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THK HKE: OMAHA, F1?I DAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. 'Hie omaiia Daily Bee. FOUNDED Hr EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EPITOn. Entered at Omaha paitofflce aa aecond rlaUM matter. TERM9 OF SUUSPRIPTION. Ialljr Rex (Including Sunday), pr wwk 15c Dully Bee (without Sunday), p'r vn-k 10c Daily Hee (without Sunday), one year M 00 Dally He and Sunday, one y'ar .0t DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening IW (without Sunday) per week Kc Evening Bee (with Hunday). per week 1'W Sunday Bee, one year 12. W) Saturday Bee, one year 1 BO Address all romplalnts tt Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Pe Building. 8outh Omaha Tentv-fourth and N. Council Hluffe-I". Hcott Street. Lincoln SIM Little Building. Chlciigi IMS Marqui'tte Hulldlng. New York-Itoom 1101-11'B No. 84 West Thirty-third Street. . . Washington 725 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to nowi and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial I )i pti rtment, REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Flee 1'ubliHhlng Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Corson! clucks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT ,OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, "Douftl a Counry, s.: Isorge B. Tischuck, treasurer of The Bob I'ubllshlng Company, being duly worn, fays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morn ing, Everting wnd Sunday Bee printed dur ing the month, of November. 1K09, was aa follow a: . . l.i 43,070 It 41,930 1-.' 43,050 17 43,160 ( 42,700 IS 41,600 43,1m , II 41,393 t.v 43,450 20 41,950 4 43,170 (1 40,340 1... 40,040 tl 41,860 .. 41.S30 21 41,790 . 43,100 14 41.78 10 41,830 25 41,700 11.. 41,760 t 43,340 11.. 4a,6W M 41,810 1 41,740 it 40,400 14 40,100 29 41.US0 lft.. 4i.,8U0 go 41,930 Total I,353,b50 ltrtili'.ied Cuplba 9.B4S Not Total 1,343,005 lull Average 41.7M iih,0. li. TZiSCIiUCiC, Treasurer, bubsuiiucu in my 4uraem.j and sworn to b.i.e i..e mia isi uuy of uocemocr, 111 3. totai) M. P. WAL.KEH, Notary tuollc Subscribers leaving; (lie city teui porortly ahoald have Tbe Bee mailed to then. Address will be changed as often aa requested. The Now Year's horns In New York will also sound taps for Tammany. Let us be grateful to the old year for a change of customs In the customs service. Now the struggle begins to make one s subconscious self forget the terminal 9. iV-i ' .:'. At ;,M ' .(o''fexpected, the irrlga tionista- want to turn on the tap at Washington,. , , Chicago may be expected to make the punishment-' of its coal grafters soot the crime! "Kor it ia alwaya fair weather when good fellows get together" at a bar as soclation banquet. The householder who has been suf fering from furriacltls will beam upon the rising mercury. A kaleidoscope has no more changes than the latest edition of "Who's Who in the Railway World." It looks as though the Arctic ex plorers carrying keys to the cities had left the north gates open. One of the disadvantages of hasty lybchings is shown In the case of Cairo, which now thinks it strung up the wrong man. The attention of old Doctor Stork is invited to luJ neglect of a great state In letting the supply of school children run down in Iowa. The annual report of the great waste in fire losses in the United States may give the world the impression that we have mcney to burn. In executing their decision to' clean house in their departments, the cabl net members will need something more than a feather duster. The reports being filed with the gov ernor prove that if Nebraska does nothing elue. It feeds Its charges at the state Institutions well. After they' have been running-their newspaper a little while, the girl strik ers of New York will wish they were back making shirtwaists. The time tablis for 1910 show no change in the schedule of the water wagon, which will doubtless continue as a local accommodation. An appropriate Now Year's gift for your neighbor .who hasn't cleaned his sidewalk would be a snow shovel tagged "Good resolution No. 1." Acrordiug to the Interstate Com merce commission, the railroads' atti tude toward the victims of overcharges 1b "Yourmpaey back when you get it." The .Omaha fctVa will now toss their antlers In new quarters, the luxury of which proves both the taste and the prosperity of the lodge. They are to be congratulated. K ' A Cincinnati street car magnate has been arrwHea, for not keeping his cars warm enough He probably expected the wrath of the patrons to maintain the mercurial equilibrium. Dr. Ellofs construction of the bust ness bellwf that one has not a right to do aa b' pleasea with his own, differs from that of tbe manipulators who be lieve that tliey liavo a rlgnt