THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 7, 1900.
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Oakecrlbera leavtaaj the eltr
rarity aheald kave Tha Be
mailed theaa. Addreaa will hm
chaafd mm oftea aa requested.
The break on cotton ma mean that
ome speculator haa gone broke.
Shades of Oliver Twist, Cleveland,
do give the school boys enough to eat
Mr. Hearst is now even with Mr.
Bryan. Each has three defeats to his
score.
No parent will consider Pennsyl
vanla's Whltla kidnaping reward I
whit too much.
His rate of f 1.20 a
Peary the top-notcher
pole-climbers, anyway.
word makes
of magaslne
The Servian bishop should add to
his dootrlne the nfaxlm that you may
dream, but you mustn't tell.
The opera singer who failed to break
her rich aunt's will ought still to be
able to cash a few high notes.
Close observers may have noticed
that the Thanksgiving proclamation
crop is nearly ready for harvest. '
In charging for the site of women's
hots the express companies are only
.adding to the sighs of the husbands,
Now that the Chautauqua salute has
been abolished, how are the advocates
of a noiseless Fourth to celebrate the
dy?
The Mrs. Lemon of the opera house
gala wedding finally awoke to the fact
that she had been handed one, all
right.
Mr. Sprockets' plan for a national
anti-graft society may be expected to
result in some municipal sugar re
fining.
The deadly boiler tube seems to
need as much attention from the Navy
department as the revision of the foot
ball rules.
The Tax and Corporation Control.
When the torpors Hon income tax
feature of the tariff law was first
roposed. President Taft, urged that
s value would be more from the ref
lation and supervision exercised by
the government on the foundation of
the publicity required than from Us
proceeds as a revenue producer. If any
evidence were needed that the pres
ent laid more stress on this side of
the proposed tax than on Its treasury
filling possibilities, it will be remem
bered that the rate, first tentatively
fixed ot two per cent, was later re
duced, with his approval, to one per
cent. The best Informed authorities
seem to think even now that the revo-
ue producing capabilities of the new
ax on corporation net earnings have
been greatly underestimated, and that
while no one can make accurate or
even approximate predictions, the pro
ceeds of this tax will be greatly In ex
cess of what was expected when It was
incorporated into the law.
Recent developments In connection
with the federal corporation tax Indi
cate that the big corporation lawyers,
and the great corporation magnates.
have come to agree with the presi
dent that the amount of the tax is of
less consequence, than the far-reaching
control It gives federal authorities
through the power conferred oa them
to check up and verify the returns
made by the various corporations
showing their capitalisation, indebted
ness, receipts and expenditures., Sev
eral national organizations Incorpo
rated to promote co-operation In cer
tain lines of industry which would
have to pay merely a nominal sum as
tax have been advised by their at
torneys that the best thing for them to
do Is to divest themselves of their
corporate character la order to avoid
making the required returns. A big
industrial concern In Chicago likewise
has taken steps to relinquish Its char
ter with the explanation that the stock
is all held by the chief owner and he
can do business Just as well In his own
individual capacity without being un
der compulsion to divulge the Inside of
its financial operations. The example
thus set is naturally attracting' general
attention, and may be expected to have
numerous Imitators.
All this goes to prove that the pres
ident was eminently correct in his
original declaration that the publicity
and regulation features of the federal
corporation tax law would be the real
step in advance toward the assertion
of federal authority over menacing
corporations. This law will doubtless
have to run the gauntlet of the courts
for a test of Its constitutionality, but
should it be upheld as legitimately
within the congressional prerogative,
as many eminent lawyers think it will
be, it will make the corporation form
of doing business stand for, something
more than It does now on the scale of
commerce and- Industry.
death by the Judgment of a tribunal hrfore
which he waa not even allowed to appear.
That la why, too. our federal court to
day condemn to long terms of Imprlson-
ment the powerful financier whose mls
deeda have brought dlstreea to many, but
Interpoao the ahleld of the constitution be
tween tha newspaper men at Indianapolis,
and the efforta of an offended government
to drag them across tha continent for trial.
