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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-08
SOCIAL-PERSONAL.

Mrs. G. w. Madeira, 637 Twenty
eighth street, has as her guest hei
sister. Mrs. r. Turner, OF Norfolk.
The Wednesday Evening Social
Club will be entertained this week
by Mrs. Sol Peyser, 32OS West ave
nue..
Miss Mildred Newman on Jefferson
avenue has as her guest, her COUSIN
Miss Mary Newman. of Richmond.
Miss Myrtle Edwards has return
ed from a visit to Lynchburg. Miss
Alice Irving accompanied her ana
will be her guest for three weeks.
Or. A. L.. Holstein and DIR. j. III.
NJ. Schell. OF the University OF Mary
land. have returned home after Wis
iting their cousin. Mr.. Samuel
Schanker, In this city.
Mr.. G. l.. Bradshaw has returned
10 the Richmond Medical College al
ter visiting friends in this city.
Mrs. L. T. Stearnes has as her
guest on West avenue, Mrs. Trolling
er, of Pulaski.
Mrs. Edward o. Ball returned Sun
day from Norfolk. where she visited
friends.
Mr.. Bradford Reynolds has return
ed to Wilmington, N. c.. after spend
ing several days with relatives In
this city.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-08

Mrs. G. W. Madeira, 637 Twenty
eighth street, has as her guest her
sister, Mrs. r.. Turner, OF Norfolk.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-08

The Wednesday Evening Social
Club will be entertained this week
by Mrs. Sol Peyser, 32OS West ave
nue.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-08

Mrs. l.. =. Stcarnes has as her
guest on West avenue, Mrs Trolling
er, of Pulaski.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-08

Mrs. Edward o. Ball returned Sun
day from Norfolk, where she visite'
friends.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-08

Mr.. c. l.. Bradshaw has returned
10 the Richmond Medical College af
ter visiting friends in this city.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-08
Cook with Gas

Au,opobiics-cau W. z. Rouse.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

grown rank n tall and the buildings
are in tumble-down condition. No one
seems to care what happens to that
magnificent country, and yet agricuI-
tural scientists say that with proper
treatment and care those farms can be
made to produce as much as they ever
did. The present condition is attri-
buted to the lack Of proper methods
and the trend Of national immigration
from the east to the west and to the
cities. But that there is now to be an
effort to change this is a matter Of no
small Importance. The r%eIuvenation
of agriculture in the east should give
back to the states along the North At
lantic seaboard once more a good,
healthy. vigorous farming constit-
uency.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
Meat Prices in England.

While American consumers are find
ing fault with the price of meat in the
United States, it is little consolation,
although no relief, to know that the
Englishman is from 4 to 6 cents a
pound worse OFF. 1t matters little
whether the meat is American refrig-
Grated, South American frozen or Brit
ish slaughtered, the general prices of
any and all kinds are higher in England
to the extent mentioned. This condition
prevails throughout the British isles,
varying unexpectedly even where To-
cal competition is keenest. Compare
son of prices there with the CORE
spending prices here has recently been
made by the consular service and has
been aof- no small interest among all
English-speahing peoples,
In America the brisket sells for 5
cents a pound, while in England the
same piece sells for 10. stewing beef
sells for IL cents here, as against IA
therei round, IA here, as against 10
and 20 cents; rib roast, IA, as against
20; s~irloin. 16, as against 20; trump
steak" (our porterhouse) sells for 20
cents here and &c there. This same
ratio is disclosed also in prices of
other meats.
A general sentiment prevails in Eng
land favoring domestic products of all
kinds, and this is so noticeable in the
meat markets that some shops make
it a point to advertise British beef
only is sold here" and these shops get
the major portion of the trade, even
though imported beef is slightly
cheaper and often better. 1t is
charged that, like their American
cousins. English butchers frequently
fudge" on the public so that British
beef" is any beef slaughtered on Eng
lIsh soil, no matter where it is raised
or fattened. Consequently } several
hundred thousand head of cattle are
shipped to England annually to be
sold as native beef.
The cause for high prices in Eng
land is the same as that given here
the high cost Of beef on the foot and
of the feed necessary for fattening.
The English people complain and have
started Investigations just as we have,
which, very like those in America.
Have so far resulted chiefly in enlight-
eminent, but not in tightening the load.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
Base Ball Season Opening.

