t THE OMAIfA SUNDAY BKE: JANUARY 1, 1!11. ; c
Tub Omaha Sunday Dee
lMl'MT,!) Iir KIAVARl rtOSICWATETl.
VICTOR JtOSICWJtTKK. F.IITOR.
Filtered at Orr.ufcl postoffice as second
class matter.
TERMS Or FL HS'.'RIPTIUN.
Funday Hi e, one year. $2 iV
Saturday Hie. one year 1.50
lHlly Hee (without Sunday), one yest..$l )
tuly Hee and Sunday, one year ;.W
DELIVKIUCU HY CARRIER.
Evening Flee (without Hunday), per week 60
J-.vcnlng Hee (with Sunday) er weeK....l"c
1'ully Hi'h (Including Sunday,, tier week. .lie
Inlly Hee (without Hundayi. rr week..lic
Address all complaint of Irregularities In
delivery to City Circulation tepartmtnt.
OFFICES.
Omaha The Itee Uulldlng.
fcouth (Jmaha ijjti ,N. 1 wenty-fourth St.
Council Hiutfs 15 Hcott Street.
Lincoln W Little Uu IdlPK.
ChlcaKo I6H1 Mnniiictie Hulldlng.
Kansas City K. liance Huildmg.
New York 24 West Thirty-third Street.
Washington 75 Fourteenth Street. N. V
CORRESPONDENCE.
Communlrat.ons relating to news and
editorial matter should be. addressed
Onuiha Hee, Editorial Uepartment.
REMITTANCES.
Remit by draft, express or pontal order
payablo to Tha Hoe Hubllshlng Company.
Only li-cent stamps received In payment of
Wall accounts. Personal checks except on
Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted.
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglas County, as.
George B. Tzschuck. treasurer of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
eeys that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Hunday Hee printed during the
month of November, 1X10, was as follows:
1...., 43,680 II 43,880
I ....43,600 17 .....44,830
..... ...43,eoo It 44,080
4... 43,670 19 43,760
i.e.. 43,930 20 43,900
44,200 21 43,910
7... 46,380 22 43,630
S 43,310 21 43,1(30
64,680 24 43.6B0
10 46,470 26 43,740
11..... 44,640 26 43,180
It.... ...... .43,930 27 43,983
II 44400 21 43,380
14 43,350 29 43,340
II 43,950 10 43,360
Total 1,390,880
Returned Copies 18,438
Net Total 1,305,464
Pally Average 43,815
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before rue this 30th day of November, 1910.
M. P. WALKER,
(Seal.) " Notary Public
abscrloera learlnar the) city tesa.
porarlly should have The Be
mailed to them. Addreaa will b
rbanared a oftea as requested.
Yes, it's 1911.
Happy New Year.
Have you resoluted?
How long do you think they will
last?.
- 1
At that, young 1911 has a fast clip
to beat In old 1910.
Ii everybody aboard the water
wagon? If so, glddap.
And 1910 was also the biggest year
for peace, by $10,000,000.
Now Is the time to make your plans
for a "safe and sane" Fourth.
Now for the cut-price clearance
sales that compel us to save money,
t i
Now, If you got all the old wrung
out, come on for a brand new start.
A St. Louis minister says the devil
Is at large in that city. Oh, chest
nuts! Unfortunately the aviator who takes
a header from a lofty altitude is sel
dom able to come back.
"It is better to be crude than rude,"
declares a religious journal. Yes, but
what need of being either
Here is where the new year refuses
to linger any longer in the lap of a
parent rated as a dead one.
New Jersey hens are said to be lay
ing flavored eggs. Pshaw, It Is not
fair to blame that on the hens.
That St. Louis bank that bought
two bull dogs to guard Its money Is
Imply tempting the dogs with bones.
Maybe If they dig deep enough into
Adams county, Ohio, they may find the
original sites of Sodom and Gomorrah.
With 1911 we have the first year of
the century written with only two dif
ferent numerals. The others will be
1919. 1991. 1999 and 2000.
Now, here comes tne postman with
the real Christmas souvenir from the
dear grocer, the butcher, the toy mer
chant, the jeweler, et cetera.
The general stimulus to the peace
propaganda created by Mr. Carnegie's
donation may even revive the sale of
Mr. Bryan's "Prince of Peace."
Now see what mere man gets for
kicking at the hobble skirt The
fashion plates say it will be the panta
loon skirt for the new season.
