Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1910, Page 4

THE B OMAHA, MONDAY ANUARY 31, 191 T FOUX, ©MAHA DALY BEE D' BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Om#ha postoffice as second- class matter. . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. inctuding Sunday), per week 15o ithout Sunday), week 10¢ without Sunday), ear #4.00 Sundny; one year. (X RED BY CARRIER. (without Sunday), per week 6c {with_®unday), week_ 1 . oNe year. $2.50 , ode year. )“B: tment. A Mfi’co ta delivery to City e ation” Bepar OFFIC; iding. ly-l:Er\h and N. ;fi’“ treet. coln—818 L4 utlding. Lin: Ittle Chicago—1548 Marquette Building. "{8';'!' ?h?r:-!!:oom“l“uh-llu No. West ¥-thir A anlnnon--g‘hun-mu Street, N W. " CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news sod od- itorial matter should be addre O Bee, Bditorial Department. RIEMITTANCES, i et draft, express or posti et The. “rublighing Company: recetved in payment of rsonal checks, except -“d- Remit b, bl 4 ccounts. Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accept -‘rt‘fr““!n OF MRCULATION. [ Nebrasks, Douglas County, se.! aonrn B. Teschuck, treasurer of The Diee Publishing EWorn, says the ;""" !‘0"![)'0‘ capls ng, Tvening an m? fin’ Tnokeh"or follow: A Company, being y 11 the efl.f numher of full 3t The y Bee o8 Synda; %«nmbfir. iy, Morn- sfi:tod ur- was as 42,930 41,630 48,770 42,650 42480 42,580 42,600 44,000 42,610 42,830 42,370 43,410 42,430 1,323,510 10,130 1,312,380 ‘o 43,334 HUCK, Treasurer. fiseens and sworn to y of December, 1909, T Biotasy Fuvile Subseribers leaving the oity tome porarily should have The Bee mutled to them. Addeess will be changed as often as requested. Returned cop Net Total. Dally Average. P GEORGE B. TZS8C] Bubscribad in fy before me this 31st ‘What's one man’s meat may be an- other’s alfalf Bome one moves to amend by re- ferriig to it as the high eost of high living. b It looks as it the majority in con- ,8ress still rules, whether it,\counu the speaker with it or agalnst it. The Ballinger investigation again emphasizes the value of the oft-proved advice, “Don’t write letters.” Mr. Bryan evidently believes that one standing candidate for office on the Commoner staff {s quite enough. Mayor “Jim" is not an officer of the new League of Nebraska Munielpali- tles, but he can still beat any of them roping a steer, id that the new crea- tions in Parls millinery are to be in the form of boats lberally trimmed with watered silk. Nebraska deimocrats are going to congregate at Lincoln on February 14, when they will hand each other a few comic valentines. The display of pink carnations on McKinley's Dbirthday throughout the country shows that the last martyred president fa by no means' forgotten. e e The Paris flood is not exactly of the 40.day varfety, but it has suc- ceeded In doing almbst as much dam- age Int m T 8pace of time. m-y&nhndn‘t vidson is sald to ‘tavor tuthing out graduating classes trom the High school twice a year in- stead gf once. s year. Step lively there. | oming week is expected to de- ;m g big prize fight is In view of all the hot better charter an The o termine W to be pulled alr_ prelimi; ¢ ve a new deal at the coupty ho‘pflmk here is no good reason why the.old deal should not be thoroughly ventilated. There is a grand, jury coming. eWant to say that 1f “Uncle Mose" Kinkgid' bas taken & chance in the coal-land lottery in Alaska, we hope he will mot have driwn a blank as most of them have, OmalA's m% clearings for last week gxdeed $15,000,000 and show up an increase of nearly 23 per cent over the corresponding week of the proced- ing year. Going some. Bxcestjve loaning has put a little Nébragka bank into the hands of a re- celver. Of course, if that deposit guaranty law were in effect the bank would not have made any bad loans, —_— A monument to the late E. H. Har- riman is to be ‘erected by the Orange County Horse and Road Improvement assoglation, A greater monument to the fate B. H. Harriman has already beeny erected cxtending over the west halt of this continent, from Omaha to the Pacitic coast. { — The Lincoln monument, for which the legislature appropriated $10,000, waitgton. the ralsing of another $10, The Democratio Position. Norman BE. Mack, who speaks in the dual capacity of chatrman of the demo- cratic national committee and also editor of what he calls & democratic national magazine, adds the force of his officlal authority to the notice that the democrats in their fight for control of the next house of represent- atives will show no more favor to so- called insurgents than to any other brand of republicans. The democratic position is that of opposition to the program of the president as the party's legislative policy. This, in Mr. Mack's opinion, is the democratic opportunity, and the interjection of Cannon and Osononism {8 regarded by him as merely incidéntal. To quote his own words: ‘Here, then, {8 the democratic opportun- ity. Joseph G. Cannon, as speaker of the house of representativ & no better or no worse than his party polley. It Dalzell, or Payne, or Alexander, or any other republican leader were in the seat occupied by Bpeaker Cannon; Norris or Murdock we have no doubt he would endeavor with the same ruthless hand te carry out the same viclous poli- cles of government for which Cannon is