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Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
FLIES AND TYPHOID.
New Crimes Charged to the Common
House Fly.

In an article in the Popular Science
Monthly for January there Is a suggestive
article by DR.. l.. O. Howard on the agency
of common house flies in spreading typhoid
fever 1t has been difficult at times to ac-
count for the appearance of some cases OF
fever on the theory that II is disseminated
by water alone No doubt contaminated
drinking water causes the great majority
of cases, but 1t now begins TO be conceded
that typhoid fever, like certain other dis
eases, may be. communicated through In
sects. According to DR.. Howard the com
mon house fly Is the greatest sinner, 1t Is
bred in cities chiefly in the Nth about
stables and the garbage and dirt too often
found in back yards. When excreta con-
tanning typhoid germs are exposed the files
settle upon them, and then, flying away,
carry upon their proboscis and feet hundreds
of the germs. These germs they com
municate to what they next settle upon, be
1t a peach in the pantry, exposed sugar,
butchers meat, glass OF milk or cooked
dishes on the dinner table. In military
camps they have ready access both to the
sources Of infection and to the food and
water used by soldiers. This fact, Dr.
| Howard thinks, accounts sufhciently Tor
the outbreaks OF enteric, typhoid. etc
| WnlCn tlll recently nave peeh cohniueieu us
inevitable as mysterious.
The remedy is to exercise increased care
| in destroying disease germs before exposing
the excreta OF persons Ill with typhoid tc
abolish the breeding places OF flies in and
about dwelling houses and to guard food
more carefully from the approach Of flies
Vacant lots and alleys should be illuminated
and cleaned, so as to prevent their be
coming the sources OF contamination fo
the flies of the neighborhood. Municipa
laws as to nuisances in such places shoul'
be most vigorously enforced, the docto
suggests, and horse manure, garbage ant
other foul matter should be subjected 4
stringent regulation. While the house H.
is to be chiefly guarded against, there ar
other flies which make trouble. Anon
these DR.. Howard mentions the little frui
fy and six other species more or less rare
Wire eauze and mosquito netting may b
used to exclude the insect poisoners fror
the home. The discreet housekeeper VII
not wish to purchase fruit, milk and othe
food supplies from dealers who allow file
to swarm upon them.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
Personal NOTES.

The will of the late Jarvis Ford OF st.
Joseph Mo-, leaves 100000 for free
memorial library in that place and $4,000
to the municipal hospital.
Love your neighbor, but hate the
English" is said TO have been suggested by
General Dewet, the Boer leader as a htting
addition to the ten commandments.
Mayo W. Hazeltine the writer of the New
York SUMS exhaustive book reviews, was
run down by a cab driver In crossing Broad
way last week and his right thigh was
| fractured.
| First Vice President John p. Garrett Of
| the Lehgh Valley railroad has resigned TO
take up educational and philanthropic work.
| Mr. Garrett became connected with the
| company in 1874
| New York has a distinguished visitor in
| the person OF NJ. Shimoda, who Is connected
with the Fishery school of Tokyo, Japan.
| He has been spending some time on 1sh-
ing smack at the banks OF Newfoundland
and is preparing a report OF his inyestiga-
tions for the Japanese government
Mayor elect Poore OF Hayerhill, Mass, Is
a genuine workingman, a shoe cutter by
trade, who has worked for years at the
bench and has saved a little competence
from his earnings. Before the town oi
| bTdulOIu NdS dhutA'u w NC hh""'
a record there as selectman for uprghtnesa
and judgment,
Senator Chandler was late in reaching the
capitol the other day and was informed by
a sarcastic newspaper man that an eXecu
tive session had just closed. what wa
done in the secret session. asked thu
senator. IL really would like TO tell you,
was the cool reply, but you senators arr
so leaky that I'm afraid to-
A half-length oil portrait Of the late Ad
mlral John A. Winslow, who commando
? the old sloop of war Kearsarge when
, sank the confederate privateer Alabama
is to be presented TO the new United state
! battleship Kearsarge, The donor is Al
American now travelling in Europe, VIII
asks that his name be not revealed.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
THE OTHER SIDE OF n.
Lay sermon on the Troubles of
wealthy People.

