Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1910, Page 4

THE OMAHA Dafy BEe FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROFEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Bntered at Omaha postoffice tlass matter, TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week.15c Daily Bee (without Sur w'..l;g . . per w one yea Daily Bee and Bunday, one year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Bee (without Sunday), per wenk. Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. di Hee, one yea . 3aturday Bee, one year.... ... Address all compiains of irregularities telivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Counell Bluffs—15 Scott Street, Lincoln—518 Little Bullding. Chicago—164§ Marquette Building. New York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 34 West Thirty-third Street. Washington—725 Fourteenth Street, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE., Communicatiors relating to news and sditorfal = matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. EMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mall nccounts, ' Personal checks, except of Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accept: STATEMENT OF CTRCULATI state of Nebraska Douglas County. se George B, Taschuck. treasurer of The Bes Publishing Company. being duly eworn, says that the actual numper of full and complete coples of The Daliy, Morning. Evening and llmdu)’,fi printed during the month of January, 1910. was as follows: 42,440 17 382 3 | Regulsting Transaction in Futures. A memorandum report by Commis- sloner of Corporations Herbert Knox Bmith submitted to the president em- phasises anew the complications in- volved in the regulation of transac- tions In futures for the purpose of |eliminating the evils of speculation. As disclosed by official investigation there are practically five classes of such transactions In farm commodi- ties, enumerated as follows: 1. “Bpot” (ransuctions, where the com- | modity s delivered at the time of sale 2 “Intended dellvery,” future transac- tions, where the contract is for future delivery, but where delivery Is intended and expected. 3. “Bucket shop' transactions, where there Is no obligation compelling elther delivery or receipt, and where delivery e neither intended nor expected. 4. “Hedging” transactions. This 1s an obligatory eentract for future delivery, the main purposs of which s to relieve the hedger of speculative risk. As a rule neither party expects dellvery or receipt. 5. “Speculation,” where neither party in- tends to Aeliver or recelve, but where the contract Is made on & regular cxehange, the rules of which make dellvery and re- ceipt obligatory if demanded. Commissioner Smith concludes that the first three classes need little di cussion, because there can be no great!| difference of opinion about them, sale for delivery being legitimate, and bucket shop deals being indefensible. ““Hedging" he regards as much in the nature of insurance of risk, and not necessarlly objectionable, while what is termed '‘‘speculation” may be harm- ful or harmless, according to the pur- pose in view and the imfuence exer- cised. The more any one studies the entire scope of transactions in futures the moge apt he is to reach the same Total ., Returned coples Net total, Daily average. GEOR( 3E B, TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to Lefore re this 3ist day of January, 1910, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Fubiic, Sabsceibers leaviug the city temis porarily should have The Bee ma o0 them, Address will be changed as often as reguested. e A Gridiron performance without a Roosevelt stunt would not pass as the real thin The wireless operator on the steam. ship Kentucky is entitled to a Carnegie bero medal, and then some, A tip for Omaha's postmaster: Chi- cago has just had a hundred letter car- riers added to its postofice force. When people build skyscrapers they will have accidents, and Omaha, un. fortunately, is proving no exception to the rule. If Mr. Glavis refrains from seeking vindication by running for office some- where he will be showing still further exceptional traits. . B What's this? Leading lights of the Lincoln insurgents banqueting with a bunch of high Burlington ratiway offi- clals? Unbelievable! That eomet will have to take the blame for a whole lot of things that may go wrong in the household economy of Mother Nature, Time will have to be called pretty soon on claimants for that train rob- bery reward money without waiting for the statute of limitations. It seemys that the Ingurgents at Washingten refuse to recognize Sena- tor Elkins as the real thing unless the brand is first blown in the bottle and burned In the cork. Some bankers who suspended specie payments for three monihs are mort- ally afrald Uncle Sam might not be able to pay postal savings bank de- positors on demand. —— If the number of arrests in Omaha shows a témporary increase, charge it up to the temptations offered by those new poliee patrol