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Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-01
CUT OUT SHERIFF'S CRAFT
McDOnald's Padded Bills for Jail Feeding
Reduced One Third.
DEMANDS MILEAGE FOR FREE PASS RIDES
Itemised Exhibit of, Claims sworn 60
as Correct, but Found TO he
Watered Up to the
Hrim.
Graft-Loaded sherin's Claims.
Amount Amount
Claimant Asked. Allowed.
John Power, 9 claims. s., ,oa5.S6 > 64O.18
John w. Mcdonald, 81
claims ........... 2,689.95 l,S1S'So
(From a STAN correspondent)

(Frrom a Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, Feb. 2S.-CSpecial) AS dis
closed by the deficiency claim bill just In
troduced, this is what the committee did
to the bills presented by Douglas county
sheriffs for reimbursement for alleged ex-
penses for keeping and conveying prisoners
sentenced to the penitentiary or to the re-
form schools at Kearney and Geneva.
The committee did this Notwithstanding
the persistent appeals and constant lobby
ing of Sheriff Mcdonald on his own be
half and on behalf of his democratic pre-
decessor for allowance of claims In full
In cutting out the graft in these items
the committee simply endorsed the action
of Deputy Auditor Cook, who had nrst
gone over these claims with fine tooth
comb. and had attempted to reduce them
down to a semblance of fairness. 1t is
only fair to say for ex-sheriff Power that
only two of his bills were rejected In toto
and that two more were left unacted upon
for lack of Information.
The bills are the usual itemized state
ments presented by sheriffs to the state
auditor covering the board of prisoners
from the time sentenced until the time
turned over to the warden of the peniten-
tiary or superintendent of the reform
school, together with travelling expenses
and per diem OF the attending officer ac-
companying the prisoner.
Sample of Padded Bill.
AS a sample OF the bill the following
items for Eva williams, convicted March
Z, 1906, will give an idea of what is in
cluded:
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-01
OF THE BEE
THE wEATHER.

FORECAST FOR NEBRASKA-Fair Fri
day and Saturday; warmer Saturday.
. FORECAST FOR 1OWA-Rain ana coioer
Friday. Saturday fair.
Temperature at Omaha yesterday:
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-01

McDOnaId's Graft by Items.
The bills presented by sherin John W.
Mcdonald. itemized in the same way, are
as follows:
JOHN M'DONALaD-KEEPIN AND CON-
VEYING STATE PRISONERS.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-01

Each of McDonalds ninety-one claims
were sworn to and subscribed to by him.
himself, as being true and correct state
ments of his Just claims for reimburse
ment by the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-01

Gilbert NJ Hitchcock pointed out the
contrast OF Count creightons character
with the greed ot the present age
I'VE live In an age OF great Commercial
ism," said Mr.. Hitchcock I'VE are here
70 honor a man who sought to ind how
he could help society. II is a matter OF
pride to us citizens that Omaha has nro-
duced such man. Now omAha's reed a
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-01

The itemized claims presented by ex-
Sheriff John Power, showing in tabulation
form the number and amount asked for
and the amount allowed and the amount
cut out is as follows:
John POWER-KEEPING AND CON-
VEYING STATE PRISONERS.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-01
Sample of Padded Bill.

AS sample OF the bill the following
items for Eva Williams convicted March
Z, 1906 will give an idea of what is in
cluded:
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25

to get away with him and not get
caught. is his ever-recurring refrain.
Then came his last and most important
Job, the killing of the governor of
the State. There is no slightest sign
of over-confdence; on the contrary. he
realized that Governor Steunenbery
was an extra hazardous risk, and his
plans were made with more than usual
precaution. Yet, when he heard the
explosion the signal of success, it was
as though an invisible power had Sc
curely bound and gagged him, and he
was helpless. With much telltale evil
dence in his room and compromising
letters in his pockets, he was powerless
to act. Something came across me
cannot explain, and / seemed to lose
my reasoning power for the time and
left everything just as they were" 4"
The last chapter of this singular and
sanguinary career is worth perusal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
COST OF LIVING.

