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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
TRADE BOOSTERS LINING UP
Are Having Competition in the Terri
tory over Which They Travel.
LINCOLN AND SIOUX CITY
These Two cities Are Sending Rep
resentatives 60 Many of the
Same Towns-Omaha Boost
ers Must Hustle.

Omaha's trade boosters are TO have COM
petition in northeastern Nebraska this
fall. Lincoln has just been out and COW
cred a few of the towns at which the
Omahans will stop ano within a few days
Sioux City will also have traversed a por-
ton OF the Omaha schedule Letters to
the Commercial club indicate that the
people of Nebraska know that Omaha
thusiasm and energy is to be held in re-
boosters come along.
+. j. Hoel and other members of the
advertising committee are having a strenu-
Gus time determining the winner of the
contest for the best schedule submitted. II
has proven a difficult task, but an an
nouncement will be made within a few
days Of the winner or the $95 prize.
Railroad men are manifesting activity
in connection with this trip. General
Manager Walters of the Northwestern
has promised Chairman Hayward OF the
trade excursion committee to accompany
the party, and A. N. Strawbridge. super
intendent OF dining car service on the same
line, has been in Omaha several days going
over with Chairman CARPENTER of the COM
missary committee details Of feeding the
party.
Reservations are coming IN with desir-
able promptitude, but firms who have not
yet named their representative should
hurry to do so and send his photograph to
the Commercial club for use in the trade
excursion official booklet. October 10 is
the last day of sending pictures to the
engraver.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
STORY ON DICK METcALfE
AND FRIENDS LEAKS OUT
John Devine and John Maher Accept
Invitation, Then Get Called.
Down for Smoking.


Two years ago Dick Metcalfe became pos
sessed OF some acreage property near the
Bryan home at Lincoln. On the place was
a small cottage and In charge of it was
personal friend of Metealfe, a man of many
years and full of respect for his chief
John M. Devine in those days was a great
supporter of Bryan (was) and also a friend
of Metcalfe. The same applies to John G.
Maher. So Metcalfe being very proud of
his country estate, even though he was not
living there insisted on his friends in Lin
coin paying him visit. His orders were
that X no one was at home for the visitor
to walk in the house and take possession.
This is what John Devine and John
Maher did. They arrived one Sunday after
noon. They took complete possession and,
expecting Metcalfe Any moment, they
searched the pantry. put out a meal and ate
1t. Then they stretched themselves in easy
chairs and began TO smoke. Colonel
Maher thought 1t would be funny to leave
a nice letter to Metcalfe thanking him for
his hospitality and was In the act of writ
ing the letter when form appeared In the
doorway. In fact, the form filled the door
The form was that of a man. The man
was fully six feet in height; he had long
white whiskers; he was as straight as an
arrow and his first name was Obadiah
He walked in without saying a word. He
was accosted by Colonel Maher:
Anything you want. sir?'
The man answered not until he had
walked into another room and removed his
coat. Then he reappeared He spoke:
II guess when come into my own house
and find strangers here, L don't need IT,
say what l want" His attitude created a
nervous feeling among his unlimited guests
I'VE are friends of Mr.. Metcalfe," chimed
in General Devine, the diplomat, land came
here expecting to meet him. Finding him
not at home we naturally took possession. y
We'll, you may be friends of Mr.. Met.
calfe and you may not. But IL you are
you should have enough respect for him
not to smoke in his house on Sunday. Gel
out"
The two visitors sneaked out of the
house and down the road to the car tracks
And when the housekeeper telephoned the
owner of the occurrence Metcalfe told him
he had done exactly right.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
HILL LINE HAS MORE RECORDS
Runs 2II Days Oat OF the Last '2I4
on Time and Boasts of
the Feat.

