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Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-02

audience was overweight, and hysterical
laughter disturbed the silence of the clos
ing scene.
The company presenting the drama is a
we'll selected organization, and excellently
cast. Mr.. Gordon's conception of Jules
Beaubien seems to be perfect. Light
hearted. chivalrous, courageous and de-
termined, he lives under Mr.. Gordon's
treatment of the role just as one would
have him. And the same may be said for
Mr.. Kelley's Mcdonald, the personal anti
thesis of Jules, but finely acted. Miss
Servoss is a sweet-faced, sweet-voiced lit
tie girl, who looks as we'll as acts the part
Of Hilda in a way that very nearly real
ICES the utmost possibilities of the part.
Messrs. Lamar, Bassett and Mobiles are
well cast for their roles, and the ensem-
BILE is perhaps as complete as anything one
might reasonably wish to see.
The staging is wonderful. The setting is
in the great woods, the foliage turning
under the early autumn chill. and all the
surroundings being such as appeal most
potently to the imagination and help the
progress of the play by the insensible but
efficacious suggestion of color. And the
simplicity OF IT all is It's charm. Il, Jules
Beaubien, what am sp'ikin' TO you-who
knows-I say" you should see The Wolf"
even If it does occasion some inconvenience
in getting down town and home again.
"In the Bishops CarFIaEe" mt the
KruE.
A rare picture Of the play OF the emo
lions and ambitions of humanity Of the
underworld, with that of the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-02

Engineer. Eureka, Fairbanks, Fort Yukon,
Fox, Franklin, Gilman, Galovin. Gulkama,
Hot Springs, Innoko, ~Jackwade, Kaltag,
Kokrines, Koserefsky, Kosine, Kotzebue,
Mckinley, Meehan, Miller Home, Nation,
Nenana, Nome, Nulate, Olness, Ophir,
Park, omuhagak. Rampant, Richardson,
st, Michael. %salchaket, Shelton, shungnak.
Solomon, Steel Creek, Tanana, Taylor,
Teller, Tafty, Tolorana, Unalaklest, Vault,
Wales and Washburn.
Thu season will again open about May 1,
1910, when mail win be sent as usual.
Quick Action for Your Money-You get
that by using The Bee advertising columns.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-02

ate, is particularly happy. Mr.. Hudson's
role is we'll played. He handles his stage
jag as the gentleman drunk with perfect
success. No part of the play is weak,
Laura Drake as Mrs. Ramsey makes n
highly amusing indignant and embarrassed
wife, while Marguerite Wright as her
daughter pouts most delightfully."- in her dis
appointment in unrequited love for Lati-
mer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-02
AT the Theaters
Golden Girl, at the Boyd.

A musical comedy in three acts; book and
lyrics by VIII HOugh and Frank r..
Adams; music by Joseph e. Howard; pro-
duced under direction of Ned Wrayburn
for Mort II. Singer. The principals:
Cadet Thorp, a yearllng. ..... Ear Mountain
Cadet Bobby" Harrison, a yearling.
Joseph Niemeyer
Gladys Harrison, his sister. ....... Daisy Lyle
Cadet TEDDY" Montgomery, a yearling
ss.s.s..s.s ..Clyue nan
Cadet William Herman, a 'plebe"......
.......... Robert Powell
Cadet Captain John Fisk. Franklin Farnum
Dorothy Hale, the "fiend" 49,. Nina Davis
Cadet Jefferson Carter, a yearling......
lInIny Lucas
Phil NJ. Pictures. lar Nilsen
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-02
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

