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Every llttlo dandollon has a root
all Its own.
This open season for bird men
must ho about beginning.
Rumor has it that that was only
tho handle of tho hatchet Clark and
Bryan buried.
"Tho ChincBO must go," says a
writer in tho Now York World.
Good bye, John, tako caro of your
self. If you are not getting poor as
quick as you might, strlko ono of
the many got-rlch-qulck roads as a
cross-cut. .
An empty Missouri Jail is to bo
converted into a chlokoncoop. Some
full Jails are also bolng used as
cbickoncoops.
Credit tho Powor Canal company
for Incorporating horo In Nebraska
instead of going to Now Jersoy for
that purpoBo.
It would seem that tho chief com
plaint of tho doctors against Dr.
Ktlcdmann 1b that ho has gotton tho
free advertising.
The American Peace society seems
to tiavo precipitated war to tho hilt
by cxcUlng Dr. Abbott from its
membership roll.
Thoy have turned tho sod for tho
now Missouri capital building. But
what is tho hurry? Tho old ono has
boeh burned only two or throe years.
Chicago, evidently tired of de
manding abatement of its lake-front
smoko nuisance, has gone to agi
tating a modern auto stand along
Michigan avenuo.
Tho Panama canal has Qoothals
'guessing, tho lower stratum coming
to tho top Uko Wisconsin politics.
But. it Is nothing but sludgo, and
easy to scoop out.
Tho last word in tho lino of ro
formors has come to light In tho
Minnesota man who proposes to ex
cludo financiers from tho finance
committees In congress.
That "Wolcomo" sign could flash
out Just as warm a welcome to vis
itors at Borne point whero it would
interfero less with tho general
beauty of the landscape.
Secretary Daniels is rovising the
nautical vocabulary downward to
simplo English, but has not yet felt
strong enough to tacklo the naughty
vocabulary of tho sailors.
Dan R. Hanna exhorts republicans
and progressives to get together and
save the country from the demo
crats. So Dan now believes thero
is such a thing as a republican.
If those "extortionate" water
rates were "robbery" when exacted
by the old water company, are they
any less "robbery," now that the
water board forces the payment?
A Minnesota woman wants her
marriage annulled so her daughter
need not be her own second cousin
That la bad enough, but not Quite so
bad as If the aggrieved wife had to
be her own mother-in-law.
ThiB knocking around as a satel
lite is not what It is cracked up to
be. But the man in tho moon has
been at It so long, and his smile
came off so long ago, that he can
hardly appreciate Secretary Bryan's
feelings.
The Houston Post protests against
forcing the classy Angoras of Texas
Into competition with the common
goats of Europe. When it comes to
the real article in 'Billies" we guess
Kerry Patch, St. Louis, can ehow
soma class,
The Mantle of Charity.
The presence among us last week
of tho most noted history writers of
this section hns drawn attention to
the field nnd tho function of tho his
torian. Tho mission of history, we
nro told, is to sot forth and inter
pret tho facts of our social, political
and industrial life. Whore tho
testimony Is conflicting, tho histor
ian Is supposed to weigh evidence
and pass Judgments, and his dispas
sionate measurements, free from the
bias of contemporary projudlco or
passion, are relied upon to prevent
distortion or exaggeration and givo
the true perspective
But how far Is it Incumbent on
the historian to spread tho mantlo
of charity over tho faults and foibles
of public porsonages? Must ho cry
out from tho housetops, or may ho
spoak about soma things In whis
pers? That question will always bo
pertinent when wo read tho history
of events Involving flcrco acrimony
and bitter accusation. Plainly, tho
historian, Uko tho epitaph writer,
must reserve tho right to bo chari
table. For proof wo may rofor to a llttlo
text book on tho history of Ne
braska Just Issued from tho pen of
A. E. Sheldon, lecturer on this sub
ject at tho Stato univorslty. Tho
first governor of Nebraska after it
attained statehood was Impeached
and removed from office for misap
propriation or public property, but
our kindly historian Is careful to
add that "ho still retained tho con
fidence of his friends, and years
aftor was electod to tho legislature
by tho pooplo of his homo county."
