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TTIE BEE: OMAIIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1912. Tee Omaha daily bee FOL'XDBD BT EDWARD ROSEWATEB VICTOR BOSKWATEB. EDITOR. BEE BU1LDIXO. FARNAM AND 17TH. Enured at Omaha postofflc as second class matter. w quo i r arnARIPTIOS. Sunday bee. one year JJ-JJ Saturday Bee, one yesr ' Daily He (without Sunday, ona yaar ImIW Bm and Sunday, ona year SVW DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Evening Bm (with Sunday), per me... Iajly be (Including Sunday), per tno. o Iatlv Bra (without Sunday), per "I0;:?" Address all complaint or Irregularities In delivery te Cliy Circulation Dept. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eapress or postal order, p-ivsul to The Bea Publishing company. Only I-cent tarn pa received In payment of email accounts. Pemonal checks, ex cept aa Omaha and outers exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. aouih Omaha zr S St. Council Bluffs 75 Scott St. Lincoln! Littl Bulldlnf. Chicago lies Marquette Bulldlnf. Kanaaa rity Reliance Building. New Tork-M Went Thirty-third. Washington 7 Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlone relating to new and editorial matter should be addroaaod Omaha Bea. Editorial Department. JANUARY CIRCULATION. 49,728 State of Nebraska. County of Dourlas. aa: Dwight Williams, circulation manure! of The Be Publishing company, being duly sworn, sera that Um average dally circulation, lass spoiled, unused and re turned eoplea, for to month of January, UU, wss ,721. DWIOHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. I ffuhaerfbad In my preaenca and sworn to before me this eth day of February. Mil . (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Sakeewtkm tear lag tha erltyi taewtlr sld have The Bea mailed ta these. Address will lea chanced aa alien aa re. ejaeetew. i Just to the dark bona Is not trick horse). The "oldest pensioner" will outlive II tbe other. I No, Jane, th, Money trust Is not exactly a trust for money. Rumor baa It that tha market la Everglade Is a littles sluggish. Tha courts mar dissolve tha Oil trust, but tha price atlcketb fast. president Madero seems to be aa good at ona end of a revolution aa at the other. There are mora vara than ona of Colonel Bryan retting Into the Con gresslonal Record. That talkative gentleman from Teiaa la In (air war to get himself disliked down about Falrvlew. The ben la the only captain of Industry who takes n vacation In tha winter. St Paul Ploneer-Prssa. No, there Is Cartoonist MeCutch-con. Statistics tell via each man, woman and rbild In thla country averages 34. (1. Feel In roar pocket and see if It Is there. Senator "Bob" Taylor of Ten nessee la a candidate for re-election and be la playing nothing but bar monr tunaa on bis fiddle. . There is an old saying that water will not run up bill, but recent price movements abow it doea not refer to the cost of living current. . . Mayor Harrison Is said to be an authority on cooking eg is. Very well, but can ba do anything towr.rd bringing them within aaay reach t Governor Btubbi of Kanaaa aaya he la "hot for Roosevelt" If be la for blm at all. be la hot, of course. That Ja the Kansas governor's normal tern-perature. This whole subject of world peace la paradox, anyway. Germany Is building a sew engine of war so for midable as to make the modern , dreednaught obsolete. The city clerk'a compilation of the law establishing the commission 'form of city government la very .bandy volume, but it should bare been provided with an Index. WUk La Folletts and Folk both taking themselves out of the presi dential battle, tbe process of elimina tion seems to bsve begun on both , sides of the political firing line. Another of that legion of distin guished old lowaos baa gons Is Gen eral James B. Weaver. Does Iowa feel that its later harvests have re , plealahed its supply of celebrities? President Comlskey of the Chicago "White Sox has been asked by demo cratic fries da to run for governor of Illinois. Tbe Old Roman would make them know be waa on the base lines it he did. At any rate, the Cltliena' anion will have to go fsr and hunt bard to secure a new publicity committee to keep the pace already set. It may be possible, but "It can t be done with out s makeup." The Democratic Harmony Program. Through the medium of the staunchly reliable democratic organ conducted by our old friend, Edgar Howard, the public is apprised that a harmony program