That Kansas City man who begs a
divorce because he Is pursued by his
vife's antral body must have got an
awful blow to see stars like that.
Dr. Cook sends his embossed de
luxe edition of thanks to the Danish
people for their reception of him on
his return from the north. It seems
that the .doctor cannot avoid hunting
for trouble.
Already the people must feel the
pledge of larger security In the demo
cratic victory in New York, for that
restless patriot, "Billy" Shwehan, by
the grace of "Boss" Murphy of Tam
many, has consented to become their
United States senator.
The New Year.
This Is the day of the good resolu
tion. Many peoplo have waited for It,
as they wait for the first of every year,
to resolve that they will or will not do
this or that, and then some, and be
fore the first month, or week, has past
break their pledges. Maybe they have
indulged pome habit to excess just that
they might make their resolution the
more emphatic; running, as it were,
to get a good start for a long leap.
The trouble is the leap is often too
long. As a rule habits are not easily
broken off abruptly. That Is why so
many New Year resolutions amount to
nothing and why so many serious
minded people. If they make them at
all, keep them to themselves.
It Is the good resolution made in the
secret of one's own counsel that us
ually counts the most.- But the prac
tice, or as It may almost be termed,
the tradition, of making New Year
resolutions is not one that may be
safely discouraged. The redeeming
feature about it is that It indicates a
semblance of desire for Improvement,
and such an impulse, nebulous as It
may be, ought not to be derided. Per
haps the habit of remaking the resolu
tion and keeping it only a few weeks
may after a while, 'lead to better re
sults. Of coarse, the man who really
Is determined to effect an Improve
ment, physical, moral or otherwise,
will not wait for January 1, but will
as readily begin July 10, or Octo
ber 2 4, since there is no special effi
cacy In the day. It takes a sober con
sciousness 'of the need for improve
ment before much may be expected,
anyway.
The old year was one of such un
broken progress as to inspire confi
dence for continued Improvement all
along the line In this country. Omaha
and Nebraska are peculiarly subject
to this inspiration. They have
wrought great advancement and the
forces that make for moral and ma
terial progress are arrayed for even
greater strides in the year that
stretches out before them. The
printed record of what has been done
In this city and state is enough to key
hopes to the highest pitch of ex
pectancy for 1911 and, of course, com
paratively little of the total achieve
ment can be reduced to type. The
country at large is in the heyday of
prosperity and peace. The present
year, largely because of the splendor
of the last one, should be the best year
this nation yet has experienced. At
peace with the world, its prestige is
greater than ever and its oportunltles
larger.
Financial Side of Peace.
The ethics of world peace - find a
splendid support in the economics of
war. Arbitration, after all, appeals to
the head before it reaches the heart.
The fact that no nation is really the
gainer, but all must lose, financially,
as the result of hostile combat, wields
a far greater ' influence for interna
tional amity than some propagandists
may admit. The material cost of war
Is one of its most deterrent factors.
Wars may not be as bloody today as
formerly, but they are far more costly
In dollars and cents, and, whether it
be a sad commentary or not on the mo
tives of mankind, it is nevertheless a
fact that this element has a powerful
impelling force.
Tributes of war come not only from
the vanquished nation. The victor
shares in them, and so, often, do en
tirely neutral nations. This expense
Is wholly aside from the fearful de
struction of property and the amazing
cost of the munitions of modern war
fare. It bat been aptly said that we
fire gold from our cannon today. And
It might be said that we make our
cannon and our vast ships of gold. No
nation, whether it can afford to pour
millions into powerful armies and
navies, can begin to afford the
destruction of these Investments. And
no nation but is thoroughly awake to
that fact.
The Russo-Japanese war may now
be regarded as one of the greatest
agencies for peace. The emaciated
condition of resources in both coun
tries will for a long time stand as a
warning against war, not only to these
powers, but others as well. We are
likely to see philanthropic pleading for
world peace substantially buttressed
by economic argument more and more
from now on, and possibly In time to
come nations will learn how to avoid
shooting each other's treasuries full of
holes.
Overdoing a Good Thing.
Some of our college and university
professors seem determined to make
the most of their positions, but If they
do not make fewer freak prophesies
they will cease to be taken seriously in
anything they say. Isn't It about time
they were crediting the rest of the
world with a little common sense,,
anyway?
