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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
Advertising the Postofice.
Journal.

JouTndls
that a letter may he sent to Bondon or
Liverpool for the same sum that takes Il
to New oYrk. The Postoffice department
seems to have made absolutely no effort,
since the original announcement, TO spread
the glad tidings.
The department is engaged in a huge
business venture, for the benefit of the
people. 1t sells stamps, registers valuable
mail matter. and before long will be offer
ing saving bank facilities. The modern
practice OF publicity might be introduced
in postoffice affairs with manifold bene-
fits. II the department had taken space
in the advertising mediums of the country
to announce its radical cut in postal rates,
It would have Immediately stimulated for
eien correspondence tremendously to re-
coup its losses by the reduction.
The wise expenditure of a liberal appro-
~priation for advertising would soon oblit-
crate the recurring postal deficit, 1t would
be a good stroke Of business for the govern
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
What are we going to do about it?

There is no trouble about the pres
ent Nebraska legislature or any other
Nebraska legislature doing its duty by
the State university. But the people
of Nebraska by their constitution and
by their votes put the management of
the university in the hands of the
Board of Regents and there is no good
reason why the regents should abdi-
cate in favor Of Mr.. Bryan or his DEM
ocratic legislature, or both.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
Just Woke Up.

A distinguished hygienist remarks that
there should be more discussion OF health
topics in our churches, schools and news
papers. a keener faculty for observing
what has been going on for some time past
in each OF these departments OF education
and enlightenment would have made 1t
clearly apparent to this mentor that his
suggestion has been extensively anticipated
and is quite superfiuous at this late day.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
MAKE THE NEXT CORN SHOW A WINNEl

MAKE THE NEXT CORN SHOW WINNER
Now that it is definitely decided to
go ahead with another corn show at
Omaha for the coming cal, the main
work of insuring its success will de-
volve on our business men and COM
mercial organizations.
The Corn show last December far
exceeded all expectations in almost
every respect and the ccrn show next
December can easily be made to Guido
what was accomplished the first time.
AS a result the possibilities of the corr
exposition as an educational factor and
its wide field of usefulness for develop
ing the of the corn belt
states are better realized than ever
before.
While there is a national association
of corn breeders under whose auspices
the corn show is held, and without
whose help it would not be feasible.
yet Omaha as the location city must
furnish the material support needed
for the work of promotion and prepa-
ration. II u Omaha people are alive
to the opportunities offered by the
corn show, and they manifest every
disposition to be, the event of next De-
cember will be a record-breaker among
enterprises of it's kind.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Up to date Mr.. Bryan has neglected
to admonish the democratic members
of the Illinois legislature to 'let the
people rule" by voting for the re-
election OF Senator Hopkins. who got
the popular endorsement at both the
primaries and the election. Can it be
because Senator Hopkins is a repub-
lican9
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
"The Lincoln Way
Boston Herald

AS to the fitness and appropriateness OF
the proposed road from Washington to
Gettysburg as a memorial to Lincoln, Sen
ator Knox put the argument in favor of
that sort OF a memorial rather neatly when
he reminded the senators that the Appisn
Way was the greatest memorial that could
possibly have been built to the Roman en-
peror after whom II was named. 1t sur
wives unto this day.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

II takes a column of double-leaded
and double-shotted editorial space in
our amisbIe democratic contemporary
to tell us what would happen II Ne
braska's Sunday laws were strictly
enforced" Nobody with q grain OF
common sense in his head ever ex-
pected these laws to be strictly en-
forced.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
Smelling q Rat.

