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Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

An impressive vindicatlon OF Governor
Hughes course in striving to reform the
Insurance department OF the state comes
from the scandalous looting Of the Phoenix
Insurance company Of Brooklyn. During
his first term Governor Hughes sought to
remove Superintendent Kelsey from the
department. Kelsey was shown to be in
and in suspiciously high power
with the insurance companies. The state
senate rejected the governors recommen-
dations and Kelsey held on. The removal
OF the lid from the Phoenix mess shows
that Kelsey's deputy superintendent, Bob
ert II. Hunter, borrowed $4,000 from the
Brooklyn concern, repaying all but $4,000
of the loan. Another subordinate borrowed
$4,000 and paid back all but 5000, which
was charged off as legal services" other
officers dipped into the Phoenix pot for
less sums. The revelations confound the
political enemies Of the governor, and ex-
torts from the New York Sun a scorching
roast for the blockheads Of the state re-
publican machine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
PERSONAL NOTES.
source.

A Chinaman has won the Ten Eyck
Junior prize at Yale. Yellow and blue is
the color scheme of a starry night, with
yellow for the stars.
The subscriptions for the portrait of
Grover Cleveland. to be placed in the
executive chamber at Albany have now
reached the sufficient amount Of 1900.
A. s. Collngton of Westwcod. N. Y,
took an automobile trip In his $3.50 ma,
chime ana after ne had coilided with a
truck sold the outfit for $40 because he
needed carfare,
A Gotham policeman knocked a mans
Jaw into place by clubbing his chin, Az
there are many other jaws out Of order,
this newly discovered chin treatment seems
timely and advisable.
Tn Clarkson family Of Potsdam, N. Y,
has solved the servant girl problem at
least once. Mary Ann Tees. who died the
other day at the arc OF 80, had been 4
servant IN the family for siXty-four years
and had saved S10,O 200 from her wages.
DR.. Koch. the bacteriologist, has reported
the successful experiments made with cats
for the eradication OF rats IN plaguo-ln-
fected and plague-menaced harbors OF
China, In Hongkong orders have been Is
sued providing for the maintenance Of one
rat in every house.
In handing TO the kaiser, in person. the
gold medal OF the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
ton, General Stewart l.. woodford OF New
York, win extend to his majesty the as.
surances OF our most distinguished con.
sideration and incidentally demonstrates
that he himself is only "a years young and
qualified for a great variety OF ceremonial
missions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
Extension Of Civil servins.

President Taft's recent order lnclud-
ing the diplomatic appointments
within the province Of civil service is
a timely exemplihcation Of DR.. Eliot's
point in his annual address as presl-
dent Of the National Civil Service Re
form league, that the extensions of the
classified service have proceeded from
the executive rather han from con-
gress. DR.. Eliot makes the significant
comment:
1T will be an interesting and some
what unexpected development in the
working of the constitution II the pres
ident, elected by the whole people,
turns out to be a better interpreter of
the peoples wishes and purposes in an
ethical and economic reform than the
members of the two legislative bodies
elected by states or by districts"
The reason for this congressional
laxity as compared with executive Wig
lance is probably traceable to the fact
that generations of congressman were
so long closely related to the spoils
system, a system which. DR.. Eliot re-
ports, now is ~covertly manipulated by
the bosses, the machine politicians and
their tools.
The successful operation Of civil
service In many governmental depart
ments has enormously advanced faith
in the republic among thinking people.
AS DR.. Eliot remarks, the public now
thinks Of government service, mot as
a charity, or as a%ffording a livelihood
for incompetents, or as a means of pay
ing and feeding the henchmen of politi-
cal leaders, but as a great business or
ganization for doing efficiently and
honestly large pieces of business which
the people want to have we'll done"
Extension of the service is nov pos
sible through executive order, In ma
tional affairs, but DR.. Eliot and his as
sociates would carry it further, to in
clude municipal matters. Particularly
strong is his feeling that a merit sys-
tenn is necessary to reform the ex-
tr~aordinarily unjust and Intellectual
methods Of taxation" which he con-
siders Injurious to the national in
dustries." He would have assessors
and other officials concerned with tax
alton selected and retained for their
knowledge OF productive a admins
t%ration. The same idea he would carry
into all municipal matters, in order to
put American city governments on a
| business basis. lit is only in this
way" he argues, that the civil serv-
ice in American communities can be
brought to the condition of a life ca
reer which well-qualiied young men
can enter with the intention of devot-
ing themselves to it for life"
This turning of the league from ma
tional to municipal agairs manifests a
determination to conquer more worlds,
and while cities will not be ready to
welcome the interference of DR.. Eliot
and his fellow advisers, it is manifest
that there is life in the old league yet,
and that civil service reform is not
content to rest on it's record of achieve
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
THE WELL BELOVED ENEMY,

