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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10

At a meeting OF the general committee
having in charge the Young Mems Christian
association project last night II was decided
to invoke the aid of the ministers of the
city, and through them bring attention 70
the proposition of their respective congre-
cations. The ministers will be requested 10
select some Sunday morning at which the
subject OF their addresses will be the
Young Mems Christian association and the
benefits which a community derives from
having such an organization in its midst.
On the afternoon OF the day which the min
listers will designate as Young Mems Chris
tian association Sunday, mass meeting
will be held. probably in the Broadway
Methodist church, at which the subject will
be fully discussed and plans for putting
the project on its feet mapped out. Chair
man Joe Smith and Secretary Wallace were
appointed a committee to wait on the min
listers at the meeting OF their association
next Monday morning.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10
MOTHER
AND CHILD.

Let the mother take
SCOTS Emulsion for the
two; it never fails to
benefit them both. One
can eat for two, but nour-
ishing two is a different
thing. 1t calls for a de-
gree of internal strength
that the average woman
lacks. People of luxury
are not very strong by
habit; overworked people
are weak in some func-
tons from exhaustion or
their surroundings. SCOTS
Emulsion can be depend
ed upon to overcome such
conditions. 1t is a Won
derful food for a mother
and child.
SCOTT . sowEE. .ss Pearl ssr.-,. Ne. Yea.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10
N. Y. Plumbing Co, Tel so. Night. LS
FaaeraI ef John a. Mepermott.

The funeral services OF the late John A.
MeDermott. held yesterday morning at 81.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10

OFFICE CONSTRUCTING QUARTER
master Fort Robinson, Neb., Feb. O. 1906.
Sealed proposals, in triplicate. will be re-
ceived until 10 a; m.,. western standard
time, March B. 1906 for remodeling old
post and signal Office here. Information
furnished on application. Envelopes con-
tanning proposals will be marked PRO
posals for Remodeling Building No. "a"
and addressed H. c. Whitehead, Construct
ing Quartermaster. Feb9-l0-12 Mch2-3
L. s. ENGINEER OFFICE, ROCK IS
land, ILL.,, Feb. 10, 1eO6.-Sealed pro-
posa1s for Lock in Mississippi River near
Moline, ILL.,, will be received here until
~ m. March u, 1906 and then publicly
opened. Information furnished on applica-
ton. c. S. Richie, Maj. Engrs.
Fl0-12-13-A M9-10
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10
Novelist Talks Politics.

Opie Read, the novelist was in the city
today on his way 10 Grinnell 10 lecture. He
took occasion while here TO say that in
travelling over Iowa TO lecture he had found
that there was a strong sentiment In favor
Of Cummins for third term. He said the
United States senate now no more nearly
represents the people than the House OF
Lords does the English workingmen
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10

For Sale.
Babbitt Place lots. graded, $50.
Highland Place lots, $50
Broadway Place lots, $3.50.
Large Glen avenue lot, 81 SOO
Fifth avenue lot, $3.50,
Dwellings, $500 to $500.
Insurance written.
Charles T. oficer. 4l9 Broadway, Council
Bluffs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10

Daily Daily except SUNDAY. Dailx
rept Monday.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10

Doneld Balm, arrested for raiding a resort
on Cherry street and identified by Fred
Carr and others, was a student at Drake
ministry.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10
No Change of Venue.

In the district court this afternoon Judge
James A. Howe overruled the motion of the
attorneys for w. L. Carter for a change OF
venue on the grounds of local prejudice.
Carter is charged with the murder of Ed
dresser of Avon. A continuance Is asked
TO give time TO DreDare for the caaa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
General CIean-Up Day.

