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Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28


The corn for this second test came from
widely separated parts Of the state, and
while, It shows some improvement it con-
firms all previous suspicious that Nebraska
corn must be carefully tested before plant
ing If the farmers expect to get as much
as half a crop this year.
Corn gathered before the frost Of October
1S was shown by the record test to have
better terminating qualities than any gath
cred after the freeze Of that date had
struck It.
Charles Graft Of Bancroft submitted ten
ears gathered october 10. Every ear germin-
ated and but three Of the ten had weak
root systems. The other ten ears submitted
by Mr.. Graft we're picked in January and
the kernels from but one Of these germin-
ated, four were absolutely lifeless, while
two rotted in the tester.
Condition of corn from various stations,
samples from farmers being of one or two
ears from each unless otherwise designated,
is shown as follows:
]. M. Coleman, Wayne; five good, five
weak, some mould.
c. N. Grazing, Anoka; good sprouts and
roots.
August wrickson, Anoka; good sprouts
e. II. Mckay Elgin; weak roots.
H Henkins, Elgin; mould caused corn to
Fred Langdon, Elgin; good roots and
sprouts. .tr
H. Hornbottle, Elgin; weak termination
c. A South, Butte; weak termination.
c. F. Dickinson, Anoka; good roots and
sprouts.
Ed Cook, Colon; weak termination.
Peter F. Peterson, Lindsay; good.
Barney Colligan, Fremont: moulded
Joe Feman, Ainsworth; lifeless, no germ.
Cliff Horney, Beaver Crossing; good.
ination.
Henry Book, David City; weak roots.
C. Lemen, tr., Alnsworth; no good.
Albert Krause, Ainsworth; no good.
Fred Longhorst, David City; no good,
mould.
]. e. Candee Planview; weak.
Ernest Hansen, Dovey; good
Jude Miller, Davenport; very weak.
G. A. Anderson, Waverly; very weak
Chris Stah Ainsworth; weak
Central Granaries company, Chester; one
good out of fourteen ears, one lifeless and
twelve from weak to very weak.
Transmississippi Grain company, twenty
ears of Butcher" corn; nine good strong
ears five absolutely lifeless others weak
and showing some mouId.
Transmississippi Grain company, seven
teen ears yellow corn; two good strong
ears two lifeless, thirteen weak; no ap-
pearance of mould.
G. e. Samuelson, Osceola ten ears; one
good. one absolutely lifeless and eight
Luke Wiles, Plattsmouth, twelve ears;
three lifeless, seven from weak to very
weak.
T. W. Ratzloff, Walton, twelve ears;
seven good, one lifeless, four weak; no
mould.
Ollie Johnson, Plainview; good.
OF the other samples most showed the
corn to be very weak and some of the best
looking corn was absolutely llfeless.
Because Of the great interest aroused
over these tests and the numerous other
samples on hand, the Commercial club will
fill another tester at once and make reports
to those who have submitted samples.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
SECOND POISON Is FOUND
Chemists Discover Second Drug in
Viscera of Colonel Swope.
us IDENTITY NOT DISCLOSED
known ns Mask or ShieId and
Intended 10 Modify symptoms
Produced by strychnine
Poisoning,