With the coming of the warm days
the base ball germ has taken on life
and is at present stretching itself for
a season of great activity. On the va
can lots and in the streets of the city
the game has already begun and the
kids have started the fight on the
umpire. Away off in California, down
in southern Texas and along the gulf
states the big league teams are prac-
ticing steadily and the sporting col
umns bulge with the dope on the COM
ing season. While every season Of the
year has its sport, no season is quite
like the summer season and no sport
is like base ball. The American peo-
pie can go crazy yer base ball with
remarkably little effort. When once
they are started they do not stop and
nobody cares. The boys catch the
spirit first and as soon as the
proverbial spring game of marbles is
possible the base ball game is in full
swing. 1t has been we'll said that the
most popular poem in America is
nothing of Browning or Kipling, mind
you-no other than Casey at the
Bat" 1t surely is typical of the Amer
lean game, although it gives but a
small idea of the extremes of lunacy
possible on the "~bleachers." .
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
PENSIONS For MERRY WIDOWS.
Novel lea for the suEaFed Palm OF
UncIe-Sam.
New York Sun.

New Work sun.
Senator Root has announced his inten-
ton to oppose a pension measure now on
its way through congress. An act of June
q, 1890, granted pensions of IS a month
to widows Of deceased soldiers and sailors
whose marriage occurred prior to the pas
sage of the bill. The benefit was limited
to those without income or means OF sup
port other than their own daily labor and
to those whose actual net income did not
exceed $3.50 q year. The law Of April, 1908,
removed the income restriction and in
creased the rate to $2 a month, thus pro-
viding for the payment Of that sum to all
widows Of soldiers and sailors subject only
to the condition Of marriage prior to June
q, 1890. The measure now before the SEN
ate proposes the removal Of the time limit
and the payment Of a 312 pension to wild
ows Of soldiers and sailors irrespective Of
the date Of marriage.
Opposition to an extension OF the pension
system calls for independence and courage.
The argument of earlier years was the OBJ
legation OF the nation to devoted women
who cared for the home and the family
while the soldier-husband was in the field
fighting for his country. The argument OF
today is the obligation to the devoted
women who marry veterans and care for
them and nurse them in their declining
years. 1t is estimated that some of 10000
have been engaged in that laudable enter
prise since June 81, 1890, and the country
is asked to recognize their devotion to the
extent of $12 a month, presumably retro
active and cumulative.
The United States has paid military pen
lions amounting, in their aggregate, to "a
900, 900, 900. Sentiment, and not legal or H.
nancial obligation, has been the controlling
influence. without sentiment the world
would be a hard and cherries place of
residence. but there is a point at which
sentiment goes to seed. II is a fair infer
ence that Senator Root believes that senti-
ment in the matter of pensions to soldiers
widows has reached its proper limit, and
there are a great many people who will
agree with him.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
PERSONAL NOTES.

II Messrs. Shaw and Hobson insist upon
having war with Japan, there Is no reason
why they should draw the country into
their private concerns.
For sending a fake telegram as news to
a London paper a man manned Horner has
been sent to Jail for six weeks. Similar
tactics would not be practicable In this
country yet, owing 10 lack Of Jail space.
KILLED by JOY" was the c%oroner's YER
dict In the case OF Mrs. Mary Il. Hen
drick, who dropped dead at South Nor
walk, just after she had been paid 5000
in cash for some property by Genus C..
Buhs.
Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver Of Harvard
university denies that the trusts have
been more efficient than individual con-
Germs in lowering the cost of production,
but says that they rave been abfs to lower
the cost of distribution.
Hannah, the Missouri mule laid out by a
Brooklyn car, managed to land a good
luck souvenir on the shoulder Of the
motorman q moment before the crash came.
1t is Characteristic of the Missouri mule to
make an impression at home or abroad.
When Bryan Mullanphy of Joplin. Mo,
died in 1851 he left one-third Of his large
fortune to be devoted to help immigrants
passing through st. Louis ION their way
10 the vest The fund has grown to
about $l'OO0OOO and the trustees have moth
ing to do but draw their salaries. The
supreme court has denied the right tc
divert the fund to other public purposes.
Oliver Hartman, millionaire banker.
president of the Westchester Horse Show
association, has filed at Mount Vernon.
N. Y, his oath Of office and appointment
as deputy sheriff of Westchester county. by
Sheriff Seherp. Mr.. Hartman has a man
sion at Purchase, on the outskirts of White
Plains He is one Of the staff of rich
deputies Sheriff Scherp has appointed.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
Is This Another ForgerY2

