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Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
ROOSEVELT's AFRICAN WAY.
Remarkable Country Through which
He VIII Travel.
Peter MacQueen in Leslle's Week.

Peter MacQueen in Leslie's Weekly.
Thus a ride on the Uganda railway Is
unique and one of the most interesting in
all the world. For we pass. through a
country where the animal and human life
is much the same as 1t was in Europe
200, 900 years ago. And here we see primI-
tive savagery walking hand in hand with
modern civilization retaining nearly all
of IT'S p-icturesquesness, but divorced from
its lust and cruelty.
1 took this trip twice during the summer
OF 1908. The fare is 8 cents per mile first
class. 3 cents second class and / cent third
class. White men cannot go in third class
and blacks cannot go in first or second.
Settled comfortably in the train, we draw
out from the tropical station of Mombasa,
and crossing from the Salisbury Bridge,
100 feet long from the island to the main
land, we plunge into the heart of Africa.
The engines are Baldwin locomotives from
Philadelphia. and twenty-seven OF the
bridges and viaducts are OF American
manufacture. When we stop at the first
station of Changamwe, We note the natives
clothed in light cottons and ginghams,
which they call "Americani." This was
formerly all brought from America, hence
its name.
Our journey on the railway divides itself
into three sections. First, the unhealthy
scrubby coast land and interior plateau,
extending to the Kiu station, 267 miles and
1850 feet In elevation. Natives and Indians
can live In this part, but the white man
withers and dies. At Vol, 1903 miles, eleva-
ton, 1850 feet, there is an excellent dak-
bungalow, with a restaurant as fine as any
on the New York Central lines. Also at
Vol parties OF hunters leave the train for
a trip to the KilimanJaro district In Ger
man territory, 100 miles away. All this first
267 miles is covered with short. scrubby
jungles and is full OF malaria. One begins
to see wild zebras and an occasional ante
lope unul Tsavo Is reached. at 1888 miles
| from Mombasa-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
THE PAY OF THE JUDICIARY.

President Roosevelt's recommended
duty of increasing the totally made
quate salaries now given to our
judges brings forward prominently a
subject agitated by the bar associa-
number of years. The presidents
recommendations are applied only to
federal judges, but the complaint
against an underpaid judiciary is gen.
braska has recently recognized this
need by increasing materially the sal
aries of its supreme and district
judges and taking this state out of
the poverty class.
In the federal courts the salaries
are far below the scale allowed abroad
and in some American states. The
chief justice Of the supreme court of
the United States, for example, is al
lowed $4,000 a year and the associ-
ate justices $12, 500, while the lord
high chancellor of England receives
$4,000 and the lord chancellor of
Ireland $4,000. The justices of the
kings bench in England and most OF
the justices corresponding to our fed
eral district judges receive from $10,-
900 to $4,000 a year. The United
States district judges receive $4,000
a year and the circuit judges $1,000.
The salary scale in our state courts
10 even lower than in the federal
courts. The chief justice of New
York receives $4,000, the chief jus
tice In New Jersey and Illinois $40,
900 and then the salary drops t.
$1,000 paid in Pennsylvania, Califor,
mia, Massachusetts, and Michigan
Montana and Indiana pay $4,000 anC
nine states pay 5000. while twenty
nine states pay less than $4,000, tn,
average being but little in excess o
$4,000.
The chief argument in support o
the movement for a better paiC
judiciary Is that the more capabl,
lawyers are engaged with subject
growing out OF the greater bushes
development of the country and ar,
commanding incomes many time
larger than those of the judges befor
whom they appear. In most cases
lplace on the bench means. to tn
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
INCREASING FREIGHT RATES.
StrangIinE the Goose that Lays the
Golden Egg.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
A general increase of freight rates over
the greater part of the country on the first
of the year is now assured unless the In
terstate Commerce commission shall inter-
pose objections. The Trunk Line associa-
ton and the Transcontinenta Freight
bureau have filed with the commission
notices Of increases averaging about 10 per
cent westward and Is per cent eastward.
Whether this advance is justified cannot
be said offhand. The railroads are entitled
like other business concerns to participate
in the returning prosperity. But the public
would like to know whether reductions of
similar extent were made by the railroads
during the depression which is now passing
away, though it can hardly be said to nave
wholly disappeared. Up to midsummer, or
the early fall, of 1907 the railroads were
doing an enormous business and were do
ing 1t at fair rates of profit. Their net
earnings increased and many roads in
creased their dividends, besides applying
liberal portions of their earnings to i'm
proVements which would ad to their facili-
ties or reduce their expenses. In the first
half OF 1907, for example, the increase of
net earnings over the first half of 1906 by
railroads reporting to the Commercial and
Financial Chronicle was over $40, 900, 900; the
first half of 1906 showed an increase of
more than $45, 100000 over the same part Of
1905, and the first half Of 1905 showed an
increase of close to $19, 100000. The first six
months of 1904 was the only first half
year in eleven years that did not show an
increase, and generally a large increase,
over the first six months OF the previous
year.
During the, last year the earnings of the
roads have fallen off heavily because the
business of everybody fell off. All business
is improving, and with the restoration Of
the trade of 1907 the railroads will get back
to their large earnings then without an in
crease of rates unless there has been in the
last year a much more general reduction
than the public is informed of. OF course
the business of the country is far better
able to stand the increase now than 1t
was last spring when it was first proposed,
but the roads have little right to do more
than restore reductions made in the last
twelve months.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
AN ANNUAL CORN SNOW.

