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16 TUB BEE: OJLVTCA, TJItTRSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1914. TfiE Omaha daily bee FOUNDEB BY KDWAllD KOSEWATEIl. VICTOR ROSKWATISH. BD1TOIM. PEE BUILDING. KAR-Si AM AM? ITJJh Entered at uraba po.tottlde a second class matter. TERMS OF sunsciumoN. Sunday Bee, one year... . 22 Saturday Bee, one ytar WQ Dally Bee, without Sunday, one year.. 4.W Dally Bee, and Sunday, one year too DELIVERED BY CAK1ULK. Evening and Sunday Bee, per month.. .oo Evening, without Sunday, per month. ..o Dally Bee. Including Sunday, per mo... 65c tally Bee, without Sunday, per month.45o Addia all complaint! of Irregularities an deliveries to I lty Circulation Dept. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, exprcee or postal order, payable to The Bee I'uullshluK company. Only J-cent stamps received In pannent tf small accounts. Personal chocks, ex cept on Omaha and eastern exchanges, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha The Boe BuiUlnK South Omaha 2318 N Street . Council Bluffs-14 North Main 6treet. Linooln M Little Building. Chicago 901 Hearst Building. New York-Room 110c. 2tt Fifth Avenue. St Louis-ttia New Bank of Commerce. "Washlngton-7a Fourteenth St, N. W. CORRES1V3NDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed Omaha Bee. Editorial Department NOVEMBER CIRCULATION. 52,068 State of Nebraska, uounty of Douglas, ss.: D wight Williams, circulation manager -of The Ben Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the average dally circulation for the month of November, 1S13, was U.0G8. DWIOilT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed tn my presence and sworn to before me this Sd dsy of December, U1J. ROBERT HUNTER, :SteJ) ' Notary Public. Subscribers lrarins the city temporarily should hnre The Bee mailed to them. Address trill ba 'changed as often a requested. Happy New Year. Hello! Yes, this Is, 1914,, Still, old 1913 might have boon worse, . Sony, glrla, but It's-stilL two moro S'ears to loap yoar. The merchant also thinks "Do jyour Now Year paying early" a- lino slogan. Swearing off 1b easy onough. Tho rub comes In carrying out tho plat form pledge. "Uplifting thoughts auslst tho voice," says a noted singer. Tho character, too. Big business la. doubtless enjoy fmg thoso nino-hours-a-day naps Vffbwn at Pass Christian.. $ I "Whoro do wo got our Amorican ft. athletes?'' asks tha Boston Herald. From California, chiefly. Of what porsuoslon Is tho print ers' devil on that all-fomlnlno paper at Cranston, 111., we wondor? Somehow thero soonis to bo a pe culiar Incongruity botwoon Now Year's ove and tho8 o'clock lid law. Tho tempestuous old year wiped out a good many ancient landmarks, but not tho Thaw case among them. A ship on which Mmo. Nordlca rras soiling went down, undor tho freight, possibly, of her last box of flee receipts. Olga Ncthersole la said to havo blossomed out as a full-fledged suf froglst, .ISvery, little helps In Olgn'n profession. Those who havo recovered from their Christmas dinner, physically as well as financially,' may now go after tho Now Year feast. Perhaps Brand Whltlock has per suaded himself that by going abroad as an Amorican minister he may be ablo to llvo down bis fiction. Tpm Taggart still runs .tho In dlana. democracy, so roports Bay,' and Roger, Sullivan-1b still In the e&ddla In Illinois and wants' to bo la .tho. senate. Which Is doing fairly well in an age fit no. bosses. . Tho St. Louis Olobe-bemocrat'a cartoopiat'oniltg-tho Omaha tornado fromJa list of .1913 disasters, but id- elude? tho enactment of the demo cratlo tariff bill, suggesting a rather invidious comparison, we fear. But why should Rev. Anna Shaw object to paying an Income tax. on the score of "no taxation without representation" any more or less than paying any other kind of taxT A woman convicted of manslaugh ter was denied admittance to tho Washington state penitentiary be cause sbo had no commitment pa pers. They are getting mighty par ticular about whom they let Into tho prisons these days. Governor Morehead Is said to be titer tho scalp of the superintendent of the state. orthopedic hospital. We thought with tho Inauguration of the Board of Control all these state Institutions had passed out of tho category of personal and political perquisites. Isn't it a Joke? One of the law- era named on the Bar association