Among the collection of self
solicited testimonials which the latest
democratic candidate for United States
senator from Nebraska modestly
prints in his own paper is the follow
ing, which raises suspicion Of the same
kind of forgery which the same paper
tried recently to perpetrate ON an
other distinguished Nebraskan:
T.. w. blackburn, active among local
democrats, said: 81 believe that the can
didacy Of Mr.. Hitchcock will meet with the
approval Of the majority Of Lancaster
democrats. With his entrance into the race
fresh blood has been injected into the COM
ing fight. He will be an able representative
Of the state. and would not, even If $500
miles away, forget that Nebraska was his
home and that he was primarily represent
ing this state
While this is printed under the head
of Lincoln, everybody knows there is
only one T. w, Blackburn in Ne
braska and that he lives in Omaha and
not in Lincoln, and that he registers
as a republican and not as a democrat
and that he said nothing of the kind.
If our T. w. Blackburn has a double
in Lancaster county, the sooner we
know it the better, so that we can
keep the republican and democratic
twins separate and distinct. The real
T. w. Blackburn would never have
made the mistake of putting the hiding
place in Europe, to which Mr.. Hitch
cock decamped when the vote ON the
tariff was impending, only 1900 miles
away.
If this is not another rank forgery,
what is it?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
ATTIC FOLLY.
Policy of NesatiOn Proves Party
UndeservInE of Power.

NS OF NeSation Proves Party
Undeserving of Power.
Minneapolis journal.
Some of the democrats think the demo-
cratic senators were under no obligation to
vote for the postal sayings bank bill, which
was a republican program measure. The
platform had demanded It and the president
had adopted 1t as part of his irreducible
minimum of performance by his party at
this session. This, 1t is claimed, made the
bill a political issue and absolved the dem
ocrats from voting for it.
or course, II the democratic senators can
reason that way and make their constitu-
ents feel that it is all right, they may have
saved their own seats. But where have
they landed the party with the large indie
pendent vote, which, It Is acknowledged,
sways the country, and which fits from
one party to another, largely on the merits
or demands of their records? Can the dem
ocrats satisfy this element by mere mega
ton?
The attitude of the democrats in congress
ever since the Taft administration came in
has been weak. 1t proposed nothing as an
alternative for the Payne tariff bill. 1t did
not even make a virile protest against its
adoption in the house, while In the senate
the democrats divided and floundered. part
OF them supporting and part repudlatiAg
their own platform, which specifically de-
manded free lumber, free pulp wood and
free iron ore.
The republicans rave committed enough
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
Purpose of the Census.

In explanation Of the purpose Of the
census to be taken this spring Presi-
dent Taft has issued a proclamation,
] asking all the citizens of the United
States to answer questions frankly and
without hesitancy, assuring them that
nothing told the enumerator will be
disclosed under penalty Of law. The
purpose Of the census is not 10 investl.
gate incomes or property values for
taxation or to pry into business or pri-
vate affairs. 1t is ito compile a vol.
ume Of reliable statistical Information
as a sort Of decennial stock taking
for comparison with previous compila-
lions and for government reference
during succeeding years.
A source Of wonderment to all is the
amount Of information CLEANED during
the taking of a census. The data thus
gathered at this time, especially will
be OF untold value, covering as 1t will
race, occupations and professions, in
comes, property, agricultural and com
mercisl conditions and everything, in
fact, necessary to complete under
standing of what America is and owns.
Much depends on the results also as
the basis for future congressional and
state affairs. The enumeration will be
the guide to the formation Of new con-
gressional and representative dis
tricts in many states of the union. 1t
will also determine the Encouragement
of all sorts of governmental districts
for the fa%cilitation of public business.
Many people do not like to tell
about their business or private affairs,
regardless who the questioner may be,
and especially if he is an official of the
law. The average person is tempted
to twist things for the sake of appear
ances, to give one sort of a twist to the
assessor, another to the census-taker
and several original varieties of twists
to the newspaper reporter. The pur-
pose for which the information is to
be used governs very largely the
amount and accuracy of what is given.
But for the coming census it is hoped
full compliance will be made to re-
quests Of the enumerators, not be-
cause Of the penalty of a fine for re.
fusal, but because We all want full and
reliable returns.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
Our Birthday Book
March ls. 1910.


