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January 31
Thought, for the Day
SUct4 bf Alie Ftmr
Faith it Hit tultlt chain that btnJ$ us to t'u
infinite; the voic of a deep lift cilhin.Elija
btlh Oaktt tsmitA, ,
Mr. Groundhog, It will 'soon be up to you.
Only two more day for filling tha bill hop
per. Don't .crowd, there!
It Would take a whole fleet of four passenger
Jitneys to put a dent la the strap hangers arma
ment. ' ,
How can any county board ( have a better
chairman than .ours, whose chairman Is Best?
Help!
Taking candy from -a child la reprehensible,
but taking nickels from 'a street car company It
amusing. .
Big loague magnates are accused of trading
I all players for dogs. Well, some ball players
are worth a good dog.
Abatement of War Fever.
From the accounts constantly coming to tis
from the war arena, and the combatant coun
tries, it would seem that the bitter personal ani
mosities blatantly manifested on both sides at
the start were being gradually softened, and the
mutual acerbftles steadily losing their force.
While no signs of yielding is given by either set
of allies, the possibility of sincere conviction
and well-intentioned motive, and the absence of
cause for Individual hatred, Is apparently boinz
recognized more and more. This Is what wo
read between the' lines of the reports about tho
fraternizing of the outposts, and the comrad-v
ship of the interned soldiers of many nations in
Holland. It Is what we see In the equal treat
ment and tender solicitude for friend and foe
alike In the hospitals, In the missions of mercy
of the different Red Cross corps disregarding
nationality, and, finally, In the tributes of re
rpect to the fallen heroes and of admiration of
the daring exploits under whatever flag the act
of bravery Is performed.
We fancy we can discern over here, In our
own America a similar tendency away from tho
harshness of tone and intolerent distrust of one
another of the opposing champions of the allies
or Germans. The noisy debate as to which la
most'to blame seems to be quieting down, and
the criminations and recriminations growing
less severe. Perhaps It is well that opportunity
was given to work off the high pressure steaci
in the forum and through newspaper columns,
for the effect has been, with exceptions, of
course, to broaden our visions and make us see
the conflicting viewpoints. The partisans over
here may be no less partisan, but they arc
readier to concede the right to hold a different
opinion. We confidently believe the time Is not
far distant, if not already here, when our de
bates on the war will, produce light, and not
heat, and American judgment will help to formu
late the dispassionate verdict of history,
Unlike other, lines of business, railroad man
agers seldom feel the' pulsing thrill of a bargain
rush from their patrons, . -
"Deserving democrats of Nebraska", should
remember that throwing one-term bombs at the
White House violates the laws of neutrals.
Sport Note The Allies are expecting soon to
sign up Rou Mania, the clever Uttla player who
covered left field in 'the recent Balkan series.
"Soldiers Need New Outfits Every Month,"
says a headline. Alas,- but too many of them
do not, and never will 'again.
And why should Our fee-grabbing district
court clerk try to same the Judges on the bench
to whose orders he Is subject? j '
That ship purchase bill will never suit the
corn belt until one of our senators tacks on to
It some provision to set .our pralrl schooners
afloat again. ? ( j
Our law-makers should not overlook tho
needful preparations for tbe.aiprofriata cele
bration of Nebraska's semi-centennial of state-
Most of the musty, mold-covered,; hold-up
bills have been pulled out again down t Lin
coln, and some new ones,' too, i Many of them
are so familiar that thsy need no introduction.
".! -L.j-1. ; .
Congressman Hftbsoh can see at short range
more war spooks-than- any- of his- associates
armed with a "tAar-starclttng telescope. ; For a
man' who clajhyj to jbe':ji strict tee'tptaller his
mental jlm-jans are .Inexplicable. " i '" j
President -Oinpera of the American Federa
tion of Labor does not like the veto of the liter
acy test Immigration bill, and dors not hesitate
to say so. Now, really, we do not believe Presi
dent Wilson expected his veto 1$ ploase Mr.
Gompers. , , . '
The Unity of Learning.
In the report of President Lowell of Har
vard we have a clear restatement of an old tru
ism which too many people are accustomed to
Ignore. "All history is one," said Freeman, the
great historian, meaning that the chronicle of
human progress contains no lines of demarca
tion separating time or place, but that each event
is the outgrowth of some previous happening
and co-related' to all other events. Varying, but
not changing, the thought, President Lowell
declares:
An attempt to split learning Into blocks sharply
separated from one another Is futile, for It has been
truly eald that tha object of every fresh thinker Is
to cut a new diagonal through tha field of knowledge.
