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4-B The Omaha Sunday Bee. j FOfNl'ED BV EDWARD ROSEWATBR VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. JEE BVILD1NQ. KARNAM AND ITTIL Entered at Omaha postofflce a second- class matter. vpttiiB nx uitncnnlPTIflW C? . . .1 . T1 - n . ...p . 1303 aturdar Bee. one rear l.w Dallr Bee, without Sunday, one year.. 4.00 niiv Bee. and Sunday, one rear 100 UUUI ....... 1 ' u ..... .- . Tvcnlng and Sunday, pei month... .....0c h.cn:ng, wimoui sunaay. per monui..v - 1 1 r. i..l..Jt OhhA.w (up Mn FJit Dally Bee. without Sunday, per month. 4oo a areas an compiainis 01 irieuiini inaeiiveriesto ;uy circulation ucm. nFMiTTANrrn Remit by draft express or postal order, payable to The Bee rubllthlnic company. Onlr 2-cent stamps received In payment of (trail accounts Personal check, ex cept on Omaha fend eastern exchange, not lecepled. OFFICES: Omaha The Bee building. South Omaha-2318 N Street Council Bluffs II North Main Street Lincoln-! Little building Chicago 901 Hearst bulldlnr. New York-Room 1106. S Fifth At. PL Loul-80l New Bank of Commerce. Washington TSS Fourteenth St. N. W. COBRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and dltorial matter should be addressed Imaha Bee, Editorial department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION. 50,085 State of Nebraska. County Of Dougls. . Dwlcht Williams, circulation manager f The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn. Say that the averse daily circulation for the month of Septsmber, U1J, was M.08S. DWIOHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st day pt Oetober, 1L ROBERT HUNTICrL Notary rublie. Subscriber rlnsr the) city temporarily akoatel tiara The Bee mailed to them. Ad drees will be cbaniced as often as reejaested. For them kind words, Miss Octo ber, many thanks. Dr. Sun eoems to have vanished tfter shedding his light upon China. So President Wilson I done tem porizing with Mexico. ToropuB fuglt. Huerta has oxecuted constitutional government In Mexico, In a grim sort of way. Don't confuse Prof, Buck with Dr. Dok. They dltfor In mart ways than one. "Safety first" would be a good slo gan also for those airship transport lion routes. Personal Ambassador 'John Lind Is nevertheless to be congratulated on getting out allvt', The big circus man's wife who got t divorce seems t) have Urea of his .hree-rlnged attentions. Every honest and honorable lawyer luffefsjfrem the operations of the Took fa the praess-len. ,- China shews Iti progreeeiveneM as i nation by elecUng Its president one week and Inaugurating Mas the next. Possibly setae newspapers have tided with HoBMa In his tirade en Underweed, hut thay hare net as yet come to sotke. Us a queer world. If h contractors aren't tearing up the slreeu. the joy riders art. Detroit Free Press. So they do It other places beside Omaha? Omaha's average annual fire loss has been increasing. The town has had more to burn as well as more left after the burning, How convenient' that those land registration offices and the most tempting duck-hunting grounds arc In such close proximity. Omaha hat been the centor of two big church conventions during the week. You cannot keep the good folks away from a good town. Foot ball fatalities and casualties seem tp have boon comiaratlvely light so tar, but the open season con tinues for another six weeks. Those administration folks are talking mighty suspiciously about government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines these days. A leading suffragette has ripped up the slit skirt, but, without any ap parent effect, at least none more ap parent than was apparent before. From photographs showing sixes and dimensions. President Yuan 8hl Kai seems tr, be "the strong man of China'" physically, as well as other fua. The officers and men on the war ships can enjoy themselves Just as much iu the neighborhood of Vera Cruz as in any other waters wo know of. "A Great Secretary of State" to the caption over an article in one of Hearsta papers. Guess whom be means. Ho, you are wrong. Thomas lefferson. Now, if any of those numerous titles that are so eager to take our Water board boss away from us