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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1908-01-21

The next Confederate Reunion will be
held in Birmingham. Ala. June g, 10. II.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Good morning! Have you swabbed that
burn?
Johnny got his gun all right. Did the
gun get Johnny?
TIL Chicago woman who tasted for forty
days must have saved enough on her meat
bill alone to pay the undertaken.
Affairs will presently Luke Wright on
the Rio Grande. The new secretary of war
has ordered troops to that section.
The sixty-two-story building which is
projected in New York will probably serve
as a hitching post for aerial navigators.
The proposed autobiography Of John d.
Rockefeller will not contain ar introduc-
tory note from the pen of Miss Ida Tar
bell.
Although Caleb Powers has been out Of
a Kentucky prison only a few weeks, he is
reported to be on marriage bent. Oh,
Liberty, how tickle thy charms!
marriage to a young woman with a record
Of five divorces. What becomes of the
constitutional provision guaranteeing the
pursuit of happiness" with variations?
Anticipating a rush of campaign patriots
this fall, a Cincinnati councilman wants
the city to establish a home where respect
able visitors might sleep off that tired
feeling" without publicity.
Carping critics turned their barbs on the
Omaha judge who e~njoined a woman from
talking over the back fence. How Insight
ficant his dictum appears in contrast with
that of a Minnesota judge who forbids re-
To keep the muzzle on the mouth of the
convicted Cashier Montgomery of the col
lanSp1 nOlitical hanE pf A1laohapv Do fha
assistant looters Of the institution are
skurrying for about $2,OOO,OOO with which to
pay the deposltors. The price of silence
comes high, but the Pennsylvania grafters
must have it.
DR.. James F.. Rymer. an English sur
geon, who has practiced his profession in
England, the United States and Canada,
has set out from Edmonton for Fort Good
Hope, 1850 miles to the north, with the
idea of permanently practicing his profess
sion among Eskimos and Indians. He does
not intend to return to civilization for at
least three years, and then only for q
brief visit.
Editor Lummis of Out West heads a
crusade for reform in the pronunciation OF
Los Angeles. Every self-respecting per-
son." he says. with the fear Of God and
IoHe Oh California peIore MS eyes, should
pronounce it Loce Ang-el-ess, as this local
Jingle explains:
The lady would remind you, please,
Her name is not
Lost Angie Lees,
Nor Angie anything whatever.
She hopes her friends will be so clever
To share her fit historic pride
The "g" shall not be jelllfied.
20" long, "g' hard, and rhyme with yes, -
And all about
Ioca Ap1-a1o.s
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Washington Post: Prophet Elijah Dowies
estate, when settled w, was found to con-
sist Of only $1,000 That will hardly last TIL
the expiration Of the 1900 years to elapse
before he returns.
Chicago News: When the minister on go
ing away for the summer leaves a supply
Of sermons on photograph records the
members OF the congregation may send tin
tunnels to listen TO them.
Cleveland Leader: That Boston clergy
man who says that the old-fashioned,
spooning courtshlp has gone out Of style
ought to come out and ride some evening
on one Of our dimly lighted suburban cars
before he says that again.
Philadelphia Ledger: A Trenton minister
who considered disgraceful the spectacle Of
two girls in boomers taking exercise under
the direction of their father has been tin
panned out Of town by indignant misses.
He was too disturbed in his good mind to
notice whether these wore bloomer or not.
New York Tribune: The Massachusetts,
bishop who has ordered collections in a
Worcester church to be taken by the cash
register system evidently is not afraid that
this businesslike innovation will lead to
others, such as trading stamps. bargain
days and satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
FREAK LETTERS IN TAFT MAIL
Girls Ask for Hts Thin Lock, Babies
Named After Him,