The vote of the National Corn as
ISOLATION expressing its sense that the
neIt national corn show shall be held
in Omaha, n our people so desire,
makes It possible for Omaha to fix the
corn show as an annual event, at
least, for the next several years.
AS an exposition of the progress
made of the corn belt states, the ad-
n in corn breeding and the manu-
facture of corn products the corn
show has been a proved success from
the time the doors opened. 1t has at
tracted to Omaha more widespread at
tention than anything of its kind since
the great Transmississippi exposition,
and its beneficial effects are bound to
be felt for a long-continued period.
Nothing succeeds like success and
there is no question but that with the
confidence established among all the
organizations and interests concerned
In the corn propaganda another corn
show at Omaha would enlist still
greater cooperation, while imposing
comparatively less burden. This
years experience will always be a val
liable asset in future undertakings.
Although the definite decision need
not be made at once, It will SOC be up
to the business men and public
spirited citizens of Omaha to decide
whether or not they want an annual
corn show, and IL the decision is favor
able. as 1t doubtless will be, it goes
without saying that the show next
year will be still bigger, better and
more successful in every way.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
PRESIDENT AND PRESS.

The original cause of the contro-
versy between President Roosevelt
and the New York World is to be
found in certain articles in the World
and reproduced by the Indianapolis
News, charging scandal and corrup-
ton in the negotiations for the pur-
chase by the United States Of the
Panama canal rights from the French
Panama company. This, however,
has been entirely overshadowed by
the developments of the controversy
into a personal fight between the pres
ident and the two editors, in which
prosecutions for criminal libel are
promised and The comparative YER
acity of the parties to the war of
words brought into prominence.
The presidents charge that the
World makes a specially of distorting
the truth for sensational purposes and
is altogether untrustworthy will
scarcely be accepted by those who
know of the great newsgathering ia
~cilities of the New York World and
It's record of past accomplishments in
the field of journalism. Nor will the
charge of the World that the presi-
dent has misrepresented official docu-
ments be believed or accepted by the
American people who know the presi-
dents record. 1t is possible that the
president may have been inexact as
to the manner of the payment of the
$40, 000, 900 to the French Panama
company, but the record is public and
his statement as to the final DISPOSE.
tion of the funds is un~questionably
correct.
Aside from the merits of the con-
~troversy over the Panama case, 1t will
be generally regretted that the presi
dent has engaged in a personal con
~troversy with two editors who have
nothing to lose by 1t. The status Of
the press in this country is very
clearly defined and we'll understood
No official denunciation of a newspa
per or its editor will deter the pres
from throwing the s%earchlight on thu
conduct of public officials and com
menting upon the results, just as NJ
criticism of the president by the pres
would prevent him from carrying GU
policies to which he is committed ant
which he believes are right.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
THE NEW METHOD.

