davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-20

SATURDAY SPECIAL.
500 Fresh Dressed Spring chiesenA
~ cts per ~.
MohoAN'S BUTTER Store.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-20
Nine. Nszimovs In 9Th. Other Mary

Nine. Nazimova will be seen at the
Court theatre on Saturday afternoon
and evening. October q. in The
Other Mary" drama % serious
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-20

stesrsd sreit Oyster. u psek.
s5e: neck. 6oe. THE sENATE GAZE
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-20

oriy excessive sen Oyster s-...
TIRE cftr. THE SENATE
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-20

large number OF witnesses are 10 be
examined
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-20

The wise people-most Of them
know this Law. They act in &C
rord with i,-not in opposition to
Il. Whatever your taste in life.
you'll do IL better " you dress like
q winner.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Two Depressed Prophets.

Two of democracy's major prophets,
Colonel Henry Watterson and Colonel
George Harvey, are exceedingly dubi-
GUS about the prospects of their party.
They are not deceived by the surface
appearances of the sporadic victories
last fall. Colonel Harvey, writing un-
der the caption, "Will the Democratic
Party Commit suicide?" denies that
the democracy gained victory at the
polls in November; denies that it
elected six governors and carried con-
gress. 1t was wholly a negative vic
tory, he says, and everybody who
cares to admit the fact will agree with
him.
Colonel Watterson spends a week at
Washington getting into touch with
the situation, then sails for Europe.
He is discouraged, If not disguised, at
the spectacle his party, under Champ
Clark's leadership in the house, has
made on the rules issue. He knows
from fifty years of experience that,
while autocratic power is not a good
thing for the speaker to possess, he
must have enough power to give him
control of the deliberations of the
house as necessary to good admins
tration and the expeditions transac-
ton of business. Colonel Watterson
does not conceal his fear of Champ
Clarks leadership and his fear that
his party will fail in the sixty-second
congress to make a record on which
it may stand in, 1912 with any degree
of assurance of victory.
The Washington Post recalls
Colonel Watterson's departure for Eu-
rope in 1895, when he wheeled the
CourieT-Journal in line for Palmer
and Buekner by cable, and raises the
question of an omen in his present
journey. OF course. the country is
not yet on the eve of a national cam
paign, but the incident is significant.
What Messrs Harvey and Watterson
and other sane democrats realize is
that the hurrah over 1910 does not
make certain the defeat of the repub-
lican party in 1912.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Good Roads Legislation.

Here in Nebraska we have been
tinkering with our road laws from
time immemorial and already bills are
appearing in the legislature to patch
problem of good roads, however, is
not to be solved by this kind of piece
meal legislation any more than is a
system of good roads to be had by
piecemeal, construction of small and
disconnected stretches.
If we are ever to have a system of
good roads in this state we must put
the whole. work of building them and
maintaining them under the super
vision of one central authority by the
creation of some kind OF a highway
commission with Jurisdiction over the
entire state. At present the power
and duty of building and maintaining
roads is lodged in the county, which
means that we have more than ninety
separate and distinct road-making
bodies, each working without any re-
lation TO the other. That this is a
wasteful and ineffective method of do
ing business goes without saying.
With the introduction of the auto
mobile and its widespread use for
pleasure and traffic the need for good
roads, particularly of two or three
main highways cutting clear across
the state, has been accentuated. New
sources of revenue for bodybuilding
and Toad-maintaining purposes have
also come into existence. The fees
paid for registering automobiles, and
the taxes paid upon them, would go a
great ways toward putting the roads
in condition We also have set aside
the receipts of the inheritance tax in
the various counties to the purpose Of
permanent road construction, which in
time will amount to millions of dol
lars. If we sit still and allow this
money to be frittered away on discon-
nected projects and questionable ex-
periments we will have nothing tangi-
BILE to show for ii.
With so many elements Of every
community interested in road i'm
provement many of them organized
into local and state associations, the
demand is for them to get together
on some feasible and practicable
project They must follow the exam
pie of other states and push for a
state highway commission fully en-
powered to formulate a comprehensive
road plan and to put it into effect
without being required to fight it out
with ninety different county boards.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Advance Of Hartman Lines.

