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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1910)
KE'Si TOME (MAi&INE MGE IHIIIMOIED SERMON FGI1IEWIEE Brightside and His Boy 'Home Help for Candy Things You Want to Know Encouraging MarkMuM'.shlp. Kids," Their Latest Tabloid Skrtcli. mm em iiTTiE BV LAFAYETTE PARKS. "It noticed In a department store today numerous devices to make life easier for the bachelor," begins Brightside, as the light of the Harlem flat enter to Instruct his parent In the lateit doings of the day. "Why get married when a chap can get I all the comforts of home at marked down prices?" Is Bon's retort courteous as he lights up the usual "coffin nail." "When I was a young man," Father re sumes In a rem in lucent mood, "Hie was pretty uncomfortable for an unmarried nan." "liven the married man ueed to kick In those days, 1 suppose?" surmlnes Son. "You hear a lot of hot air about the gojd 14 days, but take It from me these are the bappy times right now In little old New York. A married man can sidestep ilia troubles If he knows the good places just as easy as the kid not tied to a skirt." "One of the devices I saw," continues i Father, "was an alchoho! lamp with : pressing Iron attachment, with which a fcaohelor could ba his own tailor for U oents a week." "That kind of a stunt ought to make a big bit with about a million of these candy kids," says Bon. "The hall room piker can press his ore pair of pants without going down street with a bundle and wait ing in a back room until his turn comes at the tailor's. The six-bucks-a-week boys will certainly come across for one of the Irons, even If they have to do It on the Installment plan." "Well, I like to see young men take , pride In the way they dress,' approves Father. "These klddoes that curl their hair and shins their own shoes ought to get medals pinned on 'em by the Society for the Pro motion of Economy,' advocates Bon. "A man can make a neat appearance without being a fop,' la Father's belief. "Tha boys that carry a cloth to polish the dust off their lids when they think a dame Is looking, or a comb to fix up their bangs, get my goat," scoffs Bon. "I like to sea a chap keep his face and hands Clean and buy a 6-cent shine once a month and let It go at that." 'There was a very complete mending outfit for the lone bachelor," resumes Father, further describing the aids to a happy bachelorhood. "I'd Ilka to aee a moving picture of a bachelor darning a hole In his sock," says Son; "It ought to draw as big a crowd as the tight pictures. As for sewing on" but tons, most of the chaps I know would rather buy a new suit If they had the Daughters of Mrs. EUhu Root, wife of the senator from New Tork. Is a daughter of a promi nent New Tork Journalist. Bam u el Howe Wales. Daughter of one public spirited man and wife and helpmate of another, needless to say Mrs. Root Is a woman of nobis aspirations, wide sympathies and generous outlook Her father, Samuel Howe Wsles, was born In Massachusetts In U25. and was descended from one of the Puritan fathers who came to this country with Richard Mather la ISO. Mr. Wales was educated In the oonunon schools of his native place and at the academy of Attica: N. T. He cams to New Tork City In 1816, and for a sjgy- iT- - i MK. EUHU tha first two years of his life hers ba was employed In an Importing house. Ha then beoame associated with O. D. Munn In the publication of tha Scientlflo American and remained managing editor of that Journal for nearly twenty-four years. During the civil war he took a prominent part In affairs and was an active member of the executive committee of the Chris tian commission, an organisation devoted to tha care of sick and wounded soldiera Iater ha served the city In the department of docks, serving as Its president, and was also for a time president of the Park cora- f 1 - w -t ' f :': '.-My K ' ,': . -I-V. ' :' v, . i m I si n How She Keeps Her Garden in Bloom Later than Her Neighbors A garden blooming two weeks later than thoa of her other country neighbors was an achievement last autumn of a woman who expects to repeat It this year by tha same successful means. Coverings of cheesecloth kept off frost night after nlghi, and sha did not find It much work to stretch tha cloth over In the lata afternoon. Tha beds of her garden are of varying atses and shapes, but moot of thera are oblong. At the four corners of each shs bad tall stakes driven, putting two extra takes In the middle of those beds which wera mora than ten feet long. Tha stake stood about a foot higher than the tallest growth In tha beds. Some of tha flowers war cosmos. Taking- oheeeeeloth la lengths long enough to cover not only the beds, but tha reach from tha ground to tha stakes at both ends ha stitched tha selvages together so that tha covering might ba wide enough. Through tha ends of the breadths shs ran a deep bam to . hold