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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

Coney Island loses no chances. The alert
managers trim their sails to every breeze,
good OF bad. Mayor Mcclellan having re-
moved all restrictions on religious and edu-
c~ational entertainments on Sunday. THE
Witchlng Waves will now be billed as
IAN institute for the study of wave cur
rents and The Tickler' is transformed
into "a medical institute for the cure of
indigestion"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

Cuba is confronted with a 100000
600 deficit. Self-government foes not
appear to be an unmixed blessing t
the island.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

II the s~aengerfest can come to
Omaha Notwithstanding the s o'clock
lid, we guess the Eagles can likewise
rise above IL.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

mum. f-elrovanadiun and molybdenum. it
is no wonder that the members got a bit
peevish.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

A scientist has discovered twenty
germs in a $40 bill. Probably male
factors OF great wealth in embryo.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

Those train robbers are not very ac-
commodating or they would give the
sleuths something to work on.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26
STATEMENT or CIRCULATION.

state cf Nebraska. Douglas County SIS:
George r Tzsehuck. treasurer Oh The
Bee Publishing company. being, duly
sworn. says that the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Daily.
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month OF April. 1903. vas as
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

Baltimore American

dignity rufsltd by a scene. but when Il
came to tariff discussion on ferTomolybde-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

Cleveland Leader

q tempora! O mores' y dear, The
manufacturers OF Teddy bears filed
a petition In bankruptcy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26
Around New York

nipples on the Current OF Life
as Seen In n Great American
Metropolis from Day TO pay
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

WHEN OUT OF TOWN,
subscribers leaving he city tenn.
porariIy shOuld have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address will be
changed a. often m requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

GEORGE b TzSCHUCK,
.- TreaSu .eT.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day Of May. 1909.
~. p. WALKER,
Notary Public
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

Unique in New York, IL not in America.
is the orchestra at the Manhattan State
Hospital for the Insane, Wards Island.
New York. For every patient in It is
crazy.
DR.. Mabon, the superintendent. deter
mined to test the proverb Music hath
charms to soothe the savage breast He
began with experiments of the effect of
music on his insane patients, and now the
experimental stage is past and the treat
ment has become a part of the routine
work.
This first experiment was a failure from
the standpoint of being a benefit. But it
was a success from another point OF view,
for it showed plainly that patients must
be divided into classes for this treatment,
as well as for any other, and that music
suited to Dne species of insanity was not
beneficial to another.
Then began the systematic study of the
effect of music upon the different forms
of madness, and now under DR.. Mabon
music is an established mode of treatment,
not an experiment.
When it was discovered with what eff
cheney music could be utilized in the hos
pital, an appropriation for pianos and plan
olas was asked and granted. As a result
nearly every ward is supplied with such
an instrument, and the patients have
free use of it. OF course this does not
apply to the wards in which the acutely
insane are confined, or those who are
physically too Ill to bear noise.
The patients who have places in the or
chestra are those who are spasmodically
insane, or those in a convalescent condi-
ton. They play for their health, as 1t
were, and two or three women already
have been raised from the depths of melan-
choly by music, and gradually played back
to a normal state of mind.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

Following the Incorporation in New York
of the Tesla Propulsion company. with
100000 capital stock. to exploit one of
Nicola Tesla's inventions, Mr.. Tesla an
nounced the adoption of the device by the
Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron com
pany.
Il have discovered a mechanical princi-
pie new and of the greatest economic
value" Mr.. Tesla said, but shall not
be in a position to make known the de-
tails and exhibit the principle in opera
ton for perhaps six weeks, 1t is a prin-
ciple which minimizes the size of the power
plant and increases to a maximum the
power produced.
'This new mechanical principle l have
discovered is applicable to air, steam, gas
or water power, and may be used for loco
motives, automobiles or any form of power
production. With it a locomotive as pow
erful as any now used would need to be
less than half the size"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26

