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    Till-: OMAHA srXDAV HKE: OCTOBER 15. 1911.
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Dally How (Including eunrlai , prr mo..''
Dsily rt without Hiin1at i. t r ni . 4.V-
Addrr all complaint 'f I rr ri t Im
in delivery to City i Ircnlation Dept.
RF.MITTA.VfK5.
Remit by draft. expre ir fnii 1 rdei
rayabl t Th T-tca l-uhilshlng romrnnv.
Only 2-cent stsmr received In pmeut
ef mall accounts. TVrnnl ehc-rks. ex
cept on Omaha and eastern exchang. not
accepted.
Or.aha The IW Building.
South Omahn-J.1111 N. it.
Council Ftlnf(-i:. f-oott Hf.
Lincoln m Little Building.
Chtraa-o-K Ma-quertn tdilldini.
Koim City 1 liar.ee HjiMlni:.
Nw York t Wet 'Ihlrtv-tl'liu
t ashing ton-71, Fourteenth .St., N. W.
Communications te'stfng to new ami
'sylflnrtal matter should l. SfblreKsed
Omaha Rr, Editorial Dpu:tment.
EnPTEMBFn cincrLATioN.
47,398
Hiata of ?,hrak. County of Doucla.
Dwight William, circulation manac-r
f Th Fee Publishing rompunv. being
duly sworn, aava that tha ver oallv
circulation. lm spoiled, linemen and re
turned copies for tha month of September,
I'Jll. hii 47,358.
DWIOMT WILLIAMS.
Circulation Manager.
subscribed In my prnwnrn and sworn to
aefnr me thl 2d dav of October, mil.
(Seal.) HUBERT 1 1 U.XTF. H,
Notary 1'ubllc.
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la them. Address
Make- a date with yourself to land
tt the Land show.
Tha moril power of aviation
tfcat it promote the uplook.
la
Hoop skirts again Is'a fashion
prediction. Roll them aloug.
Van AUstlne and Hitchcock a
treat and yeractoua pair to draw to.
BBBBaBBnBaaBaas)J
People will hay to be extra care
ful not to allp up on that new banana
whluky.
Our treat reformed reformer la
getting- literary. Wonder who wrote
it for him.
Ty Cobb, will win enough automo
Mlea for the whole Detroit team
pretty soon.
Speaking of the easentlala In cur
rency reform, the first essentia) la to
nave the currency.
The man whose only atock-ln-trade
conslsta of e ynlrlstn la not rated high
either fn happiness or influence.
Oriental Turkey ia In a bad fix,
but the American gobbler will get
his in the usual place next month.
Golden October iu Montana la
burled under sliver anow. Ftlmetal
isiu at last lit that once lC-to-1
stronghold.
Anti-Tammany men boast that
thay hae the Tiger on the run. Bet
ter look out for the old anlmal'a re
turn engagement.
Hankow and Hangchow are two
different cities In China, but the
revolutionaries there propose to
make all cities look alike aoon.
"The trlala of the box office man
are legendary." They are not so
bad, sometimes, though, as the trials
of the actor man when the box office
falls.
They may have tied a can to the
tall of the Tammany Tiger, but the
chances are aome friendly dog will
chew the string in two before the
lest cornea.
- - "
John Arbuckle rises to remark
that the publla paya $150,000,000
tribute a year to the Eugar trust.
And how much to the Coffee trust.
OIr4 Arbuckle?
What would Collls r. Huntington
ay to his grand old state of Califor
nia adopting the recall, the initiative
and referendum and woman's tut
fragef Tempua does fuglt.
Commenting on an item to the ef
fect that an Indiana lien lias laid an
eKS with the letter C stamped upon
it, the Rochester Herald opinea that
it means Champ Clark, yes, or. Just
cackle.
. An exiuange reuiaras mat it teems
strange the American tUon, the most
oitunciive 01 native aniuiaia, was
never adopted as the symbol of a
jolltlcal party. As If political par
i;rs were noi ouiiaioeu cnousu as
It is.
