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2 C THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 28, 1916. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEVVATER." VICTOR" ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. HKB BIT 1 UIN'Q,FA R-N A M AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omaha poatofflce a iecond-cla matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. ay carrier By mail per month. per year. Dally and Sunday 6c tj on Dully without Sunday , toe...... 4 00 Kvening and Sunday 40c .00 Kvf-nmg without Sunday lie 4.00 Sunday He only JOc 2.00 I 'ally and Sunday Bee, thro year In advanra... 110.00 Fend notice of channa of addreaa or Irregularity in de'lvery to Omaha Bee, Clrrulatlon Department. REMITTANCE, Remit by draft, express or poatal order. Only two cent stamps noelved In payment of amall account. Ivisnnal checks, except on Omaha and eastern e- Cliwnee, not accepted. OKFICE3. Omaha The Be Building. mjth Omaha 2i N atreet. Council Bluffs-H North Main atreet. Lincoln 626 Utile Hulldlna:. Oitrairo SI 8 Peoplea Oas Hulldlna;. New York Hoom IK!. 2H6 Fifth avenue. ft. 1-ouls SOS New Hank of Commerre. VVmihlnirton-Tg. Fourteenth atreet, N. W. f'OHRKSPONDENCK, Address communications relating to newi and edi torial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial liepartraent. APRIL CIRCULATION. 57,808 Daily Sunday 52,223 Dwight Wllliame, circulation manager of the Bee Publishing company, being duly eworn, eays that the average circulation for the month of April, till, was I7.S08 dally and S2,!2I Nunday. DWIOHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed in my preaanee and aworn to befere me thla Sd day of May, Ml. ROBERT HUNTEB, Notary Fublie. Subscriber leaving the city temporarily should have the Bee mailed to them. Ad dreia will be changed at often as requected. Everybody' boosting for Omaha. Get the habit and keep it up I All of us are quite ready to have a closed eeason declared against tornadoes. The coming "rare days of June" must come early and stay late to equal the farewell smiles of May. - k Altogether too many automobile accidents in this vicinity. Slow down and drive more carefully! It may be conceded without argument that the modern feminine dress could stand a little expansion at both ends. It is well to give the Allies a belated re minder that, when driven to it, we can give "hands across the sea" a slap on 'the sleeve. The unfortunate case of that dislocated Bridgeport postmaster again, proves that when tempted to write letters it is safer not to do it. ' In dress reform, as in other personal matters, when woman wills she will. A moderate showing of unity and the fashion makers will be at her feet. Chicago is already satisfied that its Invest ment of $100,000 to guarantee the expenses of that convention is to return handsome, profits and then some. Cards, dances and like frivolous diversions continue excluded from the pale of Methodism. A live church body can put considerable joy into life without a shuffle or a trot. The most hopeful sign pointing toward early peace negotiations it the labored effort of each belligerent to convince folks that it is not to be blamed for keeping the fight a-golng. The Burlington is to spend two million dol lars on improvement work in Wyoming. It would have no trouble finding the money to pay for its share of a new Union depot in Omaha. The democratic threat of a gasoline tax, put as a feeler earlier in the year, failed to material ize in the schedule of proposed new taxes. Party leaders evidently heard from the gasoline vote. Time to begin talking again about a "safe and sane" Fourth of July celebration. Is Omaha to continue to permit the sale of dangerous noise making explosives forbidden in all the other large cities ? It must be plainly understood that no dis loyalty to the administration will be tolerated from any Nebraska democrat holding under the I'ostomce department. The only Nebraska dem ocratic official who can be disloyal to the admin istration and get away with it, is our democratic I'nited States senator. Are We Doing Our Duty? Appeal more urgent than ever are being made to the American people for contributions for tin relief of the stricken and helpless