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

THE OMAHA SUNDAY Bm FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER ICTOR ROSLWATER, EDITOR Entered at Omaha postoffice s second class matter SRMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. y Bee (without Sunday), one year..$ ily Bee and Sunday, one year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER o Daily Bee (Including Sunday), per week..13¢ Dally Bee (without Sundey), per week..I ening Bee (without Sunday ening Bee (with Bunday), Surday Bee, one year Saturday Bee, one year......... 1 Address all complaints of \rregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department OFFIC The Bee Bullding i Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N Councll Bluffs—15 Beott Btreet. Lincoln—gis Little Bullding. =~ Chicago--1548 Marquette Bul ng. New York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 34 West Thirty-third Street Washington—72% Fourteenth Street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE. o Communications relating to news and edl torial_matter should be addressed: Omaha Dee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES, A Remit by draft, express or pcrl_ll\ order payable to The Bee Publishing l,omblnyi Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mail accounts Perbonal checks. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted 4.00 6.00 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, State of Nebraska, Douglas County s.: George B, Tzschuck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Compsny, being duly sworn, ways that the actusl number of full and complete coples of The Dally Morning, Evening aund Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1009, was as follows: .. 43,070 41,93 43,000 43,100 43,700 41,600 43,150 41,300 42,480 41,980 43,170 40,340 41,660 41,790 41,700 | Totai. . Returned Coples Net Total... Dally Average..... GBU. B. TZBUCHUCK. T ibed In my presence and sworn to ‘ me this 1st day of December, 1t (Seal) M. P. WALKER, Notary Publle. Subscribers leaving the city tems porarily should ve The There still appears to be considera- ble delay about Zelaya. New York state has demonstrated that the ice combine stands in slippery places. The state supreme court seems to have succeeded in muffling the Bell in Michigan. Has anyone heard Mr., Calhoun say a word since he was appointed minie- ter to China? or cuuru;, cotton would take another Jump in price, just when in such de- mand for Santa’s whiskers. If England has any more poets ‘with grotiches, let her keep them at home till after the Christmas carol season. — While Rameses, or his cook, has cap- tivated New York, Chicago seems to have revived the glories of old King Faro. Well, if it 18 true that Frederick the Great never gave & sword to Wash- ington, it doesn’t matter—he didn't need it. The Wellesley girls who omitted thelr traditional foremsic burning may have been too busy with Christmas pyrography. The success of Mexico's trans-isth- mian railroad at Tehuantepec augurs prodiglous business for the Panama cansl as soon as it shall begin opera- tions. The Postoffice department says it's wrohg to write on holiday parcels. Be- fore another Christmas rolls around it may be necessary to start a correspond- ence school in gift-mailing. The fact that San Francisco's new | mayor is a poet {8 no additional recom- | mendation, in view of the awful possi- | bilities underlying the poetic nature as exemplified by Mr. Watson. They are making a great fuss in Eu- rope over the alleged immodesty of a lecture read by an actress before the kalser, byt Wilhelm deems to have been able to hear it through. The news columns tell of a hen that gave & man & peck and the man died. The idea of biddy giving anything away whén the price of egegs i so high probably started the man's heart fail- urd, Promoters of the wire combine di- late upon the great saving in operating expenses to be aoccomplished, but give no guarantee that the public will share in this additional profit through lower that it never has been successful in' its annual boast of flashing & new year's messa, around the world suggests that the consclence-stricken -observa- tory reform its spelling to knaval. It 1s not likely that the new record price reached by hogs on the market the last two days will be permanent, the untoward weather conditions being more directly responsible for the situ- ation then other causes. But the spurt in value is an excellent indication of the general conditions that prevail, and proves most conclusively the ad- The Law’s Delay. President Taft's message contained, among its most interesting features, urgent recommenadtions for the udop- tion of practical reformation in the procedure before the courts, to the end that justice may be more expeditiously administered and rights of litigants in civil cases and of defendants in crim- inal cases more speedily arrived at than is at present possible. The pres- Ident characterizes the present practice before American courts as being ridie- ulous in the extreme and suggests that it has made us absurd among the pro- gressive and enlightened nations. Such language