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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
BETS AND VETS.
CHEEKY Light for Pilgrims on the
Water Wagon.

New York Sun.
A certain commissioner of highways Is not
worrying. The laying of burning mari goes
on without interruption and the busy season
of Plutonian PAYERS is at hand.
Looking with no supercilious gaze from
the arid lands of experience, the philosopher
sees the old game going on, the old stakes
on the table Young Virtue after one short,
dizzy flight closing her wearied wings
Thirst and the aleatory instinct tangled up
together For particulars read this notice:
To the Editor of the Sun: Sir--Please give
me ray of light on the following A and
IL agree not TO take drink for sixty days,
beginning January l. upon a forfeit of SIS.
A takes a drink on the second day of that
month, and b. having discovered the fact,
feels himself relieved from his obligation to
A and takes one on the third
Is B relieved from the financial conse-
quence stipulatedH Must pay B s25. or Is
the account balanced by the drink on the
third?
1t occurs to me that a decision on the
point would be of rather general interest
HENRY T. MASON.
New York, December %.
OF rather general interest! So wide is the
area of good resolutions and so eager to fall
is fallen man. No casuist is needed TO settle
this case of two bettors unstable as the
water they hate to drink and jumping OF
the wagon before 1t is fairly started A
(AlcohoD. whose persistence for a whole
day cannot be praised too highly, vets his
whistle January 2. (Beer), another miracle
of endurance, doesn't try to hold out Sixty
days is too long a campaign for him. Be
Sides he pities A. Why should B fine poor
A ss5 anyway? The moment that hears
that a is on the warpath, joyously 3
rushes to where they keep the paint. A
owes B nothing. B owes A nothing. Their
accounts are balanced. What they owe or
will owe the gentleman in the white jacket
is another matter
These compacts, whatever penalty Is at
tached to their forfeiture, are usually dis.
solved apd annulled with this perfect sim
plicity. Neither Alcohol nor Beer expects
to be bound long. A knows that the throat
OF B is burning for the old familiar iuice.
B is too good a fellow to insist upon the
letter of the bond and be parched for sixty
days. The whole thing is a bit of farce
comedy An educated connoisseur, how
ever, would refrain from rum for a week or
two. for month, perhaps so as to accen-
tuate the joy of contrast What sensation
is there in falling from the height of Queen
Mab's instep? The serious artist will prac-
tice prolonged abstcntions; nor will be allow
his will to become so infirm that he can't
leave of rum or apple pie or smoking or
rigid economy or any other perilous habit
for set time and a reasonably long one.
These wet bets should be so arranged that
in case of the detection of both A and b the
stakes should go to the prohibition national
committee. The deserters would be fewer
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

lean goods are In warehouses In China
and there IL no demand for them. A
few months ago there was a large Chi
nese demand for -four from this coun-
try, but there is comparatively little Of
II being sold at present. In view of this
it is evident that the export figures for
China do not represent goods marketed.
AS to Japan the statistics are all right
and the figures for the next ten months
will doubtless show considerable in
crease
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
SUMMING UP THE LOSSES.
Russian Figures on Russian Losses in
the War.
Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal.
Figures printed recently by the Novoe
Nremya show that when peace was con-
cluded, General Linevitch had at his dis
posal 1850 officers and $1,000 men. There
were carried to the front during the war
5000 officers and 1,27o.oOO men, and about
$1,000 soldiers were present in Manchuria
when war broke out. Making the sub
fractions, It would appear that Russian
losses were approximately 1900 officers and
$1,000 men.
Assuming the japanese losses. including
Port Arthur, to have been only a fourth
less than the Russian, the flower OF the
japanese standing army must have been
lost and the reports that the island en-
pire was recruiting in the latter months Of
the war men beyond the age of military
service were true.
1t would follow that Japan was well
guided and sagacious in making peace at
the precise moment when its military and
naval prestige were at the highest Russia,
apparently, was in the better state to con-
tinue the conflict, except for the fact, then
already partially known In Russia at least
that the government had lost its hold upon
the people.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Mexico. with peonage and restricted educa-
ton, has a wonderful and rich variety Of
natural resources Sweden and Norway,
with cold and rather sterile country, have
Individual freedom, and are the only ooun-
tries in the world in which every srown
man can read and write. Therefore the
scandinavians have prosperity, good homes
and general and splendid civilization,
while Mexico. with friendly climate and
great natural resource, lags behind. But
the signs OF advancement are many and
encouraging, and there is every reason for
taking cheerful view OF the future Of our
sister repuhlic
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
Music and the New Year