The writer of a nely-publialied
book in the interest, of political re
form defines a politician as "a cltUen
who knows hat he ia doing on elec
tion day." Then what is needed is to
to It thai air citizens become
l-oiiiicians.
Mr. Jlr.van'a Commoner is specially
vicious in its ulluslons tu J tint lea
Hughe of t lio supreme court. That
fircuit of the west which Governor
iugheu made with such telling ef-
for the republican, otanJard-
V
:r daring the presidential tarn-
ft I3CS bill! laokles.
Another Street Fair Inexcusable.
No one l ai ventured to r,ii-e n
voire In iti b 1 1 n deft nae of Hie late
street fair In lis dffiennrateil con
dition. The only Jtietitlcation of-f'-nd,
and that in low-toned whis
per. I that it bus proved to be a
moitf j-makrr, smd that Ak-Sar-Hen
nc"cl t h money.
It strikes lis. however, that thope
who lnok on the money-making side
of the street fair only overlook other
and more Important sldea. There
aro many iiestlotiable ways in which
Ak-Kar-Ben could ralfio money, but
which It would not resort to, and
which w-ould not be tolerated were
an attempt made to roaort to I hem.
The street fair has become ono of
these questionable way, intolerable
no matter how much money it rained.
To plant In the center of a big city
such en Invitation to rowdylam and
llrentlouHiicHS, bu h nn aggregation
of fake ho anil tiupgestlve ex
hibitions, disgraces Omnlm nnd adds
no glory to Ak-Kar-flen. Ak-Sar-ltcn
li an organization of buslneas
and profearilonal men, whose pur
po Is not only to provide, enter
tainment and nmtisemrnt to mem
bers und giiesta, but to blazon the
name and fame of Omaha far and
wide. When It spend annually
thonmindA upon thouMands of dollars
on It tiiilinio Initiation, beautiful
pageantry and matchless ball, to the
laudablo purposo of ralaing Omaha
In the public estimation, why should
It off-set a large part of the good
thus accompllahed by sponsoring a
street fair for which nothing but
apologies can be offered?
The Ak-Bar-Ben management
should take notice that public senti
ment In Omaha will stand for no
more street fairs of the variety last
given without protest and act about
to devise aome unobjectionable
method of raising the necessary
taiouey, or reduce their outlay by
stringent economies within the limit
of the funds in hand.
October' Dual Eole.
October plays a dual rolo in the
drama of the seasons. To vegetable
life It is the month of death and de
cay, though Its somber dissolution
pauses to add the tint of beauty and
romance to nature. The poets have
aung their sad, sweet songs about it,
blending the one thought, as Bryant
expresses It in "The Death of the
Flowers," so familiar:
The maloncholy daya are come, the pad-
. drat of tha year,
Of walling wlndn and naked wnoda and
mcadowa brown and aeer:
Heaped In the hollow of tha grovea, tha
withered laavaa lie drad.
And Riley's:.
Old' October' pint' nlh gone,
And the front la com In' on
l.lttlo heavlvr every day
I,lk our heart la thatawayt
Iavea l rhanain' ovarhead
Back from green to gray and red.
Brown and yellow with their atem
l.ooxfnln' on the oaka and e'ms;
And tha balance of the tree
Clttln' balder every breee
IJk the head we're acratchln' on!
Old October' purl' nigh gone.
Dut October J not death and de
cay in the other role it plays In the
commerolal and -industrial world.
There it is the springtime of new
hope and new trade, of Increased
profile aud quickened induatry. The
bualness world has had its decline,
ita "valley of the shadow" in the hot,
long daya of summer; now it comes
to autumn, to October, for the fresh
dewa of new life. "Exports are
larger, domestic trade Is steadily
growing, orders for new stock are
exceptionally heay," ao run the
trade bulletins. And even this year,
deapite a foreign war or two and
many domestlo labor dleputes and an
unusually dry and hot summer, old
October Is playing its role well, lay
ing up for Itself many a rich encore
when the final curtain falls.
Death Bates and Sanitation.
