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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-08-01

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Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Canada and the UNITED States.

Former Senator Beveridge, writing
about Canada, makes the statement
that the United States had 100000
population before it had a single trans
continental railroad and then it had
only one line, from Omaha to the
Pacific coast, while Canada, with
5000 900 population today, has three
transcontinentals, counting the one
now building. And he might have
added, being rushed to completion by
Charles NJ. Hays.
1t is scarcely possible Mr.. Bever-
idge thought to invite invidious COM
parison between Canada and the
United States, yet some sort of COM
parison naturally suggests itself upon
reading his article. II it comes to
that, Americans might ask why Can
ada was so late in getting her 5,O00,-
600 populatiin. The Norsemen discov-
cred Canada along about 96S and not
until about 450 years after that did
Left Ericsson saunter down from the
north to share honors with Columbus
in discovery. So that we are much
newer country than our neighbors of
the Dominion.
And If a comparison is to be made,
we have proved yourselves to be a
more aggressive people, else we would
probably be as Canada is today, still
only a province of England. And in
the meantime, while getting our 90,-
900, 900 population, We found time to
face and settle the gravest problem
that can confront a nation, the prob
lem of secession and human liberty in
one. But only four years after settling
that problem we had completed this
first transcontinental railroad as an
object lesson for Canada.
Whatever progress and development
Canada makes brings satisfaction and
pride to Americans, for Americans
example and influence have been Can
ada's inspiration and many Americans
have personally helped to develop the
vast empire. Canada has a great flu
ture and Canadians are a sturdy peo-
pie and fine neighbors. We wish them
we'll and so wishing offer them the
hand of international fellowship in
achieving we'll
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
THE GRAY GARDEN.

Madison Camein in New York Sun. J.
Here in this room she used to sit
Where by that window, stands her chairs
Often her hands forgot to knit,
Intent upon the garden there.
An old kind face, that kept it's youth
AS flavor Keeps winter pear;
The soul Of Esther, heart of Ruth
T Were hers, that helped her still to bear.
The garden. whispering through the flow
ers,.
Spoke to her heart of many things
That helped her pass the twilight hours
With old, living rememberings,
There she would wander like a ghost,
Or stand just where that white rose
And listen, for an hour almost,
The dusk go by on nighthawk wings.
No flowers, were hers of gaudy hue,
Remindfu of different day;
The candytuft and feverfew
Helped her gray dreams In some dim
way,
Nor was there any rich perfume,
Scarlet or gold, but all was gray,
Subdued OF fragrance as OF bloom
That helped her quiet soul to pray.
The garden seemed to fill a need,
Like some old love- acquaintRnceship,
Like that to whom she wished God
speed
Who raised her fingers 10 his lip
And went, returning nevermore s.-s-s
From yonder narrow, far-off strip
OF azure sea and saffron shore,
Whence vanished, years ago, his ship.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Reciprocity Goes Through.

The enactment by the senate, by a
anal vote OF SO to %, Of the bill en-
bodying the agreement for reciprocity
with Canada needs nothing TO make IL
effective but the signatures Of the pre-
siding ofncers and Of the chief execu-
tive.
During the time he has occupied
the White House President Taft has
had no such persistent struggle to
gain legislative approval of an impor-
tant policy as he has had with Cana
dian reciprocity. Enacted upon by
the last congress, the president con-
vened the new congress in extra ses-
sion, Notwithstanding the fact that the
house was controlled by a democratic
majority, and has succeeded in get
ting the bill through by votes given
irrespective of party alignment.
While the reciprocity bill could not
have gone through congress without
the help Of the democrats, it is none
theless President Taft's measure, and
whatever credit or discredit attaches
to it in the public mind after it is
effective, and its provisions come into
play, will properly belong to him. It
is here that President Taft has COM
manded admiration for his unflinch-
ing stand He satisfied himself at the
outset that reciprocity with Canada
was desirable, and that the reciprocity
agreement, which he negotiated, made
concessions of mutua advantage, and
from that moment he was its cour-
ageous and outspoken advocate. He
did not hesitate to bring to bear for It.,
in a legitimate way, all the influence
of his high office, nor to accept the
support of the democrats in congress,
being satisfied that he could not count
on enough republicans.
With reciprocity with Canada on
the way to be an, accomplished fact,
the purpose of the extra session has
been achieved. The senate program
calls for at least another two weeks
before adjournment. but as public in
terest in congressional doings is sure
now to flag, the lawmakers may be
expected to stop at the first favorable
opportunity.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
The Tragedy of Golf.

