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THE OMAHA' SUNDAY BEE: JULY 7, 1912.
The Omaha Sunday Bee.
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; Tefl k hoand dog has to nay hit
day.
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ftavW-bwB.-Cham -Clark..
1 NTow.'come on Old Sol, let up a
.little ana be a good sport.
It would be impossible for J. Ham
lewis to be a republican with those
pink whiskers. ' . ' . " - -
Mr. Bryan should have n dtffl-
eulty getting the vote of the Balti
more hotel men.
Although there-was no crown of
thorns In It, Champ Clark insists that
be was double-crossed. ,""
No, that ta not the explostt" of
oeisieu iirwcrataem, uH'H'nf
braska's corn growlag.
Had Governor Harmon "prepared"
to stand aside when ho was told, it
might not be so hard now.
l
t , The difference between, parsimony
and oconomy . la the difference ' bo
tween Imprudenca and prudence.
That tar oar democratic frleai
have levied , no embargo upon the
vote Of New totk. for electloa put-
poses, V.' ,."!. t i: . v,J. ""'V -
It takes a strong piety to
man In bis church pew, despite th&Ui.
.-.till... . M A x- jt A t . m k . I
The Future of the Fourth.
It must he clear to all who hare
discerning vision that the observance
of the Glorious Fourth in this coun
try is undergoing a complete trans
formation. We are not going back
to the old-fashloaed celebration any
more than we are to tolerate con
tinuance of the death-dealing meth
ods of noise-making, but we are
gradually developing a celebration
for the future that will be in keep
ing with the patriotic spirit, of the
day, and at the same time more
truly commemorative of the epoch
marking event which it signalizes.
Although as yet unable to define
the exact form of celebration . that
will eventually prevail, several -focal
points 'are already visible.'- One '.of
these is the historical pageant, which
perhaps has made its greatest prog
ress, so far In New, England towns.
The underlying Idea Is to portray by
tableaux and floats, or out-of-door
plays, memorable episodes In na
tional; and local, history. The
scenes of the revolutionary war- lead
ing up to the signing of the Declara
tion of Independence are common
property, and there Is not a city or
town in the country that does not
possess events of its own suitable for
similar dramatizing. The' opportu
nity-offered to engage participation
of young and old, and of both
foreign-bora and native elements, of
drawing on the artistic as well as the
historic, can be made a real inspira
tion of patriotism. , '
Another substitute for the deadly
explosive fireworks is being found
in illumination displays through the
use of lanterns, colored lights and of
the varied possibilities of electricity.
Those who hark back to our Omaha
exposition - recall that the ; fairyland
of incandescent lamps matched the
fireworks display, ; beautiful as that
was. Similar lighting displays 'are
characteristic of the celebrations of
fete days and gala occasions in Eu
ropean capitals. JThe Fourth !S of
July illumination ,6f Riverside Drive
in New York is sfctd to have reached
the acme in : ttii 'directlonarid this
feature of the celebration, can be re
produced on large or small scale in
the parks, squares' and boulevards
and in residence sections throughout
our whole broad land.;'
Finally, neighborhood, or, commu
nity, co-operation In joint observance
of the holiday with - games, decora
tions, picnic lunches, imusic 'and ex
ercises in common will dominate the
new Fourth We are discovering
that our social activities of whatever
kind can cover only a comparatively
small stretch of territory, and es
peclally for the children and young
folks the celebration must be brought
near the pome, 1 this : ijelghhor;
nood observance, of U'tha Fourth
Omaha has made a good tart, whKi
is certaitt to spread. ' -
If the signs are read aright, the
Fourth of the future will be safe and
sane and will be no less patriotic and
instructive. 1" Vs'
ambition of the thermometer to be a
climber.
Where is ' that old-fashioned
Fourth of July orator who shouted
"On down through the dim dark
. Tistag Df'timef " )
Mr. Bryan will now stump ths
kahsas chautauquas for two months
There is another place where he has
he edge over Mr. Murphy.
i The,progresa of niodera snrgery
lfeeds. no better testimony than Ha
ability to keep up with the reflne-
menjtt of our Fourth of Jnjy.celebra-
tens. :;-;;' .... "
Someone asks, What is ths differ
fhcf between : a tgaa lad, a shih
(oleth? Politically speaking, , there
ft no difference; one la as bad as the
i Sanator Works of California is try
ing to 'work up a sensation over the
lost of 4 th presidential primaries.
