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Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-14
A working woman's Word.

OMAHA, Jan. I0-To the Editor of
The Bee: l am a girl = years of age
and have been working nights for the
last two years, cooking TO support my
aged mother, and now. recently on ac-
count of the laws governing eight hours
Of working women. am forced out Of
a paving position. have been TO all the
day positions for cooks and find they
are all taken and now l shall have to
60 TO work waiting table for 81 a week
because / cannot find job in my own
line chat of cooking. We cannot live
in the present state Of high rent coal,
etc, on 81 per week. so l shall have to
draw out the $50 saved in the last two
years to enable US to live through the
winter. There are many women in my
position affected by this unreasonable
law that haven't even got enough money
saved TO help them through the winter
1 suppose they will ultimately have to
apply to vMiss Masee!" Hard working
respectable women, deprived OF their
fighting chance for life by some mis-
guided lawmakers. who begin at the
wrong end TO make their laws.
A WORKING WOMAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-14

First Suffragette-After all, you
shouldn't be so hard on your husband.
Second Suffragette-Do you take his
part?
First Suffray ette-Not exactly. but We
women should show some consideration
for the weaker sex. you know Baltimore
American.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-14

OMAHA, Jan. Ito the Editor OF The
Bee: You may think strange OF me ad-
dressing you this letter, but l feel that
the stand you have taken, placing The
Bee in the position of leader in fight
against graft and the open barterlng Of
the peoples interest. is to be commended,
and makes The Bee read as Of yore.
believe when a newspaper takes such a
stand the people should get behind and
push instead Of standing baca, and act
ing as though they were sore, because
they did not start the work themselves.
l have heard many speak very favor
ably of your position lately, besides the
grouches who are always ready TO kick.
1 am confident that you can depend on
the people for final decision in all cases
where your fight is for clean govern
ment, and full enforcement Of the law.
/.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-14

Some Of the people who apply TO me
for automobile licenses LOOK Kind o.
scared said the man from the city hail.
Yes, replied the man Il ON the court
house; but you ought to see how scared
some of Those who apply for marriage
licenses look. Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-14

night, but his voice stuck m his throat"
"Well?'
1T was all right. though: could see
his lips moving. and knew what he was
trying TO say"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13

Dobie. former quarterback and as.
sistant coach, Minnesota University
who has brought four consecutive
football champions to the University
Of Washington, and who is well on
his way to the fifth title, has an
nounced his retirement from grid
iron game in the Pacific northwest.
bodies contract, which calls for
$4,000 a year, expires at the end OF
the 1913 season, and he says he will
then retire unless successful in land
ing an eastern berth.
Just what his future plans are, he
did not announce. He has received
glittering offers to coach middle
western and eastern teams as re-
suit of his success in the northwest.
Vigorous efforts will be made to keep
Dobie here despite his determination
to quit. Dobie has been coaching
football for eight years, during which
time not one of his teams ever lost a
single game. Dobie's retirement
would mark the passing of the great
est coach who ever tutored in the
northwest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
SELLS THROUGH TICKETS,

r. E. Fisher, joint agent of the M.
& I. and 500 lines, has made arrange
ments whereby he can sell through
tickets to European points from Be-
midi. Heretofore it has been neces-
sary for European passengers to buy
ticket from Bemidji to the terminal
point of this division, then buy to
the end of the line and then book
steamship. passage. Mr.. Fisher Is
now able to sell a ticket in Bemidji
for any Northern European port and
has so arranged matters that it is
not necessary for travellers to spend
an extra night on the road. They can
leave Bemidji and go direct to the
ships at Quebec without having to
stop at hotel en- route ~-
Eight men left Bemidji yesterday
morning over the 500 line for Quebec
and will sail Friday on the Empress
of Britain for Norway ports. They
carry through tickets. The men who
left are John Erikson, Oscar Olson,
Alfred Olofson and Ole Kalsness for
Trondhjem, Norway; Brede Holt, Om-
mund Vatsen and Nels Olson for
Christiana; and Andrew Nordahl for
Aalesund.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
The Briaht Side.

