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4-B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY" 4, 1914. The Omaha. Sosday Bkk. roUHrpED KT EDWARD BQ6KWJLTKK VICTOR ROamVATER, EDITOR. jieb ntrantNQ. farnam and irrtt. Enterad at Omaha postotflco aa second casa matter. TP 11 MR ClV HI'IlSCllIPTION. Sunday Bee, cno year... 12.00 Saturday uce, ono year i Dally Bee., without Sunday, one year.. jWfl Dallr Bee, and Sunday, one year 6.0 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening and Sunday Bee, per. month.. 40o Evening, without Sunday, per month.. c Dally Bee. Including Sunday, per mo.. foe Dally Bee, without Sunday, per month.tSc Address all complaint of Irregularities In deliveries to nty Circulation Dept. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, expwsa or postal order, Only -cent stampa received In payment of amall accounts. Personal check, ex cept on Omaha, and eastern exchange, not accepted. Lincoln-! Little, building. CMrRo-Ml Hearit bulldlnit. New York-noom 11OT, V Fifth arenue. St. Loula-Kei New Bank of Commere. Washington Tg Fourteenth 8t, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to news and editorial matter thould be addressed Omaha Dee, Editorial department NOVEMBER SUNDAY CIRCULATION I 43,353 Btat of Nebraska, County of Douglas, a. Dwtght Wllllama. circulation manager of The Bea Publishing company, being duty aworn. iiaya that the arerago Sun day circulation for the month of October, day circulation for the month pfNovem br. UlVwaa 4J.K3. DWIQIIT WIL X.IAM8, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my preaenco and awom to before me thla la day pf December, JS. ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public Safcscrlbera leTlnr the city tem porarily ahonld hare The Bee matted o them. A44reaa ttIU tie cbaascd km often aa reaoeated. Four days by slipped any yet? Too bad that noil robbery is not sjso a ptmlsosblo offense. ' la polat of salary, this Joo Tinker person la batting about .000. Nevertbslees, soma very unchari table tklags wore said about that Charity ball. It transpires that an interlocking directorate may be unlocked if only you hare the key. t "No more railroad passes in 1111- boIs," chirps aa exchange. Or any where else, that we know of. New Year's resolution of Mona Lisa: "I promise ts stay at home Mid be no longer a gadabout" Atchison, has turned down .the oostaalsavloa plan of city government. "What's the waiter with Kansas? t Maybe It was the 1014 Christmas ataxer FsApfee Villa meant? he would at&t IHeaMonsl palace in Mexico ctty;. You car" usually tell aa Omaha Mas wherever you aee hira; he is the feilw with the smile that won't coiee eff.. , Dr. Anna Bhaw is witty, of course, hut she insist that her campaign against women paying the Income tax is no joko. From the reports of Huorta'n troops in the river it would soem as If that part of the federal cause were alaieet swamped. Perhaps Its proximity to John Lla4 had something to do with, Pres ident WUsob'b selection cf Pass Christian tor his winter resort. Let m hapa that We may see the aun ecaio4ial!y during the new Year. St. ftVoul Globe-Dtmocrat. Came up en the hills of Zion Where the sua shines and you may. Watcasaaa, what of the night? mere is that "Same Old Bill" Bul 4r by bow? Or, la other words, is the a at the limelight" switch sleep? "Our God, our help in ogos past, our hep for years1 to come," runs Isaac WtU' beautiful old hymn, and the H!rlt of it is a perpetual in tpiratloa. The graphic pictures that como by wire of whats doing down in Me Ice must convince everybody that Q ! Sherman's definition of war atUl holds good. It will, we fear, be hardest of all oa poor Mrs. Morgan, doomed to lee all the. pin monoy that used to come from the fees for hor husband's atteadanco on his multitudinous di rectors' meetings. The first chancellor of the Unl versity ot Nebraska has just passed away, which is another Btrlklne re minder of the briefness ot that great Institution's career, and the unexam pled growth it has enjoyed. Philadelphia, which has long boasted of being the most American city in the country, infused into Us family" stock last year 76,000 iKttlfraats from southern Europe, laying the foundation for a good maay aew families. Nineteen hundred and fourteen "firsts" . are being listed, among them the first baby born as reported to tk,helth department. Yes, but the recestloa ot the first report car ries ae aeceseary Implication that tete stork bringing that particular bbjr VeUrered bis bundle first. As to Directorates. Tho withdrawal of members of the so-called "llouso