1t is a remarkable thing that the
people in this country who are being so
sorely oppressed by the cost of living
do not rise as one man and demand of
Congress the needed relief.
The government prosecution of trusts
have not curbed the cupidity, nor abil-
ity of the beef trust to levy its tribute,
and there is but one way possible to get
relief, and that is through a revision of
the tariff that will check the monopo-
lies that are today fixing the prices on
the necessaries of life. The Washing
ton Post gives these facts:
''The beef trust has advanced the
cost of living the past few days, and
the public must march up to the coun-
ter. The very day the advance was
made choice export steers were selling
in the stock yards of big Ohio Valley
city at ST cents a pound. Choice
butchers steers were worth cents.
This town gets no such beef as is pro-
duced from either of these. The cat
tie of which our beef is made are COM
mon to medium butchers steers, worth
in the Ohio Valley at the city market
at from st to 81 cents pound. From
such staff as that we get our porter
house at 80 cents a pound.
''The tariff on beef is cents a
pound; on bacon and hams it is cents
a pound. On mutton it is 2 cents a
pound; pork, 2 cents; poultry, 5 cents;
veal. 2 cents; butter, 6 cents; cheese,
6 cents. There is big tariff on fish
and fruits and breadstuffs and eggs.
'Intrenched behind these schedules
the beef trust. that has monopoly of
nearly all these products-poultry, eggs,
butter, cheese, fruits, and what not
can fix the price of breakfast, dinner
and supper at whatever its avarice may
demand We are now just on the
threshold of glorious October, when
pastures are richest of the year, when
food for cattle is most abundant and
easiest to convey to the manger, and
yet butter is selling in this town at 35
cents pound, and ere another vernal
equinox it will fetch so cents pound in
the city of Washington. Intimidated
and cajoled. not to say bribed. Con-
gress passed the olemargarine law that
was equivalent to bounty of 10 cents
on every pound of butter the trust
offers for sale. Tom, Dick and Harry
pay it, and the butter trust also pro-
tected by tariff of 6 cents pound,
thus enjoys the privilege oflevying ex-
orbitant taxes on the public.
Congress ought to look into the
thing as soon as it convenes. Meats
and butter are commodities of general
necessity, controlled by pure monopo-
lies and enormously and outrageously
protected by the tariff and favored by
the internal revenue laws"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
"TREY SAY" 4"

''They say" All well, suppose they do?
But can they prove the story true?
Suspicious may arise from naught,
But malice, envy, want of thought;
Why count yourself among the ''they''
Who whisper what they dare not say.
''They say" but why the tale rehearse
And help to make the matter worse,
No good can possibly accrue
From telling what may be untrue,
And is it not nobler plan
To speak of all the best you can?
"They say" well if it should be so
Why need you tell the tale of woe.
Would it the bitter wrong redress
Or make one pang of sorrow less.
Would it the erring soul restore
Henceforth to go and sin no more.
'They say" OH pause and look with in,
See how thy heart inclines to sin.
Watch lest in dark temptations hour
Thou, too, should sink beneath its power.
Pity the frail, weep over their fall,
And speak of good or not at all.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
THE ISLE OF LONG AGO.

There's magical isle up the river o1
time,
Where the softest airs are playing;
There's cloudless sky and tropical
cline,
And the Junes with the roses are
staying.
And the name of this isle is the Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there;
There are brows of beauty and bosoms
of snow
They are heaps of dust, but we loved
them so!
There are trinkets and tresses of hair.
There are fragments of songs that no.
body sings,
And a part of an infants prayer;
There's a lutte unswept, and harp
without strings,
There are broken vows and pieces of
rings,
And the garments she used to wear.
There are hands that are waved when
the fairy shore
BY the mirage is lifted in air;
And we sometimes hear, through the
turbulent roar,
Sweet voices we heard in the days gone
before.
When the wind down the river is fair.
Benjamin Taylor.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
THE MIGHT OF MANNERS.

