Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 12

rm-; OMAHA SUNDAY Bm FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATE VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ntered at Omaha postoffice s matter second- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Bee (without Sunday), one year ¢ Bee and Sunday, one year..... DELIVERED BY CARRIER. y Bee (Including Sunday), per week ¢ Bee (without Sunday), per week vening Bee (without Sunday), per,week fc vaning Bee (with Sunday), per waeek. irday Bee, one year.. aturday Bes, one vear Address all complaints of irregularities in dclivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES, Omaha~The Bee Hullding. . South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs—15 Scott Btreet. Lincoln—618 Little Building. Chicago—1548 Marquetts Building. 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P, WALKER, Notary Publle. . Treasurer. Subscribers leaving the oity tem- porarily should have The Ree matled to them. Address will be changed ns often as requested. The closing chapter is being written in the romance of Zelaya, the bandit. This is a good day to resolve to do it now. Mr. Weather Man - please switch, In resisting bombardment that Sanly Hook balloon exhibits as mueh good nature as the late Dr. Cook. Planetary insanity is being exploited, now that the public has wearied of reading about hookworms and pellagra. The Corn shew visitors will find the lateh string out in all directions in Omaha. Don’t stop to knock, but come right in. In a country where so many men are | ambitious to become lords there is lit- | tle danger that the upper house will be abolished. | 4 Some men seem able to buy up in- surance companies with the ease and grace of a woman casually stopping at + the ribbon counter. ' The open door may be a faet in Man- churia, but the wily Japanese merehant is driving out-all competition of the | white man by his cut rate prices. The cynical will be guick to observe that the defaulter who now pleads qualms of consclence waited two years to feel the sting, and then his money had run out. The federal plum tree is trembling again, and several Nebraskans are ex- pectantly waiting beneath its boughs. A Christmas gift of considerable size awaits somebody’s outstretched hands. Colonel Bryan finde much occup: tion in nominating the republican presi- dential ticket for 1912, a fact which may mean that the colonel has lost his | interest in the possible nominees for that year democratic Judge Grosscup, having come out in advocacy of a new party committed to the policy of an equal distribution among all men of the fruits of their | labor, may expect some heart-to-heart talks from his friends, the soeialists. ——— All who claim to be able to cure tu- be! with Yale university and get $100,000, an ancnymous alumnus having depos- Ited the forfeit. Now let the Dr, Cooks of the white plague crusade bring on their afidavits Again the iconoclastic voice of the government is heard, this time in the effort of the Agricultural department to wipe out the term “New Orleans molasses,” there being, in the opinion | of the department, no longer any such thing. No “N. 0.”? Thus vanishes another fond tradition of childhood days, when the American boy carrying the brown jug to the store knew no greater paradise than to lick the cork. Mr. Gaynor's turning down of the fammany leaders who nominated him presages Interesting events when he shall have taken his seat as mayor of New York. His open declaration that he is no dummy of Tammany, and that he will not tolerate the preserce of office-hunters about his office, may be | taken to give New Yorkers confidence that the judge really intemds to give the people a personal administration The more the tiger views the wreck of its hopes from the late election the lasg it finds it has saved, ¥ % culosis have unly to establish proof | | The great corn exposition, which opens to the public in Omaha tomor- row, is national In its scope. It is mote than that It ¥s world-wide, for its effects must eventually touch all humanity. The object of this expoeition s pri- marily the comparison of results and the discuselon of methods. It brings together the thoughtful, earnest, active men of agriculture, whose work in life is literally to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before. These men are the combination of student and dreaner crossed with the hard- headed, practical man of business. Their thoughts are bent in the one di- rection, that of improving the general quality of tife agricultural output of the woffi. The Importance of this work cannot be exaggerated. Its prac- tical benefit has already been deter- mined on the farms of the United States, and each recurring season brings new proof of the wisdom of the agricultural experiment station. New corn, new grass, new animals are placed at the farmer's disposal and from these new types new crops are raised. The greater annual acreage out- put of the western farmer is the ensure- ment due to the efforts of the patient investigator at the experiment station. The wealth annually added through this source s encrmous, and the pub- lic benefit is so direct as to call for neither emphasis or argument. The great corn exposition, which has come to its present measure of success through the efforts of Omaha people, is a splendid expression of the scien- tific thought of the times. Its