Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1909, Page 4

——— BEE: THE _OMAHA EVENING BEE FOUNDED BY BDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The_ Hes Publishing Company, Proprietor FVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY ¥ _BUILDING, FARNAM AND 17TH. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY B OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY nered at OmMARA postoffice as second- DELIVERED BY CARRIERS. Evening Hee, without Hunday, per week 6c Fvening Bee with Sunday. per week ....10 Daily Des. without Sunday, per week ..10c Bunday Fee, per eopy Se l'nl/l‘y Teo, including Sundey. per waek ..18¢ Address eumulélmn of frregularitios in delivery to City Cireulation Department. STATEMENT OF CTROULATION. State of Nebraskd, Douglas County, ss.: Geore B. Tudohuck. traasurer of The Ree , being duly sworn. v8 that.the aettial numper of full and complete toples of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bea printed during month of Novem! as follows: Returned Coples. . Net Tota. Laily Averag GO, B. T ribed In my presence wnd sworn i Lefore Lov this et day of Decewmvor; 1w, (Beal) M. P. WALKER, Notary Puviic. porarily shoald have malled to them, Address will be changed as oftem as requested. Out of print—the North pole cook book. ' —— Copenhagen h; comfort market. —— And now if Andre should appear, would he be believed? a corner on the cold The name of Hie new mh;ner, Tang, has a sound like a Chinese gong. Mr. Wu took a look at the Hudson tunnel and declared it a big bore. —— It lookk as though the water wagon would have to start out on runners. Ot course the. glutton who ate forty eggs in six minutes is cackling about it. ————p—— With Miss 8pry s spongor, the new battleship Utah ough'to be a nimble fighter. Y ! The naked truth appears to be that New York soclety is mad over the bare- foot dance. The sugar ring evidently thinks Un/- cle Sam 1s running his business on the policy of your money back if you want it. ———— The eoilpse of Zelny: was not scheduled “fn the almana but it proved to be one of the most visible of The Garbage Question. The eity council should be very care- ful in dealing with the garbage ques- tion, At best, any ordinance it may adopt or any contract it may enter into will be merely a temporary expedient. The experience of Omaha with the gar- bage question from the beginning until the present has been most unfortunate. One experiment after an other has fol- lowed in futile effort to discover some plan whereby household refuse may be'| gathered and disposed of without plac- ing the charge directly on the eity gov- ernment. Ordinance after ordinance has been enacted, contract after con- tract entered into, suit after suit pushed through the courts, and always has the question come around to the starting point. Nothing has been dis- covered that will relieve the city of the regponsibility or the householder of the Inconvenience that grows out of any attempt that has been made to substi- tute for the natural plan some make- shift method of collecting and dispos- ing of garbage. Until the matter is taken over by the city and properly controlled under supervision of the health department the question will be open always for discussion and the an- noyances and Inconveniences will con- tinue. The ordinance at present before the council s, perhaps, the best that can be had in the present emergency, but it does not meet the requirements of the situation. Its adoption may re- lleve existing conditions, but it is only a matter of time when something will arise which will overturn the new plan and make it nesssary to adopt another For this reason steps should be taken to the end that before this disturbance arises plans will have been matured for placing the entire garbage question be- yond the realm of uncertainty. This can only be done by putting it entirely upon the eity government. Knell of a “Model” Town. Bince the days of the Brook Farm Experiment several notable attempts at communistic harmony have been made in this country, and all have suffered the same lamentable fate. One of the latest from the socialistic point of view was Upton Sinclair’s Hellcon Hall, and -the freshest failure of capitalistic paternalism is the ‘‘model” town of Ludlow, Mass, So fair appeared the surface condi- tlon of things at this manufacturing hive where corporation control and profit-sharing had been made the basis of operations that New Englanders proudly paraded the community be- fore congress during the recent tariff session and utilized it as a basis of argument for some of the things that they wanted at the hands of the tariff framers. It now appears that the people of Massachusetts were duping themselves, for all the spirit of harmony fled from Ludlow soon after congregs adjourned, and for many weeks now there has been a bitter industrial struggle there, with 2,000 employes on strike. ‘Evie- tion from the ‘‘model” homes followed,’ and up to date all the