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Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
GLORIEs OF AUTUMN.
Floral Charms of Hillside and valley
BeckOn Lovers of Nature.

Gnllauelilllld LeubtI'
What is the most beautiful time of he
year? That is a question which everyone
answers according to his taste. We ire
quite willing to- allow the spring poets TO
efervesce in their season, and we will not
deny TO pessimists the pleasure of morlltz-
ing on the fall of the leaf; but we wouli
suggest TO those who cannot get ur fine
frenzy about gladness out of gloom or sink
ing to eternal slumber In a Hash OF autumn
glory that there is time which yields to
none in the abundance OF flowers and del
icacy Of combination Of colors. and that
time is from now on 10 the early frosts,
and even after-the time OF goldenrod ana
daisies
Curiously enough. these flowers so un-
like each other in outward appearance, are
relatives, for they both belong to the order
OF compositae, that wonderful order" we
might have said which supplies about n
tenth OF the flowers of the world. Flower
ing, as they do at the same season of the
ear, and growing. as they do, very fire.
qucntly side by side. goldenrod and daisies
form one Of the most striking and disttnc-
tive features OF the North American land
scape, The daisies, II Is true, are not the
flowers which have inspired the poets for
so many centuries-not the wee, modest,
CrimSOn-tppeu mower OF Burns. lldN Is
BELLS perennis OF Britain and Europe, a
plant that lies low upon the ground. with
a single flower on each stalk totally unlike
our plant, with It's towering form and
branching stem. Ours are asters, but old
fashioned folk called them Michaelmas
daisies long ago, because they are in fun
swing about the festival Of st. Michael and
All Angels on September s9 They have
even been called Christmas daisies. because
you can often gather a nosegay Of them
OF the woodland.
Only the initiated know how beautiful
these autumn flowers make the country
lanes, the paths by the riverside and the
woodside; how they hide with a mantle Of
surpassing beauty the neglected fences and
waste lands and how, when other flowers
are fast disappearing, they come with a
burst compared with which the rush II
the spring flowers Is as nothing. The fight
OF folk from the town 10 the country Is
nearly over when goldenrod and daisies
come, and, ignorant OF the feast OF color
prepared for them, few care 20 seek tho
woodland In the shortening days. II they
/ could only realize what there Is in store FOR
/ them. the cooler weather and the genial
sunshine of an Indian summer would tempt
many who can hear natures voice when
she calls TO seek the hillside and valley
where goldenrod and daisies can be seen IN
! their glory.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
rAFTs PHILIPPINE VISIT.

The visit to the Philippines of Secre-
tary Taft and members of congress
promises to have some good results. The
secretary himself is reported as saying
that the intelligent and minute observa-
tion that has been made of the condi-
tons prevailing in the islands will ma
terially affect legislation, II having
aroused the strong personal interest of
the members OF congress in the party,
who are said to display earnestness for
the betterment of the Filiplnos. 1t ap-
pears that even some of the opponents
of the administration have been con-
verted, while others who do not believe
in the governments policy are said to
be publicly pledged to support the ad-
ministratlOn, with u view TO advancing
the accepted mission Of the Americans
in the orient. II is expected that
stronger efforts will lie made to secure
reduction of the tariff, this being
deemed absolutely essential TO an i'm
provement In Industrial aud commercial
conditions. These are said TO be much
better now in some of the provinces
than two years ago, but they can be still
further improved.
The members OF congress were given
an opportunity 10 investigate the de-
mand for independence and hear the
arguments Of those who are agitating
for self f-governIhent. The result appears
not to have been favorable to the agita-
tors, the consensus of opinion among the
congressman, according TO the reports
being that the FillpinOs are altogether
unfit for immediate independence. This
view was expressed by the native pro,
vincial governors, who without exeep-
ton declared that the islanders are not
yet ready for self-government and that
II II were given them there would speed,
fly result general disorder and strife
with the most unfortunate consequences
Meantime the situation in the archipel
ago is not all that could be wished A
recent report to the War department
from General Carter, commanding the
department OF the Visayas, states thai
the natives there are far from quiet
necessitating the reoccupatiOn of mill
tary stations that had been abandoned
Such reports indicate that a good dea
is still 10 be done before all the people
Of the Philippines are brought into 4
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
FACTORS IN BIG CROPS,

