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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE
Agricultural Bill is Discussed and
Several Minor Bills Passed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. lO.-The ever inter-
esting ceremony of counting the electoral
vote was performed today by the senate
and house of representatives in joint ses-
sion. William II. Taft of Ohio was Off
cially declared elected president and James
8 Sherman OF New York vice president,
the count disclosing 321 electoral votes for
the republican candidates as against 1s2 for
Bryan and Kern.
Following the refusal of unanimous con-
sent for the consideration of resolution
appropriating s1.360OOO for a Lincoln me-
mortal in Washington and the passage of
several bills Of minor Importance. considera-
tion of the agricultural appropriation bill
was resumed. The effort of Mr. Lever and
his followers to abolish the board of
trustees of the Department of Agriculture
failed.
The bill was pending when the house. at
5:O7 p. m, adjourned
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
MOVE TO KILL BILL FAILS
Indiana House Adopts Report Recon-
mendinE TOmliEsOn County OPP
ton Measure for Passage.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Feb. 1O.-The
house Of representatives this afternoon by
a vote of forty-four to fifty-four, rejected
the minority report of the committee on
public morals, recommending indefinite
postponement OF the Proctor-Tomlinson
county option repeal bill. The majority
report, recommending the passage OF the
BILL was adopted. A motion to pass the bill
to engrossment was lost. The bill therefore
is still before the house.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
GIRL FOUND WITH THROAT CUT
Efghteen-Year-OId Belle Believed
Murdered on Eve of
WeddinE.

PITTsBURG. Pa. Feb. lO.-withln a few
hours Of the date set for her wedding.
smila MSrtorfeld, Is years old. the belle
Of the Russo Greek colony OF Duauesne. a
suburb. was found with her throat cut IN
the cellar OF her hOmA She died without
having regained CONSEQUENCES The au,
AAsrities believe the Eiri was murdered
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
CORK LEG SUCCEEDS WEAPON
DespOndent Ohio Engineer stranEIes
Himself with strap From Ar
tificial Limb.

COLUMBUS. o.. Feb. i0.-By means OF a
strap attached TO an artificial limb. Cor
nelius cummins. aged R. for years a
railroad engineer OF Columbus. committed
suicide by strangling today at the state
hospital. where he was patient afflicted
with melancholia-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
TRAIN WRECKED BY EXPLOSION
Engine Blows Up killing Engineer
and Fireman and shatter-
ing Car.

BELLINGHAM. Wash. Feb lO.--It is re-
ported here that the locomotive drawing
the Great Northern owl" train due In
Seattle at 7 o'clock this morning. blew up
a short distance south of Everett this
morning killing the engineer and fireman
and wreclxing the train.
No passengers were injured The train
was wrecked and the baggage and express
cars shattered
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
TIDAL WAVE RUMoR DENIED
Wireless Dispatch Says Reported Des-
tructiOn of Port LimOn 10 with
out Foundation.

NEW YORK. Feb. lo-There is no truth
in the rumors that tidal wave has des-
troyed Port L1mon, Costa Rica- A wire
less dispatch was received this afternoon
by the Western Union telegraph company
from Port IAmon saying the rumors OF a
tidal wave were without foundation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
THE WAITER.

FOR OMAHA. COUNCIL BLUFFS AND
VlCINlTG-Falr Thursday; slowly rising
temperature.
FOR NEBRASKA-Fair Thursday; slowly
rising temperature.
FOR IOWA-Fair Thursday; rising tenn
perature.
Temperature at Omaha yesterday;
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
CLEARING WAY FOR Mr.. KNOX
Bill to Repeal Part Of Act Increasing
Pay of Secretary of State.
TO DISPOSE OF TECHNICALITY
Point is Made That Raise In Salaries
Bars Senators and Representa-
tives From Accepting
Places In Cabinet.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1o.-Just before
the senate adjourned today Senator Hale
introduced bill repealing the portion of
the act of 1907 which increases the salary
Of the secretary of state
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
TAFTs ELECTION Is RATIFIED
Formally of Counting the Ballots at
Joint Session of Two Houses.

Joint Session of Two Houses.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1O-The two houses
OF congress met in joint session in the
hall Of the house OF representatives at D.
m. today and formally ratified the election
OF William H. Taft OF Ohio and James s.
Sherman OF New York as president and
vice president Of the United States. respect
lively.
Vice President Fairbanks. occupying a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
NEBRASKA.

