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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Pace OF American wOrlomen.
How an English official regards the
American workman lie shown in a report
just made 70 the British Board OF Trade
by Courtnay Bennett. British consul al
New York. He says:
The American worker puts more energy
into his work than does the European
Speeding is partly responsible for this
The reserve Of energy is no greater IL
America than in European stock and Amer
lean energy is consequently exhausted more
rapidly. Between the ages Of 70 and 80
when the European workman is at his best
the American frequently breaks down
Physical exhaustion. dyspepsia or nervous
prostration follows, and the mans life as
a worker is done. His place is taken by
younger man.
so long as there lie an abundant sup
ply Of labor through foreign immigration
the vacant places can easily be filled. i
the stream stops there will not be so much
heard Of the superiority Of American
working men, for America would then have
to depend upon her own children, whose
stock Of vitality lie not greater than tina
Of their parents whether American or for
eign."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

A smooth swindler has, been arrested
In Chicago, credited with having
cleaned up $500, 900 in gold brick
and green goods operations. On be-
half of Council Bluffs we object to
this unfair effort to snatch the laurels
from Friend" Mabray and his race
track game.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14
AUaUsr cTRcuLATIoN.
47,543

State OF Nebraska, County Of Douglas, So.
Dwight Williams, circulation manager of
The Bee Publishing company. being duly
sworn. says that the average daily circu-
lauon, less spoiled, unused and returned
copies, for the month OF August 1911 was
H,48. DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
subscribed In my presence and sworn 10
before me this 9Th day OF September. 1911
(Seal) ROBERT HUNTER
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Side Signs at ConeY.
A cottage need not be large 70 bear a
name. On a narrow boardwalk at Coney
Island leading down from Surf avenue to
q small hotel and bathing house, you pass
two tiny bungalows" about nine by seven
teen feet each The owners have their
troubles when called to the door 70 explain
several times day that the bathing house
office is not there The neatly lettered name
Of the nrst cottage is, This Isn't It" The
second is named Neither 10 This"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Property owners of Hunpewell
Kan. have to thank Mayoress Wilson
for putting their town on the map
anyway.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

The Omaha Street Railway company
is going to equip its cars with fare
boxes The presumption is that these
will take the place of straps at rush
hours.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Evidently, it is as slow job getting
election returns from the backwoods
counties in Maine as it is getting them
from the sandhill districts of Ne
braska
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Subscribers leaving the city teua.
DOraFily should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address win be
changed as often a. requested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Senator Lorimer, after all, seems to
be sticking better than those who
helped to put him over or keep him
nuf . y - y -
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

The Beattie and Astor stories passed
off the front page about the same
time. Thanks
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

A Chinaman has made half a million
dollars selling chop suey in Boston
Showing the evolution from baked
beans in the Boston appetite.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

National Air In Order.
The organist was not lacking In patriot
ism, yet he rebelled when requested TO
play The Star spangled Banner at a
wedding.
1T is not appropriate" he said.
Amt it?" said the brides father. For
this wedding it is the most appropriate
thing you can play. Cut all the rest Of the
program II you like, but stick TO that !
had the hardest kind Of a fight to keep
Bellies mother from marrying her off to
a foreigner. Between Belle and me we
won out for an American and If this isn't
the time for the star spangled Banner
ia like to know what is
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Perhaps If they divide Texas to
make a new state, Joe Bailey might
have another chance
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

There is no need of making Sunday
either blue or red. Why not strike a
medium color?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

A cat bit nine men in Chicago. If
the feline infused any of it's life blood
into its victims they need not worry
about dying soon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14
Around New York

nipples on the Current Of Life
as Seen IN the Great American
Metropolis from nay 20 Day.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

The ice men are already talking
about the poor prospect of ice for
Omaha for next year. How much
higher is the price to be boosted?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

A sliver-tongued orator with gold
filled teeth might easily become BIZ
petalist, If he were not one already.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

If there are any other high spots
our visiting Nasbys have failed to hit
it is, not too late yet to make up for
the omission.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