to 15 a! they pltase with what isn't thulr own Taffi Policy of Work. "Acts rather than declarations," the keynote of Mr. Taft's reply to an in quieltlve caller. Is a ferae presentation of the attitude that has been con sistently maintained by the president since he entered upon his office. His Inaugural address and his first message to congress, thus far his only official utterances, were models of brevity; Into them were compressed his views of such matters as were necessary to a statement of policy and a campaign of legislation. But In his executive ac tivities the president has impressed the capital with the fact that his is an ad ministration of work, and'all his ener gies have been bent toward facilitating such congressional enactments as shall be deemed necessary to promote the general welfare In the vital problems of the day. The president has demonstrated his constructive ability, thanks to which much headway was made In the early weeks of the congressional session pre ceding the holidays, usually given up to marking time; and when the na tional legislature reassembles next week It will And matters shaped so well that expedition will be the order of the day if the members adopt the president's policy of work. While due deliberation is essential to the enact ment of all laws, still the public will be only too glad to have congress fol low the Taft program of "Acts rather than declarations." An Inquiry of Purpose, Mr. Taft has demanded that the in quiry into the record of Secretary Bal- llnger be thorough and complete. Not only will the affairs of the Interior de partment be gone Into, but the presi dent, himself, will take such part as he legally may In the inquiry to the end that nothing shall be covered up or left untold. Mr. Taft has taken this stand because of the sneering sug gestions that he has "put the Ballinger matter up to, congress," the object of the opposition being to convey the pub lic Impression that the president is seeking to evade responsibility. Mr. Taft has publicly declared his ' confi dence in the integrity and ability of Secretary Ballinger, and oa such declaration he is willing that such an investigation should be made. Not only this, but he is willing to assume whatever share of such inquiry as may rightfully belong 4 to an executive so that congress will not, have to take en tire responsibility, In this purpose Mr. Taft is proving the strength of his faith in his own administration. More could not reasonably1 be asked, and the muck-rakers should .suspend opera tions pending the result. An Unwelcome Legacy. Among the unfinished business of 1909 which comes as an unwelcome be quest to 1910 is the matter of railroad troubles. The prolonged strike of switchmen in the northwest is again at an acute stage, with a possibility of spreading, while in he east the rail roads are approaching a date when a general strike Is possible. . In the case of the northern switch men a conference at the White 'House is scheduled for today, which may or may not be productive of results. En listing the good offices of the president as a mediator is of ho avail unless both sides approach him in a spirit of fair neBS, and even a presidential concilia tion board cannot be expected to achieve the best results fpj the good of all if those possessing an excess of power use their advantage in an unfair way. The general eastern situation is still a matter for conferences between managers and men, and it Is possible that both sides, recognizing the grav ity of the situation, may adjust their difficulties without involving the traf fic of the roads. Regardless of its sympathies con cerning the Issues involved, the public would regard a general strike or lock out as a national calamity, to avert which every effort of diplomacy and patience ought to be employed. A new year threatened with stagnation of its commerce augurs 111 for happiness and prosperity, and the country is a unit In the desire to see this dark cloud Ob scuring the rosy dawn dissipated into vanishing vapor. The Problem of the Moros. Colonel Hoyt's recommendation that the Moros be segregated from the rest of the Filipinos and be restricted to a reservation will be met by the antl imperialists with the objection that we must not repeat in those islands the hardships that were deemed necessary by the government during the white man's advance into the Indian lands. But there is to be said for the pro posal that it is at least as humane as letting the Moros run at large in fugi tive bands, a savage menace to the peaceful inhabitants, and themselves subject to slaughter when they go on the warpath. Most of the Filipinos are satisfied with the beneficent condition in which they find themselves under American rule, and would like to be permitted to pursue their industrial ways, toward a general prosperity. This la only pos sible now because of the armed pro tection afforded by United States troops, a force which could be greatly reduced if the Hoyt plan were put into practice. " ' While this government cannot af ford to render any injustice against even the wild Moros, and while it has no desire except to administer to these savages the kindliest control pos--1bl, still in the Philippines aa in our own land the greatest g?ot ' " pate.