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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Another Commercial club trade ex-
cursion is on for a trip to boost
Omaha as a market town. The trade
excursion has become an established
institution by which our business men
are enabled to return the friendly
calls they receive from merchants in
neighboring towns and to cultivate
new trade territory. With the expert
ence gained on previous occasions the
present trade excursion is a foreor-
dained success.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
japan Shows Good Faith.

Figures furnished by the Immigra-
tion bureau for April indicate that
japan is acting in perfect good faith
in its agreement to prevent the influx
into this country of any considerable
body of Japanese laborers. Each month
since the understanding was arrived at
between that government and the
the United States the number of Japs
returning to the home country has ex-
ceeded those reaching the United
States. During April only 1874 Japan
csc of all classes were landed on our
shores, while 253 departed and from
Hawaii the difference was still greater.
AS a matter of fact, the number of
Japanese in the United States has at
no time been large enough to be a
serious menace to labor or to any
phase of our national life and there
was scant warrant for the hue and
cry raised on the Pacific coast. The
attitude of President Roosevelt, at the
time of that agitation has been amply
justified by results. Whatever we may
think of ourselves it is patent that
Japan is a power to be reckoned with
and a radical policy pursued against
a sensitive people might have led to
serious complications. Fortunately the
country, as a whole, did not lose its
head and stood firmly behind the
president in a course which has solved
not only the national difficulty, but
the local trouble on the Pacific coast
n. u,o1l
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Another gathering Of c%hurchmen at
Boston has declared for unifcation of
all church denominations. Tho plan
meets with no opposition, but the real
trouble is that each denomination in
sists upon furnishing the plans and
specifications.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Senator Scott of West Virginia
makes a plea for his fellow senator to
stop wind-jamming on the tariff. The
West Virginian has had his say, but
there are others who have not yet
been winded.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

The suggestion that our city council
needs a chaplain brings forth the
cheerful assurance from a local
preacher that IF every session was
opened with a word of prayer and with
a verse of scripture, l know there
would be NO crooked work done" In
tending no disrespect, we beg to recall
that the late session OF the Nebraska
legislature was opened in each house
with prayer every morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

The chief trouble with painting pic
lures for a living is that the painter
usually becomes a master only after
he has been a long time dead and the
big prices of his ~canvssses are no per-
sonal benefit to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Omaha has fewer banks now than it
had twenty years ago. so If new banks
enter the field 1t Hoes not follow that
they are the result of the new banking
legislation. In all probability Omaha
would have been due now for some
new banks, new laws or no new laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

The president of the Omaha School
board is to be caned by the manual
training class. Hasn't corporal pun
isRment been barred from the public
schools?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

so doing he will be protected from any
onslaught by parties at interest; fur
Their, that officials who fall short of
this measure of duty must expect to
walk the plank and that no outside in
fluence will a v them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

railroads for. taxation is particularly
untimely in addition to its other sad
features. Mr.. Schavlsnd was reputed
the best-posted man on railroad tax
subjects in the state and the board
will find it difficult to fill his place sat
isfactorily on short notice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
Related Recognition.
Chicago Tribune

There is some satisfaction in the knowl-
edge that the Wright brothers are making
coolies of money, but it is not gratifying
to the national pride to reflect that they
had to go abroad to obtain substantial
recognition.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
CORN N
Obstacles to the Making of Real
Corn Meal.

Corn Zeal.
Washington Post.
The Chicago wheat corner that so re-
Gently demoralized the market in that
cereal has caused another discussion Of
the feasibility of substituting corn meal
for wheat flour in the economy of the
kitchen. The thing would be as good as
done If there were mills to grind real corn
meal and cooks to bake real corn bread.
There are a few such mills at the south
and many such cooks there; but the com
mercial meal in cities, ground very fine
and bolted at the mill, cannot be converted
into bread fit to eat by the most skillful
cook, and that is the reason why the north
has so Ions rejected corn bread other than
al execrable stuff, compounded of eggs,
milk, baking powder and a flour they call
corn meal.
Real corn bread is made of coarse meal,
ground on a horse or water mill, the ut
most capacity of which is not over twenty
bushels per diem. The corn must be sound
and carefully picked from the bin. Take
that meal. sift it. mix It to a rather stiff
batter with pure cold water, and bake the
pone in an intensely hot oven. Every atom
of the meal, as it heats. splits open like
a Kernel of popcorn, and when exactly
done the bread is simply delicious. Most
cooks add a little salt to the meal before
mixing it with water, and most people pre-
fer the salt; but that was long ago voted
plebeian, and perhaps that accounts for its
popularity, the plebeians being in a large
majority in this glorious union OF ours.
But corn bread will never become popu-
lar as pone, or hoecake, or Johnny AXE,
or egg bread. or batter cake, so long as
the meal comes from mills that grind the
grain at terrific speed and cook the grist
in the process of turning the grain into
meal. Nobody can make real corn bread
of that stuff, and that is why the great
majority Of our people will continue to look
to wheat as the staff of life.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Banker-Ice King Morse laments his
100000. 900 fortune has melted away.
He should have been more careful
about leaving 1t out on the sidewalk
in the sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Governor Hadley of Missouri will
press the home rule propaganda at the
next election, With best wishes for all
concerned let as hope it will not be the
kind of hons rule the democrats
handed us in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Raids on blind pigs and bootleggers
have already started in Lincoln, al
though the dry edict has been in force
less than a week. What! So soon?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

