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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1911)
THE BEE; OMAITA. SATURDAY. AUOUST 5. 191t 15 j Fair Ladies of the White House At the time of his Inauguration as the twenty-second president of the United Slates of America on the 4th of March. 185. Orover Cleveland wan a bachelor and his youngest sister. Roe K1lzahth Cleve land, became mistress of the White Boum. Mlsa Cleveland wn bom In Ksyettesvllle. New Tork. In IMA. In 133 her p'aoe of res idence was chanced to Holland Patent, In the tame state, where her father' pastoral duties aa a Presbyterian clcnryman called him and his family. Rev. Richard Fally Cleveland, father of a future president died there In that lame rear. Mlas Cleveland, who waa educated at the Houghton ermtnarv. afterward became a teacher In that school, and from there went to Lafayette. Ind.. where she took charm of the Collegiate Institute. Her subsequent eareer as an educator hroupht her Into prominence, and she became an effective lecturer on historical themei. Her course of lectures was delivered In many schools. When not encaged In her educational work. Miss Cleveland dvotd her attention to her aged mother, whose death In ISdt relieved her from this filial duty. 1 .' " . aw. fc . HI 1 ")"- ELIZABETH CLEVELAND She assumed charae of social affairs at the White House until her brother's mar riage, when she attain resumed her work as an educator and literary worker. Miss Cleveland published two volumes, a collection of lectures and essays entitled "Ceorge Eliot's Toetrv and Other Studies," and a novel called "The Ion Run." (Copyright, 19U. by the N. T. Herald Co.) c No Clocks at Couey Island How many people know the location of Clock leasvlllef For the benefit of those who are In the dark, one of the greatest detectives In New York explained the why and wherefore of the name. "Clockleesvtlle?" he queried. "Why, every ought to know that. It's Coney Island. Clocks are aa rare there aa whales In trout streams or knitting needles at a suffrage meeting. There are less clocks down there than In Everson's Cove, N. C, and that 'burg consists of a general store and three hitching posts. A person can wander along Surf avenue from one end to the other .and only run across one clock, and he has to go Into a hotel to see that. It's pointed out by the proprietor aa one of the sights of the re sort. On the Bowery the owners of the I various places scratch their heads when you ask them where their clock la and murmur, 'Where did I hear that word be fore r "I don't know why this Is. of course, al though some great philosopher may be able to explain. I think the reason may be that the folks down at Coney are so sociable and friendly that they want to keep friends with them as long as possible and are sat isfied to let them take the hint retarding the time when they aee the cafes closing at 1 o'clock. "Another phaae of this Is that few men carry watches down to the Island, because the sea air Is not good for the works and there are so many watch physicians down there that they might want to take them as patients, and when a man does carry one and you ask him the time he clutches his pocket and yells for the polioe." Men love in baste, but they detest at leisure. Falthfel I at Death. REV. OLIVER P. PATTZI.Y, Ph. TV. Pastor of Kountse Memorial Lutheran. Rev. U:W: "Be thou faithful unto death." In the forty-seventh chapter of Fkeklel, which waa written I.4SS years aso, there is written what is called the "Vision of Holy Waters. A man whose aboeanince was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax In hla hand, and a measuring reed (40:8). aald to tb prophet, "Son of man, behold with thine eves and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I will show thee." And the prophet says. "He brought me again unto the door of the house and showed me a little spring starting from under the threshold of the door on the east side of the temple." Then he says he took him to the other pate at the east and this little stream flowed no ticeably strong alone; the wav. The man with the measuring line then measured off a thousand cubits and led him through the stream, and the little spring