happiness music
the without S a dreary place.
possible for
Modern methods payments
Pianos possible everywhere
without
performers everybody
methods well the best of the
and
$3.50 Grand style upright at
the magnificent collection Pianos
under Kranch
Kre Mahusek, Need
Whitney, Henze CableNelson, Cramer and others
attaching Angclus, and
well anybody.
old Angelus Piano
Player at $500, $780, $3.50, $500 $1,000
month quarter wish
appointments be
venien o
A. HOSPE co.
1913 Douglas St.
Youm heart lie The best place Piano
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
DissipatIons of Some People.
Harper's Weekly.

How differently do the people Of the
earth take their pleasures, In "a statistical
book just issued in Madrid it is estimated
that for luxuries the Spaniards spend an
nually more than $780, 10000. OF this sum
SIS 0o0. 900 are for cigars and cigarettes,
s.. ooo.o 600 for lottery tickets. 100000 for
bull fights. 81. 600 for holiday making and
s3l. 1000 to settle the wine shop reckonings.
Published statistics concerning the riotous
living in Boston show that the natives OF
that place are more than ever debauching
themselves with baked beans, A Boston
dispatch says: Last year they spent on
their favorite diet more than the cost OF two
battleships, or ss,59s,272. According to the
wholesale dealers. S. 7S2 barrels were con-
sumed in that period, and the demand is
increasing"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
THE TYPE OF CANAL.
crease

Very soon after the reassembllng of
congress the Panama canal question will
command the attention of that body and
we may expect a discussion of more
than ordinary interest. \ number of
questions that have arisen will call for
settlement and not the least of these
relates to whether the canal shall be ut
sea level or be lock canal. That is a
question to be determined by congress
and no one can say what the verdict
will be-
According to the latest information
the present chief engineer of the canal
is in favor of the lock plan. which means
great deal less of expense in cOnstruc-
ton and considerable less time for
completing the work. The statement is
that the engineer of the commission is
absolutely opposed to sea level canal
and If such is the fact his judgment
should certainly have a very great in
fiuence upon congress.
What seems to be needed in the pres
ent emergency is an administrative au-
thority that will accomplish something.
The existing conditions are manifestly
unsatisfactory and must be changed.
There is serious talk of letting the build
ing of the canal by contract and this
proposition will undoubtedly be earn
estly considered by congress.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Houston, Tex, has been invaded 10y
Garry Nation" There has been some
smashing of glassware and crockery and
shedding of red ink, but according to
the last accounts from the Texas me-
tropols its Inhabitants We're still in
dulging in good cheer with Rip Van
Wrinkles toast, Here's TO your good
health and your family; may you live
long and prosper"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

The Steel trust has raised the wages
Of its employees by 10 per cent begin
ming with the new year, and it has
raised the price of it's output 10 per
cent in compensation for this voluntary
advance. AS the price of the output is
more than ten times as much as its pay
roll, the trust will not suffer by its gen.
crosby. In the meantime, Jones he pays
the freight
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01


