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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

Jean De Long, Aiusworth. Neb.
Irene Mccoy, Barnston, Ncb.
lIiiian Merwin, Beaver city, Ncb.
Mabel witt, Bennington, Ncb.
Agnes Dahmkc, Benson Neb.
vera Cheney, Creighton, NCb.
Hahn, David city, Neh.
Rhea Fretdell, Dorchester, Ncb.
Eunice Bodc, Fails City, Neb.
Ethel Reed, Fremont, Neb.
Hulda Lundburg, Fremont, Neb.
Marion Capps, Gibbon. Neb.
Marguerite Bartholomew. G~othenburg, Neb.
Lydia Roth, COS West Kocnig street, Grand
Island, Neb.
ella voss,. a. West Charles street, Grand
Irene Costello, l15 West Eighth street,
Grand Island, Neb.
Jessie Crawford, 400 West Charles street,
Pauline sc5"lt,e. ~ West Fourth street.
Grand Island. Neb.
Martha Murphy, s23 East Ninth street,
Grand Island, Neb.
Alice Temple, Lexington, Neb.
Ruth Temple, Lexington. Ncb.
Anna Nelson, Lexington, Ncb.
EdNthe Kreitz, Lexington. Ncb.
Alice Grassmcyer, 1915 G St, Lincoln, Neb.
Marian Hamilton, 1929 !. St, lincoln, Ncb.
Elsie Hamilton, 2029 L street, Lincoln, Neb.
Irene Disher, 2O3O L street, Lincoln, Ne5,
Louise stiles, Lyons, Neb.
Estelle Mcdonald, Lyons. Neb.
Milton Seller, Nebraska City, Neb.
Harry Crawford, Nebraska City, Neb.
Harvey Crawford. Nebraska City, Neb.
Lucille Hazen, Norfolk, Neb.
Letha Larkin. South Sixth St, Norfolk, Ncb.
Emma Marquardt, Fifth street and Madl-
son avenue. Norfolk, Neb.
Mildred T.. Jones. North Loup, Neb.
Hugh Rutt. Leshara, Neb.
Hester f.. Rutt. Leshara. Ncb.
Mary Brown, 1920 Boulevard, Omaha.
Lillian Writ, ass Cass street, Omaha.
Emilio Brown, 300 Boulevard, omaha,
Eva HcNdec, 44o2 Dodge street, Omaha.
Juanita Times, HG9 Fort street, Omaha.
Never COIN, SIG Georgia avenue, Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

HE BUSY BEES are beginning the nw year well, sending in good
stories. and also getting new Busy Bees join and send in stories
Some of the nw writers ire very young and it Is difficult fr them
Il to write as good or clever a story as the older ones, but the editor
is pleased TO hear from them and find the children so interested in
the page The holiday spirit of making others happy is noticeable in the hill
dren's Stories and if they have these good thoughts they are probably doing
some kind acts and are more thoughtful of their little paymates who aren not
as fortunate is most of the little Busy Bees.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

Ada Morris, 3424 franklin street, Omaha.
Myrtle Jensen, 29V9 lizard street, Omaha.
Gail Howard, 4122 CAPITOL avenue, Omaha
Helen HcuCk, los Lothrop street, Omaha.
Emerson Goodrich, 4010 Nicholas, Omaha.
Helen Goodrich, 40 ichola st, Omaha
Maurice Johnson, 1921 Locust ST. Omaha.
Leon Carson, 1l24 North FOrtieth, Omaha.
Wilma Howard, i722 Capitol Ave, Omaha.
Hilah Fisher. 1910 South Eleventh, Omaha.
Mildred Jensen, 2707 Leavenworth, Omaha.
Louis Raobe, 26O9 Uorth Nineteenth avenue
Mabel Sheifelt, 1914 North Twenty-fifth
Emma Carruthers, 8211 North Twenty-fifth
Walter Johnson, 2iO5 North Twentieth
street, Omaha.
Leonora Denison, The Albion, Tenth and
Pacific streets, Omaha.
Genevievc NJ. Jones, North Loup, Mob.
Madge L. Daniels, Ord, NCb.
Zola Beddeo, Orleans, Neb.
Agnes Richmond. Orleans. Neb.
Marie Fleming. Csccola, Neh.
Lolita Woods, Pawnee City. Neo.
Earl Perkins. Reddington. Neb.
Emma Kostal, 1916 o street, South Omaha.
Edna EMS, Stanton, Neb.
Ethel Ennis. Stanton, Neb.
Ina Carney. Sutton, Clay county. Ncb.
Clara Miller, Utica, Neb.
Mae Grunke, West Point, Neb.
Elsie Stastny, WILDER, Neb.
Alta Wilken, Waco, Neb:
Pauline Parks, York, Neb.
Edna Behling, York. Neb.
Mary Frederick, York, Neb.
Carrie b.. Bartlett. Fontanelle, Ia.
Irene Reynolds. Little Sioux, Ia.
Ethel Mulholland. Box II. Malvern, la.
Eleanor Mellor, Malvern, a.
Kathryne Mellor, Malvern. la.
Ruth Robertson, Manila, Ia.
Mildred Robertson. Manila. Ia.
Edith Amend. Sheridan, Wyo.,.
Henry l.. WOrRinger. care Sterling Remedy
company, AttiCa, Ind.
Fred Shelley, go Troup street, Kansas CITY,
Kan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

