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Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
PERSONAL NOTES.

An enthusiastic friend of the president
threatens to send him a mlnce pie nine feet
in diameter for his Thanksgiving dinner.
DR.. Felix Adler believes that the theory
Of woman suffrage is sound, but that it's
practical application would be unsatisfac-
tory.
Prof. Brander Matthews, having pro-
bounced Mark Twain the creates living
literary man, the next move seems to be
up to Twain.
The Morse New York; jurors all plead
guilty to drinking water u~ncontaminated
by trust ice bought at so cents a ton and
sold at 60 cents a hundred.
Peary has finally begun to lecture, and
he has already received $4,000 Of the $40, 600
which he is to get from one of the maya,
zines for the story of his dash to the pole.
The discovery of a Chicago man with
six wives tends to dim the honors won by
a Missouri woman with six husbands.
When mere man is distanced In the matri-
monial race the worlds glims will go out
simultaneously.
Yale's oldest living graduate, H. p.
Hodges, 'SS, gives this as a rule for him
who would attain longevity: BE an Sptlm-
list, il you can, II you can't don't be a pes
simist." He offers some other rules, but
they are superfluous.
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh is
going to buy a red cravat. He says he
thinks red is very becoming to gray hair.
This fact explodes the story that the cab
met has decided to appear uniformly in
purple or black cravats.
Male passengers on C~hicago's elevated
trains, thoroughly enjoy smoking now.
They not only have the benefit of the
smoking itself Sbut the pleasing excitement
Of a fight with the guards who try to
enforce a new rule forbidding it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
IN THE CHOIR.
Chicago News.

Chicago News.
Our leading treble, slight and fair,
with lustrous aureole ofehair,
Delights to reach with graceful ease
The skies-that is, the upper C's.
Our rich contralto treads the scene
With spacious and imperial mlen;
a Juno great in Draw and bone,
She has a very weighty tone.
Our silvery tenor, tall and slim,
Might match a choir of cherubim;
He sings with air OF sanity grace
That goes no farther than his face.
Our massive basso, saints defend usl
Has vocal organs quite tremendous,
And vast mustachios which he twirls
With sudden fierce, emphatic curls.
He sings the psalms as though he were
A stage militia officer
Shouting the word of high
For raw recruits to understand.
With this great four to reign supreme
Our choir should be ar angels dream,
A paradise OF concord. Welll
What tales our organist can tell!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

all practical purposes, though. Of
course, there can be no objection for
our European cousins to take it out of
its case occasionally and examine its
faultless symmetry with admiring or
spiteful eyes much as Sir Thomas does
the Americas cup, so long as they are
careful not to scratch the enamel.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
ImaginIng vain Thinrr,
Philadeiphia Record.

IUIIHUVIUIIId INCNUIW'
At the present stage of affairs Senator
Cummins OF Iowa is by no means inclined
to play the role OF a leader in a Roose-
welt movement against a second term for
President Taft. When our mighty hunter
returns from Africa 1t will be time
enough to estimate the popular strength
and volume of. such a movement. But at
this writing republican politicians are
keeping extremely shy of II.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
Now for business.

We are very glad to see President Taft
back in the White House. Some Of the
big affairs awaiting his attention there
may not call for the jovial smile with
which he has greeted the country. Rather
than the glad hand they need the minis
tration of the strong and TIL pleasant
friend has been on tour. The serious ex-
ecutive is on his Job. May he be as sue
cessful at the one as he was at the other.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

and tell him that IL anything like this
exists 1t must be stopped
Il felt like falling through the floor
said Mr.. Wakeman. But he obeyed orders.
presented the case to Mr.. Havemeyer, and
was assured that the practice would be
stopped. Mr.. wakeman made no more
discoveries because the trust shifted
methods to trustier hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Now that the New York courts are
filming even old DR.. stork when he
speeds his modern auto. It is evident
that the venerable bird will have to
take to his wings again or submit to
the growth OF race suicide on Manhat-
tan's narrow isle.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

The overruling OF the demurrer in
the Oklahoma land fraud cases gives
Governor Haskell the chance to go to
trial, which he has been 80 loudly
clamoring for while working SO hard
to avoid.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

by presenting a bumper crop twice the
volume Of last years. II would seem
that the Thanksgiving board might
have plenty Of cranberry sauce, what
ever the meat 1t graces. and only the
American knows how palatable the
rudy cranberry a make the hum
blest meal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