efforts of the State Board of Arbitration, as well as the year. A Yale man claims to have verified the Biblical | 'stbry ‘of ‘Sodom and @Gomorrah, but what says the king of Denmark? The ndw president of Ni brave m#n t6 hold the job after look- ing into]the Zelayan receptacle that was oncd a cash register. The new naval gun throws a pro- jectile nine miles;-but it is not to be compared with «the polar explorer's drawing of the'long bow. —— The woman who forgot her baby on a rallroad traln must have felt a good deal of the embarrassment of the band- man whi lost his bass drum. It it Virginiap carries out his threat bf marryihg ‘Carrle Natlon, we may at'lust get an &nswer to the prob- lem, “The Lady or the Tiger?" Gifford Pinchot was unable to reach New Rochelle from New York on ac- count of the s10w, and it's only “‘forty- five minutes from Broadway." The pgesidént may define whisky ab- solutely, ‘that | the purchasing public may be able to know exactly what it is buying, but the bartender will still re- spond to the request, “The same, please.” Thée esteemed Lincoln Star is finding it diMcult to keep its politics, or any- thing, glse, on straight these gladsome holiday times About the only cons! tent thing the Star does Is to persist in its abuse of Omaha Down in El Paso the courts are cut- ting the fines for excess of liquid stim- ulation as the mercury drops, and every Texan with a fondness for the demon rum may be considered as pe- titioning for zero weather. ———— It is only patural that the World- ilerald should seek to make political capital put of the punishment by the suprem¢ court of & contumacious at- torney ‘because the offender happened to be & demdérat . Not only is every- thing grist that comes to the World- Herald’s miil, but it doesn’t take much to start it grinding. e ———— The Lineoln Traction company is do- ing'mueh to prevent stagnation In the public mind at the capital city Tt may pot be tulfiliing its perfect mission, but the small service It affords as a topic for calorific discussion in the cold weather, lpoglq certainly commend it fo the people suftering through its those of the labor unions, have been' fruitless. The strikers were induced to return to work, but in a few hours marched out again on finding that strike-breakers were still employed. Into the local merits of this labor and capital dispute it is unnecessary to go, the point of this observation being that in Ludlow, as in every such endeavor toward a community of in- terests between employer and em- ployed, the human element is bound eventually to crop out. So long as men and women are actuated by the desire of personal gain, so long will the spirit of selfishness continue to crop out in all these experiments. Individ- uality {s the keynote of race, and every attempt to destroy that unit as a factor will result in collapse. The fundamentals at Ludlow were wrong, Just ae they were wrong at Brook Farm and Hellcon Hall, just as they were wrong at Pullman and Homestead. Thus have crumbled all hopes of so- clalistie, communistic and paternalistic home-making, whenever they have been put into practice. The individual and the family will continue to stand and flourish, but these are distinct units that never will cohere into “model” towns while human traits continue to animate the blood. A Public Benefactor. If the proper study of mankind is man, then the individual who pursues that study for the benefit of the race at large is entitled to great honor, and such bellef undoubtedly actuated the committee in awarding a Nobel prize to Prof. Emil Theodor Kocher of Berne tor his career in medicine and surgery: In the popular mind Prof. Kocher is best assoclated with the discovery that golter is not a hopeless afiction as generally supposed, but could be suc- cessfully operated upon. Yet that was only an incident In a great career now rounding out the allotted span of life. For his euccess In the treatment of golter the world is indebted to Prof. Kocher's local environment, for he wa: familiar with this plague of Switzer- land from his youth up, and he has taught his brethren the physiology and the surgery of the thyrold gland, which is the seat of the aMiction noted. Im this particular work Prof. Kocher dem- onstrated that the thyrold gland, long supposed to be & useless relic of hu- man evolution, is In reality an im- portant organ, and it is duve to his thoroughness In this conneetion that much has been learned of the necessity to the human mechanism of organs which had been regarded as idle OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 7, 1909. have been crowded with solutions of prophylactic surgery, as a result of which the profession knows vastly more than it did of the dangers of septic polsoning and how to avold con- tamination of the flesh from the micro- organisms which crowd the centers of population. The man who can dis- cover preclous truths of healing and transmit them to posterity is unques- tionably one of the greatest