in the war joiie of I.uropf It i seriously charged iliat we aie not doing our duty as Christians, that are ittKRard in our gilt and that we must i. lake Krc.tir contributions or stand convicted of Millet of those whose isecrttity gives them a Unit n our bounty. Amn nam have gum lihrrally; this cannot he K4ni4id In the excitement at the nttrt, when Ittljjuiiii't people t.r brought to due strait, our iriiiroiiy Irsped to aid them. Likewise, in Sftii iii PoUnd and elsewhere, we have given hv alnplxad t-i tbe aid of Ihe war udiim This t-tiie twav l av sUt Vcncd vine a the cotidi i I continued, or rn l-i-cmie more ami, .in.! thioukhuut thr around winter of the itnlr ' I t ai If I at (ml in nuking it poaaible to v tome ( the aiiftrrina Ml of thte t .i ' 'tr t. tl l thti u now tharsj f r t i! .4 (.! I i' duty in the r att.i li t ilmn.'it and auMiMin of the ' lef . lit "rg4iitliO i( ptul l"MU i Col li. I liiiidt I. tpe ! fiifp'trt n,I H (sue.! ' !!.;., ti., .i tit agent M t sjatherittsj n,i ..,t.i- (f!.f tut brought, Willi It t.f thing .1 h i (n.. m. at lean tn Kt jiut.l,, n in,!, i 1 ' "- 1 .,.!. tra if Ihf Natl if.ief "i TI ti -i1 ty it r )... t. pff t. t ' I t ! rl t .gnt , t I K t h ,St ;l hritl (1 ' t ifpl .,S the pul. !! If l mt .nii,! . e. ih ( t- A f.if i t ! m 4 I (ha 'r,. t tt 1 ha i ! ! '' l!i itt el wnia i K.u(h t,: .' M. If ttotial !t.l(it On '. t " "! vit 'ir'id the '" t m l'- t w.ii tv n M.i,u Plain Talk to England and France. The note from the United States to the Brit ish and French governments, dealing with the interference with mails by the Allies, is set in very plain terms. Approaching the point with directness that is almost blunt, Mr. Lansing frankly informs the allies their recent reply to complaints made by the United States is not re sponsive, that it evades the question and is not satisfactory to the United States. Equally clear is his statement of the position of the United States as to how the rules of The Hague con vention and the postal agreement should be ap plied. He meets the evasive contention of the Grey note, in which military necessity is pleaded in justification of an intolerable practice, with this plain proposition: "Manifestly a neutrat nation cannot permit its rights on the high seas to be determined by belligerents, or the exercise of those rights to he permitted or denied arbitrarily by the gov ernment of a warring nation. The rights of neu trals are as sacred as the rights of belligerents, and must be as strictly observed." While no date is set for the modification of the present practice of seizing and searching let ter mail, the inference gained from the language of the note is that immediate compliance is ex pected. If the continuance of friendly relation with England and France depends on removal of cause for complaint, further pursuit of the policy adopted in February last can only be con strued as offensive, Propitiout Time to Boost for Omaha. While Omaha hat had itt successive ups and downs during Its comparatively brief career, it hat become the wonder city that it is only through the continued and concerted efforts of itt public-spirited and enterprising citizens Never wat the time more propitious than it it today to make Omaha ttill more important on the map. Omaha it essentially a market town for the product of the richest agricultural terri tory of the country and on this foundation It building a center of finance, trade and industry, art, educational and religious activities. In each of these fields Omaha has made notable progress, yet has ttill much to accomplish, but It also has the men and the means for that purpose. It it merely a question of well-directed and combined energy persistently applied. There It a tide in the affairs of whole communities just as there is in the affairs of individual men, and for Omaha a flood-tide is on right now sure to carry ut far forward if we only do our part. Puzzling Case of Casement. ( Fragments of the public career of Sir Roger Casement, leader of the Irish invasion, made in Germany, throws much light on the puzzling conduct of a sincere but misguided man. Pieced together, these fragments reveal a British offi cial with a record of twenty-two years of public service at consul and special