And yet Boss" Murphy has no
stated salary for running the city and
state of New York
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Mary McLane came back" and
wrote book. Yes, she did, and what
was the name of the book?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Senators Swanson and Martin must
have had a steam roller Of their. own
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

What an outrage that the press dis
patches did not note the Hon. Hack
enschmidt's sailing
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

Perhaps Kipling is angling for the
poet laureate's Job.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

PenStoned by Carnegie.
Mother Kennedy, q well-known char
acter at the Coney Island beaches where
for fifty years she has sold pail and shovels
to thousands OF children, has been pen
stoned by Andrew Carnegie When her
hfetime's savings were wiped out In the
Dreamland fire a few months ago she re-
called her late husbands friendship with
Andrew Carnegie, who had been an ena-
ploye Of the Pittsburg division Of the
Pennsylvania railroad when her husband
was a popular conductor. So she sat dowr
and wrote to Mr.. Carnegie. This week ar
answer came from skibo castle. notifying
her that hereafter she would receive q
pension Of SIS each month.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

My position" remarked the eminent
physician, lis one requiring the greatest
tact and diplomacy"
What is the trouble?'
u feel conscientously obliged 70 tell sew
eral Of my most wealthy and influential
patients that they ovePeat Washington
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14
nnmmr Clock storr.

once in so often the story is revived
that the hands on the dummy clocks in
front of jewelers. stores are painted to
point 70 $40 because that was the hour
at which Lincoln was shot. This has been
one Of the most persistent of modern
yarns. II first started on its rounds in a
New York Sunday newspaper in August,
1891, as is now told in letter to the New
York Times from correspondent who de-
scribes how at the time named he was
delving into old Manhattan records for
historical material, to tha disgust Of a
friend Of small scruples who suggested
that II would be easier TO fake the
whole thing and that no one would ever
know the difference" BY way OF Illus
tradon, the friend pointed to a jeweler 5
dummy and called attention TO the fact
that the hands were at $40, saying that
he didn't know why they we're so, but
that while 1t would take twenty years to
find out according 20 historical method
story mat everybody would believe could
be invented in twenty seconds. To this he
added the suggestion of an admirer OF
Lincoln standing beside the dummy clock
maker when news came Of the assassina-
ton, and saying to him Have the hands
point to the hour Of the shot" On the
second Sunday after this conversation a
New York paper printed the story which
this inventive but unprincipled individual
had connected, and it was illustrated with
a cut of jewelers. clock. The account il
so circumstantial as to date, etc, that il
can apparently be accepted as giving the
true origin Of this famous yarn.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

King Richard III had offered his king
dom for horse
q ''Ha" exclaimed Richmond. IN have
70 go and nag him a litue!'
Grasping a property sword, he rushed TO
the fray.-Chicago Tribune
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14
BREEZY TRIPLES.

You refuse 70 allow your son TO study
spelling and grammar" said the ueacner
Absolutely" replied Mr.. Groucher. %
want him TO try his hand at current liter
allure, and ! don't propose 10 spoil his dia-
lect and slang. Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

The young girl friend o. the art student
stood in the art gallery gazing at the
famous classic statues.
1T Is all very well TO talk about the
Venus Of Mics being q model OF womanly
perfection" she said, eyeing the armless
goddess critically, but she never could
button one-piecs dress down the back
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14
..pon't you sympathize III the laborLnl

Yes" replied Mr.. Chuggins But there
ought TO be some reciprocity. When have
70 stop miles from home 70 put on few
new tires ! don't see any laboring man
knocking off work to sympathize with me. "
Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14
Paaseneer-That

First Passenger-That is Conductor
Punchem. He 10 one Of the most expert
| enced men on the road"
Second Passengsr-I knew IL before you
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-14

First Passenger-How so?
Second Observation-Disclosures he slams the
door at the precise instant that he calls
the stations name -Judge's Library.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03
The CITY Policeman.