Herman Taylor. a prominent stockman
living near Plainview, froze to death in
the storm of Tuesday. Page a
cheyenne county ranchman proposes to
make creek furnish power for lighting
plant and to drive machinery on the
ranch. Page a
G. e.. Benson of Omaha drops dead in
the depot at Kearney while waiting for a
tram TO Omaha. Page 3
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
4brGham kiinColn Said

rArE CANNOT escape history.
wv Practice proves more than theory.
Men should know and lay the truth to
heart
Because of diversities we waste much
strength among us. ...........
This government cannot endure half slave
and half free. ........,.
1t is not so easy to pay something as it is to
pay nothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11

liensm mak laws?
freedom the free
them
the saved
stab its vas with mpuny
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
Party Will See the Last Of the Relic
of Former Democratic Rule.
OVERLAP IS AGAIN IN SIGHT
Necessary Expenses and Campaign
Pledges in Excess of Revenue.
NO EFFORT MADE AT ECONOMY
House Kills the Bill TO Take the Ap-
pointment of Juvenile officer
Out of the Hands OF District
Court Judges.
lFrom a Sad Correspondent.l

(from a starr correspondent
LINCOLN, Feb. 10-(special)-If the
democratic party of Nebraska keeps its
pledge to the people to reduce the taxes
on farm lands and increase the taxes on
railroads" another paddock will have TO be
secured for the state treasury. With all
the big appropriation bills stll TO be in
troduced the aggregate amount OF money
asked for now is Sl.545,S $50. This sum repre-
sents for the most part pledges made by
the party or members of the party to GER
tain districts Of the state. 1t does not in
clude the appropriation for the maintenance
of the state government and state institu-
tions, the 1-mill levy for the state uni
versity, the salary BILL the deficiency bill
nor the claims bill. nor the bill to provide
aid for weak school districts. amounting TO
S115.OOO.
Estimating the 1-ml levy for the state
university. the salary bill and the main
tenance bill at the lowest possible figures
thus would bring the appropriations up to
the enormous total of s., 20,566. This sum
does not represent the extra pay for the
judges of the district and supreme courts
the increase in salaries in the food COM
missloner's office. extra appropriations for
the office of the labor commissioner and
probably a dozen or more minor bills.
The legislature two years ago made
total appropriation of A.367257 which in
cluded everything. The finances of the
state were handled in such shape that
the State Board of Equalization reduced
the levy for general fund purposes aud
the Sheldon 1-mill levy for the payment of
the state debt could have been repeated
and the debt wiped out by July. At the
present pace set by the democratic legisla-
ture 1t is impossible to forecast when Ne
braska will get out OF debt or what enor-
nous figures will be reached when the total
appropriations are finally figured
Let Republicans Pay Debt.
At the beginning of the legislature
prominent democrat was asked how the
party would be able to keep Its pledge to
the people to reduce farm taxes and in
crease railroad taxes; yIf We ca1't get
enough money to run the state without in
creasing taxes we will run the state in
debt again and let the republicans pay off
the debt"
1t is evident the legislators are figuring
on that very thing. for over N,5OoOOo has
been asked for already, with the big APP
preparation bills still to be introduced. Here
are some of the appropriation bills which
go TO make up this total:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
WASHINGTON

Bill for sale at auction of lands in From
tier county which resurvey showed be-
longed TO the public domain. Page i
Legal questions as to whether Philander
c. Knox is eligible for cabinet position
have created interest at Washington
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
Juvenile officer hin. KILLED.

1t is evident the nine votes from Doug
las county are not appreciated in the
house. The delegation this morning at
tempted to get a bill on the general file
over the protest of the judiciary commit
tee, so it could be discussed in the COM
mittee of the whole. but the house refused
to permit this courtesy. though II has
done so probably on every occasion be-
fore The bill was by Butt and IL pro-
vided that the county commissioners of
Douglas and Lancaster counties should
have the authority to name the probation
officers of the juvenile court. Judge
Estelle of Omaha and Judge Frost of Lin
coin appeared before the judiciary COM
mittee and fought the bill and It was rec
commended for indefinite postponement
Connolly moved this morning that the
bill go on general file and he and Boland
and Shoemaker each made a talk TO be
allowed TO discuss the bill in the commit
tee of the whole. in the meantime promis-
ing TO bring evidence from Omaha to
show that the people there we're not sat-
isfied with the juvenile court appoint
ments and that better results would be
obtained should the commissioners have
the power 20 appoint They agreed to
amend the bill to leave out Lancaster
county but the house would have none OF
it, and the name of Judge Estelle was
used by the opponents OF the measure to
defeat 1T. The judge. they said. desired
the bill killed Nettleton spoke against
the bill and Taylor of Custer thought the
judiciary committee had spent enough
time on II without the house using up
any more. while Taylor Of York was sure
the judges should make the appointments.
Kelley of Furnas talked for the bill 70 go
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
Liar Pasead in Hoase.

