Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1909, Page 1

S SECTION | PAGES 1 TO 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE —_— VOL. XXXIX—NO. \ FEDERATION T0 AID SWITCHMEN President Gompers Announces Organ- ization Will Suppert Strikers to Extent of Its Powers, Mrs. Dodson of Springfield, Mo., Gives &\'oman Readj' to Die Pays All Social Debts WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Snow: warmer. For lowa—Clondy: warmer. For weather report see page 3 OMAHA, SATURPAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1909—-TWENTY PAGES. ".CE COMBINEIS _ | FOUND GUILTY Big Corperation is Convieted of Vie- Iating Anti-Monopoly Law of New York. v { Iy 74 ] I 7, " 7 / P / v/ SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. | | | PRIZE GRALN IS SOLD AT ATCTION | World's Best Ten Ears of Corn Sold | to Farm Magazine for | $335. | | | | Big Party Just Before Surgical Operation Which Ends Patally. WHAT THIS MAY MEAN ‘m PENAFT SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. %,—Determined | Intimates that Other Unions Will Be that none of her soetal obligations shouia | Supreme. 5 remain unpaid whem stie died. Mrs. Aima Asked to Strike. | Dodson, & social lemder and the only | woman lawyer in this county, invited ail| her friends to & farewell card party and reception after being informed by her phy- | sician that she must submit to an oper ton that would probably prove fatal. The e e was held the day before the opera- | lioms and Eight Million Customers. tion was performed. Smiling and cheerful, | i Mrs. Dodson was an admirable hostess, al- | owing nothing to disturb the ples or| FLANTS IN MANY CITIES her guests. If she feit any she | o evidence of it. When the party was over bade her guests goodby 3 ison caimly arranged her personal effects and | picked out the clothing she wisned t be |attired. in after death. She then went t the hospital and the operation which was | performed there was followed by her death. | The funeral, which was heid today, | attended by the members of fleld Bar as: tion. PRESXDENT HAWLEY TALES He Says Traffic is Delayed and Coal Famine is Imminent. “THEY CANNOT BEAT US NOW” ure Y. ia Sorry that Tieup of Business Will Controin bat Aftord Companies in Mai and Hudson River and Wash- ington, Baltimere and Phiindeiphia. Cannot Along 10.—The American ipport the rail- m strike in the )t its powers, made today by i federa- rence with of the Switch- It s w ho raiiroad offi- | W YOR: one tves Dec. 10.—The American Ice > fthe great corporations deallng in the necessities of as found guilty today In the state me of restricting competition in empting to e a monopely of saie of ice. The was out one hour forty minutes and. when the forsman unced the verdict, art immed1- ' mposed sentence of fine, under clais do not cencedo the demands of the he provision of the so-called Donnelly anit- strikers the trouble may spread until it | monopely law of this state. imvolves other great union organizations (Grand Jury Will Not Be Beady to| The convietion is the irst under e new 4 in the railway feld «w and will probably be fought to the e Report Until Next Week—DMass “We will support the switchmen to the | | nighest court in the state. extent of our ability both financially and | of Indirect Evidence. The significance of the verdict lles not morally,” such was the declaration of Mr. | mueh in the relatively trivial amount of Gompers at the close of his conference & | the fine imposed as in the intimation made with Mr. Hawley. The inbor leader re- | ST. LOUIS. Mo., Dec. 10.—Because of {t8 | jonn B. Stanchfield, of counsel for the slowness in examining witnesses fused to state whether that after a full | € | jefense that a finding against the company, investigation he was satisfied thr.