of Morgan" from what Is popularly termed tho Inter locking directorates of a largo num ber of big corporations attracts at tention to tho wholo subject of cor porate management. That tho In terlocking process has been carried altogether to Uie extreme, and is due for a reaction, Is self-evident, so that tho withdrawal of tho Morgans sim ply recognizes tho compelling forco of public opinion oven before It Is cryBtalllrcd into law. Yet tho question propounds itself, Hotv should directorates for these big concerns bo chosen, and who should bo chosen to such positions? Tho only way to tako n clear view of this subject Is to start with tho un derstanding that tho corporation Is merely a legal creation In substltuto for tho Individual or partnership of individuals. It Is really all tho stockholders Jolnod ns partners In order to comblno tholr resources and limit tholr liability. Whoro tho stockholders are their own directors Just tho Batno as they would be In n partnership, thcro is no difficulty, though they bo directors In a dozen corporations conducting different branches of tholr Joint business, for no ono disputes tho right of the owner to manage his own affairs. When, however, tho corporation is organized on a colossal scale, with stockholders counting up into tho thousands, none of them having pre ponderant holdings, the management must be through a board of directors serving in a representative capacity, for which the spoclal qualifications arc honesty, ability and faithful per formance of duty. But what side of tho business should the directors roprcsont? The curront complaint alms at tho domi nation of tho boards for exclusive financial considerations almost wholly disregarding overythlng olso. It is whoro tho financial Interests of different groups of owners conflict. or conflict with thoso of othor cor porations controlled by tho samo di rectors, that tho trouble nrises. Yet to throw tho management of these JJig Institutions Into tho hands of mon either Incompetent or qualified only as operators, but not as finan ciers, may invito other troubles not visible on the surface. If the reform that ia - w ft T, 1b really to accomplish what It alma at, a method will have to bo devised by which an Intelligent cholca of managing directors can bo made by wjaeiy scattered owners of large cor porate properties that will Insure not only BUCCeSflful onoratinn. hit successful financing as, well. Oae en the Imperious Ttaaim - Thoulgh lf'took the power of tho federal government to do it. tho will of Dame Fashion lias boon thwarted aad proved to be hot Inscrutable, which proof is apparent In tho do. morallzatlon of tho Europoau feather market as a result of ou? now tariff law, a provision of which excludes from Imports plumago for hats In the interest of tho blrda. Feathers heretoforo commanding ox cosalvo prlcos in both Europe and tho United States are now said to bo selling at 20 per cont discount In cities abroad, with further declines ahoad. Tho aigrette, wo aro told, Is a thing of the past. Mllllnors must dovlso othor adornmonts for women's hats. Hero, then, is a stern, pragmatic tariff law taking account of the blrdB, which, though, l8 nothing re markable, for the good book relates how that ovon ono Bparrow cannot fall to tho ground without Divine knowledge. But tho chief point of Interest hero is proof at )aat that Damo Fashion is not tho all-Imperi ous sovorelgn of inscrutable will and way wo had Buppoacd hor to be. Who knows but In time some of her capricious mandates touching tho otyles of dress may also be chal lenged, or, Indeed, abrogated by tho logal manipulation of mero man? New York and London. According to Now York's Board ot Health statistician that city's present population Is 5,376,063, which, ho says, Is 1,000,000 more than Lon don's, thus making tho Ameri can metropolis the world's me tropolis. Just how this figures out seems a little uucertaln, Lou don's population. according to tho 1001 census, was a little moro than 4,500,000, that is "regis tration London," the city nroner. With suburbs and all, It had 6,500.- 000, Now, London has grown some since 1901; Indeed, the last estimate gave- Greater London something llko i.OOO.OOO neonle and "rea-latrntinn London" probably 5,000,000. So It ic possible that Gi eater New York. vhlch, of course, is New York propter, rxceeds In population London Droner. giving us at last tho ;irst city In tho world, In point of population as 1 has been so long In many other ro tpects. From this comparison. 