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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

Peking, the title OF "sincere and Loyal
S%preader of Civilization" %intimating
to him that It was his sacred duty to
hike back to Tibet and get busy on
the job Of spreading civilization. So
the Dalai Lama started back with his
small army, greatly to the relief of
the Chinese imperial authorities, who
were finding the grocers' and butch
ers' bills becoming unbearable, to say
nothing about the feed for the horses
and camels.
Possibly great good may come from
the imperial snub. On his way back
to Tibet the Dalai Lama will feel that
he must open his lands to the hated
foreigner and submit to the foreign
er's ways With this concession Tibet
will be opened to the world and CIV
ilization will have established another
outpost.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
ROOF on puAL eovERNMENr.

ROOT ON DUAL GOVERNMENT.
The address OF Elihu Root to the
members Of the New York legislature,
making acknowledgment for his cleo
ton as United States senator. reiter-
ates and expatiates his views on our
dual government, which attracted spe-
cial attention when similarly ex-
pressed at the Natural Resources on
ference a year ago.
Mr.. Root has no fears whatever of
too great Capitalization resulting from
the exercise of power by the federal
federal government by the constitution,
except from the failure of the states
to do their full duty in performing
the functions properly devolving on
them. The danger. as he sees It, Is
not that the federal government may
reach out and usurp powers belonging
to states and thus weaken and de-
stroy state autonomy, but that the
states will be constantly seeking to
have the federal government do things
which they, themselves, should pro-
vide. His way to eradicate the "twi-
Light zone between state and federal
Jurisdiction is for the states and the
federal government both to occupy all
of the ground and exercise all of the
powers each within It's line Of demarca-
ton as originally contemplated by the
founders of the republic when they
framed the federal constitution.
To many it will seem strange to
have this defense of the states rights
doctrine made by such an uncom-
promising champion of a strong CEN
trail government. Everything de-
Ponds, really, upon the point of view.
The old states rights advocates would
destroy the national authority by
making the states paramount, while
the extreme centrallzationists would
make the states mere administrative
districts. Mr.. Root and those who be-
lieve with him, and who we have no
doubt constitute the vast majority of
our people, would maintain the dual
government of our fathers, making
the national government voice and
represent the national spirit and keep
the states as active agencies in the
performance of state functions without
subordination or conflict of authority.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

There are several large holes in Medicine
Hat. Maybe the lid is off.
"A distinct seismic disturbance" is loafing
around Central Asia, too modest to make
it's presence known to the natives.
One automobile factory reports orders for
new machines worth $50, 900, 900, which
proves that prosperity is going some.
The favorite motto of food Gamers,
Heaven preserve u.s." is turned to the
wall. Benzoate of soda win do the biz.
The report of the discovery of 3O1 ways
of eating corn from the cob has only. d
melancholy interest for the owner of store
teeth.
The simplified Spelling board, in its third
round with the dictionary, paralyzed a
whole raft of words. The dead letters
would stock a new cemetery.
II there is anything in the brand Of
weather now on tap justifying an advance
in the chief weatherman's salary the oldest
inhabitant and others would appreciate a
peep at 1t.
Persons disposed to criticize the federal
supreme court should pass up irritating re-
marks for the present. The August judicial
body has troubles enough in solving the
problem, What is whisky?"
A new version of the soul mate business
cropped out in a Philadelphia divorce case.
The soul mate in the case was one OF the
astral variety, beyond the reach of human
chastlsement, but sufficiently attractive to
WOO the wife from her poetic husband. The
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
SERMONS BOILED DOWN..

