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    TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE:' SEPTEMBER 17, 1911.
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changed as attest si requested.
Making a 13,000 mile trip it going
some.
Why not employ the boy scouts to
drum up base ball recruit?
Junuy how a littlo thing llko an
ankle totally eclipses the short skirt.
President Tart shows his contempt
for signs by starting his tour on Fri
day. Mr; Bryan does riot want any har
mony in his. Ho knows what he
thrives on.
Tho open season between congresses-
seems to have revived a good
many lame ducks.
Borne friend of Colonel Astor should
advise him not to slip his card under
Queen Mary's door.
Cur ses on the luck, the rabid antl
Tarters must exclaim at the president's
vindication of Wiley.
Mr. Astor did not hare to go to
Reno to get married, but he may have
to holler for help yet.
The St. Louis man's Idea of high
flying la life In that metropolis during
the Veiled Prophet's festival.
When Mr. Carnegie starts his Inter
national Peace Gazette we fear there
will be no Job for a sporting editor.
The question Is now propounded, Ii
the arbitration treaty constitutional?
We pass that up to the supreme court.
If some of this rain could be turned off
now we might have a little more of It
ten days hence. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Bounds like a voice from the tomb.
If Alfred Austin does not commit
poetry again soon folks will be in
danger of forgetting who Is the laure
ate. "Harmony means to halt," says Mr.
Bryan. It certainly does, but it tome
times makes the halt come at the land
ing place.
An exchange remarks that the old
hell game Is no longer played. No,
not since Champ Clark and Underwood
adjourned.
Mayor Harrison orders the saloons
closed at night, but the whole town
will be closed soon unless the Cubs
come to life.
Not content with printing columns
of it when it was news, a Baltimore
yellow is now running "Echoes of the
Beattie Trial."
It is said that Hetty Qreen's eon
received 6,243 proposals of marriage
from as many women. . What is the
man waiting on?
The election in Canada takes place
next Thursday, and when the votes
are In we should know whether reci
procity reciprocates. ,
England prefers the American type
writer to any other. Sure, so do all
countries that know what womanly
beauty and winsome ways are.
Now they are after President Baer
of the Heading for selling bad eggs.
Just ot if ft man with divine right in
ui4 thing did not have divine right in
all.
Now. if Mayor "Jim" had only lari
ated the executive mansion, he might
have commanded attention at the gov
ernor's conference by an exhibition of
rope-throwing.
Those prophets of ill-omen who
were predicting the failure of postal
savings banks must have taken to
their holes without waiting for the
groundhog to show them the way.
Chicago boasts of automatic electric
megaphones in use at one of its depots
for calling out the names of stations
of departing trains. Now, here is
where we object. If these innovations
continue all the pleasure of traveling
win be soon destroyed.
Council Bluff 13 Heott St.
Lincoln 2") Little Bit lid Inn.
Chicago 164 Marquette PulMlnf.
Kan-ad Clty-Helianre Building.
New York-M Went Thirty-third t.
Washing-ton 73 Fourteenth St.. N,
The Aerial Promontory Point.
When the links of the first great
transcontinental railway were started
In opposite directions across the coun
try a spirit of friendly rivalry ani
mated the builders to see who could
lay the greatest length of line before
the east and west ends met and when
the Union Pacific and the Central Pa
cific came together a golden spike was
driven In the mountain at Promontory
Point to mark their conjunction.
Now, less than half a century later,
another air line of travel is bring sur
veyed from east and west across the
entire continent. But If any one of the
rival railroad builders in the 0s had
ventured to predict that within fifty
years men would be flying over the
route of these then marvelous bands
of steel, be would probably have been
put where he could not barm any of
bis fellow beings.
