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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21

The members OF the Bellevue Woman 5
club and several representatives of the
Omaha Woman's club were guests of Mrs.
Mary Moody Pugh Saturday afternoon at
her home in Dundee. The afternoon was
devoted to pure food program, conducted
by Mrs. Pugh in the absence OF Mrs.
Stephen Phelps president Of the Bellevue
club. course dinner followed the meet
ing at s O'Clock, pink and greed the colors
OF the Bellevue club. being employed in the
table decoration. The dinner guests included
Mesdames Wilcox. A. J. Ferguson, Davis,
c. w Townsend, c. w Hayes. F. II. Cole,
Burnett Minet, McMurphy; Misses Burch,
Jessie Flint, Kolstrom, Standish, Hewett
and Roberts.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21
CITY OFFICIAL NOTICES.

NOTICE.
Sealed proposals are invited and will be
received by the City Clerk, room LOG. City
Hall, Omaha, Nebraska, for the purchase
Intoshs subdivision. from the east line of
10th street TO the west line of the north
and south alley in said block. All pro-
posals must be sealed, marked Proposals
for the Purchase of Real Estate,' and
must be on file in the City Clerks Office
on or before Tuesday, January 20, 1905, at
o'clock p. m. The city reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
Omaha, Nebraska. January Is, 1908
w. II. ELBOURN,
J15-d7t City Clerk.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21

TIfESD AY-'rhimble, club meeting; Mrs.
George H6ldrege's luncheon; Mrs Sol
wEJpSEsDAY1Th Misses Conant, card
party; household economies department
The West Farnam Luncheon club
THTRSDAY-Mrs. freeman ana MIS- u
". Megeath luncheon.
FR1DAY-Mrs. W l.. Selby a card party.
A half dozen visiting girls and women
saved last week from absolute dullness'
for. excepting n few card parties. every
thing was given in honor OF somebody. rs
il was the week was full. although in the
main the affairs were ordinary enough.
The small luncheon parties were especially
numerous: there were not days enough to
70 around among the many women who
would have complimented the visiting
guests and the small evening card parties
were nearly as numerous. This week Is lot
overly promising. If one is to judge by the
calendar but of course every one knows
better than that nowadays, and as there are
still a number of visiting girls in town.
almost anything may bc expected, for peo-
pie have to be entertained, especially II the
people happen TO be bright, attractive
women.
The Visiting Nurses association has re-
QueSNfO tndt OlleI HOSNFSStS lflldi'i iiph
entertaining Monday afternoon and even
ing, February %. For the last eight years
the associa ton has observed washington's
birthday unless it fell on Sunday. by
giving birthday party. In the past some
OF the spacious homes OF the city have
been thrown open for this occasion. which
consists OF a reception with program.
The last few years. however, the attend
ance has been so large that even the
largest homes were insufficient to accom-
modate the attendance, and last year the
Elks gave the use of their club rooms
for the birthday party. II also happened
that number of other hostesses had
chosen that day for entertaining and in
consequence many Of the staunchest
friends of the association were unable to
attend it's reception. While invita- lions
are issued 10 this reception. general in
vitation is also extended, as It Is impos-
sible to reach all by card. Accompanying
the invitation is the request that each
guest bring n penny for each year of her
age-or more, II she or he desires. About
1000 little silk bags are sent out each
year 10 be returned with the money. As
this birthday party is tho only established
charity function given in Omaha. the
members OF the association have not hesi-
tated to ask that February 20 be dedi-
Gated to this occasion when the public
may make its offering to one of the most
worthy of the city's charities. This year
the reception will be continued during the
evening as well a. the afternoon that the
men may attend as we'll as the women.
While the place has not yet been definitely
decided upon, the reception probably will
be held in the Elks' club rooms. as they
are large and easily accessible.
belated Christmas gift that must ap-
peal to all lovers of the unusual and
beautiful reached Mrs Bertha Cohn OF
Omaha last week. having been sent by
her son. Mr.. Harry Cohn. assistant United
States attorney for the district Of Alaska
II is a neck chain nearly two yards in
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21

