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Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

ton, which set forth from ST. Louis
with all the pomp of the original
armada, scattered along the river,
congressman, senator's, cabinet mem
bers, foreign diplomats, stranded
hither and yon, each separate con-
having trouble enough pad
ding its own canoe without trying to
keep up with the procession. Far in
the lead glides the iaunty presidential
boat. Though bars may block the
other harges, the president goes never
aground-he floats. Everything makes
way for the Taft smile, and he swings
to each the scheduled stop.
But the manner in which the fleet
is forced to ~straggle must be con-
to those aboard of the chan
imperative needs; and to the
mayor of st. Louis, on board the Eras-
tus Wells, limping from bar to bar
and from port to port. it is a reassur-
ance that no hostile squadron can ever
find its desultory way from New Or
to the Eads bridge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
The Gnrnner

The republican nominee for coroner
is Willis c. Crosby, a coming young
man Of good reputation, who two years
ago started out in business for himself,
having previously been associated with
e. L. Dodder as funeral director and
undertaken.
All who know him concede that Mr..
Crosby has the experience and ability
to perform the Duties ~devolvlng on the
coroner and that he may be counted
on when elected to make a record as a
faithful and conscientious official.
Mr.. Crosby demonstrated his per-
sonal popularity by a close race for the
nomination last year, and a winning
race 1T the primaries this year. The
same v~ote-getting qualities should
make his success at the election next
week certain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
The Geography of the Supreme Court.


In the selection Of a successor to the
late Justice Peckham. President Taft
will, Of course, be guided by the rela-
tive personal fitness of the candidates
whom he considers, yet the geograph-
ical element necessarily enters
what into the situation. Mr.. Peckham
was from New York, and that etate
has been represented on the supreme
bench almost continuously since the
appointment of John Jay in 1889. II
may be that in Difference to the EN-
pire state the president will look again
to New York, although he might
answer that the east is already we'll
represented by Justices Holmes and
Moody, both appointed from dassa-
chusetts, but even IL New York does
not retain its prestige in the present
instance, it is likely to come 10 for con-
s~ideration at a subsequent appoint
ment.
Mr.. Taft is said to be inclined to-
ward Judge Lurton of Tennessee, but
the south is already represented by
Justices Harlan from Kentucky and
White from Louisiana. His second
choice is reported by the Washington
w~iseacres to be Mr.. Bowers of Illinois,
M Chicago friends are naturally con-
Quoting a boom for the solicitor gen.
eral Of the Department of Justice. Yet
Illinois is represented on the supreme
bench by Chief Justice Fuller, which
would seem to stand in the way of Mr..
Bowers chances.
Justices Day Of Ohio and Brewer of
Kansas may be credited to the cen
trail west, and this completes the
roster, except for Justice McKenna,
who was appointed from California.
The only section not already repre-
scented in the court is the northwest,
and it is possible that Mr.. Taft's re-
cent visit there may incline him to
look in this direction. The growth of
the northwest has brought it into Wig
orous participation in national affairs,
and some of the most important Of
recent litigation has arisen in that
section. 1t may be that the peculiar
problems Of the northwest tier of
states will demand the attention of
the supreme tribunal.
There is, of course, no reason why
a bench Of justices from any one sec
ton should not fairly interpret the
law and the constitution for every sec
ton, but it is only equitable to have
a reasonable geographical distribution
as far as such apportionment is COM
patible with available judicial mate
rial; for the diverse sectional inter
ests Of a vast country can but gain
from the assurance of direct personal
familiarity and understanding by some
portion of the membership of the
court.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
POLITICAL DRIFT.