True friendship Is always richest in days
Of greatest need.
It's no use signing for a chance to lead
II you dare not go alone.
Out OF deep sorrows come high powers
to comfort and strengthen.
You get much instead Of men when you
offer them only soft places.
It's no use wasting blows on the man
who is afraid Of being hurt.
1dleness makes the hours YEARLY long
and the days woefully short.
The mark Of a heavenly blessing is that
It ignores our earthly boundaries.
The man who is liberal in his faith Is
not always the same In his finances.
Sometimes We need tides of grief to carry
us over the bars of our dull content.
He can never know any deep Joy who
can laugh at the sorrows Of another.
The only way to get all the happiness
in life is to give for the happiness of all.
The man who bangs his head against
hard facts feels his bumps and calls them
faith.
II you would make sure OF your sins
being fruitful bury them under a pretense
Of piety.
The devil is worried by the people who
work for the good, not by these who worry
over him.
There is always a greater benefit in en-
during my own pain than in envying an
others pleasure.
Some religious engines are run with all
THE steam on the brakes and all the air In
the cylinders.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Cleveland Leader: President-clect Taft
says that without such moral forces as the
Young Mems Christian association there
would be SO much Generalization on the
istl'mus that the canal would never be
built. Who can even guess the industrial
value of the churches?
Cleveland Pain Dealer: A keen sighted
Clergyman has discovered that there were
two. men OF the name of Ananias mem
toned in the Bible. and that one was a
person of excellent character and 'conse-
quently free from the habit that caused
his namesake's downfall. This is further
proof of the fact that one bad egg will
draw far more attention than eleven good
ones:
New York Post: Cardinal Gibbons has
rendered another valuable service TO Mary
land and the country at large by coming
out squarely against the DISTINGUISHING of
the negro by means of the amendment to
be submitted to the voters next fall. II
have no hesitancy,' declares the cardinal,
in saying that l believe 1t to be both I'M
just and impolitic." Unjust he finds It be-
cause 1t is designed to deprive a certain
class of his fellow citizens Of rights duly
conferred upon them by the highest law in
the land, and impolitic because 1t Is in the
end certain to injure the democratic party,
which favors It.
Boston Herald: Edward Everett Hale,
the Boston pioneer in the use of Sunday
for the discussion of civic problems. must
be satisfied with present conditions in
orthodox and heterodox circles. Ford hall,
In the Baptist UNCONVENTIONAL headquarters,
is overrun on Sunday evenings with people
who clamor to hear social problems dis
cussed. Tomorrow the Central Consrega-
tional church opens a similar noon course.
and at Parker Memorial in the evening an
elaborate course of lectures and confer
ences will begin, to last eight weeks, and
planned especially for the training Of young
voters. From the modern standpoint it is
the church adjusting itself to the ethical
leadership of men to whom religion in its
more conventional forms. does not appeal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Expressing Popular VIII.
Boston Transcript Gep.).

DV"FVH HEREWITH WEpVs
The Nebraska Legislature, the press re-
ports declare. will soon vote to adopt the
Oregon plan" OF electing senator's. Cham
berlain's success was sure to give 1t i'm.
petus. So long as It's obvious purpose is to
get into the senate the oman whom the
largest number Of voters desire 10 have
there, il is hard to c~riticise any state for
adopting 1t to the displacement OF plans
which In only a lesser degree accomplish
this. Massachusetts, has found no diff
Guilty in expressing the popular will
through the method provided by the con-
stitution. but states which nave a different
Hence are utterly justified in adopting
the Oregon device for making the peoples
viii effective.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
THE FOG.

Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent Brit
ish scientist, has been granted permits
sion and full authority to test an in
vention which, IL successful, will be
fully as valuable as that of wireless
telegraphy In aiding victims of fogs.
In fact it will make such uses of the
wirelss telegraphy as hat employed
in rescuing the passengers of the
Inflated Republic unnecessary by re-
moving the natural element that
causes such disaster. Sir divers
purpose is to dispel fogs and his first
experiments will be conducted in Lon
don, the storm center of the fog in
dustry.
The invention of Sir oliver Lodge
is designed to discharge into the fog
laden atmosphere a strong current of
high voltage electricity which is ex-
pected to act directly upon those in
initesimal particles Of matter that en-
ter into the composition of a fog and
jar them from their atmospheric
moorings. The electricity will be dis
charged from poles which carry a Sc
ries of disks, the distance between the
poles to be determined by expert
ments. The inventor believes that
these particles of matter will be
shaken up by his device until they
fall into the street in the form OF
'black snow" For a preliminary test
of the invention, made in Liverpool,
1t is claimed that a discharge from a
single pole cleared he atmosphere for
a radius of sixty feet. On the strength
of this test the London authorities
have granted Sir Oliver permission to
conduct a series of tests in London,
with the assurance that II his inven-
ton proves successful it will be
adopted for general use.
The fog has come to be looked upon
as an integral part Of London and has
dehed all attempts at displacement.
Statisticians have figured the loss to
tradesmen. shipping and other inter
ests from London fogs at hundreds OF
millions of dollars annually, and ii
Sir oliver Lodges idea proves prac-
teal and practicable 1t will be the
greatest invention In the worlds his
tory, so far as London is concerned.
Sir Oliver is confident that his inven-
ton may be adapted to steamships
and used to dissipate the very gravest
danger that confronts the navigator
and n ocean travellers.
Hopeful as we may feel about the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