What makes a healthful center of
population? Docs climate or arti
ficial improvement? Both have their
effect. But modern methods of san
itation must cut a larger figure than
the naturul conditions, to Judge from
what has been done on the Panama,
according, to Colonel Roosevelt. In
writing of what wonderful trans
formation has been wrought there, he
says that Dr. Coifiaa, in chargo of
sanitation. Is "turning one of the fes
tering, holes of the world Into what
Is almost a health retort."
Surely conditions on the Panama
originally were anything but whole
some or healthful. If within so brief
a period a section recking with the
germs of disease can be converted
Into a most healthful locality, where
Instead of life, being menaced. It Is
benefited by eurrouudliiKf what re
markable Improvement is possible In
one of our more modern continental
communities! And docs It not stand
to reason that Improved banitary ys
tenis furnish the key to the problem?
ve speak or high nd low death
rates. What causes the variations?
Is there an American city naturally
more unhealthful than tho Panama
waa and la there an American city
not susceptible to as high sanitary
development?
Ture water, the bekt aewerage sys
tem, clean streets, pure foodthese
are all elements of health, at least
In conducing to health. Yet there la
thie thing to be cousidered: in most
American cities men and women are
living Uvea Inimical to every law of
health, sedentary, perhaps, or at ex
resalve pares, or sscrificlng strength
to fleeting pleasure. These are things
beyond the help of the best sanitary
tegulatlons. They count tremend
ously In tho death rate, too. Dr.
Wiley nay pure food and puro drugs
will work n vast extension of the
average American life. longevity,
doulitlesa, will, be promoted, but we
csn offset the benefits of pure food
and pure driiRs by Imprudent living
Just as really as wo can good sanita
tion. What we need to cultivate In
our modern American life more than
anything else In common sense tom
pernnre, moderation in all things.
Speaking Paradoxically.
Tho indictment frequently brought
by his enemies against President
Taft Is that he la not a politician,
and for proof citation ia made of
various occasions when he has flown
right Into the face of adverse public
sentiment. Yet this very courage, re
gardless of personal conaequences, It
self commands admiration. Wo called
attention to an Incident of this kind
when the president boldly declined to
arcedo to the demand of a delegation
upenklng for the farmers organiza
tions of the country, threatening him
with political annihilation unless he
abandoned his efforts for Canadian
reciprocity. In Its latest Is.sue the
Outlook rends n similar lesson from
the acene in Denver, when Mr. Taft
bluntly Informed the Public LandB
convention in session there thnt he
absolutely disapproved of their pro
gram for tho disposition of our
natural resources. Snya the Outlook:
It la rharnctrlatlo of Mr. Taft when
he hn something to say that he know
other pfoli will not ngree with, to
ehooH ns ait occasion for saying It one
where tlierw will l plenty of such people
prent. Ko. on thin occasion fie em
phatically end explicitly declared hi be.
lief In the leaning system, and told riH
audience frankly that In opposing It he
thought they ware wronfc. The presi
dent' willlngnrsa to sav the unpopular
thing la paradoxical one of the reasons
why he has won for hlmaolf wide per
sonal popularity.
It may be paradoxlcnl, but it none
theless is human nature to repose
confidence in the man who takes you
Into his confidence even though he
differs with you. Conversely, no one
puts any dependence in a person who
weatbervane-Iike points in all direc
tions in order to go with the par
ticular wind that happens to be blow
ing. Paradoxical, perhaps, but that Is
what makes peoplo believe Implicitly
In Mr. Taft'a rectitude of mind and
honesty of purpose.
Taking- Thing-i as They Come.
One need not be a fatalist to get
good for himself and others out of
the habit of , taking things as they
come. He n?ed not depreciate the
efficiency of will In accepting results
as he finds them and makln the
beat of them. It is not a matter that
Involves fatalism or determination,
except insofar as the one grimly
recognizes facts, accomplished to be
unchangeable and the other that one
event acting upon another deter
mines results.