Only a little while ago a professor
of an eastern school made the absurd
statement that within a century or so
we would all be Insane. As f that
were ot bad enougrr, now comes an
other learned Jester with the predic
tion that by 2020 there will be no
children in the United States younger
than 5 years of age, and still another
one this one Is from Nebraska pro
posing an endowment of motherhood.
The prophet attempts to fortify bis as
sertion by saying that he has figured
the matter down to a mathematical
precision, assuming that past and
present conditions continue un
changed. Probably if sensationalists cared to
make the Investigation they would
find at different periods of the world's
history the tide of the birth rate rising
and falling. Nature operates pretty
much by her own laws, though grant
ing that man's Influence, upon some of
these laws is potent. Things will
move slong In the same old groove as
for ages they have been moving, and
there probably is about as much dan
ger of an extinction of babies in this
country as there is that the continent
will be swallowed up by an earthquake
between this and 2020. At any rate,
the actual statistics make the latter
contingency not the least bit alarming.
But this prophecy is no more ludi
crous than is the Nebraskan's demand
for a premium on every birth and a
cash prize to every woman who be
comes a mother. If the race has
evolved so far without such incentive,
why ls.lt required now? It would be
interesting to know this professor's
Ideas on the common cry that the race
Is already sordidly steeped in commer
cialization. Two Discordant Notes.
A few months ago Prof. Edward A.
Ross of the' University of Wisconsin
contributed an article to the Atlantic
Monthly deploring the frightful de
cadence of the newspaper and its per
version by the suppression of Impor
tant news. In the December number of
the Century magazine Champ Clark,
soon to be speaker of the national
house of representatives, contributes
an article deploring the decadence of
oratory In congress and proclaiming
oratory to be a lost art.
When Prof. Ross' article appeared
we discussed Its overwrought and ex
aggerated allusions and particularly
called attention to his mistaken con
clusions as to the relation between
press and pulpit or roBtrum. Accord
ing to Prof. Ross, because of news
paper suppression of important news,
"the spoken word is once more a
power" and so "Insatiable" Is the de
mand for lecturers and speakers that
"the platform bids fair to recover Its
old prestige." He told us that the
"smotherers" are "dismayed", by the
growth of the Chautauqua ' circuits;
that congressional speeches now give
vent to "boycotted truth" to be
circulated widely under the frank
ing privilege; that clubs are
formed to listen to facts and ideas
"tabooed by the .daily press;"
that more is made of public hearings
before committees of councllmen or
legislators.
But here, almost on the heels of
Prof. Ross' diatribe, comes the vera
cious Champ Clark declaring that with
William Bourke Cockran disappeared
from congress "its last great orator."
Though admitting that there are still
great speakers and great debaters In
both houses, the difference, we are ad
monished, must, not' be confused..
Champ Clark alBO tells us that "there
are few orators left In the country
outside of congress," being able to
mention but two or three names, and
the decline' in oratory is "almost
as noticeable In the pulpit and
the bar." But more to the point is the
assertion that "the principal causes of
the decadence of oratory are the tele
graph, the printing press, the tele
phone, the steam engine and the elec
tric car." What intelligent people
now want is "lucid statement" and
"Information," not word pictures and
fervid eloquence. In other words, the
advent of the modern newspaper,
brought within universal reach at a
trivial cost, has put the orator out of
business and made the speakers and
debaters adopt the editor's methods of
clear exposition and concise argument.
How witnesses could be more con
tradictory than are Prof. Ross and
Champ Clark is hard to imagine. Prof.'
Ross insists that the decline of the
editor has forced the reappearance of
the orator; Champ Clark declares that
the efficiency of the editor has made
the orator obsolete. .For ourselves we
are not yet convinced either that the
day of the influential editor is
gone or that the great orator has for
ever passed into oblivion. ,
Are Women Growing More Mannish, 1
Dr. G. A. Sargent, director of gym
nastics at Harvard, asserts that the
physique of American women and girls
Is changing so rapidly that within a
few years the feminine form will be
so manlike as to appear ridiculous in
woman's attire. The trouble all comes
from excessive Indulgence in athletics
and out-of-door exercise. The doctor
modeled a figure from "actual meas
urements" of more than 10,000 women
to prove his claims.
Of course, there may be a tendency
of this kind where women and girls
are excessive in their athletic exer
cises. That is evident from the fem
inine trapeze porformer, or the acro
bat of any kind. Exercise of woman's
muscles tends to increase muscular
force in all parts of the body, Just as
it does with man. But the consoling
feature of the case for those who hope
to have the lines of symmetrical
womanhood preserved. in their native
beauty is that the overwhelming ma
jority of women and girls have not yet
taken np the excellent practice of ath
letic exercise and but a very few of
those who have practice it excessively.