While It ahould ever be the effort to
Improve the eyatem and better tha proce
dure, yet we must adhere to the funda
mentals. Our courta must express by their
decisions the law of, the land, not the pcr
aonai predllectlona of the Judges.
This lucid statement is well worth
study. Ours Is a government of law,
and more than that, a government sub
ject to law. The highest law Is the
federal constitution before which any
conflicting state constitution or federa)
or state law must give way. Within
the spheres of the respective states the
highest law Is the state constitution,
before which legislature-enacted stat
ute In conflict must give way. The
court that upholds the constitution
may have to nullify laws passed in vio
lation of its provisions, but the court
which seeks to nullify tne constitution
in order to uphold specific legislation
attacks the bulwarks of, our liberties
and saps the foundations of our free
government. The Judges who wilfully
nullify the constitution rightfully ex
pose themselves to impeachment. Ours
is a government of law a law which
must govern Judges and law-makers
Just the same as Jt governs the private
individual.
signed to prevent accident. Careless
winding of Insulation caused a short
circuit which threw the block signal
out of service, and an Indifferent re
pairman swung a wire against an elec
tric interlocking device so that a motor
was energized to throw a switch, di
verting a fast train to a track on which
another was approaching. With the
utmost care, and the. Installation of the
most ingenious appliances, it would
seem that the railroad Is finally and
constantly at the mercy of the human
unit. .
Mr. Roosevelt may now consider
himself entitled to father the standard
Joke about the report of his death
being greatly exaggerated.
The American who shot himself in
a Parisian cafe after hearing the or
chestra may have been only suppress
ing a deBlre to shoot the musicians.
With "Uncle Joe" running a base
ball nine down in Danville, will the
handbook of parliamentary procedure
be substituted for the league rules?
If the astronomers expect young
America to take any interest in that
comet they would better hurry It along
before the next base ball season gets
under way.
For polite cloaking of short and
agly terms the courts are entitled to
our admiration, as witness the Judge
who, In appointing a conservator for
the 70-year-old bride who had Just
wedded a youth of SI, remarked only
(hat she li tkel "ethical Insensibility."
Befort It tuned up on the non-partisan
key the democratic World-Herald
boasted it was not In the habit of sup
porting republican candidates. The ob
ject of the non-partisan bunco game
was to fool republicans into supporting
democrats.
The republican platform on which
the state ticket was presented to Ne
braska voters this year appealed for
the support "of all good citizens who
believe in honesty, Justice and fidelity
and hate hypocrisy, deceit and faith'
lessness." We are glad to say a ma
lority of the citizens la Nebraska are
if Uat kind,' -
Government by Law.
During the campaign Just closed In
Nebraska, involving the election of
three . Judges to sit on the supreme
bench, the various reasons urged in be
half of different candidates and the
loose discussion of the principles of the
law and the function of the courts In
dulged In by those who were inspired
by selfish purposes, could not but tend
to confuse the public mind sb to what
constitutes a government of law. The
"nonpartisan" argument and the con-
tradlctlve "bi-partisan" argument, and
the "substantial Justice" plea, coupled
with the demand for Judges of a sym
pathetic turn of mind, are all based on
a misconception of the position ac
corded the Judiciary in our distribution
of official power between the various
co-ordinate departments . of govern
ment.
While the subject is still fresh, one
document brought out by the cam
patgn, though without direct bearing
on any particular candidacy, should
not be permitted to escape attention to
Its salient features. It is a. letter ad
dressed by Francis A. Brogan, presi
dent of the Nebraska State Bar asso
ciation, to a newspaper at Lincoln, tak
ing Issue that the latter's assertion
that the demand of the hour Is for
Judges temperamentally Inclined to
favor so-called reform legislation, irre
spective of constitutional limitations.