After listening 10 Clark OF Richardson
and Taylor of Custer county fuss until the
d. liar" was passed. the house in the
committee Of the whole took a slap at it's
railroad committee and refused TO stand
for the denaturzstion OF the Sink fifty
car freight train bill.
The committee recommended that the bill
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
Taft Party Heard From.

PORT EADS, via New Orleans. Feb. TO-
Wireless communications received here
today say that Presidens-elect Taft Snd
party are reported 800 miles off the passes
at the mouth OF the Mississippi river. He
is due to arrive at South Pass at mid
night.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
SUMMARY OF THE bee

Thur.day February II, 1909.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11
pOMEsrIC.


President Roosevelt gives IL out to
Nevada senator that negotiations now on
with Japan will solve race question in
coast states. Page
New Orleans is preparing to give a royal
welcome to Judge Taft this afternoon
when he arrives from Panama Page /
Formal ratification of the election Of
Taft and Sherman was made in Joint ses-
sion at Washington. Page
LOCAL.
Many commands stationed in the De-
partment of the Missouri destined for the
orient. Page ?
Harriman's plan to have the best possi-
BILE system of railroads. Page 2
Jur ysecured to try the Gooden murder
case. Pare q
c. E. Benson, Omaha real estate man,
dies In the depot at Kearney while wait
ing for a train. Page 5
Charles Ball of Chicago elected presi-
dent of the plumbers organization.
Page 8
LEGxSLATTVE.
Appropriations in sight the largest in
the history of the state and pressage an
other state debt in place of legacy of last
democratic rule which is just wiped out.
Page i
Dramatic debate in which Clark shouts
liar to Taylor takes place when Sink rail-
road bill comes up in the house. Page q
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-11

Continued on Second Page. }
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16

opher. and was surnamed Doctor Seraphicus" His
served writings OF dogmatic ddactic
clusively. and this hymn is be among
Doubtless 1t is be referred the seraphic
genius and temperament Its classic Latin cadences are
of such lyric felicity that cannot help but believe
they written to the noble touching melody on
whose wings they have foated to time Surely
not too fantastic suggestion when 1t is remembered
the original Greek music Of the Delphic hymn Apollo
is preserved intact and that certain familiar
the Gregorian chant used to-day in the Roman
identified by Hebrew historians the which
in Solomons temple many centuries before
of Christ.
The hymn "Adeste Fdeles" is not known been
used In England earlier than the seventeenth century
The musical setting have 1t in modern notation
ascribed by Novelo to John Reading, was
organist Winchester cathedral from 1875
later at Winchester college Its real origin the
mists antiquity which probably
ages and the Latin which 1t been insep
arably welded
Wordlanguage reaches but the people race to
whom is directly addressed language of music
is unversalit is understanded Of the instantly
all the wide world over-t needs not to be written
choice Latin translated into many tongues-it
caught from tie heart and echoes
why the "Adeste Fldeese has become the Christmas
hymn OF all the world
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16


"Yule" of "Merrie England" is the old Teu-
tonic name of the religious festival of the win
ter sostice. during which Celt and Roman
could trace the movements of their deities as
they walked abroad in the world
The Story Christmas Tells.
The Christian religion is not merely some
thing built over the old ethnic religions as the
church of st. Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome is
built over the ruins Of the old heathen temple
of Minerva, or as the grove sacred to Adonis
was planted by the order of the Emperor Had
rian over "the cave close to the village" which
is now honored the scene of the Saviours
BIRTH 1t had larger and deeper meaning.
Christmas tells the story of gradual but
complete unfolding of the divine idea of relig-
ion as seen In the Christ Child. Of its worship
and its merry-making in its at sacred
and social feast
The story is told simply but graphically by
two of the four evangelists st. Marks gospel
begins with the baptism Of the Christ, SO log
ically he had no need to tell the story OF his
birth and boyhood. st. John wrote near the
close Of the first century. and with the domi-
nant idea Of setting forth the divinity of
Christ in opposition to the prevailing gnosti-
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16
THE NATIONAL STOCK SHOW.
Prospects for the Greatest Show Ever
Held In the West.

