Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, November 09, 1910, Page 6, Image 6
TTTE T.TT,: OMAHA. TVEDXKSPAY, XOVEMTIKTI 0. 1010. The omaiia Daily Rilfc FOt'NI'KI) TiT KHVATtl P.OSF.WATKH Vl'Tott KOSKWATI'lIt, Kl MTUlt. Kntered Umaha pnstoffice as f'ronJ clai" matter. ti:p.ms or sirsciuption. Furdav lw, one yesr K.JO nfnrdMV Bee. on year $10 1'atlv He (without Hondnv). nns year. . .M M I'a:ly He and Nunday. one year $t UU ih;m vki:i;i iiy cakkjkk. Kven'ng He (without Sunday), per ffk. O Kvinlng Hee (with Hundav), per week l"c 1 "ally Hen (Including Sunday, per week. .ir 1hiIv (without Sunday). pr week luc Addtoiw all complaints of irregularities In delivery to City Circulation lepartmnt. OFFICK3. Omaha Thi Hee Hti.ldlnff. south Omaha 628 North Twenty-fourth tteet. Council Rluffo 15 f-rott Ftreet. Lincoln CM Little HulldliK. tilcago lf.ix Marquette I'ullfllng. New York Rooms 1101-1102 No. 2 West Thirty-third Street. V aMilngton 7;!S Kour-eenth Street, N. W. x OOnREriPONDKNCE. fommunleatlons relating to tifws and editorial matter should be addressed. Omaha Bee, Kd torlal I erartment. HKMITTANCKS. Remit bv' draft, expre" or postal order pnal'l- to Tin. Hp., Publishing Company, tirilv 2-cent mtmpn received In payment of Mini ac roiinW. l'i'inonnl checks except on On Rim and eastern eiohariKe not accepted. KTATL'MEXT OF CIRCULATION. Stale of Nebraska, Douglas County, a.. eore B. Txsrhuok, treasurer of The Ree P-jHIshing eompniir, being duly sworn, aava that the actual number of full and complete, ropli'M of The Imlly, Morning. Kveiung and Sunday Mee printed during the month of October, 1H10, was aa follows: 1 43,360 1 ,44,700 1 43,ano 4 41,380 1 43,440 4 43.C40 T 43,760 1 43.630 43,700 10 43,550 11..... 43,370 1Z 43,300 13 43,340 14 43,670 IS 43,350 1 44,030 Total Returned Copies.... 17 43,370 18 43,300 19 43,330 10 ,..43,310 21 ....43,430 12 43,170 2S 43,450 24 44,030 2 5 43,380 2S ....43,370 27 43,390 2 J 43,400 29 43,050 10... 43,600 (1 45,680 1,360,740 11,343 Net Total 1,338,398 Dally Average 43,174 GEO. B TZBCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me this 31st dav of October, 1910. M. P. WALKER. (Seal.) Notary Public aabacrlbera leaving tha city tem per ri J y should t Tfce Bea mailed to them. Address will bo chanced aa often aa reaaestea. Anyone can tell bow It happened. Gse, didn't that "silent vote" make aa awful racket? A large majority of the candidates will now have a chance to rest up. II At any rate, the politicians have no kick coming on the weather man. It should not bo long, now, until we know who blew up the Maine, anyway. Perhaps peace In Spain might come quicker with the elimination of Weyler. Yet, freakish aa her new hat ap pears. It is far too serious a matter to laugh at. What do you think. Will Hitchcock ever put it back without being com pelled to? A 10-year-old Osage hedge Is not in it with some of those dead game elec tion bottors. Oh, well, the foot ball season Is still on and the base ball season la only live months off. A New York woman claims to be the Wife of three men. They have not yet pleaded guilty. Dr. Crlppen got a stay of execution from November 8, but a lot of others met their fate without reprieve. The Panama canal gates weigh 60,000 tons. My, what if one of them ttbouid go shot on a passing warship! Aviators should not be blamed for blowing In their money, for high flying would naturally tend to make it airy. Fortunately,-a lot of us have no need to dwell in' constant fear that our $8,600 automobile may burn up by spontaneous combustion. A Boston aviator says that while 9,000 feet in the air he longed for a plate of baked beans. That Is cer tainly carrying it pretty far. Senator Bailey of Texas is said to have rented a house in Washington containing five bath rooms. He should search everybody before enter lng. For a city with a census population of 124, tSQ Omaha challenges compart son with iny or all others in its class In point of push, enterprise and vol ume of business. i ne warring tneatncai managers have come to an agreement down in New York. Wouder if this will give us better or worse attractions at our local playhouses? Both Red Deo In, manager of the Philadelphia ball team, and Premier Briand of France tendered their reslg nations under fire. Now, see who will he the first to come back. No matter what happens, Mayor "Jim" will have had four months o i the time of his life without cost to him and drawn his salary from the city treasury regularly every pay day. After-election formula for tha !World-Herld: If the republicans Jose, it's the fault of Rosewater and The lie. If the republicans win, it in spite 'vf Rosea ater and The Bee. Avert the Strike. In the initio between the railroads and their locomotive engineers '"e public interest demands a peaceful ad justment. Whatever else the parties to the dispute may do, they should avoid a strike. The engineers say they have submitted the