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The Imperial press., 1905-04-01
THE CIRCUS A HOLIDAY
The FIOto FhOws Are Coming

Circus day is the real perfect holiday. Excitement, fun and pleasure for every body and no one overlooked. It is a benefit alike to the lawyer, doctor, ex- cursionist, business men and the city generally. If business is good it like wise benefits the snowman. If a rain storm ruins the days prospects the bills are paid with pleasant smile and the big show moves on.
 For people who attend the exhibitions the Great Floto Shows offer more for the money than any three so-called tent shows. For poor people the Floto Shows offer full days fine enjoyment without money and without price.
 First is unloading and placing of these immense shows, which are very inter- esting as an object lesson in system to old and young alike.
 Then the grand free Open-den street parads, the view of which will never be effaced while memory remains. After the big educational display of the great shows immensity on the principal streets comes the openalr display of daylight fireworks, projected by enor- nous bombs miles into the atmospheric space. This all takes place on the show grounds immediately after the return of the parads, followed by numerous free exhibitions in front of the annex, which now opens to those desirOus of seeing many of natures most curious marvels.
 Then the free horse show from 12 to 2 o'clock, and after the matinee you are invited to visit the Great Floto Shows horse tents, where are exhibited free of charge, and all are welcome, 285 head of horses and ponies, including the Ben Hur herd of IA Arabians, Clydes, Perch erons, Normans, Trachne, thorough breds, Shetland and Iceland ponies. The Great Floto Shows claim to have the finest bred horses in the world, and invite you, whether you go to the circus or not, to inspect the horses free of charge.
 So everybody is cordially invited, lich and poor alike, to enjoy the days festivities, when the big shows come here
 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 Don't forget the date.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
Personal NOTES.

one way to make Christmas last al IN"
year round is to give presents tnat you
have to pay for on the installmant Ian.
John Harrison of the six Hundred that
made the famous charge Of BalakIlva, in
the Crimean war, has just died in Delhi,
y Y, at the age of IS.
Arden" the mountain home OF Nine.
Helen Modj= ska, in Santa Ana, Cal, has
been sold to Leopold Moss OF Chicago. The
property is of 1900 acres, largely n GUN
famous.
a telephone franchise which communities
often give away for the asking, is valued
at $3.50, 600 in New York City, and COM
pany offers 10 put up the cash for the priv
ilege of getting in.
Jacob Steiner Of Brooklyn, has L col
lection Of rare pistols said, by Experts, to
be one of the most complete in his country,
IL rot in the world. His collection repre-
s,nts twenty years of work.
one week ago Henry n. Rockwell Of
Yonkers, y. Y, was a railroad conductor,
and today he is a member of the New
York state railroad commission, lrawing
a salary five times large a week
ago
There are four governors that served dur
inC the civil war still living William
Sprague, whose home is near Nara gansett
Pier, r. l.; Frederick Holbrook Of Drattle-
boro, Vt; Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas,
and John ]. Pettys Of Mississippi
Coincidcnt with the abolition Of free
passes by eastern railroads the advantages
of the northwest railroads are exploited.
Managers OF the latter route have not de-
clared themselves on the pass question,
but personal applications will be favorably
received.
The mikado IL complaining OF salary
that is smaller than those of the mon
archs of several lesser European Kingdoms
oI even Of the secOnd-rate life insurance
presidents. He actually gets only about
81, 90 Oo0, supplemented by about S-01OO
from his personal estate,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
AMEND THE LAND LAWS.

