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THE OMAHA' DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, 'AUGUST 27, 1905. The-Omaha Sunday Bee E. ROUE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, fially pen (without Fundey), one year. .11-00 Dally pee and Sunday, imp year j Illustrated Hec. one )fr J j Ftinday B". one your ?' Saturday Fee, one year J Twentieth Century Farmer, one year.. 1-WJ DELIVERED HY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), pr cory.- c Dally lie (without Sunday), pe' wcek-.l-c Dally Bee (Including Sunday, per week .re Evening Bee (without Sunday. pe wek 70 Evening Pee (Including Sunday), Ir week 'r? Sunday Bee, per copy , :",;" . Complaints of Irregularities In delivery hnuld he addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York 1500 Home Life Insurance Building Washington 601 Fourteenth atreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter should te addresaed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-rent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, STATEMENT OF CITtCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas county, ss.: C C. Rosewater, secretary of The B Publishing Company, belli duly sworn, aya that the actual nunilier of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Hunday Bee printed during the month of July, 9i6, was aa follows: I. .. ai.aio n a,ao I SO.SfM) is S.ISO t ZU.KUO 1 2H.B10 4 211,100 M.10O 1 2t.7M & 2,3(M I HX.ftSO 22 ifl.H7l) T h,oso n JM.BOO 1 80,000 24 2S.070 I SH,mo 26 X8.170 10 8,HOO it SH.10O II. . i i.A40 27 HM.150 II 8H.OOO 28 2. 100 II sft.noo it jmmoo 14 8H.T10 10... 2K,atl It 21,830 21 27,iio U... X,1HW MHK.KUO Less unsold copies 0,815 Net total aalea 811,41(1 Dally average 11H.405 C. C. ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this first day of July, 1906. (Seal) M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public. WHEI OtT OF TOWN, gnbsrrlbera leaving the city tem porarily should have The Bee mailed to them. It la better than dally letter from home. Ad dress will be changed aa often as requested. This CuIupmv boycott umy yet develop Into u Mcrli'miiifse between the "big tick" and the "tongs." Fortunately for the rending public the TncKiirt divorce hearing came at a time when the wires were filled with renl news. General StoesHel'g opinion of Admlrnl Ouktomnky would bo more Interesting If the warrior bad ended bis session with the court-mnrtlnl. The "Letts" are now causing trouble for the rear at home while the "don't lets' are causing trouble for his am bassadors in America. Since President Roosevelt inspected that submarine in operation be should be Invited also to inaugurate the open ing of the signal station nt Fort Omaha by taking a trip In a balloon. An active demand for Nebraska su preme court reports may be shortly ex pected. Kansas has filed suit to re cover from the bondsmen of the state treasurer money lost in n bnuk failure. Carping critics who declare that the emperor of Germany Is playing a selfish role in the peace negotiations should ex plain why he Is drawing his salary If not to advance the Interests of God and hla country. Since the members of the loard of di rectors of the Ktpiltnlile have pleaded lack of knowledge of the affairs of the company it might be well to Insist that they return the fees pocketed for attend ing meetings. After Fhllttdclphla has realized the effect upon its relative position In the population list pf American cities it may Insist that other towns go through the process of striking names from pudded census books. The lutest lUHgazlne contributions of owe of the Rockefeller batters would indicate that they were rapidly becom ing short of words to express ideas, and Mr. Rockefeller may have it all his own way when he starts his defense. That New York servant may not have teeu on the staff of a society JournaMnit the "touch" she displayed In drawing more than $90,000 out of a family scandal would indicate that she had been uo mean student of lately re Tooled methods. Germans are asking for an early meeting of the Itelchtag so they con gaiu reliable information ou subjects of state interest, which would Indicate considerable n'flerence between a Sit ting of the German ltelclmtag and a meeting of the Amerlcau congress. A fiction writer whose imagination conjured up a atory of "Subinurlue Destroyer" has struck it rich by cash ing In his idea to a submarine torpedo boat company. But thluk how many tory tellers have launched laboriously woreu figments of their imaginations and come out on the short end of the account. rhomaa II. Tibbies in a magazine article sets up the claim that the men who organised the people's independent party were the first to discover the in iquities of the great insurance com panies. If there are any other evils ou earth, either lu the depth below or lu the heavens above, that the people's patty did not first discover they have yet to Ih Lrought