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NOVEMBER CIRCULATION
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Jtilcrlher Icwvlnir Uir vUr
temporarily slioulil hrevr The lire
moiled i them. Aildrrss will lir
I'linnned am often n requested.
In addition to the Sabbath, tho
Lord lias nix other days each week.
Orange1 growers must not hnnd us
any lcmona In falsely-colored crop,
Anyway, Presldont Taft will onjoy
a green Christmas lu sunny Panama.
Never trouble trqtiblo till troublo
troubles' you is old, b,ut sound,
philosophy.
What, Brother Charles Bryan for
the cabinet? Oh, no half-way hust
ings will go,
Well, go on and do your shopping
but don't try 'to claim title to good
fellowship by it.
St, Louis has a "Jolly Pallbearers'
club," which presumably laughs la
tho face of doath.
"Tho present cold spoil will not
lust long." says tho forecaster. Oh,
have wo hud a cold spell?
Sea Holds Secret of Aviator's
Fate," says u headline.,, It holds tho
aviator, too, which Is tho distressing
part.
In u fow days thoro will bo room
for a few people -In tho street cars
in tho space now occupied by buu
dlcs. Now, Just what was it that the
tvitBt conunlltco , investigators got
out of Mr. .Morgan to help along
their caso?
As an experienced aviator, Santa
Clauo ought to know enough not to
trj any fancy cupurs with his aero
plane ouroulo.
Ouo way for strangers in tho city
to avoid being hold Up by 'women
on lower Capitol avenue" is to koop
nwuy from them.
A Boston man died from the ef
fect of a prick with a hatpin. FoIIcb
hereabouts Just kick against tho
pricks and livo on,
Everyone must ndnilro tho busi
ness acumen of that little girl who
wrote to Androw Carneglo that ho
resomblcd Santa Clans.
Whether Ambassador Wilson took
ihat ultimatum messago with hint or
not, Mexico will understand how
I nclo Sam feels about It.
Tho California reporter who died
with tho aviator waB pursuing tho
groat vocation of increasing the
world's fund of knowledge,
, President-elect Wilson has It In
his power to maHo nine Christmas
gifts that would make nine demo
cratic statesmen very happy.
Still,- not a tremor could be de
tected in the voice of Witness Mor
gan as he testified the day after
President-elect Wilson's gibbet
speech.
"Get them, dead or allvo." is the
edict of tho Kansas City chlof of
police to his mon regarding tho
night thugs. That is tho way a
former Missouri governor broke up
the James gang.
Greece seems to have won its
point, for Turkey has decided to
treat with It In conjunction with the
othor Balkan powors, even though
Greece persisted in its refusal to
sign, the protocol.
Mayor "Jim" may have the credit
of calling the first home rulo elec
tion, but let him hold his horses a
JHtlo while- until we try to work out
a plan whereby thp new city charter
may be framed and adopted by all
the people who are to constitute the
Greater Omaha,
The Senate as a Court.
Tho trial of a fedcrnl judge before
tlio I'nllod Statos Bounto an a court
of linpcnchmont is demonstrating
nnew tho lnaucq,mcy an(J tnorrt-
clency of n judicial tribunal constl-
.itutod out of a legislative body, lrro-j
spectlve of tho guilt or innocence of j
the nccuscdf it is plain that he Is not
having tho kind of a trial to which j
he is entitled, especially in view oti
tho gravity of the charges. Of more'
than ninety senators not over twenty
are attending the sessions of the im
peachment court, and not over half
that number have been paying any
serious attention to the evidence.
Evoryonc knows that In criminal
cases the testimony of witnesses is
to bo weighed, not nlono by what
they say, but also by the way they
say it, and tho credibility of contra
dictory witnesses Is largoly deter
mined by appearnnco and actions.
Tho great majority of Mm senators
who will not have heard tho evidence
will have to reach their decision at
best by reading n printed record,
and more probably by accepting the
judgment of someono who has
listened.