Both the president ard the secretary
Of the interior have called the attention
Of congress TO the desirability Of amend
ing the public land laws. Mr.. Roose-
welt said in his message that recent de-
velopments have given new urgency to
these laws TO actual present conditions.
He urged that the honest disposal and
right use of the remaining public lands
is of fundamental importance. The
iniqultous methods 10y which the monop-
olizing of the public lands is being
brought about under the present laws
are becoming more generally known,
but the existing laws do not furnish
effective remedies" The president ap-
proves the recommendations of the pub
lie lands commission and says they
should be given effect.
In his annual report Secretary Hitch
cock recommends legislation which shall
prescribe punishment for persons who
fraudulently obtain or attempt to obtain
title to public lands. 1t thus appears
that the land laws make no provision
for the adequate punishment of persons
who obtain fraudulent titles to public
lands and congress should promptly
remedy the defect. The New York Sun
observes that it would doubtless be a
work of time to revise properly the en-
tire system of land laws, but it would
be the work of only u few minutes to
draft and of few days to pass, law
providing a generous punishment for
those who steal or attempt to steal land
belonging to the people. at were as
we'll to provide no punishment for steal
ing from the public treasury"
The land laws are complex and anti
quated and there is abundant informa-
ton readily available to congress show
ing what changes in those laws are nee
essary in order to fit them to actual
present conditions. There is a commit
tee on public lands in the senate and
one in the house, but 1t would seem
that these committees have not given
that careful attention to the subject
Of which they have charge as its great
importance merits. They should give
early consideration to the recommended
tons of the president and secretary of
fthe interior, and especially should there
be no unnecessary delay in providing
proper punishment for land thieves.
The duty of promptly remedying this
defect in the laws is immediate and i'm.
perative.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
CAMPAIGN AGAINST REBATES.
Railroad Discrimination and Favor
itism Must stop.
Phila dnlnhia Press

Insurance investigation is plainly to be
followed by a period of railroad inquiry.
The evidence in regard to railroad re-
bates now before the federal grand jury
in this city is only a part of the campaign
of the Department of Justice against rail-
road rebates. At Chicago, st. Louis and
Omaha, in the southwest and on the Pa
cific coast, on the railroad lines which CEN
ter in Alabama and Tennessee and now
in this city steps have been taken to prose-
cute those granting rebates and those con-
spring to grant and receive them.
Public feeling and public action on this
subject cannot and will not stop with re-
bates. Railroad officers are aware of this
Their abolition of railroad passes is a rec
ignition of a new and higher code in corpo-
ration management. Personal privilege and
perquisite must GO
The public has condemned insurance Of
fcers who profited by the ownership of
stock in subsidiary corporations 1t will
be as quick to condemn railroad directors
and management If ownership in trust
companies cost insurance officers their
places, ownership by railroad officers in
abattoirs, in express companies, in bag
gage delivery companies will be as serious
for them. If the use of insurance funds
to promote land speculation has cost
Senator DepeS public respect, ownership
and profit by railroad officers in land spec
ulation dependent on their own action as
railroad officers will look Just bad when
exposed
Insurance officers and railroad officers
alike are trustees of property belonging ia
others. One as much as the other; one no
less than the other. If insurance reveal
tons have damaged, railroad revelations OF
a like character will damage in like way
II any such revelations can be made they
are pretty certain to come when railroad
investigation begins as state legislatures
assemble The public is ready
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
PENALTY FOR MORAL WRONG.
Significant Manifestation of Agrees
sive Public Sentiment.
Chicago Chronicle.

Chicago Chronicle.
What a storm of Indignation is raging
around William Ellis Corey. the president
of the United States Steel corporation
What has he done? Only this, that having
assistance of faithful wife to whom he
plighted his troth when both were poor he
now Graves a more ornamental head for his
household and has acted so unbecomngly
toward an actress with the same moral ma
ture as his as to compel his lawful wife to
sue for a divorce.
What of It? Isn't this done somewhere
every day in the year? Is 1t not generally
condoned in men of great wealth? Is II
usual for such an escapade to shock society
and rupture business relations? Yet here
we have Pittsburg society slamming it's
doors in Mr.. Corey's face, his own father
and mother remarking that they would not
speak a word to save him from the peni-
tertiary and even the directors of the Steel
corporation suggesting his retirement and
announcing his successor.
This is all as It should be. The man who
puts away the wife of his youth and pow
erty TO marry beautiful adventures is not
to be tolerated and il is perfectly proper
that society should ostracize him and bust
ness men depose him
The only wonder is that this is not al
ways the result of such scandalous inidel-
ity and immortality We can only say that
it is better that such a retribution should
occur only once in a while than never.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
STORY OF THE uNwIsE MAN.