Under anothor governor throo stato
officials escaped by a Scotch vordlct,
an Incident to which the generous
historian refers with only this sen
tence: "Thoro was an impeach
ment trlnl of three stato officers for
mlsuso of stato money." Under still
anothor governor of Nebraska an
ombcirting stato treasurer was
tried, convicted and Bontoncod to tho
penltontlary for twenty years, but
wo aro assured that ho "nlways as
serted that tho money was lost or
stolon by others."
But really, why burden history
with a lot of unpleasant things that
moBt pooplo wish to forgot? If
thoro Is any placo whore tho mantlo
of charity may bo readily excused it
Is in writing history, for who will
caro In anothor hundrod years?
Advice to Young Minister!.
When you become pastors of churches
ba careful how you dabble In political
or civic affairs nnd make no statements
you are not sure of. If you make a
charge Involving moral or legal turpitude.
be sure you are prepared to support your
charge with the absoluto proof. And you
should understand that merely moral evi
dence Is not enough In such cases, you
must havo legal evidence, evidence on
which you can rest your case before a
court of justice.
TIiub Rov. Mark MathowB, D. D
official head of ono of tho great
Protestant denominations, addressed
seminary studonts preparing for tho
ministry. If his advico woro Inva
riably followed It would bo well for
tho ministry and tho church, both of
which should bo oxtremely Jealous
of tholr good name and reputation.
A mlnlstor Bhould bo known for his
soberness and wisdom of spooch, as
well as thought. Unless ho Is ho
will not havo much Influence. Pri
marily tho preacher of tho gospel Is
not thought of as a civic or political
reformer. Tho sanctity of his call
ing Bhould oblige him to let nothing
but oxtromo necessity or omorgoncy
divert his efforts into those chan
nels. Whore ho turnB his attention
to such matters It should bo only tor
tho sako of hlgti Ideals. Tho Bible
is full of emphasis of tho importance
of a wlso and tightly-reined tonguo
nnd of th'o disastrous character of
tho dthor sort.
Western Immigration.
Germany Is said to foresee, as, of
courso, .Americans dor a tremendous
Pacific coast forolgn immigration as
an Immediate result of tho Panama
canal, It Is tlmo for us to prepare
to moot tho conditions ensuing from
such an Influx, for new tides of Im
migrants bring now and complicating
problems. It is important that we
hasten to solve, or at least tempo
rarily adjust, such as aro now per
plexing us in California and adja
cent states.
The Pacific coast will attract many
from Europo as a consequenco of tho
opening of the canal, and yot tho In
ttrrnountaln and middle west should
share In tho accretions, for thoy offer
excellent advantages. The west as
a whole !b tho placo for any great
Influx of nowcomers. Tho slightest
srrvoy of our census figures will Im
press the seriousness of that thought.
In 1911 wo admitted to our shores,
according to official rocordB, 878,587
Immigrant aliens, only 11 per cent of
whom settled in the fifteen states
constituting what Is known as tho
transmissourl west. Tho majority
stayed In the already ovorcrowded
east. In the decade Immediately
preceding 1910 some 5,000,000 per
sons of foreign birth came to seek
homes In the .United States. The
census officers of 1910 found more
than 43 per cent of them, in Atlantic
states, over 20 por cent In the east
north central states, 13,7 per cent In
New England and less than 30 per
cent in those great rich sections ly
ing south of the Ohio and west of the
Mississippi.
What we must have is a better
distribution. Happily our govern-
mont is beginning to appreciate that
but not enough as yet. If wo In
clude nil tho states west of the Allc
ghenles, wo find that two-thirds of
tho crop values come out of the west
Yet tho larger part of this soctlon
those great empires botweon tho Mis
souri and the Pacific has hardly
bogun to bo developed. Tho stern
economic needs of our time cannot
sanction anything but tho most per
sistent effort to divert this tldo of
Immigration away from tho smaller,
congested centers of population into
this comparatively empty vastness of
fertility and opportunity out horo In
tho west.
True and False Consumption Cures.
According to tho verdict of tho
National Society for tho Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis, tho fa
mously reputed romedy of Dr.
Erledmann of dormany Is not a
specific for the euro of this disease.
