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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1910)
n .flfi OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBEH 16. 101A. PRESBYTERY AU1S TORS BP 3onbting Divinity Candidate dained in New York. Or- J APPEAL, TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY Irlet Cbarrhmes laslst fttrlrlares at rather Viuki An Strresthrne k "arh Actios Larasea Work for Missions. BT L. V. FllANClA K1CW YOKK, Oct. 15 (Special to The iJee.) The New York Presbytery U again torn up over the admlsMl.in of a young Hin to the ministry who la not at all sur on some points which have been regarded a fundamentals by the I'rby terlan church, among them the virgin birth and bodily resurrection of Christ. In aplte of a vigorous protest by a considerable minority, the I'reabytery decided to ordain tile young man. An appeal will be taken to and sent then to the general assembly. This same ques tion was brought before the last general assembly and steps were taken which It was thought would prevent the ordination of candidates for the ministry whose views were not sound. It apparently failed and Indurations are not lacking that an ugly fight la faolng Uie Presbyterian church. Those who were tn a position to know affirm that the Presbyterian laity Is al most soHdly against the admission to the ministry of men who do not accept the Westminster confession and will take steps to Impress their views on the general as sembly. One prominent layman said to me re ssntlyi "It Is action like this which gives svelght to the charge of the Jesuit Father Vaughau that Protestantism la retrogress ing. I'm afraid that there la more truth III the charge, so far as It Is applied to tlty churches, than we care to admit. What the church needs is an old-fashioned vavlvai among the ministers. How can these men teach the fundamental truths of Christianity wbun they do not believe themT "Where the preachers themselves do not admit the divinity of Christ and his resur. rectlon from the dead, how can the church hope to maintain Its spirituality?" Work of the l.ayuiea. One hundred and forty laymen of the Episcopal churches of Manhattan, Brook lyn and the Bronx, and Richmond bor oughs of this city have part In an Im portant development of work for Christian missions. These laymen are lawyers, bank clerk and professional and business men who give some part of their spare Ume on week nights and Sundays to personal work for the advance of Christianity. They are putting up no opposition to bishops or other olergy, but are working loyally for improvements, especially in the matter of methods. The development of the new work covers about ten years, al though its chief advance has been during the last Ave. Tho work attempted la not that of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, the old or- gaiusauon or Episcopal laymen, but Is wore on the material aide. The principal part of their work baa been the demonstra tion of new methods. These men declare that If we fly and telegraph without wire, we must also make advances in missionary work. . Wholly Jn aympathy with the church clubs, and often co-operating with them, toe newer organisations touch neither local nor general work done by them. Bishop Qreer, Bishop Burgess and other Episcopal leaders have written In com mendation of what ha been " accom plished, Modera Day Maveaaeat, Tho works whioh these Christian laymen o, always without salaries, is quite new. Itr Is a twentieth-century advance along line not dreamed of ten years ajro. For example, laymen of sums oitlee an going well beyond suburb of their cities and here and there buying eligible plots of land, three to five acres, sometimes ten acres, and paying for them In fuIL In amount exactly equal to that paid for a particular plot a mortgagw on downtown real estate la purchased and the plot made the beneficiary. Interest from Uie nioi t gsge pays taxes on the plot and principle will by and by pay assessments for Im provements, where any, or accumulate a fund for the church that is some day to be. Under this plan there la no danger of becoming land poor. Had such plan been becoming. It might have been put into operation fifty years ago and the his tory of Christian churches in American cities would be vastly different from what K la Lead la v'alrltaaj Work. Closely related to this plan are the vol unteer lay readers and speakers who go Into the suburbs of cities and Into the country districts and there form Sunday schools and hold religious services. Most of these men have had the training that ministers have had and are the same as ministers In all save ordination. Giving their servloes on Sundays, they make pos sible new schools and churches, the oon g relations of which can devote their en tire energies to the buying of land and the ersotton of buildings. When these things are done they can