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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
UNBusINEssLIKE

The Lincoln Star calls attention
anew to the practice Of introducing
duplicate bills in both houses of the
Legislature, which II declares serves
a good purpose for no one excepting
the concern hat prints the bills" by
duplicating the cost of printing each
proposed measure without facilitating
legislation.
This duplicate printing expense put
on the taxpayers is only one illustra-
ton Of the unbusinesslike methods
hat prevail in the legislative ends of
the state house. The whole system Of
passing laws at Lincoln from start to
finish is about the most costly, slip
shod and wide-open waste of peoples
money to be found anywhere. Two
men on the pay roll to do n mans
work would be an actual improvement
on what exists, and the only wonder is
that the, expense bills are mo- bigger
and the output OF laws worse.
No one will contend that in this re-
spect the present democratic legisla-
ture is greatly, if any, different from
other Nebraska legislatures which
have gone before it, irrespective of po-
llticai control. It is possible, too, that
other states are similarly afflicted, al
though many of them possess legisla-
tive machinery much better adjusted
and much more ~businesslike in opera
ton, If not less costly.
The point to be emphasized Is that
while in every other branch of our
state government notable progress has
been made in reforming abuses, sys-
tematizing the work, eliminating the
sinecures and introducing ~up-to-date
business methods, our legislative ma
chinery is practically the same old
style, slack-belted, broken-cogged,
rough-riding machine that has been
jolting and humping along for the last
thirty years.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
MUSIC AS A MEDICAL AGENT.
Doses of Artistic Harmony for faded
Nerves.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ever since Apollo twanged his bloomin'
Tyre it is probable that the soothing effect
of music has been recommended to ner-
vous sufferers with more or less fire.
quency. The music cure is being tested
again and the music cured are quite en-
thusiastic regarding its virtues. For jan
gled nerves and overwraught minds it is
highly recommended and the most stub
born cases of Insomnia have yielded to
its harmonious appeals. 1t is quite posi-
BILE that the blended effects have been
tried at times upon those persons who are
only fit for treasons and strategems and
spells and other unpleasant things. having
no music in their souls, and for them the
harmonic dose must be decidedly unpleas-
ant.
The curative music can be looked upon
from any form of instrument that pro-
duces tuneful effects. 1t may be drawn
from the grand organ with its forest of
pipes and its thrilling GROUND swell of
sound, or it may come from the modest
concerina, or the equal modest guitar.
There are times, Of course, when the boom
ing kettle drum and the insistent cymbals
and the complaining b~agpipes serve the
same exalted purpose. But for the most
part the melodies are pitched in a mino
key in the hope that they will soothe
rather than arouse 1t isn't known that
any special composer Is composing music
suitable to the composing requirements OF
the new school of treatment, but the
field would seem to be an ~alluring one.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
Projected "LincoIn way"
sprinEfield Republican.

The Lincoln Way" from Washington to
Gettysburg BATTLEFIELD. makes a start in the
senate appropriation of $4,000 for a survey
of the proposed route. The senate was
ready to declare that the appropriation
was made with a view to having the me-
mortal constructed. and, II the house con-
ours, the Undertaking would seem to be
fairly launched. No other project has taken
a stronger hole upon public opinion, evil
IDENTIFY. A memorial in the city of Wash
ington in honor of the civil war presiden;
has numerous advocates, but the originality
Of the proposed Lincoln way makes an
appeal all It's own.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
THE IRISH BIRD CHARMER.

T.. A. DAILY in Catholic standar and
Times.
Wid more or less o. tuneful grace,
AS fits a Celtic singer,
I've praised the great bird of our race,
The stork, the blessln' -bringer.
When first to my poor roof he came,
How sweetly he was sung tol
/ called him every dacint name
Thai l could lay me tongue to.
But, glory be! that praise from me
So pleased the simple crsyture,
His visits here have come to be
A sort o. second nature.
I'm glad to see him now an then,
But, glory be to heaven!
II here he isn't back again,
An this Is number seven!
Och! though this gift o. song may be
In NANNY ways a blessin',
1t brings some popularity
That gets to be disthressln.
Now, mind, | love this Irish bird
We couldn't live wldout him
An shure, I'll not take back a word
I ever said about him.
But now when all these mouths to feed
Ate up our little savin's,
The birds whose visits most We need
Are ould Eiisha's ravens.
Begor'! If they were round these days
An I could make them hear me,
I'd sing them a song O. praise
'Twould keep them always near me.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
Personal NOTES.