autos that look so comfortable and laviting. Kern is getting himself interviewed, Tom Tibbles is writing letters to the newspapers and Adlal is publishing a book, -It's hard for statesmen to be reconclled to political eclipse. Oklahome's i-c'nt» fare law has been hung up in the eourts. .Take notice that “2-cent fare law given braska by our last republican legi: lature Is still doing business at the old stand, o e 4 J Governor Marshall of Indiana went into ‘offite on the liquor issue, and now wants to atay in office by exclud- ing the lMquor isste from the next camphign. Nothing like playing them both-ways. Grim death seems to be stalking about members of the present congress with unusual frequency, If this keeps up, & member of the senate or of the house of representatives will soon be below grade as a life insurance risk, That democratic valentine party fs to be held at Lincoln nothwithstand- ing the fact the demacratic state head- quarters are supposed to be at Colum- bus, ;- Here's where Columbus has a right to think it has a kick coming. “% ETm—— “Oné-fifth of the husband’s salary is | restraint of trade by producers or em- conelusion that Commissionef Smith réaches, namely, that to distinguish by general rule between legitimate and illegitimate operations is really im- practicable, and that the most effective restraint can, and should, come from the exchange, or board, on which the| trading s done by the enforcement of strict rules against flagrant offend- ers, Every produce exchange .or board of trade is doubtless subject to raids by unserupulous and reckless specu- lators, but no plundering operations can get a foothold without being known to those in control, who have it within their power to apply the remedies. Vigilance on the part of the managers or governors of the ex- changes can make speculative ralde unprofitable without interfering with legitimate trading, whereas it is doubt- ful whether the enforcement of any hard-and-fast rule is feasible, because it is impossible to draw a sharp line between the various kinds of trans- actions In future The Danbury Hatters, The verdict of $222,000 against the Danbury hatters for damages to the business of a boycotted hat manufac- turer brings this famous. case once more to the fore. The Danbury hat ters’ case was the one wh;g:)r. _vghln carried to thé United States supreme gourt, precipitated the ruling that the Sherman anti-trust law appliedv-the same to conspiracles and combinations in restraint of trade by trades’\infons as to conspiracies aud combinations in x ployers. The jury found the amount of damage sustained to be $74,000 and under the anti-trust act the victim {s entitled to recover'three-fold com- pensation, which in this case accounts for the full verdict of $222,000. It was the Danbury hat case prob- ably more than any other that in- |stigated the attempt made in congress to exempt labor unions from the oper: tions of the Sherman law, and still later the effort made by the labor representatives to commit the great political parties in their platforms to grant them this immunity. It goes without saying that when the Sherman law was passed no one had any idea that its penalties would be called down upen the trades unions, but the highest court in the land has neld that there is no difference, except'in degree, be- tween a deliberate and systematic boy- cott to injure the business of an em- ployer and a combine of big corpora-| tions to drive a smaller corporation |out of business, If the Sherman law can be Invoked by the employers against boycotts, of course it must be invocable, too, by the employes against blackiists and lockouts, plthough that point, so far as we know, has not been adjudicated. Presumably . the present case will again go to the higher court and the final declsion will denne more closely the limits of warfare in industrial con- filots waged between capftal and labor. ———————— Merging the Express Companies. Several moves on the indastrial chessboard give ground for the sus- piclon that something is afoot in the nature of, a contemplated merger of the big express companies, either by direct congolidation or by a com- munity of interest plan. The succes- slon of the American Express company to the eontract pflvlle:e- of the Pa- cific Express company on the Unlon Pacific and the purehase by the Amer- fcan of the Southern Pacific’s holdings of stock in the Wells Fargo company is taken to mean amhlgamation of the American and the Wells Fargo com- pany and the erowding out of the Pa- cific from the limes belonging to what is known as the Harriman system. Whether there is any compensating b wwfl by the average wife through ignorance of what and how to buy when she goes to market,” declares a University of Michigan professor. The University of Michigan must be trying to compete with the University of Chipago, which has heretofore mo- nopolized most of the limelight, feature of which the Pacific will have the benefit is not yet disclosed, but when it Is recalled that the Union