Nebraska Newspapers

    THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE:, JULY 30, 1916.
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE
Founded by edward rosewater.
? ' VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
The B ritblliiilnf Comaaay, PrepriMor.
.REX IUILDING. FABNAJ1 AND IKVENTKNTH.
soured at Omaba poatoffloa si cond-clut sutter.
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Br carrier By snail
per moot per war.
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. Daily without Sunday..., 45o 4.00
XvMtfif end Sunday 40e .oo
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Sunday Bet? only 20c 100
-ally sod Sunday Bet. Oirse yeara in advance. .10.00
vena nonet, m nun or uarm or lrrriuianu n
yln to oroaoa Bet. circulation UfparuoML
REMITTANCE."
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MtamiM dw red In narBtent or amai. amount, rer-
. aonaJ ctavrka. except oq Omaha and aasurn exenancta,
uw acoopew. ,
OFFICES.
v Omaha Th Bee BuHdtni.
' - South Omaha 2318 N atreet.
fotinrtl Bluff-U North Hatn attest
Lincoln 5S8 Utile Buildin-.
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' Near York- Boom 1108. SM Fifth arm,
t ImiaM3 New Bank of Com mere.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
- Addnes ewnnniairattflni telaUns to sews and attt
tnrlal natter to Omaha Boa. Editorial Dttpartaeat.
iUME CIRCULATION.
57,957 Daily Sunday 52,877
llwtrbl Wllllama, drculatlrm taanaaar Th Baa
PnMlalilnf company, Wnc Sulr amm. Nfl that th.
- amitc crlculitlon for th. month of JttM, ISIS, M
H.W nallr ana m.ntt BUnaar.
nwlOHT WILLIAMS. Clrealaiton Ifanatrr.
BiinarrlhMl m m preaanot and mom to befoav
. OM una M oar Jtujr, ll.
. ROBKRT HUNTER, Kotarr Public.
SubacrHMr. laavtns th. city temporarily
ahagla tun TH. Bm auilaa t. thaaa. Ad
am, will a. duttftal .a aft., aa reauaattai.
As an induitrioui rumor factory
Amsterdam has Rome beaten to
. dumb standstill. .
"Hands Across the Sea" remains
the motto over the door, but the
grip depends on a thorough in spec
tion of the hands.
'. Although riot chronicled in Holy
Writ, King Solomon has nothing on
Judge Landis in the unscrambling of
mixed-op mpthers.
My, what a lot of coal shoveling
could be saved if part of the sum
mer'i heat could be interned and re
leased in the winter timet ,
, The presumption is" the White
House would go tenantless If the
landlord did not have a Mayflower,
or some other boat equally as good,
: to go with it i
President Poincare of France an-
' nounces that the allies can t'be beat.
' The central powers express like con-
' fidence in ultimate victory, Mean
' -.t- :t- al. i.:ti: - j -
. Willi. III. Killing fIUl.CU. Willi nu
: prospect of an early decision, v
According to the boot makers, wo
- men's shoe tops are to be lower, but
. nothing has yet been heard officially
from the dressmakers as to' skirt
lengths. We insist that this is place
i demanding team work.
One of the apologists for demo
. cratic unpreparedness is quoted as
' saying, "The soldier boys on the bot
" der mast not expect) summer resort
quarter nor Waldorf-Astoria meals.
, No, and it s a cinch that they will not
: aj.a anviut
The estate of the late , J. Pierpont
Morgan appraises at the! pittance of
' 178,000,000, "exclusive of property
outside of, New York state." which
, cannot amount to mucti. in a word,
he was only an imitation Croesus,
many time outclassed. How disap
pointing 1
v Losses by fire In the United States
and Canada for the first half of the
year foot up $125,776,420, compared
with S9Z,SSl,UUU tor the tirst halt ot
1915. The great difference in the
figure : suggest that lean months
; make ,. poor fire economy and fat
-months go to blazes. ,
There is just one sure way for
Omaha to land that federal land bank:
Let our democratic United States
senator step up to the counter and
say, "I want that bank for Omaha; I
must have it and if I don't get It, I
. will take it as notice that the admin-
' istration does not want my help for
anything else." -
The railway commission of Cali
fornia criticises the allowances for
' services in connection with the re
ceivership and sale of the Western
PniA railrnart An attnrnftf'a imm ftf
$172,000 for sixteen months' service
and $7,000 to the man who read the
, notice' (ft sale may appear extrava
, gant to plodding workers, but the
.commission forgets that receiverships
'are designed to fry th remaining fat.