had In creased until the water was ud to his an kles. The man measured another thousand cubits, and led him through a sain, and the waters were up to his loins. After ward he measured another thousand cubits and It had now become a great river that could not be passed over. This Is none other than a vision of the Church of Jesus Christ. It was but an ex ceedingly small' spring or beginning wjhen the almost unknown Jeaus eat down and talked with John and Andrew and per suaded them to be his disciples. We find, however, that It waa a living spring, and we have to co but a little wav until we find the work growing. First It waa sev enty who were sent out: then it is Peter convertlns; 8.000 on the dav of Pentecoat. At the close of the first 100 years the church had Bno.flOr); at the clos of the second century the number had Increased to 8.000,000; the next century witnessed an Increase to 8.000.000: at the close of the tenth century there were 80.000.00n; In the next 500 years the membership had doubled to 109.ono.ooA. it was only no years then until It had doubled a rain, or reached the enrollment of t08.000.000. And .then, within the very short period of elchtv years, it more than doubled again, reaching the vast number of 415,000,000 communicants; and at the beginning of this twentieth cen tury It has taken on new life and declares that the evangelization of the world shall be accomplished In the next generation, and to that end the church Is now carry ing the gospel unto the uttermost parts of ff REV. OLIVER TO. BALTZT. Pastor of the Kountxe Memorial Lutheran Church. Twenty-elxth and Farnam Streets. the earth. Its missionaries have touched every Important Island of the oceans and olunged Into the heart of the great con inents until every nation, and oeople. and tongues almost has felt Us power. It has already come to be the great and mighty river spoken of by Ezeklel. the mightiest power In all thla world. ( But not all institutions are good. This Is evident In the Indictment by the govern ment of some of the colossal Industries of this conntrv. The evils of these institu tions are evident to every one. But who can name a single pernicious element In the Christian churchT On the other hand. Its history from the time of its being the little spring Is one of benedictions to man kind. It Is Important that we Christians realize the "value of the Church of the Living God." I know no better way of determining Loretta's Looking Glass-She Holds it Up to the Back-Biter ep Tou know that wheel that ' the dentist roses with such disconcerting and debonair carelessness T Agonizing In the chair, you watch him handle the malignant little whlzser with a terror that almost beats your brains to Insensibility. Almost! But what a width of awful difference between that "almost and "quite!" In the in terim, you manage to surfer an accumu lation of all the miseries that can pile up. That tiny, whirling thing may fly the tooth at any moment and dig a straight route along your shrieking nerve to your very brain-pan. there- to slide about, stir ring the last scrambled scraps of cerebra tions over the edge till you are utterly tnad. And that's Just the thlrg a little metal tool! You acknowledge Its manifold tor tures. You are that thing made worse by the Informing breath of life! You are all ot Its purgatorlcal possibilities multiplied by malice! You art a whiz that has that tiny whlsser whiased out of comparison! No one never knows when you will fly loose. In a perfectly amiable conversation you auddenly grow vitriolic. Some one tnentlona that lady wore a becoming gown t a eXnner. "I think It's extremely poor taste for a woman In her circumstances to dress so expensively. I wonder how she does itr- You were playing when you suddenly did that. Just as a cat does before she digs her sharp teeth into the back of her mouse! Gradually, you get a reputation. And then, every group in which you form one acquires the atmosphere of t") dentist's office. Gaily you fling your speech weapon about! No woman of the company knows when it will dig Into her or some thing that Is dear to her. If a new charity Is being advocated by an admirable and broad-minded woman, you wound and en rage her admirers by exclaiming. "Oh. so that's her game now! She was crazy over Bahaiam or some such nonsense the last I heard. Bhe Just haa to do some thing to keep In the lime-light!" You never see the beginning of a friend ship between two women but that you take a nip at their backa. "Mrs. Blank Is rushing Mrs. So.