District Attorney Jerome OF New York
has held the office for eight years at q
salary of ~, 900 a year. According to the
New York sur he will so out OF office a
poor man.
Senator Cummins and Senator Aldrich
are booked to speak in Chicago on the
same night during November. Fortunately
Chicago has ample territory for the play
OF cold or hot waves.
There are twelve asplrants for the sena-
torial shoes OF Senator Dick Of Ohio. The
senator is not disposed to yield the bro
gans peacefully, and there will be some
thing doing At Columbus when the twelve
call at Senator Dicks shoe market.
Some historic municipal campaigns in
western, cities which reached high levels
Of m~udslinging, should hand over the
champion belt to New York. The best Of
western efforts, mpar with the New
York exhibit, lines up as does a prairie
shower to a Mexican deluge.
Last spring the councilmen of Chicago in
creased their salaries from 1850 to $1,000
so that they could afford to devote more
Of their precious time to the eity's bust
ness, Now 1t is difficult TO secure a
quorum Of the council, and the city's bust
ness is allowed to drift. While some citi.
zens kick, others contend that the city is
the gamer.
A Maryland Judge has decided that the
name of Mrs. Ada Smith Lang. a socialist
candidate for the Maryland house Of dele
gates, must be printed on the official bal
lot, upsetting the previous decision of the
board of supervisors, who rejected Mrs.
Lang's name on the ground that under the
constitution OF the state, women are not
eligible to the Legislature. The judges
view h hat each house Of the Legislature
has the sole authority TO pass upon the
qualifications and the election of its men,
bers. If Mrs. Lang should be elected, con-
sequently, the legislature might admit her,
spite OF the constitutional bar against
women members, and there would be no
way of u~nseating her short Of an appeal
to the courts by her defeated opponent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
The Scattered Fleet.

T%ribulations of navigating the
Mississippi have been brought forcibly
home to those who would legislate
of that hayward channel, and
II must renew the youth of Mark
Twain and other old-timers to read
OF the corporations OF governors and
congressman on their voyage following
the president down stream. Laurels
in the siege Of V%icksburg fell to the
Oleander alone. When Mr., Taft took
the town it was in the midnight Don
light, and the quincy. with Speaker
Cannon and lesser congressional guns,
still poking its nose among the
sandbars far up the river, while such
Of the iotilla membership as could get
ashore took ignominious flight by
train.
In the literature of the palmy days
of the river we read the most marvel
Gus stories of how those water palaces
raced their whirlwind way in spite OF
snags. sandbars and exploding boilers,
and when a loathsome rival blocked
the channel the successful boat made
a short cut across lots, skimming TO
victory over a heavy dew and leaving
a less daring navigator tuning back
of the bend. But gone are those ad-
ventures. gone with the glories Of the
old-time river commerce. and now We
behold the floating capital OF the ma
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
FortIfyIng the CnnaI.

Why would 1t not be better policy for
the United States to secure an interna-
tional agreement to keep the Panam
canal forever as neutral ground in time Of
war? Why spend millions in Qualifications
II, as then would be the fact. they would
not be necessary? The idea of putting this
great waterway under lock and key to be
used as a national possession. like a forest
preserve or a military reservation, does not
appeal to the American sense of propriety.
It IL not in harmony with the original con-
ception of our mission on the Isthmus,
however the thought may awe altered in
recent years.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
PRAISE FOR THE ARMY.
General MOrtOn's Words Refreshing
and Deserved.
Washington Herald.

@NA1ARH
We hear very much in these days Of
discomfort among members of the military
and naval personnel. The increases of pay
and the additions to the allowances which
ave been made during the last two or
three years do not satisfy the officers, who
claim that they are confronted with stag
nation I'm advancement, and that all sorts
Of defects have cTept into the military
naval administration The older officers
claim that the service is going TO the
dogs, with the reforms that have been in
auguTated; the younger officers insist that
the service is crippled because the reforms
have not gone far enough. Perhaps this
has a definite purpose In the minds of the
agitators, but to the observer outside the
service 1t seems sometimes as If the only
citizens who lacked faith in the army
and navy, and who entertain any fears
that it viii not be equal to the emergency,
are those upon whom the responsibilities
and duties Of military-naval service de-
.volye.
Under such depressing conditions, it Is
a great pleasure to quote one army officer
who entertains an optimistic view. He is
Brigadier General Charles Morton. in com
mand OF the Department OF the Missouri.
who has had long experience in every
grade from that OF enlisted man to brig
adler general He is to retire for age next
March. He has been an officer with in
fantry and cavalry regiments, and is ac-
quainted with all the field officers ana
many OF the other officers Of an organiza-
lions. He feels justified in passing upon
the military situation, and this he does I'm
the conclusion OF his last annual report:
1 therefore venture to make the oh
servation that, with the exception Of a
brief interval OF a few months, / have been
continuously in the service since july. 1851
passing through about every grade from a
private OF volunteers. and am fairly IA
miliar with the details OF the service. /
have noticed steady and constant improve
ment IN the army proper, but more pro-
nounced Of late years. and. judging from
the troops and affairs that have recentiv
come under my observation, and presIm-
ing that like conditions prevail In other
departments, ] am convinced that the army
was never IN better condition or IN a higher
state Of efficiency.
This is refreshing in all respects. and
il probably the sort OF comment TO which
the army is entitled, and which its en-
listed force and commissioned PERSONAL
richly deserve. instead Of the adverse and
discontented comment in which army critics
indulge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
Industrial

