davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
DRIVING ON THE OVERLAND.

James Barton Adams in Denver Post.
Long rails of steel I'm the sunlight glisten,
The winding trains through tho valley
The hardy settlers no longer listen
ri For Indian yells with a fear OF, soul!
The Concord kings of the olden highway
In the old corral or the alley byway,
But battered relies of work once done,
And gone is the fearless, intrepid band,
The boys who drove on the Overland
All dead are the echoes of lorg whips
Held firmly in drivers bucksknned hands
The great wheels over the bou!ders rapping
Or biting their way through the drifting
No longer is savage foeman lurking
,,is Behind fhl a rock like a. crouching cat,
Near the quiet shores of the shallow
His strong bow held in a deadly polse
For shot at one of the overland d,oy boys.
All! those, were the days that tried mems
That tried the bottom Of nervy steeda.
When the mustangs all were in sllken
The wheclers, swings and the dancing
leads.
A savage yell and a flight of arrows,
A driver upon the high box dead!
The team. with the speed OF frightened
UnsGided into the station sped
To tell the tale to the relay band
OF one boy less on the Overland!
Ger tho. lines of steel now the iron horse
dashes,
His hot breath blackipg tho hills and
vales
As eye Of giant the headlight flashes
a shaft snna Of light long the glmmering
The homes of the settlers in peaceful quiet
Now. dot the valley in close array,
And the painted redman no more runs riot
AS BACK IN the blood stained early day.
sweet peace wields the scepter on every
hand '
And where are the boys of the Overland?
Some lie meath the sod of the old Platte
valley
In deathly slumber that knows no dreams
Near the trail where they oft at an Indian
sally '
Threw cutting silk to their frightened
teams!
Some, bent with age and with hair all
whitcnod nv
BY hand of time, In tho cities dream
OF the perilous days when their strong
hands frightened '
The lines DER the backs of flying team
When the reds were waiting on every hand
For the boys who drove on the Overland!
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

wood of Alabama expressed the opinion
that hundreds of them are fraudulent
and he was very likely correct At
all events congress should make pro
vision for having them most thoroughly
investigated and how this can best be
done is the question. At the last ses-
sion of congress a bill was reported
to the house providing for the appoint
ment by the president of a commission
to receive, examine and adjudicate all
claims of citizens of the United States
against Spain, in accordance with the
seventh article of the treaty of peace.
This measure was not favorably re.
gardcd and was sent back to the com.
mittee on war claims, with instructions
to report bill providing that the court
of claims shall have jurisdiction.
This the committee has done, but the
difficulty is that the court Of claims
now has before II enough work to oc-
cupy its most diligent attention for
several years. Mr. Haugen said: ION
December 1, 1899, there were $40 trial
cases and $40 law cases on the calendar
of the court, and for December 1 of
last year the number was Liza trial
cases and 394 law cases The business
of that court, according TO the calendar,
has increased nearly 30 per cent" In
view of this Mr.. Haugen thought that
to refer these new claims to the court
of claims would be nothing less than
reputation. On the other hand there
is the objection to a commission that
it would be expensive, but if it is neces-
sary in order that American citizens
having just claims may have them
adjudicated within reasonable time
the question of expense should not be
seriously considered. The government
has not a very creditable record in the
matter of settling claims and it should
not make the record worse than it is.
Unquestionably the court of claims
is the proper tribunal to adjudicate
these Spanish war claims. But in any
event the people want these claims
subjected to the most thorough investi-
cation, SO that the government shall
be called upon to pay only such of them
as are mcritorious and just.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

West Point isn't the only place. A
student in an Illinois college had an eye
Knocked out by jovial fellow classman
who thought the victim too at.
tentive to his studies, while down in
Ohio two enthusiasts who happened to
differ on some point of college admins
tration proceeded to pummel each other
during the chapel hour, while their par
tisans cheered them on, to the great
scandal and discontinue of the chap
lain. Cannot Mr.. briggs for a moment
pause and turn his torrential stream of
adjectives toward these offenders?
Young soldiers are not so much worse
than young civilians.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
NERVE OF THE CHINESE.
lntimntions that the Allies of CiviIiEa-
tiOn Arc Burglars.

