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Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
A Setback for simplified Spelling.

Instructive and interesting as are
Mr.. Roosevelt's magazine articles on
his jungle experiences in Africa, one
feature has failed to elicit attention,
namely, the complete abandonment of
simplified spelling.
1t is only about three years ago
that, as president of the United States,
Mr.. Roosevelt officially instructed the
public printer to furnish the proof
readers with the simplified spelling
boards lists and to use them as style
card on all executive messages and
other documents emanating from the
White House. The presidents order
raised a storm of protest, re-echoing
in congress, which brought out the
fact that a duly enacted law of the
United States designated a particular
dictionary as the official test of cor
rect spelling in the literary output of
the government printing office. So
obdurate did some of the back-num-
Der members of congress prove to be
that the spelling reform, which had
gained admission to the White House
without knocking, found the doors of
the capitol slammed in its face. AS
private citizen, letter writer and au-
thor Mr.. Roosevelt might spell in any
way he pleased, but as president of
the United States he must conform to
the established usages of a long line
of distinguished predecessors for
whom the old-fashioned spelling was
good enough.
But now after doffing the official
straitiacket and becoming again sole
master of his own pen, Mr.. Roose-
welt clings to his boyhood speller and
shocks the simplified spelling reform
ers by wasting three needless letters
on the word through" and three
more needless letters on the word "al-
though" In some cases of this kind
the author might put the lapse on the
printer, but it is hardly to be sup
posed that any printer would take the
responsibility Of departing from
copy" coming from such a source.
The only plausible explanation is that
the simplified spelling champions
have lost what once seemed to be a
promising and influential convert.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
In a Nutshell.

Three months ago the republicans
Of Nebraska by delegates duly chosen
throughout the various counties met
in state convention to promulgate their
platform as required by law. The
concluding portions of that platform
concisely describe the conditions that
confront the voters at the impending
election:
We point with pride to the records Of
the judges who for many years have been
elevated to the bench in this state as re-
publicans, but who as judges have known
neither personal favoritism nor, political
partisanship, but have fearlessly and Inn
partially declared the law and held the
scales of justice even between rich and
poor, high and low, republican, democrat
lpopulist, prohibitionist and socialist alike
We denounce the eleventh hour pretense
of devotion to the idea of non-partisanship
by the late democratic legislature after
running a riot OF partisanship for three
months and ruthlessly legislating repub-
licans out of office by the wholesale in
order TO make room for democratic office
seekers. If the passage Of their so-called
non-partisan judiciary act was intended to
charge py lnuuCnuO that ItpuDllCdh JhhBGS
are not to be trusted to perform their
official duties without political bias accord
ing to their oaths of office, we resent the
Imputation. It Ill becomes the democrats
to pirate about a ~non-partisan judiciary
when the record shows that, when they
had elected two of the supreme judges
a few years ago, they left no stone I'M
turned to elect the third and make the
court consist wholly Of their own partisan
judges.
What is here said with reference to the
administration of the courts applies like
wise to the administration Of the state uni
versity. This noble institution has grown
and prospered under the efficient manage
ment of regents elected as republicans, free
from the Intrusion Of political partisan
ship or the application of political tests
in sharp contrast with the time when
under a fusion board its Management was
VIGOROUSLY partisan,
The reasons, therefore, are not hard to
find why, for more than a third of a cen
fury, but for one brief trial period, the
people Of Nebraska have continuously pre-
ferred to entrust their highest court Of
justice and their highest institution Of
learning 10 officers presented as candidates
by the republican party, and these reasons
hold good today, The nominees OF the
republican party for these responsible posi-
lions this year will be competent and
trustworthy, and should NINA the sup
port and votes Of all good citizens who be-
lieve in honesty, Justice and fidelity and
hate hypocrisy, deceit and faithlessness.
The conscientious voter who will
study this statement and go to the
polls determined to do his full duty
as a citizen of Nebraska will record
himself for the candidates on the re-
publican ticket.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
LegisIating Back an industry.