Algernon Daingerfield went bach
last summer to his old home in Ken
lucky on visit. He had heshened
up considerably.
The old negro eek. a family ser
want of many yea. standing, wa
brought in to see him.
Don't you think Mr.. Algy haa
grown very stout?" asked one of thu
family. ......
:"Wellum," said the old woman, "h>
is took on a right smart feshiness
and that's fact" Then she hastily
added, But a stomach dat sticks out
like his do is jess made fur shown
off watch'chain." saturday Eve
ming Post. ts H..
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
FOO |''bAl,

Minneapolis, Nov. Ii. Enthusi-
assn over the Wisconsin game has pro-
crossed farther at the University OF
Minnesota this year than ever before,
and the demonstration, lasting from
Thursday noon until the last whistle
blows Saturday, when they, are either
returned the victors or the vanquish-
ed, is expected to set new mark
for Gopher enthusiasm creators.
Senior class presidents from the
various colleges set the ball rolling
last week, when they voted in a joint
class meeting to purchase Maroon
and Gold caps and make them COM
pulsory in the rooter's section, so
that those divisions would be solid
mass of color. The costume includes
a cap and a cape, to be worn over the
shoulders, and was this noon adopted
by the juniors in monster meeting
that crowded the University chapel
to the doors.
Sophomores and freshmen have
unof1cially taken up the project, and
have spread over the entire campus
meetings have been called by their
presidents, so that the movement will
before Saturday Button hole ribbons
of maroon and gold are being worn
by everyone within the precincts of
the university and the officers of the
rooter's club plan to food the campus
with the school colors before the Car
dinal cohorts arrive,
CIT tn Wisconsin" appeared blaz-
-oned across the top of the Minneso-
ia Daily yesterday morning, and will
remain there until Saturday. Stu
dents on the campus are confident
that Minnesota has a good chance of
winning, but that the time is going
to require lot of help from the
stands.
DR.. Williams has consented to al
low the entire team to attend mass
meeting in chapel Friday noon, and
Captain Tobin will be asked to adj
dress the students. This meeting is
expected to be the biggest thing of
it's kind in several years if reports
from the advance agents of the big
show can be taken as criterion.
Yells of all kinds will predominant
tomorrow, when a monster practice
session will be held in the chapel
Wisconsin songs and yells are being
memorized as we'll as the Gopher Sc
lections. Minnesota engineers and
their gang song from the 'Pirates of
Penzance" have devised a new tune
full effect that is taken from Dixie,
and that is said to be the best one
since the creation of the ''How'd You
Like to Be Chicago song. -. p
Dobie May Quit.
Seattle, Wash, Nov. I3.-Gilmour
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
BIG SOCIALIST VOTE.

New York, Nov. '13.-According to
tabulations made by Socialist lead
ers here, the Socialist vote in last
Tuesdays election showed an in
crease of more than 100 per cent
over the vote in the last presidential
election. The increase is not confin-
ed to any particular state or section,
but is general throughout the coun-
try. The party leaders, moreover
maintain that their total would have
been much larger but for the Bull
Moose movement, which they declare
attracted many votes from the ranks
of socialist sympathizers. ..- !
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
BAND CONCERT THURSDAY,

Tomorrow evening, the Bemidji
band will play the first of series Of
indoor concerts which are to be given
this winter. Admission will be free
to those who have been contributing
to the support of the band while
others will be asked to buy tickets.
Following is the program:
1-March-Spirit of Independence
.dOlZmduu
2-Overture -L'Emotion - Ripley
Notwithstanding of the Winds
4-Vocal solo - Sonora Nathan
Mrs. Alden Remfrey
5-Overture - Bits of Remick's
Hits No. ~12 -. .Lampe
6-Rag-Everybody Two Step. :. .
observation-disclosures -. Verdi
8-Clarionet solo, Nocturne, Chop
in .......,.. -. Jack Riede
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
Insane Man Garrick's Teacher.

