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The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-01-24
DEAD LOCK IN NEW JERSEY.
Dryden of Prudential Fame, Lacks
Five Votes.


fAoo'NihLS lN'o'
Trenton, n. j., Jan. 22.-The
vote for United States senator today
resulted in no choice. Dryden re-
ceived thirty-six votes of the Re-
publicans who participated in eau
Gus last night Forty-one votes are
required to elect.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-01-24
Alabama Returns Her Senator.

Associated Press.
Montgomery, Ala, Jan. 22.-Sen-
ators Morgan and Pettus were elect
cd today.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-01-24

n.s.eiass carpon-
,cgs wanted at once at Hartley,
Us, 9G7-p
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-01-24
River Stationery at Louisville.
Associated Press.

AbsOVIdLtU ITVho'
Louisville, KY, Jan. 22.--The
river is stationery today and it is
thought the danger of further rise
is over. Relief work continues ac-
lively, Appeals for aid have been
received from many river towns.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-01-24
NOMINATIONS
FOR U. S. SENATE,

Special TO Daily Panhandle. Il,
WV :" ''""''' ls..
Bailey, 10,
All others, 3.
Present and not voting, s. -
Absent I.
Ballot in the House.
Bailey, 90.
All others, So.
Present and not voting, Z.
Absent 1.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-01-24
Warren Has Walkovcr in Montana

ASSOCIHIVU ITVs6'
Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 22,-Fran-
els Il. Warren was reelected United
States senator today, receiving six
'ty-four votes out of total of sew.
cnty.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-01-24

Frank Walden, of the Bank of
Claiming, is down for the : >rs'
convention and visit in
Pat Dooling. the livest'
agent of the Denver, adjus
in Amarillo yesterday.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
THE MEArEA TING AMERICANS.

The gen orally accepted opinion that
the Britons are the champion beef eat
ers of the world is proved erroneous
by statistics recently issued by the De-
pal tment of Agriculture, which show
that, with the exception of the Aus
tralians, the Americans consume more
beef and other meats per capita than
any other people in the world Aus
tralia's greater consumption is doubt
less due to the fact that cattle are
rnore plentiful in that country than
elsewhere in the world, while the pro-
duction of grain and vegetables IS
comparatively small.
According to the figures OF the De-
partment of Agriculture, the number
of animals slaughtered annually in
America for food purposes is about
So, 900, 900, including 100000 cat
tie, 100000 calves, 5S,0O0,O00 hogs
and 100000 sheep. Making proper
deductions for the export trade, the
per capita consumption of meat in the
United States is estimated at about
179 pounds In other words, the av-
erage American consumes more than
his weight in meat every year. The
latest obtainable per capita estimates
for various countries are: Australia,
262 pounds; America, 179; Argentina.
14O; Great Britain. 1872; Germany, 81;
France, 81; Denmark, &c; Switzer-
land, rs; Danubian states. rs; Bel
GUM, 10; Austria-Hungary, Ga;
Greece, 81; Sweden and Norway, go;
Poland, 90; Holland. 55; Russia, so;
Spain, 40; Italy, 81.
Students of 1ietetics may find ma
terial here for all kinds Of deductions
and speculation, but the best expla-
nation to be offered for the showing
probably is that the Americans are
better able to afford a meat diet than
are the citizens of any other country.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
ANoTHER REBORN STEP.

The purchase by State Treasurer
Brian, acting under authority of the
State Board of Educational Funds, of
an issue of $279,OOO of Idaho bonds
directly from the state without the in
tervention of middlsmen or brokers
marks another distinct reform step.
While it would be much more to our
advantage to have the money belong
ing to our state school fund all in
vested in Nebraska securities, and that
desirable object may soon be accom-
plished by adopting the pending
amendment to the constitution en-
larging the field of investment, 1t is
far better for Nebraska taxpayers and
school patrons to have the bonds Of
other states bought, if bought at all,
from the authorities issuing them by
direct negotiation without premium
than through the circuitous route of
bond peddlers cutting off interest cou-
pons to pay themselves for their trou-
BILE
This new departure has only ex-
tended to the purchase of state bonds
"a reform forced by The Bee a few
years ago upon the state board with
reference to its purchases Of county
bonds issued by Nebraska counties
The Bee uncovered and denounced the
scandalous practice at that time exist
ing by which a state treasurer in col
fusion with confederates used the
state money to buy county bonds to be
turned over forthwith to the state
school fund, only after extracting a
fat brokerage fee by detaching inter
est coupons from the bonds while in
transit. BY turning on the search
light of publicity this fragrant con-
spiracy to loot the school fund was
effectively stopped and the board
brought to bid directly on behalf Of
the state for all bonds thenceforth is
sued by Nebraska counties.
The people of Nebraska want the
trust funds belonging to their schools
managed according to strictly business
principles and should appreciate every
effort to protect these investments
against loss as we'll as against fraud.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