''Thc man In uniform" says Magis
trate House Of New Yorl,, is target
for street loafers."
TITS funny thing" unused Officer
Findley some months ago, "but every
body is against cop. II he gets the
worst Of l. in a scrap, everybody Is
satisfied, and If cop was to walk bis
beat with a BACKED eye every citizen
would laugh hisself to death In the
matter. xiii the copi' that's what they
shout. And yet what is he doing? He
is doing his duty. Take fireman; be
does his duty, too, but he's a hero
Why? His work isn't any more dan
gerous than a cop'7. Perhaps you think
it's cinch to arrest a dangerous
character who is waving a gun or
knife or a razor. Well, 1t isn't, and
cop never knows when he goes out ID
the morning whether his wife will Dc
a widow by night. And say! Imagine
this town without any cops for Jus'
one week. What?"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03
@Nothlnswrons, Hatetastestutf.v

that she was the person who really
needed that attention.
James came out in few days,
sober and In his right mind. He knew
how bad he had been. and he sup
posed she did, too, so he told her he
was not fit to speak to her, but he was
going to be a man now, and would
she forgive him? And Genevieve said
he must be man for her sake, and
she would forgive him, because she
was sure he was repentant and would
never fall again.
When James mt back to the club
the next night he lifted a restraining
palm to his friends and said: Never
again! I'm on the water wagon for
keeps" And his friends laughed, be-
cause they had climbed on the water
wagon themselves at the bidding of
nice girl
About Christmas Genevieve had
shock. James was doing great bust
ness and, besides, it was the blessed
holiday season. He was to dine with
them on Christmas, and whe1 he ar
rived, rather late In the afternoon, he
had been warding of the cold Of the
drive.
Genevieve cried her eyes out that
night, down on the floor beside her
bed; and James went back to the club
and gathered together a monumental
--er-well, he was a little above him.
self again. Because he was extremely
ashamed.
BY the time this wore off, he was
truly repentant. and hated the very
smell of the stun. So he drove out to
see Genevieye and told her so. Gene
We've had the theory, held by every
well brought up girl, about a man re-
forming by the grace-well, by prayer
ard such things. She had prayed sin
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03
/ 1ENEvIEyES M
| KNOW a.
I7NINIS7EAlso Their JAMES
wy ~ BY HELEN HELP
The Genevieve Who Married
to Reform Him

When woman marries a man to re-
form him she fails to take into con-
sideration that by the time she has
got 1t done there will be nothing left
but reform-the man will be entirely
rotted away.
James was a delightful man with
only one bad habit 1t was the habit
which most women call bad habits"
He was a real estate man, was James,
and his bad habits were very active
right after he had cinched deal. He
cinched a deal rather so often per
hapE-
Genevieve met James at a club
party, according to the commonplace
wont Of things, and he was very nice
to her. She was nice little thing,
and he got into the habit of driving
out rather often to her fathers home
on the very edge Of the town. II is
not too much to say that Genevieve
fell in love with him. James fell In
love with her, too. Then he went
driving out to see Genevieve very
often and was allowed to stay to sup
per, and he and Genevieve had love-
ly time on the veranda in the moon
light.
Then, as cool weather came on, he
was rather busy and fell from grace,
as usual, when he cinched deal. And
at last, at a party. Genevieve saw him
when he had fallen from grace. He
was bit above himself. and, besides,
she danced with him and noticed
something about bis breath.
Next morning big brother said, "Jim
had a lovely souse on last night, didn't
he? But he certainly had nerve to
dance with you. You should have
turned him down.
Genevieve gasped a bit Then she
said, "He was nothing Of the kind,
and 1 don't thank you" And then she
ran to her big, pretty, pink and white
room and got down upon her knees
and cried and cried Then, when she
could get her breath. she remembered
his; and then she prayed for Jim very
sincerely and very girlishly, and felt
better.
She entirely failed to pray for her
self, because she had not yet found out
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03

