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Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

leaders themselves to be met in the future,
undoubtedly nave the same attitude toward
the railroads. The time is at an end when
labor organizations pursuing fair and bust
nesslike methods cannot sit side by side
with the higher officers of the railroads
and discuss in common their differences
The railroad conference committee is al
work obtaining authority from railroad
lines involved to meet a committee from
the ~Swltchmen's union.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 6.-Nearly every
flour mill in Minneapolis is in operation
today.
SEATTLE, Dec. 6,-steady progress
toward full resumption OF freight service
was made by the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads today. Freight
offices were opened. 1t is reported that $50
strlke-breakers will arrive Wednesday.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
suit Agafn.t sIoux Fails.

YANKTON, S. D., Dec. 7.-(Speclal.)-
Before federal court in Sioux Falls thla
week the case Of John Quackenbush, con
tractor Of Webster City. Ia, against the
city OF Yankton, Will come up. The suit
is for $4,000 ON a concrete bridge built here
and which the city refuses to pay for,
alleging 1t was not constructed according
to contract
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
NEAT PRODUCERS AROUSED
President of Corn Belt Association
Roasts Hide Schedule.
SEEKS TO BRING IN POLITICS
Neil Pierce, Distributing Clerk in
Des MOines, Arrested for RifIing
Mails Through DecOy
Letter.
(From a staff Correspondents

~ u oAdAA 4NaIOAl1tiAsl
DIES MONIES, Dec. ~7.-(Special Tele-
gran .)-At the meeting of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers association, President
Sy kes delivered an address in which he re-
viewed the work Of the association with
special reference to the effort to secure a
readjustment of stock rates from Iowa
points to Chicago. The case which has been
per ding a year is not yet decided. He also
discussed briefly the tariff and criticized
the way the cattle industry has been picked
out to suffer from tariff reduction, in the
matter of the hide schedule, and insisted
hat the association continue agitation to
secure a fair revision of the schedules.
President Sykes Was esT . ally severe also
on the last Iowa state senate for refusing
to pass the bill to give the state a com
merce counsel to appear for the shippers
Of the state and for the state in all rate
matters. He gave a list OF the senators
who voted against the bill, denounced them
for being under railroad influence, and
called upon the members OF the associa.
ton to aid in having many OF them left al
home next time.
Nell PIERCE, distributing clerk in the boz
department at the Des Moines postoffice
was arrested on the charge OF rifling th'
malls after a decoy letter sent to his sec
ton disappeared. He was searched and 4
Is claimed some Of the marked money sem
in the decoy letter was found on his per
son. In spite Of this, Peirce stoutly denied
his guilt and waived a-rraignment.
Labor Department.
The Iowa Association OF Manufacturer
which meets here this week, will probably
establish a department Of labor to consider
the relationship between the labor organlza
tions and the association and arrange FOL
agreements. The association Is also con.
siderlng the establishment Of a transporta'
tion department and a legal department fol
the beenfit Of the members.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
COLD WAVE COVERS SOUTHWEST
Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado in
Grip Of Zero Weather.

Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado in
Grip OF Zero Weather.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. This portion of
the southwest is today in the grip of the
most severe cold wave Of the season, with
temperature ranging from 5 degrees above
zero at Oklahoma city to 4 below At Con-
cordia and Dodge City, Kan.
Clear weather prevailed over all Of Kan
sas. Oklahoma, Southern Nebraska, North
western Missouri end the Texas Panhandle
today, following the heSvy snow storm OF
yesterday ana last night, but with the
cessation Of the snow fall, temperatures
fell sharply.
Snow continued to fall today in south
western and central Missouri.
Railroad traffic, which yesterday and last
night was demoraliged, was much i'm
proved west and southwest Of Kansas City
today, but train service southeast and
east was still hampered.
The following temperatures were reported
at 8 o'clock this morning;
Kansas City 8 degrees above zero; To
peka / above; Dodge City 4 below; Okla
homa City 8 above; Amahola above.
DENVER Dec. 1.-The entire state of
Colorado is shivering under the coolest
December weather in thirty-one years. For
three days past the mark has been s
degrees above and last night for the
second time in three days the 10 below
mark was reached. -.
Bitterly cold weather is also reported
from Southern Wyoming, IL below being
recorded at Laramie last night.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Dec. 7.-Northwest
Missouri is covered with a mantle Of snow
which fell last night and the cold weather
is causing suffering. Railroads are having
difficulty in moving trains and telegraph
and telephone wires are down at SONS
places.
The Missouri river was blocked here thi.
morning, caused by ice jams.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
CHICAGO IN GRIP OF STORM
Heavy Snow and High Wind Create
Havoc in Lake Region.
COLD WAVE IN THE SOUTHWEST
Thermometer Takes Ode DROP I'm
Missouri, Knnsas, Oklahoma and
CoIoBado-snowfsu f.
General.