Entries for the National Stock
Show at Denver close this week on
everything but carloads and entries
already indicate the greatest show
ever held in the West. There will be
horses from Canada, from Ohio, from
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa. Kansas and
most of the western states. Among
the prominent herds OF cattle coming
are the Shorthorn herds OF Carpen-
ter & Ross of Mansfield. Ohio;
Thomas Johnson G. Son OF Columbus,
Ohio; G. Il. Clark OF Minnesota
Frank Harding of Wisconsin; The
Elmendorf Farm of Kentucky: w. J.
Miller of Iowa; A. G. Binnie OF Iowa;
J. e. Bales & Son OF Iowa. and many
others. all the beef breeds being rep
resented by the best in the country.
There will be sheep from all over the
United States and Canada, all of the
breeds being represented
1t is expected that the car load OK
hibit of feeder cattle will be the great.
est ever held and big feeder buyers
are coming from all parts OF the coun-
try to purchase the prize winners.
The business end of the Denver
show always attracts considerable at
tention. The stookmen from the
west bring their choice cattle and
sheep to the show and sell them at
fancy prices and the big breeders Of
the east bring their cattle, sheep and
horses here and sell the best OF them
to the western men. This is where
the show is doing a great work. It
is placing within the reach OF the
western breeders the best the country
has in live stock and within very
few years the western men will be
winning the premiums and the east
ern man will be pretty well out OF It.
The railroads are making very rea-
sonable rates through the West for
the week of the show. In Colorado .
half rate will prevail while In New
Mexico. Utah, Idaho. Nevada. Wyom-
ing and Montana, the rate will be .
fare plus $2 for the round trip. This
will bring in great number Of stock
men and with the stock show and con-
ventions, Denver will be q busy place
during the week of January 8-15. With
the new buildings being erected and
the magnificent big pavilion com-
pleted last year. the show will be in
shape to take caro- OF the crowds com
fortably no matter what the weather
may be, but there Is usually good
weather at that time Of the year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16

tian era pagan Europe. in all its tribes and
peoples, had celebrated its chief festival So
here we have the double truth OF the golden
age and the rebirth of the unconquered sun,
as he breaks the power of darkness, refined
and enriched in the Christian teaching of
peace on earth and good will to men," as
coincident with the rising of the Sun of
Righteousness In the birth into the world of
the son of the peasant woman who was also
the Son of God.
This view of Christmas accentuates the
true place OF the Christian religion in relation
to the ancient and deep-seated religions which
preceded 1t. and at the same time reveals
beauty of development in its elimination as
the completed manifestation of God to man
In the infancy Of the race the winter solstice
was everywhere a season of rejoicing. No
matter what the peculiar form which 1t as
sumeS, it expressed the world Joy of the time.
So the very idea of the Child God which gives
Christmas its meaning may not only have been
foretold by sybil and seer and prophet but
prefgured by the infant gods of the Greek and
Egyptian and Hindu and Buddhist forms of
religion.
These to us imperfect an unsatisfactory
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16
Practical Politics.

A political office in small town in
Iowa was vacant. The office paid
$3.50 a year. and there was keen COM
petition for 1t, The Democratic can
didate. Ezekiel Hicks. was a shrewd
old fellow, and a neat campaign fund
was turned over to him. To the as
tcnishment Of all. however, he was
defeated.
Il can't account for It," said one
of the Democratic leaders gloomily.
with that money. we should have
won. How did you lay 1t out. Eze-
kiel?
WELL" said Ezekiel. slowly pulling
his whiskers, yer see that office only
pays $3.50 a year salary. an l didn't
see no sense in payin' 5000 out to get
the office, so bought me a little
truck farm nstead.'-Lippincott
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16


conceptions Of the Di-
vine may have been the
rude but honest efforts
of the earlier days Of the
b,iman race to group the
idea of a Goldman which
has been made SO real
and SO full of joy to us
in the Nativity and the
Epiphany of the Christ.
In this sense the early
church may have been
wiser than she wot OF.
Her aim was to select
the best features of the
heather feasts and en-
body them for their puri-
fication in Christian
practices and sacred
rites and to wean the
converts from their old
surerstitions to the
deeper and more real
truths of the Christian
Fifth.
But in SO doing she
may have been the un-
conscious instrument Of
a divinely guided evolu-
ton in religious practice
and belief which has en-
nobled and enriched the
world. The symbolism
of our Christmas to-day
certainly lends itself in
many ways to this point
of view. In the greenery
with which we deck our
houses and churches and
in the gift-laden fir trees
which gladden. our chill
dren's hearts. we still re-
tain the symbols by
which our heather fore
fathers signified their
faith in the power of re-
turning sun to clothe the
earth with green and
hang new fruit on the
trees. The Christmas
carol may be a new
birth of the hymns of
the Saturnalia. The
holly and mistletoe
came from the Druid
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16


