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8 M THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY. SfcfifcMbfcK 18. mi. The Omaha Bee UVIlV (MUKM.SUl - tVt.MNC (tUMM this eti.u4iuy coarkut fttCMBta t 1HI AAdOUATaD Mti tw.iai fnM. kk THtam at- M WiUM tM tW mvMHWItM Ml IlkM tt'U ts M !( Sl 4 U . , ... m u swaiwaS aaraia. 4il rials af !- H at J IWIitl 4iMi ' " W" Ta 01M Mill MM af IM t 6USS af CUM UttOk (M SSfsaslWS) ..'.MPif M mitlUSS act TtUPHONtJ rr... .. iiiMMi AT Untie 1000 IM iarrtMRt M Pm al4. WV rf NlM Call Alia, 1 P. M. tsiantl Vsrsfiawi . . aT issue 111 r Ittl ofricu or the bcc Caused mm u rm i tMi s-s tits OvI-ef-Teve Oltka M Tsrt f I Wasaiasiaa till Q M. (tun Kit riis kll. I rn rr- INIuli. The Bee's Platform 1. Nsw Usioe PaMser Statiea. 2. Coatiauea) iinproseraaat of lk Ne braska Highways, iaclualiag the pas meat af Mala Tkerotigkfersa Isaeliag lata Omaha with a Brick Surfaca. Lara Bait ta taa Atieaiie ueeaa. 4. llama Rula Ckarlar far Omaka, witk City Manager farm af Govsrameat. The Coining of the King. Ak-Sar-Ben, Unity-seventh in his line, will be crowned in his own capital city, monarch of Quivera, liege lord of the Seven Cities of Cibola, and suzerain of the transmissouri em pire, this neck. All the pomp and circumstance incident and proper to such an event Mill be most faithfully observed. Processions and pageants will course the city's broad thorough- tares; there will be ruling 01 gayiy panoplied horses, the sounding of trumpets and the chal lenging of heralds, the multitudes will gaze in wc, in wonder, in admiration at the spec tacles, will pronounce it good, say well done, and then go home and put in the next twelve months in useful endeavor, content because the royal line is unbroken and peace and content and comfort is thus assured to all. L Xow, all this may seem mummery and sub, limated foolishness to some. A couple of years igo a clamor was raised against continuing the lolderols of royalty and the mimicry of a mon archy in connection with .Ak-Sar-Bcn. En thusiastic citizens wanted to send the king to Ihe limbo with others of the ilk, and to estab lish in his stead a president or some such rep resentative of the democracy of the ' region. Better counsel prevailed, and the kingdom was saved. Ak-Sar-Bcn is no real monarch; he. is 'ar better served than if he were, for no flesh ind blood king could hope for the loyalty that .scepter and crown are but the reflex of the good will of subjects whose devotion flows from faith that is realized from day to day in the fruition of hopes brought to pass. . ., M Thus Ak-Sar-Bcn persists, because the word ..typifies the spirit, not of Omaha alone, but of 'the region around embracing the states whose 'greatness is the pride of their people, the marvel '"'of -all newcomers, and such as warrants any -nronhecv. for no orcdiction seems extravagant when compared, with what actually has been , done. Born at a time when enterprise lagged, w'hen commerce was sluggish and courage seemingly had oozed away , to its lowest limit,, the Knights 'of Ak-Sar-Ben set out on a definite crusade,. lt wes to destroy the lethargy that enveloped the kingdom. How much of energy was put into that first year's campaign only those who expended it ever . can tell, but the idea took hold, expanded, outrun the original plans, and now the order is at least a familiar word "throughout the continent, if, indeed, it has not ;in fact become a national institution. No man. van foretell its future, but the twenty-six years of actual accomplishment will support almost -anything that may be proposed forAk-Sar-' l; Ben'i future. Each year sees improvement, 'because each year the kingdom improves.' The K"tnen who have directed the affairs of the insti tution have vision and courage; they are not ;"Slow in pushing ahead, and they have plans ;. that will, when completed, make the Ak-Sar-: Bcn exposition the greatest inland show in the ;Vorld. And this is only another step in the . 'destiny of the order.' Each true knight sings ,'with Tennyson: T . Forward, forward let us range, Let tha old world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. " And Ak-Sar-Ben changes only for the bet ter. All hail the King. . Detecting the Secrets of Nature. A community in southwestern Mebraslja has lately recovered from an oil boom. The dis covery was made that the oil which a farmer had been pumping from his. well had its source, r.ot in any subterranean pool of petroleum, but in the leaking tanks of fuel oil of the nearby power ' plant. So, instead of, drawing their wealth from the interior of the earth, the farm ers' of Harlan county will continue to get it from the surface. This incident, ended by the honest admis sion of error, brings up many old tales of salted mines in which ; precious metals were planted to entice investors