auberrtbs enough to support a minister. Having support for the ordained man, they call one, and the volunteer retires, his work completed. The value to the new church is tremendous. In Pittsburg. Buffalo, Baltimore, Louis ville and New York this woe baa been developed In largest measure, single com panies of these laymen having brought Into existence within cne last ten rears fifteen ts tweaty-flve new churches tn growing" suburbs. The money accumula tion tn some of the oltles named reaohes fJUu.0 In the last decade, F"s the Bars. Whether for good or ill, American dties are draining rural oomm unities of their young people. Boys la country towns grow up tn the churches, sltuer actually Join the churches or get ready to do so, when business position Is offered them In the city and they leave, never to return. These Christian laymen regard the boy question, before the boy reliably leaves the job or the rural town and after he arrives in the big city, au a vital one, and so they are providing experts who tn given regions look after boys In the churches and especially show minister and local lay men how to attack, and solve uie problem ut holding boy a There are boy scouts, brotherhoods, knighthoods and half a down other organ isations, each pushing lis own plana A thing that suits one community and one situation may not suit another at all. A field of operation should be chosen so one tan know each local situation and advise Intelligently concerning the organisation to introduce, provided any should be. These men support the experts for work among soya, and they get boys themselves te Contribute to such support Americas Mtealsaartea, There are nearby 100 missionary societies in 1mirk, home and foreign, forty alone doing foreign work. ESch goes out Into Its own religious body, so that In a particular city It may bo that half of the whole num ber labor for financial support. Their dif. floultlee Include the fact that everything centers at their headquarters. Tho mo ment they stop work everybody else stops. "eir cost for collecting the money fW pcad. la afton, excessive, llcauvnjatji cao te) Anm la U way a tax re of effort exists everywhere. A new plan that Is being adopted successfully is to have In each olty.- each principal city at any rate, a missionary society that looks after certain tnterets that are common to all general societies. These city organiza tions undertake to do all missionary work In their cities and take the burden off the general one. The gnln Is tremendous. In about twenty principal cities there are now annual missionary councils where laymen, their clergy co-operating, come to gether, hear what was accomplished dur ing the twelvemonth, and make plana for the new year. Too often In the past whole cities have only worked without knowing what other titles were doing, what suc ceeds and what falls, but have worked without any particular goal. They alined at nothing and hit It rkool tow Laysaea. Tn Christ church, New Tork, there Is a school to train laymen to work for their church. It Is the first school of the kind ever established In America, and so far as sen be ascertained, it is the first In the world. It haa been In existence for three years. Its sessions are week nights and Sundays, and its students professional and business laymen, all of whom give their work without salaries. Audience are pro vided for students to give their addresses to. Men are taught to pray without being tied down to a prayer book. Methods are disoussed and the history of religious ef fort Is taught. Men are trained for work in Sunday schools, for social and mission ary work and as lay readers. CHARITIES HAVE BUSY TIME Associated Charities Help Nomeroos Families and Indlvldaala sad Aid Other Bodies la September. During the month of September the As sociated Charities office gave help to 159 families and 413 Individual cases. Applica tions were received from 1H3 persons and twenty cases were Investigated for other organizations. Help was received in the work from thirty-nine city organizations and fourteen outside of Omaha. Calls were msde on 835 cases and 1,401 telephone calls anawered. The Industrial Home on Tark Wild ave nue has been open all summer, but this Is the first month that working rooms have been open. Lodgings were given out to forty-three and meals to X. Nine were given employment most of them working about the home In making rugs and com forters. The home needs more donations of furniture to complete Its equipment. GERMAN WOMEN TO GIVE FAIR Will Attempt te Raise Hsaty ts Batld a New Casta at the Ger man Haas. For the benefit of a new Casino at the German home the women' of the various German societies In Omaha and South Omaha will give a fair In Washington hall. It will be supported by the members of the Landwehr Vereln and will begin Octo ber 29 to last' for four days. The programs will Include a number of