you started in life. l believe. SENATOR"
SAID the reporter, "a poor boy
whoever told you that, young man, an
swered Senator Dotsmun, lies egregiously.
| was the latest baby OF the family
Chicago Tribune.
81 see that our friend has taken "A hand
in politics. e,
ghum, whether he has taken a hand In Ii
or merely put his foot in it'-Washington
Star.
"Jagley slept in the lookup l believe.
Drunk and disorderly, ch?'
"Sh! He says nc was guilty Of arson
"What?"
He thinks that sounds better. lie was
burning his money, you know."-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Cholly Nitwit-D'ye know. Miss Cutter
though I've only just met you, there seems
TO be a--er--sort of intellectual sympathy
between us. You know Just how to appeal
to my tastes, you know Are you literary
woman?
Dolly Cutter-No I'm kindergarten
teacher.-Cleveland Leader
McJigger-O! she's a peach Her hair is
positively pure gold and
Thingumbob-So they say, and I can't
understand it. / knew her when she was
a little girl.
MCJigBer-Ncll?
Thingumbob-Wcll It was merely plated
then.-Philadelphia Press.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
THE NEW YEAR.
W. j. hampton in New York Sur

w. J. hampton in New York Sun
Behold Me.
The New Year:
The same old New Year
That has been happe ming
Every twelve months
Since julius Caesar,
Or Pope Gregory.
Or George Washington,
Or the Declaration OF Independence,
Or somebody
First started me in the business
or measuring time.
And l am fuller OF good resolutions
Ihan my observers are full
OF esgnog
And so forth,
And they last about as long,
And don't taste any better
The next morning,
Either
I'm 1906,
Though most people
Yet.
Because they forget
That I'm not 1905:
Besides, I'm so soon begun
That my name hasn't caught on;
But I'll get there by and by,
Just as ] have been doing
Stree 1904 b. q.
Standing at the turn of days,
At the parting of the ways
OF the old and of the new.
I'm guide-post to the true,
Dut LOT one udy only. tnen
I'm the same old year again.
Same. old human beings find
The new year like the other kind:
Same old weaknesses prevail,
Same old struggle, same old fail,
Same old leaden skies OF gray,
Same old tiresome bills to pay,
Same old pains and same old aches,
Same old jolts and same old breaks,
Same old rough and weary road,
Same old heavy. wearing load
Same old luck and same old loss,
Same old sorrows, same old cross
But, Friends and Fellow Travellers,
Brace up:
The Cup
Isn't all bitter.
The same old friends are with you still.
Same old kindly wish and will,
Same old help in time of stress,
Same old paths of pleasantness,
Same old charity is strong,
Same old hands to push along.
Get a move on:
Every woman. every man;
And you'n fill
The bill ~
OF the Makers will
If you'll do the best you can.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

In predicting secession of South AT.
RIGA from the British empire because
the importation of Chinese coolies has
been prohibited London newspaper
evidently thinks the Africanders have
failed to learn the lesson of the Ameri
can civil war.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
saving Common Sense
Chicago Chronicle.

Livingston G. Lord, president Of the Hi
nois State Teachers association, has had
the courage 10 protest against the modern
educational doctrine that twenty normal
children should he sacrificed 20 get some
thing into the head Of one duh one or to re-
claim one bad one. Mr.. Lord is rich in
saving common sense. II is a great pity
that we have not that kind of sense in con-
troll OF our boards OF education and the
practical work Of directing the sehools.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
Value of Freedom and EducatiOn.

A free population. ambitious 20 get the
benefit OF its own labor and enterprise. is
tho making OF any country. With freedom
will come more general education and a
great upraise in Mexican life will result
BY way of contrast Mexico and Sweden
and Norway offer an interesting study,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

If the program of the attorney of the
Civic Federation is carried out two
thirds of the saloons will have to be
closed while his appeal is pending in
the courts, and the other one-third will
be given a monopoly of the traffic, who
for the time being will not feel much
distressed
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
Painful strain ON Nerves.

