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Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Governor Shallenberger has made
a new appointment to I'LL the vacancy
on the board which has the manage
ment of the state schools for the deaf
and for the blind. 1t is to be noted.
however, that the new appointee is
said to have good democratic antece-
dents and keeps the membership of
the board wholly democratic. The
cry Of nonpsrtisanship emanates from
democratic sources only when it can
be used to get a place occupied by q
republican vacated in favor Of a dem
ocrat.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
PERSONAL NOTES.


Il Is said that Miss Lillian Russell 70.
Nuts taking her initial vision q me
Iowa landscape In. lSCj" That l. a good
ripe age for a lily that has brayed so many
storms.
The policemen in berkeley. Cal, have
formed al Antl-Profanlty league, and
every time one swears he drops a dim 3
into a tin cup at headquarters. the mones
going TO a fund for disabled officers.
one Black Hand person has Just beer
sentenced TO twenty-five years In prison.
The judge imposed the sentence With reh'
greet, but It seems there was no s.atutN
under which the fellow could he hanged.
A Chicago observer notes. by way Of
proving the city's -pre-eminenoe as a winter
resort, that birds are often Obliged to
hold up each foot alternately under their
feathers for warmth" on. you lake breesci
A Pittsburg preacher aeelares that couples
cannot be safely married with less than
5000 a year income. Poverty leads to
divorces" he adds as q ohincher. And
riches. where do they lead? Read the 4
Fittsburg papers.
The French arc said to have the best
bridge engineers In the world II speaks
loudly for their capacity In this line OF
work that not one Of the score or more Of
bridges over the Seine at Paris has been
materially damages by, the great flood
General Knox's family carriage" re-
ports the Boston Transcript, has seen the
deaoon's one-horse shay and gone IL many
/ years better. Built in Boston before the
revolution, It carried General Knox. who
died in 1906, about his great Maine estate
which was almost a principally. and now
conveys no less a parsonage than the chair
man OF the selectmen Of Thomaston."
The Ringing Bros, dominant in the
circus arena, are reported in Baraboo,
Wis, to have divided $1,000. 900 as profits
OF the season of 1909. 100000 OF which
represented the profits OF the Barnum &
Bailey show, and the balance the net earn
ings of the Ringing Bros. show. This
| year the Adam Forepaugh-Sells Bros. show
will be added TO the above, making then
record circus combination in this country.
When Old Opportunity, led by Dan Cupid,
thrilled the palpitator Of a divorced church
organlst at Franklin, Pa, three years ago,
the visitors found the young woman wide
awake and ripe for a good thing. The man
was middle-aged, rich and so easy. \ wed
ding followed, also a honeymoon that was
a hummer. Now the old man. weary Of
the pace. sohs aloud and tells all PittsburE
that the organist that was played him for
10000. What hurts him most is a demand
f0f 100000 more and marital freedom. The
latter he. is ready, nay, anxious, to grant,
but the money-not until the courts coax
the coin,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
FooIiahnenn OF q Inv.
Boston Herald.

Six hundred American eycursionists, re-
tcrning home from a trip around the world
in a chartered steamer of foreign registry
were liable to heavy fines when they
landed at San Francisco Monday instead
OF landing at some Canadian or Mexican
port and entering the United States by rail
The Treasury department at Washington
agreed not to press The individual fines
but invited the steamship owners to accept
a $1,000 fine for the purpose Of demonstrat
ing the foolishness of the law, 1t would
be worth a few thousands to the country
IL some other foollshness in our navigation
laws could be demonstrated at the sam
time. s. .rtt..
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
Regulating Transaction in Futures.