In practical application, therefore, the Inter
ests of the professors, be says, cannot be arbi
trarily' confined or their studies limited by the
boundaries of faculties; but, on the contrary,
such an idles should be discouraged. Not that
instruction should not be specialized not that
danger lies in tho existence of too many facul
ties, but rather in too little intercourse between
tb members of the different faculties, and, still
more, in a lack of cohesion within the facuTtlei
themselves. , '
What Presldenj Lowell Is arguing for has its
bearing upon the organisation of all our univer
sities and eollegee, and perhaps upon all oar
secondary schools, too. Appreciating the need
in these days for everyone to specialize within
a definitely fixed field, yet we must never fall to
Impress tha fact that In the geography of learn
ing all the oceans run together, and all the con
tinents and Islands are In some way, no matter
how remotely, connected.
Scientific. Selection of life Riski.'
It Is the boast of one of the .big life ins'ur
enr companies of the country in its annual
report that the mortality of .Its" poljcy holders
duriug the year Is only 63 per cent; of the ex
pected, being "proof," as It sa'-js, "pf the im
partial and scientific character of toe selection."
No one will question that a mortality so far
Ulow "the expected" is a feather in' the cap of
any Insurance company, and to that extent con
tributes to Its surplus and 'stability.
But it must prove aUo something besides
impartial and scientific selection, because it U
positive evidence that the tables of expected
mortality greatly overshoot the mark. If these
tables are wrong by 37 per cent) or even by 20
per cent, or 10 per cent, the terror s against
the policy bolder, who buys psurance at a rate
higher than the true actuarial basis would re.
quire, and the fact that some, or all, of the ex
cess collections come back as so-called dlvl
Ond does not alter the situation.
One of these fine days one of the old estab
lished life companies, pa8lng under a new and
progressive, or, shall we say. reckless, manage
:i!ent, will startle the world by computlug
j rtn.iuBis on actual experience, and then the
r.ht will have to follow suit.
ur TiCTom mosrwATxsv.
"; Rising Cost of Government -
It docs not require official statistics to prove
the growing cost of government. . Every tax
payer knows it because it touches the pocket
nerve. But few know the taxing rate of speed
at which the country is traveling, and statistics
on this point are of interest in showing the pace
in Nebraska.
A census bulletin Just issued makes a com
parative exhibit of the income and outgo of
states and the present t value of state property.
A series of tables show po'pulation,,revenue from
several sources, as well as expenditures for vari
ous purposes, and the per capita of receipts and
expenses, compiled from the official records of
the different states. u ' .
'. . According to tbcee. tables the revenue re
oipts of Nebraska. In 1902 was $2,023,621. or
f 1.83 per capita. In. 1913 the state's revenue
amounted to $3,761,392, or $3.05 per capita.
Tha cost of the state government in 1903 .was
$2,162,771. equal to $1.95 per capita, while in
1918 It had Jumped up to $3,672,297, or $2.90
per capita, an increase of 95 cents per head in
ten yeara, : . ' . ' ' ' '
' From 1903 to 1912 the atate's population tn
creased 11 per cent, while its revenue In
creased 85.' 4 per cent, and general property
taxes Increased 77.3 per cent. Besides, quite
a number of new revenue sources are listed In
1913 overlooked ten years before. The actual
increase in cost of the state government la 65.9
per cent. ,
' At the beginning of " the statistical decade
Nebraska had a floating debt which required in
terest payments of $74,514. This has been
wiped out and no interest charge is reported
for the year 1913.
.The Nebraska taxpayer, however, is more
fortunate than some of bis neighbors. Iowa,
with a stationary population, shows an Increase
of 101.1 per cent in. revenues and a 91.1 per
cent in cost of government. Kansas shows In
creases of 93 and 72.7 per cent, respectively,
But these neighboring states have considerably
more state property than Nebraska to show for
the money. Iowa state property Is valued at
$10.640. 123; Kansas. $18,342,808, and Ne
braska. $8,788,616.
Needless to add that the rising cost of state
government is duplicated in local as well at na
tional government, and altogether constitutes a
condition which calls loudly for the brakes.
