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l'JIE OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY B, Tiie Omaha Sunday. Iica FOUNDED BT EDWAftD IIOSEWATER. VICTOR ROBE WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce second class matter. TERMS OP SPPSCRIFTION. Pally Re (including Sunday), per week.ISc D.lly Hre (without Rumlay), pr week.ion Delly Hee (without Sunday), one year.. MOO Dally Bee and Sunday, one year 100 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Evenln Bee (without Sunday), per week. c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week...l"c Sunday Pee, one year $2.M Saturday Bee, one year Addreaa all complains of Irregularities In lellvery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Pouth Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffa 18 Hrott Street. I,lncoln 61S Little Building. Chicago 164 Marquette HulToing. New York Rooma 1101-UOJ No. M Weet Thirty-third Street. Washington T2S Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Onwha Bee, auditorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only i-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal rhecks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, ss.: Oeorge B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual numner of full and complete copies of The Dallv, Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month of January, 1910, wn as follows: 1 41,440 17 49.U0 t 41,700 1 43,430 49,330 S 43,400 43,400 7 43,430 43,470 t 41,700 10 43,830 U 43,480 13 43,600 1 43,400 H 43,440 18 43,870 0 41,770 Total ....' 18 43,700 It 48,480 20 43,050 21 43,690 22 43,530 22 41,350 24 43,000 26 43,040 2S 43,090 27 43,630 21 43,350 20 43,650 20 41,400 tl 43,370 ...1,314,330 t,55 Returned copies. Net total 1,304,665 Oally average 43,973 aEOROU B. TZSCHITCK, Treasurer. subscribed In my presence and awoin to belore roe thla 31st day of January. 1910. KUUUHl HUrtlbtl, Notary public. Sabaerlbers leavluar the elty ten porartly shoe 14 have The Be taalled them. Address will he 'red as often as reqacstea. It there is a theater scalper's trust la New York It should by all means bo scalped. I It looks as If it might soon be neces sary to establish a speed limit for aero plane artists and a penalty for atmos pheric scorching. Translated into the vernacular, ad vices from Great Britain are to the effect that the lords are now tame enough to feed out of the hand. ' The Mardl Qras is on at New Or leans, but we will bet dollars to dough nuts that In point of artistic pageantry It has no edge on our own Ak-Sar-Ben. Sir Horace Plunkett is writing magazine articles about "The Neg lected Farmer." Wonder If any of the farmers hereabouts really feel that they are neglected? Paris loses no opportunity to ex press gratitude for assistance in its distress given from the United States. Whenever there is real need, no appeal for help goes unanswered. Kansas City has a sensation grow ing out of the death of a millionaire philanthropist which overshadows even its Union depot question. No other comparison could adequately do It Justice. Commander Peary's plan for an Ant arctic expedition contemplates reach ing the South pole about December 31, 1911. Why not move it up a little and take along a Christmas plum pud ding? Everybody In New York is saying that Mayor Qaynor has made a much better start than was expected. That means that they will expect a much better finish than would otherwise have sufficed. The so-called Insurgents in congress insist that they are more loyal to the republican platform pledges than are the regulars. The country at large will willingly put them all up to the "Show Me" test. Over in Chicago, the Auto show is to have for a background a stage set ting representing a forest. With this realistic surrounding it will be easier for the spectators to imagine a break down out on a lonely road. Speaker Cannon has been asked to set aside a room in the house office building as a gymnasium for the use of the members of the house of rep resentatives. Thought they gt all the gymnastic exercise they needed lam basting "Uncle Joe." It is to be hoped that the threatened expulsion of Iowa State university stu dents for cribbing may not set a gen eral precedent unless It is considered desirable to pull down the attendance figures for most of our institutions for higher education. That New York World libel suit was thrown out of court on a question of Jurisdiction It the World really wants to set off all the ammunition it has