lndlUnHpOllS JouEudi
SO much is said OF the wealth OF million
aires and to movements Of millionaires and
their families are given so much space In
the newspapers that one may come TO the
conclusion that great wealth is the only
thing in the world worth having and that
human life Is barren idcalty because so
few can have their possessions appraised
at millions. by the mass OF people great
wealth is coveted because they see In 1t eX-
emption from toll and that life of case
which so many mistake for life OF un-
alloyed pleasure. II is just here that so
many people make a mistake. The great
captains of industry are the most over
worked men in the world. A great enter
prise is cruel taskmaster The men VINO
have charge of vast affairs die prematurely.
The late Philip u. Armour died pre-
maturely, II is said, because the incessant
attention which his affairs demanded eN-
hausted his vital force II Ia said that the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt aud his father
before him were broken down prematurely
by the burdens which the great wealth Of
tho family imposed. Mr. Rockefeller. the
richest man in the country, Is said to be
in feeble health because OF the continual
strain which his direction of great inter
ests imposes. The work the leaders In
great enterprises must do cannot be dele.
gated to others. The guiding hand must
be that of one man. Men Of ability can be
found to execute, but the talent which Ia
necessary to conduct colossal enterprises
accepts no second place. Once In such q
leadership there is no throwing of OF care
The leader may go abroad or on vacations,
but with him goes the care OF great enter
prises Should the captain of industry
and enterprise give himself over to idle
ness his enterprises will fail.
The millionaires whose names are well
known have great wealth, but they have
not the freedom of other men. This week
a Pittsburg paper said that Mr.. Carnegie
while in that city is continually beset by
all sorts of importunate beggars. This
besetment makes 1t impossible for him ant
others like him to stroll through the towr
or mingle with their fellow men in public
places, even II they had the time. Wher
they go about 1t is in carriages, and wher
discovered they are followed and gazed a
by the aimless who possess nothing but
vulgar curiosity. Now new terror awaits
them in the experience OF Mr.. Cudahy o
Omaha--the kidnaper, who makes 1t a voca
ton to seize their children and demand
ransom in gold. Therefore. IL mere pleas
ure, the pleasure of leisure or idleness, Il
the end sought, It must be looked for IL
other directions than the life Of the million
aire.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
LOOKING FOR LONG LIFE.
Searching for an Elixir in Ancient
and Modern Times.
altimore American


When the alchemists OF old were not
hunting around for the philosophers stone,
which would transmute all the baser metals
into gold they were looking for an elixir
OF life that would lengthen to an indefinite
term the period of mans mundane exist
ence The alchemists worked long and
hard, and many are the marvellous tales
told of their discoveries, but men continued
to pass away when their earthly race was
run, and the philosophers stone has never
yet been found In fact, the search for the
stone has been well-nigh given up, but
the chase for the elixir of life has of late
been renewed with unusual zest, though,
perhaps, not attended with any marvellous
results
The case was put before the public last
week Of that rather remarkable old man,
Abram S. Hewitt, ex-mayor OF New York,
who. at the age of four score, has been
treated in Paris with subcutaneous injec-
tions OF glycerophosphate of sodium. For
some time medical sharps have been maxi
ing experiments with the vitalizing powers
OF comrnon salt and this treatment OF New
York's eX-mayor Is one of the results OF
| those experiments In his case there was
no organic trouble, but the activity OF many
| years of public life had exhausted his
vitality. His appetite had failed, he had
! great difficulty in walking and his mind
| had begun to show some signs OF weakness
| According to the report the salt treatment
! has brought about remarkable change, put
the old man on his feet again, Strengthened
out the kinks i'll his brain and given him
| apparently, new lease of life.
| Conservative physicians are slow to eX-
! press a decided opinion on the merits OF this
new elixir, but II is plain that most OF them
| believe that whatever may have been the
results In the case OF Mr.. Hewitt. the world
| cannot hope to find In salt the prize which
the alchcmlsts sought for ages and found
| not Moreover, the world Is not yet wholly
convinced that It would be benfited in any
remarkable degree by the discovery of al
article that would make mems lives Longer
than they are now. Some lives are too
long as II Is. II such discovery were
made, the tliXir could not be barred from
any class of people and could be put int
use BY the bad Just as generally as by tn,
good. Of course, many useful lives are
Gu. short just at the time when the worlt
| seems to need them most, but the Maste
hann that is holding the scales keeps thu
balance true, and wherever true solde
falls, there is another just as true read!
to step into his place.
In the great majority of cases the length
of a mans lie depends upon the sort o
treatment the mans body receives at hi
own hands, Good habits, good morals,
happy AMI contented home and a clear con
science are better than all the elixirs th
doctors will ever discover.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
HER ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR.