-and-So to death! Bhe has an axe to grind, you may be euro!" ' You are the sore-headed, cross-eyed, gangrened being who contemplates the rise to fortune of those who have suffered the slings and arrows of 111 luck with a vin dictive hatred. You sharpen your teeth and get ready for a continuous chewing In the region of their spinal columns. "Oh. they've bought an automobile! I can remember when they hadn't carfare! And see how she struts and swaggers In a real dressmaker-made gown! She used to witch up her old things! The oldest daugh ter is going to private school! Some of us ion'f forget when her mother had to wash her shirtwaist every other night so she could look decent at public school!" Munching, gnawing, torturing the aensl- c Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us It has been prophesied that the novel of the future will be purely realistic, a faith ful portrayal of the mind of a certain human being In a certain situation. As a training for flcti.m mongers It might be ts well for each novice to keep a note of every Idea and feeling that affects him during the day; also som scientist ought to invent a machine which photographs the spirit of man and retains a perfect record of the workings of the brain. Most people would be startled If they were once clearly revealed to themselves. t tive nervecord of every one who happens to have a little more than yourself, or is more sought after, or more seeking to be of service, you backbite! I once read a loathsome taie of a ravenous rat who feasted on the flesh along the backbone of a live man In chains. Hideous as the thought is, repellant as the picture it sum mons before the mind's eye seems. It la not more Insufferably nauseous to the phy sical senses than Is your revolting practice to the soul of any right-minded, justice- loving being! You are a social ghoull Literary Lunatic J Prince Ferdinando Alfonso de Llguori. a scion of one of Italy's oldest families,' of which St. Alfonsus de Llguori was a mem ber, waa recently arrested In Rome for be ing unable to settle a cab fare. He has had a remarkable story. His name Is In the gold, book of Naples and he waa at one time well known in the United States. At the age of 25 he emigrated to the new world and enlisted under the Stars and Stripes. He was badly wounded and was retired, . receiving the honorary rank of colonel. Returning to Italy, he married a Russian woman of great wealth, but a divorce followed and he waa thrown once more on his own resources. He then appears to have become a lit erary lunatic, publishing book after book, regardless of expense and of' the mockery which attended his ridiculous efforts aa a novelist. In this manner more than forty volumes were placed upon the market, and If a few thousand copies were sold in all that was the Jlmlt He then tried to enter a monastery, but the pope prevented this move. He Is now, as Indicated by his ar rest, in a state of abject poverty. what that value has been than to note the conditions in those countries in which the church thrives, before and since its Intro duction. And that we mar not be accused of unfairness bv anv one. we shall take Into view, not the more distant and un civilized provinces of earth, but those chief countries where all the light and moral vigor of the heathen world were concen trated. Such provinces were Italy and Greece. It was here that the much boasted phllosophv held Its court; literatures and the arts were cultivated with the utmost devotion and success. But a certain emi nent writer who lived In that aee describes the heathen population of these civilized peorle aa given up to the vilest, most un- j natural and beastly affections; filled with , all unrighteousness and degrading wicked- 1 nees. full of envy, murder, deceit mallg- I nity: t'Jsobedlent to parents; covenant breakers', without natural affection. Im placable, unmerciful; not only