a small stick heavy enough to keep tha cloth down. To savs continual hunting for cords sha fastened two tapes at each edge. Just where they wsnH f o firmly around tha staks top, price than to thread a needle and try u spear holes In their fingers." "Another new Invention that struck mc as being most useful was a combination wire hanger to hold half a dosen suits of clothes," adds Father. "Any bachelor who can afford to have that many clothes doesn't need to get mar ried," declares Son. "If a fellow hap pened to get stung Into buying a rack tike that he'd probably hang up his one suit In It about once a month. After coming home early some morning after a roundup of the very best highball dispensaries It would be great exercise to try to skin the TWL Hall pym pik CAN BGS3 HIS ONE mix. or rANTo j. cat on the coat hangers. Outside of that I can't see much use for It." "A- bachelor's establishment ought to ba Just as orderly as that of a spinster." urges Father. "If a chao could keep his little furnished room In apple-pie order," asserts Bon, "the marriage license bureau would soon go out of business. If the dames wera wise they'd boycott stores that sold those conveniences for bachelors. It's the lack of all the conveniences of horns that drives us men to commit matrimony. The cosier they make the hall room the harder the skirts will have to coax to get us to sign the papers to pay rent for a flat the rest of our lives." (Copyright, 1910, by the N. T. Herald Co.) Famous Men mission. Ha was at ona ttma vice presi dent of the Union League club and had charge of the construction, of the present building. In charitable work his was an enviable record. Hs was instrumental la founding the Hahnemann hospital and the New Tork Homoeopathic Medical college. He was also a founder of tha Metropolitan Museum of Art and director in the Bank of North America and the Hanover In suranoa company. Like her father, Mrs. Root has many charitable and philanthropic Interests, and Is a sagacious student of men and affairs, as la meet in the wife of the man who Is J I . . ,, j t . .V VM ffm - in ROOT promlnent as a lawyer, as a leader In the republican party and as a 'statesman. For nearly thirty years EUhu Root has been tha close personal friend of Theodora Roosevelt and his political adviser. Hs was secretary of war during tha period subsequent, to the close of tha Spanish American war, when that portfolio re quired a lawyer of great administrative ability. He was afterward secretary of state. Mrs. Root Is a woman of greet charm, a noted hostess and a tactful so cial leader. Her daughter Is tba wlfa of Ulysses 8. Grant 3d. These cheesecloth covers were sufficient protection from all ths first light frosts. To put them on, the and was dropped down, and tha edges tied to tha two stakes at tha corners nearest. Then tha length fwas stretched along, ths other and to ba similarly fastened. They could ba put on by ona person, tha cloth being so light that It will do no harm If it drops upon tha plants while being carried to the further end. Untying them In tha morning Is also tha metier of a moment The same cloths are useful for more than ona season. An extremely useful and Inexpensive pro tection for roots during tha winter Is old leaves, raked over to a depth of four or five Inches, packing and putting old places of straw matting over them, not only to hold them down, but for added protection. Pine boughs laid over keep the leaves dowa. as a rula, but they contain no added warmth. Old barn manure, of course, is tha best protection for roots, giving them warmth but rare must ba taken that It Is well rotted first. A few leaves) raked over tba pine boughs on top of all, maks a covering that la usu ally proof against tha Boost sever cold. Text Gal. 1:20 "Nevertheless I live; yet ot I. but Christ, llveth In me." The Incarnation whereby God presented and revealed Himself through Jesus Christ wss a long step forward In the Father's plans of helpfulness 'to man. Through Jesus Christ, a knowledge of His character and a, knowledge of ills life as seen through His gracious ministry, we come to know the Father. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father," said Jesus to Philip. Helpful as Is a knowledge of the Father, there Is still a further thing need ful In order to have consummated God's greet plsn for us. Another Incarnation is needed, one wheretn God Incarnates Him self within us; that as God lived, worked snd rsvesled Himself through Jesus Christ, so Hs may live, work and reveal Himself through us to ths full extent of our capa city to receive and communicate Htm a condition wherein God's mind Is thinking In our brain, wherein God Is manifesting Himself through us, wherein God is con tinuing His work by us. 8uch a goodly condition In grace dirt Paul claim to have attained: "Nevertheless Ii live; yet not I, but Christ, llveth in me." It puts cheer