Coauelin is dead. but Sarah Bernhardt
seems to have been drinking from the
fountain OF perpetual youth.
DR., Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. mayor
Of Aldeburgh, England. gave a dinner
recently TO forty councillors and other
guests. She was the only woman present
and she wore a black dress, with a Widows
cap and diamonds.
Ludwig Jorgcnsen. drum major Of the
Engineer Corps band. who has been a
conspicuous figure for thirty years, lead
ing the Grant fuperat parade, in 1856. and
the Dewey parade, in New York, after
the Spanish war, has been retired at his
own request by the War department.
King Alfonso Of Spain has signed a
decree comforting upon Queen Helena OF
Italy the Grand Cross OF the order Of
Beneficence, in recognition OF her labors
in behalf of the survivors OF the Italian
earthquake. a similar honor was re-
Gently conferred upon the queen by the
emperor OF Austria.
Mrs. Charles J. Hughes, ir,, wife OF
the newly elected United States senator
from Colorado, is a Missouri girl, having
lived i'm Richmond, Mo, where she was
married. Her family name was Menefee.
and she is descended from the Menefees
Of Culpeper county. Virginia Mr.. Hughes
is also a Missourian by birth, having been
born at Kingston, in Ray county.
The next centenary OF a. president after
the coming Lincoln observances will fall
on April q, 1922, the Tooth anniversary Of
Grants birth. Lincoln and Johnson were
bern within a few months of each other.
So were Grant and Hayes. Garfield and
Arthur differed but a year in age. RooSe-
welt and Taft were born within a year of
each other. In date of birth the presidents
have thus come in pairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

IHuIdIHpUHH NUWo'
DR.. Wiley is knocked out completely by
President Roosevelt's special commission
OF experts. which has decided that benzoate
Of soda as a preservative of foods is not
harmful. even in large quantities. Indeed,
the food preservers are so unanimous al
this new decision that they are asserting
that one had better take a little benzoate
for the stomsch's sake, as food treated
Herewith will be free of ptomaines. Well,
when doctors disagree. or eminent chemists
Whist is the layman to do? At any rate no
one need eat stuff that has been benzoated
unless he chooses.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
CaroIina's sailed Bouquets.

Charleston News and Courier.
During the exposition in Charleston, one
of the many colonies in North Carolina
came here with Governor Aycock. He was
very fond Of ice cream, and at one of the
most brilliant receptions of that period asked
for pepper and salt. with which he declared
1t had always been his habit to eat his
cream. That was something new under
the sun in these parts, but as the Erskine
college nan says De gustibus non dis
~putandum. 1t must be said, however, that
the tar-heel colonel is not the only person
Of distinction who likes salt. a brilliant
young lawyer shocked all his associates
at the Taft dinner in summegville Sunday
might be drinking his champagne with
salt. 1t is said that salt gives almost as fine
a bouquet as vinegar.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
A Radical Doctrine,
Baltimore American.

M. Taft has raised a new and highly
important issue In advising young
women not to marry men who are not
good enough for them. Now, men in
the proud humility of their sex nave ad-
mitted that the best of them IL not good
enough for lovely woman. Besides the
proud humility OF this admission. there
is much convenience lurking in II which
the blunt advice of the president-elect
will ruthlessly expose. The majority
viii agree hat such a doctrine is radical,
not 10 say revolutionary. and hat OF the
two evils equal suffrage Is TO be pre-
ferred 70 equal dem
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

1t is proposed to make members of
the Omaha School board elective from
wards instead of at large. What is to
be gained by this change? We thought
we had made a great improvement
when the School board was divorced
from the ward system of politics and
its membership Intentionally and de-
l~iberately made to cut across ward
lines and free itself from strictly
neighborhood influences.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

