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Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

as they were all married and had to take their
wives to the ball. To think is to act with Mr..
Dietz, and he soon had two carriages, Git was
in the days when automobiles were not SO
plentifu), and made the rounds of the hotels
and in a couple Of trips had all the maids
landed safely at the big den and ready for the
ball.
The troubles of the chairman we're not an
end. He had to introduce the maids around
and see that they had their dance programs
filled out, and here, also, did the chairman
do his work with ease and grace.
One of the most embarrassing situations in
which the chairman Of the ball committee was
placed was one day just before the ball, when
an elderly woman with her beautiful daughter
walked into Mr.. Dietz's office on a mistaken
errand. The woman had received a notice from
Samson that her daughter was to be one Of
the maids of honor, and the woman in the
excitement had read the letter wrong and
thought that the daughter had been chosen
to be queen. The woman was all worked up
over the honor which had been bestowed upon
her beautiful daughter, and when the hard
hearted chairman of the ball committee in
formed her of the mistake she had made, she
was nearly heartbroken.
One of the hard tasks set before the chair
man of the ball committee each year is to ar
range the list of maids of honor and waiting
maids and special maids and out-of-town
maids, and here is where the chairman has to
get real busy. When 1t is considered that
there are some less than 5000, 900 subjects
in the realm of King Ak-Sar-Ben, with hun
dreds of cities, it is easy to be seen that some
one will be sighted, who will feel the slight
that some, one will be overlooked, who is really
entitled to recognition. One year the chairman
got around the difficulty by writing to the
leading banker in each of the towns of Ne
braska, and had him name the most available
young woman in his town for the position Of
maid.
The select list is prepared with great care,
and the chairman passes many s~leepless nights
in his efforts to see that no one has his feel
ings hurt by being left off the list when his
family should have recognition. 1t has become
the custom to take the maids from the daugh-
ters and wives OF the members of Ak-Sar-Ben,
and especially from those who do the work
each week at the den.
When the time for the ball approaches and
the invitations are sent out, the chairman
again has a busy time. The replies are all
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

of brilliancy will equal the cleaning Of 1885,
600 candles. The glow that will fill the
streets thronged with the merry-making
crowds will be cast far skyward and visible
for many miles. From the depots, the por-
tails of the city, to the heart Of the carnival
grounds the city's visitors will be bathed in
the radiance of the countless sparkling in
candescent bulbs.
The wiring and installation OF the illum-
ination system is complete and but awaits
the signal on Wednesday night to shower the
city with radiant effulgence. The installation
was made under the direct supervision Of
Waldemar Mlchaelsen, city electrician. The
general principle involved in this illumina-
ton is that of those that have previously
made the city gay-a generous distribution
of many small lights. The streets are painted
with light in an even coat, It is not put on in
concentrated glares.
With the exception OF the gorgeous glow
that will light the carnival grounds, the peo-
pie of Omaha have seen the record estab-
fishing illumination during the Eagles con-
vention and on the occasion Of the visit of
President Taft.
SOM Of the mechanical features of the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

illumination are of interest. Not less than
twenty-five miles of heavily insulated copper
wire convey the actuating current to the
light. This energy is measured at 500 horse
power. Many a ton of coal must pass into
the boilers to keep that twenty-five mile
string of incandescents aglow. Each ruddy
little flament draws its share.
The general effect of the illumination is
gained from the use of clear white light, but
the principal street intersections are made
especially gay with sweeping festoons of red.
The red ~festoons are supported high above
the street and from the lofty apex run down
to each corner.
This is the first time that the illumination
has been extended to the depots. The felicity
Of the idea is obvious. There must be no
dark moments for Omaha's visitors.
There seems to be an indehnable connec-
ton between light and happiness-hence the
value of the illumination for carnival nights.
Even a cloudy day depresses ones spirits and
everybody rises to exclaim when the sun
shine appears again. Nobody has any fun in
the dark, that is crowds don't. Shadows on
a park seat for two constitute about all there
is agreeable in darkness. The spirit Of the
carnival demands light so the city of Omaha
will buy $4,000 worth of it for the frolickers
of Ak-Sar-Ben.
OF course the substantial and reliable
welcome" arch will do duty during the car
nival. The front of the city hall is to be
faced with 1000 incandescent bulbs and the
arch carries 200.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26
Street Examinations for Carnival

