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Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
PERSONAL NOTES.

An intelligent jury at Cairo. ILL.,, after
looking INTO a recent double lynching made
the return mo innocent man met death"
Mrs. j. r. Harris and Mrs. Narcissa
owen, Indian women, are active in getting
signatures for the national suffrage petit
tion in eastern Oklahoma.
While acting for his father, who was a
night Waterman, a Florida boy Of II killed
two robbers, and when people arrived TO
see what the row was about, was dis
covered looking for more.
Lost to the world, Henry Mulson was
found in Jail by the Marion County,
Ind. grand jury n set free. Forgotten
by his acqaintances and overlooked by the
busy officers, he had been behind the
bars for 14 lays without a chance to
defend himself.
Miss Anna L. Dawes reminds the Spring
field Republican that Mrs. John e. Nc
Flroy Of Albany was hostess Of the White
House in the time Of President Arthur, her
brother. There are three other living ex-
hostesses--Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Cleveland
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
James f. Smith OF California, who Sc
cures a $4,000. life position on the new
Customs board. owes his career to William
u AdA" SHhth went Out W tue FhlilPPhhes
with the volunteer army, decided to stay
there, was appointed a place under the
civil government and. by successive pro-
m~otions-always as a Taft man-reached
the top. He recently rave way to Cameron
Forbes. and on returning to this country
now goes on the new Customs court.
Mr.. Lloyd-George is still making merry
at the expense of those Englishmen who
believed with Lord Roberts and Lord
Charles Beresford) that war is at Eng
lands door. 'They mistake" ne told the
Reading radicals, "the rafting Of the
milkman's ans in the morning for the
jingle Of the spurs of German hussars.
Do our Representatives, great imperial
souls-imagine that one German would
eat three Britshers as If they were
Frankfort sausages?"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
The inaugural Date.

Inasmuch as the committee on the
judiciary has passed favorably upon
the Joint resolution providing for a
change in the inaugural date, 1t Is to
be presumed that technical difficulties
nave beer overcome, putting the matter
souarely before congress While there
may exist a sentimental feeling against
departing from the traditional Fourth
of March, the argument of general well
fare may be urged for the, proposal to
shift to some such day as the fourth
Thursday in April. The original choice
is said to have been based on reference
tn he calendar to strike upon a date
which came less frequently on Sunday
than any other. But the record of in
augurations shows that the weather
man never was consulted.
1t is urged that much sickness and
death has ,.unquestionably resulted
from exposure to the elements during
those treacherous early days of March
in Washington. Last year the condi-
tons we're so bad that Mr., Taft had to
take the oath indoors, the parade
moved through snow, and m%ultitudes
were disappointed. Republican tradi-
lions warrant continuing the inaugu-
ration as a public function and as
national fete, and the change OF date
If II can be legally accomplished,'wouid
be warranted BY humane Teonsidera,
tions. If legal difficulties are insur,
mountable the public function might
be postponed though actual induction
into office remain as now.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
NOT THE NEBRASKA HOODOO.
/ Naval Episode and a GIeeful
ChOrtIe.
Brooklyn Eagle.

N Brooklyn Eagle.
Something like 1000 officers and men on
the battleship Nebraska will chortle in al
most ghoulish glee over the news that the
battleship Georgia has run aground ear
the Norfolk Navy yard. II there's any
hoodoo floating round, 1t is not the Ne
braska's. After the Georgia and the Ne
braska had their little collision a lot Of alb
surd landsmen chartered about the Ne
braska being hoodooed. 1t made glorious
time on its trip north, but even after that
the New York newspapers starred that
mystic hoodoo.
1t was a bit of relief to the Nebraska
fellows when the Georgia had a hole
punched in it's outer hull by the propeller
of the collier Vestal at Hampton Roads
The hoodoo is hers, not ours" was q
natural enough exclamation. The ground
ing Of the Georgia makes assurance doubly
sure. No mysterious powers of evil have
picked the Nebraska for their plaything.
Henceforth it has only to give the Geor-
gia a wide berth and all will be well.
Not that the officers and men on the
Nebraska want anything bad to pursue
a sister ship. Far from 1t. But self-pro-
lection is the first law of nature, and a
mythic hoodoo on a battleship is a prac-
tical and unquestionable disadvantage.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Rounding Up Conpressmsn.