commissioner in out-of-the-way places of the world, a service which undermined hit health and forced his re tirement. At British consul at Delagoa bay during the Boer war Poultney Bigelow bears testimony to the loyalty and energy with which Sir Roger Casement aided hit government in wiping the Transvaal republic off the African map. The Portuguese port in that crisis was the one ocean inlet to Ootn Paul Kruger't capital. Consul Casement's dutiet were many and complex and he performed them with all the leal which char acterized his later efforts against hit govern ment. It hat been said in explanation of hit conduct, that hit sympathetic and generous nature was intensely stirred by the cruelties inflicted upon the natives of the Congo country exploited by alien promoters. This it borne out by the offi cial record. Hit revelations of the inhumanities of the rubber region startled the world at the time and forced radical betterment in the govern ment of the Congo. Although his health was seriously impaired in equatorial Africa, his serv ice did not command merited reward. Instead he was billeted at inferior posts in South Amer ica, the best being Rio Janeiro, which shattered health forced him to relinquish in June, 1913. As late as May, 1914, when Sir Roger ap peared before a royal commission in London and gave his views on consular betterment, there ap peared no reason for questioning his loyalty to the crown. The fires smoldered beneath the surface. For months previous he led a public agitation against the Cunard company for cut ting out Queenttown as a port of call and had arranged with the Hamburg-American line to supply the service, which was subsequently vetoed by the British government. This under handed blow at the commercial life of Ireland aroused the spirit which assailed the Congo atrocities, and undoubtedly led to his intense activities in forwarding the volunteer movement to gain home rule. War changed the volunteer plans and worked disaster for Sir Roger. Standard Dress for Woman. Club women in convention at New York are again giving time to the discussion of uniform or standard dress for women. Man's sack suit it cited at symbolising the ideal, and woman it urged to look ahead to the ttnte when she can don equally facile habiliments and gn forth at insignificant in point of costume as does the modest lord of creation. Tin comet at an cm ti4risng lime, fur nun hat trvretly liuisrd ihe thought that he might be permitted In etpress a little moif i.f hit fancy in garb, and deik hmiflf in i-..ur, that hit rtistetu will tound a cUaier note in the landscape To bt his hiH apiitii'in dashed hy hit hr!pmrrt' volun. ity !unl"iitint pi her futty (own Will trr. Uutly dit4-'Mit him, Mji he the chib wmutn m lime t.i ifit.xe nature's pr!rr, whrtetn il n ihf ttu! t k r 4 H tint ih tpleudid I'Sunuge, whi! hit nut tt quietly about her hiitoifts of leci'g the f4tv,ity tnd looking tf iht h..oe. ! ! un bother heri'f H,u hot slv Ih.'m l,ri wiih (ti iiolucf meitt, though, ' -! sett I r', ptater ,s tee woman dn at th hat d.m .. gea. Jon or dH ifi gar. 1 as th sif.it. an t glad leu ihe on gl otiatioMs. ' el M.ti tut a , i.utttt." lhl l'.f . ( ,nim,i m:.n, f.i ' stptttsr ! i'.f '' rmiiit g'n(aoii. lh 0. I--. M Hi',-.' . g .!( H.Vj Ui-g Ij M iUv. . I ..I lh t , h , g-f t - S II !UjUAJ fJtUUUeJLV By T lot or Sosewatar. THE 1904 democratic convention at St. Louis .. I..., ;., ,.,;., t . i,. vvaa a iiv,i HOC ill CO J uiiiinj i. no. word. The control was wholly in the hands of the reactionaries by a more than two-to-one majority and there never was the slightest doubt as to the outeome of the vote on any subject brought up, but the brutal majority had to ride rough-shod over Mr. Bryan at every turn. He was the central figure of the show. His protests and pathetic appeals in the heated debates prectpt tated at several stages in the proceedings were the only features that lifted the affair above the ordinary and gave it the semblance of excitement. It was "hot" also by the test of the ther mometer, the delegates being assembled on the Fourth of July and promptly "peeling" down to snirt-sieeves to withstand the intolerable tem perature. I saw many people faint, overcome with the stifling atmosphere; on tlte big