Rice in NASHVILLE. Teppessean.
cit was to him hat Mr.. Roosevelt wrote
his memorable letter denying that he was
using the federal patronage to aid Mr..
took its place among the most valued in
OF veracity. '-Editor Laffan OF
the Sun, in reply to Mr.. Roosevelt.)
l wilt not say that thou hRSt He'd
Side-stepped the truth or cen veracity;
Nor charge that thou hast faisified
Through utter and complete 'meDdaclty;
No falsehood charge ! whirl at thee
But varlet-this l hurl atNtheeE
Thou art an incunabulatorl .
When Thomas Jones got in last night
At 3 a. M, with heartbeats~ quickened,
And whispered to his spousely hight
That he had been Nit friend quiet sick
Jones did not lie. although to walk
He was quite incapacitated-
In handing out hts line of talk @
He merely incunabulated. ,...
When one thou lowest whispers low
That she has never loved another;
That she has never held a beau
Save as a gentle friend-or brother;
And II p~efchance, she too denies
A run Of former osculations- 80
She Is not stringing1 thee with lies,
But simple incunabulations.
If one who seeks to borrow "ten"
Should lead thee from the h~urlyburly
With promises to come again
And fetch it in the morning early;
And If for months thou hast not spied
His face. while growing eulogistic,
Say not that he has foully He'd
He's only incunabullstic.
Alack-no more do people lie.
Adopting methods unveracious;
No more now do they falsify
BY springing data quite mendaclous;
All falsehoods, now have passed, forsooth,
Such barbarisms out of date,
For now. as they side-step the truth,
They merely incunabulate.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
Personal NOTES.

Baron Sc~hlippenbach declares there is no
such thing as a Russian secret service in
this country. At least 1t isn't as secret
as it once was.
Vice Admiral Cervera, who commanded
the Spanish fleet in the battle of Santiago.
was retired from the active list of the
Spanish navy Monday at his own request
on account of failing health.
Francis ]. Heney, the San Francisco
graft" prosecutor. will be able to come
east in January and keep engagements to
make speeches before reform clubs in Il
large number of cities between San Fran
cisco and New York.
King Charles of Roumania, who has
been Ill lately, is extremely popular with
his subjects. Like the late king of Dem
mark. he is a king without pretensions,
and nothing delights him more than to
mix freely with his people.
Mrs. Nation has been shocked to find
tea drinking so common in Scotland. She
classes tea drinking with the morphine
habit and has added it TO her crusading
repertory. Mrs. Nations circle of activi-
ties is rapidly widening. She has now
banned tobacco. cigarets. liquor, tea, man
and dog fights.
A Michigan judge mas STRUCK u oloW at
the summer resort engagement. In a case
before his court he has held that when a
girl breaks her engagement she must re-
turn the ring and presents by which the
troth was plighted. Should this be recOg-
nized as good law in other parts of the
union It is clear that the fascinating sum
mer girl will find her occupation gone and
her vacation stripped of its charm. If the
law bars the loot won by soft signs and
tender ~glances, what is the use?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
wives Equal 70 Emergencies.
philadeIpb,e Record.

AhiiohCiplhh ANSNOiN'
The governor of Nebraska having been
detained by a slow train, and unable TO
make an address at the corn exhibition,
Mrs. Sheldon, who happened to be present,
was invited to fill his place on the plat
form and did so. Her address Is spoken
of In high terms. There are two or three
pastors whose wives preach for them &C.
casionally, and II illness should prevent
n president of the United States from
preparing a message to congress we shall
hereafter expect the wife Of the president
to write the document.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
CORN N APPLES.
Two Exhibits from which Much Good
VIII Flow.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There is now in progress at Omaha a
National Corn exposition; at Spokane last
week was held a national apple show. Two
of the great products of the country are
thus placed on exhibition and their i'm
portance emphasized. Live stock and dairy
shows are regular features in several cities
and the more ornamental horse show is an
established institution. Both at Omaha and
Spokane large prizes were awarded for ex-
cellent products, and there can be no ques-
ton that much good was accomplished.
In spite of the popular belief that we
as a people have been prodigal of the gifts
of nature and that much of the virgin
richness Of the country has been forever
destroyed, 1t is certain that agriculture and
it's allied industries are still in their Infancy.
Americans have learned much, but have
much yet to learn. These exhibitions of the
products of the farm and the orchard are
agencies in the education of the great
producing class to accomplish even larger
and better things.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

"ShOOt or Give Up the Cum"
Louisville Courier-Journal.