of public benefactors, and as such the award of the Nobel committee has fallen worth- ily upon Prof. Kocher. Wanted, An Astronomer, By heeding the advice of President Taft as contained in one of the Incon- splcuous paragraphs of his recent mes- sage to congress, the national legisla- ture can rid the United States of a blot that makes us a laughing stock among the nations and can transform one of our idle investments into a means of vast service to the scientific world. All that is wanted is that congress shall enable the president to appoint an eminent astronomer as permanent director of the Naval observatory, so- called. As the president notes, this is the most magnificent and expensive astronomical establishment {n the world. Yet its resources for sclentific investigation remain idle for lack of competent administration, and its standing Is so deplorable that the royal astronomer of England and the Oxford professor of astronomy were compelled to say of it, in passing judgment after inspection: “The system of appoint- ing as director a naval officer whose knowledge of astronomy is limited by nautical requirements, and changing him every few years, makes it kinder 10t to say more until this system is al- ered.” The observatory does for the navy the routine work of regulating the sclentific instruments needed for navi- gation of our ships. As the president states, such purposes might easily and adequately he subserved by a small division connected with the Navy de- partment at only a fraction of the cost. But with an eminent astronomer at its head the observatory would be bound to become as famous in results as it is now in equipment. We have taken the lead in so many things that it should be a matter of national pride that we take the lead also in astronom- lcal iInvestigation, particularly when all that we have to do is to man com- petently the plant already prepared. Preserving the Landmarks, “Remove not the ancient landmark’’ is a scriptural injunction to whose value the United States is only begin- ning to subscribe in earnest. Spas- modic efforts at preservation have been made here anud there, the most notable being in the case of the Yellowstone, but the insensate greed of the utili- tarfan world has wrought heavy dam- age In many spots of beauty and won- der ere the people awoke to a realiza- tion of the wantonness. The Palisades of the Hudson have been saved after years of desultory fighting, during which commercialism was steadily at work scarring the no- ble features of the Hudson. Similar destruction of the famous Delaware Water Gap has been averted with the utmost difficulty. Only private enthu- slasm and ability to pay saved and per- petuated the Garden of the Gods, which a wealthy patron has just presented ae a Christmas gift to Colorado Springs. In the meantime the vandalism of the industrial world is making inroads at our International show place, Niagara, and it is incumbent upon both our own government and that of Can- ada to become immediately energetic in pushing the plans for preservation, it we would not see the great cataract and its surroundings despoiled beyond recovery. The Flight of Zelaya. By his flight to Mexico Zelaya ap- pears to have saved ocur government from the embarrasment of seeking prosecution of the deposed president as a malefactor on Nicaraguan soll, a dificult and unhappy duty. It has been the history of the United States to be lenlent to such offenders after the cause which they have advocated was once abandoned, and it would be hard to discover a precedent for pursuing Zelaya when once he had surrendered his wand of office and sword of op- pression and found sanctuary. His flight ‘'was timely and prudent, and since we have still to deal with the reconstruction of stable govern- ment in Nicaragua we can afford to ignore his ignominious retreat. In our future dealings with Nicaragua we have to enact the part of an offended, but magnanimous, neighbor, provided that every disposition of friendship and justice is manifested by the authori- ties of that troubled republie, The right of another country, such 88 Mexico, to afford asylum to Zelaya is older than international law. It goes back to those anclent days when cities of refuge were definitely estab- lished in which offenders could find shelter. In modern times we have the escape of Nord Alexis from the wrath of the Dominicans to the hospitality of the French. Republics s In lowa are getting closer together because they have dis. covered that the result of their inter- nal division is the election of demo- crats to office by republican votes. The same thing is true in Nebraska, and the lesson of the.present state admin- istration is one that should be always in mind. When Mr. ‘Glyn‘orv starts his prose- cution against the libelous yellows the vestiges. But this has been only a part of his contribution to sclefice, ‘foF his years New York atmosphere is likely to be- come ‘nore saffron than during the late mayoralty