Philadelphia North American.
Secretary Taft's mail has always been q
heavy one, and his assistants are probably
the busiest men in Washington at all times,
but for the last month his correspondence
has multiplied enormously and the type
writer's IN his private office in the war de-
partment rattle like an automatic gun In
action.
Women inquire II he drinks or smokes,
and many suggest weight reducers. He
Is constantly petitloned for autographs,
and writes them TIL he is in danger Of
pen paralysis. Some letters are solictous
as to his health, others ask appointments,
but all show that be is recognized as a
big and sympathetic man.
Even tho baby naming has begun. His
first name. william. coupled with the
Howard, has already been used to dis
tinguish half a dozen children from their
less fortunate relatives. Several have
been named William Taft. and there
promises to be an unprecedented crop Of
Bills" in the next rising generation, but
a few years after the army Of "Theo-
dores' has grown up
One mother. however. who has a soft
spot In her heart for the secretary, hest
tated to name her boy after him, be-
NeNSN sA' "a Nhb ldll ptIl WOulu bc
vernacularized into "Taffy," and she
hates nlcknames. In her uncertainty she
wrote the following letter:
MY baby Is Just 2 weeks Did. and we
want to name him after you. William
Taft -, but we are Just a little bit afraid
to do it. II we do so, the boys might get
to calling him "Taffy,' which is a good
nickname as nicknames 60; but we detest
them all. When you were a boy were you
called 'Taffy'? II not, We will have him
christened Immediately. We will call him
William Howard-if they called you
"Taffy.'
The secretary's reply is not recorded but
1t is safe to say that the little Maryland
boy will be called William Taft. for in
stead Of being called '"Taffy,' the recre-
tary was always called plain BILL"
The prize proposition thus far, how
ever, comes from a young woman's semi
nary up In New York state, where a girls
club indites the following request. prop
erly signed by the president and counter
signed by the secretary.
Wont you do something for us? we
girls have formed a Taft club, and we are
going to work awfully hard for you. We
are not going to ask you for your auto
graph or your picture, but just a little
lock Of your hair for us to treasure and
keep in our clubroom as a memento."
If the hair went back by return mail
the secretary is more generous than are
most men Of his age, and. although he
still finds 1t unnecessary to attempt the
Fairbanks wave, he, nevertheless, realizes
that every lock counts.
He hears frequently from Yale men OF
all descriptions, each pledging undying
support. One letter reads:
Il am of the class OF 80, and am a
Bryan democrat, as are my father and my
four brothers, but we are all going to vote
for you in November, and six votes in
Kentucky count"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05

STNGLE.HEADED CITY GOVERNMENT.
Just as new experiments with the
commission form of municipal govern
ment are attracting attention a move
ment is on foot in Washington, where
the commission plan has been in effect
for many years, to get back to a single
headed city administration. The sug-
g~estion of a one-man executive for the
nations capital city has the endorse
ment of President Roosevelt and
seems, likewise, to be growing in favor
with the people of Washington who
will be most directly affected.
The washington Post has been gath
ering opinions from mayors Of diff
ferent American cities, many of whom
have responded and none of whom, it
says, undertakes to defend the division
Of responsibility system.
Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo,
elected as an Independent on a repub-
lican platform, declares:
Certainly, 1 think it would be better for
the District Of Columbia to be governed
by one executive head rather than by a
three-headed commission. Under the
board plan, or under any adaptation OF it,
such as the commission plan, responsible
ity is distributed and hence the people do
not know whom to blame for what goes
wrong. The board plan was got UP by
politicians and for politicians, and it can
be operated successfully only with a ma
shine and a boss. The bane of this sys-
tar, Ig that fha hpgg rayap holds office
himself, and the people cannot get at
him. Under the federal plan, if there is
a boss he is the peoples boss. and they
can remove him when they get tired of
him.
Former Mayor Cutler of Rochester
takes this position:
My experience leads me to believe that
for any executive function a single head
mission.
Mayor Speer Of Denver expresses
himself tersely:
l believe in one executive head for city
government. Divided responsibility has
notlproved satisfactory to our people.
Mayor Malone of Memphis has a
similar response:
My experience as mayor leads me tc
believe that a city government is no ex-
ception to the rule that every large in
stitution hould lave one responsible
head.
These expressions, which are in the
nature of expert testimony, are al
least worth considering in connection
with the arguments advanced by the
advocates of commission government
for cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
OUR VIEW PLEDGED srArEsMAN