The new law which the British Par
lament is to put in force for the linen
weavers of the Belfast district ex-
presses an effort to legislate back into
existence a vanished industry. Real
Irish linen" once the proud boast of
the thrifty housewife in this as in
other countries, no longer exists ex-
cept as a name. The product that is
actually entitled to that hallmark
would never begin TO I'LL the demand,
Power looms are pressed under mod
ern conditions to keep the markets
supplied, and so far as the consumer
has been able to discover the new man
u%facture has been as serviceable as the
old.
But the Belfast district ~persevered
with its hand looms in the face Of ma
chine competition, until in a despair
ing gasp It has called upon Parliament
for help, which is now to be accorded,
and after January 1 the words Irish
woven linen damask" or Irish hand
woven" appearing on any goods will
indicate, II the trade conscientiously
lives up to the British law. that the
material is actually the product Of an
Irish hand loom. Parliament has pro-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Romance Of Land Drawing

When the last allotment Of public
land shall have been made, there will
pass out of American life one of it's
dramatic features. demonstrating
from the beginning has exercised a
fascination for the observer as well as
for the participant, and since the
scarcity of land has brought in the ele-
ment of competition each allotment
has aroused all the interest of a ma
tional prize package distribution.
The recent drawings in the Chey-
enne River and Standing Rock reser-
vations have Afforded the usual fund
of human interest episodes. Moth
ing could more aptly illustrate the
vicissitudes Of life than the fact that
the man who won the grand prize for
feited IT by his greed. which prompted
him to file another claim just before
the drawing. And there is every ele-
ment of romance in the experience Of
the widow who SO surprisingly found
her name among the winners after all
hope seemed gone,
President Louis Hill of the Great
Northern is quoted as attacking the
method of land allotment, but his crit
icism is not echoed by the disappointed
participants. Instead, wen the losers
have had a peculiar enjoyment which
no other form Of holiday could afford,
and those who go back from the regis
tratioh with no land allotment seem
content to have shared in a phase of
life that they will talk about to the end
of their days.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
N BOILED DOWN.

1t Is slow work curing the worlds ills by
preaching our isms.
Nothing Is accomplished BY those who ar,
afraid Of overwork.
some imagine that a just life Is one spell.
In Judging other people.
The worker who watches the clock never
acquires the right to set it.
No man comes to himself until he knows
that he belongs to his world.
Ihe man who puts his substance down his
throat Is soon taken at his face value.
No mai lays up treasures In heaven by
sending verbal prOmissory notes there.
Lots OF people are waiting for a res, Ga
heaven who never knew the heaven OF
work.
Many a man finds that all the p,ety he
got in meeting evaporates when he goes
milking.
You can measure the bitterness OF the ad-
versary's pill by the thickness Of the sugar
coating.
one Of the worst results Of crooked iiy-
ing is that a man ceases to be on the square
with himself.
The biggest coward Of all Is he man
who is not afraid Of doing that witch ae
knows to be wrong.
It's no use dreaming Of your heavenly
home IL your faith does not make your
home more heavenly.
II a man wants TO learn where the saints
really are. let him take care Of the chill
dren at home for a day.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Rural Mail Delivery.