The current North American Re-
view contains a rather entertaining
article on "The Tragedy of Golf" from
the pen of P. A. Vale, one Of It's chief
votaries in England, which some
American devotees of the game may
do well to read.
In word, the writer finds In the
prodigal waste of time and talents of
men whose country needs them, the
tragedy of the game he has done so
with many people in England is al
most synonymous with life" He says
1t bids fair to become a national
obsession," adding that "all obsessions
are obnoxious" and this one, he de-
clares, will be, not only obnoxious,
but absolutely dangerous" But, as
IL this were not making the appeal
strong enough, Mr.. Vale proceeds:
1t is not too much to say that at this
time there are many thousands Of golf
ers in England who go perilously near TO
deserving the word traitor. / know IL 10
Nothing can excuse it but truth. Can 1t
be denied that England today needs all
the help of all her men to bind her and
her empire together, to maintain her In the
position that she has so long held among
nations2 Can the man who needlessly
gives more time to any game than he gives
to his country when she needs him be
considered a loyal man and a worthy son
OF great race; in a word, or a few is he
worthy OF the great name of an English
mani
II cannot be denied that this golf
expert has taken very serious view
of England's national status, whether
too serious or not is not for an Amer
lean to say. DEPRESSING for the mo-
ment, 1t might be pertinent TO inquire
these inveterate golf fiends. Anyhow,
the world has just got through view
ing the object lesson of him, Eng
lands peerless military genius, being
relegated to the rather unimportant
post OF pro-consul to Egypt, while the
army goes on badly in need OF his
services in reorganization. But that
leads off into the bypaths of bureau
cracy-another British tragedy.
In calling all this to the attention Of
American readers, this writer must
have a premonitory thought in mind.
1t is scarcely possible, though, for the
game ever to get into the tragedy class
in this country. In the first place
Americans have proved with base ball,
which they have even made business,
that they can play as hard as they can
work without letting It effect either
their piety, patriotism or business.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Chicago Record Herald: God pity Tio
sons OF the rich mani" exclaimed one OF
the preachers in the course OF recent
sermon. Nobody else seems TO be willing
to do so.
St Louis Republic; The situation was
reversed when a Chicago wedding was
postponed because the clergyman who was
TO officlate had been stung. In tho case
of most weddings II isn't the preacher who
gets stung.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The New
York minister who says in an interview in
England that he can find no foreign news
in American newspapers should either con-
suit an oculist or give up devoting his
whole time TO divorce court news or the
sporting page.
Cleveland Leader: Deacons and elders of
the church. together with mere unregener-
ate farmers of Berkshire. Mass, are under
the ecclesiastical ban because they worked
in the fields last Sunday to save theirfhay.
which the heat and the drouth threatenedA
What about the ass in the pit?
San Francisco Chronicle: Rev. w. #.
Hyde, an eastern divine. declares that
George " is a lineal descendant of cousin
of the house Of David. and the English
and American people are the people of
God" The latter statement goes without
saying-all are the people OF God-but It
seems unfair TO David to hold him even
remotely responsible for some of Georges
forebears.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Two Railroad Mergers.

In the wake of the circuit courts
decision denying the governments
plea for dissolution of the Union Pa
cific-Southern Pacific merger is heard
an echo of the Northern Securities
case and in this connection the Satur-
day Evening Post asserts:
II the northern merger was really OBJ
jectionable on any sound ground of public
policy the same objection obviously would
lie against the southern merger.
But why would It? The Great North
ern and Northern Pacific are parallel
and competing railroads." traversing
the same territory, having practically
the same terminals. The Hartman
lines are not parallel, though possibly
In some measure proved to have been
competing. At least in the showing of
the railroad, on which the court
based its finding in favor of the de-
PENDANTS, this was one essential point:
That the Union Pacific secured its west
bound traffic by active competition and
had transported it as competitive for a
thousand miles before II reached ogden.
One might inquire, however, now
that it has been some years since the
Hill lines were dissolved" what is
the practical effect of the dissolution?
The lines are still under the same
management and are still parallel, II
not competing.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.

