davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Free press., 1907-03-30
REMEMBER RAND.

Well, 1 should say so! He is the
fellow that pays the big prices for
horses and mules, and he is coming
back. He will be in Hays on the 5th
of April to buy your horses and mules
and wants to SEE all his. old friends
and as many new ones as he can.
Will also be in Victoria, Kans on the
4th of April.
Free press., 1907-03-30
GunrdSnaas Notice.

1st published March 80, 1907.
State OF Kansas, Ellis Co. SIS
In the matter of Clarence d. Fouohty
a minor of Ellis county, Kansas
Notice of Appointment
Notice is hereby given, that on the
23d day of March A d. 1907 the un-
dersigned was, by the Probate court OF
Ellis Co. kansas, duly appointed and
qualified as guardian Of Clarence Dew
ey Foughty minor, heir of Harr,
Foughty, late of Ellis county, Kansas.
All parties interested will take no
tice and govern themselves accordingly
MRS. NANCY CARTER, Guardian,
Attest j 8. Gross, Probate Judge.
Free press., 1907-03-30
Notice.

AS we are going to dissolve partner
ship we are therefore compelled to ask
all our creditors knowing themselves
indebted to US to please call and settle
up their accounts at once.
Yours truly
HENRY WOLF & Son.
Free press., 1907-03-30
Watches. Clocks & JeweIrv.

Remember that Henry THoLEn &
Son, the Watchmakers of Victoria,
are still making their regular trips to
HAYS every Saturday. If you have
watch, a clock or any jewelry to re-
pair, leave it at the j. B. BAsGALL
Grocery store and twill be called for
and delivered every Saturday. Eyes
tested Free at our store in Victoria
by H. J. ThoIen, the K.C. graduate
refractionist
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

The travelling public will find COM
forting assurance in the announcement
that some railroad traffic managers Of
the country have begun active cam
paigns looking to the improvement Of
train service so far as 1t is affected
by the carefulness or carelesspess of
railway employees.
The Pennsylvania railroad has been
engaged for three months in conduct
ing series of surprise signal tests on
its lines. These signals were ordered
by officials of the company who were
working without the knowledge of en-
gineers and other trainmen in an ef-
fort to ascertain the degree of dill
gence exercised by trainmen and their
conduct in emergencies. The result
shows that in every 100 surprise tests
81 per cent of the engineers complied
absolutely with the company's rules in
bringing their trains to a stop. The
other per cent of the engineers
brought their trains to a stop, but not
unil after passing the signal, and these
men we're marked deficient and se4
verely disciplined. A total number Of
2,252 trains were involved in these
tests. Trainmen are, as rule, dill
gent and conscientious. and 1t is usu-
ally when they are overworked that
accidents result from neglect of sig
nails and orders. The recent law
passed by congress limiting the hours
of trainmen should remove that evil,
and dismissal of incompstents exposed
by test would soon remove another evil
OF the railway service. The public will
be glad to learn that other railways are
adopting plans to test the efficiency of
employees connected with the operation
Of trains.
The second campaign for the cultiva-
ton Of better relations between rail-
roads and their patrons is absolutely
novel and surprising. Vice President
Brown of the New York Central and
President Winchell OF the Rock Island
have been sending out spoilers" on
their lines with instructions to note
and report every act of insolence on
the part of employees toward patrons
1t is not to the credit Of the railway
employees of the country that such ac-
ton should be found necessary. 1t Is
matter OF general knowledge, how
ever, that railway employees too seldom
exert themselves to be civil to travel
ers or shippers. Information of inter.
est to the patrons has too frequently
been withheld or grudingly given and
the patron has had no recourse. EN-
\ ployes have hardly been to blame for
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
REFORM IN FUNERALS.

