Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1910, Page 10

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Communications relating to hews ard editoryi” matter should be addpessed: Omaha Bee, Fditorial Department ROMITTANCES, Remit by draft. éxpress or postal arder riavable to The Hee Publisting Company. Only 2-ent stamps received In pavmont at mall dcbounts. Personal checks. except on Omaha, or eastern exchanges. not aceepted BTATEMENT OF OTRCU! State of Nebraska, Doumias Covnty. *a George B, Taschuck, treasurer af The Tes Publishing Company, being Auly sworf. says ghat the actuai numnes of full and complete coples of 'fha Dally. Miming Evening and Sunday Pee printed 4ring the month of Janunre. 1010, was as follows viee. 40,440 . 43,620 41/700 ATION, .. 42,880 . 49,560 | . 42,99 | | 49,500 | Daily average, . s GBORGE b. Subscribed In my presence and s befors me this 3ist da. d ROWieRh HON Notary DPublist SmTmse————t F ey Subscribers leaving the city tewms arily should, have. The Hee watled to (hem. Address 1 be hangéd as often as réqtested. Had your seed corn tcsted yet, Mr, Farmef? 1t not, why not? i e oo ] It is evident that Senator Jetr Davis feels better since he got that speeeh out of his system. mana in 1930 4 the penalty.—World And that means tnat right now paying Her | a8 university extension ’rolit#ahu and University Extension. The order of thd Board of Regents |of the University of Nebraska for the éxcluslon Of tHe cahdidate for® offce from, the 18t of leeturers to be sent out on amtversiy extension work will be & | 800d thing if It eliminntes the evil at which it 18 directed. This evil, how: ever, does net gonsist in the booking lecturers of men who be candidates for office, but in lhe‘:?nwruon of the plan of uni- | versity extension from what it orig- i!nnlly wag and ought w be, True, - unlversity extension work brings to people who eannot be In at- |tendance upon the class room some- thing in the natpre of instruetion in the ueseful arts and sciences. Whilé the univergity extefision lecture must be more populat 48 form than the class jroom leeture, bécause the listeners have not the same educational ground. worlk; still it should have the same in- | strugtional object. In other word (university extension i3 mot to furnish peoplo mere amusement or entertain ment, or to eupply a politiclan with an audience to which he may appeal for political support. .The entértalnment and amusement business belongs to the popular lecture bureau, and not to the State universlty, and the political 2700 | ebeechifylng should be handled by & |campaign committee. On’ the: other hand, the possibility that a.real educator may be occupying publi¢ office or may wmsome day be favored with political honors should not be permitted to prevent him from doing. university extension work. If, for example, some people should think Chancellor Avery of Dean Bessey would make & good governor and start to boom one of them for that office, that fact would not necessarily inter- Yf}l’e with his availability and usef ness in his university workj either on the campus or in the field, and no amount of abstention from office- seeking will make good university teachers out of politicians who never saw the inside of a university and are lacking in the first requirements of a liberal education. It the University of Nebraska is to |conduct university extemsion courses let them be made for the benefit of Wthose who listen, and not for the ex- ploitation of those who talk whether they happen to be officeholders or ex- officebiolders, or just looking for office. Farmers Testing Seed orn. Recent tests of seed corn have dis- closed the fact that a small percentage UHE BEK: OMAHA, THURSDAY, ~ self. “When managers tequire, players | I1ght—or words to that effect—every to sign rigid contracts which actually| Yankeé straightened up and yelled interfere with “Iiberty and the pursuit | With fervor. Confidence is sald to be t ‘he right of appeal to the courts, which g e oan nullify illegal contraéts. Theh,| A New England youtig man has been 100, the players are not eompelled to|!eft $26,000 by a relatlve on provision “sign up,” although doubtless the ex- | tHAt he gets warried within a year aoting ‘contracts now reqfilred By base | H& Ought not to have any trouble in i ball managers would not bo looked on | Ne% England, where the gentle sex with any degfee of satisfaction by the |O®tnumbers the sterier by two to one. e 3 piir om0 average ¢Mtizen. But excesses always | " » bring about o reaction, «ad if the bar.