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GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
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WHE.V out or tows.
" Sabaerlfcera leaTlast tk city ten.
poraurlly skoald fcsvr Tk Be
mm often as repeated.
There should now be a long closed
season tor "stories that Lincoln told."
It is difficult just now to arouse any
Interest In the new styles of fly screens
ani mosquito bars.
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"No treat statesman can be born in
New York," says Woodrow Wilson.
Ohio papers please copy.
Speaking of names,' the prohibition
ists have been defeated in a license
tight at Coldwater. Miss.
, How large is Omaha?" inquires an
eastern editor. Just about halt as
large as it will be in 1919.
.Highwaymen tried to kill a St.
Louis barber, who managed to escape
from them by a close shave.
There is nothing to show that serv
ant girls In Missouri have quit start
' lag tho Urea with Standard oil,
It may be explained on the theory
that the Japs have refused to buy any
' stock' In the Nevada gold mines.
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The Milwaukee Sentinel , refers to
. "Gif" Plnchot. Why not call him
"Pinch!" "Qlf" sounds so formal.
,- Mf. Bryan says be is much encour
, aged by the spread of democracy. The
trouble with democracy is that It is
spread too thin.
8paln is now explaining why it
dropped Cuba in 1898. Spain dropped
Cuba because the little island was too
hot to hold longer.
I
i The sultan of Turkey has discovered
that ho can duck debts under a con
stitution almost as well as in the old
days of despotism.
. ,The new battleship Delaware is 510
fief long and 85 feet wide. That's
about tho sise of its namesake state
when tho tide is in.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma is
' said to bo exceedingly fond of apples,
' although folks insist on handing him
aothing but lemons.
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Tho head of an Indian school in Ok
lahoma has been Indicted fourteen
times. He must be trying to get into
Governor Haskell's class.
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If tho weather bureau has any re
' spect for precedents we may not look
for any lengthy retirement of the cold
wave until after March 4.
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At last accounts 1,600 Tennesseeans
had admitted that they were unfit to
serve on the jury trying the man who
killed ex-Senator Carmack.
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' A travel magaalne has a long de
scription of South American flowers
' "that no man has seen." The name
of tho woman explorer is not given.
'X suspender, factory in Kansas City
is advertising for twenty "hold-up"
men. Chicago could supply the de
mand without materially reducing the
visible supply.
'The federal supremo court is sup
posed to have decided that a trust can
not collect its bills. If so, the trusts
will get around that by hanging out
tho "No Trust" sign.
Senator Perkins declares that the
Japanese must go and that congress
has no right to interfere with the pro
ceedings of any state along these lines,
Senator Perkins must desire to bo
Vuowb, as tLs California Uobson, '
TLATiya Wltlt FIRE.
If the railroads are behind the bills
Introduced at Lincoln to change th
method of assessing railway property
in Nebraska and to repeal the terminal
tax. law put on the statute books two
years ago, they are foolishly playing
with fire. It is for the reason that the
railroad managers are, as a rule, men
of intelligence and far-sightedness and
any plan to relieve them of present
taxes would be so palpably an evasion
of ax burdens they ought justly to
bear, that we hesitate to believe that
the controlling authorities of our rail
roads are really behind these pleasures.
Notwithstanding all their protests
and complaints, the railroads of Ne
braska have been treated -more than
fairly in the matter of taxation, and if
the balance were struck they would
find themselves far to the good as com
pared with the owners of other tax
able property. The experiment of the
railroad tax injunctions cost the rail
roads involved thousand upon thou
sands of dollars in cash, to say nothing
of the cost in alienating public senti
ment which would otherwise have re
main id much more friendly.
The present disposition in Nebraska
is to let railway legislation now on the
statute books work out in practical
operation and to rely on the State
Railway commission to redress new
grievances that may arise from time to
time, provided the railroads adjust
themselves to the new conditions in
good faith. Undertaking to put
through a reactionary program on the
part of the railroads and their spokes
men cannot but have the effect of
again inflaming popular resentment
and starting anew the old conflagra
tion that is still smoldering, but not
totally extinguished.
FREVEXTIXO DISEASE.