committing such things as were worthy of death, but having pleasure In them that did them. In their religion this saws writer says; "Professing themselves to be wise they became fools; they changed the glory of the incorruptible God Into an Image like to corruptible man, and to birds and to four-footed beasts and creeping things." They multiplied their rods until there was a god for everything, and anything answered for a god: and so anxious were they that everything should havs a god, and that every god ahould have his offer ing that thev erected altars to "unknown gods." And what these gods were said to have been In their lives, their worshipers actually were In their service. "It is a shame." aald one who knew them 'well, "even to speak of those things which were done of them In secret" In Athens and Rome, those ancient cities that stand for the best In the past the worshlo of many Idols consisted In the sacrifice of human beings. The state of nubile morals when the gods were the natrons of vice, and their rites encouraged both cruelty and obscenenesa. Is easier Imagined than de scribed. The great Seneca exolatmed. "How great Is the madness of men." But what has become of these deep rooted deformities? Where are the re mains of the abominations we have de scribed? Crime remains. Indeed, but only in hidden dens: laws do not afford it coun tenance; public sentiment drives It Into concealment There has been a mighty change; only those who will not see or who will not hear will denv the change. But what has produced this change? The heathen religion has not brought it about, for where the heathen religions exist these conditions still prevail. Philosophy haa not accomplished It for the philosophers have never reformed either themselves or their disciples. What. then, has brought about the change? History haa but one answer: Reason has but one answer: The Church of Jesus Christ with Its word and sacraments alone, single handed. The per secuted and despised church began the wonderful change, and under the favor of God. has accomplished every step of this great advancement For this wonderful achievement It commands the admiration and support of ' every man and every woman who has a faculty of appreciation. O. be thou faithful unto it even unto death. The church, with. the word and sacra ments, is the gate, and the only gate, Into the kingdom of heaven. In days of health and strength and prosperity It is difficult to realize the Importance of thoughtfully considering the life beyond; the Joys and comforts and blessings and associations of eternity are not a twentieth part as prominent In our minds as the anticipated Joys and comforts and associations of next month, or next year. In this life. And yet all these, temporal things are so short lived, while eternity, great eternity, vast eternity, is before us. and the church Is the only way and has the onlv means of preparation for It THE, DEEa cSUNlOR BIRTHDAY BOOK: This is he Day We Cglebraie b awar- SATUBDAT, August 5, 1911. Name and Address, Ira Byers, 3803 Manderson St Alfred Connell. 2417 Mason St Clara Clark, 5413 North Twenty-fourth St Dorothy Calkins, 133 4 Georgia Ave Raymond K. Culver. 1143 Park Ave Evallna L. Flnadt, 121 South Twelfth St Alice Flannagan, 1501 Leavenworth St Manuel Grodinsky, 3637 Davenport St Herman Gnehm, 317 North Twenty-aeventh Are.... James Oulnane, 2 628 Parker St Kopel Greensteln, 2821 Dewey At Lawrence M. Meimman, 3913 North Forty-first St.. Albert L. Hlldtnger, 1714 North Twenty-sixth St.... Nancy liuUt, 214 South Thirtieth St William Hamrlch, 2013 Clark St... Thomas Hysham, 707 Park Ave Harold Hill, 1421 North Twenty-second St. Arthur Huniphery, 202S North Twentieth St. Carl Jacobsen, 425 Walnut St William Jackson, 3324 South Twentieth Ave Minnie Kanaka, 331 Francis St James Krist. 