Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 26

18 TI[E OMAHA SUNDAY BL ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED TE Dutly Bee Daily Bee o ind g Tilustrated 1 Bunday Be Baturday | Weekly Editor, SVERY MORNIN BSCRIPTION | Year $ Year One Year OFFICES, Omaha: The Bee Bullding. South Omaha: City Hall Buflding ty-ffth and N streets, Council Bluffs: 10 Pearl Strect Chicago: 160 Unity Building, New York: Temple Court New York: Temple Court Washington: 51 Fourteenth Bloux Clty: 611 Park Street CORREEPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edl torial matter should be addr Omaha Bee, Editorial De BUSINT Business letters and remittances be addressed: The Bee Publishing vany, Omaha REMITTANCES, draft, express or postal or ayable to The fee Publiching Company nly 2-cent stamps 1'in payment of mafl accounts. Person ept on Om stern exch epted THE PUBLISHING NY Twen treet should Com- Remit by COMI STATEMENT OF CIRCULA Btate of Nebrasku, Douglas Cc George 13 Tzschiick, secretars Yublishing Company, being duly says that the actual number of full and completa copies of The Daily, Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 190, was as foll The Bee sworn 28,41 27,070 27,020 28,220 28,410 27,000 20,200 28040 28,080 28, Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net daily average, GEO, B. TZSCHUCK pSubseribed tn my presence and sworn to before me this st day of December. A. D., 3 M. B_HUNGA Notary Pubiic. e —————————— This week will witness the celebra- tion of the last Christmas of the cen tury. From advices from the Orient it looks as If there were about to be a fall in! China. Wanted--A law on the Nebrawka | statute books imposing an adequate | penalty on kidnapers and blackmailers. | Genernl Kitchener's Christinas stock- fug is filled with the trouble which was left over from Buller's last year's Christ mas, The last Christmas of the nineteenth century should be made memorable by deeds of charity and acts of benevo lenc With that kidnaping case as an ob. Ject lesson, who dare deny ther honor among thieves—at least awmong some thieves. The Cudaby family has h'lll at least $25,000 worth of space in the papers of the country and the end of the welrd story is not yet., Influenza is again becoming epidemic in Europe. Having tried the fad once, the people of this country will not press for another importation invoice of it From the liberal way in which West Point cadets distributed hot thelr messmates the military would appear to be an ideal pl Mexien Is news sauce to | acadeny » for u With the near approach of an agree ment between the powers and the Chi- nese government, numerous officials in that country are worrying for fear their neckties do uot fit. An enormous Christmas tre of the features of the New York Pro duce exchauge. Each of the brokers secured a fat lamb as his share of the distribution, Great Britain, has a military problem on its hauds in what disposi- tion to wmake to keep up the arwy strength after the return of the volun teers to their howmes. Amos Cummings says that Pettigrew will be wissed from the coming gress. The abatement of a nulsane always noticeable, but is never the oe- caslon for the shedding of tears, was one one con- | Tammany officlals in New York have ordered all the gambling houses closed. The gamblers should not he so slow in | putting up the next time needs | the procecds of an assessment to his English fucome tax Omaha has Iwnn da a0 first president of the new roke for the te lavor | organization to be known as the Society ot Labor and Industry for Nebraska Omaha will gladly honor similar requi- | sitions from other state societies and as sociations. The senate has taken its holida cess without first experiencing an erup tion of Towne. If the new Minnesotu senator fafls to come to the front with | s expected oratorieal performance his standing in the newly embraced democ racy will be seriously impaived, The author of the bill introduced Into congress to raise the salaries of vice president aud cabiuet officers to and $15,000 a year respectively that he Is acting entirely on wotion without having even consulted anyone who would be a beneficlary of its enactment. Such thoughtfulness bardly expected of & member of con gress. fnsists his own Exhibitors at the Parls exposition evi- dently had a wholesome fear of Amerl can competition, Almost without ception they refused to make any contri butions of their wares to the celebrated Philadelphia Commerciul museum, giy fng as a reason that American goods offered competition enough now with out alding the manufacturers of this ex- | doubt, us a great many do, | for the senat EXPLAINING Lo meetote THE TREATY. ge, who had charge treaty the ntor of