That Manners make the man" is a
goodly old saying with something truer
than mere commonplace observation IN
its sound philosophy. Neither Chester
field himself. that paragon of deport-
ment, nor Barney McGee, who had
"Chesterield's way with a touch of the
Bowery," can be imagined without the
potent manners that were natural and
Characteristic of them. For good man
ners cannot he donned nor laid aside like
coat. Whether elegant or simple,
they are the expressive and appropriate
garment of personality, and It is one o1
the tests for them that they are habitua
and can never be misjudged as being
assumed or affected. The least touci
of affectation or insincerity is fatal Il
their value. To have bad manners o.
no manners is to announce oneself
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
POLITICAL.

The fight between Congressman Bur
ton, Republican, chairman of the
Rivers and Harbors Committee of Con-
gress, and Tom l.. Johnson, present
mayor of Cleveland, for the mayoralty
of that city, which will be decided at
the polls this fall, promises to be the
most interesting municipal contest in
the entire country and may, if it has
not already, assume national impor-
tance. Burton takes the Republican
nomination in order to unite his party
in one great effort to defeat the best
mayor the city of Cleveland ever had,
that municipality under his administra-
tion being credited with the best gov
ernment of any large city in the coun-
try. Both men are above suspicion
and men of the highest character. Mr..
Burton, as a member of Congress, has
done good work for the country and
taken front rank among the leaders,
while on the other hand Tom johnson
has given Cleveland an administration
second to none and during his three
terms as mayor forced the street rail-
road companies to give the people of
that city three-cent car fares, some
thing not enjoyed, sc far as we know,
by the people of any other city. That
Burton is the strongest man the Repub-
licans could have placed in the field
against johnson goes without saying,
but it is doubtful whether his fight
against Cleveland's celebrated chief
executive viii be any more successful
than those of his predecessors. Mr..
Burton takes the nomination lat a sac
rifice, but he is to be commended for
putting aside personal inclinations in
order to respond to the allof his party.
Free Lance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
THE SMALL PLANTER.

HAMPTON, VA, October l, 1907.
EDITOR OYsTERMAN,
DEAR SIR:-Recognizing in your pa
per the only publication in Virginia
that gives to the oyster question the
attention it deserves, am writing to
ask what is to become of the industry,
If present conditions prevail few years
longer? l am what is generally known
as small planter, and am about to be
forced out of the business after having
been engaged in it for nearly fifteen
years.
My trouble, like that of many others,
1 find to be the scarcity and
high price of seed oysters.
Last year when the supply was not one
quarter enough to fill the requirements,
the most of US put off deciding what
we should do until another season came
around, hoping that conditions would
be better, and we could obtain suffi-
cient seed to replenish the beds; now
however, the season of 1907 is upon us,
and the supply is, if anything, shorter
than last year, and the price no lower.
This means about one thing, and that
is, to get out of the business. do not
think it is the desire of the State of
Virginia TO drive out of business the
large number of small planters who
contribute so much to her prosperity,
nor do / believe she would willingly see
an industry that brings in so much rev.
enue and furnishes living to so many
of her citizens seriously curtailed, but
if it is not coming to that very shortly,
what is to prevent?
Would it not be well worth while to
look closely into this question, and see
if the trouble can be cured before il
gets any further, for our neighbors,
both North and South, are quick to take
upon trade, and take advantage of our
condition to get from us the business
that it has taken years to develop and
which it will take many years, and
many dollars to get back if once lost.
Is it that we have reached a point
where our laws cease to fit conditions,
or is it that the conditions were not
what they were supposed to have been
when the laws passed intended to fit
them? A VIRGINIA OYsTERMAN.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
LETTER TO t ]. HAYDON & son,
Irvington. Va.

Dear Sir: If you should handle bread that
people like better than any other. and at less
cost by the day. you'd have pretty good bus
mess, wouldn't you? -
We have just such business as that in paint.
a gallon goes farther than any other gallon of
paint in the country-that's bread at less cost
by the day; but the difference isn't so small as
1t is in bread. And job wears longer-that's
bread at less cost by the year. People hate to
paint; it cost money TO paint; and they hate
the fuss. They like our bread by the year
Ifyour bread is better than anybody eIse's
and cost less too. you've got good trade; for
people do like good bread; and people like
money. IL doesn't take lcng to find out; give
'em time.
But you can't sell better-than-anybody-
else's bread for half the usual price for a
breakfast can you?
Devoe is just such paint as that. The price
by the gallon or loaf is no matter. Count 10y
the day, week, month year lifetime. Devoe
is the bread. We hope yours las good.
/ Yours truly.
+. w. DEvOE & co.
Meesrck s. Grnby. Irvington, Va. sell oui
paints.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
IRvINGTON, VIRGINIA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 1907