Second only in Importance to GOOD
fire laws we'll enforced is the enact
ment Of tax laws which will permit
the perpetuation of existing forests by
use.
Lands.
With our increasing population TIE
time is not far distant when the prob
lem of supplying our people with food
Will become pressing. The possible
additions to our arabic area are not
great. and it will become necessary TO
obtain much larger crops from the
land. as is now done in more denseiy
settled countries. To do this we need
better farm practice and better strains
Of wheat. corn and other crop plants.
with a reduction in losses from soil
erosion, and from insects, animals and
other enemies of agriculture. Tie
United States department Of agricul-
ture IS doing excellent work in these
directions. and 1t should be literally
supported.
The remaining public lands should
be classified and the arabic lands
disposed of TO homemakers. In their
interest the timber and stone act and
the communication clause Of the home
stead act should be repealed. and the
desert land law should be modified In
accordance with the recommendations
| Of the public lands commission.
The use of the public grazing lands
| should be regulated in such ways as
! to improve and conserve their value.
Rights to the SURFACE of the public
land should be separated from rights
/ to forests upon it and to minerals be-
| meath it, and these should be subject
| to separate disposal.
The coal. Oil, gas and phosphate
| rights still remaining with the govern
ment Should be withdrawn from entry
and leased under conditions favorable
for economic development.
| Minerals.
| The accompanying reports show that
the consumption Of nearly all OF our
mineral products is increasing more
rapidly than our population. Our min
eral waste is about one-siXth Of our
product. or nearly $LO0O,000 for each
working day in the year. The loss Of
| structural materials through fire Is
about another million a day. The loss
Of life in the mines is appalling. The
larger part Of these losses of life ard
property can be avoided.
Our mineral resources are limited in
quantity and cannot be increased or
reproduced. With the rapidly increas-
ing rate of consumption the supply win
be exhausted while yet the nation is In
its infancy unless better methods are
devised or substitutes are found. Fur
Their investigation is urgently needed
in order to improve methods and to de-
velop and apply substitutes.
| (COptipupd on Eiphf
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

Washington, Jan. 80. = President
Roosevelt sent TO congress today II
message transmitting the report of the
national conservation commission. He
prefaces the report with his own com
ment, stating in vigorous terms his
conviction that immediate action IS
needed Il the rightful heritage of pos
terity in natural resources Is to be pre-
served.
The message says:
To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives:
| transmit herewith a report of the
national conservation commission. to-
gether with the accompanying papers
This report, which Is the outgrowth
of the conference of governors last
May. was unanimously approved by
the recent joint conference held in this
city between the national conserva-
ton commission and governors of
states, state conservation commissions
and conservation committees of great
organizations of citizens. 1t is there
fore i'll Il peculiar sense representative
of the whole nation and all its parts.
With the statements and conclusions
of this report | heartily concur. and |
commend 1t to the thoughtful considera-
ton both of the congress and of our
people generally. 1t is one of the most
fundamentally important documents
ever laid before the American people.
1t contains the first inventory of its
natural resources ever made by any
nation. In condensed form it .pre:-.:nts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

priafiOn +. possiDie.- but II necessary
by the issue Of bonds in small denomi-
nations.
It is especially important that the
development of water power should he
guarded with the utmost care both by
the national government and by the
states in order to protect the people
against the upgrOwth of monopoly and
to insure to them a fair share in the
benefits which will follow the develop
ment of this great asset, which belongs
to the people and should be controlled
by them.
Forests.
l urge that provision be made for
both protection and more rapid devel-
opnent of the national forests. Other
wise. either the increasing use of these
forests by the people must be checked
or their protection against fire must
be dangerously weakened. If we COM
pare the actual fire damage on similar
areas on private and national forest
lands during the past year. the govern
ment fire patrol saved commercial tim
Der worth as much as the total cost of
caring for all national forests at the
present rate for about ten years.
I especially commend to the congress
the facts presented by the commission
rs to the relation between forests and
stream flow in its bearing upon the i'm
portance of the forest lands in nation
nj ownership. Without an understand
ing of this intimate relation the con-
servation of both these natural re-
/ sources must largely fail.
The time has fully arrived for recog-
nizing in the law the responsibility to
| the community, the state and the ma
| ton which rests upon the private own
ers of private lands. The ownership
| Of forest land is public trust. The
man who would so handle his forest
as to cause erosion and to injure
stream flow must be not only educated,
| but he must be controlled.
The report of the national conserva.
| ton commission SAYS:
Forests in private ownership cannot be
conserved unless they are protected from
fire We need good fire laws. well EN-
! forced. Fire control is impossible with
! out an adequate force of men whose sole
duty is fire patrol during the dangerous
| season.
| hold as first among the tasks be
| fore the states and the nation in thei!
respective shares In forest conserva
! ton the organization of efficient fire
patrols and the enactment of good fire
laws on the part Of the states.
The report says further:
| To-
OF cut over land and the perpetuation o
| existing forests by use. An annual ia,
upon the land itself. exclusive of the tim
Der. and tax upon the timber when Gu
| is well adapted to actual conditions o
! forest investment and Is practicable an'
| certain. II is far better that forest Ian,
| should pay moderate tax permanent.
than that 1t should pay an excessive rev
enue temporarily and then cease to yiel'
at all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

