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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
THREE CHEERS ron THE COUNTRY
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Sun.
Country going to pieces?
Not on your lifel She's there,
with the sunlight over her streaming
And a posey upon her hair,
Her hand on the engines throttle,
Her banner above her brow;
And she never has done much better
Than she's doing now!
Country going to thunder?
Everything wrong? Get out!
She never was feeling finer,
And she knows what she's about
Her plowshare's waiting and ready;
Her mill wheels, hear them roar;
And she's making a home for the people,
The rich and poor!
Nothing wrong with the country,
Doing her b~est-and, say!
Her worst is a dern sight better
Than anyone's ~best-hurray!
Country going to pieces?
There's another think coming to you;
Her red checks never looked sWeeteT,
Her eyes more bluel
What IL they do talk nonsense,
And ngress will waste its time;
Congress Is not the country, /
Our glorious and sublime.
Oh, the sunbeams crown her splendor,
And her feet are on the rose,
And the hearts of the brave attend hel
Where'er she goes!
Don't you bother about her,
She's climbing the hills all right,
With a dream In her eyes OF glory,
A mile on her lips of light,
Country going TO pieces?
Not on your life! She's fine,
With the folds of her flag around her,
Its stars ashinel
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The World-Herald d~enounc An
drew Carnegie as a benefactor, who
now uses his charity as a cloak to
cover the dead bodies at Homestead
the thieving iniquities of the steel
schedules, the groans of ruined COM
petitors and the complaints of a pill
LACED public" Were any OF these in
dictments less fragrant when MIR.
Bryan solicited and secured Carnegie
money for a public library at Lincoln
and the World-Herald claimed for Mr..
Bryan credit for the achievement?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

pulp. or ~colluose to the ton. The green ear
products. including husks and footstalks.
contain about 20 per cent OF their weight
Of fermentable matter, converted into
about half its weight Of alcohol Of IS de-
grees proof, having a residue of about Is
per cent Of pulp. and about half that
amount of richly albuminous feed stuff. 4
The national commission for the conserv-
alton of our national resources, recently
appointed by the president, has been asked
to promote the development OF this plan
for making sugar from corn and utilizing
the by-products. Whether It will pay our
farmers better to grow corn for the grain
or for sugar is a question thct can be
answered only by putting It 70 test
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

this clause, And the congress may
provide by law for a special election
when deemed advisable" The
try may not always nave immunity
from such contingencies as are con-
templated in the proposed amendment
and the sensible thing to do would be
to provide against such risks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Why the repeal of the law merging
the Offices of city and county comp
troller should not be accompanied by
the repeal of the merger of city and
county treasurers and city and county
assessors is not clear. If the desire
is simply to make more pie for the
faithful there is no reason for taking
only half a bite.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Referring to the democratic plat
form pledge for economy, the local
democratic organ asks, lis a demo-
cratic legislature going to keep thai
pledge or violate it," Present pros
poets are that a democratic legislature
is going to violate it n that most of
the democratic lawmakers regard the
pledge as having been made only for
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

If Nebraska's state labor commits
sioner is going to run a free employ
ment bureau he should have an ap-
preparation to pay for his newspaper
advertising. There is no good reason
why he should be paid a nice salary
for his part in this laudable work,
while the country newspapers get
nothing for pushing it along.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Cornell university has dropped 1853
students who failed to pass their mid
winter examinations. The country will
not suffer IL students learn hat It is
not as hard to get out of a university
as IL is to get in.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

A British army officer reports that
1t is not unusual for a British regi-
ment to consume So 900 packages of
cigarettes a month. While hat may
be rough on the soldiers, it is a good
thing for the Match trust.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

A New York preacher says that
sodom is not far from New York. We
have been confident all along that
omeone would discover the real truth
about Jersey City.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
Hunch Tor HARVARD Men.
Boston Herald.