Filth. trash and all other movable abominations are to be abolished in vided the people will take hold on gen eral cleanup day with vigor and una. nimity. Everybody should cooperate in this effort to render this city sweet and wholesome at the opening of the mosquito and yellow fever season, al- though the latter has no season in Jones valley New Orleans certainly has reason to fear both, and what New Orleans fears Birmingham shoud guard against.
 We can fortify ourselves against all disease by cleansing not only streets and alleys but back yards and all other places on each individual lot that are harboring filth. Scarcely lot In this city is wholly wholesome. In many there are untold abominations, and the general cleanup day has been named by Mayor Ward in the hope that every householder will go over his lot with determination to drive from it all filth and trash. Volunteer wagons and carts are needed in order to assist the regular city wagons, and perfect CO., operation will in that way give us a clean and wholesome town in single July day. Help yourselves and your neighbors by giving an entire day to a raid upon filth Let it be exterminated until not a scent fingers behind. Drive it out by making Monday next the Rcd Letter day of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
The Meanest Yet.

'T have seen people come to the tank provided for the street railway motor men and conductors at the corner of Eighth avenue and Nineteenth and draw off buckets of ice water to carry to their homes," said . conductor on the North and South Highlands line "rhis tank has a comparatively small capacity, but that does not seem to bother them.
 Now it strikes me that the man who does this Is a candidate for the title of the meanest yet. Thank goodness all are not of his type. It is amusing to observe the attitude of the public towards this same drinking stand. Sometimes when a car stops for moment for the con- ductor or motorman to get drink. you can see a woman who Is in a hurry begin to fidget. But the old gentleman who never gets ruffled jocularly inquires of his neighbor if all trains don't have to tank up now and then and turns the fretted look into smile.
 There Is indeed a broad difference be- tween the man who is too stingy to buy a nlckle's worth of ice and who comes and drains off the water that is provided for the thirsty employees of the street car company, and the kindly fellow who is willing to wait patiently while the motorman tanks up.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
MURDER AND PILLAGE IN
 A HEROIC ATMOSPHERE

From the Washington Post.
 TT IS gratifying to learn that Jesse
 James, son of the great outlaw of ! that name, is a respectable citizen and successful lawyer of Missouri. Unless human nature undergoes a change that 1t has not experienced in 5000 years, men and women of future generations of the Mississippi valley will be proud to trace their lines back to the bloodiest and most desperate of American outlaws. If Jesse James had been as formidable with a and had lived some twenty-odd genera tions earlier and borne himself valiantly ir the ranks of the victors at Hastings, he would have founded line, and F'itz- iameses and St. Jameses, in baronial hall, would exult in the robber deeds of their heroic ancestor.
 What was William the Conqueror but a successful murderer and fortunate rob- Der? His army followed him for spoil The difference between him and Jesse James is this-he was the state, and at feud with all who refused him tribute, while James was at war against the state '"N oepohuehe oh ii'e i"iiu to NeeP HIS head. "f
 Edward III was another robber, as was
 son, the Black Prince. Their trade was war, when war was more like hell than 1t is now. They went from pillar to post. cutting throats and pillaging communi- ties. Sir Francis Drake and Sir Martin Frobisher who were so heroic the battles against the Invincible Armada, were plain pirates who would be hanged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Salary Limit Soreness.

The Montgomery Journal, with marked fairness and justice complains that whl.e the Montgomery team has kept within the salary limit, the New Orleans team in particular has not, and it intimates that the payrolls of some of the other teams of the Southern league exceed s2700 a month. The Journal says in relation to the New Orleans team:
 Suppose we look at the lineup of the New Orleans team. Bretensten, it is as- serted by many whose opinion Is entitled to a respectable hearing. is virtually the New Orleans club. This opinion Is based partly upon his standing when Frank was manager of the Bluff City bunch. Some Southern League managers say that he is receiving s425. More conser- vatively the figure paid for his services is placed at $40O Phillips is getting not less than s350 or $500 and Guese ought to receive at least s225. Manuel propably draws the same amount It Is hardly likely that Cargo, Blake and Stratton are receiving in aggregate, less than s37t for their services at the lowest estimate Beck and Knoll it is thought, are getting S250 each. with Rickert $275, Bird s200 and Atz $350. O'Brien's salary Is probably sS2S and. taking the most conservative total of the figures quoted you have S450 or at least s750 in excess of the salary limit while Brouthers will certainly be paid more than O'Brien"
 The Journal presents these figures not among the baseball news, but in its editorial column. The people Of Montgomery consider their team un justly hanolcapped by the salary limit and the Journal speaking for them urges an increase of the limit to req sonable sum, and then a rigid enforce ment of it.
 As a rule all salary limits are farci cal. No one respects them except of course men of high honor and those who desire to be bound by them. They are really a source of injustice, null sance, and perhaps the better way is in the Southern league to abolish the limit altogether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13

