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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
Wireless on Railroads.

The possibilities OF wireless teleg-
lraphy are beyond the power Of COM
lprehension After the marvels it has
already performed men are prepared
to believe 1t may accomplish most any
thing. They should be thoroughly
ready to believe in it as a substitute
for the electric block signal system for
the safe transportation of trains. This
is one of the next fields It is likely to
invade. Experiments have for several
years been made with this point in
view on the Union Pacific and they are
regarded as having been most prolific
of promise.
Already we are told communication
between moving trains and signal
towers has been carried on for a dis
lance of sixty-five miles. If that can
be done in few cases, why not in all?
The principle seems to have been es-
tablished The scientists say wireless
waves more readily follow steel rails
or stream of water than open space
or woods, so that the railroad affords
natural facilities for this phenomenal
means of communication. Perhaps,
after all, 1t is not so much of trick
to perfect this system. But, then, we
did not know all this before the sci
enlist explored the new regions.
II ships at sea may be rescued in
storms from wrecks and collision by
wireless telegraphy, why may not
trains gliding along on smooth tracks
be safely guided? The value of such
a discovery would be beyond estimate.
But the heralding of it reminds us of
the terrific momentum of the age.
Here, we had scarcely got used to the
block system. 1t is really new, in point
of time. 1t was only little while ago
that it came into general use, and now
It must soon give way to something
better. And in taking this latest step
forward we are, as in other great
realms of science, getting closer to ma
ture, understanding some of its secrets
we'll enough to utilize them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
PerspicuOus.

LINCOLN, March 4.-To the Editor Of
The Bee: I wish to ask you why yon
call the ground on which the university
stands low flats? saw the campus today
and looked It over thoroughly, and I find
that no one has tunneled under it and
that 1t is the same high ground that It
has evidently been for past ages and that
It stands fully twenty-five feet higher than
the highest water mark that was ever
known on the Salt creek flats.
Can you explain why you say the campus
is hemmed in on two sides by railroads?
When L made the statement that fully
three-fourths of the taxpayers of Lincoln
were opposed to the removal of the uni
verslty l wished to be conservative.
have since made a careful investigation
and I find that fully 80 per cent are op-
posed to the removal. and that this in
cludes even the greater portion of the
owners Of property that has been used in
the past for saloons.
1 have always regarded The Bee as a
fair paper. and / should like to know
whether or not you stand for taxing the
people of the state a few million dollars
when no good whatever can come out of II.
except to make a few milionaires Of the
people who own land around the state
! farm EDWIN T. PETERS.
S141 o Street.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
1mnortant Post for Boutell.

Former Congressman Boutell of Illi-
nois is one of the old guard whose de-
feat for reelection last fall has not re-
tired him to private life. He has been
taken care of by appc intment as minis
ter to Portugal. The post is an inn
portant one at this time, owing to the
transition of Portugal from monarchy
to republic. AS the leading republic
of the world. the United States re-
quires tactful representation at Lisbon,
and it is to be hoped Mr.. Boutell will
prove the right man for the place.
When the line of demarkation was
drawn between the factions in the re-
publican party, Congressman Boutell
aligned himself with the ultra-con-
servatives, the Old Guard, as they
came to be known. He linked his po-
litical fortunes with Mr.. Cannon in
Illinois and in the house and, residing
in a district not so solidly conservative
as Cannon's district, he fell when the
storm broke in November. He had
been in the house continuously since
1897, when he was elected to fill out
the unexpired term of the late Edward
Dean Cooke. He has always been an
intense partisan and since President
Taft came into Office has been one of
his most ardent supporters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
A LULLABY.

shet yo' purity eyes ma III groun -hawg,
Curled up in the hole yo dug 80 deep;
Folks won't stan yo III game NV possum;
Pears like yo been a walkln' In yo sleep
Cuddle down to sleep yo' III raskil
An hide yo' mostly, frosty III nose;
Don't go snoopin 'roun' whar yo ain
wanted,
That's the way to make heap NV foes
Put out yo' lfI lamps an quit a brnkin,
Brudder Wesh's han is at the wheel;
Hain't yo' been an seen 70 III shadder?
Say, yo not a-gvin' us a good squar
deal
Brudder Welsh is havin heaps of trouble
An yo contriv to make his troubles
wuss,
Inste,d o doin what's expected NV yo
Yo' actin like sneakln' ll-beast
So shet yo purity eyes ma III groun
hawg
An do the stunt that we're accustomed O.,
Fer Brudder Welsh can bungle thirEs
sufficient
An make things bum without the hcip
OF you. Is. ~ J
Omaha, a..
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
An Experts Views on Coffee.