FuDiicitv ana uooa Koada. ; .
.. Tt. frMlnn nf . a., V..'.t. .......
commission is the first indispensable
step Nebraska must take to become
eligible for th state's share of the
federal good -roads fund. That will
be an -important task for the legisla
tors chosen next- fall Little can be
aone omciai v until i tne legislature
I .L - 1 ; ,
'an. auu iuc ctHiuiii.iioncrs arc
. chosen. Assuming the legislature
takes favorable action, eight or
iweive montns win eiapse oetore the
"stat buckles down to the serious busi
ness of permanent' road ' building.
, ...L:!. t. i ,
, Aiv.iiwuiic . iiiukii' irciiminary worx
might be done in thoroughly ac
quainting the people with the neces
. sity and practical value of this pub
lic work. Taxpayers are entitled to
advance information on the cost
While the federal law fixes at $10,
000 per mile the cost limit of which
it pay one-half, the actual cost may '
exceed the federal limit, and the ex-;
, vcb muai oc oorne oy tne state or
tH rnttnit Aimt r j.Ahm-k.j a ..
... - - vu.iv.i i.m. vji
educational campaign for a compre
hensive system of permanent roads
Is essential id k full understanding
i what the movement involves. The
nor thoroughly the people under
stand the. issue the quicker wilt
favorable action be had and legisla
tive friction avoided.
Two Years of the War.
The second vear of the war iA Rttrnn inat
closing, 'teaches one thing clearly. At its outset
man tnougnt he knew his capacity for endurance
and the limitations of his powers of destruction.
Events have proved otherwise. Predictions freely
made by experts before the fighting commenced
that war had been made too terrible to last long
have been swallowed up in occurrence so shock
ins: that sensibility haa f,.n ff,i11iH .nf ,h an
nouncement of new agencies of death and devas
tation mor awful than any dreamed of are ac
cepted as matters of course. Men by millions are
sent against other millions, each force equipped
with scientifically contrived instruments for
slaughter: whole battalinna arc nhllor,,. k.
chemical blasts, anit rfirimin,. anil hflngn..
out, demonstrating the accuracy of calculations
maae lor capacity of modern weapons to destroy,
and confounding all theories as to man's capacity
to defy destruction.
This is the one lesson of two years of fighting
on the most stupendous scale imatrinable. Other
possible results are yet speculative. Much of rea
soning has been logically applied, but the postu
late is Dresumotive and not nnsit ive ann1 .a h
conclusion is necessarily guesswork. Evidence is
plenty tnat peace would be welcomed by the bel
ligerents: this is not within reach iintll an.
the other side has gained an advantage, and the
indecisive character ot results so far achieved
.bi,.. viuic. Hum cmurcing us oemanas.
now much longer the strita-trle mav an !.
most as uncertain now as it was two years ago.
limit win be reached, but how soon or where
none can say. Partisan bias supports most ex
pressed opinion, which is consequently worthless.
Human endurance is beintr tested tn thai
ana on u depends the outcome.
Th Spirit of Nationalitm.
From the birth of the remihlle iU. .nirla f
nationansm has been the propelling power of its
onward march of progress. It is this spirit that
cemented tne colonies together after they had
won independence from the British oppressor and
it is mis spirit tnat kept the union from division
through a bitterlv foutrht civil war Th. .i,.-
oi nationalism also offers the explanation of each
successive step in territorial expansion which the
United States has undergone and which in turn
has tremendously strengthened that anlri.
By force of national necessity the different
states mat n.d claims to the Northwest territory
relinquished them In favor of the f..r.i
ment and out of that empire were carved all the
new states Between the Alleo-ha. mA at,.
H.iu iug ... i a a-
tssippi.. The acquisition of Louisiana was brought
"i " uiun a wnoie ana not Dy the ad
joining states, either individual!
The territory taken from Mexlen hee.m. -..-. i
territory and likewise purchased Alaska and war-
ti(iiircu ,rorco kico ana the Philippines, It is
the ironv of fate, almnat that the n.a i . .
