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Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Old-fashioned winters, like old-fasbioned
rotions' are good enough to die young.
Sojourners in winter resort hotels deo,sr "a
that high living provokes emphatic think
irs-on the conservation of the currency.
Some Of the oysters taken into our
systems, according to DR.. Wiley, haven't
the slightest respect for the pure food law.
Advocates Of the cheaper grades of meat
as a means Of economy neglect to mention
what dental shop carries the right grade
Of teeth.
Walt Wellman has arrived at the con-
versation stage OF a balloon voyage across
the Atlantic. 1t is a feasible way Of getting
into the swim.
Spectators in cold storage eggs stand to
lose over s1,OOo,OOO. according to New York
advices. The losers are in the strictly
fresh" class.
peculiar fitness in the proposal to mark
with a Carnegie medal the resting place
of the champion life saver.
Williamsport, Pa, persists in its claim
to be the ~llveliest town of It's size on the
map. 1t acts up like a hustling western
town where live ones are on the jump and
dead ones boxed. 1t is "a city that does
things" Push and pull are the towns
slogan. If the push is not strong enough
the pull gets in front and the wheels 60
round. In the last five years citizens
pledged a fund OF $4si. 200, paid in annual
installments, with which the wheels of
progress were CREASED and kept going, and
the fact megaphoned to other communities.
Williamsport's plan is worth while, and is
not patented.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
A PLAINsMAN'S PHILOSOPHY.

j. w. Foley in New York Times. aa
When It gifts to comm easy; when it's
framed up all your way,
When you've got 'em all a-comtn' with tn
dollars out TO pay;
It list seems as though you couldn't git In
badwise IL you tried, 4g, ,,-,t,1..
An tn, amt no game a-goin' but you're
right on tn inside;
When 1t gifts t. comm easy, everybody sort
O. seems
T. be anxious for I help you keep on.
It's when things git coimn' easy that y
travel, right along,
But, sayl Amt 1t h T. stop 'em when
things git t goin' wrong!
1 been punchin' long-horn cattle nigh on
moren twenty years.
I know all about their notions, an I've
Earned their likes an fears;
An they're list like things hat happen in
tn lives Of YOU an me,
When they get { drivin' gentle, they're as
gentle as kin be.
swishin' OF a tail,
Not tn battin' Of an eyebrow as they fol-
Ter on tn trail,
An you hardly need T. watch 'em, cause
they travel right along.
But sayl Amt 1t h t stop 'em when
they sit t goin' wrong!
I know It is, OIL feller-I have been all
through tn mill,
I've enjoyed my share of trouble I'm en-
Joytn' trouble still;
T've seen sunny days an cloudy, I've had
sumchus fare an plain,
I've had beans and bread for dinner an 1
may be there again;
An I've had things comm easy, when It
seemed { be a sin
Jist t open up my tent flap an t let more
sunshine in;
When things git Z comm easy, days an
nights go by like song.
But, sayl Amt 1t h. Z stop 'em when
things Git t goin' wrong!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
Woman,s Sense Of Hnmor.

Here's another man hunting for
trouble. John Kendrick Bangs in a
new lecture say woman has no orig
inal humof; that Adam was the Jester
in the Garden Of Eden and that
neither Eve nor IN of her daughters
possessed that element which makes
for original fun. One wonders what
sort Of women Mr.. Bangs has asso-
ciated with all his life to reach such
a conclusion. He cites us to a list Of
women who have achieved something
of a name in the literary world, the
essence Of whose work is the quaint
and happy vein Of lightness that
laughs all through it, and then tells
us that woman has no humor. She
may be unconsciously funny, says Mr..
Bangs, but he AYERS he has never met
a woman who is consciously a
humorist.
In this latter clause woman is paid
a really deserved compliment. Her
humor is the spontaneous sort that
doesn't weary nor disappoint the taste
with a bitter quality. She does not
strain her wit to crack a joke, nor af-
front intelligence in her effort to be
consciously humorous. In this she
but modestly lives up to the high state
in which man has placed her. The
conscious humorist is so often a tire
some buffoon that most folks wish him
well gone before he gets we'll started.
And no woman of good intelligence
would willingly weary those around
her with conscious" attempts at jest
and merriment.
But maybe Mr.. Bangs was merely
Consciously" funny when he made his
sweeping assertion. At all events he
has something to learn about woman
II he thinks she has no sense of humor,
original and deeply planted. Any
time you doubt it ask your lodge
brother what he told his wife when he
got home from the last convocation
and how she received the tale. He
knows whether she has a of
humor. At any rate, it is unfair to
deprive poor woman Of everything.
Having stripped her of the right to
vote, to bear arms and to do other
things she wants to, isn't 1t rubbing it
in to tell her she can neither make or
take a joke?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
Progress Against the White Plague