-t number must be considered, md any Just method of relieving the peaceable Inhabitants ff the rein the conFtar.t menace of the rapac ity and bloodthlrstlness of the savage element, Is worthy of consideration. Milking; the Consumer. New York state has earned a debt of gratitude from tbe nation for its successful prosecution of its Ice com bine, and now it Is earning another in Its exposure of its milk manipulators. The first step in the rapacious progress of this combine seems to bave been to pour Into the corporate stock all of the water commonly reputed to be in the milk, and then the schemers proceeded to milk the public at a more prodigious rate than it milked the cows. The evi dence already adduced shows that on a tremendously inflated capitalization the profits were bo exorbitant that dividends of 22 per cent were declared. Yet, not content with that, the com bine calmly proceeded to squeeze an other cent from the consumer on each quart of milk served. This extra cent was the final strntv. ttui the overreaching manipulators now have to reckon with the law. i ue public will stand for a great deal, but such flagrant injustice In juggling with the absolute necessities of life finds the consumer ready to declare radi cally for the fullest punishment possi ble to be administered to the ringlead ers convicted. The Year for Omaha. Nineteen hundred and nine is clos ing with a balance sheet in favor of Omaha, and with 1910 comes a pros pectus as favorable as any ever laid before the citizens. The growth of the city in all directions and along all lines has been greater during the year than was hoped for. Every outward evi dence of material prosperity is at hand and the continued activity in the work shops and stores of the city is proof, also, that the expansion of business is but the normal growth of the commu nity and therefore permanent. Omaha business men have been very alert during the year and have won many points in the competition of trade for the northwest. These suc cesses have encouraged them to greater efforts. The new enterprises which have come into Omaha during the year have proven thrifty, while the estab lished ones have grown apace, so that in every material way the city has ad vanced, while the social life of the community has kept pace in Its devel opment with the commercial and in dustrial. Omaha is growing, and is growing fast, and, best of all, is grow ing along right lines. Sir Horace Plunkett is qualified to support the advice he is giving Amer ican farmers. His experience with agriculture in Ireland, where the soil was greatly impoverished by successive planting of a single crop, justifies his views, and warnings Jn. telling the American farmer to beware of mis takes made in older countries. Right now Is a good time for the farmer of this county to begin to practice some of the improvements in methods sug gested by men like Sir Horace Plunkett and James J. Hill. ' Dr. Dudley's announcement that the aurora borealls is a frozen-up gas named neon, is one of those 'entertain ing announcements which hardly helps the practical citizen interested in keep ing his meter thawed out and his light bills lighter. But the word neon will be welcomed with avidity as a synonym for aurora borealls by the members of the newspaper head writers' union. Just as people were blissfully forget ful of the polar explorers, Commander Peary succeeds in getting back into the limelight by acquiring frostbites In Maryland. If these Arctic travelers ex pect to acquire real reputations they must manifest ability to withstand the terrors of the American climate, which seems able to give the polar regions points. Governor Shallenberger now sug gests to Governor Stubbs and Governor Haskell that the guaranty law confer ence be made part of the program at the John Hayes Hammond dinner in Washington next month, at which place the assembled governors will probably table the whole matter. Judge Letton's endorsement of the jury system in theory, and his sugges tions for its betterment in practice, come as the result of experience as well as observation. The reforms are practical, and if adopted would have great effect in accelerating progress in the courts. "Bill" Oldham wants an extra ses sion of the legislature in order to get a rehearing for some