will speak up and disclose their identity, we might appreciate moro what we lave. Oh horrors I Two school boards Have already authorized school pffl ;erg to atUnd the coming state teach in.' meeting here In Omaha with exr pence pa!d. Suppose sonieono gets out an aqji-jupket injunction. The Contingent Fee Curie. Most of the crookedness at the bar can be traced to the curse of Uio con tingent feo by which unscrupulous lawyers take Cases for a third or a half of whatever amount of money In Judgment they may get When a lawyer accept "works up" would express It moro accurately a case on a contingent fee he acquires a per sonal interest In tho suit In fact, he is suing as much for himself as for his client, and, wo regret to say, that the crooked lawyer will resort more quickly to questionable means and unprofessional conduct to win a case of this kind. He will run close to the penitentiary doors for himself when he would take no such reckless risk for anyone elso. It s notorious that whenever a blackmailing gamo Is being played, or a conspiracy con cocted to rob someone by a legal form, the lawyer, if there Is a lawyor in it, is there on a contingent feo to share the awag. Let us not be mlsunderstod as de nying that thero la ever Justification for contingent foe services for legal counsel or litigation. We know there are Instances where the sufferer of oppression, or tho victim of trampled rights, are helpless to eUgage compe tent attorneys for a atipulatod fee or would havo to have their cases inad equately presented against high- priced and experienced legal talent readily commanded by rich and pow erful antagonists. Inability to re tain a good lawyer in such cases might be equal to absolute denial of Justice. But where a contingent fee proposition is Justified it should be a matter of record so that even the Jury may know how muoh, or rather, how little, of the money is to go to tho plaintiff If they favor him. If evory contingent fee agreement had to bo first presented to tho oourt for ap proval, subject to revision downward of the lawyer's split, and entered on the record, we feel sure a groat Bource of festering corruption and perjury would bo cut out In part, If not altogether. This much Is certain, that when- over a crooked Job, engineered by a crooked lawyor. Is exposed tho curse ot a contingent fee Is almost without oxcoptlon found behind It. fttnt&tag Cities. Tho city expert mauaaer plan of -municipal government rest, of course, upon tho principle of reduc ing the city's affairs to the same rigid business baste as that on which pri vate concerns operate. It Is of Eu ropean origin and favorably received in many American cities. But we need to look for no panacea here any more than in the commission Plan. Both alike depend very largely upon the, character and ability of those elected to administer them. No plan of city government will ever prove successful without the right sort of stuff In the officials In charge. Germans, who have tried the city manager plan, tell us to go alow In adopting It, that is, not to proceed hjmhi tke theory that II, 1 strong enough to support nil the mistakes we may make by careless or indiffer ent selection of public servants, As the Chicago Record-Herald suggests, "In copying togas we ma;r mist tho sttHstaace." Exactly that has been dene in cme instances with the com mission plan of city government. You can get almost any new plan adopted these days, but that Is the least of the task of setting your city to rights. Leas experimenting .with fads and mere exhausting of ntMoat niysslbill- ttee Is the first thing needed. Even the old mayor and council system i4 sue ui nnu vvuhuii a j Die ut . could bo satisfactory with enough efflqlency and earnestness behind It. 1 But any scheme of city government wilt fall a prey to abuses untftse for tified by an honest. Intelligent effort and eternal vigilance against gratt and favoritism as the source of inef ficiency. Itroieae Lamps and Family Wfe, A speakor at the convention of llbrarianBMn Omaha brought out tho Interesting . point that substitution of gas and electric light ror the old keroseno lamp has led to less read ing by children In