success means wealth added to the material prosperity of the world, and with added wealth must necessarily come increased social advantages. In every aspect the corn exposition is an evi- dence of growth in the right direction, and its support and success is an indi- cation that the people are aware of its great possibilities and its immediate benefit. Savings Banks Life Insurance. From Massachusefts comes a demon- stration of what can be accomplished by the experienced investors' handling of a community of small funds, In the successful operation of the savings |banks life insurance system. As a Christmas purse for the policy holders, the banks are returning a dividend of 81 per cent, which means that each | person who has paid the premiums for |a full year now gets back one monthly premium. One year ago the Massachusetts state actuary estimated that the savs ings banks insurance rate was 25 per cent lower than that, eharged by the industrial companies, which later cut |their rates in Massachusetts 10 per lcent. Since then the savings banks of- {fered insurance at 15 per cent less than |the companies, and now, on the basis (of the dividend, the actpary figungs {the rate as 23 % per cent less than that of the industrials According to the official reports, each of the banks has been able to keep | |intact the guaranty funds and to pay |interest thereon, and to set aside the |full legal reserve, in addition to ac- |cumulating the policy holders’ divi- dends. This attempt to supply to wage-workers life insurance at cost has passed the experimental stage, and while future experience may not prove |t6 be quite so profitable as the past, | still the exhibit is an enlightening one. Energy of the Future. | Barely eleven years have elapsed elpce the wonders of radium became | known to man through a woman's dis- covery, yet in that little while an en- tirely new realm of sclence has been {opened up, with a promise to solve that which has vexed those looking far into the future—the problem where man is to obtain his energy for the work of the world. Civilization s developing more energy than ever, but it ig using more, and steadily the known forces of nature are being depleted, particu- larly the most familiar source of en- ergy, coal. There have been those who descried in the return to the utilization of waterfalls the solution of what we should do for heat and light when coal and oil should be exhausted, but it has not yet been assured that the streams of earth are sufficient to de- velop all the electricity the workshops, public utilities and homes need. May it not be that man’'s previous |ignorance of the radio-activity of such elements as radium has been nature's own conservation of resources? During the history of the human race failure, }or abandonment of one source of en- |ergy has been the stepping stone to another, in a long series of progres- slons. The little knowledge that has |Just come to us of the radio-activity of |certain substances may be the dawning of the day of limitless possibilities. In the pursuit of the study of radio- activity, the scientist has accomplished a revolutionary feat, the dissection of the atom. It has been disclosed that | radio-activity is the explosion of the atom, and the Crookes spintharscope reveals the popping of the atoms like |a bombardment of shooting stars. Thus |the human eye is at last able to see the atom, in flight, at & speed, not only vastly exceeding that of our swiftest projectile, but actually greater than the kpnown velocity of the celestial bodies through space. The enormous energy thus indicated these exploding atoms, each in- |dividual of which works with such a |regularity as would indicate the exist- |€nce of an infinitesimal time clock con- cealed within, has alpegdy been util- fzed in & degree, convincing man of the tremendovs force which is at his command whenever he can control it. | by I'HE It has been accurately demonstrated, according to Prof. Frederick Soddy of the University of Glasgow that a pound of radium will yleld an energy 250,000 times greater than the com- bustion of an squal weight of coal. But the difficulty Is to lberate this energy. In the natural course of thing 2,600 years would pass before the pound of radium would exhaust itself. The radio-activity of uranium is even slower than that of radfum, but it will last, according to Prof. Soddy, many millions times as long. Uranium and thorium, elements whose compounds are manufactured commercially by the ton at the present time, imprison energy many hundred times greater than is obtalnable from the same amount of coal. As the Glasgow sa- vant says, we could drive a Mauretania around the world by the force con- tained in a pint bottle. But the slow- Lneu with which the energy is devel- oped baffles the human mind. The problem that confronts man, therefore, is to accelerate this natural rate of evolution; when he can do that, he can extract from the elements of the earth energy to drive the work of the world for untold ages to come. Roll-Top Strategists. Additional evidence is contained in the annual report of Secretary Meyer of the Navy department that the day of the “roll-top strategist” is over, and that this branch of the service is to be administered henceforth on a basis of practical efficiency. =Mr. Meyer al- ready has given a hard blow to the an- tiquated features of the bureau sys- tem, by actually