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Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
Emperor Williams Boys.

The German emperor gives the
world view of the personal, domestic
side of his character in his Altoona.
Prussia, speech and it is a healthful,
wholesome, admirable view. The
world needs now and then to know the
private side of great public charac-
ters like Emperor William. AS the
ruler of one of the great world powers,
he stands out strong and rugged and
the effect is inspiring upon other
powers. But what II, when the curtain
that conceals his private life were
drawn aside, it disclosed a weakness
there-how would this affect his ex-
ample and influence?
First, Emperor William at Altoona
in honor of the province of Schleswig-
Holstein, pays a tribute to his wife, a
daughter of this province, as IAN ex.
ample of German mothers, because she
has brought up six sons, serious, ener-
getic men, who are not inclined to
take advantage of the comforts and
enjoyments of their rank and position,
like many of the present-day youth,
but have devoted their strength TO the
Fatherland in hard and strict fulfill
ment Of duty, and, should a serious
occasion arise, are ready cheerfully to
sacrifice their lives Gu the altar OF
their country"
A noble tribute to this German
mother and her six strong sons. She
sets an example worthy Of emulation
in every home, lowly or exalted By
wealth or power. 1t is a good thina
to make known facts of this kind
about royalty, for, surfeited as the
reading public becomes with facts Of
different sort, it is liable to fall into
the sordid belief that the simple vir
tues of life are unknown in these higl
stations
The German people everywherC
have right to feel and do feel dis
tinct pride in this grand old ancestral
household, where the father, tn,
mother and the children set an ex
ample In home-like simplicity. Tn,
German nation is stronger as a result
II can afford 70 face It's destiny with
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
Pacific Roads and the Panama.


The Pacific railroads are said to be
deeply engrossed already with prep
arations for meeting the new condi-
tions arising in the opening up OF the
Panama canal, which is now set by
some for the autumn of 1918. Some
big railroad men profess to see a re-
dictionary period for their lines in the
all-water competition from the Allan
tic to the Pacific Of the canal route.
They argue that under old conditions
the roads have been unable to enlarge
revenues as fast as desired and that
with greater competition to meet and
no material reduction in the cost of
operation in sight, they cannot hope to
bring their revenues up where they
should be to warrant profitable pros
poets.
OF course, this new transcontinental
water route will create new traffic
problems, but, to layman, it would
appear that the railroad prophets are
overlooking the fact that the canal
also will lead to the development of
new territory and new traffic, enough
so, 1t would seem, to offset any new
burdens of competition. At least,
that has been the common view all
along. And, as the Financial World
observes, the operation of the Panama
canal traffic should have the tremen-
dously profitable effect of converting
lot of small subsidiary lines, now
mere suckers on the main lines, into
healthy feeders.
Somehow, when an unprejudiced OBJ
server looks out over the western rail-
road world, he finds it little difficult
to subscribe to this gloomy view of the
situation ahead. The railroads that
keep abreast of the times are in
lvesting large sums of money for double
tracking, reconstruction of roadbeds
and other costly improvements, even
to the, building of new branch lines.
1t goes without saying that they are
doing all these things through faith in
the development of the country they
traverse and they have good grounds
for believing that this development
will be quickened instead of checked,
by the opening of the canal route.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
Possihilitie, Of Arotio Exnloration.