and heart within us to know that it is the purpose of God to In carnate Himself within us; that He would cloths Himself with our form, our body, reveal Himself in us and through us; not to tha aama degree of fullness and power that He did in Jesus Christ, but In a de gree proportionate to our capacity to re ceive, to reveal and to communicate Him; a real Incarnation and Indwelling of God within us, swaying our wills, purifying our characters, bringing us Into perfeot har mony with His own will, making ou char acters to reveal and exhibit Hla ' When the disciples wera sorrowful over the fact of the going away ot their Master, Jesus attempted to encourage and oomfort them with this promise: "And I will pray the Father and Hs shall give you another comforter that He may ablda with you for ever; even tha spirit of truth, whom ths world cannot receive, because It seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him; but ya know Him. for Ha dwelleth with you and shall be In you." Jesus would depart, but God would continue to abide with men In the person of the holy spirit, which would ba tha third step In the process of God's rev elation of Hlmaelf. In Old Testament times God manifested Himself through prophet and heavenly messenger, from whtch man got only a vague conception of His char acter, knew Him only as Creator and Father. In Jesus Christ Hs gava a clearer and fuller manifestation of Himself, when man cams to know Him as a God of com passion and love. Than with His coming to Incarnate Him self within us through tha holy spirit, do wo have a personal and conscious revela tion of God and a ona frought with great activity and glorious results. "Ha that be lleth In ma. tha works that I do shall ha do also, and greater works thsn thess shall ha do," said Jesus. How can this be, except God incarnate Himself in ths be liever and work with His power and grace through hlra? Whatever alsa tha disciples were conscious of on tha day of Pentecost, this ons thing they must have clearly rec ognised: that God was Incarnate within them, that while they lived and spoke and wrought, yet it was not they themselves, but God, that lived and spoke and wrought through them. Paul, in pointing out to tha Corinthians the great wrong of Injuring God's people, said: "Ye ara tha temple of God and tha spirit of God dwelleth in you" teaching that tha believer la tha holy place where God would dwell and from which emi nates that which reveals His power and goodness. CIEtCUIiSTAKTIALDilDEIlCE! sJ&sLe?1LJ?'' ESP-Ik jncmaT y ' 911 meri J S A , II All uto 111 "j An 111 -IIP P joIML- FOR c-.n I 1 A m r - V -it T. S. Bosnian, Pastor Walnut Bill Methodist Spisoopal Church. Dr. Stalker tells us that Christianity had In Jesus Its perfect model of human char acter, but until It reached Paul it had not shown what It could do with an Imperfect human nature, and that Paul was chosen for that purpose; that through him God might demonstrate what He could do with man. Bo He takes Paul, "the chief of sinners," does a mighty work of grace for him. Incarnates Himself within him, con trollng his will, cleansing his character and bringing him Into complete harmony with His own will so that this man, once 'the chief among sinners," now says: 'Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ, llveth In me." These Inoldents of scripture, with many other kindred ones familiar to us, Indicate the trend of God's great pur pose concerning us. Growing out of this purpose of God to Incarnate Himself In human life ara some obvious lessons. It helps us to a correot Idea of God In His relations to us. At times when God delays In His answers to our prayer, when He tarries that greater things may do accomplished when Hs does act, as Jesus did when called to see Lazarus, his friend, who was sick, when Hs hides Hlm- Sunflower Philosophy Ha laughs bast who can laugh at a joka when It Is on himself. Before a fellow tells a girt sha Is the apple of his eve ha should ba surs sha Isn't already paired. Tbosa who never try are at least spared tha mortification of knowing what they can't do. Soma people ara so disagreeable that It's a source of wonder how they can keep on such good terms with themslsves. . Tha older a girl gets ths less sha be lieves In long engagements. Many a fellow's Idea of a good time is to waka up tha next morning and not know what day of tba week It is. Sympathise with a fellow who Is broke and ha will see to tt that you ara deeply touched. The quiver In a girl's voles is frequently used to draw a beau. When we hear of a man of 70 marrying, It Is hard to determine Just what Is the age of discretion. i i ; t , ir i i i j i 1 ijyi self behind a frowning providence, we are apt to think that God has estranged Him self, gone far from us; but not so. for lie la never nesrer to us than at such times. He walks with, us with so gentle tread; He dwells within Us in such a