bOhIUH IItIdIu'
II is an extended and comprehensive tour
of the country that President Elit starts
out upon today, covering as it will sec
ton Of the western and southern portions
of the country. Considering the circum-
stances under which 1t Is made and the
fact that it is the last journey he will
make during his presidency of Harvard,
it is safe to anticipate that 1t will par
take of the nature Of a triumphal prog
ress from start to finish.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

What else could be expected from
a democratic legislature in which poll
tics n patronage are the paramount
Issues?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Mrs. Carrie Nations assertion that
she has been stricken dumb by the
~wickedness OF London will be accepted
with the usual allowance for exaggera-
tion. A dumb Carrie Nation is incon-
eeivable.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
safeguarding Life at Sea.

Baltimore American.
The bin introduced in congress making
Il mandatory for seagoing vessels carry
ing passengers TO be equipped with wire
less telegraphy ought to be unnecessary.
So potent a means of saving life as this
system has been proved ought to suggest
itself. But. unfortunately, experience
shows thai the sanctity of human life is
Judged in modern commercialism like any
other ~thing-by its cost.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Having failed TO pass any a~nti-Japa-
nese legislation, the California law
makers may now turn their attention
TO the length of hotel bed sheets.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

General Miles is reported to have
bought several new uniforms. He
must be preparing to resume his for
mer custom of calling at the White
House, after March a.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Scientists have decided that the
man who does not possess 5000 red
~corpuscles to each cubic centimeter of
his blood is a victim of anemia. Count
your red corpuscles.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Secretary Cortelyou will at least
break a precedent II he fails to go
from the Treasury department to the
head Of some big banking house.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

A section OF Pharaoh's heart show
ing signs OF senile calcihcation has
been exhibited in London, proving that
there was good reason for the old
comparison. harder than Pharaoh's
heart"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

In accepting his third presidential
nomination Mr.. Bryan declared that
he would be bound by his platform
both as to what it contains and what
it omits. Will he be bound by his
Nebraska democratic legislature both
as to it's sins of commission and sins
of omission?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The district court has refused to
grant a decree to another applicant for
divorce. This deserves to be chron-
icled under the heading, Happenings
Rare and Unique"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The report OF the Lemp divorce case
in St. Louis would indicate that st.
Louis is making a determined effort
to get into the Chicago and Pittsburg
class.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Whatever municipal bonds have
been retired by Omaha have been paid
on with the money brought in by the
scayenger tax law. and the scaveneer
tar law is wholly q republican
measure.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
start a SnOwsIide.

W~dsnInBIOH TOaI.
If Admiral Evans is light in his predie-
tion that Japan and Russia will soon again
be at war. Uncle Sam will have a Titanic
job keeping Nevada out of the scrap.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State OF Nebraska, Douglas County, SIS:
George b. Tzschuck, treasurer OF The
Bee Publishing company, being. duly
sworn, says that the actual number OF
full and complete copies of The Daily,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of January. 1903, was as
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The report that the japanese gov
ernment had SEN a warning to the
authorities at Washington would be
mighty important. If It were true.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Senator Tillman has been unusually
slow in congratulating California and
Nevada on their efforts to make the
race question a national issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Canada Is literally saturated with
American influence and the imperial
sentiment is waning" says a London
paper. Let II wane.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

'
The Mao Mullah has broken out
again and is acting like a Nevada agi-
tator.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

A New Orleans patrolman arrested
his wife by mistake. His only safety
for a time will be to wear his uniform
at home.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Jack Binns has refused to go on the
vaudeville stage or the lecture plat
form. Possibly he would like a place
In the cabinet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
sharp Competition an Prospect,