for Nebraska democrata ia about to be sprung whereby a machine made slate fcr delegates-at-large to the Baltimore convention is to be put through with out even the semblance of a contest. But let Edgsr Howard tell the story in his own words: And now it appears that the democrats of Nebraska hare drrlried to disappoint the republlcane by bavins; perfect har mony In the selection of delegates-at- larsa to tha national democratic convention. At ene time there were many indica tions for a flnlrh fight for control of the delegation, but now It seems assured that all will be barmonv, and that four candl-date-V. 1. Bryan, G. M. Hitchcock.. I. J. Dunn and George I Looinls will be elected without opposition. While the Telegram waa ready to see a finish fight, still we are also ready to accept tha olive branch extended by those who do sot agree with oar party views. We shall ba perfectly satisfied to see these four men chosen as national del teste. This brew Is supposed to have come out of the recent meeting of the democratic stats committee. It la to enable the bosses to circumvent and forestall the direct primary In everything except the presidential preference, whose outcome is to be recogirlzed sa binding Instructions upon all concerned. It goea without saying that the sticking point for the Bryanltee ia the! acceptance of Sena tor Hitchcock for equal honors with the patron saint, but when Edgar Howard immolates himself to tbe extent of saying be will stand for It if he cms sugsr the dose with the other three, democratic - harmony must be In the air. Why Ifidihlpmen Tsil. Some time ago a near-scandal arose st the Annapolis Naval academy over what purported. to be a species of social snobbery among the cadets and loud protests were voiced against a system In government school that conduced more toward frivolity than education. The announcement that fifteen midshipmen have failed in their examinations and have had to give up their places tenda to confirm previous reports. Many other cadets. It Is ssld, have tendered their resig nations for similar reasons and they have not been accepted. Here lurka a suspicion that some of the good midshipmen who sre falling have method in their madness. Perhaps they are not failing because they have to. Perhaps their seal for the sea bo longer lives. They may not find the life of the aallor as alluring at close rsngs as It appesred further off. , la any event It seems that Uncle Sam will have to set np few new rules at Annapolis and stiffen the course just little It ho expects to keep his ships properly manned. No matter whether failure comes from Intention or accident as the result of too. mach gay life, it dsnotes the same lack of fitness for the life of tbe sea-fighter, although of course there nlsy be and doubtless are In dividual Inatances of failure that can bo explained by natural causes such as sickness and so forth. Not only at Annapolis, but also at West Point, the substitution of hard work for play has gone to great lengths. Only a few years ago it was a struggls and regulred a good deal of pull for a youth to get Into either school. Todsy there sre usually vacancies ia both, which the govern ment would like to have tilled. When protest wss uttered against our ad mitting Chinese young men to 'West Point, It wss pointed out thst It they were pot admitted the places would remain, unoccupied. The greater at tractions In commercial and In dustrial life deter many young men from seeking careers In the army or nsvy, but to this must bo added the severe discipline thst makes academy life a real test of possession of the sterner virtues. lawyers in the sense of rendering public service in tbe honest effort st making good laws and administering them fearlessly and honestly? . Croly answers this question In the negative. ' He sari: "It csn be fsirly asserted that tbe qualifications of tbe American lawyer for his tra ditional task as the official Inter preter snd guide of. the American constitutional democracy have been considerably Impaired." And anyone who takes s careful survey of tbe situation is prepared to agree with blm. How many lawyers today know snd profess to know snything about constitutions! law? They are i numerous that even in the halls -ingress what are known as "good institutional lawyers" are so scarce as to be conspicuous among their col leagues, from whom they sre pointed out with particular distinction. There may be Daniel Webstera today, but not many of