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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

Tho -Four American Trumpetern At
the star are winning many piaudits
Lind. the Preach dancer. Hugo. the
gladiator. the Ferguson dancara
Grace pasamorv and the RnuianofGs
ara other acts just cut frun the
east that are scoFing ~cL There
are daily nlatlnnes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14
FfNANCfI9n GIVES utS
PROPERTY no CHILDREN.


SAN FltANC1sCO. oct a. - The
NILS building takes ita standing
on The real estate roster 81 tho city
today as tho sole property ~
nEien Mills and Elizabeth Mills
tinid. wife of Whitalaw Reid. kmaFi
can Ambassador 10 England. a
daughter of % q. Mills through
the ruins 81 deed ~ sift by - q.
Mills yesterday. Hitherto the chill
dren of Mills have owned the annex
nf the building, tile main cdifice
being The property 81 the noted a.
Buuglaf
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

At pnntagra. Prof Schenp'a Pony
Dog and Monkvy Circus " the fra
turn % this weeks hiil The ant
mails arr we'll trained aud intelii-
gent. Klein. ott hros a Nicholson.
IA Toy BFoa.. Lester : Miu are 9TH
sr good acta
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

Hal Resd's play cat Cripple
Greek" II amusing largo clientele
az the Seattle, The Flaming Arrow
win be seen at the Seattle next
week This u hcraited a. a play ~
brisk action, thrilling ciimAxea.
clever actors and genuine Indians.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

KANSAS CITY. Oct. tt--iiAif OF
ihe business portion OF Bonner
SPRINGS. a watering resort. tweaty
miles west of Kansas CITY. vas
destroyed b fire. causing a fosa
estimated at 100000
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon Han.
as presented BY the rantages play
ers AZ the Lois th~atrs this week. Il
delighting many thnatreRoern. The
hill Tor next week viii BE- ~Raffiea
THIS Is the first production q this
play In stock in Seattle.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

seen here. The quartet OF country
store xessips and hangers on are
tyres 81 their kind. and real COM
edy feature.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

4. = veuarAnhls aggregation Of
.,~,s that Heary n. Blossom
ss.emhisd IN The play ~
-. 4 ths Grand Especial
.s.ee 4 me ~Push- Miller.
w - David Graham. Ir. which
..sIs aaa q tho best concpp-
Z IL raee track tout ever
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

sEATTLETAcoMA ROUTE.
Fare s5e-Round Trip. SOC.
FOUR ROUND TRIPS DAILY.
LEAVES SEATTLE - 6:45 and
toiaS a. m. 2.os and $3.50 .. m.
LEAVES TACOMA - s.ss a. m
and l2:i5, 1855 and 1850 y. m.
v, SEELEN. Jr., Agent. Seattle
Tsi. Main iI6- Taeouaa-TsL 2ia
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-14

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Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

The greatest gain in any life is the loss
of greed.
Greatness never was bought by the sale
of goodness.
There can be no right manners without
right motives.
No church can be cleaned properly by
soft soaping the saints.
He who has no time to get ready Is
never ready at any time.
A man is worth what he gives the
world, not what he gets from 1t.
Half the friction of life comes from
having our tongues too well oiled.
Envy is the habit of losing our own
happiness while longing for another's.
The sermons that do most effective
work IN this world are those on two legs.
The lines of eternal grace in any charac-
ter have to be cut with extremely shan p
tools.
There is no promise of a crown of right
eousness for proficiency in regulating
your neighbors.
A good life Is impossible until one
knows that there is ever something more
desirable than living
You cannot cancel the custom of prey
ing on your fellows by occasional praying
to your Father above.
Locking the heart against the drafts of
sympathy is the swiftest way of i'm
poverishing the whole life.-Chioago
Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
CONDITIONAL PARDONS.