The wall street Journal refers TO
1910 as a year OF intensive develop
ment for the Hartman lines" Both
the Union Pacific and the Southern
Pacific enjoyed the largest volume
Of traffic and dividend surplus Of
their history and all their subsidiary
lines did we'll. one may find in this
record an index to the splendid
growth and development going on i'm
the great Trans-Missouri empire, ira
versed> by these railroads. II must
have prospered above any other sec
ton of the country. or its chief trans
continental lines could not. And
1911 in the west bids fair to surpass
even the progress Of 1910.
During its construction days the
Union Pacific received 81 cents per
ton mile; today It receives cent
Yet with this rate, in the face of a
year of wage increases and higher
cost OF materials, which many other
roads claimed cut into the vitals Of
their dividends, the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific both reached new
levels Of surplus for stock of 1917
per cent and L per cent, respectively.
Never before in their history had
their earnings gone so high, though
the Union Pacific had reached Is per
cent and the Southern Pacific II per
cent. These figures are remarkable,
but not sensational taking all the cir
cumstances into consideration.
AS matter of fact. while operating
expenses on these roads advanced
some last year, they fell below the
average for ten years and what adj
vance there was was due chiefly to
heavy OUTLAWS for improved equipment.
and permanent improvements. The
roads traffic was the largest in their
history and they were forced to en-
large facilities to supply the demands,
and they met the 10 per cent increase
for certain employees along with other
roads. Roads that earn about twice
their requirements and whose physi-
cal condition is as sound as that of
these lines will continue to make prof
it's even IL rates are unchanged, What
they are doing, especially the Union
Pacific, is reaping returns from the
campaign of reconstruction and reor-
ganization conducted under the direc-
ton of the late Mr.. Hartman. AS
the Wall Street Journal says. their
traffic has been growing ever since
this new era of improved service
dawned and it will continue to grow
with the growing west.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Americans in Canada.

In an address at Montreal a western
Canadian farmer asserted that 1T Is
In evidence on every hand that the
settlers from the United States are
becoming good citizens. English set
tiers do not take up with our ways
quite as readily as do those from the
western states"
There is nothing strange in this.
The Americans who go over into Can
ada have come from a country whose
ways and customs Canada has long
been emulating. so, Of course, they
find conditions very much as they had
been used to at home. The Briton, on
the other hand, comes from a country
different in form OF government, in
methods OF business and living, even
in topography. climate and soil, So,
naturally, he requires longer to adapt
himself TO new surroundings than the
American does.
II is doubtful IL Canadians them
selves realize the striking similarity
between their ways and ours. OF
course they are inclined 70 take credit
for setting the example, but then that
will scarcely bear argument. since by
every comparison the United States
has been the leader in the race. But
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Yagaries of the Weather.

The weather man has again proved
his case. lie has shown us that he
can make reliable forecasts and has
displayed a remarkable degree Of YER
satility. In Omaha within twelve
hours the mercury falls about fifty de-
grees, while in western Kansas 1t goes
as high as "A one day and down near
zero the next That is running the
gsmut fairly well. 1t makes very
good pneumonia weather and a great
many people are taking advantage Of
their opportunities.
1t is senseless to rail against the
weather. Its vagaries are nothing
new. The weather has always been
subject TO extremes. Still, even ex-
tremes may be enjoyed by proper pre-
caution. People should not become
careless when the mercury is in one
of its silly moods, dancing from one
end of the tube to the other in the
brief space of twenty-four hours. or
less. That is the time for folks to be
on their guard and to take no chances.
For there is a serious aspect to the
situation, as any family physician
could convince. 1t is always a safe
plan to take winter at its word and
fortify against it's onslaughts accord
ingly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