now condemned, Chairman Mack here makes it dis- tinetly understood that no republican need expect anything of the democrats. The democrats hope to gain by differ- ences within the republican ranks, and the democratic minority in congress will omit nothing to foment such dif- ferences. To achieve this “purpose these democratic congressmen would soon ally themselves temporarily with the regulars as they would with the Insurgents. If the party division in this county were graded oft as it is elsewhere, for example, into radicals, soclalists and conservatives in addi- tion to republicans and democrats, the democrats would tie up with any one of them to pave the way to democratic ascendency. When the issue comes to be drawn then there should be no masquerading. It will be the republicans phalanxed behind Prestdent Taft and the adminis- tration presenting a constructive pro- gram on one side, and on the other, the democrats against everything pro- gressive and promising only to block the march of the national‘advancement of prosperity. Boulevarding and Street Paving. The Park board s again being be- set with applications to order various boulevards paved and pay for the same out of the park funds. The theory of the Park boeard’s jurisdiction is that any improvement 6f a boulevard, after once laid out, is to be made at the ex- pense of the city, while the cost of paving streets comes back upon the owners of the abutting property bene- fited. This theory is based on fairly sound principle because the pavement of a street is for the chief advantage of the adjacent property owners, and the use of a boulevard s general for the people of the whole gity. This appliee, however, where & boulevard is really a boulevard. pud not merely a misnamed ‘stréet.' W have had instances where -t;eflefizfi’fiqvg been labeled ‘‘boulevards' temporarily in order to get them paved at common expense and then have bécome strosts again as soon as the abutting property owners, who should have been specially assessed, had escaped their obligation. It goes without saying that whenever one group of property owners get a street paved out of the park fund it works an injustice on other property owners who are then called upon & second tinie to pay for the neighbor's paving. i It is quite likely that each case must be considered by ftself, and on its own merits. The Park board's troubles in this respect arige from the tact that bad precedents have already been set. While there is no use cry- ing over spilt milk, for the future the line ‘should be definitely and strictly drawn between what 18 a street and what 18 & boulevard, and street pave- ments should be pald for by special as- sessment on the abutting property, and not by diversions of the park fund. A Joker in the Deck. The offer submitted to congress in the name of John E. Ballalne of Seattle, to pay 50 centa a ton on all coal mined on the first choice of 5,000 acres of coal land in Alaska looks mighty good, and is without question a great improvement over the §10 an acre which would be pald by entrymen under the laws as they now stand. A royalty of 50 cents a ton on the best 6,000 acres in Alaska would doubt- less yleld several hundred thousand dollars, but when the same rate is ap- plied to 16,000,000,000 tons of coal sald to be contained in the Alaska fields, with an ultimate revenue to the government of $8,000,000,000 it looks Ilke stretching it some, ‘When a person inquires into the Bal laine bid closer it discloses a small sized joker in the deck. The bid 1s con- ditional, not only on first choice of the best 5,000 acres m Alaska, but also on a guarantee that no other coal shall be mined in Alaska without pay- ing, at least, 50 cents a ton royalty to the government. It is possible that all the coal in Alaska might pay 5O cents a ton rovalty, and then again it is possible that comparatively little of it can pay that much. If tho coal mined at the greatest cost is marketed to pay G50 cents a ton royalty, then the cosl mined at the least otwt on the best 5,000 acres marketed at the same price, would cer- tainly yield a munificent profit., The 200 by the Lineoln Monument assocla- tion. If the resf of the state furnishes half of the money, Lincoln, which gets the monument, ought to be ready to Marnigh the other half. joker In the Ballaine bid would be about the same as If some one offered to pay $100,000 a year rent for the best business corner in Omaha on con- same space in any other part of town shonld pay any less. The change from the policy of sale to the policy of royalty tn the distribu- tn of mineral and coal lands still embraced in the public @omain is mendous revenue as compared with what {t otherwise would get. But to the basis for figuring a revenue to the government of $8,000,000,000 out of the coal deposits in Alaska is golng pretty strong. $ 1f congress enacts a campaign pub- Hleity law it should provide some way of enforcing it. Such a law has been for more than ten years on the statute books of Nebraska, where the demo- crats yell loudest for it, but never obey it. The democratic defiance of the Nebraska campaign publicity law glves ground for the bellef that the provisions of the national law would get no better compliance from them unless supported by a real penalty clause. One of the arguments