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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1911)
J t 1 F T T T THK' OMAHA MTXDAY I'.KK: MAKUL1 20. Tub Omaha Sunday Hkk. FOUNDED nY KlUVARP IIOHKW ATKU. VICTOR lOSKWATKR, F.DIToR. Kntered at Omaha postofflcc aa class matter. second- TKIIMB OK Sl'PS'Ull"' 1'JN; Sunday ltee. on year I- W e'uminay Hee. one jur l-f" liatly lee (without fundavl, on year.. 4." fally Hee and Hunitay, una year W DKLIVKHKD IJY C'AIIKIKR. fcvenlng Hee (without Sunday), per tno...V? Kvenlng Hm (with Kundayt, per mnntn. 4ic bally Be-e (Including Hunriay), per month.. Dauy .ee (Without Hunua) ). per month.. oe Address all complaints ot It i e guiaritiea In lullvery to City Circulation Department. OFFICKS. Omaha Th Bee Hullulng. houlh Omaha--'! '. Twenty-fourth Ht. ( ouncll HIUIf-l6 Hro't Ht. Lincoln -.1 l.tltlo. Hull ing. I hli ago 164 Man-uette nulldlng. Kansaa City-Kclianee HulldltiK. New iork-24 Went Thiriy-t lili A Rt. eshlngton VZ Fourteenth St., N. V. CORIIKBI'ONDFNCK. Communications relating to news and ed tuilal matter should lie HOilressed Omaha Uec, Editorial Department. . ItliMITTANCEH. Remit. Ijy draft, express or poatal order, p)abln to '1 he Hee Publishing Company, unly 1-t ent stamps received In payment of ttmii accounts, persona; iIipcKh except on Omaha and eaatern exchange not accepted. FUUKUAttY t IR( TUATION. 47,621 Blate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, es: liwlght Williams, circulation tnnK'r of The lee Putilishlug Company, bring duly worn, eavs that tne average dally circu lation, h'ra apoileil, unused anil returned I'oplia, tor the month of February If 1 1 . was DWKJifl' WILLIAMS. Clri'iilalloii Manager. Huliarrliied In my presence and sworn to brfoie nits this lal unv nt Man h. II 1 1 . (Seal.) HUHKItr ilt'NTr.K, Notary Public. Kaliacrlbrra leaving the city tem porarily should bate The Ilea nailed to them. Address will be rhaaared aa oftea aa reqaeaied. The surest way to almte the speed nuisance is to Blacken tbe speed. To the auto speeder: to speed up, don't. When tenipttd The bloodhounds trailing the dyna miters furnished good publicity to the Dog show, anyway. r Do not 1" the weather man fool you Into trading your overcoat for a pawn ticket prematurely. Legislators In several states are de manding bigger salaries. As a rule few of them earn what they get. President Diaz seems to have al plans." Yes,' and he had better watch them, lest they "gang aft aglee." , "Mr. Mellen Speaks His Mind." Headline. So thoughtful of Charlie not to speak another man'a mind. Are those "Seven Sisters" in the stage play the ones who used to be distinguished for their long hair? Only 230,000,000 tons of coal were mined In Pennsylvania last year. No wonder prices could not come down. President Dias seemes to have al most aa hard a time to get a cabinet to suit all the people as President Taft. Cha-np Clark's Idea of being peakr seems to be that a man must talk all the time, without saying much. Governor Aldrtch may put the new Nebraska stock yards law down to his personal credit. He did It with his little veto pen. We fear the Russian premier, M. Stolyptn, hat placed himself down In Joe Bailey's class by resigning and then taking It back. Yellow Journalists define news as "Whatever the people want to read." Sure, even If It has to be dug out of a grave or a cesspool. There Is a deplorable tendency on the part of some humorists to make the president's official bodyguard the butt of their Jokes. Mr. Mumm and Miss Still recently were married In Kansas City. One time when the society editor's "quietly married" platitude really applied. Hovered over by a war cloud and confronted by an extra session, a pres ident is indeed in an enviable position when he can forget it all on the golf field. Senator Uullom la said to have a severe cold. The atmosphere around have proved a complete success. Then helped save Lorlnier his seat In the senate. One of the public champions of the late John Brown declares he was not a "midnight assassin" or a "thief," nor yet a "martyr." Oh, very well, let it go at that. Democratic lawmakers in Nebraska always renew their faith In the prin ciple of oonpartlsanshlp by going into caucus to make sure of whipping them all into line. Tbe postmaster general declares his forty-eight experimental savings banks have proved a complete success. Then there need be no hesitation about In creasing the number. The Illinois state senator who intro duced the "stork" bill and was so vio lently opposed to the woman suffrage measure finally voted for the Utter. Must hate reached a working agree ment as between woman suffrage and anti-race