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Willmar tribune., 1909-12-22
Degree of Honor.

O6K10G O1 IIOIIU1e
Rosie Baldwin, G. of H.; Hannah
HarBon, L. of H.; Mrs. w. H.
Net theway, C. Of c.; Mrs. H. J.
Ransett, usher; Mrs. William
Ha&ett, inner watch; Mrs. August
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-22
Royal Neighbors.

Oracle, Gladys Fray; Vice Oracle,
katherine Johnson; Chancellor,
Nellie Collier; Recorder. Matilda
Bonle; Receiver, Ida Kent; Mar
shall, Nellie johnson; Inner Sentry,
Lizzie Brohm; Outer Sentry, Eta
Bartelson; and Manager, Jennie
Rogers.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-22

|. O. O. F.
Peter Sorenson, N. G.; A. O.
Fobserg. V. G.; C. c.. Selvig,
treasurer; Samuel Osmundson, Sec
retary. .....
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-22
M. w. A.

A o. Forsberg, V. c.; Oscar
Melbostad, w. A.; C. C. Selvig,
banter; N. B. Carlson, clerk; c. G.
Clayton, Escort; Martin Peterson,
Wat:hman; H. A. Ruud, sentry !;
Boald of Managers, H. C. Larson,
j. v. Kent and Oscar Settergren.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-22

A. o. u. w.
F. L. Smith. M. w.; A. F. Hans
com, foreman; P. L. johnson, over
seer; C. F. Spencer, Rec. Sec.; L.
A. Void, receiver; C. A. Nelson,
finarcier; C. w. Odel], treasurer;
Chris. Birkeland, inner watch, and
John Birkeland, outer watch.
Smith and Hanscom we're elected
delegates to the state convention
in s.. Paul in January, with Void
and Nelson as alternates.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-22

CONTINUED on last page)
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
sANLrARY WHIppING posrs.

A Maryland sheriff has furnished an
Illuminating object lesson of the man
ner in which enlightenment and bar
barism rub elbows in that state. Mary
land still retains the whipping post for
wife heaters, recognized elsewhere as
a relic of barbarism that should have
at least disappeared in company with
the slave auction block, but the Mary
land sheriff is right up-to-date on mi
crobes. germs, infection and all the
modern sanitary teachings. He does
not object TO applying the lash. under
orders of the court. but he is a stick
Ter for making public whippings SAN
itary.
Before whipping a prisoner re-
Gently the sheriff at Frederick, Md,
personally washed the mans back
with an antiseptic, to ward off dis
ease germs that might be lodged in
the whip, and also supplied the vic
tim with a medicated gauze shirt as
one more bulwark against microbes.
After the beating, the welted back
was again washed with an antiseptiC
and no risk run of dirt slipping into
the dashed lines. The prisoner was
cautioned against trying to treat his
injuries and was assured that the iaiI
physician would see to it that his
wounds were properly dressed with
due regard to all sanitary precautions
Even the most sensitive wife heater
could hardly fail TO appreciate such
~considerate treatment.
The sheriffs discriminating care in
such eases may lead to a general re
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
Personal T

From 5e above on Sunday at s p. m.
to 10 below at 9 p. m. Tuesday "sorter
indicates that the weather is going some
in the Omaha panama belt.
Eleven were killed in a riot due to at
tempting TO suppress opium traffic in
China, which was simply quicker than
letting them have the stuff.
Mr.. Carnegie is getting on slowly but
surely. The total of his 37,437,60O do
nations the last year is about double his
income from the residue of his
fortune. He is now n.
To live nearly 1O4 years with hardly a
day of sickness is the record Of Philip
Brushart Of Burlington, Mich. Four weeks
ago this aged man was taken i'll, and
Christmas day he was compelled to pass
his first birthday since reaching manhood
in bed.
Carefully packed away in several trunks
Lillian Russell has all the love letters
that ever have been written to her and
intends to publish them some day, but
the reassurtng statement is given out
that she will suppress the names of the
writer's.
Castro announces that he may live in
Berlin, although there seems no especially
pressing necessity that he live anywhere.
1t will cost the fleet about $3.50, 900 in
tolls to pass though the Suez canal, but
as al offset to this, just view the COM
pletely shattered record.
A case of autointoxication, a disease
rare in medical history, is being treated
at ST. Johns. hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Frank Sheridan, IL years old, ate food
containing sugar. The food did not di-
gest, but turned largely into alcohol. He
was attacked by commissions, but will re-
cover.
Sir Robert Hart, the veteran inspector
general of the Chinese customs, speaking
at a dinner in London recently. said that
once, in Picking, he sat out a banquet
that lasted for seventeen consecutive
hours. There were 1875 courses, and he
tasted them ali. Mr.. Ward, the American
envoy to China, who tried to secure an
interview with the emperor, Hieng-Fung,
in 1859, tells how he was entertained at
a dinner that lasted from noon one day
until s o'clock in the evening of the day
following.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
LICENSED TOOTH PULLING.

