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Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
A Public Defender.

Douglas county last year paid out
&3,745 as fees to lawyers defending
INDECENT criminals in the district court.
At present the judge who happens to
be presiding over that particular
division appoints some lawyer to de-
fend the prisoner whenever application
is made in due form, setting forth that
the accused is unableNto hire his own
legal adviser. The result is that this
$3,745 makes a nice little pot which
is cut up in chunks, ranging from $25
to 500 each, and distributed by the
criminal court judge among his friends
at the bar, which favors are supposed
to be duly appreciated and recipro-
Gated.
1t seems to us tbat this is a rather
costly luxury for our taxpayers to in
dulge, particularly as it is done with
out their knowledge and with only
their tacit consent. The deputy county
attorney who does the prosecuting is
glad to serve on a salary Of $1,000 to
$1,000 a year., and certainly a salary
Of $1,000 could command as good tai
ent as is furnished by the lawyers
usually engaged in criminal practice.
The creation of a salaried position OF
public defender would give as good, If
not better, results than the present
system, and save the county at least
$4,000 a year.
1t will doubtless be urged that leg
islation will be needed to bring about
this change, but no legislation is neces-
sary. All that. is required is for the
judge of the criminal court to desig-
nate a lawyer to be the public defender
and reappoint him for each case in
Volving an INDECENT prisoner, and the
thing is done. If the permanent en-
ployment of one lawyer at a fixed sal
airy would not spread the fees over a
wide enough area the appointment
might be made for three months at a.
time so as to let a few more lawyers
in on the distribution. To pay out
$3,745 in me year for defending Grim
inals is a needless waste of public
money.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
THE BRYAN VALENTINE.


bloomington Advocate: The democratic
party In this state did not relish the
valentine Bryan sent them this year. The
party Is against county option. There n
already weeping and crashing Of teeth.
Tekamah Herald: The county option
pill prescribed by w. ]. Bryan for the
democrats looks as large as q balloon
to the Omaha bunch. They may as well
make up their minds to gulp It down;
they will lave TO take II.
st. a Republican: The Photograph
has declared against county option. w. j.
Bryan has declared for county option.
When we have dared to disagree with Mr..
Bryan, we have been told that we are
presumptious. What about the Phonol
graphY Wen bet a nickel Dan didn't
know that Bryan was going 70 do that.
Papillion Times: A number OF demo-
cratic editors have refused to follow w.
j. Bryan into the county option camp, but
most OF them, however, claim that the
temperance question Is a separate moral
issue aside from partisan politics and as
such Mr.. Bryan is entitled to his w
opinion, but that he cannot force county
option into the democratic state or national
platforms.
Auburn Granger, Since w. ]. BRYAN
mas come out so earnest on county option
II VIII be proper to speak OF the demo-
cratic parties of Nebraska. We'll. this
step on the part Of Mr.. Bryan win have n
tendency TO make more independent voters
and fewer party followers. and as the
trst great step toward true democracy IS
TO disrupt parties, the Granger must hur.
rah for Bryan and his awakening.
Nebraska City Press. Old DR.. BRYAN
with his bag Of oure-alls, seems to have
encountered serious opposition on the part
Of HIS democratic patients against his
latest remedy in the political drug store.
DR.. Bryan is being reviled these DAYS
by his erstwhile friends and many Of them
do not feel disposed to forgive him for
his lack Of foresight, as they call It. We
believe Mr.. Bryan is not so obtuse as not to
realize that county option is to be a big
factor In the coming campaigns of Ne
oraska- The prohibition movement, in
stead Of dying out, as its opponents in
sist, is very much alive. While we have
never given the county option feature
much thought, we believe It will be
adopted in Nebraska. We believe DR..
Bryan is correct in his jump from the
top Of the fence and that he will make
friends in the end-not because we believe
Is right-but because he has the cour-
age OF his convictions. We do not believe
county option is the cure for the llouor
evil. LEGAL option is the only way to settle
one OF the most perplexing evils we have
before us today, and good saloon regula-
tion, coupled with local option, will make
the liquor business as near Utopia as 1t
is possible to make 1t,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
Upper MISSOURI Improvement.

