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Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
People Talked About

As money makers the potato dukes have
the hard coal barons pushed off the earth
just 10 vary the scenery and encourage
the Don't Worry club" glimpse Of the
black center cold wave flag fluttering nom
the weather Flagstaff would be soothing to
weary eyes.
The Bee Il authorized 70 explain that the
Omaha citizen who IL ever ready to trade
winter for summer weather. excludes inc
century level Of heat from his bargain
counter terms.
one hundred ana four degrees in the
shade in Boston for three days. Holy
smokel who could imagine the change
from beans to spaghetti would cause such
burning sensation.
Gobs Of sympathy are geing out to
Speaker Clark, who 10 undergoing an en-
forced summer roast In Washington, while
$1,000 a week In good chautaudua money
mocks his efforts 70 appear cheerful
Call II intuition u you like, but there
was a fine stratum OF good sense In the
omaha dog which tempered the wind from
baking pavements by stretching full length
on a cake OF ice while the ice man slaked
his thirst
The side line OF judicial hot air legally
known as "abiter dicta" proved a con-
venient shelter for Massachusetts, Judge
who declared the husband is the natural
and rightful boss Of the home" Explana-
ton checked storm.
A certain actor distinguished for his mat
rimonial attachments and detschments, un-
Intentionally draws ifesize picture Of
himself when in the first nstallment OF
his story. he quotes the remark of a guest
to his wife, How did you come to marry
such vulgar little person?"
The Joyous popular outbursts which
greeted the descent Of the mercury on
Wednesday smothered line or two OF
live news, towit: Not one OF the weather
men were burned in the nationwide ST.
rocco. The perverstty of nature enables
the wicked to postpone payment
The ice barons OF indianapolis are modest
fellows seemingly unwilling to skin the
consumer in one season. SPrices were
pushed UP from 30 TO IS cents a hundred.
The former figure was a money maker.
the latter a mint. 5o-cent rate in Hoos-
| ierdom would make Standard oil divi-
dend look like a plugged nickel
As long as Mr. owen Moran persisted IN,
calling himself an Engishman. no other
course was open to Mr.. Ad wolgast, as a
patriotic American. but to lay the English
man on the mat as gently as possible.
| The pursuit of pleasure on the Fourth must
not be abrogated at the behest of visiting
| sports.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
Partitioning Morocco.

Russia, Germany, France Spain
and England, SO reports state, have
entered into an agreement to avoid a
crisis In Morocco. In this case crisis,
we ere to understand, means war.
War may be avoided and yet the par
tition OF Morocco remain inevitable,
in the minds of most students OF the
situation. Inevitable for two primary
reasons; first, because Morocco can
not maintain a stable form of govern
ment itself; and, second, because Ger
many will not allow France to, France
being assigned protectorate over the
empire under the Algericas treaty of
1906.
1t is now firmly believed that, aside
from all nice promises betweeen the
powers to avoid crisis, Germany will
sooner or later demand dismember-
ment of Morocco and that then the
various powers will step in and get
their share. Whether this outcome is
the best at this time or not, European
nOIlOHb NGhAOS dIAOAu "
anarchy at their very door and that
is what they are doing so long as they
leave Morocco to the elements within
it, no two of which have yet been able
to agree.
Germany, so far as that goes, is al
ways seeking to expand, and here is a
place to plant its authority and acquire
new territory. Germany has never
abandoned its desire for footing in
Africa, which dates back to the time
of the Jameson raids, and it's longing
for Liberian territory goes back even
further-to 1880. Even in this view
OF the situation, we do not necessarily
see international hostilities. for some
how, it should be possible for the five
European powers to get together, IL
partition is to be the program.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
A General Parcels Post.