But the simpler philosophy is that
after a thing has happened aud has
come to Its finality it is settled and
no amount of worrying or wishing
or willing can change It. The only
alternative then is to leave what Is
done aud look ahead. If one lose the
Brat heat in the race of life he may
win the second and eventually the
race If he doea not stop to repine
over the preliminary. Halting there
to dwell and dilate upon mishaps
that no amount of lamenting can
possibly retrieve, he loses what he
might win by picking up courage
and going ahead.
Taking things as they come makes
for happiness and health and they
In turn make for well rounded suc
cess. Life is made up of one thing
after another, as has been often
stated, and if it were not that each
event came crowding In so fast upon
the other people might find time to
sit down and cry over the milk they
spill. But we see. as it Is, that not
only does the crying unfit us for the
task Just ahead, but It docs not
recover the milk.
Maiy Anderson's Return.
" For the first timft In twenty-one
years slnee her retirement fron the
American stsge. MIs Mary Anderson
(Mrs. Navarro) returns, not to act
Ing, but to .participation indirectly in
a play upon our stage. She comes
from her Kngllah homo to attend the
flrat performance of a play she helped
to write. Rho has been back to her
native -land more than onto in the
two decades, but not on theatrical
business. She la sure of a warm wel
come, for as an actress she was not
only popular with the American peo
plo, but beloved, and there Is little
doubt thst this affection for her re
mains In tho bosoms of the old
friends.
When Miss Anderson left tho stage
In this country it pleased certain
British papers to coujure up and pub
lish a story, which since has been
utterly repudiated, to the effect that
Misa Anderson was driven off the
American stage by "calumny'' aud
"bitter malignity" of her owu peo
ple, and It develops that thla wanton
falsehood haa beu revamped on the
occasion of the last return of the old
favorite. The New York Tlmea re-
prlnta thla from the Londou Globe:
Mlna Mary Anderson renounced tha
etaga and her native America after a
campaign of calumny In tha Tinted
Riatea which broke down her health,
and which. In It bitter malignity, re
main en of tha worst biota on the rep.
uiatlon of tha American praa.
It requires little acrutlny on the
part of some British papers to dt'
cover "blots on the reputation of the
American press." This is one that
never existed, for the story Is not
true, it has never been charged up
to Miss Anderson at all, and she hss
not suffered In the affection of Amer
leans by it. Old theatergoers w ill re
call how generously the people and
the press treated Miss Anderson, be
cause of her acting and also because
of tho purity and sweetness of her
prlvste life and character. She had
her shortcomings on the stage,
though her natural talents were dis
tinguished and sho is said always to
have enjoyed the fairest of criticism
from those who wrote of her acting.
It is such lofty characters as Miss
Anderson's the stsge needs, and
Americans have never withheld their
cordial, even enthusiastic, praise and
adulation from one anywhere near
like her.
Justice Harlan.
With tho death of Justice Harlan,
f ha oldest member In years and ser
vice on our supreme bench, the last
link connecting that court with the
anto-bollum era Is broken. Justice
Harlan was appointed to the high
tribunal by President Hayes in 1877
from Kentucky, where he wan born
seventy-eight years ago. Ho had
served with the union army during
the civil war; he had been a whig,
but later became a republican; twice
defeated for governor on the repub
lican ticket, and once presented by
Kentucky for the party's nominee as
vice president. As one of a group of
southern republicans boldlug to a
broad-gauged view of the present and
future, he helped to advance sectional
and national interests by identifying
them and unifying them, and held
aloof from the narrow prejudices of
the day.
Justice Harlan was a large man
In every way large In atature, and
large in outlook, and In his third of
a century on the bench has been a
real force in molding the epoch-making
Judicial decisions promulgated
during that time. Just now he hap
pens to be moat in the public mind
because of his dissent In the Stan
dard Oil and Tobacco trust cases,
wherein the so-called "rule of rea
son" was laid down as the test of
compliance with the Sherman anti
trust law. While his position as
stated by, him in vigorous and em
phatic language has furnished prac
tically all the arguments used by
those who have been decrying that
decision, hla most important contri
butions will be found to have been In
settling other, and more far-reaching,
questions of constitutional law. His
work as one of tho arbitrators on the
Bering sea tribunal, which brought
about the amlrnble adjustment of our
differences wiih Great Britain, ia to
be credited with materially further
ing the cause of peace through an
object-lesson that will be often
pointed to by arbitration champions.
ml
Following out the appropriation,
by the late legislature another build
ing is to be erected on the down
town campus of the state university
at Lincoln, which will be money
thrown away whenever the university
is relocated on a more suitable and
roomy site, as It must eventually be.