lommlttee to report a plan to get after perjurers is himself personally mixed up with a cose of confessed end pild-for perjury in a recent shake-down suit so flagrant that th judge had to call it to the attention r tUa county attoranx. looking Forward and Backward. The turn of tho year is tho com mbrily.sccopted timo for a revlow of tho past and a .retrospect of tho fu ture. Looking backward for Omaha over a twolvo-month period, tho one big overshadowing figure is the doath-doaling tornado which swept across the city on tho evoning of Easter Sunday. Beside this great cataclysm of naturo, tho unloosed fury of tho elements nnd tho devas tation left In its wake, all other lo cal happenings of the year are as of small consequence. Tho blotting out of approximately 140 lives and the destruction of property valued up ward of $4,000,000, all in a few brief moments of time, needs bo written in big letters on tho pages of out chronicle. But bigger than the tornado, and iU terriblo conse quences, stands forth tho achieve ment of Omaha in relief, recovery and restoration, Omaha roso fully to the emergency whon confronted with the necessity of caring for the unfortunate clearing up tho wreck- ago and expediting rebuilding. Through the tornado Omaha discov ered Its own rosoTircofulncss as never before, nnd dosplto thla un expected colossal burden has not only lost no ground, but continued to forge ahead along every avonuo or material, intellectual and moral progress. Looking forward on thn th rnnh nlrt of 1914, Omaha may confidently count on keeping tho pace and short ening tbO gan to othnr wlrln -ft Wri 1n cities Just ahead. Visitors all aereo that Omaha presents a moro strik ing appearanco of activity right now than any other city of its class. As tho market town for tho groat agri cultural territory behind ua. whoso products' aro necessary for thn world's. food supply, Omaha occupies a'vantago nolnt that mnU DTECt both alluring and reassuring. Swearing Off. No matter how many men fall down on tholr Now Yoar's plodgo, tho custom of boarding tho "water wagon" Is a good ono to tho oxtent that it contributes to thn nllln tntnl of sobrioty. "More younjr men are lotting, whisky alono than used, to lot it alone," obaorvos tho Kansas City Star,, "bocaUBo tho young men or this day havo learnod brlety is tho best policy." ( How do young men learn this Iob Fon? By having tho intoxicant ro movod from tholr roach? Or, ns men gonorally loarn to resist temp tation, by dovoloplng self-control and being convinced that It is best to be temperate in nil things? If "swear ing off" is a tost of solf-control, it will servo n useful purpose Salient Events of the Past Year. Tho yoars 1913 and 1914 will bo linked notably in history by tho com pletion and opening of tho Panama canal. Not only as a Buprcmo engi neering feat, but as ono of tho larg est contributions 6f world-transforming nower tho finishing of tho canal is tho crowning ovont of tho year past to tho Unltod States, If not tho world. Next In importance to us was tho transfor of tho . gowornmont to a democrats administration aftor six toon yoars of unbroken nnd success ful republican rule. And in turn tho new administration distinguished tho yoar with tho longost extra ses sion of congress over hold, enacting now tariff and ouxroncy laws as tho two chief features of deliberation. A surveying of othor lands rovonls as tho culmination of Chlna'B transi tion from the oldest monarchy to the newest republic, tho formal elec tion of Yuan Shi Kal to bo Its first constitutional prosldont and tho ban ishment of Dr. Sun Yat Ben, 80-called "fathor of tho now nation." Sweeping the horoscopo a little westward, we may nolo a cessation In Balkan warfare involving many nations', although In tho murky dis tance a runibling Btlll occasionally echoes, which,, together with the ng gresslvo war policies oft Germany, Franco, England, Russia, as well as the Balkan powers, gives rlso to tho fear that it Is only a cessation and not an end. Coming up from tho Mediterra nean through tho continent of Eu rope, wo encounter tho spiral heights of the Palaco of Peoco at Tho Hague, as if mutely ploadlng for tho chanco to bo actually, as It is nom inally, tho year's completed monu mont to universal peaco. Tho contlnuod turmoil in Mexico swings Latin-America into tho lime light of world'B events, ungraciously, to bo sure, but