gathered, it ought to be able to find some competent tribunal willing to see that It Is properly indicted. I - That reminds us again, that a dis tinguished fellow citizen once went up and down the country assuring us that prices of farm products would never rise sgaln until we opened our mints to the free coinage of sliver at the sacred ratio of II to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earl' A Court of Warei. DiscuJwlng the president's proposal for an Interstate commerce court for more effective railway regulation, Paul Morton ruts In a plea for "a court of wages" as well as "a court of com merce," or rather for the two in one Mr. Morton, who, although now 1 a me insurance president, came up through the railway world, insists that the question of wages paid to railroad employes is in fact part of the question of railroad rates, and that both should be arbitrated or adjusted by the same tribunal. The railroad rates of the United States, he pro nounces the lowest in the world In spite of the psyment of the highest wages in the world to railway em ployes. Over CO per cent of the cost of transportation is for labor, and if a court is to decide what is a rea sonable rate, why should It not, asks Mr. Morton, also be the best tribunal in case of disputes to say what a rea sonable wsge is for the employe? Can the reasonableness of the whole be determined without the reasonable' ness of a part being considered? Mr Morton suggests, of course, that It railway wages and costs of material are going to continue to advance, rail way rates must keep pace with them, although even admitting the premise there is room to take issue with him as to Increased rates being a necessary corollary. Mr. Morton, however, renders good service in emphasizing the Importance of the wage side of the larger rail road question. At the recent meeting of the American Economic association in New York City, the editor of The Bee ventured to raise the point in a debate on the subject of physical valu ation, that the employes might have an interest in determining on what capitalization rates should properly be gauged in order to offer a fair return to the owners, tc?.u on that same capitalization must be based the equitable division ofj the earnings be tween the owners and the employes, In other words, there are, at least, four parties concerned with every question of rate-making the producer or shipper and the consumer, the rail way owner and the railway employe, It would not be a great leap, there fore, for an Interstate commerce court with powers of rate-making to take jurisdiction of wage controversies and render decisions in both founded on Justice, equity and fair-dealing. Whether such a court of wages for disputes between railroads and their employes would stop there or would eventually extend Its authority over wages disputes for all' corporations en gaged In Interstate commerce, or for wage disputes for all corporations en lng question which points to possl bllitles. The court of commerce will probably have to come first and let us deal with the after-developments as they arise. Oreat Britain's Foreign Trade. Statistics covering the foreign trade of the United Kingdom for 1909, com piled from British' sources, have Just been given out by the Department of Commerce and i Labor. The tables show some very Interesting facts, es pecially those concerning the United States. For 1909 the total merchan dise trade of the United Kingdom was: Imports, 13,040,299,726; exports, $1,841,383,564. As compared with 1908, the Increases were: Imports, $154,691,582; exports, $6,207,814. Imported merchandise to the value of $444,630,035 was re-exported, In 1909, as against $387,488,721 in 1908, leaving the net imports for consump tion at $2,695,699,691 in 1909 and $2,498,119,423 In 1908, an increase of only $97,550,268 in 1909, instead of the increase of $154,691,682 shown by the general Imports. v How far the United Kingdom falls short of producing enough to supply its inhabitants with meat and drink is shown by the fact that the imports of grain and flour, meats, other food' and drink and tobacco for 1908 were $1,188,078,544, and for 1909 they were $1,237.714, boo. The exports for these years of these articles were $106,769,678 and $114,983,024, leav ing a balance against Great Britain on the food bill for the two years of more than $2,200,000,000. This sum is only about $300,000,000 less than the entire imports of the United States for the years mentioned. It shows how utterly