quiet way. but always guiding, helping snd sustaining. He makes common cause with us In all things that concern our welfare; like a teacher who Is trying to enter Into the life of a child, seeks some point of contact and common Interest from which she can easily lead the child up through various steps into the light, does God seek a point of contact with us, something in which Hs can make common cause with us. then pa tiently helping us on and up step by step to perfect manhood. In accomplishing this gracious work for us and In us. He works at "close rsnge," dwells within us. Incar nates Himself In our life. It is God's only wsy of lifting us. A rev elation In tha abstract, a Christianity on tha long-distance" plan would not lift us; it would be of no avail, because of our weakened and, sinful natures and of our utter inability to lift ourselves toward Ood or to a higher humanity or to a purer life. God must reach humanity with the concrete, as He did in Jeeus Christ and as He Is doing today through the holy spirit. Ha must touch our life, come into It to vitalize, energize and quicken it, incarnate Himself within us, see through our eyes, hear with our ears, speak with our Hps, work with our bands and be the ruling, permeating and dynamic force of our life. Only by such a process could God lift Paul from a condition where he was "chief among sinners" to a condition where he was "chief among saints. And only by such a process can He lift us out of con ditions that may retard or forbid our at taining to noblest manhood and largest degree of usefulness up to those condi tions that afford us inspiration and oppor tunity corresponding to God's expectation of us. Oh, that wa might be willing for God's great purpose to be wrought out In our Uveal In speaking of the limitations which Christ took upon Himself In His Incarna tion that He might revei God to man, Paul goes on to admonish: "Let this mind ba In you which was also In Jesus Christ" He who was equal with God, but willing to taks upon Himself limitations, to reduce, to lessen Himself to fit tha capacity of human nature, be born of woman, Uva among sinful men and dla upon tha cross. Then In his ministry His willingness to axalt tha Father: "I came not to do my own will, but tha 'will of Him who sent me." Then in the working of Hla greatest miracle, when tha crowd had assembled, tha stone rolled away 'and He was about to call Lazarus back. Ha ' stops to pray unto tha Father, not because Hs needed to do so, but that Ha might put Him uppermost In tha thought of the people. As Christ was witling to fully meet all conditions that ha might come Into human nature and reveal tha Father, likewise let us ba willing to meet conditions that God may Incarnate Himself In us. Paul gives us a splendid example of this willingness. Chosen as hs was by his co-reitglonlsts to lead In their schemes of persecution of Christianity, yet when he la convinced of tha Father's greater plans for him and that his lite could ba better Invested, hs willingly yields and from that time on It is his supreme delight to do the will of Ood. "I am crucified with Christ," says he; as Christ died upon the cross, so did Paul die to self that God might Incarnate Himself within him and work out to Its full consummation His great purpose concern ing him. Paul let God have His way, "Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ, llveth In me." May wa ba willing as was Paul. The eleventhannual tournament of the United Mtatea Revolver association is now being held In the various large cities of the country. This tournament is held under the auspices of tha constituent clubs of the association, and Is but ona ot scores of Important agencies rr the encourage- j ment of marksmanship with small arms. The National Rifle Association of America, with its big meetings at Seagirt and Camp Prry, together with Its various state meetings, is accomplishing a vsst desl in making good marksmen. For a full genera tion there have not been so many expert riflemen In the United States ss there are today. In the old days, when every man had hla trusty flint-lock and could bs de pended upon to bore out tha eye of a qulrrel In a tall tree, thera was no need of prizes to encourage men to become good marskmen. Tha game life of tha forest and tha neighborhood shooting bees did that. Aside from the revolver and rifle matches there Is another agency that Is doing much to make the cltlsens who constitute the unorganised militia of the country efflci ent handlers of small arms. This agency is the National Association of Trap-shoot-rs. There are several thousand gun clubs In the United States which have frequent contests, some with clay pistons, others with Uva birds, and still others with tar gets. September is one of the greatest months of the year for trap shooting and there are no less than fifty local events scheduled for the month. Troy. N. T., has an Important shoot for today; Bellalres Grove. Mo., and Lowell, Ind., for Septem ber 25 and 28; Guthrie, Okl., for the 20 and Z7, and Toledo, O., and Decatur. 