A belated Christmas gift that must ap-
peal to all lovers of the unusual and
beautiful reached Mrs. Bertha Cohn of
Omaha last week. having been sent by
her son. Mr.. Harry Cohn. assistant United
States attorney for the district OF Alaska
II is neck chain nearly two yards in
length composed of 14s little original gold
nuggets linked together by small gold
wires. The nuggets are graduated in size
as they approach the snap and the chain
may be used either as a necklace or watch
chain,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21

Miss Blanche Sorenson. voice. $50 Rang,
block.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21
SOCIETY IN NORMAL STATE
Week Of Activity without Any Very
Notable Function,
COMING WEEK PROMISES VERY LITTLE

visiting women and Approaching
weddings Occasion Most of the
Entertainment at Present
Going on in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21

Upon request of the General Federation,
civil service reform will have a conspicuous
place on the club programs this month
The committee has taken UP the study in
earnest and hundreds of clubs all over the
country will make feature of the subject.
The program to have presented by the
Omaha woman's club last Monday was
postponed until January g. Mrs. F. H.
Cole is chairman of the committee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21
The Social Calendar.

NONDAY-Miss Ruth Berry's luncheon
TuESDAY-Thimble club meeting; MIS-
George Hbldreges luncheon; Mrs. sol
Hopper. a euchre party,
WED NESDAY-The Misses Conant, caro-
Z party: household economics department
iKensington; Mrs Lyle Abbott entertalns
the West Farnam Luncheon club
THTRSDAY-Mrs freeman and MIS-. u
W Megeath luncheon.
FRfDAY-Mrs ". L. Selby, a card party.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21

Mrs W. p Hartford will repeat her ad-
dress on Additional Opportunities Through
United Movement for Women" delivered
before the recent meeting OF the Amer
lean committee of the Young Women 8
Christian association at Chicago Monday
evening after the get one" banquet to be
given in the association rooms. Mrs. Byers
will be the other speaker and will tell
something Of how we are to get the new
building.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-21

The Baptist missionary quarterly will en-
tertain the members of the Presbyterian
missionary societies Of Omaha and South
Omaha at the First Baptist church Janu-
AIRY g. Mrs. A. Lansing will lead the de-
votional exercises at IL o'clock Luncheon
will be served at the noon hour and in
the afternoon Rev. Henry Williams, d. D..
OF the Missionary union will address the
meeting. his subject to be "Only Woman"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

known as the gas and electric light
commission The regulation OF prices
is a state and not a municipal power
The legislature of Massachusetts has
recently passed a bill and the governor
has signed it, providing for a sliding
scale of prices in Boston and its vicln-
itv. This bill provides that beginning
with June 80 of the current year, the
standard price for gas shall be 80 cents
per thousand. The bill also provides
that the stockholders shall receive in
dividends Z per cent which rate may
not be increased except upon certain
conditions. These conditions are that
the profits shall bear relation to the
cost of the gas. When the earnings
exceed I per cent depreciation, interest
and all other legitimate charges having
been taken care of, the dividends may
not be increased without a reduction
in the price of gas. The arrangement is
rather complicated but the principle is
that the public shall share in the profits
of the company over and above per
cent
The Boston Transcript regards this
bill as a step backward from municipal
ownership in the gas industry; in fact,
it claims that that was the issue really
involved and that the bill is a COM
promise between the extremes of mu-
nicipal ownership and private owner
ship without amenability to supervis-
ion to the extent of determining the
measure of profits which may be de-
rived from the business. The arrange
ment is supposed to work automatical-
ly and to preserve an equilibrium be-
tween the earnings of the company
and the rate charged for gas. The bill
has nothing to do with fixing the terms
of the charter or specifying conditions
under which the company may do bust
ness, further than to provide for this
regulation of price; but it is an inter-
esting experiment in lieu of govern
ment ownership.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