An exhibition of daring riding and nerve
such as has been rarely equalled was
shown by a cowboy named West. who is
attached to Buffalo Bills Wild West show
in New York. In one of the performances
West attempted to ride High Tower, re-
puted to be one of the widest ronchos
known. After a ten-minute struggle the
cowboy managed to leap into the saddle.
No sooner had he done this than High
Tower reared up and fell backward. West
slipped out of his saddle in time to save
himself and was astride the broncho when
he rose. This time High Tower reared like
a flash and threw himself over again,
falling backward and sideways, The horse
had been too quick and caught Vests leg
under him. Although painfully hurt the
plucky rider succeeded in mounting again
after High Tower had been lifted off him
and this time rode his mount the length of
the Enclosure.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26
TIE OMAHA DAILY BEE

Entered at Omaha postofffce as second
class matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
LOVELY WOMAN

When lovely woman buys a bonnet
mat looks like an inverted crock
With apples, grass, and birds upon it,
Enough to stop an eight-day clock
Why is 1t that as forth she'll SALLY
10 wear the thing without a blush,
And all her friends go UP an alley
She wonders what has caused the rush?
If, in addition to this horror,
AS down the boulevard she trips
Sne wears gown she's had made for her
80 tnat she looks, as 'twere, sans hips.
why does she marvel as she passes
mat strong men flee on every hand?
are there at home no looking-glasses?
Why Is 1t she can't understand?
them
And thinks her hat and gown a dream,
But when her friends admit it strikes
them
That both are dreadfully extreme,
why must she rally to defend them
And sound their praises near and far?
II sne refused to buy. 'twould end them.
Why can't she see things as they are?
On, lovely woman, you're a wonderi
ana SO, IN truth is your new hat.
Inc m1lhners must have their plumber
Though it be tall or big or flat
But While they get what they are after
winch IS dig at hubby's dough-
10 mats cost more, or less, with laughter?
That's what the menfolk want to know.
CHICAGO News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
HYHAWKER JOTS

There is some talk about Editor AM
rine because he holds three state jobs
at once. But Amrine is a reformer
and it is not right to criticise reform
ers, says the Hutchinson News.
The Wichita, KinsIey, Fort Scott &
Denver railroad bonds carried in all
the townships along the route that
voted and now all that is required is
right of way, grade. track and rolling
stock, says the Hutchinson News.
"Some newspapers are contented
merely to fire a reporter and let him
live afterwards, if he can stand the
disappointment says the Ottawa Her
aid. 1.-The Wichita Eagle, however. is
going to have a reporter fall out of
the window of local hotel, to test
new fire escape"
Three second hand electric cars
have been received in Parsons for the
opening of the street car line. The
Sun announces that thirteen new cars
have been ordered. but are not yet
completed. This arouses some curl
osity as to what Parsons is going to
do with thirteen street cars.-Coffey-
vile Journal
The Harrington Sun thinks that the
joke about the man who was being
operated upon for appendicitis, and
who requested the doctors to put but
tons on him because they had cut him
open three times and he feared they
prints the story twice in one issue of
the paper.-Wichita Eagle.
An oily tongued stranger has been
wearing a plug hat in Garden City for
several days, Offering to establish a
shoe factory there if the business men
will give him a farm and million
dollars, or some other inducement. The
bait looks good, and Garden City may
have shoe factory, as well as a sand
hills road.-Emporia Gazette.
The Associated Press flashed the
news across two continents that every
pumping station and branch of bust
ness in the world of the great Stand
ard Oil trust would for the first time
in history shut down for two hours
during the funeral of the lamented
H. H. Rogers, to give its $1,000 en-
ployes leisure to drop a tear for the
great man. We hate to spoil such
string sentiment but the fact is the
Standard Oil station here did not
shut down at all. The employees
worked on, even as though Mr.. Rog-
ers had declined to answer the sum-
mons of the Grim Reaper-on Ad-
vice of Counsel.-Greeley Graphic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia RecordJ
No man should firt with a girl I'M
less he is sure she is also flirting with
him.
A man has a right to growl at the
weather when it is raining cats and
dogs.
Some men are so generous that they
can't refuse money to any one, not
even their wives.
The honeymoon is frequently over
before the last installment on the fur
niture is paid.
Even when a woman thinks she is
worth her weight in gold she would
hate to get too stout
Outside of baseball the heaviest bat
ter is to be found in the boarding
house buckwheat cake.
One-half the world doesn't know
how the other half lives, but it has
grave suspicious.
About the rarest thing in the world
is pugilist who tells a reporter he
has nothing to say for publication.
1t may be that Justice is represented
as being blindfolded because she is
ashamed to look herself in the face.
Barber-"Will you have it cut short
sir?" Victim-"If you are referring
to my hair, no; if to your conversation.
yes
Blobbs-'T hear you have a new
job as warden of a prison; how do voI,
like it?" Slobbs-sWell, it's rather
combining"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
Better a word that lasts than the last
word.
The ancient watch dog is a member
of the old guard.
The next man in a barber shop is
always rough and ready.
Don't offer odds to the elevator boy
or he'll take you up.
Yon cannot build a frame house I'M
less you have the rocks
Preachers ought to get a good sal
airy; it's church money, you know.
Some socalled mediums don't give
you a ghost of a show for your money.
minstrel joke goes to extremes
when it goes from one end man to
another.
The individual who is untrue to him
self must pay the penalty sooner or
later.
It's a great comfort to a woman to
believe that her husband is lonesome
when she is away.
Many an anticipated trouble looks
like mountain in size, but after it
has passed it looks more like a pin
head.
Some writer says that every woman
loves the wrong man once. Yes, and
every man loves the wrong woman sew
eral times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
THE CITY's BONDED DEBT.