Everybody hopes that Ward, flying
In his aeroplane west from New York
and Fowler east from Ban Francisco,
may ' succeed in completing their
strange Journeys. The men did not
start out simultaneously, but nearly
so, nor yet with the specific purpose
or racing, though, undoubtedly, the
spirit of American sportsmanship is
alive enough in each to suggest ri
valry before the end is reached. But
whether either man succeeds In his
undertaking, the adventure cannot but
suggest a new and wonderful era of
invention even though, as most people
believe, it still leaves us far, very far,
from practical aerial navigation. The
mere fact, if it bo a fact, that men
can, by dint of great effort and perse
verance, travel above the 'ground
from ocean to ocean, would be a mar
vel far too remote to the imagination.
of fifty years ago to have been toler
ated. What stupendous strides for
ward this country and other countries
have made since the Union Pacific
and Central Pacific came together on
top of that Utah mountain, May 10,
1869!
On May 11, 1869, General W. T.
Sherman in Washington, wrote to
General Urenville M. Dodge:
In common with millions, I sat yester
day and heard the mystic tape of the tele
graph battery announce the nailing of the
last spike In the great Pacific road.
But what would General Sherman
say of the mystic flaps of the 1911
blrdman's wings?
State-Wide Community of Interest
Keal efforts are being exerted by
business men of Chicago and out-state
cities to break down the "artificial
barriers reared by the politician" be
tween Chicago and the rest of the
state and build up a substantial struc
ture of mutual interest for the entire
state. The level-headed people of Illi
nois, without regard to whether they
happen to reside in Chicago or Rodora.
have grown sick and tired of seeing
the business interests of the large and
small community suffer at the hands
of self-seekers, ready to arraign one
part of the state against another when
ever it will promote their personal
fortunes. The plans of the state
wide harmony movement seem to be
sane and comprehensive, calculated to
onen people's eyes to the fact that to
rosier suco prejudices is simpiy to sac
rifice their Interests to personal
avarice.
Illinois and Chicago are not alone in
this thing. Nebraska and Omaha have
felt the effects of such selfishness and
prejudice, more formerly than now. In
this state, the politician, aided by cer
tain corporations which he served, suc
ceeded in disseminating an anti-Omaha
prejudice calculated to harm, not only
Omaha, but every community in the
state. It acted, therefore, as a boom
erang, and not until its reflex action
began to be felt did most up-state
people awake to the evil of the thing
and lend Omaha their aid toward de
stroying it. No man can think twice
on the subject without admitting, at
least to himself, that the interests of
Omaha and the state are so wrapped
up In each other as to have common
misfortunes as well as common for
tunes.
Our Commercial club trade excur
sions and Ak-Sar-Ben have been in
struments for overcoming this barrier
in Nebraska. They have served at a
tie to bind the people of the metropolis
and rest of the state together in that
mutual relation they should enjoy and
must maintain if tbelr state is to ad
vance.
Kamai' Latest Freak.
Every now and then Kansas seems
to catch Itself running short on freak
Ideas, but it never falls to respond to
the demand upon its reputation. Mrs.
Ella Wilson, belligerent mayoress of
the bustling town of Hunnewell, has
none very well of late in holding the
boards, but hers ia necessarily a too
transient chapter to promise much re
sults. Kansas has Itself, therefore,
stepped into the breach with a novelty
that will be hard to cry down or rip
up. It is a statewide movemeut tor
the teaching of domestic science in
the schools to boys, as well as girls.
Now, domestic science in itself is no
new departure. Nebraska and other
states are doing a good deal in that
line, but not as a boy's study. It is all
very well for boys and men to know
enough about the kitchen and culinary
art to be able in the absence of the
housewife to fry a slice of bacon, make
a cup of coffee and wash dishes when
they can not find room in the house
to stack them any longer, but it is
not probable that boys and men are
ever to encounter a practical demand
for domestic science; neither Is it ap
parent that boys In school have so
much time or genius that they can
afford to extend still further the di
versity of their studies. The com
mon criticism of our popular system of
education is that it Includes too many
branches and fads, already.