Why, if the Roosevelt men admit to
spending $3,000,000? ; -
The first man really to show that
as) takes Colonel Roosevelt's candt
dacy seriously Is an Illinois office,
holder, who has thrown up his Job
to pull for the third termer.
-v Mr. Bryan's latert welcome home
is doubtless more sincere than any
Of the demonstrations accorded v to
him on previous occasions when he
returned with th nomination for
Lmeelt.-;
Blair held an old-time Fourth of
July celebration and to make
realistic a match, was accidentally
on purpose dropped Into the $500
plle of fireworks, exploding them
nremature&;-",-;.,' ,
If any of the nominees on the re
publican ticket In NebraskaMtate or
local," are cherishing the notion that
they rwtll he elected by democratic
votes, they had better get th delu
sloa out of their heads at once and
begin to figure on ways sad means
of holding republican strength.
Omaha has reason for congratula
tion this year cn the small number
of Fourth of July; accidents. Ndw,
let our., people, Inspired by the ex-
staple f determine- that 111
Call show evea a safer and a saner
fourth.; Ths spirit, happily, la grow-
Itt ail over ths country and sooa we
shall be able to look for the day'
approach without a shudder of fear
try. His invention was a corn har
vester! and it was patented first in
1834.
With these pioneers and the Fred
Pouglasses and the Booker Wash
ington coming along the highway
of history, the negro race Is, itself,
sotting up permanent milestones to
mark its development. Next year
will telebrate the semi-centenary of
its emancipation, and the negro will
have no difficulty In showing to the
world a comparative record of prog
ress not outdone In all the history
of races.
The Bible in the Orient.
What is thisChina makes heavier
demands for the English Bible than
the American Bible society Is able
to supply? ,Thls Is the word given
out by that publishing house. .The
demand lias been quickened since the
fall of the Manchu dynasty,' with
which prejudice against western civ
ilization is said to have disappeared.
To get down to something like a
tangible basis,' let it be stated - that
the statistics of the Bible society
show that a year or two ago, before
the Chinese republic came into be
ing, 500,000 copies of the Bible were
reeled off Chinese"preBses. Now the
demand cannot be met. .
Evidently there is full warrant in
the- assertion that the Chinese seri
ously desire to find out what Chris
tianity really Is and cannot wait tor
the comparatively small number of
missionaries to , teach them. They
wish to read it for themselves in this
book, the manual of the Christian re
ligion. ,"v, ';- v '
Recently a distinguished' Japanese
orator told an Omaha assemblage!
that no man is considered well edu
cated In Japan who does not have
command of the English language,
and he added that the best educated
Japanese are thirsting for a knowl
edge of the Bible, -v The Bible Is used
In the schools of Japan, but used for
its historic, literary ; and philosoph
ical import more than for -Us relig
ious effect. '
With' these facts as to the Bible's
spread In ancient lands before him,
the churchman surely, has ground
for encouragement, no matter" what
local obstacles may arrest the prog
resa of the church at home. - !
'Tai'ireft of Cultiyation.
The i improved farm land area of
this country increased only 16 per
cent In the decade from 1900 to
That is not enough to satisfy
social and economic demands or even
to keep pace with , our increase in
population, which was 21 per cent.
To get the right perspective one
must differentiate between farming
land and improved' farm land. Half
of our territory is in farm Jand, but
t. , . . ......
wuea it is Biaiea mat nan or all our
improved farm land lies within the
states of Nebraska, i Kansas, Iowa,
Missouri, ' Minnesota, . Arkansas
Louisiana, Oklahoma and North and
South Dakota the need , for a wider
area of cultivated soil may be appre
ciated.-'' Av i ",;
Allowing land to yield less than it
is capable of yielding is rank waste,
and this waste is one of the'vltai ele-
ments.ln the advanced cost of living.
It is not altogether a matter of get
ting people "back to the farm;" that
i Important, but getting , those on
tns farm to adopt more effective
methods of tilling the soil is quite
as necessary, If not. Indeed, more so,
ery of government would De aeciaeaiy
radical and are not to be expected to ma
terialize In a dsy w a year. If the de
mand for direct presidential nominations,
however, should become general and in
sistent, one of the political parties might
respond to it m the hope of striking- a
popular chord and scoring an advantage
over the political enemy. In the mean
while tbe sporadic efforts ef Oregon,
and states that may follow suit, to pro
ject A presidential primary on the in
stallment plan must be at best only ex
perimental.