conspicuously, and tho worst of It Is a forecast of the new year does not warrant over-confidence of speedily restored ordor. State Treasurer Georgo Is going to reinvest the proceeds of repay ment of somo Louisiana bonds held by the school fund In' stato warrants. If the money had been employed this way by his predecessors, or even kept in the depository banks at 3 por cent. It would havo been a bet ter deal than loaning It out to far away states lke Massachusetts, Mis sissippi and Louisiana by the pur chase of their bonds on tho basis of uo larger returns. Doubtless Hans Schmidt must wonder what moro a man has to do In this country before he con got himself convicted of murder. I I f T 1 lopKingjyacKvvar frJhJ)8yin Omaha com-iu rsoM sic nus T JANUARY 1. Thirty Years Ago The glad Iow Tear proved to b one of tho most bitter and cold of the winter, but did not stop tho usual number of watcn parties. 'The number of gentle men making calls was not as largo as In I former years. Whothcr the cold weather frightened them out or tho good old cus tom Is on tho deollnc, we aro not pre pared to say." ! Tho newly organized Chautauqua Lit erary and Scientific circle had a session at tho Young Men's Christian association rooms last night Hie question, "Is the Study of Political Economy Benoftclnl?" being debated by J. L. Kennard and C. K. Harrison., Tho circle lnOmaha Is now composed of tho following members: RovC. W. Sayldgc, Mrs. N. M. Lcmmon, Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Battls. W, C. Mor gan, J, Ia Kennedy, Miss Carrlo Stevens, Miss Mlllto Slovens, Miss Mamto Fitch, Miss Emma Fitch, Miss Magglo Read, Miss Agnes McDonald, Will Blackburn, Frank Johnson, F. F. Bundy, George A. Joptln, George A. Prltchard, Miss Ella M. White, Miss M. 11 Quackenbush, J. J. Toms, W. R. Adair, H. G. Crap, J. A. Rollins, Miss Minnie Wayman, Mrs. C. II. Dewey, C F. Harrison, Miss M. L. Alter, Miss 4. 11 Olsh, Miss Ortloy, MJss McClouth, W. It Bosard, Dr. A. J. Campbell, Dr. Johnson, J. L. Kennard, V. W Hills, Miss Ingersol, Mrs. Davtes, Mrs. D. E. Hume, Miss Archibald, Miss Delia McDonald, O. W. Ryan, Miss Nellie L. Coots, J. L. Maynard and C. 11. Graves. "Thero have been a number of dif ferent styles of refrigerated cars In vented, but never has ono been designed In which the atmusphero approached that of Greenland's Icy mountains as does on Omaha street car. , When a- persons en tors a street car and takes a seat cold chills run down his back and his teeth chatter as If ho had tho ngue. We have seen enrs so arranged on tho front plat form no to throw heat book Into tho car and thus keep life in ths driver. And why can't Omaha afford such things as well as other cities?" Dr. Coffmnn Is bock from Texas, where he has been for the last month Twenty Years Ago - Pollco Officer Louis Godolft, who was sovcrcly Injured In an accident nn tho East Omaha motor line on August C, re turned to his boat for tho first tlmo stnca. Dan Farrcll, Jr., 13. P. Peck and W. E. Clark were unanimously elected directors of the Board of Trado, with Xlfty-two votes cast A. B. Jaqulth, J. A. Connor, Edward Davis, Henry Pundt and J. B. Kounoy acted as Judges of election. Bridget McArdle, sister of William P. McArdle, died and arrangements were, mado for the funeral at the home, 9H North Twenty-fourth street nnd also at tho Holy Family churrh. Thrco thousand people attended tho Jount? Men's Christian association's an nual New Year's rocoptlon from to 10 p. m. It bocumc quite a social affair, brightened by somo very rare music The 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Nelson, 3331 Larlmoro avenue, was drowned In tho pond at Miller park walls skating. Every effort was. mado to euvo him and us ho wont down the last time a soldier from Fort Omaha rocoverod him and brought him out; but too late. tho little fellow was dead. Tho soldier tenderly laid tho body on a narrow bridge spanning a small stream. Tho child drowned In six feet of water whoro the Ico was thin. Tho Board of Education met for or ganization- with these- new mombers preoont: F, W. Bhndhauer, Fred D. Lowe, Ira O. Rhondcs and A. P. Tukcy. Clinton N. Powell was 'elected president over B. F. Thomas. Ten Years Ago R, S. Trostler and J. C. Decker, mem bers of tho senior class of tho Omaha Modlcul college, were Installed as police surgeons. Democrats from Omaha and over the state gathered at tho