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New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
In a Mining Town

THE same actor tells of early mining town expert
ences, and of one night in particular at a theater
of appreciative audiences. Things he had witnessed
in the town between the time of his arrival and the
opening of the show had calned his Start
ing the long flight of stairs to stage entrance
for the theater was on the second floor, he the
CLEAN of pistol barrel at the head of them The
Street at that moment seemed inviting; he
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25

of my mind as could trying to remember If any OF my
lines that night might have offended them.
There was nothing to do but face it: L am Mr.
Cooper said. have spoken longer lines that were
easier to get out ,e
Zone man took my right arm, another my left, and
we marched off in step, the crowd with u.s. Not word
was spoken. felt that the time had come to cash my
life insurance Down the length of the rink we went
and through doorway. In front of us was counter
seventy or eighty feet long, and over it were being passed
things not called mild.
''Sing out what you want! shouted one OF my es-
corts There's nothing in the house good enough tor
youl' Then the tension lifted.
WELL train pulled out at four-th,rty IN the morn
ing and the crowd STAYED with me. The last saw OF
them they were standing the platform, firing their
pistols in the air goodby Those Westerners are the
biggest hearted fellows in the world.
An Unexpected Chinaman
THERE are other tensions, too Just as uncertain to
face, that come open scene when something IS
wrong and the actor can't locate it.
eve at San Bernardino once, playing one-nght
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
The Cowboys Enthusiasm

FOR real scenic variety, give
L me the cattle town; the min
ing camp pales before it," said
Scott Cooper, whose earlier fly
by-night years yielded generous
experience. "This town was in
Montana. 1t was in the sos,
and l was doing a star part.
The theater was a skating rink,
with canvas walled dressing
rooms. The boys were all there,
with their .44's in their holsters:
1.-The curtain went down, and
I was removing my makeup,
when a knock came on the door.
Outside stood crowd of at least
twenty-six.
"Where's the guy that took
off the bum?' said one of them.
1.-The tone was not reasSurlng-
| recalled a former experience
when a man in the gallery had
threatened to shoot me when, as
Bill Skies, the lines of the piece
made me brutal to Nancy.
In that brief moment OF
waiting l concentrated as much
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
Hard Times in New England

PUT to-day the travelling actor enjoys efete luxury
- compared with the times of which George Wilson,
the veteran tells, when before beginning twentyone
years engagement in Boston, sixteen Of which were at
the museum there he toured the New England circuit,
praying he put it, ''for stormy weather whenever
got Gloucester; for that kept the fishermen home
and gave audience, audience in dripping, odor
Gus oiskns a close room, the tribute of Neptune to
the Muses.
One day his company sailed in clipper for Province
town. Cape Cod with freezing weather and rough sea,
going below to find scan warmth and family of pigs in
the cabin. When the clipper finally hove TO- near IN
shore as possible, a rowboat and transferred
them wagon, driven to the hubs in shallow water
Two trips needed to take all ashore. In enthusiasm
the second lot embarked before the wagon returned and
nearly froze while awaiting it.
If they could see a picture of the landing of those
transformers on the bleak New England coast that
day. it might prove vastly cheering to the present gen.
Grafton of fy-by-nighters.
Those were the times, too, when the town crier of
Nantucket stood corner ringing his bell and an
nouncng the play and the cast for that evening" and the
thespans sometimes appeared in schoohouses the audi
sitting benches, with desks in front of then the
more corpulent being forced to sit sidewse and view the
stage shoulder
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Presidential Persistence.

