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THIS BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1!)13. The Gold Witch The Adventures of the Golden-Haired Heiress No. 6 Dreams of the Past and Future Bar By Stella Flores Copyright, 1J1J, International New! Serrlre. B nnsen By REV. THOMAS It. nilKOOHY, I Fifty-three years ago, November f, I860, at Bohn, died Daron r.unsen. !i. pride of hit country nnd one of tn abiding ornaments of tho human rnrr Christian Charles Bunsen was born at Corbach, one of the smallest of the Ger man principalis 'e In the year 17S1: and though of humbh origin he worked hi way up. by sheer force of genius and energy, to the high est social and Intel lectual honor. A doctor of phil osophy at 21 years, a master diplomatist at 23 years, and from that time on of necessity n man if tho world and ever busy with all sorts n affairs, social and political, ho found time, to successfully prosecute many studies, and to add materially to the solid learning of mankind. A scholar of scholars, being Inllmatelv acquainted with Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Norse, as well as with most 'of the European languages, he applied himself with the old crusader's nrdor to the task of Informing himself regarding the facta of history, tho age of i.ho human race, and of the earth, with tho result that he was able to make valuahlo nnd permanent contributions to the sum of our knowledge. Ills great work, "Egypt's, Place In Universal History," wan a pioneer In Hn line, and Its conclusions arc sound to this day. Taking tho ground that "from the known portion of the curve of history we may determine tho whole," ho revolutionized our theory of tlio earth and man, and pushed back the begin nings a long distance. Ills discoveries of the text of Ignatius, and of the work of Bishop llippolytiis "On AH the Heresies," opened up radically new views oh early church history, vlcwa which have not yet reached the full maturity of results. Ills work, "Clod In History," Is one of tho most powerful books 'ever written and those who have not rend It have missed some of tho best Inteltectunl and moral pabulum 'to be found In libraries. But Bunsen was mpra than 'n' his torian, scientist and diplomat ho was a great political seer. He looked ahead and saw tho political unity of Germany and Italy; and whllo as yet the fact was largely embryonic, lie predicted the world-wide Influence of the Kngllsh speaking portion of the children of men. Uylmj In his 70th year, llaron Dunsen left behind him a spotless name, for his character was a flawless aa his genius was blllllant, , .fft Immortals Jgft By ADA IUTTKHKOX. We are to have women "Immortals.-' Tho American Academy of Arts and Let ters has decided that we may and Tror. Urander Matthews recently named five women who are eligible to that honor. Two of them are women of New I England. Margaret D e 1 a n d who proved her brain analytical and her heart tender by writing Old Chester Tales" and other books that probe Into the depths and rich net ef human i nature, and Mary ) Wilkin Freeman, who brought to the surface the gold wc hail not known dwelt In the veins of the quarts-like Yankee nuture. Uo tald Ida Tarbell, who 'investigated the Standurd Oil history Is worthy, and that Bdlth. "Wharton, whq disclosed the "Howie or Mirth" aa a place of melancholy, de serves a place In the honor roll of womanhood. Mary Cassatt. who has worked as hard at her paintings as though her brother were never president of the Pennsylvania railroad, merits such ranking In Prof. Matthew's opinion and no one probably will dispute lilm. Per ten years tho question of admission of women to the high company of the Im mortals has not been discussed. Then It was that Julia Ward Howe, patriot writer of the Battle Hymn pf the Itepub lie" received the Immortality of mem- Ibershlp before she passed Into a nobler band of Immortals. "I believe." said the discriminating friend of women, "that It would be ad visable for women to stait 'Immortals' of their own." Bather a good Idea that, and we rould j.ptnd ?a quarter hour far less profit able than considering whom we should like to make an "Immortal." Before my vision passes In the splendid procession the women who Is proud to be known merely as "John Purroy Mltehel's mother. Her son was elected a mayor of New York by voters who wanted I clean hand and qharaater at the head of their government I rank her as an "immortal" net only because of what she had done In bring ing up a clean, fine American man who has ben graduated Into what Is a pldee at honor if It be honorably filled, but or what she has said about the rearing lit citizens. ' er never whipped John." she said, "'I don't believe in whipping children, but neither do I believe in spoiling them. John, being a normal American boy had to be punished tometimes. and those