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Wbero la the old-time milk-snake?
ilka correspondent. Shook.
Entries for the circuit Judgeship
marathon are still open.
With all due respect to Bants, Claua,
let congress remember that March 4 la
not far off.
Tho man whose Bins are always of
the omission kind usually belongs to
the negative aide of life. '
If Santa Claua could content himself
not to wear whiskers there would be
fewer Christmas accidents.
Christmas gifts are too often, like
New Year's resolutions made merely
to conform with custom.
Despite Mr. Bryan'a active interest
tn farming, he was never fully success
ful In farming the farmer vote.
It begins to look as If Mr. Carnegie
meant to banter Mr. Rockefeller by
that $10,000,000 peace donation.
The Southern hotel In St. Louis
should bar its doors to Illinois legisla
tors this winter, at least its bath room
doors.
Oh, yes, speaking of the population
nxed at 9l.97Z.266 tne census
does not make a strong showing for
race suicide.
Congressman Tawuey, the leader of
the present anvil chorus in congress,
It should be remembered, is a black
smith by trade.
Happily, Senator Heyburn Is re
ported to have made much progress
during the week in bis recovery from
the effects of war.
Champ Clark la also Imitating the
big silence on the question of taking
the appointment of bouse committees
away from the speaker.
Two days have gone by without a
banquet to those six governors-elect.
Have the democrats so soon lost all
appreciation of their victory?
Jf giving Is a sign of mental weak
ness, then wo may all console our
selves that one Is not alone in bis in
sanity at this season 1 of the year,
anyway.
Strange that this war fever had to
break out again Just as we had tuned
our voices to sing the Christmas an
them, '"Peace on Earth, Good Will To
ward Men."
More than sixty street railway com
panics in the United States are now
using pay-as-you-enter cars. Pretty
soon it will be impossible anywhere to
work a free ride except on an obsolete
transfer.
British consols the other day reached
the lowest price on the market since
1831. No wonder Omaha cannot sell
4 per cent water bonds at par even
with the financial prestige of our great
Water board behind them.
Referring to Mr. Carnegie's peace-
fund donation one commentator says
that "as long aa capital bears interest
this fund will yield Its $500,000
year." Well, that depends on the rate
of Interest, and also on the prosperity
Of the United States Steel corporation.
US.JH
Primary law Chnnjti.
It seems to be taken for granted
that the coming legislature will erect
Important changes In the existing Ne
braska primary law. That the open
feature of the primary, Inflicted on us
by the last democratic legislature, will
be repealed and a return maJe to the
closed primary, much as It previously
prevailed. Is also taken for granted,
our experience with the open primary
being such as to disgust one and all
with its vicious shortcomings. Other
changes will apparently depend on
whether the purpose of the legislature
shall be to enlarge or to limit the ap
plication of the direct nomination
principle.
One of our United States senators,
chosen to enact federal laws, has given
out at Washington a statement, in
tended to Instruct the state law
makers in their duties, advocating ex
tension of the primary to include dele
gates to national conventions, mem
bers of national committees and
preferential expression on president
and vice president. The senator is
evidently imbued w-lth the idea that
Nebraska should emulate Oregon still
further by incorporating into our pri
mary law the features recently en
grafted on the Oregon primary law
with reference to this subject, al
though be evidently has not read the
Oregon primary law or given the ques
tion any serious study In its practical
details.
So far as the election of the national
committeemen for the respective polit
ical parties is concerned there is no
controlling reason for or against the
submission of candidates to state-wide
primary elections. Of the present re
publican national committee one mem
ber, representing South Dakota, was
so chosen, and in the last republican
national convention delegates from
Wisconsin, and possibly from one or
two other states, were chosen by direct
primary vote. Whether this method
of selection has any superior qualities
over the older method of selection by
representative conventions has not yet
been demonstrated. Theoretically
there is no more reason or less reason
why the national committeemen
should be chosen by direct primary
than ahould the state chairman be so
chosen, the congressional chairman
and the members of state, congres
sional, county and local committees.
In fact, if the representative principle
is to be abandoned and the direct se
lection principle adopted for party
councils, the same reason would re
quire the election by direct primary
of every member of the party organi
sation from precinct committeeman to
state chairman, and even national
chairman.