KEARNEY, Neb.. March Ito tho
Editor Of The Bee; I note a reprint of nm
editorial from the Philadelphia Record in
your paper under the caption. "Prodding
the Coffee Trust" 1t is primarily an
article prodding Congressman Norris, but
from reading It l am so impressed with
the Ignorance OF the coffee situation that
both Mr.. Norris and the editor of the
Philadelphia Record are obsessed with that
cannot refrain from adding a few re-
marks.
In the first place Mr.. Norris seems to
think there is a nefarious scheme on foot
by the Brazilian government and the Roth
childs to corner the coffee market and
raise the price. Even though this should
be so I fail to see what Mr. Norris Of
Nebraska, IT, s A. could do in the prem
ises. This valorization scheme by which
No. Rio has been pushed from to 10
cents is in reality a move Favored to some
extent by a crop shortage) to raise the
price of cheap Brazilian coffee "a large
per cent of the crop Of the Brazilian
farmer) to a price that win pay him
living wages. At cents in New York
the Brazilian coffee grower is on a par
with the American wheat grower when he
has to sell his wheat at IS cents
But now comes the Philadelphia Record
and says that coffee at 10 cents green IL
sold for 20 to 40 cents by the retail grocers
and confesses that II cannot understand
why retail grocers should sell sugar at
cost and coffee at such a profit" As q
matter of fact No. Rio quoted at about
10 cents green and for spot sales, is the
lowest grade or the standard upon which
coffee prices are based in the green, Just
as No. 13 Dutch standard is, or used to be.
the basic price for sugar The editor would
not buy No. 10 Dutch standard sugar to
sweeten his coffee. neither do I believe he
would buy No Rio from which to make
his coffee, even though he could buy II
at retail, as he could for a number of
years, at 121S to 10 cents. It Is, in fact.
these cheaper grades only that have been
affected In any way by the advance OF
Brazilian coffee. A price of 10 cents green
in New York for No. means at least 10
cents when screened, roasted and de-
livered to the retail merchant and that at
the very closest possible margin.
But the coffees that have been selling
for SO to 40 cents at retail were selling at
this price when No. Rios were quoted
at cents, are still selling at the same
price and are Of the same grade and
quality as they were. They stand in the
same relation to No. Rio as a sack of
high grade flour stands to a sack Of bran.
l do not know. of course, what kind of
coffee Mr. Norris or the editor of the
Record use, but hope they are using the
best they can get, and IL they are they
can know nothing Of any advance in coffee
from personal experience. And, personally,
think the Brazilian coffee growers are
entitled to q living profit on their crops.
N. II. JOHNSON.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
Our Visiting Retailers.

The annual meeting of the Ne
braska Federation of Retailers fur
nishes occasion for local merchants
throughout the state to come to
Omaha and return the visits made to
them by our Omaha trade excur-
sionists.
Omaha not only welcomes the re-
tailers as guests, as it does all other
conventions and gatherings which
honor our city with their meeting
place, but also desires to impress on
them the superior advantages of
Omaha as market town. 1t is to
Omahas interest to cultivate and ce-
ment trade relations with the o2er,
chants in the cities and towns OF tbs
surrounding country, but only On the
basis that these relations will be pa-
tually beneficial and profitable. " 10
likewise to the advantage of the mer-
chants to have a great nearby jobbing
center in which they can buy and see
what they buy, and replenish their
stocks on short notice and at lowest
freight charges,
On the social side Omaha is glad to
entertain the visiting retailers, and to
have them get into personal touch
with our people and the attractions of
the city. Omaha is ready to do it's
part as host, and 10 repeat as often as
the guests are willing to come.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
Po.toffIce neficIrnrIs,.

OMAHA, March 6.--To the Editor Of This
Bee: Since the business at our postofficC
is being discussed publicly. I wish to add
word by way Of complaint. In my dis
trict, which is quite centrally located We
are entitled to two deliveries, but because
Of scarcity Of men at the postoffice our
carrier has been given such large route
that generally we receive but one, the
same as the rural districts
Il seems to me that rather than increase
the salaries OF few chosen ones at the
postofflce the citizens should he given
better service by having more carriers put
on the force.
1t Is known fact that a number OF
carriers have lost their health in this dis.
trict because Of the heavy strain put upon
them. A CITIZEN
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
scarcity of West Point Cadets.
Philadelphia Ledger.