the home. No doubt that is true. But thero Is another aspect of the substitution's influence even "moro disconcerting and that Is that with tho greater diffusion of light by moans of gas and electricity, has come a dltfuston of family ties, an apparent scattering of tho forces that formerly made tor a close, compact domestic circle, fostering the ftno old intimacies be tween father and mother and the children. Perhaps! the disappearance of the old kerosene lamp is not responsible for all this and perhaps the change ts but a natural step In the evolu tion of life, but somehow one can not help feeling that society would be better off If, while holding onto its legitimate modern accomplish ments), it might also retain, at least In effect, soma of these other old Influences. For this much Is gen erally conceded; the unity of family Ufa in this country needs cultiva tion. Lights more numerous and radiant than that of tho kerosene lamp reveal that fact. The truth Is, tho tendency la toward shunting off of the home onto society some of the Blmpiest, most fundamental duties and functions of the home. All about us In our varied agencies and propagandas we find evidences of , THE OMAHA this. The school and the stato to gether would, If this tendency con tinued, evontually pro-ompt "bout all the field of home Influence. Sooner or later thore may be an awakening to the gravity of tho situation and, It Is hoped, a reversion to certain fundamental conditions. The Common Interest. The boasted glories of our sroat republic, tho land of the frolf and the home of tho brave, havo al ways Included tho opportunity of fered energetic folks to rlso, ac cording to tholr merits, to social and industrial levels In which they belong. This distinguishing char acteristic Is what has lured across the water millions of ambitious men and Wotnon, realizing that remain ing in tholr native European coun tries would mean enchainment to tholr station In llfo for successive generations. But notwithstanding these recog nized conditions, reinforced by in spiring examples of plowboys becom ing presidents, and lowly clerks climbing to industrial primacy, wo keep on talking as if classes In this country wero separated by sharp Hnea of demarkation, by unbrldgo ablo chasms. We speak, of bankers as If thoy had none but financial in terests and motives and wero con cerned only in tho borrowing and loaning of other people's monoy, when, as 41 matter of fact, the aver ago banker in tho average commu nity is also a merchant, a manu facturer, or a farmer, engaged In numerous philanthropies and occa sionally in official public service. Wo speak of the merchant as If buy ing and selling goods In his par ticular lines marked his horizon, when the chances are at loast pre ponderant that ho has Investments in other lines, may bo a director of n bank or a building association, and almost invariably was employed by some one boforo ho went into busi ness for hlmsolf. Those whom wo refer to as bolonglng to tho work ing cIsbscb aro proporly so designated from only ono point of vlow that working for wages furnishes their main support. But the wagoworker Is a capitalist so far as ho owns his own home or has other Investments ho Is a financier to the extent that ho puts his money in the bank, buys llfo Insurance or becomes a member of a co-operative building associa tion; ahd In his church lodges or trades union he setves In still dif ferent capacities. t In a Country llko ourB with ave nues of progress freely open as they aro. and class lines ni'triinnin . r " " iv.iMyiuQ nn they do, antagonisms between social j classes cannot be, . certainly should not-be, either deep..tor lastlngi, -The .conirnon Interest embraces all, and the uplift and prosperity of a single class falls of full accomplishment If it does not have an all-embracing reach Fashion's Favors. Sound the tvmball UhAut with Joy! Head these glad tidings said to have como through auth6rltatlve channels direct front Paris: Kara are coming Into fashion again. Those highly convenient and not unorna mchtnl appendages to the feminine head have Utterly been concealed by wearing the hair low, but the kaleidoscope of fashion