Passing by tb,at subject, the pro
posed preferential vote within the
state on president and vice president
must be ineffective and futile unless
all other states co-operate by the
adoption of the same plan. For one
or two or three states to take a straw
vote on presidential and vice presiden
tial candidates filed by petition, with
or without their consent; would
have about aa much effect as
would a similar proceeding for the
nomination of governor if three or
four counties in Nebraska had a direct
primary and all the rest of the state
retained delegate conventions. The
Oregon plan has still other unworka
ble features, which, however, could be
obviated. But the sum and substance
of It Is that every fourth year the peo
ple are required to bold two state
wide primary elections at public ex
pense, one for choosing delegates to
national conventions and the other for
nominating candidates for state and
local offices, the one in the early spring
and the other in mid-summer. AH
this was figured over when Nebraska's
original state-wide primary law was
framed and adopted, and the national
convention delegates were expressly
exempted from its provisions to avoid
the unnecessary expense and the seri
ous complications involved..
Here in Nebraska our direct pri
mary has been so severely tested that
many people formerly its ardent advo
cates have become lukewarm about It.
Some of them have been convinced
that for the nomination of state offi
cers and preference as between candi
dates who can be well known only in
their own localities and must there
fore be almost unknown to the large
body of voters, it hag not proved a
signal success. No one seems to ob
ject to the direct primary if restricted
to party membership for the choice of
local candidates and selection of con
vention delegates, and possibly pre
cinct committeemen. No one wants
to give up the law-regulated primary
conducted by regular election officers
for all political parties on the same
day and at the same place. The re
vival of convention nominations for
offices to be chosen by voters of the
whole state, or of districts embracing
two or more counties, will doubtless
be proposed and advocated in the leg
islature. The problem is an eminently
practical one, calling for careful and
sensible treatment, and it is not to be
aolved by Jong-distance proclamations
from Washington.
According to Paul Morton, the cen
ter of life Insurance is rapidly moving
westrd in this country. Presumably
this reference la to the center of life
Insurance policy-holders, rather than
to that of life insurance presidents.
Mr. Bryan's Commoner finds space
to reprint an article from an obscure
Ohio paper warning the people not
to be fooled about Governor Harmon,
Including this declaration, "In no
sense of tho word can Harmon's re-
election as governor be construed to
mean that a majority of the people of
Ohio have O. K.'d him for president."
Governor Harmou Ignored Mr. Bryan's
former notice to "prepare to stand
aside," which notice Is herewith repeated.
Christmas Giving.
There are two kinds of Christmas
giving. One seeks merely to carry
cheer and comfort the genuine
Christmas spirit to others. That is
wholesome friendship well expressed.
The other kind is that which is done
merely to observe tho custom and with
the idea of getting something In re
turn. That is not wholesome friend
ship, but a cheap obedience to a sordid
fashion, which violates the spirit of
Christmas. It has another element of
a material nature. It often impels a
person to do more giving than is good
for his pocketbook, and when this is
done, of course, it is at the expense of
something or somebody, for the money
that went into the disguised present
was needed for other purposes.
Genuine liberality, no more than sin
cere friendship, is a thing that ex
presses itself in impulsive outbursts.
It is not spasmodic. Nor is Christmas
necessary to draw It out. It exists
the year round and manifests itself
just as readily on the Fourth of July
or the Tenth of August as on the
Twenty-fifth day of December. It does
not wait for the psychological moment
when conditions are rropltious for a
good exhibition. That sort of giving
Is worse than none at all. There Is
nothing about it to suggest the
thought that the festival of Christmas
represents. In the habit of sitting
down to make out a list of those from
whom you think you have to expect
gifts, and therefore must remember in
your presents, is a good deal of harsh
humor, but none of the silent solici
tude- of deeply-felt friendship. It is a
mockery of Christmas, a vulgar trav
esty on the day.
The spirit of the Yuletlde does not
depend for its subsistence upon the
lavish display of gifts, It feeds just
as heartily, Indeed, more so, on the
simple, modest present that conforms
with the material ability of the giver
to give. It will do no harm for us to
think of these homely things now and
then.