proposition of a strike to their members and ex pect It to be ordered by a popular vote on the ground thai all else has been donn to effect a settlement. The rail-j roads contend that the engineers havei not exhausted their resources for peace and there the matter haugs. It is little different from any other labor controversy when It comes to the mere matter of selfish interest. Each sltle claims It Is right and the other is wrong, but neither side seems to be especially disturbed over the larger consideration of public safety and con venience. A locomotive engineers' strike would be a disastrous affair and nothing should be left undone to pre vent It. It would not only tie up commerce and trade, it would Jeopar dize life, Itself. It will not do for either side to assert that such a crisis cannot or should not be averted. With the election off our hands, the people generally will te disposed to get down to business, and they will be in no humor for a strike of such mag nitude as this might become. Nor will they then stop to consider what the wages or conditions of employment of the men on the one side may be, or what the rates or earnings of the rail roads on the other side are. They will be driven to the point of viewing the situation from their own larger Interest, Just as the disputants see It from their narrow viewpoint. The Pension Increase. With the steady thinning out of the ranks' of the civil war veteran, the average Individual pension Increases and Uncle Sam loses none of his sense of obligation to these grand old heroes. In the last fiscal year the number of pensioners has decreased 25,000, but the average annual value of each pension has Increased more than $2 over what it was the previous year. The aggregate amount paid out for pensions, naturally, is less. This government has always set a fine example In its treatment of the men who have offered their lives in its defense. It has never failed to do for them all that within the bounds of reason It could do, and now as the de pendence of these old soldiers and their widows increases with age the federal government is steadily increas ing its pensions to them. The amount of its pension roll at the close of the last fiscal year was $158,332,391. Of course, not all the pension roll Is for soldiers of the civil war, for de pendent Spanish-American war veter ans are being taken care of, but the greater portion goes to the civil war heroes and their families. This gov ernment has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars for pensions. Besides thus acknowledging a debt of grati tude It owed the men of the various wars that have been necessary to pre serve the nation's integrity, it teaches a strong lesson in the virtues of patri otism which has its own Influence on the lives of the young generations who are to be the patriots of the future. It Is not placing a premium on war except as war becomes the last re course in the righteous struggle for national honor and credit. Pettifogging. Although not very material to the issues, the answer given by Mr. Bryan In his Auditorium address when inter rupted by an awkward question lllus trates the kind of pettifogging that great man sometimes indulges in. "Who carried the electoral vote of Nebraska to Washington In 1896?" was the interrogation. "It was the democratic father of a republican brewer," yelled Mr. Bryan. When he Bald this, however, Mr. Bryan knew that the democratic father was the founder of the brewery and the active head of the brewery at the time Mr. Bryan procured for him the honor of becoming the electoral messenger for Nebraska. He knew further that he was the democratic father of several sons, also democrats, who had succeeded to the parental business and that all of the sons were at that very moment enlisted for the democratic candidate for governor. Why not have given an honest an swer when the straightforward answer would have served the purpose Just as well No Politics in Tariff Eoard. The man who applied to the pres ident for a position on the tariff board because of his service to the party probably Is convinced that Pres ident Taft was in earnest when he originally announced that this board as to he entirely divorced from poli tics. His answer to the applicant Is that party politics, service or prefer ment is not an element of considera tion in connection with the tariff board and that under o circum stances will he permit it to become such. It is possible to give offense by plain, emphatic speaking sometimes, but offense had better be given if necessary in such a case. The one ob ject at which the whol6 plan of the tariff board alms would be defeated by making any appointment upon a political basis. The president's action ought to go far toward winning new friends for his principle and inspir ing general confidence a it. Much practical good may be acconipllthed through the agency of a non-political tariff board, in