dependent the United King dom la on the world outside for sup port. England cannot afford to enter into a war of any kind that will en danger its food supply, and as this comes from all over the world it prac tically means that England must keep at peace with all the world, or starve. Another important tact is that Argentina is now supplying the meat trade of Great Britain with beef. The total value of fresh beer and live cattle sent to England from the United States in 1909 was but $27,022,228, of which $9,490,298 was for dressed meat and the balance tor cattle on the hoot. Argentina furnished fresh beef to England during the year to the amount of $82,769,832. Australia's contribution to England's meat supply was but $7,837,684. The value of cattle and meat shipments from the United States to Great Britain in 1908 was $37,803,373, showing a falling off for the year 1909 in this trade with the United States of almost $10,800, 000.' Other sales of food products by the United States to Great Britain how the following: 1908. 1900. Wheat Flour Indian corn.. Bacon llama ., tba.ftl.7ta 133,ttl.&. , ..T 1,40S,887 , l.t2.M3 10.SW.fi20 . ii 7 3.41 lM?8.Kt3 . UKUll 14.tM.31f During the year 1909 the total im ports Into the United Kingdom of these articles amounted to: Wheat, $220,394,453; flour, $31,001,979; In dlan corn, $68,993,036; bacon, $67, 165.792; hams, $15,148,908. Only in hams did the United States come anywhere near feeding the British all they wanted. In the total trade of the two na tlons the balance stands decidedly In favor of the United States. In 1909 the United States imported from Great Britain merchandise to the amount of $247,474,104, and sold to that country $521,281,999. Of this latter sum more than $200,000,000 was for raw cotton, of which the United States still furnishes the bulk of all used by the British mills. The same bulletin of the depart ment furnishes the information that the imports of the United States in creased last year, while the exports fell off. The figures are Imports. 190$ $1,116,374,087 1900 1,475,113.680 Exports. $1.762,835, 41 1.72S.208.Z71 All of which we submit is of vital concern to those who look ahead to the future of our country. Woman'i Sense of Humor. Here's another man hunting for trouble. John Kendrick Bangs in a new lecture says woman has no orig inal humor; that Adam was the Jester in the Garden of Eden and that neither Eve nor any of her daughters possessed that element which makes for original fun. One wonders what sort of women Mr. Bangs has asso elated with all his life to reach such a conclusion'. He cites us to a list of women who have achieved something of a name in the literary world, the essence of whose work Is the quaint and happy vein of lightness that laughs all through it, and then tells us that woman has no humor. She may be unconsciously funny, says Mr. Bangs, but be avers he has never met a woman who is consciously humorist. In this latter clause woman is paid a really deserved compliment. Her humor is the spontaneous sort that doesn't weary nor disappoint the taste with a bitter quality. She does not strain her wit to crack a joke, nor af front intelligence In her effort to be consciously humorous. In this she but modestly lives up to the high state in which man has placed her. The conscious humorist Is so often a tire some buffoon that most folks wish him well gone before he gets well started. And no woman of good intelligence would willingly weary those around her with "conscious" attempts at Jest and merriment. But maybe Mr. Bangs was merely "consciously" funny when he made his sweeping assertion. At all events he has something to learn about woman It he thinks she has no sense of humor, original and deeply planted. Any time you doubt it - ask your lodge brother what he told his wife when he got home from the last convocation and how she received the tale. He knows whether she has a sense of humor. At any rate, It is unfair to deprive poor woman of everything. Having stripped her of the right to vote, to bear arms and to do other things she wants to, isn't it rubbing it In to tell her she can neither make or take a joke? Parent and Teacher. If asked to name the Important factors In the final evolution of the American citizen, most people would Include the public school and the pub lic press. And most people would also have to confess that their knowledge of the former is far less than acquaint ance with the latter. So fully is the average man's time occupied with bus iness or