Pa- cific formerly held, if it does not now hold, 40 per cent of the Pacific Ex- press company’s stock it is natural to infer that the Pacific company has THE BEE: made with the American are so much more favorable to the railroad as to offset any possible loss to It as part owner of the displaced express com- pany. The most plausible guess would be that all three of these express com- panies are in the deal and that own- ership of all three has become praec- tically ldentical, although they may continue to be separately officered and operated. Only two other express companies doing a large business In this country remain, namely, the Adams and the United States, and a working arrangement with these would not be out of question. The merger of the big express com- panies and the recent cutting of big melons by their stockholders have drawn attention in their direction and shown that the express company busi- ness requires regulation similar to that which has been applied to the rallroads. In fact, the express com- panies have been charged with taking the cream of the rallway traffic with- out bearing many of the burdens. Hx- press companies have succeeded so far in keeping the government out of the parcels post business by playing the country merchants against the cata- logue houses, and they have also, with few exceptions, the most noticeable being Nebraska, escaped reduction of their charges by legislative mandate oz raflway commission order. A far larger part of their stock and securi- ties represent nothing but capitaliza- tion of exclusive contracts with rail- roads. Whether the merger becomes effective or not, the express companies will soon be up for a reorganization of their methods and a revision of thelr classifications and charges. Here is a measure of consolation from an unlooked-for source for those of us who have been lamenting the| unkempt condition of our -thorough- fares, The following from the Lin- coln Journal would lead us to believe that Omaha has company in its misery: A stranger has written Omahs has the ‘roughest, the nastiest and flithlest streets In the west.” He evidently hasn't visited Lincoln. Only one thing can be sald in explanation and that is the wholly unprepared condition of these cities for such a winter. When snow and ice pile up several feet deep on O street, Lincoln has no machinery for clearing things up, All it can do s to wait for a thaw. And when the thaw does come It leaves things in & very nasty state for a tact. All of which may make us feel a lit- tle better, but still is not to be taken as an excuse for {nactivity on the part of the street cleaning department, If Lincoln’s streets. are worse than Omaha's, all we can do is to tender sympathy borne of our own experi- ence. X it down that Commercial Club Activities. The Commercial club committees for'the ensulng’ year have been an- nounced, nd on paper the names con- stituting the various committees ap- pear to be equal to any and all require. ments that may be made upon them. The membership of the committees, to be sure, is not new, but principally re- appointments, and yet of the long list only a few of them have ever shown any noticeable activity, - The Commercial club is pursuing certain lines of work with energy and success, but it could make itself much more ugeful to the business commu- nity if it would cover the entire fleld in the same way. Simply to appoint do-nothing committees and placard their names in the official roster is too much like having plans drawn for a ten-story bullding and then erecting a two-story structure on its site, The Commerefal club ought to have a membership of 1,200 to 1,600, and ought to be doing something worth mentioning all the time, Testifying in an Interstate com- merce investigation 1n New York, the vice president of the American Express company admits that express charges are higher in the west than in the east, and that those of his company are higher in Nebraska than those of other companies, That did not prevent the express companies, however, from setting up a poverty plea against the recent reduction of express rates in Nebraska or trying to make out that they were doing business at a loss and would have their property confiscated if required to charge less. Governor Shallenberger has made a new appointment to fill the vacancy on the board which has the manage- ment of the state schools for the deaf and for the biind. It is to be noted, however, that the new appointee is sald to have good democratic antece- dents and keeps the membership of the board wholly democratic. The cry of nonpartisanship emanates from democratic sources only when it can be used to get a place occupled by a republican vacated in favor of a dem- ocrat. v If Governor Shallenberger should finally decide to try for the wenator- ship, wouldn't that fellow Maupin pe in between ‘em, drawing one salary as deputy labor commissioner by grace lof the governor and another as em- ploye of the Commoner by the grace of Bryan and Metcalfe? The success