Thoughtful persons will approve the
efforts being made by the Evangelical
Minister'S association of Atlanta and
encouraged by like organizations else
where looking to reform in the flu
neral methods of the day. Rather
radical changes are proposed by the
Atlanta organization, including,
% The elimination of eulogies.
CD The abandonment to a large
extent of the Sunday funeral.
90 The use of less ostentatious
mourning.
Cd More discrimination in the
sending-of floral tributes.
Great griefs are mute and they
mourn truly who mourn without wit
nesses. The world is coming to a re-
alization of the wisdom back of q
movement like that of the Atlanta or
ganization. While it is fitting to pay
public tribute to public men. whose
life and death are matters of general
concern, the saner view of death OPP
poses the display of private grief to
the unsympathetic and uncaring
public.
Deep sorrow for loved ones who
have died is natural, but it is neither
natural, helpful nor thoughtful to ask
the public to share in 1t. Less ex-
cusable is the prevailing custom of ad-
vertising grief by the smothering, un-
healthful and depressing mourning
garb. The movement for right think
ing and simplicity in funeral customs
in the presence of bereavement de-
serves success and emulation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
DESERVES A MONUMENT.
Work of the Late Edward ROsewRteF
Entitled to Recognition.
Camden IN. y Post Telegram.

Camden IN. J) Post Telegram
In 1901 the late Edward Rosewater, editor
of The Omaha Bee. started fight to COM
pei the railroads In Nebraska to bear their
fair and equal proportion Of the taxation
imposed on property in that state. Less
than a year ago the editor died, but his
works do follow him, for the Nebraska
legislature has Just passed bill which puts
into effect the plan Of equal taxation which
he fathered. The railroads will. as a re-
suit Of his efforts, be forced to pay $4,000
year more than they have heretofore
paid in taxes, and the individual taxpay-
er's burden will be lightened.
grateful republic ereats statues in
honor of its martial heroes! its presidents
and other statesmen. If the state Of Ne
braska is grateful for the valuable public
service rendered by Editor Rosewater 1t
should honor his memory by erecting
statue testifying to future generations
that in the days of corporation domina-
ton an honest and incorruptible tribute of
the people was not wanting, nor a cham
pion to battle with special privilege in order
to gain equal rights Tor all.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

New York Tribune: Zion City now has two
prophets. But each seems to think that
John Alexander Dowie's mantle is not big
enough to divide.
Philadelphia Ledger: A Nebraska pastor
whose trunk was destroyed in a railroad ac-
cident has filed a bill for $lSOs9.25. But
should a minister trust his sermons to
mere trunk?
Washington Herald: President Smith Of
the Mormon church is out in an interview
strongly sdenouncing polygamy. The combi-
nation Of high prices and the Easter season
was entirely too much for the old fellow.
Milwaukee Sentinel: II hard cash be an
Indicator of sympathy with religion or
church projects. then indeed is Milwaukee
a marked municipality in this respect. -Four
churches on Easter Sunday received the ag-
gregate amount of $500 In their collection
plates. This sum, based ON the population
of the city shows to the ecclesiastical sta
tistican that in these four congregations
alone 81 was contributed for every Us Nil
waukeeans There are approximately 200
churches in the city. An average contribu-
ton of S35 to each on Easter Sunday would
make the total collection in Milwaukee $10,
900 for the day This average is very
moderate estimate. This makes the dona-
ton to churches 81 for every thirty-five per-
sons, or about cents from every man,
woman and child in Milwaukee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
EXPENSES OF PUBLIC LIFE.