Tho scnato as a court of impeach
ment Is an anachronism surviving
medieval monarchies. Most of our
states have long ago gotten away
from this Inheritance from tho
mother country. In Nebraska im
pcachmonts, although instituted by
tho legislature, are trlnble before
tho supremo court, with the excep
tion of impeachments of suprnmp
court judges, for which all the dis
trict Judges would bu convened to
sit as u trial court, if the Impeach
ment of federal officers were com
mon nnd freqUont, Instead of ex
tremely rare, tho wnsto of time of
the senate and tho Interference with
the course of legislation would force
us to provide a different method of
trial. It booh without saying, too,
that tho defects of tho present sys
tem will bo cured only by lodging
tho power In n smaller tribunal,
properly equipped to hear tho evi
dence, and pass upon it judiciously,
and not by lodging It In a larger
tribunal rondorlng vetvllcts by popu
lar vote based upon hearsay or ru
mor, and fanned by political par
tisanship and appeals to projudlco.
Safety in Travel.
It will never bo posslblo to ovor
como entirely the hazard of railway
travel. It will bo more difficult to
rcduco tho hazard when tho iiubllc
domnnds tho fnstost posslblo trains.
Tho Interstate Commerce commis
sion insists upon fewer accidents
and contends that high rate of speed
la not tho prlmo necessity. It com
mands railroads to oxort greater ef
forts for safoly In transportation,
indicating that tho chief troublo now
lies in dufoctlvo roadbeds'' -apd not
rolling stock.
Itofercnco to tho rocords probably
would show that tho railways with
the best Improved roadbeds aro tho
ones with tho fnwnBt 'casualties.
Thoy aro also tho best equipped
with llfo-protoctlng devices. And
yet ovon on such railroads, still
yielding to tho clnmor for rapid
transit, accidents aro' too numer
ous. It is not to bo denied tliat many
roads aro 'qulto indifferent to tho
Importance' of well-Improved road
beds nrid aro most censurable for
n negloct that subordinates tho
safety of passengers to net earn
ings, uud it is gratifying that the
commission has slnglod, them out.
Considering, howovor, tho lnovita
hloneas of accident in travel and tho
part tho public must take in lessen
ing Its demand for excessive speed,
it 1b not to bo denied that much
bettor general results could bo ob
tained If tho railroads exerted the
samo Hclentltic effort ut safety as
thoy do ut producing dividends.
The Munioipal Theater.
Oils Skinner revives agitation for
tho municipal theater as a means
of restoring tho playhouse to its
original educational character and
providing high-grade entertnlnmont
at prices the poor could afford. So
long as a radically different kind of
theater, privately owned nnd con
ducted without the remotest elalm
to educational merit, continues to
draw and turn away the crowds, bo
long will n certain doubt pllug to
this lamiablo proposition. The fate
of the New theater In New York
and similar ventures offers little in
spiration to the Skinner plan.
Tho municipal thuator Is not new.
It flourished In pagan Ronio, and
seems to bo doing . woll In somo
British and German cities. There
aro ninny In Mexico and South
America. One or two are In exist
ence in Now England and one, espe
cially, is said to be thriving upon a
modorate scale after inuny years of
Indifferent results and many dark
nlghtB and months. It Is question
able, howover, If American city gov
ernments in their present Imperfect
development, hardly beyond tho ex
perimental stage, aro us yet adapted
to the management of theaters.
Thoy might bo more nearly so if it
were possible to evolvo a kind of
theater that would satisfy nil or
any considerable portion of our
heterogeneous populations nnd di
vorce It entirely from politics.
With Mr. Skinner's assertion of the
need for higher standards on the
stage thero can be no question.
Too many theaters are the prey ot
i tho coarsest kind of commercialism,
but until wo find It possible vastly
J to IniproVo our city governments In
personnel and othorwlso we need not
look for tho panacea in tho munici
pal theater.
Estimating Colossal Fortunes.