II that is what Ig Dunn could do
when he was tired, what may we not
expect some day when he goes forth to
attack the supreme court In the full
vigor OF his lusty manhood?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

The attempt of the World-Herald to
shift the blame for the unkept condi-
ton OF our streets from the street
cleaning department to the city engi-
neer's office is unique. OF course, the
fact that the street commissioner is a
democrat and the city engineer a re-
publican has nothing whatever to do
with it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
Congressman-Editor HIteheoek, Vac

Congressman-Editor Hitchcock. who
is supposed to represent this district
in the house, escaped having his record
measured on the percentage plan by
hiking himself on to Europe while the
tariff bill was still pending. The
World-Herald doesn't mention this
presumably because 1t is partial to our
democratic congressman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Latest reports from Europe bring
reassuring news denying the report
that the gondola is being driven from
Venice by the motor boat. II Is fair
to presume that the Bride OF the Adri-
attic will retain her historic convey
anee fully as long rs New York does
it's horse cars.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

A few Of the figures printed by the Sun
will show the extent Of these Weighing
frauds. In 1902, out Of fifty-seven cargoes
of Java sugar the government got an
even break on only two cargoes. on the
other fifty-fiye the weight on which duty
was paid was 100000 pounds less than
the bill Of lading weight. for which the
sugar sellers Of lave were paid.
In 1903 the difference in Al cargoes
amounted to 2,25O,OOO pounds. In 1905 the
difference on 81 cargoes was 1000, 900
pounds. In 1906 the difference on A car
goes was 2,250,OOO pounds. In 1907, up to
the time they were caught, the difference
on 81 cargoes was 2,250,OOO pounds.
These are figures selected and brought
out by the government in its suit. They
do not represent by any means the total
amount of sugar on which the trust stole
duties. That can be arrived at only by
a careful computation made from the
records that are or should be in the Gus
tom house today.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Discovery OF a gigantic eeratopsian
in the wilds Of Montana need deter no
one from visiting the region, since the
scientists have decided that it has been
dead and extinct for three million
years.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Ancient Rome is shocked at the
undermining process now in progress
which involves improving" the work
OF Michael Angelo. The fact that
there are artists today who are ure
they could give points to some of the
old masters dawned upon the new
world some time az
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

AS between facing the evidence in
divorce court and the West India
typhoon, Colonel Aston seems to have
preferred the typhoon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

According to the official figures OF
the late election. Douglas county saved
the day for the republican state ticket,
Upstate republicans will please give
Douglas county a credit mark.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

We can see right now hat the en-
largemsnt of Nebraska's supreme
bench from three judges to seven
Judges means the enlargement Of the
supreme court reports in approx
mately the same ratio. Lawyers prac-
ticing in this state will take notice and
make contracts for elastic book
shelves.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

So strong was the grip of the trust and
so effective its swindling operations that
1t was enabled to divert the sugar trade
from other American ports to New York.
For example, in 1892 Philadelphia and Bos-
ton received 45 per cent of the foreign
sugar trade, the balance going to New
York In 1894, P~hladelphia's trade fell
from SO per cent to 20 per cent. In the
last eleven years the trade fell away
steadily while tina Of New York doubled
in that time. Practically all the sugar
brought into the port Of Philadelphia was
by independent reflneries. Their sugar as
well as the sugar. being brought into Bos-
ton by independents was being weighed
correctly by government weighers EN-
ployed at the Philadelphia and Boston
custom houses, and the outturn weight OF
the cargoes practically was agreeing with
the weight shown on the bills OF lading'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

In p%ronouncing Mark Twain the
greatest living literary man, is not
Prof. Brander Matthews just a little
over-modest?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

The purloined populist label proves
to have been worth upward of Is, 900
votes to the democrats in the recent
Nebraska election. No wonder they
thought it worth stealing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Standard oil stock holders get that
dividend of $40 a share just in time to
save their Thanksgiving tables from
Soing turkeyless. More cause for
thanks.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
HantenLng the pav.