You cannot knit the souls of men with
soft sawder.
Your credit in heaven depends on earth's
debts to you
Living in itself is the great lesson in
making a life.
The fortune Of all is founded on faith
in one another.
TO attempt a great work is to become
great worker
Many good intent sticks fast in honeyed
words Of resolution.
The practice of happiness does much for
the power of holiness.
There is no profit in the friendship that
knows no investment of the self
1t is possible to be connoisseur of ser.
mons and still be far from saint
No man ever found this world a weary
place who had a worthy work to do.
The people who expect great things of us
are the ones who help us to great things
The hypocrite's great business is to find
some appearance of virtue to cover every
vice.
He who adopts no high standards is the
only one who never fails.-Chicago Trib-
une. .-...-
It's no use talking about the religion
In your heart If it is not visible in your
home.
When the pulpit sees no good in anyone
the pew is not likely to seek the good any
where.
The only people who insist on class bar
riers are those who are too small to see
over them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
4 PENALTY OF PROsPERITY.

The assertion of some prominent
operating officials who have been at
tending the meeting of the American
Railway association that many of the
recent disastrous wrecks on American
railroads were due to the inferior quail
ity of steel rails is only little less as
tonishing than the plea of guilty Of
fered by certain steel railmakers who
offer In mitigation the explanation
that the steel mills are taxed beyond
their capacities to meet the demands
and that inspection of rails has been
sighted. In other words, the rail-
ways and the travelling public are pay
ing the penalty of prosperity.
No acceptable excuse can be offered
for the existence of such conditions.
The railway managers presented re-
ports at the association meeting that
careful investigation of recent wrecks
showed that in an unusually large
number of cases the disasters were
caused by broken rails evidently de-
fective when they came from the roll
ing mills. A Pittsburg rail maker re-
torts that railway managers have in
sisted upon rush orders, with penalty
provisions for delay, and that, as re-
suit, rails have been rushed from the
mills to the roadbeds with hasty and
incomplete inspection.
In the meantime the travelling pub
lie pays the penalty. The rails fur
nished to the American railways are
the highest-priced supplied to any rail-
roads in the world and are supposed
to be the best that are made. If they
do not meet this requirement it is due
to a negligence that is nothing short
of criminal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
LEssnN nr 80 nr1nLncrs.

The adjournment OF the Rhode
Island legislature without coming to
any choice Of United States senator
and leaving the vacancy dating frou
March 1 unfl'ied. and the inability so
far Of the Wisconsin legislature to
agree upon the beneficiary Of Senator
spooner's resignation, furnish new
arguments for the election of United
States senators by direct vote Of the
people.
Because the people of Rhode Island
had no way of making their wishes
effective they will have only one rep
resentative in the United States SEN
ate and be disfranchised of half their
voice in legislation in the upper
branch of congress. Because the peo-
pie Of Wisconsin have no way Of max
ing their wishes effective in the pres
ent emergency their legislature is COM
PEELED to devote valuable time to the
conflicting claims of contesting sena-
from their work as lawmakers.
Worse than that, in each of these
states the chances are that when the
end is reached someone will be in
vested with the senatorial honor with
questionable claims and doubtful quail
ifications, who could not possibly have
landed the prize on his merits by an
appeal to popular suffrage.
Whatever objections may be entered
to the election Of United States sena-
tors by direct vote of the people, they
are Insignificant as compared with the
viciousness of senatorial deadlocks.
Nebraska has had several experiences
Of this sort in years gone by, but wants
no more of them. The new Nebraska
law for direct primary nominations in
cludes the selection of party nominees
for United States senator. In this
way candidates for that office are to
be popular selections and by special
provision of our constitution, which at
the time of its adoption was unique in
this respect, the people are permitted
to express a preference as between OPP
posing party candidates at the polls at
the same time that they elect legisla-
tive members to carry out their will.
AS this practice becomes established
1t will doubtless come about that the
legislator in Nebraska will be under
as strong compulsion to vote for his
party candidate for senator as is the
member of the electoral college to vote
for his party candidate for president.
The popular election of United
States senators in Nebraska may be a
roundabout method. but it is accom-
plishing the purpose and It will COM
mend itself to other states at least I'M
til the federal constitution shall have
been amended to give us direct cleo
ton without subterfuge and forever
Danish legislative deadlocks.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
OFFICIAL ADVICE ON DEF