Senator Burkett has introduced a bill,
which later he will offer as an amend
ment to the rivers and harbors bill, calling
for an appropriation of S25O,oOO for the pro-
lection of the banks OF the Missouri river
at Omaha, South Omaha and in the imme-
diate vicinity Of Omaha, where, it is said,
the river has been doing much damage.
In this connection It is declared the Ne
braska delegation is determined to make
a strong Eight for something more in the
line of justice for the upper Missouri tha
is represented in the rivers n harbors
bill as 1t passed the house. Sioux City,
however, up to date. is not represented IN
the activities OF this reform!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

she has been in the Department o. J@s-
tice ever since she came into the DepRrt-
ment OF state. lie says she r. undobtA billy
an able lawyer. and t iS q pleasure e.
him TO do her Justice
announcement has been made OF n pro.
jeot to establish a permanent memorial Of
Richard Watson Glider, and. 30 fattAas
possible, to perpetuate and reailEo his
lofty ideals Of civic patriotism and to con-
tinuo the efforts for the Involvement Of
the conditions OF oiv1o life. witch. con-
sttuted 50 large a part Of his own work,
in tho form Of a fund OF uoo.0O0 TO ba
known as the Richard watson GleqF Fund
for the promotion Of rood citlsensRp.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
An Unintentional ACCOMPLISHMENT

While voicing a sentiment, which
thirty years ago would have been
cheered to the echo, Senator Hepburn
Of Idaho was astonished at receiving
a rebuking silence. The spirit of civil
war days has been slowly dying a natu-
raj death. The oratorical e~ffulgence
Of fiery orators kept it alive for years,
but recently little has been heard and
less thought, of an u~nforgiving nature,
from either side of the old line. But,
forgetting this, the senator from
Idaho waved the bloody shirt" pro-
claiming anew the treason Of the
south. NO one cheered him during
his speech and when he had finished
the people of the United States knew
that the wa spirit was dead.
Senator Hepburn wrought greater
than he knew. He is a gifted speaker,
yet instead Of ~arousing the slumbering
war spirit to renewed life by his efforts
he has extinguished 1t entirely. The
majority of the people Of the younger
generation n America do not know
where Mason's and Dixon's line used
to be. The civil wax is a matter of
history. and the old antagonistic senti-
ment is dead.
This country can not afford to har-
Dor a bitter sectional grudge simply
for the sake of tradition. Our future
is to be determined by the policies
and initial actions Of today. The. past
can not be changed and there is no call
to bring back the bitter spirit Of those
days when our nation Dled from un-
natural strife. In the words OF Gen
eral Grant, as appropriate now as
ever, Let us have peace" Let us
bury Senator Heyburn's speech with
the execution it accomplished and then
forget 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Conducted by the Army
Mt Fort WadswOrth.

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Brooklyn Eagle.
If the experiments now being conducted
at Fort Wordsworth on Staten Island shall
prove successful, there has been no more
useful scientific discovery since the isola-
ton of the germ Of tuberculosis.
Some 800 men, all volunteers, have been
inOculated with the. KILLED" germ OF
typhoid. which, Is expected to act as a
protection from the disease as effectively
as incubation does with smallpox. The
experiments AVE not gone far enough yet
to prove their, protective value. although II
has been shown that no more serious i'm
mediate effects follow the infection Of the
virus than in the case of vaccination for
smallpox. The formula has been worked
out at the army medical laboratory in
Washington. and the government scientists
have great faith in its potency.
Typhoid is a, soourge even more to be
dreaded than consumption on at least one
account, Every dweiler in towns breaths
in thousands OF the germs Of consumption,
but robust health usually affords protec-
tion against their development. The
typhoid germ seems to have little respect
for a fine physique. Men and women Of
robust physique are stricken down with it
frequently and their chances OF recovery
seem as slight as those of the more feeble.
Heretofore the only protection from
typhoid has seemed to be the sand filtera-
ton Of the water supplies Of all cities and
towns. United action in that direction is
almost impossible and the complete protec-
tion of rural regions is beyond human In
genuity. If the army laboratory has dis
covered an antidote for the disease, the
usefulness Of the discovery will extend
until such an outbreak as that at ithaca
a few years ago will seem to our chil-
,dren as strange as the plaques Of the
middle ages now do to US. The future
course Of the inoculated soldiers should
be watched with the greatest care. II they
have really become immune, a better day
has dawned in our civilization.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Councilman McGovern Is treadins
on dangerous ground when he says
he would like to have the legislature
wipe out the Water board and end its
paramount existence. He ought to
know that the Water board is a sacred
relic. not to be touched by profane
hands, and that the Water board law.
yers still expect to come in for $4,000
to $4,000 more Of easy money.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
Philadelphia Bulletin