the Hay P has given out an meaning of I the senate which misapprehension e Eng Massachusetts sef in | states that the amend not di by hostility to which ought to remove from shown in the S8 1o exist ation of amendments made by 1 then and I place garding both . land. the first n or, tes t hit iden ments were England the British mind the utterances of London that the spirit of jing chianges in the treaty Senator Loc because opinion of the they necessary for the luterests of the United States and for the sake of peaceful and | harmonions relations with the rest of the world in regard to any question to the control of the canal, One of the amendments p the new treaty shall Clayton-Bulwer convention. It would that the British government can offer no valid objection to this since the neutralization of the proposed canal is provided for. Another amendment, re serving to the United States the right to | close the canal to an enemy's fleet, shown by Senator Lodge to be entively Justitiable and in aceord with the prin ciple in the treaty of gonstantinople re- | garding the Suez canal which Great tritain herself propos The British government will therefore find it dithh cult to justify a refusal to accept this | provision. The senate struck out the article In the treaty inviting other na tons to aceede to ity for the sufficient reason that such invitation would | the nations a right meddle in | American affairs and would be a viola the policy of the United States Buropean complication, The of Constuntinople binds the sig natory powers to watch over its execu tion, Were the United States o ask this it would, as was pointed out by the | late Senator Davis, bring this country within the concert of Europe as an ac tive participating and possibly bellige ent power. Senator Lodge appears to be confident that the British government will aceept the treaty uded, for the that it much England's interest as ours to end a4 coutroversy outworn treaty which is only stumbling block to both natlons, It the British government will take ew of the subject, though the tone of the British press is not entirely ed | the sism prompted the They solely made, in | were were says the ite st »vides that supersede the | is | an give [ tion of to trenty us as reason is a over an a OUR FLAGIN CUBA. eral Fitziugh Lee has explained the meaning of that part of his speech in St Louls of which im plied that in his opinion the American | fag would float permanently over Cuba, He states that what he meant was that the flag will remain in the island until the Cubans have formed a stable gov ernment capable of protecting life and property and giving confidence to cap ital. General Lee said the promise of self-government given by the United | States will be earried out and upon the | Cubans will rest the responsibility of determining whether that government all be permanent or otherwise, No one has shown a greater interest in the question of an independent Cuban government than General Lee and dur- | ing his mititary service o the island no | one was more earnest in endeavoring to impress upon the people that the United one report | them. But it is possible that he may | whether the yet prepared for self-gov ernment and may feel that a consid- | Wble time must elapse before the | United States, with a proper regard for its responsibility, can wholly withdraw from the Island and leave it in the ab solute control of its people. This coun try must and will fultill its promise. National hovor demands this. But it is bound to see that the right kind of gov crument is established and that there 15 such assurance of its stability that it will be safe to leave it to the control of the people. When this will a question that cannot now be definitely answered, Cubans are be s THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL The Indieations are that the ship sub- stdy LIl will not be passed by the pres ent congress, though its supporters will | make u strenuous effort to secure action on it Discussion of the Hay-Paunce- | fote treaty set aside consideration of the shippiug weasure. The treaty being out of the way it is expected that the subsidy Dill will be taken up as unfin ished business inmediately after th re Even if it should be, howey 1t 18 possible that the opposition will be | able to force the republican leaders to set It uside for the consideration of the | general appropriation bills, the vy or- ganization, revenue and similur ures of great urgency that will be ready at that time, Tt 1s within the power of the opposition to force the | abandonment of the bill by persisting in | x debate and threatening the completion of ull the general appropriations as well as other weasures of cqual fmpor and doubt this will erted. The holding up of the shipping weasure until the NEXL CONEIess appears, l | theretore, ¢ probable The arguments in support of have been practically spe on It of Frye and | Hauna, They clearly pointed out the | purpose of the measure and we |I|m|.