advanced against women’s suffrage is that the women want all the rights of men and all the privileges of women. Para- phrased to apply to economlc condi- tions this might read, Give us all the benefits of high prices for what you sell with all the advantages of low prices for what you buy. Sounds like that familiar proposition of an irresis- tible motion meeting with dn immov- able body. If the new garbage contractors want householders to see to it that outside haulers do not collect the garbage they should, at least, show thelr own good will by sending their own men around. If the new scheme of dis- trict contracts does not work satisfac- torily there will be nothing left for Omaha to do but to establish a mu- nicipal garbage department and attand to the business itself. Governor Harmon will not come to Nebraska for the democratic gabfest scheduled for next month, notwith- standing the fact that the invitation was firgently pressed on him by Gov- ernor Shallenberger. The Ohlo gov- ernor must have heard what the Ne- braska governor sald at that famous after 8 o'clock, when he projected “‘Dave” Francis as first choice for 1912. Some of the striking shirt;waist makers have solved the problem by getting married. Others announce their willingness to try the same rem- edy. Well, the divorce court has had plenty of experience as a court of ar- bitratfon, especially where there has been a ghortage of ante-nuptial court- ship. It behooves democrats everywhere to get together,” reads the proclama- tion to Nebraska democrats signed by e76tficers of the state committee. If :’z'g _"d:em&crnu are going to get to- gether i, would not be a bad idea for ‘the republicans to avoid splitting apart. It is pleasing to note that our Audi- torium, erected by popular subserip- tion, has again come into its own as an arena for wrestling bouts. Wrest- ling, at any rate, pays better at the box office than art.exutbitions, g —— The intimation that Dan Stephens will make a try for the democratic nomination for senator indicates that he thinks the Checkbook is by this time big enough for two. How about it, Bdgar Howard? The man who claimed to have dis- covered the process of making paper out of wood pulp has just died. Some people are not yet ready tb. say whether he is entitled to a credit mark or a debit mark. anned. Washington Herald. ‘The Treasury department’s famous ruling that “‘frog legs are chicken" wiil not be nearly so Interesting, now that the eoun- try Is about to go on an anti-meat dlet unanimously. Smile While You Can. Philadelphia Record. It is the good vegetarlan who 1s all smiles. Things are coming his way. But, i Gargantua eschews meat, vegetables will go up; and then the aforesald vege- tarian will not be 5o happy. Assuming Needleas Risk, Indlanapolls News, The scheme to pass the ship subsidy next winter with the ald of the votes of de- feated congressmen may not be wholly ef- fective. Mopt of those defeated congress- men will want to go back home to llve, you know, ) Where the Judge Fell Down. St. Paul Ploneer Pross. An Tilinols judge hes ruled that a man must not stay away from home more than forty-elght hours without a good excuse. That is not new. If the court wanted to decide a point worth while he should have established what constitutes a good excuse, What's the Usef Chicago Record-Herald. Reports from Cleveland Indicate that it pays to get along without meat. Steaks are lower In price there at present than they have boen at any other time since the beginning of the year, 8till, on second thought, what's the use saving money on meat now? The loa companies will get it all next summer anyhow. Rully for Pure Food. Philadelphia Record, The New York State Medical society has adopted resolutions favoring an amend- ment to the national food and drugs act by which the use of antiseptic drugs in canned fruits and vegetables and other preparations of frults and vegetables de- signed for human consumption shall be prohibited. The resolutions also favor com- pulsory inspection by federal offielals of commercial food kitchens to insure com- pliance with the law in the use of un- dition that po one else occupying the adulterated f00d. . Whether congress can be prevailed upon to give bheed ta the going to bring the government a tre- |’ us the conditional bid of Ballaine as|® | plea of the doctors remains to be seen There will be stout opposition on the part of Industries engaged in the preparation of sophisticated food for the market. doctors speak for the public; the sophis- teators speak for themselves, and they wency. LOOK UP THE GROCERY BILL racter of Service and Preference for Packnge Goods. American Grocer, That it costs more to maintain an indi- vidual or a family now than formerly is @ fact. And yet It Is largely a matter that can be adjusted to income if the party Interested chooses to use common Sense and practice self-denfal. Frof. Whitney, chief of the bureau of sofls, Washington, D. C., asserts a truth that Americans are eating far more than they aid fifty years ago. Novor beforc was tha dietary of the people 80 varied as today; never of higher average quality, We are a nation given to extravagance and waste. Why buy a prime rib roast costing 22 to 25 cents or more the pound when a hind quarter of spring lamb 1s sold at 16 cents? \Why does a