of the bills that were beaten in the regular session. What reason has he to think that the legislators would do something now they refused to. do a year ago? With theological seminarians strik ing against the ancient languages and presidents of universities advising the elimination of the modern foreign tongues, the speaking of United States appears to be more than holding its own. The editor of the World-Herald is still busy trying to nominate a ticket for the republicans of Nebraska. As long as his actions are not binding on the voters he may be permitted to in dulge In his amusement. New England, the best traditional judga of "rum" in the country, ap plauds Mr. Taft's judicial interpreta tion of the whisky question; tbe Hub never falls to respond to the proper spokesman. The Union Pacific people promise tc :.:ake the same timo with their new building that they make with their high-class trains. If this Is so, a new local record will bo established. It will be six weeks before the naked eye can see Halley's comet, but in the meantime any slippery sidewalk will produce a galaxy of constellations without a moment's notice. An eastern railroad man, newly pro moted In authority, has been adjudged Insane for advancing salaries. He might bave been cured of that if they had left him on the Job. A Current Eipeaae, St. Louis Qloba Democrat. Americans pay 11,200,000.000 a year for something they can't define electricity. But they will not worry about the dic tionary ai long aa the current la In good order. The Milne of Prosperity Cleveland Leader. The company which controls most of the diamond output of the world la opening more mines to meet the growing demands of the market. So prosperity sparkles from America to Africa. I ( heap at the Price, Washington Herald. A good deal of adverse criticism has been Indulged In at Mr. Andrew Carnegie's ex pense because that gentleman recently sug gested his willingness to provide a fund of 120,000,000 for the possible preservation of South American peace. As yet, how ever, nobody has denied that It would be cheap at that price. Men llehlnd the Naval Units. Philadelphia Record. Every battleship that Is launched means nearly 1,000 officers and men to be added to the naval establishment or taken from other ships. Captain Usher, awnlBtant to the chief of the bureau of navigation, re ports that to man our whole fleet In peace would require 3,6I2 officers and 00,902 men, and In war it would require 8,890 officers and 72,281 men, and more battleships are to be added annually to our establishment. Perjury a Common Crime. Buffalo Express. Even a casual observer cannot have failed to notice that there Is much false evidence given in our courts. The fact Is thrust upon one's attention. Not only in sensational murder trials, but in almost every civil proceeding or quasi-Judicial in vestigation which Is of sufficient general interest to gain publicity, the reported tes timony la alvay contradictory, and nearly always to such a degree as to be utterly Irreconcilable. There seems to be little or no regard for the sanctity of an oath, and yet with this multiplicity of instances of reckless or wicked swearing one rarely hears a word of reproof from the bench, and, to judge from the number of prose cutions, perjury would seem to be the rarest of crimes. LOOKING FORWARD TO 1010. Thin.a Will Tarn I'p If Yon Gnlde the Plow. Leslie's Weekly. If we are to make the most of 1910, we must enter It aylng, this Is to be the best year In ihe history of the world and of my own life as well. Wilkins Micawber Is no patron saint of prosperity, but if all discouraged people start the new year in high hope that something 1b going to "turn up," they wfit help to turn something up before tnfcinp weeks. Robert Louis Stevenson's "ntpy thought" for children is not without 'interest to older folk: The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be aa happy aa kings. Was ever the world more full of things than now? Is it not enough to make one happy, simply to live in these wondrous days? ' The globe has been made small by the'ease with which men girdle it and the raptdlty with which one part converses with 'the1 rest. The races are becoming better' acquainted than ever before in all history. Becret forces of earth and air hear the voice of man and obey, and the end is not yet Keeping step with all material advance Is a sense of mutual in terest, binding more closely all grades and classes of society a growing unity of the race. In our own fair land a steadily rising average of clvid and commercial and social righteousness ia a sign of the times. No, the millennium has not dawned; but, taking it all in all, it has never be fore been so near. MARSHAL. OF HOUGH RIDERS. How Frederick Rrmlngton Started on Road to