coming from a lay- man might not carry conviction with it, but from a jurist of established renown and a lawyer of international reputa- tion it must be given weight. In this, as in other things, tile American peo- ple have shown themselves so remark- ably patient in the enduring of incon- venlence that frequently amounts to actual wrong, that they are more mar- veled at for their calm forbearance than for thelr wisdom. It {8 not enough to urge that the mob violence, 80 often resorted to and so much to be | deplored, is a form of public protest against the delay and uncertainty of execution of criminal law. Far greater hardships are borne perforce because of the uncertainty and delay of the ad- | ministration of civil law. The litigant whose limited means are not sufMicient for him to pursue his| courge through the devious and tortu- ous channels of the modern American law court stands very little show for elther justice or equity. It ls not es- peclally creditable to our system of judicature that the party with the longest purse {8 the one who has the most chance of winning a suit. Yet such is the case, and this is said with- out intention to question the integrity or fairness of any judge who has ever or now sits upon the bench. It is be- cause the judge in pronouncing his Jjudgment finds himself hedged about by an Infinitude of precedent estab- lished from the beginning, and ap- parently foreordained to direct his ju- dicial utterances, and to permit a crafty or speclous pleader to inter- minably prolong the litigation. Law- yers are but human, and it s hardly | to be expected that they will to any great extent assist in demolishing their means of livelihood. And yet the ablest lawyers of our country have united in urging reforms that will sim- plify court procedure and shorten the time between the beginning and the final adjustment of cases in court. Ireland’s Opportunity. Premier Asquith is playing high cards and playlng them well in the budget campaign, and his pledge tnat the liberals, if returned to power, will not only force limitations upon the House of Lords, but also grant self- government to Ireland, shows the lengths to which his party is willing to g0 to secure a victory. The liberals have been in control for four years, and while they have admin- istered well the empire at large, par- ticularly as atfecting foreign relations, still they can hardly be sald to have been effective in domestic matters. Thelr acts concerning education, plural voting, licensing and the budget, have been notable failures, not offset by their achievements with the trades dis- putes bill, the eight-hour law for miners, and old-age pensions. It is more apparent than ever that| the triumph of any liberal government depends upon its subordination of the lords, and the domination of the upper house has been responsible for most of the inefficlency of the liberals now appealing to the country. They failed to pass the Irish act of 1907, partly through the attitude of the Irish them- selves, but the flat pronouncement of Asquith for home rule will give Ire- land an opportunity for effective cam- paigning in the present crisis. Defiance of Nature. New disciples in worthy causes fre- quently earry their zeal too far, and it is possible to be mistaken in the appli- cation of even such primary principles as loose clothing and fresh air The Penngylvania Soclety for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children is in the thick of a contest with two exponents of the Greek idea over the Question | whether bare legs, feet and shoulders | are humane in the case of their little child exposed to the raw winter cli- mate of America. Most parents will| resent the fdea of a child being thus treated, arguing that the white race is not able to endure the hardships to which the native Patagonian fs accus- tomed. Buch individual cases, however, give their own apswers, and it may be con- sldered that this particular ehild, hav- ing survived the snow baths inflicted upon him at birth, has demonstrated sutficlent ruggedness to enable him to | continue to live in spite of his parents’ | violation of such customs as modern civilization has come to consider nec- essary for the protection of the body from the elements. Deflance of nature in a larger sense iy shown in the case of a Chicago school principal, who suddenly became seized with the idea that a zero gale sweeping through the room would be an ideal test for the fitness of the pu- plls to survive. She had the children sit through the sessions with their street clothes on, while the lake wind snow-charged, played merry t through the wide-open windows. Her rebellion against the rude interference vantage the farmer possesses. No mat- ter what the reason the fact is prices for farm products are high, and geem sertaln to remain high. of the parents may readily be imag- Ined. Such an experiment was of course the height of folly, for in a mixed as- semblage of children of varied ante- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DE CEMBER 12, 1009. cedents and in various stages of con- #titution, nourishment and vigor, there were bound to be some weaklings, Man