Tho official appraiser says all es
timates mndc of tho lato B. II. Har
rlman's estate are purely guesses.
lSvery now and thon lints purporting
to namo the twenty richest Amer
icans, for Instance, nnd their weulth
are published, and thon, perhaps,
someone pretending special InBlde
knowledge will revise them, upset
ting current bellofs as to the rela
tive rank of our money kings. And
no doijbt all aro Just guessing. As
a matter of fact, what else could the
average man do but guess at a for
tuno that runs Into tho multi-millions
or approaches a billion? What
docs he know about such things?
Tho testimony of Mr. Morgan be
fore the investigating committee of
tho house was interesting as dis
closing tho Inexact estimate this
modem Croesus, himself, could make
of his own wealth. No doubt ho
was sincero In It. Where n fortune
Is composed of mountains of securi
ties and Industries of fluctuating
values, how is it possible to mako
an off-hand estimate of it? When
Mr. Morgan speaks of having "Oh,
a very little In that," meaning
? 1,000,000, what is tho use to at
tempt to cstymato his wealth? Ho
and overy other money king owns
property of which ho probably
knows nothing. ,
The Y. M. C. A. on the Panama.
Numerous fino tributes have been
paid to the ' work of tho Young
Men's Christian association on tho
Panama during the -period of cannl
construction. President Taft, hlm
solf, lias extolled tho results accom
plished, as does tho Outlook. As it
observes, tho association has fol
lowed tho flag Into many romoto
und rough places since the Spanish
American war, oxejting inlwnys an
uplifting Influence In counteraction
with hard, uninviting conditions.
No higher estimate can bo placed
upon tho work of this organization
than tho president of tho nation has
besppkon for it in commenting upon
its power In the Navy and War de
partment forceB. The Young Men's
Christian association, therefore, be
comes an institution of divorse use
fulness. By maintaining tralnod
workers ovorywhoro and operating
on a broad, statesmanlike basis,
adapting Itself . ta. .almost every ap
penlj for human aid as well as spirit
ual direction, it fits Into tho condi
tions of Ufo as do fow. If any, othor
slmllnr organizations.
Men in hnrd fields of labor like
tho Panama need the personal top.cn
of just such an influenco as this as
sociation gives. It 1b not super
ficially an attractlvo work, always,
but It Is work whoso results last and
count and that .moro than compen
sates for tho lack of what less con
secrated men might regard as at
tractive. Tho Young Men's Chris
tian association 1b destined for yet
larger sorvlco In this nnd othor
countries.
A Veiled Approach.
Tho democratic attack on the ex
ecutive order thnt placed 3G.000
fourth class postmasters under tho
civil service on tho grounds that the
president Issued the order for politi
cal purposos is entiroly unworthy a
groat party about to assume tho bal
ance of power lu thq government.
A blind man could boo that tho
obvious lntontion Is to pnvo tho way
for defending tho democratic at
tempt later to restore tho vicious
spoils system at tho espouse of civil
sorvlco. But It will bo amazing If
such transparent political piracy can
bo accomplished In this day of
aroused public attention.
Presldont Taft, .wo think, hus tho
country's confidence in tho sincerity
of his action and its sympathy in
such a mean attempt nt deliberate
.njlsroprosentatibn. Civil sorvlco,
which ho advanced further than any
othor mau, was oatabllshod uud built
up by tho mandate of tho people
under republican rulo. His order
placing 3S.000 postmasters under
this system was bonoficlal to the
service. That is . sufficient. The
country surely will have no patience
with the specious pleas of cunnln?
politicians seeking to cover up their
desporate efforts as spotlsmon by
maligning the motives or the presi
dent. Protecting Hogs.
If, as tho president of the State
Swine Breeders' association says,
Nebraska has lost $6,000,000 worth
of hogs this year from cholera, It
Is time for increasing our efforts at
combnttlng tho disease. If that can
best be done, as suggested, by np
piopriatlng more money for the
anti-cholera serum plant at tho state
farm, the legisluturo should mako
Mie appropriation this winter with
out delay. Scientific farmers advo
cate $1)0,000, instead of 1 5,000, for
this purpose. Tho larger amount Is
Inconsequential as compared with a
fraction of the purported loss in
hogs uud it would bo a poor sort ot
economy that would attorapt to save
money at such an exponse, if tho
money could be used to tho purpose
as represented.