, , ...v uiw iiin,ii.ni
enlargements of our territorial area have come
unaer democratic administrations in direct con
tradiction of the democratic firearhmen, Af .-.
ngnt. ana anti-imperialism, and If the Danish
west inoies now come under our flag, we will
oave anotner illustration directly In point '
''The soirit of nationaliam
... -.....j V.IIIIUI vv rT;-
pressed where the welfare of the American people
requires' the concerted action of all Th. c..:c.
- " - .lint
railroads would never have been built at the time
tney were needed except for the federal land
grant and subsidy and the eonarrtirrion nl ah.
Panama Canal would be still lagging had not
unci, jam texen it in Hand, sn ... ........
passing laws for land hart Ira feto aa,s-
child labor, for good rotdi, and other subject!.
lurnicriy ciairoca ai belonging exclusively to the
tatet, because there ii no nthsr wv t a v.
J wa liVSMIIlK
with them effectively and efficiently. The spirit
vi ii.uuiiaiiini cannot ana will not stop thort at
artificial state lines merelv
uiscreauea sentimental theory of states rights.
," Th Normal Child In SeJiooL
' MaasachuaeHa aimlaH . ....!
... -' anetung BDOUt an
inquiry, tne UlllltV Ot whii-h m.a, h. ....a: J
J w.aiuiicu.
The quest is to determine th. nAln, .a . L .'-L .l
abnormal child may be detected, the purpose be-
ii iv give tne unusually talented youngster the
full benefit of his excess of intellee'tn.l m.
plan will, it is supposed, supplement the special
..wri mat nai long oeen made in behalf of the
subnormal child, whose lark of f.-..t... i...
dered him an object of special care and solicitude
m an. puouc acnooi. when It is worked out the
backward and the forward children will be cared
.for, but what of the great mi of y0ung,.ert
who have the misfortune to be Just normal boy.
nd girlsf . ; '
Our public schools
the intellectual needs of the children of the "aver
age" American home. The
. -a ltv i vi c in.
conKientious school teacher should always be-
i I """"" m y meet the requirements
of these boys and arirls. mo.t of .h :n ...
- w. will JJtJl
no other schooling than is to be had in the public
harm I at TLa, .tt . t a . T
a.uc ,;1Ior, .noma not be to locate the
especially gifted, but tO f fatal frit at. mm.m. iL.a
the apt and energetic will find plenty to do, while
... qu.iuiea re not neglected. The tub
normal and the abnormal usually discover them
selves, so that the problem of the teacher con
tinually hea with the far greater number.
It is still a mooted p6int whether the substitu
tion of practical for cultural aii. .... .
4. , . f in nuoi is
the wiser plan. So-called technical training
in schools specifically instituted for the "work,
is indispensable. But it mav he well noh..j : at.
pseudo-vocational training now undertaken in
many of our nubile school, i. of , ,
. , - v. .jr rc.i service.
Out and out trade schools have a purpose as de
fimte as that of the technical, and should be .up
plemental rather than t part of the purely cultural
school.
These mattera are far from t.i .,.
fixed in our school system 'ho....... .t .
effort will still be wasted in experimenution be
fore the crystallisation of oni.:n. a.i
nent I form. In the meantime, however, we submit
...,,,,,,,, m prodigies is of less real serv
ice than giving a clear traclt o h. . .i
.hiu ... T " : aver-
Thought Nucra-et for the Dav.
An idler is a watch that wants both hands,
As useless if it goes as if it stands.
, ! William Cowper.
One Year Aa-a Tadav In the War.
Holland passed a law increasing her trained
soldiery from 330,000 to 550,000. , y
Reported that Austrians were repulsed with
heavy loss in attack on Italian position before
Gorizia.
Germany, Austris, Turkey and Bulgaria held
:i .t. .... . f
w.i ivruiiiii uu mc i.ic ui .oiiBtantmupic.
This Dav in Omaha Thirty Years Atro.
The trustees of the South Omaha Land Syndi
cate ncia a meeting witn Closed doors at their
office in the Millard hotel. The following were
present: Messrs. swan, raxton, ller, Murphy
Kok. mwtA r .t
Fifty couples gathered at Ancient Order of
Hibernians hall in response to invitations to a
farewell party in honor of the Misses Annie and
11" I. ( II I II- . V trmt
m.gajic virroit ana wr, jamcs renney. ine
Misses Carroll go east next week and Mr. Ken-
ncy leaves ior ureen niver, wyo.