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb H.-Dr. Lud-
Wig Hektoen, Dr. Walter Haines and DR.
Victor Vaughn have reported to the Swope
family that another poison was combined
with thc-strychnlue found in the visceras
Of Colonel Thomas H. Swope and Chris
man Swope. JUST what this poison was
is not known. but In the language Of the
scientists such poison is classed as a
mask or a shield"
According to the scientists the poison
was a type that, although it's ultimate ef-
fects are just as deadly as strychnine, yet
has thf power to change the symptoms
OF strychnine poisoning so that the evil
dences Of illness displayed are confusing
in their developments.
This announcement was made here today
by one Of the men who has been promi-
nent I'm tho investigation of the Swope
mystery. Definite information as to the
time Of the finding was refused.
The finding Of the poison which is sup
posed to have been used as mask to
strychnine explains the desire Of the scien-
lists to continue their examinations Of the
viseeras Of Thomas II. and Chrismaa swops
after they had found strychnlne in marked
quantities..
Search for a second poison was insti-
lulNu dIltT l0e bClenllHlS ThO ChTeIully
studied the circumstances surrounding the
death OF Colonel Swope. He did not die
until eight hours after he had taken the
mysterious capsule
"Ynrb" Man Buys POisOns.
Contradictory to the statement of Ches-
sing Hatred Chase Jordan, the dark
skinned "yarb'' man who administered to
the Swope family, J. NJ. Tut formerly a
salesman for a manufacturing chemist of
Kalamazoo Mich, testified today that Jor-
dan at one time had medicine in his office
which contained poison.
Tut said while giving his deposition in
Dr. B. c. Hyde's slander suit, that last
July he sold Jordan 5000 tablets contain
ing among other ingredients three grains
of acetanalide each and 5000 pills, each OF
which contained one-eightieth of a grain
of strychnine
: In giving his deposition in the suit re-
Gently Jordan became indignant when
asked If his medicines contained any
poisons He said he compounded them
from roots and herbs gathered in this
vicinity and imported from foreign coun-
tries. Asked how he knew whether they
were poisonous, he replied:
Il taste them myself and II they don't
hurt me they certainly won't injure my
patients"
Attention was drawn to the white tab
lets and pills Jordan gave to the Swope
family by Mrs. B. C. Hyde, in a state
ment a few days before the arrest of her
husband on a charge of numbering Colonel
Thomas Fl. Swope.
An analysis Of some Of Jordan's concoc-
tiOns labeled ''77'' was made by Walter M
Cross chemist. The analysis showed
the medicine consisted OF alcohol water
sugar and tannc acid.
The grand jury did not finish it's work
today as expected.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEET
ing, The regular annual meeting OF stock
holders In The Bee Publishing company will
be held in the office OF the company In The
Rec building corner nth and Farnam
streets Omaha, Nebraska, on Monday,
March eth, 1910. at 4 o'clock p. m. BY order
81 the president HENRY A. HASKELL.
secretary FebS to MI
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28

The fact that ChAmberiain's-CouGh Rem
edy Is pleasant 70 take has made Il a ia
vorito with mothers everywhere
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
Cruel Mistake

is to neglect a cold or cough. DR.. Kings
New Discovery cures them and prevents
consumption, SOC and S1OO For sale by
Beaton Drug Co
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28

with copy OF contract and free book.
Call or write today, Neal Institute.
1902 s. Tenth St. Omaha. Nebraska
Everything strictly confidential Bank
references chosrfuuy furnished.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
NOTICE or STOCKHOLDERS.
MEETING

NotIce Is hereby given that the regular
annual meeting OF the stockholders OF the
South Platte Land SoIapany, wiz hs held
Nebraska. az II o'clock a. M. on the second
day 0f Mareh \ H.. 1910,
C. II. MORRILL,.
President
A. b. MINOR
Secretary.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28

Walnut Hill Pharmacy 10th ana Cunning.
Saratoga Drug Co, gath and Anes Ave.
J H. Merchant 10th and Howard
Jno. j. Freytag, 1914 North gath street.
The Crissey Pharmacy gath and Lake.
Johnson Drug Co, 24th and Spauding
s. A. Beranek, 1902 South 18th Street.
Chas. h, Lathrop, 1924 North 24th street.
II. L. Pribbenow, 10th and Vinton.
Forest e. FentOn Drug Co.. seth and q
streets, South Omaha. -
Bell Drug Co, Florence, Neb n
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28

There is not the least danger in giving
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to children
as 1t contains no harmful drug.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
NOTICE or STOCKHOLDERS MEET
ING or THE PAFICIC EXPRESS cont

PANY
The stockholders OF the above named
company having failed TO hold their annual
n eeting, notice Is hereby given that l. the
have pUrsuant 10 the bylaws OF said COM
pany. called a uafeting OF the Stockholders
OF said company, to be held at the general
street in the city OF Omaha. state OF Ne
braslta. at II o'clock a. IN. on Monday,
March 2S 1910. for tho election Of drec-
tors and the transaction of such other
business as may come before the meeting
and you are notified that such meeting
will be held at such time and place for
sad purposes. JAMES EGGLESTON
President the Pacific Express Company
Attest: w. H.. Carter, Secretary.
FStoM2s
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
LEGAL NOTICES
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAII
COMPANY

COMPANY.
Notice Is hereby given thai the annual
meoting of the stockholders of The MIS-
souri, Pacific Railway company will be
held at the general office OF the company
in the city OF ST. Louis, Mo, on Tuesday
March s, 1910, at 3 o'clock q. m, for the
election OF thirteen directors for the en-
suing year, and for the transaction OF any
other busihess that may come before said
meeting The annual meeting of the direc-
tors willsbe held AT tho same office on the
sarne day at ~ o'clock noon. The trans
Yer books will be closed on Wednesday
February 3 1910. at o'clock p. m, and Will
be re-opened on Wednesday March ., 1910
FIC RAILWAY COMPANY, BY George J.
Gould President A. II, Calef, Secretary.
New York. Jan. q, 1910. +. 26dlit
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
SECOND SEED TEST BETTER
Slight Improvement Shown in Corn
Quiz Results.
FARMER MUST WATCH CAREFULLY
Grain Used Comes from widely Sep
arated Parts of state, and Though
BETTER Than az First, Empha-
sizes Need of Caution.