reorganizing forces, and he now asks congress to add to the rejuvenation of the navy by retirement and transfusing the disci- pline of the line with young and vigor- ous blood Mr. Meyer manifests a determination to rid the navy of any old-fogyism er other weaknesses that he has been able to discover, and in this he undoubtedly will have the practical encouragement of congress in the' enactment of such legislation as may be deemed neces- sary to institute reforms. That he is on the right track in the main s evi- dent from his ability to scale down the estimates for the coming year under the revision of methods such as he pro- poses. It is only fair to judge from his report that he is likely, if un- hampered, to conduct the naval depart- ment in a more econamical manner and at the same time bring it more up- to‘ date in various respects —_— Moral Instruction in Schools. In the race of the New York mil- |lionaires to outdo one another in the cultivation of fads, it is not surprising | of them come forward {that one lic schools, with specific reference to varied virtues, including humor, cour- age, economy and cleanliness. Careful perusal of the long list of things which the milliopaire would like to see indoctrinated in the youth of the land, reveals nothing but that is already a fundamental of daily life in every American household. Good man- ners, truthfulness, obedience, where is there a parvent but considers his chil- dren satisfactorily schooled in these things at home, without having them made a bore by extraordinary emphasis in the schoolroom? The question arises where the need for such an addition to the system of public instruction was thought to be apparent. In the average public school adequate attention to deportment has been a fixed habit these many years. Too stringent discipline will transform the prevailing cheerful | attention to studies into a hardship, Children of past generations have been developed along natural lines into the men and wo- men of affairs, and any -abnormal stress upon the fundamentals of char- acter and conduct will hardly tend to improve the ordinary pupil. The par- ent will be ready to resent any effort to transform his child into a prig. —_— South America’s Awakening. What was aeccomplished in the | United States as a result of the open- |ing of the tramscontinental railroad eration of the first steam road across South America, now nearing comple- tion. The problem there has been greater than here, for the continent was divided by a mountain range loftier and more impassable than any in North America. The right hand of may truly be sald not to have known a strange diversity of |been the resuit. The one coast has |developed mining, the other agrieul- |ture, and each in its own way has |known & considerable prosperity. | The marked individuality of the s arate nations of republies of South America has been well pointed out by Dr. Francis B. Clark, newly returned from a study of the southern continent, and he records impressions which tend to show that each political division is so emphasized in its peculiarities that it is bound to maintain its separate in- tegrity. Not only do the Spanish-speaking republics differ vastly from Portu- guese Brazil,| but they, differentiate widely from one another, and, as Dr. Clark says, it is as Inaccurate to lump Peru and Venezuela or Chile and Co- lombia as It-is to conalder Mexico and Massachusetts or Canada and Louls- jana as close kindred states. Dr. Clark’s chronicles of his travels will have thelr value in giving people of the United States a better acquaint- ance with the South Americans, and OMA}{A flUNDAY his | legislating the old senior officers into | with a fund for a scheme to establish | a radical course in morals in the pub- | line may be expected to follow the op- | southern | South Awerleca | what the left hand has been doing, and | interests has | when we get a stream of commerce flowing through the Panama canal we shall begin to have an even more defl- nite knowledge of the great neighbor- ing continent. The possibilities of South America are only beginning to be known to the outer world and to herself, but the new Transandesan rallroad and the canal at the isthmus will inauurate an era of development which means vast things to the trade of the world, afford- ing an opportunity to the United States to maintain an even more flourishing and powerful lead in the brotherhood of the republics of the Western Hemisphere. Employees’ Insurance. The conference under the auspices of the National Clvic Federation called to conelder the various forms of insur- ance for working peopie developed but one feature. It is more unanimously agreed than ever that the solution of the problem under consideration is ex- tremely difficult. Effective action through national legislation is barred by constitutional limitation. The con- gress of the United States cannot adopt laws that will govern the citizens of the several states in their social rela- tions within the state. The effort to pass a law which will regulate and de- termine the liability of employers en- gaged in interstate commerce, which is about the only phase of the ques- tion left for congress to deal with, has proven futile, owing to court decisions giving to Interstate commerce such a narrow and constticted definition as operates to render the general law of no effect. The probability of secur- ing