to worthless holes in the ground. It brings up also the uses of science in locating minerals. There are certain geologic formations which indicate the pos sibility of oil deposits, and scientific clues like wise to various other products How does one know .that rich beds of coal do not lie beneath Omaha? The answer is to be found in the geologist's clock, by which he tells the time in the world's history when any rock bed was formed. The science of paleontol ogy deals with the fossil shells of the early in rertebraes, or spineless creatures, which are often seen in rocks, and which indicate at wbat period of time the mud or sand of any region turned to stone. Shortly after anthracite had been discovered in Pennsylvania a search for similar deposits was begun in New " York. Fortunes were thrown away in this fruitless digging.' Finally geologists were called in, and they showed that it was impossible for coal to exist in that state. The fossils in the Xew York rocks are of .Devonian age, whereas the fossils of the Penn sylvania anthracite fields belong to the Carbon iferous period, a much later time. Without this special knowledge- of the mean-, ing of plant and animal , remains and that of rock formations, a great d:sal more coitly mis takes would be made than now is the case. Out of the curiosity hirh thett fossils awokt in man ht men a grett science, for all itt teem ing drjneit, full both of romance nd economic importance. An Almost Forgotten President. -Tht imagination it touched by the news paper report of the death recently of t ton-in-law of John Tyler, tenth president of the United Statet, and by tha further information that the daughter of the president ttill lives, the mother of right children. Thut two generationi carry back almost to the beginnings of the republic. When Tyler wat born in 1790 tne Constitution had been in force only little over a year and Rhode Island hid not yet voted to enter the union. George Washington was president and Jefferion nd Hamilton, representing opposite parties in the cabinet, were at loggerheads. In 1807, when at the age of 17 Tyler wat graduated from William and Mary college, Aaron Burr wat on trial for treason. When, at the tge of 21 he entered the legislature of Vir ginia, the United States wtt on the verge of wtr with England, and the youthful lawyer became conspicuous at an orator, and as a militia cap tain took the field to protect Richmond. . . The beginnings of hit career are more in teresting than his course in the presidency, to which he ascended in 1841 through the accident of the death of President Harrison. ' He had been elected vice president in the stirring cam paign. whose slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." Throughout his tenure of office he was in constant hostilities with congress, vetoing bills for a national bank, a tariff and good roads and holding to the theory of states' rights. Years before, when in the senate he had differed with the wishes of his constituents, he had resigned hit seat, and now his foes raised a demand that he quit the presidency in the same way. Clay and many others appear to have hoped that Tyler could be harassed into resigning, and in his first year all his cabinet except Daniel Web ster, the secretary of state, left office simul taneously. There have been great presidents and small ones, and few will feci that Tyler rose out of the latter class. His position on slavery was a straddle which eventuated in his advocacy of secession in 1861 and in his election to the Con federate congress just before his death, It is to a second marriage late in life that his living daughter is due. Shortly alter entering the White House his first wife died, and within two years he was remarried. This was the cul mination of a romance which began with the death of the father of Miss Julia Gardiner in the explosion of a gun on a warship on which Presi dent Tyler was entertaining. The body of his guest was taken to the Vhite House, and Miss Gardiner, being thrown in the society of the president under these circumstances, became the object of his attention, and finally, ' his wife'k That was 77 years ago, and the memory of his romance is no dimmer than the memory of the 1 political achievements of President Tyler, al-J though but a single generation separates him from the present. Dull Boys Who Reach Fame. Largest of all clubs is that with the motto, ''I knew him when." Sometimes the words are used in disparagement, but it is only in rare in stances that the recollection of the . poverty, hardships and handicaps in which someone now famous, had his beginning, does not cast more credit than disparagement on his achievement. ' Very often in childhood no promise is seen of the splendid' talents -.which' afterward 'bring some man to the fore. Sir Walter Scott, when