Snap-Shotting a Nation.
Uncle Sam has suffered at times
from adverse British opinion. He is
to suffer no more. A London news
paper, evidently determined on giving
to Great Britain a true picture of
America and Americans, has sent a
reporter over here to make a thirty-eight-hour
tour of the United States
and write a aeries of articles on his
"Impressions." While he did not
quite cover the whole country in that
limited time, he did get a glimpse of
New York, Washington, 1 Philadelphia
and Baltimore and, since be looked out
of his car window all along the route,
of course he saw all there was to be
seen of the United States Intervening.
He met twenty "typical Americans,"
be says, Including the president. Hd
visited the Bowery and a Chinese res
taurant in New York and smoked one
of "Uncle Joe" Cannon's favorite
stogies.
What more research would a man
want to enable him to publish an ac-
Ca.te view of a nation of 92,000,000
people? How much time, pray, must
a keen-witted, quick-thinking Briton
take to get a working knowledge of a
country that comprises no more than
3,600,000 square miles, more or less
thickly inhabited? Others might re
quire a year or more, but the Briton
Is a born critic. With him criticism
is an art. In the less delicate vernac
ular of American life it is sometimes
referred to as "knocking." But the
Briton does not speak our street lan
guage. With his natural pro-Amer
lean ideas an Englishman ought to
write with eminent fairness all there
Is to be known of life in this country
after spending as much time here as
this man did. He can get an exact im
pression of the whole cosmopolitan
land by Just standing for a few min
utes on the White House steps, puffing
an "Uncle Joe" cigar, or downing a
plate of chop suey In a Chinese eating
house on tho Bowery.
Americans must hall with delight
and praise the remarkable enterprise
of this British newspaper. What a
fine Christmas dish it makes.
Employer and the Foreman.
Garment workers on strike In Chi
cago have revealed conditions Imposed
by foremen at which employers pro
fessed to be profoundly shocked, as
serting that they did not know such
conditions existed. Some of the pro
prietors declare that bad they known
of them they would not have tolerated
such practices. But the mischief has
been done, the strike was on and em
ployes and employers, to say nothing
of the larger Interest, the public, were
sufferiag as a consequence.
Many strikes, no doubt, come about
in Just such ways. But large employ
ers of labor cannot evade the responsi
bility for unreasonable conditions Im
posed by foremen. The foreman is
usually told to get reaults, and where
he is too small a man to know how to
get them without dealing unfairly
with those uuder him, he Is too email
to be entrusted with responsibility.
The very fact of the employer's Ig
norance of the foreman's methods may
sometimes in itself suggest a careless
indisposition to inform himself.
Possibly the experience disclosed In
Chicago may be of abblstance to large
employers eager to avoid disputes and
controversies with their employes and
to work together for the ultimate solu-
lion of this perplexing labor problem.
It is a detail that will bear Investiga
tion. In some cases among factory
workerB It takes all the tart and diplo
macy of wise men to keep down feel
ings among the rank and file against
the foreman. There are always some
jealous enough of the man who has
g' ne from the ranks to a place of au
tnorlty to nag at him and make him
trouble. Employers who are not
closely In touch with the details of
their business may suffer seriously
from such conditions. This is one of
the hundreds of little items entering
Into many labor disputes which are
generally kept from the public. They
are not little, however, when measured
by their power of evil as reflected in
the consequences of a great industrial
strike.
Distributing the Immigrants.
The Immigration commission recom
mends that congress return to the mat
ter of Improved distribution of aliens.
It finds that the bureau of immigra
tion established under a law enacted
three years ago by congress has not
proved completely successful. The
bureau seems to have confined its ef
forts to calling attention of newcomers
arriving on our shores to the need and
opportunity of settlers in the country
outside of the large cities, but, natu
rally enough, this has not wholly filled
the bill. .