-‘lrm-mh‘g"‘”“ Jury which is considering the case | which he said, suppiles 5,000,000 customers, it the stificers were just and reasonabie, [0 £Ms. Dora B. Doxey, Meld in jail on & | wi) mark the first step in its ultimate and that they merited and would receive | °Nlarge of an information charging she | guegiution. The American Tce company. the support of ali the unions, | poisoned her alleged husband, Willlam 1. | 4itnough tried under the laws of New Mr.. Hawley was jubiiant over the de-|Srder. will not report before Monday oF | v, wag incorporated under the laws of sision of Mr. Gompers. He ridiculed the |Tuesday. Dr. L. B. Doxey has not been | oo’ o oo ror 240000000 and later taken Published assertions of railroad officials "“‘;‘"’l“ s gereni ""_:'h- o e ey |over by the American Ice Securities com- stouily is their go-between. The names of many | ovow oy o :‘.‘:_ma strike was practically ended and |5 Piel” €0BAmesn. The names of | b“n::;:\ngii:;:“slmn state, after a drastic “They cannot best us now that the |Subbressed The company American Federation of Labor is benind| The circult attorney’s force comtinued|. ., ....ooon p - | their poilcy of silence and the pollee had |, 0 IR no new clues or inofrmation Lo snnounce. - " There is evident & sense of demression among the officials actively engaged in the case. They declare that they have been furnished with a vast amount of suspleious | | cireumstances and some competent oir-, cumstantiai evidence. Of direct testimony, they claim to Mave | nothing and they assert that maay gaps |have been left in the foundwtion upon which the state must build its case, if Mrs. CINNATL ration of Labor will witchmen who are west to the extent announcenrent wa nel Gompers; preside gon, after an Kk Hawley erstood to mear Dea was the Spring: ife, 1pr a and Doxey Inquiry Proceeds Slowly | president ately has plants in New York. C.. Baltimore and Phila- absorbed many smaller oul Supply is Short. According to Mr Hawley a shortage in the coal supply in the nerthwest is im- minent an asccount of the strike He stated that such s shortage was aiready apparent in Minneapolis, where he said the pubiie schools were aiready suffering from a lack of coal. “I am sorry,” said the switchmen's chief, “that a tie-up In business must resull, But when we are fighting for our rights we cannot afford to oconsider these Doxey 18 ar brought to trial. things.” | Thac it is certain that none of the medi- Previous to- the conterence Mr. Gompers °ines prescribed for Willlam J. Erder con- M an inerview said the switchmen had taiged arsenio, the peoison which Mrs. nutl been given due. consideration by the | Dora B. Duxey is accused of having ad- railronds and he wanted. to da all e could | Ministered to him, was annoumced’ at the tu heip them. He would not say whether |SHFTUIt attérney’s office today. the siriike would spread: Mr. Hawley| ADaiysis of the contents of eight. bottles would not discuss this phuse of the ques- 0 the ash pit of the flat whil | the Maife ice flelds. Before Wesley N | Oler was slected president of the company, Charles W. Morse, the convicted banker, was active in its affairs. Towne May Appea for Guaranty Law Speaker Pool's ; Authority that He Has Been Engaged by State as Counsel in Washingten. LINCOLN, Deee. I—Nb. Taiegram.) + cmu’f""n DISSOLVED It Has Capital Stock of Forty Mil-| | 5t From the Washington Star: / Who’ll Bell the Cat? | | registered an advance of 1 | yesterday afternoon, but corn went higher EXHIBIT WORTH WEIGHT IN GOLD Corn is Purchased at Low Figure of $2,345 Per Bushel HILL MAN IS SPIRITED BIDDER Loses Half Peck of Wheat, However, that Brings $104. BOYS AND GIRLS BIG EXHIBITORS Suporintendent Davidson of Omaba Schools Presides Program and Gives Addross—dJuveniles Represent Many States. Gver Wobrasks University Day. Saturday— 10:00 & m.—N. €. A. hall “Corn, Better Quality, Prof. B. G Montgomery of Nebrasia. “Corn, More Bushels per Acre/ Prof. . L. Bowman of Iowa, 1:00 p. m.—3Music hall. Concsrt by Mex- ifoan National Band. 2:00 p. m.—Dean B. A. Bummett of No- braska, presiding. ‘“University and the State,” Chanocel- lor Samnel Avory. “Pertility of Nebrasks Soil,” w. & | Conpland, member of Board of Megents. 4:00 p. m.—Concert by Mexican Wational Band. 6:00 p. m.—Concert by Mexican National Band and Corn Wusiters' Glee Club. The ticker in the Omaha Grain exchange cents on corn than that at the auction of prize winners at the National Corn exposition. RED CLOUD ANSWERS CALL companies along the Hudson river and in Death Takes Famous Sioux Warrior to Happy Hunting Grounds. FEARLY NINETY YEARS OF AGE r ‘In Quarter Cemtury Had Lived om Pine Ridge Agency.