Statistics compiled by the National
Association for the Study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis serve to give an
idea of the wonderful progress that is
being made under systematic leader
ship in the fight against the white
plague. During the "a 1909, Just
closed, 1913 new anti-tuberculosis as
~sociations were formed, 1913 tubercu-
losis sanatoria and hospitals we're es-
tablished and n~inety-one tuberculosis
dispensaries were opened, and this
year is far in excess Of any previous
year In the table. Totals for the
whole country up to date are 394 anti
tuberculosis associations, 3S6 tubercu-
losis sanatoria and hospitals and 265
tuberculosis dispensaries. In these
hospitals $1,000 patients were treated
and in the dispensaries over $4,000
patients.
The work of prevention, however, Is
even more important for accomplish
ing the end of stamping out the white
plague than the work Of treating those
seriously afflicted. The problem re-
solves itself into one Of proper hous-
ing, light and air and proper santa
ton in living rooms and workshops.
All the various agencies that are CO.
operating in these directions are really
enlisted in the fight against the white
plague. To the extent that this dread
disease is preventable by the righting
of unsanitary conditions, the respon-
sibility rests with the community, and
it is gratifying to know how substan-
tial are the gains already made and
how promising the prospect of still
further progress.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

President Taft has said he would
recommend to congress the enactment
OF a model insurance law for the Dis
trict Of Columbia for the various states
to copy. 1t is up to the insurance COM
panies to submit, subject to modifi-
cation, what they would consider a
model insurance law and II they cannot
get together, as in all probability they
cannot. it will be incumbent on some
M on the outside familiar with the
subject to draft the a and let
the insurance companies accommodate
themselves to 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
Our Birthday Book
February 9, 1910.

George ]. Gould, head OF the Gould
family and mag Of the numerous Gould
railway properties, was born February 6
1854. in New York. The Gould railroads
that come into Omaha are the Missouri
Pacific and the Wabash. At one time the
Goulds dominated the Union Pacific.
Jesse r.. Grant, one OF the sons OF Pres
ident Grant, was born February g. 1858,
and is now practicing law in New York.
job w. Batten, whose law offices are
In the New York Life building, is ~ years
old today. Jack" Batten was one Of the
popular men at Cornell university, where
he graduated. and has also figured some
what in local politics here.
John H.. Bexton, IN expert accountant,
in the First National Bank building. was
born February 6. 1860. in Quincy, Ill. Mr..
Bexton is a prominent member OF the
knights of Pythias, in which he has had
high official honors.
Samuel II. Smyth, editor Of the soVer-
eign Visitor Of the Woodmen Of the World,
Is IS. He is an Englishman by birth and
was a letter carrier for thirteen years at
Davenport. Ia, before he took up his pres
ent work.
Major General Samuel s. sumner, United
States Army. was born in Pennsylvania
February 6, ls42. General Sumner com
handed the division in che Cuban cam
paign during the spanish-American war
In which Colonel Roosevelt's regiment was
brigaded and was for a short whlie in
command Of the Department Of the Mis-
souri,. He was retired in 1906
william Hafke. the real estate a is
20. lie was born in Germany. but came to
this country e only . years old. and
educated IN the schools hers N Omaha
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

rocal acquaintance is to be heartily
desired il the common aim OF parent
and teacher is to be realized. Teach
ers need to touch ground occasionally,
to know human frailties, the better
to understand human nature and the
practical objects Of their work. The
parent raising children to future use
fulness likewise often needs the uplift
engendered by occasionally breathing
an atmosphere not entirely filled with
the dust and smoke Of dollars and
cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
A Court Of Wages.