to llut FVRQiya the nwrtBsioy. In the annual address dellver"d Inst week by President Tucker of the Ameri can Rar association a pertinent but In conclusive discussion Is Indulged on the need of enforcing higher standards among members of the bar by purging the profession of those who disgrace it. "No more dlfllcult question can be pre sented to this association or to those auxlllnry associations In the different states," declared President Tucker, "than that of purging Its membership of the unworthy member who brings dishonor upon the whole profession." Kmphssls Is laid at the same time on the obstacles certain to be met with In the personal, social and political Influ ences which render It trying and em barrassing to bring the guilty to Justice, yet it is Insisted that If the legal pro fession Is to receive a reward which is its due aud to accomplish the high work for which it Is destined, this work must be undertaken and carried out fear lessly and thoroughly. But the only suggestion of a remedy Is "the adoption In all schools of law which are preparing young men for the profession of an enlarged aud compre hensive course on the subject of legal ethics, to be taught by 'men of lofty Ideals, which they try to live up to and not merely talk of.' " Teaching the principles of legal ethics and common honesty In law schools would, doubt less, be a small step in the right direc tion, but the inculcation of moral plati tudes to aspiring practitioners would lose all Its effect if the student were only to be grndunted Into the company of experienced lawyers using every un scrupulous means to win questionable cases and secure unearned fees from wealthy clients. To go no further than those auxiliary bar associations to which President Tucker refers, the question may well be asked. When did they ever make It a practice to expel members for unpro fessional conduct? Cases have re peatedly come to notice In which al leged lawyers have been caught In the very act of Jury bribing, and while the courts have occasionally Inflicted Inade quate penalties, the bribe giving lawyers continue to be members in good stand ing. Every time a case of perjury is un covered it is a safe wager that a lawyer can be found at the bottom of It, but the real culprit usually succeeds in hid ing (lx'hind his puppet. Blackleg law yers playing the role of blackmailers sometimes openly, tint more often under cover, are altogether common, but the expulsion of any attorney from n bar association on account of blackmailing proclivities has not L'een recorded. Lawyers admitted to the bar have even been known to go on the witness stand and refuse to answer questions on the ground that their testimony might in criminate themselves, without appar ently Impairing their eligibility to bnr as sociation membership. When it comes to prostituting the legal profession for the pay of hireling lobbyists, retained to per vert legislation at state and national capitals, the badge of dishonor causes re vulsion chiefly among those who are outside the code of legal ethics. The effective way to purge the pro fession Is to administer purgatives. Whenever the crooked lawyer is un masked he should not only tie spewed out of reputable liar associations, but put out of business by disbarment pro ceedings. If the code of legal ethics is not strictly enforced It is because the lawyers do not want to enforce it. and if the legal profession falls to inspire the respect it once commanded it is be cause the lawyers themselves fall to live up to the standnrds and ideals they would have taught in the law schools. THE R4JI.BO.aDS AND IRrIqATIOX. While It baa been an open secret for some time that the commissary depart ment of the irrigation propaganda that culminated in the national irrigation law of three years ago was supported by a combination of transcontinental rail roads, we believe that the details of the arrangement were for the first time made public under official authority in a letter directed by James J. II 111 to the irrigation congress iu session at Port land last week. In this letter the great railway magnate lays claim for the rail roads to the credit of inaugurating the Irrigation campaign and explains that "at first three and a little later five of the great railroad systems of the west united and furnished each $5,000 a year aa a working fund to make the necessary v inquiries and to spread the facts abroad." Had It been known when tbe Maxwell promotion bureau was enlisting support of w stern commercial bodies that the agitation behind this beneficent project came simply from nn aggregation of paid lobbyists, absorbing $25,000 to $30,000 a year as compensation aud in cldentals In their work, the response would hardly have lieen so prompt and so vigorous. That floes not detract from the fact, however, that the underlying principle that the national government should assist by congressional approprl atlon in the reclamation of our