them are giving their powers and aervlces to the govern ment. A few like Senator Root, Jus tice Hughes and President Tsft are, but the vest majority of great law yers will be found moat profitably identified with large corporate Inter ests, whose affairs so often run coun ter with those of the government Yet this is neither to condemn cor porations ss sucb, nor the ambitious lawyers who prefer private fortunes to public service. It does, however, tend to prove the point thst the twentieth century lawyer Is a busi ness man, and aa a rule a specialist. Still Too Mach Gnu Toting. There sre still too many records of crime and accident aa the result of carrying concealed weapons. Spo radic efforts have been made over tha country to prevent what Is railed gun toting, but no such earnest, con sistent effort as must be made baa yet been exerted, and until that Is dons tragedies are sure to stalk In the wake of men and boys with hair- trigger tempers and pistols In their pockets. Many a murder would never have been committed, had not some body had a deadly weapon concealed upon his person where, when his pas sion reached the boiling point, he could lay bis hand upon the gun. But It la hard to stop this habit en tirely. It is hard, but not Impossible. New York hsa not entirely stopped It, perhaps, but It hss taken a atep In that direction by enacting a law which makes the carrying of con cealed weapons a felony, taking It out of the misdemeanor class. The provision In the Isw covering this point reads: Any person over tha sse of M years who stall have or carry concealed upon his parson la sny city, villus or town In this stats any pistol, revolver er other firearm without a written license there for snail be guilty of a felony, Tbla may not prove completely ef fectual at once, but It certainly will work better thaa a nominal fine, aay of 15 or tit. This same law also prohibits the Indiscriminate display In show Windows of all kinds of fire arms, ss Is done In so many cities. Not only tbe carrying of deadly weap ons, but their display, has to be prop erly restricted to put the right sort of barrier upon their Indiscriminate use. Every time certain youths or men see a pile of pistols In a cheap show csss they are selied with an Impulse to buy one, and a ptatol In such hands Is always a menses. The Lincoln Journal notes tbe preparations being made to relocate Johns Hopkins university on "a typ ical university campus which hss just been undertaken on a comprehensive scale to accommodate all the activi ties of tbe university except the med ical school and hospital." Tbo day wilt come sooner even than ex pected, when the Journal win have aa opportunity to use almost the identical language to describe the de velopment of our own University of Nebraska. If there Is to be a test of the validity of our commissioa plan law it should by all means bo made at once. The chaos that would bo pro duced ia our municipal government if the law should bo declared uncon stitutional after it had supposedly geao into practical operation ia al most, unimaginable. If serious doubt exists as to the constitutionality it wit warrant a test ia tbe courts. Tu Lawyer aid the Law. The assertion Is often made In a tone of complaint that Americsn laws are made and sd ministered by ths lawyers. That is substantially true. How could it bo otherwise In a country like ours? Ours Is a gov ernment by law and the lawyer, who occupies a subordinate piece In an absolute or liberal monarchy, holda a position of paramount Importance in a constitutional government, es pecially where, as Herbert Croly has pointed out, the federal constitution, by establishing the supreme court as the Interpreter of the fundamental law, and aa a separate and Independ ent department of tbe government, "really made the lawyer responsible for tbe future of tbe country." This, then. Is to be accepted aa aa established fact. What then? "The adequacy of the lawyers' training, the disinterestedness of their polit ical motives, the fairness of their mental outlook and tho closeness of their contact with national public opinion all become matters of grave pablie roarers." says Croly. Are these quallf lest Ions denoting Im provement today? Is th Americas lawyer of todsy better equipped tor this grave responsibility than the Americsn lawyer of Daniel Webster's dsy, when tbe prime lights la the legal firmament shone brightest la the balls of state and national leg islature; when they were actually professions! men. noUxsmmsrclal Senator Reed of Missouri Is sponsor of a constitutions! amsnd- ment to bsr aay man from holding the office of president of the United States more than two terms of four years each, the filling of an unexpired term to be regarded aa a full term. It Is worth noting thst Senstor Reed's amendment places no limit on the service of members of the United Ststes senate. lokinBacleWaril 11i.sl)w in Omaha f COMPILED fHOM BEE flit- H A FEB 13. 