—Engaged in Many Lively Conflicts in Platte River Country. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.—Red Clowd. the famous_ old Slows Indian chief, s dead This information was received oAy by Superintendens. Brennen of Pine Riage Indian agency, who is im at- tending the mesting of those intérested in tion, but dectared he wouid: de all in. his | Brder and his wife occupied was made by | —According to thes Tecumsen Tribunal, | tne education of the Indian. pewer to win the strike for the men now |Dr Thamos Buckiand, city chomist. The out. lubels on the vials: showed: that they held Mr. Gompers said this engagement with medicine prescribed for Erder. Name of Mr. Hawley was not the primary object|the medicine contained arsenic. publishied by Speaker Pool of the Nebraska legtslature, and issued today, ex-Spemker | ine last Charles R. Towne, former mnning mate of | pine Ridge agency. Red Cloud was 5 years of age, and for twenty-five years had lived at the of his visit He came here to try to harmonize difficuities Lstween the ranks at the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Huangers, which organization 18 now holding convention in this city. From here he goes o Pllisburg tonight, where thie executive council of the Amer- fean Federation of Labor will hoid a cons ference (owmprrow with the national of- flours of the Amalgamated Iron. Steel and Tin Workers, which organization Is at present invalved in a bitter, fight with the Unitea. States Steel corporation. Threatened by Serike. ST. PAUL, Dec 10.-all parties. interested Dr. Buckland reported this result of his investigations today and was at once sums moned to appear before the grand jury. Cantonwine Case | BeginsatSiouxFalls Former Business Man at A.l'nmm'.‘I 8. D, Must Expiain Story of Alleged Bobery. Mr. Bryan for the viee presidency, will be | retained by the state of Nebraska to de- | fend the Nebraska bank guaranty law in | its final stages in court and appeal to the supreme court at Washington. Mr. Pool waw recently in conference with Governor Shallenberger and it is belleved the an- nouncement is the outéome of the confer- ence. Attorney Gemeral Thompson and John Li Webster, who is here attending the state Supreme court, know nothing of Mr. Towne's engagement and If it is a fact, | He was always hostfle and caused no end the governor has not yet expressed his | of trouble in that seetion in his forays desire in the matter. Mr. Pool Was on against the sparsely garrisoned military Warrior Barly on Seene. The first appearance of Chief Red Cloud on the scenes of Indian warfare in the west was early In the summer of 18%. He was at that time a sub-chief of the Brule Sloux tribe and was then about 4 or 4 years of age. His tribal territory extended from the North Platte river to the Bix Horn mountains and west of the Black Hill | the committee that drafted the bank bill posts. running off government stock and Mr. Towne is now a corporstion lawyer in | attacking emigrant and freighting trains in the switchmen's sirike i ihe. northwest are awaiting developments of the oconfer- . ence toduy betwesn President FHawiey of oS 4™ )The trial of & C cantonwine: | the United States circuit court at Lincaln the Switchmen's union and President Gom- b Beagraapn e e v 2% oy Judges Vandeventer and T. C. Munyer. pers of the Americam Federacton of Labor | ATROUE, Who s under indictment in thel ,,p.y weuld lie to the court of appeals o by foderal gourt on persury and other ShArSS | yng " tnen. tn. the United States supreme Thi:Q Viee President Harshberger of tya| Vo° DeEUA In the United States court hem ..., # Anion says that before the leaders will aly . UNi# AfeTNOGH. and it rpomises to be sev- | ¥ low the men to be Deaten all of the switat | ST d8¥S before the case goes to the jury. | - I} kJ a - : The ohiarges against Cantonwine are an P men :"::‘;'I: .3““:"““(“’;? “:u‘j:::' UL | utgrowth of his claim in September of ZCIayA S Son 13 Tas wps ¢ Thebreaiers o Sued by Woman New Yark. SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. Dec. 10.