All figures of crops already harvested
and all estimates of the harvest yet to
be gathered foreshadow an unprece-
dented yield of soil products for the
present year. While the importance
of temperature, rainfall and general
weather conditions are of prime impor-
tanCe as agencies in bringing about this
result, there are still several factors to
be taken into account which do not
usually show on the face of the returns.
There is no question but that the in
creasing output of field and farm and
the greater steadiness of successive
crops is traceable largely to improved
methods of agriculture, and these in
turn are to be ascribed to educational
forces which have come more fully into
play in recent years.
Farmers and stock raisers are getting
more out of the soil now than formerly
because they are going about it more in
telligently and more Systematically.
The agricultural schools have q great
deal to do with the teaching of scien-
tiic agriculture to the younger genera
tion OF farmers who are gradually turn
ing their agricultural knowledge to prac-
teal account. This instruction is sup
plemented by the farmers institutes,
the meetings of agricultural societies,
the great agricultural fairs and the trav-
cling schools of demonstration that roll
around in special trains.
! All the workers on the farm, however,
cannot come within the circle of these
educational movements, but they have
all been brought in touch with them by
the growth and Improvement of the
agricultural newspapers and periodicals.
The farm paper has become the pOpu-
larlzer Of the results achieved at the ex-
pertinent stations and the disseminator
! in practical form of the new ideas
worked out in the agricultural schools
and I'm the universities. Week I'm and
week out the farm papers have been
teaching approved agricultural methods,
urging the introduction of modern ma
! chinery, advocating systematic market
| ing of farm products and pointing the
I need of utilizing what was formerly
wnste material-in word, promoting
business methods that will make farm
/ ing business rather than n mere occu-
| patton.
The good results OF all this agricul-
tural education are already being seen
not only in quantity, but more espe-
cially in the quality of what is raised ON
the farm. When we read the crop sta.
tistics and find puzzling comparisons,
the influence of better agricultural edu-
cation may furnish the explanation, OF
at least open up some suggestive lines
/ for further investigation.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

One melancholy feature of the close of
the war Is that the Cossacks are not given
time to acquire a reputation.
With various get-rich-quick concerns
driven out of business the airship COM
panies will have a monopoly of the easy
money crowd.
New York boasts Of one man built on
the heroic plan. He saved one woman's
life and ducked when a bunch of women
tried to kiss him.
What are the "illustrious virtues OF the
emperor, so often lauded by Japanese Of
ficers? Well. for one, there is his income
of S2,5O0.OOO year.
The auto man who struck a match to
examine his gasoline tank found the leak
all right. A junk dealer found the frag-
ments of the machine.
The explosion OF hot huckleberry pie
baked without air holes shows what perils
beset American institutions by the intro
duction of machine made pastry.
Seamen who are amazed at the absence
of trade winds on the ocean should steer
on the lee side Of glue factory. Then
they would sit up and take notice.
While there is every reason to believe
that peace is assured II would be wise to
restrain international JOY until the Russian
Gosudarstvennala douma is heard from.
When a Milwaukee man drops a roll OF
$4,000 during one nights sitting i'm a
friendly game it is evident the town has
more than one means of achieving fame.
Poets who cannot afford lie insurance
should adopt the precautiOn to preserve
their manuscripts. Edgar Allan Poes The
Bells in the original autograph copy,
brought S2,lO0 at auction sale.
People who pay the price will rejoice to
know that the hard coal railroads are earn
ing 20 per cent on their stock. With this
information at hand consumers will face
the pinch of winter with sunny faces.
The addresses of ten persons injured in a
recent smashup on the scenic railway
at Luna Park, N Y. included three states
and six different cities, which is an inter
esting example of the way America mixes
itself up in and about the pleasure resorts
Of the gay metropolis.
Every housekeeper who enjoys the fe-
licity of loyal help will appreciate the
remark OF a witness in celebrated divorce
case. "You saw everything that was going
on in the house," she was asked. you
bet," she answered. There was nothing
doing that l wasn't onto"
Motor car 4-1l-4 OF the South Omaha
line. hitherto regarded as a hoodoo. has
been thoroughly exercised. For months
the management wondered why no COM
plants had been lodged against the crew
of this particular car. No matter how
often the crew was changed nary a kick
was fled by patrons. Crews OF all other
cars received an occasional roast, making
the exception notable. The trouble was
finally located IN the framed notice to
patrons, revised TO read: Passengers are
requested 10 notify the company of any
instances of ciyility or courteous treatment
on the part of motorman or conductor"
The revised card was replaced by the
original and the crew OF 4-ll-44 will get
what Is coming to It.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
DEATH OF THE FLOWERS.
William Cullen Bryant.