famlily, forced to economize, pay 14 cents for a proprietary brand of rolled oats when they can buy a like quantity in bulk at half the price? Why do tne people pay a nickel for a box of biseuit welghing lese than half a pound whon they could purchnse for the same cost {nearly double the quantity of bulk? Those are instances typical of hundreds of articles of food. If the situation is an- alyzed we discover that the people regard package goods with the greater favor and willingly pay the higher cost because of their convenlenge. The real copt of food is influenced greatly by the character and expense of service demanded, and that varies tre- | mendously, It is a factthat a store whose customers demand a luxurious service dfstributes $100 worth of food at a cost to the consumer of $125 and that it re- quires $20 to $23 to cover the expense of the service, leaving the dealer 2 to b per cent net profit. Within the same terri- tory are stores serving a different ciass of trade where the expense of service is 12 to 16 per cent, the net profit 6 to 10 per cent. PULL ON RAILROAD PROFITS. Atfiliated Corporations Skim the Cream. Chicago Nows. Everybody knows that the Pullman eom- pany is a profitable concern. Its net earn- ings are very large. In order to dlspose of the surplus it is found necessary to make extra dividend disbursements from time to time. There was such a disburse- ment in the form of a stock dividend In 1006, the sum Involved then being about $26,000,000. The close of the last fiscal year showed a surplus above regular payments of over §7,000,000. Reports are in circulation that another “melon” is to be cut by the Pullman company In the near future. Recently the public has had striking Proof of the large earnings of express com- panies In excess of their regular dividend payments to stockholders. Not long ago one express company made disbursement of a surplus amounting to 30 per cent on the capital stock. Sleeping car and express companies make it thelr business to take over certain func- tions of the rallroad companies, They render a service which the railroads would be obliged to perform directly if they did not farm it out to other agencles. The enormous profits of the express and sleep- ing-car companies, therefore, represents ex- cessive charges . for forms of raliroad service. Perhapg yeference should be made also In' this. copngetion to the private-car service farnished by concerns like tho large packing fifms, which supply refrig- erator cars and recelve compensation for thelr use. Wheil the attempt Js made to reduce rail- road ¢hatges it is asserted that the rail- road biisiness is not as profitable as the public [s led to believe. Perhaps one ex- planation is that the cream is skimmed oft the bubiness by affillated corporations that in the past have escaped public scrutiny. Hereafter the government in its attempts at rafiroad regulation should treat the business as an entirety, taking cognizance of the corporation rendering publie ser- vice In connection with the railroads, like the express and sleeping-car companies and the concerns operating refrigerator cars, as well as of the carrying corpora- tions themselves. | FARMS WILL BE MORE POPULAR Present Agitation Likely to Check Rush to Oitles. Cleveland Leader. The great prominence given the rise in the market value of food staples and the increase In the cost of living, especlally emphasized and criticised in relation to the food supply of the average American its effect upon the growth and prosperity of rural districts. It will be felt particu- larly in the country, within twenty miles or 5o of large cltles, because such districts Wil appeal with more force than more re- mote counties to those who are used to city lite, or are hungry for it. Unless all signs fall, there will be a better demand for farms, large and small, in all parts of the country, than there has been In many | vears. Of ‘course, large number of men who say that they are going to raise their own | food and sell fdod to others instead of de- | pending upon the markets to meet their needs, henceforth, will lose thelr enthusi- asm for the country before they iry to | work out their theories of the wisdom of a radical changd.” The majority will go on making the best they can of town life and | its burdens. Some, however, will stick to | thetr purpose of moving to the country, There will be a certatn proportion of farm buyers left out of the host of city workers who have become deeply dissatisfied with | thelr general condition and outlook. Another effect of the heated and gen- eral discussion of the cost of living will be the checking of the constant inflow of | young men and young women to the big |cltles from the farms. Many a youth, balancing between farming and the chances of the cities, will be decided ip favor of the ceuntry by the outery which has gone up from the vietims of high priecs in the great {centers of population. He will reallzo better than he would have done If it had not been for the prevalling agitation how much the burden of providing food, shelter and clothing increases when city prices have to be pald and eity conditions ac- cepted. Altogether, the effect Is bound to be a shifting of thé balance between town and country which will be favorable to the tarming districts. There