President Taft has let 1t be un-
oflcially announced through his sec
rotary that he will in his next message
to congress urge the passage of a
general parcels post bill. The presi-
dent in his annual message recon-
mended limited parcels post on rural
routes and his present purpose is the
result of views strengthened by inves-
legations the Postofice department
has made since he took this original
step.
1t is the characteristic Taft way of
proceeding toward new legislation
cautiously and by degrees. 1t was
his idea OF proceeding with the intro
duction of the postal savings banks
and 1t has worked out well. The par
cells post, like the postal savings bank,
needs only test to demonstrate its
desirability in this country. To be-
gin with, II lie urgently demanded. In
the next place, our government is en-
inently equipped through its Postofice
department for carrying on this
branch of the business. There is no
reason why it should not take 1t over
and reduce the burdens the people
endure from the express companies.
which have had a monopoly on the
traffic.
With the influence OF the president
back of it, complete parcels post
should succeed in becoming law in
spite of express company opposition.
Popular sentiment will be back OF the
president and congress will scarcely
dare deny its plea. II should be pos
sible, therefore. to obtain a parcels
post law early in the next congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
Can We Get the Money Back :

Can we get back the money invested
in the Panama canal? Should we try
to get It back? And, n SO, how shall
we proceed to do it? These questions
are propounded. although not exactly
in this form, in the discussion of the
future OF the Panama canal con-
tributed to the current Outlook by
Colonel Goethals, head Of the canal
construction, and by Colonel Roose-
welt, under whom as president the
early problems Of the canal focused.
II is estimated that the canal when
completed and ready for use will have
cost the United States $4,000, 900.
The interest on this money alone will
constitute a tremendous fixed charge
IL It is to be met out Of canal reve-
nues over and above the current ex-
penses of operation, and the possibility
OF profits big enough to furnish sink
ing fund to pay off the principal is
more or less speculative. Canal
| traffic will, it must be remembered,
| COliic ihtO NOAlBGAAllOhb hllGNl VI lAhl-
rect, with other transportation agen-
Instrumentation railroads, the
old water routes and the Mediterra-
nean-Suez canal route, and, as Colonel
Goethals points out, shipping will be
attracted to Panama only for purely
commercial reasons, promising to
move the cargo to its destination in
the shortest time and for the least
outlay. The transcontinental rail-
roads would naturally prefer to have
the canal tolls so high as not to inter
fere seriously with their business,
while the tendency of water competi-
ton will be to pull the tolls down.
Colonel Cocktails believes that the
canal should be conducted on a profit
basis and exploited by the government
the same as it would be If 1t were in
the hands of huge private corpora
ton. He would make the canal zone
a big plant to take ships from one
ocean to the other, coaling and re-
pairing them enroute, and to furnish
food and other supplies. equipment.
housing and laundering on a gigantic
scale to their crews and passengers
as well as to the operating force of
the canal, and with constant view
to profit from these side lines in add.
ton to canal tolls. This plan is in
dorsed by Colonel Roosevelt as the
only feasible way in which the $685.
100000 put into the ditch" can be
made to come back, and work still to
far greater public advantage than
could be done by any private corpora
ton.
With the completion of the canal
not four years off, assuming freedom
from interruption, it is certainly none
too early to take up these questions
and try to arrive at the best answers
The operation of the canal will doubt.
less be to a degree experimental at the
start, but nothing should be omitted
to prevent costly mistakes where "a
much depends on starting right.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
Golden Cate for Che Exposition.


san Francisco, It may be assumed.
will settle the problem for itself Of
where to hold its Panama exposition
In 1918, but II rank outsider" who
can only boost for that great interna-
tional affair, may be pardoned for
obtruding a suggestion, we would like
to add voice to the Chronicles insist
ent demand that the exposition be held
in Golden Gate park.
People will attend that fair from all
parts of the world. We imagine II 1t
we're possible to call on prospective
visitors for vote on sites, they would
cast their ballots Overwhelmingly for
Golden Gate park, which, It seems, is
the only perfectly fitting place in the
city or on the coast for such an exhibit
ton. In the Golden Gate, let the ma
lions OF the earth be gathered. The
Golden Gate, itself, may be a myth in
the main, except that out yonder in
the blue Pacific as you approach San
! Francisco two hooks of land seem to
come toward each other from opposite
sides and form an opening into which
you pass from the great, llmitless sea.
Who that has not been to California
does not think first Of the Golden
Gate? What an appropriate thing It
would be to usher the vast throngs
attracted by this exposition into the
park bearing that name, from which
they might look out into the Golden
Gate itself. The fair commentaries
passageway that will link nations to-
gether and here is the passageway
through which nations pass--the cor
ridor leading the way from the orient
to the occident.
Selfish interests should not govern
in the selection of this site. San Fran
ciscans with real estate to sell are not
the only ones concerned in the success
of the Panama exposition. That
thought should obtain in the deter
mination Of the best place to hold the
fair. The Chronicle is right-there
are vast stretches over the sand dunes
and through the brush OF the unim-
proved part of the park that would
afford an ideal site for such an exposi-
ton. 1t is to be hoped it will succeed
in its effort to locate II there.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
The Yap in Gotham.