From this letter we quote In abridge
ment:
It cannot be too often repeated that thla
la to be a government of law, not of men,
It Is not the function of Judge to modify
thla system of law, and Its application to
the concrete facta of a caae, to suit his
own viewa of what the law ought to be.
If It Is once admitted that a Judge may
decide eaaea according to hla own personal
view of what you call "aubatantlal Jua-
tlce," auch a Judge may become the moat
arbitrary Instrument of oppreaalon, and the
fact that he exercises hla oppreaslve rule In
favor of the ..numerical majority, would
not palliate his wrongdoing. If he may
decide a caae contrary to law, In fever of
an unfortunate who la injured on a rail
road train through his own carelessness,
It he may decide for the poor man because
he is poor, and against the rich man be
cause he is rich, then he may decide a
cauae for one political party, because that
la the one which haa elected him, or for
the other, because he has drawn hla sup
port from that quarter.
Aa opposed to that theory of the Judicial
function, I support the other view, that
a Judge should be the very thing you de
plorea part of the machinery of the law.
If I read aright the hlatory of tha peoples
whoae inatltutlona have flowered on thla
continent, the highest product of their ef
forta haa been the ayatem of law whereby
the Judge shall, aa near aa human frall
tttea will permit, declare each caae accord
ing to a general rule of law. That la why
Justice and liberty are upon a higher plana
In England and America than elsewhere in
the world; that la why an Aaron Burr waa
acquitted la America by the application to
hia caae of settled principles, under the
administration of a Juat Judge, and to the
lasting glory of our law; while under other
ayatema and among people awayed by tem
perament In thejr political action, a Drc
fua languished In an unmerited dungeon,
and a Ferrer, for proclaiming the Intellec
tual freedom of the people, was shot to
nlng and as resourceful as he did Boss
McKane, so that he may as well be pre
pared for a bitter battle.
An American Philosopher.
The popular mind sees in the death
of Dr. William Torrey Harris the pass
lng of a noted educator, and laments
htm as such, but here was a far greater
mind than the general public realizes.
Profound thinkers the world over had
recognized the depth of his' scholar
ship. This was not limited to the
pedagogy whose principles he had de
fined for America and whose theories
he had put Into practice during his
term of office as commissioner of edu
cation, nor to the philology which had.
made him competent to administer the
functions of editor-in-chief of the
most comprehensive and authoritative
American dictionary. Beyond his eml
nent services as an educator and an
editor, his work In the field of phili
osopby stands pre-eminent.
America has had few great philoso
phers, since the day of the earliest,
Jonathan Edwards. While one in
stantly recalls Europe's famous names
in this realm of thought, he who is
asked to name America's chief philos
opher would stop ordinarily at Emer
son. Yet it waa Emerson's work which
Harris continued, and, In a way, per
fected. The Concord School of Phil
osophy held: no more capable advocate
than Harris, and he went beyond the
Concord limitations and Interpreted
for all Americano seriously bent on
knowledge and the pursuit of truth the
minds of the great masters of the
older world. Aa an expositor of German
philosophical thought, he was one of
the clearest; he gave to America, both
through his translations and his expo
sitions, the full logic of the great
Hegel. His birth followed Hegel's
death, but in the works of Harris the
works of Hegel grew, and In the final
estimate of Harris he will be acclaimed
as the one man In America who was
chief instrument in popularizing the
German idealism, as far as philosophy
can be popularized.
Contemporaneous with George Stu
art Fullerton and William James, he
yet outranked them both. Fullerton
rendered valuable service with his crit
ical studies, but Harris surpassed htm
in extending the range of vision. James
was a brilliant advocate of keen, orig
inal views, but Harris gave a system
atic presentation from a consistent
point of view. His books will live
as among, the deepest and clearest
wells of philosophic truth.
Oar Silent Millionairei.