profession, that the most pressing thing in life, the training of the rising generation to a successful citizenship, is relegated to the other half of the household. Nor is there any particular complaint in the work done by the good American mother, though social and domestic duties pre clude very close familiarity with the schools. That many an otherwise loyal parent does not send his children to the public schools Is no sufficient ex cuse. It may be that a man has no children of his own and consequently persuades himself that he is not inter ested In the making of the future rulers of his country. Sometimes loud and forcible fault-finding is heard concerning the practical work of the schools, especially it some prod uct of the institution does not meet with Industrial requirements. It does not matter if the furnished specimen be a third-rate product expected to do first-class work. If a particular ex ample of public school training falls in spelling or penmanship, it is taken as indicative of general defects and the busy man resolves to take a day oft some time and find out what is the matter with our schools. While sometimes this 1 actually done, In many the teacher is an unknown quan tity credited with some talent for church affairs and possibly with a little importance in social matters, but no practical ideas. There may. perhaps, have been reason for this wrong impression, but even so, con ditions have changed and today the teacher is as much a product of up ward evolution as the modern bus iness man himself. If this be not true the people have a right to know why, and no effort should be spared to dis cover the sauses and apply the remedy, It the teacher has to live in an Isola tion due to the average parent's fancied superiority and lack of appreciation, it does not conduce to mutual helpful- . . i . . ness. Tne teacuer enjoys ueiug pat ronized and tolerated as little as would folks differently situated. A recip rocal acquaintance is to be heartily desired if the common aim of parent and teacher la to be realised. Teach' era need to touch ground occasionally, to know human frailties, the better to understand human nature and the practical objects of their work. The parent raising children to future use fulness likewise often needs the uplift engendered by occasionally breathing an atmosphere not entirely filled with the dust and smoke of dollars and cents. Progress Against the White Plague. Statistics compiled by the National Association tor the Study and Preven tion of Tuberculosis serve to give an Idea of the wonderful progress that is being made under systematic leader ship in the fight against the white plague. During the year 1909, Just closed, 163 new anti tuberculosis as sociatlons were formed, 133 tubercu losis sanatoria and hospitals were es tablished and ninety-one tuberculosis dispensaries were opened, and this year is far in excess of any previous year in the table. Totals for the whole country up to date are 894 antl tuberculosis associations, 386 tubercu losis sanatoria and hospitals and 265 tuberculosis dispensaries. In these hospitals 81,000 patients were treated and in the dispensaries over 60,000 patients. The work of prevention, however, la even more important for accomplish' lng the end of stamping out the white plague than the work ot treating those seriously afflicted. The problem re- solves itself into one of proper nous ing, light and air and proper sanita tion in living rooms and workshops. All the various agencies that are co operating in these directions are really enlisted in the fight against the white plague. To the extent that this dread disease la preventable by the righting of unsanitary conditions, the respon sibility rests with the community, and It is gratifying to know how substan tial are the gains already made and how promising the prospect of still further progress. The Real Simple Life. How easy it is to live and enjoy yourself when you know how to do it! No more weariness of either flesh or spirit, no more hunger, no more dis turbance of the soul because of strange environment. All is fair and bright before us now, and we may defy the meat man, the doctor and even the person who wants to tell us a funny story when we are trying to work. How do we do it? Listen to the lady who has evolved the emancipation of the race. Mrs. Mildred Manley Eas ton euphemistic, eh? talking to a room full of women at a fashionable New York hotel, says: . When you go to. your room tonight, first remove whatever