It is not necessary to coincide with
the doctor's view to appreciate some
absurdities of woman's attire today
and to discover about her outward ap
pearance suggestions of masculinity,
but one would scarcely think of laying
that to misshapen feminine forms.
Rather it Beems to be more due to the
varying tendency of style. This may
become thoroughly apparent with the
advent of, pantaloon skirt In the
spring. As a matter of fart, woman
hood probably could afford to keep up
Its physical culture fad, even at the
cost of expanding muscular force, for
the practice is wholesome and already
has produced excellent results. The
gymnasium as an adjunct of many
schools and Young Women's Christian
associations is to be encouraged. It
helps many an otherwise frail or
poorly developed girl or young woman
to a larger sphere of usefulness by
making her better able to bear the
burdens of life. It probably would
require generations to produce the
changes of which Dr. Sargent speaks,
so that the danger of it does hot seem
to be imminent.
A Year of Growth for Omsha. N
Substantial gain along every Im
portant line of urban growth and com
mercial and Industrial development
marked Omaha's experience In 1910.
The figures for the year just ended
are such as will content thoughtful
persons who contemplate the record,
and will afford encouragement for an
other year of concerted effort. The
bank clearings, which are in a large
measure the most important index of
the city's activity In trade, have
mounted well up toward the billion
mark, showing a total for the year of
almost $833,000,000, an increase of
$98,000,000 for the twelve months.
The output of the factories and the
total turnover of the jobbing trade
also show marked gains for the year,
while the other leading factors on
which evidence of growth is deter
mined are all of a satisfactory nature.
Not alone iu a material way has
Omaha prospered. Its social growth
has been steady and encouraging. In-
tellectual and spiritual forces alike
have worked for the betterment of the
city, and - its people have responded
readily to the forward impulse.
Schools, churches and other institu
tions of the social life of the commun
ity have .thrived and prospered, and a
healthy spirit of unrest has marked
the life of the community.
Oreater growth awaits Omaha, for
Its development Is little more than
begun. The record of the old year
is cause for congratulation, In that It
shows progress and will serve as a
stimulus for the effort that must be
made during the months ahead. The
empire for which Omaha is the gate
way and market town is growing and
the city must be alive' to seize upon
its opportunities, relinquishing noth
ing gained and holding its every ad
vantage against ambitious rivals.
Omaha people may contemplate the
dead year with content and will look
forward to the new year with high
hope and courageous determination to
make its record surpass that of 1910,
just as the record of 1910 has sur
passed that of any year gone before.
" Mrs. Eddy's Manifestation. :
The world is not likely to pay more
serious attention to Mrs. Augusta E.
Stetson's claims about Mrs. Eddy's im
mortality than it has paid to similar
declarations concerning leaders of
various other religious cults and Isms
that have come and gone. As to Mrs.
Stetson's remarkable utterance that
"The same situation exists today as
when Jesus of Nazareth was buried,"
and that Mrs. Eddy "occupies in the
world of today the same position that
Jesus occupied in his day," it will be
received, outside of Christian Science
circles, with the varying shades of un
belief into which other similar procla
mations have fallen, and even a Chris
tian Science spokesman has apparently
repudiated it.
Mrs. Stetson's prophecy of a new
revelation has a familiar ring to it.
Like other similar forewords, it has
ample latitude. It avoids the pitfall
of deflnlteness, both as to time and
persons. The "manifestation" may
come tomorrow or it may not come for
years, and It will come to Mrs. Stetson
and others of the church and to the
outside world. There is plenty of
chance for others besides Mrs. Stetson
to set themselves up as the chosen
ones to receive this "manifestation."
The circumstances are not wholly un
like those following the death of Prof.
James, whose spirit was to come back
and reveal for the first time some of
the mysteries of death. Fortunately,
however, for those who might grow
weary in watching, no exact time was
set for its coming. And so with Mrs.
Eddy's manifestation, the precise char
acter of which is not made plain, it is
a matter of time and faith only.