entertainments, basars and dances. Defects in Nebraska's Taxation System II. We are speaking of the faults of our tax system, not for the purpose of regis tering a complaint, but to give an idea what should be dons to remedy present conditions. We should never attempt to develop a new system of any kind until we ars thoroughly conversant with the tood and bad features of the old. There la a card printed called "Taxpay er' Information," which reads as follows: County and state taxes due November 1 eaoh year. County and irtate personal taxes delin quent December 1 same year. County and state real estate taxes delin quent May 1 following year. City taxes due May 1 eaoh year. City taxes delinquent July 1 same year. All reirular taxes draw 10 per cent per annum after delinquent, except city taxes levied prior to 1. All, delinquent taxes advertised in Octo ber each year and offered for sale In No vember. This Is a correct statement of the law, and yet unless on la already acquainted with tax terms and the olaasifleatlon of taxes I doubt whether this Information will be entirely clear to every reader. In fact, there aeema to be considerable con fusion In the minds of tho people, as to the meaning of ths terms and classifica tions. It is quite common for people to think of a county tax as a tax on their real estate and a city tax as a tax on their personal property, and various other Ideas squally confused. I have found the subject most easily un derstood by bearing In mind that we have taxes on two kinds of property a tax on real estate, called real estate tax, and a tax on personal property called a personal tax and that we pay taxes twice a year on each of these kinds on property, once to the city for city purposes and onos to tho county for county purposes. There is no difference whatever between a city tax and a county tax, except In the pur pose for which ths money la used after It la collected. county tax Is used to pay county and state officers and other county and state expenses.. A city tax ts used to pay city offloera and other city expenses such as ths maintenance of firs and po lios departments, olty schools, eta One of the chief defects In our present tax system lies In the fact that the time for payment of these various kinds of taxes overlay each other and cause a con gestion at the tax counter at certain per iods. Instead of having the work distributed uniformly throughout the year. Tor ex ample, ths county real estate tax that comes due November 1 does not become delinquent until the following May 1, and the majority of people leave off paying this tax until the last hour In order to have the uae of their money as long as possible. On the same day that county real eetate tax becomes delinquent (May 1), olty taxes, both real estate and personal, become due. Only two months are allowed within which to pay city taxes and naturally a large number rush In to pay this tax as soon as It Is dua This makes a rush on three kinds of tax at one time, which continues during practically the whole of the period allowed for payment of city taxes Another double rush Is caused about the first of November, for on that date county real eetate and county per sonal .tax becomes due, and delinquent real estate ts being offered for sale. Tou might Imagine that this rush would occur only at certain periods, and that there would be nothing to do In the office at other times, but you doubtless have noticed the rush continues during prac tically the whole time during which people desire to pay taxes, and that during the slack periods there does not seera to be more clerks than are necessary to give you the ssrvlos you would desire. The fact la that under our present system after the tax paying rush 1 over there to a vast amount of detail work that must bs at tended ts. The book must be checked, delinquent real estate taxes must be posted from one set of books to the other, delin quent personal taxes must bs malted out, the delinquent real estate list anust be pre pared for publication, and other Ilk work of suoh an amount that the erfioe foros Is always busy, and, at times, actually rushed, when there apepar te be but Mttl doing at the counter. It seems evident that nothing, worth Mexico V. (Kdltorlal Cut renpondence.) VLKA CKUZ, Sept. .-(fpeclal.)