j f :
Garrick had been acquainted with an
unfortunate man In Leman street,
Goodman's Fields, who, playing one
day at an upper window with his two
year-old child. accidentally let It
spring from his arms and fall into q
tagged area. The child was killed
and, from that moment, the miserable
father lost speech and reason. He
passed the remainder of his existence
in going to a window, playing in i'm.
agination with q child, dropping it.
then bursting into tears, and filling
the house with shrieks of anguish.
Afterwards he would sit down, pen.
sive and still, and at times look slow.
ly round as If imploring compassion.
There it was" Garrick used to say.
"that learned to initiate madness;
copied nature, and to that owed my
success in King Lear "-From Gar.
rick and His Circle
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS LOADED

While examining a gun in the rear
of the Netzer drug store Friday, one
of the young men of Bemidji acct
dentally discharged it and the ball, a
20 lead bullet, tore through the north
wall of the building and into the
postoffce, where it became imbedded
in partition. Albert Worth, assist
ant postmaster, found the bullet No
one was hurt
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
81 Overture zethus Pettee1
10March Ente rprise Lampe#
Alden Remfrey, director.
CALIFORNIA IS CLOSE.

San Francisco, Cal, Nov. Is.
Roosevelt lost his plurality in Cal
ifornia, for thirty minutes last night
and then regained it, as the addition
al official returns came in. When he
again appeared leading over Wilson
it was with ten votes.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
AFTER "JIM JAM JEMS''
Continued from nrst page).

ker was dismissed on motion of the
federal attorney. .-.
OF the dozen or more indictments
returned by the federal grand jury
Saturday none were made public with
the exception of Clark and Crockard
who were the only two apprehended
Just as soon as the other arrests are
made announcements will be made
public.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13
WOMEN AID MEETING.

The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres
byterian church will be entertained
in the church Tuesday afternoon at
$3.50 by Mesdames Franklin Jones, J..
]. Mclaughlin, and H. X. Olson.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-11-13

Students and Swipes.
Many college songs and yells are
given in this play. The play takes
about two hours and a half to pre-
sent. The scenes are laid in the
vicinity of Yale and Harvard,
Evening star., 1912-01-21
TIE. KING OF CRU5TAcEANS

is provision of nature that means some
thing.
Nature has various ways Of accomplish
ing the perpetuation of her races. In BIRDS
and mammals. where there is active pa
rental care of the young, the young are
Matched or born few at a time, for most
of them will survive. But fish and the
nous death rate when young, being
hatched and sent forth into exi-tence with
tremendous odds against them. For this
reason the broods are enormous numer-
ically, and in the case Of the lobster each
succeeding brood Is larger than the one
before. because all these are needed to
equalize the chances Of survival for the
count all the natural enemies and adver-
sites. She has failed only to provide
against the excessive and totally foreign
factor of mans destructiveneSs.
Thus, when man destroys all the older
Holsters, the source of the largest proper
ton of the egg supply. the arrangements
of nature are fatally interfered with. 1t
which make the most valuable brood
Holsters liable to destruction.
On the other hand. the younger the lob
ster the less his chances OF survival to
maturity. The eggs are carefully fostered
by the mother-'the female lobster rs the
best incubator known" says Prof Her
rick-and practically all the eggs hatch.
But the infant lobster is the most COM
pletely helpless creature known. In a
sort of swarm, as released from the eggs,
these gaily colored atoms float at the sur
face of the water with no directive or de-
fensive instincts of their own, tempting
morsels to every passing fish, and VIC
TINS of every adverse wind or current.
Throughout three or four stages, mark
Evening star., 1912-01-21

since been applied to the problem. how
ever. and for many years ignorance
has ceased to be an admissible plea.
The scarcity of Holsters at present is
due purely to the tyranny of tradition.
The laws Of the lobster fishery are
wrong-and in nothing is the public
intellect more stubbornly bound by
tradition than with respect to the max
ing Of laws. These things one may
learn from Prof Herrick.
Prof. Francis Hobart Herrick is a
man of science. and especially of the
science of Holsters. Of the faculty of
Western Reserve University, in Cleve-
land. he has spent many summers In
New England studying the natural his
tory of this king of crustaceans" and
has put forth number of books on
the subject. His latest, which has re-
Gently been published by the United
comprehensive work Of its kind. 1t
is not wholly a scientific treatise, but
a very practical discussion Of a very
practical question. If we would know
had best give heed to Prof. Herrick,
especially if we vote in Maine or Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut or Rhode Island.
lesson the nation has been SLOW to
learn, but at length is really grasping. Is
that every natural resource which is to be
economically used must have a law unto
itself. The farmer has always known he
must vary his methods as between his
hens and his pigs. OF aquatic products
the entire public Is the farmer. for the
important that the methods here. the
laws, be sound, according to the nature
and habits of the animal. The lobster
has been hurtled to its racial destruction
because the most necessary requirements,
peculiar to it's particular species, were for
regaderd.
The lobster Of our North Atlantic states
Evening star., 1912-01-21