AS editor for day of the local pub
lication known as "The Chancellor, -
Mayor Dahlman. in apparent extenua-
tion of his profuse pardoning of police
court prisoners, makes a suggestion of
conditional pardons for petty offenders
which is worthy of serious considera-
ton. The mayor insists that most of
the police court prisoners are up for
minor offenses, such as drunks, va
grants, quarrels between man and wife,
and what these poor devils have done
is nothing but abuse themselves, for
which they must stay in jails such as
our county and city afford, crowded all
the time" AS a remedy, he proposes
the law be changed whereby the po-
lice judge could pass a conditional
sentence or the mayor could issue a
conditional pardon dependent upon the
good or bad behavior of the one par
doned."
Mayor Dahlman's plan of relief is
practically an adaptation of the parole
law to police court offenders committed
to the city or county Jail, similar to
the power of parole lodged in the gov
ernor with reference to penitentiary
convicts. If the conditional pardon
given to the mayor were hedged about
with proper safeguards to prevent
OVERRIDING and to insure against its
corrupt use, 1t would, no doubt, be a
desirable improvement over the exist
ing system. These conditions should
restrict the conditional pardon to first
offenders, making the condition a
promise not to violate the law again
and second offense should entail
punishment without possibility of par
don, either conditionally or uncondi-
tionally.
The conditional pardon should also
who are really identified with the COM
munity rather than for transients who
come here to prey uEon our people.
Nothing but good stiff, hard labor SEN
tences will quarantine the town against
vagrants and keep the hoboes moving
around the city. Above all, the law
should be fixed so that the machinery
of the police court cannot be used to
persecute some poor unfortunate in
order to hit through him at some one
else. The mayor ought to have the
g.. n
clear cases of malicious prosecution.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
bogus OLD WORLD FORTUNES.
StiII CreduIOus Americans Are Regu.
IarIY Taken In.


A much needed warning is issued by
United States Consul General Wvnne, OF
London, against the swlndling operations
of a class of English lawyers who induce
Americans to believe that they are heirs
to large properties in England which are
being administered by the government,
How hopeless the efforts Of these heirs to
secure these old World fortunes are may
be seen from Mr.. Wynnes statement that
"in the hunt for mythical fortunes | have
found absolutely nothing, and my predeces-
sors for forty years have not been able
to substantiate a single claim for property
by American heirs who offered to prove
their descent from a branch Of some Brit
ish family" This credulity on the part
of Americans is on a par with the spirit
of snobbery which makes American par
ents welcome as suitors for their daugh-
ters all comers from the other side or the
Atlantic who can show them any creden-
tlals, whether forged or real as bearers
Of European titles. Both characteristics
are a reproach to the public
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16

A member of the Oklahoma legisla-
ture has discovered something not coy
cred by that fearfully and wonderfully
made constitution adopted by the new
state and has promptly set about to
remedy the defect. He has offered a
bill. which the house has passed with
whoop, providing that every hotel
shall furnish it's beds with sheets not
less than nine feet long and, with ref
erence to dining room furnishings,
that mo cup, dish, vessel or receptacle
for food shall have cracks visible to
the naked eye." The reports state
that the senate will undoubtedly pass
the measure as it comes from the
house, perhaps amending it so that the
wash room towel shall be changed at
least every Saturday night and the
common guest comb be sent to the bar
Der once a month, at least while the
legislature is in session.
While this measure may be looked
upon as a joke in some centers of a
more effete civilization, 1t Is very
serious matter in Oklahoma. Men
run to legs a good deal in that country,
instead of to waist measurement. and
there is a real demand for sheets long
enough to cover the lanky guest and
protect him against both bronchitis
and chilblains. Then, some of the
more fastidious insist that they want
plenty of linen to wrap around their
spurs and still leave few extra feet
to tuck in on cold nights. The demand
for uncracked china is equally well
based. The Oklahomans are paying
more attention to their personal ap-
pearance since they became citizens of
state and nothing is more annoying
to man who has put on his billed"
garment before dinner-even If they
do still call it 'supper"-only to find
that a leaky saucer has allowed bis
coffee to leave tracks on his freshly
laundered shirt front The Oklaho-
mans know their rights and are deter
mined to insist upon them.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
HELPING TIE FARMER,S WIFE.