The second test Of seed corn made by the
Commercial club OF Omaha shows a slight
Improvement over the first test as~out Of
200 ears, 6s were found strong enough for
planting purposes, or just "a per cent. The
first test of 200 ears shows 271b per cent
strong enough to plant and insure produc-
tlon of normal ears.
OF the 200 ears tested the results were;
Ears tested 200
Number terminating strong with good
Iools %
Number not growing and showing no
signs OF lite. ..............,........,... -
Number alive nut weak, small roots and
bt
Mould appeared badly on kernels from
ears ...,........................ 16
Actual number fit for seed............,... 6S
-
Ears worthless for seed .1S2
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28

By FREDERLC J. HAsKIN
ToAEoBRoW-EUnt ana Fishing.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
MARRIAGE vow

therefore God hath Joined,
w let not man put asunder.
" The words are those of Jesus,
used by him in forbidding divorce.
Christendom ignores the attitude of the
founder of Christianity as to marriage
and divorce. If one may judge by
court reports, it is becoming easier
and easier to obtain a divorce.
And let us remark, with emphasis, in
every divorce case no matter what the
grounds may be, the entire human race
is subjected to shame and modification,
and civilization Is flouted and Knocked
IJndeniably there is a cause for di-
vorce, but the divorce obtained for
this cause should make the divorced a
CRIMINAL, and the Correspond
ENT A CRIMINAL, should impose
terms of Imprisonment on them' and
should forbid them to marry.
Only by most drastic action viii our
country be saved from the social trou-
BILE In which a liberation of the dl-
vorce scandal will surely precipltate
it. Home is the basis of our civiliza-
ton, and Christianity is the home pro-
tector and home defender, forbiddine
infidelity to the marriage vow and the
Industrial exploitation of innocent chill
dren-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
DOES NOT GLASS SMALLPOX
AS DANGEROUS DISEASE

Los ANGELES, Feb. 5.-[Editor
HERALD: Those who advocate compul-
sorry vaccination base it upon these two
premises:
First-That the smallpox epidemic is
very frequent and quite common in
most communities.
Second-That the disease is fearful
one, leaving it's victim with scars and
blind and deaf. If these premises were
true, and if vaccination were found to
be q safeguard against the contagion,
then there would be some reason for
their contention. Now as to the first.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. Very few communities have ever
known anything of the smallpox. Prob
ably in the last year there have not
been more than a dozen places in our
vast country where the epidemic has
prevailed, and I doubt whether there
were a hundred deaths occasioned by
this disease throughout the entire re-
public.
A see by the "Chicago News Alma
nae" that in that city of more than
100000 population, in 1907 there was
only one death by smallpox and in 1908
there was none, and the number of
cases so few that the board of health
in its report did not see fit to report
them.
Now as to the second. That the dis
ease is a fearful one, and leaves
effects deplorable. This is not true,
either. SO we'll is the disease under
stood now and treated that it's VIC
tins scarcely ever die, and as to the
person being marked, it is only when
the victim refuses to submit to the
instruction of his physician, and 1 will
cite single instance that will prove
this.
In the Christian Home orphanage at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, there are over 200
inmates, and vaccination is not per-
mitted. Smallpox succeeded in getting
into the institution. Forty-five had the
disease; not a single one died, and only
one was marked, and that one re-
fused to submit to the requirements of
the physician. And this is, no doubt,
the record everywhere.
Yet in the face of this record compul-
sorry vaccination laws have been made
in most of the states of our Union for
the public schools, colleges and uni
versities, and the people are poisoned
by the wholesale.
MRS. JOHN SOBIESKI
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
GOOD GOVERNMENT