If that is final, It must bo generally
disappointing, oven though it may
not bo very surprising, for doubt had
grown Btrongor with continued fail
ure to perform the magic results
promlsod. Our hopes of discover
ing a spoclflc for this dread malady
had by tho spectacular appearance
of tho German physician almost
taken possession of us, but now wo
seem doomed to bo lot down to dis
appointment. It may bo posslblo that tho society
has erred In Its finding, nnd yet it
has not como to it proclpltatoly,
though, unfortunately, an element
of professional Jealousy, possibly
not In this society as much as among
medical men at large, has obtained
with rospoct to Dr. Frlodmann's
clnlms. Tho German doctor was
soveroly criticized from tho start for
his "unprofessional" and "uneth
ical" methods of proclaiming and
marketing his euro, when tho Im
portant quostion was an to tho ef
ficacy of tho euro, rather than tho
way it was advertised. It would
havo boon posslblo to havo employed
brass band tactics of publicity for
tho most lnfalllblo remedy.
Tho National Socloty, In rendering
Its Judgment, advises continued uso
of tho "present woll-trlod romodlcs."
Which prompts tho inquiry, What
aro tho presont romodles for tuber
culosis, nsldo from puro air and sun
shine nnd favorablo altitudes? What
specific, or oven comparatively re
liable, remody for whlto plaguo has
medical sclonco to offer? If thoro
Is nono, wo may expect successive
"discoveries" to contlnuo to nppear,
and in turn to be scoffed at until
tho real dlscovory is made, and then
wonderment that It should havo
boon bo long coming.
No Cause, for Alarm.
It would bo Interesting to know
whether Germany shares to any con
siderable extent Prof. Munsterberg's
fear that an Anglo-American peace
agreement .foreshadowed unfriendli
ness to that empire. Tho professor,
who lectures at Harvard, In speak
ing at tho centennial celebration of
peace bptwecn us and England,
warns us not to lay too groat stress
upon this fact, slnco, while tho
United States and England had boon
at pcaco for 100 years, tho United
States nnd Germany had always been
nt peaco; and further, that It might
givo tho impression of concerted an
tagonism for Germany.
Mr. Carnoglo's reply to this seems
straight to tho point:
"Wo aro so innocent of the
charge," said he, "that we cannot
imagine that anybody would suBpoct
us."
Whllo tho United States might
fall to allay tho strango fears of tho
professor, wo should not havo diffi
culty In satisfying Gormany of its
friendship, for which we can offer,
tho strongest ovfdonco in our past
relations. Prof. Munstorborg 1b
correct in ono thing, and that Is in
claiming American patriotism for
our Oerman-Amorlcan citizens, for
thoro la nono better. Tho United
States mny always bo trustod for
making no alliance that would In
any way embarrass its wholesome
relations with Germany.
Those Civil Service Tests.
President Wilson proposes .to ex
tend tho lines of civil service by
bringing In certain classes of post
masters not herototoro under its re
quirements. It was to be expected
that tho now administration should
progress in this direction so de
cisively defined by preceding repub
lican administrations. President
Taft advanced civil service further
than It had ever boon up to his tlmo
and It would be. lamentable If his
successor did not progress, for con
sistency to tho Ideals of scientific
government rests largely upon the
merit system In office-holding,
The democrats, of courso, object
to the former president's fourth-
class postmastershlp order, which
left In offlco a great many repub
licans, and President Wilson has
gono so far as to say that this action
violates at leaBt tho fundamental
purpose of the civil service law be
cause "It placed permanently In of
flee, without examination or other
tests as to merit or efficiency, a
great horde of persons." But in tho
case of those thus left in office, does
not their work in the past consti
tute sufficient test of their fitness?
It would seem like ex post facto
regulation to subject them to the re
quirements of applicants for appoint'
ment. Does anyone doubt ttiat had
I Mr. Wilson been in Mr Taffs place
ho would havo done differently in
this matter?
The School of Hard Knocks.
Thoso San Francisco school boys,
to whom President Wilson presented
a flag, must havo como away from
Iho White' Houbo with very old
thoughts In their young minds, for
tho president laid somo boforo them.
