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Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27

from erysipelas or other nfec-
eases.
No. 5-Eide1y woman found for Bentley.
on the bottoms late on the nighrtznerrer. who
ruary 3. the coolest night Of thsrds. Nebraska
with fever and with a temper however. and
iO7k. which Is almost certain deaf, the Cornhusk-
to Omaha General hospital, ~whtawkins OF the
operations were performed with val and raced
lions Of physicians each time. yord roun for
whom received or expected to reced to wabash
\ No. s-Colored boy at Union iwman kicked
taken TO Omaha General hospital /
surgeon and operated on by DR.. Hhe last half
empyemis. Night case and patiealIed as soon
removed to county hospital as tto Bowman.
able. bash, 0
No. 7-oid man. hit in the eve
silver late at night. Taken to OmafBAsH.
eral hospital, where DR.. Arnold re- payne
the lens and he was cared for ten 80. barr
Nc. S-Woman, - years old. found ,....... Brown
bottoms late at night With a fever HeoS 20 : !
temperature of 107 degrees. Remov, go. Buns
Omaha General hospital, operated oHs' h"rs"
cared for thirteen days. .. Colburt
Not Ashamed of His Action. '' SS"'
II consider It no disgrace TO my der Carver
ment that / have spent the city's mo Geais
as l have, in caring for these people fBowman.
have. but It is a disgrace to the COUNT. UNI
man from the Eighth and the taxpay'' GisrL
Of the city generally that the city 4.
not provided better hospital facilities Il. .e
emergency cases. said Health Commits ord,
sioner Connell. There is not a city Of and
10000 but that spends from five to twenty ute
times as much as 1 have as health COM wer
missioner of Omaha. to say nothing OF not
cities Of 10000 or 10000 people. The
II have spent money In the past ana l the
will continue to do so in the future and .r
as long as l am health commissioner of az
the city of Omaha. 1 will not allow sick uu
or injured people to lie on the streets, In cen
tumble Gown shacks' or IN lhe ponce s.A- IS,
ton, without care, waiting until morning IN
so they can be taken to the county hos ~,
pital. II life has not flown by that time. %
We can't wait until morning and for the
county authorities to find out whether "a,
the patients live in the county sometimes" -
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27

Made from the purest materials money
can buy, blended by soap experts with sixty
3ght years experience. That's Jap Rose.
K7rk makes it. All dealers sell II.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27

BY using the various departments OF The
Bee want ad pages II Is easy 10 reach the
people who have money to spend
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27

Don't forget the grand ball tomorrow
night In BayriEht's large hall, Royal Ach-
gtes, No. 40.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27
CONNELL HITS DAVIS HARD
Health Commissioner Takes Strong
Rap at Eighth Warder.
DEFENDS HIS OWN OFFICIAL WORK
says ~ Councilman was as Keen for
CIty's Interests when Corpora
tons Were ~ stake IL
wouId BE o. X.

Il want you to make this statement as
coming directly from me: II DIR. J. C..
Davis. councilman from the Eighth ward,
would spend as much time saving the city's
finances when some corporation deal is on
hand. especially the street railway COM
hand, instead OF finding fault with the
money l have spent in a humane manner,
he would save the taxpayers OF Omaha
$1,000 for every 81 ! rave spent unneces-
sarily in treatment Of unfortunates."
That In brief is the reply OF DR.. r. w.
Conneli, democratic city health commits
sioner, to the strictufes Upon his official
action Of DR.. ]. c. Davis, democratic city
councilman from the Eighth ward. But
then the health commissioner does not drop
the subject with those few words; he only
concludes IL with them.
While agreeing with Or. Davis In the
belief that Omaha ought to have a city
hospital for the care of emergency and
police cases, DR.. Connell takes issue with
the councilman on the latter's contention
that the city should not pay out money
for the care of county patients or OF
strangers within the city.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27
Kansas Women for Education.

The Kansas federation, which has al
ready done so much in the interest of
woman's education, has planned another
big enterprise. 1t is soon to build a dor
mitory at Lawrence for the young women
who are attending the State university.
The federation is also supporting a fund
from which young women may borrow for
use In their education.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27
One Pathetic Side to bal.