Blakeney Gray in New York Sun.
1 know a chap who's used me Ill
Almost since | was born.
He's put my name to many a bill
And trouble most forlorn.
In school he's cost me endless woe,
Too many here to tell,
And yet in spite of all. dye know,
I love him mighty ,well?
He had me spanked when I was ten
For something that he did.
As l look back upon him then
He was a fearful kid.
He said mean things about my dad,
The little infidel,
And yet there was no other lad
l cared for quite as well.
In college he on mischief bent
On me put all the blame.
No matter where that villain went,
For men twas quite the same.
He had the fun, ! got the hook,
In all things that befell,
And yet by some queer mental crook
l loved that fellow well.
The girl l loved he went. and wooed,
And wed her, and today
Is father of a lovely brood
OF Riddles bllthe and gay.
His are the glanCes of her eye,
His is the blissful spell.
Yet spite of all l can't deny
] o him just as well.
I know full well his weaknesses,
The strange twists Of his mind,
And yet there's something in me says
He's not a half bad kind,
And though he's been IN enemy
Beyond all parallel,
The time has never ceased to be
When i have loved him wen.
Who is ne? Well, come hither while
] whisper secretly
l fear his name will make you smile
It's Me-!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15


The two extremes Of personal and
social endeavor met in New York when
the president, devoted to ideals IN ad-
ministering the duties Of the highest
ONCE in the land, met and talked with
the habitues Of a Bowery mission,
where the lowliest had gathered to
manifest their sincere desire toward
uplifting themselves and neighbors
from d~iscouraging conditions. The
presidents simple, Straightforward
homily must have stirred all the man
hood In the breasts of his listeners to
a renewed sense of their obligations in
life. IT was the heartfelt speech OF a
nan talking on the level to his fellow
beings.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

The public may consider itself just
iiable in promptly wanting to know
how a rear-end collision is possible on
a railroad pretending to be first-class
and operating under a block signal
system. Is the wreck Of a New York
flyer another Ease of deliberately run
ming past signals to maintain schedule?
American railroads have yet to learn
we'll the lessons of safety first and
speed afterward.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15


When Robert Louis Stevenson de-
scribed the conditions of life in the
steerage between Europe and America,
people of this country viewed his dis
closures as containing the bias of a
Britisher and the exaggeration OF a
writer of But what shall
they say to the revelations Of the off,
eial agents of the government who have
fled their reports in Washington de-
scribing shameful conditions as they
experienced them while travelling in
the guise OF emigrants? 1t is manifest
that some of the transatlantic lines are
still treating not only men but also
helpless women as so many cattle and
that the barbarities OF steerage life
are in some respects verify unspeaka-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
BEING a Good Neighbor.

While Central American jingoes are
seeking to make aggressive capital
against the United States out OF our
attitude towards Zelaya, let the peo-
pie Of those republics be not deceived,
but instead turn to the evidence Of how
excellent a neighhpr we are to any
well-inteutioned country in need of our
good Offices, as given in the report Of
the Dominican customs receivership.
Under the beneficent administration
of the United States bureau of insular
affairs, the Dominican revenues have
been put on a business basis, the pay
ing of installments upon the debt to
this country has been regularly accom-
plished without any burden to the peo-
Pile and for two years the affairs of
that country have known unaccus-
toned stability n prosperity.
So gratifying is the American ad-
ministration to the Dominicans that
the r~eceivership has been solicited to
revise the entire fiscal and tariff sys-
tenn OF the republic, and under United
States guidance a measure has been
perfected that promises to remove OPP
pressive features of existing laws,
while at the same time providing ade-
uuate revenues Central American
observers are invited to study the re-
suits In the marked increase of trade
and higher standard of living designed
by this neighborly national receiver
shin.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
COMING INTO FAVOR.
Spread of the Taxation Policies OF
Henry George.