Taxes are not low in Topeka. by
any manner of means. And any
proposition to increase them by
ever so small an additional tax will
likely be greeted with opposition
from the taxpayers just on general
principles. if for no other reason.
There has been this satisfaction,
however. to the taxpayers of the city
during the past few years. They
have been getting their moneys
worth. The funds raised through
taxes have been Judiciously used. for
the most part, in civic improvements
of one sort and another, all of which
have helped to place the city in the
position she now occupies, where it
is possible to develop her and make
her grow to a size that will be COM
mensurate with her many advan-
tages. These Improvements, we'll
paved streets. new sewers. new
school houses. new parks and a
variety of other things. have also
enhanced greatly the value of the
very property on which the taxes
were levied to help pay for them.
To accomplish all of these i'm
provements it has been necessary
LII llAC CITY u 80 lllO Q6DI lTOIn
time to time, as all cities do, through
the issuance of bonds. That bonded
debt has now reached about ST.
100000. This is not a large bonded
Indebtedness for a city of the size of
Topeka. But it is a debt nevertheless
of no small proportions and like all
other debts it will have to be paid
some day Mayor Green, who is a
successful business man in private
life, as we'll as an efficient public ad-
minister, has a plan to provide for
the wiping out of this debt entirely
in the course of ten or a dozen, years.
He would do this by the creation of
sinking fund which would be pro-
vided for through the levying of an
additional tax each year of merely
one mill. This would raise a suf-
f1cient sum of money to pay off the
entire debt of the city in a reason
able time. 1t would compel the tax
payers to pay into the treasury an
additional annual sum of $4,000 and
this surely would not be much of a
pro rata burden on each Individual
taxpayer. Not many of them would
so much as miss it.
AS the case in this respect now
stands, of the money paid in taxes,
$54,174 has to be devoted annually to
paying the interest on this debt With
the debt wiped out it is most reason
able to suppose that the annual taxes
could be reduced by this sum as we'll
as the extra sum that it would be
necessary to raise for a few years to
pay off the debt. So this would mean
quite a material reduction in the
taxes, eventually. This debt has been
created by the people of today and
they should feel the necessity of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
lFrom the Atchison Clio