suicide. With a robbery of the Los Angeles Limited near Omaha, the dynamiting of the new f 1.000.000 court bouse, bank robbery at Hudson, Kan., and fain robbery at Coffeyville, all simul taneous, a fairly good eight for the Ea4 Man ! recorded. t Two Viewpoint. ; At all times people regard estab lished Institution from two view points. One class, disgusted with pat nt defects and abuses. Is led without too great inquiry to take up un faith with marly every teform or Innova tion offered as a panacea. They pro ceed on the theory that conditions are so bad that they cannot be worse, and that any change must be a change for the better. ' On the other side may be found that group of people who always want to cling to what they have, and who, while admitting present shortcoming, are sure efforts at Improvement are certain to fall. The favorite motto Is, "Let well enough alone," and tbey make no exceptions to It. Answering the constant Interrogation of Hamlet, they prefer to bear the Ills they now endure rather than to fly to others they know not of. They fear that If they try to help push the wheels of progress they may become entangled In them and be run down. These two forces are eonbtantly at work, the one to preserve, and the other to transform. The advances actually made by our social and po litical institutions are usually com promises between them, and these compromises denote the difference be tween evolution, which Is orderly growth and development, and revolu tion, which maks destruction the first step In reconstruction. Corporation Tax and Income Tax. The decision of the Bupreme court upholding the constitutionality of the corporation Income tax Is bound to exert an Influence on the pending In come tax amendment, and the levy of an Income tax under It by congress If it shall be ratified. The Springfield Republican argues sagely that the cor poration tax decision has practically mado the income tax amendment su perfluous for the reason that applying the same logic would uphold a federal tax on incomes if levied by congress under the name of an excise tax. It refers back to the Income tax law of 189 4 and the decision of the supreme court nullifying it as a direct tax not apportioned to population, and asks us to suppose that congress should en act a law applying to the same persons and should call the tax an excise on the faculty or economic ability of such persons, as measured by their jneome, In which case by analogy tbe court should hold that It would not be a tax on income or property; that it would not be a tax on persons; that, there fore, it would not be a direct tax at all within the constitutional term, but would be a duty or excise on individ ual faculty or ability to pay, with the income merely the measure of the tax. This argument is quite plausible, but so long as the Income tax amend ment may readily be ratified sooner than a law could be passed and tested out In court the amendment offers the quickest and easiest way to reach the goal. The corporation Income tax, it seems to us, must operate as a stimu lus toward a general income tax, be cause no sound reason has been ad vanced why incomes from holdings of corporation stock stiouid pay a per centage into the national treasury, and Incomes from other sources go en tirely untaxed. As the law now stands we hnve ae ravored classes the men who conduct their business individ ually Instead of through a corporation, those who receive interest on bonds instead of dividends on stock, and the recipients of fees for professional services, all of whom should be under the same obligation to contribute rateably to the support of the govern ment with those whose incomes are subject to the corporation income tax. While economic distinctions may prop erly be made between Incomes from permanent Investments and from tem porary sources or professional earn ings, the only gradations that might be Justified on this ground would be in the rate rather than in complete exemption. For these reasons the ex pectation prevails that the corpora tion tax decision will hasten the ad vent of the income tax. Motorcycles and Missions. The celerity of modern Industrial ism has its spiritual side. Commerce and trade are not alone advanced by the acceleration of present-day meth ods and machinery. The chug-chug of the automobile and motorcycle speeds business to greater bounds, but It also gives wings to mercy and short ens the distance to asylums ot refuge for the injured and needy. Like most other modern Inventions that have contributed so much to the high ten sion and velocity of the day, the motor has its mission In the great scheme of ethical