But what cares Kansas for com
moo criticism? Beside, that sort of
talk applies, possibly, to boys other
than those residing in Kansas. Who
has a right to say what a Kansas
youth shall not do? Or why suggest
tbst if he must devote time to do-
mestlo service, he had better do it In
a practical way, helping mother in the
kitchen at home? The Kansas boy
can take care of all such little extras
they see. fit to load on him. He can
get his regular studies, take his man
ual training, do his gym work, play
at his athletics, look out for his liter
ary society pursuits and find ample
time for his domestic science and that
too, with no' danger whatever of fall
ing Into the mollycoddle class. What's
the matter with Kansas, anyway?
Dead Letters.
By a sort of paradox one of the
livest subjects of posto(flce adminis
tration Is -the disposition of dead let
ters. It Is reasonable to assume that
when Ben Franklin as our first direc
tor general of posts - supervised the
handling and delivery of the mails,
the dead lotters were not numerous
enough to cause him much bother. It
is the immense expansion of the coun
try, and its business, and the corre
sponding Increase of the work devolv
ing on the postofflce that has multi
plied the number of undellverable let
ters and packages posted in the mills,
until last year the. aggregate footed
the colossal total of 12,545,133.
, Everyone knows the dire conse
quences that often follow the loss or
misdirection of a letter, and it is the
purpose of the postal authorities to
spare no effort at prompt delivery to
the person for whom the letter or pack-
age Is intended. To this end, the prac
tice has prevailed, and still prevails,
of transmitting undellverable first
class mall matter, after the lapse' of a
prescribed period, to the dead letter
office at Washington, where it is
opened, and if possible forwarded to
destination or returned to sender.
This process has been found to b not
only expensive, but also comparatively
inerrective. With the utmost expedi
tion the time lost may nullify the dun
pose of the message. Despite the
skin of long experienced clerks, a large
part of the dead letter mail remains
unclaimed and unclaimable.
To obviate some of these difficulties
It is now proposed to abandon the
dead letter office at Washington and
nave the work done in division offices
In different parts of the country or by
the postmaster in each separate post-
office. The ordinary fourth class post
office may average one dead letter a
week, and the postmaster can open and
dispose of them and keep the necessary
records without much additional labor.
The postmaster is bonded and con
stantly subject to inspection, and the
danger of misappropriation would at
least be no. greater than it now is. The
dead letter mail could be held, in the
local office a stipulated time awaltlne
a claimant, and then destroyed If not
called for, unless containing articles of
value which could be forwarded to the
division or central headquarters.
The strange thing is that to accom
plish these obvious improvements in
the postal service will require con
gressional legislation, which it is not
easy to get. The subject of disposing
of dead letters, however, as here out
lined, illustrates strikingly the ob
stacles met by the postmaster general
in his efforts to manage the depart
ment according to modern business
method.
The School and Home.
Much, perhaps too much, is being
said these days about the Inefficiency
of the schools in accomplishing with
the children all they should, but too
little about the inefficiency of the
homes in this same relation. - Does
the parent who criticises the school
Imagine that the ' child can be edu
cated without his or her help?
An eastern educator recently af
firmed the need for closer contact be
tween the school and the home. If the
appeal could be made so strong as to
reach every parent's ear, it might have
the desired effect. The trouble with
many parents is that they have the
wrong conception of the school's func
tlon. They imagine that all they have
to do is to send their children to the
school. They could not make a graver
mistake. The school does well if it
teaches the child how to study. It is
largely for the home to see that he
does study. When a child lags in his
books, when notes begin to come from
bis teacher and finally he misses his
grade, the parent generally blames it
on the teacher, or the school, when,
as a matter of fact, the fault may
have been rather with the home and
with the parent.
Children in the lower grades may
not be expected to do much school
work at home, but for those In the
higher grades it is not only important,
but absolutely essential. In the case
of the high school pupils, they go to
school only to recite. Their recitation
"hour" Is forty minutes, as a rule. In
that period it is not supposed that
they shall study. It Is all required for
recitation. Therefore, if they have not
studied at home before they come to
school, where do they land when they
come to recite? In boarding school
or college, the Instructor counts the
study hours the most valuable time
of the day. It is folly, therefore, to
go to the class room the next day with
out preparation.