The Arkansas legislature has out
lawed the toy pistol. The full grown
pistol is still a necessary part of a gem
tleman's equipment in that common
wealth,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Secretary Nagel is said to have I'M
dertsken to find out Just how much
Of q family affair o~fficeholdinE is in
Washington. Somehow there is a sus-
picion that a public office has come to
be regarded as 4 family srap.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
A succensfnl Reforrler.
Baltimore American.

AS a fearless and practical reformer Mr..
Loeb is proving a success. The cultivation
of his nerve, resource and diplomacy by
his encounters with lady cranks invading
the White House is now standing him in
good stead.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Senator Tillman wants a duty on
tea, Bailey n on iron ore, the Louis
lana senator's an import tax on sugar,
some a duty OF lumber. while a few
are for free trade, What is a demo-
crat, anyway?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Atlanta has abolished the barber
pole. With a prohibition law sup
posed to be in effect. barber poles,
lampposts and other convenient stead
iers would be evidence of self-indict-
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Every day chronicles automobile &C
cidents due 10 fast and reckless driv-
ing. We again advise the Omaha
seorchers to slow down before the
damage is done.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

1T requires great facility Of language 80
enable a man to- say exactly what he
thinks remarked, the literary person.
Yes answered Mr.. Meekton, reflect
lively; and. in addition, 1t often requires
great courage. Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
A Modern Competitor.

NdHHInBIUH HtTdIu.
"Rameses II was the greatest advertiser
Egypt ever saw" says The Omaha Bee.
Well, there is a gentleman in Africa just
now that probably would not have asked
any handicap Of Rameses.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Senator Rayner of MARYLAND says
the tariff debate has developed a big
crop of liars. He is either too polite
or too modest to mention any of them
by name.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Missouri is talking of spending
$1,000 600 on a new capitol building.
Just what it is expected to cost when
completed is an entirely different
proposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Who says there rs nothing new I'M
der the sun? A Pennsylvania man
has been SEM to jail for stealing an
umbrella.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Nan-"Has Iii told you yet when she and
Jack are to he married.
Fan-"Not yet. but l know. They'll he
married Just as soon as she can get Jack
to propose. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Maybelle-"That tail, slender chap went
on the stage made up as a woman? How
did he look"
Gla~dys-"Strictly up to date. You know.
he hasn't any hips. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

The sudden killing of Chris Schav-
land, secretary of the State Board Of
Assessment, Just as the board was TAX
ing up the annual valuation Of tne
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Granting the claim that the Garden
of Eden was located in Texas, still
what a shame to permit it to deterior-
ate to such an extent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

According to DR.. Wiley, 80 per cent
of the so-called whisky is a fraud. 1t
produces a genuine jag Just the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

us your husband fussy about the tenn
perature?'
Excuse me, ma'am. I'm a widow
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
SMILING REMARKS.

She (sentimentally)-It means a great
deal TO a girl Of Emma's nature Ia marry
a man like Dick.
He (brutally)-Natufally He is a man
of means.-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

1t should not be assumed that be-
cause President Taft's fondness for the
links proves him to be of German de-
scent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porarily should have The Bee
Suailed to them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
Stomach Trouble.
Your tongue is coated.
Your breath is foul.

