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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
Afloat on the Missouri

The decoration of the waters is not confined to the sa and lake
coast cities. but to all interior cities as well, wherever there ia a
body of water. The ceremony has been observed in Omaha for the
asst hVe years with increasing interest. In 1907 and 1908 q beau
utul Moral boat was provided and set ahoat on the Missouri at the
foot Of Douglas street, the boat being launched by a detail from the
United States navy recruiting station at Omaha. The same form of
ceremony will be observed this Decoration day, the exercises to take
place Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, in order not to interfere with the
more general observance of the day. The ceremonies will be ar
ucipated in on this occasion by a class of young girls, which will
which an address will be delivered, and followed by the launching
OF the floral beat. The Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
Will have charge of this service, as has been the custom for the last
three years. A detail from the United States navy will assist in
boat asking those who find 1t, should it drift ashore, to set it anoat
again On 1T way to the sea. The beat is usually a fral structure
that will sink within several hours.
Another form OF ceremony is to strew the flowers with appropr.-
thul one and at the same time extremely simple.
During the last year or two a n effort has been made to give the
credit for the Introduction of the ceremony of decorating the waters
to women in various parts of the country, particularly along the At
iantic and Pacific seaboard, but the practice in its present form, and
n adopted by the national departments Of the Woman's Relief
Corps and Ladies OF the Grand Army Of the Republic, is the Ne
braska idea and has been In regular practice since 1900. The
coral o waters has taken a strong hold in the south and
will be observed this year in almost every southern state, the Ne
bTaska form OF ritual being adopted.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
South and North Cooperate

Efforts have been repeatedly made to have the south cooperate
with the northern states in making May 30 the" Decoration day,
but without result The south has its own views on this matter and
Is not disposed to relinQuish them. At the same time the southern
people have always participated in the Decoration day ceremonies in
such southern states where there r. national cemeteries maintained
and supported by the general government. 1t is also the custom for
the Grand Army of the Republic to unite with the United Confeder-
ate Veterans in their Memorial day ceremonies wherever there hap
The confederate graveyard near Camp Chase, Ohio, in which several
thousand southern soldiers lie buried who died in prison while prs-
oneTs of war, is given the same reverent attention by the Grand
Army of the Republic on Decoration day as is given to the dead of
the union armies buried in Green Lawn cemetery at Columbus, o.
At first no particular form wa observed in the decoration of
the graves, each locality where soldier and sailor dead lay buried
observing the day its own peculiar way. At the outset the decora-
tn of the graves o II strewing of flowers was entrusted to little girls.
The ceremonial was a beautiful one and was generally accompanied
with devotional exercises. The ceremony was carried out in the
cemetery at the Soldiers circle, where the larger body of the dead
had been grouped. 1t was soon discovered that a great many SOL
drs were buried in private lots remote from the circle. and many of
such graves were unntentionally overlooked in the strewing of flow
ers, much to the grief of their friends and relatives. 1t again fire.
quently happened that soldiers had been buried in almost every GEN.
etery who were unknown in the community where buried, and again
many soldiers were known to be lying in unknown graves in the
south land where no flower could ever be placed on their graves. 1t
was this thought that inspired the system of decorating unknown
graves in form, II not in letter, which has now become the central
feature of the Grand Army ritual that is observed in the more i'm
posing features of the day. The known graves can be bedecked with
flowers, and are in every cemetery north and south. This feature
of decoration has Of late years been entrusted to special details of
the Grand Army and their auxilaries, the Woman's Relief Corps and
the Ladies OF the Grand Army of the Republic, taking place usually
the morning of Decoration day, while the formal exercises are
usually deferred until the afternoon. The ritualistc ceremony has
up to very recent years been carried out in some park, where a n I'M
known grave with a monument is provided for the occasion, around
which the general ritualistc ceremonies are carried out followed by
a Grafton and special musical services. The parade feature and
park exercises are gradually dying out because of the advancing
years Of the old veterans who cannot stand the fatigue of the parade
out these services indoors, and this year, as last year, in Omaha they
will be carried out in the Auditorium, with all the rituahstc forms.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