‘ conclusively demonstrated the ne cessity for the proposed legislation if the United States is ever to have an ade quate merchant marine for the ocean carrying tra unless the alternative of free ships be adopted, which would be a radical departure from our tradi- tional policy and we believe is not de- sired by a majority of the American peo ple. Those who think that a policy of free ships would restore our flag to the seas In the ocean-carrying trade ignor the fact that it costs far more to operate & ship under the Amerlcan flag than under the flag of any other nation. The commissioner of navigation, In his last annual report, points out not only that a ship costing $275,000 in the Unite® 1o | power | 10 the bilt| exhausted in the | ‘hes nators very country by furnishing them sawples, | free ship policy | fictal 1o the | try | We | g | beyond | ports amounting lust [ majority of the | that | indetinite extension of what is already a | South Omaha be | most searching investig | States intended to keep good faith with | | zens shoula ¢ | may r, | representing | ness us eitizens, States way be bullt in Great Britain | sclentific experts and the assumed fact s THE for §21 on th 00 o the chiet sidy bill prineiple 1000, but that the American vess the British «hip justification of monthly w e a8 $1,200 to | In this lies the ship sub It is similar to the underlying | protective tarift Ame: an industries | American workmen prospect of higher paid in other countries would be highly British shipbullding indus- ud proportionately detrimental to the American industry Last aceording to the statement of Senator Frye on the authority of offi- clal stutistics, we enrried under our fl to and from Europe ouly 2ty per cent of our exports and imports; to and from | the world a fraction over 9 per cent. | paid foreign nations, principally Britain and Germany, $500,000 a | in gold for transporting our foreign comu “Our present condition as t maritime nation is humiliating sald Mr. miles of harbors, need of developin seeuring f reasonable than and of n t wages ave bene year, a day expression,” “With thousands of sed equipped with fine boundless torests, iron and coal enough to supply the world, skilled mechanics, enterpris ing <hipbuil the fargest exporta- tlons of any in the world, im year 1o $810,000, pital, we have per countries—our commercial our inferiors in most of these re to seize upon the pathways of the oceans and hold them to our practical exclusion” 1t that desire country 000, and abundant ey mitted other rivals, 18 inconcci Ameriean peopl shall continue, that they are not willing that it shall b remedied fn away that will insure t this condition or | most important industry., RAISING A FALSE ALARM. Thirty years ago the legislature of Nebraska impeached the governor of this for misdemennors in oftice and after due hearing he was convieted | and deposed. During the pr s of the trial the corvupt ring that infested the state capitol at that time raised the ery that the impeachment proceedings was a conspl against the city of Lincoln. They insisted that the attack on the governor was un attack on the city of which he had been one of the founders, but the legislature refused to | be distracted by such clamor and the good people of Lincoln soon discovered that the disinfection of the capitol from | corruption did not impair the value of Lincoln real estate nor the legitimate business of the city. The attempt diminish to make the people of feve that thefr business + serfously menaced by the municipal corruption is not likely to deceive or frighten any cit'zen of South Omaba engaged in a veputable | busing If the courts should fiud the mayor of South Omaba guilty of bribery | and blackmail charged, nobody in South Omalia except the parties im plicated will suffer in the least. Quite the coutrary, the respectable and tax paying people uth Omahia have suffered serious loss in the past by the notorfous jobbery and robbery perpe- trated by dishonest city officials, The reign of bood no good to any town aud their exposure and pun ishment are always in the inte good government. If the charges brought against Mayor: Kelly are un founded he should be glad to court the fon instead of trying on technlealities pretending to be the vietim of perseeu tion, It is absurd to assume that the business interests of a city can be dawm- | aged by bringlng to justice recreant public officers, The rotten state of af fairs that has