William Cullen Bryant.
The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year,
OF wailing winds, and naked woods,
And meadows brown and sere
Heaped I'm the hollows Of the grove,
The autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustic to the eddying gust,
And to the rabbits tread
The robin and the wren are flown,
And from the shrubs the Jay,
And from the wood-top calls the crow
Through all the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers, the fair young
flowers. that lately sprang and stood
In brighter light and softer airs, beau
Alas! they all are I'm their graves, the
gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair
and good OF ours,
The rain 's falling where they lie, but the
cold November rain
Calls not from out the gloomy, earth the
lovely ones again.
The wind-hower and the violet they per-
And the brler-rose and the orchis died amid
the summer glow;
But on the Hill the goldenrod, and the aster
And the yellow sunfower by the brook in
autumn beauty stood
TIL fell the frost from the clear cold
heaven, as falls the plague on men,
And the brightness Of their smile was gone
from upland, glade and glen.
And now, when comes the calm mild day,
as still such days Will come,
To call the squirrel and the bee from out
their winter home;
When the sound Of dropping nuts is heard,
though all the trees are still
And twinkle In the smoky light the waters
of the rill,
The south wind searches for the flowers
whose fragrance late he bore
And sighs to find them in the wood and by
the stream no more.
And then I think of one who in her youth
full beauty died,
The fair meek blossom that grew up and
faded by my side
In the cold moist earth we laid her, when
the forests cast the leaf,
And we wept that one so lovely should
have life so brief:
Yet not unmeet Il was that one, like that
young friend OF ours
So gentle and so beautiful should perish
with the flowers
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
~ pLEASrREs oE HOME-COMING.

THE PLEASURES or HOMECOMING.
The throng Of returning tourists is
again learning that more than half the
joys Of travelling consist in the pleasures
Of homecoming. II has been said that
no word in the English language is so
expressive of all that appeals to the
heart as the word home. and to none
does it appeal more directly and with
greater force than to the vacation
voyager who has set his course back to
the point from which he started.
If way-from-home journeying and So
iourning accomplishes one thing more
effectively than another 1t is to empha
size the attractions of home. Wherever
one may go and whatever one may see
abroad that is beautiful or picturesque
or satisfying he can yet on his return
find something at home that is also beau
tiful or picturesque or satisfying, or at
least serves to offset the shortcomings
as compared with other places much as
they are to be admired.
SO it is also with the home city. Moth
ing serves so well to make the city in
which we live show up so creditably and
give so much cause for honest pride as
the home coming after an inspection Of
other cities; nothing gives such vivid
realization of the noteworthy achieve
ments that have been accomplished per-
haps with inadequate resources, solely
through indomitable will and persistent
energy. Deficiencies are always visible,
to be sure, but to the homecoming
traveller they usually inspire to fresh de-
termination to work for improvement
and self assurance that the task is fully
within the range of practicability.
1t does a person good to go away, if
only to come home again. 1t does a city
good to have it's inhabitants go away oc-
casionally, If only to appreciate better
what advantages they constantly enjoy
without realizing how many others have
to lie content with less
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
ExCUSABLE on IyExCUslBLE'


