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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
People Talked About

The moral fabric of New Jerseys Utopia
is about to go into court for fumigation
and repair.
Gourmets eager for the fray are assured
that the oyster crop is ample for the Sep
TENDER opening.
The sob squad is not missing any thrills
in the Virginia criminal case. A timely
cool wave puts the readers in shape to
withstand the succession of shocks.
BY close attention to his patients. and
by cooking his own meals and sleeping in
his one-room office, DR.. Charles F. Meyer
an eccentric New York physician, recently
deceased left a fortune Of 100000 for the
enjoyment of his heirs
Mrs. Heyworth Mills has just completed
q ten-foot statue of ST. Peter for the
Episcopal church of Morristown, n. J.,
Mrs Mills is a near neighbor of Mrs. Caro-
line Peddie Ball, whose figure Of Victory
crowned the United States building at the
Paris exposition.
A string of applause several miles long
has been handed to a street car conductor
in St Louis whose prize essay thus defines
the ideals of the noble craft: The pas
sengers are our patrons and we should
make their rides so pleasant that each
passenger will wish to ride with us again. -
Miss Joetta Mckinley has received the
Endorsement OF the republican committee OF
Polk county, Missouri as a candidate to
succeed her father as county treasurer.
Polk county already has a woman super
intendent of schools and a woman deputy
county clerk.
Mrs. Helen Shaw-Thompson OF Chicago
delivered a notable speech at the recent
convention OF the Associated Advertising
clubs in Boston. Mrs. Shaw Thompson is
native of Boston and at one time did
newspaper work She then took a course in
medicine and chemistry before devoting her
energies TO advertising foods
Police Chief Sebastian OF Los Angeles
announces that he expects soon TO equip a
squad of patrolmen with paper roller
| skates. The skates are OF two kinds, both
already completed and tried out. One type
has two wheels and is for high spe n.
The other has four wheels for each SIX q.
not unlike in general design the old-fash-
| Toned roller skate.
| Peter Mahoney OF Burlington. Ia, Is
declared to be the worlds champion brick
setter when IL comes to the laying OF
pavement. In one day OF ten hours this
summer Mahoney set 5000 bricks. which
Is at the rate of more than one a second.
Considering that each brick he handled
weighs ass pounds, Maloney in a good
days work lifts $4,000 pounds, or l75 tons.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
Bread Mother Used to Make.

Does the man who takes delight in
telling his wife what fine bread mother
used to make derive much comfort
from the master bakers condemnation
of the homemade bread of today? Or
will he pretend to find special en-
couragement in it? 1t seems to bear
out what he has been saying at the
dinner table for so long. The bakers
declare that the homemade bread is
soggy, hard to digest and generally un-
wholesome. They are not saying that
the mothers of yesterday made that
sort of bread and their silence may be
taken to imply that they did not.
Here is a fine chance for the COM
planning husband to jump at his wife
with some new evidence for his side
of the case. The wife, however,
might retort that some of the bread
that comes from the bakers is also
built on plans that differ widely from
those which mother" used. Moth
ers" bread was never so good as in
retrospect and the bread baked by the
present generation of mothers is pretty
sure to be cited to mothers of the next
crop of hungry mouths.
1t is difficult to say just where this
bread line is to lead. 1t may scarcely
be taken to DR.. Wiley for determine
ton, for he seems to be fully engaged
with other nick-nacks for the present,
including the task of holding onto his
official title. 1t may end where it be-
gan-by the women who have the time
and the disposition to feed their own
families on good bread, continuing to
do so and the bakers selling all the
bread they can where households are
unfortunate enough not to have bread
makers OF their own. And the race
probably will keep right on growing
fat and healthy off both brands of
bread
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
I'm Era of Slaughter.