boor; but to use false manners is to
betray ones ineptitude.
When they are real and actually re-
veal the inner personality how mighty
manners arei So potent are they, in
deed, that we are often carried beyond
our ultimate best judgment by the in
slant enthusiasm and responsive impulse
they exercise over our will, and we very
readily give them an even higher value
alton than is their due. The might of
manners is as great as the majesty
of mind or the supremacy of soul.
One must be stolid indeed not to be
sensitive to their potent influence and
unconciously swayed by them.
There is no denying the pleasure of
excellent manners. their ease, their ad-
vantage, their helpful charm and grace,
and the distinction they confer. But a
headlong and headstrong age, devoted
to achievement for mere achievement s
sake, is apt to consider them superfluous
after ala mark of lightness and arti-
ficiality, if not of effeminacy. Our
homemade virtues are prone to ar
rogance and an overweening self re-
lance, and are too ready to discount the
yeritable though subtle power which
manners possess. Truculent merit, as
sured of its own unassailable honesty,
reinforced perhaps by an abundance
of physical vigor, scorns to employ any
suavity of demeanor, any graciousness
or tact in presenting itself, for fear of
seeming to concede an atom of its own
integrity. Bliss Carman, in November
Smart Set
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25

# you want dwellings. churches. tents O,
<ouses OF any description built write 20 w, II
Jesse, contractor, Litwalton, Va. Estimates
wav down; mills located in Lancaster county
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
A CRY TO ARMS.
(1S61.l

Perhaps no writing more dee " stirred the
heart of the South tnan Henry Timrods "a
the first year of the war between the states.
And even now forty two years after the sur
reuder at Appomattox, tt is memoriaole as Q
martial lyric OF the most inspiring sort.l
Hot woodsmen of the mountain side!
Hol dwellers in the valesl
Hol We who by the chafing tide
Have roughened in the galesl :
Leave barn and byre, leave kin and cot,
Lay by the bloodless spade;
Let desk, and case, and counter rot,
And burn your books of trade.
The despot roves your fairestlands;
And till he flies or fears,
Your fields must grow but armed bands,
Your sheaves be sheaves of spears!
Give up to mildew and to rust
The useless tools of gain;
And feed your country's sacred dust
With floods of crimson rain!
Come, with weapons at your call
With musket, pike or knife;
He wields the deadliest blade of all
Who lightest holds his life.
The arm that drives its unbought blows
With all patriots scorn,
Might brain tyrant with rose,
Or stab him with thorn.
Does any falter? let him turn
To some brave maiden's eyes.
And catch the holy fires that burn
In those sublunar skies.
Oh! could you like your women feel,
And in their spirit march,
A day might see your lines of steel
Beneath the victor's arch.
What hope, o Godl would not grow warm
When thoughts like these give cheeri
The Lily calmly braves the storm,
And shall the Palm tree fear?
MOI rather let its branches court
The rack that sweeps the plain;
And from the Lily's regal port
Learn how to breast the strain!
Hoi woodsmen of the mountain sidei
Hol dwellers in the valesl
Hol ye who by the roaring tide
Have roughened in the galesl
Come! fiocking gayly to the fight,
From forest, hill, and lake;
We battle for our Country's right,
And for the Lily's sakel
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
DEMOCRATIC VIRGINIA vs..
REPUBLICAN PENNSYLVANIA