The brief paragraph in the New
York papers a few days ago record
ing the death from starvation and ex-
posture Of a man named James NJ. Nc
knight, found at the entrance to the
servants quarters in a New York no.
tel, was all that was made public at
the time of the career of a man whose
record reads like a chapter Of fiction.
In 1892 Mcknight, who was then a
federal bank examiner, was sent to
Louisville TO investigate several banks.
Upon his report our Of them were
closed. Soon after he left the gov
eminent service to enter the employ
ment of the German National bank at
Louisville, of which in a few years
he became president. Then he got
into politics and made a desperate eff
fort to be elected mayor OF Louisville,
intending 1t as a stepping-stone to the
governorship, to which he aspired.
His liberal use OF money in his cam
paign caused an investigation of HE
bank, disclosing that the entire capt
tai stock and surplus had been dissi-
pated. Mcknight VAS arrested and,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

matte receptions, luncheons at the
Army and Navy club, dinners at the
Metropolitan. vice presidential recep-
tions and the like. In that way, and
in no other, can the judiciary be kept
in close sympathetic touch with the
masses and learn to make their de-
cisions square with the way the plain
people would vote.
1t is up to congress to heed Mr..
Bryan's warning and meet the issue
fairly and squarely. The salaries of
all our judges must be cut or the
ship or state is on the rocks, with a
demoralized crew and outside the help
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Mr.. Taft is to be treated to an alli-
gator dinner in New Orleans. With
baked beans and two kinds of pie for
dessert in Boston, fried scrapple in
Philadelphia, drop dumplings and pot
ticker in Virginia, 'possum in Georgia
and different varieties of chilli con-
carne and tobasco in the Latin-Amer-
lean reserves, Mr.. Taft ought to be in
training for a digestion contest with
the goat and the ostrich.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
eUFFEY PERSISTS IN LIVING.
Pennsylvania's COlSnel FSrsake's
Bryan's Political MOrRue.
New York Tribune.
II the red slayer think he Stays.
or II the slain think he is slain,

New York Tribune.
II the red slayer think he Stays.
or II the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
l keep, and pass. and turn again.
Everybody felt that red slaughter had
been committed at Denver last July when
the democratic national committee put
Colonel Jim" Guffey's head on a charger
and presented It to Mr.. William J. Bryan.
The strident and multifarious Charles \.
Haskell read the decree OF execution and
the delegates ratified it,, though most of
them realised that Colonel Guffey was be-
ing convicted not on specifications, but on
general principles" The Pittsburg states
man had failed to read the handwriting on
the wall and had im%prudently worked to
choke off enthusiasm for Mr.. Bryan In
Pennsylvania. He was held to nave suf-
fered capitally for a crime objectionable in
any genuine democrat.
Now 1t appears that the slaughter was
not as final and authoritative as It pur-
ported to be. Colonel Guffey, though
crushed, like Truth, to earth, has got on
his feet again. Though displaced from the
democratic national committee as a rene
gade and an outlaw. he has bodied up
once more with a certificate OF member
ship in that honorable body. Dispatches
from Harrisburg inform us that he was
unanimously chosen by the democratic
state committee OF Pennsylvania to repre-
sent that state on the national committee
In place of the Hon. James Kerr. who died
last fall. Thus are the edicts Of fate re-
versed and the judgments of party dictstors
and conventicles set at nsught. Colonel
Guffey has been officially adjudged nc
democrat and a dead democrat; yet he
knocks again at the door of the party's
highest council with a certificate to the
effect that he is as great and good a demo
crat as he ever was. Is he slain or isn't
he slain? A puzzled world awaits an ex-
PLANTATION from Messrs. William j. Bryan
and Charles N. Haskell.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

