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The San Francisco call., 1909-07-24
The COvetOus Man
GERTRUDE JUSTIN.
1900 Franklin street. san Franchises

A covetoas man who had saved a
large sum of money dug a hole IN one
of his fields and hid il there. The
great pleasure OF his life was TO 20 and
look upon his treasure once a day.
One OF his servants. observing his ac-
tiOns and guessing that -here was
something OF value in the place. came
at night and carried IL of The next
day the owner returned as usual 10 the
scene OF delight and. seeing that his
treasure was gone. tore his hair for
grief. uttering his doleful complaint TO
the woods and meadows Al last q
neighbor who knew his love OF money,
Overhearing him and learning the
cause OF his sorrow. said.
Cheer UP. man, thou has lost moth
ing There Is a hole for thee 10 go 10
and peep at still; and If thou cansr but
fancy thy money there IL viii do just
as we'll
The San Francisco call., 1909-07-24
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of the turtle and tortoise: OF lizards
four. and OF snakes about the same
number OF the tortoise some old
males have been found so large that
II required six or eight men 10 lift
them from the ground. and lizards are
sometimes three or four feet long
The tortoise is very fond OF water.
drinking large quantities and waIlow-
ing in the mud The largest islands aIRne
possesses springs. and these are always
The San Francisco call., 1909-07-24
Nannie's Punishment
CAMILLA MALONE.
Palm Avenue, San Rafael

sIN1oTHER~
YES; what is it,"
May make some candy?" was the
question.
NO" answered Nannie's mother as
she went TO take a rest upstairs.
Now let me tell you that Nannie's
mother was good. kind, patient
mother. but Mamie. I am ashamed TO
say. took pleasure in trying Ter
mother. so this is what she did:
The San Francisco call., 1909-07-24

at a considerable elevation. The tor
toises. therefore, which frequent the
lower districts. when thirsty. are
obliged to travel from a long distance.
Hence broad and well beaten paths ra-
diate of from the wells even down TO
the seacoast. Near the springs it is
a curious spectacle to behold many
OF these great monsters: one set
ga gerly travelling onward with out
stretched necks, and another set re-
turning after having drunk their Hll.
The San Francisco call., 1909-07-24

in the above picture were pho
b. togrsphed on one Of the Gala
psgos islands in the Pacific
ocean. On these islands. which seem
10 form a little world in themselves.
the order OF reptiles forms the most
striking feature. Although the species
IS not numerous. the number OF in
cividuais Of each kind is extraordin-
Rrily great. There is one kind both
The San Francisco call., 1909-07-24
Mays Discovery
WINNIE ESTES,

BoonyiIIe- Age 10 Years
MAY was little girl who lived in
| | a large city with her parents.
Their names were Mr.. and Mrs whited
The San Francisco call., 1909-07-24

Az gH-I-R The big red auto
N pulled Up at the side OF the
w road shaded on either side by
elm trees and buzzed warn
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
THE SUPREME COURT CLERK.

The democratic legislature is going
after the clerk of the supreme court.
This sortie is, of course, inspired by
the same political motives that are
back of the other pie-hunting eXpedi-
tions. The democratic theory Is to
soften the cushions on which demo-
cratic ofice-holders sit and to put bent
pins in all the chairs occupied by re-
publicans. We had a democratic clerk
of the supreme court four years ago,
but during all that time no democrat
in or out of the legislature ever seri-
ously undertook to reduce the salary
and perquisites.
The Bee does not hesitate to say
that it believes the Office of the clerk
of the supreme court should be made
a salaried Office instead of a fee office.
The movement toward the abolition of
the fee Offices has from the first had
the active backing of The Bee, and
more than once, as for example, in the
case of our local district court clerk
ship. was carried forward by The Bee
and it's editor almost alone.
The Bee believes, however, that the
salaries should be commensurate with
the duties of the position and its re-
sponsibilities. In order to stop the
fee business in the district court of
Douglas county a start was made with
a salary of $4,000 a yea for the clerk,
which has now been reduced to $4,000
a year. If the services of the clerk of
the district court in Douglas county
are worth $4,000 a year, the services
of the clerk of the supreme
court are worth at least as much.
The democrats who are threat
ening to reduce the salary of this i'm
portapt position-scarcely less impor-
tant than that of the judges on the
supreme bench-to $1,000 or $4,000
simply because the present clerk is a
republican should not let their par
tisanship run away with their common
sense.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

