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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Gentle Spring brought its overcoat along.
Wise Guy.
In the absence of natures handiwork,
Easter hats will serve as visible signs of
spring.
The winner of the last Marathon is a
Frenchman and a waiter. Chasing tips de-
velops uncommon leg power.
One advantage of a belated spring is
worth noting. The open car and the end
seat porker are still in the woods.
Nothing so effectively takes the starch
out of a star-bangled American patriot as
to drop into a town where horse cars
adorn the scenery.
Philadelphians appear puffed because the
country has not observed that a Marathon
was pulled off in that vicinity. 1t is really
worth while noting that the Quakers are
going some.
Owing to the extreme mildness OF the
winter and the unusual hardness OF the
ice crop. Chicago dealers announce q raise
OF 10 per cent, summer delivery. 1t is a
polite way of saying, I'VE need the
money"
Great happenings spring from slight
causes. A Chicago man issued a def to
the elements by coming out with a straw
lid circled by a green band. Then a storm
began that shook things from the lakes to
the Atlantic.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
M BOILED DOWN.

Picked piety always makes a vinegar
disposition.
Self-love keeps the life trampfng around
in a circle.
No church wins men when 1t seeks to
work them.
He who cDnsults only expediency soon
silences conscience.
A nan is quite likely to disclose his
conscience by his suspicious.
1t takes more than sharp angles to prove
that a man lives a square life.
The ~drudgery we call a drag may be the
counterpoise that helps us rise.
When the conceited man sees his shadow
he thinks 1t Is night for the world.
To use a great truth for wholly selfish
ends may be to make a great lie out
of It.
You cannot measure a life by the dis
lance between it's early poverty and its
later income.
Many who are proud Of their flow of
ideas forget that a half empty bottle
flows more readily than a full one.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Dust and tuberculosis.

Problems of human life are prob
lens of dollars and cents to the insur-
ance man. Nothing which adds to or
detracts from the sum of human exist
ence is overlooked by him. OF the
diseases which aflict humanity none
compares in the number of victims
with tuberculosis, and the investiga-
lions of one of the big life insurance
companies as to the causes of this NOR
tally disclose some interesting infor-
nation. The company Classics deaths
from this disease by the occupation of
the victim and the figures obtained
lead to the conclusion that one of the
most potent, If not the most potent,
cause is the dust which finds it's way
into the lungs of the victim.
Federal statistics and those of the
insurance company indicate that of
deaths from all causes of males over
Is years of age 14.S per cent were
from consumption. According to in
dustrial insurance statistics in those
exposed to metallic dust the rate was
36.9 per cent, 26.6 per cent in those
exposed to mineral dust, PAS per cent
among those exposed to vegetable fiber
dust and 32.1 per cent in those exposed
to animal or mixed fiber dust.
If these figures served no other pur-
pose than to fix the rates of life insur-
ance in the occupations involved they
would be of little real service, as the
industries of this progressive age will
be carried on no matter what the toll
in human life. The same investiga-
lions, however, disclose the fact that
this startling death loss is in a great
measure voidable. 1t is paid today
because so many factories are lily
ventilated and without provision to
prevent the dust which the worker is
compelled to breath. Expert opinion
holds to the belief that intelligent
methods can reduce the consumption
death rate among wage earners from
% per 1000 to is per 1000, which
would mean an annual saving of
22,23S lives-a saving surely worth
striving for.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Trusts in England.