~Special| mre o a i . | 188t year that thieves had entered. his place | many’ of them Sam New York and Chir( ey inees at Armour and abstrested fom ‘cago. started to' make trouble at the Union el his safe the sum of $5.000 in cash, which | station because they were denfed to be | e - from which they 1@ Slleses ho had placed there, and testi- | g ‘ Seme Bollos; Ware: oalled but' n arvesty| MOMY given by him sncs tac tme in|Breach of Promise Action for $100,- Dbef ref b | i wero made. The men wers tnally shipDed | | apeomcs o the joms of the mony aey| 000 Brought Against Som of to Chicago. e Nicaragua President. | other transactions. | The work of securing a jury had not been NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Dr. Anabel Z laya, secand son of the president of Nlicar- | coneluded when court adjourned this even- agua and a graduate of the medical school Sup_crintcndents ! {ing and it may be necessary to order a Eei: New DuotiasTiNE M0 5 0m. 5. W0e 1> Bl o eiisnie ustveuty, sjgured to. the supreme court here today to defend a suit out the jury bex. against him for $100.000 brought by Eliza- Members of State Board of Agricul- | beth Jullet Hero, who claims that young ture of lowa Assigned to Work— Zeluya courted her while he was a stu- | dent at college and that he promised to Game Fees Large. | marry her. The papers allege that after the young woman's mother gave a dinner at which the engagement was formally announced, President Zelaya forbid the marriage, call- BIG MANSION IS DESTROYED | Valuable Hattie Philiips Ho Sioux Falls Towmily Destroyed by Fire. SIOUX FALLS. 8. _D., Dee. 10.—Speci Telegram.)—Fire thi§ afterncon practicaily destroyod the interfor of what Is known as | the Hattte C. Phillips mansion situated m| the northwestern section of Sioux Fails | ing it a misalllance on the part of his son. and which cost #5000 to $5000. [t was| Miss Hero's mother states that she has this mansion which was offered the Odd | more than 20 letters from Anabel Zelaya Fellows of the state as an Odd Feilows | indicating his affection for her dgughter. home, but Dell Rapids finally was selected ! It is expected the trial will be reached in as the pisce for the home. & few days. DES MOINES, Dew. W0.—Special Toie- sramnl)-In the matter of the rearrange- ment of the superiniendents for the lowa fairs, the new members wers given placa today by the State Board of Agriculture Charles B. Escher of Sheiby county takes charge of stieep and poultry, while Harold Pike of Montans; gets osttle. Mr. | Wentworthi takes the place of Mr. )(nDcml ald, in ocharge of police regulations. George A. Lincoin, state game wm' said today that the amount to be reailzed fram licenses (0 hunters in Iowa this yesr will amount to about §66.00. It is prob alble that the state will establish and main- w@in & game preserve for the breeding o game birds 10 be let loose n the state. Mondell Would Open Coal Land Democrats Get Ready for Their Annual Goat Banquet | The annual goat festival of the wmlnun be quite simple; but hircus him- Ward Demoecratic club will be held nn..‘-u' is & tabit that occasions even such at Twen rst and Cum- |8 experienced goat chef as myseif some “‘""m'v:;”‘dn n-nmn worry; However, wa found & butcher who years campaign. “4 year ago on Thanksgiving Mayor | Dahiman asked for & second helping, pass- Dec —Many million| The paschal animal was fed on & RiZh ing up even roast goose. and you know acres of soud land will be gpencd to use for |diet of cans séwed With Iabels. MDY | what happened whem he got in the race. agricuitural Durposes if congress should | perfume boitles, old safety rager biudes. It was intimsted by some that snce Joe # Bepressnta. | fish piates and circus posters. He 18 20w | Butier left us the goat feast wowld not |enroute through to Montanw: The guaranty law was knocked out in compatriot of such chiefs as Spotted Tail, He was the Standing [Elk, American Horse, Man- Afrald-of-His-Horses and Blg Ribs. In the early part of 1865 Red Cloud wuc- ceeded in deposing Big Ribs, his head D. A.R. Employe | is Defaulter for Large Sum Clerk Whose Name is Withheld Has Stolen Thousands of Doilars m;::()z\'hr. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Defalcations ‘amounting to several thousand doilars from the Daughters of the American Revolue ton by a clerk employed. in the national headquasters of the soclety here, were ‘rade today known from information which ieaked out quietly. The officers of the soclety have decided not to prosecute the womsn who confessed w the peeulation, | which covers a period of at least three | vears. | The clerk, however, was dismissed and her name withheid. What has become of the money taken is a matter which' is puzsling the society's officers. The woman who confessed the embezsziement was possessed of an income sufficlent to malte her independent, it is sid, aside from an ample salary she drew from the office. She lived quietly and without any outward dispiay of even such {Muxury as she could afford with her salary and income. Since the meeting two months ago of |the beard of management of the Daughters of the American Revolution, L3 new members have bieen added to the organiza- tion, W of them this Month, according |to a report made vesterday to the board of management by the regisier general. 'PRESSURE BROUGHT ON l | GOVERNOR FOR EXTRA SESSION| SMITH PUTS IV SWAMP BILL TIowa Congressman Has Plan for |TW0 NEW HAWKEYE BUILDINGS ™ Measures for Structures at Fort| Madison and Cedar Falls— Omaha Postal Receipts Grow. The best ten eurs in the world, raised by J. R. Overstreet of Frankiin, Ind., sold for the record price of $35, to B. E. Fa- ville, editor of “Successful Farming,” Des Mpines, Ia. v see what we can do In Towa in 2 of raising some world-besting next year,” remarked Mr. Faville. “T would have paid up to %00 for that corn if they had forced me to do it At the rate at which Mr. Faville paid for is ten ears, corn would sell at 8233 a bushel, a price that would make hoecake prohibitive Thepe was some spirited bidding took place. when E. C. Leedy. representing James J. Hill of the Great Northern, ran up the price of the world's best haif peck thy the way corn | of wheat, raivea at eBaver dmm, Wis., by (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Special Tele- &ram.)—Congressman Walter L Smith today introduced a bill for the rellet of the state of fowa in relation to swamp lands. The DIl cites that under am act of congress of Mareh 2 185, certain swamp indemnity isnd certificates numbered respectively 16, &, N and % and aggregaiing about 12727 acres, were assumed by the state of lowa | after due proof that the said overflowed iands in said state were in fact patented to individuais by the United States under serfp Iocations, but said swamp' (ndemnity land certificates wers limited to loeations iwithin 5ald state, and before the swamp indemnity cerificates couid be located there were no public lands remaining in Iowa and subject to entry under the certificates and thersby benefits purported to be cen- ferred by the act above mentioned and by said swamp indemnity certificates would be wst to lowa uniess some relief could be sranted. The necessary relief Is sought by the passage of a bill providing that only vacant public lands of the United States, non- mineral in character and wherever situated, whether in or without lowa, but not in excess of the acresge called for thersby, may be seiected’ or located by representa- | tives of said state at such time and in such | ohief, who was at the time head chief of | Attempt Befng Made to Force Exeeu- amounts as they may eiect under said |the Ogalaila Stow Red Cloud succesded to the chieftainship of the Ogalallas amd Brules and represented these trilies at the Fort Laramis in June, 1866 of Union Paeifie. The question at lssue in this particular treaty was the building of the Union Pa- cific railroad through the Sloux territory along the Platte and westward between |the North and South Plattes to the moun- tains. Red Cloud, at the head of nesrly 5000 hostile Sloux, agreed to the proposi- tion of the Union Paciffc route as out- lined, but bitterly opposed the opening of the “Bozeman Trail,” which extended northwestefrom