A Missouri congressman has been
getting some free advertising by de-
claring that he saved $4,000 out of
his salary and emoluments during his
first term of two years in congress. He
claims to have discovered that by liv-
ing at boarding house and practicing
the economies he found necessary be-
fore his election to congress, his mile
age, stationery and other allowances
made by a generous government en-
abled him to meet the demands of the
cost of living without the necessity of
touching his $4,000 year salary.
This testimony is in striking con-
trast with reports widely circulated Of
the high cost of living at the national
capital and the inability of certain
high-grade officials to make their
salaries meet their expenses. The chief
reason assigned by Senator Spooner
for his resignation was his inability to
live and save a competence for his
family on the salary of a senator, and
the public has been educated to be-
lieve that a high public official in
Washington must have an independent
income and cannot meet social and liv-
ing requirements upon Shis salary al
lowance.
The record shows the fallacy of this
impression. 1t is fact that most Of
the congressman from the south
where large fortunes are rare-live in
Washington on their incomes and save
money. In the olden days, Senator
Conkling boasted that his living ex-
penses never exceeded s25 a week;
John A. Logan paid SIS a month house
rent; Senator Lot Morrill, lived in a
modest cottage and many other sena-
tors and congressman dubbed together
and lived inexpensively. Their stand
ing in official and social life was never
questioned. Opportunities for such
economy in living still exist in Wash
ington. But Washington has become
the winter home Of many wealthy men
from different sections of the country.
The public man who wants to partici
pate in the social follies of self-indulg-
ing mtllionaires will find his salary too
small, just as he would find it too
small for similar extravagances in New
York, Bar Harbor, Newport or at any
other place where social allurements
appeal solely to the pocketbook. The
public man who asserts that he cannot
live in Washington on his salary con-
fesses that he is going out of his own
class and seeking admission to the
circle in which money and not brains
constitutes the pass word.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
old feet often get into hot water.

Cold feet often get into hot water
He gives nothing who gives emily gold.
Things sublime always are simple at heart.
The glorious life never seeks it own glory.
Worship never can be made perfect by sit
ting still.
Your religion is worth to others what it
costs you.
Many a sin is overcome best by
ignoring 1t.
Sin always is in sympathy with the saints
who are sore.
If religion is not for all of a man it is not
for aught in man.
Feed on garbage and you soon loose your
faith In good things.
Heart health never comes so long as the
hand is on the pulse.
Don't be too sure that the honeymoon
will sweeten a sour disposition.
The man who never has been ashamed Of
himself has nothing of which to be proud
The religion that is put on at certain
You must give the world full possession
of some old ideals before you can have a
new earth
1t is easy to think you are convicting sin
when you only are telling the things you do
not like to do.
Many make the mistake OF underestimate
ing their possibilities and overestimating
their difficulties.
Some folks think they are light hearted
because they find 1t is so easy to make light
of the troubles of others-ChIcago Tribune
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
THE ARMY OF VETERANS.

For the last dozen years the experts
Of the national pension bureau have
been estimating approximately 1885,
600 men who had participated In the
civil war as soldiers for the union had
not been heard from officially since the
close of the war. The government
had been showing increased liberality
from year to year in its new pension
laws, making it easier for the veterans
to secure recognition and reward. In
spite of this a discrepancy existed be-
tween the pension roll and the number
Of survivors OF the war that could not
be explained easily. 1t appeared that
any army of at least 1875, 900 men had
apparently disappeared from public
record with the signing of the peace
protocols between the warning sec
lions. The latest reports Of the COM
missioner of pensions shows that the
experts were mistaken in their esti-
mates of the size of this unknown
army.
Since the passage of The service pen
sion act 278. 900 men have filed apph-
cations for participation in its benefits,
and Commissioner Warner estimates
that the total number will exceed S0O,-
600. as those who went into war
young will soon be eligible for pen
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