"I daro say you think," said the
president, "that schoolmasters are
often a bit hard on you In requiring
you to do things in order that you
may pass tests of tho school, but I
want to warn you that when you
get out of school you aro going to
have hardor schoolmasters than you
had before"
It would bo well for ovcry school
boy. to read that, for It Is full of
wisdom and truth. A member of
tho presont congress writes in his'
biography in tho Congressional Di
rectory, "I was educated In tho
school of hard knocks." It Is not
necessary to make llfo unpleasantly
hard to mako It useful and attract
ive but boys must be made to feel
tho force of the fact, that llfo never
ceases to bo a training school. It is
a continuous discipline and tho man
as wol) as tho boy least amenable
needs tho most of the discipline.
Most boys at somo time In their lives,
whllo building alrcaatles, imagine
how when grown thoy will do as
they please, without having to oblige
thomselvca to the rules of Bchool or
discipline of homo.
But nobody over does as he pleases
without very sorlous consequences
to hlmsolf and others. Life is not
laid out on a do-as-you-plcaso basis,
othorwiso ages would not havo been
spent in devising the best system
for organizing and maintaining soci
ety. Wo form a vast mutual boneflt
association, and in splto of potty and
personal selfishness," wo conform to
tho rules or pay the penalty in costly
terms. Thoroforo, that boy who early
learns tho lesson of obodionco and
dlsclpllno has a great advantage over
tho ono who resists it until lator in
llfo when ho should bo Its maBter
instead of its servant.
Is This a Change of Base?
In the last national campaign one.
political party declared unequivo
cally for woman suffrage, and the
presidential candidato of that party,
bolng Its contributing editor, natu
rally enlisted tho unqualified sup
port of the Outlook. The prosump
tlon Is that had the now party proved
successful, It would by this time bo
endeavoring to carry out its promise
to extend the franchise to women.
But here wo find tho Outlook almost
in tho position of a backslider. Evi
dently It no longer boltovcs that "no,
poqplo can justly claim to bo a truo,
democracy which denies political
rights on account of sex," for It has
gono back to tho vlow that suffrago
should not bo thrust upon women
iinloss thoy want It, and entertains
serious doubts whether a majority of
women want suffrago, for this is
what It says:
The fact that practically all woman
suffragists nro opposed to asking women
whether they wish tho vote or not con
firms our belief that only a small minority
of women favor this political revolution.
And we repeat what we have often af
firmed before that It Is neither demo
cratic nor just to Impose on woman the
duty of sharing the responsibility In
volved In nctlvo participation In govern
ment without first ascertaining whether
or not she wishes to assume this respon
sibility from which hitherto she has been
exempt.
It 1b only fair to explain that what
wo aro quoting purports to bo writ
ton by tho editor of tho Outlook, and
Is not noccsuarlly concurred In by
tho contributing editor, but It would
bo interesting and instructive to
know whether or not thero wero any
dissenting votes in tho editorial board
when this expression was authorized.
Church Ads in Saloons.
Tho position of the Chicago cler
gyman who fulminates against the
practice of advertising tho church
and its enterprises on placards hung
in saloons, may bo considered as In
consistent, but It Is not new. The Pha
risees and Bcribos murmured their
rebukes of Jesus because He received
and ato with sinners, forgetting, it
seems,, that His mission as Ho hlm
solf described it, was "to call not tho
righteous, but sinners to repent
ance.". And according to tho scrip
tural narrative, the Master mot tho
Pharisaical criticism by replying:
What man of you, having an hundred
sheep. It he loso one of them, doth not
leave the ninety and nine In the wilder
nos s and go after that which Is lost, until
he find It?
If the church is searching .for lost
sheop, why not look everywhere they
aro apt to bo? The Chicago minister
may be ever so sincere in his pecu
liar position, but is ho wise? And is
ho leading many men out - of the
saloon into the church?
Somehow tho saloon and kindred
places seem to havo been loft for
the special efforts of the Salvation
Army and Volunteers of America
whoso missionaries pass in and out
of them unafraid and, apparently,
commanding respect of thoso within.
It these good people can afford to
venture In person, perhaps churches
can afford to risk a few placards
there.
The down-east court order prohlb
ltlng newspapers from printing evl
dence in divorce cases means that
the newspapers lu that jurisdiction
will have to print the tale of marital
woe before It becomes evidence.
Looking BackWari
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MAY II.
