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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-02-17

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Tor ...-......... Aoc
One Hundred DR.. Hinkle's
Cascara Tablets for. 25o
sf.60 No. 2 Fountain Syr-
inge or Bottle for. SEQ
si.50 No. 2 Red Rubber
Fountain Syringe for. 800
$500 Wellington Syringe
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-02-17
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Buy Buttsrins and Fight the Butter
Trust.
lbs. good Butterine .a5c
lbs good table Butterine sees. .3se
lbs. fancy table Butterine .4oc
lbs better than lots Of creamery
butter ......s... 4Sc
Ths Greatest Vegetables MARKET In
the Wsst-You save Prom
80 to 100 Per Cent.
, lunches fresh Carrots. Beets, Tur-
nips or Radishes for .loc
? heads fresh Leaf Lettuce Sc
punches Of Parsley .-..........5e
large Head Lettuce, each ......Ioc
Fancy California Caulifiower, at
Fancy Brussels Sprouts, ID. Ice
Large Green Peppers. for ......l oc
Fancy Pie Plant. bunch ....71ac
Large Cueumbers.. $50, TIC, loo
Fancy Celery ..... Sc, l-3c
Fancy cape Cod cranberTiez. per
quArt s#.-..... .1a-ac
Lilo boxes fancy dollhouse Ausn-
rooms $780, .s.--... Soc
Fresh Cabbage. II. ....s+........ 30
Old Beets. Turnips. Carrots or Pars-
Special Highland navel Orange SAFE
And will sell you a silver plsted
orange Spoon for i0c. You don't
have TO save wrappers or pay any
postage, and contains 3is grams
more silver than the trust spoon,
Per dozen .s......l5es 2oe, 2se. ace
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-02-17

Mems fine all wool Sweater
Coats, in all colors, worth up
to $3.50 s3.es, s2.ss, S1.9S
zoe Mems All silk Fourth
Hands, all the newest spring
colors, at .........., 25c
400 and $3.50 Mems Outing
Flannel Gowns, at SOC. Acc
$500 Mems California Flannel
Shirts. best made; on sale
at ..r..-a .-.-.S1.4
SOC Mems and Boys Fleece
Lined Shirts and Drawers: on
sale in Domestic nom. .25e
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
NEBRASKA AND OREGON.

Two more States will record their verdict against
the Taft Administration today: Oregon and Nebras-
ka. They will give real verdicts, from the real peo-
pie, for both have the preferential Presidential prim
ary
When these shall have recorded their sent-
ments, there will be no possible uncertainty. We
have heard from Pennsylvania in the East, Illinois
in the Middle West, North Dakota in the Northwest
Nebraska and Oregon represent other sections other
interests, other attitudes toward public questions
Pennsylvania is the greatest industrial State Its
Senatorial boss voted for reciprocity and was repu-
dated Illinois is manufacturing and also an agr-
cultural State Its Senators opposed reciprocity and
the Administration that favored reciprocity was re-
pudiated. North Dakota is strictly agricultural and
it rejected that policy.
The real proof of Oregons and Nebraskas SEN
timent will be represented by comparison of the
Taft vote with the total cast for both Roosevelt and
La Toilette. 1t will be overwhelmingly against the
Administration
North Carolina, the one Southern State with
real Republican party, has gone solidy against the
Administration.
There is the demonstration All sections, all
kinds of interests all shades of factonal afiliaton
are agreed in the one telling demonstration that
WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE HEARD, THEY ARE
HEARD IN OPPOSITION TO TAFT.
That is why the nomination of Taft is already
recognized as utterly impossible.
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
THINKS MILK LAWS
ARE MOST UNFAIR
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TINES: r
The attitude OF the District health au-
thorities toward the immense dairying
business of Maryland and Virginia Is,
to say the least, unfair and unjust.
This Is demonstrated by the fact that
milk coming In from Maryland or Vir-
ginia must bear rigid test, while milk
shipped from Delaware, Pennsylvania.
or New York may come from tubercu-
lous cows, but Is not barred. Moreover,
the city health authorities can go into
Maryland or Virginia, condemn as tu-
berculous the cows of any dairyman
who sells milk In this city, and order
the cows killed. The owner has to
bear the loss. Compensation Is provid-
ed for cows killed in the District by
order of the inspectors. but nothing for
those killed in adjoining States.
While there may be a difference OF
opinion as to the practical benefits OF
the tuberculin test as a precautionary
health measure, there certainly can be
against Maryland and Virginia dairy
men.
Milk should not be allowed to come
In from other States unless IL meets the
same tests applied to that from nearby
points, and when cows are killed on an
inspectors order the Government should
pay for them regardless OF the section
In which they were killed.
AS the city's milk supply is of in
terest to the majority OF the residents
OF the District. as well as that of the
nearby dairymen, the obligation resting
on Congress to adjust this matter is
very plain. JOHN A. CROWLEY.
The Washington times., 1912-04-19