Hnllduelpnlh A1euBeE'
The cadet corps at West Point has 12s
vacancies OF 554 candidates designated
for examination last year l22 failed to
appear. The War department believes that
the expense Of going to the place of exam
ination deferred most of the youths who
did not avail themselves OF the privilege,
and it is proposed to have examinations at
every army post hereafter. The shortage
OF students at the nations military acad-
envy is otherwise a surprising indication
Of the indifference of young Americans to
army life, even under the most favorable
conditions
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
have occasionally voted with republicans
- XNaqbfpp tpp Etar

have occasionally voted with republicans "
Washington Star
FigE-Hear about Smith being In a bad
railroad accident? They say he cannot
recover.
FoEg-From the accident or the railroad D.?
Boston Transcript.
sorry" said the constable, "but I'm
have to arrest ye-you been drivin' along
at the rate Of fifty miles an hour"
you are wrong. my friend" said the
driver. 81 say l wasn't and here's a $40
bill that says l wasn't"
IAN right" returned the constable, peck
citing the money. with eleven to one
againt me. 1 amt goin' to subject the
county to tn expense OF trial. "-Harpers
Weekly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

over in Chicago the chief Of police
has given formal notice to candidates
and political campaign managers that
the posting OF Autographs and bills
will not be permitted except on regu-
larry licensed billboards, and that the
police have been given directions to
prevent violation of the order We
mention this merely as a hint for
Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

According to the Lincoln Star the
outbreak Of smallpox in the Lancaster
county Jail, following the epidemic in
the penitentiary, threatens to bring
about condition in which mo self
respecting person will dare to trust
himself to 60 to jail anywhere in Lin
coin" II that is the case, where will
he be safe while sojourning at the
state capital?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

OF all the rubbish charged up lately
to college professors and preceptresses,
that utterance of a girls college
woman that homely girls sought col
lege educations because of undesirable
ity as wives is about the climax.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
SMILING REMARKS.

81 wonder why we always feel more
cheerful when the early sprng draws near"
81 don't know" replied Mr.. Sirius Barker,
unless it's because by that time our hol-
day cigars are all smoked and our Christ
mas neckties are worn out Washington
Star.
II saw Bixby in the front row at the
comic opera last night"
Yes. Wife wasn't with him. was she7'
mo. Great clubwoman, l understand.
I'm told she has a wonderful head for fig
ures."
80 has Bixby"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Why did the father Of that young heir
ess make. professional politician her
Because, I suppose, he thought he would
better guard her property"
How did he make that out?'
He reasoned mere force of habit would
cause him to look after the precincts of
his ward. Baltimore American.
1T struck me that although it was Mrs.
katchum's third marriage, she looked a
Il thought so. too. Poor woman! Perhaps
she fears II will be her last."-Judge's Ii
brary.
Paw, did Adam name all the animals ?''
$50 we are told, Tommy. OF course he
did"
THAT'S one on you, paw. The ornitho-
rhynchus hadn't been discovered them
Chicago Tribune.
The Cannibal King-See here, what was
that dish you served up to me at lunch?
The .Cook-Stewed cyclist, your majesty.
The Cannibal knight tasted very burnt.
The Cook-Well, he was scorching when
we caught him, your majesty.-Sketch.
You will admit that the democrats
have been right sometimes
Yes" replied the strict partisan,
Through force of circumstances they
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

For some unexplained and unex-
plainable reason we fail to see in the
list of house committee chairmsnships
given out at Washington the names Of
either Mcguire of the First Nebraska,
Lobeck Of the Second Nebraska. or
Latta Of the Third Nebraska, although
all three are supposed to be democrats
in good standing.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Champ Clark says there is not an
orator in congress and John Temple
Graves declares that Joe Bailey is the
greatest forensic orator who ever
served in congress. Can't these demo-
Gratis agree on anything?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
Omaha and Commission Government,

Omaha is exhibiting enthusiasm over the
commission form of government-that is
to say, the Des Moines plan" The Omaha
enthusiasm is traoeable to discomfort with
present conditions, and criticism naturally
attaches to the system rather than to the
state OF society The point Of the en-
thusasts is that Omaha is in need of gov
eminent on higher plane, and so far as
that goes, probably there should be no
contention among good citizens.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

The city council justihes its refusal
TO retrace steps taken toward opening
a new street as requested by the Com
mercial club by asserting that the
Commercial club should have indi-
Gated its desires earlier in the game
That is an answer hard to meet, for
the fact is that the remonstrances of
the Commercial club, the Real Estate
exchange and others are too often like
the passenger who gets to the depot
just as the train is pulling out. The
newspapers keep the public pretty we'll
informed OF what is going on in official
places and as a rule in plenty OF time
to get busy before the damage is done.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

It probably was not so much that
Howard Chandler ehristy doubted Col
onel Roosevelt's being at San Juan as
It was that the artist wanted TO get
the most free advertising he could for
his painting.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
slow, but Sure.