The more love we have in our hearts the.
more good we shall be able TO see In ~
world
You know all that you need TO know
about man when you know what kind OF
a God he worships
There would be more REVEALS II more OF
the preaching were aimed az the sinners
on the front seats,
Great men do great things easily. IL
is no harder for a lion to roar than II Is
for q mouse to squeal
There is more mountaineering power IN
a mustard seed grain OF faith than there
Is in a ton of dynamite.
1t is easier for sparrow 10 fly over the
moon than II is for n man with face like
Grape on the door to get close TO boy.
II some people could live as long as
Methusalch, they would never find out that
It is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive.
The man who falls into the habit OF
putting his head into the lions mouth. Is
going to have his breathing interfered with
sooner or later.
There Is something wrong with the
church pillar who sells his grain to the
dlstlllery for a better price than he can
get at the flour mill.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Lords, Doom Near at Hand.

Premier Asquith's ultimatum to the
Tories Is whetted to a keen edge by
his incisive uTbanity. His note to
MIR. Balfour, as the opposition leader,
cuts to the very quick of every union
list heart with almost irritating polite
ness and lays open before the lords
their own doom in all its solemn im-
pressiveness. 1t clinches the constitu-
tional revolution in England. The
rest Is but routine, for the king has
promised to create the peers nncessary
to override the will of the arsb;ocracy,
pass the veto bill and strike from the
House of Lords its traditional prerog-
alive, the veto.
The lords at least proved themselves
good Tories, without adding anything
to reputed diplomacy of that ancient
party. For they stood pat, refusing
TO concede one point in order to gain
Notwithstanding to yield their veto
that they might preserve their polit-
zeal existence. They forced the king
w pay hib manu- anu MI <AbquAih W
show his. They stayed and have been
called Now England must begin to
prepare itself for new era of organic
life.
All this, however, is not due to
Tory obduracy, nor lordly blindness,
but to the memorable law of progress
that is steadily, If slowly, advancing
the principle of democracy. Nor all
the power of royal custom nor, ancient
monarchy can prevail against it. 1t
only happens to have been retarded
in it's course in England because its
Votaries deigned to temporarize with
vain pride. The Tory organs saw
months ago what the lords refused to
see and warned them Of results, plead
ing with them to concede the imam
cial character of the veto bill, waive
their right to intercept 1t and throw
themselves upon the mercy of the
court In the last hope OF at least pre-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

naval resources, evidently with the
view of making them correspondingly
great
Germany still means to reach out.
She still eyes covetously certain val
liable estates in South America and in
Africa, as, in the case of the latter,
her interception of French aggression
in Morocco has but lately shown. How
far does Germany propose to let this
arbitration treaty with these other
countries restrict or affect her present
policies Of territorial expansion? And
does she believe that those policies
can be more hopefully pursued by
adopting this new method? The en-
phatic words of the chancellor still
ring in the ears Of the world, commit
ting Germany to violent opposition of
international arbitration treaties Just
now. Has the chancellor been per-
suaded to change his mind. or have
we failed to understand the kaisers
intention?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
ILGOOkin$ Backward
HisDSSy in0maha
COMPILED FROM BEE FILES {
july 2s.
Thirty Years Ago
PILED FROM BEE FILF.S

Thirty Years Ago
new meat market is opened on Tenth
street, near the Union Pacific depot by
David Guild. The market Is in charge
OF Joe Bath, IAN experienced butcher, who
has served three years as carving artist
for Shelley Brothers the popular meat
men of Douglas street"
Excursion tickets TO St. Paul and re-
turn are being advertised at tho low rate
of S17
Complaint Is made because nothing is
being done in the matter OF street sprlnk-
ling. The city was advertising for bids
and had received none.
quite panic was created In the St
Elmo Variety theater by an explosion OF
a lamp and the firing Of the curtain. THE
ballet girls screamed In terror and rushed
from the stage, through the wine room and
into the crowd outside, arrayed in their
spangled stage costumes" The fire de-
partment quickly extinguished the fire.
Charles j. Greene and John c. Gown
returned from Lincoln where they had been
attending supreme court.
Mrts. Frank Kennard is advertising for
a girl at the corner OF Nineteenth and
Dodge streets. Likewise Mrs. Doctor p.
Grossmann at the southeast corner Of Sew
enteenth and Dodge streets.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Third Battle of Bull Run.