Paxton hotel for the annual banquet of the Jaoksonlan club. Expeotattons that thoso sturdy goldbugs alienated In 106 would stam ped o the place were not exactly realized. Whllo about a dozen of tho prodigals returned, there was no uproarious dem onstrations within Uis fold. Among1 thoso who cama back were: Euclid Mar tin, Ben B. Wood, Georgo E. Pritchott. C. F. McOrow, C. H. Montgomery, Q mail a; It K. Dunphy. So word; A. J, Sawyer, IJncoln. T. J. Mohoney of Omaha was said to havo paid for a ticket, but did not show up. Frank L. Weaver waa toastmoster and Senator FrancU O. Newlanda of Nevada, Con gressman David A. DcAnnond of Mis souri. Congressman G. M. Hitchcock of Omaha, Frank M. Reed of Des Moines and A. G. Klllck of Omaha, were tho speakers. Mmo. Adellna Pattl, tho famous prima donna, and hor husband, Baron Ccder- Htroem. spent the day In Omaha, con fining themselves to their private cor at tho depot, where they received as their special guests lMward Rosewater, an old friend, and his family. John G. Maher, from tho short grass country about O'Neill, registered for the day at tho Paxton. 'Leap year rolled around with Dan Cupid on the watch, both eyes wide open and tho girls .ready to rush upon tho first good-looking prey that presented himself. Tabloids of Science A man with a beard may use it as a barometer. Beards are harder and curlier as wet weather approaches. The heart of a standing man beats eighty-one times a minute, of a sitting one soventy-one times. When the man Is lying down Its beats aro reduced to slxty-slx a minute. Ants have been found In Dalmatla that actually make bread by chewing seeds Into pulp, forming It In loaves, baking them In tho sun and then storing them away for future use. Tha manifold uses of paper have been Increased recently by tho manufacture of a clroulor saw made of this material, which is said to be very successfully used In the sawing of fine lumber. Woolen garments, especially hard fin ished ones, such as serges, soon becomo shiny from wear and the problem Is to remove tha Rhine. Some tailors in doing this use a wire brush, which operates to pick up a surface resembling nap and ir mo times sand paper and fine emery cloth U Ubcd In rubblna off the shine. Human Life is Cheap "When somebody tries to hurry you up and explains how imiKirtant it Is that ha should be living next week, remind him that the wind traveled 1,77 mires last week, nnd that It didn't get anywehero In spite of all Its hurry. "Your brother, whom you aro to re lieve, has accumulated a great pack full of tremendously Important things. Take It from him and dump tho load In the deepest part of the deepest ocean. Travel light. Be good, Othorwise you will never lx truly hnppy." New Tork Bun. "Thero will bo folks who will ask . you to run backward for a while to give them opportunity to correct their mistakes. Bo deaf to them. If you give them another chance, they will simply make fresh mis takes and bring trouble and confusion on persons who havo been fortunate enough to escape In tho past. "Besides, the stupider you appear to bo the less art men wU use In their efforts to deceive you. Bear always In mind that a baby stare is mors valuable to a woman than a head full of brains. Thn fourth dimension Is front and It sh't half as elusive as mathematicians try to make us believe. "You know better. You aro fully aware of my refusal to mnnage my affairs tho way men manago theirs. But flatter theso simple folk by pretending that you aro just as Ignorant and Just as foolish as they believe you to bo. Remember that nothing else Irritates a human being so much as to find wisdom whero he bos prepared to encounter folly. "My son." said Father Time, as his youngest son was preparing to venture Into tho world, "when you take up your duties between tho sixth and seventh strokes of midnight on December 31, you will be greeted as young, Innocent and un sophisticated. It Is a favorite delusion of mortals that I send my children Into the world entirely unprepared to face . the struggle for existence. "Never allow yourself to becomo Irri tated at perSons who think they aro kill ing me. Bear In mind that thoy can't hurt me, nnd they may extract somo hap piness from their hallucinations. Many a crazy man Is locked up simply because other folks hnto to see a fellow enjoy himself In a way that Isn't theirs. There is something moro to sanity