Kansas City Times.
Captain Peary has been made rear ad-
miral and retired on three-fourths pay,
which assures him of an income of $1,000
a year al long as he lives. Even at this
rate, II will take him twenty years to re-
ceive as much as Or. Cook cleaned up by
means Of his fake
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

The Texas legislature is considering
a resolution inviting Senators Bailey
and Lorimer TO deliver an address on
the subject of Purity In Politics"
The Nebraska legislature might with
propriety invite Senator Brown TO de-
liver an address on Raising the
standard OF Public once"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Members Of the Omaha womans'
club have Just listened TO an instruc-
live address on the art of Making
cities Beautiful" Now let them make
follow-up excursion over the main
.horoughfares Of the city and meet
those dishguring billboards face to
lace
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

more, progressive reform legislation
on its statute books, and is as free, II
not freer, from NATURALIZATION
and official corruption as is Oregon,
Oklahoma or South Dakota, or any
other state equipped with the initia-
tive and referendum.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Ex-senator Burkett is quoted as
saying that II any postmaster raised
money in the campaign to elect him
he failed to see where it was used.
Talk about adding insult to injury.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

and a bond issue" Perhaps this offers
some consolation to Omaha. still,
ours was immediate and compulsory"
purchase by force Of law, and we had
no destruction by earthquake to inter
rnnt rs
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
Turning On the Light.

The General Electric company, attacked
as a trust will have to turn on it's power
and throw light on it's own interior. In
other words, 1t will have to become an
X-ray trust for the time being, which will
delight an observant community.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Kansas City's mayor has no official
secrets around his office to which re-
porters have not access. And Kansas
City is not complaining of official mis-
rule Just now.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
FEBRUARY CIRCULATION
47,62l

State Of Nebraska. County OF Douglas, %:
Dwight Williams, circulation manager OF
The Bee Publishing company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily CIR
culation, less spoiled, unused and returned
copies for the month OF February. 1911, waa
G,62i DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager,
Subscribed IN my presence and sworn 70
before me this LIST day OF March, 1911.
(SeaL) ROBERT HUNTER.
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
\DOrarily should have The Dee
mailed 60 them. Address will be
changed as often ne requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

The Baltimore American serves no.
tice that Baltimore's divorce mills are
not running a race with Reno's. Reno
has the track pretty much to itself in
This race
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Perhaps II Mr.. Lorimer we're to
move to Texas he might be elected
with Bailey to the senate without so
much ado and embarrassment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
The Bees Letter Box

Contributions on Timely Subjects
Not Exceeding Two hundred words
Are invited from Our headers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

That Des Moines woman who
stormed gathering of suffragettes
with the cry, Back TO your homes,
women" was doubtless told to keep
her place.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Even after his whiskers had been
referred to as facial foliage" James
Hamilton Lewis declares man never
should shave"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

1t would be a grave mistake for any
hotel which DR.. and Mrs. Wiley may
visit on their honeymoon to feed them
anything but the purest food
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

DR.. Cook protests against honoring
Peary on the ground that he was guilty
Of grossly immoral conduct. Wonder
II he lled2
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

March may go out like a lion, but
It will have to go fiercer than the
average lion to beat the sixty-irst
congress.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

AS a result of the extra session call,
steamship companies and chautauqua
societies may have to revise their
bookings.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

California Is Calm" is the caption
of an editorial in an exchange. It
ought to be. with the Pacific ocean
constantly washing II down,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

The base ball magnates whose teams
play in Washington ought to be CRATE
full for this extra session.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

The acme Of misfortune is for q
man to become insane just as he falls
heir TO a million dollars.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Banker Robins threat to tell all he
knows has sort of shivering effect on
certain other masters of high finance
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
AthIeticr OF Great Minds.

st. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
Senator Bailey has changed his mind.
Still, after the change, his admirers will
continue to acclaim that his mind is stin
great.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

According to pictorial plans and
specifications it looks like a head-on
collision for the democratic donkey
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08
"sic Transit storia Punki."

GHllduelpillh IN6Nulu'
The cloak room of the senate of the
United States will no longer be enlivened
by the anecdotes Of the veteran story
teller, Chauncey Depew. Sic transit
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Visiting Nebraska retailers are es-
pecially invited to ask for anything
they want they don't see.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

This is the season when you look at
your near-empty coal bin and wonder
II 1t will pay to replenish the supply.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

San Francisco had been pursuing
the acquisition of its water works
since 1899 and, according to one Of
the San Francisco papers, every
blessed thing We have gotten out Of il
is wrath. hatred. reerimination, in
trigues, graft. law suits, controversies
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-08

Justice may be swift, as they say,
but she had an awful time catching up
with that heet-footed Abe Reuf.
The Holbrook news., 1911-01-27
Woman sweats Glass.

Louisville, Ky.-One of the most re markable cases ever brought to the notice of the local physicians, per haps, is that of Georgia Brown, whose body appears to be full of broken bits of glass. More than 300 pieces of whitish-looking glass have come through her skin on various parts of her body. Her health seems to be ex- cellent but for the wounds caused by the glass coming through her skin.
 The woman declares that she has never fallen on any glass, and it would be impossible, according to the phy- sicians, to swallow the glass and live more than a few hours
 The pieces of glass taken from her body range from the size of grain of corn to more than half an inch ip diameter.