the same with the weights. "This destructive work wss the more spectacular, and therefore , got the most space in the magazines, but ta real Import ance it did not compare with the detective work we did to discover the practice whereby, after the weights and measures were corrected grocers and butchers still gave customers' short weight. "There Is a little balance screw on the i.de of some scsles. next to the grocer, and wc found the manufacturers hsd in many -sses made this easy to turn, so the man behind the counter could readjust this crew while the weighing was being done made for that purpose, and must be placed in a conspicuous place. "We discovered another common method. There is a thumb screw on all scales by which the speed of the Indicator may be regulated, causing It to revolve slowly and stop quickly, or to revolve rapidly and take half an hour or so to stop. Of course the customer does not care to wait for It to stop, and it is Impossible for him to catch the exact weight ss the roll revolves back and forth. The clerk calls out "four pounds' and wraps the bundle up. The customer leaver for home with four or six ounces less than four pounds. "This graft Is small in the individual case, but In the aggregate It is tremendous. In New York state before the weights and measures law went into effect many fam Hies were being regularly cheated out of U cents cn $1. When a family spends from to J9O0 a year, this isn't a small matter. "We found in order to get the beat re sults we must Interest the people. We started a publicity campaign asking all housekeepers to buy scales and measures snd not to take snythlng for granted. Many did. and when they found they were being Imposed on they Informed us, mhlch information we treated confidentially and sent a man to watch tbe shop reported." The Minesota bureau of weights and measures is under the Railroad and Ware house commission. This is Oiq DaarW September 12, 1911. Nam and Address. School. Your. James P. Allen. 2124 Burt Ft Central 1837 Adolpn L. Anderson. J508 South Fortieth St .Windsor .1S!9 Viola BalUnjer, 31S North Fifteenth Ft Tass ..1898 Leslie Barlght. 2430 Spalding St. . Lothrop ..'..... .1895 Frances Breughle. 2107 Finkney St Lothrop 1900 Helen Burton; 4613 North Twenty-fourth St Saratoga 1902 William D. Callahan. 38J0 North Thirty-third St Howard Kennedy. .1S9T Floyd E. Carlisle, 2429 Seward St Keilom .1900 Molley Corenman. SOS South Seventh St Pacific' 1900 Eva Dahlquist, 2010 Bancroft St Caetellar 1900 Elizabeth M. Dalton, 1816 Paul St Holy Family 1902 Katherine Dillon 2218 North Eighteenth St Lake 1904 Kosa Doyle 9S5 North Twenty-fifth Ave Farnam 1902 Carl Elsasser, 2706 South Eighteenth St German Lutheran. ..1901 Aurella Fillmore. 4128 North Twenty-fifth Ave Saratoga .190S Esther M. Fisher, 2016 North Twenty-eighth Ave High 1897 Harold Griffin, 2146 South Thirty-fifth St Windsor 19"3 Tillie Greenblat, 1920 South Tenth St Lincoln . 1S! Alfred T. Hansen. 2722 North Twenty-eighth Ave. . . .Howard Kennedy. .1900 Erwln C. Harm, 3024 South Twentieth St..... German Lutheran.. 1898- Clyde Haye, 2705 Kansaa Av. Miller Park ...... .190J- Marie Hoeckenechneider , . ..St. Joseph 1903 Paul Hornung. 1327 South Thirty-fifth St High 1893 Frank J. Jelen, 1726 South' Fifteenth St High 1895 Alice Johnsonn. 2217 Cass St High 1R9S IT 1 l r . A n 141 CA..,k T & . .. l,kC tTirrfe Itlx - - - - - - - - r Roy C. Langston, 918 South Twentieth St Mason 1896 Richard Larson, 3322 South Twentieth St High 1895 Grace C. Larson, 3307 Hamilton St Franklin 1895 Jennie Levlnson, 3422 Leavenworth St Columbian 1904 Peter Liewit, 2567 Marcy St Mason 1901 Carl Llndberg. 82 4 Hickory St .Lincoln 1902 Constance Llndberg. 824 Hickory St . . .Lincoln 1903 Helen Mcllbaine, 4220 Harney St Columbian 189S McKinley Madison, 4615 Grant St Clifton Hill .. ... 1896 William F. Nicholson, 1618 South Thirty-third St. . . .Windsor : .1900 Catherine Nick, 2714 South Twelfth St....... St. Joseph 1901 Erich OlSBon. 965 North Twenty-fifth Ave .....Webster .:.1901 Margaret Orton, 1417 North Twenty-third St. . . . Kellom .199 .TAnoTih Partarh. 3461 South Fifteenth Bt High '..1895 Margaret Pasha, 1109 North Fourteenth St. Lydy Pecha, 3011 South Twenty-eighth Ave. Helma Peterson, 3355 Manderson St Coralee Remmel, 2425 Patrick Ave. Long Genevieve Rhine. 1320 South Sixth St. , '.Train ....... Joyce Rosenbrook. 4339 Franklin St.. ...Walnut Hill. Waldo H. Rothert. 3815 Charles St.. .