There was a pathetic side to 1t, too. one
woman said she was a widow and had three
children to support. She could get no work
and actually needed the position TO buy
food. 7 told her, Madam, the salary |
can pay is very small, not enough for you
and your family to live on. IL you were
to come into my office L should have you
on my conscience all the time. Every time
l bought a new hat or a drink, l would
think Of you and the meagre sum you were
TO live on. | can not take YOU
I'm various ways reduced the possibill-
ties to two. One was a blue-eyed, red
headed girl, who was business to her fin
ger tips. She looked me straight in the
eye. my questions as fast as 1
could ask them, never hesitated when l
asked her age. told me why she wanted
to work and impressed me all the way
through as a born business woman.
THE other was one of the most beautiful
girls l have ever seen in Omaha. She was
quiet, refined, s-elf-contained, intelligent.
She said the salary was of no consequence,
she did not have to work. she wanted a
place simply because she was tired of
staying at home and doing nothing. She
was handsomely dressed, neat, trim and
good to look upon. l could not help think
ing that the office would be an attractive
place with such a woman around. She said
she was a good housekeeper, hated dust
and dirt and was sure she could please me.
l could not decide between them. My
judgment said 20 take the business girl
and let the pretty one alone, but my temp
tation to engage the latter was almost too
strong to resist. I finally decided to sleep
over IT and make up my mind in the morn
ing"
"What did you decide the morning after"
Il took the red-headed one" he replied.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-27

-4e everywhere without display OF dis
order. The first thing that impressed me
and remained with me all day was the
utter absence OF sex consciousness. There
were no smiles of chances or anything de-
noting the presence of men and women.
They were citizens intent on performing
their duty to state and nation.
"The per cent of women voting increased
as one went from the slums to Capitol
Hill. In one place on Capitol Hill the per
cent Of women registering and voting was
IS, and it ranged from that to 81 per cent
in the residential and Industrial parts of
the city.
More than half the polling places were
in the sitting rooms or parlors of houses.
They were all in houses, not one in a
saloon.
THE women of all parties scratched
their tickets for Judge Lindsey. and at a
breakfast given us by the "why club, a"
where there we're fifty women, Judge Lind
sey asked that he might como TO express
his gratitude to the women who elected
him. 1t was a woman's triumph. The
night before election I was at a dinner of
professional women, and out of forty-nine
only two did not say they intended to vote
for Judge Lindsey"
nate u MchntBnt memorial
At it's recent annual meeting the Penn
s~ylvania Federation Of Women's Clubs es-
tablished a most appropriate memorial to
the late Miss Kate Cassett Mcknight, a
former chairman Of the General Fedora
tons educational committee and a resident
Of Pennsylvania. Ar endowment fund of
$4,000 is TO be established, the interest upon
which will be devoted to the maintenance
| 81 q achplo rabtn In dhvnaattc actanro 70 ha
known as the Kate cassett Mcknight
scholarship. Miss Mcknight was one of
the best known women in the General Fed
Grafton and through her efforts several i'm
portant conferences with other organiza-
tions were arranged with most gratifying
results.
,, sim for MissiOns.
> Mrs. William Butler, who is now in hei
eighty-ninth year, addressed the New Eng
|. land Methodist Women's Foreign Mission
airy society at its thirty ninth annual meet
Ing the other day. She was a founder OF
the general society and her whole life
has been interviewer with missionary work
! in foreign lands. She was in India during
t the Sepoy rebellion and is probably th6
only living American who saw the Greai
= = Mogul. The New England society under
her direction has been the first in severa
. foreign fields. 1t was the. first to under
take missionary work among the womer
[ OF India, sending DR.. Carrie Swain there
8 In 1869. 1t also established an early mis-
. sionary school for women in Asia. the lisa
z belle Thornburn college. In Lucknow, and
the first newspapers for women in India
d 1t started a leper colony high up in the
Himalayas and two of its missionaries
= DR.. Martha Sheldon and Miss Lucy Sulll
. van, have made journeys into the forbid
den country Of Thibet.
a Kansas Women for Education.
. The Kansas federation, which has al
ready done so much in the interest o
9 woman's education, has planned another
big enterprise. 1t is soon to build a dor
) mitory at Lawrence for the young womeI
, who are attending the State university
The federation is also supporting a funC
from which young women may borrow 70
- 4 III
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01
TALE OF A LACE WRAP.
Involving In Its Climax the Problem Of
Feminine Shrewdness.