existed in South Omaha for years seems to have reached the culmination when law-respecting citi tend moral support and active cooperation toward putting smplete chieck upon its continuation, TEMPERANCE TEXT BOOK interesting tween represeutatives of the Women's Christian Tempers unfon and the Outlook, published as a religious weekly in New York, on the question of tem perance text books. It scems that the reviewer of the Outlook passed a rather severe eriticism upon the work on an- atomy, physiology and hygiene, in- dorsed by the temy organization as @ school text book, which has elicited from the temperance people a long re Join the Xt books, The position of the temperance un be concisely stated in the follow xtract from the pronunciamento its views: interests expostre of s doe o escape or a An discussion is on be- imnce er in defense of temperance A government in which the people make the laws must have meu and women able to comprekend questions touching the pub- lic good, or it will perish. Therefore, such 4 government, in self-protection, not only provides free elementary education for all its children, but makes such education compulsory nd taxes the people for its t. The state has need of strong men and women. Therefore it pi that its schools shall teach the siological and hygienic faets which show the conditions of such strength and sobriety. Having done that the pupil is left free as the air to act or not on that knowledge. But the hope of all education i3 the fact that the human mind is so ¢ stituted that early information does influ- | nce subsequent action The purpose of the temperance text books, aecording to the Women's Tem- | perance Union, Is to Influence the minds of the youn, To what extent schools shall be employed propaganda the question which the Outlook takes issue. Giving it the benefit of its own explanation: The position of the Outlook on this mat- ter is that of un earnest advocate of ter perance as a principle of life to be appli in all relations as found in all wise and true Christian liviog, although it dissents from the method, manner and Fometim the statements in the so-called temperance text books. The Outlook is convinced that no cause, and especially no reform, can be served by anything less than the most care- ful and accurate fidelity to the truth. On this ground it has based its criticlsm of the indorsed temperance text books, We hold that it is illegitimato to teach chil- dren that certain conclusions are when those conclusions are questioned by the for such | is on OMAHA DAILY tain sections of the coun | ehance upon his som th | his child gives up as mueh, If not mor | in polities, at least for the populists. s i | the | Like gainst the use of liquors | | as a safeguard for their future useful- facts | L BEE: SUNDAY, 1 tha school only cubtful hypo! it is illegitimate to u for the pury gard a moral 1o not, and still more illegitimate such a supposed reform under of hing sclentific physiology. The controversy, while on neitl conelusive or convincing, is at least sug gestive in throwing light on the limita tions of the public school as an agen for propagating a hesis. We hold the publie teaching what some reform and many others to teach the se of re slde reforin - novements, Many things are taught in the schools | to which certain parents would take ex ‘l sptions, ‘but as long the teaching corresponds with public sentiment | harmtul contention ean Where e, « | public sentiment, however, is not crys | tallized, nor by any means approx imating unanimity, it is dangerous to inject cither theorles or conclusions into school text books, To arraign the chil dren against vaccination, for example, would elicit a protest loud and deep, although many people a that vaccination Is far more dangerous than the disease which it is designed to ward off, No the temperance text books might welcomed in eer and at the same time indignantly spurned in oth ers, but the amwount of good such ch ing will accomplish wust depend upon the reinforcement it in the home and outside of the school room. TAL AFFECTION arently without are convin also be reeives STRENGTH The pagment, apy gret, of a princely of & in gold for the return of an abducted Loy Lis home, forming the climax to lust week's sensational ense of kid OF PARE re Ansoin to uaping in this city, stands out first and | foremost s n striking example of the irresistible strength of parental aff tion. o analyze the impulses that led to o complete capitulation to the bigh handed demands of the kidnapers would | sent an intricate problem in chology, but the reasons that led to the payment of the ransom as the surest and quickest method of securing the safe return have been already ex plained. With