Still, we may hope the day will come
In the dim and distant future when
public money Is spent with as much
care and foresight as private money.
Chairman Plattl of the democratic
county committee says he was not in
terested in registration frauds last
year. But Mr. Plattl waa deputy
county attorney, with all the prose
cuting machinery in his hands, last
year, Just the same as he is now.
Can the fact that his law partner,
'Johnny" Reagan, ran for state sen
ator on tho democratic ticket last
year have had anything to do with it?
The three democratic nominees
for supreme judge are said to be ac
companying Mr. Bryan on bis speak
ing; tour of Nebraska in the capacity
of live exhibits, Tho great clanger
U that the orator- may Incidentally
lapse into one of his prohibition
speeches, iu which event tome of the
live exhibits would become dpad is
sues. One object of the American Trlson
association is the Improvement of
laws relating to public offenses and
offenders. When it reaches this sub
ject the prison congress is Invited to
inspect the criminal laws of Ne
braskn, which, we believe, will not
suffer by comparison with the laws
of the most progressive of our states.
President Taft recently remarked
that it was pretty hard nowadays
to tell who Is a republican and who
is a democrat. Possibly yet in the
campaign of 18S8. they were readily
distinguished by tho 'black and white
hat bands.
California political purista might
take time to reflect that that grand
old reform state of Colorado, where
politics Is Immaculate, if Judge Llnd
sey's word goes, has had woman suf
frage for many years.
t'.atleraera See Thlaaa.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Tlier Is a gleam of comfort in th
new from the west that the receipt
uf wheat and rattla era so heavy a to
compel a sag In price.
kr I4 Jim Marry r
Chicago Tribune.
Uncle Ylm Hill U In a gloomy mood.
He a there ha been too much politi
cal hot darning Why should b
worry? l,t tli politnal ghosts pay th
I'lper.
Booking Backward
JIiisDay In Omaha
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COMPILED FROM OFF. FILE-S
J ih-tt is. L
Thirty Years go.
It I announced that t W. Mad ha
entirely severed hi connection with the
Omaha Smelting works, hating aold bis
Interest to Ony C. Earton. The lately
elected orflrers are: Guy C. Rarton.
president; J. H. Millard, vice president;
K. XV, Nash, eecretary and treasurer;
Charles Italhach, superintendent.
Krnest WlKg, a battery man at the
Western Vnlott. met with a serious acci
dent while scuffling with a young man
In tho office, an Ink eraser being thrown
nd hitting him In tho eye. Ir. Denlse
attended him.
At the teachers meeting at the Last
school tlie qncdtion of ventilation and
phy.-lcal culture for the rupils w dls
enssnd, Superintendent Lane giving the
teachers some Rood advice.
V.. XV. Whittle, the celebrated revlvaiiet
of Chicago, Is a guest at the Crelghton
houe.
Sixteen men, two boy end two women
appeared under guard of the sheriff in
th distric t court today to enter formal
plea of the various charRcs (ralnt
them. Among the celebrated cuses Hted
r thst of Charles Do Groat, up for amen.
The Irivlng Tark association Is re
building the blown down' structure and
fence and will have It In good condition
In a few days.
Mr. Ilobnrt Patrick left toilay for New
York to continue bis studies at Columbia
Law school.
Mia V.tte of Vtica, N. Y.. Is vlfitina
Mrs. I M. Bennett.
