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Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

but there was no time to talk and argue over
the question. There were 200 or 800 COM
cts all down with it at once. 1t was an ex-
citing time.
Comets sometimes live to a great age.
This shows that the right air is not so injuri-
Gus to the health as many people would have
us believe. The. great comet of 1880 is sup
posed to have been the one that was noticed
about the time of Caesars death, A B. c.;
and still, when it appeared in Newton's time,
LOO years after It's first grand farewell
tour, Ike said that it was very well preserved
indeed. and seemed to have retained all it's
faculties in good shape.
A late writer on astronomy said that the
substance of the nebulosity and the tail is of
almost inconceivable %tenuity. He said this,
and then death came to his relief.
Another writer says OF the comet and it's
tail that the curvature of the latter and the
acceleration Of the periodic time in the case
of Encke's comet indicate their being at
fected by a resisting medium which has
never been observed to have the slightest in
huence on the planetary periods"
do not fully agree with, the eminent au-
thority, though he may be right. Much fear
has been the result Of the comets appear
ance ever since the world began, and It is as
good a thing to worry about as anything l
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
World Is Interested

The people who came to the Corn Show gave evidence of the
widespread interest and seriousness with which all the world treats
the study which the exposition presented. Samples OF American
grain and hundreds of pictures from the show were sent hack to
Russia by julius Rosen, a government representative from the car,
who came to Omaha to see how they grow corn out In the real corn
country. From the twenty-five states represented, he found a great
deal that his wide country, with its complex agricultural problems
will want to know of.
At the show, the Nebraska and Iowa farmers were we'll repre-
sented, and undoubtedly the influence of the show will be seen
very directly on the farms about Omaha. A wider degree of in
fluence, however, comes from the seed raisers and dealers who came
to Omaha to buy the prize winning corn and the better entries.
For three days a glib auctioneer cried his golden wares to a
room packed with eager bidders. The corn that has made the show
so attractive, the wheat and oats, have gone out all over the land.
This high grade seed is to be heard from next season and may be
expected to become progenitor to another series OF prize winners.
A lot of town folk learned something about what is going on
out on the farm at the exposition. Many were probably brought to
understand the all important part that the products of the soil and
the countryside play in the national life and commerce.
Nebraska's part in the exposition had much to teach that as
sumes especial importance in view Of the improving methods Of
farming in this state and in the less fortunate soils of the farther
west.
There the painstaking care and ingenuity of the scientist was
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Model ,e/ sheep dipping plant

so flagrantly successful in carrying off corn prizes, could trade IDEAS
eastern slope Of the Rockies.
There was a part of the greater aim of the show, for while
the scientists may dig deep in the lore Of nature and make his dis
coVerys and inventions valuable by adoption, the final realization
Of value must come from the farmers application.
Exhibits Of the dry farmers made it plain that the more favored
agricultural sections could produce little more varied yields than
the once barren plains of buffalo grass.
The best corn In the world will never be produced by the dry
farmer, by his own admission, but he can still grow good corn.
When Fred G. Palm OF Newton, Ind, produced what the judges
OF the Third National Corn exposition pronounced the best ear of
corn that the world has seen he achieved much. The efforts of the
hundreds Of other farmers who competed for prizes and succeeded
in much lesser measure. achieved much more. One good ear OF
corn is good, but thousands of bushels of corn, better than before,
are better.
Fred Palms ear is none the less an object of much interest.
There were few. indeed, who saw the corn exposition, who failed to
sec this beautiful specimen of corn. 1t stood out a gem of bucolic
beauty, every grain perfectly formed and perfectly golden.
"Jim" Hill, a man Of mighty railroads, who is something of a
farmer himself, was almost piqued when he saw that ear of corn.
Well Just see what we can do about that best ear of corn next
year up our way" said Mr.. Hill in a decided sort of way. Which all
means that a lot Of farmers up on the Great Northern route will be
put to their best PAGES in corn growing to please this empire
builder" as they insist on calling him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Teaching Practical Lessons

