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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
CORN As FOOD.

The Department of Agriculture is
considering plans for a campaign of
education in the United States for the
purpose of instructing the people in
the value and advantages of corn as a
food. Some years ago the department
sent Hoe Cake Murphy" of Iowa on a
tour of the world for the purpose of
initiating the natives of benighted
countries into the toothsome mysteries
of corn pone, dodgers, Johnny cakes
grits, hominy and all the varieties of
food products raised from the nations
greatest cereal. The results were in
measure satisfactory and the farm
ers and millers of the nation have
been reaping the benefits of the invest
ment. Now it appears that the lesson
taught to foreigners has been forgotten
at home and there is need of mission
airy effort along that line in America.
! According TO statistics, practically
all of the wheat produced in the coun-
try is transformed into food for man
while less than one bushel of corn In
fifty is converted into table article.
A bulletin from the department ex-
plains that cOrnmeal has three times
as much oil as wheat -four and is much
more nutritious. The corn products,
too, says the departments authority
ARE more digestible than is generally
supposed. Not only their digestibility
but their cheapness and the readiness
with which they may be converted into
palatable foods suggest a more ex,
tended use and entitle them 10 a higher
place in the popular estimation"
The aim of the department is com.
mendable, of course. but the officials
are proceeding in the wrong way II
their efforts to restore the hoe cake
to it's pristine glory. The need is mo-
for instruction as to the different kinds
OF good eatin'" that can be manufac
tured from meal, but some education
in the manufacture. Corn pone anC
corn bread lost their flavor when tn,
patent process roller mill" came int
existence. The patent process removes
the kernel germ, which contains prac
tically all the oil OF the corn and leave
product about as aDDetizing as laun
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
PArLNe 1 PREM1rM ON DEBTS.

Mr.. Cortelyou, secretary of the treas
ury department, is taking special in
terest in plans that are being discussed
by bankers organizations and other
financial experts for amendments to
the currency laws of the nation. In a
recent interview, published in a fnan-
cial paper, he called attention to the
peculiar position in which he is placed
by the necessities of existing laws re-
lating to the management of the fed
eTal funds. The national debt. in
round numbers, is now 100000, 900,
and the treasury has balance in ex-
cess of $3.50. 900 for which it has
neither immediate nor prospective use
The Treasury department could wipe
out one-fourth of this debt without
any Inconvenience, but such action
would instantly start a panic in the
financial world
The treasury notes and all of the
national bank notes of the country are
based on government bonds issued to
provide for the 5000, 100000 national
Indebtedness. Any real reduction of
the national debt would reduce the
basis of national bank and treasury
note circulation which, 1t is generally
admitted, is no more than adequate to
meet the growing commercial demands
of the country. The result is that the
government is compelled to pay about
100000 a year in interest on debt
1t could reduce by one-fourth, in order
to not disturb the financial equilibrium.
In other words, the nation may have
money only by remaining in debt.
Under the existing arrangement and
laws, when the demand for additional
currency becomes imperative, the
country would have to devise some new
plan for increasing its debt to meet
the emergency. The condition is a
peculiar one and we'll worth the study
of the experts who are devoting their
time to it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
HELP FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

Miss james, the wealthy Quakeress
of Philadelphia, who has given $1,000
600 TO a fund for the Advancement Of
negro education in the south. has placed
condition upon her philanthropy
which makes II distinct from any
other contributions Of large size for
educational purposes. The rules pro-
vided for the employment Of the fund
established by Miss james require
that aid shall be extended only to the
schools in the rural districts. This
is striking at the very root of educa-
tional needs everywhere.
While the gift will arouse discussion
in the south, particularly among those
who are opposed to all kinds of educa-
tional Advancement for the negro, there
can be no question of the wisdom of
the restrictions attending the donation.
Millions have been poured into edu-
cational funds in the last few years for
the benefit of colleges, the endowment
of institutions devoted to special re-
search and the general betterment Of
facilities for higher education, while
the little red school house has been
overlooked. Plans for making farm
life more attractive and stopping the
tide of young men and women from
the farms to the cities have too often
failed to include the betterment of the
rural schools. Miss james gift is In
tended to correct that economic fault
and great good will be accomplished if
the use of the fund results in the cul-
tivation of those common qualities
which make for self respecting and
contented citizenship among the
negroes, whose value to the south lies
in their knowledge of agriculture and
their willingness to take up the bur
dens Of this industry
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
Personal AND OTHERWISE.
r. there7 skiddool