-In de scribing our transcontinental Journey acrois Mexico from the Atlantic to the 1'aclflo and back again to the Atlantic in three days, I referred Incidentally to our stop In the town of Tehuantepec, saying that our experience and observations there mlcht make a story In themselves. We had read and heard quite a little about Tehuantepec and Its inhabitants and were looking forward to the visit with no little expectancy, being assured that we would there see the most typical native community, free from the Intrusion and corruption of foreigners, on our itinerary. We reached Tehuantepec about the mid dle of the afternoon and remained over night, going to Saline Crus about 10 o'clock the next day and passing through It again with but a brief stop on our return In the evening. It was, I believe, the unanimous verdict that Tehuantepec measured up fully to the advance agent's prospectus and that we were fortunate In being able to see Its people In their present state of gullelessness before they became hardened by contact with tourists and succumb to the temptations of either effete civilization of more ordinary degeneracy. Tehuantepec town spreads over the hills on two sides of the liver. The architect ure la characteristically Mexican, chiefly adobe houses facing narrow streets center ing In a plaza which Is also a market place. There are some beautiful groves of cocoanut palms and banana trees nearby. The railroad cuts through the town and bridges the river. The churches occupy prominent sites and show Interior evidences of poverty. Among the inhabitants, who are of the Zepotecan tribe, tracing themselves back with unmixed blood to before the Astec days, the women are largely preponderant In numbers The fact is, the women of Tehuantepeo are far-famed for beauty of figure and face. They are of a light brown color, clear complexion, good features and Intelligent countenances. They stand erect, carry their bundles or water jars on their heads, arc clean and comely, which is the exception and not the rule In Mexican na tives. The women of Tehuantepeo are the heads of the family; they are the business men; they run the shops and stores and in the market they do the buying and selling. They have for year been pursuing all the occupations our own "new woman" haa only lately undertaken to break Into. I saw no signs of any suffrage move ment and heard no cries that sounded like "We want votes," but If there Is any place In the "world where women ought to get votes for the asking. If they really want them, this Is the spot. Tehuantepeo women furthermore have the reputation of being modest, affectionate, devoted and constant and many are the tales told of lonesome foreigners lured to matrimonial vision In Omaha without first consolidating our city and county taxes and making them payable as one tax, thus reducing the number and kinds of taxes. There has been some progress toward consolidating our city and county tax within the last few years. One assessor now make the assess ment for both city and county; one tax de partment write tho tax books for both city and county! one treasurer act as treasurer for both city and county, and yet the tax books, the receipt book and other record are as separate and distinct as though kept by two separate administra tions. The city tax books are exact duplicates of the corresponding county book in mat ter of names, descriptions of property, valuations, eta, and differ only in the amount of the tax. So you see our tax de partment I duplicating a large part of It work, and the city set of book might be dispensed with entirely and the olty tax Included In ths oounty books without a Ingle change tn those books except in the figures representing the tax. It seems evi dent that if we could dispense with almost one-half of ths books that the tax depart ment is obliged to prepare it would make possible a large saving In that department alone. In addition to this separate receipt books must be provided and separata re ceipts written for city taxes, and a sepa rate set of bookkeeper devote their sntire time to city accounts, where If ths two taxes were consolidated one reoetpt might take the place of all, thus saving tho cost of one receipt and the time of the clerk who writes, and ons set of bookkeepers could handle the aooonnta instead of hav ing two, and thus make possible a sub stantial saving In the treasurer's offlos. The question of economy, although an Important one, 1 by no mean the only reason for the consolidation of the two taxes Servios to the publlo t always the principal tiling In a publlo office, and In the treasurer' offlos I the only profltabl economy. In order to do speedy and ac curate work. It Is necessary to have th tax books arranged so that the tax clerk can have easy access to them and at the same time be able to communicate with ths taxpayer. We are now producing sixteen of these books each year, ten of wltlch ars county book and six are city book. These books when laying open cover three feet of counter space, and as mote than one set of these books must be available all the time, it Is Impossible to bring them all within reach of the counter. Stomach Blood and Liver Troubles Msoh sickness starts wwh weak stomaoh, and consequent poor, isnpovsrishs4 Msod. Nervous and pals-people lack food, rich, sed blood. Their stomach need invigorating tor. aftsr all, sasa east bs no stronger than his stomscb. A fesnsdr that makes the stomach strong and th liver active, make