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Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19
GAS.

you say you have a good roads inven-
ton for automobiles? What sort Of thing
can that be?"
at is in the nature Of a eowcatcher to
pick up pedestrians and throw 'em out OF
the way"
Suppose it kills them?"
That's a toss-up."-Baltimore American
Pedestrian-How far is II to Aldershot?
Let me see. Well. as the crow files
Footsore T~ommy-Never mind 'ow the
beggar flies; 'ow far Is II as the beggar
'ops?-London Truth.
Waiter, has the steak been cooked?"
yes, sir; by electricity"
"Well, take 1t back and give II another
shock
81 wonder why the dressmaker, when
she goes out, always wears a wrap"
1T suppose for the same reason that the
bandits ave in comic opera"
What is that?'
''She wants to cloak her designs."-Balti-
more American.
There's a funny item in this paper about
an Ohio man refusing an offer OF a fat
eonsulship."
Where? Let me see It,"
There IL is"
20, you ninny! Don't you see the head
line over that collection OF items? Hap
penings Of Fifty Years Ago.'"-Chicago
Tribune.
What are your views on the income
taxT'
answered Senate Sorghum. There would
be no objection to it. If it could be so ar
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19
Commissioner Leupp's Retirement

The retirement of Indian Commits
sioner Leupp on account Of i'll health
concludes the service OF an Official
who has earnestly tried to do some
thing for the permanent benefit of
the Indian. We have had compare
lively few commissioners of Indian af-
fairs who understood the Indian and
his problems or cared about his
future. The Indian is and always has
been particularly a victim for the
greatest stumbling block in the way
of reforms.
The central idea Of Mr.. Leupp's
policy, as outlined by himself, was to
lead the Indian up to a capacity for
looking after his own property and
personal well-being instead Of having
the government as a guardian. There
is evidence of progress, but the work
is, OF course, too extensive to be ac-
complished in a short time, particu-
larly when selfish interests outside are
laboring ~incessantly to negative the
efforts. Misguided friends of the In
dian have also done much uncon-
sciously to hamper his advancement.
Mr.. Leupp's Official career stamped
him as an earnest man who had de-
voted much thought to the Indian
problems and, while his administra-
ton was by no means free from mis-
takes, he has made a record which
his successors will have to bestir
themselves TO keep up.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19
some Dreams We Have.
81 paul nianatch

Tn intimation that the Aldrich bin will
meet with determined opposition In the
house. is one Of the pleasant fictions Of
fered by Washington correspondents. The
bill will 80 TO conference and, when the
conferees, selected by S~tandpatters AIdrich
and Cannon. agree, the gag rule will be
applied and the measure passed by the
house without serious difficulty.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Nebraska City churches have estab-
Iished a rule against women wearing
has while In church and devolved
upon the ~janitor the duty of enforc-
ing the rule. How would you like to
be the church janitor?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Henry Watterson says the country
needs more true blue democrats.
There may be a need for more, but
those we have are certainly blue
enough.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

The government has let the contract
for the largest dry dock in the world
to be constructed in Hawaii at a cost
of $~1,75O,O0O. Dry docks come high,
but we must have them If we are to
keep up a navy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

At the Kearney banquet Mayor Jim
is to talk about local self-govern-
ment." Presumably, he will explain
to Governor shallenberger, who is also
to be there. the difference between
what was promised and what was de-
liYered.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Dean Davenport of the University
of Illinois calculates that the popula-
ton of the United States in 100 years
from now will be 1,4O0, 10000 No
race suicide observable in that calcu-
lation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

E. H. Hartman. James Stillman
and the governor OF the Bank Of
France lunched together in Paris. If
anyone can unlock the vast store Of
French capital reserve to help develop
this country Mr.. Hartman and Mr..
Stillman are most likely to find the
combination.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Omaha is gradually filling up the
vacant spaces in its business center
with attractive and impressive build
ings. People who cannot, or who will
not, improve their holdings should
make way for those who can and will.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Our local demo-pop contemporary
asks. Are We a nation Of suckers?"
Evidently not, inasmuch a. the coun-
try has repeatedly refused TO go dem
ocratic at four successive presidential
elections.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