{ . { ©G¢0rge Washingicn had only ter in base ball playsfs hes gone 'Wikvmwn that everything he said and did [snch an extréme as ‘to comstitute| VS LIS A SOTeH tor | " than ' a hundred years after he wae [*elavery,’”” which is to be danbted {n ' [that a playerds often proud of being | 38R be Mmight have behaved himself | worth purchasing, it will lead to a re. | #erestly on seyetdl oconsions. —— e volt among ball players = themselves A | "With all those photographs of ‘a:'d the practice. will be revised to suit | ¢ounty commissiohers, juvenila court thom. i indges and bad hoy chasers, the eon ) [tnts of that cornorstone safe from unbtiden least 100 years, Magonic Memorial to Washington. | It was a dignifiel and etat | semblage -of Masons -which gatherel |in the lttle town of. Alexandria to |organize a National Masonic Memortul ‘:‘;:':d:;:o:'u:‘;d!:'o‘: ::i;m::yo:!:v:::‘nn invented an airghip and he wishes as | 3 3 opportunity to see If he can fly out of zation should be the ercction of a $1.-| prjvon on it 000,000 Masonic temple as a' memorial | to George Washington. Much has St. Paul Disbatch. {been written of Washington as a man | ' “Legitimate business need not fear,” says and a leader of men and the people | President Taft. Legitimate business never of the country have honored him in|fers. It is the crooked businees that pre- many ways, - I diir {datichs) éapital, ;‘mpa- to be legitimatesthat gets scared. as well as in lesser communities In | the nation, monuments, statues and | tablet bearing suitable {nseriptions have been erected in his honor, but, although many learned treatives have been written about him, the Masonic order, of whi¢h he was at one time grand master, has never before sought to honor him as a national hero. It {8 especially appropriate Alexandria, ~General Washington's| typhold faver In Omaha is dus to the drink- “home town,” shoudd be choscn as the | ing of wafer from the Missourl ' river. site of this memgtfal structure. George \:mmutbu some folk might have attributed Washington, as a_surveyor, laid out ["® freuble to tho canals of Mars the town, he lived there in boyhood, | was a>member of its council and was | Boston Globe. dition to that it is ¢lose to the nat'unal | with more or less varlety of pronunclation, capital and" in one of the oldest com-|but when It comes to calling an “heroplane | munities on the Atlantic coast. shed a “hangar,” just because the French A memorfal of this pnrucular\fi::.d‘,', ik e R ?:{;::"Y“:: character would be of great value to|French isn't so easy to pronounce as it the order as a Maspnic hall of fame |looks. and also as a national Masonic mu-|' seum. Many great men have been Masons, but at present the only| Masonic honer done to their memory is | to be found in the local ‘lodges in which they were’active. There is no| |place where all these mementoes and intrusion ly as Wi He Philadelphla Record. ‘A convict 12 the Nebraska penitentiary Only the Orooked Are Sonred. ! Wouldn't This Jar Yout? Baltimore American. A western raflroad officlal puts down the | eomplaints of high prices to the ‘Jaw- | smiths and sensational newspapers,” and reproaches the American puplie for being bad losers. This seems iike adding Insuit to Injury. | Must Put it Somewhere, New York Tribune. That I8 a naive observation, attributed that | i, heatth officers, that the epldemic of i b ) Another Importation. Are We Coming to Thist Brooklyn Eagle. Dr. Wiley says convicted manufacturers of impure foods are still received In good society and gtand well in their churches, This critictsm is made on the assumption hat churches arc for saints. Would Dr, Wiley have a chemical laboratory at- happiness” the injured party has |ONe of the characteristics of a Yankee. | us more | chould be! for at| || welcome. Ripples on the Ourrent of Dife as Soen in the Great American Metropolis from Bay to Day. Mayor Gaynor is furnishing New York- Some painful the pleasant Coney Island In August surprises are jumbled with varioty, barndcles who are forcibly separated from the public erib, Hundreds of idlers on the city payroll have already been operated on, and others are going as rapidly as the [headsman sees a spot A batch of eclerks snugyberthed In a bureau which spent $,000 in appralsing and con- demning $1.30 wdrth of property needed for city ube “‘got the hook” Ilast week, and the Aqueduct Commission, hedred In by | state law, was