President Taft seems to have ordered
his administration on the basis Of per.
sistence rather than coercion. The
president is keeping everlastingly at
things, taking conditions as he has
found them. making the most Of them
and accomplishing what he can with
the material on hand and in spite of
existing obstacles or prejudices. He
is not having an easy time Of It, and
will have to work with a good Zeal Of
patience in order to get the desired
work done; but that he will get ac-
complished what he sets out to do is
a ~foregone conclusion.
The disposition has been manifested
in some quarters to criticise Mr.. Taft
because he does not go after things the
way Mr.. Roosevelt did, because he has
not used a big stick on congress, but
has insisted on using his W meth
DDS. The same vote which made Mr..
Taft president, also elected the con
gressmen and some of the senator's, and
they are under the same obligations
to their constituencies that he is.
During the last few weeks there have
been a.number of conferences at the
White House to secure agreement on
pending legislation. President Taft is
primarily of judicial and diplomatic
training, and realizing the varying po-
litical compilations and prejudices ex-
isting among those with whom he has
to deal he is trying to procure harmony
of action rather than spoil the posi-
bility of serving the whole people eff
fectively during his administration.
1t takes time to get things done, es-
pecially when one has to persuade men
with conflicting viewpoints and inter
ests to help do them. 1t is a slow
process under these circumstances,
and that explains why 1t is a slow pro
cess to get legislation through CON
gress. The average citizen is not so
one-sided that he cannot see and APP
preciate the persistence with which
President Taft Is pushing important
measures before the two houses of
congress and the diplomacy with which
he is seeking to bring all elements of
the party together on his legislative
program
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Reinforoing Omaha,s Lesson

The terrible experience which Phil
adelphia is undergoing In it's present
street car strike is a repetition, only
many times multiplied, of what Omaha
had to endure last fall during its street
railway troubles. From all accounts
both sides to the controversy in Phila-
delphia are pursuing practically the
same tactics that were pursued here in
total disregard Of the lives and prop
erty of the combatants and in com
plete defiance of the right of the trav-
cling public and the business commu
nifty to continued and satisfactory
street car service.
The lesson which everyone here
agreed was taught by the Omaha street
car strike was the imperative necessity
Of providing by law some workable
machinery for the adjustment and ad-
judieation of disputes between public
service corporations and their en-
ployes without stopping the wheels of
commerce. The public service corpor-
atoms. and especially the street rail
way companies, enjoy special privil-
eges conferred by the public and as
sumo special responsibilities to the
public, and these responsibilities
should be made to extend we and in
clude the employees of these corpora
tions.
II the people Of our great cities are
10 witness bloodshed and riot and a
breakdown OF public service every time
such a dispute arises between I'M
ployer and employe. conditions Will be-
come u~nbearable. We do not know
what may be done in Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania, but Omaha and Ne
braska. mindful Of its own lesson,
should set the example at the first OPP
portunity by enacting laws for the
compulsory arbitration of all differ
ences between public service corpora
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Really Humorous.

One OF the really humorous Incl
dents Of an otherwise dull season is
the sharp lecture which is read by the
Lincoln Star to the Kearney Times on
Partisan Hypocrisy II Is only a
few months since the Star was shout
ing it's head OF for "nonpartisanship"
and urging republicans to vote for
democrats as a protest against partisan
rule. But here comes the Star, still
wearing It's transparent disguise, and
calls attention to the fact that It is al
ways the minority party that makes
pretense of nonpartlsanship and APP
peals to voters to shake of partisan
shackles. It declares:
In political campaigns up in this country
we find the democrats shouting for nom
partisanship. The voters are appealed to
by numberless orators to show their free
born Americanism by casting aside party
restrictions and voting for the man and not
the party label.
Down In the south, on the other hand,
conditions are exactly. reversed. 1t is the
democratic campaigner who goes out
among the people and pleads for partisan
ship and the republican who breaches the
doctrine Of independence.
Right On the top of this the Star
catches the Kearney Times in the very
act of lauding Governor shallenberger
for being so vigorous in uprooting a
republican party machine, and follow
ing this with an appeal to democrats to
get together and stay together to march
the party on to victory, mo matter
what our personal choice of candidate
happens to be-" All OF which we sub
NIT would ordinarily be very pert and
to the point, but contains a grim hui
NOR when we remember the "nonpar-
tisan' antics of the Star by which it
tried to lure republicans into voting
for democrats last fall.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
PERSONAL NOTES.