times I deprived him iC some pleasure. It k wasted t ge swimming or skating ksksksfc ''"V Tlio Gold Witch finds au old harp nu instrument she loves. In tho dimming Tom and his father steal in to listen. As the exquisite notes throb out, shadowy I kept htm at home and told him to think over tho fuct that had really kept himself from swimming or skating. , 1 wanted him to leant that we cause our own punishment by what wo do. "John was brought up with a great deul of !6vo surrounding htm and I don't tctteve' that real love ever spelled any ,ran or woman.' Give tho average boy constant tender love, not fitful spurts ntj vii itm tiwccupn. iinvc lauu in mm. iCtpect tjic finest things from him. Prac tice the Important things you teach him. lie Just with htm and others. If you stcrt a boy that way he will do tho rest "I'on't overindulge the boy and don't htlnt him morn thun you must If you never ullow him a cent to buy mitts and marbles nnd balls ami bats, bo begins to think bitter thoughts ot you nnd of the wcrld. Bitter thoughts are bad seeds ot churacter. should like to know that tt.cro isn't a boy in all Hie world v4th a bitter .thought In bis heart." Another who Is kind nnd wise. What worthier eandldnte for a place among tho Immortuls than such ns she? There rush through memory's halls the figures of Jane Addams, the champion of the rlRhts'of poor girls and women to clian living nnd flno thinking, the Hull House in Chicago her great work; Alice Hmlttr. that serene woman who watches the turhld ytroam of humanity that flows through tho night court for women in New York and who saves at least SO per cent of the Magdalenca that class whom Jesus Chris: thought worth sav ing, though to large a prut ot the hu man society does not; Winifred Hunt, who built tho lighthouse which furnishes help to the hlrthcrto hopeless blind to help thenuelves. and Mrs. Katie Walker, the little woman who for twenty-seven yearn has kept the lighthouse at Bobbins' Iteef. which every vessel coming Into or out of Now York must pass, and who dot-sn't know how many lives she has saved, but who stayed at her post one stormy night whllo her husband was dy ins at tho hospital on lund. because she considered her first duty to be to those Mho had gone down to the sea In ships. Mako your own proposed list ot im mortals among women. It will be an inspiring pasttme. On the By MLI,X LAUFKUTV. Here surge the city pilgrims by, Here"pulses llfo a-stream, The world Is passing here and I Just dream iny little dream. I dream the city And thrills at That friendly 1b J dream and Poor Man in Court Hy DR. O. II. PAllKHUKST A defendant who Is without money has a comparatively poor chance before the courts. Whllo there are certain features i advantage of the dc- fendunt, there uro others that are just 'aa operative to his disadvantage, es pecially If he Is poor. When a ca.no comes before tho igrand Jury, if an Indictment Is found, 'It Is - found on the basis of ono-sldcd' cVldehce. E V e r y thing is put In thut will go to prove gutlt, but nothing that might suggest Innocence. There aio reasons for1 'that, probably, but It Is not generally known what they are. Then the case comes up for trial. The fact that an Indictment has been found prejudices tho- Judge and Jury against tho accused, even though the Indictment stands upon but a single leg, tho leg of adverse testimony- unCQntroverted jy nnythlng that might have been urged In Ids favor. lie has already been convicted by one tribunal, and the trial commenses with a Preeumptldn that 'die will now be con victed again and finally. . That Is. the. situation. The Judge Is; affected by It;, so. 'Is the Jury, and so is ,the prosecuting .u.ttprncy. The difficult task lying befqro the defendant's counsel is to overcame the presumption of guilt already lodged In the Jury s mind. lift haft thnrefore not onlv til coda with the evidence produced by the presecutor. but to overcome the presumption of guilt existing In the minds of Judge nnd Jury beforo any evidence Is offered a pre sumption, we must always remember, created by an Indictment that was framed to hit only one side of tho ease. The prosecutor's tak Is a different one. Ills ambition Is to, eonvlet. stand ing, as ho Is reputed to do. In the in terests of the people. It Is not apparent, why It Is not as.mufh.hla proper a'mbu Avenue i I sees my smile. my heartache, her rank and file theu I wakVi SM vgysBsf twilight pictures Ke Has Kittle Cuanot, for JKe Cannot Afford to Xlra x.aw. isrs the Equal ef the State's, ttorneys tn BrtUlanoy. J tlon to clear the defendant if he is In nocent as. to convict him If he Is guilty; UhV th n. I Vn"? " nth," I'TZl? , Kf l. ,'hq J Mnsins m R vcrdlct f I It would see,m to be felt by him to be ' part of his business to believe tn the' guilt of the accused and therefore- tp demonstrate It. I 'have been told In years