In the stress of effort to throw off
oppressive burdens, people in m
country are too apt to overlook the
fact that other countries are suffer-
ing from the same ills, often in greater
degree than themselves. So vital and
absorbing has been the contest in this
country to curb the power of the
trusts, great industrial and railroad
combinations, that we have largely
overlooked the fact that other our
tries have the same problems and
lone has yet attacked them with the
same vigorous effort. %,
The solution in this country is ad-
mittedly only in its formative stage,
but a good start has been made. Some
abuses remain to be corrected and
thinking men concede that they present
a difficult problem, on who's right
solution our industrial future in great
measure depends. The political noun
tebank can fix it all with the wave of
a hand or by a stump speech, but his
remedy is usually more fatal than the
disease.
To those who are impatient at tho
seeming slow progress of government
tai efforts to control and regulate
these combinations in the United States
the following from a report of the
Manufacturers association of Great
Britain should prove interesting:
Manufacturers regard with increasing
anxiety the working arrangements entered
into between various railway companies in
Great Britain. No adequate steps seem to
have been taken by the Board of Trade to
safeguard the interests of manufacturers
and traders and the association will closely
watch developments and collect evidence
bearing on the matter. Likewise In ship
ping there continues to be a growth OF
rings" or conferences which aim at the
complete elimination of competition in
trade with certain markets, with the in
evitabIe result that freight rates have gone
UP to an abnormal figure and British trade
is seriously suffering from having to pay
more for transport to distant markets than
has the foreign merchant and manufac-
turer.
Perhaps before long the European
governments will help us develop the
true policy of dealing with big bust
ness organizations.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
HOW CATHEDRAL CHOIR SANG.

They sang OF dark Gethsemane,
The anguish, tears of blood,
me music signing solemnly Z % a, .r q
Lake winds through dreary wood.
They told how they took Him, led Him
away, . 7T' N ""
The trial. the scourging. the cross,
Inc great organ. mourned as a mother
mourns
Who grieves over her first born loss.
II.
They sang the Crucifixion hour,
The agony and death,
The music seemed creations woe,
In wailing, sobbing breath.
They told how that God so loved the world.
He gave His only begotten Son
TO save the lost world, and, as waters
The music told how the world was won.
III.
Gould we not watch with Me one hour?"
Forgive, they know not what they do!'
God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
Il thirst'-the Passion words thrilled
through
The song of the singers and organ tones,
We heard. oh we saw the Savior die,
Then out of the silence the music means
rs II nothing to you, all ye that pass
by?"
".
When He divided nations,
As shepherds do the sheep,
These pass to right rejoicing,
And those to left that weep;
The story the choir song told will be
The story of glory on earth, in sky;
1t will not be nothing to you and me,
Will be all, all to you, all We that pass by!
Omaha, April 10, 1909. LII b.. CAKE.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
SECULAR SHOT AT THE PULPIT.

Boston Herald: Requests from the pulpit
will be likely to fail in materially cutting
down the forest of flowers and plumage
next Sunday. Full joy without the Easter
hat is unthinkable.
Philadelphia Ledger: Pastors have Just
been advised by the bishop to pay their
debts. Possibly this will spur congrega-
lions up to the point OF providing some
thing to pay the debts with.
Cleveland Leader: A Philadelphia min
lister says he can take a 500 bill, a pad
and a pencil, and make a fortune in Wall
street" Other innocents have thought the
same. Hence Wall streets prosperity.
Baltimore American: There is a Chicago
minister who says he is going TO try and
save the souls OF millionaires. Religiously
speaking, he puts them in the same class
of needing missionary work as hoboes and
~drunkards.
New York Herald: According to Rabbi
Bandman of Philadelphia, King Solomon
was clever, but not wise, his forte lying
in solving riddles. coming phrases and
turning proverbs" It seems a pity that
this gifted monarc is too far in the past
to write the light-opera libretto Of the
future.
Baltimore Aemican: Bishop Doane wants
divorce persons to be socially ostaclzed.
This is a drastic measure OF which there
will be various opinions, but the recon.
mendation OF the remedy emphasizes the
fact that it is effective in cases which the
law cannot touch. There is no doubt that
II osttracism were applied TO many high
financial and social sins. the problems now
arising from them, would settle themselves.
II is a weapon which reaches the strongest
man and pierces the thickest hide.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Home Building and Prosperity.