111., for the 27, 28 and 29. The great American handicap, which Is the blue ribbon event of the trap shooting world, was held In Chicago in June. More than 300 shooters took part In tha various events of the meeting. For tha first time in tha history of tha hsndlcsp It was won with a perfect score. Riley Thompson, ona of tha best amateur marksmen of the United State, made a clean record of 100 straight. His closest competitor was Har vey McMurchey, who made ninety-nine hits out of a possible 100. This was the first time that the handicap was ever lost on so excellent a imn n.i .w. uui-v oeiore has first honor reached even as high as me ninety-nine which was second honor In this shoot More than 1270m ,.,.. were shot at during the meeting. ai. trap shooting events throughout the United States ars conducted under the rules of the Interstate association. This wss organized a number of years aro, and under Its activities nearly every former world record has been broken. In 1909 many former records were shattered and the year marked a hlirher order of marks manshlp than was ever before displayed. But the successes of 1909 have been eclipsed by those of the present year. Even the women have been displaying unusual skill In tha art ot shooting, and Mrs. A. Topper weln of San Antonio, Tex., hit M targets out of a possible 100. In tha ahoot held at Betterton, Md., the latter part of . July. H. 8. Welles set a world's record by shooting IKS targets without a miss, ths previous record having been held by J. Mowell Hawkins, with 12S straight Edward E. Hargest. a 12-year-old boy of Baltimore, Md., is thought to hold the record for a child of his ags. In a recent contest he hit 87 out of 100 at one time and 43 out of 50 at another time. The results of trap shooting with clay pigeons In ths United States have been so satis factory that the English have been led to adopt the clay target, and the sport Is growing ss popular on the other side as It Is In the United States. In the United States thera ara two sys tems of awarding prizes in target fhootlng. One system Is known as the Jack Rabbit and the other as the Money Back. Under the former entrants ars paid according to the scores they maks. Under the latter the entrance tea Is returned to those who do not win enough prize money to pay for the fee. The experts do not ilka tha Jack Rabbit system, contending thst It does not pay them well enough for their skill. But In spite of some dissatisfaction with the prize allotting systems in vogue, there never have been so many trap shooters as there are today, nor have the records of the rank and file, as well as those of the prize winners, been as high as they are now. This shows conclusively that export marksmanship la answering to tha methods of stimulation adopted by the various or ganizations. Ths object of tha National Rifle associ ation of the United States is particularly to encourage marksmanship among Indi viduals who would ba ' needed as sharp shooters In cass of war. Ths association advocates a program which Includes ths Types Vc Meet Every Day Bromldla, in her daintiest gown, Stands upon the platform, smiling down Upon her pupils. "Children, dear. Now that you've coma for learning here, I mean to start a brand new plan. When my past childhood days I scan, Remembering what In vain I sought I'll teach you as T would ba taught! "I used to hate my home work so I msds mo nervous, and I know Each little man in this, our class, And every clever little lass Will ba delighted when I say Ws'll do our horns work hera each day, An&V and It blithely, as wa ought. I'll teach you aa I would ba taught "In that way, when tha school Is o'er, Tour minds will not be fretted mora Or five plus five. Whan things ara dona With three times nine, six minus one. Within the school room day by day, After dismissal you may play Without a single worried thought I'll teach you as I would ba taught "And when I ses ths naughty boys Hera in the school room maks a noise I'll promptly crush that on tha spot For I remember (who does not?) How noisy boys, when I was small, Scared me so I learned naught at all. I'll scars them now, ahl happy thought And teach tbetn as they should ba taught "As for thosa pupils who ara girls I know each head with romance whirls I'll teach them so they all shall seam As lovely as a poet's dream. I'll teach them how they should ba drast How each should slways look bar best, furnishing, by the government, of standard army rifles to thosa who will use them under proper auspices. It would have tha government Issue 1,000.000 such rifles to In dividual marksmen and thus of for better support to tha cause of marksmanship than it does now. It Is pointed out that thera ara at present