Philadelphia Times.
The Chinese have had the impudence TO
suggest that the treasure which the forces
Of civilization have looted at Pekin shall be
reckoned in abatement OF the indemnity
demanded. The foreign ministers reject
this proposition with contumely. The pow
ers, they say. have been at the cost of send
ine their burglars a long distance and they
must have their expenses paid. without
regard to the profits Of the burglary. other
wise they will take anything there may be
left and keep possession OF the house as
further security. -
The mistake OF the Chinese has been all
along in supposing that they had any rights
In China. The great powers are not even
agreed that the Chinese have right to live,
though they all agree that they have no
right to keep anything that the foreigners
want. Those OF them who have attempted
to defend their homes, and were not killed
In the attempt, must be put to death or
otherwise punished now, and the rest must
give up their property and crawl in the
dust at the feet OF the Europeans On
those conditions the benefcent powers will
allow the Chinese emperor to return to his
capital, OF which, however. they will retain
the military control.
Having already agreed to do all that the
powers demand. the Chinese ENJOYS have
politely asked to be informed when the
powers are going TO leave off killing and
looting The German minister, we are told,
"disapproves of the tone and contents OF the
Chinese note" They have no business to
ask questions; they are to obey orders.
The only chance for them is in the fact
that the ministers are afraid OF one another,
and as they cannot agree upon the division
OF the spois they may be compelled even
tually to leave something in China to the
Chinese. II will be only what they cannot
get aWay with
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
Election Contest Threatened.

Atihhi'hiollS
His imperial majesty Edward VII is not
secure in his title. Advices from Boston
are to the effect that the "Order OF the
White Rose" and the "Legitimist Jacobite
League Of Great Britain aud Ireland" do
not recognize his succession, claiming that
the rightful heir to the throne is Princess
Mary Of Bavaria, who should be conse-
Grated and crowned as Mary w OF Great
Britain and ireland. The news we fear
was cabled to Edward. II should have been
broken more gently, possibly in a neat
letter from the queen OF the Holland Danes
yclept Lavinia and resident for the nonce
in New York
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Utah is still paying the penalty for
being headquarters of the Mormon
church. 1t easily serves as target for
members of congress who may seek to
gain little publicity for themselves by
firing at the Mormon church. If the
Edmunds law has not been effective in
stamping out polygamy it is not likely
that cutting off the appropriation for an
agricultural college will do much good
The Mormons as a rule learn agricul-
ture on the farm.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Indiana courts have set an example
in dealing with men who sell their
votes which other states might do well
to follow. A large number of men
have been arrested on that charge and
those convicted have been disfran
chised for terms ranging from ten to
twenty years. If the work is kept up
the crop of purchasable votes is likely
to be decidedly small in few years.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
Kindness Retter Than Shot.

The news that thousands of people have
died while thousands more are on the
brink OF death by starvation in a single
province of China does not seem 10 stir
the sympathy Of the nations as similar
news from India did not long ago. Even
the nations represented in the political
complications there, while very properly
insisting that the government shall make
no discrimination between Christians and
nti-Christians in its distribution of re-
lief. are not reported as making any effort
TO furnish relief themselves, Yet here is
a splendid opportunity for thg so-called
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
The Broomstick n, a Biuner.

All these years cowed man has been
lodging from sticks welded by wives and
now comes Mrs Carrie Nation laughing
at belaboring with that heretofore for
midabe weapon in the hands Of a fellow
woman, and exclaiming: What does a
broomstick amount to-" It would appear
that maa has all this time been but the
craven victim Of domestic bluff.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

With the gathering of 50 many royal
and semiroyal personages in London
to attend the funeral of the late Queen
Victoria, II Is terrible TO contemplate
what the consequences would be If
some of them should not be accorded
exactly the proper place in the process.
sion which their rank entities them to.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Christian nations to practice Christianity.
A few tons OF rice distributed where they
will save many people from starvation
would do a great deal more to nstil re-
spect for Christian principles than many
tons of shot and shell, especially when dis
tributed by such agents as have been de-
livering them during the recent disturb
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
The Ration Overlooked.