Thu earnings report of the United States
steel corporation for the quarter ending
September 80, strikingly demonstrates the
remarkable recovery which has taken place
in that industry since no longer ago than
last spring. The net earnings of SIS, 246, 97
compare with 500, 800, 491 in the previous
quarter, with only so. 291, 26s in the March
quarter, with ST. ga in the correspond
ing quarter Of 1908, and with SIS, 2sO, 900 in
the March quarter of 1908, when low record
was made for the period following the
panic. These present earnings are not far
below the highest records of the boom
period before the panic. The top figure in
earnings was reached in the June quarter
of 1907, when $45, 900 was reached.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
WHEN SUMMERS 0 N


Joe Cone in Boston Herald.
The summers come an gone ag'm
Jest like q picture show;
We thought along the July DAYS
Perhaps 'twould never go.
Now here we be, right into fall.
With frosty nights an cold;
The grass down i'm the medder's brown
The hillsides red an gold.
This Is the melancholy time
Nv year, the poets say;
But tibet is on'y jest becuz
The summers passed away.
There is a wall now through the trees,
Where yesterday was song;
That is becuz the limbs are bare,
An > summers passed along.
You cannot stop the seasons e'er,
They must forever roll;
But you kin keep your heart a-warm,
An summer In your soul,
Jest keep the grasses green inside,
An don't give up your song,
An then 'twon't matter very much
Eff summers gone along.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
LAUGHING LINES.

Can you give an instance Of where AM
upllttlng process was also a d%ownwaId'
"oh. yes. When they razed the Bastile. %
baltimore American.
President Taft says he trusts to the caM
mon sense OF the American people,
"Geel He evidently hasn't been tJNIhe
theater lately."-Cleveland Leader.
ID you advise me to take up diplomacy
as a career asked the young man who is
politically ambitious.
Il don't believe l should" answered Sena-
tor sorghum; the silence imposed Is likely
to spoil a statesman's form as q popular
lecturer. Washington Star.
Now let me tell you about my other
M friend, you ought not to waste time
trying to tell people about your troubles. "
What do you mean?'
You ought to issue a catalogue -
Louisville Courier Journal.
Pa. why did you refer to Mr.. Smithers
as a monumental liar?'
Because his statements are no more
true than those that are usually found on
Chicago Record-Herald.
1T must be nice to be an Eskimo
woman"
What an ideal"
Just think Of being able 20 get a new
set OF furs without coaxing all year for
them."-Detroi Free Press.
Have you got any Georgia patent curry
combs?" asked Farmer Fishback of a Bill
vile merchant the other day.
don't KNOW replied the storekeeper.
I've got several kinds. What sort is the
Georgia patent?"
ITS made with scallops so it viii fit
IN between a mules ribs this time of year"
Constitution.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Mayor Jim's" argument: Gov
ernor S-hallenberger is a four-fiusher
and a double-crosser-therefore vote
the democratic ticket so he can hold It
up as an endorsement of his double
dealing,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Put our democratic friends in the
.optimist column. The registration
figures for Omaha and South Omaha
on the showing Of party a~fhliation in
dictates hat Douglas county will go re-
publican by upward of 5000 majority.
and yet the local democratic organ
prints figures under the headline. In
dications Point TO a Democratic Vic
tory"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

What the layman mas considered
slight earthquakes are now styled by
the scientists as ''pulsatory oscilla-
tons" A thing like that ought to be
blamed on the comet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
CauGht the speaker's Ear.
ChIeaEo Record-Herald.