a ,lad,' was considered by one of his teachers ', to have the . thickest skull in school. Goldsmith likewise passed through an unpromising youth, nd himself said "that he-never felt attached to literature until 30 years old. . He records fre quently surprising his friends by . productions which they imagined him incapable' of compos ing. J , ' Milton,' Sheridan, Swift and, even St. Au-' gustine are'. said to have shown.no aptitude for learning in their , early years. - An incident is told, however, of Milton When a boy at school in London, that, casts a; different light on his "case, at least. In - an examination the pupils were required to write a poetical account of the first miracle, the turning of water into wine at ,the marriage feast. The instructor did not ex pect much 'from Milton and was not therefore' surprised to find only one line on his. slate: "The conscious water saw his God and blushed." The - judges, it is related, looked ? at each other in astonishment at the beauty of the thought and its expression, and much to the sur prise of the teacher awarded this supposedly backward boy the prize. This incident suggests that there has always been a tendency ' to misunderstand imaginative children who' may be apt to neglect dry studies for picturings of the fancy. , Not every child who seems slow to learn is really dull, and once he finds a subject fitted to his taste, many . such a one : will outstrip his mates who are without either special abilities or disabilities. The Husking Bee Its Your Day Siart It Wiih a Laiih Corn for the Starving Russians. Governor Kendall of Iowa has called on the farmers of his state to contribute corn for the starving in Russia. Governor McKclyie of Ne braska will probably do the same thing, and so will other governors. The question is, will the Russians eat the corn after it is sent them? , One of the most inexplicable of all the preju dices of Central Europe is the aversion of the people to corn as food. About this time, last year the workmen on the Styria section of the Austrian government railways struck for bread made without cornmeal mixed with the flour. It is alleged that the continued eating of corn provokes a disease that is painful and difficult to cure. Long ago the Italians and Swiss learned to eat corn meal prepared much the same way as is customary in the United States, and a considerable amount of - corn is still shipped to them. But . the Central Europeans will not have it Much effort has been ex pended to teach the people how to cook the meal to make it palatable and nourishing, but seemingly all has been wasted. In the form of meat they will take it, but that is the most costly way of exporting the grain. One of the experts states the problem in these terms: The farmer who feeds breadstuffs to his stock is burning up 75 to 97 per cent of them in order, to produce for us a small residue of roast pig. The same number of calories costs nearly six times as much in the form of wheat flour as in the form .of corn meal or flour. Every argument is in favor" of corn meal, but, if the stricken Europeani will r.ot cat it, what can we do to overcomeVheir stubbornness born of umorance? . MEASURE OF LIFE. Let't live by deeds and not by years, Through our allotted pan, Mark time with smiles and not with letrs, And cheer our ftltownun; Nor let the figure on a d al Tell whrn our work U through, But lengthen out each day't work vhile There's good that w e can do. The space of life it brief at best, 'Tit like a fading flower. And we should Ut by virtue lest We waste preciout hour; Each heart-throb icet a. minute gone, But night it not the goal For like a bright, perpetual dawn Is beauty of the tout. PHILOSOPHY. Selfwhntft and happiness never travel the tarn road. While they are making all this fust about getting a message from Mars, ihy doesn't someone page Vcnu? . . . a . One good thing about having a bin full of coal, it leaves the mind free to worry about next summer's ice. Heard on the suburban party line: "Hello. What time is it by your rooster? Someone Hole ours last night." ... The girl who, finds a ladder in her new silk hose at least gets a run for her money. HOME BREWED ATHLETICS. I do not need a bag of clubs Like many golfing guys, When I go out among the shrubs To take my exercise No caddie waits my every shot. No lost ball makes him scoff, As out upon my own back lot I'm pitching barnyard golf. When the impending horseless tge has en veloped the country, we suppose non-skid tires will take the place of old Dobbin's footwear for pitching purposes. '' REASSURING. One day last week we dropped into a local restaurant and found the cook dishing up and eating food he had prepared himself. That slogan of the postal clerks, "The early mail makes the early sale," brings to mind an other one that should be brought out and dusted off about .this time of the year. It is "Do your Christmas mailing early." YEA, VERILY. Equal rights' for women, bo, Have come tip off your wife That she may see the Den Show ; For the first time in her life. Judge: How did you come to pick this man's pocket? . Culprit: I just did it in a moment of ab straction, your honor. ' WHO WON THE WAR? Sam Gompcrs: L,abor won the war. . General Pershing; Soldiers won the war. Herb Hoover: Food won the war. The Profiteers: Is the war over? How docs the man : who doesn't believe in ghosts g;et around: the fact that after the square meal comes hash? ' ' . ..