SINCE all the military hats, cap, plumes and hl
meta were thrown Into the ring acrosa the water
laet summer, I have been reading r books ema
nating from alt eourcen, prewntln all ld-s of the
luKurn. until 1 feci aa If I had been vaccinated with
war literature. I have been pouring over Hernhardt
bonks, and Arnold Bennt book ami red. white and
blue papers galore. There are to many of them that
it la almoKt Impossible to jack out any particularly
ovemhadowlns; contribution, or. In fact, to keep the
contents of the different war volumes separate and
distinct In mind. But the war book which I have
laat read opena up a vleta In a way not expected
from the source. It la entitled "Austria-Hungary
and the War," and is advance-noticed by Its pub
lishers as "a comprehensive prtsentafron of the po
litical forces and historical developmonta which led
to the Initial clanh of arms." Tho author Is Erneet
T,tid,w1s, conaul for Austria-Hungary I-.i Cleveland,
and a preface has been written by Konatantln Theo
dor LVunba, tho ambassador of Austiiay-Hungary to
the United Statea. It la a thorough -explanation and
defense for Austria's coui ee In the Servian Incident -an
explanation which the. author admlta Is "lacking
In the technical requirements of neutrality," but. as
he trusts, "not lacking In impartiality," and It makes
out a fairly good case. Yet I doubt if a counterpart
can be found anywhere of this candid expression ot
opinion Incorporated by Mr. Ludwlg Into his fore
word: "t venture the prediction that this war will be ot
short duration. Both aides will soon see the u
lesneas of continuing tho struggle when the forces
are about even and neither side can totally destroy
the other. I believe, however,' thut the gain will
he with our side. A slight gain, perhaps, but still a
gain. I baae this belief on the fact becoming more
evident as the war la progressing that the people of
Austria-Hungary and Germany are linked In a
much firmer union than the people of our present
allied armies."
Just read that eiver once or twice If you want to get
a line on what Is running through tha minds of aome
welt Informed people on both sides of the war game.
Hiding on Mt. "Wattles' pay-aa-you-enter Jitney wltn
my armful of war books, I was accosted by Lawyer
C. Q. McDonald, who had also pre-empted standing
room on the platform.
"Are you loaded down that way every morning?
Tou should hava material there fox some strong edi
torials today."
"I don't know how strong they wilt be," I retorted.
"hut If they match these books they surely will be
weighty."
Talking to a coal, man whom you all know, . I
learned some cold weather facts last week. "Tcs,
we receive a great many complaints from our custo
mcrs these days. It's perfectly natural to complain
of tha quality of tha fuel when tha house just won't
heat up. We always have more such complaints,
however, the first cold snap of the season, although
it later becomes much colder, perhaps because by that
time people got used to their furnace troubles and do
not Irrfctst on blaming thorn all on us coal men.
"Tho truth Is, people have more difficulty, wijh
their coal when they are driving their furnaces hard
than when the usual slow fire doea the work. Do not
understand me to say that the Quality of tho coal Is
never at fault coal varlus, and it Is possible that we
do not always get the best shipped out to us. W.
dealers have to take It as It comes, especially tumace
coal, and we know all of our consignments are not up
to standard. But what I started to say was that the
Impurities In the coal, which are always ' there In
greater or less degree, seem to be thrown off un
noticed In the usual burning. Not so, however, when
the draXts are full on and the contents of the firebox
are reduced under pressure to a molten mass. . Then
the coal does all sorts of things that well-behaved
coal ought not to do It throws out sulphurous gas
and forces it Into the house; It makes clinkers that
clog 'the grates; It leaves great heaps ot ashes that
at other times seem to be consumed, when all these
things happen at the same time, when a' toon has
one conlnuoua session with his furnace in a darlt or
dirty cellar, I ' don't wonder that be -develops a
sulphurous streak himself and tiles to take tt out on
the coal man."
Once upon a time the notion waa widely prevalent
that the below-sero days of mld-wtnter were the
harvest time for the plumber. I confess I cherished
that Idea, myself, recollecting the ,'former frequency,
of bursted water pipes and outdoor fires In excava
tions of hard -frozen ground with a benumbed plumber
working at the bottom.