The governments part in the two weeks course" of the expo
sidon was most exacungly carried out The work OF many patient
hours was consumed in the preparation OF the horrible examples of
animal and plant parasites. Tiny bugs reproduced in models often
a thousand times as big as the size of the actual past were shown in
wonderfully exact detail of form and color.
Not content with simply pointing out the evils that assal the
farmers growing crops and stock the government advances its best
methods of cure.
In this connection a striking model OF a sheep-dipping tank and
yarding system reproduced in miniature, even to the workmen, was
exhibited. Everything was real but the cherubic faces of the dolls
in blue jumpers, who drove the plaster sheep into the dip tank.
How to make good roads was the subject Of another Of the gov
ernments lessons for the public. Reduced models again figured in
this department. to good effect Even the steam roller, with its
manakin engineer aboard, with all machinery in motion, was shown
at work on the macadam highway. Ward King, the inventor of the
famous King spntlog drag, the one primitive implement that cannot
be improved, was at the show to tell the story Of good roads.
How we'll the National Corn exposition has been accomplishing
its purposes can be shown in material results. OF the s 1900, 900 900
worth of agricultural products which government statistics credit as
the annual fruiage OF the farms of the United States. It is claimed
that $1,5OO,O 600 900 is to be taken as the increased value OF crops
produced because of the influence Of the show.
A testimonial to the wide scope OF influence of the exposition is
the wide territory from which It has drawn its attendance and the
attention that It has claimed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

a planet does. The comet was so
called because it had hair on it, l believe, but
of late years the bald-headed comet is giving
Just as good satisfaction everywhere.
The characteristic features of the comet
are: A nucleus, a nebulous light or coma,
and usually a luminous train or tail worn
high. Sometimes several tails are observed
on one comet, but this only in flush times.
When l was young | used to think /
would like to be a comet In the sky, up above
the world so high. with nothing TO do but
loaf around and play with the little new-laid
planets and have a good time, but now l can
see where I was wrong. Comets also have
their troubles, their perihelions. their hyper
bolas and the parabOlas. A little over 500
years ago Tyco Brahe discovered that comets
we're extraneous 10 our atmosphere and since
then times have improved. | can see that
trade is steadier, and potatoes run less to
tops than they did before.
Soon after that they discovered that
comets all had more or less periodicity. No
body knows how they get It. All the astron-
omers had been watching them day and night
and didn't know when they were exposed,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
What Bill Nye> Had to Say Concerning Comets

HE COMET is a kind Of astronom-
ical parody on the planets, but
they are thinner and do not hurt
so hard when they hit anybody as
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Importance to Government

The Importance which the government placed on the part
that the exposition bears to the agriculture Of the west was shown by
the large expenditure made in putting up an exhibit more extensive
specialists from the branches of work represented were placed in
charge and frequently delivered lectures on their work.
TIL educational force of the government exhibit was the most
strongly emphasized. The display was there first to tell the how and
why, secondly, to entertain.
There was a great deal told that the farmer would stop to look
at that would never have gained his attention If presented in dry for
NAL treatses. ~ IS"
There, for instance, the government spent some hundreds Of
dollars in putting up a model dairy barn. One constructed just as
experts have decided that it ought to be, was shown in actual ma
tenals before the spectator, constructed on a reduced scale.
barn and another season will probably find 1t duplicated out on
the farms where the government intended that 1t should go.
One suspicious farmer from Kansas, however, supplied the Of
fcials with fun for a whole day. He was interested in the barn
and wanted to duplicate it on his own broad acres.
One morning during the show, Joseph Abel, the representative
of the bureau of animal industry in charge of this exhibit, found
the Kansan measuring the tiny parts of the toy barn with a pocket
rule.
You don't need to go to all that trouble friend. I'll see that
you r sent a set of the plans. Just sign the register here"
You feners don't get me o n any gold brick scheme" answered
signing games before"
So he measured the whole barn and it took him a day to do IT,
A great educator was the display Of meats thrown out by gov
eminent inspectors at the South Omaha abattoirs. Hundreds of Wis.,
itors saw in this display something that they had read of, but never
understood. nor fully believed. What tuberculosis does to the food
animals was most wildly exempHfied:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
New Conquest Of Nature