cerely and James now dec,or,,
he hated the very smell of tbo .uat
THESE two things stood to GenaT ~tua.
In the relation of cause and Eve
And this was the exact momen+ ' Lev
en- by James in which to ASH ~ nus
marry him. "eF 70
When James and GenevIeva oou.
back from their honeymoon fbo b oaile
bridegroom was warmly copgratT1a .tT
by his many friends. When he , nlssa
home to Genevieve the first event I'M
he said, 'M'darling' assure Won I'm, nn.g
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" '
All the years that James was oo..
Ing home to Genevieve perfectly soho.
-er-that is. sober at least tbro.
evenings out Of the week. GenevIavo
was thinking with some pride tbat -
he would only straighten nm ~
would show those friends of HE nh
mad so far outdistaneed him in tba
because, really, said Genevievo
to herself. James was far the ablast ~
them all. 1t was nothing but his ds.
astrous habits that stood in his wav
And at last the day dawned wbsr
James came to. He saw what he real
~ looked like and decided that tba
time had come when he must straight.
en- up and leave behind his bovipb
ways. So he Strengthened up. ImrA
diately? Yes, Immediately. Was It an
awful struggle? No, it was not an
awful struggle.
He was sick a week or so and fan
depressed and down for months bnt
that was about all. Because the truth
is that it Is not such an awful strug.
gle, as q rule. The truth is that
James and John and William and
Charles are not often in earnest when
they say they want to stay on the wa.
ter wagon, so they cheerfully fall oil
again.
Their wives think they are? Yes
but their wives only see them when
they are depressed and down in the
mouth. The minute James and the
rest OF them get outdoors, they are
different men.
You don't believe 1t? Well. you ask
your brother about 1t, Genevieve. my
dear, and watch what he says.
Well, when James really made up
his mind to quit he Just quit. And
the saddest point Of the story is right
here-he never did astonish the world.
He never set the river on fire, he
never did thing except to continue
to make rather a shabby living for
Genevieve.
She had reformed him, hut the re
form was about all there was left As
Geneyieve sometimes said to herself,
1T seems as If he were only ghost
only ghost"
As he was a perfectly commonplace
ghost at that, perhaps Genevieve did
not have much Of a run for her money
after all.
Copyright. by Associated Literary Pressl
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03
3 ~ 3 g Ssg1gzS9s
Ehrane's Emergency Call
By A. MARIA CRAWFORD


The telephone bell rang insistently
and DR.. Marshall Thrane threw down
book on abdominal surgery and
turned indifferentIy to the instru-
nent.
Yes. this is DIR. Thrane. Automo-
bile accident? Call DR.. Gates | am
very busy"
Thrane loved his profession and the
lie about being busy was his first act
of disloyalty. Although young man
Of thirty. he was considered the lead
ing surgeon, certainly the most sue
cessful one, In the city.
On this particular evening he was
not disposed to help humanity, for the
world had gone wrong and the bitter
ness of his first sorrow had made him
morose and sullen. His engagement
to the beautiful Eileen Hunt, three
months before. had made him SUI
premely happy. She seemed possessed
of the tact and democratic attitude
toward the masses that go to make
successful and helpful wife for pro-
fessionaI man. The quarrel had oc-
Cured two days before, yet he was
still ignorant of the cause.
They had gone to the country club
for dinner and he had thought to him
self at the table that the girl had been
blessed with every feminine attrac-
zion of beauty and charm. And now
within two months of their wedding
day, they had quarreled, Over what?
DR.. Thrane closed his eyes and for
the hundredth time tried to recall the
exact conversation
They had been discussing love. The
topic was natural, for there had been
a full moon shining on the river be-
fore the clubhouse and the soft
strains of the waltz from Salome had
reached them from the ballroom
What was it he had said? Some
thing about the moon making man
say foolish things, he remembered
Then she had grown strangely quiet
and when he tried to penetrate her
silence and learn the Gauss, she had
told him that probably he had been
foolish when he proposed to her; 1t
was moonlight then, she reminded
him coolly. All his protestations to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03