Discussing the presidents proposal
for an interstate court for
more effective railway regulation, Paul
Morton puts in a plea for "a court Of
wages as well as "a court of com
merce," or rather for the two in one.
Mr.. Morton, who, although now a
life insurance president, came up
through the railway world, insists
that the question Of wages paid to
railroad employees is in fact part of
the question OF railroad rates. and that
both should be arbitrated or adjusted
by the same tribunal. The railroad
rates of the United States, he pro-
nounces the lowest in the world in
spite Of the payment of the highest
wages in the world to railway en-
ployes. over so per cent Of the
cost of transportation is for labor, and
IL a court is to decide what is a rea-
sonable rate, why should 1t not. asks
Mr.. Morton, also be the best tribunal
in case of disputes to say what a rea-
sonable wage is for the employe?
Can the reasonableness of the whole
be determined without the reasonable
ness of a part being considered? Mr..
Morton suggests, of course, that II
railway wages and costs of material
are going to continue to advance, rail-
way rates must keep pace with them,
although ever admitting the premise
there is room to take issue with him
as to increased rates being a necessary
corollary.
Mr.. Morton, however, renders good
service in emphasizing the Importance
Of the wage side Of the larger rail
road question. At the recent meeting
Of the American Economic association
in New York City, the editor of The
Bee ventured to raise the point in a
debate on the subject of physical valu-
alton, that the employees might have
an interest in determining on what
capitalization rates should properly
be gagged in order to offer a fair
return TO the owners, because on that
same capitalization must be based the
equitable division of the earnings be-
tween the owners and the employees.
In other words, there are, at least,
four parties concerned with every
question of rate-making-the producer
or shipper and the consumer, the rail-
way owner and the railway employe.
1t would not be a great leap, there
fore, for an interstate court
with powers of rate-making to take
jurisdiction of wage controversies and
render decisions in both founded on
justice, equity and ~fair-dealing.
Whether such a court Of wages for
disputes between railroads and their
employees would stop there or would
eventually extend its authority over
wages disputes for all corporations en-
gagged in interstate commerce, or for
wage disputes for all corporations en-
ing question which points to posi-
bilities. The court OF will
probably have to come first and let us
deal with the acknowledgements as
they arise.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
The Real Simple Life.

How easy it is to live and enjoy
yourself when you know how to do It!
No more WEAKNESS of either flesh or
spirit, no more hunger, no more dis
turbance Of the soul because Of
strange environment. All is fair and
bright before US now, and we may defy
the meat man, the doctor and even the
person who wants to tell us a funny
story when we are trying to work.
How do we do It? Listen to the lady
who has evolved the emancipation of
the race. Mrs. Mildred Manley Eas-
ton-euphemistic, eh?-talking to a
room full of women at a fashionable
New York hotel, says:
When you go to your room tonight, first
remove whatever clothing in any way i'm
pedes the freedom of your movement Then
rest the tips Of your fingers lightly on the
crown Of your head. F1x in your mind the
thought that the touch you feel is one end
Of a cord and that an angel is holding the
other end and swinging you gently through
space.
Isn't that delightful? Swinging
through space, dangling at the end of
a cord held by an angel; and, If the
angel be a good-natured one, mayhap
you'll get a closer glimpse. Beats
awaiting in the prospect, at any rate.
Do you get hungry? Then you are
coarse of fiber. Mrs. Easton says that
only coarse-hbered persons get hun
cry; the finely attuned individuals
know OF nothing so gross as a stomach
or its foolish craving for food. Eigh-
teen hours work on end is easy for
these properly-set-up individuals.
That's why poets, for example, seldom
eat, and the steady working mechanic
always does. Hitherto it has been
fatuously held that the price had
something to do with this fact, but
now we know that it is the difference
in the fiber. Well never again be
sorry for a poet who looks hungry.
Tired? How silly. Don't throw
back your shoulders; 1t will give you
rheumatism, but if you really must
rest, just lean back against your me-
dulla oblongata. You may not know
where to find it, but lean against it,
just the same. Only, you must simply
imagine that it rests against some
thing. This is easy enough after a
little practice and does away entirely
with the sensation of WEAKNESS. And,
above all, you mustn't be regular in
your habits. Habit is the bugbear of
timid souls and does more than any
thing else to destroy individuality.
And, finally, to keep from growing old,
don't grow old. Just keep mind and
heart for new impressions and do not
let your muscles or your affections be-
come atrophied, and you'Il never get
old.
The lecturer with the musical name
will probably be hailed as the priestess
of a new cult; but she hasn't discov-
cred much that is new. Most of her
recommendations have been tried by
individuals for ages, and the net result
has generally been denominated lazi-
ness by the coarse-hbered persons who
struggle for beefsteaks and the like
and go to bed when they feel sleepy.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Governor Noel of Mississippi has
prolonged the legislative session in
order to give more time to break the
senatorial deadlock. In the meantime,
Mississippi is one OF the southern
states loudly proclaiming the demo
cratic slogan, Let the People Rule"
which has taken no action to join In
the demand or congress for a consti-
tutional amendment for the election
of senators by direct popular vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
DOMESTIC P~1EAsANTRIEs.