One OF the overlooked clauses Of the new
army law gives the president authority to
change the established ration without the
consent OF congress II congress granted
this power by inadvertence It was a most
fortunate oversight. What could be more
silly than system which requires a spe-
cial act OF congress TO decide whether SOL
diers shall be allowed to cat heans or rice
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
Working n Cuban Graft.

The people who are scheming to have
congress enforce payment OF the Cuban
war bonds issued by Spain set a low esti-
mate on congressional integrity. For con-
gress to do anything toward coercing Cuba
into payment for those bonds would be an
act OF the grossest injustice; but the pro-
moters Of the project probably argue that
money will do great deal in a skillful
lobby. and si5o,OoO,OOo is a prize worth
striving for.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

The trainers of the new Cuban con.
universal suffrage and so hedged about
the provision for the suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus that the rights
of all appear to be well protected so
far as the organic law of the land is
concerned. If the government Is finally
inaugurated in the island on the lines
laid down and good government is not
the result will simply be because
the Cuban people are incapable of gov
erning themselves. The United States
has guaranteed the people a fair start
and they are rapidly approaching the
point where they must work out their
own destiny.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

One member of the Commercial club
directory makes good point in calling
attention to the fact that the gentleman
who has made the most noise about the
tax levy is not the real mouthpiece of
the organization, His wild desire to
vicariously defy the courts through the
city council is not supported by the
Commercial club.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Queen Victoria furnished many n
spectacular procession through London,
but none II seems will equal the last
parade in honor of the dead queen.
There is an msounded depth Of pathos
in the coldly commercial figures that
are quoted as prices for seats along the
route to the tomb.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
Talking Back Mt the Barbcrs,

BARRIERS dislike working 365 days IN the
year. Nobody blames them. They dislike
working twelve hours a day. Nobody blames
them. But cannot their union enforce
equity for its members without statute ?
IL not, all BARRIERS are not a unit on Sun
day closing II has not been demonstrated
that they who like being overworked should
not be allowed to enjoy the pleasure, or
that they who cannot endure the vocation
cannot do something else.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

The Chinese are reported to be quietly
arming. When the work has been ac-
complishcd the powers will probably
swoop down on them and coniiscatc
the arms. II the Chinese desire to
have any guns left when the foreigners
leave the country they would better
keep them in hiding.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Joplin has temporarily abandoned the
making of millionaires out of zinc to
join in the Grove hunt. The mining
industry of the Missouri town may he
less attractive, but is certainly more
profitable than chasing the elusive Pat.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

1t is sincerely to be hoped that no
more of the English royal family will
die before Poet Laureate Austin has
passed TO the great beyond or retired,
One afiiction at time is enough.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

When fusionsts fall to and pummel
spoils, citizens who pay the taxes are
apt to question the sanity of doing
things for Bryan's sake.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Watson, the English yacht designer,
thinks he has discovered the reason
America has always beaten that country
in the cup races, The new challenger
has the bulk of the hull much further
forward than any OF its predecessors
Heretofore the bulk of the English
hulls have always been about three
miles too far in the rear.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

1t is very hard to pry popocrat loose
from public place. Witness the te-
nacity with which one Olmsted hung
OH to the place for. which .he had long
since demonstrated his unfitness.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
Warm welcome Home.

Chicago Chronicle,
We learn with pleasure that Mr. Patrick
Grove, late OF Omaha is unobtrusively
auartered in secluded section OF our busy
little city waiting for the clouds to roll
by. We welcome Mr. Grove as a dlstin-
guished visitor
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

A Massachusetts COW has been butch
cred which had clock in her stomach.
She had long been noted for being on
time to her meals.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

From the number Of senatorial pipe
dreams sent ont from Lincoln 1t is evil
dent that the Chinaman is not the only
slave to the seductive poppy.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
anuuiup the Mourners.