tion, and other preventable Diseases or whether il
be the lfeto that is taken in horrible spectacular
disaster such as that Of the Titanic-human life is
too cheap, too little considered too recklessy rsked
We will hear much about the crime OF made
quate life-saving equipment of great steamships.
There will be inquiries and legslston and good will
result But it will be only beginning
Modern society owes to itself and its individual
members to enforce every possible means Of pro-
lection The scandal of the Titancs feboats is but
q count in the real indictment against us for care
lessness with life. Part Of that same indictment
deals, just truly with employers liability laws,
factory Inspection sanitation pure food legislation
meat inspection, the suppression Of bovine tubercu-
losis, the enforcement of proper building regulations
that will insure good light air, and cleanliness it
deals with the hours of service of the overworked
railroad employe; it has to do with men who work
twelve-hour shifts, seven days week, in the steel
plants; it relates to all Of the dangers and menaces
of our complex modern life.
With all Of these things society has to do for
omissions to protect life in every one of these de-
partments of activity society is just much at fault
as for the failure to have enough feboats on the
Titanic
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
A UniQue Verdict.

A Wheeling, w. Va. lawyer says that
he has heard many queer verdicts in
his time, but the quaintest of these was
that brought in not long ago by a jury
OF mountaineers in a sparsely settled
part OF that state.
This was the first case for the ma
joTity of the jury, and they sat for hours
arguing and disputing over II in the bare
little room al the rear of the courtroom.
At last they struggled back to their
places. and the foreman, a lean, gaunt
fellow, with superlatively solemn ex.
preston. voiced the general opinion:
The jury don't think that he done it.
for we allow he want there, but we
think he would have done II eff he'd had
the chanst."
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
OYSTER DINNERS
GREATLY ENJOYED
. BY FISH ENEMIES
Lecturer Tells How Starhsh
Opens Shells of
BivalveS.

A crowded audience sat enthralIed at
the London Institution while +. Martin
duncan told them of some of the won
ders OF the seashore.
III was surprise to most people TO
learn that the cookie has wonderful
FOOT. The lecturer declared that often
when the tide is coming In the cookies
rise out of the sand and go leaping,
almost as though they are playing
Directly they get to the water they
settle down and begin the meal for
Ni! Which they have been SO anxiousiy
The lecturer also told or the ovster.s
many foes. A wnelk, for instance.
which desires an oyster supper, sits,
ooWn on the shell and by means of
an an armor-plated tongue rasps away
unfortunate oyster
Across the Atlantic the limpets are
more carniVorous than those usually
tound fo1d on the shores of Britain, but. un-
grants have arrived, and, said the lee
turer, If they multiply at the same
rate as our own limpets, / am afraid
.ne INVASION viii cause a great deal of
trouble to the oyster fishermen"
what interested the children most,
however, was the description of how
the starfish opens oysters. Everyone
aneW Rnows now w. difficult i is to wrench
~
that although the oyster can withstand
sudden pull of very great force II
has to give in when a pull becomes
prolonged. And that is how the star
fish succeeds. The starfish is never
In great hurry for its lunch; 1t is
prepared even to wait several hours;
but, having decided on a free oyster
meal II settles on the oyster. curls
partly around 1T so as to grasp the two
sides, and then starts steadily to pull.
AT last the oyster becomes exhausted,
the shells open and the starfish then
brings its digestive apparatus out of
Its mouth, puts 1t around the oyster
and digests 1t, after which the digestive
organ returns to its proper place.
The lecturer also told of sandworms
that build long tubes, or castles, and
great laughter was caused when he
showed the picture of a worm with
nifty, or sixty legs, and said Sir Ray
Lancaster had suggested that he
should find out which leg moved first
However, Mr.. Martin-Duncan intimat-
ed that cinematograph pictures have
been taken, an dhe hopes by carefully
examining these to find out which leg
moves first when the creature decides
to walk.
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
THE CONFLICTING STORIES.