The prominence given constantly to
a few of our very rich men, gives rise
to the general impression that Ameri
can multi-nillllonatres may be counted
off on the fingers by any child old
enough to read, until suddenly the un
familiar name of some Croesus appears
to remind us of the .existence of a
great number of silent millionaires
who are using their vast funds for
the benefit of humanity In their own
quiet way. A week ago, the name of
John 8. Kennedy would not have at
tracted attention anywhere, and the
fact of his death stirred no breakfast-
table talk except the comment that
such an old man should fall a victim
to whooping cough. When his will
discloses that he had bequeathed $25,-
000,000 to charity, religion and educa
tion, the American instinct, of commer
cial rating is aroused, and It is sud
denly realized that it Is possible to live
even in New York City the life of a
good citizen and public benefactor
without proclaiming from the house
tops the possession of fabulous wealth.
America hss a large number of such
men as Mr. Kennedy, wno have accum
ulated great fortunes and are admlnls
terlng them in an unostentatious but
serviceable way. Of late several such
men have been deliberately dragged
forth Into the limelight in illustration
of the very fact that the country does
not fully appreciate the worth of its
silent millionaires, but they have lnva
rlably come forth from their seclusion
reluctantly, and none of the noise
made about them has been of their
doing or their desire. It la always
In good taste, even in a millionaire, to
be as inconspicuous as possible. The
worth of a modest mind is well lllus
trated by the anecdote of the strug
gllng young couple who suddenly
struck it rich in the west. "Now that
we have all this money," said the hus
band, "what shall we do?" And his
wife answered, "Jack, let's be quiet."
The case of Mr. Kennedy demonstrates
that the silent undercurrents ot the
human race are Just as forceful as the
roaring cataracts. ,
The feminine "mystic" who Is cru
sading In Nw York for a four-hour
work day for men and women alike,
and whose argument Is that the sexes
do not see enough of each other, over
looks the historic esses of wrecked
marital life resulting from husband
and wife being too constantly In each
other's company. It is even possible
that the Carlyles might have been
happy if the husband had had a Job
that kept him away from home
through the day instead of fussing
about the house all the time. The
"mystic" plea for equal suffrage and
a four-hour work day might also put
to proof again the old Baying about
mischief for Idle hands.
I!
The local party favoring Immediate
Independence of the Philippines has
gained control of the Filipino assem
bly, but that Is what would naturally
follow In a country where only three
per cent of the people turn out to vote.
The agitators are the only ones who
concern themselves In politics in the
islands. Most of the people over there
are content to let the American gov
ernment administer their affairs.
Collier's Weekly prints a column of
Brickbats and Boquets" more or less
similar to that occasionally Indulged
in as a luxury by The Bee, and from
recent samples It looks to uo aa If Col
lier's ratio of brickbats were at least
equal to ours.
Those who are curious to know
whether a woman will ever be presi
dent of the United States should re
member that the constitution requires
each candidate to admit to an age
of 35.
Secretary Wilson might easily turn
those abandoned farms of the south
Into a national object lesson by putting
the 11,000 men of his department to
work on them.
No Assistance Called For.
Waahlngton Peat.
The farmers ought to be nearly ready
for another uplift, with all the money
they have made this year by attending to
their own business.
The Personal Equation in WreckiT"
Examination of the government's
latest reports on railroad accidents in
the United States shows that the old
theory that the personal equation is
responsible In nerl every case still
holds good. Some years ago bad rails
were blamed, and it was found that
the human element had neglected the
precautions against defects in speeding
the manufacture of the rails. Public
opinion and losses by the railroads re
stored the steel product to its former
grade.
The wrecks that seem to the layman
the most blameworthy are collisions,
but when run down, the list of causes
of this class of wrecks turns in every
case on the fatal personal equation.