1 Thirty Years Ago CrtlCi freen house Is now open to tha public, with a full supply of cut flowers and plants, st the southwest corner of Seventeenth and Webster streets. James X". Craig, florist and landscape gardener. Clarksoa A Hunt are advertising aa successors to Richards Hunt, attor-neys-at-law, offtclng on Fourteenth street. Anna Dickinson and the "Double Uncle Tom's Cabin" are both scheduled aa theatrical attractions thla week. B. A. Fowler, the architect of thla city, has completed plans for sn opera house te be erected In Blair of brick snd atone. Tbe telephone Una te tbe smallpox hos pital, two sad one-naif miles from the main office, has been completed. Dr. Leieenrtng dot net the construction work on tbe last MS yards. A beautiful altht waa witnessed on the Iowa bluffs by some of our clUsens this evening, caused, apparently, by tbe burn ing of dry graaa or poeelbly of a fence. It left a trail of fire tn the shape of a large square resembling the windows of a large palace, afterwards becoming more Ilka a big torchlight procession. A. Conn started for a visit to New Tork City and other eaatrm points. Tbe Misses Boyd, daughters of Mayor Boyd. left. for Ban Francisco, where airs. Boyd and son are visiting. Miaa LI iiie Isaacs ia back from a pro tracted visit with friends in New York. Mlsa Cora Doene has returned from a two months' visit In West Virginia. Twenty Years Ago Mlsa Tost gave a very dainty cotillion la honor of love's patron, St. Valentine, tha decorations being In res. These couples were present: Misses English. Hargla. Grace Wallace, MeCormlck. Hoagland. Laura Hoagland. McKenna. Nash. Doene, Emily Wakaley, Wallace, May Wallace, Hamilton, Chandler; Messrs. Henry Wyman. Robert Patrick, John Patrick. Frank Hamilton, Caldwell Hamilton, Sherwood, Pierre Garneau, Wilson. Jordan, Earl, Gannett. Doane. Augustus Kountse. I'tt, Hall, Smith Drake snd Aba Reed. Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Cavanaugh enter tained a few friends at Cards st their home In Dundee Place. 8. A. Searle of Nelson, Neb, waa st tbe Paxtoa. The Board .of Public Works barred wooden blocks from being used In paving Omaha streets at lraat for one yaar. Tha dispatch from Washington an nouncing tha filing of articles In Wash ington for the Western National bank of Omaha occasioned ntuclf comment. Tbe Incorporators were: H. It Meday, former manager for tha Hammond Packing com. pany of South, Omaha; Robert W. Patrick, Thomas KUpatrk of tha Kllpatiick- Koeh Dnr Goods company, C. P Waller er the Rlcnardsoa Drug company and Simeon W. Cray. Colonel W. F, Cody wired to Nat Brown. la reaponae to sn Inquiry from Chicago, saying ha certainly would coma to Omaha te aw to Lincoln snd Join In the Jollification ever the Inauguration of James hVBoyd as governor. Tea Yean Ago Tha birthday anniversary of Lincoln waa celebrated in nearly all tha public schools of the elty. At Trinity Methodist ohurch It was also Informally celebrated. Rev. D. K. TyadalL L. A. Harmon and Frank Woodland made brief addresses upon tha Ufa of Lincoln. The first day's receipts en the second assessment made on Omaha Auditorium company atook amounted to 7,oU.m, . Governor Cummins of Iowa stopped off In Omaha a few hours an route to Lin coln, where he addressed the Young Man's Itepubllcsn club In this evening. He waa met at tha Omaha station by s delegation, moat of whom ware Lincoln men. Congressman Charlaa N. Fowler of New Jersey happened to be In the com pany and the others were CoagTesatnan Elmer J. Burkett. P. R. Waters. J. p. CcagTove. Dr. C. R. Tefft, John C. Fre mont MrKsjawn and Victor Seymour. Mrs. a R. Crick mora waa hostess to the South Bide Whist club. The prises of tha afternoon were won by Mrs. J. T. Tag gart and Mrs. T. K. Hall and the guests' prises by Mlsa Pearl Shelly and- Mlsa Daisy Rogers. The Metropolitan club save an enjoy able function, in the evening. Tbe early part of the evening was devoted to bowl ing and Miss Dreyfuaa snd Mr. Dave Degsn made the big scores. Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Clarke, Jr.. gave a chafing dish party In honor of guests of Mlsa Elisabeth Allen. An interesting sequel to tbe double marriage of John and Frank Vltoch, brothers, developed when two birth cer tificates were filed at the office of the health commissioners showing that tha stork had played so favorite, but ar rived en the earns day at both homes. Frank Vltoch, an engineer, resided at U"t William street, and John, a laborer, at MM South Fourteenth street. Both were girls. 8peaking ot reformers Herbert Croly observes thst "Roosevelt, Bryan and Hearst (whom be does not approve) are not lawyer by pro fession." It hss been so long since Mr. Bryan practiced that, evidently, peopfe have forgotten that he was a lawyer by profession. , It goes without saying that tbe ex perience and avowed purpose of the lew creating the water board, and likewise ths law for the commission plan of government, to keep all of ficers In charge of our municipal af fairs oat of politics. Is to be strictly observed. A Chicago judge hss fined 'two street railway companies for insuffi cient heating of their cars. Wonder If something cannot bo done here with reference to overheating and under ventilating our street cars. Tho late meeting ot tha democratic state committee at Columbus is de scribed as a great harmony feast. That o'clock nd law mast have worked wonders ia these smaller towns as well as la Omaha, People Talked About Lincoln's Humor Savins Grace, at Cheeur Eaaael the Mighty Bardesi of War and Strife. n- d i ii D' neDeesLcrax Xubellk has rut one of his ten dirts that are Insured for CSS,. There Is one man In tbe country who haa the aeiance of advertising at his fingers' ends Nathan Straus, former minister to Tur key, baa Just sailed for Jerusalem, ac companied by Mrs. Straus, After a visit te Palestine he will attend the Wortd'a Ajitt-Tuberculosis congress tn Roma, to which he was appointed a delegate by President Tsft. The duke of Fife's successor to the earldom of Fife will be Jekyl Chalmers Duff, who haa been fsr several years a policeman la Australia, and who will not only inherit the title of earl ot Fife, but also tha titles Viscount Earl MacDuft and Baron Bracem. Ne property goea with tbe title. Edward Musroe. who Is St yaar old and who claims to be the oldest veteran of tbe American civil war. la living In Londoa en the pension be receives. He waa bora la Nova Scotia, but spent bis early says ta Philadelphia, and waa a sailor for saany yean, serving aader far rags. Ha enjoys excelteat health and la writing his sneanoir. Robert Meyarhoft a hotel proprietor at Atlantic CHy. invited fourteen guests to a dinner la eehtbratloa of his ec.or.tr- algbth birthday anniversary and at the and of the steal presented eaveh of them with a new Stes but Meyerhoff an nounced that he will eontise to practice at each of ale Mnhday anniversaries, bat gave no hint as te wheat ha win lavtte te the next dinner. Wayne Whipple In Hampton' Magazine, Tbe ignoring of Abraham Lincoln as a humorist is doubtless due to tbe fact that he has been taken at his word, for he used to aay emphatically, "I am not a manufacturer, but a retailer of stories." Yet aa a retailer and Jobber of Jokes he anconsdously became a merchant prince tn literature, after the order of Shake speare, who took the cold, dead works of those who had gone before and gave them warmth and life unending. In his keen admiration of the would-be humorous writing that were then tha fad. Lincoln never dreamed that the stories he was telling to ease the friction and amuse the people ha met dally would be told ever snd over long after the skits of the scrib blers of the hour were forgotten. Colonel Bliss W. Burt and several mili tary friends called on President Lincoln on business for Governor Seymour of New Tork. lata ona evening In the summer of '& As they were about to leave, one of the men, a certain major under the in fluence of liquor, leered at Mr. Lincoln and, slapping him on the leg, said: "Mr. President, tell us ona of your good stories" with significant emphasis on the "good." Colonel Burt thua refers to his mortification: "If the floor had opened and dropped me out of eight I ahould have been happy. The president drew himself up. and turning his back as far as possible upon tha major, with great dignity ad dressed the rest of us, saying: " 'I believe 1 have the popular reputa tion of being a atory teller, but I do not