New York Tribune.
Senator Tillman makes a monstrous i'm
p~utation against federal judges and then
says: II simply have the suspicion" In
other words, as deftly phrased by Mr.. H.
Biglow:
amt a-goin' to try your patience
BY tellin' who done this or that;
| don't make no insinooations-
l just let on / smell a rat.
But who would have thought OF South
Cardinals taking a leaf out OF a Massa-
chusetts book!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Prof. Fererro, the Italian historian.
has proved Caesar to have been a
dude, Cleopatra as homely as sin,
Nero a good fellow and Mark Antony
a sufferer. 1t is up to him now to
show that Croesus was a beggar.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

The presiding Judge in a murder
case in Tennessee has ruled that the
jurors shall not be deprived of their
regular allowance of toddy. The SEN
timent in Tennessee is red hot in ia
vor Of the prohibition law just passed
by the legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Congressman Griggs of Georgia
says it is time for the government to
get out of the moonshine business.
The men in the moonshine business
would like very much to have the
government urn its attention in an
other direction.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

There is not a democrat in either the
CNebraska) senate or the house The Bee
did not labor to defeat, and they are not
likely to look to The Bee for guidance
World Herald.
Thanks for the unsolicited and un-
expected testimonial.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Californians will hardly forgive
Congressman Hobson for being away
on a lecture tour when the naval bill
was considered by the house. The
Californians have always relied upon
Hobson to aid them in whipping
japan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
A ~NesIeeted Daty.
St. Louis Republic.

81. Louis Republic.
TIL recommendation by Governor Magoon
that our government clear the wreck OF
the Maine out Of Havana harbor is sec
onded- II any mystery of the Spanish war
is concealed in that r%usting hulk along with
the bones OF ~siXty-three OF our gallant
sailor men il is time that the mystery we're
uncovered and the remains Of the victims
given decent burial.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

The new president Of Harvard
doubtless understands that he is not
compelled to take all the advice that
Is being offered to him as to the
proper way of running a great educa-
tional institution.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
An Expansive Heart warmer.
Baltimore American.

The president-elect and the solid south
have arrived At such a stage Of mutual
admiration that the rest Of the country
might feel a little Jealous were not the
knowledge general that the Taft smile is
OF a potency sufficient TO warm up the
whole country.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
The Tail of Woe.
CLEAH- %rtAnH

A thoughtful observer suggests that the
code signal, &C. Q. D." used by a ship in
distress is merely the familiar &c. o. D."
made over by attaching the tail to the
o., as signifylng this is a hard luck tale"
We have no hesitation in pronouncing this
explanation far fetched and wholly i'm
probable.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Our only democratic congressman
from Nebraska seems to have lost all
interest in the postal savings banks
bill which he used to champion loudly
on every possible occasion. His con-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Nebraska does not propose to take
second place TO Sicily ever in the mat
Ter of earthquakes-not while the peo-
pie who used to see airships nightly
are still here.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Senator-elect Chamberlain Of Ore
gon describes himself as a Roosevelt
democrat. That will make him very
solid, we don't think. with Senator
Bailey and Senator Tillman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Over 200 babies mi from found
ling asylums in New York have been
adopted by childless families in New
Orleans. Something. wrong in both
New York and New Orleans.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

One other reason why Japan will
not make var on the United States is
that the mikado cannot go to war
without England's permission.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

81 suppose there is a great deal OF mental
strain involved in the conduct of immense
interests like yours?"
II should say so.' answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax. Its mighty herd to go on the wilt
ness stand and remember the list OF things
your lawyer told you to forget."-Washing-
ton Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Presumably IL the trustees OF the
Carnegie foundation could re-invest
the endowment fund so hat the in
come would come from United States
bonds instead OF from United States
Steel bonds the objection on principle
would be Withdrawn.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

What's that? Colonel Guffey
chosen unanimously" to fill Pennsyl-
vania's place on the democratic ma
tional committee? Watch for another
volcanic eruption in the Commoner.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

A little more primary reform might
have a good effect upon some United
States senators who are opposing the
postal savings bank bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
Isn't 1T AwfuIf

At last the horrible truth is out and
the recent anti-Japanese outbreak is ac-
counted for. Statistics for 1908 show a
deluge immigration to America OF 1876 sons
of Nippon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Glassmakers are complaining that
the prohibition laws OF the south are
hurting their business, Still, the
glassmakers' loss is the jugmakers'
gain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

The present congress is evidently
trying to see how much it will leave
to the next administration to come un-
der the head of unfinished business -
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

There have been no loud hurrahs
from Wall street over the boom
started to make Mr.. Roosevelt the
next mayor of New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Mr., Taft has demonstrated the flu
tility OF any vegetarian candidate for
the presidency trying to win the solid
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.