Regulating Transaction in Futures.
A memorandum report by Commits.
sioner OF Corporations Herbert Knox
Smith submitted 20 the president EN-
phasises anew the complications in.
yolved in the regulation OF transsc
tions In futures for the purpose of
eliminating the evils of speculation.
As disclosed by official investigation
there are practically FIVE classes Of
such transactions in farm commodi-
ties. enumerated as follows:
1. Spot transactions, where the COM
modify lie delivered at the time OF sale.
2. Intended delivery" future tronsac-
tons. where the contract is for future
delivery. but where delivery is intended
and expected.
3. Bucket shop transactions, where
there Is no obligation compelling either
delivery or receipt, and where delivery is
neither intended nor expected.
T. Hedging" transactions This is an
obligatory contract for future delivery, the
main purpose OF which is to relieve the
hedger Of speculative risk. As a rule
neither party expects delivery or receipt.
g. Speculation" where neither party In
tends to deliver or receive, but where the
contract is made on a regular exchange,
the rules OF which make delivery and re-
ceipt obligatory II demanded.
Commissioner Smith concludes that
the FIRST three classes need little dis
cussion, because there can be no great
difference Of opinion about them. sale
for delivery being legitimate, and
bucket shop deals being indefensible.
Hedging" he regards as much in the
nature of insurance Of risk, and not
necessarily Objectionable, while what
is termed speculation" may be harm
full or harmless, according to the pur-
pose in view and the influence exer-
cised. The more any n studies the
entire scope of transactions in futures
the more apt he is to reach the same
conclusion that Commissioner Smith
reaches, namely, that to distinguish by
general rule between Legitimate and
illegitimate operations is really i'm
practicable, and that the most effective
restraint can, and should, come from
the exchange, or board, on which the
trading is done by the enforcement
OF strict rules against fragrant offend
ers.
Every produce exchange or board
of trade is doubtless subject to raids
by INSCRIPTIONS and reckless specu-
lators, but no ~plundering operations
can get a foothold without being
known to those in control, who have
it within their power to apply the
remedies. Vigilance on the part OF
the managers or governors of the ex'
changes can make speculative raidf
Improbable without interfering with
legitimate trading, whereas it is doubt
full whether the enforcement OF any
hard and-fast rule is feasible, because
it is impossible to draw a sharp line
between the various kinds of trans
actions in futures.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
BACK no THE FARM.
Conditions that Make for the Higher
Life.
Philadelphia Press.

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Philadelphia Press.
While the farmer may be getting only g
small fraction of the increased price OF
food he is getting some of 1t, and If prices
remain high he is certain to demand a
large share. For some years past farmers
generally have been getting more for their
produce that formerly, and If the present
high prices did not go so largely to middle
the farmers would soon be on easy
street. There is generally some good in
conditions otherwise evil, and IL the high
price of food strengthens the food pro-
ducers and increases their number it will be
to that extent a good thing for the coun-
try.
The tendency to desert the farm has
been a source of complaint and regret for
many years. The farmer boys would not
continue their fathers work. Farm life
was voted lonely and farming wearisome,
continuous and insuffieiently remunerative
Better roads and rural telephone service
nave made farmers homes seem less dis
tant from each other and farm life more
neighborly and sociable. II the profits OF
the farm increase permanently we shall see
In all probability that the exodus from the
country will cease and back to the farm
become a popular principle of action.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
Our Birthday Book
February 2, 1910.

Robert r. Gamble, United States senator
from South Dakota, was born February
7, 1851. at Akron. N. Y. He served in the
lower house two terms, and lives at Yank-
ton when he is at home.
Robert b. MantelI, the popular actor who
played in Omaha a few weeks ago, is Sc.
HI was born in Scotland.
Francis Wilson, the comedian, is also
Sc today. He was born in Philadelphia.
Claude F. Howell, traffic manager for
Armour g. Co., OF South Omaha, was born
February 7, 1880 at Appleton City, Mo. He
was with the Armour establishment in
Chicago before he was transferred TO South
Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
SONS OF FORTUNE.
saturday Evening Post.

Saturday Evening Post.
Coloney Mammon has a chest
OF securities the best,
Ram-Jammed full as II can be-
U. s. s. n NJ. o. p
stocks and bondsRtis running DER
With this Fortunatus store.
But, alas, he has no hair!
l have locks, ands some. 10 spare.
Major Croesus has untold
Barrels full OF minted gold,
Owns rich ain OF tin and coal
Whence uncounted dollars roll;
Half a million every day.
But he has no appetltel
Mine is always keen and bright.
Mr.. Midas has a touch
That enriches Midas much.
Everything he handles turns
Into that which labor earns
For the men OF lesser kind
That upon the way we find;
But his stomach's in dry dock!
Mines al solid as a rock.
Brother Dives owns a town,
He's a landlord Of renown;
Owns no end of tenements,
With a steady stream of rents;
Also, mortgages galore,
But he Is q bachelor!
He's no fender built for two
Lik he hearth I'll show TO you.
Poor old Midas, with your touch!
Poor old Mammon, with your clutchl
Poor old CrOesus with your rolls
Gathered from your wealth of GOALS!
Poor old Dives, lonely hours,
Homeless spite of all your powers!
Sons of Fortune, how would we
Like to swap with such as me
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
Msrring the Lxpress COmpanies.