the parent was to regain and prevent possible harm or priva tion to the boy while in custody of lis relentless captors, The parental in stinet completely 1l for the punishment of the offenders or the passion for revenge, all thoughts of apprebension of the criminals and thelr proseention under the penalties of the law had to make way overpowering demand fc tion of the lost one befor pain or injury. Ever of the Kidnapers or the ition of child-prisoner withoue ding terms of the kiduapers involved th sibility, if mot probability, bodily larm or torture to their vietim and wax therefore refected without serious tion, lier than force a single futher ran the having his capte the 00 and make a second demand, y his reliance upon the honor to prevall among thieve proved to be not misplaced. To a millionaire the payment of 25,000 Fansom may be o greater | ship than the payient of oue one-hun dredth part of the sum by a man in more meager cireumstances, The strength of parcntal affection, howey is not measured by sause the parent in poor clreum stances who would sacrifice all to save pr psy the only rsslon of question the child pos overeame the Kubje resto ted to | the on sider rixk of s ahsorh a than the wealthy citizen who pays out money for the safety of those who are | dear to him. No bond s stronger, none so easily touched nor so quick to respoud as that between parent and ehild, ative advie ar fro According to author Canadian authorities with representatives the graut of ‘b oof land to be settled by a colony of 5,000 Fin- landers to be augmented by fresh im- migration from year to 3 The I landers ave reputed to be an industrious and frugal people who would make & uable addition just as well to the population of the United States us of Canada, If they are disposed to mi- grate across the Atlantic scme efforts should be put forth to have them settle in the inviting sections of the west, which could readily furnish them all the land they require with a marl for their produce that would not on make them self-supporting but enable them to acquire ownership on compara- tively short e Finlanders should come west, \ the negotiating Finland for ear, order, Hybridizing has not proven profitable At that party had a fair repr in the senate. Today their tion is about normal, thanks wors of populist governors and death republican senators, hut arter March 1 the purty representation In the senate will pr lly disappear. the mule, fusion little cause to be pround of its ancestry or ho posterity. ntation presents to the It 8ir Thomas Lipton succeeds in cap turing the Ameriea’s cup it will not for lack of effort on this water. ‘There are now building or being designed which will enter the trial races to settle the ques tion of what boat shall defend the cup Iutrinsically the eup is not worth much, | but Brother Jonath psukes the yachts side of three n is averse to allow ling old ke o go of the family. out | Con will legislat new possessions until the supreme shull have passed on the constitution ross not for onr tigation sure to follow the enactment of laws framed without elear tion of the court’s point of view. the not L first say bound to have last ¥, Postottice It court is gy has just The depurtment will by barring its operatory from the use of the malls, This sort of emburgo 000 | plan suggested for the capture | | | DECEMBER | really ¥ | | practice | policy | tomers in a big de desire | get through th | through by th for the one | | days does not | 8an | the material resources, | :of | purt | questions involved in pending ltigation, | This foresight should eave still further | concep- | it s | put a quietus upon a Chicago diploma | fot | headed imbecile who shrieks “Fir |t | tathe [ tee which ¢ o 20 . 1900 generally proves effective upon concerns in the fraud class, although most of the dupes are willing victims who have to be protected against themselves, While the diptoma mill s one of harmless of the Kind, there is excuse for tolerating 1t and i cannot exist long in one place when its real character is found out, the most 1o fi any New York contractor who 1 with iption fu the matter of public contracts advanced as the plea insanity. It shown that he was in the habit of leav- Ing sums wmoney where one of the Tammany officials could not help seeing it, and it was only after a struggle of forty-elght hours that the jury could convince itself that a wan who would be 8o reckless with Lis money was not really crazy \ « was « cort e was fense of of In his blennial report to the governor Attorney General Smyth pays the com pliments of the season to Judge Baker in a highly seasoned fashion. The judge will doubtless wish him many happy r turns of the day in the usual greeting— e to