of the grain market es- tablished in Omaha spells success for any legitimate enterprise that may be located here to transform the grain as the raw material into a more finished product. Omaha ought to be, and will some day be, a great milling center. OMAHA MONDAY | at Washington to look after the appro priation for Missourl river improve ments, Omaha is doing nothing. We thought Omaha had a member of con gress drawing $7,600 a year and per quisites to look after these matters. | Does the World-Herald mean to say | that our congressman is not equal to| the job? —_— City hall officials do not like the suggestion that they stay on thelir jobs | Saturday afternoons to accommodate | people who may have public business to transact. If someone wanis to be popular in the city hali he will propose a haif holiday every day. The Bryan club of Lincoln has a| pretentious program of demands. It| started out with only one object in view——to procure a lease on the White House for its namesake—but having fallen down there it has apparently | evolved several second thoughts. C—————— The Indiana judge who made eom<‘ pulsory attendance at church part of | the penaity imposed for violating the ! Sunday laws has come in for a general | scorlng. The judge ought to know | that compulsory attendance at church | sets a bad example. An Inference. New York Post. If 1t ie true that among the Drulds the ©gg was the Aymbol of eternity, It presup- poses a system of cold storage superior even to our own. | — i Please! Philadelphia Record. WIill some other pecple please go back to (he farm and ralse crops and critters 20 that the rest of us who would rather stay In town can get food at lower prices? What We Are Coming To. Roston Globe. It the meat strike Is successful some day 100k in the 18t of forelgn words and phras s in the back of the tig'dietionary, and sa with more or less variety of pronuncia- tion: ‘““Revenons a nos mouters!” Foolishuess of n Law. Boston Herald. Six hundred American excursionists, re- turning home from a trip around the world in a chartered steamer of forelgn registry, were liable to heavy fines when they landed at San Francisco Monday Instead of landing at some Canadian or Mexican port and entering the United States by rail. The Treasury department at Washington egreed not to press the individual fines, but Invited the steamship owners to aceept a $1,000 fine for the purpose of demonstrat- ing the foollshness of the law, It would be worth a few thousands to the country it some other foollshness in our navigation laws could be demonstrated at the same time, ) One of the Few Res tions, 2 New York Tribune. Senator Fountain L. Thompson of North Dakota has astonished the country by re- signing on account of il health. Many senators die, but few resign unless they feel, like Hon. John C. Spooner, that they cannot afford the fimanclal sacrifices at- tendant on remaining In public life. Mr, Edmunds, it Js .tousqleft the senate about fifteen years 8go.bgeouse his health was poor, but his retirement occasioned much surprise, Incidentally, he is enjoying a hale glg, age, Mr. Thompson's withdrawal 18 the,more, unusual because he is serving by appointment, and would probably have been displaced by this time next year. Sdtigtactory C lon of Banks. | Pnladelphia Record. According to the controller of the cur- rency, Mr. Murray, there is practically not a national bank in the country whose con- dition can be regarded as unsatisfactory. This s a large claim, and If true it testi- fles strongly to the effectiveness of the present controller's vigorous reform work. Usuajiy that office has a long list of &lckly banks requiring special attention and prod- aing to keep or bring them within the line of satety and soundness, If Mr. Murray has succeeded in cleaning up that list he has doné wonders, and we shall hear less criticlsm In banking clrcles of his sharp measures to hold national bank directors more closely to their duties of direction, ) ALL WITH THE PRESIDENT, Republican Divisions Unite on ministration Measures. Philadelphia Press, The “insurgents” in the House of repre- sentatives are an active and aggressive force, but the object of their hostility is not the republican party and it is not President Taft or his policles. There is opposition to the house rules as enforced by Speaker Cannon, and If this proves strong and persistent enough it may lead to & modification of those rules. But the country s less concérned with this than 1t is with the sucoess of the vital policies ‘which President Taft has made his own and has proposed legislation to carry out. The recent conference of the so-called insur- gents, foliowed by that of the New York delegation, shows that the administration its policles are backed by a strong majority in the house of representatives. This makes practically certain that mea ures embodying the president’s suggestions on the subject of conservation, interstate commerce, the Injunction, postal savings banks and other matters will have a ma- jority