will be a stronger market for furm lands and a better supply of labor to cultivate them as the result of the sharp rise In the cost of lving in cities and towns. Rural America never fuced a brighter future. Room to Spare. Chicago Record-Herald. Nebraska insurgents have met and de- clded that the republican party Is not big enough to contaln La Follete, Cummins and Bristow and AMrich, Cannon and De- pew. Still the democratic party, which isn't nearly as big as the republican party, has for a long time contalned Parker, Tam- many and “Gum Bhoe Bill" Stone and Bryan, Balley and Tilman, The | Wil therefore plead with the greater ur-| | Itving in & city or town, is bound to have | Ravages of Floods | The Disaster in Paris and ho Seine Valley ana Otier | Becord Floods in Burope Dwellers of the Mississippl and Missouri valleys from their experlence with river floods In vears past can appreciate the ex- tent of the disaster that has befallen the French eapital and its suburbs. ‘The record flood of the Missouri In 1851 spread over | the valley often ten miles wide, from Bls- marck (o Alton, but did cmn(mrxnlvrly | little damage to valley citles towne. | Ot greater extent was the Mississippl flood of 1892, & year remarkable for floods In the United States and British Columbla. Tje destruotive effects of these floods were not telt severely, being distributed over a vast area of comparatively scant popuiation, The disaster to Parls Is conoentra destruction, transforming the gay capital Into @ flood ravaged city. Above the city the flood spread over the Seine ¥allay to a width of twenty-five miles, while through the city & restricted channel with in- numerable bridges and several islands act- ing as obstructions forced the flood over all barriers. The loss is estimated at $200,- 000,000, & sum almost treble the next high- est recorded flond loss, that of Toulouse, France, in 187, The devastation being wrought by the overflowing Seine, while sufficlently terri- ble to excite the imagination even of the most practical and commonplace of man- kind, is but a trifle In comparison with some of the disasters which have resulted from the sudden rise of streams flowing through densely populated countries. With the exception of an extensive conflagration or earthquake shock, nothing is more sug- ve of the majestic, irresistible power of nature and the impotence of man than the rising of a great river. Originating in causes but Imperfectly understood by man, coming with a force which the ingenuity and strength of man ean not control, the flood has been, in all ages, the emblem of gupernatural strength. The strongest works erected by the most skill- ful engineers are swept aside by the might of the waves, embankments are leveled as though a glant hand had passed over them, smoothing down the wrinkles on the face of nature, while the remorseless water carties away, fn a m t, the results of the labor of years. It is, therefore, not a matter of surprise that men stand in speechless awe as a strength that can be neither resisted nor directed manifests it- self in thelr presence. With the exception of the Danube, the Rhine and the Russian rivers, the streams of Europe are mostly short, but all the more dangerous on that account; for, al- though almost dry in the summer season, in times of heavy rain they become torrents which do Immense damage. The Spanish peninsula has suffered terribly at times from the floods In its short and rapid streams. In 1617 over 50,000 persons perished in Catalonia from a sudden rise in the rivers of northeast Spain; in 1787 2,000 were drowned In Navarre, Torca, a ety of Murcla, in Spaln, was totally destroyed in 1802, while the great floods of 167 in Murcla, Andalusia, Alicante, Almara and Malaga, by which over 2,000 houses were destroyed and 1,200 lives were lost, are still fresh In the public memory. The south of France is upder substantially the same conditions as the Spanish peninsula and destructive floods have beeri extremely coramon. In 1840 the Saone rose to a helght that had not been exceeded In 238 years. Over 60,000 acres of arable land were covered by the Saone and the Rhiné, Lyons was Inundated, in Avig- fion over 100 houses were destroyed, and upwards of 300 at Marsellles and Nimes, while the loss of life went-up into the thousands. A general flood season recurred in 1846, the Loire rose twenty feet In two or three hours, a raliroad viaduct, which cost 6,000,000 francs, was swept away, and the totai damage done by this stream alone was estimated at $20,000,000. he short rivers of Italy must be credited {with a great deal of damage; 204 inunda- |tions of Rome by the Tiber are noted since Ithe foundation of the city, whlle the Po and other streams have been equally mis- chievous. The Danube has experfenced sev- eral notable floods. In 1879, the great storm year, the city of Szegedin, in Hungary, was almost totally destroyed; out of 6,666 houses only 331 remained standing; seventy-seven persons were drowned, and many thousands rendered homeless. In 1§11 the Danube de- stroyed twenty-two villages near Pesth, and two years later a Turkish corps of 2,000 men was surprised on a small island near Widin, and all perished. In the same summer over 6,000 Inhabltants of Silesia were drowned by the floods, while 4,000 perished In