&.
Now is the winter of Philadeiphia's dis
content.
French royalists who are poor and too
proud to work for a living evidently do
not consider working the Gould family
as real labor. 1t has been quite easy here
tofore.
The high cost OF living is explained, ac-
eording to a correspondent Of a New York
newspaper, by 1.-THE laziness Of the home
makers" who no longer cook, bake, pickle
and preserve, but buy expensive prepared
foods from the baker and grocer.
On his hnndredth birthday, Joseph TUT
free, a real estate dealer Of Marshalltown,
Pa, was initiated into the Benevolent and
Protective order Of Elks, as a member Of
Marshall lodge, No. 312, and thereby be-
came the oldest Elk in the world.
Reginald Clarence, the well known bib
~liographer Of dramatic data. has been
working for twenty years N a stage
cyrlop dia whish Will con ain a BIB iogra 1hy
OF plays, OF which it has been possible to
find any record, from B. C. 800 to A. ID. 1909.
Governor Hughes delivere the university
day address at the University of Pennsyl-
vania Tuesday and received the degree of
doctor Of laws. This makes him a string
of five OF these honors TO which he is EN-
titled. though four OF a kind is considered
q pretty good hand.
An interesting man, and an important
figure In the political life Of Kansas, has
gone into history with the death of Nat
Barnes OF Kansas City, He was one
OF the two men who chartered a special
train to take Kansas republicans to New
York 10 attend the reception for the
plumed knight in 1884, and was active in
the convention which nominated Blaine for
president.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
MaIiclous use OF the wlreIes..

E|nllauolpnia Record.
The requirement OF federal licenses for
wireless t~elesraphers would be likely to
effectively suppress the amateurs who now
so seriously interfere with the operation Of
official, naval and commercial stations. II
was the original purpose to make an elab-
crate set Of rules regulating the use of the
air for the transmission of electric dis
patches. The commercial and naval sys-
TENS will regulate themselves quite salts
factorily without governmental lnteryen-
ton between them; as for the amateurs,
the revocation of their licenses, coupled
with a small penalty, would suffice to cure
them of the habit of malicious, or merely
f%lippant, interference with governmental
and commercial business.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Prohibiting Secret Divorce.

After a New York court had granted
Mrs. John Jacob Astor a divorce from
her husband the records were Sealed"
for all time. This secret method of
settling domestic troubles of the
wealthy has come into vogue in va
rious parts of the country during the
last two or three decades, by which
the social indiscretions and dissipa-
tons which cause divorce are kept
from the public and hushed up. Such
peculiar care of divorce records per-
tains only to the people of the wealth
Ter classes and to the powerful faml-
lies in the commercial and social CEN
tiers of the world, because favors of
this. Kind are seldom sought by the
families of theF middle and lower
classes, no matter what may be me
conditions. :
A bill has been introduced into the
New York legislature which, If it be-
comes a law, will require. the records
of all divorce, cases In that state to
No puDllCg Jn6 SdAhS Us OGueT court
records. 1t gives the middle classes
what they have always had and re-
quires of those, to whom special privi-
leges have been granted, to submit to
the same treatment. The judge may
clear the court when the evidence is
to be of a peculiarly spicy character,
but the records can not be sealed
nor kept from publicity.
With the bars Of secrecy thrown
down a great difference will be
expected in the divorce records among
the Weather classes of society. AS
a rule 1t is not the thought of family
disruption which make the divorce
court dreaded so much as it is the
fear of publicity and the social penalty
publicity brings with 1t.
The certainty OF a public record
should exert a ssiutary influence on
high society and create a more whole
some respect for domestic felicity and
social standards.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
FORWARD PuIL or uNsuRcBNcY
Governor ShRllenberEer's View of
Republican ProEresaives.