in trying to get loose even If l had been able
to accomplish the feat. which in itself was
highly improbable. With no weapon at
hand, l could not hope to cope with the fully
armed savages. 1t looked bad for me.
Then at this dark moment came my
marvellous deliverance. 1t was almost as
strange as fiction and it explains my fond
ness for hail.
"A pair OF knives came flying at me.
They struck one on either side at the same
instant. But instead of reaching the target
at which they were aimed, /. e., myself, they
encountered the thongs that bound me to
the tree, My mind worked like lightning.
1 had no time, however, to stop to think that
release was of no avail. | leaped forward
free of my bonds. At almost the same mo-
ment a terrific storm broke upon us. So in
terested were all of us in. our own proceed
ings that we had not noticed its approach.
THE first downpour of rain was immedi-
ately succeeded by a perfect volley of hail.
Instantly l grasped the opportunity and as
many OF the hailstones as / could and hurled
them at my enemies. l had had long ex-
perience as a bean bag player and my aim
was unerring. At every throw l struck a
redskin squarely in the forehead and had the
satisfaction of watching them one by one fall
stunned and unconscious TO the ground.
THAT storm lasted scarcely five minutes,
but at the end of that time was master of
the field, Knowing, however, that the In
dians might recover at any time. l hastily
gathered up their weapons and my supply of
Wahoo and quickly departed.
"one of the fortunate hailstones car
ried away also. At the first town / came to
I had it preserved, and to this day / treasure
1t as one of my choicest possessions."-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

what they wrought, and as preservers OF a nation occupy a place in
the schools which their children and grandchildren r attending.
They are the living evidence of a past replete with mighty events.
The stories of their camp and battle life of half a century ago pos
sss a new interest to them, a the events in which they took part
loom up in such vast Importance with the passing years. They
thought but little of these things then, not that they did not realize
their importance, but because they had other things to think of at
Shiloh, Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, Bull Run, Anuetam, Gettys-
burg, the Wilderness and Appomattox. With these historic battle
fields bristlng yearly with new monuments to commemorate their
valor In their young manhood days they begin to feel that they are
of some Importance after all. They may not tell the story of their
battles with the accuracy of an official report or a critical review of
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

Il and hih younger sons as the date
recedes? Colonel McGorrity of
Milwaukee is not the Oldest inhabitant.
neither is he a younger son, but he exhibits
the talent of both and put their best efforts
to sleep. Listen to his story:
"One spring years ago / was travelling
through what is now the state of Idaho sell
ing Whahoo. There were no railroads
through that country then, SO was utilizing
a native pony as means of transportation.
That was in the early period of my as
ISOLATION with the business of manufacturing
and selling the marvellous remedy / refer to,
and | was not then so we'll acquainted with
all its powers as l am now. My experience
came near costing me dear. too. Only the
Intervention of the elements bringing the
timely hail from which dates my partially
to this variety of storm saved my career
from untimely extinction.
Camping for the night on a lonesome
trail, l inadvertently left a large quantity of
Whahoo exposed to the interference of my
sensation hunting equine. During the night
the pony, becoming restless, interested itself
in the receptacles containing the remedy
and drank a large quantity. 1t must have
been shortly thereafter that awoke to OBJ
serve the beast endeavoring to climb a
neighboring tree. 1 was astonished, natu-
rally, and took steps to calm the excited ami
NAL. However, the pony took steps also,
quicker than mine, and before I could reach
it it was fying\Hp the mountainside.
LAS l was PARTICULARLY interested in the
locality had no intention of following the
pony. There was nothing for me to do but
to turn in and get the rest Of my sleep.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

nee TO the Decoration day idea; and third, Decoration day proper.
ms year the old and young veterans will speak jointly at the
several schools. On Memorial Sunday, which happens to fall this
year on the Decoration day date, the posts of Omaha, with their re-
spective auXliaries, will attend church in the morning at the First
presbyterian Seward Street Methodist ana Pearl Memorial MethodiA
churches. Next important to the formal ceremonies of Decoration
day is the practice of the old veterans delivering addresses before
me pubic schools. 1t does not follow that these addresses ar al
ways expositions of classic eloquence, for the speakers were not
taught in the school of Demohenes, and oratory may not be their
forte They are men now bent in years who half a century ago left
their homes and school to undertake a mighty task, the like of which
has never befallen a similar soldiery. They now begin to realize
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
Grand Army Will Bequeath Day