frolickers of Ak-Sar-Ben
will make merry under the
greatest illumination that
the city has seen. The
downtown streets and the
carnival area will be veri-
tably showered with a
glory of light. The flood
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25

aeropane detachment will have something to occupy
their leisure time such occasions Foremost among
the occupations planned is practice In telegraphy All
of the of the signal corps are expected to kno"
something the practical side Of telegraphy and this
accomplishment will be especially essential to the mem.
bers OF the acropane detachment because OF the mpor
In wireless and other telegraphy which the
United States army officers propose to carry on by
of arshps and war balloons. In order to qualify
men for this work short telegraph lines have been
constructed at the College Park field. with sending and
receiving stations at opposite ends of the building and
almost any hour OF the day members OF the detach'
ment can be found ut the keys at these stations
How late in the autumn the aeronautical activities
will continue at College Park will be dependent OF
largely upon the weather, The government has
leased its aviation field until next March, with privilege
of renewal and in the event that the coming winter Is
open would not be surprising II work continues
of and all through the winter The men or the aero
plane detachment be made comfortable in their pres
entent quarters and the machine Is well housed. The
experience which the members of the aeopane detach
ment are gaining will undoubtedly prove valuable in
abng them to take charge of the field when the next
international aviation meet is held in this country next
year as the result of the victory of Glenn Curtlss In
France few months ago.
It will be remembered that the United States army
balloon squad did efficient work In connection with aero
naucs at the jamestown exposition and at the start OF
the great international balloon at ST. Louis The
proficiency could be expected OF the army aero
planiss in handling the machines at the meet next
year Especially would they be qualified to render such
aid to the avaiaors II the meet is held at the College
Park ground. Washington and Baltimore are now CO.
operating energecay for the selection Of this territory
as the OF the aerial freeor.a OF 1870 and It is
expected OF the strongest claims for Its seec
ton will be found in the fact that Uncle Sam has ready
to hand at College Park acceptable aviation field
manned by soldiers who thoroughly familiar not only
with local conditions but also with the technical side of
aeronautics.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25

are employed by
the army officers
to cover the dis.
lance quito k y
and the enlisted
men have the
use Of a motor
cycle. a type Of
vehicle which is
fast coming to
have an impor.
tant place in the
activities of the
signal corps.
By reason Of
weather cOndi.
tons and other
c | Gu instances
there will be
many days when
aeroplane flights
at College Park
will be few and
far between. but
the men Of the
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25
stages Of progress.

distancp from company once AleI Sou nav"
gone Mt your own expense to Milwaukee, Dubuque or
Kansas CITY there await telegraphic orders as TO
what to do next you take 1t out IN waiting Inc Or
dcrs never come and when you get back to the com
panys office you find that the company mas hoated
away on the magic carpet nobody knows where
But it was soon found by the swinders that these
devices like the green goods game were rather crude
and almost equally unsafe So to the education OF tho
man who ran the half interest or employment scheme
was added postgraduate course in high finance
It came to be recognized by the swndng gentry
that there nothing like a corporation when one
wanted to do a really safe and prosperous business.
Then too the corporation must have something some"
where,
If II is mining company 1t must have hole In
the ground II It is Il rubber coffee company 1t must
have some sort of concession from the Mexican or
South American government, which 1t Is always very
easy TO get II a cotton concern must have fence
corner somewhere down south.
These things actually necessary In order to show
in court when the time comes that the men who have
your money have endeavored to out their part
of the and that they have failed merely their
misfortune For to fail in business is not necessarily
crime
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25
WHAT. INDEED7