w ID. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
John Henry Brown, with soornful frown,
made speech unto his wife!
You've spent six days. to my amaze.
within the shopping strife,
4 from your list there is not missed one
fourth that We must buy.
1--WE worked enough. I'll get the stun
ere you could wink your eye
,hn Henry laughed John Henry chaned.
when his dear wife said: See
ne time I've spent has bowed and bent
and made "A wreck IF me.
We shopped and shopped until | dropped
from utter weariness
lie vowed: I'm MI your Christmas bill in
half an hour or less.
ohm Henry Brown then went down town
and sauntered to the stores;
Ic STROBE with smiles along the aisles and
rode to many floors,
But everywhere when he got there a crowd
OF folk would stand
And keep at work the busy clerk with
pencil In her hand.
And through each door there crowded more
until the store was run
Brown turned about 10 hasten out, and had
TO push and pull
They showed him through a showcase too
they ground him on the wall,
They punched and pounced and squeezed
and bounced him like rubber ball.
They tumbled him, and jumbled him, they
threw him to and fro
Until at length he lost his strength and
could no farther 90,
And as he fell he knew full well his help
less form should feel
The beating bruise of women's shoes-each
with a pointed heel.
Next day he woke and family spoke unto
the white clad nurse
Upon your life, take 70 my wife my
Christmas list and purse"
The nurse replied: Your wifes outside
for her you need not fear.
She was among the crowd that swung on
you, and sent you here"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
THE sIYro DOMINGO TREATI


That determined fight is to be made
in the senate against the ratification of
the Santo Domingo treaty is already ap-
parent and it's rejection is quite pos
sible. The purpose of the treaty is to
approve and continue the course of the
administration in the matter of collect
ing the Dominican customs revenue. 1t
is not questioned that what has been
the black republic. AS pointed out by
President Roosevelt the revenues are be-
ing honestly collected by the Americans
appointed by the Dominican govern
ment and a considerable sum has al
ready been set aside for the creditors Of
that country. Furthermore, stability
and order and all the benefits of peace
are at last coming to Santo Domingo,
danger of foreign Intervention has been
suspended, and there is at last a pros
pect that all creditors will get justice"
1t is the opinion of the president that if
the arrangement is terminated by the
failure of the treaty chaos will follow
and sooner or later this government may
be involved in serious difficulties with
foreign governments over the island, or
else may be forced itself to intervene
in the island in some unpleasant fash
ion.
While the course adopted was at the
% nA
interfere with the independence of that
republic, still there is feeling that if
approved by treaty there will be estab-
lished a precedent which may hereafter
become embarrassing and troublesome.
Those who oppose the treaty contend
that If the convention is ratified it will
establish a new policy which will radi-
cally change the relations between the
United States and the Latin-American
countries. What is being done to guard
| against foreign Intervention in Santo
Domingo our government might be
called upon at any time to do for other
republics in this hemisphere which have
| foreign creditors who want what is due
| them. Once it is established that the
| United States is willing to become
collector of debts due to foreigners by
American countries the creditors of such
countries would be very likely 10 bring
all possible pressure to bear for the col
| lection of what is due them, with view
| To forcing this government to take ac
ton in their behalf. 1t is therefore easy
to see that having made such a prece-
dent as the pending Santo Domingo
treaty contemplates our government
! might become burdened with RESPONSE
| bilities and obligations that would prove
/ very troublesome.
1t is said that the administration has
indicated a willingness to have the
treaty modified in some important re-
spects, but the opposition insists that il
shall be left in its present form and this
has so far prevailed. prolonged dis
cussiOn of the treaty, in which the re
lations of the United States and the
Latin-American republics will receive
very thorough consideration, is prom
ised In the meantime the receivership
ON the part of this government in Santo
! Domingo will continue, unless a stop
should be nut 10 il by the outbreak Of
another revolution I'm the island.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
NOTHING SMALL ABOUT OMAHA.