has through long ages proved his abil- ity to endure, but he also has devel- oped safeguards against unnecessary attacks upon Nis physical citadel, and the sudden removal of the accustomed protections at this late day is not only cruel but mischievous. The Instinct of the hardiest races is to seek shelter, warmth and comfort, and it is not within the province of any radical elder to force little children to submit to barbarities of this nature, from which generations of training have led it to expect the right to be shielded. High Prices and High Wages. If Mr. James J. Hill is correctly quoted as to his remarks at the Com- mercial club banquet on Thursday night, one would like to belleve that he was moved by the influence of the | occaglon beyond the Iimit of prudent | not pleasant to contem- | plate the spectacle of ome naturally | judiclous and careful in his public pro- | speech. It is nouncements delivering himself of the statement that the present high range of prices In the United States is solely due to the high wages paid to the workingmen It is true beyond question that the general wage rate pald in the United States I8 far above that paid in Europe, and it has long been a source of pride to the citizenship of this country that this is true. Mr. Hill's comparisons were not especially apt, either. In Great Britain, where wages have been far below the American standard, in spite of the close organization of the working classes of that country, the price for living is quite as high as in the United States. The workingman simply absorbs the difference by doing without the comforts and conveniences his American brother enjoys. In France, to which blessed country Mr. Hill says the millons being liberated by the sale or liquidation of British industries are being offered for invest- ment, the workers are as well organ- ized into unfons as in England or Ger- many, and the prices for the ordinary necessities of life are even higher than in America. Here, too, the working- man simply does without them. In Germany the same condition prevailsy Mr. Hill showed much greater in- genulty, as well as perspicuity, in ac- counting for the high price of 'food products by alleging the under-produc- | tion of the country and urging that, even with the maximum productivity of the soil called into service, there is no hope of foods ever being cheaper. If he had delved as deeply into the economics of manufacture he probably would, have found an equally cogent reason for the high price of manufac- tured goods without resorting to the transparent subterfuge of charging the condition to the avarice of the work- ingman, who bands himself with his fellows into combinations for the pur- pose of keeping up the wage rate. It is not probable that Mr. Hill would like to have us understand him as favoring a reduction of wages paid i America to the point where the American workingman would be com- pelled to live as do the poorly-housed, poorly-fed and poorly-clothed working- men of Europe. Nor is it likely that very many of the gentlemen who ap- plauded Mr. HillI's utterances on this point would seriously contemplate a change that would necessitate the es- tablishment of such conditions in this country. A candidate for president once said, ‘A cheap coat means a cheap man,” and it is not likely that the thinking American citizen sincerely desires a lowering of prices at the cost of manhood. Prosecuting the Combines. From the annual report of Attorney | General Wickersham it {s evident not only that considerable progress has been made during the year in the pros- ecution of combines, but also that fm-| portant steps are even now being taken toward curbing monopolistic oppres- sion. Mr. Wickersham regards as one of the vital interpretations of the anti- tpust law the supreme court’s decision in the “commodities clause” cases. It will be remembered that, while up- holding the right of congress to pro- hibit absolutely a railroad engaged In Interstate commerce from carrying in competition with other shippers com- modities in which it is personally in- | terested, the court nevertheless decided | that this prohibition does not apply to the transportation of commodities owned by another corporation, where the only interest which the carrier had therein at the time of such transporia- tion, arises out of its ownership of cap- ital stock in the corporation owning the commodities so transported. Mr. Wickersham pofnts out that this decision does not necessarily determine the application of the statute to cases where the commodities transported are owned by a corporation, all, or sub- stantially all, of whose stock is owned by the carrier corporation, and he in- dicates that his office Intends to have the question determined in its fullest sense, remarking that “if the prohibi- tion of the statute can be successfully evaded by the simple device of transfer of ownership of the property to a cor- poration, all of whose stock shall be owned or controlled by the carrier, congress should amend the statute so a8 to make It an effectual and not merely an illusory prohibtion, or else repeal 1t." < Progress is reported In the cases