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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09
The Bachelor on the Claim

2 To the Editor of The Bee Magazine
Page: You have noticed the western con-
gressmen have succeeded in passing law
10 permit settlers in this and adjoining
states afflicted by drouth TO leave our
claims until next summer. A good many
are taking advantage OF the chance TO get
away and earn little ready money, but
/ am going TO stick 1t out until 1 prove up
next winter In the meantime. not having
much crop to worry me, and having only
20 watch my frogs and see they do not
wander away, and make some small i'm
provements in the ponds, find a good
many hours of leisure. These 1 spend IN
reading The Bee and the hotstuff maya
zines. and / almost could find II in my
heart to enter on an argument with the
cynical but clever StRid Matron and the
coy but level headed Clementina Wall
flower (who, I will venture to say, must
be A wall flower voluntarily, IL she Is at
alD.
Still. do object TO getting into discus
sion that would have no profit in 1t for
anybody, whereas there are various live
questions TO be threshed out, such as the
shortage of babies in Los Angeles. As 1
recall an item in The Bee, only forty-eight
new babies showed up in the California
trouble center during July. whereas a nor
NAL figure of increase would have been
something ike 300 Is Los Angeles getting
Frenchified? Or are the Otis and anti
OTIS clans too busy fighting each other TO
attend TO real business? 1t would be a
safe wager that more prize dogs than
forty-eight were welcomed in Los Angeles
fashionable circles during the month.
Mayhap the Angelllans are barking TO the
NAithusian declaration, which seems about
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09
9 The Bee3 H0me Magazine Page x
How to Train a Wife

Mrs. Brown came in to asa us TO go on
En automobile ride tomorrow" announced
the Hopeful Housewife after dinner as the
Confirmed Commuter pushed aside his
demi-tasse and reached for the ash tray.
but ! told her II vas my birthday and
thought we'd rather spend the day quietly
a home"
She was watching the Commuter narrowly
as she spoke. but he gave no guilty start
Why should he2 The present was In the
inside pocket u his coat even as he diued
And the fact that all by himself he had re-
ulembercd the happy occasion gave him
an air Of superior human virtue.
"Of course. we would. he heartily agreed.
And then he added anxiously. do you feel
your annual Crouch coming on"
For TO the Hopeful Housewife as to
many another woman. birthday was apt
20 Dc a day Of gloom. Of dole. Of lamenta-
ton for her supposedly departed youth It's
morning hours were devoted generally 70
the search FOR gray hairs. its afternoon TO
speculation as to just when The dreaded
double chin would make its appearance.
NO" said the Hopeful Housewife. I'm
not going to oe grouchy this tnc I've
Hate up M mind it, ale foollshness FOR
woman 20 worry about her age Mrs.
Brown asked me how old I wifi be tonnor-
row. n ] didn't mind telling. and I said
oh. not in the least; it's my forty-fifth
birthday You see. when you tell another
Woman tins truth about your age she puts
ten years on what you tell her but Il YOU
add fifteen years TO it yourself she knows
you're fooling. but she's 50 mad she pre-
tends TO believe you. and that stops her
asking any more impairment questions"
quite system" he commented. What
did your friend say when you told her
you'd be IS years old7'
she said / was we'll preserved She SAID
she'd often wondered how it felt TO be 70
years old. and I asked II she couldn't re-
member how it felt, and she pretended not
TO hear and began TO tell me about
magazine article she had read that says a
woman OF 10 years is the most attractive to
men. What do you thinkT''
The Confirmed Commuter laughed
You ask me that question ten years from
now" he said. AT present I think a
woman OF p years is just about the right
age. but I'd kind OF like to read that the
nan of 81 years is desperate fascinator
Of course. wouldn't believe IL, but 1t
would cheer me up every time / got
Weighed"
oh it doesn't matter how old a man is -
ais wife retorted easily, but ia like to
know what you think Of this woman of 70
years business.
You know what Byron said when some
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09
Fishes that Shock by Electricity