adopted at the present session Of con-
gress. This plan is to have CONGRESS
buy the ground between the chpitol
building and the new Union station,
a stretch OF some six or seven blocks
in length and two blocks wide, for a
colonnade of great pillars of stone,
rooted over and forming a covered
walk from the capitol to the Union
depot. with a monument to Lincoln
in the center of the roadway, park
way or rainshed, Whichever the con-
gresham may decide to call it..
Speaker Cannon favors an appropria-
ton of $1,000, 900, to be rushed
through congress before February IL,
Lincoln's birthday, for carrying out
the project.
The objection to the congress plan
is that it would put the memorial in
a space inadequate to hold 1t, where
it would be dwarfed by the capitol
building and the Union station. The
president has urged that the entire
proposition be referred to a commit
tee of architects and landscape artists
for their report. Whatever plan be
adopted, the memorial should be on
structed in accordance with the gen.
eral plan for beautifying Washington,
even If to do so requires further re-
tarding a project already too long de-
layed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL MIxUP

Plans for a Lincoln memorial at
the national capital are facing a dead
lock, with some promising indications
of a nasty fight over a proposition that
should be considered with the spirit
of fairness, charity and common sense
that characterized the man whom the
nation desires to honor. That the ma
ton should do something fitting in
Lincoln's memory in this, the eel
tenary of his birth, is generally &C
cepted, but there will be keen regret
If the plan for a lasting monument
can not be agreed upon without an
other unseemly wrangle between the
president and congress.
I The president favors the erection of
a memorial to Lincoln, directly across
from the mansion house at Arlington
and IN line with the Washington mon
ument and the improved mall which
extends past the stately department
buildings to the base of the capitol.
This proposition has been endorsed by
the American Institute of Architects
and by the commission appointed in
1901 to prepare plans for the perma-
nent park system OF Washington. The
style of Ahe proposed memorial has
not been fully decided upon, but it is
recommended that it take the form
OF a great portico of doric columns.
rising from an unbroken stylobate.
The columns would be forty feet high
and the entire portico $50 feet in
length and 220 feet wide, surmounted
by groups of sculpture and crowned
with a statue OF Lincoln. Surround
ing the memorial and framing 1t
would be linden trees, planted four
rows deep. to form a peristyle Of
green, from which to radiate various
avenues centering upon the memorial
itself.
Opposed to this highly attractive
plan is the Cannon plan. so-called be-
cause endorsed by the speaker. who
is using every influence to have It
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
wANDERNGs OF THE DALAI LAM A.

WANDERLNGS OF THE DALAI LAMA.
Apparently there is no longer n
place in the world where civilization
halts, where a relic of bygone times
in the form of a nation or people may
be allowed to live the life of a re-
cluse. Even the Dalai Lama OF Tibet
has peer inoculated with the virus of
progress and 1t promises to arouse
him from a lethargy which has held
him and his people there on the roof
OF the world since the gray dawn OF
history.
The causes for this last awakening
are by no means on the surface. Four
years ago Colonel Younghusband
marched into Lhasa, the capital of
Tibet and the center of Buddhism,
and made himself somewhat at home
in a city that had always been barred
against the world. Until that time
white men had never been permitted
in Tibet. The Dalai Lama considered
that the sacred city had been profaned
by the visit of the British and he
promptly organized a pilgrimage to
Picking to protest to the Chinese gov
eminent against the invasion. Con-
sidering himself something nearly
godlike, the Dalai Lama expected to
be heralded as such in his progress
across the country toward the court at
Picking. With a a composed of
ia persons, 40 horses and 700
camels. he wandered from monastery
to monastery and from city to city
across the Monaghan wastes and on
to Picking, being received everywhere
with more or less exaggerated respect.
But China has been catching step
with advancing civilization in late
years and the Dalai Lama somehow did
not impress the government at Picking
in any awe-inspiring tanner. He was
entertained at first. then tolerated and
finally given a delicate hint that it was
about time for him TO take his anti
quated parody on royalty and go home
with It. OF course the Chinese au-
thorities did not put It in those words,
but, on the contrary. they bestowed
upon him. with all the ceremony
characteristic OF the imperial court at
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