A writer in one of the current peri
odicals tries to explain the prevalence
of certain kinds of disease the past
year as a consequence of lack of mois-
ture in certain sections of the coun-
try. This contention is REINFORCED
with a map dlagraming the dry dis
tricts and incidentally he ascribes TO
this cause the epidemics Of typhoid
which ragged a year ago in all the
Mississippi and Missouri valley cities,
including Omaha. While the epidemic
was on, It will be remembered, it was
popular hereabouts to blame 1t on the
Missouri river water, although 1t was
plain that other cities not drawing
their water supply from the Missouri
we're similarly afflicted. The drouth
theory, at any rate, is as plausible as
any, and more plausible than some.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
DESERVES PUBLIC APPLAUSE.
President TRft's Refusal to Commute
Sentence of Rich Man.
Xnrl-


President Taft has earned, and viii re-
ceive the applause Of the nation for his
frmness In refusing 20 relieve from a
sentence Of Imprisonment rich man con
victed under the law agalnt peonage. His
action is all the more impressive, and all
the more praiseworthy, because it was not
taken until after the fullest inquiry and
because it was accompanied by deliberate
and unmistakable statement Of the reasons
actuating him, reasons which apply in a
large range of other cases as well as in
that of peonage. The government OF the
United States" says the president, has
been at great pains and cost to suppress
peonage.R II Is kind OF offense that
is regarded lightly in some communities.
When, therefore, a man of high bust
ness standing and large enterprises is con-
victed Of the offense the punishment should
be such as to deter others from the prac-
tice Fines are not effective against men
of wealth. Imprisonment is necessary"
Precisely the same thing is true Of other
offenses; and the chief reason that they
are regarded lightly" is that they are
treated lightly in the actual administration
OF the laws We have got to learn the les
son that IL we wish to extirpate an abuse.
we must show that the law means bust
ness The president has made good use OF
an excellent opportunity to teach that les
son.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
POINTED REMARKS.

Cleveland Leader. Why not form an
order ~ war-scare veterans
Washington Post: The Omaha man who
swallowed 500 rather than give Il to his
wife may yet have to cough NJ.
Sioux City Journal Possibly Representa-
tive Norris viii be glad to hand his job
Of rules revision over to the democrats.
Chicago Post; n MIR Lorlmer obsents
himself when the senate discussed his case
he lie likely to miss some excellent speeches
Brooklyn Esgle. In twenty years tho To
bacco Trust has grown from a $4,000
concern to one Of S4OOOoO,oOO, Nothing grows
like a weed.
Emporia Gazette: Andrew Carnegie has
placed the seal Of his approval upon a new
peace anthem which may be sung to the
tune Of America" It's a fine anthem
taking It by and large, but man couldn't
sing It without lodging cats. There are
some poems which look well in print, but
which cannot be sung without great agony
and this Is one OF them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
People Talked About

When Senator Clark moves into that new
g. 10000 home Of his an appropriate vel
coming tune to play would be There's No
Place Like Home"
Twenty members Of the senior class at
wellesley have announced their engage
ments, and It is still nearly six months to
the commencement season. This is a
striking evidence OF the veracity OF the
heads Of women's colleges, who vigorously
deny that liberal education is not CON
duoive to matrimony.
The wealthy son Of a st. Louis tobacco
manufacturer has eloped the fourth time
the last performance being only four days
after he had been convicted OF bigamy.
The Judge It appears lectured him Sc
serely, and, after filming him 500, paroed
him on the promise that the offender would
never again marry without being legally
divorced"
II F. @. Lawrence or Dorcester, Mass,
at 50 is not the oldest expert skater in New
England, We have yet to hear Of an
artist in double gs. pigeon wings, ETC.. who
Is older than he He skates for the pleas
ure that accrues and not for honor and
has been on skates on the Kennebec river
when years old In the early fifties Mr.
Lawrence came TO Boston and won the
championship Of New England in 1858, 1859
and 1850.
James Grieve, believed to be the oldest
man in Scotland. 6ed at his dwelling,
Corau-tree, Loeb Eckside. few nights ago
He was a native OF InveTnesshire, where.
according 10 his own belief he was born
in the year 1900. He fixed the date of his
birth by his recollections OF Waterloo. He
was then a boy working I'm the fields, and
when the news OF the victory arrived he,
along with his fellow laborers. participated
in the general rejoicing
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
"HOIlers' for War Appropriation,
Nauy Tribune

