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Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
Ransom,s Question Box.

State Senator Frank Ransom is alto
gether too caustie in bis comment on
the county option prize package valen-
tine exploded by Mr.. Bryan, in which
the Fairview statesman takes a rap at
the democrats in the last legislature
who refused to obey his ediet to enact
an initiative and referendum law.
Senator Ransom wants to know why, II
Mr.. Bryan thinks 80 much Of the
initiative and referendum, he failed
to put it in his Denver platform when
he had the opportunity, and whether
the omission is due to fear that It
might lose him some votes in his quest
of the presidency.
This inquisitiveness is decidedly
u~ngrateful Of Senator Ransom, be-
cause the same sort of an inquiry
might be pursued in other directions.
Why, for example, did Mr.. Bryan
put the deposit guaranty in the plat
form Of Nebraska and then personally
supervise the proceedings Of the demo-
cratic state conventions in Illinois and
New York, but never said a word
about deposit guaranty in either OF
those states?
Why did he talk deposit guaranty
in Kansas inc keep quiet about 1t in
Pennsylvania?
Why was he for government owner
ship OF railroads when he returned
from his around-the-world trip, and
forgetful of It when he was running
for a third defeat?
Why does he couple his present pro-
nouncement for county option with
the complaint hat the brewers and
liquor interests failed to deliver the
goods in the presidential campaign in
which Mr.. Bryan tried to make them
believe he was liberal in bis views?
If Senator Ransom starts a ques-
tion-box there may be no end to the
number OF embarrassing interrogation
points that may pop out. Some one
may even ask why Mr.. Bryan CON
sented to run on the same ticket with
Mr.. Ransom, VIGOROUSLY a orpora-
ton lawyer with an ~unsavory legis-
lative record Of corporation subser-
viency, and actually ask his friends
here to vote the democratic ticket
straight even including Mr.. Ransom.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
PERSONAL NOTES.

With Roosevelt, Bryan, Fairbanks and
John l.. travelling abroad in the capacity
of private citizens Of great distinction"
the source Of supply is well nigh ex-
hausted.
The man who came forward a year or so
ago with a scheme to burn ashes instead of
coal has been keeping mighty dark this
winter. This. doubtless, will help to lower
the yeas lynching average.
For many years one of the best known
writer's on finance and economic questions,
William Dodsworth, for many years editor
Of the Journal of Commerce, and Com
mercial Bulletin, died in his home at En-
glewOod, N. J. Mr.. Dodswort had been
i'll only a short time, but his age, IS years,
enfeebled him so that he was unable to
rally.
Miss Pearl Nelson Of Oleopolis, Pa, on
November Z, in oompany with two other
young girls, wrote their names and ad-
dresses and put them in separate bottles
and threw them into the Allegheny river
at oleopolis. February 4 she received a
card that the bottle and contents had been
picked up at Ludlow, KY, by Carl Nc
Cough after floating over 1000 miles.
Boots" Repettl of Washington, d. c., is
a man whose gastronomlc talents cannot
be hidden under a napkin. He has eaten
at one sitting a ten-pound ham and forty
pounds Of kale and has percolated the in
t~erstices with two gallons Of beer. This
will bring into play all his latent forces,
including the vermiform appendix, that has
laid dormant through untold ages in the
Repetti family.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15