It "has been well said that "the great
est good to the greatest number" must
be the school teacher's guiding rule.
The teacher cannot devote time to the
apt pupil or to the Inapt to the exclu
sion of th other. The laggard must do
his "making-up" out of the class room.
And the parent should see to It that he
Is not on the street when be should
be perched up at a table in a quiet
room at home, digging out hla lessons.
It is a gross mistake for any parent not
to know the standing of the child In
school. It is another gross mistake
for the parent to let the child feel that
the blame for poor progress Is laid on
the teacher. That is one good way to
prevent the child from getting ahead.
The school can guide and present In
formation to the child, but it cannot
fully succeed without the faithful co
operation of the home.
' Delinquencies of High Society.
When taken to task for the misbe
havior of the so-called high society
set, Its flevotees usually seek refuge
In the reply that the same things are
going on In other social classes, al
though perhaps not so fragrantly, yet
do not attract public attention.
Whether this assertion be true or false,
It cannot be accepted as Justification
for claiming the right to defy all rules
of morality, and scandalizing the com
munity, as a perquisite of wealth or
social eminence.
It Is true that the frivolities and es
capades in high society are more con
spicuous than they would be if com
mitted on lower levels, but that Is all
the greater reason why they should be
more severely condemned. If the so
called social leaders are to recognize no
accountability for their actjons, their
bad examples are sure to have a per
nlclous Influence, and work damage
by imitation in places unexpected.
The deficiencies and delinquencies of
the high society set of today may be no
greater than they have been In times
past, but they seem to be more in the
spotlight, and the need of a sense of re
sponsibility is much more urgent.
v Seizing Opportunities.
Theodore P. Bhonts, writing in the
magazine, Business, under the- caption
"Be Alive to Vour Opportunities,"
says:
If I were to set down a rule of action,
the observance of which, more than any
other, aside from the Ten Commandments,
might lead to succeaa In business, I would
ay, "Though shalt not be caught nap
ping." In the present trend of the times
when every moment ia regulated by a pen
dulum of value there are thousands of
opportunities going to waate for want of
people to take them when they come. As
a matter of fact the history of reverses
In business might be summed up In two
words, "Lost Opportunity."
Mr. Shonts, like most other people
now, evidently takes no stock in the
late John J. Ingall's poetic idea that
opportunity knocks only once at
every man's door, but rather believes
that opportunity has no limit to its
knocklngs. It knocks every day and
a good many times every day. It may
not offer with each knock to. admit
one to the embrace of some great
achievement. Opportunity does not
necessarily mean that. It may mean
the chance to do the smaller things,
but to do It well. Yet the smaller
thing must be done, aa a rule, before
the larger task can be essayed. Most
men of renowned success did not leap
at once Into tbelr positions of ad
vantage, but got there by dint of a p.
plying themselves along a long way
and seizing each opportunity as it
arose.
These little detailed opportunities
that precede tne larger one are not
to be neglected If the larger one Is to
be achieved. It is the details of life
that compose Its success, after all.
Heaping the measure to the full,
whether it be the measure of success
or the measure of meal, means put
ting in a little at a time. It is the
constancy hooked up with the alert
nesB of the effort that brings the re
ward. Business is a good deal like
ball playing in this respect of being
caught napping. The runner who
goes to sleep at first never scores at
the plate.
Another View of Chinese Outbreaks.
In all the periodical antl-foretgner
outbreaks in China, one seldom, if
ever, reads of an enlightened native,
one who has been converted to west
ern civilization, lending material or
moral influence to the hostilities.
Kather, these Chinese, where they
take any active hand, are found try
ing to protect the unoffending Ameri
can or European and repress the rage
of the native mob.