To most of us the rural letter car
rier is a personal unit, a modern con-
~venience who pauses at the gate once
or twice a day, establishes the house
holds contact with the outside world
and passes out Of view and out of
thought until the morrow. But at
large the rural letter carrier numbers
an army Of $4,000, travelling more
than 1,000,O0 miles of road each
day and serving 1000 600 families.
Only when we consider that the first
experimental route was served only
thirteen years ago and that 1t Is less
than ten years since the first full
county service was attempted, can we
realize with what ~suddenness this
prodigious growth has been acquired.
Notwithstanding it's ~suddenness, it
ment of auxiliary businesses, the field
being full of houses that have sprung
up to fill the requirements of the car
riers for special clothing, vehicles,
wagon heaters, stamp and coin cabi-
nets, mail boxes and all sorts Of de-
vices n appliances peculiarly for the
convenience, comfort and dispatch of
the rural carriers business. That the
rural carrier does keep abreast of af-
fairs is testified to by his flourishing
national association, at whose recent
convention P. V. DeGraw, fourth as
sistant postmaster general. reviewed
some of the public benefits resulting
from the establishment Of the service.
Looking at the gain from only the
financial point OF view, Mr.. DeGraw
calculates that the farmer annually
saves $46s, 100000 by having his mail
brought to his door instead of going
once a week to the postoffice. Since
the beginning Of the service the gov
eminent has saved $40, 000, 900
through the abolition of fourth-class
offices and star routes. On the other
hand, the service costs the government
$37, 0OO. 600 a year, which is S26 .0OO.-
600 more than It directly yields in
revenue. It is to be noted, however,
that the system is steadily developing
increased patronage.
Good roads constitute another d.
rect benefit attributed to rural deliv-
cry, it being estimated that SIS, O00,-
600 in road improvements may be
credited to the advent OF the rural
carrier. Furthermore, expert opinion
traces an increase in country realty
values of $75O.OOO.OOO as due to ad-
vantages accruing to farmers through
the agency Of rural delivery.
Material gains have not been the
only attainment Of the service. how
ever; II has been also a vitalizing
agent In social life. Conditions among
farmers, miners n other dwellers in
the remoter districts have come dnder
a civilizing influence which has In part
checked the drift to the cities. thereby
aiding In the solution OF a serious
sociological problem; the service has
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.


II DR.. Jocks discretion was equal to his
first.
One Of the things fairly well rubbed into
the river excursionists is that talk won't
move a sandbar.
Premier Prendergast of Spain leans to-
ward the teachings of his ancestors. He
favors home rule with Spanish trimmings.
The latest ukase Of health promoters is
that overeating is especially dangerous in
winter time. Awfully facilitating to the
pocketbook, too. .la. l-
The difficulties encountered by the presi-
Dental flotilla on the way to New Orleans
indicates that the bosom OF the Father OF
Waters needs considerable ironing.
1t is now explained that the conclusion of
a scientist, towit; Man in his makeup is
a gas bag" was drawn from close observa-
tons of the municipal campaign in New
York City. Thus restricted, it goes.
A rarity in real estate deals is reported
in Chicago. A piece OF property having a
frontage Of twenty-four feet on Michigan
avenue near Twelfth street, was leased for
a term of 1875 years for an aggregate rental
Of Sc, 49, 300.
Memphians boldly defied sartorial light
ming by banishing the tall hat and frock
coat from the presidential reception, Since
the waterwagon became the official We
hicle of hospitality there. caprices that
would be considered strange In other days
are now commonplace.
Abraham @. Mum, retired manufactures,
philanthropist and patriarch, OF Louisville,
KY, died recently, aged 81. He was active
|ly identified up to the time OF his death
with several charitable institutions. He at
tributed his long life and the full reten-
ton of his faculties to temperance In all
things.
Chicago has a citizen Of four score and
eleven years who prefers work to a pen
sion. In his application for a peddIer's
license he says he is a native of Vermont,
served in three different regiments in the
Civil war, fought at Bull Run, Harper's
Ferry and other places, and never drew
a pension. Il don't want any" he adds,
but ] want a chance to work"
Those beautiful pictures Of Chicago
Beautiful" which nave adorned newspapers
and magazines for months past, are booked
fer the junk pile. A decision of the uli-
nois supreme court excludes the great field
museum from the proposed Grant park on
the lake front, leaving Montgomery Ward
a view Of the lake unbroken save by the
curling smudges OF locomotives, For the
present, Chicago beautiful, remains a pleas
ant dream
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.