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Thirty Years Ago
The second annual May party of the
Ancient Order of Hibernian band at
Crounse's hall wan attended bj about 200
people and the Plattsmouth Helicon band
cumo up as special guests. Tho man
agers of the party were: P. J. Carroll,
J. C Douglas, J. McCoy, W. A. Golden,
C. Nakcr, P. Douglas and John Bolan.
The Brotherhood of Locomotlvo Fire
men held an enjoyable ball lmt night at
Masonlo hall, the committee In charge
Including O. T. Anderson, Thomas F.
Barry, Bert ltenney, William Burk, C.
C. Fair and A. Hurley.
The millinery establishment of H. and
C. F. Hickman has been taken over by
the creditors.
Oust Burk, one of the ex-pollcomen,
Is now night watchman at the post
offlcc. Charles Turner has purchased of Gen
eral Lowe the vacant lots at the corner
of Tenth and Harney and will erect a
brick business block.
Saunders street is at present a regular
bog, with two loaded wagons stuck In
the mud opposite Major Armstrong's res
idence. Colonel ' and Mrs. Ludlngton left for
Washington, where he enters tho office
of the quartermaster general.
Tho Omaha 'bus line has Just put In
a splendid new omnlbue to hold ten pas
sengers. Twenty Years' Ago
John Bcott Browning or new Tork,
representing tho firm of Browning, King
& Co., woo In tho city.
George 15. Gibson left for Los Gaton.
Cat., to attend the funeral of his father,
Thomas Gibson, who was secretary ot
the Omaha Board of Trade from 1879 to
1S86.
Abe Bldner, brother-in-law of George
Coulter, superintendent of the fire alarm
service, fell off one of. tho Dodson Mov
ing company's wagons, which ho was
driving, at Ninth and Douglas streets
and sustained a fracture of tho skull.
Another meeting attended by Omaha
and Council Bluffs citizens, bent on ob
taining a 6-ccnt fare across the bridge
was held In tho office ot Mayor Bemls
and It was decided to make a demand
upon the Omaha & Council Bluffs
Bridge and Motor company, for this con
cession. The company was represented
by Guy C. Barton, vice president; Judge
Wright, secretary, and J. H. Millard,
treasurer.
The continued absence of Seth Mobley
In Chicago, made It necessary to call for
help In looking after Nebraska's exhibit
at the World's fair, so Commissioner
General Qaraeau asked D. L. Carter to
take up tho work and Mr. Carter left
for Chicago at once.
Ton Years Ago
I believe the worst Is over and that
thu labor trouble will soon be solved In
Omaha," said Governor Mickey, who was
hero acting as the chief arbiter of the
difficulties pending between employers
and some 3,000 employes.
Ernest Sweet presented a plea at the
North Omaha Improvement club for
bringing presuro to boar upon the newly
elected city counctlmon to prevent the
changing, ot the ward boundaries as pro
posed. " "
Judgo Ben S. Baker, of the supreme
court of New Mexico, with Mrs. Baker,
dropped In on old friends In Omaha, for
a brief visit. He was a strong booster
for that territory. Ho said It gavo Prcsl
dent Boosevelt a hearty reception and
that the people impressed on him their
claim for statehood.
Dr. Gld E. Johnson returned from In
diana, where he had been for a two
weeks' visit.
The 1,450 members of the Young Men's
Christian association, elected seven di
rectors as follows: I. W. Carpenter, J.
H. Dumont, T. F. Sturgcss, Dr. W. O.
Henry, J. A. Sunderland, George W.
Sumner and Charles N. Robinson.
People and Events
A school of whalea Is reported off the
coast of New Jersey. The summer re
sort season Is fairly on.
Eighty-five American teachers have
sailed from San Francisco for Manila.
Storm signals are flying from the flag
polos ot local bachelor clubs.
President Huerta promises to crush the
rebellion In Mexico within a month. As
a promlser the Mexican chief threatens
the laurels of Omaha Water boarders.
A St. Louis preacher who put over a
flno article of prayer for victory for the
home club gavo an exhibition of local
pride St. Peter couldn't pass up un
heeded. The Public Service commlsnlon of Mis
sourl notifies electric light companies to
atop exacting a minimum charge of Jl.
The commission rules that the charge
for metered service Ib exactly what the
meter registers and no more. Score one
for the small consumer.