Nothing escapes the active attention
of TIE scientists of the Department OF
Agriculture. They have told wait
ing world the number of millions OF
microbes that can find sleeping accom-
modations on the point of a cambria
needle, and the number of germs that
may find concealment in the dirt on
81 bill of old paper money. They
know the habits of the boil weevil, the
Guatemalan ant, the gypsy moth, the
chinch bug and the cinder beetle, and
can write learned treatises on every
subject from chicken pip to the rhythm
of COW trails. Members of the scien-
ti1c squad recently have been paying
special attention to the study of diet
and the individual who neglects to
post up on just what is good for him
in the eating line has only himself to
blame, because the information may be
had for the asking.
DR.. Wiley and his assistants have
reached their conclusions only after a
long series of experiments. They have
maintained poison squads" at Wash
ington for some years, composed of
young men willing to be used as test
ing tubes for food poisons In order to
save the price of their meal tickets.
The government charges nothing for
its poisoned food used in the expert
ments. The scientists have discovered
to a nicely Just how much borax q
man may eat in canned meat without
fatal effects and to what extent
salicylic acid, formaldehyde and en-
balming fluid may be used in ice cream
and similar dishes without overwork-
ing the coroner. They have also dis
covered the answer to What is
whisky" and the secret formula for
the construction of limburger cheese.
Encouraged by these successes, the
scientists propose to come to the relief
of fat persons who want to get thin
and lean persons who wish to be stout,
According to the Official bulletin just
issued, the matter of reducing or add
ing flesh is as simple as rolling of a
log The department makes it plain
that all a fat man has to do to rid
himself Of his surplus adipose is to cut
out meat from his bill Of fare during
the summer and, aided by the heat,
take exercise enough to sweat away
his surplus weight. He must limit his
supply of drinking water. but may eat
all the fresh vegetables he wishes. II
observance of these simple rules do
not accomplish the desired result be-
fore the summer is over, the scientists
have a set Of rules rugged up for the
winter fat man, certain to reduce his
weight by worry over them, II for no
other reason. The thin man who
wishes to add weight is advised to eat
and drink anything he can stomach
eat as much and as often as possible
and sleep as much as he can.
The government scientists have done
well to point out the dangerous adul-
terants and impurities that have en-
tered into the nations food supply and
to give Information in their possession
as to the nutritive value OF different
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
PASSING OF THE AFFIDAVIT.


Secretary of the Interior James Ru-
dolph Garfield has delivered a solar
plexus blow at both red tape and es-
tablished precedent, two of the old
standbys in the government service,
by an order abolishing the empty and
superfuous formula of an affidavit to
expense accounts by employees in his
department. Hereafter clerks, special
agents, pension examiners, attorneys
and other employees of the department
will certify to their expenses in writ
ing and the government will pay them.
The voucher and jurat have been sent
TO the discard.
The government will doubtless be
the gamer by the adoption of the new
system. Under the old plan, still in
force in other departments, an agent
of the government dispatched to the
interior on an investigating mission
was practically required to carry an
extra trunk for the accommodation of
NOuGAGAo AAOA1 AaAAloah9f AONNASb hANh-
men, lunch rooms, dining car conduc-
tors, baggage delivery agents, express
men and all the agencies employed in
the business of transportation and the
furnishing of accommodations TO trav-
elers. Unless the vouchers were in
exact form, properly attested by some
legal authority from a notary public
to a justice of the supreme court, the
expense account was certain to be held
up for investigation and probable re-
lection by the different auditors and
comptrollers. Secretary Garfield esti-
mates that his order will save at least
$4,000 a year in notary and clerical
fees and many times that amount in
the time lost by agents and employees
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
Law HONESTY ANp LAWYERS.