days the capacity of the hall was greatly overtaxed and every inch of space iammed to the guards by working the chain-ticket racket until the police had to close the doors to new admissions and refuse return-checks to those going out. "Work ing in the press seats at two successive almost all-night sessions exhausted everyone there and the tense strain and exertion under this terrible stress sent Mr. Bryan to bed, ill, before adjourn ment. Everything was set for the nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker, whom Mr. Bryan, how ever, to use a recently coined term, had "ham strung" In advance of the start-off on the track Strangely enough, the Tammany bunch were with Bryan in opposing Parker. I remember an inter view with Bourke Cochran, Tammany spokesman, on the opening day in which he said that Grover Cleveland was the only democrat they could nom inate and fight for with any assurance of win ning. But Cleveland was impossible and if pos sible would have been more distasteful to Bryan even than Parker, and there was no other rally ing point The only other camnaian which showed activity wat that which was promoting a : A . , , i r 1 1 , . . . . iJicaiuciuiai Doom ior wiinam Kanaoipn liearst. At a consequence, the Nebraska bunch were simply rated at "anti" and to be delivered wherever Bryan might decide to nut them. It is worth recalling now that, when It came to nom inations, Mr. Bryan closed the speech-making by throwing verbal bouquet at Hearst, ex-Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania and ex-Governor Wall of Wisconsin and then wound up by second ing for Senator Cockrell of Missouri, and, when the vote of Nebraska came to be recorded, it wat set flown witn Jour each tor Cocxrell, Hearst and McClelland and one each- for General Miles, Olney, Gray and Wall. Before the roll call wai completed the Parker column had passed the two- thiras mark and a motion was declared carried making it unanimous and by acclamation. The St, Louis convention was also the place where Mr, Bryan appeared with his fierce denun ciation of the Roger Sullivan crowd In Illinois as a set of "political porch-climbers and train rob bers." The Illinois fight had developed a bitter contest between the Harrison faction and the Sullivan men and Mr, Bryan Jumped into the breach for the Harrison people, Although he was slated to represent Nebraska on the resolutions committee, he hurried to the front and showed up with Jim Dahlman't proxy for the meeting of the national committee that was to pass on the contest provisionally in making up the temporary roll. Here he championed the cause of his friends while sitting in judgment on the case, and, when overwhelmingly outvoted, carried it by appeal to the convention floor, only to be again run over in pite of hit fervid presentation of the contro versy and bitter indictment of the Roger Sulli van gang, And then, four years later, when Mr. Bryan wat running for president for the third time, he put Roger Sullivan himself on the execu tive committee to conduct hit campaign. Finally the climax at St, Louis came with the readinir of ParWer'a fiimnna "rnlH tl,.,." A... ing the closing hourt and the return of Mr. Bryan, pciirc-iiac, ior a last atrategic move. He under took to amend the retolutlon acquiescing in the Parker declaration, hut ant nnwhrra il T, u'i,., he did succeed in doing was to make it plain, be- iore ine aciegatet dispersed, mat the democratic standard-bearers were headed for defeat and that nothinar anvnne rniiM Art nr eav laf t,t the damage wrought and plug up the holet. At that moment Bryan ttock was at low ebb lower. T k.i;..,. i. ...j,.. ii. .. , . ..w, man ib luudjr, iic was ciown ana out." he was "a dead one." anil vet it,. .1, . it . 