the Cowells of having upset past plans
of similar nature.
A bitter attack is made upon Henry
Cewell, who died two years ago, and
whom Mcmillan charges was a grasp
ing, selfish and hard-hearted man,
pursuing a vindictive course up to the
time of his death by violence at the
age of 91.' Ernest V. Cowell, the son,
who has brought suit to enjoin Nc
MILAN from disposing of his interests
in the lime corporation and to have ap-
pointed a receiver for the company,
insists his father died at the age of
"a, but passes by the discrepancy in
his age to vigorously defend his ia
theirs character and reputation. Each
of the Mcmillan charges was met by
Cowell in counter affidavits.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

secting of healthy animals was brought
about, the whole problem would be
solved.
The truth is, the beef question should
be considered as merely a phase of the
food problem. The country is, per-
haps, fortunate in having such an ex-
posture made of weak points ofshrd
posture made of the weak points of
meat that a reform will resultrdlu
meat inspection that reform will
result. 1t is alwaps possible to get
specific reforms in America if you To-
lis opinion of this country upon it.
The keenness of satire, the eloquence
constructive suggestion which the
American people can bring to bear in
stantly upon the solution of any prob
lem upon which they are united is
sufficient to compel anything to be
| the people that when they have seen
one job finished they turn away from
the work with a yearning to play a
| while. 1t is difficult to interest them
| Immediately in another campaign. 1t
| is always difficult to interest them in
a general campaign. Now a general
campaign happens to be what the
country needs in the pure food mat
ter. 1t will not do to attack the
abuses in the meat trade and go to
sleep over the authorizations of hum
dreds of other foods. While we are
about it, why not make a clean sweep
of the whole rotten tribe of prisoners
If 500 kilograms a day can be sent
to Washington to save free transpor-
tation to railroad mems families, how
many hundred thousand should be
sent Speaker Cannon demanding that
he take the pure food bill out of his
pigeon hole and give to the house.
The speaker has been unable to find
the demand for the bill. There is a
demand for it. But it is so large and
so diffused a demand that it cannot
make itself felt in Washington. If it
were something simple, specific like
the examination of meat or the saving
of passes, Speaker Cannon would have
heard about it long ago. The pure
food bill is being strangled in the house
because of an alleged lack of demand
for it, when, as a matter of fact, it
is the very magnitude of the demand
that prevents it being organized in
such way that the pin-headed states
men will hear it.
By the way, that immunity bath
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15
@ELE!CrIQN<&1
POWER OF A SONG.
Won Thirty Of the Singers Fellow
Prisoners Another Chance.

Won Thirty of the Singers Fellow
Prisoners Another Chance.
In a newspaper note Mrs Florence
Maybrick, the famous American wom-
an who spent many years in an English
prison, is reported to have resumed
her maiden name of Chandler Day and
to be living quietly in New York in
straitened circumstances. To thou
sands of your readers the fact that
Stephen Adams, the composer Of 1.-THE
Holy City," and that hers was the first
female voice that sang the hymn will
| come as a revelation. Stephen Adams
true name was Michael Maybrick,
youngest brother of her husband, and
the song was sung for the first time on
board his yacht. A most touching in
cident in connection with the hymn oc-
CURED in San Francisco several years
ago. 1t was Monday, in>police court
q busy day. A long line Of "drunks,"
as many as could be accommodated,
stood ranged before the bar. A former
| member of a noted opera company.
who had fallen on evil days, was one Of
those taken in the dragnet, though not
In line. After the noise and hustle at
tendant on getting the first batch Of
prisoners into order a strong. clear,
powerful voice rolled up from the cells,
singing:
Last night lay a-sleeping
There came a dream so fair
The words, sung in such an unusual
place, produced visible shock among
the sodden wretches. Men dropped on
their knees and wept in silent prayer.
The mingled music and sobbing inter-
rupted the courts proceedings. The
Judge, making no order to stop the
song, it moved to a climax:
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Sing for the
night is Ger!
Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna for
evermore!''
Seeing the visible effects Of contri-
ton on the faces Of the men, the Judge,
impel1ed by his feelings, remarked to
the officer that there must be some
good left in them; they must have an
other chance. And so 1t came to pass
that the singing of THE Holy City"
gave thirty Of the singers fellow pris-
oners another chance.-Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15
NON-POLITICAL POLITICIANS.