or the surgeon. whichever it was. Sir
Plume's remonstranoe was:
my lord. why. what the devil!
Ids! d-n the luck, fore Cad you must
Plague OMIT tits past a jest-nay prithee.
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Give her the hair'-he spoke and rappet
his box.
Dorothea's champion, however, called up
the burglar Of the photograph ON the tele-
phone and said things to him which sounded
awful and would look worse In print.
Then the thief, who had only taken the
photograph in Jest, delayed returning 1t
because he had been affronted. In the next
act he and his wife went to the party
and the surgeon and the paymaster as
saulted the man and took the picture. and
he asked the secretary Of the navy to have
the young bloods tried, The secretary poho-
poohed it. and then the wife Of the picture
thief went to Washington and got a sena-
tor to insist that justice should be done,
and there has been a room full Of officers
lii full dress uniform. and D5roihea and
Margaret and Florence and Virginia nave
been in constant attendance and have had
a perfectly lovely time. Justice has laid
aside its scales and sword, Fit emblems
of a court martial of the sea, and lifted
the b~andage from her eye sufficiently to
observe that the girls are awfully pretty
and the young officers look stunning in
full dress uniform; the daughter Of the
navy" has recovered her picture and the
young rascals who quarreled over her at a
hop will get all that is coming to them.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
Modern Ocean Wrecks,

In considering ocean traflc, ocean
travel and the. scarcity Of ocean
wrecks in these days of life protec-
ton one is impressed with the com
paratively small number of fatalities.
In fact, the number Of casualties
among seamen and ocean travellers Is
very small in proportion to the num-
Der carried and has been getting
smaller every year. The fatal hun.
CRY ocean Is no longer the awful
term it used to be.
With the advent of the wireless tel
egraph a revolution has been wrought.
Ocean liners are no longer beyond the
reach of assistance, no matter. how far
they may happen to be out at sea.
When storms rage and ships break up
there is no longer the hopelessness Of
blank despair, If the signal of mortal
distress can be shot across the sky on
the wings of electricity to bring res
cuing hands.
Within the last few days a great
passenger vessel went to pieces on a
reef in the Mediterranean sea and
near Santiago, Chile, another was
dashed to pieces. In both cases hun
dreds of lives we're lost and the world
is grieved and horror-stricken. And
yet comfort may be found in the fact
that these wrecks and the consequent
loss Of life are becoming more and
more the exceptions rather than the
rule. ra
One can not but help notice that
ocean travel is now much safer than
land travel. Where one life is lost In
ocean wrecks ten have been lost in land
wrecks. 1t is a matter for the con-
Germ Of those who have the develop
ment of land travel in charge to set
their minds working to invent devices
whereby safety to life and limb for
land travellers may be assured to the
same degree as that OF modern ocean
travellers.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
Our Birthd Boo
February Is, 1910.

Elihu Root, United States senator from
New York. is past 65. He was born at
Clinton, N. Y, and became one of the
leaders Of the New York bar before he
was appointed secretary Of war by Presi-
dent Mckinley, and later secretary of state
by President Roosevelt.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell was born February
Is, 1880, in Philadelphia. He not only stands
near the top as a medical practitioner,
but is also prominent as a poet and novel;
list.
Albert B. Cummins, United States sena-
tor from Iowa and former governor of
that state, is go today. Senator Cummins
was born at Carmiehaels, Pa, and was
originally a civil engineer. He later
studied law in Chicago, and removed to
Des Moines in 1878, where his remarkable
political career began.
Peter S. Grosscup, Judge Of the United
States circuit court Of appeals. was born
at Ashland. o., February Is. 1852. Judge
Grosscup has been on the bench since 1882
and has been called on to render decisions
probably in more cases Of vital public in
terest than any other one judge Of the
federal courts.
August Belmont, the big New York
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OF Belmont, was born February Is, 1853, in
New York. Mr.. Belmont's most notable
achievement has been the financing OF the
New York. subways. He is figuring in the
newspapers right now because of his forth
coming marriage to Miss Eleanor Robson.
the we'll known actress.
Scott C. Bone, editor Of the Washington
Herald. is 50 years old. Mr.. Bone is
another one OF the literary products OF
Indiana, and previous to the establishment
OF his present newspaper was managing
editor OF the Washington Post.
William IL. Gates, doing a real estate
business in the New York Life building,
was born February Is. 1885. Mr.. Gates first
came to Omaha In 1887 to take employment
with Collins & Petty. and has been con-
tinuously in the real estate business since
lss7.
DR.. William Curry, physician and opti-
can, was born February IS, at GAINESVILLE.
Ind. He is = graduate Of Rush Medical
colleJ
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
TALKING AGAINST PROGRESS.
Constitutional Objections to Postal
Savings Banks.
Chicago News