1 may easily be assumed that before many years New York's supremacy will be beyond question. Tho city of London probably can go on an nexlng suburbs, but this is about lti only hope for keeping ahead ot New lork In the race, as conditions the two cities and countries back them would forcibly suggest. And no sooner will we lay undisputed claim to tho first city of tho. world than wo shall begin to think of claiming also tho second, for Chi cago's possibilities ot growth are even greater than New York's. In deed, before many decades havocomo and gone tho real raco for first placo In tho world will rcsolvo Itself down to these two great American munlc - palitles, New York and Chicago. The Root of Prejudice. In proposing n concert ot all Jew ish cultural societies as a means of bettor combatting raco prejudice. Its sponsor attributes UiIb prejudice largely to Ignorance of the Jowlsh people, their history, traditions, Ideals and charactor. He might havo gone further and applied tho prlnctplo genorally. Prejudice of overy kind Is usually due to Ig- noranco or intellectual dishonesty. It is conceivably very difficult for an Intellect both informed and honest to harbor prejudice. Knowledgo is naturally as antagonistic to preju dice as to Ignorance. It is very un pleasant to think of this corroding. consuming passion of prejudice actu ating tho mind In which a knowledge or tho foctB resides. Unfortunately, BUch 1b often the case, yet that may even bo so and' still leave unshaken the point that Ignorance Is normally the root prlnctplo ot prejudice. The lesson of Babel. Several good reasons nro advanced why God despoiled Babel and dis persed the people, cno of them being that their plans of a slnglo world- empire conflicted with His of scat tering tho pcoplo to all quarters of the globe and populating tho earth. But a very practical, presont-day les son may bo drawn from this fact, that though tho buildem of Babel ere of varied Interests and dispo sitions, they wero ono and united in opposing God and in erecting thlj tower as a monument to their oppo sition, whllo tho bulldoro of Zlon that is tho righteous though united In a common hoad and Bplrlt, nro un fortunately divided In their loyalty and sorvlco to God. It Is a maxim of our day that the hosts of evil stand together better than tho righteous. As a consequence, of courso, good causes uuffor. In evitably In the division somo of tho righteous turn up on tho eldo of tho f-nomy, fighting their own Intorosts In tho ond. Just why this is so may bo difficult to explain, but It dona Keem that good pcoplo often defeat good causes for very narrow and Un worthy reasons. Molancholy proof of It may bo found In almost any clvlo or political contest where the forces 'of righteousness, over-persist ent in nominal differenced, split' hairs and their own ranks at the same Umo, paving tho way to crushing dis aster bofore a solidly united phalanx" of the enemy. Sp It seomB with tho propaganda of religion and Us multiplicity nf sects and denominations, resulting 1c divisions of service whon It should bo only, if at all, In forms and cere monies. What would bo the moral condition or tho world and the In fluence of the church If In all these centuries tho bulldors of Zlon had worked toward un,lty ot action with the genius and power they havo put Into their schisms? Tho foreign missionary Is said to havo a hard time gottlng the be nighted to understand how the doc trlno ot "one God" can consistently bo dispensed under so many inter pretations and with so much ap parent rivalry of effort. Tho heathen is no worso off in this respect than some born under luckier stars. But this must bo said to tho credit ot many leading denominations, that for tho purposes of foreign missions they aro gradually unifying tholr ef forts, which Ib slowly having Its ef fect upon agoncles at home. Tho Meat Problem. According to government statis tics our population Increase and tho Increase in meat production just about kept pace for tho deca'de 1809 1909. The supply or production of dressed meat por capita In the United States varied hardly a pound as be tweon 1899 and 1909, but the cost of animals on foot slaughtered in creased 75.6 per cent in that period and the value of dressed meat 73.3 per cent. In other words, while our meat production la scarcely keeping up with our population increase, or our. consumption capacity, prices conse quently aro steadily advancing and must so long as the present disparity in conditions obtains. But, it is said, our production does not determine tho world's supply; wo havo other countries to draw from, especially now that wo have free trade. Then let us turn to