In many instances what is needed is not
that there should be more good things, but
that we should know about the good things
that are already available. A noted lee
turer on art recently delivered a masterful
exposition of his subject, and the 200 people
In his audience doubtless felt that they
were being entertained in a rare manner.
1t is safe to say, however, that there were
10000 people in the city who would have
gladly paid the admission price il they
could have been adequately Informed as to
the character OF the lecture. There is a
foolish notion in certain artistic and pro-
fessional circles that advertising tends to
make a thing too commercial" Such a
position will not bear analysis. II the pur-
pose of an art lecture is to spread useful
knowledge, then any reasonable effort to
get a larger audience might properly be
considered a vital part of the main purpose.
To prepare the finest lecture in the world,
and then neglect to take adequate steps to
connect the message with the people who
can profit by it, is. to say the least, neither
good business nor good ethics. But 1t would
be eminently and orthodoxy professional
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

EVIL Calls for Prompt Action by
Congress.
Minneapolis Journal.


Minneapolis Journal.
1t seems almost incredible that, after all
that has been done in the way Of pursuing
and furnishing thefts of the public lands,
lands worth Sic, 100000 have been filched
from the government within the last two
years. But this is what Secretary Garfield
reports in a request to congress for $5OO,O0
additional to ferret out thefts and restore
the stolen property to the public domain.
II the facts are as stated, congress should
not hesitate to allow the amount asked,
nor should 1t stop there. 1t should institute
an investigation on its own account to
determine how far the lax land laws of the
United States have encouraged the wrong
full appropriation OF public lands. The pub
lie domain is going fast. We are talking
conservation, but while We conserve-Or
converse, as the case may be-the lands are
disappearing. We are nationally in danger
OF locking the stable after the horse has
gone.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

MIR. Bryan's Commoner has changed
the heading from Solving the Mys-
terry of 1908" to What of Democ-
racy's Future?" The contributors to
the symposium, however, continue to
discuss chiefly democracy's past.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
A BIRD OF q Critic.
Kansas City Star.

Representative James Beck Perkins OF
Syracuse, n. Y, who headed the con-
sressional seolding committee which pOmp-
ously 'Tebuked' the presidents message.
is found TO be the attorney for a patent
medicine concern which is bang fought
by the government under the pure food
and drugs act. The public Iii Of sus-
pected something like that.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

The Independent steel manufactur-
ers are protesting against Mr.. Car
negie's plan to have the steel duties
cut in two. Possibly that Scotchman is
as canny as any of them. The Steel
trust may want the tariff reduced to
put the independents in bad.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
n City Times.

Years ago. when General Hancock, the
democratic candidate for president, said
that the tariff was a local ISSUE" every
body laughed. Now It is commonly ac-
cepted that so long as the arrangement OF
the tariff is left TO politicians, just so long
1t will be. in a very large measure, a local
issue; or. to be more explicit, a combina-
ton Of local issues. each politician trying
to get something for his constituents at
the expense Of the country at large.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

When figuring up the cost OF city
government don't forget the $500, 900
of unpaid hydrant rentals and the
500, 600 of outstanding gas lighting
bills, to say nothing OF the Water
boards lawyers fees yet to be settled
for.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Secretary Wilson reports that there
are nearly 2O.OOO,O 900 horses in the
country and they are valued at nearly
81, 900, 900, 600. Those who pre-
dicted that the automobile would put
the horse out of business may, by lis
tening intently, hear the horse laugh.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

The electoral votes of all the states
have finally been handed into the vice
president at Washington and an i'm
patient public will soon know who
were elected as president and vice
president on November 8.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Governor Shallenberger has pro-
claimed a general celebration Of the
centenary of Lincoln's birthday, sug-
costing the display of the flag on that
day and commemorative exercises by
all patriotic societies. Unanimously
approved.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Does learning pay? Fourteen holders OF
honorary degrees from O~xford-among them
President Butler. Charles Eliot Norton,
William Dean Howells, Bishop Doane,
Mark Twain and Profs, Baldwin. Goodwin
and misunderstanding TO make a gift
to the English university, could only scrape
up a thousand dollars.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

It's dollars to doughnuts that the
present demo-pop legislature In Ne
braska. with all its howl about econ
omy, will authorize appropriations out
OF the public treasury aggregating at
least twice as much as was approprt-
ated by the last demo-pop legislature
twelve years ago. which was not able
10 boast much shout economy, either.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
A Time for Action.
New York Tribune.