UcIrOII JUUTIIdI'
Another proof of the generosity OF the
Beers is furnished by their not having cap
tured anybody but Dublin Fusiliers since
the death OF the British queen.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Women are falling into the strenuous
life idea rapidly these days. The latest
outbreak is in Michigan. II the infec-
tion spreads much more the men will
be forced to he good.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

The duke of Cornwall merely has the
German measles, while all the rest Of
England is suffering from an attack of
German mania.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
4 Solar pIexus Diow,

wv
II is a hard lesson which the supreme
court teaches Chicago in deciding that that
city has no natural right to innict its
sewage on the rest OF the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

In Boston n saloon-smashing female
merely landed in the house of corrcc'
tion. They still do some things better
in Boston than in Topeka.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

The tin can manufacturers have
formed combine and it will probably
cost more to decorate your neigbbor's
dog than heretofore.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

II Mrs, Nation could gather all her
imitators together in Kansas she would
have an army indeed. But her follow
ers are happily well scattered at present
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
G0LDEN G0L
COMPANY

Producers of Fuel OH in California.
Owners of 1000 Acres of OH Lands.
now being got ready for pumping
Well No, has derrick up
our drilling rig is there.
Pushing down every day.
NOW about 200 feet deep.
We invite investigation of our properties
and offer you
THE PREFERRED STOCK
NJ this company as a safe and very profit
able investment
OUR PROSPECTUS
with names OF officers and directors. maps
and fun particulars, will be sent you for
the asking.
JOHN &. CORTELYOU. Pres.
1911 Davenport 81. Omaha, Ncb
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Bills for the punishment of kidnapers
should have attached to them plans and
specifications for catching the guilty
pprtips
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

If the wind Is any indication, the ice
mans day to jubilate is not far off.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
A Distinct Advantage.

Washington Post,
Pat Grove has one great advantage over
Crazy Snake. The former is being pursued
nv detectives.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State Of N,hraska, Douglas County, SIS;
George p. Tzschuck secretary OF The Zee
Publishing Company, beng duly sworn;
says that the actual number OF iull anu
complete copies of The Daily, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of w follows.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
Inst hut Not Least.

Chicago Record.
In spite of all that has been said, sena-
tor Towne's last act very likely was TO
draw his pay
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Detroit Free Press: Mrs. One-How do
you manage to keep your cook so long?
MIS-. Tother-Easy enough. i discharge
her every morning, and she refuses 10
leave.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01
POLISHED TO A POINT.

Philadelphia Press: Miss wanterby-I
mad some photos taken today.
Miss Askit-Full length?
Miss Wanterby-Oh, no. Just the head
and-er-burst.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Detroit Journal: Wifc-And only last
week you boasted yourself "A Christian SOL
Husband-Well. / suppose I'm entitled to
furlough now and then!
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Omaha: The Bee Building. ,, rr,o,.
South omaha: city Hall Building' l"e"-
ty-fifth and N Streets.
Council Bluffs: 10 Pearl street
Chicago. 1870 Unity Building.
New York: Temple Court. -.
Washington. 5nl Fourteenth Street
CORRESPONDENCE.
Communications relating TO news anu epi, ,a
Bee, Editorial Department
BUSINESS LETTERS. ,,
Business letters and remittances snoulu
be addressed. The Bee publishing Com-
pany, Omaha
REMITTANCES.
Remit by draft. express or postaI orue.'
payable to The Bee Publishing CoInpa":
Only 2-cent stamps accepted In paynen' VI W
mail accounts. Personal checks, except OF
Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepteu'
THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANf'
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Chicago Tribune: II suppose one thing
that ails all of as" medl tated Uncle Allen
Sparks, rs that when Duty calls. as IT
often does, we are generally away some
where with Pleasure"
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Chicago Post: He Is a remarkably
steady man." commented the old gentle
man.
Huh" broke In the small boy. "I guess
you wouldn't say that If you'd been with
me this afternoon"
Where did you see him.
AT the park, learning to skate
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Detroit Journal: Our secret was out at
last.
The neighbors will shur u.s." groaned
And servants won't have a thing on
earth to stay for faltered my wife.
Through the gathering gloom / could SEQ
lineamentS.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Philadelphia Press: Your Majesty" said
the prime minister, "this is the page who
has been misbehavng himself. | would
your service"
'.Ah! your Majesty" exclaimed the cul-
prit, "youn never do that. Since you are
such lover of books | need not remind
you how barbarous 1t is TO turn down a
page"
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Chicago Tribune: Dearest" wrote tho
charming young widow after the manner
of an English woman preparing her love
letters for publication, "why should tho
discovery of the fact that my first husband
was "A drunkard cause your love for me to
grow Cold?"
Because" he wrote in reply. 81 have
been seized with suspicion that you may
have driven him to drink"
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-01