Cleveland Leader.
The railroads announce that il they are
forced to pay more wages they will ave
to increase the freight rates. Which merely
hastens the day Of more river and canal
freight routes and government inspection
Of railroad bookkeeping.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Let us be thankful for the plain but
festive cranberry. This merry little
fruit has risen from It's mea sur-
roundings and offers It's comfort to the
householder in the day Of high prices
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

The merchants who advertise in The
Bee are progressive and up-to-date
business men who think your trade is
worth going after.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

The orchid on show in the conven-
tional dollhouse suggests nothing but
exotic beauty, but it must be viewed
in a new light after reading the adven-
lures of a returned orchid hunter in
the wilds of South America. In that
wilderness nature seems to be not only
brilliant, but vicious, and the plant
seeker has to contend with venomous
reptiles, poisonous insects, wild beasts
and the barbarity Of hostile natives.
The one searcher for these exquisite
flowers appears to need quite as much
personal bravery as he who goes after
big game, and the common experience
is that he goes and goes and seldom
returns. The gentle grubber of roots
must be more Of a hero than his
quarry would indicate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

If the telephone combine really has
control of Western Union, will it make
good the long fallacious doctrine hat
talk is cheap?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Subscribers leaving tho city tenn
pOrarily shOuld have The Bee
mailed to them. address will be
changed NJ often AZ requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

The %coroner's jury dismisses the
killing Of a student. in the University
of Virginia foot ball game quite as
though it were the usual thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Washington Post.
When Secretary MacVeagh gets through
drawing the fangs and clipping the rat
ties in the customs service he will be the
qualified snake-charmer OF the Taft adj
ministration.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Talk about lion and lamb transfer
nation! Look at Ig Dunn-so fero-
clous in Omaha, yet so tame in Lincoln
that he eats u of the hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

One phrase in President Taft's
Thanksgiving proclamation calls for
meditation: I'VE have lived in quiet
ness"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Notwithstanding his. chameleon-like
metamorphoses, Judge Good is low
man. 1t does not pay to box the COM
pass ever in politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Before a cargo Of sugar is unloaded the
estimated duty on the shipment Is paid
in advance. The estimate is determined
by chemical tests. Samples for the tests
are secured by an Instrument plunged into
a certain number Of packages, then placed
together in the sampling can for the
chemist. The sugar trust watched these
samples jealousy and managed to work
a crooked finger before they reached the
appraiser. A cup Of salt water dashed
into the sugar would reduce the quality
OF the sugar materially, so that an esti-
mate OF the duty. which should be based
on the Sl74 tariff rate, shrunk by means
Of the salt water bath to $l6s. Wilbur l..
Wakeman was appraiser OF the port 70
1899. He was warned anonymously OF the
doping of samples by the trust. on his
application two secret service men were
employed on the docks as common laborers,
instructed 10 watch operations and report
70 Mr.. Wakeman at his home. One OF the
detectives switched over TO the trust and
quit the government service. The other
stuck. Every month he was handed a tip
OF s25 by one OF the dock bosses. Other
orkmen were tipped the same way, with
the information secured as well as the
money, Mr.. Wakeman went to Washing
ton and laid the case before Secretary Of
the Treasury Lyman ]. Gage. This If
what happened. as told by Mr.. Wakeman
in the Sun: Il presented 20 Mr.. Secretary
Gage the vouchers and the money accom-
panying the same. After listening 20 the
cause as l presented it Mr.. Gage said IN
effect:
Mr.. Appraiser Wakeman, ! don't be-
neve that my good friend Mr.. Havemeyer
knows anything about this matter and ]
want you 70 go to Mr.. Havemeyer's office
give him my compliments and present the
statement which you have presented TO me
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

While John Drew admits that he is
So, his admirers will exclaim hat he
does not act it.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Manuel of Portugal, while in Lon
don, is being advised by King Edward
to pick out an English bride, Sly old
matchmaker!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
Trust Frauds

Methods by which the monopoly 10
Accused OF Cheating Governmont
out Of Millions in twenty Years
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

A billion-dollar copper trust can
hardly deny that it has a yellow streak.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

&.
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day OF November, 1903.
(Seal.) N. p. WALKER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
srArnMrA.r - rnrr1tAToN-

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State OF Nebraska, Douglas County. SIS:
George b. Tzschuck, treasurer Of The Bee
Publishing Company. being dur sworn.
says that the actual number OF fun anu
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month OF October. 1915. was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