Fame. St. Louis Republic. Back in the 'eighties, when Theodore Roosevelt was running a cattle ranch on the Little Big Horn, in Wyoming, one of his nearest neighbors was "Fred" Reming ton, whose death we mourn today. This young man the proprietor . of an inheri tance of $200,000, according to his cowboy neighbors lived in great splendor in a house which waa filled with the products of his brush and exercised a generous hos pitality while running a small "road ranch" for the raising of horstts. (A road ranch, be it known, was Wyomingese for an es tablishment consistliig of a large tract of land held on a sort of glorified squatter's tenure adjacent to a plot of ground held in fee simple, controlling the available water.) In course of time Mr. Remington's hos pitality and absorption In art so far im paired his capital, according to the ac count current among his former acquaint ances, that an additional source of Income was necessary. Mr. Roosevelt rode over to his neighbor's house, told Remington of his con t rue t to piepare a series of ar ticles for The Century Magazine, and asked him to undertake the illustrations. This was the occasion of the artist's desertion of the brush for the pencil. At that time the photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge of animals In mo tion were a new thing under the sun. Mt. Remington studied with intense Interest these records, showing the legs of the horse in the positions they actually as sumed In its various gaits, till then un known to artists. Over the results of this study he cast the garment of his fancy. The result wi-s a type cf art the reallslio appeal of which was summed up by Walter li. btevens in his criticism of the magnifi cent gfoup of cowboys shootant, as heral dlo phrase might put it which the artist modeled for the St. Louis world's fair: "The men are drunk; the horses are drunk; even the pistols aie drunk!" It were a worthy tack for a critio of art and manners to dtlermim Just how much of thu apotheosis of the rouyh rider is ow ing to the deeds and words of Roosevelt and how much to the pencil of Remington. The men who have been moved by Roose velt's words have thought In terms of Rem ington's pictures. They have seen his cayuses, and his Alliali Ikes and Cheroke Charleys have been mounted thereon. Mr. Remington was but 41 years old; but ha vas a tireless worker, and his ar tistic fame is secure, lie has by his pencil Interpreted to the east and the middle west the drama of the frontier now, alast vanished forever, lie caught It In Its last and moat characteristic phaiie and made it a part of all of us. It Is not necessary to count years; this Is tuough for the life work of any man. New Year Customs Obeervaaeea that Blg-nallis the Entrance of the ITew Tear la Tarious Countries of World. Up to a score of years ago Americans had a distinctive way of observing the first day of the year. Social visits to the homes of friends and acquaintances was an almost universal rule. It was a gonial, kindly custom, fruitful of happiness and heartiness and good will. The making of New Tear calling cards culled forth the artistic talent of the printing craft, and the popularity of host and hoxtess was measured by the fat or lean condition of the card basket. But with characteristic tecklcssness the custom was overdone slaughtered In the house of Its friends. Social rivalry crept In and fashionable frills drove simplicity out of business. It was wined and (lned to death. When the IDutch burghOrs used to wander from stoupe to stoupe In the old Bouwerle Of New Amsterdam; when their good fraus made brave display of finery and braver assembling of all that was good to eat and drink; when there were warm clasps of hands and honest wishes for health and happiness and prosperity for the year that was Just begun; when the friendship was mutual and its expressions genuine; when the very ceremony Itself digniflqd the men and women who took part In it, then th; custom was at its full in beauty and in sentiment. "And It was along those linos of honest democracy and of honest affection," says a writer, bewailing its decay, "that it was kept up through tie early days of the land, down to the fevered and impatient ones of a few years ago. It made family ties stronger, for little boys went hand In hand with their fathers on this round; then as chums and afterwards as pro tectors of their sires; only to repeat In their own paternal experiences those of their youth and age. It linked old friends together firmer in all generations, for while mothers and daughters did the active honors of the day, dear old grandmothers sat in places of state and received their annual homage of affection and rever ence." Little remains of the old custom. Its place is taken by midnight revelry far