Mr. Jqhn Hendricks and Miss Augusta
Frcimar were married at the residence
Of the groom. t
Mis Bessie Phlverick I In the city, the
guest of her brother. Mr. Charles Shiv
erick. Twenty Years Ago. ,
Mary Wolf, a domestic at the Eagle
house, called on tho police court for a
complaint against John Mirader, a boarder
at the house, for slapping her face.
The Hon. Chris Hartman announced
himself a candidate for the office of city
treasurer.
The body of J. 'J. Coilgan, late county
commissioner, had scarcely been laid at
rest In It grave until half a dosch men
were out announcing themselves as
candidate for hi place on the board.
Mrs. K. M. Morsman gave one of the
prettiest luncheon of tho season at her
home In the afternoon, the design being
to bring together young married friends
of the hostess with a few unmarried ones,
and these weer there: Mesdames Dana
Ladcr. C. K. Coutant, C. E. ' Yost, Cap
tain Bourke, Alfred Millard. L. P. Funk
hoitscr, George Ptobbins. C. Wilt Ham
ilton, L. M. Bennett.-William A. Ucdick,
Louis Bradford, James H. Mcintosh, T.
J. Rogers. Clement Chase. Misses Mit
lard, Yost, McCllntock, McKenna and
Sherwood.
Charles 8. Elgutter came out as a
First ward republican candidate for the
School board
Mr. Cox of Blair went to the Farnam
Street Theater and took his daughter.
Mis Alice Cox, out of the line-up, "The
Gaiety Girls," and forced' her to accom
pany him to the dear old fireside at
Blair.
Ten Years Ago.
A daughter waa born to Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Reed.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
Crandall.
In the evening at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. B. O. Humphrey, their eldest
daughter. Ml Isabella Anna, was mar
ried tu Mr. Newman Hall Hawkins of
Selbert, Colo., by Rev. H. C. Herring.
Mr. E. A. Cudahy executed a legal
statement and had it published to the
effect that he withdrew the 0,O:) re
ward he had offered for th arrest and
conviction of Pat Crowe and his asso
ciates In the kidnapping of his son,
Eddie.
Mr. W. P. Perelval entertained a party
of about forty women Informally at her
home, 1S21 Corby street, In the after
noon. Miss Mona Martin gave a smart dance
at th Country club In the evening In
honor of her friend, Miss Blanche Esta.
brook of Chicago.
fenator Dietrich stopped In Omaha on
his wsy to Hastings from Washington,
having come by way uf Cleveland ' to
consult with Senator llanna.
t John Darlow, a newsboy of 16. fell from
a north bound car at Sixteenth and Burt
Streets, and was severely Injured. .
People and Events
Bowling up from Arkansas comes the
melancholy news that unless forest con
servation Is started in the state at once
coon hunting Is cone forever.
Tom Edison's enthusiastic greeting of
Miss Liberty on hla return from Europe
gives the Impret-sion that he would rather
he a lamp post in the Oiange groves of
Jeraey than a monarch In the old world.
If all goes well wllh the Minnesota rate
regulation cr in the hitih court, steps
will be taken to regulate the price ot
railioad pie and railroad fandwlche. The
gopher ttato is determined to clutch mo
nopoly In the vitals.
The merger of two monthly magazines
In New Yo'rk puts up to the courts the
task of digging out of a cahload of books
the whereabouts of ISS.OK) In assets which
disappeared between tho inception and
fintah of the merger.
Tho "model" mayor of a Minnesota
town ha been convicted of aron, and
the head of a St. Iiuis society organised
"to protect working people from loan
sharks" has been arrested on a warrant
charging uihii j. It is not always safe to
measure a man by the talk of his press
agent.
Jun as soon after landing In New fork
as she could catch her breath Mary Gar
den announced that sh haa a protege who
will astonish the world. If the young
ster duplicates the exclamation point
Mary haa si altered along her traveled
routes she will have to tep lively and
then some.