1313 William 8t Rensls Likert, 1515 South Twenty-eighth St. Ernest Langpaul, 12 CI South Thirteenth St. Herbert Larson, 2513 Spalding- St Lester A. Lewis, 4623 North Twentieth St. . . Page H. Nlckerson, 2860 Manderson St Paul F. Nlckerson, 2860 Manderson St Fern Parker, 2004 Clark St. Margaret Paul, 1724 South Sixth St Theodore Penn, 2815 Vi Dodge 6t Hazel B. Plckard, 4369 Lafayette Are Frank Peterson, 25C1 Manderson St....... Robert PoS, 2117 Locust St Mamie Povondra, 1416 Dorcas St Eleanor Potter, 3426 Hawthorn Ave Louis S. Robinson, 2813 Hickory St Emma Rubensteln, 1)34 South Tenth St Ruth E. Redmon, 3237 Miami St. . . . Harry Stern, 716 North Seventeenth St Hammond L. Schneider, 8819 Charles St Andrew Stewart, 1643 North Twenty-first St Joseph Selgren, 403 North Thirtieth St Elsie Stolp, 317 Pierce St Alice Slane, 621 South Seventeenth St......... Ruth Shufelt, 4914 North Twenty-fifth St Tillle Slavercek, Second St and Poppleton Ave.. ! Glenn Souders, 1106 North Seventeenth St Helen J. Simons, 3821 North Thirty-sixth Ave... j Mildred L. Thatcher, 8403 Arbor St j Mabel M. Vesh, 3013 Emmet St Floyd D. Wllklna, 313 South Thirteenth St Hazel E. Weaver, 6624 North Twenty-eighth St. Clara Tesknowskl, 3606 South Twenty-fifth St. .. School. Year. Central Park 1904 Mason 1899 Miller Park 1903 High 1S95 High 1893 Pacific 1903 Leavenworth 1S99 High Webster Long Farnam Central Park Long Farnam Kcllom . ..1896 , 1899 1896 . . ...1903 . . ..1901 ....1903 ....1903 .....f904 Farnam 1901 Kellom 1905 Lake 1900 T-aln 1903 Vinton 1900 Train 1903 Comenlus 1904 Park 1903 Pacific 1900 High 1893 Saratoga 1S99 Druid Hill 1903 Druid Hill 1903 i ..1890 ..1904 ..1899 ..1903 ..1895 1899 IV? 04 , 1903 hen A Mart LOBSTER AM GIRL W. T. , 'i' 9 - V-' ,,-'-'Vv5f;.V .: ;.v. : .. . -: .v .-.v: : :jt, ' . . .V W-vLtvu-w: f . .:vv ? .-.v- i Heigh ao! If sice to have tfe ' wiu us again I Even in the highest momenta of our lives our thoughts are so fearfully mixed that If they were all put down on paper they wouM change absolutely our opinion of what we are. Fortunately for our peace, t rarely say what we think, or realize we are thinking it. and our thoughts ot our thoughts are much finer than their originals. The worst of the realistic novel Is that we cannot be sure it Is not imagination, as unreliable as any romance ot fairy or lost treasure. Only a few persons are capable of forming a first-band opinion, or of real ising their own lives. Most of the aa called realism is what gifted writers sui pnae commonplace Individuals think In cer tain circumstances, though, owing to the Impossibility of entering another's 'skin, they cannot be sure of it Take the girl of the working classes. She wanders through the world a knight-errant In search of adventures, and before her marriage haa probably "kept company" with a doaen different men. Her knowledge of the emotions ought to be deep and com prehensive, but It usually Is not Bhe haa never achieved an Independent Idea on the subject, and the love she believes in is the love she reads ot In her favorite novels, possibly written by spinsters in a higher class of society, who have had much leas experience of the tender passion In a prac tical form than ahe haa It is obvious experience teaches many people nothing of tbeir own souls. They have never analysed their feelings, and until they become Interesting to them selves, and the man In the street cares to study his own psychology, the realistic novel cannot be a success except when it confines itself to description of human beings admittedly superior to the average. w I nM.HAeoLp.awE.1 8 r""vj . j f pur IT iN"-me-- rsrnrrri wtw ice. I Pi H U "1 101 t 7FF TH DUMB.- .JJUi 1 6ET MAN N -.THIS- ICE IN -THERE. v-W X XTI HWL SHt Wrt p( rTvC . MON'ArT"" soHoMc ML i v 1 A ,vA Gotta At tlm ! V N DIE.' f-t t M' Kellom Train Farnam Walnut Hill Lothrop Lothrop Comenlus Franklin . Park 1898 Lincoln 1900 Howard Kennedy. .1904 Cass 1903 Franklin 1897 Kellom 1798 Webster 1896 Paclflo 1898 Leavenworth .....1905 Saratoga 1905 Train 1905 Kellom 1893 Howard Kenendy. . 1897 Windsor 1905 Howard Kennedy.. 