No better evidence of the perman-
ency of the prosperity which Omaha
and this section of the west is enjoy
ing could be had than the amount and
character of the building operations,
not only of this city, but of the smaller
towns and surrounding country. There
is not a single structure being erected
which is intended to house a purely
speculative enterprise. In the CONNER
cial world we have evidences of ex-
pansion and engagements innumer-
able and new enterprises along well
established lines, but these are simply
responsive to pressing demands.
The most notable feature is the
erection of homes, providing not only
accommodations for more people, but
quarters more and more comfortable
than before. The poor and those who
used to live in squalor have not been
altogether eliminated, and it would be
too much to expect that they will ever
be, but the conclusion is driven home
to all who will observe, that the peo-
pie generally. are year by year, on
the average, living in greater comfort
and enjoying greater household con
veniences.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Time to Wake In.

It Is time for the people of Omaha,
and especially the business men of
Omaha, to wake up to the necessity of
seeing to it that this city and county
are properly represented In the legls-
lature.
Omaha every year spends hundreds
Of thousands of dollars to cultivate
trade territory and to cement a feel
ing OF friendship with the cities and
towns and rural districts of the whole
state.
Omaha holds it's annual Ak-Sar-Ben
festival for the express purpose of en-
tertaining visitors from surrounding
communities and making them feel
that we appreciate their confidence
and favor.
Omaha has projected and carried on
successfully the National Corn show,
designed to help educate the farmers
to more modern methods of agricul-
ture and insure prosperity on the farm
in which the city will later share.
Omaha sends out each year several
trade excursions to return in person
the friendly visits we receive from the
merchants an trades people who pur-
chase goods here.
Omaha annually en%tertains a score
or more conventions and meetings of
societies or organizations interested in
special work in commerce, education,
social reform and religious propa-
ganda and tries to keep in touch with
what is being done in these lines
throughout the state.
And then after this tremendous ex-
penditure of time, effort and money to
get closer to the people of the state,
we permit a bunch of disrepl tables,
~self-seekers, corporation hiTelings and
notorious grafters to go down to Lin
coin as our accredited representatives
in the legislature, to undo in a few
short weeks what we have laboriously
accomplished in years.
The Bee does not hesitate to say
that, with not to exceed two excep-
tons, the Douglas county delegation
in the late legislature could scarcely
have been worse. Instead of making
friends for Omaha and shaping legis-
lation to benefit their constituents,
their disgusting behavior and brazen
subserviency to corporation masters
antagonized and alienated the decent
membership of the legislature or
dinarily disposed to be fair.
Assuming that the r~oustabouts and
tricksters constituting the Douglas
delegation were truly representative of
the people who sent them there, and
that their fragrant misconduct was
typical of Omaha as a whole, the law
makers from the outside districts
simply refused to give Omaha any ON
sideration whatever or to place any
dependence upon the Douglas county
gang. Advocacy of a measure by the
delegation from Omaha came to be
equivalent to it's condemnation either
as a Doodle job or a corporation
scheme.
The Bee hopes the sad and costly
lesson will not have to be learned
again soon. 1t will take a long time
to repair the damage done to Omaha
by its Misrepresentation at Lincoln
this winter, ever il the reckless ex-
pertinent is not repeated.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
The Easter Festival.

Easter sentiment as symbolizing
the reawakening OF nature is as old
as the rae and with each recurring
Easter festival that sentiment grows
stronger in its hold upon humanity.
II has its origin in the Unborn instinct
that the hopes, the aspirations, and
the little of accomplishment of the
few years given to us on earth are
not the whole purpose of the creator
whose wisdom is exemplified in all
that surrounds us.
The symbols of Easter are but re-
Elections of those changes which ma
ture unfolds with the coming of spring
when whatever was apparently dead
once more becomes instinct with life
and the bleak landscape again takes
on it's dress of green. In the beauty
of the budding flower nature renders
its dumb tribute, while in songs of
praise man gives voice to the hopes
which nature teaches him are well
grounded-hopes not born of philoso-
ply or beyond analysis, but grounded
on the concrete evidence which nature
furnishes of their truth.
The symbolisms of Easter and the
thoughts which they engender must be
elevating and inspiring. The universal
observance of the festival furnishes
conclusive proof that the modern-day
world is not wholly centered in sor-
did and temporary things, but remem
bering the uplift of the past is still
seeking constantly for what is better.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Small Frog in the Puddle.