About the last official act of Elihu
Root as secretary of state was the
placing of a capstone on his great
work in the interests Of international
peace by signing the arbitration treaty
with Brazil. He has succeeded in
making similar treaties with twenty
four different governments, bringing
the United States into friendly agree
ment with all the powers for the set
Element of ordinary disputes. Blessed
is the peacemaker.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

latter hung his blooming Lutte on a willow
and hiked for the divorce mill.
An amateurish disciple OF the manuel
movement, challenged by doubters to try II
on a sick mule in Cleveland, was given q
unique sign of thought transference when
the mules heel csressed the solar plexus OF
the faith-healer.
/ Paint manufacturer in Indiana object to
a bill making 1t unlawful to sell paint that
is not up TO the standard. All their product
Is standard, OF course; what they dislike Is
the implied doubt of the purity of their
canned intentions.
Old Boreas knows his business. with an
excess of 44 degrees of heat in this section
since last March, It is apparent he must
work overtime to bring the record to the
mean level. From mean to meancst isn't
much of a blast for o. b.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESS.

RESPONSIBILITY OF III +
The transfer of the proceedings
against the New York World growing
out of the alleged Panama canal libels
from the federal courts at Washington
to the state courts of New York is
unquestionably the right and proper
thing If the subject matter requires
judicial probing. This transfer is en-
tirely in line with the answer given
by the editor of The Bee to the
Worlds request for his opinion
printed in the World, as follows:
I do not believe the law of criminal libel
should be used by the government to in
terfere with the freedom of the press,
but that the press should be held re-
sponsible only for abuse of such free
dom. 1 believe 1t is a vicious precedent
to force the publishers of a newspaper
issued in New York to defend a libel suit
either in the district of Columbia or In
Nebraska. Whatever proceedings may be
justified should be instituted at the place
where the newspaper is published and un-
der the laws governing there.
Responsibility of the press should
apply dllhS W uCWopdpOI puphShCAob
big and little and wherever located.
When the publisher of a small weekly
printed at Gretna, Neb., was dragged
to Omaha for trial on a far-fetched
libel charge, The Bee protested vigor-
ously against 1t as a judicial outrage
and laid down the same proposition
that a newspaper editor should have
the same right of trial by jury at the
place of the alleged offense that is &C
corded others charged with law VIC
lation. II Editor Pulitzer is to be
prosecuted fol, criminal libel, or Ed
tor Hearst to be sued for civil libel
because of offensive or damaging pub
locations in their New York papers,
the suit should be brought ip New
York courts.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
SToCRMEN SEE A LIGHT.