The Red and the Blue sides are starting very evenly under the reign
of the new king, Maurice johnson, and nw queen, Myrtle Jensen. Each side
won a prize last week and each side a prize this week, so the contest will be
more even than ever before. Prizes we're awarded this week to Helen johnson
of Lincoln, Neb, on the Red side, and to Ruth Ashby of Fairmont, Neb, X
queen of the Blue side. Honorable mention was given to Bessie jackson of
Omaha OIL the Red side.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

Ally MAY was not so very old
o so very big; but Sally May
was often naughty. One day
her mamma gave her 10 cents
and told her to get soma
bunanas for herself and iittla
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

Any of the Busy Bees may send cards to any n whose nan is on the
Postcard EXchange. which o includes:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

When you have an aching tooth
That must be pulled, you know,
To let another better tooth
In its old place 10 grow.
II you will keep your tongue away
From where the old tooth grew
The new tooth coming in, I'm sure.
Wnl greatly surprise you.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

OIL and Sugar prosecutions also are
being expedited.
Under the interstate commerce
laws the attorney general has actually
collected fines a%ggregating $32O,6OO,
and has various cases under the Hep
burn act pending before the supreme
court. Prosecutions for land frauds
and for violations Of the customs laws
give promise of being vigorously
pushed.
On the whole, the report is encour-
aging as t~estlfying to the vigilance Of
the Department of Justice in seeking
to control corporate attempts at re-
straint of trade and other injustices,
and the coming year will doubtless
bring final decisions determining the
force of both the antitrust and inter-
state m acts, for the various
test cases now pending, some of which
have gone seriously against the people,
will then have been decided by the
court Of last resort.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

1t is to be regretted that the opera
tions Of the immigration bureau in its
efforts to suppress the importation of
immoral could not have been
carried on without publicity. The
spreading through the public prints of
such knowledge can serve no good pur-
pose, and the work of the immigration
agents would not have been seriously
hampered IL their operations and dis
coveries had been kept in close official
secrecy. Some matters are OF such a
nature that their discussion should be
confined to the clinic, and not be par
AIDED through the press. But this un-
savory morsel was too promising for
the yellow journals to overlook, and so
the revolving details have been spread
as widely as the circulation Of the SEN
sational newspapers could do it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12

President Taft's message contained,
among its most interesting features,
urgent recommendations for the adop-
ton Of practical reformation in the
procedure before the courts, to the end
that justice may be more expeditiously
administered and rights OF litigants in
civil cases and OF defendants in Grim
inal cases more speedily arrived at
than is at present possible. The pres
ident characterizes the present practice
before American courts as being ridic-
ulous in the extreme and suggests that
II has made us absurd among the pro-
gressive and enlightened nations.
Such language coming from a lay
mar might not carry conviction with 1t,
but from a jurist Of established renown
and a lawyer of international reputa-
ton It must be given weight. In this,
as in other things, the American peo-
pie have shown themselves 80 remark
ably patient in the enduring of incon-
v%enience that frequently amounts to
actual wrong, that they are more mar
veled at for their calm %forbearance
than for their wisdom. 1t is not
enough to urge that the mob violence,
so often resorted to and so much to be
deplored, is a form Of public protest
against the delay and uncertainty of
execution of criminal law. Far greater
hardshlps are borne perforce because
Of the uncertainty and delay OF the ad-
ministrstion of civil law.
The litlgant whose limited means are
not SUFFICIENT for him to pursue his
course through the devious and tortu-
Gus channels of the modern American
law court stands very little show for
either justice or equity. 1t ls not es-
pecially creditable to our system Of
judicature that the party with the
longest purse is the one who has the
most chance Of winning a suit. Yet
such is the case, and this is said with
out intention to question the integrity
or fairness of any Judge who has ever
or now sits upon the bench. 1t is be-
cause the judge in pronouncing his
Judgment finds himself hedged about
by an infnitude of precedent estab-
lished from the beginning, and APP
parently foreordained to direct his jul
dicial u~tterances, and to permit a
crafty or specious pleader to inter
minably prolong the litigation. Law
yers are but human, and it is hardly
to be expected that they will to any
great extent assist in demolishing their
means Of livelihood. And yet the
sblest lawyers of our country have
united in urging reforms that will sim
plify court procedure and shorten the
time between the beginning and the
final adjustment Of cases in court.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
Defiance of Nature.