The u~nspeakable Castro is beginning to
learn that your Uncle Samuel has a long
arm, and that the dignified old gentleman
has ways of his own for resenting an in
suit. Castro. refused a landing on British
colonial soil because 1t would be disagree
able to the Hon. Samuel Starzenstripes
will surely begin to realize that an ex-
director of Venezuela is like a small frog
In a large puddle when he gets away from
home.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.

Mistress-Why did you leave your last
employer?
Applicant-Gee! You didn't expect me
to bring her along wild me, did yer?-
Cleveland Leader.
"All men are born free an equal, but
most of EN- get over 1t by gettin' mar
rted. Los Angeles Express.
Their honeymoon isn't over yet"
How do you know
well, IL was raining when he came
home tonight, but she didn't make him
stop to wipe his feet. Houston Post.
Hell suppose If | kissed you, you would
never speak to me again.
She-Why do you always look on the
dark side of things ?-Boston Transcript.
Maud Cat reception)-How wonderfully
composed Ethel looks this afternoon.
Belle-Naturally. 1t took her over two
hours.-Boston Transcript.
He-My dear. l should think you could
railroad that job of hair-dressing.
She-What do you mean.
Hell notice you manage It by means of
swltches.-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

was not paid for by the government,
as in the case Of Mr.. Healing.
Mr.. Bryan evidently thought he
could make some political capital out
of the Healing incident, but. again, by
jumping too hastily at conclusions has
plainly gotten off on the wrong foot.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Let Us he Cheerful.
Chicago Record-herald.

Mr.. Hartman insists that he and his as
sociates are anxious to obey the laws, and
he declares that he is not angry at people
who have begun suits against his railroads
for violations OF the interstate
act. All good people should join in general
rejoicing over the fact that Mr.. Hartman
is not provoked because of a failure on the
part of the government to extend special
privileges to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

A minister as chief of police is the
novelty which Mason City, Ia, will
present to the world. Here will be
an opportunity to demonstrate
whether the most pronounced critics
of present methods of dealing with
municipal problems have a more effec-
tive method for their solution.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

If Medicine Hat will keep a little of
the freshness which it is now sending
down this way until July and August
it will earn the gratitude OF the mar
whose winter overcoat is becoming a
little threadbare.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Mr.. Bryan's missionary work in
Texas in behalf Of bank deposit guar
anty is yet to bear fruit. If Texas fails
to enact the law demanded by MIR.
Bryan, he may retaliate by selling that
farm and moving back to Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

The Swiss government is debating
the ACCESSIBILITY of outlawing the merry
widow hat. When the first n was
imported and an attempt made to
bring in another it stuck out over the
border and threatened international
complications.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

It has been a standing problem in
this country what to do with u ex-
presidents. The only one possessed
by the United States just at present is
solving the problem without waiting
for the aid or consent of any nation
on earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

A party OF Chicago men accused of
swindling by the collection of $40, 900
for a de luxe edition of a book are
said to have jumped their bail bonds.
What the books were does not appear,
but the price has a decidedly de luxe
appearance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

A new law adopted in the state of
Washington makes tipping a misde-
meanor Evidently it is intended that
Seattle exposition visitors shall be able
TO retain enough of their money to get
out of town after seeing the sights.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

When the executors OF an Ohio es-
tate turned over $1.44 of a bequest of
$4,000 to the institution for which
it was intended the grand jury decided
that is not a fair divide. What do
Ohio people want, anyway?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Chairman Norman e. Mack's pro-
posal to publish a monthly magazine
as the oficial organ of the national
democracy looks like lese majestic to
Mr.. Bryan and his Commoner. Who
constitutes the democratic party, any
way?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