Legislation designed to prevent
quackery and the practice of the pro-
LESSONS by unskilled and incompetent
persons is all we'll enough in its way,
but Minnesota has a law. which has
just been upheld by the supreme
court, that appears to have carried
the proposed reform beyond the limit
of common sense. Under the Mime
sofa enactment a practicing physician
may o legally draw the tooth of a
patient when such drawing seems re-
quired, unless he holds a license as a
practicing dentist.
The effort that is being made. to
have that feature of the law repealed
at the coming session of the legisla-
ture should succeed. 1t is desirable,
of course, that proper restrictions
should be thrown around the practice
Of dentistry, but it is simply absurd
to prohibit a regular physician from
pulling the tooth of a patient, when,
as is often the case, an liberated tooth
may cause complications that would
hinder the cure of a more serious dis
ease. 1t would be just as reasonable
for a physician to be prohibited from
shaving a mans head, in order to sew
up a wound, because he does not hold
a BARRIERS license.
1t is the duty of the physician to re-
lieve suffering wherever he finds it,
and II il must be done by extracting
the tooth of the patient, no physician
will hesitate to perform the duty.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
LET THEM PASS AROUND.

One of the big cooperative business
governed by a board of directors, serv-
ing without pay, of whom o or five
are chosen each year, has before it a
proposal to amend it's bylaws to make
these honors pass around. To be more
specific, it is proposed to restrict the
election of directors SO that not more
than two of the outgoing members
may be reelected at one time, thus
insuring new blood in the managing
board and at the same time leaving
the way open for the retention of any
one whose experience or services are
deemed specially valuable.
1t seems to us that this excellent
suggestion for distributing the honors
citation is possible of much wider appli-
cation. In our own locality this is
the period for the election of boards
of directors and governors of the vari-
u clubs and organizations instituted
to promote various phases OF civic ac-
tivity. These clubs and organizations
have their membership recruited from
volunteers who enlist out of pure pub
lie spirit and their whole aim is to adj
vance public objects. And yet, every
time a new election rolls in sight we
see a lineup for the perpetuation in
control of the element or clique that
happens to be entrenched in the Off
cial places. 1t is always a fight of the
"ins" against the outs wherever
the "outs" have sand enough to put up
a fight, with the usual accompaniment
of charges of ring rule and talk about
a close corporation which dampens the
ardor Of the rank and file membership
and often impedes the work in hano.
We believe we voice a prevailing
sentiment in saying hat places on
these directories and boards of public
enterprise associations and clubs ought
to be passed around. The example
we have cited indicates one feasible
way for bringing this about and de-
serves serious consideration by the in
conspicuous people who want neither
self-glory nor patronage, but yet make
up the backbone of all our public en-
terprise organizations.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
THE LINcoLN HIGHnAr.


