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The Ordway new era., 1910-02-11
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ANY stories are told 81
Tad's mischievous pranks.
and of his fathers close
companionship with his
favorite boy. Tinker re.
cords that on one occasion
Lincoln came into the
The Ordway new era., 1910-02-11

For 80 years Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been tho standard remedy for
female Ills. No sick woman does justice to
herself who will not try this famous medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands Of cures to it, credit.
to write her for advice. she bas
guided thousands to health FREQ Of charge.
Address Mrs. Pinkhams Lynn, Mass.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
Our Birthday Book
Maroh pa, 1910.

Rev. Edward Hart jerks, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian church, is 4S today. DR..
jerks was born in Wisconsin and edu-
Gated at Hamilton college and Auburn
Theological seminary. His first passionate
was in California, from which he was
called to his present church in Omaha
in 1888.
Ten Eyck H. Fonda, jr., of Ralston &
Fonda Live Stock Commission company
at South Omaha, is 80. He is a native of
New York City and was educated in the
Omaha public schools.
DIR. William C. Upjohn was born March
"a, 1864, He graduated I'm medicine from the
medical department OF the University of
Michigan and has been practioing in
Omaha since 1892.
N. p. Dodge, jr., who does a real estate,
abstract and insurance business as N. p.
Dodge company and the Midland Guaranty
and Trust company. is SO. He was born
in Council Bluffs and is a graduate Of
Harvard, and has been twice a member OF
the Nebraska legislature.
Garrett p. Serviss, an authority on
astronomy, was born March "a, 1851. at
Sharon Springs. N. Y. lie has done a
great deal to popularize astronomy by his
lectures.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
OH, MY! OMAHA.

Fairbury News: Omaha's mayor has
adopted the slogan, "Clean Up" 1t is not
a moral awakening-he refers to the streets.
Blair Pilot: The cartoon in Sundays Bee
showing Miss Spring doing the terpsi-
chorean act didn't require opera glasses to
get the full artistic effect of the same.
Aurora Sun: The Omaha papers, with
the doors of the breweries and distillerles
strong upon them, seem to rave entered
into a regular campaign, the object of
which is to discount the Anti-saloon league
Of Nebraska.
Nebraska City News: Omaha has q man
who is so mean and contemplate that he
will steal a box from a church in which
are contributions for the poor. If there is
"a special warm seat in that country that
preachers tell about that thief ought to
have the very front seat.
Kearney Hub: When Senator Brown
tried to get cheaper gas for Washington
he was reminded that Washington gas is
already cheaper than gas in the senator's
home town." or in Lincoln or Omaha.
But this is not saying that Washington gas
is not too high. Senator Brown was badly
beaten in his effort to clean up the Wash
ington gas job, but he does not need to
feel bad about It.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
The south FriendlH to Taft.

Twice during the last eighteen
months President Taft has voiced a
very kindly attitude toward the south
and both times the warm-hearted peo-
pie Of that section have responded In
kind. The people OF the south are
fond Of the president and have not
hesitated to make it known. When
he took a trip through the southern
states Immediately following his cleo
ton and demonstrated beyond the pos
sibility of a doubt that he was a friend
he broke down completely the barriers
of sectional prejudice, which have
been so long in %crumbling. and won
his way right into the hearts OF the
people.
During his recent trip to Chicago
the president again took occasion to
express his regard for the sunny land
of cotton. He spoke in glowing terms
of the prosperity and progressiveness
to be found south of the old line"
The s~outherners consider It character
istic of him and as a happy reminder
Of the sincerity of his regard" Hence
they responded again, most cordially,
to his kind words, expressing faith in
him and in his personality, even
though abating none Of their political
differences. The Charleston News and
Courier, commenting upon this ad-
dress, said, in part:
We have entire confidence In Mr.. Taft's
friendship for this part Of the country.
He has proved Il. The president, In truth.
has at heart the welfare OF the entire
country, OF every part Of It, and whatever
mistakes he may lave made or may yet
make, time will develop the honesty Of his
purposes.
The great genial, cordial, warm
hearted southerner does not hold a
prejudice and express friendship. He
is frank and outspoken in his likes and
dislikes and, political bias or no po-
litical bias, IL he honors and respects
a public official he says so. An honest
acknowledgment OF the honest pur-
poses and intentions of the chief ex-
ecutive of our nation will do much to
help him secure for us the laws which
are needed and demanded north and
south alike.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
PERSONAL NOTES.