For a city which came out west at
the League of Municipalities meeting
to tell how a model city should be run
Baltimore is doing right we'll. 1t has
only developed three municipal scan
dals within the last month.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

to the anticipated heavy tourist move
ment. If this traffic, carried at less
than the 2-cent-per-mile basis in costly
sleeping cars, is worth the effort to
cur 1t, It would not appear that the
roads in this section at least could
consistently object to carrying local
traffic in day coaches at the 2-cent
rate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

The tariff bill as 1t stands retains
the duty on menu cards. If it will
deal gently with the dinner the aver
age man will willingly dispense with
the menu cards.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Democratic politicians are figuring
out HOW long 1t will be before Ne
braska will have another democratic
legislature. Turn the job over to the
astronomers, they are more accus-
toned to dealing with magnificent dis
tances.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Knowing his favorite pastime the
women who discussed stockings with
President Taft were doubtless smart
enough to revolve the discussion
around the golf variety.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

According to a professor of agricul-
ture an acre of water can be made to
yield more than an acre of land. Pos
sibly, If judiciously injected into
stocks and sold to an unsuspecting
public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

A charge of insanity has been pre-
ferred against an Iowa school teacher
because she wants to get married. On
that basis will not Iowa be working
the alienists overtime?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

A sentimentalist that one
touch Of spring makes the whole world
good-natured. But for all that no one
loves the umpire.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Mans Persistence Sure to Win.

The difficulties of aerial navigation prom
Use to surpass those experienced on the
high seas, but the persistence and ingenuity
of man may be depended on to overcome
them as successfully as he has those Of
the deep. At least there is an abiding faith
that thai will be the outcome of the present
struggle to bring a~eronautics to a prac-
teal basis,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Mig Lenks In the Tanks.
Chicago Tribune.

1t Is estimated that the profits of the
Standard OIL company amount to 6O,OOO,o "
a year, but a considerable portion of this
probably finds its way into general circula-
ton in the form of fees paid to high-prlced
lawyers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

II Omaha's worldliness has been
keeping the good people from the rest
OF the state away, the s o'clock clos
ing law should remove all objections
and bring us a big influx of country
cousins as soon as It takes effect.
Wait and see.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Here is a chance for the purchasers
OF foreign titles. Make Uncle Sam a
present OF a dreadnaught for the navy.
1t would be cheaper than buying an
impoverished count.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

1t is to be noted hat Nebraska's SUI
preme court commission has gone out
OF business, but not until the salary
appropriation had lapsed,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

After all the efforts of the legislature
In creating jobs for democrats it is au-
t~horitatively stated there are still A.
s21 hungry ones in Nebraska who can
Hot be provided for.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Lucky" Baldwin he was called in
life, and now his will, ~disposing of
$20,0oo.O00, has been probated with
out a contest. Who says there's moth
ing In a name.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

PnIIddeIpnId ItuBtT.
Navy officials, crippled through obeying
the order of ride horseback. should be
grateful that the order did not require them
to walk the light rope.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

A man named Kouwenhovenberg re-
Gently won a clay pigeon shooting
match in New York, Probably the
name struck them forcibly.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Debts no bar to matrimony is the
decision of a California court. II they
were the market for American heir
esses would be seriously impaired,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

n flowers that bloom in the spring.
ira la, have nothing to do with the
case.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

A Massachusetts man has invented
a machine which he asserts will i'm
mediately detect an untruth. 1t is not
a political machine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

The small boy will readily agree
with the conclusion of congress to put
a tariff on shingles.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

One after another come the rail
roads with announcements of addi-
trains to handle trafic incident
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Presumably no n will take a chance
this year on sending a complimentary
case OF Nebraska brewed book to the
executive mansion at Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

STATEMENT or CIRCULATION.
state OF Nebraska, Douglas County, ss:
George B. TZschuck, treasurer of The Bee
publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number of full and complete
copies OF The Daily. Morning. Evening and
sunday Bee printed during the month OF
March, 1903, was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

peals Of the great state of New York,
which has blazed the way to this great
reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
subscribsrs leaving the cit, tenn
iporarily shOuld have Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed an often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

"All men are born free an equal, but
most of EN- get over it by gettin' mar
1ed. Los Angeles Express.