Spanish Transatlantic Company plies
between Spain and Santo Domingo, call
ing at San Juan, and a French line goes
from France to Haiti, calling at the same
port. The Hamburg American Line has
boats to Porto Rico. and there are Italian
and Cuban boats as WELL One can go to
Porto r CO from the United States two or
three times every week.
+ 4
The teleKraphic and postal service Of
the island. which was very poor ten years
ago, is now as good as that Of any part
of our country. The United States gov
ernment manages the post offices, and the
telegraph system is under the government
Of Porto Rico, being directed by its de-
partment Of the interior. There are
thirty-seven telegraph stations. covering
all the larger places. and these are con-
nected by telephones with all the smaller
towns. Messages are sent by telegraph
and transmitted from the stations by tel
ephone. The telephones are owned by
private parties. The island mas also q
good cable service. connecting 1t with all
parts of the world, and 1t has wireless
telegraph stations maintained by the
United States Navy. It has. also street
railways run by electricity. and San Juan
and other towns are lighted by the power
project of the Comerio dam.
When a British colony pays its own
bills 1t Is considered a success. That Is
what Porto Rico does now. The total
cost of the government and all the ex-
penses of the island come out of the
Porto Rican treasury, which 10 filled by
Porto Rican taxes. The United states
Evening star., 1912-01-21

strongest In the mountains. and 1t Is
found almost everywhere on the conee
estates.
The hookworm comes from an egg
which matches out in the earth twenty
four hours after II Is laid. 1t is said to
never hatch anywhere else than in the
eartn, and 1t is the worm itself that
crawls into the body OF the man. 1t
oftens gets In through the feet. The
most of the Porto Rican laborers go
barefooted: and during the rainy season.
when the ground is wet and damp. a
scratch or sore on the skin enables the
parasite to crawl In. A poor state Of
health makes its ravages easy. There
was a great increase of the disease after
the hurricane Of 1S99 at which time
thousands were practically starving and
the diet of the peop'e was low.
The entrance Of the worm through the
skin has been prevented by persuading
the people to wear shoes and watch out
for their feet during wet weather. In
many Of the rural districts the sanitary
cond tions are stll bad and parts Of the
country are peppered with the worms and
their eggs.
One can easily tell the men, women and
children who are being eaten up by
these parasites. They look weak, pale
dull and fiabby, and it is almost impos-
Evening star., 1912-01-21

during my stay, and the people were SO
disabled in places that the work practi-
ca.ly stopped. Among the places visited
was a vaccine farm. where the army sur
geons had 900 cattle. ranging from eight
months to a year old. They used these to
get vaccine matter. taking as many as
1900 points from a single beast. Since
then the vaccination has kept up from
time to time. Twenty-six thousand per-
sons were vaccinated last year, and the
doctors keep their eyes on the children.
AS q result there is no smallpox In Porto
Rico. and very few cases OF varioioid.
At the time we took charse the water
supply was bad almost everywhere The
streams were used as public sewers. and
the people took their drinking water
from them In all of the cities l found
wells not far from the cesspoo!s; and
the doctors estimated that 10000 houses
had cisterns whose water was polluted
in that way. The custom OF purying the
dead was another source Of disease. The
cemeteries were crowded. and great piles
of skulls and other human bones were
found in some OF them. Uncle sam has
caused new cemeteries to be opened; and
he has established I'm remote districts
many new ones. where free burial Is
given to the poor.
Porto Rico has now its own health de-
pa artment. with an advisory board. con-
sisting of a health supervisor. physician,
q druggist, lawyer and. civil engineer.
Evening star., 1912-01-21