Poland, and in 1819 4,000 houses |In Dantzic were destroyed and many lives were lost by a flood in the Vistula, The British islands have been repeatedly de- vastated by floods and the Instances are frequent of great damage being done by high water in the Thames, the Severn and the Scottish rivers, The destruction of the forests In Spain, France, Germany and Great Britaln, no doubt, had much to do with Ahese destructive floods, and the policy of extensive tree planting wili prob- ably in the course of a century do some- thing to remedy the evil. \ The denudation of the mountains had notbing to do with the dreadful floods which have, from time to time, desolated the lowlands of Holland. In this land, much of which has been literally reclaimed from the sea, eternal vigllance is the price of safety. But ceaseless vigilance can not always prevent accldents, and when a high sea occurs simultaneously with high water in the Holland rivers, awful calamities are apt to occur at any time. One such took place at Dort in 1421, when an Inundation [of the Meuse occurred while a terrific storm from the north was beating in on the shore, and sending huge billows to the top of the dikes. The waters of the river | could find mo outlet, and so wers piled up | until they finally began to creep over the dikes. The resulting disaster had up to | that time no parallel in Burope; 100,000 per- sons were drowned and thousands of square | miles of territory converted into & raging sea. This, however, dwindled into insignif- lcance when compared with a ealamity which occurred in the same country about a century later. The whole coast, North sea coast, of this remarkable country is de- | fonded by expensive dlkes, which also pro- | tect about 100 miles of the Zuyder Zee coast {line, the embankments being from thirty 1to fifty feet high, seventy feet wide at | the base and having a roadway ‘on top. | Their cost is estimated at $1,600,000,000, and the annual expense of keeping them in re- pair exceeds $2,000,000. In 1530 heavy storms | and flodfs provailed at the same time, the dikes gave way and the Netherlands were submerged. Over 400000 of the population were drowned, the loss of life was o great that in large districts of country there was no inhabitant left to clalm house, land or property. Not many years later the Duteh voluntarlly cut their dikes and admitted the sea to drive out their enemies, against whom they <ould not otherwise prevall, but the act, being voluntary, can not be reckoned among the misfortunes of nature. 1 { t & Funny I Boston Transeript. The latest applicant for Alaska's coal has a funny idea. Wants to pay for it! JABS AT JIM, Loup City Northwestern: Halrless Jim Dahlman has filed as demooratic candidate for governor, If nerve were the only thing | necosmary, nothing could keep him from winntng harids down Kearney Democrat: If Dahiman scoures the nomination and is pitted ngainst a county option republican, then you may expect another “Hoyd campaign,” in which enough republieans went to Hoyd's sup- port to earry the state and elect him gov- ernor. Mayor Jim filed for on the Free Lanoe Dahlman of Omaha has the nomination for governor democratic ticket and proposes giving Shallenberger another run, but he will agnin meet with defeat and worse than he got it befors, Tekamah Herald: We never could ac- count for the vote in Burt at the primaries two years , When Dahlman received more votes than Shallenberger. There Is no doubt but what Mr. Dahiman will poll | & large vote where he is acquainted, he ls very popular with his friends and they will exert an extra effort in his behalf. Oakland Independent: Dahlman has filed papers for the democratic nomination for governor, belleving that coming out early In tho game will glve him a good boost. Maybe it will, but 1t will also have the effect of crystallzing the oppesition, both In his own party and outside, which abhors his stand on the temperance ques- tion. St. Paul Phonograph: Mayor Dahlman I8 not backward about it. He says that he Is going to be the next governor of this state, and that Billle Thompson Is ®olng to be the next senator, indicating that he thinks the cowboy and the little glant will be too much for Shallle and the white stockinged Hitochcock. And the Phonograph s for Thompson, but agin Dahiman. Well, it always was able take and keep a ridiculous position. Pender Times: Mayor Jim Dahlman of Omaha has formally entered the race for the democratic nomination for governor. Jim, Jim, What evil spifit has prompted you thus—you can't cut'er~not this year. Winside Tribune: Mayor Dahlman has flled for the gubernatorial nomination and now the people outside of Omaha will have @ chance to do things to him and show genlal Jim that thugism does not extend all over Nebraska. Schuyler ————— | WISDOM OF MR. TAFT. Demand for Fulfillment of Repube lican Platform Pledges. Minneapolis Journal, Ithout identitylng himself with either regulars or Insurgents, but sturdily main- taining his position as the leader of his party, President Taft has kept steadily to his path down the middle of the road. He has not allowed congress or himself to forget that the party h: made certain pledges to the people that must be kept. From that duty he has steadfastly refused to be diverted, and he has tactfully made it evident