Mrs. Eddy was unquestionably a re
markable woman, if not the most re
markable of her time. Much that she
taught is sensible and points mankind
upward, therefore commending it to
thousands. But we do not under
stand that Mrs. 'Eddy laid claim to
being either divine, or infinite, or im
mortal, except as any human soul may
be immortal. Mrs. Eddy counted on
death as Burely as has every person
who has lived and died. She evidently
prepared her will and arranged all her
temporal affairs with as much delib
eration about death as If she had not
been a Christian Scientist. Final
judgment of what she taught will be
suspended until it has had time to
prove Us lasting character. It must
pass through the same crucible of
criticism to which every other religion,
not excepting Christianity, that has
lived and grown universal, has had to
pass and by which many have been
destroyed.
. i
Just to disprove the story that he
was not asked to speak at the Balti
more celebration of Jackson day, Mr.
Bryan prints the invitation in his
Commoner with all the names of the
executive committee attached. He
want it distinctly understood that hla
r - i - . - -
absence is self-enforced and not Invol
untary. That Mexican uprising certainly
lacked staying qualities else It would
bsrdly have petered out in so short a
time. It viH take more of a disturb
ance than that to tempt Uncle Sam to
j mix into the row.
"Out in Nebraska William Jennings
Bryan has found Ms voice." observes
the Philadelphia Inquirer. Wrong,
stranger, Mr. Bryan only bummers
part of the time in Nebraska, lie
winters in Texas.
This spirit of rivalry among the big
rich, emanating from Mr. Carnegie
and .Mr. Rockefeller, seems to have
plunged Mrs. Harrlman and Mrs. Sage
into a very strenuous contest of giving.
Perhnps Champ Clark has discarded
the idea of a grand entrance behind
two mules in the belief that there
would be too much braying without
them.
The apple is steadily becoming more
popular in this country. Which shows
that we are rapidly losing our preju
dice against it because of the Eden
episode. - -
A hmiee fop Reform.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
It bettans to look as If the J'ullman com
pany would have a chance to be'ln the
new year well. There's that upper berth
to come, down and now the porters want
an Increase In pay.
Whf Only Tnot
Washington Post.
That free education does not always ap
peal Is shown by the fact that only two
students applied for the Rhodes scholar
ships In Nebraska, although those scholar
ships provldo for the payment of all ex
penses. No "oft Spot In Slalit.
Chicago Uecord-Herald. .
. One of the aviators Is planning to fly
across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
It Is thirteen miles wide, one mile deep
and there Isn't a soft spot In It, even the
narrow river being composed of hard wa
ter. Where Rumors iet Their Power.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
If you hunt for the source of that report
that the United States is going to inter
vene In Cuba for keeps you may discover
it In the business Interests with .dealings
In Havana. The fnlted States government
had not heard of it before.
Whit Will Pfsry Get
Springfield Republican.
The fight ' over Peary In congress this
winter will be, on the question of making
him a rear admiral. In his mcsajre Presi
dent Taft carefully avoided recommending
the promotion of the arctic explorer to
that high rank, contenting h'mself with
urging "fitting recoKntlon." The issue Is,
therefore, what constitutes recognition that
is fitting. We renew our recommendation
that Peary be mads a major general.
PERSONAL . AND ;0TiniR WISE.-
f . V ' " '.
The sleigh now rivals the bicycle as the
has-been of the whirling years. t .
AU resolutions should be referred to ap
propriate committees to insure decent in
terment. .
Statistics show that one New Torker In
every 279 Is insane. . Still all look alike to
the western visitor.
It is definitely settled that love alone
Induced a manicure artist to elope with
a mere millionaire of Pittsburg.
Ben Pitman, the shorthand man, la dead
at Cincinnati. Few men in this progres
sive era caused more "tracks" to be made
on the page of time.
One of the great achievements of New
TOrk rightly credited to the past years,
Is the banishment of another section of
the horse-car lines which have attracted
antiquarians from all parts of the world.
The shameless expression that the new
governors-elect shun Inaugural balls be
cause they can't fit swell clothes to their
figures, hasn't nerve enough to cross the
Missouri river. Nebraska would quickly
go to the mat with It.' '
"Go lick a cop and get a job," was the
advice heeded by Jo Allegratti in New
York. When Joe woke up next morning
and felt the lumps on his head his In
jured feelings were soothed by the court
which handed him a sixty-day job.
SESSIONS BOILED DOWN.
W Tou cannot sweeten the world with
pickled piety.
The secret of satisfaction Is losing sight
of self.
Nothing helps one more than looking for
the helpless.
None Is hopelessly poor untlhe has lost
all friends.