II making two blades Of grass grow
where but one grew before is to be re-
garded as a human benefaction, what
is to be said OF making two statesmen
stand where but one stood before?
The democracy Of Nebraska used TO
recognize but one overtowering leader,
but, 10 and behold, a second new
fedged statesman has suddenly bios
somed forth to divide the effulgent
glory.
While Bryan may be the astral CEN
ter Of the democratic constellation at
Lincoln, at Denver the sun, moon and
stars are rising and setting and pursu-
ing their orbits at the beck and call of
Mayor Jim.
Would anyone know who should
preside over the deliberations of the
coming convention as temporary chair
man or permanent chairman, it is
Mayor Jim who carries the message to
Garcia.
Does anyone inquire what kind of
an an%ti-injunction plank the platform
will contain, 1t is to Mayor Jim that he
Is referred as the fountain head of in
formation and inspiration.
If Judge Parker wants to introduce
his proposed resolution of tribute to
Grover Cleveland he will first have to
secure Mayor Jim's permission.
No one, as yet, knows who is to have
second place as running mate with Mr..
Bryan, but the edict will be issued in
due time, as soon as Mayor Jim is
ready to AXE the convention delegates
into his confidence.
Our own Mayor Jim is on the ground
as the specially appointed confidential
commissioner of Mr.. Bryan. For the
coming democratic candidate he will
organize the convention, promulgate
the platform, ratify the nominations,
record the adjournment and stand
ready to receive all the $4,000 ON
tributions to the campaign Jackpot
which the Wall street gang may be
willing to chip in.
Great is Bryan, and Mayor Jim is
his prophet. Let all good Nebraska
democrats fall down on their knees
and salaam.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
SERMONS ROLLED Down.


Sublime victories are first won In conn
monplace days.
The worst thing about any evil deed ia
It's rruitfulness.
Conscience is the answer Of my life to
the light l have.
The only way to use a great opportunity
Is to serve Il.
The life has left any truth when II needs
laws to defend 1t.
The rule OF gold makes the golden rule
seem sadly unreal.
The pessimist kills all hope because hap
piness i~rritates him.
life with the other.
The Curl ulum Of character may often In
volve painful circumstances
He is never worth thinking much about
who thinks most Of himself.
The eye single to the main chance always
misses the great opportunity.
The best way to cure the fear Of man
is to lose the love Of
There is only one way to the hearts or
men, II is the way OF your own heart.
He who expands his house needs to have
a care not to contract his heart.
A resolution to go to heaven will not help
you much IL you get on the wrong train.
It's a difficult thing to lift up the man
who is down while you're trying to win a
smile from the man who put him there.
Many a man who prides himself on being
a law abiding person would be surprised to
see himself in the light of the law OF love-
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
THE CONVENTION SHOW,

One hundred thousand people trav-
eled varying distances from all parts
of the United States to be present as
spectators at the Chicago convention.
Nearly as many will make the journey
to Denver to look in on the democratic
It's ticket and platform. Personal in
terest in the aspiring candidates, or
private concern in the questions at
issue, or mere love of the political
game played on a large scale will ex-
plain part of The drawing power Of a
great nominating convention, but not
all of it. Another factor must be reck-
oned with, and not as the least, and
that is the perfection of the convention
as a spectacular show.
The making of a presidential ticket
brings together the leaders of the party
the men people read about-who
command the public eye. On no other
occasion do they get together where
they are exposed to open view in such
numbers and with such contrasts. So
far as actual proceedings are concerned,
a national convention is simply a
gigantic enlargement of the state con-
ventions, and district conventions, and
county conventions, with which most
people are fairly familiar, but by this
very enlargement a spectacularism is
added nowhere else to be found.
Twelve to fifteen thousand people in
one huge hall, changing from inert list
lessness to excited frenzy amidst un-
Quellable uproar constitute a spectacle
peculiar to American politics. At
every big convention there is talk of
clearing the galleries and making the
meeting a tamely deliberative session,
restricted to the delegates and neces-
sary attendants, yet the fact is that the
participation of the spectators is an
integral part of the convention insti-
tuition and without the %onlookers 1t
would be hardly recognizable as a
convention.
The big national conventions Of the
powerful political parties may undergo
further changes and may even give
way to an entirely different piece of
machinery, but in the present form the
show feature is all conspicuous and its
importance is not TO be underesti-
mated.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
THE OLYMPIAN GAME,