A Pennsylvania man is suing an
other for time spent prosecuting pre-
vious Law suits against the defendant.
If he his success might lead
to reform in the matter of the inter-
minable continuances often sought by
~Ittiqants.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Minister WI says the Americans
work too hard when they play. Those
Washingtonians who are under his
observation also have a habit of play
ing too hard when they pretend to
work.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

The London suifragettes have or
gEniEeA . band. II that does not
compel m government in ~self-defense
to grant the demands OF the women
they might as well quit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Judge Fawcett warns college grad
yates against ofice-seeking as n of
the four evils Of the day. He wants
It distinctly understood, however. thar
he is not afraid to tackle It himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

The Illinois supreme court has de-
clared the direct primary law to be
defective. Ex-senator Hopkins could
have told the astuts judges that much
some time ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

With Creighton university. Belle
vue college and ali the various ana
professional and secondary schools To-
Gated here. Omaha Is getting to be
something Of An educational center
itself
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19
NEW PLAN.
Elusive Proats.
o. 60

.hNAhNN NNNMNas
Boston Herald.
Neither congress nor the president has
yet discovered means for locating and de-
filming the profits OF manufacturer for
purposes of tariff readJustment. BY what
means will the profits Of corporations be
determined for purposes OF federal taxa
lion? The special message to congress will
be watched eagerly for the how as we'll
as the why Of this new scheme Of cor
poration punishment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

The first Of the New York SNUG
glers have been tried and sentenced
TO terms in prison. 1t seldom pays IN
the long run to try to defraud>Uncle
Sam.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Nebraska's newly appointed fire
warden used to be in the cigar bust
ness, which. Of course, makes him an
expert on IRE and smoke.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Unfortunately for the desire to
limit ornaments. the rules will no
permit putting on a limit after the
game commences unless all the play
ers consent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

With Nebraska's state debt praeti-
cally extinguished, the next thing is
to keep out of debt. Eternal vigil
lance is the price of avoiding the red
ink column.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19
Perish tbs Thought.
indianapolis News

Maybe II congress hadn't raised the
salaries OF Its members from $500 TO 1850
q year that plan TO tax all incomes over
IS 200 would get more consideration.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Government engineers are working
on plans for strengthening the channel
OF the Duwamish river in Washington.
What's the matter with starting in on
the manner
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Nebraska is to furnish the American
consul at Mauritius. II any Of FOL
are over that way just drop in and
the new consul win try to make you
feel at home
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Note that that democratic love feast
at Kearney is to be pulled of with
malice afOrethought before the new
8 o'clock closing law goes into effect.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

II a powerful navy and a big army
constitute the price Of peace that arti-
Gle will soon be higher than either
bread or meat.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Governor Hughes commission indi-
Gates that lamb stew Is to continde
the favorite dish OF Wall street.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

The man in the moon does not
wear a big hat. anyway, for he was
eble to obscure only a portion of the
sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pSrarily shOula have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Boston has been foremost in agi-
tatinG for a safe and sane Fourth, but
had it not better commence on Bunker
Hill day?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

If this keeps up Superintendent
Davidson will grow round-shouldered
carrying all his honorary collegiate
degrees.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

The Wright brothers have at last
been honored at home. II anything
were lacking to prove that they have
scored a success this action supplies 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

A magistrate has decided that It lie
not a crime to kiss a New York girl.
No, but 1t may be extremely bad taste.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19
arArrMENr on CIRCULATION.

etate OF Nebraska, Douglas County S.
George D TEsohuck, treasurer OF Ine
Bee Publishing Company, oslnS uu nX
and complete copies Of Ths Daily. MORN
Ing, Evening and Sunday Bee printed our
ing the month of May, 1909, was as tol-
INWvA
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19
ranged that my special friends won't havt
20 pay it."-Washlngton Star.