X there1 Skiddoo!
Winston Churchill receives a royalty Of
80 cents per volume and already his receipts
from one book are said to have been $780,.
OO0.
A New York woman got verdict of 6
cents against a dentist who had tried to
kiss her and failed. which seems small
recompense for a disappointment.
A Milwaukee Judge decided that wife
who refused to talk to her husband was not
guilty Of inhuman treatment. Some hus-
bands do not know when they are well
OFF.
Reports from the Industrial centers Of
the country show that with the exception
of San Francisco the annual May day
strike fever has yielded to the gentle tonic
Of common sense.
Much Of the presidential timber in sight
is distinctly of the heavyweight class.
Roosevelt weighs go; Bryan, 2S4; Taft, go
and Fairbanks is well over 200 pounds.
Featherweights will not be in the running.
Pennsylvania papers pathetically refer to
what New York did to Bill Tweed and his
grafters and intimates that similar en-
ergetic prosecution is due the state house
hooters. But Pennsylvania, unlike New
York, SHES at the thought OF provoking a
family row.
An Indiana woman OF Is. who plunged
into the marrying business at the age OF
10 and divorced her third husband last
week. when asked II she would marry again
sagely remarked, Husbands are like old
shoes. II they wear easy everything is
lovely, but If they don't and you get rid
of them. that's no reason for going bare
footed"
Antonin Mercie, the French sculptor, has
been chosen to design the monument to
Francis Scott Key, which the late Charles
L. Marburg decided to present to the city
of Baltimore at a cost of $4,000. short
time before his death The statue will be
surrounded by a group depicting scenes of
the episode which inspired Key to write
THE Star Spangled Banner"
LeOnce Rabillion. the French consul at
Baltimore, is making a French version Of
RIP Van Wrinkle" which Thomas Jeffer-
son expects to present in France shortly.
At one time the elder Coquelin and the late
Joseph Jefferson had a conference on the
subject The scheme then was for Coquelin
to play Rip, because Mr.. Jefferson could
not speak French. Thomas Jefferson, how
ever, speaks the language fuently.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
TIDINGs OF GREAT JOY.
Efforts to Undermine an American In
stitutiOn Frustrated.
washington Herald,


Washington Herald.
The esteemed Omaha Bee, which is a
very busy Bee, indeed, and one that seldom
stings, brings tidings of great Joy to the
land. The Bee announces that the big cir
cuses have reconsidered their fell deter
minatlon to cut out the time-honored street
parade; in the future these colossal aggre-
cations Of worlds wonders will display
their glittering and gorgeous street pa
geants as of yore, II not even more 30!
It's well; nay. tbs grand The common
people have gained another notable vic
tory, and the greed of the high and mighty
individuals who run the circuses has been
given wholesome and Well-timed check.
The circus parade has been for years the
one thing beautiful and the one Joy for
ever to youthful hearts. To abandon and
abolish It would be a crime against the
happier traditions of childhood; a violent
assault upon such stun in tiny hearts las
dreams are made OF"
Having by the combined condemnatory
weight of concentrated public opinion
thus brought TO "tAw'' the circuses in
one particular, why not proceed, in this
day of reform, with other and still more
radical demands? Why not insist that the
reserved seat" section be made TO include
something less than ninety-nine and nine
tenths per cent of the good seats under
the canyas2 Why not demand that the
price OF the reserved seat" be made
sornhthing less than twice the price of ad-
missfon7 why not demand that the strips
of red carpet spread along the seats as
aforesaid be not only padded but occas-
sionalIy busted? Why not demand, siren
uously and with one accord, the abolition
Of that greatest of all fakes, the after
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

piece. or concert IN And last, but by no
means least why, al why, not insist that
the near-lemonade home within hailing
distance of its pre- nsions and lend the
Joy to thirsty and 4 ger outlets that II
should, ought and do6d?
A circus is a fine institution. Like
locomotive, II never .Ciite ceases TO chal-
lenge our attention III respect. But the
people have been vera kind and indulgent
with the Barnums and Baileys Of the land.
They have good-natJif dly stood for the
gouging, and they haN paid much coin to
view fake petriied Il srmaids and haxen-
haired snake charmers IN the side shows.
They submitted to the remark, THE peo-
pie like to be humbu kred," with an i'm
dulgent smile. But tho time has come to
reform the circus Hakng won a signal
victory in forcing the restoration of the
parade, let all stout-hearted circus-lovers
pause not in their cruAde until a COM
plete and lasting rehabilitation has been
effected.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
OLD-FAHIONED COUPLE.
Chicago Post.