James was always kind Of morose" said Mrs Page
to her caller but he's married again, II
he couldn't bear to have anybody smile There you co.
he says Almry, the other day, always singing them
secular songs In this vale of What you was took
sudden says he and called to last account with the
Soldiers Tear" In your mouth? Exchange.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25

idea that the Brsher is the ready md willing OF
all men to part with his money thing gamester'
but when comes competition against all corners tho
average American hits the bullseye
The sure thing men C. day Incorporated know this
and buld upou II one of the biggest OF them claimed
not long ago that II he given time be could sell
worthless stock to three Americans out O; every Ve pro
vded the Guble three had the money or could raise IT,
He actually counts upon victim for every 90 circu
ars sent ont through the mails The as
the postal officials tell you is dupe for every hundred
circulars Not bad considering the cheapness OF print
ing and postage.
There is firm in New York that collects and SOILS
of peope who buy things through the mails or
who have at some time evnced desire 10 do So 1heSe
addresses are sold at IS thousand. They are assorted
under various headings IT, for example l2ooo men nn
49,, To- or,licotiops for wives to n New York matrimonial
hraou that list is worth Sc to 81 diamond ring concern
that is setting up circular mill
The sure thing operator has passed through various
stages Of progress. The now unsafe sue" s"'e; 81 So
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25
cHlGGER HAS MULTIPLIED

Since its introduction from America the chgger has
spread far and wide along the west of Africa and
is now a greatly dreaded pest
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25
NEW GOLD BRICK GAMES.

Americans are the of the credulous, declares
writer In Pearsons Magazine We sometimes harbor the
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25
NEVERTHELESS.

1t is pretty hard to become enthusiastic woman
who ceased to what other women are wearing
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25


brick and green goods swindles
which he operated with such profit
able results in the eighties and the
earlv ninetles made way for the
half.interest game, which nourlshed
10 years ago, and the employment
game. which IL still going on.
though not to its former extent.
The halfintercst advertiser sofa
you a partnership in anything from
peanut stand to a piano factory.
When you had bought II the next
thing was to find It, or II you tound
# YOU discovered that 1t belonged
TO somebody else who knew moth
ing about the men who sold 1t to
you.
The employment game consists
OF an opportunity to sell on high
salary the goods or the stock OF
company in which you must first
buy shares. Then when you have
paid over your money you are as
signed territory, generally a long
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25

ITH the establishment OF
Il United States govern
ment aviation field at Col.
lege Park. Md, a brand
new branch OF the regular
army has come into its
own. This latest innova-
ton In Uncle Sans mill.
tary establishment Is an
aeroplane squad, or, as 1t
is designated officially. the
aeroplane detachment of
the United States signal
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-11-25

enort b G n &
made to pick
men who by
reason of train.
ing or tempera.
ment may be
expected to de.
velop into gen.
uine specialists
In the work.
Much OF the
work which the
men of the aer.
oplane detach.
ment are doing
at College Park
r e p r s e nts
brand new eX.
p ri g n G @ to
them. Several
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-11

