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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
REFRESHING Speculation.

The committee appointed by Gov
ernor Hughes of New York to investi-
gate the various stock exchanges OF
the metropolis and report on the
abuses, If any, has completed it's in
v~estigations and is now engaged in
formulating its report. The person
mel of the commission is such as to give
to its findings the stamp of author
ity. 1t is composed of men noted both
for their ability in academic research
and for large and practical business
experience in a large way. While the
report has not been formulated, 1t is
given out that the commission has ar
rived at some definite conclusions
which will be at variance with the
opinions of many who have made only
a superficial study of the questions in
volved. Notable along this line is the
statement that dealing in futures is
not harmful to either the producer or
consumer, but, on the other hand, is
actually beneficial, simply having an
evening process in distributing the
hazard of the seasons and the mar
kets.
In making this statement the com
mission is careful to differentiate be-
tween legitimate dealing in futures
and gambling pure and simple. Re
garding this there can be no two opin-
ions. Concerning the report a finan-
cial agency, from direct information,
makes the following statement:
The subject of short selling and dealings
In futures will be discussed extensively,
says the report, and 1t is understood to be
the conclusion of the commission that the
abolition of these methods of speculation
would be Injurious to the best interests Of
business. Ar effort will be made to set
forth the reasons for this conclusion as
clearly and as simply as possible for the
! education of the public and to show that
the public clamor for reform in these fea-
lures is not based on sound principles.
The gambling spirit in Wall street will be
deprecated, but II will be conceded that no
law can altogether eradicate II. II is prob
able that some measures will be advocated
to do away with wash sales and match or
ders, although in Just what manner the
commission will treat this subject csnnot
be learned.
If the commission can devise some
method which will eliminate the
gambling feature incident to manipu-
lated markets it will have accom-
plished a great service to the country.
Scarcely less helpful would be a clear
and conclusive definition of legitimate
dealings in futures. based on produc-
ton yet to come or deliveries yet to
be made, as contrasted with gambling
deals that ought to be suppressed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Let the Attorney General Act.


By the appointment by Governor
shallenberger of Thomas j.. Majors to
be a member of the new State Normal
board a duty is devolved upon Attor-
ney General Thompson which he
should not shirk. The selection of a
state senator for this position is in
fragrant defiance of the constitution
to say nothing Of violating one Of it's
most salutary provisions. Section IL
of article iii Of the constitution OF Ne
braska reads as follows:
No person elected to the legislature shall
receive any civil appointment within this
state from the governor and senate during
the term for which he has been elected.
And all such appointments and all votes
given for any such member or any such
appointment shall be void.
No one will question that a place on
the State Normal board is a civil APP
pointment. The appointment is made
by the governor and confirmed by the
senate. The appointment is made
during the term for which Mr.. Majors
had been elected a member Of the SEN
ate. and he both before and after the
appointment continued to act as a
member of the state senate. The bill
legislating the old Board of Education
out of office and creating a new normal
board was in reality Senator Majors
bill. 1t was put through the legisla-
ture by his efforts and his appointment
as a republican by a democratic gov
ernor was in recognition of services
rendered to the democrats in helping
them to put through their bills.
II this appointment of a member Of
the legislature to a civil Office at the
hands oil the state executive is allowed
to stand 1t will be but the %forerunner
of the payment of other debts by the
appointment of other members of the
legislature to other lucrative offices.
1t will set the precedent for future
governors to buy legislative support
for all sorts of measures by promising
appointive Jobs to senators and rep
r~esentatives. This is precisely what
the trainers Of our constitution had in
mind when they inserted in that docu-
ment the prohibition of such appoint
ments.
Attorney General Thompson should
without delay institute quo warranto
proceedings against Thomas ]. Majors
as member of the new State Normal
board and let the court say whether
the constitution of Nebraska still lives.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
THE UNTIDY HOME.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
Building blocks strewn everywhere on the
parlor floor,
There's n train Of ''Shu-shu'' cars and.
right beside the door.
Sleeps a ragged Teddy bear-everywhere
we go
Is a trail of toys and things left by Little
Mother sighs and worries, says the homes
a fright.
1t is more than she can do to keep 1t look
ing right.
Bits of cookie lie about. mugs and spoons
and things,
Everything he wearies OF on the floor he
filings;
Mother follows him about picking up his
toys;
Seems she would get used to it. but it
Says that she can't bear to see the old
house so upset.
Wants it looking tidy, otherwise she'n fret.
But, the other day there came a stranger
In to call,
stubbed hts toe on building blocks that
Uttered up the hall;
Sat down on a Teddy bear he'd left upon
a chair.
Mother made excuses and bIushed up 10
Never was so mortified; but the stranger
smiled,
Murmured; Never mind your house, if
you have a child,
Take my home, for instance; It's as tidy
as can be.
Ne,e r bears and building blocks around 1t
do l see.
Never bits Of cookies litter up our parlor
1t is tidy an the time. on, neatness is a
bore.
My wife and | would give our all. If we
could only know
Once more the toys Of toys ard things we
knew so long ago"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
THE ONE.
OminOus Signs of Revolt Against
Losing LeadershtD.