-- .. ' . SPOT LIGHT. CLUB. In days of old , Bright thoughts of gold Were bred of poets' fancy In Rome and Greece The Golden Fleece . Was plainly necromancy ; , The gods' abodes Were sung in odes By Sophocles and Horace. , . You say these times Show no such rimes Well what about Sam Morris? HELLO. Statistical gent reports that 35,485,908 adults of opposite sexes in the United States, habitual ly addicted to the use of f the telephone, hear better, with the left car than With the right. No wonder. Every time busy gent sticks receiver up to ear, left car-drum gets homeo pathic treatment spoonful of service every half hour. 1 . Sense of .hearing grows acute listening for the busy . signal. Sapp calls up wife to explain why he won't be home- to dinner. Left ear gets 'all the exercise in one-sided conversation. All right car gets is bum suggestions, on what to tell wife, from bird who is putting on party. Friend wife gets equal amount of exercise with both ears. Excuses go in one ear and out the other. Woman addict takes overwhelming dose . of neighborhood gossip over telephone every morning. Calls up bosom friend. Friend unbosoms self. Left ear gets all glad tidings. Doesn't let right car know what left ear hear eth. Home made recipe 'calls for spoonful of patience to gallon of service. Housewife blames telephone girl for letting someone else use party line while she gets hubby's lunch. Frail sex grabs endurance test for wrestling two-piece telephone. Six-day b!ke hice like sleeping on feather bed compared to Jen call ing Myrt on phone. Waiter (returning after 15 minutes): How would you like your eggs, sir .Patient Uuest: Very much indeed. .. See where a number of men have given up cigarets. The habit is getting too darned effeminate. How to Keep Well OR. W. A. tVANa witu4 ta Or. LaM fen Tlx a. iU a aatn4 t ultl ! HM' luailMiM. mltmrti, Aaua4 ll tim4. Of. tw MI M im n w (MMcrtha tm i ini A4mm kllwt la Ta aw. Cwmu, it: I. ay Or. W. a Mail- wh at twa a ta 4tUat Ull ( . C Rewriting History SAPIENT PERSPICACITY. My wile is Ween, I grant you that She has some brains beneath her hat, , She has no bats within her dome, One cannot say "There's no one home" Her cerebrum is packed with wit And she makes daily use of it, - , Good sense enthroned within her pate Gives her the skill to cogitate. I'll tell you why I have respect For my wife's brilliant intellect, And let you judge right from the fact (Though you may say it's merely tact) But I'm convinced my wife" is bright, She sa3-s she likes the stuff I write. A rich man may be eccentric a poor man who acts that way is a crank. Sometimes the man with one foot in the grave docs a lot of kicking. -. If time is money, why isn't the hobo rich? .. If love is blind, how is it that a pretty face and a dimple, captures'the husband that intellect couldn't attract? " ADVICE. Don't seek the bright lights after dark. -. - Nor gather moths about oni V If you would get up with the lark , Then go to bed without one. . AFTER-THOUGHT: Some husbands are house broke and some are flat broke. PHILO, j WHOM SHALL WE EDUCATE? Tna iraai a,niuan auinorur, Trva gold, thlnka ( a lot of money irvlnf to 4u-ats panpl who can not ba sdutwtMl. rurihermora. we waala monry educating noma people unnacrjuHrtly, Finally, we do smne harm educailnc aoin people, mho ihnuld not ha aducatod. Many paople rannot ba aducaled berau they have not the neeeanary mentality. TredcoUl aa tha detrv of education varies In different Indi viduals and In the main thin differ ence I Inborn. A marktd lren Ing of educablllty it puilioloclral. A tmdenry In. tlil direction tends to be hern In famlltoa. Of count, thera art children who etnnot'lta educated bocnuite of phy sical .defect. Tredsold haa not thoea children In mind, becnuaa a moderate amount of attention makes them edurable. lie hna In mind moron and dullnrds. incut of a horn were born that way because one or both of their pirents were born that y. To educate chil dren of thta group hp to the limit of their educablllty and to prepare them for the work which they have the mentality to do Is one of the nest Investments a Mute enn make. To try to educate them up loathe eighth grade nr through high Rvhool