ado up of men with ex pert knowledge of su h work. It Is one plate in which above all others nothing but efficiency has any right to be considered as an element of membership. The opponents to the tariff board Idea havo urged that the experience of the members during the summer In failing to get us close to the actual rec ords of some large business Interests as they would have liked is an argu ment against it as compared with the old system of gatbeiisg data for tar iff legislation. Hut is it? The charge has been made that It has been sus piciously easy for certain politicians to get at these records, but how do we know that tho data they got Is the data we wanted? That Is just the trouble, and where much of the mis chief in tariff tinkering comes in certain interests are only too accessi ble to certain politicians. These ex perts will probably get the informa tion, in time, and it will be Informa tion that congress probably never had laid down to It before. Campaign Ginger. After the candidates were nominated on the various tickets'the campaign in Nebraska lugged for several weeks. Old-timers shook their heads omi nously and declared that politics were no longer what they used to be, coup ling the remark with regiets that the proceedings were proving so tame. But when the political pot once reached the boiling point, it boiled all over, and therevwas no longer complaint about apathy and lack of ginger. The campaign which we have Just passed through in Nebraska was more like the old-time campaign than for years. It was one-sided in me matter of money resources, the democrats be ing financed from an unlimited treas ury furnished by the brewers and liquor dealers, while the republicans were compelled to work on the hard time basis in a high-cost-of-livlng era. On the other hand, the candidates re sorted to personal canvassing, grldlron ing the state with automobile tours and bringing the personal equation home to the individual voter. The charac ters and public records of the candi dates have been handled without gloves by the newspapers even moro than the pronouncements of the party platforms, and If any one entitled to vote in Nebraska remained ignorant that a political campaign was in prog ress he must have been enjoying a Rip Van Winkle sleep. At any rate, the future historian will disregard the complaint that the 1910 campaign in Nebraska was in any way lacking In ginger. . The California Spirit Californlans are putting their native spirit to good effect In their effort to obtain tthe official Panama exposition. Appraently every man, woman and child in the state is engaged In the movement. Private correspondence contains a word of boost for it; busi ness houses have letter heads, post cards or advertising matter bearing upon it and the big fruit and raisin packing industries send out similar matter to every corner of the country. Here is a great state united for one object. That alone ,to say nothing of the argument offered, had its effect. All petty ejalousles and rivalries are forgotten while this fight is on. Los Anceles has entirely lost sight of its determination to wrest from San Fran cisco the honor of being the state metropolis while San Francisco is struggling with New Orleans for this great prize. Here Is a wholesome example for other states to follow. In older states where country communities are ar rayed against the large city or cities, the example might be taken home. In states where it Is anything to down the emtropolis, the California spirit should be emulated. Does anyone imagine that the benefits accruing from this exposition, if it goes to the I Golden aGte, can possibly be confined to San Francisco? Does anyone pre sume that they will not overflow Into every portion of the state? And Just so the benefits or advantages that come to the metropolis of any state like those of the middle west or far west they are bound to be felt in some proportion all over the state What helps the city cannot but help the town or country and vice versa. It is sheerest folly, the most short sighted policy, for people to imagine otherwise. It Is not worth while to stop and try to weigh the relative good that conies to the city from the coun try. Intelligent people know that their prosperity is mutual, that the way to build up one Is to build up the other. As showing how the times change, the story is told by local democrats that W. J. Bryan, a fortnight before election, wrote to a democratio candi date for congress in Nebraska offering his services on the stump in the candi date's district. The candidate replied over long distance telephone, request ing Mr. Bryan not to come. Here is a man who three times stood as the bead of bis party in the nation, three times ran as its nominee for the presi dency, who for fourteen years has gone up and down this land as the mouthpiece of democracy, asked not to come into a country congressional district and