One block signalman of years of ex
perience became confused during his
first .day on duty with a new road, and
failed to display a stop signal after
receiving a dispatch so to do. A dis
patcher's careless writing of two fig
ures and the careless misreading by a
trainman was the combination in an
other instance. Forgetfulness of
which the operator can give no expla
nation caused him to signal a clear
track after receiving a definite order
to stop a oertaln train. A conductor
misread the figures on a blurred time
table. A dispatcher with an absolutely
clear record for sixteen years mis
stated the station at which a train was
to take a siding. Another dispatcher
sent an inconsistent message which
two other operators copied and passed
on to trainmen without either noticing
the palpable discrepancy. In every
one or these cases tne initial error
might have been detected If the man
committing It had used the established
safeguards provided to check such
blunders, or if the men to whom the
errors were transmitted had had their
minds alert on their duties.
'The evident remedy is the use of
automatic .devices, yet the human ele
ment may vitiate the mechanism de
What's in aNNamet
Shall the upper classmen of an east
ern university be condemned because
they flunked in the examination de
signed to show their familiarity with
public names? Not to know the three
full names of the president, for In
stance, does not k necessarily argue
crass ignorance of or indifference to
either the personality or the official
importance of the chief executive. The
voter sees. the name William Howard
Taft once in the papers when nomi
nated, and once again when he is in
augurated "and never again does he
see anything but "Mr. Taft," or "Pres
ident Taft," or probably some familiar
nickname. The same was true of Theo
dore Roosevelt, and chances are that
the average man asked what was Mr.
Roosevelt's middle name would imme
diately hazard an Initial or admit that
ho did not know. It is but a short
time since the vice president was in
ducted into office, yet how many, off
hfciid, can repeat his name? Or who
can write out, much less pronounce,
the euphonious letters that combine to
indicate the identity of our secretary
of state? I ijsffsj
No, the lack of familiarity with
personal nomenclature does not put
the Brown boys any more to the blush
than it does the average citizen who
Is successfully supporting his family
and establishing his small meed of
fame. And after all, what is there
in knowing men's full names and load
ing up the mind with the contents of
congressional' directory. The one
word Roosevelt, or the one word Taft,
is sufficient to conjure up a mental
pit tutu of the man and his personality.
If a man has sunk his identity into
that of a public Institution, it is but
natural that the citizen will recognize
only the oice, not the occupant; but
where a man stands out apart from
his great office, as In the cases of
Roosevelt or Taft, the baptismal words
do not count in establishing the meas
ure of the man.
Gaynor and the Yellows. '
It will be curious to see how far
Judge Gaynor proceeds when he as
sumes the office of mayor of New York
toward fulfilling his pre-election pledge
to go after the yellow press of Manhat
tan and eradicate what he termed "as
sassination by Blander and libel,"
which, since' the arrival of a "certain
individual," had become in his Judg
ment "a system and a trade."
This Is a self-Imposed task of the
mayor-elect. No one had asked him
for such a pledge; the people were too
busy keeping pace with the new names
being coined dally in the campaign of
personalities. But since Mr. Gaynor
deliberately announced his intention
of "teaching these libellers a lasting
lesson through the criminal law," both
the yellows whom he thus defies and
the reputable Journals who disown the
yellows, will watch tor his next step
in this direction.
Mr. Caynor will have a reform dis
trict attorney, and if any of the old
offenders continue to put themselves
within the range of prosecution be
may have a chance to make at least an
effort. But he will find his foe as cun-
One by One They Go.
Philadelphia Record.
Still another departure from President
Roosevelt's "policies" la made In putting
the new extension of the White House di
rectly over the ground where the Roosevelt
cabinet used to play tennis.
Equalising: the Weight.
Chicago Record-Herald.
There is talk of aending Mr. Fairbanks
as ambassador to China; but In case w
were represented at Peking by a former
vice president, "wouldn't Japan Insist on
having us end a former president to
Toklo? '
Can We Spare) 'Kmt
Washington Herald.
A college professor advocates the aboil
tlon of the Ten Commandments. Why not
abolish a certain variety of college pro
fessors Instead? It would be much easier,
and decidedly more in keeping with the
eternal fitness of things.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
With Andy Carnegie. Tom Lip ton, "Toy
Pay" O'Connor and Dick Crocker on thla
side of the pond life must be mighty lone
some on the other side.