PUSHING THE LIMIT ON PENSIONS.
The United States senate has passed
a bill contemplating an increase of the
annual pension appropriation by sew
eral millions of dollars. The senate
measure removes the final restriction
of pension payments to widows of
soldiers.
In 1890 the congress passed a law
granting pensions to widows married
to civil war pensioners prior to that
date. In 1908 the law was amended
to include women who had beer mar
ried to civil war veterans prior to
June q. 1900, the congress holding
that a woman marrying a civil war
veteran thirty-six years after the end
of that conflict might have don so to
secure the pension money and many
cases were reported to the pension
officials which would indicate such
mercenary motives. The bill now
passed by the senate proposes to give
widows a ~pensionable status, no mat
ter when they were married. The OBJ
lection to the proposition is that il
passed it may markedly increase the
number of marriages among the old
soldiers who are now far past the
marrying age. The records show that
there are already 10000 widows of
veterans who were married since June
81, 1900.
Investigation Of the records in con-
n~ection with the proposed legislation
present some interesting facts. The
last surviving widow of the War of the
Revolution died in November, 1906.
There are now All widows of the
Wal of 1912 on the pension roll and
no veterans at all; 3,018 widows and
1920 survivors of Indian wars; 6,914
widows and 2,932 survivors of the
Mexican war. Up to April 10, 1909,
75,515 civil war widows were on the
pension roll under the general act of
1890 and in 1908 congress added
18S,445 more, compromising all
married prior to June 81, 1900. The
proposed law would bring all subse-
quent widows of veterans into line
and increase the pension roll by at
least 20, 900 names.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

The Hague tribunal will have JUS
titled all the trouble and expense of
its creation If it succeeds within the
next century in finding a satisfactory
solution to the fisheries dispute be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain. The dispute over the New
foundland fishers has been more or
less acute since it was first made the
subject of a treaty between the United
States and Great Britain in 1888,
when John Adams nearly risked war
TO secure what he believed to be the
rights of American citizens. In 1914
John Quincy Adams was ready to
break with England again rather than
surrender the fishing rights which En-
gland insisted had been abrogated by
the war. The question was the sub
jeet of a treaty in 1918 and another in
1874 which was supposed to settle
the points in controversy but which
have failed to do so.
For the last thirty years every sec
rotary of state has had a hand in at
tempting to settle the fisheries dis
pute with joint high commissions
from Canada and Great Britain, but
the trouble is apparently as much a
live wire as ever. American fisher
men claim the right to fish ''inshore,
to land and dry fish under certain
conditions and to procure bait" The
Canadian government is insistent that
the Americans are constantly over
stepping their rights and the whole
question is to go to The Hague. The
decision of that court is f~oredoomed
10 be unsatisfactory to one or both of
the countries interested, but for har-
mony and neighborliness, it ought to
be accepted as final when it comes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

out OF the problems that confront their
people?' Which may be answered simply
by saying that the various universities and
colleges of the United States already at
ford such opportunity in their regular cur
riculums without the least hint or sug-
gestion OF political intention. The Ne
braska university is already broad enough
in its scope and embraces sufficient study
in corresponding lines to answer every
legitimate need.
Grand Island independent: one might
come to the conclusion, judging only
from the present controversy at Lincoln,
that Nebraska's citizenship is in a very
bad way. 1t appears that Mr.. Bryan has
been making efforts-more quiet and less
Of the let-the-people-rule efforts han
usual-toward establishing a school of
citizenship at the Nebraska State uni
versity. The regents did not see fit to
adopt it Possibly they quietly conducted
some Investigation and found the citizen
ship of its graduates not at all alarming
but, Of the whole, of a fair-to-middling
character; at all events the suggestion
was pigeonholed. Mr.. Bryan is now
charged with trying to force the regents,
by means of legislative enactment. The
regents wisely are saying nothing. 1t is
gravely feared that such a school would
ever and again plunge the institution into
the whirl of partisan politics. And, aside
from that, is 1t necessary? If there is
anything sorely wrong with our citizen
ship car it not be remedied through the
usual channels, where, too, a vastly
greater number can be benefited than at
tend the state university. But the INDIE
pendent believes Mr.. Bryan is unduly
alarmed about Nebraska's citizenship,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
THE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.

n COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS-.
The failure of a number of on
gressmen who were heads of impor-
tant house committees to secure a
reelection has brought special atten-
ton to the demands of the insurgents
that some change be effected in the
manner Of distributing these posi-
tions in the next congress-. This is a
particularly live topic at this time
when it is recognized that much of
the success of the new administration
will depend upon the organization of
the congress with a view to bringing
the legislative and executive branches
of the government into closer har-
mony on the legislative program.
1t has been the custom for some
years for committee c~hairmanships to
go by seniority in service and by pro-
motion to fill vacancies. Just at pres
ent the old committees are so organ
ICED if the seniority plan is blindly
followed the chairmanships of sew
eral of the most important commit
tees will go to members admitted to
be of the r~eactionary stamp and not
in harmony with the progressive poll
cies of President Roosevelt and Presi-
dent-elect Taft. The defeat of Jen-
kins of Wisconsin, Overstreet of Indi-
ana, and Hepburn of Iowa leave va
| cancies at the heads of the committees
on judiciary. p~ostcalces and inter-
statet commerce. The election of
Burton of Ohio to the senate leaves
the craftsmanship of the committee on
rivers and harbors to be filled and
Mr.. Sherman's elevation to the vice
presidency vacates the Craftsmanship
OF the important committee on Indian
affairs.
Service on a committee does, OF
should, qualify a member to be OF
special value with work with which
he has had experience, but there is
little or no justification for making a
man chairman of a committee simply
because he has been on it longer than
any other member. This is the strong
argument OF the congressman who
have been demanding a new code OF
rules to give the house a voice in the
selection Of the committees instead
of leaving it entirely to the speaker
They object particularly to the award.
ing of committee places by seniority
by which system. for instance, the
committee on irrigation Is dominated
by members from New York. Pennsyl,
vanis. Ohio. Illinois and South Caro-.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
THE LINCOLN ANNrvERsARY.

Congress has passed a joint resolu-
ton decreeing hat February II, 1909,
the centennial anniversary of the birth
of Abraham Lincoln. shall be a legal
holiday. The Limitation Of the holt
day to this year will prove a disap-
pointment to many patriotic citizens
who have beer urging that the birth
day of Lincoln be regularly established
as an annual national legal holiday.
Congress has always been chary in
designating legal holidays and the OBJ
lection to making February IL a per-
manent legal holiday is its nearness to
the birthday of Washington. which is
recognized as a legal holiday in many
states.
Il is not probable that congress will
ever make the Lincoln birthday a fixed
legal holiday. Surprising as it may
seem, we have no national holiday
fxed by a law of congress, not even
the Fourth of July. Some years ago
congress passed a law making Labor
day a legal holiday in the District Of
Columbia and that is the only law on
the federal statute books fixing or
recognizing a legal holiday. The
Fourth of July. Labor day, Memorial
day and other anniversaries have been
recognized as legal holidays in most
Of the states. Congress, as a matter
of fact, has no power to declare legal
holidays in states except as affecting
the transaction of business by federal
postof1ces, federal courts, national
banks and other institutions directly
under the control of the federal gov
eminent, and holiday legislation has
accordingly been left entirely to the
states.
A proclamation by the president set
ting February 10, 1909. aside as a
legal holiday, although of no legally
binding force, will be generally OBJ
served, but there is little prospect that
there will ever be a national law to
that end.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

lima. states needing no irrigation,
while the Indian afrairs committee
is in the hands Of members from New
York, Maine, Wisconsin, North Caro-
lima and Virginia, states without any
Indians.
OF course, under existing rules, It
all depends on the man who is speaker
and if Speaker Cannon were in full
sympathy with the progressive pro-
gram, there would be no mutterings
from that source. Seeing little pros
pect of a change of speaker, the in
surgents naturally will seek to mold
the organization more to their ideas
by a change of rules.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
TEST OF LEGISLATIVE NERVE.
Who VIII Guarantee the Purity and
G~enuineness of Cigars.