49,"
Several moves on the industrial
c~hessboard give ground for the sus-
piclon that something is afoot in the
nature of. q contemplated merger of
the big express companies, either by
direct consolidation OF by a COM
munity of interest plan. The success
sion of the American Express company
to the contract privileges Of the Pa
cinc Express company on the Union
Pacific and the purchase by the Amer
lean Of the Southern Pacifc's holdings
of stock in the Wells Fargo company
is taken TO mean amalgamation Of the
American and the Wells Fargo com
pany and the crowding out of the Pa
clhc from the lines belonging TO what
is known as the Hartman system.
whether there is any compromising
feature Of which the Pacific will have
the benefit is not yet disclosed, but
when It Is recalled that the Union Pa
cihc formerly held. II It does not now
hold, 40 per zen of the Pacific Elk.
press cOmpany's stock IL is natural to
infer that the Pacific company has
been taken care Of, or that the terms
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
Satisfactory Condition of Banks.
- ~ d" oNt1adainh1o Dacord

According to the controller Of the cur
rency, Mr.. Murray, there is practically not
a national bank in the country whose con-
dition can be regarded as unsatisfactory
This is a large claim, and If true 1t testi-
files strongly to the effectiveness of the
present controllers vigorous reform work.
Usually that office has a long list of sickly
banks requiring special attention and prod
ding to keep or bring them within the line
Of safety and ~soundness, II Mr. Murray
has succeeded in cleaning up that list he
has done wonders, and we shall hear less
criticism in banking circles of his sharp
measures to hold national bank directors
more closely to their duties of direction.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
One Of the Few ReGignations.

Senator Fountain. L. Thompson Of North
Dakota has astonished the country by re-
signing on account of i'll health. Many
senator's die. but few resign unless they
feel, like Hon. o G. Spooner, that they
cannot afford the financial sacrifices at
tendant on remaining in public life. Mr..
Edmunds. 1t is ,trueuieft the senate about
fifteen years ~ because his health was
poor, but his retirement occasioned much
surprise, n incidentally, he is enjoying a
hale old age, Mr.. Thompson's withdrawal
is the more unusual because he is serving
by appointment, and would probably have
been displaced by this time next year.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
LamentabIe Lack Of safety.
st. Paul Dispatch.

o. FdUI UIspdICI'
In no way does it mend matters and
restore the victims TO ascertain hat a
mine horror was caused by this mans error
or the breaking OF that rule, unless this in
formation shall tend to lessen the number
of such accidents in the future. With the
material progress we are making along all
lines, It does seem lamentable that en-
cheering science has not given us the
method of making mining more safe. rob-
bling It OF the monthly horror Of terrible
loss Of life.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

The Bryan club of Lincoln has a
%pretentious program of demands. 1t
started out with only one object in
view-to procure a lease on the White
House for it's namesake-but having
fallen down there It has apparently
evolved several second thoughts.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
what we Arc Coming TO.
Roston Globe

II the meat strike is successful some day
II g Happy time will come when the price
of meat viii be reduced to within the
bounds of reason, and then we may all
look in the list of foreign words and phras IS
in the back of the Zig dictionary. and say,
with more or less variety of %pronuncia-
ton: "Revenons a nos mouter s!''
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Grim death seems to be stalking
about members OF the present congress
with unusual frequency, If this keeps
up. a member of the senate or Of the
house of representatives will soon be
below grade as a life insurance risk.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

But, Antoine said the head Of the es-
Enlistment, quoted by the Chicago Tri-
bune, 1--WE v got to economize on steaks.
We can't afford the expensive cuts any
more. BY taking extra pains in cooking
you can make the cheaper cuts just as
toothsome. ant your"
The chef said nothing. III merely
shrugged his shoulders.
The packers, you know. say the cheaper
cuts are as good as the more expensive
ones. They tell the truth when they say
that, don they2"
Again the chef said nothing.
But he shrugged his shoulders.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