One of the most significant and
cheering features of the annual re
ports of the different large cities of
the country for the last year is the
showing by the health boards of a
generally decreased death rate. While
Omaha's record in this respect is of
the best, the improvement in New
York, Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee,
Cincinnati and other cities from which
reports have been published is no less
marked and gratifying.
Many agencies have contributed to
this result and there is every evidence
of a growing popular interest in work
for health conservation. Within the
year the tuberculosis congress and
similar organizations have done much
to direct publlo attention to the ease
with which many - forms of disease
may be prevented; that It is much
easier to prevent a bodily wrong than
it Is to cure it; that It is more impor
tant that a person should live in a way
to" maintain robust health than to be
informed how to coax i health back
after it has fled; that it Is better to
ask the physician, "How can I keep
well?" than "How can I get well?,
Much of this Improvement Is due to
the growing conviction among physi
cians and public officials generally
that diseases are not individual, but
in many cases social. Lack of nutri
tion, wretched housing conditions,
filthy streets and unsanitary condi
tions generally are found back of tu
berculosis, typhoid and most of the
children's diseases. Poverty, ignor
ance and evil environment are the
most prolific sources of sickness, and
their removal becomes as much a pub
lic duty as It is the duty of the physi
cian to treat the physical ills of his
patients.
Great progress is being made In
that direction and each year witnesses
greater expenditures in sanitation, in
guarding the milk and water supplies.
In enforcing pure food regulations and
in the adoption of other precautions
for the protection of the public from
disease. The public health Is the na
tion's greatest asset and every move
ment 'looking to the safeguarding of
it should be heartily encouraged.
THE HOUSE AXD THE AUTOMOBILE.
After a heated discussion congress
has decided that when Mr. Taft be
comes president he may have the use
of automobiles instead of horses for
official locomotion. So long as it is a
matter of custom and law for the gov
ernment to bear the expense of main
taining the White . House stables,
whether the barn should be full of
horses or automobiles, should be left
to the preference of the president.
Congress should . ask ' the president,
"Horse or auto?" just as the thought
ful hostes.t would ask a guest whether
he preferred tea or coffee. But we
are harlug an oratorical form of gov
ernment at this session of congress
and when the bill appropriating
money to buy automobiles for the
president came up Senator Bailey had
to let off some steam.
, Mr. Bailey owns-a stock .farm and,
anyway, there are more horses than
automobiles in Texas, so he denounced
the automobile, lauded tho horse and
kicked like a mule against the appro
priation. He declared that if be had
his way ho would make it a crime to
use motor cars on the public highway.
"I believe." he said, "that the horse
is the noblest of God's dumb animals
and I do not want to see him sup
planted by a senseless machine. Next
to the dog, the horse is man's best
friend."
Things do not appear to be going to
suit Senator Bailey at all. Ho railed
against the dress suit, but they still
wear them in Washington. He has
denounced the social life at Washing
ton and has opposed every increase of
pay for federal officials because their
substance is squandered in riotous
living. "It a private cltlten of New
York wants to give a feast for mon
keys," says he, "he has a right to en
tertain the descendants of his ances
tors, but wo want no such exhibitions
by our public servants." He would
oppose greenhouses st the White
House so long as there are poor houses
in America and, above all, he wants
no automobiles cramming the streets
of Washington, at least not so long as
Texas has horses for sale. He wants
the product of the farm given prefer
ence over the product of the factory.
Senator Bailey's outburst demon
strates that he has had his wish. In
the course of his speech he said, "I
want to go back Instead of going for
ward." .
CADETS WAXTED AT WEST WIST
With the cadet corps at West Point
121 short of its authorized strength,
a bill has been offered in congress au
thorizing the appointment of two ad
ditional cadets from each state tor the
purpose of bringing tho corps up to its
authorised strength. No objection
can be offered to this proposition, but
there should be no hesitancy on the
part of congress in rejecting another
pending bill lowering the requirements
for admission to the academy. How
ever urgent the demand for more
graduates from West Point to fill the
vacancies in the officers' list, there
should be no lowering of the standard
either for admission or for graduation.