cempaign The Holy Land—The Jaffa s the seaport of Jerusalem now Just as it was in the days of Bolomon, when It received the cedar and pine sent by Hiram of Tyre for the bullding of the great temple in Jerusalem. Jaffa is the Joppa of the Scriptures, and It ls one of the oldest historical cities In the world. It 18 described as a seaport of Importance In existing tablets dating back fifteen centuries before Christ. It is the reputed scene of the legend of Andromeda, and in Pliny's time tourlsts were shown,the chains by whioh Andromeda was bound to the rock for the cruel monster after- wards slain by Perseus. Perhaps this Greek legend was the development of the yarns of lonic sallormen, who had had adventures in landing a cargo at this sea- port of Canaan. For there was never a seaport which offered so few advantages and so many difficulties for mariners. ANearly all yisitors to the Holy Land dis- embark at Jaffa, and the experience is usually the most exciting and memorable of the whole journey to Palestine. There I8 no harbor, and the ships anchor in an open roadstead. Passengers are taken off in rowboats manned by crews of mag- niticently proportioned Arab boatmen, who pllot their small craft through the channels between the rocks upon which the break- ers lash themseives Into foam. In the best of weather the landing Is sufficlently difficult to contain the element of danger, and It there Is the least wind disemb: ation is impossible. In such event passengers are carried on northward Halfa, at the foot of Mt. Carmel. it 18 ony a morning's from Jatfa the to As raliroad journey to Jerusalem, and as it is & three day's wagon journey from Halfa to Jerusalem, most people prefer to risk the dangers of the Jaffa landing. Jaffa is assoclated In tradition and his- tory with many of the greatest men the werld has known, but it was not visited, so far as Is racorded, by Jesus. It was a chiet city of the Canaanitish regimes, which preceded the Hebrew Empire of David and Solomon. It was an important seaport used by Alexander the Great, it was the scene of St. Peter's vision, which caused him to include the Gentlles within his mission, it was the port of entry of the successful Crusaders during the middle ages, It was the base of operations of Saladin, when he expelled the Christians from Jerusalem, it was an important fac- tor In the military operations of the Hame- lukes, and it was the scene of the most disgracetul act In the career of Napoleon the Great, But now Jeffa has turned frem war to peace, and it is famous all over Europe as the place from which comes the most deliclous oranges in all the world. Not even California and Florida, having the advantage of the most skilled horticultural sclentists, can dispute with Jaffa the primacy of the orange growing werld. Everything about the anclent oity smells of oranges. Jalfta has a population of about 40,000, two-thirds, Mohammedan. There s a considerable German colony in the oity, and other German colonles are scattered about the nelghborhood. These Germans grow the greater part of the oranges. The well kept orange groves, surrounded by hedges of prickly pears, suggest southern California, and scenes altogether out of place amid these Oriental surroundings. Orange culture Is & comparatively modern industry in_Palestine, and was unknown in Bible times. But 1t Is impossible to look upon the groves With their thousands of golden globe§ GiitlMed against the ‘sitvery green of the treed” without recalling the words “Apples of gold In pictures of silver. These Jaffa oranges are very large, very sweet, very juley, and alto- gether delicious. And furtheéermore, to the delight of the'tourist, they are ridiculously cheap. The city of Jaffa was completely de- stroyed during the Wars of the Crusades, 50 that in the middle ages, at one time, It consisted of hothing but a few tents which sheltered a miserable tribe of tishermen. That fact doés not interfere in the least, however, to the present fact that every visitor in Jaffa is shown the very house of Simon the Tanner upon the roof of which Saint Peter saw the visions of the clean and the uncléan beasts which was the be- ginning of his preaching to the Gentiles, One is shown also the house where Dorcas was vestored to life by the prayers of the Some Things You Want to Know Ancient Port of Jaffa. Apostle Peter excuse for anyone's belleving in the authenticity of these houses, although the antiquarians agree that house b; Tanner, probably is the same as that of the modern house which the tourist ow sees as the first sacred relic in Palestine. More interesting than these spurious relics of the past are the three modern convents, Greek, Latin and Armenian, and the modern schools. The Armenian convent is the one where the plague sufferers and other invallds were poisoned by order of Napoleon. These three convents show evi- dences of prosperity and modern' advance- ment not seen elswhere in the country. There Is an English Protestant school