you Mr. Bryan considerately declines to discuss Grover Cleveland's suggestions for democratic reorganization. Perhaps he §s paving the way for reciprocal reticence when he casts the party's po- litical horoscope fu his forthcoming pab- lic addresse: Attorney General Smyth s exceed- i with his recommendations that judges should keep out of polities, is | but s given uo evidence that he would should he Judi what he ever be elevated to a seat on the clal beneh, preaches Criticlsm & Compliment. Chicagu Post The best indorsement of the United States in China fs the criticism of Eu- FOpean newspapers. st In the Rush. Somerville Journal The lonesomest place in the world for a man is in the middle of the rush of cus- artment store. Just Fall Throug Minneapolis Times, fathers of familles somehow holidays, even if they are, for the most part, pulled leg, After all, 80 to speak, With, Too Serious Philadelphia Tim It is to the credit of human nature that even the most beset head of a Lumily these ake a bad joke by saying a Claus’ name should be Bill. T W Philadelphia Rec urll Corporations, they say, have no souls, but on the first of January next the Penu- sylvania Railroad company will grant not 85 than 400 employes retirement with pen- sions for life. A Chinese Pursl Buffalo Express. It is dificalt to concelve on what con- stitutional principle the Treasury depart- ment has ruled that Chinese who wero naturalized citizens of Hawall before an- nexation have mot become citizens of the United States ricle. Among other problems to which scientists the twenticth century should address themselves is the identification, scgregation and eventual extirpation of the slope- ina crowded theater. He should become as ex- tinct as the dodo of civilization is to ad- vance. Pclitics in Porto K Kansas City There 1s one instructive feature of the American occupation of Porto Rico and Cuba. It is that the people are so inter ested in the excitement and fascinations of political strife that they are bickering among themselves instead of devoting their time exclusively to reviling the United States. The way they went at it In Porto Rico proved that, if the island had been given independent government, there would have been one revolution already and an- other in sight.. If Cuba were free it would be enjoying a revolution by this time, also. ERSONA WISE, Louisville is to inavgurate the new cen- tury with $1 gas Vassar girls have 300 dolls made by them- selves on exhibition at the college. The interest excited rivals a real baby show. $t. Louis is joyously munching strawber- ries and cantaloupe, Jjulcy contributions from the “decadent counties’ of Missourl. Buttermilk channel is down for $200,000 fn the river and harbor bill. Navigators of Salt creek are also looking up for a Mt- tle sweetness. Notwithstanding Wilhelm and H. H century will arrive day, 1 Philadelphia will welcome the new cen- tury with an officlal blowout of $10,000. unciimen will disburse the with avacteristic skill “Pa,’* sweetly murmu “ihe bible says Well, my son, what u up some,”” whereupon One of the courts and a grand jury are probing behind the grime in Chicago's city hall, and political hearts are flut- tering not give promise of “payin the uk of Kohlsaat, the twentieth on schedule time Tues- axes January money the young hope- ‘Dust_ thou xt?" “Please cough Pa dusted many Advance g dirt."” An eastern wasted threo full- grown years trying to determine the ve- locity of money, when an hour with Omaha's Christmas shoppers would give him the de 1 information Mince bill of prixon provoke " savant sl plo has bee fare of th and the tyrannical & “tea party where are thy congressional commit- nducted the pure food inquiry does not reveal what became of the $284 worth of wines, b ete., bought for an- alysis. It 1s too late now to recall the ef- fect next morning. Cinctnnati heiress enter into a matrimonial alllance with a moember of foreign nobility. It this thing keeps up much longer every old barn in the Queen city will have ducal coronets stamped on the canvas Affairs have come to such a holdup pass Portland that the Oregonlan advises fhe judicious thing i th times of menace from footpads is to go abroad in the evening with empty pockets and cheev- fully comply with the orders of Gentle man Jack Dr. ¥ has been will blow lofty song excluded from the Massnchusetts state failed to of the ukase 8 descendants ho report of the er, Another is about to in scheme ntury t's model newspaper the new « in without an organ attuned to It uppears New York City bas a superabundance of reform movements on hand and a newspaper that would tell the whole truth would embarrass the plans of the promotert richur abandoned and Kalser | | | I he