than com plete agreement with the' man you are talking to, but most humans refuse to recognize this. "You w)U be besought to change your schedulo for tho benefit of lovers, those condemned to death and others. Pay no attention to their urglngs. Neither you nor anybody else can better the lot of thoso whom the regular course of nature does not satisfy. Nor should you heed the pleas of those who want their Infants to remain children. Hurry 'tho children along for there may bo some worth whlla men and women to como from them, and the world needs them. "It Is not necessary for you or any member of our family to become alarmod over tho wickedness of tho world or cn thuslastlo over lis goodness. Thoso who have only a short space to spend In" tho world may -waste their suhptancc ovor other folks' wrongs' and rights; I nnd mine, having a monopoly on time, need not worry about trivialities. You look out for yourself. Keep your hands elenn and attend to your business. When you seo a clock that tn striving to convince peoplo you aro younger or older than you are. .don't Josp your temper or bother to sot it ngnt ir,tlie clock thinks It Is fooling you or anybody clso. let It enjoy Itself. Don't you ba a kill-Joy. Father. Time Advice 8t Louis Republic: Human life re mains ,ono of tho' cheapest 'Of pcrlshabla things. Nino of the 143 death claims aris ing from the Triangle Waist- company fire- two years ago In Nw York City havo been settled by tho payment of $75 each, Now York Tribune? Monoy, obviously cnnr.ot mako up for a death under trngio circumstances such as thoso of the Asch fire. Yet to families of workers money nbtalnod In dnmageo must bo an Impor tant Item. Tho valuation of life shown In this settlement is n frestv Illustration cf tho reason for tho determined fight made by labor unions against a work men's compensation law giving to cas ualty companies any part of the business of Insuring against occupational occl dents. Philadelphia Record; Twenty nnd j4o flncB for smoking in factories und keep ing factory doors locked are not yet pro ducing tho expected results in New York. Only a fow weeks ago twenty persons wero fined or sent to Jail, and on Wednes day eighteen moro had to bo punished In tho somo way. But tho Judge im posed tho minimum penalty. It was tho same Judge, who on a previous occasion expressed a poor opinion of tho law nnd apologized to the man arraigned before hlra for imposing a fine. And tho dead of tho Trionglo shirtwaist fire of a couple of years ago ara now being paid for at T75 each. People and Events New Year Callers-Tom and Jerry. With Colonel Moyer out of danger and Ella Flagg Young baok on tho Job, Chi cago gates are wide open to welcome the Ivow Year. Tho unscrambling of the marriage Justice trust at Champaign. 111., brought about such on era of competition that Justices are tying tho knots Just for ox erclse and some aro giving a present to each bride. Chomp Clark is Just as frank about tho lectitre business as W. J. Bryan. "What is1 your idea about-lecturing?" ho was asked. Quickly came tho answer: Thero are vnrlous ways of making money. A Kansan received J5,G for writing a biography of John Brown some what prejudicial to tho hero's fame. Miss Mary T. Wilson of Indlannpolla Is now thought to ho the woman who will bo appointed head of the woman prison board of Indiana. She has had wide ex perience In connection with philanthropic work. Mrs. Dora Hooten of Indianapolis, Is also mentioned for the place, but Gov ernor Ralston wll not make the appoint ment until January I. Pass Christian In Mississippi, whero the president Is staying, is of course primarily a mere channel conn voting an inland body of water with the gulf of Mexico. Around the gulf people uni versally use the word ''pass" In that sense. The most conspicuous Instances are the ' passes" of the delta of the Mis sissippi river A mountain "iuss'" has the sa,mo meaning, applied to land con ditions. Twice Told Tales Ilml to Think n Little. People In a Missouri town aro telling this littlb story on a lawyer there. 