deserve the name In Its general sense, for it I not the story Itself, but Ita pur pose or effect that interests me. I eften avoid s long and useless discussion by ethers, or a laborious explanation on my own part, by a short story that Illustrate my point of view. So, too. the sharpness of a refusal or the edge of a rebuke may be blunted by an appropriate story so a to save wounded feelings and yet aerv the purpose. No, I am not simply a story teller, but story telling as an emol lient save me much friction and dis tress." " Laughter, by preserving the life of the president, saved the nation In Ita "mortal need." An old friend of Mr. Lincoln's, waiting outside the door of the executive office,- heard hia high, ringing laugh within, and remarked to others standing near, "That laugh la the president' llfe Preeerver." Lincoln's laugh became con tarlous, infectious, epidemic. The gar eminent, the army, the whole north learned from him to look on the bright side of everything. In this way Abraham Lincoln came to be tha savior of his country. A memor able day on which he tried to give his nearest advisers a laughing lesson was In September. Unit. He had called the cabinet together for a special purpose. After they were assembled the story waa told years afterward by Secretary Stan ton: 'Tha president turned to us snd said: ' 'Gentlemen, did you ever read any thing from Artemua Ward?" "Not a member ot ths oabinet smiled: aa for myself, I was angry and looked to see what tha president meant, It seemed to ftje like buffoonery.' He, how ever, decided to read to us a chapter from Artemus Ward,' which ha did with great deliberation. Having finished, he laughed heartily without a member ot the cabinet Joining tn tha laughter. " "Well," he said, "lefa have another ohapter," and ba read another chapter, to our great astonishment'. I was con sidering whether I should rise and leave the meeting abruptly, when he threw the book down, heaved s long sigh, snd said: '" "Gentlemen, why don't you laugh t With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day. If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine s much aa I do." "He then put his hand In his tall hat that sat on the table and pulled out a little paper." The "little paper" waa the emancipation proclamation. Once, lit, recommending a colonel for a colored regiment, he anticipated captious opposition by writing: "I wish Jacob Free of New Jersey, ap pointed colonel regardless of whether he can tell the exact color of Julius Caesar 'e hair." When a minister, at a reception, ex pressed tha pious bop that "tha Lord may be on our stde," Mr, Lincoln re plied that he wis not concerned about that, but ho hoped ha snd the nation mlgh. b "on the Lord's side.1' A delegation of aboiltlenists waited on the president to beseech him to proclaim freedom to the slaves, lit told them 'that such sn announcement, while the north ern armies were being defeated in battle after battle, would be like the pop' bull against the comet. After they had left the room, one, a Chicago clergyman, came back to whisper to Mr. Lincoln that a message had coma from hia Dlvln Mas ter commanding the president to free the slaves at once. "Well, now, that' queer," replied Mr. Lincoln. "I've been waiting a long while. looking for that mess re. Don't you think It rather strange that the Divine Master should have sent It around by way of th wicked city ot Chicago?" Ha had tha emancipation proclamation la hia pocket then, and waa holding It till the proper time to promulgate It. Carl Schurs tells of a German count. proud of 'his lineage, who applied, with manifest condescension, for a place In thJ army. He mentioned, with great compla cency, his highborn ancestry, saying they had been counts for centuries. Mr. Lincoln Interrupted blm: "Well. that need not trouble you. It will cot be In your way- If you behave yourself a a soldier." Congressman, afterwarda Vice President. Coifaa used to enjoy telling ot the per plexity of aa Englishman who ona day found Mr. Lincoln bending over his big boots la tha act of polishing them. "Why. Mr. President," exclaimed the Briton In surprise, "do you black your own boots 7" "Yea." raid Mr. Lincoln. "Why aot? Don't you?" ' ."No. Indeed. English gentlemen never black their own boots." "Wen," Inquired the president, "whose boots do ycu biackr When a congressional eommtttea brought him sn exhaustive report on a new gun. he exclaimed: "I should want a new lease of life to