NOTHING SMALL ABOUT OMAHA.
From its very inception Omaha has
been imbued with spirit Of self
reliance and boundlcss confidence in its
future greatness. The pioneers who
mapped the city, fixed its boundaries
and staked out its broad streets ex-
hibited almost prophetic foresight. They
were imbued with a profound belief
that they had founded a commercial
metropolis which would grow and eX-
pand with the years and was destined
finally to take rank among the other
great American cities
There was nothing small about the
men of the SOS and cos, and their ex-
ample has been an inspiration for the
men who have come afterward and
made Omaha what it is today. Few
American cities can boast of more
spirited, enterprising and progress
sive citizenship than Omaha. Whatever
they project or undertake is always on
scale commensurate with the preten-
sions of Omaha as metropolitan city.
This broad and enlightened citizenship
was exhibited in the Transmississippi
exposition. that made Omaha famous as
the first and only exposition city that
paid back practically its entire invest
ment to the stockholders. The same
public spirit was exhibited in the cree
ton of the Auditorium and is now being
exhibited in the projected fireproof no.
tells that have become an imperative
necessity The same spirit that has sue
cessfully carried through many great
enterprises is also visible in the monu-
mental structures that are now being
erected in this city and those that are
planned to be erected within the next
! two years.
| 1t is chiefly because there is nothing
small about Omaha that Omaha is forg-
ing ahead and rapidly assuming its po-
! sition in the great commercial and in
| dustrial centers of America
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

p. +. Dunno in Golfers
II these here inthrestin' life insurance
scandals had come up In Merry oil Eng
land we'd niver heerd iv thin, because
all tn boys wud be in tn, House iv
Lo:ds he this time, an Lord Tontne
wud sit hard on amy scheme to hav
him searched be a lawyer firm Brookly'
But with this here nation iv ours SOM
body scents something wrong with II
scales at tn grocery store an whips on
his gun, another man turns in fir
alarm, a third fellow sets fire to tn Pres
hvterian church, vigilance comfy
formed an hangs ivry foorth man; an
havin started with ROCKEFELLER, who's
tough an don't mind bein' lynched, the!
fn'lly wind up with desthroyin' me be
cause tn steam laundry has stint me home
somebody else's collars
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
LawIessness at Annapolis.

No sooner does Midshipman Meriwether
get off easy for fighting with a fellow
midshipman who died as a result OF in
juries received than we have two fragrant
cases of hazing at the Annapolis institu-
ton in violation not only of law but Of
a pledge given by all midshipmen to give
up hazing. This lawlessness follows hard
or the heels of the appointment of an
investigating board ito look into the acad-
envy customs that are contrary to regu-
lations or laws OF the United States '
The very appointment of this cimmission
Implies a deplorable lack of discipline
and federation OF lawlessness in the acad-
envy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

The more the railroad attorneys and
tax agents agitate the railway tax ques
ton the more they will irritate and
exasperate the people who are COM
PEELED to pay their taxes because they
do not have money enough to hire law
yers and tax agents by the year.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

NUICagO JhrOnlCIe.
Chiet Chemist Wiley of the Department
of agriculture tells the American Ware
housemen's association that they will soon
have to stamp and sell their cold stora ge
goods for what they really are. That prob
ably means that the stamping will include
the date Of placing in storage. Prof. Wiley
says Of the prejudice against cold storage
goods: "A little Of it may he just; a great
deal Of it unjust" That is comforting as
surance. but how are We to know the cases
In which it is just? If We can know that.
the stamping will be unnecessary. II we
can not know it, the stamping will not
help US any
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

Municipal ownership continues the
live topic of discussion in the improve
ment clubs. 1t will be remembered,
however, that subsidized cappers put
most of these improvement Cabs on
record against municipal ownership
when the proposition to vote bonds for a
municipal electric lighting plant was up
last wear
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
some Good In Automobiles.
Brooklyn EarIe.

This year the Americans have invested
$50, 600 900 in automobiles. Now for a chorus:
How many charities, how many good roads
and how many schools you could build with
that! True; but the automobile distributes
the charity in fines; it is a missionary for
good roads; and ii disseminates an equva-
lent of intelligence among the rural con-
stabulary.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
Rebate Prosecutions
Springfield Republican.