of the so-called coal and powder trusts and in the Union-Southern Pacific merger, all of which will soon be ready for hearings. The 8t. Louls terminal case, the American Tobacco company appeal and the Naval Stores, Standard I Ofl and Sugar prosecutions also are being expedited. Under the Interstate commerce laws the attorney general has actually collected fines aggregating $320,600, and has various cases under the Hep- burn act pending before the supreme court, Prosecutions for land frauds |and for violations of the customs laws |give promise of being vigorously | pushed. On the whole, the report is encour- aging as testifying to the vigilance of the Department of Justice in secking {to control corporate attempts at re- |straint of trade and other Injustices, and the coming yesr will doubtless bring final decisions determining the | force of both the anti-trust and inter- |state commerce acts, for the varlous | test cases now pending, some gf which have gone seriously against the people, will then have been decided by the court of last resort, Folly in Wills. Too often wnen man comes to con- template the distribution of his estate through his will he injects into that document the hatred which has en- venomed his life, and frequently his expression of it takes whimsical form. A case in point is that of a western young woman who was bequeathed a fortune by her stepfather on condition that she nurse his pet dog till his fif- teenth birthday. This was the grim deathbed jest of a man who was un- friendly to his wife's child For years the young woman has been | pampering the dog, trying to coax it to live the stipulated time. On several occasions it has been at death's door, and is now again in feeble health, with the goal some distance away. If it was the testator's desire to cheat the girl iof her fortune, he may yet fail; but he | has made the chase for it so much a matter of mental torment that it fs doubtful whether the heiress will relish it much when she gets it. The lay mind, resentful of such tricks of a dying man's malice, is apt to consider that such freak wills ought to be barred from probate; but to the sermonizer they will continue to serve as examples of man's tendency to make sport of the comfort and feelings ing the king of jesters. The Dictatorial Star. Out of Ameciica’'s newly awakened passion for grand opera has developed one featre against which it is time for the public which supports the en- terprise to rebel, and that is the dicta- torial attitude assumed by the stars as to the distribution of roles, Rivalries between great singers, par- ticularly among the women, have been fostered by weak-kneed managers un- til nearly every important part is sub- ject to the lcaprice of some prima donna. The matter has reached such a point that each songstress appears to consider herself as possessing exclusive rights in certaln popular impersona- tions, and whenever another singer of equal capability is chosen for the part, her imperious highness says no, and the flat goes. It would be just as fair to limit the enactment of Hamlet, or Ophelia, or Shylock, or Portla, to any one person. An opera which has become common property should have the same freedom of presentation as a standard play. In- terpretation of art has no patent rights, and there should be no more restraint of trade on the stage than in any other channel. The public pays the operatic artist enormously, and is willing to concede any individual pos- session of a role written especially for her and protected as the law provides. But in the general roles which anyone | has a legal right to essay the public is entitled to hear anyone who can ad- equately present them. In depriving audiences of a share of “these privileges the stars are be- ginning to dim their own brilliance, and in lending themselves to such a selfish suppression of rival ability to enact the best parts the managers will in time kill the goose that lays the golden egg. It is high time to hear less of stellar privilege and more of public right Bounds for the River Bonds. The waterways boomers have had occasion to indulge In gome sober re- | flections in connection with their con- |gress in Washington, for they have | been shown that they must show the | national congress a definite basis in blabk and white for thelr demand for a bond issue to carry through the work contemplated. They have come to a | realization that nelther junket nor ora- tory will open the cash box; what is wanted is facts. For the really substantial features of the waterways movement the facts | suficlently convincing. | members of cc Many of the 1gress have personally | been over the ground and realize in a | general way the needs of the rivers |and the temper of the public concern- |ing their development into important channels of commerce. The president | has indicated the general tenor of the | feeling in Washington in the sugges- | tion that congress will need to be con- vinced that the popular interests back of the waterways project will give ade- quate support to the enterprise after it shall have been established. Having the absofute data, there can be little doubt of