WHAT AXE We GOING TU DO ABOUT IT!
".
Omaha has a market house, but has
no market in 1t. Just how much the
market house cost is difficult to ascer-
tain, but presumably the total amount
of the taxpayers money spent for it's
construction is upward of $4,000.
Omaha's market house dates from
1902. 1t was occupied as a market
house for three years and then closed
down under pressure from the owners
OF a private market house, who had
seen to 1t that the city's market house
should be sand-bagged even while 1t
was running. From the date the
building ceased to be used as a public
market four years ago 1t has been
has 1t made any returns to the tax
payers on their investment. 1t has
been used occasionally as a storehouse
for private concerns, for dressing
rooms for Ak-Sar-Ben and is now &C.
cupied as an armory by a local mill
tary company.
Laying whatever blame may attach
to the poor location and the failure of
the market house to be a revenue pro-
Queer at the start upon their predeces-
sors, still the present mayor and coun-
ell have done absolutely nothing to re-
deem the situation or to prevent the
investment OF some $4,000 Of the tax
payers money from becoming a dead
loss.
What are we going to do about ito
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Boston makes knives as we'll as
beaGs." says a Boston paper. How
else would the Bostonians eat their
beans?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

y
to diminish San Francisco's supply of
sand lot orators.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

our crop of spring candidates for mu-
nicipal office.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
SUNNY GEMS.

Your wife said the other day at a sur
frage meeting that married women were
only white slaves"
That's a woman's inconsistency for you!
And she gave me no peace until l bought
her a new chain. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

George Washington was overwhelmed
with regret when his father reproached
| him for cutting down a tree"
Yes" answered the forestry expert:
George was a lot easier to manage than
these modern lumber people. "-Washington
Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Advance styles in mems straw hats
are ripe.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Mr.. Taft has left the 'possum zone
for a trip to the canal zone.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Really, the New York Legislature
should repeal the unwritten law.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

The dignity of congress never seems
to suffer any when congress is attend
ing to its own business.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porsrily should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Parke-Do your children know you when
you rig yourself up as Santa CLAUSE
Lane-Oh, yes, but they are nice about
It. They pretend they don't-Brooklyn
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

version to the Oklahoma scheme of de-
post guaranty seems to have killed off
all his ardor for postal savings banks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Eggs must be cheaper in London
than they are in this country. They
ARE being thrown at Carrie Nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Speaking of names once more, SEN
ator Bass has introduced a bill in the
South Carolina legislature to protect
game fish.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

"Tillman airs his race views says
a Washington dispatch. He should
also fumigate and disinfect them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Manager (who has advertised for q floor
walker).--Hav you had any experience?
Applicant-We have had twins in our
f~amily-Judge,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

She-why do they refer to locomotives al
''she"?
Hell suppose it's on account of the
trains they d~raw.-Puck.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
srArEMENr or CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state OF NebraskA, Douglas County, IS:
George b. Tzschuck, treasurer Of The Bee
Publishing company. being July sworn, says
that the actual number OF full and COM
plete copiee Of The Daily, Morning. Even
month OF DecAmhar. 1on9 was Al follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Maud-You are a singular man. I'll bet
you'll never marry.
Jack-Ill take you.-Boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

Isn't 1t about time for Sir Thomas
Upton Ia issue another challenge?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

1t may be significant that the DEM
ocratic candidate for the United
States senate in Illinois is named
Stringer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

GEORGE b. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed IN my presence and sworn to
before me this 31st day of December, 1908.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS

Entered at Omaha postofnoe as second
class matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28

VICTOR RosEwATER. EDITOR.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-28
THE OMAHA DAILY Bel

oUNDED BY EDWARD RosEwATER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-24
MT. Taft's Decision.