CHICAGO, Dec. 7.-Heavy snow. accom-
panied by lower temperature and a thirty
uve-mile wind, swept over Chicago and The
surrounding territory today, bringing death
to three persons in this city before the
noon hour and seriously hampering trans
%portation on steam roads ana urban lines.
one man was found dead from cold and
exposure and two men, blinded by snow.
were run over by trains.
The snowfall in this city was four inches,
and reports from outside points told Of
fifteen inches, with heavy drifts in railroad
cuts. The government forecAster announced
that the temperature would fall tonight
to 5 degrees above zero.
The storm extends from southern wis
oonsin into eastern Iowa and through the
Ohio valley, covering Illinois and Indiana.
Trains from the west and north were de-
layed from one to three hours. The wind
averaging a velocity Of thirty-flve miles.
added to the discomfort.
EmiErant Is Nearly Exhausted
DANV1LLE. ILL.,, Dec. Lying In six
inches OF snow on the steps Of a building
here and almost dead a Hungarian woman
and her 6-months-old child were found al
daybreak.
Attached to the woman's dress was q
tag consignlng her to her husband, a coaI
miner at Westville, III. She arrived In the
night from New York. She wandered about
helplessly, the child claspsd to her breast
until she sank exhausted and lay for hours
In the storm.
GAINESVILLE, wis, Dec. 7.-Thomal
Nolan, aged So, lost his way last night dur.
Ing a severe snowstorm and died soon after
he was found In an exhausted condition
today.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. blizzard conditions
prevailed in this section today. The storm
extended into southern Illinois and through
ont southeastern Missouri
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
DEATH RECORD.
Albert Hermann.

Albert Hermann, a pioneer Omaha cit-
zen and old-time ball player, died Monday
evening at his home, 1905 Pacific 5treet
The funeral will be held Thursday morning
at 10 o'clock, with interment In Prospect
Hin cemetery. Mr.. Hermann was a
single man and, so far as is known hsd
no relatives here. He was a boiler maker
nv trade.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08

sions, and the indications are that many
more will be introduced early in the session.
At its first meeting today the house com
mittee tackled The large pile Of measures
before II and favorable reports were or
dered on about $50 Of them. These reports
pertain to cases which had been investi-
gated by the committees examine since
the last session.
Winona Speech, Public Document.
President Taft's speech delivered at
Winona, Mimi, during his recent tour in
which he sustained the P~ayne-Aldrlch tariff,
will be printed as a senate document An
order to this effect was given by the senate
TO-DAY an motion OF Senator Carter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
DENEEN SCORED AT CARLO
Indignation Meeting Demands Rein
statement of DepOsed
Sheriff.

CAIRO, Ill.,, Dec. Z.-Indignation meetings
have been called here to protest against
tho action of Governor Deneen in refusing
to relnstate Frank q. Davis as sheriff OF
Alexander county. Davis was removed
from office by virtue Of the statute which
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
Flour Poem.
RESORTS.

shrievaItes in Illinois when pris-
oners are taken from the custody of
sheriffs and ,ynched.
Governor Deneen held that Davis did
protect properly Henry Salsner and
VIII James, who were lynched on No
II
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
HEARS
THE MESSAGE

Continued from First Page.)
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
Hoods ~SarsaparHIa

which has effected the most wonderful,
radical and permanent cures.
In usual liquid form or ~ohOeolated
tablets called sarsatabs. 100 Doses 81.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
The Weather.

FOR NEBRAsKA-Fair Wednesday;
warmer. T.
FOR IOwA-Fair Wednesday; warmer In
T.npersture at Omaha yesterday:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-08
atism
WII Let oo oF You.