The Human Equation. '
Another appalling wreck and toll
of human life occurs because; an en
gineer falls to perceive the signals
ahead, or, possibly, because a flag
man falls to give the 'signals ahead.
In any event two score and more lives
instantly go out -and other poor
mortals are let live . with mangled
bodies. There seems to be but one
way , to prevent wrecks on railroads
and that is by. reducing the participa
tion of the human , element to'j the
very minimum r and magnifying ) the
work of the mechanical device. These
railroads that have best succeeded
In doing this are the. ones with the
fewest wrecks. The- human equation
appears at the bottom of every such
catastrophe. ;' v : .
Hegro Advancement.
Dwelling upon the negro's amaz
lag progress since his emancipation
less than fifty yeara ago has become
platitude. .The ordinary view of
negro achievement, however, errone
ously centers entirely upon this late
period, when, as a matter of fact,
even in this country before the mid
dle of the eighteenth century, no few
negroes had asserted their Intel
lectual powers. In the field of in
ventlon, where, a contemporary his
torian says, the real greatness of a
nation is to be measured, Benjamin
Banneker, the noted negro astrono
mer, in 1764, Invented and con
structed ths first clock ever , made
in America. According to the Nearo
Year Book, this colored man, who
owned and cultivated a little farm,
devoted all his spare time to scien
tific research and became the author
of an almanac, which he submitted
to Thomas Jefferson and with which
Jefferson was so much impressed
that he sent it to the secretary of the
Academy of Sciences in Paris and it
was later exhibited la the British
House of Commons as an example
of the capabilities of the negro mind.
But it is recalled, too. that an
other great negro, who, like Ban
neker, was a native " of Maryland,
Henry Blair, was the first of his race
to patent an invention In this coua-
Presidential Primaries.
The presentation - in congress of
bills providing for primaries ' under
national, authority designed to - do
away with convention nominations of
presidential candidates is open con
fession that the attempt to produce
a presidential primary by piecemeal
state legislation is a failure. Pref
erence votes in a few of th states
at different, iimfesv and nnder differ
ent conditions, often with nothing to
safeguard the integrity of the,party,
but, on the contrary, holding out in
vitation to members of other parties
to nBme the candidates they, expect
to oppose, not only cannot solve the
problem, but tends to make It .worse
confused. . ... i
In some quarters it is sought to
make much of the fact that, in the
ten or twelve .states where prefer
ence primaries were held the candl
date who was named at Chicago to
head' the republican ticket was In
only a few instances the high man.
But precisely the same thing Is true
of the candidate named at Baltimore
to head the democratic ticket who
lost most of the primary vote states,
and in the aggregate was far behind
his successful competitor. , The ma
jority of the states that do not have
primaries cannot be made. to recog
nize, any superiority, or controlling
power, lodged In the states which
hold primaries. At best,- therefore,
no presidential primary : could be
safely effective unless It were nation
wide, and conducted everywhere at
the" same time 'and under uniform
and undiscrCmlnating conditions.
, Whether such a primary nomina
tion scheme would even then ' work
out would depend 'on many things,
for a multiplicity of candidates dlvid
ing the vote would prevent any one
of them from polling a majority, and
expose the party and the country to
minority rule. " All our political his
tory and experience teaches that
some kind of a representative body,
capable of weighing the merits of
contending claimants and welding
together the divergent sentiment and
preferences of the people of all the
various sections of the country,' Is
necessary to bring about unification
behind a ticket that can command
party support.
In this connection we may quote
from an article contributed by the
editor i of . The Bee , discussing the
Oregon primary law to an eastern
magaslne more than a year ago,
which concludes:
How, then, shall we ever get to an ef
fective direct popular choice of presi
dential nominees If It Is thought desir
able? My answer la that It must come
through the national organisations of
the political parties themselves or through
congressional legislation, for which per
haps a constitutional amendment may be
prerequisite. Any one of the national
party organisations, can at. will Introduce
the direct primary tor president-choosing
and either do away wtth national nomin
ating conventions altogether or continue
them only for platform-making and the
contingency of no nomination at the
polls. A constitutional amendment could
abolish the electoral college, which we
all know has become mainly ornamental.
and give us direct popular election of
presidents. It could predicate such an
election on a direct primary nomination
or It could combine It with a preliminary
election and a subsequent by-election to
determine between the presidential race
horses polling tbe highest votes in the
, trial heat. Such changes m our rnackln-
I
The Panama and Immigration.