The news that the Roach shipyard will
soon be sold at public auction recalls one
OF the lveliest chapters in the history OF
the building Of the new American navy.
1t was the dispatch cruiser Dolphin. turned
out by o Roach. which was officially
condemned under the Cleveland admins
Tation for structural weakness'4and the
same Dolphin proved itself a staunch,
strong and seaworthy vessel in active SER
vice for more than twenty years after
ward.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The University of Nebraska basket
ball team may take a trip to japan for
a game. II Nebraska should win, do
you suppose It would take interna-
tional arbitration to smooth out the
rufies in the Japs' feelingsP
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Those Philadelphia strikers who are
going from house to house soliciting
assistance by which to continue the
strike certainly lack a sense of humor.
OF all the people on earth who want
the strike to stop the househoIders are
the first.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

That fastener who pretended to
commit suicide to-test the love of his
wife was sorry 1t was not the real
thing before his neighbors got through
with him. iH
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Colonel Roosevelt has not arranged
to bring, down n Of those Egyptian
"sphinxes." We have very few of
those specimens in this country and
the habits Of the species might be
studied to advantage by the gossips of
America.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

One Of the refreshing features Of
the railway rate fight is the fearless
independence manifested by our bust
ness men and shippers. The abolition
Of the free pass and the cessation Of
rebates has evidently produced a
change.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Why not let the health commits
sioner and the city veterinarian trade
places for a month"; II the health
commissioner is SO sure no could do
the veterinarians work so much bet
ter, perhaps the rule would work both
ways.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

4 THE United States supports too
many physicians we are told. Judg-
ing from press reports regarding the
size OF fees paid to '~'alienists" in the
New York courts. that Is very true.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Mr.. Bryan has never had any
trouble heretofore in getting Ne
braska democrats to let him frame
their platforms for them, and II he
persists in his desire to put the demo
cratic label on a county option plank
this year, we will see the democrats
eating out of his hand when the time
comes.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
The short and Merry Life,
n~tA4nh,.- nt.~.th

Warships which five years after they
are put in commission are condemned as
unseaworthy seem to represent the theory
Of a short life and a merry one, which al
ways turns out to be a very costly one.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
Dead Easy.

Senator Aldrioh could save 100000 900 for
the country, so he says, II allowed to run
1t his way. When a man has run a shop rs
big as Rhode Island for a good many
years, running what there is left Of the
universe seems like taking on a popcorn
department.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Twenty-one bids to provide fire in
surance for the city hall were found
when opened by the city council to
be identical in the price asked. If
such a thing happened in any other
line of business, 1t might be regarded
as circumstantial evidence Of a rate
making combine.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The mere decision to experiment
with chloride Of lime seems to have
had a most auieting eHect on the
waterphobia Of our junior yellow. But
there's no telling when the dread dis
ease will break out again.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Spring house cleaning has begun
at Oyster Bay" 1t is very wise, for
somebody might get cleaned out about
the middle OF June If It had not been
begun.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

ton is, what kind Of a government
shall we give Alaskaf How conserve
its resources and at the same time
open IL up for Development How
shall w supervise ana control so as to
hinder II the least and protect It the
moat9
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The Jefries-JOhnson fight is attract
ing 81 much attention that It bids fair
to put primary election candidates to
considerable disadvantage during the
early part OF the, campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The average man considers himself
very lucky this spring II he has a gar
den plot and a congressman to send
him the seed. But after the things
have begun to grow he IS thankful
chiefly for the garden plot.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

A-eehsof Of the drama has been pro.
posed and it might be suggested that
the are department would do pretty
Well Many Of the modern "dramas''
are too warm already
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Count De Beaufort has sued an
Arkansas gambling house. He says
he was taken advantage Of" The re-
spected count nust not expect to have
everything come his way because he
has won an American million with a
female encumbranoa.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

to take advantage Of the deposit guar
anty law should set some people think
ing. Not a single state bank in the
metropolis and biggest city in Ne
braska. n
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The Omaha Indians are to be given
control OF the money and lands which
the government has been holding for
them Note a rising barometer OF
business activity IN the n~eighborhood
Of the Omaha reservation.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The United States may support too
many physicians, but omaha's mem
bership Of the medical fraternity
seems to be making both ends meet
and then some.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The decision Of the Georgia supreme
court giving the surgeon no fee be-
cause his patient died will meet with
general favor among patients in the
same position.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The grand Jury is getting ready to
considsr cocaine, AND meon has
asked If the consideration is to be an
internal experiment.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