As showing that the fault is clearly
not with the academy, the report of
the superintendent states that in the
examinations last spring a remarkably
small proportion of tho applicants- an:
swered both the mental and physical
tests. Of the 460 appointees, princi
pals and alternates, 111 failed to re
port for examination. Of the $49 re
porting 124 were wholly satisfactory,
131 were rejected as physically eligi
ble, but not up to tho mental mark,
fourteen gave up the examinations as
"too hard" and ten who passed the
mental examinations were rejected for
failure to meet the physical require
ments. There is much speculation as to the
cause for this shortage in numbers
and the lack of quality in the material
offered tor cadetshlps. It is apparent
that the congressmen have not been
at all careful in designating appointees
for the examination and it is equally
evident that the public school course
does not properly prepare students for
the examinations required for admis
sion to "The Point." A preparatory
school to fit appointees for the exam
inations at the academy may be
needed, but it would clearly be a low
ering of the standard, with a threat
ened impairment of the efficiency to
make the admission requirements
easier than they are. This is an age
of specialization and West Point is a
great military university. Its admis
sion requirements have been raised,
as they have been in all our colleges
and universities, and their enforce
ment should be kept stringent, in
stead of allowed to slack for the pur
pose of Increasing the number of the
cadet oorps y .
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THE X EXT WORLD WAR.'
Students ot the Bible have long con
tended that 'the thirty-eighth and
thirty-ninth chapters of the prophecies
of Ezekiel, foreboding a fourteen
years' war .between the followers of
the Lord and the unbelievers, con
templates a vast and terrible conflict
between the western world and the
hordes of Asia. The latest supporter
of this view of Ezeklel is found in
"Fighting Bob" Evans, who predicts
that the next world-war will be be
tween Russia and Japan, with Ger
many, France, Austria and Italy
aligned with Russia against the Japa
nese, who will probably have the sup
port of China and most of tho coun
tries of the orient. In discussing the
situation, Admiral Evans says;
A few days ago, when the Russian gov
ernment floated a loan of 1260,000,000, which
was subscribed thirty times over, that was
Russia's notice to Japan "to get ready for
war and stay ready, for I'm going to lick
you!" And what is more, Japan Itself
recognizes and realises the position In
which It Is placed. Th handwriting Is
plain. Japan can read.
The admiral expresses belief that
Great Britain will be allied with the
Japs, perhaps not in active fighting, but
in financial backing. The prophecy is
interesting and much of it seems
plausible, but a race conflict in which
most of the nations of continental
Europe will be pitted against, the
brown and yellow men ot Asia would
be a startling situation. The defeat of
the Asiatics, with Britain as Japan's
ally, would give the other nations of
Europe dominance and make the
United Kingdom a second-rater in the
list of worldpowers.
The bare possibility of such a con
flict opens a wide field for speculation
as to the result. There are about 300,
000,000 white people in continental
Europe. The Mongolians, Including
the Chinese and Japanese, number
more than 600,000,000 and it the peo
ple ot India and the rest of Asia are
to be counted there would be a total
of about 1,000,000,000 people against
which Europe would have to contend.
In that event, the result would depend
largely upon the scene Of the conflict,
whether the white men would fight on
their own soil or be compelled to carry
on a war in foreign territory. The su
perior knowledge and discipline ot the
whites would have, an offset in the
larger numbers, and the fanaticism of
the Asiatics-. From a purely military
standpoint, the conflict would be well
worth watching. '
It is refreshing to Bote that Admiral
Evans leaves the United States out ot
the conflict. He Insists that Japan has
no desire to fight this country and says
that it will not be long until the United
States will have a fleet, of warships so
great and powerful that no nation on
earth will dare tackle us. The rest of
the admiral's forecast of the future
military conditions is interesting
enough for verbatim reproduction:
Japan has not th sllsntest desir la the
world to fight with her bankers. Kn gland
ml' the Vnlted Plates are Japan's bankers.
Tlie Japanese sre a clever people. They
realize the truth of what I have Just said.
There Is a limit to the resources of that
country. Japan, I believe, can see the end
of those resources even now. The country
cannot go on at the rnte that It is spend
ing money. It Is out of tho question. Ja
pan recognises that a conflict with Russia
is inevitable and the government Is strain
ing every nerve, exhausting every effort,
to put Itself In a state of preparedness.