Willis ]. Abbott, the well known news
paper man and political writer. was born
March 16, 1868, at New Haven. He ran
the publicity department for Mr.. Bryan's
last campaign.
DIT. Robert 5. Anglin, the oculist and
aurist in the Karbach block, is SO today.
He is a Canadian by birth, and graduated
in medicine at Queens university at Kings
ton.
Louis d. Carrier, chief clerk Of the gem
eral baggage office of the Union Pacific
railway at Council Bluffs, was born March
l6, 1856, at Geneseo, III. He has been con-
tinuously in railroad work since 1875.
John n. Remmel, chief clerk OF the local
freight office Of the Chicago & North
western railway, was born March l6, 1872.
He Is a native Of Wisconsin. where he
started out as a telegraph operator for the
Northwestern. Mr.. Remmel has been In
Omaha for five years
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

blunders to lose them the house in the com
ing elections, but their opponents have
made enough mistakes to counterbalance
them, and leave the parties about where
they stood at the beginning of the admins
tration. ..r
1t is often said that the people hold the
party in power responsible. and that they
vote to rebuke til it forgets its. pledges.
This is, to a great, extent. true. but 1t Is
also true that the discriminating independ-
ent voter Of today asks himself what he Is
going to put in the place OF the party he
relieves. When he looks at the record OF
the democrats lately. he is almost com
PEELED to say that whatever the shortcom,
ings Of the republicans, the democrats havq
not deserved power. =
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
Changing Preachers.

The changes in the personnel of the
preachers occupying pulpits in Omaha
churches seem this year to be more
numerous than ever, and the move
ment. in response to calls to larger
fields or bigger salaries seems more
active than usual. Z
AS a rule we regret the loss of these
departing preachers who stay with us
an all too short time, and almost be-
fore they have become thoroughly
identified with the community and get
really in touch with u interests fly
away like birds Of passage to other
climes. The preachers who are more
permanently attached to their churches
and who are with us and of Is year
after year. are generally steady-going,
industrious and progressive workers
for the upbuilding of Omaha along
practical lines, while the new crop,
even before they get rooted in the
ground, want to turn things upside
down, experiment with impractical the.
cries, and accomplish in a day reforms
that require years. 1t is always the
latest-come preacher who thinks his
new home is the worst v~ice-infested
place he ever saw, and cOnceives it to
be his mission to tell how bad we are
in order to make his work of redemp.
ton shine brighter.
Every community ought to change
some Of it's preachers once in a while
in order to appreciate better those We
have kept and those we have lost.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
western ideas On Eastern Farms.

With the establishment of an agri-
cultural department as an adjunct to
the New York Central railroad a new
Idea is being introduced in the rural
districts of the east. 1t is the applica-
tion OF western methods to eastern
farms and to eastern conditions. The
railroad expects to make 1t a success
full experiment, not only from the
farms to be cultivated, but also be-
cause of the traffic resulting from put
ting new life, new energy and new
ideas into the farming constituency Of
it's territory.
The idea obtains quite generally, al
though enormously, throughout the
east, that the soil there rs run out and
worthless and that the farmers of that
section cannot compete with the more
vigorous soil of the middle west. But
the fact that the westerner is learning
to, renew the soil by scientific pro-
cesses and make 1t capable of cultiva-
ton for an indefinite length Of time
has never occurred to them. It has
also been forgotten in the east that
continental Europe, which has been
cultivated for centuries, is still a very
profitable farming district. The west
Is learning and the last must learn the
principles OF soil restoration and con
servation by both precept and example.
II is pathetic to look over the aban-
doned farms in some sections OF the
east The weeds and underbrush have
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
TELL ME NOT.