Senator Knox has introduced the
bill to construct a Lincoln memorial
highway from the White house in
Washington to the battlefield of Get
tysburg. A similar bill has been In
troduced in the house by Representa-
tive Pearre of Maryland. The meas
ure was originally planned by Con-
gresham McCleary Of Minnesota,
when he was second assistant post
master general, and has been cordially
endorsed as a proper memorial to
Lincoln, in this, the centenary of his
birth.
The plans for the proposed high
way include a paved roadway in the
center, with special paths on either
side for automobiles and other paths
for horsemen, the entire route to be
lined with shade trees and made as
attractive as possible, It is proposed
to have the different states participate
in the movement by planting their in
digenous trees along the route and in
making other improvements they may
decide upon The highway would
traverse the District of Columbia,
Maryland, Delaware and a short dis
lance in Pennsylvania. 1t would thus
connect the national capital with the
improved roads OF all the states TO the
north and northeast of II and eventu-
ally form the basis of a great inter
state system of improved roads.
The measur appeals also in a sem
timental way, connecting as the road
would the national capital and the
great battlefield of the war where the
tide of success turned decisively for
the north and where President Lin
coins immortal address was delivered.
If this were the only purpose to be
served by the construction of the pro-
posed memorial highway, there would
be little public opposition to it, but
there are other features connected
with the plan that will cause much
encouragement to its advocates. 1t
is reported that Washington real
estate spectators are already secur-
ing options on property along the pro-
posed route with the evident purpose
of turning it over to the government
at a big advance in price if the legis-
lation for the highway is approved by
congress. Again, there will doubtless
be strenuous objection to the federal
government entering upon any plan
of national highway construction for
fear of the pressure to secure the con
struction of roads at national expense
in other localities. 1t is probable
that congress would listen to a propo-
sition to bear the expense of that por-
ton of the proposed highway that
would lie in the District of Columbia,
If Delaware, Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania were to unite to build the rest
of the road. All will agree that the
proposed highway would be a proper
memorial to the great civil war presi-
dent, whom a reunited nation agrees
in honoring, though many will dissent
to the plan proposed of having its en-
tire expense borne by the national gov
eminent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
CLOUD DREAMS.

Out in a sunset sky,
Fair as fair could be.
A little crimson cloud
Sailed on a turquoise sea.
The day had been full OF care.
OF duties dun, of pain.
But that cloud adrift on its turquoise sea
Made life sweet with JOY again.
Man had been full of strife.
Souls had been i'll at ease:
But that crimson cloud on its turquoise sea
Waited the balm of peace.
Earth was sodden and cold.
Feet were heavy with mire.
But that crimson sail on the turquoise sea
Set heart and soul afire.
Trees stood forth all bare.
Fields lay drear and brown.
But that crimson sail on the turquoise sea
In beauty rare looked down.
AS with radiance it glowed
On that far-off western rim,
/ watched II as | stood
Out in the twilight dim.
And 1t seemed I was drawn apart
From all things sordid here.
And breathed in ecstacy
A diviner atmosphere.
1t is gone from the sunset sky.
That beautiful turquoise sea
With its crimson sail, but still they live .
In the heart and soul of me. ,
Omaha. -BAYOLL NE TRELE,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
when Imagination Fails.
Philadelphia Ledger.

|Fhlladelplla Ledger.
The modern world, close-knit by cable,
telegraph, telephone and postal facilities,
and still more closely united by the touch
Of nature that makes the whole world kin,
Is thrilled and sympathizes when over
whelming and appalling disaster betalls a
densely populated portion Of It; but for
tunately and mercifully, the human mind
Is not so constituted that it can compre-
bend the meaning Of the statistics Of the
desolation wrought, the human misery.
tTanscendlng human speech, Of sue a Sit
uation as that in the southern half Of the
Italian peninsula.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
Climax of n Tragedy.
Baltimore American.

or course, the claims of the living come
first. but there is something narrowing to
an ~ineradicable instinct of human nature
in the fact that Messina and the scenes
OF the recent earthquake shock must be
bombarded by warships, so that the COM
plete ruins of the place may make the
only possible burial Of the dead. The fin
ishing touch Is put TO the whole dreadful
tragedy in thus making the ruins of their
homes the only graves Of the unfortunate
victims.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Philadelnhia Record.

PhIIaueipTId TttCUIU'
When President Roosevelt started our
fleet OF battleships on their 'round-the-
world voyage he could not have anticipated
that they would encounter an earthquake.
The Mediterranean CONFUSION gives them
a great opportunity to show their mette
in making a fight against famine and
pestilence. They will not have to use their
guns. They will carry on their assault
with the aid of commissaries instead of
cannon. and make the suffering Italians
more Thankful than ever before that Chris
topher Columbus discovered America.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
From senate to Cabinet.