In this fact Justification is sought
lor the presence in the orient of the
men and women who have gone there
to show the people our way of living
As a rule, once the natives 'have
learned of this new way, they do not
want to, and will not if they can
avoid it, go back to their old methods
of life. It is perfectly natural that
a race born, bred and steeped for
centuries in worshiping idols believed
to be Inspired and pursuing all the
vague cuBtoms which superstition can
contrive, should resent the Intrusion
of anyone daring to offer an improved
system of existence. But the veil of
oriental density has not been found
which the rays of occidental enlighten
ment could not penetrate. And when
they yield, as many do in time, they
have no wish to revert to old stand
ards. It is going to take years and decades
thus to awaken the hordes of the east,
for there are so many hundred mil
lions of them, but real progress is
being made and every step forward
lessens the difficulty of the next. It
Is putting precisely the opposite con
struction on the uprisings, such as la
now going on in China, to say that
because they seem in part to be aimed
at the foreign invasion of church and
commerce and education, they Indicate
a measure of defeat for these forces.
These outbreaks usually precede, as
well a follow, f reat advances of civ-
lllzstion and may be regarded as the
breaking away from the old regime.
This thought has a commercial as
well as religious and educatlonnl as
pect to It. The westerner's platform
In th'j far east, fortunately, has been
constructed so broad and big as to
enable all Interests concerned in push
ing forward-the outposts of modern
civilization, to work shoulder to shoul
der upon It.
Wlth a view of reducing the exces
sive mortality among the Indiaus, the
Indian bureau Is to have recourse to
moving pictures to show the red man
the right and wrong way to live. Mov
Ing pictures will doubtless help some
toward the desired end, but keeping
the bootleggers and land thieves on
the reservation moving would help
more.
If he wanted to be perfectly frank
about it, our democratic United States
senator from Nebraska might have
told those postmasters that he was not
only on record opposed to parcels
post, but also could not well recede
because he had received much coveted
support for his election in considera
tlon of the assurance thus given.
A so-called university In Washing
ton has been exposed in which the
degree of Doctor of Phllosopl'y may
be had by reading eight prescribed
books and paying 75. The high cost
of living must be a myth when such
necessaries of life as a college diploma
can be bought so cheaply.
We poke fun at the slowness of our
Canadian friends, but that charge can
not lie against those who robbed the
British Columbia bank of $320,000.
That is a better haul that anyone on
this side of the boundary has been
able to make for some time.
According to the Outlook, reel
nrocity is a more heated issue in Can
ada than it has been at any time in
the United States. Still, the United
States has had enough heat this year
to satisfy all reasonable demauds.
Senator La Follette must be an im
pressive man, for he has impressed
into his Nebraska following the man
known tn the Nebraska senate of 1903
as the "general manager" for the rail
roads and franchised corporations.
. Those Mexicans cannot have gotten
vArv far on their presidential cam
paign as yet or there would be more
of them running back and form across
the bridges that span the Rio Grande.
rninrAi Hnosevelt is reviewing some
books under the caption ''A Hunter-
Naturalist in Europe ana Airica. n
Is at least enlightening to know that
it is possible to have the two in one.
I
' When th" ColoneU Met.
Boston Transoript.
The two colonels met in the Outlook of
fice and talked of "Interesting subjects,
What subject could interest both an ex
prestdent and an ex-e-ex-presldentlal can
didate? He Did Thing".
Brooklyn Eagle.
The unveiling of a monument to 'Edwin
McMasters Stanton recalls a period !n
American history when sand waa more
useful than sugar. Stanton was no hand
shaker, and no demagogue, but he did
things.
Hlahteons Hndely Jolted.
Baltimore American.
. eminent mil road Dresldent has been
shocked and surprised by being summoned
to court on the charge of selling bad hen
fruit. He doubtless win aaaiy essen umi
popular prejudice has egged this charge on.
The Valne of a Tree.
Chicago Tribune.