Springfield Republican.
It Is a pity Henry George could not have
lived to see this day of rapidly widening
recognition of the soundhess of his land
taxation views. That the land monoplist
should at least share the unearned mere
ment with the community which creates 1t
is a proposition now coming into general
acceptance IN Germany and Great Brit
ain and into a large degree of favorable
recognition in the United States. Thus at
a conservation conference recently held at
St. Paul Young Jim Hill of the Great
Northern railroad urged the higher taxa
ton Of lands held out of use as a whole
some measure. The Great Northern COM
pany possesses such lands which ii will
sell to BONA fide settlers on almost any
terms, but to spectators on no terms. Still
he advised tax determinations against idle
lands. The Chicago Public. an advocate
Of the George doctrines, regards this as
little short Of sensation al. considering its
source.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
one state Checks the Merger.
Record.

The telephone and telegraph merger has
encountered an obstacle. 1t is a Michigan
law which the supreme court OF the state
dc clines to suspend. For more than a
quarter Of a century says the court, "the
legislature has seen fit to keep separate
these two lines of activity" and it affirms
the policy ION the part of the state to al
ford its people a choice Of two services OF
independent ownership" Certainly this is
q matter which every state is entitled to
regulate for Itself.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has made an order concerning the
fare between Omaha and Council Bluffs
which will stop what has generally
been considered an imposition. After
February 1t will be possible to ride
from any point in Omaha to any point
in Council Bluffs for n fare plus the
5 cents bridge toll. Now, If the bridge
toll could be wiped out!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Prof. Parker of Harvard, who
the theory that m is less
sensitive than man, and that the dainti-
est woman has no more emotional
sense, in the purely scientific view,
than her pet cat or dog, car count on
having stirred up the liveliest animal,
not in the whole menagerie, but in
mans menage.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Eugene Higgins has leased the southeast
corner Of Broadway and Nnety-flfth
street to Max Marx for 999 years. Tt pre-
serve the lease in it's exact form his law
yers had 1t transferred to a photographic
stone. These stones are about three Inches
thick. They do not shrink and IL rubbed up
occasionally by an experienced transfer
man the picture may be preserved indefi-
nitely. 1t is a revival of the old idea Of
Moses when he had the Ten Command
ments engraved on u~nshrinkable stone
guaranteed against the weather and
changes in temperature. The lease is prob
ably the first instance of an out
agreement to rent a piece of real estate
In this city for so long a time, and while
no figures are at hand as to what rent
Mr.. Higgins will receive annually, Leopold
Well the broken who negotiated the deal.
said the rental for the 999 years would APP
proximate between $4,000, 600 and $50 Co., 900.
Unlike leases for similar terms, this one
has no provisions whereby Mr.. Higgins will
be enabled at a given period to step in and
buy whatever Improvement may be made
upon the plot at the appraised value. Mr..
Marx, during his lifetime, will nave sole
control of anything he may put upon the
land, and his heirs, or whomever he may
designate, will have the same privilege. BY
the terms of the lease there is to be a re-
appraisement every twenty years, and with
every adjustment the amount of the rent
to be paid will be determined between the
principals.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
Who sprung the RIvets'

New YORK sun.
It is said that the effect Of the collision
forty miles off the south Atlantic coast be-
tween the battleshlps Georgia and Me-
braska was not serious, only a few rivets
being sprung 1t was serious enough
to warrant a thorough investiga-
ton to determine in whose seamanship
some rivets were sprung. There is plenty
of room in the south Atlantic.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

The incompetence of the local dem
ocratic administration was never SO
we'll exemplihed as in the condition of
the downtown streets at present.
Boss Tom Flynn is surely making a
record on how not to do It.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

The American millionaire who has
been bound in Morocco because of his
atrocious practical jokes evidently con-
siders himself the edition de luxe Of
Joe Miller's jest book.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
A Menace Within the Navy.