Tho efficacy ot the serum sceius to
be proved to general satisfaction.
That being true, why stop nt half
way measures? If this remedy will
successfully combat cholera It
should be miule available for all de
mands. 'Nebraska cannot afford to
lose $6,000,000 worth of hogs a
year, or any small proportion of it.
The state is famed for its live stock
and grain production, and it must
maintain its position , by a fostering
protection of Its chief resources.
Adjoining states, we understand, are
surpassing us In thelr appropria
tions for this scrum, ""bur legisla
ture should' see to it that Nebraska's
Interests are properly safeguarded.
The Decadence of. Letter Writing.
Tho early extinction of the art of
letter writing as It used to be prac
ticed Is unquestionably to be one of
tho consequences of tho ndvent of
the typewriter, tho telegraph, the
telephone and the wireless. No his
torian of tho futuro will find In the
personal correspondence of the men
of today the mine of fact and fancy
reflecting current oventa and sur-
rounding conditions which havo beon
gathorod from the lettors of the
great men of tho past.
In his remlnesccnt articles run
ning In Scribner'u magazine, Henry
Cabot Lodgo utters this note of sad
ness in his comment on tho change:
It Is. commonplace-. tu. say that the old
ami Braccful .art of lettcrwtitlne ha
Well nlKli .vanished. Tho letters of the
se-venloehtli. eighteenth, and early nine
teenth ecnfurliw, wiilqli itl8lsuchi a de
llBht to rfiftd diul which revive for ua the
life, the loves, tile1" hopes, tho 'ambitions,
tho manners, tlio scandals, tho gossip
and tho thoushta ot a bygone day, are
no longer written. It Is not merely that
tho tclci.t-aplt. tio telephone and tho type
writer are the cncmle? of lottor-wrltlne.
These might, no doubt theso Inventions
must, reduce tho number of letters, but
that Is no reason why thosp letters which
aro written should for the most part be
dry, condensed and ungraceful and fall
as dead as a wlthsred leaf as soon as
they have been read: Tho fact is that It
requires 'time to' write a feood letter, one
worthy of preSert-Mlon for some reason
other than . bpslnnss or historical pur
poses. A really tftwd letter should have
sty)o;, thought 'should -bo expended upon
It, and It shouts bo carefully framed and
composed. . It ought to possess both form
and substance, and If It Is easily written,
that Is tlVe rerult of training, practice
and care. Robert txuln Stovonson, the
best letter-writer of our time, took In
finite pulns even wtth a note. But all
these qualities consume time, and we
have In thcMi days, apparently, no time
to glvo to a particular letter or to the
training which Is needful If wo would
liavo tho lt-ttcr a good one. AVo are rcat
lesn nnd In a hbrry, and) therefore we
abandon any attempt at form and con
tent ourselves with What will do vroll
enough for the momont. Thus ,tt comes
to pass that tho charming art of' the
lttor writer, with u few lonely excep
tions, dies out from among us.
Apparently, the letter-writing of
tho future, so far as it is worthy to
bo called by that name, is' to bo done
by literary men for show purposes
onV. because ohors will have
neither time nor occasion for it. It
is oven posslblo that in tho dim aud
distant ages yet to como our Jotter's
will bo preserved in museums and
classed wlt,h cuneiform Inscriptions
nnd hieroglyphics.
Tho Country Life congress could
not have dono hotter in heading the
organization with George V. Coup
land as president. In him they have
not only n practical farmer of the
highest grado of Intelligence, but a
man actively interested in tho appli
cation of tho most advanced meth
ods of scientific agriculture, as well
us forming a connecting link with
tho Stato university, of which he Is
a momber of tho Board of Hegents.
Prosldent Taft has, decided to
make his home iu New Haven, since
accepting the Kent professorship In
law at Yale. This will supersede
tho former plan of returning io re
Bide in Cincinnati and practice law
thero. Tho president evidontly in
tends to buckle right down to his
now Job, which is a great ono for a
groat man.