In the course Of an article on the modes
Of defense given various animals, the
Scientific American gives interesting in
formation on fishes whose weapon is an
electric shock
Some. the writer says. gives off cleo
tricity In force sufficient to violently shock
or even XIII larger animals. Three types
are known to possess this power TO a high
desree-the silurus, the gymnotus. and the
torpedo or cramp fish. The fret inhablts
the waters OF the Nile and the rivers of
Senegal. and is termed by the natives, who
greatly fear II, the thunder fish" It's
battery Is located between the muscles and
the skin Of the sides.
The gymnotus, likewise a fresh water
fish, is a sort of eel, inhabitinE the marshes
OF South American rivers. 1t attains a
length Of two meters, and is capable of
giving a very dangerous shock Humboldt
gives an account Of the ingenious method
by which the Indians accomplish its cap
ture. Horses and mules are driven into a
swamp Inhabited by the cells, which. ex-
cited by the unaccustomed noise, rise and
discharge their terrible invisible weapons
against the bodies OF the unfortunate
beasts used as decoys some OF which are
killed before they can succeed in scram-
bling out panic stricken. from the zone
OF death. But after a certain lapse OF
time In this one-sided conflict the cells
have exhausted their batteries and can be
safely harpoonsd. dragged 10 land and
dispatched.
The electric apparatus Of this creature IL
located along the back ana in the tall.
That Of the torpedo is composed OF two
large masses placed on either side Of the
body. ---.
n ArsonvAI has recently made some ex-
peFirnents with view to measuring the in
tensity Of the electricity generated by the
torpedo. A fish Of moderate sias Is capable
Of producing at will a current varying
from two to ten amperss. with an cleo
trOmetrie force Of from fifteen TO twenty
volts. In these experiments an electric
lamp OF ten candle power being connected
with the electric organ OF the torpedo
emitted a bright flash whenever the ami
NAL was irritatsd. The experimenteE ex-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

as sensible to me as the famous law suit
We had in Tsrkio one time when I was
Kid. Perhaps your readers never did
hear about that law suit
A man planted a watermelon seed on
one side OF fence, on his own land of
course As the vine grew II traiIed under
the fence onto the land OF a neishbor. and
on this mans land the melon grew big.
red and most promisingIy luscious. Both
men claimed the melon, and to law they
went Then it was found the fence was
on the county line, and the question of
jurisdiction came up in court One man
won and carried the suit up. AS the fight
grew warm the parties grew poor. and
think they both went broke before a final
decision was reached.
This question Of babies. at FIRST glance
might not appear to be interesting to
bachelor; but IL Is. was a baby myself
once-that is, cradle baby-and will not
deny had hopes during one spell of being
a honey baby TO some nice woman II
We fall short on babies what will become
Of the harvests when all our vacant land
is growing big crops by improved methods.
and when the women on the farms and in
the towns Will need more housemaids and
kitchen help? And what will become of
the voting lists, and the army and navy re-
cruiting stations? We must have babies.
even IL bachelors and old maids are com
PEELED or bonused to marry. This may be
stating the thing undiplomaticaIly, but a
lone and handsome bachelor cannot be ex-
pected to know Just the incest way to
state unpalatable truths. And perhaps /
am among those who would like to see
all single people brought to the double
yoke in some fashion. am not saying
as to that, for obvious reasons Like an
old woman who slugged her husband with
a rolling pin when he insisted on monopo-
liking the set Of false teeth they owned
jointly, would like my share Of the good
things of life. and babies are surely in that
list. Modestly yours. ISAAC,
Ash Greek Line
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09
Nubs Of knowledge

A society Of grammarians was formed at
Rome in Z76 B. c.
Pantomime was represented on the
Roman stage in % B. c.
Clocks began TO be substituted for hour
glasses in the United states in lao
The first recorded eruption Of Nesuvius
took place in the year 7s
Stucco work. which was much priced by
the ancients. was revived in 1850
Machines for ruling paper with faint lines
were invented by a Dutchman At London
in 17S2.
The wise was invented by Archytas Of
Tarentum a disciple Of Pythagoras, about
SIC B. c.
The system OF paying rents in money
instead Of in kind was insugurated in
England in 1i3s
Piracy was severely suppressed by the
Romans. Pompey destroyed the Cilieian
pirates in 81 B. c.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

hibited lamp whose filament had been
burned out by the discharge Of a TORPEDO
too violently excited. The stomach and
the back Of this fish are charged with CD
posite forms Of electricity. and the shock
is felt whenever connection is made be-
tween the two. The curve representing
the production Of electricity, which is
emitted by q series OF discharges all in the
same direction and at intervals Of about
q hundredth OF a second. Is Identical with
the curve OF contraction OF a muscle.
Moreover, the organ evolves heat during
the discharge il the current is closed upon
itself. like a muscle performing mechanical
+ work
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