or until of a certain age at fixed standards la wasteful. j . If . a peiton Is definitely anti-social, a criminal by Instinct, a definite enemy of society, we do harm ly educating him because we lucres) his power for harm. Home of the personality, character and behavior types are as fixed In their antl-soolnl attitude a are the morons in their mental limitation. In spite of Trcdc'ild'i f nn con viction that educablllty la In . the main a matter of Inheritance, he holds that people, of some rapacity may Increase their ' educablllty by exercise of mind, and that such ex ercise of mind through generation will eventually sump the strain with greater possibilities In the line of educablllty. In other words, while inheritance Is the greater factor in educablllty, environment has some Influence, and that environment kept up for a few generations has considerable influence. And now for certain rather radi cal suggestions which will make teachers think.- He holds that com pulsory education should stop at a much lower level than it now does. That even the higher elementary studio 'should be open only to those who have proved their ability to profit by them. . . ..Many Individuals reach the hmits of their educablllty long before they stop school. He would have exam inations by which individual would be stopped when they had reached that limit. To determine fitness to be educat ed in the higher subjects, passing scholastic examinations nnd gaining scholarships is not enough. The ex amination should take Into consid eration medical and psychologic ns pect as well.' An inquiry into the mental rating of the family should be made. . - ' Ego Xecds Deflntioii.. J. G. writes: "I am 65 years old, a ' worrieri weighing 110 pounds, though I' should weigh. 150 For 13-years I have led ait aimless life and have had ' one ' nervous break down. .. My organs all sag. y I have Sinking spells and I get so Weak I cannot sit up. A: physician says my organs are all sound. I' have 'been a; Christian Scientist for five years and 'I never take medicine.' "My phy sician advises jne to go to a sarii--tsrium. tS'hait shall' J do?" . : ; ''. , REPLY. .. . . If you can go to a sanitarium wherp they will put you to work e.nd 'give -you some -interest in life you will .' be benefited. A loafing sanitarium -will do you no good. Of course, your disease, is 12 years of idleness and lack of interest and that's a- pretty bad disease. It is easy to sit back in an arm chair and figure out the remedy, but living it day by .day is s.nother matter. . Baby's Dolus Wei!.' Mrs. JI..O. T. writes: "My baby is 5 months old and .weighs 21 pounds.- He is strong and healthy, but does not sleep half enough. During the day he only sleeps about two hours a half hour at a, time. He Is very hard to put to sleep. He sleeps during the night 'just fine." but never goes to bed oerore s:bo and always wakes at 7 in tne morn ing. Is just as bright and happy as can be.' what' is the cause ana what can I do?". - REPLY. - Do not do anything. He is fine as a fiddle. Am sure he get3 enough sleep. Do not crowd his food and do not handle him or let other peo ple handle any more than necessary. . Grease Massage Helps." E. K. R. writes: "A friend of mine, who has had' smallpox, has been out of quarantine three or four weeks, but the red spots all over her face have not disappeared, and since it is so warm and she per spires, they. itch and annoy her very much. What can sha use to relieve them and prevent marks?" REPLY. About all she can do is to mas- ssLare her face daily with her greased I finger:. SMILING LINES. "Whet did your boy Josh - do when you told him he would hive to so out in tha world and make his own living?" "He went to tha next farm as a hired hand, and in a week had me .ofterln' him His board an' keep an' mora wages." Washintton Star. "There's lece of oi and a piece of cake lor you. said the woman al tne back door to the. tramp, angrily; "now I don't expect to see you here stain!" "What's tha matter, lady? Is yer oin" t' move?" was tha unexpected reply. Tonkera Statesman. , "Mamma, what are twins?" asked Bob by. "Oh, I know," chimed in Marjory with all the auperlority of an elder sister. "Twins Is two babies just the same ate: three Is triplets; four is quad rupeds, and five is centipedes." -Toledo Blade. "They ssy the Mexican congress Is rather turbulent." "Oh, 1 don't know. Their sunplaya ara quite as harmless as our senatorial .near combats." Louisville Courier-Journal Nora The fellow I used to keep com pany with has -asked me to go to the firemen's costume ball, but I don't know what to impersonate. Mar;e Why not go u ta old flame? Michigan Gar goyle. - Professor endeavoring to Impress on class the definition of cynic) Toung man, what, would yon call a man who pre tends to know everything? Senior A professor! Lehish Burr. 