Washington Post.
1t is one OF the several deplofable weak
nesses of the Hon. william Jennings Bryan
that his knowledge of history is 80 pain
fully trivial; and it might prove a valuable
lesson IL he would take down John Lothrop
Motley and read that graphic chapter that
contains the vivid picture of the abdication
of Charles ". emperor OF Germany and
king Of Spain.
1t was at Brussels, the capital of Flan-
ders, that the august ceremony was cele-
brated before the most brilliant court that
could have been mustered from the chiv-
airy of his dOminions, the most extensive,
the most opulent and the most puissant
the world had seen since Charlemagne.
Two hours after this mighty monarch
surrendered the crown he had to ring
twice for a footmsn. II may be asked,
What has all this got to do with the Peer
less one? 1t has plenty TO do with him.
Here are the democratic insurgents" Of
the sixty-1rst congress, who saved the
day for Uncle Cannon, asseverating and
testifying that their action was only "a
revolt against Mr.. Bryan"
THAI is ominous. Ten years ago il
would have been classed as among the
things impossible. Now it is a shield
against the adverse criticisms of what
constitutes 80 per cent and upward of the
democratic party. II is a precursor OF an
abdioation OF the ~primacy, voluntary or
extOrted on the part OF Mr.. Bryan.
1t looks that way. Mr.. Bryan does not
fiji the public eye as he did a year ago.
His general orders are unheeded-even In
Nebraska. Some impairment letters written
for the Commoner, which found the waste
basket. have appeared in public prints. and
they testify that the woods are full OF
democrats who are not as well assured OF
the Peerless ones infsllibility az the Peer
less One himself Is.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
SMILING REMARKS.

First Hobo-Gee. I'm glad my clothes
tore as easy as they did when that dog
grabbed me! ! bet he would say things
Second Hobo-weil. to Judge by his
present acts, he is chewing the rag some
Baltimore American.
do you resent the caricatures they
publish of corporation kings?'
No" answered Mr., Dustin StaN; only
/ wish they would be a little more con
slstent and not make us look like jolly fat
men when most of us are fighting dys-
pepsia. Washington Star.
Mrs. Chugwater-Josiah, / know what
a tariff is, but what does revision mean?
Mr.. Chugwater-When it comes from the
Later re- meaning again, or once more,
and vision meaning a dream; revision
more dreaming. Think that'll hold sou for
a while ?'-Chicago Tribune.
New Curate-Can any of you tell me
here?
old Resident-Abou $50. / think.
Young M. D.-But II only costs twenty
five to board a horse.
Miss Stenographer-And It only costs 5
cents to board Il trolley-Success.
well" said Cassidy. " It's. too bad that
none av us kin liver be as good as some
people think we sh'u'd be-
"Aye!' replied Casey, 'but tits consilin'
to think that none av us kin ever be as
bad as some people thing we are. "-Catholic
Standard and Times.
Mabel seems to feel dreadfully about
the new tariff bill. | didn't suppose she
ever took any interest in such things"
Why somebody has made her believe
that If the bill passes she will have To
wear two-button gloves, and ~socks.'-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Does Mrs. Peck's husband command a
good salary2.
HI earns a good salary, she commands
t."-Boston Transcript.
Il want to buy a clarionet,' said the
may with a steely look In his eye.
"Ah,' said the dealer In musical wares,
here is a perfect instrument, absolutely
true in tune"
Il don't want II. | want one thatll pro-
duce nothing but blue tones. There's a man
next door who is studying the trombone.
Tn going TO play the clarionet in self
defense" - Washington Star,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
where Consumers Lose out.
C1ncInnati Enquirer.