doesn't | the o who rests need not rust 1t is easy to slip up on an oily smile, always tall others to prune pumpkin vines is the cure for discouragement Purity 18 the secret of pleasure in love The mart is a good place to develop the martsr A raffle religion ayers are not ones 18 ot redeemed by belng run Tc than The fuller blown the rose of pleasure the sooner 1ts petals will fall Every man for himselt with the devil for us all The fall of the sinner is like that meteor, the farther he falls the faster he 15 consumed orrow will readily yesterday obey you more {8 synonymous who ot he on man measures in rs and con A heavy balance e man cash will enough to pay the profi will futo large who coins his conscience never make a percentage it back a SECULAR S AT Boston Transcript adopted the custom of bell ring at 11 in the forenoon confusion, as the unrighteous for a more carnal call. Baltimore American minister is preaching against Sunday. By the time the reformers this world arranged to sult themselve will hardly be worth dying in Chicago Times-Herald A Chicago preacher says it he were a girl he would swing Indian clubs and dumbbells and play golf and tennls. This is all very well, but he adds that he would be willing to wash dishes, which, of course, shows that fully understand the subject Philadelphia P A Trenton preacher insists that clorgymen of that city are in ned to take & drink on the sly. This i decidedly new and original revelation pective of the question of its truth or falsity. It 48 also a demonstration that all the yeilow’ streaks in the way of sensa tional stories are not confined to the news- papers Arcola, 111 having a This mistake has prayer it A North Carolina courting on ot it a 1 New York World: A Chicago minister has given a new proof of the value of ad- vertising. Desiring to preach to a full house on Sunday evening instead ad- dressing the usual “beggarly arra empty pews, he put a “want advertisement in tho newspapers asking for “600 girls ¥ attend the services and hear a 8 the subject ‘It 1 Were a Girl church was packed and the preacher gave the young women a lot of more or less good advice, o Sermon the Para- sue of the Prescnt. Baltimere American Just now the prevailing topic of thought and conversation is the Christmas present To exchange gifts on great holiday a- sions is a custom 0 old that argument is hardly necessary to demonstrate that it rose from some of the best feclings of human pature. The custom, it is true, has been attacked, but only by cynics and theorists who can advance no good argument why thelr iconoclastic methods should put an end to so beautiful and attractive a practice. It has been abused, beyond doubt, but if everything capable of being abused were to be banished from use tor that reasom, about all that 1s good and noble would be lost to the earth. The prime essential of the Christmas present is that it should ve a gift of af- fection or esteem. It should not be for show or parade or merely to pay an un- pleasant social debt. Its value should be that which the heart of the sender has put upon it. It is no pleasure for a sensi- tive person to recelve a costly gift when it is evident that no affection or interest comes with it. The mercst trifle, sent as the expression of genulne feeling, far transcends the costliest tribute of the kind. Feellng and emotion, when deep and fer- vent, must Lave expression. It is a need of nature, and it is well that it should be 50, But while it is affection which gives the Christmas present its chief charm, there 1s no reason why it should not poss others. Both ornament wund utility c be consulted as to its peculiar kind. In these days, when beauty fs the right of all, instead of the privilege of the few, when the love of beauty is made a part of edu- cation, and ‘i attzinment in all articles is independent of cost, it is a sin egainst taste to select ugliness. There s no de- traction from the satisfaction of the heart because it has been sought also to pleass the eyo. Or If the present takers the form of personal comfort in some way or another, that comfort is enhanced by the fact that u triendly thought inspired its selection. It is a false pride which deters a poor friend from sending a present to a richer one, because the latter has eyerything money can buy, or because the slenderer purse cannot vie with the handsome gifts among which it must appear. Whero real triendship exists its tributes have a value beyond all the power of money to confer. They have a satisfaction which not the utmost magnificence ean command and to withhold this satisfaction at the call of false pride is downright selfishness. And it a struggle is made compete with richer gifts the reciplent has all the