Whether change In the pairing rules
Of the house Of representatives is an
arbitrary invasion of individual rights
of members, as has peer suggested, it
certainly contemplates a rounding up
of the congressman which should make
them responsible and enforce keener
attention to business II It shall have
this result, the public cannot but be
distinctly the gamer, for while much
of the absence from sessions finds the
absentee attending to committee work,
still the popular idea of a congress
mans first duty is that he shall be In
his seat while the work of legislation Is
in progress.
The pairing system cannot we'll be
abolished under any reimbursement of
the rule, but certain ABUSES that have
inevitably grown up in a lax admins
tration of it ought to De eliminated.
With the t~echnicalities of the case the
ordinary citizen hardly cares to con-
Germ himself, but he will be pleased
with any step taken to insure closer
personal attention to duty on the part
of the members.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
"As AIsY AS YOU CAM
Pail Mall Gazette.

III A1lA
a sweetheart that's the merriest boy
in all the County Glare;
His whistles like the blackbird's Lutte In
~springtime's larchwoods fair,
An II I'm troublin any time, BE aisy,
love-" says Dan,
AN IL you can't be aisy, be as aisy as
you can't
He'll up at dawn to find for me the wee
red COW that strays;
His hand will make the butter come on
weary churnin' days,
An when the world seems all awry, b
aisy, love-" says Dan,
IAN II you can't be aisy, be as aisy as
you can't
He's such a way with all the girls, an
when in buckled shoes
He steps the Jig tits many O maid for
partner he might choose,
But tho his smiles for veryone, BE
aisy, love-" say Dan,
IAN If you can't be alsy, be as aisy as
you canl"
Oh, there's no one like my sweetheart all
the way thro' County Clare,
An he says we'll Just be married when
the May bloom scents the air,
An tits life will be all springtime, for
BE aisy, love-" say Dan,
AN II you can't be aisy, be as aisy as
you cant"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
A SENSIBLE DECISION.
Oklahoma Court Brushes Legal Cob
webs Aside.
Louisville Courier-JournaI.

Louisville Courier-JournaI.
TIL Criminal Court OF Appeals OF Okla
homa has set an example for other courts
that is worthy OF the highest oommenda-
tion. In handing down a decision recently
the Oklahoma court said:
Now that our criminal Jurisprudence is
in it's formative period, we are determined
to do all in our power 10 place 1t upon
the broad and sure foundation OF reason
and justice, so that the Innocent may find
1t to be a refuge of defense and protec-
ton, and that the guilty may be convicted,
and taught that 1t is an exceedingly ser
ious and dangerous thing to violate the
laws Of this state"
This decision was rendered in the case
of a man who had been convicted of
murder. On taking an appeal to the higher
court the defendants attorneys set up the
plea that the Indictment wa defective. The
defect in the Indictment, as pointed out
by the attorneys, consisted In the omission
! OF the word the before the words state
OF Oklahoma" The court Of appeals ruled
that this omission was not fatal despite the
fact thai some high legal authorities had
ruled TO the contrary. In affirming the
sentence OF the lower court the higher
tribunal showed a sensible disposition not
to interfere with a righteous verdict be-
cause of a trivial technicallty in the in
dictment.
A mere defect in the wording of an in.
dictment is utterly without bearing on the
guilt or innocence OF the man accused. To
nave ordered a new trial for the defen-
liant on such a flimsy plea as the omission
OF an unlmportant word would have been
absurd. A technicality OF this kind is q
different matter from a technical error OF
the court in the conduct Of a trial. There
is little excuse in law or in common sense
in reversing a case on a so-called defective
indictment where the defect is Of such
small import as to not affect the sense OF
substance Of the allegations.
The Oklahoma court by all means should
continue in its sensible effort to put thu
states criminal jurisprudence upon th'
broad and sure foundation OF reason ant
justice"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

why Not slscken the Pace and Live
LonEerf
INDIANAPOLIS News.