semi arid lands is none the less founded in wisdom and Justice, nor will any one object to the railroads sharing In the returns sure to accrue from the enter prise. But while accrediting the rail road magnates with foresight and shrewdness It is a little too much for them to pose, as Mr. Hill would have It. as disinterested philanthropists when it la known that the Inspiring motive on their side was not only the prospec tive Increase In traffic coming from the settlement of the uninhabited parts of the public domain, but also the more direct and immediate creation of a mar ket for unsalable lauds still remaining In their possession out of their early land grants. With the railroads owning alternate sections it would ' be Impos sible for the government to reclaim any considerable part of the public domain without at the same time bringing the railroad holdings, within the reclamation area aud it Is a safe guess that the ratl- roads hnve already gotten back the money they spent for promotion. In this one thing, however, namely, the occupation of the vacant tracts of the western states by self-supporting bona tide settlers, the interest of the railroads and of the general public are Identical, aftd In the executing of pend ing Irrigntton projects and the perfec tion of the Irrigation lnw to the end of safeguarding reclaimed land, against misappropriation by land grabbers both can work together. THE AXXUAL FIRE LOSS. The International Society of City and Municipal Building Commissioners and Inspectors has compiled some figures tiearing upon the aunual loss by fire in the United States, which should be both interesting and instructive. According to this authority, we have burned up $l,(s),0no,000 worth of prop erty in six years and our fire losses are equivalent to a tax of $25 per yenr on every family. Last year (1!XH) sent $2:10,000,000 worth of property up iu smoke, and while this Included the Bal timore fire, the total was still only $15,- 000,000 more than the 1003 loss. And this year, we are told, bids fair to equal If not exceed that record mark. The dally fire loss in property for the year 1904 was $t:!0,0O0, as against which It is estimated we erected new buildings at the rate of about $l,0oo,noo a day the country over. The result Is that although we have a building boom on all sides more than half of our expendi ture simply replaces property destroyed by fire. . Attention is called to the fact, too, that when we ordinarily speak of a loss In business, what Is one person's loss Is simply some one's else gain, but when we speak of a fire loss it is the absolute destruction of so much value represented by Invested labor and cap ital. Bad as is the loss of building and property, the Injuries by fire to human life are beyond calculation In dollars and cents. In 1904, 0,072 people were burned, being a dally average of eigh teen fatalities. The calculations of the society cited are that our present ratio Is nine lives lost by fire every year for every 100,000 population. In 1900 the ratio was eight and in 1890 only five people per 100,000 were burned. The recent report of the Interstate Com merce commission giving the number of killed tiy the railroads during the last fiscal year at 10,040 has evoked wide-spread discussion and protest, but here we have a death list fully two thirds as long which deserves almost equal attention. The gist of this appalling array of figures is that the fire loss in this coun try is largely preventable and that the moBt effective means of prevention is to be found in the enforcement of more rigid regulations governing building op erations. That American cities are lax in their requirements of fire-proof con struction Is the Indictment wrung out by each fire alarm and the popular com placency resting on the assumption that the Insurance companies stand the loss needs a Jolt through realization that the insurance companies merely collect the money in advance from the owners. It may take a long- time to educate the general public to the point of recogniz ing what self interest alone should teach, tut in the meantime the cam paign for better buildings In American cities with a view to reducing fire loss to a minimum should be pursued every where with unabatM vigor. THE BANKRUPTCY LAW. Another effort will be made at the next session of congress to repeal the bankruptcy law. A bill for this pur pose was Introduced in the Fifty-eighth congress and undoubtedly will again make its appeuruuee next winter, for the opposition to the law seems to be still active, though whether or not It has been strengthened remains to be seen. The committee on commercial law of the American Bar association submit ted a majority aud minority report on the subject. The majority report, which was adopted, recommended that the as sociation adhere to its strong stand iu behalf of a bankruptcy law as a part of the permanent Jurisprudence of the United States and also disapproved