One of several men employed in a
downtown office boisterously proclaim
ed the time honored principle that wo-
men are devoid of principle
"They are tricky to the core, every
mothers daughter of them," he said.
They don't know what honesty
means"
Mr.. Bateman resented the imputa-
ton.
Il don't believe a word of that" he
, said. "Women have just as sound
principles as men. Take my wife, for
instance She is the soul Of honor.
You couldn't hire her to do a tricky
thing. Just let me tell you what a
ago. She was coming home from the
matinee. While crossing Broadway she
found a package that had evidently been
dropped from the platform Of car.
ing the car and restoring the package,
so Of course she brought it home. 1t
contained six yards of beautiful creamy
lace The check said it had been paid
for and cost $3.50.
Now. my wife had two wraps
whose sleeves needed remodeling, and,
human nature being what it is, her
first thought was that she could utilize
the lace for trimming. But her spirit
Of recttude triumphed.
mo, she said I won't use the lace.
I will take it back to the store. Posi-
bly, the person who lost it will inquire
about it at the lost and found depart
ment'
81 advised her to keep the lace and
not bother about the woman who had
lost it. My wife seemed startled at
my iniquity.
"If I return it and the loser doesn't
call for the lace, what will become Of
it?' she asked.
1.-The store will gobble it up said
| I. and sell it over again. 1t belongs
| to you just as much as to them
But she was resolute. Possibly
YOU are right she said, but I cannot
keep what is not mine. I must return
the lace
"And she did" continued Mr.. Bate
| man proudly. And that, l take it, is
as pretty an instance of honest dealing
as you will find in anybody, either man
or woman"
The scoffer at feminine honesty ad-
mitted that for an example Of probity
Mrs. Bateman's heroic surrender of lost
property would be hard to beat, and
the meeting adjourned with sentiment
leaning pretty strongly toward the
maligned sex.
Mr.. Bateman went home in partic-
ularly happy frame Of mind. He kiss
ed his wife with unusual fervor and
finally offered to take her to a theater
When she was dressed he noticed diff
ference in the appearance of her mo-
hair wrap.
Isn't that lace something like that
you found in the street the other day.?
he asked.
Yes" she said "it is the same piece
II thought you took it back?' said
| Bateman.
Mrs. Bateman blushed. Il did," she
said family "but II got it again.
couldn't give it up. l went to the lost
and found department the next day
and asked for it myself"
| "OhI" said Bateman-New York
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01

perceptible hole. and some probability
was given to this contention by the re-
searches of Dr. Edwards, published in
1917. The doctor observed that toads
shut up in boxes covered with plaster
and apparently deprived of air lived
much longer than those treated in
same way and placed under water.
Herissant's critics were therefore justi-
fled in supposing that he had failed to
make his boxes alright, but no one
seems to have denied the fact that two
of the miserable captives were able to
live for year and a half without food.
DR.. Buckland, father of the famous
Frank, made some much more eXhaus-
tive experiments upon toads. Two
blocks of stone were taken, one Of po-
rous oolite limestone and one Of a COM
cells were cut in the stone and in No
vember, 1925 live toad. whose weight
had been previously ascertained, was
placed in each cell. A glass plate was
above that, the two blocks Of stone be-
ing buried feet deep in DR.. Buck
lands garden. Eleven months later
the stones were dug up and examined.
All the toads in the sandstone were
dead, but the greater number Of those
in the limestone were alive. All except
two, however, were much emaciated,
the exceptions having actually increas-
ed in weight, but it was supposed that
these might have been nourished by
some insects which had crawled
through a crack in the glass. The liv-
ing toads were put back again and
carefully resealed but all were dead
before the end of the second year. Four
others, inclosed in the trunk Of an ap-
pie tree and Theoretically sealed were
found dead at the end Of a year.
In spite of such apparently conclusive
evidence as this we find the Rev. Geo.
Young in his theological Survey Of the
Yorkshire Coast" published in 1929,
bringing forward several instances Of
living toads having been found within
solid blocks of sandstone. 1--WE are
the more particular in recording these
facts" he observes, because some mod
ern philosophers have attempted to
explode such accounts as wholly fabu-
lOus." Jesse, the naturalist, also declar-
ed that he knew a man who put toad
in a flower pot sealed it up so that no
insect could get in, and buried the pot
in the garden at a great depth. At the
end Of twenty years the flower pot was
dug up. and it's occupant was not only
in perfect health, but had grown almost
too big for his residence! There is no
doubt that a toad can go longer with
out food or air than many-perhaps
any-creatures, but that is no reason
why he should be the victim Of so much
gratuitous cruelty. But he always has
been much misunderstood creature
and one supposes that he always will
be. Prejudice and toads die hard.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01