Certain Americans in London pay $500 a
month for furnished rooms. The price may
not get them into the swim exactly, but
almost near enough to hear the splashing
of those who are in,
Chicago aldermen had the courage of
their convictions in action when they de-
creed that womet's hat pins must not stick
out from the crown Of the hat more h
half an inch. Penalty Tor disobedience $50.
Certain people III New Jersey seek to Dust
a Judge for having cut down the amount
of damages In the case of a girl who had
lost her leg. Nf8obesRIcked out of office by
the wooden leg hof a child would be a
peculiar experience.
Theodore Roosevelt received the glad
hand from an unnamed Nebraskan mid
the ancient diggings Of Luxor. II am glad
to see an Ak-Sar-Ben, even II he is so
far from home" exclaimed the mighty
hunter, as he frightened his grip.
The new senator from Mississippi will
serve under his present commission until
March 8, 1913, but next year a primary will
decide the question OF his successor. Pre-
sumably Senator Percy will stand for a
full term. In that event he will have for
an opponent Ex-Governor Vardaman, whom
he has just defeated before the legislature.
Living the humble, u-nostentatious life of
the wife of a backwOodsman, Mrs. belinda
Spencer of Centre Harbor, N. H., has just
been revealed to her ~astonished neighbors
and friends as "a lineal descendant of
royalty, whose ancestors can trace their
lineage without interruption to P%ocnhontas,
the royal kings daughter of the Powhatan
tribe. who married. John RoIfe after her
saving OF Captain John Smith.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
Navies to Have Oil Fuel.

The Navy department Of the United
States is now very busy establishing
oil storage depots on our different
island possessions throughout the
world as an essential In the further
development of our navy. In addition
to this contracts are being let for the
supply Of oil and for the construction
of oil transportation and delivery
ships whereby these depots and our
navy may be supplied. The work is
being pushed as rapidly as possible
and the great ~battleship furnaces of
our navy are soon to be fitted out with
oil burners.
In this the United States claims an
advantage over the other nations OF
the world in naval power. England
has vast coal fields which have assured
her naval greatness IN the past. These
fields have also been a great source Of
revenue, but OF the oil used in Great
Britain "a per cen m from for
eign countries. England realizes its
handicap and as a consequence is not
changing the power equipment of her
~battleships and cruisers as rapidly as
she would otherwise do.
The United States furnishes "a pei
cent of the oil supply Of the world and
hence should have no trouble securing
the necessary supply for u navy re-
gardless of it's size. Experts insist
that oil burners can be handled with
more effectiveness and with less ex,
pense than coal and that oil is easier
to handle, both in the boiler rooms
and in transfer from the supply ships
and depots to the tanks of the great
sea fighters. Assuming these condi
lions to be as represented; then in the
change which is taking place from Goa.
to oil America should have an advan
tage both in naval strength and posi-
bilities and in the upbuilding Of a mer
chant marine,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
Egg shampoo?" inquired the barber.
llArnnn ~ ~ - -
TO THE ZEPHYR WIND.

Three winds of heaven. blow across the
earth:
fhe East, the West, the North, and one
a fourth H $50 sFt
1t is the zephyr-wind and brings the
spring,
with gorgeous pagean5ry of blossom
Blow soft. o, gentle South Wind, blow
Across the drifts of ice and snow;
Bring life anew to barren hill,
And music to the frozen rill.
Bring scent of flowers TO hidden dells.
Where crosses come and windflower
Wake thou the crocus on the lawn,
And %daffodils, enlit with dawn.
In wildwood ways, let ferns unfurl;
And bring the flush OF pink and pearl,
Athwar the green and purple glooms
Where trail and sweet arbutus blooms.
Let bloodroots light the dim Favine;
Flash violets DER lowlands green;
Uplift from marshes, iris, rare, 4
And star the glades with lilies fair. -
Bring newer beauty, higher hope
To saddened hearts that grieve and
grope; D
And thrill across the great world, wide,
The Triunnph-Song of Eastern Tide.
REBECCA FARSON MCKAY.
Chicago, March q, 1910.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
American locomotive in Africa.