rich sad blood and overcomes and drive oat dissase pro doc in f bsoteria and cures whole multi tude of U Gsf rid of roar Stomaeb Weatnaaa mad Llvar Lmxiaaam by taking m coarse at Dr. Plana" a Qaldam Madleml Dtaeararr (As gramt Stamaeb Raatarmtlva, Urap larliartor mad Bload Claauaar. Yos oaa't aCoed to accept any medicine of ankinwn saeSajMss a sbei(u tor "Golden Medical Discov ory," which I aasdlosns o known ooMrosmoin, having ssssptete list of sagradisots in plain English on its bot-tls-wrappr, ns batag attested a oorrect under oath. fWMs rtgalata aa a FOR SALE Th business established by Nrah Perry for twenty year and lately organised by the Bryson stoneware Co.. ooneUilag of Jars. Jugs, crooks, earthenware, bottles, etc, with the warehouse building, on fraok. at Sixteenth and Nicholas Streets, I offered for sain. Will iuveuwry about els thousand dollars, and is a ai.lsi.Jld busi ness proposition. Information furnished by Hr.cf. PENFOLD, 1017 DouQlao lit. roa all the bpoets read the bee; in the Centennial ( riifinli nients through thel.- rapturous wlle-J. The dress that stamps a person as ball ing from Tehuatepec consists of a skirt of dark figured cloth finished ut the bot tom with a deep white fluted ruffle and a sleeveless jacket of similar figured but dif ferent oolored cloth cut low at the neck and reaching to the waist These Jackets are beautifully embrolderled, some times entirely by hand but more usually merely hand atltched on a sewing machine (the American sewing machine, by the way, be lli the furniture piece de resistance In nearly every Mexican household.) When they raise their arms or stoop over, the Jacket and skirt fall to connstt. This cos tume Is usually, but not always, topped off with a peculiar head dress, likewise of fluted white lace or embroidery, which 1 am at a loss to describe except by saying that It resembles a Marie Antoinette collar In two pieces, one piece pulled up over the head and the other dropped to the mid dle of the back. Those who are able deck themselves out with necklace of either coral or gold beads set off with American gold coins, prefer ably the $2.50 or $5 denominations. It Is related that originally these chains were linked up with solid gold slugs for which the thrifty forty-niners crossing tho Isthmus during the California fever, volun teered to substitute the mure artistic and beautiful gold coins In each case with a substantial profit to themselves and thus establish the fashion in necklace, which haa perdu red to this day. I persuaded one of the Tehauntepec belles to part with the oerals she was wearing, and sumo of our party bought gold beads but not In the same way off the wearer's neck. Although I can prove an alibi for my self. 1 will not mention names, but this story Is well attested and can be verified. An enterprising Tehauntepec tradeswoman offered for sale a dazzling chain of gold beads, but as the price seemed prohibitive and brought no bidders, she divided the chain Into three pieces and offered one of them for 110. One of our party had a ten dollar bill changed into silver and starting at f& went for the chain as If It were on the auction block by holding out his coins and adding a half dollar at a time until he gut up to $.50, where the parleying seemed to reach the point where there was nothing to arbitrate. Finally as a compromise he greed to put In the other half dollar and buy at the original price on condition that two more beads be added to the chain. His chuckling and crowing over the achieve ment In making; the saleswoman come across even to that extent, however, soon gave way to misgivings and when later the purchase was exposed to the acid text, the unfeeling jeweler imparted the confidential Information that the beads were eighteen carat brass but so skillfully coated with gold wash as to deceive any one not an expert. What I have described thus In detail Is the women's dress, the men being clad If the city books were dispensed with, the remaining books could be brought within reach of th people, and thus greatly In crease the efficiency of the clerk's, and reduce th danger of making mistake. As It is now, the clerk are obliged to refer to so many book to ascertain whether alt taxes have been paid or not, that It I surprising that there are sot mors mistake mad than there are. But there I still a mora Important rea son for th consolidation. A tax, especially a personal tax,' should be payable as soon after It 1 assessed a possible, els there will be a great loss of revenue by reason of removals and change of buslnes. Above all thing a personal tax should be mad payable during the same calendar year In whioh it 1 assessed. Our city tax Is now assessed during April and May of on year and made payable May 1 of the following year. For example, the olty' portion of th tax that waa assessed In the spring of 1910 will not be payable until