SAlSaBO NEWS.
senator Raynor Of Maryland evidently
Is one OF those statesmen who believe that
the nation was made for the constitution
not mat the constitution was made for the
nation. He declines to discuss postal saw
ihss banks on their merits. He condemns
the pending Carter bill because he can find
IN the constitution no warrant for the Gre
alton OF savings repositories in connection
with the Postoffice department.
This is the familiar argument that has
oeen urged againste every progressive
movement in the. history of the nation. 1t
was even held by many at one time that
TO save the nation from ACKNOWLEDGMENT
was a frightful violation of the constitution.
Had the argument of senator Rayner been
allowed to prevail the republic long ago
would have died Of dry rot or else it would
have persisted in secession.
There are several grounds on which the
establishment Of, the postal savings sys-
tenn can be justified. 1t should be enough
that the constitution vests in the federal
government the power to establish a post
office system. BY other nations the world
over the postoffice system is used as an
agency for collecting small savings. There
is no good reason why the system should
not take on this same function in the
United States.
The postoffice must be regarded as an
institution Intended to keep abreast of hui
mar progress. ! The money order service,
rural free delivery and other features have
been added from time to time. The inter-
probation placed upon the constitution by
Senator Rayner would oblige the nation
to give UP the money order feature Of the
postal system. This would be absurd.
The spirit of the constitution should be
respected. But the spirit of tina docu-
ment calls for a, postal system embodying
the useful features that nave been made a
part of postal systems in other countries.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
Iaymen,s Missionary Movsment.

To inject business methods into
religion rather than to inject religious
methods into business seems to be the
motto of those who are at the head of
the Laymen's Missionary Movement,
which is covering this country from
one end to the other. In this work
IN effort is evidently being made to
emphasize the manliness of religion
and the practicability of pushing the
missionary movement to a successful
conclusion in the present generation.
The work has met with such general
approval that men from almost every
line of business and professional
activity have become interested.
Conventions are being held in all
parts OF the country and business men
have gathered by the hundreds for the
discussion of missionary methods. In
New York recently $500 business men
attended a missionary banquet. In
Pittsburg, a little later, almost the
same number were gathered together.
In many places all over the country
these conventions are being held with
tremendous success.
One Of the remarkable features of
the movement ia that it is strictly a
mems movement. Bishop Quale, in
speaking of matters kindred to this
topic, recently said: Religion and
preachers in general have been too
ladylike for the last fifty years and 1t
is now time to go to work man fashion
and show the world that the Christian
religion is not something for g man
to be ashamed d."
The success of the missionary work
in all parts Of the world and the num-
Der of stalwart young men engaged in
1t, has demonstrated that there is some
thing in it which the man behind the
desk has not seen. He is being awak-
ened to the possibilities of a great
advancement in civilization by mis-
slonary work and has become an active
factor in II. Only a few years ago the
average young man believed 1t a mark
of intellectual superiority to be skepti-
cal and to regard things religious as
being effeminate and unworthy of
a mar Happily this idea is waning
in these days. The average business
man of today believes in the principles
of religion and Is not avoiding activity
in the different departments Of religi-
Gus work.
An eastern business man has made
the statement that the interest which
the business world is taking in the
missionary work. both home and for
eign, means that in a few years, in
addition to accomplishing great things
in the missionary world, the profession
of the ministry will be made over,
~rejuvenated and made more attractive
by It for young men who. from very
excess of energy and vigor, are looking
for a chance to jump into the thick Of
the fight in the affairs of the world
and accomplish things hitherto con
sidered impossible for the benefit of
mankind.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
Sanitation in the Canal Zone.