liz III Jaw HH ram NM - " II NJ
New York state has taken the lead
in a movement that should be ex
tended to every state in the union.
The aim is to improve the domestic
conditions of the farmer and his fam
lily, with particular reference to light
ening the burdens of the farmers wife.
Great progress has been made in i'm
proving agricultural life. and condi
ditions in the last decade. The men
and boys of the farm have attended
the farmers institutes and the short
term courses of instruction at the ex-
pertinent stations. The girls have
been sent to town to school and have
had advantages and education as good
as those of their sisters in the city.
Millions have been spent on fancy
stock, in improved seed and other
millions in labor-saving machinery for
use of the men, but the patient farm
er's wife, the hardest-worked person
on the farm, has been allowed to go
along in the old way. bearing most of
the burdens of the family and sharing
few of it's joys.
But now the legislature. of New
York has appropriated $4,000 to en-
courage the work of organizing
women's institutes throughout the
farming districts of the state More
than forty clubs, composed entirely of
the wives of farmers, have already
been organized, and it is proposed to
carry the organization into every
county, with a general plan for ex-
tending it to other states and giving
the organization a national scope. In
these clubs helpful lectures will be de-
livered and the views of members ex-
changed on such practical matters as
economies of labor and food, the main
tenance of sanitary conditions, care of
the sick, first aid to the injured, gar
den making and house decoration.
Much has been written about plans
for keeping the boys on the farm. In
recent address President Roosevelt
asserted that the nation must look to
the boys and girls now growing up on
the farms for it's most virile and valua-
BILE material for citizenship in the
years to come. Theorists and practical
men haveediscussed plans for making
farm life more attractive for the boys
and girls, but none of the plans sug-
gested hold so much prospect of sue
cess as that of broadening the life of
the farmers wife, who, after all, as the
mother of the boys and girls, exerts
the all-powerful influence over them.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
Personal AND OTHERWISE,

General ]. S. Coxey, of hobo army
fame, shows signs of returning to life
Up in Winnipeg, Sabbath marriages come
under the law prohibiting work on Sun
days.
Bachelors who received leap year pro-
posals in the form of valentines are need
lessly secretive. You can spot 'em a block.
The Due de Chaulnes fiddled his way to
the heart of Papa Shonts and Theodore is
happy. Let not the story of Nine Anna
Gould mar the coming festivities
OF all the obituaries of the late Judge
Hargis of Breathitt county, Kentucky, not
one that has come to notice bears the
hoary old chunk of pathos, HE died be-
fore his time
Franco, the receding Portuguese premier,
has had as warm an experience on the
toboggan as the miner who slid down the
side of Pixies peak squatted on the bosom
of a scoop shovel.
California is looking about for a bunch
of money and has tackled the rebate bu-
reau of the Southern Pacific railroad. Four
thousand cases of rebating have been put
up to the State Railroad commission. If
they are made to stick the maximum fine
in each case would pile a total of $50, OOO,0O1
and put the Standard oil fine on the bar
gain counter.
To celebrate the corporate union of Pitts
burg and Allegheny, the Chamber of Com
merce of the united city has issued an im>
posing pictorial and statistical boost for
what the authors proudly designate, pitts
burgh the Powerful" in which the dis
credited 'h" looms up like the chair of
potentate in a lodge room. Fourth In
manufactures, second in banking capital
first in tonnage" are the three classes Of
the boosters. Equally impressive and
unique are companion pictures of the city
with fires and fires burning exhibiting
the smoky atmosphere for which PittsburR
is famous.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
CURIOUS CORN FACTS.
What a Little Improvement in Cul-
tare of the Cereal Means.