Congress could do a real service by
sustaining a larger and more system
atic effort at distribution and assimi
lation of these incoming aliens. Such
work Is now being done by private In
stitutions with excellent results, but,
of course, these private societies,
which look out more for particular
nationalities, cannot accomplish as
much as could the government If it
proceeded along broader lines. The
government should look after those
immigrants who have been in this
country for a short time, as well as
those Just arriving. Thousands of
foreign-born people are crowded Into
small quarters of population centers
who have acquired the financial ability
and would welcome the opportunity to
go inland and settle down to a more
wholesome and profitable life. But
they need to be directed and helped
because they do not know how to pro
ceed on their own initiative.
The task is to get these people, or
as many of them as possible, out of
squalid, congested centera into a
wider, fresher country, with freer
range to exercise their individuality,
where their children may come more
vitally into contact with American
born children, establish themselves as
Integral parts of the community and
make them better Americans. Give
the children a chance to take the lead
and a good work is done. Parents
will fall in with the friendships and
connections formed by their children.
That makes fof permanency of resi
dence and that, in turn, draws out all
of the best there la In these new
comers. It gives them wider visions
of their new surroundings, makes
them feel that they have a part in
them. In this way we will have done
our best not only for these people, but
for ourselves, also.
Spread of the Bible.
The American Bible society in its
last annual report shows that it issued
2,826,831 copies of the Bible in the
year, 1,427,247 in the United States
and 1,399,684 in other lands. That is
237,000 volumes in excess of any pre
ceding year. These issues were In
seventy languages and dialects, prac
tically covering the earth's surface in
nations. In China alone 532,477
copies were Issued. And it is worth
while here to pause and reflect that a
few days ago China announced that
beginning January 1, 1911, it would
pass from the rule of an absolute
dynasty to that of a constitution.
One cannot doubt that the Influence
of the Bible and those who have
carried It to the. far east has worked
mightily in effecting this political evo
lution in the oldest of monarchies. Its
rays of light have proved too strong
even for this deep, thick veil of centuries-old
superstition and Idolatry.
Christian civilization has burned its
way through. So it has through every
barrier raised against it in the ages
gone. Vice, ignorance and prejudice
alike have felt its penetrating force
and from every onslaught it haB arisen
stronger than before, reaching on into
the future with its inspired message
of faith and salvation.
All men have not accepted the in
spiration of the book, but enough have
to preserve the religion it teaches as
the dominant Influence in the world
today. It has commanded where it did
not conquer and it has conquered
where every other earthly instrumen
tality has failed. It baa been the pio
neer of civilization in every land. It
has gone on advancing the outposts of
world peace and progress, leaving com
merce and art to do their work and
follow on. And now in this twentieth
century of prodigious commercialism,
with its restk-ss ambition and eager
energy on every hand, nearly 3,000,000.
copies of this book are flying to every
land to be read In every tongue, doing
more than all other powers combined
for the universality of mankind.
When we boast about the fine show
ing of population gro vth made by our
new census, we should not overlook
the Increment through immigration
from foreign lands. Were our gates
closed to the immigrant the Increase
column in the census report would
not look so bright, if it were not con
verted into a decrease column. Jf
progress is growth and growth de
pends on population increase, our for.
eign-born cltlrens are a very vital fac
tor In the nation's future.
Only 1,000 of the 32,000 graduates
of Harvard, enrolled in its new cata
logue, are ministers, whereas 5.300 of
them are lawyers. 3,500 of them are
teachers and 3,500 of them are physi
cians. That shows how far the modern
university has departed from the origi
nal Idea of the denominational college
founded to educate men to preach the
gospel.
rastor Runsell, whose sermons are
printed all over the country, Indulges In
more silly ami unprofitable talk than any
preacher In the Vnlted States, and yet,
for some reason that Is hard to under
stand, he has a vast audience. Emporia
(Kan.) Gazette.
The reason Is not so hard to under
stand when one recalls a famous asser
tion of Mr. Barnum's.
At any rate, it may be hoped that
England will not judge all American
cigars by the one "Uncle Joe" handed
to that London reporter making a
thirty-eight hours' Inspection of the
United States.
Those Kansans are a hypercritical
lot. They have banished all liquids
but water and now they are not even
satisfied with that. Their governor
demands that the water bo purified.
One democratic paper remarks that
Bryan's silence is ominous. "Yes,"
replies the Atlanta Constitution, warn
lngly, "and If some of you are not
careful you will nag him out of It."