"Nothing to It any morel Nothing to It at ail!"
was tha assurance ot Henry Kruger in response to the
suggestion that his croft must be getting ' rich 'over
night through the active ee-epeiatlon of Jack Frost.
"There used to be work for the plumber in thawing
end patching frozen pipes, but, that was before all
the houses were heated continuously as theyare now.
Stove fires would go out. and besides, tho plumbing
drains were exposed so that, fire or no fire, sero
weather would catch them. Nowadays no house Is
left without some heat In winter time unless tho water
Is first turned oft The modern plumbing la also
better done, and the serlvce plpea and drains are
down deep enough to be below the, frost lines. Say
what you will about all this Inspection and what It
adds to the cost of building, this shows you what
has been accomplished by It, and that In the Ions;
run It la money saved several times oven No, the
plumber of today would go to tha poor house If he
depended on billiards to supply him with paying jobs;
the whole year's repair work is small beside the new
Installations, and the business of tha plumber is on
the same basis as other legitimate business.'
A staunch defender of "public office a family
map" thinks , the anti-nepotism law would be
unavailing because all the officers would trade
their relatives into Jobs under one another. Get
away from that delusion! The anti-nepotism
bill prohibits loading the payroll with brothers,
sisters, cousins and aunts, "directly or lndl
rectly." If It did not threaten the graft tho
pie counter brigade would not be so unanimous
sgalnst It
I Pcoplq and Events
Twice . Told Tale?
Hard an lllaa.
Mrs. re thick Lawrence, the noted English suffra
gette, said the other day to a New Tork reporter:
"Your Idea of us militants Is that we are vixens,
tartars, man-haters. But. as a matter of fact, we
have in our ranks soma of the most elegant and fascin
ating women In London society.
"No, the militant la not like Mrs. Bis no, who said
to her daughter-ona day:
" "I am certainly easy on shoes. Look at this
pair of elastic sides. I've worn them three years, and
they're still as good aa new. I'm easy on olothes, too.
There's my tweed just aa fresh aa the day I bought
It, seven years ago. And hats, gloves, stockings in
fact. I'm easy on everything.' "
" "Except father, ohr said the daughter, without
looking up from her book." Jv'evl Tork Globe. . ,
IW'y-r r , , . ,
Rev. W. J. Harsha's sermon aa pastor of tha first
Presbyterian church discussed temptations of the heart
and body.
A naw Incorporation la known as the Charity
Union of Omaha, promoted by Fred Ny, Herman
Kountie. Ed M. Roas, Clement Chase. W. J. Jack
man. Frank Irvine and E. P. Peck. Signers are to b
eoured to an agreement to contribute tl a month
to do tha work, which is to Investigate sickness and
distress and to determine the amount of relief nedd.
Bartlett Campbell's great play, ''Siberia," 'finished
aa engagement at the Boyd laat night.
Mr. Samuel Uelnrath la doad at the home of bis
daughter, Mra Andrew Roaewater. SS3S Faroam street.
He has also three sons living, one each In Kansas
City. St. Joseph and Omaha, and had attained the
as of 9 years,
CUntoa Htowden, wtth the editorial force of tho
New Tork World, la here to spend a shert tlm?
vlvttlng his old friend. Judge Hull.
The Young Men' Christian association gymnasium
la now in running crder, and offers Its benefits to
any young man of good moral character 'for the
payment of 13 a year '
Mount. Ollead. O., has gone dry by 22
majority. Those In need of balm can take
Interurban to the neareM town.
Massachusetts offers to pay bounty "on
every heifer calf raised to maturity." The
Hay state "beefs" for a ripe steak.
A Chicago policeman shot a masher who
was trying to escape and was promoted
for the set. Hats off to you. Old Windy!
Kourtetn Japanese Red Cross nursea
left last week for the seat ot war, and
will join the hospital corps In England.
Every one of them hai seen actual serv
ice In the Jspancse-Russlan war.
Dr. Therrald von Bethmann-Hollweg,
Imperial German chancellor, was an Inti
mate fellow student of the' present em
peror at Bonn, and that Intimacy has
grown with the years. He waa a lawyer
in his earlier life, and is now ST.