LFrom the Atchison G1obe.1
One suggestion in a thousand is ac-
cepted.
AS rule, girls are as poor as church
societies.
Never trust the man who thinks
there is but one sin.
What a pity people do not work as
much as they hope!
The conceit of a western man often
becomes little tiresome.
How a nice old fashioned woman
does love to see children eati
Only a rich man finds a So bill in
his pockets he didn't know he had.
People have to learn to loaf, the
same as they have to learn to work.
Plenty of people can stand adversely,
but only few can stand prosperity.
There is not much falling in love
lately; and those that are in, are fall
ing out.
Every man can prove that other peo-
pie impose on him more than he i'm
poses on others.
When you see a woman on the
streets, she is going to one of two
places: to a dry goods store, or to the
dentist
In view of the fact that nearly every
farm is occupied, there seems to be too
much worry because the boys won't
stay on the farm. Enough of them do.
When a man visits an office, he
usually talks in a loud voice. Probably
he argues to himself: 81 can't talk to
all, but if I pitch my voice high. all
may hear and enjoy my jokes"
Some men farm by standing on the
street corners of the nearest town, and
complaining because farmers have such
casionally meet man who farms, and
says nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
ADJUSTMENTS.
Tonight her

It was her one vanity. Tonight her
DUTY seemed only too clear.
FINALLY Georges sister arose and
said, while her lips trembled:
You are right, mother,-as you
generally are. George is the one to
go. should stay and work with you.
am sorry L spoke so hastily. l am
gong to my room now-don't tell
George about my giving up my plans
good night mother
The daughter crept up the stairs
to her room in the family living
ing When she reached the room she
threw open the window wide and
leaned out to cool her temples in the
night air. How calmly the stars
looked down, she thought. How far
OH they We're and how many countless
myriads Of them.
These same stars, she imagined,
shone over the people of the islands
of the sea, where she had hoped to
tell of a better life. All of her early
struggles came back to her, her teach
ing, the clerking in the store, all of
her work and hopes and dreams
With the bitterness of the inward
conflict she threw her face down
upon the window sill. Then she grew
calmer and looked up again at the
night sky-wherethe star dust lost it
self in the depths of the blue. Each
star, she, remembered, might be the
center OF a solar system, where and
on each planet of all these systems,
perhaps beings lived, loved and died.
Surely there was a meaning and a
purpose for everything-and a con-
ISOLATION for every disappointment.
good time; Elm Gods good tine!"
she murmured, again and again, while
the night wind soothed her with it's
cooling caress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
FRS DEFENDERS ARE FEW.

When tariff legislation has been be-
fore congress in times past there have
been many newspapers throughout the
land who have upheld the actions of
the Republican leaders in going the
limit in the protection of American in
dustries. Some of them have out
Caesared Caesar in their demands for
high protective duties. But nothing of
that sort is noticed these days. Even
the rankest of portectionist newspa-
pers of years ago are handling almost
every feature of the Aldrich bill with
large clubs and there are sharp spikes
in the ends of these clubs. 1t is rea-
sonable to suppose that these news
papers have not only realized that the
tune for the unreasonable protection
of most of the American industries
has passed long since and that they
are rejecting the sentiments of the
people in their communities in a de-
mand for reasonably low tariff duties.
Even the New York Tribune, that
staunch ally of the Republican powers
that be in congress and of the inter
ests that they represent, has handled
many of the outrageous details of the
Aldrich bill without gloves and recent
ly it commented on the fact that about
every agency for the expression of
public opinion in the country, with the
exception, of course. of certain gentle
men in congress. is opposed to the
present makeup of the Aldrich bill in
all of its essential details. On this
subject the Tribune said:
1t is a notable circumstance that the
senate's tariff bill has practically no
IL 80 1ff-xr
we have failed to notice a cordial APP
iproval of it in its present form in any
conspicuous Republican newspaper, or
in any Democratic newspaper. North
or South, although many southern
senators are helping to neutralize the
reductions in duties made in the meas
ure as it left the house of representa-
tives. Our observation is fully con-
firmed by the Washington Post, which
said the other day:
1.-The press of a free country is
fair index of public opinion. In 40
years of journalistic effort we do not
recall any question of widespread pub
lie concern upon which the newspa-
pers have been as unanimous as they
are today in regard to the pending tar
iff bill. There isn't a publication of
note anywhere that has a kind word
to say in behalf of the measure in its
present form-a fact too significant to
be ignored or lightly treated. 1t is no
exaggeration to say that the bill hasn't
a friend outside the halls of congress
and the small circle of men whose rep
resentatives came here to see that it
was framed with a view to promote
their own sel1shness."
The senate is by tradition a highly
conservative body. 1t clings to what
is and usually prefers to err on the
side of self-restraint and inaction.
Yet the political sagacity of the finance
committee and its followers is discredi-
ted by the fact that their work finds
no approval from the public opinion
which the newspapers reflect. Can
such work be expected to appeal here
after to the voters? Is the senate
right in judging public sentiment,
while the newspapers of both parties
are all wrong? These are questions
which the makers of the senate meas
ure would do well to consider.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01