Uncle Joe" Cannon was compelled to
stop speaking at st. Louis the other day
while q salute was being fired in honor
of the president. People have often found
IL difficult to catch the speakers eye,'
but 1t seems to be easy enough to get his
ear, If One goes about 1t properly.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Rockefeller's $4,000 0 ~appropria-
tion TO put the hook-worm out Of bust
ness makes Congressman Pollard's APP
preparation to ave the apple trees
lsok like 80 cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Omaha's street commissioner thinks
he could keep the streets cleaner II he
had bigger d~irt-carrying wagons to
haul the refuse away. In the mean
time the street-hushing machines, that
cost the taxpayers much money, are
standing idle in the storage room.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

If the governor of Kentucky wishes
to suppress Night Riders let him put a
hands of each woman, one of whom
has just proved herself more than a
match for forty of the masked marau-
ders.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

II is the business of President
Thomas Of Bryn Mawr to persuade
girls to go to college, and she has is
sued one of her strongest appeals to
the sex by asserting that college
women get a better grade of husbands
with larger salaries than do her sisters.
Successful marriage is still the chief
aim of woman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
Teaehings of the beer Trust.

Those energetic forecasts of a scarcity
Of beef cattle may mean that the packers
are gradually educating us up to the high
priced beef. But it may turn out to educate
the people to much lower priced vegetari-
anism, which would produce the reverse
effect of making the supply of cattle equal
to the demand.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Fire Chief Salter thinks he would
travel faster IL an automobile If the
city will only pay for it. 1t is to be
hoped, however, that the fire depart
ment automobile will not insist on
working only on single shift.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

1t was Observation-Disclosures carried to
an extreme manifested by the French
duelist who forgot to FIRE at the signal.
He should have tied a string around
HIS trigger finger.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
The County Board.

Two members of the county board
are to be chosen at the impending cleo
ton, one for the unexpired term and
the other for a full term, to succeed
this short term.
For the ~unexpired term the repub-
lican candidate, John Grant, the well
known sidewalk contractor, is practi-
cally unopposed.
For the full term the republican
nominee is John A. Scott, who has a
record as a business TAI that must
commend him to every taxpayer and
citizen who wants the AFFAIRS Of the
county conducted In a businesslike
Mr.. Scott has lived in Omaha
for many years, during which time he
has been responsible for large invest
ments and business undertakings, and
has always made good. He is a man
in his prime, full of vigor that prom
Uses to make him an energetic and use
full member of the board. He is not a
man seeking a job, or looking for a
pension, but asking an opportunity to
help build up city and county by prae-
ticing economy in public AFFAIRS and
keeping tax burdens at a minimum.
Mr.. Scott is a man of foresight and
liberal ideas-just the kind of a man
our voters as shareholders in the cor
poration known as Douglas county,
spending more than 100000 Of their
money each year. and erecting a
81, 200, 900 court house. ought to have
on the board of directors.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Brutal iOggings in schools have
stirred several sections Of the coun-
try. In Chattanooga a principal
breaks canes over a little boy held by
a negro ianitor. and in Brooklyn a pa
.triot OF singular tastes inhicts THE
Star sDangled Banner" as a form Of
chastisement by shifting the bare hesh
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Chairman Msek's declaration that
he could not play fayOrites, in the same
breath with his statement that he does
not believe Mr., Bryan will be the nom
hes in 1912. still reads as though the
Nebraskan were omcially ruled out Of
the favorite class
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Another advantage of large families
is illustrated in Nicaragua, where
every defeated administration man
ages TO 50 its brothers in ONCE with
the successful rev%olutionists.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Down az Lincoln the head Of a big
fraternal insurance organization is be-
ing heralded as the new street car
magnate. The street railway business
may be all right. but is 1t advisable to
Join il up with the fraternal insurance
business2
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

The democratic fight for a so-called
nonpartisan board OF university re-
gents seems to have been abandoned.
There is no salary, nor perQuisites. at
tached to the Office Of university
regent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

~Don't vote for a democrat because
he's a democrat" declares the demo-
cratic state platform. II so. then there
is nc other excuse for voting for a
democrat this time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

of a lad with al many welts as there
flag. BY these tokens we may know
that Dotheboys Hall is not yet extinct
and that Squeers stin lives.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

In hunting over the state for the
center of earthquake disturbance San
Francisco did well to call on Eureka,
which promptly lived up to its name.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
Any Excuse Serves.