to the leaders In congress that they must support him in passing the measures promised by the republican plat- form. The senate, which usually dawdles along While the house is perfecting the appro- priation bills, h: through the smiling but pertinacious efforts of the president, been roused to the realization that there is no necessity for such waste of time, and that it ought to and must get busy on the ad- ministration measures. It 18 now predicted that the senate will have several of these bills ready for the house by the time the h:;;lle gets through with originating money bills, The insurgents, who had visions of & long and scrappy sesslon of the house, in which by combining occasionally with the demo- crats they would make things uncomforta- ble for the organization, have been brought to legislate, and to legislate In accordance with party promises. The organization, on the other hand, I8 eager to Ao the presi- dent's bidding, even though some of its leaders are fain to make wry faces over some of the items In the presidential menu. Speaker Cannon has been told by his best friends, by the men who have stood by him in many a battle and have defended him lustily, that he must retire for the good of the party. Even from New Eng- land comes this advice, Representative Foster of Vermont volcing the changing sentiment of a_section that was supposed to be as solid for the Danville man as its own hills. The trend of events is thus sotting in strongly in the direction Mr. Taft has steadily and sturdily urged. The president will ultimately demonstrate his worth and his power by effectuating the legislation he has promised. Those who have doubted him and worse will have to revise thelr opinions. Dally he looms larger in the public’s confidence and affection. Our Birthday Book January 31, 1910, Milton T. Barlow, president of the United States National bank, s today celebrating his 66th birthday. He was born in Green- castle, Ind., and Is one of the old-timers in Omahe banking eircles, hut is still on the job every day. He happens also to be a member of the Omaha Water board Just now, Nathan Straus, the well known New York philanthropist, was born in Bavarla January 81, 188 .Mr. Straus, with his brothers, constitute R. H. Macy & Co., and his spectal form of philanthropy lies in the tree distribution of milk and fce in the crowded tenement districts. Willlam H. Sherwood, concert planist, 18 66 Willlam Herbert Wheeler, who s now conducting the general insuraice business formerly handled by his father, was born at Plattsmouth January 31, 1870. Mr. Wheeler was once an. expert stenographer end court reporter, and spent several years at Washington as clerk to the house com- mittee on public buildings and grounds. He in a graduate of the University of Ne- brasika, George H. Thummel, clerk of the United States oircult court for this district, is 62 Mr. Thummel used to practice law at Grand Island, aml boasts of having been the youngest member of Nebraska's con- stitutional convention in 1871 Ira A. Kellogs, who represents The Bee at South Omaha, was born at Clarks, Neb.,, January 81, 154. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and has been with The Bee for five yeare. Al Sorenson, the Would-Be (he says Will- Be) United States senator, is 00, but doesn't act It any more than he looks it. Neither would anyone familiar with his variegated careers suspect that he was born In Na- shotah, Wis, under the shadow of an Eplscopal theological seminary, but such {s none the loss the solemn and attested fact. “Al" was city editor of The Bee in the olden days when the eity editor was the whole reportorial staff and the bouncer by Mr. Taft to see that their first duty is pe PERSONAL -NOTES. An Interesting phase of the life of len!l Warner, who has just died in Springfield At the age of 83 was that thirty-five years ago he was glyen up by fourteen doctors, but finally took his own ease in hand and outlived them all Benjamin Hanford, for many years & leader of the socialist party In this coun try, and twice its candidate for vice presi- dent, dled of a complication of llinesses at his home at Flatbush, Brooklyn. He had | been 11 for several yoars. A police officer, recently deceased, for: | fifteen years had charge of the Wall street | district, during which time, it Is stated, not #o much as a 10-cent plece was stolen there by an “outsider.” The streot extends privileges only to the Initiated. In & recent test of spook athletics two men held the medium's hands and foet, yot she succeeded In tickling their ears With her toes. A person capable of pull- Ing off such a stunt is wasting valuable time and losing good money in noglecting to “elevate the stage.” Mrs. M. 1. Read has just celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of her service as passenger agent at Ardmore Station on the Pennsylvania rallroad. She Is sald to have performed her duties in a manner highly satisfactory to both the public and th road. . The Los Angeles woman who clatmed to have been blessed with quadruplets, follow- Ing two sets of triplets and a palr of twins, has confessed that she has had but one baby and that died In infancy. The rest of the brood represented raids on orphan asy- lums. Mother love seldom devotes itsclt to working up such a fake as this. Lioyd-George