In the death of W. J. Mount au
othor pioneer of Omaha has passod
to tho eternal ranks. While not
specially conspicuous, Mr. Mount was
one of tho energetic men of tho early
days and reuderod public service as
county commissioner, and in othor
capacities, conscientiously aud cred
itably. Whatever opposition there Is to
the South Omahn postofftce merger
Is plainly purely political. What's
the saVlrig of a few dollars a year to
Uncle Sain aid better, service to
postofftce patrons, compared with
paying off democratic political
idobts?
The club women's plan may not
result in a permanont solution ot
tho egg problem, but it shows un
mistakably tho temper ot the people
on tho whole question of gambling
with food commodities.
Tho only thins loft for tho railway
passenger agents to do to tnuko an
other hit with the traveling public
is to inaugurate Christmas trees and
gift distribution on all - through
trains.
Military Ilyatrrlu.
Boston Transcript.
A avc of military hysteria is rolling
round, the world. The latest sufferer Is
General Ourrlque of the Bruslllan army,
who wants his country to provide a
tchemo of national defense against the
United States, lest some day BrarU awake
to fltwi Itself an American protectorate.
That polbllity will be news to the United
States.
Ifal&Dav SiaOmsiii
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'COMPILED ?t!QM EE FttE. M
DECEMBER J2-tm ...
Thirty Yearn Ago
Prof. C. V. nine, principal of the high
school, who haB Just resigned to become
secretary of the Board of Kducatlon, has
become the recipient of a magnificent
silver water pitcher, presented by the
students as a souvenir for him to tnlte
with him. The presentation speech was
made by Dcwltt C. Huntington.
Tho Omaha Water company has con
tracted with II. G. Qasklll of New York
for a duplex horizontal pumping engine
with a capacity or C.000,000 In twenty-four
hours. The pump 1h to bo delivered by
the end of April.
Tho Brownell Hull Christmas musical
presented a program participated In by
thoisc young women: Misses Hoover.
t.affln, .Mamie Ambrose. Wagoner, Van
Antwerp, Lulu Crcmer, Daisy Reese,
Bessie McElhonny, Mamie Sumner, Mar
tha Folds, Jennie Kelly and Mrs. Ilobert
Dohorty.
The band accompanying Lcavltt's GI
gantlans gave a fine street parade at
ndon.
A' successful oyster supper was given
by the First Methodist Kplscopat women.
Schlank & Prince nnd tho Wheeler 4s
WJlson company have put out handsome
Christmas decorations.
Solsbury, late pitcher for the Allo
ganlcs, lias gone to work In the Union
Pacific headquarter?, and, It Is said, will
pitch for tho Union Ppclflcs In 1S83.
Miss Maggie Swift, daughter of Thomas
Swift, Is homo from St. Francis' academy
at Council Bluffs to enjoy. the holiday
vacation. '
Twenty Years Ago
The converts of the meetings con
ducted by Itov, B. Fay Mills held a re
union at tho Young Men's Christian asso
ciation building, and the assemblage in
cluded qUIto a numbrr o prominent busl-
Tho closing exercises at Crolghton unl' ,
versify for Christmas were very Inter
esting. T. V. Lee, A- J. Qearon, K. C,
McShanc, A. J, Davis, C F. Hoffman
and many others had prominent places
on the program.
The city council meeting was turned
Into a sort of mass meeting for the con
sideration of the plan for completing the
Union depot project, and the decision was
to take a llttlo time to decide on the rail
road's proposition. Among those present
at tho meeting, asldo from Mayor Bemts
and the council, were: George H. Boggs,
Thomas Fltzpatrlck, Edward Rosewater,
John M. Thurston, T. A. Crelgh, George
P. Barker, B. W. Nash, John D. Howe,
W. N. Nason, C. S. Montgomery, Dr. W,
H. Ilanchett, C. H. Brown. Joseph IL
Barker. John L. Webster and C. F. Good
limn. Will Cowin. son ot Mr. and Mrs. J. c.
Cowln, was home from school In the east
for the holidays.