Running on time for oil days out of 81,
Is the record advanced by the officials OF
the Burlington railroad for their train
service. From the LIST Of March, 1910, to
the LIST of September. in which this record
had been kept, the fast mail No. Z, OF
this line coming from Chicago has been
In Omaha on time always except twice In
March and once May-May Is.
The Chicago-omaha express also boasts
record since March l. having appeared
late but fourteen days during the period.
The fast mail holding the record has beer
the mail train for twenty-six years and
runs the i94 miles At a speed OF forty and
One-half miles per hour. carrying the mai
from New York as received from the east
ern trains at Chicago
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07

grew stronger, ana within three months
/ was a perfectly we'll woman.
81 want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia (. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Mrs. JOHN G. MoLDAN,
2ll5 Second St., North, Minneapolis,
MINI.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu-
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency of Lydia L. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia Z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound 10 restore their
health.
IfyOu want special advice write
TO Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
SheWill treatyOurl letter as strictly
confidential. For go years She
has been helping sick women In
this way, free of charge. DON'T
hesitate write at QUO
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
Parade Horse
/ nrows Expert
Hugh R. Fitch, Only Real Rough
Rider in Pageant, Suffers Dis
located Hip.

Hugh r. Fitch, an experienced horseman.
is suffering at his home with a dislocated
hip az the result Of an accident TO him
while riding in the electrical parade We'd
nesday night. Used TO bucking bronchos
AND hard. gallopng steeds on the prairies,
Mr.. Fitch met his downfall in freakish
circumstance. while amateurs rode sue
cessfuly through the city.
The horseman was one of those riding
IN front of float No IS. Just as the
pageant was reaching its disbanding point,
stop caused the line to become congested,
and at that moment an automobile fright
sned Mr. Fltchs animal. The horse swung
around I'm small space and keeled over,
failing upon its riders leg. Mr.. Fitch Is
not thought seriously injured.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
Blair Farmer
Killed by Train
on w ay Home
0rville Brown, Driving Home from
Carnival, Receives Injuries
Causing Quick Death.

While driving toward his home near
Blair after a night at the carnival orville
Brown, a farmer, received injuries tina,
caused his death through being struck by
fast passenger train of the Chicago. St
Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha railroad
Wednesday night MIR. Brown was &C
companied by friend. who escaped with
but slight injuries in the accident.
The accident occurred about 100 feet
across the Douglas county line, and 1t Il
unknown in which county the inquest will
be held. Brown was taken while still alive
toward Omaha for treatment, but he died
on the way in, Mr.. Browns wife died
about three years ago. He Is survived by
a small daughter
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
Capt. BOEardus Again HIts Bum,.-Ey,

Capt BoEardus Again Hits BuII's-Eye
This world famous rifle shot who holds
the championship record OF 100 pigeons in
lD consecutive shots is living at Lincoln
A. Recently interviewed, he says: "a
suffered long pme with kldney and blad-
der trouble and used several well known
kidney medicines, all Of which gave me no
relief until ! started taking Foley Kidney
pms. Before used Foley Kidney Pills
had severe backaehes and pains in my
Kidneys with suppression and a cloudy
voidlng. On arising !n the morning would
get dull headaches, Now | have taken
three bottles OF Foley Kidney pills and
feel 100 per cent better 1 am never both.
cred with my kidneys or bladder and
again feel like my own self.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
Digestion ana AsaimIIatIon

II is not the quality OF food taken bur
the amount digested and assimilated that
gives strength and vitality to the systsm.
Chamberlains Stomach and Liver
Tablets inviEorate the stomach and hvor
and enable them to perform their func-
lions naturally. For sale by all druggists
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07

caused q weakness
and broken down
condition of the
system. / read so
much ofwhatLydia
Z. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women L
felt sure it would
help me, and must
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
pains all left me, 1
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
Most wonderful HeaIing.

After suffering many years with sore.
Amos King. Port Byron, ~ Y. was cured
by Bucklen's Arnica salve. 25c. For sale
by Beaton Drug Co.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
BaildinE Permits.

Roman Catholic building board. Fortieth
and Burt cathedral superstructure No 4
$1,000; j. II. Sturgen, FOrty-elght avenue
and Lee~~Hworth cement block dwelling,
uloa
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Mimi was a great
sufferer from female troubles which
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07

Persistent Advertising is the Road tC
Big Returns.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-07
THE LATEST STYLES IN
KNITTING AND CROCHETING
Handsome and inexpensive Sacque.