1T is hard to catchr' the bachelor ex-
claimed when, in a philosophical mood. he
met me.
What? The mani" 1 asked.
NO. the whole proposition. You think
you have got a line on il when suddenly
the whole thing slips and you know it can't
be handled that way. No, We we're talking.
you know, about one point
Which was the man'sl" l interrupted.
Just let me give you a little of the
womans point Of view"
"Certainly-of course-I don't mean to
appropriate the whole of the jellyfish for
my sex" he said. with an effort at gen
crosby which was labored.
II think men ought to feel rather proud
that girls want them TO be ideals" said
A plying look travelled slowly over my
Ieountenance, II said more plainly than
words that wan another one OF the
feminine creatures with the squeegeed
views.
It's nice Of themv' he said with a fine
edge OF sarcasm shining through his words.
It's awfully kind Of farmer to want an
onion TO be . potato probably He thinks
he sees some fine large potato possibilities
in the onion. Perhaps. he thinks he can
eliminate the smell and secure the eyes
for the poor vegetable. He may work at IL.
But even he lets the process be a slow one
However. he does not succeed The onion
remains an onion though not a very good
onion, as he has messed and mixed It UP
so that il ctn't be itself and doesn't know
how 10 be anything else"
You mean that an onions an onion, and
a mans a mani
Precisely. l don't know how the onion
feels vhe nthe farmer begins to improve
/ II. But can give you an example Of how
man feels when his wife begins to make
/ him overs'
| "Well-the example, please"
It's our mutual friend. Davy Disap
I pointed He told me 10 stay out of it. II,
/ SAYS it's the worst OF any OF the varieties
of the place-I-ean' t-mentiOn- you're.
/ a-lady that he has ever experienced. II,
thinks the awfulneks Of IL Is partly because
! of the contrast with the JOY it might be
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

and husbands are two different kinds Of
men. They tell me that is the reason there
is-so much trouble" 1 remarked.
Settle 1t for yourself Who does the most
primping, who changes her ways most, who
acts q part, the man or the girl? You know
the tricks your sex play. Have you seen
men making any very radical changes to
please girls? They do not. Life is estab-
iished with them and they present them
selves pretty much as they are. And the
girl makes each one think that just as he
is he is what she likes. tell you it's the
girl who plays the chameleon role! You
take it from me tina tiff a girl would be
satisfied with what she knows the man is
he wouldn't be such a blank in the mar
rage draw"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

Saddles were first used in the third cen
fury and were made Of leather in 3o4. Side
saddles for ladies were introduced BY
Anne, queen Of Richard H., in 1888.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09
Lorettas Looking Glass Reflects Fish Matrimonial Question

And he brought out point that struck me
as a good one. He says he did not put up
any particular bluff in his counting days
He acknowledges that he was on his good
behavior most Of the time, but it was be-
cause 1t was so easy and pleasant 10 be
agreeable when girl appreciated all Of
his efforts. Now. he says he never seems
to do the right thing even IL It's the thing
he did dozens OF times before marriage and
always got a good mark in return. l never
saw such befuddled man as he is He
says there isn't any sane commonsense in
a woman when marriage peels off the bluff
she is putting up"
lymph! That's interesting. at least.
have heard 80 many wives say that lovers
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