The Indiana judge who made COM
pulsory attendance at church part Of
the penalty imposed for violating the
Sunday laws has come in for a general
scoring. The judge ought TO know
that compulsory attendance at church
sets a bad example.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

at Washington to look after the appro-
priation for Missouri river improve
ments. Omaha Is doing nothing. We
thought Omaha had a member Of con
gress drawing $500 a year and per
quisites to look after these matters.
Does the world-Herald mean to say
that IA congressman is not equal to
the lob?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

That democratic valentine party is
to be held at Lincoln nothwithstand-
ing the fact the democratic state head
quarters are supposed 10 be at Colum-
bus, Here's where Columbus has a
right to think Il has a Kick coming.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
Commercial Club Activities.

The Commercial club committees
for the ensuing year have been an
nounced, and on paper the m con-
stituting the various committees APP
pear to be equal to any and all require
ments that may be made upon them.
The membership OF the committees, to
be sure, is not new, but principally re-
appointments, and yet of the long list
only a few Of them have yer shown
any noticeable activity.
The Commercial club is pursuing
certain lines of work with energy and
success, but it could make itself much
more useful to the business commu-
nifty IL it would cover the entire field
In the same way. Simply to appoint
do-nothing committees and placard
their names in the official roster is too
much like having plans drawn for a
ten-story building and then erecting a
two-story structure on it's site. The
Commercial club ought to have o
membership Of 1900 to 1900, and
ought to be doing something worth
mentioning all the time.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

If Governor shallenberger should
finally decide to try for the senator
ship, wouldn't that fellow Maupin be
in between 'em, drawing n salary as
deputy labor commissioner by grace
OF the, governor and another as en-
ploye Of the Commoner by the grace
of Bryan and MetcalfeZ
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

City hall officials do not like the
suggestion that they stay OF their jobs
Saturday afternoons to accommodate
people who may have public business
to transact. II someone wants to be
popular in the city hall he will propose
a half holiday every day.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

When people. build skyscrapers they
will have accidents, and Omaha, un-
fortunately, is proving no exception to
the rule.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

oklahoma's accent fare law has been
hung up in the courts. Take notice
that the 2-eent fare law given Ne
braska by our last republican legis-
lature is still doing business at the old
stand
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Kern Is getting himself interviewed,
Tom Tibbies is writing letters to the
newspapers and Adlai is publishing a
book, It's hard for statesmen to be
reconciled to political eclipse.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

The success OF the grain market es-
tablished in Omaha spells success for
any legitimate enterprise that may be
located here to transform the grain as
the raw material into a more finished
product. omaha ought 10 be. and
will some day be, a great milling
center.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
aone-afth Of the husbands salary 4

"One-hfth OF the husbands salary is
wasted by the average wife through
ignorance OF what n how to buy
when she goes to market" declares a
University OF Michigan professor. The
University OF Michigan must be trying
to compete with the University of
Chicago. which has heretofore mo-
nopoliSed most Of the limelight.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

1t seems that the insurgents at
Washington refuse TO recognize Sena-
tor Elkins as the real thing unless the
brand is first blown in the bottle and
burned In the cork.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Some bankers who suspended specie
payments for three months are mort
ally afraid Uncle Sam might not be
able to pay postal savings bank de-
positors on demand.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Governor Marshall OF Indiana went
into Office on the liquor issue, and
now wants to stay in office by exclud-
ing the liquor issue from the next
campaign. Nothing like playing them
both ways.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

If the number of arrests in Omaha
shows a temporary increase, charge 1t
up to the temptations offered by those
new police patrol autos that look so
comfortable and inviting.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Time will have to be called pretty
soon on claimants for that train rob
berry reward money without waiting
for the statute Of limitations.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
Pocket Nerve Touched.