Fort Laramie and whieh was then known as the Bridger cut-off. This route extended from Fort Laramie westward along the North Platte to Bridg- er's ferry, at the mouth of Horseshoe creek, and thence northwest to Powder river, crossing at old Fort Reno, and thence westward to the Big Hom mountains and along the base of these mouniains into Bozeman, Mont. This seetion was th (Continued on Fourth Page.) Corn Exposition visitors will find The Bee advertis- ing pages a handy guide for theirshop- ping while in the city. Do not averlook the adver- tisements on the want ad pages under the classification of *“Christmas Hints””. Our Omaha merchants are offer- ing many suggestions to help you with the problem of what to buy. You wiil always find something worth while if you -dahl want ad pages of The Bee. Have you read the want ads, yet, today? | tve to Call an Extra Meeting of Nebraska Legisiature. 1 (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 10—(Special Tele- | sram.)—In this week's issue of Speaker | Pool's paper, the Teeumseh Tribunal, is a statement that the last session of the dem- | ocratic state convention made a demand | upon Governor Shallenberger to call an |extra session of the legisiature to adopt |the constitutional amendment with regard | to the income tax. The paper calls upen the governor to fulffil the desire of the party in this regard. THE governor has avoided the call so far and has intmated the time is not ripe for it. EARTHQUAKE IN GUAM Hospital Badly Wrecked, but No One in Infured, Says Cable- gram. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10a-A severe eafth- quake occurred in Guam at 9 a. mi today, causing considerable damage, aceording to | % cablegram received at the Navy depart- ment. The Women's and Children's hos- pital was wrecked. Thers were no casuai. ties. | 1 | women on the reservation swamp indemnity ocertificates, namely; No. 16, for lands in Marion county, lowa, 10| acres; No. 33, for lands in Chickasaw county, lowa, 109 acres; No. 9, for lands in Greene county, lowa, 10000 acres; No. 9. for lands in Guthrie county, lowa, L4 acres. Bills tor New Buildings. tative Plckett today introduced a bill appropriaung $U5000 to buy a site and erect public building at Cedar Fails, In., aiso & bill appropriating 6,00 for site and the erection of a postoffice build- ing at Towa Palls, la. Congressman Kennedy of lowa today in- | troduced @ bill providing for an appropria- tion, of §75,000 for the erection of a public bullding at Fort Madison, la. Representative Martin today introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the in- terior to place upon he rolls af the Sloux Indians at Pine Ridge agency, the names of all white men on the reservation, who prior to March 2, 1889, had married Indian who were resid ing on this reservation at the signing of | the agreement between the Foster-Warn x Crook commission and the Sloux Indlans and who signed as Indians, were listed | and counted as Indians and that they shail (Continued on Fifth Page.) 1'|Mrs. Snead Died of Grief, { | , NEW YORK, Dee. 10.-While the New | Jersey authorities toduy are collating the | masses of cireumstantial evidence which they are expected to present tomorrow at | the hearing of Miss Virginia Wardlaw, on he charge of murdering her niece, Mra | Ocey W. M. Snead, vietim Has { Orange bath tub tragedy. une of the mem- bers of the family has broken. the silence |se lomg maintained and come for- | ward with & statement in explanation of | many of the mysteries which nave puzsied the nvestigators. Mrs. Mary Snead, sunt of the victtm and | | mother of Oeey Snead's husband. s the medium through whom the family's side ot is Explanation of Family Droject for estabiishing a college for women in the south. She tells of the struggles of the family while the project was slow in the ripening, leading to the constant necessity of bor- rowing money on policies which had been taken out on the life of Mrs. Ocey Snead— policies of the endowment kind, which were to mature when she became 40 years of age. and which they were anxious to keep in foree, so a8 10 provide their niece with the means