Evidently the government is intent upon
vigorous measures to suppress railroad re-
batting This is indicated by the institu-
ton Of proceedings at Philadelphia. There
may be no success in securing convictions;
the railroads there may be innocent as
they claim they are. but much can be done
10 put down the evil by swift and relent-
less action wherever bit Of evidence APP
pears on which TO base H.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

Chicago grain dealers appear to be
much wrought up over the new grain
rate, which will take effect after Janu-
AIRY l. The adjustment, II Is said, will
make II impossible for Chicago buyers
10 enter the Missouri river Geld ON equal
terms with the Missouri river buyers,
and Chicago grain dealers demand a re
adjustment that will permit graz IL Se
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

General Henderson is little mixed as
to his facts and considerably awry as
to his conclusions. In the meanwhile,
the public would like to know why a
railroad should not pay its taxes just
the same as other people.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
Progress in IrriEation,
81. Louis Glohe-Democrat.

II is only three years since the irrigation
law was passed. and already the govern
ment has constructed seventy-ssven miles
OF main canal hfty-four miles Of distribut-
ing system. 1s6 miles of bitches. including
dams three and one-half miles of tunnels,
1926 miles of wagon roads, 147 bridges, a
cement mill with a capacity OF 800 barrels
a day, and many buildings incidental 10
the work. In no other case in history
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

According to Dun & Co.'S review Of
trade there is unprecedented prepare
ton for the spring trade in New York.
transposed from the temperate zone to
the tropics. In these parts merchants
are still actively engaged in filling the
unprecedented demand of the Christmas
trade
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
Too Many on Guard.
Chicago Record-Herald.

Thomas f. Ryan is a giant physically,
and one OF the correspondents who saw
him on the stand before the insurance in
qulsitors says he looks as if he might easily
own the earth within ten years IL he is
let alone. There are indications that no.
body who starts out in future 10 own the
earth is likely 10 be let alone very long.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
Homewnrd Bound.

The enemies or immigration may POSSIBLY
draw some comfort from the fact that at
this season OF the year nearly as many
undesirable" Italians are going away as
arriving in Atlantic steamships But to
people who find it difficult 10 Obtain suffi-
cient labor for their operations the matter
presents itself in quite dffsrent Hpht
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

If the Swiss were up to Yankee stand
ards they would turn that hot spring in
the Simplon tunnel to account. 1t would
be a poor physician who could not dis
cover medicinal properties for the usual
consideration.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
The Hot Pace.
Sd. louis Giobe-Democrat

st. Louis Globe Democrat
The railroads of the country have more
business than they can handle and the
packing companies are charging their
plants. Uncle Sam will have to increase
his avoirdupois and fighting strength II he
expects to keep pace with the rest Of our
institutions
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

Governor MaGoon of the Panama
zone now has his officisl commission
duly signed and sealed with senatorial
confirmation. Nebraskans looking for
ward 10 jobs on the canal should send
In their messages OF congratulation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

Young Mr.. Hyde insists that he has
no intention whatever of going abroad
TO live. Such an eminent financier could
never find a field of operations more
promising than among the lambs that
gambol around Wall street.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
Dream On, Thomas.
baltimore American.

Thomas Edison says that We are on
the verge of discoveries that will revolu-
tionize the production of electricity and
that will open up new era of progress
for the world. Considering the way the
wizards dreams have come true in the
past. It is worth while taking his word
for IT,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

Omaha is to go after the 1907 meet
ing of the Christian Endeavorers. 1t Is
pretty near time to put that fine Audi
forum of ours to use for the purpose
originally intended.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18
The Queens FavOrite.

With a fine perception OF chivalrous char
acter and legislative possibilities, ex-Queen
Ililiuokalani now commits her petition for
financial relief in the amount of 100000
directly to the Hon. Charles w. Fairbanks.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-18

Gentlemen who contemplate robbing
Uncle Sam by fraudulent land entries
should remember that the inability of
women to keep a secret has passed into
proyerb