I February gains In Omaha's bank
clearings asure an Increase Of more
than 20 per cent over February of a
year ago. Pretty good showing.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Perhaps one proposed exchange Of pro-
fessors between Denmark and America will
be that the learned Danes will become
less Easy to-b Q taken in by American ad-
venturers,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
A surprisinE Inference.

% FHuI FIOheer Freb8.
President Taft has issued a warning 70
the Wall street gamblers that they must
confine themselves 20 legitimate business.
The country win be surprised at the In
ference that Wall street has any legitimate
businesAf
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
An Old story.


Why all this pother about the ultimate
consumer getting short weights and short
m%easuros7 He's used to II, isn't her Be-
sides, how else could dividends be what
they ars9
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

John d. Rockefeller has fixed it all
right. Chicken may go sky-high II It
wants to now that John d. has Just
purchased 2, 900 pheasants.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

A flood in Nevada is a good deal
of a rarity. Nevada is the state into
which, heretofore allSsorts OF moisture
have been imported.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

s~ubsgribsrs loavinH the city ten.
POraFits sAould have The Bee
mailed Go ths@. Address win be
shaP@sa ~ sftPa,as rsausstsd.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

There must be wheels somewhere IN
Nicaragua to account for the large
number of revolutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Morals If you break your a~stragu-
lops. sue for damages.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The 1895 hog has made his debut
at South Omaha. The end-seat hog
will be in evidence a little later.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

It is a cold day when some com
munity does not start a 0 testing
campaign. le
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

sTATBMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State OF Nebraska, Douglas County, SIS. /:
George u. Tzschuck, treasurer Of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
swpFn, says that the actual number Of
full n complete copies OF The Daily,
Morning, Evening n Sunday Bee printed
during the month of February, 1910, was
az fnllofva.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

The naturalization Of another
Omaha bank formed as a state bank
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
w ashin gton Life

Some Interesting Phases
and Conditions Observed
~ tha Nation'a Capitol.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02
SMILING REMARKS,

Always something new n~OwadAyH"
What nowf" d..
They have just made a girl at smith
a Fellow yale Review.
binger OF spring.
Robin-whats the user They hayO a
gasoline bird noW.%Judga
Hioks-I SEQ that a Cornell prueessoA haa
succeeded In gettinE colored eggs by Need-
ing the hens With dyes
Wicks-By Georgei Why not feed 'em
with colored yarn and got 'enn TO lay cara
p~ets2-Boston Transcript
Jinks-I saw something cheap &C n. .bales
gain counter today
Binks-What was tt7
Jinks-A man waiting Tor his wica-cNegw
York Press.
Old LADY, want you to take back thaA
parrot you sold me I find that v sw6ara
BIRD Deaier-w6l. madam, ies . yOuna
bird. Itn learn 20 swear better wheh ma
a bit older.-San Francisco STAR
Did you see where some man \
that Rome began TO so down ~ soon o.
the Romans allowed their wives to fuia
'Nonsensel The Romans were no dir-
ferent from other men Are We going
down any that you can nodco-Baltim@SA
American. :
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

when 1 was a young lawyer" says
Congressman Keifer Of Ohio. my friends
used to tell me that 1 ate too much.
They said I would kill myself II 1 didn't
cut out midnight lunches. Well, I've eaten
those all my life, and the men who criti-
oised me have been dead for twenty
years"
Now that he's over 70 the general still
INDUCES In his night lunches. He works
In his den till 10 or II o'clock at night,
comes down town. eats a cheese sandwich
or a German sausage. drinks a couple Of
glasses OF beer, smokes a cigar, goes home
and to bed, and sleeps the sleep Of the
unworried.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

GEORGE B. TzsCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed IN my presence and sw0Fn 70
DeIore me this 18th day OF February, 1910.
ROBERT. HUNTER,
ro Notary Public
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-02