MY clothes cost me next to nothing
They ought to-"
why?
Because they are next to nothing. -
Houston Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Washington Herald.
1t Is a blessed thing for the memoir OF
Jay Gould that he left a daughter Helen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19
In Other Lands

Side Lights on what is Trans
piring Among the Near and
Far Nations Of the Earth
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

UEOFtGN u. TNbCdUCh-
Treasurer.
subscribed In my presence and gworn to
ostofe me this aist day Of May, 1908
M p, WALKER.
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Saturday is the last day of our Pre-
Inventory Sale.
Mems Suits SIS, formerly sold up
to $35.
Boys Suits 112.5O. formerly sold
up to $40.
Children's Suits IS. formerly sold
up to $40.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Waiter, has the steak been cooked?"
Eyes, sir; by electricity"
well, TAX 1t back n give II anothe
hock."-Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

James Hamilton Lewis .ex-congressman
and incorporation council of Chicago,
writing to The Chicago Evening Post from
Seoul, says Of Corean women: "A woman
is the least Of things I'm Corea and the
smallest consideration, living or dead. A
slave, then a free woman, yet always only
the mistress or servant, or both, though
called wife and compelled to endure as
many others In her household as the hus-
band may bring, while the slightest infrac-
ton on her part is met with exile, divorce
or death. She does the work. He is a
dandy and gambler, though he is no
boisterer. makes no noise, no loud-volced
declarations, no clatter on the streets I'M
less It is a fight"
According to statistics Just issued by the
National Union of German Labor Ex-
changes there were on January l. SS9 such
institutions in Germany. of which 2O were
in Prussia and the rest spread over the
other states OF the empire. During the
last statistical year work was found for
Ss2, s5s persons, OF whom 667,4 Al were men
and 2G5, 545 women. The great central ex-
change in Berlin secured employment for
over 10000 people. The exchanges at
Munich and Stuttgart placed between $1,000
and SO,O OO and Dresden and Dusseldorf be-
tween 40, 1000 and 10000.
go
This singular, paragraph appears in the
North China Daily News; Recently his
highness, the prince regent, observed to
the grand councillors. in a conversation
with those dignitaries, that, whereas there
have been. OF old. gods OF winds, clouds,
thunder and rain and the like in China. it
is not known who they were nor in what
dynasty they were born. Furthermore, the
prince inquired how IL came TO be known
that they we're defined. The venerable
counciloE ruminHted upon the question for
a considN ahle while without being able to
satisfy the princes curiosity" Then the
North China News asks: May this in
quirlng spirit he held to presage the ult-
mate decay Of idolatry In the emDire?'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-19

Entered at oman pOstOffics as second
elafa matter.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
NO. S461-LADIES' THIRTEEN
GORE SKIRT.

No matter how simple or elaborate
ones wardrobe may be, the practical
skirt for street wear is always nee
essary. The model here shown is
sheath fitting and may be made with
or without the band fold. Among
the materials suited to it's develop
ment are smooth-faced cloths, Pan
ANA, wolfe, linen, veilings, and sup
pie satins. The pattern is cut in S
sizes: 22-24-26-28-3O inches, waist
measure.
A pattern of this illustration will
be mailed to any address upon re-
celpt of 10 cents in stamps or silver.
State size wanted Address
JEFFERSONIAN PATTERN DEPT,
Thomson, Ga.
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Dbe 3effersontan
Conducted BY Grace Kirkland

their best for the unfortunates under
the care of the state, and hope that
the investigation now under way will
serve to give all due credit to such.
However, we must remind our cor
respondent that even an attendant
does not know the full workings OF
an asylum. In the female wards, for
instance, how can attendants there
know the things which go on in the
wards that are under the control of
the male attendants alone? And it
is in these wards that the complaints
of brutality seem mostly to have aris-
en-. The Investigating committee re-
testified were, several of them, in
toxicated, and altogether unfit for
the responsibilities of their positions
indeed, hardly seemed to compre-
bend that they should come sober
before the men sent there to inquire
into conditions. This opens up
frightful vista of thought; are
drunken men given unlimited power
over the helpless? Don't we know
how the tenderest husband and faith
er has, under the influence of liquor,
beaten and abused, or even murder
ed his family? Enough has been
proved to- show that very many
things are seriously in need of cor
rectiOn, and surely this can be done
without damaging any well-earned
reputation for fidelity and kindness
on the part of anyone connected with
the institution.
AS to the underscored remark that
it would be absolutely impossible to
find a man or woman who did not
have to work who would do the
work required of the employees of
the state at this place." we feel like
taking gentle issue. Not knowing
the rule at Milledgeville, but under
standing the we'll established Gus
tom of other similar places, no man
or woman of the slightest bodily in
trinity, or of inferior physique, is
desired. This means that the able
bodied alone are employed, it being
we'll understood that sickly attend
ants could not be expected to show
that firmness and patience so requi-
site and that cheerfulness so desira-
BILE. And it is hard to believe that
there is a well, capable woman who
couldn't earn about as much, else
where, as she can make as nurse in
the asylum. Homes are crying too
loudly for help, paying too good
wages; opportunities here, for
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16