LomEerf
Indianapolis News.
Ten P%ittsburg men, all OF them million
aires. have died within the last few weeks.
Nearly all OF them were what IL known as
"self-made men," who started IN n humble
walk OF life and by their own efforts man
aged to get on to the great ~hiRhway--or
great white way-of wealth. and all Of
them were actively engaged In increasing
their great wealth up to the time OF theii
death, which came suddenly, and In most
cases was untimely. Twenty-Five othors,
whose wealth ranged from 100000 to $780,
600, also died suddenly within about the
same period.
These men had succeeded. They had got
out Of life what they started in to get, but
with growing possessions desire had algo
grown. and they kept on striving for more,
running their physical machinery at high
speed until It broke down lnder the strain,
at a time when It should have been giving
its greatest services to the world-not in
the pillng up OF a greater individual for
tune, but in making the world a better
place as the result of successful expert
ment.
And all over this nervous country Of ours
thousands OF men are following the same
program. They are succeeding mar
velously; they are piling up wealth for
themselves-and their heirs. Some of them
are not doing It in the incest manner, and
others are doing II in a manner that is not
nice at all, to speak of 1t most charitably.
But they are succeeding and success with
them Is the end that ~justifies the means.
And then there are others who are sue
ceedlng by perfectly legitimate methods,
as far as commercial ethics are concerned.
but, nevertheless, they are committing
physiological crimes because they are
wrecking themselves in their efforts, and
are as certain as the Pittsburgers men
toned to pass on to their end long before
they have enjoyed that period OF life which
under normal conditions they would have
a right TO expect.
The making OF much money should not
be the sole end Of man. There are a good
many things in life that are more impor-
tant. Besides, whatever may be his sue
cess, there comes a time when a man
should cease from such vigorous efforts.
To him who has run the machinery very
hard It comes sooner than to him who has
worked more leisurely. II IL not easy to
say when this time comes, because II
varies widely in different individuals, but
IL a man will look back over what he has
done as compared with what the average
man has done, he can get some idea per-
haps of the limit OF his activity. II he has
succeeded greatly, well and good; IL he has
succeeded somewhat, well enough; but
when the time comes 1t must be recognized
or-it will merely be a question Of probat.
ing his will.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Martyrs of Progress.
New York World

New YORK World.
The death Of Leon Delagrange is another
fatiity marking the path Of progress 1t
is world history. that pioneers Of every
sort take their lives in their hands. The
discovery of America, the opening up OF
Africa, the finding of the North Pole, the
lifting Of the veil of Thibet and the con-
quest of the air, all nave added to the
record of the brave men who persisted
in efforts to give their fellow-men greater
knowledge. Delagrange's death is the fifth
in eighteen months among the daring
a~viators who have been making pathways
in the sky, Thrice before, this holder of
the speed records In the air, had been
near death through accidents, yet each
time escaped. Yet the wonder is not that
so many but that so few have been killed
I'm aeroplanes.f 70 81
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

That invitation to Congressman
Hitchcock to appear before the investi-
eating committee and prove up on his
charges against Secretary Ballinger
can hardly be a welcome one. Mr..
Hitchcock made his gallery speech in
the expectation that it would land him
on the investigating committee where
he could sit in judgment and let others
furnish the testimony in the assurance
that he would side "agin the govern.
ment.''
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

The so-called insurgents at Lincoln
are lamenting- hat no commanding
leader has come to the front in Ne
braska who ranks with La Toilette or
Cummins. Leaders usually arise
through the emergency, and If Ne
braska has produced no public man
like La Toilette or Cummins it must
be because political conditions in Ne.
braska are different from those in Wis.
consin and Iowa. Nebraska repub.
licans put through their program OF
legislative reform three years ago un
der the present party leadership and
the job was universally pronounced a
good job at the time, leaving little
more to be done except to hold the fort
and prevent backsliding.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

The State Historical society gener-
ously consents to permit the supreme
court and state library to be housed in
it's new building temporarily should
they be dispossessed by the construc,
ton Of a new state house. The State
Historical library and the state library
ought to be consolidated for purposes
of housing and economical administra.
ton, not temporarily, but permanently
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Ready for the Census.