Headaches come and 60.
These symptoms show that
your stomach Is the trouble. To
remove the eAusei 10 the first thing,
and Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver Tablets will do that Easy
&c Sake and most effective
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Beauty sleeps probably will defeat
Uncle Sans kindly plans to let his en-
ployes go to work earlier in the summer
in Washington are now being polled, and it
is the women who are objecting to moving
the clock ahead.
Every summer this plan is started
usually by the base ball enthusiasts. who
would be willing to go to work before
sunrise II they would get off before the
game begins. II has been discussed al
several cabinet sessions. and the various
department heads are now putting il up
to their employees. The departments at
present begin work at 9 o'clock and close
at 4:30.
The new plan contemplates hours from
$3.50 to 2, from 7 to 2:90. from 1870 TO 8, or
from s to $3.50. These hours would be ef-
fective for June, July and August. So far
the vote has been adverse. and most of the
opposing votes come from the women. of
Sans pay roll here.
THE men are generally in favor of start
ing earlier" said one of the officials who
has been polling the Interior department.
but, as a rule, the women object. They
don't go to ball games much. and they
insist that they want to sleep longer in
the morning.
The Navy department is voting on start
ing one hour earlier than at present. and
the preponderence of men in this depart
ment is expected to result in the change.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

How is your wife as a cook7"
Strictly down to date" answered Mr..
Nuwedd. She pours gravy over a mashed
potato and calls it a sundae. Louisville
CouTier-Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

The glass schedule was one which
could not withstand the bombardment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
sTATEMENr or CIRCULATION.

OF CIRCULATION
state Of Nebraska. Douglas County, SIS.
George B.. Tzschuck. treasurer Of Tho
Bee Publishing company, being July
sworn, says that theractuai number OF
full ard complete copies of The Daily,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of April. 1909. was as
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
w Washington Life
Short Sketches OF incidents ana
EYtsoass mat AsaTs h Frogssss

The largest bunch of trouble ever passed
up to a bureau Of the Navy department Is
doing Marathon speed from Donaldsville,
La. to Washington. The bureau to which
the package is consigned devotes It's atten-
tion to vindlcating the dignity and enforc-
ing the rights Of Uncle Sans jack tars,
and is particularly energetic in pursuing
and Furnishing dance house proprietors who
refuse admittance to sailors in uniform.
The Donaldsville incident presents a com
plication without precedent to guide the
bureau, hence its perplexities will multiply
the gray hairs of the bureaucrats before a
satisfactory solution is found. According
to the advance notices, these are the facts:
The younger society women Of Donalds-
willie held a reception and ball in honor of
the crew Of the battleship Mississippi, now
in these waters. Not conversant with mill
tary discipline, the young women had in
vited both officers and men.
1t was noticeable during the introduction
ceremonies that a GOODNESS existed between
the superiors and their subordinates, but
matters went along pleasantly enough until
the grand march.
When every young woman had been APP
portioned to her young man and was ready
for the ball proper TO begin, II was found
that fully twenty men were unprovided
for. They were all officers. The orchestra
swung into a breezy, rhythmic march and
the fortunate young men, most of them
tackles, each with a beaming girl on his
arm, went promenading up and down,
change your partners, grand right and
left, alternate couples to the right and all
that sort of thing, while surplus officers
retired, grumbling, behind a bank of
palms.
Before the first note for the first waltz
was struck, the officers had held a solemn
conference and had made a decision. The
jackies must go.
Each jackie was told quietly by a waiter
that the officers of the ship were unwilling
to depart from naval discipline of many
years standing. which stipulated that
~privates might not mingle with their super
Tors on equal terms. Each Jackie,
chagrined, was admonished to leave mis-
partner and the bright lights and the
music, and all, and go elsewhere. 1t was
an order from the officers, said the wait
ers. Each jack cast an anxious glance at
the officer nearest him and read in his
determined looks that orders were orders.
So the jackies, a sorrowful crew. filed out
of the hall.
the officers looked for partners for the
first waltz-the very first, mind you-there
weren't quarter enough girls to go round.
The young women, loyal to the jackies.
had departed with them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Attorney General Wickersham was not
long in office before his brother cabinet
officers began to ask him for opinions upon
various departmental questions. No doubt
many of these were framed by somebody
lower down, who had not yet forgotten
the sunlight of the Bonaparte smile, and
they went up to Wickersham as a matter
Portable quality of the new attorney gen
eral became noticeable. He was not con-
tent to receive a hypothetical question,
framed for the express purpose of estab-
fishing a convenient line of policy for some
bureau and for no other purpose. He de-
manded the facts in every case, and then
calmly proceeded to sit down and null
them over and write an opinion in accord
ance with them.
1t was not long before the effects of this
departments who all their lives had ieal-
ously resented the notion that anyone but
themselves should decide departmental
questions found that Wickersham was de-
Gliding things for them. They asked for
the bread of smooth Information based on
a hypothesis, and they were given the stone
of a cold decision on the underlying facts.
II is now the talk in departmental circles
that perhaps the departments had better
settle their own troubles among them
selves, and not bother the attorney general
unless some genuine law point is involved.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

was inspired by the women Of Washington
produced results that are worth having
II appears that Los vacant lots have been
cleaned, 800 private alleys put in order
and 10000 cellars, woodsheds and back
yards made tidy since the work was in
augurated last month. 1t is proposed TO
make the movement something more than
a squirt, and effort will he made to pre-
serve the improved conditions throughout
the summer The work Of spring cleaning
for municipalities has spread widely
throughout the country, having first be-
come established in the west. and now
many eastern cities and towns promote
community efforts of this sort.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