evangelization. Over in some of the remote recesses of the orient Japan, China and Korea me motorcycle is performing a great service for the missionary. It Is carrying the gospel into dark places and multiplying the powers and possi bilities cf the man. Some two years ago a prominent missionary from China came back to the United States and on bis return to his field was pre sented by friends with a large motor cycle. He said it would enable him to widen his field of service, to anni hilate distance. One of the religious Journals of the we;-it prints a letter from a missionary in Japan, discussing the difficulties of reaching outlying,! villages and country. He says: X thluka he nan solved the problem of method. He ha aecured a motorcycle with a sidecar. He and on worker with tracia and Hlbles chug, chug, chug Into a village and soon havt tha whole popula tion around. Tracts are distributed, talks made and Bibles aold. Thus, he says, they are enabled to cover large areas of ground in a day, and he makes an appeal for more mo torcycles. It may be that, aside from the help they are to the missionary In covering his field, these great ma chines carry their own Impression of supremacy to the benighted oriental. Possibly the mystery and mastery of tlietn aid In opening his vision to the very truth the missionaries are at tempting to teach him the truth of the supremacy of the gospel. He may learn to associate In his mind the mes sage and message-bearer as products of the same land, a land that has given allegiance to the religion he Is offered. It is a contracted view that cannot discover the kernel of ethics In the modern march of progress. Crisis in Mexico. The resignation of the Diaz cabinet cannot fail to give the Impression of a vital concession to the sentiment of discontent In Mexico. Jt seems that the government has been forced to do what It might voluntarily have done some months ago with far better re sults. Perhaps If President Diaz had sooner arranged his cabinet, supplant ing the older men who had become ob jectionable because of their Inactivity by younger men, he might have stopped further hostilities, but It Is not certain that belated action alone will now have that effect. The Insur rectos are represented as demanding the resignation of President Diaz as the condition of their submission. Pos- 'sibly they may be persuaded to some form of compromise, on that crucial j point, but even then they would be re i quiring, and Diaz would be granting, more than the original demands. It Is impossible, especially at long distance, to judge the outcome in Mexico. One thing determined by the events of the last week is that radical changes are sure to come about. Whether they can be accomplished without greater conflict is the ques tion. Every demand of civil govern ment calls for settlement and read justment, but the demands of civil government do not seem to be upper most In the minds of some impas sioned Mexicans Just now. While the lnsurrecto leaders may be anxious for peace, their anxiety, apparently, car ries with it the stipulation that it be such a peace as promises their com plete triumph. But at all events President Diaz is displaying more mildness toward the rebels than he would naturally have been expected to do. Senor LImantour still stands as the conspicuous figure of the hour. He Is the one identified with the old re gime who seems able to command the confidence of the opposition, and for that reason it would (be a misfortune for him to remove himself from a po sition of official influence. Early re ports of his mission abroad and his return to Mexico by way of the United States now appear to be fully .con firmed. That he came here to get from Senor Madero In New York the beat terms of peace his followers had to offer and present them to Diaz and urge conciliation Is scarcely to be questioned in the light of what has since occurred. Hitting the Bull's-Eye. lie excels aa the master of simple Eng lish, which without any false motions of pretense, finds the hull's eye. This is taken from a criticism in a book review. The author referred to has that happy faculty of saying the thing that needs saying in the most direct, incisive way. He Is like the man at the scooting gallery who avoids the fancy flourishes with hla gun, takes direct aim and hits the cen ter ot the target. He wins the prize money. So the bull's-eye writer im presses the reader forcefully. That is his reward. People who can do things this way are often called geniuses. As a rule, however, they have worked hard for their excellence. They have come by it not in some mysterious way, not by some fancied occult power, but by sim