Back In Wsyneburg, Pa., the father of
eleven children, all of them girls, waa
with difficulty restrained from shooting
up the stork because the last deposit
wasn't a boy, The discriminations of
the stork oftontlmoa put an old-time
freight rate schedule on the blink. -
Charley Why, a wealthy Chinese of
Stockton, Cal., enjoyed the moat expen
sive turtle dinner on record when he dined
off the only one of eleven turtles which
survived a trip from China. He had to
wait a year to have his order, and his
appetite was keyed to the right pitch.
Diogenes may as well blow out his candle
and go home. The search is over. A Penn
sylvania Inspector of weights and meas
ures in testing a scales that had been In
use for forty year In a grocery at
Wcatherby found that the Instrument
allowed seventeen ounces to the pound. .
More than a fear prevails that the
Panama fleet will not sail through tha
canal at the appointed time in March.
Colonel Gocthals dropped a hint in Wash
ington the other 'day Indicating that re
cent slides put more earth In the ditch
than can be slloveled out In six weeks.
An American newspaper man is credited
with having pushed a few carloads of
ammunition over the Rio Grande to the
right crowd and waa rewarded with tho
Maatmilllon opal, the rarest Jewel of
monarch) al times In Mexico. Hitherto
the jewel has been an ornament. Now it
la adorned by associations worth while.
The amen corner beaches . from New
York are to be exhibited in San Fran
cisco. These curios are not Invested with
odors of sanctity, but rather with .the
memory ot Tom Piatt, the "essy boss,"
and are hooked up with the show In this
way: Piatt procured the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt for vice . president,
which led to the White House, and thus
started, the building of the Panama canal
. . a
. QUAINT BITS OF LITE.
Thomas Prr of Shropshire, . England, .
tn all probability bore the palm for lon
gevity. He lived 162 years and 9 months.
Parr's case la well authenticated. ,
When Napoleon . was . a youth bf 10,
while at the military school at Brienne,
he wrote to his mother In Corsica: ."With
Homer In my . pocket, and my sword by
my side, I hope to carve my way through
the world." ' '
A large;, elaborately loed and decorated'
wadding ' cake made Its second appear-
ance at the marriage feast of Mr. and
Mra Ralph Heald, Both of Portland. Ore.
The cake had been kept tn a sealed metal
bo slnoe the wedding of the bridegroom's
parents f a Eaalnaw, Mich forty-four
years age.. It waa as good as the day
It: was-snade i v''i V
'Amos Perkins of Penobscot, Me., Is
the third generation bf Perkinses to oc
cupy his home; which Is 106 years old.
The chimney, which Is three feet In each
dimension, is built of bricks which were
made by hand on a neighboring farm.
Among the relics of the owner is an old
flintlock -gun captured from the English
104 years ago.
Gotting married In Surma is not en
tirely a pleasant operation. Custom war
rants the practice of throwing stones at
the house of the newly wedded, but not
blackmail, and when recently a band of
Burman youth demanded money before
they would depart tha law stepped in
and sentenced tha leaders to heavy im
prisonment and corporal punishment.
At. a Christmas tree festival In South
Paris. Me., the gifts were taken from the
tree by a young lady who had recently
been married. During the distribution aha
found one package with a name she
dlda't recognise, so she laid the gift aslda
As the packages disappeared she began
to wonder where her own was, and finally
realised that the discarded package bore
her new name. v
V KEUTEAl SIGHTS.
New Tork Post: The long letter to
Senator Stone Issued by the Department
ot BUte, and signed by Mr. Bryan, will'
do at least this good, that it wlU remind
all concerned that neutrality In war time
Is not a matter of whim but of law.
Boston Transcript: Fortunately for its
legal light and sound reasoning th'.s State
paper, like the protest to London, was
prepared by the counsellor of the De
partment of State. Mr. Lansing, and
doubtless both papers profited lu style
by their obvious revision at the hands
ot the president The Bryan aignature
la not without its value at home, how
ever, and particularly In that section of
the country represented by the senator
addressed. Missouri and tha neighbor
ing states hava long been Bryan terri
tory, and at that distance doubtless the
Intimacies of official Ufa at Washington
are litUe known,
Indianapolis News: It appears that the
treatment of Germany and Austria-Hungary
forms the basis of the complaints
which have been made In respect to our
foreign relations, fn many of tha points
brought to tha attention of the Stale de
partment by Senator Etona It Is manifest
that a belief of unfairness exlata The
reply of the administration, aa contained
tn Secretary Bryan's statement? shows,
first of all. that the national government
is keenly alive to tho situation. It Is
doing its utmost to preserve that neu
trality which Is required of this country
as the principal neutral.