Not in a long time has a more in
teresting piece of news come into cir
culaton than that of the possible dis
covery in the Arctic regions of a
strange race OF people, who never saw
white man nor an Indian until the
arrival of the explorers. The explor-
ers are headed by Whitman Stefans-
son, a Harvard graduate of 33, who
left the United States in April, 1908,
on an anthropological search under
the auspices of the American museum.
His name denotes Scandinavian descent
and he seems to be UNFOLDING the his
toric fame of his ancestors.
The news that such a race has been
found in Victorialand came by letter
to Brooklyn under date of year ago,
and it is the first word received from
the expedition since it set out more
than three years ago. Instantly,
therefore, the mind turns to the loca-
ton of Victorialand, and probably the
map will reveal many surprises-to
those who had not before taken the
pains to inform themselves that there
was such place as Victorialand. It's
position, just across a narrow neck of
water called Dease strait, north of
central Canada, does not seem so re-
mote, and yet the better illustrates the
comparatively little we know of these
Article lands. By what means this
letter was transmitted is not stated,
but there can be no other method than
dog sleds, driven by native Eskimos.
Evidently these explorers have
found something worth while. The
most interesting point about this lost
race is, of course, its origin. The
young explorer argues that it might
have come from the 5000 Scandi-
navians who disappeared from Green
land in the fifteenth century, inspired
in their quest for new worlds by the
passion that sent Gunnbjorn from Nor
way to the new Morse settlement in
Iceland in the ninth century and con-
tinued to drive expeditions of Morse
men to this continent for several CEN
turtles. What could be more probable
than the correctness of Stefansson' s
theory, for some of these strange Es-
kimos he finds to be of the same racial
characteristics as his own Scandinavia
ans, If he is not right, by what theory
can we explain the difference in types
of these two sets of people inhabitating
this same region? OF far more inter-
est to the world is the news of this dis
covery than anything that has come
from those who have conjured in their
own uncertain minds the belief that
they have reached the north pole.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
Atwood's Triumphal Flight.

It is remarked that the marvellous
flight OF young Atwood from st. Louis
to New York a distance of 1855 miles,
in twenty-eight hours and thirty-one
minutes, is comparable only with the
time of the fastest trains. True, but
II trains had to take as long to make
this record run as Mr.. Atwood took,
the railroads would be Stunned and
another mode of travel adopted, for it
required ten days for the aviator to get
there in twenty-eight and one-half
hours, because he had to lay off nights.
What Mr.. Atwood did was to travel
further than any other aviator has and
his feat loses none of its daring and
date practical utility. It Is not only in
itself wonderful, but it could never
have been accomplished by man who
did not possess superior parts. Had
not Mr.. Atwood been man of precise
self-control, unflinching and unfailing
nerve, he never could have done what
he did. Yet, marvellous as his achieve
ment strikes us, it still falls short of
demonstrating the everyday utility of
aerial navigation. The fact that it
proves the possibility to travel in a
heavier-than-air craft so great dis
lance under favorable conditions still
does not prove much in the way of
making this mode of travel useful in
the near future, although 1t will in
time.
Perhaps more can be predicted for
this scientific enterprise after Atwood,
or some other aviator, has made the
trip from New York to San Francisco,
for which $4,000 is to be offered as
prize. There will be ample time
after that to build our air craft and
heat and light and otherwise equip
them for regular trips between fixed
destination points.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Boston Herald: Tho scheduling Of the
second coming Of Christ for some time in
November Of 1912" by committee ~
Dowieites, Is interesting, but we would IKE
to know whether this Is 20 occur before
or after the national election
Houston Post: An Arkansas ministers
wife is suing for divorce because he
charged her with winklng az a deacon.
Our sympe;hies ars with the good sister.
There never was an eye In this world
that could rest for a second on an Arkansas
deacon without blinking some.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: The Washing
ton churches have been closed most OF
the time this summer. on Sunday, when
the president and two friends sought a
place to worship, they were compelled to
hunt long before finding Il. This spiritual
neglect OF Washington at a time when cory
gress is in session, and with more demo
Gratis in congress than for many year
past is not easy to account for. Somebody
is asleep at the switch
Boston Transcript: The illness of the
pope brings to the public notice again the
happy relations between himself and his
sisters. These two old women have been
very much in the public eye Of Rome since
their brother was elected to the pontficate,
many years ago. They are middle-class
women, almost illiterate and have always
made the care OF their priestly brother the
chief affair Of their lives. The stories that
are told of their little homely ways in
Venice and the same ways which they tiV
to have in Rome really touched the neart
Of humanity throughout the world. They
are so soncitous as to his comfort and he
is to theirs.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
People and Events