congressional approval, but an undertaking of such magnitude must be started right, and it would seem to be the Initisl duty of the pro- moters to have their fundamentals log- foally prepared if they expect leglsla- tive sympathy to take the practical form of bonds. Massachusetts cities and towns vote each year independently on the license of others even when he himself is fac- | |ought to be readily producible and | question, ‘‘Yes" meaning wet and “No" dry. Analysis of the returns of the recent town meeting day shows a relative comparison of license and no- license results averaging about as usual for the past twenty years, indi- cating that the prohibition wave of the south and west has little in common with New England local option. It is to be regretted that the opera- tions of the Immigration bureau in fts | efforts to suppress the importation of immoral women could not have been carried on without publieity. The spreading through the public prints of such knowledge can serve no good pur- pose, and; the work of the immigration | agents would not have been seriously hampered if their operations and dis- coveries had been kept in close officlal secrecy. Some matters are of such a nature that their discussion should be confined to the clinic, and not be par- aded through the press. But this un- savory morsel was too promising for the yellow journals to overlook, and so the revolting details have been spread as widely as the circulation of the sen- sational newspapers could do ft. The toll of human life taken by lhe} great lakes has been unusually large during the short time since actual winter set in, proving how perilous the pursuit of the fresh water sailor. The demands of lake comimerce have been increasing until the only thing that stops it apparently is the presence of ice too thick to be broken. It would seem, though, that no busi- ness is of such imperative nature as to demand that boats put out from port in the face of storms that are almost certain to wreck them. The last wrecks reported are of a nature that might have been avolded if prudence had prevailed. constantly Isn't This Awfual Chicago Tribune. By a coust decision express companies are liable for the full value of whatever packages they lose. The tendency of thig will be to make them more careful and whatever helps in this direction is w dis- tinet gain for humanity at large. Weekly Tests for Army Oftficers. Philadelphia Record. Secretary Dickinson wants the physical condition of officers tested weekly and re- ports tiled with the department. The next thing will be preseribed the breakfast food otficers shall eat and to d@etermine the amount of protelds they shall consume with thelr dinners. s Taking Ways. Chicago Record-Herald. The president of the Pheonix Insurance company believed in insurance o thor- oughly that he thought his organisation would run along all right even if he took 1,000,000 of its funds for his own use. He does not claim that he was giving the com- pany & business administration. What is Coming to Sarah. New York World. The supporters of Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, former president of the Natfonal Federation of Women's clubs, Who ex- pects to be a candidate for congress in Colorado, are asking: “Is any man going to be ungallant enough to question her right to sit In that seat if we send her to Washington duly accredited?’ Most as- suredly there will be, if for no other reason than that there are grounds for doubting whetner the oconstitution permits @ woman to serve in congress. ACTIVE SERVICE LURE THE MEN Prospect of a Row Fill the Recrait- ing Offices. New York Press. | Desertions from the army are giving un-| easiness to the military authorities, while | the prospect of a little active service by | the marine corps In Central America caused the marine recruiting offices to be crowded by applicants for enlistment. Dur- ing the Spanish war desertions from the army and navy practically ceased. The morning after the news of the blowing up | of the Maine was recelved it was impos- | sible to approach the gates of the Brook- lyn navy yard for the crowd of young men clamoring to be enrolled as men-of-war's men. The American soldier, the American ma- rine and the American sallor have their peculiarities. In other countries regiments ordered abroad for duty not infrequently mutiny. That s the season for desertions over there. But when the American soldier or sallor sees active duty ahead you can't pry him loose from the service with a crowbar, It is only when he s living peacefully in barracks that he deserts. You might furnish an American soldier with barracks filled with luxuries out of the Arablan Nights and he would not be con- tent unless he saw a prospect of active service, and that pretty soon. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Sobs for the good, old summertime will Kkeep In cold storage for some weeks. The approaching comet has 1o pull with the weather man. Mr. Halley is a hot thing. The new painless surgery comes just in time for the Christmas operation on the pocketbook The early shopping crowds bear impres- sive testimony to the efficacy of the news- paper boost Medicine Hat is & prize kicker. The first iift of the 114 struck Texas and all the| territory between. [ Shoveling snow off your own sldewalk |s the most efficacious exercise & man can indulge in. Ditto. for women. Three-volume novels are among the prom- ised events for 1910. Publishers are con- vinced that the people need more sleep. Managers of the Dos Moines Corn show complain of lack of local attendance, re- sulting 1n a lean and hungry treasury. A Red Cross stamp gives a Christmas package the proper decorative effect and at the same time carrles a sinall message of practical good will where most needed Ten persons have been killed and thirty- nine wounded in Ohlo durlng the hunting season. Mistakes are liable to happen when Buckeyes turn from office hunting to real sport. King Gustavus’' experience as a coal heaver draws from countless pens Klowing | pictures of the man, the job und the pur- pose. All of them passed up as impertinent | the question—How was the old man's back | next morning The National Gas Improv & Philadelphia concern with a continental | reach, is about to cut a “melon” worth | $8,500,000. Almost every city in the west | ness just as a recreation? | Sunday at his home in New York, was a No End of Tax Paying stringency. || H. S. NEELY, Manager, ! “SERMONS BOILED DOWN. This would be | its fools. Nothing shocks the big sinr..s worse than little sins, | Confession Is the hardest half of the cure of kome faults. | Next to deserving praise privilege is to &ive it No man has the gospel unless his neigh- bors are glad of 1t it No man is his own master who knows nothing of the obligations of servic Nothing beside will confirm Imaginary principle like weal profit ' from them. The trouble with many who boast of being square is that they have so many angles. Gossip is the power to put two and two together and make twenty-five out of them. A dollar spent for the formation character is often worth its reformation, They who would find perfection without pain are looking only to put an edge on a sword of lead.~—Chicago Tribune. SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. a foolish world but for the greatest of a thousand on Boston Herald: What has orthodoxy to say of the expressed belief that Bob Inger #0ll was of eminent use to Christianity be- cause “his irreverence made men shudder and hug thelr faith closer?” A Bapist clergyman in New York sald it Cleveland Plaln Dealer: A minister out in Missourl advocates sermons two hours long, and this in an age that demands con- cise stmplicity. We have never heard the Missouri pastor deliver one of his two-hour sermons, but we fancy he might be able o hold his congregation through it—if the church doors were locked. Boston Transcript: The Methodist clergy- man In New York who celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday by preaching a sermon seems bound to havo the last word. Still, his record has beon beaten. The late Colonel Perkins of Norwich, Conn., when 101 climbed three flights of stairs and de- livered a. spirited extempore address before & convention In that city. Charleston News and Courler: The Board ot Church and Labor of the Presbyterian home missions of New York held a con- ference the other day to discuss the ques- tion of Sunday base ball. It is said that “while all the ministers present seemed in tavor of Sunday recreation, they were against Sunday base ball exploited for com- mercial purposes.” Much as they might be opposed to charging any admission to the game, they might be willing to pass around the hat In & rellglous way. How would it do if they tried to attend to their own busi- oodsell of the who dled on Baltimore Sun: Bishop Methodist Episcopal church, type of the strong, forceful, earnest clergy- men who have made the Methodist church in the United States a power for good. A man of fine attainments was this dis- tinguished prelate—author, editor and Ppreacher. As a pulpit orator he ranked high in @ church which has produced many elo- quent, learnéd and masterful speakers, A many of originality of thought and expres- slon, crudite, of strong convictions and with the courage to uphold them, Bishop Good- sell was a notable figure in Methodism for nearly halt a centiry. PREACHERS WANTED, Empty Pulpits in the South Seeking Occupants. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The presiding elder of the Wiimington (N, C.) district of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, advertises for preachers, mentioning two charges In particular. He says: I need preachers. The charges will pay 600 to $660 and 3600, As thero is no parson- age on elther charge and no house avail- able for & family, only single men can be employed. Write to me, giving some pre- slding elder as reference. Under the conditions presented it is no surprising that there should be an absence of supply. But the Ralelgh News and Ob- server says that twenty-five years ago such an appeal as this would have caused a sensation. Then circults wers some- times divided “to give work to the large | clagses of young men entering the minis- try.” Now the smaller pulpits beg for | takers and continue in many