11 happened In Judge Tedford's eourt,' nnd the Witness was a negro woman, whose reply to every query was, "I think bo." Finally tho opposing lawyer roso and pounded on tho desk. "Now, look here," ho roared, "you cut that thinking busi ness ami answer my questions. Now talk." "Mr. Lawyer Man." said tho witness. "Mr. Lawyer Man, you will havo to 'scuse me. I ain't like you 'torneys. I can't talk without thinkln'." Chicago News. The Error ot Ills AVnr. A good New Year's resolution for a middle-aged married man?" said George Ade at a dinner in Chicago. "Well, the best resolution a middle-aged married man could mako, according to my views, would bo for him to Bwear off telling his wife and children aboout the girls he used to klsa In his young days. "I'd say to the middle-aged married man of this type: " 'Suppose, friend, your wife fell Into a reminiscent Jovial mood some evening after supper, and started to tell about thn boys who used to kiss her by the wood stove In the dim-parlor wouldn't the dove of peaco flap her wings and light "out p. d. q. Justt' "Indianapolis News. Utility of Pnimnnhlp. Booth Tarklngton, like most litcrsteurs, writes n , wretched hand. Of this he tald In Newport recently: "Once, crossing to Naples, I sat in my deck choir with pad and fountain pen, at work on a short story, A young Peorian stopped before me. " 'By gosh. he said. 1 wish I could write ns well as you do. "I smiled, and the Ptorlan resumed his promenade. The next time he passed me, ho said again: " 'Geo. what a hand! If I could only wrlto llko that!' "Again I smiled a flattered smile, arid the Peorian mode another round ot the deck. Then he said n third time: " 'Oh, if I could only wrlto a hand like yours!' 'Nettled a ltttle by his third Interrup tion. I said: " 'Well, what would you do If you could?' " 'Go to China,' said the Peorian, 'and write labels for tea boxes.' "Chicago Record Herald. A FlnttcrlnK Defeat. This winter's fashions are undeniably charming, and an episode In their honor was related the other day by Lieutenant Barnes at Annapolis. "A very pretty girl," he said, "was motoring on a recent afternoon with, a young man when, without a wortl of warning, he put his arms around her nek and kissed her. "She was terribly enraged. She had the young man arrested. And she described angrily In court how he seized and kissed her on the Hps. "Tho young man making no defense, the Jury retired. A verdict of guilty was confidently expected, But, on the Jury's return, the foreman asked per mission to put two .questions to the plaintiff. " Wero you wearing. Miss' eo ran his .first question "fwero you wearing when with tho young man, that black velvet turban cocked over your left oyot' 'Yes,' she answered, t smiling. " 'And were you wearing,' the foreman pursued, 'that sable mantis with the Elizabeth ruff?' " 'Then,' told the forman firmly,, ! havo to announce that this Jury acquits thla defendant on tho ground of emotional Insanity.' " Baltimore Sun. Editorial Viewpoint Baltimore American: A man of 35 enters the list for the meanest man champion ship by suing his father for non-support. Tho probability la he failed to marry a wife with a good, steady Job. Chicago Record -Herald: Mr. Bryan Is being criticised because ho charged $300 for being tho guest of honor nt a Vir ginia gathering. Peoplo who have never been guests ot honor don't realize how trying it is. New York World: If President Wilson really asplrea to be a national hero and to hold the attontlon of tho world whllo taking a vacation in Mississippi he must learn to chase a bear up a treo with a pack ot hounds, Cleveland Plain Dealer: The postmaster general la so alarmed over the fact that the department Is paying expenses that ho may be expected to propose Uiat the government hereafter pay peoplo a bonus on tho letters they send. Philadelphia Ledger: The peculiar thing Is not that the government should have decided that pensioners should also be subject to the Income tax, but that any body would take a pension who already had enough to bring tho total up to moro than U000. Brooklyn Eague: That trial of Song Walter Kellogg emphasizes the need of a close union of pan-AmoWcan poets. Fifty' can 'be easily euchercd. It tho 5,030,000 rlso In tholr might song writers and music publishers will run away pre cipitately. Boston Transcript: Under Postmaster General Burleson's brilliant scheme every mile of barbed wire encircling those Texas ranches might become a branch line of tho government's telegraph sys tem and every fenoe-rldlng cowpuncher a lineman on the federal payroll. Over the Seas There are aro 725 co-operative credit and 19811 banks In the Netherlands, Russia Is second to Bngland only as u consumer of