Ono of the conspicuous events of the
season was tho marriage of Miss Bertha
Clarko Yost, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Casper E. Yost, and Charles Offutt by
Uov. Dr. Duryca nt First Presbyterian
church In the evening. It brought to
gether many of tho city's leading folk.
The ushers wcro Luther Drake, Robert
Patrick. Judge Herbert J. Davis, Captain
Crowder. U. 3. A., Henry Wymnn nnd
Nethurton Hall; the mold of honor, Miss
Saolo Nash; bridesmaids. Miss Clara
Brown, Miss Bessie Yates, 6Uss Mary
Poppleton. Miss Mary Sherman: best
man, Clauda Thomas of Mlddleton. The
eoupla left later iu the evening for Florida
to loiter for a while bclore proceeding to
Cuba, whenco they wore to go to Ver
Cruz and Old Mexico.
Ten Yearn Aro
Two Burlington engines went on a
rampage at South Omaha and thon Into
the scrap ptlo, and Engineer T, D. Helen
and Fireman M. Hoops of oppoulng en
gines wcro seriously, though not fatally,
Injured.
Tho directors of tho Auditorium com
pany met and appointed these commit
tees: Finance, F. II. Davis, Word M.
Rurgcsn, F. A. Nueli; ways and mens,
R V. Peck, Thonuis C. Byrne, Johrt L.
Kennedy; biUUlng, F. E. Sanborn, J. F.
Carpenter, C. H. Pickens.
Arthur S. Peatse and Miss Mary Oliver
Lehmor were married at the home of the
bride's iarcnts, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Lehmer, 1822 Farnam stret-t, at 7:$0 p. m.
by Rev. F. A. Hatch, pastor of Plymouth
Congregational church. Miss Ella. Phelps
acted as maid of honor and Edwin Chapln
as groomsman.
F. A. Nash, general western agent or
the Milwaukee In Omaha, announced that
Charles 8. Young, advertising agent of
tho Burlington, had accepted the posi
tion of general advertising agent for thu
Milwaukee, with headquarters at Chicago,
and would take tho place January 1.
a. N. Boyer, a wealthy former of
Hamilton county, wan successfully oper
ated on for. appendicitis at a local hos
pital. Tho long-looUed-for street railway com
bine was perfected by milking the Omaha
& Council Bluffs Street Railway company
out ot tho old Omaha & Florenco com
pany, with a capital of JIB.OW.OW and
power to take over the Omaha, lines and
those that may lie In tho suburbs. Thu
directors announced that all of this stock
wuuld not be Issued at once, but a large
part of It would be used providing the
company built now suburban unes.
People and Events
Ulessed are the generous givers. They
are the salt of the earth.
As a circulator of money, J. P, Morgan
Is backed off the stage by Kris Krlnsio.
Owing to the risk of getting an indict
ment, the wise trust will keep Its socks
on.
Every good fellow may be sure of satis
factory results by giving his Christmas
offering the fashionable V-ahape.
These times bring to home owners with
harp-eyed kids a realization ot the
scarcity of space for hiding things.
In the name of , high Olympus, how
can tho pudgy Santa Claus squeeze
through the modern chimney flue SxlS
Inches?
As soon as the Christmas worries aro
over the Oratorical Institute of Top'eka,
Kan., will grapple with the problem;
"Arc buck-wheat cakes as effective as
new flannels In bringing a man up to the
scratch?"
Amerioan wor correspondents seques
tered iu the neighborhood demolish the
"beautiful blue Danube" dream wafted
by Strauss to millions of devotees ot the
waits, lit reality the Danule is a mighty
eiIow torrent rivaling the complexion
of ths Qhio In flood Urn. I
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SECUIAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
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I New York World: Boxing under
i rcilglous auspices Is a departure In
I church extension work which ought to
help the development of muscular Chris
1 tfanlty while attracting a new patronage
, to tho churches, and opening a promising
j field for missionary worlc.