TN OTHER cities the name of Los
Angeles in good government cam
- paigns is one to conJure with.
Applause follows the statement: Ihey
did it in Los Angeles. 1t is the Los An
geles way. We can do 1t here, and
make it our way" Our friends in every
part Of the United States with eager
expectation are waiting to see the Good
Government forces complete their work
and clean up the county and state gov
ernments.
Then, and not till then, will they
seriously consider uniting nationally in
a movement for good government. The
success Of a national Good Government
party depends on the success with
which the citizens of Los Angeles COM
plete the work of eliminating from the
politics of the state the railroad ma
chine which is synonymous with graft,
corruption, Doodle, plot and dishonor.
The complete elimination of this ma
chine means for Los Angeles and for
Southern California an era of unprece-
dented progress and prosperity. The
advancement Of the best interests or
the city, county and state has been at
tended by influences which interfered
with those interests.
Even now, in spite of all the lessons
that have been learned by the arch
conspirator, a system of rates loot in
Greater Los Angeles is being practiced
upon the business men. If they would
send goods to their own seaport
of San Pedro, they must needs stand
and deliver to the railroad a rate which
is higher than the rate for the long
haul across the continent.
The regulation of rates Is one of the
absolute necessities attendant on the
development and good government Of
Los Angeles. Unfair rates, like crooked
government, initiate against the inter-
ests of a city or community; and good
government should be extended to rail-
road rates as well as to every other
branch of the public service.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
SOCIAL STUDY

II URING the past seven years, more
than 70 per cent of the immi-
II grants to the United States have
been southern Italians, Greeks, Hun
garians, Roumanians, Slavs, Bulgar-
ians, Turks, Armenians and Syrians.
Most of these people have come from
a region sometimes called the slum
and sometimes the back kitchen of Eu
rope, and from western Asia. While
we by no means deny they may be
excellent citizens some day, yet during
this and probably the next generation
the southern European and western
Asiatic blood will continue to have
southern European and western Asiatic
characteristics.
It is not right to say these immi-
grants have had no chance in their
own country. Many of them have had
good chances. They are not all victims
of oppression. In the history of the
nations to which they belong there
have been periods of activity. Nay,
some of them hail from the ruins of
shattered republics, that once bulked
betrayed by last of gold.
To such a degree did the corrupting
influence of fortune making seize on
the Hellenic tribes that for many years
the word Greek" in Europe was used
as a synonym for slick thief" We
would not cast any aspersions on any
Greeks, and are well aware the Greeks
are not the hopelessly relapsed nation
many critics believe them to be, but
are plucking up courage and making
progress. At the same time we ad-
duce the disagreeable fact of general
reputation in proof Of the assertion a
disregard for the ethics of labor earn
ings and ownership soon will affect
the morality of an entire nation, and
plunge it in ruin, if not checked.
If the American republic would pre-
serve its nationality and save itself
from a fate like that which befell
Greece and brought upon the land,
once the leader of culture and refine
ment, years of obscurity, slavery and
ignorance, accompanied by a general
moral degradation anu pluhtilS " NA4N
sense of justice and ownership, it MUST
check predatory wealth. 1t MUST
smash trusts and make them impos-
sibIe. 1t MUST return to the first
principles of AmerIcanism. To neg
lect them and to encourage the forces
that eat into the moral fiber of ma
tion is to invite disaster
What! Is this nation any more i'm
mune from evil influences than the old
Hellenic republic?
If the cultured Hellenic republic
could not withstand predatory wealth
and social corruption, how can the
American republic hope to withstand
them? How can it expect, enduring
them, to endure?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
ASSAY OFFICE

~ ENATOR FLINT'S bill for the es-
tablishment of a subtreasury and
~ assay office in Los Angeles is a
recognition of the Importance Of Los
Angeles as a mining and metallurgical
center. The chamber of commerce
long ago recommended an assay office,
which will centralize the great mining
business of the southwest in its nat
ural headquarters, Greater Los An
geles, instead Of allowing it TO straggle
eastward.
An assay office will enable Los An
geles to avail itself of one of its most
obvious opportunities.
The financial development of the
southwest also demands a subtreasury.
The natural tendency of financial op-
erations is to seek in Los Angeles a
metropolitan center or headquarters,
and it is only right adequate govern
mental and metropolitan provision
should be made for the huge volume
of business which has been created by
the energetic industry and plucky per-
severance of the sturdy citizens of the
vast southwest.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
DAVID STARR JORDAN