ple, straightforward and persistent ap plication. Application counts for far more than genius, anyway. Webster defines genius In this relation as "Spe cial taste, Inclination, disposition; dis tinguished mental superiority. " There are people who seem to fit into such a definition. As a rule, though, the so-called genius Is the hardest kind of a student, whether it be art, science or commerce at which he works. Allowing for degrees of mental caliber, many people of ap parent mediocrity could, if they would but apply themselves diligently enough, get into the genius class. That seems perfectly reasonable by suppos ing tbe man of "special taste, inclina tion or disposition" to be indolent and negligent of his natural powers. Such so-called genius uncultivated cannot compare with average talents assidu ously applied. Political Saturation. So here we are with the primary only four &) away, and nobody getting ex cited and no crowds standing around on the atreet corners and swinging their arms after the fashion of li&i It la preaumed, however, that they all know how they are going to vote and will all be on hand at the primary en Tueday I Jncoln Journal. Physlce teaches that a porous sub stance will take up a fluid by satura tion until a certain limit is reached, when additional libations will be thrown off. A similar condition may be developed in the body politic, and this may be the explanation of the pe culiar phenomenon here described. Man has been dominated a political animal ever since the days of Aristo tle, but no doubt a community may be surfeited with politics to the point of saturation and refuse to absorb more. Political contention ia unquestionably a good thing, and a leaven against stagnation, but, like other good things, may be overdone. When a community becomes so immersed in politics that it shows signs only of indifference and apathy It must need an antidote, and usually gets It In the natural course ot events. Will They Look Ahead t We wonder if our lawmakers now In session at Lincoln can bring them selves to look ahead twenty-five to firty years. That Is what they have to do to deal Intelligently with the big gest question that Is before them that of laying the foundations now for the University of Nebraska of the future by providing for Its transfer from Its present compressed quarters to what Is known as the farm campus further out in the suburbs. No one who can even faintly picture our state university even twenty-five years hentfe, with ls faculty and stu dents mariy times multiplied and its varied fields of activity largely ex tended, can imagine it hemmed in between railroad tracks on tbe low lands It now occupies. The vision of the future university rising majestic ally on a sightly campus overlooking (he capital city, with artistically grouped buildings properly constructed for their purpose without overcrowd ing, must appeal to the broader con ception of what the state owes to com ing generations as Its duty in higher education. Those charged with re sponsibility for older colleges and uni versities have learned this lesson, some of them at colossal cost. Our legislature will have to show whether the elements of far-seeing statesman ship are in preponderance or whether short-sighted log-rolling appropriation grabbers occupy the saddle. The sahie question, although In dif ferent form, la Involved In the matter of the medical school. It 1b agreed that medical instruction must be given where clinical material is available, and that the only point In Nebraska adequately equipped with hospital fa cilities is Omaha. The small-bore disposition would force the university to withdraw from the field of medical j instruction while the bigger minds that look ahead see the necessity ot the state doing Its share in training a corps of doctors, surgeons and sani tary experts to conserve the health and life of the people whose brains and brawn will make our state great and prosperous in the years to come. Toronto and the Hareih Skirt. The score Is still against the harem skirt, and it continues to look as if the game will go the same way, but that fastastic creation has made at least one safe hit. And,' strange to say, it was made In the most unex pected place, sort of a pinch hit, as it were. A Toronto woman attired in one of these skirts appeared recently on the streets without being either mobbed or Jeered. In rVct, she was not molested In any way. People even failed to pay any especial attention to her. They might, of course, have been too thoroughly disgusted. For Toronto is a conservative, sedate old city, a city of great civic pride and moral taste. It is quite possible that