those othor countries and see what their condi tions are, sea If they aro such as offer us counterbalancing relief. Accord ing to latest available statistics. New Zealand, of whose moat supply we talk so glibly, Increased In popula tion In tho last decade 30 per cent, In cattlo only 16 per cent. Germany Increased In population 16 per cent, In cattle 4 per cent. Tho United Kingdom grew In population 10 per cent, whllo Its cattle growth was but 4 per cent, Tho figures for Austria Hungary are, population Increase 10 per cent, cattle 2 per cent; European Russia 14 per cent and 12 por cent. Russia did better than any of the otherleadlng European countries. But South America la looked to now for a baso of supply. Brazil Increased Its population In ten years 20 per cent and suffered an actual loss ot 20 per cent in its cattlo supply. Ar gentina, a great cattle country, gained 40 per cent In population, holding Its own lu cattle. Now we have Canada left this vast now field of supplies. Canada's popula tion grow 35 per cent, Its cattlo 20 per cent. Tho force or these figures is un answerable. They offer no rational hopo ot an early docllno in meat prices, but tend to show that tho old law of supply and demand Is still in operation, despite vague theories to tho contrary. The Eternity of Time. In deference to custom and tradi tion wo celebrate tho moment be tween the last day of December and tho first day ot January aa tho be ginning ot the new year. In point of fact, time has no beginning, and no ending, but runs to etornltv In tho direction ot the past and also of thb future. Thero nro soosons of day and night, and of monthB and years, determined by tho procession of orbits, which for purposes of con- vcnlonco and calculation we count otf on tho calendar, but there is In reality, so far ns wo know, neither beginning nor ending nor Interrup tion of time. Our calendar could Just as easily have been made to mark tho advent ot the now year on any ono of tho othor 364 or 365 dayB of tho cyclo (recall that different calendars are UBod In othor parts of the world that do this very thing). nnd we could m'ako it fit our con ventenco at noon Instead of our in convenience at midnight. But all bucq schemes of, time measurement would bo equally artificial. Time Is one, Umo. 1b continuous, time is eternal. Unmerger Compensations. "No cloud without a silver Union" Is an nnclent adage which still ap plies even to such ominous shadows as the tolophone-telcgraph unmergor. Tho first severo condition exacted of the telephone combine on behalf of the government by tho nttorncy gori eral ns a consideration for immunity unaor tne anti-trust law roaulres the sale of Western Union holdings, which. It is now Bald, lifts from tho telephone people an annual loss of moro than $500,000. Accordlne to semi-official Information, this telo- fi.anli J,,n1. ...... 1 . . .... !"' Dwwi nil uougai io yield t per cent returns on the purchase price, while it has cost at least 6 per cent to carry It, so that even a shrinkage or $4,000,000 or $5,000, 000 In tho sale would not be re garded as a particularly disastrous operation. From the same source It is learned that the telephone company not only gets a clean bill of health, but holds on to the national system as de veloped by it to dato by agreolng to connect with any and all comers. This romoves tho last Uom of criti cism as a monopoly, and Incidentally also removes tho incentive oJt Inde pendents to combine to form long distance lines and competing toll systems of their own. In offset it will get tho switching chargo,for hosts or Jlttlo Independent proper ties, apparatus will bo standardized and long distance traffic stimulated. Assurance is given that tho only placo where the public may be pinched la whore tolegraph messages havo been delivered by phono, for which sorvlco a charge may In some instances bo made. Ib it any wondor trust regulation by negotiation is cordially acclaimed by tho magnates of high finance, and tho office of the democratic attorney general threatons to become their favorite mooting placo? Just to keep tho facts straight, let It be understood that none of the $20,000 guaranty for tho Billy Sun day campaign In Omaha has yet been actually raised In cash, and that when It Is raised, according to the "Incorporators," it is to insure erection of the tabernacle required for the meetings and meet other in cidental preliminary expenses. Good folks griovlng because a book of immoral tone has reached a circulation ot many thousands should console themselves In the fact that last year's total output of