Millions of the public money will be
spent in compiling the federal census,
and the wise citizen will lend every
possible individual aid to the govern
ment in making the returns accurate
and complete. Under the law the emu
merators are compelled to ask a long
list of questions that to many may
seem impertinent, but it should be
borne in mind that correct answers are
not only compulsory, but also desir-
able, If the vast effort to review the ma
TONS progress is to be consummated.
the time of the census man is short;
he has much work to do in that re-
stricted period, and no matter how
pressed the housewife or business man
may be when the enumerator calls,
other matters ought to be dropped
momentarily so that the filling Of his
records may be efficiently expedited.
1t is a patriotic duty for each individ-
ual to stand up to be counted, to an
swer the specified queries without
hesitation or reservation, and to be
gracious as well as exact. The appeal
of Census Director Durand for cooper
alton along these lines should have
good response.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Secretary Wilson finds that the farmer
is not getting the high prices the consumer
is forced to pay for food stuffs and he
will look into the matter and report.
Will he favor us by organizing a Wiley
squad Of oleomargarine eaters and re-
port IL Is cent rhear-butter Of this order
produces the same sort OF feeling In the
human breast, etc. and IL It yields just
as much fat and heat os 80 cent butter;
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

According to the report of the city
clerk the number of documents and
motions recorded for the city council
during the year Just closed was 6,443.
With twelve councilmen drawing
$1,000 apiece, that makes each motion
cost the taxpayers $3.50. Worth the
money! OF cours
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Lucky that old pairing rule was not
resurrected in congress until now or IL
might have embarrassed our own dem
ocratic congressman when he hiked to
Europe last summer to get away from
voting on the tariff.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

The New England shoe manufactur-
ers conclude that the feet of the people
are growing larger because of extraor-
binary demand for the big sizes. Per
haps the consumers merely want to
get all they can for their money.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
How the Trouble Started.
%Ll..- n--- ~

A Cleveland bank has failed because
it's president loaned too much money to
another concern In which he was inter-
ested and which also has gone to the
wall. When a bank president becomes
deeply interested in something else than
his bank he generally assumes a risk
similar to that which is taken by a mar
ried man who begins to lead a double
life.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

While the date of the presidential
Inauguration may have to be changed
to let more gentle zephyrs blow on par
Elephants and spectators, our governors
will continue to brave the wintry blasts
of a January induction into office.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
who's WhOP
Springfield Republican

HpTIIbII0IN INVpUUIICdI.
Possibly Mr.. Bryan, also, has left the
country for a prolonged tour. in order to
give his successor ample opportunity to
win his way into the democratic leader
ship. Blu who is that successor? Is 1t
the democratic governor of Ohio, Judson
Harmon, himself an eminent lawyer, who
takes sharp issue with Governor Hughes
regarding the income take amendment2
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

DeVillalobar has the satisfaction of
knowing that he is only one OF a process
sion Of Spanish grandees who found the
shirt-sleeved arms OF Washington too
much for them. Remember DeLome.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
'Rah for the Home Product.
Boston Herald.

Oh, well, the East African otocyon YER
gatus isn't SO much. Out in Utah we've got
an excellent framework Of the sauropod
dinosaur and a possible cinch on an Attain
%tosaurus. 'Rah for the home diggers and
diggins!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Mayor Gaynor to Father Knicker-
bocker-Too busy to write. but please
bring on more baskets for the over
flow of my official g%uillotine.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

City Comptroller Lobeck is willing
to accept the democratic nomination
for congress. Not an ONCE with at
tractive .~emoluments has come forth in
fifteen years for which Mr.. Lobeck has
not been willing to sacrifice himself on
almost any paTf ltisks'
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

The passage of an increased army
appropriation bill is bump number one
for the economy plan. How congress
does like to spend money!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Chicago Herald

NHICaBU ItoNOTU-ItUTuIWs
Senator Aldr1ch is credited with a desire
to do something 20 stop the people Of the
middle west from insursing. II might pay
10 bring a few other eastern senators out
here, even at the expense OF the public.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

General Funston is physically a
small man, but he has a military rec
ord quite big enough to enable him to
command the Department Of the Mis-
souri, ap,sfs
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Those who complain about the ar
tificiality OF the dancing set are re-
minded that there is nothing artificial
about the Virginia reel.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Partisan Jealousy.
Brooklyn Eagle.