pusof men r being kept In the Tombs for months awaiting trial, but kept there 'because the case against thorn ,waa so weak that no prosecuting attorney wanted 'to risk the damage that would accrue o his reputation by falling to obtain from the Jury an adverse verdict. That Is all perfectly natural. The prosecutor has an expllrablo nmbl I tlon to show that ho has legal acumen and forensic ability enough to prove to the world tho truth of what has already been onco declared to be truth in the secrecy of the grand Jury room. He feels that lie Is there to convict and that failure to do so means humiliation. All the foregoing holds true of de fendants whether rich or poor, but In the case of a defendant that Is poor, the disadvantages already named are added to by the fact that he has no means to pay for counsel that will match the prosecutor to professional ambition. In brilliancy of ability or In Unalterable devotion to the cause In whose behalf he pleads. Now If the Interests ot the people and .of justice are to be subserved, why should not the state make an adequate provision for the protection of defen dants as for their destruction? Mr. M. needed no such federal protection, for he had money enough ot his own, suffi cient at any rate, to secure his liberation from confinement In which, if current opinion be accepted, he would have Pa8'd the remainder of his natural life ,md h8 'aoked the funds wherewith to mp tnc demands of adroit legal ad- vlse.r. Why IS the defendant In the Stanford White murder case still alive for any other reason than that there was money enough baok of, him to secure the pro tection that he would otherwise have had to dispense with.' Now the salient point in the first l these' two- Instances is. not whether the convict ought '.to have 'been set at lib erty; nor ln tho second whether Thaw .ought to have been executed. : the point Is that it is not fair to a defendant for the s(ate to make less provision for his acquittal if lie Is Innocent (and he may be), than it does for his conviction if he Is guilty (and he may not be), t I have In'stpre a little batch of cases where, had the poor defendant had as able cousel at the district attorney's offlee employs for purposes of conviction, a great many sad years of Imprisonment 'would have been spared to Innocent con victs. -Enough for tho present to say that In this country, however, It may be else 'where, men are not equal before the law. Solomon tolj the truth about us 3.800 years ago when he said: "The rich man's wealth la his strong city; the destruction of the poor Is their poverty form in the dusk. To Tom they are visions of a happy future; to his father bitter-sweet j memories of the past of his ward's mother, whom he loved but did not marry. What Is Touchstone for Women's Age? Not Birthdays, Nor Books, Nor Clothes, Nor Complexions; They Reveal Nothing More Nowadays Perhaps Mental and Spiritual Youth Makes Woman Young, Even After ; By. DOBOTIIV DI.V. The other Cay a group of women were discussing age, that "topic nlwuys inter eating to their sex, and how you could tell how old Ann Is, rNot by birth days," they ex claimed with one voice. "Thero's no such foolish way of telling a woman's ago as by the years she has passed. A variegated assort ment of birthday presents doesn't make a woman old. There are women who are mere debutantes at SO, and others who are the oldest Inhab itant while still in their cradles." "Nor can you tell how old a woman is by her looks nowadays." said the woman In tho taupe suit, "for It's only the very young who have any character lines in their faces. "By the time a woman gets old enough to acquire a real human expression on her countenance she begins to have her wrinkles Ironed out by massage, so there are no little telltale lines left around the eyes and mouth by which you can give a-guess at how many summers, and also winters, have rolled over her head. "It's granddaughter who has got the crow's feet now, and grandmamma whose face Is as smooth as a china doll's." "And everybody wears, hand-made com plexions," agreed the woman In blue, ."and even the mere chits are sporting ixvt hair, Just as all the old dames flaunted mahogany colored locks two or three years ago, so that your eyes no longer give you a ynrdstlck by which to measure a woman's length ot.days." "And as for clothes," walled the woman In the red hat, "there's no difference be tween the things that IS and 60 wear, unless It Is that 16 is a little more dignified and conservative in its taste. Why, the only thing that makes me suspect that I'm getting old myself Is that I find myself passing up good substantial dark colors In favor of baby blues and pinks and that I sort of lean toward hats with queen of May effects, and when, a woman of my age begins to yearn for millinery with wreaths of flow ers it's a sure sign of the