Contrary to expectations and after hope
Of the success Of the negotiations had al
most been abandoned, the special COM
mittee OF the board OF regents in charge
Of the matter succeeded yesterday morn
ing In closing a deal for the purchase Of
two city lots Immediately north OF the uni
versity campus. incidentally, the trans
action saved a fund Of S2,7OO in the hands
Of the board, from lapsing and was the
source of considerable satisfaction to per-
sons at the university, The total price
said to have been paid for the property,
$4,000, Is considered somewhat high. but eX-
cusabe under the circumstahces.-Lincoln
Journal.
IL this transaction were not made in
the name of the State University would
II be excusable or inexcusabIe? The ex-
cuse offered by the regents for buying
land at admittedly excessive prices is
that unless the money were spent in this
way the appropriation would lapse back
into the state treasury and be lost to the
university. This, however, does not
necessarily follow. The money thus ex-
travagantly expended has been raised
by taxation and the lapse OF the ap-
preparation is not loss. but merely a
transfer TO other funds contributed by
the taxpayers for public purposes. The
lapse of an appropriation would give a
good excuse to the university to ask
the next legislature to reapproprIate IL
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

what was your name before YOU were
married. asked the Chicago census takei.
which timer queried the lady.-Deuolt
Free Press.
"Ahl pretty LADY," exclaimed the fortune
teller 'you have come TO ind your future
Not muchr' replied the pretty lady, I've
come to learn where my present husband
Is when he's absent'-Chicago Tribune.
THAT girl gets engaged to every fellow
that asns her.
Il suppose she goes on the theory. that
sRs wsSs Ss s6des Rs that s9SGS' sSSS
want them. m."-Washington Star.
why am gloomy?' demanded the un-
desirable admirer to whom she had given
the cut direct. Isn't q enough to make
one gloomy to be cut by the one he loves
"The idea" exclaimed the hcartless girl.
IL didn't even know that you shaved your
self. Philadelphia Press.
Miss Running Every woman should work
Mr. Marryat-IGat's what | say. but my
wite's 50 lazy
Miss Running You misunderstood me.
mean she should work hard to get n hus-
band, but after she gets him she shouldn't
have to work at all.-Cleveland Leader.
Miss slmmun-Harold called me peach
little while ago.
Miss Tartun-The insulting puppy! never
would speak to him again. or course he
meant dried peach.-Chicago Tribune.
He talks very interestingly" said one
YES" replied the other. But in all the
stories / ever read the man who used lovely
language was always poor and struggline
II doesn't seem good sign to e."-Wash-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

whereas the squandering Of any part Of
the money viii furnish an argument
against conceding further demands for
extra financial assistance.
suppose, IL we can, every state in
stitution with surplus remaining in
its appropriation at the end of the time
the officers in charge of these institu-
tions rather than turn back any Of the
money at their disposal should at the
last moment recklessly pay it all out
either for things that are not needed or
for supplies charged at prices largely
in excess of the current quotations.
Would the taxpayers regard such action
as excusable or inpxcusable?
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Regulating Sale of POIsOns.

OUICdBO OITUTICIts
Laws to prevent the indiscriminate gale
OF poisons which are proposed by the Illi-
nois Pharmaceutical association, are ~ be
desired, but 1t is doubtful whether they
will prove entirely effective. Experience
has shown that the man who wants poison.
like the man who wants whisky, is pretty
sure to get it-law or no law. The matter
is difficult to deal with for other reasons.
Even under existing laws the druggist is
not allowed to sell Il dose OF strychuine,
for instance but he may sell a hottie Of
some proprietary compound which con
tains enough strychuine to kill family.
The pharmacists VIII have to consider how
this is to be stopped before they can ac-
complish their reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Putting Up "A Blum.

Chicago Chronicle.
If John Mitchell has not lost that spirit
conservatism which has been attributed
to him It is hardly likely that he is going
about the country announcing that the coal
miners will strike next spring. For one
thing, such a declaration would have
tendency to defeat its purpose by giving the
mine owners an opportunity to prepare for
the struggle. For another thing, it would
furnish stock gamblers with a weapon with
which to attack a certain class of securi-
ties It is hardly conceivable that Mr..
Mitchell would be a party to either con-
summation. His enemies are misrepresent-
ing him
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
SENTIMENT AT A DISCOUNT.
Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln Be-
comes Speculative Venture.