forcibly separated from $6,000 jobs, This unique body has been in exist- ence thirty years, and had to do with the Croton water supply. Years ago the job was finished, all but the finkl report; and, | | a8 the city authorities showed a desire to | basten the end, the commission sécured| | the passage of. & state law prolonging ex- istence at the pleasure of the members. For halt a score of years this body dis-| | yosed of $200000 a year for salaries and {inoldentals. As soon as Mayor Gaynor | | sfzed up the situation, each commissioner | Falling to heed the hunch, the grand bounce followed and the quarters, | 80 long Gcoupled, were closed indefinitely. | The succession of cold waves experienced | down there are mild biasts compared with | | arctie temperature that envelops the polit| ‘{fcal heelers of the big town. | New Yorkers frequently are roused to| dumb fury by the dreadful crowding of | | the elevate¢ and subway cars at the rush | hours—dumb fury Because your N\‘W‘ Yorker is notoriously long euffering and | rarely exerts himself fo the extent of | trying to improve conditions, | He merely kicks and loses his temper, | but when he leaves the train, he forgets all about it until the next time. But one | thing the (Interborough company is public | epirited enough to do. It advertices loat| articles found each day In its trains. Over the Second avenue elevated, passengers | lost umbrellas and pocketbooks. On the | Third .avenue they lost umbrellas, clnrs] and overalls. The Sixth avenue people leave rubbers, chisels and wood. The subway in one day hauls in ten umbrellas, rings, watches, money, musie, tewlng goods, flowers, shoes, belts and keys. One man lost his shirtfront, and it was duly returned to him. And yet they | say New Yorkers are none_too ready to| return articles they find | At a recent hearing before the Public Service commission relative to the poor conditions on the Harlem branch of the | New York Central raflroad, one witness | was an old man who said he had been a |xesident of Tremont for years, and was {familiar with raiiroad management. He | 5a1a he seldom used the rcad, because the | accommodations were poor, and there were long Intermissions between running ers a groater yarlety of surprises than the | |l = Deposit Box but the pain s restricted to the | to insert the ax. | A Fire and Burglar-Proef , Safety iseconomicel insutance on Valuable Papers, Jewelry, etc. Various sizes fer various needs. i (From $3 Per Year Entrance to Safety Deposit Vaults is at 207 South 13th &t. Stanton Pleket: To a man up a tree it looks ltke Wm. J. is getting In pretty late in the game, but it Is as the old preacher sald, “‘Blassed are the dead that dfe at the eleventh hour.” _Kearney Hub: Nelther_Shyllenberger nor Dahlman fit Into the Bryan county option | program, whereas it fits Berge as perfectly a8 If It had been made to order. The possi- bilities of a Bryan apd Berge rnmbmn('lnn'l are Interesting. Ord Quiz: The democrats have followed | | Bryan pretty well in all his wanderings, [Of $.660, tho lmit under (he but will they follow him in this latest step in favor of county option? Think of the democratic party of the north opposing the salpon. It's inconcelvable, Fairbury Gasette: It looks as If Bryan had broken with the so-called leaders of ls party in this state. And it is a preity 6900 guess that Bryan has his ear to the sround and can hear the coming of the temperance hosts. But harmony among the democrats. Did you say? Beatrice Express: Alarmed at the new lssue of W. J. Bryan, the World-Herald shouts to the democracy of the state to gt together and fight principles—whatever they are. The World- Herald desn’t see the use of making much of Bryan's latest lasue. L Syracuse Journal: Some of the democrats accuse Bryan of being a coward. They say that when the colonel was a oandidate he never denounced the saloons for foar that he would lose some votes, but now that he ie not a candidate he is anxibus to make this the leading issue for the candidates to butt up against. Wood River Interests: Bryan's recent declaration in favor of counwy~option is cortainly a, bombshell in the demooratic for fundamental |: Up).. 