The people of Virginia voted 81, ,000,-
600 for the erection of capitol build
ing at Richmond. A Magnificent struc-
ture was the result, but the public Off
cials having the matter in charge have
put themselves in disfavor with the
Pennsylvania gentlemen who attended
to the construction Of the Keystone
States capitol. The Richmond building
cost only $500, 900 and $400, 900 of the
appropriation was covered back into
the state treasury. The Virginia capt.
tol cost the Virginians less than the
graft worked on the Pennsylvania capi-
tol in the one item of bronze work alone.
The graft worked in Pennsylvania on
the one item of furniture for the new
capitol would have paid for the erec-
tion of two such buildings as the one
to which Virginians point with pride.
The difference between the Pennsylva-
MIA building and the Virginia building
is that the former was built by dishon-
est men who robbed the state, while
the latter was built by patriotic men
who looked after the best interests of
their commonwealth. The former is
the logical result of allowing a rotten
political machine to run the state, the
latter is the logical result of allowing
intelligent and honest participation in
public affairs. 1t is to be hoped that
at some time in the future the people
of Pennsylvania will realize the neces.
sity of running their own public affairs
instead of leaving them to the tende,
mercies of political machine that hesi
tates at no crime calculated to perpetu.
ate itself upon the public revenues
The Commoner.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
THE DIVINITY THAT SHAPES OUR
ENDS.

Whatever opinion one may have of
his sincerity, the closing chapter of
Orchards autobiography in the No
vember McClure's stands out as a re-
markable human document. In fiction
a story must be made plausible; it is
the delightful incredibility of fact which
makes it so entertaining. Ina series of
articles giving his life history, the cool
ness of the calculations by which Orch
ard destroyed his fellow-creatures is a
fact continually emphasizing itself. 81
had figured out good many ways how
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
PEARLS FROM SHELLS.

Il found On ugly oyster shell,
But with mech paius pried
1t open, and 10Y to tel
1ouHd a pear insI16.
Il found a ugly human shell,
Bat with much pains pricd
Itopen- and joy to tell
found apearl inside"
They who put pleasure first are tn,
last to ind it.
The man who is always sayins
Cant" is puny creature, ever grow
ing less and less, weaker and weaker. =
Hampton Monitor.
Our idea of good citizen, and w,
are glad there are many in this com
munity, is one always ready to give, ac
cording to his means, to community en-
terprises. He takes stock in them all
and doesn't lose his faith if an occa
sional venture proves bad. He is no
afraid to buy real estate and to pa,
what it is worth. He talks up his owl
at home and abroad, thinks it is tn,
healthiest place on earth, believing i
to be destined to be the biggest city il
its section, and wants to be buried ther,
when he dies. And he's worth a Who'll,
regiment of the lukewarm kind. Yves
Point News.
A man to achieve the greatest sue
cess in life must be of high character
good mind, truly honest and with clean
sober habits-in a word, a Christian
man. We would like to see every boz
in this town and community straighter
up, quit every bad habit, and pursu,
life's journey as a Christian. I
Don't grumble. The most unfortunat,
class of people living are grumblers
They rob home of its joys, society Of
its dues, and themselves Of the best
things of life. From the days the chill
dren of Israel ''grumbled' and wer,
senton their tedious wanderings in tn,
wilderness up to the present hour, tht
world has been full of grumblers. II
is ''too hot, +" ''too cold" ''too wet'' o.
"too dry" People in reasonable cir
cumstances have visions of the poo
house, while the rich grumble thai
they do not get rich faster. !
The man who owes debt and per
sists in spending money for luxuries il
spending money that does not rightfulh
belong to him. And yet what a com
mon thing it is. .-Southside Sentinel.
You are more free in prison thar
you are in society. In society you CAM
think. 1t isn't being done by the
heavies. You are not free if bushes:
or politics have got you. You are not
free if the booze has got you. You are
free when you can do what you please
with your time and money. You are
free when you shut the door on old Mrs.
Grundy, and have no friends or enemie.
to occupy your time for you. The birds
and bees, allnature is free, but poor man.
If you will monkey with fire ex
pect to get burnt. If you are doing
wrong you are monkeying with fire anC
you'll get it all right. The prisons anc
hospitals and the lunatic asylums ar.
full of folks who did wrong some way
Don't feel sorry for me when get it il
the neck; because it is coming to me
II 1T wasn't coming to me / wouldn't
getit. Good square fellows seldom ger
the worst of it. 1t isn't law-thing,
don't work that way. There is no sucl
thing as luck-couldn' be. Buste
Brown.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is no comfort where no COM
passion is.