If it is true, as stated on good au- thority, that President-elect Taft has made a decision never to drink alcoholic liquors, he is to be warmly commended.
 MT. Taft has the will power of strong man, and if he has made up his mind ne will keep his pledge.
 One naturally asks the reason for such a determination
 There is perhaps small danger for such a man in the occasional use of intoXl- cants. His strong personality would not permit such use to become vicious habit
 But
 Mr Taft's exalted position among men makes his personal example matter or great importance. And, above all-
 The spirit of his action in this decision is the spirit of self denial for the sake of others.
 And that kind of spirit in great man is more potent than a thousand thou shalt-not commands. The latter IS the spirit of the law; the former is the help- ful spirit of the gospel. One is of Sinai' the other of Calvary.
 When a strong man gives up what may be to him pleasure, moved by loVe oi his fellow men, the world takes note ol IL.
 President Eliot of Harvard says "l turn nv hack on all the past if need be. ! have changed my views. l nave huiureus of young men on my hands. No license for the city of Harvard which covers inc heads of those students Not for himself, but for his students l That is the Christlike doctrine
 Fred Grant, the son of the silent soi- dier and himself a brave man. when 'nS l cup is offereT. him says T am afraid to drink" ,h,, h. when some one asked Grant why ne was afraid to drink he replied am afraid not for myself, but for the young officers"
 That is it. 44 Phillips Brooks. one of the greatest nrea ehers of modern times, understood inc meaning of this spirit of sacrifice Tor others. In the presence Of young men who looked to him for leadership he spoke the language of the little converted Je" of the first century,
 "If eating meat causeth my protner .o offend I will eat no more meat While the world stands"
 It is refreshing to note the groWtn 0. this brotherhood kindness, the splrlt or sacrifice on the part of the strong TOT the benefit of the weak s.. The law of the survival or the httest is cruel; the law of helpfulness Tor the weak is divine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-24
A Marshal's Baton.

| car6aId said he felt like taking or ms .,at 4n avery noor newsboy he met be- 1 cause of the possibilities under his ragged 1 jacket l And Napoleon said there was mar | shars baton in the knapsack or every pii- | yate soldier in his armies | yvbather Napoleon believed what ne | sa,d or was speaking for purpose we l r,oy, not know. but a recent writer tells | of two potentially great men who oiu | carry knapsacks in the Emperofs army one of these veterans was named Pas | +eur who. after the battle Of Waterloo' 1 returned to his trade as tanner. De | nied the advantages of an educatioh' ne | determined that his son snouiu haV1 "as l chance. He worked Tar into .i,e n'eN' l order to send the boy to schooi. Tha+ son was Louis Pasteur the great oct ohemist and physiologist Of modern times. of tho eraatest l s..aa,,aries of the nineteenth century. ne also laid the foundation for modern afiu- semitic surgery, thus comforting boon on suffering humanity for all tlfne'
 The veteran Pasteur had more thah marshaps baton in ms hhapsaA' There was another: of st Helena that was infested with rats.
 To the everlasting shame of the allies, be 1t said, they stopped to make ms last days miserable. It was the business or
 an Irish soldier named Sullivan to scare away the rates while the Little Cor
 moral" lay on his deathbed.
 That Irish soldier was the grandfather
 of Sir Arthur Sullivan. whose music has
 eladdened more hearts than Napoleon
 desolated
 If Sullivan had written nothing but
 sThe Lost Chord" he would have soothed
 more souls of men than Napoleon sent
 to their last account.
 Napoleon strede the world like Coos-
 sus. At the age of 26 he stopped tne
 growl of all Europe with his whiplash, but
 In Napoleon's army were men potential
 ly greater than he.
 Despise not the day of small things. Look down upon no man.
 The possibilities of every human soul are beyond the farthest dream of fancy.
 It was the skeptical loafers of Jesus
 time who asked, "Can any good come out
 of Nazereth!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-24
Success and Failure.