This simple statement bears a significance in the general eff
forts of the Corn Show, who has grown far from its name, It is now
the Agricultural exposition.
The National Corn exposition sets forth in graphic terms, q
story of a new conquest of nature, the utilization OF territory I'M
available before. The farmer is being reduced to the same economy
that has made the meat packer and the miner resort TO the work
ing OF the last extreme Of possibility in by products. 1t all must
come, the worlds people want it and must have It.
II was not a n unwilling lesson at the Corn Show, that two
weeks OF college. lecture halls were crowded by anxious and inter-
ssted farmers and stock raiseTs.
There were experience meetings" real farmers talkfests, where
the man from Ohio and Illinois. or even the Hoosiers, who have been
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
South DAkotA>s Fine Show

shown best by a device whereby the amount of water reouj
in the formation OF plants was shown. A big container fl
with earth stood on a scale beam where all summer long
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Credits to His Wife

1t took scientific agriculture to produce the best ear of corn,
but MI. Palm credits his wife with its selection from the crop. In
cidenuy he wears an Indian arrow head. mounted in the pin on his tie
which he found in the same hill that grew the corn. He isn't super
stiuous Of course, but he Just wants that arrow head.
That Palm ear OF corn might be called a syndicate product, how
ever. Back there in Indiana is a group of corn culture farmers, who
have got together on the prize proposition. They have got the best
ear and the top prizes in their grip for the time at least. ]. R.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Worlds Supply of Food

The daring chemists have found a way to produce synthetically
food products from the very air and mineral itself, but that is but a
laboratory curiosity. The world must get its food from the fields.
How this is to be done is the lesson of the Corn Show. Through
the National Corn exposition the public has had the opportunity OF
seeing q broadened glimpse of the work out on the farms. The Corn
&now, too, is itself an effort to make the farmer see how essential the
adoption Of scientific methods is to his own best interests.
In the words of Wilet M. Hayes, assistant secretary of agncul-
ture, who was the governments chief representative at the big ex-
position. II was a short college course. This official further pointed
out that It uttered a call and plea for country life that the schools
and colleges. not only fail of expressing, but reallycontradict.
This educational effort is. however, hardly an end in itself ex-
cept to those teachers who are engaged in producing 1t.
The sum total of it all in the end must be seen as just the old,
old fight to satisfy the belly-pangs of the human race. So the
fruit organism Of which the Corn Show can be called the flower.
must be developed into being the ripeness out on the farms.
James ]. Hill, the railroad builder, whose success is unwitingly
admitted by himself to have been builded on his study Of the
larger economic problems or races aud nations, has declared with an
air of conviction. while at this shoE, that the world is soon to be, IL
not now. face TO face with the wolf.
To some of the men at the Commercial club banquet, this
seemed a daring assertion. but Mr.. Hills declarations we're often
repeated during the show by other speakers who saw the problem
from vastly different view points.
From this aspect of the show a an effort to meet the cry for
food. the exposition Just closed presented one of its most striking
and interesting lessons-the dry farming exhibits.
The state of Washington showed wheat grown on soil that
helped to give the great American desert it's name In the earlier
biographies. From the actual grain before and by lectures from the
men that grew it the visitors at the Corn Show were told how this
once dispaired of country could be made to yield up bread for the
world.
with a rainfall of sixteen inches a year we have grown wheat
that produced above twenty bushels TO the acre" declared Roscoe
w. Thatcher, who is in charge of the experiment station atPun-
man. Wash.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
EpeDPAkEI[ E1ox IND HIS EAR AND TROPHY WON