Tell me not in box-car numbers
Life is but an empty dream.
If you're working for a railroad.
oh, how happy life must seem!
Life is business on a railroad,
Where you rave to do things right,
Do just what the yardmaster tells you
Labor hard from morn till night
Lives of railroad men mind us
We must never be sublime.
But when going leave behind us
Garnishes upon our time.
Garnishes which perhaps some other
Wandering on this stormy main
Some forlorn and Maynard brother
Seeing shall pass on again.
When our working days are over,
And our harvest days are spent,
With our shoes all worn and dusty,
With our backs all tired and bent
We shall near the gates of heaven,
But inside wen never get.
For st. Peter there will tell us.
We've no railroad men here yet"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

John l.. Sullivan maintains that the
romance has gone from prize fighting.
What else could anyone expect a man
to say when he has been licked as hard
as Sullivan was the last time he
fought?'
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
TOO Much Batting In
Philadelphia Press.

Amateur wireless operators who flash out
idle messages. which confuse and mislead
the operators of wireless stations are
clearly a nuisance. When the steamer
Tagus was in distress recently her signals
for help were interfered with by an amateur
wireless operator on the top Of a New York
sky scraper. There is a growing demand for
a law Of the air which viii suppress wire
less trifing and jocosltes and leave he air
clAAE for bona side messages.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

IHiduciRHld IISSSs
The tariff and the revenue provided by
present congress last August is doing
its work. Today last fiscal year the
reficit was s6s,52S,OOO. To date, the fiscal
year, the deficit is $23, CSC. 900. BY the end Of
the fiscal year this will be almost gone.
Were the revenue for the current fiscal
from the income tax on corporations
in there would be no deficit.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

A Pittsburg editor is asking his
readers to tell him what he can do
with 500. 1t is not surprising that
an editor should be bewildered at the
thought Of spending so much money
all at once.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

viii Edgar Howard produce the
names Of the prominent democratic
lawyer in Omaha" and the well
known republican ONCE holder in Lin
coin" who have hired out to the cor
porations as "Gxers' for the coming
campaign? VIII Edgar funk? WIN
a duck swim?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
Knock for Town conscience.

Charleston News and Courier.
1t is now claimed that the Iowa con-
science is keenest. because a man from
that state has made restitution to the
government for having bored a hole in a
Lincoln penny, but the chances are that
his repentance was due to the fact that
found that he could no longer pass the
coin which he had mutilated.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
Appreciation Of Hand-Made Art.

San Francisco Chronicle.
The fact that Mr.. Wolgast, the new light
weight champion in pugilism, is being
with proposals from theatrical
managers, some offering him so much rs
5000 a week, ought effectively to silence
those caviliers, who assert that in this
country there is no real appreciation of
talent in art.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16
PushInr a GOOD ThInr ALONE.

pIUUN OIIy JUUIHHI.
The retail meat dealers blame 1t on
the farmers, the wholesalers and the
packers. The wholesalers will blame it on
the farmers, the retailers and the packers.
packers will blame it on the farm
ers. the wholesalers and the retailers.
The farmers will blame it on the retail
ers, the wholesalers and the packers. And
there you are.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

1t is authentically reported that
Nine. Tstraszini tainted at the end Of
the mad scene" in Lucia" Having
seen Nine. Tatrazzini. the question
naturally propounds itself, who or how
many carried her of the stage?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

Occasionally one hears a sound from
the gables in the attic of the past.
The carriages belonging to ]. Edward
Addicks are being sold In Newport for
storage debts, Will you have TO search
the pages OF ancient history to find
out who Addicks is?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

II the perusal OF Commander
Peary's proof we're to be only a fore
runner of a trip over the country on
the chautauqua platform the people Of
Kansas City, st. Louis and a few other
Cooked towns would raise a roa to
have the congressional committee sup
Dress them.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

In Italy an official can fight five
duals and come off with a scratch
and yet have the honor of all concerned
perfectly satisfied. Why cannot the
Italian duels be made more exciting?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

1t is to be distinctly understood that
Mr.. Bryan reserves the right to de-
eide for himself not only as between
loyalty and d~isloyalty, but also as to
the degrees of loyalty.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-16

When the Navy department made
the exhibit that food is as cheap as
dirt in China, the Cleveland Leader
Immediately inquiries, What is the
tariR on Chinese dirt?"