Decoration day is a distinctive institution of the Grand Army of
the Republic and its general form is and always will be, in that d-
Tecuon, That the veterans of the Grand Army are Jealous of the
day cannot be denied, yet the old veterans are beginning to feel that
the time is not far distant when they must lay the work down to
younger hands, and to this end they look to the younger soldiers of
later war; to take up and perpetuate the work of Decoration day
with the same fervor that they have always carried 1t on. But to
do this the rtuaAistic form must be changed somewhat because Of
the different conditions of the later wars. in which the younger gem
Grafton fought just IS vigorously as did their fathers nearly half a
century ago.
Decoration day is virtually divided into three periods, the first
being the custom OF having old veterans address the pupils of the
public and paroehial schools on the Friday preceding Decoration day;
and Memorial Sunday. when the different posts and corps attend
divine services where the services are conducted with special refer
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

OTICED, haven't you, how hail
stones grow In size in the imagi-
nation of the Oldest inhabitant
and hib younger sons as the date
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

the protested historian, yet they can. ana 40, tell a story of their in
dividual part as seen from their immediate environment that gives
to the written historical page a deeper interest and inspires in their
hearers a spirit of patriotism that &C uld not be inspired through any
other means. They may lapse into occasional egotism in telling
their own story, but yet they are the living evidence of the things
that shall endure as long as history is treasured or revered.
The custom of decorating the waters of the sea with flowers was
observed long years before the decoration of the graves of the soldier
dead was ever thought Of 1t was praciced by fisher folk along the
sea shores a a tribute to their dead lost at sea. In fact, the custom
goes back into the neurological history of England in the days of
Good King Arthur and Sir Launcelot, when the Thames, the Tyne
and the Dee were carpeted with flowers as a Precipitation against
disaster by sea o II memory of those who had gone to sea in ships and
never returned. 1t was particularly a civil custom and had no bear
ing upon the soldiers o II men-of-wars-men who we're lost at sea in
battle, and 1t was not until the Spanish American war of 1898 that
the impulse was given to decorate the waters in memory of the dead
buried at sea, who had given up their lives in a national cause.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-11-20
NEW USE FOR RATS.

The Government Consular and
Trade Reports, an unfailing source OF
Information and interest, bring the
cheering assurance that at last the
ordinary brown rat can be put to some
use for mans advantage. Already an
industry In rat pelts has grown up In
Great Britain, and the traffic Is said
to amount to quarter OF a million
In value annually. Rat skins can be
used for bookbindings, purses, gloves
and other articles. The destruction of
these pests will now have a CONNER.
cial value apart from the considera.
ton OF preventing the damage they
do. There really seems to be nothing
In nature that cannot be put to some
use II We will only try to discover
what that use may be. No doubt the
ingenuity OF our Government experts
will some day discover a use for mos
Quitoes or gnats, and II is not impos
sible that future surgical luminary
may convince the scientific world that
afterall. the genus homo needs q
vermiform appendix
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-11-20

will throw the budget out bodily.
A certain moderate element among
them, however, thinks II should be
passed to avoid the period OF inan-
cial confusion which must follow
its rejection, but that II should only
be passed upon condition that the
cabinet resign Immediately after
ward, and that the election be
promptly called. II Is uncertain
which OF these elements will win.
Either way, will suit the liberals.
The lords theory is that the lib
erals are determined to force fight
upon them and that they will do bet
ter to fight now that to walt until
they are weakened by the operation
OF their enemies reform schemes. In
dications seem to be that the liber-
ais will win, but Il Is not certain
ty. Englishmen are devout worship
! pers OF ancient institutions and In
tensely fearful of change. Many men
who would unquestionably profit by
a liberal victory will surely vote the
conservative ticket from mere
strength of habit and hereditary
subserviency to the institutions they
: have always known.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-11-20