"aut Aunt Bella, l simply can't marry
that odious Captain Klockstopl .,oum-
"Why not. dear? ConsldeI nus Snsidas
stances and his position I'm society; Besiaes,
an Inc end of a few years you VIII DC JUS JUS
az er-odious as he is, and you won NO
ice the difference,-chicago Tribune
An. sninsterlyL hope that your opin-
tons uphold the dignity OF our sex mannnav,
and That you believe that every "0"'"h
should have a vote. that
nnats' Int I believe that every woman
sho,id nave a voter!-Human Lie.
SCOTT always thought Il was rough on
Adam to rob him OF his RID. 10.
Mott-Yes; but on the other hand, II was
the making OF Eve.-Bcston Transcript
Tess-It's funny that handkerchief a.
ways seem to be so popular ~ '
gifts.
Tsss-Yss' I've got more than three
IessExhi one on each birthday, chi
Catholic standard and Times.
q devotedly love q married o1S ,o TS% sSoot #,
being your wife
mo- q bit of H."
WHO II she, them.
my mother "-Baltimore American
officiatinR CIergyman-At the wedding
this evening, Mr.. Slmpkins, 90 you Intend
TO give your daughter Tay 49,,
enumeration besides that, I'm only too
glad 70 get her off my hands,
Paw. wasn't that horrible dinner'"
.Rut You handed the waiter a din when
We went away. What did you do that
vi wanted to convey the idea to him,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
Two Ways of FIghtins.
Boston Herald.

me boycott is the battle Of might. Appeal
TO the law is the battle for right. The meat
boycott is a test Of endurance between the
consumer and the meat trusts, and what
ever may be the temporary advantage, the
endurance Of the trust is likely to be the
greater. In the appeal to the law and to
the law-making power the people and the
trusts stand on equal terms, and although
the battle MAJ be longer, right rather than
might finally will prevail.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

The so-called insurgents in congress
insist that they are more loyal to the
republican platform pledges than are
the regulars. The country at large
will willingly put them all up to the
SHOW Me" test.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

That reminds us again. that a dis
tinguished fellow citizen once went
up and down the country assuring us
that prices OF farm products would
never rise again until we opened our
minis Ia the free coinage of silver at
the sacred ratio OF l6 to l without
waiting for the aid or consent Of any
other nation on cart
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Paris loses no opportunity to ex-
press gratitude for assistance in it's
distress given from the United States.
Whenever there is real need, no appeal
for help goes unanswered.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

It is to be hoped that the threatened
expulsion OF Iowa State university stu
dents for cribbing may not set a gen.
eral precedent-unless It is considered
desirable to pull down the attendance
figures for most OF our institutions
for higher education.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