more demoralising than the worst feature of the old order. New Year's day receives more attention In Scotland than anywhere else. The Scottish elders celebrate the day with a supper party, and as the clock "chaps" twelve, friend greets friend and wishes him "a gude New Year and mony o' them." Then, with great formality, the door is unbarred to let the old year but and the new year in, and all the guests sally forth into the street to "first foot" their acquaintance. ' In Edinburgh a great crowd gathers around the church in Hunter square and anxiously watches the clock. There Is absolute silence from the first stroke of twelve until the last. The old folks go to bed; not so the youuZ. Each girl ia ex pecting the "first foot" from her sweet heart, and there la much stratagem dis played in outwitting her occasionally and having some serving maid or grandmother open the door to her lover. The weather Is carefully observed at this season, for It Is supposed to betoken the future. There Is a rhyme current in Scotland which runs: If New Year's Eve the night win bloweth south It betokeneth warm and growth; If west, much milk, and fish in the sea; If north, much cold and storms there will be; If east, the trees will bear much fruit; If northeast, flee It, man and brute. During the eighteenth century, all work was laid aside on the ' afternoon of the 31st, and the men of the hamlet went to the .woods and brought home loads of juniper bushes. Each household also pro cured a pitcher of water from "the dead and living ford," meaning the ford in a river by which passengers and funera!s crossed. This was brought In perfect silence, and without being allowed to touch the ground in its progress, as con tact with the earth would have destroyed the charm. The rites next morning were supposed to protect the household against witch craft, the "evil eye" and other devil ments. The father rose first, and, taking the charmed water and a brush, treated the rest of the family to a vigorous bap tism. Coming back, all doors and win dows were closed, and the Juniper boughs were put on the fire. When the smoke reached the suffocating point the fresh air was readmitted. The Russians have a very pretty cus tom. On each New Year's day a pile of sheaves is heaped up, and the father, after seating himself behind the pKe, asks the children if they can see him. Upon their replying that they cannot, he says he hopes the crops will be so fine the coming year that they will hide him In the fields. The Russian New Year Is twelve days later than ours, and is a gala occasion for all. There Is a gTand ce'ebratlon of mass In the morning and the rest of the day Is devoted to con gratulatory visits. Good wishes that can not be personally conveyed are Inserted in the newspapers. In military and official circles cere monial visits are paid. On New Year's day the unmarried women and men send servants into the streets, or go out them selves, and ask the names of persons they meet. These, it Is believed, are the names of persons they will eventually marry. When midnight Is reached, eax'h member of the faml'y salutes the other with a kiss, beginning with the head of the house, and then retire, after wishing each other a "Happy New Year." The Norwegians and Swedes spread their tables for all who may come in and In Stockholm there Is a great banquet in the exchange, given to the king and his family. On this occasion the monarch mingles with his people as cltlaen to citizen, in true democratic fashion. The aged Emperor Fran Josef, of the dual monarchy Austria-Hungary, spends part of his New Year's day evening with his people it the "Buerger ball," or ci.l zens' ball, which is given at the city hall In Vienna. In his younger days the gal iant monarch was often seen on these oc casions to lead off the cotillion with one of Vienna's most fascinating "cltoyenne bourgeolse." x The Danes greet the new year with a tremendous volley of cannon, shaking old Copenhagen at midnight to its very foun dations. It is considered a delicate com pliment to fire off a gun or a pistol under the bedroom window of one's friend at a very early bour. The dwellers in Cape Town, South Africa, are an exception to the general run of English colonists. After the custom of the early Dutch settlers, they celebrate New Year for an entire week. Every house has Its full share of visitors, and every man, woman and child is dressed In tbeir best. No business is transacted ex cept to seek amusement. At the end of the week everybody again settles down to busi ness. In the Indian empire the day which cor respond with our New Year U called lloo'y, and is a feast in honor of Krishna. Caste temporarily loses caste. Everyone who can afford It wears red gnrments. They throw red powder at one another, and mix it