has taken a new turn and they aro again to be seen and perchance ad mired. When tho dear Lord equipped us with ears He doubtless thought He was doing us a good turn, and it ts gratifying to know that His wisdom - - t- to 09 vindicated. Women of fash- ,on fcre now to be allowed, not only to admit that they have ears, but ac tually to show them, and perhaps to mako use of them In a way whjch .they could not do when compelled to wear them covered up and stuffed with hair. Of course, there are ears and earsj and ears, unfortunately, must be worn the shape, color and place where originally grown; being to that oxten djifercntlated from hair, they cannot be easily changed to match rll unttttmi r H -. ..-Ml . - tne whirligig of fashion. Ears,.how ever, do come in handy once and a while, and would be missed If we did not have them with ub, so the condescension of accommodating j lu.iuuii'iiinivcia PUUUIll UP weiLUIUQll and gratefully acknowledged. The Wreck of the L II. The I. II. had It proved successful, would havo been attached to the aerial eorp of the navy, which after today's fatalities now hM only two men trained to command dirigibles. From the ac count of the German balloon's destruc tion Twenty-eight persons, all who wore aboard this vessel, perished. The story ot the tragedy Is much the same as has followed the fate ot other aeroplanes or dlrtgjblo bal loons, of which great things were ex pected aa Impulses to the science ot aerial travel. But the L II did not prove successful. And we are left to wonder, though, perhaps, not In the gloom of despair, when man shall master the elements so as to make a utility of aerial navigation. Thus faf he seems to have accom plished little more than the skill of making a handsomo airship, which flies for a while, or until some little something goes wrong, and then falls. So long as all goes well, so 1 I lonr aa man Is ahln tn MrVIn n.i.m Into amiability, he masters his craft SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 19, 1913. land Imagines he Is mastering the air. jbut In an Instant the merest tilt oc curs and all Is lost Yet, of course, science In all lines of Invention has advanced at similar costs of human life, and that, too, without dampening tho ardor of eel entlsts. Aeronauts seem in ernw more Insistent In the! belief, with each recurring accident, that they are near tho goal of practical success, though laymen are slow to share their faith. Supervising Children's Reading. Tho attention of parents Is called by the principal of tho Omaha High school to the prime importance of safeguarding their children's, read ing. The Boo had occasion very re cently to refer to this as one of tho most Important duties of parents, and It hopes that Miss Mcllugh's counsel will bo heeded. Parent! should bo even more cautious about' tne menial than the physical food of tholr children, though both have a moral effect as well. "As the limb ' Is bertt, so tho tree will grow," ap plies with equal force to mind and body. Parents exert the utmost caro In selecting the schools for tholr children's training, and yot often ap pear entirely Indifferent to the read ing they do -under tholr very eyes. For all they know, their child Is feeding his plastic younr mind on the vilest of literature, or, If not ao- r tuaty vile, then of such a. character as to be unwholesome to juvenile consumption. It is qulto possible 1 ror a book to be unfit for children's 1 reading without bolng positively! evn. It Is very Important to urge this matter upon the attention of the homes, where, without realizing It, many otherwise gdod and thoughtful fathers and mothors may neglect one of tholr most solemn responsibili ties. The schoolB do well, Indeed, to lend their volco and Influence to this agitation, Lure of the (Jate Receipts. Mrs. Pankhurst may have this to consolo her In the waiting hours nt Ellis Island, that If she does finally break Into this country the irntn r. colpts at Madison Square should bo all the bigger for the delay and de portation talk. Nothing boosts gate recolpta like- Judicious advertising, which, of course, is tho sort Mrs. Pankhurst Is EOttlnc. Wn mm- need her lurid lecturing, it may