New York World: The IVUted elates
la the one powerful nation which has
undertaken to exercise all lta lights In
spite of a war the most lawless that the
world has ever known. It has a right
to the sea. It baa a right to buy and
sell. It traffics with Great Britain and
Franca today because their naval atreagth
U undisputed and their porta are open.
If Germany and Austria tomorrow came
into command of the ocean, it would
t raffia with them. Those here or else
where wh boid that we should discon
tinue foreign commerce because supplies
from this country may be of service to
one belligerent or another, deny a sov
ereign right and ask us to abdicate aa
neutrals and become alltea,
MOTTLED KNOCKS.
Honesty Isn't the best policy when you
are tempted to steal a kiss.
WTien a man can't .meet his bills he
doesn't want to meet his creditors.
After a woman has raised. a few chil
dren. It makes her sick t- see two young
things making love.
Whether you arc Intoxicated with
boozo, or Intoxicated with success, a
swelled heed Is always the result.
The reason why a girl ran leav her
chest naked and feel warm on a cold
day, is because she .s csrrylng a big
muff.
When a msn la deeply In debt hei knows
that he could pull out alIriRlit, If he
could Juat borrow enough mbney to pay
what be owes. .
Somehow or other, when a man Is
talking over the telephone, you can al
ways tell when there Is a woman at
the other end. of the wire.
The woman who goes around tha House
looking like a scarecrow, can't blame her
husband if he likes to rubber at a nice
clean, well dressed girl, when he is out
of the house. ' ,
Us men like to knock the women be
cause they gossip so . much. But If you
want to hear some real gossip. Just hang
around a barroom where a bunch of men
are gabbing. '
After a woman has fought dishwater
and dirt for a man for ten years, the
man wonders why her hands are not
soft and white Ilka those of the prin
cesses he meets downtown.
Cheer up! If you are broke on gun
day and your pants ure to shiny on the
seat that you have to stay home all day,
you know that your name Is not going
to appear in the list of Joy rider victims
on.Mondsy morning.
When a man Is alive his wife thinks
that he is so insignificant that, she Is
surprised that a fly doesn't step on him
and crush him. But . when he dies she
gets the Idea that he was so Important
that she has to go Into debt for five
years to see that he gets . the biggest
funeral In town. Cincinnati Enquirer. '
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
AROUND THE CITIES.
Huron. 8. D., put $430,000 Into new build
tags last year. -
A movement Is. on In New Tork City to
restrict the height of skyscrapers.
Salt Lake's record for 1914 shows 1,14
deaths and 2.S60 births, which is going
omet - .
Laramie, Wyo., boasts of a building and
loan association with ' assets weU over
a million.
Cheyenne Is Up against a capltol re
moval proposition In the legislature, with
Casper as the objective. .
The health department ot New York
City Is an Institution so vast that $18,000,
W0 is required to run It this yoar. ,
Atlantic City, N. J., has decided to give
experiment lessons in modern dances in
the public schools one night each week.
Minneapolis cotincilmen are planning to
push the city Into the ice business as the
best means of pulling the teeth of thel
ice trust.
The Frick coke plants In the vicinity ot
L'nlontown, Pa., employing 18,000 men, are
now running full time for k the first time
to ten months. .
' Tho allied street car company of St.
Paul and Minneapolis took in 1S4.0U0.0OO
nickels last year,-an increase of 1.84 per
cent over 1013. . ,
, A jury In an Oregon, court rendered a
verc'Jct of-guilty against a man charged
with cruelty to animals fn shearing his
sheep la winter.' , ' . ' , ;
Grand Island "points with pride" to a
building and loan association which be
came a fixture In the millionaire class
on the first of the ye or. . .
' Seattle reports that the street car
company and the Jitney buses both are
losing money the former $?. 400 a day,
while the average net earnings ot 618
buses Is $2.36 a day.
Rev. Billy Sunday aays "New York is
going to hell so fast you can't see It for
the dust" Rev. Dr.' Frank O. Hall, a
minister right on the ground, says New
York Is not half as bad aa some of the
small towns the base ball evangelist has
"purified." . ...