Foresters are Interested in a recent de
cision of the New York courts sustaining
a claim for 500 for a tree cut down by a
onn..riintinn comoany. Thla was upheld
as a fair estimate of Its "going value." It
was not baaed on sentiment, aitnougn it
- ..uiinn tn the value of the tree
aa lumber or firewood. The tree, alive.
had been a thing of use ana prom on mi
street. When it was cut down the loss
had not been merely, esthetic It had been
..ri.i Foresters are encouraged to find
that the courts take this view of the mat
ter.
People Talked About
O. H. Hell, a prospective New Tork busi
ness man, has asked a court to change his
name lest It might attract attention as an
exclamation or a resort of summer.
The claim of Arkansas for the record
peach weighing twenty-two ounces la dis
allowed. Omaha can ahow a crop of
peaches, each weighing 100 pounds and up.
No superiors In design and flavor.
Feara of a famine of offlceaeekers In
Pittsburgh, Pa., prove to be groundless. A
newspaper canvass shows 20.000 aspirants
for half a hundred offices, insuring a rea
sonable amount of competition in the race.
Bam Harris of Farmersvllle, Tex., who
for six years held the record of being the
largest town marshal in the United States,
has retired from that office. He Is SS years
old and weighs 410 pounds. Hla weight was
no handicap in performing the duties or
police officer, but he got tired of the Job
and Is now ready to take other employ
ment. Two opposing forces in Ohio are pulling
R. J. Plegle to and fro. One wants to
tighten his muszle, the other struggles to
remove it. Mr. Dlegle la sergeant-at-arms
of the state senate, and la believed to know
more about the grafting operatlona 'of the
senators than the dictograph. A three
years' sentence, suspended on appeal, has
not loosened his tongue at last accounts.
A gleam of humor filters through the
fierce battle of factions for the spoils of
office in Philadelphia. Every citlsen must
go to the designated places and be regis
tered personally. Formerly any Individual
properly Identified by a registration officer
could put down as many' names as he
chose, a custom which made large drafts
on the city directory and gravestones.
The oldest woman Alpinist in Ewltserland.
still on the active list, Is Mm. Louise
Favre, a widow, aged 81, who lives in a
hamlet near Bex, Canton of Vatals. The
other day she climbed up the Chamoasaire,
a mountain 6.M0 feet high, with one of her
grandaona, in orler to light a bonfire on
the summit in honor of a local featlval,
whlfh was attended by a number of
Alpinists, who cheered the veteran climber.
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Thirty Years Ag
A steady cold rain fell during the grenter
pert of the night, driving all the fnlr ex
hibitors, who could get away, off the
grounds and seriously Inconveniencing Che
rest. Meny of the tents and booths became
flooded with water, and the occupants were
obliged to get out and seek drier quartets.
The" sun, however, ram out about 10 o'clock
and produced a more encouraging aspect.
It did not get dry enough until 3 o'clock to
admit of the races. The program concluded
with the feature of the day, the chariot
racea. Two chariots were driven, one by
a man and the other by a woman (and, by
the way, a very pretty woman), four
prancing horses hitched to ' each. They
started like a shot at the word inj flow
around the track at breakneck speed. The
woman driver plied her whip dexterously
on the homestretch and eucceeded in
forcing her horses ahead just a neck. The
crowd was almost wild with excitement. .
Word comes from Denver that the Bur-
lington A Missouri railroad has filed papers
of Incorporation there for the extension of
this line into Colorado, with a capital stock
of $0,000,000. "The Incorporators are O. It.
Harris, T. T. Calvert, A. E. Touzalln, T. M.
Marquette and James M. Barr. The object
of the corporation la to construct a ra'l
road from some point on the eastern boun
dary to Denver and It. promises to com
mence work of construction at once. .
Hon. J. L. Webster left on a business trip
to Falls City.
Miss Clara Rosenfelt Is visiting friends
in Omaha, the gueat of Mrs. Mattte Roths
child. Miss Dora Lehmer Is once more numbered
among her Omaha friends after a pro
tracted visit In New Hampshire.