All nations which cultivate physical
courage, endurance, Drawn and skill in
athletics are particularly interested
just now in the Olympic games soon
to be held in London. American ath-
letes have carried off most of the
far held, and the team we are sending
t England this year is expected again
to bring back the championship Of
the world, although several of the
American representatives have been i'll
and the team is not up to the desired
standard on that account.
The old world experienced some
thing of a shock when the Americans
captured the honors at the first
Olympian games. The British sports
men, and athletes particularly, held
the opinion that their contestants were
certain to make a clean sweep. They
figured that British blood would tell
and that the long years of training in
the British universities had developed
lnvincibles in the athletic fields. They
did not believe it possible that a
mo~ney-chasing people like the Ameri-
cans had ever found time to foster the
love of physical beauty, strength, cour-
age and athletic skill that distin~
guished the old Greeks and made the
Olympian games in ancient times the
classic athletic contests of the world.
The groundlessness of this mistaken
assumption was discovered when the
contests were held and American ath-
letes took nearly every prize in sight.
Since then the American athlete has
had high standing in the respect of the
lovers of outdoor sports throughout
the world. If the Americans al not
capture the honors this year, the win
ners will know that they have beaten
world beaters.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
COPPER AND cABTooNIsT.

The police chiefs of the country,
recent annual convention of their ma
tional association, have made a merito-
rious, If futile, protest against the lib
critics taken by actors and cartoonists
with the humble policeman. The reso-
luton denounces the c~aricaturing of
policemen on the stage or in the pub
lie prints as calculated to work injury
in the public mind and to interfere
with the proper discharge of police du-
ties.
While thinking people will cordially
join in a demand for more tender
treatment Of the policemen, it is doubt
full if the illumination of the chiefs will
have the desired result. The custom
of poking fun at the copper is of long
standing. Some of the alleged funny
papers would be duh and Stale if they
failed TO picture the policeman flirting
with the cook or getting a fine meal
passed to him at the kitchen window
while the burglars are carrying the
silver out the front door. The surest
sign of the heated season is the picture
of the fly copper taking a glass of
foaming lager at the side entrance
while the %sergeant's back is turned,
Then there is the sketch of the 200
pound officer in blue making glorious
capture of the small urchin who has
pinched an apple from the fruit stand.
The companion piece to this is the
policeman sleeping soundly In a
shaded corner of the park while high
waymen are holding up pedestrians
and relieving them of their valuables,
All this, of course, is pictorial libel
because in real life the average police
officer has a keen appreciation of his
obligations as the preseTver of the
peace and as the foe of crooks and
criminals. TO an exceptional degree
policemen are honest, hardworking
and efficient. II may be, as charged
by the chiefs, that the caricaturing OF
the copper by vaudeville actors and
cartoonists tends to injure the police
mans standing and his work, but II
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05

will probably go on. The policeman
is the natural enemy Of the small boy
in the boys mind-and larger boys
enjoy his discontinue and revel in his
%undoing. This does not imply disre-
spect for the law nor personal objec-
ton TO its agents, but simply manifests
one form of American humor. The hit
at the copper may be as stale as the
stage Irishman with the pink whiskers,
the German monologist with double
bay windows, the mother-in-law joke
and a score of others of the old
familiar brand over which our grand
fathers laughed, but it still hangs on
and it will take more han a resolution
by the police chiefs to produce a new
line of jokes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
TIE PHYSICIAN IN POLITICS.