Here is a genuine suffragette victory
and right i'm the capital OF the nation:
BOOSTERS may no longer be kept in the
District of Columbia. This Is the princi.
pal burden of the new chicken regula-
tons promulgated by the Health depart
ment OF the district. The rules specify
under what conditions chickens may be
stipulating just what care must be
given the chicken houses n yards. But
the gem Of this series of chicken regula-
tons is the following:
T. mo ROSTERS may be kept on the
premises"
A fine Of from 81 to $40 a day is pro-
vided for all violations. The police say
they are tired OF the complaints Of ~citizens
who W alarm clocks and don't want TO
be awakened by cock crow, Hence the
rule.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

GEoRGE'B TZSCHUCK,
Treasu .er.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day OF May, 1909.
M p, WALKER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

First Parlor Match-You and l are like
those ambitious politicians
Second Parlor Match-Are We?
First Parlor Match-Yes; just as soon as
we get up to where we've got an easy
snap we lose our heads.-Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
TERMS OF sttpsCRIPTtoN.

Entered at Omaha postofftlce as second
lass matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

D. Turkey was talking about relieving the
victims of massacre. rf"
ut would be az well to wait until we
are through killing people suggested A
will not be so many to relieve or so great
a drain on our resources"
Thus a delay thai had seemed inexpl cue
no longer appeared NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Ledger. H...
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18
TIE OMAHA DAILY BEE

oUNDED BY EDWARD RosEwATER.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-18

VICTOR RosEyATER. EDITOR.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
The First War corresoondsnt,.

In sense julius Caesar was a war
correspondent, only he did not send
his Commentaries" piecemeal from the
''theater Of war;" but indited them at
his leisure in the subsequent peace
time. The old Swedish Intelligencer
Of the Gustavus Adolphus period was
genuine war correspondence, publish
ed, indeed. tsrdily compared with our
news Of today, but nevertheless fresh
from the scene OF actira, full of dis.
Effectiveness. quaint md racy beyond
compare. The first modern war CORE
spondent professionally commissioned
and paid by :wspaper was the late
G. l.. Gruneisel, a well known literary
man, who WI ; sent to Spain by the
London Posi- with the Spanish legion
which Sir 1ue Lacy Evans commanded
in 1922 in the service of the queen OF
Spain. But this new departure war
not followed up, and no English paper
was represented In the great battles OF
the first and second Punjab wars.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11
A Clock That Shutters.

Gerund, who suffered badly, return
ed home at 4 a. m. In q blissful moo6
from an evening" at the club. On en-
tering the house he was greeted from
above by Mrs. Gerund, and the follow
ing dialogue ensued:
lis that you, john" asked Mrs. Ge
rund from the landing.
"Y-y-yes, m'dear; that's m-me," de.
hghtedly answered Gerund.
what do you mean. SIR" Numbered
his wife, "by coming home at 4
o'clock"
"F-four o'c-clockw echoed Gerund in
gently surprised and hurt tone
'Why, it's j-j-jus' / o'clock"
Sir" came the frigid voice from
above, 1.-The clock has just struck Ar
When Gerund replied it was in O
subdued. almost hopeless, tone, but
with absolute conviction. DIDO you
know, my d-d-dear, that internal clock
Is st-t-tuttering again Y-Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-02-11

Comparatively little of the traffic In
the longer French canals is moved 9th
erwise than by horses. There are few
steam freighters, which carry half a
million tons year. most of 1t between
Paris and Rouen, and one some canals
are regularly organized towing sys-
tens. But the great part of the haul
Ing is done by horses and with SO
much economy on the part Of the barge
owners that the government has had
to provide by regulation that every
barge must have power" enough not
unnecessarily TO block traffic. Every
barge also must have a crew Of two,
lone Of whom must be a man So
runs the regulation. 30 nearly every
French barge is the home OF more
or less happy couple, whose charcoal
fire pot scents up the air along the wa
terways with the preparation Of the
endless meals.-Boston Transcript.