of the house behind them, There Is 1ll, of course, the chance of disagreement about detalis and a faflute of the senate to co-operate In all respects. The senato are very independent. On the postal ings bank, for instance, there Is a good deal of individual dissent, unrelated to perty and factional lines. In the maln, however, the president has congress with him and the first half of his administra. fton will not be barren. The policles which he has urged in public gddresses and of- ficial papers have commended themselves to the people, and in large part, at least, they seem destined to be embodied In stat- ute law, There never has been much reason for doubting the readiness of the republican majority in congress to give loyal support to the administration. There s republican dissent in both branches from the present republican leadership, but the president's poliey is the party policy proelaimed In its platforms and advocated on the stump during the campalgn. The success of the republican candidates was a popular in- dorsement of the policles which they rep- resent, and those republicans who antagon- Ize the polfeles are putting themselves out- side of the republican breasiworks. There seoms (0 be very few dlsposed to take th's step. Perhaps in the final test tiere will be none. 3 Republicans In congress may differ with each other, but nothing has happen:d to Justify them In organizing these differcnces Ad- The World-Herald finds fault be- cause, while Kansas City has a com- been taken care of, or that the terms into opposition to President Taft and his legislative poilcies and it is an ent'rely mittee of business men on the ground | safe prediction that this will not be done. ’ FEBRUARY | [ — i 1% Hahty better vaiue for one In flavor and e gl T R Pric¢ | food nature than is a more expensive of meat will be reduced to within the| o FEEE AR K erring can be pur. bounds of reason, and then we may all ~!| making both ends meet. +AIl of which Is to remark that the man 7, 1910. What to Eat Straight and Obligue Me- marks om A& Subject Now Pooket W With the multitude touched and re- touched—a continuous performance of touching—in the pocket nerve for the ne- cessaries of life, the varlety of “hollers” smiting the air puts the phonograph on the retired Mst. Advice is as abundant as it is cheap. Some of It outclasses the cheap- ness of the remedies suggested. Unfortu- nately no champion belt or decorative medal is avallable for the prize vendor of cheap advice, else New England would captire the reward. Advice is the heredi- tary privilege of the New Englander, and the privilege is exercised with imposing solemnily, especially when the advice is Intended for less favored mortals. So it happens that a Harvard professor, Dr. Pranklin White, exercising the New Eng- land privilege, tells what other people should do if they would make income and outgo look aloke. The Harvard doctor is not disposed to try it on himself. Merely passes around a chunk of wisdom for others to chew on. This is his advice on cheap living: “it Is not only possible to live on 2 cents a day, but to do It would result in better health. People are complaining of tho high cost of food, but it seems as if most of us forget the really cheap food | Take cornmeal, for example, which costs [ cents a pound. A third of a pound, or a | | cent's worth, of cornmeal will make a | [1arge quantity of mush, probably —more than the average appetite demands. With | oleomargerine and some cheap syrup it | makes a satisfying, nourishing meal. Two | cents’ worth of syrup would give the sugar | element. A man could do hard labor on | such & meal, the entire cost of which would | be about 4 cents, | " “Another cheap basis for a full mieal s " the potato. To be sure, the potato by itself | 16 not appetizsing enough, but a man can | use boiled potatoes and get his flavor | from smoked ‘herring. It Is not generally | appreciated. 1 fear that a herring s a chased for a cent and in somé places her- | rings are sold at two for a cent. As for | the fla eouple of herrings with bolled potatoes, oleomargerine and salt will make the meal really appetizing.” Turn now from the rostrum of cheap advice to this domestic argument overheard | by Puck: Two people, at least, in every | household are directly Interested in “the increased cost of living,” One Is the wife and mother. Father earns the money, | Bives a set sum of it to mother each week “to run the house on,” and mother buys the stuff. The man reads In his paber that meat Is higher, that eggs and butter are soaring, that fresh vegetables and milk are reaching new altitudes, and he $ays, as we have quoted him before: *It's some- thing flerce the way things are going up!” He feels, In a general way, the pressure | of high prices, but when he goes home he 18 surprised and hurt if his wife intimates ever so gently, that she has a hard time “Don't 1 glve you the same allowance 1've given you for five years?' he asks, with a challenge in his tone. “'Yes, but you know things cost