clothing in any way Im pedes the freedom of your movement. Thert rest the tips of your fingers lightly on the crown of your head. Fix In your mind the thought that the touch you feel la one end, of a cord and that an angel Is holding the other end and swinging you gently through space. ' Isn't that delightful? Swinging through space, dangling at the end of cord held by an angel; and, it the angel be a good-natured one, mayhap you'll get a closer glimpse. Beats aviating in the prospect, at any rate. Do you get hungry? Then you are coarse of fiber. Mrs. Easton says that only coarse-flbered persons get hun gry; the finely attuned Individuals know of nothing so gross as a stomach or its foolish craving for food. Eigh teen hours' work on end is easy for these properly-set-up individuals. That's why poets, for example, seldom eat, and the steady working mechanic always does. Hitherto it has been fatuously held that the price had something to do with this fact, but now we know that It is the difference in the fiber. We'll never again be sorry tor a poet who looks hungry. Tired? How silly.- Don't throw back your shoulders; It will give you rheumatism, but if you really must rest, Just lean back against your me dulla oblongata. You may not know where to find it, but lean against it. ust the same. Only, you must simply imagine that it rests against some thing. This is easy enough after a little practice and does away entirely with the sensation of weariness. And, above all, you musn't be regular in your Habits. nauii is tne Dugoear oi timid souls and does more than any thing else to destroy ' individuality. And, finally, to keep from growing old, don't grow old. Just keep mind and heart for new impressions and do not let your muscles or your affections be come atrophied, and you'll never get old. The lecturer with the musical name will probably be hailed as the priestess of a new cult; but she hasn't discov ered much that la new. Most of her recommendations have been tried by individuals for ages, and the net result has generally been denominated lazi ness by the coarse-flbered persons who struggle for beefsteaks and the like and go to bed when they feel sleepy. When Governor Bhallenberger stood up to be photographed along with his colleagues in attendance on the con ference of the governors at Washing ton laBt month he picked out a place Just behind Governor Hadley of Mis souri and in front of Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock. We felicitate Ne braska's governor on getting into such good republican company. Along with the retirement pensions for superannuated employes which va rious big corporationa are establishing comes a tightening of the dead line against employment of men In ad vanced years.' The Rock Island rail road, tor example, accompanies jits new pension system with the rule that no inexperienced person over 35 years of age nor any experienced person over 45 shall hereafter be taken into the company's service. The pension system Is going to make the employ ment problem a much harder one for the older man who may be displaced. President Taft has said he would recommend to congress the enactment of a model insurance law for the Dis trict of Columbia for the various states to copy. It is up to the insurance com panies to submit, subject to modifi cation, what they would consider a model Insurance law and if they cannot get together, as in all probability they cannot, it will be Incumbent on some one on the outside familiar with the subject to draft the measure and let the Insurance companies accommodate themselves to it. Governor Noel of Mississippi has prolonged the legislative session in order to give more time to break the senatorial deadlock. In the meantime, Mississippi is one of the southern states loudly proclaiming the demo cratic slogan, "Let the People Rule," which has taken no action to join in the demand on congress for a consti tutional amendment for the election of senators by direct popular vote. Ca't Beat tne Came. Washington Herald. If we do not slaughter the cattle for meat, the cattle will eat up all the grass, and then the price of breakfast foods will advance again. Say, how are we to beet this game, anyway? v uimrr IHf V I S OlOWf, "Chicago Record-Herald. The farmer doesn't wear his hayseed in his hair any longer. He sells It and buys an automobile. And when 'doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief" point their fingers at him and say, "You're H," he merely throws In the speed clutch