While official and private enter
prises are regaling themselves in self
adulation over the excellent progress
made in the movement to reduce acct
dents on railroads, in mines and else
where, accidents go on multiplying in
number and victims with astonishing
celebrity.
August 10, twelve men are entombed
and die in a mine at Hibbing, MINI.
August "a, six miners perish in a
shaft at Ely, New.
August %, twenty-five passengers OF
Lehigh Valley railroad train are
killed in a wreck at Manchester, N. Y.
The same day twenty-five persons
meet death in a moving picture show
house at Canonsburg. Pa, and more
than that number are seriously in
iured.
No one explanation or remedy will
fit all these cases, of course, unless it
be to put greatest emphasis in the
conduct OF all these hazardous in
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
Infantry Equipment Adopted.

Further action has been taken by the
War department toward the adoption OF
additional articles of army equipment, as
recommended originally by the infantry
equipment board. 1t has been decided 10
adopt the ponoho, as suggested by that
board for issue to dismounted troops The
cavalry equipment board Is emphatically
of the opinion that the slicker should be
retained for mounted troops and a con-
tract placed for 5000 of these articles in
order to have an experiment OF them in
service. before IL is determined whether
the poncho shall be adopted for cavalry,
as well as infantry or, the sicker shall
be adopted only for the mounted troops.
1t has also been decided to adopt the shell
ter tent as recommended by the infantry
equipment board, In which case the rifle
will be used as a pole, which means a re-
duction in weight OF over two and one
half pounds. The question OF the overcoat
and neckerchief has not been decided The
infantry board is in favor OF the short
coat, for foot soldiers at least while the
cavalry board has recommended the reten-
ton of the longer garment Most of the
officers who have had the subject unter
consideration believe that there should be
two types of overcoats, IL II is essential 70
the efficiency of infantry and cavalry that
both short and long garments be adopted
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30

Lobcck' Funny Biu.
No one in the War department takes any
too seriously the bill introduced in the
house by Representative Lobeck OF Ne
braska. The bill aims to provide for the
establishment Of four grand military divi-
sions." with total OF fourteen subordinate
departments. 1t may be a significant fea-
ture OF the bill that one of the division
headquarters is established at Omaha. The
basis Of the creation by law OF these per
manent military divisions appears to be
mainly geographical, with nothing said
concerning the troops stationed w.tnin the
boundaries Of the divisions or departments.
Congress is not disposed 10 enact legislation
of this character, taking the stand that the
War department should be permitted, with
out the hindrance of congress, to establish
such divisions or departments at home and
beyond continental limits as are regarded
as proper and necessary for the purpose
Of army administration 1t is for this rea-
son that the War department would not
give its support of II at the capitol. Evil
dence of that indifference on the part of
congress has been manifested by the at
titude of the senate military committee in
dealing with Senator Hitchcock's resolu-
ton, which aimed to abolish the military
divisions, established on July l. and re-
create the military departments.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
How Taft pisappoints pemocrats.

1~eANeeNtNas
Democrats are shedding crocodile
tears in disappointment Ger President
Taft, for, as they say, defeating tariff
revision" when they had expected his
support of their various bills. But
that is not what disappoints the demo-
Gratis. They had hoped the president
would sign these make-shift meas
ures, so that they might go out and say
they had forced him to stultify himself
in anticipating the work of the tariff
board, the creature of his own plans
Suppose the president had affixed his
signature to these hap-hazard bills,
concocted for purely political purposes,
does anyone think the democrats would
not have tried to make campaign CAPT
tai out of it? They would have re-
hearsed how the president had advo-
Gated the creation of the tariff board
and the principle of scientific tariff re-
vision and then rung the changes on
his action in approving the premature
tariff bills, which under no construc-
ton, could be regarded as scientific.
In short, what the democrats are
chagrined at is their failure, with the
aid of their insurgent allies, to put
the president in a hole" as they had
carefully planned to do. They pro-
longed the extra session of congress
only because they could not accom-
plish their purpose in shorter space
of time and they adjourned without
having accomplished it. Now, in the
first regular session of the Sixty-second
congress, tariff revision along scien-
tific, comprehensive lines in accord
ance with the report of the tariff
board, is sure to be the program and
the democrats may think they will
dare obstruct it to get even" with
the president for spelling their politi-
cal scheme at the extra session. But
will they? How would they go about
justifying such a course to the people?
1t is much more apt to transpire that
these cunning democratic politicians
have merely put themselves in a hole.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
Civilian Officers for Army.