It has been ascertained that the lemon
gag is thirty years old, which accounts
for the yellow taste 1t produces.
Giving or receiving tips having been made
a punishable offense in Indiana, sleeping
car porters reserve their gracious atten-
lions until trains move out of the state.
The hoary old belief that salvation is
free" gets another knock from the Bible
trust. Makers and distributors OF the good
book insist on a larger slice Of prosperity's
melon.
Montana gleefully announces that the new
anti-gambling law will work revolution
in the sporty morals of the state. Merely
a revolution from band wagon to gum shoe
methods.
Mrs. Russell Sage towers above million
aires OF New York like Miss Liberty above
a ferry boat. She spurns the habit Of tax
lodging by swearing of, and insists on
giving Caesar his full due.
Pool room profits are so great IN New
York that Wall street is disposed to add
the game to its industries. The regular
crop of lambs wool is short Just now, and
the street needs the money.
Sixteen Of the largest compounders OF
soda water drinks IN st. Louis have formed
"a community of interests" for the pur-
pose of regulating the quantity OF foam
in each beaker. They don't need the
money.
After a thorough search OF the residents
of Pittsburg worth searching, twenty-three
men have been found without stain. With
behtting generosity the stained rendered
the stainless skiddoo banquet Pittsburg
is looking up
While officially conceding that ''art Is
on the bum" in Kansas City, the town ex-
cepts the garbage master from the desig-
nation. The latter achieves distinction as
an artist in census calculations. Every
town to its ideals.
With an income of 81. 900 a month from one
franchise corporation, coupled with his I'M
common thrift in other directions. # Is rea-
sonably certain that Abraham Ruef OF
San Francisco will give his prosecutors a
lively run for his scalp.
ChicaEo's police force is booked for a
"shakedown" that viii bring home 10 the
members a taste Of the system they had
reduced 10 a fine art. MayOr-elect Busse
tips the beam at 30 and can shake his
weight in cops without batting an eye.
Chsncellor Day OF Syracuse puts oratory
aside for the present and has taken his pen
In hand to inscribe on the arc lights OF pub
| uoity his admiration for trusts in general
and Rockefeller IN particular The chan
oellor can sford TO burn the midnight oil
regardless Of expense.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

this attitude, as their conduct has
been but a reflex Of the general atti-
tude Of the railway magnates toward
the wishes and rights Of patrons. 1t
would be difficult to estimate how
much Of the anu-railrUad sentiment
Of the country had its origin in the
Indifferent or defiant attitude of both
magDates and employees toward the
public. While the country has never
had any affection for the 'spotter," his
work in this new field may produce a
welcome reform.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
THE TRANSIENT GUEST.
New York Times.

little hope came crying TO my heart
And / in tender pity let Il In,
And thought tomorrow II VIII then departi
I would postpone the work / should begin
Until my guest was gone. Why should I
start
The work that life had planned, so sure
to win?
Yet when tomorrow came hope fingered
still,
And though I limited I had work to do
II hung around and bothered me until
month had passed. The little hope It
grew
To be a part of my existence till
/ asked It to remain a year or two.
My work was put aside, some other day
I would begin IT, other days would dawn.
Today a game OF chance with hope I'll
play,
Tomorrow--well tomorrows never born.
Twas plain that little hope had come to
stay
And then turned my head and-hops
was gone!
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

slons under the provisions Of the act
which place them on the roll when 81
years OF age. On the present list are
no less than twenty-five millionaires
who are accepting pensions under the
civil service act. Criticism OF their
course in taking unneeded pensions
from the government is met by the
argument that the pension list is a
roll Of honor and establishes the war
record of its beneficiaries. as no man
can receive a pension who has not
been honorably discharged. In that
respect the pension certificate is leg
acy, richer than worldly possession,
to the heirs of the veteran.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
of Panama Canal Job.
Chica go Chrnnicla

-.well dig 1t or bust!" is the patriotic
observation Of Speaker Cannon after view
ing the isthmian canal at close range.
The procurement is patriotic even If
somewhat tinged with a pale cast OF
thought. It leaves the impression that
Mr.. Cannon sees anything but an easy
task ahead of US, and that is an impress
sion which gains ground in the minds of
people who never have seen the field of
operations The American nation never
has undertaken a Job that 1T did not
finish, however, and we may set it down
as certain that the canal will be dug and
that, too without busting" us. Never
theless, it is just as well to realize what
we have to confront, since the realization
will have to be faced sooner or later.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
DANGERS LETTER WRfTTYe.