lev we champion is to serve all the
people legitimately and openly. instead
of permitting the lands TO be convert
ed. illegitimately and under cover, to
the private benefit of few. Our for
est policy was established so that we
might use the public forests for the
permanent public coed, instead Of
merely for temporary private gain.
The reclamation act. under which the
desert parts Of the public domain are
converted to higher uses for the gen.
eral benefit, was passed so that more
Americans might have homes on the
land
These policies were enacted into law
and have justified their enactment
Others have failed so far to reach the
point of action. Among such is the
attempt TO secure public control of the
open range and thus to convert its
benefits to the use of the small man,
who is the homemaker, instead of al
lowing it to be controlled by a few
great cattle and sheep owners.
The enactment of pure food law
was recognition of the fact that the
public welfare outweighs the right to
private gain and that no man may
poison the people for his private
profit. The employers liability bill
recognized the controlling fact that
while the employer usually has al
stake no more than his profit, the stake
Of the employee is a living for himself
, and his family.
,, For the Benefit of the People.
We are building the Panama canal
and this means that we are engaged
+ in the giant engineering feat of al
time. We are striving to add in al
! ways to the Availability and beauty OF
our country We are striving to hol6
/ I'm the public hands the remaining sup
! ply of unappropriated coal for the pro
| lection and benefit of all the people
/ We have taken the first steps toward
! the conservation of our natural re
sources and the betterment of country
life and the improvement of our wa
[ terways We stand for the right OF
every child to a childhood free from
grinding toll and to an education, fol
the civic responsibility and decency o.
every citizen. for prudent foresight il
public matters and for fair play il
every relation of our national and eco
nomic life. In international mat;
! we apply system of diplomacy which
puts the obligations of internationa
morality on level with those tina
! govern the actions of an honest gen
tleman in dealing with his fellow men
! Within our own border we stand 70
truth and honesty in public and il
private life. and we war sternly agains
wrongdoes of every grade.
The obligations and not the rights o
citizenship increase In proportion t
the increase of a mans wealth or pow
err. The time Is coming when n ma,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

will be JUDGED not by what lie has sue
ceeded in getting for himself from the
common store. but by how well he has
done his duty rs Il citizen and by what
the ordinary citizen has gained in free
dom of opportunity because of his
service for the common good. The
highest value We know is that of the
individual citizen, and the highest JUS
tice is to give him fair play I'm the Of
fort to realize the best there Is in him.
Common Sense Needed.
The tasks this nation has to do are
great tasks. They can only be done at
all by our citizens acting together. and
they can be done best of all by the di
rect and simple application of homely
common sense.
The national conservation commits
sion wisely confined its report tn the
statement OF facts and principles, Ieav-
ing the executive TO recommend the
specific steps to which these facts and
principles inevitably lead. According
ly call your attention to some of the
larger features of the situation dis
closed by the report and to the action
thereby clearly demanded for the gen.
eral good.
Waters.
The report says:
Within recent months 1t has been rec
ognized and demanded by the people,
through many thousand delegates from
all states assembled in convention in diff
ferent sections of the country that the
ynterwayS shoull md rnuSt ha tr,1rr0vad
promptly and effectively as a means of
maintaining national prosperity.
The first requisite for waterway i'm
provement Is the control of the waters in
such manner to reduce floods and reg
ulate the regimen of the navigable riv-
, ers. The second requisite is development
OF terminals and connections in such man.
ner as to regulate commerce.
Accordingly / urge that the broad
ways, recommended by the inland wa
terways commission. be put In effect
| without delay. 1t provides for a COM
prehensive system Of waterway i'm
| provement extending to all the uses of
| the waters and benefits to be derived
from their control. including naviga-
| ton, the development of power. the eX-
tension OF irrigation. the drainage OF
swamp and overflow lands. the pre-,
vention of soil wash and the purifica-
| ton Of streams for water supply. 1t
proposes to carry out the work by CO.
ordinating agencies in the federal de
! partments through the medium of an
administrative commission or board
acting in cooperation with the states
and other organizations and individual
citizens.
The work of waterway development
should be undertaken without delay
Meritorious projects In known con
formity with the general outlines OF
any comprehensive plan should pro
coed at once. The cost Of the whole
work should be met by direct appro
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22
Full Weight,
Good Goods,
Fair Prices,
Cleanliness