But the resources of Russia are prac
tically illimitable. Russia Is anxious to
avenge Itself on Japnn, and, as I said be
fore, the floating of that enormous loan
was Russia's plainly spoken notice to
Japan of what the latter might expect
The day Is coming when the richest
nations of the earth only will wield .the
power. These nations are the United
States, England, Russia and France. Oer
many, despite - efforts of the German em
peso r, is dropping to the rear. Germany
has not the wealth. These four nations
will rule the sea. Their supremacy will
be unquestioned.
THE WAR AQAISST ' OPIV3I.
It was fitting that congress should
pass a law prohibiting the importation
ot opium except for medicinal purposes
on the sameday that the International
opium conference opened at Shanghai
to consider , ways and means for a
world-wide war against the general use
of the drug. Failure to pass the bill
would have placed the delegates from
this country in the embarrassing posi
tion of urging the abolition ot the
traffic elsewhere whilo permitting it at
home.
The conference at Shanghai is really
the outcome of a movement t started
by President Roosevelt several years
ago. Government agents have been
conducting investigations In the Philip
pines and in this country and will pre
sent to the conference an array of sta
tistics showing that while the Chinese
population of this country has in
creased but little in the last decade the
amount of opium in smoking form
used in this country has increased by
more than 200 per cent in ten years.
High authorities state that 60,000
pounds of crude opluni would satisfy
all the legitimate annual demand for
the drug for medicinal purposes, yet
last year more than 400,000 pounds
were imported to this .country. -The
statistics show that the habit of opium
smoking is becoming very common
among confirmed criminals, among the
negroes in the south and that its use
has increased about 150 per cent in
the last ten years in Maine, with an in
crease of about 100 per cent in all the
New England states.
An interesting feature of facts de
veloped is that the Chinese in this
country are using less of the drug than
ever before and 'that the Chinese' gov
ernment is the most ardent supporter
of the crusade for the suppression of
the opium trade. Sir Robert Hart, the
supervisor of the Chinese customs and
perhaps the best authority living on
Chinese affairs, in a recent interview,
said: ' ' "
Opium. Is doomed. Both government and
public opinion are against' it, and the new
generation will have no opium-smokers.
The growth of general trade will make
up for the loss of opium revenue, and
not only will the country be freed from
the. nightmare of the opium habit, but
foreign intercourse will be freed from an
objection and an obstacle.
Practically all of the governments
represented in the Shanghai confer
ence are unreservedly hostile to the
opium trade so that it may be assumed
without undue optimism that Sir Rob
ert Hart's opinion that "opium is
doomed" may be vindicated within a
short time.
RACE 1RACK OAJdBLlXO DOOMED.
A bookmaker on the New Orleans
race track has been found guilty of
violating the Louisiana anti-gambling
law and has been sentenced to seven
months imprisonment and the pay
ment of a fine of $350. The case was
in the nature of a test of the race
track law, which has been stubbornly
fought by the gambling interests of
the south, causing the most bitter feel
lne and resulting in open warfare be
tween the champions of racing and its
opponents. The promoters of racing,
and the gambling attachment thereto,
carried their warfare to the extent of
attempting a business boycott ot cer
tain New Orleans newspapers that
favored the anti-racing bill and were
stopped only by a federal court in
junction.
While the New Orleans case will
doubtless be appealed, the decision ot
the district court Is in keeping with
decisions of the courts in other states
wherever a crusade has been made
against race track gambling. Tho
most notable fight on this lino was
made in New York during the closing
days of Governor Hughes' first term.
The legislature refused to pass an anti
racing bill recommended by the gov
ernor and he called an extra session to
consider the measure. The bill was
adopted and, as a result the entire
racing and gambling element of New
York City and state were arrayed
aaalnst Governor Hughes tor renomi-
natlon and election. His emphatic vindi
cation sealed race track gambling In
New York and practically drove the
Belmont racing syndicate out of busi
ness. Other states followed the New
York example, but the action of the
Louisiana legislature was a great sur
prise, as it was believed by the racing
men tbft the southern love for the
"sport ot kings," was strong enough
to'stotp anti-racing legislation for
years to come.