4 | wag “informed his resignation would be|STATE PRESS ON BRYAN'S LATEST | e recklessly abandons all of his forma: preachment for the newer ism SHORT WEIGHT BUTTER. What Happened to a8 Crennmery Com- pany and Ita Short Pound. Bpringtield Republiean. I8 & butter print generally known by the buyers thercof to Lo a Ahort pound? This auestion as oome to the fyant becausn a creamory company ~at Siling, Kan, Mo been convicted on fifteen ..i’"_ of meRiru short-weight butier The presiding Judge sentenced the e AV o pay &t law. Tt w claimed by the defonss that theie had besn ne misrepresentation, and that the buyers knew, or might have known, that a butter print js a short pound. The case 18 to by appealed, and its outcoms will Interest but- ter makers and the rest of us The declar- ation that butter prints that welkh a pound are rarely found in the market, brought out in this gonhection, may be no news to those who place them there, but we venture to siy that the ‘average eiti- #on who buvs a pound buter print has hitherto betleved, that he was procuring that welghts Is the Kansas practice LU S oral throughout the couftry? “sURNY NY GEMS, Talk 8 cheap.” | AR | Don't you bellove it 1 had to pav 31) and couts for expressing my opinion 't him to a policeman,"—Baltimore Amerlcan is harmohy,” sald the “What we want statesman, ke " rveplied Renator Sorghum; me think of a glee alub I usen to. Every fellow’s idea of (h mony was to plek his own key and loud nobody else could be noticad. rgton Star. ;l;r‘\mn crushed to earth, was rising, but Wl 7 t slowness, oul L. [EE=—————_—— e excmdlnfa camp, Bryan™ Wh 1 hurry, anyh of the crop for 1909 ia of full value | rejieq . of historical value can be|!8ched to every church fo analyze the per- | the tralns, and the fare was too high, | ““™P. Bryan-has led his party three thmes |, WhY ; e ihe Bietunl penb Whatever that means, e e It is wisely said that the long suit of the state of Illinols is making un- constitutional laws. e A street car strike {s bad enough any time, but we in Omahe may be ad that we had ours last fall instead of mid-winter. g - The temperature registered in north- Wwestern Montana on Tuesday night has ruined the reputation of that country as a winter résort. —— A nongm-lonfimnnmm cu[;n | not to bé ‘necessary congidering the ! amount of ‘wire pulling which goes on | in congress all the time. Senator Conger of New York is evi- dently - wondering if the modern in- vestigation for bribery has any connec- tion with the old/Spanish Inquisition. 3 — The bargain sgles this week were not noticeably Affected by the weather, It ordinarily takes more than a eold wave to interfere with a bargain sale. Judging from the number of puila- ing permits asked for, Omaha is to ex- perience one of the greatest building booms within the next year that it has ever known. e e The patriotic spirit which thrilled in the bosoms of .the soldiers at Valley Forge was In great demand on Tues- day at the laying of the cdrnerstone of the court house. Bn!flp. Nelson has met his personal “Trafalgar,’” but'the result of the great battle has not been so remunerative for the backers of “Bat” as Trafalgar was for England. If there is enough lght in'a bit of radfiim as big as the bead of & pin to {lluminate the state of Rhode Island, how myoh would it take to enlighten |, it on some points? The elements, the @ militia and “an old story’ have had the desired effect In Calro, Ill, ahd we may ex- peot to hear but little more from there for at least three months, - - —— K It the charges of graft in the- cily enginger's department van by substaiz- tiated the grand jury is i1 session right now and’ the Wtattde f Ilwifa. tions does not.run for three yours. | T — J. P. Morgan is very evidently out of sympathy with the subject of photography and photographiers in gendyal But then, after Heeing sew eral outs of Mt. Morgan, one can hardly' blame him, \ b Kansas City sportsmen are to be congratulated. After 500 men had patrolled a theastern suburh of the oity for a whole day, “‘loaded for bear," one lone, leay, half-starved wolf was sxterminated. Bravo, Kansas City, T Furthermors, If George Wakhifigion ¢ that. hogs -would b the Bouth Omaba g hundred he in ‘that cherry tree of shame before he this mortal cofl. as geed. The grade is low and indi- cates, as the tests proceed, that much of the crop of last year, while good for feed, is not suitable for seeding. Farmers are now realizing the neces- sity of attention that the crop for the coming year may not be of tHe same low grade. N The work of breeding wheat and cofn uged to be laughed at, but it is a pleasure to note that it is now con- sldered a necessity ‘in - agriculture. Great care is being taken to increase the yleld'per acre on the American farm. crap raised is “taking first place a jrevolution in agricultural methods may be loaked for. A farmer can not -afford to plant 60-cent corn and raise a crop rated by the expert 40 per cent good in quality and 50 per cent in yleld when he can get good seed and raise a high priced crop rating above 90 per cent in quality ad the same in yleld. Epecialjzed farming will be the | method of the fature. . This may mean maller, but it certainly means more thoroughly eultiyated farms. Tho day of the great waste of crops is not for long, for the scientific farmer with his highly bred peed will clear such & profit from a)small tract as to make 11t a financial 'loss to skim over thou- sands of acres. “Blavery” of Basé Ball Players. The so-called sale of bade ball play- ers during ‘the last two seasons has started anew discussion of “slavery” in the:athletig, world. . Barter amoung managers fot ‘base ball players has! been a common thing Yor years, with- out secrecy, and in the majority of cages with the knowledge and consent of the playeps themselves. ,Buv. the discussion has' been revived this win- ter_and a bill has been introfuced in the California legislature to prohibit the “slavery’ In base ball circles, As a means of earning a livelthood base ball is just as much a profession or occupation as acting, and the base | ball manager is jugt as much of a bus- iness man a8 is the theatrical manager. This is simply a development of the spogls of America, aud as such eannot bfi_‘?fini‘tfl.' Some athletes are more or letis moody from the nature of their protesalon ~and are- often given to bursts of temper and sylkiness, remind- tlnr one of a poiled child, = Managers are well' aware of this fact and draw 'up contracts, having iron-bound condi- tons' and regulations, for:the players to sign. Apparently this is necessary in order that thé manager may be as- sured of a full quata of players when | they are needed. When ‘a ‘manager “buys a player’! he simply purchases his contract and takes over the accom- panying obligations. ; There is an old saying, '‘Only an artist should" critielss ert;” and it would seem that so long. as the put- chase of base ball players is not con- trary to existing:law, the player him: self, Who voluntarily signs the'con- tract, should ba the one to raise the objection. The player 18 the one o bo considered, for he does not have tq play professional ball, especially it he can earn a Mving some other way. Like most oal af 8 kindred na- ture, this should quickly ‘regulate it- | centage of virtue in the output of every Now that the quality of the, gathered together and preserved. Such a collection would be of priceless value to the order as well as to the nation. Especially would it be fitting that this memorial temple and museum should iflrst great man as. wéll as the first {zren Mason of the American order, | President Taft was entertained at dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria by 600 police leutenants, and 1} might be added that he was cheeped a great deal more than Theodore Rooskvelt would be by the same people. Theodore Roosevelt was police commissioner of New York once and hifs record as such s still a liying memory. The Chinese army has entered the capital of Thibet with the determina- tiqn to make it & part of the Chinese natlon. Aside from the fact that the | platean of Thibet is said by scientists to be the home of the human race, it is of very little interest and so out of the way that it 1s also of little value. The adjutant general wants both regiments of the Nebraska National uard to participate in the fall mili- ary encampment at Fort Riley. But what about the gold-laced colonels on the governor's staff? Unless the staff is ordered out Nebraska wiil not be adequately represented. The experiment of a moving ple- ture show as amusement for the In- mates i{s to be tried in one of Ne- bragka’s insane asylums. Tn the| meantime the moving picture shows on | the outside are doing their begt to help | gatherTn recruits for the picture show on the inside. Governor Shallenberger thinks some big business man, or banker or lawyer, ;’mould occupy the mayor's chalr in- stead of Mayor “Jim.” Mayor “Jim" is doubtless willing to accommodate the governor, providing the latter will | vacate to make room for him. Our amiable demgcratic. contem- porary {s throwing seve: ] for fear J, Pierpont gaw, in h Inew role as’‘'the colossus of plutoe: racy,” may offer to buy that great or- gan of reform ot & Drive ab