pleasure of the gift marred by the implied lack of friendly confidence and by the knowledge that a sacrifice 11l to be afforded has taken from the gift gracious sweetnes of bestowal. It is be hoped that Christmas glving 15 one which will never become more honored in the breach than in observance. We need these holiday an to the practice of of af never | | | times and their customs to set apart from wiw The Last our busy lives and lose som ness of the world's daily struggle drawing together of o common h The good feeling and the mutual kindness the custom engenders are peculiarly suited to the of peace and good will men and human nature, which has har dened cnough Il the better for the mellow may be, of these festal times. They their moral and soctal fnfluence and world would bo a dark place indeed the sun- shine of their brightness STIC PLEASAN we season o b it have the & temporary the without now Polite stor Detroft Freo Clark—What fs t \ Customer baby's got the ¢ maum auiek Chicago Record final answer? Bhe—Yes He—Well, you car down. T'll' be_around row to propose to you He~This fs your t keop it this gl Food man time tomor v you think 1 ever fancy to marry Cleveland Plat the mannish y the modern you him ” Perhaps so fon for chum Dealer: T womin eou i well cnough if 1t cver becomes the fash- to marry Indlanapolls Pross: “1 cffered myself o U4 0 Christmas gift wald she didn't w t anytMng plain useful; she wanted and romething orna- m he Chicago P gested her one in A thousand.” T still think =, answo engagement had ‘been b n red that he is ne nd frl d to say “that g d was A the girl whoke “hut T hava t the only one in a Kiyn Life to me last Really? 1-The count pro 1t thought he was cured ok o told me he g love o papn had to put him out with a b hold extinguisher Mamma—You have Huggard in quite Philadelphia become very « short time Daughter think that? Mamma nikht that thing." Press fond of Mr Why, mamma, what makes you I overheard vou telling him last he was “too hateful for any- “Why hats Detroft Journal fretfully, ““are my vou, when everyhody ning The horse 1 the man, ful effurt to be £he exclaimed nightmare 1o finds them b fen’t on anybody but her husband, in a most gy “KIDNA You When it's gittin' 0’ th' north wi It ain’t wafe fer little nin' round Fer 1t's then that men git wicked, an' don’t care what they do, Ner it don't make any diffrin they do it to, They ko prowlin’ round they Kin find a kid 1t's aimost i cinch that youngster'll be car- ried off an’ hid It woi't matter ef he hollers till his d Aghts is caved i will keep him locked up somewheres jest ez sure ez mortal sin 8o ef you're all made t' stuy at home don't whine around an' pout Fer th' kidnapers ‘1l gt yo Dor ong 1 foward Chrismus, TOmps an’ roars, childrum t* be run- doors they 2 ' who th' city, an' et y- They ef you Watch out: T read once ‘bout a little hoy that went out after dark call upon a have little lurk when he ‘was a'goin, men grabbed his arm. told ‘him of he hollired that they'd surely do him harm They put him in a waggin, an’ horse a_lick, An' away they went a-kitin' an’ Ike Old Nick They took him to a bulldin’ Jteapped him o o chalr, An' told his daddy ‘less'n he keep him there. 8o look out, vou littlo childrun, close what you' ut, ‘or th' kidnapers ‘1l git_you, Don't Wateh An An' nelghbor Loy an' v home, two bix they hit th' a arivin’ dug up they'd and minl of you out! His daddy had th' money, an' he done as he was bid, when th' robbers got where th' boy wuz hid; They took th' handeuffs off’ him, an' put him in a hack, to his lovin' parents he wuz swiftly back But ef 1t had a hippen=a t* Tdont know what woull how. An it, they went they An' rted any one uv vou, Jme Uy you uf ou would pulled through, Fer your dads ain’'t got no money Bive vou jest a tin, That you'd better stay' fn nighttimes, ur you'll give your folks th' siip. S0 be good now, little childrun, whine around _an’ pout Fer th' Kidnapers "Il git_vou Don't Watch don't of you Outy TIMS. Before Sending Children to School— it is a good plan to have their eyes ex- amined by an experi enced optician. We examine them free. It glasses are needed—we make them precisely to sult the child's as we are manufacturers. no safety in ready-made J. C. HUTESON & CO. 1520 Douglas Street. Closed All| Day Christmas. | Bay., NDAY will to make the MO are many fine be necess for “the night before Christmas. picces last chance ry preparations There of Haberdashery your that would picase the eye or gladden the heart of any man Come early and avoid that crush Saturday. ——No Clothing fits like ours iBrownmg, King & Co or 10p- you Omabha. you will up against boy in ~and were S. Wilcox, Manager. Omaha's Unly l-.nlunu Clothiers for Mco and Boya