One single case of yellow fever has
been reported in the canal zone by the
health authorities at Panama. This
case is that Of an Englishman who had
contracted the disease in a South
American port and had succeeded in
getting past the quarantine officials.
The almost complete elimination OF
THE Fever" from the workers on the
great canal is very gratifying. 1t has
not been many years since this dread
plague was SO common in that district
that n could, with little difficulty,
hunt up a half dozen cases in as many
hours. The prevalence Of health
menacing conditions. Of which this is
but n instance, was a reason ad-
yanced by those who opposed the con-
struction Of the canal and who used
this argument to discourage the push.
ing Of the work. But on the whole the
opposition and the apparent grounds
for this argument inspired caution and
efforts which have checked and we'll
AiSh SNoHlpSu Odl tue uhukST.
This is another case OF American
methods revolutionizing things and
demolishing accepted ideas. That dan
ger from c~ontagion is always threat.
ened in the canal zone has long been
recognized, but the American system
Of sanitation and the crusade against
stagnant mosquito-produclng swamp
more thar met expectations. The pro
lection OF health on the canal was the
one essential to the physical possibility
Of American workmen completing the
project.
Reliable authorities agree that sani-
tary conditions in the American camps
along the canal are as good as they are
right here at home. AS a rule Quaran
tine regulations are better enforced.
the water supply better protected n
a strict military cleanliness observed
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
THE RETURN FROM ELBA.

w. J. hampton in New York Times.
He is coming back from Elba,
from that far-off trOpic shore,
Where the lyre-bird is singing
And where only lions roar.
he went for big game only,
Where the forest monsters roam.
Yet at no time quite forgetting
There was bigger game at home.
REFRAIN.
He Is coming back from Elba
With his sword and mouth and pen.
And you bet, on his arrival,
There'l be something doing then
There's a red fox in the n
There's a era one in the house,
THERE'S q ~porcupine in Kansas,
And a California mouse;
There's a wild cat in Wisconsin,
Indiana holds q Jug
hat is showing signs OF bursting
With a local option bug;
There's a rabbit in Kentucky,
In Ohio there are rats,
And the Illinois belfry
Is oVerrun with bats: -
There's a 'possum In the White HOUSE,
With q cat and dog all round,
And q democratic donkey
hat Is paving up the ground.
REFRAIN.
He is coming back from Elba
with his sword and mouth and pen,
And you bet, on his arrival,
There'll be something doing then.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
RAILROADS AND FORESTS.

Announcement by Clifford PinchOt
Causes Surprise.
New York Tribune's Washington Dispatch.
The statement OF clifford Pinchot, ex-
forester and now president Of the National
Conservation association, contained IN a
circular letter he Issued yesterday Cues
day), that the forest service had entered
into AN understanding with certain rail-
roads to prevent the survey OF railroad
lands within the forest reserves, is the
cause OF amazement to many members Of
congress. These unsurveyed railroad lands,
a~ggregating more than 5000, 600 acres, pay
no taxes so long as they remain unsur-
veyed, this saving to their owners, the
railroads, taxes which would amount to
not less than 100000 a year, and, of course,
depriving the states in which they are
located of that amount OF revenue. Many
Of these lands are understood to belong
to the W~eyerhausers, the chief owners Of
the lumber trust, and one of whom. Fred
erick Weyerhauser, is a vice president OF
the National Forestry association. From
Mr.. Pinchot's statement it appears that
the forest service has been tricked into
such an understanding on the specious
plea that the railroads would some day
accept In lieu OF their lands the right TO
cut an amount of timber equal TO that
standing on their lands. Those familiar
with the conditions insist that the expec-
tation that the railroads viii part with
the title to any land they now own, prac-
tically without compensation, is wholly un-
warranted by the facts or by experience
and that on this specious pretense the
forest service, entirely without warrant
Of Jaw, has entered into an understanding
whereby Il has given 10 the railroads a
g~ratuity Of $500, 900 a year in return for an
absolutely unenforceable assurance that
some day the railroads would relinquish
title TO their lands.