At the recent meeting of the Amer
lean Medical association one of the
leading physicians of the country made
an appeal to his fellow practitioners
to get into politics" for the special
purpose of securing better laws gov
erning the practice of medicine and for
various reforms in sanitation and dis
ease prevention, He urged that these
reforms would be slow of accomplish
ment if left to laymen, as most of the
legislation desired deals with technical
subjects and that the lay minds are
not easily convinced OF their import
ance nor the public prepared for legis-
lation which physicians may consider
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
A Novel Experience.
Boston Transcript.

Boston transcript.
The four hundredth anniversary OF any
event on the soil OF the United States will
be a novel experience for this country, but
that is what the Porto Ricans purpose 10
give US on the twelfth Of August in COM
memoration Of the launching of that island
into the worlds history by Ponce de Leon.
The peaceful conquest OF that attractive
possession nearly ten years ago by General
Miles may also be included in the memorial
exercises, as the United States will be
asked to send a delegate 10 the ceremonies.
It will be a four days program, observed
not only in Ponce and San Juan, but
in all the towns OF any size. The island
probably has now over a million Of popu-
lation. Business is improving, education
is becoming more general and If the Porto
Ricans are not se~lf-gOYerning they are
nearer 10 II than they ever were before,
a fact which they. seem TO acknowledge
and apprecial
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05

absolutely essential to the public well
fare.
The physician should be welcomed
into active participation in politics, al
though not for the specific reasons
thus urged. That argument, carried
to its logical conclusion, would de
mand the presence of school teachers,
plumbers, architects, railroad men,
merchants and special representatives
of every calling in our legislatures in
order to procure proposed reforms on
which they claim to have expert knowl-
edge. The need in politics and official
life is not so much for experts in spe-
cial lines as for men who possess
good intelligence, firm integrity and
sound judgment and have a keen APP
probation Of public needs. OF the
professional men, the physician should
be well equipped for a study of the
actual, living needs of the people. He
is the daily visitor to the homes of all
classes of citizens. He is often their
confdant and has many opportunities
to learn public sentiment. The physi-
clan may exert a great and wholesome
influence in politics and public life if
he uses the knowledge gained in his
practice, not merely in behalf of medi-
cal and sanitary reforms. but in use
full advocacy of reforms of all kinds.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
WHY HIRE A PREACHERF
Canned Sermons Follow Canned Music
in Churches.

I'm Churches.
Springfield CMassD Republican.
Canned sermons are TO be the fashion in
Chicago this summer during the vacation
season. Among those who favor the use Of
the monograph is Rev. Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, pastor OF All Souls church, who is
ready to furnish records" Of his sermons
to any church of any denomination which
wants them. He says: "A pastor who
wishes 20 take a vacation during the ex-
IRENE heated spell OF July and August can
regale his congregation with these sermons.
and I'll guarantee they will be interest
ing" Certainly the innovation is interest
ing. The up-to-date twentieth century
church, equipped with canned sermons and
canned music, will only need TO lay In
some praying machines fitted with electric
motors to reach a state Of automatic per-
lection. But have the preachers fully ron
sidered the consequences which might fol-
low this innovation they have so light
heartedly taken up? II Is all very well to
have an automati substitute through the
hot months. But suppose the machine
proves more eloquent than the MANI? Why
should a church pay $500 a year for ex-
cellent but wooden sermons when II can
listen TO great pulpit orators for a trlflIng
sum? We may yet see the preaching for
the whole country done by a h~alf-dozen
sllver-tongued speakers. constituting the
canned sermon trust, and undertaking TO
supply any brand Of doctrine that may be
called for. with a sideline in funeral and
wedding services. Any deacon can turn the
handle, and the line OF goods can be ex-
changed IL not satisfactory
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
Knocking on the weather.

The citizen who comes around hopping
his face with a damp handkerchief and
between puffs that are painful tells you
how numerically hot 1t is, ought to go to
Jail. The chances are that tho man to
whom he mentions the weather was fairly
comfortable q minute before the hot man
transmitted the suggestion of excessive
heat, but at once he feels like a wilted
cabbage leaf. Why don't people keep
their hot weather thoughts to themselves?
Possibly because misery loves company,
II is fine to ask and answer your own
questions-one can't quarrel with himself,
you know.