the contrary proved vain and useless.
He had made the. remark because be
believed 1t to be true statement and
she had fortunately been clever
enough and quick enough to see that
he hoped 1t would be taken as a per-
sonal intimation of his attitude to-
ward her. Argument was plainly
useless and in great and over
whelming silence they motored home
at high speed, ignoring the beauty of
the night and the voiceless things
that breathed of love through the
fragrant darkness.
Two days had passed slowly. He
was too proud to make advances
when he had been innocent OF her
charge against him. He had proven
his love In every known way and he
concluded that she was evidently
grasping at any petty reason as an
excuse for breaking her engagement
to him.
Again the telephone rang sharply
and DR.. Thrane answered
Yes. this is DR.. Thrane. Who
wants me? The people hurt
in the automobile accident?
Who are they? viii be there
in five minutes"
Somebody at the Huns had been
hurt He summoned his 81 aepy chauf.
feur and was soon on the way, fear
growing in his heart that 1t might be
Eileen. How would she receive him
Would she speak? A dozen questions
presented themselves as he hurried on
to his paint 1t was more than prob.
able that her brother Bob had been
injured.
He hurried up the steps and found
Mr.. Hunt holding open the door. His
worst fears were confirmed when the
older man said, Come in, Marshall
Eileen was thrown from car. She
tainted. but think they have
brought her around"
Eileen wanted us to send for Dr
| Gates, but of course we didn't want r.
take any chances. for We didn't know
how badly she might be hurt. so
had them telephone Cor you. Marshall
/ This is no time for personal feel
ing" said the young surgeon sternly
his heart aching at sight of the gfrrs
white face and twitching hands
Some hot water, please
| My ankle is hurt. Marshall" said
the girl
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03
NEWPORT SOCIAL INsURGENT

During the past season there has
been insurgency in the ranks of New.
port swelldom which started a near
panic in the ranks of the "old guard. ;"
The leader of the social insurgents
was Mrs John R. Drexel, who is here
pictured, and the captain of the
standpatters was Mrs. Ogden Mills.
Newport is to select society what
Mecca is to the Mahommedans. or
Benares to the Hindus, or Jerusalem
to the Jew and to the Christian-the
holy of holes of the idle rich, whose
bible is the social register duly
stamped with the dollar mark. Mrs
Drexel would widen the ranks of the
select and admit many now barred
from the social paradise, where mobiles
with decayed fortunes matrimoniaIly
browse. Mrs. Mills would none of
this. She stands for close corpora
ton, so to speak, and would limit to
100 or even fewer those who would
be entitled to enter the elect set Of
Newport.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03
Baby Was Mothers First Thought.

A story OF a mothers sacrifice foF
lowed by her death comes from Gov
entry. Mr.. Walter Clifford of Cover
try took his wife, their child and
friend out for a motor drive, anu
when about a mile from Stonebrlase
where there is a narrow stone briase'
the car got into difficulties. It was ~,
ident that collision with the prioso
was imminent. Mrs. Clifford, seems
the danger, took up from her lap =.
child, who is two and half years :.
age, and in moment threw II o,s,
the side of the car on to the sI@o o,
The car Immediately Afterwards ", ~,
turned and its occupants were tnip sas
out. Mrs. Clifford sustained -.
conclusion and died few nouIs nous =.
forwards. Her husband and ILleN ana
capped with mere scratches. The 0D'
was uninjured.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03
NEW BISMARCK OF GERMANY

Germany has another Bismarck. He
is Alfred Won Kiderlen-Wa who
is secretary Of foreign affairs and
who Is the big man In Germany's for
eign relations. It is he who set Eu-
rope by the ears over the Morocco
situation.
Kiderlen-W aechter has been secre,
tary of embassy at st. Petersburg and
Paris and counsellor of embassy at
Constantinople. He is a linguist,
speaking the leading languages of the
continent and being as proficient in
English as in lis own native German.
Two years ago Herr Alfred was
compass lively little known member
of Germany's diplomatic corps, hold
ing the post of minister to Roumania.
He was rated as man of ability and
force with a more salient and sharply
defined personality than that of the
average government official. but the
public heard little of him. Recently
he has been the man of the hour in
Germany and probably the most
4
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-11-03
Narrow Escape.

A domestic servant at Market Dray-
ton had narrow escape during re-
cent thunderstorm. The girl had re-
tired to bed leaving the window open
and an alarm clock on chair near the
bedside. She was awakened by the
smell of burning clothing. and found
that the lightning had pierced a hole
through the clock and ignited the
chair-seating. The clothes of the bed
in which she was sleeping were also
sxnouldering.