of maintaining herself in comfort in middle life and old age. Ocey Snead pined away when her hus- band disappemred, her aunt deciares, and it was in the hope hope of breaking her melancholy and benefiting her by country air that the house in East Orange whers | wheat from H. E. Kru or, the man who finally got it. This Malf peck of his awn wheat cost Mr. | Kruger just S04 Whent Takes Silver Horde. ‘Cll just put that into the ground to see what car be done with it for another yoar,” sald Krage, piokiffig up that little sack which cost him fhore tham its weight in the silver money he paid. The Hill bids on the best wheat were prompted by a design to have the grain milled and tested out in flour to prove whether it in really better than the Hill North Dakota. The Hill bids ran up the price of the whest for a time, and the North Dskota growers, fired with enthusiasm, gave Mr. Kruger a run for his srain. The best bushel of corn was sold to the Topeka Capital for §2%0. This corn was raised by G. L. Keriin of Frankiln, Ind., and it will now go down tnto the state of sunflowers and sandroses to improve the crop and sweil Secretary Coburn's re- ports. Yesterday was the big day for the june tors, the young foik of the farms who en- tered exhibits at the show. On the official pregram it was designated as educational day. Dr. William M. Davidson, superintendent of the publlc sehools of Omana, presided over the educational prosram and delivered a foroeful opening speech. Urges Change in MWethods. “We have reached the stage in our edu- actional system now where we must elime inate & Jot of nonessentials from the course offered and retain the vital things. In the long course of the growth of this system | we have been holding on to all those things which the eariler course involved, and at the same time adding all that was new. “The time for & change has come.” Mr. Davidson tracod the history of the present day educstional systoms from the begiuning of the ninteenth century to the present day. taking a decade at a time. ‘In the first decade of the ninteenth cen- tury,” said the speaker, “the colleges of- ferod about thirteen courses; today they are offering something like 125 highly spe- cialized courses. This same history has been repeated n the secondary sehool un- til today we have grown from the original three Rs' to high school courses of from thirty-five to fifty-4wo courses. Wa have forty in the Omaha High sehool. In mod- ern days we have added much until now the pupil, by the completion of the secon- dary school courses. has come in comtact with, practically, universal knowledge. “We huve resched the Deint where we must consider (he reoganigation of the ma- terinis of our courses. There must be elline inattons made, (o render the work less cum- bersome. [ believe that in this resrganisa- tion manuel training must be & part of the work from the beginning of the first year n sehool to the end of the secondsry ‘-ohnnm The last six years of the pupil's study should constitute a complete educs- tional unit, which, for the purposes of this talk, U designate the ‘vocational unit. A number of other talks were delivered n the course of the afternoon. Among these were, “Doing Things ia the Councry sols,”" by Miss Anna Lois Barbre of M- mois, and “Rural Sehonis,” by Willet M. Hays, assistant secretary of agriculture. Juveniles Big Exhibitors, Three thonsand boys and girls &re ex- hibiting at the Nationsl Copn exposition this y which is. more than double the number showing last year, when thers were 1,20 These boys and girls are dis- playing 5.000 exhibits or more than their seniors from all over the country In the junior department, which i in charge of Prof. A. E. Hilderbrand, twen- fy-iwo stites are ropresenisd. with the bulk of the exhibits from Nebraska, lows, Kansas, Migsourt and Iliinois. There are many prise winpers frum Oklahoma and from a8 far emst 1s New York state. The boys heve 3000 exhibits of corn and & | Inrge number of exhibits of small grain, the hands of her reiatives, s while the wiris show their efforts along ndustrial lines, principally sewing. | Some of the exhibits of sewing by the