Abe Slupsky Is the name given of a
St. Louis man who won a bet of $250
by drinking twenty bottles of beer
dally for thirty days. His name
should be spelled "Slopsky."
The "Iowa Idea" as a twin sister of
the "Kansas Situation" was given an
entirely new face by Senator Young's
maiden speech, and it probably was no
disguise, either.
Oat of Politics.
Washington Star.
Tha selection of the chief Justice recog
nizes the fact that the supreme court of
the United States Is an Institution apart
from political partisanship.
Don't Forget the Decorations.
Cleveland Leader.
Secretary Wilson says that the middle
man is to blame. But hasn't the ultimate
consumer's fondness for pink wrappers,
decorated with pretty pictures and blue
ribbons, something to do with it?
Fine Ilnslneas Booster.
Brooklyn Kagle.
Jack Frost has entered into a gentle
men's agreement with the ice trust and
the coal trust. As a standpatter he blows
cold, and as a progressive he blows hot,
and In both cases helps to collect a
dividend.
Hear the Pike Cogntr Voice.
Springfield Republican.
Champ Clark pronounces Mr. Bryan tha
greatest living American orator. Judging
him by the audiences he can still draw;
but would he have been, under that test.
If he had never been nominated tor the
presidency? Audiences depend for their
size upon public interest, and public, in
terest is not made simply by the gift of
tha tongue.
Old Beliefs Affirmed.
New Tork World.
' A Minnesota astronomer saya the story
of tha Star of Bethlehem is either "a
myth, a folk story of great beauty, or a
supernatural visitation that can be re
garded by individuals In any manner they
desire." As this leavea the story precisely
where it has always been, tha astronomer
might well have spared himself his labor
In announcing his conclusion.
Contlnooas Conspiracies.
Philadelphia Record.
A conspiracy is a continuing offense, ac
cording to the United States supreme court.
Two men who were the agents in bring
ing the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining com
pany within the power of the Sugar trust,
which kept tha refinery idle for years,
sought to escape punishment for their part
in a conspiracy, to restrain trade and
establish a monopoly by pleading the sta
tute of limitations. That act would have
run against the Inception of the conspiracy,
and the trial Judge held that they could
not be tried. But the supreme court holds,
very rationally, that the statute does not
protect them, , for they continued their
conspiracy in restraint of trade within the
statutory period.
Truthful Publicity-'
Philadelphia Record.
Cardinal Gibbons declares that the way
to restore public confidence in the man
agement of the affairs of big corporations
Is to insist upon truthful publicity. Sound
business needs no walled-ln privacy to
make it safe. It needs no subsidy to make
it profitable. This is only ft mere applica
tion of tho old saying. "The truth la
mighty and will prevail." Precisely what
the good cardinal advocate In the con
duct of business Woodrow Wilson has
strongly urged tn tha conduct of politics.
In this country the people at sovereigns
and the real source of power. It Is the
contention of Wilson that there need be
no fear of the ultimate Judgment of the
people when they are rightly luformed. If
this be not true our system is a failure.
Our Birthday Book.
December 18, 1810.
Ashton C. Shallenberger, governor of
Nebraska, wad born I'ecember IS, 1 863,
at Toulon, 111. lie waa a stock ralaer
and banker In Harlan county, who bad
served In congress, at the time he was
chosen chief executive. lie was the
first democratic governor in Nebraska
in twenty years, and, like the only dem
ocrat who preceded him In office, is a
one-term governor, about to retire to
make way for a republican successor.
Itev. Lyman Abbott, editor of the Out
look, Is celebrating his seventy-fifth
birthday today. Ha was born at Rox
bury, Mass, and succeeded Henry Ward
Lteecher as pastor of the famous I'ly
mouth church.
Bradley Martin, whose daughter cut
such a swath In a famous international
wedding, waa burn 1'erembnr IS, 1641. at
Albany. lie Is a millionaire and Uvea
in London most of the time.
L. M. Whitehead, chief clerk of the
general passenger office of the Burling
ton at Omaha, was born December II,
1871. at Fairmont, Neb. He hue been
continuously with the Burlington since
WE ABE THE FEOrLE.