n r. DAVID STARR JORDAN, pres
ident of Stanford university, in
~ his very plain talk before the
City club yesterday voiced the opinions
Of an intelligent majority of the peo-
pie of the United States on some great
questions of vital moment to this ma
tion. He blamed the tariff for part of
the increase in the cost of living, say
ing it is a legalized method Of trans
ferring money from the pockets OF
people who don't know how to make
good use of it into those of individuals
who can make the most Of it.
DR.. Jordan alluded cannily to land
grabbers and the grabbers of national
resources as men who sometimes get
business and ethics mixed. We might
even go further and say in the en-
thusiasm of business they forget ethics
altogether. These enthusiasts (to
speak of them gingerly) are the fell
lows against whose unchristian en-
deavors Clifford Pinchot attempted to
defend the people of the United States,
and we indorse DR.. Jordan most heart
lily when he said, speaking Of the
Pinchot affair, "It is a nations great
misfortune when a man who has
shown himself to be a true friend of
the people should not be able to go
on with his work.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
REFORM IN CHICAGO

n UR esteemed contemporary, the
ID Chicago Inter Ocean, is engaged
" in a campaign with the object of
accomplishing a political cleaning up
similar to that which was brought
about in Los Angeles by The Herald
The Inter Ocean has been publishing
what it describes as 1.-The record of
dishonor-the record of mercantile
fraud, bribery and corruption-the rec
ord of official grating, sandbaggin
and Decentralization marks the reIa-
tions of the members of the Chicago
coal ring and the mayor Of Chicago,
Fred A. Busse."
The Inter ocean is refreshlngly and
frankly outspollen concerning the city
hall gang.
It says: "The Inter Ocean has pub
lished this summary of the shame and
dishonor that mark the career of the
present mayor of Chicago from the
Wabash saloon until the present day
for the convenience of its readers.
They should cut it'out and file it away
for reference in the days when the up
filters will be trying to persuade them
that Fred A. Busse is an honest man
when some who now fear to speak will
come out into the open and begin to
talk about vindication dinners and the
like-when men who dare not face the
fresh facts will begin not only to eX-
cuse but to justify the present den of
thieves in the city hall"
In it's fight for better Chicago the
Inter Ocean has the best wishes of
Los Angeles Herald. Good government
is an absolute necessity in any city
that wishes to be permanently pros
porous. Rascality in Office is always a
menace to a community. We hope
George Wheeler Hinman and his Inter
ocean will clean out the grafters and
establish good government in Chicago
in the Los Angeles way.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
ASKS WHAT WENT WRONG
WITH THE ELECTION FIGURES

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3.-[Editor
Herald: While appreciating the merit
and usefulness of such articles on the
British elections and political parties as
YOU have given us both in Mr.. Has
llln's column and again in your leader
OF this morning, have to express my
disappointment in the fact that those
of us who follow the British election
news closely have not yet been enabled
to get at the actual numerical results.
You gave us the figures day by day
for Great Britain and for Ireland-so
many Liberals, so many Unionists, so
many Laborites, etc. But when 1T comes
to the finish, when the exact figures
become of paramount interest, your re-
port, instead of giving British totals of
each party, fizzles away into some alb
surd mares nest with the number of
strictly English returns, as though that
told us anything at all without the al
dition of the Welsh and Scottish 1g-
ures. Hone you will clear this up FOR
us. VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06
QUESTIONS IMPORTANCE OF
OUR PORT FoRTlFICATIoNS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5.-[Editor
Herald: The writer has observed
with no little interest the various rea-
sons given for the proposed expen-
diture by our national government Of
SO, ,255, ,269 for the purpose of fortifying
the port of San Pedro. The writer
has also heard the famous Capt. Hob
son tell how necessary it is that this
port of our fair city should be so de-
Tended; but the famous captain only
convinced him of the truth of Josh
Billings sage remark that "Some peo-
pie better not know so much than to
know so many things that are not So"
Again, the writer hereof seriously
asks those who can speak with knowl-
edge and can really prove by state
ments of fact and by the use of sound
logic the real need of spending over
three and One-quarter millions of dol
lars for the purpose stated when so
much better use could be made of
this sum of money. ENQUIRER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-06

New York heard by wireless the
steamer Kentucky was sinking with all
hands 240 miles southeast of Hatteras,
and the nearest government vessels
were ordered to hurry to her aid.
But wireless makes us realize the com
parative helplessness of man in such
case. The bitterness of woe is added
to when victims send through the
ether word of their impending doom.
Hasten the day when swift airships
may be dispatched at lightning speed
to scenes of distant disaster to rescue
the perishing! A Los Angeles inven-
tor has plans for an airship that
could have rescued the entire number
of victims.