oven be a direct Injury to tho cause of suf frage In this country, but that Is nnt the point now. If those mere men at the ports of ontry think thoy can get rid of this demure mtstrogu nt militancy by simply waving her aside aa she alights from the ship,, they have another rfiia Mminn .1 ti, f uroro .created by hlsoxcelloncy.'tho nonorauie ox-president of Venezuela, when similarly barred, will bo ibut a mild mimicry, we Imagine, beside tho resistance of Sister Pankhurst. With her skill at hunger strikes, aided and abetted by Mrs. Belmont's strong-box, she may make the Immigration offi cials sit up and take notice. A current magazine prints the por traits of Oscar W. Underwood and Carter Glass, labeled "Two orlglna tors of national legislation." But in tho case of the tariff bill, as It will bp with tho currency bill, when It reaches tho statute- books, tho orig inator will have to be Introduced to his measure otlferwlso unrecogniza ble after transformation, An ox-convict has written a book of prison observations entitled "Hell In Nobraska." Presumably, the ac cident of placo alone has constrained tile gentleman from Immortalizing wme other state as the scene of his experience. Try to imagine any other depart ment of our local government besides the Water board needlessly borrow ing $500,000 and paying 4H percent interest on the loan, and then hand ing the money over to the favored banks at 2 per cent and getting away with It. Evidently President Wilson has completed his foreign appointments of professors and authors and begun on the near-authors, for he has now named Brand Whltlock for the Bel glum post. The mind that associates Impurity with the human body It Itself lmpure.-Jay Fox. A much older authority put It more succinctly by saying, "To tho pure all things are pure." The Callfornlan who committed near-sulclde by drinking a harmless fluid, thinking it deadly poison, of fers another demonstration of tho power of mind over matter. "The currency bill Is the most re markable m6asure we ever have had," says Secretary Bryan, and Friend Hitchcock is ready to second the motion. The question seems to be whether a public library shall furnish the peo ple with books they want to read or try to make them read books they do not want. It begins to seem as If the very words, civil service, were a night roaro to those ple-hun'gry democrats. Market reports are to the effect that the turkey crop Is below par. Well, wB still havo the trot left. looking gackward , JhttJJayinOmah , ,I-IF "im die nui T OCTOBER 10. Thirty Years Ago The Home- Circle club has elected the following officer for -the yeart William Nelson, president; vice president Will Later: secretary. Fred W. Pickens; treasurer. J. M. it.n.m.n ti. hi , - ........... - 1. u u n ii .Blve a series of four parties during the winter at Masonic hall. Oenernl C. H. Frederick, who leads the van In time of peace as well as war, has fluhg his banner on the outer walls In the shape of an electric light, which now makes the vicinity of his store as bright as day. Fire Chief Butler And Councilman Charles Kaufman have' gone to New Or leans to attend the national Convention of fire chiefs there. Tho Korean embassy passed through Omaha In charge of Mr. Percy Lowe'l of Toklo nnlverslty. They had seven tickets and thirty-two pieces of baggago. Bishop O'Conner is building a residence on the hill near the Academy of the Sa cred Heart, In which he will move In a shoit time. Itev. Father O'Connor, now at Fremont, but coming here, will occupy with Rev. Fathers Jeannette and McCarthy what Is now the episcopal residence. A landslide at the Florence cut-off took a section 200 feet long and twenty feet deep. A telegram from Mrs. John a. Jacobs, dated at Raton, N. Mex., says she will arrive. In Omaha Saturday with the re mains of her husband. Colonel E. B. Myers, architect of the new county court house. Is In the' city to consult with tho county commissioners about various matters connected with tho structure. Twenty Years Ago Colonel Robort O. Ingersoll, who lec tured the day before at tho Boyd, went tt Council Bluffs for another lecture. His box office receipts here were very large. Ed Ooodman, advance man fdr Oliver Dowd Byron's company, formerly of tho local Grand Opera house, and later man ager of a theater at Ottumwa, la., was In the city. J. W. Kinsley of Helena, Mont., presi dent of tho American Order of Home Pr tecton, wsa In the city for the purpose 6f making an address or two In behalf of bit organisation and Its work.