Chicago Post
A fine engagement caleadar-the nrst she
ever had
Adorned her desk but recently. and made
her true heart glad;
But when the entries she had made l
There was a similarity that greatly puz-
Zled me.
For January first she had most surpr'S-
ing whim,
And entered on the calendar no other word
than "Jim,'
And for the second day found the entry
Indeed the month was given to that soli
tary name.
| Jumped to March and there as well-iust.
as ! really feared
The same three letters plainly traced sun
on the page appeared;
In April, MAY, and also June in August
! Throughout the year. IN writing this, no
day had she passed by.
| She bushcd when | demanded that sh,
| straightway let me know
| The meaning Of the entries that confused
I'm not q tickle damsel, sir, and so [
dare" she said,
"To enter this engagement for the year
| that lies ahead,
"Aud he whose name I'VE jottcd down Is
| true and good and bold:
| His love has lasted fun three weeks ana
! never will grow cold.
| Because Of this devotion Ite such conf
| denCe I'm him
That my engagement or the year-and
| more-will be to jim"
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
nyAyA avn rgE SENA ToRSHIp.

Ever since the admission of Nebraska
into the union Omaha as the metropolis
OF the state has been accorded recogni-
tion with one of the United States sena-
torships. The fact that Omaha has al
ways been so favored might not be con-
elusive why it should be continued were
there not other and forciblc reasons that
cannot be evaded or avoided.
From the standpoint of party politics
can the republicans of Nebraska AFFORD
to ignore Omaha and Douglas county in
the distribution of the two senatorships
now to be awarded? Douglas county Is
the most populous in the state, contain
ing one-clghth of the population and
casting one-cighth of the vote, to say
nothing of the great commercial and in
dustrial institutions here located that
make it contribute more than one-scv-
enth of the states revenues. The vote
of Douglas county frequently determines
the result in state elections and were 1t
not for the republican majority given
him by Douglas county Ncbraska's pres
ent republican governor would not now
be occupying the executive chair.
The tendency Of all the great popula-
tion Conters is notoriously toward the
democratic party. Omaha and Phila-
dclphia stand out alone and unique
among the larger American cities that
are still under republican municipal
rule. While almost all its sister cities
a., I,, "A I,i ,i, A.. ta1
control of by the democrats Omaha has
stood steadfastly in the republican col
umn, but only by dint of energetic work
on the part of loyal local republicans
under skllful and far-sighted leadership.
The republicans of Omaha who have
kept the city under republican govern
ment and held republican majortles
from Douglas county for successive state
and national tickets have indorsed an
Omaha candidate for United States sen
ator at primaries, convention and the
polls. Nearly 10000 voters In Douglas
county indicated their preference fol
| that candidate at the ballot box. In
fact. the republicans of Omaha and
| Douglas county have taken every pos
sible means to inform the republicans OF
the state who they want honored II
recognition of their claims in the pend
ing senatorial contest.
Colorado has Just chosen its secont
senator from Denver; in Minnesota the
Twin Cities have the call; and 1t is the
same in nearly every state that has {;
metropolis worthy of the name. Th,
metropolis of Nebraska certainly de
serves equally liberal treatment.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
CORRECTING MIsREPREsENTATi TiONS.