Residents of the village of Mount Mor
rfs. Pa., took sides In the postmastershtp
fight, In which two women were the chief
aspirants for the job. To the feud thus
engendered Is- chargeable the suspension
of the local national bank, the officers of
which were Involved in the strifes
t. Louis Republic: A tt. Louis preacher
says stolen sweets are alway bitter. That
may be, but It isn't the bitterness that
keeps a small boy from robbing a bum-(
blebees' nest.
Detroit Free Pre?s: A Baltimore clergy
man aaya that whereas bridegrooms used
b give $. or $10 for being msrrled. they
now average about $1. But are the knots
he tics as scrvlcfblo as they used to be?
Chicago Herald: A minister from thrt
Nebraska mission field says autos aid
religion by enabling people to go long
distances to church. This ought to re
pair the injury to tho auto's reputation
caused by too much Joy riding.
Louisville Courier-Journal: .With the
Rev. Billy Sunday removing his coat and
collar in an effort to save Philadelphia
and a prominent actress tsking off a
good deal more to get the Quakers to
the theater, what Is the spiritual prog
nosis? ,
Brooklyn Eagle: As a representative
of the church militant. Cardinal Mer
clcr of Malines takes first place. Ger
many's martial .law hasn't Intimidated
him a particle. He fears nothing, backed
by "the power that in an age of Iron
broke forth to curb the strong and raise
the weak."
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Why did the ladles In the days tit
chivalry give their gloves to the knights?"
"1 suppose It was to show they had an
admirer on hand." Baltimore American.
Mother And so my little man didn't cry
when he fell down. .
Little Man There wasn't anybody to
hear ! London Opinion.
Suitor Mr. Simpklns, I have courted
your daughter fifteen years,
Mr. rt. Well, what do you want?
Suitor Marry her.
Mr. 8. Well. 1 II be darned! I thought
you wanted a pension or something."
Philadelphia Ledger.
"There really must be something in this
mental telepathy."
ny so?
"I keep thinking of Charley all day long.
That must influence hint, don't you see,
for he calls me up every little while."
Louisville Courier-Journal. s-
"Dead men tell' no tales," observed the
sage.
' "Maybe not," replied, the fool. "But
their tombstones are awful liars." Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Reporter The high price of wheat may
force bread up ta 10 cents a loaf.
Joe (the Journalistlo office boy) Gee,
I'm glad I brought my lunch with me!
Philadelphia Ledger..
A neighbor's little daughter, after look
ing tor some time at tibakcpeare's epi
taph, which hung over the professor's
fireplace, ran home.
"Oh, mamma!" sho Said, "th B "s have
the strangest sign la their living room. It
says, 'For God's sake -don't disturb the
dust' "Boston Transcript.
"Wonderful!" said Bnibbson enthusias
tically, as he gazed at the new Uarraway
babv.
1 "Do you wonder l am proud of him?"
Said Mrs. Garraway. ,
"No. madam, I do Jiot." skid Dubbson.
"Indeed. 1 realise more than ever now tho
truth of the old saying that a womon'a
crowning glory la her heir." Judge.
LIFE'S XOVELINESS.
' ' Chambers Journal.
Think lovely thoughts, that every day be
blest:
Look thou for God, nor fancy Him
concealed;
Along earth's common way the flowers
ancr. gfass
Will breathe His . name to thee when
thou shalt pass'.
To thy divlnestr -self He stands re
vealed, - r
His conquering power through love made
: manifest. ',(-.
Speak lovely wards', to fall like sunlight
ray.
That youth may be so long, and age
but brier. :
To add to jov In life a little more.
And take aome misery out of . earth's
vast store. -
So shalt thou walk with gladness and
not grief.
Planting a hope In all the thorny ways.
Do lovely deeds, of brotherhood the bond;
Each burden nobly lifted and each task.
Each day's plain duty, teaches thee So
bless
The friendless lives brave In their lone
liness. Ere yet they near the Shadows and the
Mask,
And thoxe untrodden paths that streteii
beyond.
Thoughts, words, and deeds!" To stand
fen- truth in all! -This
is the creed that counts. Unflinch
ing toir, -
Staunch fortitude, and strength of pa
tience born;
Security treading though the way be
won:.
Fronting the light, ror fearing to recoil,
Facing the right, nor looking back to fall.
Money to loan on home
or business properties at
lowest association rates.
The Conservative Savings & Loan Ass'n
1614 Harney Street, Omaha
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