Mrs. Louisa Mohr, wife of B. M. Mohr, 418
North Sixteenth street, has returned from New
VorL- ...I. ... .t. t-. v.. i -- .
v. ..in. ,ia. vccu vi.iliiiu uci .istcr.
T. W. T. Richards has gone to San Francisco
in company witn nis Old companion in arms
Senator Rif.hon. I
W. V. Morse and wife have gone to Spirit
Lake to join the Omaha colony there, which now
I. ino
iiuiiiLtci. over iuu,
Miss Nellie Bassett of Galesburg, III., i visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Whilmarsh.
Dr. H. Gilford of 1404 Farnam street became
cxnausieo wnue Datning at Manhattan Beach and
.... . .. t... .. -t. D..l. 1 1 . i n
" ...cm. iu- an. ' a .tiiiu xaou.e, wnere ut,
Hfailrfv twho h.n h..n -.J ... r-i.L-
" " ' " -'- ..mi awiiuiiuiiau jiuiii w lli.ll.,
stated that he woittH eom. amnn .11 ...l.a k...
mat u waa a close snave.
-' N - -
Today In History.
1609 Firearms first seen by the Indians in
......... .iwt,.w,. ... u v.ii. iiiii.in a iuii
lowers near Ticonderoga.
';. 1711 An English expedition sailed from Bos
ton to attack Quebec and Montreal. '
1822 William T. Adams, author of the "OH.
ver Optic" books, born at Medway, Mass. Died
at Tlorrh..,.. a.a. VT k -ST I DOT
. ...-.., ... .up,, aw.ivu a., 1(17 .
1830 Charlea Y n.noa.l .- ak. .1 -I
aaaa nvfvvtis WUS 111V till UUC Jl
rrancc,
1866 President Johnson replied to the mes-
o v.ie.wm..iivii itvvifivi tiuiu yuccn vie
tona on the completion of the Atlantic cable.
lfi7J ArM-v,-. Afm-A Ul D.,. .a, t :
pool, in the first professional base ball match in
Kna-tanit
1887 The great railroad bridge over the St
-awrcnce at x.acnine was completed.
1891 John Dillon and William O'Brien, the
Trial. laarlsr t-sljai4 " lit -
tion of their six months' sentences for advising
ah an ten. u 19 noi io pay rem. -
1ROA Prk.i.t.nr ri.,..i..j 1 .j
nAfl a-vf urapntnif fi.kM 4II!t...a.A. ,
: 1898 President McKinley, through the French
ambassador, stated the American terms for peace
with Cnaln '
1900 Kin HmKtr it Tralw .........
. a th MMwaiuaicu
a, 04.UIIC.sl,
1900 Farfrtnti.l,.. in A.A J
I 7 "t- w wsw uiu ci uia
tkfttfrx K.snew k... J--a i
D-r k.iw MtSMaaf, pia.UMlljr UCtfUDCQ.
A Centenary for TranaertL .v-"'f , ' ; - s' '" -'-
Full-lenghth trousers were Inrented In the
year 1816; and the first social light to approve
them openly was the duke of Wellington, a man
Of lmn narva a nr. -vnnmm. J.-I-. D I
less of the consequences the duke wore a pair
us ui vui va me iircci; ana irom tnat day his
unpopularity grew. As compared with aatin knee
hreerhea. trona.r. .-. ....J. j .
.. . wlv mimic .tiu nniovciy.
Sculptors rage at their graceless appearance and
iciii.i . auom mem mat cannot be re
peated in mixed gatherings. They are, however,
the only known form of garment which can suc
cessfully withstand the stress and strain which
result from modern business in its various rami
fications. A telegraph linesman, for instance,
would enjoy all unpleasant time if he were
obliged to go about his business clad in satin
knee breeches or the togs of the ancients. Since
the vear 19lr i th. r......... - .t. t:..i. .
.... '...... j vi me mi in oi
trousers, every trouser-wearer in the world might
...u.t ciiumciii .nu practicality Dy purchasing
a new pair of trousers at some time Hn.in. ,k.
year K. L. Roberts in Life.
Thi I the Dy We Celebrate.