Tho festive and fecund dandelion does
not confine Its powers to that of a coin,
plexlon boautlfler. Whether attacked with
knife or gunplck tho dandelion pours oil
of Joy on the spinal column of Its de
votees, so limbering 'the klnUs that sleep
becomes a dreamless melody.
The fact that the managing editor of a
railroad literary bureau In Massachu
setts pulled down a salary of $100,0
should be emphasized by the deans of
Journullstlo schools. With monetary ro
waids properly emphasized schools of
JuumaUsm will begin tr look up.
Colonel Henry Wattereon Is training
his typewriter on suffragists, particularly
the noisy division ot advanced women,
composed, as he says, of "discontented
wives and dissatisfied old maids." In
the name of high Olympus, how did a
man holding such harsh opinions pre
serve his luxuriant locks past threescore
andtenT
Blxty progressive preachers of Pitts
burgh are taking gymnastic exercises
for the purpose of acquiring muscular
vigor necessary to emphasize the punch
in their sermons. Included In thu exer
cise Is deep breathing, the mastery ot
which insures a volume of sound suffi
cient to fill the Urgent uudltorlum. "With
thrsn accomplishments athletes of the
cloth hope to overwhelm the competition
of Industrial anvils.
Lively Movement In Literature.
Chicago News.
On learning that tho members of the
Chinese assembly have been throwing
books at one another Mr. Carnegie shoula
recognize their appreciation ot literature
by presenting the members ot the assem
bly with a library.
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
Washington Poet: The dawn of uni
versal peace sighted by lit. Bev. Kthel
bert Talbot shows that the good bishop
is an early riser.
Chicago Tribune: A popular pastor of
a rich congregation preached a sermon
denouncing the tobacco habit and fol
lowed It up with a sermon on bridge
whist Some preachers are not afraid of
anything.
St. Louis Republic: A Minneapolis
clergyman preached recently on how to
loaf, which would seem to be a singu
larly fatuous proceeding in this season
of spring fever, when everybody would
fain know how to keep his mind on his
Job.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: A well-meaning
Boston clergyman says girls who have
occasion to go oUt-of-doors after dark
should carry a cahe so they may bo pre
pared for mascullno annoyers. It seems
that a cane In feminine hands seems a
menaco In Boston.
Houston Post: A Chicago minister de
clares that tho way to deal with profan
ity Is to remove Its most fruitful causes.
We do not know what ho regards as
causes, but the hook-ln-the-back waist
Is one, and the little sharp-pointed but
tons the laundry puts In your shirts get
results when they are stepped on.
Baltimore American: It Is to be feared
that the Bible ola6 In Philadelphia ad
drcsrrd by a millionaire was somewhat
demoralized and Its spirituality depressed
temporarily when tho speaker displayed
1100,000 in gold bonds to the dazzled eyes
of the flesh and announced that anyone
could get that' much by following his
example. Doubtless, this Bible class will
now be wondering If that passage
through the eye of the needle Is such an
Impossible feat after all.
BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN.
Not one of the old prophets ever tried
to tell what a bov would do next.
An enemy Is an enemy, whether ho car
ries n. flas or a musket.
The longer the prayer the less likely
It Is to bn answered.
The sin that .Is not entirely blotted out
will soon cover the whole page again.
Love your neighbor as yourself, but
don't buy his little boy a drum.
People who havo no faults would havo
more friends It they had.
Lions aro most Uko lambs Just after
they have been fed. So aro men.
Wonder If Mr. Maxim has ever tried
his noise extinguisher at a base ball
game.
The stars arc always fighting for the
man who is faithfully doing some good
thing well.
It there Is a heaven for fools, the man
who crosses the street without looking
will be there on a front seat.
Were Methusaleh still alive, he would
probably be found plowing with the sams
crooked stick his father used.
The man who would enter the straight
gato must be willing to leavo behind htm
everything that Is crooked.
THE VNION PACIFIC CASE.
Ilentrlcted Methods of DUIntrnrn
tlnn AVorku Hnrilshtp.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The limit of Irony Is reached when a
court decision Intended to correct a
wrong brings hardship to the Innocent
as well as to the guilty. Such a con
dition has arisen In the caso of the dis
integration of the Union Pacific railroad.