When you correct the acid condition Of
your blood on which it depends. It only
Ioosens its hold for a while when you APP
ply lotions or Iiniments TO your aching
joints or stiff muscles. The medicine 10
taxa a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
JAPkN's FLORAL CALENDAR.
To Each Month Is Dedicated Some
One Flower or Leaf.

To Each Month Is Dedicated Some
One Flower or Leaf.
The japanese are extremely fond or
all flowers. and they have therefore
made a calendar from them, giving to
each month a favorite blossom or leaf.
Thus the pine, the emblem Of lasting
prosperity and life, belongs to January.
According to the Housekee2er, its
branches are used to decorate all houses
on New Years Day
To February belong the blossoms OF
the plum tree, which stand for purity
and the beautiful blossoms Of the peach
tree. to which young girls are com
pared. are associated with March.
Next the cherry blossom, the most
beloved Of all flowers, is held TO belong
to April, and to May are assigned the
gorgeous clusters of the wistaria.
The Iris howe- TO which is compared
the strength and teauy Of young boys,
belongs to June, and July has the glory
and perfume of the water lily The
Towering hibiscus tree attaches 1t:
beauty to the month Of August, while
September claims the exquisite azalea.
The royal flower of japan, the chrys-
anthemum, which forms part OF the
crest OF the imperial family, belongs to
the month Of October. while to Novem-
Der is given the maple leaf. admired
for It's decorative quality Finally, with
December is associated the beautiful
camellia. which blooms in the gardens
even IN the midst Of snow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26

There is a great difference in the
amount of water used by different
plants Careful experiments show that
barley needs approximately 400 pounds
of water to produce l pound of dry
matter, though this figure is not at oil
constant Dent corn requires about 800
pounds of water for / pound of dry
natter, while flint corn uses very
much less water, and as low as 225
pounds of water will often produce a
pound of dry matter. The average may
be placed at about 25O pounds.
Oats need about 500 pounds of water
to give l pound of dry matter, and
sometimes the amount of water re-
qulred is fully 525 pounds. In other
seasons as low as 400 pounds Of wa
lei are used. Glover often uses over
$50 pounds of water for every pound
of dry matter produced, and peas use
approximately 400 pounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
is Dry Feeding Rest,

Some very successful poultry men
are replacing mash for fowls by dry
feed and say they find it to be of
greater value as food and find their
hens are less subject to disease.
In one of Prof. Gowell's experiments
the effect of replacing mash with dry
feed was also studied with 400 chick
ems fed cracked corn (or this grain
and wheat) and beef scraps kept In
separate Slated troughs so that they
could help themselves at will to which
ever feed they desired. The grain ra-
ton for pullets was about three fourths
corn and one-fourth wheat and for
cockerels cracked corn only. There were
no regular hours for feeding. but care
was taken that the troughs were never
empty. Grit bones and oyster shells
were also supplied as usual
The results were satisfactory. The
labor of feeding was far less than that
required by any other method followed.
The birds did not hang around the feed
troughs and oyereat,- but helped them
off, hunting or playing and coming back
again when so inclined to the feed sup
ply at the troughs.
There was no rushing or crowding
about the attendant, as Is usual at feed
ing time when large numbers are kept
together. While the birds liked the
beef scrap. they did not overeat at 1t.
During the range season from June
to the close of October the birds ate
Just about one pound of the scrap to
ten pounds of the cracked corn and
wheat. They had opportunity to bal
anee their rations to suit themselves,
by having the two classes of food to
select from always at hand.
The birds did well under this treat
ment and the cockerels we're well devel
oped and We never raised better lot
of pullets. The first egg was laid wher
the oldest pullets were four months and
ten days old.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26