Baltimore American: A church convention
in Pennsylvania has put itself on record
against divorce in the most practical way
by adopting a resolution that no minlstey
Of the church shall marry a divorced per
son. This step comes colncidently with the
government report Of $1,000 divorces a year
for the last twenty years.
Charleston News and Courier: According
to the Rev. DR.. Aked, Rookefeller's new
pastor, IAN actor in a police court means
no more than a clergyman in a divorce
court" He might have added with truth
that some actors do not fit the stage any
better than some preachers TIT the pulpit.
If all the bad actors could be taken from
the stage and all the poor preachers could
be expelled from the pulpit, It would be
better for both pulpit and stage,
San Francisco Chronicle The a%nnounced
intention of the combined Protestant
churches of the United STATES TO begin a
campaign of newspaper and magazine id
vertising, calling the attention of the Amer
lean public to the Importance Of remodying
certain social, economic and religious COR
ditlons, is a new idea in church propa-
ganda. 1t IL a good idea. however, pro-
vided the remedies suggested are carefully
thought out and will stand the test OF ICa-
son. The value of publicity is not to be
undsrestlmated, even in the work OF the
churches.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

been a decided stimulus to agriculture.
The next step proposed is to extend
rural free delivery to include a par
cells post. While this would materially
lessen the governments deficit. II
naturally meets with opposition from
certain sources, but the farmer is en-
Enthusiastically for It. II the parcels
post project reaches congress IL will
naturally be fought by the express
companies, but the rural carriers and
their patrons may be expected to be
a unit in its favor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Contrasts in woman's Suffrage

1t is pleasant for both sexes to con-
template the contrast afforded by the
methods Of the suffragists in this coun-
try against those Of the suffragettes
abroad. In spite Of the presence of
one of the most VIGOROUSLY violent
leaders from London, the women of
New York demonstrated their ability
to conduct a convention of 1000 dele
gates in exemplary parliamentary
fashion, and their temperate platform
and orderly procedure cannot but adj
vance their cause much further than
would have been the case IL threats OF
violence had been INDUCED.
1t should be noted, too, that the
more aggressive sisterhood in Iowa de-
cided on the adoption of obstructive"
rather than militant" tactics, indi-
cative Of a deep conviction that self
repression may be exercised with no
diminution Of power. When the Hawk
eye women storm the legislature they
are likely at least to forego the I'M
womanly ways that have made the
cause offensive abroad. It remains to
be seen whether the movement in this
country will get further by good be-
hsvior than II will abroad where their
sisters are charged with all sorts Of
misconduct.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
TRIBUTE OF ASSOCIATES.
HarrimAn's Success "NOt one Man
but Half a Dozen,

but Half a Dozen"
Wall Street journal.
Three vice presidents were added 10 the
organization Of the Union Pacific at the
meeting at which Judge Lovett was made
president. That is three more OF such
officers than the Union Pacific ever found
necessary during Mr.. Hsrriman's lifetime.
Perhaps the most real tribute that has been
paid to the dead railroader is the fact that
his successor is not one man. but half a
dozen.
All Of the new vice presidents were chosen
from the working staff and their duties
may not be greatly different hereafter from
what they nave been for some years past.
but It would be a mistake to suppose that
their formal promotion was only formal.
As long as all authority, dirsctoTiai, finan-
ciaI and managerial, was vested in one
man, who constantly exercised his full COM
mand, it made little difference whether his
subordinates were called vice presidents
or general managers or something else.
Titles were then little more thai titles.
But with the one master replaced by sew
eral masters, titles assume a new mean
ing and undoubtedly carry far-reaching au-
thority with them.
At Mr.. Harrlman's death the better in
formed, instead Of specializing upon the
identity Of his successor, freely predicted
that he would nave no successor. Events
are rapidly vindicating their judgment, and
it accords perfectly with Thursdays
changes in the Union Pacific's personnel
that the annual report discloses the sale.
during the last fiscal year, Of all the com
pany's holdings OF st. Paul common stock.
II makes no difference whether this sale
was or was not wholly OF Mr.. Harriman's
doing. The London view that much OF Mr..
Harriman's work would have to be undone
is now known to have been we'll grounded,
as Mr.. Hartman himself may have fore
seen.
Just how far this process Of readjust-
ment will go no man can say. But at least
Il is clear that the Hartman lines, as they
will still be called in a historical sense,
have entered into the class which the Penn
~sylvania has long typified and OF which
the New York system is fast becoming
one, where directors direct and where nat
ural limitations Of sphere are recognized.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
THE HILL CLIMB.