- Mr. Kinsley was a past supreme master wcrk man In the Ancient Order of United Workmen, having been exalted to that office In Omaha In 1890. An air of serenity settled down upon Union Pacific headqulrters. where 8. 1L H. Clark, as receiver frSr ih m.A wo calmly attending to the affairs i.f his office and enjoying even better health than before the receivership set In. The "Isle of Cimnarne" tin . nksgement at the Boyd and flowed along wun sparkling wit. effervescing to th delight of the audience In every act. Lost-Bf tween C. M. & St. I na.scnger depot and Broadway on Fourth or Main Main streot (Council ninfr.v nh..i.. lamp. Finder will b suitably rewarded oy reiuming same to 109 Pearl street In Bee want ads. Ten Years Aro resident A. B, Btlckney of the Chicago Great Western railroad took another big Hep In behalf ot Omaha's commercial Importance when he completed the formation of a separate cqrporatlon to be known as the Omaha grain terminal, the filing of whose articles would be the primai move toward establishing ih. : " """."un in" , wo, ...a.,, ninrnri. tie announced the purchase ot a large tract of land In the city as the slto of elevators and ter minals ana set tho commercial circles ' quit agog with enthusiasm nv.r ,.. I prospects of this city becoming One of wmia grain centers or the world. Fred Mtts of the Mets Bros. Brewing CrtniDanv receive i .. - .ruin some blackmailer threatening death unless he compiled with a demand fnr u.vin. In gold at a certain spot tinder the Eleventh street viaduct. Chief Donahue alJ no one was much disturbed over the letter and he had Very grave suspicion to Us author. Mr. Mett made uo move to turn over the coin. Mr. Charles XV. Fairbanks, wife of the vice president, arrived In Omaha to attend the Nebraska conference of the Daughters of the Amerluan Revolut'oq In her capacity as president general of the national body. She became the guest ff Mrs. John W. Griffith. o Cuming Judge Day of the district court adv. eated the old-fashioned whipping post as unirumoni or justice to be used on recreant husband and father, who d. rt their wive and children. He thought Its application might tend to mend many a marital mlflt ' What's the 8a. Washington Post. Nw that th children in our island dependencies are being taught by native teacher arouaea a mild curloilty as to whether or not the Filipino Father of hi country Is featured with a pompa dour. Wher Americana pi Down. Chicago Tribun. Twenty thouaand Gtmum "Die Wacht am Rhine" to the accompaniment ui iwcmr oanas. The Americans started were all risht umii who got to "gtschwertgekllrr." A Shifting; of Letters. Chicago inter Ocean. The arrangement of five letters makes a mighty difference. The Pullman com Pany cuts a lemon, whiu th tni.vknM. trs of the New Haven bit Intd a lemon. No (to To It. Indianapolis News. In other words, th nmr eral gives the Filipinos to understand inai. live omer people, tr they are good they will be happy. fas People and Events The discovery of a new slice of land north of Siberia will materially IncreAse the cold storage facilities of Russia. One of the finest tests of optical nerve Is to look a man straight In the eye without blinking In the glare of his dia mond stickpin. However. New York Is cheered by as surance of a substantial Increase In the lobster crop, exclusive of those who broke Into the Polo grounds. Credit for originality, as well as nov elty, must be awarded Boston. The city has entered suit for damages against a contractor for failure to complete a school building on contract time. The theory that Indigestion ts the cause or Crime Is now advanced In print The original author of tho theory advanced It 4y firing' a. slab ot hardshell pie at the cook. The Change denotes nrocress. Aneke Jan's heirs will have to hurry. A descendant of old Peto Menult who bought Manhattan Island with a string of beads, has put In a claim for the Whole property. Hit claim wilt bo adjudicated If the Giants win the world's pennant. t It It evldint that Governor Richard L. 