While on his way north from Khar-
tum to Cairo, Theodore Roosevelt
found that his Pullman sleeper was
being drawn by a Baldwin locomotive
Of Philadelphia make. 1t seem that
when Lord Kitchener wanted locomo-
-tives to transport his armies into the
interior of Africa during his campaign
against the dervishes, the English
manufacturers were too slow for him
and he therefore placed his orders in
America. The orders were executed
with such promptness that the British
general was able to accomplish the
purpose of his campaign more rapidly
than he had anticipated. Another tri-
umph for American industry and en-
ergy and incidentally a large number
Of American locomotives in the Sou
dan.
It must be rather homogeneous to sit
In a modern American sleeper, drawn
by a gigantic American locomotive and
look out on a landscape dotted here
and there with the ruins of a civiliza-
ton thousands of years old. Yet the
ruins among the sandhiiIs OF upper
Egypt echo and re-echo to the roar and
shrek Of modern American locomo-
tives, while the beasts Of the desert
stink away and howl n the unusual
apparition. 1t is not so much a shock
to the sense Of the propriety and con-
sistency to think OF railroad equip
ment in Egypt, but that It should be of
American make emphasizes the dider-
ence In the ages contrasted.
But this is really not so extraordi-
nary. for scarcely a country or nation
on the earth is unfamiliar with ma
ehinery OF American manufacture.
Americans 60 everywhere n sell
goods almost everywhere. American
tourists can purchase American-made
goods in every city in the world to
which they can easily go. 1t must
have been a very pleasant surprise to
our homeward bound hunter TO ride
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
Anothsr Terrihle Marn,, Nest.

Becoming possessed Of the habit of
seeing things, Golfers Weekly has un-
covered another terrible mares nest
this time out in Kansas-where is ex-
posed a vile conspiracy to upset the
civil service laws so far as designed
to protect the census. In n Of the
Kansas districts, so 1t is reported,
civil service examinations for census
enumerators we're held in February,
but before the papers got back from
Washington "the list Of those to whom
the places were to go" was published
"by the local republican machine"
and further, "a practically meaning
less examination with essentially no
competitive quality leaves the ma
chimes as free as they could wish to
distribute government census positions
among the faithful"
Such a state of affairs, IL 1t existed,
would most naturally appear to be
alarming to those unfamiliar with the
conditions facing those in charge of
the census taking. While we cannot
speak with d%efniteness about Kansas,
we can say with reference to Nebraska,
where we have no doubt the situation
is quite similar, that the difficulty en-.
countered everywhere has been not to
keep the political machines from
awarding census positions to the faith
full, but to get competent persons in
sufficient number to apply for them.
The fact is that census supervisors
have been compelled to appeal to bust
ness interest and local patriotism to
furnish men to serve as enumerators
to whom a two weeks Job at not to
exceed "a or IS a day has had no great
attraction. AS a consequence the
women enumerators, who have neither
votes nor pull, will be largely dispro-
p~ortionate to the men enumerators,
and the census is likely to suffer in the
event that the enumeration period is
enveloped in bad weather.
What is true with reference to the
enumerators applies still more forci.
bly, to the clerical force of the census
bureau, which by law must be appor-
toned among the various states in
the ratio of population. The first civil
service examination for census bureau
clerks produced the anomaly of a
shortage of from 80 to go per cent on
the quotas Of a large number of states,
and the second examination to supply
the deficiency has still left some OF
them short. Examinations were not
such as to bar an intelligent person
from successfully passing them, but
the prospect Of a government Job for
a few weeks, or a few months, carry.
ing a salary less than is earned by q
teamster, to say nothing Of a chauf.
feur, has no temptation, whether of.
fered by a civil service board or a
political machine.
The obstacles which census officials
have had to overcome this year arise
from the conditions Of prosperity that
exist throughout the country, and par.
ticularly in the west, where there are
no unemployed to draw on who are
worth employing. The lurid talk
about the census being packed with
about the census does not apply to this
territory and it most likely runs about
SO per cent Pigment of the Imagination
everywhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
The Gardening Fever.