which it could not resfst. e | Were in disfavor in/the average Omaha Plenty of Canadian thrills were to be felt every ti put his héad out of ‘doorz, with & few. Arctic! flourishes thrown In. v ¥ —_— Sloux Falls i# pow getting & great setback in its hithérto unwonted popu- larity as a health resort.. Remo, Nev., is the Mecca of all vicums of domestin infelicity. . But theb it is worth more | than the price.to have to live in Reno, Nev. ;) Bx-Governor Varddman fgain loses out iu bis fght to He lhfi-awsr@m senator from Mississippl. ‘s it’ the bpodle of eorrupt ¢orporations - con- trolitng a demdcratie ! v pause to hear from Edgar Howard, When Prof, Phelps made (hé, 2'._‘.“‘ ment that the Yankeée character {s all be erected to the honor of the nation’s | kinds of fits | X rf | Accounts of winter sports in Canada | home on Tuesday evening of this week, f' dexinlatire We'l | member and have the record charted so as jto show a wavy red line? GENIUS BEHIND Enforced Seclusion Stimulates Talent ot Crooks. Chicago Tribune. Prisqn walls, so far from deterring genlus of a certaln sort, seem to spur It on. A petitidn for pardon has been circulated in favor of a convict in the Minnesota peni- tentlasss who, while {ncarcerated suc- ceeded by grafting, of /an innocent sort, certain fruits so as to produce a lemdn as large as a pumpkin. Another man similarly | ituated in Nebraska has invented a self- )balancing aeroplane, “and a pardon s | sought fop him also. In an eastern prison | & convict has patented a process for some- | thing or other for which he has been of- | fered $50,000. In Kansas two vears ago the governor pardoned a conviet who wrote a poem, aithough this seemed:stretching the | executive prerogative the wrong way. There Is plenty of Inventive genius con- tined behind storie walls, but' most of it employed devising means to get out. PERSONAL NOTES. TONE WALLS, | salary/at present is a lardly $15 per week, |15 to be married soon. Cheer up! Whes | there's a will there's always a way. | Identified with the opening of the great | west since the days of his young man- | hood, George Harrison Tr6ok, whose mother was Damarls Rambow Trook, a niece of | General Willlam Henry Harrison, died at | his home in Los Angeles at the age of 79 | vears. | "A mere hint that the city needed the land caused an acre of ground in Brook- lyn to advance $§2.000000 in value in the ,minds of the patriotic owners. It fap- | paned, however, that the city did not need {the land near as much as the owners needed the money. The other day a New Jersey judge set aside as excessive a verdict of $5,600 dam- ages for the loss of a lifile =irl's leg. Since then a Marylafid fury has brought {in a verdict of 89,00 for'm loss precisely | simllar, of course, by another girl. What {Is the teal differerice in value between a ana why? Nursed back to iife after being danger- ously Injured in the Messina earthquake, Anna Violato rewarded Dr.~ Anthony | @Amico of Newark, N. J., by giving her- #elf to him In marriage—and the happy jcouple have arrived in NeWwark after\a | romantic courtship. amid the ruins and land. People who are looking forward with wistful interest to \seelng the first robin ‘will read with mingled emotions that in the mountains of Tennessee robins are elling at 10 cents & dozén. Thousands of tiiem gather in the cedars to roost, and hunting patties go In the night and cap- ture and kill thein In large. numbers. It Js estimated that 160,00 have been killed within the last three weeks. L } Our Birthday Book February 94, 1910, Harry C. Judson, credit man for the Mid- land Glass and Paint company, was botn February 8, 1878, at Farmington, Me., and was educated in the University of Minne- épta. He later practiced law In St. Paul § fow years beforé going into the mercan- tile business. r. O, 8 Hoffman, physiclan, officing 0’ The Beo bullding, 1s celebrating for the afty-third time today. Dr. Hoffman graduated fromr Bellevue, in New York, in which elty he was born. He is chief of Staff of the Wise Memorial hospital. U. B. Balcombe was born February 24, 192, st Bigin, Il and Is a graduate of nnell college. He s now in the real e and insurance business With Reed Brothers, and was formerly clerk of the Hon'd of Publ'c Werks and alto later chifet deputy In the county aMessor's of- 5 ) | il “You are a long resident of this town | | Young Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, whose| After the attorney for the people finished with the witness, the