Undoubtedly the Panama canal
will have a noticeable effect upon
the flow- of immigration (o the
United States. ; It is expected to
draw to the Pacific coast thousands
of foreigners who are now settling
in the eastern part of the country.
mostly in places already congested
la the main this diversion' ought
to have a wholesome effect Our
social scientists and political econ
omists , have been casting about for
a solvent ' for., this perplexing proh
lem of bettor distributing the . new
comers, for their sake and for ours,
and the canal seems to offer real
encouragement' It is easy ito See
how . an .. Immigrant from Europe,
perhaps none too well possessed with
money, who would hesitate to em
bark upon a land trip across the
continent might more easily follow
the lines of least resistance when the
Panama canal Is in operation and he
is offered inducement upon embark
Ing at home to fix his destination at
the west, instead of the east,; coast
of American ':J- i ..
Pacific coast cities and states are,
we are told, preparing for this In
evltable influx. These people,, who
hhvo stubbornly resisted Asiatic im
migration, take a very different view
of ' the Europeans, in whom . they
recognise the material readily assim
ilated into . oar citizenship. For
them they will have" a very hearty
welcome. ' These European Immi
grants are needed oh the coast, as,
indeed, they ; are throughout ' tho
great middle west, abounding in op
portunities for the Industrious work
man and frugal husbandryman, such
as. the vast majority of our Immi
grants are. ' v , . ..."
Thirty Tears Ago
The call for the republican state con
vention subscribed by James W. Dawes,
chairman, and John Stein, secretary, gives
Douglas eighteen out of a total of 428
delegates.
P. C Himebaugh, who came In from the
west, reports prospects for crope in Ne
braska never better.
The Blair Republican says General
Manderson purchased that large eagle
from, Ed Cook at a cost of 13.
Major George S. Doane, who was en
gaged in the hat business In the city until
recently, returned from Washington with
commission (a . his pocket as Indian
agent at the Peck agency.
A telegram received from Mr. Charles
Whitney, second baseman in the Union
Pacific nine, offers him a similar position'
In the Detroit nine.
The books of the Third ward assessor.
Matt Hoover, have been footed op and
show an Increase of $265,148. The same
average increase would raise the value
of the city H.500.00O. . . . . .
Hotel arrivals include a number of
prominent politicians, among them W. H.
Melkel of Grand Island, Eugene Moore
of West Point, Colonel Frank P. Ireland
of Nebraska City, Hon. Church Howe of
Nemaha and Hon. James Laird of Has
tings. .
8. H. H. Clark and his private secre
tary, Mr. Orr, left for Chicago.
County Clerk John Baumer is adver
tising for proposals to grade F&roam
street west sixty feet wide.
Principle and Power.
Many ardent Roosevelt promoters
have said that had the colonel so de
sired he might have brought about
the nomination of Governor Hadley
at' Chicago; that the psychological
moment was reached during the
spontaneous demonstration for Had
ley in the Coliseum. , But, they as
sert, Roosevelt refused to give up
the fight for himself. ".'
If this be true rfind the colonel's
own utterance that "it is anything to
beat me and I am in the fight to the
finish"- lends 'color to it then,
weakens the Roosevelt argument
that he is working solely for princi
ple and tends to discredit further ef
fort on hla Sart to t secure a third
term. Governor Hadley was good
enough to lead the Roosevelt forces
In the convention. The- Colonel then
had no doubt that the Missouri man
was the embodiment of the prlnci
pies for which both were fighting!
That being true, devotion t'b princi
pie would have dictated - a com
promise on Hadley if it could have
been effected.
These questions will not down in
the minds of those who believe that
principles are eternal and persons
only temporary, agents for their fur
therance.
ookin Backward
gdnpllko from dic ru-w
JULY 7.