more than they used to,” she replies. Then the man grumbled something about his not being able to save a cent, and the woman goes on robbing Peter, the butcher, to pay Paul, the grocer, in order that she may “keep within her allowance” and de- prive the man of none of the choice cuts and little table luxuries that he must have. talks about the Increased cost of living, | and suggests theories as to what causes it, and the various remedles for it, while woman, who sees the tradesmen and dickers for supplies, is up against the real thing in Its hardest, grimmest form. Also, that she is expected to buy this year's food with last year's alowance. Philadelphia reports a big increase in the demand for honey since the price of butter followed the cow that *“jumped over the | | moon.” T have a big demand for honey | now,” The Record quotes a dealer as say- | ng, “I never sold so much before. It's the high price of butter that does the trick. You see, youscan buy pure honey for as little as 15 cents a pound, end the best krades are only 2 cents. with butter stick- ing close to the half dollar mark many housekeepers find it advieable to seek something in its place. Nearly all children like honey, strained or in the comb, and it can be bought pure either way. Doctors | recommend it as a healthful addition to the det, t0o.” “Henrletta,” sald Mr. Pembroke, quoted by the Chicago Record-Herald, “you've got to cut down on our living expenses. Weo can't afford it. Here you have bacon und | eggs—both very expensive luxuries—to say nothing of real cream for the coffee and maple sirup for the pancakes.” “Well, dear, we can't live on alr,” Mrs. Pembroke replied, “I know we can't live on air, but ye can Mve on less expensive things than you've | got heaped up on the table here this morn- | ing. I told you I was to attend the lunch- eon which Is to be given today in honor of | Mr. Snigglsey, who has just been appolnted Consul at Stuttgart, didn't 1? That will cost me $3. And tonight I'm to go to the banquet of the Herkimer County soclety which is to cost §6 a plate. I could have | worrled along very well without any break- | fast at all. You ought to think of these| things.” “I do think of them; but the ohfldren are growing, and they must have wholesome food. Do you expect to attend a banuget | or anything tomorrow?" \ “Yes, The Mohawk Marching club has | its annusl dinner tomorrow night. That | will cost me $4 more. You simply must cut down, somehow. And on the following | evening there is to be the installation of the newly elected officers of the Cy Yipps, That will take another five-spot. How do | you suppose I'm going to be able to stand it if you keep on spending money for stuff to eat here at home the way you do? Cut down, for heaven's sake. Don't mind me, I can get along with a little Inexpensive gruel, I should think yow'd exercise some judgment.” “But, Antoine,” sald the head of the es- | tablishment, quoted by the Chlcago Tri- | bune, *‘we have got to economize on steaks, We can't afford the expensive cuts any more. By taking extra pains in cooking you can make the cheaper cuts just as toothsome, can't you?" The chef sald nothing. shrugged his shoulders. “The packers, you know, say the cheaper cuts are as good as the more expensive ones. They tell the truth when they say that, don't they?" Again the chef sald nothing, But he shrugged his shoulders, He merely | Pocket Nerve Touched, Washington Herald, | The magazine editors appear finally to | have dlscovered a rank odor about the | Postoffice department, notyithstanding the | fact that It seems to have escaped their {attention heretofore, The wind has | mAs oun gExPERIME Paleface Comment on an Indian. St. Louls Times | Hiram Chase of Pender, e Lament Neb, it |tered an authoritative word on the condi- tion of the red man in Amerioa. | Mr. Chase is an Indian who has gone as nas far, perhaps, In the direction of the white man's destiny as it would be possible for any man of his race to go. He is de- scribed as an eloquent and suecessful law- ver—a calling which, it would appear, Is as alien to the red man's characteristics as possible. This student of American as well as In- dlan ways sald that the government made a terrible mistake in trying to extract the Indlan from his environment and his own olvilization. The people of the United States may be charged, perhaps, with the frequent pos- session of bigotry, and also with a determ- ination to make the best of bad bargaine It would be diffioult to say which of these characteristics has been most in evidence in_ their attitude toward the red man. We have tried to supplant the Koran and the teachings of Confucius with the Bible, though we ought to know that a printed creed as helpful mainly In proportion to the faith that is placed In it. Without going out of the way to tread upon questionable ground, however, it may be suggested that we have fondness for | bringing other around to our way of think- ing—as, doubtless, all peoples have. The father who wants to make a