is shut of from cultivation by
|multi-millionaire landlords who want
| II for shooting preserves. The ISL
and has been settled and civilized
for centuries, yet countless fertile
acres are as wild today as when King
Canute was its ruler.
A million men--one-thirtieth OF
the countrys population-who might
support themselves comfortably on
these preserved acres, are unemploy-
ed and starving in the streets OF
London, Manchester, Liverpool,
Glasgow and the other large towns.
The farmers who can find land to
cultivate are mere tenants and must
pay whatvcre rent the nobility de-
mands.
Ten Men Own London.
City property is similarly held by
a very few. About ten men are pro-
arietors of the major portion of Lon
don. They refuse to sell 1t, but let
II out upon long leases. and when
these leases expire the landlords ac-
quire all the improvements their ten
ants have made.
The whole country Is working for
this little group of capitalists.
These great fortunes are not scat
tered by division among the capital
lists children when the capitalists
die. for in England estates descend
GENERALLY not from father to children
but from father to Oldest son.
For the four years that the gen.
eral party has had a majority OF
the house of commons, II has been
Trying to remedy this condition. a
little at a time, by the enactment of
laws tightening the burden of tax
alton upon the poor and putting
more OF It upon the rich. The house
of commons has passed these bills
regularly as they came up, and just
as regularly they have been rejected
by the house of lords.
Finally, the liberals resolved to
bring matters to a DEFINITE issue.
There is introduced annually in the
house OF commons what Englishmen
call a budget--a measure correspon-
ding to an American appropriation
bill, but considerably broader in Its
scope. in that It not only makes APP
preparations, but specifies the taxes
by which money for these appro-
priations must be raised.
Under the English constitution the
house of lords may reject the bud
get-though It Is generations since
the house of lords has done so on
account of the shocking financial
muddle its rejection must involve
but II may not amend It.
About Lloyd George. a.. o..
/ Chancellor Of the Exchequer Lloyd
George, a cabinet Official cOrrespon.
lding to the American secretary OF
the treasury, resovel to draft this
year's budget in such way as to
embody the reforms the liberals haG
been trying for four years to &C,
complish He figured that II the
lords accepted the bill, his work OF
reform would have been wrought
But he did not much believe thu
lords would accept 1t. In the even
of rejection, his plan was for tn,
government to resign and call ma
tional election with its vital issue
the abolition of the house of lords
Without the house of lords. he argu
, ed, the people would be able to ge
what they wanted.
The rest of the cabinet agreed /,
, this plan.
The lords have taken up the gag
of hattie, They Will do one of tw,
!, Things. The chances are that the
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-11-20
Corporation Not Ces
Metropolitan Meat
Co., Ltd.
Notice to Stockholders.

Notice Is hereby given that tho
undersigned will make partial dis
tribution of the assets of the Metro
politan Meat Company, Limited, an
Hawaiian corporation, to the extent
of $50 per share at the Office of tn,
Audit Company of Hawaii Oh Bethel
Street, Honolulu, Territory of Ila-
wall. at any time on or after the
18Th day of November. 1909.
Stock certificates must be pro-
duced.
Honolulu, T. H., November II,
1903.
\. ". r. BOTTOMLEY,
Trustee Of Metropolitan
Meat Company. Limited
4i6y-lt
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-11-20
FAMOUS BRITISH BUDGET
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i.
Details budget the British government are
10 as much
in the hands of the clerical
an to have somet amendments inserted
before for the House of Lords
Roughly speaking Georges budget proposes this:
a swollen incomes as to compel
of the they have hitherto
& lodged
heavily that II will be too
for the holde leave longer unimprovcd =
heavily that 1t will no longer
possible realty excessive profit
Withholding II from sale,
sufficiently give the public
its share in increases
has al helped
the imposition Of death duties
sufficient scatter Of few generations
=
. = . = .
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-13