- HE third National Corn exposition is over. What was It!
The Corn Show was far more than exposition a place
where one might see many interesting objects Of agri-
cultural interest, hear beautiful music or find an hour
or two Of passing amusement.
The National Corn exposition represents a part OF the effort
to give a hungry world something to eat.
In this larger sense the Corn Show finds it's raison detre. The
"show" aspect of the exposition was a n attractive, but merely Incl
dental feature In the minds of the men who ae working behind 1t
oil. The show that the public saw at the Auditorium and about the
several acres of exposition grounds might be called the biossom-the
fruit yet to come. The exposition is one means to an end and that
end is food for the millions, occupations and happy homes and farms
for the thousands.
Time was when man did not have to WOO nature for the ma
tenals of his ivlihood. Like Topsy, they just grew and all that
he had to do was help himself. Now the complications and complex
ious problem. Man has to set himself shout coaxing the forces of
nature herself into a more generous production that there shall
be enough for all.
In the solution Of the economic problems Of the last century
We have heard much Of the Harvesting Of natures forces. pardcu-
larly through the utilization of the transmission of power by cleo
tricity a a particularly facile medium. Now the scientists have
gone farther; a more subtle problem is being solved. Those very
obnoxious sources of wealth and the materials of life are we'll under
development
But In the laboratories and out of the experiment stations, men
are learning the laws that govern those little seen forces Of soil
While Others have learned to harness the waterfall and to draw the
mineral resources forth by gold dredge and mine machinery, the
scientists are learning how to hitch up the pctencies Of the green
rhlorophl and plant protoplasm. These silently working powers must
be utilized by natures own transformers. the plants themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

with earth stood on a scale beam where all summer long the
single stalk of corn grew. Comparison of weight from the beginning
and the end Of the growing season leave the result. Just one barrel
of water was required to grow that stalk of corn from the little
sprouting seed to the lofty tasseled shaft. Fiom such experiments al
these the dry farmer must learn the adoption Of crops to the condi-
tons which he has to meet. E. c. Montgomery, connected with the
Nebraska experiment station, makes a speciality of the work.
They ought to have transplanted that corn to the field and
given it a chance" exclaimed an enthusiastic woman sightseer as
she paused to look at this display through a handsome lorgnette.
Mr.. Montgomery tried to explain. but it was no use.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

where a few years ago the prospectors and trapperS "OuIu I've
laughed 1t the man who even suggested agriculture, they ae now
growing corn. 1t is, to be sure, not priZe-winning corn, but /, Is corn
that would compare we'll with some that is grown under far more
favorable conditions.
The South Dakota exhibit exempIfied we'll the way In which
the corn territory is being pushed out beyond the limits Oh the
more fertile fields. A big map of the state indicated corn growing
counties which but a few years past were beyond the agricultural
zone of the northern states. This state had a story to tell too
of raising of wheat and barley and some real sturdy oats.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
NebyaskaS Splendid. Exhi btu

Overstreet, the winner last year of the prize for the worlds
best ear, this year contented himself with the prize for the
ten best ears. He is another Indiana corn specialist.
AS notable an achievement, perhaps more important in
the worlds economic interests, is represented by the corn
grown farthest north. Now way up there in. the Black Hills
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-22

hodolFer INDIGESTION.
palpataaon Of The hear. Digescs what you eaE
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GOT SMALL AMOUNT
Robbers That Visited Calves
ton, Ind, Satisfied With
But Little Loot.
POsTOFFICE LOSES MOST