MY fORI h-F1FIH BIRTHDAY.
one asked him IL he admired the woman Of
30 years? He said he did. but that he'd
rather have two or % years"
But" interrupted the Hopeful House
wife eagerly the article says that painters
have created a false ideal OF the beauty Of
20 years-that they can't make picture Of
a young girl supremely attractive without
giving it the exaggerated curves Of the
woman Of 40 years"
IAN I know is they don't give their pic
lures Of young men the exaggerated curves
OF the man Of 20 years. replied the Com
muter. CHANGING at his waist line
You talk just as II you were fat" ex-
claimed the lady disgustedly. And you're
not fat-and you're just beating around the
bush. anyhow-and II you don't talk to me
the day before my birthday III cry. I'm
trying to find out what your IDEAL woman
is like, and can't you see I'd rather she'd
me 20 years old than %, because I'm going
to be 40 years old some day and I'll never
be 20 again?"
Her voice trembled dangerously at this
sad admission.
The birthday Crouch" seemed periIously
near, but the Confirmed Commuter came 70
the rescue.
with these few hints 1 will now de-
scribe my ideal woman" he said. She is
about % years old, weighs about 40 pounds
and has big brown eyes that look as If they
were going TO cry
Don't be silly said the Hopeful House
wife, and give me my birthday present
that's been in the inside pocket OF your
coat for the last three days"
Then she smiled and there was rainbow
in each brown eye.
Copyright, 1911, by the n. Y. Herald Coz
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09
Perfectly Good Reason.

In Fourth Of July address Mayor
Samuel L. Shank Of Indianapolis once said,
apropos Of George Washington and truth
fulnese:
Few of US, alas. can lay claim to that
absolute veraeity which was Washington S
boast. Thus the shoe pinches Us all when
the story OF. little Jack Smith comes up.
Little Jack Smiths Sunday school
teacher, after a lesson on Ananias and
Sapphire, said.
Why is not everybody who tells a lie
struck dead?'
Little Jack answered gravely:
" Because there wouldn't be anybody
left"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

John Kitto. d. d. LID, born in
Plymouth. England, December 4. 1904;
passed away in Cannstadt. Germany. No
venber %. 1854. In 1853, when IN health
forced his retirement from the editorship
or the Journal Of Sacred Literature, he was
regarded as the ablest Biblical scholar then
living.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

In l512 the first antiquarian society was
formed in England It was dissolved in
l6O4 by King James, who regarded the in
quiries Of the antiQusries with suspicion.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-09

Boring OF wells was practiced in the
east more than 1900 years ago. Abraham's
servant encountered Rebekah at . well
in 1850 b. C.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-03-16
RELUCTANT AT LEARNING.
Toledo Blade.


The railroads yelled ruin - when
the government issued its first orders
for the equipment of safety couplers.
Within a few years they would not have
discarded them if they had been paid
four times the price of the equipment.
They have objected to systems of uni
form accounting They disobeyed the
laws forbidding rebating. They are now
sullen and feverish over the rate de-
cision
Federal regulation has worked almost
without exception to the good of the
railroads. The safety couplers not only
saved men IS lives, but they also served
to bring a better, more efficient, more
loyal class of workmen into the indus
try. The uniform accounting is price
less and no intelligent railroad man
would think today Of going back to the
old system fixed by individual training.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-03-16
People Forsake Powder Village.