1t is said that members of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature have given up their daily
reading of the Bible since the decree of the
abolishing free transportation.
The frequent iteration OF the phrase "and
1t came to pass got upon their nerves.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

The body of Millionaire Street Rail
way Promoter Yerkes had scarcely been
deposited In its coffin when the fight
over his fortune was begun and the
prospect is that it win not end until the
lawyers have secured their full share.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

When a man goes about with n big
stick in his hand, says Prof. Goodwin
smith, the temptation TO use it is pretty
sure to come; and there has been great
deal OF temptation in these latter days,
even out, in the wild and woody west.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

The new year will usher in a slump
loans will probably be obtainable at one
tenth OF what they commanded during
the closing days of 1905.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Correspondents are not going to per-
init France and Germany to go to war
without letting the world know about
1t. even If they are forced to make pre-
dlctions and denials at least once a
week
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Nebraska, with its Italian skies and
balmy air, offers sympathy to Texas
and Oklahoma where snowstorms pre-
vail, but 1t stands ready to receive re-
turn expressions of coincidence at any
moment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

With New Zealand foot ball players de-
feating all England it may be necessary
for the antipodeans TO come TO America
to learn what foot ball really means
but they should take out accident in
surance policies before the game be-
gins.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

With the government farmer ON the
-aPine Ridge reservation arrested for sub
y ornation of perjury it is possible that
Indians have been taught methods OF
raising money rather than of raising
grain.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Having outlined his policy General
Bingham. the new police commissioner
OF New York, is now in position to dis
cover that the commissioner proposes
and the politician dlsposes in that COM
nunity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Nebraska insurance companies which
talk OF moving to Iowa to reduce taxes
should remember that under the tax
ferret law every dollar they evade is
likely 20 be placed upon the assessment
rolls az any time. Taxes do not always
stay svaded in Iowa.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Features of the Career OF Trectien
MARnata Yerkea.

prince of constructive promoters set
tied his account with the world when
Charles T. Yerkes died. Philadelphia, Chi
cago and London felt the uplift of his
skill and two nations applauded and con-
demned in turn the methods of this daring
ruthless twentieth century promoter.
Chicago and Springfield. Ill, were the
scenes of his greatest exploits. True, he
awakened London with his underground
road and lifted the fog-enveloping transit
facilities in the British metropolis, but
there was scant opportunity there to dis
play his genius as a political manipulation.
In Chicago and the Illinois state capital is
where his skill dazzled officialdom and
dazed his opponents.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
Increasing Public Esteem.

The president has shut down on one of
those endless chain contribution schemes
for a wedding present for his daughter.
The president is getting to be almost as
well liked for the things he puts a stop to
as for the things he starts going.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Nineteen hundred and six will have
to hump itself if it wants to Guido the
past highwater mark of 1905 prosperity
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Idaho cannot be permitted to emulate
Russia in the matter of bomb throwing
n Physical force has no place in American
s. affairs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Thirty-two years ago the proprietor
of the New York Graphic, which has
long since vanished from the journals
tic skies, sought to attract world wide
attention through his Graphic balloon,
constructed for sailing across the At
lantic, through which he expected TO
revolutionize interoceanic transit. The
Graphic succeeded in securing a vast
amount of free advertising, but the
Graphic balloon never passed beyond
Coney island. Now another enterprising
Chicago journalist has ordered an air
ship built to explore the North pole, and
its daring navigator, Walter Wellman,
who, by the way, halls from Nebraska,
is instructed to report his findings by
wireless, without awaiting the slow pro-
cess of being rescued by a steamship
expressly constructed to butt against
vicious Polar bears and refractory ice
bergs, but
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

When in the zenith Of his power and af-
fluence in Chicago. Yerkes closed the Chi
cago Stock exchange for three months, ca
joled a legislature by his own peculiar
methods absolutely controlled successive
Chicago boards of aldermen so that he Sc
cured the practical ownership of the streets
of that city. pumped his 'treet railway
stocks so full of water that in two-thirds
of Chicago a good service was well-nigh
impossible, and unloaded on his hackers at
a handsome figure properties that promptly
went into a receivership, and then went to
London to conquer new worlds.
In Chicago, where Yerkes made his great
fortune and became famous or Infamous,
according to the viewpoint of the commen-
tator there are two capital charges against
what is styled the Yerkes regime" and
both may be summed up in what Chicago
calls philadelphia methods" one of these
was the noted railroad mans habit of pyra-
miding bond issues, the other his habit Of
undermining state and local legislatures.
As result Of both, the Philadelphia broker
who came to Chicago I'm 1888 with a capital
of $4,000, went to London in 1909 with a
fortune that is now estimated at something
like 100000.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

II you do not feel big enough to keep
those New Years resolutions procure a
surety bond.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
You Can't Lose En-.
Portland oregonian.