in every cubic mill:meter of all the blood
that flows through his veins. Not long
ago. inasmuch as was far under par,
had my own blood examined. A doctor
tabbed pin into my ear and took out, q
drop Of my blood and tested it. He found
that there were over five mill on red
corpuscles per cube. and even this num-
ber made him shake his head and look
serious. Now the Porto R-can with the
hookworm has only two and one-half
million of these red corpuscles. SO you
can see where he stands. Another part
Of my test was as to the hemoglobin.
which also relates to the quality OF this
blood. II the test rises to 100 per cent 1t
is excellent. My test showed 65, and now
after treatment ii has r.sen to ninety.
The average Porto Rtcan with the worm
has only 40 per cent Of that stuff In him.
and nevertheless upon such q phys cal
condition he has had to labor from day
light to dark on the sugar estates and in
the coffee plantations. He has been
sick man all the time, but he has had to
work. The curing Of hundreds OF thou
sands OF such people Is a part Of what
Uncle Sam has done In Porto Rico.
4 4
Indeed, the present plans Of the govern.
ment are such that the island Is now
about as sanitary as any part of Latin
America. At the time we took hold. the
death rate was about forty per thousand.
Evening star., 1912-01-21

court sits at San Juan. and il possesses
general appellate jurisdiction over the is-
land.
one or the most remarkable things In
Porto Rico has been the elimination OF
graft. Under the former government
everything was bribery and corruption.
Nothing could be done without greasing
the itching palms OF the officials. and this
was SO even to the recording of deeds and
all transfers of property. Everything
was taxed. even to the smallest bit OF
furniture of q banana-roofed shack. The
poor had no rights that the rich were
bound to respect, and IL cost money to
get hearing In the courts.
At the time we took hold there were
1900 prisoners In the jails awaiting trial,
and many OF them did not know the
charges upon which they had been ar
rested. One man had been kept in prison
for five months for stealing an empty
bag. and another a year for stealing a
chicken. A third prisoner. charged with
stealing q hog had been kept In jail a
year awaiting his trial. The courts OF
Porto Rico then cost S100.0O0 q year In
salaries alone. and every official had
large allowance for writing materials.
Today all the accounts of the island
pass through the hands OF auditors Sc
lected by our Treasury Department. and
every cent must be satisfactorily ac-
count for This is so of all branches OF
the government, and Ii is Impossible Tor
any Of the public money to be spent
otherwise than as laid down by the law.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Evening star., 1912-01-21

Broadway, no Delmonico's, no Maxim s.
no Rectors. But in less glamourous
style it succeeds in consuming a fair
share of ,obsters nevertheless.
There are shipped into Washington
every week of the season something like
5000 pounds of fresh 1obsters-which
means some 800 barrels. Or 1t means, If
you wish to count them, about . 500 to
1900 individual Holsters. About rs peo-
pie per day feast on Holsters in Washing
ton-or. so one may guess, at the rate Of
a pound to a person.
All this may seem cheerful enough from
one point of view-while one SITS In the
glare of the bright lights. for instance.
In the cold gray dawn of the morning
after comes time to remember the bills,
and the matter takes on a more than
mere personal significance. The hotel or
cafe itself is paying anywhere from % to
45 cents a pound for the lobster IT serves
us. II one buys in market for his own
tables he pays IS cents a pound at the
very least. and last spring in Boston and
Portland the fishermen received 60 cents
a pound for a while. And that is paying
for shell; the lobster is one-half shell.
Inc real price per pound at retail In
Washington at present Is 20 cents for the
actual meat, and that is cheap under
present conditions. The fact Is that a
hundred cities at Wash.ngton's rate
would consume all the Holsters the ent re
lobster coast of this country can produce
With New York. Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore demanding many times more
our home product of 16.OOO.OOO pounds a
year is SO far insufficient that over 5000
OOU pounds are imported from the Cana
dian provinces.
And this reflection becomes doubly
serious when it is followed by the
thought that in the memory of the liv-
ing generation Holsters were so plenti-
full that 1t was possible to bury all one
wanted in Boston at cents each. What
was once meat for the millions is now
luxury for the millionaires.
This amazing decline was at first a
monument to ignorance. Science has