Saturday Evening Post.
Few people realize what even a little
Improvement in corn culture means.
During 1906 the United States grew
95 600, 900 acres of corn. This area pro-
duced 2,SSO, ,OOO, GOO bushels of corn, worth
in round numbers $1,000, 100000. BY sim
ply adding one kernel to each ear you
add $162O,O0O to the returns from the
area producing corn.
This increase is infinitesimal in itself
and very few farmers who have adopted
improved methods, or used pure-bred
seed will admit that less than two to
three bushels per acre can be secured.
Figure a little further. AS stated above,
in 1906 the corn crop covered 95,0OO,OOO
acres BY increasing the yield one bushel
to the acre. and figuring this at As cents
a busheI, the total value of the corn crop
is increased $42, 900; by increasing the
Yield two bushels. $S5, 900; three bush
els, S12S,25O,OOO four bushels, sl71, ,OOO'-
600; five bushels, the stupendous sum OF
$218,75O,OOO.
The economic possibilities of the corn
plant are almost unlimited. At the Ma
tional Corn exposition which was held in
Chicago, October to 19, 1907 one of the
most interesting exhibits was that Of
household articles made from corn. This
consisted of rugs, portieres, table covers
mats, picture frames, etc. made from the
corn plant
More than 100000 acres of unproductive
swami land within a radius of 800 miles
of Chicago can be made great cornfields;
first by drainage and, second, by the
application of potash or phosphorous or
both. The frst-named element Is usually
the one most needed and can be applied
at a comparatively small cost. That
these waste areas will eventually become
great cornfields is almost certain. True
they will grow truck crops but any con-
siderable increase in the area devoted to
truck will render the business unprofit-
able by Cutting the market. The ever
Increasing demand for corn will absorb
almost any extra area without any ap-
preciable effect upon the market. Land
which now grows nothing can, at a cost
of a few dollars per acre be made to pro-
duce annual crops of from sixty to eighty
bushels per acre. This has been defi-
nitely demonstrated during the last few
years by at least three experiment sta
tions in the middle west and hundreds Of
practical farmers.
About one-third of all the land under
cultivation in the United States is de-
voted 10 corn. 1t Is grown on 80 per
cent of all the farms I'm the country. 1t
is worth more than two and one-half
times the wheat crop-the grain second In
Importance.
No grain lends Itself so readily to scien-
tific investigation and Improvement as
does corn.N About twelve years ago the
agricultural experiment stations began to
appreciate this, and today no study is
as popular the study of corn. Almost
every state has its corn growers associa-
tions, a few have corn breeders associa-
tions. and al the corn states have annual
corn schools, annual judging contests and
schools Of instruction for expert judges
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
RossEKELr ANp rAFr.

There is no question that Theodore
Roosevelt is the most popular man In
American public life.
There is no question, either, that II
he we're an outspoken candidate for
denomination and reelection. or even
a. receptive candidate, the republicans
OF Nebraska and of every other state
in the union, with not more than two
or three exceptions, would be almost
unanimously for him.
But Mr.. Roosevelt has not only re-
fused to stand as a candidate for re-
election, but has in positive terms de-
clared that he is not a candidate and
will not become a candidate and would
not accept a nomination If given.
Under these circumstances and for
the very reason that they want the dis
tinctive Roosevelt policies carried out
in full vigor by his successor, the true
friends of President Roosevelt have, in
unison with him, turned to Secretary
Taft as the logical standard bearer for
1908.
1t goes without saying that Mr. Taft
would not be a candidate if Mr.. Roose-
welt were a candidate. Being part and
parcel of the same administration, Mr..
Taft could not in decency and would
not seek a nomination desired by the
president in whose cabinet he is serv-
ing and in whose closest confidence he
must be.
Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt rep
resent the same element of the party.
They have been identified in the same
work, and an administration under Mr..
Taft would be more nearly a continue
ton of the administration of Mr.. Roose-
welt than an administration under any
other man.
1t is plain that only because of the
presidents declared purpose not to
serve as president after the expiration
of his present term, and because the
sincerity of that declaration is not open
to suspicion, Mr.. Taft has consented to
become a candidate for the republican
nomination. If the friends of Mr..
Roosevelt, still clinging to the notion
that they can force him to run again,
considered their own actions seriously
they would realize that their own sin
cerity is impugned by their insistence
that the president does not mean what
he says, or is playing for a nomination
for which he is urging another.
Just as the president was tremen-
dously pleased last year that the re-
publicans of Nebraska took him at his
word and declared in their platform,
after endorsing his policies, that Mr..
Taft is "pre-eminently the man under
whose leadership these policies would
be perpetuated, so he will be even
more pleased to have the republicans
of Nebraska true to Mr.. Taft and give
him their support this year in conven-
tion and election.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16