Uncle Joe" Cannon often crowds
number OF his forcible thoughts into one
short paragraph, does it picturesquely and
adds to the entertainment OF the house
In ten printed lines the other day, relates
the Washington Post. he explained his at
titude regarding a memorial bridge, ex-
pressed his opposition to appropriations
for expositons and then provoked a roar
Of laughter by dropping into verse. There
had been a hot clash between him and Mr..
Dayton.
II am not for memorial bridge at a
cost of five or six or seven millions" said
Mr.. Cannon. I'VE will meet that when
we come to it, when my friend speaks OF
the ST, Louis exposition at cost OF s., 900, =
O00 we follow suit with Omaha and then
Buffalo followed suit, and then Atlanta, and
then Nashville, and more and more until
il looks as though the various state and
county fairH were trooping along and we
will meet them when We come to them"
Strengthening himself up and swinging
his eloquent right hand, the HlinoIsan
turned from substantial and earnest argu-
ment 10 dash OF humor, as he continued
Thou canst not say, | did II: never shake
Thy CORY locks at me
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-10-30
Discussion of the Phrase "May
the Best Boat Win"

A fussy person up in Albany SOL
emnly accused LIT newspapers in this
country of having been guilty, once or
repeatedly, of using a superlative ad-
jectiye in comparison between Two
objects, to wit, the Columbia and the
Shamrock. The phrase to which the
fussy person objects is, "May the best
boat win" We and the other 1,76
newspapers ought to say, he declares,
May the better boat win" Misty
memories drifting over from studies
pursued away back in another century
incline us to belief, or suspicion, or
something Of the sort, that the fussy
person is either right in his contention
or else that he has at least an excuse
for. making it. But, the error admit
ted, Simply out Of reverence for the
enemies OF youth, we turn fercely
upon the Albanian critic and rend him
with the question, Can there possibly
be anything the matter with phrase
used by 1,7T American newspapers.
Grammarians are estimable people so
long as they know their place and keep
it, but when they become pretentious
and forget that whatever is, in Ian
guage, is right, they fully deserve the
snubbings they get from everybody
not fussy. May the best boat VIM
runs glibly from the tongue or pen,
attracts no attention to itself and con-
veys the intended meaning quickly,
forcibly and directly. "May the bet
ter boat win" is not the expression of a
hearty, honest wish, but pedants'
demonstration that he knows the rules
of grammar, so-called, and never feels
an emotion of any kind strong enough
to make him forget them for mo-
ment.
Once pretty good man wrote a
pretty good piece beginning: "We,
the people Of the United States, IN or
to form more perfect union-"do
such and such things. Now. viewed
from the Albanian's standpoint, more
perfect is a combination of words
little if any less than criminal, for of
perfection. obviously, there can be no
degrees. Yet the writer of the phrase,
who was himself careful writer, as
is shown by the many changes he made
in the first draft of his pretty good
piece, saw no necessity for crossing
out the 'more,'' and nobody else has
ever had the audacity to do it for
him.-NoW York Times.