Maybe the place where you
buy isn't as particular on these
points as we are. Our custom
ers have peculiar way of stick
ing tG us, and you would too. If
you tried our goods and our
ways-look over the following
list and see what you want. big
saving on every item:
Blue Ribbon, pastry flour, %
cent package ..........2 oc
Ralston health foods, Is
cent package 1oc
Uncle Sam breakfast food,
% cent package .....r2 oc
Pillsbury's vitos, Is cent
pachaSe $3.50. ........ l0c
Mothers Oats, 10 cent
package, for .........1 5c
Hominy grits, Is cent
package ...... .......... 1Oc
Blue Ribbon pancake flour,
3 packages .25c
Purina pancake flour, 8
packages ..... .25c
Marquette maple and cane
syrup, Il gallon can. -. Csc
Marquette maple and cane
syrup, " gallon can. -. Soc
Heinz's large dill pickles,
per dozen .12c
Fancy bulk mince meat, per
pound .... .12lAc
Pure juice sweet cider,
per gallon zoe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

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All Goods Guaranteed
Satisfactory or
Money Back.

And don't forget to order some
of that Jones Dairy Farm little
pork sausage or meat. We also
have Jones' buckwheat, hams
and lard.
Our line of fresh vegetables is
complete. The ripe harvest
flavor comes to your table if you
buy vegetables of us. We are
prepared to keep them in fine
shaps-nothing like the northy
cooling room in the three cities
We always have plenty of
strictly fresh eggs ;also a full
line of the finest quality of
domestic and imported cheese.
and remember We have a full
line of Club House coffees, teas
and canned good-the quality Of
these goods leaves no room for
doubt.
"Drop i'm or Phone"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-22

We have four cardinal prin-
ciples in our business:
New-York tribune., 1909-07-04

Of some pygmy race buttressed without with tai!
basat columns terraced within by varyng stages OF
water level erosion The level then very low,
no more than four feet at the deepest.
Muddy the water TO be sure and. worse, thick
with the wash Of the guch above it. the higher creV
ices Of the tanks incrusted with dry filth washed
down from soda caravan camps and representing
earlier high water levels But not luxury II meant
life to US literally; Tor not third OF our Por1eTs
would have reached camp but for the water were
able to send back 70 them And even at that the
tough native porters with feet indurated nearly TO
hoof hardness came crawling in with feet bllstered,
cracked and bleeding from all day pIoiding over the
ragged burning rocts-an utterly wretched. suffer
ing exhausted lot that made me wish | had never
heard of a -afarI.
But the two oldtiucrs with me took It matter
Of course and minstercd as best they could 20 the
real sufferers and then kept me roaring over taelr
weird prescriptions for the sharnmers. one OF whom
was forced 10 take a strong Whit OF an ammonia
bottle while another given mixture OF pepper,
New-York tribune., 1909-07-04

salt, and q spoonful of oil from
a sardine tn. Within half an
hour. each vowed he was cured
q al that hurt hr1. whatever
Il was.
At sunset the three q rs
strOIled down 20 the tanks Tor
a bath. Our boys brought rs
buckets Of water and each -e-
tired 70 a niche II the face Of
the cliff, which Just below
the tanks fell away q sheer
seventy feet. dis-C5ed. and
got busy with his sponge. 70
the immense entertainment
apparently. Of a tribe Of blue
monkeys that sat On high pin
naCles about US. chat-e-i-y
uadIy over our droll do--rs.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-04
a Race for Water

A four A. NJ of the seventeenth we were ca the
- move descending the escarpmenc by a semi
reruendictllar trail toward the lake Here a party
Of three East Indians with lot Of natives and don
KEYS soda freghterS tried desperately TO pass Is the
leaders carving water vessels ouSpectIng they
knew the water below 10 be scarce, Outram raced
ahead 90 the tanks scant mile short of Lake NaGail
and held them against the Indians until our -a-,-i
arrived about seventhirtv And lucky It was Tor
he did: for one rock basin of perhaps sixty gallons Of
fairly clean water and four others OF seuiliguid mud
represented the total water supply. and the last drop
of il was exhausted IN watering our men and animals
once.
The situation was desperate Ahead of us lay
twenty-five more arid miles utterly v-e-ic-, before
C9r-r1st ---- I5
New-York tribune., 1909-07-04
Africa's Death Valley