Suburban lots are turning Ereen
And thoughts TO gardens 60
With radishes In glory seen
In many d cleaning row.
Along the fence to get In tuna
The hens now cluck and stray
To catch the early seeds you plant
Nor heed what you may BayA
Sun. ll1f
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-10-13
HUNTING SEASON
OPENS SATURDAY

On saturday the 10th inst. the sea-
sou opens fer ruffed grouse, commonly
called pheasantS, for English, Nongoli-
an or Chinese pheasauts, for quail or
partridges, wild turkeys, squirrels, fo%
black or grey.
On October f., J,ie season for bear
and wooIcock opened 80 bears have
been bagged by local hunters atuou%t
Il good mauy wooIcocG have nseu -bot,
indicating thaJ the latter are p!eu5Itai
in this section
Observing slortslnen axe Of the ou-
inion that gam of all kinds will be
plentiful this tail. This is especially
true of pheasants. large coveys of which
have been seen in the woods during the
latter part of summer. 1t is not believed
that unlawful hunting has been prac-
ticed to any extent in this section.
The injured phesants that flew into
town a few weeks ago bearing marks
had been shot, it is now believed, re-
ceived their injuries in some other
manner, which may be easily explain
ed.
Harry Billmeyer, along with NJ. II.
Schram and others, authorities on the
subject, concurs in the above view.
Pheasants, it appear, are hard to un-
derstand and are apt to precipitate
just such BLIND headlong flight, as
resulted in the death of the birds in
this city, without any apparent cause
other than Il desire to seek a new
base. In passing over town like Dan
vile, with its poles and network of
wires, it would be remarkable if a few
birds were not killed OF injured.
OF the English, Mongolian, or Chinese
pheasant, ten may be killed in one
day, twenty in one week and fifty in
one season.
OF the common pheasants five may
be killed in one day, twenty in one
week and fifty in season.
Ten quail or partridges may be kill
ed in one day, forty in one week and
seventy-five in one season.
For wild turkey the limit is one a
day, two in the season.
OF squirrel, six of the combined
kinds may be killed in one day.
The season for pheasants, woodcock
and squirrels extends until December
1st. The season for quail, and wild
turkey closes on November 10TH
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-10-13
LONG AND USEFUL
LIFE IS CLOSED

Mrs. Harriet Kipp Russell, native
of the south side, and for many years
resident of Danville, died at Will
Transport, at O'Clock Sunday morn
ing aged 80 years, months and 3
days.
The deceased was the widow of Rob-
ert o. Russell, who at one time was
sheriff of Montour county and who de-
parted this life in 1872. Before her
marriage the deceased was Miss Har-
riet Kipp. She was the last survivor
of the family of that name, prominent
on the south side nearly generation
ago, from which the stream known as
"Kipp's Run takes its name. She
resided in Danville up to some twenty
years ago when she took up her resi-
dence with her daughter, Mrs. ]. W.
Stout, at Williamsport.
Mrs. Russell was in possession of all
her faculties; she was in excellent
health and would no doubt have sur
vived many years had it not been for
an accident. Eight weeks before her
death she sustained fall, fIacturing
her hip bone. She never recovered
from the shock, her decline being
rapid.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Stout,
the deceased is survived by two sons,
the Rev. James @. Russell, d. D.. of
Oneonto, N. Y, and Robert @. Rus
sell, of Pittsburg.
Interment will be made in Odd Eel
lows cemetery this city. The body
will be brought here on the II .23 p.
& r. train tomorrow and will be TAX
en- to the residence of Alexander Fost-
er, No. 5l3 Bloom street, whose wife
is granddaughter of the deceased
The funeral will take place from the
Foster residence at , O'Clock tomor-
row afternoon, proceeding to the
cemetery by trolley.
| On May 9th last Mrs. Russell celebr-
ated the Goth anniversary of her birth.
| There was family gathering at the
! time at which all of her immediate
relatives were present.
| Mrs. Russell was a member of the
Mahoning Presbyterian church of this
city and an attendant when able of
the Central Presbyterian church of
! Williamsport.
| Mrs. Russell was a remarkable wo-
man. There was nothing in past events
which had come under her notice
which was not perfectly clear in her
memory Her fund of information up
on the past was seemingly ineXhausti-
! BILE.