The head of the Chicago weather bureau
saya there Is no such thing aa Indian
summer. Residence In Chicago begets pes
simism.
The fight in Chicago Is aa good aa won.
Janitors are Joining the Tenants' Protec
tlve league organised to repeal the race
suicide rule of landlords.
Farmer Patten is demonstrating in
profitable way that raising cotton In New
York and wheat in Chicago beats the usual
methods of cultivation hands down.
Now that the tumult and the shouting
of offloeseekers have subsided, it is possl
ble to read these signs of the tlmea: "Oa
your Thanksgiving t.urkey ready;" "Do
your Christmas shopping early."
Fifty million dollars a year la the sum
needed to put Pacific coast ports In order
for Panama canal business. Pacific coast
ers strike out the word "ahould" and put
in "must" In the request to Uncle 8am.
SERMONS BOILED DOWIT.
Looking down never lifta up.
Every act la aome kind of a prayer.
Small talk often makea big trouble.
Habit serves the good aa readily as the
bad.
Moat people slip" up on their own smooth
ness.
The greatest sorrows are the ones
never reach.
Big plana for tomorrow are the stuff that
sloth fattens on.
Many a man would be like Job If It did
not cost so much.
We would all live In a fool's paradise but
for life's bitter blows..
Many a preacher smothers the truth in
his attempt to protect It.
Most , men like to let their light shine
when they get a new car.
Good advice is seldom taken save aa
Is given in practical doses.
No man gets any higher a character than
he wishes all others to be.
Some think they are aalnts because their
neighbors would be relieved to have them
go to glory. Chicago Tribune.
HEAVEN.
Wilbur D. Nesbit.
"What do you think that heaven may bar
rne nearer answered witn a smile:
"A place where folks like you and jne
May hear sweet music all the while.
Where rosea bloom and birds will sins:
And silver streams plash In the shade.
With naught hut Joy In everything
Of these, I know, la heaven made."
"What do you think that heaven may her"
The mother answered: ' 'Tls a land
Where all mine own my be with me
And where, too, I may underatand
The longings of the little hearts
And find my happlneae complete
In soothing with a mother's arta
The weary little hearta and feet.'
"What do you think that heaven may beT
The old man answered with a algh:
A cot beneath a spreading tree
That towers ever green and high.
And never wearlneaa nor at rife
Rut Juat a comfort calm and bleat
Such as we may not have In life
A folding of the hands In reat."
What do you think that heaven may be
w hy, it wouia oa or nine worth
Were it not given for ua to aee
borne PSIVfte of it here on earth;
It tiirouK fae moments and the years
could utrlnf Its radiant glow
To light oar auiilea and dry the tears
Of the weary folk we know.
Fm going to sell these
$30 Diamond Rings at
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I've Jnst returned from the seat Z pn la
whole month there, choosing Chrlstmaa jewelry,
OTsltlee and the like.
Bought quite the prettiest line of wares I've
ahowa la years but went la stronr ea diamonds,
raet la, Z purchased $30,000 worth from one Im
porter at a clip.
And I bought 'em KIOKT, too paid the im
porter CASK to QXT 'em right.
These diamond rings at $l for lnatanoe TO
guarantee they cannot be purohaeed for leas that
$30 right MW, at AWT other store la Omaha.
They're attraotlve atones, tool appeallngly white,
agreeably perfect; ent so as to bring out 1TB1T
bit of the stone's splendor. Moat captivating; at
It, sorely.
Ton '11 have nse for a ring of this sort will ytm
aott Zf not for yourself, well then to serve as
some one's Christmas gift.
But mind you. $16
tags on $30 diamond
rings will make em
sell VERY quickly.
Mandel'ber
1522 Farnam Street
UOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Madge (proudly) Did you see that hand
some man I junt danced with?