children in Georgia not in the SAM
tarium who are in far worse plight
(barring their mental condition)
than those in this institution. AS
Carlyle said of England, Georgia
contains SO many thousands of men
mostly fools-it goes without say
ing that they are not all in the San
itarium. I would make no excuse
for wrong-doers, but don't put the
blame all on this institution, but on
the state, where it properly belongs.
The recent Legislature is noted for
having done nothing. 1t is up to
them to relieve the minds of our peo-
pie of any doubtful distress in re-
gard to the treatment their people
receive here. Let the people know
the truth.
One thing more, there is not a
physician in this institution who
would stand for mistreatment of the
patients under his care, not one. The
public should also remember that
someone may have ''an axe to grind,
and see to it that they don't get it
ground for nothing.
GEORGE MARTIN"
Milledgeville, Ca
We have printed other articles by
George Martin" and it is but fair
that space should be given to this.
1t is very unfortunate, truly, that
any well-intentioned, kindly, self
sacrificing nurse or attendant has
to suffer in public estimation. Per-
haps this is very potent reason
why conditions in any institution
should not be allowed to come to
such a pass that the innocent have
to suffer with the guilty. However,
an investigation is not meant as an
attack upon any particular indi-
vldual or set of individuals. The
management, primarily, is to blame
for retaining improper employees
and thus doing double injustice to
those who are doing their full duty,
first by paying them no more than
the negligent, and second by sub
Jectlng them to the humiliation of
knowing that they, en- masse, labor
under a cloud of doubt We are
glad to believe that George Mar
TIM has found many who are doing
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intelligent men and women, boys
and girls, should be held up to pub
lie as brutes or anything of the sort
It is a fact that there are some in
the institution not very we'll suited
for the work, but by far the great
er number of the nurses are ABOVE
the average man or woman whose
life has been one long, hard strug-
gle for existence and it would be
absolutely impossible to find man
or woman who did not have to work
who would do the work required OF
the employees of the state at this
place, and the higher you go the less
sympathy and forbearance you will
find manifested toward the suffering
and afflicted. Where the man or
woman highly educated would turn
away with thrill of horror, per-
haps, we must hesitate at nothing,
no matter how mental the labor, nor
how great the danger, we must do
many of the people of the State of
Georgia would hesitate to do for
their own.
1t is hard, bitter hard, to know
that all your life only the dirty,
nasty work will fall to your lot, (and
that through no fault Of your OWN
that always you must be poorly paid,
always to toll with no chance ever
to improve. Horrid doesn't express
it. And yet all over the State of
Georgia goes up the cry that the in
mates of the Sanitarium are treated
as convicts; are being beaten and
starved into submission to the will
of indiscriminate nurses, which is
false absolutely. The man Or wom
an who has never had the trial of
caring for and bearing with the in
sane cannot give me advice as to
how to deal with them, and if
brought in actual contact with the
problem of daily caring for and di-
recting them, would fall far short of
what they expect in others
The public doesn't know, will
never know, of the questions to be
met and answered at a moments no.
tice. Many times the question is
one of life and death and only i'm
mediate action and drastic measures
will prevent your taking a trip to
kingdom come.
The States most unfortunate
wards" are in the Sanitarium because
they are a menace to society, then
must we, citizens of this same state,
close our eyes and let the blows fall
where they will? If we did, the
state would have to employ new
set of nurses and physicians every
few months. Won't some one who
doesn't know anything of life here
come and spend a year with us-then
think, then think some more. True
more personal attention could be
given some or all the patients and
not be given amiss, but to do this
the number Of nurses must be in
creased, for already the burden is
heavy on those here.
But in spite of all that has been
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might Involve SerVlCUQe! AND far
better battle the soldering epileptics
at an asylum, than to battle the
sweet little babies of some over-bur-
dened, worn-out mother who is eager
for assistance, and cannot find any
reliable, tender, womanly girl or
woman to be one of the family and
hold up her tired hands For men,
there is perhaps a lesser field, but
still field, wherein the able-bodied
.laborer could obtain his hire
1t is a grave statement to make
that attendants in our state institu-
lions are there merely for the small
wages they receive. That, in itself,
renders them unfit. 1t makes them
resentful Of any extra trouble occa-
stoned by the needs or wants of
patient; makes them resentful of
the routine; makes them come al
most to hate the poor creatures who
cause it, not realizing that if it were
not for the presence of those very
unfortunates, the attendants would
not have the positions which mean
bread and butter, shelter and cloth
ing, companionship with others do
ing similar work, plenty of time for
rest and recreation, and, in short,
those very advantages which led
them to choose the state work rather
than seek employment elsewhere!
There isn't a doctor who doesn't go
through hard training, who doesn't
have to do constantly the most me-
NAL services for others, if he stopped
to consider his help to suffering as
mental" There is not nurse who
doesn't have period Of dull proba-
ton, doing work that many a servant
would disdain, and who does not
throughout her practice, have to en-
counter disagreeables of all Sorts
captious, ungrateful, untruthful pa
tients, offensive wounds, sleepless
nights and trying days, general hard
ship which shortens her life by
many year. Yet, she doesn't think
SAS 10 CCl Aply ILL pOOCu Ou, duu Sic
chose the work from love of service,
not money.
In no place does love tighten labor
so much as in that work which deals
direct with humanity. At best, all
are faulty, and the sick in mind or
body would be abhorrent to us if we
approached them just for pay. There
must be loving kindness and loving
forgiveness always. No one can teach,
or nurse or attend upon another with
any self-satisfaction without feeling
sincere wish to give happiness and
comfort. There is no creature SO
loathsome, SO abhorrent, but that we
ourselves may come to resemble
The beautiful, cultured woman today
may be a screeching, senseless bag
tomorrow, tearing off her clothing,
kept decent with difficulty; the
brainy man of this year may be
lunatic, gross and vile, the next; and
before us all who may live beyond
our three-score-and looms the
possibility of a senility that may
leave us doddering wrecks upon the
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PAGE TWO