I Pittsburgh Dispatch: A New York
j preacher suggests that It would be a
good idea for tho average husbafid to
j mind tho children and give his wife an
evening off every week. ,Ncxt thing will
bo a suggestion that the adage about
woman's work never being done be re
, placed by an eight-hour day for hoiise
; keepers.
j Brooklyn Eagle: A Kansas church
i marriage bureau which has made 400
couples happy, found that women who
wrote for husbands almost always de
manded wealth, while men who wrote
for wives never mentioned money. This
should surprise no one. Alimony Is not
paid by wives, and their bank accounts
; aro not of much Importance In modern
calculations.
BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN,
Truth may not be knocked down, but it
cannot be held down.
Tho faith that counts is the kind that
always counts on results.
All doors fly open to the man who hat
plenty of sunshine In his face.
Tell your Joys to everybody, but bury
your troubles In your own graveyard,
The punishment for bad manners and
habits Is more certain than, ths punish
ment for crime.
The devil never has any trouble with
the mttfi who loves money and hates work.
About nine preachers out of ten find It
much easier to preach than to practice.
Prayer la about tho only thing in which.
a good man may engage in which there
is no uncertainty.
The man who does not sock first the
kingdom of God- and his righteousness,
will find little else that will do him much
good.
Always be the first to see, the bright
spot In a black sky and your faco will
soon begin to look as good to those you
meet as a barrel of apples does to a boy.
THE HOME WITH CIIILDIIRN.
Merry Christmas" There Sounds
Hie Heart Note.
Collier's Weekly.
You who have children aro the blessed
ones; you who open sleepy eyes In the
gray dawn of Christmas morning to see
a small faco round with excitement peer
ing through th.o bedroom door and hear
from the next room treblo shouts of
"Merry Christmas" and the scampering
of little feet. You are the happy ones
about whose Christmas tree the gifts
are mostly toys. There are so many who
have no children. So many homeless
peoplo In city boarding houses. In vil
lage cottages, In mines, In camps, tn
offices; so many lonely women whom a
cruel fate and a chaotic world hare
robbed of their heritage; so many barren
In body or In spirit, to whom home Is
but a dwelling placo and the futuro only
a dream. You about whose skirts little
hands are clinging are the ones to whom
a Christmas really comes. When In the
dusk of Christmas day tho curtains are
drawn over the holly wreaths, and the
fire throws a soft light among tho
yuletlde evergreens, flickering on tho
shining tree around which the gifts lie
Every Home Needs
This Fine Remedy
A Mild, rtliabU laxative-tonic Is Boiut
thing Wo ratuily Should Be Without
No well regulated home Bhould be
wjthout a laxative for thoro la scarcely t
a day in a family or several persons
that someone doesn't complain of a
headache, of sleepUssuess, or ohow the
first signs of a cold.
A laxative then becomes a necessity
for what won a trifling congestion at tho
beginning may run Into a serloiu cold
or fever. No harsh remedy Is neeilcd,
but simply a mild laxative-tonic that
will make the liver active nnd stir up
the bowels. People wbo have tried a
great many tilings, and aro thomselveo
heads of families who have seen tho lit
tle Ills run to big ones, will tell you
that there In nothing oetter than Dr.
Caldwell'B Syrup Pepsin, which you .can
obtain at any drug store for fifty centa
or one dollar a bottle, he latter being
the family size.
Among the great believers In Syrup
Pepsin for constipation in old or young,
and as a general household emergency
remedy, are Mrs. Ephl Trotter, Myforu, i
Cal., and Mr, K, E. Williams, Callawaj.
Neb., und they lways have a bottle of'
It In tho home. Ji Is scientifically com-1
pounded and Its purity Is vouohed for. j
Mothers givo It to tiny babies, and
grown pecoplc, taking a little larger
amount, find It equally effective. It Is
tnlld and gentle, pleasant taatlns and
free from griping.
It does not hide behind the name of
a popular fruit or vegetable, and Is ah-
Get One for Him
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for Xmas....