Kate res: ne nas a jealous wire, wno
will allow him to dance only with the plain
est girl in the room. Boston Transcript.
"Why that faraway look In his eyes?"
"Since our engagement he has thought
of nothing but marriage!"
I wouldn t marry a man who looked on
the dark side of things In that fashion."
Houston Post.
Minister And the child's name, madam?
Mother (firmly) Name him Frederick
Robert Cook Peary Smitn. I'm not going
to take any chances. Puck.
Friend My dear girl, you have brought
all this wretchedness on yourself. What
made you want to marry such an uriat
traotlve, disreputable fellow as this spend
thrift lord?
Titled Wife (sobbing) I didn't want to
marry him, but papa got htm so chenp, I
coudn't resist such a bargain, Baltimore
American,
'You wife's new hat makes her look like
a queen," said the man who tries to be
complimentary.
Don't let her near you say that." an
swered Mr. Bllgglns; "I have looked
through the histories and I never yet saw
a picture of a queen who looked as It she
employed a first-class milliner." Chicago
Record-Herald.
"Gwendolen, I suppoKe some worthless
young dude Is going to take you to the
theater thla evening?"
"yes, mamma, I'm going with brother
Oeorgo tonight. Chicago Tribune. 1 '
"I fear I am not worthy of you."
"Never mind about that," responded the
young woman with the square Jaw. "Be
tween mother and myself 1 Imagine we canr
effect the necessary Improvements." L.ouls-v
vllle Courier-Journal.
"Tell me ah are you a er ah a good,
cateful, excellent cook and a er a very
superior laundress?"
"Ah-h-h! Wot d'ye taake me fer twins?''
Harper's Weekly.
"Dad, what sort of a bureau Is a matri
monial bureau?"
"O, any bureau that haa five drawers full
of women's fixings and one man's tie in
It." Houston Post.
"Tho motto of our party is "Turn the
rascals out!' "
"Well, I gues your party has turned out
more rascals than any other." Cleveland
Leader.
DorCt Be a Slave
To Your Job!
fT If you are clerk in some Insurance office you have doubtless
Cl observed bow many field men, possessing no ureal er amount
M of brains than you, earn ten times your income. The reason
Is not far to seek they had courage to break away from a "sure ( ?)
thing" paying $12 or so a veek, to secure a permanent competency
working for themselves.
CIt is not always the man who sticks to one job for a lifetime
who gets ahead in the world. Whether a man should stay in
one place year after year depends altogether on the place. If
it offers you an opportunity to broader., stay. If it doeti not, quit.
Don't go through life in a narrow rut because you haven't the courv
age to break away. Your excuse is that you do not want to give up
a certainty for an uncertainty, but when you arc past middle age tho
"certainty" may prove a myth.'
""fT Most of the big men In this country today threw up positions
f II where they had a certainty because they felt themselves ca
Aaj pable of greater things. Don't become the slave of some poor
little job. You don't have to. We can establish you at once in a profit
able business with the certainty of an Increasing income as the years
go by.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society
OF TllE UNITED STATES
PAUL MORTON, President N. D. NEEI.V, Manager
Merchants National Dank ISuildlng, Om tha, Nebraska.
1 Users in
Nebraska Alone!
This Is something of a record, for the
Kranich & Bach
Piano, Isn't It?
105 homes in Omaha alone, have the sweet toned
Kranich if Bach pianos; 22 in Council Bluffs; 10 in
Kearney; 8 in Lincoln, and 51 are scattered out ove-the
state. WeV sold 'em all and doubt very much if ANY
purchaser in the total of 196 would WILLINGLY give
up his "Kranich V Bach."
Kranich fcf Bach are a firm of critical builders they
make EVERY part of their piano under ONE roof; un
der one watchful management, and a perfect manufac
turing harmony like this is SURE to produce something
excellent in the way of a piano.
Name of those 196 buyers given on application.
pjpaajsjjaw
1513 DOUGLAS STREET, OMAHA, NEB. f