of the bill Introduced In congress for the repeal of the existing law. This action of a body of representative law yer can hardly fall to exert a very considerable influence. Doubtless the bankruptcy act could In some respects be advantageously amended, but we have never Been any sound reasons why it should be repealed and a return made to the old order, the nearly universal objection to which, fa miliar to all business men who had experience with it, led to a general de mand from the commercial interests of the country for the enactment of a uni form law. There is uo evidence that uuy considerable number of the business men of the country who were favorable to this legislation before it was passed are now desirous that it should be re pealed. Doubtless there are Instances where its operation has not been alto gether satisfactory am) persons who have had such an experience may not Iw friendly to the law, but we think the re cord under It as a whole fully Justifies the demand thot it shall be kept on the statute liooks, with such amendments as have been shown to be desirable In order to Improve and strengthen the law. The Judgment of the American Bar association that a liaukrupt law- should be a part of the permanent Juris prudence of the United States is emi nently sound and In accord with the purpose of the f miners of the constitu tion when they conferred on congress the authority to enact a uniform law. No act ever passed by congress received more careful and deliberate considera tion than the bankruptcy law. It was lief ore that body for session after ses sion and also receive most thorough public discussion. The law was en acted In resionse to a practically unani mous demand of the business Interests of the country represented lu commer cial organizations, large and small. No one claims that It Is perfect, but such de fects as It has been shown tp have can certainly be easily rcuiedlod. The at tack made upon it In the Inst congress failed and it is not to lie doubted that a rejiewal of the assault will also prove futile. A MIXH-OOVERXD PEOPM. At every annual meeting of that IkmIv of eminent lawyers, the American Bar association, reference is made to the vast amount of legislation affecting the clti.en in nil his relations which Is en acted every year by congress and the state legislatures. Uniformly the opinion expressed has been that there Is a great excess of such legislation, that much of it is unnecessary and useless and that not a little of it is positively bad. At this year's meeting of the as sociation, its president, Henry St. George Tucker of Kentucky, spoke ou tills line in his annual address, point ing out the numerous subjects upon which the state legislatures had adopted laws within the past year. Commenting on this great array of new laws and a growing inclination to ward innumerable state commissions, Mr. Tucker remarked that "what im presses one most deeply Is the numlier and variety of subjects of legislation ami the assumption by the state of func tions which In our earlier history were unclaimed by It We are a much-governed people," he declared, "and there is nothing which affects the American citizen, in his personal, social, political or property rights, which is not the sub ject of regulation by the state. The gov ernment, as trustee for society, controls our rights, our wants, our necessities and our individual action in their rela tion to society. The home Is no longer H man's castle, but It may be a prison house with the family as the Inmates aud the board of health as Jailer." He urged that when the state steps in and assumes control by boards and commis sions and other agencies of the safety of society, of the health and morals of the people as well ns of their property rights, special care must be taken not to endnnger any of those inalienable rights of life, liberty and property guar anteed to every citizen under the lnw of the lund. "For it must be remem bered that there are rights which do not proceed from government, but are antecedent to government, and are those for the preservation of which govern ments are ordained." 11 It will hardly be seriously questioned that the piling up of statutes, many of them impracticable and consequently never enforced, Is a distinct fault in our legislation, but how enn it be reme died? It is to be regretted that Mr. Tucker gave no consideration to this question, though had he done so he prob ably would have been compelled to ad mit that there is no remedy. As a mat ter of fact a very large portion of our legislation is due to lawyers, who dom inate nearly or quite all the state legis latures, tiut if this were not the case there is no reason to believe that there would be fewer laws passed from year to year or that the statutes enacted would generally be any wiser or more useful than under existing conditions. It Is unquestionably true that we are a much-governed people and some of the legislation