Mr.. Justice Brewer of the United
States supreme court has started a
lively discussion among attorneys by
an address before the Ethical Culture
society of New York. in which he de-
livered a pointed warning against the
commercializing of the profession,
holding that lawyer owes a duty to
society and to himself that should pre-
vent him from subordinating every
thing to serve his clients. Justice
Brewer declared that a lawyer has no
right to barter his own integrity or
prostitute his honor and conscience
| because his client is willing to pay
him for doing so.
The question as to whether an at
torney should defend a client known
to him to be guilty is one that has
been debated since the establishment
of legal tribunals, but Justice Brewer
brings up a new question, one growing
out of the modern day conditions and
directed especially to the corporation
lawyer. After referring to some of
the trust promoters of the day and
their methods, the justice says:
Counsel responding to such clients may
In one sense of the term be honest, but it
is a negative honesty It is an honesty
which regards simply the client, the statute
and the pay. 1t is an honesty which ig-
nores the fact that both client and counsel
are members of society and assumes that
there is no moral obligation upon either to
respect the general welfare.
This brings out the clear distinction
between an attorney who accepts the
defense Of a man known to be guilty
of the crime~of murder, for instance,
and the attorney who accepts employ
ment from a corporation and devotes
his talent to devising methods by
which the wording and intent of a
statute may be overcome, on the
theory that whatever is not positively
and specifically prohibited is legally
right, even If morally wrong. Justice
Brewers contention is that the law
yer who accepts this class of employ
ment forgets his duty to the public,
ignores his obligations that make him
an instrument of justice and becomes,
in effect, a party to offenses against
the moral law which may be commit
ted by his clients under his chaperon-
age.
That these conditions exist may not
be questioned, but all lawyers are not
to be blamed for them. Honorable
and capable men, who constitute a
large majority of the profession, must
endorse this plea for a higher stand
ard Of professional ethics for lawyers
who mix their brains with their con-
science and refuse to accept clients
who wish to do something not illegal,
but none the less dishonest. Justice
Brewers appeal is forcible and his
criticism of abuses pertinent, but it is
too much to expect that the moral
standard of lawyers will be so ele-
waited that it will remove them from
the temptations and influences to
which the rest of mankind almost hab-
itually yield.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Philadelphia Ledger A missionary who
advocated elevation of the Filipinos through
introduction OF base ball surely does not
intend 10 acquaint the simple native with
the lingo, too.
Baltimore American: The new minister
Of the Rockefeller church in New York
asked his hearers in his first sermon il
they were prepared to have their business
books stand a heavenly audit. This Is a
cruel quizzing of the oil trust in the midst
too, of its other earthly Affections, which
at present are taking up all its time and
attention in the face of prosecutions and
indictments, present and TO come; it is
little short of brutal
Portland Oregonian: Fourteen years ago
New York minister promised a woman
member of his flock that he would dance
with her on her Tooth anniversary. A few
days ago the anniversary occurred and he
kept his promise. No proceedings have
yet been brought TO expel the pastor from
the church. First thing we know It will
become fashionable for ministers TO dance
with the 1OO-year-old women OF their
churches. 1t ought to be.
New York Tribune: The delegate to the
National Conference Of Church clubs at
Washington, who said that 70 per cent Of
the sermon output ought to be dispensed
with was warmly applauded by his hearers.
Probably the sentiment will meet the same
approval elsewhere, with by no means
unanimous dissent from the ministers them
selves. Surely the day has passed when
the congregation thinks the minister isn't
earning his salary unless he delivers so
many written pages Of sermon weekly
Kansas City Times: At La Porte Ind,
a Quaker preacher has been compelled to
resort TO manual labor TO support his wife
and has accepted" a position in a drug
store to supply the deficit between the SS5
a month paid him by the church and the ex-
pense Of maintaining a home. From the
occupation OF making tents, as followed
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
RESTING TINE.
Houston Post.