1 J-M "WO space of four years, he was again leading a for lorn nope as me mira-time democratic nominee. In Dolittcs things are not aluava u-ht ih not in a land where the people rule, where pub lic sentiment changes over night, and where the political outcast of today is the popular hero of tomorrow. Twice Told Tales Gone, and Gone Forever. "Gonel" shouted the wildlv erit,H i,,,ti.,;.t. ual, waving his arms in the middle of the street. A crowd gathered quickly. uone, gone! lie shrieked agiiiit, and yet again. What a the mutter? Cashier eloned with your money?" Wife ran away.' "Lost g child?" "No, no, no! Put it's gone!" Fifty-seven people held their breath, and then asked a one, "What's gone?" Ine exrtted individual became suddenly raltn. "Yesterday hat eonr, mv friend." he .nd. with a glad smile, "4ml today it urninu'. You may die tomorrow or today. Now. without lot of time, you should uke out a policy of lif in surance with my lirnt, the -," then seven and fifty tirnug men riod him and bore him to the nearest urte trugh. Pitts burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. PEOPLE AUTJ EVENTS. Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha Cmki)J Turn He 1 Hat. I !- ii I V ' : The Id, son Territorial light fomrunv lut been crgtnuel hv the following- Henry I !Mht, 1 11 I f itirii lfn, F, A Nah and lei A. t.roff The tahole salt tt'oierv firm of Shun f .hnon J. I hut tern 1 I" 10 l- 014 t. ihu mi. Mm M,er A 11.. s h it (n t!rtf I t'la moo hut tof h p..!u htt Ihfv Wi l re tto.n l i py r. f at their ur-le on I ii-ii r n ... , , t Ihe futt mit It1 rolil of the ntthfttra t I 1 ho-tut ot l Jsiii I, smel 1-mW, 1 41 a u ( the do f , I. o id 4tlun Junto. H '"k OH the f Ulion of t!u ii a J'i u'd nf I ' s h'.-l.'o'g will a ..'i bt t . ;..! n. t Itt ' t M1111 e n ., i' l I'-f fii-wt 1 o, ,:. t witii i.!!'titn 'iin..ni unit! IS e ( o t id the VI ts-'. ; ii'f At a i n. g h 1 ' I oi t 1 1 I l I-hi. a otuM h'! 0 I fi-Ti r. I I' " 4 ' t 1 1 ma I.' h 1 .1 I i I , tt 1 !' M M Vi 1 . (.. 1 1 . k . 1 ( .. .. . . 1 1 a 1 1 I g4.tlon, l I . ' S I 4- H ..'. Vl'S I'.U John Wesley Gainaa added a shtaf of frenh laurela to hla fame by licking the tergeant-at-arme of the democratic con vention of Tenneaeee. J. Wtaley aaema at handy with hia dukea aa in turning looae a deluge of words. The hulk of an ancient windjammer of moderate aize was encountered deep in the aanda of Eaat river at the Brooklyn end of the new tubway tunnel. What the craft haa on board beaidea aand and mud the dlggera have not yet determined. For a wonder the high coat of living and the war have been overlooked in the excuaca offered for grafting on the labor era' payroll of Chicago. A split of S0-S0 wat effected, which netted the particlpanta 11.000 a month. A proapective peniten tiary term roba "easy money" of ita vel vety feel. A Louisville husband aaya hla wife chaaed him out of the house at night when he waa clad in his night ahlrt and humil iated him In the glare of an arc light. He admitted, however, that preceding the chase he had attempted to apank her with a fence picket. With thla overture the com pany will pleaae rue and sing: "My Old Kentucky Home." Colorado haa fewer advantagee than Cal ifornia for hogua wldowa cutting a slice Of dead millionaires' eatates. The Texas widow who worked up a claim for eome of W. 8. Stratton'a f 11,000,000 estate got her marriage date mixed up and lost out Moat of the Stratum fortune goea to found and maintain a' home for broken down mtnere, and bequeata of thla nature handl capa the bluffe of imaginary wivet. Keen competition for aummar vlaitora already manifaata Itself at aome of the awall aeml-private reaorta. A forward looking manager of aummar cottage at romantic Dobba' Ferry, N. Y., puta out a fetching lure for bubbling youth and eldera equally eager to Interpret love's dreams. Shady lanea and sheltered ham mocka for the daytime and dim lights, coty nooks nad sound-proof walla are pro vided at bargain rates. The trouble with ao much of a good thing is the certainty of an overflow, which romance abhors. A real good looking girl " carrying two large brown "lamps" and a a mile that would make a quaker eome off, drove from her home in Aahbury, N. Y., Into New York City In her own ear and eut a speed gash In Gotham's atmosphere and regulatlone. "I didn't know I waa going ao fait," aha ex plained to the court, aa her "lampa" and tubdued emlle centered on the Judge. The judicial Buddha wlthatood the animated epotltghte fairly well. He figeted. She enlarged her emlle. He amlled beck, and pondered awhile. "Justice la no more blind with me than with anybody else," said he. "Merely daisied. I auapend aentence." Then the Judge turned aalda, brushed a fly from his ahintng dome