The magazine editors appear finally TO
have discovered a rank odor about the
Postoffice department, Notwithstanding the
fact that II seems 10 have escaped their
attention heretofore. The wind has
changes
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

T%estifying in an interstate COM
merce investigation IN New York, the
vice president of the American Express
company admits that express charges
are higher in the west than in the
east, and that those of his company
are higher in Nebraska than those of
other companies, That did not prevent
the express companies, however, from
setting up a poverty plea against the
recent reduction of express rates in
Nebraska or trying to make out that
they were doing business at a loss and
would have their property confscated
IL required to charge less.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Philadelphia Record.
VIII some other people please go back
to the farm and raise crops and critters
20 that the rest of us who would rather
stay in town can get food at lower prices?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

If Mr.. CLAWS refrains from seeking
vindication by running for Office some
where he will be showing still further
exceptional traits. y
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

That comet will have to take the
blame for a whole lot of things that
may go wrong In the household
economy of Mother Nature.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Subscribers leaving the city tcna-
POrnrily should have The Dee
mailed TO them. Address. will be
changed as often a. r~eaueHted.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
PASSING P~LEAsANTRTEs.

Il wonder that auctioneers can be as a
rule such cheerful and jockey kind of
men,"
VIII shouldn't they be?"
Il should think the nature of their oc-
cupation would make them of a morbid
tendency. "-Baltimore American. ~
You have said you would do anything to
prove your love for me-"
"Yes-only put me to the test"
please ask mamma for the next dance.
She hasn't waltzed for twenty years and
Is dying to try it agaiD."-Chicago Record
Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Henrietta said Mr.. Pembroke, quoted
by the Chicago Reeord-Herald, you've got
to cut down on our living expenses. We
can't afford 1t. Here you have bacon and
~eggs-both very expensive luxuries-to say
nothing of real cream for the coffee and
maple strip for the pancakes
"Well, dear, we can't live on air." Mrs.
Pembroke replied.
IT know we can't live on air, but we can
live on less expensive things than you've
got heaped up on the table here this morn
ing. 1 told you / was to attend the lunch
con which is to be given today I'm honor of
Mr.. Snlgglsey, who has just been appointed
Consul at Stuttgart, dldn't 1? will
cost ne SO. And tonight I'm to go to the
banquet of the Herkimer County society
which Is to cost Sc a plate. / could have
worried along very well without any break
fast at all. You ought to think Of these
things"
II do think of them; but the children are
growing, and they must have wholesome
food. Do you expect to attend a banuqet
or anything tomorrow"
Eyes. The Mohawk Marching club has
its annual dinner tomorrow night. That
will cost me 81 more. You simply must cut
down, somehow. And on the following
evening there is to be the installation OF
the newly elected officers of the Cy .Yipps.
That will take another five-spot. How do
you suppose I'm going to be able to stand
1t II you keep on spending money for stuff
to eat here at home the way you do? Cut
down, for heavens sake. Don't mind me,
l can get along with a little inexpensive
Cruel, ! shoul think you'd exercise some
judgment"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

The wireless operator on the steam.
ship Kentucky is entitled to a Carnegie
hero medal, and then some.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

What's this? Leading lights of the
Lincoln insurgents b%anqueting with a
bunch of high Burlington railway off,
Gals? Unbelievable!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
An Inference.

Now 1OIk TObI'
If 1t is true that among the Druids the
egg was the symbol Of eternity, 1t presup-
poses a system of cold storage superior
even to our own.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

The World-Herald finds fault be-
cause. while Kansas City has a com
mittee Of business men on the ground
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

A Gridiron performance without a
Roosevelt stunt would not pass as the
real thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

A tip for Omaha's postmaster: Chi
cago has just had a hundred letter car
riers added to its postoflce force.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

1NIOINIH ID INDOIIUNIhl
~ Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before rue this S1st day OF January, 1910.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

SO she sued him for breach of promise?'k
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne. 'TuH
afraid the get-rtch-quick spirit is becom-
ing very general People don't seem Will
ing to wait for alimony.' '-Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Il wouldn't use that horse for hunting
II l were you. He is entirely too sensl-
tive
Then he'll be ali the quicker to a
a fence. Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

IN No, -, didn't you?'
Yes" tF9 fH
Make a successful job of it2"
10 Ne, 4 didn't. The operation was .disgust
slightest danger at any time. The elaborate
preparations l. had made for handling a
critical case were wholly wasted. Chi
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

Othello's slumbering jealousy had just
been aroused by the i~nsinuating Iago.
"Confound it ALL" he cried. Now I'll
have to go to the expense OF hiring a
private detective to wori up evidence, and
then very likely be obliged to hear a
my love MISUNDERSTANDING Plain Dealer.