Trof." J. C. Marka of Chicago, tlair
voyanl and palmlbt, preached to th spir
itualist ef Kenosha. Wis., on a Hunday
night recently, aud on the succeeding
work daya worked member of ilie cult
for a fin bunch of real money. He told
them bow they could double their money
by mean of hi art. Varlou sums in
th litre figure wer handed to htm.
wd tip In little baga and given back
with instructions to open th bags on th
following Sunday. On th day of th
grand opening th victim found th bags
filled with waaia paper and th "pro
(esaur ' out uf '.(hL
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BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN.
A religion that costs nothing Is worth
Just that much.
Jt Is the dog without teeth that some
times barks the most.
Trusting God is thu one thing we can
all do, and always dp.
The devil never knows what to make
of -the cheerful giver.
It may be right to fast, 'but It Is wrong
to look as If jou did.
When we do as God says he IS respon
sible fur what happens.
The man who knows God best Is the
one who trusts him most.
When there Is nothing we can do, there
Is much that God will do.
Bringing the prayers closer together will
put the sins farther apart.
A wrong man Is a lost man, no matter
how much pew rent he pays.
The man with a doubt Is like a man
with a millstone about his neck.
The man who allows himself to feel
mean will soon look that way.
The trouble with most of us is that we
talk too much and do too little.
The smaller the congregation the harder
it Is to dodge the preaching.
If you would live well, take time to
draw a long breath now and then.
AVhen the light Is bright nobody finds
any fault with the lamp post.
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: A clergyman
has threatened to resign If the pews In
hU church are empty on Sunday. But
hasn't tho time passed, when people could
be scared Into going to church?
Brooklyn Eagle. A Philadelphia ' pas
tor Is arranging to start a church for
women only. "Hymns, but No Hints," Is
his motto, apparently. Feminine psy
chology Is. mighty hard tor even a min
ister to understand.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: A Metho
dist conference In Toronto was alarmed
at evidences of decline In the growth
of Methodism slnee the church houses
have been placed In competition rlth
clubs. There Is a growing disposition.
In church circles, to return to the things
of the spirit and lnok more to the leaven
than to the lurrtp.
Springfield Republic: The responsibil
ity of appointing the Judges of the su
preme court of the United States is
nothing to that Incurred by the prime
minister of England In appointing new
bishops, lie has lately been called se
verely to account for the behavior of
the newly-appointed bishop of Salisbury,
who officiates, says the complainants, in
churches In which the law Is habitually
violated, and himself "wears a miter and
pectoral cross, neither of which orna
ments was sanctioned, even by the First
Prsyer Book of Edward VI." '
"BR VAX AT HIS WORST."
laalnaatln Improper Motives In
Jadlclal Appolntbewt.
New York World (dem.) "
Mr. Bryan is again assailing th Integ
rity of the United States supreme court,
and through the column of the Com
moner enda this challenge to President
Taft:
"Mr. Bryan challenges him to make
public th written and verbal recom
mendations upon which be appointed
Justice Whits to the position of chief
Justice over Justlc Harlan, and th rec
ommendations, written and verbal, on
which he appointed the Justices whom he
has placed on the supreme bench. Did he
know how they stood on the trust uues
tion. or wss It purely accidental that all
of hl3 appointees took the trust side of
the ttucstlonf"
A ciear implication of Improper motives
In the elevation of Justice White and the
appointment of Justices Lur ton, Hughes,
Lamar and Van Devan'ter. They must
have been sounded on th truat question.
How otherwise dd It hppen that they
all "took the t. ust ide of the question?"
No wonder President Tatf ia moved to
Indignation. It Is an Imputation not only
on his ow n motives In Judicial appoint
ments, but upon those of the court In In
terpreting the law and "for mere polit
ical purposes," as lie said yesterday.
This cool lii juu assumption of what was
to be proved will not eacape notice. Did
these Judges talc tne trusi lde? Waa it
taking that side tu Join in a decree dis
solving the two most notorious and of
fensive trust In the country? Ws it
taking that side' to unite In an opinion
which make the statute apply to every
effective of unreasonable restraint of
trade?