Ralph II. Shaw in Boston Transcript.
Fancy, childish in her play.
Said to me the other day,
IF you climb yon hilltop high
You may touch the very sky;
Come, and let me lead the wayi"
Sane denial I deferred,
And took Fancy at her word;
Up the hill I followed her.
Passed the spreading juniper
And the silent grazing herd.
Halfway up I paused and said,
'Gladly, Fancy am ! ledl
When l reach the hilltop high
] shall touch the very sky,
That seems now just Ger my headf'
Blue above and green belowi
What a rapture / did know!
Letting Fancy have her way,
Wholly with her I'm her play,
I did upward, upward go.
Soon my feet had climbed so high
That I saw the azure sky
CLEAN the very grasses through
That upon the long ridge grew,
And I felt that Il was nigh.
Up 1 went three PAGES more,
Three, and-looked the hilltop o'en0
Saw the sky was far away,
And heard Fancy, laughing, say,
"Ahl you should I'VE stopped before.~
So It is we often do
often we too far pursue
Fancy, for the greatest good;
There's a point whereat we should '
Stop and stay-how very truel
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

About a week ago The Bee chroni-
cled the fact that the first recruit re-
spending to Colonel Bryan's proclama-
ton for enlistments under the banner
Of his latest tarin reform paramount
was Congressman sulzer Of New York,
representing that great reform organ
ization known as Tammany hall.
with that democratic statesman as
color-bearer Colonel Bryan has now
three more recruits I'm his army Of re-
form whose applications for enlistment
are printed in the current issue of his
.Commoner. From their declarations
of intention thus filed, the rapid prog
ress Colonel Bryan is making towards
solidifying the democratic party on
the tariff reform program may be
readily seen.
Congressman Joseph F. o'Connell of
Massachusetts modestly writes that he,
and he alone, framed the platform re-
Gently adopted in state convention by
the democratic party in Massachusetts,
fully e%mbodying his idea of what the
democratic tariff program should be
in these words:
We demand an immediate reduction Of
the tariff duties on the necessaries Of life.
Congressman r. B. Macon Of Arkan-
sas endorses the proposition embodied
by Mr.. Bryan in his speech at Dallas,
but is not content to stop there, be-
cause he declares:
l am IN anti-protectionist from head to
heels. / believe that if the great Creator
Of All Things made man and placed him
upon earth, He intended that he should
a free race to the goal unhindered
by his fellows, and that for any one Of
them to obstruct his course by digging
pitfalls or erecting barriers to interfere
with his progress would be ~unbrotherly,
unmanly and contrary to every Christian
spirit implanted in man by his Creator.
Congressman De Almond of Mis-
souri,, as the third guardsman, writes
to say:
l concur in the suggestion recently made
by the Hon. William ]. Bryan as express
ing the proper democratic doctrine upon
the tariff. and would like TO see the demo-
cratic party everywhere make It, by plat
form declaration, a cardinal tenet of party
faith.
Here is democratic harmony with a
vengeance.
The democratic congressman from
Massachusetts, has committed his party
in his state merely to a reduction of
the tariff duties on the necessaries of
life, which certainly does not neces-
sarily include free raw materials, and
conveniently leaves to be demonstrated
later what constitutes the n~ecessaries
of life.
The democratic congressman from
Arkansas is for free trade, pure and
simple, as the divine right inherited
by every man from his Creator, and
must therefore be for razing every
house n toll gate altogether.
The democratic congressman from
Missouri is for any prescription hat
the good DR.. Bryan wants to write
out for the patient, which, in this case,
is free raw materials and piecemeal
reduction of other duties down to the
uniform rate of rs per. cent.
Great is the democratic army follow
Ing the banner Of tariff reform.