and obbed for bygone youth. BRIEF BITS OF SCIENCE. In India eyeglaasea of greenish hue have been found to afford better protec tion from the aun than either blue or gray. Several German chemiata are endeavoring to find economical proceases for the re covery of combustible material from coal ashes. After a long Investigation a French scientist haa declared that tubcrculoaia can be trannmitted by the perspiration of a person afflicted through the pores. A Vienna physician having discovered that a remedy fur infectious intestinal dis orders can be produced from red cabbagea, a factory for it production 1 being built. The' known coal areas of the United 8tatea cover about 810,000 square mile and there are about 160.000 square mllea more that are believed to be underlain with mar ketable coal. Geologiata are trying to estimate the agaa of the oeeana by comparing the amount of (odium they contain with the amount they receive annually by washing from the continents. The Arst extraction of quinine from the bark of the tropical cinchona tree by two French chemists In 1820 marked an epoch In the medical world, and it waa Sir Clem ents Markham of England, burned to death in his eighty-sixth year, who in 18(2, after visit to Fern, persuaded the British gov ernment to plant and raiae the drug in India at a .time when malaria was larioualy harassing the population. SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Btatlatica show that only on man In (OS grow to more than six feet tn height. Mr. 1, a fisherman In Hawaii, has the ahortest name in the world. He wins over Gcne.al O, of Maxloo, by a valid techni cality, aa headline writer ean atteat. An ordinance enacted In Dawaon, Ga., aome ttme ago, read: "It (hall be un lawful for any eook to take from her place of employment any victual in a pan or bucket without written permission from her employer." It aaema that after all there I a knack to thia long life buslneaa. Alee Panoche. oldeat member of the Mount Carmel tribe of Indiana, aubmitting the suggestion that baths should be taken never lea than once a year. The first monument In America to Adam waa erected In Gardenville, Md. The memorial to be claimed firat of the apeciee la a aquare of concrete with a aun dial on top and the Inscription on one of ita facet: To the Memory of Adam, the Firat Men. In Maine during the laat year there were 8,222 marrlagaaj the oldest bridegroom waa St, the oldeat bride waa 7, the youngeat brideirroom waa IS and the youngeat bride IS. There were three men and two women who were married for the fifth time. A bath without water la aaid to be one of the lateat noveltlea. A thick mho te en twined with wirea. and when put on a cur. rent of electricity ia paaaed through the wirea. The wearer of the rone oon find hla body getting warmer until in a little while lie persplrea freely. AROUND THE CITIES. B,i.l..n thu far haa donated tl. 101.81 in 'h I" ' charitlaa. Since January 1 forty-five per.m have bee killed by eutot In the airerit of I'hiiadalt'hie. The felarl Ineonie lea thia rr.r will tou.-h i'htladeirhiene foe l. !.?. an In eraaae of llt,900 ever laat year. I'rne. pertly par. Si-.ktiia, With., will celebrate Felhsre' da ea June 1. A ehurua ef 1 " are being drllln-l In J.rua tee. hith lll he a feature ' the theaty h!ul. A flour mitt . !( I1DS.S9 Hh a eara.ni el I lS lwrel a far. is r.iwlel Hi, Jm the ! 4-'t interett tie laid te e ta-S.ne te-e enleryria. TPeka efftaiai.e-era e-aeted ea er4i. aae el4tii .l,it t- atrae.e iff ee4 V. aleet tela KetatemluM elttt 4, Seine tft.tre4 tu. Ut tee.4 le irete t a te ef te people. I'imii t l eaute -"' ai.'i.. gtait te . a '-o4 II .. I t uaa la ai.eMeOiae'e e4at if44.nt ei.4 in - oat U ae Mi ike ii'r Ike tit. eon lit - ! W latitat ! -'t eOi a t.4t 4a 14 f t .-. t. Mtlh.., III ''H.,tl .... lHt lt t-ia.e b el at i f e t 44 t .ofi in ie-e 14 1 m e " a a Kt '.' tait ike .' ' !.! ti t lit .i 44 we - Vt '4-oe :i.a e ita o 441 t it t . . li. as s-.4 e is . ti...a W t-,t t tt 4:t4. tlMM. I ft , i 14'' a it a - t. . .