The only lonely people are those who
can find no one to help.
The best proof of courage Is taking your
own Ills with cheer.
Most of us prefer describing the way to
heaven to walking In it.
Faith Is manifest not In resignation to
fate, but In fidelity to-ideals.
Sentimental charity often flies out at the
window when practical ability comes In at
the door.'
The saint who says he cannot sin may be
an earnest man, but it Is wisest to trust
some other man with the funds of the
church. Chicago Tribune.
Be It Resolved
Baltimore American.
Resolved That I will not air my troubles;
It only puffs them up and makes them
look bigger.
That I will not say mean things for the
person wbo says a mean thing Is ca
pable of doing one.
That f will not complain that the world
is growing worse, when I am doing lit
tle or nothing to make it better.
That I will not borrow where I sea no
means of repaying for he who doeth
this fractureth the KIghth Command
ment. That I will sit down on all my bad hab-Its-'-but
not as though I suspected the
presence of an Inverted tack thereon.
That I will not let the gTaca grow under
my feet and, on the other hand, I will
avoid that swiftness which causeth It
to grow prematurely over one's head.
That I will not criticise others for criti
cism of others Is only a negative form
of self-conceit. Instead. I will cultivate
forbearance until my heart yleldeth a
rich crop thereof.
That I will favten down this "new leaf
with the strong clip of Determination,
so. that the wind of Weakness add
Temptation shall not blew it back.
SECULAR SHOTS AT TULPIT.
Buxton Trnnsrrlpt: Infer that mod
ern evanprlist have hern absolved from
the vow of poverty when one of tlirm
writes to the vanished "hoy broker:" "t
crinnot pny more thnn 110 mm fur the linuse
mid Karaite."
Washington Herald: A New York min
ister has resinned his charge because It
was said that he had referred to some of
his congregation as "old hms." Suppose
he had called, them spirit chlekens-w hat
would have happened V
Springfield Kcpubl.can: The archbishop
of Cape Town, rilscusslnu mnrrlnges be
tween whites nnd bltuks, maintains that
the church cannot refuse- to sanction them.
Vet he advises the Pnrlhinient of South
Africa to make them illegal on the ground
that they Injure lather than help civiliza
tion. If that be true, the archbishop places
his church In a singular position.
Leslie's Weekly: The most sUnlfiiam
movement of the last few years in religious
circles has been the rise of hxvmcn Ii. th.
affairs of the church. And the most strik
ing single manifestation of this Interest
of men In religion Is the laymen's nils.
slonary movement. Ihirlnir Inst winter it
carried on a campaign In all parts of the
I'nited States, nnd. in a series of mis
sionary meetings and banquets In sixty or
mure large centers, awakened the interest
and support of at least "..0H0 men. Much
money was pledged for missions under 11,,.
spell cf these gatherings, but few treasur
es or the varied denominational boards
have as yet been burdened with greatly
Increased Kit's. The problem now l tn
make good. Raising the money already
pledged is the immediate work before the
laymen's movement, for unless this i dnn.
the stirring conventions of last winter
would nave been better not held.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Mrs. Tarr-Slstah 1-ohstock has Just got
n .iii-.-t a u iii ner iiuoan .
Mrs. YVomhat Imtrt sav? Hum much
ammonia did he cou't done grant her '
l'ucW.
"I suppose you had a hively time on your
honeymoon trip?"
"No, It wasn't at all pleasant. We met
three of my former husbands and two of
t-eorge's former wives." Milwaukee Sen
tinel. kisses'" " k"W Ulat th,fre "re Ke,Ins ln
"I knowed there was somethln In them
that made em taste mighty good, but 1
didn t know that It was germs." Judge.
"I'm afraid I spoke harshly to my wire;'
said Mr. Chugglns. "She Insists on giving
the children those squeaky little tin horns
at Christmas. It was especially thought
less after her handsome and appropriate
present to me."
"What was that?"
"She gave me a fine new automobile
shrleker that would scare a man a mile
away! 'Washington Star.
"I suppose you consider my hauteur
mere affectation." began Miss Parvenue
Not at all," Miss Bright hastened to
The Daintiest of All
"Grand" Pianos
This exceedingly "chic"
& Bach J
Small enough to Fit
Your Apartment. 7.'
Only 5 feat 4 inches l J
Large enough
to possess
AMPLE tone.
Does all that
a LARGER
Grand does.