Funny that no n ever slips a 'joker"
into legislative bills to favor the ultimate
consumer? Here we have been smoking
short-weight tobacco since 1902 because Of
a joker and SAC, 900. 900 OF our money has
been nabbed by the friends OF the joker.
1t is to be hoped that the congress will
make the joker smoke for joking the
smoking public. It's no joke TO smoke a
smoker which yields an undue profit
through a Joker. This is especially true
when il appears that the joker was not
inserted as a joke.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
We YOUR INDIGESTION ENDED FOREVER

undigested food, Headaches, Dizziness or
Vomiting, and, besides, what you eat will
not ferment and poison your breath with
nsuseous odors, All these symptoms result
ing from a sour stomach and dyspepsia are
generally relieved five minutes after eating
one Triangule of Diapepsin.
Go TO your druggist and get a 5O-cent
case Of Pape's Diapepsln now. and YOU will
always go to the table with a hearty sppe-
lite and what you cat will taste good, be-
cause your stomach and intestlnes will be
clean and fresh, and you will know there
are not going TO be any more bad nights
and miserable days for you. They freshsn
you ana make you feel like life Is worth
living.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Don't Suffer Another Moment From
Stomach Distress or Indigestion

The question is how long you are going
to continue a sufferer from indigestion and
Stomach trouble is merely a matter Of how
soon you begin taking Diapepsin.
II your stomach is lacking In digestive
power. why not help the stomach TO do It's
work. not with drastic drugs, but a re-en-
forcement OF digestive agents, such as are
naturally at work In the stomach.
People with weak Stomachs should eat
Diapepsin after meals, ana there will be no
more Indigestion. no more feeling like j
lump Of lead in the stomach, no heartburn
Sour risings. Gas on Stomach or Belching o.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Former Cotton King Sully has
evolved a plan to create a string of
bonded warehouses throughout the
south for storing the cotton crop and
enabling the growers instead OF the
spectators to carry It until the
product is demanded by the trade. 1t
is an enormous undertaking, but one
thing is certain. the cotton-growing
section cannot reach the maximum of
its prosperity until the grower by some
means or other is enabled to market
his crop when the demand for 1t for
consumption makes favorable prices.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Woes Of the Man With Money.

1t is distressing to be broke. IL you
don't believe 1t, ask Andrew Carnegie
since he gave away his fortune to
avoid the possibility of dying rich.
But the man who is broke has no
monopoly of the woes of this life.
II you have the millions of a Rookie
Teller, w. j. Bryan will not let the col
leges take your money because it is
tainted. If you are a rich widow like
Hetty Green and accumulate a fortune
by saving habits, you can only contem-
plate someone waiting for you to die
that they may spend 1t. If you are a
j. Pierpont Morgan, you are a pluto
crat and an enemy of society. If you
invest your money in gold bricks you
are a sucker, and If you blow 1t in you
are a spendthrift. If after accumu-
lating a fortune you continue to work,
you are depriving a poor man who
needs it of the chance of getting your
good job, and If you take life easy you
are living off unearned increment and
are a useless appendage on the earth. II
you put your savings in a tin can some
thief will come along and steal it, and
II you place it in the kitchen range
your wife may light the hre while you
are taking your morning siesta and 1t
will go up In smoke.
II you decide to put your savings in
a bank the trouble does not end here.
for the New York bankers are discuss
ing the advisability OF charging depos-
tors 81 per month for caring for their
accounts. Al that rate In eleven
months the man with a $40 deposit
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

If the entry list for police commits
sioner in Omaha is any sign of what
may be expected from removing the
party labels and putting all candidates
up to the voters at the polls. try to
figure out what may be expected his
fall when three supreme judgeships,
carrying salaries of $4,000 apiece, are
to be thrown into the pot, with nearly
every lawyer in the whole state of Ne
braska eligible to sit in the game.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