read this through. Why can't an Investi gating committee show a grata of com mon sense? If I send a man to boy a bora I expect him ta tell me that hone's points, not hew many hairs he has tn his talir Uot Operation for Fire Agents. OMAHA, Feb. Je-To the Editor ot The Bee: I would like to know what this city ia coming to. Here we have a paid fire department, with a doubt shift of men, better protection than moat cities, and still we taxpayers have to take money from our fire fund to purr has canrvsa covers to use at fires, tn order to pro tect the Interest of tbe fire Insurance companies. Why sot make the com panies take car of their own salvage at fires, have them keep a salvage corps here as ia other cities, make them spend some ot their .mwie to tuae.OCO they are taking out of tha city every year tn clear profits, and not one cent in return to the city tor protecting their Interests. We are paying a too big premium to be dealt with In the manner these companies deal with us. They raise the rates tier to tak care of their eastern cities. If not a salvage corpa, make them pay to tha city pension fund for the firemen, who by their dangerous, work are Injured at Urea. TAXPAYER. Haw Is Seed Corn teBe Hadt SOUTH OMAHA, Feb. N.-To the Editor of Tbe Bee: I have read with interest concerning tha Omaha Commercial club's campaign on seed com testing. Having extensive farming Interest in Buffalo county and believing that the farmer are fully awake to the necessity of testing. andXhat they are past the kindergarten stag in sclentlfle farmltuj. I think the euunnous expense 01 an inea seed corn special trains" could be better spent In the following ways: (1.) Let th railroads as their share ot thia expense grant half-rates on seed corn from sny point In Nebraska to an other on tha certificate plan. C) Let the Omaha Commercial club through the agency ot the Grain exchange send competent Inspectors to those locali ties tn Nebraska holding tha beat seed corn and conduct extensive tests. Having located and tested quantities offered as seed corn, let the club give wide publicity aa to where the seed may be obtained, priors, eta Let each shipment sold on tha recommendation of tha exchange be certified aa tested seed corn, a certificate signed by the Inspectors accompanying each ahipment. This will lend confidence, as a farmer naturally wants to know he 1 getting something better than his own crop pro vides. Tbe whole situation appeals to me as merely a question of where to get good seed corn, acclimated to Nebraska. Wa farmers already know our corn won't teat In aome localities, while In other localities It will test satisfactorily. Now show ua where and how to get it O. M'CONNAL-GHEN. Taft'a tueplrlag l-eaderahlsv. OMAHA. Feb. 10-To th Bdltor of Th Bea: Shakespeare rays, "What foola these mortals b," and a w read the various erttlatem of Tsft we still repeat. "What fools thaa mortal be." Not foola because they sre discontent and dis satisfied, but because they do not see the true reaaona of tbelr discontent, and the unjust baala of their complaint. What is th war-cry of th progressiva republican? Democracy ta and always has been dis content. Th vast Industrial and com mercial problems of th country are In a turmoil and unrest, and Taft la carry ing out with fidelity and care th declared policy ef the people towards these great trust problem watching with anxious care th results being accomplished. The countless thousand of Illegal trust, agreements and combines, both big and little, prosecuted end. too, many to be prosecuted thst hare existed for years, have so Interwoven with the trade and commerce and labor of the country that th puis that throb In them send a throb throughout th entire commercial and labor interests Like a restless ocean, the great financial and commercial country heave under th Influence st work by President Taft snd yet the cry goes tip: come backward, some forward, some stop the prosecution, some demand the repeal ot the taw, some cry this snd some that President Taft says, "Hands off the law. big business must become legal or quit." Shall we listen to th Roosevelt people who cry, "prosecution does no good," and with them turn to "regulation." which will tak ten years meanwhile the trusts would "regulate us" nicely and com pletely. Shall we adopt the La Follette cry that all Is rotten, "none sre to be trusted, nothing haa been done," I think not I am not so built that I feel that none are honest. On