Perhaps the conviction of a New
York city chauffeur of manslaughter in
the first degree for the running down
with an automobile and the killing of a
young boy will have a salutary effect
in eurbing reckless automobile driving
throughout the country. 1t is hard to
believe that this man or any other
automobilist would purposely run down
a child or person, but those who do are
generally careless and negligent to a
criminal extent and they should be
punished severely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
KANSAS CONNENT
THE FUTURE FIGHTING.

Inc next big war promises some
staTtllng novelties. No longer do the
sarlanI generals lead their troops in
orlIliant charges. The generals by
necessity stay far in the rear and run
.ne advancing column by telephone
OF wireless telegraph. The soldiers
.reAiSGiVes may never see the enc
my; ihey shoot at distance practi-
cauy beyond eyesight and the cannons
curve their balls over the tops of hills
ana forts onto the unseen and unsee-
ing Zoe. The hero who wins glory
uoes not ride horse and carry a
sworn put is a professor with weak
eyes and spectacles, who squats be-
hind gun and figures by higher
ma tneinatlcs how to elevate the muz-
zie or increase the charge so as to hit
the mark. In the Philippines or Cuba
or IN oklahoma it is still possible to
cause the enemy is making a getaway.
But When civilized armies confront
each other in the future there will be
nothlhg spectacular in the personal
The next war will Introduce the au-
tomoolie, transferring men and max
ing quick movements heretofore i'm
possible. The other side will have
its automobile destroyers. The air
snip VIII mount into the sky and drop
dynamite onto the enemy, if it does
not get its wings clipped and it's pas
sengers killed first. The wireless tel
egraph will take the place of signals
ana Will make the whole army sub
Ject to command, and while the 9TH
er army will be trying to intercept
the wireless and find the adversary's
plans in the evening papers. Guns
have been developed in size, accuracy
and distance. Ships have been built
bigger and stronger, destroyers have
been made swifter and surer.
1t would seem that the next war
between civilized nations would be
the most deadly and destructive ever
known. The new instruments of war
fare are certainly such as to inspire
horror and insure fatalities
At the same time the personal ele-
ment of bravery and brilliancy will be
lacking. Nobody will make much of
a reputation except inventors and
wholesale butchers. That fact will
take away the charm of soldering
and as most wars are waged for and
by individuals, war may get to be I'M
fashionable with brave men who will
see that they no longer have show.
Perhaps the peace conference.
which is now powerful in times of
peace and forgotten in times of
war, will get in its work. The rulers
will satisfy their desire for excite
ment with golf and bridge and poker.
No sober man will want war of de-
struction, especially if it is a cinch
that he will be one of the destroyed.
Then there may be no war and his
torians will have to find something
new to write about.-Hutchinso
News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of ten
cents a week or thirty cents a month
(by mail OnIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While ont of town
the State journal will be to you like
q daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01

According to CONGRESSMAN Scott
the people of Porto Rico are progress
Ing rapidly in all ways except in show
ing any particular ability to properly
participate in the administration of
the affairs of their government. Prob
ably the climate in the torrid zone is
responsible for this condition of af-
fairs. The extra heat caused by the
stress of politics possibly units men
for adequate public service.