and smiles back along the wind. Fitted far the J! Minneapolis Journal, The new king ot the Bolgiums was once a newapaper reporter, so when the ear. respondents call to see him, he will know enough to hand out a fresh cigar and a straight talk. Instead of retiring behind his privilege as a king, and throwing the boys the "bunk. ! Sam Bread of Hot Air. Chicago Record-Herald. The breakfast food manufacturers. Just as the people have begun to find that they vn jivw wimoui meat, are lorming a combination. It Is promised by them that their combination Is intended, for the pur pose of enabling them to reduce prices to tne consumer, but only very optimistic con sumers are likely to base much hope upon the statement. Two Ways of Flghtlag. Boston Herald. The boycott Is the battle of mlrht. ArrnwU to the law is the battle for right. The meat ooycon is a test of endurance between the consumer and the meat trusts, and what ever may be the temporary advantage, the. endurance of the trust is Mkely to be the greater. In the appeal to the law and to the law-making power the people and the trusts stand on equal terms, and although the battle may be longer, right rather than might finally will prevail. PERSONAL AND 0 THEE WISE. Old-fashioned winters, like old-fashinn-i rations, are good enough to die young. sojourners In winter resort hotels d) that high living provokes emnhatlo thinir. lrg on the conservation of the currency. Some of the oysters taken into our systems, according to Dr. Wiley, haven't the slightest respect for the pure food law. Advocates of the cheaper grades of meat as a means of eoonomy neglect to mention what dental shop carries the right grade of teeth. Walt Wellman has arrived at the con versation stage of a balloon voyage across the Atlantic It is a feasible way of getting into the swim. Speculators in cold storage eggs stand to lose over ttOOO.OOO, according to New York advices. The losers are In ths "strictly frash" class. Having located Noah's grave, there Is peculiar fitness In the proposal to mark wltl) a Carnegie medal the resting place of the champion Ufa saver. Wllllamsport, Pa., persists In its claim to be the -liveliest town of Its sise on the map. It acts up like a hustling western town where live ones are on the Jump and "dead ones" boxed. It Is "a elty that does things." Push and pull are the town's slogan. If the push Is not strong enough the pull gets In front and the wheels go 'round. In the last five years citizens pledged a fund of SM1.000, paid In annual Installments, with which the wheels of progress were greasod and kept going, and ths fact megaphoned to other communities. Wllllamsport's plan is worth while, and is not patented. ' Tebrnary S, ltlO. George J. Gould, head of the Gould family and manager of the numerous Gould railway properties, waa born February 6, 1SG4, In New York. The Gould railroads that oome into Omaha are the Missouri Paciflo and the Wabash. At one tune ths Goulds dominated the Union Pacific. Jesse R. Grant, one ot the sons of Pres ident Grant, was born February I, 1868, and Is now practicing law In New York John W. Batten, whose law offices are In the New York Life building, is 42 years old today. "Jack" Batten was one of the popular men at Cornell university, where he graduated, and has also figured some what Id local politics here. John H. Bex ton, an expert accountant. In the First National Bank building, waa born February (, I860, In Qulncy, 111. Mr. Bexton Is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias, in which he has had high official honors. Samuel H. Smyth, editor of the Sover eign Visitor of ths Woodmen of the World, Is 68. He Is an Englishman by birth and was a letter carrier for thirteen years at Davenport, la., before he took up bis pres ent work. Major General 6amuel 8. Sumner, United States Army, waa born In Pennsylvania February (, 1M2. General Sumner com manded the dlvlalon In the Cuban cam paign during the Spanish-American war in which Colonel Roosevelt's regiment was brigaded and was for a short while in command of the Department of the Mis souri. He was retired in 1308. William HaXke, the real estate man, la 29. Us was born in Germany, but came to this country whan only I years old, and u eduoaxed in the schools here an Omaha. : I Our Birthday Book I 1 1 "Sight Drafts at Maturity" An Advertisement by Elbert Hubbard. Business Ballast WHEN Henry Selfrldge, of Chicago, was starting that great American store In London, he found that he was flying a trifle light, and