for girls, and an English hospital, which have accomplished wonders in the emancipation of Oriental girls from the bondage of Ignorance and the chalns of Oriental customs, The Jaffa women are famous for their laces and embroidery work, and the tour- Ists are usually levied upon for the main- tenance of this industry. The hotel at Jaffa s. conducted on. a semi-religious plan, which serves at once to Introduce the visitor to the sacred atmosphere of the Holy Land and to recall his haif- forgotten bibilcal history. The ‘Fooms in the hotel, instead of being numbered, are designated by the names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and other Biblical names. The product of the soll of which the Jaffa people, especlally the Germans, are most proud Is a certain red wine, known as “Jaffa Rot.” When one hears tie Maitre d' Hotel ordering a bottle of Jaffa Rot sent to Manasseh and a caraffe of water to Issachar, one is tempted to be- lieve that time has turned backward to the days of the patriarchs. But after all Jaffa is interesting mainly in its capacity as the seaport of Jeru- salem. One takes the trafn at the Jaffa station early In the morning for the climb up the mountain to Jerusalem. The jour- ney lasts nearly four hours, although the distance is only fifty-four miles. At first the train passes between orange groves and vineyards and a little later one Is whirled through the extensive olive groves at the beginning of the rise to the hills. One sees the wite of the battie between St. George, the patron saint of England, and the Dragon—a battle perpetuated in bas relief upon every English golden sovereign. One sees through the car windows the sites of many Crusaders' battles, and several modern Jewish colonies, but it is not long until the road reaches the mountains. Then there 18 nothing to be seen except an oc- casional terraced farm on the hillside, a cave In which Samson is sald to have been born and the hill where Samson slew the 1,000 men with the jawbone of an ass. But, nearing Jerusalem, the train stops for & few minutes at the station of Bittir, which is the site of the last stronghol of the defenders of the Jewish nation. The modern Moslem viilage of Bittr crowns the crest of a steep hill, to which approach is made over a paved Roman road still in #00d condition. It was here that the rem- nant of the Jewish army under the false Messiah, Barchochebas, made its last stand against the legions of the Emperor Had- rian in the year 134, a generation after the majority of the Jews had been scattered to the four quarters of the earth in the great dlspersion. The contrast between the rich orange groves and frultful vineyards of the coastal plain at Jaffa,-and the barren, denuded hills about Jerusalem is most.striking. At Jaffa the people seem to live in happiness, children laugh and play in the streets, the market place is crowded with busy men, and there Is not such a great difference from the ordinary aspects of life as seen in modern clties. But when one comes to Jerusalem there is so much poverty, so much misery, so lttle industry and so much religion that one feels himself to be in another world. It will not be strange it the tourist, after a day or two, should feel the surfeit of re- ligious tradition and wish himself back among the orange groves and the life of modern Jaffa. BY FREDERICO J. HASKIN, Tomorrow—THE HOLY LAND--THE PLAIN OF SHARON. WOES OF THE JUROR. Reform im Present Methods an Urgent Need. Loulsville Courier-Journal. A writer in Scribner's’ Magaszine dis- cusses the difficulties that beset the. jury- corded the “twelve good men and true” is often as lacking In consideration as that granted to the criminal they are trylng. ‘The pen picture which follows is not over- drawn: : “The juryman, from his first entrance in response to the court's peremptory summons, finds little In his treatment to impress him with an idea of special dig- nity In his position, even if he has no overt cause of complaint. He is herded with his fellows, ordered about by the tipstaves or bailids of court, addressed in peremptory tones; some times, if In his un- familiarity he iy going the wrong way, he is grabbed by one of these gentry of the badge and hustled as if he were the pris- oner in the dock. He sits in the courtroom with an ever-present sense, it he be sersitive, that he must be careful not to get into trouble; the feeling of lMberty is |gone, he Is enveloped in an atmosphere of restraint. Really he is placed more on an equality with the prisoner at the bar than with the judge on the bench, yet he Is as essentially & part of the court as that august poténtate and may nave at any ume o krehter responsibility on him.” 1n the light of these statements it ls smai wonder that so many men shrink from doing jury service. The compensation of a juror is smail. It is not infrequently the case that a trial drags along tor several “herded with his fellows'' and were he on trial for & high crime he would scarcely