'That chap ts having ' a devil of a time at that water hasard. Is it a man or woman, caddr?" "I can't ssy. sir, as I'm a bit hard of hearin'." Judge. "What are you?"' "I sm a war child." father and mother ara always at war." oiocKaoim iwaaper. Judge Tou hav been found guilty of petty larceny. What do you want. 10 daya nr tlf Guilty PartyI'll take taa moaer.-rCeoiMs flamingo. trM I ha ftew I Mb Tlaw.) The great hMorUn. E4rd A. l-recnun. used to define hwiory as I "Mt poliiH'e" and .tut s a "Mraa. rut hwory." Tnia w ry narrow definition uil th word "poll tit a" has a wider anl Wtier mean ing than la generally aaeocUtad lth it In the public mind Hut whatever th s-ope rif history, the fuel, brought out In Krctni4ti's defi nition, that hikiory la t'Ut "current evenK." written In the past terms), suiigests tha dirnrully of tlu ik of the hletorlun who iimke the Iran rrrlptlon. Uow hard It ! to make an absolute aocursie ret'ord of even that whu'h I rontemporaneou. white living witnesses are within reach; how Infinliely greater ,ha dilTirulty bcromei when mennry Is dimmed or time Intercepts entirely the view! I'lutanh himoeif, In hi chapter on rcrlclrs. remarks, apro. poa of some scandalous statement about his subject, that It I dim cult '.'lo trnce or to find out the truth by history." The summary of a r.invnn made by The Itevlew of U'vlewa of 00, 000 student in public and private schools and colleges, as to their ac quaintance tith certain events and personages, even In tha period of "present history," warrants lh In ference that for mnny It dea not o much matter with wlint accuracy historians write, since what they arils srems to he remembered no imperfectly by ko large a percentage of students. The tfstinioiiy of nn eiMtor of a widely circulated mags Kins for boys Is that hoys shun even biography, because It "sounds like hlMory.". And yet, despite such Inti mations of the seeming want of youthful Interest In hUtory and of the woeful lack of memory of his tor lea I fis, amounting almost to aphasia, there is a passionnte de mand for the rewriting of history. oi;pevially that history which Is' put before the eyes of the young. This demand, whatever the. motive, has, al any rate, the value of emphasis ing to the people of a democracy the importance of .-history, both of pres ent history, which Freeman calls "politics." and of that history which goes bnrk, at Mr. Wells' alluring nnd Industrious call, to primeval times, bpyond the period even of "past politics." The corollary is that history should be made an In teresting as Mr. Wells has mndo it, so thut even youth may see its dra matic progress, but also as accurate as the most conscientious and dis interested scholars who write the footnotes for Mr. Wells' texts have sought to make It . . . During the wnr text-books In his tcry were searched, in some states by legislative enactment, for tier man propaganda. Then came from cc-rtaln'quarters urgent demand for certain tempering' revision ' of the accounts of the American revolution nnd the war of 1912. A few days sgo the executive council of the American Federation of Labor re corded its purpose to see that the makers of text-books on industrial history and economics were "ap prised" of certain -truths In these Acids; and now there is announced the launching, of a million-dollar movement: "to result In a cycle of pamphlets on American history," -to be supplied to schools, public and private, and colleges, as well aa to newspapers, magazines and legisla tures. However commendable these efforts to find and set forth the his torical truth may be. and however honorable and . sincere the., motive of such endeavor, it must be ad mitted - by alt thnt this is not the way. to "rewrite history." Perhaps too much , of the work- of original writing has been left to New Eng land; perhaps Nathan 'Hale has had too little recognition; perhaps Bene dict Arnold's service should' have been altogether blotted, out ' by hia treason; Rnd,. unquestionably, Mr. Wells' characterization . of Washing ton as a "conspicuously indolent man" should be refuted; but could' hot all this and other necessary re Vising be done by ; scholarship Inde pendent of any association that would put it under the suspicion of partisan motives? If the; funds proposed for such prizes, expert staff and publication could, for in stance, be put at the command of our New York stato historian and others of like office, eauipped as he state officials carrying on their Work with pitifully small, beggarly appropriations the history within tit-? range -of our school curriculum, at least, could not only be rewrit ten in such particulars as the most, dependable scholarship might sug gest, but the interest of children .in it could be so stimulated as to make it vitally necessary that . history should be