I'hlladelphia. Record: Tha moat l ml fi
rs nt feature of tha completed census is the
greater giowth of the states alone the
salt water edgea of the country and the
comparative falling off In the central
area?.
Washington Tost: Meantime the east has
been gaining on the erstwhile boastful west,
and fhould tha changed conditions long
continue, the term "effete" will attach to
tha middle west with aa much significance
as It ever did to tha east.
Cleveland Leader: In bigness snd
strenth and all Met doth Imply the Amer
ican republic la making progress as rapidly
as Its most pstrlotlc cltlren could desire.
In that respect, at least, tha reality la
enough to gratify th most buoyant expec
tations. Indianapolis News: So we have our work
cut out for us. It la not to boast of our
bigness, but to far seriously the practical
duty of assimilating tha nsw cltltrns to
American Ideala. Kor our encouragement
we can say that there were never so many
agencies at work to thla end.
Boston Transcript: The census returns
afford conclusive evidence that neither the
northwest nor the region Immediately ad
Joining it Is effete, if the total Increase
of our population shall be found to be be
tween fifteen and sixteen millions, more
than a third of thla growth Is to be cred
ited to New York, New England. Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey and Ohio, whose ag
gregate gains foot up over .4un.(K.
St. Louis Republic: We have yet the
worst governed cities outside, of Spain and
Turkey; we lack definite Ideala In art and
music; our arts are the luxuries of the
rich, where they should ba the free Inheri
tance of all. The nation Is without definite
spiritual leadership, or much care that It
lacka It. It Is a good time for the man
who desires to wreak himself on great
tasks to be alive. We are big enough; we
must Uarn how to live up to our slxe.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
According to the census showing too
many people cling to a fringe of the At
lantic shore. That'a why so many lose
their grip and drop Into the water.
Unfortunately the motion picture people
were not on the Job when young Waldorf
Astor In London denounced the "influence
of American dollars," thus robbing the
nlcklodean circuit of a gide-splltter.
Indiana still holds the geographical cen
ter of population, about thirty miles west
and two miles north of the center fixed
by the census of 1910. The exact spot Is to
be marked with a column of romance
topped with a poem.
The efficacy of Andrew Carnegie's peace
promotion fund might be tested at once
on the warlike breathings of the expo
sition promoters of San Francisco and New
Orleans. Once these are disarmed tha
world's peace la secure.
During the last snowstorm in New York
City the horse was shamefully treated by
motor truckers. While man's favorite ani
mal floundered in the drifts, tha motors
plowed through all obstructions and
reached their destination on time.
John Porteoue, 27 years old, who won
the prise for being the tallest and "skin
niest" Elk at the national convention at
Denver in 1907, is dead of tuberculosis in
Paducah, Ky. Porteous was six feet seven
Inches tall. A special coffin waa ordered
for him.
Col. Abe Slupsky of St. Louis, occupant
of niche No. 1 In the New York 8un's "hall
of fame." recently distinguished himself
by absorbing the Contents ef twenty bot
tles of beer a day for thirty days. The
Colonel has a mighty thirst and a carry
ing capacity to match.
M ss May Krueger was the youngest dele
gate at the prison congress, which was
recently held In Washington city. Mtss
Krueger was appointed by the governor of
the state of Washington to represent that
state because sh was so well versed In
Juvenile court work and all Its attendant
branches in the state of Washington. Aa
the organiser of the State Society for the
Protection of Children and Animals, she
was also a delegate to the American In
ternational Humane conference.
V1
should many Watches
and Diamonds he car
ried over if DEEPLY Cut
Prices will MOVE Them?
It Is ordained that NO Jeweler can make a COM.
PLKTK "Close Out" on holiday goods; but THIS
concern will endeavor to rome very NEAH It, on
the larger and finer diamond pieces at least.
Frankly, there are too MANY of these large pieces
here; prices during this final week will be CXIM
PHEHSED to tho UTMOST; you may buy a LA HUE
diamond hero NOW, for LESS money, than hue
been possible at ANY time during the past five
years (quality, of course, considered).