1t required nothing short of a bat
tie with muddy roads and swollen
streams for the president and his OFF,
cial party from Washington to get to
the historic little town of Manassas,
the scene of the first great civil war
conflict, to attend the big celebration
of its fiftieth anniversary. The press
dispatches furnish a thrilling tale of
the adventures, with Major Archibald
Butt, the presidents gallant guard,
doing the honors as official hero
pathfinder, as it were, for he must
wade streams up to his neck to deter
mine whether it is safe for the auto
mobiles carrying the president, sena-
tors and others to venture in.
Aside from the humor of the expert
ence, which was doubtless enjoyed to
the full by the president, the lack of
change In the old Virginia country APP
preaching Manassas as compared with
the revolutionary changes in the meth
DDS of transportation made In these
fifty years must strike with forcible
interest. Apparently, the easy-going
Virginians have done little to improve
the roads or bridge the streams since
July 81, 1861, when the armies of the
north, under Mcdowell, and those of
the south, under Beauregard and
Johnston, met and made the history
which now is being celebrated. But
what a change has been wrought in
the methods of travel! Here, push
Ing through muddy roads and fording
rivers, are machines which not the
most fantastic mind of that day would
have dared dreamed of. Yet autos
cannot have become SO very common
down in the Manassas country. or the
progressive touch of time would be
visible in other ways.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Crane On Higher Education.

Richard T. Crane of Chicago has
put in pamphlet form for distribution
his latest assault upon higher educa-
ton, originally an address before a
college graduating class. Cheering
on the young men in the pursuit of
higher schooling, he said: MY ad-
wise to you is to stop where you are,
hustle for job; make good"
In Mr.. Cranes estimation the value
of the college course amounts to moth
ing. 1T has fostered dlsrespect for
honest, manual labor" he asserts. AS
If to clinch all his argument against
education, he says, that few of the
men in the past who have made good,
that is, the conspicuous figures in this
nations history, were college men.
He figures out that the college course
of former days was about equal to the
high school course of today, hence, he
concludes, with all wisdom, that any
thing beyond the high school today
is useless and unnecessary, except for
the professions, for which he has as
little use as for higher education
itself.
But college education as a system
does not tend to foster a disrespect
for honest labor. 1t dignifies and en-
mobiles honest labor. Mr.. Crane makes
the mistake Of attacking the system
instead of the results, with which even
many people who believe in higher
education, find fault. But logic and
reason do not condemn a system SIM
ply because it may, in part or at times,
be wrongly administered.
1t is true that some-not all-of the
most conspicuously great Americans
were not college-bred men, but it was
not because they could and would not
have the college education. Only
note the grim tenacity with which
Abraham Lincoln and others. strug-
gled in youth to learn what little they
could But surely even, Mr.. Crane,
who at the age of 70, claims to be
ahead of my time" would not say
IhoI IhO AhOob SOhSPtSuOuSly buCCS5S-
full men, either of the present or sue
ceeding generations, will be the I'M
educated. However much they strove
for education in former years, many
men, by force of circumstances, were
denied It. Nor is there any logic
whatever in his deduction that be-
cause what few college men we had
in early years got along with an alb
breviated course that our more elabo-
rate system today is useless and un-
necessary.
After summing 1t all up into the
result that college men are failures, ;"
Mr.. Crane makes the further illumi-
mating statement that it is a humbug
to say that men of wealth give to ed
ucation because they believe in it.
while some honest men do this" he
admits, they are not what you would
call practical men," The force of Mr..
Cranes logic here strikes home when
one recalls those visionary college
philanthropists, John d. Rockefeller,
Andrew Carnegie, the Creightons, and
even DR.. Pearsons. men who have
wasted their lives in the ftful and i'm
practical pastime of vain imaginings.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

This must explode the old notion,
too, of their being a more inveterate
race than the English. In the next
place, the exigencies Of the sport in
America will. for an indefinite time
10 come, keep it from being played
by everybody" And then in the third
place, our national status is such as
to warrant the most patriotic of our
citizens in putting in all the time they
find at play without becoming en-
dangered Why, even the head of the
nation plays golf with perfect i'm
punity to the Stars and Stripes, and
that, too, in the heat of our hottest
summer and the vortex of a fierce
legislative storm in congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Effect of the Treaty on Germany.