accurate. iBirmiiiilum PrfbjtPri-u lusure Pastor for $100,000 Birmingham. Ala . irpt. ,l7I1fV' H, M. Ldmonds. plur of the In dependent I'rcpytrrwn rhurtli ol IWrminglum,' haa been insured for 100,0110 by members of hi congre tatioii, Kev. Edmonds formerly Ptor of another, church, but with drew part of hu conrf6tion and formed the present organistioii, Uralixing that the suctc of Ihe new venture depended largely upon Ihe paitcr, deacons of the church tlrrided to insure his life against premature death which was dcclareJ "bight seriously effect the organi sation and perhaps ruin its luture. Bull's Eyes lull WHITIUY IfsMSSSHMasillt THE TIRE AND IUwUTOKHAN "We fn ssti": 320 I3U . PKoeexDeuf.wOJ LY. Nicholas Oil Company Hull Vrcil (ur lliplit la for Hi Finoiilc DMi Atlanta, Cia Srpt. 17. A pit'ul the intelligence of the bll w'!, Frank M, l arley lu un rhiliitiii ' bis offiif, occupying an otlurw i empty bottle, a M.und specimen i the bug which flew inio the M'" window of hi oflice in the (iraiM building here, which window brji tbe painted sign: A. A. Suii'h Loin puny. Cotton 1'roducts, wv 'V'.V.' After the Duck Hunt Have a Solar Bath Treatment it's as invigoralm;; as a trip to the Saml Hill?. The Solar Sanitarium 19th and Douglas "Omaha's Dallle Creel" Writ ler Literature Phone AT. 0020 reference for tne fa sari ZrJfamlirus mdJcative or a superior musical nature. (From the Philadelphia ledger.) The world's record for marksman ship made at Camp Perry, O., by Sergeant Theodore Crawley, of the Marine Corps, deserves more than passing notice. On the S00-yard range at slow fire he made 177 con secutive bull's eyes, which s seventy-one better than the ' previous world's record. The second man, Sergeant John Adkins. and the thlrdi Captain H. C. Griswold, also better the record with 133 and 118 bull's eyes respectively. The bull's eye, as some laymen may not understand, is not the small black disk of or dinary target practice, but the life size silhouette of , the 1 head and shoulders of a man.' That may seem an easy mark to hit; but 800 yards is nearly . half a mile, and at that' distance it dwindles to inconspicuous proportions. ' Shooting of such an extraordinary quality implies a co-ordination of mind and muscle such as makes a peerless -soldiery. A record like that is not a happy accident. It comes by incessant practice, by habits of sobriety, by physical fit ness and carefully regulated train ing. Of course,', there are ""dead shots" who have condemned the laws of the simple life; but these are the rule proving exceptions. If a -man wants to ascertain 'whether he has his nerves under control and his wits about him, let him betake himself to a government rifleranga and there strive to qualify for one of the three established grades of marksman, sharpshooter, expert He will come away from the ordeal with enhanced appreciation of the feat which the men at Camp Perry performed, and very probably with the sorest shoulder he ever knew. 'tradivarius oRanos. Highest priced ' land hignestr praised. .. K Matchless hvtorve, irC . 'resonance, irv longevity. Choice or all who investigate and compare, and who are satisfied with nothing hut the hest that . jhuman ingenuity cart create. The unalterable preference of masters or song and music. t Our Refinished, Nearly New and Rent Stock Pianos and Players now on sale in pur Used Piano rooms will tempt you. . The prices range from $135 up to $250. Some fine standard makes of instruments. . - .Terms as Low at $1.50 per Week Iff 1513 Douglas Street The Art and Music Store The Man Who Looks Farthest Great Uneconomic Sacrifices. Eight thousand acres of meadow lend and several square miles of woodland in Maine have just been burned over, . another illustration of cur defective- methods of escaping such property losses. It ought to bo practicable to prevent these uneco nomic sacrifices. Providence Journal Ignorance of Bibta In. Colleges. Undergraduate ignorance of -the Bible has .long been ' a byword. For a whole generation it has been the favorite theme of professors of Eng lish who write for publication. Sat urday Evening Post. Big Salaries and Big Results. ' Salaries are never too big if the recipients produce results. A million-dollar salary that produces the goods Is economically beneficial Saturday Evening Post, I Buys life insurance ; but he does not stop there. He plans his Will while he is a young man; but he goes further than that. He has an attorney draw it, naming an immortal Executor a Trust Company. Then he . is careful to keep the Will lip to date. Are you looking far into the -future for the benefit of your family? Do your actions match your good intentions? ' . Our officers welcome ft conferences. llttttrfi tatrH 5ntBt Cnmpaug Affiliated With Efrr United fclatfa National Sank M 1912 Farnam Street Omaha, Nebraska M