be subjected to more rigid survellian It requires some degree of patriotism and some measure of self-sacrifice for a good cltisen to serve on a jury. Perhaps that is one reason why the “professional juror’ has come to be recognized as something akin to a necessary evil and why his presence Is tolerated fn many courthouses. The laws, to begin with, are not favorable to securing the best material for the make- up of juries. When, in addition, the juror 18 treated more like & criminal than & iaw- ablding citizer. and & necessary arm of the court, it Is not unnatural shat capable men should shirk service and that most jurles are no better than they ought to be and many of them not as good. The bar associations and the judiclal ex- perts who are giving so much attention to reform in the courts and to the law's de- lays might profitably devote some eon- sideration to the jury system. man and points out that the treatment ac- | 1mposed | weeks. The juror more than likely s serving aj & personal loss. Most assurediy he is serving at personal discomfort. As the writer in Scribner's put I, he s | | PERSONAL NOTES, President Tart, commar.der-in-chief of the army and navy, walked seven miles last Monday. In time of peace prepare for war. Higher idealists in St. Lculs criticize the use of a hearbe In carrying a load to a fire, as though it was the first offense in | that sectlon. Europe s particularly strong on boy kings now, and despite the fact that Manuel was caught winking at a music kall dancer, the boys behave pretty well, Mr. Bradley, who was the financlal backer of the Cook expedition, is sald to be Qlsgusted with the whole busincss. Even the fact that a lot of Aretic land that no body ever saw has been named for him does not zeem to soothe. Since the bounce of a Chicago pollceman for cowardice In dodging a robber the remaining members of the force were quite chesty ahout their courage until a frail | hotographer put to flight all members of |a etation house crew. He had the smalipox. Herry Ward, a millloralre of Pontiac planted 2,000 acres of Ciawford county pine barrens with apple trees a few years agn, and intended to plant 20,000 acres, but his relatives when he did this made application to have him declared insane. He was de- clared sane, of course. Joseph Lomax, long a resident of La- porte, Md., but now llving with his daugh- ter In Indlanapolls, celebrated his 100th birthday anniversary recently. Mr. Lomax | for many years was a partner with Wilbur ". Etorey in the publication of the Chicago Times. He was the first president of the Grand Rapids & Indlana railroad A noted Jewish educator, Dr. Sigmund Mannheimer of Clneinnati, died therc sud- There is no reasonable | the site of the| the sea in which lived Simon the | i ] THE OLDEST. NATIONAL B The published statemert of Nov showed that this bank had Established in 1857 as Kountze Bros, Nationalized in 1863, Charter No. 209 One of the Safest Forms of Investment Is a | 3% Certificate of Deposit In This Bank, Which Has Over $12,000,000 of Assets. outstending terest bearing certificates totalling $1,088,910, mber 16, '09, n- irst National nkof Omaha COOKED REMARKS. Doctor Cook finds that is from Missourl. Loulsville Courfer Journal: What does it matter where he went? Hereafter civilized men can live without Cook. Baltimore Sun everybody Bt. Louis Globe Democrat: Don't tell it to the Danes unless the evidence at least amounts to a fighting chance Pittsburg Dispatch: They are making as much fuss over the whereabouts of Dr. Cook as though some one really was anx- fous to find him, ) Kansas City Times: Anyhow, Doctor Cook salted away $50,000 or $100,000 before the big crash came, which may entitle him to assoclate with the malefactors of great wealth, New York Tribune: It is evident that Commander Peary had authority for his swift and emphatic denunclation of Dr. Cook. The opidion will prevafl, neverthe- less, that ho could have afforded to wait. Philadelphia Record: By living a whole year In the Arctlp reglons for the purpose of faking a North pole discovery, Dr. Cook certalnly earned al! the money he Kuined besides the contempt of the clv- ilized world—provided he is a sane man. ‘Washington Herald: We might forgive an_erstwhile near-hero for belng a faker and a liar, perhaps, but when It come to forglving him for being a natural-born idiot—well, that is straining humility and contriteness of heart to the ultimate limit Springtield Republican: If Dr. Cook fs not the imposter he is now appearing ¥ be, he will begin to get decidedly busy early next summer. The first thing then for him to do will be to b Mt. McKin- ley and produce that brass tube or perish in the attempt. And the next thing to do will be to recover the effects at Etah and bring down the two Eskimos. PASSING OF THE IDLE RICH. Duties More Exacting Than Task of the Hired Man. New York World. Frederick Townsend Martin's statement that “In ten years the idle rich have prac- tically diseappeared In New York" is