all inspection is the elimination of germs from milk. Tn Boston milk can not be sold that contains more than 500,000 bacteria to the cubic centi- meter, and in Milwaukee all milk is barred that holds 25O,OOO bacteria to the cubic centimeter. A centimeter is a trihe more than thirty-nine hun dredths of an inch. and an allowance of 25O,0OO bacteria to cubic third of an inch seems to be liberal-to the bacteria.
 All cities are adopting the bacteria logical standard. There is really no other way in which tab can be kept on milk germs. and the experience of European cities as we'll as of Milwau- kee and Boston shows that it Is re- markedly efficient, saving annually many precious lives. A meteorological analysis Is not difficult. All up-to-date physicians know how to make 1t, and there is no reason in the world why the milk sold in Birmingham should not be tested in that way at least oc- casionally. In Milwaukee the com missioner of health permits no milk to be sold that does not come up to stand ard, and no doubt today that city has a purer milk supply than any other town in this country. This excellent life-saving result is due-wholly due to the close watch 1t keeps upon germs in it's daily milk supply of 30,0O0 quarts. It wants no germ-infeeted milk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
ENGLISH PUBLISHER
Has Bought Forests From Which to
 Get Supply of Paper.

From Newspaperdom.
 Mir. Alfred Harmsworth of London now owns ffty-eight newspapers and periodi- calls He now has title, Lord Northcliffe. Previous to the bestowal of this title up- on him he was Sir Alfred. But back a dozen years, when he made his early vis- it's to the United States, and the news paper fraternity became so pleasantly ac- qrainted with him, he was simply mister and very agreeable and well-liked mister. Tn those days he got among our newspaper men as much as possible, and many New Workers remember him very pleasantly. He was keen after information and no man whom he imagined could give him an idea was neglected.
 His visit to this country Che arrived on July D at this time is, of course. in the character of Mud though he Is the same energetic and democratic gentleman he was dozen years ago. when he had to be introduced. and his intoducer had to ex- plain that he was an English newspsn man. There are some other English press men along with Lord Northcliffe-Ernest Charles Whitley. principal writer on Blackwoods magazine and leading con- tributor to The Spectator. who is going to write a series of American impress sions; H. W. Wilson, a leading English naval writer. who Is the author of the work "Ironclads in Action" and Bart Kennedy, well known in England as the literary tramp" who has gone on foot throughout every country of Europe and written about his travels. They went to Newport fcr two or three days, and then to the Tobique river. in Canada, where Lord Northcliffe will be the guest of Lord Strathcona, for the fishing. Afterward Lord Northcliffe will go to Newfoundland to look after his pulp interests there.
 'Broadly speaking, consider that news paper owners, as rule. have not suf- ficiently considered the difficulties that lie ahead of them In securing their paper supplies" said Lord Northcliffe, re- ferring to the increasing price of paper MY eyes were opened by the situation at the time of ire Boer war. when the price of paper rose universally. From that mo- rnent I made up my mind that my ousi- ness should become independent of paper shortages. whether real or promo'eo ps trusts. and I have been fortunate enough to secure from the government or New foundland a vest concession Of forest iane' sufficient I believe to protect not oniy
 ,,, orn interests, but a dozen other Of tha largest businesses in the United Statss a concession which will also bring added prosperity to that wonderful col
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
SLAM AT MERE MAN.
Can't Forgive Him for Being Dis
 inclined to Sing and Dance.