LOUISVILLE CourleI-JouTndl'
Cromwell has shot his gun. 1t ought to
do more execution at the breach than at
the muzzle. Where are you, Mr.. Pulitzer7
Step right to the front and the Courier
Journal will stand directly behind you,
even IL it stood directly behind Senator Nor
gan. But, these few precepts, Joseph: Skin
your eys and your eye-teeth. old man; don't
let them ever catch a weasel asleep; and
don't send any boys to mill. To run down
a red fox, like Cromwell. to circumvent a
flea in a skillet like Roosevelt, is a mans
work, not child's play; and, If you are not
resolved to strip to 1t, you had best call
off the dogs and go gallumphing home!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
Traits of PresIdent mckinley.

BOSIOH ITHnSCIIpI.
Mr.. Taft's tribute at the dedication of a
Mckinley memorial organ in New York
brought out clearly some excellent traits of
the late president. Mr.. Root went to Wash
ington to decline going into the cabinet and
returned as secretary of war. Taft himself
went to Washington with the declaration
on his lips that he was sorry we had the
Philippines, and returned home having ac-
cepted an assignment to go to the archipel-
ago. He regarded 1t as appropriate that an
organ should be dedicated to a president
whose life had done so much to make har-
mony. McKinley's intuition in picking out
good men,, although Mr.. Taft did not say
this. ~emphatically deserve commentator.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
As reported in his own paper. he

AS reported in his own paper, the
congressman from this Second Ne
braska district did not vote at all on
the resolution offered in the house
to curtail the speakers power. That
ante-election advertisement, "A vote
for NE is a vote against Cannon"
must have been a bunco game.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

Neither Mr.. Roosevelt nor Mr..
Bryan will accept the presidency of
the University of Minnesota. 1t be-
gins to look as though the University
of Minnesota would be compelled to
look to a professional educator and
get it's advertising in some other way
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
There VIII be Something Doing,
Baltimore American.

When congress delivers that rebuke TO
the president. wilbh bow his head and take
the reprimand in silent meekness? The
mere suggestion OF a meek and humble
Roosevelt is calculated to make a craven
image smile. The hot words which he will
probably give back to that committee OF
five will almost burn spots In the paper on
which they Will be written.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

The constitutional amendment re-
Gently adopted in Nebraska requires
all members of the supreme bench to
have a permanent residence at the
state capital. but no penalty is fixed
for refusing to change residence. If
some of the new judges insisted ON
maintaining their old homes, what
would happen?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

brake" added another, more observing,
81 would ascribe II TO the pulling of tho
limbs by country Justices" =
Here, indeed, was a problem for science,
Philadelphia Ledger! n .r f.s.3'
"I was reading today remarked the lin
gering young man, that there are ninety
eight ways of serving a. lobster" $
Didn't II give YOU a sense of, personal
danger?' she asked.
Then he left her. .
81 guess l found the ~nihety-nlnth way"
she murmured, with a contented yawn."-
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

II our aboriginal Indians had only
known that a single ear of corn grown
on this western, soil would one day
sell for SIS they might not have been
dispossessed of their ant so easily.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

Mr.. Bryan insists that the coming
democratic Legislature must redeem
all the pledges in all the platforms on
which it's members were elected.
Where platforms disagree. who shall
decide?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

Every English family has at least
one weak-minded member" says a
London medical magazine. That
must be the one that comes to Amer
lea and wears a monocle.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

trained and skilled lawyer, a financial
sacrifice which he is usually 10th to
make. AS a result the leaders at the
bar are frequently compelled to re-
fuse elevation to the bench, thus leav-
ing the ~judgeships to younger and less
experienced men who. II not satisfied
with the judicial salaries, are anxious
to have the prestige which service on
the bench brings to them for future
practice.
The work of the courts is becoming
more inc more important every year.,
and It is becoming evident that II a
higher degree of ability is to be Sc
cured for the bench the first essential
step to that end must be the increased
compensation urged by the president.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

"Haytiens hold a jubilation," an
nounces a cable. That is better than
holding a lynching, which is the usual
form of demonstration of Joy in
Hayti.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
COrnerstOne of Prosperity.
New York World.

wv IVTh NVVTTNs
The silver lining of the cloud which
Swallowed business this year is the report of
the secretary of agriculture of a gain of
$3.50 900 in this year over last years corps.
record-breaking total value is ST.
TS,oOO,OOO-a solid foundation for renewed
prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
ENGINEERING PROBLEM At PANAMA.