When Governor s~hallenberger stood
up to be photographed along with his
colleagues in attendance on the con-
ference of the governors at Washing
ton last month he picked out a place
just behind Governor Hadley Of Mis-
souri, and in front of Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock. We felicitate Ne
braska's governor on getting into such
good republican company.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Over in Chicago, the Auto show is
to have for a background a stage set
ting representing a forest. With this
realistic surrounding it will be easier
for the spectators to imagine a break
down out on a lonely road.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Along with the retirement pensions
for superannuated employees which va
rious big corporations are establishing
comes a tightening Of the dead line
against employment of men in ad-
vaneed years. The Rock Island rail
road, for example. accompanies ats
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

That New York World libel suit
was thrown out Of court on a question
OF Jurisdiction II the World really
wants "a set off all the ammunition it
has gathered. it ought to be able to
find some competent tribunal willing
TO see that It is properly indicted.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Commander Peary's plan for an Ant
arctic expedition contemplates reach
ing the South pole about December 81,
1911. Why not move it up a little
and take along a Christmas plum pud-
ding?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Speaker Cannon has been asked to
set aside a room in the house office
building as a gymnasium for the use
of the members of the house of rep
resentatives. Thought they got all the
gymnastic exercise they needed lam
bastIng uncle joe"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Sir Horace Plunkett Is writing
magazine articles about THE Neg
lected Farmer" Wonder If any of
the farmers h~ereabouts really feel
that they are neglected7
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

new pension system with the rule that
no inexperienced person over S5 years
of age nor any experienced person
over 40 shall hereafter be taken into
the company's service. The pension
system is going to make the employ
ment problem a much harder one for
the older man who may be displaced.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Kansas City has a sensation grow
ing out Of the death of a millionaire
philanthropist which overshadows even
its Union depot question. No other
comparison could adequately do it
justice,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
F..s=a sc- .he gSk.
Minneapolis Journal.

The new king of the Belgiums was once
a newspaper reporter, so when the cor
respondents call to see him, hi will know
enough to hand out a fresh cigar and a
straight talk, instead Of retiring behind his
privilege as a king, and throwing the boys
the bunk"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
Same brand of Hot Air.
Chicago Record-Herald.

The breakfast food manufacturers, Just
as the people have begun to find that they
can live without meat, are forming a
combination. 1t is promised by them that
their combination is intended for the pur-
pose Of enabling them to reduce prices to
the consumer, but only very optimistic con-
sumers are likely to base much hope upon
the statement.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
at
Maturity"

Tommy, as delicately as possible, that II
he'd brought us a good feed it would have
been a half dollar."-Chicago Tribune.
My only daughter eloped. And Ill never
forgive herF'
Now, look here, old man. remember"
Remember? Yes. I'd be decent about
1t IL shed let well enough alone. But she
not only eloped-she came back homei'-
Cleveland Leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Everybody in New York is saying
that Mayor Gaynor has made a much
better start than was expected. That
means that they will expect a much
better finish than would otherwise
have sufficed.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
Smiles whitheF the wind Slows.

The farmer doesn't wear his hayseed in
his HAIR any longer. He sells 1t and buys an
automobile. And when doctor, lawyer
merchant chief point their fingers at him
and say, You're It," he merely throws in
the speed clutch and smiles back along the
wind.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

The Mardi Gras is on at New Or
leans, but we will bet dollars to dough
nuts that In point of artistic pageantry
1t has no edge on our own Ak-Sar-Ben.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

1t looks as If it might soon be neces-
sary to establish a speed limit for aero
plane artists and a penalty for atmos-
pheric scorching.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
Can't Reat the GANG.

Washington Herald.
IL we do not slaughter the cattle for
meat, the cattle will eat up all the grass,
and hen the price Of breakfast foods will
advance again. Say, how are we to beat
this game, anyway?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Translated into the vernacular, ad-
vices from Great Britain are to the
effect that the lords are now tame
enough to feed out of the hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Subscriber leaving the city tenn
pOrarily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed M often a. requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

II there is a theater s~calper's trust
in New York it should by all means
be scalped.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
oetore me this 31st day of January, 1910.
HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state OF Nebraska, Douglas County, So.
George h. Tzschuck. treasurer of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number OF full and
complete copies Of The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month Of ~anuarY. 1910. was as folioMH.