approach of senile dementia." "Well." said the woman in taupe, "my test for approaching age In a woman Is to notice whether in her conversation she shies away from dates as a nervous horse does from an automobile. When a woman avoids locating unythlng in any. particular year It's because she doesn't want you to get a lino on her. "Another test that never falls Is when she always says 'we girls' did so and so, and when she always prefaces every reminiscence by remarking, 'I was very young at thp time.' If you will notlco you will observe that all the little, young sters In college call each other 'women,' while ladles who'nre 40, or half passed, always speak of themselves and each other as 'girls.' " "Htght-oh," exclaimed the woman In the black hat; "all of those signs of ugo are signs that never fall In dry weather, nut what wc think of a woman's ago doesn't matter. "It's what she thinks that counts, and the most amusing and pathetic thing on earth Is the sight ot a woman who has had it dawn suddenly upon her con sciousness that she Is growing old, nnd who Is getting busy trying to stop the clock. "You know how it ins. She's gone along, like the balance of us, thinking that she's drunk at the fountain of per petual youth, and then, one day, she takes a look In the glass, and sees that she has got fat, and settled-looking, and that her hair Is turning gray around the temples, and lines coming about her mouth. "Talk about your panics. She's In a blue funk, and she beats it down to the nearest beauty parlor, and bolls and bakes herself, and has her poor body poundea Into a pulp, and begins to do without everything she wants to eat. And she tries to youthlfy her convoca tion by giggling, and acting kittenish, and talking girly-glrly stuff that sounds as If she had softening of the brain. "I pray God on my knees tQ save me from acting the fool wben I cross tho age line," "I think," said the woman with the long feather ln her hat, "that the real test of age is not physical, but mental. It depends upon the suppleness of your soul, and not your body. "We're young physically Just as long as every muscle is flexible and pliable and quick to make any change "nd movement, and we are young mentally really young Just as long as our minds are alert to new Ideas, new thoughts and Capable of taking new points of view. "The first sign ot physical age is when we begin to stiffen up at the joints, and to prefer to sit and watch others play to playing ourselves, and we have begun to grow old mentally when wc begin to think that all modern progress Is foolish ness, ami that the old ways are boat ways, and when we want to hear the aid j music, and read the old books, and ham upon the past "I don't mind admitting, in confidence Body Has Grown Old that the first re.ilIra.tlon I had that I was growing old came a, few months ago when I found myself shocked at all th i new dances, and comparing them In my mind with the. dances ' that pwailel when I was a girl. I'd been saying that the tango arid the turkey trot, and so on, were Indecent, and all of a sudden I re called that that was exactly what m mother had 'said about waltzing. Riio had compared the waltz unfavorably with tho landers and the quadrlllo of her youth, and her mother had consid ered the landers and quadrille vulgar, romping dances as contrasted with tho minuet of her days. "And I observe that the young pcoplo now find nothing at all shocking or 'suggestive in the dances of today, so it s Just a case of other times, other ma.i ners. "And another tip I got that I was growing old was that I couldn't reconcile myself to the new clothes. I was horri fied at the tightness and the thinness, and the splitness, and I wanted a good old fashioned, roomy skirt with plaits In It, and with petticoats under It, and a waist that came up high In tho neck and long in tho sleeves." "And what did you do?" asked Itin woman In the blue hat. "I went and bought me the ex(remett clothes I could get,", smiled the woman ln the black hat. "Well," said the woman In taupe, "I can tell exactly how old a woman Is. I ask her where she stands on suffrag-, and if she doesn't believe In It I know she's 45 years old if she's' a day. Yen could find a hen's tooth quicker than you could find a young woman who doesn't believe in equal rights for tin n and women." A WHOLE FAMILY MEAL FOR 5c . A Be package of Faust Spaghetti will make a whole meal for a family of five. And It will be a real meal nutritious, tasty aul satisfying. A 5c package of Faust Spaghetti contains as much nutrition as 2 lbs. of beef. It Is a glutinous food gluten is tho food content tha' makes bone, muscle and flesh. You have no Idea how many different ways Faust Spaghetti tau be served to make fine, tempting meals write for free recipe book. Sold in lie and 10c packages servo it often. I MAULL BROS. St. Louis, Mo.