Charlea F. MrHr.u, t.i. i .
ivuicu uniiKcr, 1. JUSt
60 today. He was born at Mt Pleasant, la., com-
......v.... .,,ms Business in IBs at Alex
andria. For ten vears he w.a atat. n.,io..i t.i.
commissioner. ,
Arthur C. Crossman, investment and real
estate broker, was born'July 30, 1851, at Bur-
llnatnn Vf H. (...! ' '.:j'j '.?. .
M.l T t . in.iuca t Atkinson,
Neby from where he removed to Omaha in 1906.
Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer
and peace advocate, born at Greenfield, Mich.,
fifty-three yeara ago today.
John Sharp Williams, United States senator
from Mississippi, born at Memphis, Tenn.. sixty
two yeara ago today. . '
hl.hRon R,'li- t?,rtat' D- Wilm. EpuKopal
Disnoo of Michiflran. hnm mt R.I .,.. t ctL-
y - v"k v usj, v.. Ill LV"
six year ago today. . - ' 7
Tir Dura C h...!. . .
Tt t r . prestueni or Chicago
Theological seminary, born at Wheelock. Vt
nftV V..r. .Bro i
J J - IVM.J1,
f,on!!nr7i A" Du.Pont. United States senator
from Delaware, born near Wilmington, Del.
seventy-eight years ago today.
Dr. Henry Louis Smith, president of Wash-ins-ton
ann I... I... .
M r ...... iV, outn at ureensooro,
t ! "v"J?ven ye,r" toiy-
Julia H. Gulliver, president of Rockford (III.)
today1"' " " Norwich Conn - ,ixty y" ago
S,tngel' M4tr of the Brooklyn
National league base ball team, born at Kansas
Uty, twenty-six years ago today.
A large part of the monev j '
- . uu roaa im-
provement in Nebraska heretofore ha. been vir.
i...wn wayvcvery dollar of the good
roads appropriation from the federal treasury
should be made to, count in a way that will eon-
. ... .. """'" nPi and permanent to a
scientifically planned and romol... ..j
ystem This money must be spent for the bene
fit of the whole state rather than Tor any favored
,,.1 group ot tend ,pecuiltorM
That's what "Ed"
, ...u, iui noi oemg
good six years ago t j . .
Wtwre They All Are Now. '
C C Wriirht ..k. k . .
- -( '"" ...uiant general at
torney for the Northwestern lines west of the
Missouri river, and before that city attorney, ia
now in charge of the Northweatern's interest
before the Inter.,.,. .
eated in Chicago" "TTTr
jame 8; Sheean, who waa assistant attorney
of the Northwestern, is now living in St Paul.
Whart nf la cr.n.c 1 a..,,...! ii -
Storyette of the Day. 1
During the recitation of a college class in
natural philosophy the professor observed a tall,
lanky youth in a rear seat hia head drooping, hi
body relaxed, his eyes half-closed and his legs
encumbering an adjacent aisle. ,
"Mr. Fraier J said the professor. '
The freshman opened his eyes slowly, but did
not change hia pose. , ".
, "Mr. Frazer. what I work?" ' "
' I!f v'ry,hInB ' work-'M w A drawling reply.
. . ' 1'.med th professor, "do you mean
to tell me that is a reasonable answer to my ques
tion T r ,;'," 1 . '... ..
. ,"Yes, ir." . - ' .-
i "Then I take it that you would tike me and
the class to believe that this desk is work?"
"Yet, sir," replied the youth, wearly; "it is
woodwork." The Christian Herald.
Qrvdt SyvfarvAn-Aajj
y Ylctor mowwatt.
TX7HO NOW, after two years of fighting, pr'e
" tends to keep up with the literature of the
war? When the war books and pamphlets began
to roll in, shortly after the outbreak of hostilities,
this war stuff was my regular diet and, if I read
one, I read fifty of them, almost without stopping.
These early war books were in a class of their
own. They told how it happened and who was to
blame and what they were fighting for and how
the map of Europe would be redrawn at the con
clusion, but no one is excited by this guess work
any more. Then came a literary output' of per
sonal experiences of those who happened to be
marooned in the war zone or caught in the lines
or who had chance glimpses of the mobilization
and early fighting, with descriptions of the ruin
and havoc being wrought, but these, too, are now
snop worn. I he war literature ot today is mostly
in the fiction class, stories with the war as a
background, entertaining and interesting many of
them, but with a tense war flavor which, in large
noses, is not pleasant to tne literary palate. J he
real histories of the war art yet to come and the
first histories will be warped by too close vision.