Why make such a fuss about II? Hasn't
the venerable and ancient Mona Lisa the
right to go off into a quiet corner and see
II that mysterious shadow of a smile won
come off?
The Croton watershed which collects the
water supply Of New York City, is getting
so dry that the residents may be obliged
TO cut out the chaser" a contingency that
Is not viewed with alarm.
Members of the New York chicken trust,
sent up for three months for extortloa,
will be out Just in time to make the
ultimate consumer squeal as he views the
price tags on Thanksgiving turkey.
Paris is about 10 spring on lovely woman
an aeroplane sleeve with an armhola large
enough to hold all the hot air blown toward
the wearer, Just what purpose the not
air will serve is one OF the mysteries
fashion delights in.
The actor who has smbalmed in story
his prowess in hitching his matrimonial
cart to three stars in twice ten years, and
being ditched in each case must feel
cheap and comical beside the record of
five husbands by Chicago woman of rs
Womsns superiority over them needs only
the chance to put the former lords out Of
the running.
'Aguinaldo the pale brown patriot OF he
Philippines, the warrior ignobly pnchsd by
Funston, is now = plain farmer culuyat-
ing several hundred acres at Cevito just
across the bay from Manila, According to
tourists the once noted insurrecto has cut
out all political ambition, and is diligently
devoting himself TO raising cane and other
truck, and sailing the consumers money.
An inquisitive court IN San Francisco,
having before il the photograph OF the
defendant in a divorce case asked the
deserted wife what she saw IN such a
face to tie to II. Nothing, your honor"
she replied meekly. My heart was
touched by his stories Of battles. sieges ana
fortunes won on the foot ball field" II
takes a mighty strong heart or an empty
cocoanut TO pluck romance from foot bali
scrimmage.
1t was Chicago man who had the nervs
10 stand up and decry the bread that
mother used TO make. AS he views the
situation, bread making at home Is a
menace TO health OF the consumer and the
financial health OF the baker. Who ever
listens TO the song Of an interested heath
promoter has cause for wondering ut the
magnitude OF Gods mercy in preserving the
race until the Chicago master baker
reached the center OF the stage.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
LONG AFTER IT IS DARK.

w. d. Nesbit in Chicago Post,
Long after 1t is dark and still 4
And all the world begins to rest
You need but climb upon the hill
And gaze afar into the west
To see, all faint and faraway,
A rosy CLEAN across the sky,
AS though an echo OF the day
Still trembled there to greet your eye
Sometimes II lines a cloud that swings
Among the first pale stars that CLEAN,
AS though into the nights still things
1t flung the wonder of a dream;
Sometimes with slowly fading hues
1t melts, and fingers on and on
Until at last you will refuse
To think that II is really gone.
The bold stars climb the arching east,
They blaze In splendor overhead
The while the day has long ceased
SIN llmns the hazing west with red,
And often long beams glimmer through,
Flung from the sun afar below,
Then softly in the dusk, they, too,
Insensibly die out and go.
Then drifts the velvet hush Of dark
Across the world, with gentle peace;
The freflies through the shadows spark.
The cricket-chirpings rise and cease
And rise again. and all is still
And yet entranced, you fain would stay
Upon the pathway up the hill
From whence you saw anew the day.
Long after sorrows dark comes down
We may look on, as from a hill,
And Danish fear and fret and frown
BY seeing, cleaning softly still,
The upflung radiance that lives
Forever in fair memory's light
1t is this wondrous balm that gives
The hush OF peace to sorrows night.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
'NOokinSBackward
ThisDSSy in0maha
Z COMPILED FRoni DEE PILES :
Thirty Years Ago
COMPILED FROM DEE
AUGUST ~.

Thirty Years Ago
The Merchants and. Manufacturers
union, p. e. Her, president, and Charles
Kaufman, secretary, in public proclams-
ton request members Ito abstain from
doing business on Sunday. All members
who shall violate this resolution in that
regard will be expelled from the union. and
all such persons violating the existing sun
day laws TO be found in section al, Code
Of Nebraska, will be prosecuted"
p. ]. Johnson died at his residence, 1881
North Nineteenth street, OF typhoid fever
after an illness Of about three weeks. Mr..
Johnson was a member Of the ice and coal
firm OF Benzon q Johnson, which had re-
Gently dissolved.
The night mail train over the Burlington
was delayed In reaching Omaha on &C
count of the accidental destruction by fire
of a bridge near Creston. Passengers had
to be transferred to the Rock Island. They
had retired for the night, and consequently
were considerably put out when called
upon to get up and dress.
The windows are being put in strang' s
new building today.
Quite an excitement was created at the
night performance OF the circus. The reg
ular circus performance had been con-
cluded and the concert was on. The roust-
abouts were engaged in tearing down a
portion of the seats, getting ready for de-
parture, when the ropes attached 20 the
gasoline lights came TO the ground on a
run. The can broke and the gasoline ig-
nlted, blazing to a height Of four or five
feet. general panic ensued, and only the
presence OF mind of James Neigh and
others Of the circus attaches prevented a
jam, and quiet was restored.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
EDITORIAL PEN POINTS.