the Blblo publishers was 28,000,000. As Paul told the Romans, ""Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." In other cities that had municipal Christmas trees it was made tho cel ebration center, not only for the Christmas eve festivities, but also for the demonstration that ushered in the New Year. Omaha might take the hint for its next municipal Christmas tree. The estate left by Whltelaw Reid appraises at $1,379,884. The only wondor Is that Mr. Reid succeeded in keeping up appearances as British ambassador so long without feeling compelled to take to the Chautauqua circuit to piece out his meager salary. State lines have been practically wiped out In matters ot transporta tion, and now they are not likely to stand In matters ot Irrigation. The reminder Is hardly needed that our state lines are almost wholly arti ficial, anyway. lookinjd Backward f A 'JftisPay in Omaha etmriua raew an nui T Thirty Years Ago The lIurllriKton announce that befitn nlng Sunday It will run through tralna between Omnha and Chicago without re quiring transfer at Pacific Junction. "Thla piakes tho Burlington the oply line carrying paaacngera from Omaha to Chi cago without change ot cara and bag gage will be checked through from Omaha to destination." T. V, Lyon, In tho wholesale and re tail cigar bualncsa In thla city, waa mar ried Wednesday to Miss Hattlc O. Halo of Cleveland, O. Tho second term of Bellevue college haa opened. Rev. F. S. Ulayney continu ing acting president. Mlis Phelps ot thla city has been engaged aa Instructor in music. Mrs. Nellie P. Fox Issues a special In vitation to "all skeptics, church mem bers and materialists to hear her free lecture at St. George's hall, Fourteenth and Farnam." The thermometer tonight ranged from 20 to 21 degrees below zero. 1. AV. Miner, Henry Haubena and Dan Wheeler, Jr.. havo been appointed Jus tices of the peace. Miss Edith Davis and Miss Fannie Cox of thla city have taken up a course of study at Sacred Heart convent. O. W. Cook of the Bhoe firm of Tyrrell & Cook has has gone -east on business, to be absent about four weeks. Miss Caddie DaWell of Vinton, la., a achoolmate- of Miss Annie Dunham at Mount Herald seminary In Illinois, is here on a visit with Miss Dunham until they return to school. Twenty Years Ago Advices were received at th Com mercial club to the effect that Count I.ublenskl, tho Tollsh capitalist, would return to Omaha about January 20 with tin engineer and select a site for the beet sugar factory, which , he was to help finance. James Peabody, the attractive lltle 10-year-old son of Dr. and Mra. John D. Peabody, was crushed to death under the wheels of a Tenth street motor, car, two Wheels passing over the poor little fel low's head. William A. Stewart, a rising younr at torney, was admitted to practice In. the United States courts. Tho rcaldcneo of James Corrigan, 2123 South Twelfth street, waa. badly dam aged by fire, the loss to him amounting to about S700. Friends of Dr. and Mrs. Borglum were glad to learn that their son. .Arnold, was recovering after four weeks' Illness from typhoid fever. At a "sweeping out sale" at one of tho leading clothing houses In town the high est priced overcoats wero cut from 2Q to J16.W, while some listed originally at HO to 12.50 went at SS.U1. Ten Years Ago Jane Kcnnark, known to Omaha theatergoers In former years as a stock company favorite, appeared pleasingly In "Under Two Flags" at the Boyd. Peter M. Eckstrom. 1212 South Seven teenth street, died after a short illlnens, leaving a wife and three sons and three daughters. Carl Eckstrom, a young actor of promise, was one of hl sons, Ills daughter, Clara, was also on the stage, playing In "The Sultan of .Sulu." Mr, Eckstrom had been a longtime resident ot Omaha, being employed at the rax ton & Vlerllng Iron works. John W, Maynard was elected president and Dr. W. II. Chrlstta vice president of the Board of Education at Its rcorcanlia tlon meeting. Ed Plater, a hearse driver tor S. A. Collins St CV. for twelve years, died from swallowing carbolic acid by mistake. He was at the home of bs uncle. Warren Franklin, near Florence, having recently io turned from St, Louis after a year's abienco from Omaha, "I think you will find none other than E. II. Harrlman as the successor ot Horace O. Burt as president of the t'nlon Pacific," said a prominent local railroad man to The Bee. "There is no question but Mr. Harrlman and the board of di rectors regret Mr. Burt's resignation and would, If they could. Induce him to with draw It and atay with the road. But aa that will not come about, I