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
A contemporary, discussing the pure, food
law, undertakes to predict what would
come to pass if the rules applying to
whisky were to be applied also to cigars
and tobacco. No living human being, we
are informed, can tell exactly what whisky
is. Yet to define Havana cigars is a more
difficult undertaking and one for avoid
ing which the average dealer. whose
Havsnas are suspiciously suggestive of
Connecticut and Pennsylvania stock, may
be ~pardoned. Most of the Havana cigars
solh," our contemporary observes with
some bitterness, ARE an awful mystery"
All of which is true enough, but what boots
it to ripen? Unless it can be shown that
the cigar vendor is poisoning his customers
with weeds soaked in formaldehyde or
benzoate Of soda what hope is there OF
persuading the powers that be to lift the
veil? AS yet no mar has had the hardi-
hood to advance the theory that tobacco is
a food and to use this as a pretext for
invoking the same paternal supervision that
is now extended to the beef of Chicago
and the breakfast foods of everywhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

The democratic legislature of Ne
braska is devoting most of its time
and energies to transferring the ap-
pointments and other patronage from
the various state offices and boards to
the governor, 1t goes without saying
that the other state Offices and boards
are manned by republicans, while the
governor is a democrat. Had the cleo
ton result been reversed, giving us a
republican governor and democrats in
the other state Offices, the democratic
legislature would be busy shearing the
governor of all his powers and pre-
negatives and building up the subordi-
nate places in the hands of their dem
ocratic friends. At the very next cleo
tion, however, the democrats will en-
deavor to REINFORCE their candidates
with piteous appeals for "nonpartisan-
ship on the bench" It's a great game.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
Colonel Guney RecrOwned.
n1nhln Drnnn

Colonel Guffrey has again been made a
member OF the democratic national COM
mittee out of which he was thrown by the
orders of Colonel Bryan at the Denver
convention last year. Colonel Guffey was
the subject of much personal abuse at
that time at the hands Of such eminent
democrats as Governor Haskell of Okla
homa, but in spite of Bryan and Haskell
and others he has continued to be the
recognized leader of the party in Pennsyl-
vania. and the defeat of Bryan clearly
added to his prestige. II Colonel Bryan
expects TO be a candidate for the next nomi-
nation he will have a much more unpleas-
ant experience witt Pennsylvania than he
had the last time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
POI OIL ADAM!
F. L. stanton in Atlanta Constitution

F.. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution
7.
Adam wuz his own boss
'Twel he gone ter sleep;
Den il wuz he los a rib,
An'-trouble In a heap!
IT.
He riz up. he riz up
Fer dar he couldn't stay;
An "Whar dat rib ] had?' he said.
II one rib short today!'
III.
Der Eve it wuz dat answered.
An skeered he wuz, for sho',
81 don't keer eff you los a rib
o don't desarve no mo-!
An now I gwine ter tell you:
Keep quiet ez a mouse,
Kaze l de very lady
What runnin' of de house!
v.
you got ter make de money
You got ter rise an shine;
Git up an eat yo' brakfas'
An go long whar you gwine!"
Adam amt say muffin:
De talkin' never cease:
I'm go dar, whar dem lions at
Tel get my res an peace"
VII.
You reckon he wuz PEACEFUL
Befo' de day wuz gone
Eve made him split de kindlin'
An put de kettle on.
VIII.
Adam-po' oil Adam.
FUN den ontell dis day
He had des one opinion:
II sleep my rights away
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
NOTES.

A Chicago millionaire has deliberately re-
tired from business on the ground that he
has enough.
Never mind the spelling. The name of the
president of Cuba is pronounced "Gometh. -
Lisp a little on the z.
Rochester has a sort of a fairy god
father or patron saint in George Eastman.
Not long ago Mr.. Eastman gave the city
a fine tract of land for a park, and within
a day or two has sent his check for $500. 900
to the Rochester hospital.
For my part said a Chicago club
woman, mo man will ever enter again
into my life. l have tasted freedom and
found 1t sweet" Her marriage announce
ment is now out, and OF course creates
no surprise among students OF a charming
sex.
Should occasion require the governor OF
Tennessee to make the customary social
salute to neighboring executive he will
be obliged, as a law-abiding Official, to hike
to a point four miles from the nearest
school house IL he would suit the act to the
word.
Too bad that Carrie Nation got pelted
with eggs. but perhaps they were com
paratively good eggs, and that's something
Governor Regis IL. Post, of Porto Rico
has been a member of the Bayport, l.. l..
Fire department since 1891 and was III
chief in 19OO-O3.
General James Shields, who did disin-
pushed service in the Mexican and Civil
wars, is TO have a monument placed ovel
his grave in st. Mary's cemetery, Carroll,
ton. Mo-, il the bill favorably reported in
the senate passes-as It is sure to DO. II
will be a modest monument. for only $3.00
is to be appropriated. A man with hi'
fame as a soldier, who was also United
States senator from three states. Illinois
Missouri and Minnesota, surely deserves
such honor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