New NOrk Iribune.
The resignation of Philander c. Knox
from the United states senate in order to
enter the cabinet of President Taft will
break a usage which has become more and
more established in recent years. For
merry many senator's became advisers Of
presidents. But since 1889 there have been
only two such transfers-that Of John G.
Carlisle into Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet in
1893 and OF John Sherman into Mr.. Nc
Kinley's in 1897.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
Resum for the square Deal.

Following the refusal OF the supreme
court to entertain the governments appeal
in the matter Of that Lands fine Of So
OOO,O OO. the case goes back to the court Of
appeals for the Seventh circuit to fix a
standard of penalties for rebating. In the
interest of the square deal in the CONNER
cial world OF the United states the penal
ties enforced should be sufficient to break
up the practice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Congress has recognized the new
government of Hayti. In matters of
that kind congress has to act promptly
in order TO recognize each Haytien
government before it is overthrow by
the next revolution.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The Omaha city council has a new
member to fill out an ~unexpired term
of four months. That ought not to
be too long for a councilman to be on
good behavior, even though he be a
democratic councilman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Billy Bryan, p popular Missouri
railroad conductor, he's retired after
forty years of service. Possibly his
namesake at Lincoln plans TO equal
that running record.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

tossel; but you mustn't expect to put on
as much airs as some of the hired men
we've been meetln' up with.'-Washlngton
Star.
Aunt Miranda Cat her city niece's we'd
ding). What is that inscripshun, Silas, on
that there butter plate2
Cynical Uncle-Looks to me like For
Butter or Worse.-Harvard Lampoon.
He-These glasses give me a very intel =
lectual appearance. don't you think?
-She-fes. Aren't they powerful-Bosto
Transcript.
That vivacious Miss Couply certainly
makes the most of things
What makes you think SOL
why, | called on her last night and
she hasn't taken down her holiday mistle-
toe yet.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Photographer-LOok pleasant. please.
Sitter-Not on your lifcl I'm going tn\
send this picture to my wife. who is away \
on a long visit. and I don't propose TO
bring her back.-Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Mr.. Taft has protested against the
organization of Taft clubs in the south
and elsewhere. The president-elect
is not disposed to take advantage of
the opportunities to build up a per-
sonal party.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

A Kentucky judge is hiding in the
woods until the governor can send
troops to protect him while he pre-
sides at a murder trial growing out of
a feud. Church societies, however,
still persist in sending their mission
aries to foreign lands.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Castro is said to have accumulated
$780, 0O, 900 in nine years as president
OF Venezuela. That job is almost as
lucrative as having a contract for the
construction of a public building in
PENNSYLVANIA.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Philadelphia physicians do not know
what to do with a girl of that city
who has been sobbing constantly for
six weeks. Why not try the plan of
taking her to some other city?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The New York hotels and restaurants
are comparing records to show which Of
them opened the most cold bottles on the
occasion of the dawn of the new year. The
figures vary all the way from 5000 down
to a beggarly 100 quarts, with an incidental
record OF two gents and one lady who
got away with twelve bottles at a sitting.
No arrests.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Colonel Bryan has Joined the
Eagles. II there is any secret society
or ~fraternsl organization that does not
count him in its membership list it
should speak out.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The kaiser that he will
not make his usual annual visit to
England this year. He Toe not pro-
pose to appear in the royal drawing
room of his uncle's court wearing a
muZZle,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The copy reader wrote heading,
Alderman Takes a Bride" over a So
ciety item in a Pittsburg paper, but
the intelligent proofreader naturally
changed it to Alderman Takes a
Bride"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

A New York insurance mar wrote
a note to his wife telling her that he
was going to commit suicide at noon
and made good on the hour. She
will at least have the consolation of
knowing that he did not lie to her.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Speaker Pool is invited to see to it
that the legislative majority faithfully
frlhils all OF its platform pledges.
But which platform? Populist or
democratic?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Pedestrians need not cross the street
TO avoid the city hall tower, which the
experts insist is about to fall down.
The same experts have been having
the tower tall for from Ave to ten
years, but II steadfastly refuses to ac-
cotnmodats them
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The Chinese government is plan
ming a great system OF railroads to
cover every province OF the empire.
China muEt have a Har-Ri-Man in the
making.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