with water and squirt It from syringes on passershy. This is taken In i good part as snowballing Is by us. The Japanese New Year's day falls on I January 21). Hy this time all accounts have been adjusted and all disputes set tled. Everybody puts on the regulation dress, a sort of light blue cotton, and starts out to visit relatives and friends. The visiting lasts for three days, and let ters of congratulations are sent to those In distant places. They go to their favor ite tea gardens and there Is a grand pro cession. In which all trades are repre sented. Drums and stringed Instruments are played by numerous bands and wax figures are sold by the thousands. PERSONAL NOTES. After having been absent and unheard for twenty years an Indiana man returned to his parents on Christmas and handed them a present of $5,000. This Is a praiseworthy Improvement on the prodigal son business. E. Milton Cutting of Andover, Me., who Is 85 years old. was until a short time ago the oldest Maine guide In active service. Although not engaged In the work of ficially, he still goes hunting and seems to obtain great enjoyment from the sport. Mrs. Helen F. Troy of Auburn, N. Y., who is learned in Iroquois legends and mythology, and Is the author of an Indian dictionary in the six Iroquois dialects, has been honored by the red men of the Onon daga reservation by adoption Into the Clan of the Snipe. Nineteen-year-old Herbert Kester of Over ton, iiradford county, Pennsylvania, reached his home with the skin of the largest bear killed in Pennsylvania this season, which he had shot about two miles from Forksville. When the meat was brought in later it weighed close to 400 pounds. At the recent election In Johannesburg. Africa, Harry Graumann was chosen mayor of the city. Writing to an English psier a correspondent says: "Mr. Urau monn is a young and deservedly popular man, a leader in the industrial world and the first Jew to receive Die high distinc tion." Instead of referring the whole disputed matter to the Copenhagen wise men, the Board of Trade of Worcester, Mass., means to find out for itself whether Wallace E. Tilllnghast has really been flying all over Now England at night. If he hasn't, the board wants a lot of sensational stories throttled, because this isn't the kind of advertising Worcester seeks. SMILING REMARKS. Caller How pleased you must be to find that your new cook is a stayer. Hostuns My dear, don't mention it! She's a stayer all right, but unfortunately she's not a cook. Boston Transcript. "Professor, is there any foundation for the belief that every particle of matter Is a universe in itself?" "My dear sir, you can found any belief on human credulity." Chicago Tribune. "See here, you swindler!" exclaimed the suburban property owner, "when you sold me this houue you said that in three months I wouldn't part with it for 10,0u0." "Well, you haven't have you?" demanded the real estate man. Philadelphia Record. "People Interested In aerial transit are very sensitive, I suppose." "I don't see why." "You don't? Isn't It naturally a soar subject with th.em?" Baltimore American. "I understand that you owe everything to your wife," said the tactless rela tive. "No," answered Mr. Meekton, "but I will if I don't stop playing bridge with her and her mother." Washington Star. Little Jack Horner told how he pulled out his plum. "I stuck In my thumb instead of putting my foot In It," he exclaimed. Herewith all agreed he had the makings of a politician in him. New York Sun. "I believe I'll open a dramatic school," said the seedy-looking man. "Why? You never have been on the stage, have you?" asked the preacher. "No." "Then how do you expect to be able to teach people to act?" "It's simple enough. You're teaching people how to bo angels, aren't you? Have New Amberol Records y Leo Slezak, the great tenor, now sings for you in the Edison Phonograph the same famous arias from the Grand Operas that tlie New York audiences pay $5.00 a seat to hear. Just how great a singer Slezak is, is told in the following remark, quoted from the New York World the morning after a recent appearance of Slezak at the Metropolitan Opera Mouse: "Caruso now has a rival." Slezak has made ten records for the Edison, comprising the principal tenor songs from the more prominent roles of his repertoire so that, while the New York opera goer pays 5.00 a seat to hear Slezak in one opera, with the Edison Phonograph and Amberol Records you get Slezak at his best in his ten best roles, including i Otello, Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Rhadames in Aida and Rodolfo ' in La Boheme. Only on Amberol Records can you get a full length rendering of these great arias and only on the Edison Phonograph do you get Amberol Records. Hear these great Slezak Records at any Edison dealer's today. ( , Bdlton Phonographs 112 50to$3X.n0 fcdlon btaudard Record .34 Rdlson Edison There are Kdlson dealer everywhere. Go play both Edison btaudard ami Amberol dealer or (rom us. 1 Natfoaai Phonograph Ce., 76 Nebraska Cycle Co. represents the National Phonograph Co. in " Nebraska, and carries over 100,001) Records in Stock among which are all of the ' t . ' Edison Records mentioned in the National Phonograph Co. 