it felt far more than it manifested on this occasion. But no matter; Toronto stands alone In its public attitude toward the harem skirt. It is one big city where the first wearer of the garment has not become the object of demonstra tive curiosity. The original advent of the skirt was made at the Paris races and it shocked people. Then a woman appeared in one on a Paris street and she was mobbed. Think of it, in Paris! Then the same, fate befell the wearer of one In London. It was too much even for the patient, plodding Briton. Traffic on the Brooklyn bridge was congested when a harem-besklrted woman was sighted on that great thoroughfare. Even in Rio Janeiro the first Brazilian beauty venturing out In a harem skirt waa set upon by hooting, Jeering mobs. All the na tions seemed to agree in their Judg ment of this dress, until it reached Canada. Toronto may have been too polite, or too chivalrous, to betray any violent emotions, and yet it may have felt, "Oh, what's the use," and quit in quiet contempt. The reports say, In fact, as much. Toronto is a stickler for law and order, though, and it was not going to allow even this assault upon Its cultured taste to provoke it to w rath or riot. H sets a good example that should Inspire other cities to pa tience and fortitude and the hope that the worst will soon have come and gone. Housetop Preaching. Before finally severing his relation with the New York church. Rev. Dr. Aked, who resigned as, pastor of the so-called Rockefeller Baptist church of New York to accept the pas torate of a Congregational church iu San Francisco, invited its members to present reasons why he should not re sign. Not a reason was presented, but the congregation adopted friendly resolutions upon his departure. So much was said and done by the doctor as to attract nation-wide atten tion to bis action, which seems, after all. to have been naturally one for pri vate treatment. As near as can be gathered from all his statements and the circumstances. Dr. Aked. who came from a big London congregation, felt that his powers were too large for a church on a "side" street in New York, where approximately only 700 persons worshiped, and that his peo ple should erect an edifice on Fifth avenue to accommodate from 2,500 to 3.000. When they did not see fit to do this he went into negotiations with the Sn-rranclsco folks. Something is said in the scriptures about a certain sect that loved to do much talking upon the streets to be heard of men on the housetops, as it were, and their preaching was not tbe sort that won the approbation of the Ureal Preacher. But the New York minister protests that It is not vain 'show, but the opportunity for greater (.service thct moves him. lie feels, j consequently, that his efforts are "wasted" In New York. What a pity. Ah if the efforts of any man who sought to do good In any form or any function of righteous effort could be wasted In a city of nearly 5.000,000 population. The Moodys. the Beechera and the Talmages have not had to romplnln for larger auditoriums that their greater powers might have free course to run and bo glorified. Pulpit power fixes Its own limitations. No four walls are strong enough to compress and control Its fermentation. If it la greater than they are It will expand In spite of them and find its own out lets. But "the boast of heraldry, the pomp of power," Is not the safe gauge of this Influence. Dr. Aked came to America, apparently, with mistaken Ideas of his relation to the needs of the community he wss to serve and the possibilities of his service. This Is a land where It Is hard to hid? lights under a bushel, and generally the man who feels that his Is hid there, Is blaming on the bushel a defect In hto own luminosity. Our legislative redlstrlcters do not like to give Douglas county the rep resentation it Is entitled according to the census because It would consti tute one-seventh of the membership of each house. But If Douglas county has one-seventh of the population and one-seventh of the vote, why should it not have a one-seventh voice In law making? Let the people rule. it transpires that the political pro moters who pulled off that Bryan birthday banquet took the precaution to have all the speeches caught sten ographlcally so tbey could be em balmed and preserved for future ref erence. Some of those who were there, however, would prefer to forget It. Another reason for praying that we may be delivered from war Is the pros pect that all the aspirants for presi dential nominations might want to go to the front as colonels as they did In the war with Spain. Here Is one on the vaudeville clr- j cult that has been paying