DO you approve of the plan of teSehing
pupils to box?"
Not unconditionally.' replied the country
pedagogue, remembering his husky 1e-year.
olds. Nigh be all right. though, II you'd
authorize the teachers to carry guns
Philadelphia Ledger.
why do you take such an interest in the
uplift OF the farmer?'
I'm jes' curious" answered Mr.. Com
tossel, ITO see whether it's goin' to be the
same old throwdown in a new disguise
Washington Star.
Former Customer (after a long ahsencel
What has become of the pretty. blonde
that used to feed the hungry at this lunch
counter?
Dark-Skinned Waiter Griffin her: what
you goin' to order, sir?-Chicago Tribune.
The man hater had just announced her
engagement.
"But you always said that men were
horrld creatures said her friends.
$50 they are replied the bride-to-be.
and here's my opportunity 20 punish one
of them"
They all agreed that It was real noble of
her.~-Phlladelphia Ledger.
A traveller stopped at a hotel in Green
land, where the nights are six months
long, and, as he registered, asked a ques-
ton of the clerk.
What time do you have breakfast?'
From half past March to a quarter to
May.''-Harper's Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

New York is rejoicing over the
opening of another tunnel under the
Hudson. Joy in Manhattan increases
as the facilities for getting out of New
York are multiplied.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
Hartman Knows a Good Thing.
Eanle

What most impressed e. II. Hartman
during his recent visit at Atlanta was to
be told that the state capitol building there
cost less than the estimates and less than
the amount appropriated. II take off my
hat to the graftless capitol" he is reported
as saying and doing as he passed the
building.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

The New York hatmakers have set
tied their strike and the trousers
makers have declared one. 1t is en-
couraging to know that we may wear
hats, whatever becomes of the
trousers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

Mr.. Bryan will not go to Cuba.
There are enough insurgents in Ne
braska to make him stay close to his
base of supplies. The Cubans will
have no voice in the next presidential
election, anyway.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

The county comptroller's Office is a
great thorn in the side of some ex-
county officers who do not care to have
their accounts too closely checked up.
This explains several moves not plain
on the surface.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
should BE Made Compulsory.
New York Time

New 1OTk Times.
Surely the fortunate conditions of sea
and wind off Nantucket on Saturday will
not blind any one to the necessity hereafter
of equipping every passenger-carrying
steamer with the wireless system. 1t
should be made compulsory. like the carry
ing of side lights and the blowing of the
whistle in fog, even though it is not yet
clear that the collision could have been
avoided had the Florida also carried a
wireless outfit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

from Nebraska for an appropriation to
enlarge and develop the signal corps
station at Fort Omaha is much more
important to his constituents and en-
titled to more space in his newspaper
than his attack on the so-called gum
powder trust.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

Cuba intimates that If Uncle Sam
does not raise the wreck of the Maine
the Cuban congress will do the job and
present the remains to the United
States as a souvenir.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

So long as the combatants stick to
e and paper that duel between the
Castor" of the local bench and the
"Alphonse' of the local bar will not
result fatally to either of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

That reminds us. What has become
of the great issue of the last campaign
requiring publicity of campaign fund
contributions before election? Are we
not to have that great reform ineor-
porated into the Nebraska statutes as
a boon from the present Bryan legis-
lature?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

A bill has been offered in congress
requiring every ship carrying passen-
gers to be equipped with wireless
.telegraphy. Move to amend that
every steamship be also equipped with
a Captain Sealby and a Jack Binn.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

DR.. Wiley must regret that he has
never been able to use Mr.. Taft as a
digestive experimental station in his
sampling Of different varieties of food
products.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
He Can Keep the Change.

Under a new law in Minnesota it appears
that Mr.. James ]. Hill will nave to pay
fare over his own roads. Still, as there are
no other roads in the state to speak OF.
it's simply taking money out of one pocket
and putting It, 4 the other.