II Is said Mr.. Hartman is laying his
plans carefully to make the Panama canal
look like 80 cents as a business PROPOSE
ton when It shall have been finished. This
certainly puts It up to the canal to do it's
very best by US.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Now that both houses have voted to
give Mr.. Taft $4,000 for automobiles,
the big stick may be displaced by the
big "Honk."
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Kansas City has one cause for con-
graduation. Its Union depot was not
damaged by either of the recent heavy
windstorms.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Much will be forgiven If February
will quit this blowing about its record.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Mr.. Roosevelt refused 70 accept
$4,000 left to him in a will. Mr..
Bryan failed 10 get $4,000 which he
thought was left to him in a will.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

do your mean 20 send any valentines
this year?'' said one young man.
No" answered the other. valentines
always miss their object. A girl is almost
sure to laugh at the sentimental ones and
cry about the comics. "-Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

A dual tariff is now offered as a
substitute for the tariff duel.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Only a few days left for additions
to the Cabinet"
club. a.t
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

A New Jersey poet has been at
tackled by a bear. The poet is COM
mon prey.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

California is learning that common
sense is the best antidote for Japano-
phobia.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The cold wave supply far exceeds
the Misunderstanding icemen and coal
dealers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Strange how many of our friends SO
long concealed the fact that they were
crackerbox cronies of Abe Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Sir Horace Plunkett of Omaha and Ireland
commissioner of the Congested District
Board of his native land, stated In an adj
dress before an agricultural association in
Birmingham, the other day, that in the
matter of organization the farmers of
Ireland were far ahead of those in Great
Britain. 1t had become. he said, the settled
policy in Ireland of all recent governments
to appropriate the land of the upper
classes so that the chief assets of the
national wealth might be handed over to
the peasant proprietor. 1t had now been
discovered that the amount of land to be
transferred had been greatly underesti-
mated, and that many more millions would
be required to complete the transaction.
The great point was to get as soon as pos
sible to the final basis OF occupying owner
ship. He himself believed that If the coun-
try was decently governed for the next
twenty years all the money which had been
advanced would be absolutely secure. He
went on to describe the steadily progressive
movement in ireland during the last twenty
years, toward fitting the rural communities
for the agrarian revolution, by technical
education, business organization and the
restoring of social life on the land. Very
nearly 1000 farmers societies. with a
membership Of 10000, had been formed,
and the societies were doing a turnover
today greatly in excess OF two million
pounds sterling, and the rate of progress
was accelerating every day. Since the
Irish farmers had taken to cooperating
they had become far more influential both
in local affairs and In parliamentary repre-
sentation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
Through the Glass DarkIy.

Washingtoh Post.
The Japanese bugabOo is drifting east
ward. Nebraska Is now seeing thinss.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

She (complainingly), Before our mar
riage you said my pathwsy through life
should be strewn with roses.
He-Yes, darling, but you NOW roses
nave thorns and l didn't realize then what
thin shoes you women wear.-Boston
transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

Have any Of you farmers been uplifted
as YETI"
Yep" answered Mr.. Corntossel. "Day
before yesterday 81 Smiling was hit from
behind by an automobile.-Washington
Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The lieutenant rushed to the bridge and
saluted.
Captain he shouted-for this roar of
the artillary was deafening-'ths enemy
has got our range
The captain frowned. Curse the luck"
he growled. Now how can the cook get
dlnner?'-Cleveland Leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
SAID IN FUN.

Don't you believe in getting next to the
soil?'
Sure. IL you get next so as to strike
pay irt."-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The man acquitted Of murder on the plea
of insanity sat f~retfully in the asylum.
IT guess / was crazy after an he said,
although at the time / thought II a bluff.
Anybody but a lunatic would have pleaded
the unwritten law and gone about his
business. philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
WHEN OUT DE TOWN.