Governor shRIlenberger's View of
Republican Progressive.
Sioux City Tribune.
AT the democratic state banquet at Lin
coin the other day. Governor S-hanenberger
criticized the republican insurgents. He
complained Of them, that they were un-
willing to come over to the democratic
party.
The governor is to be complimented for
the accuracy with which he lnterprets the
insurgent movement. He sees the situation
Just as II Is, Republican insurgency.
whether in congress at Washington or
among the republican voters OF the country
Is not a-golng over to democracy. Insurg-
ency is a change in the breed OF republi-
canism. II means that the party is advan-
cling to higher moral grounds, TO yet UNI
accomplished tasks of government. The So
called insurgency among the republicans
is not a pulling away from the party. not
a pulling down, nor a pulling back, but a
pulling FORWARD. It Is "a forward move
ment toward uncompleted work.
The republican party is like a strone
man who has been a creator and builder
of new enterprises. Such a man always has
on hand something yet unfinished. Some.
thing that still calls out his organizing
energies. No political party is all progress
i've all the time. In any working machine
there is always some part that is wearing
out. Some wheel or bolt or beam that needs
to be replaced with new material.
Chauncey Depew, for example, is old.
He is worn out. He needs to be replaced
with a new man OF more energy and OF
modern ways. Senator Hale is old. HIS
views on the tariff question are fixed and
cannot be revised. The force he exorts is
non-progressive and he should be replaced
with more modern and more progressive
material.
Joe cannon is old. He means better than
his severest critics concede. He has olo
views and should be set aside for q more
modern man.
The house rules are old, They were good
enough for Tom Reed. They were good
enough for Speaker Crisp, the democrat.
They were good enough for Cleveland and
the democratic party. But they are not
good enough for progressive republicanism
now. The republican insurgents in the
lower house did turn for a moment to the
depocracy for help to Gust these old rules,
but they found democracy a broken reed,
a negative quantity, old and flautulent in
its character, incapable of approaching the
sentiment for true representative govern
ment that was animating the republican
insurgents.
Governor Shallenberger is absolutely ac-
curate in his diagnosis Of republican in
surgency. 1t sees nothing in democracy
that lures 1t that way. II Is not now and
will not be a movement toward Governor
Sh%ailtnberger or his party. The progressive
republican voters would no more think Of
turning to democracy for relief from the
conditions against which they protest, than
a progressive farmer, having a modern
reaper out of repair would think of turning
to the old Mccormick harvester he had laid
aside forty years ago, now overgrown with
weeds. rotting in the sun and rain out
there in the back lot
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
ProIectedFAbuae OF Pensions.


It is reported that the senate committee
on pensions has almost decided to urge the
passage at this session Of a pension bill
giving allowances TO soldiers widows
whose marriages were contracted since
June q, 1890. Under the present law the
widow, in order to obtain a pension, must
have married before June a. 1S9O-twenty-
five years afterthe close OF the war. Con-
gress has held that public policy required
some. limitation on the pension rights of
widows OF veterans who marry or re-
marry very late in life. A veteran Of rs
might marry this year a young woman
Of rs. Her pension might easily continue
for fifty years after his death, thus re-
quiring the government to keep alive for
practically a century the personal and
transmissible pension qualifications of a
single individual. That would be N ex-
treme and abnormal burden.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
CoIn for Merry wIdows.
Boston Herald.

Widows Of veterans Of the civil war.
married subsequent to 1890, have been rep
resented by influential promoters OF pen
sion legislation in congress as DESTROYS OF
the same pension rights as widows who
married earlier, Pressure for this add
tion OF 100000 to the annual expenditure
OF the government is said to have become
80 Irresistible" that favoring legislation Is
to be reported in the senate and the house.
The widows are not so much to blame as
the promoters" who trade on the senti-
ment and ~chlvalry OF the American public
to futher legislation from which they get
THAR profits. The deserving pensloner al
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Increasing National Revenue.

view 1Ofk Tribune.
The bureau OF statistics Of the Depart
ment Of Commerce and Labor has just pub
llshed figures showing that Importation
OF duty free merchandise into the United
States in the seven months since the
Payne law went into effect were valued at
$3.50, 1892 more than the duty free i'm
portations for the corresponding seven
months of isOS-Oe. Dutlable imports showed
a gain in value OF S7S, $50. l41. These figures
fully substantiate President Taft's argu-
ments. Will his free trade critics coolly
consider them or continue to dismiss them
as fabricated Ptrumpery?"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
HeIpine Jugged Talent.