In the spring the man-of-family's
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of re-
ducing the cost of living with a garden
spade and hoe. Then he gets busy
and garden fever o o drives him into
a delirium. AS a rule this form of
spring fever takes the office man first,
and from the moment the germ be-
comes active life is a burden in his
company. He dreams gardening by
day and by night, his conversation re-
turns to the soil and there is no pres
n C so sacred as to make the subject
taboo. This lasts until the garden is
planted and everything" ~sprouted.
The victim then RECEIVERS and it is all
over for everything but the weeds.
This fever comes annually and is quite
epidemic for at least six weeks. Then
the amateur agriculturist realizes that
he has been an agricultural boomer,
II not a nature faker.
This longing of the city man for the
soil is only another form of the fever
which drives hundreds to the brooks
and ponds with hook and line to catch
the speekled beauties which seldom
bite. Other forms are to be found in
the duck hunter and in the mountain
climber. It is a revival of the early
stages of human existence, according
to Darwin, and harks back to the time
when the primitive man roamed the
forests and sought new fields to con-
quer. But unlike those olden days,
this fever rarely lasts. The easiest
way out of 1t, for it is entirely harm
less as regards everything but the
landscape, is to let the fever victim
SOW his garden truck, harvest his
weeds and cure himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

All Of the states for the democratic
membership of the new rules commit
tee include Congressman Fitzgerald OF
the Brooklyn district. who led the dem
ocratic detection at the beginning OF
the session and saved the Cannon
rules from revision at that time. The
fact that Fitzgerald and his followers
were promptly read out of the party
by Mr.. Bryan does not seem to cut any
figure with the democrats in congress,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Senator Frye is still confined TO his
home. Though the Maine statesman is 79
years old, he has been in good health until
the present attack. He is chairman Of the
committee on commerce., which has the
rivers and harbors bill for consideration.
Senate Eikins, second on the committee,
is working overtime on the railroad rate
bill, leaving the third man on the com
meree committee, Senator Knute Nelson,
to bear the brunt Of the hearings on the
rivers and harbors measure, Senator Nell
son is second on judiciary and chairman
Of public lands, which, with the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigation, keeps the hardy
Minnesotan on a hop. skip and jump from
early morning TO late at Ugh The Bal
liger-Plnchot Investigation has produced
already 1900 pages of testimony, n the
end is not yet in sight.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

United States Senator Albert Jeremiah
Beverage is the most Immediately attired
man In congress. He loves luxurious sur
roundings. Until the automobiles became
the fashionable means Of transportation
Mr.. Beveridge had the smartest horses
and carriages in Washington. Now he has
the most deliberately equipped automobile.
When Mr.. Beveridge becomes somewhat
warm as a result of a heated debate in
the senate he goes to his committee room
and puts on a fresh collar, The senate
BARRIERS are called upon each day TO use
all the arts OF their trade when the
senator from Indiana visits the shop re-
served for members Of the senate.
Being such q fastidious person, one
would get the idea that Senator Beveridge
was attired in silks soon after he came
into his world and that his love for
luxury was inherited rather than culti-
waited. AS a matter OF fact. the senator is
enjoying now those things which were not
In his youth. or. In other words, he Is
enjoying comforts which he earned by
the sweat Of his brow and by eallousing
his hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
Gain in Train safety.

Recent railroad accidents, while they
indicate no improvement in operating safe
guards, at least give evidence of a gain
in safety through more substantial equip
ment. For trains to come in collision with
each other ten years ago or for a section
Of a train to leave the rails at high speed
would have meant a larger casualty list
than Is now the case.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Congressman Foss OF Massachusetts,
and Congressman Foss Of Illinois are
brothers, but on opposite sides of the
political fence. Well, that ought to
add spice to the interesting tits on the
floor Of the house,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

II omaha's IRE limits are to be en-.
larged, the time to extend them Is
now. without waiting for a new lot OF
finder boxes to be nrst erected along
Our most travelled thoroughfares.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