New disciples in worthy causes fire.
~quently carry their zeal too far, and it
is possible to be mistaken in the appli-
cation of even such primary principles
as loose clothing and fresh air The
Pennsylvania Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Children is in the
thick OF a contest with two opponents
of the Greek idea over the question
whether bare legs, feet and shoulders
are humane in the case Of their little
child exposed to the raw winter eli
mate Of America. Most parents will
resent the idea Of a child being thus
treated. arguing hat the white race is
not able to endure the ~hardships to
which the native Patagonian is accus-
toned.
Such individual cases, however, give
their own answers. and it may be con
sidered that this particular child, hay
ing survived the snow baths inflicted
upon him at birth, has demonstrated
sufficient ruggedness to enable him Ia
continue to live in spite of his parents
violation OF such customs as modern
civilization has come to consider nee.
essary for the protection Of the body
from the elements.
Defiance of nature in a larger sense
is shown in the case of a Chicago
school principal, who suddenly became
seized with the idea that a zero gale
sweeping through the room would be
an ideal test for the fitness OF the pu.
pills to survive. She had the children
sit through the sessions with theil
street clothes on. while the lake winds
snow-charged, played merry tas
through the wide-open windows. Hei
rebellion against the rude interference,
Of the parents may readily be imag
ined.
Such al experiment was of cours,
the height Of folly. for in a mixed as
semblaEs OF children Of varied ante
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
Bounds for the River Bonds.

The waterways boomers have had
occasion to indulge in some sober re-
Elections in connection with their con-
gress in Washington, for they have
been shown that they must show the
national congress a definite basis in
black and white for their demand for
a bond issue to carry through the work
contemplated. They have come to a
realization that neither iunket nor ora
tory will open the cash box; what is
wanted is facts.
For the really substantial features
of the waterways movement the facts
ought to be readily p~roducible and
sufficiently convincing. Many of the
members of congress have personally
been over the ground and realize in a
general way the needs of the rivers
and the temper of the public concern
ing their development into important
channels of commerce. The president
has indicated the general tenor of the
feeling in Washington in the sugges-
vinced hat the popular interests back
OF the waterways project will give ade-
quate support to the enterprise after it
shall have been established. Having
the absolute data, there can be little
doubt Of congressional approval. but
an undertaking of such magnitude
must be started right. and 1t would
seem to be the initial duty OF the pro-
moters 70 have their fundamentals log
ioally prepared If they expect legisla-
tive sympathy to take the practical
form of bonds.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
The Dictatorial Star.

Out of Americas newly awakened
passion for grand opera has developed
one feature against which it is time
for the public which supports the en-
terprise to rebel, and that is the dicta-
torial attitude assumed by. the stars
as to the distribution Of roles.
Rivalries between great singers, par
ticularly among the women, have been
fostered by Weakened managers I'm
til nearly every important part is sub
ject to the caprice Of some prima
donna. The matter has reached such
a point that each songstress appears to
consider herself as possessing exclusive
rights in certain popular impersona-
lions, and whenever another singer Of
equal c~apability is chosen for the part,
her imperious highness says no, and
the fiat goes.
II would be just as fair to limit the
enactment of Hamlet, or Ophelia, or
Shylock, or Portia, to any one person.
An opera which has become common
property should have the same freedom
of presentation as a standard play. In
depreciation of art has no patent
rights, and there should be no more
restraint Of trade on the stage than in
any other channel. The public pays
the operate artist enormously, and is
willing to concede any individual pos
session Of a role written especially for
her and protected as the law provides.
But in the general roles which anyone
has a legal right to essay the public
is entitled to hear anyone who can ad-
equately present them.
In depriving audiences of a share
of these privileges the stars are be-
ginning to din their own brilliance,
and in lending themselves to such a
selfish suppression of rival ability to
enact the best parts the managers will
in time kill the goose that lays the
golden egg. 1t is high time to hear
less Of stellar privilege and more Of
public right.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
NJ BOILED DOWN.