It will be decidedly impolite for any
one to say in connection with the pres
emit Nebraska legislature that there is
something brewing"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Confidence in good spring business
is general" say Dun's report. That's
the first harbinger that has been Of
fered to counteract the recent meteor
illogical consignment from Medicine
Hat
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The marines have been ordered to
Hawaii, The Hawaiians will now be
able to tell their troubles to someone
besides the policemen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Our amiable democratic contem-
porary at last trumps what The Bee
said more than a year ago with refer
ence to the unnecessary extravaganza
Of the state erecting a costly and sep
arate building to house the state his
torical library. For economical ad-
ministrative purposes the historical
library should be Joined with the state
library and both should have quarters
in the anne building, or the same
wing, of a new capitol building along
with the supreme court, for which the
state library serves as a law library.
1t is not too late yet to retrace the
missteps so far made.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Indianapolis News.
On the other hand. what should we think
OF China IL It were to show an inclination
to butt in when our own administration
saw fit to make a change in the cabinet?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Castro says that honor and duty"
impel him to return to Venezuela.
Honor and duty have been added to
his vocabulary since he left Venezuela.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
BE GOOD and Your BE Lonely"

Those restless Cubans mustn't count 100
much on the absence OF the United States
troops from the island. Il wouldn't take
I,ns 10 bring them all back again.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

How soon?" is quite as important
as How much?" in the Sicily relief
contributions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The Servant-You got cheated when you
bought that chiny vase, mum.
The Mistress-How cheated?
The Servant-Why, it's weak. 1t busted
all to smash the first time 1 dropped it,
Cleveland Leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
LINES.

Have you digested your good resolu
tlons?"
mo, but l think my little boys goa
has. He was eating my diary this morn
ing. "-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

1t is reported that congress has 49,
GOO bills before it. All OF us can
sympathiEe with congress at this
season of the year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Have you ever been cross-examined
before?" inquired a lawyer of a witness.
Have II" exclaimed the man. Didn't
/ just tell you I was married ?'-Philadel,
phia Inquirer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

A report says that all but four coun-
ties in Kentucky are now dry. The
impression prevails that all Kentucky
is chronically dry.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

New Jersey officials have started a
crusade against mosquitoes. About
June l the mosquitoes will begin a
war OF retaliation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

form in the whipping post methods
and possibly to an eventual disuse Of
the barbaric lash as a punishment for
the barbaric crime Of wife beating.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The dominant element of the demo-
Gratis in the legislature at Lincoln
seems to have something like a steam
roller of its own.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
STATE Of Nebraska. Douglas County. SIS:
George g.. Tzschuck, treasurer OF me
RE PublishinE 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 December, 1873, was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Every person who has tried to prove the
conditions amid which the least fortunate
part of a city's population live has been
met with the ane~cdote-probably a fiction
and assuredly not typical-of the benev-
client landlord who provided his tenants
with bath tubs which they used as ash
bins. Seventeen years ago the New York
association for Improving the Condition
Of the Poor established the Center Market
baths, the first cheap public bath house
in the city. The association was assured
that 1t was wasting money; the people OF
the east side did not want to be clean and
would not use the baths in the first
twelve months about 5000 Of these people
paid their nickels and enjoyed their baths.
Now the city has taken up the matter,
and there are eight municipal baths that
have cost over 5000, 900, and nearly Sl,OCO,-
900 has been spent on five more in Brook
lynn
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Our local weather man ia already
doing his best to make 1909 a record
smasher.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

Nat Goodwin has given half of his
income and property to his wife, who
appears to be a sort of a Mrs. c. o. d.
Goodwin.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

The weather man may have the
consolation OF knowing that the cold
wave came up to his advance notices.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07
Imagine what would happen.

Italy's earthquake zone would add
nightly TO the victories Of peace.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

City Editor-what do you mean by say
ing in this robbery story that Brown
was knocked down and relieved of a hum
dred dollars? Were you ever robbed your
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

In the speakership race Pool had
both the pole and the pull.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

There will be no mourning If winter
reports some morning soon with its
backbone broken.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-07

This is the season to test the fur
naces and the fiues. Take no needless
FIRE risks.