'Metcalfe of the Panama zone has aban doned all hope of high office In Nebraska. ' Otherwise ho would not permit hla photo- graph adorned with a plug hat to escape to the mainland for publication. A creased felt does not comport with the ' dignity of a UJ.099 salary. ' No matter how doleful things may np- ipear. an Irishman finds somo way of driving a shaft of humor through tho gloom. Over In Belfast a Protestant bakbr who discarded orange-cotbred wrappers on loaves sold to Catholic cus- I tamers has been charged with dltloyalty and boycotted by the. Orangnien, During the absence' of The BeVa poetic editor at the world series his sub batted I out of the it Louis Oiobe-Democrat'a oox tne poem. "Be a Friend of Man," credited to Dr. Henry Kelman, which ap peared In last Sunday's Issue. Both credit And caption are a mistake. The lamented poetic philosopher, 6am Walter iFots, wrote the verses undr the title, "The House by tho Side of the Road." MUFFLED XN00K5. Consider the gat meter, It tolls not. but gee, how It can spin I Ever notlco how polite a man can be when he has a favor, to aak? liots of men who talk basso profundo In a saloon are tenors when ,lhcy are at home. Any healthy boy can wear out six pairs of shoes while he Is using one box of shot polish. The reason wdmen kiss each other when they meet Is because the Bible says we should love our enemies. Men get big salaries for knowing some things. But It takes a woman to tell an artificial blond from a real one. Tact Is when you cover your moutli with your hand and make the other part) believe that the yawn was a smile. Some husbands want their wives to tel them all they know. And tome or them are lUcky that thoy don't kpow all that their wives know. Any old time you find a man who thinks ho married the wrong woman you can make a nice, safe bet that his wft thinks the same thing. A woman who can pretend sh Is sound asleep when her husband wobbles home at 3 a. m. never his any trouble' getting a new set of furs. Cheer up. You may think you are get ting the Worst of It, but It might be worse. A hairiest dog la an ugly looking brute, but he hasn't any fleas. Cincin nati Knqulrer. CYNIOALHUMNGS. Th p6pl wh6 take offense esJIIv are kept busy taking It An obstlnats man Is any man who doesn't think as we do. X poor barber and a dull raxor gen erally mating to pull togsthir. Somo men s-r weighed In the balance. and fouhd wanting the earth. Dead men tell no tales, which may ex plain why widows so often marry again. There are lots of ha-been who never demonstrate the theory of reincarnation. One way of saving money Is to lend a man 4 when he strikes you for $10. Many a man complains about bad times when he Is too lazy to wind hi watch. Minorities- are frequently right espe cially when wo happen to be In the mi nority. Some men are almost as good guetsers as the prescription clerks In the drug stores. Tho fellow who I always harping on ono string soon gots out of tuna with the world. Don't lose sight of tho tact that the man who Won't listen to reason may be thinking the same thing about you. New York Time. JUST AS PERFECT ASWHEN PUT Your Vodleri blanltftta nA be safe turn moth,. 7 dent in Hftt"rt or chiffonier." Th. brttarTC, drem?.' P wWch Perm"te the "ho" Luger "Cedar-Line" Dressers and v.osi you noiatnj extra ro? this U 7.L " 7 C!V w Maar caest it take OB in Y6ur hedraAm U'k. inner nuger ieaiure toe (a large variety of wk aara, cnioaiw ana eur tke rarefnl SnUk tl construetlco. tfe n...i.i . f - j "-.iuif araw ers. ata vnn vrlll ... v . ... . with ar.y but a Lufer "Cedar-Une." Your furaitura dealer probably sell the Lugw "Cedar-Line." ait writs ti U0ll Luger Furniture Company Minneapolis, Minn. SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. Bprlngfleld Republican: "Matty In the ninth," wm the subject of a Phlladel phla clergyman's Sunday sermon. U was a good sermon, too. Cleveland Tlaln Dealer: A Scottish archeotoglst come to the defense of 8t Luke as an accurate