This would be a foolish world but for
its fools.
Nothing shocks the big sinr,r worse h
little sins.
Confession is the hardest half Of the cure
Of some aults
Next to deserving praise the greatest
privilege is to give II.
No man has the gospel unless his neigh
bors are glad Of II 1t.
NO man is his w master who knows
nothing Of the obligations of service.
Nothing beside will confirm imaginary
principle like real profit from them.
The trouble with many who boast of
being square is that they nave so many
angles.
Gossip is the power to put two and two
together and make twenty-five out Of
them.
A dollar spent for the formation of
character is often worth a thousand on
its reformation.
They who would find perfection without
pain are looking only to put an edge on a
sword of lead.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
Folly in Wills.


o often wnen nan comes to con
template the distribution of his estate
through his will he injects into that
document the hatred which has en-
venomed his life, and frequently his
expression OF il takes whimsical form.
A case in point is that Of a western
young woman who was bequeathed a
fortune by her stepfather on condition
that she nurse his pet dog till his fiji
teenth birthday. This was the grim
deathbed jest of a man who was UNI
friendly to his wife's child.
For years the young woman has beer
pampering the dog, trying to coax it to
live the stipulated time. On several
occasions it has been at deaths door,
and is now again in feeble health, with
the goal some distance away. If it was
the testator's desire t. cheat the girl
of her fortune, he may yet fail; but he
has made the chase for it so much a
matter of mental torment that it is
doubtful whether the heiress will
relish it much when she gets it.
The lay mind, resentful of such
tricks of a dying mans malice, is apt
to consider that such freak wills ought
to be barred from probate; but to the
sermonizer they will continue to serve
as examples of mans tendency to
make sport of the comfort and feelings
of others even when he himself is fac
ing the king of testers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
PREACHERS WANTED.
Empty PuIpits in the south Seeking
Occupants.

Empty Pulpits I'm the south Seeking
Occupants.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The presiding elder of the Wilmington
IN. c. district of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, advertises for preachers,
mentioning two charges in particular. He
says;
| need preachers. The charges will pay
$500 to $3.50 and 5000. As there is no parson-
age on either charge and no house avail
able for a family, only single men can be
employed. Write to me, giving some pre-
siding elder as reference.
Under the conditions presented it is no.
surprising tina there should be an absence
of supply. But the Raleigh News and OBJ
server says that twenty five years ago
such an appeal as this would have caused
a sensation. Then circuits were some
times divided ito give work to the large
classes OF young men entering the minis
try Now the smaller pulplts beg for
takers and continue in many cases untitled.
The harvest is still large, but the laborers
apparently were never so few. But the
south in this respect does not stand alone.
Indeed, the conditions here presented seem
10 have arisen in that section long after
they began to appear In the north.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Boston Herald: What has orthodoxy to
say of the expressed belief that Bob Inger-
soil was Of eminent use to Christianity be-
cause his irreverence made men shudder
and hug their faith c~loser?" A Baptist
clergyman in New York said 1t,
Cleveland Plain Dealer: A minister out
in Missouri advocates sermons two hours
long, and this in an age that demands con-
else simplicity. We rave never heard the
Missouri pastor deliver one of his two-hour
sermons, but we fancy he might be able
to hold his congregation through tiff the
church doors were locked.
Boston Transcript: The Methodist clergy.
man In New York who celebrated his Tooth
birthday yesterday by preaching a sermon
seems bound to havo the last word. Still,
his record has been beaten. The late
Colonel Perkins OF Norwich, Conn, when
1Ol climbed three flights of stairs and de-
livered a spirited address before
a convention in that city.
Charleston News and Courier: The Board
Of Church and Labor of the Presbyterian
home missions of New York held a CON
ference the other day to discuss the ques-
ton of Sunday base ball. 1t is said that
while all the ministers present seemed in
favor OF Sunday recreation, they were
against Sunday base ball exploited for COM
mercial purposes" Much as they might be
opposed to charging any admission to the
game, they might be willing to pass around
the hat in q religious way. How would 1t
do IL they tried to attend to their own bust
ness Just as a recreation?
Baltimore Sun: Bishop Goodsell of the
Methodist Episcopal church, who die on
Sunday at his home in New York, was a
type of the strong, forceful, earnest clergy
men who have made the Methodist church
In the United States a power for good. A
mar of fine attachments was this dis
tinguished prelate-author, editor and
pl eacher. AS a pulpit orator he ranked high
in u church which has produced many elo-
quent, learned and masterful speakers. A
many of originality of thought and expires
sion, crudite, of strong convictions and with
the courage to uphold them, Bishop Good
sell was a notable figure in Methodism for
nearly half a century.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
ACTIVE SERVICE LURE THE MEN
Prospect of a Row Fiji the Recruit
ing offices.