Much of that which had been pictured in mag-
nation or reported on the basis of early wireless
flashes proves not to have been true as regards the
physical facts Of the Titanic disaster There was no
terrific shock when the ship struck the iceberg 1t
was glancing not a head-on, blow. There was
no instant rush of passengers to the deck followed
by scenes Of terror and dsmay. On the contrary
the scene is now described as one of comparative
calm, the passengers having little realization of the
gravity of their situation. Until they heard the or
ders to take to lifeboats few believed the ship was
in imminent danger; many even then regarded this
as precauton which overstepped the necessities
and preferred to take their chances with the ship
which was regarded as unsuitable.
The lights of the great vessel did not 20 out
and leave the fearful scene in nky darkness. In
stead they are described as going out only at the
moment the vessel took the last plunge.
There was whirling vortex, ravenously drag
ging everything in it, as the ship went down. In
stead she was buoyed up so long and settled so
gradually by reason Of the buoyancy of her unn-
jured bukheads, that the suction was very slight
There are already several circumstantial accounts
of passengers leaping into the water as the ship
sank struggling to the surface and being picked up
by the lifeboats. Twenty-four hours ago it would
have been regarded as utterly impossible that such
a thing should have happened.
But on some other points there seems thus
far little conflict. The Titanic was out to make
record passage on maiden voyage and this pur-
pose was in nowise changed when warning of ice
bergs conveyed to her. She was making Fl to
% knots when the berg was deserted quarter of
mile ahead. That Captain Smith, the grand old
man" of the North Atlantic mercantile marine should
have been responsible for such recklessness, es-
peciay while he had the manager of the White Star
line in his ships company will be difficult of belief
Mr.. Ismay is entitled to suspension of judgment
until he has a chance to tell his story; but he has
need, too, to tell it promptly and in most convincing
manner if he is to escape verdict of earfully Bit
ter condemnation
AS to- the circumstantal accusations that mis-
leading news given out of the vessels COM
paravely slight injuries, and of the safety of the
entire company and crew, it is already apparent that
only the rigid investigation by the Senate Committee
on Commerce will make the exact facts clear
Two vital facts have been proved beyond un-
certainty One is that the unsuitable ship has not
yet been produced. The other is that the Titanic
did not carry enough lifeboats and that that fact is
directly responsible for the great loss of life She
had ample capacity to carry enough of them. They
not there because they were not considered
necessary. 1t was tragic bunder, which must not
be responsible for another such horror
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
Johannes New Idea
Entirely Too Radical

In Pennsylvania, not many years ago,
dwelt the descendants of an ancient
German settler. The farm had descend
ed for generations from father to son,
and the original customs had been faith
fully adhered to. But a youth was born
TO the family who had inspired some OF
the modern. racial ideas and was likely
TO come into conflict with his fathers
stolid conservatism.
One day Johannes was told to saddle
the horse and take the grist to the mill
II had been the practice from time i'm
memorial to place the grist in one end
of the bag and a large stone in the
other end to balance it. and so throw
II across the horses back. But Johannes
on the present occasion managed to get
the Grist divided between the two ends
OF the bag, so that there was no need
of the stone.
oh, daddy, come and see! There
amt no use for the stone"
The old gentleman calmly surveyed
the device, and with a severely re-
proechful aspect, remarked to his exult-
ing son:
Johannes, your fader. your grand
fader, and your great-grandfader all
went to de mill wild de stone in one end
of de bag and de grist in de odder. Und
you, a mere poy, sets yourself up to
know more as dey do. Yust put dat
stone in de bag and never let's me hear
no more of such foolishness as dats"
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
MOSQUITOES LIVED.
. TO TORTURE MEN Of
PREHISTORIC AGES
Government Expert Pro-
duces Insect From Larvae
60,OOO,OOO Years Old.