-! a!... It 14 ,if it44 ia a. e K' t ,1. ,1 1 o . i ti. 4.1 ! ' ., P4' ' e aeM e ia it i Hi i-ei ti.. :-.lii t i t. I, I O . f liii 1 eot a ' kt e 4, ' 1 j tft . ...,.' e i ii, ' . .,- - o a .1- I tl a ... I ft t -...4.. fc-.i! b.i I M .4t .4 1 1 O. . .yl ,i ...... t..,.,, 4.i Philadelphia Ledger: The Presbyterians are flndln out that "the World, the Flesh and the Devil" are modernized in the mo torcar, the moviea and the dance which goea to prove that even that redoubtable old trio cannont resist the temptation to be ultra-modern. New York -World: The term "fighting parson" waa appropriately applied to the late Rev. Edward Anderson, who died Sunday at Quincy, Mass., at the age of 83. At chaplain of the Thirty-aeventh Illinois volunteera at the outbreak of the civil war, aubaequently colonel of an In diana cavalry regiment and minister of the gospel for many yeara after the war, he won equal honora as aoldier and preacher, Minneapolla Journal: There ia a whole aome tendency In amall communitlea for thoae of aimilar denominational beliefa to lay aaide minor rillTerencea and unite In one strong church to take the place of several small, struggling, ineffective ones. In theae days, when leas emphasis la laid on faith and more on worka, thia fa easily praticable. The world haa come to Judge a man more by what he does than by what he believes, and this ia a Just judgement. The good that one strong church can do in any community. Is far greater than the total of the good accom plished by a number of amall organizations that are fighting mortgagee and atarving their miniatera, in order to keep the dree of ancient faith burning on the altar. Springfield Republican: The leading Proteatant denominations are all buay raialng funda for their disabled and super annuated ministers, and three of them have been given handsome lifts in the will of Mra. V. Willie James of New York. To the proper boards of the Presbyterians, Congregatlonallsts and Methodists the leaves 8760,000 each for their penalon fund. We have already told how wall the Eplaeopalian are coming on .with their fund, and the Rockefellers are not likely to eee the Baptist fail in this matter. It la only decent that the Christian churches ahould fael aa much responsi bility aa business eorporatione In looking after faithful employee who can no longer work. But to retura to the Jamea family. Both Mr. and Mra. Jamee were splendid giver to many good eauaes. Since her hut band died Mr. Jamee had been giving to religious and philanthropic object lome thlng like 11,000,000 a year. The number of people tn the world who regard their money a a truat I larger than the pet almlata reckon on. rcglvsh.OOna g ' DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "My husband la a regular rainbow ehaaer," aatd one woman. "Mine len t." replied the other. "Eve If he knew there waa a pot of gold at thi and of the ralnbew, he'd alt attll and ex pect the rainbow to come to him." Waab ington Star. Mra. Benham I have been reading el gueate at a dinner who were bound and robbed. Henham Couldn't the waltera get their tlpa In the regulation way? New York Tlmee. S ir TRUE ThAT Hofieil jvjcrsi axvAlS. MAW eikXFVL Ae You a!mN6 This Of Foft A FPlEhD ' "I am aorry Ulnaa la laid up. What wat the i-auee of hla accident?" "He trli-d to flirt with a pretty little one who took hla fancy, but after it waa all over he found out ehe waa ono of thoaa camp rookie glrla." liultlmore American. Robbie, for hla misdeed, waa about tn get a thrnshlng. He left hla molher'a room and went to hla own. Kneeling down bealde ihe b.d, and with hands clasped, he offered up the following prayer: "Pleaae, Ood. If you are aa good tn little children aa they eay you are, now your chance." New York Tlmee. AMERICA. SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. Manufacture of paper In thi country eonaumea nearly 6,000,000 cord of wood annually. The value of the annual orchard product of the United State reachea a total of 1140.000,000. A Virginian has invented a handtruck that enablea one man to pick up and move objecta weighing 1,000 pound or more. More then 100,000 operativea are now employed in American silk manufacturing nillla. Thi I exclusive of thoa employed in dependent Industriea. The production of automobile In the United States increased 850 per cent be tween 1900 and 1914, according to the United States census bureau. In the present fiscal yeBr the United States bureau of fisheries expects to ex