CORRECTING Observation-Disclosures
Misrepresentation regarding the ship
subsidy bill have been numerous. Some
of them are corrected in letter from
Senator Frye to Mr.. Whitelaw Reid,
editor of the New York Tribune. 1t has
been alleged that the measure is in
tended to specially benefit certain
steamship interests. Senator Frye points
out that these would receive subsidies
"only in proportion to the results they
produce in the line of those public pur-
poses, for which subsidies are proper
and efiicacious public expenditure" He
says that in this respect they are IA
vored no more than the owner of n
sixty fourth I'm one of the small sailing
vessels of Maine. He expresses the be-
lief that indeed the bill, IL anything, Is
| more favorable to the sail vessel and the
slow cargo steamer than to the great
steamships.
AS to the charge that the measure is
intended to repay anyone for campaign
contributions Mr.. Frye points out that
precisely the same cry was raised when
the bill was introduced over two years
ago He declares the bill to be his own
measure the result of consultations with
a number of representative shipping
people held nearly four years ago. 1t
was ready for introduction early in 1903,
when the blowing up of the Maine pre-
cluded any possibility of action. This
disposes of the statement that Senator
Hanna had anything to do with the
framing of the measure, though he Is
one of the most earnest advocates.
The shipping bill should be consid-
cred on its merits and those opposed to
it will in the end gain nothing by mis-
representation as to it's purpose or its
authorship. Those who advocate the
proposed legislation do so from an ear
nest conviction that 1t provides the only
: wise and practical measure of creating
mercantile marine for our foreign
trade. 1t Is consistent with the repub
lican principle of protection. Its oppo
nents offer only the free ship policy
which would enormously benefit for
, eign shipowners and shipbuilders, bu
+ would he no advantage to any American
= industry or to American labor.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
CONCERNING PREACHERS SONS.
Surprising Discovery Made by an
Amateur English Statistician.

chicago T1meS-l1erald.
An Englishman who has been collecting
statistics announces that 80 per cent OF
the personages in the Dictionary of Ma
tionaI Biography were the children OF
clergymen," and this declaration has in
spred the suggestion that a law be passed
providing that no bachelor shall hereafter
be permitted to receive orders In the
Church OF England. Every rectory, 1t is
declared, should be occupied by n married
man. to the end that England shall have
more and more citizens who may be deemed
worthy of mention in dictionaries OF ma
tonal biography.
Whether these suggestions are to be taken
seriously or not, the fact remains that
surprisingly large number OF the English
men who succeed in winning fame came, as
Tennyson came, from the country rectorics.
English clergymen seem to have an un-
usual faculty for starting their sons In
proper directions, and In addition to this
| there must be something in the atmosphere
OF even the yicarage that tends to great
ness.
| Here in America, however, this tendency
| OF the sons OF preachers to win enyiable
renown is not generally noticeable. Indeed,
| it has been the exception rather than the
| rule for the sons Of preachers-or of coun-
| try preachers, at least-to exhibit evidences
| either OF careful training or inherited
greatness. Not infrequently the worst boy
in town is the preachers boy, and It some
times happens that, while the good man is
exhibiting to the congregation the wisdom
OF keeping the Sabbath holy, his son is out
somewhere stealing peaches or trying to
break a colt whose owner has gone away
with the family to the house OF worship.
1t may be that the American preacher
has so much more than his English brother
to do in the way of keeping the rest OF
mankind from going to the bad that hs
gets less time to look after the welfare OF
his own offspring, or there may be some
other cause for the fact that the space II
our biographical dictionaries is in no sense
usurped by the sons OF clergymen. In any
case, II is gratifying TO be able to say tha
things are not so discouraging for oul
preachers as they used TO be- There arr
not so many scapegraces among the som
OF ministers as there were, say, genera
tion ago The families OF ministers, lik
those of other people, are becoming sma lie
as the years pass, and in some places tn
tradition that the minister's boy must lea
: n gang In order to claim the esteem OF hi
contemporaries has actually ceased to b
ommanding influence.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
THE LEAVEYWoRTH HORROR.