President Taft expects Germany
soon to sign up with England, France
and perhaps Italy and The Neither
lands, his proposed arbitration treaty
binding these nations with the United
States in a compact of peaceful deter
mination of all arbitrable questions.
OF course, If this should come about
It would be a tremendous stride to-
ward the hoped-for goal of universal
peace, and on that side of 1t most at
tention and thought have been fixed.
There is another very interesting
phase, and that is, what effect would
such a treaty have upon Germany's
plans and problems?
Price Collier speaks OF the German
peril, along with the Yellow or Japa-
nese peril, and insists that there is
such a peril. 1t is to be found most
dangerous to those countries, them
selves, however, and to lie ip their
power of territorial expansion. Ger
many, to maintain her position among
the nations, must reach out, as her
great men know, and there has not
been any receding, on Germany's part,
from the old idea of military proves
as the surest means of extension.
Having brought her land forces to the
maximum Of strength and solidarity,
she is now turning her attention to
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Ten Years Ago


Rain comes lin patches" but mercury
still hangs about 100 marke. These deaths
from heat are reported: William Heinrich
10th and Jones; Captain George Peterson,
lib Douglas; William Thomas, 222S Ohio
James Fuller, 1872 Dodge. These were pros
trated: Adelaide de Steele, Douglas block
Bertha Miller, 18th street and Capitol av-
enue; Peter Leslie, Sixteenth and Cunning
William Flynn transient; Lowell Ander-
son, Thirtieth and Harvey; Ray Morris,
Thirty-fourth and Jackson.
The city council refuses to sustain Mayor
Moores' veto of Councilman Hascalrs reso-
luton providing that all paving done dur
ing the year be paid out Of the current
funds.
John G. Willis, a property owner of
North Omaha, proposes TO Senator Willard
that old Fort Omaha be ceded by the fed
eral government to the state to be used
by It as an agricultural college campus.
Oliver E. Martls, aged 50, died at $50;
Bristol street.
Mr.. and Mrs. John e. UT returned from
a "Trip along the GrsNts Lakesss
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
People and Events

New York City was overcharged 81, $50
for It's Fourth OF July fireworks Safe and
sane patriotism must pay the price, too.
The center OF population moved only
thirty-one miles In ten years. How did
1t escape arrest for obstructing the road ?
Four members OF the wall paper trust
indicted at Cleveland would peel off a
few slices of a fat roll for a chance to
mix the dough in the government pastepot
Oklahoma progressives mournfully admit
that the states 'perfect constitution" is
woefully imperfect. For some unknown
reason provision for rainmaking was
omitted.
A search Of half a century has been re-
warded by finding in the secret archives
Of the Ananias club the name of the man
who banished railroad curves from rail-
road maps.
Surely this is the golden age of poetry
Hoosier Jim Riley's gift of $4,000 worth
of property to the home folks" at In
dianapolis leaves no doubt that Pegasus is
the winning mount.
The spectacle of Boston policemen per-
forming the public duty of swatting flies
is calculated to make the angels dry their
tears and indulge In unseemly levity 1t
beats the sea serpent as a summer at
traction.
Tennessee railroads report the issuance
of 1880 passes during the last session or
the legislature. Had the railroad officials
given their opinion OF the fellows who got
the chips, the report would have been
worth while.
The head Of the New York Ice trust
hurIs 'the ugly word' at those who ac-
cused him OF promoting an ice famine, and
scorns the charge that the company needed
the money. Some far off day people will
learn TO appreciate the philanthropy of
the ice man. Meanwhile, weigh the cake.