uniform laws from the several states is too remote at present to de- serve consideration, and this is about as far as the conference reached. It was again agreed that the, work- ingman should not be asked to assume all the risks of his employment, and also that sgciety at large should not be asked to assume all the expense of maintaining the workingman who has been crippled through mishap incident to his employment. A large number of corporations and firms have ad- mitted the responsibility of the em- ployer in this respect by, organizing among their employes assoclatiops which operate to provide for their members when incapacitated for work through any cause incident to the em- ployment, and to pay algo death in- demnity. In these associations the em- ployers voluntarily assume a portion of the expense, requiring the employes to pay the remainder. This follows in a general way the plan that has proven so effective in Germany, where the general government is also the party contributing to the Insurance fund. It is impossible in this country because of the peculiar relations of the sov- ereign states to the federal govern- ment. The conference did accomplish some- thing by bringing closer home to the people the necessity for laws that must be enacted by the states dealing with the general question of protection for the workingman. A point raised, and demnity for accident Is not so much |needed as proteétion from aceident. The installation of devices intended to protect the workingman from the dan- ger natural to operating complicated machinery is more called for than the payment of money to support him. When the matter has reached that place where the employers will find protect life and limb than to pay death and accident losses, much of the dan- ger that now attends great industrial operations will be eliminated. Opportunities to Help. President Lovett of the Union slip a really acceptable present into Omaha's stocking. Just let him go casually over some of the plans en- dorsed by the late Mr. Harriman for improvement for his road's service in Omaha, and give them his “0. K.” Another railroad president who may do something for Omaha is Mr. Mudge of the Rack Island. While the Rock Island peaple have shown great inter- est in the commercial affairs of this city, there ig still wide opportunity for improvement, and if the new president really means to be a railroad man and run a rallroad, he has a fine chance to |do something that will help. These suggestiong are not made in {a spirit of impatience, but in the be- lef that both of these presidents are |gincere in what they say. State Control of Combines. The decision of the supreme court of South Dakota sustaining tutionality of the anti-discrimination |aet adds to the encouragement of the citizen desirous of seeing trade main- What the national control of combines, the South Dakota lumber case is to state control. For it must be remembered that na- |attempted only along interstate lines, the powers of congress being, after all, Mmited. Here is where the saving grace of state's rights comes in, Var- fous commonwealths have sought to regulate the commerce of combines within their borders, and in some cases have technically failed, but South Da- kota dppears to have hit upon a law that is within its powers, and that can be enforced against unfair trade meth- ods within the borders of the state. South Dakota's constitution affords it no pecullar rights of this nature that are not permissible under the consti- tution of other states, and it looks as though it had helped to blaze the way |in legislation for state control of those BFE DL(‘EM BFR one that is most pertinent, is that in- it more expedient and economieal to | | about. Pacific has a splendid oppOrtunity to | oy i e the consti- | tained in natural competitive channels. | Standard Ofl decision Is to | {tional regulation can be successfully | 5, 1909. phases of combine activity which are beyond the reach of congress. Fifth avenue larders are reported as being continuously suffering from the raids of the gray squirrels of Central park, and because of this It was at first belleved that the creature had be- come over-civilized and had grown too fat and lazy to forage in nature's pan- try. But investigation shows that the progeny of the merry playmate of New | York's children have become too num- erous to subsist through the winter on | the natural provender in the park. The supply of acorns and nuts is no longer adequate for his caches, and therefore the frisky native has become a thief in plain obedience to the law of seif- preservation. darting back and forth between park borders and mansions, scurrying under the very cession of automobiles over the asphalt, must make a highly entertaining sight, and the language in the servant's halls over the inroads among the edibles is undoubtedly plcturesque, It will be surprising if this transformation of the squirrel does not Inspire some wonderful new tales in nature faking. How little the public knows of the inner mysteries of the news- paper sanctum is emphasized by the | surprise manifested over the ' ap- pearance of the name of Edward P. Mitchell as editor of the New York Sun, the evident impression being that he is a newcomer in the editorial field Yet Mr. Mitchell has for thirty-five years been busy with his pen in ex- pressing the things the Sun stands for, and in'the old days