Here is one Of the most handsome
of the seasons new models in babies
sacques, and possesses the additional
merit of being one Of the most easily
made. -
The fool-killer., 1910-06-01

it, is a full page advertisement of
the daddy of dopes-Coca Cola.
Now isn't that sight for angels
and men? The Coca-Cola COM
pany, Of Atlanta, Ca, has made
millions out of the dope business.
1t adyertises it's great belly-wash
as delicious, refreshing and
harmless" but bigger lie was
never printed. We all know that
Coca-Cola is dope, and that a
dope is dangerous. Like all the
other soft drinks,'' it contains
enough of the fatal drugs to make
an appetite grow, and the more
the appetites grow the more the
business grows. If these popular
drinks were not doped they would
not sell, and nobody knows this
any better than the people who
make them. Every soda-fountain
in the United States is a dope mill,
and if it wasn't it couldn't run.
The dope evil in the United
States is just as great a national
crime as the white slave evil, if
not greater. And yet our great
moral and religious magazines
will cuss out one evil and sell their
space to the other, They will paint
the horrors of white slavery in the
most lurid colors and then in a
full-page advertisement they will
tell you how extremely nice and
altogether lovely it would be to
become a dope-slave.
If you want me to tell you what
makes the difference, can tell you
in a jiffy. The white slave traders
lido not buy full-page advertising
lspace in the magazines at $4,000
a page. The Coca. Cola grafters
lido. That is the difference and the
only difference.
The fool-killer., 1910-06-01
SHE BURNT HIS LEG.

/. Michael Kinsel, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, was the proud possessor of a
wooden leg. 1t was a birthday
present from his wife. Now Mich
ael~loved that wooden leg almost
as we'll as a baby loves Castoria.
The only thing that he loved bet
ter than that wooden leg was old
corn likker. When Michael had
his leg and his likker he was hap
py. His love for the leg was per-
.haps due, in large measure, to the
fact that the leg was useful in
getting to the saloon. In fact,
Michael and the leg marched off
to the booze joint many time
when the good wife thought they
ought to stay at home. And when
Michael pulled the latch string in
the early morning hours wooden
leg or no leg at all was all the
same to him. He was in that
heaven of a drunkard's glory
where legs are only in the way.
The good wife of his bosom
stood it as long as she could. Then
one night when Michael happened
to be at home in the bed, she very
quietly picked up that wooden leg
The fool-killer., 1910-06-01
THEY SANG A LIE.

| went to church last Sunday
and heard the congregation screw
up It's voice to the highest pitch
and sing:
"Take my silver and my gold;
Not mite would I withhold.n
and then when the service was
over l saw poor crippled beggar
go through the crowd and try to
get ten cents to buy a snack to
eat, and he didn't get it. But /
saw several of those consecrated
singers go home smoking ten cent
cigars.
mot mite would I withhold"
-aw, shut up! Such display of
brazen- faced hypocrisy makes me
boil with indignation. They didn' t
mean a word of it, and if an angel
had appeared on the scene and
tried to separate them from their
money, he would have had the
most dickens of scuffle that ever
you saw. They would have pulled
all his wing feathers out and sent
him hopping back to heaven on
crutches.
The fool-killer., 1910-06-01

and placed it on the fire. It was
soon reduced to ashes.
Then the trouble began. Mich
cal indicted his wife for burning
his wooden leg, and she told the
court that she was determined to
keep him away from the saloon if
she had to burn both legs.
Il admire your pluck, Mrs.
Kinsel," said the Judge, ''but I'll
have to bind you over to keep the
peace"
Keep the piece?" yelled Mich
ael. why, there wasn't enough
of it left to make toothpick!"
The fool-killer., 1910-06-01
COCA.C0LA.

Thunder and blazes! But don't
some of these great reform
journals get there with both feet?
Well, l should smile! For instance,
here is the Woman's World, of
Chicago, a magazine which claims
the largest circulation of any pub
lication on earth. 1t pretends to
stand for the moral uplift of its
readers, and it has been simply
tearing its shirt off in its mad
campaign against the white
slave" evil. 1t claims the honor
of starting the present war against
the inhuman traffic in girls-a war
which Rocky d. Oilyfeller, Jr.,
has gone into with his sleeves
rolled up.
All of which is good so. far as it
goes. | give full credit to the
Woman's World for all the good
it has done. But l want you to
turn with me to the outside back
cover page of the June number of
this great bulwark of moral and
civic righteousness, and see what
we will find.
Printed in two colors, with a
great, glaring red border around
The fool-killer., 1910-06-01
A DIRTY DEVIL.