Miss Congdon of Chicago is In Omaha
visiting her cousin, Miss Carrie Congdon.
Mrs. Ida B. Lawrence and Mrs. Maggie
Shull left for Pennsylvania, their old home,
thla being their first visit there for twenty
years,
Mrs. Frank Shears of Grand Isianji ar
rived to visit her sister, Mrs. Nathan Shel
ton. Twenty Years A go
Plans were announced for the marriage
of Ed Neal, the murderer' of Allan and
Dotothy Jones, to a woman of the town
known as Josephine Clarke, the nuptials
to be aolemnUed in the county Jail, where
Neal was Incarcerated. It was really in
the shadow of the gallows, aa Neal had
been doomed to die. Neal, 25, and the
Clarke woman, 29, had been schoolmates
and sweethearts In their childhood days.
The Young Men's Christian association
held a reception at the parlors of the
building to enable the directors and com
mitteemen to become acquainted with the
new general secretary, Frank W. Ober.
Pat McDonough had Pat Ford, sr., ar
rested on the charge of disturbing the
peace. It seems that McDonough, a man
who hit a woman over the head with a
heavy shovel, passed along the street
where Ford was laying a sidewalk and
started trouble with Ford, who proceeded
to do him up.
Omaha's list of "first-class" hotels was
swelled by the addition of the Brunswick,
which waa opened at Sixteenth and Jack
son streets.
Rev. Charles W. Bavldge conducted the
conference revival meeting at the North
Nebraska Methodists' annual conference.
Miss Flora Webster left for New York.
Benator R. F. Pettlgrew of Sioux Falls,
S. D., was at the Paxton.
Herman Kountse took the train for New
York.
Major J. W. Paddock returned from the
east and went at once to his home just
outside the city.
Ten Years Ago -
W. A. Webster and C. H. Young won In
the semi-finals of the singles of the inter
state tennis tournament played at the
oourts of the Omaha Amateur Athletic as
sociation. Old Jack Frost arrives ahead of time,
much to the disgust of many Involuntary
hosts.
Chairman Ed Howell and Secretary X
J. Piattl of the demooratlo county commit
tee filed the name of James P. Connolly
for commissioner from the Second district.
J. F. Nixon, 1019 Harney street, reported
to the police he was held up and robbed of
78 cents and a pocketknife while crossing
the Eleventh street viaduct at night.
High school Is dismissed because of the
sudden drop in the temperature making
it too chilly for the students and pro
fessors. John Larson, a bachelor, 63 years old,
for thirty-four years a local hackman, was
found dead with hla scalp torn from his
head in the alley back of 2219 Dodge
street. The circumstances of the death
were not then known.
IflnHannAllB IftllMt.l' Tt 1 U T1 ACAM Q I-V to
4M14lllOClftU., w V . . i w - J
restore competition, says Mr. Bryan, and
yet he objects to Governor Harmon's
coming Into the race.
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Perfection of service means economy to the guest.
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Under the Management of James woods.
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULTIT.
New York World: The New Orleans pas
tor who in twenty-seven years officiated
KVOii weddings and received over fO OUr in
wedding fees may he snld to have started
well, but as lie christened on'y 1 00 bah.es
the record is not consistent.
Brooklyn F.ale: The man who thinks
the weak churches in a village are leterlng
out only needs to urge unity In Chrtst'eit
effort to start a row that will till the
buildings with advocate of the only aimon
pure scheme of Introducing brotherly love.
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Chalm.irs Jtlchmonrt, rector of St. J.ohn's
Eulsential church of Phlladeluhla. evidently1
belongs to that class of men who never lose
their wholesome self-restraint when sue
cebs attends their efforts at sparring for
an opening.