'Chioot," in the London Sketch.
 one may presume of abusing her own sex, has had a tiny knock at Man Quite you understand, a tiny knock She does not say that he Is deceitful. or extrava- gant or vain, or cruel. or given to taking drugs, or to cheating at bridge or any of the other things that everybody hast ems to admit are the monopoly of women Man, nevertheless, Is not perfect. He re- fuses to sing and he refuses to dance Singing and dancing" says she, were once indispensable to education; but now no gentleman can rouse himself to mas ter either accomplishment"
 The answer to this is that no gentleman ever did rouse himself to master these aceomplishm ents--unless. us is very rare he had a marked talent for them. On the contrary, he was reused. Certain after moons in the week were set aside for singing. certain evenings for dancing and the poor wretch was compelled to make a. fool of himself because his parents had paid the extra fee. There is no more ludicrotis sight in the world than room ful of schoolboys. nine-tenths of them without the slightest artistic ability of any sort whatever. struggling, under pain of punishment, to sing or dance.
 Nowadays. nobody dreams of asking a man to sing who cant sing, but women still persist in believing that every man could dance beautifully, or at the least passably if he wasn't so lazy. The men who can dance, dance. The men who don't dance. can't and never could. But what Is the good of asking mothers to have respect for their daughters toes?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Yellow Fever In Louisiana

La Place is not on through or long railroad. It is on the Mississippi river twenty-nine miles above New Orleans, in the parish of St. John Baptist. The town is perhaps ten miles from Lake Pontchartrain, along the shores of which the Illinois Central railroad is laid. The distance between it and any railroad in Alabama is simply the dis tance to New Orleans, and Lake Pont- chartrain lies in the way Perhaps a more isolated place near New Orleans could not have been selected, and Dr. 1rion. president of the Louisiana state board of health, is watching the local ity closely, employing in the mean while all possible precautions.
 But Louisiana certainly should pun ish the physician in charge of the case severely He knew his duty, having formerly been the health officer of St. Johns parish, but he neglected. or rather Intentionally refused, to report the case until July T. twelve days after It's development. The patient is now well, but in the twelve days many mosquitoes may have bitten him. An example should be made of the offend ing doctor. who preferred the whims of a patient to the public health and the welfare of perhaps the entire south. His name is Montigut, and he needs an allopathic dose of Louisiana law.
 It is regrettable that Texas greed and states rights nonsense kept the marine hospital service from taking charge of the yellow fever situation in and about New Orleans. It is the danger point of the country, and ever will be in the respect of yellow fever. As the law was finally passed the gen eral government will have charge of maritime quarantine, and the state boards will control the situation on shore. Dr. Irion is president of the Louisiana state board of health, and upon him falls the task of seeing that the case at La Place does not become focus of infection. There were many cases of yellow fever in 1905 at La rlace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
The Boil WeevlI.

'In the working out of the great weed ing processLthe survival of the fittest-. when d species becomes economically bur densome the readjustment of natures balance is not far off" said a farmer
 "As this law Is applied in the case of the higher organisms so it is with in- sects Take for example the swarms of locusts that appeared in California not many years ago. For a few seasons they did incalculable injury to the crops. Then they disappeared almost as suddenly as they came So I believe 1t will ulti- mately be with the boil weevil. His rav- ages to the cotton crop the first year aft CT his existence was discovered in Texas alarmed farmers over the entire belt.
 From reports of government entomolo- gists after studies of the habit of the insect and the rate of travel. 1t seemed that in a season or so at the latest the whole cotton crop would be his feeding ground This season he has, from all ac- counts, practically disappeared. For these things we must appeal to nature just as we do in the matter of supply and de- mand."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
THE JUM BILE.
Another Novel of Exposure By Tonup
 Clolrsln, Muck-Raker.