In the course of its daily opera
tons among the foundering fools
of creation The Fool-Killer is
called upon to apply the red-hot
branding-iron to one of the lowest
and meanest specimens Of the hui
man devil that is allowed to live
outside of the sweltering hot
place. Whew! It's a nasty job,
but must sail into it.
I shall not defile these columns
with the name of the human beast,
but if he sees this he will no doubt
recognize his photograph.
In certain town in North Car
olina there lives an aged mother
and her invalid daughter. The
invalid daughter has the misfor-
tune of being the wife of the
nameless nothing patch who is the
text of this sermon. Several
months ago the shameless scallo-
wag hoboed his way into the town
where the widow and daughter
lived. The daughter was not an
invalid then-she was in average
health. So this human beast met
the daughter and began to make
love. The poor woman was cap
tured by his devilish tongue, and
because there seemed to be man
needed about the place, she mar
ried hims on short acquaintance.
She ought to have had more sense,
but she did just what thousands
of other girls have done married
total stranger.
Well, it was only few months
after the marriage that the young
wife got down sick and became
chronic invalid. Don't ask me why
she got sick, You know as much
about that as | do. And any wo-
man who has beast for husband
The fool-killer., 1910-06-01

very likely knows more than either
of us. But let that pass. The
point is, she became an invalid.
And what did this great big
little seed-tick Of a husband do
then? Why, bless your soul, he
boarded with his wife and her
mother until the provisions we're
all eaten up and the necessity of
providing for the family stared
him in the face. Then he packed
his worldly goods in snuf-box
and faded into the landscape. He
simply vamoosed the ranch. In
other words, he skiddooed, leaving
his helpless wife to the mercies of
the world.
AS soon as the dirty dog was
gone, the deserted family received
word that he had treated another
woman the same way not long be-
fore. He had married her in
health, and then left her because
she got down sick. Married again,
and left his second wife for the
same reason. So there are two
poor helpless women living not
many miles apart, both bearing
the name of this nameless wretch,
while he is out in the world trying
to rope in another victim.
Heavens alive! Was there ever
g meaner man? Why, his internal
heart is so black that the charred
cinders of niger rape-fiend
taken from the furnaces of hell
would make a white mark on it.
He ought to be chased into the
penitentiary with brace of blood
hounds, and there compelled to
live on dirt and red-worms and
work sixteen hours day making
white oak paddles to be worn out
over his western hemisphere.
The fool-killer., 1910-06-01
HE ISN'T A GOD.

. AS much as [ admire Theodore
Roosevelt, l am not blind to his
faults. I am not hero-worshiper,
and don't believe in setting any
mortal man up as q god. That
seemsto be what we're trying to do
with Roosevelt. We are about to
forget that he is human, and in
our blind enthusiasm we are try
ing to transform him into deity.
Strange how people will lose
their heads. Roosevelt is indeed
the greatest personality that has
flashed across our horizon in a
century or more, but that is no
excuse for us to get down on our
mortal bellies and make blubber-
ing fools Of ourselves. Let us ad-
mire the man for his many-sided
genius, and let us be proud of him
as the representative of Our
national spirit. But let US hold
up our heads and show to the
world that we, too, are men, and
not fawning idiots. Let Europe
recognize Roosevelt as a typical
American and not as a lonesome
giant who sprang from a race of
Idwarfs.
It will be a pretty pass if. the
outside world gets the idea that
Roosevelt is the only great man
among US. And it is liable to get
that idea if we don't quit acting
the fool.
Let Europe crawl in the dust
and indulge her propensity for
hero-worship all she wants to, but
we can't afford to do it. Every
time we exalt one of our number
to dizzy heights We lower the
standard of the average. If you
magnify the contrast between the
hero and the average man, the
latter's hope of ever being a hero
is.lessened by just that much, and
his ambition gets>a setback.
| So we had better be careful how
we lionize the distinguished Lion
Hunter. Too. much of it may not
be good for him, and it certainly
will not be good for US. Let US
be glad that we have produced
such man, but instead of spend
ing all our time dancing around
him like wild Indians, let us set
ourselves sanely to the task of
producing other men just as great.
| We can do it if we try.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-28
Horrible Condition Of q
Burlington, VT, Family.
Six Persons, q 10 70 Years,
Live Three Years on Garbage.
Too Proud to Beg and DlsdaInIng
To Ask Town for Aid.