Chicago Tribune: There is some curiosity
to know why the Kev. Mr. Straight, whose
secular calling is that of a carpenter, did
not perform the Astor marriage ceremony,
In accordance w.th published announce
ments. Mr. Straight, though a carpenter,
may not be a good Joiner.
Springfield Republican: Rev. Dr. Wash
ington Glndden has not resigned his pns
loiate in Columbus, O. The Congregationul
let wired him for Information, and the an
swer came back: "Haven't resigned or
dreamed of It. All newspaper blundering.
Or. Gladden hns associated with himself
Dr. Carl 8. Button, recently of Ann Arbor,
Mich.. Who iR t,l Ifllf. kn atiur rt tha n,.i.
work and to assume most of the routine
pastoral duties, but the senior pastor Is to
remain In the harness. Nobody will whiu
to take back any of the pleasant things
written under a misapprehension of Dr.
Uiadden's purpose.
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.
Pittsburg Dispatch: President Tnft has
had the bad luck of being defended by
Cannon against the assault of Cummins,
but there Is yet time to rescue him from
the Irretrievable calamity of being cham
pioned by Lorlmer.
Sioux City Journal: Mr. Bryan was In
New York the other day and made a call
at the Roosevelt editorial offices. Fol
lowing the visit, walch was nut hurried,
Colonel Roosevelt said: "Mr. Bryan and
... .. ...
i nave naa quite a lam on interesting sub
jects. That was ail." Hut one cannot tell
from this whether the matter of Mr.
Bryan's stolen policies was considered.
Springfield Republican: Senator La
Follettes presidential candidacy has been
well under way since headquarters were
opened In Washington, under the Immediate
direction of a Wisconsin politician, and it
la therefore somewhat surprising to read
that the senator has decided not to an
nounce his candidacy until next winter.
The delay in, making a formal announc
ment, however, may signify merely a. tac
tical purpose. By awaiting the develop
ment of the president's policies the sena
tor would be able to act with less uncer
tainty aa to the actual conditions to be
faced In the presidential year. Many things
may happen in the next six of eight
months to alter the political situation.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
"Most people," snld the Boarding House
Philosopher, "as soon as they are married
ana sareiy launcnea on tne stream ot isl
h.irtn tn rnfil, , V V n fm-nnt. 15 1 S
Wife (complainingly) You never prals
B4SS
me
me up 10 any one.
Hub I don't, eh? You should hear
describe you at the Intelligence office when
I'm trying to hire a cook. Boston Tran
script. "There Is one time only which will con
vince me of the downfall of the trusts."
"What la that?"
"When the Ice trust Is frozen out and
the Coal trust has coal to burn." Balti
more American.
"I don't see how people can ever fall
out with a street car conductor."
"Why not?"
"Naturally, you perceive, he sees every
thing and everybody In a fare light."
Baltimore American.
Mrs. Culchaw Did you see any of the
old masters whtln you were abroad?
Mrs. Newrlch Mercy, no! They are all
dead. Boston Transcript.
' "That distinguished curst made nnlte
Impression in your community during hi
uriei visit.
ies, repuea f armer .orniossei: tlieie
were moments when he seemed nigh aa
important as the chairman of the reception
committee." Washington Star.
OVER THE HILLS.
Eugene Field.
Over the hills and far away,
A little boy steals from his morning play.
And under the blossoming apple tree
lie lies and dreams of the things to be
Of battles fought and of victories won,
Of wrongs o'erthrown and of great deeds
done
Of the valor that he shall prove some day,
Over the hllla and fur away
Over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away,
It's O for the toll of the livelong day!
But It mattered not to the soul aflame
With a love for riches and power and fame!
On, O man! while the sun is high
On to the yonder Joys that lie
Yonder where blazeth the noon or day!
Over the hills and far sway-
Over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away,
An old man lingers at close or day;
Now that hla Journey la almost done,
His battles fought and his victories won
The old time honesty and truth,
The trustfulness and the friends of youth,
Home and mother where are they?
Over the hills and far away?
Over the hills and far away!
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