1t is expected there will be designated
about l75 civilian candidates to take the
examination of September for second
lieutenant in the army. There are some
200 vacancies in the grade to which can
didates from civil life are eligible. No
designations will be made after the first
Of September. as 1t would be impracticable
to arrange for the examination Of any can
didates between that date and the date
set for the examination. The military au-
thorities are much gratified with the re-
suits of the applications which have been
received at the War department an I'M
usual effort having been made this year
to attract the attention of candidates from
civil life to the vacant commissions. The
life of those designated includes many
college graduates. 1t being quite evident
that there will still remain many vacancies
In the position of second lieutenant there
Will be, consequently, another examination
next year. A somewhat unusual condition
exists this year owing to the fact that the
appointment of the qualified civilian can
didates will have to be delayed until after
the examination. beginning on September
l, of three four enlisted men who have
been designated to take a special exam
ination. This is on account of the pres
idents instructions to examine an enlisted
man on duty at Fort Myer, in whose behalf
1t was claimed that prejudice against his
Jewish origin had deprived him of exam
inaton for commission With the de-
cision to hold a special examination in this
case, the president authorized an examina-
ton for two or three others.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
ARE WE LIVING roo FAsTs
Specialists on the Job Of COncoctinE
Imaginary Ills.
paItiuore Sun


Imaginary Ills.
Baltimore Sun.
The common tendency TO blame all the
ills of modern man upon the mad rush
for gain" ''the nerve racing pace of civili-
cation" and other such bugaboos-a ten
dency sedulously encouraged by mental
healers. fashionable physicians. patent
medicine vendors and other such special
lists in imaginary diseases-is effectively
combated by George Paish. editor of the
London Statist in recent issue OF the
Sociological Review. The fact Is, says Mr..
Paish that modern life. to the average
man of the middle ages. would seem
chiefly remarkable, not for its strenuosity,
but for its repose. Human beings work
less and less with each succeeding year,
and the work they do is progressively less
fatiguing. And meanwhile the food they
eat grows more nourishng and plentiful.
the clothing they wear and the houses
they live in give them better protection
from the elements, the diversions of their
leisure increase in variety and interest,
and tho pestilences which once besieged
them and held them in ceaseless terror
now besiege and terrorize them no longer.
Contrast the average workman Of Tudor
England. The former works 90 hours a
week gets pay enough to give him a
seven-Toom house and runs only the most
remote risk of starving in his old age, The
latter worked 75 hours a week, got the
modern equivalent of 81 a day and was
constantly under-nourished and in con-
slant danger of death from war, pesti-
lence or famine.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
Army COurt-MartiaI Cases.

The president still has under considera-
ton the court-martial sentence of dis
missal in the case of Lieutenant Robert q.
Rutherford, jr,, Twenty-fourth infantry. At
the instance of Senator Stone of Missouri.
Mr. Taft has consented to go carefully
into the case before taking action. In the
meantime the promotion Of first and sec
ond lieutenants of infantry is arrested The
court-martial sentence of dismissal in the
case Of Lieutenant Frank w Braden
Twenty-sxth infantry, on duty at Fort
Brady, Mich, is still before the War de-
partment, pending some further informa-
ton concerning the circumstances under
which, II is alleged. that officer violated
his pledge to abstain from intoxicating
liquors The third case of court martial
sentence of dismissal is that Of Captain
Frank A, Cook of the subsistence DEPART
ment, who was reported as engaging in
disorderly conduct while intoxicated in San
francisco some months ago. Since the re-
ceipt OF the case at the War department
information has come from San Francisco
alleging that Captain Cook since his trial
was again under the influence of liquor
and was sent to the Emergency hospital
In San Francisco for treatment. The War
department officials desire to ascertain IL
it was necessary for the military authori-
ties of San Francisco to take disciplinary
measures.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30

dustr' upon the matter of protecting
human life. In each case careless
ness seems to have played a large part
in results. In spite of all the effort
exerted OF late to prevent, disasters
keep piling up, yet rarely does one hear
of any legal penalty following. II the
law we're more sensitive in this direc-
ton It might have more effect.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
When President Taft Visits Omaha.