May 1, 1911. Now, if a person removes from the city during the summer of lfilo. and he later receives a notloe of a 1910 county tax which comes due November 1, it will be nothing more than he ex pects and he will remit for it usually without complaint But when he receives a notloe of hi olty tax which Is payable May 1, 1911, be 1 almost sure to con tend that he ha not lived in Omaha dur. lng any part of lflll and should not pay this tax, whereas if this same tax had beea included with hi oounty tax, which came due November I, he would have paid It without complaint Many of those who have removed do not respond at all, and many who do respond -can not be persuaded that this ts a Just tax. The same thing occurs wher a firm goes out of buslnes or a business change hands. Th 1911 city tax necessarily stands In the nam of th party who owned the busi ness in th spring of 1910, and the party who has bought th business thinks he should not pay It because it 1 not in his name, and the collector may b obliged to spend as much time getting the mat ter adjusted a the tax Is worth. If our city tax were Included with the county tax that fall due November 1 all this confusion would be avoided and a good irany thousand dollar saved to th city that is now either lost entirely or col lected only at an enormou cost. We will discuss th time and manner of paying taxes more fully in our nsxt paper. BOZD DT8ART. iarlfiwta SteaMta, twsr as fliwwJ. mm Year of Its Independence In the ordinary attire and the children, when clad at all, were miniatures of their elders. There Is this peculiar modification In Tehuantepec of our rule of modesty that public nakedness Is accorded to ths little boys only, while the Infant girls must be covered, no matter how scantily. The same rule applies to the elders when they K bathing In the river. The men swim around quite au naturelle while women display abbreviated bathing suits which would cause consternation rather than envy on an Atlantic City bnthing beach. In our honor as a rarty of visltlnp news paper men, a grand ball was arranged for our evening's entertainment. Our whole party under escort and headed by a band of native musicians marched from the sta tion through the town, forming a proces sion which for blxarre effect would have outshown the centennial parades In Mexico City. We brought up at a large enclosed building of bamboo and thntched roof con struction, dimly lighted by lanterns and furnished only with a few chairs along two sides. I could not make out for what the building was used ordinarily, but saw a couple of chickens roosting In a far cor ner. Our native orchestra established Itself on one side or the room and we made ourselves at home on the other. while gradually the belles of the ball gathered decked out In all their finery. They first gave us an exhibition of their native dance, which Is very pleasing to the eye, five couples going through the steps and poses. The dancers kept at little distance from one another passing back and forth with rhythmical move, ments of arm and body as well as feet remotely suggestive of the balancing In our quadrilles. The surprise part of the party came when the muslo swung Into a waltz and then Into a two-step, and the Tehuantepec girls accepted the to them unintelligible Invitation extended by the visitors to trip the light fantastic accord ing to the rules of our own ball room games. And It may be said that these barefooted women dancing on a dirt floor proved that they could go through the maces of a waits and pace the two-step with a grace and skill not only unexpected In the shadows of a little Indian town nestling under the tropics, but calculated to put to a real test our own best dancer tf they entered In competition. One number not on the program should come In at least for a mention a real earthquake that was. pulled off In the middle of the performance apparently for our delectation. This was an up-and-down earthquake and very perceptible, the tremor of the ground lasting quite a few seconds. It attracted momentary atten tion, but did not extinguish the lights and the natives, accustomed to the selsimlc demonstrations, went right along with their mirth and muslo as if nothing had happened. The next day brought us the final adven " ' "1 Viir''"i i'"TTniir"Ti- FOR- Mason i THE BEST EVER REMEMBER WE ALSO CARRY THE Kraoich & Bach, Kinball, Krakauer, Bush & Lane, Cable-Nelson, Ballet-Davis and the Pianos Selling for $175,00, $225.00, $275.00, etc. $5 Per IH 1513-1515 Douglas Street CZ .ARB Send these fieures to your friends In the East. They will interest them. The first railroad to build in Nebraska was the Union Pacific; that was in 1863. Today the Union Tacific covers 3,411 miles of splendid roadbed, safeguarded by an automatio electric system of signals. More than 26,000 freight and passenger cars and 1,000 monster locomotives are required