One democratic representative in congress
has distinguished himself by attacking the
appropriation for presidential greenhouses.
The flowers OF rhetoric are Jealous of all
rivals.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Looking Upward.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
As Mr.. Bryan says, it is too early to
think about a nominee in 1919. II heaven
means us to win, heaven will raise us up a
nominee in due season.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Those Brookiynftes who were swim
died by a bogus vaccination health
board have a right to feel sore-also a
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

II seems that during the Boston
campaign. storrow GOT the ovations,
but at the polls Fitzgerald got the
o'votes.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

1t is up to the old Missouri to pre-
pare I'm advance for a safe and sane
spring thaw.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Dear Alfonso: For our Marquis
Vaudeville, thanks! And who is the
next headliner?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

DR.. Hirsch- a Mrs. Eddy's teach
ings are ancient. What a shame to ex-
pose a Iady's age!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
SUNNY GEMS.

You have a fine house md piece Of
ground herel' V
"Yepl Made 1t all with my pen"
"Writing7'
Nope; plg."-Judge's Library.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

II "pogonip" can stand the Pitts
burg air, the Pittsburg air ought to
be able to stand "~pogonIp."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Subscriber leaving the city tenn
DOrarily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will he
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
srATEMENr OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State % Nebraska, Douglas County. IS:
George b. Tzschuck, treasurer OF The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, says that the actual number OF tull
and cpmpiete scoples of The Daily, Morn
ING. Evening and Sunday Bee printed dur
ing the month Of December, 1909. was as
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

OF course, acknowledgment that the
churches are aided by printers ink is
only giving the devil his due.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Bankers and Taft

-Four Nebraska Financisrs Ten
what They Think Of PRESIDENT
Tart and MS Administration.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

The steel dinner at 500 a plate
makes one fear that the armor plate
magnates partook of some real food.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Funny, Isn't II. how malcontent re-
publicaag hsreSip Omaha always seek
publicity through the local democratic
riga
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Is the bieached flour that which was
born to blush unseen?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

At the rate the staple is going up,
cotton goods will soon DE under sus-
picion OF wooden ~adulteration.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

"Nutbrown comet, n o hast a slen-
der, slender tail,'' would afford a
timely chorus for the star-gazefs.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

These icy sidewalks are great fol
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

General Weyler's book, my Rule
in Cuba" fflis four volumes Must con-
tain a roster of his b~utcheries.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Back to the Back Bay for Mr.. stor-
row, oh, sorrowl
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Wonder II Boston has carried the
news to Lincoln steffens and Norman
Hapgood. tss
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

The Omaha bankers express their views
as follows:
MY belief IL that Mr.. Taft's tou has
distinctly Increased his popularity In a
general way throughout the country.
II believe that wherever ne goes he
makes a good impression, generally speak
ing, and in spite of the winona speech and
the Ballinger case, he would carry this
state against Bryan today.
80 far as / nm concerned, I long for
noisy Teddy back on the Job, and to me
personally the Ballinger case is very dis,
tressing and has subtracted greatly frcm
my opinion Of Mr.. Taft. The only comfort
1 can find In it at all is that whoever oc-
cupies so big a place must make some mis-
takes"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Uncle Sam wants tho nations to APP
preciate that he stands equally ready
to be either pacemaker or peacemaker.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Chicago. without its loop, should
look like a good-sized town.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Opportunity may knock but once,
but the rest Of the members of that
club knock early and often.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

"He doesn't believe in wearing things Tor
show. That's the reason he made Dolly a
Christmas present of a pair Of gdrters."
"Umphl He doesn't know Dolly,"-New
York Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

The fatal SNOWFALL has the arena
where erst was fatal foot ball.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

The ioy sldewalk IS the great leveIer:
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13

Assuming that bankers are In touch with
public sentiment on President Taft and his
administration, the Boston Transcript So
licited the views Of the leading bankers In
the real center Of political pOwer-the
west-where men and their acts are viewed
less critically and more broadly, than in
the eastern cities, with their pessimistc
s%qLint.' The result OF the inquiry is pub
lished by the Transcript without attempt
Ing to summarize or classify. No names
are given. In the Nebraska division the
views OF two omaha oankers are given,
one Lincoln banke and one rural ban
ker."