 From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 Chapter LA train was speeding west ward across the Illinois prairie. The gold en fields raced by, the larks rose upon olrcling wings. and Johannabel Jepzfexy- sprynx peered from the tourist sleeper, bright-eyed with wonders of the new world. Suddenly the engineer threw the throttle back to the last notch and put a clothespin over his nose and there was a crash of wind-jamming as the train shot past the glucose works. There was just a blur of buildings. but in that blur a girls sharp eye plainly described tall, hand some young man standing at an open door regarding the train. It was as If lightning had for an Instant revealed the face and To! it was gone.
 Chapter II.-Lucullus Leftyowuffenpef- fenbruzz remained so long at the door af- ter the train passed that the foreman shouted at him. The young man started as if from slumber. Had 1t been dream that fair face at the train window. He went to his work with his heart thump- ing violently. It was Saturday, ard on Sat- urday they always made raspberry jam. Lucullus had hot fire under the cauldron and had already poured In the water. He now proceeded to throw in 100 pounds of goat horns, an equal quantity of old rub Der boots and twenty bushels of corn When 1t began to boil he opened the drain pipe from the frog pond and let in thirty gallons of pond water. tadpoles and bilge- fattened batrachians. Ten minutes later he added five barrels of pokeberry juice to get the raspberry color. Then he turned off the gas, and the raspberry jam be- gan to cool.
 Chapter III-Johannabel spent her last penny for paper, and burrowed into the want ads. Her sharp eye was quick to detect the vacancy at the glucose works. She proceeded thither. was signed at s4 a week. and was walking through the yard at the fereman's heels whom she happened to look up at one of the windows. If thunderbolt had fallen from the sky and bounded into the window 1t could not have staggered two persons more than Johannabel and Lucullus were staggered by that glance. It was d case of both Tt is he.' and Tt Is she.'' Johan- rabel went on to her work She was to cook olive oil. The foreman showed her how to do 1t. First. he lighted the gas burner. Then he got bele fof soapwecd and a bundle of greasewood. Throwing tnese lnto the kettle, ne poured In hive gallons of dishwater consomme. Permit ting it to come to boil. he added ten pounds of axle grease followed closely by watch dog and an old automobile tire. The whole was permitted to boil until dissolved.
 Chapter Iy.-Lucullus looked from the window toward the door which had closed upon the fair stranger. Would she re- appear? As he looked, the door opened and she came forth. What is the mat ter?' he asked, making bold to meet her in the yard. II don't think have any heart for the work she said. Then fate took the hand of the man and the hand of the maid and merged their two ways into one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13

at the yardarm in our day Yet there is not blessed one of us free American citizens who would not spring with de- light to prove that in his veins ceursed the blood of Drake or a Frobisher. Our own Paul Jones, whose remains we paid such honor to onl~ the other day, was little less than a pirate, and certainly he was sailor of fortune.
 The most terrible man of a terrible age was Martin Schenk, who never smiled, whose trade was butchery and robbery when it was the most respectable calling in all Christendom Who is not fascinated by his story as related in Motley's Netherlands" and who of us would not be glad to own he had the old scoundrels blood in his veinsl
 'It is held That valor is the chiefest virtue, and Most dignifies the haver"
 Take the case of La Hire. A nious scoundrel, one of Joan of Arcs rough riders. When he started on a raid of murder and pillage. he prayed like this: "oh. God do by La Hire on this expe- dition as he would do by Thee, vert Thou La Hire and La Hire Co.," His mama is as prominent in French history as Du Guesclin or Dunois, and doubtless 1t af- lords that martial race great deal of pride to contemplate his career
 Jesse James was a stout trooper be- fore he was a desperate outlaw There is something of the romantic o-S some thing, too, of the heroic, associated with his name, and the treason of his death caused the American people to look with somewhat charitable eye on his deeds of murder and of robbery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
Books in Ensley.

The opening of a Carnegie library in Ensley is an event quite out of the ordinary, quite out of mior importance also. It means in the long run a great deal to Ensley. No man can say to whom in what ways books may prove helpful, and when books are free to all we may be sure their general mission will be fruitful and enduring
 It is indeed strange that no one rises up to aid Birmingham to secure books free to all All the other equlp- ments of city are here, but for some reason no one seems to take an inter- est in the establishment here of pub lie library.
 This Is a serious mistake, and as soon as we get out of the bookless rut into which we have fallen the better 1t will be for us. A library of 50,000 volumes is needed here, and the man or the mayor who can formulate a plan for securing such library would be- come at once public benefactor.
 But bookless Birmingham is glad to see that its prosperous suburbs are more prosperous. The opening of the Ensley library on Thursday night was a haDpg, event, and it is to be hoped the Ensley institution will be dupll- cated in other towns in the big and popuious county.