The deep, dark and desperate plots of the
japanese in the Philippines to pull the
islands up by the roots and tow them to
Saghalien or something of that sort are
officially secuted by the War department
at Washington as mythical. Yet we sup
pose that the cocksure declarations of
few days ago concerning them will go on
their perniciols way unovertaken by the
truth. Indeed. II would not be strange TO
find some Buncombe county patriot out
Hobsoning Hobson with a suggestion that
the denial of them is part of the Jap
anese deviltry and, by contraries, proves
them to be true.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

Six men and ten women were liberated
from an elevator cage by the police shortly
before midnight after they had spent four
hours imprisoned between the twelfth and
fifteenth floors Of a business building.
They were so fatigued when they got out
that many Of them were hardly able to
walk.
The car was damned to its full capacity
and for the whole time the prisoners were
unable to change their positions or relieve
aching muscles. After an hour or so OF
tnkering the police were called and
squad OF firemen Joined the rescue party.
The top OF the metal cage was ripped off
with fire axes and the sixteen weary pas
sengers hauled out TO tramp down tnir-
teen flights to the street
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

this good natured rivalry now golng
on between the two countries is con-
duciye to healthful growth and ad-
yancement in both and no time need
be wasted over which is the leader.
The fact Is that hard-headed Amer
leans and Canadians are working sys-
tematically toward the goal Of mutual
helpfulness and the migratory spirit
among both is doing as much as any
other one thing to promote the end.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Foreigners Get the Plum.

NbW lOTh ITIUuHt.
The United States has just concluded a
parcels post convention with Brazil under
the terms Of which, apparently, Brazilians
can send packages Weighing as much as
eleven pounds to any part of this country
at the rate Of II cents pound. But IL
an American wishes to use the domestic
mails for similar purpose he must pay
IS cents pound and the weight Of the
parcel is limited to four pounds. The dis
elimination is unreasonable on it's face.
Why should the government do more for
foreigners than 1t does for its own citizens?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

The figures for the death toll OF the last
year, from vehicular traffic, in New York
City foot up 376, while there were over
900 injured. The conclusion will doubtless
be jumped at that this record Is largely
due TO the automobiles, but their RESPONSE
blity is less than that Of horse-drawn We
hicles. There is a law filming a chauffeur
SIS for being under the influence OF liquor
while managing his car, but there is no
law Furnishing wagon drivers for a like
offense and they have, therefore, become
the greater menace in street congestion
More than half the persons killed were
children under "A years OF age.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
conquest OF THE DESERT.
Energy and skill Overcomes great
Obstacles.


Obstacles.
Chicago Inter ocean.
That man. is a master Of the earth, and
that the obstacles set to his mastery by
nature cannot In the long run keep him
from pursuing the brave onward march
OF conquest, Is most clearly proven in the
case Of our own west, where what was
known up to ten years or so ago as the
Great American desert has become-a
larger part Of IT, at least-s region Of rich
farms and thriving towns.
Twelve million acres OF this country
called the "rainless hopeless lands" in
former days, are now good agricultural
domain, yielding fine crops with irriga-
tons aid each year. A quarter OF a mil
lion of families are dwelling on the farms,
and an almost equally great number lives
in towns and little cities which have been
established and which flourish in the
midst Of the area so redeemed from bar
renness. Canals and bitches furnish water
for the irrigation Of the farming land. and
rivers furnish power for the manufacturers
that are we'll in sight.
Already the rough pioneer life has in
the newly won region been replaced by
comfortable living Trolley lines connect
the towns and do away therefore, with
loneliness such as afflicted westerners of
earlier days-the days Of giant ranches.
As the farms are nearly always small In
acreage, and so close together, the in
habitants lead pleasant, sociable exist
ences. They light and heat their homes
with electricity no less than jewellers in
the older east. And they are prosporing
through their own work and working for
their own prosperity In other words, they
labor for themselves and for their faml-
lies and all they do accomplish Is their
individual gain.
Our country's wondrous wealth by ma
lures grace, and the growth Of it by the
grace of man, are demonstrated very
strikingly by this redemption Of the
desert.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