IN" IVTh ITTUUHC.
The presidents message approving the
recommendation OF Governor MaEoon
should insure speedy action for the re-
moval of the wreck of the Maine from the
harbor OF Havana, and incidentally the re-
moval of a reprOach which has too long
rested upon this nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Nevada listened to the voice of the
people in selecting a senator" says
the Chicago News. The Southern Pa
cinc has long been making a noise like
the voice of the people Of Arizona.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Bernard Shaw says that Poe and
whitman are the only important
American men of letters. Why should
Shaw slight John d. Archbold, w. r.
Hearst, Governor Haskell and Benja-
min r., TiIIman?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

THE democratic party was beaten
last year because it still contains too
many Parkers and Guffeys and Bal
leys." says a southern paper. The
democratic party was beaten because
1t contained too few voters of any
kind.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

A Russian admiral has been dis
missed from the service for accept
ing brides. 1t is but a short time
since the acceptance of bribes was
considered the essential part OF a Rus
sian officials education.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

A member of the Wisconsin legis-
lature walked from his home to the
state capitol, 2 distance of seventy
eight miles, because he needed the
exercise, Who gets the mileage in a
case of that kind?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
PsnIsAins NauEhty Chndrep
Baltimore American.

A financier in New Jersey who wrecked
a trust company has been refused a re-
hearing by the court OF appeals and will
nave to so TO prison. Justice is not only
moving its leader feet just now. but is
actually doing some pFancins.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

A Philadelphia man is suing for di-
vorce because his wife claims to have
a. soul .afinity in another planet.
Possibly she Is in love with "The Man
from Mars"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

The senate expresses a fear the
pure food investigation would annoy
the president. Neither the present
president nor the incoming one is
troubid with indigestion.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Anyway, a mountain norther sweep
ing across the prairie is not to be
counted in the same class as earth
Quakes. volcanic eruptions and tidal
waves.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

We trust that Augusta, Ga, will
not think it necessary to pull of a
lynching in order to get into the tele-
graph date lines again.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Young Jay Gould has offered him
self as a probation ohicer to patch up
family Quarrels in New York. He
might try his hand among his uneles
and aunts.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Three years ago Mayor Jim crowded
all democratic competitors of the
mayoralty racetrack by simply making
a noise like a cowboy. Can he do It
again?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

DOu9'AiS NpuiiST SouIhhl'
The Pullman company's surplus is
100000 As nobody believes that this
comes from a "rake-off' on the porters'
tips it looks as IL the concern could afford
to reduce the price of berths.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Davy Jones must feel that he was
cheated OF his share of the results of
that Republic-Florida collision of
Nantucket
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
Any Old station WIN DO.

chicago News.
One beauty about a wireless message is
that it can be sent out to anybody whom II
may concern and does not depend on one
wire or the chances that the operator at
the other end has gone to get a bite of
lunch.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

my friends what it has done tor me-
Mrs. Il. HANSON, 904 East Long St.,
Columbus, Ohio.
Another Woman Helped.
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from nervousness and other annoying
symptoms. Lydia Z, Pinkham's Vege-
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has been the standard remedy for
female ills. In almost every commu-
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

On the thirteenth ballot in the
Illinois legislature, Senator Hopkins
lacked thirteen votes of being elected.
Who says thirteen is not unlucky?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
Characteristic of the Left.

Somebody says that the German people
are treating the kaiser Just as II he were
a defeated candidate" The comparison
does not seem apt. A hut month is not
usually a characteristic OF a defeated can
didate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

"The public will stand by a man who
proves he is upright and fearless
Yes" answered Farmer Corntossel,
You kin allus git people to stand by and
watch a man that's tryin' to do real work.
The thing is to git EN- to turn in an help
washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

THE New York Central has bowed
to the inevitah bile" says an exchange.
Thought 1t was bowling to Mr.. Harri-
man.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

Pneumatic pompadours are now to
take the place of the rat" The
pneumatic should be very popular
with light-headed girls.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01

or course a Carnegie hero medal
will go to Jack &c. Q. D." Binns.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-01
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