DID SIZE KEEP HER TEMPER?-Mr
Biles is a very hasty tempered man, but
he is also one who keeps his promises
to the very letter Therefore Mrs. B
has trained him to believe that second
thoughts are best and in mo-
ment of his weakness extracted from
him a promise always to count twenty
before he speaks if he feels rage COM
ing upon him. Last Sunday he rushed
into the back drawing room spluttering
with fury and red in the face. Mrs
Riles rose and laid a gentle hand on
his stammering lips.
"M-mary. I-I-T'-
Hush, DEAR" said the sweet woman
Count twenty and conquer yourself
and l shall be more proud Of you than
if YOU had conquered the world"
Eighteen. nineteen, twenty
Now tell me, dear
It's that new hat Of yours that you
paid six guineas for and the new serv-
ants gone out in, and it's raining hard
that's an"-LOndon Express.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01
THE WONDERS OF WATER.
Even the Most Solid Substances Con-
tain Some of the Fluid.


The extent to which water mingles
with bodies apparently solid is Won
derful The glittering opal, which
beauty wears as an ornament, is only
flint and water In every plaster Of
paris statue. which an Italian carries
through the streets for sale, there IS
one pound of water to every four
pounds of chalk. The air we breathe
contains five grains of water to each
cubic foot of its bulk The potatoes
and turnips which are boiled for our
dinner have, in their raw state, the
one 75 per cent and the other 80 per
cent of water.
If a man weighing ten stone were
squeezed flat in hydraulic press, u
stone of water would run out and only
% stone of dry residue remain. A
man is, chemically speaking, As pounds
of carbon and nitrogen, diffused
through 81 pailfuls of water. In plants
we find water thus mingling in no less
wonderful manner.
A sunnOwer evapOrates II pints Of
water Il day, and a cabbage about the
same quantity. A wheat plant eXhales
in 172 days about 100000 grains of wa
ter. An acre of growing wheat on this
calculation. draws and passes out about
10 tons of water a day. The sap Of
plants is the medium through which
this mass of fluid is conveyed. 1t
forms Il delicate pump, by which the
watery particles run with the rapidity
of Il swift stream. BY the action Of
the sap various properties may be
communicated to the growing plant
Timber in France is, for instance, dyed
by various cOlors being mixed with
water and poured over the root of the
tree Dahlias are also cOlored by a
similar proceSs.-Tit-Bi
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01
Humorous department.

A DIVISION OF PURPOSE.-Some years
ago the Yankee schooner Sally Ann
under command of Capt Spooner, was
beating up the Connecticut river. Mr.
Comstock. the mate, was at his sta
ton forward. According to his notion
Of things the schooner was getting a
"leetle" too near certain mud flats
which lay along the larbOard shore. Sc
aft he went to the captain and, with his
hat cooked on one side, said:
"Cap'n Spooner, you're getting a lee
tie too close to them flats. Hadn't ye
better go about
The captain glared at him.
Mr. Comstock, jest you go forart
and tend to your part Of the skinner
I'll tend to mine"
Mr. Comstock went forard in high
dudgeon.
Boys" he beloved out, 'see that
that ar mudhooks all clear fer lettin
go!"
"Ay. ay. sir!"
Let go, them" he roared.
Down went the anchor, out ratified
the chains. and like a flash the Sally
Ann came luffing into the wind and
then brought up all standing. Mr.
Comstock walked aft and touched his
hat.
well. cap'n, my part of the skinner
is to anchOr.-Everybody
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01
SHORT TICKETS.
Means the Actual Saving of Thousands
Of Dollars.