President Taft says that more team
work is needed in congress. The bat
ting average was raised asst week, but
the field work is still ragged and the
manifest disposition to slug the umpire
is losing hackers for the players.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

worst Of it II paper ballots are used in
stead Of voting machines in the inn
pending municipal election. Why
should a democrat be less able to mark
his ballot correctly than a republican?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Colonel Roosevelt should be very
careful about writing the history Of
Texas. The people down there are
rather touchy on some points con-
nected with the settlement Of the
state.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

The warden of the Nebraska peni.
Tertiary declares that the dope habit
produces far worse effects than the
liquor habit An antelope league ID
In order.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
The ola Reliable way,

New York Herald.
A western man advertises for a wife
who must speak three languages, be beau
tiful in body, soul and mind, and wear
her own hair and teeth. One evidence that
he deserves such an ideal wife is that he
has taken the only way to find her.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

The idle sons Of the idle rich some
times turf out to be good citizens
when they have to get down n work
for a living like the rest Of us.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

The Pittsburg bride takers are un-
der the searchlight, but then no one is
greatly surprised. Most anything can
happen N Pittsburg without causing
much surprise.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

James ], Hit IS advocating the con.
servatIon 81 capital. why not make
it somsthi1g that a few more OF US
have? M Z
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

The Mabray bunch have been regis
tered at the hotel kept by Uncle Sam
1t Leavenworth. The other prisoners
there will do Well to put nadlocks on
their pockets.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Charles II. Evans. who died suddenly the
other day in his s0th year, was in his prime
the most expert tariff statistician in the
capital city. and long enjoyed the esteem
and confidence OF Mckinley, Dingley.
Payne. DoIiyer and other leading demo-
Gratis. including the late Senator Beck OF
kentucky former Secretary OF the Treas
ury Carlisle, and the late Speakers Crisp
and Samuel J.. Randall.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Times are changing. The young men of
today are no longer bound by the party
ties OF their fathers-congressman
Hitchcock.
The significance OF this Is that Mr..
Hitchcock is now running as a demo.
crat for the seat in the senate which
his father warmed a a republican.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

1t turns out that the price OF coun-
cilmen in Pittsburg is sS1.1O. sim,
that is higher than the reputed price
of some Of the members of Nebraska's
late democratic legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Judge Alton b. Parker and Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt are to be in Paris
at the same time. Mr.. Roosevelt
should be able to counterfeit any chill
ing effect the worthy judge may have
upon that city.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
Lnre I'D Greed.
Chicarn Inter Ocean.

chicago inter ocean.
The astonishing revelations OF the Ma
bray ''fixed-contest' swindles show that
the apparent chance to get something for
nothing never loses its hold on poor human
nature.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24
WIN the aHOme Folks, Coz

New York Tribune.
Mr.. Bryan is coming home from Europe
again, but far-sighted democrats will re-
frain from meeting him at the wharf and
asking him 70 make a speech.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Andrew Carnegie is said to be plan
ming to meet Roosevelt in London in
May. "Hoot mon. Hae a hero medal
before ye ging ava hame."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
OF course the packers are innocent Of
any illegal restraint of trade. Why, then,
should the poor fellows be dragged into
the Jersey courts and asked to prove their
innocence by reference TO their W
books2
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
DOFarily shOald havs The Bee
mailed to them. Address Will be
changed ~ often ~ requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Strange how our democratic con-
gressman's peregrinations are all
homeward this year whereas last year
1t was to Europe on pleasure bent.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

President Ripley of the Santa Fe de-
clares that the railroads are between
the devil and the deep sea. Wonder
where ne would locate the shippers?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Who said the Congressional Record
was the dryest piece OF Literature ever
perpetrated on the American people?
Read the latest serial story.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

The Insurance on the Omaha city
hall Is to be placed by a South Omaha
FIRE underwater, That looks as II the
two cities were coming closer together.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

One could hardly. call the last forty
days In our political history very much
of a Lenten season. 1t has beer more
like a wake.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

Every stranger who visits us de-
clares that Omaha looks good to him.
Signs of growth and business activity
are what impress the stranger.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

1t Is a sure thing bet that Champ
Clark never came so near being
speaker Of the house before in his life.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-24

But, Just the same, Uncle Joe is the
same game old sport that he ever was.