tive. and, as Tim has no idea whatever
in the culinary art. beyond being able to
boil potatoes in their skins. and make
very doubtful 'stirabout,' there is a GER
tain want of variety in our repasts. To
desyor, whenever we come to town with
q decent hotel in it. to take a square meal
away from home.
Besides the Inconvenience which
have mentioned, but which were, perhaps,
hardly worth chronicling, the Caravan has
social drawbacks, more particularly en-
harrassing to a modest man like myself
1t is confusing, for example, on entering
a town, or good-sized village, to be sur
rounded by the entire Juvenile population
S7ho cheer us vociferously, under the i'm
preston that we constitute a show, and
afterward, on ascertaining their mistake
pursue us with opprobrious jeers and 1t
is distressing to remark that OUT mode
OF life, instead of inviting confidence,
causes US to be regarded with suspicion
by the Vicar of the parish and the local
policemen. We are exposed, moreover, to
ebullitions of bucolic humor, which have
taken the form of horse play on more
than one occasion. Tim has had several
fights with the peasantry. and has gen.
orally come off victorious; though on one
occasion, he would have been overpoweled
by numbers if / had not gone to his as
sistance Generally speaking, nothing will
lemoye from the rural population an idea
that the Caravan forms an exhibition of
some sort. When | airily alight, and
stroll through village, sketch book In
hand, have invariably at my heels long
attendant train of all ages, obviously I'M
der the impression that l am looking for
suitable pitch and am going to per-
form
(1o be continued)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
Trees for waste spots.

Many poor soils. now waste spots Or
the farm, would become profitable If
planted with the right kind OF forest
trees and cared for in the right way.
There is money In most of them II
they are set to work producing wood
lots and forests But knowledge and
judgment are necessary, and a bad
guess may be costly. Many trees do
we'll in these misunderstanding trees
In particular The farmer Is fortunate
whose land has no poor spots Few
land owners are so well off. Scarcely
one of them need remain unproductive.
They will grow timber-pine. locust,
poplar. Usage orange, oak, chestnut or
some other kind. But the soil must be
studied and the species selected TO suit
It. Failure might follow the planting
Of walnut on soil suited to white pine
or vice versa. Studies of various re-
gions and trees that suit them have
been made by the forest service at
Washington Results and conclusions
have been published and may be had
By writing to the forestry division.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
MICROBES TO FIGHT RArs.
Pied Pipers of Hamelin Make Val
uNhIe Diacnxerx

Pied Pipers of HameIln Make VAL
uabIe Discovery
The greatest pest which is at present
affecting the community In general and
against which common war is being
maintained by all the various nations of
the world is the rat, says the Technical
World.
1t appears as II the problem were i'm
possible of solution. Science, however,
maintains otherwise Recently pro-
longed investigation has resulted in the
discovery of bacillus which, though
harmless to human beings and other
animals, is fatal to the rat tribe. Two
eminent scientists are conformity fulfill
ing this role of the modern Pied Piper
OF Hamelin-Dr. Jean Danysz of the
Pasteur institute of Paris and Or. Neu-
mann of Arlborg In each case the
same end is achieved, though, by dis
tinctlve bacteria The disease of a con-
tagious nature thereby propagated
spreads rapidly through the rat colony
with, In almost every instance, the
same resuit-death
DR.. Danysz in his capacity as director
OF the laboratory of agricultural bio
logy had his attention directed TO the
outbreak of spontaneous disease
among fieldmice. He investigated the
epidemic and after prolonged search
succeeded in securing the cause of the
outbreak, the germ cousbaclllus. OBJ
serving its fatal influence among the
fieldmice, he applied ii to the brown
rat and found that out of every ten
thus iroculated two or three generally
succumbed. Impressed by the sig
nificance of this resui. and the possi-
bility OF there being some lurking
bacteria which were far more vlrulent,
he continued his researches and by dint
of continued effort and perseverance
ultimately isolated a microbe which was
fatal to all and every kind of rat
would kill black, brown or gray rats as
readily as mice-withln eight or twelve
days of application. Moreover he was
able TO cultivate the mlcrobe In sutti-
Client quantities to meet commercial de-
mands and to-day he has enough har-
messed microbes TO last for more than
twelve years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