lawyer of the rcad cross-examined him. The attorney sald: and are famillar with railroad manage- ment?" u do not use the road?” The attorney asked him i he ever oper- |ated a road. The old man hesitated for a| | moment and said' he had assisted in oper- ating & railroad. | “What road? “Harlem branch of the Central.” | “Will you please teM me in what ca- | pacity you assisted in the operation?” “I painted oars. " | New York City is going into the cloth- | I0g business, to the extent of buying gai | ments for some of the puplls in the publie | | sehools. The Board of Education has voted |to buy wraps, overshoes, gloves, caps and | footwarmers so that the children in the |open air classes shall be comfortable while pursuing their studies. The open air class room scheme was adopted a few | weeks ggo as an experiment in an East Side' sChool. The class is iIntended _for | anaemic children who have a tendency to tuberculosis. If the experiment proves successtul twenty sirillar class rooms are to be opened in other public school build- ings. In the bullding occupied by the depart- ment of finance of New York City there is @ sulte of offices which has been known as ‘"Consumption Row.” 1In five years there have beem—eight deaths from tuberculosis among the occupants of the rpoms, and when, with the incoming of the new ad- ministration, Comptroller Prendergast found himself voughing more frequently than he thought he should, he decided that radical measures were necessary. Health Com- missloner Lederle was called into consulta- tion and a thorough housecleaning followed. The heavy, dust-laden carpets were carried |- away and burned. The floors were scrubbed h to sad, but glorjous dofeat, and while he |arg mitne.s® PO°t AAY8 the ‘eternal vears #avor of county option will divoree him may not command strength to be eleoted to Wit | office, he has enough influence with his o Remll for never party and the people to still cut lots of ice. York News: Mr, Bryan is receiving som thing in the nature of an ovation from his temperance friends for his decidedly tardy declaration in favor of county option. Not all Nebraskans are so well pleased, how- ever. One Lincoln man thinks that demo= crats will as a rule agree with their di | tingulshed leader on the question If he does not “take it into politics.” take 1t? ‘Wahoo Wasp: Some think that Bryan has killed-nfffiselt politically by coming out and telling the world what he thinke ot the liquor business, while others are just as strong in the bellef that the masses will fapprove his course. It is more than likely that the democratic party will turn down his views with a “sickening thud,” but Just the same a large element In the democratic party tavor county optlon. Juniata Herald: Billy Bryan has “writ" a letter from South America in which he de- nounhces the saloons vigorously and May: they are all in league with vice—exoept few. We don't know what he means by : ‘“few.” Anyway, he has the Omaht dem ocrats in a great turmoll on account of his declaring for county option—also sorme dem- ocrats elsewhere. Bhades of Edgar How- ard! What will happen now? - Hastings Tribunc: Mr. Bryan openly lays defeat of his pet theory at the hands “the liquor interests,” who, as Bryan s, put a “blot” on the democratic leg- islature by preventing the submission of the “initfative and referendum.” appears, makes it quite clear, even to a blind man, why,Mr. Bryan has at last broken his long’ silence on county option and finally come out as its &ponsor. Falls City Journal: Nobody with any political foresight will any longer suspect Bryan of expecting the presidential nom- ination in 1912, ¥is open deciaration n Where will he from the”friendship of the Fagles, and even In this state, where he has always is, 1t |! and then new floors were lald, separated |been stronger than his party he will be leg In New Jersey and one in Maryllnfl.l | death which stalked through thair native | trom the old ones by sheets of chemical- ized paper, Rugs were put down in place of the covering that had cherished the | Bexms of disease. Then the comptroller ordéred an examination of the empioyes, designing to establish rules to which the infected shall conform for their own good | and the protection of others. All this was distinetly worth while, | The new clock on Trinity church steeple | | at the head of Wall street stopped at ten | | minutes of noon. There was intense ex- | cltement all through the financial district; even