Hearing that some Missouri demo-
Gratis are finding fault with Governor
Folk a Nebraska paper remarks:
IF the democrats of Missouri don't
like Folk Well take him. He would
not need much overhauling to make
pretty good republican"
This comment is illustrative of a
remarkable fact in our present politics
and that is that the men who are of
vital moment in public life, the men
| who are doing something, appear to fit
in one party as well as the other. Sen
ator La Toilette would make pretty
good democrat. Indeed it is suspected
that in his three cornered battles with
the stalwarts and the opposition party
in his own state the democrats have
| largely supported him. Governor Folk
carried his state as democrat while it
| was throwing its electoral vote to
lican legislature in thirty years.
President Roosevelt has been de-
nounced as not a republican and he has
recently been read out of the demo-
cratic party by the lugubrious Mr..
| TOwne. This does not mean that the
president is universally disliked in both
porties. 1t means just the opposite. 1t
signifies that in his most important
public attitudes the president comes so
near being now republican, now a
democrat that both parties are alter
nately excited by the fear or hope
that he will change his politics. His
| failure to do so makes one party or
! the other rise up and vociferate its
dissatisfaction with him. One would
gain the impression that the president
has no party politics. He has, but
he does not set his party platform up
as mirror in which to view his at
titude as president He acts from a
sense of duty and right irrespective of
the rules which such men as Cor
man. Plat or Odell would set up for
| themselves.
1t all comes down to the fact that
there is less politics and more political
activity in the country than there has
been for many years. The politics Of
finesse of organization and of ma
chinery have given way to the politics
of ideas, of aspirations, of accomp-
lishment. Roosevelt Folk, La Toilette.
Garvin. and many others who might
be named have obscured tactics in the
desire to achieve results for the peo-
pie. This may explain why they are
a puzzle and a pain to the old-style
bosses.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

A reporter, describing an interview
with Health Commissioner Charles J,
Whalen in Chicago. with reference to
the sale of diseased meat, saws that
the health commissioner was very an
cry when told of the charges of neg
lect against his assistants, and that
he did not want any long haired rad
icals appointed to go into the stock
yards to foment trouble" These re-
marks. the reporter says, We're inter-
spersed with profanity. We would
naturally expect health officer who
language not suitable for publication,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

How hard man falls after having
been boosted too high!
When a man gets the baby to sleep
how proud he Is of himself!
There is usually enough humiliation
in all our lives to keep us modest.
1t is not the stingy man who be.
comes a burden as age approaches: II
Is the spendthrift
A pathetic admission older people Of
ten make is, 1.-The romance has all
been knocked out of me-"
What has become of the old fash.
toned woman who called her friends
"copycat" when they bought something
like hers?
When man is reasonably happy and
content it doesn't just happen. He is
compelled TO use common sense and
work to an end.-Atchison Globe.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

One hundred million gallons of alco-
hol are consumed annually in Germany
in the arts; in this country, 5000, 900
annually. These figures are impress
sive as evidence of the obstruction laid
in the way of a useful article of COM
merce which for half a century has
been subject to heavy internal reve-
nue. tax, amounting at the present
time to $2.0S per gallon, or more than
sixteen times its cost
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