Any Portrait
en a handsome
burnished copper
Watch-fob
Reproduced from any photograph you
send engraved on tho metal and abso
lutely indestructible. A fob tbut ma;
be worn by any ono who dresses in goad
taste, at the same time a lasting novel
picture.
Send photo and $1.00. Photo f
will be returned with car:
BEE PUBWSHING CO.
Engraving Dept.
BEE BLDG., OMAHA, NEB.
Ortsra xoay b left at Bee Office.
' scattered, when a little head rests
' tn,llt afalnftt Min fllHir' VtlAA will.
the utter trust ot childhood, and a soft,
tired body snuggles up against tho
mother's breast, then Is Ufa Justified. The
memory of a hard and lonely past maj
bring unnoticed tears, the fear of an un
certain future may sober the smile, but
this moment at least Is a perfect one.
Tho world may roll on with Its wars
and wickedness and. misery, kingdoms
may go and governments may como,
philosophies and religions may wax and
wane, but to you at least Is this life
worth living, and to you Is Immortality
assured.
SUNDAY SMILES.
"That dentist says ho won't make mo
yell."
"Don't you believe him?"
"I'd like to believe him; but why ha:
he gone to shut the windows?" RolU
more American.
Student In Physics Could you get a
shock by holding onto tho receiver of a
telephone?
Professor It depends upon whom Is
talking. Judge.
"Children tako naturally to a belief In
Santa Clans."
"Yes," replied Mr. Growchor. "Children
are mighty Independent nowadays. They
would rather believe in any old kind of a
myth than feel under tho slightest obliga
tions to their parents." Washington Star.
"You seem harmless," said tho police
Justice, "but the officer teports you rs
having no visible means of support.
Haven't you any trade or occupation?"
"I have, your honor," responded tho
man; "I'm an enumerator. I'm out of a
Job Just now, your honor, but every ten
years I help take the national census."
Chicago Tribune.
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER.
Elisabeth Stuart Phelps.
Lord, for the lonely heart
I pray apart
Now th,at the son of sorrow
Whom this tomorrow
Rejolceth not, O Lord,
Hear my weak word.
For lives too bitter to be borne,
For the tempted and tho torn,
For tho prisoner In the cell.
For tho hame lip doth not tell,
For the haggard suicide.
Peace, peace thla Chrlsmastlds!
Into the desert, trod
By the long sick, O God;
Iqto the patient gloom
Of that small room
Where lies the child of pain.
Of all neglected most, be fain
To enter, healing and remain.
Now at the fall of day ' '
I bow and pray.
For those who cannot sloep
A watch I keep.
0 let the starving brain
Bo fed nnd ted again.
At thy behest
The tortured nerves find rest.
1 seo the vacant chair,
Father of souls, prepare
My poor thought's feeble power
To plead this hour.
For the empty aching lioniej
Where the silent footstepo tome,
Where tho unseen face looks on,
Where tho handclasp Is not felt.
Where the dearest oyes are gone,
Where' the' portrait on the wall
Stirs and struggles as to speak.
Where the light breath from the hall
Calls the color to the cheek.
Where the voice brenks In the hymn.
Where tho Bunset burnetii dim,
Where the lato large tear will start,
Frozen by the broken heart;
Where tho lereon Is to learn
How to Jlvo, to grieve, to yearn,
How to bear and how to bnw,
Oh, tho Christmas that Is fled,
Lord of living and of dead.
Comfort thou!
MRS. KPH. TROTTER
solutely free from any prohibited ingre
dient. Families who once use Syrup
Pepsin forever after hvoIc! cathartics,
salts, pills and other Harsh medicines,
for these only do temporary good, aro
nauseuus and a shock to any Uellrato
oystom. Such things should never b
given to children.
If no momber of your family 1-as over
used Syrup Pepsin and yuu woulo Hko
to make a personal trial of it bofoto
buying it In the regular way of a drug
gist, send your address a postal wIU
do to Dr. W. U. Caldwelt, j IS Wasn
ington St., Montlcello, ill., and a freo
sample bottle Will bo trailed yon, He
sults aro always guaranteed or nioiie
will be refunded.
Price
$1.00
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