cases untilled, The harvest Is still large, but the laborers apparently were never so few. But the south In this respect does not stand alone. Indeed, the conditions here presented seem to have arlsen In that section long after they began to appear In the north [ | | i A strong man is strong all over. pairs digestion and nutrition is weak or diseased there eontained in food, which strength. whea he doesa’t sleep well, has Discovery. it cares di THE WHOLE BODY. piped juice for this melon. If you doubt, read your gas bill may thereby make & little bigger profit, rition. trengthens the ki GIVES HEALTH AND STRENGTH TO | i o if you are a land or house owner. But if you are the owner of a Limited Fayment Policy in the Equitable, your annual premiums will cease at the end of 10, 15 or 20 years, and you will have a paid-up asset to the credit of your estate. There is no “come back” in cash to you on taxes paid during past years; but under an Equitable Policy a gradually increasing cash or loan value is accumulating for you which may be utilized in any period of financial Drop us a line about it. PAUL MORTON, President. Omaha, Neb. We Sell 100 Kinds Mineral Waters We will sell over 10 kinds imported and American Mineral Waters, and, as we oby tain direct from springs or importer, can' guarautee freshness and genuinene Boro Lithia Water, bot., ilc; case, $6.00. Boro thia Water, pints, dozen, §1.50 & se, 100, $10.00. We are distributing agents in Omaha for the nelebrated waters from Excelsior Springs, Mo., and sgll at following p Regent, quart bottle, %pc; dozen, case, G0 bottles, $5.00. Sulpho-Saline, quart 203 $2.25;; case, 0 bottles, $8.00. Sulpho-Saline, quart bottle, 1.50. dozen, dosen, Soterlan, quart bottle, 20¢; dozen, $3.0M foterian, pint bottle, 15¢; dozen, $150. Soterian’ Ginger Als, pint bottle, locs dozen, $1.50. Soterian dozen, $2.25. Diamond Lithia. half-gallon bottle, 40c; case, 1 dozen, $4.00. Crystal Lithia, G-gallon jugs, each, $2.00. Salt Sulphur, b-gallon jugs, each, $0.2. Delivery free to any part of Omaha, Council Bluffs or South Omaha 16th and Dodge Sts. Owl Drug Co. 16th and Harney Sts, Ginger Ale, quari bottle, et DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Katle—What a lovely ring! Matio—Ian't it? This ring was given me on my twenty-first birthday. Katle—Really? ~ Why how well pre- served it ls—Iit's hardly a bit worn'— Cleveland Leader. Housekesper—You here begging agsin? Aren't you the man I gave one of my pies to_yesterday? Tramp—it sn't my mum. I ol better in =« b5 A3 ald. e life—Washington Her-~ 'S0 Jack has captured the rich Mism Young and is now off on his honeymoon?* y don't know whether one should aok's I his harvest Boston J honeymoon or moon."— Transoript. Dealer—I am looking fn this nelghbor. hood for antiques. Can you tell me of any? Miss Pert—Why, yes. There's been Misy Oldgirl, who camae out the year before I was born.-—Baltimore American. While on his travels he was thundere struck at receiving from his wife a tele- gram which ran ay follows “Twins this morning. More latef"—Lip= pincott's Magazine, “u woman's loglo 1s a good deal 1fk flea,'" remarked the mere mas 2o “What's the answer?" queried the denss party. “You know 1{t's thers, and it jumps around lively enough, but somehow you can never put your finger on it."—Chlcago News, . “Why should that little man grow so excited in his defense of the compulsory as o half doxen excellent reasons for favoring it arel they?" old ‘maid daughters.*—Cleve Dealer, ¥ Biaed As George folded tho falr young creas ture to his heart a dull, crackling sound smote his ear. “Ah! {t's good-bye to those cigars In my vest pocket” he safd, grimly, “but hang the exponsé at a moment like this."- ge. PROBLEMS OF LIFE. L What is it that can make life blest The weary frame says, “Rest,” And In that rest sweet solace knowsj The weary hands clasp in repos And Weary wings at ovening'a close Drop languid in some cozy nest, And count that blest. 1L What Is it that can make lite glad? An aim, more than some passing fady A bit of r in the sky, A kindly glance In passing by, Perhaps, the twinkle of an eye;— One moment rendering all it had, To make life glad. 111 What is it that can make life dear? A life or two to bind us here; A little vice to Bome light ahead Some radiant joy Can make life dear, v, What s it that can make life g A crash of music from the % Some great and splendld works of art Home actor In a hero's part Ah, no. One throb of human heart, Which God alcae can understand, Can mako life grand Omaha. ~BAYOLL NE TRELE. No Man is Stronger Than His Stomach No man can be suffering from week stomach with its For when the stomach o loss of the nutrition the source of all physical When o man ‘‘ doesn’t feal just right, uncomfortabls feclieg in the stomach after eating, is languid, eut, ho is losing the nutrition needed to muke strength, Such a man should use Dr. vous, irritable and despond. Plerce’s Golden Medical of the stomack and other I I blo: You can’t afford to accept & secrer nostrum as & substitute for this now- alooholic medicine oF tNOWN COMPOSITION, not even though the urgent dealer Ingredients printed on wrapper.