make speeches for fear of defeating the democratic nominee. And it is not a case of a prophet being without honor save in Ms own home, either, for democrats in Indiana, lows and other states rejected his profered "help." The question la. Will they on the next turn be sending to Hryan for help? (Jovernor Sliallenberger has ap pointed his private secretary to fill the vacancy on the Stale Railway commis sion. The governor seems to be ob sessed with the Idea that all the public patronage now at his disposal Is his own private property to be distributed to relatives and personal friends. When the voting machine clicks at the rate of one a minute it is a safe guess that a lot of straight party tick ets are being recorded and that the assertion that the machine operates against scratching Is being vindicated. Omaha is now on the home Btretch for yearly records for building per mits, real estate transfers, bank clear ings and postoffice receipts. It is a safe bet that 1910 will give us record breakers In every one of these. A P-rloil of llepriitiiiire. Houston (Tex.) Post. Mr. Uryan Is coming to Texas in a fort night. Hue amid the sweetness and beauty of the Texas November he can reflect uinm the folly of boltlrg- democratic nominees. A Sob for Silence. Philadelphia Ledger. A foolish young American named Gould is now In London and threatens to sue any paper there daring to mention him. Hap pily they may take him seriously, a course for which Ills countrymen would be grate ful. II Ig: Stlt'U In the Tropics. Brooklyn Eagle. Cuba has g-ot over Its elections without any revolution. The shadow of a big stick lingers long In the light of tho tropics. All Cuban politicians appreciate existing: opportunities and some have thriving bank accounts already. Malu's Saltan Outshines Samson. Cleveland Plain-Healer. The sultan of Sulu Is bound to profit from his visit to the realms of civlliration. He says he ia going- to Introduce every up- to-date thing he has seen. Brown belles in hobble skirts and political campaigns in automobiles should forthwith appear in the Suluese land. Aviation Fleltl Corneretl. Cleveland Leader. Several young millionaires are said to be much astonished to find they cannot buy flying; machines at any price, because the manufacturers Intend to keep the exhibition field cornered as long- as possible. Other forms of lils;h flying, however, continue to be open to wealth and youth. INCnHASKU RAILROAD EAHN1NUS Facts that Contradict the roverty I'leaa of Managers. Philadelphia Record. The Bureau of Railway News and Sta tistics Is not likely to exaggerate the pres ent prosperity of the transportation com panies, because they are now protesting that their expenses have Increased so much that they must Increase their freight charges or stop Improvements. But Its comparative statement of earnings and ex penses shows that the railroads have just closed a much better year that the year 1907, which, closing- June SO, more than three months before the panic. Was a year of ex ceptional prosperity. The bureau report observes that changes in the methods of accounting wake" the comparison of 1910 with 1907 Inexact, but the general results are oomparable, and minor discrepancies cannot very materially affect the value of this. The total operating revenue for $3,779,- 247,000 In the year ending June SO, 1910, and J2.589.106.000 In 1907, an increase of $190,141,290. The total operating expenses were $1,841,126,- 000 In the last year and $1,748,515,000 In 1W7, an Increase of $92,009,003. This leaves the Increase in net Income from operation $87,681,237, against which there is an in crease of about $23,000,000 In taxes. Tills makes the net Increase in net operating In come $76,26,000. The average mileage operated Increased about 9.0U0. The aver age earnings per mile of road were $11,742 the last year and $11,3S3 In 1907. The ratio of expenses to revenue in the last year was fri.24 per cent, and In 1907 It was 67.53 per cent. As compared with the highly prosperous year 1907, therefore, there was an increase in net opt-raung income, in earnings per mile, In net operating in come per mile, and a reduction In the per centage of expenses to revenues. These are the facts upon which the railroad com panies are Insisting that It Is absolutely necessary that they should be allowed to raise their charges. Comparing the last year with 1907, freight earnings Increased $H7,000, and passenger earnings $00,000,000. Tha Increase In freight alone Is nearly equal to the Increase In operating expenses and taxes. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Anyhow, it was a perfectly corking good campaign. Measured by tho mileage and the fire works, Mr. Roosevelt had a bully time. If noise could be transmuted Into votes, what an t-ar-Eplittlng racket the plurality would make. Mr. Silent Voter can do some awful deadly work when he puts a determined hand on the lever or pencil. In tho dull, gray dawn of the morning after the claims and prophecies of candi date! are consoling companions for the "also-rans." No person possessed of a drop of the milk of human kindness should say to the left, "I told you so!" or even look it. Sand papering a bruise Is tha limit. No matter what happens elsewhere. Uncle Joe Cannon's town band will have a blowout. Tha band la aa much of a fix ture aa Joa and a shade more musical. Despite the calm deliberation and sedate conservatism of tho citizens of "this glorious republic," candidates "get 'em agoing some'' with little mcre energy than a "holler." Our Birthday Book November t. 1910. King Edward VII, late king of England, was born November t, 1U. and succeeded his mother. Queen Victoria, January 23, 190L He married the eldest daughter of the king of Norway and died about a year ago. General Frederick Funston, United States army. Is 40 years old today. He was born at New Carlisle, O., and went into the military service with tha volunteers from Kansas during the Spanish-American war. John Temple Graves, now one of Mr. Hearst's political editors, was Lorn No vetnber $, 1SJ6. Ho la a native of South Carolina and was a member of congress from Georgia, and made his reputation as editor of ona cf the Atlanta papera Janves H. Macomber, lawyer, officlng In the First National Bank building, is cele brating his 5th birthday. Ho was Lorn at Milo, Me., and was admitted to practice thirty-five years ago. Before locating la O'.uaha, ho waa district Judge la Iut, Around New York KlppWe on the Current cf 1.1 f aa Sn la tbs Oreat Americas StetropoUs from Day to Pay. Vnilo Sam's igilanre In chts.ng hi cus ti'tu lnvise toll I tlie nomlrr If tint tlie humiliation of returning tourists who lis 1IU' the rules of Hie Kmr. Naturally one would Fuppoje your uncle would be equally CHfccr to make uniciuls for wrongs done by lilx agent, fsually he los in rase of cx crSs duties. Hut when a dutiable article is lost, Mtayed or Ftolen while in his cus tody, there seems to be no redress except through congress. The case of Mabel I'laik of Morrlstown. N. J., is in point. Among the articles brought by Miss Clark nnd mother recently was an Ktitisean bracelet which bad cost $IH) In a town in southern Ituly. It was claimed the jewel was more than in) years old and possessed artistic merit entitling It to admission duty free. When the Inspectors looked at the article they could not deride offhand its genuln ness, and sent it to the appiaiser office for examination. A month afterward Miss Clark was Informed that her jewelry was not really of ancient workmanship, and therefore was liable to duty.. The appraisal Included all the articles she brought from abroad except the rare bracelet. This, she wua told, had been lost in some manner that could not be accounted for by the offi cials. A1I83 Clark paid all the duties demanded upon Iter trinkets, and then usked that she be compensated for the loss of the bracelet. It was a startling discovery for her to learn that the government did not hold itself responsible lor the carelessness of its employes. CJoods ltft In Its care, althouKh placed there by federal demand, Involved no risk on the part of the govern ment, the Uuputy surveyor Informed her. Kdgar Stlwyn, the actor-playwright, was din ng at the Cafe Madrid the other day when the proprietor came to his table, ac cording to the New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Tlmes-Stur. "I want to thank you for having referred to my restaurant In your latest play," said George Hector. "In what manner can J recipro cate, Mr. Sclwyn?" Mr. Selwyn said thtit he might name a cocktail for Mrs. Selwyn who la Margaret Muyo in piaywritlng ranks. "Not being an expert on cock tails," said he. "I'll send my brother Mike In to sample it." So Mr. Rector devoted his skilled atten tion to the work of building a new gargle. Mr. Simon Selwyn' name was Simon bo fore ho went on the stage proved uncom monly hard to suit. Mr. Rector would toss together a new collection of acids and Mr. Simon would come In, drink the mixture wisely, head on one side. "Let me try another," he would say. "I don't quite make that " So the patient Mr. Rector would scramble some more IU;uor, and Mr. Simon, after puinst&king Investi gation, would finally go out giggling to himself, but declarlns that Rector had not precisely caught the knack of It yet. Vnlll the other night Mr. Simon came in jaun tily. Mr. Rector hailed him. "I have got it at last, Mike," said he. "This la the most wonderful cocktail that as ever put together. Try It?" Mr. Simon tried it A moment later Mr. Simon robbed a water glass of all Us Ice and went about with his mouth open, panting for fresh air. By and by he sat down and watched Broadway through the window with eyes dull and glazed. His hand went to an ach ing forehead. "Try another, Mike," said the malicious Mr. Rector. "Maybe you didn't get the full