Giddingses, the Beechers and others of the north persisted in meddling. If they had never advocated the thing, Kentucky would have been a free state by 1s5o and so would Virginia.
 When the war came Dr. Breckinridge was an ardent Union man. and presided over the convention that nominated Iin- coln at Baltimore in 1864 for reelection to the presidency, but he had two sons in the Confederate army and one in the federal. But there was nothing singular in that-divided families were the rule in intelligent Kentucky in 1861.
 Except Matt Carpenter, I would hesi- tate a long time before I would name the equal of w. c. P. Breckinride as an orator among the men 1t has been my fortune to hear and the styles of Breck- inridge and Carpenter were so different that there is no comparing them. Take Breckinridge at his best and it was easy to believe that the blood of Patrick Henry was in his veins. For sustained effort Bourke Cochran at his best was possibly superior to Breckinrldge; but I have known the Kentuckian to attain flights the Irishman never reached and in a Congress that contained Breckinridge. Cochran, Bryan and William L.. Wilson, a vote of the audiences, on floor or In gall
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no apportionment among the states of this per cent tax and therefore the collec- ton became illegal. The application for injunction was denied by the district judge, and an appeal was taken to the federal supreme court.
 When the case was brought to a hear ing before the supreme court, Justice Jackson was i'll at his home In Tennessee. The bench of eight equally divided on the case and the effect of the appeal was to affirm the court below. So the income tax remained valid.
 But application was made for a rehear- ing and meantime the full bench was obtained by the recovery and return of Justice Jackson. The rehearing was within month of the original hearing. Jackson would have given the weight of the court to the act. Within this month of waiting, however, one of the justices changed sides, going from his original opinion favorable to the law to the re- verse
 Senator Morgan hoped to reopen the case. He contended that the decision of the court went beyond the case at bar, to overthrow many sections of the Will son-Gorman bill which were not at is- sue; and that under the sections which had not been placed in controversy in any court, nor decided in any court, the gov ernment was free to collect the per cent income tax
 Thus, on June 4, 1898, the senator from Alabama introduced an amendment to the pending war revenue bill' that is the
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of American politics-famous at once for the passion of his eloquence and the sage of his counsel-had not looked round and found slaves of Virginia infinitely more contented and immeasurably better provided for than the free negroes of that commonwealth.
 Colonel Brownlow tells me that one of the granddaughters of Mrs Russell was the wife of John B. Floyd, Secretary of War in President Buchanan's cabinet, and that reminds me that some years ago was in rather heated controversy in the columns of a leading newspaper, open to letters from the people" with rather dogmatio adversy, who called Floyd all sorts of traitor for sending arms to the south, while he was Secretary of War, and accounting for the earlier Confed- crate victories on that assertion.
 I searched all day in the war office and found that not a gun was sent to a southern arsenal after February, 1S60 and that there was not a single day of Buohanan's administration that single southern arsenal had it's allotted quota of arms, while every day of that admin.stra- tion the arsenals of the north had more than their quota. That was natural be- cause the guns were made at the north Now Floyd could have sent every weapon south, and had John c. Fremont been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-11
HEREDITARY GENIUS-By Savoyard

President 1S57-61, and Ben Wade his Sec retary of War. and peace yet unbroken, just as many guns would have gone south as Floyd sent. After I printed that the proceedings had no more interest for my adversary.
 Robert J. Breckinridge was the greatest man of the name, though his nephew, John C., the Vice President, had more admirers than any other man Kentucky ever produced except Henry Clay. It Is a tradition that Robert J. Breckinridge g brother, the father of John C., gave promise of a genius and career that would have ecllpsed those of any other member of the family, but he died young.
 For many years Dr. Breclinridge was the most eminent clergyman of the Pres byterian church; but, like the clergy of Scotland and of England, indeed of all Europe, indeed of New England, Dr. Breckinridge asserted his right to take a hand in the affairs of Caesar. The son of John Breckinridge, the friend and counsellor of Jefferson, he was educated for the bar. but abandoned It for the church. In 1S49 he was defeated for dele gate to the constitutional convention be- cause of his hostility to slavery, and when the new instrument was submitted he went on the stump In advocacy if the 'topen clause" which was defeated be- cause the Cartisons, the Phllipses, the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-11
NEAR THE SOUTH POLE-By Lady Henry Somerset