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Twenty Tears Ago
Carl Browne, the wild west artist of
Napa valley, California, left Omaha,
where he had attended the por conven
tion, for Ashland to put on an illustrated
lecture showing the Ills of the country cn
the canvass. "
The city council tossed another ob
stacle In the way of the Ketchum Fur
nlture company of Chicago completing Its
deal to furnish the new city hall. The
coundr rejected the furniture bffera-J be
cause it was of inferior quality and de
cided to order it taken out of the building
i v. O. Strickler, big pop. said the loca
tion here of the national headquarters of
me peopie a .party aepenacj entirely cn
how far Omaha came across with the
campaign grease. ( This party of the
plain people could not run its campaign
without plenty of'grease, and its patriotic
leaders desired to lay their eyes on tbe
color, of Omaha's political lubricators be
fore settling here, especially since there
Was a prospect of connecting elsewhere.
Mis? "Webster gave one of the moat un-
Joyable coaching parties of the season In
the evening in honor of Miss Blanchai-!
Of Sidney, Neb. After driving to the fort
and back the parly returned to thr'vVeb-
eter home, and partook of a delUUtful
Supper. In the party were the following:
Misses Blanchard, Clarkson, Colpetaer.
Allen. Andreesen, Tates, Webster; Messrs,
Bache, Christian, Cowln, Richardson,
Morsman, Wilbur, Aiken. Luddtngton
and Denisa. Mrs. Webster and Mrs.
Dundy chaperoned the party.
'Miss E. H. Terrlli left for New York
to be gome Until September t :U;V i. ) : .;
Ten Tears Ago
Samuel Gompers, president of the Amer
lean Federation f Labor, addressed i
nrse numoer or union labor men at
Washington hall, pleading only for
"equality of rights" as between all men
employee and employers. It was In the
midst of the Union Pacific shopmen's
strike. W. D.:Mahon. president of the
Amalgamated Association of Street Rail
way Employes of America and T. I
Wilson, fourth vice president of the In
ternational Association - of Machinists,
also spoke.
Parke Wilson, manager of the Denver
ball team, was arrested for an assault
upon Umpire Ross Swigert. Things were
going against Wilson's team; Omaha bad
beaten it twice the day "before and was
completing another shut-out .and Wilson
tost his head. - Ho was making a vicious
assault on the umpire when an officer
mterfered and then Wilson lit In on the
policeman, but did not get very far.
The Board of Education elected these
officers for the schools: Superintendent,
Cattoll G. Pearse; superintendent of
buildings. Duncan Flnlayson; Secretary
of the board, J. F. Burgess; custodian and
Inspector of supplies, E. F. Grimes.
Pearse, Flnlayson ?nd Burgess were
elected for-i three years.
Judge Herbert J. Davis, formerly of the
Douglas county bench, on a visit to M. L.
Learned from Chicago, announced that he
would not go to the Philippines to ac
cept a juqgshlp In the court of first in
stance, to which he had been appointed.
He wired his resignation to Washington
from Omaha. Ill health was the cause of
his changing his mind.
People Talked About
SUNDAY SMILES.
Ormsby McHarg Is not in favor of a
third party movement Flshtng m Oyster
bay is not as profitable as it use to be.
Even when .the swelling goes down
Champ Clark needs but look in a mirror
to recognize the thumb prints on his
throat
A noted woman writer says that a
cigarette !s less harmful than a cocktail.
Thus the light of experience brightens a
naughty world.
Originally it was Thomas W. Wilson.
Suppose the Toms should pesent f the
surgical operation on the honored name,
what would happen to Woodrowt
Observe how the boosters of the scheme
caution tourists to "See America first"
If America should see some of the tourists
first. Just Imagine what would happen to
the scenery. ' .-, . ' -
Speaker Champ Clark's forethought
brightens the gloom of Pike county. An
ticipating the worst, he filed for re-election
to congress before Colonel Bryan
threw that brick.
The sudden discovery of ninety ani
mated "wax figures i in New Tor
threatens a revival of the anctent musee
business, if the collection can be pre
served through the summer's heat.
-Germany's- West poet. Herr Heinrien
Zelse, has just celebrated his 97th birth
day at Altona. Although he has become
deaf and blind. Zeise's poetical gifts nave
not been seriously Impaired, and he still
dictates lengthy poems to his grand
children. , '''..'"
' Let no party enthusiast nurse in his
bosom the notion that the Baltimore con
vention was a profitless affair for Messrs.
Morgan, Belmont, Ryan, Murphy and Co.
When the campaign fund solicitors knock
cn their doors next fall an Illuminated
sign will ' flash the sorrowful words.