7ILL no one say word in de-
HAL tense of the nurses of the
UA Georgia State Sanitarium?
&u~m9 1t is a burning shame that
Milford chronicle., 1909-02-19
Nlanara Falls Ice Bound.

Only tiny rivulet not deep nor swift
enough to carry a pulp log over the
brink Is flowing over the American
side OF Niagara Falls. A strong north
east wind. which has blown since Fri
day. has held back the water and al
lowed the ice to gain a foothold
great wall of ice runs from the
head of Goat island to the American
mainland through which only tiny
streams are able to trickle. This wall
has even encroached on the Canadian
channel, extending out some 200 feet
beyond the third Sister island and
greatly diminishing the fow over the
Horseshoe Only the very apex of the
Canadian fall is left and that is robbed
OF half its flow The gorge below is
chOked and the rapids have lost their
fury while the whirlpool is barely in
motion.
This is only the third time that this
com bination OF wind and ice has thus
affected the falls since the white man
came here. The other occasions were
on March %. 1S4S. and March %. 1903.
Milford chronicle., 1909-02-19

Of oil fuel without in any degree re-
ducing the capacity Of the coal
bunkers. She will have triple ex
pansion reciprocating engines and
will require over 600 men TO man her
Her armament will consist of a
main battery Of ten I2-inch breech
loading rifles and her secondary
battery will be fourteen 5-inchrapid-
fire guns, four ) FOUNDER saluting
guns, four FOUNDER semi-automatic
guns, two 3-inch field pieces and
two machine guns Of 80 caliber. She
has two submerged torpedo tubes.
The Delaware will have dis
placement on trial of 1000 tons,
OF ?, 100 tons greater than the Brit
ish Dreadnought and 80 tons
greater than Great Britain 5 latest
vessel Of that type, the Vanguard.