'a announcement on this page today Nebro.skaL Cycle Co. 15th and Harney Sts., Geo. W. Mickel, 334 Broadway. Omaha., Neb. Manager, Council Bluffi, Ia, vim pvrr hn.n la hH VCfi ?" ChlcACO R- ord-Hersld. She How far ran your ioery be traced? Ho-Well, when mv grandfather restaned his position ss cashh r of a country bank they trsci'd him as far as Chlua, but he got away. Pittsburg Observer.' 1 THE CLOSING YEAR. V l By Oconto D. Prenttee. . 4 'TIs midnight's holy hntir and silence now Is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er The still and pulseless world Hark! on the winds The lu ll's deep tones are swelling 'tis the knell Of the departed year. No funeral train Is sweeping past; yet, on the stream and wood, With melancholy ligVit, the moonbeams rest Like a pale. spotwss sbreud; the air la stirred As by a mourner's sigh; and on yon cloud That floats so still and placidly through heaven, The spirits of th seasons seem to stand Young spring, bright summer, autumn's solemn form. And winter with Its aged locks and breathe. In mournful cadences that come Abroad I.Ike the far wlnd.-harp's wild and touch ing wall, A melancholy dirge o'er the dead year, (lono ftom the earth forever. "TIs a time For memory and for tears. Within the deep. '' Still chambers of the hearty a specter dim. Whoso tones are like the wizard's voice of Time Heard from the tomb of ages, points Its cold And solemn finger to the beautiful And holy visions that have passed away. And left no shadow of their loveliness On tho dead waste of life. That sprcter lifts The coffin lid of lfopp and' JoV and Love, And, bending mournfully.-above the pnle, Sweet forms thBt slumber there, scatters dead flowers Q'cr what has passed to nothingness. The year Has gone, and with It, many a glorious throne Of happy dreams. It's mark Is on eorh. brow. . It's shadow In each heart.. In its swift course It waved its scepter o'er the beautiful, And they are not. It laid Its -pallid hand Upon the strong man, and the haunhty form Is fallen, and the flashing eve In dim! ' It trod the hall of revelry, where thronged The bright and Joyous, and the tearful wall Of stricken one Is beard where erst the song . . And reckless shout resounded.' It passed o'er The battle nlsin. where sword and sneur and shield. o, . t , Flashed In the light of midday, and the strength Of serried hosts Is shivered, and the grass. Green from the soli of carnage, waves above The crushed and tnolderlng skeleton. It came. And faded like a 'wrenth of mist at eve; Yet ere It melted In the viewless air H heralded Its millions to their home. In the dim land of breams.- '-' -i .. . Rsmorseless Time! Fierce spirit of the glass and scytbe! what power Can stay him In his silent course; or melt His lion heart to pity? - On, still on, He presses, and .forever. , The proud bird, The condor of the Andes, that can soar Through heaven's unfathomable depths, or brave k '. The furv of the northern hurricane, And bathes his plumage In the thunder's home, ' Furls his broad wings at nightfall, and sinks down To rest upon his mountain crag hut Time Knows not the 'wiight of sleep or weari ness, , , And night's deep darkness has no chain to bind His rushing pinions. - Revolutions sweep O'er earth, like troubled visions o'er the breast Of dreaming sorrow; cities rise and sink Uke bubbles on tjie water: fiery isles Spring blazing fiom the ocean, and go back To thiir mysterious caverns; mountains rear To heaven their bald and blackened cliffs, and bow Their tall heads to the plain; new sinplres , -rise- 1 ?'-, :;-Rfi vnf.it -;M . Gathering the strength of hoary centuries, And rush down like the Alpine avalanche, Startling the natlomt;' and- the very stars, Yon bright and burning blazonry of God, Glitter awhile In their eternal depths. And, like the Pleiades, loveliest of their train. Shoot from tholr glorious spheres, and pass away To darkle In the trackless void yet Time, Time, the tomb builder, holds his fierce career. Dark, stern, all-pltlless, and pauses not Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path, ' To sit and muse, like other conquerors Upon the fearful ruin he has wrought. Amberol Records (play twice as longlf .SO Grand Opera Kecords r .75 and 1.00 to ths nearett and hear the Edlaon Phonograph Kecords. Get com plot catalogs from your ' Lheide Atum, Oraace, N. i : I