After while we will have the personal narratives
corresponding to those of our civil war like
Grants Memoirs and the stories of Sherman. Mc
Clellan, Sheridan, Logan and the other military
leaders, providing, of course, that the guiding
spirits of the present European conflict are not
hrst killed oft, as was Kitchener, without an op
portunity to give their observations to us for posterity.
' Talking about books, the readers of this
column will remember a reference some time ago
to the unique Children's Book Alcove which had
been established bv Mrs. Matthews in the new
book store. Mrs. Matthews launched the idea into
a broader field by reading a paper on "Women m"
Bookselling" at the big national convention of
booksellers in Chicago this spring, and her ac
count of what she had accomplished was gener
ously treated in. the "Publishers' Weekly," the
standard trade paper, with a consequent result
that the story of the children's corner in Omaha
now comes back all the way from London in a
chatty book column in "The British Weekly."
To use a pardonable slang expression, "That is
going some." At the time f originally commented
on this subject, I believe I offered some sugges
tions along the same line for making the children's
department at our public library more attractive
and serviceable by furnishing it like a lounging
room and eduinDing it with comfortable chairs
and desks and lamps and window hangings, and
making it so homelike and cosy that the children
would prefer to spend their leisure in its book
and picture atmosphere than any other place that
might tempt them. By doing something that
would make the children's room its most striking
feature, our public library, too, could draw atten
tion from strangers as welt as home folks and
have ita fame spread far and wide. -
We Omaha neorjle are lust hearinntnar to an.
preciate our parks and to see the beauty and ad
vantage of them, but not everyone harks bagk
to the ComDarativetv short time aoro when most
of these narks were either ravines filled with tin.
derbrush or sunbaked cornfields. A drive through
Elmwood park the other evening impressed me
with the tremendous improvement it has under
gone and then-the verv next dav I received, al
most by coincidence, a letter from my old friend,
John T. Bell, now living out at Newberg, Ore.,
to remind me that we owe the possession of this
park to the homely industry of "pickling cucum
bers." Let me give Mr. Bell's story in his own
words and they will require no further explana
tion or comment. He writes:
"I take some satisfaction In the reflertion
that I had something to do with getting Omaha
started in securing a system of parks. Driving
about in the northern part of the city north
ern part as it was then along about 1884, I
stopped at the market garden of Henry Hurl
but and Henry B. Wiley. It was on land owned
by John A. Horbach. They -were putting up
cucumber pickles'. I said I though there ought
to be money in cucumber pickles. They said
there was and that if they had some more
capital they would go into the business exten
sively the next year. I suggested that I buy a
third interest in the business. The proposition
was accepted and shortly afterward I Was a
partner in a business I had no experience in
and I found it a very fortunate investment in
deed. Messrs. Hurlbut and Wiley were experi
enced market gardeners. Before locating on the
Horbach land they had been engaged in that
line out on the Big Paoillion on the old mili.
tary road. I had nothing to do with the opera
tion of the business, but my investment brought
me the biggest dividends I eyer received for
the same amount of money.
"A vear or .o l.t.r Vf - Unvk..k .-..j t:
- -fJ -w '--' ... i.ui uatu WaaillCU 1113
lana ,n. ..b.J.h.. . . .1 .
...... .v. .v.,uiiug put fuses miiu wc went out
west of town and bought quite a tract of land
n t t:.- 1 1 : i i - .
ui a mrtc mmcuaugn, a portion ot wmch land
we .ft.rivar mill o ,k. - t. I - ... J
- .... ... uu.u ,v iu ovtlll men WI1U pi.LlCU
the West Side addition, of which seven I was
one, the others being Silas H. H. Clarke, John
M. Eddy, M. H. Goble, Frank Murphy, John A.
McShane and Nathan Merriam. We then bought
seventy-five acres a little farther west and there
?'--- o r u "i baiucu un aut;ccss
ully. -Aabeautiful stream, fed by springs, ran
.uu.. una ianu, ana on ine ooroers ot it were
many targe trees.