Chicago Post
Such a quaint old-fashioned couple as they
are!
He is courtliness itself when by her
side
And he's never known to wander very far
From her presence; and she looks on him
with pride,
For she thinks that he in looks and honest
Is more than peer of any man on earth.
And he bows to her with gentle Difference,
Smiles with pleasure when he gratifies q
within;
She shows she thinks that all of common
sense
And intellect is surely held by him.
When he makes mistakes-as all men do,
you know
She does not tell him that she told him so.
And she will not say that he has any faults
Nor will he acknowledge that she has =
And the march of gladness for them never
It's a picture that an artist great might
When they sit among their pictures ana
their books
with satisfied contentment in their looks.
Such quaint. old-fashioned couple-Bless
you, no!
They are not a pair OF relics of the past;
She Is twenty, he Is twenty-five, or So
Which Is Why our admiration Is 80 vast
Don't you see, they think that life is At
When they live for eaeh Cther-not the
rest.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Among other things which the grand
jury in session at Lincoln has been
charged to investigate are the alleged
annual holdups of saloonmen whose
licenses are protested by blackmailers
for the purpose of being bought on
This sort of crooked work has been
carried on here in Omaha, too, but the
victims are always loath to prosecute
II the grand jury at Lincoln will &c
after the blackmaileTs there the exam
pie may be followed by the next grand
fury in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

dry starch and no more nourishing
This product, combined with baking
powder and sour milk, baked in a
hasty oven, is warranted to produce
divorce when all other provocations
fail. II the department will lay in a
supply Of real old yellow cornmeal,
the product of water mill and get
some good old negro "Mammys" to
conduct the demonstrations, the cereal
will at once achieve better reputation
and the nation will become enthusiast
tic in its willingness to eat more of it.
Unless something Of that kind is done,
the making of corn bread will soon be
numbered with the lost arts
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Trying to dissuade Des Moines from
putting up a huge convention hall, the
Lincoln Star says:
The fact is that these immense coliseums
cannot stand alone in the work Of pulling
big gatherings. With them there must be
population, there must be hotels, there
must be railway facilities. The greatest
hall on earth does not make a city a con-
vention city unless there are hotels, rail-
ways and enough people to back the enter
prise and make it a success.
There is some pertinency in these
suggestions for Omaha, where we have
been unable to get the full benefit of
our fine Auditorium because of made
Quate hotel facilities to take care of
big crowds attending conventions 9TH
erwise easily accommodated by the
Auditorium. Omaha ought to be a
great convention city, and will be if
we follow up the advantages we al
ready have.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
Somebody has suddenly discovered
campaign,

Somebody has suddenly discovered
that Nebraska's child labor law may
not permit children to appear on the
stage. There is no may" about it,
as the law expressly prohibits the en-
ployment of children under IA in any
theater and makes such requirements
for children between IA and 16 as to
amount to a positive prohibition. 1t
remains only to be seen whether public
sentiment will require the enforcement
of this part of the law or will prefer to
let It remain a dead letter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
TOP, BOTTOM AND. MIDDLE
Line-Up of the People on the Square
Deal Policy,


Wall Street Journal.
There are S5,72O,OOO people living in the
United States.
OF these there are, perhaps 100000 GRIM
inal OF vicious, or Submerged" persons at
the bottom who are more or less dangerous
to the social order.
There are also at the top, perhaps 5000
criminal, vicious, law defying, rich, who
are dangerous to public liberty and order.
This leaves sO,715,OOO persons between these
two classes, and upon these the safety of
the republic rests. Recent events have
demonstrated that in the main, the hearts
and minds OF these are right and sane, and
that while uncompromising in their hostility
to both the criminal rich and the criminal
poor, they may be depended upon for a
wholesome conservatism that will protect
the fundamental principles Of individual
liberty and the rights Of property.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Those promised cross-town car lines
will be a great convenience, but they
must be accompanied by a visible in
crease in the number of cars operated
at the rush hours If we are to have any
relief from the congestion of street
railway traffic in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Grover Cleveland's suggestion that
the descendants Of the signers OF the
Declaration of Independence hold a re-
union in jamestown is being generally
approved. From a mere financial
viewpoint, however, 1t would be more
profitable TO have a reunion Of the
John Smiths
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
Eliminating Economic Waste.

If railroad rates can ever be so simplified
and regulated as to eliminate the economic
waste in transportation. as when goods are
shipped from Chicago to San Francisco via
New Orleans, from Chicago to Salt Lake
via San Francisco, from Boston to Chicago
via Newport News, or from San Francisco
to Omaha via Winnipeg, or as when goods
from New York for the Chicago market
pass like goods from Chicago for the New
York market, what will become Of the
freight solicitor?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Judge Fitzgerald has refused to allow
the papers and exhibits in the Thaw
case to go out of possession of the
courts, The country will be satisfied
If the court prevents any more pub
licity in connection with the case.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
Special Glass and special Rates,

Springfield Republican.
1t will be found difficult to find fault
with the Interstate Commerce commission s
decision that party rate" tickets, II sold
at all, must be sold to any group of trav-
elers of required number applying for
them, as well as to theatrical companies
to which they have been confined by many
railroads. The surprising thing about the
matter is that any roads should have pre-
sumed to limit such special rates to a
special class of travellers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Railroad lawyers say that they are
all bordering whether or not to con-
test the Nebraska 2-cent fare law. If
they will ponder over it long enough,
the law may have a chance to vindi-
cate itself without waiting for the aid
or consent Of the railroads.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
Gas in Food PacIsnEes.
New York Trihune.