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrariIy should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The British income lax, now not only
the heaviest, but the hardest and most
inquisitorial in the world, is one of the
sources of national revenue which the
ministry ~oontemplates increasing to meet
part of a deficit of 500, 10000 or more.
''The three-year average having been done
away WITH says Cassell's Journal, IA
man now is assessed on his profits or
gains during the year of assessment. The
death duties are a fearful burden on all
classes. Since they were imposed In 1894,
they have yielded over 25O,oOO.OOO pounds
sterling. Many landed estates have paid
twice or three times within five or six
years, with the result that they are utterly
crippled. Five houses have gone to ruin,
and hundreds Of agricultural laborers have
been thrown out of employment" The con-
templated increase OF the tax will strike
the wealthy class I'm a tender spot, and is
likely TO arouse fierce opposition in the
House of Lords, possibly driving the mem
bers to the extremity of rejecting the en-
tire budget.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

The recently deposed Chinese minister.
Yuan Shin KAT, had an effective way of
convincing rebellious subjects of the error
OF their ways. John Cowen. former editor
OF the Chinese Times in Tein-tsln, in a
letter to the London Spectator, gives high
Chinese authority for this characteristic
anecdote: "In 1900 four boxer delegates
visited Yuan, then governor of the Shan
tung province, at his yamen, and begged
his support for the anti-foreign movement.
Yuan had good cause to be aggrieved with
the foreigner. for 1t was from Shantung
province that the colony of Kiao-chun and
the part of Tsing-tao had been taken by
force. He resisted the appeals of the boxer
delegates, however. on the grounds that
the movement was revolutionary and that
1t would involve its adherents in warfare.
The delegates replied that the movement
could not be called revolutionary when 1t
had the support OF the throne. and as re-
CARDS an appeal to arms the boxers were
rendered by their religious charms immune
from danger from sword or gun. The con-
versation took place at a meal in Yuan's
yamen. On its conclusion Yuan invited his
visitors into a courtyard. Here ne had
them tied up to four pillars, and a detach-
ment Of soldiers. armed with rifles and ball
cartridges. were marched in. We will
now test your immunity from bullet
Wounds said Yuan. and after that 1 will
send my answer to your leaders The
order was given to fire. and the four dead
bodies were sent out to the boxer camp for
answer
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

King Edwards visit to Berlin. the first
IN twenty-one years, should be productive
Of good for both Germany and Great
Britain. The jingoes OF both countries
have been and are now persistent and
audacious in their attempts to ferment III
VIII and provoke trouble. The visits OF
the British king to other European rulers
long before his call on Emperor William
have been a pretext for much battling In
Germany. In its efforts to popularize the
naval program Of the kaiser. the German
Naval league cites the naval activities Of
Great Britain. emphasizing the fact that
Engiishmen pay 96 marks per capita for
national defense while the per capita 10
Germany is only 40 marks. Therefore.
patriotic Germans must make greater sac
rifices for the national veal. In England
Jingoism is far past the line OF sanity.
Newspapers which readily scent profit in
a popular agitation. encouraged by inter
ested business promoters. are demanding
Increased military and naval forces. The
Invasion scare has been dramatized by the
up-to-the-minute managers. deliberately
staged. and is packing box offices with
easy money. In both instances the Interior
note is heard above the common clatter.
Army and navy officers actively encourage
the agitation as a means Of increasing
their respective establishments, Imposing
heavier burdens on productive toll while
the public is confused by appeals to ma
tional pride. To both nations an under
standing would be of incalculable benefit
banishing senseless jingoism and in con-
serving the worlds peace. King Edwards
triumphs in hypnotizing %pugnacious rivals
will be as successful al Berlin as he has
been at Paris and st. Petersburg.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

General Kouropatkin's assertion that the
Russian government OF Manchuria, before
the war with Japan, was honeycombed with
corruption finds ready confirmation in the
conviction OF Msjor-General AleXieff and
his dismissal from the army for accepting
a bribe from a firm of British gunmakers.
Alexieff was military governor of all the
Russian possessions in the far east at the
time of the war with Japan, and was
largely instrumental in convincing the
government at st. Petersburg that Russian
arms would drive japan off the map. In
the dismal morning of the day after the
government required to the prophecies Of
Alexieff and in seeking an explanation Of
his lack OF foresight. discovered his trail
of graft.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