-..Walnut- Hill. Alice Schwartz, 2729 South Sixteenth St .Castellar . . . Harriet Bhowera, 14t3 Brown St. Sherman . , . Lydia E. Strey, 1120 Dorcaa St . : . : Lincoln Louis Thrane, 1332 Park Ave rarK William Van Buren, 3403 South Fifteenth St .Vinton . viz-iAr vacaif 123R South Thirteenth St Comeniua Herbert Wengel. 211 Walnut St irain . .- Elmer Wesln, 981 North Twenty-fifth St .High 1894 Di c w-MHne- 2i0l Dodee St Central 1903 Wtlbert Woodruff, 710 North Twenty-second St. Kellom St. Phllomena 1898 Vinton . ..190V Monmouth Park... 188? . , .1908 .-. .1899 .:;j896 .. .1904 . . .1903 .. .1904 . -1901 . . .1900 . . .1898 . . .189S .1898 f Men Who Helped to Make America It requires 1J.000 elephants ta supply S50 tons of ivory. William Pean. writer, preacher snd founder of Pennsylvania, was an Englisa quaker. and was born In London on Octo ber 14, lH. He was the son of Adimral 6lr William Penn Prompted by a desire to estsbllsb a col ony where people might enjoy civil ar.d re.lgious freedom. Penn obtained from his sovereign. King Charles II. a tract of land west of the Delaware. Penn. thinking of the Latin name "Fylva" for wood or forest, thought Sylvsnia a good name for this new land eovered with forests. Penn's own name was prefixed to this by the king in honor of Penn's father, and Pennsylvania's name waa thu: evolved. From the duke of York the Quake: founder also obtained a grant of Delaware and the two states were founded. The city of Philadelphia was founded in 1632. Penn respected the rights of the Indlsns as well as those of the Swedes, who had al ready settled within the confines of Pen sylvsnia and Delaware. His famous "treaty of pece and friendship with the red men" was never sworn to and never broken. Here are the words of Wllusra Penn while conferring with the Indiana "The Great Spirit, who made us and thee, and who rules In heaven and earth, knows that I and my frienda have a hearty desire to live In friendship with thee, and to serve thee to the utmost of our power It is not our custom to use hostile weapons against our fellow creatures, for which reason we hive come unarmed. Our ob ject is r.ot to do Injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. We are now met on the broad pathway of good ' " N . t it ... - 41.- . ? t Mr A ': '1 Naming the Baby lJg MU5T KAMt TUB AAfW illlix-iAF xv F NAMP HIM Al ACDlMW CALL Mifn ""'I'l 1 1 WHY NOT ? CALL HIM ClCERO'i 5 Crt OOCTCW A GOOD NAME FOB THtS BABY' I'D SuGGtST THAT YDJ CALL HIM DARWIM r r WW MAT C DO rcx I AV MOTHER V r- I 1 WHY- IP IT -ISN'T UNCLE ZEKE' YES, folks, Thought I'D Cun DOWN TO THE CITY AH' MAKE OUT MY WILL' I'M WOBXH ABOUT DO.OOO OH WE'LL NAME IHC 6A&Y ZEKE? Tr?A-LA! WE'LL KlAsUW T"-ir QAQV d L-X IT r- t i s-. 1... Lnwi 4jUtrC, c z 1 faith and good will, so that no advantage Is to be taken on either side." Tbe great elm tree, under which this treaty was made, became celebrated on that account, and when the British weree quartered near It during the war of Amer ican Independence their general so re spected It that, when bis soldiers' were cut ting down every tree for firewood, he placed a sentinel under it, ' that not a branch . of It might be touched. ' A few years ago it was blown down, when It waa split inti wood, and many cups, bowls snd other ' nrtlcles made of It to be kept as memorials. (Copyright. 1011. by the N."T. Herald Co) Gotham of the 70s J What an odd. provi-cial. fleisnnt 111 old New York was that of the earliest seventies, Just when the navti n. afui-thi--wsr prosperity had begun to strike its sides and make it feeT the Impulse toward a piogresa never afterward to cease. Broadway, a long unlovely thoroughfare, was filled with huddled buildings monotan. ous In line and tint. Vnidn and Madison vjuarea were inclosed In high railings, re moved In liTi, their grass and trees. . as now. a great relief to the eve. in pasting. Fifth avenue, fringed on 'either hid with telegraph poles, viae ahomir.sHy' rsved with irregular blocks of stones. 'so that a djlve to the park or "away uptown to Fif tieth street ' as eccompani'd by much wear and tear to the physical and nervous system. The e'efebjated snd delightful Dr. J-Virdyce Eaiker ued to say he actually could not recommend a couval-scent patient o take the. Sir. . because of tfc necesiary Jolting in a carriage la any direction sway from the residential quarter Apart from the discomfort, the noise of continuous his. made open window in one s home a pu gstorlal trial. Certainly we modern gru ers in atphalt streets hse no s:'h gret for thst feature of the dear old days. Mrs. Burton Hdfi Ikon In 6-