about 100 universities, col leges and schools In the United States where army officers are detailed and that thee institutions have an enrollment In their military departments of about 3.000 students. Of these only i.itt receive out door shooting practice snd gallery practice. In addition to these public Insti tutions there are twenty-eight military Institutions, with an enrollment of 2,(00. It Is the aim of the rifle association to fur nish each ot these students with s gun and make Mm as efficient In handling It as a sharpshooter would need to be In case of war. Tha officials of ths rifle association well may strive to promote efftloeney tn the handling of smsll arms, for oftsn the re sult of a battle, it Indeed not the outcome ot a wsr, depends upon tha efficiency cf the sharpshooter. In the Boer war the highly trained troops of r.he English gov ernment could not meet, on equal terms, the South African farmers who had 'shoul dered their guns in defense ot their homes. It was the ability of the Boers as sharp shooters that put the English to such dis advantage, and forced the mother country to use such vast armies In conquering them. In the bsttle ot Gettysburg ths confederate sharpshooters nearly succeeded In turning the tide ot battle on the after noon of the second day. Safely ensronsed behind the huge boulders of Devil's Den, they picked off ths gunners of ths federal forces on the rocky northern slops ot Little Round Top ss fast as they sought to man ths guns. Thus ths northern artillery was rendered almost useless, and It was only by pitting their sharpshotters against thoss of ths confederscy that the federals were able to use their artillery effectively on Little Round Top. If this had not been done, the night of the second day certainly would have found Longstrect's men In pos session of Little Round Top, the key to the federal position. Had this stronghold been tsken, the story of ths victory would In all probability have been a different one. It has been calculated by army statis ticians that Tor every man hit In battle from small-arm fire, there are from 8,000 to 6,000 shots fired. It Is said that with the Increasing distance at which troops en gage In battle, due to more efficient equip ment being used, the proportion of mlses to hits Is becoming even greater. In such a situation It becomes all the more neces sary that there shall ba thorough training of the citizens who are to make up our army In case of future war. Not long ago the Austrian School of Musketry deter mined to make an exhaustive experiment with a view of ascertaining ths Influence of fatigue on marksmanship. A squad of men on bicycles rode sixty-five miles in eight -hours, after having shot several rounds at the targets. Whsn they returned they were wesry looking bunch of soldiers, but In tha shooting that followed It wss disclosed that ths strenuous march had affected the accuracy of their aim but little. In ths case of raw recruits it was found to be dif ferent They could not shoot nearly so well after a forced march as they were able to ' do before. Revolver shooting Is bscoming mors and more appreciated in army circles, and this arm Is rapidly succeeding tha sabre and tha lance In the equipment of the cavalry. It has been found that tha Improvements mads In these small arms have brought with them an accuracy of aim heretofore thought Impossible. The saber and tba lanca ara useful only In the closest hand-to-hand combat, while tha revolver or the magazine pistol may ba used at a distance of many paces. All nations ara equipping their cavalry troops with these light arms, and It is probable that tha day is not far distant when tha saber will be one of the things of the past In cavalry equip ment It has been the claim for many years that tha poorest marksmen in the world are to be found on the police forces of the urban communities. There has been much to Justify this assertion. But during ths last few years In many communities re volver practice has been required of the policemen and prises given for efflclenoy. This has greatly stimulated Interest among the blue-coated fraternity In tha art of ac curate shooting, and has lad prominent police officials of ths United 8tstee to be lieve that the day la not far distant when ths gun of ths average policeman will b less dangerous to tha Innocsnt bystander ' and more dangerous to ths criminal. BT TMOSBXO 3. BACXIB. Tomorrow Tha Irrigation CongTess. The School ma'am. And how a husband may ba caught I'll teach them as I would ba taught." (Copyright mo, by tha N. T. Herald Oo.J 1 1 i Cosmos Malady. "Ona of my most inteiestlng patients." remarked tha doctor, "was a young man whoss mind was falling. For a long while I thought I had affected a permanent cure." "What mads you think otherwise?' ssksd his friend. "Tou sea," replied tha doctor, "ha went away and forgot to pay his bW," Septem ber Upplnootfa, 1 I