The Longworth- Roosevelt engagement
simply goes to prove once more that there
is no way TO keep an Ohio man out Of the
White House
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

D. mr. According to the eminent statistician
-MWi Tue "oriu-iieraiu' wyoming mas eA-
ported 4,110 swine during the last year,
but Wyoming still has few more at
large
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porariiy should have The Bee
mailed TO them. IL il better than
n daily letter from home. Adj
dress will be changed as often as
requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

The battle cry of 1906 is up with the
big stick and down with the grafters"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

While Yerkes was in London Thomas
Power O'Connor, journalist and member Of
Parliament popu' arly known as 'Tay Pay"
sketched the traits of the builder Of
"Tupenny tube" as the London under
ground is locally known. when l first
saw Mr.. Yerkes enter the hall of the house
where I met him." wrote ''Tay Pay" II
was at once pleased and surprised. had
heard so much of the relentless resolution,
audacity and multiform victories associ-
ated with his name. that I could scarcely
believe that this was the dread and
dreaded man whom so many tried to beat,
who had walked over so many wrecks OF
competition, hatred, envy, popular hatred
and condemnation. For there have been
few men of his time, even in America, who
have had more bitter enemies-have fought
more terrific fights.
"A man rather below the middle height
with a heavy snOw-white mustache, pale
COMPLEXION, with that slight tendency to-
wards an enlarged girth that comes with
middle age: with white hair, with fine dark
eyes and with a soft voice and subdued
manner-such was Mr.. Yerkes. The first
indeed the supreme and most lasting, inn
preston he makes upon you is serenity,
He comes, believe, of Quaker blood: and
the face Is a Quaker face; with that quiet
ism which is and always remains the ex-
preston OF the man or woman who has
begun life amid the prolonged silences and
the stern self-discirline and self-control Of
the Society OF Friends. The voice-soft
low, never raised above a minor KEYS In
perfect accord with the expression; and
the eyes-with their curious immobility and
certain sweetness and just the least
touch Of hooking humor-complete this pic
ture OF one OF those silent. quiet iron men
that rule the storm and ride the cyclone
in the elemental and Titanic wars OF
American industry"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

For the sake Of memories OF Tunis it
is to be hoped that stephen Decatur
c. wr is not guilty of hazing; but great
Tealames cut no ice at Annapolis.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Have you turned over new leaf?
Ii not why not?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State OF Nebraska, Douglas County, IS:
c. c. Rosewater, secretary OF The Bee
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies Of The Daily, Morning,
Evening ana Sunday Bee printed during
l.w.re
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

1t was his iron nerve that enabled him
to carry through his audacious deals and
this Quality was never displayed more
Enthusiastically than on that memorable
August night in 1896, after the Moore
Brothers failure, when a group of bankers
met at the house of the late p. d. Armour,
in Chicago, to discuss a financial situation
rendered additionally precarious by the
amount of Yerkes paper the leading houses
were carrying. 1t is a valued Chicago story
that Mr.. Yerkes, himself wearing stiff
little straw hat, with gaudy ribbon at
tached. saluted the solemn-faced group of
financiers with the breezy remark: This
is the largest collection of straw hats L
ever saw at funeral"
He urged that the Stock exchange be
closed outright, and when its governors
hesitated at the holiness of the sugges-
ton he declared: VERY well, open for
business tomorrow, and you will close many
of the banks of Chicago before tomorrow
night" That word settled it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

Z, z. HU5EW AIEH,
Secretary.
Subscribed i'm my presence and sworn to
before me this 3lst day of December. 1905.
(SeaD NJ. B.. HUNGATE,
Notary Public.