The Story of the Seventeen Holes the
expressive title given the evidence Of false
weight produced by the government at the
trial Of the Sugar trust last spring, ex-
planned one Of the several way by which
the big thief cheated the government on
sugar duties. Beside each OF the seventeen
scales on the dock, on which, sugar was
weighed into the refinery, was an almost
invisible hole through which ran a~piano
wire attached to the beams of the scales.
A customs house inspector and a sugar
trust clerk occupied desks adjoining the
scales, tho latter close to the wire. When
suga was being weighed the Sugar trust
eH'ploye, by allowing one hand to rest at
or about his knee, manipulated the wire
and knocked about 10 per cent off the
weight by a simple movement of thumb
or finger. In it's twenty years of thieving
this was the principal device, though many
others were resorted to.
At times the sugar trust even resorted
to the use of good old salt. The trust would
feed salt to the horses drawing the trucks
until the animals became thirsty and drank
heavily Of water. Then these horses would
go on the scales and be weighed by the
government weighers in order to get the
proper allowance to be made for horses and
truck. Between that time and the time
the horses would haul the sugar on the
scales the weight Of the horse would nave
been considerably reduced. That was only
one shady trick.
TIE trust got up a system Of light trucks.
The Nweighers would take the weight of
the trucks that supposedly were to be
used-trucks Of much heavier construction
and then the specially made light trucks
would be substituted. This went on in
the most barefaced manner right under the
eyes of men paid salarles by the United
States government.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
CHEEKY CHAFF.

Judge-Do you swear to tell the truth, the
whole truth?
Fair Witness-It Will be just perfectly
lovely II you really have the time to listen.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17
do for a iiving?''

"what do you do for a livlng?'
I'm a farmer"
"Oh A scientific, up-to-date farmer?"
IAN I? Say. / p~asteuriEe my milk-weedl"
Cleveland Leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

when 1 was a boy" said Mr.. Corn
tossel, father told me to stick to tho
farm &
And you did!'
Frequently. on a wet day you can't
walk across 1t without stickin' to it,
Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

THAT young lady you pointed out to me
who Is so noted for her penmanship, car
ries it's principles, / see, In her dress"
How on earth does she manage thatE
"When she puus on a veil, she alway&N
1 notice, dots her es."-Baltlmore Amer-
can.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

What we want said the attorney to the
reporters, rs Justice"
What 1 want" said the client to the at
torney, lis a verdict in my favor."-Life
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

How do you keep your youngest boy so
well behaved? DO you threaten to whip
him?' a- -
mo. I threaten to let his mother CUT
his hair. "-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

The most rapacious swindler that has
ever had dealings with the government
"a thief that has stolen boldly and enorm-
o~usly"-"stole with the assistance OF Off
cials employed by the United states'-is
the substance Of a formidable Indictment
against the sugar trust drawn up and
printed by the New York Sun. There is
no mincing OF accusation, no words Of
double meaning. A thief is called a thief.
Assertion and accusation are made with
the positiveness of supporting proof.
The Suns indictment covers the opera
lions Of the sugar trust for twenty years
past, during which, 1t is asserted, the
government has been swindled out Of sugar
duties to the enormous sum OF $50 10000 by
means Of false weights, ''queered'' uga
samples by which the duty on cargo was
determined, and by the favorltism Of Gus
tom house officials United States Attorney
stsmson, now conducting the suz ar trust
prosecution, and Collector of Customs Loeb
emphatically deny that the government
has been cheated out Of any such sum.
The Sun asserts the evidence on the files
Of the custom house show in parallel col
umns the invoice weigh of sugar cargoes
and the fraudulent weight on which the
uuty was pAlu, VIII prove the S!,VO W.
loss. Furthermore II the sugar trust was
dealt with as the government deals win in
dividual customs swindlers-by seizing the
goods, selling them and covering the en-
tire proceeds into the treasury-the maxi
mum penalty for the sugar trust for Its
swindling operations for three years pas
would according to Attorney stimson.
amount to something like 81, 10000 D en-
viction for these three years crimes, not
covered by the statute Of limitations. re-
suited in a penalty Of $lS5, 900, and a later
repayment Of 81, 1000 OO.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-17

Entered at Omaha pOstOffice as second
class matter.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-11-20