IL the dispatches from Waslineton
are true. the Gpvernmen. has a semi
official message from the world of so. =
"OuD wears ago. Assistant Secretary of
State Adee received 4 curious prehis-
toric deposit from Brazil. and. in chem
ically analyzinG it. found two minute
larvae inside the -ock. He was so
astonished that he sent the embryonic
animals to the Agricultural Depa rtmcnt
Under scientific development the larvae
produced two magnificent mosquitoes
1t is too bad that this was not wholly
covered by established official investiga-
ton. for Mr.. Adee. after all, is not
Government chemist, though a chem
ical expert. However, the authority COW
ering the case seems good. end II will
go 10 strengthen the assertions made
bY Wcfkers In stone nuarrics from time
10 time that thev happen. i'm splitting
the nNlng rock on toads or frogs liv-
irg IN state of suspended artma ton
There have been several such discov-
cries in Indiana-a most notable one fif-
teen years ago In the stone quarries
near Logansport. 1t was true that the
toad in this case. as in some others,
was shown, but II looked like any other
tnad. Though in some instances the
little h"rmetically sealed cells in which
nobody knows how long. have been
shown. the stories have been generally
discredited, or 1t has been insisted that
there was some mistake.
The Smithsonian Institution has, how
ever, taken up the investigation of the
prehistoric mosquitoes. Its experts de-
clare that the rock in which they were
found Is not less than 60,00O, 900 years
old, and II possibly may have heen
formed aOo,0000O0 years ago. II these
mosquitoes and the frogs or toads
caught in the formation process of
stone now far underlying the surface
of the earth are finally accepted. we
have far more eloquent message from
the ages of the earth's formation than
Is found in the mute tracery of ferns
and fishes I'm the strata. 1t Is declared
that the mosquitoes that developed
brought with them the song that we
know. They were yellow-fever mosqui-
toes, Just like the ones found in Cen
trail America today" We have known
that the mosquito was very old for
in Egyptian excavations they have been
found in honey of 1900 years ago
Indianapolis News.
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
USES HIS MOTOR TO
HAUL CATCH Of
CLANS TO MARKET
Great Harvest Develops Re-
markable Stories in
Rhode Island.

They were talking fish and fishing
Trips when the travelling man who
mad hitherto been sitting silently off In
a corner, spoke up.
II bet I'm the only man in the crowd
and also in Providence who ever clam
med by auto" he said.
Clammed by auto is elegant, but
novel," unused the literary member of
the circle. 80 quit kicking English
around like that and explain"
When the wind blew so hard last
week. said the travelling an, II was
In little town just over the State line
down New Bedford way. I've got
friends there and l usually manage to
spend weekend with them when I'm
m that neck of woods.
The last Saturday night was there
me wind tore loose something terrific.
Rose to Il regular gale and then a whole
lot more. Next morning after breakfast
taEe hSSi SSin asSIf to tbs me hs II ddnt want 10
Horse Neck beach they call It.
It's crammed with clans, they say,
he added. Everybody who isn't in
church Is down there this morning.
He didn't eX3ggerate bit. When we
arrived at the beach, II was lined with
folks who had come in about every kind
OF conveyance under the sun-buck-
boards, tipcarts, autos. farm wagons
shaws. For perhaps half a mile along
the beach stretched great rows of round
clans that the waves had churned up
and dumped on the sand.
There must have been hundreds of
bushels OF them and they certainly
looked good. Folks were grabbing them
up as fast as they could. We got so
excited that we Joined in, too. and be-
fore we finished we'd made three trims
back and forth in the machine. We car
ried about three bushels each load and
we might have got more had not my
friend & wife complained because she
said the back yard was beginning to
look like a clam plantation.
And. say, they made the smoothest
clam chowder you ever tasted. I ate of
II until | was pretty nearly sick NV
friend said he knew where he could dis
pose of the clans he didn't need and he
expected to clean up bit on our morn
ing work. Even the oldest inha bitants
say they're never had a clam harvest
down that way like the one of the past
few weeks. And nobody remembers of
seeing folks go claiming in autos be-
fore"
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
THE REAL REMEDY
FOR GREAT DISASTERS
TO the Editor Of THE TIMEs:

TO the Editor OF THE TIMES:
When some horrible tragedy like that
of the loss OF the Titanic occurs every
kind Of wild suggestion is offered as an
alternative which IL followed might
have averted the horror.
When the mad desire for making a
record" for building something larger.
whether 1t be a skyscraper or an i'm
mense ocean liner, is overcome; when
1t Is impressed upon the commercial
world that human life is more valuable
than great warehouses or ships or
buildings OF any character; that safety
is preferable to a mad longing for
speed, and the desire to outdistance the
achievements Of another, then and not
till then shall we be spared the harrow
ing calamities, with all their attendant
horror and anguish, to which the loss
of the Titanic has added another in
stance, loss which by it's destruction
Of happiness and its burden of vainly
sacrificed mortality has rarely been
equaled.
(MRS) MARIAN LONGFELLOw
O'DONOGHUE.
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
BIG COMMISSIONS
PAID FOR SALE OF
SHIPS IN WAR TINE
During the Russian-J Japanese
Conflict Brokers Got
Rich.