A Missourian in New York writes
to the Herald of that city to ask the
definition of ''yap," term he hears
so often from Gothamites, and the
Herald replies
The term is used TO describe loud voiced
visitor to Gotham who makes himself cor
spicuous in any gathering by underbred
and overdemonstrative manners. II our
correspondent remains in New York long
enough he. too, may adopt this brief word
to describe unpleasant visitors.
All the 'loud-mouthed" people in
New York, those who make them
selves conspicuous by underbred and
overdemonstrative manners" are Wis
itors, then? 1t is doubtful, exceed
ingly doubtful.
Only the other day another New
York paper was protesting against the
"cult of rowdyism," saying it had be-
come unsafe for women to visit GER
tain OF the cooling spots about the
city, because of this "cult of rowdy-
ism" they encountered on suburban
cars and at these places.
Webster defines rowdy as "a
riotous, turbulent fellow" Perhaps
the zap and the rowdy are one and the
same person, and not necessarily a
visitor to New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
The Informer.

A law enacted by the recent Ne
braska legislature which has Just gone
into force prohibits and fixes a penalty
for the smoking Of cigarettes or cigars
or the use OF tobacco in any form
whatsoever by minors under IS years
Of age AS the sale Of tobacco TO minors
under Is years OF age was already
penalized offense, this enlargement Of
the statute to make the minor q CO
culprit would not call for special at
tention except for the fact that the
new law carries with II this rider:
nformers-Provided that any minor so
charged with the violation Of this act may
be free from prosecution when he shall
have furnished evidence for the conviction
OF the person or persons selling or giving
him the cigarettes, cigars or tobacco.
This new law, therefore, contains
standing offer for every person
charged with violating 1t to turn
states evidence and go free. 1t is a
perpetual immunity bath for the
minor who accepts the invitation to
become an informer. 1t is practically
an offer of $40 reward, or rather re-
mission Of $40 fine, for any person
under is years of age who may give
evidence of the illegal sale OF tobacco
to minors.
This editor does not use tobacco in
any form and has no sympathy what
ever for tobacco dealers who for few
cents inculcate the cigarette or to-
bacco habit in boys not old enough to
know what they are doing. He believes
that law putting a stop to such prac-
tees is eminently proper, but he also
believes that the law becomes ques-
tionable IL at the same time it teaches
the boy a worse habit The idea of
turning informer is repulsive to every
right-minded person. That contempt
for the informer Is innate in children
is clear from the fact that 1t crops out
in their play, and the one who bears
tales or "tattles" Immediately falls
under an odium and loses caste among
his playmates. Either the boys who
are caught in the meshes of this law
will refuse to take advantage Of the
immunity offered to the informer, or
IL they peach" they will be likely to
find themselves classed by their fell
lows with the undesirables. We are
more inclined to believe that this sec
tion of the law will be a dead letter.
and remain SO, because no one who
admires manly qualities will resort to
1t as a means of temptation.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

washington Herald. Shades Of the I'm
mortal "Eiijah" Dowiei Overseer Voliva
and lS9 others at Zion City have been ~
dicted for election frauds.
Pittsburg Dispatch: A Boston preacher
traces the lineage Of George back 70
Adam. But doesn't he go back too far
''when Adam delved and Eve span who
was then the gentleman"
81. Paul Pioneer Press: An artificial
cooling plant has been Installed in New
york church Unless many New Workers.
mend their ways they viii find no arti-
fetal cooling plants in the hereafter.
Cleveland Leader: II the minister who
preached at a Sunday base bali game was
sufficiently vigorous in denounoing the evil
one he will probably be invited again. Tho
bleacherites are constantly ON the lookou,
for new words to say TO the umpire
BROOKLYN Eagle; Bishop Nibley OF the
Mormon church who is testfying in Wash
inrton, is also business manager OF his
church Don c. seitz, who recently urged
that churches have business managers. ia
sustained in this instance, where beet
sugar was made a highly profitable side
line to religion,
Baltimore American; A Hindu phnoso-
pher and scholar who has been visiting
this country declares we have all the heath
ems we can manage at home. and that the
money sent abroad to make converts is
wasted and could be better spent in mis-
sionary work among the Greeks at or
own doors" He also made some causfIC
comments on practical Christianity In the
United states. Sometimes the oriental
mind displays unexpected but comprehen.
sive accuracy OF observation OF western
superiority
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
PRETTY FAT TREASURY.
Fine showing of the Fiscal Finances
Of Uncle sam.