kH ninetyand-nine out CT every hundred Protestant
k churches throughout Christendom this is the
CAS9sk son when Is heard that grand old hymn whose
tender and solemn strains find echo in the
universal human heart-"Adeste Fideles' Come All Ye
Faithful 1t is the anthem at high Christ
mastide for centuries past calling Chrsts worshpers
Bethlehem where the newborn Savior lies
This naive and beautiful Latin anthem ancient
than its history and back six centuries
Saint Bonayentura. Italian the thirteenth
tury who died in Lyons, France 1874 with
the authorship of the beginning:
Adeste hdeles,
Laeu triumphantes
Venite Vente in Bethlehem.
Natum yidete. Regem angelorum.
Vene adoremus,
vente adoremus.
Venite adoremus Dominum
oh. come all faithful,
joyful and triumphant,
Oh come ye. oh. ye Bethlehem.
See the newborn Saviour, king of all the angels.
oh, come let adore him,
oh, come let adore him.
Oh come let adore him, Christ, Lord.
Saint Bonaventura franciscan scholastic philos
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16

worship. The banquet
time itself may be a sur
vival, purified and refined.
of the original feast to
the gods and goddesses Of
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16
The War Play Today

This is very exciting scene. That
orderly with dispatches has just
dropped from a war balloon"
What Is that fleecy stuff he's
brushing Off"
Bits of cloud"
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16
AZ q Ruls.

TITS the unexpected that always
happens"
THE unexpected happens very sell
dom. seems to me. Somebody always
claims to have predicted 1t. whatever
II IT,"
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16

bration Is a part of the universal
history of the human race. What
ever may have been its origin and
whatever peculiarities may have
gathered about it in its adaptation
to different people and different
circumstances. it is to us Ameri-
cans to-day practically national
feast
To keep it was at one time, and
In our own part of the country, it
is true, a penal offense. 1t was
thought to SAVIOR of prelacy and to
foster unpleasant memories of DO
litical servitude. But It has grown
with our growth and the broad
mlndedness OF the American
people Is seen at its best in the
nearly commemoration of the na-
tivity of the Christ from year to
year.
Tin some parts of the country. I'm
Iact, Christmas day bids fair to
supplant Thanksgiving day, and it
certainly may already claim an
equality of recognition with the
time-honored national festival Of
our New England forbears. People
OF every creed and every nation
aiity within our borders delight to
participate in the celebration of
the Christmas feast. and many a
scion of old-world stock finds him
self back home again as the church
bells peal and the candles elim.
mer on the Christmas trees. 1t is
a time OF universal peace and
good viii. 1t brightens homes
softens asperities and upIifts us
as 1t brings "the light that never
was on land or sea-"
The Origin Unknown.
The origin of the festival is said
to be lost in antiquity. If. as held
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16

story is told of an Alpine farmers servant
who hid in the stable on Christmas eve and
heard the horses talking about his own death
which followed few days later.
Bosnian Legend.
There is a Bosnian legend that the sun
leaps In the heavens and the stars dance
around it. A great peace comes stealing down
over mountain and forest. The rotten stumps
stand straight and green on the hillside. The
grass is be1owered with blossoms and the
birds sing on the mountain tops in thanks to
God. In Poland the heavens open and Jacobs
ladder is set up between earth and sky. In
Austria the candles are set in the window. that
the Christ Child may not stumble wheh he
comes to bless the home. In north Germany
the tables spread and the lights left burn
ing for the Virgin Mary and her attending
angel.
The English superstition is admirably
voiced by the myriad-minded Shakespeare in
Hamlet"
Some say that 'gainst that season comes
Wherein Lords birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long,
And then they say spirit can walk abroad.
The nights are wholesome Then planets strike
No fairy takes, witch hath power to charm,
30 hallowed and SO gracious is the time"
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-16

II man will compliment his wife upon her
youthful appearance and tell her that he loves
her, she will forgive other white lies.