Whatever, of s~ectionalism still lives
in this country is customarily mani
tested by the east against the west, and
in view Of the facts of the case the
westerner cannot but conclude that the
recent criticisms against the battle
ship Nebraska are inspired by eastern
animus. On the Atlantic the vessel
has been consistently regarded as an
intruder, because, forsooth, 1t is not
the product OF the jealous eastern
yards. Its record was a clean one in
Pacific waters, where it exceeded its
contract speed despite the fact that 1t
had inferior fuel instead of the picked
coal used in Atlantic tests. 1t was a
prize winner in maneuvers and target
work and won admiration all along the
line in its trip around the world. Sea-
soned officers said they never had
known a finer vessel. or more thor
oughly enjoyed life or witnessed nor
harmonious and effective discipline
than on this model product of the
Puget sound.
Yet what happens when the Ne
braska is assigned TO the Atlantic
feet. II fell, strangely. from high to
low grade in the matter Of target prac-
tice. and Lieutenant Macy. ordnance
ofheer, openly accused oficials Of put
ting up a Job. Macy was court
martialed and acquitted, In justice
his charges should then have been fol-
lowed up; instead he was transferred
to %recruiting work inland and appar-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Those enthusiastic Georgians who
were wildly chasing every man with a
black skin a day or two ago have sub
sided very n%otieeably since it was dis
covered that the crime was committed
by a white man. Does color make any
difference?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Mrs. Margaret Deland argues that
the divorce evil is the result of indi-
viduals seeking to be happy at the ex-
pense OF society and she denies them
the right. In her plea for the perma-
hence of the family she has stirred up
a discussion which promises for awhile
to crowd the ~suffragettes nj OF the
limelight.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

The cashiering of an army officer
for petty robberies of the West Point
mess after a distinguished career in
the service in the far east indicates
that II a man has a yellow streak it is
bound to crop out.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

BILE. Inasmuch as II is apparent that
the offending lines will not reform ex-
cept under compulsion. It is high time
that we enacted legislation forcing the
recalcitrants to bring their steerage
Accommodations for and treatment Of
emigraDts up to a standard Of eleanli-
ness and decency.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

The robber who admits having held
up the cashier of a lunch stand and
four other similar crimes apparently
is eager to land in the p%enitentiary,
and the wheels of justice should be
creased a little in order to help him
realize his ambition.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Senator Rayner's impassioned out
burst against zelaya attests the fact
that Joan OF Arc was tame compared
with our own Maryland when that girl
gets her lighting blood up. The south
evidently would give the Nicaraguan
malefactor short shritt IT. he were
within her borders.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Omaha. perhaps, ought to have
signs. but the proposition OF
street names on ~teIephone
and electric light poles that happen to
be adjacent 10 the thoroughfare desig-
mated seems to have about reached the
limit OF absurdity. II street signs are
really necessary the city ought to pro-
vide for them in the proper way.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

II the threat to send the price of
broomAk corn to 81 apiece is fulfilled.
the manufacturers will find that the
broom corn crop is not half so short
as father, and that mother will be lib
orally excused from the sweeping
habit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Crusty Artist-That picture gives you a
better impression, madam, If you look at
it from q proper distarce.
Mrs. Chillicon-Kearney-I hardly think
so. Distance can only-er-lend the en-
chantment, you know.-New York Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

That New York lawyer who pleaded
In court that his client was a "gullible
fool" is not the first of the profession
to find himself in that fix. He is
merely the first to openly admit 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Now that army officers are forbidden
to buy oil of the Standard. that old Of
fender may begin to realize that gov
eminent opposition is no light matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
ConsoIation for Pessimists.
WASHINGTON Herald.

Cheer up! What II breakfast bacon is
five times as high in price as 1t was ten
years ago? Does not the accommodations
and kind-hearted grocer throw in the rind
nowadays at exactly the same price as the
meat?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
PrOfessOrsf SureI

Charleston News and Courier.
A Nebraska court has decided that
BARRIERS are not common laborers,' but
are professional men. OF. course, every
one of them has a chair.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
joy of the Mixup.