' "T axomalail a. Hf- U...IU... , lr- ur-e
- ."Bo..-"! w .Mi. aamiuui anu jur. wiiey
that, as this stream cut out several acres that
could not he ua-ed for hardening purposes, we
give it to the city for a public park. They at
once agreeu anu auer discussing the matter, we
concluded to ask some property owners above
and below us to. join in the plan and thus make
the trart of rnn.Uar.kl. .... TL. .
..... v. W.I..UVIU1..1 ei.e a lie property
owners we had is mind were Henry Snyder.
T .nn. D i-l 1 - 1 t i l . .
--v luuiaimuu uu Leopold ana manes
Dflll. "Af V r.foll.i-tinn Im ak.a I
. . ........ w,i 10 inc. , Hum our garden
property we donated twenty acres and that the
o,h. .n.l.!k..l I . L . I .,
........ .uihuuitou cnuugii to maxe tne entire
tract offered th. ...... ... r
v.. nuj-iiru aun. 1 wrote
the offer of the land and-was exceedingly care
ful in the penmanship. We all signed the docu-
... uaiiueu it over to tne city council.
A roimr-il f-ommii.. ...... . . . . .
.w.....,.vj went uui to view tne
property, in order to see whether it was worth
accepting as a free gift, I suppose. Newspaper
men went along with the committee, and I re
member that one of these was my esteemed
i .t a ,i "pouonoge, men- city editor
of the Herald, and his story 6f the attractions
Of rhr nrr.iV,tArl n.rl .a. t i
j t , ui grapnic
order. Of course, the offer was accepted and
, 7 v:TVU. tuPy " resolution ot
thanks from the citv government
"Soon afttrurat.sl kJ
iwi.u proposition was 1
tubmitted calling for $400,000 to be used in buy-
"i .r. i T J 1 , . ,n ,ne vicinity
of the land donated (and which took the re-
u. uur garaen property), a tract north
of us, another between the latter property and
the river, anrl .,!! ..Aak a. -t- .....V
-". ...uuici iu me soutneast ana
ii t"uS on "ver The bona cTied and
... ...c.c a..t,. were oougnt, options on them
n . vm or he.n ..i... A .a . ..-.-J . .
t j " .mica price oeiore the
bonds were voted.
"It it not a atretrh of ak. .1. .
, -- - - ...... v. i. mi. iu aay mat
the Omaha narlr ...1.1 1 t . ,
. .. r... .;,,,, "uuiu nave uccn de
layed in installation, if installed at alt, to its
r . ,or ln incident of putting
UD Of the nimaih. .I.kl.. al . j . r
of Hurlbut and Wiley for the express purpose
w. .uuivivnai tapuBi m oracr to put up
more cucumber pickles the foUowing year. That
r. e; . n we ildn Put UP cucumber picklea
the following year nor in any other year."
BRIEF BITS OF SCIENCE.
Waterproof manta will lift scrap iron
from tht river bottom In aalvage openitioiu.
A Franeh Invtmtor tt mak.nr gmi piixa
from paper, oomproaacil, dried and var
nished, f
Among the various eeonomie produeta
of the plant knigdom th pith, of th aun
flowcr atalk ii by far the lightest
The average weight of the Greenland whale
Is 100 tona 224,000 pounds equal to that
of eight elephants or that of 400 bears.
Selling seaweed Is one of the functions
of the PhHtppin fishermen. ' 'Th native
women BiaV use of t in the preparation of
dessert much Hk gelatin.
Aluminum is on of the moat abundant
of metals and ranks third among the ele
ments which compose the crust of the earth,
being exceeded only by oxygen and silicon.
Lighting dangerous waters In which
noouna reezs, rocks and shoals has pro
Tressed from wood fires and candles to oil
vapor and electrle lamps. The earlr light
houses were lighted by wood or coal Ares
turned in open trailers, and later by can
ilea inclosed in lanterns.
LINES TO A LAUGH.
Mellndy, bert-avtd of her husband, con
mlted her young mlatreas on the proper wear
o disclose her grief.
"Ah wants a black hat, an' a black dress,
n' black shoes, an' black gloves, an' a whole
ark hank'chlef, ma'am."
"Oh. Pfi MoMrtfly." bn- mta'iir, protested,
"not ft solid black handkerchief!"
'n . . mtrkd -a Ind . imaaivlv.