ability to secure suitable signal devices
and the impossibility Of securing uni
formity among railroads in brakes,
couples and other safety appliances.
In the meantime, the accidents to pas
sengers and employees on railroads,
which the law was designed to prevent,
have continued with no sign of de-
crease, ard the nine-hour law was
passed as a result of the showing that
many of these accidents we're directly
traceable to overworked operators and
dispatchers, who had, as a result, neg
lected their duties. The plea of the
railroads for an extension of the time,
therefore, must be regarded as nothing
less than a request to continue the old
causes of so many disastrous accidents,
imperiling the lives of travellers. Some
encouragement, however, is held out in
this statement of the Interstate Com
merce commission:
The power to extend under this proviso
is extremely limited. We are therefore of
the opinion, without deciding more defin-
itely in advance of full hearing upon
such applications as may be made, that
good cause" for extension is not shown
when Il is merely made to appear that the
law ought not to be enforced at certain
stations because the number of train orders
handled is small and there Is no need of
increasing the force of employees. Neither
would it be good cause to show that addi-
tional operators cannot be obtained at the
wages now or heretofore offered, If it APP
pears reasonably certain that higher wages
would procure the requisite number.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
GIVE US MEN.
Bishop of Exeter.

Bishop of Exeter.
Give us men!
Men-from every rank,
Fresh and free and frank;
Men of thought and reading,
Men of light and leading,
Men of loyal breeding,
The nations welfare speeding
Men of faith and not of fiction,
Men of lofty aim in action;
Give us men-I say. again,
Give us men
Give us menl
Strong and stalwart ones;
Men whom highest hope inspires,
Men whom purest honor fires, .a
Men who trample self beneath them,
Men who make their country wreath them
AS its noble sons,
Worthy of their sires,
Men who never shame their mothers,
Men who never fail their brothers;
True, however false are others;
Give us men-I say again,
Give us men!
Give us men!
Men who when the tempest gathers,
Grasp the standard of their fathers
In the thckest fight;
Men who strike for home and altar
Let the coward cringe and falter)
God defend the right!
True as truth though lorn and lonely,
Tender, as the brave are only;
Men who tread where saints have trod,
Men for country-hOme-and God
Give us men! / say again-again,
Give us such men!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
AROur GEGGLlNG GIRLS.


What solemn owls they must be in
Philadelphia. anyway Officials of the
Rapid Transit company of that city
complain that the unrestrained hilarity
of the high, school girls in the street
cars is demoralizing the service, max
ing fools of some of the conductors
and annoying and distressing elderly
passengers. The complaint is made to
the school authorities and the principal
of one of the high schools is reported
to have cautioned the girls to be more
sedate. This would be provocation to
cause one to break out laughing, if it
were not for fear of shocking some
staid citizen of Philadelphia.
Happily, however, no dyspeptic COM
plant from a nervous traction official
nor word of caution from a bespec-
tacled teacher can check the super
abundant spirits of the average Amer
ican high school girl. Rich in health,
rosy in the very Joy of living, her effer-
vescent spirits will continue to bubble
over. in the natural relaxation which
comes before and after confinement in
the school room, and street car patrons
who cannot enjoy her laughter ought
to get out and walk. Let her laugh
while she may There is plenty of
time for tears later.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16

The transfer of Rev. M. P. Bowling
from the headship of Creighton univer-
sity will be regretted greatly by the
friends of that institution in Omaha,
not only because of the commanding
personality of Father Bowling, but also
because of the remarkable progress
which the university has made under
his direction. We must all realize,
however, that Father Bowling has been
kept in charge of Creighton university
much longer than is customary in the
administration of institutions managed
by the Society of Jesus, and that we
have been especially favored by having
him with us so long, 1t need hardly
be said that he will leave Omaha with
the best wishes of the entire COM
munity for his success in other fields
and with the hope that some day he
may return to continue his work among
ns
Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
RAILROADS AND THE Law.


Railroad managers of the country
are making a determined effort to Sc
cure a postponement of the operation
of the law which provides that no en-
ploye who handles train orders either
by telegraph or telephone shall be on
duty more than nine hours out of the
twenty-four at offices operated night
and 'day. or more than thirteen hours
at offices operated during the day time
only. The law is to go into effect on
March 4, next, and a number of rail-
road officials are asking President
Roosevelt for an extension of time,
asserting that 1t is impossible to secure
enough telegraph operators TO comply,
The president has referred the request
to the Interstate Commerce commits
sion, which has given the railway man
ayers three weeks to present their
arguments
In this case the railways are trying
the same tactics they used so success
fully to secure a suspension of the SAT
ETY. appliance law. They succeeded in
deferring enforcement of this law for
half-dozen years, alleging their In