Ileie is Sir Frederick i'olluck, one of
England first lawyers, , expressing
amaacment tht any one should charge
the court with changing the law In put
ting a reasonable construction on It. II
is clearly Jiot accustomed to demagogue
politicians of the I'.i)n type.
l.rrat tlevrrlea ia l'roaprct.
New York Tribune. "
Thu promise of an answer, to th
question, "What ar 'soft' drink?" is
suited to mak a wondering world ait
up and take notice. ' If Dr. Wiley can
tell us the tul composition of th
various "phosphates" and "sundaes"
and what not else of th soda counter
he will b entitled to rank among tli
boldest disroverei of th age.
SOB Work Ahead.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
It ia estimated that the supreme court
of th United State which convene
will deride four hundred rase before tn
close of the winter term. And yet ther
ar thos who Insist that a plar el.
th supreme bench U ao easy one.
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and prestige, and is In fact, almost an In
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DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Clinton tto tiublelgh who Is afraid tfl
Co home) He a man and face the music.
Clublelgh I don't mind the music, it s
the words. Chicago Tiibun.
"7s she a girl of good taste?"
"Excellent. She never order more
thHn fi .50 worth of food no matter how
swell the cafe you take her to. " Detroit
Free Press.
Flub The man who love a womarj
can't help being elevated.
Dub And the man who love more
than one is apt to bo ent up, too-
Judge.
"There's only one way to make aviation,
safe," said the man who love legal for
malities. "What's that?"
"Get some good lawyer to proVe that
the law of gravitation la unconstltu.
tlonal." Baltimore American.
It was a dark morning and Mr. DorkinS
was groping around In the basement
when somebody suddenly flashed a lark
lantern on him.
Mechanically he threw tip his hands.
"I'm the gas meter Inspector," ex
plained the Intruder.
Whereupon Mr. Dorkins held his hands
up still higher. Chicago Tribune.
"What a poor young man needs is a
thrifty, economical wife."
"You talk like an animated home Jour
nal. What a poor young man really
needs Is a rich, liberal wife." Pittsburg!)
Post.
"Do you think I will be considered a
success in statesmanship'.'" asked th
yong man who Is learning politics.
"It all depends." replied Senator Por
ghum, "on whether you get going at a
time when you can take credit for pros
perity that was bound to arrive or blame
for depression that couldn't be helped."
Washington Star. '
"Elinor and Mary had quite a squabble
last night ove Venice, and Mary provid
she was right."
"But Elinor has ecn Venice."
"And Mary has seen it twenty times -.
In moving pictures." Cleveland Plain
Dealer. ...
It was just after the apple episode id
Eden. -
"How fortunate It occurred at this ea
son of tho year," remarked Eve, '.'when
the leaves are of such stunning shades."
Thereupon she picked herself a nsw
gown. Chicago Tribune.-
"Darling." he murmured, "whatever in
duced you to care for a fellow like me?"
"I really don't know, Ueovgo," she re
plied. "Pa threatens to send me to a
brain specialist." Bo.ston Transcript.
PRECEPTS OF SOLOMON.
King Solomon, the atory says, had many,
many wives
He married them In bargain lots of twos
and threes and fives:
He lavished costly gems on them and fed
them spices sweet.
And showered priceless violets, with sing
ing, at their feet.
Tha story says that Solomon wss wis
beyond his age
A match for all designing maids or ladies
in a rage;
He kept n perfect, even keel upon the
Nuptial Sea.
And that was going come, my friend, you
grab It atraigh from me!
The" story says he built a house a mr.st
magnollous place
And not a woman Interfered or dared to
show her face.
Or ordered changes In the stairs, the
linen chests or shelves
(The married men who've built a house
will have to pinch themselves!)
The atorv says but why go on to publlsn
and revamp
The wonder things that filled the life of
this plnch-hltling champ?
The atovy tells the bigger things that
made his biggest hits.
But when It comes to smaller truths, whv,
there the story quits.
The Home Precepts of Solomon do scarce
apply to me
I've but a single wife against his nineteen-
sixty-three:
I long to get the simple truths about thla
famous guy.
And learn how he explained It when hie
envelope wa shy.
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