Another horrible example of the terri
bic effects of human passion when
loosened by mob has been given the
world at Leavenwortn, Kan. There II
man. held only on suspicion, against
whom no positive evidence was known
to exist was torn from cell in the
county Jail in broad daylight and burned
to death. His steady protestation of
innocence, his reasonable request that
the mob make sure before consigning
him to his awful fate. had no weight.
The demon was aroused and nothing
but the blood of the victim would sat
isfy IT,
What a remarkable commentary on
our boasted civilization such u proceed
ing is! How thin the veneer of culture
seems and how narrow the division be-
tween civilized and savage man. Kan
sas has laws made to punish the crime
of which the negro was accused, and, II
he had been proven guilty, he
would surely have suffered the
dircst penalty. But the hysteria
engendered by contemplation of the
murder of one girl and n brutal
assault on another rose to that point
where all respect for law and order van
ished and only desire to wreak ven
geance on some one remained.
Mob violence Is not peculiar to any
section of the United States. Even in
the most conservative of communities
| tho Snirit TINT lands man IN tnka tha In w
| into their own hands and to mete out
death to some person accused of n re-
voting crime has broken out from time
to time. In Colorado, whose people are
in many ways among the most enlight-
ened of the nations citizenship, we were
ability to control the darkest passion
that animates the human breast the
lust for vengeance. 1t Is going too
far, perhaps, to condemn all the people
of the community in which the crime
was committed much less the people
of the entire state. Yet they will long
have to bear the stigma and odium that
attaches to such an outrageous deed.
Obedience TO the law is the highest
test of citizenship, and whenever "a mar
has reached the point where he cal
submit his sense Of private outrage tC
the operations of our established courts
of justice, he is indeed good citizen
If he reserves to himself the right t,
take his own vengeance of the offender
he Is menace. The Ohio method o.
dealing with the mob is the only saf'
one, and right thinking people will hop,
! that the authorities of Kansas will SCI
to il that not one of those responsible
. for the terrible affair at Leavenwortl
) escapes his merited punishment.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17

Somerville Journal: No man can work rs
bill col lector for year and still remain
an optimist
Detroit Journal. Some power wad he
doing us no small favor If II should gle 10
ithers the giftle to see us as we see our
sells,
Chicago Tribune: "Why, that's a genu-
Inc Raphael said the caller, surprised
any Not at all" replied Mrs. Gasweli, with
Cages in rallies, He bought that picture
In the regular way and paid cash for It,"
Philadelphia Times: This wireless
What possible connection is there be-
"It's practically having words over noth-
Ing"
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Nothing grieves
me more than to see the tired faces of the
poor women who have TO stand up In the
II suppose that's the reason yom keep
your seat and stare at their shoes
am for expansion. We need all the ter
ritory we can get.
Lunker-You'Ve changed your views. You
| thought differently a year ago.
Bunker know, but wasn't PLAYING eo,f I
then; and didnt realize chow now the ne DEM demand Tor
| Detroit Journal: once upon a time Fate
| gave man the silver tongue,
| But the Public, on tho other hand gave
| him the tin ear,
Alas" cried the man "The gift Of Fate
| aVails mo nothing
| This fable teaches mat parts cut but
little ice without opportunity,
| Washington Star: "rherc'a no use talk
In" said Rroncho Bob, Education is a
| gPeat thing"
"'I didn't know you attached so much i'm
| portance to it
| ~ didn't use to But when ! read about
| these haZing ma tches the boys have out
| cast II makes Crimson Gulch seem pretty
| tame by comparison
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
Versatility of MIR. Grove.

The lynx-eyed and keen-witted detectives
have not succeeded in coming up with Mr..
Patrick Grove, late of Omaha, but they
have discovered that he has, inter ALA,
robbed bank, held up an express train,
killed two or three people and committed
other depredations since he left his happy
home few weeks ago. The versatility of
Mr.. Grove is so marked that we cannot
but regret that he does not accept dime
museum engagement and give the public an
opportunity to see him. He could do so
with entire safety. The detectives never
would hear Of 1t until some time next year.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17
War Prisoners without Prisons

When the Beers effect a capture of their
foes, which they do quite often Of late, they
are unable to feed them, and 1t is contrary
to enlightened military practice to Kill
them. SO they are compelled TO let them
go. There would seem to be little use in
fighting on these terms, though both sides
keep bammering away as IL there were
something to be gained by 1t, which, fairly
looked at, there does not appear to be.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17

Strange is 1t not that the men who
now want TO manufacture artificial pub
lie sentiment in behalf of their candi-
dacies for the senate refused two
months ago to enter their names for an
expression of preference at the ballot
box on the pretext that popular senti-
ment did not count anyway.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-17

With its new directory fully organ
lied. new executive committee named
and all preliminaries out of the way, the
Commercial club is In position to carry
out some of its projects for building up
omaha. Last years results were good
and the people expect much for 1901.