Elbert Hub- bard that princely salary; The Louis ville Courler'Journal declares he Is "press-agentlng" for the Standard Oil. Mayor "Jim" seems still to cherish gome sort of an laea mat ne couia get out and rope one of those com missioner's Jobs himself if he only practiced up a bit. ,A on Immunity Hatha. Kansas City Times. Publio gratitude I" due Judga Carpenter Of Chicago for pulling th plug out of the Immunity bathtub. , 1 TeHl In I.ate lloora. I Cleveland Tlaln Dealer. It la stated that President Diaz fre quently works till after midnight. If he'd go to bed at a decent time and get tip early In the morning maybe he wouldn't be having so much trouhle. Lore of the Mlllenlnm. BaHlmora American. What would not be done toward bring ing the peoplea of the earth together In common effort for common good if the yearly expenditure for war purposes could be applied Instead In promoting the arts of peace? It would end the trade of the Jingo. It would hurry forward the day of tha millennium. Yellow Peril on Horaeharh. Louisville Courier-Journal. Ppeaklng In Maine against ths degenerat ing rum devil, rtlchmond Pearson Hob son cries: "Let this generation be sapped and In the second generation we shall hear the hoof of the yellow mans' horse and the nation will perish." So tbe yellow peril la coming on horseback, Is It? Instead of the "hoof of the yellow man's horse," why not the hoarse honk of his automo bile? Joba for l.auie DueUa. Philadelphia Ilulletln. Aa a result of the clamor of the last few yesrs for Inquiry Into this, that and the other, congress baa authorised the ap pointment of bodlea of men to dig, delve and report. All of thla is expensive. More over, after hiring experts to do their dig ging for It. congress often neglects their findings entirely and proceeds to leg:s'aie on Its own book. There are loo many commissions and they cost too much for the little thev really do. Th Deed awd the Penally. Ienvrr Republican. American young men who may be think ing of joining the Mexican Insurgents would do well to consider that s'lould they fail Into the bands of the Mexican gov ernment they would have no claim to protection from the t'nlted states. This country will protect Its law-abiding c!tl icns In foreign lands; but It will let those bang who deliberately thrust thrir own necks Into the halter. The t'ongrriKloaal Pie Counter. New York Tribune. There are many members of th house of representatives who profess a belief In the merit iiteiii of appn ntments arid vote consistently to support that system as It ia now applied In ths federal civil service. Hut when It comes to the em ployes of the house merit and tenure on good behavior become barren idealities. " The Incoming democratic majority will make "a clean sweep" of the tiiO places on tbe house m roll.. Th "spoils" avstem has not been exterminated In the legisla tive department, whatever aid that depart ment haa given to exterminating it in other fields of governmental activity. Toll of l ife In Coal Mluea. Philadelphia Record. It coat the lives of l.ltt men to mine 131,(iO;o tons of coal In Pennsylvania last year, according to the annual report of the chief of the Mate Department of Mines Just Issued. In proportion to the number of men employed and the amount of coal mined the work In the hard coal mines was more bsiardoua The anthracite production was S3 MS.JI tons; persons em ployed 1T,T ; killed. I!". The bituminous output wss 14" tons; persons em ployed. 1ST. 711; killed. fCT These figures make it evidtnt that there Is elth.r a carelessness or a reckleasneas of supervis ion upon tbe part ef ths mining corpora tions that needs Iiume4iate remedy. 1 People and Events 1 he groundhog scored all right without benching his hits. The Uc rgis peach crop lias been des- tinyed early rnough In the season to In- sine a bumper crop at the rlKht time, j lliere Is no ac-coun'lng for the verdicts of- Juries. Running down and killing a man with an automobile draw a fin of W from a St. Louis Jury. A nervy promoter who entered the Na tional City tank ot New York and de manded Jl.0C0.0o0, was promptly turned down. He wnsn t properly Introduced. The comptroller of the National trensury Is not an esprrr m Ion cutter, but he man aged to plug an overripe one when be squeesed an exprrss bill of $.'52 down to tl.fO. Minneapolis !s putting out a line of booster dope surpassing the best of Kt. Paul's epistles. The flirtatious capers of Miss Minnie makes Incrrmlnsly difficult the task ot keeping Ft. Paul's hats on straight. In the regular course of business con slderahle brass wss removed from the national capital when the "lame ducks'' (locked homeward. Name plates