The growing sentiment against
bookmaking has apparently routed the
race track gamblers in their strong
holds. Bennings, under the shadow of
the capitol at Washington, Lexington,
Ky., and Sacramento, Cal., are
about the only noted tracks still
open to the running horses and the
patronage at these can not support the
game. Horse breeders and racing
men agree that the gate money at
races, where betting is prohibited, will
not produce revenue sufficient to main
tain tho great breeding farms and rac
ing stables and that It betting is bar
red the incentive to breeding and
training thoroughbreds is destroyed.
Whichever tho viewpoint, the New
Orleans decision may be accepted as
a final get-away day for tho racers for
an indefinite term.
Laboring men on the Pacific coast
might make a stronger case against
Japanese and Chinese workmen if they
could show that they are willing to do
the class ot work for which the orien
tals are employed.
The name of th new lieutenant governor
of Missouri Is Gmellch. How h pro
nounces it we are quite unablo to say.
Los Angeles Tribune.
Mr. Gmelich pronounces his name
Just as though the "O" were on de
tached duty.
An orange-colored bulldog named
"Ace" is missing from the White
House. An orange-colored ace may
be all right in the dog lino, but its ap
pearance in a poker game would start
a riot. N
"How much wealth can a man ac
quire and keep within the law?" asks
a magazine writer. Don't know, but
are certain that most ot us are keeping
within the law on that score.
Dr. Marquis say's Mr. Rockefeller
could liavo become pope if he had de
voted his energies to the church. Still,
there is no record of a Baptist ever
having been made pope.
A French writer insists that corsets
are the greatest menace to good
health. Those of us who never wore
them will have to take hearsay evi
dence on the subject.
Season of Preparation.
Washington Post.
The announcement that the house and
Benat are preparing for ' the extra ses
sion of congress probably means that they
are practicing on how to communicate
thoughts without the use of expletives
and cplthots. ,-
Good Business Proposition.
Boston Herald. '
Well, why shouldn't the life insurance
companies take the advice of Prof. Irving
Fisher of Yale and enter upon an active
campaign of education to Improve Jiy
gicnlo conditions throughout the coun
try? It would surely, cut down their
financial obligations sufficiently to make
it a profitable proposition.
Kew Terror 1st Life.
Philadelphia Record.
The Maxim device which dissipates and
destroys the noise occasioned by the fir
ing of a gun, without decreasing the speed
or otherwise affecting the flight of the
bullet, adds a new terror to th use of
firearms. It -will make stealthy gun
powder crime much less liable to detec
tion when a man may load his weapon
with smokeless powder and discharge It
without telltale noise.:
Home Love the Best Charity,
Baltimore Sun. ,
We have come to realise that a child
needs something more than clothes and
food to develop the best; it needs th love
that can only b found la a home. ' The
success of the whole depends entirely
upon the success ot the unit, and this
can only be achieved by recognising each
unit, though it be merely a puny little
child of want or crime, as an Individual,
with Individual characteristics and an In
dividual yearning for love.
Good Day for Good Deed,
Philadelphia Press.
The Main was sunk In Havana harbor
at 9:40 in the evening of February IS,
1898, eleven years ago next Monday.
Surely that anniversary date should not
be permitted to pass by without some
substantial action being taken in con
gress for raising the wrecked hull of the
old American battleship from a foreign
harbor and giving the bodies of the Amer
ican sailors Imprisoned In the wreck an
honorable burial.
PERSONAL A.ND OTHERWISE, s
Divorce proceedings featured by St. Louts
papers make the morals of the town look
decidedly Lemp.
The frequency of th police court appear
ances of Mrs. Carrie Nation shows the old
girl is having a smashing time In England.
The sol suggestion of a reflection on the
life of Lincoln is that he tried his hand at
poetry In his youth. But he had th cour
age to reform. . .
King Menelik of Abyssinia is enjoying the
rare privilege of reading his own obituary
notices. He admits the reports of his death
were somewhat exaggerated. '
Chicago does not boast much of Its climate
In midwinter, but the advertised fact that
100 trains a day leave the city for sunnier
climes affords a clue to the cause for the
steadily growing population of Omaha.