America's highest tribunal has decreed
that Union Paclfio must dlspoie ot 46 per
cent of all the shares of the Southern Pa
cific railroad and It has further decreed
that this colossal task must be performed
within a brief seven weeks. To be com
pelled to sell $126,000,000 worth ot a certain
security, when all the world knows that
It must be sold within a limited and
specified time. Is a form of punishment
unique In law as well as finance.
In this Instance the Union Pacific,
which Is forced to sell, suffers heavily
because of the decline In the value of
Are Their Faces Turned
Your Way?
You realize, Mr. Merchant,
that there is a whole lot of business to
be gotten from the crowds that will
soon throng the streets on pleasant
evenings. But what are you doing to
get your share of it? The brilliant
white rays of a Tungsten Electric Sign
will carry your trade-message for blocks
and draw customers irresistibly.
Our contract department will show
you how to get a sign without the
initial investment. Ask nbout it.
OMAHA ELECTRIC LIGHT
AND POWER COMPANY
the security it Is ordered to disgorge. Bifll
that Is not even half the story. The
owners of the other 51 per cent of South
ern Paclfio shares at tho same tlmo see
the value of their property seriously de
pressed. And these owners are all
Innocent Investors who had committed no
offense against tho law.
Tho effect of the -court's decree, how
ever, has put upon the Innocent exactly
the same burden of affliction that It has
placed upon the offending Union Paclfio
railroad. So far as money loss aa penalty
goes, there is no difference between the
punishment meted out to these two
parties.
If It were only a matter of putting
1 120.000,000 in stock away from Its treas
ury and its power to vote tho Union's
task would not bo so difficult The
conrt has hedged the method of transfer
with restrictions that render the operation
one of the most trying that has como
within the scope of finance.
SUNDAY SMILES.
Hub I must go out tonight, my love.
Engagement with a customer.
Wife Very well, but don't be gone long
and
Hub And what?
Wlfe Don't come home short. Boston
Transcript.
"Don't you think the headlines In
newspapers have a tondency to make peo
ple wicked?"
"No. I don't. Most of the people who
aro wicked never expect to see their
namo In the headlines.1' Chicago Record
Herald. "Yes, everybody calls him a grafter
back there at his old home."
"Well, say. that must mako him feel
sore.
"Not a bit of It. You don't know his
old home. It's the highest praise tho
town can givo him." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"The barber was not at all dlplomatlo
when ho told my uncle he would have to
wear s wig."
"But a thing Uko that can only be a
bald statement." Baltimore American.
'You at least give that energetlo orator
credit for believing every word he says."
"Yes." replied Senator Sorghum. "That
Is what makes me doubt nls Intellectual
responsibility." Washington Star.
Plnce-vThe International Peace con- ,
gross.
She Who's the man making such a
fervent talk? My, he seems to have his
whole heart In the beseeching speech he
Is making.
He That's the delegate from Mexico, "
Chicago Post.
"It ntrlkes me, waiter, you do a great
deal of talking."
"Yes, sir; that Is what chiefly distin
guishes me, sir. from the conventional
dumb waiter, of which you may havo
heard." Chicago Tribune.
MOTHERS' DAY REMEMBRANCE
Will B. Tomllnson.
Toward glories eternal, a vision appears,
Through the mists of the morning, the
sunshine and tears.
'TIs the smile of my Mother, as sacred
with Joy
As the greeting celestial she bends to her
boy.
And her love is ns true and as precious to
me
As It was In the years when I knelt at
her knee,
And her hand In caressing lay soft on my
head
As sho prayed for a blessing. In days
that are fled.
Often wayward and thoughtless I know I
havo been.
I havo wounded the heart that appealed
for me then.
Still, I feel that In heaven I'm never for
got. For If others forsake me, my Mother will
not
When I look at myself, I've nothing to
claim
Neither merit, nor wealth, nor plaudlts-of.
fame.
But I grudge not to others such bless
ings as fall.
For tho love of my Mother Is better than
all. Here's a blossom, the fairest, as pure as
tho dew,
Else, I never could wear It, dear Mother,
for you.
And I would that Its fragrance were
wafted afar.
Like tho vupor of Incense, or beam of a
star,
Till It tolls you In heaven, with breath
ings divine,
That I love you, dear Mother, sweet
Mother of mine.
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