infringes those inalien able rights which, as Mr. Tucker said, do not proceed from government, but are antecedent to government. Yet we are unable to see any way by which this can be corrected and the eminent law yers of the American Bar association seem to be equally incapable of sug gesting a remedy. The mauagenieut of the Chicago World's fair is Just now, twelve years after the close of the exposition, trying to wind up Its corporate affairs, and when the books are balanced the stock sulwcrlbers will have secured dividends returning to them 14 V6 per cent of the amounts they paid in. The experience of other expositions, both before and after, makes the financial showing of the Omaha exposition of 1898 stand out like a beacon light among world's fair wrecks. Stock subscribers to the Omaha exposition not only got 00 per cent of their money back, but they got it back within two years after the show was concluded. As It is now, the Chicago World's fair managers find it almost Im possible to locate many of the stock holders to whom the money ready for distribution as a final dividend belongs. The Pennsylvania railroad deserves credit for muting a move in tbe direc tion of greater safety for its employes Which other leading railroads should be quick to follow. An onler has been given by the management of this sys tem to the effect that after a designated date it will refuse to accept curs and rolling stock from any other road un less properly equipped with automatic couplers and airbrakes. If all the big roads that have complied with the law with regard to safety appliances would lay down this ultimatum to the roads that continue to disregard the law the others would be speedily brought to time and a noticeable check put upon one class of railroad eastioltles for which there is no ratlonnl excuse. The advance agent of the California orange crop promises the largest output ffir the coming year of any on record. This will lie welcome tidings to those who enjoy this luscious fruit, and that Includes nearly the whole American population, since California fruits have tieen brought within the reach of every one who has access to a market ami the orange has been taken out of the cate gory of a luxury, where It was classed only a few years ago. One would naturally suppose that of all states in the union Colorado would be the pluce where the woman's clubs would attain most nearly to perfection, but here are open charges that notwith standing the political privileges enjoyed by the members la their right to the ballot the Denver Woman's club has been allowing the social element to creep In and ruin the organization by making the club building merely a show ground for handsome clothes and a gathering place for gossip mongers. The danger Is that the club women will have tb stnrt a reform association among themselves or degenerate to the same level occupied by the despised nieji'a clubs. The death of the president of a big eastern life Insurance company leaving behind him an estate of less than $."V),oo Is exciting astonlfhcd comment from the newspaper pa nigra pliers. Hud the facts been made public during the life of the deceased they would doubtless hnve been scouted as among the Impossibilities. In the suspicious state of the public mind, lncensfyi by disclosures of insurance graft, the innocent suffer along with the guilty. In cordially approving the course of the president In the matter of attempt ing to secure peace, farseelng members of the American Bar association would hasten the day when the International retainer fee will supersede the military budget. Negotiations are said to be in progress for uniting seventeen wholesale drug houses in Cunada Into one corporation with a capital of $10.ooO,OoO. Canada seems to be able to breed trusts without calling a protected tariff Into requisition. Flnlaln Flloanpy. Baltimore American. Whin yet hear a mun shoutln' out his (rood rlsolutlons, yea may sa-afely ask 'in whot he's been doln" that he's ashamed av. As It tonka from Afar. Detroit Free Presa. As time passes It becomes more and more apparent to the rest of the world that neither Japan nor Russia Is sufficiently clvilzed to civilize the other. o l imit Here. St. Louis Republic. Tt is true that good times and hard times have alternated In the past, but no time limit has ever been set u:xin good times. From present Indications they should last Indefinitely. Another Rash Abroad. Chicago News. It Is now the sugar trust's turn to be In vestigated. The public will watch with Interest to see whether. any of the trust's employes suddenly develop a sudden long ing to take trips to Europe. More Power to Hla F.lbow. Chicago Inter Ocean. Tf President Roosevelt suceeds In adjust ing amicably the differences between Rus sia and Japan, humanity the world over will have still further reason for wishing that the simple straightforward methods of American diplomacy may become the universal fashion. Front