President Taft's itinerary for his
western tour provides for spending a
whole day in Omaha on Sunday, Oc-
tober L. Few other cities will have
the honor of entertaining the president
that long, most of them being COM
PEELED to content themselves with a
few hours of his presence. The fact
that the day here will be 2 Sabbath
means that the longer stop is for the
observance of the day and relaxation
from the strenuousness of presidential
travel. Though the people here will
want to see as much of the president
as they can, and would also like to
hear from him, We can doubtless make
the biggest hit by devoting our efforts
chiefly toward his comfort and insur-
ing him rest for refrigeration in the
midst OF the trying demands which he
will then be meeting. If Omaha will
let him slow up for the day, the presi-
dent will surely remember and appre-
ciate the consideration more than If
he were kept on the run and jump
from the moment he sets foot in the
city until the train pulls out the next
day.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
LIFE-TAKNG CARELEssNEsS.

Chicago Record Herald. safety first OF
all" ought to be the motto Of every rail-
road; the lives Of passengers and trainmen
are above profits or speed in the right
view OF railroadinE. Those who manage
the roads ought to be stirred to rigorous
examination Of their rules and methods
by these many and fatal accidents.
Washington star: In this wreck on the
Jehigh valley an effort was made 20 dis
patch several hundred people by too heavy
and too fast R-trsiu. Whatever may have
been the immediate physical circumstance
that led TO the derailment the general cause
lies in the almost murderous disposition
OF the railroad companies to overwork the
equipment.
st. Louis Republics Common sense ought
to teach showmen and promoters that
such catastrophes as those OF Canonsburg
Pa, and Elgin. H., tend to kill the amuse-
ment business itself Both OF these harrow
ing events were essentially preventable.
The pcture-show panic piled up its dead
in a narrow stairway entrance. The grand
stand collapse was due to flmsy construc-
ticn. Even In the days when butchery was
necessary to a Roman holiday the patrons
OF the amusement were safely provided
for An American holiday is too frequently
a butchery OF the patrons
Philadelphia Record This summer is max
ing a bad record for railroad accidents.
The disaster on the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad. to two fast trains
to Chicago and this worst accident Of all
on the Lehigh Valley road constitute a
very exceptional group OF horrors TO be
recorded within so short a time While ac-
cidents will happen so long as men are
fallible and materials may contain hidden
flaws, the country would like to believe
that vigilance is increasing and accidents
are of diminishing frequency. Unfortun-
stely the evidence Of this tendency is not
so clear as we should like
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
No shake ~ the TIL.
Nav York Sun.

The comptroller of the treasury has done
an unexpected thing in deciding that SETS
mology is not within the province Of the
weather bureau and that 1t need give no
more attention to earthquakes. We had
grown accustomed TO an all comprehensive
system OF bureau and department work.
Uncle Sam paid the bills and nothing was
said Perhaps II the labors Of the weather
bureau are limited to watching and fore
casting the weather we shall know with
greater certainty when IL is going to rain
or shine.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
DEATH OF SUMMER.
Now York Times.

The dying Summer turns wistful eye \
Aloft where beamed warm, caressing
sky,
And meets the Autumns gray-spresd like
pail
As throttle mist comes faint the reapers
call
The dulling eve roams earthward in its
quest
breast,
But all lie bare; the last pale rose has
flown,
And Summer hapless stands, bereft, alone.
A shadow sweeps across the blghted field
Where Summer laid a rose and lily shield,
Then Night encircles all and bears away
The soul of Summer, are the Autumns
day
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
That Russo Japanese Love Feast,