DANuE no IN LII nm " hA1IhU'
ooh! that mine enemy would write
book" exclaimed Alonzo Of Aragon,
in his knowledge that his enemy, in
that way, would lay himself open to
attack. Alonzo was looking for some
thing of that kind as a means of get
ting even. That was in the old days.
The prayer of the modern seeker of a
chance to even up the score should be,
ooh! that mine enemy would dictate
a private and personal letter to his
confidential stenographer." Recent
developments in business, social and
political circles have demonstrated the
possibilities of danger through asking
third party to share secrets. So
rapid has been the expansion of mod
ern business methods that the stem
ographer and the typewriter have be-
come simply indispensable in the ex-
peditious dispatch of the worlds cor
respondence. Many business men and
managers of large affairs have forgot
ten how to write and limit their use
of pen and ink to the manufacture of
signatures. The old methods are OBJ
solete and the new ones have brought
attendant dangers.
Instances in which the stenographer
has exploded earthquakes in business,
social and political affairs are quite
numerous. If woman we'll known
to Omaha and fame had not kept her
stenographic notes made while a clerk
in the Postofice department at Wash
ington the postal scandals might never
have been unearthed and half dozen
men who are now wearing stripes in
the federal prison at Moundsville, w.
Va, might have been still waxing rich
from the profits Of their grating meth
DDS. Former Senator Mitchell of Ore
gon was driven from the United States
senate to prison because his stenog-
rapher turned over copies of incrimi-
mating letters to the federal authori-
ties. Binger Hermann, former COM
missioner Of the general land Office, is
now on trial at Washington charged
with completely in land frauds and
with destroying public records. The
chief witness against him is his former
stenographer, who retains the short
hand notes Of the missing records.
Long-winded letters that fell into the
hands of postal inspectors caused the
conviction of former United States
Senator Burton of Kansas. The re-
cent life insurance scandals in New
York were brought to focus by
state employee, who sold the copy of
the proceedings before an inquiry
board to New York newspaper. The
Hartman Roosevelt controversy was
precipitated by Mr.. Harriman's former
confidential stenographer giving a
newspaper the copy Of that letter to
my Dear Webster"
Yet the wonder of the situation is
that such betrayals of confidence are
not more common. Stenographers
number into the million and their re-
lations with business and public men
are so close and so necessary that they
have abundant opportunity to profit
greatly by the incorporation and
misuse of inside information, That
they do this so rarely is an eloquent
tribute to their loyalty and honesty.
Just the same, the politician or the
high financier who wants to pull off a
deal in secret had best adhere to the
sage injunction, Don't write"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

Is not that legislative resolution re-
citing how Governor Sheldon had made
the executive mansion a place of
warmth and welcome a trihe rough on
some other governors who have occu-
pied the same domicile?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
Real Article in HerOines.

The only hero furnished by the Central
American war isn't a hero at all, but a
heroine When the medals come to be
passed around the first prize must be
given to the wife of the Nicaraguan pres
ident, who rode $50 miles on mule to
reach the scene Of battle, and then nursed
the wounded soldiers of both sides.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

Senator Burkett wired a congratu-
latory message to the legislature felici-
tating its members upon their work of
pledge redemption. 1t must have been
an oversight that the legislature failed
TO return the compliment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

Business conditions at present were
never better. Last years crop was very
large and we'll distributed and the prices
received and still being received, far
above the average. Money rates are
strong, but there is plenty Of money for
all legitimate purposes, and large amounts
are being invested in southern and north
ern la g and in other fields.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

The local democratic organ is rea-
sonably lavish in praise of the republic
can legislature just closed. But wait
till the next campaign in Nebraska and
watch It try to take it all back
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

The poor over-worked bailiffs in the
Douglas county court house are to
have their salaries raised by legisla-
tive mandate. Won't that make the
competition fierce when the next bench
of judges distribute bailiff appoint
ments?