More than 100000 bushels of wheat
we're shipped from Portland, Ore. for
European markets in one day last week.
Broomhall cables that the first general
memorandum report, which, however. is
incomplete, gives the acreage under wheat
in India this year at 2l,596.0O0 acres,
compa red with 17,142,0O0 last year. The
final general memorandum last yea gave
acreage, 20,963,OO0, and crop, 202000,OOO
bushels.
Minneapolis is again enforcing her milk
inspection ordinance. In one day the IN
spetfor poured 630 gallons taken from
uninspected cans into the sewer.
Secretary Wilson has raised the quar-
antine against cattle in the districts where
foot and mouth disease recently appeared.
The disease has apparently been stamped
out
According to reports from the Ante
Iope valley, in California, thousands of
cattle are roaming the government ranges
in that section with nothing TO eat, and
hundreds are said to be dying Of starya-
ton.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson has
modified the federal quarantine on ac-
count Of foot aid mouth disease in Michi-
gan and Maryland, because no infection
has been found in Michigan outside OF
Wayne and Oakland counties. nor ia
MARYLAND outside of Carroll county
The country life commission, OF which
L. B. Bailey is president. and which is
at work on y report to the President as
to the agricultural conditions throughout
the country, has called on the President
The commission Is expediting the prepare
ton of its report as mneh as possible
50 that the President may send it to
Congress as a special message.
The issuance Of one hundred sl.bpenas,
twenty-five Of which were served on en-
ployes in the traffic department Of Nel-
son Morris < Company, summoning them
before the federal grand jury. has started
reports that the inquisitorsaI body VIII
investigate charges Of reba1iEg among
the big packing 9rTns at the stock yards
The Minnesota dairy AMI food depart
ment Is warning creamery companies over
the State that they are counting trouble
in repeated complaints regarding the
amount Of water in butter. The law -
strictly enforced by the federal govern
meut. and as a result one cooperative
creamery in Stearns county has besa conn
PEELED to pay q penalty OF $500
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
One of the Things That Make Alex
andra Dear to Her People.

One of the Things That Make Alex
andra Dear to Her People.
The present queen of England, like
Queen Victoria, is dear to the hearts
Of her people, The following account
of her sudden and tmpulsive visit TO a
dying consumptiye girl In a hospital
il illustrative of her graciousness and
love her, says the LONDON Times.
1.-THE visit was an absolute surprise
TO all the officials of the institution, Of
which her majesty Is the patroness, and
also to the poor girl for whose benefit
her majesty specially made the call.
Some days ago Martha Massey, one
of the patients in the house, which Is
for the reception of cases of mortal ILL
ness, wrote letter to the queen, say
ing how much she would like to see her
before her majesty took q long trip
abroad
1.-THE poor girl, in respectful terms
and simple phraseology, explained in
the letter that she had been unable to
see the queen whenever she was driv-
ing through London or visiting the dis
trict of the house, owing to her illness.
Her only satisfaction was what the
nurses told her and what she was able
to CLEAN from the newspapers. Would
her majesty crafty her dying desire by
coming to see her before going abroad,
because she was afraid she would not
be living when her majesty returned?
Touched by the sincerity of the let
ter, her majesty decided to visit the
writer. She reached the house at quar-
ter to 3, having driven from Bucking-
ham palace in her white motor car.
ARRIVING at the principal entrance
the queen inquired, is Miss Massey
in?'
'The door was opened by an attend
ant. who instantly recognized the queen
and for a moment stood astounded.
"She managed to stammer out an af-
firmative~ answer to the question and
then invited the queen into the mat
ron's room.
"Her majesty, who was carrying a
bouquet of orchids, lilies of the valley,
carnations and asparagus fern, explain
ed the object of her visit to the matron
ard was at once conducted to the ward
in which Martha Massey was lying.
"Surprise and joy combined for the
moment overcame the patient, but the
kindly words of sympathy from her ma
iesty soon dispelled her nervousness.
Her majesty thanked the girl for her
letter and expressed the pleasure 1t af-
forded her to respond to the invitation.
Miss Massey could not find words to
express adequately her heartfelt thanks
to the queen, but the tears in her eyes
indicated the fullness of her heart Her
majesty handed the bouquet to Miss
Massey and told her 1t was specially
for her and that the flowers were cut
from the palace gardens. The queen
then passed on to other patients and
distributed some roses among them
ITO each patiert her majesty spoke
words of sympathy and encouragement.
Before leaving the queen passed
through two wards. all the beds in
which were occupied"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
Free Adxice.

A man sat for some time in 4 restau
rant looking thoughtfufiy at his saucer
of melting ice cream. At last he left
his chair and made his way 10 the pro-
prietor.
Il see you advertise that you make
your own ice cream" he said, in con-
fideotial tone.
Il do. SIR said the proprietor.
well" said the man. would you
permit me to give you little pointer?
won't charge you cent, and it'll be
money in your pocket
"Glad to hear it, I'm sure said the
proprietor.
Get somebody else to make it, said
the man. in hoarse whisper. outh's
Companion.