flavor." "The devil I didn't," said Mr. Simon, the finishing touch." "Unusual thirst in business hours seems to be the result of this water famine," said the superintendent of a large office em ploying many clerks. "We've always made it a rujle to have spring water on tap for drinking purposes, and under normal conditions found It was used about as we'd naturally expect. But now It's very differ ent. Evidently our employes save up their morning's thirst until they reach the office, where they can have bottled water. It seems as if every one of them drank at least two glasses soon after arrival. They also quench their evening thirst out of our bottles the last thing before going home. I notice It more than trebles the quantity of water used. The other morn ing I saw two of our women clerks coming out of their dressing room each with a toothbrush and a glass. I thought that was crossly, as he went out. Every now and then Judge Muiqueen makes a pertinent comment on the ad visability of those having eyea and using them to see with, says the Now York correspondent of tho Clnclnnattl Times- Star. He especially directs his attention toward the magistrates on the city bench, most of them are so bound with the throngs of custom that will all the will In the world to deal justly they often make serious mis takes. "I hud a colored woman before me today aa a complaining witness," said Judge Muluueen. "She had a man held for trial by a city magistrate, on tha charge that ho had attacked her with a pair of scissors. 'He mout' near guugo man eye out, jedge,' oho said to me. Mes oome at me lak a lion, he did, a-roaiin' euli. Ho poke me in do face wiv dem scissors, Jedge, not once, four or five times. Ho Jes' cut up my face lak It was a yahd of ribbon, jedge. The magistrate what held him to dls heait court say he navar did hear tell of no more dangerous man.' "Well, I looked her over. Pho had a wide, smooth, yellow face that didn't have a mark on It I told her to repeat her story, and she went all over It again, tell ing bow the man had slashed her face with that pair of scissors. " 'But, madam,' I said, 'there isn't a mark on your face.' " 'Marks,' she said Indignantly. 'Marks! I got witnesses, I tell you.' " Last Sunday was a great day for tho boys who happened to live near a police station house. Commissioner Cropsoy sent out the order on Saturday for tho police men to discard their helmets for caps. That Is one order that in some strange way seems to reach tho boys aa soon as tha policemen. Long before the t o'clock roll call on Sunday the street In front of every station was filled with youngstera Scores of the policemen looked over their helmets, found them hardly worth storing untj nrinir cave them a twirl out tha dormitory window and they sailed down to tho eager crowd below. The appearance or every helmet was tho signal for a fierce scramble. Sunday evening there were hundreds of miniature policemen patrollng beats all over tho city. The woman who uses pooripices hasn't realized the possibilities in cooking. add tbt proper, atopy, frcah fluvor to ail your baking. facarti fieh ia atr-t.tfht car toai-ginger, ptppcr, auiuUirti, clove, etc. Gioter, ioc, TOMS BROS., Dta Mta. I. ""llSl (3 "Th uu of alum end salts cf alumina in Vi vX. AjS food ohould ba prohibited." flV-llV '4 U yffXJi -Prof. Jl inn, llarxvrd fntv. 1 l-J ' H " V'OQ' Cat N' , , u 1 XKt U Safeguard Your Food ,f 'VS' i ';fflj Using Always HM ifir. rr rrrrsnnnrs n v .7-1 1 UiUDU U UU vZ, I Y l ill r or a ka rjctfa from Crapes Its purity, wholesome ncss and superior leavening qualities are never questioned. Fifty Years the Standard LAWYER An COMMUNITY. Specialised l'rof enxlon a Los to o vletr. Woodrow Wilson In North American Review. Constitutional lawyers have fallen Into the background. We have relegated them to the supreme court, without asking our selves where we are to find tljem when vacancies occur In that great tribunal. A new type of lawyers has been created; and that new type has come to be the prevailing type. Lawyers have been sucked into the maelstrom of the new business system of the country. That system Is highly technical and highly specialized. It is divided Into distinct sections and provinces, each with particular legal prob lems of Hb own. lawyers, therefore, every where that business has thickened and had a large development, have become ex perts in some special technical field. They do not practice law. They do not handle the general, miscellaneous Interests of so cletv. They are not general counsellors of right and obligation. They do not bear the relation to tha business of their neigh borhoods that the fumlly doctor bears to the health of the community in which he lives. They do not concern themselves with the universal aspects of society. The family doctor is himself giving place to a score of specialists; and so is also what one might call the family solicitor. Law yers are