comes speculative venture.
Philadelphia North American.
One reads with a shock that the birth
place of Abraham Lincoln has been put up
at public auction and knocked down for the
sum Of $500. There are 10 acres in the
farm on which stands the cabin where
the great war president entered the world,
so not much of the price was paid on ac-
count of sentiment.
Moreover, the land is worthless, and the
49, 600 represents veneration for patriotic
deeds-or a belief in the commercial value
of such veneraton in other people-the fact
remains that the people of the United
States who should be the owners and
preservers of this historic spot in Ken
lucky, did not pay cent of it, and have
no share In the title.
The ingratitude of republics has grown
into a proverb. Perhaps there are too many
men still alive in America who realize
what the great brain the answering in
tegrity of purpose and the big, warm
heart Of Abraham Lincoln meant to this
country in its day of suoremest peril to
permit 1t to be said that the country is
ungrateful to him.
Yet there is something presaging a for
getfulness anything but creditable in the
story Of that sheriT's sale in the Blue Grass
state
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

American delegates to the Interparlia-
mentary congress adopted two resolu-
tiOns, one congratulating President
Roosevelt on his efforts in the cause of
peace and the other asking the Nor
wegian government to confer the Nobel
prize upon Mr.. Bartholdt for his work in
behalf of arbitration. Without disparag-
ing the deserts Of Mr.. Bartholdt the
American delegates might with much
more justification have suggested that
the Nobel prize could find no more noble
place TO lodge this year than if bestowed
upon President Roosevelt himself
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

Portsmouth dispatch to an eastern
paper states that Baron Rosen, Russian
ambassador to this country and one of
the peace ENJOYS, made the statement
after the conference had reached an
agreement that it is the intention of
Russia to cultivate the closest relations
with Japan, in the hope of eventually
taking the place of England in "A Japa-
nese combination. 1t appears that
among officials at Washington the view
is entertained that Russia may in the
near future seek an alliance with Japan,
in order to get an outlet for her COM
merce in eastern Asia.
1t is not altogether improbable that
Russia looks forward to commercial
treaty with Japan and she may even
hope for an alliance, but the suggestion
that she may take the place of Great
Britain in a Japanese combination has
not even plausibility. The mutual in
terests of Britain and Japan in the far
east have naturally drawn those nations
together and the alliance they have
formed will undoubtedly be a lasting
one for each feels 1t to be most essential
to their interests. Obviously Japan
would have nothing to gain by an al
lance with Russia, whose navy has been
destroyed, and besides she has every
reason to still distrust Russia, which has
never acted fairly toward her. Friendly
relations between the two powers will
undoubtedly be established, but it is
safe to say they will not become allies.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
stand Pot.
Baltimore American

Baltimore American.
II begins to look as though the United
States need do nothing in the matter Of the
Chinese boycott except to stand pat The
boycott is reported to be already working
in adverse ways which the celestials did
not anticipate. The fear now among those
Shanghai merchants who originally fostered
the movement is of financial panic as II
result. The orientals It seems, may learn
something Of the principle Of the boomerang
as we'll as of the boycott.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

1t is probable that the mayor Of Den
home just as much as it rises abroad If
he enforces his proclamation ordering
all persons to charge visitors the same
as residents for services rendered dur
ing the G. A. r. encampment. How is
Denver to get back the guarantee fund.-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

pOSbbu lidlSNllpA
Mr.. Shonts' smooth explanation demon
strates that it is about as easy to dig a
canal in Panama as a subway IN an Amer
lean city. Either undertaking involves
nothing more difficult than the accom-
plishment of what a short time ago was
declared to be impossible and that's some
thing engineering skill is bringing about
every day Of the year.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

By voting II resolution of censure on
the mayor of Atlanta for making n
drunken exhibition of himself at the
meeting of the League of American Mu-
inequalities, the city council has put it.
self on record to vindicate the good
name of that progressive southern city
Inasmuch as the next meeting is sched
uled for Chicago, Atlanta should keep
its mayor ut home or get the location
changed to st. Louis, where the lid is on.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

Before the Iowa state Census bureau
officially goes out of business It might
help to a better understanding of it's
labors If il would make sure that the ap-
parent loss in population in the Hawk
eye state Is not due simply to an over
Jealous patriotism OF the enpmerators
who made the last federal census.