American Inventive skill is equal to every
emergency. A corkscrew is doing business
in certain southern states, equipped with a
device which smothers the cough usually
accompanying the drawing of the cork.
A sleuthing association finds that the
sheriff of Cook county, Illinois, keeps his
boarders in fairly good condition at a cost
Of 7 cents each a day. Compressed atmos
phere from the stock yards does the busi
ness. To be one of the mentioned for a cabinet
position is not wholly profitless. Banker
Reynolda of Chicago was In the mentioned
class last week. He is out' of it this week.
The bank boosted his salary from 120,000 to
150,000.
SERMOXS BOILED DOWN'.
Knowledge is power only so far as It Is
practiced.
Tou can complete a good work, but you
can never end It.
Conscience is simply out sens of moral
social responsibility.
No man bears his burden better by add
ing your blame to it.
Th faroff vision comes half way to those
who follow it faithfully.
New thought is like new coin, th brass
seems as good as the gold.
Lite is pretty sure to b tragedy to tboa
who tak it only as a play.
Th proof of an education lies In a mind
so tilled that prejudio gains no root,
Th man who thinks he is generous to a
fault is often generous only to his own.
The greatest wonder In the character of
th angels Is that they endure all th saints.
All men would try to be meek If they
were dead sure of th promts to th meek.
It is oftsn our failings that bold our
friends, but we do not need to multiply
such anchors.
- Bom folks always alng. "Oh, to be noth
ing," before they alng, "J ere. Lord, I give
myself away."-Clilcagi) Tribune.
Ancient History
THE OIVIAHA BEE
THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Proprietor
T, (Morning and Sveaing) UVWDAT. WXZKLT.
E. ROSE WATER, Editor. 1
' " Omaha, September 17, 1906, v
Mr. H. D. Neely, Manager,
The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. ;
Omaha, Neb.
My Dear Sir: . '
I am glad to acknowledge receipt of your Society's check, paying
the claim presented to your office In Omaha. September 12. 1906, on
policies on the life of my father, the late Hon. Kdward Hosewatcr.
My father's life was Insured for 29l,449.00 in fourteen different
companies, the largest amount in any one company being held In the
Equitable, and you have made good your assertion that the Equitable
would be the first to pay any money to the estate.
Thanking you in behalf of all the family and executors for the
yiuuiyi uiauurr 10 wmcn you nave
lours
Modern History
GENERAL, OFFICES OF
NYE SCHNEIDER FOWLER CO.
ESTABLISHED 1869
Fremont, Neb., February 3, 1909.
b. R. Elson, Agency Supervisor,
Equitable Life Assurance Society,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:
The first life Insurance policy I ever received was written by the
Equitable in 1880, and, at the end of its twenty year period, I accepted
cash settlement and took another policy with your Company. Since that
time I have taken out other policies with your Company on the 10-pay-ment
plan, which are now paid up, and last year I received on the paid
up policies a dividend which was very satisfactory.
I regard the Equitable Assurance Society a sound institution, a
good insurance company, and under the capable supervision of Mr.
Paul Morton, should particularly appeal to Nebraska people wantlug
Insurance. Yours very truly.
Equitable Life Assurance Society
of the United States.
. "Strongest In the World"
PAUL MORTON. President ' .
H. D. NEELY, Manager, Omaha, Nebraska
ARE YOU SATISFIED
WITH YOUR JOB?
If you are not getting as much as your services are
worth;' if you have energy, tact, and' perserverence, and
are intelligent and of good character, you can have a
position as big as you can fill. Several important points
in Nebraska are open.- ;
WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT NAN
When we find him we
train him for our work, and advance him as fast as he
grows.
For Bright Hul!cr tv. GreaJ Future is Asaured
If this Interests you, write at once or call upon
S. EL ELSON, Agency Supervisor,
402 Merchants National Bank BIdg.,
OMAHA, - NEB.
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PILPIT
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Jersey City
pastor who so bitterly condemns klaslng
must be a total abstainer. .