Pollard
"A GRADE Lucille Smith. .Ge-
neva shorts Emma Daggett. Irene
hggou. Alice Meade. Greed Chiles.
"a Marion Mayo. Char
lotte johnson. Bertha Jackson, Fan
ME Morton. Lillian r. Mayo, Jose.
phine Johnson. Robert Green.
BIB GRADE - Cynthia Banks.
Ruby Coles. Carrie Joney. Gladys
Robinson. Margaret Taylor. Willie
WOodson.
2B GRADE. 1-Tessie Davis. Ella
Ellis. Mary Ellis. Mamie Ellis. Inola
Frye. Fannie Johnson. Annie smith.
Bertha Wilson. Robert Archer. Ed
gar Paige, Leslie Patterson Doug
lags Frice.
2B GRADE. Ruby Booker.
Lawrence Carter. David Cross. Ma
rie Guerrant. Elsie Gaines. Anette
Hucless, Daniel Jackson. Ethel Rob
inson, Evelyn Robinson. St julien
Saunders. Loney Walker. Areatha
Vest.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-11-20
RED CROSS STAMPS
FOR ALL VIRGINIA
state Anti-Tuberculosis Society and
National Red Cross Unite For
Unique Charity.

Richmond. Va. Nov. 15.-(Spe-
cial) the plans of the State An
ti-Tuberculosis Association are car
ried out. Red Cross Christmas
stamps will soon be for sale for
Christmas use throughout the State.
Under arrangements with the
National Red Cross Society, the
State Association will distribute the
stamps throughout Virginia aud
will share the proceeds with the
National Society.
Perhaps no popular movement Of
recent years has had the unique sue
cess of this plan, devised 20 raise
funds FOR the relief work OF the
Red Cross Society. The stamps are
beautifully engraved. with the SYM
Dol OF the Red Cross, and carry a
brief Yuletide greeting. They are to
be Onered for sale throughout the
State. at one cent each, and are to
be attached TO Christmas mail.
Thanks TO the Post Office Depart
ment the stamps can be sold in the
corridors and halls of government
buildings where they can easily be
secured by those who desire 20 as
sist the two great charities.
Dr. ]. A. Parker. Executive Score
tary OF the Anu-Tuberculo sis So
clety, Is in charge of the distribution
or these stamps and is maturing
plans whereby they can be had
throughout the State.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-11-20
Y. NJ c. \. Notes.

The Y. NJ. c. A. Conference Is
still humming Be present men 10
the next meeting.
The class for the explanation on
the Sunday-school lesson was well
attended Lass Saturday. still new
members join. Keen working
The reports from the CITY homo
and city Jail show that the commit
teemen are working hard TO find
there brother.
General Secretary S. c. Burrell
spoke 10 men in the penitentlarv
last Sunday. Several of the pris.
oners accepted Jesus Christ as their
Personal Saviour.
Prof. J. II. Rhorer spoke to the
boys last Sunday and every bow was
helped
A great mass meeting for women
and men was held at the Calvary
Baptist Church last Sunday. DIR. w
H. Stokes delivered a very timely
sermon. Subject: Go Find Your
Brother" The very spirit of the Y
NJ. c. A. The choir of the church
gave much help by singing. The
collection was good and suhscrin.
tons were very freely given that the
~ NHC - W. - a. may De car
RED out instead OF always chasing
dollar. Too many boys and men
10 be reached to lose a moment. we
thank everybody. Fulton Is willing
to help keep the work OF the Y. M.
c. A. alive.
Men be on time Sunday ready for
hard work and the other man.
Come To the explanation on the
Sunday-school lesson today 5 p. M.
at the Y. NJ. c. A. building. Bring
a friend
All women and men are invited
to the great meeting for women and
men Sunday $3.50 P. M. at the Sixth
Mt Zion Baptist Church. Rev. ]
w. Barco A. b. OF the Virginia Union
University viii preach a speciaI
sermon. Subject: "Play the Men
Special music by the Sixth Mt. Zion
Baptist Church choir. Director w
L. Woodson. Be on time. Come
and bring man and woman.
The Woman's Auxiliary OF the v
VI. c. A. assisted by the social com.
mittee will give the men of the citvi
! Thanksgiving Tea, Thursday from
! to 10. Free for all men. Every
hing will be free. Come and snend
minute with the ladies.
Every home is requested to haveI
special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. /