Cleveland Leader; Strange. the extent to
which Uncle Joe Cannon's name fails to
appear In the news dispatches from wash
ngton.
Boston Herald; That the political COM
plexlon OF the senate may be decided by
Arizona and New Mexico is one OF the
possibilities.
Cleveland Leader: No. one Of the songs
sung in the halls Of congress upon sd-
journment was not I'm Afraid TO Go
Home in the Dark"
Pittsburg Dispatch: A Denver Judge has
a railroad on a slo.oOo,Ooo timber trespass
claim. Another assault on business?
Brooklyn Eagle: Mr.. Roosevelt says a
boom for him in 1919 would be genuine
calamity. Some day there will be a Nobel
prize for worthy students OF tidal waves
Chicago News: Mr.. Bryan may not be the
bright luminary he was Of yore, but the
hopeful democrats are not pointing in the
direction Of Nebraska and saying. "oh. see
what fine sunsetr
Houston Post; They are calling Colonel
Roosevelt Foxy Grandpa in oyster Bay
Isn't It risky to select so small an animal
as a fox to typify the majestic strain OF the
colonels granddaughter?
New York Post: Once more the colonel
shows his instinct for divining the feelings
OF his countrymen by saying that a move
ment to nominate him for the presidency
next year would be a genuine calamity"
Cleveland Plain Dealer: woodrow Wilson
describes himself as a conservative with
move on" II Judson Harmon doesn't
get move on pretty soon he will be a
sure-enough conservative with a Crouch
on"
Kansas City Star: II It Is true. as Sec
rotary Wilson says, that DR. Wiley is
talking through his hat" a careful ex-
animation doubtless will show that the
doctor took the preeaution to sterilize his
hat.
Detroit Free Press: Politicians seem to
be alike in ali countries and all times
They're waving the old flag across the
boundary now with the very same motions
they used on this side thirty or forty
years ago with the bloody shirt.
Sioux City Journal: Said Representative
Mann: THE principal legislation which
the session has enacted is the provision in
the Canadian reciprocity bill admitting
wood pulp and paper free from Canada.
That provision of the law was drafted by
me and enacted exactly as had drafted
II. Their acceptance OF that provision was
the wisest thing the democrats have done"
The search for the most modest Mann
will have to continue.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
Hopeful Features of Demand for q
Change.
Harper's Weekly.

Harper's Weekly.
Like wildfire' is the accepted phrase
for the way the commission plan OF gov
eminent is spreading among American
cities not OF the very highest rank. We
don't know much about wildfire or how
fast II spreads, but IL 1t spreads as fast
as this idea does there is nothing slow
about It, All parts OF the country show
rapid gains for the scheme of centralizing
municipal power in the hands OF two or
three well-paid commissioners instead OF
distributing 1t among aldermen, council
men and a mayor. But for the moment
the south is in the lead. In Alabama the
three principal cities-Birmingham, Mobile
and Montgomery-have all got authority
from the legislature to make the change.
In North Carolina, Greensboro has Just
gone over to the new order by a big ma
jority. Asheville is about TO follow, and
the other day wilmington, old, conservative
Wilmington, put the question to a vote,
and out of a total of 1900 votes cast there
were just twenty-five noes. In the face of
ment, it can hardly be contended that our
cities don't want better government. The
plan itself is hopeful one, highly COM
mended by the experience of such cities as
have already tried 1t. But still more hope
full Is the keenness of the interest It
arouses, the civic awakening of which it's
popularity is a sign.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
Ten Years Ago