will visit this country next year as the guest of American Welshmen, He will be accompanied by Sir Samuel T. Bvans, the solicitor general; Mr. W. Ab- raham, M. P., and Mrs. Willlam Jones, M. P., and, according to the Druid, the organ of the Welsh people in America, & banquet will be given In his honor which President Taft 1s expooted to attend. Uncle Bam 1s to have a new “globe trot- ter.” Jacob M. Dickinson, secretary of war, who recently returned from an ex- tended trip to Porto Rico, Cuba and San Domingo, has been chosen by President Taft to make the official excursions of the present administration, His next trip, which probably will be made early in the summer, will take him to the Philippines and Hawall. —— | PENNIES AND RURAL POSTAGE. | Ohangin, n Custom Common Rural Routes. ‘Washington Star. Occaslonally a figure is quoted In our national affairs that emphasizes the mag- nitude of the country. The latest of this kind is the statement that during the last year approximatety. 300,000,000 pennies wero taken by rural free delivery carriers from the boxes on their routes where they had been deposited with letters In lien of postage stamps, in accordance with a rule permitting the patrons of the routés to post letters in this manner. That means that 160,000,000 letters were written and posted In the rural districts In twelve months for which the writers had no stamps at band. Considering the com- parative lack of epistolatory enterprise on the part of rural residents this is a sig- nificant item. It suggests that the rural free delivery stimulates correspondence. Nevertheiess the postal authorities find that the deposit of pennfes in the boxes tends to delay the collection and delivery of the malls and consequently instructions have been Issued to all rural delivery post- masters informing them that after the 16th of February the practice will be dfs- contipued. After that date the farmers will have to buy etampe. - Dhere ' will: prob- ably be mueh grumbling, but eventually the change will be beneficial, WHITTLED TO A POINT. “M&'huwnna 18 like a rooster in one ro- “Indeear o en he gets up early h v _‘}udm & D y he crows “It 16 a wonder that a barber ls gen- !m‘]’v‘ loqu: % "Why s ‘“‘Because he is always cutting other men short."~Baltimore Amerlean. ‘Let's go to the theate 've nothing to wear." “Then we'll go to the opera."—Lippin- cott's Magazine, “Mr. Smith," spokeé up the young lawyer, “I come here as a representative of your neighbor, Tom Jones, with the commission to_collect a debt due him.” “I congratulate you,” answered Mr. Smith, “on obtaining so permanent a job at such an early stage in your career,”’-» Success Magaszine. “go u are studying telepathy 7 8, answered Senator Sorghum; “‘my object in life has been to find what people are thinking and then say it first. Any reliable system would simplify ‘my labors immensely."—Washington Star. “Do_you see that very stout woman over there?’ The one with three ching?" “‘That's the one. Well, I nevi without feeling that T gratitude.” “DId you some great favor, eh?' ‘‘Yes. Refused to marry me when she was a girl."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. b okl Visitor—It must be a gigantie task to run n &.n newspaper Mke yours, itor—Not at all. Tt's the easiest thing in the world, Dozens of my fi s, as well as perfect strangers, come In hero ¢very day to tell me how to run jt.—Chicago Tribune. see | owe her the dee The orator was urging the men to quit work, “Strike for your altars and your fire he conclud 1. “Well, T don’t know,” sald a thoughtful suditor. “If you will show me how strik- ing will pay rent for the altars and buy ccal for the fires I'm with you." Unfortunately at this juncture an execus tive session was ordered. THE CUCK00 CLOCK. A. W. Chamberlain In New York Sun. Ah seen him in de cunnel's hall, Whar he's own house hang ‘op de wall, Dat teenchy 'l buhd. He push he's atttick shutteh baek An' pop he's hald out, lak'er jack, An’ say de quares' W (Listen!) (Hear “Im?) Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! n't de raln crow callin’ from atchmelon row; Depen's on ew' de time ob day How many times he crow, Erway erlong to' evenin' time, When red sunbeams slant lo De flel’ han's stop de) ukkin' De wol's fes' movin’ slow, Dat buhd sing from he's windehsell, Clar an' sweet ez er honey bell, Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo! Ah wondeh whut's dat kin ob buhd? Ab wondeh whut's he's name? Dat al Dy Dat house a clock, my mammy say, De buhd, he tell do time ob day— Gol, buhds inside ob elocks! H| * dey doan’ scotch dey heels, Er cotch dey feddels in de wheels, An' stop de ticks an’ tocks. (Ldsten!) (Hear 'Im?) Cuckoo! Cuekoo! Cuckoo! Dat ain't de rain crow callin’ from De watchmelon row; Depon's on jex' de time ob day Fiow many times he crow, Erwny orlong to'de evenin' fime, When red sunbeams slant low, De flel' han's stop dey wukkin' an’ at one and the same time, but now he {s running & weekly paper of his own called the Examiner, which boasts that it has space to sell to_any pandidate for pojitical office who bas De worl's fes' movin' low, Dat buhd sing from he's windehsell, Cl'ar an' sweet o er honey bell, Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo, euckoo! Ah wondeh whut's dat kin ob buhd? Al wondeh whut's he's name?