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I HE OMAHA JOHNS
DrAAJ Baking
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ABMurrero pure
ib Kansas City. MoBday morning be
appeared before the ministers' meeting
and in a stiong paper advanced the idea
that laws afaould be created to restrain
the marriage of mau and women who
are morally and mentally untit to be
cone the parents of children. "In that
way," he aaid, "there will be far less
aeed for aayluma and hospitals. I don't
thia the scheme will be impracticable
in the twentieth century."
This preacher. Dr. T. P. Haley, has
the correct idea. But it will be a long
tine before it is popular. Apparently
the great man of the people are in favor
of unrestricted marriage and unrestric
ted divorce. They want the laws to be
such that they can experiment with
matrimony, and resort to divorce for a
license to go on experimenting. They
want matrimony open to all, even to the
lowest and basest, and they want di
vorce so easy that it can be had for the
asking. The people must want all this
lor they have so provided by law.
It may be that Dr. Haley's idea may
be practicable in the twentieth century.
But a considerable advance will have
to be made before the people are ready
to adopt this plan. It is unquestionably
right. But it sometimes takes right a
Ion? time to establish itself. In It is
the solution of many of the social prob
lems of the day.
When Mr. T. C. Martin, editor of the
Electrical Engineer, visited Lincoln on
the occasion of the inauguration
of Chancellor MacLean he
made some entries in his note
book. On his return to New York he
expanded these notes into an article on
"Electrical Engineering at the Univer
sity of Nebraska," which, with handsome
illustrations, appeals in the last number
of the Electrical Engineer. The article
m comprehensive and does infinite credit
to the university in general and the
electrical department in particular. The
following k a paragraph f i om the arti
ste. It is proper, in closing this brief re
view of the splendid work thus being
done by a western university in higher
technical education, to note that ihe
success already reached must in no
small measure be attributed to Profes
sor K. B. Owens. No elderly man would
have cared to take up the task that he
assumed some five years ago of organi
zing the new department; but even in a
country where youth is counted chief
among the virtues, it is a little surpris
ing to see the responsibility reeting upon
tha subject of this personal note. Pro
fessor Owens might in a sense be taken
as typical of the energetic New South,
for he was born on a plantation in the
southern part of Maryland, a state of
which his mother's great grandfather
was tae nret democratic governor. He
spent three years in an old military
school of Maryland, and was the young
est to graduate since its founding in
1774. After a btiet connection with the
old Baxter Motor company, he resumed
study at Johns Hopkins university, un
der Dr. Louis Duncan, and stood well
in mathematics and physics. He was
'hes for a time with the Excelsior com
pany is "New York, and put in and su
perintended the Thomson-Houston sta
tion at Greenwich, Conn. Study was
not neglected, mean time, for in 1891 he
received the post-graduate degree of E.
E, from Columbia college, in the first
class to receive it is America, having
been a student under Professor Crocker.
When the University of Nebraska wan
ted to make its new departure, Mr.
OweBS was invited to go out ther and
he was made adjunct professor of elec
trical engineering.- In 1894 he became
full professor of electrical engineering,
and in 1805 be assumed full charge of
the department of electrical and steam
engineering. He was a member of the
international electrical congtess iu 1893,
and a judge of awards in electricity at
the Columbian Exposition of that year.
He is a member of the American Insti
tute of Electrical Engineers and tbe
American Society of Mechanical Engi
neers. Prof. Owens' forte strikes one as
that of organization. He is moreover
appreciative of the practical and com
mercial side of engineering, and while
he encourages his students to grasp
theory with full realization of its mean
ing, he aims also to make them take
hard-headed views of the problems of
engineering, as they are to be found, in
actuality, on the prairie floors and broad
rivers of the central west.
The two daily papers in Omaha are
trying to find out which is doing tbe
best job in "Standing up for Nebraska."
It would be a good thing if all the news
papers in the state would enter into this
competition.
THE EDITOR.
Webster has been described as a
:dre3r from Dresserville." says "Met'
in the World-Herald. He is reputed to
possess the most extensive wardrobe of
any man in Omaha sad he uses it
Cowin is a good dresser, but raimeat
witli Cowin is not a weakness. He wears
good clothes, but does not have the pas
sion for variety that Webster has.
Thurston has devoted too much atten
tion to political fences to give much
thought to dress. He is "neat but not
gaudy." On the contrary, Thurston iu
presses one as a man whose wife must
be kept busy looking after tbe details
of his raiment. He has the American
characteristic of leaning to old clothes
He prefers an old suit pressed by his re
pair tailors to one of the latest pattern.
If Webster leans to any particular sec
tion aside from an entire wardrobe, it
is to vests, and he in the only man in
Omaha who sports one of the chromatic
order. Cowin leans to spring overcoats
and Thurston's only serious care is
trousers. Thurston's trousers will bag
at the knees, and while he does not mind
it, frequent rebukes on the point by his
good wife have, it is said, stirred within
the senatorial breast the only anxiety
for tbe senatorial wardrobe
Every history of Nebraska and of
Omaha is full of details of the career of
Thurston and Webster, but not so with
Cowiu. Mention of Cowin neiessarilv
appears frequently in all of the loca
histories, but he seems to have avoided
anything in the nature of "write tips,
and the only available sketch of his lit
is found in a paper covered book entitled
"Omaha Illustrated."
GREATURB COMFORTS
Where is the man with discernment,
With judgment and faculties ripe,
Who, loving the creature comforts of
life,
Scorns a book and a corncob pipe?
With cheery blaze in the hearthplace,
An aimcbair, and warm-slippered
feet,
Thus equipped with the tome and the
corn bowl,
What joy can be find more sweet?
What then if the storm rages wildly,
And the wind howls a wild refrain.
He is far away in a world of delight,
Removed from life's sorrow and pain.
Have the storms of the world dire op-
pressed him?
Is he weighed down with the strife?
'Tween the whiffs of his pipe and the
leaves of his book
There he finds the true solace of life.
Not for me the I favanaor meerschaum;
When gloom from my mind I would
wipe,
'lis then that I find the most comfort
and cheer
In a book and my corncob pipe.
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