en- dorsed by W. J. Bryan as the testimony of the man most competent to speak for this class The statement 1s, however, no more than a relteration of a self-evident fact. It s a matter of common observation that the supposedly idle rich are among the most industrious members of the community. When they are not engaged in running automobiles for records they are busy tool- ing coaches from Fifth avenue to Arsley or from London to Brighton, or racing Amer- fean thoroughbreds on the English and French race tracks. They play polo, hunt toxes and follow an exhausting round of sport from Newport to Auteull. Thelr oc- castonal lelsure from these serlous pur- suits Is occupied in defending divorce sults. There could be no greater fallacy than that time is a burden on the hands of the very rich. Few clerks have so much to do. The young plutocrat who ordered two high- power automobiles before breakfast on hearing that a friend had recelyed a new car furnished an example of the rivalry of wealth from which nobody who Is anybody in soclety is exempt. And as with motor cars so with other objects of emulation, from old masters, it the taste lles that way, to co-respondents. The contaglon has spread to the other pex, whose soclal duties allow-them no re- spite and for whom there s only a con- structlve recess between the Palm Beach geason and the spring and fall campalgns at Lenox or on the Riviera. Their Indus- try Is seen In the example of the soclely leader who has found If necessary to cur- tall her hours of sleep to attend suffragist conferences,~ In place of reprobation for the miscalled “idle rich” there should be sympathy with a class who In Mr. Townsend's apt phrass count lelsure a dishonor and are working hard at recreation. For them there Is no sify pered ease, no cotter's Saturday night when the tolls of the week are over, but a ceaseless round of inexorable pleasures which may well excite commiseration, Aboriginal Humor, Nashville American, Somewhere behind the Indlan's frozen face there Is a sense of humor, though th world has always been disposed to deny him this faculty. On this supposition only is 1t possible to appreelate the composition of the young redskin at the Hampton school: “Patrick Henry was not a very bright boy. He had blue eye: and light hair. He got married and thej sald, ‘Glv me liberty or give me death J LAUGHING GAS. Imogene—I know papa is cross and surly some times and says things that are un- just, but you should judge him, Phillip, by his best. Fhillip—0, T do, Chicago Tribune. dear! You're his best.— “So you don't believe that Santa Cla comes ‘all the way from the North Pole? said the precocious boy's father. “T don't say that I don't belle story,” was the reply; ‘“but he'll submit his proofs.’—Washington St He—He Is very popular with the weaker sex, Is_he not? She—Why, no! Every man I know de tests him.—Chicago New Explapation, “So your farce-comedy played to light houses In Washington, eh? How'do you account for that?" ! “Too much free opposition.” Free opposition?” “Yes. Congress was in session."” Crabshaw—I've preached and preached to that boy about being deceitful, but he merely laughs at me. rs. Crabshaw—No wonder. You Il the best presents in the top of hristmas stocking.—Judge. 2 “Stiggins Is trylng (o win Miss Ketchley on_the commission plan.” “Commission plan? “His held @& conference, decided they wanted her in the family, appointed him to do the courting, and they are to watch him and offer suggestions from time to, time."~Chicago Tripune. ut . lan, How?" Merely by way of experiment a Tamaqua mule, dying from lockjaw, was given an injection of antitoxin serum. Whereupon the mule arose up with con- siderable celerity and kicked the injector through the shed window, and bit the owner in the arm, and smashed an innocent bystander against the wall, and = then settled down and heehawed for oats~— Cleveland Plain Dealer. HIS COMPLAINT, Detroit Free Press. 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He was | @ poet in both Hebrew and German -nd! was considered a profound scholar. —— \ Profitable Dictatin Chicago Record-Herald, It Is reported that Zelaya has transferrod 22,000,000 to Antwerp, so that he may be from Nicaragua. Dictating may not always be a safe fob, but it appears occasionally to be very profitable. " “Soomer” Statesmanship, Washington Herald. | Covernor Haskell is £ald to be sffering | from melancholia, occasioned by the fuilure | of his guaranteed bank deposits idea as a practical proposition. Governor Haskell lacks much of being as calmly philosophi- cal as Mr. Bryan. able to get It after he makes his escape |, 608 Brandeis Building. Calumet Restaurant For Sale On January 3, 1910, at 10:30 A. M, at 615 Brandeis Building, Omaha, I shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the Calumet, Omaha’s largest restaurant, located at 1411-13-16 Douglas 8t. Further particulars on application, EDWARD F. 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