ANtW 1OIh lIlbuIe.
Meat packers claim to have found a new
preservative which affects meat as borax
does, but which can nevertheless be used
without violating the punctuation and cap
italization Of the pure food law. 1t is
used in the form of a gas and in view OF
the effect it's discovery will have upon
those who use 1t 1t will probably be known
to the trade as laughing gas, unless the
dentists protest
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

South Omaha is about to increase
its municipal debt by issuing $4,000
more of sewer bonds. South Omaha
must be getting ready 10 let Omaha
annex its financial obligations.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
Wen worth Rememberinu.
Indianapolis News.

Perhaps some of the politicians will learn
lesson from what happened at jamestown
Friday. When the president says Don't
shovel" he'll make it go. even II he has to
use little federal persuasion to do so.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Richard Croker declares that Ireland
is the best place in the world in which
to live. New York might have been
better on If Croker had made that dis
covery some years ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Binger Hermann doubtless would
feel better over his acquittal by a
Washington jury II he did not have to
hurry back to Oregon TO stand trial on
few dozen indictments tor alleged
participation in land frauds
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

THE Standard OH Co. has not given
up" says a Chicago dispatch. Ger
tainly not. The Standard has got
rich by making other folks give up.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Jan Janowsh has asked the Chicago
courts to change his name to John
Smith. That man is entitled to pass,
to the jamestown exposition.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

The outbreak of vicious dogs in
South Omaha re-enforces the couten-
ton that the populations of Omaha
and South Omaha are one irrespective
of the imaginary line dividing their
municipal governments.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

take II, however that there is no law
preventing the trade boosters from
mixing a little pleasure with their bus
mess occasionally.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

The persistently circulated report
that umbrellas are going out Of style
may be designed to make you more
careless about allowing yours to go
out OF sight
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

The president may note that the
grand jury at San Francisco is break
ing his record in designating members
Of the Undesirable Citizens assocla-
ton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Neither Secretary Taft nor Senator
Foraker will visit the jamestown ex-
position. They have a little war
path" of their own in Ohio.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

This question, who is the greatest
American" cannot be determined I'M
til Napoleon Lajoie shows II he has his
batting eye with him this season.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
An Impressive warning.
No. UA-lr rT-gN,y-a

Owing to its success at the jamestown
opening the Big Stick will doubtless be gen.
orally adopted by traffic squads as a panic
preventer
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

The control of Omaha's theaters
may change hands, but the theaters
will stay right here and continue to
do business at the. old stand.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

The cars announcement that he is
satisfied with the work OF the Duma is
proof that the Duma has not been do
ing much.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

washington Post.
The report that the Cuban treasury has
surplus Of S4,OOO,OOO may explain why
there is so much anxiety down there for
another session of Cuban congress.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Prof. Henderson of the University OF
Chicago says women are not doing
their share of the worlds thinking.
The professor must be a bachelor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

The Chicago Tribune regrets that
there is but one w. T. Stead. It
should be a matter of qualification
rather than regret
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

The Commercial club wants II dis
tinctly understood that its trade eEcur-
sion to the great northwest is strictly
for business rather than pleasure. We
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

All reports to the contrary notwith-
standing, the cold and dry weather
has not injured the dandelion crop.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Anyway, 1t is some satisfaction to
know that the end seat hog has also
suffered from backward season.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

Stuyvesant Fish says Wall street is
suffering from financial dyspepsia.
Another case of undigested securities.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

May is welcome. She can not DOS
sibly behave worse than her predeces-
sor
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
WHEN OFT OF TOWN..

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pornrily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will he
changed rs often ms requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
Went
I.nuisxiIIe Courl.

Louisville Courier-JOuTnaL
Mr. Taft, who says there is no politics
in his visit 10 Ohio. evidently holds that to
swat Forakerism Is purely patriotic,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01

The dropping of two fusion men,
bers of the supreme court commission
is raising a storm of protest from dem
ocratic and populist papers. That is
quite natural. Other supreme court
commissioners have been dropped from
time to time, both republicans and flu
sionists, without evoking any howl
about partisanship. 1t is a matter of
fact that most of the present judges
received their original commissions
from the court when 1t was made up
of the fusion majority and their quail
fications cannot have changed materi-
ally since then. The present howl is
for purely partisan purposes with a
view to laying the foundation for po-
litical claptrap for use in next falls
campaign.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-01
sTATBMENT OF CIRCtLATIoN.

State Of Nebraska, Douglas County, 50.
Charles G. Rosewater, general manager
Of The Bee Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, says that the actual number
pf full and complete copies Of The Daily
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
turing the month Of April 1907, was as
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