of retired conitrepsmen were removed from committee room doom, and others. hrarlr.R new names, will take thrlr place. Mme. Tetrnsilnl, the favorite singer of Ban Francisco, says "I'allfornla has sun shine In Its veins, music In Its voles, laughter in lis life." Truly a handsome compliment. The madnme can have what ever she wnnts any old time by hanging her alKn on the California box office. Omaha tourists In Texas msnsge to keep cool and look pleasant amidst the clatter of moving armies and the rocket of rumor fsctorlts. t'nlijue souvenirs of the excite ment have reached friends at home from i'an Antonio on the firing line. Ln'ils H. Korty sent up a war cloud bearing a blue ribbon and a Mexican label to attest Its Kenulneness. The recipient of the treasure Is something of a connolseur on war clouds and can readily distinguish the genuine from the spurious. He says Mr. Korty's specimen Is the real article, and Would like to place It on exhibition If a suitable and safe place can be secured. SECULAIt SHOTS AT PULPIT. Houston Post: A minister is running for mayor of Dallas, but we bellevo there are easier and less expensive ways than that to lose one's religion. Cleveland leader: A church about to disband In New York has a membership worth about I7n0,000,000,000. Ths task of get ting that treasure laid up In heaven seems to be a difficult one. Brooklyn Eagle: A Methodist bishop In lloston wants the un draped art of the Boston Museum used for street paving. He probably regards It as a stumbling block whers It Is. Clothed with mud as with a garment, It would suit him better. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Boston clergy men are protesting against an appropria tion for the art rrtuseums because there are undraped statues therein. Bad logic. Who needs an appropriation as much as ladles without a thing to wear? Philadelphia Bulletin: The Women's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands has decided to eliminate all reference to heathen from Its title. Comparisons are apt to be undesirable. Heathendom and Christendom alike arc without geographical limitations. 'Louisville Courier-Journal: Dr. Aked, Rockefeller's retiring pastor, declared In a sermon Sunday that the biblical story of the flood was a myth. Since Rockefeller Is an orthodox believer It Is no wonder he declined to pour any mora oil of endow ment on the troubled waters of Dr. Aked's heterodoxy. THE MEMAGR FROM LlM'OI. Slarnlflraace of the Oatnut of Oratory t the Rlrthdny Dinner. New York Sun. Ingrstltuds Is one of the mean vices, and the Hon. John V. Kern is therefore to be commended for praising Mr. Bryan to his face at the dollar dinner In Lincoln on Monday night to celebrate the fifty-first birthday of Mr. Kern's benefactor. It seems only yesterday that Mr. Rryan was 3 snd the youngest of the presidential candidates, a slender but stalwart man who traveled light and would rather b orator than president. About that time ha conse crated himself to defeat and the education ot the republican party In radical princi ples. We have Mr. Bryan's word for this, for he declares that It has perpetuated It self In power by stealing most of his Issues, and the presidency lie never really coveted. Mr. Bryan has always been satisfied to be a moral Influence, feeling In every fibre the call of the pulpit. Yet his friends persist In attributing political Influence to him In spite ot three defeata that ought to stare them out of countenance. In his eulogy the loyal Kern said: 'I'he future of W. J. Bryan la secure." Everybody knows that. Probably the speaker In-, tended to say that the fame of W. J. Bryan as a lecturer Is secure. Mr. Kern went on to say: "Whether he shall ever again be tailed on to lead the democratic hosts Is a ques tion of little moment to him. for by rea son of his achievements In behalf of the people he has so endeared himself to the great lank and file of the American demo cracy that wherever Bryan sits In the democratic councils of the future, there will be the head of the table." It is a question of a great deal of mo ment to the democratic parly, but Mr. Brvan's aeat. Judging from the rude be havior of the democratic party In Ne braska and Ohio, is nearer the foot thnn the head of the table. A delicate tact Honest John showed when he exclaimed ANTON WITEK Violinist of pre-eminent reputation, concert-masUr o! the Boston Symphony Orchestra Write as follow of tha iHnsan&Samlftt PIANO MASON HAMLIN CO, Gentlemen: - There Is no piano whose tone quality so closely resembles that of the violin, indeed go competes with it, as the Mason Sc. Hamlin. (Signed) ANTON WITLK. A. Hospe Co. 1513 Douglas St. Representative that "other men may find even highet lavor among men wno nr i i"onn.