some of the stenographers worked a few minutes overtime, because they thought it was not yet 12 o'clock. Messenger boys loitered, because they belleved there were still a few minutes to their credit. There was consternation in Trinity, The sefton and assistants were filled with dis- may. What could be-the matter with the clock? | An expert was telephoned for; he hurried down town 1A an sutomoblle, He looked the mechanism over. Then he turned to the chlef sexton and sald: “If 1 were you, I would wind it up.” § ———p———— Val, ves am Hartford Times, Most things In this world are compara- tive. The fact that & jury In Brooklyn | estimated the loss of a husband's affections | at §76,000 within a few days after & jury in “Bridgeport estimated the loss of a 44- year-old boy's life at 3500, shows how dif- ferepdly junies look at things. The absence of any Wall strest arrangement by which the cash market value of loves and lives |18 quoted creates hard nuts for courts and Juries to erack, and as a result the verdiots are a study In variety, s problem in di- versity. Lives: e T N—— In Mighty Poor Business.; Philadeiphia Bulietin. A %004 many Americdns are reported to | be serving with the insurgent forces in | | Nicaragua. While they are entitied to| | elvilized treatment as prisoners of war if | they shall be captured, the fact remains | that their occupation is mighty poor busi- | hess for citizens of the United States to en- | bage o ! | tiously urging his party to make good execrated in many households where his. picture has adorned the wall since 186 Grand Island Independent: Mr. Bryan wants county option. The celebrated flip- flopper has flip-flopped again. - Only a year ago, while gracetully side-stepping Mrs. Heald, or somebody 1iKka that,—pres- ident of Woman's Christian Temperance unjon—who had requested him to endorse that cunning scheme of vote jugglery mis- | named county option, he declared that| the question should be submitted by the means of the Initiative and referendum. Now, instead of fearlessly and conselen- | for its lapses, and declare for the sub- mission of the question to a stralght vote, Pianos, Gran Which lame gxcuse she aieo justi- quite ocatohing u a fugitive Lie.—~Chicago T(Ihun..' y Stringer—Did you ever reveal d mxlrfiorfi o trhnd?v.r revi your fish. nEler-Onse 1 4id to a friend on his maer-'la_pwnle can't make a monkey of Geralaino-1 _don't suppose th :_:kn "um:u{m If;nn.lleyflginl yn}l llt.nyw tngle rfec things,—Chicago News. > '™ AHoHS of )‘What @ curious thing this universal habit of gum ehfldn 1" remarked D)Iflvglhovlhlall ‘bol :;;.. g “What's curfous about 1t - gumentative boarder, SRS (o s 8 mentioned It as one of #. high cost of living."—Ohlcago deat) obody h causes of the Tribune. ““What made the stout man ju ] gyt made the it mas urmp o par crale's used to Jumplug when the Whip “Is he In a clrcus?” “No; he's In the legislature."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. : The farmer's wife frow he farmers ned at ‘the flip 0u seem remarkably fresh,” she sald, Yoa'm,” he replied, “I'm just out of ocold \(evfl'A hereupon she gave him a 1 ~ “Why do you insist on forotng up pri on the necessities suppiied by your Wres: enllnrprlief' A ? “I've got to do it,” lied Mr. Dustin Stax, “In order to knln"\fn with the hign pelces other tellows charse for the: thir s im. oo rehase.'—~Washington mpalled to ——— WHAT'S YOUR HURRY? Nowark (N. J.) News. Where 're vou golng, lNegd‘ B0, tast? at's your hurry? Think of all the o5’ you've sassed In your hurry. \ Take it ouly; lplk-l'l a minute for a pleasant, friendly s There are blessings all about you |f you travel at a walk. There awe smiles to cure your worries, kindly words your cares to balk. What's your hurry? Won't the prize you strive for keep? ust you hurry? v It 1t won't, |l" surely cheap. Many Cut the hurry! years the world has walted for yi\) message of Your song— 1t the world still waits a ligtle/ likely get along, And the song will be the sweeter and the message just as stron, ~ at's your hu it winl Life rewards us day by day- hat's your hurry? Don't forget to take your pay Tn your hurry, By and by, you say? But listen; by an! by you'll have to rest \ With a ‘ton of earth and granite preesins firmly orr your chest As a delicdte reminder that to travel slow 1s best, What's your hurry? d & Upright Purity of Tone; Vehmt;{ of Lasting on, Qlca?litia. Makes This Pingo Supreme v You Can See and Hear It at *1513-1615 DOUGLAS STREET. [} Y