needed a little business bstlast in other words a little financial accommoda tion was required. On applying to his bankers they asked to see Mr. Bolf rldge's life Insurance policies. When , he sent his secretary over with the documents, aggregating an even million dollars, the monled men winked, blinked and gasped for breath. One of the policies was in the Kqultable for an even three hundred thousand dollars. Now, be It known that the Equitable never writes a policy like that without not only examining the man physically, but looking up his moral record with a fine tooth comb. The dope fiend, the booser, the rounder, the bounder, and the gent who follows the ponies, cannot .pass. Tour record must be clean and you must be engaged In a business that serves society. You must be benefitting your fellow men, not exploit ing them. The safe man Is the useful man. So when our Threadneedle Street friends saw those Selfrldge policies, they suddenly awoke to the fact that they were dealing with a man who knew exactly what he was doing. The life Insurance policies were his certificates of character. The bankers sent back the policies, with word that Mr. Selfrldge could have anything be wanted, on his own terms. But In the two days' delay the wind had veered; the buyers were mobbing the store with s. d., and Selfrldge found himself In funds; and then he had the Joy of thanking the money-bags and informing them that he wanted nothing. All wise men who can get life Insurance now adays, do. It stiffens the vertebrae, sweetens the love of wife ana ktddyeens, commands the confidence of your colleagues and enables you to look trouble squarely In the eye and cause It to beat It for the bush. Life Insurance Is a privilege. If It Is within your reach today, secure it today. Tomorrow may be too late. The Equitable Life Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES "Strongest in the World" The Company whleh pays Its death claims on the day it raoeives thsla, PAUL MORTON, President 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY H. D. NEELY, Manager. Merchants National Bank Building, Omaha ASSOCIATE AGENTS J. O. PHILUPPI, K. H. PICKAHD, CHARLES VULTEE, Cashier, GEO. M. COOPER, H. FAT NEELY. W. Q. ROMJG, ANTON LUNDSTROM. SEBJtONS BOILED DOWN. People who are rich in heart never put their money there. Often ths clock that strikes loudest la farthest off the time. A chilly manner im not the best prepara tion for a warmer climate. The pleasures of folly never come up to the promise of the pictures. Religion is a poor thing if you never enjoy it until you are In trouble. The habit of prayer can get to mean as little as the habit of profanity. It is always easier to straighten out the truth than It Is to line up with it. Some men believe you cannot enjoy life's berries unless you eat the briers. One trouble with the gravestone ticket to glory Is that It is printed too late. Borne men think they are lifting up the church by holding their faults under it. When you bury your sorrows, don't water thero; forget wnere you pianiea them. You do not learn the way to Heaven by inquiry as to the waywardness of your friends. The fact that you are fighting for the truth does not excuse you from practicing it once in a While. When a man's heart Is drying up in tne desert of conceit he tries to comfort him self by looking at the slse of his neaa. Chicago Tribune. SECUIAE SHOTS AT FULfii'. Bt Louis Times: An Arkansas preacher In the course of a sermon " his atate "held the ace." and his audience was pleased to see that he could dee nis speech with such a pretty figure. v. -r,ir World: A Pennsylvania pas tor refuses to marry couples unless i the bridegroom has an income -year What's the use? A young couple In love will take chances with only the fee necessary for tne ceremuu, ... can't stop them. Boston Transcript: Should an the min ls ter. adop the rule of Wrlghl son of McKees Rocks. F irfu9d maVry a couple unless the bridegroom wuld prove that he had an Income of at least $2,000 dollars a year most of the .1 of the country would be obliged to remain single. nord-Herald: Rev. Hugh Bhed. rector of the church of which j Plerpont Morgan Is a member in New York, said t the beginning of a recent Jermon '"There should be no poor. My "lend, when the eye of God is upon you vou will be glad to throw your money you w" "'".., scared and away." Mr. ' -- . , decide to buy another import.. collection or two. DOMESTIC PLEAS ANTEIES. .R,.t Aunt Blla, I simply cant marry that odious y,"A' hi- Prcum at odious uipi' t;"".;;:r , . . , ir in.ib.iATir ..o..7an5 hi. position In society. Besides. ini'L.. Hnf nsar z i,viioiui 'Why not, aearr ; j. - m . .Bl.a villi Will DSJ IUBI ou will be Just UcrthVdifference.