a 'foosee market. Jnder the Goose
market system the farmer sorts his
cured ebaccO into grades in his barn,
and>makes a parcel Of each grade.
He. loads t~he+VariOus parcels into his
wagon, and drives to the nearest mar
ket OWL There are about eighty
~"loose" markets in~the. Caroiinas and
Virginia.. Here he finds various ware
houses, with one Of which he has
established business relations. He
takes his product to his Warehouse,
and there his various parcels are
weighed and placed upon the floor.
Phez tobacco is loose that is, not
packed in hogsheads or bales. Buyers
assemble and the highest bidder gets
the tobacco. The planter goes back
home with his Warehouses;
have competed against each other.
The favored warehouse. to keep his
custom, has tried to secure him a
higher price than any other ware
house could have given.
In Kentucky the planter who mar
kets his tobacco must frs: press it into
hegsheads, about one thousand pounds
to the h~ogshead. This is called ''priz-
ing He must ship it to a ware
house at Louisville Or Cincinnati.
There it is sold at AUCTION on the
break That is, the hogshead is
lifted off. the bulk is Dried open at
different. places, and a sample OF
four hands taken from each place.
The three samples are tied together
and sealed. Ten pounds. approx
nately the weight of the sample. are
deducted from the net weight of each
Ehogshead of tobacco. credited to the
shipper. He has also to pay q com
mission, the freight, and for the hogs
head.
All this was i~nconvenient. especially
Tor the small grower. As a result. he
frequently sold to a s.speculator," as
the local buyers came to be called.
The Spectator appeared while the
crop was in the barn. The -%specula-
tor offered prices, perhaps. made an
advance. The grower accepting, con-
traeted to deliver at a nearby town,
where the ~sDecu.ator had q warehouse
and facilities for pricing. The spec
ulator held the tobacco in his ware
house until such time as he could sell
to advantage.
Why does the Kentucky tobacco
farmer follow a marketing method
different from that OF his brother in
Virginia or the Carolinas? I have
asked the question many times and
am not sure a anyone has ever ven-s
tured an explanation. Like Topsy,
the system has Just groWed." I have
been told that at one time Richmond
was q great tobacco market. as Louis
vile and Cincinnati are today,
DuI ,ti1stt the System OF loose mar
kets grew gradually until it be-
, came the general method in Virginia
and the -CarOlinas.
The loose market method has
been started in Kentucky and Tennes-
see. There is a ..loose" market now
| at Lexington. Ky, and other are. be-
Ling started throughout the State. The
Tobacco Trust has not in. any way
! opposed the loose market method.
lone. prominent. Official Of the Trust
ItOld-ne that he hoped Kentucky
would speedily adopt the system. The
tobacco buyer, working in a barr
Continued on Page Tenn
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-13
Lone STAR Etc.

Author OF The Supreme Court" ..Tis.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-13
THAT RIDE BY NIGHT
Magazine.

in Eugene Z. Lyle. Jr.. in Hampton's.
Magazine.
Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-05-06

The wireless telegraph apparatus
with which army transports are equip
ped are working with the utmost sue
cess, and they are said to be particu-
larry valuable on the vessels plying
between San Francisco and Manila.
During trip across the Pacific they
are rarely out Of communication with
stations at San Francisco, Honolulu,
Manila, and other places. On the re-
cent return trip Of the Sheridan to San
Francisco, the vessel was in touch
with Manila until arrival atNagasaki,
Japan, and when off the Midway Is
lands messages were exchanged with
Nagasaki, 2, 800 miles away, and also
with Honolulu.
Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-05-06
Notice For Bids

J. A. sLAITERY. City Clerk.
Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-05-06

Miles City, May ID .. Wall
has sold his wool clip, something like
10o. 1000 pounds. at 21a cents. This is
the highest price SO far heard Of
here this season. A communication
received By prominent WoolgroWers
ii this city from a solicitor for an
eastern house, now IN Wyoming, re-
lates that wool in Wyoming IS sell
ing freely at from q to q cents.
which would be equivalent. the way
woods are rated. at from q to Is
cents for Montana. The writer adds
that prospects for good prices are
bright.