The revulsion in popular feel
ing in the matter of the extremely
small grand pianos, which came
when the public found such
"dwarf" grands had almost no
tone, has resulted in an enormous
demand for the Kranlch & Back:
Baby Grand, which, although only
6 feet 4 Inches ln length, is a gen
uine Grand and successfully chal
lenges many 5 feet 10 Inch Par
lor Grands.
Here Is a pianoforte which could
hardly be Improved ln appearance.
Built of the finest San Domlngan
mahogany, its graceful lines are in
perfect keeping with the modern
living room.
Its tone-quality is rich and full,
far surpassing the upright by the
same maker, which, In itself, is no
small achievement. Above all, it
Is "grand-tone-quality." The
chord effects possible upon one of
these Kranlch & Bach Grands are
such as all vocalists long for.
They almost double the effect of
a song.
The A. Hospe Co.
1513-1515 Douglas Street
TATE THANK YOU for the generous
v patronage of the past year ad wish
you and yeurs a happy and prosperous
new year.
Store Closed All Day Monday.
BrovninaiCins & Cq
JTaT T
OMAHA.
fi. & WILOOZ. Manages.
The Store of the Town.
saw "Your scornful expression Is quite
natural.
"Ah!"
cs. I suppose you llet for a great liuiTiv
years in the in ig hliorhood of our fathers
glue factor)." Cutliollc Simulant nml
Times.
THIkln -1 'odor, my wile has lost her
vot.i . Y'iat mil I lo ai'otit It'.'
I Mictor- ell. as n married man I'd ad
vise ni to get down in your knees anil
return thanks -Chli him New s.
KNELL OF DEPARTED YEAR.
(leorge I'. I'reiitl.c.
'TIs midnight's holy hour- and silence now
is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er
The still and pulseless w orld Mai k !un the
winds
The hell's deep tones ore swelling 'tis the
knell
Of the departed year. No funenil train
Is sweeping past; yet, on the stream and
wood.
With melancholy light llu moonbeams
rest
I.Ike a pale, spotless shroud; the air Is
stirred
As by a mourner's slcli. and on on cloud
That floats ro still and placidly through
heaven.
The spirits of the seasons seem to stand
Voiini; S -rlmr. bright Summer, Autumn's
soli niu I'oriii.
And Winter with Its aged locks and
breathe,
Inmoiirv?iii oder.ees that come abroad
Like the far w Ind-hnrp's wild and touch
ing wail.
A niclanchoh iliige o'er the dead year.
Hone from the earth forever.
'TIs a time
For tneinor and for tears. Within the deep.
Still chambers of the heart, a specter dim.
Whose tones are like the wizard's voice of
Time
Heard from the tomb of ages, points Its
cold
And solemn finger to the beautiful
And holy visions that have passed awny.
And left no shadows of their loveliness
On the dend waste of life. That specter
lifts
The coffin lid of Hope and Joy and TiOve,
And bonding mournfully above the pale,
Sweet forms that slumber there, scatters
dead flowers
O'er what has passed to nothingness.
".evolutions sweep
Oer earth, like troubled visions o'er the
breast
Of dreaming sorrow; cities rise and sink
Mke hubbies on the water; fiery Isles
Spring himlng from tho ocean, and go
back
To their mysterious caverns; mountains
rear
To heaven their bald nnd blackened cliffs,
and bowl
Their tall heads to the plain; new em
pires rife,
(lathering the strength of hoary centuries.
And rush down like the Alpine avalanche,
Startling the nation; and the very stars.
Yon bright and burning blasonrv of Ood
Clltter awhile In their eternal depths,
And, like the Pleiads, loveliest of their
train.
Shoot from their glorious spheres, and pass
away
To darkle In the trackless void yet JTInin
Time, the tomb builder, holds his fierce
career,
Park, stern, all-pltlless, and pauses not
Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his
Path,
To sit and muse like other conquerors,
Vpon the fearful ruin he has wrought.
in Mahogany
The Kranlch & Bach
Baby Grand P 1 a n o a
have greater length of
strings and greater
sounding-board surface
than any other piano of
similar dimensions.
No other 6 ft. 4 in.
pianos having the same
tonal capacity (1. e.,
scale dimensions and
Interior construction)
are as compact ln form
or as graceful ln de
sign as the Kranioh &
Bach.
Sold in Omaha
at this house only.
Omaha. Neb.
ano DOOGUafl tTRftTl,