think Mr. Harrlman will simply absorb the presi dency of this and his other lines." THE GENTLE CYNIC. Love Is blind, and sometimes It Is nlso dumb. It takes an optimist to laugh In his sleeve when he knocks his tunny bone. The efficacy ct prayer depends upon tho amount of hustle there is back ot it. The average man's aim in Ufa de pends largely on tho six a of the target. The world la full ot people who ketp Insisting that something ought to txs done. You don't have to call In the services ot a collector to gamer the wages ot aln. Some men have greatness thrust upon them, but It generally goes to tneir heads. ) , two only way you can take the meas ure cf many a man la by pints and quarts. A pessimist may te euner a man who ha been disappointed In love or one who baa been disappointed In marriage. Tho difference between a raconteur anj a bora Is that ono haa enough money to buy the drinks and the other hasn't. Don't believe all you near. Many a man who never used tobacco In thla world will need a smoking jacket in the noft. trrlan Is Indeed a serious problem to the girl who haa sixteen dear friends from whom to select eight brldesmalis. New York Tlmea. - - People and Events Secretary Wilson of the Department of Labor la olasiwd aa a poet, but ho works at other Jobs for a living. Tho worth of n New Year's resolution In not In tho making, hut In the keeplntf. Should other specifies fall, try moth balls. He Is a prlnco of good fellows who provided base ball cushions for occupants of the water wagon, knowing they aro riding to a fall. It la painfully manifest that the weather clerk of tho corn belt Is deaf to the needs of youth, or he would atart.somethlng to take Jho rust off the runners. Although the doctors said positively there aro dangerous microbes In kissing, soma cornbclt medics are doing some in vestigating on their own account. The Dutch discovered New York and their descendants discovered Holland to be a profitable market for American po tatoes. The Dutch look like a two-timo winner. In the matter ot talk aa In other essen tials of liberty, we put It all over the rest of mankind and womankind, too. The United States contains but 5 per cont of the population of the globe and haa 69 per cent of the telephones In tho world, Line's busy! Mrs. Frederick W. Lehman, wife of the former solicitor general of the Uhlted Statist and a grandmother, Is a freshman at Washington university, St. Louis, Mo. The secret of her enrollment leaked out recently. Mrs. Lehmann attends the tint veratty classes three times a week to stidjr English. He halls from Ohio and his name Is Whltacre, Eighteenth district congress man. Announcing that he would not be a candldato for re-election he nays he Is tired of "sitting around and looking wise" and that "no man who wants to bo In tellectually honest has any business in congress." What do you know about that coming from Ohio? Jimmy Lark In of Dublin, who promises to come over end wave hla fiery cross in this country, Is a stickler as a moralist. Upton Sinclair relates In the Now York Tribune how Larktn refused to appear on the same platform In England with a chairman who was divorced from his wife. Mr. Sinclair sympathizes with the Larktn propaganda, but warns divorced men and woven to keep out of reach ot Jimmy's snub. The saddest note ot the New Year sounded In Illinois la the requiem of tho railroad pass. Jackpot lawmakers did not Intend, knowingly, to go to that limit, but someone slipped a Joker into the "utilities act," prohibiting public servlco corpora tions from performing service for less than the regular rate. Free rides aro all off for other than employes. Compelling politicians and leg pullers to pay out good money for riding on trains Is the hardest blow that has fallen in Illinois since Methuselah was a kid. MUFFLED KNOCKS. A reformer is a man who wants every one to be better than he Is. Lot's wife turned to salt. But nowa days lota of wives turn to pepper. Away down In his heart every man knows that he Is elthur clever or good looking. Glvo a princess a $5 bill and she will spend J4.03 for a new bag to carry tho 2 cents In.