ENGINEERING AT PANAMA.
NJ. Bunau-Varilla, the French en-
gineer who figured prominently in the
creation of the Panama republic and
in the earlier dealings between this
nation and France in connection with
the Panama canal transfer, has ca
bled from Paris a dire prediction on
corning the canal. He is convinced,
and feels it his duty to warn us. that
the construction of the canal along
the plans decided upon will almost
infallibly end in the greatest disaster
in the history of great public works
ever recorded"
The question of the type of the
canal has been a subject of discussion
and controversy for half a century
and engineers are no nearer an agree
ment now than when the dispute
started. Many of the most expert en-
gineers in the world have declared
that a lock canal could not be built,
equally as many have been as positive
that a lock canal is not only feasible,
Jul wv Ohiy hlhu LhdJ WOuiu OC "a az
ticable. The United States authori-
ties have decided on a lock canal and
are building it. Bunau-Varilla is an
advocate of the sea-level type and is
certain that n other kind will col
lapse.
NJ. Bunau-Varilla's prediction of
disaster is based on his belief that the
great Gatun dam cannot be con
structed on the foundation found in
that vicinity. He contends hat if
built it will, if it does not fall of it's
own weight, certainly collapse when
called upon to hold back an S5-foot
depth of water with the weight and
force of the resounding sea behind 1t.
The dam will be over a mile long and
there will be 80 or IS feet of water
behind it, the whole lake covering sew
eral square miles of water basin. At
the point where the greatest strain
will come on the foundations of the
dam there will be a pressure of $4,000
pounds to the square foot and M.
Bunau-Varilla contends that the
foundations are not such as to support
a dam which would resist such pres
sure.
Opposed to this view is the opinion
of Colonel Goethals of the United
States engineering corps in charge OF
the work. In his report made to con-
gress C few days ago. he recognized
the blue clay character of the soil, re-
ferred to by M. Bunau-Varilla, but
explained that below hat was a per
fectly impervious bed of boulders and
rock to which the foundation walls
would be extended. The question
therefore, is a technical one for tech.
meal experts to debate. but the aver
age American layman will pin hiI
faith to the army engineers who arr
on the job, rather than to becom,
alarmed over the direful predictions o
an engineer who has always beef
committed to another type of canal
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

The question where to put the new
supreme court judges without build
ing an addition to the capitol is said
to be troubling some of the aGthori-
ties at Lincoln. There are four new
supreme court judges to take the
place of six supreme court commits
sioners, and by ordinary rules of
mathematics a substitution ought to
be made and leave some room over.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
where PatriOtism Blooms.


Instead of descending to the cellar these
wintry mornings, growing between his
chattering teeth, every householder should
approach his furnace as the altar fire of
civilization. The hand that shakes the ba'
mana tree for breakfast is an enfeehled
member of an enervated race, but the hand
hat shakes the furnace is the hand that
rules the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

A famous local murder trial that
izzled is said to have cost the taxpay-
eEs Of Douglas county some 1880
almost as much as 1t costs our taxpay-
ers for one of those numerous grand
juries, for which they get about the
same for their money.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18
War without shooting.

Chicago Record-Herald.
The Dutch navy has captured a Vene-
zuelan scout ship without firing a shot.
We are almost confirmed in our belief that
war between Holland and Venezuela would
not be anywhere near as deadly as ar ordi-
nary foot ball contest,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

Mr.. Bryan is unduly alarmed over
the presidents onslaught on the New
York World. There is no serious
danger that the press will be muzzled
or t~erroriEed into subservient silence.
It is a mighty good advertisement for
the World nonethelesA.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

The supreme court of Russia has
decided against the Standard OIL com
pany In a 100000 damage claim.
Judge lands will be pardoned for ex-
claiming "Fine!"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-18

There's a possibility that the pro-
gram for the next corn exposition may
be printed on paper made from corn
stalka