-Chlc.go Tribune. Avnt 8plnsterly-I hope that ywr opln-Vh'toreve-ry-should 1 hay. a vote. tnat ..,! I don't BO Quite ..7i.. hut I believe that every woman should have a voterl-Human Life. Bcott-I aiwaya thought it was rough on Adam to rob him of hla rib. Moit-V..; but on the other hand. It was the making of Ev..-Boton Tranacrlpt. Tms It's funny that handkerchief, al wiy. M.m to bi so popular as birthday gift. TMS-Ye". I've got more than three down that were givn .h, jess Ah! one on each birthday, en! Cathollo Standard and Timea. "T devotedly lova a married woman." Now don't spring that old Jolts about It. being your wife." Not a bit of it." "Who is she, then?" "My mother." Baltimore American. Officiating Clergyman At the fading till, evening. Mr. glmpkln., do you Intend to tlve your daughter sway", M 8linpklns-&ure! I don't .Xpert any remuneration; besides that, I'm only too glad to get her oft my handa! "Paw, wasn't that horrible dinner?" "It was. Tommy.' "But you handed the waiter a dime when we went away. What did you do that f0"l" wanted to eoovey the idea to him, 5? -A) Tommy, as delicately as possible, that If he'd brought us a good feed it would have been a half dollar." Chicago Tribune. "My only daughter eloped. And I'll never forgive her!" "Now, look here, old roan, remember" "Remember? Yes. I'd be decent about It If she'd let well enough alone. But she not only eloped she came back homo!". Cleveland Leader. A PLAINSMAN'S PHILOSOPHY. - J. W. Foley in Now York Times. When It gits to comln' easy; when It's framed up all your way, When you've got "em oil a-comdn with th j dollars out to pay; It j 1st seems as though you couldn't git in badwlse if you tried, . An' th' ain't no gams a-goln' but you're , right on th inside; When it gits f comln' easy, everybody sort , & seems T be anxious for t' help you keep on dream In' pretty dreams, ' 1 It's when things (tit colmn' easy that y' ' travel right along. But, say I Ain't it h t' stop 'em 'when thing, git f gotn' wrong! ! I been punchln' lonx-horn cattle nigh on morern twenty yeaxs. I know all about their notions, an' I've l'arned their likes an' fears; An' they're Jlst like things that happen In th' lives of you an' me. When they got t' drlvln' gentle, they're as gentle as kin be. They jlst go as smooth as kin be, not f swtBhlrV of si tail. Not th' battln' of an eyebrow as they toi ler on th' trail, An' you hardly need f watch "on,, 'cause they travel right along. But, say! Ain't it b f stop 'em when they git t' go in' wrong! I know K Is, ol' feller j have been all through th' mill, I've enjoyed my share of trouble I'm en joyln' trouble still; I've seen sunny days an' cloudy, I've had su menus fare an' plain, I've had beans and bread for dinner an' I may be thero again; An' I've had things comln' easy, when it seemed t' be a sin, Jlst t' open up my tent flap an' t' let more sunshine In; When things git t' comln' easy, days an' nights go by like song, , But, say! Ain't it h t' stop 'em when ' things git t' goin' wrong! Via Soli I00 Kinds moral Waters . JWe will sell over 100 kind, imported and American Mineral Waters, and,-as we ob tain direct from springs or importer, can guarantee freshness and genuineness. Boro JUttnia water, uoi., ouc; case, o.w. Boro Llthla Water, pints, dosen, 11.60; use, 100, llO.Ot We are distributing agents In Omaha for the celebrated waters from Excelsior Springs, Mo., and sell at following prices: Regent, auart botUe, ttc; ' doxen, 2 X; case, do boatitis, xs.uu. Hulpho-Saline, quart botMo, 25c; dosen, f2 2f,,; case, 60 bottles, M00. Rulpho-Sallne, quart bottle, 2Cci dozen. tl.M. rtoterlan, quart Dome, zuo; aoxen, sz.ou, Hoterlan, pint bottle, 15c; docen, 11.60. Soterlan Ginger Ale, pint bottle, lUci dozrn, $1.60. Soterlan Ginger Ale, quart bottle, 2c; dozen, (2.26. Diamond Llthla, half-gallon bottle, 40o; case, 1 Doxen, li.ou. Crystal L.lthla, 6-gallon Jug., each, 12.00. Salt Sulphur, 6-gallnn jugs, each, W 25. . Delivery free to any part of Omaha. Council Bluffa or South Omaha. Sherman & McDonnell Drug Co 16th and Dodge fits. Owl Drug Co. 16th and Harney St.. , "rmLoa or ohihi" novi There are many kind, of flour; Some do fairly well, v But the flour of ell others, Of whioh X wl.h to wil, J. known a. 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