For the first time In many years the
French birth rate shows an upward ten
dency, The Journal Official publishes the
returns just issued for the first six months
OF 1905. They show a considerable i'm
provement on the figures for the cores
ponding period OF 1901, when the death
exceeded the births by b5.OO7. This time the
births have exceeded the deaths by u.O56.
The difference is not only due to the fact
that the death rate Is lower. but also to
a net increase Of nearly 5000 births. The
marriages Of the first six months numbered
10, 495, against 154.Os1 in the same period
In 1901. Divorces in 1905 show an increase
OF ninety-one. The Temps points out that
the decrease OF shout $500 in the number
proved position
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

VICTOR RosEwATER. EDITOR
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

"who is the neglected looking little boy
with dirt over his face?"
II is the child Of the noted astrono.
mer who lives over the way
"Oh, is he. Come here, sonny. Rur
home and tell your father he doesn't need
his telescope IL he wants to see spots or
the son. "-Daltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-13

"You refuse me because 1 have a title, q"
said the count. bitterly, but l will relin-
quish IL. / will become a plain citizen"
How noble Of you,' responded the Amer
lean heiress. II, too, feel called uupon to
make a sacrifice. / will r~elinquish my
phia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-20
Think Man Guilty,
But Acquit Him
New York Jury Brings in a Remark
able Verdict in Murder
Case.

AMSTERDAM, N. Y, June 19.-Frank
Denatto, a wealthy Italian saloon keeper
on trial at Fonda for the murder of Will
liam E. McLachlan of Cranes Hollow.
was today acquitted by a Jury, which
handed in one of the most remarkable YER
diets ever rendered in a homicide case.
The reads:
While in our minds and opinion, we, as
men, regard the defendant as guilty, yet,
after considering our oaths as jurors and
carefully considering the evidence as
placed before US, we cannot find sufficient
evidence to convict and therefore render
a verdict OF not guilty"
McLachlan, the murdered man, was an
eccentric farmer who lived alone and had
frequently befriended Denatto by lending
him money. For the purpose of stealing
unrecorded evidences of Indebtedness De-
natto, is is alleged, sent five Italians to
McLachlan's home with instructions to
kill him.
Two OF the actual participants in the
crime have already been convicted and an
other was killed by a fellow countryman
a few days after the crime.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-20

OLDEST INHABITANTS
MEET

f"nkton County Commissioners for
Year 1897 Have Reunion.
YANKTON, June 9-CSpeciaL)-An inter-
esting feature of the first days doing of
the Travelling Mems convention was the
accidental meeting in the Press and Da-
kotan office of Judge Bucklin Wood of
Tyndall, G. w. Kinsgbury and Warren Os-
born OF Yankton, who comprised the Board
or County Commissioners for Yankton
county in the year 1867. Thai was the
period known as the catfish and cornbread
days and the three fathers OF the county
had a rare old visit and chat over old days.
At the conference of the above named II
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-20

Continued from First Page.)
in any locality. The democratic legislature
has given to every municipality in the
state the right to elect their own excise
boards, which determine matters OF license
or no license and the regulation and polio
ing within their borders. That is the mean
ing of the home rule plank In the demo-
cratic platform and was so understood by
those who framed II and by those who
voted for It. l believe in strict regulation
Of the liquor traffic, and just as we have
denied the right TO sell liquor to Indians,
to ~drunkards, to minors or 10 sell 1t upon
the Sabbath day or any national holiday,
so the democratic party will never deny
to the people the right to police the traffic
by combining its sale TO the hours which
common business practice has made the
rule of proper hours for the sale OF almost
everything else sold In our cities and
towns.
Governor Sh~allenberger insisted that
he understands the temper and sentiment
of the people of Nebraska and that they
are all for democracy. He believes there
are more democrats today than ever in
the history of the country, although In