New York Press.
Desertions from the army are giving UNI
easlness to the military authorities, while
the prospect of a little active service by
the marine corps in Central America
caused the marine recruiting offices to be
crowded by applicants for enlistment. Dur
ing the Spanish war assertions from the
army and navy practically ceased. The
morning after the news of the blowing UP
of the Maine was received 1t was impos-
slble to approach the gates of the Brook
lyn navy yard for the crowd OF young men
clamorlng to be enrolled as men-of-war's
men.
The American soldier, the American ma
rine and the American sailor have their
peculiarities. In other countries regiments
ordered abroad for duty not infrequently
mutiny. That is the season for desertions
over there. But when the American soldier
or sailor sees active duty ahead you can't
pry him loose from the service with a
crowbar. II is only when he is living
peacefully in barracks hat he deserts. You
might furnish an American soldier with
barracks filled with l~uxuries out of the
Arabian Nights and he would not be con-
tent unless he saw a prospect of active
service, n that pretty soon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
PROBLEMS OF LIFE.

What is It hat can make life blest
The weary frame says Rest"
And in that rest sweet solaoe knows;
The weary hands clasp in repose,
And weary wings at evenings close
Drop languid In some coZy nest,
And count that blest.
III is il that can make life Rlad2
An aim, more than some passing faAA
A bit of color in the sky
A kindly glance in passing by,
Perhaps, the twinkle Of an eyei-~
One moment rendering all IL had,
To make life glad.
What is IT that can make life dear7
A life or two to bind us here;
A little service to be done,
A battle to be fOught-and won;
some light ahead to cheer us on,
Some radiant Joy s~upplanting fear,
Can make life dear.
".
What Is It that can make life grehdf
A crash OF music from the band?
Some great and splendid works of art
Some actor in a hero'5 part2
All, no. one throh of human heart,
Which God alone can understand,
Can make life grand.
Omaha. -BAYOLL NE TRELB.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
Prosecuting the Combines.

From the annual report of Attorney
General Wickersham it is evident not
only that considerable progress has
been made during the year in the pros
ecution of combines, but also that i'm
portant steps are even now being taken
toward curbing monopolistic oppres-
sion.
Mr.. Wickersham regards as n of
the vital interpretations of the anti
trust law the supreme courts decision
in the commodities clause" cases. 1t
will be remembered that, while up
holding the right of congress to pro-
hibit absolutely a railroad engaged in
Interstate from carrying in
competition with other shippers com
modities in which II is personally in
terested, the court nevertheless decided
that this prohibition does not apply to
the transportation Of commodities
owned by another corporation, where
the only Interest which the carrier had
therein at the time Of such transporta-
ton, arises out of It's ownership of cap
ital stock in the corporation owning
the commodities so transported.
Mr.. Wickersham points out that this
decision does not necessarily determine
the application OF the statute to cases
where the commodities transported are
owned by a corporation, all, or sub
stantially all, of whose stock is owned
by the carrier corporation, and he in
dicates that his Office intends TO have
the question determined in its fullest
sense, remarking that IF the prohibi'
ton OF the statute car be successfully
evaded by the simple device of transfer
OF ownership of the property to a cor
poration, all of whose stock shall be
owned or controlled by the carrier
! congress should amend the statute sc
as to make It an efeotual and moi
merely an illusory prohibition, or else
repeal IT,"
Progress is reported in the cases OF
the so-oalled coal and powder trusts
and in the Union-Southern Pacific
merger, all OF which will soon be ready
for hearings. The st. Louis terminal
case, the American Tobacco compan!
appeal and ths Naval stores. STANDARD