"Nothing dolng!,
: EDITORIAL SIDE LINES.
Indianapolis News. " The announcement
that 200 Turks have been killed in a bat
tle with the Italians will serve to re
mind you that the powers have not yet
pulled off that settlement of the war
which they discuss with more , or less
Interest from time to time.
. Philadelphia Record: It is a rather
'curious coincidence that jtmf as Mrr
Bryan was putting his everlasting taboo
on Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan that gentle
man was having the time of his life hob
nobbing with the German kaiser. Poor
man, he finds it hard to please." Not
only is he under the ban of the NebraskAi
here, but the "hupper sultWes" of Ger
man society are greatly Inflamed be
cause of the kaiser's marked attentions
to him and other wealthy Americans.
Great riches evidently have their draw
backs as well as their rewards.
Philadelphia, Bulletin: . Wyoming. - the
pioneer state In the granting oT equal
suffrage, now has Its first woman mayor
in the person of Mrs. Wissler of Dayton.
Women voters, strange to say, did hot
rally to her support, four-fifths of the
ballots in her favor being cast by men.
The reason assigned for her selection Is
peculiar. ; Dayton has been suffering from
the unwelcome visits of boisterous cow
boys whom the former authorities were
unable to' control. It was thought that
a woman executive might ' exert -a re
straining influence on their , turbulent
spirits, since the cowbotf'a chivalry is
proverbial. The action of -the Day too
electorate, therefore, can scarcely be re
garded as a victory for the feminist
cause, in the ordinary meaning of the
term. ;'.';.
"Bobby, what was the preacher's text?"
"Something about it being easier for
a camel to go through the Iowa needle
than for a rich man to go to heaven."
Chicago Tribune. .
"So you think this opera singer's
broken English would be against her
success V
"Well, my dear friend, you can see
for yourself her difficulties would be
pronounced." Baltimore American.
"What's an optoratst pop?"
"He's the delegate who thought the
steam roller would bust a tire." Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"When I accepted Jack he almost'
smothered me with kisses."
- "When I said yee," to Tom, he didn't
kiss me even once.V
"Mercy." What a cold-blooded fellow."
"Not at all. You see It happened in
a canoe."-:hlcago Tribune. - ;
Kitty My brother Cornelius has been
calling on Miss Chillelgh for over a year.
Marte la he going to marry her?
Kitty I don't know. I'm agraid she's
rather too cold to make Corn pop.
Boston Transcript v
' "Didn't your mother teach you to
cook?" -
. "Mercy. : no. Mother was too' busy
editing a culinary guide.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer. ; .. .. .
"Every human being," saia me pro
fessor, "sends out psychic waves."
. "Do I send out psychic waves?" de
manded the pretty .girl. . j
"You do." . - 1
"And are they marcelled?" Louisville
Courier-Journal. . .
THE CALL,
' Harper's Weekly. .
Turn ye again, my people, turn;
Enter my palace wild and rude.
And cheerily yet your campflres burn
Throughout my scented solitude. .
The glare, the tumult and the stress
Are gone with yesterday, and we .
Are the children of the wilderness.
Of wonder and of mystery, v
Mark how the titled mountains lie t
Mantled with moss and cloistered fir;
My brother, canst thou pass them by?
Art thou not too, a worshiper?
The long lake wrinkling la the wind.
The breathless wood, and. over all.
Through tangled underbrush entwined
The riot of a waterfall.
The multitudinous sounds that blend
Tn one vast stillness void of sound,
A slumber too divine to end -.
Interminable and profound.
Close to the bosom nndeflled
rOf her who bore mankind I press.
Receiving, like a wandering child,
i Her inarticulate caress. !
turn ye again, my people, turn,
I Enter my palace wild and rude,
And cheerly let your campfire burn
, Throughout my scented solitude.
Every Good Drug Store Is
an "Accommodation Store"
and Tries to Be More and
More So. k ;
We'd like to sell you a -stamp
or & postal card twice as often.
We'd like to tell you the time,
help you find an address, lend you
a pen or pencil, oblige you with
'light", give you a seat while you
wait for a. car or, In any con
ceivable way. make this store of
service to you.
Come in and "Just look about'
if you're waiting for somebody
There are lots of things to look
at nothing that you'll feel any
obligation to buy unless the obli
gation is wholly to yourself.
Sherman & McCtnnell
Drugstores
VICTIMS OF VOLPLANING.