The resolutions adopted by the Ma
tional Live Stock association in an
nual convention at Los Angeles con-
tain a striking illustration of the
change of sentiment that has taken
place in the west within the last two
years on some of the Roosevelt poll
cies." From being the most bitter
critics of the forestry policy adopted
by the administration, the stockmen
have become its most enthusiastic
champions.
At the conventions of the associa-
ton in 1907 and 1908 practically the
entire membership was arrayed
against President Roosevelt, Secretary
Wilson and Chief Forester Pinchot.
At the Denver meeting last year reso-
lutions were adopted d%enouncing the
whole forestry policy, particularly as
it affected the grazing rights in forest
reserves. Delegates who sought to
defend Mr.. Pinchot and his forces
we're hooted from the floor and con-
siderable sentiment was worked up
against President Roosevelt, Secretary
Wilson and the entire republican ad-
m~inistration.
The rapid development Of the forest
preservation plan has, however, had an
impressive effect upon the stockmen.
In proof thereof the Los Angeles con-
vention has adopted resolutions thank
ing President Roosevelt for all his eff
forts in behalf of the live stock indus
try, endorsing Secretary Wilson and
asking his retention in Mr.. Taft's cab
met, and heartily approving "the ad-
ministration of the forestry service
under Mr.. Pinchot as having been con-
Quoted along practical and business
like lines with a view to obtaining the
greatest use of the forests consistent
with their preservation"
The stockmen have been directly af-
fected by the forestry preservation
policy more than any other class ex-
cept the timber barons and their re-
sentiment against the administration
vas intense and vociferous at the out
set, when the forest reservations were
closed for grazing purposes except un-
der the. most stringent regulations and
restrictions. Yet the brief time that
has elapsed since the adoption Of the
policy has been sufficient to convince
the stockmen that their best interests
will be subserved by the proper care
Of the forest, with It's ranges, the re-
suit being to increase the grazing IA
cilities from year to year instead OF
having the ranges within the forest
reservations destroyed by overgrazing
as have been the public ranges gener-
ally. The action of the convention Is
most significant. assuring the co.
operation of the stockmen in the gov.
eminent forest policy instead of theii
opposition, which has heretofore been
one of its most serious obstacles.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Mr. Meek-Dld you trump my ace2
SONG OF THE PLUMBER.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Heigho for the chilling winds that blow!
Heigho for the frosty nigltsi
Heigho for the weather Two below" and
the wind that nips and bites!
Heigho for the days I'll shortly know,
when the plumber gets his rightsI
Then here's to the plumber,
Come drink a drop,
And here's to the tools
l leave at the shop.
And here's to the pipes
That burst for me-,
And the time when the plumber
VIII happy be!
leigh for the hurry calls I'll get! Helghc
for the task that's mine!
leigh for the bath room soaking wet. a
plight that l count divine!
leigh for the tools that l will forget!
Heigho for the busy sign!
Then here's TO the plumber,
Thu plumber bold.
Here's to his solder,
And here's to his gold:
And here's to the pipes
That will burst some day.
Heigho for the plumber,
That all must pay!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Irving Washington (wiping his lips)-
That was really the sweetest kiss / have
ever had"
think so. Irving; my face powder gave out
and l used confectioners' sugar.
link has got a new typewriter: It vii,
mo, it WON'T! 1t may. 60 in Jinx'l
pocket, but I'm married.'-Houston Post.
she-women have cleaner minds than
men, anyhow.
He-Naturally. Look how much oftenel
they change them.-Philadelphia Record
Happy Bride Con wedding tour)-You saw
we are coming to a tunnel. Harry? Is it a
Bridegroom momentariiy depressed 80
Yes, entirely too long. The conductor tell'
me they light UP the cars before enter
ing it.-Chicaso Tribune.
Said He-Young smythe and Miss Browne
are evidently In love with each other.
said ShenJudgins by the way they look
don't. look at any6ody else.~wssRInston
Herald.
"What possessed you to engage yourself
to such a very timid and shrinking man?
That's It,"
What's it?"
He did shrink so every time one looked
at him I thought 1 could get him at a
reduction Baltimore American.
Mr.. Meek-Dld you trump my ace2
Mrs. M.-Yes. What of It?
Mr.. M.-N-othing, my dear. I'm glad
It was you, II one of our opponents had
done II we'd have lost the trick-Cleveland
Leader.
why did she marry him? What a withered,
insignificant little specimen he is!
Fan-That may be, but she picked him
from a magnificent family tree.-ChicagG
Il III
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

We learn from a Mobile, Ala, paper
that the lynching of a negro early Sat-
urday morning but slightly disturbed
the usual serenity of Mobile past the
midnight hour" The same authority
reports that the man was killed "by
parties unknown to the coroner's
jury" Those Alabamians take their
pleasures quietly and do not allow
them to interfere with business.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
the Duke Would shine.

Charleston News and Courier.
The report comes from Paris that the
duke of Abruzzi will abandon his ducal
and naval honors to marry his sweetheart.
Considering that he may, II he wish be
promoted to an American citizen, the sacri-
flee is not great. AS one of the plain people
the duke would shine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

success Of the fog shocker and the
electric cleanser Of a dirty atmosphere,
It will not be difficult to restrain en-
thusiasm until some actual results
have been scored to the credit of the
inventiou. The residents of this neck
of the woods still remember the
dreams and promises of the sky
b%ombarding rainmakers.