Galveston, Ind. Feb. 22.-Postmaster
Morrison, Of the Galveston postoffice,
which was robbed Friday night, in.
voiced his stock and it was found that
the robbers. made away with $5.3S in
cash and $31.43 worth of stamps.
Nothing has been discovered at the
present time which gives any idea OF
who or how many were implicated in
the deal. No idea is held as to how
h safe-blowers got in or out of town.
The night was very dark and not a
soul in the town noticed anything per-
tanning to the robbery either before or
after. There were no buggies stolen
about Galveston and they must have
travelled on the railroad or have driven
into the town from a distance. Nor
rison made his report of the affair to
the government, but as yet no inspect
ors have been there to investigate.
Business was resumed with the stock
of stamps hat was in the bank.
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BILLS ARE
VETOED TO-DAY BY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
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lature. In his message Marshall stat
his action in one minute if they dis
consider it q personal disapproval of
his executive act.
BIames it on News.
Senator Bland says the Indianapolis
News caused Marshall to do it and
announced, The fight has just be-
gun" He will try to pass the bills
over the governors veto.
Senator Fleming says today that
the county option fight has just be-
gun. He says the four mile amend.
ment was not made to the Ton4linson
bill at his suggestion and states that
bill will then pass.
The Routine Of Day.
Senate passed the bill empowering
city councils to fix the bonds of
school trustees in all cities except
those of the first and second class.
The house killed the bill to authorize
the clerks of the superior courts to
issue marriage licenses. The house
committee recommended the passage
of the bills to elect township officers
in off years; to limit tax liens on real
estate to ten years; to give the rail-
road commission the power to decide
demurrage cases. The house advanc-
ed the bills to legalize the %incorpora-
ton of Pennville State Normal schools
to sell the athletic field; the state su
pervision of plugging gas wells and
to provide for emergency medicine
cases on all passenger trains.
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Program Arranged Assures
The Most Elaborate Spec
tacIe of Its Kind Ever Seen
IN Washington.
MILITARY CADETS TO
FEAST NEW PRESIDENT
Great Fireworks Display Is a
Feature While in the Line
Of March There Will Be
Thousands.

Washington, Feb. 22.-As the time
for the inaugural ceremonies draws
nigh the many features which will
mark That gala occasion are develop
ing. Chairman Cuno H.. Rudolph of
the fireworks committee today receiv-
ed a communication from J. w. Shade
valid, president of the Republican
F1ambeau club Of Minneapolis, Mimi,
announcing that the organization will
start on it's journey to this city Feb
ruary %.
Referring to the exhibition to be
given by the club following the fire
works display on the White House
ellipse. Mr.. Rudolph said it promises
to be a distinct feature Of the celebra-
ton.
The display will be the finest ever
given by the club since it's formation.
The evolutions of the forty men, clad
in their weird uniforms and carrying
flaming torches, will present moving
pictures of the inferno. in a blaze Of
light and a gorgeous display of pyro-
uilIllOnpolAo III
ton is the oldest uniformed f1ambeau
club in the United States. Mr.. Rudolph
explained. Besides It's fire drill and
fireworks display the club will also
march in the inaugural parade.
Theatrical Club in Costume.
the work Of digging trenches. erecting
framework, ETC.. on the ellipse for the
fireworks exhibitions by the Pain
company and the f1ambeau club be
started tomorrow morning.
One of the fancy features of the pa
rade promises to be the display of the
Theatrical Club of New York city. 1t
Is the expectation that the 100 men,
bers who will be in line will appear in
costume. Maj. Thomas P. Morgan.
chairman of the committee on civic Or
ganization would like to have a place
in the pageant.
Kitchen for Ball Supper.
Mr.. Stellwagen, chairman of the in
auguaral committee, requested the Sec
rotary Of war to give permission for
the erection of a temporary structure
~ judiciary TdIh loF use DIS d hllCAou
{ pantry in connection with the in
~aagural ball in the Pension office
building. The plan shows a wooden
structure 14S feet long. Il feet wide
and Is feet high, to be erected close to
the north wall Of the building.
The application was granted by As
sistant Secretary Oliver on the recon-
mendation of Col. Bromwell. the Off
Ger in charge of public buildings and
grounds. with the condition that the
inaugural committee deposit a check
for $500 to insure the proper restora-