Door Wide Open. Philadelphia Press. By every change which Japan makes in Manchuria and Corea, raising the civilized level, our market will be Improved, and Japan, unlike Russia, cannot close nn open door which by aea must open alike to all lands. Russia could lock the front door and admit its goods by the back railroad door to Siberia and Russia. MAX AS A BACK RIHDEB, Another Chicago Professor Agitates the Humid Atmosphere. Philadelphia Inquirer. When It comes to sensational statements In psychology and sociology, commend us to Chicago, where they seem to discover more things which are not so than any other Center of the globe. One of Its learned educators has Just announced that man la a back number, that women are Increas ing In numbers and potentiality beyond men and that the males will soon be driven back to the farm.-' for a chance to get a living. He makes the cater -irlcal state ment that more girl babies than boys are born and that women have, according to returns In the last two census years, leaped from a trifle less than 4.000,000 of wage earn ers to more than 6,000,000. Well, what of It? There Is no law of society or state that can prevent women from earning a living. Most of them work aa do men and the re arrangement Is simply a difference of oc cupation. If more girls decline to stay at home and "help mother" and prefer to earn their own money It seems to us that, under normal conditions, it U a great gain to society. It leaves fewer to be sup ported by the men, and that la a blessing, since women have come to have so many new wants that must be supplied. Accord ing to the last census men were still pretty near 2.0OO.0U0 to the good In thla country and If the female population is, as asserted, increasing mora rapidly than that of males, it will take a good while to catch up. At present there seems to be no danger that there will necessarily be a resort to polyg amy to tupply the demand for husbands. Massachusetts alone has any notable de ficit of men, and this amounts only to about 60. (XO In a population of almost 1,000. 000. We see not the slightest objection to women becoming wage earners. It creates a much larger demand for merchandise of all sorts, and If eventually It sends more men back to the farms It will be no loss. In these days farming Is nut only a profit able occupation, but Is becoming more and more delightful compared with the ezlst ence of many of the dwellers In cities. If women get control of the world It will only be In pursuance of the Inexorable law of the survival of the Attest. BERMOXS UOILEU UOWV. Love alone can lift the lost. Burfelt la the foe of serenity. Wherever a He alights Its progeny arise. Opportunity Is only the obverse of obliga tion. Resentment bears heavy fruitage of re gret. Consideration for others Is the noblest courtesy. He who Is a friend only to himself Is a foe to all men. Men who spend their time knocking never open any doors. The things of life are likely to get In the way of life Itaelf. Most men are made by their enemies and marred by themselves. Ood never calls a man to command until he has learned to obey. No man wanders more easily than he who watches only another's wavs. Where there Is no heart In the work there la always plenty of hardship. It Is always a pleasure to the average man to boost another sinner down. The religion that cannot stand camping out l.ad better be left at home In the Ice box. The man who diights In giving f.tithful wounds does not thereby prove hlinsiif u friend. There la a good deal more charity In withholding the word of malice than In giving any kind ot a wad of money. Chi cago Tribune. Advantages and Dancers of Life Insurance as a Career. A WORD WITH THE MAN Suppose you were presented with an opportunity to enter a career of dignity and responsibility, which, for ability pos sessed, energy bestowed, and application given, promised the certainty of greater reward, both commercially and sentiment ally than any other career could possibly give would you grasp It? Yet this Is what I.lfe Insurance as a career Is offering every man who would make the most of his talent. In a super-flclal way, you may have thought of life Insurance ns a voca tion to attract only the mediocre, and not as a calling to demand the highest and best In a man. If so you have made a serious mistake. Commercially, life In surance Is the greatest fact in the world. In point of financial prestage and Influence, ,lt outstrips the great railroad and hank Industries of today. Combining with Its commercial primacy the hutnnnltarlnn pur pose, Its responsibility Is greater than that of any Institution known to man. Perhaps you have placed the Life Insur ance agent on a par with the peddler of collar buttons and hair pins. If so you have been guilty of grave Injustice. The Life Insurance Agent is a financial repre sentative selling responsible, necessary, Important securities. lTe is more than that. In the execution