historian. This beats some of the modern Courts in the delayed Justice line. Detroit Free Press: A Chlcsgo woman says that ft) percent bf the men would rather contribute to tho- purchase ot a new carpet for the church than to wear It out afterward. The other 40 per cent merely wear out the carpet and refuse to contribute to tho new one. Houston Post: A Kentucky minister says the growing disbelief In hell Is responsible for much of the worldllness of Christian. We do not believe there Is any particular disbelief In hell, but It seems to us that there Is so much ot It In the world today that pcop'.e nra naturally getting hell-broke. New York World: "If r suggest to a mother of today," said Bishop Mc Ilwalne, "that her son take holy orders she lifts up hir hands In horror, say ing: ' 'I don't want my boy to go Into such a thing aa, that' " The regulation maternal ambition Is to have the son become pretldent. at least of a corpora tion, and presidents are not chosen from the ministry. Philadelphia Ledger: Wisconsin min isters say that the restrictive laws ot that stato are reducing the number ot marriage. When the restraint of law becomes so burdensome that a premium Is put on Its defiance and evasion. thA law falls ot Its purpose. The truth, which It backed by experience has u broadtr application than to marriage regulations. Law must bo reasonable to be successful. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "Does your wife take an Interest In politics?" "Yes, too much. Sh knows the date of all the political meetings and If I stay out late nnd try the heln-the-Dartv ex cuse, she1 can nail me every time I get my aates mixed." Cleveland Plain Dealer- V Editor What' the trouble Out there? Office Boy A woman out In tho hnll has hysterics. tailor Have her escorted Into the com posing room at once. Boston Transcript. "Etatlonmnster. con voti slve mo nnv new about that rumored wreck? ThlsJ suspense la awful." 1 "Wife on that tra n?" i Louisville Courier-Journal. Knlcker The Atlantic and Pacific aro wedded. Bocker And neither of them can pos Ibly to to Reno. New York Sun. Lander When you get in Inte at night do you .always tell your- wife whore you have spent the evening? Lushmah Not always. Sometimes I don't know. Boston Transcript. "'Wo naturally strive ito Imitate those whom wo admire." "Not always. Every small boy admires Santa C'laus. but none ot them want to grow up to have the kind of whiskers he. .s represented as wcurlng." San Fran ilsco Chronicle. Mother Tom. my dear boy, how could uuk a aits.ii a. t:inir. ii i nirizB nunani. s "u koi engaged lo mat young widow without my coneentr Tom Don't know, mother. I guees I did t without my own consent, too. Boston Transcript -wnW Wns' Jttm,cr "Do; .they try electrical cases In the circuit courisr'-uauimore American. n'JlLW s'd Uncle Rasbury. "Is so heaved nVer B',ntr ' to harm''' h doMn'1 Mm to be doing any isi' mUmi hi8''J J?vf r cli-mb no 'KoMen ! J VI?' 11 Jest 't 'round an' wait foh ah elevator an' finally start d, odder ton Star?" " oaler."-Washlng- THE TWILIGHT WITCH. Th?tfn?J',,.Cw.e,n' ,n Ncw York Sun. A'JW.',U,.hlw.,.tcn ComM wh hor tkr Then hVfhi.'tem hrou-h the bluti Then breathes below the sunset bars -A breath of meadow rue! ShAir4.,,,!,p v" cr0M the skies And Mutters to the trees. And In tho wood, with firefly cyCf. ne. wfikJ! the 'terles. " The twilight witch, with elf and fay. Is coming down the slumber way. fclccp, my dearie, sleep. Tfe?Jw,"Sht witch, with crescent moon, stoops on the wooded hill: h,f "fwe.r2 10 lho "lefS tune, -And to the whlppoorwlll. Bne leans above, the reedy pool And waken the drowsy frog, A?,.wUn the toadstool, d'm and cool. 111ms gray the old dead log. The twilight witch comes stealing down To take you off to slumber town. Bleep, my dearie, sleep. The twilight witch with windlike tread "a entered In the room; She steals around your trundl bed And whispers In the gloom, tirought my steed along, To bear out. like a breath of ton. siiW mo iim ui u ream . I B.m th Wttrh wVirt lal w - ' .a - --- - n v i Cij juui nana And leads you off to fairyland. AWAY" man ..ll.l.. . , thSTZ " w!i"B? l Chiffoniers feature. Yet and the space ... '7. mm