Irwin A. Medlar. who was stricken with
appendicitis, was too Ill to attend the
funeral services of his father-in-law, c. l..
Jenkins though held at the Medlar home.
Tony Lghtner, an employee of the MUIR
ray hotel, fell out of a second story win
dow and was taken to tho hospital with
a broken arm and leg.
Patrick Mahoney, aged 70. father Of T.
j., ]. j. and p. H. Mahoney, died at ST.
Joseph's hospital.
Tax Commissioner Fleming asked the
city council to confirm these special depu-
ties: A. f. Ross. George w. Covell. Dan
Angel, G. F. Forbes, T. c. Goodson, Peter
Kiewitz, Dan Durham. w G. Mclean, p.
L. Forgan, George Fitzpatrick ]. G..
Arthur. James Ford. Julius Janhowslky,
Emil Motz. Elias svenson, Mat T. Greevy,
James McMonies, ]. d. Williamson, John
E, Emblem, Bernard sachsse.
Detectives Drummy and Mitchell, who
had been long at work on the mystery OF
the dark man with piercing black eyes,
who for twenty years had been prosecuting
Mrs. J.. II. Glassman. 3l2O Corby street,
finally threw up the sponge in despair OF
ever finding the man.
William Boettger, farmer living near
Bennington, where the Douglas county
democracy held its picnic on the Sabbath
complained to the police that his pockets
were picked at that patriotic gathering.
Attorney Charles E. Morgan, represent
ing the city council began action against
the Board of Education. seven members of
which refused to appear before the council
and testify as to the disposition of funds
from fines, and he took as a starter Mem
Der Robert Smith, one Of the recalcitrant
seven.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
Study it for Yourself.

On another page The Bee prints in
full the text of the commission plan
law which the people of Omaha will
adopt or reject at the special election
called for Saturday of this week.
The Bee set in motion the machinery
by which this law may be made effec-
tive by securing the necessary petition
signatures prerequisite to a vote on it
and filing the petition with the city
officials upon whom devolved the next
step.
A careful reading of the law will af-
ford the best explanation of its pro-
visions and furnish complete informa-
ton as to what changes it would make
in our city government and how these
changes would be made.
1t is the duty of every person inter
ested in the future growth and pros
perity of Omaha to post himself on
this important question whose decision
will determine the form of our munich
pal government for the coming years.
The commission plan law as written
on the Nebraska statute books gives
the outlines of the proposed change
and a study of it will answer most of
the questions that are being asked
about it.
1t is up to the voter who wants to
cast an intelligent ballot to inform
himself by going to the law at first
hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27

more self assurance thus than II these
six sons OF the emperor had not had
such great and good mother.
Great Britain today is in a similar
situation. Its ruling head grew up
under a home influence majestic in
motherhood as well as regal power,
and he, too, like these six German
boys, spent his youth in studying the
serious side of life, that he might be
prepared for it when destiny should
call him to the ruling station.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27

the recent horror at Coatesville, where
a man was taken from his hospital bed
and burned alive. No condemnation
could be made to At so black a deed,
but no one should mistake this spo-
radio act Of outlawry to be a standard
by which to Judge democracy and to
make dismal predictions Of its future.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
Twenty Years Ago

County Attorney Mahoney and County
Clerk OMalley took to Lincoln the S15s 900
Of Union Pacific 'refunding bridge bonds
to have them registered with State Auditor
Tom Benton.
Captain Pat Mostyn OF the police force
had So he did not know what to do with,
The money. in bills, was found under an
old sidewalk at Tenth and Harvey streets,
where repair work was going on and
turned over to him, youth who found II
evidently having no use for money in those
piping times Of peace and plenty.
Phil Armour was in the city.
F. j. Sutcliffe grew weary OF his job as
manager OF the opera house and handed
in his resignation.
Sheriff Boyd named his long list OF depu-
ties for the state fair ground for the com
ing week, with Lou Grebe as supernten-
dent and chief deputy.
Postmaster T. s. Clarkson denied that
residents of the vicinity Of Twenty first
and Vinton streets had any kick coming
on their mail delivery.