Omaha will some day reach the
point of absolutely , prohibiting the
sale of explosive fireworks as is done
in other cities. If the council would
"do it now," it would probably meet
with little opposition, but if it waits
until the next Fourth is la sight,
with dealers loaded up with 'stocks
and counting on prospective profits,
the job will be more difficult.
Purchase of the water works by
the city of Omaha wipes -off the tax
assessment roll a little item of
15,000,000 and stops u annual tax
revenue of nearly $100,000. 'These
small debits should not be over
looked in striking the credit balance.
"While pointing with pride to our
parks, and their natural beauty,
Omaha should remember that other
cities, also, have magnificent park
systems, and that we must keep up
with the procession by constant care
and improvement. .
Through transcontinental passen
ger traffic waa never so heavy as it
is right now. These tourists would
all break their trip at Omaha it their
railroad tickets gave them :stop-over
privileges and we bad hotel facilities
to attract . '
Craae Constitutes the Chief Hasard
ef Aviation.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The accident) which resulted in the
deaths of Miss Harriet Qulmby ' and
Manager Wlllard ot the Boston avia
tion meet seems to have been another
due to ' the erase of . volplaning. The
plane, it is said, was about 6,000 feet
up when the unfortunate aviator turned
It downward In one of those spectacu
lar and too often fatal swoops. A pre
fesslonal associate estimates that the
machine was sweeping earthward at a
speed of 100 miles a minute when the
accident happened. The wind was
gusty, and It is supposed that when the
plane struck a "hole In the air," or a
pocket current, the machine's sudden
dip to perpendicular threw out both
occupants.
Miss Qulmby was the first woman
aviator to be licensed in this country,
as she had been the first woman to fly
across ,the English channel. Her ex
perience and skin were unquestioned,
but she appears, like the men who
have met a similar fate while attempt
ing the same feat to have - presumed
toe much upon it It can hardly be
said that the accident was In any way
traceable to the woman aviator lack
ing any element of skill or control.
Her associate, Mlsa Stewart, who was
firing . above the Qulmby ' plane when
It happened, although so overcome that
she collapsed - when she reached the
ground, kept her nerve and 'wits and
avoiding- the - peril . that upset the
others, came, down in safe circles, thus
demonstrating strikingly .the -contrast
between . . security , and risk. Unfor
tunately. " 'Judging - by the record. It
cannot be hoped that the- lesson will
prevent - future attempts ' at volplaning,
easily the chief hasard of aviation.
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We fix up the wearables I
that "Old Sol" soils
, 1 ' There's no use antagonising the sun; do as you will your
fresh, criBp white dresses, your linen suits, waists, etc, will
wilt as fast as the thermometer soars upwards. Best way is
to send 'em to US regularly lor a cleaning. Know the com
fort that comes from wearing CLEAN, light garments.
Dresher Brothers
Dry Cleaners--Flrli
FKOHIS Tylsr 1300; Auto., a-aaas.
Branch Agencies Pomp laa Boom, Brandeis Stores,
and Brasher, the Tailors, 1515 rarnam Street.
We pay express one way on out-of-town shipments of S3.00 or over.
D
i,
EPOSITS made on or before July
10th in the SAVINGS DEPART
MENT of the UNITED STATES
NATIONAL BANK will drawf
interest from July 1st.
THREE PER CENT interest is paid on
savings deposits and COMPOUNDED
SEMI-ANNUALLY. Funds may be with
drawn at any time without notice.
Thecombined capital and surplus is $1,400,000,00,
i it is tha oldest, bank' in Nebraska.. , t
. Established in 1856. J
United States, National Bank
ol Omahi Nebraska
X, T. Barlow, President.
O. W; Wattles, ioe-rres.
Y. B. CeldweU. Vioe-Vrea.
W. JL Baoades, Cash!.
OK S. XCavsrstick, Asst. Cask
B. X. Morsman, Asst. Cask
3. C. HoCUure, Asst. Cash.
O. XC Tates, Asst. Cash. ,
Open on Saturdays TJntfl 0:00 P. M.
BAILEY, tde DENTIST
Established 1888
f- Formerly la Use Paxion Elk.
Now 706 City Ml Bank Bldg.
. ICth aad flarcey Stsv Onatii
-. - TxxJSTwon novo. ssss.
New Sanitary While Enamel Outfit