of his business, he bears the responsibility of a minister who endeavors to point out to the Indifferent the gravity of their mistakes In life; he must exercise the functions of a lawyer who is battling for the life of his client, at times, In the face of fearful odds; he must perform the necessary, though unwel come, task of the physician, who points out to the heartbroken parents that the only way to save the life of the child Is to use the knife. The officers of a Life Insurance com pany, commercially, must possess the spotless Integrity, evidence administrative ability of the very highest order, and be ready to meet the most serious demands that can be made upon the Intellect and morals of the Individual. Although the requirements are rigid, the rewards are rich. The life Insurance agent can choose his own employer, can select the territory for his labor, and Is never cut of work, save of his own volition. The opportunities of his career are Inex haustable. Ho Axes hla own hours of labor, and while employed and without capital, he Is still his own employer. There is no other career that offers as much of Independence, and there is no other career that gives the financial compensation bestowed upon the energetic, persjstent, able life Insurance agent. This very free dom is his greatest danger. It requires a man, aelf-rellant, of perfect self-control, BASC0M II. E0BIS0N, PRESIDENT, BANKERS RESERVE LIFE COMPANY, HOME OFFICE, OMAIIA, NEBRASKA. SECILAR SHOTS AT THE PIXPIT. Chicago Chronicle: Dr. Gladden Is still standing upon the housetops warning all passers-by not to hand him any tainted money. Kansas City Journal: The Methodist marriage service now pledges brides not to "obey" but to "keep" their husbands. It Is safe to say that husbands will be kept at least as well as they have been obeyed. Washington Post: The "Holy Rollers" are coming from the west to convert Newr York from the error of its ways. It will be worth the price of admission to see the joust between the Holy Rollers and the Hleh Rollersv Baltimore American: John Alexander Dowle In the new rules which he has for mulated concerning marriage and court ship has decreed that lovers must not klsa and caress one another. Mrs. Partington's attempt to sweep back the Atlantic ocean with a broom was practicability Itself com pared with this attempt to stop love's bill ings with an official coup. Atchison Globe: A preacher, to be pop ular, has to admire pluln and pretty babies alike, and an Atchison preacher, who Is fussy about being truthful, has this way of handling the pluln babies. He saya If you take the little red squirming baby from its nroud mother, hold It out at soul distance from you and, looking at It amtl- i lngly, say In a hearty tone, "Well, this Is a baby," the mother will be perfectly sat isfied. Chicago Tribune: Satan, In making hla accustomed rounds on the earth, stopped In front of a large and imposing building, near the front door of which was posted this sign; o oo o o o-o THIS CHt'RCH O IB CLOSED FOR THE BUMMER. -OO OO OO O OO O-O OO "That Is where I have the advantage," he chuckled. "I never shut down my works on account o? the weather." PF.RSOXAL AM) OTHERWISE. When Jack Frost tackles Yellow Jack there will be Joy 'way down In Dixie. It Is sufficient excuse for Japan's demand for reimbursement that It needs the kopecs. Misery loves company. St. Louis Is wor ried about lids and Chicago la crying out against s!:lds. Congressman Umgworth saved an editor from drowning in tho Philippines. Ing live Long-worth! No matter how deficient the sultan of Sulu may be In other respects, he showed good taste In his latest proposal. The latest problem In military science is whether a colonel can execute a Pla tonian pinch across a fHty-fuur-inch table. A fine of I t was Imposed on a St. Ixiuls woman for Inserting her teeth on the cheek of a neighboring sister. What hap-reni-d to the teeth la not stated. The reported anxiety of General Line- I witch to attack and rout the Japs la a pretty good sign that he has a capacloua joavn ready for his military reputation and for the rank and iile. By watihlng the activities of a neighbor hood people garner lips for jood deeds. Two hundred residents of Kanfis City. In the silent watches i f the nights, pushed an (it ftnslve billbuard imj p cuuventenl ravine. WHO WOULD SUCCEED. of great purpose and determination, to maintain s high degree of life and to keep from falling Into Indifferent and temporary satisfaction with a small degree of work. To every young man who reads this statement, the Bankers Reserve Life Com ryiny of Omaha, Nebraska, extends an In vitation to become a part In the work of building a Western Ufa Insurance com pany, now certain of great proportion and vast Influence. Py reason of our careful organization and severe restrictions voluntarily laid upon the charter of the company. It has been able to make an appeal to public con fidence that has gained