The final settlement of war claims
between Russia and Japan, as effected
by the exchange of kilograms between
the emperors of the two countries,
surely leaves nothing to be desired in
the way of heightened amity. The
of cablegram love feast over the re-
suits, in which diplomatic amenities
were magnified. On not one item of
settlement was there the suggestion of
halt or question. Quite to the con-
trary, the rulers INDUCED in a sort of
polite eagerness to over-satisfy each
other. Concluding the negotiations
formal kilograms were exchanged, this
one being sent from the Japanese
ruler to the car:
I am sure that your majesty will gra-
ciousy share my conviction that the settle
ment will contribute to consolidate still
more the good relations existing between
our two countries.
And this was the cars reply:
Thoroughly sharing as do your
majesty's sentiments, l see in the handing
over of the Angara RUSSIAN battleship),
fresh proof of a most potent pledge or our
reciprocal friendship
This puts a new aspect of per-
manence and reality upon the Ports
mouth treaty and must give Americans
greater cause for pride in the part our
nation under the leadership of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, took in ending the
Russo-Japanese war and bringing the
two powers into peaceful relationship.
But there fingers in these effusive
ceremonies an implied notice to ma
tons planning on aggressive move
ments in the orient that a new and
very formidable power exists there,
which did not exist before Togo and
Rojestvensky came together. Even in
trade extension and commerce this
may be expected to have it's effect.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
Ten Years Ago


Mr.. Will Stevens entertained these trienos
at Lake Manawa in the evenings Misses
Thatcher, Bertha Clarke, Hardy, Camp
bell, Carter, Curtis, Margaret Curtis Pol
lack, Taylor, Anne Taylor, Messrs. Richard
stevens Emmert. Rosebrough, Moody and
Dale.
Miss Lottie Holder died at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George J.
Holder, 1914 North Twenty second street
as a result of congestion from drinking Ice
water.
Anton Christensen, q, and Ida Christen-
sen. 10, were granted license to wed.
Mrs. Ruser, So years old, mother OF the
late Henry Ruser, was buried at Ever
green cemetery.
The First Ward Republican club, with
President F. w. Bandhauer in the chair
endorsed the governors action in return
ing Joseph BARLEY, embezzling state
treasurer, to the penitentiary.
Senator Willard announced he would re-
new his effort to persuade the government
to build a military road from Omaha to
Fort Crook.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
A welcome Change.
New York Tribune.

France, people and press, trusts her
prime minister to settle the African dis
pute Alright, and therefore is tranquil. and
scrupulously avoids any utterance that
might embRrrass the government That is
welcome change from the days when
delicate negotiations on the part Of the
government were the signal for every con-
ceivable outbreak OF violence and minister
batting.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30

1t might not be out of order for
local preachers who want to number
President Taft in their congre-
cation on the Sunday he spends in
Omaha to accompany the invitation
with certified testimonials as to the
average length of the sermon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
ImPertinent Suggestions.
st. Louis GIobe-Democrat.

People who are saving, in connection
with the picture missing from the Louvre,
that Mr.. Morgan can prove an alibi, are
impairment. Mr.. Morgan never has been
accused OF stealing anything. He has
money enough to buy anything he wants,
and Mr.. Roosevelt says he once bought
something he didn't want. just to save the
country from a panic
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
why Increase the Mortality,

1t is not easy to see what satisfaction
the army officers find in the discovery of
a gun that will shoot airships and kill av-
iators Recalling recent fatalities, it APP
pears that the last thing in the world that
was needed was the discovery OF a gun
that would make air navigation more per-
ilous.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
How Art Values Expand.

Mr. Leonardo da Vinci. successful irri-
cation and military engineer. with a strong
taste for the fine srts, who flourisheo
more than three centuries ago. would have
been astOnished beyond measure II he could
have foreseen that portrait by his hand
would one day be valued at more than
100000 florins. That sum would have
purchased all the works CT all the masters
alive in his day.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30

A stranger, visiting in Omaha, de-
clares that no two people have given
him the same answer to the question,
What is Ak-Sar-Ben? All he has to
do is to go out to tha Den on a Mon
day night and find out for himself.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
JULY CIRCULATION.
47,93l

State OF Nebraska County of Douglas, IS.
Dwight williams. circulation manager Of
The Bee Publishing company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily circu-
lation, less spoiled, unused and returned
copies. for the month of July, 1911 was
a 93l DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this I'd day of August, 1911.
(Seal) ROBERT HUNTER.