WATCHXSC Think of purchas
ing a Lady's "O" size gold
fllle.d watch, warranted 25
years; fitted with a 16-Jewel
Pock ford movement; a beau
ty In dealgn, and a positive
my'. $13.80
WATCIII Here's an oppor
tunity on Men's "12" else,
thin open-face watches; 25
year guaranteed cajies, fitted
w ith 17-Jewel Kockford move
ment; never before less than
noSw.-t. Slu.OO
Special Xma$ Catalogut Sent on Requett
Open Evening $ Until Christmat
J, 1522 Farnam
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
You possess only na much faith as fa
sesses you.
You cannot love truth and fight freedom
In thinking.
The big fenrrs are not alwuya around tha
best fruit trees. .
It take." more than a stinging vocabulary
to make a rrophet.
The whirlwind of pasM'n scatters many
of tho seeds of sin
People who borrow trouble always gtve
mote than tlie get.
t'lrarlim some of the clouds from earth
clems 1 lie vision of heaven.
The test of piety comes not in the pews,
but In the press of dally life.
No one run measure the fortune of tha
man who leaves many friends.
Many mould be happier If they stopped
"KletcherlxltiK" their medicine.
The lust kind of religious devotion Is de
vctlon to some one ho needs you.
It's no use talking about walking with
(od If you're wabbling before men.
Ignorance kIvcs titenter freedom lU
utteriince than Inspiration, and Is often
mistaken for It.
A collapsible conscience may be more
comfortable than an Ingrowing one, but
It works as much harm. Chicago Tribune.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Doesn't that Mrs. Tomllnson enamel her
"l think so. I notlre she has to leave tha
room when she wants to change her ex
pression.' Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I hear you were very much disappointed
In your mother-in-law."
"Completely so."
"In what way?"
"Why. she's simply perfect '."Baltimore
American.
Sanitarium Doctor-So Mrs. Plttsfleld
wss here while 1 was away?
Nurseyes. sir. She wanted to take her
husband home, but ho said he preferred,
to stay here.
Doctor I've suspe. led that esse all
along; the man is not crasy at all'."
Puck.
A mnn who has been sick a long tlmn
said today: "There's a whole lot in tha
statement that doctors practice medicine."
Atchison Ulube
"Our new neighbor must be a very sus
picious character."
"Why so?"
"She employs a maid who Is deaf and
diimb, the mean thing." Baltimore Amer
ican. MOTHER,
Robert I.oulfi Stevenson.
It Is not yours. O mother, to complain,
Noi, mother, yours to weep,
Though nevermore your aon again
Shall to your bosom creep.
Though nevermore araln you watch your
baby sleep.
Though In the greener paths of earth.
Mother and child, no more
We wander; and no more the birth
Of me whom once you bore,
Seems still the brave reward that once
It seemed of yore:
Thotigh as all passes, day and night.
The seasons and the years,
From you, O mother, this delight,
This also disappears
Some profit yet survives of all your
pans and tears.
The child, the seed, the grain of com,
The acorn on the hill.
Each for some separate and Is born
In season fit, and still
Each must In strength arise to work
the Almighty will.
So from the hearth the children flee,
By that Almighty hand
Austerely led; so one by flea
Goes forth, and ona by land;
Nor aught of all man's sons escapes front
that command.
So from the sally each obeys
The unseen Almighty nod.
So till the ending all their ways
Blindfolded loth have trod;
Nor knew their task at all, but were
the tools of God,
And as the fervent smith of yore '
Beat out tha glowing blade.
Nor wielded in tha front of war
The weapona that b made.
But In the tower at horn still plied hi
ringing trade.
So Ilka a sword tha son shall roam
On nobler missions sent:
And as the smith remained at home
In peaceful turret pent.
So sits the while at home tha mothers
well content.
BIAMOSSS Tha stock her
Is too large hence a quick
disposal of a lot of choice
carat ston an unusual, y
splendid selection in pins
Kings and Studs, and soli-
$60.o0
DZAJfOkTD Soma buyer may
purchase a l-carat stone at
a remarkably low price, ab
solutely perfect as a atone
can be, and worth 1300 of
anyone'a money: the aariv
buyer has eyn g n.
i; at.
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St., Omaha
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