Houston Post
Grant me to sit when lifetlme's sky grows
golden,
Low in the west,
Before chimney place, wide-mouthed and
To dream and rest
Where hemlock logs now suffering and
sparkling,
Now duly red,
May paint in hues, bright ashen gray and
daTkling,
The days long sped.
Grant me to sit alone, or ali about me
Gather me then
The little ones who now can't DO with
out me,
At home again.
Grant me beyond the years of separation
And loved ones near or lonely segrega-
ton
with none to care.
Then shall see, by memory's unlocking,
Back through times door
Each imply hanging wee expectant stock
Arrow once more.
And in the light Of embers grayly falling
Shall come again
Necklaeing arms, and lifting voices OAl.
Calling me then.
So let me sit when living skies grow
golden,
Low In the west,
Before chimney place, wide-mouthed and
olden,
Waiting for rest.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28

who. under the old rule. have had to
spend about as much time getting ex-
pense accounts properly verified as
they have to their other duties.
More significant than the saving of
time and money by the new order is
the recognition of the honesty of the
department employe. Mr.. Garfield
evidently appreciates the fact that the
expense account of any honest en-
ploye is not made more honest by a
notarial seal, nor that an employee who
wants to pad his expense account and
defraud the government would be de-
tered from doing so by making an
affidavit. The thief would just as
soon swear to a lie as not. He is glad
to pay a notarial fee to have legal
color lent to his crooked accounts.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

'silent'' Smith, the deceased New York
millionaire, lived up 20 his name in life,
but his money is talking now-among the
heirs.
The award by a New York court Of So 900
for damages caused by smoke clouds from
a nearby factory opens up large opportunl-
ties for industrious claim agents.
Forty thousand immigrants are booked
for New York from Mediterranean ports.
The disarming campaign Of the New York
police promises to be prolonged indefinitely.
Honore Jaxon, the Chicago man favored
with roast from President Roosevelt
is president Of the Canvassers' union. His
great forte is letter writing and jaw ex-
ercise
Just as the Kansas breweries were taken
I'm by the state a big gas we'll blew on the
LID at Caney. Foaming schooners may go
dry, but gas will never forsake the COM
monwealth.
The American Mosquito determination so
ciety has been launched in New York. This
declaration OF war on the greatest OF New
Jerseys Industries comes hard on the heels
Of the peace conference.
I'VE must snatch the trident OF Neptune
from the black hands OF war" shouts Cap
tain Hobson. Sure. Mikei But can man
OF Hobson's experience pass up the mer-
maids for a measly pltchfork?
Dr. John Garner OF Marshall Mich, ac-
cumulated seventeen wives and their
money, some $4,000, in half a dozen years.
Compared with the Phiadelphian who
scored fifty the Michagander is a piker.
The Michigan peach crop is safe, Chi
cago's Just celebrated lake breeze is on q
peace footing. St. Joe Is ready for the usual
crop Of weddings and Milwaukee promises
20 fumigats It's harbor. The lake excursion
season y about 70 bloom
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28

The Rhode Island senatorial dead
lock has ended without election, leav-
ing the state with but one member in
the United States senate. AS the
principal candidates for the position
we're trust magnates or representa-
tives of special interests, the citizens
of Rhode Island may be quite as we'll
off in the long run.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28
False Prophets of EVIL,
washington Star,

The crop killers" are at work again.
They are blighting the fruit blossoms and
running the cereals. They are telling of
the terrible ravages Of the frost in the
wheat belt and the devastating advance of
the green bug that kills the new grain
sprouts They are predicting losses TO the
farmers mounting into the tens of millions.
and forecasting a bad year for everybody.
The "crop killers" indeed, are having a
very fine time. But somehow or other the
country is not panic-stricken as a result of
the activity Of these prophets Of gloom.