specialists, like all other men around them. And so society has lost something oi ls losing Jt something which It Is very serious to lose In an age of law, when society depends more than ever before upon the lawgiver and the courts for Its struct ural steel, the harmony and co-ordination of Its parts, Its convenience, Its perman ency and its facility. In gaining new functions, in being drawn into modern business Instead of standing outside of it. In becoming Identified with particular In terests instead of holding aloof and Im partially advising all Interests, the lawyer has lost his old function. Is looked askance at In politics, must disavow special en gagements if he would have his counsel heeded In matters of common concern. So ciety has suffered a corresponding loss at least American society ha.'. It has lost Its one-time feeling for law as the basis of Its peace, Its progress, Its prosperity. Lawyers are not now regarded as the me diators of progress. One Rar of Hope. Philadelphia Record. There Is one ray of hope for us. Only a few days after choice bacon touched 40 cents in Omaha, tha price of hogs In Cleveland dropped 70 cents on account of tha hugeness of tha corn crop, upon which the weather cannot now havo any per ceptible effect. If tho delicacies remain high, those fundamentals of tha simple life, hog and hominy, will be within our reach for tha remainder of tho crop year. knowleded SIX 1 vcatincxit Diamond ir lay lu- uthoritiea 'f 'fi creasing of Omaha. in value. Make up your mind that your Christmas shopping THIS year shall NOT ba of th "hurried-last-moment-take-any-ttilng" nature. See our diamonds, for Instance, NOW maka careful, deliberate, Intelligent selections; compare weights, colors, sizes, etc.; choose appropriate settings; even have them BUILT by us aa per your ideas If you wish. Diamonds, by the way. are STILL on the rise; a better investment than ever; still the most exquisite Christmas Olft; and we show a line of grandeur at the OLD prices. Vi CARATS, in rings or similar settings, beautiful, shimmer ing white, at $G0 CARATS, same select white, in most any usual gold set ting, at, only $-15 STUDS, diamond mounted, low as 915 EARRINGS, diamord mounted, low as ..$15 CUFF BUTTONS, diamond mounted, low as $10 LA VALIERES, diamond, at as low as $35 MANDELBERG Brnd for new catalogue "A." It tells all alout the NEW ChrUtuuui Gifts. 1522 FARNAM STREET SCATTERING SMILES. "Hello, Grimes! Neighbor Of yours got a new dog, eh'."' "I Hin t Know. Why?" "Saw that boy Wobble of yours going home with an old tin can and a string." Browning's Magazine. "Why don't you go to the polls to vote"'' "Well," replied Farmer Corntosel, "after listenln' careful to what the candidates had to say agout each other I concluded neither of 'em was wuth hltchin' up a hops fur." Washington Star. "In the other life." pnld the new llf faddist, "e simply develop what have been our tastes In this." "Humph!" ejaeulatwl a listener, "that's hard on the smokers." ilaitimore Ameii csn. Mrs. Lazenhee Here's the man come to fix our clock. Go upstairs and get It for him, won t you? Mr. Iazenbee It Isn't upstairs. Is It? Mrs. I.iizenbee Certainly. Where did you think it was? Mr. Ijizenbee I thought It had run dow II. Catholic Standaid and Timet. "Here's the drug store. Didn't you ay you wanted to buy some postage stampo'.'" "Yes. but I always get them at tha store on the next corner. They smell so much nicer there." Cleveland l'laln Healer. "How did that actress come to maks such a terrific display of temptuous emo tion on the first night?" "I aroused her by a little ruse of my own." replied the manager. "I keyed her up to the highest pitch of excitement by getting Into an argument with her." "About her act?" "No. About her salary." Chicago Tost. "What's the matter with your patient, doctor?" asked a visitor In a hospital ai he suw a surgeon bending -over the rank nan is of a men. "He got in the way of a speeding motor car." replied the doctor, "and now la suffering from that run-down feeling. ilaitimore American. Preference In Finance. These Jokes about the sudden rloh Are funny, to bo sure. But I'd rather be a sudden rich Than be a sudden poor! Puck. PUZZLED0M. I know not if my absent friends Are In all things sincere, Their actions are beyond my ken, Their words I cannot hear. I know not If mere written words Are trutiiful or deceiving; But God, who gave these friends is true And here's believing. I know not If the plans I make Will come to glad fruition: I know not if each step 1 take Will better my condition; And, therefore. I In doubt and pain Go blindly, feebly groping; But God can see and God is love. An here's hoping. This world Is like a forest dense Where me poor mortals may Get puzzled on directions and We sometimes lose our way. But near the path that leads aright, An unseen Hand keeps strewing, Some kindly deeds for us to do, Bo here's doing. Omaha BAYOLX. NU TROIJ0.