Fine Showing OF the Ftscai Finances
of Uncle sam.
Chicago Record Herald.
The treasury's statement for June 30 has
Just been published. and Uncle Sans fl
nances make very good showing. The
fiscal years 1908 and 1909 closed with un-
comfortable defioits--s5o.o0O 900 and Scs,ISS,-
900 respectively. The fiscal year 1910 had q
surplus OF nearly $l6,Ooo,0o0, but the year
which ended on Saturday takes us back to
1907, when a huge surplus was recorded.
The excess OF ordinary receipts over or
binary disbursements on Saturday last was
SIS, 6sl. $50. while the excess Of all receipts
over all disbursements, which include the
Panama expenditures, was Si.Soe0oo.
Income from internal revenue exceeded
that from customs There was decline
in customs receipts as compared with the
previous fiscal year of over ns,0OoOoo, but
internal revenue, including. OF course. the
corporation tax, yielded the record-break-
ing total Of over 1927. 10000. The expendi-
lures were less than In 1910, or than the
original estimates; economies were effected
in several directions, notably in the postal
service, where the deficit was wiped out.
A remarkable feature Of the years fiscal
record is that the government is almost
able 10 pay isthmian canal expenses out OF
the current revenues. The disbursements
on the Panama account were not much be-
yond the excess Of ordinary receipts over
ordinary expenditures However. the treas
ury has adopted different policy, canal
bonds have been issued TO reimburse the
treasury. and in spite OF the returned SUR
plus further canal bond issues are likely
under the legislation authorizing full re-
endorsement Of the general fund.
The year broke all records for foreign
commerce. The exports attained and passed
the S2.Oo00OO,0oo mark and IL is claimed
that the diplomatic and consular service.
by It's well-directed work in the orient and
In South America, has been an important
factor in extending our sales abroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09

into the broad forum Of speculation
and admits OF good deal of discus
sion from persons who have watched
proceedings of the kind in which
bloodhounds have engaged. In GER
tain parts OF the country this would
be very welcome and popular de-
cision, for It dovetsils nicely into the
demands OF justice there TO accredit
bloodhound evidence. In other places,
however, where the antics of blood
hounds have been watched with more
or less amusement. the decision doubt
less will arrest the soberest kind OF
thought on the subject. 1t is novel,
at least. to attach legal status to
the testimony OF dog as a witness
in court Of Justice
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
REBUFF FoR TEcHNIcALIrY.
Banker Morse Fails in His Last Move
for Release.

Banker Morse Fails in His Last Move
for Release.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The case of Banker c. W. Morse seems to
be one instance where the most ingenious
resort to technicality fails to open the
prison doors. After all other motions
and appeals had failed and the petition
to the president had brought tart refusal,
the latest effort to procure his release on
the pleas that mis- sentence was illegal
and that he was in the wrong jail has been
dismissed by Judge W. T. Newman of the
federal district court at Atlanta.
The contention OF his counsel was that
the utmost penalty for any count upon
which he was convicted was ten years,
and that as the fifteen years sentence had
not been apportioned among the counts, but
imposed as a gross sentence 1t was five
years more than the law provided for and
that therefore the whole sentence was
illegal. Judge Newman refused to exalt
technicality above common sense and ruled
that 1t would be time enough to consider
the alleged excess OF five years when MIR.
Morse has completed his ten years.
On the other plea that Morse was not
sentenced to hard labor, but had been
wrongfully imprisoned in a penitentiary
where the prisoners were compelled to
labor, Judge Newman said he did not know
OF any penitentiary where the prisoners
were not required to do some work and
that If there was such an institution it
was worse for the prisoners. 1t was not
alleged that the former Ice king is being
overworked and since the Atlanta insti-
tuition seems to be as good as any 1t was
decided that he might as well serve there
as elsewhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
Bloodhound Evidence,