Burlington, VT, Feb. 27-DisdaninG
to ask for town aid and too proud to
beg, family Of six persons, three of
them children, for three years has been
living On tiny farm in the outskirts
of this city on garbage which the faith
er of the family, 20 years old, has daily
collected from yards in this city,
ostensibly to feed his pigs"
This was the startling fact revealed
today when the local authorities were
called in to take charge of two insane
middle-aged women, both widows, their
aged father. and three children, a boy
and two girls, aged 4. and IA years
respectively.
To the unspeakable diet upon which
the women. Mrs. Matte Sipples and
Mrs. Emory Leavitt. have subsisted, Is
attributed their present insanity. Both
will be sent to the state asylum for the
insane.
The authorities found revolving con-
ditiors Of squalor and disorder present
in the battered farm house that the
family occupied. Evidence of the most
abject poverty was everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-28
viii Be Demanded NEARLY $1,000,
600 Stolen from Massachusetts
Banks and Towns in Last Six
Months Law MuStbeS Stronger,

Boston, Feb. 27.-With town and
bank stealings approaching $1,000, 600
uncovered within it's borders in six
months. Massachusetts,, in common
with other Eastern states, is beginning
to sit up and wonder whether her
boosted safeguards around the peoples
money are straw or steel.
Coming as it did, hard on the heels
Of the $425,O00 looting of the South
bridge Savings Bank, the discovery,
this week. of the alleged embezzlement
OF 100000 or more from the National
City Bank of Cambridge by a Sl2-a-
week bookkeeper has tended to inten-
sify and already strong demand for
the creation of conditions that shall
make a repetition of the unhappy
events impossible. Doubtless in the
end, the banking and town financial
systems of the state will emerge clad
in more severe armor than ever before.
Suspension Yesterday OF National
Bank Examiner Pepper, who examined
the insolvcnt Cambridge only last De
cenber. had led to Il suspicion of the
part of the depositors that perhaps the
governments system of examination
like that OF the state may not be al
together infalible.
AS a result of the recent peculationS
in Massachusetts, and other states,
more thorough examinations by both
state and federal governments, togeth-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-28
For Release Of VIM, KeI-
|eytrom Federal Prison,
Ambassador Bryce Lays Mat
ter Before State Department.
Canada Claims Kelley Was Ar
rested on New Brunswick Soil.

Woodstock, n. B., Feb. 21.-The re-
cent arrest of William Kelley of
Richmond, n B., and his subsequent
conviction in United States court at
Portland, Me, following which he was
sentenced to a 14-year term in the fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga, for
an assault on an American customs
officer, has been made the subject OF
an International affair.
Correspondence received here shows
that James Bryce, British ambassador
to the United States, has made rep
presentations to Secretary of state
Knox that Kelley was arrested by
American officers on Canadian soil and
forcibly taken across the border TO
Houlton, Me
Ambassador Bryce, it is stated, has
requested kelley's immediate release,
and the matter of damages claimed by
Kelley will be taken up later.
Secretary knoX's reply to Ambassa :
dor Bryce's request is now aWaltev
with interest here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-28

err with the forcing of directors to
ceaseless vigilance by making them
share in the responsibility, may be
asked for. In Massachusetts one of
these demands may be voiced through
bill requiring annual or semi-annual
examinations by an outside expert ac-
countant, in addition to the probe by
the state bank examiner
Because of the thefts at the Cam
bridge bank are said to have been car
ried on by means of personal account
which the bookkeeper had with the
bank, it has been suggested that bank
employees he barred by statute from
opening accounts with their own banks.
of a bill now pending in Congress,
making it a felony to receive deposits
after a bank has become insolvent.
The registration and certifcation of
town loans has been recommended to
the Legislature By Gov. f.. S. Draper,
whose attention was called to the mat
ter By the recent $l,1S5,000 forgeries of
town notes in South birmingham.
Defalcat tons by Tax Collector c. +.
Dadmun in Wellesley and by Tax Col
lector j. H. Maloy of MattaWamkeag,
Me, have led to the suggestion that
the bonds of collectors and town treas
urers be made much higher than at
present.