scope to commemorate her national fes- tival, to wear the green and to have the blessing of her own church upon her fes- tivity
 The Queens regiment, the Irish Guards, was decked with shamrock on St Pat rick's Day, provided from Ireland by Queen Alexandria herself. Even the drums of the regiment and the pet dog were decorated.
 The great St. Patrick's eve fete at Dublin Castle was especially brilliant. Lady Aberdeen wore a court dress of Irish saffon poplin with Irish embroder- ies, with a Celtic design in gold on the cream Irish poplin train.
 In the shipbuilding group the ladies wore charming sea-green dresses painted round the hem with silver fishes. Lady Haddo headed the group which represent ed minerals; Lady Castlemaine that of marbles; Lady Walker, soaps, candles and perfumes
 Then came the dairying section and the poultry industries, horticulture and bee keeping, the Irish horse industry, and so on; carpets and Connemara curtains, brushes and baskets.
 One of the most interesting costumes was that representing peat, reproduc- tion of one dug out of a Tipperary bog mora than 60 years ago.
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house was the kinsman of Montrose, and Berwick was the nephew of Marlborough. Vendome was the son of Henry of Na- varre, Don John was the son of Charles V, who was the grandsire of Alexander Farnese Caligny was but the most fla nous of a family of heroes. The two William Pitts well illustrated the trans mission of genius from father to son. Henry Fox. his son, Charles James, and his grandson, Lord Holland. were all fla nous men, the last two lineal descend ants of Charles II. All of these cita- tions, and thousands more could be made, only tend to prove that Tom Marshall was right in that audacious and risque interpolation with which he began his brilliant lectures on Napoleon Bonaparte before a select and aristocratio audience in Philadelphia some time ago.
 But to get back to Mrs. Russell She was a remarkable woman, and 1t is a well established tradition that in fireside converse she rivaled the e10quence of her demi-god of a brother in the forum. Like all the distinguished Virginians of her day. she was hostile to the institution of African slavery, though herself a slaveholder; but in her will she manumit- ted all she owned, an example that would have been followed, many years later, by Henry A. Wise, if that splendid meteor
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were four generations of distinguished Adamases, and 1t is a curious fact that the mother of John 0. Adams and the mother of R. Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina were sisters. It has been stated that there were six generations of ex- traordinary men, mostly clergymen, of the Edwards family, beginning with Jonathan Edwards, the grandfather of Aaron Burr The Marshall family also is famous for hereditary genius. It is as- serted in book that I read some time ago that Thomas Jefferson, John Ram dolph of Roanoke, John Marshall and Robert E. Lee all found a common an- cestor in a Randolph of the last half of the seventeenth century.
 The patrician house of the Marcii, of the Rome that was grand, could scarce equal that showing in like period of time Marcus Brutus, who killed Caesar, was a lineal descendant of the Junius Brutus who banished Tarquin. He was nephew, also, of Cato the Younger, and scandal said he had even more illustrious parentage, the most illustrious, perhaps, that profane history can show. To come down to a later period. Edward III, per- haps the greatest of the Plantagenets, was the father of the Black Prince, and the grandfather of Shakespeares Prince Hal. who, as Henry V, overcame France and conquered the French crown. Claver-
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bill providing means to prosecute the war with Spain.
 The first section of the Morgan amend ment read as follows: That the Secre- tary of the Treasury is required to pro- of taxes imposed by sections 27, 2S. 29, 3o 31, 32, SS, 34 35, 3e and 37 of the'-wilson- German bill.
 The second section of the amendment required the Attorney General to institute suit to compel the Secretary of the Treas ury to obey the mandate of the act. If the Attorney General omitted or refused to act then "any person who is liable to pay any tax imposed by this act is au- thorized to institute such proceedings in any circuit court of the United States, in the name of the United States of Amer lea, to compel the Secretary of the Treas ury to execute the mandate of this act, etc. The petitioner was made expressly exempt from any costs and the supreme court, if appeal be taken, was required to hear the case with all convenient speed"
 The senator from Alabama argued his amendment at once, with extreme earn estness and lucidity. Senators listened in- tently. Several rose to interrupt him in approval. Senator Hoar, from his seat said: "The senator's argument is cer- tafnly one of the most interesting and in- structive contributions to this great ques- ton which has ever been made-I am in clined to think, the most interesting and instructive contributions to the debate that has been made" etc.
 No other senator spoke. The vote was