"when ah mourns, ah mourns f New Tork
.ui.lng foal,
A Uft-SrNER AND M ICE MAN
' tturME-WICH SW A.
XAMErT?
tHBR to NO CHOffi-lrfty -
OHU EASM A UVIN(
IN -SUMMER TIME
Mra. Ooodley t suppose drink waa th
cause of your downfall, my poor man.
Bill Boozer Tea, mum. I took a drink of
water wot had microbes In it, an' I ain't
been a well man since." Boston Transcript
A DESERT MEETING.
And grim red rocks against th blue.
And then upon th sun-atatned desert town
The great through train come thundering
down.
All day th blue, unchanging sky,
All day the great red rocks, until th train
goes by.
And then against th windows of th ears
Are eager, childish faces pressed
To see th people strangely dreaaed,
Brown-faced, with black eyes keen Ilka stars.
Wrapped la the blankets of thalr race,
A quiet scorn upon their lips.
The Indian women sit and watch whsr allpa
From out th train, '!
fiie erowd of curloua travelers from th east.
And here upon the parched and dazsllng
plain
A moment meet the two whose wars have
ceased
Amid the mighty rise of cities; the grim
feast
Of conquest finished and the board swept
clean,
.Save where on lifp-fortmken lands like these
A little remnant of the vanquished waft.
in dun n-mL-uiajraiice or a once more spien-
dtd slate,
Taking the crumbs and lees,
And watohinB their Inexorable fat.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
Gone! Can it be that that tender hear so
sweet,
On the joys and woes ot earth has ceased
to beatT
Can It be that the lips beloved the world
around
Ar dosed forever now, devoid of sound?
Can It be that the mind and pen so eloquent.
Whose wo. as so oft ths souls of men hav
bent
To happiness, contentment or to grief.
Are stilled at last; that he has found
relief ?
Or shall we aay relief ? For h. It seems.
Found Joy supreme In memories snd dreams
But greater joy In aharlng all of these
With youth and age alike, and strove to
please,
And In the striving greater pleasure found.
Did not then happiness and pence abound
In such existence? Was It not a bond '
That bound him, mortal, to the great
Beyond ? -How
shall his epitaph be writ by man?
Who of our host of bards and singers can
In worthy sentiments the praises sing.
Of him, who even In th plainest thing.
Found beauty of a rare and touching kind
To soothe and comfort troubled mortal mind.
How can we on his stone of marble white,
Words that will please his humbl spirit
write?'
Had w not better In his own tender way
Write In his simple pathos, this, and say;
"Well, goodbye, Jim! Take good keer o"
t yerself."
Omaha. RALPH T. WILSON.
SUPERIORITY
IS DECIDED TODAY JUST AS IT WAS
DURING THE DAYS OF THE OLYMPIAN GAMES
THE SUPREME PRESTIGE
IN THE FIELD OF MODERN LIFE INSURANCE
ENJOYED BY THE
Woodmen Of the World
WAS ATTAINED ONLY
AFTER YEARS OF FIERCE COMPETITION
I RING DOUGLAS HIT
NO CHARGE FOR EXPLANATION
J. T. YATES, Secr.tary. W. A. FRASER, Pr.tid.nt.
A word to the buyer
of office space
Yo buy kaxao.. YOUR NEED b to farabk mt
patrons with S.rrlo. and the lv.tt.r year !
is to than, Ik quicker they raip... t your MrM.
THE BEE BUILDING
"The building that Is always new"
limn tin bawl th.ra is ia leaatloa, aaac of aeaata,
mT.ai.Bc., taf.ty, att.atioa, llfkl aaai air. wkiek
an th. but aid to aarriea.
Tka beautiful arakltostaral Haas of
Th. Baa Balldiai taaaa araatl. ia
yaor butiaaaa.
OFFICE ROOM 10
1
It takes GUMPTION
and CONFIDENCE to
spend mone y ad vertis
& ing for a position
;The' weak-kneed, incompetent kind of
workers never think of advertising their
services-they wait for something to come
to them-and it rarely ever does.
Many wide-awake men and women se
cure positions : through the "Situations
Wanted"; columns of The Bee.
Employers know that only live, energetic
workers spend their money advertising
their services. v
Persistence is the cardinal vir
tue in advertising; no matter
how good advertising may be
in other respects, it must be
run frequently and constant
ly to be really successful