Chicago Record-Herald: There Is In New
Jersey a minister who makes marrying peo
ple his specialty, while his son Is doing a
thriving business as a divorce lawyer. Thus
they catch them coming and going.
Charleston News and Courier: Isn't it
strange that Rabbi Wise of New York la
the only honest man In that great city?
That the newspapers and the managers
of the theaters are all a lot of moral In
vertebrates; that the rich men of New
York are only money getters? But it can't
be helped, we suppose. In all tge ot the
world there has been some one who has
stood out above the herd as a great moun
tain peak Solomon, the wisest man; Moses,
the lawgiver; Joshua, the warrior, and now
it has come to pass that we have Wise,
the lecturer. Happy the people who have
such a leader.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES,
"Suppose women went to congress, what
do you suppose would happen?"
"They would simply go along domestic
lines."
"How would that be?"
' "Every woman who went to congress
would want to be speaker of the house."
Baltimore American.
"Tour husband plays poker a great deal,
doesn't he?"
"No." answer young Mrs. Torkins, "he
doesn't play much."
"What prevents him?"
"The (act that pay day does not come
Oftener." Washington Star.
Mistress Whst did you tell those ladles
who ust called?
Servant CM told 'em you was out, mum.
Mistress And what did they say?
Servant "How fortunlt," muni. Puck.
Teacher Tommy, what Is a trust buster?
Tommy Pa is.
Teacher In what way. Tommy?
Tommy Well, ma told him when he went
to the club last night that she'd trust him
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COUTAHT
Cool
Our Carbon Soft Cool l oollent for cooking and host
ing. It la Clean, Qulok, Not and Lasting. Wo havo sold
ooal In Omaha 1$ yoara. and wm know tho Carbon to bo
tho boot Coal ovor offorod horo for tho prloo fd.fiO per ton. Wo
alao ooll Ohio, Rook Springs, Hanna, Chorokoo, Walnut Blook, Coke,
Wood and Kindling. Our Hard Coal la tho Soranton-tho boot Pennsyl
vania ooal ntlnod. Wo ooll tho bast Arkansas Anthracite. $9.00, and
Climax Nut, 94.o0-t.umo, f S.00.
Tels: Ceil- 839; hi. A-3830.
made this settlement, I remain,
very truly,
will spend money and time to B
to come home sober,
Angeles Express,
and he. didn't. Los
She is verv up-to-date. Isn't she?"
Sunday's paper?"
"No, what was lt?'l
HouSSaftst?- Q-'J h" -dJ--e.s."-
."cTO.Aa'SSj. Yast'nTght"1"6 PCr,r-
.i'l,lV!ly N""?1"' hki the skull and said:
jilrth K,.r T1?rk! You ra nt the only
deadhead In the house.1 "-Ht. Louis Times.
THE FADED VALE.NTI.VK.
William 11. Nesbit.
Now. Smith Is hard and stern of lave
A man opposed to entlmnt; '
His eyes give not the slightest trsce
, . - iirau is pern
And yet today he ll close the door
.nnu wuii upa m a sorter line
Will gase for hslf an hour or more
tpon a faded valentine.
Within the pocket next his heart s
He carries It a yellowed thing '
Of penciled scrawl and feeble art:
Tou would not think that It could brim
The light that now comes to his eyes
Which have the dullness brought with
age,
Nor that he'd bnd, with stifled sighs.
And klsa the smudged and tattered page.
The prints of chubby fingers mar
The whiteness of the crumpled sheet
But Smith, in thought goes back, afar.
And bears a child's voice, shrilly sweet,
And sees the little hands that traced
The message that is written there
In letters that are half misplaced
Though mad with slow and painful care.
Ah, y'ou and I could never see
The child-face that glows in the lines!
All valentines, to you ond me,
Are ordinary valentines.
But ha can hear her laugh and alng
When he looks at the little scrawl
Upon the old and yellowed thing;
"You kno 1 luv you best of all."
And there are tear stains on it now
The chubby fingers, one dark night,
Grew waxen as the curl-kissed blow
That faded Into waxen white. ,
And so you see you understand
Why Smith has memories that twins
About tha psge held in his hand,
The little faded valentine.
Q. SQUIRES
Office, 1406 Farnam Ot.
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