AAhA0s
tvated by a Gibson face and figure or
a record Of college football or mans
popularity In society or
Enough, oh, dear mer'
"What girl" pursued the pessimist,
warming up to his subject, lever
pauses to dissect a mans character?
Half the girls who marry do so too
early in life"
But girls who have talent, who have
aspirations In life?'
'"They are the worst fools. Deliver
me from the artistic temperament! It
takes long time for any talent to ma
ture, and in the meanwhile there are
moments Of intense loneliness, made ali
the more bitter by glimpses of the hap
piness Of other women who have
homes and friends, for that appears to
the lonely girl to be their happiness.
And the lure works. To gain COM
panionship she marries some man, only
to speedily outgrow him and find out
how maddening all his faults can be.
knew Of one such girl, who married
man during her period Of loneliness
and struggling. After two years she
left him and went to London with her
little child. Success came to her, as it
was bound to come, and she met the
right man two years too late-the man
who could have worshiped her like q
queen and made her life one continual
comfort and happiness. But it was too
late. She was tied to the mistake Of
her earlier days for life, and she real
lied that because she had not patiently
waited she had lost her chance of hap
piness." BEATRICE ASHBY.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15
GIRLS WHO MARRY TOO SOON

They Are Influenced by Trivial Con-
alterations or by Loneliness.
"In nine out of ten cases girls do not
marry the right man." said the pessi-
mist
'Too sweeping a percentage" put in
the bachelor. Make it six out Of ten.
and you will be nearer right"
''But 1 thought they always did in
America" remarked the woman of the
party.
"They think they do, if you refer to
their thinking they are in love, my dear
madam" the pessimist replied, "but
half the time they are in love with the
notion of being engaged and Of having
a home of their own, and they are cap
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15
Estimating q Horsep n2ss4,6s.

The Arabs have two methods Of esti-
mating the height to which a colt will
grow, the first being to stretch a cord
from the nostril over the ears and
down along the neck and compare this
measurement with that from the with
ers to the feet, and the other method
being to compare the distance between
the knee and the withers with that
from the knee to the coronet. In the
first method 1t is considered that a
colt will grow as much taller as the
first measurement exceeds that of the
second, and in the second method, if
the proportion is as two to one, the
horse will grow no taller.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

A good park theater in Walla Walla
during the summer months would help
to relieve the monotony of all work
and no play. The bane of existence
mate resorts for pleasure, amusement
and recreation. The Y. M. c. A build
public parks, gymnasiums, swimming
pools, picnic grounds, and other means
great field for philanthropists and
public spirited citizens In Walla Wal
la
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15
WHERE IS THE PURE FOOD BILL?

1t is rather remarkable that the agi-
tation of the beef question has not
created more of an interest in the gen.
eral question of food. Meat, while it
is an important element in the food
supply, is, after all, only one element.
There are hundreds of others, some of
little Importance others more import
ant than meat itself Yet we are all
discussing meat as though we believ-
ed that when the clean killing and dis
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

If you are opposed to the blocking of
work on the new gravity water system
through the granting of the permanent
injunction sought by leading Boxers,
vote for the reelection of Mayor Hunt
who is determined to carry out the
will of the people when they voted al
most unanimously to authorize a bond
issue of $250,O00 for the building of this
water system.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

The woodcock, it is said, has been
known to carry away her young when
threatened with danger. She places
them on her spread feet, pressing them
between the toes and the breast. A
naturalist says many woodcocks also
carry their young down to marshy
feeding grounds in the evening, re-
turning before dawn. In fact, they
have no means of feeding their young
except by carrying them to their food,
for they cannot convey their food to
them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

Bishop Fallows insists that editors
need to be prayed for. This is per-
hops true. And it may do no harm to
call the attention of Providence to the
needs of bishops. We are all pore,
weak critters"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

The st. Louis Post Dispatch has
carefully worked out from the new
arithmetic the table of strawberry
measure. 1t applies to other things:
one pint makes a quart
Sixteen pints make a crate
Top berries make a sale.
Nobody makes kick.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

George Peabody Wetmore, who has
been called Aldrich's rubber stamp,
wants to go back to the senate. Rhode
Island is too small state for two real
senators.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

The real question in Russia is
whether the douma can be persuaded
to adjourn for a few minutes while the
car readjusts his crown.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15
A BOSTON EXPERIMENT.

In Massachusetts the supervision of
gas and electric light plants is a state
function, committed to a state agency
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-15

BY the way, the immunity bath
doesn't seem to be doing the meat
trust much good nova days.