Both man and animal are in ceaseless flight for successful existence.
 The law of the survival of the f1ttest does its work With tooth and talon the animals selishly battle for the mastery.
 Man also fights his fellows, not with teeth and claws, but with cunning and foresight and skill Wit takes the place of the club of the stone age. And in the arena of competition men face one an other as bravely as did the gladiators of Rome and Corinth. But
 There is this difference:
 Among men the fight must be fair. If in his climbing up the man uses foul means to pull his fellow down, he is dis honored If he employs deceit or force he descends to the brute.
 Real success today depends on how a man wins it and uses it.
 If anxious to win a man betrays a trust or extorts an undue advantage or grabs more than he earns or needlessly wounds his rival, that is not "the square deal"
 It was not always so.
 It is coming to be so.
 And, on the other hand, the man who wins an honored place among the sue cessful of today must do so by helping his fellows There is only one way by which one can wiring from the world of today its admiration and it's gratitude, and that is by the way of serving the world. Only he who serves his generation is respected and honored by his generation.
 Is not that just and fine?
 The people want to know how the man comes up. If he gets up by low trickery or by betrayal of the com mon interest, he cannot win the recogni- ton of the people.
 But you say
 Nothing succeeds like success
 Once, and not so long ago, the adage was truism. Once it was urged: Sue ceed. Succeed honestly if you can, but succeed"
 But, thank goodness, our ideals have advanced. The moral awakening of our time has created higher standards by which to judge our men.
 Even the politicians are beginning to see, though dimly, that in our day ig- noble success is only successful failure,
 In our day only noble success Is sue cessful success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-24
A LlttIe chlId shaII Load Them.

A ElIllC Ofllu 0Hdii GCdO tnCIHs
 If Saul. of Tarsus had lived in our day his sensational conversion on the road to Damascus would appear in black headlines.
 Scarcely less striking was the eon- version of Pat crowe bandit and bad man, in q Chicago flat recently.
 And, like Saul, Pat Grove has be- come an evangelist. Crowe's reclamation was one of the rewards that come to the patient city missionary who goes into the depths for the fallen.
 A Mrs. Woodmansee visited Crowes home at the psych ological moment. The bandit was overcome with re- morse over a recent drunken debauch. With all the drectness of a first cen tury apostle Mrs. Woodmansee said to l the man;
 God needs you in His service"
 The declaration was like the bolt of light that blinded Saul on the high l way Had the missionary said "The devil needs you in his service" Grove would have understood. But--Gods servicel
 Following up this stroke. the good woman pointed to the infant son in the lap of Groves wife and asked what ahout his future. l Whereupoh the hunted fugitive broke down in abject penltence. His love for ] the babe was Groves tender spot. After several days Groves conversion fol- lowed
 His transformation appeared com l plete. When he told his wife of his future plans she put her hands in his and said:
 q have faith in you. We will work together"
 Grove, who is bright man with an unusual command of language, is lec- turing on "The Crime of Society In Dealing With Criminals and is also engaged in evangeistic prison work.
 Now
 You may be of those. who resent this featuring of society by reformed crim- inals.
 Or
 You may disbeleve in such conversions and predict that the mood will not last.
 But it may be Grove has a genuine message on the treatment of criminals and the spiritual miracle in Groves case be as genuine and lasting as that of Paul.
 Any way, one thing is sure-ohildhood is ever potent factor in the redemption of men.
 No wonder the divine infancy drew to Bethlehem the wise men of the east For it is true now as of old that out of tho mouths of babes and stockings strength is ordained
 It is true now as of old that in the best and highest things of life "a little child i shall lead them'