THE meeting # these kikuyu coming up out OF the
L south augured i'll for journey; for between
Ngong Spring and the Guaso \yIrO River, SEty-t0ur
miles to the south there IS not drop OF living water
trail traverses O. horrid arid country, hot as Death
Valley isolated black volcanic uplIfts rearing here
and there their rugged grassess slopes high INTO the
sky the plains every where strewu SO thick with
s1ar FRAGMENTS Of volcanic rock that the traveller
rarely has chance TO set foot soil while the tlln
Growth of grass and thOruy scrub on the levels ana
lower hill slopes is through nine months OF the year
burned gray ashes and brittle as straw by the
fierce equatorial sun which here bazcs twelve hours
dav out Of "A c'oudless sky and makes the volcanic
rlbhlc almost impossible 10 hold hand on FOR sim
gle second
Indeed the route from Ngong 10 Magad1 IS posi-
Ile only after the of the big OF the early
spring or after occasional heavy intermittent snow
,rs when at four points on the way natural tanks,
hard volcanic ro.E. filled and afford a supply OF
fairly pure until evaporation occasional soda
rortcrs and the uomalic MasaI herd -mcu and their
fo.Es have exhausted II which Is never long. HID
den away up rocky tra,kle-s gorgcs on the very
edge o lofty csclrrucuts the position ot these tanks
remains to- TINS day unknown TO more than TWO or
three white men
Luckily for u.s. Ege had with us in Outrau the first
white man 60 find these natural tauEs-ioTccd To
find water or perish when attempting trek across
tins country with section of the AuglD-Gcruan
Boundary |urEtr Commission. tEc years ago
~.- doubtful If should find any water short OF
the tIuaso Nyro and taking our chance Of the COM
Ilctc wreck OF our satarl IN the next two days, we
bore away into the south at dawn ot the fifteenth.
Within the first hour and "a half we dropped two
thousand feet Dirom aitytour hundred 10 thTtE-our
LuutrcdI and 1t really seemed that with every foot
ot drop altitude there rise OF degree IN tenn
Ierature.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-04

as eve could reach 10 north and south, EXTENDED q
series OF SIX vast lava ridges or terraces one -lIS
behind the other with valleys from hve 20 nttee1
miles wide between them. terraces approximately
1e1 If ton re-uendi-t-lar Of face with scarcely any
points Of access their SUBMITS black or Cu req ~
color. The nearest and lowest was probably twelve
hundred feet high the others ranged % the rear and
rose higher and higher w 20 probably three thou
sand or four thousand feet Ike gigantic steps % the
lofty SUBMITS Of the great Nau EscaTpeu-. from
which they ar-cared 10 have been rent away and
drgr-ed TO Tower leveIs-the Intervening valleys
frightful terrestrial CONFUSION which must have
shaken the continent from end 20 end. and 50 trc-
tred and crushed the old urderr wing formations that,
throughout British and German East africa living
streams and springs do not represent fifteen per
cent Of the volume ot those ot Ike rainfall IN other
parts Of the world Of less volcanic disturbance and
so condemned this region % virtually complete
ariditv
Shortly thereafter we descended 20 q broad grassy
plain full Of zebra and Grant, huck-almOst the
first game we had seen. by the way, since leaving
Nairobi Oucram Ied q mile or Our true course,
where hiG away beneath high rocky ridge and m
uedIatel- on the edge Of q lava Gin several hundred
feet high wc found several natural rock tanks OF
sweet RAIN water which the kIzEu soda rOT-erS mad
SO hot that one could scarcely hold a bare h-d
on them and p0rters and animals were exhausted,
so we caurei for the day
Far beneath Us. At the low altitude of nineteen
hundred and eighty feet. and at the lower end OF the
great Rift VALLEY basin that stretches hundreds 0t
miles away north into AbvssIuia, lay Lakes Aagadl
and Ngaraui snow white fields ct soda Whining
away beyond evc-reach toward the southern horizon
looking Ike the winding sheet they have often n the
uIucv adventures into this vercabe Valley OF The
Srlf9-. of Death