ceed all former records in the number of fish distributed and may paae tho 8,000,- 000 mark. Texaa, which In 1850 stood twelfth In rank, now it the seventh state in the American union in point of wealth. It la firat in point of site and fifth in popula tion, and ita railroada are of higher value than those of any other atate. A wood splitting machine haa been in vented which automatically handlea loga two feet long and eighteen inchea thick. It is run by a three-horsepower gasoline engine and eonaista mainly of a huge knife which worka through the knottieat wood at the rate of aixty stroke a minute. Arlo Bates, In the Torch Bearer. For, O America, our country t land Hid In the weat, through centurlea, till men Through countless tyrannies could nnder etand The priceless worth ot freedom once again Tbe world was new-ereated when thy ehore First knew tbe Pilgrim keele, that one laat teat The race might make of manhood, nor give o'er The strife with evil till It proved It beet. Thy true eon stand aa toron bearara, to hold A guiding light Her the laat stand Is made. If we fall here, what new Columbus bold, Steering brave prow through black sea unafraid. Find out a fresh land where man may abide And freedom yet be saved T Tbe whole round earth Ha seen the battle fought. Where shall man hide From tryanny and wrong, where life have worth If here the cause succumb 7 If greed of gold, Or luat of power or falaebood triumph here. The race le loat! A globe dispeopled, cold, Rolled down the void, a voiceleaa, lifeless aphare, Were not so stamped by all which hope de bare As were this earth, plunging along through apace Conquered by evil, ehamed among the atara, Bearing a baae, enalaved, dlahonored race! Here haa the battle Ita laat vantage ground: Here all la won, or here must all be loat, Here freedom's trumpets ons last rally aound ; Hera to the breeze Ita blood-stained flag Is toaaed. America, laat hope of man and truth, Thy name muat through all coming ag4 be The badge unapeakable of ahame and ruth. Or glorious pledge that man through truth la free. Thle le thy destiny s the choice Is thine To lead all nations and outshine them all; But If thou falleet, deeper ahame ia thine, And none ahall spare to mock thee In thy fall. TIPS ON HOME TOPICS. Pittsburgh Dispatch: The reports of the favorite son scouts at head quarter suggest that the country is as much at sea as the political leaders, or that the scouts are qualifying for the Ananias club. Boston Transcript: A democratic secretary of the treasury can squeeze more gleeful gloats out of a $150, 000,000 deficit than any of the republi can predecessors were ever able to extract from a $250,000,000 surplus. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Why wouldn't it be real thoughtful, as well as loyal, for some of those expert American aviator who are flying over France and Belgium to come across and help us out in Mexico? Baltimore American: Sixteen nom inating speeches at Chicago; and then a vice presidential candidate to be named by sixteen more orators be fore final adjournment. The conven tion will need more than the five chaplains appointed. Springfield Republican: Lincoln, Neb., by a five-to-one vote of its Commercial club, is to turn its Me morial day parade into a prepared ness parade. Mr. Bryan must be thinking : IVrhaps It waa right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs? Excursion Fares East VIA ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD Choice of Circuitous and Direct Routes to flew York and Boston Tickets on Rale Dally Idmlted to Slaty Pays for Return. Attractive Routes to All Eastern Resorts For full particular, descrip tive literature and Bleeping ear reservations, call at City Ticket Office or .write S. NORTH, 407 S. Ifith St., Omaha. Neb. Phone Douglas 284. FACTS OUTWEIGH OPINIONS NO PRICE CAN PURCHASE GREATER SECURITY THAN IS CONTAINED IN A CERTIFICATE OF THE Woodmen Of the World The Stamp of Responsibility RACKED DY ASSETS OF MORE THAN 1 WEN1 Y-FIGH T MILLION DOLLARS, AND OUR RECORD OF MORE THAN A QUART! R CENTURY OF PROMPT SLT 1 LF.MENT OF CLAIMS, RING DOUGLAS 1 1 IT. NO CHARGE FOR EXPLANATION. J. T. YATES. Secretary. W, A, FRASFR. President. 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