minister of his son, who manifests a lively Interest in nothing but toy soldiers, is common | enough; and our industrial systems have made of many a man a laborer who might have been a comic actor or a painstaking surgeon. . The blography of one of the great naural- ists tells how he was a hopeless pupil in school, and how one teacher after another failed to create In him an interest in log- arithms or Greek. But finally a new teacher found the boy studying, with shin- ing eyes, a tiny Inseot he had captured on the compus, and by asking a few gquestions learned that the boy had discovered by himself an unheard-of number of facts about the objeet of his study. That teacher, being a man of' wisdom, encouraged the boy—and thus the world had an Agassiz. While we have been trying to take his blanket away from the Indian, a family of people named Duncan, after long years in Greece, have been trying to persuade us to abolish our coats and other conventional garments, on the ground that they lack beauty and real serviceability. It'is too bad we could not have permit- ted the red men to live thelr lives in their own way. We brought muskets before we brought misslonaries to thelr forefathers, and In the long run, the Indian has prob- ably been falr with us oftener than we have been with him—despite our superior mworallty. But the beef barons, who now have got us by the throat, needed the Indian's lands, and we had to plan a new existence for him. If it may be sald, In criticism of the In- dian, that he would not work, it may be claimed that, in the most relentless fash- fon, he has been “worked."” | R BACK TO THE FARM. Conditions that Make for the Hi, Life. Philadelphia Press. While the farmer may be geting only a small fraction of the increased price of food he is getting some of it, and It prices remain high he is certain to demand a large share. For some years past farmers generally have been getting more for their produce that formerly, and if the present hjgh prices did not go so largely to middle- men the farmers would soon be on easy street. There is- generally some good |in conditions otherwise evil, and if the high price of food strengthens the food pro- ducers and Increases their number it will be to that extent a good thing for the coun- try. The tendency to desert the farm h been ‘a source of complaint and regret for many years. The farmer boys would not continue thelr fathers' work. Farm Jife was voted lonely ahd farming wearisome, continuous and insufficiently remunerative. Better roads and rural telephone service have made farmers’ homes seem less dis- tant from each other and farm life more nelghborly and soclable. It the profits of the farm Increase permanently we shall see in all probabllity that the exodus from the country will cease and back to the farm become a popular prineiple of action. bt saiakbmy Lamentable Lack of Safety. St. Paul Dispatch. In no way does it mend matters and restore the victims to ascertain that a mine horror was caused by this man's error or the breaking of that rule, unless this in- formation shall tend to lessen the number of such accidents in the future. With the material progress we are making along all lnes, it does seem lamentable that en- gineering scienco has not given us the method of making mining more safe, rob- bing it of the monthly horror of terrible loss of life. Our Birthday Book | Pebruary 7, 1910, Robert R. Gamble, United States senator from South Dakota, was born February 7, 1861, at Akron, N, Y. He served in the lower house two terms, and lives at Yank- ton when he is at home. Robert B. Mantell, the popular actor who played in Omaha a few weeks ago, s b6. He was born in Scotland. Francls Wilson, the comedian, 15 5 today. He was born in Philadelphia. Claude F. Howell, traffic manager for Armour & Co., of South Omaha, was born February 7, 1880 at Appleton City, Mo. He was with the Armour establishment in Chicago before he was transferred to South 50 PERSONAL NOTES. 18 sald that Miss Lillian Russell it - mits “taking her Initlal . vislon. of ¥he Towa landscape in, 156) That 1= a good ripe age for a lily that has brayed so many storme. X The policemen in Berkéley, Cal, have formed an Anti-Profanity league, and every time one swears he drops 4 dim'y Into & tin cup at headquarters, the mone, going to a furid for dlsabled officers One Black Hand person has just been sentenced 1o Lwenty-fiva years in prison The judge Imposed the sentence with ¥ gret, but it seoms thers was no s.ath under which the fellow could be hanged A Chicago observer noter, by way off Preving the clfy’'s pre-eminencs as a winter resort, that ‘birds are often obliged tg hold up each foot alternately under thefr feathers for warmth.” Oh, you lake breete! A Pitisburg preacher Keclares that couples Omaha. rtance of Impo Pure spices aid dige! late appetite and to food. Spice value, solutely (m.lllllll'Y"""“l .,..