Chicago Tribune.
1.-THE question promptly arises says the
Omaha Bee, what is the knead for a
bankers combine?' The answer suggests
itself with equal ~promptness: Dough-"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrarIIy shOuId have The bee
mailed to them. Address viii be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
Good Conduct. Abroad.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Good Americans abroad should so con-
duct themselves that they can at anV
moment rely upon Uncle Sans prompt
interference I'm their behalf when trouble
clouds the horizon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

How did Jobbins come to be such a
logical and unanswerable debater?"
by force of habit. His wife always
makes him put down the carpets, so he
knows how to floor mis- opponent and keep
him nailed down."-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
Around New York

nipples on the Current OF Life
a. Seen In the Great American
Metropolis from nay 20 nay.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Mr.. shotwellss letter seems to have
stirred up the court to resentment, at
least!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

The Council Bluffs city council have
decided not to give up their street car
passes. Old habits die hard.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

THE artists models in Paris have struck
for higher wages"
Il don't blame en-" answered Mrs. Nc
Gudley. THE pictures prove thar the poor
things aren't paid enough TO buy clothes"
brooklyn Eagle.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

To be strictly up to date, the New
Year water wagon devotees should
speak of it as the aquaplane.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

But the frisky Frisco won't alto
gether lose sight of Katy. i
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
sTATEMENr OF CIRCULATION.

State Of Nebraska, Douglas County, S.;
George b. Tzschuck. treasurer OF The BEE
Publishing Company. being duly sworn.
says that the actual number OF tull ana
complete copies of The Daily. Morning,
Evening md sunday Bee printed during the
month Of Novemhrr. 1oOa. was as follows;
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

This Is a very exciting scene. That or
derby with dispatches has just dropped
from a war balloon"
"What is that fleecy stuff he's brush
ing Off"
''Bits Of cloud. kansas City Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

She-How far can your ancestry be
traced? add ~
He-Well, when my grandfather resigned
his position as cashier of a county bank
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Wareham Eong-What'd you say eff
Rockefeller wuz to give a million dollars?'
Tuffold Knutt-Tanks!-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

The peasant was overjoyed when he dis
covered that his goose was laying golden
eggs. For IL was winter.
~ can paint them up and sell them for
hens eggs!' he exclaimed, visions of UNI
told wealth rising rOsiiy before him.-Puck.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15
they traced him as far as China. but he got
MaY.-Pittsburg observer.

Wigwag-Henpeckke says he doesn't often
drink, but when he does he always has to
have a chaser.
Guzzler-Meaning his wife. 1 suppose
Philadelphia Record. ra
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Il want a little legal Information
&c ahead"
'If an automobile runs over a nan whose
fault is it, the pedestrians or the driver's?'
Zone moment. Were you in the auto
mobile or in the street?"-WashiAgton
Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

Redd-Did his aeroplane cost him much ?
Green-Four weeks in the hospital
Yonkers Statesman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

He is suffering terribly. His teeth are
locked up tightly"
Heavens, is IL lockjaw?"
mo, they're in a safe and he can't eat
anything until he gets them out."-St. Louis
Gtar .". .H-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-15

In the days of Hobson and Dewey, said
Weber to Fields, But he's a herol'
Well" said Fields, he vunt be a hero
long"
The mail boys on the East Side who
are thirsting to be heroes, are not enter
tanning fears as to future eclipse. The
things they are after are permanent emolu-
ments, and honor from their urchln people.
Not an automobile passes along the
crowded thoroughfares without its ac-
compartment of eager-eyed small boys,
who hope to see some one run over, so
that they may assist at detection and ar
rest, and enter the hero class.
A scond case of this sort, and the pre-
sentation of a gold medal by the National
Highway Protective association, bids fair
to Increase the labors Of the truant off
GERS. The boys are inclined to cut school,
and go out after medals. Still, one must
award praise to little Arthur Lewis. When
the machine ran down a man and started
away at full speed, the men and women
on the sidewal began to dance and yell.
Arthur whipped out his pencil and on the
margin of a newspaper he was carrying,
jotted down the number Of the machine.
why did you do it?" asked an admiring
friend.
NJ for de medal" said Arthur with a
grin.