- You can never get a married .woman to Understand why a husband should need any spending money. A man who knows all about keeping out of work doesn't know a blame thing about keeping out of trouble. What has become ot the old-fashioned man who used to think Maud S. was the speodlest thing In the world? The man who owns a big automobile Is always willing to agree with you when you arguo that walking Is the finest ex ercise. When a fellow can hand a girl a dime's worth of Junk and statned glass and she believes It Is a $200 engagement ring that Is love. When a grass widow marries a grass widower they have It all over the ama teurs In that they do not have to rehearse tbo performance. A father Is often a party who will trust his daughter's future with the kind of a man that he wouldn't trust with the loan of a nickel for car fare. Ono advantage of being married and having children la that you don't have to use a nail when you lose a button off your clothes. You can always find a safety pin on the floor.-Clnclnnatl Enquirer. Shimmering Glass Seminole Limited Tht Millionaire'! Way to Florida log . uASSSr- talnly one southbound trstariTei.7 IT J1.1 agw c"' yourjourneend. AltKl gSffi JSJ'G" .uper-heater SP. amice .dU.3r!r,5 uliS2iS L Central SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. Chicago Inter Ocean: A Texas church Is to have a roof jjarden. Anything, wo presume, to get nearer heaven. Houston Post. We hear ot a Man chutctls minister, years old, who .ins Just married the fourth wife. A row men like him operating In Massachusetts might materially reduce the preponder ance of spinsters there within ten years. Chicago Record-Herald: It becamo necessary tho other day for tho pollcs to disperse a crowd of Persians who wero praying In a vacant lot in Chicago. Peopje who lived near the vacant lot complained that they were disturbed by . tho praying. , Cleveland Plain Dealer: A New York j church has employed a barber to trim the choir boys Just before the services each Sunday. It will be a pity If soma Irrellgloua policeman breaka up the ses sion by arresting him for violating the closing law. SMILING REMARKS. "So you approve of dancing?" "Thoroughly. In many instances lta much letter to keep step to the music or ; a song than to listen to the words of it. Washington Stan Lawver The cross-examination did not! &eem to worn you. Have you had any previous experience? I Client-Six chlldren.-Kansas City JoUr- I nal. i "And did you ever seek the man?" w ' asked the Office. ntnr, I "Once or twice." replied the " "But I found him waiting outside my door." Philadelphia Inquirer. ( The Pullet They say the ostrich can run faster than any other bird. The Turkey Mebby so. But, anyhow, I hold the trotting record-Chicago News. "He Is one of those ncar-vegetarlans." ( "What I a near-vegetarian? i "He never eats meat except when he Is "How do you know that man Is unmar- rl"Thafs easy." said Mr. Sloothlngton nrTKk. "I observed the serene curl-D.VTewu-h which he .will walk P and IOOK at ine uiayiar "'0. ' window."- Washington Star. , "When you y"Sr0t QUllty' what do you mean by tnat7 . . "I dunno. unlcsa It means there i is .not. much quantity about her Immediate fam-( Hy." St. Louis Republic. A LITTLE SECULAR SERMON. St. Louis Republic. We used to have religion here, down town We heard tlmold-tlme doctrine ot the Savior crucified . For man's redemption, and the dear old gospel songs we sang. . . r" 1- ' . .u. rih.r then our ar- Anu up io uw ma ..v..-. , dent praises rang. , j But that was, oh! so long ago, and ouM religious xesi has dribbled since tho churches moved 'out west. . , Somehow I've never understood exactly why a church Should feel Inclined to move away and leave us In the lurch I Us folks who have no nfotor cars to) swish us out of town, . Nor any parks around our homes where ono can go sit down. 1 1 It worries me a heap to be put now to such a test by tempters since churches! moved out west. . Of course, thero Isn't any dearth ot places'! wo may go, i We have the handy lid club now, the Sun-1 day vaudeville show. j But still I sometimes sort of feel a rather . woeful lackr j Of spiritual moving and I wjsh my ' church were back. .i True. It may be that folks like me aifl j not among the best. Was that why all I the churchea moved out west? pi Excelsior Springs Wafer T". ,Jave .Just received a car of as sorted Excelsior Springs Mineral Water as follows; Crystal Llthla Water, 5 gal. jug... 82.00 ga'Phjir, Water. E-gaX Jug....5a.35 Salt Sea Water, B-gal. Jug $a.2B Diamond Llthla, case 12 H-gal.. . .84.00 Sulpho Saline, case SO qts $8.00 Sulpho Saline, case 12 -gal M.BO Regent Spring, case 60 qts .88.00 Regent Springs, case. 12 gal... St.OO W handle one hundred kinds of Min eral Waters from foreign and American springs, receiving same as direct shlp menta from tho springs or Importers, and mako the very lowest prices on full cane, dozen or bottle quantities. We dc- ni'.1LTfeiJ,J.0mana' South Omaha and i Council Bluffs. Sherman &McConnell Drug Go. Pour Prescription Drug Storta la OauaJoa.