‘fimq‘ry in stre ality. b2 [ed as soon make good | changed usvond—m jmpurities of any kind can touch them. cooking better. Try them. FoBan " nd Ask your grocer for Tome's—~10 ¢ents, ..4:?1' hm oL ¥ cannot be safely marrjed with less than $2000 a year Income. ‘Poverty lcads (o divorces,” he adds as a chineher. And riches, where do they lead? Read the g Fittsburg papers. > The Freuch are sald to have the best bridge engineers In the world It speaks loudly for their capacity in this line of work that not one of the score or mors of bridges over the :Seina at Paris has been materially damaged by the great flood. “General Knox's family 'carriage” ro- ports the Boston Transcript, “has seen the deacon’s one-horse shHay and gorie it many ¢ years better. Bullt In Boston before the revolution, it carrfed 'Generdl Khox, who died in 1508, about his gréat Maine estate, which was almost a principality, and now conveys no less a personage than the char- man of the selectmen of Thomaston." The Ringling Bros., dominant I the circus arena, are reported in Baraboo, Wis,, to have divided $1,000.00 as profis N of the season of 19, $M0,000 of which represented the profits of the Barnum & Bailey show, and the balance the net egrn- ings of the Ringling Bros.. show. This year the Adam Forepangh-Sells. Bros. show will be added Yo the above,’ making the record circus combination in this rounln.‘ When Old Opportunity, 1éd by Dan Cupld, thrilled the palpitator of a divorced church organist at Franklin, Pa., three years ago, the visitors found the young waman wide awake and ripe for a good thirg. The man was middle-aged, rich and so easy, A wed- ding followed, @lso & honeymoon that was a hummer. Now the old man, wesry of the pace, sobs aloud and tells all Pittsburg that the organist that was played him for $600,000. What hyrts him most {8 a demand o1 $100,000 more knd marital freedom. The latter he, is ready, nay, anxious, to grant, but the money—miot until the courts coax the coin. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. 1 wonder that auctioneers can be as a rule sueh cheerful and jokey kind of men," “Why shouldn’t they be?" “I should think the nature of their oc- cupation would make them of & mor-bid tendency.'—~Baltimore American. \ “You have sald you would do anything to prove your love for me." A 'Yes—only put ‘me to the test.” Please ask mamma for the next dance, She hasn't waltzed for twenty years and is dying o try it again."~Chicago Record- erald. “He certainly talks silly!" How s0?" ‘He says If the ‘world's longest rivers were placed end to end they would come within 500 miles of encircling the earth, “And what Is there silly about that? ou silly! it couldn't be done. “Why, - Houston Post. ““Doctor, you operated on that patient in No. 49, didn‘'t you?" P A 9 5 Tucossmtul’ job ofiter “No, n't. . The operal ¢ st- gty siniple, b the MaN WAL 1 ne slightest danger at any time, The elaborate preparations 1. had made for hanuing critical case were wholly wasted."—Chi- cago Tribune, S0 she sued him for breach af promisd? “'Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. * afraid the get-rich-quick . spirit is becom- ing very general. People don’'t seem will- ing to wait for alimony.”—Washington Star, “I wouldn't use that horse for hunting I& 1 were you. He is entrely too sensi- ve. "“Then he'll be all the quicker to take @ fence.'—Baltimore American. X Othello’s slumbering jealously had just been aroused by the iusinuating lago. “Confound it ‘all,” he cried. “Now I'll have to go to the expense of hiring & private detective to worx up evidence, and then very likely be obliged to hear & crowded courtroom roar with delight over my love letters!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer, priahddlSor it vanisaliiiey SONS OF FORTUNE. Sdturday Evening Post, « Coloney Mammon h chi OF ‘wecuritiey the best, ~ o P" can’ be— Ram-jammed full ty running o'er 8. and M. O, Stocks and bonds—" With this Fortunatus store, But, alas, he has no hatr! % I have locks, and: some to spare. Mador Croesus has untol Barrels full of minted gold; Owns rich mines of i and goal Whence uncounted doflars roll; Hae an income, so they say, Half a million every day. But he has no appetite! Mine is always keen and TBrigut. Mr. Midas has & toudh That enriches Midas much. Everything_he ‘handles turns Into that which labor earns For the men of lesser kind That upon the way we find; But his stomach’s in dry ' ddck! Mine's as solld as & rock. Brother Dives owns a town, He's a landlord of renown; Owns no end of tenements, With a steady stream of rents; Also, mortgages galore, But he is & bachelor! He's no fender bullt for two Like the hearth I'll show to you! Poor old Midas, with your touch! Poor old Mammon, with your ecluteht Poor old Croesus with your rolls Gathered from your wealth of coale! Poor old Dives, lonely hours, Homeless spite of il your powerst Sons of Forture, how would ye Like o swap with such as miet Good Seasoning represent the choicest spices that Nature produces. Fresh, hl-ll I:x flavor and strepgth and Unflrpuud in alr, moisture, odors of “Tone Broa. of splces— Vothers” tows. goL CorraEN; )