South Omaha proposes by ordinance
to require its chief of police to be per-
sonally present when that dog-pound
master executes the unclaimed dogs
that are taken up. Crooks operating
in South Omaha will get a line on the
hours that the dog-pound master gets
huay-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Mr.. Bryan has gone down to Texas
to tell the democrats of the Lone Star
state that they are bound by the Dem
yer platform to put a state deposit
guaranty law on their statute books.
Mr.. Bryan doubtless thinks that his
purchase of a farm in Texas gives him
the same right to dictate legislation
there that he has undertaken to exer-
else in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

The men engaged in the recent Gu
ban rebellion have been sentenced to
death. A little OF that procedure may
have a tendency to put a stop to the
industry.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

A noted painter went to see the Sa-
lone dance fifty times in order to Sc
Ire the impression necessary to paint
a picture of it. 1t has worried many
a man to invent a SUFFICIENT excuse to
offer his wife for going to see 1t just
once.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Philadelphia Record.

The war stamp tax on tobacco has
disappeared long since. and there is now
a question Of its revival. When the tax
in force the packages were reduced
in weight by ounces in order that the
tax might not fall on the manufacturer
When the tax was repealed the weight of
the packages. remained the same. Should
the tax be revived the packages will have
to undergo another reduction.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
High Road to old ARe.
Chicago Tribune.

Life insurance companies are trying to
educate the people in the science of long
evity. Learning how to live long. never
theless, is a simple proposition. and may
be condensed into one sentence: Get an
appointment as one of the judges of the
United States supreme court.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

No n questions but that the demo-
pop legislature ground through a big
grist of laws. It's the contents of the
laws that are questioned and Ques-
tionabIe.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

II is time for the Anglo-Saxon race
to wake up. The Latins won first and
second places in the receht Marathon
race and now a Winnebago Indian is
an honor mar at Harvard.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Levity Taken Seriously.
Baltimore American

The old joke about making life longer
by insuring 1t bids fair to become real
ity according 10 an insurance expert, who
thinks by a judicious system OF re-exam-
nation a preventive tab can be kept on
disease which will extend life. Thu the
jokers of one age become the scientists
of the next.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Drawbacks I'm Organism.

Mr.. Bryan's proposition to establish a
chair of good citizenship in the Nebraska
university is beautiful in theory. But It
is subject TO- the practical drawback that
each party will proceed to make the claim
as a basis for the instruction that the truly
good citizenship is only to be found in its
ranks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

would owe the bank a dollar. There
doesn't seem to be any other escape
from It except to go to Africa with
Roosevelt, let the tsetse fly bite you
and go to sleep.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

OF course, Mr.. Bryan's expedition to
Texas at this particular time is not
due 20 any desire to get out OF reach
of the friends and foes of tho daylight
saloon bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
ConcIusIye Proof.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The speech of the Filipino delegate at
lacking the unfair provisions of the Payne
bin must have convinced the standpatters
that the islanders are not yet ready for
self-goVernment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Emperor william has sent a cordial
invitation 20 former President Roose-
welt to visit him at Berlin. He proba"
bly, wants some nrst-hand pointers on
how to manage an obstreDerous legis-
lativs body.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

The next thing win be an inventory
of the gains and losses of the Vets
and the Drys In the annual tug-of-war
throughout the cities and towns of
Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

A Chicago man tried three different
ways to commit suicide and failed. It
is hard to live in Chicago, but still
more dificult to die there.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Here is a pointer for the present city
administration Of Omaha. Washing
ton club women are going to take a
hand in the cleaning of the streets of
that city.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Opponents have discovered further
proof that Mr.. Taft is abandoning the
Roosevelt policies. The White House
COW is permitted to Craze on the tennis
court.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

A toad estimated to have been 1000
years old has just died in Massachu-
sets. II took a long time to break
M~ethuselah's record.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Washington Herald

Have you ever noticed how many con-
gressmen begin thus: IL lay down the
proposition"-and then do not do anything
Of the kind for two or three hours?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

A Chicago girl caught and held a
burglar until the police arrived. She
merely stepped on him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Around New York