tea. France spends '(0 rer cent of Its ordi nary rovenuee for war purposes. Vaccination is an essential qualification for marriage la- Norway and Sweden. Capetown. South Africa, has absorbed nearby towns, raising Its population from 67,000 to M0.C00. Tit" total amount ot money reposing on the oceans' bottoms in the shape ot submarine cables is 1X0,000,000. In Berlin the exhibition of a chair at the door , of a butcher, elup, partially draped with a clean apron, indicates that fresh sausages are on sale. Argentina for many years has been Importing the best breeding cattle and sheep from Great Britain and today has come of the" finest types in the world. NEW YEAR SMILES. "I notice your neighbor at the table was boasting of always being nt the front In any movement." "He's used to It. IBs business Is to move famine, consequently he Is always In the van." Baltimore Amorican. "VoUnr TTnrYimn aavm tila p.atvlfalti.r was one of tho first settlers." ot inherited, evidently; Hardupp never settles." Judge. "Whero's your son. lllram?" 'Going to an agricultural college." ' I've heard them colleges ain't practical." 'You heard wrong. They put 'em right out Ir. the field. My boy writes that next year they're going to let him take caro of center field." Pittsburgh Post. "Why aro you gazing at that picture of Santa Claus7" "It Is a landmark," replied tho states man "It Is the last trace of a once general tradition that large whiskers sig nify great wisdom nnd benevdlence." Washington Star. "I see early December was so warm that rndtshea are growing In Illinois. "I can understand tho weather being warm." "Well?" "But who planted radishes this time of ytar? That's what I can't under stand." Louisville Courier-Journal. Bather Celebrated Author (to book seller's man) Look hcrel I don't see my book displayed on your shelves. Salesman No, sir. We had a pile of them yesterday, sir, but they drew such a mot we had to call In the police, sir. nnd the building Inspector has notified us to take no more chances. Sorry, sir. -Lift-. ffpP "Your Persuasive I Personality" I and all your convincing argument can't stop I I tho clock. The train that's gone won't come I I I back. The order that's been given or the I I contract that's been signed won't be revoked 11 "GET MERE FIRST" To St. Paul and Minneapolis I Leave Oninha 8:.10 I. M. I I Arrive St. Paul 7:U0 A. M. III Arrive Minneapolis .... 8:05 A. M. That's the Omaha Twin City train that gets I there first. Twin City Day Express leaves Omaha 9:30 a. m. When you plan to go to or through St. Paul or Minneapolis.. I Use your teleph'one call Douglas ,260 I I mak yUr rcscrvat'ona and deliver tho I Chicago Limited loaves Omaha 3:45 p. m. I P' F- BONORDEN. C. P. & T. A. 1522 FarnamStreet Omaha, Neb. I I I I Phon. Dooalas 260 lllllllll A Happy New Year A Modern, Well Lighted, Well Located Well Kept and Well Known Building. XHE BEE BUILDING The building that is always new With real The Bee Building Company wishes you, A Happy TO advertise NOW, is to cravenette yourself against the inevitable rainy day that comes to every business. It's "putting pres tige in the bank." NEW YEAR PRAYER. Chicago Tost. Lord, shrive us of our praying Now that the year's at end Our words and actions weighing, A renne of mercy send. Of naught wo prayed but sadness And naught we prayed but gloom, Nor told Thee of the gladness That In our hearts had room. We told Thee little sorrows Thnt ended yesterday; We praved Thee of tomorrows As but the thoughtless pray; Our words were faint with sighing, Our heads full low were bowed, Wo ran to Thee with crying Wheno'cr there came a cloud O, all the foolish troubles. The faults, tho frets, the fears They -nnlshed ns do bubbles, They drifted down tho years; Yn what prayed wo of laughter, Of happiness wo had? Lord, In tho days hereafter Our prayers shall bo glad. We, comforted with tdnging. With music nnd with mirth Wo cumc. our brothers bringing, And held our Joys on earth, Like little children fretting We moaned to Thee our lot. Our griefs before Thco setting, Our benefits forgot. Our thoughtlessness confessing, Recalling hnppy whiles, Give us this New Year's blessing; To meet each day with smiles. To have tho grace that doubles Each blessing understood. To pruy no moro of troubles, To sharo with Thee our good. will be assured you in 1914 when you locate your office in pleasure one and all, New Year