to meet the public demands. An anry cf men receives millions per year In wages. Such activitie are important factors in the build ing up of State, and Nebraska needs prosperous railroads as the Union Pacific needs the support of the people of Nebraska. We have a book on Nebraska and its resources which will be mailed to some friend in the East for the asking. Please send us his address. Every Union Pacific ticket office is a bureau of railroad information. Make your wants known there, or write to me. GERRIT FORT ' Passenger Traffic Manager OMAHA. NEB. ture amon these Intel estln,; e,M'tc A little boy about 11 years old accost, d :s he waa coming out of school with Spntilsh school books under Ms arm. hud Ith very accommodating In answering ques tions and showins; some of us around, nnd had pusued the sciiualntance by comlni; down to our Iran He disclosed the Infor mation that he bad never been on n rull- ( way car. and although les than twenty miles from the i'ncif c. had never s. en the ocean, much less an ocean steamer. Just as we were pulling irit some one naked him If he would like to come rtlmi sr. and , receiving nn affirmative reply, quickly got permission front an uncle who waa standing near, and anting hint on to the step. We could see the ominous looks on the facea of the crowd ns they saw the boy apparently kidnaped before their very eyes. The bold, bnd white men who wanted to take the heads they wore wear ing from their nocks had seized and swal lowed up little "Maximo '" lust as Curies had done with their forefathers a few cen turies before, and as some band of ruth less invaders had done periodically ever since. Hut Maximo was by no means disconso late; on the contrary, he was all eves, ears and amazement. The Interior of the train was to him like Fairyland, lie manifested no distrust nor aprehenslon. Why should he care where he went? He had a loose blouse shirt of black and white check nnd a pair of cotton trousers, probably all the wardrobe ho ever owned at one time, and he was going to see the world. Open-mouthed and awe-Inspired, he gazed at the waves as they rolled In; ha watched the big; majestic ship nt tho wharf and aw one. of them sail out be yond the horizon. He went through the warehouses and puzzled over the electric cranes with colossal loads belnnced In mid air. He sat In our dining ear at luncheon and ate strange foods; he answered ques tions and asked more of them. He picked up a short acquaintance with some of the youngsters who lived In this harbor town. and he climbed aboard the train homeward bound with the air of a child havlnir been to hi first plcnto. It was a short run to Tehuantepec, and as we went through the town Maximo pushed his way out upon the platform where he could see his friends easier than they could catch sight of hltu as we passed. It was their turn for as tonishment again, and we could hear the exclamations, "Why, there he IsV "He Is really coming back." "Look at Maxi mo!" And when the boy was safely re- deposited at the railway station, It was a certainty from the way they Jostled around him that he would be a seven- day wonder In Tehauntepec, where, for all I know, he la still recounting hla strange experience of that day. VICTOIl ROSBWATKIt s A TrTr r gj 11 live I UfU Hamlin Pianos- - Month Pays s Her Great Crops and nn H' Sarsaparilla (irvs nil blood humors, all emrv tion, clears tho complexion, crrnfi's an nppotito, nida dila tion, relievos that tirexl fooling, ivos vigor nnd vim. (let it toitav In usual liquid form or chocolated tsblets called Barsetaba, 500 Bushels of Po tatoes to the Acre YOU know that potatoes ar always staple. 1'otatoe ar like gold. The markets fluctuate ery little on potatoes. And It you have GOOD potatoes you CAN ALWAYS FIND A MAR KET KOU THEM. This 1 th uiout remarkable potato country In ALL THE WOULD. Th Snake River Valley ha been known to produce E10HT HUN DRED AND FIFTY JJUSHELd OF l'OTATOES TO THE ACKhl You can RAISE POTATOES IN THIS VALLEY. RAISE THKM AND GET MONEY FOR THEM. Writ to us about this. We have the most handsomely Illustrated booklet written about this, THJ8 TWIN FALLS TRACT in South ern Idaho, that has been printed for a Ion while. It ts mighty In forming, too. IT IS KKb.li AND VK WILL BtNT ONS COPT TO TOU IF YOU WILL JUST WH1TK A rOBTAL CARD RE yUKtJT. WRITJd TOD A I. J. E. WHITE TWIN FALL3, IDAHO CLARK'S okiut CRUISE Ten. 4, 4O0 up to Tl Days. All Expense. 4 Hlgh-Olaas Bound-the-World Tour October. sombr. January. r. C. CI. A UK. Time Bulldln;. Vew Tork. W. X. BOOK, 160.4 rarnam Omaha, Z2 TsiMatslsasimi H Klsff TMI For One Wealth rAs-aV 111 ,111 SI Unimproved Land $ 19,000,000 Improved Land . 145,000,000 Horses, Cattle, Hogs, etc. 132,000,000 Alfalfa Crop . 14,000,000 Oat Crop 22,500,000 Wheat Crop . - 37,206,000 Corn Crop s 89,000,000 Dairy and Poultry 63,000,000 Butter .... 28,000,000 Hay Crop . . . . 41,000,000