tbe bast ot th countless millions w must rest our insti tutions, and if all Is corruption, wa must go down. If all In Omaha war hopelessly corrupt what us to try for good gov eminent? Personally Roosevelt promise nothing; he know tha countless Influence for bad have worked into our conditions, and perfection i unexpected and unatalnable; ha knows Taft ha don nobly, but that th best wUi be disappointing to many. I thoughtless of condition. But the sub colonels who follow the great man him- selt really do not know enough to really know a great deal, therefore they promise . all things. But what right a La Foiletta ; with utter lack of confidence ia any one. utter denial of integrity anywhere, has to promise sny thing, I cannot under stand. I have had no political idol since Blaine, but I admire Taft'a honesty, hia fidelity to duty aa he era it. his comprehenslv knowledge ot Itgal conditions, hi confidence in the business man under standing business, and hi determination to do right, so I believe that it the great republican massea will stand by him, wa shall see happy time and peace and suc cess to our people, and the highest honor to our common country. JAMES It MACOMBER. GRC'S ASD G&0A5S. Friend So you think your play has a scene that will eatch th women. Playwright Positive of it It shows a new family moving In, and all the women In the audience wnl be pop-eyed watching the furniture arrive. Boston Transcript. in rescuing that boy; you deserve a Car- aB'e imuu. v nai prompted you to do It? The Hero He had my ska. tea on.-. Puck. "You're a college man. doctor?" asked the halfback. "Oh, yes." replied th physician. "Did you ever lake an Interest In foot ball?" "Indeed. I always did." "And did you ever suffer from any acci dents?" "Oh. yea: lot of the fellows neglected to pay me!" Younker Statesman. The young man had taken her horn from toe theater. "Mr. SlcGlnnia," alio said, "won't you come In a minute and er get warm? The Janitor probably haa turned off th steam, but-' "Good night!!!" Chicago Tribune. "No," said the young woman. "I will not recite that part ot the wedding cere mony In which I promise to obey.' "What's the difference V ld her. fa ther. "If you find that the terms of th contract don't suit you you can always call la a lawyer to have them Inter preted." Washington Post "Ye, tir, I am proud to say that I'm a elfinad man." "'Then It's a great pity yon didn't notleo that your legs were not mates.'" Cleve land Plain Dealer. "Fifth grade this yesr. Tommy?" "Yes. sir." "You'r in decimals or fractions now, no doubt 7" , . , "No. sir. I'm In crochet work snd clsjr modeling now." Pittsburgh Post. She-What has happened to lllsa Mar dock? .. .. . v He Thst arrable young teiow toiu nw she had a musical laugh. d she went Into hysteri over one of hia atonea.-t Woman's Horn Companion. TJDE HAND OF LENCOLK, xMmiiml Clarence Stedman. " Look on this cast, and know th hand That bora a nation in its noia, From this muta witness understand What Lincoln was, how large ol mould. The man who sped th woodman' team. And aeepeet suns me i-i-jwn.n.. - - And pushed th laden raft aatream, Of fate befor him , una wars. Thla waa the hand that knew to swing Th ax nine thus wouin rreenom train, Her son snd mad th forest ring, And drov th wedge and tolled amain. Firm hand, that loftier office took, A conscious leader's will obeyed. . And, when men sought his word and look. With ateailtaat mlgut tfc gathering swayed. No eourtler", toying with a sword. Nor minstrel's laid serosa a lute; A chief's, uplifted to the Lord When ail th king of earth were mute I The hand of Anak. sinewed strong, The fingers that on greatness dutch; Yet, lo! the marks their lines along Qf one who strove and suffered much. For here In knotted cord and vein I trees th varying chart or years: I know the troubled heart, the strain. The weight of Atlas-and the tear. Again I see the patient brow That palm erewhile was wont to press; And now 't is fu rowed deep, and now Made smooth with hup and tenderness. For somehtlng ot a formless grace This moulded outline playa about; A Pitying flume, beyond our trace. Breathe Ilk a spirit, In and out The lov that cast an sureol Kound one who. longer to endur Called mirth to ease hia ceaseless dol. Yet kept hia nobler purpose sure. Lo, aa I gsxe, the sutured man. Built up from yon large hand, appears; A type that nature will to plan But once in all a people year. 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