Springfield Republican.
A burglar in the Nebraska penitentiary
at Lincoln. has impressed authorities by
his invention Of "a self-balancing aero
plane,'' Of which he has a model in his
cell, and for making which he has been
promised money backing. The board of
pardons have agreed to parole the man
If the district court will designate some
proper person to take charge of the in
ventor while he p~srfects his invention.
This is fine-how much better to help a
burglar TO develop his talents in a differ
emit direction than to soro'o'' all posi-
bilities of honest purpose in Jail.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Relation of Newspapers to Morals.
Philadelphia inquirer.

lhll
1t was suggested in Pittsburg some time
ago that church people stop reading news
papers during Lent. Immediately there
arose a hue and cry whose echo was car
ried all over the country. The suggestion
fell flat because even the most prominent
clergymen ridiculed the idea and laughed
at It as bizarre and fantastic. There was
something decidedly illogical about it, too.
The men who. proposed the denial evil
IDENTIFY overlooked the fact that if a news
paper is not fit to read during Lent it is
not fit to read any other time. That with
the big majority Of papers such is not the
dase was argued by the Rev. Dr.. Randall
OF New York in an address before the Bap-
fist Ministers association in this city.
doctor went even further and upheld
the daily. neYApaper as an aid to morality
in the great cities. Al
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Our Birthday Book
February as. 1910.

Judson Harmon, governor Of Ohio, vas
born February %, 1886. He was attorney
general in Grover Cleveland's cabinet,
and has a full-fledged presidential bee for
the 1912 democratic nomination for presl-
dent.
Jonathan Bourne. jr.. United States
senator from Oregon, is 50. He was born
at New Bedford. Mass, and is one Of the
miiiiohaires Of the Puget Sound country.
He tried 70 mead a movement two years
President Roosevelt.
Herbert A. Doud, cashier in the United
states revenue office. was born February
%, 1853, at Scranton. Pa. He has lived In
since 1881. and was In the life in
suranee business before entering the gov
employment
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
seeklne ono stimnIrnt..

Mr.. William Jennings Bryan wrote an
exciting editorial on the subject OF local
option-addressing It to a meeting Of the
state. democracy OF Nebraska. But the
Nebraska democrats, exercising a local
option In their own way, joked and dlned
and highly resolved, as usual. but paid no
attention TO Mr.. Bryan's message. Mayor
Dahlman OF Omaha says that Mr.. Bryan
is no longer Intoxicating to Nebraska DEM
ocrats. And Governor shallenberger agrees
that they need some other stlmulant. The
local option on Mr.. Bryan seems indeed to
have swept the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23

are saying that n their bill Is only put
through congress can and will quit passing
private pension bnis Furthermore. say the
dollar-a-day people, the enactment Of their
bill would tend 70 %depopuiste the soldiers
homes, national and state, because. as they
say. the veterans who are new cared for
in these homes would. under the dollar-a-
day law, be able to care for themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23

Traffic Manager Stubs does not
want TO say that the large increase in
taxes paid by the Union Pacific in the
last few years represents an increase
in the value Of the property. If he
were perfectly frank he would say that
the difference between what the road
formerly paid in taxes and what it now
pays represents for the most part the
taxes it used to shirk or eyade.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23

Baltimore American.
Another attempt has been made to en-
force Connecticut's blue laws. but the
prosecuting officers have refused to act
against druggists and newsdealers on Sun
day. The intelligence OF the states which
still bear these ancient laws OF intolerance
on their statute books should end these
periodical discussions and a~nnoyances by
taking them off. As they now stand, they
are a legal nuisance. a weapo in the hand
of modern bigotry to stir up feeling and
disoord.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23

Typhoid Mary" is again released,
but under the prohibition not to do
any more cooking. Judging from the
typhoid fever which has followed her,
wherever she has gone, Mary may yet
be called into the swope case in Kan
sas City for expert testimony.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
TELEGRAPH EFFICIENCY.
Improved Service Promised
Merged Companies.

hueAOu NitINAos
Recently acquired control OF the wesley
Union Telegraph company by the American
Telephone company. when Il was consum-
mated, was advertised az prophetic OF ex-
tension OF the area Of service, n az les
sened cost to users. Details OF the plans
which are to max this pledge a fact begin
to appear. and are encouraging. Not only
are the wires to be utilised be~tweeRN4r'i a.
night and early morning Tor transmission
OF night letters at one-fifth present day
rates, to be delivered promptly either by
mail, messenger or telephone, but in the
near future Il Is to become possible for
urban or rural users OF telephones TO use
TO fullest advantage the service Of the
telegraph. II, with this extension Of the
telegraph systems efficiency. through in
terloeking It with the vastly more rami-
fled telephone system, there can go along
with 1t Improvement of the delivery syk
tenn. the public viii have reason for Nbt-
lation. ....