High prices of food are now ascribed to
the scarcity of corn. OF course, this has
nothing to do with the matter in most in
stances. The real reason is the scarcity Of
the milk Of human kindness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
ComfOrting Assurance.

Chicago Inter ocean.
We are relieved to learn from the cot
ton experts of the Department of Agricul-
ture that the ravages of anthracnose are
not so serious as reported. The creature
sounds dangerous.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

The son of Ulysses declares that our
army is a small one. Granted. But,
like Mercutio's wound, it sufices for
the day.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

II getting the business is the test,
omaha's marrying preacher has daily
lessons of the efficacy of newspaper ad-
veTtising.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

King LeOpOld's promises of reforms
In the Congo look like the usual new
years resolutions, to be broken at the
FIRST opportunity.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

In taking to throwing acid the Eng
lish s~uffragettes are apt to acidulate
their friends.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Among the recent heroes for a time
among the best sellers, the name of
Jack Binns already sounds like a bark
from the tombs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Subscribers leaving the city tem-
pOrRrily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will he
changed M often m requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

When the change is made we shall
say, Au revoir, Sixteenth infantry!
Welcome, Fourth regiment!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state OF Nebraska Douglas County. SIS:
George 3. Tzsohuck, treasure or The Bee
Publishing Company, helms 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
EaDfpmher 1000 uraa ne fo1iOure.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Among other officers to be elected
next week are four republican candi-
dates for the school board.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Since becoming Mrs. Astor Miss
Willing seems to have lost some of her
Barkis-like quality.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

All indications are that on the
budget question the lords will not
bulge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

The vehicle manufacturers seem to
be looking for a vehicle for evading
the corporation income tax.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30
In Other Lands

size Eightu oa WHIST r. TrAns-
Piring Ameng the Wear ana
RaS Eattons - ths Iarth-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

The hookworm is booked to get the
hook.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Treasurer.
subscribed In my presence and sworn TO
before me this SOth day Of September. 1903
(SeaD NJ. p. WALKER.
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Entered at omaha postofnce AZ second
class matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

VICTOR RosEwATER, EDITOR
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

President Taft says he trusts to the COM
mon sense OF the American people" ~
"Geel He. evidently hasn't been tJSIh,
theater lately."-Cleveland Leade
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

Russia really must be awakening. The
Douma has given some evidence OF the
change, in spite of the efforts OF reaction
airy intrigue, but the latest news that
comes from st. Petersburg is actually con-
vincing. II is that the government has at
last decided that the time has come to
place Russia in line with the rest Of the
western world in the matter OF the calen-
dar. The Julian calendar is finally to be
abandoned and the Gregorian adopted, 80
that Russian dates viii no longer be TWO
weeks and more behind all others I'm use
by the civilized nations. This is a change
the deep import OF which cannot be exag-
gerated, for the forces Of conservatism in
Russia are far greater han even those in
England which retarded the reform Of the
calendar for 10 years after even Protestant
Europe had accepted IL.
General Botha, who led the Tight Of the
Transvaal Beers I'm their last ditch a few
years ago. il most likely to be the first
prime minister OF the newly constituted
Commonwealth Of United South Africa.
The spectacle that will be presented when
a loyal Dutchman shall hold the premier
ship in lately hostile South Africa, while a
loyal Frenehman holds the rens In the
one-time rebellious Dominion Of Canada.
will show how well the government OF
Great Britain has learned the lesson that
the best way 70 retain colonies is to con
cede TO them the liberties they demand
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-30

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