RApplss on the Current OF Life
as Seen in the GREAT American
Metropolis from nay 80 Nay.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

After having held himself In re-
straint for forty days the devout man
will be in splendid condition to express
himself when the Easter millinery bills
come in.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

A fashion note IA women's hats
this a run all to crown. There is
n advantage in this-they are not
in the way of pedestrians.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

II ex-President Castro is short of
funds, as reported. he might try the
Chautauqua stun instead of risking
his life by going back to Venezuela.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

II the Omaha Police board is de
functus o%ficio," how long will it take
for It to be oficially defunct?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

The south resents the proposal to
levy a tax upon pistols as a discrimina-
ton against that section.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

In the spring cleanup remember
the back yards as we'll as the front
yards.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Spring Announcement
1909

We = noW displaying q most com
plets line of foreign novelties for
spring and summer wear.
Yoar early inspection 10 invited. as
Il will afford an opportunity OF choos-
styles.
We import in Single suit lengths"
n . suit cannot be duplicated.
An order placed now may be deliv-
cred At our convenience.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
WHEN our or TOWN,

Subscribers leaving the cfts tenn
porarily should have Ths Bee
mailed 70 them. Address will be
changed AZ often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

dack London has discovered that he
is suffering from a nervou disorder.
Readers OF his books knew 1t long ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Some years ago the Brooklyn street cars
killed so many children that public out
cry forced a reform Of the speed SEIZED
ules. Now the ehild-killing has evidently
been resumed by the automobiles. as three
children have been run down and fatally
injured by speeding motor cars within a
week. Evidently drastic measures are re-
quired IL the automobile speeder is not
to remain a constent menace to the safety
OF the public
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

There are 1000, 900 words of testi-
mony in the Standard Oil Ease and the
lawyers are still to,talk. Poor judges.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

state OF Nebraska, Douglas County. So;
George p. T~zschuck. treasurer OF the Sec
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number OF full and complete
copies OF The Daily, Morning, Evening ano
Sunday Bee printed during the month OF
March. 1909. was AZ follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

poses, but the country wants no un-
reasonable delay. but rather prefers
promptness to perfection.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

So great has become the increase in pas
senger traffic over the various transpor-
tation lines of this city that statisticians
estimate that at the present time more
than 100000 people are transported daily.
This enormous traffic has overtsxed the
facilities of transportation, though tenn
porary relief was obtained by the construc-
ton OF the Subway.
The population OF Manhattan and the
Bronx Is nearly 50 per cent greater and
their area less than Is per cent Of that
OF the other three boroughs combined, and
yet a person can travel over ten miles Of
road in Manhattan and the Bronx in less
than half the time spent in travelling the
same distance through any other section
Of the city, and of the 100000 people trans
ported daily throughout the entire city
100000 are carried by the railways oper-
ating in the boroughs Of Manhattan and
the Bronx.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

A combination cloud Of smoke and fog
settled down on New York and adjacent
territory last Friday afternoon. producing
darkness for three hours r~ivalling the. best
efforts OF London. The gloom annoyed and
disguised all but two classes OF people.
Electric light and gas companies managed
to keep on a smiling front, for in those
three miserable hours they disposed OF
$4,000 worth OF their product. Conditions
about the city were such that traffic was
seriously impeded. Few craft moved on
the bay and the East and Hudson rivers,
except the ferries, and these boats were
driven at reduced speed and at less fire.
quent intervals. Incoming trains were de-
layed because the signals were not easily
discernible through the mist. IL" trains
were slow from the same reasons, and
even street traffic suffered.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

-
Net total .1,1s7,l55
Daily average as,e1T
GEORGE 3. TZsCHUCK. Treasurer.
subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before mo this LIST day of April, 1909.
NJ. p. WALKER,
CseaD Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Does Mrs. Peck's husband command a
good salary
He earns a good salary, she commands
it."-Poston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

New Curate-Can any of you tell me
how much it. costs to board an automobile
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

Old Resident-About $50. / think.
Young M. D.-But 1t only costs twenty
five to board a horse.
Miss Stenographer-And It only costs 5
cents to board a t~rolley-Success.