1899 High 1894 Monmouth Park.. .1899 Im. Conception. ...1900 Silhouettes of the Sidewalk "The dog days are here,' aald Mlas Fashion "At least so the calendars state. And I've always loved' dogs they're my passion Though I haven't owned any of late; But I'll motor downtown In a hurry. Before all the dog days are through. And without undue labor or worry I'll buy a nice puppy of two." "Let's see, first what Wise Ones have written On dogs of the very best breed, Then buy one that never has bitten. For that's Just the kind that I need. Here's Btonehenge, Badminton and Leigh ton, And even so many besides; I read and begin nesltattn' With such an abundance of guides. "A mastiff would be too gigantic, A sheep dog but I have no sheep! A whippet? Oh, no; he's too frantic! Not a pug be does nothing but sleep! I'd like a big Russian hound, scraggy, (The sort that they call the Borsol). Or a terrier, all raggy taggy. Or a collie I'd call him Bob Roy! "One has to be wiser than Daniel To buy nothing more than a pug. I've mixed up the points of the spaniel With the does that are short in the lug. I've forgotten which breed Is all Uppy, Which are fiddle faced, flat eared or blazed. Lean flanked like a greyhound or hippy, Cow hocked or cat footed! I'm dased! "I give up thla problem perplexing! I Just want a dog nothing more And I haven't a thought of annexing The entire dog fancier's store. That man in the street haa two beauties (I'll buy them, no matter what breed), Two bright eyes and sweet little cuties. Exactly the sort that I need!" (Copyright, 1911. by the N. Y. Herald Co. 7 L .The Decadence of Courtesy Small courtesies ef life seem te be en tirely lost In the rush for big things. This leaving off of the little things that go to make living worth the while Is a well known and recognized fact to women who crave those graceful attentions so easy In the giving when the thought is right Many men no longer consider it neces sary to rise when a lady enters the room. If they proffer a chair, It 9 seldom done vith the oidiima alaxrlty, and a few trips on a city car will be sufficient to convince the veriest sceptic of the truth of courtesy's decadence. He It suid in favor of man, continually on the tack regarding these omissions, that he is by no means the greatrat of fender. Women who entertain will tell you of scores of Invitations to which they have never even received the courtesy of an acknowledgement "R. 8. V. P." at the end of a card or note means nothing to woman too thoughtless or too 111 bred to take five minutes for a reply. Buch treat, nient of a social courtesy Is an offuns garish enough to cause the offender's nam to be struck from ths social list of the host ear. Instances are on record In which young glrla, being graduated rora schools and col leges of high standing, have not thanked, personally or by note, donors of graduating gifts. Needless te say, such transgressions of the laws of courtesy and refinement will not further tho social success or popularity of the girl who has spent a small fortune :o obtain a polish, only to emerge dull and, .ndlfferent The email courtesies ef woman to woman are fully as important as those from man to woman, or woman to man. The ellnt. nation of one aet of rules weakens the other until the entire manner and person, ality Is bedlmmed by selfishness, which Is, after all, but another word for discourtesy. The Bishop's Bemedy J lllfhop Codman of Maine Is noted for his pulpit eloquence, and hence, says the Washington 6tar, it waa not unnatural for a Portland clergyman to address this ques tion to him recently: "Now that the hot weather is upon us, my dear bishop, I find that a good many members of my congregation are Inclined to er -dote during the sermon. What rrmedv do you advise in this matterT" Bishop Codman, with a faint smile, re plica: "When I first commenced preaching 1 devoted a good deal of thought to the problem you propound. I will tell you the course I decided on. I gave the sexton strict orders that whenever he aaw anyone asleep In my congregation he should Im mediately step forward and wake up the preacher." A Bit Agraravatlaa-. "Horry, BUI, I can't come to the theater tonight New, don't look so cross yoit ain't oroaa, really, are yer. Hi 11 T "No, I ain't exactly eros. Lis, but still It is a bit aggravating for a chap to find he's washed his face and hands for notn lug. ain't itr' Serteas ef the Saves. ' That that is. Is. Judge not from the face. Stupidity is without anxiety. Chort folly is always ths best. Ill nature la a bad possession. Fidelity is the sister of Justice. Memory Is the greatest traveler. Endless is ths good of just things. Toutb ought to be a savings bank. To doubt is to dip love la the mire.