many of his arti- cles were commonly attributed to the hand of Charles A. Dana himself. The live spirit of a newspaper is perpet- uated by an association of personali- ties, and survives Individuals some- times for generationg. A divorce expert in that town of di- vorces, Chicago, blames steam heat for driving bliss from the modern domes- tic hearth. The couple that has to wrestle with hot-air furnace might make a commentary on that. Coal bills in any form are likely to deposit the ashes of discord Signs of Prosperity. Indianapolis News. The humber of government employes has increased to 370,065 from 306,141 in whieh seems to show that returning pros- perity has also been giving a little atten- tion to politie: H A Chicago ‘Record-Herald Another government official who has just | returned from Panama 'says the eanal will be finished in 195. It's & long time to wait, but we are going to try to ketp from fretting meanwhile by thinking of a lot of other things. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Thers industry ‘who feared that it had reached the top of its ane great boom. twa vears | ago. Now it Is much bigger than it was | then, but no such misgivings exist. The | motor vehlcle has passed from the fad stage into an important phase of the de- velapment of ciyilisation The Fountain of Youth. Philadelphia Bulletin, The patriarchal John Bigelow, who at the age of 92 has acquired the habit keeping touch with the liying present by .ntroducing a grapddaughter or two into the social swim on his birthday, seems to have succeeded better than most folks in finding the fountaln of perpetusl youth. There is nothing like the constant com panionship of young folks to keep a man | or woman from growing old, n Worth While Baltimore American. In these days of the flerce light which the searchlight of publlcity sheds upon ail human affairs the price and penalties of human greatness are bared more to the world at large than formerly, when the reserve of their divinity hedged royalties One of the latest Instances of these Ities 1y the pitlable condition of the whom the perils of her driven nearly into in- pen; igh position have sanity. SEOULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. | Pittsburg Dispatch: We quite agree with | the ministers that there is “np need for & new religlon,” but we arg quite confident that there Is great need for the extension of our oid religion. Baltimore American: A minlster in Chi- cago wants compusory marriage by the state just as it enforces compulsory edu- cation. He also advocates women's pro- posing when the men hesitate. This is a radical age, but not so radical as to turn fconoclastic concerning things too deeply ingrained in the best impulses of human nature ever to go out of fashjon, Charlestan News and Courier: The Young Women's Christtan sssociation of Des Moines, Ia., refused to accept a check for $1.000 offered by a brewery op the ground that it was tainted money. However, in returning the check, it was stated that the assoclation would be very glad to accept the Individual checks of the two owners of the brewery for $500 each. There Is so much in & name. SERMONS BOILED DOWN. Ignorance is the weakest protection pos- sible to innocence Moral blindness is often due to pressure on the money nerve When a sermon gets thin it is sure to spread itself out long When a man's faith makes her own way. ways zealous for its bones. Progress seldom comes on a track: she The power to comfort others does not come from consoling yourself You never get any higher than the things you put on top of your lite. " He who dare not be misunderstood never says anything worth understanding As we paint the pictures of Imagination we make permanent those of memory. No man is worth anything to his age who does not sometimes get angry with it Adversity often works prosperity, but that does not acquit the mun who brings it on another The dollar will never be worth much to any man until every man Is worth more than the dollar The difficulty of would be halved if friends would all die. It is always easier o sing of lden boulsvards than it is to make streets so is dead he Is al- representing religion its misrepresenting The army of squirrels wheels of the constant pro- | 1907, | were many men in the automobile | of | Watches--Yes, 14-kt. $ Gold--$30 Kind--at.... Mind you! A good FILLED case watch invariably costs 20 you $20-—to say nothing of SOLID GOLD. AT style Iadies’ print TIR diamonds, ARE The Wi 1522 Farnam St. THAT'R exquisite watches Is fitted Waltham that Is a Have YOU watch in tion with a price llke $207 “Chiristmas 1f practical, I stock—just to show present stock is exceptionally gorgeous bris-a-brac, ete casional newspaper undermined HERF. meet my figures they do not seem WILLING to teh Special in this announcement “Instance.” not ALL! Fach one of thess Ith an Klgin or the case 18 a “hunting rasterpleca of deft engraving. ever seen such a description on a oltd 14-kt. gold—in connec- movement But I've only 50 of the above watches-~- bought a jobber's surplus---so you would better hurry if vou Christmas gifts. Gorgeous Xmas Stocks intend using them as Jewelry” talks all alike In would illustrate my E the My and the watches, ellver ftems, cut glass pleces, , are RIGHTLY »PRIC My PROVE that prices others sound “differen lals" 1t are able to is an PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. “Tle sald “'Misery loves company has a sugar scandal. Uncle Sam is not so loiesome. As a means of gétting rich, qu ern prize fighting is crowding t for the record Law students’ in New York find they cau do the Paladine table trick handily, but | fall down on the box office ghost , mod- trusts | Has Margaret Ellington Frohman Bowes heard the news about Ethel Barrymore- Colt? Just a little hoy. lsn't he sweet. An inquisitive grand jury in Kansas City is poking around in quarters where butter | and meat abound seeking the skeleton of a "trust The Chicage minister who flouted historic sanctity of Mrs. O'Leary’s cow now trying to discover who flung the bale of hay. The action of Washington medics in the | alleged leper case amentls the familiar say- ing, thus: “When doctors disagree the | vietim goes to Jail.’ A seat in the New York Stock exchange, which sold for $34,000, appears a shade mor valuable than an auto seat. The difference represents income and outgo. Walter Wellman's plunge into the polar controversy serves to divert public aften- tion from the fateful kidnaping of Presi- dent Taft's nine-foot Thanksgiving ple. Twenty-two years were required to bring & slander suit to a finish in Chicago wheve divorce sults are fitted and de- |livered in less than twenty-two minutes, | Notwithstanding all the shady the city treasury dug up by the Chicazo Inter Ogean, in the publl the rush, strong box. Overlooked probably. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Nan—Yes, sleey Fan—Then you ought careful, dear. never your belt.—Chicago Jack wears his heart on his to be very, very » have any pins iy Trivune “Do agroe?” “He never does.’ you and your husband ever dis Cleveland. Leader, “My dear,” ®aid the “thai young man may be a bt he is & coming man.” “Perhaps he {5 sighed the weary maiden, “but I'd rather he had more go in "~Baltimore American rifle tedious, | Stella—1sn't duke? HeHa—No, York Sun, Mabel golug to marry he rejected the budget a real an “Never go out in a buggy along & shady lune, with a plug of horse and the only girl In the world? Bay, vou don’t know ‘what life it delphia Ledger. 1 supposed all husbands made a practice of comparing their mothers and thefr wives —to the latter's discredit. Why don’t ? You haven't gl o any ol dear. Ah, but 1 am admit that you don't make as hot for me as mother did | Plain Dealer. eveland | young matron said, ad ster who was ‘gettng ‘you married be ‘1 suppose,” the dressing the sp| along In years, never | ' Japan swift | And when he tha | is | 1A fool th raids on | considerable money remains | = in| far-seeing parent, | | the | New | VSpsaking of joy | ndu did you ever have Phila- | cause it has been Impossible for you to find a man whom you considered good enough. “Oh, no. I have found plent men who were good enough, but 1 have always felt that it was a shame to spoll a good thing.”—~Chicago Record-Herald. A CHRISTMAS VAMPIRE. Carolyn Wells In Smart Set. A fool there was, and he made a gift, (Even as you or 1) | He bought it with taste and care and thrife (For alady his friends thought rather ve it the lady sniffed, (iven as you or 1.) Oh, the judg waste On the gifts at Christmastid Which we give to the lady nent and taste and time we who isn't please (And now we could be pleased And never satisfled) know she never re was, and he gav fof a necklace of pearls wit (And it didn't the least sul And she never thanked (Even as you o is cheque a fle Ob.. the chink we lose and the think we On the' things we buy with pride, To give the lady who never is pluased (And W we know she can never o er be satisfied) be pl And n The fool was flecoed to his last red cent (Even as you or 1) threw him aside, when his gold spent, (And nobody cared where the lady went), And the fool gave way tc loud lament, (Eiven as you or 1) She wWas it wasn't the and it dross, The that same fool cried; It was coming to know that she never was pleased (Seeing at last s} be pleased And never be loss, wasn't the could never tisfled). Vle SeII l00 Kinds Mineral Waters We will sell over 100 kinds imported and American Mineral Waters, an s we ob- tain direct from springs or i . can guarantee freshness and ge Boro Lithia Water, bat., Boro Lithia Water, pints, cige, 100, $10.00. We are distributing the celebrated watc Springs. Mo., and_sell Regent, quart bottlt ase, B hottles, $5.00 5 line, quart botile, e 5 bottles, $5.00. quart bottle £.00. $1.0; onta In Omalighvor from Excelslor Howir doze \dosen, dozen, dozen, = Aozen, pint bottle hottle, bottle, Ale quart pint Ginger 1oe; Ginger Ale, quart botile, 2c; dozen. Dlamona Lithia 1 dozen, $4.00. half-gallon bottle, 400} gallon jugs, each, 5208 gallon jugs, eaeh, $: 2 part of Omahsy Couneil South Omaha |Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. 16th and Dodge Sts, 16th and Harney Sts. the Morrow to pay expenses of - your pleasures. THE EQUITABLE LIFE H. D. NEELY, Mgr. that crookedness cannot hide in them.— | Chicago Tribune. OF THE UNITED STATES OMAHA, NEB Don’t Mortgage today—or mortgage your family’s future comfort that you may enjoy yourselt in the present. go if you will, but not until you have first put by a portion of your income for the protccnon of your family. recurring premium payment on an Equitable Policy will protect them and leave you a working balance for Lift the mortgage on the morrow by acting today. Spend as you A ASSURANCE SOCIETY PAUL MORTON, Pres.