amazingly satisfac tory results. Without boasting, It can lie suld that It is a far easier and a more welcome task to write Insurance for the Pankers Reserve Life Company of Omaha In the great territory of the West, where It operates, than It Is to do the same thing for any other company In the land. We want men. comparltavely young men, who are willing to work. We offer you no "Qet-rlch-qulck-and-essy-scheme." If you are honest, If you are willing to apply yourself. If you have the deter mined purpose to make a success In life provided you strike, the proper career, we can put you on the way and give you val ued assistance toward the ConsumHtlon of that desire. It Is not necessary that you should have experience; Indeed we prefer to train men In our own methods, the suc cess of which has been demonstrated by those who are now representing tia. We can offer you possibilities that no other company can present. This we say because we know It, and we can convince you of the fact If you will give us an opportunity to meet you face to face. Whatever your vocation may be now, whether you are selling goods over the counter, teaching school, occupying a posi tion In an office, administering the affairs of a church In short, If you are doing anything that is not giving you perfect satisfaction and If you possess the qual ities of honesty, intelligence, application, Bnd willingness to work, we are ready to talk to you. It Is not a life "on flowery beds of ease" or the position of a sinecure that we pro pose, but It is an opportunity to do work that Is really worth while, that would give you greater financial compensation than anything else, and that demands of you the best that you have to give in the way of effort. The territory is Inexhaustible, the horl son of action Is unconflned, and It la with you to say how far you shall rise, and how great a success you shall make. Let us talk it over with you. Either call upon or communicate with Not a word waa spoken, nary a tear was shed, and profound Ignorance as to who did It shrouds the artistic job. While the mercury was hovering at the century mark In Kansas City the other day a flurry of snow was observed by weather sharps. The mysterious stranger appeared while the lid waa off. Telephone promoters should give the widest publicity to the Minnesota story of the telephone as a protection against cy clones. The story rivals the telephone as an offspring of Inventive genlua. In their zeat to catch a bunch of unadul terated atmosphere New Yorkers propose ' to build a skyscraper fiOO feet high. Evi dently the atmosphere turned out by the newspapers is not fully appreciated At home. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Maude Do you think that Nell Is In love with Jack? Alice She must be. She laughs at all his Jokes - Somervllle Journal. "Is there a chance for me, Gladys?" "There Is. George one In a million." George was a young man of some experi ence. "That's too long a shot!" he exclaimed, picking up Ills hat Chicago Tribune. Pauline How many llsh did you get on your string? Madge Three. Two lawyers And A den tist. Detroit Free Press. "How dtil her father treat you?" "Quite warmly. He Invited me out." "Indeed!" "Yes. He aald: 'Come outside wher there'll be no danger of smashing the fur niture.' "Cleveland Plain Dealer. Miss Yerne Her complexion Is Just lovely. I wish I had it. Miss Bnappe Well, you know, the adver tisement says. "If your druggist doesn't keep It write direct to the manufacturer." ! Philadelphia Ledger. "He says his wife Is becoming unbeara ble; she says such sharp and sarcastlo things." "Why, he used to comment upon that be fore ho married her." "Ves, but he considered It "wit" then. Cleveland Leader. "Where In the world did that parrot learn to swear so?" "I brought him up on A golf links, ma'am." Ilrooklyn Lire. "Gee whls!" exclaimed Luschman, the next morning. "1 haven't a cent in my pocket this morning." "Well," remarked his wife, sharply, "whoa to blamo for that but yourself?" "1er think somebody else has had A hand lit It." Philadelphia Press. A BO I' BKX A DUE. i Iigh Hunt. Abou lien Adhem (may I. Is tribe Increase 'J Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace And saw. within the moonlight In hla room. Making it rich, and like a Illy In bloom. An ansel writing In a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Uen Adhem hi, 1,1 I And to the presence In the room he said: "What wrlleat inour trie vision raisea Its hend. And with a look made of all aweet accord, Answered. "The names of those who love the Lord." "And Is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not eo," Replied the anifel. Abou spoke more low. But cheerily still, and said: "I pray the, then. Write nn- as one that loves hi fellow men " The apsel wrote and vanished. The next rii'l,t It dune again, with a great wakening light. And showed the names whom love of Ood had bleseed. And lol ben Adhem Mm 14 AU tixt rest.