Chief Clerk Richmond OF the Ne
brsska house Of representatives is the
first chief clerk in years to attempt to
provide the newspaper correspondents
with anything like the facilities for
work to which they are entitled. Be-
ing a newspaper man, himself, he is
able to appreciate the difficulties un-
der which reporters at legislatures
have to work.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Democracy Bar sinister.
9ioux CftV Tribune

To have bolted Bryan and free silver in
1895 or 1900 puts a bar sinister across any
democratic presidential candidate. SO says
Bryan. The privilege OF boiling candidates
or policies is exclusively his to be used by
him without impairment OF party regu-
larity As a matter OF fact, the bolts he Is
trying 10 punish now were against his
paramount issues" not against demo-
cratic tenets.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Canada Clasp. the Glad Hand.

Pretty much the whole Canadian cabinet
are now I'm Washington, and their mission
in going the whole way Geographically Is
10 meet the Taft administration half way
IN a reciprocity negotiation. II Is 20 be
expected there viii be no failure on the
part OF our government IN going the other
half OF the way. This looks like business.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

The fourth wife of Nat Goodwin,
suing for a divorce on the ground that
Nathaniel runs about with chorus
girls, must be bidding for new fame
Is a Coincidence.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Peace Lays superfluOus.

The corporation OF President Tsfts alma
mater has invited Governor Baldwin OF
Connecticut to lecture on The RESPONSE
bilities Of Citizens" Peace with Sycamore
Hill seems to be as far off as ever.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

II is now proposed to pay each dep
uty county attorney Of this county the
same salary that the attorney general
for the state draws. The next thing
we know the attorney general will be
resigning to take a job as deputy
county attorney.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
MORE LIGHT WANTED.
Publicity Of Committee DOiHgs in Con-
Gress.
Philadelphia Record.


Philadelphia Record.
Representative Norris of Nebraska, who
led the insurgent republicans in the revolt
of the last session against the house rules,
has submitted the radical proposal to re-
quire all committee meetings and procs~lA-
ings to the public. This would be an in
novation, indeed. As a general principle
It is unquestionably right that public busi-
ness should be transacted in the open. The
allowable exceptions to this rule are few.
On the other hand, secrecy is a pre-condi-
ton to corrupt bargaining and successful
lobbying for special privileges the secrecy
Of the committee room also gives shifty
and doulbe-dealing legislators desired OPP
portunities for suppressing measures de-
manded by their constituencies and evading
responsibility for non-action. If complete
publicity should be feasible nothing would
contribute more toward restoring straight
foTwardness into legislative practices.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

AS soon as the decision is awarded
n the John Brown debate between
Colonel Watterson and w. Dean How
sis We may take up the newer ques-
ion, Whats the matter with
Kansas"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

The Douglas County Medical asso-
citation boasts Of having experienced
its greatest growth during the past
year. The vital statistics, however,
indicate that Omaha's pulse has been
normal Notwithstanding.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

The return to the state treasury of
$1,3OO,OOO grated in the building of
the Pennsylvania capitol makes it APP
pear that those earnest protestations
of innocence a couple Of years ago
were not quite all they we're cracked
up to be.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12

OF course, there was no sell-out, but
after drawing a salary of $3.50 a
month as county commissioner, elected
as a republican, Fred Bruning is
promoted by a democratic county
board TO the S1OO-a-month job OF SUI
perintendent OF the court house, while