Every dog has his day, and this
seems to be the day of the bloodhound
In Kansas, where the supreme court
has given him a real status as an
agent OF justice, holding in case
brought before 1t that where a hound
has been proved accurate in following
a trail Of human footsteps the evil
dence shall be sufficient to convict.
The decision comes in the case of a
man against whom the sole evidence
is a pair of shoes and the blood
hounds trail.
But what, after all, does this add
to the agency of the dog in working
out the ends of justice? The accu-
raey Of his trail must be established
by corroborative evidence before it is
worth anything. That is so with
any other kind of evidence. How is
the hound to be proved accurate in
his scent unless some human wit
nesses have inside knowledge OF the
facts that will enable them to deter
mine the accuracy of the dogs testi-
mony?
All that aside. however, in this very
case on which the ruling is made.
there seems to be no other evidence
than the dogs trail and the shoes Of
the man he is supposed to have
tracked and the decision goes against
the man. That. then, throws the
question OF the dogs accuracy out
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
Wrinkleless Skin
Now Easy to Have
tFrom the FanIly Phyricianl

tFrom the Family Physician)
There's no excuse for any woman hav-
ing wrinkles now. 1t has been found that
simple mixture of saxolite and witch
hazel has remarkable action upon the
deepest wrinkles, no matter what their
nature. whether caused by worry, habit
ual frowning, a debilitated condition OF
the ravages OF Father Time. This harm
less remedy, which anyone can easily
make and use at home. acts both as an
astringent and a tonic. The combined
effect OF Tightening the skin and heighten-
ing It's vitality is to Immediately affect
every wrinkle. keeping the cuticle smooth
and firm as In youth.
The proportions are one ounce satellite
(powdered) to one-half pint witch hazel
The solution should be used as a wash To-
ton. 1t is equally effective in disposLaos
OF fiabbiness OF check and neck as well
as sagging below the eyes.--Adv.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09

lie colony. England conferred the peer
age upon him. He has been not only
a ruling force IN Canadian affairs, but
friend of the United states and an
associate and adviser OF some Of it's
strong men. among them James ].
Hill. who sought his cooperation in
building the Great Northern, taking
advantage OF bis experience in helping
to build the Canadian Pacific. Eng
land, Scotland and ireland have We'd
with each other In honoring Cansdas
grand old man, about which too little
Is heard.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
CASTLE OF THE EVIL GIANTS.
Harriet PRESCOTT spoffor,

Harriet Prescott Spofford.
1t doomed on the far horizon,
Monstrous and evil and dark
The moat at it's base was blackness
And Its towers were stern and stark.
What horrors those walls encompassed,
What bones of forgotten kings,
What soundess depths of dontons,
What shadows of unknown things.
But II lay in the way before him
Should he pause2 Should he turn aside,
Where into soft, Pickering sunlight
The path ran fair and wide?
Nay. nay; let him press straight forward
Horn at lip, and sword at wrist
And 10, the terrible castle,
Is a rolling cloud OF mist.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09
Pathos and Romance of Invention.
TTntan

The million mark in the number of pat
ents issued by the United States patent
office since its creation in 179o soon will he
reached, and wonderful record Of Yankee
inventiveness will have been established.
The million will include many remarkable
and In some cases world-revolutionizing
inventions, but It will also comprise many
thousands, perhaps hundreds OF thousands,
of devices absolutely worthless for the
purposes for which they were intended,
which stand as 80 many monuments TO
wasted time, money and energy. blasted
hopes or unrealized dreams There IA
pathos and tragedy in the varied exhibits
bf the patent office, as we'll as q record
of the crowning achievements OF inventive
RenitIS.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-09

Whenever pension increase is
granted the pension bureau notifies
the senator and congressman in whose
bailiwick the pensioner happens to re-
side, and these oficials promptly write
him form letter telling him they did
II. Which reminds us that the same
performance lie being pulled off with
reference to the location of the rail-
way mail service division headquar-
tiers at Omaha.