Means the Actual Saving OF thousands
Of Dollars.
Literally speaking" remarked the
statistical man. according to the Bir-
mingham News, "the Democratic and
Republican tickets, taken together or
singiy, man for man, are the shortest
ever put before the country. Nine
letters are enough for the Democrat
ic candidates, II for the Republicans,
and. singularly enough, the same fig
ures apply when the presidential and
vice presidential candidates are taken
in pairs Twenty letters are enough
for the two teams, seven Of which are
used more than one time, so that in
reality the name could be built out
of 13 pieces of type.
"The Democratic ticket is by wide
margin the shortest ever put out.
Polk and Dallas in 1914, Pierce and
King in 1852. and Cass and Butler in
1S4S, each taking ten letters, being
the only ones close to the mark The
longest was Cleveland and Stevenson
in 1892, IS letters. The Republican
ticket is as short as any in history.
Grant and Colfax in 1868, Grant and
Wilson in 1872, and Blaine and Logan
in 1884. each with II letters, were
the only tickets as short, while the
longest was Roosevelt and Fairbanks
in 1904 IS letters, the same as the
Democratic record.
bryan has the shortest name of
any candidate the Democratic party
has ever nominated for president, eX-
cept Polk and Cass. Taft has the
fewest number of letters in his name
of any Republican presidential candi-
date in history Kern has the short
est name of any Democratic vice
presidential candidate in history, ex-
cept King, 1852. Sherman's seven
letters of course, bar him from max
ing any universal showing in the short
letter race.
"The short ticket means the actual
saving of thousands Of dollars in the
composition of the great mass of lit
erature that will be used in the cam
paign. Each candidates name will
be used hundreds of thousands of
times, in every variety of print from
the smallest microscopic type to the
yard high billboard letters. To head
liners, the tickets are happy hunting
grounds, to printers they are easy to
mold and set up, and to the public in
general they are practically impossi-
BILE to misspell or mispronounce."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01

SHARP DEALING-For once the
American had discovered something
British that was better than anything
that could be produced across the
pond" His discovery was a fine collie
dog. and he at once tried to induce its
owner. an old shepherd, to sell it.
"Wad we be takin' him to American
inquired the old Scot.
Yes. I guess So" said the Yankee.
Il thought as muckle," said the shep-
herd. Il couldna part wi Jock"
But while they sat and chatted an
English tourist came up, and to him
the shepherd sold the collie for much
less than the American had offered.
You told me YOU wouldn't sell him,
said the Yankee, when the purchaser
had departed
Ma" replied the Scot; Il said
couldna' pairt wi him. Jock'n be back
in a day or so. but he couldn't swim
the Atlantic."-Detroit Free Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01

GRACE FROM THE GRACELESS.-Long
ago. in Barnet, small town in north
eIn Vermont. when it was the custom
to entertain wayfarcrs at the comforta-
bic farmhOuses along the road. Il long
legged. cadaverous individual in a suit
Of rusty black stopped at the home OF
Deacon John L. Woods for dinner. His
melancholy manner just eXhaled piety.
stranger will you say grace" ask
ed Deacon John. as they drew up tc
the table.
Say what?" said the stranger.
will YOU ask the Lords blessing or
this foOd?" urged Deacon John.
Turning his sad. uncomprehending
eyes on his host, the pious guest said
drearily:
IF YOU want to talk to me you'll
have to holIer like --. I'm deaf as
- old adder-Life.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01

THEY'RE ALL LIKE THIs.-A young
and pretty school teacher once asked
her class for an original definition OF
the word wife"
"A wife is a rib, said one little girl
wives are guiding stars" said an
other.
"A comforter" said third.
"An inspiration" said a fourth.
Altogether the definitions were rath-
er prosy and commonplace, but finally
a child of eleven, smiling archly, said:
"A wife is a person for man TO hnd
fault with when things go wrong"
Good" cried the pretty teacher
laughing. Good That is the best
definition of ALL the best, the truest!"
But that afternoon on the way home
from school the little girl whose def
milton had 50 pleased the teacher, trip
ped demurely up to the teacher and
said:
Are you going to marry that tall
handsome young man l see you with
nearly every night?"
Yes" said the teacher.
We'll. then, if my definition of a
wife was true
"Ah, but. dear with US nothing Will
ever go wrong. He says so himself.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-01

DECEIvERS-There is an old fellow
who lives in a dry New England
town who has a very poor opinion OF
New York. to which metropolis he re-
Gently made visit 1t may be remark
ed in passing that the old gentleman is
one of the pillars of the church in his
rative village. Upon his return home
he sat for some time upon sugar bar
rel at the grocery and then suddenly
burst out:
Them fellers down to New York is
as bad as thieves! Cheat your eyeteeth
out fore you know it,"
Gosh, Hiram! You don'r mean to
say you got buncoed at your age" the
storekeeper demanded, dropping the
nail tongs.
Yes. I do, too" was the angry re-
ply. Il went to a sody water fountain
an asked the feller for his best sar-
syprilla, an 1 give him the regular
wink"
"Wen?" the stOrekeeper demanded.
well, by heck, got it," was the dis
gusted reply.