Pleasant Prairie, the little town which
was practically wiped off the map by
the terrific explosion of dynamite and
giant powder last Thursday night, is
almost entirely deserted, the only peo-
pie remaining in the village are the
deputy sheriffs who are guarding the
deserted hamlet.
Officials of the DUPONT de Nemours
Powder company, the coroner and
other county officials have begun in
vestigations into the cause of the ex-
plosion which resulted in the death of
one man E. S.~Thompson, foreman Of
the glaze room the injury to more
than one hundred people, two perhaps
seriously, and the loss of perhaps 81
600, 600 approximately to the company.
Hundreds of tons of dynamite and thou
sands of tons of giant powder exploded
and rent holes in the earth, one of them
100 feet deep, 300 yards long and half
as wide The others varied in depth
from forty to seventy-five feet.
Only half dozen of the inhabitants
of the village remain in their ruined
homes. The statement of the mana
I gers of the big plant that there is
still danger of an explosion which
would be almost as bad as the one of
Thursday night. drove away even the
curious from the scene of ruin.
1t is stated that it is pretty certain
that the powder company will pay
every cent of loss caused by the ex-
plosion, regardless of where it took
place, and that the company will make
handsome provision for the care of
the widow and one daughter of Mr..
Thompson.
( There is an uprising among the peo-
pie to prevent the rebuilding of the
ruined plant. A petition signed by
nearly every person who lived in the
ruined village was sent to Madison
asking that the Wisconsin state legis-
lature pass law preventing the re-
building of the plant or providing for
a state inspection so rigid as to make
such accidents impossible in the future
People have practically forsaken
Pleasant Prairie and property in the
village has been offered for almost
nothing. Kenosha people are still hys-
terieal and fears of other explosions
have caused families to hang together
and, Notwithstanding the fact that pic
lures Of the explosion were shown in
the theatres, the playhouses We're al
most empty.
There is still a fire smoldering in
the ruins of the big plant and the men
who had been searching for the rem
nants of the body of Thompson were
all ordered off the property of the com
pany.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-03-16
demand for the resignation Of Senators
Cullom and Lorimer.
SPooNER FORGOT.
n. Y. Telegraph

n. !. ltieETAph
Former Senator John c. Spooner got
himself a private telephone number
some weeks ago. He gave it to many
of his personal friends and business
associates and was much pleased that
he could work without interruption.
Thursday night he was detained down
town and wanted to telephone his
home, He had forgotten the number.
This he confded to the telephone oper-
ator. and she told him that it was a
private wire.
Bat it's my home" Spooner said.
"Well, it must be a 9iee place if you
forgot the telephone number the
operator answered. you had better
stay away until you can remember it. %
The number was carefully carried in
Mr.. Spooners hat yesterday.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-03-16

prejudice and preference. Where re-
batting prevails it is against the real
desires of those involved in it, being but
a dangerous expedier of the day. The
rate decision may prove a powerful
stimulent to the industry, bringing
about improvements in cost-saving. a
livelier interest on the part of en-
ployes, determination to make earn
ings in spite of the limitations fixed by
the interstate commerce commission.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-03-16
DEADLOCK OF APPOINTMENTS.

Among the several Wisconsin appoint
ments made by President Taft which
are hung up because the senate failed
to confirm them are those Of Guy D. Golf
Of Milwaukee for United States district
attorney; Harry a. We'll Of Milwaukee
for United States marshal, and Frank
/. Gilbert of Madison for collector Of
internal revenue. The senate did not
confirm owing 70 objections by Senator
LaFollette to Con and Gilbert, and by
Stephenson To Well The appointment
of Well was made upon the presidents
own motion.
It is generally conceded at the ma
tional capital that if the president at
tempts during the recess to put others
into the two Important positions Of at
tomey and collector, Senator LaFoueue
will succeed even more easily in block
ing the appointments in the next SEN
ate, for NOT only viii there be fewer
Tories 10 The upper house, but @ CORES
pending increase .l Proeressives
The senate also failed TO confirm the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-03-16
Cost $625,ooo to Put Lorimer in Senate

Cost S625,o00 to Put Lorimer in Senate.
Ii cost the interests S625,oo0 to
keep William Larimer in the senate.
This statement by the Rev. Milton B.
Williams, pastor of the First Metho-
dist church EIgiu, Ill. at 4 meeting Of
500 citizens aG that place last week is
creating comment throughout the state
today
Williams claimed he got his informa-
ton from d business man who stood
high in the confidence Of Big Bust
ness and who would have made the
assertion in person had not illness pre-
vented his attending the meeting.
Williams said he had been informed
that one United States senator had re-
ceived 100000 for his work in Lori
mer's behalf.
The gathering went en- record with a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-03-16

AN error by the supreme court, an
Acknowledgement of and reversal on
that error and the sending to Jail
through that error a man who had for
four yaars been kept out on TECHNICAL
ties and errors is the record in California.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1911-03-16
tOdicial Publication
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
Farmers and Citizens Bank

Located az Mineral Point State Of Wiscon-
sin az the close OF business on the 9Th day Of
March. 1911, pursuant 90 call by the Commits
simmer Of Ranking.