During the Russo-Japanese war many
ships were sold to the Russian govern
ment, and the commissions paid were
stupendous. For instance, four Atlantic
liners were offered to the government
Tor a million sterling, and the commits
Sion payable to the broker was to be 5
per cent, and to the Russian admirais,
VINO were negotiating the business %
per cent, or f25o,000, was to be paid
Ihis transaction, which, however, fell
through owing to a dispute as to the
division OF the spoil. contrasts In a
marked degree with the action OF a
well-known Spanish shipowner in a
somewhat similar transaction. On be-
half of the Spanish government. dur
ing the Spanish American war, ne ar
ranged to purchase two large German
liners for about f460, 600 The vessels
were brought to his notice by a British
shipbroker, but the Spanish owner de-
clded to carry the business through
direct with the representatives of the
German company.
He first arranged that the broker was
to be protected for his commission,
which was fixed at 2 per cent, and he
then asked the German representa- tlves
what commission he was to have for
German tSeu onn,non Ine representatives Of the
"f12,oW.' Then" said the Spanish
owner, "as this Is a transaction for lie
oeneht Of my country, / refuse to take
adYantage Of my position, and there
tore l Will pay you the purchase price,
less the 9l2,O00. This was done and the
broker fixed on 2 per cent as his COM
mission; mission Some years ago a German
shlpbullder was trying to sell a new
vessel he had on his hands. He had
tried unsuccessfully to sell her for some
years. and at last IN desperation he
offered an Englis'l broker 10 per cent
commission II he would find him a pur-
chaser for his steamer. There were ru-
mors that new Norwegian company
would acquire the Doat, but negotia-
tions fell through and so far no one
has come forward to purchase the boat,
which still remains unsold.- -"Shipping'
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
Two Hat Racks
Needed for Skillet

1t was Billy Guard of Buffalo. who
told the story at the recent meeting of
the tailors of the country. He was
cxpatiating on the need in these hard
times Of being n good manager and
possessing tact. Apropos of this he
told the story of a woman who was
good manager.
Mrs. Skillet was never known to
quarrel with her husband She never
contradfted him. and so they got
along beautifully. One night Mr..
skillet came home from a political
meeting rather the worse for wear.
IN the hall he kicked up a row ami
knocked chair over and suddenly he
gan TO swear. His wife was aroused
and she came to the head of the stairs,
-, w hats the matter. dear?' she ask
'..Matter-hic-hic." stummered Mr..
skillet, Matter! There's two hat
racks racks here; and / dunno which one to
That's all right. dearie.' said Mrs.
skillet sweetly., you've got two hats
haven't you? Hang one or each raGk
and come to bed. You're awfullv tired"
Thus it was Mrs. Skillet managed
family.
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
A HEROS REWARD.

Dave Trousdae, of Texas, gets promotion from
Q job worth ST 200 year to one worth So, 500, a
three months vacation thousand dollars in gold and
$3.50 watch as expression of the appreciation
of the Wells-Fargo Express Company.
When the bandit covered Trousdae with pistol
the resourcefu express messenger pretended to wink
at some one the robbers shoulder The bandit
turned his head and in that instant Trousdale crush
ed his skull with an ice maet. Then he waited for
the bandits pal, and killed him with rifle bullet
All this saved the express company something like
hundred thousand dollars.
Such appreciation of heroic determination and
instant action is gratifying There are whole lot
of folks that would have guessed, if this news hadn
come, that the express company's sympathy would
have been on the other side
The Washington times., 1912-04-19
WAR.

a When the whole world was bowed in sorrow
awaiting the tragic tale of the Titancs survivors it
was jarrng note that was struck by the dispatches
telling of renewed activity in the war between Italy
and Turkey.
The hundreds who went to their death in the
icy waters off the Newfoundland Banks were not
the victims Of any conscious intent
The men on the Italian warships that are said to
be attacking the Dardsnelles and the men in the
defending forts the prospective actual victims
of deliberate intent to kill