-i as a trade and among those who sit In Ihe eeais ot tup iuimn, oui mi, . m-,, -. ... .i,ki Icans would alwavs retard Mr. Bryan a. champion and friend and aa "the fearless fnc of wrong and oppression everywhere;' t' r.l h to s.( Yr Sr in s sn oratorical n "d not a political l: 'l tenc. In eonclu. t-ion Mr. Kern served not re tlisl (cf.OVft'O per. ons who bed voled ,o- Mr Brvart would ' see to It that neither Jeslousy nor petty animosity siniii ever for a moment pteveil sgalnst him." Mot of thrm would have voted for any other d'mocrat: In fact, most of them voted automatically for Parker; but the lion. John W. Kern's meaning Is plain the democrats who desire to nominate a carull.ln'e of ths tlirmon type for ntu'dent will have lo reckon with Mr. Bryan at the national convention. That seems to be the messsg from the dlnnrr at Llrcoln. D0MESIIC PLEASANTRIES. "Your bnsi-and ptsvs brlrte like a man who didn't rare for It." ' He doesn t care tor It Oh. hn makes nis so angr! Why. he dellhetately Ignores all the precedents of the greatest experts. And thst Isn't the worst of It." "Mercy! What else does he do?" tie always wins:" Cleveland Tlain Dealer. Young Bilde-t didn't accept Harry the first time he proposed. Miss Kyval -No. dear; you weren't there. Boston Transcript. first Antediluvian On Methuselsh'a time) What's the discussion about over there? Hecnnd Ditto -Same old topic; Whether a men aard 3;'0 ought to marry a gtrl of HO Puck. The Mother Whatever Is the mstter with baby? Nurse-I mnno. mn'am. I was only tryln to nmke 'lm smile with the glove stretch ers. London Sketch. "Does your wife ask you for things she knows you cannot afford?" "She hasn't asked nie for a thing since we were married." 'Ureal: How dn you manags It?" "When she wants a thing she does not ask me, she tells me." Houston Post. Ths sympathising neighbor was condol Inv with I'nr' eta he. Vnlll wife, uncle, was a wonderful mother.' She u rro ,mf A m Km ,ln ll't V. a n rtaytn' Je' mitsliie d gate? Well, sun, he's our slxtcenl'. " Chicago Tribune. Wife Please mntrh this piece of silk for m before you come home. Husband At the counter where the sweet little blonde works? The one with the soul ful eyes and Wife No. You're too tired to shop for m when your day's work Is done, desrt un second thought, I won't bother you. Detroit News. STORY OF THE WRINKLES. W. D. Xesblt In Chicago Tost. Her face is wrinkled yet bow fair Is she, with all her snowy hslr Above It: for each wrinkle seems A line set there by laughter's gleams, A bit of xiinehlne that was left When wrinkles wove their warp and Weft Across her aging cheek and brow To tell the story they tell now. 'Tis written there In prose and rhyme As though the necromancer. Time, Had set his mystic symbols In Her cheek and brow and trembling chin. To show us whHt a life may be If we will onlv look and see Am! when we know of what they mean The Wrinkles are but dimly seen. We see her bending o'er her child Her cheek Is wrinkled where she smiled; W see her comforting the sad, Or soothing some unhsppy lad Or bringing gladneas In ones more Where sorrow has stalked through tha door All this the wrinkles tell, for thsy Were made In some old yesterday. Pi many kindly worda and deeds. And ministering to sore needs. And patient waitings when to wait Seemed Heelers In the face of fate. But when the pstlence cmiUt Impart New strength to some less trusting heart Kach word or deed that banned a cari nas left Its telltale wrinkle there. fJr.d hlens her. then! Ah. Clod has blest And given of His grsre the best To her, for now. 'tie hers to hold T'ie fairest of all memory's gold. Pray that when nge grips you and me (no1 fneea may alt wrinkled be. May they thus chronicle our years And show the smiles saved from our tears. NEW DIAMOND JEWELRY The Knot-Tying season is near, a4 a DUMOVD 10 la an lmportaas factor in all euoh evsnts. Dob'i you bny until you let ns show you hew we can save you at least Twenty rive JFer Cent. Women's Tiffany Kings 191.00 SB0.04 Men's Diamond Kings 86.00 .60.00 Women's Diamond Brooches 10.00 60.00 Pierced Lar Kings 85.00 SO .00 I'nplerceJ Kar Klnga.. 8S.OO 60.00 Men's Pins and Studs. . 80.00 60.00 And diamonds mounted In every form and shspe desirable. The young man who invests 9100 or $600, more or less, In a diamond for his bride, Is not "throwing away money." He Is simply providing her with an asNet, thai, ahould adversity oveituke her, can be re.uUeJ on at sny time. We solicit charge aceounts. Call at the store aad we will explain en method. Mandelberg's Gift Shop 1681 TABKAK T. February, 1911.